ALGS Year 5 Split 1 Pro League ! Match Day 8 ! Americas ! Group A vs C ! Apex Legends

ALGS Americas: Shopify Rebellion führt, Teamänderungen und Strategie-Diskussionen

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- 07.06.25 - 03:30:04 - 87.396 - Apex Legends

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Die ALGS Americas Pro League Matchday 8 zeigt spannende Kämpfe um die Qualifikation für die Regional Finals. Shopify Rebellion führt, während Teams wie NRG und Falcons im Fokus stehen. Strategische Unterschiede zwischen EMEA und NA, Legenden-Anpassungen und Team-Taktiken werden analysiert. Die Teams bereiten sich auf die Mid-Season Playoffs vor.

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00:04:51 Ich bin Diya, und wenn ihr uns heute seid, wissen wir, was kommt. Es ist Graceful und Genome, willkommen zu dem Broadcast. Es ist schön zu haben, nach...

ALGS Year 5 Split 1 Pro League Americas: Überblick und Team-Fokus

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00:05:15 Was ich sicher war, was ein blip in der Radar für dich, Grace Moret. Sleep, wake up, Apexcast. Ich meine, das ist jetzt wie ich live. Wake up, game, go back to sleep, game again. Und zu sehen, die Games wir eben sahen, man. Fantastisch. Und wir haben noch mehr zu kommen, als auch. Wir haben eine unglaubliche Geschichte heute Morgen, Genome. Wie fühlst du über Amerikas, jetzt wird es dein 3D Region zu cover in einem Jahr?

00:05:42 Yeah, look, my head's spinning. There's a lot of names going through it. There's a lot of teams happening. Some of them are in the present. Some of them are multiple iterations of teams that we've had in like the last three weeks. So yeah, there's definitely a lot going on up there. There really is. Let's take a moment and help you ground yourself in today's games and honestly help us all ground ourselves in today's games because today...

00:06:11 Für Matchday 8, wir haben Group A und Group C. 19 Teams, würde 20, aber Complexity, wir alle remember Complexity, will nicht, will nicht be joining uns, als sie haben alle split-up, gone ihre separate ways. So, Group A und Group C, wir werden es über die Region Finals, und über die Mid-Season Playoffs geschehen. Jetzt, wir schauen uns die Teams, die in die Position zu tun, das zu tun, an der Moment.

00:06:39 Shopify Rebellion leading everybody. NRG and Falcons, no surprise there. However, looking a little further down the leaderboard, my eyes are drawn towards the 20th spot. We've got Team Liquid, Forbidden Gaming, and CTE all right on the cusp of making it to the regional finals with Omid, Citadel, and Unleashed looking right up their tailpipe. I'm going to include LG in that as well because they're tied with Unleashed and it would feel weird not to mention that they're surprising. We have so many teams that are...

00:07:07 Looking to advance to the Regional Finals, but have not actually clinched it yet. And if you want a little bit of a graphic representation, this is exactly where you can find it. We've got some magic numbers up here with the advancing to the midseason playoff happening in the high 60s. That, four teams already totally fine with HEG, Falcons, NRG, and Shopify Rebellion. Everyone else looking to advance to the Regional Finals. We've got quite a few teams qualified, but not everybody has made it just yet graceful.

00:07:35 Ich meine, ob du es nicht mehr gemacht hast, es ist mehr als möglich für viele diese Teams zu spielen. So niemand sollte das jetzt counten, niemand kann es trotzdem machen. Aber egal ob das, wir sehen Regional Finals haben sogar noch mehr Punkte als vorher. Es kommt darauf, dass die Finals sind unglaublich wichtig. Und diese Teams können nicht nur noch gehen, sie müssen weitergehen.

00:07:58 Yeah, Genome, you're going to be collecting a lot more points when and if you make it to the Regional Finals. A big thank you to Xander Commander for putting together the number for teams that have already qualified into the mid-season playoffs. Yeah, as that graphic was showing there, Dia, this is the first time where we've upped the amount of points that you get from the Regional Finals. So a good performance in the Regional Finals will give you...

00:08:26 more points than ever before and make it more likely that you're one of those, for the Americas region, 16 teams that qualifies for LAN. Can we just sit on that for a second? It is actually harder to qualify for the regional finals and not qualify for LAN than it is to qualify for LAN. That's a little insane. Well, I mean, yeah, but like...

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00:09:04 Das war's für heute.

00:09:26 This week, officially, we've got everybody on DSZ, formerly DSZ, going to be under all gamers, in-game, on-broadcast, all that good stuff. For roster changes, however, Gino, what's been going on? Yeah, well, we've got a couple of inclusions. Mangstar is coming in for board. We've also got Cersei coming in from Team Orchid. That's a nice little pickup for Team Orchid, especially. Cersei had a decent performance coming off the back.

00:09:55 of the ALGS Open. And obviously he's got some big shoes to fill there, remembering that Panic obviously got Poch from Team Orchid and moved over to TSF. I don't know if Poch is too strong a word there, just the one that came to mind. But yeah, Cersei replacing him. Really excited about the Panic stuff as well. Keep your eyes out for that this weekend because there's a lot of conversation around what's going on with former Team Orchid.

00:10:22 what could continue happening with TSM. But I'm already saying a lot of names. We've talked about some org changes. Graceful, help me narrow it down a little bit. Who should people be watching if they are just tuning in back into the LGS? I mean, I gotta stay true to my old roots at all times. VP, you know, I'm a big fan of Sack. But are you a big fan of, you know, Maser moments or are you, you know, a big fan of his...

00:10:45 Risen in Stats, mit guter Performance auf der Bühne. Das kann nicht so sehr Flashy sein, wie die Leute denken, wie sie machen, oder sind sie konsistent? Ich bin immer ein Fan von der konsistenten Gameplay. Wenn man sich in die Endgame Positionieren kann, irgendwann wird es klicken, und man hat eine sehr große Pop-Off-Game. Diese Team ist einer der Team, die ich speziell bin, denn sie sind wirklich, wirklich stark auf der Bühne.

00:11:13 I mean, it definitely makes sense to me. Virtus.pro were a team and are a team that I'm pretty excited about. And they, you know, they started off the season pretty strong. We'll see if they can claw their way back up there. Had some serious wins in their last match day, but fell off a little bit towards the back half. And so it is a matter of consistency. And when I think about consistency, there are a lot of teams that I could include as wanting to maybe get up there a little bit in consistency. Virtus.pro looking at some pretty

00:11:43 Nice fights so far, but when I think about nice fighting, Genome, I want to talk about your team to watch. Okay, well look, I've gone for LG here. LG is a team that right now, frankly, is struggling. They are...

00:11:58 ...on the cusp of not making it to the Regional Finals. I believe they're currently in 23rd position. They made a recent switch over with their IGL. Obviously, that's sort of the hardest piece of your team to switch over. They're bringing in Nocturnal. He had a very good first match day with them. I was loving their comms. His prioritization in fights, I think, is elite the way he...

00:12:27 das zu seinem Team und zu machen, dass jeder Team-Member ist die richtige Sache. Es ist einfach. Aber dann gab es eine große Bedeutung in der nächsten Matchday. Und die zweiten Hälfte der Split so far hat sich schon irgendwie das gleiche als die erste Hälfte der Split mit der vorherigen IGL. So jetzt kommt es diese Frage, was die Switch wirklich wert ist?

00:12:52 And as we look at their sixth matchday here, you can see it was lacking a little bit. So really, it's all up to them in the next couple of days to sort of turn their fortunes around. Because as we've said, you only need to get the top 16.

00:13:10 Yeah, I mean, you really do have very little distance to close. And one of the teams that I think has been doing really well at that is actually the Ninjas in Pajamas. Really fun team to watch, especially with the way that, honestly, they gave us a show. But in the last couple of match weeks, it hasn't really...

00:13:30 Wir haben sie zu dem Punkt, wo wir, oh, sie sind absolut schoo-ins für, sagen wir, die Mid-Season Playoffs sind. Ja, dieses Roster kann aufbauen, aber es ist eine Sache, dass es ein paar große Matchdayen gibt, in order zu sichern, nicht nur in den Region Finals, sondern auch in den Mid-Season Playoffs ist. Es ist natürlich ein Squad zu schauen, vor allem, ich meine, ich bin ein sehr großer Fan von der wie McLovin und Vayne haben zusammengearbeitet, während dieses Splitt ist, obwohl es ein bisschen ein Rotatier-Door ist, wenn es um, wer sie spielen mit.

00:14:00 Ich habe mich über Kion gemacht und meine Frage für dieses Roster ist nicht nur, ob sie werden können, für einen großen Ausgangspunkt werden, aber können sie ein bisschen mehr Konsistenz in was sie wollen, was sie für einen lang-term Plan ist. Es ist sehr klar, wenn man sie sehen, dass sie diese High-Level-Placenzen können, 5th, 5th und 3rd haben, aber sie sind ziemlich gespielt von 14th, 19th und 10th und 10th.

00:14:27 We can let that go, but consistency is going to be the key for this roster, and definitely a squad to watch. Graceful, give me one more before we head out. I mean, I like to pick at the top, but I also like to pick at the middle. Vlad, in the middle of the pack right now, currently at 17th, I believe. It's a team that has had a lot of good showing as well, to a degree, especially we saw all the Kraber plays and all that edge play, I believe, on Stormpoint, on their last set, where now, you know...

00:14:54 Do you like NaNo, weil es für die Flatter-Figge ist, oder für die Fraggen? Ich bin ein großer Fan von der Fraggen, nicht viel außerhalb des Spiels. Ich denke, dass sie in der Mitte der Pack sind, sie haben fünf Sets gespielt, glaube ich. Und jetzt sind sie an den Momenten, wenn sie sich gut fühlen, aber ein schlechtes Set könnte das mal wiederholfen werden. Ich hoffe, dass sie in der Mitte der Top 10 bleiben können, weil wenn sie ein schlechtes Set haben, dann...

00:15:22 All of a sudden, you have to make it count, really.

00:15:44 They've all got so much. I mean, Q0 has been really on everyone's mind. Nano as well, pretty statistically interesting guy, especially when it comes to the Ballistic and the amount of damage that he's able to do with that Legend. We saw a pretty early Ballistic ban over in EMEA this morning. How is that going to affect, or how does the potential for that affect Flat? Everybody figuring out exactly where they lie on these compositions with the Legend bans in Flat. Certainly a team to look out for on that. If you want to keep your eyes on Flat, if you...

00:16:13 Wir haben Main Broadcast, Mapfeed, Flat, NIP, LG, Virtus.

00:16:35 Bis zum nächsten Mal.

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00:17:25 Find a way to pull some of that up during the halftime and engage a little bit with any of the crazy things you might see happening around the ALGS that we are trying to catch up on as the day goes on. There is a lot of action to cover and there are so many individual pieces and fights that I honestly, I wish we could listen to more of, but I also like hearing Graceful and Genome talk. So Graceful, Genome, it is...

Strategische Unterschiede zwischen EMEA und NA in Apex Legends

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00:17:52 Very close to our beginning of Game 1. But before we actually talk about what's happening during Game 1, let's talk a little bit about the overall look at what we've experienced in StormPoint and then E-District coming out of this morning in EMEA. And Graceville, how you might expect that to change moving into North America.

00:18:13 I mean, if we're talking about region difference in general, I think that EU have moments where it's a lot more inty than NA. So you might see more teams play more towards the center zone compared to edge play, as we see in EU, where, you know, you had six, seven teams collapsing on each other. In NA, I think we'll see a little bit more, not passive, but more tactical approach to it, where we will see more teams playing around buildings and playable areas, and then we'll only have fewer teams on edge.

00:18:40 Und wie das auf dem Spiel beeinflusst wird, wird es so, dass die Teams auf der Edge vielleicht mehr auf die Seite des EMEA auf dem wir gesehen haben, wie bei 10k hat 5 aus 6 Endgame-Zones. Sie könnten auch die 6th eine als auch. Vielleicht werden wir die Edge-Teams thrive hier in NA. So, das könnte der Change-Up sein. Never mind the fact that Legend bans können anders sein. Wir sehen jetzt Ballistik auf NA. Will he be banned eher als EU? Wir werden sehen. Aber für sicher wird es ein gutes Apex.

00:19:10 Yeah, we are pretty close to determining what the meta is going to be when it comes to midseason playoffs as well. Genome, what did you make of this morning's games and the bans? I mean, Ash, then Alter was taken out on Stormbone before we even got to E-District.

00:19:26 I mean, while you can say we're close to figuring out the meta, Dia, I'm not so sure about that one, to be honest, because currently it is very different across all of the different regions. I think once you mash them together, the way that legend bands work means that depending on which teams are in which lobby, you can get completely different band sets. You know, a fascinating scenario we had earlier today in APAC was where you had a three-way tie.

00:19:55 And it creates this sliding doors moment where depending on who wins that series, it determines which one gets banned. And then all of a sudden, rather than having crypto for three games, you have crypto for six games in a series. And it's just this completely different scenario, right? So I think there's definitely some legends that are looking better than others. Ash, Alter, maybe a Ballistic. But, you know, I think we...

00:20:23 I think there's still some figuring out to be done. Well, the nice thing, Genome Graceful, is that we get to do that figuring out right now, live on the ALGS, because Game 1 is spinning up as we speak. So I'm going to toss this one over to both of you to take us through the first game of the day.

00:20:40 Thank you so much, DR. All right, well, we've got one region down, as we mentioned, and we are very, very close to getting into Stormpoint here in the Americas Grace Falls. So, I don't know, what are you looking forward to thinking about the teams that we've got here in this particular set of groups? I'm mainly looking forward to seeing the fighting occur inside the zone, because I think...

00:21:08 Es war sehr chaotisch auf EMEA, wie wir gesagt haben. Es war einer der Games, wo die Kamera shifted. Nichts auf den spectatorn, sondern es ist nur sechs Fights passiert, und ihr versucht alle Action zu catchen. Es ist almost so, wie ihr nicht catchtet, denn es ist einfach so chaotisch. Ich hoffe, wir sehen ein bisschen mehr tactile, uh, set-ups und executioner auf Fights, weil ich denke, es ist ein sehr guter Learning Moment für alle watching at home, wie es wie, wie du eigentlich approachst ein Fight outside der typischen...

00:21:36 Ja, das macht perfekt Sinn.

00:22:00 um trying to pull out cool tech that we see uh pros do and then you know completely fail my wall bounce tap strafe um to try and style on a guy when i get into my games right that's that's all the fun of watching esports is seeing uh the people who can do the things that frankly uh you can't um but that's why we're here that's why we uh enjoy watching these guys so much um

Team-Fokus und Mid-Season Playoff Preview

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00:22:27 Ja, look, thinking about the 20 teams that we have in this lobby, Graceful, I mean, obviously we've got massive stories here, like Falcons coming off some very, you know, some very strong performances. Is there anyone else that's catching your eye that you think could have a big performance today? I mean, I'm mainly looking at...

00:22:54 Ich würde sagen NRG für mich speziell, weil ich glaube, das ist ein Team, dass... Ich bin ehrlich gesagt, dass Org's auch ändern, und die Röster-Changes ändern und alles. All diese Org's, die Powerhouses' Org's sind immer auf der top. Sie immer geteilt die besten Teams, weil sie sie sehr Org's sind, und die Sponsor-Player-Player-Player-Leute geben, die die Möglichkeit, die Möglichkeit zu explodieren. Aber wir können... Die Spieler-Alone als auch bringen so viel zu es, wo...

00:23:20 Honestly, we even see it from CC teams coming up out of nowhere. The players are so strong. We saw Floating on the last LAN. Did people know who he was before? All of a sudden, he's like, oh my God, he's running through every team on LAN. And I think the potential is just incredible on that roster specifically. NRG is looking really strong right now. And I mean, they're pretty much already safe. But, you know, I still like to vouch for them. Yeah, I'm sure they appreciate your support.

00:23:48 I'm looking forward to supporting all of the Apex teams, frankly, as they make their way to the mid-season playoffs. We've got a little package here to preview that tournament. Why don't we take a look at that?

00:24:42 So that is the next big LAN that we've got coming up in Year 5 for ALGS. Look, Dia, we are about to grab this next lobby. We're just trying to get that restarted, but in the meantime, why don't we, you know, start thinking about where these teams are landing in their first map here.

00:25:05 Why don't we? I mean, so we are starting on Stormpoint, for those of you who may be unaware, we'll be moving over to E-District a little while later, but Stormpoint is where the stage really gets set for...

00:25:17 The subsequent matches and where you can make a pretty big impact. One of the things that I'm noticing in my eyes drawn to immediately Genome is up in the north. In EMEA we had Trident Taken, nobody at North Pad. This time Trident Taken and Corinthians at North Pad. So Virtus Pro kind of stuck with a weird POI. It's an awkward spot, right? You take Trident and you're like, nobody's going to take North Pad because I'll fight them. But then they're there and you're like, dude, do I actually fight them?

00:25:42 Ja, das ist eine lustige Frage. Das sagt, ich denke, dass sie die Trident getrennt haben, das bei sich selbst macht es gut. Ein Lack von Loot ist manchmal, kann man circumventiert, um, bei, uh, gut Macro und Quick Rotations, uh, mit dem Trident. Um, aber ich glaube, wie du gesagt hast, da sind mehr Spots taken, weil wir 18 Teams in den letzten Lobby hatten, und in dieser Woche, da sind 19.

00:26:11 Und wenn du das extra-spot öffnest hast, es kann eine Öffnung geben, für ein Team zu erzeugen, um extra Platz zu erzeugen, vielleicht ein extra P.O.I.? Was sind die Spots, die sich am besten empfehlen, wenn du denkst, wie du vorst in Stormpoint zu erreichen bist?

00:26:30 I mean, von personal experience right now, I would say, like, I still prefer mid-speed the most, so honestly NEPI is-ish playable, but I would say the southern side mainly, like Barometer is really nice, I like Cenotic Cave is really nice, Mill is also very nice. As we can also see that the Devastated Coast, actually, Falcons pick, everybody's picking these...

00:26:54 These POIs, für eine Grunde, weil sie sehr adaptabel sind, egal ob wo der Zone ist. Du bist wirklich für die 2nd Beacon-Nollege, bevor du gehst in. Und wenn du einfach nur aufbauen kannst, wenn du aufbauen kannst, wenn du aufbauen kannst, viel mehr Rotational-Lut. Das wird leichter helfen. Let's just sagen, DP. Wir haben gesagt, die Trident, richtig? Wenn du ein Boost für etwas, du misreadnest, und du hast keine Loot, dann wird es viel schwerer als wenn du mit dem Midspeed spielen. Denn dann, egal ob wo der Zone ist, du bist in ein guter Platz. Aber es bleibt, wenn sie das Kampf zu Nord-Path...

00:27:22 LG was right next door, so we could easily 3P that as well. So, it's going to be interesting to see how this plays out. Yeah, I'm really curious about that. I mean, even back when, it's funny, back when Sweet was on LG, he was landing at Checkpoint and going, yeah, I'll just third-party Northpad, it doesn't matter. And so, it's funny to see a very similar thing happening. Even though so much has changed in Apex Legends, so many things have stayed the same as well. Also, really looking...

00:27:51 Towards the south side of the map, Falcons and Ninjas in Pajamas landing close to each other. You mentioned the Falcons landing over at Devastated Coast. The fact that nobody is landing over at Coastal Camp actually may be opening things up for the Ninjas in Pajamas genome. This is looking to be an interesting map, an interesting three games on Stormpoint. I think it's high time we got things started.

00:28:12 Indeed, everyone is loading in to that first match you can see on your screen right now. It is Storm Point to start off with E-District later in the day, but we've previewed those POIs graceful, so we've got a really good idea of where the teams are landing, how it's going to play out. Compared to the EMEA draft we saw before, you know, a couple of key differences. I think one of the ones that I kind of was noting there was that Falcons was down in Devastated Coast. That was left.

00:28:42 in der EMEA Draft. Und sie ist, ehrlich gesagt, eine der größten Outlieren, so weit wie es geht, auf der Seite des Map. Das POI ist ziemlich average, und die Falcons haben einfach so viele RIDICULOUS GAMES.

00:28:57 Ja, ich meine, wenn jemand von einem PY kann, ist es definitiv Zero in der Boers. Ich denke, wir werden sehen, eine sehr interessante Gameplay. Meine Frage ist, wo die Zones sind? Ich denke für EMEA, das war wahrscheinlich ein, wenn nicht nur ein paar Mal, wo ich sehr glücklich mit den Zones bin. Wir sahen Zones all in Wolves, wir sahen Zones all den Weg in Jurassic, wir sahen Zones all den Weg in Beast als auch.

00:29:23 If we can have that soul variety, that's also one of the main reasons you typically see a very mix of performances across the board. Will that be the case here on NA? Will several teams take dubs, or will we see the likes of three wins for one team and two wins for another team? You know, it's gonna be fun. Haha, yeah, that's right. If anyone missed the EMEA series we had earlier, we had a bonus point. 10k actually got the bonus point for winning three games in a series.

