[Co-Stream] Call of Duty League Championship Weekend | Day 2
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>> What can you do? What can you do? He
can't do anything.
out here and all my gorillas they
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destruction and they hungry around here
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start the countdown to the mayhem I'm
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what you want to do
with the best. Better buckle up. Is that
your pride on the floor? Better pick it
up. Buckle up. Buckle up. Are you tough
enough? Better. You want to ride with
the best? Better buckle up. Is that your
pride on the floor? Better pick it up.
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enough?
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they know they don't want it. I'm a head
tri
and I'm cracking them bones. Now
everybody knows that anything goes. I
lose all composure until the case
closed. Yo, slam the devil down. I love
to hit a sound a gladiator to calculate
my survival is an art to stay alive.
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I lose a grizzly when I lose. The
universe is my battlefield and I'm a
champion for the people with mass. You
want to rise with the best buckle up.
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live it up. You got a crown on your
head. Better give it up. Kicking ass,
take your name, then it's not enough.
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up. Yo, your name on the line it up. You
got a crown on your head. You better
give it up.
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>> You want to run with the best
on the Better pick it up.
>> Oh my god.
>> Oh no.
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don't want it. I'm a hair trigger. Let a
pop with a ice cold throwing them and
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know anything. I'm losing the case. Yo,
slam the devil down. Ra, gather around.
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calculate. My survival is a fight to
stay alive. They hate me when I win.
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move. The universe is my battlefield and
I'm a champion for the people with mass
appeal. You want to ride with the best,
better buckle up. That's your name on
the line, better live it up. You got a
crown on your head, better give it up.
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enough. You want to ride with the best
live it up?
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names and it's not enough.
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pick it up. Buckle up. Buckle up. Are
you tough enough? Better prove it. You
want to ride with the best buckle up. Is
that your ride on the floor? Pick it up.
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>> My god.
>> What are you doing? You're so nervous.
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grateful that I feel blessed in life for
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my turn.
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to the ground.
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lost
left man.
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the heat. Come for that looking right.
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you mean? E C I to the
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it's my turn. It's about to get crazy.
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easy.
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work.
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kill you. Come on, bro.
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>> Come on. I'm making work. I'm making it
look easy.
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like work. I'm making it easy.
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like work.
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one more baby.
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for Oh my god, you breakers.
>> They can currently do no wrong.
>> This is it. The four son of death.
>> I'm coming back with a new rap. Lighting
up the dark on a new path.
>> Never could be stopped. I'mma prove
that. Tough as a rock. I'm a shock. I'm
a champion. Lighting up the night like a
full moon. Ready for the challenge. Over
the two. Never could be stopped yet. The
chains loose.
>> Ready for the fight. Do it right. I'm a
drip by
stick. We going to build it so strong,
baby.
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by inch. Step by step. Quick saying so
pain like a but I got a fire
like a tick tick. I move like microphone
every single day.
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the darker
heritage grows
loose.
with the best
heat.
We earn what we get and don't cheat.
Entering a new phase to see some brand
new days
through no delay
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on the scene like a great
the chains
ready for the fight. I'm
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on and on.
and the beat goes on and on and on and
on and on. Amade for millennial.
>> I am millennial.
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greatest of all and time. You'll believe
don't evolve happens in the see my
gritted jaws wonder.
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man. I'm a natural born genius where my
pedal back to me where the fellows keep
the metal at the stacks I'm making
without the pop to call the kettles
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life is going to be cinematic
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to season.
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to live at my leisure. Just a dream.
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achieve. You are underachieve. I'm
kakar. I surpass you. Vegeta standing
by. Pull your feet up.
I'm a living legend.
I'm a living.
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on and on. On and on and the beat goes
on and on and on and on and on. Damn.
I don't
keep the metal at the stack.
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life is going to be cinematic as
a rumble for the build like a
go and
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and on and on and on.
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and on
the go on and on and on and on and on
the radio.
12 teams have fought hard all season
long and eight have made it to the top.
Now it all comes down to this. The
pressure is on this. It's firing.
>> Oh my god. No way.
How does he get both? Here we go.
EMP has a free run. As long as the pit
is taking the flame like this.
Unbelievable.
>> One versus one. Oh my god. That is how
you do it. Your major one champion,
major two chair bro.
What artistry this final map was. It's
history in the making.
Welcome to Las Vegas for the Call of
Duty League Championship weekend.
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to
the Call of Duty Championship weekend as
we head into day number two. And it has
been electric on this stage thus far to
kick off the weekend where we have had
the best Call of Duty players all around
the world here in Las Vegas for all the
glory to become Call of Duty champions
and to hoist this trophy. Now, before we
get today kicked off, Las Vegas, I see
you guys coming out here in Mandalay Bay
to have a good time. You guys ready to
get the day kicked off?
Now, before we do that, we got to honor
two players in our league who have shown
time and time again that they have what
it takes to be champions. And just a
year ago, there was a player watching
from home asking how can he come to the
stage and make a statement in this
league to prove that he has what it
takes to be amongst the best. And it's
time to honor that player. Now, without
further ado, show some love to your
major three champion and your scuff 2020
2026 Rookie of the Year, Neam
Ladies and gentlemen, get loud for Neil
of the LA
as he has earned the honors of being
your scuff rookie of the year for the
2026 season. I mean, Neam, as I was
talking about, you know, just a year
ago, can you recall where you was when
you were watching Champs, thinking to
yourself, how amazing would it be to be
on this stage?
>> I was playing at Challenger Champs uh in
Kitchener Toronto playing with um the
Stallions under Zumba.
>> Yeah.
And going from there to being on this
Steve squad, talk to me about some of
the hurdles you had to overcome and how
this organization has helped you become
the rookie of the year.
>> Um, I just think it's just a lot of like
up and downs just being in the league.
Um, you're playing at the highest level.
You always have to go hard. Your
teammates going to make sure you're
going hard. Everybody under the organ
organization going to make you go hard.
So, it just makes myself just go even
harder. going even harder on the main
stage, pushing past your limits and to
be able to reach this pinnacle here in
the league and to be able to get honored
amongst everybody. I know it feels so
good and you even got your family in the
crowd. Okay. I got to meet your mom
towards the uh event that you won and
you know I know she is so proud to be
able to see you and everything in which
you accomplished. How does it feel to do
this in front of your family?
>> It feels amazing. Um, I always wanted to
do this and I told them when I was like
a little kid, I always want to be a
gamer and I finally able to do it.
>> Finally able to do it. And lastly, I
want to say to all the other gamers out
there, okay, who may be our rookie of
the year for the 2027 season, what would
you tell them out there?
>> Always be a good team teammate. Make
sure to go hard and just just give your
100%.
>> Give your 100% everybody. And if you
don't know what that looks like from
Neon, make sure you check this out.
Every season brings a new class, new
names, new expectations, new players
hoping to prove they belong. And the
league doesn't slow down for newcomers.
After years of climbing the ladder in
challenges, Neam is your 2026 Call of
Duty League Rookie of the Year.
After recording a whopping 1.24 24 KD in
the challengers bracket at the 2026 CDL
Dallas Open. Ne was quickly picked up by
the LA Thieves and hit the ground
running.
Ne started his CDL career with a 4-0
match streak, making him only the third
player in CDL history to achieve this
feat, but the road to victory was tough
in Birmingham for major 2. And although
the Thieves only placed fourth at their
first major with Neam, the rookie still
posted a 1.02 02 KD and showed that he
could compete at the highest level.
Things turned around for Major 3 in
Atlanta as the team found their rhythm.
After an early setback, Neam and the
Thieves battled their way back from the
lower bracket to defeat Uptic Texas 43
in the grand final and be crowned
tournament champions.
>> In this victory run, Neam posted a team
high 1.11 KD. From it, Ne finding his
time over the top. What a goal. The dunk
>> major four in Paris brought the LA
Thieves and Optic Texas back together in
the grand finals, but the Thieves
ultimately fell 34, but cemented Neam
and the LA Thieves as top contenders.
Neam is a star in the making. He has
shown that he will be a top contender in
the Call of Duty League for years to
come. Congratulations to your 2026
Rookie of the Year, Liam.
>> See you now. Well, rookie of the year,
man.
>> Come on, kid.
>> Welld deserved for Neil. But now it is
time to honor our MVP throughout the
entire 2026 season. And this player has
personified what it means to be a
professional in our league. The man who
is first to the fight. The man who is
the most lethal and the most reliable
teammate you can count on. Get ready to
show some love to your backto back
season MVP, Scrap.
Scrap. Give it one more time for Scrap.
Everybody,
he has brought you guys so much joy in
so many series. Scrap, we have seen your
consistency throughout the last few
years of you entering a league to become
a back-to- back season MVP. It says a
lot about you cuz when I interviewed you
last year on the stage, you said that
the goal is to become a champion and you
have not taken a step back. You've only
moved forward. How is it that you are
this consistent to dominate this league
yet another year?
>> Uh yeah, I'm just on bros. Like
come on now. I'm just playing the game
that I grew up playing. I love playing
COD. That's what gave me my whole
career. That's what gave me my life. And
uh I just I'm appreciative of it.
>> I mean, we're so appreciative of you and
the plays you've made, how you have been
a representative of our league, you
know, you know, talking the trash,
backing it up, shaking the hands, and
you know, being respectable. How does it
feel to be able to do this wearing a
Thieves jersey this year, still in the
running to bring them yet another
championship?
>> Yeah, I mean, it feels good. You know, I
think the last two years really, you
know, I only accept one place and it's
first. So, um, we have a different
mindset on this team. I know Nate wants
to see us win all the time and, uh,
yeah, man, it feels good. It definitely
feels good. And we got some people in
the crowd that no matter what you're
doing, you are always a winner in their
hearts. You know, your family's out
here. How does it feel to be able to
still continue to play in front of them
and have them cheering in the crowd,
making it to every event to support you?
>> Yeah. I mean, shout out my whole family.
They come to every event. my dad, my
mom, my brothers are here. They don't
come to every event, but they're here
today. Uh yeah, man. I'm appreciative.
I'm not going to cry this year because,
you know, it's something else. But, uh
yeah, no, I love them so much.
>> Yeah.
>> You know, I like I said, the job is not
done, okay? And we know the the type of
player that you want to be in this
league. But let's bring in your teammate
as well because this is dope that we got
two LA players up in here taking honors
as two of our best players throughout
this season. talk to me about what it's
been like to be able to team with Neam
and watch his uh progress.
>> Yeah, I mean he's kind of like the
second rookie I've teamed with. I team
with Charlie Hick. He was like kind of
the first. Um and I won with him as
well, but when he came in, he kind of
turned our team around. Um obviously we
were with Ken, we weren't that great,
but we weren't good. Uh we weren't
great. We weren't that bad either, but
we needed a change and he was a perfect
fit for us. Um he's been playing great.
I have no complaints on him. He's a
confident player in his first year and
that's all I really asked for. And uh
obviously we're winning championships
and hopefully today we turn around.
>> Hopefully today will be the day indeed.
Both of you take a take a stand in front
of the stage and everybody one more time
show some love to your scuff 2026 Rookie
of the Year and your backto back season
MVP Scrap from the LA Thieves.
Every season has a story. Some are
written in rivalries, some are written
in championships, and some are written
by a single player. For the first time
in Call of Duty League history, one
player has earned the league's highest
individual honor in backto back seasons.
Your 2026 Call of Duty League most
valuable player, Scrap.
Now in just his fourth professional
season, the AR superstar has proven that
greatness isn't a moment, it's a
standard. And after a difficult start
through the season's first two majors,
Scrap's leadership never wavered. He
rallied the Los Angeles Thieves back
into championship contention, reminding
everyone why he's one of the games
defining competitors. At major 3, the
Thieves battled through the lower
bracket before defeating Optic Texas in
a thrilling 43 grand final. Just weeks
later, they returned to Championship
Sunday at Major Four. Once again,
pushing Optic to the limit in another
unforgettable finals appearance. And
throughout it all, Scrap continued to
set the pace. He finished first in the
league in hardpoint damage per 10
minutes, first in Search and Destroy,
opening dual win percentage with an
incredible 64% win rate, and second in
the league for overload goals.
Championships are won by teams. Legacies
are built by players who redefine what's
possible. A back-to-back MVP, a
champion, a leader, and already one of
the greats. Congratulations to your 2026
Call of Duty League most valuable
player. Scrap
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Ladies and gentlemen, we are back.
Welcome to the 2026 Call of Duty League
Championship weekend presented by Player
X. We are in downtown Las Vegas and
already we have dished out some
hardware, some serious cash that comes
with it and of course we have sent some
teams to some tough spots in the
bracket. We welcome everyone back in for
the first day of your weekend. It is
Friday night and we are going here into
the losers elimination bracket. Before
we get into that, we've got to introduce
my starstudded cast. I'm your host Chris
Pucket alongside Miss 30 under 30,
Rosalie Parker, the Emmy award winner.
How we feeling?
>> Feeling fantastic. How are you doing,
host of the year?
>> I'm doing pretty good. Down at the end,
we have Mr. Nameless, fivetime champion
here in the Call of Duty universe.
Nameless, you also have an Emmy. Are you
going to earn another one this weekend?
>> I don't know. I mean, I think I think
so. It's going to be a great weekend,
though, Chris. And yeah, it's going to
be a fun one starting with the losers
bracket.
>> And then, of course, we have a very
special guest joining us here on the
desk tonight. We have the one and only
Dylan Attach, the 2015 world champion.
Give it up for him, Vegas.
>> Thank you.
>> 2018 esports player of the year. Dylan,
how was day one for you here?
>> Day one was crazy. I mean, the biggest
thing we had Falcons up in LA. Now, L
has to make a run through the losers.
But Chris, let me introduce you. A
pioneer of esports, someone who's been
here since the beginning of all this.
You truly are the face and voice of
esports.
>> I appreciate
it for Chris, too.
>> And I'm only down a 100red bucks in
Vegas, baby. Let's take a look at your
bracket to kick off day number two.
We've got a great tournament for you. It
is Optic versus Gentle Mates later in
the show. Falcons versus Faze though
could be the match of the day if you
watched Aluca on day one. But we start
things off with a bit of a surprise. LA
Thieves are in the elimination bracket.
They play G2 and we have Koi facing off
against Heretics. Rosley.
>> Yeah, we've got some bangers now in this
lower bracket. I think it's funny that D
and Ant were like it's either going to
be FaZe or Ellie Thieves that goes short
on day number one. that ended up being
our LA Thieves. And on the flip side for
Miami, this is some opportunity for them
going up against Koi right now just
because their play style is dangerous
versus the way that we saw Koi kind of
fall flat on day number one.
>> Yeah, I think the biggest thing in this
matchup is it's two bad search and
destroy teams, right? And there's things
you can exploit on either side. Miami
obviously with a tough draw yesterday
going up against Optic and they got
smoked in that SMB. But you got to
change your approach. I mean, the first
couple of rounds just not pressing your
advantage. I think that's something
that'll be a bit easier up against
Toronto.
>> We are in the Mlob Ultra Arena, home of
some 30 UFC fights. We're taking off the
gloves. Who needs to step it up on this
Miami roster today? It can't just be
one. I want eyes on at least two
players.
>> Oh, absolutely. I have to look at Real.
I mean, Real actually was on Toronto
Ultra to begin this season. He left
Miami Heretics at the end of last
season, joined Tunnel Ultra, then he was
dropped from that team. So, this is a
grudge match right here. He has to step
it up in SND. They have not been looking
good and I need him to be the one
getting those first bloods and also
Renor to take over in the respawn modes.
>> Let's take a look here at their
opponents. You mentioned it. Real was
once on this roster at the start of the
year. He accepted a bag. He got a higher
salary. Excited to join the team. The
fit didn't work out. Miami was never the
same. And Toronto, I feel like they were
looking for their footing for the first
half of the season.
>> 100%. And you know, it's been a weird
season for them. Losing Joe Dece
bringing in Abe. Phoenix Kleenex has
consistently said this is the best that
he's felt. And Kips had a good
performance yesterday just wasn't
enough. But for this team, when you go
back and you watch their search and
destroy showing the same exact look the
first three rounds, there is more in the
tank for these guys. They have to adjust
earlier. And for Insight and for
Kleenex, this could be the last
tournament that they play together.
Expecting them to have a better run than
getting knocked out first. And I think
one of the most important things as we
look at the maps and modes, it's going
to be those search and destroys. We
haven't seen either of these teams play
these maps in quite a long time. And
both of them are the worst SND teams
that we have in the building. You could
even argue the last 60 days. And I'm
looking at Kits who's in that Monster
Energy spotlight when you talk about
Toronto Po and he's been their SND guy
when they needed him. And he loves this
match up versus Miami Heretics. They're
going to need him in this loser round
one.
>> This is a dice roll for me. Kips though
is going to be able to pop off on den
game three. If you give him a den game
five, look out for that young stud. It's
time to lock in our first golf picks of
day two. This is Friday and I'm going
for 123. Can you guys help me out? Who
wants the heretics to win?
>> We got Who wants Koi to win this one?
>> I'm going Coy.
>> Oh, I'm going to go with Toronto Koi. I
don't know. Something's in the building.
>> All right. I'm sorry. Building. I'm
going with Miami Heritage.
>> Salad. This is a close one.
>> Nameless 164,
>> man. I've been in between on this
matchup all morning. We keep talking
about it. I'm going to go with Koi
though, and I believe in Kips. I think
he has a good performance.
>> Shout out to the best dressed man in the
game. He is ready on the stage. Guy
Blaze, take it away.
>> Much love to you, Chris. And shout out
to you guys all in Vegas. It's time to
get day number two started. And more
importantly, shout out to you guys at
home. Make some noise in the chat on who
you think is going to take this match
up. It's an elim elimination battle and
both of our teams are ready to go. So
get ready to give them your vomos and
get loud for the Miami Heretics
Super
Renor
Meadows in real.
Miami knows that now is the time to
leave it all out on the stage. It comes
down to this. The Miami Heretics are
ready. They've just been searching for a
spark since bringing Real back in the
lineup. They've shown that they can do
it in Hardpoint, but they need to get
back to their SND dominance. I'm looking
at Super to have a standout performance.
One of the most dangerous snipers that I
have ever seen in that man Renport to
lay down the damage could be an absolute
banger. That's exactly what it's going
to be. And I saw the Sparks backstage
and I know Super's ready to play as well
as this next player who is coming to the
stage with Hillman and his squad. Show
some love to the Toronto Core.
Abe
Kicks
Insight and Kleenex.
Koi has been looking for that flow state
and they have been getting closer and
closer to it every single series. Ready
to make a splash on the stage. Coy is
ready to go.
>> They might have not gotten the result
that they wanted yesterday, but there is
some light at the end of the tunnel for
this team. Their respawn has been
incredibly strong over the past 60 days
and specifically in this matchup. They
have dominated. So watch out especially
in that map number one. And if this team
can come out hot versus Miami, they
could be looking at a clean sweep, guy.
>> Woo! A clean sweep to start the day.
Some may want it, but if you're a Miami
fan, you might not want that result.
It's about to be crazy. You can almost
call it a battle royale here on the
stage and Miles and Chance is about to
call action.
>> Thank you very much, Blaze. Big game,
folks. First time we send the team home
here at Champs. We love and hate these
days, Mr. Ashwood. We love and hate.
This is I mean most difficult at champs.
The thrill of a victory, the agony of
defeat in these type of moments, it is
absolutely brutal because you're in a
situation even if you get the win you
don't feel good. Top six isn't enough.
You need to keep going. So this is right
now a battle of survival. Of course, we
already know survival of the finished.
We're going to find out very soon on the
main stage. And I love that we get
Colossus map one.
>> Yeah, Colossus map number one. We're
going to go to Koi first on this side of
the stage, folks. Again, we saw them
play yesterday. Tough scenes, but as Ali
said, light at the end of the tunnel. We
saw some good performances. And again,
there is certainly life in this roster.
Whether or not they have it here against
the heretics, we're going to find out
soon. But chance again, when it comes to
players, we think of Insight and we
think of Kleenex, true veterans of the
scene, veterans of the squad. I, you
know, they made their champs debut back
in Black Ops 4 8 years ago, it feels
like. And I mean, they had success, but
that was for a top 12 placement back in
the day when we had 32 teams at this
tournament. There was electricity in the
venue. We found out tissue was the
issue. Well, here we are many moons
later. And again, even though they're
already top eight, it would be bitter to
fall in this moment. Once you figure out
whatever is going on in this monitor,
you'd be good to go.
>> Well, same kind of tissue, different
kind of issue in that instance. But
we'll see how things go again for Koi.
Many of their fans watching here, many
home and nervous energy for this squad.
High expectations. One of these staples
and one of the most successful teams in
the league in many, many regards. And on
the other side of the stage, the
Heretics. They have caused nothing but
problems for their opponents for a long
time, but not always on land charts.
>> No, very uh often struggles. Three and
seven in their last 10 land matches that
they have had. And I think this is why
Colossus is an interesting map. One, if
there's any nerves, if you have any
issues, you're going to have 80
gunfights that you're going to be taking
on this map. So, let's get the first
ones through. You're going to be in a
good spot. And I'm excited to see the AR
duel we're going to have cuz
stylistically very different players on
these two team.
>> Super different. Well, we're going to
look at Kips and Rinkle as our sort of
headto-head going into this matchup.
Metal's the man on your screen there, a
player who's had some incredible
highlights. But as far as two very, very
different players to watch, Rancor at
times, Chance, you know, not 100%
certain what the game plan is, but at
the end of the day, the kills are always
there.
>> Well, you're just going to notice for
Rancor, he has a better KD. That is
literally it. He has outperformed as a
Slayer. He is massively outperformed in
Search and Destroy. But the stats at the
end of the map, at least for Rancor, you
expect to look good. That's why I think
it's a very interesting stylistic battle
between these two. I would love to see
even Rancors next to Insights. You talk
about an arrow versus stat differential
for those two players. Get to see who
has the higher impact here. And Gang
Colossus for these two teams. It's going
to be a treat. Here we go. Map number
one. A Koi. It has been pretty solid
against the Heretics in the last five
hard points. Strong victories there on
Scar. Colossus a little tighter. We're
going to see how this one goes. Our
first map of the day. Here we go.
And you see what the observers are
thinking. A, you know, rookie on this
team debut at chance yesterday. Maybe a
little bit opportunity to get the ball
rolling here. And hey, thanks medals for
his first kill. Looking to get that
statue control, but it is for the
moment. Eight versus the entire squad.
And right to take him down. Hey, we say
good for the kills. Always going to get
him. Gets Heretics back in time for Mr.
Kleenex.
First attempt for the hard point. No
good for Koi. Second go at it. All they
had to do was fight this orange in order
to peel it. But again, what a contest.
Both squads going for it. And yet again,
Heretics on top. Yeah, if only we had a
trophy system. Yeah, nothing cooking
there on P1. Very difficult to stay
alive. So opening Salvoy's ball game.
Super actually 4 and0 and close to the
hell storm off the rib. So trying to
show off the good stuff. Maybe an extra
kill in the the time collection. He'll
be good to go. But he's doing the smart
thing. Back it down. You got the right
side spawning for the moment for P2. And
he's got some free kills to shoot
players in the Oh, doesn't get it.
Doesn't get the hell stom. No good. What
a denial. And that's certainly going to
help Metals there finding the angle in
the inside of time. Rick picks it up.
Heretics yet again onto holding the
line. And once again that P1 pin
trolling through. First time it was
Super this time medals. The pressure
very consistent. Now looks like super
refilling that position. So heretics
right now flowing on Colossus maybe
struggling on some of the bigger maps
but this one straightforward and so far
feeling good. You see the stats I mean
overall very solid work here from Koi in
the hardpoint mode. Heretics holding
firm so far. Kleenex took pistol and
what an attempt it was two there for
metals. Cleans point gets the scrap.
Rotation on for Koi. They let that 20
seconds fly. They need to win this
rotation. Currently getting out slayed
going to be down by 30 going into the
new time. currently has that top side
spread. Kleenex over towards blue crate.
Insight responsible for the tunnel.
There's two teammates watching the page.
Insight wants to make this his home. Big
J finds another a perfect blank
a what a two surely lends some time now
to Koi. He gets to be fearless. Finds
the timing to get through Rancor. Yeah,
they sniff it out. So a great spot at
least for the pinch player. You got a
4v3 to bang out time.
>> Oh, right out of time we go. Back and
forth. Insight still holding the line.
Still alive and well. watches the flank
admirably now on the force three. No
fifth red on the break. What a kill from
a from spawn. Right back to time. You
see he had a good first dash. You want
to be aggressive if you're the first man
in line. You get a refill nice and
pointly. You get to work with Kleenex to
try to clear out the tunnel players but
a instead of staying alive went for the
chow and inside last man standing. The
heretics break is good. He's hoping for
that kill but at the end of the day po
will make the rotation towards new. A
sizable opportunity here for the
heretics to pull this scrap away and
keep that lead looking good. So po
having to work very hard here on
Colossus so far.
>> Well, wiped them off the board. Going to
have that distant bomb rolling through
for Heretics. They get that entry kill,
but very difficult rotation. All these
nades, no trophies just yet by the time
this is anybody's rotation. There we go.
What a bang through the door. Tons of
guns up there for the Heretics. No
problem. First man down. Second man
eaten alive. There's going to be now two
through the back onto Metals alongside
Ren Core. And it's nearly a perfect
defensive hold for the Heretics. They've
had to stay alive. Could not get it
done. All those players on heretics
playing together and flying. That is a
bully ball for the break. Back door now
on the front door. Super get down and
out. And it's going to be two for kicks.
One for Kleenex. And what do you know?
Perfect break here from Toronto. Can
they deal with real in the back? Can
they deal with Ria in the back? Finally.
But enough time spent. Koi on the
reinforce. You saw a maybe struggling a
little bit early on in the game. Well,
kicking things up. He's now eight and n
looking to get even. Kids trying to do
the exact same thing. Koi might be
getting out slayed against her for the
moment. the score line. Nonetheless,
very close between these two teams.
Insight with the pistol. Well,
eventually overwhelmed, but I think what
we learned from the first half. Slight
not a massive factor right now. No big
difference between these two squads. A
very tight game on Colossus. Starting to
get loose right now. But still, her
going into our second set of hard
points. Back over to the middle we go
with a decent lead. Can they maintain it
for now? Super that 12 and eight looking
very solid. Rank call the 14. 10 kills
not the problem for Miami. Still no
trumps on that P1. You see the nades
making an impact. Going to try to keep
these heretics players away. Metal just
needs to slow him down and he does
exactly that. Drags two players to the
grave. Nonetheless, very difficult to
survive on this time. Any player that
has stepped on it dead within 2 seconds.
Boy, back to time. Looking for that P2
as well. A difficult moment. The super
yet again successor on the P1 plays
halfway to the hell storm. Will this be
the time he gets it? A loy and out
dives. All of this time is fantastic.
All these points are great. We'll check
in on the streak in a moment, but for
now, it's real. I'll keep the backline
safe. But they haven't accounted for
Kips.
>> And yeah, Kips is going to be the
interesting player in this moment. All
of his teammates are falling one by one,
purely praying for this rotation.
Herics, well, now they're turning aware
of it. Once he spawn out towards P4,
they're going
good for two more players in front of
him. He's done enough to buy his
teammates the pressure. Now they start
to get through the back. Here's the
attack. Trinkle lost. Man, what a break
it is. Front line damage done. Three
dead yet again. Koi, what a play. One of
those very rare patient moments on
Colossus. It is the rookie able to
deliver. Put his team in a good spot.
Still down by point. Long-term problem.
Helltop here. All good. We're looking at
40 seconds to play here for Coin.
There's P2. So far so good. Real goes
high. Good for one. Renor and super dro
in the feet. The last man on the back is
going to be Kleenex. Can he dig in and
keep this alive now for Toronto? He sure
can. It's true for Yansen. Super from
upstairs. And we are still keeping it
Mixie on the point. Everybody's getting
slayed out both sides. Finally, the
player in time is going to fall. But
Super wants to be that nuisance. Looks
like Koi have done just enough, but no,
it is just a nightmare on P2 to stay
alive. And Heritage making good plays.
They showed face on that full wraparound
for the rotation. Rat back and banged it
out through the front. That's going to
grant them a measly three-point lead.
Yeah, this is perfect. We got the streak
as well if you want to help break this.
So, ideal setup right now for the Miami
Heritage. Keep surviving as long as he
can, but here comes the big bada boom.
It's got P3 written all over it. Let's
go for a listen with Miami.
Okay.
Okay.
Wait,
wait, wait.
Baby, show me one.
Two of the biggest voices you heard
there, Real and Red Core. And they are
holding. What a battle so far from Ko
and Miami.
>> This is why you got the band back
together. They have confidence for Real.
They are ready to have him on their team
on land. So far so good. They have
maintained this 30 to 40 point lead from
the jump. A game of survival here. Loser
bracket. Heretics are holding on. Third
set. Koi on time.
Real open the window. Here come the
heretics. Three in the feed instantly. A
holds it. And it's Kips with three of
his own. Kips brings down a big and out
of insight trying to keep this place
safe and sound for Koi. Anyone there to
get in time as the melee continues here
on Colossus? Oh, they finally have
statue control. This is the most stable
P1 we have seen for Koi. But only 5
seconds being collected so far. Still no
trophies. That is a battlefield. Almost
trench warfare on the P1. The wall hops
good for a working both sides, but I
mean look at the sun. Look at the maze.
It is a nightmare that they have dealt
with. They are waking up on P1.
>> Ken the rookie starting to get rolling.
A couple of sprees for the pair of them.
The next out by statue down. Oh boy,
here come Miami. Recor metals on the
kills trying to put pressure on the P2
play. It comes down to Insight now.
Pakoy one the second nearly.
Reinforcements show up but Real once
again going high looking for another
amount of time. Taking off the trade
vest and it looks like heretics just had
the extra numbers. Rancor good with the
M15 there inside the time and well clean
last man standing. Gone. Heretics
they've cleaned house but now it's the
sneaky man. They left an open lane.
Insight made it through. 200 point mark
now cross. Miami heretics making a
house. Insight now from the back. Have
they read it? They have not. Jamie
Craraven finds a window. No pair.
Reinforcement from the front. Shut down.
The play will be off. Miami should hold.
The trades are just too good. 40point
lead. They have bounced right back.
Trying to flood through the front. Well,
the P1 pinch always instant for her.
They have been flagging here on
Colossus. They love it. They live for
it. They can taste this map one.
>> Another three in the feed. It's an hour
a big hit. You don't want the scrap time
to go uncontested, but you have to win
the B3 fight as well. Super. What a
pair. Gets a couple now. And looking to
the great outdoors. Abe early on the
rotation, but the score line is too
precarious right now for Toronto. And
Toronto, this is not the side of the map
they're going to want. They're going to
be forced to play through it. They are
losing bodies along the way. They're in
a pinch. They don't have tunnel. It's a
nightmare. And you have heretics that
are simply too fast. The largest lead of
the game. It is now a victory lap for
Miami. 32 to 33 for Sufa. Metals now
holding on time. Here comes the last
dance. The last possible hope here on
Colossus. Red hold it. Metals on the hit
now. Run again. And it's all good for
Miami. Last chance. And it's going to be
three. Looking for the fourth of medals.
The spree complete. And map one in the
books. Miami take the lead.
The map ones have been the decider of
many a series here at Champs. And the
map one confidently goes the way of
Miami. Clean, efficient work right from
the jump. They had that 30 40point lead.
They maintained through the entire game.
Kicked up on that final P2. Maybe a few
opportunities for the Koi players to
make the high impact plays. They got
shut down every single time. Look at
that teamwork coming through for
Heretics. That is 26 assists out of
medals. I don't know if that's the
record for assists on this map, but that
is going to be close. Eco you go crazy
there. Well, nontraders, you name it.
Everything there for the Miami Heretics.
Incredible work again in map one. And
again, stats be down. Toronto have had
the edge against the heretics on land
and online when it comes to hard points.
Today was different. And that is what
makes champ such a tough tournament.
Highlight plays across the board for
both squads, but heretics started
strong, finished strong. Such a great
gap in that score line all a really
important point. This is Koi's map. They
wanted the Colossus against Heretics,
but thematically it is a map at this
point of the year that almost plays
itself. You have diamond players in your
rank games that are now efficient on
this map. So, it is just a battle of
teamwork. It is a battle of who has the
gun skill and ready for the action. And
I mean, heretics just on point with it.
Feel like the few moments you had from
Koi. There was always the instant bounce
back from Miami, especially some of the
Koi point of views. We're watching them
stuns and mage are just landing at their
face. It was endless from Miami. Just
good pressure. We talked about the
trophy systems your story from the start
of the match up. It was definitely
something that continued to crop up.
Those stuns and aes very very efficient
out of the heritage player electric out
of the squad feeling very confident now
going into the next.
The cameras in our coaches dugouts here.
Something we're doing at champs catching
everyone by surprise. Strong work there.
The heretics only one flat line towards
the end there. Was that the beginning of
the koi start the comeback? Not
necessarily. It was the beginning of a
two hardpoint drought at the end of the
map for them. Bye-bye Colossus. Hello
now to search and destroy it. This is
also a game flow where heretics on every
single hill just a little bit better.
It's not like they were any full 60s.
You had the final P4 in the final P2 for
heretics where then they were able to
get a nice little jump. That just means
it was Heretics that were approving as
the map was going on. And that means
they're the team that has found their
comfort pick. So going into map number
two, heretics going to be flown a little
bit going to the SND. They need that
confidence.
>> Well, that flow is going to stop right
here. We go to Gridlock. We pump the
brakes dramatically in the search to
destroy Den overload. Gridlock hard
point for map number four and a showdown
on Den if we can get there. Here we go
though, folks. Into the SSD chance, how
do you feel about this for both the
teams? A
>> very interesting dynamic for heretics.
They did not get a single round against
Optic on the raid they played yesterday.
So they're looking to get any degree of
bounce back. Just excited to see what
Super has going on. You and Ant
mentioned on the desk of one of the best
most impactful snipers we have ever seen
only for a few stages. If the recent
Super has not shown that, Redlock is a
new map, new dynamic. Maybe him and
Insight have a little bit of battle over
towards that B site cuz this is a map
where it is sort of your island player
gets to snipe. Whether Super wants to do
that or if you want to just bring that
Colossus theme, let's man bang out this
A site over and over and over and trust
it. It'll be fun to see if they watch
and it'll be fun to see if Koi can make
that adjustment.
