ALGS Year 4 ! LCQ Finals ! NA ! Apex Legends

Nordamerika: ALGS Year 4 LCQ Finals – Apex-Teams kämpfen um den Titel

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- 16.09.24 - 04:01:03 - 80.255 - Apex Legends

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In den ALGS Year 4 LCQ Finals in Nordamerika treten die besten Apex Legends Teams gegeneinander an. Ziel ist es, sich für die anstehenden Meisterschaften zu qualifizieren. Strategische Spielzüge, Teamdynamik und individuelle Fähigkeiten entscheiden über Sieg und Niederlage in diesem hochkarätigen Wettbewerb.

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ALGS Year 4 LCQ Finals NA Ankündigung und Vorstellung der Kommentatoren

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00:05:07 To the Apex Legends Global Series Today starts

00:05:15 All around the world, right here in Mannheim, Germany, this is going to be the greatest land in Apex history. So you better get ready, because this is the ALGS.

00:05:48 Na'vi geht jetzt in die Klappe! Na'vi geht jetzt in die Klappe!

00:07:02 It's time to see what NA can bring to the table, and which teams are ready to continue on to the final stage of the competition for Year 4. It's NA's time for the Last Chance Qualifier, and if the other regions are any indication of what we can expect, NA is going to be an absolute blast. My name is Glitter Explosion, and I'll be your host for today, and I'm alongside an amazing crew of commentators, so let's get them reintroduced, all right? Starting off with Dia.

00:07:29 von was wir sehen in EMEA, und sind Sie bereit für EMEA? Barely. Ich habe natürlich eaten zwischen den Shows, aber nichts wirklich kann mich für was wir sehen in Nordamerika werden. Ich weiß, dass EMEA eine sehr legend-wiese, Chaotik Region ist, aber heute, Nordamerika's LCQ war bei weitem das Chaotik war, mit ein paar Teams zu landen auf sichern, auf sich auf ihre Dropspots in Elim Round 2 zu sehen. Ich kann nicht warten.

00:07:56 was wird auf die Finale sein werden. Und wir wissen, dass unsere nächsten Talenten etwas zu erzählen haben. Wir sind schnell ein Staple hier in unserer Crew. Graceful ist mit uns und bereit zu sehen, was N.A. kann uns. Was sind wir heute am besten zu sehen, Graceful? Well, als immer, die Experianz-Teams kommen auf dem Topf. Ich wollte das ändern, aber wir haben eine verrückte Herausforderung.

00:08:24 Ich bin jetzt hier für eine gute Apex. Das ist alles, wirklich. Ich denke, NA wird eine fantastische Apex bringen hier. Es wird wirklich, wirklich Spaß gemacht. Aber natürlich ist das letzte Teil unserer Puzzle.

00:08:47 Ich weiß nicht, dass wir so viel hier im N.A. Ich weiß nicht, dass wir so viel mehr von den Chalengers-Circuit-Teams zusammenarbeiten mit den Major-Roster-Changes haben. Es macht für so eine Unterschiede, wenn wir über die Qualität der Teams, die wir sehen in der L.C.A., die oftmals kann wirklich diese Matches zu der extent oder der limitieren.

00:09:11 It's going to be a jam-packed day, to be sure. We'll have to see just how long, how many matches we have in store in the series. Bare minimum, we know we're going to be making it to six, but we saw what happened in EMEA, so we'll have to see how it goes. Obviously, we're here for a very important reason, and that is because our teams are battling it out for who was going to qualify for what I personally think is going to be the most anticipated champs that we've ever seen in the Apex Legends Global Series.

00:09:40 Und die Frage ist, wo?

00:10:27 Willkommen bei den Kiongau-40 Team? Willkommen bei der Kiongau-40 Team?

00:11:09 We are all absolutely jonesing to make our way over to Japan for Champs. Zephyr, that is going to be just a legendary event. And you talk about the support from the Japanese community for these last few years, especially with things like the Asia Festival absolutely exploding in popularity recently. It is incredible that we get to share not just the ALGS playoffs or one of the smaller events, I say smaller, but our entire championship housed.

00:11:39 in the japanese region is it has been many years in the making that's all i can say absolutely absolutely and you know every single one of the teams that has been competing throughout the entire year their goal is to be there to be playing alongside everyone on that global stage and of course now in japan which is exactly what our lcq squads have been fighting to do and so far we've already had multiple regions

00:12:06 Das war APAC North und South, oder was wir gerade aus dem EMEA gesehen haben, ein paar Stunden später. So, wir sehen uns die Highlights und sehen, wie das alles aussehen hat. Denn bei Kickingen das mit APAC North, die zwei Teams, die es aus dem EMEA gemacht haben, waren Reignite und Meteor. Und Zefri, wir haben ein bisschen darüber gesprochen, aber Highlighten die Quads ein bisschen mehr für mich.

00:12:33 Yeah, of course, especially with Reignite taking the lion's share of the lead here for the APAC North Region. This is a team steeped with history. Shunmi and Fefchen previously on that Pulver X roster, of course, and no slouches to LAN performances themselves leading here notably. Of course, on the other side of things, I do want to highlight Meteor.

00:12:54 das andere Team, das macht es durch, wenn wir über die Overall-Point-Standung sprechen. Natürlich ist das, was mehr interessant ist, dass wenn wir über die Apex-South-Region gehen, wir bekommen eine Geschichte, die wir mit den LCQs machen und warum sie formattet wie sie hier sind. Notablich, es war ein Team, das die meisten von euch nicht gehört haben, Havoc.

00:13:18 This is a squad that fought their way through all the way of the Challenger circuits in the Apex South Region to garner themselves a spot here within our LCQ, which I can tell everyone at home.

00:13:31 Und dann auch, wie ich schon erwähnt habe,

00:14:00 Das ist nicht nur die vier jetzt aus APAC-North-South. Wir haben auch die zwei squads, die einfach nur durch die Chance haben, in EMEA. Und natürlich, das war Faze, Anathurtel. Und die Performance aus Faze, Diea, kann nicht beendet werden. Faze war super dominant this morning, oder sogar in diesem Abend, mit wie lange EMEA ging.

00:14:30 Faze demonstrated really an understanding, like they did in Regional Play, of how to manipulate teams around them, and especially how to succeed in an LCQ format that is unlike almost any other competition that we have in Apex Legends. But even still...

00:14:44 It took a long time for FaZe to actually close things out and join all of the other qualified teams for Japan. Here in North America, we have the distinction of now closing things out entirely. Finding out who the final two teams that will be heading to Japan are. And I can't help but wonder how quickly that is going to happen. Because it was incredibly difficult for even a team like FaZe to close things out. And here in North America...

00:15:13 Ich sehe nicht viele Teams, die ich denke, können es einfacher. Ja, es war definitiv ein langes 9-Matches für EMEA zu kämpfen, wo sie die Top 2-Squads getrennt, und jetzt qualifizieren hier für Champs. Und wie du schon erwähnt, DIA, zwei Spots bleiben hier. Die letzten zwei Teams kommen von N.A. zu sehen, wer wird in Japan kämpfen. Das ist ein tolles Weg zu close es. Wir haben...

00:15:42 Some recognizable faces, as well as some new names joining us in the LCQ here today. So I'm excited to see, like, are we going to get those new storylines? Are those established, experienced individuals and teams going to be clinching up those top spots and moving on in the competition? Either way, we'll be...

00:16:02 We have some roster changes and it could potentially impact the outcome of these games.

00:16:22 Es könnte. Ich meine, die Fakt ist, dass wir ein Team ändern, wie MostHated, und einfach nur die Namen zu verwenden, ist, glaube ich, eine kleine Sache für die Zuschauer zu werden. Aber wenn wir andere Roster-Swappen...

00:16:37 The fact that we've got Luxford now changing things up, moving from Elevate to Native Gaming is certainly going to be one of the teams that I've got safe. We're keeping our eyes on. Same thing for Vayne, swapping over to Native from Oxygen. Those are two incredibly strong players.

00:16:55 und das ist auch ein weiteres. Und das ist auch ein weiteres. NaNo ist auch ein weiteres.

00:17:19 was we love about the lcq and you mentioned it when we were talking about emia graceful this is potentially an opportunity for some of those more unknown teams to try and outpace to set a name for themselves up against the really recognizable squads yeah most definitely but i'm actually struggling to find the unnamed teams because i pretty much recognize almost everyone in this whole lobby

00:17:43 Ja, genau, das ist wahrscheinlich warum. Aber ich denke, dass alle diese Spieler in dieser Lobby sind stark. Einige sind natürlich auch stark. Aber ich denke, ist das wegen der Fähigkeit, dass sie mehr Renowned sind? Oder ist das wegen der aktuellen Skill-Gap? Ich denke, dass wir einige Teams haben, die nicht so genannt sind. Ich würde sagen, Tuggets, vielleicht. Das ist eine meiner persönlichen Favoriten. Sie sind stark, selbst in Scrims. Und wenn nicht, könnte das, dass die Situation sind, dass es chaotisch ist.

00:18:10 Yeah, they absolutely were chaotic, at least in EMEA here today. And if you're wondering why, that probably has something to do with our rules for the LCQ. If you don't know how this works, it's a format you should all be familiar with at home. But it's different from what we've been doing recently. No more POI drafts here for our LCQ. It's still match point format. There will be a minimum of six matches. If somebody is able to win before six, we'll at least complete the six-game series to determine who that second-place team is. And those top two will move forward.

00:18:39 But without that POI draft, like we've heard a couple people mentioning now, it means that we could get some contests. We saw it in EMEA. We know that NA is not afraid of some early game aggression. So I won't be surprised if we see that yet again here, Zephyr. Yeah, and it's something, at least for these teams, that Graceful is clearly disagreeing on. But who knows, especially with the chaos that it does bring with more challenger circuit teams.

00:19:07 We do think it does delay our games potentially a little bit when we do lower potentially the quality, or at least teams aren't able to predict as much coming into these matches that they might already be assuming. That's true. That's true. And we saw just how much it impacted decision-making for some of those teams. They ended up backing off early on, and then we saw some teams still trying to go for it later. So it just depends on how strong these teams are feeling.

00:19:36 You know, sometimes if things are just going their way or not, either way, pay attention to it, everybody at home, because we might.

Team-Analysen und Strategie-Diskussionen

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00:19:43 Aber wir beginnen mit unseren Teams zu sprechen. Wir haben große Namen hier, Dias. Ich möchte mit dir starten. Wir werden mit Pioneers starten. Wer würde mit Pioneers starten? Sie sind eine sehr spannende Team zu sehen. KCP hat viele Touristen in diesem Spiel gewandt. Und ich bin wirklich gespannt, wie sie organisiert haben.

00:20:12 mit Deeds und Gent. Die Pioneers haben bereits viel Erfolg gefunden, aber sie haben eine sehr auf- und auf- und auf- und auf- und auf- und auf- und auf- und auf- und auf-

00:20:20 I'm going to contrast that with my second pick of Native Gaming that have changed up a lot of their roster, and I mean a lot of it. We talked about Luxford and Vayne, Snipedown's in there as well, and Native have... You remember we were talking about Theseus' ship this morning with EMEA? Native Gaming have really completely changed everything. Snipedown, Luxford, and Vayne are completely different Native than we had at the beginning of this year, and...

00:20:46 Ich bin gespannt, wie er mit Luxford und Bain spielt. Ich bin gespannt, wie er mit Luxford und Bain spielt, weil er großartig ist.

00:21:11 Die Typical Veteran-Player sind auf der top und Reeds und Nano sind einer von ihnen. Ich würde gerne sehen, wie wir Eternals in EMEA gesehen haben, dass sie vielleicht die Bambino von NA sein könnten. Das wäre sehr schön zu sehen, weil ich denke, dass sie was es ist. Ich muss ein bisschen nach Blinxer schauen, aber ich denke, Oblivion hat Unrealized Potenzial.

00:21:33 Well, those are the heavy hitters, but at least for me, you know, I always got to watch out for those underdogs. We'll highlight three here. Five Star, the most notable team to come out of the Challenger Circuit, similar to what we saw out of Golem this morning in the EMEA region. They themselves also picked up three wins across some of our circuits here. That's going to be the most powerful team, at least from the Challenger Circuit. The Oversleepers do join them.

00:21:57 Das war's.

00:22:16 Ich glaube, das war die Roster zu kommen, wenn es zu unserer Loser Bracket gibt.

00:22:32 Das ist die beste Weg zu watchen ALGS broadcast.

00:23:02 which team POVs you want to be paying attention to. You can watch up to four POVs at the same time. Not to mention, you get the dedicated map feed, which is arguably the best way to pay attention to all of the teams that want and give you the most information for everything that's going on.

00:23:21 All right, Graceful.

00:23:45 It's our time. This is where we set the scene. Because it is just those first couple of rounds, we do actually have a little bit more time to ease into things. Match point, it does go fast. It is heavy hitting. But these first couple of rounds give everyone a little bit of time to experiment before we're wondering about when it's going to wrap up.

00:24:04 Most definitely early on into match point is all about stacking points as I've been saying this whole day essentially and you know you have to just adapt to the lobby not only do you have to adapt to the lobby which is you know

00:24:15 Das ist das, was wir in den EMEA verwenden, weil wir ein paar heavy-hitterer sind, dass sie sich auf den Tempo verwendet werden. Die Leute sind die gleichen und anders. Und als andere Teams sind adaptiert, wie Sie sind. Aber ich denke, dass wir das gleiche wie in EMEA haben, wo wir ein paar heavy-hitterer haben, dass wir ein paar heavy-hitterer spielen und spielen wohl, wahrscheinlich auf beide-maps. Weil sie sind nicht gefährlich, dass wir die strongest-hitterer in dieser Lobby sind, und wir werden alles in unserer Power machen.

00:24:42 Ja, Pioneers definitiv hat die Potenzial, und ich denke, dass Leute...

00:25:09 LZQ, obwohl es ein Tier 2 ist, ist viel schwerer als die Leute denken. Oh, nur weil es nicht Pro League ist, oder weil es nicht LAN ist. Du musst mehr adaptieren, wie in LZQ ist, als auf LAN. Weil die Qualität der Teams ist die gleiche auf LAN, wobei in LZQ es sehr unterschiedlich ist. Und nur weil einige Teams vielleicht ein bisschen weaker sind.

00:25:32 Das bedeutet nicht, dass die Spiel nicht schwer sind. Weil Macro ist anders in Teams, die nicht vielleicht haben, die Strategist, die Coach, die Analyst auf dem Team haben. Und sie müssen, wie sie machen können. Und das dauert viel Zeit. Wenn man fünf Jahre zu fleschen, hat man einen neuen Team von CC mit einem Jahr. Sie werden sehr unterschiedlich sein. Ich nehme AVEX und DETOX als Beispiel.

Spielverlauf und Team-Taktiken in den ersten Runden

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00:25:58 Wippin' out the Caustic in this first game, while Stallions find their first fight. This is up against the duo of Oversleepers, so I'm not too concerned for Stallions. Although Oversleepers did pick up a Revenant, it is a little too early in the game for them to have access to ultimates. And even without them, it doesn't look like they're doing too hot. Krook does take a backseat, as the wingman makes things a little bit more difficult for him. But the Stallions look plenty confident as they take out half of the squad. Oversleepers down to just a solo.

00:26:27 This makes me sad just all around, you know, having to play out the tournament as a duo makes you go, how, you know, how could we have done if we were a full team? They're just gonna make Dewey what they can do. They're not even playing Beacon character, they're playing Bangrab. They're just trying to play out for any placement points, but at this point, what can you do, right? You're just gonna get, the moment they see, now that they've seen your legend pick as well, you're just gonna get chased down throughout the entire map by probably every team. It's gonna be rough.

00:26:53 No one else is playing, Rev. It's just not happening. I say that, and actually, I mean, we may get some more Revs throughout the course of these lobbies, but right now...

00:27:04 Just keep your eyes on the map and where everything is going, because we are pulling over towards the geyser and no-name area where we just saw Stallions, which will give us two very different looks at the map. There will be teams that choose to play through Geyser and hope that their buildings turn into something later, and there will be a lot of teams, I expect, that play through Fragment in the no-name buildings just off to the north of Geyser. Yeah, so the thing that I really don't like is, like you just said, hoping that it turns into something good is you're kind of...

00:27:33 All-inning in my head. That's what I like to say. You're all-inning and positioning, praying the zone goes to you. And if it doesn't, you're kind of screwed. That's why I'm a big fan of, you know, if you had to pick between frag and geyser, I'd pick frag. Because it's a lot easier to fight your way into the choke from the northern side compared to geyser, where you have absolute triple height looking down at you. FSC now looking to wipe out that last solo over sleepers.

00:28:00 Without a lot that they can do, Jinx will end up falling, still finding a knock post-mortem onto Charmander. So it would have been a really interesting matchup in theory as Oversleepers and FSC actually share some members. It was Charmander that used to play alongside Votary on Oversleepers in the Pro League when they first debuted. To see them on different rosters now would have been a really exciting matchup.

00:28:26 Unfortunately, we're just not going to get to see it. Yeah, definitely. It's always fun. If teams are swapping because of whatever reason Synergy didn't work, sometimes you just have different visions. It doesn't even have to be internal turmoil. It's just sometimes things don't work alongside, but it's always fun to duke it out in the scrims or in tournaments, so to say. But when it's just a 3v2 or even 3v1 in this case, it's really not much to say on it.

00:28:55 Für Weave, auf der anderen Seite aus der Winner's Bracket. Sie sehen, sie haben bereits 9 Punkte. Es ist nicht weil sie drei Quads haben bereits. Nein, nein, nein. Es ist ein viel schnellerer Spiel als das. Aber was sie haben ist, ist ein guter Placement in Yesterdays Games. Und Weaver ist ein Team, das ich gerne meinen Blick aufhören. Sie nicht wirklich in Pro League in der Zeit, aber es ist eine neue Meta, eine neue Version von ihnen, vielleicht. Und Slow-Rotatung auf den Etch-Zone könnte sein. Wir haben bereits gesehen.

00:29:24 Pulled a lot of teams to success this morning. Yeah, definitely. I think that teams that are able to adapt fast will do good. And by no means anybody in this lobby can do it. And as you said, in Pro League comparatively now as well is, you know, you have Akimbo Mozambiques. Anyone is almost a threat in a fight now. In my opinion, kind of lowered the skill ceiling a little bit.

00:29:45 Und das ist das, ich fühle mich, die Fights sind immer in der Luft in der Luft, ein paar Mal, obwohl, auf dem Papier, einige Teams sind eher stärker, denn das Weapon ist einfach wirklich stark und oppressive. Das macht mich an Heyday, you know, Heyday R9 oder Havok, wie wir vorhin hatten, wie wir vorhin hatten.

00:30:02 Ja, die Sache ist, ist, dass...

00:30:18 Ich weiß nicht, welches Team hat die Woll-Woll-Woll-Woll-Woll-Woll-Woll-Woll-Woll-Woll-Woll-Woll-Woll.

00:30:41 But once they get found out that they are a duo, more than likely they will be getting pushed. Temporarily, at least, Apegang could actually help out with a team like FSC holding one choke as another squad holds the other.

00:30:55 kann eigentlich turn into a weird collaborative exercise between two teams that really could not wish any worse for each other. But Apegang discover that FSC have actually given up this high ground and are gonna make a transfer over a little more centrally into the geyser no-name area. While ICBM play out of the low ground. I wouldn't call this edge, this is more of a mid sort of position, but ICBM have found a team to fight against in this very same.

00:31:23 Ich glaube, es geht weiter und geht weiter zu niemanden und dann Bulletsch, glaube ich. Ich glaube, es ist ein 3v3 hier in der Smoke. Es ist immer gut zu sehen, aber Molten und Hemlock-Aktion, alles, was ich von Akimbo bringt, ich bin nicht zu lieb. Wow, Purple Slushie, clean up. Das war sehr schnell. Wir sind unsere Squad-Auswahl-Auswahl-Auswahl, also in der Late-Game, Purple Slushie könnte ein reales Threat.

00:31:47 Oh ja, für sure. Katwall's Late Game ist das Teil von, oh nein, wir sind Pinch, aber eine Wall macht es, die anderen Teams zu machen. Es ist so eine gute Utilität, Late Game. Die Frage ist, ob man sich in die Late Game ist. Aber mit der Weise die Zone ist, und jetzt vielleicht die Choke ist frei für sie. Depending auf ob sie oder nicht, das könnte ein guter Start sein.

00:32:07 And for those of you who want to take a look at the map, who want to keep track as the zones continue to pop, pull up face at watch. You've got a map feed available to you there. And it's really useful to bring context to the rest of the game, especially as we just now discover. And a lot of teams find out simultaneously that we are going a little bit further north. Unfortunately for FSC, they won't be making it there because we didn't see the course of events that led them to die outside of Big Mod. From a duo to here, the only thing that really amazes me is how far they were able to travel before they died.

00:32:37 Ja, ich bin sicher, dass 8-Gang hat ihn mit dem Drone ausgesucht und dann hat er gesagt, dass sie, ihr wisst, um, zu runnen. Vielleicht haben wir in zwischen und dann haben wir in eine andere Team gespielt. In einem Moment werden wir in eine Team gehen, egal wie viel du runnest. Aber auch, als ein Duell, wenn die Leute wissen wissen, ist immer mehr schade. Especially, wenn ihr nicht stacked seid, wenn ihr zonen early spielt, wie sie waren. Es ist definitiv hart.

00:32:59 Take a look at the zone now. It is pulling pretty far out of Geyser, and woo! Congratulations! Not a lot of teams ended up going Geyser, so they all avoided exactly that fallacy that you wanted to see be avoided, Graceful. Nobody is giving up.

00:33:14 Their chance of playing well in this game To holding a building in Geyser and praying the zone goes there Almost everyone has predicted the zone accurately And for those teams like Lost Donut Like Pioneers that are a little further south You can take a bit more of an active role Than just standing in a stalemate while everyone else is in buildings Yeah, this makes me very happy because they are recognizing I think they just accurately

00:33:38 Ich weiß nicht, wo die Zone ist, aber zu spielen von einem Spot, das nicht all in ist, und sie haben mehr Optionen zu nehmen, und nicht mit der Zone zu gehen, dass sie nicht geteimt sind, ist eine gute Sache für jeden Team. Big Kudos für alle. Und als ich gesagt habe, über den Soutern-Side, aber an einem Moment, es wird congested werden, ob das die Left-Choke oder die Right-Choke. Und du willst, dass du in der 3P bist, oder du hast zu fighten fast, bevor die ganze Waffe kommt mit der Zone-Close.

00:34:06 Let's talk about third parties because we may have one brewing. Blurple are rotating in parallel to Weave, Five Star, and Pioneers, all with Purple Slushie standing between these three squads and the zone. Pioneers fortunately have an evac tower that they're going to use to close the gap into the ring a little bit. We've even got a charge rifle in the lobby, though it ain't connecting right now. You can see some charge rifle pop-offs.