00:29:52 Essentially, what the kids would call a generational performance. Who knows? Maybe we'll see another one here in Americas. And we're going to start off having a look at the team I was talking about earlier. It's LG. And... Oh, LG30. I was like, oh my god, have they got a sub? But I think that's... Is that just because Nocturnal just turned 30? I think it might be. Yeah, I mean, it could be.

00:30:20 Das ist eine der Dinge, ich muss sagen es hier sagen, dass alle, oh mein Gott, er ist 30, er ist zu olden. Und dann, wenn ich mich an Fighting Sports sehe, ich denke, das ist peak, was ist das, was ist das, was ist das, was ist das 30? Er hat das, er hat das, ich denke, das kann das passieren. Aber ich bin ein bisschen intrigued über die Volt pick-up. Ich würde sagen, das ist ein pick-up für, um es zu verwenden, für die Devo, oder ist das einfach nur eine preference in SMG? Das wäre sehr interessant zu sehen.

00:30:46 Hmm, I'll keep an eye on that as they progress through the game. Maybe they'll switch it over at some point if they find the right spot for it. But in the meantime, it looks like we've got, I'm just going to straight up call this one a bean zone graceful. I don't know if you're going to agree with me here. I mean, potentially a chance that kind of goes back towards Seto. I don't think this goes towards Mil, but it just seems very bean to me.

Zonenanalyse, Legenden-Anpassungen und Team-Taktiken

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00:31:13 Ja, es ist typisch auf Godrock hier, das ist die southwestern von dieser Zone. Es ist jetzt sehr aktiv. Wir haben auch ein paar Pulse gesehen, aber das ist sehr unlikely. Es ist wahrscheinlich auf Godrock, ich würde sagen. Es ist eine sehr interessante Zone zu spielen, persönlich. Ich meine, Rock ist sehr glücklich auf dem Rock, weil das ist der Godrock. Und wenn du das freeshooting hast, die Teams nur die Chance haben, die auf dem Rock ist jetzt.

00:31:38 Because the earlier, the better. But once you get five, six teams in there, nobody's going to look to make a play on that Godrock for sure. Well, you talk about how easy and hard it is to knock people off there, right? And we were having a chat about this with the Down Beast Zone earlier today, about how Alter changes everything. Now, I haven't seen a Godrock Zone with Alter being unbanned.

00:32:04 Basically, since Legend Bands came in. Do you know if the Alter Void Passage can be used to get through Godrock, or is it too thick? No, I'm pretty sure you can still get up there, but the main issue is that you can't really survive underneath on your own. Where like...

00:32:21 A lot of the times, yeah, like a lot of the times, let's just say here's an example in market, in market building. If there's a team playing on roof, at any point you could just go up because you're safe underneath. But when you're under Godrock, you get shot at by everyone. You can't really survive there. You have to play either at the cannon, or you have to play in this building where Liquid is playing currently, but then you still have to make that cross and make it up there. And never mind the fact that you're kind of going blind, because like, realistically you would only go when you hear something happen, and you don't really know what you're going into.

00:32:49 In my opinion, too much of a risk, unless that's your only thing to make. It would be very interesting to see that happen. Gotcha, gotcha, okay. Well, I guess even if you're a team up the top, right, similar to probably having a Wraith or whatnot, you can at least pop your Void Nexus down and potentially jump off Godrock and then be able to port back up.

00:33:11 Um, so as we've noted, uh, there have been some changes to the Legends recently, one of them being that they increased the, uh, the cooldown on using the Void Nexus from 30 seconds to 60 seconds, which is a bit of a difference as we see Renatricky hitting some beautiful charge rifle shots at long distance. 220 damage in two shots.

00:33:35 Aber ja, die Changes definitivt helfen auch, weil Alter Ultimate, wie schnell man kann, kann man durch einen Teepeen auch reduzieren, von 8 Sekunden bis 6 Sekunden haben, das hilft, dass man vielleicht die Advantage ein bisschen mehr hat. Wenn man jemanden versucht, dann kann man einen Teepeen aufhören, dann kann man einen Teepeen aufhören. 6 Sekunden ist noch eine lange Zeit, aber es gibt einen 3-Reset, während der Ballistik-Change auch hilft.

00:34:03 Reel back his aggressiveness a little bit. So I think overall, great changes. Like that the devs are keeping track of it, making a little bit faster swift changes now. Although small, I would rather small than wait for three seasons before big changes happen. So this is a good step in the right direction. So far, really enjoyed. I'm so on board with you. And I think honestly, most of the community, especially the competitive community, who is constantly engaging with the game, agrees with you there.

00:34:32 It's so much better to have these swift changes and to just have little tweaks to things like, you know, Alter feeling very strong, Ballistic feeling very strong. You love to see that. Now the Falcons, interestingly, they are being held out by Flat here all the way down at the pylon. Also interesting to note is how they've set up their composition here.

00:35:00 um graceful because you've got how uh for my money probably the best fuse player in the world and he's giving it over to waltzy we've got imperial how playing the sparrow

00:35:14 Das ist definitiv super interessant. Und zu sehen, diese Mix-Up ist definitiv ein Ding. Aber als wir sehen, welche Charakter er ist, Hal ist still Swinging mit Sparrow. Er ist schon wieder in der Backkriege. Und Zero geht es auch. Er kommt auf Walsi. Auf diese Fuse, als Sie sagen. Er ist mit der P20. Er ist ein bisschen, weil es Blum auf die Wehre ist. Und er wird von Falcons getrennt. Das war ein bisschen Sloppy. Ich bin pretty sure sie split in der Fight. Ich bin nicht sicher, wie Zero geht, aber Hal geht es auf. Und dann...

00:35:44 Zero as well. Good fight for Flatow, showing signs of life when they really need it. Yeah, you know that Falcons aren't going to be very happy about that one. As you said, really split. Looked like they were trying to take some off angles, but the power of sticking together and just having multiple, sort of turning into a couple of 2v1s, etc.

00:36:11 Ja, I mean, another good part as well is the fact that this zone pulled towards Godrock, so...

00:36:31 Rock is going to be very happy with that as other teams are now starting. Well, they probably knew where the zone was going already regardless, but getting those kills on edges is very nice. But as you can see as well, it was only about four to five teams on edge. A lot of these teams in NA are opting more for the strategical approach of getting in early rather than late. So that will change how this plays out because now everybody that's late on edge, triple purple armor, like we see here on Albin Crook, like they're going to make matters on anybody who stands in their way.

00:37:05 Knock them over like some bowling pins. They want to be the wrecking ball coming through. Just as mine is trying to do that from the north side of Storm Point right now.

00:37:19 Die Zone ist ein bisschen mehr central zwischen Mil und Bean. Und wir haben TSM. Sie sind all die über in Jurassic. Sie haben einen Blick auf Flap. Nach dem Spiel gegen Falcons haben wir mit TSM. Und wir sehen uns, ob sie in den TSM sind. Und wir sehen, ob sie will in den TSM nehmen. Und wir sehen, ob sie will in den TSM nehmen. Take care. Ich habe es geschafft. Ich habe es geschafft. Ich habe es geschafft. Ich habe es geschafft. Ich habe es geschafft.

00:37:48 Okay, das war ein bisschen weiter. TSM ist hinter dem Mobile Shield.

00:38:06 Oh no! And with Panic going down, it could be Duplex and Gent just having to gap it here. They're actually going in completely different directions. One going towards Cito Station, the other actually trying to make their way out through the tunnel to the north of Jurassic here. So I feel like we're seeing more teams do this more and more nowadays as TSM does actually get fully eliminated. Different squads combining to take them out.

00:38:35 Ja, definitiv. Flatt ist nicht losgegangen. Sie sind einfach nur auf die Leute, und sie sind gewinnen. Als Sie das Wettbewerb mit den Teamfighten, werden Sie sehr gut fühlen. Denn nicht nur haben sie einen Seite Cleared, sie haben schon mehrere KP. Sie fühlen sich sehr gut.

00:38:54 Absolutely, dass das viel KP zu starten mit ist, wenn man jetzt, wenn man jetzt noch einen Average-Gang hat, hat man was manchen, hat man was manchen.

00:39:07 No doubt the flat can convert even more if they keep playing like that. That's it. They're kind of just waiting on the edge of the zone right now. There's a lot more teams in clustered positions like up in Mill here. You've got Twisted Minds, Virtus.Pro, Board, and Citadel Gaming all in the area. Good shots coming out from Alb.

00:39:27 Er ist eine der Hottest Spieler in Apex Legends jetzt. Es fühlt sich dieses Meta hat ihn für ihn in ein paar Weise gemacht und er hat ihn zu zeigen, dass er seine Skill auf ein range von verschiedenen Characters ist. Ich glaube, er war für ein Lucky Kidnap für ein Team auf dem Roof. Er hat nicht jemand gefunden, und Twisted Minds sind jetzt einfach herausgekommen, um die Sparrow-Tracking-Darts zu geben. Um, unfortunately...

00:39:53 The Stinger Bolt is not available. Board and Forbidden Gaming have gone down in the meantime. But Twisted Minds, despite sharing this building with Virtus Pro, don't seem to be running into them. Yeah, I mean, as these fights begin to simmer a little bit, Alp definitely looking super comfortable on a wider range of characters as he is very, you know, very mechanically gifted and he's very strong at that. Flat, however, still ends up in another third fight.

00:40:22 für die Game so far. Looking very happy to push teams down as they're just looking for kills. Can't believe that they're still not letting go of the Gas Pedal, but they are that confident and they're fighting NIP right now, or NIP, and the GAP starts to slow down a little bit though. They try their best to keep going, but...

00:40:40 50 Sekunden. So I always say that zones doesn't hurt. This zone still does not hurt. You're not really scared of this zone. When this zone closes in 50 seconds though, you don't want to be on edge anymore. And you definitely don't want to run into the side where you're getting gatekept by several teams. NIP is working right now. They don't know. Yeah, you can see Vayne. He's happy to let them go past, honestly. Just probably hoping to maybe collect some banners and then sort of...

00:41:07 Chuck a Hail Mary play towards the zone. I've got to say, when you do have a bean zone, and it's not, it actually pulls back towards Mill, by the way. But regardless of that, approaching...

00:41:20 this Bean Zone in a Ring 3 countdown is very hard. There's always a team at Armory, there's a team at the Market, and even sometimes the Small House below Market as well. And when you pull in here, all three of those are essentially going to be in solidified positions, focusing on you. And I just don't love Flats' chances of being able to do that, unless maybe they can evac above that and get even further.

Spannungsgeladene Kämpfe, Team-Eliminierungen und Spielentscheidungen

00:41:49

00:41:49 Yeah, I mean an evac regardless evac is good is better than walking in in a lot of these cases But I believe a building is actually free somehow for them to walk into but a blind evac could be Good spell you know disaster in the wrong case scenario where you pick a spot that's already taken it you might not see However, we get to walk in kind of for free actually, but speaking of not free omit however comes down to a single player here

00:42:14 Kohl oder R.K.N. looking to hopefully reset them if he can because he is in a rough spot. I mean...

00:42:21 Okay, and he's certainly trying to be rent-free in everybody's heads recently, tweeting a lot about how, you know, Amit have not been trying to play with a lot of practice. They're just trying to show up and do the best job they can. It worked at the Open. Will it work here today? I don't know. We'll have to find out. Mobistar Koi are going to take out Lieb, know or witness, right on the edge of the zone. And as soon as they do that, of course, they're not going to be alone. Maybe some lucky Kraber shots get them out of this spot. Blinks.

00:42:51 looking for those, dancing around through the Void Passage, and every time he comes back, he's got another R9 clip to throw into someone, but it's still not enough in the end, and Movistar Koi will be eliminated. I mean, they thirded, and they got 4-15 after, so really goes to show if you play on the same side as everybody else, and then NIP from behind them took over Market.

00:43:17 I feel like I'm in Sesame Street here with Graceful, we're just

00:43:45 We're ticking up through the numbers here as endless squads seem to pile in for these fights. And potentially, as we sit under Godrock here, who knows, maybe we'll actually get that interplay we talked about with teams zipping up and down through the Godrock via the altar passages. But in the meantime, it's Flat, who have been trying to steamroll the lobby. And we see them...

00:44:11 Looking around, Corinthians, Most Loved, even Rock, just to their west graceful.

00:44:19 Ja, ich meine, wir sahen all die Action passieren auf der Souten Seite, die Action ist noch nicht in der Mitte, wo die Zone eigentlich endet, ein bisschen außerhalb der Mitte. Als LG wird die Räste, DP ist in der Mitte, mit einer anderen Seite zu nehmen, aber auch, dass sie sich nicht auf keinen Fall auf sie sind. Aber auch, dass sie sich nicht auf sie sind. Und Speaking auf sie auf sie sind, Rock ist noch auf Godrock, aufzuhalten. Knochen Lesser.

00:44:44 Und jetzt sind sie, um zu gehen, um zu gehen, um zu gehen, um zu gehen, um zu gehen, um zu gehen, um zu gehen, um zu gehen, um zu gehen, um zu gehen, um zu gehen, um zu gehen, um zu gehen, um zu gehen, um zu gehen.

00:45:12 Hier in Game 1. What a start!

00:45:17 I mean, they've been running through teams so far. The fact that they're still up right now, there's a Kraber searing at them. Kimchi here looking with the Kraber, hoping to get a shot in. They're probably gonna get the reset there, which is absolutely crazy. Even if they were to fall here, they're already on 15 points overall. That's, yeah, they went out there, but they had a great game so far, even though they died out earlier on the 7th spot, I believe. That was still really, really good. Yeah, I mean, Vlad have already put 15 points on the board. That's a stellar first gain.

00:45:46 LG, uh, currently with three other squads by the looks of it in...

00:45:52 Just this one mill building left alive. Stinger Bolt is detected. He will be able to use that Newcastle passive to pull his teammate out of the range of that. So he's not getting zapped, not getting slowed, not getting damaged, and not getting full killed. Extremely important. Allows LG to grab the full reset here, especially when you've got Twisted Mines across from them. I think it's Citadel gaming on top of the roof. And then Liquid Alienware are trying to...

00:46:22 They play outside, but currently Fusion occupy the zone. And you can see them actually taking a lot of space over here as Yanya gets the respawn.

00:46:34 Ich meine, Respawn oder nicht, sehen Sie diese Zone in der Top-Left? Fusion hat 99% von der nächsten Zoll geschlossen. Jeder andere Team ist in der Mitte, und sie müssen die Weg ausführen. Die onlye Weise Fusion loses das ist, wenn sie die Triple Swung oder Double Swung von Citadel hier sind. Oder wenn jemand sie sie mit dem Kramer schlägt. Hier, wir sehen uns Skynieds kommen in, um zu bringen Fusion aus der Heide.

00:46:58 Aber das machte sie, als sie eine Newcastle haben. Aber Citadel ist nicht auf die Pressure, als LG ist aus der Bühne zu nehmen, um Team Liquid zu nehmen. Huge PK shots von Shubi kommt, um ein 1v1 und Team Liquid nimmt das Halt.

00:47:14 All right, well, Fusion have given up some of the height. You can see Kimchi swinging around the side here looking for angles, but is stymied by the cat wall. The Peacekeeper, if you choke it up for long enough, it'll shoot like a sniper at these kind of ranges. And we've got Twisted Minds now just trying to get under the rock. They know if they stick as close as possible to it, it does make it hard for Fusion to shoot directly down. They're firing cat...

00:47:40 Spikes hier behind the boxes, just trying to deny them the small amount of cover they have. Dan Mantic is going to replace the Newcastle wall here just to provide them a little bit of protection for any grenades that Twisted Minds might be able to throw up.

00:48:00 Fuchsien hat sich diese Position für eine gute Zeit, aber kann man das einen Vorteil machen?

00:48:10 Goes in with a couple of big PK shots here. That should be Fusion having the advantage in this fight, but they want to go straight back up. Great use of the Void Passage to get back up to the top here. January just trying to get an angle, but it's hard around the Mobile Shield. Can he find a spot to do it? He's waiting for Albrelele to come up. Beautiful with the R9. Albrelele has been...

00:48:39 Ich meine, R9 ist eine Phänomenal Gun, aber man kann nicht die Wahrnehmung, dass Twistedmind das von der Bottom-Bottom-Bottom-Bottom-Bottom-Bottom ist.

00:49:04 And then they still won that fight by stalling it out with that Newcastle shield we saw on the bottom. Eventually came down to a 2v1 at the top as it took the queue together from the altar. Closed out that game phenomenally. Double swung that. Holding hands is one of the things I always say you have to do as a team. Held hands, they did indeed, and they won from that. Wow, that was incredible. Let's have a look at the results for our first match here in America's 20 points for Twisted Minds.

00:49:34 Wenn man die Unlikely Wins von diesen Spots hat, es ist mir immer so, dass Twisted Minds 6 Punkte poorer ist auf den Graysfall. Wenn sie das Spiel verloren hat, dann würde man 14 Punkte sein und Fusion sein würde 20. Das ist wie das Spiel funktioniert. Meanwhile, Flatt und Liquid Alienware zu bekommen 15 Punkte ist auch sehr beeindruckend. Und es gibt auch eine Sprechung von Dammage über unsere Top-3-Teams hier, als all of sie nur über...

00:50:03 3k damage. Solid damage overall, and nobody except Mav as an outlier here for Citadel Gaming. They're all pretty much playing around the same playstyle where they're all impactful in the fight, probably triple, double swinging, getting that team damage, probably sharing damage taken, and that's a good thing to have as a team. The thing though is to, as you said about, you know, winning the games, sometimes winning games is fun and it feels good, but winning games that you shouldn't win feels even better, and I'm sure they're very happy with that play.

00:50:32 Und als jetzt, das war Game 1. Ich denke, das war action-packt. Ich brauche ein bisschen Pause, und ich denke, ihr braucht ein bisschen Water-Break, als wir bald sind, für Game 2 kommen.

00:50:58 Die Energie ist nicht easy. Die Pressure, die Expectations. Ich bin nur ein Witzig. Ich war es für das. Die Zukunft ist hier! I got endless determination, a lifetime of practice, and a total lack of media training.

00:51:30 Let's move. Find my target. Time to save Xiao. Wise on you means less on me.

00:52:56 Wir haben es geschafft!

Rückblick auf Spiel 1 und Analyse der Legenden-Bans

00:53:22

00:53:22 Welcome back, me, for game number two. Also welcome back you, Genome, and you at home. It is nice to see everyone as we prepare for the second game of the day. The first one, already a nice story starting to be told. I mean, we had some crazy stories over in EMEA this morning, but having Twisted Minds come out on top in game number one, Genome, I didn't have that on my bingo card. Ow, look, it's within the realms of possibility these guys are playing.

00:53:49 Ich glaube, es hat sich nicht so gut gemacht, aber ich glaube, es ist nicht so gut, aber ich glaube, es ist nicht so gut, aber ich glaube, es ist nicht so gut. Es war die Mühle in der anderen Seite. Wir sahen Fusion mit diesem einfachen Spot auf dem Rock, die sehr gut waren. Wir sahen sie in, up und down mit Avoid Passages. Und dann, in der letzten Moment...

00:54:17 They kinda stumbled.

00:54:39 Krook, ich bin ehrlich gesagt, hat ein paar Shots in der Mitte. Ich liebe die Callout auf Albrelele's use of R99, als auch. A lot of innovatio coming von dem Spieler dieses Jahr, als du erwähntest. Und dann, um es zu nehmen, war ebenso mehr Stylisch. Even that Void Passage in der End, hat er nach dem? Was das einfach... Ja. One of the weirdest things about how the Void Passage works, mit diesen excellent R9 Clips in der End, ist es einfach...

00:55:05 Wenn du es an den richtigen Angeln hast, dann kann man diese weirden Pop-Ups wie es fühlt sich, dass es länger dauert, denn du bist so weit entfernt. Es ist wahr, dass du so viele Regeln von Physik getrennt durch den Portal hast, dass es so wild ist. Jetzt, wir, als ich liebte, nicht mehr sehen wie das wiedersehen, weil Alter...

00:55:29 Yeah, I mean, this makes a lot of sense to me. I think out of all the regions, when I look at the bans in Americas, it just like, it kind of clicked. I'm like, yeah, that seems about right. In some of the other regions, I'm kind of scratching my head, but for me...

00:55:55 Alter ist die beste Legend in der Welt. Sie ist einfach so versatil. Sie bringt alles, was du kannst, was du kannst. Du kannst sie auch flexieren, als ein Skirmisher slash Recon oder ein Skirmisher slash Support, macht sie so versatil. Ja, was ich könnte, wenn ich die Team und die Team könnte? Und auch Frag, weil ich manchmal durch die Wallen kann. Ich meine, es kann...

00:56:22 Ich glaube, es ist ziemlich wild, wenn man all die Dinge, die Alter zu tun hat. Aber mit dem, was das nicht mehr eine Option ist, normalerweise sprechen wir über die Diversität. Ich wirklich nicht sehe...