>> That is not a team that seems to be
enjoying themselves. That is the most
simple way to put it and just hold hands
and run it together to stay within sort
of line of sight of one another. Get
those easy gunfight wins and get those
easy trades here on a map like Gridlock.
Very, very possible. Especially the a
bomb site, that shower section, the
onen, it is a hellish place to take
gunfights. Our NPC players going to be
super happy to see that one go down. But
what a season it has been for both of
our squads. This is their matchups
throughout the season coming into today.
And how confident are you going to be if
you're Koi where every series you have
played you've won the map one where you
are six and one dominating the hard
point. All of a sudden your back's
against the wall. You're missing that
player you used to have and for the SND
it has been a pain point.
Oh my god.
Gridlock. Search and destroy. Here we
go. Eyes on Super. It's a return to
form. Is it a brand new look? It's an
absolutely banging soundtrack. Here we
go. Round number one.
>> It's so good. Loving the music from this
event.
>> And super no M15 now.
But those shoulders going to give you
tons of information. Now cross over
towards that.
Pull the pin. Put it back in. Round two.
And a nade in his grill. Back down the
space in a nice breed on Kleenex. Easy
first blood for real.
>> In and out. Gone. Now back over to the
other side of the map. A bomb site. His
boys have held the line here. Metals is
giving you options. Not a lot of
information on the inside of the A bomb.
And that's going to be a problem now cuz
here come
two players for on the defensive end. A
at least gets that even odd. So you got
a 3v3 inside here.
Real close right. Too many targets to
choose from. And he's somehow not
getting a single kill. Finally for the
pistol. No way. One v one. Super damaged
heavily. Aes going to get away for a
second. 30 on the clock.
One of the best SMG players throughout
this year versus the rookie. And they
are in close quarters running out of
time. And Super backing away. The timing
currently on A's side, but you expect
him to make this read. Abee's checking
it. And now the turn. Middle of the
street. The timing unbelievable. I think
Abe might be licking his lips.
Round one, Koi. Huge clutch. The past
three SNDs though, we have seen from Koi
on land. They're successful with the
early clutches. This about the middle of
these maps where they start to fall
apart a little bit, but Rook is there to
pick you up in round number one. You get
first blooded the first 15 seconds in.
Abe is good to give you three in that
round. That is a delightful start for
the rookie.
>> Not really rookie. I guess played at EWC
last year.
>> He did play WC. Okay. Sophomore season,
so I'll take it. Yeah. Yeah.
>> Still fresh.
>> Round two.
>> See how KO look down on the attack. A
bomb looking right the target for now.
Her going to keep it open. A man through
the middle of the street. One man on the
A bomb site. This very typical setup
we've seen throughout the season. Metals
has got a tough job ahead. Pass the
information. Don't die. All bases cover
right now for Koi. No flanks, no
pinches, no nothing. They can
technically complete bombside control
and an aggressive plant spot. This is
the dream situation for Koi. It is
exactly what you want to see.
Entry now from the heretics
in towards A. They've crossed the
threshold. Now it's time to dance. Here
we go. Metals with the opening damage.
Nobody watching the right hand side.
We're going to bang through towels.
Still Metals on the close left. Real
starts the party. Renor for two. Oh, and
what explosive play.
Heretics good for the views. Find the
equalizer.
>> Clean on the teamwork. Everybody grouped
up together. No need to pinch. You trust
in your teammates. You get Rancor is the
overwatch of the squad. Moment they got
that first blood. I mean, boy, Tweaks
too overaggressive. Start going to make
those moves. They feel obligated to go
for those trades and they just get
eviscerated along the way.
Basically four man up, fourman down
heretics. That is as good as it gets.
>> And this is how hard it is to play on
the inside of this site.
>> I mean, you have got to play your trades
effectively. And even with Reno finding
too, they're getting nated out
immediately. It's hard to keep a spree
going. It's hard to chain kills
together, especially at this level.
>> And two different duos for heretics
working together. Super's been rocking
it with Real on one side of the map.
Well, this round here's the adjustment.
It's just going to be the fourman hit.
Yeah, we're going in. That's a big old
smoke. Not sure he wanted that to hit
him in the face, but now Kleenex starts
things off for Koi. Close range
engagement for Real. No success as of
yet. We are hoping and praying with a
spray there. Super now slowing things
down. And again, you've lost tons here.
Heretics, they have to try to recover
the bomb as well. They're going to throw
a smoke in your entire team's face. Lose
aim assist. And now everybody's cooked.
Super E and Real now through the middle
of the map. Koi have read this.
They've seen both dots. Here comes the
reshuffle. Real hoping to catch a player
here.
Back into the sight. Bombs will be
blowing right now. There's surely no
way. A super making as much of a case as
he possibly can. McCoy take the lead.
>> Gift of around backto back rounds for
heretics where the nades and stuns a
little bit off. The smoke in the face
the previous round were bouncing frag
grenades off of walls. A little bit of
disconnect there. And taking full
advantage and the no throw for Koi.
early round success. Couple of clutches
they have. As the SNDs have progressed
though, is where they started to
struggle. So, they're just trying to
keep that ball rolling. Statistically,
again, heretics advantage in the mode
early on here.
Cory just got a little bit extra in the
pace there. We see good looks towards
the A bomb site. Bomb off rip. Nothing
yet. Back to we go. Inheritics
defensively doing the same thing. Two
players on the B site. Super and Real
working together, but out of the
picture. You had the dream setup though
for Koi in the first round. Took sight
control, got the bomb down, everything
went exactly as you wanted it, and you
got wiped off the board for the retake.
Well, they're trying it again.
>> Herics, though, this time they've got to
go all the way around. Got that left
hand side wide open. So now the battle,
they've got to time this correctly to
get in there together. A little moment
now to set up for Koi to maybe make a
nervy mistake. Kips, nothing of the
sort. Both doorways covered. There's the
nades and lethals. Fights on. Kleenex
first blood. Trades good. What a spring
to life. But again, it all comes down to
Renor. 1 v2 outmanned
and outgunned.
I come from the school of thought if it
ain't broke, don't fix it. You had a
perfect retake from Heretics in round
number one. You had a nearly identical
situation. They try to fix it though.
Went for the two- two split. If you're
going for those pinch plays, that is a
test of Toronto's teamwork. Well, that
is where Koi honestly thrive. Kips is
there going for the information. Kleenex
is the man right next to him. Once he
gets the calm, it's an instant chow from
guy number two. He's able to flow right
in back behind them. Those are the
moments where Koi really thrive.
And those listening moments, we've heard
how clear and concise the coms are.
>> Absolutely thriving. Sniper out from
Super. Now, this is a new look.
to the shower. Possibly swapping that
one out, but it was worth a little peak.
Going to be a one v one on the A bomb
site. Meanwhile, the rest of the squad
is over here by B. We're waiting for the
intel. And Super has passed it over.
He hasn't seen kick. Oh, that's a nice
win. Here come the rest of the heretics.
Super still alive somehow. Real on the
reinforce.
Back over we go. Bomb once again moving.
What a fluid play here from the
heretics. very agile. Well, Kleenex is
going to be picking up the middle of the
map. Insight picking up the outer lane.
Huge pitch to make it a 3v3. Gets a good
read on super, but Insight in between
the entire squad taken care of. He's
just in a 2v2. It's only so much in that
position.
Kleenex should set up a here. Good work
on the teamwork yet again. Super now. He
started the round off strong and he
might be able to finish it. Bomb
recovered.
Where will the play go?
to the main street. Oh my goodness. And
he's dancing. Players all around him.
The shots were good. McCoyy's teamwork
yet again. Sloppiness on the flip side
for Heretics. Found the first blood.
Sort of played the with the map pretty
well. Able to isolate a couple players,
but Insight makes the play in towards
Ice Cream. Lex fills in the right spot
towards the middle of the map. And once
again, Toronto teamwork showing off the
goods.
Unreal that Super Even finds that first
blood. I think Kibs is able to spot him
on the cross and simply gets gunned.
>> Yeah, but that's a super classic. A
asterisk next to the rookie of the year
award. He tried to share it. What Renot
did with him. An incredibly capable
player.
An exceptional aim. But right now kind
of getting belt at 4-1.
Super now. The lone defender. That's a
fast pinch though. Yeah, very aggressive
to come through. Kids somehow finds on
the first blood. Exactly. Super then
falls. You survived this pinch onslaught
and now for Toronto, you've stabilized.
What a heads up there from Insight. Big
tags getting the damage in but no plant.
A gets brought down. The bomb has now
been dropped right next to the A bomb
site. Kleenex on the pickup. That means
there's a gun and a pair of eyes off one
of the many entries now to the site.
Round two here on the bot. Here we go.
Flipped the map on its head, but still
going be an absolute head smash right
now. Heretic trying to find the window.
Real fleet footed assault now towards
the site. They're going left. They've
got far wide. Bet now finds a trade.
Real makes it down to one. And Kips
remains unknown.
What a moment of silence right now. Kips
re-entry. Not good enough for the kill.
Real and rank will get the diffuse. And
just, you know, trying to give credit to
the Toronto teamwork and then you have a
round where just so much space is taken
for free. We initially planted, I think,
on the wrong side of the bomb. You know
the pressure's on the flank. You still
die while going for the first plant. And
then two players for heretics able to
work themselves up showers. The guy on
bomb saying, "How the hell have you let
him kill me?" And once you lose that
first gunfight for the 3v3, the round
just collapses.
Maybe an atypical situation messing with
the minds of Koi. Well, still 42.
It's first to six folks at home in the
vineyard wondering what the hell's going
on.
He'll 211 here from the Heritage across
the map. Big problem. Oh, it would have
been great. He's going to hold him on
the site for the rest of the round. Now
the three man stack going by the AO site
is Insight playing completely alone here
for Koi.
Clear all the usual spots.
Enough noise has been given up here just
to bring Kleenex across as well. It's
the vets of Koi now on the retake
attempt. If you got top control, you're
feeling great about this center from
Heretics. Real is the key man. This is
such a good
place to perfection. Easy read, but that
is going to be a trade immediately for
the 3v3.
Ro the poke just waiting for anyone to
show something. Kips flank dealt with
metals. Right gun, right place, right
time. And now the clock goes red. Can
they pick it up? There's one man on the
flank. ID's the second looking for
number three. Hey, good damage pulling
them out of play. There's an opportunity
here, but no, Insight's got to clutch
this one up and he has been dealt with
as well. Heretics backto back rounds.
And it's a good one. They've shown the
look a few times. Super sniping over
towards A. Go to wrap back over towards
the B site instead of mid. It's just
everybody grouped up together. Air takes
any time they have moved as a full
squad. They've been able to beat Toronto
down.
Bully away insight. Take that top broken
control and never look back. A confident
play there for Miami.
at 4-1. Bell not looking so bad anymore
at 43 now. We're one away from tying it
all up. Metal's nice three spree.
Defensively a heavier stack towards a
koi their tip of their spear just edging
towards B
will clear all the usual spots. Kips
takes a tag. It's enough now to bring
nobody forward there for her. They
haven't seen the rest of the players and
hey thinking about it more than spidey
senses tingling right now. Here come the
rest of the Heretics. The Naz now now
coming over the top. No trophy in play
either. So this could get very dangerous
for those two players.
Botan can we get away with our lives?
Heritage still not fully committed here
on the retake.
>> Well, Toronto is completely back down.
They are playing this passively to watch
over the bomb.
>> Connection. Super close around the
corner. Real now trying to get in the
fight.
>> That smoke certainly helped things out.
He's getting right in the mix. No, yet
again it's kids with the good kill. NPC
in hand. Metals good for two. It's a 2v2
now on the side. Renor driving forward.
Brought down under a hail of fire and
super. He's got so much to deal with
here. And Koi holds the line. Matt point
53
getting it done in feeling the stress.
Oh yeah, there's a great smoke for
heretics for the opportunity for the
retake, but they won the entry gunfight.
Trade looked good after the pass.
Kleenex with the final stamp on it in
maybe a moment you might need that one
player on the pinch for the pressure.
Very difficult just to almost sprint
forward for a P2 break. That is a very
difficult thing.
>> This is what it looks like from the
other side of Kips. His gunfight versus
what we saw Real attempt. Much easier
and that be the way it goes sometimes
with smoke. Perfect placement but to
take the fight was one thing. Heretics
desperately trying to make something
happen here and they are going for it.
Insight, you are about to eat a lot of
information, mate. sees the snipe, backs
up. Did he see any more players? We may
never know. But now the attempt on the
bomb. Heretics are going for it. Oh,
Insight lies lining up. Kleenex able to
catch the guy up bomb and Insight give
you the first blood. A 4v2 for Koi. What
a reaction here. Koi, what a reaction.
Kleenex five in a row. Super.
What a clutch this would be. And he is
alone and he is afraid. And this is what
it looks like folks. Here comes the rest
of Koi on the tail end of this. Search
and destroy goes to Toronto.
Well, the stats told us that the
Heretics are going to be much better in
this mode. Not to be found as of yet.
1-1 going into the overload.
McCoy more than a sign of life. Very
confident map win there. Got ourselves a
series. Great look from Insight's
perspective in that final round. Gets
the intel multiple times. Eyes lighting
up and it is Kleenex able to jump in,
pierce that setup and just kill that guy
off. Um making the adjustments is the
name of the game. Rats indeed is the
middle and late rounds where Koi have
struggled as of recent. And this one on
gridlock absolutely clean solid there on
the first blood front. They dealt with
real. They gave away three first bloods,
but they also committed him to three
first deaths. So, even on that front and
really just dealing with the AR players,
that is what six and 15 combined coming
through for Frankson.
>> I was talking about the AR battle before
this match started and yet for sure.
Insight Renor an interesting look at
both damage department there. Insight
very much coming out on top. Say goodbye
to Gridlock for now. Den after the break
and we go to that hard point one way or
another, folks. Den search destroy if we
have to go to the distance. I am feeling
it today, man. I can't lie. I think this
might be a long game five sort of day.
How you feel?
>> I'm ready for it, man. Give me the more
game fives. I know quite a few three 0's
yesterday. Today is going to be the day
for a battle. Today's the day for the
battle. But right now, it's time for a
very quick break on the other side of
this. We're playing overload here at
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Let's find out who's built for the big
save. Heretics ready to dive in. Thanks
to four and Snoopy wipes them all. But
Hydra with the switch impossible. He's
making top so happy. It's done a boozer
dominance
on the grandest stage.
So they were hearing and we were hearing
>> good grenade. Oh, he just ice skated on
him.
>> Yo, that was a skateboard move right
there.
whichever bomb set they choose to go to.
30 seconds on the clock and well he's
been seated. He will drop off the map.
>> Well, hello there. We are back and ready
to kick it into the map three. Uh, a hot
contest so far. Uh,
>> yeah,
>> it's hot in the building. It's hot in
the series.
>> Hey, you got shorts on today.
>> You're hot. Yeah, I knew it was going to
be warm today. I had a feeling so I had
to pull out the quads. Look at these
things.
>> You think anyone's blinded? I
>> see through them.
>> I've been I've been hitting the pelon
though. There's some muscle there. I'm
telling you, these things feel like a
couple of rocks, man.
>> Okay,
>> I'm so sorry about that. Everybody home,
hopefully no one viewer discretion is
advised. Had their vision affected by
the bright lights of my quads.
>> He's there.
>> Bottom Z. Bottom Z. Bottom Z.
>> Oh My bad.
>> Oh, hold up.
Go to Marcus.
>> Low dirt.
>> Low dirt.
>> I just trolled a bomb. He's far right.
Backing up.
>> Backed up.
>> Push.
>> Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to
Las Vegas. We are getting through the
first match of champs here on this
glorious Friday at the Michelob Ultra
Arena. It's my time and we're having
ourselves quite the time. Watch parties
galore. It's all happening here at
Champs. Welcome back to this first of
the elimination match ups. We are going
to send a squad home which is one of my
favorite things to do at Champs. Also
one of the hardest things to do. Chance,
>> you're evil.
>> I know what I very difficult thing to
do. The agony of defeat never a fun
thing. It'll be devastation. whatever
team loses here, but more coten overload
is where we're going to and maybe a map
that Koi are going to be happy to see. I
mean, they have been one of the best
defensive teams on this map all year
long. So, they're almost prepped for
these types of situations. They are
ready for the war.
>> Maybe the old Koi, I don't know. This is
such a different roster now. They were
the masters of them for so so long.
Couple of big changes there. Aan Kips,
the youngans, they're certainly pulling
their weight in this series so far. has
been a fun time for both of our squads.
And again, we've flipped the script. All
the stats telling you one thing, and at
the end of the day, it is Koi losing the
opening respawn. Now, the Den very, very
differently. Both squads, Heretics have
been part of what the longest game of
Den overload in human history. They've
been there. They've done that. Going to
find out how this one fares today. Map
number three. Here we go. The humpback
of the series to take the lead has
certainly put the other team in trouble.
Den overflow.
And for either of these teams, something
they are really hunting for is to build
momentum, to go through the losers
bracket in this tournament. You don't
want these nailbiters, close wins where
you're making mistakes every now and
again. You're looking to find that
perfection, hit that flow state, and
really find that team unison. You're
looking on the Koi side. Kleenex has
talked about, and he said this is most
confident he's been in any roster in
years. That is high praise for a guy
like that. And you got Abe had what 10
kills on map number two. Three bomb
clamps. He was on point. Now he's on the
time flying through. And hey, he's
already in your kill.
>> Abe is in cheeks. He's gone all the way.
No way he gets this guy as well. Abe
three and nothing right off rip. He's
still with heavy pockets. Kit's trying
to find the kills and we're going for
it. EMP possession now for Koi the
bottom side, but metals on Royale. What
a defensive bit of work. A can you be
the hero yet again? Heretic setting up
for the B point. One man got past him.
Take care of this. be number five for
Abe if he gets it. But he's looking
towards mid. He's got a big
responsibility. He's got Insight helping
him out. He's there to finish off the
kill. So going to need the device reset.
We're trying to force this through.
We're going for it. Respawn is going to
be close here for the heretics
defensively. Oh, they eat the nades.
It's 6 and0 for Abe. No way. He gets the
score as well. What an opener. Surely
streak out after a play like that. Nuts
to have a frag grenade a minute into the
round when you haven't died yet. A
saving it for the perfect moment. That
is a huge score. What a life. Heritage
though digging in. T going to make sure
stay comfortable here. Super lun for
damage. Real gets involved for a second.
And yeah, a what a life he has had.
Fully stripped out.
McCoy down. Kleenex has got a lot of
work to do here. Heretics relentless on
the attack. Oh, what a night. Little too
aggressive. Going to get punished for
it. Super now going to be leading the
charge through back to mid. You got to
get these kills quick. You got to still
make sure you've both bases covered.
At this point in time, Heritage trying
to keep off off the point and they're
in. Super is going to find the kill.
Insight now on the right flank, pushing
forward. Kips down going for the
jugular. Can he stop this play here?
Kips the second man should be down. And
Insight and Co.
>> Super wins the huge one and he hits the
nade. That would have been a score if
not for Super. And all of a sudden
Insight well trapped in between the
entire heretic squad. They have device
controls
back and forth.
As soon as you get a little bit of life
there, Heritage, they fight right back.
Keep it alive. No gold line attacks as
of yet. Another pick up now. Boy with
the possession. Heavy stack of the
defense. We're in the nad. He's coming
through. Metals goes up. And so far so
good. Big flank now from Kleenex.
There's the damage. Here comes the
pressure from the front. Another flank
being red. A trying to find the window.
Renegade going through and he might just
be able to do so. No. Good stop. Last
man in sight. And he's holding on for
now. It might be a goal. Jamie Craraven
to tow it over the line. It's good.
>> He'll take that if you are in sight. Not
too shabby. That was a huge soul force
from the Heretics and maybe a slight
overcommitment. Now they're trying to
reposition. Three players in towards P2.
Device Hannah Royale and they are
soaring. But surely this is a capture.
What an aggressive attack. Nate's in.
No, a stop. I don't believe it. Metals
down as well. Kips for three. What a
save. Confusing to watch, but out of the
chaos, Kib able to deliver 12 kills in a
moment of stability. Dorano in the long
term. This device resets the top side of
the map, but that is something you need
to be prepared for. Koi right now taking
it slow. Miraculous defense yet again
towards the A goal. Looking for another
Kleenex now opens the window and there
we go. Kips right in. What a play. Koi
absolutely dominating the first half so
far.
>> Just like yesterday. Rank four just a
little out of position in these
overloads. Instant punishment there
coming in from boy by good spawn traps
are flowing in. Kits able to give you
the goods. That is what double hell
storms now rolling through for the koi
boys. The young lads finding those kills
coming out on the pickup. You going to
make another move here. A he's still
making the run. Kleenex the man
upstairs.
Can he get these kills? There's one the
second damage. Oh, we might be on for
another capture. Big pinch. Kleenex
looking for another. Slip slides. Gets
away with it. The play's still good.
Kleenex down and the Heretic stopped.
Yet another go through.
>> Oh, that was with the pistol. He was
able to give you two, so he expended all
of his clips. I got the device top side
of the map. All the heretics players
here grouped up together. Mia floating
towards mid. Oh boy. And so much damage
being done. Heretics not jumping just
yet. Some good shots out of a not enough
onl pressure now yet again. Here we go.
Heritics trying to salvage the round.
Last man left alive. Super with the MP.
It doesn't hit a whole lot. Three dead
in the feed. Koi yet again with 30
seconds to play. This first half has
been there. They would love to get the
stamp on it. That device guy a little
bit by himself. Clean. Well, good to get
the cleanup kill. That is delightful
work from Kim just to stay alive. Two
kills now on the feed. Super last man
standing. Wiped off the board and call
it 40.
Welcome to halftime. Den overload. A
pain point for Miami.
>> Oh goodness. I mean one solid attempt
and an outrageous stop this opening life
from a I mean pace set. You've given the
heretics absolutely nothing. Suffocating
them a yet again finding the kills
getting the capture. That's a helltorm.
That's two hell storms to play with
runoff for a fourgoal lead. This has to
be one of the best second halfs we've
ever seen from Miami. I you know Rancor
is over here pinching through P2 while
inside scoring instead of rapping back
off spawn. That's a lot of trust in your
teammates. Here's Mumb just makes the
huge play and the Heretics guys maybe a
little bit too worried about the pinch.
Difficult to force it through. The
Toronto defense absolutely on point and
well their offense looked even better.
>> That's brilliant stuff. Well, here in
Overload, yeah, we get four. We blow the
whistle early. We send you straight to
the second half. Here we go right into
the action. And the heretics yet again,
we do have to see one of the best halves
of Overload imaginable. And here at
Champs, we ask absolutely of that. You
can just afford to be annoyed. Complete
TDM. Don't even have to touch the device
unless you get the complete clearance.
That's why Abe's got the AR out. Just
wants to be the overseer. Not let Rank
touch it. And Ranken just waiting for
his teammates to make the play. We know
this is not the strategy with the lead.
You want to park the bus in any
circumstances. Yes, a touch of trauma
there.
So, her fighting wave in. They've got a
lot of pressure here, but it's a big
string of kills right now from Toy. We
go high. Kips will stay alive for now.
Mid map total coverage for Koi. No
possession yet.
The back and forth still trying to feel
each other out here early in the half. A
minute burned off the game clock. And
that is three kills in the feed right
now. Koi just maintaining the advantage
of this situation. Keeping the pressure,
keeping that device control. They don't
need to touch it. As long as heretics
don't, that's a free win to touch. You
got two for their name on it. Again, if
you give the Heretics a chance to make a
run, anything's possible. A still
defensively holding everything together.
19 and 11.
Huge work so far.
Heretics. I mean, it's a solo play in
the middle of the map from Renor trying
to find something here. A another A
finally brought down, but it's five
there from Real in the life. And now a
chance to get things going. Kleenexes.
No thanks, mate. I'll take that. Metals
with a big pistol kill. And this could
be an opportunity. Real down in spawn,
but Metals alone. Staggered play from
the Heretics. And finally, they have
device control. It took him a minute and
a half to pick it up. And now that they
have it, there's just nowhere to go. 2
minutes burned off the game clock in
this round. And Metals, none of his
teammates are even trying to catch up to
pass him. Just left out to dry, left
there to die. Rancor, last man standing.
Not too much he can do.
>> Yeah, structurally the formation right
now for not ideal. Frontman should not
be carrying the EMP carried an SMG at
the very best. And right now back to
square one.
>> Minutes being shaved off here. They're
going to be saying goodbye to Den
momentarily. You're already thinking
about the hard point. Not a lot of life
here from the heretics on the second
half. Final chance here for a run. Is
this the beginning? No. A but the
defensive play yet again immediately to
the goal. We've got to see Reno now make
a move and try and help get this EMP
home. And so far it's one kill to his
name. immediately traded out. Koi all
good ironed up and stationary. You need
to get this scores but we're banning our
teammates. It is not ideal. Possession
dead even but the 40 efficiency.
This is the first time they touch the
device. You're getting spawn killed but
device and dojo
dealing with the pressure so well. It's
a 4v1 v1 v1 right now. This is tough.
That last man trying to get the not
helping anyone out. Kibs finally brought
down. Super trying to stop another goal
going through the halfway mark. right
now for Koi as they try to cross it. And
what a nervy moment right now with just
under 2 minutes left on the game clock.
Heretics, we have seen nothing. And I
was going to say Kit is posted over
towards the be zone. He's calling it the
helltorm. That was a 3v4. One of the
three has a pistol and Toronto just able
to hold that line. Deal with one
helltorm. Here comes number two.
>> Here comes number two.
>> Man, that is so tough to deal with. A
will it be successful again? just able
to keep those players trapped on the
inside of tin. One goes down and nade
for the other man and the dojo are now
safe. Three in the feed for Koi. It's an
absolute masterclass on dead
defensively.
Can't be messed with
light and easy work. I mean a 40 lead in
the first half and never looked back.
Now we just get to pad these stats.
>> Yeah, we're patting. Oh no, Super can't
catch a single one of that hurts you
again going on the hard point. It's a
confidence knock as well. Kit's looking
for his 31st kill. He's absolutely
slaying the map so far. A joins him in
the 30 bombs as well. Sensational stuff
from Koi last minute. And again, we are
just looking to make those stats look
ever better. Heretics utterly stunned so
far on overload. Thematically, this is
exactly what Toronto want. You want to
have the young gun shoot hot like this
to see a 30 and 17 is a wonderful sight.
That is back to back for he's absolutely
popping off. There is the extra score he
is able to collect.
maybe shooting for the hat-tick as they
have been gunning them to bed. A brace
for Kips and Abe. They get two each.
Final 20 seconds for the Heritage now.
Again, it is merely trying to keep the
guns warm. What a devastating
performance.
And Koi should absolutely feel good
about this one. A gridlock hard point on
the other side. And there it is, the
hattick for Kits. His third of the
season.
6 nil.
An absolute slaughter in overload
puts Koi match point.
And for Koi on land, that is the best
their teamwork has felt. Tom flowing,
complete control of the map. Great usage
of the hell storms. Teamwork on point.
Aan kids absolutely prime. You get two
hell storms in the span of two minutes
there in the first half. It feels
fantastic. They had the advantage. They
never look back. Heretics lands to
slaughter. Yeah, completely
disconnected. Nearly every play outside
of one attempt was totally shut down.
And Koi, it was all there. The kills are
outstanding. Really solid work. Three
for Kips, two for a Insight getting on
the board as well. Sensational stuff
there. Our scuffed play of the game is
going to be the first half for Toronto
Koi off the back of an incredible life
of a not only the streak but the goal
here as well. It was just too good.
Just the teamwork and decision maker. I
am shocked that we actually saw a
Colossus back or at least for that to be
quite big. Just looking at the the style
of the team. Here's a look at the one
attempt. Heretics actually had to get a
capture and you can just see how chaotic
it got for him. Kips able to clean up
three there in that lead. Change that
into a score.
I mean, it was just kind of a little
floor in these moments. Four truly
moment
as well.
>> Isn't that nice?
>> I streak over streak as well. Yay. In a
gridlock hard point we go. You're going
to carry those streaks in you to the
next map. Den, that is where you're
trying to get to. Heretics
are closer and closer to finishing this
one out. 63 6 nil now to another
respawn. Tough scenes for them in the
first. Colossus was an absolute beatd
down. The heretics simply too fast. Have
they had their speed checked now on the
run towards Gridlock? It's going to be
an interesting uh map to look at.
Certainly for the AR players, the Miami
Heretics, you're looking to get the
bounce back. It is definitely a map
where the ARs can pop off and fry. Maybe
two hills are going to have the extra
MPCs coming through, but especially just
from the jump can really establish that
dominance. On the flip side, how
rotationheavy this map can be. You know,
Koi, they spoke about it the moment it
got added to the rotation. They were
happy to see it. We mentioned Black Ops
4 for the likes of Insight and Kleenex a
few years back. Very familiar with this
map.
>> Yeah, very much so. Kleenex, a quick
monitor swap, as you can see, taking
place there on stage. We'll get that, as
you can see, getting done pretty
quickly. We should be nearly hot to trot
here, folks. And our wonderful crew here
keeping all of our players in check. Not
only with their hardware, the software,
rules, you name it. Everything good and
insight. Been a champs many times. Been
to a champs grand final as well
there with Toronto Ultra many, many
moons ago. Now under the Koi banner,
Kips trying to keep the boys cool and
they are certainly feeling very
confident after that performance. That
is as good as it gets. he you get to
settle in. Maybe even adjust your
headset as it's popping off the top of
your head. But settle in, get the vibes
flowing, just make it as close to a, you
know, scrim environment that you
possibly can. Practice how you play.
We're ice cold on map number three. And
her now a single map away elimination.
Chance will be coming to an end. Last
chances here for Methods and Lucky to
pass something over to their players
just to help get them over the line.
that little extra 10% that little extra
magic and this is the end of the line
for one of our squads who advances
forward thief G2 or other elimination
match up today and what a shock that is
our rookie of the year our regular
season MVP playing for their lives later
on today against G2
heretics again right now the goal
survive this map get to Den and then
leave nothing behind
>> speaking of rookie of the year you know
if you're looking at guys like Tips
versus Neam It's almost 1 A, 1B. They
have a a great claim to that title, a
great claim to that trophy for either
player. If he keeps looking to make
champs, that sort of separation moment.
Interesting battle cuz he's been
incredible. One of the best SND players
we have in the game for a rookie to be
dominant in any given game mode is
impressive. Obviously, his slaying
numbers and respawn absolutely there.
He's been a shining light for this Koi
team this year. He's looking to be that
guy here in map four. And Kips had big
shoes to fill, a heavy jersey to fill
with the departure of Joe Decemates. And
now I mean fit right into the role.
Absolutely finding himself in a good
place. And that does look like Kleenex
is good to go now. So we'll be
momentarily starting the match.
But for these young players, for these
young rookies, the pressure is immense.
I mean, this is the end of your regular
season and this is the debut
and this has a lot of rookies getting to
the big stage for the first time and
what performances we have seen from all
of them.
You know what that means? Thumbs up. We
are good to go.
We'll
be doing the gritty on gridlock.
We'll find out in a moment. Map number
four. Here we go.
A map Rancor has enjoyed.
Certainly the KD absolutely on point.
1.2 for many players. That would be a
titanic performance.
Don't want to go down with the ship here
though again. Hair heretics. This is
officially back against the wall in the
losers bracket that it's empty. Yeah, it
might hit the fan in this one. Fingers
and toes. Everything's crossed. Can they
survive to Saturday?
Can they survive to another map
in the gridlock? We go. First of 250
points.
And for the heretics, it is a must win
or we say goodbye. Here we go. Map
number four. Elimination on the line.
>> That's the maze. Kits is the only player
that tried to go near the hill and he
survives. He has made it to his home and
well the sort of reset on the mage is
there to get the first blood. Her trying
to bounce right back. He was early and
then he is taken care of exit inside
ripping now at the time. Rank gets
involved real fast. Great damage there
up close and personal. NPC swap. What a
play. The numbers there though should be
good and that's their hard trying to
deal with pinch. Real's going to make it
through. Ice Cream inside knows needs to
press the action forward and successful
complete sight control. Double the
pinch. Fourman wipe and you get to flip
them. Toronto complete control of the
map. Hey up close fees the intel.
Kleenex could be good for that bombs
right now. Positional advantage. You
name it. Three dead instant koi. What a
start. P2 covered as well. Insight's all
over that. They've just alleyooping
them. Hey Kleenex, they're right here.
Go kill him. Here's a sun for you player
number two. That is one of the best P1s
on the gridlock from an opening break we
have seen this year. Oh,
>> Toronto full advantage. Abe continuing
to fry. Inheritics barely shooting back.
Real the only player to live and might
be the last player to fall. See Abe
there in the distance on the hunt is
actually a scattered mini map now. But
boy, they have the rotation to a. Oh
dear. Trying to get himself another set
of streaks, but it's going to be a nice
attack here from the heretics scrolling
across the map. Unfortunate timing from
inside. Damage not there. Real punched
the hole. metals with two. That's your
hard point.
>> Needed that. They have just now turned
for the spawns. A little bit late to the
jump, but going to make it there.
Unfortunately, no trophies this early in
the game. That car does explode. And
look at that. Three nes from three
different Koi players. Devastation for
May. That's as good as it gets. Point
yet again. And scrap time to be had
here. Rotation on Kips. Can he get away
with his life? Oh, he's played it very
well. Sneaky man. Super. There's a hole
in the radar.
Abe though gets caught. Numbers are here
for Koi.
Instant pick up. Kips on a three. Metals
now trying to enter the site. Oh boy. He
finds himself too. So Heretics alive and
well. Yeah, great timing for Metals to
sort of pierce that setup. Timing goes
his way. Heretics need to take this
advantage to get back in the game.
>> Oh, no good. Real holding down that left
lane out of Renfall. Back and forth.