00:34:31 A little bit of a chartreffle makes me happy. Thank God it's not what it used to be when it came out. But I don't know about it currently now. I'm not a huge fan of snipers due to the fact that most of the fights do happen in mid to close range. But if you can get that opener, you know, it's a great weapon if you get into a spot like Pioneers is currently where you just get to free shoot essentially. But once you get into those a little bit closer skirmishes, you know, you might need something a little bit faster.

00:34:58 Ja, play, call it playstyle and zone specific. It's pretty tough to make it work, but kind of like you were talking about earlier when we were seeing some odd compositions, with Vantage, Ash and EMEA, there's always an opportunity to express, you know, yourself, how you want to play the game. Snipers can be made to work, you just have to be very specific about how you approach the game.

00:35:19 Ja, das ist die Sache, dass du kind of lockst dich in, so es ist wie, wenn du eine Zonung aufzunehmen bist, Sniper ist 10 aus 10. Wenn du an Edge bist, ist es noch gut, aber wenn du bis Circle 3 und 4 bist, das ist dann, wenn du, dass es ein bisschen schwer ist, weil du jetzt kannst du als freierst, wie du jetzt kannst, wie du jetzt kannst, wie du jetzt kannst, wie du jetzt kannst, wie du jetzt kannst, wie du jetzt kannst, wie du jetzt kannst, weil du jetzt bist, weil du jetzt nicht so weit bist, weil du jetzt nicht so weit bist. Und ja, Weapon Choices definitiv matters, und ich liebe dich zu sehen, die Teams...

00:35:45 Um, was soll ich sagen? Mix with the weapons and try experiment a little bit, so to say. But at the end of the day, a meta is a meta for a reason.

00:35:53 But seeing some sort of individual personality through weapons even is always a good time for me personally. Alright, this is fun. Watching as teams clash, we did already expect teams like Purple Slushie, Weave, and Blurple, even Pioneers, would be involved in an engagement over in this corner. What I didn't expect is that we'd get a Mythic Bin here as well. So Weave get a massive boost to their loot. Gold, Mozams, and DeDevo.

00:36:22 Aks playing out of low ground. What are we gonna do with it now that they've got three squads next to them? Burple? Purple Slushie and Pioneers. Say that three times. Burple indeed. The thing is, is that Devotion or Golden Mosses or not, walking up this choke is a death sentence. Path can make it happen.

00:36:43 But outside of PATH, it's almost impossible. But the issue is, you see that most... There's about two teams in each choke. Purple Slushie mainly hoping that they could 3P, I would say, Lost Donuts if they end up fighting Most Hated in the tunnel. But fighting Ape Gang here for Purple Slushie or Wii fighting Pioneers is a death sentence. Blurple is honestly in the best spot because they can literally 3P either side if action should come down. But if this is worst case scenario where everybody waits for it, like everybody's waiting for an opportunity, I think all of them...

00:37:12 Wir haben noch einen kleinen Chokepoint in den Caves, wo Most Hated kämpft die Lost Doughnuts. Most Hated geht ein Reset, Tech auf Newcastle, nicht erwähnt sich das zu sehen, ist es zu sehen, um das Jahr zu spielen, geht es um die Wall, um einen Knock in Style zu finden, aber Tech muss auf die anderen Team kommen, Gold knockdown, Reset ist gut, aber das 3d-party von Purple Slushie ist gekommen, Most Hated, auch als sie Reset...

00:37:41 Ich glaube, dass Purple Slushy versucht hat, aber...

00:38:07 It's a little too far, a little too fast, given how quickly Most Hated backed up, which was very smart of them. The Weave Pioneers fight is going off, and those Double Mozambiques just aren't going to work as Pioneers shut down Weave. Blurp will fall as well, and KCP find a pretty clean reset. This 5-star, try their luck pushing up to the squad, but don't get too far before Pioneers shut them down.

00:38:31 Most definitely, and this is what I said with the chokes, Pioneers and Apegang both actually managed to hold their chokes, because those fights are almost impossible. Now we're seeing a little bit of congestion from the northern side, because as you said before, everyone predicted a zone correctly, but that also makes it if everybody's there, it's congested. So now it actually opens up for the southern teams a little bit, just because people ended up playing northern side.

00:38:56 Pioneer still in the eyes of Five Star, who need to make their way far into zone. South Side was congested last time. Now it's going to be the West that becomes really problematic. Nice little hammer points finders.

Mid-Game Kämpfe, Zonenrotationen und Strategien

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00:39:10 Halfway through the game does mean that if you've made it this far, you're getting rewarded for it. 5-star start off with an EMP, see what they can find onto KCP as Dark Knight takes its wing, finds Anmu immediately. He's getting off-angled, but Voodoo manages to find safety underneath this rock. It's a number advantage for 5-star, but Voodoo will end up falling. That's a rogue made from Crowscho, not involved in either of these teams. It's Ape Gang who are looking across at 5-star and defending...

00:39:40 This is the thing about being a team next to next in Choke. Whichever Choke gets engaged on, the other Choke will always repeat, which is good for Ape Gang, but tough on Pioneers. That engagement though, I gotta say, 5-star looking really good with the EC engagement, getting that down. Dark Knight again going crazy. Now finding the knock-on jet out of the sky. Vudo down or not, 5-star are cleaning up this fight. Pioneers are gone.

00:40:07 Definitely, I think that they're looking really strong right now, even though they might perish to the zone right here, they're still looking good for that one teamfight engagement shows promise that they're able to fight properly, being on the same page, sharing damage and everything that looked really solid over there. Five star do go down, but like I said, that KP gonna be really important, keeping them from having a zero point game, the thing that you simply must avoid at all costs. Busters, unfortunately for them, are gonna have close to a zero point game.

00:40:35 Sie haben zwei Kills, und nicht viel mehr. Das Catalyst ist wirklich nur die Sache, dass sie im Leben leben können. Aber Krowsjoe hat einen tollen Angle, und Apegang und Oblivion, zusammenhängen, sollten die Busters auswählen. Die Zone weiterentwickelt uns in No Name, wo Teams wie Stallions, Thuggets und Fury sind.

00:40:58 Ja, no name or village, whatever you want to call it. This is one of my favorite endings because there's a lot of fable areas. As we can see right here, there's several teams around Mechanic and there's also Apecan coming down from the hill. There's a team in the tunnel. So much action going on, but the next zone that it closes out, it's going to be a fight for height on the roofs. Or all people are going to run into each other underneath the house and it's...

00:41:21 kp fest for for whichever team gets on the roof so that's gonna be really exciting to see who actually meant to get it because that's a tough spot to hold with all the teams alive now mid-res busters do fall i want to call this out as well didn't know how relevant it was going to be at the start of the game still don't really but uh fury have a caustic fury are the team that with detox and avexus have chosen to play a little bit off meta

00:41:49 Das war eine gute Zeit für Oblivion.

00:42:16 Stallions, NUMBER 1, out of the games yesterday.

00:42:38 The zone ends on top of the building, Dia. What is this? It's still on top of the building. Oblivion just got handed a free win. Well, it wasn't free because they did fight for the roof. Kudos to that.

00:43:07 Aber das ist ein Wahnsinn. Das ist ein Wahnsinn. Das Winn für Oblivion. Das, in theory, könnte, sollte, würde passieren. Wenn der Topf der Geburt ist in, Graceful, der Inside wird für eine Zeit sein. Und ich kann Fjöre sehen, dass Fjöre viele Punkte aus dieser Runde. Ja.

00:43:28 Especially when you said you were running caustic as well and caustic is super solid in buildings and it's ending partly building in if you just if their force off the roof and caustic still has that window throws out the little stinky then immediately they could actually turn the tides and just win the game and that's gonna be huge fun to see we'll have to oh i can't wait

00:43:48 Oblivion brauchen eine gute Newcastle-Wall zu machen, und sie haben eine Bangalore auch, welches in der Open-Grohung ist sehr gut für sie. Stallions consider ihre approach. Stallions sind ein paar Team-Wall-Wall-Wall-Wall-Wall-Wall-Wall-Wall-Wall

00:44:04 Ja, definitiv, aber wir sehen, dass die letzte Zonen closes, die letzte Zonen, die Zonen closes, viel schneller als die anderen Zonen. Und ja, es ist ein Pressure auf, wer noch hat U-Til an dieser Stelle. Aber als Sie sehen können, auf der anderen Ruf, aber sie sind aus, sie sollten eher zu gehen. Aber wenn Skurry könnte vielleicht jump mit Papzip und dann Slamm... EMP-Blade kommt, was wenn Valp sendt es? Was wenn Valp sendt es? Was wenn Valp sendt es? Was wenn Valp sendt es? He jumps in mit der Mobile Shield! He knocks one, Blink is down! Oblivion!

00:44:36 And they get the reset. No, they don't get the reset. They're also getting engaged on by the team underneath the house. We'll have to see. They also... They get the Thursen reset? They dropped off? I can't believe that Most Hated gave that up. A little bit too much damage thrown at them. And now Most Hated are on the low ground. And Oblivion, who should have had the win, have given up their spot to Stallions. Again, number one out of...

00:44:58 Oh, now we're seeing Fury setting up with gas. They got their wall out. They're ready for the little stinker. Now, Stallions, however, they used a ton of util, but they still have...

00:45:15 5 nades Albrelli, no 7 nades in his pocket right now. That's way too many nades. I think this could go in the way of Stallions. This is crazy what we're seeing. Thuggets making their escape from the building. Wait for the little Stinky. Cersei holding this for now as Fury.

00:45:31 Untertitelung des ZDF, 2020

Spannendes Finale, Teamleistungen und Ausblick auf Spiel 2

00:45:54

00:45:54 They are great, don't get me wrong, but what is this zone, man? Ends on the blue box, they get free reign on both sides of the fences. Avril, Ellie, Skiri and Krupp cleaning up house. But the biggest thing that started this whole process that led them to winning the game? Pathzip, EMP, Slam.

00:46:13 Das war eine großartige Executioner, und sie hat triple-Swung gewonnen. Er hat sogar 25 HP, ich glaube, bevor er re-engaged hat. Er hat seine Team-Mit-Mit-Mit-Mit-Mit-Mit-Mit-Mit-Mit-Mit-Mit-Mit-Mit-Mit-Mit-Mit-Mit-Mit-Mit-Mit-Mit-Mit-Mit-Mit-Mit-Mit-Mit-Mit

00:46:36 I gotta hand it to a team like MostHated as well. Also very proactive. And when they needed to be, very defensive. Retreating through the tunnel instead of trying to reset and take a fight is something not every team would have had the confidence to be able to do. The fact that MostHated back off and end up playing gatekeepers in the tunnel gets them to a second place with 17 points. Stallions, dominant, dominant, dominant, dominant, dominant. This is a fantastic start for them and 24 points.

00:47:05 Das ist auf der 10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10. Das ist nach einem 1-10-10-10-10-10-10. Das ist nach einem 1-10-10-10-10-10-10. Ich glaube, dass...

00:47:27 Sie sind wirklich komfortabel auf World's Edge, das ist eine gute Sache, denn das ist, in den meisten Menschen, das ist ein schwieriger zu sein. Und wenn sie so viele Fälle sind, dann können sie auch noch aufstehen. Ich habe keine Angst, dass sie auf jeden Fall getrennt. Aber wenn sie es aussehen können, dann ist es eine andere Geschichte, denn nicht alle Zonen...

00:47:45 We'll take a look at the three teams that made it the furthest in this game. Thuggets, a sharp contrast to Stallings and Most Hated. A much more passive team, as the Denver Thuggets did tend to be. They are, of course, as you need to be in Challenge Circuit, a team that can take a 3v3. But as we talked about this morning in EMEA, being good at 3v3s is not...

00:48:10 The thing that you exclusively need to succeed in LCQ. In fact, it's sort of like an addendum. You need to have everything else and also be able to take a 3v3. And Thuggets have never really focused on that. They focus on positioning and it really does pay off for them in the first game. Yeah, I mean, having placement point is always good, but if you can't, you know, close out fights that way, then at some point you're going to get steamrolled because teams later on in game, late game, they get even more stacked. And if you can't win early on when it's triple blue versus triple blue, then you're going to struggle.

00:48:39 Wir sind sicher, und viele diese Teams, auch die Stallions, die wirklich gut aus der Gate sind, könnten eine Rude-awakening haben. Wir werden sehen, was wir sehen, als wir für die Nummer 2 prepareen, in nur ein paar Minuten.

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00:50:38 Es ist Zeit für den LCQ zu gehen, als Game 2 ist gerade in der corner. Wir sind nicht auf Matchpoint, aber Graceful, wir sind unkomfortabliert, als wir nur ein Spiel haben, und Stallions kamen aus den Garten, schwingt. Wenn du mit einem, you know, einen Start-up von 10 Punkten, als auch ein Super-Solid-Solid-Solid-Solid-Solid-Solid-Solid-Solid-Solid

00:51:01 I think that they're feeling on top of the world right now. You know, they should just need to be able to keep this form up and then it'll be in a super good spot. But we have also, I think we have stats on this. Most teams that reach match point almost immediately aren't able to get out. So will this be a repeat in, you know, like in the past? We'll have to see.

00:51:20 Ich bin sicher, wir können viel mehr sehen. Es ist lustig, dass wir mit No-Name enden, weil Stallions, tatsächlich, performe genau zu expectationen. Nicht nur weil die Leute erwartet, aber weil Stallions starten die Spiel hier in No-Name, bei unseren Duo-Team-Versleepers. Und sie wirklich nicht mehr move im Laufe dieser Runde. Sie sitzen, finden eine gute Gebäude zu spielen, loot up.

00:51:49 Und von hier an aus, sie spielen aktiv in dieser No-Name-Name-Name-Name-Name-Name-Name-Name-Name-Name-Name-Name-Name-Name-Name-Name-Name-Name-Name-Name-Name-Name-Name-Name-Name-Name-Name-Name-Name-Name-Name-Name-Name-Name-Name-Name-Name-Name-Name-Name-Name-Name-Name-Name-Name-Name-Name-Name-Name-Name-Name-Name-Name-Name-Name-Name-Name-Name-Name-Name-Name-Name-Name-Name-Name-Name-Name-Name-Name-Name-N

00:52:12 Even though they might not have been as stacked as Oblivion was on that roof, being able to make that split-second decision-making and taking that fight is what shows you that you are experienced and everybody, every single person on that roster has been playing for the longest of times and they're definitely showing, hey, we know we need to take this fight to win the game. Took that fight indeed and all the kills just came in at the end where they just got to free shoot at everyone. Take a look at some of the other teams as well. I want to talk about Fury because Fury with Caustic.

00:52:42 Should have gotten a lot higher up in the standings that they did. They got five points from placement, and unfortunately for them, that was all they got. Fury actually had a chance to start off decently, but Caustic Gas wasn't quite enough to keep them in the driver's seat. I do know that Avexis and Detox are incredible at 3v3ing. It's what made them so fun to watch in last year's Challenger Circuits as they made their way up to Pro League.

00:53:08 I want to see a little bit more of that version of Fury as we drop in to game number two, World's Edge. We return to... Let's find out what happens, Graceful. Yeah, it's going to be fun to see, but I think that's a little bit of maybe nerves. The first game, you know, coming on, they weren't as proactive as they wanted to be. When you're Kostig and Mechanic...

00:53:28 Und das Team von Tunnel moves unter deinem building. Ich will immer sagen das zu allen, dass ich 1x3 das Team unter deinem Haus habe. Weil du einfach die Stinker auf dem. Du hast Wollack, du hast Wollack und nate-spamst sie, und sie können nicht wirklich spielen. Und das ist die Sache mit Kossik. Er ist ein Defensive Charakter. Aber wenn er ein Ult ist, du musst die Pläne machen. Weil das ist, wenn du die Pläne gewonnen hast.

00:53:52 Das ist wahr. Ich denke, Caustic ist eigentlich in einem sehr schwierigen Ort. Wir können uns jetzt mal darüber reden, denn diese Zeit, Stallians sind nicht aufgerichtet. Sie haben eigentlich ein sehr regularer Beginn. Caustic ist ein schwieriger Ort, mostly wegen der Newcastle jetzt noch mehr Abilität zu negatieren. Und das includes Caustical, wie Watsons kann und immer noch haben. Newcastle adds in noch eine andere Charaktere.

00:54:19 your most important projectile yeah that's not not a thing anymore yeah projectile indeed is tough but that's the time you know you have to because of there's being so many cryptos in play at some point one emp will always hit the wall you just have to make sure to keep aware that that's a part of awareness you know making sure to hey we got impeded

00:54:38 Das heißt, die new Casabalda war energetisch. Nifos wurde EMP'd. Jetzt müssen wir uns spielen. Aber es gibt alles in der Zeit der Moment, wenn du in der Endgame bist, wenn du, wenn du, wenn du, wenn du, wenn du, wenn du, wenn du, wenn du, wenn du, wenn du, wenn du, wenn du, wenn du, wenn du, wenn du, wenn du, wenn du, wenn du, wenn du, wenn du, wenn du, wenn du, wenn du, wenn du, wenn du, wenn du, wenn du, wenn du, wenn du, wenn du, wenn du, wenn du, wenn du.

00:54:58 I'll say, you can even raise your expectations a little bit, because we've got a whole match point series for these teams to rise to the occasion. It isn't just a, you know, maybe it's a little bit too much, because it's always something that you can look to improve as the series continues. And in this one, we are going to be changing things up pretty drastically. In EMEA this morning, we went Countdown, we went Sky West, and they were pretty similar. This time...

00:55:24 Definitely. I love these changes up, dude.

Anpassung an wechselnde Zonen in ALGS-Spielen

00:55:44

00:55:44 We saw in EMEA, we saw Countdown, we saw Skyhook, we saw Lava Fissure. Please get me out of the same area. This is more like it. No name into Thermal straight up. That's my jam right there. We get to see teams adapt to different zones. We see some teams that had the advantage of having zone on them, now needing to do different macro plays. This goes to show what I've been talking about this whole day. Adaptation. Can you keep consistency of getting points across all the zones?

00:56:11 You're in a great spot to make it into land because, you know, a lot of the times you might see repetitive zones, but even then, when you do get the zones that are far away, you gotta adapt and that's a good strength to have.

00:56:22 Das ist passiert real quickly. Lost Donuts chasing down Most Hated in Lava Siphon. Both teams battling over what appears to be this Care Package landing right on top of them. While Native fight over nothing in particular, but simply for priority on the rotate, maybe a few points that they could have been able to score should that nade connect. Snipedown, however, does not connect with the nade. Non-Catalyst will back off. Not a lot of mobility on this Legend, so unlike Luxford, who's able to extend out millions of miles away from the team, Snipedown's got to stick pretty close.

00:56:51 Ja, definitiv, dass ich es close bin. Ich bin froh, dass Erik wieder zurückkehlt, nachdem ich noch Zeit mit ihm auf Land zu spielen. Und ich denke, sie haben was es braucht. Die Frage ist, ob sie es zu adaptieren können. Weil viele deiner Zeit... Oh, er ist ein großer Spieler auf dem Spiel.

00:57:10 Ah, nur ein bisschen Sniffy Sniffy. So das ist die Sache. Die big Sniffa. Die dog kommt in, und sie nicht wirklich nehmen, weil sie wissen, die Zone ist auf dem, niemand will sie spielen. Aber wirklich, es geht um, wenn du eine Zone-team und die Zone-team-team-team-team-team-team-team-team-team-team-team-team-team-team-team-team-team-team-team-team-team-team-team-team-team-team-team-team-team-team-team-team-team-team-team-team-team-team-team-team-team-team-team-team-team-team-team-team-team-team-team-team-

00:57:36 Sie sind diejenigen zu kämpfen, weil du musst, dass wir für Pryo haben, jetzt müssen wir für Edge spielen. Und ich glaube nicht jeder Team kann beide spielen. Obwohl ich glaube, die besten Team in der Welt kann. Ich glaube nicht jeder hat das Mindset-Shift, so zu sagen. Eine der Mindset-Shift muss man in diesen Lobbys, besonders wenn man nicht sieht Oversleepers-Eliminatet ist, was wir jetzt auf den Rattadon? Wenn wir jetzt ein Monument sind, das ist sicherlich ein Danger. Bordspot das erst!

00:58:06 MJ still alive and bored surviving now get to back away Jinx did search for a few kills but oversleepers are only on blues after all and after they failed to secure the initial kill I don't see them making a lot happen here

00:58:21 Ja, das ist, das ist mir screaming at Vicky in Rackrack jetzt. Vicky, warum sind Sie so early? Du musst sie kommen in ein bisschen closer. So, du musst sie insure, dass du das down hast. Weil, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da

00:58:49 Just Jinx Spider-Man's up the wall and you get a Superman up behind him. It's ults. It's fine. They're not using him for anything, but it's weird. It's weird graceful. I don't think I'm going to get over it anytime soon. Bord sort of leave that in the dust. They and their blue shields will get to continue on. They might have gotten a little bit of Evo from tickling the whites that were up in Epicenter now, but...

00:59:14 Bord's rotation is still one that, like you were talking about with Native, is a mid-speed rotation, perhaps even one of the later ones that we're going to see throughout the course of this particular game, and their macro will be challenged in the later part of this game.

00:59:29 Yeah, speaking of mid-speed here, or maybe closer to the late, Native Gaming comes flying in, and they actually managed to get a spot. However, teams thereby are looking to retaliate on them, and this is what I'm saying with mid-speed is hard, because now you have the attention of everyone in the whole lobby shooting at you. But can you survive the wave? It would open up, you know, an opportunity to close off the game.

00:59:51 I like that they found a little bit of safety here. Unfortunately for Native, there's not a lot of space that comes with this. A team like Fury could easily find a moment to swing on them and just completely decimate the game that Native might otherwise have. A Vexus peeks with the Eva, breaking shields, but not finding purchase otherwise as Native. Grab a little bit of height in this scaffolding, something that's really useful. Love this position from Vayne, it could win them the engagement.

01:00:17 As you said, Fury could swing on them. Native swings back and shows a lot of promise. And hey, we want to be the proactive team. We're taking the fight to you. And it pays off. I love the way that Native just played that. The peaks were so nasty, even with the Vexus.

01:00:34 Most definitely and the thing is is even though they had caustic they still couldn't hold down the rush because

01:01:01 they can't play that much cuz everybody's like looking at them but not committing but you get poked down and when you get poked from the side while you're about to take a 3v3 it's almost over at that point even without the team you're fighting actually doing damage to you but we're starting to see most teams settle in now i would say about majority that more than 70% of the teams already have a spot right now the real question is the uh where do you think this song will pull do you think this will pull to high ground or low ground towards western lava side oh that is a tough choice i think i'm

Vorhersagen und Strategien für die Zonenrotation

01:01:30

01:01:30 Das ist die High-Ground-Ending, deep south, über über Apegang und Weave. Das ist das Jump Tower-Tower für diejenigen, die nicht die Map auf dem Moment haben. Aber nur zu der SOUTH von Thermal Station. Ich würde nicht minden, wenn es nach Dorags auf der SOUTH geht, aber... Ich weiß nicht, dass ich ein Far-South bin. An almost Treeside pull.

