ALGS Year 4 Pro League ! Match Day 7 ! NA ! Groups A & B ! Apex Legends

NA Pro League: DarkZero und Native Gaming dominieren ALGS Year 4 Match Day 7

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- 03.03.24 - 03:31:11 - 135.604 - Apex Legends

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Die ALGS Year 4 Pro League in NA sah DarkZero und Native Gaming dominieren. Analysen beleuchten Teamzusammensetzungen, strategische Wendungen und die Bedeutung von Legend-Vielfalt. Taktische Manöver auf World's Edge und Stormpoint führten zu finalen Konfrontationen. Native Gaming überraschte mit Seer-Picks, während TSM und Optic Gaming zu kämpfen hatten. Complexity sicherte sich einen Sieg im Chaos.

Apex Legends

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Analyse der Teamzusammensetzung und Strategien in der NA Pro League

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00:02:51 Ich bin Glitter Explosion, und heute bin ich willkommen mit Vicky und Genome.

00:03:17 Ich bin ja, und ich kann nicht warten. Es ist schon lange, was es für mich ist es, was es für mich ist es für mich, seitdem ich das letzte Mal war. Und ich bin so froh, mit ihr und Genome, die wir noch nicht gesehen haben, auf der Broadcast ist, so das wird super spannend sein. Was ist das neue Veränderungen, das neue Veränderungen hat für uns? Und was ist es N.A. zu sein? Das ist die Frage hier, Litter. Ich meine, sie haben viel Druck auf ihre shoulders, aber...

00:03:48 Wir haben die Legend Genome gehört. Ich wünsche euch das Moist-DZ-Fight, das wir heute in N.A. Ah, ich war einfach nur auf Twitter. Es war eine fantastische Zeit. Und ja, die Apex-South-TAKE-OVER-KONTINUES. Wir machen es auf den Leaderboarden und jetzt in der Casting Booth. Es wird ein sehr spannender Tag. Und wir sehen uns einfach wie das Spiel war.

00:04:16 Ja, wir sehen uns auf den nächsten Tag. Wir sehen uns jetzt an unsere Standings so far. Wir starten zu setzen hier für wo unsere Teams sind. Genome, talk zu uns über diese erste Page. Ja, wir sehen uns auf der Topen.

00:04:43 Just scanning. Number one, number two. Oh, they're Apex South teams. That's crazy. There's so many Australians on this leaderboard. I don't know how that happens. I guess we're just really good. Going down there, we do see some actual North American teams. LG have been doing pretty well. TSM, never see them out of the conversation. But Elevate are probably the ones that have impressed me most in their glow up this season.

00:05:10 And then we'll move on to the second page as well here. Vicky, talk to me about some of the names that jump out to you. Disguise being on the cusp. This is always a team that likes to play with my heartstrings. And I don't know the comps that they were running yesterday. I don't know if we're going to see that stick, the Wraith, the Fuse. I know there's a lot of change up here, but I want to see more change from this squad. Even looking at teams like Optic, Gaming, Xset. They're going way back in time. I'm looking at comps from 2022. Now being...

00:05:39 Ja, und das ist ein guter Shoutout, Vicky, weil NA hat 11 Spots!

00:06:08 Wir sehen uns beim nächsten Mal, aber wir sehen uns beim nächsten Mal hier. Diese Teams sind in sogar noch mehr gefährlich. Obwohl sie sich auf 20 in der Region Finale zu machen, so sie wollen sie dort sehen, dass Meatlovers in der 21st spot ist. Aber dann auch die Relegation in den 8en Quatschen. Okay, so jemand in dieser Bubble right jetzt möchte, dass sie in der Zeit in Pro-League gehen, und weiter in der Pro-League gehen.

00:06:35 Ich glaube, es ist das, was wir hier sehen, was wir hier sehen.

00:07:02 There's more slots in NA, right? You've got 12 slots, 12 teams that are going to land, so the numbers will be a little bit lower, a little bit more forgiving than the ones we saw over in EMEA. So it was 90 for EMEA. It'll probably be a little bit lower, maybe sort of, you know, maybe 80, mid-80, something like that for North America. And, Vicky, of course, we have the middle of the pack looking even closer...

00:07:30 Ja, es ist verrückt zu sehen, wie es in generell ist. Und mit diesen Teams, ich meine all of sie, ich meine all of sie, zwei zwei, zwei, zwei, zwei, zwei, zwei, zwei, zwei, zwei, zwei, zwei, zwei, zwei, zwei, zwei.

00:07:53 Es beginnt zu sehen für die Teams, die auf der Overall Standing sind. Sie müssen wirklich die Pop-Off-Games der Leben haben, wenn sie eine Möglichkeit haben, in LAN zu spielen. All right, jetzt haben wir die Land, wir haben Gruppen A und B in unsere Competition. Und es gibt viele Squads, die wir könnten über hier sprechen sprechen. Just eine kurze Überblick auf, wer Sie möchten, um, aufzuhören, aufzuhören.

00:08:24 Man, so many, aren't there? I mean, SSG is certainly one that's tickled my fancy this year. They're up in 7th place at the moment. You know, Phoney's style as an IGL has always been quite interesting. And he's had to change it round with Xyneu being that new addition to the team who has certainly been buoying them to new hives. Some really solid choices there, Vicky. Give me your thoughts as well.

00:08:50 Optik, I want to see the green wall come up. We know that they have the potential to do it, but they just have been falling short. Usually around the rotate, they just have been very unlucky. But I also feel like last season's comps were not working at their strength. Now with perks being added into Apex, Season 20 bring a whole new slate of different legends being played.

00:09:16 I think this is the opportunity. I mean, better late than never here for the green wall to come up. All right. Well, lots of squads for us to talk about, but every time, you know, we want to narrow it down just a little bit into three specific teams that we want to be keeping our eyes on here today. It's time for us to talk about our ones to watch. We've got some great choices on the board here. We've got GKS, DZ, of course, and Eternal EC. Vicky, I want to start with your pick in GKS. Tell me about them.

00:09:41 All right, so we talked about how the top 11 teams and the winner of the Regional Final make it two split one playoffs for LAN. Well, GKS currently is sitting in number ninth in the overall standings. And after they were able to tear through the preseason qualifiers, they've been slowly ramping up each and every single Pro League day with their play. So they got fifth, I believe, last time. And they played in this lobby where they got seconds behind Moist.

00:10:07 Wenn sie in der Lobby waren, mit Group A und C zu spielen, haben sie die meisten successen. Die letzten beiden Times waren fraggen auf World's Edge. Jetzt mit der Season 20 geänderten, ich hoffe, die Team Comp zu ändern. Wir haben nicht gesehen, die Conduit zu sehen. Kat hat nicht wirklich viel geholfen, wenn man für N-Circle spielt. Ich hoffe, eine große Veränderung von der squadra in den nächsten zwei Tagen.

00:10:32 Yeah, GKS is definitely a really good shout. And we actually got a chance to speak with Naughty a little bit earlier on. Hear his thoughts on the team and their performance in the season so far.

00:10:44 What's up, everyone? I'm Naughty. My teammates are Saucer and Chaotic, and my coach is Koljen, and I'm a part of Team GKS, hoping to get signed here in the next coming weeks. Yeah, so, you know, we didn't start off so hot. I wasn't able to play the first matchday of LGS, but I played the last three, and we've been taking off, you know, progressing every week. Our Storm Point is not up to par with our World's Edge. I believe our World's Edge is top three in Pro League right now, which is pretty crazy. Our Storm Point isn't close to that yet.

00:11:13 But we're making some adjustments to that, to hopefully qual for land here this year. Yeah, so GKS is actually playing Caustic now, which is a big change for us. And I'm going to be the Caustic player. I think my playstyle adapts really well to Caustic and for the team as well. We're playing some Valkyrie as well with the buff that she got with her perks. And we're looking forward to hopefully get her Storm Point better like I was talking about earlier with Valk. And hopefully qual for land this year.

00:11:41 Und besonders, eine neue Coach als auch, sollte eine neue Karte auf dem Tisch spielen.

00:11:50 I'd love to be able to hear those stats about their World Edge performances so far, Vicky. That's impressive. Yeah, and what's even more interesting, too, Glitter, is the fact that we are starting on World's Edge this time around, so that will benefit into their gameplay if they find that strength once again. All right, well, definitely a solid pick. Genome, it's time for me to ask you, you know, it's like, would it be DZ or would it be Eternally Sports Club? No, it's definitely DZ. Tell me why you want to talk about them.

DarkZero's Dominanz und Eternal Esports Club's Aufstieg

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00:12:18 Because they're the best Glitter. That's why I want to talk about them. Obviously. I mean, you can look at any leaderboard, any stat line you want. They're on top of it. I mean, Zero and Jim Burton, the dynamic duo, have been together for such a long time now. Top two in kills, top two in damage. They are just shredding the competition. It's not just that, but the way they play these games, they are just so consistent at finding themselves in end circles.

00:12:47 You know, but it's not like they're just a consistent team. They also have the pop-off moment. And this is one of the best ones we've seen in recent times. Zero taking on his compatriots here in Moist Esports. And they've got that X-Factor as well, right? They've got the clutch gene. And you can see Zero pulling it off here. It's like...

00:13:14 Ich glaube, die LOWEST PLACEMENT hat so far in Pro League Day ist 3rd. In was die größte Region ist das eine RIDICULOUS STAT zu nehmen. Sie hatten die ROUGH CHAMPS, richtig? Sie haben zurückgebracht von das, wie niemand's business ist, denn, frankly, niemand will es mehr.

00:13:36 I mean, there's definitely a reason they are one of the only teams to hoist a trophy above their heads. But for me, I want to talk about Eternal Esports Club, okay? Yesterday, first day back in the new meta. And hands down, the best match day that they have had to date. Whether that was World's Edge or Stormpoint. I mean, this highlight package that we see running in the background is specifically from their win that they had in match number five. But this was a night and day difference when it comes to the performance.

00:14:05 Untertitelung des ZDF, 2020

00:14:18 Outside of Top 6, only one time across all of their matches. And you can see that reflected here in their stats. I mean, they were so consistent and that was something that they really needed. And then at the end of the day, we even got an opportunity to hear from Kosi in the interview as well. And he said part of the reason they were able to step it up was due to that roster change they had. We heard a lot about McLovin yesterday added into the squad recently after that midseason break. But they also just...

00:14:47 They looked mechanically better because he even said that they were winning uneven fights where they were able to overcome these armor discrepancies just because they were team fighting so much better as a squad. And if they can repeat the type of performance that we saw out of them yesterday, then they're going to continue shooting up their leaderboards. So we'll have to see if they're able to then make it into that top 11. I mean, a 10 place rank jump in one day. It's pretty impressive if I say so myself, but.

00:15:16 We won't keep you guys waiting any longer. Match number one is about ready to go, which means Vicky and Genome, it's time to dive into NA. Glitter, thank you so much. Always love talking to Glitter out here. Genome!

00:15:30 This is Genome's sixth set of games for another region, guys. You have no idea how awesome it is to sit here alongside Genome, who literally each breeds Apex. Doesn't sleep in between there, because the game must go on. Literally embodiment of Apex Legends right here. Kind of looking like how I feel after a set of ranked games just playing. You know what?

00:15:54 We strive and we keep going, and so do these pro players. I mentioned it earlier on, Genome, but we are starting off the day on World's Edge for our first three games before we transition onto Storm Point for our final three games. But Season 20 has brought in a lot of the change itself for a lot of our legends, introducing 100 new perks and the different ways that a lot of these teams can take advantage of that, as we saw yesterday.

00:16:19 Man, who's got time for sleep? As you said, Season 20 has come out. We need to be in there grinding, you know, trying to understand these perks ourselves, get our hands on them and work out, you know, how they play, what's good, what's not. And, yeah, that's what I've been doing. And, you know, now I'm here blasting it out on cast 24 hours a day, apparently.

00:16:44 I can't have it any other way, Gino. This is what we need you here for, as we take a look at the different drops for where these teams are going to be going into their POIs. Of course, we got two 50-50s going on, but Dark Zero does split that loot over by Skyhook into Trials there, too, which plays fantastically, depending on the comps that we're going to see. If they're going to still stick to what they had yesterday, I couldn't imagine otherwise the success that they had, even looking all the way down to Tempera and EEC over at Countdown.

00:17:12 Ja, genau. Ich denke, wir sehen uns das. Ich bin froh, dass Darkzir und Kreme so viel zu sein, ehrlich gesagt. Obviamente, wenn du Skyhook West in Trials spielst, wenn du Ziro in den Trials sehen, dann geht es um den Trials. Aber die anderen zwei wahrscheinlich nicht mehr so viel zu sein. Aber wir werden unsere Augen für den Countdown-Kontest gehen.

00:17:39 Yeah, it's also about the Evil Harvesters that spawn, I believe, 40 seconds after the first circle is revealed. So that's something to note with some of the rotations and the pathing that some of these teams will be taking into wherever the circle will be pulling. But when you split some of that loot, looking specifically at Dark Zero, having Trials loot, whether it be like a Gold Knockdown or anything, anything out of Trials or even having the Survey Beacon, because sometimes two Survey Beacons are put into Skyhook West and Skyhook East. It comes out really nice because if you know that,

00:18:09 Cream has already rotated quickly, or they want nothing to do with Dark Zero. This is sometimes a team that likes to play for Final Circle Positioning. If you get that second scan, because obviously you can't scan the same Survey Beacon twice, or even a Ring Console, for example, if you could just wait there by the Ring Console, that's extra points aside from an Evo Harvester that you could be farming for a higher level Evo Shield.

00:18:31 Ja, genau. Und vielleicht noch etwas zu kurz erwähnt, ist, dass dieses Woche du kannst, die Ring-Console in der Start-A-Games kann, also. Das ist noch in hier. Es wird bald sein. Wir sehen uns. Aber für den Moment, wenn du es schnellst, kannst du 400 EWO-Points, von der Ring-Console in der Start-A-Games zu starten.

Taktische Manöver und Team-Kompositionen auf World's Edge

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00:18:54 Just a nice little note, we fly by through World's Edge. Loving the transition that we have from one map to the other, halfway through Pro League, so that way some of these teams can make that quick adjustment that we can see, as taking a look at the different Legend compositions that we've been exposed to, too. From yesterday to today, a lot more Valkyrie. The Cossack is going to be a mainstay, as we've seen across multiple different regions. But I'd like to note...

00:19:21 The Mirage, the Gibby. It's been interesting. Not as much Lifeline here as we saw back in EMEA. One of the Gaming Gladiators? Yeah. Still got some Horizons there. Eternal EC. And one other thing I was keeping my eye on there. It was actually a discussion we had on the Longshot broadcast before Vicky. It was whether you put your IGL on Bloodhound or...

00:19:51 auf die Bangalore, wenn du das für die Composition hast. So, ein Team hat sich über die ganze Zeit mit das über die Woche zu tun. Und es ist interessant zu sehen, dass in DarkZero, zum Beispiel, wir sehen, Zero zurück auf die Bangalore. Ich würde sagen, er ist einer, wenn nicht die besten Bangalore in der Welt. Und Jen Burton zurück auf die Bloodhound. Again, ein Komfort pick für ihn. Einfaches Spiel für ihn, dass er schon seit dem Spiel kam.

00:20:19 Das ist wirklich cool. Ich finde, wenn du auf der Bloodhound bist, über Legend comps und die Entryfragger, IGL, wenn es um Informationen gibt, ist alles in...

00:20:30 Das Spieler-Strength, das Individual-Player-Strength und die Art und die Art und die Art und die Art und die Art. Und es sieht schon aus dem Ripp, wir sind das 50-50 hier auf Countdown. Wir sind Tempered vs. Eternal. Jetzt nicht vergessen, dass LG ist auf der Outskirche von Lava Fischer. Wir sehen die Schnauze schon, und das ist auch so stark, zu haben die Bloodhound early auf mit der Schnauze. Even wenn du nicht die Blut Evo Schnauze hier hast, es ist eine Schnauze für Schnauze auf die Schnauze. Aber es ist über die Information.

00:20:56 100% will help Temper plan their attack here against EEC. Both running the same composition. That's Bangalore, Bloodhound and Horizon. You know, not that the height is going to help them here particularly. Okay, hold on. We should be shading our way right over the nades. No pressure here from Temper. I like the approach. Trying to wrap around. You see one of the thirds from Temper trying to actually take a different off angle.

00:21:25 They're holding the corner, they hear him, takes the wallhop, but misses the first PK shot. This is the entry frag that they need. Oh, he gets B for it. He still gets a knock. A nice little trade. I love the communication coming in from Temper. Just with the Mozambican hand and no knockdown shield could save you now. They get the res and they get the reset, but look who's right around the corner, Genome. Ha ha! Not gonna let them get away with that one. Dropping gaming. Well, they might be dropping by.

00:21:55 I don't think they want him to drop in here. I mean, even running the catalyst, trying to take advantage of the third party. Crook trying to get away. Wait a minute. He tries to go for an evil shield swap, but I think it was already swapped already at his feet when they were able to get the res. He pops his shield back instead, but it's the fact that dropped in already has the blue evil shields. Well, another factor to talk about here is, Vicky, is that it looks like it's going to be a countdown ring. So, I mean...

00:22:24 Yeah, sure, you can try and take these early fights, but all of a sudden there's like five, six teams around you. And it's extra tough because, of course, these teams haven't looted properly. They've been spending all their time fighting. So as soon as these other teams pull up on them, they're going to be... It's going to be a really tough ask for them to really make anything of this game when they're going to be in absolute shambles as far as loot goes.

00:22:50 Yeah, it's not like we got a Loba to work with, too. And it's like what Gino was saying here, the circle pulling towards Countdown. Look at how many teams have made their way to Countdown. And in a circle like this, you could definitely expect a lot more teams to be alive around the second to last circle because there's a lot of real estate that these teams could play off of, whether it be the high ground, the low ground, or even sharing the same building. So expect there to be a high count of teams that will be playing out in that final circle. Now we get to see teams like Skirt making their way over.

00:23:19 Shoutout to Hambino & Co, Alverlele. Obviously wanting to take a little step back from Komp, but while they do land, they want to go out with a bang if they can't care, especially with the way that they've been able to try to work and iron out any sort of issues that they have as a team. But Skurry is going to be able to find this spot, put down the bubble.

00:23:38 Und das ist die Sache, Gino, dass wenn du für Final-Circle-Positionierst mit einem Blut Evo Schild hast, ja, es ist vieles zu tun, aber das ist was die Evo Harvesters sind für. So sie haben sich die Möglichkeit, die zweite Perk für den Late-Game zu bekommen.

00:23:52 Ja, das ist sehr true. Und, äh, eben in der Interview we had, in der Ende der EMEA-Serie mit Matafe, wie er sagt es best, right? Du wirklich kannst nicht auf die Dämpfe zu verbessern, von Blue zu Purple. Du hast zu denken über die Ressourcen around die Map, um das zu helfen, um es zu helfen.

00:24:17 Banger will try to take a different off-angle, but Shubi has the high ground. Not the health advantage, though, while Phaze is coming up and creeping up right behind him. This is three teams in the area alone. Elevate need to try to keep on to this high ground if they can. They have this already with the Cossack Traps covering one side of the platform. Zap does have two more barrels if he needs to send one out on the other side, but this is just about negating the damage that could come in from a potential third party while Phaze is in the works.

00:24:47 See a couple of teams getting into it over here in Lava Fissure as well. TSMLG and Ape Gang. Mozambique unironically coming in to try and save the day yet again.

