ALGS Year 4 Pro League ! Split 2 Pro League Qualifiers ! EMEA ! Apex Legends
EMEA Pro League Qualifiers: Neue Teams fordern etablierte Apex Legends Teams heraus
Die ALGS Pro League Qualifiers Split 2 EMEA bieten spannende Duelle zwischen etablierten Teams und hungrigen Herausforderern. Das Matchpoint-Format sorgt für zusätzliche Spannung, während Teams um die Qualifikation kämpfen. Red Dragon dominierte früh, während andere Teams sich anpassen mussten, um ihren Platz zu sichern. Anpassungsfähigkeit und strategisches Geschick entscheiden über den Erfolg.
Apex Legends
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Einführung in die ALGS Year 4 Pro League Split 2 Qualifiers
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00:09:29 Ich bin Glitter Explosion und ich bin dein Host hier heute. Und ihr wisst, wenn es ein Match Point Day ist, wir bringen noch mehr von unseren tollen Castern. So heute haben wir Antet, Gaskett und Vickikittyen uns all day.
00:09:52 mit mehr Apex-Aktion. So, wie fühlen Sie? Ich fühle mich gut. Ich bin auf die Leute zu Hause, denn es fühlt sich schon lange, seitdem wir über die Apex-Legend haben. Wir haben die Split-One Play-Offs, in L.A. Wir sehen uns das. Ich habe die Sunt-Tan-Lotion-Packen, bereit zu gehen. Aber das ist jetzt, wie wir die Part-Split-Two sind. Wir kriegen die PLQ. Wir finden, wer wird die Pro-League sein. Es wird viel Spaß und ein Ruckus sein. Ich denke, das ist ein guter Weg zu beschreiben.
00:10:18 To describe it, I might have to use it at some point here today. But Dan, we're going to be seeing lots of new teams in Split 2 after today. So are you excited for those new faces?
00:10:27 Very excited, but also concerned in my tweet. I literally used the word ruckus and now I feel like I need to copyright it because Mark's taking it away from me. I can't wait though. Challenger teams will always kind of cause that ruckus that he's speaking of because it's something a little bit different. It's teams that are hungry, teams that want it. And I think we are going to see a few upsets today. Yeah, definitely lots for these teams to prove here today.
00:10:55 Today is short to bring and the boys keep mentioning. Listen, I think the only thing causing a ruckus is this crew right here. No, but I am very excited to see how a lot of these teams play out, especially seeing that we perhaps may have less pro league teams that we had from our actual pro league in the ALGS now competing for these qualifiers. So I'm excited to see how it's going to fare up against a lot of these other squads.
00:11:17 an opportunity for some of these teams to make a mark for themselves here kind of set the stage for what people can potentially expect out of them heading into split two and they've had a lot of time to prepare for the competition here today mark so hopefully everyone's got their ducks in a row and they're ready to go yeah i mean this isn't the the only time these guys and girls have been playing right this has been a long process to get to this lobby so everybody is going to be fairly familiar with each other in the lobby there's always the discussion about who's going to be dropping where are we going to see some contests
00:11:46 Our team is going to start griefing each other because it's a PLQ. Sometimes you see that kind of stuff going down. It's like, well, this team killed us earlier. They threw our game. They may be on match point, but we know those skins. So we're going to throw our game and try and kill. All of that stuff could happen. You never know. That's what the excitement of the PLQ is all about. Yeah. And speaking of those drops, I mean, Vicky, they've had a little bit of time, at least in the past few days of competition, to try and get that information. But things can always change. So these teams really need to be adaptable in the situations here today.
00:12:12 Yeah, they've played eight games in the last two or three days now. So now with Matchpoint Final, it's a lot for a lot of these teams to figure out what they've needed to iron out before diving into the day that actually matters. All right. Now, we keep mentioning that this is the Pro League qualifier, but it's just the tiniest bit.
Erklärung des Pro League Qualifikationsformats
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00:12:29 So in case you're new here and you don't know how all this works, let's break it down for you just a little bit. Now we started with 30 teams. Those 30 teams were made up of the bottom eight teams from Pro League and the top 22 teams
00:12:44 Jetzt haben wir uns zum nächsten Mal. Wir haben uns zum nächsten Mal.
00:13:12 All it means is that the teams will receive points for each match and then the first team to hit that 50 point threshold and then win a game after hitting it wins the entire competition. Now one important point here is that we will be playing at least six matches even if someone wins match points before then. Now this is because there are eight spots available so we want to make sure our teams have enough time and enough matches to fight for those spots.
00:13:37 in der nächsten Splitt. Wir haben nie gesehen, dass das vorhin in der BLQ stattfindet. Das ist auch etwas zu wissen, dass die Top 10 von Winters 2 haben, die Aufmerksamkeit und die Top 8 werden in der Pro-League gespielt haben. Die Top 8 werden in der Pro-League gespielt werden. A viel passiert, während der Pro-League-Kompetitionen in den Pro-League-Kompetitionen. Und einige Fasen von der Pro-League-Kompetitionen haben bereits erwähnt, und deswegen sind sie von der Pro-League-Kompetitionen.
00:14:05 These teams are TSM Phoenix, Mind, and 202 teams. We've definitely spoken a lot during the split one season, so this is kind of a surprise here, Vicky. Yeah, especially TSM Phoenix. I'm not too sure what happened in that elimination round one. I don't believe Kyrie was playing with this team. She's usually their heavy fraggers, so having her absent there means that there's...
00:14:25 There's probably going to be some changes going into that roster. We're going to have to wait and see where they're standing here. But even seeing Mind in 202 not making it, it means that this opens up new spots for new teams to come into the Pro League.
00:14:38 Now we're gonna be able to take a look at the rest of the teams who are participating here to do and as we do that I also want to start talking about some of them we obviously have recognizable names on this list whether that's our pro league teams who are hoping to keep their spot in split two or winners from our previous challenger circuits mark I want to hear from you first on this one though which of these teams have caught your attention you think we need to be paying attention to
00:15:04 Well, there's a couple of teams I want to talk about in particular. There's obviously, like you say, some familiar names that a lot of people who have watched the EMEA Pro League are going to know, they're going to love and know what to expect from them. But you're looking at these two rosters here. These are two rosters who are looking to bounce back, right? You've got Danish, which is Young Hong Kong, Fricks and Sherbert. They finished in 25th, so they were five...
00:15:22 Spots or so outside of those relegation spots, and unfortunately had to go through the PLQ to find themselves in this final lobby. Apex Warlords had a little bit of an up and down season, but it was mostly down, to be honest with you, as 29th is where they ended up in the overalls. Genji Shiv and Xerifer are going to be playing today. Obviously Mandy was on that roster, but he's going to be stepping down. So it's their opportunity here to kind of get themselves back where they feel like they belong and have another shot in Split 2.
00:15:47 Ja, wir kennen uns sehr gut, also werden wir definitiv unsere Augen auf dem. Aber Gaskin, ich möchte die gleiche Frage zu dir. Tell me about die anderen Gruppen auf der Liste, die du willst, auch auf die Augen auf.
00:15:57 It's the squads from the Challenger Circuit. We have three squads who were able to win series throughout the Challenger Circuit. Trojan who did it in Challenger Circuit 2, NPC did it in Challenger Circuit 1, and Red Dragon who did it in Challenger Circuit 4, the most recent one in fact. Three incredible squads, most notably Taskmaster featuring Red Dragon. We've been speaking about Taskmaster for years, about his individual capability and also what he brings to a team. That's the one team I'm most excited about. My worry for all three of these squads is can they get the victories?
00:16:27 in Matchpoint. Looking across their performance in Challenger Circuit and in the PLQ so far, there are a couple of wins here or there, but not as many as you would expect for a team that could win in Matchpoint format. But definitely squads we have to keep an eye for. They are going to make a real damage in this lobby. Some really nice points on those teams as well. And Vicky, any final points that you want to make on some of these teams? Just last little tidbits that you might want people to be paying attention to?
00:16:52 I mean, looking at winners round one and two, we talked about the eight game triumph that a lot of these teams had to battle it out in and team rolling teams and team call me data actually were two very consistent teams that I would recommend everyone to keep their eyes on because it's going to get pretty interesting diving into that first game. Yeah, this is why we keep telling everyone at home to be keeping your eyes peeled for all of the actions going to happen because I think it's going to be really exciting. We've got loads of great teams competing here today, but if we didn't mention one of your favorites.
Face It Watch Stream und Teamanalyse
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00:17:20 Well, we have another way for you to keep up with them. You need to be checking out our Face It watch stream, okay? Because it has everything you could possibly need. Not only can you watch up to four team POVs simultaneously, but we'll also have a dedicated map POV and live team comms with an audio mixer that allows you to balance the audio the way that you want to hear it, which is unheard of. One of the coolest things we've done here so far. And then to top it all off,
00:17:49 There's also a built-in ALGS calendar so that you can pull up a schedule for all of the upcoming matches. And that way you won't miss a single second of the action. It's a very, very cool way to watch ALGS. So make sure that you check it out. And once you guys get all that set up and pick your teams and have those ready to go, we will get you into the action here in just a few short moments. But I've gotten to check in with everybody except you, Dan.
00:18:16 kind of overall feelings on what to expect. I know I asked you that at the top of the show, but specifically we keep talking about how this could be a little bit different from what people see in Pro League versus what we're going to get bringing in these challenger circuit teams to the mix. So talk to me a little bit about that.
00:18:32 I think the difficulty for teams is going to be finding consistency in a lobby that's going to have an element of randomness, an element of teams who might just disrupt the standard way of playing Apex, because Challenger Circuit teams are going to introduce that. It's going to be new, excited teams who want to change things, want to do things a little bit different, maybe have been practicing in a different way, maybe are used to playing slightly different lobbies. So teams who have been performing in the Pro League, the likes of Danish, for example, who have a lot of victories.
00:18:59 They should be one of the favorites, but perhaps there's going to be a team that might be on their loop path. Perhaps there's going to be a team who might disrupt their rotations a little bit. And they have to be mindful of that. They have to assess the lobby. And I think a lot of the more experienced teams will learn how these lobbies go a lot quicker. And maybe that's something that some of the challenger teams might struggle with. They might perform well in the early games, but as the games go on, as we get further into match point, that's when I'm expecting the teams that were in pro league to really shine. Yeah. And that's why we do these PLQ matches to see.
00:19:28 Excuse me, which of our teams deserve to be in the next split? Because the action is only going to get harder as we continue throughout our competitive year. But we keep talking about it. Match number one should be ready to go, which means it's time to kick things off. So on set. Gaskin, let's get into it. Let's do it. I'm ready for this, Dan. I don't know about you, mate. It feels like forever since we've done this. Do you know what I mean? It just feels like there's been such a kind of not just a wait, but like an impatient wait is how I felt. The PLQ is like perfectly timed just before split.
00:19:55 in den Split 2 Pro League.
00:20:23 Yeah, PLQ is always an interesting one because you have the disappointment of the eight teams who were essentially put into relegation and the big question, can they regain their place in Pro League? And then you get all the challenger teams who are biting it a bit, desperate to chomp on the heels of all these players and try and steal that spot away from them. And you've got to look at who wants it more, who's been putting in the time, who's been practicing more, because sometimes it is those challenger teams. They're the ones who have been reformed. They've been remade to try and beat the teams that are coming down from Pro League. And that's why we see.
00:20:53 some players who we know very well. We spoke about Taskmaster, the fact he's now come onto this Red Dragon squad, a different Red Dragon squad that we saw in Pro League to avoid any confusion, but they are definitely one of the favorites here today, and I think that's exciting for a challenger team to be a favorite during PLQ. I love the fact in the PLQ as well, there's this element of unpredictability, right? Because when we watch Pro League week after week, we know what groups to expect, which means that teams know what groups they're going to be going up against, which we know what.
00:21:20 Teams are going to be contesting certain POIs, which rotations teams are going to be running into. And like you quite rightly mentioned, there's going to be some unpredictability with teams on their rotates because...
00:21:30 Even out of the dropship, you know, is your POI going to be safe? Even if there's an agreement in the lobby beforehand, you might have to fight a couple of times to make sure that it is. And as the games go on, if a team knows you're a match point, are they going to try and cut you down on that rotate? Is there going to be a team who maybe shouldn't be where you expect them to be? And all of a sudden you're taking a fight a little bit earlier when you're on your way to pick up a few evocaches. It's all these kind of things which just make, I think, the...
00:21:55 The team who's going to have the most potential to win this thing today is adaptability, right? You've got to be able to adapt to fights that happen when you don't expect them, to disengage from areas where you don't expect there to be fights going on. It's all these decisions that have to be made on the fly, and I think a lot of pressure on IGLs today in comparison to, say, Fraggers, because Fraggers, their job's going to be the same, right? When a fire happens, you've got to get those kills, but for an IGL to navigate unpredictable traffic, it's going to be rough today.
00:22:20 Und ich denke, es ist interessant, denn es werden viele Teams, die nicht in die Lobby gespielt haben, denn es werden die Teams, die in den Winters Bracket haben, und es werden die Teams, die in den Winters Bracket haben, und es werden die Teams, die in den Elimination Bracket haben, aber dann noch weiter zu den Finals hier. Also, wir werden jetzt mal sehen, wo die Leute, die sich für ihre Dropspots verletzt werden. Ja, du hast die Kindes-Gentlemen's-Agreemen, die diese Teams verletzten, wo diese Teams verletzten, aber es ist nicht immer ein schönes Ding. Es ist nicht immer Leute spielen, und wir werden sehen ein paar Scraps early auf, aber wir sind in der Fly-Thru jetzt. Die Teams sind bereit.
00:22:50 Legend selection has happened, so it's time to get going here in the PLQ.
00:23:19 Games are important, it's why I was talking about the wins as well. When we look at a team like NPC, for example, they've won Challenger Circuit number one, but they've yet to find a victory here in PLQ from 16 games. You look at a team like Danish though, they've got two wins from eight. That percentage record looks a lot better when you look at a team that could be winning on Matchpoint compared to another.
Spielstart und Strategie-Diskussionen
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00:23:47 World's Edge is going to be the stage where we start things off today. A reminder of Matchpoint, if you're watching for the first time as well, the first team to hit 50 points will be Matchpoint eligible. And then it's all about winning a game after that from that position. If a couple of teams hit 50 points, it's the first one out of the two to get that win. Essentially, you've got to see that champion's banner to call yourself the winner here.
00:24:07 Like we mentioned as well, even if the games get done before the final allotted amount of games that we have today, we will play those games out to make sure that the final spots are decided in the fairest way possible. So off the rip here, just looking at the top right to see if there's any guns being fired and any players been dropping. It looks like everyone is pretty safe for their drop staff.
00:24:26 Yeah, pretty safe. That's always a good scenario. We're on board with Free Sosa at the moment. They finished second in the elimination bracket round one. So even though they got knocked down into that elimination bracket, they certainly found their comfort zone once they were in that scenario. But we're going very much northwest up towards Trials. So this is going to be great for L9. Danish are in a good spot. Forbidden as well. And even Meow, you can see, are already moving from Skyhook because they had Ring Console. They are going to be able to move as quickly as they would like to where they like.
00:24:55 Ja, Danish also have Ring consoles as well, so they're going to be able to get there. The only problem for Danish maybe is just the path in to get EVO, right? Because it doesn't look like there's really anywhere for them to grab any EVO caches, so it might be a case of leaving with blues, but when you get towards the later games, we know with the change in the system that we see in the EVO system, you know, late-game blues is, well, you get late-game blues, it's pretty simple. You're getting run over by people approaching a little bit later with purples at a minimum, and sometimes even those red.
00:25:23 Evo Armors, aber das ist mein Team zu sehen, ich würde sagen, ist es ein Team, das ist ein Team, das ist ein Team, ich denke, auf ein Game-to-Game basis von der Fraggen Power. Und das wird Red Dragon. Wir haben gesagt, Taskmaster, ein Former Aurora Spieler, wir wissen alle über Aurora, und er war die Leute, die ein paar Tage, die er in die Position zu stellen, und ich denke, wenn er heute kann, wenn er das best ist, dann wird er das Team, das ist ein Team, die 50 Punkte zu stellen. Und, of course, da ist noch ein Grund, warum er seine Teammates performing ist, ist er auch ein Team, das ist ein Team, das ist ein Team, das ist ein Team, das ist ein Team, das ist ein Team, das ist ein Team, das ist ein Team, das ist ein Team, das ist ein Team, das ist ein Team, das ist ein Team.
00:25:53 Schengler, Bloodhound, Caustic. Expect to be seeing plenty of that, especially on Worlds Edge. They finished 3rd in Winner's Bracket Round 2 yesterday. They only had the one victory across the eight games, but 66 points. So certainly still something very impressive. And if you can find that points total quickly here in Matchpoint, then you can put yourself in the best position to potentially get the victory here today. But as a challenger team, there's always going to be that question that is, will they flop when you get to the final lobby? Is there going to be Pro League teams that will maybe shut them down when it gets a little bit...
00:26:22 Aber ich glaube, dass Red Dragon haben eine reale Chance hier, um nicht nur für Pro-League zu gewinnen, aber zu gewinnen.
00:26:45 Diameter, circumference, whatever you want to say. The amount of space that you hit with it, the upgrades. Maths. Again, why am I going this early with maths? We know it never goes well, but you've got to wait until you get to purple now. It's a purple perk, which means that the power curve isn't quite as early as it was previously, which means that Korsic doesn't have that early game fight influence that it once did.
00:27:04 Danish were our winners yesterday, by the way. Winners bracket round two, for those of you who weren't able to watch the PLQ from Friday onward. They found two victories across the eight games, 77 points in total. So arguably the favorites coming into this one. And they're in a good spot at the moment, up towards Trials. I think all the teams now are starting to hunker down and find a position in the northwest area. But there is still a lot of teams who are moving from the south on set who aren't going to be able to get there quick. As soon as they saw that circle pool, they knew this was going to be a long, treacherous journey.
00:27:34 Und wir vielleicht sehen ein paar Scraps passieren in den Chokepunkten, wenn man sich durch die Mitte der Mitte befindet. Landslide könnte sicherlich sein. Aber jetzt sind wir jetzt postulieren gegen einen anderen. Und jetzt machen wir es wissen, wo sie stehen. Aber niemanden ist wirklich in der Lage. Ja, ich denke, es ist interessant, als auch. Deadfish ist auch... Deadfish, das ist eine gute Team-Name, ich liebe das. Wir sehen uns jetzt ein bisschen ein paar Spaces. Wir sehen uns die ersten Team Eliminate. Es wird die End, die vorwärts sind. Wir sehen uns Schiv und die Boys haben ein bisschen Scraps.
00:28:03 as well in that kill feed but something i do want to talk about a little bit is the new evo system it makes zone i would say like going early to zone seeing that you've got it on you if you're in console whatever it's a little bit less of like a guarantee for points because you saw on or9 right they're up on the top of trials they are in the best position you would say for the end game but they've only got white armors
00:28:26 Weil sie nicht mehr Zeit haben, um die E-Vos zu haben, um sie zu levelen, was es vielleicht sein. Wenn ein Team ist, um die E-Vag, was es vielleicht sein, oder zu sagen, dass sie nur auf Blues sind, wir haben Purples und Reds haben. Sie können das Spot wegnehmen. Und du hast wirklich, ich sage, ein bisschen mehr Dynamik, um die Position zu halten. Knowing dass du nur White Armour hast, du hast zu schauen, um das Output Damage zu haben.
00:28:49 as much as possible, as well as seeing other opportunities to pick up kills.
00:29:18 Ich weiß nicht, ob es die Unterschiede ist, ob man sich über die Worte überwunden hat. Aber jetzt ein paar Teams sind die Choke-Points, die ich vorhin war. Mpc ist eine der ersten, als sie durchgeführt werden, aber es sieht man, nachdem sie ein paar Hop-Shots haben, sie wissen, sie sind vorhanden von den anderen Teams. Und sie wollen ein bisschen schneller gehen.
00:29:47 His teammates in a position to be able to hit those batteries and get up to full health. So the battle for the towers actually looks like it's paying off for them as the Rolling Thunder, the ultimate coming in from the Bangalore, is going to get a knock onto Adam who was just outside of this tunnel. So they should be able to reset pretty comfortably here. They do get the res and it's a case of, hey, you have the tunnel, we'll get the res, we'll both coexist and live to fight another day.
00:30:06 Yeah, had one of them gone down there, it would have been bad news. I mean, you still have the chance of 2v3ing in a tunnel like that when you've got that much of a kind of a choke point to hold, but sadly for the team that was trying to push up onto them, they weren't able to get that final bit of damage. But now we can see the last remaining teams progressing. Kneecap are going to be one of the last ones who are going to be going through the tunnel on that south side. You can see Red Dragon moving back down towards Landslide.
00:30:29 Ergublich, eine Ring-Console, vielleicht eine Survey-Beacon, das wird evo-progressiv werden. Wir wissen, was Taskmaster zu tun hat, wenn er auf previous Teams competed hat. Er würde in die Fray zu machen, um die Evo zu bekommen, aber es könnte eine Situation sein, wo Kneecap kann sie hier sehen und vielleicht catch sie aufgarten. Ich habe mich geredet ein paar Mal hier. Ich sage es zu allen, und ihr, natürlich, dass wenn ich Kneecap habe, ich weiß nicht, warum das ist, aber es ist.
00:30:55 We could have a fight of window cleaners versus kneecap, you know, it's just one of those days and I'm okay with it. You'll take it over play by play at that point, alright? Because I'm not going to be able to keep a straight face. But looking at where the zone is going, you can see there for zone 3 info that it is going to be a trial zone. It looks like it might pull towards the back of it and that's where Danish are as well. They would have been able to walk past those evo caches as well to pick that up. So they might be a little bit closer to purple than when they were the last time that we did check in on them.