01:01:53 South kind of vibe sounds good, and that choke in as well will be congested. However, I do like it because most South is, I would say, is probably the most active side, but there have been some sites of few old zones, and if you remember old zones, it almost always pulls to the western platform where Durax is, and I'm hoping to see either or, because I think both zones are, one, fun to play, and two, great to watch as well, and we're all here.

01:02:17 The thing is, is that you're mainly looking to...

01:02:45 Get pokes in on teams, forcing them to rotate into other teams, so then you're needing to drop the 3P. You're looking to create opportunities by poking rather than just taking straight up 3P3s, because at some point teams have to fight.

01:02:59 Ich glaube, das ist der beste Weg zu sagen, dass sie eine Mids-Speed Positionierung sind, in einer Weise, dass sie einfach für andere Teams zu machen und dann kommen in, stattdessen zu super late, wie Purple ist jetzt aus der Zone. Ja, das ist einfach, dass sie ein komplett anderes Spiel haben. Purple, Slushie haben sogar Split, an diesem Punkt, Leaving Bullet.

01:03:20 und die Zukunft in der Zone. Plutow ist jetzt komplett aus. Er ist einfach nicht so schwer zu sehen, was mit Oversleepers geht. Das ist ein Duell. Und in der Revell, Jynx wird es nicht so viel Geld geben. So Purple Slushie, die in der Ring schon in der Reihe ist, wird es geschafft. So Purple Slushie, die in der Ring schon in der Reihe ist, wird es geschafft.

01:03:44 Oort still healing in Zone, Jinx alive, and oh no, we watched it on the minimap. Honestly, it's almost better than watching it in person, because if we were on POV, it would just be brutal. As it is right now, at least it looks natural, it looks like a number. Board find Oversleepers, and surely Oversleepers do not make it into the next Zone.

01:04:08 I'm sad to see this because they can't catch a break. They've been trying to rotate, they've been swapping PYs. At this point, they might just go... They swapped comp, actually. And they might swap to, at this point, just go Cossack Watson and pray the zone ends on you. Because anywhere where you're rotating, you have five teams ready to swoop at you. And it's just, you know, a little bit sad to see. It is difficult. And compositionally, it just can't make a lot work.

01:04:35 Ich möchte einen Moment über die Teams, die vielleicht vielleicht eine bessere Chance haben, als sie als Duo spielen. Die Pioneers spielen aus Tränen. Wir haben gesagt, wie die Southside-Zone ist, könnte sich sehr congested werden. Und das wird... ...ein der Teams mit der höchste Bördung von Executiven, speziell bei der ersten Spiel.

01:04:53 Ja, als Sie können sehen, wir haben die Minimap, wir sehen die Pioniers gehen in auf der Seite, wo es nur 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Teams und 6 bereit sind zu 3P. Es wird ein schweres Roteat für sicher. Aber das ist ein schweres Roteat, aber das ist ein schweres Roteat. Du hast es geschafft. Du hast es geschafft. Du hast es geschafft. Du hast es geschafft. Du hast es geschafft. Du hast es geschafft, mein Mann. Du hast es geschafft. Und tatsächlich, das ist schon ziemlich gratis für heute. Unfortunately, Oversleeper, der letzte member, ist rotatiert.

01:05:20 We have not yet looked behind them. Pioneers have dropped one meanwhile.

01:05:24 Und mit der Zone zu verlassen, die Zeit für die Rez, Anmue ist, dass sie das momentanlernen können. Als die Zone, die Nades, cause etwas zu viel von einem Threat. Oversleepers gehen, Gent ist voll senden es in, YOLO-ing es in für die nächste Zone. Aber er verliert mehr als Half-HP und ist der letzte Member auf der Pioneers. Als Gent versucht zu survive, wird er in den anderen Team gespielt, wird er von der Rolling Thunder. Und die Pioneers sind nicht mehr.

01:05:53 We have about five teams still up while teams have been dying and everybody should it just mayhem at this point, but I would like to say Dia yeah zones are active it is pulling West indeed towards the platform old old zone that I like to play

01:06:21 This is crazy. I mean, I didn't predict it. Taking a look at the map, I don't think a lot of teams did. Durags, for some reason, are sat dead center of zone and have been for a very long time. But they give up a lot of that spot to Ape Gang, who made an early proactive rotation from the high ground. Even though this zone pulled so far away from where Ape Gang were sat over by the jump tower, somehow Ape Gang are still dead.

01:06:50 In dead center of ring.

01:07:18 Personally, nicht ein großer Fan von ihm. Ich weiß nicht, was es zu den Stallions ist. Sie sind auf der Seite der Ring. Sie haben viele Gruppen zu kämpfen. Sie haben die Farbe zu gehen. Sie sehen, wie sie es machen können, als wir mit Stallions listen in.

01:07:46 I'm batting, I'm batting, I'm batting. Careful from behind. I'm gonna make hit. I'll be Q and 9. Any ultics health? No. Yeah, dropping, dropping, dropping. Alright, I'm gonna heal and then pop. I'm on this platform. I need to be careful. It's fighting here, it's fighting here. Just look for kills.

Chaos und überraschende Wendungen im späteren Spielverlauf

01:08:10

01:08:10 Literally, how is nobody looking at Stallions right now? This was the most obnoxious, obvious rotate. They used two ults to make it there. And Native can't even spare them a glance. Native go down, the thuggets fall. Everything is a mess, Graceful. Mess indeed, but that's because every team, when the zone is closing and they don't have the map to be ahead of the curve, have to run into each other and fight. Stallions even made it.

01:08:37 Es macht so viel noise. Und kommt zurück für den Action zu 3P jetzt. Und wenn du nicht gewusst hast, wenn du Balloon gettet, weil wir die Platform gettetet haben, Apegang gettetet auf zwei Teams, sie können nicht wirklich sehen, und das funktioniert in Stallion´s favor. Still ein Team underneath Stallion´s, ohne Krook. Das wird ein bisschen schwieriger. Es wird ein bisschen schwieriger. Es wird eine gute 3D-Parte timing von Stallion´s, als Most hated. Push in onto die Buster´s. Presley is gonna eat that nade.

01:09:05 Oh lord, he goes down. He's got a gold knockdown himself, but Mav, certainly with the backup on Newcastle, is going to get him right back into the fight. Busters stay alive. And with Stallions still right above them, most hated have now backed off. And Stallions have got a long way to go. Alberlele has got the ultimate, but Busters have given them no time to rotate. Jumping on in, Stallions surely are going to be wiped out.

01:09:32 Alb gets away on 1 HP. Top 9 squads. But unfortunately, Stallions will go down before even hitting 40 points. They sit on 39.

01:09:43 Die EMP kann wirklich messen up Bord's.

01:10:12 Egal, Positionierung. Hanselmann hat es nach unten. Sie sind von zwei Angeln. Sie sind von einer Seite der Durag auf der anderen Seite. Katalist-Wall wird die Durag machen. Even mit einem Nocte-Member. Es scheint, das ist gut für sie. Wir spielen die South-Side der Ring. Sie haben Beto auf der High-Ground und Most-Hated.

01:10:35 In this four, five-way skirmish, we'll pull up a res, onto Die Nasty, Borg do go down, five squads left, most hated, get a breather.

01:10:45 Huge reset from Most Hated here. This is the strength of Newcastle all in all. You have the gold rest, you get the full reset even after being a close fight. But that only works because there's so many teams playing around the same area right now. If Durax decided to actually go in earlier, it would have been even more chaotic. But they took their time, cleaned up the team, and now they're holding teams off trying to push them into each other. But as we see, 8th Gang also looking for opportunities.

01:11:11 Right where Bord died is where Durags are at. Ape Gang have free shots on it. Most Hated can pressure pretty willy-nilly. But Ape Gang, they've got a bit of a different focus. They're thinking about how to win the game. Sitting dead center of zone, that can be a little bit difficult. Most Hated will be finding, looks like, another Squad Wipe soon. But they do lose Dynastied. So Tech has to go on the res. Almost manages to pull it off before going down themselves.

01:11:38 And another gold knockdown. This team never runs out. They've got gold knockdowns on gold knockdowns. Well, they finally run out of a little bit of luck as Ape Gang start to send members over to check on them.

01:11:50 I think that actually saved Most Hated by Blurple the biggest I've ever seen. They were about to decide whether or not we're gonna wipe a side and then they get shot on in the back and decided to not do it. Most Hated all up again with the gold resets and even Luth now. Zone isn't too far off of them and they also have the stairs to play.

01:12:08 Wir werden sehen, ob sie noch ihre Utils haben, weil das Kampf war ziemlich chaotisch.

01:12:23 Will be a clash of these squads. Do Apegang know it's happening? As Tech rounds the corner, a lot gets thrown at them. Laser somehow alive as it all goes down. Buying Most Hated just a bit of time. It's cover on cover as this Catwall is about to fall. Gold knockdown shield for Tech.

01:12:41 Almost goes down to zone, still might, as Tech on 25 HP is being held up by Dynastied. Somehow, someway, Most Hated are alive as Tech goes down. That was definitely rough watching, but we'll have to see, though. They actually managed to push Ape Gang away from them, I believe. Most Hated gets eliminated, though. Weed coming up on top from the outside, all three up still. Blasting and getting it down here. Ape Gang go down. It's Weed and Blurple.

01:13:10 Weave war einer der anderen Team, die in die Welt war. Das war einfach eine Masterclass in quasi-passive Gameplay. Weave hat nicht viel gemacht. Wir waren eine der anderen Team, die in die Welt war. Das war nur Durag und Apegang.

01:13:37 But the most thing that I have to say outside of them being able to close out the game, and they did, what most hated did as well is clear out a side. However, most hated messed up with their ultimates a little bit that should have won them the game, ended up throwing it, and then I think the consistency from them came out and they just took home the game, and that's super good. It's true, and I will say there's a little bit of...

01:14:01 A consolation prize for Most Hated. They did get a lot of kills. They did really kill a lot of teams. And that alone is going to make sure that they are plenty happy moving into the next couple of games. Because while they may not be on Matchpoint, no one else is either. And points are the things that matter most.

01:14:20 Definitely. Stacking points at this phase, you know, the early phase of the match point tournaments is all you have to do. And here seeing that, honestly, the leaderboard is a lot more balanced than I thought it would be. Most hated didn't get too many kills, but we managed to close it out. They consistently on their side, west side of the map, cleared everything and then came in for the 3P, won that 3v3 actually super cleanly, showing promise that, hey, we can close out games even though...

01:14:47 Do you think they estimated this was an old zone, or did they just adapt, which is what I've always been saying. If teams can adapt, you can win an internal. I think what we saw was adaptation, rewarding exactly what you like to see, Graceful.

01:15:00 mit den Placement Points auf dem Kills. Weave did fantastically, aber Most Hayden waren gerade hinter dem. Sie vielleicht nicht hatten die gleiche Anzahl der Placement Points, aber diese beiden Teams sind gleich neben sich in den Standings. Tied für 2nd, mit Stallions 9 points ahead. Das ist ein fast-paced Lobby. Und wie gesagt, Grazevold, die Points eigentlich, vielleicht, game over game, ist es ziemlich close, especially in der 2nd Game.

01:15:27 Ja, sie sind definitiv separatiert. Und wir haben gesehen, dass... Ich denke, die common trend ist, dass sie wirklich proaktiv sind und spielen ihre Spiel, nicht zu lassen, zu RNG, so zu sagen. Sie machen proaktiv decisions, und das ist das, was wir ahead of the curve.

01:15:54 It has been a tense two games. Fortunately, Stallions didn't hit Match Point after two, so we've got a few more left to play. What we will be doing is swapping on over to Storm Point for games three and four, so you'll get to see a little bit of that action after the break.

Ankündigung der ALGS Champs in Japan und Diskussionen über die Zukunft des B-Streams

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01:16:12 Did you see the announcement video for Champs? No, what was it? Bro, it's in Japan. We're going to Japan? Yeah, we are. Only thing is though, it's in January. Dude, that's like a lot of months away. Four to be exact. What are we going to do? We got no B-Stream. We got no ALGS watch parties. I know for sure I'm not playing right. We're going to be out of a job. I mean, yeah, for a long time. I don't know how I'm going to pay my mortgage. I think I'm going to be right. I know, it's a lot to think about. Guys, we are going to Japan, finally. It's fantastic, man.

01:16:40 Do you not think about the B-Stream ever? We have no job. Never. I know. What are we going to do? What's the plan? Well, what's it going to take to keep you guys around? We got a pretty good asking for us. I'm sure you do, man. Yeah, I mean, we're thinking numbers here. We discussed previously. 400k. 400k. That's a solid number. That's a really solid number. Think about the vibes. We bring the charisma. We don't really bring the analytic part. And then we bring the heart. We bring the heart. And the grid.

01:17:06 Das ist ein vieles Herz. $400,000 ist ein viel für Herz und Grit. Ich werde den CEO haben.

01:17:40 Even still, though, we come back off of that Game 1, you have to remember they were...

01:18:03 only a handful of points 16 away so three points only accumulated or my apologies five points well accumulated there means that there's always the chance for so many of these other teams to catch up and for dia it was a great point that he brought up basically saying hey

01:18:17 Even if you're in a position where you do think you'll see a team like Stallions accelerate, the best thing you can only and ever do at any given point is try to keep up here. And so for so many of our other teams, we saw a lot of really great reappearances in that game too, keeping the leaderboard a lot more stable than some would expect. Yeah, which we literally saw an example of in EMEA. I mean...

01:18:40 ...were able to put themselves at such a big point disparity that it was the rest of the lobby trying to catch up because even if FaZe didn't win, they had essentially guaranteed themselves that second place spot. Now we get to match number two here in EMEA and we get a little bit more variety. We start to see some of these other teams bringing themselves up to the top here and at the end, Weave did a really good job of kind of waiting.

01:19:06 und das Chaos aus hier mit Most Hayden aus, um sie zu pushen und cleanen alles.

01:19:11 I would have loved to see a bit of an earlier perspective here because the pressure that we was able to supply on that other side of the equation to keep themselves defensive until we got into this moment forcing two other squads to compete against each other is something that we just barely missed out. I'm going to pick on Lauder here though with notably that Newcastle probably the reasoning for why they were so successful there providing as a defensive entity because if most hated or anything to go off of at least.

01:19:40 Es hat sich etwas anders gemacht, um sie zu gewinnen.

01:19:53 Ja, ich denke, von dem wir sehen, dass wir jetzt noch ein bisschen mehr Kassett haben, dass wir jetzt ein bisschen mehr Kassett haben, dass wir das Bord und ICBM sind, aber es ist genug Platz für uns zu tun, dass wir das Bord haben, dass wir das Bord haben und das Bord haben, aber es ist genug Platz für uns zu tun, dass wir das Bord haben, ohne dass das Bord haben, dass wir das Bord haben, ohne dass das Bord haben. Ja, ich denke, von dem wir sehen, dass wir jetzt noch ein bisschen mehr Pressure haben, dass wir das Bord haben, dass wir das Bord haben, dass wir das Bord haben, dass wir das Bord haben, dass wir das Bord haben, dass wir das Bord haben, dass wir das Bord haben, dass wir das Bord haben, das Bord haben.

01:20:21 Die Frage ist, dass die Oversleeper-Sleeper-Sleeper-Sleeper-Sleeper-Sleeper-Sleeper-Sleeper-Sleeper-Sleeper-Sleeper-Sleeper-Sleeper?

01:20:46 We'll get a little bit more information here as the dropship is flying over the map. Teams are starting to jump out and get themselves down to their POIs. And when we get that zone information, we'll start to see who could potentially be taking home our first match of the day here in NA on Storm Point.

01:21:06 Und Stormpoint ist immer eine gute Idee, denn diese ist eine Chance für die Leute, die ein bisschen mehr agressiv sind, die wir sehen, wie wir auf Team Kapitalisieren haben, und EMEA, als auch, zu bekommen. Wenn du hier auf Stormpoint fühlst, wenn du diese Fights fühlst, definitiv, wenn du es während du kannst, denn Early in die Serie ist, wenn du kannst, wenn du solche Riskeer-Engagements kannst, wenn du dich selbst aufwärtigst aufwärtigst aufwärtigst.

01:21:30 Ja, ich denke, Stormpoint, um es zu reduzieren, ist, dass es so viele andere Quatschen gibt, wenn man eher einen 3-V-3-Direkt hat. Das ist etwas, was es möglich, wenn diese Teams fühlen. Und was ist der erste Target. Natürlich, wir kommen auf die Winner des Match 2. Wir beginnen mit uns.

01:21:54 Deep in a way they've got a big split on the northern side of the map as is per usual when it comes to at least playing over towards enough buildings as well as north pad Taking a look at the rest of our teams here on the map

01:22:12 Looking like Oversleepers opted for that Stormcatcher area. So they've got a few squads in the general vicinity. You can see them trying to decide how they want to find a little bit of loot. They will have some space that they can get some good stuff out of here. So we'll have to see what Oversleepers are able to do with that as the Busters are already making their way towards the zone, clearing out a little bit more room for Oversleepers as well. But they do have most hated up at Elrod and that could be risky.

01:22:42 We'll see if they potentially make a defense here. I highly doubt it, especially given the rotations that might come through for the oversleepers. Even sitting on one point their self might be an influence towards what they end up deciding. Something I wanted to highlight here other than the fact that we're going to barometer is the fact that in the North American region, especially compared to earlier today, we love Newcastle. Yeah. But I'm okay with it.

01:23:11 And we saw just how much the utility that Newcastle brings to those endgame fights was really impacting what even we saw going on with Most Hated. So I think Newcastle is going to be huge here in assisting some of these squads, not only in being able to play slightly more defensively, but going for those resets in situations where typically you would absolutely not be able to do that. Exactly. It was...

01:23:35 So when we talk about this zone in particular, given the fact that there are a lot of really nice buildings and spots to play through due to the elevation and separation of barometer, it's not going to maybe make...

01:23:56 Ich bin gespannt, wie es dort sein kann, wenn sie nicht mehr zur Verfügung stehen können. Die Durags sind mehr als froh, dass sie das Gebäude nehmen können.

01:24:22 Circe instantaniously eliminated there, and we might see a bit of a change, but for now, the eyes have changed, the sightlines have drawn attention, the pioneers have given themselves one of the more prime pieces of real estate when it does come to Prometer, albeit if it is a further southern zone, it could not pay off, and I'll tell you what doesn't pay off, those sentinel shots not quite finding the knock they needed, but it is enough to pressure the durags back to this building, they don't opt to fly it any further.

01:24:55 Das ist ein guter Platz für die D-Rex zu einfachen, um hier zu gucken, was die Rest der Teams sind wirklich zu tun, weil sie alle sehr schnellen pushen in der Zone zu finden, um ein bisschen mehr Platz zu finden in Barometer zu finden. Meanwhile, Fury ist auf ein Solo, so sie werden sie sehen, ob sie ein bisschen zu retten, oder vielleicht auch ein paar Punkte zu retten.

01:25:22 Still got time on the ward. Either way, there's also a lot of potential for recovery if you have the time, especially with a lot of these spots towards the southern side barometer very open.

01:25:35 Rotations are likely to come through, albeit it's going to be a tight window here. You can see Evacs, Jurassic as we just saw moments ago. So many squads now looking to fight for positions into access. Like the position of Lost Donuts, albeit they haven't really claimed one of these lower-ended buildings, there is likely the transition to either those towards their west or potentially even what we see out of the east where, hey, look at that. Notably, they have set up the castle wall to give themselves safety.

01:26:06 If they can hold on to this area for a little bit, they've got a nice place to bunker down as well. They don't have anybody at their backs. They're on that slower side of the circle, so they won't have to worry about moving too much from the ring either. So for now, Lost Donuts are looking pretty comfortable. They are near.

01:26:25 Oblivion as well, who's been there obviously since the beginning, so they'll have to be keeping their eyes on that squad, but at least set up well for now as we get to take a look here at the rest of our squads and how some of these rotations are going. I'm interested to see eventually where Native Gaming end up, a team that we definitely put in our heavy hitters list, currently at 10 points if I'm not mistaken, but they were relatively close here rotationally, so they should be able to find a good spot as well.

01:26:52 Yeah, potentially setting themselves up early could be big. A squad that I'm more interested though is KCP.

01:26:59 Es ist auf der Mitte der Mill, wo wir eigentlich finden, Native Gaiman, und es ist auch hier im Bereich, opten zu spielen ein bisschen mehr von einem Edge-Style Entrance. Du kannst das auch mal sehen, in der initialen Composition. Purple Slushie, though, sind kind of glücklich, dass dieses Delivered ist. Snipe Down, first of all, sie run across das Wasser, und Slushie sind mehr als glücklich, dass ihr Open Angles sind. Still, in response, Bullets picken up one.

01:27:26 Was that a cast or curse? Does that count? No. Okay, good. They're still alive. Just barely!

01:27:38 Oh man, especially knowing you're coming from that west side, completely clear given Weave's positioning early in this game. It gives you just that extra bit of confidence to potentially make an impact on this fight. I'll be it.

01:28:05 Amc Armoury ist mehr als Cover da, so es schlösen sie, bevor sie die Chance haben. Und sie haben die Möglichkeit, um die Chance zu retten, um das Aktion zu retten, obwohl es sehr unlikely zu machen, für eine Full-Recovery zu machen.

01:28:22 That northwest side of this ring was definitely a lot more congested than I think any of those teams up there had initially assumed it might be. So definitely a risky push in for quite a few of our squads. Meanwhile, the eastern side looking a lot more open.

01:28:38 I like this, taking advantage of old Diggs here. They move into what is an apartment already previously owned.

01:29:01 They got themselves some cover to re, uh, put themselves back into a position of health even after what was, I was gonna make mention of, a pretty tough spot to play out of in the north there. So good zip play and it potentially bodes well for what might be their transition if we continue to head further south here. A team though that doesn't have answers set up yet, even though we see them coming out of our top five of our last game, is Blurple. They've got...

01:29:23 I mean, Zip just on the ready here as well, and of course with Hambino still set upon with that new castle. This is the thing I'm most curious to watch regarding this game in particular. You've got the speed to rotate, and with that castle always available, it expands how much you can play when we talk about the barometer area. Think of the corners up top, think down below. Think so many of the spaces out in the open towards the south where we may finish. You've got a little bit of room to spare.