00:56:34 The Alter ban being a huge stylistic change for a lot of teams. Maybe it's because she's so new and so you're not really building strategies around Alter so much as you were using Alter to keep you a little bit safer during the match. Now you'll see people starting to branch into what makes the team different. Are we playing defensive? Are we playing offensive? As an example.

00:56:55 Ich meine, ich denke, es ist ein paar Teams, die sich einfach auswählen, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um,

Legendenwahl und Strategien in Spiel 2

00:57:23

00:57:23 She can move the team, and she can skirmish like a beast. To the tune of 16 picks this game, Ash will be our legend band moving into game number three. It actually is. It is an exact one-to-one. 16 picks for altering game one, 16 picks for altering game two. Wow, that's crazy. That's actually really wild.

00:57:48 Lens ein bisschen credence zu, zu, zu, zu, zu, zu, zu, zu, zu, zu, zu, zu, zu, zu, zu, zu, zu, zu, zu, zu, zu, zu, zu, zu, zu, zu, zu, zu, zu, zu, zu, zu, zu, zu, zu, zu, zu, zu, zu, zu, zu, zu, zu, zu, zu, zu, zu, zu, zu, zu, zu, zu, zu, zu, zu, zu, zu, zu, zu, zu, zu, zu, zu, zu, zu, zu, zu, zu, zu, zu, zu, zu, zu, zu, zu, zu, zu, zu, zu.

00:58:12 A couple of buildings. There's essentially like three or four buildings in this area and they are all highly prized. So expect to see teams really fighting over those. We have Leave No Witness as the only Watson team here. A lot of catalysts. A lot more catalysts we're seeing in NA than we're seeing in some of the other regions so far, dear. And a lot less crypto as well.

00:58:40 A lot of our IGLs opting for Sparrow instead. CIMJ, certainly one of those squads. I'm surprised they got Jomax back into the game. Jomax was knocked when we tuned in with CIMJ and after what feels like 45 minutes they finally picked him up off the floor. Something that a wolf will not be experiencing this time as he gets full thirsted by LG. Stay Naughty immediately finding another skirmish to take. Most Loved will go down as our first squad to be eliminated in Game 2. GG.

00:59:08 A couple of points in the first game. No LG. Not really going to be adding to that now. But yeah, as you say, LG having a rough time. Shubi already down. Nocturnal trying to dash away.

00:59:20 Should be able to make it out alive. ROC, shooting from the low ground. Actually start around the mill, I believe. So ROC, playing pretty mid-speed. And LG, just playing their lives at the moment. Saucer, one of our few Crypto players for this game. And a pretty defensive composition when you look at this overall. Crypto, Newcastle, and Catalyst. No Sparrow, no Ash, no nothing. I mean, ROC.

00:59:46 They're playing a very conservative, very defensive game. Fascinating, isn't it? Most of the time you see Crypto and you're like, oh yeah, okay, aggressive team. They want to get in there. They want to EMP teams and then fight them immediately. But as you point out, we've...

01:00:00 und Newcastle in deinem Backpocket. All of a sudden you're like, oh, it kind of seems like the Crypto is just there to scout out other teams while we sit in one place and make sure that we are aware of threats coming towards us. So yeah, an interesting, different take on the Crypto. Yeah, it's super...

01:00:22 Fun to see that contrasted with the way Citadel or Leave No Witnesses are playing as well, where you'll see Crypto swapped out for Ash and all of a sudden the composition does something totally different. All of a sudden your Ash portal slamming on people and walling at them and just one Legend pick can all of a sudden change the identity of so many others. Speaking of changing identities, we are changing some serious ones over here. Falcons were in trouble in Game 1, they're in trouble in Game 2, but it's Zero that pulls them out of it with a crazy...

01:00:52 Oh, es ist das Freakish-Aim, das Zero ist bekannt für. Das ist warum er ist, wenn man die Top-Aim ist, wenn man die M&K-Aim ist. Man sieht die Tracking durch die Skye, um, wirklich Helping Falcons get their first points auf der Board muss be noted, nach der Early Exeter-Flatten-Game-1. Falcons werden zu werden, um...

01:01:18 They hate not playing the games. They hate not being there until the end. They hate having to sit in the lobby waiting. And the longer that it seems Falcons have to talk to each other...

01:01:32 Ich glaube, es ist gut, es ist gut. Wir haben nicht...

01:01:49 Das war's.

01:02:15 Ja, of course, TSM equal loss right now. Zero points on the board just yet. But still early days. Start of the second game. Plenty of time to get the ball rolling there. As you said, sitting up towards Stormcatcher. You know, if they don't have the zone information, didn't quite get to check their minimap to see if they had that. But they'll be able to, you know, sort of get...

01:02:40 An idea of next steps now as this zone is revealed to everyone in the lobby. Flatten, Twisted Minds are pushing up towards them, so it'll be interesting to see if those teams are looking to perhaps pick up the Survey Beacon over there and try and get some more information that way.

01:02:59 I do expect Flat and TSM to clash sooner than later. One of these teams going to mirror the other and Flat caught in no man's land right now with their decision. Do they move down to the low ground, try and take the river and the fight with Twisted Mines? Do they move to the high ground, try and take the fight against TSM? Or do you take the spider choke and wait for somebody to come to you for a little bit more on that and what Twisted Mines are thinking down here on the low ground? Let's take a listen in with them.

01:04:24 Twisted Minds ist ein sehr, ich will sagen, controlled gameplay. Ich bin ein bisschen surprised. Aber, obwohl ich ein paar Alts benutze, obwohl ich ein Scan benutze, ist, dass sie ein Spiel auf eine Spielplanung haben. Es ist, dass das Bild auf die Low-Groh-Groh-Groh-Groh-Groh-Groh-Groh-Groh-Groh-Groh-Groh-Groh-Groh-Groh-Groh-Groh-Groh-Groh

01:04:48 For the Falcons, maybe things get a little bit trickier as they're actually coming up right behind where Twisted Minds just were. So right in the wake of this squad, once Howl lands the thing, there we go, they're gonna get the skin as well. I just love looking at the mini-map to see how many times it's taken to hit this. I know they were, I think that's, like, they were genuinely molding at Waltzy at one point in scrims this week about how long it was taking him on Sparrow.

01:05:15 um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um,

01:05:35 There's definitely a joke about Crypto players and aiming in here. I don't know what it is, but there's something there. Falcons making their move down to the low ground. Did use a pretty early Ash Portal to take this, which says something about the zone prediction and might say something about this Care Package Zero. Again, that freakish aim coming out, but it doesn't quite find the collection this time. Instead, he'll be shot on the side. Shelly taking out Zero. Falcons.

01:05:58 Yeah, luckily for them, Movistar Koi are in a very good spot. They're in the ski lift building down the bottom and they don't really want to move out of there. If they do, there's every chance someone else will try and third party, will try and take their spot. So luckily for Falcons, there's...

01:06:25 They're kind of heavily incentivized not to push and not to try and grab that full kill.

Kämpfe und Strategische Positionierungen in Spiel 2

01:06:32

01:06:32 Ninjas in Pajamas looking for a fight themselves. Kurev's got the heal online. Still has a couple of Stinger Bolts to shoot out as well. But with Vayne getting taken down quite low. It'll be an emergency portal back to the squad. And Ninjas in Pajamas are getting pushed. Return Stinger Bolt gets thrown out. Kurev needs to play defensive. Doesn't have any heals. But does get to a little bit of cover. McLovin not so lucky. He'll be taken down and bored.

01:06:56 Bord!

01:07:15 Ich meine, Omit, literally, uh, while that fight was happening, DR, we couldn't even see them.

01:07:39 On our map feed, they come out of nowhere from the south side of the map here to push ninjas in pyjamas out and bored. Well, I mean, they're very happy that Omit have showed up, frankly. Rock, also, they were playing the northern tunnel coming out of Jurassic. As we said, they were happy to play defensive considering their composition that they've chosen for this game. So, didn't...

01:08:06 Ich glaube, es war ein bisschen mehr Spice in Jurassic Park.

01:08:16 Und Omid immediately inheriting that fight. Remember, we talked about Bord earlier. Now that Omid have actually cleared out the team that Bord were fighting, they've still got to fight Bord for the south side. Ayo, extremely low, but I'm not going to see any bullets connect really through the wall. Sang playing patient with Cody. Rock still waiting to get involved. So this is a three-way engagement between the teams. Tracer Bullet not going to connect for too much. And out goes another Stinger Bolt with Umi swinging. But Omid playing this corner very carefully. Maybe...

01:08:45 Well, they do get a trade there, but Board completely removed, and now it's really up to Rock to just come up and finish this fight. You can see they've got them penned in, they're taking zone damage. This should be an easy cleanup. Cody's gone down. Cody's been full killed now, and it's just...

01:09:13 The last member, Sang of Omid, who surely will go down to Deeds as soon as he can get an angle. Meanwhile, that fight is, you know, seems like there's only one way that's going to go, so why don't we go have a look at something else. It's Twisted Mind going down to flat. If there is a squad that is going to take out Twisted Mind, it's got to be flat. They've been on a rampage today, and while they didn't close it out in Game 1, this is a team thing.

01:09:41 No is no chill. They run at people, they take them down. Twisted Minds, as good as they played, are no exception. That'll be another squad eliminated as Rock just usher Omit out of the lobby. We all knew it was coming for that last couple of seconds that they were in it. Now Rock have the south end of the zone where a lot of squads, Leave No Witness included, will have to move down a little further south and through one heck of a traffic jam.

01:10:06 Oh my lord. So if you have a look at that little minimap, what that's telling you is that Flat are in a killer position. Rock also in a great position. And once the zone closes in, they'll move a little bit closer together and be holding a lot of the zone. Everyone else, the other nine squads, maybe apart from Forbidden Gaming because their building will remain in, are just going to be crushed together like a good tomato paste up on the north side here.

01:10:34 Ja, das ist ja, ich würde sagen, wie in der Bühne gefühlt, weil du mir gedacht hast, über Tomato Paste, aber vielleicht bin ich einfach so hungry. Ich weiß nicht, was das Bühne gefühlt wird. Was ich weiß, ist, dass das Bühne wird verrückt. Und das ist wo wir gehen, auf der Nordseite der Bühne. Fusion wird sich über ihre Anführung an. Mobistar Koi, tatsächlich, kann...

01:10:54 Und dann bleiben Sie, wo sie sind. Diese buildings sind playable, oder eher, das building ist playable. Es wird ein Thema der Wettering-Stormen von anderen Squaden, die sicherer Wollt like, zu spazieren. Das Team ist Vertisk Pro, die nicht zu sehen, aber nicht zu sehen, dass die buildings, aber zu sehen, dass die Rock-Sidee sind, und zu sehen, dass die Rock-Sidee sind, und zu sehen, dass es nicht ein guter Ort ist. Ein paar Nades werden zu sehen, bei Zack, und der Squad-Slayer, unfortunately, auf einen mehreren Wettbewerb, als er kann, und dann wird er, obwohl, Rez ist möglich für Vertisk Pro, als sie nicht getrennt.

01:11:22 They still have to move further, though, Dia. That rock spot, as terrible as it is, is not even in zone. So they try to stick there for the reset, but there are so many other teams that have decided that they just want to play for the next moment, the next minute, as they try and stick in these buildings here. Balkans actually managed to find a lower ground.

01:11:48 Are level 2 themselves. And they've even got the wall cat doored off.

01:11:54 Yeah, I'm like, how are they alone in this building? How is nobody else playing the low ground? Even TSM showing up a little bit late to the party. We're going to be watching things like this. CIMJMX going down. We've now got a swing from Forbidden Gaming onto Falcons. One down already, Hal. No fight back for him. Walsi is going to burn down to the mother load, leaving just zero around two.

01:12:20 Maybe not clutch things up this time. Falcons are going to go down. Six squads left. Forbidden Gaming, their job is done. They get to play the upper or rather lower floor now. Well, just like a haunted house, they weren't so alone as they thought in the end. So Falcons will go down. And at this point, it's kind of like Rock and Flat are teaming together. As we said, they're both on the bottom side of the zone, barely shooting at each other, just looking at trying to pick up as much KP as possible at these teams up the top.

Finale Konfrontationen und Rock's Triumph in Spiel 2

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01:12:50 I know you saw it, but for the viewers that weren't watching the minimap, Nano, pretty crazy play there as well, walks all the way up to the buildings, takes out the entirety of TSM, and ults back to the team. Flat and Rock, like you talked about, really collaborating, but Nano getting his hands dirty, and now, maybe even dirtier as he moves up onto Rock. This is the next team in the sights of Flat. Can anyone stand up to the squad that's been on a rampage today? Newcastle Wall will help out in that regard, keeping Rock safe against Flat.

01:13:19 Auf der anderen Seite, Forbidden Gaming, also taking a fight against Flat, because surprise, surprise, Nano's off on his own again.

01:13:25 Yeah, as you said, being very aggressive. Obviously, Ashe is the legend to do that on. Forbidden have taken up the north side of the river right here behind the Newcastle wall. They're kind of set up. Obviously, when you've got a three-way standoff like this, it's all about trying to force the other two teams into each other. Rock's position seems like the most tenuous. They do have to move in a little bit with this zone, and they will be the first to move once it continues to go with the final circle countdown.

01:13:54 Flats have a lot of space to themselves, a lot of the platforms to play behind. But yeah, this is going to be a tough one as these final three teams look to see who has to fight first. I'm going to be real with you, Genome. It's not looking good.

01:14:11 für Flatt. Rock's easiest push should be onto the team right ahead of them. They're already prepping an EMP, and Flatt have to know this as well. There's a reason why they were focusing on that drone, and it's not just for target practice. A lot of it comes down to limiting the playmaking and Nano taking a lot of damage there. Every little instance that you give for Rock to make a push onto Flatt, it's time that Flatt is risking their game. Forbidden don't have to do much. They just have to keep Flatt on that side of the river.

01:14:39 Ja, ich meine, wenn du drei Teams left hast, Dier, du musst wirklich deine Drone aus für scoutingen. Du kannst, du kannst, du kannst, deine GameSense ausfüllen, wo die zwei Teams sind und was sie sind. Du kannst deine Drone ausfüllen, speziell für die EMP, an der Zeit du musst, wenn du musst. Als du gesagt hast, ist es eine prime Target für die anderen Teams in dieser Final Stand-Off. Jetzt geht's die Wall.

01:15:05 Und das könnte es sein. Der Scouting wird es geschafft. Die EMP sollte kommen. Rock, sehr schnell auf der Wand, wartet für die Öffnung. Wir werden ein Stinger Bolt geben, aber es geht nicht mit jemanden. Und Forbidden Gaming ist das Waffe auf der backen Seite. Du kannst nicht viel viel mit Rock machen, weil du sie riskst.

01:15:27 Not doing enough damage to Flat in the meantime. That's enough damage. Deans does more than enough damage. Forbidden Gaming now shooting Rock and Flat in the back. While this all happens, have Flat going down and Rock now, in contrast, have taken almost no damage. Can Forbidden steal this game away from them? Out goes the Skynade. Will it connect? Peacekeeper, Skynade, Kuzme not gonna hit either, although he does connect for a limited damage. Slides up onto Deans and takes him out with the PK. It's Kuzme! It's Forbidden Gaming, but now...

01:15:55 mit der Turnaround und mit Rock auf High Ground, es ist Rock am Ende des Game 2. Die Take the win!

01:16:05 Huge comeback there. The Crypto player for Rock. Oh, that's gonna be Sauce. He clutches it up at the end. Oh, that was an exciting finish. It was really tough between those ones as well. Of course, Sauce, you know, there was a lot of, you know, justice for Sauce kind of stuff coming out recently after losing his position on LG to Nocturnal.

01:16:34 And I feel like we're getting so many of these narratives lately where it's like the player who gets spurned from their previous team just like uses that to fuel them and that passion is pushing them and their new teams to greater heights.

01:16:48 Yeah, we've used the word passion so often to describe what it means to succeed in Apex Legends. Maybe a little bit of that passion is wrath. Maybe just a little. We definitely saw that at a Saucer at the end of this game. And really well played game by Rock. Also looking at this, Forbidden Gaming, they have a really good walk up, but aren't really able to make use of a good rap, partially because Flat didn't deal...

01:17:14 quite enough damage to Rock to really force them on this big reset. Yeah, you know how there's like in a lot of TCGs and stuff like that, DR, there's like a rage mechanic, right? It's like you take damage and it powers you up. So it's like we haven't really got one of those in Apex yet, not that I can think of, but apparently the rage mechanic was inside our esports players all along. Yeah.

01:17:42 Let's see how this looks in the results, however, as Rock do walk away with that big Game 1 win.

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01:18:20 Not too shabby at all. They have been certainly seeking out those kill points, and that's why they are there at the top of our leaderboard there, and at the literal top of our series leaderboard. 28 points for them. Rock with the dub will get up to 23, and Twisted Minds with their excellent first game sitting just behind them at 22.

01:18:45 Nice play from flat 2. After 2 games, still not having actually 1-1, still be in a position near the top of our leaderboard. That's the kind of consistency that we were looking for from the squad when we started the day. We were talking about how they have these big kill games, but they weren't able to do it all the time. Now we're seeing them still put up some pretty crazy kills, but put up the placements consistently to match that. Let's see if they can keep that going as we approach game 3 in just a few minutes.

Vorstellung des neuen Legends Sparrow und Spiel 3

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01:19:22 Hi everyone, I'm super excited to introduce to you our newest legend, Sparrow. It's been a while since we've had a Recon Legend and we wanted to bring one that offered a new unique way of tracking enemies. He's also extremely agile, which allows him to excel at traversing the environment. Let's jump into his kit. For his passive, he has Double Jump. This allows him to have a second jump while he's in the air. He also has a unique ability called Wall Launch that allows him to quickly get to the top of walls by pressing jump while climbing.

01:19:51 Für den Tactical, er hat den Tracker Dart. Das kann auf jeden Fall beheben, und wird auf jeden Fall beheben, die sich in den Stinger-Dart verheben. Die Beheben, die Beheben, haben einen Trailer, die durch die Wallen zu sehen, und wird auch ein Marker, das zeigt die Distanz der Stinger-Dart. Für den Ultimate, wir haben den Stinger-Bull. Das ist eine große Arrow, die sich in den Stinger-Dart beheben, und auf den Boden beheben. Nach einer Shorten Charge-Up, wird ein Blast-Dart verheben, und das Geheim-Dart verheben.

01:20:18 Sparrow will be unlocked temporarily for free at the start of the season so everyone will get a chance to play him and he'll be yours to keep if you can beat a set of challenges. Jump in and try Sparrow in our newest season, Prodigy.

01:20:57 I'm super excited to introduce to you our newest Legends Sparrow. Sony Inzone, the official monitor of the Apex Legends Global Series.

01:21:16 Hi, everyone. I'm super excited to introduce to you our newest and coolest legend, Graceful. Graceful, welcome back to the broadcast for game number three. We've got two games of Stormpoint down. Let's take a think back towards game number two as we prepare for our third one, as it will be our last one on Stormpoint. What'd you make of game number two? I think so far we've seen phenomenal plays from the, like, coming down to the, like, top three of the games. We've seen phenomenal plays from these.

01:21:44 wie Rock, speziell in that game, even though they walled up early, they didn't play it fast. They tried to poke as much as they could through the wall. We're still seeing the same type of things here, though, on the cusp, like Zone 5-ish, leading into Zone 6, where a lot of teams were collapsing on the same side. We saw Falcons go down here, TSM here, we saw VP in the river side as well. Rock, however, holding a steady positioning throughout that late game there, closing out the game from the top three scenario, where they were actually out of the Zone first here, but...

01:22:13 mit einem gut geplanten Katwall zu erhöhen, um ein bisschen zu stehlen, um ein bisschen zu stehlen, um ein bisschen zu stehlen, um ein bisschen zu stehlen, um ein bisschen zu stehlen. Und dann gewinnen und gewinnen das 3v3, das ist einfach phänomen. Und Rock, die vielleicht nicht eine verrückte Menge von Kills zu bekommen, aber es ist ihre Endgame-Kontrolle, die diese Team wirklich verletzten.

01:22:34 Bis zum nächsten Mal.

01:23:03 Twisted Minds, and Falcons. Rock, right up there. And it's not because they have crazy kills. In fact, Twisted Minds, Falcons, Shopify Rebellion, and NRG, they all have more kills than Rock. Rock, just play for the endgame so well.

01:23:19 Ja, ich meine, die Sache mit dem Spiel für Endgames und gewinnen ist, dass es immer gut ist. Aber wenn du nicht die Pop-Off-Games hast, dann musst du die High-Points bleiben. Wie wir sehen, bei 10K im EMEA, gewinnen 3-Games ist das, was du wirst. Wobei, wenn wir auf der öffnischen Seite schauen, auf Flas, die sind racking-up-kills. Sie sind gerade erst auf 28, glaube ich, es steht da.