00:31:22 Schamani? Did I get that right? I think so. I'm going to give myself 10 points. Schamani are going to be just outside of Countdown at the moment and just between the Choke of Trials, just under the big Raven that's there as well. It's a good spot to hold down. You can see they're going to be in not just this zone, but the one afterwards as well. And they're going to be in control of kind of directing traffic, I would say. If they can hold down this spot and this Choke, a lot of the teams are trying to move through Countdown and move in a little bit late, which there are three or four of at the moment.
00:31:51 Ich weiß nicht, ob es genug Inflexion auf die Kapital-Letters in Shimani gibt, wie die A-M-A-N-A-N-A-N-A-N-A-N-A-N-A-N-A-N
00:32:11 Sie werden es singen, als sie versuchen, die anderen Teams zu attacken. Aber für heute ist es jetzt einfach nur ein bisschen vorsichtig. Erst Lobby, erst Day, vielleicht ein bisschen nervös zwischen den Gruppen, als Sie nicht wollen, dass Sie sich selbst in ein Kampf getötet werden, und dann sind Sie da, um es zu denken, um es für den Rest des Spiel. Ich liebe die Position, die Red Dragon sind in der Moment. Wie Sie sehen, in der Killfeed, Shiv hat sich gerade geklärt. Natürlich, die Apex-Warlords sind jetzt nicht 40% geworden. Vielleicht ist das Team-Name ein bisschen schlecht im Pro-League. Ja, wir haben es oft gesehen.
00:32:40 So ein Team Name-Change kann die Fortunes sein. Vielleicht ist das auch ein Beispiel, wie ich gesagt habe. Ein Beispiel von King Victor, schon wieder auf die Red Armour. Als wir auf den Warlords kommen, ist der Mann, der sich der Warlord selbst, ist, dass er für jetzt und wird. So ein guter Job, dann, von Zarifor, ist er, dass er Zeit, um ihn zu slowen, die Push auf den Korsdick wiederholfen, und es wird...
00:33:07 Die Metacomp, so to speak, Bloodhound, Bangalore, und Caustic hier auf World's Edge, das wir wieder sehen, und da gibt es einige Verständnis für das. Das wird sehr effektiv sein, als wir heute sehen, dass viele diese Teams sind. Es handelt aus den Charakteren, die nicht nur die Strengen aus, sondern auch die Abilität, die du anstattst, die du anstattst, die du anstattst, die du anstattst, die du anstattst, die du anstattst, zum Beispiel Bangalore.
00:33:29 Smokes can be now navigated by the Bloodhound, and if you want to hold down position, you want to push onto someone, then Caustic does that for you, and Bangalore, of course, goes Bangalore. The Smokes are a little bit better now, I would say, even though they dissipate a little bit quicker, I would say the Smokes now is a rotation tool, a really, really important Trojan, by the way, making a move here. Yeah, Trojan, very low, but just able to get out of any sort of damage that was coming through, and they are able to get the bats, that's massive for them.
00:33:57 Turbo Devo ist ein Problem. Wir reden über Turbo Havoc.
00:34:17 We all know about that and how everybody's talking about it at the moment, but the Turbo Devo is still the Turbo Devo, and that's what it does. It ricks through people. Unfortunately for Trojan, Remix Powers, by the way, no relation to Austin, has gone down in this fight, and Trojan is going to have to back out here. Yeah, backing out at the moment, and sadly Remix Powers is going to go down, so it's just going to be the two of them. They got aggressive, they did a lot of damage, but did they get overzealous? Did they kind of put themselves in a bad position there?
00:34:42 Das ist die Frage, die sie sich fragen. Aber du kannst immer noch als ein 2 in eine Position wie dieser. Du musst dich arbeiten, die Kommunikation musst, du musst dich aufhören. Du musst dich aufhören, aber leider werden sie den Rest des Spiels spielen als ein 2.
00:34:54 Ja, die Difficulty hier für sie ist, was die Quaustik, die jetzt nicht die Möglichkeit haben. So jetzt, sie haben nicht die Möglichkeit, es wird nur eine Chance geben. Sie werden einen Peek geben, sie werden einen 3-V-2 machen, und sie werden einen 1-V-2 getrennt. Und jetzt ist es ein 2-V-2, wieder. Und ich erzähle, Trojan, da sind alle Probleme für dieses Team. Sie werden die 100-V-2 getrennt, und jetzt ist es all zu Moising. Kann er für seine Team sein? Aku ist da, um zu cleanen, was alles zu tun ist, aber alles ist zu tun. Ich denke, dass ein 3-Party in der Facilität ist.
00:35:23 Ja, ich kenne die Map, ob es jemanden zu sehen? Danisch sind in der Nähe. Danisch könnten sich das Ganze um, wenn sie versuchen. Aber es sieht nicht aus wie sie gehen. Sie sehen, Deadfish, sie kämpfen, und sie werden sicherlich sein. Die Ring wahrscheinlich wird das letzte Mal zu dem, zu ihnen, und es wird so. So, Deadfish eliminated. Jetzt 15 Quads remaining. Wir losten 4, wir haben es 5 Teams, CallMeDana, RollingTeams. Sie werden alle hier unten gehen, weil die Zone ist alle zusammengekehrt.
00:35:50 Yeah, this is the zone causing the problems, right? Nobody wanted to make a move a little bit earlier. Now we're going to see Danish, I believe this is, who are looking to clean up the damage, like you say, in the side of that tunnel.
00:36:00 Going back to the tower that they've been holding for the majority of this game. And this is, if you've watched any historical zones here at Trials, probably the best spot to be holding. Sometimes it pulls out towards those houses, the little building complex that we see to the north of World's Edge. But a lot of the time it's going to be finishing in and around where Danish find themselves right now. And we mentioned, I'm going to go for it, Shumani. Well, they're still inside of this choke and still trying to hold it down. But the zone has pulled away from them. Kneecap eliminated as well. I am having fun.
00:36:26 Ja, es gibt drei Teams hier auf der Southeastern Seite. Du hast Frisoso, Schimani und du hast Reddragon, die alle zu versuchen, um zu versuchen, nachher zu versuchen. Und wirklich, du hast zu schauen, was die anderen Teams gemacht wird, und wenn du dann, wenn du dann, wie ein Impact gemacht hast, wenn du dann, wenn du dann in den Kampf bist. Aber als ich gesagt habe, Schimani haben einen, also sie müssen bemerksam. Vielleicht versuchen sie zu versuchen, weil die Zone zu versuchen, sehr schnell, und da ist viel Platz zu lösen hier, weil du dann nachher gehts nachher, nach wo Danish war. Reddragon hat die Rez, hat die Rez getauscht.
00:36:55 ... ... ... ...
00:37:17 Fair play to Frisosa, by the way. They were playing Wraith, Rampart and Lober. That is not the metacomp that we're used to seeing. We said today might throw in a little Spanner of the Works and we might see a few teams trying something new. That was very much different, but it didn't work out in the fight. Spanner of the Works. Spanner of the Works is the new name for Rampart's Heirloom, is what it is. It's now officially what it's called. Here come Red Dragon, they're making the move and you can't let Tazmaster get back in the game because this is what he can do.
00:37:46 Brilliant shots, but now the Zone is going to be doing the damage as Taskmaster falls. There's going to be one player left remaining from Red Dragon as again more teams are falling. Urgency, NPC and the window cleaners have fallen. Sadly nothing left to clean, but Red Dragon still have one.
00:37:59 Oh, the Zone is going to be chunking, though. And this will be the end, I think, of Red Dragon here. They're going to try and force their way in, but the Zone is going to claim more victims as Beast of the Hulk will be popped, but Aku is never going to be taken down by the Zone. Everybody in Apex Legends, just so you know, the Zone will close and do damage. I think that the lobby at the moment is waiting a little bit of a victim when it comes to that Zone because it's doing more damage than it really should at this point in the game.
00:38:23 Ja, so Dänisch sind in der größten Kommandung auf der Nord-West-Side und sie werden das West-Side gewinnen. So jetzt Dänisch gewinnen die ganze West-Side dieser Mountain. Auf der anderen Seite, auf der Eist-Side der Mountain, haben wir Apex-Warlords, Mioow und ich glaube OR9 und Atlas sind noch dabei. Also haben wir vier Teams auf der Eastern-Side. Es ist Mioow jetzt zu tun, das ist eine große Herausforderung. Mioow... ...might be gehen.
00:38:48 Ja. Ja.
00:39:15 Priority position, because they have the height over the teams moving in. This should be Danish's game, because now they just have to wait for OR9 to naturally push onto Atlas, because there's nowhere else really OR9 can go. So as soon as that damage starts to come out, Danish just needs to join it at the right time, and it should be a victory for them. But we have seen crazier things. If Atlas can somehow use one player to hold off Danish and the other two to hold off OR9, it is still winnable, but it is going to be a difficult game for sure.
00:39:39 Du hast also die Ultimates, wer hat was? Und du hast die Ohr9 nicht den Caustic-Alt, das bedeutet, dass sie nicht die zwei Teams verabschieden können. Und dann benutze das, um das zu bekommen, um das zu verabschieden. Und wie gesagt, die zwei Teams sind jetzt jetzt verabschiedet worden. Bei den circumstances und den environmenten sie sich in finden. Atlas zu 2, aber du wirst sicherlich warten für Danish, um das zu verabschieden. Hier sie kommen. Danish muss in, der Atlas wird verabschiedet. Der Final Player Alive wird verabschiedet, aber die Heavens...
Danish gewinnt das erste Spiel
00:40:07
00:40:07 So welcoming this time. Danish best position, best result. They'll be the champions of match number one.
00:40:13 It was as sweet as a Danish pastry, they were able to get the victory, and honestly, once they found that position in the northwest, it was hard for anyone to really push up on them. They dominated that area for quite some time, but not did they just hold, but they were also pushing on their advantages. When they noticed there were teams in the trials tunnel, for example, they were joining that fight, they were poking, they were prodding, they were picking up extra damage, they were picking up extra kills when they could, and they are starting off where they left off from yesterday. They are looking like one of the favorite teams.
00:40:42 Yeah, looking very, very solid. And we questioned, you know, are they going to have the Evo to hold the position? Well, I think it was just such a strong position that anyone who tried to push, they will always get an opening damage onto them, right? And then we saw the kind of, I'm going to use the word, ruckus, inside of the tunnel around Trials. And so many teams went in and out there that they didn't really have to do too much. Because as soon as one team tried to progress on them, that fight would take place. And they'd be like, cool. All right, cool. We'll clean up this damage. We'll try and...
00:41:06 Das ist ein schweres Ziel zu werden, wenn du nicht da early bist. Das ist ein schweres Ziel zu werden, wenn du nicht da early bist. Das ist eine große Herausforderung, die Height-Difference zwischen den Ereignissen, die du kannst. Und du musst, Dänisch starten heute mit 10 Punkte, von der Leistung in den Winner's Bracket in 2. Also, nicht nur haben sie die Lied, sondern sie haben das Lied, um die Lied extrem nahe zu match point.
00:41:30 Already after match number one. So this is a little bit scary for those who are involved in the lobby. But of course, we are guaranteed to play at least six matches, even if we were to see a team win very early. It doesn't happen too often in Amir and NA. I mean, I don't remember a time that we finished before six, certainly when we've been commentating, Mark. But exciting times for Danish because they have dominated in game number one. I was going to say, whenever we're commentating this match point, it's usually at least eight, nine. At least.
00:41:55 Maybe even double figures, everybody. Who knows? But yeah, that's the kind of start that you want, right? And I think you mentioned Danish at the top of the show saying that they were a team who have put up consistent... Well, one of the teams who's put up the most wins so far. And we're seeing exactly why, right? Winning games and PLQs can be tough because, like we mentioned previously, some of the unpredictable factors that come into it. But I think then the one thing that was impressive about that was the commanding of space, how they didn't allow people to move on to their spot, even though it was a great zone for them.
00:42:21 Und dann, dass sie in den letzten Moments konvertieren können. Und ich denke, dass sie nur auf die Purple in den Endgame gewinnen können, das zeigt, dass sie die Zonen wussten, sie wussten, sie wussten, sie wussten, sie wussten, sie wussten, sie wussten, sie wussten, sie wussten, sie wussten, sie wussten, sie wussten, sie wussten, sie wussten. Und zu diesem Punkt, es gibt viele Teams, die nicht gewinnen die Zonen, die kommen close zu ihnen. Und ich denke, für ein Confidence Boost, ist das perfekt für sie.
00:42:58 There were a few teams that I saw exit maybe earlier than I expected. We saw DN go out first. They came sixth in winner's bracket round two in the PLQ. So I was almost expecting them to be a bit more of a threat in the lobby. So the fact they went down early, they're going to have to make up for that going into the second match today.
00:43:15 I look at elsewhere. You want to mention Red Dragon at the top of the show as well. They had a good amount of kills. Not sure about the placement points. They managed to sort of force their way into the top 10 at least. So there will be a couple for sure. But that's what I think their game plan is going to be, right? You mentioned that when we've seen a couple of those types of players on the likes of Aurora lineups, then they like to play edge. They like to play it slow. They like to path their way to Evo and then try and fight their way in for points in the end game. The question for me is always, like, they'll probably get to match point, you would imagine.
00:43:44 Ja, es ist sehr circle-dependent, als es immer ist in Apex Legends. Aber Red Dragon spielen in das Weise, da werden viele Zones wirklich benötigt werden. Da werden viele Zones wirklich benötigt werden. Da werden viele Zones nicht benötigt werden.
00:44:08 ...kind of traversed the map quite a lot in that one. They weren't able to hunker down. But I imagine once they get to match point, we might see the playstyle change a little bit. So that's a discussion we'll have as the games go on for sure. But it's whether you get that opportunity. Are you going to get to match point quick enough where you can actually play in that way? Because, you know, Danish, if they get another victory here with another, like, decent amount of kills, they could already be on match point. Now, naturally, when this happens, when we see a team that already started on 10 get a victory, we go into match two and they struggle a little bit and they maybe get a little bit too excited.
00:44:38 The adrenaline's rushing through them and they're not able to perform. But we'll have to see. I mean, there's something about the way Danish have been playing over these past couple of days that they really feel like they deserve to be back in pro league and they want to make a statement. We'll have to see if game number two will be their game in just a few moments. We're going to go for a quick break. Game number one is done and dusted. Danish, of course, taking home the win and looking like the team to beat today after just one game. We'll have to see how they get on in game number two.
00:46:39 Ich bin Vicky Kitty, ich bin Joy with Dan, und du hast uns durch die Aktion gemacht, Dan. Aber Danisch endet es wieder einmal. Sie waren gestern, und jetzt sind sie vielleicht halbwegs nach Match Point hier, nach nur einem Spiel einzeln. Ja, manchmal in diesen Tournamenten, wo es über ein paar Tage lang ist, wir sehen uns die Teams, die gut sind.
00:46:59 So they are going to be the biggest threat in this lobby. Yes, it was one of the perfect zone pools for them.
00:47:22 You have to win those games. In a lobby like this, you need to be making sure you take advantage of circles that pull towards your POI. Whether they'll have that opportunity or not, again, that's the real question.
00:47:30 Yeah, they will now be...
00:47:55 So confident, they will be pushing teams, they will be more than happy to take fights because of how they were played in the previous, but they won that game by avoiding fights to begin with. They made sure they rotated quickly, they had ring console information, and they moved as fast as they could.
00:48:09 Es wird eine andere Situation wie das, für mich. Wenn sie ein Circle holen, dass sie sogar remote, zu ihren PoI werden. Sie sind ein Team, die sehr schnell wird. Sie wissen, die Zone ist sehr gut, also ich expecte sie zu machen. However, wenn es eine South-East Zone ist, wir müssen sie sehen, was sie können in ein anderes Scenario machen. Wo sie noch schnell mit Port Armors gehen, oder sie starten zu spielen ein bisschen schneller. Vielleicht spielen die Trending an Edge-Play-Style. Vielleicht gehen für ein bisschen mehr Beacons, so sie können die Evo-Shields level up.
00:48:39 Es gibt viele Fragen zu beantworten, aber ich denke, wir können sie nur herausfinden, wenn wir das Circle sehen und wenn wir in diesem Spiel sehen.
00:49:05 Or rather, Mirage of Twom. But here with Danish already having the lead with 29 points, a lot of these teams now having to buckle down because with Danish having so much success and being as consistent as they have been, even playing the eight games in the last two days, I mean, probably qualifiers are always so crazy. It also tests out to see how much Apex you could actually play at the highest level without getting burnt out, which is just a whole nother topic when it comes to the professional mental game that you have to go into these games.
00:49:34 And I'm just looking at the circle. This might just be a day for the Danes because it is heading right to Mirage Atoile. It is going to be a perfect circle for them yet again. And not only, it's not like they are at either Lava Fisher or Mirage Atoile. They are able to split those POIs. They were able to have both here and they're going to be...
00:49:52 kind of looted, booted, ready to go, and prepared for other teams to join them. They do have a Survey Beacon at Mirage Atoile, and they have a Ring Console Information at Lava Fisher, so they have spread themselves so impressively here that they're going to be able to hit both, get any information that they would like, and then be prepared to fight anyone who arrives. You've got Urgency down at Thermal Station. They're going to be in another position where they can move up and potentially take the chokehold just south of Mirage Atoile, and then SPS from Staging. They don't have any Ring Console Information by the looks of it, so...
00:50:22 Sadly for them, they're not going to really know where this circle is going per se. And Deadfish is right close to them too on their rotate, something that SPS is going to have to look out for so that way they can prevent themselves from getting pinched as we take a look at other teams. Kneecap rotating through Kaiser. I love some of these names that we have in our lobby, but they do have a ring console, so that's information that they're going to be rotating with, as well as other squads here making their move.
00:50:46 Shiv's team is going to be able to rotate already from Monument, rolling teams, getting some information if they can before rotating probably through Landside. And Landside's already congested here, as you can see, too. Going to be able to get the Replicator some extra loot while they make their rotate. But a lot of teams already on the quick rotate, trying to get to where Mirage Atoile is. Danish has already moved away from Lava Fissure. They got that ring console that you mentioned earlier, Dan. And now we're going to be playing on that south side of Mirage Atoile by that choke point. I will say, I'm glad that we don't have...
00:51:14 Body part callouts. In other video games, there's things like elbow, for example, or left arm. I struggle a little bit with kneecap being involved in this game. Kneecap pushing through the elbow, maybe trying to get to the head of it. It's just a...
00:51:27 It's a tough situation for Acaster, but Kneecap, as you mentioned, are going to be progressing on that eastern side, and they're going to be there for quite a while because it is a long old way to go for those who are over towards Overlook, Geyser, Big Maud, all these teams that can have to not only move from east to west, but also try and break through a lot of the central areas, which are going to be held down by some of the teams who are going to be rotating a little bit quicker. Potentially our first fight could be happening here. The Warlords will land, but the Warlords land safely, and it doesn't look like it's necessarily going to be a skirmish.
00:51:56 Moment, because they are just going to get those barrels down and keep on moving and grooving. And even with some of the changes that we saw in the last patch notes, we consistently still see the Bangalore Caustic and Bloodhound being played on World's Edge. And it's just because of how strong that smoke is, especially against teams that are running full roller players out here. It's just something to note before we make that transition into Storm Point. Atlas being another one of those teams making their rotate.
00:52:24 From the other side of Lava Siphon, you can see the pings going down. And you talked about it earlier, actually, with Mark in the first game. But these rotates really having an influence with the pathing on where these Evil Harvesters are. It looks like they're about to engage in a fight right now with Atlas coming in from right behind. They got the gold energy mag on that Nemesis, too. Philzon now having to back away in time while Robin's trying to give him some suppressed fire.
00:52:45 Yeah, sometimes you can be a little bit naughty. You can hang around those Harvesters. You can bait them a little bit and maybe get a little surprise attack on teams that might be going for them later. But teams have become more aware of that as they've got used to playing in a game where the Evo Harvesters exist, for sure. You just have to keep your eyes peeled and make sure no one is going to be trying to ambush you. But there's a lot of teams at the moment who have kind of moved in from this south side that have forced their way into the staging area and surrounding. And there is so many...
00:53:15 Das ist, wenn man sich nicht mehr so schnell fühlt, dann werden die Leute wissen, wo du bist. Also, du musst dich vorsichtig sein. Ja, du kannst ein bisschen mehr damage hier oder da werden, aber wenn man sich nicht mehr zeigen, wenn man sich nur ein Blumen oder ein Blumen oder ein Blumen oder ein Blumen oder ein Blumen oder ein Blumen oder ein Blumen oder ein Blumen oder ein Blumen oder ein Blumen oder ein Blumen.
00:53:30 Or if you're a duo looking at Meow right now, and they lost out on their Caustic, which is supposed to give them the space in this building, which means with a Bloodhound scan, it's going to be easy for any team trying to find their own real estate to just push onto this team since there's no Caustic barrels that they have to worry about. Essentially gassing them out too with a Caustic Nox gas, and that's exactly what we're going to see right now from one of our teams. They're already trying to force the push right here. They use the smoke, so that way they prevent themselves from getting third party from other teams within the area. But nice Thermite placement.
00:53:59 und Arxstar zu versuchen, noch mehr Feuer für Forbidden. Wow, das ist Messie von Forbidden. Sie wollten das Push machen, sie wollten das Engage machen, aber es gab auch andere Teams mit den Grenaden, die du gesagt hast, und sie sind wirklich nicht able zu pushen. Ich weiß nicht, dass sie einfach für ein Retreat gehen können, aber es scheint, dass sie so machen. Aber dieses Push hat sie wirklich in einem schwierigen Moment. Sie haben ihn aus! Okay, da wir gehen. Und sie können Reset hier sein, aber das war ein bisschen ein Problem.