01:29:50 You can see Pioneers are looking to see if they can do any poke damage from their stronghold and maybe work on those shields just a little bit. They know exactly just how many teams are surrounding them currently. They've got some decent sight lines to work with here as well. Checking back in on Luxford now. Not able to get those banners, but will be able.

01:30:14 ...to do the best that he can here in a ratting situation. It's going to be tough because, like we said, that north side is pretty congested. So dealing with that plus taking the damage from the ring is going to be a tight spot for native gaming. Meanwhile, we're checking back in here with Weave, who is still managing to push through. This time they found Fury, who was able to get at least one player up, up to a duo. Not for long, though, because now they have been fully eliminated.

01:30:40 I really like this from Weed. They're not at the pressure yet where they need to be playing for this zone. And with a win on their belt, they know they're more confidently able to get on the match point than most teams right now having that early starting 30. So what do they do? They play around what they know best, fighting around the edge here to garner themselves early KP, which could easily transition just on raw placement alone.

01:31:02 We're Most Hated, though. It's a good EMP to start things off. Wall-on-wall action with a crisscross that will prevent anyone from moving in. But Most Hated are still ticking in this zone, haven't gotten themselves a position yet. Might yet have to rotate all the way around this, given how nice we have set up here on the other end. You know, I like the choice here, though, out of Most Hated to just leave.

01:31:23 Aw.

01:31:37 Ja, so early start it there, and who knows? We might hear these shots. Trident in hand could potentially follow up on this Dynasty. One of the first to fall, but is a return in response from Laser there on the map for a 2v2. The longer this fight goes on, though, the more likely we'll see the third party from behind here in just a moment. Even still, though, Chase on that Hemlock in the Havoc.

01:31:59 Able to beam this one out Mav, of course with recovery there as we are maybe looking a little bit too low spending time in that zone to actually confidently take the I'll say bite out of this one I think they definitely thought they might have been able to survive a little bit better look at those health bars Really really tight spot we find themselves and they're able to find a little bit of safe safe

01:32:24 within that indent alongside the mountain and hopefully able to heal themselves up here. But they thought about going for that third party like you were talking about. And the Busters were in a rough spot having had Mav knocked and needing to get him back up. But able to survive to see another day. Fame can be said of Wave. They'll probably go for that balloon and get themselves out of Dodge as fast.

01:32:47 Ich glaube, Durax hat sich in den Fall geholfen. Sie sind nicht. Luxverd zu leben, als Solo zu leben. Sie können jetzt einfach nur das Spiel machen. Ich glaube, wir haben das WALL geholfen. Sie müssen das WALL geholfen. Sie müssen das WALL geholfen.

01:33:13 You could always just potentially look to fight this one out. Of course, on the other side, the Busters, like you said, big evacs here. They're going to pin themselves over the edge, and there you go. That's the safety that will garner you a position in this zone.

01:33:28 Definitely keep them alive here for now. Just barely on the outskirts of that next ring, as you can see there on the minimap. But a couple other teams looking to move in, do the same thing. We've got Blurple, Pioneers. Luxford still making an insane solo push. As I say, that does finally get cut out by Mav, who was able to see Luxford on the fly-in. So, you know, good attempt there with the ratting situation. But Purple Slushie.

01:33:55 Das ist ein Moment mehr. Sie haben das Wolle auf, in der Zeit zu geben, diese Position auf der anderen Seite zu zeigen. Ich wollte auch sagen, dass diese Zone, in particular, ist absolut...

01:34:16 Es ist absolut absurd, dass es mehr auf die westen Seite geht, als das Team mehr zu sein, wenn wir über die Eastern enden sprechen. Aber es ist nicht viel Stabilität, wenn wir über die East reden reden können. Für die Pioneers, wir sehen uns mit ihnen. A big Leap forward mit der Castle Wall. Das tut es für nur einen Moment, aber für Blurple, sie sind noch immer wieder picked apart. Either way, um uns in die Top 15 zu bringen.

01:34:43 Das Devo ist definitiv geholfen die Pioneers, also geholfen sie ein bisschen mehr Ruhe, so sie können ein bisschen mehr in den nächsten Ring gehen. Meanwhile, Busters versuchen, ob sie zu tun, ob sie zu tun. Purple, Slushie, Weave, 5-Star, all die Teams auf der westen Seite, die werden zu müssen, um sie zu gehen, können sie in der Linie sein, die Busters.

01:35:03 Purple, though, do take Bridge here, and it's just one crossover to the beach on the other side. They've got to clear this back end, though. It makes it so difficult here, especially after already expending, I believe, that Catalyst Wall to get to this position here. You have to hope they have some form of defensive coming down, potentially now lower on health with Weave just behind them. It's not the spot you want to be in, especially in such an open western zone.

01:35:28 Tenacity out over Sleepers out. Purple Slushie doing what they can to survive here. Just barely a sliver of health there on Future. Able to stay alive behind the shield, but not for long. Purple Slushie does go out. That western side is getting absolutely decimated. Weave in the end somehow surviving and now able to make a push in. Yes, I say that. It's just not working. It's not working for these teams on the western side.

01:35:54 Now, this is what I tried to highlight on the map there. In comparison to East, where you have a lot of the tree and beach line to survive alongside with, when we talk about this zone finishing, usually towards the Eastern Barometer. This time around, you have this particular island, and then everything else out in the water is completely in the open. For now, though, towers down, teams have rotated, and we're talking about Barometer Direct for the rest of these rosters, trying to make their way forward.

01:36:19 ICBM in a rough spot now down to just a solo trying to see if they can maybe get these heals off behind the knockdown shield will they be able to survive long enough just barely Albert Lely moving in with the stallions as they clear out this space and that's massive for stallions they're trying to fight through all these teams to get closer to where Oblivion and Lost Donuts are

01:36:40 Really, really like this position from the Stallions here, especially because if they can clear out the other side of the barometer area here, especially before we see that zone close in, they're going to have a really nice time dictating where they want to go. Meanwhile, from below, Charmander stunted on the other end. KCP in the killfeed, they're struggling for the life of them. You hear those shots over towards the western angles above here on barometer as they face their end. Stallions looking to see.

01:37:10 Okay.

01:37:30 This is so good for the Stallions. Make their way across and now are turning to focus on the other side. And why is this important? Because they need just a handful of points to hit match point here. And getting to target those on the late rotate outside of Barometer is huge. Ape Gang, though, will maybe bring that number down a bit lower here. Big Beams, Devo in hand, can't pull off the damage quick enough to secure the wipe out here.

01:37:56 Wifi still up, though, with Mav completely dropped down. They do look a bit more confident. Having to stick the revive, though, and expend just a further heal once more. They don't have the time here to go for full recovery. The ring is at their backs. They're being forced to make a move in. Some of those players not even fully healed when they do that. Apegang does get eliminated as their response to that. Buster's down to a solo. Not shortly after. And it's Albreleli who's just melting with that nemesis.

Strategische Positionierung und Teamdynamik im späteren Spielverlauf

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01:38:27 Es ist so perfekt. Die Setup, sie sind aufzuhalten, um die K.P. zu boot. Und jetzt sind sie einfach nur zwei Positionen entfernt. Oblivion wird von unten geliebter sein. Das ist ein sehr guter Punkt. Die Wippen von den Pillar zu übernehmen. Die Wippen von den Pillar zu übernehmen. Auf der anderen Seite. Oblivion, sie werden zu können, um die Loot in Remorse zu bekommen. Das ist ein guter Punkt. Die Wippen von den Pillar zu übernehmen.

01:38:55 Really not being able to pick up a whole lot this game. Remember staying hard in that position for an extended period of time does make it harder when we talk about playing out the late game.

01:39:08 Stallians, auf der flip-sidee, haben sich mit den K.P., mit den Lüten. Sie sind jetzt in eine wirklich prime Position. Sie haben die Wall, die sie können für ihre Vorteile werden können. Sie wissen, dass die Team auf die Low-Ground ist. Ich glaube, dass Thugget's 5-star ist. Sie sehen, dass sie vielleicht ein paar K.P., sind da ein paar K.P., nachdem sie da sind. Aber jetzt, Stallians...

01:39:34 Das ist wirklich gut hier. Und dann kann man einen mit EMP-Combo auswählen werden, um dann mit dem Kastle-Wall zu machen. Und dann haben Sie die Sight-Line gewonnen. Das ist wirklich gut hier. Und dann kann man einen mit EMP-Combo auswählen werden. Dann kann man Alba auswählen, mit dem Kastle-Wall. Und dann hat man sich die Sight-Line aufwählen. Das ist wirklich alles, was sie brauchen. Das ist alles, was sie brauchen. Das ist alles, was sie brauchen. Und mit Height zu ihrer Vorteil.

01:40:00 I would be absolutely shocked if they can't extend this one out

01:40:23 At this point, you might as well just go for the full send there if you know you can confirm it, but with Wall down and FSC eliminated in the hands of Blink there, Stallions are able now, finally, not off of the KP, but their placement alone to be our first Match Point Squad. They'll get climbed up on though, almost immediately with teams forced to exit the building, a quick zip on the other side, and Alves sliding through, sends Lost Donuts out of here, as they've got to take an EMP, and they've got to make a drop here.

01:40:52 Die Stahlien haben genau das, was sie brauchen, um es zu machen, um es zu erreichen. Die 5-Sar auf dem Lowground wird durch die Thugget, die in den Thugget, die in den Thugget, die in den Thugget, die in den Thugget, die in den Stahlien, die in den Thugget, die in den Stahlien, die in den Thugget, die in den Stahlien, die in den Thugget, die in den Stahlien, die in den Thugget, die in den Stahlien, die in den Stahlien, die in den Thugget, die in den Stahlien, die in den Stahlien, die in den Stahlien, die in den Stahlien, die in den Stahlien, die in den Stahlien, die in den Stahlien, die in den Stahlien, die in den Stahlien, die in den Stahlien, die in den Stahlien, die in den St

01:41:20 Blinkstone Reeds, low on the health. Nano taking a bit of damage on that shield. Doesn't bode well for this next drop of Moa's shield, but they will dance around. Makes Oblivion's job twice as hard here. Even still, Reeds will try to stick it out. Gold Reeds...

01:41:47 Just played out in that moment. Huge congratulations to Thuggets for not only surviving multiple teams looking their way when they were behind that rock, but they moved in to take out Five Star at the perfect time when the teams above were extracted and they didn't need to worry about the third party and then were able to recover and somehow survive that drop down.

01:42:11 Das ist nicht die Diskussion.

01:42:40 hier, Glitter.

01:42:43 I mean, obviously, big points coming the way of Thuggets, big points coming the way of Oblivion, the biggest, most important points, obviously going to Stallions as they are the first and only team now after that 16-point total who will be match point eligible in our next match. That is exactly what they needed to do. They held that high ground position like you were saying, Zephyr, and didn't...

01:43:11 Das war's. Das war's. Das war's.

01:43:32 Ja.

01:44:00 Yeah, now Dia, I'm glad we have you here because I know you were watching that final circle of match number three. I want to get your thoughts on that. Was there anything that you noticed that could have potentially gone differently for those teams? I'm laughing because I know that Glitter sees me typing in production chat and is like, I'm going to call him out. I'm just going to make him talk about it.

01:44:21 In that final circle, I am very happy for the Denver Thuggets. I love them very much. They're very hardworking. Oblivion could have, should have won that game because they're on high ground and they have like six nades. But two Thermites, three Arc Stars, at least that's in the hands of one person. And...

01:44:41 There's no Newcastle Wall in the low ground. There's no anything. The Mobile Shield's just used. Just throw the nades. It's hard to do. I know. I know it's hard to do because there's a lot riding on that moment. But just throw the dang nades. Could have changed the outcome for Oblivion. Would have given them just a few more points, at least heading towards the direction of Matchpoint. And sometimes in that endgame chaos, you know, that's just what happens. However...

Analyse der Spielstrategien und Zonenrotationen

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01:45:10 In the end, it did give those final points over to the Thuggets. They are just above Oblivion as a result of it as well. So interesting and fun way to close out match number three. But it's time for a little bit of a break here in our matches as we kind of recap where we've gotten to so far. And in order to do that, we need to bring in a special guest to help us. And this time around, we're here in NA. We get our most recent split-two playoffs champion, Phoney.

01:45:38 joining us to hang out welcome and thank you so much for coming on the show thank you i appreciate it

01:45:46 All right, we're excited to have you here. We're going to talk all things LCQ in just a second. But now that we have you a couple weeks after the event, I just want to talk to you a little bit about what it was like winning split two playoffs. Like from an individual perspective, what it was like to make it through 10 games and then be able to raise that trophy above your head knowing that you guys had clinched that title. It was an amazing experience, you know.

01:46:14 Es war ein tolles Set. Wir brachten sie zurück von Zero Point Deficit in den ersten zwei Spielen und wir konnten Mental Reset. Und ich habe ein Shoutout, Dawn's Taken.

01:46:34 Ich möchte ein kurzes Callout geben. Wir werden nicht zu viel Zeit haben, aber es ist ein schönes Haar-Cut. Ich liebe es. Es ist gut. Jetzt für die Frage. Du hast eigentlich, Uniquely, viel Zeit in der Apeks-Apeks-Apeks-Apeks-Apeks-Apeks-Apeks-Apeks-Apeks-Apeks-Apeks-Apeks-Apeks-Apeks-Apeks-Apeks-Apeks-Apeks-Apeks-Apeks-Apeks-Apeks-Apeks-Apeks-Apeks-Apeks-Apeks-Apeks-Apeks-Apeks-Apeks-Apeks-Apeks-Apeks-Apeks-Apeks-Apeks-Apeks-Apeks-Apeks-Apeks-Apeks-Ape

01:47:01 Teams that aren't quite pro and still making it very far into pro lobbies. When you're looking at something like the LCQ, what are you expecting to see from IGLs to help their team succeed in an environment that they may not have the firepower to just overwhelm?

01:47:16 I would just say confidence and assertiveness. You can't really doubt your calls as an IGL. And I like to see, you know, a lot of that from these IGLs, these hub IGLs. I learned from them and I was able to compete with them and it was an amazing experience. So seeing these LCQ teams, you know, pull off the confidence that they have, you know, Stallions are being really dominant and they're just calling things, you know, left and right, doing clinical work, I'm not going to lie, you know, getting match point in three games, you know, it's something I've seen, that's something I've done.

01:47:45 um getting match point in four games you know they can they could take this all in the next game if you wanted to

01:47:50 Well, whether or not they take this all in the next game, we've still got a few to work through here. We're going to take a look, though, back at some of these initial starting points, and I want you, Phony, the IGL mastermind, the leader of our current recent performances, to help me break down especially what we've seen thus far, especially with this first game here, because when we talk about this early zone, or at least the one on top of No Name, this is an unusual end for these teams to navigate.

01:48:21 Ja, man, ich habe das ZONE gesehen, schon mal in der Zeit, und ich habe es gesehen, dass es mir zurückgebracht hat. Aber Lele hat sich in der Klinik Workplane von der 2-Store, um zu diesem Roof zu kommen, um die Team mit Krypto-Amp zu sehen, das ist das beste Ergebnis, das beste Ergebnis sie haben, das beste Ergebnis sie haben. Und sie waren einfach in der ganzen Lobby, die hier hinten und rechts. Ist es ein Grund für die Teams auf diesem Lowground, die sie könnten mit dabei sein können, dass das Height so ein Vorteil ist?

01:48:49 Ja, der Team unter dem, ich glaube, war Tech's Team. Sie könnten sich das Zip anwenden und die Team aufhören, wenn sie wollten. Sie haben einfach gehalten. Sie kamen da, sie sahen, sie sahen, sie sahen, sie sahen, sie sahen, sie sahen. Und als sie einen, sie sahen sie, sie sahen. Sie sahen, sie kamen. Und ich fühle mich, sie sollten das Zip anwenden. Und sie könnten das Spiel gewinnen.

01:49:08 Well, ultimately, like you said, it has been Stallions on the call so confident here, but as we take a look in this second, it was Weave that ultimately comes out on top, and while we didn't really get to see it here, I watched your take on teams that are just trying to survive over on the edge here, especially when you have two or three squads all sharing the same area. Yeah, ability usage is very important in this situation, and, you know...

01:49:32 These guys, they didn't use it really well. I feel like they could have saved a lot of their abilities and, you know, climbed up and placed that castle wall, stalled it a little bit and then, you know, climbed up over it and then placed a new castle wall so they wouldn't have to reset like this. And they could have had a really big game, but I feel like the usage end game is really important. You know, the timings of it, you know, you know once or not and I feel like if you do that, you'll perform it really well.

01:49:55 Yeah, ultimately Weave here walks forward in the end, and it really does come down to those nitty-gritty second-on-second timings here because they, on top of their pressure they apply over to the side here, are more than happy to cut the zone with the wall and allow that to find the additional survivability to boot here in our game two. But game three from above.

01:50:17 Maybe you heard us discussing it. Maybe we talk about those maids again. Ultimately, what's the secret recipe here? I feel like Stallions could have also won this game, but they did get griefed by a duo. The duo just, you know, sometimes you get unlucky. Sometimes the duo chooses you, sometimes they choose the team underneath you. And I feel like if they had time to, you know, plan out what they were going to do on the drop, they would have easily wiped this team and, you know, being able to reset for the third party down below. But they didn't have time, so...

01:50:44 All right, well, that was a really, really good breakdown here for our final Circles, Pony. One final question for me before we let you go as these highlights wrap up as well. Obviously...

01:51:04 I would just say, you know, write down your goals, you know, commit to them, be consistent and look to achieve them. Don't, you know, doubt yourself.

01:51:31 And don't let other people doubt you. And if they do, you know, just throw them wrong. Which is exactly what you did. All right. Love to see that. Bonnie, thank you so much for coming on and hanging out with us here today. Congratulations yet again. And excited to see you soon. Can't wait to watch the rest of the games. Thank you, guys. And I hope you have a good rest of your day.

Matchpoint für Stallions und Diskussion über zukünftige Spiele

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01:51:58 All right, he's right. We've got to start talking about, or we have to start watching these upcoming games because we didn't know if it was going to happen. It did happen. We now have one of our teams here on Matchpoint.

01:52:11 It's all in the hands of Stallions. Will this be a shorter series of matches, Dia? You look a little skeptical. Are we going for double digits here in NA? What are you feeling right now? Yeah, like, I mean, if they hit that point in three games, it's probably at least 13 games, right? Until we finish. In all seriousness, Stallions are looking fantastic. They have only one.

01:52:37 und mit einem zweiten auf Stormpoint zu kommen. Ich weiß nicht, ob sie werden können, aber sie sind das viel besser als EMEA war, so ich sage, dass wir zu single digits sind. Ich sage, dass wir vielleicht weniger spielen als wir in EMEA haben.

01:52:54 I like it. I like it. Well, if that is the case, that doesn't mean that there's any less games throughout the rest of the year. You heard me mention it to Phony. We've got lots of new exciting things here for the Apex Legends competitive community. And one of those new things is what you will now know as the BLGS. And if you haven't heard of this yet and you have no idea what I'm talking about, check this out.

01:53:16 Did you see the announcement video for Champs? No, what was it? Bro, it's in Japan. We're going to Japan? Yeah, we are. The only thing is though, it's in January. Dude, that's like a lot of months away. Four to be exact. What are we going to do? We got no B-Shrimp. We got no ALGS watch parties. I know for sure I'm not playing right. We're going to be out of a job. I mean, yeah, for a long time. I don't know how I'm going to pay my mortgage. Oh my God. I know, it's a lot to think about. Guys, we are going to Japan, finally. That's fantastic, man.

01:53:44 Ich weiß nicht, dass die B-Stream nicht mehr denken. Wir haben keinen Job. Ich weiß nicht. Was werden wir tun? Was ist der Plan? Was wird es sich um, um dich zu halten? Wir haben ein ziemlich gut Aspen für uns. Ich bin sicher, man. Ja, ich bin, wir denken über die Numbers hier. Wir haben bereits gesprochen. 400k. 400k. Das ist eine solid Nummer. Das ist eine wirklich solid Nummer. Wir bringen die Charisma. Wir bringen die Charisma. Wir bringen die Analytik. Wir bringen die Heart. Wir bringen die Heart. Und die Grid.

01:54:10 Das ist ein vieles Herz. $400,000 ist ein viel für Herz und Grit. Ich werde den CEO haben.

01:54:29 Stay tuned for more info. Well, here is that info. Okay, the BLGS hosted by Wig and Greek tournament format. You saw there four qualifiers and then, of course, four regional finals in APAC North, APAC South, EMEA, and the Americas. All you have to do is be level 50 or above on your account in order to participate. This is open to everyone in those regions. So make a team, take a chance, see what you can do.

01:54:59 in the BLGS. Now, if you're wondering when all of this starts, October 16th is the first qualifier. The 23rd is the 2nd, November 20th for the 3rd, and the final one being December 4th. But that means registration for that very first qualifier is open right now and will be until the day of the qualifier. If you want more information, you can head on over to ALGS.EA.com.

01:55:22 Get yourself signed up. Join in all of what is sure to be the perfect amount of competitive chaos. I can't wait to see what happens in the BLGS. But now that you all at home are busy getting yourself signed up for the next round of competition, we have to continue with the competition here in our LCQ. We are three matches down, which means match number four is ready to go. So Dia, I'm going to pass it off to you and Graceville to get us back in.

01:55:50 All right, let's get this one started back up. Graceful, we are back for Stormpoint. The last time I saw you, we were over on World's Edge, so things have changed quite a bit. The standings, however, have more or less continued in the way that they were looking when we last saw them. Stallions have hitmatch point, and Weave and Thuggets are just behind them.

01:56:09 Ich bin all für's. Ich bin all für's. Ich bin all für's. Ich bin all für's. Ich bin all für's. Ich bin all für's. Ich bin all für's. Ich bin all für's. Ich bin all für's. Ich bin all für's. Ich bin all für's. Ich bin all für's. Ich bin all für's. Ich bin all für's.

01:56:30 Tweet that, dude. Tweet, tweet that. That's a banger tweet. If there's three things I love, that's fantastic. And no better time for that love to really come to fruition because Storm Point is going to need all the love you can give it. As of the rest of the teams that are not on Match Point, Stallions are taking this by storm. And with this only being game four, even if Stallions should win here, which would be difficult.

01:56:56 We are still going to play two more games to determine who would go with them. At this point, however, longtime viewers of the ALGS will know that it's real difficult for teams that hit to match point first to close things out. So we'll keep it on our minds as a possibility. But something tells me Stallions will not have the thickest plot armor this game. Yeah, most definitely. Although we've seen several teams hit match point frequently fast in previous tournaments.

01:57:24 Um, I fail to remember exactly how many they've been able to close out. Because it's definitely a hard thing, you know, when you're taking different zones into consideration. If there's the same repetitive zones, it's a high likely chance. But when the chance, when the zones have been mixing up properly this time, I feel like it's definitely harder and it gives more opportunity to other teams. Which, like I said, I'm all here for more Apex, so I don't mind that at all.