00:25:05 I can't believe I would even picture the Mozambique being used as much as we have seen. The Beam comes in from 8th Gang. LG get eliminated, but right below them paying a visit is TSM. Waiting for the opportunity to come in. Havoc, talking about weapons in the Mozambique. Havoc has definitely been one of those weapons to make its way into the Pro League.

00:25:25 Such a great weapon, especially when you've got that turbocharger, something that HAL doesn't have at the moment, but he does have that purple extended energy mag. He got the scan and he sees it's a caustic team, so they're just backing away for now. I mean, the guy on your screen right there, Verhulst, I mean, he is essentially the one who popularized this gun, right? You know, he was playing with it last year, and all of a sudden, everyone has just decided that the amount of damage per mag that you can get...

00:25:53 Und, you know, Raven's favorite word uptime is something that the Havoc gives you, so. I've never slept on the Havoc. I was able to play this game before the Havoc. Before the Havoc even had a ramp up. When it was a menace during Season 4 to Season 5. As we see so many of these other players pick up, not just the Havoc, obviously still rocking the G7 in the car, even without the Gigi Eaten to play. But that's why you have the Bloodhound in the hands of Jed and Burden.

Ringverschiebungen und Teamrotationen in World's Edge

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00:26:21 And a lot of teams have gone into Countdown, but they're going to be sorely disappointed, Vicky, because as you can see here on the ring, it looks like it's actually heading for Lava Fisher.

00:26:43 Oh man, this is gonna be crazy with the next ring pulling south. All these teams to the north side. I mean, it's gonna be interesting to see how Dark Zero takes this rotate with...

00:26:52 TSM calling this out great, because if they hold that building that we currently saw Verlesen earlier, that northern building that then leads you into Countdown, that could allow your team to have a 50-50 rotation, whether you want to fully commit to Countdown, or if the circle benefits you and you don't have that circle ring information, you just stay in Lollafisher, and that's what TSM's doing. They're sitting pretty, and they're not going to have to move anywhere to overextend, and Dark Zero has beaten the pressure of this rotate.

00:27:17 Ja, denn wer hat diese Information? Optik wird es. Sie sind eigentlich durch Staging. ELEVATE GAMING, die einfach durch Landslide gegangen sind. Sie haben diese Information. Aber ja, die anderen Teams sind nach Countdown, wie Dark-Zero, die wir da waren, haben wir nicht. Also GKS, TSM, die Post ist jetzt in Lava Fissure. Und wir sind sehr froh, aber...

00:27:42 Uh, in a circle or two we're gonna get a big shift as these teams check their adventures and they're like, ah please do I have an evac tower in the survival slot?

00:27:55 Especially with the teams now landing with the Valkyrie ult. So much Valkyrie in this lobby compared to what we had last seen in EMEA. It's kind of like they've flipped between the Lifeline and the Valkyrie instead. Seeing more teams make their way into Lava Fissure. GKS, the team that I had on my radar, now holding that southern building. It's a good spot to hold if you want to also circle keep more of the other teams that take their time to rotate and mostly play by the edge. Thinking about teams like Optic, like you had mentioned, that we know lands over by Staxx.

00:28:22 Apegang auf der Highground hier, einfach nur die Chaos zu sehen. Aber mit mehr Kossak zu spielen, definitiv expecten diese Teams zu bunkern. Ja, das ist die Name des Spiels, mit einem Thick-Boys zu sehen. Ich liebe das zu sein.

00:28:40 So impactful in the late game as well when space is restricted and the new larger area ultimate, if you do end up going for that perk, can be extremely impressive.

00:28:56 This covers so much vision, too. Even if you don't go for the perk, that does cover the vision in general. Between the Bangalore Smokes, the Nox Gas, if you don't have a Digi, you're at risk. And that's why we're seeing much more of these pros take advantage of pistols or even the Mozem, the shotguns in general, but the Mozem, the RE. Saw that in Optic's hands.

00:29:18 While they are holding on to the high ground you see knocked with that red evo and that's all thanks that rotate here too Let's jump it to listen in with optic gaming to see what their next plan is. We're just playing into that spot where we just were yeah Someone flies into it we need a boy the fuck out of them. Oh, yeah Is it playing up zipping up from from fucking graveyard on me it's about he's running Yeah, all three is all threes

00:29:47 We can kill that Valk. Valk Blood Team. I don't think it's possible. The teammates are looking over us. That burps. Batting.

00:30:00 Ich denke, wir können jetzt einfach gehen. Ich denke, wir müssen für das Team warten. Sie müssen einfach die Heidung nehmen. Ja, ich weiß nicht, ob es gut geht. Wenn sie Valkyl, wir zippen für sie, ja? Ich bin mit dem. Ich weiß nicht, dass sie sich nicht vor uns nehmen.

00:30:21 I like the comms coming in from Optic. They're trying to plan ahead to see what the rotates are with the squad playing right below them here. But we saw in the middle of that comms where the circle is shifting. Think it's going to get a lot of efficient? Well, not wrong. It's going to be going over to that southern building over at Countdown.

00:30:40 It's a big shift back, isn't it Vicky? I mean, I guess the silver lining for some of these teams is because no one had really scanned this in advance, you know, we're not seeing teams rotate one way and then have to pull back. They're probably seeing that because obviously they can't see the next circle that we can and they're, yeah.

00:31:05 Look, they're starting to rotate now. You're seeing teams like Dark Zero. They just took an evac around the side as we see Tempa fighting for this very important spot. They take it off-skirt. Little do they know. Now they are mere meters away from where that fifth circle will be.

00:31:23 Und das ist so wichtig, dass man so einen E-Bel-Shield mit einem E-Bel-Shield-Advantage kann. Auch wenn man auf der Bühne kommt, bekommt man das extra Loot. Und wir sehen uns mehr von diesen Teams, wenn man Evac oder Valkyrie-Ult hier ist. DNO!

00:31:38 Duke, no stranger to the Valk meta himself, now gonna be able to cross in this distance with the Gibby. This is the double big boy Cop 2. We talked about it from Optic. We see it from DNO this time around instead. And they look fantastic when it comes to loot. Look at this gold extended energy mag on the Havoc, the turbocharger. Krust is looking like he is here feasting. Putting down the Mobi so that way they can also have some extra makeshift covers. A nice little creative way to not burn your bubble early.

00:32:06 Yeah, I mean, you are at risk in this location, right? Unless you go to Watson, in which case you can actually fence pretty effectively in these little corridors. But yeah, it's kind of hard to cover both sides at once effectively. So I do like the use of this double Mobi. Because as we know, when we do get one of these circles, Vicky, it tends to...

00:32:30 ...to pull around that corner where DNO is playing. So that bubble for them is about to pay off in spades. Oblivion get eliminated in your feed. Native cleaning up shop here. Still playing off that slight low ground. Going to be able to get the loot they need. Right before these teams here in Landside start engaging on this rotate.

00:32:52 Das ist manchmal ein bisschen ein Risky-Rotate, wenn die Circle etwas mehr auf den Countdown-Spot ist. Aber du bist noch in die Open für die Team von Lollafisher-Buildung, oder sogar bei der Choke, die wir mit Oxygen aufwenden können. Das kann die Freie-Pickings auf die Teams-Rotate aus Landslide nehmen.

Finale Konfrontationen und Native Gaming's Sieg

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00:33:10 Definitely some options down there. You know, Oxygen. One of those teams looking to hold out Gaming Gladiators. You can see they've already converted the care package into a Kraber.

00:33:25 Was das ein Noreg? Um... Ich habe das gehört. Ich habe gehört. Ich habe gehört. Ich habe gehört. Ich habe gehört. Unlucky. Und Boone ist auch unlucky. Sie hat den 30-30-Firmen mit dem 30-30-Firmen, während sie auf die Team in fronten. Das wird jetzt aufhören. Das wird jetzt aufhören. Schlösen die Gap. Geht ihr werfen.

00:33:52 Und Gaiman Gladiators get taken out. Das war so införtlich hier, weil sie auf der Rückseite gesehen haben. Es gab niemanden da noch. Das Elevator hat es geschafft. Die Zeit hat das Roteat perfekt.

00:34:04 Okay, Oxygen playing the cut here. So they are the team looking out towards SSG, Optic, Elevate, GKS, as they all try and walk in here through essentially open ground, but they're going to have to pick their way through a bevy of Bangalore missiles as Rolling Thunder just sweeps across the plains. Not what I was expecting on the menu here, at least when it comes to the Bangalore, folks. It's slowed down just slightly as a circle closes in.

00:34:32 Skittles takes the other route around the mountains and tries to get the beam with the REL. They get taken out in the middle of this rotate. Optic are going to beat them right back in the lobby. Ten squads left as look at their health. They're literally one shot each and every one of them, but they get the shield core swap and they stay alive for now.

00:34:52 Oxygen do the job. I liked how proactive they were about that. Going out to make sure the damage was done and any team rotating in didn't even really have time to sit there and pop meds. They just had to run at them.

00:35:09 Yeah, I mean...

00:35:36 They're in a position right now, they need to decide which way is their best option into the next circle. I think it's probably through Countdown's side. You know, there was even an interesting clip that came out last week, Vicky, where we had Verhulst and Hal discussing what the best way to get into that next circle was. And, you know, if they didn't make the right choice there, hopefully they VOD reviewed that and learned from it.

00:36:03 Oh, no. Jen gets knocked. The Circle is just doing too much damage. They're all dead. Yeah, there was no way they could rotate through this. That was unfortunate here. And coming in from the skies, this is the Verhul's Valkyrie. We've seen this before. But the moment they land, Rebs gets taken out. This is the risk when you go for these later rotates. Unfortunately, they had no other choice.

00:36:24 They get the banner, but they can get the shields up where they're at it. Unfortunately, it's only up to Verhulz and TSM die on their rotate. It is Tempher that we're waiting for them to land on top of them here. And here's the fight that's happening right in front of that Southern Countdown building. Apegan GKS so close to going down as Optional Esports overlook the fight. Get involved in the third party without turning your bets to DNO that are watching the fight.

00:36:49 I mean, smoke everywhere. The team's essentially just spraying through it. The Bloodhound in ult, probably the only one who has any idea what's actually going on in this fight. And there we go. The knockdown shields can't last forever. And Oxygen do completely clear out their southern side. They put themselves in a fantastic position now. Native Gaming eventually take that spot away from D&O. You can see their box is just there.

00:37:19 Ah, und das ist ein guter Ort für sie zu sein. Und Droppen Gaming kann die Tür öffnen und kommen hinter dem, doch. Wenn du ein Quick Patch-Up. Nichts Worte für das. Es ist Native. Re-Stabilize. Spacestation ist, dass sie auch noch alive sind, glaube ich, als Solo. Aber in der Leidenzeit von Oxygen, als sie nicht fully erinnern ist, es ist jetzt. Sie sehen, wie sie sich in der Nähe von der Nähe von der Nähe von. Es ist Oxygen, Spacestation, Droppen Gaming und Native Gaming.

00:37:50 Honestly, hard to call. Okay, so the circle is ending just in front.

00:38:00 Of this command center. So yeah, like trying to describe it as the orientation change. But just to the left here of where Dropping Gaming is looking on the platform facing out towards Oxygen. So I think all teams are eventually going to get forced out of their positions. It's kind of just depends on which one is first. Obviously that faint circle in the middle there was giving you the indication of where these teams will be heading towards. But who gets forced out first? Vicky, that's always the question.

00:38:29 Das ist der Problem, mit Droppen Gaming zu machen, der 3rd Party auf der Minute des Spiel ist, dass sie die Möglichkeit haben, Evil Harvesters zu bekommen, das ist warum sie in der Final-Circle mit nur Blue Evo Shields spielen. Sie landen in Landslide, 3rd Party Temper, und EEC, und das ist wo sie nicht aus dem Beginn des Spiel, minus vielleicht die Death Boxen, die sich außerhalb der Armoury-Doors aussehen. So das ist so schwierig zu machen, mit jeder anderen hat Purple.

00:38:56 Yet the legends in play here are also going to make a big difference. Catalyst from the inside with her wall available, that'll be a big factor. We've also not really talked about yet that Klain is on Seer. So, you know, will he have the exhibit up? Obviously not a character that we've seen a lot so far in this Season 20 patch. Time to get an inkling of whether that's going to pay off or not.

00:39:21 Oh, but the Catwall also being waited to use at the very end. Huge as Zynou punches him into the circle. Space Nation is somehow still alive, but I'm not too sure for how long. Three squads left. SSG Gar in third. Our last two squads between Native Gaming, Dropped in Gaming, and Native take game number one.

00:39:46 Big plays from Native. I mean, we talked about how good that spot was when D&O were there. And of course, if you can beat them out for it, you are rewarded. Luxvidi, of course, coming across from the Meat Riders. So that pickup is certainly looking pretty good if you are Klain and Rambo right now. It's nice to also see the Seer being utilized when we see so much Bloodhound.

00:40:15 I guess it's the consideration that you can see everything through the Bangalore Smokes, the Caustic Gas Traps, even with the Exhibit up, or if you manage to get that tactical out too, and you get to keep the scan on them for longer, as that is one of the perks available for Seer. You can just keep that enemy highlighted like you can for Bloodhound. But they also, I believe, had that rotate from Monument quickly over to Countdown, so they had to wrap around Countdown and still fight for their way into that final circle, because if you were rotating from the Landside side,

00:40:44 for that final circle, that was incredibly difficult. And that's why only Oxygen was able to come out from that choke. Yeah, because they were the first there, right? Like it's, yeah, once you were set up in that position, it was incredibly hard, as you said. I mean, we saw how many bang ults got thrown out. It didn't really matter which team you were, you know, you were like maybe three or four coming out at the same time. And at that point, you almost can't even heal through it.

00:41:13 Yeah, I'm wondering here, a lot of the teams that fell

00:41:16 Early on in that game, Luminosity, unfortunately, falling pretty early for that game. Number one, let's take a look at the match results and see what happened here. Native Gaming, not only take the dub, but they take it with 10 KP to their name. Dropped in, saw where they rotated, where they were, and they were able to get the 2 KP from the third party that they came in originally from, with Space Station surviving to the very end, surviving over Oxygen, that tried to contest that rat.

00:41:43 Ja, ein bisschen ein outlierer da. Tempo mit 9 ist, ja, ist ja, ziemlich beeindruckt bei dem.

00:42:03 Um, as we move down, we get to see Elevate Gaming, who managed to pick up a couple. Gaming Gladiators, who I think maybe took out one of those teams, uh, around Landslide before falling in the, the great push towards Oxygen. Uh, and then below there, it's, uh, it's Slim Pickings. Yeah, that's, that's what we're talking about. LG all the way at the bottom, 19th Eternal as well.

00:42:28 Das war's, was wir sehen, was wir sehen, was wir sehen, was wir sehen, was wir sehen, was wir sehen, was wir sehen, was wir sehen, was wir sehen, was wir sehen, was wir sehen, was wir sehen, was wir sehen, was wir sehen, was wir sehen, was wir sehen, was wir sehen, was wir sehen, was wir sehen, was wir sehen, was wir sehen, was wir sehen, was wir sehen, was wir sehen, was wir sehen, was wir sehen, was wir sehen, was wir sehen, was wir sehen, was wir sehen, was wir sehen, was wir sehen, was wir sehen, was wir sehen.

00:42:51 I mean, at least they've given themselves the good vibes to start with, right? They've given themselves the chance to start getting that momentum. We know Rambo can definitely get high on those.

Legend Vielfalt und regionale Unterschiede

00:43:04

00:43:04 Rambo ist immer anders gebaut, aber es ist eine große Show für unsere erste Spiel. Wir sehen uns die Diversität Legend pick, die wir vorhin hatten, vor allem mit der Seer zu spielen, statt der Blowdown zu spielen. Kann das helfen, die in diesen Fights zu halten? Wir werden uns sehen, als wir für die Nummer 2 auf den anderen Seite sehen. Don't gehen, denn wir haben noch mehr World's Edge action.

00:45:40 Ich war nicht, ich bin nicht zu lieben. Es gab viele Characters, nicht nur meine Short-List, aber meine Long-List und Sia war nicht auf das.

00:46:07 Das war's, wie Vicky hat es gesagt, es gibt noch mehr Double Big Boi auf dem Optik. Sie haben auch die Vowel geändert, um es zu verändern, um es zu verändern. Aber wir haben...

00:46:20 So we're still getting a little bit of variety here in NA, which I love to see right now. I'm not mad about it. Yeah, I mean, I think there's a lot of viewers that want to see Gibby back, right? There's just something about bubble fights, the way it enables M&K players, if you're a fan, the way it enables shotguns. Just a couple of things that I feel like we've been missing from Apex. We've been missing from the competitive scene for maybe a year or so now.

00:46:49 I think we're ready to have that fresh injection of something a little bit different back into the game. Yeah, and the Shotguns is a good caller, too, because we've talked about how important they've become with the changes made to the DigiThreat not being on the SMGs now, and then you combine that with the likes of a Gibraltar, and that is something that can be super useful, especially for the Chaos that is those final endgame fights.

00:47:15 So it's interesting to see the way that the different regions are utilizing the different legends. Yeah, it's always a fun time sort of, you know, comparing the different regions and then, of course, seeing how all those styles clash together at LAN, right? And, I mean, obviously with most regions picking up that Bang, Blood, Caustic are the most.

00:47:40 So, again, Caustic is one of those runaway picks where, you know, it starts to snowball, you get a couple and the rest of the lobby kind of feels like they have to follow suit. So, potential for that if we get these different regions playing against each other once we get onto the big stage too.

00:47:59 Yeah, land is going to be really exciting in this meta. I cannot wait to see what happens there. But of course, we're still talking about what we've got going on right now. If you're just joining us, we're in match number two, heading into our next match on World's Edge. I want to see if we get, we do, we're getting another Seer Native game and sticking with it after it went really well for them in match number one.

00:48:23 Und ich möchte, ob es das könnte, um die Opinion zu verändern, wenn es um diese Legends gibt. Obviamente, wir haben einige Watsons in da, wir haben einige Valks in da.

00:48:33 I kind of harped on NA for not really having as much Legend variety. I feel like I'm getting proven wrong right now, and this is exciting. I mean, even the Watson Catalyst, we're seeing come out of dropping gaming, right? That's something I question. I think in terms of how it plays together, it's really good, right? If you find a spot in Zone, it's incredibly powerful, but...

00:48:59 You're also sacrificing a bunch of EVO upgrade by doubling up on a class there as well. So that's definitely something that these teams have to consider. But, you know, it's essentially the comp that Blackhand, now Legends Gaming, popularized at Champs.

Countdown-Contest und Team-Strategien

00:49:21

00:49:21 Now, one of the things that did happen early on in match number one was this contest over at Countdown between Temper and EEC. It did not go the way of EEC in match number one. And it looked like it could have potentially boded really well for Temper when we saw where that first zone ended up shifting straight on to Countdown. But Temper could not fend off all of the other squads who eventually started pushing in, trying to hold for position. We see now, though, that these two teams are...

00:49:50 ...und opting for a more conservative contest. They're splitting Countdown right now, not going for that same initial engagement. Although, EEC does look like they're trying to at least kind of keep an eye on Temper and see if they can maybe do a little bit of poke damage here. And it's interesting how Countdown contests have changed as well. Because you've got to think about before, it was really a rush for those armors in the middle of Countdown. You wanted to pop them out and try and grab a blue or a purple. That way, not really a factor anymore. So yeah, they are just...

00:50:20 Splitting it south to north. And now finally getting into a bit of a fight.

00:50:28 Looks like McLovin making a push up here as they're able to get a little bit of space in Temper's area. But Kosi takes a lot of damage, forcing the Smokes out and having to back off here. Maybe get some heals going, get those shields back up and hopefully have enough time before Temper tries to make a move knowing they've got a little bit of an advantage here. They are able to find him down low. Carter goes down. Kosi...