Taktische Positionierung und Teamdynamik in Cossack Häusern
00:54:28
00:54:28 This is the Cossack house now, right? Calamitous seeing another day. Literally one shot right now. Pops that Phoenix. You have to imagine the other squads in the area. Danish, I believe, does have the high ground over these two houses. And they actually save Miao's life. You can see the duo still playing on that second floor. That push just unfortunately shut down almost immediately. But that's going to be the coexisting that we're going to see from more of these teams since they are running the Cossack. That they're going to be able to share more of these buildings. And with a nice overhead.
00:54:58 Look how many squads have already found themselves on the Mirajatwa side of the circle.
00:55:02 Yeah, and there's a few areas where it could be finishing here. You can see it just kind of northeast of Mirage Etoile as a finishing zone that we might see teams play for and potentially even on the eastern side of the train track. So it's what you bank on here if you have that information. But remember, a lot of these squads won't have this information that we actually see because hitting a ring console at this point, if you are one of the teams that is already there, is unlikely. What is more likely is the teams who are playing edge and are rotating in late, they might be able to get that ring console information. And then potentially, if you get survey...
00:55:32 Beacon as well, then you can maybe rotate in and try and find a spot that hasn't been taken because of the information you've been able to gather. So there's always that element of it when you are making your way through the map, but it is congested at the moment. And as soon as damage does start to happen in one of the areas, it might encourage a few people who aren't in the zone right now to come out of their hidey holes a little bit. And we might see a lot of teams at once engaging.
00:55:54 And even if squads want to try to try to fight their way to get that survey beacon to the south side of Mirage Otoile, Danish is completely covering that side too. So looking at the choke that you currently see Deadfish fighting SPS, actually sandwiching them in this lot right here. Look at the Watson fences to the north side, Picasso's painting over there. And it looks like it was also fight for a care package. So right now with both of these teams sharing this lot, urgency on the other side of SPS and then Deadfish was gatekeeping them. They have information of where that next circle is.
00:56:24 was pooling unlike urgency right now where they know that they're gonna have to move north eventually but do they contest spf and dead fish or do they wrap around from the back side of staging
00:56:34 Yeah, I think it's going to have to be one of these teams who are not in the circle at the moment to kind of disrupt the flow of the game at the moment. You can see Taskmaster just got a knock as well in the kill feed. So Red Dragon, they are getting involved. But there's teams like Atlas, players, rolling teams, NPC. They haven't found a home yet. And as soon as they do try and find a home, then they might have to force someone else out of there. So that's why the lobby at the moment is still a little bit slow. It's a little bit indecisive. But potentially Urgency might actually follow their name here.
00:57:04 und versuchen, diese Urgenheit zu unternehmen.
00:57:07 Das Circle 2 ist closing in at the moment. They'll be able to see where that next circle is going to be.
00:57:36 This isn't gonna be fun for Urgency. I'm trying to work out whether...
Strategische Bewegungen und Team-Interaktionen im späteren Spielverlauf
00:57:45
00:57:45 I would prefer them to kind of move east and try and go through that choke because it could be a little bit more comfortable from what I can see but they don't know that and naturally you do try and push west here as players also they're struggling on their rotate in at the moment they're getting griefed from every single angle it would seem trying to get bats off using the smoke as their best advantage and actually doing damage through the smoke as well but it looks like players just able to reset but they are very much in no man's land right now
00:58:12 That's the beauty of the Beast of the Hunt out here, but losing out on your Bangalore is not the way to go as they try to find themselves in a crevice. Rolling Teams, one of the teams that we had highlighted earlier in our pre-show now, looking to clean up some heads before they back away in time, calling it just in case a third party was actually positioning themselves behind them. They see the opportunity, they move back and kneecap instead as move forward. Great timing on that squad to just back away, back towards Landslide. Rolling Teams will be inevitably meeting up with NPC
00:58:41 Kupfer, clean up that north side.
00:58:46 Es ist ein guter Job von Kneecap und viel damage zu tun. Man sieht, es gibt einen Knochen zu bekommen und es sieht aus, dass sie das Knochen in die Knochen gehen können. Sie sehen, das Knochen in die Knochen geht. Sie sehen, das Knochen in die Knochen geht. Es ist 0.9 und 1. Sie sehen, es sieht aus, dass sie ein Knochen gehen. Es sieht aus, dass sie ein Knochen gehen. Aber es sieht aus, dass sie ein Knochen gehen. Sie sehen, es sieht aus, dass die Lanschläge in die Knochen kämpft. Die Knochen kämpft und es sieht aus, dass die Knochen kämpft. Es sieht aus, dass die Knochen kämpft. Und es sieht aus, dass die Knochen kämpft.
00:59:15 Und jetzt sind die Roling-Teams in einem guten Platz.
00:59:41 Javik just tearing through the French squad, going down, losing out on Robin and Tayla here, trying to find a nice cover behind the other side of the fence line. But players have been on a roll so far. They see the NPC have been eliminated too by the tunnel side of Landslide. And Kamidata is going to get involved for a fourth party.
00:59:58 Players were one of the teams that were able to get a victory yesterday in Winners Bracket Round 2, so they're always going to be one of the teams I'm looking at to potentially win today. Any team that found victories yesterday becomes a possible favorite going into Match Point for sure, because winning is everything once you get there. But players are just trying to survive right now. It doesn't matter which corner you turn, though. There is another team looking at you, and it looks like it could be bad news bears for players. Just as I say, they could be one of the favorites. It looks like maybe it's a commentator curse coming through. Oh, nice level surprise attack, though. He is able to catch the remaining...
01:00:28 von Rolling Teams. Und da ist noch mehr Leben für die Spieler, aber es ist langsam fadig. 17 Quads left, als Rolling Teams exit out of this lobby. Kamidata involved in all the chaos on the north side, right here, where there was 3-4 squads that they were dealing with. Now, moving forward, Red Dragons looking at this, too, from the north side of the train tracks, and they are not getting involved, but they are absolutely gatekeeping this team. With little note of cover, you only really have the smoke grenades from the teams that are gonna be forcing their way into that next circle from Landslide.
01:00:58 Ich denke, es wird sehr schwer sein.
01:01:00 Das ist schlecht für Diener und Windocleaner, die noch immer auf Mirage-Atois sind.
01:01:29 So all of those teams that were on that Mirage side are going to have to heavily move towards the eastern side here. It's going to be uncomfortable.
01:01:36 Das wird ein Blutbad, auch. Weil jetzt ein paar Teams jetzt von der West-East-Side gehen, wo werden wir das Cover bekommen? Wenn es bereits drei Teams gibt, dass die Train-Tracken sind. Aside von Reddragons sind, du hast Atlas, du hast Trojan, die sie für sie in den Karten sind. Danisch ist in der Kampf. Sie haben es aus dem Kampf. Young Hong Kong, die Tür zu holen, mit Fricks, die ist unglaublich low. Young Hong Kong, die Lose aus. Und Sherb jetzt in den Fall, um den Fall, um Deadfish zu erinnern. Und Reddragons sind noch immer wieder aufzunehmen.
01:02:06 Das ist was wir über die Dänische haben, ein bisschen anders zu spielen, denn sie haben zu gehen, wo sie stehen. In Game 1, die Game kam zu ihnen, jetzt haben sie sich zu bringen und finden sich in einen anderen Ort. Aber Reddrakken, sie haben die High-Ground über ein paar Teams gescheitert. Es ist never fun, wenn du an dieser Angle bist, als der Team ist. Du musst einfach, dass du ein Dopp-Down für ein bisschen weitergehen kannst, aber als die zwei bleiben hier sind, ich denke, dass die Zeit sein wird, besonders mit anderen Squaden sind.
01:02:34 Red Dragon wollen das so bad, aber es ist nicht so, dass sie einen Horizont haben, wo sie einfach zurückkehren können. Sie sind nicht nur ein bisschen. Nicht nur die High-Ground, aber nicht nur die High-Ground-Gatekeeping die anderen Teams. Der Kraber-Shot ist der nächste Nuck hier. Gatekeeping der Squad, die jetzt von der Circle ist. Kreisides wird wieder zurückkehren. Nice follow-up kommen in von den resten Red Dragons mit 14 Squad still left. Und sie sind immer noch mehr. Sie sind auf zwei Teams auf der gleichen Zeit. One unter dem und die anderen Squad kommen aus der Circle.
01:03:03 They're in very bad positions from where the circle is pulling towards.
01:03:07 Just look at that screen as well, the red and the purple of Red Dragon, and then it's a blue swarm of all the other teams that are around them. It's really been well played by Red Dragon to ensure those Evil Shields get leveled up as now Forbidden. They're going to be moving as one of those teams from west to east, but they're also holding out some of the teams that were behind them. Call me Dada, eliminated. Ten squads now remaining, but it's going to be less. Shimani also go down, so nine squads here as Forbidden still have held strong, and they're in a decent spot as well. If they force their way through on their southern side, if they count the team above.
01:03:36 ...above them, which is Trojan, I believe. They will be in a nice spot to just slot themselves into the southern zone.
01:03:42 Und in all this ruckus, as you guys love to say here, moving away from that circle, Danish have also been eliminated in this lobby. Forbidden coming out on top, exiting out from that west side, as well as Free Sosa coming in from that low ground. Before they rotate into that next circle, though, they're going to be gatekept by Atlas, a team that does have the Rampart. I believe they have some Rampart walls to work with. We're going to have to CS Trojan on the high ground. Going to be able to take some shots using the banners and some extra cover here. They get two knocked off of that. Now finally dropping.
01:04:12 Ich denke, der Rest der Lobby wäre froh, zu sehen, Dänisch zu eliminieren. Sie werden nicht finden sich auf die Matchpoint zu finden, als sie nicht able, zurück zu zurück zu gehen. Es war ein sehr schweres Spiel für sie. Sie konnten nicht wirklich alle die Teams, die in den Weg sind.
Dominanz und strategische Vorteile von Red Dragon
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01:04:29 ...progress from west to east. Now, eight teams remain. Circle is going to close here for round three. Trojan, Forbidden, Atlas, OR9, Red Dragon, they all have to kind of move in. It's the Apex Warlords that are in one of the best spots at the moment in the far southeast of the map. So we will definitely be keeping an eye on them and I'm expecting them to get into the top three.
01:04:49 Absolutely, especially since they're not going to have anybody contesting them from behind. It's really just urgency playing right underneath them, and it's just a solo at that. Red Dragon still with the chaos, the onslaught of damage, being able to nail down everybody with that Hemlock, popping the Beast of the Hunt right now, too. They're clearing these train tracks while also keeping an eye on the team that's far to their right.
01:05:09 Just look at these shields as well. It's so powerful for Red Dragon to be pushing in with a Red Armor Swarm right now. And every team that goes up against them I think is going to be turning with their tails between their legs when you see those Reds. It's just...
01:05:23 So difficult to try and go up against it. The extra damage that you can take here for Red Dragon. Now they're going to be pushing through the smoke as well. If they can command this bridge, definitely put themselves in one of the better positions to try and win this entire game. And you can see Trojan, the last remaining player, just literally hiding with a tail between the legs to survive and maybe get some extra placement points. But now Red Dragon, they have the high ground. They have the ability to kind of rain down hell on all the teams that are below them here.
01:05:46 And they have information, too. Off of that Bloodhound scan, they know that there's a duo playing right underneath this bridge. There's a trio right in front of them. They're taking up so much space. The bangle has been called in. They're going to be able to back away. Look at Taskmaster, who didn't even take a lick of damage here, too. And you can see the duo right underneath them still right here. But they are going to be forced to drop down eventually, where they'll also be not only in the line of sight of the duo underneath them, the trio that's right there, DN, as well as Apex Warlords, like you mentioned, that it's inside of that.
01:06:16 Untertitelung des ZDF, 2020
01:06:17 Ja, ein paar Rats zu versuchen, auch. 0R9 hat eine Rat, Urgency hat eine Rat. Und sie können hier machen. Und die Ame der Spiel für sie ist, natürlich, zu werden in den Top 5 zu werden. Die Reddragons haben einen. Sie haben einen. Aber es geht nicht, weil die Reddragons sind, aber es geht nicht, weil die Reddragons sind. Sie müssen noch ein 4-3 zurückkehren, aber sie müssen noch ein 4-3 zurückkehren, aber es geht auch nicht. Sie nehmen Atlus. Sie fühlen sich Atlus war eine reale Angelegenheit bei ihnen, und sie haben sie gewonnen.
01:06:46 Und jetzt Red Dragon kann etwas Reset sein, aber die Circle wird ihn auswählen.
01:06:51 Hey, that Gold Knockdown, though, definitely came in clutch, as Apex Warlords, a team that was waiting so patiently in that building, are forced to play this final show with only Blue Evos, and that is the problem that you're at risk with. When Red Dragon has just been completely clearing out that north side of the circle, they're gonna contest this fight with three Red Evos versus three Blue Evos. Yeah, this was bad news for Apex Warlords, all the teams to push them. If it was Red Dragon, it was always gonna be a difficult spot, because the Red versus Blue is just superior in this instance, and now Red Dragon...
01:07:20 Zeriffa ist jetzt noch für den Apex-Warlords.
01:07:35 The fact that Red Dragon is looking like they're just farming this lobby right now. Five squads left, and look at that. They have nine KP already. They get another one. It was a solo from Forbidden, finally going out, but going out in fifth place. As Red Dragon look over the high ground, look at the squad that's right directly across from them. You talk about the Scattered Rats. Well, now look who's right there. Xerifer is still alive from now, and the squad right underneath them is just still trying to fight for placement. Red Dragon eventually dropped down, but a bit of miscommunication, maybe only leaving
01:08:04 Taskmaster alive. Oh no, and he misses the initial shot as well. Maybe he can get a swap. Maybe he can just use these shields to his advantage here. It is going to be a tough spot to beat him trying to go for the shred and gets the shred and Red Dragon. They get the sweep, they get the game, and they show us why. They're one of the favorites here today. It was a 1v1 between Apex Warlords and Red Dragon, but man, they always end up doing it. Taskmaster is a legend for a reason, but they cleaned up that Lobby, Dan.
01:08:32 Unbelievable game from Red Dragon. The management to get to the kind of superior shield situation they found themselves in in the mid-game and then utilizing those shields to push aggressively at the right time. The team below them, Atlas on the bridge, they had to eliminate them first and then they saw the Apex Warlords in the distance. Now, you don't really want to push the Apex Warlords in most instances, but because they were on blue, as soon as they did that damage, they said, all right, let's get involved. Let's make sure we take the high ground.
01:08:57 Wurzeln von Baden zu Wurzeln, wenn sie in den Watton fängt. Aber wenn man so einen 1v1 hat, dann wird man immer die Dump.
01:09:04 When they're scattered 1v1v1 at that point, and there was a bit of miscommunication, and at the very end you drop down, hey, as long as you clutch it out, you take not only the dub, but what, they finished like 19 kills at the end? They were going absolutely crazy on that final circle, and it's what you mentioned before. When you see that the team that is holding probably the god spot for that final circle has only blue evos, that's when you essentially push, because you have the health advantage on your side in that moment, and that's the risk that you put your team in when you only...
01:09:34 Try to fight for that final circle positioning Without being able to have access to these evil harvesters Or even putting down damage with long range weapons
01:09:41 Das ist immer die Funktion mit Matchpoint hier, Vicky.
01:10:10 Das sind besser auf World's Edge, performen gut zu Beginn mit, aber dann ist es, dass es zu fallen, wenn wir zu Stormpoint kommen?
01:10:16 We're going to have to see. I mean, I do know for winners round two, Red Dragon was top three in that moment. So that consistency did carry over from map to map. But will it matter where it matters the most here in the finals lobby? And it's exciting to see how that game also impacted their total score because they probably came into this with some extra points, I believe. So now adding that all up together, as well as Danish, that's going to be two squads that more of these teams definitely have to keep their eye on. Yeah, they came in joint third with Trojans, so they will have at least...
01:10:45 ...eight points, if I'm correct, if not seven, depending on the tiebreaker there. So they are going to be catching up Danish. They could even be ahead of Danish, depending on how many kills they got in that final moment as well, when we get the scores that are totaled up at the end. But we've got our two frontrunners for sure. It's Danish and Red Dragon. Naturally, that's going to happen after two games when you see teams get victories. But can those victories still come through a little bit later on as we get through the day, as people get a little bit more tired as you get through the game? So Red Dragon and Danish is who we're looking at, but then you have to be looking at the...
01:11:14 The other squads who performed well yesterday that could maybe make an impact in match number three and four, Kumidada, Trojan, Rolling Teams, DN, Forbidden, they all performed excellently yesterday and we know they could maybe be a real threat in this lobby today as well.
01:11:27 Und das geht zurück zu was wir mit Mindset gesagt haben, dass man sich durch diese Multiple-Games durch die Apex-Legend fühlt sich, wenn man die Brüllen-Haus hat, besonders in Lobbyen, es kann wirklich auf die Schulter sein sein. Also, dass man sich nicht mehr auf die verschiedenen Compositions zu machen, um von World's Edge zu Stormpoint zu gehen. Aber mit einem Explosiv-Games wie das für Game 2 und Red-Dragons zu spielen so confidently, ich expecte es zu carryen auf Stormpoint, Dan.
01:11:53 Yes, we have our two frontrunners after match one and two, but is it going to be a three-horse race? Will we find a third squad that potentially joins these frontrunners? Maybe we'll find out after this break. Match number three coming up.
01:20:59 Ja, das ist eine Sache, die ich liebe, wenn wir in Match Point kommen, ist das, als man sich anfühlt, fühlt sich auf die Map, wir machen die Map. Das macht es so, okay, wir machen die Map. Es ist so, okay, wir machen die Map. Es ist so, okay, wir machen die Map. Es ist so, okay, wir machen die Map. Es ist so, okay, wir machen die Map. Es ist so, okay, wir machen die Map. Es ist so, okay, wir machen die Gespräche. Es ist so, okay, Leute, wir machen das Spiel, wir machen das Spiel. Und dann ist es so, okay.
01:21:24 Okay, listen, we need to clarify this too here on set. You're talking about decent KP on the rated match point. Red Dragon?
Red Dragon's Dominanz und Matchpoint-Szenario
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01:21:54 They've hit it in two matches, okay? They were at 19 kills in that second game with obviously closing out the entire match. That put them over that threshold. We talked about this during the format. This is wild to me because we've mentioned we've never seen it done before six in a PLQ before. Well, Red Dragon now on 53 points. If they somehow continue this steamrolling, they could secure their spot in three matches. I don't even, I can't.
01:22:22 I can't imagine that. That is what you call a good economy of games. You turn up, finals, three games, you're chilling, you're done. And then it's just about having a little bit of fun in the remaining games. An amazing performance so far from Red Dragon and no surprise as well here on Stormpoint to see them having one of the priority POIs as, to be honest with you, you don't really want to be fighting them. They're going to be landing right at the northern tip of the map here over...
01:22:47 ...towards Lightning Rod, etc. ...and, you know, they're going to have so much loot to play with as well. And I think that's the scariest thing. They're going to have the ability to have a ring console by the looks of things as well. They've also got their Trident. They've got Evo right next to them. It's such a strong POI. There's a reason that TSM take it in North America. And when you're already on match point and you've got the ability to leave with guaranteed blues, maybe even purples with a little stop along the way.
01:23:11 It puts you in a great spot, essentially. And I think Red Dragon will be very happy when they hit that ring console and see that they don't have a huge amount of distance to cover as well. You know, and we talked about this being a possibility, but the reason I want to see how this all plays out for Red Dragon is we get a look at the top down here, see where the zone is going to shift and how they could potentially now be making their rotation to where they want to be. They're in such a good spot. And you were talking about all of the utility and resources available to them. Will the other teams have been paying attention enough?
01:23:40 To know that Red Dragon is now on match point, is that even a concern knowing that we will bare minimum be going to six matches so that these other teams have an opportunity to compete so that won't even be a concern? Will people just let Red Dragon potentially take this home? Like, what are the choices here?
01:23:57 Ich denke, es ist, dass wir definitiv spielen, eine bestimmte Menge zu spielen, ist anders zu was es in Matchpoint. Weil Leute fokussieren auf RedDragon und sagen, okay, wir müssen das gehen. Wenn wir außerhalb der Qualifizierungspots sind, müssen wir das Tor nicht enden hier und jetzt machen. Aber ich denke, wir müssen das Spiel spielen wie es ist für heute. RedDragon haben sich in eine gewisse Position, fantastisch. Und wenn sie jetzt gewinnen, dann ist es gut, aber es gibt noch mehr Spiel zu spielen. Und du wirst nicht in eine Position, wo du wirst dein Spiel gewinnen.
01:24:23 Thinking the tournament is going to end when it's not going to end. It's going to keep going and an opportunity for points is going to elude you. So I think that's probably the smartest way to approach things. However, you never know. You genuinely never know with PLQs. Another team that's doing well, Danish. And Trojan actually just went past them on their rotation away from Down Beast. Danish making their way on over to Mill. But Trojan trying to see if they can find a little bit more lewd here for themselves. Get those Evos up.
01:24:50 Before they push all the way in into the next zone. They're in a really good spot at least loot and information wise here hitting that checkpoint before they kind of move back north and get themselves a little bit safer. But right now everybody definitely starting to set themselves up safely. We talked about how we could potentially see a lot more early game chaos in something like a PLQ, but right now we're just seeing some classic conservative Apex Legends gameplay.
01:25:15 Yeah, I think the early game's been pretty quiet. It's been the mid game, which has been a bit strange with a lot of teams looking to play the edge of zone and essentially the zone contributing to a lot of deaths for teams. Well, nobody wants to try and rotate ahead of someone. Everybody's not letting each other rotate and just kind of holding each other out. It's just getting a little bit messy in and around that end game and the mid game, excuse me. And speaking of messy.