01:57:47 The pressure certainly begins to mount, and right now I would still argue that it is a points game. For everyone but Stallions, points are all that matters, because even should a team like Stallions close things out now, you still do need just as many points as possible. Play for the win or not, it doesn't really matter. All that matters is how many kills, how many placements you get. And in some ways, getting first is nice, but not entirely necessary. We'll talk a little bit more about this context of this specific game, however, as we are...

01:58:16 Already thinking about where the zone is going and how we're going to play, this is another tricksy zone. For those of you who don't have things up on Faceit, watch. We've got a zone that appears evenly split between Seto Station and Checkpoint. Yeah, Checkpoint zones is definitely more frequent, but Seto does exist. As we have seen a trend so far, we've seen two old zones on World's Edge. I mean, seeing the Western Thermal Platform zone and also No Name.

01:58:44 ...village ending on the roof. Might we see an old zone here in Checkpoint? That would be interesting to see for sure, because I think that's also one of the zones that's really fun to see when you have the several layers, you know, from up top to underneath into the caves, to the low lows in the river. And I think that variety is a nice pleasant thing for my eyes. You know, you're calling out old zones. Let's take a second to talk about what...

01:59:07 In Apex Legends, obviously zone predictions are a really important part. You know this very well.

01:59:15 Zones also tend to be grouped by periods in time, be they patches, be they whatnot. You'll have a lot of zones that appear for a particular period and then sort of go away with a new patch, with a new month, whatever it may be. And so when we're talking about old zones, it's because you can identify this as a pattern. You're seeing zones.

01:59:39 Ja, definitiv. Und ja, was I'm talking about is essentially old Sons that were active back in the day. I'm talking several months to a year or two years ago. And, you know, true RNG doesn't really exist, so they kind of have to make do with what they got.

02:00:01 But with the repetitive zones that we do end up getting, navigating through patches is almost easier than trying to adapt to the zone just based off of your knowledge alone. Because there was a patch back in the day that made it from being able to read a zone dead point on from circle 2 knowledge to now only being circle 3 knowledge, which I think is a good thing. But that makes also the first beacon less reliable. So now instead of going by beacon knowledge only, we tend to go by...

02:00:29 Für, wie gesagt, Old Zones oder Current Active Zones. Mit den Analysten Analysten, die Teams haben und auch Coaches haben, ist es zu sehen, welche Zones sind jetzt aktiv. Und sie können das mit einem neuen Custom-Games machen, oder mit einem anderen Analysten Analysten zu lernen, die Current Active Zones sind. Aber nur, wie du gesagt hast, based auf Patch...

02:00:53 This changes. Typically, I will give you guys this tip as a forward top IGL on Lance. Typically around splits, but especially during season changes.

02:01:04 Take a look at it now. I'm going to call this out because while we've been going super in-depth on zones, and I encourage you all to go down that rabbit hole later, we have exited the lobby. Our team that was in second place has suddenly and mysteriously disappeared, no longer able to play things out in this game. They have been taken down, and that leaves things open for anyone else to slot into second place, which is going to be really nice if you're trying to, you know...

02:01:32 Bump yourselves up in those points. Make sure that you are clinching a spot in Japan. Seriously, though, check out the Zone stuff. It's a whole rabbit hole you can go down. It's too much. Yeah, I could talk on it for hours and hours, but to be fair, I probably have, you know, closer to 15,000 hours in the game right now and been playing for five years. That's just something you get over time. Seeing teams that are, you know, high up at the top...

02:01:57 Ja, ich würde sagen, wie ETHERNAL. Das Team hat eine sehr slow start.

02:02:22 in den ersten paar vergangenen. Honestly, nicht sehr gut. Sie waren nicht ganz gut. Aber in den letzten paar vergangenen, Evernal wurde sehr konsistent. Das war in EMEA. Ihr könnt natürlich auch die VODs hier auf YouTube oder Faceit Watch. All die Dinge available zu Ihnen. Und ich sage Faceit Watch wieder einmal. Sie haben nicht even gefragt. Aber Sie haben die VODs feature, wo Sie sehen können, von jedem und jedem Team's Perspektive.

02:02:50 Yeah, getting down early is typically over in most scenarios, but with the meta currently having a lot of, you know, Newcastle being played, meaning support character, it's not over yet. They could still craft and come back into the game. I'm not too worried because the first couple of zones...

02:03:19 Es ist nicht so schlimm, wenn man Medkits und Ranges und Fenixes bekommt. Ich hoffe, Tech und die Boysen zu sehen. Es dauert Tech ein bisschen Zeit, aber ich glaube, wir finden etwas mehr über das Gehirn in den nächsten Minuten. Er hat nicht so viele Heils, und viele unserer Teams sind für Heils auch. Gent...

02:03:41 In the zone right now does have a little bit more time than others. He wants to try and hit a ring console, something Pioneers are making sure he is safe doing. But we've dropped yet another team in the meanwhile. These things are happening slowly, almost silently, but FSC go down. It is just the second game on Stormpoint, the fourth game of the day. But we are dropping teams so quickly. When the fights get going, they are ending almost immediately.

Herausforderungen und Strategien in der kompetitiven Apex Legends Szene

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02:04:08 Ja, und ich denke, das ist etwas, dass Leute oftmals sagen, dass Rollerplayers mechanisch stark sind, das ist super true zu diesem Tag. Und ich denke, N.A. oder Amerika ist meistens bekannt für das, weil sie die ganze Gemeinschaft und Erfahrung haben, von anderen Gämmen Gemeinschaften zu sehen, in Amerika. Und das ist wirklich so, weil alle Rollerplayers bekommen haben, weil alle Rollerplayers sind da.

02:04:34 Es ist, es ist, es ist, es ist, es ist, es ist, es ist so crazy, was, ich meine, was, was all die Spieler anstage able to bring. One of the things that's really impressed me is how many of the Challenger Circuit teams have found success, be they roller players or not, in these games, in the LCQ, it's something that we don't see mirrored as many regions, where a lot of the Pro League teams will make it into the final day, and while that is still true here, we've got a lot of Challenger Circuit squads up here as well.

02:05:04 Ja, definitiv. Und wie gesagt, für alle Regionen auch, es gibt so viele Untapped Potenzial in der Szene unter Pro League, dass ich glaube, dass die Leute nicht die Chance sind. Und es ist schwer, wenn man nicht so viele Tournamenten außerhalb der ALGS zu zeigen, wirklich. Weil Skrims ist ein okay Indikator, aber nicht End-All-Be-All. Wobei das ist, dass wir einen großen Namen sehen, vielleicht einen Lower-Enden auf dem Leaderboarden, wo andere Leute...

02:05:31 Leute, die wir nicht erwarten sind, weil wenn alles auf der Linie ist, sie spielen anders. Und es ist toll zu sehen. Real kurz, etwas, etwas, etwas, etwas, BLGS. Wenn Sie nicht mehr Erfahrung haben, wenn Sie nicht mehr spielen können, die besten Teams haben, das ist deinem Platz. Die Pioneers, mit viel Erfahrung selbst. Anmu, wirklich einer der meisten Erfahrung in der Szene.

02:05:59 Das war die Regional Championships, die wir hatten in den Covid-19, der ALJS hatten. Ich habe mit dem auch viel gelernt. Wir haben nicht nur RANK, sondern wir waren unter den gleichen Org während der Zeit, und er hat immer sehr gut. Das ist richtig.

02:06:17 Okay, you were both on Congarna, right? Yes. Yeah, I forgot that they had teams in multiple regions. Yeah, no, that was wild. A little bit of a throwback for those of you who've been watching Comp Apex for a while, but there's lots to study up on. 100 Thieves even on Moos Played for in the immediate aftermath of that. But to bring it back to the present, we got Board rotating in on the back of Most Hated. We got Stallions down to just a duel with Crook.

02:06:46 Definitely, I think that just shows that, you know, anybody in this lobby is super strong. And even if they got matchpoint, closing it out is a completely different beast.

02:07:11 It may even be more difficult for the Busters to survive that shutdown. Presley has done the lobby a favor, keeping us going for yet another round. But the Busters do get sent on by Fury almost immediately afterwards, pushing them back. Cersei will join up with the rest of the squad, not running Caustic on this map. Instead, the Pathfinder that on Stormpoint provides some much-needed mobility.

02:07:35 We have just reached the point where loot becomes that much better as well, so a lot of teams will benefit from being able to pick up just a little bit more off of the reset. And Bored for making their way in. You can see them just in the distance here, making their way up towards Checkpoint in a slightly different fashion.

02:07:55 Ja, dieses Macro-Rotate von Norden ist wirklich gut, weil ein paar Stunden, wenn die Zone endet, in Checkpoint, besonders in diesem Bereich, ein paar Teams sind nicht zu beantwortet von Teams, weil sie haben Power Spot, so zu sagen, um Teams zu halten. Ich spreche die Power Spot, aber die Leute sind definitiv fighten. 4-1. ICBM und 5-Star nehmen. Es ist 5-Star. ICBM haben Sie nur noch geholfen, aber Kickix macht ein wenig.

02:08:22 Auf der Engage von der nächsten Team ist Oblivion, die wir in den Händen haben, sehen, ob sie sich ein Stück aus der ICBM nehmen können. Aber ein guter Defensive Position machte ICBM live. Oblivion, die aufzunehmen, aufzunehmen, aufzunehmen, aufzunehmen. Wir sind diejenigen, aber diejenigen, die nicht aufzunehmen, aber sie sehen, dass sie Ape Gang in die Distanz sehen, und sie haben einen Gate-Gang zu tun. Wenn ihr Oblivion macht, ist es eine sehr gute Zeit, um hier bei den Spider Caves zu sitzen, und sehen, ob die Teams in Late-Rotate gehen.

02:08:51 Ja, das ist wo eine der Konsistenz und Disziplin kommt, wo sie versuchen, ihre Begriffe, bevor sie entscheiden, um zu kommen. Und das ist 100% die Wahrheit, was du tun musst, weil wenn du eine kleine Chance für Team 30 von hinterher bist, sogar mit der Zone rotatieren kannst, ist nicht gut. Aber die Disziplinierung zeigt eine gute Prozesse. Purple Slushie mit einem nice...

02:09:16 Ich liebe die Schild-Swappen, die sie auf den Boden gesetzt haben, auch. Aber diese Ring wird alle, auch die Busters, die in der Third Backup bekommen, die auf den Triple Reds haben, und die Ostensibly haben die Mythic Krayt, auch.

02:09:42 Das ist eine der alten Zonen, die meistens am Moby-Rest enden in den Moby-Rest, aber in den Nord-West-Tree, um den Moby-Rest. Und das ist definitiv ein schwerer, weil, wie du gesagt hast, die meisten Teams sind in den Moby-Rest.

02:10:09 ...on top of Checkpoint are gonna have to be congested together on the side. Whereas teams like Oblivion and ICBM get to control the outer southern edge. Making it a lot easier for them to just get cleanup kills as other teams have to fight their way in.

02:10:24 Ja, Pioneer...

02:10:45 Position is actually good as long as they can keep the northern threat off them because they come in from an LOS that pioneers can't really see to shoot them without being able to take aggro but definitely blurple being in that spot coming out of that tunnel right there getting gate kept by two teams is in the hardest spot at this time the best bet you have is just a path energize zipped into a team trying to push them back and getting a spot to survive but definitely hard but I would say the hardest part of this lobby is the

02:11:12 ...we're talking 6 teams, maybe 7 teams, needing to go in at the same time as the zone is closing. With 16 squads left, there are very few points that have really been collected in this match. We've seen a couple of kills, but a lot of the placement still needs to happen. Many of the kills are about to go down.

02:11:35 Denver Thuggets and the Busters, 33 and 32 points respectively, are those next teams that are looking for a second place to get closer to Matchpoint. And the Thuggets on your screens right now are the ones with a lot of pressure on them to try and match the Matchpoint Team Stallions to be at least another threat in this lobby. We'll see what Purple Slushie are able to do. Yeah, we're definitely seeing people evac in and then...

02:12:03 Es gibt einen 3v3-V-3, aber sogar dann, sie machen einen 3v3-V-3 mit Sonne hinter dem, nicht wissen, was ist in fronte von ihnen. In diesem Moment sind Sie nur für Kills und Placementen? Oder Sie versuchen, zu überleben, eine Spielplanung zu werden? Es wird schwierig sein.

02:12:19 Purple Slushy's high ground is really good right now. I like that nade. Just softening up the team on the low ground, but you will have to drop eventually. Purple Slushy cannot lose a member up on height. They're keeping track of multiple fights as Lost Donuts and Tenacity both fall. Thirteen squads left, and we should lose a few more. The Thuggets and Oversleepers start to clash. Thuggets go down. That's our squad that was in third. Purple Slushy dropped down to the ground. Oversleepers, Thuggets, most hated, are all down. And the Pioneers clear their backs, firing up the hill, and taking high...

02:12:48 Ich bin nicht sicher über das Drop. Ich weiß, sie wollten den Kampf um den Kampf, aber sie wussten, dass sie einige Teams hatten. Still, dass sie die KPM-Plane für Placemen hatten war. Aber als sie die Plattform-Plane hatten, sie konnten es aufhören, in meiner Meinung nach. Sie sehr gut haben. Und das LITTLE MISSTEP.

02:13:09 Let's Pioneers be the team to come up and clean it up. Pioneers, who may I remind you, barely made it into today, still are one of those teams that everyone is keeping their eyes on. Nice swing from Fury. Cersei with the Mastiff. Starts cleaning up some serious kills with Ram going down first and being Thirsted. The Durags follow. Cersei again with the Mastiff. Does a lot of work, but goes down immediately. And it's just a Vexus left with two squads on I-

02:13:35 Ja, Congested, indeed. Four teams just passed away on the east side of the map. One team is playing on the roof, didn't decide even to join in on it. We're seeing... Like, I think Pioneers is probably gonna have to take this because they cleared out the northern side and they have the most space out of everybody. But Oblivion, however, could be contesting for a side of the map.

02:14:05 Es wird es schwierig. Jeder von diesem Haus wird sich in die Hälfte von einem anderen, wenn die Team empfiehlt. Aber sie sollten nicht, weil sie haben sie mehr Platz haben. Buster ist gerade hinter Native. Das könnte auch ein Problem sein. Wir sehen uns Buster, die ihre Triple Reds haben. Die KARE Package Weapon aus dem Mythic Bin auf High Grounded Checkpoint.

02:14:26 They've already cleaned up so many fights. You see them rotating out now with the help of a Catalyst Wall. Buster's completely avoiding the attention of everyone else, putting themselves in a good spot, and letting Native send it on forward to this high ground. Vayne makes the climb up, and I'm not seeing any threat onto Native just yet. This Catalyst Wall, it will go down shortly, separating them from Pioneers.

02:14:47 Ja, sie sind alle zusammen mit einem anderen, aber die Firefighter beginnt ist, als die zwei andere Teams auf dem Map haben niemanden zu contesten. So diese Leute sind zu erklären. Es geht darum, welche Utilität ist für die Team-Share, weil es nicht möglich ist, dass wir sehen, die Wallen kommen und die Queue kommen.

02:15:07 Und auch diese Newcastle Walls sind geschehen durch. Ich meine, die eine Counterplay zu Newcastle Abilities ist, dass es nur ein Schuss mit einem Schuss zu tun. Und wir sehen Luxford's Wall werden geschehen durch. Die Pioneers, auf der anderen Seite, sind einfach gehalten. Sie können nicht die Natives schlafen hinter dir. Und das ist die größte Threat zu den Pioneers. Ja, definitiv. Und sie werden hier geimpft.

02:15:33 von Pioneer und Borde. Borde ist unter dem und Apegang ist in der Winde. Das ist ein Stalemate, aber jetzt die Zone wieder muss, jemand muss das Spiel machen. Und ich denke, Native wird in der Lage sein, um ein paar Kills zu gewinnen, wenn nicht Placement.

02:15:55 ... ... ... ... ...

02:16:13 Sie können das gleiche auf dem Lowground sein, aber im Hintergrund von A.O.'s Gold Shield ist nicht so viel Maneuverability hier. MJ ist irgendwie in dieser Körner entfernt gegen K.C.P. als Catalyst-Wall gewidt sie, und MJ schaut noch ein paar Shots. Er hat die Mobil-Shield, Wizard-Coin geht runter. Es ist nur ein Mitglied left für Bord. MJ ist in zwischen den Wallen auf Bangalore auf dem Team, als Pioneers gett ein Gold-Knockdown Rez.

02:16:40 Pioneers actually got flanked by Oblivion, but they returned the fire and won the fight? I cannot believe this. And Busters wrap around with this. Pioneers go down. It's the Busters that clean them up. Oblivion, now being inherited as well, they go down. And it's Busters versus Board. Busters who take down the duo and find a win in Game 4.

02:17:02 Definitely. Busters, I think, played a little bit lowkey going through on the mid-game right there, seeing that Pioneers was playing Hungry, and they were looking to flank Native, but then ended up getting flanked by Oblivion, and then opened up for Busters in the end to close out the game. It just goes to show that sometimes playing passively as well can net you a win and kills, and that's, you know, being able to close out games like that is great.

02:17:27 Und Busters hat mehr als einfach zu close out den Spiel. Sie hat mit einem, wie du gesagt, ziemlich odd, ziemlich schwierig zu predict, durch den Mid-Games, von High Ground und Checkpoint. Remember, sie hat die Kills auf Stallions, dann hat sie Reset gemacht. So sie nicht nur die Matchpoint-Team hat, sondern Reset und Rotated auf der Opposite Seite der Ring, wie mit der Evac Tower, und dann hat sie das alles geholfen, gegen all odds.

02:17:55 Against all odds, indeed. I think that they managed to hold a spot where I thought they would get pressured, but I believe Oblivion and Stallion held each other out, potentially, and then that play unfolded in the end, going towards their favor, and they managed to close out the game. I do want to take a look at how many points that was, because I know it was a lot. The Busters gathered so much momentum during the course of this game that they were previously missing. I mean...

02:18:20 Most of the points for quite a few teams have been missing because Stallions have been soaking them up. It takes a lot to hit Matchpoint in three games, but it's very likely that Busters have slot themselves into second place because they had such a massive performance this game. I will say, did get away from KCP a little bit, who finished with 11 points, but a 24-point game for Busters? I'm no mathematician, but this should be putting them somewhere close to Matchpoint.

02:18:47 And if they get caught up into that, we're only a few games in still. I would consider we're about to, we're about midway into the series right now. And getting that big pop-off game is huge for them. I think though, seeing at the rest of the leaderboard is kind of even across the board. But that definitely is more than welcome. A 24-point game, anybody would be happier.

02:19:07 And right next to Bord as well, who really did hang on for quite a long time. These two teams did put themselves in good positions. Bord just not quite able to make the same exit that Busters did. Not a lot of people, I think, would see that move out towards the respawn beacon, and not a lot of people would be able to pull this off. In just four games, Busters managed to rise up and meet Stallions, shutting down the Matchpoint team and putting themselves in a position.

02:19:36 to end the series. Huge 24-point game puts them at match point after that. And I think the most impressive part is that they did everything. They came from edge, took solid fights, then mid-game or almost towards late-game did an evac that netted them a good positioning going into late-game and that turned out to win them the game as well. They've done it all so far, so adaptation from them.

02:20:00 Für dieses map ist es nicht notwendig, sie sind wirklich gut. Wir sehen uns auf der Opposite map, wenn wir die anderen map sehen. Aber für heute bleiben wir solid in Matchpoint. Und wie du sagst, wir sind so close zu moving over to World's Edge. Und wir tun so, nachdem wir.

02:21:51 As the Matchpoint LCQ continues to ramp up, we put yet another team in a position to win it all. Two squads, Stallions and Busters sit at the top of the leaderboard right now. Behind them, Zephyr, 18 teams could still push us to yet another game.

02:22:07 If even is anything to go off of, we still potentially have so many matches to work with, but I'll remind everyone at home what we could be potentially playing into. If we do potentially see an end within this next game here, we will still play a match after that to round out Art's six-game series here. Now remember, if a team such as Stallions wins, Stallions steps out, the rest of the roster still compete, and well, look.

02:22:34 für das 2nd-Place-Position. Das hat nicht heute passiert, oder in unseren anderen LCQ-Positionen, aber es ist wichtig, dass das jetzt 2nd-Place-Position ist, in comparison zu dem, was wir heute Morgen gesehen haben, ist ein sehr glückliches Spot.

02:22:52 Ich meine, es ist der einzige Spot, das wird dich zu landen, das ist ein weirdes Ding zu sagen, aber wenn du für 2.0 bist, du bist noch zu gehen, und das ist etwas, dass du eine besonders gute Chance hast, als der 1. Platz Team. Stallions, die nicht so viele Punkte gemacht haben in unserer letzten Spiel, haben wir jetzt noch die 1. Platz.

02:23:15 Und wenn du in 1st bist und jemanden, jemanden, gewinnen, das ist okay. Du bist immer noch zu Sapporo. Wenn du nicht für die winn bist, kannst du für die Wünste spielen und haben das eine sehr viale Weise, bis wir in der Late Game kommen, zu machen. Once wir in der Late Game kommen, 9, 10, ich werde 8 in das geben.

World's Edge Strategien und Team-Dynamiken im Fokus

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02:23:39 Playing for points really doesn't matter. You're playing for the win, if anything, unless you're in those top three squads. And by that point, everyone's so far separated. We're back on World's Edge now as we breach into the later half of our series here. Now, this is a map that does garner well in terms of positioning for things like that win. Of course, we will point out the busters over there towards Fischer and not really Akon as we've come to expect here. And more importantly, of course, Stallions.

02:24:08 Still looking for their success on Overlook. Two far positions out towards west and east does allow for potential rotations, albeit maybe not direct positionings. And the question marks here are really like, where is Oblivion going to go? You'll notice that they are just not on this map at all. As a duo, Oblivion have been more of a wrench in everyone's plans.

02:24:30 than anything else. Because though we have been playing with them in the lobby, they've had limited impact since they are still playing as one member down. Unfortunately, with a little bit of sickness, that's just how it's got to go. So Oblivion still can, in many ways, change the fate of this lobby, even if they are not finding themselves on top of it. I will say, oversleepers... Sorry, I've been saying Oblivion. There you go.

02:24:57 Oversleepers, still are not in last place, all that considered. It's kind of insane for a team to be as a duo in our current series. In 19th, to say the leap with the 9th is something to watch out for. But we're going to hop in very early on with the Busters to get an identity of potentially their game plan and how they'll handle things.

02:25:33 Ja, ja, ja, ich kann den Tunnel sein. Ich bin für ein G7, ein G7 Volt. Ich bin nur in meine Red Bin, und dann... Oh, wir werden...