01:23:46 Regardless of where they die in placement, they rack up so many kills that it doesn't matter. So those are two different ways you can approach the game and we can clearly see it work for both sides. Flat that feel kind of uncontested on edge with a lot of KP or Rock with this solid, consistent, you know, high end game, late game playing. Yeah, it really is for Flat a play style difference that I'm keen to keep track of because we posed the question at the start of the day.

01:24:14 Was ist das für Flatt? Kann sie sein? Wir haben zwei sehr gute Spiele von Flatt gesehen. Das funktioniert drei Spiele in einem Jahr? Das funktioniert wenn wir die Spiele machen? Das ist eine Frage, die wir immer immer fragen haben, nicht weil...

01:24:28 Sie sind nicht. Sie sind. Aber weil die Frage ist, wenn und wenn sie nicht performan sind. Das ist eine Perpetuale Frage. Ich habe Fragen, die ich immer gerne zu stellen, zu sagen. Ich habe eine Frage, um die Legends zu stellen. Diesmal Ballistik ist unser Best-Pick-Legend. Und das ist nicht so weit, nur 11 Teams haben Ballistik, zu den 10, die Sparrow sind, vielleicht foreshadowing eine Sparrow-Ban. Aber für heute...

01:24:56 It'll be Ballistic, whose last game it is in matchday number 8. A lot of Sparrow enjoys, actually. I'd really like to say that. I would like to give a huge shoutout to the people that have been working on the character. I think he's the most well-balanced legend coming into a comp, and even ranked, to where he feels good to play, doesn't feel oppressive, and feels really solid. Overall, perfect balance, in my opinion. Really happy to see him picked up that much, but yeah. Typical bans, though. Alter, Ashe.

01:25:24 Potentially Ballistic, as you said, is the name of the game right now. Yeah, and I've really enjoyed the movement options that Sparrow has, because while they do feel very unique, they also feel quite fair to play against. There are situations, of course, where I'm like, oh my god, this guy just keeps peeking me with a double jump. But most of the time, you get used to it, you understand what his limits are, and a lot of our teams are...

01:25:50 Ja. Outside of mid-game, though.

01:26:07 Looking at the zone, I have to give a huge shoutout to whoever is making the zones for this week, PL for sure. Huge shoutout to Variety, you know, we saw a mill, we saw that Riverside in the middle of the map, but now we see a little bit more to the southeast in Launchpad. Good Variety, a lot of these teams cannot be mad about the zones because they're, like I said, Variety and everybody has an opportunity to place good in at least one of the games. Everybody has to be happy about that.

01:26:31 However, VP looking to take a fight very early on as they're on the north-west side of the map right now. Looking to engage on Corinthians, I believe. Watching the killfeed as well, it does look like while the Corinthians fall, so are flat at the same time. Corinthians and Movistar Koi both getting involved in early fights.

01:26:52 Virtus Pro clean up the one kill and that should be all she wrote for the fight because even without Alter, we do have a lot of teams that are much better at disengaging from fights as soon as you get one knocked because you've always got the opportunity to come back later if you're able to stick the res. Kings does have to survive for that to be possible though and Virtus Pro, they may not be hard on the chase but they're definitely moving in the same direction as the Corinthians one.

01:27:18 Ich meine, wir haben auch eine neue Edition von Sparrow gesehen. Die Leute haben nicht nur die Einladung gearbeitet, weil es so viel zu tun gibt. Auch wenn wir nur ein Legend pick haben, was man kann, wie ein Charakter zu sein, wie ein Einladung auf Sparrow für UAV lernen, wie die Einladung auf Sparrow mit den Ashe-Dashen.

01:27:36 Now you also have to work on the fact that the meta changes so fast and weapon meta changes as well. What do you really work on? I like the fact that Akku earlier on today said that some teams might not know what they need to work on, but that's because there's so much to work on. Even then, even if you look at teams that you might deem being perfect, that have won several lands and have trophies in their hands, they still have stuff to work on, as we've seen across the board, even in the likes of Falcons, Alliance, and also other teams as well.

01:28:05 Ja, ja, ja, ja, ja, ja, ja, ja, ja, ja, ja, ja, ja, ja, ja, ja, ja, ja, ja, ja, ja, ja, ja, ja, ja, ja, ja, ja, ja, ja, ja, ja, ja, ja, ja, ja, ja, ja, ja, ja, ja, ja, ja, ja, ja, ja, ja, ja, ja, ja, ja, ja, ja, ja, ja, ja, ja, ja, ja, ja, ja, ja, ja, ja, ja, ja, ja, ja, ja, ja, ja, ja, ja, ja, ja, ja, ja, ja, ja, ja, ja, ja, ja, ja, ja, ja, ja, ja, ja, ja, ja, ja, ja, ja, ja, ja, ja, ja, ja, ja, ja, ja, ja, ja, ja, ja, ja, ja, ja, ja, ja, ja,

01:28:34 Unfortunately, Corinthian is being chased down. Yeah, it is rough. This is one of the things about the Devo that I dislike so much. You know when somebody has a Flatland or a Carbine or even a Wingman, maybe not Snipers, especially not Peter, you kind of feel like, oh, maybe I can get this evac off, right? When you hear a Devo that you know has 50 bullets on an EV, you don't pray because you know it's over.

01:29:00 You know you've been abandoned. Ben fortunately has a crafter right here and I think has a pretty free res. I'm gonna cheat and take a look at my mini-map. Yeah, alright, we got a mini-map and if you're on Facebook watch you got a mini-map too so you know you can always check it out but this is looking pretty good for the Corinthians to stick a res. Now it may not be completely uncontested but...

01:29:26 A chance to get your teammates back into the game is certainly one that I will always take, and Ben gonna stick that one right now, giving Corinthians a second chance at life, and I love the evac tower right off of that as well, just to buy some space between you and whoever might have noticed.

01:29:42 Ja, also depending on how it's placed, teammates can also land on it straight away. We'll have to see here if Kings and Wand can make it. Insta jumps through it, gets it. The second guy also gets it. That's a clean escape and a reset. Now they're happy. They want to make sure to gear up a little bit and I'm sure they'll maybe find some rotational loot, some scraps here and there. But having three people up is better than one with, you know, with nothing at all.

01:30:06 Launchpad Zone, actually a little further south. Is this pulling to the Falcon's Hill, do you think? I mean, I'm seeing this play for the high ground here. Yeah, a lot of zones here, even if it looks very, very stuffy, sometimes it even pulls back a little bit and ends on the north side of that hill, where Forbidden is currently playing underneath the bridge, I believe. Anywhere around that river, like both north side and south, that it could end. Super solid zone.

01:30:33 Ich weiß Liquid, Ahmet, LG, all of them opting to maybe go for the south side. Will we see a clash between three teams here as all of them are currently trying to rotate in from the southern side? I know Liquid would like to get their mojo back, especially after last game where they were...

01:30:58 Dress down by the Falcons pretty early on over here. Omit, oh, looking for a fight themselves. And unfortunately, the dressing down has yet to end. That's going to be a quick portal out by Mazul. Omit not going to follow straight through the Wraith portal, but they are looking for a larger continuation to the fight. One that it appears Sang is unable to locate. So Omit not going to collect the kill this time around Liquid Alien. We're likely finding a res, although it doesn't look like they are out of the flames just yet.

01:31:28 Ich weiß, wir sprechen viel über Peter und über Devotion, aber können wir ein Shoutout für die Lille Thermie Rampi? Das war ein Blast! Wir haben keine Chance, um zu gehen. Wir haben sofort gemerkt, als Omid jetzt ist. Ich bin sehr glücklich, dass sie auf der Seite auf dem Weg fühlen. Aber es ist nicht vorbei. Es gibt noch einige Teams noch überrascht.

01:31:49 How long will they stay here? Will they try to match up to them and keep chasing them? The longer you chase, the more sound you make. Eventually, one team might show up behind you. So you gotta make that decision kind of fast. Twisted Mind's in a bit of trouble.

01:32:02 It does look like there's just some long-range poking going on between a lot of our squads. Rampage about to expire with the revved-up status that it's got, but Omid have wanted a nice chunk of high ground to keep them safe for the moment. It may not be in the next zone, but if you can hold out squads that come in behind you, Omid have got a pretty decent rotation down into Echo HQ and the small amount that is going to be in there. Virtus.Pro taking a fight. Laser on the inside.

01:32:31 Ich meine, sie haben die Ballistical geplanten, aber sie sind sehr gut. Ich meine, sie haben die Ballistical geplanten, aber sie sind sehr gut. Sie wollen das Spiel machen, aber...

01:32:49 Definitely tough when you're getting catwalled immediately on the inside of that door, knobbing up to Pyramid. They don't really want to push straight forward into the Pyramid, but a good Fusehold maybe buys them some time to take some space. And Zach is wide-swinging on the right side right now, seeing two players. Will he get caught out the load, or will he get help here by Lu? And Slayer's chasing there. They're repositioning, and now they're getting chased down the river.

01:33:11 Ich bin ehrlich gesagt, ich liebe es. VertusPro zu riskieren viel zu machen. Und Most Loved wissen, dass sie die Dämme stickt. Well, sie können. Out gehts die Nade. Die Nasty. Die Nasty. Die Nasty. Die Nasty. Die Nasty. Die Nasty. Die Nasty. Die Nasty. Die Nasty. Die Nasty. Die Nasty. Die Nasty. Die Nasty.

01:33:40 Very nice elimination right there. I have to give a shout out though to, I believe it was Zack on the Sparrow doing a nice jump there to throw off the 1 mag. Otherwise he would have died a lot earlier. But huge clean up fight there by Most Loved. Very clean because they took the advantage of the fact that hey, they actually left the building. They're on low ground now. Let's chase them. Almost insta-wipe them. Super solid fighting there. I actually thought when Zack hit that wall jump...

01:34:03 Das war ein großes Turnaround. Ich dachte, VP wäre zu sein, dass das zu sein. Und kredit zu Mostloved für den Kontrollen, weil oft, wenn man eine Person in einen Unabhängigen zu sehen, kann ein paar Dinge in den Chaos bringen. Jetzt, dass Mostloved gewinnen, die fighten, aber sie haben auch die victors, auf der Nordwestern Seite, aber trotzdem haben sie mit Team Like-Leave-No-Witnesses, wo Liquid Alienware, die einfach gewonnen haben, gegen Omit, jetzt haben die South-Side all zu ihnen.

01:34:29 They do have a team, I believe it was Board I saw down there on the southern side that they have to keep in mind. But I saw all of the arrows pointing in that direction. They probably know they're behind them. If they can clear out their bags though, they're actually in a great spot to potentially get into a solid top 5 placement at bare minimum. After that though, it'll be really hard to fight for that side because Devastated Coast is one, like in the water is actually where we see the zone currently, unless it pulls up. If it ends southern side, a little bit more down low.

01:34:55 Es ist ein wirklich schwerer Platz zu spielen, weil es nicht viele Errors gibt, wo es nicht geholfen wird.

01:35:03 TSM, vielleicht ein bisschen zu lange zu jumpen. Das ist ein dicker Platz für Duplex. Panik, es scheint, es ist alles gleich. Flatt nicht zu nehmen, aber Q-Zer wird vielleicht fallen. Die Frage ist wirklich, was Flatt wird von hierher machen? Weil sie sind so split-up. Wir haben es, dass wir in der Endgabe von Nummer 2 genannt haben. Sie lieben spielen, aber was passiert, wenn die Domino's fallen?

01:35:32 Ich meine, definitiv, Liquid ist eben da ein bisschen mehr kautisch. Wir haben jetzt einen Rinsen-Repeat. Wir haben jetzt den Thurs zu der Zone. Wir müssen hier spielen. Wir sehen uns auch an den Soutern-Side. Sie haben, glaube ich, auch an den Soutern-Side. Sie haben, glaube ich, auch an den Soutern-Side. Es ist ein sehr schwerer Zeit. Wir sind auf dem NIP-Sehr, auch an den Soutern-Side. Perimpienz sind noch in es, nachdem ein bisschen zu haben, nach dem Soutern-Side.

01:35:58 Die Portal werden von Bin benutzt, aber das ist nicht Korinthienz, die auf die Recoverung ist. Nach einem schwierigen Teil des Early-Games zu spielen, sie spielen eine sehr slowe Version von Apex Legends, um zu Recover zu bekommen. Ich habe Krabber in der Hand, so vielleicht eine große Unterschiede zu machen. TSM, in ein vieles Trouble zu machen, sind sie in den Träumen zu nehmen, und das ist ein ziemlich krasser High-Ground. Das ist ein ganzes Turnier. Das ist ein ganzes Position, um auf Twisted Mines zu gewinnen.

01:36:27 Very good positioning there from Duke. Taking a different angle is very important in fights. You don't want to swing the same side, so they all just have to look in one direction. Speaking of same side, right now, one poor team right here. Most loved, I believe, underneath Leave No Witness is getting pummeled right now.

01:36:44 They're kind of safe for the moment. They have about two minutes to still close out this fight before they need to move further into the next zone. Because next zone closing, you can't be in the zone anymore. Essentially, it hurts quite a lot. It's terrifying. You don't want to run with the zone behind you. Whereas Liquid Alienware, super good spot for the moment. But I don't think they're in the next zone. They're going to have to make a play as well. A lot of teams right now have to make plays as there's 14 teams still alive in zone 4.

01:37:10 Und es wird eine Rolle für die Teams, die aus dem Launchpad kommen, zu machen, um diese Hillen zu machen. Ich weiß, es ist schon lange, seit der letzten Saison von Stranger Things kam, aber ihr wisst, was ich bin. Es wird...

01:37:23 Das ist ziemlich verrückt, wenn wir über die Anzahl von Teams gehen. TSM sind diejenigen, die auf der anderen Seite defendieren. Rock spielen in Launchpad, mit der zweiten Wunsch. Aber erst haben sie gegen die Korinthien. Und das ist ein Weg zu tun, Deeds!

01:37:40 Was ist das passiert?

01:38:03 Vaxelon playing really well to just cover multiple angles of the fight. He sees a Newcastle res going on right now. You'd think Saucerer could get back, but Deeds is popping a bat right now, and Saucerer has just been re-knocked. Knockdown timer on that ticking ever lower, but Vaxelon can only watch so many angles at once. Looks like height is going to be pretty safe for them right now. Rock reset, but now they've got to run.

01:38:26 Das ist die Sache, dass du vielleicht bist, aber auch Kim Chi und Joelmaxx, alle müssen mit der Zone gehen. Du wirst nicht wissen, was ist vorhanden. Fusion ist in den Citadel und Movistar, Potenzial. Rock hat jemanden im Hintergrund. Rock ist jetzt in den Korinthien. Rock ist jetzt geholfen. Und sie versuchen alles, was sie können. Vaxxed on Walls Forward und Preiss.

01:38:47 There's no way Vaxelon lives there. After committing into the zone behind two people, getting shot at by another squad, Vaxelon gambles and wins big to pick up those kills. Now, however, with the wall expanded, he does have to stabilize with the rest of Rock, and most Lugged are not going to get that luxury, being shot at from above. Falcons take control of the sky. Rock moving everyone in. Deeds has got that pick up once again to grab Falcons, or rather, to grab Vaxelon back into this game. Regen not going to go off, but Deeds has no...

01:39:16 Hal hat sich sehr gut gemacht. Hal hat sich sehr gut gemacht.

01:39:44 I'm not too sure here, the Kravishout hits though with the Flick looking to do damage to LG, but can't really find anything except the Krag. Zero immediately is going to hit the bat and HAL does not have a care in the world. Pushes up on his own might I add, to help with Walsi on that kill.

01:40:02 The follow-up from Falcons is deadly, but Rock, the recovery might be equally so. Vaxalon starts closing the gap. Falcons turn around immediately. This is the biggest threat to Falcons. It is Falcons versus Rock. Number one from the match versus number one from the open. And Rock, they don't even make it close. They don't even touch Falcons. Getting taken down before they even close the gap. Falcons still on high ground with TSM and Forbidden.

01:40:28 Phenomenal play by Falcons, they're holding that space properly, making sure that nobody is coming to fight them, and then they even took a fight on to LG to guarantee that spot. However, they're still not entirely safe, they have a playable area even underneath the platform that they were standing on, but Liquid Alienware, in a spot to where they could actually punish people because they are playing several spots right now, all the way on the southern side and middle of the pack. Falcons, they're looking to fight for high ground, I believe.

01:40:54 Wir haben Kravur, die Leute wahrscheinlich nicht wollen, als andere Teams sind zu wallen. Wir spielen das Spiel, das Spiel. Wie viele Bullets habt ihr? Make es 3 jetzt. Das ist ein, ich glaube, mit dem Fenster. Aber mit HAL down, die Bullets haben sie zu verändern. Das ist ein großer Teil. 2 mehr Bullets left, 4-0. Both his teammates sind auf 25 HP. Ist das wirklich gut?

01:41:24 Aber Hals wird dieses Rez. Falken ist einfach nicht so schnell, als Zero ist das für sie. Ich meine, Forbidden hat die Bewusstsein. Sie hören Downs und Rezs above them. Sie müssen jetzt ein Spiel machen, mit dem TP oder dem Kidnap.

01:41:44 Das ist ein tolles Start für sie wiederholfen. Aber N.I.P, will sie es passieren? Nein. Nein, das ist nicht. Das ist ein Woltz für sie. Jetzt kommt Zero, als er zu Forbidden ist. Jetzt geht es von einem Solid-Spot zu einem Great-Spot.

01:42:00 Ja, das war, das war ziemlich inhumane, wenn ich ehrlich bin. NIP und Forbidden Gaming collaborieren auf das, macht es eine ungewöhnliche Position für die Falcons, als sie versucht zu resetten, das Singular Pill zu retten. Aber jetzt ist es Frage, wer geht mit der Win-Win? Wer hat die Win-Win-Position? Und für meine Geld, NIP sind jetzt ziemlich gut. Ich meine, Height ist solid, aber ist da ein Argument für TSM zu sein?

01:42:26 The ISM könnte win this, it all depends on how far they can push Forbidden into the opposite direction, but if they get pushed by North or South, the other side will be opened up for a 3P, which will be worst case scenario. But if they can hold out the Northern side first, I think that they're in a really solid spot, because Forbidden is in a tough spot. They need to drop down lower, they're getting shot by everybody right now.

01:42:44 As Kuzme gets down first. McLovin looking with the bow. Having a hard time hitting shots, but it doesn't matter. DuPont TSM collaborates with that as well. As now, they're getting shot at by everybody. TSM looking in a solid spot right now.

01:42:58 The nice thing is that when a wall goes that wrong, you don't really have to hit your bow shots, you just get to watch the team go down. 30-30 should be a little bit easier for Vayne, but Ninjas in Pajamas know that they've really just got to defend this high ground and not accidentally fall off it. Liquid Alienware right underneath them, a big threat to Ninjas in Pajamas, who sure would like to force TSM and Team Liquid to fight, but I don't think they're going to get that opportunity. Will they even get the chance to touch the ground? Because right now, the zone's closing, and I'll be honest, I don't see Ninjas in Pajamas making it out of here.

01:43:27 TSM looking in the best spot right now. They just have to make sure they can hold out his side as Ryze now NLP drops down on Liquid, trying to close out the game. Nice job by Dupe, hitting the flank, making this clean for TSM. This is cold, calculated, surgical and precise. TSM do not give Liquid Alienware or Ninjas in Pajamas a fighting chance at game number three.

01:43:52 Es ist ein schwerer Spiel. Ich denke, ich muss nachdenken, die scores, weil in generell, NIP war in ein guter Platz, um zu konvertieren. Aber es ist einfach nicht möglich. Du musst auf die beiden Teams gehen, egal ob du sie machen, ob du auf die Far-Fahrwärter bist, wenn du auf die Far-Fahrwärter bist, wenn du auf die Far-Fahrwärter bist, wenn du auf die Far-Fahrwärter bist, wenn du auf die Far-Fahrwärter bist, wenn du auf die Far-Fahrwärter bist, wenn du auf die Far-Fahrwärter bist, wenn du auf die Far-Fahrwärter bist.

01:44:19 Yeah, what I really appreciated was when we look at the spot for Ninjas in Pajamas, their win condition really is making the spot that Liquid Alienware had unplayable. As soon as Liquid Alienware there...

01:44:31 Das ist tough, Bananas. Ich bin sorry. Wir sehen uns wie es noch mal funktioniert, weil wie du gesagt hast, kill participation für Ninjas in Pajamas war der Key to Victory. Und sie haben eine sehr gute Anzahl. 8 Kills für dieses Match plus 2nd place. Das ist ein Spiel, das wirklich nicht all das bad ist, obwohl du nicht able zu konvertieren.

01:44:52 Ja, 8-kills sind solid, TSM auf 11 ist großartig, aber sie kamen aus dem Norden, also sie hatten viel zu kämpfen. Wir sahen das auch bei dem Dupen. Das war wirklich gut. Liquid Alienware, aber hat es auf der Opposite Seite, von der Souther Seite, die nicht wirklich verwirklichen. Aber egal, 23, 17, 14 sind sehr glücklich. Das ist mehr als über die 6-point-Average, die wir immer über die Top 10 erwähnen.