01:25:38 Es gibt so viele Evo Caches zu machen.
01:26:06 Ja, wir sehen ein bisschen poke-damage kommen, als Teams starten zu rotate in und versuchen, zu at least claim some space. Wir haben SP...
01:26:22 Das war ein bisschen schwierig, wenn Deadfish hatte, ein paar mehr Quads zu halten, auf der Nord-Western Seite. All diese NUT-Bilden sind bereits geholfen, schön und schnell, als Teams werden versuchen, für ein bisschen mehr Platz. Trojan, das Squad, wir sah, Rotating haben, haben jetzt einen Spieler, jetzt auf Purple, so sie waren able, ein bisschen mehr bevor sie gemacht haben, als auch. Und das ist jetzt ein bisschen zu sein, das...
01:26:46 This is a good opportunity to talk about some of the unpredictability of a lobby like this.
01:27:15 Everybody isn't sure on the timing of other teams' rotations in and around the area. We do see our first team being eliminated, by the way, in the meantime, which is going to be DN. And I think that's why you're seeing a lot of teams arriving kind of in a similar time and going, hey, wait, there's nowhere for us to play. Now we're kind of stuck between our plan A isn't going to be here. What's our plan B? How do we try and get out of this situation? And that's what you're seeing here right on the edge of the zone, right? You can see one player has been knocked, and that's because the nut buildings were already taken. The timing on their rotate was off.
01:27:45 And they found themselves with an all in, all or nothing play that they now can't make. So they've got to react on the fly. I do really quickly, by the way, just want to talk about Red Dragon because they have so many EVO opportunities on their path towards this zone. We mentioned Lightning Rod right where they dropped. They had an EVO cache. They also had a Ring Console. Now they've headed over towards Zeus Station where there's another one for them. There's also another Ring Console for them to hit as well. If they keep going towards Zone as well, they might be able to hit some Prowlers. There's another EVO. So there's a real opportunity for them to maybe approach this zone with...
01:28:14 Late purples, maybe even some reds, if they play it right.
01:28:35 Ich glaube, sie hat Windhofen genommen, wenn ich mich nicht verstanden. Wir haben noch einen Backup zu bekommen. Jetzt sind es zwei, aber es gibt so viele Teams, die sich in die Richtung zu sehen und machen das wirklich schwierig. Die Reset ist nicht so schnell zu Danisch. Sie sind in ein guter Platz, aber mit der Anzahl der Vision, die Leute zu haben, es könnte ein bisschen detrimental sein. Meanwhile, NPC finden sich in der Back-and-Forth. Sie sind auch auf die Shield.
01:28:59 Ja, es ist ein ziemlich viel Platz für den Weg. Ja, es ist ein ziemlich viel Platz für den Weg. Ja, es ist ein ziemlich viel Platz für den Weg.
01:29:27 Always a little bit scary with this many Bloodhounds in the lobby. Just one scan and your game is going to be over. But this is happening right down on the southern side of the zone at the moment. This is a battle outside of the tunnel to kind of cut through to where we find ourselves right now. But elsewhere, this is very interesting. Red Dragon are inside of wall at the moment. Players are also inside of wall too. So they're kind of poking up against each other. But elsewhere, you can see that Young Hong Kong, Sherba and Freaks have managed to get back up to a full three here. So they're going to be in a position here now Danish to maybe walk up onto rolling teams.
01:29:57 Definitely a really clutch moment here, so let's jump on in with Danish's comms and see what they got to say about handling the situation. Oh, you wanna go? Walk up, walk up close first. Walk up trenchant. I don't see anyone. I'm gonna scan. Scan, scan, scan. All left, all left.
01:30:26 Oh, ich habe einen Schuss von dir!
01:30:40 Das war eine ROUGH FIGHT hier auf der Hand von Danisch. Wir haben versucht, das zu halten, aber nicht zu halten. Die 3v3-Rolling-Teams nehmen sie aus und ich denke, das hat sich die Chance zu machen für Danisch. Ja, das war ein bisschen ein ROUGH FIGHT für sie. Die Damage war gut, aber es war nur ein 3v2 in der Mitte. Sie werden nicht mehr able, dass das 1st Knoll zu machen, und von dem dann, sie haben...
01:31:07 Ich habe keine Ahnung, aber ich habe keine Ahnung, aber ich habe in der Hintergrund gesehen, dass Red Dragon hat sich in einen Nutt-Buildungs zu移st. Wir sehen, wie es ein paar Moments war, in den Nutt-Buildungs zu移st. Ich weiß, wie es ein paar Moments war, in den Nutt-Buildungs zu移st. Ich weiß nicht, ob ich jemanden hatte und hatte einen Nutt-Buildungs zu移st. Aber was auch passiert ist, Red Dragon hat sich in einen Nutt-Buildungs zu移st, und sie sind in einen Nutt-Buildungs zu移st. Also, da ist eine Chance hier, dass sie in den Nutt-Buildungs zu sein können.
01:31:36 I think it will definitely boil down to what happens on that southern side of the ring, which teams start pushing through those chokes and what positions they're able to really nail down and how well Red Dragon can focus on the rest of the teams also hanging out in the nut buildings and at least keep them away for now. Hopefully in their eyes, everyone else in the lobby taking each other out, giving less for Red Dragon to have to focus on. Meanwhile, we've got...
01:31:59 Nice Evos hier in Shimani, as they're moving towards the rest of the team. They're playing right on the outskirts of this next circle, trying to wait and see if they can maybe gatekeep anybody, at least get to any more Evo caches that they might have not hit before they make their final push in, because there's actually a decent amount of teams that are still stuck on blues right now. Speaking of which, Deadfish, who of course did have one player Nogs a little bit earlier, managed to get back up to a full three.
01:32:25 They do have the blues. They have a really good spot as well. And they're going to be holding out players at the moment who try to move through that choke.
01:32:31 Also haben wir noch eine Choke, die wir natürlich noch nicht auf den Rheizern haben. Die Blüe Armour ist sehr schwer zu arbeiten, aber die Wahrheit ist, dass sie mit dem Wotzen-Gen mit den Wotzen-Gen spielen können. Sie werden ein bisschen mehr von den Wotzen-Gen gewonnen haben, weil wenn jemand die Wotzen-Gen hat, wenn sie die Wotzen-Gen haben, dann wird das Wotzen-Gen ein bisschen geholfen werden. Das wird natürlich um die Wotzen-Gen gewonnen werden, also wird das Wotzen-Gen gewonnen werden. Wir sehen uns die Wotzen-Gen mit den Wotzen-Gen gewonnen haben.
01:32:59 Und das ist auch außerhalb der Zone, so sie müssen das Ganze cleanen. Meowth geht in der Killfeed, während die NPCs versuchen, ob sie etwas tun können, mit der Beast der Hunt zu tun. Sie versuchen ihnen die Informationen, die sie suchen, als sie den Weg machen.
01:33:11 Das ist eigentlich ein bisschen schneller als ich dachte. Sie sind able, zwischen den Apex und den NPC. Ein bisschen standoff, als es nicht...
01:33:33 Das war es nicht so, es war es nicht so, es war es ein 2v2 zwischen den Warlords und den Warlords.
01:34:02 Decent amount of points, but now NPC also gonna have to start making a move so that they don't get tagged.
01:34:30 Das war ein wirklich langes Engagement, und jetzt werden sie sich umgekehrt bei Atlas, die sie zu sehen, um sie zu sehen, um sie zu gehen, um sie zu gehen, um sie zu gehen, um sie zu gehen, um sie zu gehen, um Atlas zu vielleicht einen K.P. um, um ein Potenzial-Weakened- und jetzt zu 2-team, wenn es um NPC zu kommen, aber niemand will, um sie zu nehmen, um sie zu nehmen, um sie zu nehmen, um sie zu nehmen, um sie zu nehmen, um sie zu nehmen.
01:34:58 And we'll end up running into yet another squad. And I don't know if you saw way back when the map just came up before Mark, but the zone shift and continues to shift directly on top of Red Dragon's solo nut building. I don't know how this is going in their favor, but right now they are set up beautifully. Yeah, I think they were probably as surprised as anyone to walk up and go, hey, this is free.
01:35:23 Let's just go in here, because this is where the game is going to end. Somebody messed up along the way, and I don't know who left, if someone was forced to leave, but you can't allow a team to walk in that late to one of the priority positions. Like you say, they are back in the center of that next zone, and they are in the, like you say, the only nut building which is going to be safe in the zone, so they're not going to have to do anything. There's a real opportunity here for them to win match point, and even though we have more guaranteed games to come, to not only win it, but guarantee this point in Pro League.
01:35:54 Absolute insanity.
01:35:56 Meanwhile, the rest of our squad still fighting for those spots. One of those being kneecapped. Someone who we saw with really nice shields earlier on now fighting in this choke up against quite a few squads. This is not going to be easy. You've got Shimani in there. Deadfish also trying to look and see if they can maybe third party this and get some free KP. They've been on the outside of this choke and kind of watching the action go down. Deadfish doing a really good job holding their own, staying alive. You were talking about how important this watch and Jen has been for them. These fences as well, giving them a little bit.
01:36:25 Schamani mit einem 2-1 gesetzt.
01:36:42 Ja, das ist das, was wir waren über den South zu den North zu den Zonen. Es ist schwer, wenn man sehr hohe Evos hat, und du bist die letzte Team zu erreichen. Und du hast das jetzt, weil Atlas hat sich in. Shimani, die ein paar von den Chokes haben, hat sich in den Zonen geholfen. Und jetzt haben sie ein Zonen geholfen, und jetzt sind die Zonen geholfen.
01:37:12 Evo, Deadfish gone, Kneecap gone as well. We're down to our top six. Everything is happening really quickly as it does towards these final moments. The fact that...
01:37:23 Still only Red Dragon who is 100% safe in the building inside of this final circle right now. You see FPS starting to fly in. Atlas still hanging out on these outskirts as they know that it's going to be a little bit of a rough final rotation. They're taking some poke damage from the team still in the nut buildings right now who have some sight lines on them. And this is a nice overview of exactly where everybody is. You can see those rampart walls and that loba behind the rock over there. That might at least be helpful when it comes to trying to be annoying from behind that rock with everybody else.
01:37:52 I can't give you answers. It's all I can say. I mean, they say a picture tells a thousand words, right? Like, look at that.
01:38:10 Red Dragon, only team in zone. Right now, everyone else has to make their way in. The two teams are on the northern side of the zone. They have to walk out into the open. We'll probably take damage from Free Sosa. That northern side should be clean up crew. The worry, I think, for Red Dragon is the southern side, Atlas. They know they're there. They know they're trying. They've tried to do some damage.
01:38:27 It sounds crazy, but the fact that they've got a Trident to play with here, they could just boost to the bottom of that building and play underneath with a little bit of cover using that Trident. So Atlas could cause a problem here. They don't have the best of it, Evos, but if other teams could do a little bit of damage to Red Dragon, there might be an opportunity to keep this thing going. It's going to be rough because everybody keeps looking at Atlas every time they move, but they're trying to go for the point. Oh, this amount of damage that just got absolutely ranged.
01:39:03 Ich will sagen, das war ein Teil des Spiels, das war ein Teil des Spiels.
01:39:26 Kossack, die Menschen wegzunehmen. Sie haben die BANG, die Vision und Sightlines zu blockieren. Ich meine, sie sind in so stark in dieser Not-Buildung. Jeder muss nach ihnen kommen. Sie werden das letzte Mal kommen, wenn es das Final-Circle geht. Freistosa geht in der Killfeed, jetzt in der Top-3-Kill-Feed. Red Dragon ist der einzige in der Not-Buildung. Trojan ist unter ihnen. Und Call-Me-Data geht in jetzt.
01:39:50 They also have ults available. Very importantly, you can see the alt excels being popped. I'm pretty sure that every single legend had their ultimate available. So they can bang out if anyone tries to climb up late, then force them off. They can then use the caustic ult to obviously throw it down onto the teams who are forced down to the low ground. Then they can smoke and bang.
01:40:06 Excuse me, Bloodhound Scan to find out where everyone is. So they're in a great spot here, but Call Me Dada could be the Party Poopers here. You see the Evo they've managed to work their way up to? If they have the ability to use this... Late Evac might actually be a big play for them as well. But they also have Ultimates available to counteract what Red Dragon have.
01:40:26 I like the call that this might be the spoiler in Call Me Data as well because I mean between the options for height that they could utilize on their comp this might be an opportunity for them to outlive everybody when it does shrink down to that final ring you can see Red Dragon knowing where they are and trying to do whatever they can if they can do a little bit of poke damage before this next circle shrinks down but this is all going to come down to perfect decision making Trojan has made their way on top of the building now above Red Dragon who will obviously
01:40:55 Ich weiß nicht, dass das wo sie sind. Es gibt es besser Sight Lines, Downblown zu Call Me Dada.
01:41:29 Inside the allotted amount of games until now. Red Dragon win match point. What just happened? There is no way. Absolutely no way. I talked about the choices and how important they were going to be. Going for Trojan on the top.
01:41:53 Was not the choice. That was not it. That's what, like you said, is what handed the game to Red Dragon because they didn't go for them and put themselves in the position to be third-partied by Red Dragon. I don't, is that the fastest? I think in the history of Apex that might be the fastest Matchpoint we've ever had. That was three games, right? Three games. First one that we saw on Stormpoint. That might well be a record for Matchpoint to be won. I will say, by the way, let's not take away, they might not have known that Red Dragon were in that building.
01:42:22 So there becomes a little bit of a guessing game, right? But I will say for Red Dragon on Matchpoint to be handed the game in the way that they have been at numerous points throughout that game, they are going to be like blessed. Just cannot believe their luck. They get the building that is the one open after everyone is contested. Nobody's there to stop them. They have an amazing Evo path in where they managed to get up to purples, almost reds without any trouble whatsoever. And in the final moment,
01:42:52 The two teams who can deny them match point and qualifying for Pro League decide to just go in against each other, play for second, and that just hands in the wind. It's such a simple job. Congratulations to Red Dragon. They will be in Pro League in a MIA for Split 2. I mean, with a performance like that, it's very well deserved. I want to get Vicky back in here too because I can only imagine the screaming that was happening with Vicky behind the scenes while you were watching that. I mean...
01:43:20 Vicky, give me your thoughts on what we just saw. I think that was record-breaking. That has to...
01:43:26 Sorry, I got so excited. I was going to say, that has to be record-breaking. Not only did they just freaking farm the lobby after game two, but the back-to-back win and then the free end zone and then Prestis is just out here destroying everybody else. The man's got like 4.2k damage alone, I think, before that game. Just to put it into perspective. So imagine after game three, Red Dragon, I mean, the two teams I was looking at going into today was Red Dragon.
01:43:55 und Danisch. Und Red Dragon nicht nur performte, aber sie schlade und conquered. Und jetzt ist es für die anderen Teams zu sehen, wo sie stehen in den nächsten vergangenen Jahren, seit wir sind in den nächsten vergangenen Jahren, seit Red Dragon gewinnen nach drei vergangenen. Vielleicht. Ich bin ein bisschen shocked hier. Was für Sie? Das hat es zu sein. Das hat es zu sein. Ich glaube, wir haben das. Ja. No. Da ist keine Chance.
01:44:24 Maybe they were everyone's mindset was like if maybe red dragon wins, we don't have to worry about them anymore. I don't I don't I can't.
01:44:36 I mean, you could say that if they hadn't just wiped everyone in the previous game, right? Because now they've got to worry about Red Dragon playing without any pressure. They could just run at everyone if they wanted to, right? They could just smash their way through lobbies and see if they can set even more records now. But I think the biggest takeaway, of course, is congratulations to Red Dragon right now. They have qualified. Amazing performance, record-breaking performance. Nobody would have seen that coming. But there's still more Apex to play here. We have three more games to decide who is going to be joining them.
01:45:05 Ich habe mich ehrlich, ich bin in ein bisschen shock. Ich habe nicht gedacht, dass wir heute eine Matchpoint-Winner haben. Ich bin kind of blown away. Es wird verändern, wie viele diese Teams werden zu spielen, weil wir meistens werden, bis wir warten bis 5 oder 6 Uhr für Leute zu starten.
01:45:23 It gets hit in two, finished in three, which means now there's a set limit, right? There's not this potential endless amount of games for these teams to be getting points on the board. You have three more opportunities to be in that top eight, okay? It's our top eight that are getting the spots into split two. One is now gone. So it's only seven more remaining spots for these teams to make their way into split two.
01:45:45 I think that could change a lot when it comes to the mental side of it, Vicky, because it's no longer Matchpoint. We're back to what they're used to with just a set series. Yeah, but I also think that just that sets up Red Dragon to be like the team.
01:46:01 That is up here and in a huge gap in the rest of this lobby. To put it into perspective on what to expect for Split 2. I mean, Red Dragon has got it just unlocked. I mean, I'm not surprised. Honestly, Taskmaster not playing in the Pro League is already a surprise on its own for me. And then to see him alongside two insanely cracked teammates. I can't wait to see what Red Dragon does in the Pro League.
01:46:27 I mean, we're one for two right now with teams that I think everybody expected to do well. We'll have to see what Danish can bring to the table after we get into this next match. But before we do that, we're three matches in, which means it's time for halftime, okay? We get to bring in some really cool guests every time we get to this point of the show. And we've got a great one today, okay? We've got a special guest who we get to see at LAN with us as one of our guests.
01:46:56 So this is just a little bit of a preview of that. Graceful is back. We're so excited to have him on the show. Before we even start talking about the chaos that we just saw, Graceful, because I'm sure you've got a lot to say about it, I just want to know how excited you are to be back on the desk with us at LAN.
01:47:15 Ja, es wird so viel Spaß zu versuchen, eine komplett andere Perspektive von Apex zu, von einem formeren Pro-Player zu, um mein Bestes zu sein, an der Analyst-Tesk zu sehen. Und wir sehen uns vielleicht in den nächsten Cast, wenn ich bin. Ich habe so viel Spaß, einfach zu explorieren Apex in verschiedenen Venues. Ich denke, die Apex, die wir heute gesehen haben, und die Apex, die ich zu spielen habe, ist so verschieden, und es ist jetzt weiterentwickelt.
01:47:41 We're seeing many teams pop off in different ways and it's always so much fun.
01:47:48 Ja, ja, ja. Ja, ja. Ja, ja, ja.
01:48:14 So the Zone endings that they had, both the Trials ones and then also around Mirage as well, or actually rather the Train Rail, is default plays for them. They play the same way every single game that the Zones end up there. So they play those two amazingly. They play proactive and they got points. And when we say, like, when we look at Red Dragons, they get consistent points regardless. Like, their worst game is never zero because it will always take one team down with them.
01:48:38 But when they're being so proactive and then like they're opening up and thinning out the edge as they're walking in and then fighting for God spots essentially and power spots, they just like racking up so many points in first two games, it was, you know, domination. The third game, however, I will say a little bit free. Like a lot of the times God spots shouldn't be free. And what if the spots was a little bit too free? But in the end, they were proactive and, you know.
01:49:04 Maybe a little bit of luck is what you need in BR as well, right? And that opened up for it. But they managed to close it out. I would like to say that they closed it out perfectly, but let's be honest, I think the team on the down low, maybe they didn't know that Red Dragons was the team inside and not the team outside, but they just sent it and they traded and it was completely free. But overall, not even counting only this tournament, but the whole season for them have been amazing. And I knew from day one they should have been in Pro League. That's where I am at.
01:49:32 They should be top 10 in Pro League minimum. They could even make a bigger splash if they get a few other things under control, but they are really strong.
01:49:42 Yeah, I think a lot of people would agree with you there. Genuinely, I was surprised. Again, Taskmaster as an individual, just so talented. But you know what? Talking about those last three games, I want to pick your brain, Graceful, because I love it whenever we sit down. We bombard the devs before in the past. Now we're going to bombard the audience out here. You talked about it a little bit for the end circles for game number one. Let's go through the final circles for these last three games, starting with that first game, that pull towards Grandma's house, north side of Trial. You mentioned that Red Dragon's a type of team.
01:50:11 Ja, so I think, well, we don't really see their perspective right now, but this zone in general is that, like, once you get the... I would say the...
01:50:30 Die vier Hauptspots von diesem Zirkel sind die Tower, die die Gebäude, die Sie in der Fronten sehen, die sind die Top- und Unterleef Trials. Die sind die Teams, die zu halten. Aber wenn wir über die Red Dragons sprechen, die diese Zone haben und sie haben 11 Kills, sie sind auf der Opposite-Spektrum, wo sie sehr lange in der Zone spielen. Sie sind auf der Ebene, die alles auszutauschen, und dann abzunehmen und dann abzunehmen die Fälle auf diese Teams, die Sie sehen.
01:50:57 Sie sind viel mehr stacked. Sie kommen in mit einem Red Armour full-swingen. Und sogar wenn sie dich unternehmen können, sie werden dann auch geholfen oder geholfen, wie Danish. Das erste Spiel war wirklich gut. Das ist die größte Sache, in general. Viele Teams versuchen die gleiche Sache zu machen, die öffnen Möglichkeiten für andere Teams zu joinen.
01:51:20 Yeah, in this final circle, they had literally farmed this lobby. They had like got a 19kp. That's why they were set up in match point. But they had the high ground over all the other squads that were split up. And we're also playing either as a solo or duo here for them.