Good enough for the kills. Ko down. Wave
one ineffective. Quax and Z both fall
before the teammates are going to be
there. Now you got the pinch spawns
rolling through. Herics need to kill him
before the pinch is there and they're
reading it to a te. A P3 that has been
gorgeous so far. If you get the final 20
seconds, you will indeed be right back
in this game. Metals the key factor to
get his squad back in the mix. Dancing
causing so many problems. Great damage,
lovely time. Gets another kill. So
that's going to be four now for Metals.
Now that right hand side of the map like
clockwork we go around to the new hard
point. Super is so close to a helltorm
and that's great teamwork and a great
rotation. That lead absolutely cut in
half and then some 20 point gap. Still a
couple players fighting at the old time.
So Super and Rancor need to hold the
line. They have lost the middle of the
map. Going to look a lot of direction. A
trying to pierce that setup. Toronto.
The trades are good. The final two
players for her feeling overwhelmed. No
drive by here on gridlock. Super strict
out. Good damage or Metal then able to
pick up the trades. Gets one.
Here comes the counterattack. In and out
they go. The lineup and the numbers
aren't necessarily here for the
Heretics. Metal doing a lovely job of
staying alive. Here comes the boys and
they're going to try to get back into
time upstairs. Kips for two. That's the
hole. That's a huge pick up. Now you got
to run this score up. No trophies on the
time, but they're getting those
frontline kills. Real sneakily able to
make it, but the trade is instant and
air takes well. Not easy to run through
those days. Got to pick a different
route. A little bit just disconnected
here. The teamwork for Miami. Going to
be the first set of rotations and a 40
45 point lead for Koi. Another one here
for Koi.
That was going to be three dead. But
that's the end of our first set of hard
points. Back over to P1. Heretics very
much need this. Their first go around
very very dry. A worldwide tour. Doesn't
catch the kill inside. Good for the
trades. And now pressure towards the
hard point there. pinch spawns Rancor.
Yeah, too many directions to look. You
just have heretics mismanaging the
spawns off that rotation. Got to be
perfect. And if you're not forced to use
the helltorm super able to secure this
when he was four and n I don't see a
trophy on that time. Got to run for the
hills. Great.
You see the power of the hell now. Real
Metals able to get back in there.
All the information passed over as well.
But here come what a counter attack.
Three dead instantly and back at a time.
>> Yeah, Julian there to make the play.
Finds the one kill in the hell stom to
apply that pressure on the pitch. That
is a hell stom that nets you nothing if
anything negative points and now
rotation towards P2. You're going to be
feeling great. Feeling gorgeous. Got to
find a guy sitting on top of 18. Kleenex
does not quite have the support. A
little bit of a needy moment there, but
Kleenex. Oh, lovely game so far out of
him as he keeps himself alive for as
long as he can. Insight there dealt with
by metals there. PC starting at redhot.
Real will need that ambulance for more
than one reason after that kill. And
metal's back for time. He's desperately
trying to will the boys through this
one. Still a 30point game as Super
from the flank. No good. Kips is in a
cooer on time.
>> Yeah, Heritage, they have had a lot of
difficulty managing these spawns. They
have constantly found themselves in
pinch situations, getting shot in the
back, and you're trying to bail yourself
out of something difficult. Well, you
have the pressure applied. Team kills
start rolling through. They're trying to
manage it and get on the time. Real good
for three in the moment and they clear
out the hill. Finally a moment where you
think you can breathe but for Toronto
that pressure never stops. Great damage
as well. Oh, what a fourth. Final 10 to
go. Scrap. They they sorely need Super
finds himself on a new time. Trophy in
play as well. And you've locked down one
side of it. This trade is essential from
Super and he gets it. That is huge from
the heritage.
>> MP3 was their best hill by a mile. Now
they're in a situation where they start
out with complete control. They can
officially take the lead on this hell.
Real on a four. Medals on a three.
Things are looking good. It's looking
great. Real gets the helltorm streaked
out. Oh, looking for a few more, but
this corner the counter attack in sight
finds two. Last man left alive is
wearing a heretics jersey. And it's
Super again. Oh, he didn't actually go
on towards the hill. So now you got a
full square of a 4v4 battle for the
break. Here we go, boys. Gloves are off.
Trying to send it. Metals with the
first. Kicks goes on the roundabout
tour. catches another. That was on time.
Surely damaged out, but Koi still
fighting. Koi with a break now. Koi with
a listen in.
>> Yeah, I went deep. Freeze
for
>> I need help here. Okay,
>> I'm watching.
>> I don't see anything deepane.
>> They're probably just in there.
>> One could be new, bro. Trying to help
you
ladder ladder ladder.
Top top ladder ladder top. I don't see
I want ice cream. I want ice cream. I
went in front
window too on the freezer on the square
on top.
He's on the top swap back up for
freezer.
I can kill time back door
ladder
stairs. The back door
ice
should
maybe
two
ice cream. Okay, give us
back door.
I don't see him. He's ice cream.
Ice top.
>> Desperation in the listening. Koi ling
to fight their way back in. But what a
lead from the heretics.
>> Oh, here comes the hell stom. Yeah, real
instant on the chunk. You lose the P1.
Time to get it right back.
will be as effective. Metals now being
sent in for the kill. Not going to let
anyone from Koi make their way out of
broken in towards that time. Or will
they? Super on the pinch. Kips now still
trying to keep the play alive. But P1
and he does alongside Abe and that is
it. Ko are in. The P1 has been a
difference maker for Koi. A rare sight
to see. But they have loved this hill
for an ever important rotation. P2
though. It is Heretics here first. Not
quite have the spawn but riome to take
it away. This is the most stable P2
Heretics have had. It is full clearance.
A dreamy setup as the time pops.
Watching out for that lead change.
Here we go through the back left. Mel
swinging. Will the damage he dealt to
those players should slow them down for
a second longer. Lead change now.
Heretics yet again. Now to the dying
moments of the game here on Gridlock.
200 crossed. Poi have got to get moving.
Real presses forward and he might just
be able to cut the back line of pieces.
enough damage in but there's the break.
>> Well, yeah, Toronto with interesting
spawns once again for her going to have
to deal with the pinch and it is going
to be three players trying to hold this
line. You're in between the squad.
Medals not good for enough. Kicks is
there. Good for two. Mismanage spawn.
Punishes them again. Phoenix holding
now. We need to see another big one here
from the heritage just to break. 20
seconds so far. No good. They've held
him bay. Super finding another. Enough
now to get his submachine guns forward.
Here comes Renor and Super downream. And
they both find their kills and the
10second of scrap. And if P2 wasn't
their playground while P3 for heretics
absolutely has been. Aid in between
them. Clean house. And now you got what?
Number six on the pinch. Three players
towards the new time. Heritage can
honestly win the game on this back. He's
setting up now for the win. Are we going
to five? Metals is dancing. 31
looking for number 32. His boys are on
the clock. There we go. The sprees are
on. Here comes the pitch. Renor reads it
now to the front line as the heretics
have somehow held this. The heretics are
holding. Final seconds and it all comes
down to clean and he's lost the fight.
Five for the win. In sight should be
gone as well. We gone to five.
Never say die.
A chance game five with your lives on
the line.
And on a math like gridlock, would you
rather be good at P1 or P3? You take P3
all day. double hell storms at least to
strip away the time on that open hill. A
difference maker towards the ends they
had a very rough start to the map. P3
they bounce right back. I mean super
started 49 does so ends up getting a
helltorm the final few hills of that
map. Heretics hey maybe not completely
on point but not too shabby. the damage
there. 3k for everybody on the Heretics
down the line. Didn't have to outslay by
that much to get that 40point win. Wow,
what a map. To a final we now go. This
is your chance. Our first team
eliminated. We will find out who they
are at the end of the search and
destroy. But that gridlock, what a
comeback from the Heretics. Slow and
steady. The final few back and forths
there. But in the third and final set,
decided,
congratulations to the heretics. You
managed to buy the lifeline. Your eyes
were on the den search and destroy. And
that is now where we find ourselves.
Unbelievable stuff.
The tenacious Spanish squad taking on
another Spanish organization in the form
of Koi. And now one final map in the
series. Before we go to break, Chance,
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>> Your secret.
>> She's one more. Back to her door. I know
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one. Back the one shot.
>> Holy Eric.
>> Nice one.
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Good story, man. He can't kill me. What
the freak?
>> Cracked.
>> Don't play with this guy, bro.
>> Wait, that's me.
>> Chad, I'm in the bottom right. That's
me.
>> I'm on the broadcast.
>> He did it again,
>> Jack. That was me.
Oh my god. No way.
>> That's what he wants to do.
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>> Okay, that's how that's how the series
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>> Oh my god.
>> Here come the Falcons.
Are we
>> booing?
>> Yeah, we're booing. How aggressive.
>> All right. Yeah.
>> Is that good? Yeah.
Look at AG.
>> He's smiling, taking it all in.
>> Yeah, he's walking on like he's a
puppet.
>> Yo, AG is so funny, bro.
>> He comes up right behind him. Oh god.
>> Perch is dropped. Beans is the clutch
god
and he's got a message.
>> This guy don't play for the win.
>> What? This is criminal. What was that?
>> Not play for the win.
>> What? Why is he laying down though?
>> Cuz he don't play for the win. I get
>> Hey, Ken. You know, you know where you
died from?
>> This guy is not real.
>> What What do we call that out? Cuz I
knew you was there the whole time.
>> This color barrel.
>> A final map to decide who walks away
with a win here. And who goes home a
little bit early? Ladies and gentlemen,
welcome back to COD Champs. It is our
first elimination matchup of the day.
And we're going to a fifth and final to
Den here at the Mish Love Ultra Arena.
And things are getting spicy already.
Mr. Rashworth and I will be taking you
through this last one. How you feeling?
>> At first I thought we were getting ready
to dig some graves with these sounds.
Turns out we're getting funky for this
map five. It's going to be a den, a
long-term map that we have seen. Very
interesting to see the dynamic. This is
a map where if you were looking at Super
Snipes, he was legit all over the map.
Aside, roofside, middle of the map,
bottom side, in his spawn, in their
spawn, doesn't matter. Wild stuff. But
that has been a very different search
and destroy dynamic that we have seen at
this tournament. heretics have struggled
in Toronto at least in the map two fully
capitalized you had a three bomb plants
doubledigit kills had the 1 v one clutch
just to kickstart things and see if the
rookies can continue to have that ice
well the rookies again it's the first
chance for Kips and AP here and the
nerves are certainly starting to kick in
the last listening we had in that
gridlock hardpoint it started to get a
little nervy there was a real air of you
know panic I think is the best way to
describe it trying to will the boys over
the win but super and the rest of the
heretics simply too strong there chance
nerves a serious factor, especially
going into a fifth and final map.
>> Extremely rare in the Toronto camp since
their debut in the CDL, no matter what
roster combination they have to really
hear stress in their voices. Maybe you
stress calm something, but no, the nerve
is going to be on full display. And on
the flip side, you know, it's going to
be there for this squad in the exact
same fashion. Land has been a struggle
for this team all year. It drops
arguably their best player to try to get
that old juice back and see if it's
going to be paying off for you in this
type of environment. A good performance
in champs can make up for your gear. It
can justify everything.
>> A little delay here as we get something
up with Renor there. But yeah, we've
made a big change in the heretics camp.
Real starting to very much look like
that player they wanted back in. And
this is the gridlock. Quick highlights
before we get into our fifth and final.
and Record. A lot of criticism received
over the weekend, but fighting with
absolutely everything they've got there
will find the win against the squad who
had the lead for 80% of the game. I
mean, great results to go down 60
points. Feels like a nightmare
situation. Everything clicking for Koi.
This is obviously following up on the
overload where Koi slammed them. So,
great resolve, great bounce back, double
health forms getting earned. Real making
plays and honestly dealing with a ton of
chaos. You had her struggling to sort of
manage every single hill. But this P3 is
where they were truly able to lock it
down and win every single gunfight. But
in the chaos is apparently where the
Spanish survive. Spaniards again finding
wonderful success there with the
streaks. Their score streak performance
so far. Very have one in nearly every
parkour we played so far. Colossus great
fourth. Gridlock pretty good as well,
but assertions strong gridlock didn't
necessarily go their way. Den though
back to old ways. back to season one or
major one. They were an incredibly
strong team. Super looking like one of
the best players of the world. Can he
get back into that form right now? Can
we see some of that magic?
And this is it.
Will they be the last bumps of the
tournament as these boys get into it one
last time? Toronto Koi Miami Heretics
elimination on the line.
We go to Den one last time.
Take a look at those map fives.
>> Maybe only four of them rolling through
for Koi in this moment, but that is an
elite KD. Fantastic damage he is dishing
out per round. And very efficient. High
expectations for the younger players and
a fourman a hit off the rim. You do not
see this often. Who do we see though on
the other side?
No snipe yet. I'm not sure if that will
change out most likely. Here come
reinforce Africa 15 CW across the rest
of the map. Now Sher on the shoulder
trying to get themselves inside the bomb
site. Klein from the rooftops now. First
man to make some contact. 3 2 1 Maybe
not
as Koi have held this. Waiting for the
damage kit. Can you get something here?
A joins with the feed. The rooftop lost
on the inside of the site. A blood bath.
Insight
late to the party here.
At one point in time, the king of clutch
in the COD world, there was always a
fighting chance.
And this time, the fight has been blown
out of him. What a nay. Look at this
pressure.
Heretics take the first for medals. He
was the man that needed to get traded by
that a sight in small room. Instead of
getting traded, he gives you two real
there for the other cleanups. And a
beautiful round. You're thinking if
you're koi first round, no trophies,
open space, fourman hit, trying to hit
that go button while they get stopped in
their tracks. Herics able to get
everybody in the right positions and boy
unable to make that confident play.
Heritage show just enough firepower to
keep those those Toronto players out of
the bomb site. Keep them on the
rooftops. Slowly pick them apart.
Miami now on the attack towards B. We're
going for a couple of players there
through the middle of the map. Reno with
the coverage. Nobody shown and Koi big
presence now on the bombite. The ran in
position. You have midm on lock.
Any player on Toronto that has a misstep
maybe gets punished. But now we're
committing towards this B site. Real in
position.
Nearly everybody here. They're taking
their time to figure out what they want
to do. Real has all the space in the
world. He has done this for free. It's a
change of plans. He might get caught in
the middle of the map by bomb.
The metals now close and personal.
Rehal. What a spot this is. Not able to
get the save his teammate back. Get the
trade immediately. Super lovely shot.
Stays alive.
But now the bomb is in some serious
trouble.
>> Heretics waiting for the pounce through
the middle of the map. 25 on the clock.
There's the pressure. Looking for the
check. Abe stays alive. Now it's 3v2.
Koi with the numbers. Rancor staying
alive. And the mid-match damage has
already been dealt. And there it is.
Super. The big lineup. Back to
backgrounds for the heretics.
>> And Toronto can just not decide what
they want to do. Hop the bomb. Don't hop
the bomb. Kids is flying out towards
mid. There is no backup.
pressure will either make diamonds or it
will break you. Shining in the first two
rounds.
>> Super hump hop there to just to get the
last man.
>> The second kill was nice enough to
defeat Abe as he was trying to hit the
diffuse.
Gets himself a nice little three spree
going into the third round.
And again, score streaks have been very
very acquirable by the Heritage so far.
Here goes a what a push. This is
a lot of information gain.
>> Reno the lone man over there by the bomb
site. We should see this plant. Insight
is in a world of trouble here. Find a
corner and hope for the best.
>> Just caught doesn't shoot back. They do
not have the sol right now. Not a good
for one. Gets away for a second but
there's the kill box in the middle of
the map. Kleenex backs up 2v2.
>> He's taking dojo. Toronto players very
split. Heretics players right next to
each other.
>> You're hoping for something special
here. A bit of magic there from Kleenex.
Eyes unleashed on two.
Here comes Kips.
Intel passed over. We're going to try to
isolate the gunfights. Kips
gets it done. 15 to go. Renor trying to
make something happen.
Kleenex good for the check. Koi on the
board. Yeah, a toxic crowd. But either
way, with 15 seconds left, Kleenex knows
the timing he needs to go for.
>> Had that under lock and key and nice
response. Toronto needed it. Little bit
disconnected. He's been away three
lives. Couple pain points, but they
still delivered. I'm always worried
about those Koi, you know, 2v1
situations. Kips is on one side of the
map, KX on the other. We've seen a few
of those in search so far, and it is a
gamble.
Heretics unable to overwhelm in the 2v1.
Certainly hurts in the end. Up 2-1 in
game five
and this time Heretics moved away.
>> No defenders here for Toronto and not at
all. Super
watch the flank now for a moment longer.
There's the stun effect.
And Koi are very much out of position
here. No plan as of yet. We're waiting
for the kills and it's reminiscent of
round one. They're looking they're
trying to square up and hit the back
spawn now. Everybody just got hit by a
nade. Couldn't decide what they wanted
to do. Instant punishment for the first
blood. They're waiting on Super to go on
this pitch. A lack of action. They
really hurt you. Heretics now down a
man. Super down and out. It's a 4v2.
Real back over to the bomb site. No bomb
in hand. Renor alongside him. Yeah. Make
this happen.
>> Oh dear. They're going to be No. Oh,
good god. This could get real bad for
the heritage. Ideally, you'd like to
find a pick before you go for the plant,
but nothing's cooking. Going to be
forced to try to hold this one down.
>> And whether or not you now know they're
coming through the rooftops, it doesn't
matter. Renor, they're good for one kit.
We'll see him in a moment. Real. What
damage?
They team up and Insight has taken
enough damage. This might go his way.
Renor gone. 30 seconds. Kips the tail
end of Toronto. Koi on the diffuse.
>> Needed the numbers, but they had the
numbers for the 4v2. trades were good.
Corn Royale doing the right thing,
making the plays together, got to cook
something up. But ultimately, it was
just that first decision. You had
Insight in the back spawn. It looked
like Heretics were trying to say like a,
"Hey, 3 2 1 go. Let's run him over
instead of frag grenade lands at your
feet, kills the entire play." McCoy able
to capitalize and tie this thing up 22.
>> Tough thing with the roof. Yeah, you
don't have a lot of space to work with
grouping up like that. Your spacing is
incredibly important.
Kudos again to Koi for not throwing as
many lethals at the start of the round.
So you have them to play with
essential for the retakes, especially on
that a bomb site. Not this round. That
looks like two frags over the top. No
connection.
We're going to be
a mid. You have the dream setup. Dear
her all the space in the world. They
have backed Koi completely down and
stopped that initial play in its tracks.
>> Despite that, I mean, it looked like Koi
were winning the gunfight.
A hit point advantage to work with. And
now straight up to A. I mean, from B to
A. Renor on the smooth move across map.
And here come the rest of his teammates.
>> Well, Heretics are here first entirely
ready for this pressure.
>> But is it a fake? Are we going back
over? We might as well be. Real in
position by B though.
a thorn
in the side of Koi that they're going to
run across momentarily.
They find this trade effectively. Maybe
a bit of timing goes their way. And oh
boy, there's the lads. Here we go. Real,
show us what you're made of. And it's
1v4.
Good for the damage. Now the smoke
finally treats him a little better. But
with the first blood, it's a pinch now
developing. Insight. Timing good. Timing
great. We'll see. Bomb plant. And the
perfect pinch right now for the
heretics. They have got to find a kill.
Oh, what a win.
Aim in the dojo
gets another last man. Renor gone.
Koi take the lead.
Nothing happier for the players on Koi
when it is just isolated gunfight after
isolated gunfight.
Honestly, the key one being insight on
medals. He was down to 9 HP. If he loses
that, that round could break, but he
converts it. Give you the 4v2. You add
the extra numbers. Three rounds in a row
for Toronto.
>> The lead change
at a moment now to test the resolve of
the Heretics.
You started off so strong.
We've slowed right down again. Something
has got to give.
A narrow dodge by Super there. Nobody
home. Three there. Players for Koi. Over
by D. now making their way back through
the middle of the map
>> in the situation where we saw heretics
have success on offense was getting real
up into position the late me bomb play
problem is super is the guy that's
actually watching the pinch right now
and he has the bomb over commitments on
the defensive end for Toronto a little
bit of presence over towards dojo seems
like in the right spots another corner
foul that oh the timing on kicks an
opening win trade immediately but that's
the other side of the map it's not on
the bomb site so Still the numbers here
for Koi. To away we go.
>> And now you have Real watching the cross
of the A bomb site through the dragon
side. This is a free A bomb plant if you
want to make this commitment. It seems
like heretics are just trying to catch
them on rotation. Now it's going to be a
possibly a two or 3 v one in this
situation.
Clock starting to tick. Koi keeping
their options open by both bomb sites.
Kips gets the early intel. Even gets
damage onto that player. So Real is now
going to make a move. And he makes a
move right to the grave. Renor 15
seconds to play and a 1v2.
Trying to make it a 1 v one. He does not
have the time. Can he get there with 5
seconds?
It's not enough. Here comes a 4-2.
A lot of pressure in this elimination
match. A setup on the mini map where
you're watching the cross. You know all
those players in dojo. You get a free
bomb plant over towards a fearful to
make that commitment and Toronto that is
now four rounds in a row.
>> They are happy to take these gifts
>> and it's a gamble they don't take. They
don't know how many players are on the
Bomb. They think they can, you know,
wait for somebody to make a mistake. No,
you had a free and open sight. You just
didn't know. 4-2 Heretics. They are
hemorrhaging here in map five.
3-1 on the defensive split. B is stacked
right now with Miami players
in sight. Saw plenty there to pass the
boys over some information. What an aid
from Metals.
First blood needed that for a little bit
of momentum. Toronto players now grouped
up together dealing with a single rank
where he spots out the information and
able to back down. He's going to have
super here for the support. Can they be
fast enough and decisive enough to get
the plant? It might be the case. Number
once again waiting for these snakes to
connect and they are. Kips has eaten a
ton. Here we go. Heretics in. Oh, the
gun is there. All of a fall. Metals
holds the line. Makes it a 2v one. And
Kleenex now
in a tough situation.
Surrounded on all sides with the COD
gods have smiled upon him for a second,
but no more.
Heretics, their prayers answered. Medals
the hero for his team in another round.
He opened it up. He was that key factor
in round one. Picked up the two-piece in
small room by the bomb site. And in this
round, well, he pops off again. Peach
had been made for the first blood. The
follow up by the bomb site bailed them
out. I mean, they were squaring up for
the challenge, but you see Toronto
entirely ready for that play, playing
the tendencies of the heretics players.
The last man standing, good for two, and
helps you secure that round.
>> Oh, that metal iron boots on the ground.
No jumps to be found there. And that was
all in slow motion as well. So what a
fast moment.
Four to three heretics.
A glimmer of hope here in game five.
>> Oh, Toronto have read this though. What
a play called defensively.
>> Snipe though. The super connect. No,
it's going away from over the top. A cut
to pieces. Medals. Look at him fly. Look
at him saw the stun connection as well.
Everything is going his way so far. And
the damage on the Kleenex is
unbelievable in this 3v3.
His teammates though waiting to get
involved. It is metals right now. The
absolute flat end of the hammer bashing
his way right through the Toronto Koi
lineup. He's cleared the whole site on
his own. He's found another kill. It's
five in a row. Here comes Ria on the
flank. Big damage.
Send in metals to maybe finish the job.
Is he rid the flank? He hasn't. Kleenex
traded out down to Insight. One v2 one v
one
44 here in game five. This mounting
pressure is creating situations we have
not seen this year in SG.
I mean it felt like Metals had repellent
in that round as he starts to push
forth. The Koi players just not even
spotting him running away. Kips flying
out through tree long before his
teammates were there for the followup.
This is chaos here in map five.
Attacking round for Toronto.
Now you start to ask questions. Where do
you want to go, boys?
Bomb looking a little nice. The nat of
this broken window have been so lethal.
Speaking of lethal, there's Kleenex.
First blood on the smoke.
Dodge the nades. Check all the usual
spots. This is no surprise. Wicked work
from Real.
Wow, the damage from the Kleenex and
he's gone as well. 2v2.
>> An adjustment to recovery now. Ki
survive.
No pressure found from the Heretics as
of yet. They hold.
They know they can isolate is isolate
real.
>> Well, now he's able to slip out, get out
of dodge, and you have not seen Rancor
in a hot minute. Rancor loves the P2
pin. One way or another, it's a 2v1. How
fast could Cory react to this? How fast
can they try to take the initiative?
Heretics happy to sit this one out and
wait. The clock is on their side.
Real still eyes up trying to make
something happen. And Aid walks right
into moving traffic. Five spree for
Real.
Insight now alone.
Makes it a 1 v one with 10 seconds to
spare. Renor now finds his way up.
You got to check this. A shoulder
spotted.
No time. No one v one.
Match point. Miami.
Attack from above.
>> Koi.
>> Suffocated
by far the time in that round.
Neither team willing to take a gamble
and take a risk.
>> Well, Heretics are a team willing to
take the risk. How about this? Straight
through the middle. Maton player trying
to dodge these nades. Real all the space
in the world. He is spotted down low.
Maybe that's enough to slow everything
down. The maid's up top, but we are
repositioning
towards the bomb site. This might be a
late A approach for heretics. That show
of force through the middle of the map.
Just a ruse. The fluidity, the
confidence, they're willing to make a
move across the map.
Playing so free right now. Miami. Now,
how decisively can we take the bomb
site? Part of by the tree will start to
push through. That has made his way onto
side with bomb causing a bit of damage
now.
>> Super on the wide pick.
Damage is there. Insight battling
forward. Super now suppressed. Heretics
forced out of the bomb site with no bomb
in their hand. I mean this is a P4 setup
for Toronto defensively except it's an
incredibly tight setup. A nervy moment
reality between a couple players.
There's the throw away of the line. A
3v3. The followup is good. Heritage with
the man advantage.
>> 25 seconds though. Same problem you've
got again. Worrying about the time,
worrying about the route. 20 seconds on
the clock. Here comes the plant. A
retake position. And Koi might have been
red here. Are we playing for the
guarantees? Kleenex
first man forward.
Shooter. Shoot. And it's 2v3. Heretics
with the advantage. It's a long time duo
working together. One last time. Insight
on the clutch. A 1 v3 with an abuse and
it's over.
Miami Heretics
seal it in game five.
Many questions asked and they finally
give you the goods there when you needed
it the most.
A tough one for Koi. Their run and
champs barely begun. For the young
rookies, their debut here, it will end
in tears.
But inside Kleenex who have been here
many times before, this will be one they
hope to forget.
Just breaking him down four rounds in a
row. Shout out to the man getting
brought back to the roster in real.
dropped 11 kills there in that map five.
Jubilation and victory, agony and
defeat.
>> Fortune favors the bold and metals. He
was the the boldest, the bravest in the
lobby in those last few rounds, just
prying forward into the lineup in
Toronto, trying pushing their defense,
trying to find space to play with. And
he found it every single time. The kills
were there, but just the space he's
taking, he's giving his teammates an
opportunity to make a play. He really
was the difference in that map five.
What an unbelievable map from the young
man.
And what a turn.
Real with the big 11 across the board.
It's just the first bloods though. You
had three first bloods as a whole for
Heretics and they were still able to
convert that to a win. It is survival.
The game we are playing in the losers
bracket. At least there heretics well
starting to shape up. 6-4 final score
and a 3-2 for the Miami Heretics to
advance further into champs here in Las
Vegas. We say a fond farewell to Toronto
Koi, our first team eliminated here in
the tournament. And after that, Den, a
swing in momentum, a shift in the
confidence for the squad. It was not
there.
You have survived to fight another day
Miami. What a performance. What a map
out of those boys. Still not a single
snipe here. I think all like in in both
of those not a single shot.
>> Very few in this entire tournament
ahead. New search and destroy a dynamic.
If they didn't gain five wins like that,
it pays off. Who needs the snipes? You
got a real There you go. While Real man
of the moment in the final map there, a
big 11 kills. He joins Blaze on stage.
>> Don't worry, Miles. I was looking for
the snipes as well, but we didn't get
them. But we did get them. Miami
victory. Show him some love everybody as
I got real with me on the main stage and
my god the series was a back and forth
battle. It was definitely a lot of
questions in there but just talk to me
initially like how does it feel to be
able to take down your old school your
old squad and still be in this
tournament right now?
>> I it feels amazing. You know they
dropped me at the beginning of the year.
We need to make a change. It is what it
is. But it feels great.
>> Yeah, definitely feels great to be back
with them. And you know when it comes
down to this Miami team, you guys have
had some struggles in the search and
destroy and we saw it in this series as
well, but you know towards the map five.
Okay. It looked like it was some moments
there where you guys were kind of
confused on what you want to do. How was
it from your perspective and who made
the last call to push you there through
roofs on the round 10?
>> Uh I feel like our issuing right now
we're way better than we are way better
than what we're showing. It's just like
I feel like on the second map for
example, we were just like getting first
loss and over rotating. We're just
giving up at like bone sides and okay
we're making it hard for ourselves which
makes no sense but we're going to
improve for sure and I I don't know who
made the last goal to push out there to
be honest I I can't remember now you
guys are making it difficult but how are
you going to make it easier on yourself
going into this next series cuz you
still have that possibility of hoisting
this trophy. Champs is still going for
you guys and you're still going to be
here to play for another day. So how are
you guys going to get on that same page
so we can see that Miami that we saw at
the end of last year playing at champs
in EWC? Honestly, I feel like we just
needed a win like this like to get some
confidence going because I feel like we
were kind of like tweaking because we
haven't won in I don't know how long,
like a month and a half. So, I feel like
you know what they say, all you need is
one.
>> Yeah.
>> And we're going to keep it rolling.
>> You got to keep it rolling. All right.
And so, as we get ready to keep this
tournament rolling, what do you want to
say out there to the fans that's been
supporting the Miami Heretics? You can
speak in English, you can speak in
Spanish, but what do you want to say to
the group of people who are continuing
to support you guys through champs?
>> Also in Spanish
here on the main stage with Real and the
Miami Heretics. That's going to do it
for us on the stage. Chris, take it
away.
>> Thank you very much, Bla1. And
congratulations to the Heretics. After
losing at the end of last night, you do
not have a lot of time to prepare. We
actually saw them out kind of joined up
as a group around a table discussing
things. Seems like they haven't figured
out all of their search and destroy
issues, but they're better than Toronto
Koi on this day.
>> They got one and that's all that matters
at the end of the day because it's going
to give them another lifeline. And even
though it was messy, if anything, they
got a lot of VA to review.
>> Miami Heretics are now powering into the
top six. And what does that mean for
them? Well, you doubled up your prize
pool from 40,000. You are now guaranteed
$80,000 deal. as we take a look at this
game highlights. Walk me through kind of
the slop I mean slugfest that we saw
here in search and destroy.
>> What you were saying is actually right.
It was pretty sloppy from both teams.
Miami I love the early round aggression.
They were taking map control. The one
thing they weren't doing they were not
putting the bomb down quick enough when
in control of the map late round though
they did end up cludging. Toronto they
had a few moments where they were
hesitating and Miami took advantage of
that.
>> Yeah, I think all the X versus X
situations, 2v2s, 3v3s, 1 v1's like
Miami just did a great job and you know
they're a team that they'll split up.
They won't always play together and you
know Toronto with a few mistakes. Miami
just capitalizing on it in some of these
skirmishes. Like D said the one thing
like positive you can take away is like
they're confident. They're taking that
space. Offensively would have liked to
see them put the bomb down a bit earlier
but once again in the clutch situations
they were just making great plays.
>> It was so fun to watch here. Ally
towards the end it was 44. What did you
see as the closer?
>> I just saw some really good picks from
side May heritics. They didn't slow
down. They stuck with the aggression. I
mean we saw Real completely fullended up
mid. He didn't end up finding a kill,
but even just the sight of that if
you're on the other side on a boy, like
you have to back down in that situation
when your back's against the wall. And
Miami, they thrive in that chaos. And I
feel like I really want to give a shout
out to real medals. The SMGs on the side
of Miami Heritage really showed out this
series. I feel like we've been kind of
waiting for that. And we all know the
story. Medals is having a good series.
Miami Heretics is like teams and the
most impressive in this series was the
hard point simply because of the matchup
and that they were on the losing end of
respawn versus Toronto Koi. This is
definitely Miami, a heretics exceeding
expectations.
>> I love the passion you're seeing on both
sides of the stage for Queen X and
Insight. Their worst performance here at
Champs. They are going to exit 78. Abe
wasn't able to keep up with the straight
or great start he had for Toronto. They
still have EWC a few weeks away, but
this is the end of their road at Champs.
What are you going to remember from
their season, Nameless? Yeah, I mean I
think early on, you know, the couple of
top fours, uh, but for them, it's just
been searching story wolves now for two
years straight. Yeah. Right. So, they
got to do some soularching and, you
know, for this one, this going to be a
hard pill to swallow, but you know, in a
couple of weeks, they have EWC. And for
Abe specifically, I'd like to see him
take a leap, man. Like, this is your
opportunity with some good players
around you. And that game four, I
thought it could have been Toronto's. He
needed to perform a little bit better
and I think he will do so when we get to
Paris.
>> Attach, do you give lessons?
>> Do I give lessons? Of course,
>> search and destroy lessons from Attach.
Trust me on this one, Adam. I'm out. We
got to go to our bracket real quick and
update you where we're at. Toronto is
now gone and we have the heretics
representing Spain in our top six
staying alive onto a Saturday night.
>> Tasting staying alive. We got to see who
else does though after this.
>> Here is our bracket and there is our
break. We'll be back. G2 and of course
the boys from Thieves.
Scuf, official controller of the CDL.
Player X is the official esports fantasy
partner of the Call of Duty League.
Monster Energy, the official energy
drink of the CDL,
>> brought to you by America's Navy and the
special operators who work in the
shadows.
But that's how it go.
I'm going out.
I know that things are going wrong for
me.
You got to listen to my words.
Here
we go.
Glory isn't given. It is earned.
>> What did we just see?
>> Easy.
>> Trying to avoid
another silver medal.
>> This is my time to go.
>> We win. We push. We win.
>> Backto back champs.
>> Oh my god. Unbelievable.
>> Out of nowhere.
>> Unbelievable.
Great.
>> It's history in the making.
>> Oh my god.
>> Oh, by the way, again, it's over.
>> Oh, the champions of the world.
>> Oh my god. Oh my god.
I am
killing.
What do you want to say to the fans out
there that's been supporting you guys?