02:26:00 We're going to believe it like fucking no brown Pete

02:26:22 Well, we come back from mid-gameplan, and it looks like the Busters have got to rotate early. They've already identified it, and Chase Mob is going to take the first path up.

02:26:32 Ja.

02:26:53 So funny with the busters there. If you had told me a year ago that a pro player would have said, there's a mosey here, unironically, I would have personally laughed at you. So just an odd state that we've seen in this particular meta here. But like we have already kind of spelled out, there is an interesting setup for so many of these teams when we talk about the chokes ahead. But already Lost Donuts facing an initial knockdown is rough.

02:27:20 Lost Donuts, unfortunately, one of the teams that are running without a Newcastle as well, so if they're unable to make this banner recovery, it would say something like a Crypto. Well, that's gonna be it. Laser...

02:27:30 Ich weiß es nicht, ich weiß es nicht!

02:27:55 Hey, shout out to the Mastiff in that setup. Standard running it outboard, also good as well here. This tunnel though, we heard it discussed early on from the Busters and definitely going to be a point of contention here for the strength of this game. If we see these rotations out of Monument, especially back over towards the truck outside of it, it could get pretty tough to say, but dear, we hop on over to the Stallions already down and out.

02:28:25 Looks like the nerves are getting the better of them. You try and take that fight with Fury and Fury may not have been having the best day, but you know if you've watched Detox, Avexus and Cersei make their climb up Challenger Circuit, they will put you in your place. 16th place and moving up. Fury have taken out one of our two Matchpoint teams. Native sat inside of Monument.

02:28:47 Got a pretty good position to make this game work for them. Though Stallions won't be seeing it, the fact that Native have got this very small building to work with could still very much go in their favor. I personally like it, especially given the fact that it does sustain for potential rotations later on to that more southern area of Monument, which is actually surprisingly more playable with the crevices on the outside of the fence and the fence line itself.

02:29:13 We're practically screaming that we're going to another game at this point.

02:29:21 I do wonder. I mean, you have the opportunity to find a rez, but one thing that this does show me is that Busters, for as much as they wanted to be first to the play, weren't able to make it because everyone else had the same read. We already saw teams like Durags and Purple Slushy cutting them off at Landslide. The nice thing is, no one's really rotating through Fissure. No one's really rotating through Countdown. Skyhook should be more or less empty. Busters may still get everyone back in the game, but like you're saying, it's going to be difficult for them to win it.

02:29:50 Granted, I will say you kind of point out the sky

02:29:54 I want to be more specific pointing out that northern choke on the entry into Monument there right in the view site of Pluto right now towards his very right there can be good for this zone arguably you want to be holding that tunnel because the transition is a lot easier but it is still particularly competitive to fight your way in from that side since it still gives some inkling of height as well the only problem is you've got to contest against Monument teams looking for an exit into that region with bridge underplay always available

02:30:23 und so viele andere Teams aus diesem Exterio-Präsident auch für den gleichen Vorteil.

02:30:30 I see BM in a pretty workable spot. And I say workable because it's not a power position by any means, but it should give you a chance to fight. Fight like Most Hated. That is a crazy ult to move on up to the high ground. Tech using Newcastle aggressively with the Sentinel. Dynasty is going to move on to the high ground as well, playing defensive with Most Hated now that they've got this little corner of heaven to call their own. But it is a lot of ults that they just expended. No Bang ult, no Cat ult, no Newcastle.

02:30:59 Es ist ein Pressure, aber das macht Weave auf der anderen Seite.

02:31:17 This choke point, very valuable for Most Hated. So those ultimates, especially since we're not seeing another fight break out.

02:31:44 Werth their weight in gold blurple moving in from the south over by staging and take a look up in the north as the busters have just gotten a res so the match point teams the last one still standing is going to be here for a little while longer dropping in on blues i believe a few other teams have noticed that there was a res here but no one's in position to punish it

02:32:07 We say teams. It's oversleepers. Set up as a deal within that tunnel. It's actually kind of scary. Because you make the assumption when you're this late to play within the zone. And you've already faltered so deeply. Your focus is how do I get back in this? How do I get back in this? And you've already made the assumption that the rotations. Especially off of zone 2. Have already come through. There is always the chance though. But you pointed out in this very early game. That there's a potential thorn in your side. A bram.

02:32:36 for the Busters to cross through that could potentially spell their end. Oh god. Imagine if we're this late into the series and it's Oversleepers that pushes us to one more game even as a duo. We could see it happen. We could see it happen in the next few seconds even as Oversleepers will be camping things out waiting for the Busters to make a misstep. Lost Donuts playing in a choke of their own are going to be like Oversleepers playing around the edge of the map but they're not.

02:33:06 Oh my gosh, they actually got the knock! Oversleepers got the knock on Mav! We spelled the story out and it happens here! You don't make the assumption anyone's nearby, you're getting a little bit more lenient on what you assume is a free rotate, and back...

02:33:35 To the drawing board, Busters have to go. There's still a little bit of time for revives, but especially with Mav done, your safety, your setup for potential here, the oversleepers have done it. They've certainly made this game nearly impossible for the Busters. There's no safe place to be, there's no...

02:33:55 just crafter out in the ether that no one's really going to touch it's gonna have to be a duo a mobile respawn and a little bit of luck to get yourself as a three person squad back into the game wolves nice tracking with the nemesis does start things off well for blurple and again these aggressive newcastles continue to punish teams johnny playing very well up on high ground and wolves will take a little bit of liberty and join him

02:34:25 Really, really solid positioning there. I'd be curious to see if they try to finish that out with EMPs already well within the mix here. That's the go button then for them to get involved. Empowered zipline over on the side here for Wolves. We'll set them up for potential, well, at least to clear out Kix in their entirety here.

02:34:43 Granted it doesn't seem like, especially with the other squads in Harvester pressuring things out, they're going to be more confident to take that full fight. Hyzak, the last one potentially remaining there to just slow things out. That's the Busters with Tenacity right on top of them. There's nowhere to go. Chase Mob gonna try and outplay with the Peacekeeper and he's taking up a lot of time, enough time maybe.

02:35:06 The Busters could disengage. Danasini are going to flank. Chasemob goes down. Presley comes back in. Doesn't find a knock. Whips out the wingman. And isn't going to be able to do squat. The Busters go down. And Zephyr will be going in to match number six.

02:35:24 Oversleepers might be sick, but their game plan for pottery might be sick, but oversleepers are sick with it the pioneers They've shown some minor recovery in our most recent games here off of the edges of what was checkpoint They do sustain very nice wipes against the FSC, but

02:35:42 Be careful. This is a position that does come at the cost of a lack of safety, especially with sight lines towards Fragment. So I really appreciate the back play here from Deeds utilizing that mobile shield to make sure that this rotation is a little bit better. After now, of course, that Rolling Thunder down. This could be the move on Moist Hated.

02:36:00 Most Hated's defensive spot is actually really good. They've got two Newcastle walls and a Pylon, but Onmu doesn't care about any of that. He slides on in, takes literally zero punishment, but he also finds no one. Most Hated have disappeared off the face of the earth, and those Skynades do find quite a bit of damage. That is nearly a shield break dealt out by Onmu. Pioneers still have yet to be able to collapse on this. Most Hated are a slippery bunch.

02:36:28 Slippery indeed, and now providing defense from the offside here. A wall of their own in the zone pushing KCP in. It's gonna be that Mobile Shield again to give them what needs to be a good rotation here. No cracks in a turnaround on Dynasty. Does find a little bit of pressure. It's gotta be Tekken Laser now stepping up to the plate to, yes, find one down on Gent for the moment here. And, well, hoping that we see the rest of Potential Fragment Monument take their part.

02:36:54 Das SINGULAR KNOCK bedeutet so viel, aber die meisten Hateds still need a lot of loot. Purple Slushie find a reset, as Durags, Board and Pioneers all fall. This dip into Fragment really not working for a lot of our teams, but the tunnel, the tunnel that sadly Busters identified early, that's powerful. That's good, especially with now a clean wipe on the back end there.

02:37:22 We will see them tune in to what is now also, by the way, a wipe on Weave. Down in 13th here. They've had strong starts today, especially with wins in game two, but have not been able to continuously deliver after this point. Native Gaming outside this fence line. This is something we discussed very early on in the game. It's a point of safety to work with in this endgame.

02:37:44 Oblivion ist der nächste Squad, die in die Position zu bewegen, um nach Matchpoint zu bewegen. Sie sind 39 Punkte jetzt, als Blurple und 5-Star fighten sich aus. Inhalte Blurple sind die Gruppe an. Sie haben ein guter Angle und ein Reset, um es zu machen. Wolves wird zurück in die Spiel, aber Schaunen wird erneut. Denesity wird erneut, als Blurple kommt in die Kampf und Thaul selbst. 5-Star pick auf Voodoo und jetzt...

02:38:12 Hopefully with a mobile res that somebody should have, should be able to reset and get back into the fight.

02:38:19 The Chaos of Monument, though, still the major focus of so many of our squads here. Lost Donuts losing out on one in what was potentially rotations ahead here. Monk now already being shot out as what makes it difficult for those revives. You can see over here towards the southern end, that climb up to the bridge, that potential rotation no longer available. And now, of course, without the smokes to work with to make these crosses a little bit more legible, this is a tough spot for Donuts to be in.

02:38:45 The Lost Donuts are looking straight at Ape Gang, who have actually had some marvelous Zone Reads over the last couple of games. They haven't gotten nearly as many kills so far. Nice, nice! Leading the squad there. 36 points for Ape Gang. Could still put them on match point as well with a good, again, Zone Read. Fury, who wiped out Stallion's... Stallion's earlier. Do sit inside the building.

02:39:11 Looking for a chance to pick up kills, but not getting too aggressive on anything. You don't want to give up cover where you've got it. Cersei is the one on Pathfinder who does leap out, but even with this mobility gets taken down. That's well a gold knockdown. Almost clutches things up for Native. Detox looking for the finish, looking for the res, is going to find one. This is not a gold res, but Cersei back in the fight is going to be good either way. Plenty of space to heal, plenty of time to do it. Eight teams left.

02:39:40 Lawstones turnen sich um sich um hier und sie müssen sich um ein Problem zu beschäftigen, besonders mit dem Pylon in play, unter der Brücke hier.

02:39:50 Tough setups ahead as Oblivion now looking like for full recovery. Have a rough take here, I believe in what may have been potential wipes. Still though, this doesn't really answer a lot of the questions we have about this next zone pull. There is a level of verticality that you can't quite see on the map that does dictate a good chunk of this endgame.

02:40:11 Oblivion and Thuggets, both in a position where they could take match point. Thuggets predicted this zone so early and have been playing the truck just off to the south of Monument for, really, since Zone 1. Lost Donuts have got to climb the hill up to that Ape Gang along with them. And a lot of our squads for Monument. I'm sorry, Zephyr, but we're going to be saying goodbye to them.

02:40:35 This is tough, but there is still playable positions here. I do really love where Trev, Stax, Dan, Maddox are on the Thuggets. They've made a bit of the expenditure over towards the side and have this further height hold now that Tunnel's gone. And jeez! Cap sees but a pixel and finds but a knock.

02:40:54 Das war ein bisschen fast.

02:41:24 Das ist gut, fünf Punkte zu spüren von ihnen und vor allem der Platz ist es genug für den Deal. An EMP, die man versucht zu versuchen, hat es funktioniert.

02:41:49 Und beide Oblivion und Thuggetz machen es zu Matchpoint.

02:42:16 And it's not even final fights that matter here with our winning squad. It's the intricacies of how our points stack up. A huge congratulation to the Thuggets once again. Now their second win on the day for the LCQ. The points alone and that to sustain is enough that keeps them very scary in our top two discussion now. Especially, yes, Dia, given the fact that they are on that match point format. That is what's telling. Because wins matter most when...

02:42:46 Match Point is the format. The fact that Thuggets already have two and just picked up Match Point bodes very, very well for them. Of course, you do make mention of a very, very small but successful Match Point taken here on the other side of things. It is a last minute, last minute gain by Oblivion as well there. They had...

02:43:10 I still will say, fantastic positioning coming into this zone there and managed to put up a chunk of damage in the resulting, we'll say, chaos of so many teams escaping from Monument. That helps them jump the leaderboard and push them into match point as well. Hats off to Oblivion for recognizing.

02:43:29 Their win condition, because it wasn't to win the game. Oblivion, full commit to that fight, full commit to the thirst. You don't see them trying to reset, trying to fend off Nuggets in that last moment. You see them barreling down some knockdown shields with a Mozam, because your win condition is the points. They make it up. Oblivion, 53 points now after that game.

02:43:53 Honestly, with the kills that they got, they and Thuggets very much deserve it for very different reasons. Thuggets predicted this zone marvelously, played it very well, Oblivion constantly looking for kills, and we gotta make mention of Most Hated, who may not be on match points, but are only five points away.

02:44:10 Vielen Dank.

Matchpoint-Teams und Strategieanpassungen im sechsten Spiel

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02:44:40 Now, we've seen a couple of games now with Stallions specifically suffering some nerves. Stallions that looked indomitable in our first couple of games have made small mistakes that lead...

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02:47:05 Zephyr, zwei Wins auf den Tag, ihr habt gesagt, es sieht gut für Thuggets.

02:47:12 Definitely not something that we were expecting from this roster walking into today. The Thug, it's an excellent team, but I mean, between Cobra Trev and Dan, they are a team that maybe wasn't on my highlight for topping out the board. Now only even three points behind the Stallions, but that's something I really want to talk about before we get into this sixth and next match of World's Edge. This time around, there is no extra matches.

02:47:40 If we see a win, we are settling it here and now. And why is that so important? Well, it means that for so many of the other squads, when we talk about this second place and further, this is your only chance, if it could potentially be the end, to get the points that count. Listen to this. Oblivion, 53. The Busters, 51. Fuggets, 51. Most hated, 45. And even down there with 8-game weave in that high 39-37 range.

02:48:07 These are all point standings that are super valuable and, well, can convert to an easy second place finish off of a great game. Teams need to keep their head on straight and they can't let maybe what could potentially be their final game count them out from Japan. Absolutely, and this is why we were talking about it earlier on when we're in those first initial games of the series.

02:48:31 If you have an opportunity to be a little bit riskier, but potentially get some nice early KP on the board, that was when you had to do it. Because now you've got those teams that have put themselves in a solid spot on the leaderboard that are fighting for that second place. Like you're saying, in the event that it does get finished out, you don't want to have to be coming back from a 20 plus point deficit. You want to be where the Oblivions, the Busters, the Thuggets are only having to really jockey.

02:49:00 für 5-9 points. Well, between that and the competition for even just the win itself, the thing I'm most ready to see is potentially a return for the likes of the Stallions here. Even on the day of, as it has not been super great for them, you still have what is Alderlele as a top...

02:49:21 3 competitor when it comes from damage on the day up and even the kills as well 14 currently 5333 only set just behind i believe blinkster of course from oblivion right there alongside them and even surprisingly krozo from ape gang in sixth which honestly when you're talking about stallion specifically is still pretty impressive considering their match four and five they went out so early that they yes

02:49:50 Elbera Elisa was adding to those stats, right? So that's what he was able to do in the first three matches. And sometimes we see this happen. Our teams can have a rough couple matches here and there. It's better that it happens in the early portion of the match point format. Hopefully they're able to recover now and bring it back just a little bit because it's no longer the story of just the Stallions. Now we have a top four.

02:50:14 Wir haben jetzt vier Teams zu qualifizieren, oder die bereits qualifizieren, auf der Matchpoint-Eligibilität. Und wer könnte es nach Hause kommen?

02:50:37 Bumps in the early starts here for Stallions could be potential recoveries to watch out for. It starts here, though, in Overlook, where they can reset, potentially, wherever their mind is at, and potentially deliver us an endgame.

02:50:51 Also, getting a little side look there at that ring. Already, at least for the first circle, giving Stallions an opportunity to put themselves in a decent position rotationally. Meanwhile, Fury already going back and forth here with Oversleepers down in Fragment.

02:51:11 Die Oversleeper haben sich zurückgekehrt, um hier zu starten, und für Führer, sie müssen sie auf einen Angelegenheit haben. Wir haben nicht gehört, aber in ihrer Position, auf der anderen Seite der Monument, sie haben einen Wappen-Bloh in den Standen zu pushen.

02:51:27 zu 28, ja, aber so viel weiter, als wir vorher gesehen haben, in den wir früheren games hatten. So, es kann nicht sein, es kann nicht sein, es kann nicht sein, aber sie hat sich nicht so gut, aber sie hat sich auf den Weg zu Ende des Fragments zu halten, um, zu gehen.

02:51:53 Für free, Fury will definitely be looking to see if they can chase them down. But now we get to take a look at this zone and see who this is potentially favoring. Is this an opportunity for Native to bring it back who have really struggled here today?

02:52:06 ... ... ... ... ...

02:52:35 Buster's already down. One here looking for recovery. They'll find a knock to take it to a 2v2. And I don't think there's a follow-up close enough by.

02:52:47 Das war definitiv für Oblivion. Wir haben zwei Teams auf Matchpoint gefunden. Oblivion machte es ein bisschen ein bisschen ein Tussle. Oblivion machte es weg als ein Duo. Und die Buster ist able zu claimen, das Space, die Lütte und natürlich die KP. Das war ein ziemlich earlyes Spiel. Wir haben eine Chance zu sehen, was Native Gaming ist hier. Oblivion hat sich direkt auf Native Gaming gelegt. Bord in der Region auch.

02:53:13 A fight for Purple Slushie is finished even before I can speak here. Set up already on the defense for a position that I also like mirroring what we saw out of the Thuggets earlier today, but one that comes with KP. Now, immediate revives already sustained here. Blink back down and into it for Oblivion, sustaining what is a good revive at a nice time period to set themselves up for this height in the middle of Skyhook.

02:53:41 Definitely making sure that they aren't set too far back after having lost their one player. Never will you have known it has happened as they get some loot here and can start looking the direction of the rest of those teams knowing that they're in a decent position right now with this ring. But as everyone continues to rotate towards them, how do they want to handle the situation?

02:54:05 will they have to move they're one of those teams that needs to play it really smart knowing that they could win if they do it right stallions here

02:54:14 Maybe not my...

Skyhook-Strategien und Teamkämpfe um Positionen

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02:54:38 Es ist eine Priorität, wo die Zone endet wird. Ich bin eher interessiert. Ja, vielleicht Sniper Tower. Das ist ein bisschen early. Und ich meine, sie sind, besonders auf der New Castle, mehr als Anything Alone. Definitiv, ich glaube, es ist ein bisschen early. Aber es könnte geben sie eine Möglichkeit hier zu machen. Wir sehen hier diese Nades kommen durch. Das ist ein sehr guter Wettbewerb.

02:55:08 The wall giving them the extra cover like you had mentioned, but they decide to zip down, get a little bit of an off angle here. Is this an opportunity for them to clear them out? This is good. I like this. I didn't want to see them hole up there and not really have the power potential to make action, especially while they're anchoring with Crook there. And that's something that I failed to mention. I apologize to those talents here. By anchoring with Crook there, they actually give themselves a lot more confidence to play out this position, right? Have a dominant control over the lay of the land, but if, you know, it gets a little bit worse for where they can pull it back.

02:55:36 Für die Busters, sie haben die Recovery gemacht, aber sie finden ihren Weg zu Countdown und finden sich in der ersten Zeit, so schnell sie zurückkommen.

02:55:46 Just depressly escaping away from ICBM. Gonna see what he can do now for the rest of the squad. ICBM feeling very happy with that result clearing out anyone in front of them as they can now continue to make a rotation into Skyhook pretty safely.

02:56:07 und vielleicht noch ein paar Gebäude zu holen. Ich bin glücklich, dass wir zurückgekehrt haben, weil ich wollte, wie es zu sehen war. Ich sah Tenacity zu sehen, und ich bin ein bisschen worried, weil ich nicht, ich glaube, dass sie ihre Backen nicht mehr als ich hätte. Und jetzt finden sie sich hier zwischen vielen anderen Teams befinden.

02:56:24 It isn't full push, though. Kayden's off angle does make this a little bit worse than I would assume here now. Already expending some major shots on the building across. Scurry from above, and what I can only assume is Alb down below. They're trying to hope for that moment of potential recovery, albeit they do lose Alb on the easy space to work with there. So, you know, in theory, good preparation and setup for an endgame position, but just in execution is really hard, really hard to pull off.

02:56:55 I honestly think they'd be okay if they could get rid of Tenacity behind them. You can see now as we take a look at the top down, Tenacity going through that tunnel opting to see if they can maybe go for a potentially longer wrap, a little bit of indecision while they're in there. But that's now going to split Stallion's focus between everyone in front of them and knowing they still have the potential for somebody to pinch at their backs. And it's going to...

02:57:18 Take away from what Zion is able to do damage-wise. I think they were doing that onto board earlier. So this is a situation they need to figure out how they want to handle and not draw it out for too long because then if they do and it becomes a really noticeable situation, you have the opportunity for Lost Donuts or Ape Gang to rotate in and potentially cause some problems.

02:57:35 Yeah, it does seem like they get a recovery here, though, I will say. So back to the kind of standard hold that we saw earlier before here. This is still good, but maybe hopefully some lessons learned, especially with those ultimate accelerants coming along. Krupp's going to be more available for a really, really, really nice setup off of the EMP to potentially dissuade any teams that are getting maybe a little bit handsy over some of these positions here. But Glitter, we got a kind of a peek at that zone. It is going to be a little bit more directed towards that Sky.

02:58:05 ...eventuell über die Tunnel end, ... ...ein das wir vielleicht sehen, ... ... das wir vielleicht auch nicht so sehen, ... ... und die Sache, die ich merken, ... ... ist das, was für High-Priority-Positions, ... ... wenn es dort geht, ... ... es gibt so viel Platz, ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...

02:58:37 And I think that's the pleasant surprise that we're going to be seeing for quite a few of those squads that are on that western edge. Meanwhile, checking back in with Tenacity who's now run into Lost Donuts. Not an easy rotation in for them as they're fighting back and forth in this tunnel with other squads starting to look over the chaos. It's still no good Nox!

02:59:00 Ametsu nimmt ein Return, das wird vielleicht eine Rückkehr geben geben. Es geht um Zwitz in einer 1v1-Situation. Die Double Knockdown-Shields können es schwer machen, aber Lost Donuts kann es nicht gut finden. A Gold Knockdown ist etwas, was du schnell hast, mit Most Hayden zu arbeiten. Und jetzt die Buster ist es zu KCP.

02:59:20 Really, really good switch up on the shielding there, and yeah.