00:50:55 Honestly, it's down to one for EEC. This is going to be another push here for Temper that could go in their favor. Yeah, they're covering all the angles. Trying to use that double time to get away, but cannot. That's EEC going down this time. So Temper, after a very good game one, might be looking to push themselves off the bottom of those overall standings.

00:51:24 Not in a bad space yet again when it's going to come to a rotation here as we get a look at the zone for the first time. Epicenter is going to be a little bit of a hotbed, but now we actually get to jump on board with complexity.

Spielgeschehen und Teamdynamiken

00:51:40

00:51:40 Und auch die Squad, die die erste Spiel gewonnen hat. Ich glaube, ich sah Native in da. Right now, Lu dealing some damage. Also pointing out, Retsy ist in für die Squad hier. Kimchi nicht able zu spielen. So wir werden sehen, was Complexity kann mit ein bisschen switch-up machen.

00:51:55 Ja, ein bisschen sad zu sehen, Kim Chi, ich sah ein Tweet von ihm, ich glaube es war es, ich bin so stolz, wie viel Komplexität hat kommen, wie viele Leute sie haben, und sie wirklich haben, die Haters hier haben, es hat Spaß zu sehen. Diener zu versuchen, aber Monsoon! Oh, he just loves zu lighten up die Highlight Reels mit dem Sentinels, und wieder...

00:52:24 Just waits for the perfect shot at the apex and sayonara. Just a little clip for the highlight reel there out of Monsoon. Doing a good job. Also putting Native on a back foot now. As they are going to have to deal with having lost one of their players.

00:52:46 Nice trade out there from Verhulst and Reps.

00:53:15 Um, they need to be quick about it. Ape Gang have heard the commotion and they're pulling up. I doubt they'll be able to get the res.

00:53:25 Ja, das ist kind of massive, honestly.

00:53:54 Faze, die über die Geyser waren, könnte haben eine ziemlich einfache Rotation gehabt haben. Jetzt haben sie eine große Gruppe gemacht. TSM able to stay alive. Ape Gang fokussiert auf Optic Gaming. Both die Teams moving past Overlook. Meanwhile, wir haben zu check-in mit dem Tempher haben. Sie haben in diesem Bereich gehalten, nachdem sie zu gewinnen, der Contest gegen Eternal gewinnen. Und jetzt werden sie durch den Tunnel hier in Skye gehen und versuchen, für ein bisschen safer, langer...

00:54:22 Ja, sie haben sich ziemlich viel Platz für sie zu arbeiten. Ja, sie haben viel für sie sich da in Skyhook. Dark Zero und Kreamer sind irgendwie lurken, aber als das Circle closes in, wir haben eine Idee, ob es ein Acclimatizer-Circle ist, vielleicht ein Epi-Center-One, als Teams haben sie ihre Betten auf die Seite.

00:54:51 Dark Zero. Of course, with that Bloodhound, we'll be able to pull up onto this house and get the player scan. Ooh.

00:55:08 Well, that shift is definitely going to start setting up some of our teams to be pretty comfortable. You can see where a lot of these squads are trying to hold a little bit of position. LG was alone in that Climatizer area, kind of holding that down, but Optic Gaming starting to make a move into their space, and we had mentioned Overlook as well. Apegang ended up sticking around, and TSM eventually had to rotate through, so now TSM finding themselves back in a fight here with Apegang. But I doubt...

00:55:37 Ja, das ist ja auch da. Ich meine, Verhulst, auf der Valkyrie, kann man auf die Seite auf die Seite sein. Es ist ein starker Spot, mit weniger Horizon, um, als es an der Start des Splits gibt. Um, Vertical Supremacy, da ist, uh, etwas, was für ein bisschen.

00:56:07 Dark Zero don't have any of that themselves. They've got to rely on Brute Strength, a lot of fighting power coming out in this Bang Blood Caustic comp. Both, you know, obviously the Smokes and the Beast of the Hunt providing it at sort of, you know, mid to long ranges and then the Caustic up close is quite deadly.

00:56:30 Yeah, I'm still looking at the map here with Apegang. That was actually a huge, a really strong call to back away from that fight. They were also able to hit an Evo Harvester and get their shields leveled up as they rotated away. Now they're giving themselves a little bit of time to find some position. So that was really, really strong on behalf of that squad. Meanwhile, TSM still in the area and Complexity now making that late rotate. Something I said, but they could potentially have to worry about one of those squads coming through, trying to do some poke damage in the backs of TSM and Complexity looking.

00:56:59 Ich bin ganz einfach hier mit den Purple Evos. So, während sie versuchen, ob sie zu entscheiden, ob sie zu kämpfen müssen, schauen und schauen, was sie haben zu sehen.

00:57:25 Ja, ja. Ja, ja. Ja, ja, ja.

Taktische Manöver und Team-Kämpfe

00:57:50

00:57:50 We need to check our back what we do so easy here was yeah smoke me smoke me if you can I'm looking back south It's a caustic bang bloodhound we might have angles on them. They're not in a good spot here. I need to go They dropped a little on this hotel, okay this fucking thing

00:58:16 Like in the middle of the open. Yeah, I don't see you see that guy. No, I don't see anybody right here 95

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00:58:51 Ja, he ist in-zone hier! In-zone hier! In-zone hier! In-zone hier! In-zone hier! In-zone hier! In-zone hier! In-zone hier! In-zone hier! In-zone hier! In-zone hier! In-zone hier!

00:59:07 He's in zone, there's a fucking hound in zone, in zone! Yeah, yeah, there's another hound over here, it's the solo hound from here. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I think we should probably drop and look in the tunnel right now. Can somebody come with me? There's one hound in tunnel right now. Can somebody stay on top and look? I'll stay on top, I'll stay on top. We just need to find a spot, we'll kill them on zone close. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I need to look in front of us. They rest, they rest.

00:59:28 Over on the left. Yeah, I don't know if we can do anything. Oh Complexity gets a better of TSM you can still see how still alive there now he actually is writing I don't think they actually were running great complexity called it before that might have spin some poor awareness But hey, they turned it around in no time at all

00:59:51 Das war beeindruckend, weil sie nicht nur wirklich auf den TSM zu bewegen können, aber sie einfach weitergegangen sind. Und sie haben dann auch das ganze Teil des Zones gelehrt. Aber jetzt sind sie mit DnL-Gaming. Sie haben jetzt schon wieder auf den DnL-Gaming geschlossen, nachdem sie in den Komplexität und Monsoons geschlossen sind. Und jetzt sind sie wieder zurück. Sie sind nur Sennox, der sie versuchen, zu bewegen, um Temp...

01:00:16 Tries to escape, but then the third party comes through.

01:00:23 Was that Hal? Sorry, did Hal get that last kill? I don't know. I was trying to pay attention to the kill feed. That was Chaos. If that was Hal, then that was insane. Was that like the best timing ever to jump in on that third party? I mean, look, if anyone could do it, it's Hal, right? That's pretty cool. He might actually run into another solo. Native Gaming is just ahead of him. If he wants another 1v1, well...

01:00:49 Hier ist die Chance. Oh, da ist ein Barrel in der Weg, doch. Ich meine, ja, du hast zu worry, an dieser Stelle, weil du, äh, du hast eine Team rundherum. Du hast nicht einen Solo. Er kann... Oh, Controller Moment struggles zu kommen! Oh, man. Das ist... Hull ist immer einer der besten Bewegung, als Controller Spieler, aber du kannst sie sehen, er ist ein bisschen mit dem Lava River.

01:01:18 Aber das war ein Impressives Survival auf behalf des Hawell, auch noch mehr KP auf dem Board. Meanwhile, Complexity, die auf einen absoluten Slaing-Tear sind, jetzt finden sich in dieser Geburt, nach einem Monsoon, wenn ich mich nicht. Ape Gang ist in, versucht, die Squad zu entfernen.

01:01:37 Yeah, they're gonna have to start shifting west, though Glitter, they'll have to go past Dropping Gaming, we saw them, um, you know, kind of being the trolls under the bridge, locking down that one that goes into Epicenter.

01:02:04 Geheimen Gladiators will go a bit more south, and then you've got the people who are actually in Epicenter, and I feel like you almost never expect the zone to end here, so the fact that Dark Zero, SSG, and Elevator even ended up in this area is either luck or some just, you know, amazing shotcalling. 2000 IQ. Okay, that's what it is. Not to mention, DZ's been holding this low ground underneath SSG, and just kind of...

01:02:29 Kautiously coexisting for quite some time. Meanwhile, everybody that's even remotely close to the edge is about to find themselves in the middle of an engagement. Like you said, drop-in gaming is doing a good job gatekeeping that eastern edge of the zone, and Apegang will have to push through that. But OXG, one of those teams that helped Complexity take out some of those teams in the middle, now finding themselves running into gaming gladiators.

01:02:54 Ja, Oxygen Esports playing.

01:03:06 Trolls 2, the sequel, I guess, because they're on the other bridge down the bottom and they essentially gave Gaming Gladiators that same treatment that Dropping Gaming are looking to do to Ape Gang right now. With maybe a little bit of help from Optic as well, who took a rotate in via Evac, I believe, to make it across the Lava River. And then, yeah, we've got all our other teams, the LG Duo, Elevate, Dark Zero, SSG are safer on the western side.

01:03:35 No mehr gibbys allowed, so we won't be getting any late-game bubble fights here, but we do have a Kraber in the hand of Skittle Cakes, trying to see if he can land any shots here on the squads around us. You can see just how much Caustic Gas is being used to zone right now.

01:03:58 In this area, I mean, that's going to at least give OpTic a little bit of time to decide how they want to handle this because there's so many teams around them and they know they have to continue moving in that they have to pick a direction to do that safely. They've got drop in gaming above them who still have eighth gang in the vicinity LG is up there as well. So you can see in this overview just how many teams are about to get into it. LG surprise dropped in with that.

01:04:25 Um, they can, you know, potentially make this happen now, because it's a 2v2. If they want to take this fight, they need it, um, you know, to get that sort of, uh, have that element of surprise. I mean, talk about maximizing your situation when you were in a 2v3. That was huge. It also opens up the door for Apegang to take a different route in, maybe clean up some of this KP instead of having to push through drop in gaming. It's not going super well for them, but Dan is able...

01:04:54 Zones closing though, Glittertime is running out. He's trying to work out how he can even make it out of this situation.

01:05:20 Might be time to pop the Evac, run up the stairs, he's gonna be running straight into that LG duo. Octa Gaming getting caught in the crosshairs of everybody down low, like you said, now LG the next in line for Apegang, but Apegang is the one that goes down, sweet, still alive, Fun still alive, they've effectively cleared out this low ground, but now everybody knows where they are, someone's gonna try and clean them up, they have to move in, you see Elevate down there as well, and things are getting chaotic.

01:05:50 Teams on this side shoved into small positions, but Dark Zero, like usual, are bullying the teams around them, using damage as a way to force the other teams away from them and clear space for themselves. As it stands, they've got about half this final zone to themselves.

Entscheidende Momente und Spielausgang

01:06:13

01:06:13 Just phenomenal positioning on behalf of Dark Zero. They have really, really solid sightlines on the rest of the teams as well and know that a lot of fights have been happening so there is the potential for those teams on the other half of the zone to at least be on a little bit of a back foot either down to a duo or having taken a lot of damage. I don't even know.

01:06:34 Es ist zu kommen, so wir werden einfach ein bisschen climb, damit niemand weiß es. Das ist nicht funktioniert. Oh, das ist auch stopp. Oh, nein! Oh, das ist auch stopp. Oh, nein! Oh, das ist auch stopp. Oh, nein! Oh, ein bisschen push aus DZ. Das ist doch nicht so, und das könnte für uns...

01:07:06 They are able to get a reset. DZ about to go up in a 3v3 against a very healthy OXG. Sykes needing just a few more seconds to get his health back up fully. And then we can see how these two squads are going to close it out. But OXG lose Vayne. They're now down to two. DZ trying to hold them off. The knockdown shield's coming to play. Vries, the last hope. And DZ don't let OXG take it. They close out match number two.

01:07:35 The Clutch Gene, there it is. Even when they were down health. I mean, yeah, as you said, oxygen pulling into that. They've got, you know, full reds, full hell, full everything. What more could you want? They even had the Caustic Ultimate. Doesn't matter. Doesn't matter, Glitter. Literally, three seconds sooner. I think if they had just pushed in...

01:08:02 If they had been ready to go a little bit sooner, that could have been a fight that went in OHG's favor because they had three Reds, everybody full health, their kits ready to go. I mean, I think it was just that split second of indecision that gave DZ the opportunity to get Sykes back up and fully reset. Yeah, I think Zach agrees with you. You had some advice for Oxygen in the lobby chat just now. He said, I think just let DZ Rez.

01:08:30 Ja, um...

01:08:34 I think he might be onto something there. And it was an important fight as well. You know, not to take away from Oxygen and what they've done so far, right? Because they were sitting in number one spot going into that final fight. So they're essentially fighting with DZ over first place in this lobby. And that fight may have meant that Dark Zero leapfrogged them and start sort of taking that momentum away from them. Definitely.

01:09:03 Well played on behalf of DZ. Still a strong finish for OXG. They even had the 9 kills to go with it, but the 13 KP for DZ. I mean, you've got to be happy, Genome. This is what you wanted. It is. It is. I am happy. There's a smile on my face right now. 25 points in a single game here.

01:09:26 Dark Zero putting numbers up already. Big shoutout to LG here. 5 Placement Points and 3 Kills for 8. Considering they were a duo for the last 3 Circles or something, that really impressed me. The way they were able to navigate that.

01:09:47 Uh, especially when you think about how many Bloodhounds are in the lobby right now, how easy it is to send, identify, and then send duos. Uh, well played. I mean, we'll take a look at the second page here, but there's lots of teams not on this first page that I feel like still had impressive performances. I'm talking about complexity. They had eight kills. They just went out a little bit earlier than they would have liked, but the slaying power that we saw coming out of that squad, I think even Lou had...

01:10:14 Er hat fast 2,000 damage zu ihm, die meisten damage in der Lobby für das letzte Spiel. Also, das ist nicht wirklich, der Platz ist, nicht reflektiv der Performance, die wir sehen, und die HAL, den ganzen Genome zu retten.

01:10:29 Ja. Ja. Ich bin, ich bin, ich bin, ich bin, ich bin, ich bin, ich bin, ich bin, ich bin, ich bin, ich bin, ich bin, ich bin, ich bin, ich bin, ich bin, ich bin, ich bin, ich bin, ich bin, ich bin, ich bin, ich bin, ich bin, ich bin, ich bin, ich bin, ich bin, ich bin, ich bin, ich bin, ich bin, ich bin, ich bin, ich bin, ich bin, ich bin, ich bin, ich bin, ich bin, ich bin, ich bin, ich bin,

01:10:51 That was before they made fundamental changes to the game where you could heal, you could take out your weapons, and oobing was a lot more effective. You had people oobing with caustic gas, right? Like throwing a caustic ultimate from the high ground and then just dropping down into it. You can't do any of that anymore. You drop down, you're essentially kind of like naked when you get there and you have to reholster or like unholster your guns and come out of it. And that's why we saw Temper take them out when we went over to Countdown.

01:11:20 I just don't know about Valkyrie. You lose a lot of power within fights. And sure, TSM have got spades of that to start off with naturally with a firepower on their team. But it does feel like they need a little extra something here. Well, we'll have to see if they continue on with the comp or not. But we also need to talk about our top two squads because they both had impressive performances. I know.

01:11:49 People might be upset that OXG let DZ get that rest, but look at the damage coming out of OXG. Outside of that, they still had a strong game. They had over 3,500 damage for their 9 kills compared to DZ's 3k damage per 12. To be fair, DZ was more efficient, but both of these squads are really, really strong. Yeah, I mean, nothing to take away from either of them really is there, but, you know, it's a 6-point swing.

01:12:15 Das letzte Mal. Ja.

01:12:39 Wir haben sechs in total, also vier mehr.

01:13:05 in store for everybody, but only one more on World's Edge as far as our side of things. So that means it's time for another short break while our players get ready to get into match number three. So don't go anywhere. You're watching the Apex Legends Global Series.

Strategische Wendungen und Teamdynamiken im weiteren Spielverlauf

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01:15:10 Welcome back, everyone, to the ALGS. I am back here alongside Genome, letting Glitter take a break and back up here. But man, what a game number two that is. Dark Zero, Genome. I know, I know you are facing right now. I know that you've had Dark Zero on your sites for so long. All for the right reasons, right? We all have. And they still stay as consistent as ever. But it looks like our pros here aren't wasting any time. Let's jump into game number three, our final game on World's Edge.

01:15:39 I miss him, Vicky. That's why I'm back here. I miss my boys. I miss the Moist boys even, you know. They made their way over to NA. Sometimes we get to see them at LAN. That's great. But, you know, I just wanted to check in with them midway in the split. And it turns out they're doing pretty good. Genome's a part of the OG Burger Brigade, all right? I'll never forget that, all right? We've got to see how some of these teams play things out here looking at the countdown 50-50 that we...

01:16:08 A lot of changes coming through from this season.

01:16:40 Haha!

01:16:42 Including, uh, all of your contests will essentially happen on White Armors now. So, as you can see, across the board, Evo Harvesters coming online. There is one to the west of Countdown. Neither of the contesting teams are anywhere close to it to try and give themselves an advantage in that way. In fact, they may actually just dip. Temper have gone already. And as you can see, uh, the circle's heading towards staging.

01:17:11 So Oxygen, who have already been doing very well, have been given yet another boon.

01:17:20 Oh man, but as you said, that reads and veins get deleted. Jophtin Gaming trying to capitalize, but the third party is around the corner. We did see LG make a quick rotate from Lava Fisher already into staging. So with Jophtin playing off this low ground, it can be a little risky unless they find a way onto the bridge, and there's the beam right on top. It is LG making their way to involve themselves in this fight.

01:17:49 Hmm, nice little pick up for them to start with. LG, as we said, making the most of a mess last game. Funk already getting a kill on the table. They can start trying to make their way a little further up the leaderboard now.

01:18:14 Oh, they went for that Res Frame 1. They did not waste any time on that one. Immediately was able to get that player right back in. Dropped in. What do you reckon? Were they just doing it for the Evo, Vicky? Ha, it could be for the Evo. They got the Servant to their left, or rather to their south side of Mirage.

01:18:35 Das ist wirklich verrückt. Du musst also vorstellen, dass die anderen Teams auf der Landseite zu sehen, dass Rez vielleicht starten von der Westseite, wo das Circle ist. Es gibt noch mehr Teams jetzt auf die Low-Ground. Ape Gan pingen die Squad, das ist oben. Es ist Oxygen, LG auf der Train-Track, GKS auf Land-Thermal. Ich glaube, jetzt haben sie in den Evac geholfen. Du kannst sie jetzt auf der anderen Seite gehen. Das ist Complexity. So zwei Teams sind jetzt auf der Landseite.

01:19:01 Oh boy, it is getting very risky up here on the train tracks. Scans, I'm sure will reveal that. TSM might even think twice about fighting this. Yeah, you see the number pop up. Six hostiles? Ah, maybe not. It was just chill.

01:19:29 He turned around so quick. Oh, nice ping. He called it out too. Somebody playing off that tunnel side. That could be GKS who have actually rotated away from that choke leaving Thermal around the corner or Oblivion who rotated away from Harvester. It does look like it's Oblivion looking at the players inside. Yes, Splinter is going to be able to pop that shield cell.