01:45:19 So many points, you're very happy with that. Time to event, though. Liquid Alienware do get a good amount of momentum back after this game as well. Momentum that they lost being shut down early in Game 2. Flat tied with Liquid Alienware right now for a second.

Spannung an der Spitze der Rangliste und Analyse der Teamdynamik

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01:45:37 Even looking just below that at TSM, the top side of the leaderboard is extremely tight. Genome, we have got a very tight race for the top, with even TSM being only three points from that. Especially on Stormpoint, I have to say, I don't really expect things to be as competitive, where you can easily run away with games consistently on a map like this. Yeah, if a team manages to stack up a couple of wins,

01:46:07 a row or just good performances in a row. We can see that if they prioritize this particular map in the POI draft, you know, maybe that happens. That said, this is America's and it does tend to be.

01:46:20 A little bit closer, running from top to bottom in terms of skill level, in terms of the depth of skill in this region. So to that extent, maybe we can expect to see this go the distance and actually get a nice, tight, exciting finish to this race. I mean, it's been very exciting so far.

01:46:42 Genome, ich weiß, dass du es da mit mir war, ich war mit dir zu dir. Aber für diejenigen, die die Erinnerungen auf den ALGS haben, erzählen wir uns was, was du vermisst von den Apex Legends-Global-Series hast. Some of das ist von der nächsten Woche, aber was ich möchte, ist die Matchdaye, die in EMEA just happened, wo 10k...

01:47:03 came alive. This was a big week for 10k as the team made up of Kashera and Nasky with post kill ended up having their first week of play together with Nasky having just been dropped from Ronin and Kashera naturally

01:47:19 Ich weiß nicht, wie ich werde in dieser Meta succeed. Aber Nasky war die letzte Chance für dieses Team. Und 10k worked mit ihm marvellously. Ich weiß, wir sprechen über Kashera und Nasky. Post-Kill, als auch. Huge credit für diese Leute, die Anker durch so viele changes und so viele swaps in.

01:47:48 Es war ein unglaublicher Tag, ehrlich gesagt. Ich denke, jeder in ihrem Herz wollte, dass die Dinge passiert. Und ich liebe das, dass er auch gesagt hat, dass sie es ein step by one step manifestieren.

01:48:16 und das ist wichtig zu machen, weil man nicht nur die Schmerzen zu machen ist, wie man es macht, als die große Heimaker zu haben. Aber eine Sache, die ich wirklich möchte, ist jetzt die Ballistik und Alter play, die wir haben nicht nur die Entfernung von Frohli gesehen haben, aber auch die Leute zu Hause haben, die sich in Rang zu spielen. Und dann, wenn du nicht getrennt von Ballistik getrennt und dann, wenn du nicht getrennt, dann auch mal ein paar Teile getrennt, Alter TPs aus.

01:48:46 Jetzt haben die Entwickler und die Leute, die die Spielern haben es zurückgekehrt. Wir haben die Veränderungen in Ballistik gesehen. Jetzt ist der Wissle Overheat Damage reduziert. Jetzt hast du das Amp-up-Timer mit der Ultimate. Du hast nicht die Refresh-Timer. Das ist ein tolles Ziel, um das Aggressiveness ein bisschen zu realen. Wir sehen das von 13 Damage zu 15 Damage. Aber auf der anderen Seite geht es um die Aggressiveness zurück. Alter, however, kann man die Aggressivität ein bisschen mehr auf ihr.

01:49:15 Ich glaube nicht, dass es nicht genug ist, aber es ist ein Schritt in die richtige Richtung.

01:49:44 Ich hoffe, dass wir mehr Meta sind, weil ich glaube, in EMEA, wir haben so viele TeamComp, und jetzt hier haben wir noch eine große TeamComp. Ich bin so glücklich.

01:50:04 We've had a great, you know, little trend on Twitter and on, you know, other social media recently about, like, where did you get your big break? Where was the start of your story in esports or whatever field it is? But, of course, we're going to be looking at our pro players and how it all started for them. Let's talk about Unlucky. First up, we see his tweet here where you see Harkis gets the call up from the...

01:50:34 Big Dog of Amir. And you can see, he responds immediately. He's been waiting for this tweet. Within a minute, he is there to get that one. We also got Hal. The story of how one of the most impressive rosters in all of Apex got started. And this is Jordan and Hal talking. And also...

01:51:00 Thinking about picking up Albrelele at the same time. Obviously, you know, before they went through some changes and got Verhalstum and whatnot. This was the OG TSM roster that won trophies and hung medals around their neck. We also have Rambo.

01:51:20 And his big break, you might remember, was as a super sub. And here he is getting a message from G-Sound saying, Mandy has COVID, we need you to get in here immediately. Raven, Nasky, this was a sick team up, if you remember them playing at Rally. We've got one last one to go through as well. That's going to be Albrelele's start. And you can see him here talking to...

01:51:49 And it's so cool to just get this kind of blast from the past from some of our biggest players that are still here to this day and five, six years later even, you know, this is how their epic Apex esports careers were spawned.

01:52:10 You know, Genome, I'm really touched by seeing a lot of the beginnings of some of our biggest Apex Legends players all put out on social media. It's wonderful, it's heartwarming, but I actually have a bone to pick with one of our literally biggest players, Kion, one of the tallest folks.

01:52:31 in the ALGS has put out a tweet that I would like to say I deem absolutely unacceptable. Don't put this on my timeline. I understand where it comes from, if I'm honest with you. Conduit is fun. Graceful, you know I was playing a little bit of Conduit. I'm enjoying myself. But we can't just be photoshopping images irresponsibly and then putting them on Twitter where...

01:52:57 Wo ich habe zu sehen, ich habe mein Twitterer und all of a sudden das ist da, und es ist ein wirklich, wirklich unbezüglich und unbezügliches environment, das ich fühle, ich bin in.

01:53:11 Unsafe environment. I would have to say, though, that's a pretty good edited photo. It is a pretty good edit. It is. Like, for as much hate as I'm giving it, you can at least tell they really worked hard on making this as uncanny valley as possible, Juno. Yeah, yeah, they kind of did it, didn't they? It's almost seamless. If you'd never played Apex Legends before, maybe you'd believe that was a real legend.

01:53:37 You know, just to touch on the start of what you might have missed as well, to get things a little more serious and what we're talking about here in Apex. Keon, don't we like that again? Was the 10K story. We talked about that at the beginning. EMEA Yes was a blast. Real quick as well.

01:53:54 While all this was happening, while 10K were putting up a historic showing, Na'Vi also qualified for the midseason playoffs. So that sort of flew under the radar of the craziness that happened this morning, but it was a really big milestone when setting the stage for international competition in the ALGS. Now, we've got a pretty big change to make, guys. The Storm Point.

01:54:15 Now it's going to be E-District. So Graceful, I'm going to kidnap you once again. Although I guess, oh no, Wraith isn't banned. I can kidnap you. It's Ballistic that's banned as we move on to E-District. So you and I are going to be going through E-District together. Given that we've gotten from EMEA2 now, I do want to quickly illustrate all the same Legends are banned, weirdly enough.

Strategische Kartenwechsel und Teamdynamiken im Fokus

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01:54:40 Ich denke, es ist eine Rede auf die Meta, die Leute wirklich fühlen, dass es viel hilft mit den Legenden. Es hilft mit der aggressivität, wenn man es verliert. Das ist der Name des Spiels jetzt. Aber Yiddish Ficht ist wirklich solid. Ich mag es viel. Wir sahen einige gute Endgames. Es ändert die Fokus aus Stormpoint.

01:55:00 Ich würde sagen, wirklich, wirklich, wirklich macro-reliant in eine große, was POIs werden wir durch? Was cardinal direction sind wir? Zu E-District's macro-fokus ist, wie wir, wirklich, wie wir gehen durch die Straße gehen? Wir müssen von Punkt A zu Punkt B gehen. Was sind die, was wir, was wir, was wir, was wir, was wir, was wir, was wir, was wir, was wir, was wir, was wir, was wir, was wir, was wir, was wir, was wir, was wir, was wir, was wir, was wir, was wir, was wir, was wir, was wir, was wir, was wir, was wir, was wir, was wir, was wir, was wir, was wir, was wir, was wir, was wir, was wir, was wir, was wir, was wir, was wir, was wir, was wir, was wir, was wir, was wir, was wir, was wir, was wir, was wir, was wir, was wir

01:55:21 Das ist eine große Herausforderung. Das ist eine große Herausforderung. Das ist eine große Herausforderung. Das ist die große Herausforderung.

01:55:50 Ja, ich meine, eine der größten Dinge, die wir schon erwähnt haben, ist, dass die mapen sind.

01:55:59 How many chokes can you count on the map right now? There's so many areas where you never really get locked down on this map, where teams have a break. Regardless if you get ambushed or you get pinched, you kind of almost always have a routing you could go. So that will save a lot of teams' macro, because there's so many playable areas, there's so many options to take, there's so many tunnels to do. One thing I am still very interested in seeing, though, is flat.

01:56:22 Ja, traditional is a good word for it. TSM.

01:56:50 Operating out of the south side of Zone. I always love to talk about this area of the map as being the place where you can look for some of the earliest action. TSM getting Old Town, LG getting Humbert Labs. If I'm honest with you, neither of these teams reek of aggression to me, but a man can dream graceful. A man can dream.

01:57:12 Yeah, most definitely. I think, though, that anybody, like we said before, nobody can dispute that NA region has the... There are teams from every region, and I will almost say every country that we probably don't even know of, you know? It happens in all the titles all the time, where there's teams that are capable of standing toe-to-toe with the NA team. So when we're talking about the raw amount of skill and in the highest amount, NA region is by far it. However, what that also does entail is that we don't see as much...

01:57:39 Oh ja, baby, it's a mirage.

01:58:02 Und Ghost, ich denke, ich werde das für Omit. Und es ist nur noch ein Knochen auf CIMJ-MX. Sie sind jetzt nur ein. So Omit should take full control von dieser Erieinung. Das ist nicht ein schlechtes Problem für sie. Die Strait Market hat eine gute Leut. Importantly, es gibt noch mehr Scans, speziell wenn du eine einzige Team in der Welt zu spielen. Ich...

01:58:30 Sparrow's not banned, bro.

01:58:34 I mean, they might have been cooking something up, honestly. I don't think, like, nobody who plays with the series gonna complain. It's just like one of those things where if not a lot of people are doing it, then they don't end up doing it. It's kinda the same as Gibi. You like playing Gibi Diaz. Like, nobody hates having a Gibi on your team, which is that you don't see that many of them. Maybe they're cooking something. That's true, that's true. Now that I see myself in Omid, as you've opened my eyes...

01:59:02 I see it. I see it. I can be pretty happy with this. Jomax, not happy at all. Still on the run, in fact, and may not even get the team back into the game, as I think he's being run up on by saying somehow Louie just knows. Louie just knows, bro. Flat aren't going to let this happen. CIMJMX will be taken down very quickly. Immediately, we've got two ults used on this building as well, making me wonder what on earth Flat are cooking up next. It just seems they've found an isolated member.

01:59:31 I mean, they're running at everybody. Like, we saw Omit show presence first, but Flat is no weirder one. You forgot about us on Stormpoint? We're gonna do it here as well. Huge spray there, 108. That was clean spray.

01:59:59 Ich glaube, sie sollen ihn runtergehen. Aber wir sehen uns, ob sie den Gas gehen können und ein bisschen mehr Rotation. Wir sehen uns alle drei Mitglieder verlassen, als sie eigentlich... Sie haben ihn verloren, haben sie nicht? Ich glaube, sie haben ihn verloren. Q0 ist jetzt verloren. Er hat keine Ahnung.

02:00:18 I wonder if Nano is going to spot this. No way the third guy checks the corner. No way the third guy checks the corner. Oh, he ran a little bit early maybe? No? Did he make it? He's good. Oh, they hurt him. He ran too early. Understandable. Understandable.

02:00:36 That's rough. Fortunately for Omit, it's not the last member standing. They've still got one out there. So Omit, keep Hope alive. And Flat, continue exactly what we know Flat for, which is just this reckless abandon with which they run at people. And I may have spoken a little too soon. Omit, Hope is dead. Hope is so, so dead. Virtus.pro took him out. It's Jover until at least the next game.

02:01:03 Yeah, definitely. We did see some early action, but now as we also shift with the map's zone going southeast, I believe I saw a bunch of, yes, southeast. How many teams are already in the zone? A couple of teams are still on edge, but we saw the difference between the regions. A lot of teams here are opting for playable area, even on this map. That leaves it so that more of the playable areas late game is...

02:01:28 So you can't do micro-adjustments later on, depending on where their zone pulls. But that also makes it so that the teams that come in later... This is the crazy part. The more teams move early, the stronger the edge is. Obviously, the more teams on edge, the stronger the zone team is, because now you have free reign from the zone holding teams out. So it's really interesting to see how that shift of gameplay happens, as Flatt is also thinning out the herd on the edges. Makes it...

Meta-Entwicklungen, Teamkämpfe und strategische Entscheidungen im späteren Spielverlauf

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02:01:53 Incredibly chaotic, but it's also fun to see. So as long as we can keep the action rolling, honestly, I'm very happy about it. You know, it's exactly the same thing that I initially learned with what I'll lovingly call the Caustic Conundrum back in the earlier days of the ALGS. When nobody is running Caustic, one Caustic was incredibly good. But when everybody was running Caustic...

02:02:15 All of a sudden, people are just walking through your gas, and it's like, wait, I mean, I have no effect. What's happening? Same thing with almost everything in Apex Legends. The more people are doing something, the less individually powerful it is, which is why it's so impressive when we see these metas develop, when we see Legends like Ash really rise to the forefront, because it's incredibly powerful, so much so that you wouldn't want to give it up to do something different.

02:02:42 Ja, definitiv, das ist wie es geht. Ich meine, wir erinnern die GB-Caustik-Meta, alle hatten es, weil wenn nicht, dann die Caustik-Meta-Meta-Meta-Meta-Meta-Meta-Meta-Meta-Meta-Meta-Meta-Meta-Meta-Meta-Meta-Meta-Meta-Meta-Meta-Meta-Meta-Meta-Meta-Meta-Meta-Meta-Meta-Meta-Meta-Meta-Meta-Meta-Meta-Meta-Meta-Meta-Meta-Meta-Meta-Meta

02:03:12 Aber ich bin sehr froh, weil das also bedeutet, dass die Skill-Level auch umgekehrt ist, und das ist auch warum es so viel besser ist in den Fights geworden ist. Mit den Leuten über die Roller-Level-Level-Level-Level-Level-Level-Level-Level-Level-Level-Level-Level-Level-Level-Level-Level-Level-Level-Level-Level-Level-Level-Level-Level-Level

02:03:38 Und so viel so, als die Leben langsamerhandel geht, werden viele Leute eke out alle letzte Vorteile sie können. Right jetzt, Corinthians...

02:03:48 Much like their last game, however, are not in the business of eking out advantages, instead of just trying to stay alive. It's again Bin that is the last member standing, and again with the chance to craft, but it's a difficult game for the Corinthians, that's to be sure. VP landing right on top of Flat, you know what that means. Flat, it's time to go. They are always running straight at the squads in front of them. Virtus Pro do lay down the Watson ult inside, but Zac gets instantly swung on, takes down Nano in the 1v1, but it simply doesn't matter. The team is...

02:04:18 Das ist genau das, was ich vorhin gesagt habe.

02:04:47 This actually is a huge rematch. Flat took out Falcons really early in game number one. Now Falcons have shown up just as Flat expend all of their ultimates. Falcons should have control of this, and yet I'm watching every time they peak, their shields get shredded. They're playing with less and less space. Look out for Flat.

02:05:09 ...who can and will encroach, take a lot of pain and direct it towards you. Out go the nades. Falcons again are forced not just into the staircase, but into the portal. They don't even want to co-exist with Flet. How much does that say? That a team that won our most recent land that is touted as being one of the best teams in the world... ...doesn't want to exist in the same 25 meter radius as Flet.

02:05:36 The only thing that was stopping Fat right there is the fact that they probably used all of their util and ultimates in the previous fight, otherwise they would have sent it, I'm pretty sure. Falcons recognizing that, hey, this team is showing presence and they're gonna make a play if we stay here, opts to go out a little bit more towards the edges because they have so much playable area from their past EP. A little bit scary because teams could have potentially pulled up, but it ends up working out in their favor as the zone currently is closing. We see the zone pulling more towards the southeast.

02:06:04 Okay, Hubert Labs as well. Very common zone, I would say here. Maybe more towards the center side of the bridge side, also inside Hubert Labs, but like to play this zone regardless. A lot of playable area. Quick touch up on the weapon meta. I think that was a triple take that was left behind by the Falcons, choosing to run the 30-30 instead of the triple take. Not a bad decision. I'm not even hating on it. I'm just noting that that happened.

02:06:31 Weil wenn Kare Package Weapons sind hinterlassen, ist es eine Exception zu den Regeln.

02:06:41 The thing is, is though, how do you feel when you have a Gold Peter and you see a Triple Take? How do you feel when, in this case they wouldn't really fit the same category, but if you had a Devotion fully stacked for a Triple Take, a lot of the times it's how stacked you are really depends on what you leave, but some weapons typically never get left behind, you know, the likes of Kraber as an example.

02:07:05 A weapon that you always pick because just the presence, like even if you literally shoot the Kraber up in the sky, that will put presence on your team and people don't want to peek in more a lot of the time. Some people don't care, but like a lot of teams are like, okay, they have a Kraber, be careful, right? That's true, it is. I'll admit, hardly ever something that I calculated in my own games. I could see how different squads might start reacting to the additional focus that a care package weapon can bring you. Real quick.

02:07:33 Falcons made a great recovery there. I know that's going to go largely unappreciated just because it doesn't have a major impact on the game from the point of view of like, oh, who's going to win this? But if Falcons lost Waltzy there, who's their new castle, they have a much harder time. The fact that they were able to very quickly land, pick him back up, reset, and ward off the TSM engagement that was being thrown, they were a soft engage. So that's some pretty nice calculated play, and I don't want to go underappreciated.

02:08:02 Ja, und ich respecte das. Einmal die Zeiten, es ist sehr schwer zu sehen, in dem Team zu spüren, denn so viel passiert auf dem Map. Wir können nicht alle die Aktionen sehen, und die einzige, die Leute zu sehen sind, ist ein Clip, wenn sie lucky sind, oder ein Leaderboarden, wo sie Donuts sehen, oder wo sie Low Placement sehen. Es ist so viel mehr passiert, die wir manchmal missen, das ist schwer, aber...

02:08:28 Nonetheless, very impressive. When you have good macro decisions, when you have all of this, you typically don't see that. What you see is the fact that you lost a 3v3 and you went out early. But Falcons right there showing very good...

02:08:41 Ja, das stimmt. TSM might not be weaker, but you're more comfortable taking a fight up against them, because they play like human beings. They play as you would expect.

02:09:08 Ich glaube, das ist interessant. Ich glaube, ich glaube, das ist ein Interessant. Ich glaube, das ist ein Interessant. Ich glaube, das ist ein Interessant. Das ist ein Interessant. Ich glaube, das ist ein Interessant. Das ist ein Interessant.

02:09:40 Ich denke, er wird es sein können. Wir schauen uns mit den Twisted Minds ein bisschen später an. Wir sehen uns, was der Leut ist. Zero. Schmerz-Rifle. Direkt in die mouth. Yum, yum, laser.

02:09:51 Es ist gut, dass ich das in der nächsten Versuch für die nächsten Rotation bin. Ich bin nicht wirklich sicher, wie Falcons wollen. Es ist ein Portal, ein Wall, aber die Decisions werden müssen, und ziemlich schnell, als der nächste Ring wird nicht viel Zeit für Indecision auf den Händen.

02:10:12 Ja, Rock hier, auf der anderen Seite des Mappen, um zu engagieren, fährt sofort. Er fährt ein wenig, Schultz und Sierras. Sie spielen Newcastle, Path und Krypto. Sie sind eigentlich sehr versatil. Sie haben fast movement mit den Zipbinds. Sie können mit dem EMP agressen, und sie können auch stallen und vielleicht machen einen Platz für sieben mit dem Newcastle. Sehr versatil. Man könnte sagen, es geht nicht super, dass es vielleicht die Aggressivität ist. Aber wenn man das spielt, dann ist es ein sehr Stable-Balance-Comp, in meiner Meinung.

02:10:42 Und die nice Sache ist es, dass es nicht mehr werden muss, wenn sie nicht mehr wollen. Wraith ist die größte Legend in Spiel Nummer 4. Das gibt Rock die Chance, wenn sie es zurückkehren können, wenn sie es aufhören können. Und es ist nicht so gut, es ist gut. Die Möderlöde ist gut. Die Möderlöde ist gut. Die Möderlöde ist gut. Die Möderlöde ist gut. Die Möderlöde ist gut. Die Möderlöde ist gut. Die Möderlöde ist gut. Das ist gut. Das ist gut. Das ist gut. Die Stingerbolt ist gut. Das ist gut, aber Umi...