Optic wall vamos. And that's
going to do it for me and Vic here on
the stage.
>> That's true. Why, bro? Why are you
going?
>> Why are you going?
>> You're going to get in trouble, bro. Why
is your leg behind?
>> What the is that?
>> Hello.
>> Look about
looking in the thing.
>> You're an idiot, bro.
>> He's not in here.
>> Join the game.
>> I can't look at this guy's player cam,
bro.
Like,
>> bro. Like, what am I looking at, man?
>> Oh my god. He actually does have the
propeller on top. Ah, yeah. No, he's
strong.
>> He's trolling, bro. He's
trolling.
>> That should tell you everything you need
to know about this series. He's wearing
a circus hat.
from the depths. Obstic are up. They're
looking to take some map out. They're
looking to close the series. It may be
enough. The tick not there. Oh, it is. I
thought he contested but instantly
dropped. Heretics.
>> Wow. just barely able to take it and get
us to the map five. Insanity
>> I have eight. I have eight.
>> Oh my god.
>> They only got they got one suck,
dude.
>> Let's get it, bro. We got to win this.
>> Oh my god. Suck
>> 9 and 21.
Oh.
>> Oh my god.
>> We're getting a top five play early
today.
>> Oh my god.
>> This is over. This is over.
>> Holy. He's still going. He's
>> still going. Is anyone going to shoot
him?
This is over.
Oh my goate.
I'm got to go with the New York
Subliners in this one.
>> FaZe warmed up the Subliners.
>> Vibe check, bro.
>> Dang, man. Paco has carried me in rank.
I'm going to go with the New York sub.
>> Listen, where am I looking? Here. It's
Mother's Day. All right. Call your moms.
All right. And maybe I'll call them,
too.
One tractor for sure. Okay.
Oh, bomb. One shot. Dead. Nice. Good
job. Oh, bomb dead. The bomb bomb. I'm
bomb. One shot. One. One. One. Square.
Square. Square. Bomb. Bomb.
One shot.
I'm going to hop
on you guys.
Go a. Yo. Next time. Go a.
>> Yeah. They're gonna get one day.
>> Yeah. That this is insane.
>> We get it.
>> Yeah.
>> Boom. Let's go.
>> I want to say that I I I was not trying
to curse us. I did not I thought it was
250 kills. So when we were up 70 kills,
I was like, there's no way we can lose.
>> Now it makes
lay down. I'm lay down. I can do nothing
for you.
>> Behind you.
Oh, if I just go hi that round, man.
Do that.
You're
>> better. You're better, bro. That was
like vault door. I think I've seen this.
>> Oh my god. He's in vault.
>> You're so much better.
>> Oh my god.
>> Let's go.
>> Yobi
going.
Nice try, man.
>> Oh,
I calmed it, dude. I I said like wait
for that.
>> I know, man. I know. Incoming. Coming.
I'm trying. Man, stay down. Just lay it.
>> I can help. I can hold the front. I can
front. You're good. You're good. Stay
down. Stay down now. Already front.
Front. Front.
>> Time. Bust. Absolute absolute front.
>> Nice.
Holy
>> that P5 was
me. That P5 was
>> No,
>> they be careful here.
>> 3 2 1 go.
>> Oh, what a flick. Wait, he's going back
for more.
>> Simple.
You got to give him that.
>> You got to give him that.
>> That was good.
>> Oh my god.
>> Holy.
>> That was crazy.
>> Give that to him.
>> Right where he wanted him, too.
>> Let me show these how to
snipe real quick. Let me show you how to
snipe, guys. in
God.
>> Oh, I'm so dead.
>> I was going to try
>> him. Wait, wait, hold up. Hold up. Was
he the greatest sniper this
>> Oh my god,
>> he was hella good. It all comes down to
this running it down.
>> He's trying to nose.
>> Ricky trying to nose.
>> Oh my god.
>> Oh no. Oh my god.
>> Even hit him.
Oh,
>> GG.
>> God, he got sl.
>> Oh my god.
And we are back live in Vegas. You can
see it's scorching hot out here in the
desert. And well, the luck has been raw
for the LA Thieves so far. A brutal
start to a championship round once again
as they are beaten by a bottom eight
squad. Hard road ahead. A hard eight if
you want to get there. But attach, let's
talk about it. If you are the Thieves,
what are your expectations today? You're
playing in a losses bracket for your
life against a G2 squad they've kind of
handled against in the past.
>> Yeah, Chris, they need to come out and
know that they're the better team. They
have won a championship. They got second
at the last major. Yes, they faltered
yesterday. They had a little loss, but
today they got some hardware earlier.
MVP and rookie of the year are on their
team. That's a good little guess, a good
little bump up, but they need to come
out and just dominate G2. They can't let
this game and lose that map one. If they
lose that map one, the game two is going
to get scary. So, they have to come out
hot. Now, it was the Falcons with a
rookie who did the damage yesterday, but
let's catch everybody up as we take a
look at our bracket. We have just seven
teams remaining as Koi exit will narrow
it down to six after this one. G2 of
course falling earlier yesterday as
well. That was a 3-1 at the hands of
FaZe.
>> Yeah. And kind of sticking on that phase
and G2 match, they were able to steal
away that search and destroy. And for
them, that's going to be their strength
as well heading into this series. And a
big shout out is that the SMGs in that
squad for having a really good map 2. So
hopefully heading into the series versus
LA Thieves, they're going to need it cuz
these are both teams struggling at hard
point.
>> Let's take a look at this thieves squad
because they are the super team. They
were invested in heavily. You've got
world champs and the guy who has every
accolade except a world championship.
Nam took home rookie of the year honors
earlier today. Scrap his second MVP
award in a row. Nameless. Yeah. And you
know for these guys it's business as
usual. You know Scrap's been here plenty
of times. They won their major from
losers round one. So they're
comfortable. You know they got punched
in the mouth yesterday. But when you
look at Scrap lease damage in the lobby
that never happened. So he has to come
out with a vengeance today and
absolutely pop off. Same thing. didn't
even find a first blood in that SND. So,
that was the exception, not the rule.
And this Los Angeles Thieves team going
up against G2 the heavy favorite despite
what happened this week.
>> Absolutely. But I do think the biggest
worry right now uh for me when I look at
the stats is just their hard point. This
is now four hardpoint losses in a row.
And not only that, they were all on
different maps, not to mention Asaka and
Hassianda that are really deep into
their pool. So, they might be stumbling
at 0 and2, but beyond that, I mean,
they're on a 16, we're on a 16 win
series win streak. Their hard point will
come back. I'm not worried about it.
>> We're not worried about this squad at
all. On the other side, we got to talk
about G2 because Dylan, they took to
Twitter saying, "You're not really happy
about the opponent you draw here in the
losing bracket." But that's how the
cooking crumble.
>> Yeah, exactly. If you lose, you don't
get your opponent. And you never know
what's going to happen at Champs. You
don't expect LT to lose, but they lose.
So now they probably expected to face
Falcons and losers. They're going up
against LA Thieves, the major three
champions, and G2. I'm really looking at
Skies and Nasty to step it up.
>> Nasty needs to have a good game. I've
been gassing him up all year. This was
his opportunity. He didn't perform
yesterday.
>> I would say that he has not been better
than MBO since he's joined this team and
that's who he replaced. Hoping they
would get a big buff, right? When KMP
doesn't play well, you're hoping it's
nasty who takes the next step. We have
to see that today. That tandem, like you
said, did not play well yesterday and
that was the difference cuz you got some
good performances out of Envoy and
Cremp. So, yeah, this team in order to
win a respawn, I think it's going to
have to be the game four, which is their
map pick. Those guys are going to have
to play well. talking about world
champs, Ally, they've got a few on this
roster as well.
>> Yeah, and they got to dig deep in a
situation like this when you know the
statistics are just so against you. I
mean, even looking at their overload, it
hasn't been great. Two and five, that's
going to be 10th overall in the season.
So, like I said, they're really going to
have to lean on that search and destroy
in this one and hopefully just try to
push for that game. But, so we know that
G2 Minnesota has recently started loving
getting to that distance.
>> When we take a look at some of the stars
in this one, I think when you look at
G2, Krep has kind of been their face
since the start of the season. On the
other side, Aziz is the guy to watch as
he is in another champs battle against
S, who is now playing for FaZe. So, as
we compare their numbers, who do you
think has had the statistical edge in
the last 60 days at Dash?
>> The last 60 days, you have to give it to
Azy. Uh, he played incredible so far.
And once the NBC meta came in and that
gun got up, he's took over. That's
helped them win their major, helped them
get second at major 4. So, I'm really
looking for Tyler to have a big series
right here. Yeah, and that was the thing
yesterday in the search and destroy.
Aziz got shut down, right? So, you got
to know he's coming out for a vengeance
in this one and they're going to get
similar maps. This is the matchup to
watch though, Chris. You put it out
there. Both these guys like to get in
your face and search and destroy and
make huge plays in the respawn. So,
whichever one goes off gives their team
the better.
>> We've got a little bit of time to chew
on this before our players are ready to
come out. So, let's talk a little bit
about the impact of this match. If
you're just joining us, Dylan, this of
course is day two. We started yesterday
with everyone in the winners bracket. LA
Thieves were expected to have a clean
run, meet up against Optic Texas on the
other side of that bracket. That's not
the case right here. G2 maybe thought
they might be here and you know they're
prepped. Did LA Thieves have to game
plan for G2 today or is it the other way
around? What do you want to see from the
squads and what did they need to do
after last night? Uh if I'm thieves, I'm
really looking at our own respawn, how
we played versus Falcons and what went
wrong? Why why were we not getting those
kills? Why could we not lock down those
hard points in search and destroy as
well? This is where you want to prep for
G2. G2 is a team that has very
consistent strategies, great nade spots,
good wall bangs. They like to get very
nerdy. They have good tech in that mode.
So, you prepare for that. But LA
Thieves, they have way better slayers on
this team. They should just go out there
and dominate in respawns. This team won
a 16 game a 16 series winning streak
already this season. They just have to
remember who they are.
>> They said CDL history with that 16 match
record as well, Ally.
>> Yeah, they did. And so, that's also why,
you know, when I talk about this, it's
like, yeah, their hard point's not
looking like it's in a great spot, but
again, it's the LA Thieves. It's more so
like, oh, Scrap just loses his round
ones at champs than it is me sitting
here and being like, they're having a
bad weekend. So for LA, they should be
looking at this and I mean, look in
their lips.
>> Yeah, I think yesterday a couple things
were at play, right? You don't really
know what Falcons are going to show
because Aluca just joined the team,
right? You don't know how good he is and
how they're going to change and they
punched him in the mouth in terms of
they were able to actually find kills.
But another part of it was they had the
two hard points in the series they were
11 and0 on. when you're talking about
practice leading into the event, you're
probably not putting all your focus on
the maps that typically would get vetoed
going into series, right? The problem
for that is though, they're both in this
series as well. So, I think going back
looking at that VOD, comparing it to
when you were dominating it could have
done wonders for the LA Thieves and they
might be very happy. Actually,
>> I might be kind of dumb here or maybe
it's just that easy to read, but I think
there was one difference in LA Thieves
yesterday compared to the rest of the
season and he goes by the name of Scrap.
Scrap was not having a scrap like Dave.
Do you guys agree with me, Vegas?
>> Yeah, it was kind of off today. I think
you're going to see the real Scrap. He
just won an MVP award this morning.
People may be judging him off of just
last night. Nameless. Talk to me about
this guy who is walking away with
back-to back most valuable player in the
league awards.
>> Yes, you could make an argument that
he's been the best AR since he went pro.
He has been unbelievable and every
single year he gets better at something
else. We talked about the opening duel,
the best in the world at it throughout
this year. And then the ability to lay
down top tier damage consistently in the
respawns. Now, we didn't see that
yesterday. Again, that is
uncharacteristic, but it's happened
before. He's went down to lose round
one. When they won the major, do Ally,
that's exactly where they started at.
So, I think Scrap absolutely bounces
back. I do not even remember if there
was a time he had backto-back series
where he didn't play well. I'm going off
that shout out hitch and around the bar.
I was actually watching it heading into
this weekend. I was watching
specifically Scrapp's episode and it's
just interesting of like the way that he
came up as an SND star and then he kind
of took over Respawn I feel like at the
beginning of this season and now he's
getting to a point where you're seeing
he's not just a straight shooter. He's
not just an aggressive AR. He's got the
head on his shoulder. He's going to be
>> He was an SND kid.
>> Yeah.
>> I assumed he was just like a freak out
of matchmaking and hard point only.
>> Dashy and them. They were running them
SND but lobbies way back in the day. So
for him going now into respawn and being
this overall all-around player. I mean
it's like we talk about you know he's
waiting for that ring like this is the
last thing of piece of the puzzle where
he joins some of the like best in the
league in the conversation. He's got to
do something here on this day number
two.
>> Now LA Thieves they saved the bag last
year. They kind of emptied it this year
on a roster and Kenny was in the
starting lineup. Kenny a two-time world
champion just won a ring with Optic. We
all thought that might go well. It
didn't and they quickly pivoted to this
guy. What did they see from Neam? And
what is he expected to do? Technically
on paper, is he AR number one, AR number
two? How do you classify him attached?
Ne is the guy that will fill in any role
you need him to. He came in for this
team and was a great sniper in the
search and destroy. He has the most
overloads on the team as well. So, he's
that objective guy. Whatever the team
needs is what he will do, but this is a
legacy defining day for all these
players right here. Will Scrap be able
to clutch up that champ and make the
run? Will Nam become another rookie to
win a ring? It can all happen this
weekend if they turn it up. But Neam has
to get back to the form he found at
Major 3 Championship Sunday because he
was frying all day.
>> He's the compliment, right? You need the
other guys to play well and then that's
when he's at his best. Yesterday, they
weren't able to do that. But this guy
Neam in the clutch moments later in
tournaments or when their back has been
against the wall, he has answered the
call every single time. Like he plays
his best COD in the pressure situation.
So this is a huge match up for them. But
once again, the stars have to star and
then Nam can make his play. Rose, I
don't know if you noticed it, but Nam's
mom is in the venue again. Where was she
last time? Atlanta. What did they do in
Atlanta?
>> They won
>> a trophy in front of the fam. You always
perform better. And this scuff rookie of
the year has been performing since he
was given the opportunity. A ridiculous
14-3 positive KD series record. This
guy, you can't ask for more.
>> You can't. I mean, he was putting up MVP
numbers even at that event, right? like
it just sucked to the team, edges them
out just a little bit. And the fact that
you have such two dominant ARs,
especially in this match up versus a G2
Minnesota, that we saw both of their ARS
fall flat yesterday gives them a huge
edge heading into this matchup.
>> Our players are getting briefed on how
to walk out on the stage. But I have
great news. They're going to be playing
soon. And I want to remind everybody
that this is not an easy matchup for LA.
We thought it was an easy matchup
against the Falcons. We were proven
wrong yesterday. So now if you're
looking at the stats here, you got to
think G2's got some pretty decent odds,
especially with the rebuilding that they
have done. Talk to me about the world
champions and the expectations for guys
who have performed on this stage.
>> Yeah. Well, if we're talking from the
angle of G2, Envoys has to be huge for
them as they start this loser bracket
run. Same thing with Skies, right? Like
he didn't play well yesterday. When he's
played well, it's been so much easier
for them. So I think the search and
destroy is really where they will find
the pay dirt. And that game two is
massive because their map pick and
respawn isn't until game four.
>> Let's take a look at those maps and
modes as we dive deeper into that
conversation. All three of you lit up
and Audi put her hands up first. So go
ahead.
>> Let's go. When we're talking about maps
and modes, I think the most interesting
here that's going to suck is that dead
overload for side of G2. Their overload
in general hasn't been great and they've
been trying to add Scar to their map
pool and it hasn't panned out. So
they're kind of forced to put into a
spot, get rid of Scar in this series and
go undeen, which is good for them at 13
and 13, but you
>> good for them at 50%. All right, next.
What do you got for me? Honestly, when
you're struggling like G2 in a respawn
game mode, you can't win any. You got to
look for the other team's weaknesses.
And granted, LA, they didn't lose until
yesterday in this hard point, but G2 saw
lose the Falcons. Now they want to play
them in those maps and see if they can
test their luck versus them.
>> And thoughts on the best of five? Did
the coaches make the right decisions
when it came to the bands and who do you
think has the edge?
>> Yeah, I mean I think for Thieves I love
it. Like just just run it back like we
used to love these maps and you know on
the side of G2 they've put out some
great tape on the gridlock SMD by far
the most important map for them in this
series. I think the overload Alli
mentioned it's been tough for them.
That's probably a wash. So two and four
massive walkout is ready. That means it
is time for your scuff pickups. Let us
know if you agree with them, chat. And
of course, everyone here in Vegas, wake
up, chug your beer, and get ready
because it is time for LA Thieves to get
my first vote.
>> A little bit of cheer.
>> Yeah, they're a little quiet. I'm going
to go with LA Thieves, too. I just think
they're the strongest team.
>> They're waking up. All right, Thieves
fans. How are we feeling? Are we awake?
>> A little Bill.
>> Or are the G2 fans going to be louder
right now?
>> Yeah, they're a little pumped for G2.
Um, but I got to see I think he's going
to make the run.
Thieves are making the run.
>> Yeah, losers round one. There's just no
way scrap goes out like that. The MVP, I
got LA.
>> Backto back MVP finishing top eight at
champs. We don't see it happening, but
we didn't expect him to be here right
now. Guy Blaze, let's get into our
elimination battle.
>> I'm ready to get into this one, Chris.
And we're going to have to vibe check
both these squads again because we did
it earlier and I think I know who the
loudest may be in the venue. But both
these teams are about to get loud on the
stage because they got to give it
everything in which they got. One is
about to go home. They're ready to go.
And here comes the first squad. Show
some love to G2 Minnesota.
Skies
Envoy
and Nasty
G2 ready to hit the stage. Finger on the
trigger. ready to unload the clip and
get that first chip. Minnesota, they
ready to get it going.
>> I mean, when it comes to G2 Minnesota,
you might as well put Darkhorse on the
back of their jerseys. Throughout the
entirety of this season, they've been
causing mayhem in some of these
situations, and they've started icing up
in some of these series. And every one
of these players, you could call
overlooked, sometimes underrated, and
they have been causing chaos, and they
are being given an opportunity to really
mess up some people's brackets in this
headup, headto-head. We got to bring out
the other team guy.
>> It's time to bring them out, Ally. All
right, cuz G2, they're locked and loaded
and you cannot count them out. But the
team coming to the stage is looking for
an epic bounce back and are ready to
officially start their run here at
Champs. Get loud for the major three
champions, the LA Thieves.
Scrap Azy, Neon, and Hydra. The LA
Thieves are ready to peak. They're ready
to take down their opponents and show us
all why they are champions.
>> This team has the current MVP of Black
Ops 7 and the rookie of the year. They
find themselves struggling right now in
losers round one. If there's any team
that can make this run and win a ring
this weekend, it is the LA.
>> They are the ones to be able to do it.
We know that the fans are behind them.
And I know you guys blowing it up in the
chat, but G2 fans, get loud out there as
well. They're your dark horsees. And
this is Kai Champs. Anything can happen.
And Shift and Study are ready to go.
>> Anything can happen. And it feels like
another one of those matchups where can
you really predict your opponent if
you're thieves? G2 have been agents of
chaos kind of reeling after their team
got picked apart, pulled away, and now
an opportunity to make another major
upset happen. potentially. Man, it's not
going to be easy though because you know
Thieves, they lost that matchup
yesterday versus the Falcons and they
instantly went back to watch that VA to
be prepared for today. It's a winner
going home series. Al, you got to lay it
all on the line today.
>> And I think the bigger thing about this,
the desk touched on this is like this is
a no excuse match again. You're playing
up onto your best hard points. You've
got the overload that you want. The only
real question mark in the series is the
gridlock, search, and destroy. And
that's G2's pick. Like Kamet was talking
about, if you're G2, you're not really
seeing a respawn you want till map
number four. It just comes down to we
really believe that thieves are going to
fail on rotation on sake hardpoint two
days in a row. That's where the
far-fetchedness of the conversation I
think starts to creep in.
>> Yeah. Because you can't play your hard
point like that. I said it before that
map number one started like you need to
be able to be the team early to the
punch. You need to win rotations to give
yourself these earlyies advantages
because they were realistically playing
Falcons very disrespectfully in those
opening couple of maps. And obviously
you learned from it today now down in
loser bracket with your backs against
the wall. You can't have those mistakes.
>> Cannot have it. And on the other side of
things, you know, there was the
individual tweet from Nassie saying, "I
felt like I needed to play better."
Obviously, the criticism kind of
surrounding Sky. He didn't look like he
was in his normal form yesterday. That
can't be present for G2. I think
especially knowing that for LA there is
a big point to prove. You don't want to
have the embarrassment of falling short
two years in a row after expectations
couldn't be any higher. So, lots of the
line there
>> without a doubt, man. and to play this
map number one. Again, if you are LA,
you're supposed to be excited. But for
G2 potentially trying to catch them off
guard, the act of surprise. They have
yet to play this map with this core 4
ever since it's been formed. But you
save the good stuff for Champs. You whip
it out at the right time. So LA got to
be prepared.
>> We'll see. Man, there's a lot of buzz
surrounding this G2 team and their
preparation in the weeks that were
leading up to Champs fell short of that
yesterday. a chance to possibly pull a
Cinderella run here and end the dreams
of the Thieves. But we've got LA, we've
got Minnesota Sake Hardpoint. Let's get
it on. The initial fight so far going
great for LA and they taking the page
out of the Falcons book. Screw bottom
pipe. We're going to send it all through
the hard point. And you also have Hydra
trying to work on this pinch drop
through Rocks, but that all gets picked
off. And with a clean for that, G2, you
know where the pressure's coming. That's
almost the exact same break they saw
from the Falcons yesterday. Just flood
the hard point, force the thieves to
come into your web, and it works out
beautifully. Now the spawn starts to
move around a touch as we get into the
halfway point of this first kill. Three
will drop to find the final four. And
now we're blocking. Now we're locking.
G2 off to a good start.
>> Yeah. What G2 was struggling with
yesterday in their hardpoint game is
simply the sling already coming out the
gates. P1 guns on fire. And in the final
15 seconds, you're not allowing the
players to get past this 50 yd line.
Another four dead sequence. Perfect
start for G2.
>> It's another one of those moments where
it just feels like the guns aren't hot
yet for thieves. Can't come out slow.
G2. Tons of daylight between them and
this P2 hard point. Nasty going to take
things off with a nice win over boxes.
LA looking to still develop a route. And
this is kind of the same thing we saw
yesterday where it's just everyone's
looking for 1 v one. Can they get
together? Can they focus a break? Here's
the attempt on the envoy. He will fall.
G2 will only get a couple of members to
spawn in.
>> Yeah, that's just all a lot of pressure
there from LA through the front side.
They knew that they had the advantage of
the 4v2. Two players who were coming off
the respawn have yet to come back to
life. So you flood in towards the time,
you actually get those final couple of
kills. instantly flip these swans on out
and this is looking like 30 seconds
going all in favor of LA.
>> Yeah, another really solid break on P2.
Same thing happened yesterday versus
Falcons. This one a little bit more
aggressive, a little bit quicker than
what we had seen in day number one. Nam
trying to hold down the next break
attempt coming through for G2. Cramp
able to give himself a chance and try to
finesse around the side door but tags
from easy get him weak and cramp will
drop. Last 10 seconds G2 have to play
for rotation.
>> Trade there for G2 to keep on pushing
these back but gives them some free
space off the rotation over towards P3.
You have Sky who finds one. Envoy finds
another. So, they're going to be
uncontested for at least the first 15
seconds.
>> It's another kind of rinse repeat of
their setup that they had for P2. Tons
of daylight in the middle of the map.
Lots of safety for Nasty who's the only
player currently in the hard point.
Scrap may have found a bit of an opener
though. Making his way over to bottom
side. Able to find Envoy down low
through elevator. Now the focus goes
back up towards the staircase. Nasty
would find the trade and keep his life.
Skies over to a bridge. Starting to deal
with a little bit of pressure, but Cre
to follow up. Good hold for them. Yeah,
G2 just keep on getting these early
advantages. Whenever these first initial
dump fights are going down, it's
preferred to go in favor of Minnesota
every single time, at least for the
first three hard points. So, 30 seconds
uncontested. You're taking the lead and
you're still continue to grow it. And
these are going to still try to pressure
this from Bridge. Yeah, last hit has to
come right down the middle. Nasty on
four in a row getting a little bit
closer towards a potential helltorm.
Still waiting for a little bit of
assistance from Kramp. The entire hit.
Five in a row for Nasty. Helltorm close.
And look at number eight on boys on
rotation already around dojo. Yeah,
perfect start here for Nasty. He must
have heard what the thes was saying ever
since he switches to this lineup. Mamba
was still outperforming him a little
bit, but on five and a potentially pick
up a helltorm, but DM gets the better of
him at least for now with the pressure
out of LA through the front side.
They're contesting it early
back to the hard point. Nice stab to
find Hydra. Low on the hill. Help is on
the way though. Dojo reno gets the
forwarder up. Still keeping his life. No
trophy inside the hard point. So he's
going quickly behind all this utility.
They're a trophies of their own to kind
of protect this in from the front. Sky
is able to find one, cramp another. That
will reduce this in just to the last two
team members who are still giving it
their final go. The blast left alive.
Shut down. And G2 put together another
brilliant hold. This is so efficient
right now from G2. Kill starting to go
down. It's not like someone is hitting a
long route. No, it's exactly going to be
team play the entire time. Another three
dead here for the Thieves though, trying
to get this final 20 seconds to go their
way to cut this deficit a little bit
more. But they might finally be in an
opportunity to win a rotation.
>> Yeah, a little small gap there from
Hydra. Gets the scrap time in favor of
the thieves. Desperately need it. Sky is
watching from the window position. He's
able to find a bezy that will again keep
thieves a little bit limited in terms of
what they can do on their setup. Look at
this play coming out through old here.
Two members from G2 trying to surround
and possibly flip the spawns around
here. More kills able to come through.
Nam in trouble and G2 are finding every
single kill. That is perfectly played
there from G2. They know that they have
the advantage. 22 split. We already win
the initial gun fight at the old time
and we had to jump on the last guy. We
don't even touch the hill. We allow it
to be right. And as soon as Hydra jumps
in it, we pounce with our numbers.
Chiefs were playing next level hog point
right now as he's on the back foot.
Yeah, Hydra able to try to set up an
entry. Finds himself one. There's no
follow up. That is not characteristic
for Deeps. Hydra's getting into the N,
but no one else is there with him. DM's
able to find a couple of consilary kills
over the top to at least give DeS a
chance off the respawn for a rebreak,
but it's only 20 seconds left here. And
a lot of this time still going neutral.
Yeah, this is every time where thieves
are finding a break. It's only for 20
seconds. And at least for now, G2 aren't
even allowing them to get this low time.
And it's surrounded. SMG's flying. Envoy
looking for kill number two. Locates the
MVP. And look at what now it does to the
spawn. It's going to be Envoy the only
one pushed out. So this is where the can
stop the bleeding. We need good time at
P1.
>> Yeah, but they're being red here in this
play through. Dojo is possibly going to
be pinched up cuz Envoy spawns behind
the play. So now you got a 3-1 split for
G2 on the break. Thieves need to receive
this. Sky to give you the opening too.
Hyperra in some trouble able to find
one. Has to return back over the hard
point and as he does finds Nasty for a
clean trade deal stay inside the bar.
It's cool to get all these kills but we
need to start getting some hill time.
Paco Taco starting to pop takeover. Four
in a row. You have P1 locked down. Still
30 seconds to play with but again these
farms for GTO going to give them a
natural pinch. Guys gives himself the
opener. 4v3 situation. Ne is out of the
play in some trouble here at Rocks
trying to kill some time for Bezy to
join the play but he's not able to do
too much with that time. So now an
opportunity for G2 to lock down spawns
again. 15 seconds of time to still soak.
And this is great for the score for G2.
And Hydra has to make a big time play
here if you want to potentially start
this comeback cuz you desperately need
this P2 to go your way. He found the
opening. He sneaks his way behind enemy
lines. Gets the better of Nasty. And now
your teammates are here to potentially
get this last raid. KP last man
standing. A perfect roto here from
Thieves. Down by six if you could tie it
up. Scrapping some trouble though. Will
drop over to Hboy. So G2 trying to set
up a break. Still up by about 50 as we
head to a Minnesota. Listening
back the back corner
back.
There's two in the back.
Watch this guy.
back anymore. They're going to be
>> one shot.
All right. No. Watch out.
We need
corner.
>> Yo, exit.
I'm already
go. I'm already back. One shot. Absolute
back lane down. Back
up and there's two on top.
Right. Right window.
The window. Watch it. Nice.
Exit door. Exit door. I'm waiting
still there. I think I'm being
hiding
Nice.
>> Brilliant P3 from Deep now working to
try to string it together to reclaim the
lead as we jump over to LA to see how
the cops are feeling.
>> I'm getting
two. One's already on the tree and
right now
I went I went new. I'm playing the gold.
I get right now.
>> Nice.
down. I go
left. I'm just staying alive on time. I
want
>> I want your propane now.
P2
window
Stay
fro
many
That's
>> us.
Let's go kitchen here.
>> Let's go kitchen.
>> Here we go. 20point game. Back over the
bar. Thieves able to bring this thing
back. But can they take the lead here
late?
>> It's not about how you start, it's about
how you finish. The MVP sitting at
almost double neck. You need to have a
moment. Gets gunned down by skies. The
advantage still in favor of G2. not
giving thieves any openings until these
SMGs start to fly.
>> Yeah, really good route timing from Nam
to open up the bar, get you into the
hard point, try to create some space to
read how this G2 play is about to
develop. Spawns for Thieves going to be
back over towards Rock. Chance here for
G2 to surround the play, but Neil give
you the opener. Hydra, he has been the
catalyst to try to keep the thieves in
this game, but he's unable to get the
second. He has his trade spawns 209 238
20 seconds. So, yes, you have spawns if
you're G2, but you need to hold them.
>> Yeah, and G2 know that they don't lose
that P1. There's no need to take any
more risks. Allow these gunfights to
come to you. Camp your corners. Play for
the first one-on-one is going to be
playing impatient. Doesn't check the
corner. Trying to finesse a little bit.
Doesn't get the better of Prem. Rotation
in favor of G2. LA got to go. Yeah,
they're getting stuffed though on this
backside play. Sky is backing himself
into the corner. Able to find himself
one. Not the second. Scratch the two,
but he gets shut down. 243 224. Last has
to develop over through Manny P for one.
He gets the knife, but he isn't able to
swipe it through. It's just down to boy.
Contest is in. LA are in. They're trying
to find a way to keep this map going. G2
still have a couple of players close,
but we're not done.
>> They got the back spawns. Cre with an
opening. Frag is going to start off
decent game, but it's His trying to hold
it down from the front. K gets a double.
3v2 for the game. Here we go. The
inside. The hard point finds the first
G2 getting absol
They get the staggered spawn. Last 5
seconds. Last opportunity for G2. Is it
easy to shut down the first P? No, not
able to get there. And LA pull off a
miracle.
Are you kidding me?
G2 were so close to the finish line.
It's like they celebrated before they
run past the ribbon.
Lat just kept on fighting.
You didn't have the best performance
there from scrap, but that final
sequence just go in alongside the rookie
of the year and a 2v4. Find three kills
and stall out enough time for the final
two teammates to make themsel a part of
the play.
It wasn't clean. It wasn't easy. But
Thieves desperately needed that one and
they got it.
>> Unbelievable finish. And it just by way
of looking at the last rotation from 5
to one. G2 have a full surround over the
northern side of the map and you start
to feel like uh-oh this is about to get
out of hand and you call perfectly. G2
know that they can't lose on P1 to set
yourself up with a perfect line of
scrimmage. But after a falls it looked
like G2 almost gave up on the play
through the long fight. They lost track
of this side alley and that's where
things start to fall apart with this
last contestant.
>> Certain times where if you are G2, all
you're trying to do is gain the
information. We really don't have to
commit on gun fights if they're not in
the hardpoint time. It would nasty
overextending at that front door, giving
that first kill to azy now. Forcing your
teammates to turn and look to that
direction. Allows all of these other
openings to develop there for the
Thieves. Nean scrap again though just
finding those three kills in those
closing moments. You flip them out.
teams who are sprinting for their lives
and they just can't get back into the
hard point. A one-point difference.
Thieves get it done.
>> And cramp the last one there. Just
cannot touch.
>> Would have been a really interesting
final one v one for the game.
>> But LA, yeah, scrapping I was kind of
talking to you a little bit during the
listen. You can just kind of see Scrap's
face. He's sitting at like 14 and 28.
He's just in a little bit of a blender
coming off spawn not able to get a good
gunfight. Coming off spawn, not able to
get the gunfight. So him taking that
deep breath makes a lot of sense because
it wasn't a great performance from the
MVP but bailed out a lot by the creation
of space from Hydra and of course beyond
that knee a minute 53 and a great finish
we keep talking about that's why he's
rookie of the year it's not just he's
been the best overall rookie when the
moment needs him he shows up for it
>> I promise you look at every single
category on this stat sheet he is
impactful in all of them 19 non-traded
kills 3500 damage 2 minutes in the hill
and also 10 objective kills to go with
it.
For a map that they used to be so
dominant on for real, it's coming down
to one point differences. It was all
about trying to climb themselves back
in. You finally win a rotation over
towards the P2, get 30 seconds, but the
P3 was the perfect response. That was
the first time this weekend where these
are actually set up and don't allow the
opposite team to get that early break.
So, you stayed in the fight, you stayed
committed, you stayed locked in, you
started off this series up 10. And if
you're G2, you cannot let that live in
your head for too long. You're probably
sitting here thinking, "Oh man, we could
steal away another sake hardpoint from
the Steve team who've been so good in it
and then go to our group and destroy
pick where to be fair like it's not
exactly been a common competitive venue
for either of these two teams. We've
seen it a handful of times, but not in
terms of like long-standing rehearsal.
It's definitely not one you identify
with one or the other. So, this is for
me down to can G2 just shrug that off
and reset the series by coming back into
map number two."