01:19:52 Sie werden nicht verlassen, aber der einzige Team das Oblivion braucht, ist GKS, die immer noch auf dem Thermal.

01:20:06 Yeah, bottom and top of the tracks though, I think, so they might be okay for the moment. I like LG playing in Dorito here. That's a solid option when you get one of these circles and, you know, it's probably going to be staging, but it can pull a bit towards thermal. It just gives you options, especially when they've got evacs in hand, as you can see, at least one on Funk there.

01:20:35 Monk's got great attachments on this 30-30. All purple, a Skullpiercer ready to go. Won't be Blue Evo for long as Optic take Gong to the roof before going inside of the building actually instead. They do hear there's another team inside of this. Nock does have that turbo ready. Immediately starts blasting away. Oh, he quick with it. He's quick with the barrels.

01:20:59 Cute little taps there. Just gotta show off just a little bit. You didn't get the scan though, right? Right underneath them. But it's still knowing that there is a team playing right underneath this middle Lava Siphon building. And with a lot of the other southern teams, you have to imagine, Lava Siphon is in that middle point of the south side of World's Edge. So a lot of teams like to rotate through here. So there could be a third to fourth party coming in. Definitely, there's five teams in Lava Siphon. All the surrounds at the moment.

01:21:30 They probably will start pulling out very soon though, as they realise, uh, certainly not where the circle is heading. Still 20 squads and all 60 players still alive as we take a look at the circle. So we've had one kill. Got that res going.

01:21:57 Das ist wo Mirage Ortois wirklich kommt, wenn es das Mobi hat, oder eher das Re-Spawn Beacon.

01:22:05 Now we get to take a look at DNO with their rotate. This is one of the teams rocking the Valkyrie double big boy. But they take their time to rotate into that next circle here. Playing in the ring so that way they can get that survey beacon if they can. Any extra points to build up that evil shield. Go from, in terms of pathing, evil harvester to evil harvester if they can. But Jen pokes out for just a second. Does get beamed there. Holding that corner amazingly here. So they're just backing away for right now.

01:22:32 Yeah, Zero pops the Rolling Thunder there. Too much damage, wants to make sure that they've definitely got time to reset. They just actually popped into the circle quickly to get the scan over at Lava Fissure. So you can just see on the minimap there, Dark Zero do have zone info for zone 3. Do they want to use that to try and push in on the north side of staging, or do they go through the landslide tunnel?

01:22:59 Ich glaube, wir sehen hier, an dem Moment, es sieht aus wie sie sind für Blood. Green being in front of them. Sykes popping the shield bat.

01:23:08 Currently, the way that Cream is playing is a little spread out. Two of them on the right side. Zero and Jen try to swing on them. Sykes is still playing behind to make sure that the one member that's behind them from Cream cannot take a different off-angle. Gets right back onto the high ground. But this fight is taking quite some time. Teams like Eternal who are playing more by the edge, still by Mirage Atoile. May try to take some poke damage if they have the weapons for it.

01:23:35 Jen still holding that headglitch by the hilltop, but none of these two teams are trying to fully engage just yet. There hasn't really been an opening opportunity yet with the circle closing in too.

01:23:47 No, still 60 players. A lot of damage coming out, but only resources being Blender Sykes goes down too soon. And Elevate, this is exactly the wrong time. They can't even... Oh, I don't know if they're going to get out of this. I think Elevate are probably going to come in off the other side. And Dark Zero might just get sandwiched here.

01:24:12 Yeah, Dark Zero losing out on that third right at that moment. With Elevate coming in from the Monument Tunnel. It's just unfortunate timing there. We have to see. And feeds, they do drop as we did say goodbye to one of our first teams already. 19 squads left though with Ring 2 closing in. LG are holding on to this high ground. A good spot to be in without being in the chaos of the teams that are trying to fight for the train tracks.

01:24:38 Wir müssen uns hinter den Teams von Thurnal oder Eternal zu sehen, die in Mirage sind. Es war die Komplexität, eigentlich. Ein bisschen Unfortunate. Wir haben so viele Highlights von ihnen in den letzten Wochen. Es ist eine sehr spannende Team zu sehen. Der Package ist an LG. Oh, sie haben die Evo-Cache.

01:25:07 Massive I like how they give it to Sweet here too Stay in the fight a lot longer to provide those smokes

01:25:15 Native Gaming playing right underneath a team. Bocek's everywhere. Oh, Lux40 gets deleted, though. The follow-up after the initial Nemesis hit into the Hemlock from Zynu. Senior Feast, Dark Zero, the second team to get eliminated after their win in that last game. Now going out second to last. Rambo's trying to fight for his life here, too. Trying to restabilize. Klain is at least inside the circle, but with that team above him, there's no way where they could find their way right back to Klain.

01:25:49 Circle actually shifts to the one similar that we saw earlier today, Vicky, where... Who's that team on the hill? Oh, they set up the Watson fences in one. Over by the hillside? Yeah.

01:26:10 Think about the hill that exits out of Harvester by that tunnel. If you do sit up on that hillside early on in a circle like this, it could be risky if you have the Cossack. With the Watson, it could come in clutch, especially with the Creeping Garage. But I'm thinking that hillside south of the Volt Tunnel exiting out of Landslide here where the circle is going to be pulling. So many teams are going to be playing by the edge. It's TSM that are in Grandma's house.

01:26:36 Outside of staging for this next pool. As you can see in the minimap on your top left screen. While Temper do get involved in this fight. No Mirage here. Sorry Mirage Enjoyers. But we do have a Gold Devo in their hands. So let's see what they can cook up with this. And the Mozem with the Digi. So looking right through the smoke. It's a nice little swap up here.

01:26:56 A lot of people are obviously going for the Havoc these days, not so much love for the Devo anymore. It used to be, yeah, if you picked up the turbocharger, you were generally looking for a Devo in years past, but it's certainly changed around now with the Nemesis coming through and the Volt. These days you'd have to say the Devo is probably the least used energy weapon.

01:27:22 You usually see people opting more so for that havoc and stuff.

01:27:27 ELEVATE GAMING moving into the tunnels themselves. Talking about the Havoc. I pull a mag, a turbo ready to go from Zack. Activates pieces behind to start engaging on a fight here. Let's jump into a listen-in real quick. I'll engage on this fight with ELEVATE GAMING. We're safe here. We're safe here. We're safe here. We're safe here. We're safe here. We're safe here. We're safe here. We're safe here. Hold on. Give me Watson. No. We'll walk out. Walk out.

01:27:54 We can wrap. We can wrap if we get a lot of medkits. How many is a lot, bro? We're not wrapping. There's no luck. I can bang all, but the gen is going to take some. The gen is on height. Do we have... You have bang, right? Yeah, I have bang all. I'm a Papa Phoenix. Is it a full three out there? Yes, it is. It is. It's full three. I only have one medkits in all my light meds, too. We need to figure out... We need to identify their comp. I'm pretty sure they're Watson, not a comp thing. Yeah, it's Watson.

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01:29:15 I've never seen that before. Scurry gets deleted right afterwards. And they lose the fight because of it. No way. After they had the advantage originally too.

01:29:33 Wow. Das ist definitiv etwas, dass sie wiederholt werden. GKS geht, um auf dem Thermal zu bewegen. Sieht auf die Kossack-Büro. Sieht auf den Kossack-Büro. Sieht auf den Kossack-Büro. Sieht auf den Kossack-Büro. Sieht auf den Kossack-Büro. Sieht auf den Kossack-Büro. Sieht auf den Kossack-Büro. Sieht auf den Kossack.

01:30:00 Faze will be in inside the building in Harvester, though.

01:30:22 Very happy with that Ape Gang. They've got Droppin Gaming above them. Oblivion as well. I don't like their chances of making it to the next ring.

01:30:39 Not many teams here, still playing off that low ground while dropped in gaming as a solo. Playing for their life. Hearing the caustic barrels getting set up right above their head. It's oblivion on this hydrant here.

01:30:56 Sie sind die einzige Team auf den Strain Tracks. Unternehmt sie sind keine anderen Team. Sie sind in der Open in fronten TSM. Sie müssen das letzte Straggler clean-up das letzte Straggler. Mit der Kraber in hand. Kann Blinker do it? Er ist nur still, mit dem 140 hier. Kann er den follow-up? Nein, er kann. Er wird von der Front getötet.

01:31:21 So Oblivion, I mean, look, if the circle was shifting towards them, they'd, you know, they'd be in Godspot. But instead, it's actually quite a rough rotate here from them. They might have to go through TSM. TSM are in that front, in that house in front of them, where the Respawn Beacon is. They've been waiting there for quite a while, actually. You know, what have they...

01:31:44 Das war's für heute. Das nächste Spiel ist wirklich zu sagen, ob das Spiel war.

01:31:55 Und auf Sattelang, er hat nur 32 Bullets in der Nemesis, das EATs auf das Energie Ammo, um das Beryl zu erinnern. Er hat sich auf die Hemlock, wenn er Heffel hat, wenn er Heffel ist hier, dann verlieren Sie auf Yubin. Hits a Beam, gets a Double Knock, nur eine E8 left! Oh, aber da ist kein FOLLOW-UP! Er hat so viel mit der LIMITED Ammo, das er hat in der Nemesis, ich kann nicht klutsch!

01:32:18 Zap stays alive for E8 with the circle closing in right behind everyone who was playing on the edge. Optic now having to play off that low ground. TSM meeting him back in the canyon. It's only up to reps here.

01:32:32 Yeah, I think he won't be much longer for this, honestly. Lots of teams looking at him, 8-Gang around. Elevate got a full reset after that. Okay, they've actually sort of rushed into their next position though, and it's been taken out. And now SSG off the high ground are looking to run away with this one. 8-Gang it down the bottom, there's a small chance that they can...

01:32:59 ...ein der SSG zu verlieren, aber das ist wirklich da zu verlieren.

01:33:21 Es ist nicht genug mit diesen Nades getauscht von SSG. Es ist nur Ape Gang auf dem Lowground. Die letzten zwei Quads sind hier zwischen Ape Gang und Spacestation. Wie können sie überhaupt nicht auswählen, denn sie sind so viel Dammage von oben? SSG ist zurück und sie sind hier zu bleiben. Er hat das Nox-Gas.

01:33:47 Lacking a bit on the Attachers Department looking at the vault, but it's fine here.

01:33:53 Zyanu ist einfach so viel Druck mit der Hemmock, aber ich persönlich liebe die Positionen, die sie haben, no matter was. Es gibt verschiedene Angle hier. Wingsmann Schatz, Ringing Ando, Phonis Force of Pop. Das Shield, Shield Bat, rather. 10 Kills für die Team so far. SSG hat eine BANG-A-GAME. Und jetzt, sie versuchen es zu close es, und noch ein paar zu ihrer Tally.

01:34:18 Huge W here for SSG. It's just a matter of time. They drop down, they clean up Bercy, and they take the dub. In a spot like that, you can guarantee that Space Station will win in Godspot. And there's that Hilltop 2 that we were talking about for N-Circle Genome. And SSG, time that rotate to sit down on that Hilltop with some perfect timing to prevent themselves from getting pinched from the teams rotating from Harvester. Yeah.

01:34:45 I really like how SSG played that one. And yeah, just like it happened in EMEA, the team who controls that hill does take the win. Yeah, again, disparity in high ground often is really what decides a final circle in Apex Legends. You need to identify that at the correct time and make that rotation at the correct time to capitalize. And with lack of horizon in the lobby, you don't have that gravity lift to try to get up.

01:35:13 Yeah, I guess with a lot of the lobby going towards staging and whatnot, it did open up.

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01:35:53 13 kp for our game winning team once again apegang right below them with 9 kp most of that came from all the chaos that went down earlier on from staging the teams that were playing through the canyon looking at tsm they do secure 2 kp they're playing that rather patiently we did see them go for an early rotate onto staging they stood by the train tracks for quite a little bit of time before they managed to just wait patiently inside grandma's house on the outskirts of those train tracks closer to staging look

01:36:23 all the way to the bottom LG did secure 8 KP elevate with 10 was unfortunate on that rotate through that tunnel side of that circle that they were taken up by the teams that were exiting out of staging but a lot of KP shared between our top 10 teams here

01:36:38 TSM played it quite safe that game and honestly reps did very well to eke out that top three considering you know we saw what a precarious position they were in towards the top five or six when they had to drop down once again we're not really seeing a lot of teams down the bottom here pick up a lot of points and this has been something I said at the start of

01:37:02 My casting day almost 24 hours ago now, Vicky, which was something that I'm seeing in Season 20 that I think could be a little bit of a trend here, and that's that we don't see as many teams picking up a lot of KP and not placement points, right? So we are going to see a bit of a dearth of points in this bottom 10 because you no longer have teams coming with, you know,

01:37:31 Red Armour crafting on the edge and then rolling in and being able to bully other teams. Yeah, you just can't do that anymore. And that's what we were talking about earlier on in the day too, Genome. We're not seeing, unless it's a contest, we're not really getting too many early or mid-game engagements because of running into people on a rotation. It's just not happening right now. Everyone's playing a little bit safer, so it's taking a little bit longer to get those KP in the match.

01:38:02 We're going to bring in a guest this time around to chat with us. Very excited to get we the people, aka Peeps, in the show with us. Welcome. Ignoring the Christmas tree, it's lovely to have you here. How have you been, Peeps? Lovely. Nothing wrong with a little Christmas spirit, you know, any time of the year. But I'm good. How are you guys doing?

01:38:27 We are fantastic. And I have a little bit of a fun question for you because we heard Rain, Dan, and Mark talking about it yesterday. And considering the first time I ever got to cast you playing was when you were playing Gibraltar, I have a Gibby question, okay? Purple level perk for Gibby. What are you picking?

01:38:47 I think it depends on, if we're talking comp, I think it depends on the play style of the team. So I think that's one of the greatest things about Season 20 is that they, you know, brought in the perks and it sort of allows you to change your play style a little bit. So huge shout out to the devs for, you know, revamping Apex and making it feel like a brand new game, but still not taking away

01:39:15 So still no answer. Nobody knows what we're picking for Gibby. Is it the baby bubble or the bubble bunker? No answer yet. We don't know. The baby bubble does put in work, let me tell you. So I might have to go with that. That's usually the better option.

01:39:34 Okay. I'll take it. If everyone could fit in the bubble, we're safe. We're safe. We just get the bubble even faster. Alright, Peeves. Gonna take you down comp lane here. Talking about a different legend in this play. Looking at NA and the other regions that we've been exposed to so far that have been able to play on the Season 20 patch for Pro League. We're seeing lots of Caustic. We're seeing lots of Crypto and Lifeline in EMEA. We're seeing the Valkyrie get put into play.

01:40:02 Are you thinking that Valkyrie is going to stay in NA? Or are we just going to toss out NA late game skyward dives into dying true combos? Or how do you think some of these metas are going to evolve looking at the other regions and looking how NA is trying to utilize more of the Valkyrie approach?

01:40:22 the good old days, you kno and just praying and hopin building. And if they are, y to death. Um, but no, um, she just of free card, which is, y if you can't find any evac thing about the valko it out. You know, if you knock somebody, that's great.

01:40:49 But, you know, with the evacs, it's so easy to shoot out, especially if you're surrounded by teams. That thing is going down in the blink of an eye. I think we will see more Valks coming closer to LAN. You know, it just depends on people's play styles. Right now, again, with the perk system and all these, you know, updated Legends,

01:41:14 It allows for a lot of playstyles. Like you said, we're seeing cryptos. We're seeing a lot of caustics come back, you know, just for the defensive capability. But not only that, caustics, phenomenal for offense. You know, you push in a building, you throw the caustic all, you throw a couple barrels. It's great to reset with. Bangalore, my favorite, is so good as well because you could smoke LOSs. It's great for resets. It's great for offense. It's great for defense.

01:41:43 But we are seeing a lot of different metas, which again, is something so fresh, so refreshing from Season 20. And we're seeing a little bit of Lifeline as well. You know, now that they sort of changed up the shields a little bit, the ability to get, you know, the Evo harvester from a pack or a weapon is insane. It's a game changer.

01:42:12 I find it funny how you say there's a get out of jail free card with the Valk there, because I feel like 50% of the time you're straight back in jail with how that ends up. But look, anyway, I want to take you through some of the final circles we've seen today.

01:42:29 Peeps, and get your expert opinion on what went down at the end of Games 1, 2, and 3. So here in Match 1, this is the one we had over at Countdown, where we had the Seer come out. It was an interesting final circle.

01:42:49 always always a fun time with the countdown zones it's always a mess there's so many places where you can get shot from which which make it really tough as you just saw that caustic trying to get a cost called on this team here and just got absolutely clipped for it for free but I think in these end circles doing less is doing more you know sometimes just staying in the shadows and just letting the game play out a little bit

01:43:17 actually rewards you a heck of a lot more than just trying to go for the kp and you know just swinging it but um great dub here from native um you gotta love it

01:43:29 Ja, das war ein guter von ihnen. Jetzt haben wir Dark Zero gesehen. Ich bin EA. Ich habe es versucht, sie versuchen, sie zu glibben. Ich habe es gar nicht so gut gemacht, in meinem Leben. Aber dann kam es wirklich um, zu den 3v3, zwischen Dark Zero und dann Oxygen. Warum gehen wir uns durch das?

01:43:51 Another tough zone here. So many places where you can get shot from. Phenomenal, phenomenal game from DZ. I mean, these guys are just looking unstoppable. I was looking at their KD. They have like a six point something KD and the next highest is like a four. But I think Oxygen, what they needed to do was be a lot more reactive to that and get rid of the third party that a heck of a lot quicker.

01:44:18 Very unfortunate, Oxygen is right on the cusp of qualifying, and Vayne is my old roommate, I want to see him ball out and have a good time at LAN, so I need these guys to lock it in and make it to LAN.

01:44:34 Look, I think they're in a very good spot to do that. They might not have won that game, but they're still looking phenomenal. And then we had game three here, where we see SSG just dominate from the high ground. I mean, game number three here, you know, SSG basically got served this dub on a silver platter here on the endzone, the 3v3.

01:44:56 Sie sind literally zwischen einem Rock und einem Harden Platz hier. Es ist fast unmöglich ohne einen Horizont. Es war einfach ein Wettbewerb, und es war einfach nur ein Wettbewerb, und es war einfach nur ein Wettbewerb, und es war einfach nur ein Wettbewerb, und es war einfach nur ein Wettbewerb.

01:45:17 It does feel like Zion has gone from strength to strength, honestly. Such a phenomenal player being able to pick up a trophy with DZ last year, and SSG certainly seems to be using him to his full potential now. Absolutely. If we could keep you here forever with us, we would, but we have to continue on with the matches. Obviously, thank you so much for jumping on here and chatting. We'll see you again soon. Sounds good. Thank you, guys. Love you all. Bye.

Analyse der ALGS Series Resultate und Team-Performance nach Spieltag 7

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01:45:45 Alright, wir schauen uns jetzt an unsere Series Resultate. Once again, ein großes Dankeschön zu Pepys. Wir lieben und missen ihn sehr viel hier auf der Show. Aber wir schauen uns jetzt an unsere Series Resultate, wo alle jetzt stehen, und nach der letzten Performance SSG, der in der Top Position mit 39 Punkte ist. Und wir sehen ein bisschen von Punktgap, weil Dark Zero in der letzten Genome struggled, aber ist alles noch sehr nahe?

01:46:08 Yeah, DZ were, I think they dropped in either 19th or 20th place, something like that. So yeah, as you say, they have struggled to get up. SSG now on top, mainly at the back of their placement points. But, you know, a 25-point game is nothing to sneeze at here. LG have been sort of just trying to creep their way up little bit by little bit.