02:11:10 Uwe knows how to finish the job, jumping right on down, finishing the fight for Board. I think if they maybe made that sit play immediately, instead of waiting those extra 10 seconds, letting the team engage on them, could have been the make or break moment, but they fall early and that's just how it goes sometimes. Still, 14 teams left alive as Zone 5 currently counting down for closing. Nice damage out of Nocturnal, still plenty of ammo in this Devo as well. Makes me wonder about the 30-30, which...

02:11:38 At this range, could also be finding a couple of kills for LG. Nocturnal is playing basically single-handedly on this high ground, just reserving a lot of this space and showing presence for the side of LG. Almost finding a kill for the side of LG, as Alberlele is going to fall in the feed. That's Dynastied, who managed to take him down. 14 squads left, but the fact that Twisted Minds are even on the ropes or close to it is crazy to me. Right below LG, all this is happening. Twisted Minds.

02:12:06 Recover on the low ground. LG holding a lot of space, but quite separately for the moment. Yeah, it'll be scary for LG because they actually are not in the zone and they have to fight or work for something. There's three teams beneath them and three, four teams in front of them. They're going to have to make a decision to do a play because at this point you're just going to get held out to absolutely everybody. MJ's going to stick that res, board, play slow. This ring though...

02:12:33 Das wird viele Probleme geben. Ja, das ist nicht einfach für jemanden. LG! Findet ein Beam auf einem Zip-Line.

02:12:41 Really far above them. Liquid Alienware took this all the way to the balloon. And now we're jumping onto ninjas in pajamas. This is the most unexpected play of the century. And it does not go their way. What a gamble to come up empty-handed. But Liquid Alienware, you know what? They tried. They failed. You know, they haven't failed. They've just found one more way that doesn't work. And LG think they've got the same way. They land on the high ground. Immediately wall and Newcastle wall. Double wall. Double profit.

02:13:10 LG, stick the landing where Liquid Alien were to Don. How many teams are going to Divebomb that poor roof? But, put in mind, still in a solid spot here. We saw them decked out. We see the Golden Diva. We see the Peter. We see the GT. All of them are looking right now to make plays on the team in front of them. But everybody's feeling kind of safe. Will they push here with Red into Double Purple as we see a...

02:13:34 TP wird geblieben, Nades wird geblieben. Es wird ein schwieriger Ort sein, aber sie werden auch von den Rücken geblieben. Ich glaube, ich habe es schon wieder geblieben, als später. Und jetzt geht Albrecht.

02:13:45 Looking for it. Fisch is for the Kidnap, doesn't connect with it, and has to go back to a shattered Newcastle wall. The rest of the team, they've moved on. They're not even there anymore. Aberlele knows that he's in a terrible spot, but Crooks got the off angle with a Devotion, has received a little bit more ammo from enemy, but we are down to basically one gold Devo for the squad, because they've got no ammunition to work it on both sides. Aberlele, gonna take the portal once again, go down immediately to Forbidden Gaming, and get...

02:14:14 Ich meine, do you play for the KP in placement here, or do you actually play to make it into the next zone? Twisted Mines is going to have to make a decision just about now. Will they fight forward? Will they fight? Will they try to get past as another team right now?

02:14:36 Citadel is looking to fight Forbidden for them. Twisted Minds is gonna get the jump on absolutely everybody. Can they make sure to stay safe? No, Alm goes down from the side. A reset is trying to happen, but utility is getting used. I think he might have it. I think he does get back up. Twisted Minds are still somehow alive, but...

02:14:54 Das ist die letzte Zone. Wir haben es bereits mit 13 Teams. Wir sind bereits zu 11. Nach dem Ende dieser, wir werden nur eine. Und Falcons machen die Argument für es. Lägen die Newcastle, die TSM auf dem, mit den Counterslamm.

02:15:12 Could definitely be, as they're looking up behind him right now. Bin goes for the Fade Axe.

02:15:41 Oh mein Gott!

02:15:48 Kings may have this, four squads left, Corinthians need to avoid a lot of focus, Movistar Koi jump out here, but no, Corinthians will go down and it's Movistar Koi that have the chance to take that fusion, Jelly jumps into the zone to do it, last two squads alive, and it's Most Loved on the inside and Movistar Koi on the outside, there is nothing for Most Loved to do.

02:16:11 It is Movistar Koi, who wiped the outside and who take the win in game number four.

02:16:21 Ich meine, das ist ein... Ich will sagen, dass die Action-Packen vor den letzten zwei Teams waren. Es gab so viele Teams. Ich glaube, wir sahen 13 Teams, Final Zone, Closing. Das war absolut krass. Und ich liebte every second of es. Aber zu kommen, wo du nicht in den letzten Krieg bist. Du bist glücklich mit dem zweiten Platz. Probierlich ein paar KP2. Aber nicht in den Krieg sind, muss ich ein bisschen schade für sie.

02:16:46 It's true, although on the other side of this is Movistar Koi. It's really funny. I even felt it talking about the game as it was happening. The tension as we go. Five, four, three, two. Oh, wait.

02:16:58 We won. That's it. There's nobody else out here. We'll take a look at what this means for Movistar Koi and the overall leaderboards as they now collect 20 points with the 8 that they managed to grab from kills during that game. Most loved second place. This is going to feel really good for them, especially because they did not get a lot of kills on the way in Graceful.

02:17:19 Yeah, most definitely. I think kind of outside of Movistar as well, very kind of evenly spread across the board from second to maybe, maybe not tenth, but ninth, I would say. Very even lobbying, very hard to play as well. A lot of playable areas, but as we saw as well, maybe the likes of Twisted Minds got pinched between like four different teams shooting him, at least three. However, top three for the match though, as we saw the last final ending between Movistars and Most Love dying to the zone.

02:17:44 Fusion, got a couple of kills as well. Nobody is sad with 11 points. Kimchi showing up big in the damage, doubling anyone else on the team. That's my boy, Kimchi. Forbidden, 35 points has them in the lead. Just kidding. Flat are tied with them as we head out of game four. With two games left, the max score is 35 right now.

02:18:10 Und Ninjas in Pajamas haben 34. Es ist unglaublich close. Und ich dachte, E-District könnte uns auszudrücken. E-District scheint zu bewegen sogar noch mehr Teams zu dem Limit, wenn es zu wie viele Singular Points sie können auszudrücken. Die Leaderboards sind close. Die Games sind close. Aber jemand hat es zu gewinnen. Sie hat es zu gewinnen. Mit den 25 Punkten in den overallen Leaderboards. Wir finden, wer es ist. Oder eher, wir werden es einen Schritt später später.

02:20:20 Sony Inzone, the official monitor of the Apex Legends Global Series.

02:20:37 As we head into Match 5 here in Americas, it is one of the most tightly contested, hotly contested series we've ever seen, frankly, here in the ALGS graceful. It's crazy to think we've got two teams on 35 and a bunch going down to almost halfway through the lobby. And there's just a stone's throw between all of them.

02:21:07 I'm so happy with how today's been, seeing from EMEA as well, is that from EMEA we had kind of the hot popcorn moment where you're sharing for teams specifically or for, you know, the drama that's happening, the juice that everybody likes. Whereas here, it's the tension between the closeness between the teams. Nobody is super excelling. It's close between everybody. Anybody can make it. And it's so fun because you have a little bit of everything. And hey, man, really good day of Apex for anybody who missed it. Come back and watch everything.

02:21:34 No. Doubt. Whatso. Ever. Here's a final circle from that final, uh, the last game we had here. Seen nice little hop, skip, and a jump from Niazl as, uh, Team Liquid trying to slam this position and fail, and then we see LG do what they could not.

02:22:01 We see the other teams go here. A little bit of a fast forward. And it was really the interesting architecture of Humbert Labs. You see that dome spin around. And you see the last couple of teams just trying to get through here. And eventually it actually came down to a nice clutch up on the outside.

02:22:26 Um, from Corinthians. But then we had the one team on the inside who couldn't actually skirt past the edge, um, when it came down to the last two. So Movistar, Koi, um, you can see them just staring down this last team. The dome, it takes about, uh, I think it's a minute 30 to go the whole way around. So if you're waiting from sort of one end of it, um, where it's, where it's open to the next end, it's about 45 seconds.

02:23:00 rough in that regards because you know it's so slow when the zone is that fast and it's you know dead to the last zone it does so much damage you're terrified however you had some legends that could make plays from that positioning regardless with wraith with the potential of wraith wraith is now banned on the next match as people were opting immediately for that you know we saw the typical three bands we normally see across most regions which you know it might be a little bit different in apex where people might be opting for crypto or something else

02:23:28 Ballistik, Ash, Alter, and now also Wraith. We talked about this in EMEA. Some teams got affected pretty harshly from this. Will that happen in NA as well? Or will we still see the likes of some team comps? Like we saw a little bit of the mystery pick with the Pathfinder, Crypto, and Newcastle. Will they excel now because they haven't been affected? Or will teams that are not crutching but leading a little bit hard on these specific 4-3 team comps have to adjust now?

02:23:57 Ja, ich glaube, dass wir 14-team-team-team-team-team-team-team-team-team-team-team-team-team-team-team-team-team-team-team-team-team-team-team-team-team-team-team-team-team-team-team-team-team-team-team-team-team-team-team-team-team-team-team-team-team-team-team-team-team-team-team-team-team-team-team-team-team-team-team-team-team-team-team.

02:24:23 Ich denke, es ist definitiv ein Trait-Thing, wo auf EMEA es passiert, was Allianz spielt, ein paar Leute spielen, auf NA vielleicht was Falcons spielt, und die Leute lernen von sich. Das ist eine gute Sache, ich denke. Aber es ist auch gut für einige Teams zu innovieren. Ich bin nicht sehr sicher, ob ich innovativ, wenn ich mir die Mirage einleitze bin, oder Mad Maggie in bestimmten Bereichen. Aber innovativ, nonetheless. Ich glaube, es ist immer gut, und zu versuchen, es ist immer gut, und zu versuchen,

02:24:52 Ja, das ist ziemlich interessant, ist es? Ich meine...

02:25:21 How to flat play this out? We know what they like to do as an edge team. But Graceful, what are they going to do when everyone is just right on top of them straight from the start? That's the thing I like to say about a lot of the teams. I think you have to be versatile too. Yes, you like to be edge and you like to fight and you know how to play that. They obviously know how to play that. They're currently second.

02:25:45 They need to be able to close the games out that are in quotes for a lot of teams deemed free. When they end on top of them, they should guarantee top three. Can they do that? Because if they can do that, that means they're a really consistent, strong team regardless of any zones. Because if you can close out both zone teams on top of you and edge zones that are far away from you, you're in a great spot to be consistent across the board. Absolutely. And I remember seeing teams who...

02:26:12 was so keen to play Edge. They just couldn't play any other way and they'd get a zone on top of them and they'd run away from it. It might be Aurora, honestly, that I'm thinking of back at some previous lands and, you know, they'd get a zone like this. Let's just say they were flat, you know, landing in Blossom Drive and then going somewhere else. And they'd straight up rotate to Boardwalk and say, nah, we're going to go look for kills. We're not comfortable playing. If we don't ever want to take...

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02:26:58 Wir werden sterben, wenn wir hier stehen bleiben. Ich würde lieber gehen und farmen Kills oder mehr Equipmenten, wo wir stark sind, weil wir sicher sind, wenn wir geart sind. Wenn wir nicht geart sind, wir fühlen können, dass es sich nicht weitergeht. Ich glaube auch, wenn du auf White Armour oder auf Blue Armour bist, es ist nicht wirklich das... Ich will nicht sagen... Natürlich ist es noch auf die Skill, aber wenn du Purple vs. Purple hast du viel mehr Skill-Gap-Potenzial da.

02:27:27 Hmm. Ich fühle mich ein bisschen. Es gibt so viele Faktoren. Ich meine, was die Meta? Wenn du Alters und Kryptos und all diese Sachen hast, kann das eine große Unterschiede machen, vielleicht sogar eine große Unterschiede, vielleicht sogar eine größere Unterschiede, als was die Armour you're wearing. Aber gleichzeitig, wenn du in ein guter Spot in Zoned hast, kannst du das manchmal leverieren. Und das kann auch mehr wert sein.

02:27:51 25 oder 50 oder 75 um, you know hp on your team overall i i feel like it mainly depends on like let's just take this as an example right in this meta if you're on triple white one peter hedgehog and knock you down

02:28:06 Es ist egal, wie gut du bist, du wirst, du wirst, du wirst, du wirst, du wirst, du wirst, du wirst, du wirst, du wirst.

02:28:30 So, ja, es geht um die Weapon Metas und Legend Metas für sicherlich. Vielleicht wäre es eine mehr Caustic-Watson-Heavy-Meta. Aber ich denke, dass jetzt, wenn alle sehr... Ich würde sagen, dass wir jetzt in der Ere, wo alle mehr glücklich sind, ihre Mechanicale, ihre 1-Mech, so zu sagen. Um, zu haben, die Low-Armor ist viel stärker als vorher.

02:28:55 Yeah, that's a fair point. We have seen some big changes, big swings, the developers like to call them when they make drastic changes to the game. And I think the TTK, the lowering of that was one of those, essentially increasing the damage of every gun, you know, taking away head armor, taking away red armor for the most part, like, you know, obviously making it a lot rarer. You'll always see it in an endgame in ALGS, but it's a lot harder to come by.

02:29:24 in, um, you know, with a game at large. So, a couple of changes that do have an impact on that. Now, most teams have pulled up to Blossom Drive by now. Um, we're having a look at, just in pyjamas here. They're very slow as they rotate through draft point, and they've got a mitt ahead of them as well. Of course, a mitt are the guys playing.

02:29:47 Very interesting composition of Seer, Mirage, and Bangalore. But we'll tune in with Falcons, who, despite having 24 points, there's a little bit of a gap between them and the next team, honestly. They're not one of those teams, the other, like, eight teams that are on 30 points-ish. But, you know, Falcons are one of those teams that always have a chance to bring it back, and this is probably one of the smallest deficits you could ever have in a Game 5.

02:30:16 Ja, definitiv. Ich liebe den Tag. Ich liebe den Tag. Ich liebe den Tag. Ich liebe den Tag. Ich liebe den Tag. Ich liebe den Tag. Ich liebe den Tag. Ich liebe den Tag. Ich liebe den Tag. Ich liebe den Tag. Ich liebe den Tag. Ich liebe den Tag. Aber es ist extrem schwer zu halten. Denn du hast zwei Chokes. Never mind the fact, dass jemand von der S-W-S-Side kann, um zu machen. Aber...

02:30:43 Kann ich oder kann ich nicht? Wir werden sehen ein bisschen später, aber es ist definitiv ein schwerer Spot. Es all depends auf wie die Teams mit ihnen spielen, sondern wie sie spielen, denn sie sind wirklich gut. Aber, speaking of wie die Leute spielen, NIP jetzt machen, ich will, ich will, ich will, ich will, ich will, ich will, ich will, ich will, ich will, ich will, ich will, mit NIP. 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,

02:31:13 We have like a, what is this walk-in? Can you guys hold this? Can I go look at this? Insanely safe. They're gonna get pushed again up here. It's like a big at highway. It's kind of sketchy. Yeah, it's like right here. We can look if they like swimming inside. Wait, safe all the way up to me?

02:31:44 Was die building? Ja, ich habe Bammel. Du willst mich auf, Cole? Ich habe einen Balloon. Oh, Team on me. Ja, sie sind. Sie sind in dieser Staircase. 3'10. Das ist eine Staircase? Sie sind in der Brücke. Fuckin' 16. Das ist ja. Wie sind sie able to play all the way out?

02:32:10 Ich habe zwei Alt-Exceles, btw.

02:32:19 Even the likes of NIP, a little bit confused about how the games played out because hey, there's 19 teams alive. How are they able to play all the way out there? Where are all the teams essentially? As they do their macros, it's very interesting to hear because a lot of these teams on the go have their set macro and routing, but when things don't really feel...

02:32:43 wie es, in quotes, wie es spielt, sie starten zu werden, ein bisschen confused zu werden. Kind der gleiche Effekt, wie oft es passiert, wie, hey guys, 10 Teams hier ist, der Zone muss hier sein, und dann drei Leute miss-Ready sind, aber alle sind auf der gleichen Spot, und jetzt alle haben sie über die Hillen. Es ist ein schwerer Scenario, aber NIP ist noch ziemlich glücklich mit dem Spot, weil sie nicht wirklich wissen, wie viele Teams da sind.

02:33:06 Ja, es ist ein bisschen wie ein Snowball-Effekt, richtig? Es gibt einen Momentum, wenn es zu viele Teams geht. Und ich bin interessiert, zu sehen, wo das nächste Zone geht, Graysfall, weil es könnte sein. Es ist, wie es sich aus dem Blossom Drive geht, aber es könnte sein. Aber es könnte sein, dass es ein Switch-Back ist. Wenn es ein Switch-A-Way ist, Ninja's Pajamas sind in einem tollen Spot, weil es nur ein paar Teams auf der anderen Seite ist, Richtung City Hall.

02:33:34 But we'll get that info in just a second. We are looking at a very stacked building. As you can see, multiple teams in the area. Multiple teams even within the same building this early in the game is an interesting thing to see. We're seeing the eventual evac here from ninjas in pajamas. And a double knock as they land. And it's...

02:34:02 Oh my lord. Okay, well, let's get the map up at some point here because we are going to, if they do actually get this reset, it's going to be insane for ninjas. I mean, they might get this reset unless they're getting 8 right here. I don't think they will be getting 8. The zone is going to NIP. They get this reset and they're feeling very comfortable as they're looking at the map right now. The zone is actually pulling more towards them.

02:34:29 Their teams are currently stepping up to see if they can make something happen. As McLovin is on one inch and he goes down to a Thermi. This might be it though, the opening that this Bored team needs to close something out. Yeah Bored, I mean they've got the Nox like three, four times on ninjas in pajamas, but they're taking so much grief damage that they can't actually get in there and finish the kills off. That said, ninjas have been split up.

02:34:56 But so aboard. At this moment, there's like two groups of these teams next to each other. And here we go. This might be the final showdown between Kyra and Shin. And he does just finish off Vayne. Now, you would be forgiven for thinking, hey, why didn't he box? Isn't this a 1v1? No, as I said, both members have other team members across the, like, 100 meters away down the other side of the map.

02:35:27 Das war ein guter Effort, ich habe zu sagen, dass er seine Besten hat, vielleicht wollte er wallclimb und dann zurückgekehrt auf der nächsten Seite, auf der Bridge. Aber er kam dann an das Fyde. Ein Turn mit der Devo, mit dem anderen Team auch. Fyde hier, Jomax, hat ein Thirst auf Zell, ein guter Start für sie, als jetzt alle, dass die Zone ist, dass die Zone ist.

02:35:49 Zone closing, 20 seconds left, everybody's doing their macro, 18 teams alive, which means everybody's trying to funnel through the same chokes, essentially. It's gonna be tough for them, but we saw, however, Falcons try to opt for a little bit earlier on, Liquid Alienware feels pretty good in their spot, as Cody is currently in a solid spot, looking to Kraber people already.

02:36:09 Yeah, I'd love to know which one of these teams actually managed to get a console scan because there is a Ring console down at Neon Square. So there was potential for teams to sort of sit there and grab a Ring 4, Ring 5 scan. It looks like Leave No Witness is actually going for a respawn in that area right now. As you said, Falcons made an early move. They're the blue team.

02:36:36 Sitting to the left of the zone. Corinthians are in the middle. But you've got to understand that all of those teams on the south side, they were even further south just a second ago. They were sitting down in Blossom Tribe. They had no idea that the zone was going north. And it is a big shock. A big shock to 75% of the teams in this lobby right now.

02:36:58 I think we might be seeing some look at this zone pool lol tweets after this game. But 11 teams actually on the opposite side of the zone. I hope that they had a godspot or a playable area late game. Now are on the move to walk in with the zone closing in 30 seconds. As Forbidden Gaming currently placed first on 37 points. Are opting for a reset in this house. They have to move in 20 seconds though. It's gonna be tough getting past another 6-7 teams in front of you.

02:37:25 Ja, sie sahen die Leibnum Witness respawnen, und sie sehr schnell waren, um, zu picken die KP, bevor sie sogar erstocken und gar nicht, ihr wisst, ihr wisst, ihre Death Boxen. So, ich denke, das ist eine smarte Bewegung von Forbidden Gaming und ein paar easy KP, um, aus dem Sky auf der Hände, um, das heißt, dass sie eigentlich um, um, in der ersten Platz sind.