01:51:33 A lot of the time, they put themselves in these spots where they're either uncontested or they're just like, okay, we're just going to have to full send this team. And they're so good at closing out fights that they, like you see in this spot right now, they're just, you know, holding teams up essentially and then looking to jump down on anything, pounce on anything that they can and just like, always fight for the kills. Like as you see, they get you three kills every single time, they always close out to teamfights. And I think that if they can, like they're so good at being proactive, sometimes they can, you know,
Red Dragons Dominanz und Team-Adaption in ALGS Pro League
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01:52:03 Ich glaube, die Leute sind zu verabschieden, wenn es zu viele Teams gibt. Aber wie wir sehen in diesen Lobbys sind, sie sind die Powerhouse-team und die Leute sind sehr gefährdet. Und sie sind vollständig von ihnen.
01:52:18 Ja, so Trojan, das ist die Sache.
01:52:40 Ich bin sicher, die Team auf der Seite nicht hat, welche Team war Reddragons. Vielleicht machte eine Bette, dass Reddragons auf dem Ruf war, und sie machte einen Miss-Player, weil das ein Bad-Player ist, in meiner Meinung nach. Ich hoffe, Trojan... Ich bin sicher Trojan wusste, dass Reddragons in der Bühne waren, und sie waren wunderschön. Okay, wir werden wahrscheinlich töten die Team mit der Zone gehen, und dann haben wir 3-2-3 Reddragons. Aber little did ich wissen, die Horizon-Team endet einfach so hard.
01:53:07 Und dann haben wir sie gescheitert. Das macht es eine freie Kampf für die Red Rags. Ich würde sagen, dass einige dieser Teams nicht mehr Informationen haben, um die Spiel zu verlassen. Oder um die Spiel zu verlassen, um die Spiel zu verlassen. Und um die Red Rags nicht zu verlassen. Aber sie haben sie gescheitert, weil sie sie für die Red Rags nicht verlassen.
01:53:32 As we get a chance to take a look at the match three results here I mean this is literally the the least kills we've seen out of red dragon because of how early they moved into that God spot like you were saying here graceful obviously still a stellar performance As we take a look at some of the rest of these teams though We talked about Danish a lot and for you when you're watching for these first three matches at least graceful Which of these teams do you think is going is looking good so far heading into now these final three?
01:54:01 So the thing is, is that I have a hard time deciding because there's a lot of factors going into when a team is performing and when they're not. A team that's doing bad on Worlds Edge when they're a zone team and the zone is completely opposite side of the map doesn't mean that they're bad. A team that's, you know...
01:54:22 und dann die Zonen enden auf der PoE und sie nicht spielen mit Bluth, sondern sie spielen mit Bluth und Bluth und die Zonen mit Bluth und die Zonen in Zonen ist nicht wirklich ein schlechtes Team. Es ist alles um die Teams, die zu adaptieren. Und jetzt, was ich für heute ist, ich bin nicht wirklich auf jeden Team, aber ich bin für wie sie adaptieren zu jeder Zonen, auf welchen bestimmten PoEs sind.
01:54:47 Weil wir sehen, auf World's Edge, etwas anders als Stormpoint sind, dass die Teams sich um ihre Spielstelle verändern. Sie spielen mehr auf Stormpoint, weil es viel einfacher ist. Sie sind nicht so viel hält. Wobei auf World's Edge, viele Teams preferieren Zone-Play, weil es so viele Houses gibt, man kann es early sein und es gibt mehr Table-Godspots. Ich bin nur für die Adaptation, und dann würde ich für die Team... Ich würde sagen...
01:55:15 Ich habe ein wenig zu sehen, denn ich habe viel gegen sie in den letzten Jahren gespielt. Aber ich bin auch für Apex-Warlords, weil ich meine Freundschaft habe.
01:55:24 Oh, absolutely, absolutely. And now we get a chance to see the confirmed standings right now. Red Dragon landing their spot in Split 2 with 71 points. Finishing match point in 3. Phenomenal performance on behalf of Red Dragon. And just got confirmation for everybody at home. Just so that you understand, Red Dragon will not be participating in the final 3 games. They'll drop out of the lobby, so it'll just be down to 19. And the rest of these teams can fight out against each other to continue getting some...
01:55:54 Vielen Dank für's Zuschauen!
01:56:15 All right. First time being able to see it confirmed there. Phenomenal, phenomenal job. I think we'll probably be talking about it all day. For now, Onset, it's time for you to take a break. So we'll let you go. We'll get Gaskin back on in here. And Vicky, let's get into the next match.
01:56:34 Let's get it going. Red Dragons, they may have won Match Point, but Dan, we got some more Apex that needs to be played because we got seven more teams that are vying for those seven spots to compete in the Split 2 Pro League.
Strategische Veränderungen und Teamdynamiken nach Red Dragons Qualifikation
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01:56:47 What on earth happened there? I step away for one game and suddenly we get records broken and we get Red Dragon just dominating yet again. But yes, you quite rightly alluded to the fact there's still more Apex to play, still more pro league positions to fight for. And now with Red Dragon dropping out, it's a little bit more fair because the rest of the lobby isn't going to get decimated from what we've just seen. Now is this going to be the chance for the likes of Danish to step up again after their first victory in match number one? But we get to see Stormpoint again here. I'm excited to see what goes...
01:57:16 Aber das wird sehr kompetitiv sein, wenn wir von zwei nach unten schauen, Vicky. Und ich denke, dass es viel zu tun ist.
01:57:25 Ich würde sagen, es nimmt die Möglichkeit, 3 Kp zu bekommen, mit Red Dragon nicht in dieser Lobby zu sein. Aber ehrlich gesagt, die Gap zwischen Red Dragon und den resten der Lobby ist, ich glaube nicht, dass es möglich wäre, für andere Teams zu versuchen, eine 3v3-3-Fight gegen die verrückte Gruppe zu machen. Spiel Nummer 4 mit Red Dragon Absinthe. Mal sehen, wie das hier funktioniert. Final Game on Storm Point, bevor wir die Transition in World's Edge werden, wo wir die Final 2-Games des Jahres spielen.
01:57:54 And they are ready to lock and load into match number four then. We'll have to see whether we see any early scraps happening now that we get an extra POI. It shouldn't really happen. But if I'm the rest of the lobby, I'm probably thinking, well, actually, now that Red Dragon have left, we have one of the better POIs available to us. So we should probably maybe head over there after what we just saw Red Dragon do.
01:58:16 And you can see a couple of teams are heading in that direction. We have a lot of squads up in the northeast right now. In terms of the circle, well, let's find out where we're going to be heading. It looks like it's going to be southeast. We're going to be heading down towards Pylon and the surrounding areas. Surely not Echo HQ. Surely I don't carry this curse everywhere I go, but we're going to have to see you at the southern east zone.
01:58:40 More of these squads taking their time to rotate. Atlas, though, already quick on that rotate from Jurassic. They got the ring console there as well. So more information for more of these squads to take advantage of. Even looking at Shamani, the team that lands by Devastated Coast. They're going to be able to have not only the ring console, but also the Survey Beacon as well. They could also deny that space away from OR9. But I want to focus more on that middle of the pack teams. Now that Red Dragon is already qualified, they won match points. I'm talking about Danish, the team that won game number one.
01:59:09 They're going to be able to approach this exiting out of Down Beast with all that loot that Down Beast has to offer. Yeah, there's going to be plenty available for them. And just in general, the map should be opened up a little bit more. Danish at the moment, second in 39 points. Behind them, you have Trojan on 34. Then Atlas and APXW on 27 and 26, respectively. So there are...
01:59:30 Es ist ein bisschen ein Leid für den Dänisch und Trojan. Wir haben wirklich ein Red Dragon, Dänisch und Trojan gemacht. Aber jetzt mit drei Spiels zu spielen, und es ist alles um, um die Punkte zu gewinnen, um das Gap zu bleiben, um das Gap zu bleiben, um das Spiel zu bleiben, um das Spiel zu bleiben, um das Spiel zu bleiben, um das Spiel zu bleiben, um das Spiel zu bleiben, um das Spiel zu bleiben, um das Spiel zu bleiben, um das Spiel zu bleiben, um das Spiel zu bleiben, um das Spiel zu bleiben, um das Spiel zu bleiben.
01:59:59 Each game is going to get more and more nervy as we get on, but Match 4 here is the biggest chance to kind of set things straight with now Red Dragon leaving. On that quick road take here, looking at some of these other squads.
02:00:13 Exiting out of the pylon spot, though. Going to be able to call in another evac. Talk about trying to quickly go in for some of these rotates. They're getting hit from two different POIs. Launchpad, and even the bridge that Shamani has control to. Atlas, a little bit of a trouble, and now delaying their rotate with the evac towers, and they are still rocking that white EVO shield. This is the risk when it comes to going for these quick rotates, because then you don't really know the other squads and the EVO harvesters of where they've been able to take advantage of their POIs.
02:00:43 One of the teams rocking the Rampart, losing out on that Rampart already, and now looking like they want to back away actually and play this out as a duo. Yeah, OR9 are in 8th position at the moment, so that is the cutoff almost for Pro League Sports. You've got to imagine that they will be a little bit nervous right now. They have had some games where they were eliminated a little bit early, but they were able to maybe have one player survive and rat out.
Die Bedeutung von Anpassungsfähigkeit und strategischen Entscheidungen im kompetitiven Apex Legends
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02:01:07 Those extra points, when you do rat out to a few more placement positions, can be imperative for your qualification for Pro League here. But it is nice, Vicky, that we get to start seeing some new faces and potentially names and faces that we might be seeing a lot of in the future if they do get that qualification into Pro League, competing in Split 2. And then who knows, maybe if they have a successful Split 2, they might be able to find themselves at the World Championships as well.
02:01:32 Literally, the future of the ALGS is here to stay. Deadfish with the Longbow is going to be able to get that knock. Tries to get the follow-up. I love the back and forth that we're seeing, though, from Deadfish. Was able to get that follow-up shot after making them weak initially. And they are going to be able to close in the gap. But having to be careful, trying to push that in with very low health in general. Having to forcibly pop that medkit. But we're trying to fully engage. But this is the question here for these final end circles in Echo HQ. Huge nade, by the way. But do you want to give up this space knowing that there's going to be...
02:02:01 Ja, es gibt ein paar Leute, aber einfach ein bisschen weiter zu gehen.
02:02:26 Luck do you want to try and ride, really? Is there going to be another team that's ahead of us? Is there going to be a building that's available to push through on? At the moment, Urgency are going to be in an okay spot around just to the east of Pylon, but it's whether they try and get into a more comfortable position. If you are going to play one of these more open areas, you have to be very confident in your gunplay about providing cover to your teammates when they're healing, for example. So some teams prefer just to just hunker down and play a building instead.
02:02:51 Look how interesting this loadout is here too. This legend composition of the Rampart, Wraith, and Loba. They stuck with this composition from World's Edge. Now using the same comp going into Storm Point. So many different comp diversities when it comes to going into Storm Point. Usually like Urgency, Rocking the Horizon. We saw what happened with Kamidata when they tried utilizing the Horizon Gravity Lift in the final circle. Ended inting on top of that high ground of the DBZ building. Now looking at more teams to see how they try to utilize these different legend comps.
02:03:21 Sie sehen, welche Richtung sie wollen, in der nächsten Cirkel gehen.
02:03:43 The Harvester are on their way, and they're up to Purples now. So Danish, who are going to be the frontrunners in this lobby with Red Dragon leaving, definitely where our eyes have to constantly be glancing towards. They look really good in match number one and even two, so it's not like they should be too disheartened with the fact that Red Dragon have won this thing. They can still qualify for Pro League, but a team that might struggle if they keep getting eliminated. Frisosa, they go down, but Forbidden are going to be on the better side of things. They're in seventh position at the moment.
02:04:09 Und das Late Rotate ist sehr schwierig, besonders wenn du nicht in einer Wraith-Portal bist. Ich meine, Forbidden hat diesen Bunker getrennt mit den Kossak Barrels. Sie haben auch die Bloodhound-Scan. Sie haben eine andere Team in der Distanz genommen, aber das ist was wir können mit den ECHO-HQ-Finalzonen. Es gibt viel Platz für verschiedene Teams, also mehr Teams in dieser Finalzonen.
02:04:33 Und das Zone ist ein tricky zu sein, wie viel der Zone ist, wie die Mountain ist, auf der Norden Seite von der Circle ist. Sie sehen, Apex-Warlords sind in der Position, wo sie okay sind, in der Circle wäre, auf der Norte, aber dann wird es wahrscheinlich weitergehen. Wir haben die Circle gesehen, eh, viel in Apex Legends gesehen. Wie gesagt, Vicky, vielleicht du bist der Curse und du bist der Curse, aber das ist okay, denn jetzt wird es gut sein, wie es wird, wie es wird, und wie es wird, wie es wird, wie es wird, und wie es wird, wie es wird, wie es wird, und wie es wird, wie es wird, wie es wird, weil es wird, wie es wird, wie es wird, weil es wird, wie es wird, wie es wird, weil es wird, wie es wird, weil es wird, wie es wird, weil es wird, wie es wird, weil es wird, wie es wird, weil es wird, wie es wird,
02:05:01 Usually it's the team that has the POI advantage, especially since they like to wait pretty and poke out a lot of teams in the distance, but some teams taking their time to rotate players and rolling teams who is exiting out of the bunker of command center as players have activated the beast of the hunt. They try to get a scan, but it's a fight for
02:05:19 Die werden die Death Box getrennt, die sie brauchen. Es geht darum, ein message zu kontrollieren. Und es geht darum, die Roling-Teams zu entscheiden, ob sie wollen, ob sie die Zeit haben. Sie haben, was, was, 40 Sekunden jetzt, bevor das Neck-Circle closes in? Und mehr Teams sind in die Evac-Tower, um die Kurve zu gehen. Teams sind auf der Ebene, wie Window-Cleaner. Wir haben Trojan jetzt in der ganzen Chaos-Khaos, um sich zu finden, um die LOS zu gehen.
02:05:49 Moden, einfach nur Dippdodge und Dive zu bleiben. Sie sind bereit, sich in den Moment zu halten. Trojan, einfach nur ein bisschen vorsichtig, dass sie nicht von einem anderen Team getrennt werden. Aber sie sollte okay sein. Achaustik Barrel ist jetzt zu gehen. Und jetzt Trojan kann sich denken, wie sie für diese Endgame wollen. Denn wenn man sich an, wo diese Circle ist, ist es zu kommen, wo Trojan liegt. So sie sind in ein guter Platz. Sie müssen sich sicher, dass sie ein bisschen mehr Presenstern zu stoppen, um sie zu gehen.
02:06:19 Meanwhile a whole other game is being played over by command center this fight is still going on as players Still trying to gate keep this team from even exiting out
02:06:31 ...of the bunker, but they gotta start moving soon. What is good here in a situation like this, they did force this team to now play this out as a duo, but they're also farming Evil Shield. Both teams have purple players coming out as the victors on top of this 2v3 now, have a red on their side, so going into that next circle, they're gonna come out with a health advantage compared to teams like OR9, for example, who are lacking not only in the Evil Shield chart, since they still are on blue, but maybe even on the ammo department, since they've been...
02:07:01 Oh, Danish are making a very interesting rotation now. Good catch by the Observers. I saw it on the map feed, and we hopped straight to it. Right on this southern tip is where Danish are trying to sneak in, but they've been spotted out. And they need a chance just to reset here, and they may get it, because it's a difficult angle to try and attack someone who is under this metal grate stairwell. And Danish are going to be able to heal up, and should be able to reset comfortably, so...
02:07:25 Es ist eine großartige Rotation von ihnen, es war sicherlich ein Risky, als sie ein bisschen mehr spottet haben, es könnte auch ein Bad News Bears sein. Aber jetzt haben sie die Chance, wie sie zu erreichen wollen.
02:07:35 Was I also like to see here, too, is Young Hong Kong taking advantage of the Refuge perk, which with the heal rate now increased to 3.5 HP per second versus the 3 HP it was. That 0.5 does make a difference in trying to reset quickly on a landing. And now with Danish playing on the stairwell over to the side, we've seen this being done plenty of times by the likes of even Moist and Dark Zero. And now with Danish waiting here, seeing the other squads that are going to be rotating, that smoke is going to be the heal mirror that they need to put them out of the line of sight of the squad that is inside of Echo HQ.
02:08:04 Deadfish looking at them. Still seven teams outside of this next circle. And it's going to start to close soon. Rolling teams are still in the red, by the way, on that northern side. So they're going to be the team that has to move the furthest. But I think players have got an idea of where rolling teams are. You can see they're heading towards them on the north. They might have heard something.
02:08:22 Es gibt ihnen eine Audio-Qühe, um sie zu gehen und die Hunt zu gehen. Aber sie werden sich vielleicht auch in der Lage sein. Es sind WINDOWCLEANERS und URGENCY, die Team sind sicherlich zu kämpfen, als auch OR9 und SPS, auf der Seite. Die Teams, wenn sie das Team gewinnen, werden sie immer noch zu kämpfen, werden sie durch jemanden von der anderen Seite zu kämpfen. Denn WINDOWCLEANERS und URGENCY nicht wollen auf der Nrw-W-Side der Mountain gehen. Sie müssen sich entscheiden, ob sie um und um, um, um, um, oder um, um, um, um, um, um, um.
02:08:50 Und Rollig-Teams, Manage zu gehen, und sie haben einen Replicator. So vielleicht sind sie bereit, die Banner zu haben. Wir werden das K.A.O.S. sehen, als wir sehen, die Teams-Fighting-On-The-Edge hier sehen. Du hast Windel-Cleaners und Urgentsy, zwei Teams-Teams-Teams-Teams-Teams-Teams-Teams-Teams-Teams-Teams-Teams-Teams-Teams-Teams-Teams-Teams-Teams-Teams-Teams-Teams-Teams-Teams-Teams-Teams-Teams-Teams-Teams-Teams-Teams-Teams-Teams-Teams-Teams-Teams-Teams-Teams-Teams-Teams-Teams
02:09:09 The Rampart is setting up Shock inside of the tunnels, right underneath Launchpad. This is going to be SPS versus OR9, two teams that have also been fighting since Circle 1. SPS kind of holding out OR9 at the moment as well. And decision has to be made in the next 10 seconds, because Circle's about to close.
02:09:30 They do have an evac tower to work with by the looks of it, but will they even get the chance as now other teams also getting pushed together. It is going to be urgency at Window Cleaners, but Kenny can't quite get all the damage he wanted with the Prowler and now it's just going to be Entity as the last remaining player on Window Cleaners. May be able to get a revive here though because the other team has dropped below them.
02:09:49 They got enough Windex out here to clean up shop, but is it gonna be enough for them to get the reset? Entity comes in with a suppressed fire. Gets the crack. Can he get the finishing blow, though? Trying to run for his life. That's still a Vista urgency. They do come out on top, but here is the third party perfectly on cue. And noting that, Entity's trying to get away. Players, though, have not...
02:10:09 Stopped trying to grief the edge of the teams. The teams are playing more so by the edge. Players have taken their time with the rotate and now have been able to move in. One of the teams to also rock the lifeline as we move more so towards a lifeline meta with the changes that we saw in the last update. They get the last straggler of window cleaners and they take control of this side of the circle.
02:10:28 But where do players go now is my real question. They have to hope for an evac tower to try and go up and over the mountain perhaps, but they certainly are gonna get the chance to go southwest because Rolling Teams, who they were chasing a little bit earlier, is gonna hold them out. So now players are just gonna have to play this side of the circle. There is a chance they could maybe go through the red on the northern side, but again, Apex Warlords are gonna be there. So players are in a tough spot, quite literally between a rock and a hard place right now.
02:10:53 Oh, no way. That's rolling teams. They finally got rolling teams. It took them about two circles, but now finding them in a tough spot in the corner of that circle, they clean up the remainder of the squad with 12 teams remaining here. Maybe they got an evac tower to work with as well, Dan. We're going to have to see with this tricky rotate, because even if they do take a little bit of circle damage to the north side, we know how many squads are going to be waiting for them. I mean, look at Apex Warlords now going to be rotating from the other side here, playing underneath the bridge.
02:11:23 While we do wait and see where Apex Warlords wants to rotate with the Kraber in hand for Zarifer, let's jump into a listen in to see their next plan.
02:11:52 Might get ahead of here Yo, the bang is low, the bang is low
02:12:14 I'm waiting for the bangles, pushing afterwards. Moving up now with bangles, 24-1, still in that corner, nating it. I'm moving forward, moving forward. Do it. Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang. Push, push, push. Yeah, yeah. One more step right, one more step right, I think. Yeah, buddy, buddy. Yo, 40 on him, 40 on him. Can you get push that? Yeah, I'm climbing. He's alone, he's alone.
02:12:41 Ja, es ist okay. Wir sind in der Zone.
02:13:00 Kraber, Schot after Kraber, Schot, Zarephur opens up the pathway for the rest of Apex Warlords to take up the space that they need. Behind the Rampart walls they put in the pressure, but with 9 squads in counting, 8 squads now left, with Kamidata going down, they get another knock to push in.
02:13:17 It's a great knock and you can hear the comms they were so passionate about it and how urgent they had to be with that push they couldn't afford to be too slow otherwise they would have given the opportunity to the other team to reset and now the Apex Warlords they're up to fourth position they are in a good spot for qualification into Pro League it's still early days we still have two more matches but being in that top eight as you get into the latter stages is always gonna put you in a better spot now all the meanwhile whilst we watching Apex Warlords
Spieler dominieren Match 4 mit strategischer Rotation und Teamwork
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02:13:43 Players did manage to get an Evac Tower and rotate on the southwest side over everyone else and now find themselves pretty much center zone. So fair play to players for being able to do that offscreen. And they've got Reds as well, Vicky. They're actually in a fantastic spot now.
02:13:59 Oh, making their way downtown. Clearing the lobby and looking at it all in the past. Five squads left. Another team to fall victim to players right now. Full red Evo. And they're doing this all repping the gold Mozambique. Did you see that? The gold shotgun choke on here. You got the Digi. It's been beautiful. We saw that earlier on actually. I believe it was Danish that had basically the hammies on the RE45 and the Digi on top of it. So powerful when it comes to these lobbies. Now that you can...