01:46:33 Native Gaming, wieder eine große Spiel für sie. Und ja, das war mein Geist. Vicky, jemand anderes zu sehen, bevor wir mit unseren Matches weitergehen?

01:46:44 Looking at TSM sitting in that 10th place spot. They usually have those pop-off performances on Stormpoint. And since that is the map that we're going to transition to next, I can't wait to see how that's going to play out here. LG starting off a little rough, but still being able to ramp up in the last two games specifically. And then looking on the other side, GKS, we highlighted this team as one of the teams to usually come out in top four, top five on World's Edge. Now, not having that successful story this time around. So we have to see if they really did figure Stormpoint out in the way that we heard.

01:47:13 Vielen Dank. Vielen Dank. Vielen Dank. Vielen Dank.

01:47:35 The map is changing, so will the outcomes. We've had a pretty good day here so far, but now anyone that was struggling, and I'm thinking specifically EEC, because we saw where they were on those standings, they have that contest in World's Edge. Are they going to be able to get some points on the board now that they don't have to go up against the likes of Temper in Countdown looking at Stormpoint?

01:47:58 Es ist so verrückt zu sehen, die performance von EEC gestern bis heute zu heute. Es ist einfach, dass viele andere Teams, doch...

01:48:08 Mhm. Mhm.

01:48:33 Die Zip-Line durch die Wall durch die Armory. Wir sehen, wie das hier wird, denn wir haben viele Southeren Zonen gesehen. Aber ich würde sehen, wie bei World's Edge und heute mit Emiah, wie viele Zonen die Zonen sind und haben eine sehr, sehr, sehr, ganz andere Pool. Even eine Lightning-Rod. So als wir hier setzen, und die Lobby getrennt, wir schauen uns an die Legends-Ledien. Ich bin nicht auf Tempur, die sind nicht in Mirage-Ledien. Sie sind immer wieder auf jeden Fall, um die Lobby zu holen.

01:49:02 I feel like it's got to happen once, right? I don't believe it. Just because everyone's waiting with bated breath. I mean, I'm also keeping my eyes on native gaming. Looks like they're sticking with the seer for Stormpoint as well. It's not. We're not changing here, Vicky.

01:49:21 Es ist eigentlich sehr interessant zu sehen, wie die Cossacks ist auch noch immer wieder auf Stormpoint. Wir sehen das immer wieder und wir beginnen. Game 4 hier auf Stormpoint, unser erstes Spiel auf Stormpoint. Kann diese Teams bleiben? Spacestation kommt mit einem ziemlich heftigen Game 3 und der DUB. Die Dark Zero fallen wirklich early in das 3rd Game haben sie hinter.

01:49:47 Stormpoint könnte sein sein, als wir TSM sehen, und wo sie werden, bevor wir über die 50-50s zurückkommen.

01:49:57 Ja, und ich glaube, es ist wahrscheinlich DZ's worst finish so far, das ist insane, als ich jetzt, wie stark sie sind hier in der gesamten Spiel sind. Aber das 50-50-Temper muss man sich ein bisschen extra zufrieden, nachdem sie die ganze Zeit auf World's Edge gewinnen. So jetzt Sie sie hier gegen FaZe, versuchen sie zu sehen, ob sie kann etwas passieren. Und wie gesagt, es ist eine Möglichkeit für EEC, vielleicht zu einem 3rd-Party, versuchen sie das zu cleanen. Aber jetzt, FaZe...

01:50:24 Und die Unterschiede hier ist, Conduit wird wieder in diese Composition, wenn es 50-50 ist, kommt in Clutch. Du kriegst das Temporary Schild, damit wir re-Engage in ein Kampf.

01:50:43 down time coming into play with you having to pop a shield cell instead but temper maintaining onto the high ground and the smoke still providing them the extra coverage that they could work with while phase tries to creep forward still sets phase at a disadvantage just in terms of positioning until they could get an angle

Taktische Manöver und Team-Entscheidungen auf Stormpoint

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01:51:01 We'll see how long they allow this to go on for as well. As they start to get all of that additional information coming through, they'll know where the Evo Harvesters are, if they have to change their passing at all, moving through to the zone as that pops up as well. So there's gonna be lots of options here for them to handle this situation, but it looks like FaZe wanna make the decision for them as they push up onto Temper at the top of the roof. What a push! They trade here between Snipe Down and getting Spades.

01:51:30 Faze is incredibly low, but Snipedown comes dropping down. All he needs is a triple take of the Dream. Heavy Runt is going to be able to try to pop this shield bat right behind the doors. Going in, though he gets a crack. He gets the finish. Faze gets eliminated right after he pops the bat. It's an ego check shooting at the death box with the flatline coming in clutch.

01:51:55 They're just better. I know those comms are going crazy. The tactical crouching right after finishing off that fight. Listen, we said the Temper might be feeling a little bit good after winning their Contest on Worlds of Edge. Definitely have to feel even better after taking out FaZe. EEC, that team we said could potentially push in from the western side going through the wall. Now that they know where the zone is, that's exactly what they're going to be doing.

01:52:19 Potentially we'll come across Temper along the way. And we can also see where there's Evo Harvesters are, where these teams are all starting to rotate in Oblivion. Looking comfortable right now in Command Center. Everybody else trying to move in from that northern side. Obviously TSM at Lightning Rod and LG at Zoo Station. Both very, very comfy. But every time these teams are close to where these zones are, we have to remember how much this changes with Evos and how they function. They have to find another way to make sure their shields are going to be leveled up.

01:52:48 I love how you point that out, because then when you find the circle pooling in your direction, yes, you have the positioning advantage, because that's your POI, you're looted up, you know where to sit, but you have to imagine with the Evo Harvesters being spread out across the map, after you see them 40 seconds into where that first circle is shown, you're denying yourself the opportunity to get that extra 350 Evo points towards your Evo Shield, and then you need those passives to come in, those perks to really help you out. Temper is looking great when it comes to the Evo Shields here.

01:53:17 Already has purple. He's got the wingman ready here, too, because they had a care pack laying right on top of them. They do have a ring cult behind them, but no legends that they have that could scan it. And you can see all of those points breakdowns there on the side of the screen as we check back in with Complexity. A team who started off slaying pretty heavy in the first match of the day. They were looking pretty strong on Worlds. They struggled a little bit in the last match, but...

01:53:43 Sie haben sehr stark gesehen, dass sie auch ein bisschen andere Roste arbeiten, um das Ballon zu ziehen. Mal sehen, ob sie die Höhe zu ihren Vorteilen können und versuchen, ein bisschen hoher zu haben.

01:53:57 Das Evac Tower gab es ein wenig Zeit zu arbeiten. Das war großartig. Du hast die Evac Tower nicht nur den Griff, du hast die Evac Tower. Die Evac Tower ist das, was die Valkyrie und die Horizon-Horizon kann, wenn es um die Height zu machen, aber immer sehr Risky zu bringen, nicht nur TSM, sondern auch die Teams zu ihrer Seite. So viele Teams haben bereits rotiert, um bei Lightning Rod. LG ist viel mehr bei der Edge, um die Trident.

01:54:25 Still trying to avoid TSM who are taking some shots at them from the building inside of Lightning Rod. This is going to be pulling more south though, probably in between Swarmcatcher to Lightning Rod here. We're going to have to see how TSM may try to navigate into that next building without getting shot by the squads that have already taken control of the building inside.

01:54:47 Yeah, not a lot of safe space for our teams to work with. So that real estate was very precious as we're still trying to see how complexity want to handle this situation here. They've got a few teams in the line of sight of Monsoon Sentinel. We saw how much work he was able to put in with that in previous matches, unable to connect this time around, but also at least scaring off those teams in the distance.

01:55:13 von der Reise und zu haben ein bisschen mehr Bewegung auf dieses Rooftop.

01:55:20 Das 4x8 kann ein bisschen finicky an times hier. Spades kommt in von den Skies. Er versucht zu pushen. Missen die Initial Wingman Shots. Trenner versuchen zu gewinnen. Er ist Kloak. Er follows auf. Sie verlieren an Spades hier, aber sie sind so low. Vorher zu gehen in für den Follow-Up. Es ist ein Trait. Er spielt außerhalb der Kossik-Gas. Es ist gut hier. Er ist gut hier. Der Kampf über die Prowler gegen E.C.

01:55:47 Kloak tries to climb up. Gets the crack. Gets the follow up. I love how they held two different angles to get that last knock. Cleaning them up as they continue on their top nation. But they need to be stopped. Look at Kloak. Temper is having too much of a fun time here. But they're feeling that confidence. And that's exactly what you need when it comes to looking at where this next circle is pulling. I mean, EEC cannot catch a break when it comes to running into Temper now. Temper has that entire north side.

01:56:15 pretty much themselves. It'll give them a little bit of an opportunity to reset and then choose how they'd like to make this next rotation into the zone. As you can see, pretty much everybody else has tried to move in and find some space to hold for now as we're checking in on some of our squads who are just on the outskirts of the zone, one of them being native. They were trying to push through, run into a squad in that choke, opt to then rotate a little bit wider and longer as they currently have the time to do that as long as they make that.

01:56:42 A quick choice. And this will potentially offer them a little bit more opportunity to maybe run into a bin or get a scan if they can on something and continue even up those shields. And sticking to the seer here too. Let me keep in mind with everybody else running the Bloodhound. You're gonna have the exhibit ready for you. When you start engaging on a lot more of these fights where you're just gonna be seeing Bangalore smoke caustic gas everywhere.

01:57:09 Do you want to go to the prowlers? So that is the objective here for Native. They're cycling around the map, not only going for those Evo Harvesters, but taking care of the prowlers, which gives you extra Evo points. Aside from that, you can imagine the flyers that they've been able to take down here, all the mini objectives that build up into the later game plan that you have here for those purple Evos. Now checking in with Cream, another one of our squads that's...

01:57:37 Going for a little bit of a slower rotate. I think that was actually the squad that was holding off the choke that Native was trying to push through. So now they're still finding themselves safe for at least this next ring collapse, but on the edge and will have to push through some teams as well as potentially try to maybe gatekeep Native still if they were keeping tabs of where they could potentially be coming as they were moving through the map. But for now they've at least got a little bit of space.

01:58:04 als die Pings kommen und Kareem stellt sich, wie sie das machen wollen.

01:58:11 Completely gatekeeping that south side so far. Native Gaming are going to be making the rotate. Yep, you can see right around the corner. There is an Evo Shield diff though going into this fight. See Yubin, another teammate back there with the blue Evo. Let's jump into a listen-in with Native Gaming to see how they approach this fight here downhill. I'm coming, Evo, I'm coming. I smoke you, I smoke you out. I think I'm in there waiting on. We can wrap, we can wrap. We can wrap, we can wrap, we can wrap.

01:58:40 The edge of that nut is in. Okay, listen, listen. If there's a team at nut, they're going to hear that. So they're going to be expecting it too. So we need to be ready to fight if we need to. And I don't have Banglaut either. And I have no smokes right now. I have two ultic shells. I have two ultic shells. We don't really have time to pop them out. We don't have it. Yeah, we don't have time. Just have your guns out. Nothing.

01:59:05 they evac the team evac to see me back we shouldn't go back then generally we should just will come into this I don't see anybody know that I don't see anybody not I'm walking up with you we're good for now nothing and not you should go and not and set it up cuz it's in just for now there could be a team hot in these buildings there are 100% is I heard a fight there earlier

Strategische Rotationen, Kämpfe und Team-Dynamiken im späteren Spielverlauf

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01:59:30 I'm looking at it, I don't see anything. Okay, I'm walking up this way. I'm walking up this way with you. Do you want me to come? Uh, just chill for now, you're caustic. I don't see anybody in there.

01:59:41 The engagement doesn't come in from Native, but the smart rotates definitely do. Seeing that they're playing at a disadvantage in terms of positioning, they decide to wrap around. That building was safe for them as well, so they're now going to be able to clear up that right side of where that circle is going to be pulling. The Dark Zero, specifically Zero, getting knocked first here in this fight. Gets the scan, see the team playing on the inside with the Watson fences.

02:00:03 Das war ein schönes Pinch für DZ, direkt aus der Listen-In und in die Fire.

02:00:31 They own that building, they've got those death boxes for extra loot and they can continue making a slow rotate here on this edge.

02:00:37 Meanwhile, you've got Skirt finding themselves in the crosshairs of Native, taking a lot of damage. Albreleli low, but able to at least get that shield back up to where it needs to be. Beast of the Hunt popped as well to try and give a little bit of information towards Skirt, but it looks like Native don't want to push in on this. They know there's other squads in the area as well and could potentially catch themselves out if they try to get a little greedy, go for those kills. So instead, once again, another conservative and really smart play that we...

02:01:07 We've been seeing all games so far out of Native.

02:01:12 Oh man, that gravity cannon, that's a little scary. They just have to prove you, they have to make you feel something, prove you wrong a little bit on that low ground here. But they managed to survive and they don't fully commit to that platform. And they are going to be playing off this low ground. The only thing about that low ground though is that there's so many different angles you can get shot from.

02:01:37 Oxygen Esports engaging in this fight. Popping Beast of the Hunt. Looking right through those smokes. Gets rid of those Cossack traps. They have that slight high ground here. No climbing allowed. It's a squad that's trying to fight their way from Bottom Hill. It's going to be Cream right below Oxygen. But Oblivion are looking at this fight from the side. Waiting for these knocks to happen. So that way they come in the third party. Nice nade from Reed. Gets that knock that's Youp in here.

02:02:04 Now Oxygen haben die Vorteile, aber sie versuchen nicht zu übercommiten. Sie wissen, dass es ein Team zu der anderen Seite ist.

02:02:12 Well, Peace was hoping that OHG, Vayne & Co. are able to do well for themselves right now. Finding themselves in a serious back and forth. You've got Skrt below. You've got Cream in the area. They're trying to fend off so many teams. They're now down to a duo. Vayne & Reed's trying to hold everybody off. This is where that Caustic is going to come in so huge. Trying to use the gas and at least keep those squads zoned off of them for now to give enough time to get that shield back popped. Maybe hit that res. Meanwhile, Oblivion actually...

02:02:42 Oh, mein Gott, das war schrecklich. Alright, ein bisschen Dragscoe, schnell genug genug zu bekommen. Blinkster, jetzt mit der PK, keine Disruptors auf hier, aber noch nicht. Kann er noch einen mit der Kraber? Looking, die Team ist noch nicht zu hide. 95! Just genug hier, Oxygen!

02:03:07 Get eliminated, 11 squads left and Oblivion are feasting on those deathboxes.

02:03:16 Out of nowhere. They just showed up with a Kraber and melted everyone at that wall that was all happening. Skirt went down. Oh, actually went down. There was another team that was over there that went Cream. It was Cream that went down as well. Oblivion come out on top in a four-way fight and now they own that whole southern edge of this ring. It's not safe. They're going to have to continue pushing north. However, they don't have to worry about any teams around them right now except for everybody that's managing to hold this building. And this same building is the one that's been packed.

02:03:45 The circle is pulling.

02:04:10 Right on top of the Lightning Rod building. And LG is not having the time of their lives right now. They lose out on Sweet. And the only makeshift cover that they have right now is the lip of the wall in front of them and those caustic barrels. They get the shield swap real quick. They get the banner. But deeper into Lightning Rod, it's gonna be Dark Zero. So LG having to play this out as a duo.

02:04:36 TSM know this, not trying to overextend, though. They don't want to give up this building space for the teams that are looking at them like native on that low ground here.

02:04:48 You know, I feel like every time we check in with LG, they're a duo. First Slayer was down, last match Funk was down, now Sweet is down, and they've managed to at least make some crazy things happen, even with just the two of them. They are right next to TSM, like you pointed out, so it's going to be a little bit more difficult, but maybe they can play this safe enough and kind of use this edge and hope that the other teams cause the distraction to give them enough time to stay alive. As I say that, it looks like they want to make their move in right now before all of that kicks off.

02:05:17 Oh, oh, he's dead.

02:05:27 Wait, the Ghost of Sweet whispering in Funk's and Slayer's ears right now to push on the crack that they had initially onto Verho's right before Verho's tried to re-stabilize. He was trying to block out the door and could not get away in time. And with no suppressed fire, they get that knock, but they can't get the finish. Probably gets the reset right above high ground. TSM are not going to be leaving that spot. But with them holding onto that building for so long, there's probably still rocking all full blue Evos. So that's going to be detrimental into this final.

02:05:56 Massive play, massive play out of LG, because now they can just kind of coexist for a little while. You know TSM won't want to do anything too crazy. They'll try to be annoying, but those caustic barrels will give LG a little bit of breathing room. Now back on board with Oblivion. The team who managed to push everybody out of the way have also moved into the building that five or six other teams were holding. They're using those fences on the low ground to try and keep everybody away. And then we'll use that bangle to see if they can clear out some space above them.

02:06:25 Taktik in the area, Native in the area, and eventually we'll have to fight.

02:06:42 Over five to six teams have now made this quick rotate. With the circle closing in right behind their backs. It is absolute chaos here. As TSM have tried to fight for their lives. Nate at their feet. Arc's turn to beat Rebs on the other side. Furhost is one. HAL goes out. And TSM are back in the lobby. Nine squads left here. They take control over that building. LG is still alive on that first floor.

02:07:10 We're in right now, but somehow

Finale Konfrontationen und Dark Zeros Triumph auf Stormpoint

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02:07:16 Und jetzt haben wir einen Rat, ich glaube, in Tempur, noch zu bleiben. Aber DZ ist es zu versuchen, ob sie sich das 1. Die einzige Team ist auf der northernen Seite dieser Zone. So sie sind able, zu sehen, alles geht um die E-Vac.

02:07:42 in case they end up needing that height late game for that final circle. This is a really solid spot for DZ. Looking at like the two, three creeping barrages, all the caustic nox gasses saying, this does not look like my business whatsoever. And this is a team, Dark Zero specifically, that rotated from Mill all the way to the north side of Lightning Rod, where all the fighting is still going to go down inside of this building once the circle starts closing in, DZ.

02:08:10 haben sie ein wenig Aufmerksamkeit auf der Brücke. Aber wenn sie sich aus der Lippe, die Brücke gibt, werden sie in der Open sein können. Aber sie können sich alle Teams mit einem Team befinden, um sich in die Gap zu befinden. Und hoffentlich werden sie können. Sie haben die Slightest Advantage, weil die Final-Circle geändert hat. Aber als wir sagen, sie machen eine Early-Move in, warten zu sehen, wer wird.

02:08:34 Pushing out of this building. Zero now up top. Taking some shots onto Retzi. Doing some damage as we see Dan trying to push it. Everybody starting to collapse. And DZ, don't wait for it. They make the first move. They now own the top of this building.

02:08:49 King of the Hill now. Five squads left here. DZ on top. Complexity dropped in. LG. They get the finisher onto Lou. LG get eliminated, but they stayed alive as a duel to the very end here for the top five. Zero trying to take a different off angle. It's Ape Gang also has a solo still on the other side of Lightning Rod if DZ can try to clean that up. They're not going to be giving up this high ground, especially with the way that they're holding the different positioning, blocking off the front side.

02:09:21 Potential here. No Gold Knock. Alright, Solo going down. Not even the final shots could finish him off. It ends up being the ring. Dropped in Gaming coming in from the front door. It's gonna be Dark Zero right above him. Complexity as a two man.

02:09:42 Die Komplexe kann überhaupt nicht aus diesen Dörren sein. Die TzR ist immer wiederhörtert, um die Thermite zu verabschieden.