Intensive Kämpfe und Teamstrategien in späten Spielphasen

02:37:49

02:37:49 On the opposite side of things, we see a little bit of Maser on twisted action right here. As now we shift towards forbidding gaming in that action. As we said, they just got the reason to sort of walk in. Immediately gets into a fight. Dan takes one out. Castellia takes one out. Everybody is shooting them as everybody is funneling through the same eastern side of the choke right now. Some teams are splitting left, some teams are splitting right. And now you have at least three teams on each choke.

02:38:15 Ja, da sind viele Flatt zu halten, die Vertus-Pro zu halten. Wir haben Fusion zu halten, CIMJ-MX zu halten. Sie sind eigentlich einfach nur auf der Evac Tower zu folgen. Sie entscheiden, das ist die beste Weg zu machen. Aber da werden nicht viel Platz für sie bleiben. Look wie viele andere Teams sind auf diese Rotate-Innen.

02:38:40 Ja, ich glaube, wir sahen 5-6-teins geteilt mit diesem. Und Sona enden einfach in front of Fusion. Wenn sie hier leben können, wenn sie ein Team über sie sind, LD schießt, ihre Cover jetzt. Und wenn sie sie wegzunehmen und schießt sie von der Seite aus, sie werden sie einen schweren Zeit haben. Als jetzt, sie versuchen, zu almost geteignet, dass sie aufzunehmen, aufzunehmen, aufzunehmen, aufzunehmen!

02:39:06 Oh my lord, that was coming in from Fusion from long range. And not only that, but he was so close to popping the meds there and actually just being safe from that incidental damage. But wow, this is a crazy zone. I love these. These are my favorite when you get...

02:39:26 Everyone start, they have to think on their feet, Graceful. They have to be like, okay, the plan has gone horribly, horribly wrong. What is our plan like F?

02:39:38 Yeah, normally I always say, have plan A, B, C. This is our plan. If that's taken, we do this, and if that's taken, we do this. But when you're at this point where, like I said, 11 teams have to move from the south side through those chokes, you need a plan A, B, C, D, E, F, G, all the way, 11 letters to make you through. Now, Falcons though, we're sitting in a comfortable spot. That's why they were shooting at everybody. However, depending on if the teams above them get a free, like a free playable area.

02:40:06 Ja, Fusion below them, Liquid Alienware on the height above them, or just across from them, I guess. You can see they're desperately trying to huddle behind this mobile shield right now. Potentially thinking they can get some angles here on Falcons, and it looks like they are. Falcons, they don't seem to be watching their back quite as much against Liquid right now. They were too focused on Fusion.

02:40:35 Und das könnte das Ende sein.

02:40:53 Movistar Koi also going down here. So many teams desperately wanting to get those points, considering how close everything is. Somehow Falcons get the reset, but another nice bow shot comes out from Team Liquid. They are the bane of Falcons' existence right now. They are tearing them apart feather by feather.

02:41:17 I mean, hey, Rock also not letting go of that gas pedal, like we said earlier. They've been consistent, and they're consistently in endgame zones. Right now, they're still picking up KP, feeling really confident, as Liquid is still beating up on other people. Went for a fight, as they get an elimination on Rock, feeling good about themselves. But can they get this reset off? It's getting kind of slow, and everybody's slow right now, but it does look like the reset is possible.

02:41:43 Looks like Falcons want to take one back here. They noticed that Team Liquid were a little worse for wear after taking all those fights and getting all the KP. Falcons correctly have identified that this could be the opportunity, but they don't pull the trigger in the end. There's just a little bit too much cover available for Liquid. So there's just kind of full resets all around.

02:42:06 So a lot of teams are gonna be in this tiny little compound over here

02:42:34 Meanwhile, Falcons have a lot of the empty space outside to themselves, currently being challenged by Fusion. But it's going to be Corinthians versus LG and also Liquid Alienware in one big scuffle over here. Falcons do eliminate Fusion. Corinthians go the way of the dinosaurs. And all of a sudden, it's Liquid Alienware and LG trying to set up why...

02:42:59 While Falcons are just desperately needing some medkits, some syringes down the bottom here. That said, Watson fences, Newcastle walls. They've got lines of defense. It's going to be a tough squad for sure because they're in a pitch in between people. Everybody's trying to say, LG, go to their side. No, LG, go to their side. Who are they going to push? Because they have to make a decision. Play for second here or die third.

02:43:24 für 2nd place I believe as they try to get to onto the platform as they push onto Falcons it should open it up

02:43:31 Okay, it was a really nice fight with my Falcons onto LG, but with this longbow, he's gotten rid of the scope because he doesn't need it. Liquid Alienware, they ran through the end stages of that lobby. It was fight after fight, reset after reset. No one could get the better of them. And I think they're going to have quite a few KP.

02:43:57 Ich meine, das war wunderbar. Wir haben auch gesehen, viele P.O.V. von ihnen als Falcons kamen von den anderen Seite von ihnen. Sie haben die F.A.V. von ihnen gewonnen. Sie kamen von der anderen Seite von Falcons. Sie haben die F.A.V. von ihnen gewonnen. Sie haben die F.A.V. von ihnen gewonnen. Sie haben die F.A.V. von ihnen gewonnen. Sie haben die F.A.V. von ihnen gewonnen.

02:44:25 Phenomenal play, you know, they're playing their space, they're playing aggressively, showing presence, and teams don't want to run internet because they are laying down the law right now. Why? Laying down the T-Law, indeed. 24 points for Liquid Alienware, impressive from them. Falcons, we were talking about how, you know, they could be looking to get towards the top of the standings because everything was so tight, and they actually might be somewhere close to that with a 16 point.

02:44:53 SimJ getting 8, Rock getting 9, that could be an important 9 points there from Rock. Our top 3 teams, we can see a dominant performance by Liquid Alienware gives them 12 kills and over 4000 damage. Meanwhile, Hal and Zero neck and neck there with 3 kills apiece.

02:45:19 Ja, wirklich gut für sie. Wir sagen viel über Liquid Alienware, aber Falcons, von dem Spiel in der Breachspot, ist eine der Angelegenheit, die ich eigentlich gerne sehen kann, wo man nicht zu einem anderen Seite kann, wo man es durch ziemlich schnell geht. Sie waren da early und haben eine Playable Area und haben es geschafft. Jetzt, auf die ganze Serie, so far... Flat!

02:45:37 Ich meine, sie sind nicht in den ersten Platz jetzt, aber sie sind immer noch dominiert. Ich bin so froh, dass die Anzahl von Kills zu sehen. Aber ich möchte noch ein bisschen mehr Placement Points sehen, weil wenn man die Angelegenheit hat, dann werden die Angelegenheit und Angelegenheit gehen. Aber jetzt sind die Kills zu sehen.

02:45:53 Yeah, meanwhile, though, you know, the second to six or even seven spots, I think, were still very, very tight. So a nice win by Team Liquid. Alienware there will put them firmly on top of the standings. 55 points. Can they close it out? We'll see soon with Game 6 just around the corner.

Liquid Alienware dominiert, während Teams sich an Zonenverschiebungen anpassen

02:48:04

02:48:04 Welcome back, folks. Game number six on the horizon here in Match Day 8. And Team Liquid Alienware have just taken a big step out in front of the competition. It may not seem like much graceful, as it still is within 10, 15 points, something like that. Yeah, within 14 points. But given that before that game, everybody was within three, four points of each other, it's a pretty big step out.

02:48:41 What a game, what a game, what a game. There we go, taking a look at this last game. This was, I think, a pretty good spot that Liquid Alienware had. Their defense against Rock was really impressive. From then on, Graceful, I was surprised as we moved further into it that even from the low ground, Liquid actually had a pretty good spot to play and converted very well against the likes of LG.

02:49:06 Ich meine, sie hat gut gewonnen, aber sie hat nicht gewonnen. Sie sehen, diese Wallclam hier? Sie haben zwei Kills, und sie sind noch weitergegangen. Sie haben dann die Plattform gezwungen, und sie haben die Plattform gezwungen, und sie haben sie in den Falcons gezwungen. Das hat die Spiel für sie ziemlich schnell gewonnen. Aber was wir nicht, was wir nicht gewonnen haben, ist, dass wir alle die Aktionen spielen. Das ist genau das, was wir nach Hause genommen haben.

02:49:30 Ja, was wirklich lustig zu mir war, ich weiß, dass du schon über die Anmöne Probleme hast, das erste Longbow-Aktion war. Ich weiß nicht, wie das auf die Vor-Front-Schein war. Das Mann hat 7 Bullets in sein Devo. Jaguaris war die Longbow nicht aus dem Style, aber aus dem FULL NECESSITY in der Endgame.

02:49:54 Es war verrückt zu sehen, dass sie die Win-Win gewonnen haben. Und wie Sie gesagt haben, die Endgame sehr gut gemacht hat hat, Liquid zu pushen LG. Falcons sind die Unlucky Inheritors der Push-Win, aber es ist ein sehr guter Spiel für beide LG und Falcons. Jetzt geht es um Match 6, Team Liquid Alienware zu leaden die Pack.

02:50:16 Ja, definitiv. One of the interesting things we saw was it was one team each taking a victory.

02:50:45 Ich denke, das ist wirklich gut zu sehen. Wir haben ein bisschen Cheeky Maggy, da die Kühle durch die Wallen. Aber das ist immer sehr schön. Ich denke, das ist wirklich gut zu sehen. Wir haben ein bisschen Cheeky Maggy, da die Kühle durch die Wallen. Wir haben ein bisschen Reset, aber das ist immer sehr scary. Sie wissen, wie man manchmal, wenn man denkt, dass das nur ein Charakter ist.

02:51:09 Und wenn jemand in Pro League plays hat, einen Charakter zu sehen, ist in deinem Spot. Das ist ein Horrendes Gefühl, da. Nein! An 8 zu der Kredite. Movistar Koi, still running Magi. You know what surprises me? People, at all, are still running Sparrow. Not because Sparrow is bad, by the way. Just because Sparrow was our second most picked Legend for the first three games of the day. Even now, if we were to ban a Legend after this game...

02:51:37 Sparrow would be banned, because I think like 16 teams are running him, so despite the popularity of the Legend throughout the day, we're not actually seeing him removed from play throughout all six games. Yeah, I think it's a lot of fun as well seeing a new Legend being that balanced, coming straight into comp, people immediately picking him up and making him work makes me so happy. Really goes to show how well this idea is, and I hope we will get to see some more action of that.

02:52:05 Other Regions haven't really leaned into him as heavily as we've seen right here in any region. But regardless, nonetheless, more than viable, super solid pick, fun to watch. Quick shout for Jaguars, who's on Catalyst instead of Newcastle this game. He did still pick up Devo Longbow. He's got a soft spot in his heart for that Longbow.

02:52:25 And I'm excited to see what it'll look like for Liquid Alienware as they'll have to move out of the south towards Twisted Mines and Flat. This could be a crazy game, Graceful. Now, I say that because in theory, you know, Flat or Twisted Mines should, and I say should, win because it's their spot. Realistically, Flat's not a zone team. This could just ruin their whole game. But they are so close to winning, sitting at 41 points to the 55 of Liquid Alienware that...

02:52:54 You gotta give them some hope. They could make it happen, but Dia, what happened last game? If it hard pulls north past that choke again, it's not easy for anybody full committing to it. Right now, there's two thoughts going on in these teams' head. And it's either, for sure, this one won't pull.

02:53:13 oder dieser wird das letzte Mal wiederholfen. Und welche Seite du hast, du kannst, du kannst, du kannst, du kannst, du kannst, so wir werden sehen, was sie opten für. Jetzt ist es sicher, dass es ein Team ist, dass es nicht weiterholfen wird, so wir werden sehen, wie es funktioniert.

02:53:28 Tsang waiting for his chance to shoot. There's a lot of shared space here. Omit want to run the CIMJ gambit once again, but didn't work out for them last time. They ended up getting chased down in a huge way. Cody just playing anchor for the squad. No Newcastle to quickly close the gap. It will rely on the sentinel shot that does admittedly whiff.

02:53:50 As Payne, oh, jumps down right on top of RKN. Almost an answer back, though, and Sang does manage to grab the answer. This could be big for Omit. Now 2v2 with Cody on the roof.

02:54:02 I mean, solid pick right there. Climbing up on height for that. I don't know how Orkin. He probably got swung. Mirage ult coming out to see if they can make something happen. Maybe the invis res here. Is this what they were picking Mirage for? Will this happen? I don't think so. But we'll see. Cody gets taken out really low. Sang has to retaliate in some way. He gets double swung. Immediately goes down. As right now, he's looking kind of grim for Ahmed. As he is down to 1 HP. Getting pushed solo now with 1 cell.

02:54:27 I'm just watching Payne's health bar, see if he bleeds out, if Cody is able to buy enough time for Omid to even grab a single point here at the moment with Cody disengaging and Payne getting rezzed. We're not going to see that point connect, but Omid to manage to evidently escape. Looking at Ghost, seems like that last member of Omid, Cody, has managed to escape without being spotted, although that was a nice snipe. And now with the Survey Beacon going.

02:54:57 C-I-M-J know exactly where Cody is. This evac tower could not be any more timely. You gotta feel bad for him, but C-I-M-J know what they're about. You know when you have that butt clench where you're like, oh my god, he's about to hit me with the hemi, and then you hear the evac come out, immediately takes away the fun. Fun, however, Sack gets almost ripped as Halif on 1 HP as well, Zero gets it down on Slayer, and...

02:55:21 Zack, 1-8-3 still. Huge fight there, though. Blue goes down as well, as Falcons seem to mop that fight pretty convincingly, I would say. Yeah, the uncanny aim from Zero kicking in at the end there. Virtus.Pro going down so early for one of the teams that I do get really excited for as we come into the match days, being shut down early in match number six. Won't leave them especially happy, but at the hands of Falcons, who do have a way up the leaderboard to climb themselves. It's understandable. It's got to happen to someone.

02:55:52 Ja, definitiv. Es ist, was es ist. A lot of these teams, however, opting in for the central zone pull that we saw last time. Will this pull north or not? Most definitely not, right? It can't be pulled north twice. That'd be very sad. LG on the rotate. I am not liking the triple white armor, though, but I'm sure they'll be able to grab a little bit of juice, a little bit of that Evo on their way towards the zone.

02:56:17 It is going to be a challenging game if you are approaching from that south side, though, even if it does pull north, which again, we have to keep making allowances for it, but surely it doesn't. It is going to cost a lot of squads that are in Neon Square that have set up already for a game that they expect will be pulling to them. Somebody's got to get it wrong. Most Loved, granted.

02:56:42 won't be one of those squads because they're playing a totally different game to most other teams. Playing a little bit further around the western side of the ring and preparing for a late pull no matter what it is.

02:56:55 This is one of the things that I consider mid-speed and also one of the things I like the most is where you're playing in a spot. If you're not 100% sure where the zone is going, which they're opting for, they say we don't know if it's going to pull again. They play in a spot that is very adaptable and you have several options. You don't lock yourself into, if it pulls here we win or if it doesn't we insta-die.

02:57:14 Das A-teams die mit der Zone zu verlassen. So jetzt sagen sie, dass sie in der Mitte spielen, dass die Seite es gut ist. Die gleiche wie Falcons in die Bridge-Side spielen können, dass sie sofort crossen die Choke. Das ist ein wirklich guter Spiel, ich denke, weil man immer ein Spiel spielt. Als die Zone shifts, wenn es um, wenn es um, wenn es um, wenn es um, wenn es um, wenn es um, wenn es um, wenn es um. Und jetzt, wenn es um, wenn es um, wenn es um, wenn es um, wenn es um, wenn es um, wenn es um, wenn es um, wenn es um, wenn es um, wenn es um, wenn es um, wenn es um, wenn es um, wenn es um, wenn es um, wenn es um, wenn es um, wenn es um, wenn es um, wenn es um, wenn es um, wenn es um, wenn es um, wenn es um, wenn es um,

02:57:43 Other teams, more than fine with this. Everybody on Edge is going to play Edge, but most loved are saying, hey, now it actually pulls out, maybe. Let's see what happens.

02:57:51 Ja, wenn ihr TSM seid, seid ihr sehr glücklich über das auch. Ring Console over at Street Market. Wir geben ihnen die advance information, die wir hier auf dem Broadcast haben. Movistar Koi ist jetzt vielleicht mit Corinthians ein bisschen später. Und Falcons over at Resort also just got die advance info on this Ring. So, while a lot of teams have piled up hier in the South, at least diese couple of squads that are playing around the edge, I think LG will get the scan very soon as well, will have...

02:58:19 A little bit of extra confidence to work with. And you're already seeing TSM start to make moves on that, jumping right into the center of zone. You imagine that squads like Board and Citadel are noticing that teams like TSM are moving in, teams like Corinthians are moving in, and should have extra info and are acting with that in mind. So watch for how other teams adapt as our squads that got the ring scan start moving in and what other teams do in response.

02:58:45 Ja, definitiv. Das ist eine der Zeit, die ich schon erwähnt habe, wenn man ein Barsch-Team sieht, dass jeder hier muss, dass es richtig ist. Aber es verändert sich ein bisschen mehr auf den richtigen Seite. Also, halte dieser Team...

02:58:58 Das ist eigentlich nicht in der nächsten Zone, wenn das hier ist. Das wird viel Spaß zu sehen, wenn es ein paar Hausfighten ist, auf dieser Map zu sehen. Normalerweise sieht man viele Outside-Fights, aber Hausfighten ist sehr Spaß, weil man sieht Plätsen auf verschiedene Fläts, also Dörren, verschiedene Plästylen, als die Raw-Gunseale Outside-In-The-Open, die, you know, hat viel mehr Depth zu den Fights.

Strategische Teamarbeit und Anpassungsfähigkeit prägen das späte Spiel

02:59:23

02:59:23 An IP. One of our teams to watch. One of our teams very close to qualifying into the midseason playoffs and hitting that magic number that Xander Commander gave us earlier. We're going to play slow and careful for right now. Something that Game 6 does tend to bring us. One of the teams that, with some good play, could make it to the top of the leaderboard, could continue cementing their legacy here in the Americas is Falcons. Let's take a listen in with Falcons to see what they're thinking in the last game of the day.

02:59:56 We can kill's kind of me? We can keep going, keep going. Someone's landing. Oh, they went big. I don't think so. Same meds. You can hit meds again now. Put fences down. Can you hit meds again? Hold on, hold on. I don't have Q for 13. I don't have Q for 13. Hold on. He's somehow breaking my shit. I can hold.

03:00:23 Die Map-Room ist bloßt. Ich kann es sehen. Ich habe das viele Fences. Ich bin mit dir. Ich bin mit dir. Ich bin mit dir. Ich bin mit dir. Ich bin mit dir. Ich bin mit dir.

03:00:53 So I can go next building Someone's in let's see I can't hit the map room. I just like read a few stairs. I Think you can jump

03:01:17 Okay, I'm just gonna jet in the corner, careful. Move out of the corner. Alright, on CES, on CES, on CES. Okay, there you go. Break that. Okay, here, key your brain. Listen, con fucking Newcastle alts so I can nate, I can fucking bow them. I have four nades. Okay.

03:01:39 Pretty active mid-game for Falcons, even though we don't see a lot of kills go down. I'm taking note of the fact that they're, you know, graceful as you like to say, holding hands. They're making sure that every single move that they make is one that is synchronous. Yeah, very good move. And also they had that mid-speed again. They got the zone knowledge and then immediately decided to go house to house, smaller by smaller. They made their way into the next zone, actually. Without knowing about it, they might pull a little bit further.

03:02:09 Und wenn es nicht ist, dann sind sie sehr glücklich. Als andere Teams werden, wenn die nächste Zone geschieht, dann wird es vieles passieren. Und es sollte passieren eher später als später. Weil, wie ich immer sage und immer wieder sage und sage, wenn die Zone tatsächlich closing ist, man nicht zu viele Fights ist, weil jeder ist jetzt auf den Weg zu machen.

03:02:29 Ghostela's gonna pick up the Mythic Crate. What is in it? Oh, I know something's in it. There it is. Triple Take is gonna be picked up. A big win for the lads. Big win. I'm attached to this narrative of the Triple Take having an inferiority complex now.

03:02:50 Ich glaube, Triple Take ist in eine solid spot. Es schützt dich, wenn du von Mid-Range bis Close-Range bist und Long-Range bist, aber es ist okay. Ich würde auch für den Peter, weil ich wirklich, wirklich, wirklich gut finde. Es fühlt sich gut, es klingt gut. Es ist einfach wie der Wingman. Wenn der Wingman nicht komplett optimal ist, wer ist nicht so gut? Ja, es fühlt sich gut. Und hey, manchmal ist das alles, was du brauchen.

03:03:18 Noticing that Flat is in a fight right now. Flat, our second place team. They were knocked out here. We put Liquid Alienware in a slightly more comfortable spot, although admittedly Flat was second by only one point to the like 800 teams tied for 40 points.