02:14:28 Four squads remaining, one of them is...
02:14:44 A 2 of SPS. Deadfish also kind of cowering on that southeast side may just be a 2 themselves. So likely it is, this is players versus Apex Warlords with a sprinkle of damage from 2s. Now 2s can still win, so I'm not going to put it out of the realms of possibility, but with the Kraber in hand, maybe it gives a little bit of an advantage to the Apex Warlords, especially if Zeri can hit any of these shots. Are they going to push to try and find space on this northern side? Yes, they are. They just have to be careful about SPS who are just above them.
02:15:13 They know, too. Right over to the right side. SPF is still not in the circle, though. Once the circle is closing in right behind them, he's gonna have to drop soon. They're pinging him. Apex Warlords looking at him at the same time, but cannot focus on him entirely. Deadfish, the other solo, get eliminated. Our final three squads left in this lobby. SPF, as a solo, Apex Warlords and Clears on the other side.
02:15:34 Spotted out. Now it's a straight 3v3 then. Players versus Apex Warlords. You've got seventh position players against the Warlords who are now up into the top four. This could be huge for both of these teams' chances to qualify for Pro League in the grand scheme of things. At the moment, the high ground is held by players, but what ultimates do we have available? They did have the Lifeline, which could come in handy if they were able to get a player knocked, but then maybe just get a little tippy-tap to get back into the fight. We'll have to see how this one plays out, but another 20 seconds before the circle starts to force them together.
02:16:03 Und wir können sicher sein, dass das Lifeline hat, die Gold nachdenken, als wir in den letzten Patchen gesehen haben. Die Apex-Warlords haben keine Support-Legend-Advantage, aber sie haben eine Kraber. Seraphro ist zu haben, aber die Archer werden sie wegnehmen. Die Archer werden sie wegnehmen, sie werden sie wegnehmen, sie werden sie wegnehmen, sie werden sie wegnehmen.
02:16:20 The Smokes are going to come in handy here, but players are feeling confident. They drop down from the high ground, they get the scan, and they want to capitalize. Yeah, players on the push now. Azak is going to try and do the damage with the Havoc. He's going to have support, but now with the Smoke, we're going to see the Apex Warlords push out. They get a knock. It's a trade one for one, but now it's going to be a two versus one with players having the advantage, and they will sweep it up as players take match number four here and give themselves a real shot of qualifying for the Pro League.
02:16:45 And it comes to question, with that confidence, that momentum, they are absolutely carrying that into World's Edge, Dan, because they just took that game with heavy KP. And they took their time to rotate into that next zone, which could be so detrimental for an Echo HQ zone, usually.
02:17:00 And you've got to look at how they did it as well. When they were on that kind of northwest side of the mountain and the rotation looked like it was going to be really tough. We switched over for a listening to the Warlords and I was just keeping a keen eye on that map feed because I was like, are they going to go north or south here? North would have given them a straight 3v3 versus Warlords, but they went for the dramatic attempt of going through the south where there was like three or four teams they had to fly over, but they almost used the distraction of the time that they went. Everyone was looking at other things. Everyone was a little bit kind of perplexed at what was happening because the zone was...
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02:17:50 And Zerfer, even to the last remaining breath with him hiding behind that rock, he tried to go for a hip fire shot on the Kraber. I heard it ring through my headset and unfortunately that shot did not land. Players were dominating from the beginning to the middle part of that game. They're harassing rolling teams who was trying to get out of command center. That's how they farmed their evil shield at the very beginning anyways. Well, everybody was focused and fixated on trying to rotate to a better spot in EchoHU. And since they were so focused on that and they were fighting each other, like you mentioned, Dan, players...
02:18:19 just had a very easy way to use that evac tower after all the death boxes were strewn upon their feet and they were able to get into a way better spot off the fence line of echo
02:18:28 Und ihr könnt sehen, was ein Unterschied es macht, dass ein Spiel wie das auch. Die Spieler waren in die 15 oder so, und jetzt sind sie in die Top 5, ich denke. Also, das ist der Chance, dass sie sich in die Top 8 sein können, und sie bleiben für die nächsten zwei weitere Spiele. Die same kann sein für die Apex-Warlords. Es wäre nicht ein Pro-League ohne Shiv, ich werde ganz ehrlich sein. Es ist ein Teil von mir, das ist für die Warlords, weil es wäre weird zu sehen, es nicht included Shiv und die resten. Aber sie waren able zu bekommen 2nd place, sie waren able zu bekommen 2nd place.
02:18:57 They certainly have given themselves a good opportunity at Pro League, but with two matches still to play, anything can still happen. And that means for the teams that are still struggling a little bit, there is still life left, but it's starting to get to crunch time now.
02:19:09 It's crazy, you talk about it, but the players being in the 19th spot overall in this lobby, now finishing off with like a 15kp game, a dub on top of it. Apex Warlords, I definitely agree. Without Shiv in the Pro League, it seems a little off. I'm so used to seeing Shiv in general, but we have the results this time around. Let's take a look at where our teams are standing after that game here alone. The game though ends up with players not only taking first place, it is with 15kp, securing themselves 27 total points. Huge.
02:19:38 Game for them as Apex Warlords comes in second with 5 KP. They were able to get that on top of Deadfish who actually was able to secure 9 KP too while they were fighting inside of Echo HQ. Once again that was their POI so they were able to clear a lot of other teams that were trying to funnel their way into Echo.
02:19:55 Und das ist wirklich ein Tag der großen BOMB-Score von diesen Teams. 27 Punkte von Spielern. Wir sahen ein 30-Port-Gain von Red Dragon. Es scheint, wenn ein Team anfängt, die Momentum wirklich durchführt. Und das ist sicherlich ein gutes Zeichen hier für die Spieler, die jetzt auf die Leaderboards pushen. Es war nicht so, dass es nicht so viele Punkte leften, aber die 1-Port, die zwei Punkte, die könnten die Unterschiede machen, wenn es mit dem Top 8 geht. Danisch nur die 1-Port. Aber remember, sie waren in 2nd Platz.
02:20:25 Das war's für heute.
02:20:45 Even Atlus 2, who before that game, I believe they were in top 5, right behind Trojan, and unfortunately being the first team to go out after that fourth game alone. But now, with some information on where our teams are standing here, the points that they were able to get after four games alone, we still got two more games of Apex left to play. I can't wait to see it, Dan. Let's go to a break, and on the other side of this, we'll see you on World's Edge.
02:22:46 LGS, PLQ, lots of letters and lots of victors today, Dan, but one team that's already managed to qualify, of course, is going to be Red Dragon. They got it done in three matches today, winning match point, and now we've got to find out who else is going to be joining them. We've got two more games to go, and Stormpoint, I would say, that was a little bit of a quiet end zone, a straight 3v3 for it with the amount of space that was left. It was somewhat surprising to see down on the southern side of the map.
02:23:10 Yeah, everyone kind of just died the circle before when everyone was trying to force their way into that zone. I think it was the late arrivals were just causing a ruckus and the amount of damage that had been done to some of those teams, it was just an easy sweep up for those who had a more commanding position and a more kind of safeguard position as well. So it meant that there was just a few less teams in the circle, but I'm always down for seeing a 3v3. However, it was a 3v3 that...
02:23:33 So, two games to go. One thing to kind of discuss, and I want to get your input on this as well, is...
02:24:02 If you're a Stormpoint favoriting team today, you're going to be maybe a little bit annoyed at Red Dragon because we've got six games and we're going two by two. So we're only going to get two games of Stormpoint if my math is correct, which is always a risk. It's always a risk. So we're going back over to World's Edge now. And if you are one of those teams who's probably looking at Stormpoint as being your reliable map for points or whatever it might be, then you have to adjust and adjust quickly because there's two more games to go and it's just World's Edge. You're going to get just World's Edge to play.
02:24:30 So that...
02:24:52 Das ist alles. Das ist alles. Das ist alles. Das ist alles. Das ist alles. Das ist alles. Das ist alles. Das ist alles.
02:25:19 Das ist sicherlich etwas zu sehen, aber ich glaube, es ist ein sehr guter Idee, zu hofern das Dropship ein bisschen. Wenn du kannst, natürlich, wenn du jetzt die Dropspot bist, ist ein bisschen weit weg von der Red Dragon, dann ist es wahrscheinlich ein bisschen zu viel risk zu tun. Aber wenn du in einem Flight Path, in einem Flight Distanz, ich würde sagen, ist ein sehr guter Platz, dann ist es ein guter Platz, dann ist es ein guter Platz, wenn du das P.O.I., dann ist es, wenn du das kannst, wenn du das kannst, wenn du das kannst, wenn du das kannst, wenn du das kannst, wenn du das kannst, wenn du das kannst, wenn du das kannst, wenn du das kannst, wenn du das kannst, wenn du das kannst, wenn du das kannst, wenn du das kannst.
02:25:45 We'll have to see if that is going to be the case. But the fact that we go back to World's Edge now is, I think, like you mentioned, the biggest story here is it's great for Danish, right? They've looked pretty strong so far today. Stormpoint quiet in comparison to their performance on World's Edge. But if a couple of zones go their way, like they did in the first two, then they could be silly to find their points as well. But I think it's time to start looking at maybe the cutoff point, right? Because there's a few teams that have put enough points on the board where you feel like it's going to be difficult for them to not qualify at this point.
02:26:11 8th place is going to be the cutoff. And if you're in 9th going into these final two games, then you're probably trying to think, hey, okay, we need to be consistent here. This is a great time to win a game. Well, I think you can take inspiration from what players have just done. They jumped, what, like 12 positions up the leaderboard from 19th to potentially 4th or 5th when we get the confirmation of those standings. So they have demonstrated that if you can have one big game...
02:26:35 It could send you into Pro League. That might be enough for players now. Depending on what happens in these last two matches, that one game could have sent them to Pro League. So I think everyone needs to kind of take a page out of their book and say, all right, well, let's just put our best foot forward. Let's try and make sure we get it done in match number five and not leave it to match number six. I know that's easier said than done of let's just play a good game, but it can certainly happen.
02:26:56 One place, of course, you can watch it is right here. But of course, we also have Faceit Watch available for you if you want to watch your team's favorite POV and catch up to four POVs at once as well. You've also got the map overhead there and you've got the beautiful little volume mixer. You can see the bottom right of your screen there to make sure that your mix is perfect and catered to exactly how you want it. So head over to faceit.com forward slash watch if you want to choose that way to watch these games. Two more to go here. Back to World's Edge, Dan. And to be honest with you, I kind of want a central zone.
02:27:25 Ich weiß nicht, ich will eine Zentral-Zone. Ich will eine proper Monument-Zone, wo jeder hat es in den Endgame zu sehen. Ich will nicht jemanden Gifted an dieser Stelle. Ich fühle mich nicht. Ich glaube, es wird gut sein.
02:27:39 He wants a brawl, is what he would like to see. Well, we have two western zones to begin with in Worlds Edge that played towards the likes of Danish, who were dropping over towards Mirage-Atoile and Lava Fissure. Although with the kind of zone shifts we saw in match number two, it didn't really help Danish. So maybe they would like to see a circle that moves a little bit differently for them this time, rather than something that they just have to bunker down and wait and hope that they're going to be able to hold on to that position for quite some time. As all the teams do begin to drop,
02:28:08 Look across to see if there is any fights unlikely with an extra POI being available. Everyone should be friendly enough now. But this is crunch time. If you want to be in the Pro League next season or next split, excuse me, you need to make sure that match number five and six are some of your better games.
02:28:24 All quiet. We are going to the north, by the way. And the team on your screen right now is going to be very happy with that rolling team. So we've got a little bit of ring information. We can bring it to you as well. Apex Warlord is going to be a great spot, which is good news for them after their second place in the last game we just saw on Stormpoint. But Climatizer is going to be the zone. And it's going to be interesting to see if it pulls to the backside of Climatizer towards where that little kind of pylon building is, I would say.
02:28:49 Pylon Structure outside of the main buildings of Climatizer, or if it does move a little bit more towards that northern building. But Apex Warlords, great spot for them. But Rolling Teams, this is a huge opportunity for them now. Do Rolling Teams have a ring console, though? That's my question. I mean, I can't see one at the moment for them, which could be detrimental.
02:29:09 Because if you only see Ring 1 here, right, how good is your circle knowledge? How aware are you of where it's pulling? Sure, there's a slight shift and you could bank on it going north, but if rolling teams start to maybe think it could be potentially a train track beacon scenario, they might start moving a little bit further northwest and they could pull themselves out of the better spot. And that's why Ring consoles sometimes are absolutely massive. But also, your IGL, how well do they know Ring 1s? Yes, Ring 2 can be a severe pull sometimes, but you can still notice patterns.
02:29:38 und du kannst immer noch einen Memory zu haben. Ja, es ist ein schwer für Rollen-Teams, weil, wie du gesagt hast, sie haben nicht eine Ring-Console zu wissen, wo die Zone ist. Sie haben auch nicht eine Survey-Beacon, und ich bin sehr sicher, sie haben keine Evo-Harvesters neben ihnen. Es könnte also sein, dass wir Godspot haben, und dann ein Team schießt sie, und sie sagt, hey, wir haben White-Armors, einfach nur das, das ist alles gut, einfach nur das, weil sie werden. Wenn Apex-Warlogs kommen, die haben Ring-Console und...
02:30:06 Survey Beacon, and they have a Harvester on their way and see that they're in God's spot with White Armor. Take the fight. Why would you not take the fight? Well, you were talking about the cutoff point earlier. Eighth place is where the benchmark is, and it is forbidden at the moment who hold said position. So they're going to be making their rotation through the train tunnel. It seems like they've caught a wild player flying through the sky, and they were able to get some free KP here. That was a nice little gift from the heavens for sure.
02:30:33 Ja, das war. Ich meine, wir waren über die Red Dragon, wie sie das Spiel gewonnen haben, wie sie das Spiel gewonnen haben, wie sie das Spiel gewonnen haben. Aber das ist so close, wie du ein Gift gewonnen hast. Wenn du ein Team einfach nur auf den Tracks bist, kann man nicht mehr auf den Tracks bringen, weil man nicht mehr von den Tracks fallen kann, weil man nicht mehr von den Tracks fallen kann, weil man nicht mehr von den Tracks fallen kann, weil man nicht mehr von den Tracks fallen kann, weil man nicht mehr von den Tracks fallen kann, weil man nicht mehr von den Tracks fallen kann, weil man nicht mehr von den Tracks fallen kann, weil man nicht mehr von den Tracks fallen kann, weil man nicht mehr von den Tracks fallen kann.
02:31:01 train carts on the train tracks to the north of survey between survey should say and climatizer always wrapping from the north we will talk about wrapping to the north is probably the best way to play these zones because you have that rock coverage and when you're working from the south side through epicenter it's pretty rough to have to walk you know walk from monument in across the open ground up to the huge cliffside high ground whatever it might be it's just it's a tough rotate to make unless you got evac
02:31:27 That one kill for Forbidden, by the way, put them up into seventh place. That's how close it is at the moment between seventh, eighth and sixth. And Forbidden are moving in on Meow. Meow are in last position at the moment. They're in 20th place on eight points. So if you are Forbidden and you maybe get an inkling of the skins and what you're going up against and how much research you've done, you might know that it is a potentially easier fight than others. But if Meow were to fall...
02:31:51 dann natürlich der Chancen der Pro-League starten zu sehen. Das ist ein Team, der sich in Pro-League befindet, mit der Position sie finden sich in der Moment befinden. Sie sind 40 Punkte, sie sind in 3rd Platz. Das heißt, sie sind, was? 20 Punkte? Roughly? Das ist ein guter Platz. Aber wenn Sie zwei 0-2-Zero-Games haben, dann ist es immer das Möglichkeit, dass Sie sich drastisch auf die Leaderboarden fallen. Aber ich würde sagen, Dänisch, Sie sind ein guter Platz.
02:32:17 Yeah, Danish in a good spot as well. And you can see they're not really trying to make their way towards Zone too quickly. They don't really have a great rotate from Lava Fisher over to here anyway. So one good thing that they have on their side is the fact that they can hit a few beacons on their way. And a Survey Beacon is, I would say, increased in value, I believe, from what it was before Season 20 with the Evo changes because of the fact that now...
02:32:41 Mit der Scam, wo jeder Team ist, kann man was Evo Harvesters bekommen, wie ihr in die Zone getrennt, und wie ihr Evo getrennt, wie ihr Evo getrennt, wie ihr Evo getrennt, und wie ihr Evo getrennt, wie ihr Evo getrennt, wie ihr Evo getrennt, wie ihr Evo getrennt, wie ihr Evo getrennt, wie ihr Evo getrennt, wie ihr Evo getrennt, wie ihr Evo getrennt, wie ihr Evo getrennt, wie ihr Evo getrennt, wie ihr Evo getrennt, wie ihr Evo getrennt, wie ihr Evo getrennt, wie ihr Evo getrennt, wie ihr Evo getrennt, wie ihr Evo getrennt.
02:33:07 There's a lot of on-the-fly decision-making, I'd say, that some of these IGLs have to make, and we do see some of the better teams be able to plan quickly and effectively on their rotations, and I do like the way it's changed things with the Evo Harvesters ever since they were introduced. This was Meow that I was mentioning earlier in last place at the moment, but if they were to have a game like players did and get 20x points, suddenly they find themselves in the top 8, so it is doable here, but...
02:33:34 If you find yourself having to do that in match number six, then you're going to be saying, okay, is it even possible? But right now, with two matches still remaining, it's certainly doable. Deadfish, Nike, so they are currently cut off. They wouldn't be qualifying for Pro League. They're on 23 points. There are only a few behind eight. Don't forbid, they're trying to collapse in on this at the moment. They're kind of playing the other side of this sandwich. Looking to not be too aggressive, just trying to extend a little bit to get some damage on. Try and get a knock.
02:34:00 But they are in Godspot at the moment, Forbidden. This is the position that I was talking about. It does look like it's going to be pulling towards them a little bit as well. Right at the back on this rock formation and the little kind of concrete pylon that you will be able to see in a few moments time. But the longer this fight takes and the slower these teams are forced to rotate in, the more likely it is if you're on edge of the zone that you're going to be having someone come behind you. And OR9 are the team who are approaching Meow now.
02:34:24 Ja, Meow also let Forbidden get past them, by the way. Meow had the kind of race 1 when it comes to finding themselves in the northern side, but they allowed Forbidden just to go over, and now they are struggling. They are down to just 1 in OR9, getting aggressive, trying to push up on the advantage they've been able to get with the initial damage, and looks like they're gonna pick up some KP. They're in 10th right now, so again, only a few points.
02:34:54 Oh mein Gott.
02:35:07 Und ich kann...
02:35:32 Und jetzt in Overlook, ein bisschen weg von der Action moment ist, Trojan.
02:36:00 Ich habe einen kleinen Blick auf den CallMeDana.
02:36:22 Ja, es war ein größer Fight für CallMeData über Trojan, weil Trojan in eine mehr comfortable Position mit der Points total, aber...
02:36:49 Komidata, now in 6th place. Again, this is going to be very tight, but that fight, I think it's good that they did push it, using the Horizon Grav Lift just to get some height, and maybe a surprise Trojan, who were probably thinking they were going to be the ones to engage from above, but the armor difference really did make everything. In 18th spot right now, Fri Sosa making their rotation in, but sadly they have lost a player, but maybe they can get him back. And it looks like they're going to try and get him back, so here we go. Fri Sosa still keeping their hopes of Pro League alive.
02:37:20 Evo Harvester in front of them as well. We're just waiting a few seconds until Sat lands on the floor before popping this. Make sure that he gets the Evo as well. Last thing you want to do is steal that away from him. A bit. Actually, that's something I'd do. I'd respawn you. I think it's something you'd have to get out of it. I'd be like, I've got purple. You'd be like, cool. Cool, I'm still on grey. 4,000 away from blue. Very cool. Even though it's impossible. But you know.
02:37:46 Oh, this is a good push from SPS. Just to really hunker down in the middle. But oh, they don't get the time to even set up. It's rolling teams who have been holding Climatizer this entire game. And they are not letting anyone push in for free. I like this. I like the amount of space that rolling teams are commanding right now. It's the entirety of the building. And as soon as anyone lands, they are straight out. They are like lurking in the shadows right now, waiting for anyone to drop, making them to get safe. And then they join in the fight.
02:38:14 Ergänglich. Ergänglich. Ergänglich. Ergänglich. Ergänglich.
02:38:32 Farming this side as well. They've got the Goldknock as well, which is going to get back on their feet with a little bit of health to play with as well. Sherbert will be back on his feet and urgency eliminated. And once again, Danish say, hey, everybody needs to learn a lesson here. This is our side of the zone. Yeah, you've got Danish, you've got Forbidden. They are both just holding the northern side at the moment and making it so difficult for these late rotators that are trying to arrive from any direction. On the...
02:38:57 Incredible damage coming in.
02:39:21 Unfortunately, just too many bodies for him to have to deal with. The Zone is also closing as well. So NPC, even though they win that fight, now they're going to be in trouble because the Zone is closing behind them. You can see they've barely got any health themselves. Reuben chooses to pop the Bat instead of a med kit. I have no idea if he had white meds or not, but that's always a little bit of a risk to go for the Bat. It's almost like muscle memory to go for it when you're in those fights and in those situations. But with the Zone closing behind you, that can chip away at the health and you can find yourself on your back.
02:39:47 Und es hat einen NPC in die 10th Position mit dem, aber Dane, Sie haben sich in die Lobby dominiert, so far zu sehen und sehen, was die comms sind.