02:09:52 Event Tower going up. Circle closing in, though. The nays being super huge here. Crook, so what? DZ dropped down. They're alive and they're healthy. And it's just a matter of time before DZ redeemed himself after being the second to last team to go out in that last game. DZ take the game on Stormpoint with two dubs in their pocket.

02:10:19 Okay, that was insane. The amount of throwables they had to harass everybody on the floors below them to make sure that nobody could even try to peek and do a Skynated return. Nothing. There was no opportunity for the teams below to try and damage DZ or do anything to push them off of that tower. I mean, you had Drop-In Gaming busy trying to get a res that actually they were able to stick.

02:10:48 aber dann noch immer wieder zu kämpfen. Das war so sehr gut und gut gespielt von DZ. Sie macht es einfach, Vicky.

02:10:58 The comms and the timing from Zero to take onto the high ground was everything. It's like what you mentioned. They were also able to get the loot that was right there on top, waiting for them if they needed any extra needs, if they didn't have it already. Well, they had it available to them right there. All that damage coming out, not only being on the high ground, but also looking around them to make sure Complexity had no way to escape. They were stuck in that room, and even if they walked out, Zero was watching at a different angle to make sure that they were going to get beamed. So DZ knew the only team that they had to work on.

02:11:28 Ja, das war...

02:11:47 There was a lot going on there, but a really, really strong performance out of DZ. Not surprising with just how strong DZ's been all season, but we've got to shout out Temper as well. Down there in 6th place, 12 kills as they just continue to roll through people on their rotation into the zone. And Ativan actually had the most kills in the lobby with 8 out of those 12, Vicky. That was a massive game for Temper.

02:12:13 We saw that they were having fun, too. The synergy on Temper is just next level, and that's why they take every fight with confidence. 13kp for Dark Zero. Jen Burden having the most damage in the lobby with 1,800. So a lot of the follow-ups coming in perfectly, even looking at Oblivion with 8kp as they were holding down the fort.

02:12:35 Right there by the south building of Lightning Rod. But looking all the way down even to Space Station with 2 KP. The team that just won game number 3 with 13 KP. Looking on the other side of the PHTSM. Going down in 11th after they knew where that circle was going to be pulling. They could not hold that building. That's the reason why Dark Zero didn't want to fight for that building early. They knew that they were in a much better position once that circle was in a closing behind them. Even if they weren't in that next circle. They knew the rest of the lobby was going to do the work for them.

02:13:05 Meanwhile, even when there's no contest, Eternal still struggling as they ran into Temper yet again and they fell to Temper yet again. So we'll have to see what they are able to figure out in the last two matches here on Stormpoint as we take a look at the stats from our top three squads in this last match. Not surprising to see complexity up here with what we've gotten out of the squad so far here today. Monsoon has just been...

02:13:33 Unbearable, but look at the equality on DZ. Look at how almost identical those stats are across the board, Vicky. Wow.

02:13:43 Even with Jett doing the most damage in the lobby, look how close Sykes and Zero are back to back. The follow-ups have just been fantastic for this team. And how cool he's even honestly consistent. It's still that consistency. I keep repeating that because that's just the highlight here for a team like Dark Zero. Staying on top. Now looking at the overall standing so far for the day. EEC at the very bottom. So is Skirt.

02:14:07 TSM ist in der 11th Platz. Nach den ersten drei Spiels auf World's Edge. Nach dem ersten Spiel hier auf Stormpoint. Sie finden die Kills, aber leider nicht die Placement Points zu finden.

02:14:22 Ja, und ihr könnt sehen, wie es 3, 4 und 5 sind. Alle sind 34 Punkte gerade jetzt. 2 mehr Matches für heute. Und jeder Punkt wird beginnen, weil jeder Placement macht. Da sind nur 2 mehr Match Days left, bevor wir die Region Finale haben. Ich weiß nicht, wie oder wo die Zeit hat, aber einige dieser Teams...

02:14:46 Only have one more match day after today, so really have to start to try and pick things up, get a little bit of a disparity in the points there so we can see how this region is going to shake out. But NA is always a close region, so I'm not surprised when it comes to those numbers. But we still have two more matches on the day. If you are hanging out with us and watching...

02:15:09 You need to be getting your Twitch drops as well, okay? Because this is something we always have for you guys.

02:15:17 This time, it's holosprays all season long. And you'll notice that these drops are changing every two weeks. And you can tune into any Apex Legends Twitch stream with the drops enabled to earn these holosprays. Obviously, make sure you keep coming back to get every single different one because they are very cool. And then you end up with six when it is all said and done. But like we said, two more matches left on the day, which means for us, it's time for another short break. And when we return, match number five coming at you.

02:17:38 Welcome back, everyone. Vicky Kitty joined with Genome. And while Genome was sitting out taking a break, he was working some black magic to have Dark Zero come out on top again. How do you do it, Genome? Keep doing it once again. And what a chaotic final circle that was, Genome.

02:17:56 Ah, es war gut, war es? Ich meine, DZ, die Wrapped all die Richtung, da war einfach nur ein Schliver in, wo das Gravity Cannon war. Die Wrapped ihren Weg um, und dann played in der, uh, unter der Bridge für ein bisschen. Und dann all of a sudden, ich weiß nicht, sie hat die High-Ground? Somehow? Ah, ich weiß nicht, man. Ich weiß nicht, es geht um, um, 25-point-Games zu werden. Und wenn du das immer wiederholt hast, dann ist es schwer zu beat.

02:18:22 It's crazy. And honestly, for you guys watching at home, if you guys think that the Apex action ends today, well, you can't be more wrong because we have the EMEA and NA Challenger Circuit Finals.

02:18:34 Tomorrow, starting at 7pm CEST, kicking off with our very own Dia and Graceful for EMEA and then NA at 6pm Pacific Time with Tom and TMT Church. So definitely make sure you check it out at twitch.tv slash versus underscore GG. And of course, a huge thank you to our friends over at versus GG for putting that stream on for us.

02:19:00 A lot of action here, Genome. Non-stop Apex action here to enjoy Season 20 Chaos. And we're not done here ourselves. And hey, we got match number five next on Storm Point. DZ has taken two games now. One on World's Edge, one on Storm Point. I mean, can they secure an extra dove and some extra points? We're gonna have to see here.

02:19:23 Once again, we got a team on the hook for the bonus points. This time it is Dark Zero, as you said. So, now that we're into Storm Point, Vicky, uh, you know, yeah, look, any of these picks that you find interesting? Wait, is that serious? Do we have a... No, no, it's not. It's not. It's not. They're trolling. He does this all the time. He's been doing it the last four times, too.

02:19:48 Ich wünsche es, ich wünsche mir die Mirage. Ich wünsche mir die Anzahl von Clones Bloodhounds zu sehen, wenn man den Refresh bekommt, wenn jemand von einem Clones verletzt oder von einem Clones verletzt. Aber nein, nein, nein. Ja, ja. Die Mirage main ist trolling, und da wird nicht ein Mirage sein. Wir werden wahrscheinlich sehen, die Horizon, vielleicht. Ja, ja. Es ist bang Horizon Bloodhound, Katempa.

02:20:12 Aber wir sehen immer wieder aus dem Team, dass das Genome ist, dass das auch 50-50 passiert ist hier bei Wolken. True, true, true. Wir haben einen Mirage gesehen, in Apex-South. Das war ein Solo-Team, so das nicht wirklich klappt. Das ist gut. Wir sind jetzt jetzt hier auch.

02:20:34 I swear we had some of the most contested out of war of any POI. Yeah, and it was back and forth at the very beginning. And now, even with going to Conduit for these 50-50s, it's just not working out for FaZe. And Temper has just so much confidence. Obviously, the synergy is there. I want to jump into an early listening with FaZe to see how they want to map this out when it comes to approaching this fight. I'm charge of Mozambique, so I need fucking something.

02:21:06 Choir. Havoc Christ. Ich will nur use Mipe, ich will nicht mehr. Okay. I'm getting rude for this building. We need to have him make it for someone. I don't see that. They're on our building, old building. Can we get that? Or can we get that? They're gonna grab it right now. I mean, I can look for it. They got it. They might move up off this. They're right here.

02:21:36 They're running. They're running. They're running. Okay, I think I'm moving up then Okay

02:21:49 I'm running left, I'm running left, I'm running left. I'm here with you. I'm queuing up the height. High five. High five. High five as well. They're gonna have Ryzen as well. No Q. Nice trailer. I'm shooting on the Ryzen. Inside or what? Inside, inside. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm on the door. I'm on the door. I killed. Killed one. I'm here. I'm here. I'm almost done. No Q. I'm chasing this guy. I'm chasing this guy. Bud one. Bud one. They're fine. Nice job. Nice job.

02:22:18 My PK did the bug, by the way. That's sick. That was cool. Bro, what the fuck? Once I shoot that guy and it just goes, careful for another team. The sense of relief with FaZe taking the 50-50 a second time around for the day. Hear them talking about the outcome from their weapons here. Now as they get to finally loot, hopefully no third parties in the area. As we know that EEC likes to rotate quickly to the wall. But luckily for FaZe, they do have some time to breathe.

02:22:47 Oh, nice pick up there from Native. Klain is a fan of the rat place. So I've heard Vicky.

02:23:18 Someone really needs to call an Exterminator with the amount of rap plays we've been seeing so far in today. Sweet got that little tick with the smoke grenade. Gets right to the care pack. Beams with the Havoc. Doesn't even need the turbo or the shock to put in that damage. Gets that knock right afterwards.

02:23:37 Forget the care pack gonna capitalize off of this KP here instead tries to get the finish here two teammates playing inside the building was sweet knowing that they do get the finish more teams now rolling up here inside of these two buildings on the outskirts of cascade

02:23:52 Ich sehe so viele andere Teams, die sich für den Spot befinden. Das ist wo die Circle ist, mehr so in der Mitte, wo Launchpad ist und Optik Gaming ist. Es gibt keine Strangers-To-This-Party. Die Barrel wird getötet, die die Wattgen-GEN-GKS getötet. Die 16-Squads sind bereits mit dem ersten Ring starten zu close.

02:24:12 Ja, Optik Gaming are fighting for that position, you know, in the top 12. They're not currently there, but they need to win these crucial fights if they want to push their way up further, so that's a good first step.

02:24:31 Considering the fact that Optic was in 14th, I believe, right before this game specifically, they definitely need to have these pop-off moments if they could clean up that KP inside of those two buildings as LG. Now we're going to be able to rotate. Meanwhile, all the way up by Mill in the respawn beacon. It sounds like somebody was able to just get rezzed. 8K get eliminated in defeats and Dark Zero is zeroed down. Jen Burden-Sykes once again holding hands shoulder to shoulder to find this T below them.

02:25:01 What is going on here? How did this fight even happen? I mean, someone must have pushed someone very early because Dart Zero usually quite fast on the rotate here. Sykes will put down Carter and I think it's now a 1v1. Oh, no, two. Still two up for EDC. Ah, but that might not be all because Cream, they heard all this from Down Beast and they said, hey, Bob, let's get a piece of the pie.

02:25:30 Now cleaning up what is left of that team. EEC get eliminated. It's the back and forth that we keep seeing from DZ. I don't know if they're just feeling that you're on the mic right now, Gino. Every time you're trying to cover their action out here. But fortunately, DZ fall rather early after taking a big dub in that last game. Still sitting pretty comfortably on the top end of the leaderboard. Yeah.

02:25:54 Look, I mean, you know, you're pulling out 25-point gains every other game. Yeah, right. You almost afford to go down early in between them. Wow, that is kind of crazy. Round one is closing, and we have 12 teams left.

02:26:13 Yeah, teams are dropping like flies. I call it the Game 5 Chaos. I love Game 5 because this is the point where a lot of teams see where they're at in the overall standings and how much points they need to get. So some teams start kicking it up and start playing incredibly aggressive, even if it could cost them, depending on where they stand and how confident they're feeling. We're seeing that, too, with the team still playing on the outside, looking at FaZe. Creamwood went in for the third party there, too. They're going to be able to take an evac tower.

02:26:43 They were able to also get the Evil Harvester that was right to their south originally. So now as they approach through that south side, all the teams that are inside those buildings on the outskirts of Cascade may have to rotate towards that rock lint mass that's to the south side. We've seen Final Circles pull in that direction. It looks like very much it is going to be a mid-map finish here.

02:27:11 Probably somewhere down along the river between Jurassic and Midmap. Oxygen Esports have had a bang a day so far. And because they start down on that south side, they are going to be in a great position for this. They've moved over from Barometer.

02:27:37 And they'll be able to, you know, just try and hold their backs down there at Jurassic and slowly walk it in. Native Gaming. They're holding the Spider Cave, or not the Spider Cave, just the cave, I guess, to the north of Jurassic.

02:27:54 Again, still on that Sia. I mean, hey, last time Sia made waves in the meta, Vicky, it was one team. It was one team that made everyone else see the light. Until he became one of the most impressive characters in Apex Legends competitive history.

02:28:13 Unrelease Seer war ein actual Menace in seinem eigenen Tier. Inferio definitivt took advantage of that during their Prime. Differente Legends creep up, though, into the strength of how these individual players take advantage of it, but also how it works cohesively with the rest of the team, and how they're also taking advantage of the passives. The Perkz, rather, is sweet. See the Pings coming in right in front of them.

02:28:40 He's got the creeping barrage ready, but just getting some extra loot. You can imagine that they probably went already for that evil harvester that's on that minimap. CSM's just waiting for this care pack to land on their feet. Care package over there. They're currently within around four circle. I don't know it yet, but...

02:29:05 As you say, with a good chance that this Care Pack contains an Evo Cache. Chance to insta-upgrade your armor. Big deal at this point in the game.

02:29:21 Twelve squads left, though. The game has definitely slowed down with the second circle closing in. The only team not in that circle right now is FaZe, and they're currently flying in from an evac tower. And they're taking their time going from Evo Harvester to Evo Harvester, so that way they can get even closer to Red Evos. And with a Wingman in Snipedown's hand, they're finally able to put those points on the board like they need.

02:29:46 Rotating throw, though, through Cascade means that they're gonna meet up with a lot of the teams that were playing out on the outskirts of the building by Cascade, thinking about Optic that we saw before, Complexity, and then approaching right behind Oblivion, where they're actually, we're looking at LG before they took that Zipline building right to the south. Well, I think we're just gonna get a very quiet period here, Vicky, because we've had such a wild...

02:30:14 Bloodthirsty early game that there's frankly quite a bit of space.

02:30:20 Das ist ein viel Platz für diese Teams zu spielen. FaZe hat das Knochen auf Oblivion, so jetzt Oblivion verliert auf der 3rd. Und sie hat ihn aus, weil er nicht in der 3rd ist, weil er nicht in der Bühne ist, weil er nicht in der Bühne ist. Mit zwei Mitgliedern von Oblivion spielen in der Bühne zu den Bühne. FaZe kann jetzt auf das 3-mal auf der Bühne sein. Aber wenn sie versuchen, sie wissen, dass so viele andere Teams in der Bühne sind, haben sie zu Ende der Bühne sein.

02:30:48 Ja, da sind ein paar, aber ich glaube, dass sie weiter aus der Zone haben, um das Spiel zu nehmen. Ich denke, LG ist die einzige, die wirklich sehr nahe zu machen, um das Worte der While zu machen.

02:31:01 And they're actually pressuring them from the outskirts here, too. Not even trying to overcommit. There's only one member left here for Oblivion. FaZe is cleaning up kills on their rotate here. Trying to get some shots here. It's literally one. He can't get away and slide down in time. And that's going to be the final kill. Going in favor for Optic. Talk about the points. And they definitely need it here. So any bit counts. Skirt being another one of those teams. Sitting in last place right now with only four points. We can cruise over here.

02:31:38 Jurassic still got a few teams home to it. Native Gaming still in the tunnel. Oxygen still playing down by the Survey Beacon. Not sure if they've used it yet or not. And then Cream also up the top. So Gaming Gladiators, they're the ones holding to the left of where Klain is looking right now.

02:32:02 Und ja, sie werden dann einfach nur das Fencelin und versuchen, den Kreml und Oxygen zu spüren, um, als sie zu pushen sind. Und Native versuchen jetzt zu versuchen, um, weil sie müssen das Bunker machen, um, weil sie müssen das Bunker haben, um, das Bunker ist, um, das Bunker ist, um, das Bunker ist, um, das Bunker ist, um, das Bunker ist, um, das Bunker ist, um, das Bunker ist, um, das Bunker ist, um, das Bunker ist, um, das Bunker ist, um, und LG...

02:32:28 Looking ahead with the bow check in hand. Could actually clean up some KP here in the middle of that fight. Native. Trying to play around the smokes here.

02:32:38 Wingman in Snipe-Down sound still holding onto this. Gets the crack immediately right afterwards. See that they also all have blue here. This is where the Evil Shield advantage comes into play. The Seer Exhibit was called in, but FaZe is just gonna navigate away. They see themselves getting pinched by a team over to the side. That's gonna be Optic Gaming, trying to take some shots at them. But if Optic turned their backs and the team's still behind them, that's gonna be LG that could come in for the fourth party. And every angle they are getting shot is Monsoon who takes that knock onto Snipe-Down.

02:33:09 Oh, it's a tough one here. Complexity just lined up for the student gallery, popping out from the windows of that building. Native did take a knock with their backs to the edge of the circle now.

02:33:31 Es ist eine Short Walk-In für sie. Faze wird wieder eliminiert, wieder Monsoon, mit der Sentinel zu zeigen, die Proficienz auf der Sniper ist, einer der einzige Spieler in all der ALGS in der Moment, der Wert aus dem Weapon ist, das Klasse von Weapon ist. Es ist wirklich verrückt, wie er mit der Sentinel ist, in Monsoon's Hand.

02:33:56 Vor-Groß jetzt, nachdem der Scan ist, dass der Top-End ist, also hat er eine High-Ground-Advantage. Schlager literally won, bevor er wieder zurückkommt. Escaping the G7, Busch says, LG will also take advantage here, too. No doors to block out from their line of sight from the squads outside, minus just the smoke they lose out on Funk. He's got the Creepy Barrage ready here, but it's about trying to reset and avoid so many of these nades. He's definitely got the Evil Shield swaps in front of him here, too.

Spannungsgeladene Kämpfe und strategische Positionierung im späteren Spielverlauf

02:34:25

02:34:25 Aber es ist Verhulst, der in den Angeln ist. LG ist direkt unter dem Team. Ich glaube, es ist Optik Gaming, die das Kampf zu haben, während Complexity ist neben dem Geburtstag. Hier ist TSM, die Outer Circle, aufzunehmen. Sie sind in ein guter Platz, um zu verabschieden von den anderen Team.

02:34:46 Ja, wir haben über 30 Sekunden für einen neuen Spot in der Zone jetzt. Und, ihr wisst, Optik, ihr könnt sie sehen, und spotten Outnative, die wir versuchen in zu gehen. Aber TSM wird wahrscheinlich werden zu versuchen, Disslodz-Skirt, um sie zu finden, um sie zu sehen, um sie zu finden, um hier zu spielen. Und dann haben wir alle diese Teams auf den anderen Seite, um, als wir sagen, Gaming Gladiators, um, einfach...

02:35:15 Erecting a gauntlet for teams wanting to come out of Jurassic Cream. They're strong enough to break through it. And are able to get the reset too with no other team in the area to try to contest and prevent the reset from happening. Complexity as a duo here.

02:35:34 Monsoon sieht die Team in front of him. Misses all his L-Star Sharks, but he was literally one. Optic Gaming gets sent back to the lobby. Seven squads left, and Monsoon is popping off. Ten kills shared between the entire team, and most of those coming from the Sentinel.