>> Yeah. know with G2 in this roster that
they form to close out the season.
They're going to be putting in that
extra work, learning all the nerdy
things about the game. Nade spots, wall
banks. So for a map like Gridlock, where
you only have a couple of reps on it,
the last time you saw a Thieves play, it
was in a game seven versus APE and they
got ran over.
So if you are LA, a team who struggled
yesterday in their SND game simply
because you couldn't find a first blood,
you got a beey. You got the king of
first bloods on the season in scrap and
you were 0 and7 yesterday versus the
Falcons. You need to make sure in the
first 10 to 15 seconds we're not giving
up that early information and starting
in this man down situation because then
it forces the hand for you to make a big
time play and sometimes it doesn't
always work out.
>> And that's kind of the second layer when
you talk about what went wrong yesterday
was in a 3v4. Falcons knew that were
going to just recontest try to get the
numbers back and would punish them
again. something that definitely came
into play when they played Optic on this
map back in Paris. Okay, Thieves overall
though, Gridlock Search has been good. I
mean, realistically, they've been solid
everywhere statistically, but it's champ
baby. Stats don't matter much, it feels
like. So, let's see what the action
provides. We're going to get the LA
Thieves on offense to kick things off.
There's going to be no trophy systems
early into this one.
>> Looks like we're going to have a reset.
Something is wrong. There's no way.
Everyone's just playing hide to go seek
in the back of their base. Yeah, it
feels that way. And yeah, indeed.
>> Okay, so let's keep the conversation up
then. I will say kind of looking back at
G2 yesterday, impressed with their mid-
round adaptations. They looked really
good against what we figured would be a
very strong phase squad. They would come
out on top. And I will say like how
things started. G2 was on 40 up. Started
to get away from them a little bit.
That's where you start to worry about a
team's composure. How deep do you really
trust your playbook? And G2 was able to
close out 64. I would say just overall
on the day that was one of the more
impressive moments from G2 through and
through as a fourman squad. wasn't on
any individual. It just felt like as a
squad, they were making the right reads,
the right calls, and the right
commitments.
>> Oh, yeah. They dominated phase, at least
early into those rounds, they're on
French. It was Envoy, it was Kremp who
were finding openings, finding a lot of
success as island players. And on a map
like Gridlock, you can do the same exact
thing. But my main focus, my main battle
here for this map number two,
realistically, it's going to be one guy
on one end, which is going to be Scrap.
He's Mr. Search and Destroy. He's Mr.
First Blood. And on the opposite, it's
going to be Krem. Those are both the
island players for their organizations.
They're going to have a lot of battles
around the map. A lot of rotation plays
coming in. You have to be able to shut
down either one.
>> Yeah. And I I just kind of looking back
over at Kremp. I think it's a really
interesting story point just kind of
looking at how his year has gone because
obviously the initial GT roster, he gets
a namesake by essentially changing the
name Colossus to his own playground. But
since the MPC has come through, there's
been a little bit of a shift and I think
he hasn't necessarily had the same
overall dominance. Whereas on the other
side, you look at Azy, his whole year
changes because of the weapon switch.
So, I think it's interesting to find how
on land these two these two players
rather have kind of fared. And you see
that it's again, they kind of play in
different scenarios, different types of
this grid.
Clutches, you know, is going to go creps
away. KD's edging them out by a little
bit, but what he was able to do all
throughout stage four, he was one of the
top SMGs in the game. That's why that
graph is the way that it is. one of the
top slayers. Not afraid to make the big
time play. Not afraid to take the chow.
Crep creponator, he's prepared for this
one.
>> Yeah, I'll say it's been a really uh fun
coming of age for Kramp in the last
couple of years.
But this is feels different. We talked a
lot about this G2 team kind of making
the most of a situation that is out of
your control. And to the point, you
know, you kind of watch their last month
and a half, they've impressed. Yeah.
considering the circumstances, but fresh
only lasts as long as the season and
that very well could come to an end
today. Have to find a way to bounce
back. And I think just generally see if
you can keep LA on their heels. It's
kind of like the Falcons did. I mean,
Falcons were moving the thieves all over
the map, pushing, pulling them, feeling
making them feel super uncomfortable.
And you can do that on gridlock. It
could be a quick map here if you're G2.
>> And I'm just excited to see what skies
has in store for us, man. We saw it
yesterday from Kisman. Nate spots
galore. Something about that NYSL camp
back in the day putting in that extra
work taking the advantage of the big
plays. Here we go. Hydra first one
forward. Envoy going to get a bit of a
read. Takes some damage for the effort
but then back away. LA appreciating the
space that they've been able to gain.
He's going to need to go for the plant.
Smoke out looking to find the first one.
He might find more than that. He's able
to catch the second player with the date
out but cannot get back over to the saf
stuck in the corner to find the first
but he cannot find the final. Envoy with
the collection. G2 with the opener. Gi
with a perfect read there. You notice no
trophy systems in play. So these are
just going to try to set the tone with
teamwork. Fourman brawl in towards the
shower as you get the bomb planted. But
the good thing for G2 is that they were
already there to contest them. That
smoke grenade goes down. It
automatically forces the hands of
thieves to try to commit through to
start off this engagement so they can
get the first blood. But the team kill
goes down. We make it a 3v3. Everybody's
going to be weak. And on boy puts the
finishing touches to close out that
round versus scrap G2. Almost looked
like a little bit of a body block trying
to come back. Kind of running right into
Hydra. Maybe it's a smoker to like I
don't know what the hell's going on.
>> Good first response though for G2. Quick
to read and react. What do they have in
store for their first offense? Is it
going to be aggression instead like you
call? It's going to be an opportunity to
play off a little bit of an island
though. This skies in position there as
Krimp is going to be the one to
thoroughly lean forward and try to get
some information learned about what's
happening at midnight. He might catch
one at ice here. This is free. Ne will
drop. wants more but doesn't have
the ability to stay alive as Hydra gets
the quick response.
>> Yeah, there's no way C to run up the mid
map like that for free but a quick
response from Hydra followed up by one
from Scrap. So manage for LA. No need to
force anything. Force G2 to get this
bomb planted. stretch of the map late
aid coming through. Actually tacks on
Dasty.
He'll shrug that off. Get back to full
health. And after seeing Aziz come
across the middle of Mail Truck, he
looks like this wants to be a forced
play over from Shower. Trying to
isolate. Couple of wall bang attempts
coming through. None really going to
affect the Thieves as Sky steps in finds
easy and now it's down to nasty. He's
able to get a lot of damage in but no
real chance of a 1v3.
>> Yeah, I'm wondering with all those wall
banks that they put down if someone is
weak potentially one shot. That's why
Sky tries to slide to their side of
showers, but difficult in a man down.
Both players put down shots on this side
of the map. You see what it does to all
the arrows for LA. You turn and you run
as a core squad.
>> Oh, but Neam teaching us new things.
>> What is this? Oh, wait. He can see Sky
all the way through that.
>> Telling you, you're bringing out that
champs. It's the perfect time to do it.
>> Okay.
still gets blindsided through mid, but
at least it's okay.
>> You know, you're finding something.
>> Cheeky cheeky.
>> Collective
in the venue. Thieves back over to the
aggression once again. Nate will land
though from skies. That will slow things
down convincingly. And honestly, this is
that moment we talked about. Can thieves
come back into a 3v4 blood. Yeah, use
some teamwork still because now your
bomb carrier is trying to be the
aggressor. Sun is going to connect on to
Hydra. Has to back on up to his team.
Reset the play. Yeah, but G2 and the man
up don't need to do anything.
>> Yeah, and this is great from Krem. Just
keep sliding back and forth over through
mid street. Get a read if they're going
to try to play through mid at all.
>> Allow Nasty to continue to throw
shoulders at B. And then you've got a
little bit of a double setup over here
on the back side of it. Hydra sneaking
forward close to a bezy putting some
pressure over towards that small room.
That's going to lead to enough space to
plant. Give himself a chance at a 3v4.
But G2 aren't going to rush this again.
Thieves aren't going to commit on the
bomb plant. So now time isn't going to
be your best friend anymore. G2 already
inside. They're just waiting
intentionally for this bomb to go down,
but it doesn't. So they're going to come
in with the gunny. Yeah, you got
trophies here. So G2 are feeling pretty
comfortable, but the hydra able to find
a couple. Leads it now just down to
nasty 1v2 situation. Has one in the
corner. Big win, but can't slip away.
What a response from LA and essentially
was a 2v4. Telling you man, they watched
back that series last night. Falcons
every time they found the first flood
they played it super patient. So this
time even the man down you know that G2
are ready and waiting to pounce with the
advantage cuz they have an extra gun. So
you delay it you prepare for the
pressure.
You're able to execute that round even
in the man down. Thieves up two-1.
>> And it's not just the fact that they're
a man down. I think you read that and
you say, "Oh wait, they also can't get
the bomb planted. It feels like
everything's starting to go a little bit
sideways."
But a couple of clutch gunfights come
through and now LA have a small lead.
Two one up. Nam on three in a row. G2
looking to maybe play with some forward
aggression over Forte this time around.
Trophies should still be active. You
would think both teams cramp takes a
little bit of damage through mid scrap
to find first blood. Is there a trade
here? Good followup stun from LA.
Doesn't allow the trade to come out
until eventually Nasty gets one back,
but it's still a 2v3 for Thieves. Yeah,
but now again another situation where
you don't have to do anything extra.
Trap them in torch showers. Force G2 to
get this bomb planted and allow that
time to be your best friend cuz now
everyone from LA has regrouped. DM
hasn't seen anything as of yet. Now he's
got a freebie. Nasty tagged down low.
Help is on the way. More damage onto the
second contestant. Skies will fall.
Nasty has gotten himself out of dodge
with 40 seconds on the clock in a 1v3.
He would need to find one to get back
and that's not going to happen. Clean
shots for Neam.
I think Nam switched up his class as
well. He's running that under barrel
that Aluca was giving him belt with
yesterday.
Great shots with the N15.
Nasty with the camera is not good enough
to take down the likes of the Rookie of
the Year. I'm just loving what I'm
seeing so far from LA. There's no one
trying to force anything. No one playing
the superhero role. Every time we had
the advantage, we're not throwing it
away. And that's lead to a two- round
lead.
>> Yeah, you got to just trust the numbers
here, not get too overconfident. Feels
like that's definitely come through. Nam
still holding on to his streak. Four in
a row for him. First blood battle back
to even 22 the count. LA going to take a
measure of pause to start off this
opening attack. G2 going to get a little
bit aggressive. Just going to get envoy
in towards the tree at A and Kle back
over to help out at mid.
Everyone from LA just scouting for info.
See if you going to switch up their
facing on this round. And it's good
shots released back down skies, but he's
not expecting this many guns on this
side of the map. He's able to walk away
with his life still a 4v4.
>> LA's got all the info they need, though.
They know there's a double setup forward
at A. And you also had shots from Nam to
Nasty. They know he's playing outside of
Grandma. So, this is the right read here
for Thieves. Take your numbers. Try to
keep Nasty interested, possibly isolate
on towards him. Just the only question
is where's Creme? They're about to
learn. Either first and for tagged up
now. you commit. You know where
everybody is. Nasty playing backside
alley. Good validation of information as
Hydra continues to lock this position
down, but the bomb is not free enough to
plant yet.
>> Yeah, you don't have any time to do
anything else. You have to commit in
this final 25 seconds at this bomb site
and just hope that G2 are going to
overextend a little bit potentially from
the first blood. Fantastic n coming in
from a bezy. Nasty thinks that someone's
getting that bomb planted again. Another
situation with have the numbers
advantage 2v1.
>> Your bomb's down right now. Hold on a
second. Ano has a chance to clutch this
one situation with 10 seconds at the
clock. First battle not going to go his
way. Get down, Mr. President. Easy final
kill. Thieves up 4-1.
>> That's two times now for G2 on the
defensive side. You're just expecting LA
to be planting this bomb. They are not.
They are waiting for you to play for
this retake opportunity. So as soon as
that frag goes down, Nasty in his mind
is thinking it's got to be getting
planted. So if I can stop that bomb
plan, I can make it a 3v2. Still
manageable, but he gets caught. And then
you're just simply outnumbered. Envoy
put himself in a great position to
potentially clutch that up. But Thieves
again setting up those cross fries, not
leaving anyone stranded, have found
three rounds in a row.
>> Yeah, and their recon in that round is
exquisite. They're able to find every
piece of info they could possibly gather
before making the right read, right
decision. And now the chance for Hydrick
get aggressive through mid. He's going
to support the aggression at A at the
same time. So yes, B is wide open, but
this is by design. There's going to be a
little bit of a battle here on the long
side of the flanks, guys. Oh, he's able
to get the win. Find the win. G2 are not
set up in the post plant, but it's a
3v3.
>> Is able to get on with the bomb planter.
>> 35 seconds. Know they're going to be
playing back towards the 18, but creme
up close and personal does find one. 2v2
able to clear out some of the space. BM
is very close to a helltorm. Nasty seen
in the corner. Scrap pushing and p not
quite able to get through the line of
sight of skies. Nam trapped not quite
able to find the hell storm and G2. A
good shutdown not just on DM but also on
the streak of rounds in a row there for
Thieves.
>> Yeah, that's a perfect play call there
from Minnesota.
Not a single player from Thieves in the
vicinity around that B site. So, we
don't want to waste any time get it down
and play our post plant. But the biggest
kill of the round was 100% Sky started
off with that first blood. Hydra was so
quick to get up through the middle of
the map. His teammates were pushing so
aggressively up through shower. So they
knew the play was going to be at B and
it all just came down to Sky choosing
the 50/50 of where he wanted to look.
Gets the first blood and eventually gets
the round. G2 stop the bleeding.
Can they find a way to get it to two in
a row though cuz offensively thieves
have shown a lot of success by playing
through a aid's over the top. Sky going
to play inside. Nam sniping this round.
He's going to find cramp and more
information onto another but the trade
is immediately there. So 3v3. Bomb look
to get aggressive beyond that setup at
A. And Skies is pushed off.
>> Yeah, there's no way in hell we're not
going to waste any more time on getting
this objective planted. Look at this
spot from Hydra. Don't worry guys, all
of your flank is being covered. But now
you got to retreat back to the team.
>> Here comes the retake attempt for GG
from the front. Lots of damage on to
Envoy, but he's through. Sky maybe the
next one to try to join. Secondary
follow up there. Really good wall bang
as Enboyo is able to push off some of
this post plant. Now it's time to
reclaim the showers. Trade is initially
there. 2v2 situation. His looking to get
aggressive, but he has an M15. Makes
good use of it for the first, but Skies
has the response. Scrap versus Skies. 18
seconds on the clock. Scrapper shots the
MVP. Not going to lose that one. And LA
gets to that point. It's just too easy
when they're gathering that much
information that quickly.
Hydra gets caught potentially ego a
little bit because he knew, oh yeah, I
still got the MVP alive behind me. And
he's also on the head glitch, so he has
the heavy advantage. But to start off
that round with NM hitting the snipe,
gathering so much information that
there's all lot pressure on that side of
the map. You don't waste any time on the
opposite. Get it planted and Hydra
teaching us new things. This guy's
flying.
>> What the hell is that?
>> I don't know.
Something about these NYSL players from
back in the day. I'm telling you.
>> Bunch of weirdos.
Someone in Treyarch just rolled their
eyes. I promise you that. First one
there. KP though able to get at least
one in response, but Thieves just
running it down. KP already the last one
left trying to fuel around the corner.
Nowhere to go and it's going to be LA
with a very convincing map number two.
No signs of slowing down after the big
response in the opening Sakai Hard Boy.
Yeah, they just had such a great start
to that search to destroy. Were able to
give themselves a little bit of a
cushion up 4-1. They're just not
throwing away advantages like they were
yesterday versus the Falcons even though
they barely had any outclassing G2 on
the mode that they desperately needed to
have in this series versus Squados
usually dominated them in the respawns
to get ran over on gridlock.
Really tough to now try to bounce back
versus team cuz thieves had all the
momentum. Yeah, super typical I think
just in terms of not getting too lost in
the little things and your deeds of what
went wrong yesterday in the search and
destroy. Zoom out. What are we doing
wrong on an elementary scale? We're
getting blooded in the first 30 seconds
too often. So, let's stop doing that. If
we happen to find ourselves in the 3v4,
let's not try to immediately follow up
to take this into 3v3s. I think
especially from the defensive side,
trying to recontest bomb sites too
quickly. And then beyond that, just
under pose plants force G2 to come into
you. How many times did we see that over
towards the tree at a where G2 has to
try to work their way through multiple
layers and that extra little bit of info
that you're getting from thief was just
enough to help to set up those again big
number situations in the post.
>> Yeah, sometimes it wasn't even the post
plant cuz they didn't even get the bomb
planted. It's just like all right, you
know, it's 30 seconds left. If you're
G2, you're thinking these guys are
running out of time. They have to get it
down if they want to extend this round a
little bit longer. But every time they
made that decision to jump at them, no,
these are ready and waiting. Just
outclassing G2 in that SND and are now
up 21. And they have a chance to go to
Den Overload, the probably the nastiest
breakoff team on the map mode
combination. Can they find a way to
continue that pressure and take G2 well
and firmly out of champs and start
building what would be a very lengthy
run through the lower bracket? Our
number two seed not out of the woods
yet, but a little bit of daylight
starting to come through the clearing as
we head to D overlook on the back side
of the break.
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Wow. What is going on? He's the master
of fight. This guy is just That's
unbelievable. I knew we were coming back
to him. This is not what I was
expecting.
>> It's the Emmy nominated esports ninja
crew.
Who's the man that sings wake me up?
Wake me up. I can't wake up.
>> We're playing the bomb.
>> Oh my god.
Go. Come on. Give it to me.
>> Bomb is armed.
>> Behind you. Behind you.
>> Yes. Yes.
>> Come on, bro.
>> Welcome in one and all. There's just two
days left of qualifiers. Not bad. Oh,
he's got some
fashion
point. Absolute love of the Rio addition
to the match set and you get into the
garage. Yes, just
>> they told us what we were.
>> Is this the end of the newly formed LA
has been dropped down never got back
>> a mismatched super team. Then we picked
it up.
>> Teams take the chip.
>> Three tournament wins in a row.
>> Nam was ready. Azy was relentless. Hydra
was inevitable. Scrap was unfazed.
>> Verdict in. LA thieves never left.
>> That's what I do. Are you
nice, boys? Let's go. Two there, bro. I
popped my daddy, so they got across. Oh
my god.
Go, boys. Come on.
Ah,
I hit the guy's showers, too. Ah,
>> thieves may have been knocked down
yesterday, but boy do they bounce back
in a major way, especially considering
how this series had started on Sake. It
looked like GT was about to continue to
punish thieves on one of their best
overall maps. But immediately following
a one-point win of the hardpoint, it was
all action, all gas, no breaks on the
search and destroy dominant affair. And
now Thieves are comfortably up 2 going
to one of their best map mode combos in
the game. Yeah, it's just when you win a
map like that to start off a series,
that could potentially be the catalyst
of the reason why they potentially make
this deep losers bracket run. They still
know that job is not going to be done
just yet. Then Overload is standing in
front of them. I know technically on
paper, this is usually a go-to map for
LA and G2 on the opposite. Ever since
they made this roster, have yet to find
any success beside one time. to have so
many reps on a yesterday you fall short
versus phase because the act of surprise
with DZA getting lost caught you off
guard got to keep track of everyone
today
>> and that's tough to do I think
especially in the first 45 seconds or so
the thieves by far the best team on
breakoff on this map often scoring very
early on initial nonvoy slows down the
thieves for a moment but they win every
single gunfight that they need to to
potentially still control the dojo
sometime and they get sky so now you've
got threat through mid threat over
towards dojo but a Good response. Envoy
cramp able to keep the defense alive
early.
>> Yeah, lead blocker loose to that
one-on-one in Hydra. Now you know you
have the advantage if you RG to be the
aggressors on their side of dojo. But EM
and trap make the most of it. Now you
have your teammates here for an allout
blitz through the front door, but a
little bit of finesse coming into play
now. Nice angle right there from EM
almost able to turn that into a second
but has the tip to get one trade back.
Hydra able to follow up. The play still
alive and well. abusing the follow up
and over trying to get there was scrap
of cramps able to lock down the two and
the defense will hold strong and now if
you are DC take as much map control as
you potentially can
retrieve that EMP start pushing up dojo
crep potentially is going to be able to
catch the sneak attack gets the burst
there on the scrap and just not going to
be able to read a bez cut so everything
gets stalled out yeah cramp on four in a
row though able to get the trade keep
his life a little while longer on boy's
win right there will allow him to
potentially grab the EMP and follow
behind this and you've got help from
skies to make sure that pinch from scrap
stays safe. Nasty now trying to create
the extra layer and that will work out
as G2 get through the portal first. Now
if you are thieves, you got to make a
decision. Are we going to wrap back or
we going to decide to push through? But
with Hydra and Scrap already finding
three kills, it makes their decision
very easy to be made. 330 still left on
the game clock. We have yet to account
for where Envoy is going to be located
because now his teammates are showing
pressure over towards Dojo and he also
finds a kill.
>> Huge. Now it's just down to one
defender. Can you find this if you're
VZ? No, Envoy's able to find the kill.
There's going to be a second score here
for G2 when they decide to put it
through the goal. Trying to get
themselves set up and move over towards
the rooftops first, but kills for
thieves will all have a chance to
potentially set up a counterattack.
Yeah, they quickly need to because it's
already been 2 minutes. You're down by
two. Have every single one of your
teammates trying to play this reset, but
Hydra is the lead blocker loses that
one-on-one. Now you're losing the trade
fights. The reset goes down. The only
player alive is going to be Neo. And
hopefully your best overload player can
make something happen. And almost yes to
a second, but there's still a player
behind his play and ask him to win the
pistol, but there's no follow up from
Kreb after the heroic play through P2.
Envoy going to hold his life over
towards mid EMP rotating around the
pivot point. Scary
>> and Thieves are looking to try to follow
behind while also cut their defense up,
but as Envoy drops, thieves will feel a
little bit more comfortable. Now they
have the 4v3. EMP is going to be
standing right in front of them and they
have allout SMG pressure to give
themselves this advantage. That's going
to be four dead. Only one player
potentially here to stop them. And it's
still an envoy. The dark prince with a
double. And now you're forcing Hydra to
retreat.
>> He has had a great start to this first
half. First quarter of the map already
gone. That 10 and seven is Envoy.
Oh, and almost able to get to 11 right
there, but able to find a couple of
kills to get them in towards Dojo. Gra
up able to get one. Oh, what just
happened right there? Strap lost track
of him. So the knife comes out, finds
that into a second and skies will keep
G2's pressure at Dojo alive. And that's
just another sequence where you cannot
allow that to go down if you are LA. You
had to jump on him. The finesse game
almost burst out. But it's cremp popping
T. And now Envoy still doing it on this
side of the map. Great 7 seconds to
potentially back him down. He also picks
up the kill and even finds the one
coming off the respawn. Krep and Envoy
doing it all.
>> What are we talking about right now? G2
is running right through LA on every
part of the map. But they're not done
yet.
>> Oh, they've got him completely spawn
trip. Easy pick up, grab and go for
Krep. And we are going to have a
lightning fast first half. 40 G2.
>> Yeah, you're not expecting that kind of
SMG play from G2.
Cramp and Envoy found themselves in so
many different situations where they
needed to find a multi-kill to give them
their best chance. Nasty starts it off,
but it was a cramping envoy show all
throughout that first half.
took 3 minutes and 43 seconds to get
that one done. And now a tall ladder to
climb for Thieves to try to end this out
in three.
>> Absolutely incredible considering the
fact that there were a number of moments
where it looked like Thieves were about
to score and it's one player, last one
left alive for G2 to come away with a
double.
They make sure that it stays like a
clean slate here in the first half.
About as good as it gets if you're G2.
Six in a row to carry into the second
half for Envoy. Nate will land from
Skye's hand. Enboy will drop though and
that will lead to an opportunity here
for LA to continue to play the trade.
Fights until skies has the final word
and will stay completely neutral through
the middle of the map.
>> Yeah, he just want to make sure that you
take care of the middle of the map. But
it's Nam on the opposite finding a
double. It's the only thing none of his
teammates achieve at EMP. So you're
going to have creme working on this
long. You have a lead blocker and Hydra
already clearing out a lot of space over
towards A. This is going to lead to a
cap. LA get there first. That's a bit of
a miscue right there from G2 coming off
the spawn towards B. Feeling like they
may be pressured through dojo, maybe
pressured through mid. You lose track of
Hydra. Now there's a chance through this
dojo play. They actually develop a setup
over towards B. G2 know that they need
to clear out the V point. Able to get
the first one cleanly. Ne though next
one up to find the first pistol through
just trying to play body block finds a
second elimination. Can you get into the
goal though? That's the big question. If
you're strapped and Skies will stop the
play at the last second. Yeah, now Sky
just got to get the hell out of here.
rid of the base. He's trying to chase
you down, trying to set up this pinch
play, but Nassie gets the better of him.
And now you're going to turn this into
an immediate counter. There's only two
players from that potentially slow you
down. Mid scrap this time with the MP
MPC instead of the M15. The double is
good enough for now to control the EMP.
Quick grab and go situation here though
with this rotation swiftly making his
way through mid map. Oh no, little self
team stick comes through. That's
unfortunate. It slows down the play of
what looked to be potentially a bull
rush situation for the Thieves. 3:30 on
the clock. Still down three. EMP
retracting back over towards the spawn
to reset.
Trying to pick it up in the middle of
the map.
Know that this space over towards roof
side. It isn't going to be easy to work
with, but we just need to get it out of
our spawn. Great opening kill there from
Scrap. Big flank read there from Azi. So
you have a 4v2, but it's so difficult to
just get past this wave of fights.
>> Yeah, on board just continues to be a
menace on the map. 23 and 14 gets away
with two before the thieves can even
jump across the rooftop. Skies will
follow behind that. Hold on a second.
You can follow this up if you're G2.
Skies lots of damage onto one more.
Scrap low tries to throw a section to
slow down the play, but Sky has the EMP.
Does he have enough support here to
actually get through the gold though and
just rushes it over? You got to find the
train though if you're on boy. Able to
secure it. able to get to the EMP and
no, he's maybe an inch short. And look
at the mini map. Thieves have full
pressure over towards B. Yeah, this is
going to be an instant counter. The only
player that could potentially stop them
is going to be Crest with the relocation
to just go through broken window. Hit at
mid. Cut stalls out everything there for
LA. You allow your teammates to not be
back into play and potentially the
counter right in front of her. Scrap the
only one that could stop him can do
nothing. G2 still up four. Oh, mercy.
Electricity just dramatic back and forth
as Nasty keeps his life post the score.
Foul up on good for skies. Two minutes
on the clock. Four score game. Time
running out here for Thieves.
Got to play quick, man. We got to win
some fights. Almost able to locate the
triple is creme.
>> But with only two minutes to work with
no, we can't continue to fight these
fights over towards Rooftop. We have to
get it over towards Dojo. G2 saying,
"All right, trying to walk right in
front of it."
>> Yeah, it's just there's too much map
control right now for G2.
Just playing a little bit of defensive
focused overload right now. Sky is in
maybe a little bit of trouble here with
the M1 pulls in personal. Hydra finds
the quick shot down and it's sprinting
time for your thieves. Grab playing into
the garage to shut down one angle
approach towards the A zone. The follow
from the carrier is there and with a
minute 20 on the clock, it's now or
never for the might be good enough to
already call the game. G2 with all
pressure have to play at their own pace.
Another three make it four dead in the
feed. Thieves spawning so far away and
we're going to hit the dive to get score
number six. G2 will be able to extend
this game a little bit long because time
is already out of the picture.
>> Yeah, this is definitely one of those
maps you look at and say, "Okay, G2, now
we're back in it." After that one-point
loss on the hard point, you get battered
and bruised on the search and destroy.
Then you come out and put a master class
together on the dead overload. Exactly
what the doctor ordered to try to put
together a reverse sweep versus the
thieves.
>> Yeah, to act of surprise. Almost caught
LA off guard in that map number one. And
you're probably not expecting G2 on a
map where they have played it five
times. Only have won it once to square
up here with this one. But they've been
putting in work and it's showing. Only
30 seconds left. It's mathematically
impossible for the Thieves to even think
about a comeback. We can try to get
these guns a little bit more warmed up
cuz no one is positive right now.
>> Yeah, it is right here for G2 is not
just a victory lap. This is one that's
going to try to continually build a
little bit of a mental edge as we look
at map number four, which is again
another repeat from yesterday for
Thieves and that matchup. So G2, what a
display here on Overload in particular.
The SMGs firing on all cylinders. It's
just way too much to handle if they're
going to play like that. creme showing
what he was like in stage four with his
slaying presence, but then the dark
princess getting kills and also making
those plays to influence spawns a
certain way. G2 were not willing to roll
over and die to take that graph break
and come back, reset it, and you extend
this series a little bit longer.
Absolutely. We'll have plenty of time to
discuss the Hi hard point to come out,
but to see the SMGs, especially Envoy,
start off with that much electricity.
That's like one of those moments or one
of those players you point to. It's like
if Envoy is having a great series, this
G2 team feels like they're at full form.
And I don't want to make it sound like
he's an issue or a problem. It's just
when he provides that where you're
finding a couple of the scores, a couple
of great defensive moments, but more
importantly, your ability to find 30
plus and just roam around the map, it
just frees up the rest of G2 so much. Oh
yeah, this is what G2 were missing
yesterday. Just their slaying presence.
Everyone is providing their 25%.
Sometimes players are going above and
beyond. SMGs is doing what they need to
do to keep their tournament dreams
alive. G2 recently just make this roster
change not too long ago for not one but
two different players so they can
compete in the final two tournaments at
the highest level. You don't want to
roll over and die. You don't potentially
want to go home here on a Friday. And at
least for now, they're still fighting.
>> Yeah. And you called it kind of talking
about this G2 team and what their
overload has looked like over the course
of the last month and a half. Lots of
reps, lots of practice, just not the
amount of success to really kind of
figure in the headto-head on paper that
this was going to go the way that it
did. But I have to say that one of the
things that we've watched G2 over the
course of the last couple of weeks
really start to advance and progress on
was the ability to create extra layers
and not just fall victim to sitting on
your heels a touch of being in constant
2v3s, 3v4s, like build numbers, hold
lives, create pressure on the map. They
did that to an absolute tea here on
Denov.
Whenever you think about a roster like
G2, you're always going to think like in
respawns, they're probably not going to
be one of those top teams that can
consistently always go up the big
numbers, but they can outsmart their
opponents. They can outthink their
opponents and they can have a game plan
that can work. And if they can provide
the slang on top of that, that's what
makes them a very dangerous roster.
>> So, just a simple map to take care of.
finally seeing an overload go through
>> again. Just trying to keep themselves
alive.
>> Yeah, me too. Nate, is he in the venue
today? I know he was at the tables last
night when they lost.
>> I mean, Matt, it's Champs, baby. It's
one of those things that it almost feels
like the rest of the season. Just don't
don't forget about it. Just don't even
think about it. It's an on the day type
event and at least to start off this
day, thieves looking better than they
had yesterday. But still after a
onepoint hardpoint, it's got the big
boss CEO sitting there with an elevated
heart rate starting to think about
urgent care. Hi to hardpoint to come up
next. And kind of the same story that we
talked about when we reflected on
yesterday's sake. Same things existed.
Rotation success not as efficient as
we're used to seeing for thieves on this
map. Falcons, I think in particular,
that one of the greatest things about
what they were able to do was be able to
know when they had an opportunity in
front of them, when they had numbers,
when they're able to win a rotation
because only one thief player got
through us. That was something that was
super successful for them and something
that I would say needs to be replicated
in the minds of G2 if they want to get
to five.
>> Oh yeah, just beat them to the punch.
Make those little things go your way.
Play to your advantages every single
time you get an opportunity to do so.
But just think you still got to bring
that slaying presence, man. On a map
like Cassandra, you know, P1 can
sometimes get extremely mixy. You got to
make decisions. Are we going to fight
for those hallway control? We going to
try to hop in towards the time, but the
team that's going to win the rotation
towards P2s towards the P4s. If you
potentially earn an early hell storm,
you can call the game the first three
hills. So, G2 are here to fight and just
don't want to lose another hard point on
the weekend.
>> No, no, no. I think in particular too
when you look at just the success that
Krem envoy just had in map number three
if they could keep the guns that hot and
win key gunfights over in the middle of
the map that will help a ton when it
comes to once again not necessarily
winning a rotation but putting pressure
to force the thieves to have to make
tough decisions. I always look at that
20 seconds between hills the final 15 or
so on the previous hill into the first
15 or so on the next one. Especially in
a map like Hienda it's not just about
getting there first it's about setting
yourself up correctly. So, as we have
thieves spawning towards spiral side, G2
over towards Office. Let's get it going
for map number four.
>> Tournament lives on the line right now
for G2. How are they going to come out
off of this break up buff? Try to set
the tone and I love the game plan for
both frosters. We're playing for the map
control and so far G2 doing better in
the slang. Three to two in the trade
fight. Now, we hop in the hill.
>> Yeah, really nice from Nasty. Good read,
but doesn't trust it initially on where
the spawns are coming through. Poss. Now
has the info that he needs. Cannot find
the first gunfight window versus Hydra.
Oh, agent of disguise on the find one.
Good damage onto the second and G2 never
leaves the hard point. Good opening time
for Minnesota.
>> Yeah, with 20 seconds left. We're going
to start thinking about new nasty the
great spawn over towards fence line gets
behind Nia secure the better side of the
map. That's three dead off the roto.
Final 10 seconds. Steves know they have
to haul ass all the way across the map
because G2 are going to be ready and
waiting.
>> Big moment here for Envoy and Nasty.
Envoy will lose the first one. Now
holding on to Nasty big pistol win to
come through. He's up to hold the spawns
for just a little bit longer. LA over
the work their way in towards Van lobby
though and you get a read a little bit
of wall bang tag coming through guys has
to be careful of the Lambo explosion G2
are still spawning close can they get
here to support on the hard point though
that's the big question as these are
still waiting for the moment strike yeah
but they contest though at the back
thankfully Nasty catches that trade onto
Hydra to allow his teammates to still be
spawning over towards driveway so that
instantly gives you the advantage in
these numbers and Nasty having another
stellar start here to start off this
hard point on five in a row you give him
this early hell zone you might as well
start thinking about game five. Yeah,
absolutely the case. The easy still
holding in the corner. Scrap is low.