02:40:15 Spang, Spang, Spang, Spang, Spang, Spang, Spang, Spang, Spang, Spang, Spang, Spang, Spang, Spang, Spang, Spang, Spang, Spang, Spang, Spang, Spang, Spang, Spang, Spang, Spang, Spang, Spang, Spang
02:40:39 One, one! One Hong Kong! Behind you! Behind you! Bro, how do you kill him? He's 17 flesh. Oh, 17 is killed. Well, there's a comment there that I recognize myself, which is how did you not kill him? It's something that I ask of my teammates quite a lot, because it's never my fault when we would lose a fight.
02:41:01 Ja, das war ein schwieriges Kampf. Es war ein Merry-Jig. Kaustik war einfach nur einen Weg, er war einfach nur den anderen Weg. Und es ist leider für ihn.
Spannungsgeladene Endphase und Teamstrategien im Fokus
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02:41:18 Das heißt, es ist die Dänische Fall, aber sie haben viel Arbeit in dieser Lobby und sie finden sich in 2.0. Aber das heißt, dass sich das Team öffnet für die Top 8 für die Apex-Warlords und APC gewinnen, aber es sind die Warlords, die die Initial Damage und die Initial Knock bekommen. Ja, das ist wirklich, wirklich beeindruckt von ihnen. Sie waren in der Bühne, in der Bühne zu holen, und jetzt müssen sie in der Bühne gewinnen. Es ist ein 2v1, ich glaube. Still in und around der Bühne. Schiff hat seinen Platz in die Bühne. Sie müssen die Bühne gewinnen, aber...
02:41:45 Mit 45 Sekunden left ist, die Frage ist, ob sie werden sie gewinnen? Mehr damage kommt in hier von Zarifah. Chim ist zu schießen, es ist ein bisschen messer, ein bisschen scrappier, aber endlich sie müssen es getan haben. Du wirst ein M.P.C. haben Sie ein M.P.C. gemacht? Jetzt ist es ein M.P.L.E.V.E.V.E.V.E.V.E.V.E.V.E.V.E.V.E.V.E.V.E.A.
02:42:06 Zeri was holding on to a scan for that entire fight, and I was just desperate for him to pop it, but now it works out. Now you've got a scan to go in. Maybe he just was convinced they were going to win that engagement, so didn't even worry about hitting the scan. Now, Rolling Teams, 14th place, 20 points, but not too far away from that cutoff, and still with an opportunity because the circle has come to them. They've been here right since the start of the game. They dropped here over towards Climatizer, and now they have plenty of room to work with. There's the Warlords, down to two, but here is what you were talking about.
02:42:36 Wenn sie den Banner zu den Beacon werden, dann wird sie wieder zurückgekommen. Banner zu den Beacon. Banner zu den Beacon.
02:43:01 Well, one Krabi shot can be the difference. We saw the endgame in that previous game where Apex Warlords couldn't quite connect with that one shot that maybe would have put them into first instead of second. Well, now they have the chance to put that right kneecap inside a zone as Genji falls back down with a soft landing. And the Warlords are back to full health, back to a full three. Now, speaking of the Climatizer drop and speaking of...
02:43:23 The likes of rolling teams who have been holding it for so long, is that going to be to their detriment? It looks like they're going to be making a move to try and get into a position on the northern side soon, but we've already got the likes of Kneecap and the likes of Forbidden who have taken some of these outer areas that might be a real threat for the chances of rolling teams of winning this one. But Apex Warlords and DN all have to move from the southern side, as well do players, by the way, who have just been hiding and waiting in the distance to make their move. So there's going to be three teams all moving from the south at the same time.
02:43:52 Und der eine Sache hier ist, dass jeder hat irgendwo zu spielen, weil es nur sechs Teams gibt, aber die Zone ist immer noch zu spielen. Also, jeder wird sich gut für, ihr wisst, dass sie sich in den Fällen ausfüllen und Reset nehmen, wenn sie die Zonen haben. Es ist nicht...
02:44:07 A case of everybody kind of coexisting next to each other with a lot of teams still alive in the lobby where no one can afford to peek and push because it means another angle is going to open up for a team. It's a case of finding your spot here, taking an opportunity at 3v3 if you could isolate it and just surviving that way. For now Apex Warlords are safe, but can they find a place to play? Players eliminated in the meantime and Zeri has got to knock himself.
02:44:30 Yeah, the Warlords have to push just slightly north from where they currently reside. The Kraber could make a big difference, but now the ults are starting to come in. This is where your vision starts to get a little bit skewed, and you've just got to try and do your best to stay alive, and it looks like it's going to be downhill from here for the Warlords. They've already lost one, and it might be more, because it's rolling teams who are there and waiting, as they have been throughout the entire game here, looking to try and make sure Climatizer is their zone to win. They're on 24 points at the moment. They are catching the leading pack. They need a win here.
02:44:58 Es ist ein 3v3v3 hier in der Endgame. Und Sie sehen, die Team auf dem Nierkapp ist. Ich glaube, es ist nicht Nierkapp. Ich glaube, es ist Forbidden, die Team mit einem Red Evo Armour haben. Alles in der Lobby ist auf Purple. So die HP ist ziemlich equal zwischen allen. Aber es sieht aus wie Forbidden und Rolling Teams sind die zwei Teams, die sich zu beherren, die sich zu beherren.
02:45:19 They have to pick their moment here. They have a port down, but does that port put them in a position where they can clean up damage? Remember, Forbidden were in eighth when they started this game. However, Kneecap and Rolling teams were both outside of the top eight. So this is a huge match for all three of these teams, but maybe more so for the likes of Kneecap and Rolling teams if they can find a victory. For Forbidden, they're up to fifth place at the moment. Again, 39 points is a pretty good total when we look at a top eight cutoff, but they'll want to make sure they're even more comfortable with a few more as now round six will begin to close.
02:45:49 Really smart decision there from Forbidden, by the way. They took themselves out of the position where they were going to be forced to engage and moved into the center of zone on this rock formation. Now it's a case of kneecap and rolling teams having to move first. They can hold this spot, they can back up, they can take their time. As both teams will do damage to each other, this might be their opportunity to close out here.
02:46:19 Sie haben eine Wraith zu Kneecap, also ein bisschen anders in ihrer Composition. Sie könnten ein Portal für ein bisschen Flanking-Play, aber natürlich, wenn Sie das Portal gehen, Sie werden dann vielleicht sehr vulnerable und etwas Targetiert werden, als jetzt Kneecap werden. Und jetzt haben sie mich geholfen, und sie werden dann das Initial-Damage geholfen.
02:46:36 Ja, das ist das, was die Brilliance des Vorbildes war. Es war etwas, was das, was, was, was, was, was, was, was, was, was, was, was, was, was, was, was, was, was, was, was, was,
02:46:56 I'd argue that Forbidden won that game 10 minutes ago, maybe even 20 minutes ago, right at the start when we saw them rotating through the train tunnel and they were able to get ahead of Meow and take the northern side of Climatizer right at the beginning of the game. They were able to get ahead of five or six teams. They were all trying to do the same thing. And while all that commotion was happening on the kind of north side where Danish were killing all those teams coming from the tunnel, Forbidden went just a little bit further, just kind of overwatching everything, adding a little bit of damage here or there, but knowing they were in one of the prime...
02:47:25 In fact...
02:47:45 There's a content idea for you. I think that's a very good one. Best of the pregame lobby. Although I will say, be on your best behavior of your players if that is going to be a content piece, because I've seen some interesting things be said in that pregame lobby where they think maybe it's not being watched. Yeah, I've seen some words I don't know the meaning of in that pregame lobby. That's just because you're a boomer. Wow, you're just as old as me. I know, I am too. You're just throwing yourself under a bus.
Entscheidungsfindung und die Bedeutung des letzten Spiels
02:48:09
02:48:09 One more game to go, though. And I think the thing that you were highlighting really well in that last game is just how close that cutoff is, right? One game for any of these teams at this point can really change how this leaderboard looks. You could be sat in sixth at the moment thinking, hey, guys, we're sixth going into this final game. One more game on World's Edge. Just keep it simple. Keep it solid. You fall early and all of a sudden you're preying on the downfall of others because this lobby can completely change. I would say outside of maybe the top five, top four even.
02:48:36 If you're looking at it and you're going, this could not be as comfortable as we think it is, we could be very disappointed when it comes to the end of this game. Yeah, I think if you're one of those teams who is fighting for the top eight that's in like, I don't know, sixth to sixteenth right now, you're hoping that the likes of Trojan or Danish...
02:48:53 Absolutely destroys this lobby and just gobbles up those points if you are in the top six to eight. If you are one of the teams that's a little bit lower, you're like, okay, well, how do we make sure we get those points and knock out some of these teams? So there's a very different play style that's potentially going to happen here in match number six. But, you know, a lot of teams are going to be worried and they're going to be actually terrified if they are around seventh to eighth right now. Because as you mentioned, just one bad game and you won't be in Pro League. It's very scary moments. And I think for the teams who come out of that dropship and land, they're kind of...
02:49:22 just give us the zone just please like let's make this as easy as possible and it's the last thing you want imagine you're in eighth spot at this point you're on world's edge right and you're dropping over at climatizer and it's like okay tree zone and you're like really really gonna make me work that hard for it like i mean i will say like i said previously i think there is some advantages now to working your way from edge and kind of having to play away from zone with the way you can path for evo but
02:49:45 Es ist schon gut, wenn das so ist, wenn das so ist, wenn das so ist, wenn das so ist, wenn das so ist, wenn das so ist, wenn das so ist, wenn das so ist, wenn das so ist, wenn das so ist, wenn das so ist, wenn das so ist, wenn das so ist, Dan, und all diese Teams wissen, dass das hier sind, dass es so ist, wenn das so ist, wenn das so ist, wenn das so ist, wenn das so ist, wenn das so ist, wenn das so ist, wenn das so ist, wenn das so ist, wenn das so ist, wenn das so ist, wenn das so ist, wenn das so ist.
02:50:05 And this is going to be one of the exciting things about the fact that Matchpoint was already won in match number three. So we know it's definitely going to finish here in match number six. Usually, you know, we're done after what, eight or nine games and then people have to work out.
02:50:16 Is the game going to finish here? Like, yes, we're in eighth right now, but the game might not finish. There might be another game to play. Is this team going to win on Matchpoint? Now the teams know that it is going to be completed here in match number six. So if you can get to X amount of points total, you are going to be feeling safe. You are going to be feeling comfortable. It's not something we see very often. We don't really see Matchpoint one before six. So this is going to be quite exciting to see which of the teams are going to make it into the top eight and make it into the Pro League. I normally ask you for predictions, but I'm actually feeling pretty...
02:50:43 I'm feeling in a good mood today, so I'm not going to do that to you because I think it's very harsh, especially with how many teams are still in contention. If you're in the chat right now, let us know who you think is going to go through. Let us know who you're supported and you want to see go through and be a part of Split 2 and part of the EMEA Pro League because I think there's been some great stories of teams coming through challenges, coming through the PLQ, making it into Pro League and then making that next step because that's part of the process, right? It's one thing to get into Pro League, but once you're there...
02:51:09 You want to make it to LAN. And LAN, of course, is just around the corner in a few weeks, which we're very excited about. But we've got one more game to get through in EMEA before we get to talk about that anymore. We're going to go for a quick break. When we get back, we'll have that game for you. Don't go anywhere.
02:53:03 But one more...
02:53:06 Yeah, I've had to clean my eyes a little bit, scratch my eyes, because I still can't believe that Red Dragon not only reached Match Point after two games, but then took the back-to-back.
Analyse der Teamleistungen und Strategien
02:53:35
02:53:35 And one match point after the third game. But still seven other spots that these teams are vying for right now. And I would like to say, I know Mark and Dan in the back were talking about when they predicted Forbidden was guaranteed to win. I will say that Forbidden knew that they had to take that dump because they were the only team after the last remaining three squads left in that final game to be in that top eight spot. So they're trying to be comfy because we still have one more game to go, Glitter. Yeah, absolutely.
02:54:02 Wir sehen uns jetzt wie unsere Teams haben. Obviamente, Spieler kamen durch mit 15 Kills für ein total von 27 Punkte. Und als diese Teams starten zu heißen hier, ich meine, Nine geht in den Weg mit Deadfish, ist es zu verändern, die Standings, als wir sie haben, Vicky.
02:54:23 Ja, das war großartig. Huge Spiel für die Spieler, denn sie waren auf der Bottom-End der Leaderboarden. Ich glaube, sie waren 19th vor dem Spiel. Und dann kamen mit einem Dub und 15kp, das war absolut großartig. Wir sehen uns bei Apex Warlords, die andere Team sind in der Top 8. Und dann schauen wir auf Deadfish, mit dem 9kp. Das war die Nummer 4, der Echo HQ Final Zone, die sehr explosiv ist.
02:54:43 Yeah, good catch there Vicky as well. And we'll continue looking through at some of the rest of these numbers. Obviously some of our teams struggling a little bit and that's really affecting where they need to go. We talked about this because as soon as that match point was hit, it instantly limited the amount of time some of these squads had to get those points on the board. So when you see these performances out of these teams that have the 15kp, the 19kp.
02:55:12 Es ist wirklich großartig, um sich in die Top-Spots zu bekommen. Wie gesagt, Red Dragon hat einen der vierten Spots für Split 2 genommen. Das heißt, es gibt nur 7 leften, und jetzt nur noch eine Möglichkeit zu versuchen, sich in die Top-7 zu bekommen.
02:55:28 Absolutely, this is the second page of that game 4-2, but it is nice to highlight after our last game, game number 5, was forbidden winning with 10 KP. That was a Climatizer endzone, and we could see how so many other teams were falling, playing by the edge of that circle, trying to figure out that rotate into that Climatizer side. Especially if you're going from the train track side, I feel like there's little to no cover to really work with there. So the squads that weren't able to settle up in Climatizer usually see a heavy endzone because there's so much space to coexist in.
02:55:55 Yeah, so now we'll have to see, though, will we start to get some of that, some more, I guess, of that anticipated PLQ chaos? Will teams try to do something here in that last ditch attempt to, if they're right on that bubble, put themselves up?
02:56:13 Just those few extra points that they need to be. We've seen too many times throughout all of ALGS competition, just how much every single KP matters, just how much every placement point matters. Sometimes it really is a difference of one kill here or there that determines whether or not teams are qualifying for whatever it is they're trying to qualify for, Vicky. Absolutely. I mean, there's only eight slots here to participate in the split two pro league. Once again, to those of you guys tuning in just now, we've already crowned a match point winner.
02:56:42 You know, we heard, uh, we heard...
02:57:09 Ich habe noch nicht gesagt, dass Apex-Warlord ein weiteres Team gegründet haben. Ich glaube, es war Dan, die gesagt hat, dass es nicht nur Pro-League wäre, ohne ein Schiff in es zu sein. Wir haben vieles zu tun, und eine weitere Möglichkeit zu machen. Es ist der letzte Spiel, also haben wir es auf den letzten Spiel gegründet.
World's Edge und Teamzusammensetzungen im Fokus
02:57:38
02:57:38 Ich bin glücklich, dass wir hier auf World's Edge klicken sind. Wir haben jetzt die letzten zwei Matches gewonnen. Aber ich denke, von dem wir sehen all day, von den Ergebnissen auf World's Edge sind, wir sehen viele Pup-Off-Momenten von den Teams, die es auf World's Edge braucht. Sie waren ein bisschen slower auf Stormpoint. So das ist eine Möglichkeit für die Likes, die Trojan zu sehen. Wir sahen eine gute Performance aus Danisch aus den Tag auf World's Edge. Das ist eine Möglichkeit für sie wirklich zu bekommen.
02:58:07 Yeah, especially for the teams that feel that confidence, feel way stronger on World's Edge, where it works into these compositions that we've been exposed to since the very beginning of the split, I would say. Looking at Atlas, they're rocking that same Legend composition. I'm thinking of the Bangalore, Bloodhound, and the Cossack. A lot of buildings exist in with the Cossack to try to take over that space here on World's Edge. And now seeing how this is going to work out into the teams that do find that success here on this map versus what they have to deal with on Storm Point.
02:58:34 Vicky, did you say you wanted a specific zone in a specific area or no?
02:58:40 I was dreading the Echo HQ zones, but it looks like, you know, these northern zones on World Dead just happen to really like me too. But on the plus side, Lord, it is not going to be a climatizer zone. This is going to be pulling more so in between Epi and maybe even, I'm thinking, the train tracks over to the left side. We'll see if it continues to try to pull north, but we've seen some pretty heavily whiplash circle pulls within the last season. So we'll see how this works out, especially for Apex Warlords, the team that...
02:59:09 We keep talking about for all the right reasons. You mentioned that Dan earlier had said that it'd be very strange to see a pro league without Shiv. This is the team that has been trying to put in the numbers and they've been rather consistent, but they haven't found themselves within that dub just yet. This may be it for them since this is their POI advantage that they land between Epi and Survey.
02:59:27 Not only that, but it could give them an opportunity to clear out rolling teams behind them and really own that northeastern corner of this zone and kind of give themselves a little bit of breathing room to work with. Meanwhile, we're looking at...
02:59:39 SPS and they are going up against dead fish over in landslide right now those rampart walls proving to be very useful but also deciding that this is the last match do you really want to take an early engagement in somewhere as open as landslide for the potential for these other teams to come through maybe from countdown or love a Fisher and get some third party no neither of them want to be dealing with that so decide to back off play this a little bit safer and live to see another day
03:00:06 And this opens things up to talk about the different play styles that these teams that are on the cusp that could have that one really good game. The way that they're going to start shifting their play style into a much more passive aggressive one. They want to take control over that circle, get into a way better position, but without ignoring these evil harvesters that teams could be camping by too. Because if you're going to be playing a lot more passive for this final game to make sure that you could get within that top eight spot that qualified pro league for split two, then you have to make sure that you're entering.
03:00:35 Die Zonen sind nicht nur ein Blut Evo Schild, sondern nur ein Blut Evo Schild.
03:00:57 Set up for themselves here, potentially going up against OR9. I think Meow is up there as well. So there's quite a few squads in this area that could see some action here in the next few minutes. Okay, with more teams making their appearance, window cleaners, taking some shots at the team trying to exit out of the vault tunnel. But they popped piece of the hunt a little early.
03:01:21 Not trying to entry frag just yet, but trying to get information with the scan. Black Hole is gonna be called in too from the squad that had the height here. And still taking their time for this fight with knowing that there's another team in the distance. It's just gonna be the green light for a third party to inevitably come in once they see that there's Nox, they're gonna be going out.
03:01:40 Window Cleaner's doing a good job, at least playing this safe. Also able to do some poke damage from this roof as they catch one of those teams out on rotation. Frick's going down in the kill feed. Window Cleaner's deciding to drop down and see if they can clean this one up. And Meow does go down. That was that third squad in the area. And that was huge for Window Cleaner's.
03:02:00 Ja, aber jetzt wird das 0-9 sein, um zu sehen, ob sie sich auf den Weg nehmen können. Sie haben einfach das Spiel, die wir gesehen haben. Skyehook, FORBIDDEN! Die Team, die einfach gewonnen haben, Nr. 5, sind jetzt ein DÜO. Das ist die Squad, die wir jetzt an den Skyhook haben. Aber sie sind auf den anderen Seite der Mouth für den Vault Tunnel. Es ist...
03:02:23 Dänisch, die hat einen Spieler von Forbidden genommen. So jetzt Dänisch, sie werden auf der Nähe der Circle gehen, wo der Circle ist. Ja, definitiv eine gute Möglichkeit für Dänisch zu machen, ein bisschen Gatekeeping.
03:02:36 mit OR9 zu sehen, wie sie diese Bälle mit Windecleaner auf dem Skyhook. Aber es ist auch schon so lange, es ist definitiv eine Möglichkeit für Forbidden zu kommen und versuchen eine Third-Party, als es da viel commotion in dieser General-Vicinität ist. Und ich denke, das ist genau das, was sie machen. Wir werden ein bisschen ein peek hier sehen, jetzt die Third Squad ist.
03:02:55 And they called in their third as well. Akku, make your way in from Forbidden. This was crucial. I have to highlight, because Forbidden is in the third place spot for this top A. But it's not by a lot if you consider how tight this top A is in general. Data's right behind them by one point. And Window Cleaners, the team that really does need to go all out for this game, they're sitting in 16th. And this is their final chance opportunity as urgency involved in a fight. It's only left to two. Now leave it down to one solo playing off the second.
03:03:25 Definitely a rough spot for Urgency to be in there. NPC doing a really nice job handling that engagement, but also knowing that there was another team in the general vicinity. I believe it was Shimani, but they decided to back.
03:03:53 off away npc and give them that monument area as they continue their rotation into the next circle and we can see that here as we now get a top-down look of that map you can see that window cleaners or nine still going at it in skyhook but forbidden having decided to back away danish now holding that western edge of the circle could potentially gatekeep forbidden but lots of squads finding themselves in much earlier back and forth right now as everyone has to make pretty long rotations to get into the circle
03:04:22 Sometimes for these final games knowing where everybody's settled in the overall standings and where it really matters the most you got to try to go and grief some of these teams that may be cutting you off on your rotate or nine who have moved up now coexisting on the hard ground right here by window cleaners who Were able to take care of now that we saw earlier we hear an evac tower in the distance It looks like they're calling one of their own too
03:04:44 The scan though, up from above, just trying to see where they're positioned before they decide to either take that, but that would just be a death sentence at that point. It seems as if ORR9 is like, hey, come in, the water's all fine here, but they're definitely not going to be taking that.
03:04:58 They are definitely trying to wait out each other. No one wanted to make the first move like you were talking about, Vicky. This will be a little bit of a stalemate, but they only have so much time before the zone will make the decision for them.