02:59:47 We'll talk about it. Tenacity, they get wrapped. A third party already. And now even Flavorful coming on in. Most Hated, you have to hope it was fairly clean. They don't have much of recovery to escape from. And I love Wolf's position. He has been on fire today playing from all these great off angles on this Pathfinder, showing the extent of what this Legend can do. Now back up against the wall. What will Most Hated decide to pull off into the zone they currently are? Do they have the health to work with? It is just round two.

03:00:19 This is what I was worried about happening with all those teams opting to go a little bit north, thinking it might be a safer route. Instead, they've just created a third, a fourth, a fifth party situation as more and more teams are trying to clean up after all of these engagements are happening. Blurple moving in to see if they can just force Most Hated into a terrible situation. They've got a great corner going here. Blurple better probably be able to take this out.

03:00:46 Das ist ein bisschen mehr Packing Punch, aber es ist nicht genug!

03:00:59 Und ich weiß nicht, warum wir das fighten haben, denn es ist bereits vorbei für alle hier. Die meisten Hated können keine Health Revive nehmen. Sie gehen auf die Kosta-Zone, und Stallings, sie haben hier schon lange gewartet, um die Backside zu haben, das hat literally geöffnet für sie.

03:01:25 This was an unfortunate situation for both Blurbel and Most Hated Stallings, like you said, the benefactors of those choices that were made to continue that fight in that little corner.

03:01:38 We will be looking down that tunnel as well, but Thuggets, you talked about Thuggets. You liked the zone read that they were making. They were originally in Grandma's house. They've now moved in further to Skyhook, realizing where this zone is about to collapse into and found themselves a building here with some decent cover. They are sharing the space with Bored, if I'm not mistaken, but still in a solid spot. Yeah, really, really good analysis of the macro from Thuggets all day long here. That does set them up at least to play into the extent of this match, but with anything when we talk about Skyhook.

03:02:07 It is such a difficulty into those inklings of when we talk about the last minute moments with all of these buildings.

03:02:14 Ja.

03:02:43 I think that these teams are assuming that more teams have claimed real estate than maybe they have. That western side got absolutely brutalized by everybody trying to make rotations. And now as a result, nobody ended up moving in on the western edge. We see Stallions trying to make a wraparound looking for some space. Thuggets still inside this building using that new castle wall to their advantage. But where the circle's actually shrinking down to is pretty open.

03:03:11 Like I said, you do see teams there, but it is shareable space. This is Skyhook. Even the floors alone are enough to keep, I would literally say, almost all 12 of these squads alive. They'll extend now. Catalyst wall ahead here. That's going to give them potentially the advantage, but they choose to move fairly fast.

03:03:27 Fairly directly into the open here. Remember, it's information they might not have, but granted, Trefstack's on that Crypto. I'd be dissuading what is his capabilities if I said they didn't. No, either way, Mobile should and a couple nades will keep the Dream alive for just a moment longer if they can sustain against all of this damage, all of these sightlines. Yeah, this could be a potential position for the endgame, but they got some work to do.

03:03:56 Abel to survive by the skin of their teeth there. Took a lot of damage from that frag as it came through. Now able to see the situation with Oblivion down to a duo as they're trying to hold this floor of their building. Teams are starting to realize they have to move in just a bit more farther in from the east than they initially planned and as they're moving in we're gonna start seeing these fights breaking out here. Oblivion sharing space with five stars and having to decide how to handle it.

03:04:25 This is tough too, especially as a duo, already being targeted out. You don't have primary shield to work with, and peeking down, Blinkster takes so much damage in this exchange. It's not a healthy party to boot here, even if you are able to pull for recovery. Do you want to shout out Stallions in the standings there. They are able to pick things off, and even if this goes one more game, most hated have made it. And the Oblivion's, well, their end potentially in a second could potentially look to give us...

03:04:54 Maybe that Game 7. It is a 2v2 now, though. 2v1. 2v9.

03:05:03 Das war Ruck. Wir haben einen guten Job gespielt, und wirklich kapitalisiert auf alles, was passiert in front of sie, bevor sie da sind. Sie finden sich jetzt in Oblivion position. Sie sehen das Newcastle Rez kommen, und sie halten 5-star in ihren Sights. Stallions, wie du schon erwähnt, haben eine sehr große Rotation gemacht, das ich glaube, wird endet aufzunehmen, als sie das Western-Side haben.

03:05:31 Und jetzt haben sie zurückgezogen, das Central Circular Building zurückgezogen. Und das ist eine der einzige Körnern, die aktuell ist, mit niemanden auf dem Gebäude mit ihnen.

Entscheidende Momente und das Finale in Skyhook

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03:05:40 Even though they don't get into a lot of action early here on World's Edge, the thing is with that west side completely open and sustaining some damage in fights across the board here, they take themselves from blue to purple shields. And the reason I think that's super important is because when we look at rosters like the Thuggets here in moments ahead, deep rotations alongside what is that central position they have to compete for is going to be so hard against so many of these other teams that have been, well, further forward for the time. If we did get a little peek of that zone though, it does...

03:06:09 Stahlien sehr stark macht sich zurück zum Westen, das ist, ich meine, in Stahlien zu spielen.

03:06:20 Bord hat ein sehr gut gemacht, um ihre Sicherheit hier in diesem Gebäude zu behalten und jetzt haben sie es für sich selbst. Sie sind einfach nur außerhalb der nächsten Cirkel, also müssen sie in den nächsten Schritt gehen. Aber Duggett, Sie wissen, wie sie es handelt. Sie sind ein Duell. Sie sollten sich das Rez geben. Und sie haben sich in die Richtung zu bewegen. Es geht darum, ob sie in den nächsten Schritt gehen können. Es geht darum, ob sie in diesen Schritt gehen.

03:06:42 Remember, when you're this low shielding and now everyone waiting for your rotation from the south side, it just gets too difficult to survive here. It will be, I believe, another bit of that rotate, but even still, they don't have to see you to sustain potential shots here. A mobile shield down, and even as it burns through from the shielding there, I know it is the other side where they don't have the shield that comes through, but it just shows that their end was written in the stories before we even started this match today.

03:07:13 Oblivion out, Thuggets out, which means Stallions, who are now on our screen, are the last matchpoint-eligible team that is, in fact, alive here. They've managed to get that tiny little corner behind their wall, and honestly, the rest of the teams are really focusing that building in the center. This could be an opportunity for Stallions to do a very slow push while everyone else is fighting centrally, and they might be able to clean up here at the end.

03:07:38 This is tough, though. The fence line on the interior can be a little weak when we talk about the low ground prowess. It does hold out here with so many of these teams potentially competing for the other side and having, well, a multitude of angles. I believe we were about to see Castle Walls ahead here. I mean, that's got to be a really, really strong choice from the Stallions if they work out a win in this game. On the other angle...

03:08:01 Das ist KCP. Das ist ein starkes Spot, das ich möchte, dass Graceful, das in der Back-Room ist jetzt. Das ist so gut für den Win this game.

03:08:14 Das ist so schwer hier.

03:08:42 Final round closing out. You have to wonder if anyone potentially gets some early angles on KCP to potentially stunt what might be that rotation. The problem is Stallings are going to lose out on cover a little bit earlier here. That Mobile Shield, a big cooldown to use early on in this exchange. That's not going to be available for Rotation's head as Crook has already expended, or my apologies, they've already expended Castle Walls as well.

03:09:09 ICBM definitely trying to look down on Stallions and see if they can maybe take them out of this competition as they're holding the roof here. Pioneer's still alone on that western side as the circle is beginning to shrink in. The smokes are out trying to block that vision. The wall is down. This is it Bepper.

03:09:30 Die Kanzas-City Pioneers sind auf der anderen Seite gesetzt. Sie haben eine wall geöffnet, aber das Gebäude von der Höhe von oben macht es schwierig zu überleben. Jetzt, von allen hier zu überleben, ich kann nicht vorstellen, dass die Stallions zu überleben. Ich sehe BM sind mehr als glücklich, dass sie in den Golden B2020 sind.

03:10:03 I don't even know what to say to that.

03:10:34 It was just last week. Alliance Hockies was playing with them in BoomTV. A shout out to the man himself. Hammer points with gold. If you pick those up, it can make it work. And like I said, it's literally just as fast as you could shoot there. And when you're in a position like ICBM, where you literally have free reign over that lobby, no one's targeting you. Everyone's just trying to survive. You are getting so much damage.

03:11:02 I mean, that was a really impressive job out of ICBM, too. They got in there and they held that roof for quite some time. They had a really, really strong position and they did a good job with their awareness. They knew where the potential...

03:11:15 They have to make the sidewall with the Kallus. I do hope or wish they would have tried to cut off a bigger portion of that zone to give them the opportunity.

03:11:44 Ich bin jetzt noch ein paar Worte. Ich bin jetzt noch ein paar Worte. Ich bin jetzt noch ein paar Worte. Ich bin jetzt noch ein paar Worte.

03:12:02 Ja, das ist ein massiv von Punkten für ICBM. Ein paar Teams haben tatsächlich gelegt, unsere Series Results-Leaderboarden hier, weil wir sehen, dass wir nicht nur noch ein Team an unsere Matchpoint-Eligible Teams haben, aber nur wie viele Teams haben jetzt geschafft, auf der guten Seite des 40s geschafft.

03:12:22 Das ist auch ein Mediocre-Games-Games-A-Way. Das ist wie es funktioniert. Jeder hat sich zu clean-up, oder jeder wird sich über die Champs-Spot kämpfen. Tech könnte die Champs hier machen. Most Hated, in der Mitte der ganzen Fights, haben die kleine Punkte geholfen, auf der Exterieur der Train-Line geholfen. Jetzt können sie in eine Position, wo sie eine unserer 5-Teams sind.

03:12:51 even with the win or even potentially with a nice point score line in a second place position. I know there are fans at home who've been potentially waiting for that one for a while.

03:13:03 Absolutely. I want to get your thoughts on that game as well here, Graceful, but we'll do that in just a little bit because we're adding another friend here to the group for post-match six. Exciting to get him in here. Hodzik, come join us. Let's talk about what we've seen here so far in our LCQ. Welcome. It's great to see you again, friend. Always good to be back, Glitter. I'm always happy to be part of the broadcast.

Analyse der LCQ-Finals und Vorbereitung auf die Meisterschaften

03:13:29

03:13:29 All right, we're going to have a lot of fun here chatting all things LCQ so far. But before we get into today, I want to get your thoughts overall. We're in the light. These last two teams making their way through to champs. And then we've got a big gap for everybody to really be practicing and nailing down what they're going to be doing for Japan. So just talk to me in general about.

03:13:51 Was are we expecting them to really figure out? Are they going to be using the BLGS to get some more reps in, etc.?

03:14:01 I mean, yeah, definitely BLGS is going to be the, probably the main way that people are going to be getting a lot of practice because, you know, you have to realize like there are no scrims going on right now. It'd be pointless if there were. Champs is about five months away. So we have so many, we're going to be on like three or four different patches ahead from what we are now. So the game is going to change, I'm guessing pretty drastically by the time we actually get to Champs. So BLGS is definitely going to be the best way, I think, for a lot of these teams to really test themselves because

03:14:29 As we saw in this most recent LAN, you know, Net has changed and a lot of teams that were previously strong might not be so right now.

03:14:39 Love it. Graceful. Give me your thoughts or ask... I have a question here for Hodsek. Yeah, I mean, I also think that, you know, seeing Energy's performance on the previous LAN as well, with people maybe underestimating you guys to a certain degree, like you said, meta shifts a lot of power dynamics in the rankings. And I'm happy to see that BLGS will definitely do that as well as we're playing, you know, further patches later on down the road. But I'm pretty sure we'll see another big wave.

03:15:06 Of roster shuffles once again for BLDS. Oh yeah, definitely. I mean, it just happens after every turn after every big tournament.

03:15:17 All right, now Hotzik, I'm excited to mostly have you here, and I'm going to leave you in Zephyr's very capable hands as well to start talking about these final circles, though, because what we've seen so far in matches four through six has been all over the place, Zephyr, to say the least. Yeah, Hotzik, we'll start out, of course, with Game 4, a checkpoint finish here, but you, a man, a coach, a monolith of a person in the Apex scene, I want you to help me break down what lessons are to be learned from this kind of end zone.

03:15:44 Ich meine, das ist der klassische Battle Royale-Endzone. Ich liebe Zones wie diese, wo es mich zurückzieht, die PUBG-Daisen sind, wo es nichts, aber Heils, Rocks und Trees gibt. Es gibt viel VR-Geräusch. Der erste Team, der muss sich immer aufhören, ist die Team, die alle schauen werden. Die Team, die mit den besten ...

03:16:03 Die Geometrie rund um sie wird, generell zu sagen, sicherlich sein. Und dann, am Ende der Zeit, die Apex kommt, und es geht darum, die, die, die, die, die, die, die, die, die, die, die, die, die, die, die, die.

03:16:22 Es sind Busters, die sich durch und sich auf den Matchpoint zu machen. Aber es gibt einen Monument, wo es weniger zu arbeiten ist, in der Art der Stile, wie du gerade erwähnt. Ja, aber es ist trotzdem ziemlich ähnlich. Du hast viel Highground, es ist ein paar Rocks, und du hast Oblivion hier in einer der strongesten Spots. Highground ist key in jeder FPS-FPS-Game. Und sie sind hier und MostAid, die hier sind.

03:16:49 Held down on everyone that's below them, um, just playing their spot as much as they can, making sure not to use their utility where they don't need to, but taking the calculated fights where they need to. Oblivion here recognizing that the last two teams here are fighting and then they just need to come in and clean this up, um, as cleanly as they can.

03:17:06 Ja, ich werde ehrlich sein.

03:17:27 Die waren wirklich gut in der kleinen Center Spire, aber als die Zone geändert wurde, ich bin sicher, dass ihr Herz sank, denn sie waren von einem sehr guter Spot in der Zone zu einer der Worsten. Weil, wie ich gesagt habe, wenn ihr einen der ersten Teams mit einem anderen Teams zu移st, dann werden andere Leute zu identifizieren. Und dann werden sie für dich, besonders weil sie ein paar Teams in der Lobby sind, die auf die Pathfinder ist. Also, sie sind ein paar Teams in dieser Lobby, die durch Pathfinder ist.

03:17:54 Es macht sie sich aus wie ein Sore Thumb. Ich glaube, es war ein wirklich schweres Spiel für sie zu gewinnen. Und als sie auf die Fence Line kam, und ich sah sie mit dem Newcastle Wall, bevor die Zone even starten shifted, ich wusste das Spiel war für sie. Ich habe nicht gesagt, dass es nicht so bad ist, weil sie einfach zu tun haben, aber es ist einfach so, dass es wirklich ein paar Dinge, die Stars haben zu align für sie zu gewinnen, für sie zu gewinnen.

03:18:22 I've got one final question for you because we're seeing it happen here today and it's something that we see happen a lot when it comes to match points. Sometimes there's teams that come out of the gate really hot. In this case, we saw Stallions hit match point really quickly and then they're not able to close out the match point after that. They kind of stall going through these series of matches. So I want to get a coach's perspective in those types of situations.

03:18:46 Was are you saying to your team to kind of keep them in like a good spot mentally or even just play style wise? Like how do you work through those moments? The biggest thing for me is just reminding them it's a marathon, not a sprint, right? Every single team minus like one or two in a lobby will have a bad game or three in a match point final. So it is a marathon. It's not a sprint. The biggest indicator for me when it comes to like when I need to step in and really like try to get them.

03:19:12 Back to square one is if I notice, for example, like their communication or their teamwork starting to dwindle a little bit. I've noticed it a lot in my team in the past. I've learned from it a lot. Mainly speaking, like if they are all of a sudden like one player isn't as when they're like generating a macro plan and one player isn't speaking as much as they normally do or inputting as much as they normally do. Or if one person calls a really bad play that the other person is known to call off, stuff like that. Right. If I'm not noticing those things anymore, I'm starting to.

03:19:39 I can tell that either motivation or energy or whatever is dwindling. And I try my best to do what I can and get them back to square one.

03:19:50 Yeah, I think that's definitely super important because, like I said, it's not just something we're seeing in the LCQ. We saw even just as recently as split-two playoffs, Gaming Gladiators come out with back-to-back wins, a third-place finish, the highest points overall. And then sometimes this is just what happens in the nature of a BR on Matchpoint. It's not always easy to close it out even after you've hit that threshold. And we talk about it time and time again, and it's something that...

03:20:17 I'm sure both you and Graceville can test you and knowing what it's like being pros that it's mental is one of the hardest and most important things to be able to maintain, especially now that we're looking at like double digit averages for all of our match point finals. Yeah, no, absolutely. Sorry.

03:20:38 Go ahead, Hubs. All right, I'll take it. Mental, it's everything. It's what separates insanely talented competitors in esports and real sports. At the end of the day, it's the people who are the most mentally strong, the ones that can take any loss on the chain and keep going and never take it to heart. Only ever learning from each experience are the ones that are ultimately the ones...

03:21:04 Das ist so viel mehr mental als die meisten Leute wissen. Du musst du in einem Spiel wie Apex- und wissen, wie man sich auf die Apeks- und wie man sich auf die Map- Aber am Ende der Tag, es sind die Teams die meistens sound- und die meistens die meistens die meistens die meistens die meistens die meistens die meistens die meistens die meistens die meistens die meistens die meistens die meistens die meistens die meistens die meistens die meistens die meistens die meistens die meistens die meistens die meistens die meistens die meistens. All right, well HotSec, es hat sich ein absoluter Spaß haben hier zu chatten mit uns. Vielen Dank für die Zeit. Ich bin sicher, wir sehen uns bald bald.

03:21:33 Always nice to be able to get Hotsik on here to chat with us. Love being able to see a familiar face on the desk, but we're talking about these matches, potentially finding a winner. We've got to keep things going, okay? We're six matches in, which means the series can end. Match number seven is right around the corner. Graceful, I want to hear your thoughts on it. I'm going to send you over to Dia to get us into the match.

Matchpoint-Teams und Strategien in den Finalrunden

03:21:56

03:21:56 All right. Happy to get into the game. We're back, Graceful. It's time. It's time to... I was going to say it's time to wrap this thing up, but then I was like, that's just the illusion of power. There's no real power here. We just get to watch this happen, see what ends up going on, because right now, only five teams are on Matchpoint, and in the scale of how we've seen things play out recently, that's a pretty small number.

03:22:21 Ja, und wir sagen ja, wir haben schon mal gewonnen, dass wir schon mal gewonnen haben, so ich weiß nicht, ob das Spiel enden wird. Aber wir haben ja auch schon erwähnt, dass andere Teams erwähnt. Und die Teams, die in den Beginn gewonnen haben, sind jetzt noch ein bisschen weitergekehrt. So die Frage könnte auch jetzt, dass wir jetzt ein bisschen ein Reset haben, sind wir wieder zurück zu den ersten paar Teams und starten strong?

03:22:46 We very well could. And those teams, by the way, that started strong when we moved on to Stormpoint were Thuggets and the Busters, both of whom are now on Matchpoint. So as we return to Stormpoint, we'll see what those teams can do, whether they can double up, as we will be likely moving to a totally different area of the map. That's how it so often happens, especially on Stormpoint, where things do tend to be a little bit more varied graceful. It's time to show up!

03:23:13 especially in those top 5 squads. As we've all been saying in the background, we could actually see Tech Atlan, a man who's been put down time and time again. He keeps getting reset in his competitive journey, but now making it out of CC, making it up with Most Hated. He's here, he's back, and he's a real threat to go to Japan.

03:23:33 If we're talking about Mental Fortitude, I don't think nobody can ever put Tech down. He's been through the Ringer more than any other player in the whole community, and he's still back at it again, and he's oh so close to be able to make land finally. I am rooting for him, knowing him personally, and even having coached him and played with him quite frequently, I think that he has what it takes, but the real question, as we say, you know, the Mental Fatigue starts to set in, though, as we get into these later games. Matt Shevin now.

03:24:02 Und ich denke, dass es ein bestimmtes IGLs gibt, und ich kenne Tech als Teil von ihnen, dass...

03:24:07 So we'll take a look now as we head down towards Pylon and Echo HQ at what IGLs

03:24:36 Ja, looking into if this is the old active zones as Echo, this is also currently active. So if it does pull into Echo, this is one of the zones that is super fun to see and play because...

03:24:51 Are you thinking this is like Thar Echo HQ where we're almost in the water and like it's that high ground low ground disparity or the open ground that like lies in between?

03:25:21 ECHO HQ und Launchpad, die little valley da ist. Ja, wir haben, glaube ich, vier Zones in N.A. currently, die sind super old. So, wenn das ist der alten, das könnte sein, das ist unter der Palm Tree, das ist ein bisschen mehr...

03:25:40 Ja. Ja. Ja. Ja.

03:26:08 If you guys get the chance, check out some of the oobs, the videos that are out there, but keep your eyes out, especially for them in this game, because there are some cheeky ones you can pull off from Pylon into Echo HQ, should the Zone be pulling this one.

03:26:22 Ja, Privacy leaking the strats. Most of the oobs, some teams have been gatekeeping, but that one specifically from Pylon, where you can actually evac and then run over the mountain on a timer, about 10 second timer. It's definitely a huge play because you can land in the palm tree, which is a nice little thing you can do if you're late into the rotates. Mm-hmm. There's a funny thing that happens in BRs as well. You're talking about like, you know, sometimes you find something out, you don't want to tell everyone else.

03:26:48 BRs sind lustig, weil Sie beide wollen die Secrets behalten, und Sie wollen die anderen Teamen zu bewerben werden, denn das ist auch wenn sie am besten sind. Wenn andere Gruppen sind, in einer Weise, als Intended.

03:27:04 Yeah, I'm honestly, I'm all for it, because I feel like back in the day, Oob play was a lot more oppressive than it is today. Back when you could pull out nades while on timer, back when you could shoot from Oob. Now, you know, with the timer being so that you can't really be aggressive, I think it's more than fine to go for Oobliss. Well, it's a good thing you feel that way, because we very well may be casting some of them. A lot of folks already sat inside.

03:27:30 Yeah, I'm not sure if they're sitting there because they were on White Armor still, so that means they didn't have Ring Console on Paffy yet.

03:27:58 I'm not sure if that's intentional or if it's just a safe play, but triple white armor and no ring console is definitely a rough spot to be in my opinion, especially in a zone where you should have prior. Team like Fury make their way into Pylon, where you can sort of play for the late game for a rotation if you've got enough evac towers or even with Pathfinder, some mobility to work with can be very useful.

03:28:23 Pylon, also helpful if this zone ends up shifting up north. I know it's uncommon, but we've got a little bit of a zone that ends between Launchpad and Pylon, and if you're already in Pylon, getting to that hillside is all the easier. Yeah, definitely. I think Pylon has a lot of playable areas as well, but as we're starting to see now on Edge, a lot of teams are fighting for more objectives, essentially, and loot. Tenacity and Blurple, even in the red, are going at it.