Nature to come through. Need to find two
from the corner. Leaves Nasty by
himself. Essentially the hard one, but
Sky is able to work his way in for two.
They know the last player is over
towards Zig. And this has been flawless
for G2. The fact that Nasty is still
alive is going to feel like an absolute
miracle. And with the last 10 seconds,
pretty much a guarantee. Now we look to
rotation through the middle of the map
over towards Fences. Yeah, that
potentially is a game- saving kill there
from Hydra to just still contest at that
old time and specifically find Nasty on
that streak. as your teammates and
confidence set up off the rotation, but
still G2 are already knocking at the
front door. Everyone supplying pressure
through top flat. The only one able to
get a kill is Nasty. So that's all four
dead, but Swan's flipped. Yeah, but
Scrap's got the read. It's another slow
start for him here in this hard point,
but he's able to at least again get a
read on what's happening in the map.
Envoy stunned up. That makes that
gunfight much easier. Thieves still in
the time for now. G2 setting themselves
up as they have Nasty working up top.
The rest coming through well. Cass is
going to play this one patient, but
their pinch trial player finds the
opening kill. So, everyone else knocking
at the front door going to commit with
the aggression, but they are not
prepared for the crossfire setup there
from LA. Final 22nd is looking to go
their way and they already have a player
off the rotation as well.
>> Yeah, this is a tough moment in this map
early for G2 in terms of decision-m with
the time left. You don't just want to
run away from the time, but you're also
so late to rotation. N still alive,
almost able to find an opportunity to
turn, but K will keep checkers somewhat
contested for now. Be easy trying to
sniff it out but can't find the kill.
Scrap thinking about it. Pistol shots
are out but LA will in the rotation
early over to Rock. Yeah, hopefully
they're able to get these choices before
these tanks start getting invested over
the top. The stun connects on to Scrap.
He still gets the red boy. Scrap's able
to find a double. It keeps the numbers
on their side and now the MVP is on five
in a row. Could be finding himself a
hell soon on top side. Lando taking a
ton of damage. Reload is through. LA has
eight bullets perfectly set up for this
one. The trophy system falls onto finds
two. That's your opener. A easy trying
to stall out the hit, but it's just too
much to deal with. G2 with the break.
Just attacks so good. There's only one
trophy system that can stop everything
coming through the sky.
He's not able to connect onto Envoy.
Opens up that break with a triple. Good
chunk of time still to play with. And
Hydra hitting the water out. Hopefully,
he's going to make the big time play on
this flank. That's kill number two.
Can't find the final. This last 10
seconds is going to G2. Yeah, that broke
down in a way that I wouldn't think
would have happened right there with the
free route that Hydra had plus the
opening first blood from a bezel. Looked
like that was going to be a guaranteed
break for scrap time. But we'll exit the
first rotation at about 20 point game.
Moving back over to Fountain. LA in
first with some good high ground control
window to window.
>> Yeah, this time around on the second
set, we need LA to get this P2 to go
their way. Going to be down by 10. We're
consistently trying to fight for this
hallway control. It's all scattered, but
with a perfect read and throughout that
entire process, he was able to pick up a
helltorm. So, Thieves are going to be
able to take the lead. As long as they
keep this side of the map, they are
happy as hell. Yeah, Hydra first layer
over towards the office. Slows down the
setup in the break attempt for G2. 30
seconds still left on this hard point
and we've got a lead swap. LA now in
control of easy. Four in a row again.
Looking for skies up. Oh. Oh my
goodness. Little mini bounce off the
wall will work. Hydra able to follow
behind that. Can he get everything?
Envoy is low. Hydra with the finish. And
LA still controlling the map, but the
rotation presence for G2 gives them a
chance to get the P2. We got two kills.
We got to go. We got to be the aggressor
cuz everyone off the respawn already for
G2. Have control of lobby. Kremp is able
to locate three. No one takes the long
route. By the time you do, you're the
last man standing. All four for
Krepinator. Rotation for G2. They're
going to be able to take the lead right
on back. And if you are, Thieves are
actually going to invest this out for
here at P2. I don't know if I like it.
>> We'll see how it works out. G2 just
going to bunker up inside of Lambo.
Skies and nasty in the hill. Envoy
trying to play over through Spyro. Swans
will move. Thanks the presence out of
the hell stom, but there are no
eliminations off the back side of the
street. Prable able to get back in from
the front. Nasty swapping between
weapons able to find the opener. Does he
get a read that Hydra's playing this
tight this close? If he could find this
kill, it would be massive for the
effort. Damage is up, but Hydra's able
to win the gunfight. Spawns are still
good for thieves for now.
>> Yeah, that's just not a good sequence
there for LA. You have played Hiendo for
not only this season, but even the last.
We understand hellsomes are impactful at
P3s and P4s.
>> Use it here at the P2 hoping that you
can get yourself into the time, but you
have yet to contest anything. Skies on
four in a row.
>> Get caught with the reload. You're going
to give the final 5 seconds to LA, but
that was a sequence that might cost them
the game.
>> Yeah, I bet this is going to be
interesting cuz Skies does still spawn
out. Hardpoint not open until this exact
moment. So, Envoy's try to get a read
through fire. This is going to force
this rotation all the way around through
office and G2 is fully aware of it. to
find the first information. A little bit
of damage, but Envoy drops. Nasty has to
follow behind this. Able to find the
opener. Good shot. Plus the nade damage
will convert, but the spawns are still
Nixie until Cremp wins it out towards T.
G2 own the hill. And now if you are LA,
you have to go. We got to stop giving up
all of this time. Need to find some
kills. Quickly get over towards the hard
point. This is only 30 seconds left. You
give this up to G2. It's basically GG.
Another kill feed lit up in white. G2
are not losing gunfights. They haven't
been doing this since the beginning of
the season, but they are just pulling
away here on Hi. Shots are nasty for
one. Cramp to take his position. Passes
the baton between the SMGs. Able to get
the win as cramp. The contest from the
front is still at 10 seconds remaining.
LA not really able to get too much out
of the scrap time, but will give them
the default decision of playing for
rotation. 180 to 99. Do or die time for
these.
>> And we know always whenever you have
this much of a lead, the leaders
advantage is one hell of a thing. It
allows you to work on these long routes.
Look at what Skies is doing. Taking his
sweet time all the way up through
fences. Thieves are thinking the
pressure is going to be all out through
the front side of boat. Here comes
Skies. He gets this kill. It would lead
to a break.
>> Huge first kills though for Thieves. It
gives them the luxury of being able to
check this flank.
>> This is taking so long.
>> It's just so long. That's an easy first
30 coming through. Sky eventually able
to follow Ed Sheeran for two through the
side door. It may have taken a while,
but there's that leader advantage you're
talking Yeah, it needs to be guaranteed
if that round is going to take 25 30
seconds to develop. That is still a good
chunk of time here to play with that
rock. Final 30 seconds. G2 looking to
try to soak this one up. They again are
winning piece by allout pressure from
trying to knock at the front door.
There's only one player still finds a
double but
I'll tell you what, man. The NPCs are
starting to really light things up now
for G2 Nasty in particular mostly down.
That SMG is up to 20 and 13 with a
minute 20 in the hill. So 210 plays 125
in LA. Backs are firmly up against the
wall before we consider a potential map
five. You are traveling to keep on
slaying. Keep showing presence around
these hallways.
Not allowing these kids fully set up.
Aren't giving them any breather. You're
understanding weather pressurees coming
in cuz your AS are locked down these
entryways. They only need 30 seconds to
force game five. It's just been total
map control for G2. Even in this moment,
I love this from Crep. You lose two
players up top. I can't stay alive. Get
out of the hard point. Try to hit a
route. Nasty going to join him. Her
shots are in. That will be setting up
Nasty for the ability to follow. And
this is just so good. Now it's just a
hornets. Absolutely flying around the
map for G2. Chance to pull his things
out as P2 is going to be there. If you
are, you have been able to get a B2 all
throughout this game. And now the final
8 seconds of G. You know, you have to
run all the way across the map. We have
to win gun fights that are going to be
extremely difficult to do. So G2 looking
to close it out right here at the speed
to be the last 20 seconds will spawn up
to help the defense of this hard one.
Good read in the corner find
it will be able trapped behind himself
to not the third. Last chance to be by
the way of Hydra. I don't even know if
he's going to make it there in time. No,
not at all. Domination from G25.
They just have way too much firepower
right now in these three months. You
heard the best on it yesterday. Scott
and Nasty don't really put up the best
numbers. They getting ran over in their
series first stage, but today is a
different day. Very on point. Everyone
provided their 25%.
If you are a G2, you're thinking we
should have already won this damn thing.
We're going to a five. Oh man. G2 coming
through in a big way. And that's two
hard points that shut down the MVP and
scrap in one of the more convincing ways
we've seen so far on the year. He's
usually the damage leader, man. right
now he's the least amount of damage on
his team which is insane especially on a
map like unreal stuff G2 have found
themselves some Jimmy luck tell you what
there we go look at the flow it's just
one of those moments that is just close
until it's not absolute runaway in the
second set of hills for team it's the
same problems we were talking about
yesterday rotation not quite there
almost feels and we can we can sit we
can discuss this all day long but it
almost feels like if Hydra doesn't open
up some space for LA they're going to
lose information today, but we also need
to be making better decisions, man. It's
basically a tie game where we go from
the end of P4 over towards the B1.
That's when the BZ is able to earn
himself a helltorm. And you should know
like can't really get any success off
this P2
at that hard point. That could have been
a bailout for you at the P3 or even at
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Shut up.
Oh, we've got ourselves a Friday backto
back map fives. This one with a little
bit more drama as it could potentially
be a reverse sweep, but well more focus.
Our number two seed, our major three
champs, full fire championships, our MVP
and rookie of the year. All the
accolades you could possibly throw onto
one squad. They're under threat of
potentially being knocked out top eight.
Yeah, this would be insane, man. But
what has shown us all throughout this
season is nothing but progression. And
when you want to be at the top as at the
end of the year, they were able to win
major 3, contest optic in the best of
seven series at major 4, at least know
that they are one of the top teams in
the game.
Just right now, the odds are stacked
against them. It's going to be tough
going up against this D2 lineup. They're
phenomenal in search of destroy. We
weren't able to see it in that map
number two, but just building the
momentum off the overload off of the
hard point. They are prepared here on
Sake.
>> Yeah, and that that's a big thing. You
know, we've talked a lot about the
potential this map has as it was added
into the boom late. It felt like teams
had a really tough time figuring things
out offensively just due to the nature
of how the map is laid out. Plus, just
the overall timings as the round starts
to fizzle into 2v2s. It really does feel
like a roll of the dice, not to use very
easy Vegas punt. I think it's just for
me down to some of the same key cores
that we were talking about from
yesterday to today. for thieves in
particular, first blood survivability.
That's number one without question. But
then behind that, let's just say for
instance, they find themselves in low
numbers, not over aggressive to try to
return, make up those numbers quickly
because what we've seen from Falcons and
what we haven't had a chance to see from
G2, we know they can is punish moments
that look like that. Okay, on a
different map,
Sake is going to be played at a totally
different pace. You don't want to give
up early. You instantly want to shut
down any pressure up through that a
street. Just don't allow those
gunfights, that bottom pit to go the
opposite way.
High risk, high reward here. Who's going
to take the biggest chances on the game?
Follow everything on the line. Just
going to have to wait and see. And
here's another question for you. Let's
use your your pro brain here and just
talk about the MTP. That's two pretty
poor hard points out of scrap. Ones
where it feels like Hydra's the one
who's being able to create the moment to
try to build a comeback. What does that
do to not only you as an individual but
the team as a collective when you're
looking at the scoreboard at the end say
like hey my MVP is sitting kind of slack
a little bit. Do you think scrap will be
able to reset himself come back in be
part of the team or do you think he's
going to try to just force something get
the gun hot and see if you can be a
factor early. I think that's what makes
him the MVP because he's able to do
things like that. Have a couple of maps
to still be impactful in the series to
potentially call a game because I always
say it's not about how you start. He
hasn't had the best swans at three
squads. He hasn't had the best search
and destroy. But in this game number
five, if he can just come to life for
his squad, everyone's going to forget
about what he was able to do in this
one. Just take a look at the bracket. We
have phenomenal matches still to come
upon us. Optic be Paris to end out the
night. Falcons be phased with the new
kid on the block and the Luca ready to
cause some more issues, some more
upsets.
But this bracket is sort of filling out
the way I thought it was kind of. Here's
a look at how the weekend will break
down from the prize as well. $800,000
for champion status. But in this
particular match, the difference between
seventh and eighth and fifth and six.
This is a $40,000 map of search and
destroy.
Game is ready. So now we've got all the
stakes. We know how this one could
potentially roll through. Now it's just
down to straight up execution
and it looks like ready to go. So let's
not keep him waiting any longer.
Dropping at the mid sake loading up what
we looking for J. Who's going to set the
tone is the last two maps. We're happy
with the inter G2 just gaining the
momentum off of them which we a one
point hardcore point. How aggressive
they came out in that map number two.
Sake is a different beast. It's going to
be the battle of the SMGs on the side of
low pitch. It's a win or go home
situation. You lose this, you're going
off top eight. You're going to be
sitting a couple weeks before EWC
thinking about the little mistakes in
this series at Central America. Last
thing you want to be doing is fast to
reach for that long on the little
things.
Let's lean forward a little bit. Get
locked in that first sweep on the cards.
It's going to be LA with the opening
attack sake for the third pack number
five. And I going to kick things off.
Boom.
just scouting early on.
Get the class swap now to the F-15
those
little maps to be able to take a lot of
potentially displanted. That's a good
refle
keeping that bar window contested means
that this site is not as free as it may
feel. Here comes the play will bounce
off and find the initial counters early.
grab off the reb
to get this to go 2v2 cramp grenade
start to do it all 2v2 45 seconds
challenge easy absolutely rips up two HP
in his dream he stays alive but it's up
to the rookie of the year in a little
bit of trouble the smoke gives him some
space to find maybe a little bit of
space to work with 30 seconds the clock
bomb in hand this is a round test that
takes so much time
shots come through 52 with the opener.
And how about Crab? He got all four.
Told you it's about these SMGs to start
off this one. It's a slow and steady
round for G2 to just try to read if
these are going to be the ultra
aggressors through a bit. But once they
don't spot anyone and envoy gathers that
information, someone is head glitching
that Bomb site. It's a twoman push and
creme giving them the fist bump. A
perfect starting round there for G2. I
love just the overall bid round
committed to two. I'm going with the re
ski guys to confirm and then the SMG
rewrapped in the pit. Beautiful for G2
and you got creme roaring in round one.
Confidence is limitless. G2's attack.
Little late walk through for Kit towards
B. Shots over towards the staircase.
Looking for first bloody
huge supposed to relocate his position
to a different spot. They're still going
to be committed. He's got to contest
with the smoke grenade. Hopefully K is
going to be ready. He's not with the
first blood on but with a quick
response. He's a little bit stuck right
now.
The planet skies himself a little bit of
an extra release on life. What does
Hydra do? Oh, he takes shots his
position now. No, Sky checks to make
sure there's no really diffuse. 3v2 for
G2. Hydra and Scrap try to work together
to find any of these G2 postfire
defenders, but they can't find anybody
yet. Nasty is now the next one to check.
No one's on for the diffuse. So G2 can
continue to just kill time. Not a single
shot has ran out in the last 30 seconds.
And Hydra still not going to use the
weapon. Now it's too large. Finds the
win over the top of the bomb side. How
do they win that?
Hands on your head, Al. That is one of
those frowns you cannot let happen. It
was 14 seconds left. 3v2.
No one is spotted on the side of LA. And
it's Hydra with a surprising act. Knife
for the first. Nasty is not expecting
his teammate to fall. He finds the
second kill immediately as Scrap knows
my teammate is clearing out there. So
just watch the back end. He steal that
round away. T's got to be demoralizing.
No doubt. What a swing bat.
Someone do well in this check on a shot.
Here we go. I wonder what he's going to
win.
LA looking to go with a little bit of
direction here towards to block off the
initial cross aggressive. The stuns to
support this play, but attacks come
through. G have a good read on this and
it's all the play and now take the map
away.
G2 trying to surround them. Prep this
time of the first blood again, but all
it is is a distraction.
the map. Scott holding down the re pitch
gets the better of strap and he's just
trying to finesse at least allows CB
back to the play but it's 2v2 and this
is where it gets into those 2v2 number
situations where it's all about just
sheer timing and envoy a lot of damage
on the knee but can't quite finish the
kill and turn this into a numbers
advantage for G2's defense
take a breath
40 the clock
is still on the thief to make a call
just can't really do anything from this
rock position if you are play. It's
working out even better for G2 cuz he
gets two two split and look how much
space already takes but a catch nasty on
the first one v2 it's no repeat of the
year able to respond to the back side of
the staircase
that's two in a row for thieves
you know the rookie is always always
going to provide a moment
never going to shy away from ch
up close and personal versus an M50 15.
But Nam is always going to do something
unexpected.
Catches the dark pits off guard. Like I
said, two rounds in a row for these to
give them the lead.
The tension is palpable.
G2's next attack. Are they going to try
for a little bit of aggression after
showing a little bit of patience in
their first approach? Not this time.
going to be able to get some really easy
first blood on the scrap over on the top
side of the staircase. That creates a
lot of opportunity here for G2. They're
still going to want to focus through H3
and you've got staircase control. We'll
talk with these are going to try to make
up for that starting st connects on to
envoy for that trade. But if one of the
opposite side of the map is better,
everyone finding their one-on- ones to
Sky 1 v3. It falls apart so quickly
chase nowhere to go. And initially when
scrap gets peeled right there with the
setup that G2 had, you're sitting here
feeling like oh we've got this is
completely in control. But a great
followup stunt for LA and recontest
works out for the number of situations.
Turn their heads telling that's
situation when you hit that like that
quickly. You had all the map control.
You had bottom pit. You're reading those
pitch angles. We can't waste any time.
Just get it planted.
Javon Carrier was the guy watching the
pitch. So it's Steve again just
continuing on the hot streak. Four in a
row now. Die's up two.
Not a time to panic for G2. He would
love to try to find something to
continue to move the narrative around.
Not allow to feel confident. Another
quick hit over the bomb here. This is a
straight TDM push for looking to try to
overwhelm the defender on the back side
of the Here comes by the first gets the
second. It's a bold call for De but
execution doesn't work out. There's been
a couple of blast of this Hydra and it's
a bold call, but it comes up empty. Hey,
you're just expecting G2 to try to
contest you around that midmap area.
You're able to chain three rounds in a
row. You're thinking, "All right, G2 had
to switch up their base."
It's a slow pace break. Every time
someone challenged Prep down in bottom
fifth, that's his playground.
Another situation where you give him
another first blood. Envoy with a quick
second and then just in the right spot
at the right time. Get dropped right in
front of me. 73 star for crepinator. G2
stop the leading down one. I'll tell you
what though, that play works for LA.
That messes with G2's minds defensively
so badly.
Not in this game. Not today. LA
aggression here over towards the A
defensively. Got him watching on high
court back in that same position with
nice shots to prep for the 3v3
gets invested just trying to stay alive
this entire time is scouting through the
side
a single player from thieves trying to
gather some information I don't even
know if they saw it easy on that cross
so don't miss a bit trying to follow him
the same path he is the last time we
were here defensively And that staircase
nasty in trouble. Hypert chasing down
that play from G2. But Nasty being low
gives LA a lot of confidence that they
know they've got him pinned for at least
a little while.
You can get Mr. Plumbrris to get this
one down for you. You're going to be
happy as hell to RG2. 30 seconds to go.
Going to come in on pawn planet. Two
teams get here quick enough. See the
first one forward as he gets out. He
chased he will not get away.
What a play though from Hydra to be able
to chase down G2, but it looked like
they were about to completely reset the
map with numbers. Changes the dynamic of
the round completely. Now Luke, yeah,
it's just a different map compared to
Gridlock here on Sake. When you have
those numbers, you have to keep that
back control cuz timing is not going to
always go your way, but everyone turns
to try to isolate onto a bezy that
allows Hydra to do what Hydra does.
comes behind enemy lines, finds a
double,
doesn't allow that clutch to go down.
Again, another two round lead here for
Thieves. I think you're G2 right now.
You say, Crim, what do you want to do?
Currently 9 and four. Two first bloods.
Can you follow behind the hot hand and
get this thing back to a one round game?
So far though, on the attack, they have
been very patient. hasn't fully worked
out. Defensively, kind of the same
thing. They're just happy to let the
first 30 seconds come and go. So, it
will not be the case here again for G2
and Mustin round.
We're at the rock position. So, he's
going to commit to
has one second to change it and now he
can no longer do that.
Committed with the sniper. This is going
to be a slow round here for LA. I think
it was Sky that he may have caught a
small shoulder on Sky is a challenging
rock. He's just making sure Envoy's
backside is covered. The big point here
is what Nasty wants to do. And with
Scrap taking a lot of damage and a stun,
Nasty some more space through Sky. The
first blood follow from Hydra again and
solid early 3v3, but Nasty still scaled
deep towards the LA attack. He's hitting
that bottom pit. Bob's going to be right
around this corner. chooses timing spots
to dusk coming off the ground track of
him. Dam takes care of nasty numbers for
LA but quickly a 2v2 under 30 to play.
The a sight is wide open though is just
going to make sure the defense cannot
get here to contest the plan instead. G2
will take the scenic route. Can they
catch a bezy though? Try to play back
over through mid pit
forward.
Now it's time to hydro 1 V2 and he
resets in the exact same spot that the
BCB just did. Would you double check
this is for D2?
25 on the clock. Hydra get sele.
Big ground for D2.
Just not in a position to check that
bomb. It's about 10 15 seconds. No noise
being created. Eventually you have to
make sure it's clear
and G2 play it patient.
Fantastic round again to stop the
leading.
Turn it into a 2v2.
Somehow you're going to stay off to a
easy for that first one.
Now we go into the swing round. I mean
that one v one is milliseconds away from
going the other way. It's just who
catches who hunts first. 43.
Now the question about G2's tempo in
this next attack.
They've been quite reserved, quite
patient trying to find info. This
breakoff feels a little different
though. A over towards rocks. All right.
Watch over towards A3 Street. But once
more G2 not looking to fight the first
game 30
in a row. Shots prematurely getting shot
down from scrap.
Potentially catch three that they were
aggressive through bottom pit. 30
seconds already gone. Two two split
step. Yeah, G2 have to know that because
they didn't challenge P very well. There
go straight all the way to four. The
follow up again trying to force him to
support numbers. Stay with G2's attack
on the map though for Hydra the back.
Shots are through. Low health find. It's
on the Hydra 1 v3. He may find time for
free is the ball carrier but Hydra can't
slip away. We're tied at four. Just a
slow and steady wins the race. Game play
here from G2 is catching these off
guard. Remember they decide to be the
aggressors. So many stunts. So many are
getting invested in the first 5 to 10
seconds with scrap prefiring on the
backside of bar.
You have done your homework. You know
what teams love to do here on stock.
Last time that they played it, it went
all the way to around 11. And we might
be going there again.
The fan base at the beginning of this
series had a much more verbal and vocal
LA fan base, but those that abstained
are now finding a bit of identity with
this G2 potential Cinderella story.
Hydra looking to send it straight on
towards the side. G2 crab thrown towards
the not Hydra from planting. That's
going to lead to a post play three for
teams to work with. Clock is going to be
your best friend.
G2 are looking to catch the playmaker.
Someone going on this route to make up
for those numbers. They are sold out so
much time. The smoke grenade is only
going to assist
able to put this round to bed. Now they
want an easy follow up. It's just down
to Can they find their PC? And yes, they
can. G2
series point
K is doing it all man. 13 and six here
in the game five on a main stage here at
Con Champs versus one of the top teams
in the game.
Another blind counter works out.
It has been three rounds in a row here
for G2.
They're sitting at game point and geese
now packs against the wall. The
collective heart rate of the arena I
think is all gone up about 20 to 30
beats.
G2 onto the attack.
Patience once again not giving anything
away. Just a couple of few out nades.
Nothing landed yet. Here
we go. Trying to force the mind games of
G2.
But this is the guy that we need to
watch.
He's been in the Sonic Factor so many
rounds for Minnesota. He's going to be
able to find the first second as well.
Easy. He will fall the ball. It's just
down to Neo. One v four situation. Can
you believe it? Not again.
Not for a second year.
in trouble.
Get to complet.
It's as simple as that. They had a one
point difference in mass number one. But
hey, obviously think we should have
closed that one out. The game ran over
in the search to destroy. You have to
rely on the game mode that you were not
able to have successfully
roster was formed. But it's one map at a
time. It is one moment at a time.
Experience plays a part. And G2 complete
the first week. move on to the
tournament and your major champions, one
of the top teams in the game, don't win
a series again here at chance. Get sent
home back.
It doesn't feel plausible. It's crazy,
man. It just doesn't feel like it could
happen,
especially considering the circumstances
put up against the Falcon that everyone
like, "What are they doing?
But hey, history after two weeks of pre
has been the biggest culprit for where
thieves have found their Achilles heel.
Whether it's overlooking your opponent
or just not having the information you
want to feel cracked up,
maybe you can boil it down to kind of
like what you saw in the world as your
superstars just didn't show up. Your MVP
goes three and nine after a near double
performance in that corner.
goes 146 almost 2,000 damage four first
blood
that game
pressure at its highest. You know that
you're the team that's facing with
nothing to lose cuz all the pressure was
on LA
and get sent home. That is what four
series here at Cam two years in a row
with a duo of Hydra and Scraps don't win
one at the most important tournament of
the year. Doesn't matter about the MVPs.
It doesn't matter about the rookie of
the year. They know that they want to
host this trophy. And unfortunately for
them, they're not going to get a chance
to do it. We're lost for words as I
think most probably is right now on top
of that. But G2, a team to not ever
really be touted or discounted, have
found a way to take down the thieves who
got plays on the main stage for a
postgame reaction.
I mean, I got somebody on the main stage
who probably has a lot of words to say.
Everybody
too.
And I got with me on the main
stage. And man, this is your first
reverse sweep of the year. and to do it
here at Champs. We've been calling you
guys the dark horses all year long if
you guys showed up when it mattered. And
there's so much to really kind of talk
about here in this series, but you guys
lose one of the most heartbreaking hard
points we've seen all year. You
dominated SND, but you're going into
that overload. What did you guys talk
about in the break before you headed
into map three? Uh to be honest, we
should have won map one. I pulled up my
knife. Uh, we just knew that they were
lowkey like they still felt like they're
very beatable. It felt like it was like
it's still in our favor. The respawns
weren't really close and going to map
three, we just kept the same energy and
just came out hot. You guys came out
really hot,
especially the map three. I mean, you
guys ran it up here in the overload with
multiple caps. Talk to me about how that
kind of alleviated some pressure coming
off your shoulders going into that map
four because I know you guys did not
want to have that same loss in another
hard point. only different in map four
to be honest. We just need to see one go
in. We won map three. We should have won
map one is what we're thinking. We're
running them in and the response. So,
we're going to map four like, "Bro, we
got this bro. Let's play our game.
Let's get in it, bro. Let's get in it."
And you guys got in it. Going to the map
five. All right. You know, 44 on the
board. Before you guys go up there,
what was the play call here toward? What
was one of your guys' hands once you
finally got up in there in the rounds
and went 54? Oh, the last round. Damn.
Oh, man. I just said I'm long right now.
They Mr. Tags. it. I'm doing
something. I ran up long. I don't
you, right?
I mean, you guys are going to go play on
Saturday and you guys are starting to
feel like the G2 that we've been waiting
to see all season. Keep these fans
tight. What do you want to say to them
as they get ready to come in here to the
video tomorrow? Because I think some of
those red jerseys may flip to that G2
red going tomorrow. I mean, bro,
everyone bleed, bro, but they got to get
R. We're going to keep getting hot. No,
I'm just kidding. I love my team. Uh,
keep playing our game. Keep playing our
game, man. I mean, bro, we That was big
for us, bro. Just the vibe of it. We're
going to come out crazy tomorrow for
sure. You heard it here from
everybody. They're coming out crazy. And
Champs isn't over for G2 yet.
this. Let's take it away. Just like
that, the thieves have been robbed of a
chance at a world title. G2 is here,
causing a massive upset, and we have to
celebrate with one of the legends of the
Call of Duty community. You know him as
a player winning trophies for Rise
Nation. He's been rocking behind the
scenes for Minnesota for a while,
wounding, welcome to the desk, head
coach, GM by nature. What are you doing
these days? And how proud are you of
these guys? Uh, very proud. Obviously,
we start there, I They got a good bounce
back out of us after about losing I
think what that's five map eight or
something like that four off the phase
from yesterday. So um proud of them for
the overload of course I mean L's been a
strong overload team all year and then
kind of just hold going to the map four
is our respawn dominant. We obviously
threw away uh at hard point so we just
to keep that up there and uh the paid
off on sake as well. I was getting a
little sketchy button up.
>> It was getting a little sketchy. That
map one 250 249. You guys have been in
three of our seven finishes where it is
250 to 249. What is that like as a coach
behind the scenes? Uh it's
nerve-wracking of course. Uh going into
a P2 obviously we thought we had it. I
think Byron took a child out the front
door, thought he should have won it. And
then I'm sure you guys you two know a
setting got added mid-season where you
can press to take your knife out or
everyone loves it because you can just
you know you move around the map so much
but it has literally costed us magic but
I'm not even kidding online where I play
that I have to like find the balance of
the settings or like it costed us once
again. I think I was going through the
alley P2 knife I would have seen knife
out in a gunfight and I'm just like oh
no it's going to end bad. Uh, it is what
it is, but you guys lose by a point,
right? You felt like you had the
advantage. So, talk to me like what's
the discussion like after that game two
where you're like, man, it could be 1-1
right now. What did you guys talk about
in that break to come back because that
overload where they had every advantage
in the world, you guys dominated? Yeah.
So, going into the map three when I got
on the headset, obviously they uh they
had a really good stretch against us,
outplayed us, I think, with a couple
situations I noticed. It was more so
just the confidence. It was a lot of
asking questions. Do you guys want to
retake this map? Should we wait? Should
we? So, I kind of just came on the mic
and said, "Listen, I don't want to hear
questions at this point of the year,
this point of uh tournament. If you have
a feeling like we should retake this
ball now, just do it." So, I was like,
"Overlook's kind of the same thing,
right? Like, are you going to wrap the
ball? Are you going to ask questions?"
Like, "No, yo, if someone wants to wrap
it, just say let's wrap it and we're
going to just keep out there. We got to
start rolling some highlights. We're
going to start watching some keep
talking me through this."
>> Yeah. So like I said going into the
overload Batman
and the hard points look so good and
just I just wanted the decision making
to be way more confident and I knew that
first part you guys ended on the first
one after the first round here. We saw
an ace from which I'm sure we'll relive
but then it looks like thieves were
taking the lead 3-1 at this point in the
game. Is it always crap that Billy
search and destroys? What turns around
for this G2 slot? Honestly, this year,
uh, obviously he's been our bailout. I
think the addition of Bill and just some
of the calls he's making and, uh, the
reads he's making. I I always like, uh,
coaching players that kind of, you know,
they play before midway into an SND. You
know, the adap play all about adapting.
What have they done, what have they done
that's worked, what they haven't, what
are they going to throw at us. So I
think we just kind of stay confident
through that little comeback we had and
I stepped up ultimately at the end.
>> Yeah.
I mean
every single round
two up
the end of the game close out those
rounds got a lot of love in the sub and
we're making so many plays so many first
blood and so many clutch ups in the late
round of SMD right there. Dude, you just
sent the team that won Major 3 and was
in the grand finals of Major 4 packing
here on day two. A massive upset and I
have a feeling it all started with this
play. It's our stuff play of the match.
Let's take a look at creme the ace and
it all starts with a 1v one against a
little bit. Walk me through this play.
The kid just knows how to play Black Ops
7. That first kill, he's just wall
bouncing. The guy thinks he's dropping.
He's up high. This gunfight was unreal.
And then I think we got a good spot on
DM at the very end. So we kind of knew
he was there.
Perspective the fact that he won that
third fight right he went versus one of
the straightest if not the straightest
shooter in Call of Duty history. So the
fact that shooting like this is very
scary for all the other teams still left
in the tournament. And they may ask you
because Trev was coming off of a pretty
bad performance at the last major. What
did you guys work on to get his
confidence back because a 1.22 against
the champs who have been unbelievable.
How was he able to do this?
>> Exactly that, man. I think after me or
four, he was hard on himself. You know
how you are as a player. You know when
you you know not playing to your
standards. So I told my uh obviously you
know Godzip our analyst team manager. I
was like listen man these two weeks of
practice we had let's just feed Kyle
confidence. Can I have non-stop
confidence? One final question. We got
to be moving on to the winners bracket
after this. But it is such a story for
me that scrap earns MVP backto back
regular seasons. You just made the man
go negative 27 I believe negative 37
ridiculous a6 in this series against
you. Are you able to shut down scrap?
How did you guys do it? Uh based on what
the knowledge I had, I think the PC
stopped him. I know he was having issues
about uh PC. So shout out that PC.
>> Shout out to technology. It failed scrap
today, but G2 gets the win. Looney,
we'll let you go celebrate. Ladies and
gentlemen, don't go anywhere. G2 is
powering through the bracket and so are
we. When we come back, we're moving to
the top half. Who is moving in to our
winners final optic versus gentle mates
and Falcons versus Faze in the second
half of day two.
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Heat. Heat.
I know
going wrong for me.
You got
to my way. Heat. Heat.
Here
we go.
What did you say? It's
trying to avoid
another silver medal.
This is my time to go. We win. We push.
We win. Back to back.
Out of nowhere.
>> Unbelievable.
It's history.
The champions of the world.
Oh my god. Oh my god.
Go back. Rewind it.
>> Oh man. Oh,
what the is going on now?