03:05:14 And they need to take into consideration, which they don't know for certain, but they are definitely going to assume there's at least one team waiting for them right on the edge of the safe area. And that'll be Danish trying to see anyone coming in from Skyhook. But people who might not be so safe, we're now checking in with Free Sosa, who has at least one squad in their sights. The Frags and Arc Stars are coming out, trying to get some information with that Bloodhound as well, and see if they can maybe put in some work here underneath that bridge.
03:05:41 The Flatland in Hanna, though. Sad is trying to take some shots at Kami Dada, who's about to get pinched, by the way. Deadfish is on the other side from where Free Sosa is. And Free Sosa moving back. Don't want to be caught here. Talk about third parties, though. Moving in to finally engage on the fight happening in Skyhook, while Danish is just sitting free. It's OR9 versus Window Cleaner. OR9, though, they trade not for knock. Now we have one player left here for OR9. You see the ping's coming out. It's going to be a 1v1 potentially here if you can get out through these doors. Doesn't want to get the reset fully here, but he pushed.
03:06:11 Das ist eine perfekte Möglichkeit für Danish zu nicht nur noch einen Team aus dem Lobby, sondern auch auf der westen Seite dieser Zone.
03:06:39 Wir sehen uns beim nächsten Mal.
03:07:08 mit Free Sosa und Dead Fish, als jetzt Dead Fish kann die Trio sehen.
03:07:14 Did Danish clear that side, though, Glitter? We have to wonder. They did give up that edge of the circle space by Grandma's house. Maybe another team could have moved up. We're going to have to see as we see the action continue on over by Fragment. Dead Fish in the middle of the train tracks here, though. They're suppressing Frisosa, who are rotating from outside the circle. But it's because they want that Survey Beacon information. And while they do claim this space, they're denying this information from slow-rotating teams like Frisosa, who may now be playing this out as a duo.
03:07:44 Yeah, they're definitely now down, but at least it gives them a little bit more time to make a wider rotate safely, because you can see that that eastern side is pretty open, so they might be able to continue through, maybe even go for the respawn beacon that's going to be close to that path.
03:08:02 I can't believe they got away with that. I can't believe they wrote the smoke knees are just so strong.
03:08:26 Wir waren so low, dass wir noch mit der Health Disadvantage sind, um schnell zu gehen, um in der Survey Camp zu gehen, um die M.P.C., die könnte der Nail in den Coffin sein werden, aber nicht in diesem Fall. M.P.C. wird wiedersehen, als M.P.C. wird in der Distanz hören, Deadfish und Schamani kommen in.
03:08:46 As you see Grandma's House getting contested, they are going to be able to move back in Danish, maybe looking to re-engage in the distance.
03:09:16 So now this could be a little bit of a cluster here on the western side as there's teams that have been even farther in the circle that have been waiting for these fights to break out to see if they can look the third party.
03:09:26 Fighting here always makes me so uncomfortable, but there's an Evo Harvester right next to Danish, so it is expected for more of these teams who slow rotate with Blue Evos to try to fight for that exact spot. Now Danish is trying to prevent them from moving in with the circle closing in right behind their backs. Danish is taking care of Deadfish, literally putting them in a barrel, and Deadfish get eliminated, but overextending a little bit, also losing out on their Bloodhound. There's another squad in the distance. It's going to be Trojan now moving in to try to third party them before they can fully reach.
03:09:56 Das ist eine große Herausforderung für Trojan hier. Danisch ist ein guter Job zu bekommen, aber Trojan ist sehr gesund und mit dem Evo VI in der Hand von Ansonim. Wir müssen sehen, ob sie das können. Trojan ist jetzt sehr stark. Die Beast of the Hunt geben alle Informationen sie brauchen. Die Schildkracht kommt durch und Trojan ist ein Moment weg von Danisch entfernt. Aber Danisch ist dann auch noch surviving. Die Smokes geben ihnen alles die Cover, die sie brauchen.
03:10:24 That one solo of Danish left so fast is now back in Survey Camp before they are forced to rotate with this circle closing in slowly. See? And I'm now going to be able to take some shots from the distance here. And more of these squads kind of...
03:10:40 Existing on the high ground all together with more teams on the low ground of Epicenter. But it is Atlas shooting at Free Sosa. Who not only was able to get their third back from the live probably by no name. But now is rotating from that south side alongside players. And we mentioned that Free Sosa would have that respawn beacon available to them. On their passing heading through to the next area. But now they just run into so many other teams right now. That it's rough. They're down to two. Another gets knocked.
03:11:07 Also down to a solo player. This is just down to 1v1. But speaking of player, I believe players is in the wings waiting to see if they can third party this back and forth.
03:11:17 Not gonna be able to move in on to Trojan, as Atlas has just a solo, tries to stay alive, but for how long? Literally no shield, one shot, Atlas get eliminated in 10th, 9 squads left, and the team's still fighting on the high ground right here. Players looking at Trojan, Free Sosa on the other side, trying to prevent them from moving in. Looks like there's a solo on the other side of the high ground of Epi, while the building right to the north of Epi is being fought on by Apex Warlords and Forbidden.
Finale Entscheidungen und Triumph der Rolling Teams
03:11:44
03:11:44 We were wondering what was going to happen in this northern side of the zone. We knew eventually these teams are going to have to collapse. Apex Warlords now having to hold off Forbidden as they try to make a move inside the building. Forbidden, taking a lot of damage.
03:12:00 Und jetzt Apex-Warlords sind jetzt noch immer wieder da, um die Hoffnung zu halten, um die Hoffnung zu halten. Oh, aber die 3rd-party kam in auf der perfecten Zeit! Es war Rollen-Teams, die aufhören, für die Engagement zu passieren. Und jetzt haben sie die Apex-Warlords geöffnet. Und jetzt haben sie die letzte Squad-Furbidden, in das Gebäude. 5-Squads left, und die Patience bezahlt hier für Rollen-Teams.
03:12:28 We literally talked about Rolling Teams at the very beginning, saying they were the only squad on the north side with Apex Warriors that they needed to worry about. They let them live for too long and are now punished for it. As we check in with Kneecap, who are also in a really rough spot, just down to Funk, who's trying to stay alive for the team right now. They were going up against Trojan, who's done a really good job of owning the space and taking everybody out. Kneecap down to the solo, Trojan owning that space, but Rolling Teams looking to try and make a move in now.
03:12:55 Look at the next circle. Look at where it's pulling to. It's gonna be pulling away from Rolling Teams and they're getting absolutely rolled by the bullets flying behind their heads right through Epi. That's Trojan, but they probably are not gonna overexand. They're not gonna give up their space because Trojan's inside the circle unlike Rolling Teams, so Trojan's gonna keep gatekeeping them.
03:13:13 Und wir müssen wissen, wie weit diese Standungen sind. Die Rollen-Teams sind eine der Gruppen-Squads in der Bubble-Bubblen, versucht zu bleiben, um diese letzten paar Punkte zu erhalten. Und um die Top 8-Spots zu machen, um sie zu Splint 2 zu machen.
03:13:29 Before the storm, as the smoke provides the extra leftover cover that they need. Looks like one member of Trojan is just trying to get at a different off angle. Doesn't want to expose too much, but there's just little to no cover on this rotate. Looking at rolling teams in this space that they are about to cover right now with the circle closing in right behind their backs. A lot of these teams trying to wait each other out and see if they can maybe live to see another day. SPS.
03:13:59 Once again, we've seen these Rampart walls being very useful for our teams here. SPS really doing a great job going to either side of this cover and dealing some poke damage, being very, very annoying right now. Managing to live, and no one's really punishing them for it, going up against DN. It's still got Trojan and Rolling Teams on the outside kind of worrying about each other, so this is an opportunity for SPS to really make a move.
03:14:26 I love how they're rotating between each Rampart wall when the Beast of a Hunt was down here too, but here comes Rolling Teams, sliding down from the high ground, closing in that gap, managing to survive the pressure from Trojan, and now wrapping around the remaining teams here, but they've essentially sandwiched themselves. Trojan's gonna be right behind them while they try to engage on this Rampart team. SPS now engaging on DN. SPS get eliminated, and DN only a solo left as Rolling Teams move forward.
03:14:52 We also still have a Solo alive on Kneecap, who was in the top 7 heading into this, so they're doing a good job ratting out for some more points as Rolling Teams continue to make their push in, taking out Dien. It's now down to 3 on Rolling Teams and that Solo on Kneecap. This might have been enough for Rolling Teams to secure top 8.
03:15:09 This was huge for them. Before this game they were in 10th and they take the final game. The Souls served on the silver platter of some free KP and rolling teams are your game 6 winners. Really, really strong performance there for rolling teams. I feel like not being challenged early game Vicky when they were mostly just in the vicinity of Apex Warlords, that allowed them
03:15:37 So much space and time to slow play that northern edge, to push through those teams. They took really smart engagements and they backed off when they needed to. They knew they were on the bubble, like you said, in 10th place heading into this match. Will that be enough to get them into top eight?
03:15:54 And that's why they were waiting patiently when they saw other teams engaging. When they saw Apex Warlords engage with Forbidden, it was unfortunate for Apex Warlords because they were the ones that had control over that building. But the moment that fight broke out, there was nobody guarding that south side doorway. That was just free pickings for the teams to just move in and not only take that free KP, but then take control over that northern position that you had mentioned. The only team that was harassing them was Trojan. And then once Trojan was split up and they had to look to their south side because there was two other teams.
03:16:24 Ja, das war's. Das war's. Das war's. Das war's.
03:16:48 The Italians showing their greatness. The rolling teams guaranteeing their spot into Pro League. I mean, it was looking like it could have been pretty dire for them coming in at 10th place. They were kind of waiting for a few of those squads ahead of them to maybe get knocked out. But then to come in with a victory at the end, you need that kind of presence if you are going to be competing in the Pro League. And I think that rolling teams have showed that from Challenger to Pro League, they are going to be a real threat in the lobby in Pro League. Yeah, I think we've seen...
03:17:14 in general today, just some really standout performances from our squads trying to make their way into Split 2, proving why they should be in the conversation for that next portion of our season, for that next level of competition, especially when you factor in the other teams that we had high expectations of, like Red Dragon, like Danish, and like a few other teams that we've already mentioned throughout the broadcast. Before we continue talking about, though, let's go back.
03:17:43 Die ECHO-HQ-Finalzonen sind meine Lieblings-Finalzonen.
03:18:13 und sie konnten in der Zeit das Roteat perfekt werden, um diese Position zu gewinnen. Und mit dem mit der High-Ground hier haben, sie konnten nicht nur die Position-Advantage haben, sondern sie konnten diese Team-Stück hinter dem einen Rock.
03:18:27 Yeah, and this is that match that we were talking about when we came back from the break as well. A game where players were able to put up 15 kills. I mean, a huge performance when they needed it because they had struggled in the previous three rounds. But then heading into match number five, Dan, tell me what happened in this final circle. Yeah, match five was when it started to get interesting for the overall standings. We were wondering kind of who is going to step up and who's going to struggle. You had a few teams who really needed a victory in this one.
03:18:56 The likes of Kneecap, who were in Knight's position, were they going to be able to find something? Was the Wraith maybe going to be the big difference for them to be able to escape? But ultimately, they were just being held out the entire time. It was Forbidden, who had made the move to secure themselves a spot behind the pillar so that they could force these two teams together and then be the last team to engage. And so often it happens that way with Apex Legends being a 3 vs 3 vs 3. You want to be that last team to engage. You want to try and force them together. But it's about making the play early to try and gain that position.
03:19:26 Ja, und beide Forbidden und Kneecapped mussten diese starken Ergebnisse, wenn sie sich um die Top 8 zu solidarischen, aber dann wird es in der finalen Spiel für EMEA, und es war Rolling Teams, die so smart und slow waren. Sie wussten, dass sie eine Stand-Up-Performance hatten, sie waren direkt auf der Bubble,
03:19:50 Das war's.
03:20:19 No kills, aber das ist okay. Rolling Teams kamen mit 8 kills für ein total von 20. So all diese Teams versucht zu arbeiten in die finalen Moments, wenn sie es brauchen. Trojan hat eine strong Performance hier. Und sie waren eine andere Squad, die in der Top 8 bleiben.
03:20:37 Ja, ich denke, wie groß das Faktor, das Kniecap, das Solos, zu 2nd Platz war, weil sie in 7th waren, glaube ich, bevor das Spiel war, also all die extra Punkte, ohne ohne K.P., das ist notwendig für die letzte Spiel. Und sogar bis zu Friesosa, kann die 6 Punkte genug sein werden? Ich meine, sie waren auf der BOTTOM END der Leaderboard, also wahrscheinlich nicht, aber das letzte Spiel war verrückt, wie das Spiel war, wie das Spiel wirklich verändert hat. Wir sehen uns, wie das Spiel wirklich verändert hat.
03:21:03 auf der zweiten Seite, so wir sehen, was diese anderen Gruppen waren. Ich bin speziell über CallMeData und MPC, diese Teams, die in der Bubble waren, mit Rollen-Teams, und wenn man sie sehen, diese Lowen-Points zu bekommen, wie knapp die Overall-Standings waren, dann wird es ein bisschen sad, denn wir haben diese Teams mit einem Punkt geschehen.
Abschlussanalyse und Glückwünsche an die Gewinner
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03:21:29 Throughout those overall totals heading into this final match here, Gaskin. And so we'll take a look to see what happens here with our series results. And this is where all the money and all the marbles are won. There's your top eight for Pro League. Players take eighth position. Kneecap, Rolling Teams, Forbidden, Apex Warlords, Trojan, Danish...
03:21:48 und RedDragon. Und als wir wussten, drei Pro-League-Teams bereits eliminiert haben, wir waren garantiert zu haben, aber ein paar mehr haben in den gleichen Zeit genommen. Congratulations zu denjenigen, die es gemacht haben, commiserations zu denjenigen, die nicht ganz gut gemacht haben. Als du gesagt hast, CMD und Atlus, sie waren da, NPC, sie waren da und da und da und in der Mixer, aber dann in Match 6 ist es, wenn es sich um den Plug-Hall ging ein bisschen. Und sadly, sie konnten nicht in die Top 8 bleiben.
03:22:15 And you can see just how close that bubble area was, too. I mean, 32 points to 31, to 30. It couldn't have been any closer. A lot of these teams put on some really strong performances here today, Vicky. But at the end of the day, we now have our top eight. And the ones that did make it there absolutely deserved it.
03:22:34 Yeah, I mean, especially after looking at a team not only hit match point after two games, but then take it back to back, you have to imagine how that could kind of put a dent to certain individuals' mentals. But being strong and understanding what happened and what you have to do next, since that's one less team in the lobby to worry about, that's what a lot of these teams were able to do when it came to shifting that focus going forward with the rest of the series. Yeah, now obviously lots of standout performances from teams and individuals that we saw here today.
03:23:02 But we have to pick an MVP. And I feel like this might be a little bit obvious after what we saw going on here today. But there's no way that we wouldn't pick at least someone from Red Dragon. And who better to pick when it comes to MVP than Taskmaster, okay? A player we became very familiar with during the Firebeavers era. Now one of three to make PLQ history and hit match point in two and then close it out.
03:23:31 Ich meine, sie kamen mit einem Challenger-Circuit No. 4 und sie absoluten, die competition. Sie haben nur drei Matches heute und Taskmaster hatte über 4,700 damage mit 11 Kills, auf der Bangalore, absolut fraggen aus für die Squad. Ich meine, ich kann nicht sagen genug über Taskmaster, aber ich möchte ein bisschen Liebe zu den resten der Squad, weil sie auch von Brestis und Sevenozis waren 13.
03:24:00 12 kills, respectively, with over 5,300 and 4k damage of their own. Overall, they were just an indomitable force coming into the competition here today. And considering Taskmaster, if I'm not mistaken, was nominated as one of the three best slayers after ALG Season 1 by esports.gg, you see why, okay? You can see why. So for me, it has...
03:24:29 Aber wie gesagt, es könnte wirklich nicht jemanden auf der Squad, denn es war eine Phänomenal, Phänomenal performance. Aber jetzt...
03:24:40 It's a time where we get to actually talk with one of our players who performed well here during PLQ. And Dan, you said it yourself, it would not be a pro league without Shiv. We had to get Shiv in so we could get an interview. First of all, Shiv, congratulations on making your way back into split two. How's the squad feeling right now? I mean, we're feeling ecstatic. I mean, we made it, you know, we made it.
03:25:09 Ja, das ist wirklich toll. Es ist gut zu sein, das ist für sicher. Was ist das, Leute? Und ich sah, du hast eine Team-Name-Change gemacht, 40% Wurst wurde veröffentlicht, du bist zurück zu den Apex-Warlords. Das hat eine Auswirkung auf wie du spielt? Was war die Entscheidung da?
03:25:26 Had to for the culture, you know? Apex Warlords, of course we had to do it for the culture. Of course, that's the name right there. They've got to represent the Warlords, you know? So yeah, and yeah, it's a nice name for sure. A little bit of a confidence booster, that's for sure, I guess, with the name too. So it's nice.
03:25:43 I have to ask you, you know, exiting out of what we saw between Split 1 and now you guys with the come-up, Zarifer was popping off today. We saw the whole thing, front row tickets. How are you feeling mental-wise, though, as you prepare for Split 2 Pro League? Are you feeling like there's going to be a hard reset for you and your team? There's probably going to be a patch, obviously, between that now and then. Are you going to be approaching Split 2 Pro League with a clean mindset, or are you going to take remnants of what happened between Split 1 and then take control over that for this next upcoming split?
03:26:13 We'll definitely move forward with a clean reset, but we'll take what we learned as well a little bit from Split 1-2. There's certain things we can move forward, learning from Split 1 and move forward here. Of course, the comps and everything, the metas change drastically, so there's that too. But yeah, there's a lot to think about to go into Split 2 for sure. But we'll go in there with a fresh mind.
03:26:43 All right, Shiv, I want to pick your brain a little bit here. Obviously, we had a lot happen throughout Split 1, and now we have playoffs right around the corner. Do you have any predictions for how LAN might go? Will the trophy change hands into a third team's name? What do you think?
03:27:06 Oh, okay, I mean, it could. I think it could switch to another team's name. I haven't really been following much with how everything's going scrim-wise and all of Pro League and everything, but, yeah, how scrims are going. But, yeah, I mean, it could, yeah, I guess it could have the potential to switch to another team's hands here. Another team could take it, I think.
03:27:32 Well, there's a lot of teams that have been performing well. And today we saw Red Dragon absolutely dominate the competition. I mean, unprecedented we saw a team win in three games here. What's it like being part of a lobby when you see that happen? And what's the mindset of your team when you're like, oh, someone's just won in three games, but we still have three games to play here. Yeah, I mean, Red Dragon play absolutely amazing. Like they're absolutely, you know, rolling and farming the lobbies.
03:28:00 Um, yeah, I mean, either way, after the, you know, last three games, we just got to lock it in, keep focused, and, um, yeah, keep trying to stay consistent, get some points on the board, and, uh, you know, um, finish it, finish strong, and keep going, maintaining, getting points on the board, for sure. Just keep going, no matter what. Just stay, stay focused.
03:28:24 All right, Shiv. Well, we're about to let you go because I don't want to keep you too long. But before I do, do you have any shout-outs that you want to do for anybody? Shout-out everyone who watched the games. I hope you all enjoyed all the games. Also, to my teammate Zeri, absolute legend. He's also been having issues with carpal tunnel injuries and stuff. So that's a tough one. So big shout-out to my teammate. Also to Ganji, my teammate. But yeah, to everyone watching, everyone who's rooting for us.
03:28:53 Shout out to all of you guys. Absolute legends for watching. That's it. Alright, Shiv. Well, thank you so much for your time. Congratulations again, and we'll be hearing from you soon. Thank you, thank you. Yep, 100%.
03:29:09 Always nice to be able to chat with Shiv. Really strong performance out of Apex Warlords today. We saw some really strong performances across the board from a lot of teams that I think we had some pretty high expectations for and then also some new faces that we'll be able to start talking about when that new split comes around the corner. But give me your final thoughts here on the day, Gaskin. We'll start with you.
03:29:32 Well, I'm just trying to count how many Challenger teams we have. But I mean, at least three, if not four there, just from what I can see. Congratulations to those who have been grinding through Challenger Circuit to try and be in the Pro League. Welcome to the big leagues. And I'm excited to see how they perform when we do get into Split 2. But also, we've got Lan around the corner. Can't wait for playoffs. It's going to be incredible. And today was a brilliant day. We saw something very new. We saw a team win in three matches, which we've not seen in this region before. So we'll have to see whether Red Dragon can make an impact in Split 2.
03:30:02 I like it. I like it. Vicki, what were some of your favorite moments and thoughts on the day?
03:30:06 Honestly, echoing from what Dan said, the Challenger Circuit teams have been playing for so long now to finally go all out for this weekend where they had to play eight games back-to-back basically until they finally reached the finals. Congratulations to the Challenger Circuit teams, especially who have been able to make it through to participate in the Split 2 Pro League. And I'll see y'all land. I can't wait to see land. It's going to be amazing. Split 1 Playoffs is right around the corner. And I literally cannot wait to be there with you guys.
03:30:34 Yeah, I think everybody is insanely excited. Well, fantastic job here today. Mark, Dan, and Vicky, you guys killed it as always, but this is just EMEA, okay? We still need to find out which of our teams will clinch out the available Pro League spots, but this time in NA. Make sure you come back here at 3 p.m. PT, 6 p.m. ET to see what happens next. Will we get another history-making match point, or will we see a closer back and forth amongst our NA squads? Either way, it's sure to be an exciting way to close out our PL.
03:31:03 Auf Wiedersehen. Auf Wiedersehen.
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