02:35:52 Crazy result there. Oh, Lux has managed to get his hands on a wingman and has caused some problems for Oxygen, who had managed to run past out of Jurassic and actually find a spot very close to the final circle. Now TSM also have made their way through, but they're in a little bit of a tussle with SSG here.

02:36:17 Und sie finden sich jetzt Pinch in der Mitte, das Rotate zu sehen. Wenn sie das Spiel gegen SSG haben, ist sie sehr hoch. Der Trait kommt in. Frex wird es auf HAL. Verhulst wird es nur um Raps von TSM zu re-stabilisieren oder versuchen in eine andere Position zu gehen. Aber nach dem Wasser wird es um Oxygen.

02:36:40 Oh, no where to run, no where to hide. He's tapstravin', he is schmovin'. Happy Feet calling him early, though. He managed to escape just for now. I don't even know how he's alive. He's literally one shot. Look at that health. Circle closing in and Space Station are looking to clean up what's left of Reps, but they have to look behind them first. It's complexity rotating from the Circle Monsoon jumping into Pony's arms. Okay, Monsoon.

02:37:09 He's gonna fall now, but SSG not necessarily doing any better. Okay, they do get complexity here, but is it too late, Vicky, with 20 seconds left on this round. They're gonna have to run past Reps, who's causing problems for them. He teams up with Oxygen, and all of a sudden SSG down to 50 health, done for. TSM, I got it called out earlier, too, with the circle closing in.

02:37:37 L.G. ist noch live. Er spielt hier bei der Lippe der Hillen. Hier ist die Rez über ihn, aber er kann nicht mehr tun. Der Moment er kommt, er wird beendet von zwei anderen Teams. Die haben ihn in der Linie gescheitert. Wir haben drei drei Verteidigte hier. Oxygen, Esports, Kareem und Native Gaming. Native? Die nur vollen Verteidigte? So sie auf der Rückseite kommen, hier auf Oxygen, und sie sind zwischen ihnen und Kareem und Kareem.

02:38:04 Now the Jewel of Cream have to try and pull out something massive to win the game. Native looking to take another game in their pockets for the day. Taking the gravity lift up as the Creeping Barrage was called in. Rambo wants to tail them from behind. But with a three-man team getting the damage advantage here. They get one knock and the second one is put in the coffin. As Native Gaming take their second game here for game number five.

Native Gaming triumphiert dank innovativer Strategien und Teamwork

02:38:34

02:38:34 Incredible effort, especially considering a team who hasn't had all that much time to practice together, let alone to practice these new and exciting comps. I mean, you know, they don't even have the data to go off Vicky. I don't think there's a lot of teams out there who have been trying Seer out. So, interesting.

02:38:51 I haven't seen any other team trying out Seer in place for Bloodhound. It's mostly been the Bloodhound because of those scans where you can get them consistently thanks to the perks, too. You get to keep them highlighted for longer. Seer can keep enemies highlighted for longer, too, but the only team to be running the Seer and finding success right now after taking Game 1 and now Game 5.

02:39:13 Wow, yeah, two wins for them, two wins for Dark Zero as well. So a couple of teams really running away with it here in our NA lobby. Yeah, and that means that in the final game, there is an opportunity for two teams that have gotten already two dubs for the day to potentially get an extra point on the board for the overall.

02:39:36 Region standings. It's going to be interesting to see here. I want to see how this last map played out though, because we saw a lot of teams go down while the first circle was closing in. Yeah, like eight?

02:39:51 It was a lot. We have basically 12 squads going into that second ring. It did slow down a bit, which is something that usually happens once a lot of these teams do find their positioning with the Cossacks settled up inside of these buildings. But in that first circle, it was just chaos for a lot of teams, even playing outside the circle, so far away from where that circle was going to initially start pulling.

02:40:14 Ja, ich meine, man sieht das viele Teams nicht so schnell, aber hier ist ein Result von das. Ihr bekommt native 22 Punkte für sie. Cream! Das ist nicht so, wie wir sehen, auf der Seite der Scoreboarden so viel. Pulled out a 19, und sogar Complexity down, mit 10 Kills.

02:40:36 Krim, in putting on the numbers on the board that they need here. They were in 16th place overall before this game, and settling up in 2nd place with 10 KP is a nice look here for this team. Oxygen still within the conversation, still sticking within the top 3, top 4 teams that we've been seeing end up in this lobby. TSM, still very little KP here, not playing as kill heavy, aggressive, mostly playing to rotate and to play for a final circle.

02:41:04 So they're denying themselves a lot more of this Evil Shield Charge, but the KP, even though they do get 6, it's not really in the cards for them. Meanwhile, Complexity, Monsoon, we saw in the feed going crazy with that Sentinel. Yeah, he's picking up quite a few kills with that one. And so we got FaZe down here, 5 kills for them. Obviously, 3 of them coming from that early contest that they are, I believe, sitting 1-1 here on this little group of Storm Point games we've got going.

02:41:33 Noch ein paar Kills kommen für die Lower-Down-Team. Ape Gang, ich denke, ein Team, die hat sich schon etwas gewünscht, aber nur drei Punkte hier für Match 4. 5. 5. Match 5, ich meine, das also bedeutet, dass wir nur noch ein mehr Match zu gehen für die meisten dieser Teams auf den Bottom-Enden und die Overall-Standings für den Tag.

02:41:55 ...to get those points necessary, so that way they don't have to sweat so hard for the final day that they have to play. Because we are down to the wire now, Junom. Dark Zero, yes, getting 14th, but they have taken such two heavy dubs at the process of it in phase. Even with the 5kp, couldn't find themselves with those placement points. Taking a look at the total series results now. Seeing where everybody is situated in after that fifth game.

Dark Zero und Native Gaming dominieren, TSM und Optic Gaming kämpfen

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02:42:21 Es gibt uns eine bessere Idee. Okay, Dark Zero auf top. Es ist crazy, dass aus den fünf Games wir gesehen haben, 50 aus den 55 Punkte sind von zwei Games. Ja, besonders mit Dark Zero in den Games, die wir gesehen haben, fall early. Es ist die zweite Squad zu gehen oder so. Ja.

02:42:42 Now, being able to still hold up on top with 55 points, but with those early exits, Genome, Space Station are right behind them with 52 points. This final game could determine if Space Station could claim that first place spot over Dark Zero, even with their strong performance right now. Native in third with 22 points. Now looking on the other side, though, LG and TSM, respectively, in 11th and 12th place. And Optic Gaming would really need to show up.

02:43:10 They're at risk of not making it to land. Which is such a crazy thought when they were literally one team, one fight went away from raising the championship trophy not so long ago. It's crazy how things could change with so many different patches, a different season to come into play and some more Apex to be seen, guys. We got game number six, our final game of the day right after this break. You don't want to miss it.

02:45:42 Seer ist hier heute in N.A., unser letzte Spiel auf Stormpoint. Und es hat einen wirklich tollen Tag so far. Twice jetzt, Vicky, wir haben ein Seer gehört, mit einem gewinnen.

02:45:58 Ja, was was extra funny about that, when I saw the Seer, I had written in our production chat, I'm like, yeah, Bloodhound's still better. And then now Native comes in and takes two dubs with the Seer into play. I do want to highlight, though, their rotates and the timing on the rotates have definitely also come in clutch. Them holding on to the bunker tune before they had to rotate away from theirs, get stuck in between two teams and still manage to get out of the chaos was quite impressive while FaZe had fallen in the process of doing something similar and holding the out...

02:46:27 It makes me sad.

02:46:56 Okay, it makes me sad. One day we're gonna get the Mirage and it's going to be terrifying. He's gonna get a final buff and everyone's gonna realize how terrifying it is to see eight Mirages running around and not know what to do. Especially with all the Bloodhound skiers.

02:47:21 Wir sehen uns jetzt ein Final Contest. Es ist jetzt 1 und 1. Temper gewinnen die erste. Faze gewinnen die zweite. Es war ein wirklich guter Kampf in der zweiten. Wir werden sehen, ob wir die zweite. Wir werden die zweite. Wir werden die zweite. Wir werden jetzt auf den Roof getrennt. Temper ist die erste. Faze gewinnen, Vicky. Oh, das ist der Fakt.

02:47:47 They sped ran their way back to the lobby. Faze with the insurance policy to make sure that Panders is safe. Two, they all really just dropped on that roof on top of Panders and then fell for it. Crazy. Alright, Faze win another 50-50 back-to-back against Temper. Last time we're going to see Temper for the day here for this final game.

02:48:13 And now we get to see where this circle is going to be taking us as FaZe is going to be feasting on this rotate. Yeah, this is going to be massive for them. Potentially an opportunity for EEC as well to maybe bunker down and get some placement points to close out the day as they struggled on the first half being the team that Temper was up against on World's Edge in the contest and not coming out on top in that. And then having struggled even in the first match here, they tried to rotate into the 50-50 with FaZe and Temper.

02:48:40 Semper still took them out. So this is an opportunity for EEC to maybe at least close out the day with some points on the board. As you can see, which of the remaining teams right outside of this circle, this will potentially favor. Native Gaming also looking pretty set up, not only because of their position here, Vicky, but because of all of the resources surrounding them that could level up those Evos.

02:49:04 Das ist ein sehr guter Punkt, besonders wenn es die Patung geht, und die Beacon Scans, die Prowler Nests, die Flyers, oder sogar die Evo Harvesters zu bekommen, um die 350 Punkte zu bekommen. Wir sehen uns so viele andere Teams verändern, die Patung-Approche, das sie sonst hätte gehen können, wenn es um die Finale-Circle-Positions geht, oder die Edge geht, auf die Konferenzierung. Gaming Gladiators, Sie sehen die Pings kommen in.

02:49:30 We're running with those white Evos, probably pinging to see if they could find an evil harvester themselves. And playing inside the DBZ buildings, it's gonna be native. Calling out, again, the positioning that they always take when they have that ring console information. I don't wanna jinx anything, but this could be...

02:49:57 Okay, for Native, who have now managed to get a win on each map. GKS, though, flying in, wanting to get involved in this engagement, seeing what they can bring to the table, maybe pushing Native out of the way. LG sitting in the wings, as is Oblivion. But GKS just really want to hold down one of these buildings. Everyone's going to be fighting for this position here, Vicky. It's going to be so chaotic, too. I mean, if some of these teams don't have a watch and...

02:50:26 Jen is tossing Nox grenades everywhere. Eightgang being one of the teams rocking the Watson, the Devo, the Turbo and a Purple Energy Mag feasting on that. Gonna look at the other teams now making the rotate in though. McLovin with the 30-30 shots trying to take some shots at Burstee while Dark Zero in the distance creeping their way over after exiting out of Mill.

02:50:56 Complexity here on their rotate. Trying to see what they can do here. Honestly, they were a team that has just been so slay heavy today that I was wondering to see if they could close out the day with a win. Finding themselves here pretty comfortably evoed up. Getting the alerts. They did get scanned by that beacon with Lou kind of doing some scouting for the squad. But complexity.

02:51:23 If they could close out the day with a win, I feel like that would be a nice feather in their cap on their performance here today, especially with a slightly altered roster.

02:51:33 Who says out the creeping barrage right before they got in that corner though? We can try to engage it looks like as we take a look at TSM engaging themselves with a team creeping up right behind them. Verhul's getting called up for trying to go to the Evil Harvester. Did they just rat by the Evil Harvester and just wait or did they just approach the Evil Harvester at the same time? We just tuned in the creeping barrage. Great timing just to give Verhul's some space and time to reset.

02:52:01 I don't know how Verhulz just got out of that with negative health to his name, okay? Somehow surviving, able to also get a reset, and TSM can keep themselves in a much, much better spot. SSG also opting to back off and just continue with their rotation through Command Center. Now checking in with OXG, though, finding themselves in a back and forth here in Jurassic with DNO.

02:52:28 Trying to push their way through here and see if they can maybe avoid an unnecessary back and forth and really look to see to get some more Evo points on the shields now with E8 and Skirt.

02:52:44 Diese Teams starte zu kämpfen so early für diese Positionierung hier. Und Elevate ist bis zu 2. Sie entdeckten Outskirr, um das Spiel zu entfernen. Sie haben ein paar Lüten-Dammage auf dem Board hier auch. Aber sie wollen hier nicht so lange sitzen. Especially nicht hier, bei Checkpoint. Aber hier sind keine anderen Teams in der Nähe, die können in der 3rd-Parte gehen. So sie können Reset nicht. Und wenn sie nicht die Server-Beacon schon über die Checkpoint haben, dann kann sie jetzt. Dark Zero.

02:53:13 Sie sehen, die E.E.C. auf der anderen Seite des Rock. Sie gehen in den Bunker. Sie gehen in den Bunker. Sie sind mit Dark Zero in den Bunkern.

02:53:44 Was? Bro. Oh, Gott. Sex, you've got to go out the back door when he stuns them.

02:53:54 All of the fight approach from Dark Zero gets shut down and the entire squad gets wiped out. Gloving stays alive before Cream now comes in for the third party to clean up. What is left of this team? EEC putting on a performance right now at the very end when they desperately need it. But Cream now is just trying to put a stop to it.

02:54:18 Das war eine wirklich, wirklich beeindruckende Kampf gegen DZ. Es öffnet die Tür für eine perfekte 3rd-Party-Opportunität, mit nicht so viel EEC kann tun. Kreim hat ihre Zeit hier, mit dieser Zeit. Unsure, ob sie wirklich wollen, eine Konzerted-Push in der Zeit, um EEC zu entfernen. Aber sie müssen sie wissen, dass sie diese Advantage haben. Sie endlich machen ihren Weg. Und sie verlieren noch mehr. McLovin geht für EEC. Kreim hat die Final-Solo gewonnen.

02:54:47 und das Teil des Zonen. Ein bisschen von einem Schuss insügt hier, nicht zu machen, auf Kreim. Und sie werden auch nicht electe Carter zu helfen, hier, weil das würde, das nicht, das einfach nicht machen würde, in der letzte Woche hier. Vickie, Kreim, aus EEC.

02:55:11 Man, das ist eine Replay. EEC, aus der Lobby, SSG, macht der Rotate.

02:55:32 Ssg.

02:56:00 Honestly, had really set themselves up well when they decided to not take that engagement earlier. So now we're just kind of checking in with them as they make this rotation through. Like you said, they're clear on this south side right now, so they're okay for now, but they are heading towards the zone that forces them into choke options.

02:56:21 in order to get to where they want to go. And then a wall of teams, all of whom have moved here early enough to claim these buildings, whether it's the nut buildings or the ones that are on the southern side close to those chokes. So it's going to be a potentially difficult road for any of these teams who are coming in late on these rotations to try and make a safe passage through to the next area.

02:56:48 Especially the teams that have to rotate through the chokes on that south side too. Even though they're building to the north, you imagine that through the windows, the teams that have already found themselves in these buildings, Dropped in Gaming, Ape Gang, even Complexity, playing on the outskirts by The Rock, could...

02:57:04 Und yep.

02:57:34 It is pulling up to that north side. Optik Gaming sitting pretty comfy in that armory. Now we've seen a situation like this just a little while ago, TSM, where they had a really prime position here in the final circle. And disaster struck, so we'll have to see how everything's handled this time around, although this is...

02:58:02 A messy final circle that all of these squads should be very familiar with and how to handle it and play. It'll be a great way to close out the day as we're starting to watch.

02:58:14 dass SSG-SG-SG-SG-SG-SG-SG-SG-SG-SG-SG-SG-SG-SG.

02:58:43 Aber es wird passieren hier bald. Was das Frex mit dem Deadzone auf dem Controller? Ich war einfach nur auf dem Pingen und er war einfach nur auf. Ich liebe die Pings, aber auch die Skyward Dive sind, wenn sie sich in der Rotate finden, weil sie sich in der Rotate befinden können, mit Oxygen, Gatekeeping und Phase zu haben, die High-Ground sind ein bisschen tricky hier. Einmal hier für ELEVATE, als sie ihre Evac-Tower nehmen, gehen über die Hilltop von Checkpoint.

02:59:10 Sie schauen nach unten. Der Grund, warum der Beast of the Hunt kam, war die Evac Tower, war so, dass du eigentlich eine Valkyrie-Valkyrie-Valkyrie-Valkyrie-Valkyrie-Valkyrie-Valkyrie-Valkyrie-Valkyrie-Valkyrie-Valkyrie-Valkyrie-Valkyrie-Valkyrie-Valkyrie-Valkyrie-Valkyrie-Valkyrie-Valkyrie-Valkyrie-Valkyrie-Valkyrie-Valkyrie

02:59:35 Creeping Barash coming in, but they have to take this fight versus Optic. They scan only two, so they see that it's potentially a duo, but I do believe Optic is a full three-man. Not only do they have to take this fight, but they have to make it happen quickly, because like you said, everyone's going to be looking their way, and if there is an opportunity to get an easy third party here and clear a couple of these squads out, that's exactly what they're going to do. You can see full three on Optic, like you said, Vicky, now peeking out the door.

Complexity triumphiert im Chaos, TSM sichert sich den letzten Sieg

03:00:03

03:00:03 Und als das passiert, wir kriegen mehr Squads, Nated Gaming zu gehen. Wir schauen nach Oblivion, als die Zone starte zu schrinkt. Trying zu finden ein bisschen mehr Cover. Sie sind safe für jetzt, aber OpTic, Luz dropped, er ist nicht. Sie sind nicht able, die Rez sind. Lots passiert hier zwischen all diesen Teams. Ich kann nicht glauben, sie sind able, und jetzt Complexity finden sich in ein bisschen.

03:00:28 What a way to take advantage of an opportunity for Complexity. They were out in the open. They see the team flying in and come into third party. Coming in right behind here, Monsoon's still up and alive and healthy. Lose out of this fight for now as Retzi also gets taken down. Find two knocks from Optic. One last lever here for Optic and he is running around looking lost. Can't find the last one here as Complexity have taken over the Armory. That was a massive...

03:00:57 Das ist das Massive-Push. Retsy wird es, um die Evo-Shields zu tun. Aber wie du gesagt, es war eine Prime-Opportunität, die sie kind of hatten und versucht haben, weil sie jetzt eine wirklich solid Position haben. Sie sind safe in der nächsten Runde. Und all sie haben zu tun ist, dass sie die Schuads auf der anderen Seite haben.

03:01:14 sind jetzt so viel weniger aus dem Positionen. Das Team ist Faze, die in der Zeit zu machen ist, aber nicht vergessen, dass alle anderen in die Städte sind, die in der Positionen sind. Du hast Drop-In-Gaming, Ape Gang, und du hast OXG hier in der Choke, die in der Choke zu pushen. All right, wir haben OXG waiting in den Wings, so wir gehen in den Wings, und sehen wie sie in den Choke zu machen.

03:01:42 Just trust me, just trust me on this one. I think we're gonna land here, probably. Okay. Yeah, I'm gonna float up. Then I'm gonna pop down. Yeah, we're gonna land here. Zeebo might be fighting. Team Bunker. Zeebo's not fighting. Team over here. Can we land here? Land here and smoke up. Smoke up, okay? Smoke up. At our feet? Put smoke on us. Put smoke on us. Put smoke on our feet. And lay low. Look at Zeebo, look at Zeebo. I'm putting barrels on. Really safe on me, really safe on me.

03:02:09 I'm moving barrels over here. Three shots over here. This team has to move in. Yeah. Bang. 120 on one, 121. Okay, look here.

03:02:21 We're gonna have to watch something over there, over there, over there, yeah. We can move up on that rock, maybe. Come on the right, I'm sticking this rock. We can still play something. Is there anything behind us? Watch Armory, careful Armory. Could we play for these kills on me? You wanna just move up on it? You wanna just move up on it? Are they safe back there? Yeah, they're in, they're in. Look, over here, everybody get you on the ass. I'm part of that.