03:03:37 Yeah, I mean, they managed to get a reset. No real full commits right there. Now they're gonna maybe look on a prowl though because they're like, hey, you guys didn't clean us up after one of us got down. Maybe we're gonna see if we can poke you guys. 120, I will repeat. 120 on the clock right now before the zone closes as teams are going straight for the balloon. Will they get this down? And they do get it. Big Louie is big actually. That was a crazy knock.

03:04:04 Another Tricky, nicht zu werden. Ich denke, das ist ein Full Thirst. Ja, der Ring hat ihn aufgenommen. Das ist ein Full-Point-Collektiv für Flatt, mit Zero-Cost und Zero-Risk. Moving ihn auf die Leaderboards. Remember, Falcons sind in dieser Konversation als auch. Rock, neben Falcons, auf der Leaderboard.

03:04:25 I mean, this is anybody's game still. Any pop-off moments could shift the leaderboard so drastically that we wouldn't recognize it from the previous game because it's so even. Now, though, teams are moving into this zone currently, but the zone pulls where nobody is almost playing currently. Southwest, as we can see on the map right now, and teams are going to have to work their way in because the collapse is happening northeast, where I see at least 10 teams needing to fight when the next zone closes.

03:04:57 This one is not going to be easy for anyone. Fusion, Most Loved, Bored, Movistar, Koi, Corinthians, all going to be clashing on the way in. And that's to say nothing of the ninjas in pajamas. They'll be right next door to all of that Most Loved, keeping an eye on them as they stare down Forbidden. And let's not forget that in the middle of all this, Falcons.

Liquid Alienware baut Führung aus, TSM sichert sich wichtigen Sieg

03:05:19

03:05:19 die jetzt in den Top 3 haben, sind noch ein großer Team, die man sich aufhören muss, ob du in den Amerikanern bist, ob du in den USA bist, ob du in den ganzen Welt bist, wenn du in den ganzen Welt bist. Du kannst das Team aus, als sie ein Push-Up für 1st machen. Ja, es ist slow, aber das 4th-Place von dem letzten Spiel hat nicht aus nichts.

03:05:41 I mean, that's definitely a thing you cannot count on. They made it back from worse scenarios than this, and I think that they are more than happy where they are currently. They're gonna have to fight quite a bit, but if everything happens to start up at the same time, they could be looking at potential KP pickups, which would be really big for them.

03:05:59 Slow moves from Flat playing behind this car for right now. It's not ideal cover. It's just literally a place to survive right now. They're looking for a better spot, but these nades are going to make it really difficult. Stinger on top of them as well. And Flat are forced to drop without scouting. Shooting Fusion directly in the back. Out goes the Stinger bolt to answer back. Flat have to win the fight.

03:06:21 Das ist nicht so, als Laserpeaks über die Edge ist. Das ist 2-Din, mit nur Q-Zier-Standig. Und auch Sparrow haben wir gesehen, diese Leute zu spielen. Aber ich weiß nicht, ob es passieren wird hier passieren. Ich weiß nicht, ob es passieren wird. Ich weiß nicht, ob wir das gleiche Level von Sicherheit werden. Ein bisschen mehr in die Zone ist, aber ein Rez wird wahrscheinlich passieren. Aber es ist auch schwer.

03:06:49 I mean, can he rest without taking all those ticks? I'm not too sure about it. Couldn't really see there. But now, other teams, though, seeing that, hey, we are not safe in for at least another two, three buildings, Movistar moving down the street underneath everybody. Panic from TSM, though, not letting them walk for free as he is starting to punish them with that demo. And Bored get taken out.

03:07:09 Team Liquid Alienware and Falcons collaborating on those kills. And Liquid Alienware continuing to pull further ahead of the pack with every kill. They are the squad to look at right now. Talked about that difficult game too. But as it appears, that loss of momentum hasn't really affected Team Liquid Alienware. They are constantly coming back. As Gordon Ramsay would say, they got that bounce back at him. I don't think he would say that. But I think he would say something like that. And it's really...

03:07:36 Ich glaube, es war ein Punkt mit Liquid Alienware.

03:07:56 Ja, das Watson-Difference wirklich hilft ihm. Korinthians notice this, but Zero is not even taken down.

03:08:19 Even with Focus Fire from three members of Corinthians, because the zone just does too much. LG and Most Love will leave us. Rock down to just one member on the high ground. May very well fall here. Some nice tricky nades tossed out by Deeds as he drops down to try and stick a res. And he may just do it after popping the shield bat. Duplex on the Keon. Do it. Keeping things together for TSM. Eight squads left.

03:08:45 8-Squats indeed. A lot of teams have been falling in the killfield because that zone was rough. Not that too many spaces to play without crossing the lines of sight of other teams. Movies are also good seeing. Now TSM, however, in a solid spot, but they're on top of NIP. They should be able to close out that fight, perhaps. But Liquid 8, anyway, been sitting in this compound for quite a bit. Very happy with that.

03:09:07 Ich glaube, wir sind in der Gondspot, wo sie die letzte Team zu sein werden, wo jeder andere Team hat zu kämpfen. Falcons, aber auch in eine Solid-Spot ist, aber sie müssen sich gegen sie spielen. Will sie spielen und co-exist? Ich glaube nicht so.

03:09:22 Flats still technically in this as well. Start of the game in second place. Could still clinch something, but Liquid Alienware Falcons are pulling further and further away. And this spot from Liquid, it just looks like it'll be another win. It looks like they will be unstoppable on the day. Somebody has got to stand up to them, and Falcons trapped in a corner can do very little right now. We'll see what moves they make in the next couple seconds.

03:09:46 Any play that happens here could open up a window for Falcons to take this spot from them, but if nobody engages on them, Falcons is in a rough spot. Right now they're trying to cross and shoot through the window as hell. Rick Yanya through the window gets a gen down to survive for the moment. They can't get made enough. I don't think they will swing this because they are in the absolute longest.

03:10:03 Team Liquid should be feeling very comfortable as they also have somebody above them helping out. Looks like mutually assured destruction between these squads. Does TSM get on top of here as well? We have that tiered birthday cake that World's Edge became famous for. And now E-District is quickly taking the title of...

03:10:20 Oh! Oh!

03:10:34 Solid performance from TSM right there, playing on top of Team Lipiv, seeing all the action go down underneath them, even grabbing a couple more KP on the way.

03:11:03 they close out that game very confidently huge game to them actually so it's gonna be fun to see the leaderboard here before we go there i'm gonna have to say though great job from them solid solidifying themselves as a consistent team there and panic showing a promise as everybody was hoping for as well being one of our only teams i'm gonna double check that statement don't worry guys but i'm gonna double check our only team yes our only team to be running conduit that game so maybe keon was on to something after all genome

03:11:32 I don't know if it was the conduit. I don't know if it was the positioning. I'm not sure how many variables you really narrow it down to in an endgame like this in the ALGS. But I'm going to call it the conduit. It's a big win for TSM. It was a big win for them. It was also a big win for T-Law there as well. And I liked it. I'm going to give them credit. We don't know if they deserve it or not. I'm going to give them the credit that they expected.

03:11:58 It was Falcons in that corner, right? So I just want them, you know, to make that call to say, hey, if we can correctly identify that that is Falcons, we push them. Doesn't matter if we die. We're way ahead of them. We solidify ourselves in the number one spot and we take away the win for the week. It was a crucial...

03:12:19 It was a crucial int, even if you want to call it that, for T-Law in that final game. And it essentially bought them the win overall for the day. I mean, there's a lot of calculation that goes into these endgames. You know it yourself, Grace. Well, on one hand, you're playing Apex Legends and you want to win the game. On the other, you're always playing with an awareness of what the leaderboards are like, what teams are in the lobby, and how you can manipulate that to your advantage.

03:12:46 I mean, most definitely. Sometimes, a lot of the time, in bigger tournaments, you might even be playing for the money. Because the higher placement you go, you get the higher amount of prize pool reward as well, which is really good. And people are happy to just say, hey, if we can get top three, top two instead, it's really good. But at the end of the day, you also have some heavy hitters that are winning stuff, like the likes of...

03:13:07 Die Falcons, Allianz, Na'Vi und andere Teams haben auch gewonnen. Wenn Sie gewinnen, Sie spielen zu gewinnen, weil Sie wissen, dass Sie die Potenziale gewinnen können. Aber für die anderen Teams, die ein bisschen mehr passiv sind und sie sind glücklich mit dem, wo sie sind, es zeigt die Unterschiede zwischen den Teams-Leveln, wo eine Team ist wirklich manifesting und glaubt in sich, und die anderen Teams sind glücklich und glücklich mit dem, wo sie sind.

03:13:33 TSM, sehr glücklich mit dem, dass sie das 6.000 Spiel des Jahres. 10 Punkte via Kills für ein total von 22. CIMJMX kommt zu mir als ein Surprise Genome. Also 10 Kills.

03:13:49 A 19-point game? Das wird großartig für sie. Sie waren in 16th, ich glaube es war, in dieser letzten Spiel. Und jetzt, wie tightly alles auf alle waren. Was wird das für sie für sie in der Serie? Oh, ein Fortschadowing. Das TSM kommt in und schießt das Wynn weg von Falcons. Oder eher Wynn, der 2nd Platz ist. Die Move-Wright-Up.

03:14:19 Behind Liquid Alienware, because Liquid Alienware, as you identified earlier, Graceful, did a really good job of going, here we go, this is how we win the game. But to have TSM come in and take the second place away from Falcons, that adds insult to intrigue.

03:14:39 Overall, Falcons still are going to be leading here in the Americas. Shopify Rebellion coming up right behind them, but TSM with the second place today. Come up within touching distance of Shopify Rebellion and just barely ahead of NRG. Twisted Mind's gonna be following that up, but when we look a little further down the leaderboard, remember, we are always monitoring the cutoff for who's making it into regional finals. Right now, were we to stop playing right now?

03:15:08 LG would not make it. CTE and Omit would not make it. And we'd have barely Citadel Gaming eking their way in. But Pro League is not over. We've still got a ways to go for some squads to make their arguments for why they should be in the regional finals and have a shot at the midseason playoffs. Genome. Yeah. We're getting pretty close to the end of the season. Graceful, we'll hear from you in a second. But it is just about right now.

03:15:37 Dialing in to whatever small amount of success you've been able to find during the split. And itemizing into that as we've seen so many different styles and players succeed with those styles. Let's take a look at our Sony in-zone kill leader. And this is where I really wanted to hear from you, Genome. It is Nazul walking out just with the one kill over Hau. But it's an important one.

03:16:05 Ja, ich meine, sie waren die wirklich Krag-Heavy-Teams, die wir heute gesehen haben. 36 Kills auf der Seite von Liquid Alienware. Ich meine, das ist ziemlich Impressive, wenn man sich jetzt Jäguarez und Jäger auf dem Team hat.

03:16:23 Um, kann pick that one up is, uh, is pretty good. And anyone who can beat HAL, frankly, um, who, regardless of their spot in the lobby, is always kind of threatening, um, to be that Apex Predator is a good one for him, you can see. Uh, nice for him. He actually gets to play the Sparrow all six matches. Uh, as you said, that kind of could have gone any way, considering...

03:16:46 Was was it second played in maps 1, 2, and 3? A little bit crazy there that he doesn't even have to flex, and that allows him to just focus on the fragging and come out on top.

03:17:01 I'm very nicely played by Nazul, and it's great to see when Liquid Alienware is on top, their ability to frag. I think what's impressing me today, Graceful, is that this wasn't... I don't think we had a single game where I was like, wow, Liquid just steamrolled that lobby. It wasn't that kind of day for Liquid. This seemed much more controlled, and yet they still won quite convincingly.

03:17:22 Ja, und für mich, ich tende zu sehen, dass die Mikro-Decision und das vorherige Stormpoint-E-District-Games als auch, wo sie alles gemacht hat, wo sie zu tun, aus den Falcons zu gehen, zu gehen, zu gehen, zu gehen, zu gehen, zu gehen, zu gehen, zu gehen, zu gehen, zu gehen, zu gehen, zu gehen, zu gehen, zu gehen, zu gehen, zu gehen, zu gehen, zu gehen, zu gehen, zu gehen, zu gehen, zu gehen, zu gehen, zu gehen, zu gehen, zu gehen, zu gehen, zu gehen, zu gehen, zu gehen, zu gehen, zu gehen, zu gehen.

03:17:45 Some teams just go for zone. We get endgame, potentially we win the game. These guys don't stop. They just keep looking for plays and plays and plays. And when they rack up really quick as well, they were mopping teams left and right and then solidified themselves at first place. I don't know. They probably knew which team it was to int that, like I said, a very smart int, let's just say that, to make sure that they win it all. But regardless, the awareness and split-second decision-making has been off the charts for them.

03:18:12 Ja, und auf der anderen Seite von diesem, eine der Teams ich war heute, Genome, war Flatt. Und ich denke, ich denke, sie hatten eine großartige Day. Es war Spaß zu sehen. Sie kamen nicht mit den Wunnen. Und ich wollte deine Rede auf, dass wir auf die E-District gesehen haben, was du als die größte Contributor zu Flatt nicht walken away in 1.0, bei der guten Start.

03:18:34 You know, it feels like they are being successful when they can sort of play the edge playstyle. But yeah, they clearly need to work on it when they have a home POI advantage. And, you know, they just need to sit there, sit on their hands for a little while and play a different style of Apex. So they've kind of got half the puzzle worked out. Clearly need to work on the other half to become a more well-rounded team.

03:19:03 And I love hearing from you guys, you know I do. But for a little bit more on the win from Liquid today, I wanted to hear it from a member of Liquid. I wanted to say from the horse's mouth, but it just doesn't quite work. It just really, it feels cheap because it's Liquid Alienware. It's like the horse, it's fine. Let's bring in Yanya, talk to him a little bit about the fantastic match day that you've just had today. Yanya, welcome to the broadcast.

03:19:30 Ja, hallo guys. Ich hoffe, ihr seid gut. Ja, wir haben wirklich gut gespielt heute. Ja, ich meine... Was war die Antwort? Sorry? Nein, nein, nein. Was war die Antwort? Wir waren gerade die Art, die du gewonnen hast. Es war ein guter Tag für Team Liquid, aber es war auch ein sehr kontrollierter Tag.

03:19:52 Since your return to TL, I think that the squad has largely been looking for its form. So talk to me a little bit about coming back, rejoining the lads and what that's looked like and the ways in which it succeeded and is still being worked on today. Yeah, so this week pretty much we started playing more aggressively. We were like playing super passive. We were playing comms with Newcastle and we were like literally not taking any fight. We were rotating really good.

03:20:19 Aber ja, wir sahen unsere Results. Wir sahen, dass es nicht funktioniert. Und ja, dieses Weekend, wir haben zu spielen Sparrow. Ich denke, das ist die größte Faktor, dass wir wirklich gut waren, dieses Weekend waren. Ja. Wir haben angefangen zu spielen, aber nicht zu kämpfen, sondern zu kämpfen für die Punkte, you know? Es ist einfach zu kämpfen, um die Games zu gewinnen. Und ja, ich denke, es funktioniert gut für uns.

03:20:48 Und ja, ich denke, wir haben es geschafft. Ich denke, wir sind schon.

03:20:54 I mean, seeing it in action as well on E-District, especially that game that you guys closed out there when you guys were essentially behind Falcons the entire game when the zone really shifted, you know, all the way up north. You guys kept playing aggressively and it was so much fun to see because you took a fight, got really low. I think all of you were like beneath 20 HP, got a reset, still decided to climb a wall to take out Corinthians essentially in that fight and then play your side and push out LG towards Falcons and win the game very convincingly. You guys are clearly...

03:21:23 Ich denke, ihr wisst, dass ihr wirklich starkt seid, und ihr wisst, dass die Leute einfach Angst haben. LG nicht sogar versucht zu sehen. Ja, wir sind einfach sehr überzeugt. Ich habe mit meinem Team gesprochen, dass wir nicht behaupten, dass wir die Calls machen müssen. Die anderen Wochen waren wir sagen Calls, aber wir waren behaupten, dass wir die Calls machen müssen.

03:21:51 Und wir waren einfach nur für free. Und diese Woche haben wir uns über das Thema gesprochen. Und ja, wir haben uns nicht geholfen. Und es war auch so. Es ist ein confidentes Ding, ich denke. Es ist ein confidentes Ding. Ja, für sicher. So, sind Sie sagen, dass Sie jetzt mehr als sicherlich vollkommen zu den Kursen, stattdessen? Wenn es ein Pushalter ist, wenn Sie sich jetzt aufhören, aufhören? Weil Nia, Azul, ihr, Aswell, Janne und Jaguars, all of Sie, können Ihr guns, und es ist fantastisch zu sehen.

03:22:19 Ja, das war wirklich gut. Vielen Dank. So, Janja, you guys played Sparrow in every single game today. You switched through some of the other Legends as the bans came through, had some aggressive comps, had some more defensive comps, as you were talking about with Newcastle.

03:22:39 How is Sparrow feeling for you guys? Obviously, the newest Legend in the game, but he seems to have slotted straight into the competitive meta. Yeah, I think it's working really, really good for us because since I was talking at the beginning of the weeks, we're playing without Sparrow, right? But we saw that every single time that we were getting pushed by Sparrow teams, we were just dying for free.

03:23:07 We didn't try it ever in all the three weeks that we did really bad. We were at weeks of not qualifying. We decided to try this week Spiral. I don't know. In my opinion, I think it's the most broken character in the game for competitively right now. You can literally do insane pushes.

03:23:29 From Edge, from Zone, you can play any defensive comp and you can add Sparrow and you can just kill everyone. They cannot do anything against it.

03:23:42 I'll tell you what, one of the things that does make something look especially broken is when a team like you guys just comes in and wins, wins, wins with it. So, you know, you keep doing that. Eventually we'll get a nerf coming, I'm sure. Please, you know, calm down. Well, since we've got you up here, any shoutouts that you have for the fans, especially those that are rejoining you now that you're back on Liquid? Yeah, I mean, I really want to thank, like, everyone supporting us.

03:24:11 I know we were doing really bad, but I think we're back again on the top. I feel that we are practicing really good, and yeah, it's time to win land. But yeah, we still need to qual, right? But we're confident. We're confident from today, and yeah, I really appreciate everyone supporting us, for sure.

03:24:34 You've got a few more days to do it. You'll always have the support in the audience and on the broadcast. Thank you again so much for joining us, Janja. You have a great evening. Yeah, thank you guys. Have a good night.

03:24:47 Es ist immer schön zu hören von unseren Spielern, besonders wie das. Ich meine, wir sind für Sparrow nerfs, Graceful, so, you know, du musst die Banner starten. Du musst die Brigade starten. Ich weiß, Graceful ist bereits in die DMs von all den Devs, den sie wissen, was geht. Graceful, any final thoughts für die Amerikas heute? Ich denke, es war super exciting für verschiedene Gründe, wie ich gesagt habe. Es war so viel tension, und wir sahen das crazy Pool, viel full-packed action, und ich kann nicht mehr sehen.

03:25:15 Phänomenal work from all the teams that managed to place where we kind of expected them to place, but Team Liquid taking it home for sure. Also flat though. Honestly, that's the biggest one. Very sad when I said that, you know, can they play when the zone is on top of them and they pretty much have two zones on them and they fell short, but still super solid day.

03:25:34 You know, they still got time. Maybe. I don't know. They don't really have much time. The season's coming to an end. Genome, you know this better than anyone having seen three regions as they approach the end today. How you're conscious, I'm not sure. It's a miracle. But if you have any thoughts that still manage to come through your mind in this haze, give them to me, please.

03:25:56 Yeah, look, I'll attempt to just wring a few droplets out of my ears. I think the thing that sticks out to me when I look at the Americas region is it feels like they're bringing a bit of order to the chaos, right? The other regions with their picks and bans.

03:26:16 um, you know, a little all over the shop, frankly, uh, for Americas, we're getting this interesting progression, um, where, you know, Alter, Ash, Ballistic get banned out, and then it's Wraith in Newcastle, um, and you see this progression where, uh, teams are picking these very, uh, effective, aggressive characters, uh, and then having to move on to the defensive comps, um, as they are banned one after the other, and it's, it's kind of interesting, because it feels like we get to see, um,

03:26:44 all these teams forced to play these different styles. And, you know, just like teams need to play edge and they need to play zone, sometimes it feels like they're having to being forced to play different types of team compositions at the same time. And it's rewarding teams who can think on their feet.

03:27:05 Teams who can be flexible and teams who have, you know, are putting the hours of grinding and really mastering the game of Apex Legends. And I love that.

03:27:16 It has been really fun to watch and, like you said, has produced a lot of exciting moments. Thank you so much, Graceful and Genome, for joining me today. I'm going to let you go rest, get some food. And for all of you who have joined us today in the audience, a big thank you to you as well for making this possible and so fun. I tell you what, we got a treat for you. We'll be back doing it again tomorrow, June 8th. We will have Match Day No. 9, the last match day of the season before Regional Finals, your last chance to slot your...

03:27:46 EMEA ist Ihr Chance.

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