>> Sorry.
Is that
you really?
>> Find me this guy, bro. I need this guy.
No,
>> no, no. I need somebody to find me this
guy. Whoever this guy is, whoever's at
the venue right now, you find me this
guy.
>> Yeah, Tom's got a 10k reward.
This is awful. I'm going Toronto. I got
Toronto winning in this series. I think
they get it done at four.
>> Like a mix of George Washington and a
Disney prince.
>> What is that? D.
>> Okay. Production. This is a sick weird
joke. Give me my pick now. I'm going
thsy.
I got Texas baby.
Bro, where did you pull that out from? I
wonder what the hell is going on in
Columbus.
Grab the thing. Let's go and get a
score. I'll get the kills. Just ride it
through that hole. Grab the thing. Make
sure you score. I'll get the kills. Make
sure
you're my son.
You're my son. You're my son. You got
out of here.
>> They're going to get you reacting to you
reacting to you reacting to
stage. They just add another stage.
>> They're adding me reacting to me
reacting to me reacting to me reacting
to
>> every stage. I added you reacting.
That's
>> I'm reacting to me reacting reacting to
a clip of me reacting me reacting to a
clip of me. Unbelievable. I'm reacting
to a clip of me talking about reacting
reacting to the clip of me reacting
reacting harder.
Insane. That is insane. Dad
child
was ready. You're awful
or tough guy.
>> Wait, I think
>> Yeah, they have daddy by the way.
Hold
that.
>> Nice, bro.
Scrap falls up with another one. It's
all going to be on to breast now to make
the play and he can't do it. This is
dominant from Ultra. Scrap just stood
up, celebrated, took off his headset.
You got another round, bud. He's locked.
He said, "My bad.
What the is going on?
>> Caesar skies bueno.
Bueno's putting his balls on the table,
bro.
>> I'm in there. There's another one on me.
Yo, come are you going
>> I was working.
>> Did you feel bad about eliminating Vegas
Legion from Champs?
>> Yes and no. Yes, they're seeing him like
them like I don't know actually you are
like you
guys.
My bad.
Oh,
>> I was I was door and it killed me. I was
like right inside the side door.
>> Impossible situation.
indication
series win for the Vegas Falcons.
>> I can't believe it.
My godions
across the board.
Holy
I'll take that.
Down to three for either side. This is
going to be it. Last attempt fly the
points gets his with 3 seconds to go.
You've got to get on the zone. Fresh
mag. Send it. Where is it? Oh my god.
It's a 2v one. Diamond.
Can you do it? Voice from the capture.
It's now a one v one.
What a round of control. Done. you win
this.
God damn. What a round.
We're going to have some laughs during
this match. Maybe I'm going to openly
just ask who will be the worst player we
see in the Allstar game tonight. The
worst player from all of these teams.
Oh, this is hard against the Allars. Oh,
I got to think about this. It's going to
be Octane. Is he going to be Octane?
He's number two overall. SN8. Yes, he
has. But guess what? Oct had one good
event since like 2016. I'll go with
Nameless just because he can probably
hear me right now. He's gonna choke big
time.
There's more than just the game on the
line. It's like, you know, a lot more
bragging rights. I think the the very
first map is the most important map. Uh
if you go down that first map, topic,
chances are you're not going to win a
series. I think they have a over 90% win
rate after they win the first map. So,
it just really comes down to that first
map. I think
>> when you go 200, it's really hard to
come back. And we're really good at
sealing deal and just closing that.
practicing pretty hard and, you know,
watching a lot of films and stuff like
that. So, I'm just fully confident we're
going to walk away with a W
From
Atlanta to Las Vegas, Faze has found a
new home and they are really sparkling
under these bikes. Welcome back in
ladies and gentlemen. And we've got
Rosley alongside attach and nameless
here at the desk. I'm your host Chris
Bucket and we are about to spice things
up after two game fives in the
elimination bracket. We now turn our
attention to the four teams left in the
winners. And this is a fight we've been
waiting for. Falcons versus FaZe was not
on anyone's bingo card. But now with
LA's out of the tournament, where are
Falcons at your power rankings and where
are Faze?
>> Yeah, this match's going to tell us a
lot. But I think days after optic would
be the favorite now. And they've been on
a tear in respawn. And as we look at our
bracket, nobody expected Falcons to be
in this position at a huge opportunity
right now. What can Aluka do? That's the
question in all of our brains. How good
is Aluca? We're all about to find out.
19-year-old German representing his home
country as the only player to do so. He
is basically the hydra of his squad.
Does he play the same role?
>> Uh, no. a little flex player uses AR a
little bit harder than Taco, but this is
a real a test. This will show if the
Falcons are the real deal. I have a cool
story line right now. Aluka is actually
on the phase bench. He was loan to the
Falcons. So, he might be the team that
he's on. We'll talk about that phase
Falcon in a moment because he was
brought in to originally replace one of
these four, but instead they stick
together. Z, Drazza, 04, and Abuzza. If
you're watching last season, 04 and
abuzza, five championship matches, zero
trophies. They finally got it at major
two out.
>> Yeah. And what I'm looking at right now
at this Vegas team right now is how
they're playing on him. Uh he has been
unbelievable at least yesterday dropping
one. Forwards in the response. The only
worry really now is the search and
destroy. Doesn't seem to be in a really
good spot. Only one two over the last
five. But we've seen this happen with
phase where when their respawn gets
better, sometimes your SMD will take a
hit and then drops it'll flip. And I'm
almost in a position where I look at
this, I'm like, I would rather you guys
be dominating the hard point the way
they are right now because it's Vegas.
They're going to steal it.
>> Yeah, we're going to talk about Master
in a moment, but I love the fact that
Ross's video included this champ he is
known for around the world. And on the
other side of this AR battle, you've got
Auza, his teammate who has been locking
things down yesterday.
led everybody in this venue. How
dangerous are the ARs coming in today?
Extremely dangerous. Dr. Light had the
last major. That duo was unbelievable.
And Abuza just has these maps where he
goes double positive with 40 kills, two
minutes of the hill, like just pops
absolute takeover. Extremely dangerous
duo. And with this space team in
general, silently unreal at respawning,
nine and two and a half point in the
last month, 61 in overall. They are a
hard out and they've been working on
their craft. Great point by Ali. If they
figure out SND, it might be a wrap in
this menu. And of course, attaching been
watching them since the start of their
career since joining S and Selium have
found so much success. But tonight, one
of them is going to be sent down to the
elimination bracket. If you were doing
your player X, you could only draft one
of these two. Who is attached drafted
first? We're basically just what we see
off champs. We're only going for stat
numbers. I mean, the whole season I
would go Sim, but yesterday Sim looked
like the best. He's been all year. Maybe
he was saving for the biggest tournament
of the year. He sent a bey home already.
Now he's looking to take down SIP as
well. But two legendary COD players,
longtime teammates. I'm excited to see
who wins this. And we talked to them
this morning, right? And we were, you
know, I guess nobody's really talked
about this, but this is the first time
all year Falcons have had the right
roles, right? Remember, they had three
SMG players who kiz kind of forced into
that AL role when now Luca's playing
peppering people up with damage. Sony
was like, "Dude, I feel great. This is
normal. We get to run flex again." So,
it just works out better for Falcons.
Let's introduce this whole Falcons
lineup because we have questions. What
are you doing dropping the world
champion impress?
>> They had some good ideas moving forward.
Aluka on the starting lineup in game one
made an impact, but it was X did I felt
that was truly the emotional leader of
this squad. The team came in with fire
and they put LAS on the back foot early.
fully high-risk high reward. I feel like
it is what yesterday was for a lot of us
watching Riot Falcons and it they
deliver gives you a 1.3. They do the
respawns out of both the ARs and I'm
going to tell you how 1.3
and again we're talking about against
that when it comes to respond and in
this specific matchup it's not a
headto-head. There's no who's your daddy
list here for Falcons they hang really
well with phase Vegas. I think he's in
the edge that Vegas is better at the map
ones and at closing out in that game
number five. So hopefully Riot's going
to have a hot start here in the open
better than Mercury.
I want to ask you another question
though cuz you know you're on the plane
and one of the pundits you guys have
been watching X did so close in your
eyes like what did you see through him
yesterday cuz I thought he played
phenomenal man deal with all the stress
all the criticism that he had well the
biggest thing for X is the fact that he
was just running around so three I think
he started off what 10 and one into game
one he was just running it down but you
also have to show some love for Luca I
mean we've said it many times what we
can't understate it he is a rookie came
for the First time ever on the big stage
at 510 versus the LA who were that major
three champions top two of major war and
he came out there shut him down
absolutely dominated chat close your
eyes real quick that bottom portion of
the screen and tell me it doesn't look
like Hercules and he just looks like
looks unreal when you do that
foolish
>> why are we all doing it
>> yeah because I'm a genius and now you're
experiencing it in a whole new dimension
this kid is if you're watching literally
the footage, he would get an A+ for his
initial match up. He was playing like a
rockar, not only in the gunfights, but
in the positioning and his teammates.
When you have somebody playing the game
the right way, they can rock.
Absolutely. You go, they look like a
team yesterday. Everyone looks so
comfortable. Kid was playing the role he
should be. He should be the glue guy
running first, baiting for his teammates
and his teammates selling him in a
little bit. They were cleaning up every
single kill. Exit was making plays all
over the map, hopping two and three
pieces. They all look so comfortable and
I love the SV play calls as well.
>> And aside from all that, like I said, we
talked to the Falcons this morning. The
one thing that Cell said was like he's a
shooter and that just makes the game so
much easier for MC. I think that duo
like that's their true strength in the
AR duo and it should be huge in this
matchup. Shout out to our production
team. Not only do you have our three
cameras up here, but we also have audio
throughout the venue. You guys have been
quiet, so we've been bumping up years,
but we didn't need to for a luga. Here's
how he responded after the games.
>> Yo, this is really like this is really
nice. I love it a lot. I really enjoy
it, you know. Of course, we want to
enjoy it more.
>> Y
>> Oh, I I need to look at the camera,
right?
>> You can look at me. You can look at the
camera. You can look at the sky. You can
look wherever you want.
>> This part is really really good. I mean,
I got MC. I got kiss two world champions
already. And I got excellent. I think
I'm like more closer to X-Men than
anyone in the team. Yeah, I appreciate
everyone here. Like I just hear when I
pull a freebies up because I can hear
them going crazy. I appreciate you guys
so much.
And here we are. The new dude on the
lookout for Aluca and X. You can see a
135 from Aluka. X did a 105 with 10.4
damage. They were constantly in the mix.
Yeah. And the funny thing is yesterday
during the interview's like I need more
gas from Xton. Excellence.
Aluka he was fine. If he does at the end
of the day I better hear Xen getting
loud.
>> What's funny about that is I think like
well now I feel like Xen needs to hold
it right and they make a deeper and
deeper run and then maybe like it's in
the finals or something. He finally gets
gas and it takes him to the next level.
He's like it's finally happening. I
don't know. It just makes sense.
>> Title guard horses for the event. G2 has
definitely put their name into the hat
and I think the Falcons did it yesterday
as we take a look. Detroit no longer in
this event to really put up a fight. The
worst finish for Kleenex and start.
>> Yeah, I think Toronto that team might
have ran this course. I don't know
Phoenix on that roster this next season,
but uh a lot of changes that they may
should have made. a lot of talk about
their loss and questionable decisions
and look what happens. They get the
chance and they bomb out the match.
>> It's just a gutwrench like when you lose
a guy like Joe, you know, for them
commiseration got another opportunity at
GWC, but I'm looking at all three of
those teams on the right. They're still
here in this tournament. Yeah. Hasn't
been a great year on land for those
squads, but they're showing up when they
need to here at K James. All right,
let's take a look at some of our
favorites though that are still in the
running. Of course, it's got to start
with the number one seed optic has been
in four of four grand finals and they
finally lift up the trophy after three
failures. They've had all the momentum,
but if you look at their run through the
winners bracket, well, best of fives,
they are flawless.
>> I mean, I feel you look at this and you
I think we all kind of feel the same way
where it's like we heartbreakingly lose
the thieves now in their story, but now
that leaves such a wideopen bracket for
Optic Texas. I mean, they have been
battling against the all season long.
And what they really need to worry about
though is Vegas phase because again we
talked about earlier SND starts getting
on point. Yes, LAS is now out of your
line of sights but we know what phase
Vegas can do on a Sunday obviously world
champ from this team and if you're
offended you haven't even had them I
feel like a lot this season long so we
could get blessed.
>> Yeah. I think the scary part about Faze
right now is the fact that Sim isn't
even playing at the usual Sim level. If
Sim gets to that level, we might see an
optic grand final going to distance
going to game nine. It would be
incredible. But we also can't tell
they've been looking good. They had a
couple weeks to prepare. It's going to
be a banger. Hell yeah.
>> Yeah, it's going to be a good one. And
you know, when you think about pace, it
hasn't been the easiest season for him.
And this is really like watching
individually. We haven't seen a face at
first, I think, ever for this long of a
stretch, but you know, yesterday he's
put together a couple good maps at the
end of that series and going into this
one. I think he needs a bigger one. He
needs to set the tone early. Like, guys,
I'm here. I can beat you guys through
this tournament because the trio's been
playing for Chris Lair in Vegas. There's
something tingling in the air. Base
fans, I smell it. You do, too. Who is
going to win champs this year? Well,
we're in Vegas's home territory, but
there are three other big dogs in the
fight. Let's take a look at our top four
entering this weekend.
>> Every year, all season long, teams fight
for dominance. All majors or winners of
a single repeat who will have what it
takes to hoist the 2026 championship
trophy. I present your four major
winners. A monstrous run for this team.
>> Major one being the highest high. It
kind of just gave us like illusional
confidence that like no matter what we
can win this time between major foreign
champs, we've had way more practice than
we did leading up to the major. We're
able to keep playing with each other,
figure out each other's tendencies, our,
you know, team identity if you will. And
it feels more and more natural as the
days go on. It feels confident.
I just feel like when you win an event
like you're feeling on top of the world,
our team fully believes in ourselves
winning that major two. So I think the
confidence we had, it just showed on the
stage. FW had a lot of confidence for
the pride and hard work we put in. Just
cuz you win chance, I don't think you're
the best. If you can win champs and you
win another tournament, you probably are
the best team. Whoever wins this event
will be the best team in the game.
I would say I like to win one tournament
a year. The feeling when you win any
major, just nothing like it. It's so
hard to put into words. I'm not even
really playing for the trophy or the
money. I'm more just playing for the
feeling of just being better than
everyone.
>> When the dopamine is hitting, you just
feel more confident when you're playing.
You feel like you're unstoppable. I
think if we get into that groove this
weekend, we're going to win the
tournament. When we won major three, I
think at that major, we did really good
just playing with each other, playing
golf each other. These girls have
nothing on me. They know they're not
better than me, and I'm going to win
this thing.
The feeling of winning major 4 was very
unique compared to other ones I've had.
I've never had a scream getting second
that many times and then just always
wondering like dude is just like some
random midyear mid like career just
hardly got overcome but I guess it was
and it just felt so relieving
in all the champions of the world back
to the world champions of Texas. It
would be insane. Obviously, the the 3P
just even staying the sense that a lot
of doesn't even sound real like they get
a chance to do something insane. Champ
is the pinnacle. Everyone knows that.
That's what every COD player dreams of.
It's what we all strive for. So, to do
something that's never been done before
would be insane. We know that it's not
going to be handed to us. It's just a
matter of who plays the best COD. I have
100% belief that we're definitely the
the team to be here, but at the end of
the day, that doesn't mean we're going
to win. So, we just have to show up and
play our game and believe in each other
and for us to play out.
>> There you have it. Four teams that have
proven themselves to most defining
moments of the season. Will we get deja
vu on championship Sunday or will
another team knock down the green wall?
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>> Hello, I'm Miles Ross and welcome to
Champs Weekend. We're back with some CDL
crafts table. I am joined by the
terrorists simply
thieves. It's weird to say that in front
of you. First time I've done that. How
we doing, boys? We're well.
>> Very ready. Yeah, absolutely. But this
one's going to be a little different. I
want you to paint your favorite memory
with each other.
>> Nice and wholesomeish right there. While
you guys are painting and you can start
right now, uh, I'll be asking you some
questions. This going to be hard, bro.
How did you meet each other for the
first time?
>> It was during BO3 when we first like
kind of met each other. It was against
each other in like SN tournaments
mainly.
>> Oh, yeah. Definitely sometime during
just playing against each other. I
thought that's when we both found out
like of each other. I was like thinking
like, yo, this kid's insane. Chris, this
is true. It
>> could be true. I mean, know there were
only a couple good SN teams and
obviously those teams kind of had hard
carries and I feel like we are both hard
carries, but I feel like we're both the
sub playmakers of the teams. This is
this is terrible.
>> Good question. Start.
>> No, no, no, no. Bro, my painting is a
god awful.
>> I'm telling you, my painting is insane,
dude. I need I need a fresh start. When
you're old and gray and you're thinking
about competitive gaming, what are you
going to think about the most? Yeah,
it's so weird to think about I guess
winning champs together twice is that I
feel like those two champs were just
inspirational stuff. I mean the video
was saying just because it was my first.
>> What is something that the other
person's surprisingly good at
>> for him? Golf. I'm going I seen the
swing. All right. I seen the swing. He
swings pretty nice.
>> It was like him and R.J. But like
they're just always watching like shows
and movies and I feel like they watch
everything. You guys watch R.J. is kind
of insane with that. I'm a little bit
worse, but we do we do have a lot of
photography. You guys cried during any
movies together?
>> I might have cried still though, but no.
What is this,
>> bro? Mine looks crazy, too, guys. I
think I'm giving up.
>> We're gonna have to burn this after
this. Like, I just I have the picture in
my head, but I'm looking at this and I'm
just thinking that's not the picture.
That's not the picture at all.
>> Yeah, the game plan here was to
absolutely destroy your confidence
going.
>> This looks like a kindergarten druit.
>> Final touches, boys. Final touches. And
>> should I just put my name on?
>> You can sign it. Yeah, sign it however
and wherever you like. Can I
>> Very nice.
>> They both chose blue. It is now time to
show each other your work.
>> Oh wow.
>> Wow.
>> Similar.
>> It's the same memory, right? Is it this,
right?
>> Yeah, same.
>> You guys.
>> Oh, of course.
>> As you guys can tell, this is
>> that's beautiful.
>> As we can see, this is why I chose John
right here.
>> Now, why did you both choose this or
choose the memory? I guess it was just
cuz like it was our first year team
together and it was like both of our
first champs win. So I feel like that
first year was just everything I was
kind of waiting for. So that's that's a
great memory.
>> Great vibes here.
>> That's cool.
>> Anything to make my painting not look
that bad. I tried my best
and hopefully everyone sees that.
>> It was it was a lovely a lovely attempt
guys. It was really really cool. Thank
you so much going on social media
forever.
>> Forever bro.
I am so annoyed. I missed their rookie
season while I worked on Overwatch.
Let's take a look though at what we got
in front of us. It is Faze versus
Falcons. What do you win if you can get
this best of five? Well, you're
guarantee top three. Pretty big deal,
especially if you are a Falcons fan.
Let's jump into our scums and get this
one officially on the docket. Rosalie,
what are you feeling in this fight?
>> I'm glad you said feeling because this
is definitely a vibe pick. I'm going to
go with Riad Falcons. I think they have
a crazy run.
>> Whoa. You lightning strikes twice.
>> I like it. I like it.
>> Faz loses every one. They're fine.
>> I'm loving I'm loving the Falcon story,
but Faze has been looking so good in
Respawn. I'll phase it up again.
>> Yeah, give me FaZe. I just I think S is
going to have a special one. Faze. Do we
have more FaZe fans out there?
>> Oh, yeah. Thank you so much. Or who
wants to cheer on a Luca with me?
with the Falcons. Fans will make it out
of the losers bracket. For now, we get
it locked in on the stage with one roll
only guy. I mean, Chris, I'm ready to
get this one going. Now, everyone in the
chat and everyone in here, you can
decide who the hero and who the villain
will be in this series, but everybody is
ready to lay it all out here on the
stage. It's Champs and it's time to send
our first squad to the top three. Coming
to the stage first from Riad makes some
noise for the Falcons.
X-Men
Kisman Aluca and Selium. The Falcons
have came out here in chance and has
surprised everyone and they are showing
us all that they are here to play. Don't
count out the Falcons everybody. This
might be the first weekend we've seen
every player on Falcons at their PSN has
just getting better and better as the
season goes on. Sium finally now hitting
his peak in the Sing is reactivated and
99 kids is here to help them through
that might be that final piece. We'll
see if he can do it again today. Guy,
let's see if he can get it done. I would
love to see some 99 kids in Vegas, but
let's see if he can reach max forming.
He's going to need to because it's time
to break out the hometown heroes. Get
loud Vegas cuz here comes face
up 04
DA
and s
Vegas in their hometown.
They don't care if you're cheering. They
don't care if you're a boy because
they're going to come out on this stage
and do what they got to do. Fasa, listen
CDL fans, what more could you want? S
for Celium for a spot in the top three.
Selium gun was red hot yesterday. S
looking for an answer in this match. Roy
won his third world championship to join
elite company. Thanks, the hometown team
taking the stage.
is so much on the line right now. And in
Vegas, you guys understand the stakes.
It's high. Everyone's going all in. So,
place your bets, put your picks in the
chat because it's time to go down.
Maven, let's get it. Listen, it's been a
day of game five bangers. Uh, this
series though, Joe, how the last two
going? Uh, yeah, major three was a 3 0
is a fast one. than you know the major
four qualifier where face had a
redemption three gridlocks in a row
where they just absolutely fried them
but a different roster now here for for
the Falcons but just have to think you
win that map one like you did yesterday
the momentum going that way you have a
couple of top teams that came into this
trying to not have a repeat history of
last year um really thinking of phase
thinking of thieves thieves bow out top
eight we get the repeat for phase it was
a top six trying to end that trend and
what is scary you lose Who's this? You
play the team that knocked you out of
the tournament last time in Miami as a
trip tonight. Yeah, it really is. It has
been their kryptonite, but Faze trying
to get locked. I'll tell you one thing.
Jackets are off now, but those things
are key. No, they look like they ride
motorcycles. I don't know what they do,
but I don't know. It's got to be
contract. They're not allowed to do
that. Probably probably not. Probably
not.
We had a little bit of a break, a little
delay coming into this one. I'm not sure
what the history was, but they had a
bunch of active stuff on stage. He's
going to possess PC for a while. Trying
to get something figured out. So
hopefully he's good, ready to go. Just
want to make sure everything's working
fine for him in this matchup. Player to
watch at least on Falcon side. Might be
excellent for me. If you saw Listen, if
you saw the screenshot of the video of
his eyes yesterday, that guy was seeing
the future, bro. Oh yeah, he was in the
future. Yeah, he was destroyed in the
future, dude.
That shot. Holy hell. I've never seen
someone more locked in my life. This guy
plays with passion. No doubt about it.
Yeah, I thought his eyes were going to
pop out of their sockets.
He'll look to get turned. Listen, this
is uh a matchup that has a lot of
shooters. And sometimes it's really just
who comes out and who is hot. That might
be a reason our last two matches have
been a three-0 bash and one for either
side. Who can get off to the hot start?
Who can get things going?
We look to have some magic here. It's
been an insane day two in Vegas
and we're starting things off on SCAR.
What are your thoughts heading into this
map one at least about the spark? I mean
a very strong map here uh for face. Uh
obviously they're map you know you look
at the videos what they want to go to.
They get two starts here. So I think
they are happy about that. But on the
other side for Falcons the way the ARS
were shooting yesterday. Uh I mean
Alucha just what he was able to do Selia
got involved a whole lot more. You just
never know what those do like hey you
want to spot on the big roster next
year. I need a point five out of you
today.
He was demonic yesterday. Excited to
watch more of him. And it's going to be
a tough match up. We see Draza playing
so well. Dropping a 40 bucks. Kick
things off the map one yesterday. Look
to get right back to work on screen.
Seth who's been uh I mean lackluster for
his members over the past, but couple
solid maps yesterday. They look to light
it up. So far
control start a little bit louder. He
had ready start for F. You give up 11
seconds, but you lose control. You flip
the map, you have them spawning in the
top left and Abuza hits Raj just feels
like they get so much better on land.
Their hardwood has been lights out was a
monster yesterday. Plus 30 in the
series. He starts off 4 and0. Well,
three kills in the here for Fix at the
right time. Big rotation towards B2. And
you'll see them trying to do that a lot
on both sides. Usually, if you're
spawning back, that is not where you
want to be really for the last one, but
even then, you get beat from the front.
So try to avoid that traffic to get out
of it beautifully with some big kills.
So tries to get a kick around. We'll see
the time is going to be like for him. We
hop over to hit looking to give you two
but there's the second comes in a little
delay about three straight head start
phase battle back into the point though
right I even had a lot of room with
combo control on 04. Now you're just
right back into it. Still the first P2.
So no trophies. So immediate pressure
here from Falcon. But he was not an
extra 15 double. And he's this guy
locked in. Whoever hit the stun over the
top sets him up to get the second kill.
Beautiful job. Stay out by his life.
Trust your teammate. Trust the tax to
connect and they do. And that all starts
with the L4 route, right? It's not
through the middle of the map. It's not
through deli. He goes all the way
through the P5 in the top blue on that
fight to give the phase the lead. I mean
I think last year you talk about him
being one of the more underrated players
in the league. This year making escape
one of the best play makers in the
league
52 to start tripling positive go
out the gate pressure out the Falcons
after the pick from Aluca trying to get
something behind this do Aluca doing it
all.
That's another break and that's another
situation probably for face for a little
bit better holding looking action early
in the hard points right we saw an we
see it again there but they have been so
good at the brakes firing right back but
it looks like 97 behind that triple you
have to sponsor if you are base all
right listen half from each other
I think over the past seven years from
the CDL we have had a talk about hard
point and why it's does since a million
times. This might be the first time
where there aren't
that done. So just show
one or the other. It's the upside down
for this team. But all right, let's get
to next early will be there for pressure
clock is breaking, but they've been
doing a great job and it's usually been
one thing and it needs some more. A fast
win from Auza though
does this guy have right now. Amuza is
on point of going to fly out. This is
what they need today. find some space
early on. This is where this Zaza duo, I
mean, they've been terrific over the
last several laps. They have been
absolutely lights out. You're getting
that kind of performance from them on
Scar with a lot of long range fights.
Flawless hold so far for face, but there
is pressure through the back. Going to
disrupt a little bit of this time trying
to get in. He's going to try to dig
around now. Prepare for Luca all the way
back. And that'll be three dead. That'll
be Falcon gets in. They get the break a
little bit later this time. They get the
break. Yeah, get the pressure in the
game. You give up the max if you are
phase that allows Falcon just have four
players there with the four versus two.
Now on this rotation things finally
looking to get early in the hill here
for the re falcon the only player that
is out is Raza. He's going to try to get
to his teammates help them out and well
he's getting caught off guard. So now
you are trying to go quickly here if you
are base. That's kind of the
conversation. It's like the Falcons flip
the script and start to get a little
early set up in some of these hard. They
finally do here where they finally hold
these early sets and blow this lead wide
open. Falcons are staying around now.
Down 20 solid holes here at last but for
the playmaker trying to make plays. Two
will go down for Falcons. Boo and Z
looking to push together. They've
already got 10. So 30 healthy seconds
left to earn here. And he's going to
send it right out of the action as he's
finding multis. I thought that was going
to be this triple but there responds
with the double behind the eight and
that is what you want from Tim did
forward step while they're tossing those
eights but again there's a lot of
control here for faith but Val continue
to fight this is what we see so often
here on
first set of rotations about to be done
we'll see what changes really come this
second set it feels to me like J
probably should have a more significant
lead based on how that first set
Now chance to do a little more damage
here as we get into the second P1 that
set up inside. He was shoot
the early trophies going down and last
time the P1 it was an early flick. So is
going to pick this up. He's going to
find Amuza complete map control here for
Falcon. They are catching and draws back
all the way up. He knows the pressure
going to be there but it's ripping lead
the team 164 trying to fight back.
Falcon starting to heat up. I'm just
going to say a tie game in this half,
but yeah, this has been incredible. P1
trophies in the second set obviously
going to make it easier and they are
doing damage quickly. So, we're going to
fall pressure to sell out now in the
point. We're going to pass with too many
people in front of them to deal with.
So, he's going to end with about 15 to
20 remaining at half position now for
P2. Everyone from Falcon pretty much
coming off the spawn. Team gunfights
going to be in transition all the way so
far. going to be in a good spot as this
pops unless they drop down. Hey, you're
starting to see Carol going back and
forth that Son Hill just making sure
there's no weird split spawns. Hey, they
don't overressed trying to take control,
but now they do. As soon as the hill
pops and it comes down to a one versus
one is just going to play for the toss,
trusting his teammates to deal with the
one player on the hill and they do just
snack. Great teamwork on Falcons. Got an
early break for Falcons. Still looking
for their first lead early in the game
from the opening 11 seconds, but looking
to get back into one here. They got the
setup pressure to fade now having to try
and break. X is POV as he looks to lock
it down with his teammates. Let us for
this game not going to matter. The stun
hits and he is going to get laid out to
have been on point for Faze. That's too
easy. I mean just unreal a team where
you set up the pinch maybe from but he
gets straight up. It is the other three.
The stuns and on point now he's got some
room to work with.
He's sort of looking at the map of multi
comes in phase. They'll go to rotate.
They'll be ahead on rotation. Pushed up
real far. Will be a out selling going to
pop up and lay him out. So
he'll have more pressure from the left
side of the boo keeps it going now. Ha.
Look at 20 and 23. They are leading the
way. Honestly subs right there with
them. Slight there for B. The lead
hasn't built out to what they'd like it
based on how the early hard points went.
Awkward buffer drop as he drops. I mean,
what a plan. How is he still alive? He
is so difficult to take down and it's
what he always on four in a row. He's
able to find that triple and again
another scenario where you're going to
face cash out here and run away with the
game. It's like what he does. Five hard
points now or they may not run away but
at least build a little bit more. They
have not been able to find that at all.
They have no questions right now. Back
within 10 go Falcons 15 remaining on the
hard point the screen for continuing for
now he's on five finally drops another
multi boo he has been the frier
exit into the mix aqua secret there
close range he's going to drop the zip
will be traded out now by Luca it
finally feels like they're going to have
an early setup here number four they're
going to pick up on this position they
may not know he exit he's going to pick
up the back door and he jump down to
this one versus one yeah they thought
they Everything covered but with a split
out towards Motel gives them the opening
they need. He's got a bow on three to
his teammates where it's going to be
coming from. Aluca puts him down though
with the AR at range. Big kills out for
Falcons but just go outside the point.
The sun is going to hit but the help is
going to be there. Z going to spawn in
the back. Get reinforced quickly. Now
right over to Draw the action. It's
Falcons for now. Old Simple Clean it up
at 23 and 21 and they'll look to retain
this final 20 seconds and they're ahead
on the other side of the map as well.
Well, actually he's going to note for
this but Fas are going to be watching
that. I think that's a mistake from X.
He's already white ball so he feels like
he has to commit to the final 20 but
they already watch that cuz they spawn
their teammates out. But it's still a
tie game. This phase going to be set up
through his B5
last time.
This time nobody really close. They're
taking that far all the way out. It's
white ball. Now the pressure on the
truck before he's able to take that.
Look how far you are pushed up plain
time. Saw them just ripping right now. A
massive double and this has been the
best setup they have had. And while
they're finally cashing in just so much
control and then you get the individual
skill shown there from he has been so
good on land all year long. But here
comes Valky jumping the NPC starting.
That's going to be three or four dead
and they still fight. It's just a
question when the break comes. Is it
going to be early? Is it midway through?
Face have not been able to really get a
full hole.
The break has always been there for
Falcons. Clear some seconds remaining.
They can get this right back towards the
tie game or can they come with the
pressure straight up one step? He gets a
double to try and get the time. Sell's
looking for the trade at this point. S
back to full HP. So he's going to reach
out. Cell will deal with it.
layering mid map our face. We've got a
tight one. Yeah, but that three piece
there from S. Not only does it give them
some extra time, it sets them up here
for the P1. When you have wall control,
you're in the hill. Amoose able to find
that a bit of an off saw last time here
from this is their face on the hill. Now
they're going to end up right to try and
get this one. They've been breaking all
that long. Can they break again wants no
part of it? Can't find the angle
way up close to get the snaps out for a
second. They turn it up at 31 and 25. 15
points for them at one L. Their hard
point has been sensational and they
continue to do it here. 04 on the other
side of four. The ones who close this
out. He finally dropped it. They're the
team kill. No one can get near it. Bang.
Hold on. It won't stop the map one. I
lied. Out of here.
And listen. Could it have been clear?
probably on the face side. I think
there's potential for the development of
Yeah, I would not question but when you
watch their teamwork, their
understanding of the game, they tack
they just make the other team's life
living hell. There's always a double
challenge. Someone playing their life to
perfection and the play comes through. I
don't know if sometimes they are playing
gold hardoint. They are they are Yeah, I
know they got broke and it'll happen.
Yes, we want to clean up some of that.
But as far as the teamwork, the timing
of the pushes, the pitches on early
rotations, like they weren't getting
caught in anything. A booa had a monster
map one yesterday to get things started.
Put them 32 here. But really, I mean
that that is an all round team effort.
Everyone there in the damage. Everyone
there in the kills. You get output out
of everyone. These two teams battle one.
Yeah. 2 minutes on the hill on top of
that. The guy just doing it all is hard.
We have been seeing that from him. So
that's we going extensively point time.
That's what you want. I mean world
together
and I think I like seeing that from a
little bit more. We obviously saw the
probably a lot more but pulling out that
extra 15 at times on certain lines. I
think it paid off a couple of times that
we saw from him there. He had a couple
of multi kills that were massive for
him. But just going to the highlights of
his game. I mean Falcons kept it close
and kept finding breaks but it just felt
like Faze were always one step ahead.
Nobody would ever have that conversation
at a hard point. It's just like a matter
of time. But if you're just a step
behind, a step behind the lineup breaks,
the lineup breaks,
it just feels like it's exhausting. It's
something difficult about fights. Yes,
you have players that can win somebody
that was supposed to bring somebody off
a heady and getting to the point they
did multiple times, but it just adds up.