03:02:47 Es ist ein volles Team hier, auf uns, auf uns! Ich habe ihn! Ich habe ihn! Ich habe ihn! Ich habe ihn! Ich habe ihn! Ich habe ihn! Ich habe ihn! Ich habe ihn! Ich habe ihn! Ich habe ihn! Ich habe ihn! Ich habe ihn! Ich habe ihn! Ich habe ihn! Ich habe ihn!

03:03:13 Oxygen hatte den Reset vor, aber sie haben auch schon verloren auf Vayne. Und sie hat sogar noch so gemacht, nach dem Kreber-Shot zu einem Mitglied von LG. Complexity ist noch in der Armour. Und Monsoon ist eine absolute Menace, wieder mit dem Sentinel. TSM spielen wie sie haben, wie sie immer in der Bunker sind. Sie wissen, dass sie da sind.

03:03:39 Und jetzt sind sie in der Nähe von Kremen in der nächsten Linie, sie werden sie versuchen, aber in welchen Richtung ist TSM zu gehen? Sie können Kremen sehen, Sie sehen, Sie sehen hier in der Sight-Sight-Sight-Sight-Sight-Sight-Sight-Sight-Sight-Sight-Sight.

03:03:58 Das ist, es ist, es, es, you, you know, you were talking about it during the listening, even after the listening, Vicky, these barrels right now out of these caustics are proving to be so useful for all of these teams who have that caustic bank combo between the zoning of the gas and the vision block of the smoke.

03:04:17 It's providing a lot of cover for these teams to play in these insanely open areas of this final circle. TSM now making a push in, trying to use the Valkyrie for a little additional damage to force people out, making sure that no one is in front of them and clearing out that space. They're able to move in safely. Meanwhile, DNO down in the killfeed, native down in the killfeed, complexity down in the killfeed. We're down to top four and TSM are using the Beast of the Hunt to give themselves some beautiful vision to start dealing some damage.

03:04:44 Fragging out, and I heard the hammies coming out from refs, clearing out this entire side of the circle. Our final three squads, TSM, LG, Oxygen, Esports on the other side. Furrows is going to be able to restabilize, but he's holding an off-angle here just in case LG tried to approach him on the other side.

03:05:09 Also nice to note that it is only a solo left from Oxygen. Aiden with the wingman in hand, but nobody from TSM or LG can do anything about that. They put down the Mobi for now. They thought it was an evac at first. Not an evac here. The Mobi is just going to provide some extra makeshift cover versus Aiden. Aiden trying to do something similar, although he's already behind cover. I think he's got his teammates' banners. That would actually be...

03:05:34 Es ist so crazy, wenn er das aufbauen kann, bevor das Circle closes in, mit den Death Boxen auf seinen Feen ist. Du wißt du, auf der Plus Light 2 ist das erste Mal, die wir sehen LG als ein Trio sehen, okay? Sie sind nicht mehr auf dem Back, aber die Moby...

03:05:56 ... ... ... ... ...

03:06:11 TSM-LG und L-G sind hier auf der anderen Seite der Rock. Und es könnte jetzt jetzt kommen zu OXG, um die Möglichkeit zu tun, um zu tun, um zu tun, um zu tun, um zu tun, um zu tun, um zu tun, um zu tun, um zu tun, um zu tun, um zu tun, um zu tun, um zu tun, um zu tun.

03:06:40 Taking their time. The Barrage coming in. They have the Evil Shield Swaps at their feet to the right here too, but they lose out on Slayer from the Rolling Thunder. TSM are on Pride Rock. We're the Kings now. They needed a game to pop off, and they have high advantage. Dropping in with the Hammer Points, it's the RE45 and TSM taking the final game of the day.

03:07:08 Das war so ein crazy Endcircle. Oxygen's presence...

03:07:37 Was so scary.

03:07:38 Even as a duo, there was an opportunity there that unfortunately with the circle being right behind them, that they couldn't really play off of the timing and wait for that circle to close in behind LG and TSM first. But still, it was the threat of a duo griefing one of the teams being a possibility that was there. And with TSM and that Rolling Thunder getting that knock was such a big deal for them to have that advantage. Because then at that point, they know LG wouldn't be able to go for the reset because Oxygen would just wrap around right behind them.

03:08:08 Yeah, I mean, that was a really strong performance for TSM. An opportunity for LG to try and close that one out as well. Like we had said, that was one of the few times we got to see them in a top three spot or even like a top five where they had a full three up and ready to go. And I'm gonna hype up TSM and LG for that first and second place finish. But Vicky, I cannot take my eyes off Complexity in fifth place with 15 kills.

03:08:36 I was looking at the feed and the sentinel god was at it again. Sentyshot after Sentyshot. I was seeing it, but the fact that they were able to not only gatekeep some of the teams that were trying to force their way over to the southeast side of where that...

03:08:55 The third to last circle had closed in before they left towards the armory to get to the then third party. But after that, that third party also allowed them to not only hold the armory, get the KP that they need, but then nobody was able to contest them beyond that. They were pressuring every single team from the DBZ buildings that had to rotate in. They were out in the open. There was little to no cover. They were feasting on half the lobby here with 15 kills.

03:09:21 Ich glaube nicht, dass es viel zu tun gibt, Vicky.

03:09:48 Now, unfortunately, Phase fallen in 11th place again. It's another game where they get the KP, but they don't get the placement that they were looking for here. But overall, still being able to put themselves on the board with Dark Zero falling in 17th place. They still had a good standing, though, showing the fact that they were able to get two great games after they got the dub. Alright, well, we'll get Genome back in here to close out the day with us. Thoughts on that last match, Genome?

03:10:17 Ja, look, I...

03:10:19 Is it Plot Armor for TSM? Not sure. It was well played by them. It was a very tense standoff between them and LG there at the end. It felt like Oxygen maybe was going to sort of prove the difference, but in the end it was the Bangalore Ultimate actually getting one of the Nox onto LG, which opened the door for TSM to take that one home. Yeah, look, interesting that it took them so long to get started. I almost want to call it a disguise.

03:10:49 Because it feels like they've kind of coined that have a really slow day and then bring it all back in a game six kind of thing. Do we just name that after them now? True, true.

03:11:05 Ich glaube, es ist eine gute Idee, für TSM. Wir sehen uns auf alle Final Circles zu sehen, weil wir ein bisschen verrückt haben, wenn es zu den Stormpointen geht. Wir gehen all den Weg zurück zu Nummer 4. Und das ist vielleicht mein Lieblingsmatch für den Tag, nur weil es wie chaotisch das Ende war. DZ war die einzige Team, die in der Norden ist, der Teil des Final Circles zu gewinnen. Sie macht einen schnellen Weg, um die Top-In-Gaming zu gewinnen. Und auch wenn Drop-In-Gaming war, konnten sie sich...

03:11:34 Es war so einfach so, dass es die EASIEST clean-up war.

03:12:03 their lives to close out this match I mean

03:12:07 Huge performance for DZ. And then heading into match number five here, Genome. Talk me through these final moments. Yeah, this game, you know, we had the very odd start where, you know, we only had 12 teams make it past Circle 1. Very, very strange. And then Native really starts to pop off in this one. You know, Oxygen also being a very consistent performer throughout the day.

03:12:37 Ah, aber...

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03:13:07 Fantastic today, and taking out two dubs is honestly pretty impressive for the NA Pro League. And then, of course, to close out the day here, Vicky, a nice little Black Sands finish, the chaos between the smokes and the caustic barrels, I mean, all of it came together in TSM's favor.

03:13:29 Es ist ehrlich gesagt, es ist Qualitätsfighting hier, für eine Final Circle, von jedem Team, dass es left ist, mit Oxygen zu spielen, als ein Duell, und sogar das Rez an der Ende des Rez. Again, es gibt das extra Pressure. Ja, sie waren Forst zu escape von der Smoke, in front von TSM. Sie closed das aus hier, versus Oxygen. Aber dann, die Verrauchte, die in die Bang-Ult, die hat das Knochen auf Slayer, war das Erfolg hier für TSM. Aside von dem, dass sie bereits die Height-Bear, sie hatten High-Ground-Advantage, sie hatten Number-Advantage, und das war

03:13:58 You know, I was looking at all these stats and we had such

03:14:25 Es war eine Back-and-Fort-Day. Natürlich, Native hat zwei Wins in der Woche, aber wir haben so viele andere Teams, wo auch, wenn sie in der ersten oder zweiten sind, sie enden mit double-digit Kills haben, dass ich nicht... Es ist kein Stand-Out-Winner wie wir in EMEA haben. Wenn wir mit EMEA waren, wir wussten wir, dass wir auf der Leaderboarden sind, für unsere Series-Resultate.

03:14:48 I have no idea what is happening now, especially after a 15 kill, 6th place finish out of complexity to close out the day with TSM and LG getting 1st and 2nd with decent amount of KP themselves. I'm excited when we can finally get these scores up here because I need to know who won this 3rd to last week here. Match day number 7. Oh my god!

03:15:16 Okay, so you're telling me that Monsoon, with 10 kills to his name individually in the last game, has put them on top and taken out the 25 overall standing points to win this series.

03:15:39 Was ist verrückt, dass das mit dem den Minimum auf World's Edge ist. Das alles kam mit 8 Kills auf World's Edge, aber das alles kam von Stormpoint in den letzten drei Spiels.

03:15:55 This is absolute insanity. Not only that, but native Thai DZ, both at 55, only one point behind Complexity, who apparently Monsoon said, uh, my backpack's real empty today. Everybody just climb on in. I've got this covered, okay? I mean, this was... I don't even... This is fantastic. Ladies and gentlemen, the sniper rifle. To be fair, TSM...

03:16:27 Das ist verrückt. Ich kann nicht glauben, dass Dark-Zero eine gewisse Leidung ist, warum sie auf den Punkt gekommen sind. Aber es ist die Frage, dass Complexity kam in den Punkt.

03:16:57 Das war ein helles Jahr für Complexity. Der Mann mit dem Guitart selbst kommt in und singt uns ein Song. Und er singt für den Rest des Team, um ihn in den overallen Standings zu bringen. All I can think of Glitter ist, wenn Monsoon...

03:17:11 Was there at LAN with us. We have a look at some of these other teams. Who are very much on the cusp of making it to LAN. Like Furia, Dropped and Gaming in Disguised. Obviously some others like Optic and Exit. I think still definitely have a chance. Native pushing themselves up towards there. But you know. Just thinking about when Monsoon didn't make LAN. And you know. He was on the desk with us. The vibe shift. Between him then.

03:17:36 und Monsoon-Sniper-Monster, das wir jetzt bekommen haben. Es ist so ein verrückt, und ein Glow-Up für einen Mann, der so viele Leute haben.

03:18:04 Es hat zwei mehr Match Days. Obviamente, jemand auf 5'er nur noch eine Möglichkeit zu gewinnen, um zu gewinnen, um die Region Finals zu gewinnen. Und dann, natürlich, unsere Play-Offs in LAN. Wir müssen uns darüber reden.

03:18:19 Das war's up in the air until the final moments, because I couldn't make a choice. But after what we just saw, when it comes to the MVP of today, it has to be Monsoon, okay? We cannot let this man close out the...

03:18:36 mit den most insane Sentinels shots we have seen all day. Even if they weren't getting the team performances that they wanted on World's Edge, still putting in work on the World's Edge performance. He has to be the MVP. He is the vibes leader of the crew, crushing it on his Bangalore. And like we said, we were looking at those overall standings. They were in sixth heading into today, now putting themselves...

03:19:06 in 2nd, behind a DZ, who has honestly been unstoppable until...

03:19:12 Apparently today, by one point, when Complexity and Monsoon specifically decided to make sure that they remind everybody why they are here with the picture, the fabulous pose. I feel like Monsoon has to probably be one of the most fun when it comes to these media day shoots. But look at these stats, guys. Over 5,100 damage, 21 kills. And we talked about that.

03:19:39 Earlier in EMEA, in EMEA, that was the record that we saw today, literally, and now Monsoon's matching that with 21 kills, and I could not be more excited to get the man in here himself lounging, reclining, happy with the performance, Monsoon! Dude, welcome! Congratulations!

03:20:05 Oh my God, thank you so much. I'm shaking right now. So, thank you. Whatever, I need to know what the routine was heading into the performance here today because whatever you did, you can never change it ever again. Listen, we wake up, we hit the walk, the dog walk, we hit the Pokemon Go Daily Incense, of course. We come back, we eat a little bit, play some TDMs, meditate, you know what I'm saying, cast a couple spells and that's it. That's the routine for me right now.

03:20:36 I love that. Dude, you guys are unstoppable. The vibes are massive on that team. I mean, who else is as good with the Sentinel than you, man? I have to hype it up because that's where most of the damage came from. Seeing you also, I don't know, what's your favorite set on that weapon? I need to know. I see you using the 4x8 and you're just always cracked with it.

03:21:01 Yeah, thank you so much. Oh, my God. I try really hard. Two times has to be my favorite, 100%, and then the six times above all else. Those are my two, for sure, every single time. And I'm stoked to be able to use it, and I'm glad it's working out, because everybody says it's a bad weapon. Yeah, well, you're a bad weapon, you know, because we're owning with it. We're hitting shots. It's so free, you know what I'm saying? Like, all these guys don't know what to do when they get hit 156 in the face with a freaking charged up sentinel, so it's good, you know?

03:21:33 Ja, es ist gut. Es ist gut. Ich meine, die Anzahl von Kills kommen aus dir heute ist, das ist richtig. Aber es war ein Team-Effort, nachher. Wir sahen Retsy kommen in heute, als auch. Und jetzt, du hast noch gewonnen. Ich meine, wie das passiert, wenn du, um... ...Rust-Changezor oder wasser es ist, hier? Das ist ein unglaublicher Result, Mon.

03:21:59 Dude, it's so thankful for it. You know, IGLing from five different POIs over the course of the entire split and playing with a sub and picking up Lou three days before roster lock has been nothing but difficult. But I mean, we put in the work, we sit in customs, game theory, go over VODs, whatever we need to do to make sure that we're feeling confident. At that point, if it works out.

03:22:19 That's fantastic. And it worked out for us here. So Kim's at a wedding right now. Big shout out to Kim. We won this for you, baby. I know he's sloshed right now. I know he's, I know he's celebrating and stuff. And I think we're all so ready to go to land. We are so ready, baby. That's how I feel. Thank you.

03:22:38 I mentioned that earlier too, the fact that you guys are playing with a different roster today. It's just another hurdle that you have to overcome. But I want to get your thoughts on Season 20 in general. Clearly, it doesn't matter what hurdles are being thrown at you. How has this new meta really benefited your squad? Man, benefited. Oh, that's a, that's an, I don't know if it has or not. There's still a lot of unsolved things. It's been a super interesting shakeup to see, you know, Lifeline and Caustic become more relevant and Watson coming through. Dockery is back. Come on.

03:23:06 A lot of our success in these games and these sets come from the Valkyrie positioning tool, her ultimate landing in God spots, essentially. And it's been awesome to see the change in it entirely. And we're going to continue putting our heads down and continue trying to figure it out. And we're feeling good. So momentum is great. And that's it. That's it.

03:23:27 Alright, well Vicky, Genome, do you have any more questions? Look, okay, so if you were praising the Valkyrie here, obviously it's worked out today. I think one of the reasons why it started to slip out of the meta previously, right, is it can be a bit of a roll of the dice sometimes. I mean...

03:23:44 You're saying you're doing some work there to try and figure that out. How do you think you can mitigate the weaknesses of that ult and how sometimes you can just land in a whole big mess of trouble?

03:23:59 Yeah, no, it's really difficult. I mean, it is a coin flip at the end of the day, you know, like if you die going up, take damage flying through, maybe you're not, like it's a skill. It's a whole skill trying to figure out where you're going to land off of the Valkal. Some are easier than others, of course, but you know, if you can't have a free spot, then you need to think about how the point A to point B flow amidst chaos goes and whether or not you can pinch a team or whether or not you get on the ground and have a shot at even playing the game because it feels so bad when you land and you just instantly die. It's like, dang, we should have walked in because at least we could have shot.

03:24:28 Und das ist das Problem mit Valkyrie, das wir alle kennen und lieben für die letzten vier Jahre. Aber weil es mehr Valkyries gibt, es buffen Valkyrie, weil niemand hat die Spots mit Valkyrie. Das ist der major Faktor für uns. Wir haben alle diese Spots, weil niemand hat sie. Wenn wir mehr Leute spielen, dann wird es ein bisschen mehr schwierig. Aber für heute ist es gut. So, ja, das ist es.

03:24:57 Just get used to the game. Mm-hmm. All right. All right, Mon. I want to let you go so you can enjoy your celebration. But before we do that, I have one final important question. What do we have to do to get another song for another big land? Apex. Onset. Come through, baby. Let's do it. I got some stuff. I would love to. Live performance. Next chance. I don't know. I'm down. I'm always down. I can play. Let me know.

03:25:27 live performance. That was the part I picked up on that. Maybe I shouldn't have said that. That scares me a lot. I'm down, you know. I'm down. Let's do it. We'll see what we can work behind the scenes here, Mom, because that would be epic with obviously with the dancing.

03:25:47 Yep, 100%. Well, I appreciate it. Thanks for having me again. You guys are killing it, so appreciate you guys a lot. We love you, Mom. We will talk to you later. We love you. Thank you so much and congrats.

03:26:00 God, he is a blast to talk to. Honestly, we probably could have kept him on here for hours. But he needs to be able to celebrate a win like that, Vicky, because that was an insane, insane performance. Very well-deserved praise on behalf of Complexity and Monsoon in general. Give me your final thoughts on today. NA was insane.

03:26:20 I am so glad to be back. Season 20 is out in full force. And what better way to end the day than complexity by a point difference without taking a single dub. Taking the game and Monsoon having the time of his life with the rest of his team. While Kim Chi's not even present, I know they're definitely going to be celebrating later on. But man, I can't wait to see Maury Litter.

03:26:46 It was a fantastic day, Gino. I'm joining us here on both in me and NA for the first time. Tell me about your thoughts after you get to see NA now in Season 20. I mean, it's such a tight.

03:27:00 hier in N.A., I think that's what makes it so exciting to see three teams within one point of each other at the top of the leaderboard. That just shows the depth of talent here in N.A., right? You know, I got to watch my boys TZ win a couple of games. I'm also pretty happy about that. Can't be mad. And yeah, look, we saw some great highlight clips as well. So, yep, had a fantastic time. I hope it's not the only time we get to, you know, see some of the lads back here as they've matured.

03:27:29 und als sie sich überlegen. Ich weiß, dass du viel Aussie-Energie mit dir hier ist. Wir sind jetzt fertig.

03:27:39 We have another weekend jam packed with Apex Legends action less than a week away. Okay, March 9th will be our next match day, match day number eight. Everything kicking off at 10 a.m. PT, 1 p.m. ET, 6 p.m. GMT. And it is another dual ALGS match day weekend for both EMEA.

03:28:08 So you have to make sure that you check that out. As always, though, if you miss any of the action here today, you can always follow us on social media, which will be at Play Apex Esports on X and YouTube or.

03:28:28 Play Apex on Twitch, and that way you won't miss a single second of how the rest of this entire split plays out. And now that you've got some time before our next ALGS Pact weekend, go play some Apex Legends, okay? You can test out everything we've seen here today by some of the pros. See if it maybe helps you out a little bit. See if you can climb that ranked ladder. We'll see you back here next weekend.

03:28:56 Wir sind in den Highs und in den Lows.