03:28:52 It is a one for one. And Blurple have now lost two. The last one to that. Bit of a tick in zone. Mozambique's at the ready. Wolves does jump on to height. But Wolves will go down. Blurple fall. Tenacity take the reset. Tenacity moving all the closer to match point. Currently sitting at 23 there. Plenty far away. But should the series go long enough, they'll have a chance much like everyone else.

03:29:18 Ja, die Serie starten aus, starten wie dieses ist gut. Manche Kills auf die Seite und dann mehr Stacked und Walking-Innen kann definitivisch öffnen, um ihre Motivation zu machen. So dass sie mehr Willen zu machen, und das ist eine gute Sache, für sicher. Man sieht sie in den Norden, als wir einen Evak Tower spielen können, aber auf dem Fokussing nach dem South, ich sehe Pioneers und Durag starten zu fighten. Diese Westen-Side der Zone ist sicherlich zu sehen,

03:29:47 Getting control over the hail should put you in a good position. We're gonna take a look at how this fight goes as now Durags retreat onto the low ground, getting shot at from Pylon as well. And once you start backing off from that fight, it's hard to get back up onto the ridge line. So Durags do effectively give up high ground to Pioneers.

03:30:04 Ja, die Schotten in den Backen von Pylon ist immer eine der Risiken, dass man auf der Seite von Bärow ist, weil Bärow hat den Mountain, die ein paar Sachen, die ein paar LOS hat, und dann die nur eine Spider Caves hat. Aber ja, gut repositionen von Duwax, weil es übersteht, dass sie mehr von der Welkom bekommen hat, wirklich schlecht.

03:30:27 This is one of those things that I see happening a lot, especially on the leaderboard as well, is that teams that are supposedly...

03:30:54 ...und supposed to be at the height of the leaderboard... ...or having intertwining macros, and that's keeping them, you know, further down low... ...because only one team can make it out if they end up fighting here. Native, I think, is one of them that teams have been looking favorably upon... ...that now haven't had as much of a huge game as of yet. But Native, that's only because Pioneers is on their tracks, I believe. I mean, Native are technically just below Pioneers on the leaderboards, but that gap...

03:31:23 Yeah, there's not much they can do because this is...

03:31:49 This is what we mean by congested sides. When you have too many teams playing the same pace rather than style, so meaning a lot of teams are playing mid to late right now, especially on this map, we see five teams on the same side. That's not even counting the teams that are one circle deeper holding them out. This is definitely chaotic. For Anmu, getting into Pylon is a nice boon. And turning around on the other side, this native are trying to hold out Weave. The snipedown that's fallen.

03:32:17 Full-Thirst, and even as we say that, Lord of the Rings taking that kill, and now Carter looking for Shield Swap to continue the fight, and he gets wrapped by Vayne. We lose control of the engagement, Lord of the Rings sets up the wall, can't find a res just yet. And with this wall actually cutting him off from his teammate, he'll have to wait until he finally manages to get the knockdown shield up.

03:32:38 Ja, Native Gaming are out. I think other teams died as well. They're now also getting cleaned up by 5-star coming in late. This is what I mean. It's too many teams playing the same pace.

03:33:03 Und du musst, wenn nicht, ist das was passiert.

03:33:32 We see that, bite a couple teams, but five star do come out on top. Now Oblivion gatekeeping this, it looks like we're getting that zone that I would say from this deep valley zone over by the palm tree. That's what I'm saying. I see these old souls are currently active, baby. Seeing these souls brings me a tear because I've been playing them for so long.

03:33:53 Being able to call them out early is a great thing. However, with the current setups of Newcastle everywhere and also Cryptos, I think it's going to be even harder than normal because back when we played this, Crypto wasn't really that meta, neither was Newcastle. So we might see some things that we're not used to really. I'm thinking about Quadra EMPs on somebody and then walking at them with the Mobile Shield. That may just be the answer here. We've seen...

03:34:20 Ja, es ist definitiv ein schweres Scenario, weil es 17 Teams gibt.

03:34:43 Ich denke, wir sehen uns ein bisschen mehr YOLO Evacs kommen. Weil wenn du Teams auf Cannon hast, wenn du Teams auf Armory hast, das eine Team will definitiv fly in zu nehmen. Es ist schwer, man. Ich weiß, ob wir den Res. Ich meine, es ist die einzige Spiel dabei.

Entscheidungen und Wendepunkte im Kampf um den Sieg

03:35:08

03:35:08 2 Blinxer, you've got to get your teammates back into this somehow, because otherwise we are saying goodbye to one of our squads on Matchpoint. Oblivion currently sat in second at only 55 points, aren't even a comfortable second.

03:35:19 The Busters are right behind them at 54. And yes, you see this right. It's a Kraber we've got in the lobby. Nice shot from Tech just to clear out high ground. I think he landed another, but didn't quite get to see it as he turned away. Fade away Kraber shot for the style points. Most hated, yeah, look for the engagement, but they get flanked. This is a bad spot to be in as one of our teams on match point is forced down onto the low ground. Now missing Tech and Nasty and Laserhood have nowhere to go.

03:35:47 Pioneer is doing the late rotate coming in with the macro is huge right there getting a free opening kill because they have no clue that they were behind them however returning the favor right now they're not giving up

03:36:00 Deeds going down, very problematic. We see the drop, so it looks like Blinkster did get the res onto Oblivion. One of our Matchpoint teams won't be leaving us just yet. And Pioneers, if they continue to make missteps like this, may even give a squad like Mos Tated a way back in. Pioneers do go down. What a series of mistakes to be punished. That is heartbreaking for the Pioneers.

03:36:26 I think the most well played from most hated for sure. The fact that they got kills out of that instead of instantly dying between a pinch is impressive. Fury come up and take this fight as well. On to Tenacity. Oversleepers are going to come in from behind as well. Fury do keep high ground for themselves. But this has been a crazy south side of the map. Something that Fury really had no right to come out on top of. But with enough chaos around them.

03:36:55 They get what they want, and what they want is kills. Oversleepers are out. Yeah, when we have this many teams, you know, they're just cleaning up kills because they were the fifth party in. But other teams are also looking to make plays on them. Zones seem to be shifting maybe a little bit, as we can see in the minimap right now as well. Shifting a little bit more towards the other zone, which is the platform zone. Also a solid one because I love playing underneath the platform personally rather than hide. This might be one of the only zones.

03:37:24 I prefer being low ground compared to high ground because the LOS coverage is so good. Most hated do go down. That is one of our Matchpoint teams leaving four still alive. Thuggets, Busters, Oblivion, and Stallions. The last time we saw Oblivion they weren't in a great spot. Busters not looking too hot either. They are certainly pressured from high ground. Don't have a whole lot of cooldowns to keep them safe. This mobile shield will expire eventually.

03:37:49 See how well they're able to hold on and I like this elimination of part of the wall Just so you have a little bit more cover from above using this palm tree to the fullest extent of the law Yeah, the only scary part is that three other teams wants to play low ground as well So it comes down to who is gonna walk in on their side and who gets the 3p and 4p Lost Donuts is actually in a good spot, but there are also another team contesting them for hide Fury have a chance to heal up before dropping in and finishing this fight off

03:38:18 Wie ist Cersei-Alive?

03:38:41 But yeah, Fury, regardless, if they go down here, they've done a huge amount of work this game. I think they had several kills and they came in. Like, that was actually really good.

03:38:51 Purple Slushy sat in this corner, do have plenty of time to make their next move, but make their next move, they must, as this next zone pulls us harshly, sharply, away from where we thought it was going, away from where every team must have thought this zone would pull, and instead drags us out into the open. A team like Purple Slushy, even Thuggets, will have to enter a war zone of open territory to make it...

03:39:17 ...Ford's Echo HQ proper. You know who's in Echo HQ proper, though? I'll give you a hint. It starts with Stahl and ends with Lions.

03:39:26 Yes, Stallions indeed is in a good spot because, like I said, it's either between Palm or Platform. This is the platform. You know what the worst part is, Dian? Another zone that ends on absolute hype. So, looking forward for that. You know, Stallions is in a great spot. Every other team, however, has to be the ones to join in quickly because once that next zone closes in...

03:39:48 It becomes almost impossible for them to get up to high ground again. The Thuggets eliminate Fury meanwhile, and if Thuggets can keep outplaying, keep gunning like that, they've got a chance, a very small chance, of surviving into Echo HQ height. Ape Gang, Oblivion, Lost Donuts, Busters all wait for them there. This FSC will have to move likewise. Stallions hold on with the new castle. Stallions, who got to MASHPOINT first.

03:40:15 Und die haben eine fantastische Position, von welchem zu close es aus. Will wir sehen, dass der Nervs getrennt werden? Ich denke, Stallions ist in der besten Spot, dass sie vielleicht sein können. However, das mostly betrifft auf die Lobby. Wenn sie auf die West-Side halten, dann sollte sie das Spiel sein können. Aber die Idee ist, fünf Teams sind auf der West-Side. Are sie able to survive wave, after wave, after wave? Remains to be seen.

03:40:42 Ja, ich hoffe so, aber...

03:41:08 Giving us an economy isn't necessarily because they can't, it's because of the fact that there's too many teams, even if they want to. Yeah, it's definitely gonna be rough. Shrevstax with an R99, a sharp contrast to what has made Shrevstax famous to so many. Let's put down the snipers for now, picked up the crypto, and is serving with it. This is Thuggets, who should have been dead at this point.

03:41:34 Maybe taking out FSC, certainly a part of FSC, who are trapped in the corner. Bored, sitting right next to them as well. Eight seconds left on this zone close. Oblivion. Certainly in a good spot to close things out if they had three members, but they don't with reads down. They need to get a clutch res in an endgame to really be able to take this match point and convert it into a ticket to Japan.

03:42:00 Ja, es wird schwer sein, weil es da unten ist, da unten ist, da unten ist, da unten ist, da unten ist, da unten ist oder nicht. Ich weiß nicht, wie sie können, ohne den Newcastle zu gehen. Aber ja.

03:42:14 Unfortunately for Thuggets, there's just no way forward. They don't have things like mobility with the Pathfinder to get them into zone. The Busters, who have been sat on low ground for so long, are gonna have to deal with this. This ring will never stop closing. There is no way out for the Busters. No way out but up and into a fight. Three squads left. Busters, Oblivion, and Stallions that could end this. The Lost Donuts have gone down. Almost half of our teams are on match point.

03:42:44 Ja, Oblivion hat sich sehr gut als ein Duell. Ich weiß nicht, sie sind so glücklich, dass jeder andere Team ist auf der westen Seite. So sie werden eigentlich nicht behalten. Aber es ist ein Team neben der Plattform, einfach 5 Meter entfernt von ihnen.

03:42:57 But as it seems right now, everybody else is congesting on the western side, seeing Stallions go in the fight right now. Oh god, this is bad. This is not a good spot for Stallions. The bottom of the shield expires. ICBM2 go down. Stallions get a shield swap. Albrelele is gonna have to take out Oblivion. Gonna have to unseat them somehow through us and nades do something. Albrelele takes matters into his own grapple. Jumps on board. He evicts Oblivion. Busters are down. Oblivion jumped down to the low ground. And suddenly, Stallions are the last squad left on match point. Stallions.

Stallions Triumph und Ausblick auf die Meisterschaften in Japan

03:43:25

03:43:25 3 Teams left and Stallions large and in charge from the very beginning. They won our first game and they are going to win our last. Double Mozems in the hand of Aberlele and Stallions come out on top. The LCQ and a trip to Japan is theirs.

03:43:49 I think we talked about them the whole time because they hit matchpoints so fast that could they close this out? And indeed they could. They've broken the curse that many teams have gone through of hitting matchpoints early to being able to close it out super solidly. And honestly, I'm a little bit sad I couldn't see exactly how they fought on the western side because they were five teams on their side that they actually mopped and then they still wiped forward and then they pushed off the duo from height and that secured them the win. That's just textbook gameplay, really.

03:44:18 And this is so much more than that, from my perspective, for Stallions, because not only did we see them hit match points so early, but we saw this huge slump through the next couple of games. It was their nerves getting to them. And think about who this is. This is Crook, Alberlele, Skurwe, players that have been kind of tossed around over the last couple of years. They're on one squad.

03:44:40 Das wird schuffled, vielleicht wird es gezwungen für ein Spieler, das ist besser, sie nicht gelten mit der squad. Für viele diese Teams, für viele diese Players, sie haben sich sehr schwer, über die letzten paar Jahre. So zu kommen auf dem LZQ, zu machen es 3 und zu machen es 3, und zu machen es 3, und zu machen es 3, die Insekurities und Doubten, die sie auszulassen haben, das sie auszulassen können. Das ist eine Geschichte von einem Team, das könnte sehr gut weitergehen.

03:45:05 But for more on that, I want to bring in Glitter and Zef because the Stallion story is one of many that got told today. I'm happy they closed it out, but we had a lot of squads scrambling for that first place spot. You know, I feel like it was absolutely going to come down to this because we had so many teams on Match Point that were really close to where that final circle was shifting.

03:45:29 And it almost felt like it was unavoidable. But when you saw just how perfectly positioned Stallions were at the end, it felt almost like poetic justice after we had just spoken to Hodzik about it as well. You know, how do you recover after having such a strong start, then falling into a little bit of a lull? It was just everything we could have wanted storyline-wise.

03:45:55 The closeness with which that second-place battle was happening the entire time. I mean, that's the hardest part. We saw it happen in EMEA, how many people were jockeying for that second-place spot, Dia. And at the end of the day, it always boils down to one point. Why is it always one point? That's the most exciting way to do it. There's no other good answer here. The scriptwriters, they know what they're doing.

03:46:23 I need to speak with the scriptwriters and see how we work Dia's success in the BLGS into the script as well. We'll take a look at our Match 7 results here to get those final points tallied here. Stallions with a very strong close to end out their day. That's got to be something they're very...

03:46:46 Proud of Zephyr.

03:47:11 Yeah, you're talking about Ape Gang and Purple Slushy. He was the strong performances that were able to hit match point just one match too late as they do break into that 50-point threshold. But Stallions not only have the point gap, they get the win, that first-place finish, and it is Oblivion who claims second place, who will be moving through two champs in Japan by one point above the Thuggets. I mean, it doesn't get any closer than this, Graceful.

03:47:40 Ja, ich meine, ich schattete ihn auch an den Beginn des Seriesens, dass Oblivion es ein Team zu suchen, weil ich nur zwei Spieler weiß, aber zu sehen, dass die neue Edition und sie gut spielen, das ganze Series hat, ehrlich gesagt, ist ein tolles Ereignis für mich, dass vielleicht das 3rd, um die Team zu freshen, ist genau das was die Leute brauchen.

03:48:00 Yeah, absolutely. I mean, we've seen roster changes in all of our regions, and sometimes when you finally find the one that sticks, it ends up in a result like being able to play in Japan. We're going to take a look back at some of these final circle moments, starting here with the epic...

03:48:25 Es ist nicht. Ich dachte, dass Stallions in der Körner in der Körner würde zu kommen, um ihre Vorstellung in den letzten zwei Spielen, und enden fürbüttet alles. Bleiben in der Körner, um Oblivion zu machen. Und was mir ist, dass Stallions, die auf low HP sind, die die letzte Schilder sind, die Schilder sind, ich meine, das ist nicht

03:48:54 Oblivion weiß es, Stallions weiß es. Und jetzt, Albrelele takes matters into his own hands. Und es ist diese Grapple-Ford, die Kows Oblivion, und es macht sie auf die Low-Groh-Groh-Groh-Groh-Groh-Groh-Groh-Groh-Groh-Groh-Groh-Groh-Groh-Groh-Groh

03:49:19 Lely's move towards them reeks of so much confidence that Oblivion have no choice but to, as a duo, give up the high ground. Now, from here on out, it isn't really a game of mechanics. It is a game of positioning, and Stallions win it handily. But it's that moment of confidence that speaks to so much more from the Stallions that really stood out to me. Yeah, and that's such a good call-out, too, because I feel like we saw that a lot out of Albreleli today, just really pushing into those engagements. In what...

03:49:47 Ja, und zu be fair, in what we saw from so many of our other regions, actually, surprisingly, in both APAC regions, it was the team that got a matchpoint that followed suit almost immediately after. So the other side of the ocean here.

03:50:16 A bit completely different. It takes three, four games for them to find their form before getting back into play. And it's, like you said, exactly what Hodzik highlighted here. Getting into a situation where you know...

03:50:30 on the day of that it won't be perfect that you will have those bad games and it will become a struggle due to the format itself so being able to reset and find yourself even when you're in those strong positions where you know you have the ability to win it and seal the deal now still control your mentality to find that win is an impressive feat that stallions will be happy to have on their tool belt going into the champs

03:50:56 Well, Graceville, I want to get your final thoughts here on the day. We've made it through an A. We know the last two teams making their way through to Champs in Japan now. So how did you think it went? I think the day overall was great. I think for all regions, honestly, some teams that everybody has been expecting to do well has done subpar or beneath average what people have assumed from them. But we've also seen the opposite side of things of teams that people might have underestimated been showing a lot of promises.

03:51:25 Und ich bin immer ein Fan von neuen Teams auf LAN, besonders Leute, die nicht zu LAN haben. Wie werden sie auf LAN machen? Und auch, wie werden sie mit all den currenten Pro-League-Teams machen? Sie haben ja auch, wie Havok kam von CC, direkt auf LAN. Und es ist immer fun, dass die Dynamik von Teamen, dass es sehr unterschiedlich ist, oder sogar aus dem Weg ist, dass sie eigentlich eine der Welt's bester Spieler sind, weil sie auf der größten Stelle spielen, so far, das wird in Japan kommen.

03:51:53 Definitely lots of new storylines that we'll be able to follow once we make our way through to Japan. But now that all of our teams have made it to where they need to, we'll take a look back at the qualified list of teams because it's...

03:52:08 It's impressive. We have some of the biggest names from all of our regions, as well as those who have managed to fight through tooth and nail out of LCQ to join them on the stage in Sapporo, Japan. And this is what we've been waiting for. We now know who everyone is facing off against. And this is going to be one of the most, if not the most insane events we have ever seen for Apex Legends to debut.

03:52:37 It is, and let me remind you, Hodzik called this out, but there's also your chance to play against them. Over the next couple of months, yeah, there will be some scrims going on, but the BLGS will be going on, and that is open entry. You can expect to see a lot of these teams in your own region playing in the BLGS, making it into the regional finals, and you've got the chance to go and play against them, to have a little bit of fun, to see how far you can make it, and to experience what it's like to play Apex against the best in the world.

03:53:09 One of the coolest things that Hot Stick also pointed out when we were talking to him was the fact that we only know what we know right now. This is the first time where we're seeing a big chunk of time between all of our teams qualifying through Champs and then when they'll actually be playing in Champs. Like Hot Stick mentioned, there is a very high likelihood that whatever the current meta is right now will be very different.

03:53:36 Come the end of January, we might see more roster shakeups. I mean, there's going to be a very different competitive Apex Legends environment than what we're currently used to, and that might breed completely different outcomes when it comes to the teams that are doing well. Who's taking home the title, Graceful? We don't know anything right now.

03:53:57 The thing is, we're not only talking about four months ahead, and we're not only talking about weapon meta changes, Legends meta changes most likely due to patches, we're also talking about BLGS, a little bird whispered in my ear, we're gonna be playing all the maps. I saw Olympus, I saw KC, I saw District. Things are gonna shake up so badly, not even counting the rest of everything, but just map choices and the obvious roster shuffle that's going to happen.

03:54:25 Due to lackluster results of other teams and teams wanting to move on. But it's almost like a brand new game. Four months from now, we're going to be playing a completely different game. And I'm all for it. I love big changes and keeping things fresh. Because in the end, that's what we need to do. Keep things fresh and fun. Absolutely. Absolutely. It's going to be incredibly exciting when we finally get to that point. But I've gotten to hear from Graceful. I want to get your final thoughts, Zephyr, on the day now that NA is done. We know who we're seeing in Japan. Tell me how you're feeling.

03:54:52 It's been a pleasure to be invited back to cover one of the larger events. Before we ship off these teams to the championship, it's going to take a while. I hope they've prepared snacks because four months is a distance to contain. Overall, we may not know the meta. We may not know the players. We may not know the legends that set themselves up in Sapporo, but ultimately we know one thing. The work ethic and how much practice that will go into probably the largest championship we've ever had in the ALGS is...

03:55:22 more paramount than ever before here for so many of these rosters. Ultimately, it's definitely in my heart going to be one of the crowning achievements in ALGS history when we reach Japan.

03:55:35 Absolutely. I am so excited for it. I don't want to have to wait, but I'm excited to watch the future dominance of Graceful and Dia's squad and BLGS. Dia, give me your final thoughts on everything we've seen so far. I'm dead set on you guys playing. You put the idea in my head and it's not going anywhere. I have to make sure it's okay, because if they'll let me play, but they won't let me cast, I can't do it. I love casting too much. It's just not possible. So I have to check. I have to check. But to echo the sentiments of others on the desk, it has been a really fantastic journey this year.

03:56:05 And the next couple of months are going to be a long wait in many ways, but it's a wait that's going to be very worthwhile, because to bring things to Japan, where the largest Apex fanbase in the world currently resides, is going to be a fantastic experience for the teams, for the players, and for those of you who are considering attending, I would really try your hardest to go, because this is going to be a LAN for the history books for your life to remember. So very excited to see our players, and hopefully a lot of you there.

03:56:34 Time to play in the BLGS. I could not have said it any better myself. Guys, you absolutely crushed it today on the cast. Thank you so much.

03:56:43 für Ihr Energie und Ihr Talent und Lendingen es hier zu dem Broadcast zu machen, es eine Phänomenal Day von LCQ-Action zu machen. Wir werden heute mit den LCQ-Action machen können, aber es ist so viel zu tun mit der Apex-Ledges-Kommunie im Laufe der nächsten Jahr. So, um sich auf jeden Fall zu halten mit all of es ist, folgt uns auf Social Media, auf Play Apex, auf Twitch und auf Play Apex Esports, auf X und YouTube. Und das ist, dass man nicht mehr einen Sekunden hat. Also, du hörst die Boys mentioniert es.

03:57:13 The sign-offs are open.

03:57:14 So make sure you check that out. Sign up with your team. I mean, there's $400,000 on the line. It is absolutely worth it. We've got four regions, 100K per region, and all you have to do is be level 50 or above. Now, the qualifier schedule. This is what's important because the very first qualifier is October 16th. That's going to be here before you know it. And the registration.

03:57:44 Und jetzt ein bisschen, ein bisschen, ein bisschen, ein bisschen, ein bisschen, ein bisschen, ein bisschen, ein bisschen.

03:58:13 Get ready for champs in Sapporo, Japan, and most importantly, play some Apex Legends. We'll see you in-game.