It adds up. I mean, this was an insane
little sequence here on a cell just get
them onto that P3, but it did not matter
in the long run. Maybe one of the more
impressive holes we have seen there at
that B5 throughout the year just with
the map control that they had set
themselves up towards this B1 to close
out the game.
There weren't really questions coming
into this about the hard point for Baz.
The rare times the question has been
about the surged
over
seven years. So yeah, I guess we're
going to laugh. I don't know. But yeah,
and I mean I spoke to them today earlier
just talking about the vetos, what they
were going to do. Um, and you know,
they're a team at times where they can
be a little hard-headed. Uh, obviously
Falcons, they would love to have been
playing frame search destroy and we saw
it yesterday from Faze. So obviously
maybe we're going to get that here again
in math number two, but that is not the
case. Let's just stay away from this.
Let's try and switch it up. Last time I
played, I believe the one just smoked
them alive. Three gridlock. So there's a
chance we get there. That is the map
five. That's why you have hard point
there in the map one. That's why B
simply did that because that gridlock,
you know, comes in during that that one.
That's why there's two gridlock fans. I
mean, if you didn't watch that series, I
looked at Jo. I was like cuz this I
believe started three and four and
Walmart. They looked like the best year.
They were playing really well. They they
got they're three and three. Yeah. Face.
Yeah.
Players get locked and loaded. Change of
pace to get ready for the search and
destroy. see if Falcons can fight back.
As Clay chats through things with the
players, they get ready to go. Fist
bumps out as we prep.
And we've already had some wild searches
this weekend. Some wild results, some
wild moments. It's been insane. Champs
usually is. We'll see what else we have
left in store these final three days.
But still two matches to go today. Some
long ones to kick us off.
Abusa,
what a player he has been for this team.
I mean, you think about like
You talk about sports and stuff like you
hard shoot come to a spot where there
was like a god like was literally a god
and I don't I don't know that anyone
really expected him to necessarily
perform the little cell head for years.
I'm not saying he matched the number of
stuff but he has
he's been terrific. There's no other way
to put it before too like he built one
of the best of all time and they've done
better than I can imagine. There's no
doubt about it. Right. There was just a
lot of question marks. Obviously, that's
phase honestly breaking up, but you just
kind of see just the struggles that you
have seen in search and destroy. And
where does that lead us to Asaki? They
have only played this one time on the
year. Falcons, they were one of the
first teams to play it when this got to
the map. But just looking at the stats
like kind of what's been going wrong for
face, they are 10 for 104 in opening win
percentage, right? This is a team
normally. They've dominated that in the
past. So, can they find those first
bloods? Yeah. I mean, this has been our
least blade search since we came into
the rotation. You I think there's
painful opportunity for improvement for
nerdy spots for opening n into the
action with yellow falcons. A bully ball
right onto the all four to get there
playing around the quick plan. Faze with
a two- two spread. Pressure on that
retake. Four versus four. No trophy. So
in happy to get away with his life post
plan. Yeah, smoke there for Faze just
for the pressure. There you go. You
going to hear that go down. just trying
to have somebody be on that find by that
first blood. S there quickly for the tra
28 on the clock and well
into cell with the double shifts during
the round and there we go. Ext
there with two in the round.
Beautifully done in the post plant.
Always worried somebody's going to get
caught. gates are going to connect and I
I mean for fasier's hoping somebody
connects
without trophies in play but not able to
really soften anybody up not able to
work around the smoke to make anything
too insane
>> as Xnid closes it out solid start now
remember this is when it first came to
the rotation this back when prep was in
the lineup they they looked insane the
start right they they were so far ahead
I think maybe we saw them play Miami I
remember to kick it off they like 60 61
that just dominated we're going back
months obviously
It's CD one they like right away.
>> That is a very deep smoke down there by
Fate trying to find a lot of information
and well they're going to catch out Cell
Amuza on the board but just due to that
rock push they know where Falcons are
coming from. The only player that maybe
they have a question mark on now is
going to be exited in that number eight.
He's doing a good job trading it out
again. Good job trading it out. They'll
retain numbers 2v1 the SMG duo up
against Xn. This is a moment you don't
want to let slip to him cuz he will be
roaring and that could turn everything
around. He is the lightning plug for
this team and well takes a couple of
shots into 44 back down for now. F going
to wrap this out. Work on the plant.
>> That is a big nade if that connects.
Just going to be a little bit short. So
bomb to go down and now you're going to
know a post plant setup if you are Faze.
This is when things get difficult.
>> He wants to go off the tag. Well, good
luck with that heading and good luck
with that one. That is uh we don't see a
ton of plants out there, but there are
some gnarly spots.
>> Well, just the early aggression, the
early info from FaZe. They were so fast
through rocks. They didn't see anything
in the middle of the map outside of
Cell. So, that just says, yo, they're
pushing low. Just be on the lookout.
Like, there's a chance for to make the
play, but he has so much to clear. He
cannot get there in time. Then that
nade, if it's able to connect, maybe
he's able to clutch. And
>> I think that's what's been odd with
them. Like, you talk about the hard
point. They've been so decisive. They
really have. But like in the search,
like at least look back to last event,
it was kind of the opposite of that.
>> Yeah, it just feels at times they're not
together.
>> Like S especially, I thought last event
just wasn't on the same page. Sometimes
just solo channeling and I didn't know
is he calling it going too fast? Are
they what what's breaking down? But if
they can fix that, well, I mean, if they
fix their search, they they very well
win this week. No questions asked
without having to respawn as
a little bit of a different setup this
time through. Not an allowed hit onto B.
quickly to get the fight in but a little
more delay but the result will be the
same with the plant at least Luca able
to trade that out to simp got the first
blood now we back down this three versus
three see if face can retake or falcons
can hold is going to find one but again
both teams trading pretty effectively
and now all down to Alucha one versus
two he has no idea if they are on that
bomb so he's going to have to get back
to it quickly finds the MPC but only 15
in the clip well that number going to go
down he's going yet spotted just no
information. Well, FaZe, they stick to
their guns. They play for that retake
starts with that first blood from S.
>> Yeah, I mean didn't allow them to do
what they did first time. Get the plant
down, get out for free, set up in your
ideal spot, things get a little bit
crazy. I mean, how does it change for a
team when you, I don't know, got all
four of your players versus not post
plant?
>> Well, yeah. I mean, it helps a lot, but
I think the key there is right as Falcon
switch it up. Instead of backing all the
way up, they wanted to get aggressive
out outside of window, right? They were
hoping to catch a timing and repinch
phase through the middle, but actually
just ends up getting caught. So they
take a risk, but that time doesn't work.
>> Yeah, sometimes just loses a man. One
lane not being watched, one opening
being left.
Traded pretty effectively until they
didn't phase back on offense.
And well, the nades will hit 04 with the
opener. He's on four straight.
We don't see a ton of this, but quickly
out over towards Z going to look for the
timing through Smaller. Able to do that.
That's a frustrating one for Faze. You
give him a free pick. Numbers even.
Yeah, I think they they just don't see
him when they're crossing through and
now all of a sudden this is a one versus
two for Sim.
>> Fis though he's got his back find three
in the round.
>> Or did punch this up?
>> Uh-oh. One versus one now. Bring around
the Rosie. Damage is in. Syn is haunting
Kisman tucktail and out
>> and this could be a very long one versus
one. We still have 40 seconds on the
clock but just going to opt for the
play. Trust his gut.
>> Big time moment.
One v one guesses wrong. Gets cut down.
Kisman with the clutch.
>> Well, kids just with a smart play just
to back down on that first engagement.
Some great shots out of S. Just resets
the map. Gives him a chance. Well, then
he's just able to catch him on that
postpl route.
>> S just pulls a knife out. We kind of
heard Looney talking about that. Just
not loving that setting that the players
are running because situations like that
were just not done ready, but it does
not matter. Just Yeah, he had no idea
kids was in that area.
>> Yeah, a little bit different, but just
reminds me of how much you loved Kenny
and all his ying.
>> I mean, I I had the original on my
team for a long time.
Those are my guys. Like please just have
your gun up for the gunfight.
Two two now.
Kid is hot off the clutch.
Looking for an opening. Well, they're
playing kind of for the phase pressure.
Faz is taking a lot of space. Got a ton
of information now.
And 04 backto back rounds able to hit a
nade. Now I'm here's hoping you don't
give away a freebie and keep numbers.
It's just a question of where are 04 and
Z going to go. You saw them drooping up
and this is what we were trying to talk
about that tandem playing together
working off one another. Not solo ching.
They're always now together on the map.
>> Yeah, and it was really a search and
destroy that felt like a little weird. I
know for the playmaker, but sometimes a
little bit of followup can be the
difference. Knife just a little bit
short.
>> FaZe take it. 04 feeling good. Couple of
first bloods in his pocket. right now
he's 3-2 but 4-1 in the first blood
department four phase. So Falcon's going
to look to find a little more success
early on
and I think that first might have been
the first round.
They'll talk through the upcoming
strats.
See how they want to play this defense.
But I mean there's been several rounds
where Faser is getting so much info,
taking so much space, just fearless on
the map.
>> Yeah, last time it was that a hit. This
time maybe they just go to that sort of
default B.
>> And while Sim is just running at him,
Cell's going to back all the way
through, but that opens up the bomb
site. So we're going to have a classic
fouron four ret
back to full bomb plant is through.
Everybody on phase now backing up.
Where's the opening come from? Falcons
sent back to 63.
Tough gunfight against the AR. There's
smoke though making it kind of chaotic.
Drazza is going to get caught trying to
take a route. Freebie now for Aluca.
Aluca finds another. Kisman looking to
close it out. They picked apart this
setup and that is too easy. Falcons
looking great on the replay.
>> Yeah, similar to what Falcon's plan to
be that second time through. They wanted
to try to find some sort of opening in
the defense, right? You're backing all
the way up. Sometimes it just feels
suffocating. So, you want to get
somebody out. that time it was draws but
someone played so patient for him on the
Falcon side gives them that first blood
and then yeah you just know the
positions that phase are going to be in
it feels like early and mid game of the
map one no one really able to find any
kind of significant separation these two
teams are fighting
simp cell
teammates for so long so much success
together both sitting on seven and four
leading the way for their side who would
have
Right into the mix we go. Zip with the
first blood. Trzle with the follow up.
And this is a different Sim too, right?
We kind of talked about 04 being the
opener. That is two rounds in a row
where he is just running down B taking
that first bar fight. Well, backing them
down and that time getting the first
blood.
>> He looked a little different on map one
than he has these past couple weeks.
Honestly,
>> seems like the swagger's there.
>> Hookuca.
trying to turn the tides but not loving
his fight. Kismmet is a a snail.
>> I mean DJ is waiting right just is he
going to check the bomb? Well, this is a
a long play. A very deadly stri
>> keeps them in this round. It's a two
versus three. But the big thing they
have to get this bomb down. When do
phase one want to go? Looks like they
are grouping up. Timing could be on
point for them. And well it will be.
Sims like follow me again. and I will
put them down.
>> Two first bloods, two bombs planted,
double digits on 1,200 damage. Simp
taken over in the map, too.
>> And that was the question coming into
this. That's what Nameless is talking
about, but we all
>> I know he's going nuts in the back. I
know he is.
>> It felt like last event if S just played
to his normal pedigree, they win that
event. Like he just had an awful one.
He's back on his right now. Up
4-3.
Falcon's turn to answer
>> Xen having a slow one at one and five.
See if he can turn it around. Offense
back over to Faze and we'll see what
their opening looks like. But looks like
we're right back to what we did last
round. Yeah, but it's behind the smoke
this time. The smoke's there before
almost gets ripped.
>> Yeah, he's still going though, right?
Cell's not there, but it is going to be
a first blood for Ala on the draws again
on that weak side of the map. So that
play from him just not working out. So
now three versus four. And well, Falcon,
they have the right idea. Yeah, they
know where this push is coming from. You
have back to exit all the way up.
>> 04 though going for the trade and well,
you're into a twoon two.
>> These two are flying together. They're
joined at the hip and well, they may not
win the round. You can see they're
fighting. Success is able to find it.
One versus one now.
>> That snail, he was there.
>> Yeah. Found the snail this time around,
huh?
>> Oh, two versus one. I'm faded.
45 seconds to go. Aluca,
>> what a terrific kickoff to his career at
Champs goes yesterday.
>> More of a typical task here.
>> Yeah, he's just hoping they catch them
on the bomb plant, right? That is when
he is going to be his most advantageous
position to win this clutch. It's just
which bombs are they going towards?
>> Is the timing going to be great? One
turn their head, but he slipped through.
Oh, I thought I I thought maybe he
slipped through. He certainly did not.
The snail hunter Abuzza finding him.
>> And I mean, you could just see how
patient FaZe are, right? And we have
seen that. We even seen that on on a map
like Grave, right? Just not allowing
these players to catch them on the
bottom. Playing very patient, watching
all the routes, not giving up timings.
Phase do just that. But that was a a
huge round, right? Because you are down
in numbers. You have like no map control
if you are phased. But Falcons, they
were so spread. Those two players just
get isolated.
SE04 playing together, finding success.
Combined 18 and eight currently leading
the way
that point. Falcons get the ripoff three
straight. It starts here.
And once again, kind of playing it slow,
playing it passive, hoping to catch
maybe aggression from space and then
>> or just avoid utility.
>> Well, he throws that smoke. Yeah, throws
that smoke. They don't have a trophy.
just kind of baits it and then the nades
come through. But here is another
retake. But it looks like Falcons, they
might want to go quick towards that A
side of the map. I mean, look at how
much they have given up on the bottom
side.
Gets on it
there.
Able to find the kill. Not going to
finish it. Backs off it. A find the
kills. They're clutching up. They're
able to do it. Got scary for a second.
that flank out about 3/4 I think.
>> I think the illucanade ends up helping
Xen, right? Cuz X then probably only has
to hit a B or two. It feels like he
probably has the lineup. That elucanade
from helps him. And I mean, they go for
that. If that doesn't connect, the round
is done. But that buys enough time for
Tism to activate.
>> Yeah, know we hopped off it. I know we
do because you spectators, but I was
like, where are we at?
>> Yeah, I was like 3/4 of the way there.
Yeah, just didn't see that first blood
from that was the key. They stay alive.
>> Look at the clutch up late.
FaZe have been heavy hitting B the
backto back rounds.
>> Well, there's a setup to counter this
this time out of Falcon. So, they do not
want to give up that part of the map.
Don't let Zip just kind of run at this.
But FaZe, they adjusted for that.
>> One hits.
No followup. Draw is going to get back
to full. Pressure now coming out towards
a exit's going to be here. Well, Bis
wants him for a moment. Cell though able
to get a pig big pick. Nice first blood
as he's on nine.
Cell shooting right now. Nearly able to
find a second in the round.
>> And I think that's why you see so many
times on attack they try to take that
spot right the stairs.
>> Just such an important position to pivot
between both bombs. Well, Cell once he
gets to that heady, he is so darn good.
But another two versus four here for
this duo.
Oh, Lucas allowed it to happen. All to
Auza. Too much to deal with. We'll get
dropped. Falcons back to back rounds and
we're going all the way to an 11. And
that is just a chess match, right? The
adjustments on both sides. That time
Falcons play with confidence over
towards B.
>> Now we'll see who's got what side to
kick off this round 11. The game of
chess continues.
Falcons desperately trying to avoid the
O2 hole.
>> Cell clutch in the last one. Kiz with a
massive one-on-one win. Keeping their
dreams alive. Offense for FaZe.
They want to get to B. It looks like
it's going to be fast pressure here for
Cockas as well. Going to be a good old
fashioned meet and greet. Up over the
top goes Zip. Able to back slide. Stay
up. Shots exchanged on both sides. We're
going to stick it. It's so much info
deep from Zip. No, bomb's going to go
down, but Falcons are here. And what a
hero trophy that is. I do not think Door
gets out with his life. The smoke is
down. The pre-fire is there, but here we
go.
>> The retake is on. They are hunting as a
group.
>> FaZe pretty split. And watch that number
three. 04 is trying to find the route on
the other side. It's going to be Kisman.
>> Two versus two now. 20 seconds to go.
Pressure on Falcon. They got to find the
kills. They got to find them soon. 04
still on his route. Sim still hunting.
They've been the hard carry. Both the
double digits 04 popping up before at
least getting one. One versus one.
Simply no time. It is done. Faz ice up
behind the SMG duo. They're up 20.
And well, they just match it over
towards B. Right. Falcons don't commit
to the four that early fight. They kind
of back down. They're hoping their nades
connect, but that's what S and Faze have
done. They just take the early gun
fight, put some shots in, back away, put
the trophies in a position to protect
the bomb carry, and that time instead of
sort of playing for the top side of the
map, they allow 04 to go through rocks
and they give him enough time to
activate.
>> I'll be honest with you, that like Sally
kept doing with the timing of the smoke
is horrifying.
>> Oh, it's horrifying.
>> It's horrifying. The difference of a a
millisecond is he's dead, alive, maybe
gets a kill. really feel you're flipping
a coin half the time, but you get so
much info there as you said, able to
backslide out of that and then 04 and
Sim close the challenge, right? It's the
backslide. He sees two in the window.
>> Yeah. So, it's just like, all right, be
ready for this. They might fly on 04,
but they had his back able to ice up.
>> Holy hell, a tight map one, a tight map
two phase getting by by the skin of
their teeth. It feels like I mean,
you're so close to win here. Falcons can
try to extend this, but you are facing a
very good overload team in FaZe. How do
the Falcons bring this back?
>> Yeah, it's going to be tough. And well,
this is like kind of their do too,
right? FaZe, they kind of avoid Den for
the most part and they choose team A.
So, it's up to them. But again, because
of that gridlock veto, you're going to
get rid of exposure. That's been
Falcon's home all year. So, the choice
is up to you. Well, they're going to go
with this car.
>> All right. Face up 20 in front of the
home crowd looking to close it out and
move into a winners final. Guaranteed
top three just one step away. We'll be
back after the break.
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>> Yeah. Got me.
>> I don't even worry about it. It's all
good. Go next.
>> Don't worry about it. Did you go next?
>> Just go next. Just go next.
>> We got to laugh that one off, boys.
>> Holy I'm bad.
>> We got to laugh that one off. Christ.
Two. Two of them. Two. Nice. Yo, maybe
pinching mid.
>> Could be out, boys. Could be checkers.
Probably just checkers.
>> Wow, boys. I literally shot manipal
it again on a five. 31 and 21.
>> Good lord. Going to have to break this
one down.
>> Make it six in a row. Hercules.
>> We're flying folks.
>> We're 10 seconds away from a map one
green wall victory. The kills are
flying. The are firing. Shotsy top man.
Can he find
here in Dallas? Come on.
>> Come on.
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Block parties here and partying enjoying
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event so far and the action continues.
Two tight maps between these two teams,
but map three.
Is it going to be a little too much for
this Falcons team? Where do you think
the toughest if All right, before we
started, what was the toughest test
coming from? The overload.
>> Yeah, I think that or the scarp point.
>> Yeah, but uh yeah, you don't win your
search and destroy pick and yeah, it's
an uphill battle from here. But yeah,
the overload for phase when you kind of
look at the stats throughout stage 4,
our most recent stage, they were number
one in attack, number one on defense,
scar 4 and one. This has been their
home. Yeah, I feel ever since S got on
the phase roster, their game three,
whatever mode we've been playing,
they've usually been very good for
whatever reason, whether it was control,
whether it was overload,
they have been solid, simp looking to
get into another champ Sunday. More work
to do, looking for another top three,
looking to maybe get a third win.
A story for another player, a couple
other players here as well. optic on the
same run and probably going to be who
they run into if they close this out.
But we're not done yet. Falcons try to
bring it back.
And a reminder, this is a winners
bracket match. I know we had some
elimination ones today, but this is the
winner side. So loser will fight on.
We're not done yet, but Joe, those stats
you were talking about. Yeah. When you
see a whole lot of first, typically a
very good sign. Yeah. Very good sign.
It's not only first, but also the way
they're doing that, right? Winning
overloads by a margin of plus three.
A lot of one score games we've had over
the you know last couple of tournaments
that has not been the case for this
phase team. They have been dominant.
>> Yeah. Know we've had a ton of just games
coming down to the wire. Yeah. Not not
for the most maybe early in the year. I
can feel some crazy dins they had. They
were one score games. But map three
Falcons
try so desperately to bring this back
but their toughest test yet. Maybe this
scar overload
phase. That's already going to be three
dead. That's the last one down. It's
going to be immediate pressure. No one
with EMP though due to the fact he lost
a player, but Draza just comes out.
Shoot. Pressure is here. Drazza
continues to go. Have to get four before
he drops. The kills though and up for
Falcons to delay this for a moment. Last
person EMP trying to sneak on through.
Not going to happen on Cell's Watch.
>> Yeah, best case scenario there for
Falcons is both players were just too
far up. So, they opt for the spawn kills
and you deal with the one player inside
of blue. And that was S, right? He gets
gunned right away.
Nice shots there from Cell. So you deal
with that first push from FaZe and great
break off. But yeah, Draws is uh he's
been playing well on this map.
>> No, it was a good trade. Like S gets two
there and you're like back to the
drawing board. You're not getting
forward at all. And now you might be
able to turn this into a score. Gizman
up inside you doing it at range as well,
but EMP is dead.
And that'll be the clearance. Nice
little play from Kismmet, but not enough
to turn that into a score. Look at
number three on the map. A four is in
position. He has been here for a while.
Right. right off of the respawn. He gets
there, but they let Exxon slip on
through 04 with the read. It will be a
for but again EMP just too far away. Sim
has to try to play the spawn kills. Put
some damage in here to get those mid map
spawn so quickly. Will Faze be there
with the reinforcements. Couple of scary
moments for Falcon. So far they've dealt
with it
>> from this side of the map. FaZe looking
to get their damage done between the
two. Kim with a lovely gunfight when
he's shooting fantastic. It looks smooth
for his POV. The timing will be on
point. The pinch is in. The pressure is
forward. Last players going to be 04 and
S to try and deal with this. The heroes
of the search and destroy look to make
the plays on defense. S able to get the
first one. EMP swirling away at half HP.
Still looking for an opening. And well,
both four and are alone. Yeah, N is just
trying to trying to bait this right.
Trying to spread them out. Where am I
going with this thing? But finally, he
does get caught. They just never really
had top screen control. So, just allows
base quickly to peek on over. Well,
defense strong for both of our squads so
far.
>> Yeah, both teams with a couple of uh,
you know, quote unquote chances.
>> Either delivering, but now this is a
real big one of four going to be way
ahead again. Just trying to get EMP
forward. No, XT there for the two-piece
this time to stall it out, but it's not
there. Looking for the opening of four
finding the kills. He's able to get J2.
Actually, I lied to you. X does get a
double again. Just a little bit later,
he clutches up. They hold on.
>> Yeah. Well, I thought I mean Jim was one
of the first up and he was in the middle
of the map. Sim picks that up right
away. And I thought FaZe were going to
fly, but have to deal with Selium up
top. Blue just allows Edston to get
there in time, but immediately Faze
right back to it. Another three dead.
Can you hold on again if you are Celium
in the Falcons? Not going to happen.
They take it to be.
>> Yeah. Not able to spot up in time. They
may get a double for you again. Score
finally through.
>> Maybe a counter.
>> It has been relentless pressure from
Faze so far. Their forward man drops the
other side. And Xnid is still in the
phase spawn.
EMP top side. Xnid finding the angle
able to win the fight. There's a counter
score here. Another double for Xnit.
Six of his eight through doubles. Nobody
home. We're tied up 1. We head to the
bottom side where Faz has got two in
position. Yeah, always have to be
careful. Delaying that over towards a
early in the map. Right. A good nade and
that truck blows up and then EMP would
have been down. But you put it through
now. You try to stop the counter on the
other side. Right. spawns top side. You
spawn out toward towards boats, you
immediately get the counter. But this
sets a phase through Motel, but the NPC
is too good on defense. Cell with three
in a row. Well, actually five in a row.
A three piece almost turns it into four.
And I am so happy that this guy is
running flex again. He just solo stalled
everything. Comes from market gets three
kills. EMP carrier and all falls apart.
Now they try to go the other way. Aluka
leading the way. Aluca getting two.
Trophy out. Score through. Back to back
for Falcons. Up 2-1 with 50 to go on
this side.
>> Well, difference is the efficiency on
the attacks, right? You have had plenty
of opportunities if you are phase only
two really for Falcons. They put both of
them through as starting to find flow.
They're always coming in pairs for the
young men looking to put forward another
pair. Info on several finessing top
green. A wild one that Zip is able to
walk away with. And then S finesses away
for Trza to come in for the help onto
Kismid. 25 to go. It's FaZe trying to
even this up, but it's another multi
from Falcon to break up the phase
pressure.
Oh, now it's just a fight for the last
EMP possession.
Still 10 seconds before that clock gets
down to zero. Cel going to pick up the
long route on draws. And now it's just a
question, is either team really going to
go for this?
You get a scoop. You're able to stay up.
Exit will drop. One last chance here for
Falcons. There's a team kill on the side
of phase. Pistol will finish another
opportunity here.
I lie again. I love Aqua series. A dirty
little life. I mean, it's just middle of
the map. Just nobody really pushed up
and yeah, just the M15s in some good
positions. And while the start was great
for FaZe, you're thinking a score right
away, but again, everybody Well, Cell
gets the one kill onto Amuza. If that
doesn't happen, Amuza is right on the
EMP and they are they go, they are
flying. uh their definition of clutch
either midmap or defensively.
X did the hero multiple times. Cell had
his big play moment and for phase
frustrating. You plenty of chances to
capitalize just not able to do it.
You feel like they had the same kind of
pressure.
Very good chance to win this and close
it out. Can they convert?
>> I mean obviously they were on the
preferred side right there, but still a
map where you can score a lot either
side. put them in that spawn trap in the
top right.
Falcon's looking for a better break off.
So far so good.
Kiz can't get across though. Will be
traded out. Raza finds a double. He's on
17. S on 18 right there with him.
Xen trying to be the guy. Sting out
again. It's another multi where all his
kills come in Paris. Well, I think Abuzi
is just trying to cheat there, right?
You have 04 is already up towards top
three. He's just trying to get EMP over
towards that side of the map. And X just
is going to play his life and back down.
But that is not the case. But Sim
somehow is able to slip through the
cracks. You have a lot of forward
position and now you have to be worried
cuz there is nobody there. Ex is inside
of Delhi. You get the Tom. Abuzza right
to that EMP. The top goal scorer in the
league. Adds another one to the tally.
>> This time one chance, one score. Not the
case in the first half, but flushing it
through. Even to go with still
what feels like an eternity left in this
second half. Cell's been on one. Three
straight right now on 22. Well, not
finding any opening there. Simp gets
two. He is winning so many gun fights. I
think he had what 17 or 18 in that first
half.
>> On the back foot. Go Falcons again. The
spot from Aluca pays off. Dials in a
triple. And I feel like all his multis
have kind of jump from positions like
that. He gets to a corner, plays
patient, and then just pounces at the
right time. And now here is the
opportunity. Can you get into Buzza from
up top? It's going to be a three. Dead
makes it all four. I mean, his triple
after a triple. He's on seven in a row.
Scores. Has the hell score. The young
man is doing it all. Aluka, are you
kidding? Triple defensively, triple
offensively. Getting it through. Streaks
to go.
>> Drazza doing what he can. The other
side. He's able to still alive. He
almost takes down two by himself. Gives
them a chance, but the reinforcement
just not there. But that does forces
right away from Aluca.
>> No, that actually that works for Face. I
know he'd love to get the sword and all
but got the streak out.
>> Aluca has erupted as he's dealing with
the streak as well. They'll trade out
simp. We get back to the mid map fight.
EMP bottom.
And just like the first two maps, no one
able to find any kind of significant
separation in this. Exit trying to be a
playmaker. Oh, XD is shooting right now,
but he will eventually be traded out of
the other side. Oh, four has got pushed
up and one-on-one. This is the queue to
go as completely and utterly out of the
fight. He'll get that kill. It's not
going to matter. You need a god Nate.
It's not going to hit. What just
happened?
>> I mean, just out of the play, right?
Again, 04 just kind of cheats the cut.
He's able to push on through. Finds the
spawn kill, wins that fight, and I mean,
yeah, if you're going to take that long
route, you need your teammates to buy
you time and and they just do not. So
Cell, I think even FaZe was confused
about his position. Wide open for him as
we're all square.
Kissid hammering with the pistol.
Keep an eye on the number four and S.
He's taken around again. Can break this
up behind enemy lines, but good job by
Xton dealing with that. No opening in
the back line.
Aluca damage in with the stuns. I mean
like the map one hitting in the big
moments.
>> Yeah, it's a stun and then it's a double
jump right every single time from this
phase team. as well. Kiz continues to
finesse trying to keep that in their
control but is taken down.
>> Faze deal with the pressure. They'll be
able to fan out the map a bit. Aluca set
up clean side.
>> Well, you have to be careful here.
Everybody is really motel side here for
Falcons. And if they just go up top,
this might be a score. Yeah, they're
just going to go again. You have two
players taking routes and I think
Falcons, they're just going to get
caught out again.
Drazza had to win one one-on-one against
the Luca and it's a score. A misplay for
Falcons has cost them on the last two.
Now in the hole two in the series down
one with a minute to go.
>> Yeah, just two players taking that route
hoping that they can catch them off
guard instead. They get caught with
their pants down and now they are in a
very tough spot. All the pressure over
the foul
>> trying to pull the pants back up and
maybe make the plays late. It was
sensational individual moments from open
>> EMP is still topside.
>> Sid gets three
>> and S man called game pops a triple to
hold. But even that scenario right you
have so much forward pressure. You're
going for spawn kill. Someone has to
find that objective. Somebody help out
his
back to mid map we go. Sip on 32. He has
had a series and he continues to dance.
Nearly fries another offthe-wall jump,
but the fact is the pressure is here.
That's another score. That's the dagger
phase. 10 seconds from a 3 0 and a
guaranteed top three. No repeat of the
top six in the past 2 years. This time
they make it on.
Faze with the big dub. Rio
and well that is just where the
experience of rosters I think comes into
play right you make your roster change
after major for some of these little
things you're just not going to be on
the same page but it is no mistakes on
the side of phase and they read the map
they have a right idea of where they
need to go and well they just they
punish them yeah I mean I'm sure there
were some of those probably for them
even in hardpoint but it's like Harpoint
is way more forgiving right like you you
make a mistake you can get a quick break
maybe after it. I was thinking overload
that's going to lead to a score is game
changing. It is. And you think about the
last two that happened, players out of
position, setups not ideal. And listen,
uh we talked about
two of the best players in the league.
You talk about MVPs with like Scrap and
Sip coming into this. The
disappointments last year, are these
guys going to turn up? And for Scrap, he
disappeared. He did. He had an off
event. S turning up today. He had an
incredible series. double digits in the
surge, 30 plus in the respawns, 34 and
26, and led the lobby in damage there.
>> He's back.
>> He's back. Yeah. And I mean, listen,
Optic are the favorites, but if there's
a team that can take them down, it is
this phase lineup. And that's assuming
the search and destroy improves. The
respawn, there's no question.
>> Yeah. Well, Optic got to get there, too,
right? They match up with the the Paris
gentle mates that have improved. They've
had time since major four. That was a
what a three-0 back at for the top three
spot on a Sunday. So, we're going to
have that match up next. But FaZe, they
take care of business. They win their
map picks. They look great when they're
winning those search and destroys. No, a
phenomenal win. Listen, it was a a very
close win uh every single map. Hotly
contested by Falcons. Outside of a
couple of moments, not it's not like
they played poorly. Just just some
mistakes, maybe communication 100% for
them, but like I don't think this is a
team that's going down without a fight
right now. They look to be playing some
of their best Call of Duty with this uh
>> individually individually they looked
fantastic.
>> So that back toback triple for Luka was
disgusting. I mean that that was absurd.
This kid's got a great career ahead of
them. But another top three, a man
looking for a third champs trophy. It's
S and he's on stage.
>> Vegas makes some noise cuz he's back.
We got S and Faze Vegas going into the
top three. We'll see them in the winners
finals tomorrow. S, how does it feel to
solidify another top three here at
Champs and to really like play like
yourself? I feel like it's been a while
since we've seen you pop off like that.
>> Yeah, I mean, honestly, I feel like the
whole narrow has been a little gassed. I
feel like I won bad champs personally.
Uh, I mean, I've been nasty, honestly,
all year long. Obviously, I had the bad
series against LT last event, but you
know, happens. But, I'm feeling
great this event. Obviously, we three 0
there uh many, you know, tomorrow, which
is great. And I mean I'm personally I'm
feeling fantastic. So I mean
Vegas did he look good to you guys.
>> Now one thing that you know you guys
especially like when it comes down to
the series you know your SNDs you guys
been trying to just polish them up get
them right where they need to be. The
round 11 man. What was going on through
your mind here on that last map to be
able to close that one out so you guys
didn't have to have this even series
where they had some hope?
>> I mean off the rip you know I'm I'm the
math guy so I'm counting up the deaths.
I'm making sure we valance or defense.
That's that takes priority once it goes
round 11 after that. I mean, um, you
know, it's who knows what happens around
11, honestly. I mean, just happens.
>> I mean, you got a great plan. The trophy
came in to save a life and you guys
really hit a great
>> Shout out my trophy players, man. Shout
out my trophy players.
>> Shout out to trophy players indeed, man.
Cuz without them,
>> round out trophies, man.
>> Now, you know, next we're about to
figure out who you guys are going to
play. And I'm pretty sure for you it
doesn't matter who you're going to play
on this stage. I mean, you guys have
been constantly evolving throughout the
season, and this is the one that matters
the most. But, you know, we got all the
fans here in Vegas. Everybody's ready to
cheer you guys on. The Faze fans are
ecstatic to see how you guys been
playing. What do you want to say to them
as you guys get ready for the winners
finals?
>> Hey, everyone here that supports us here
for the event. We appreciate y'all. I
got a good feeling about this event. I
mean, personally, I'm frying and
I think we're going to be back in this
event. So, appreciate
>> you heard it here from the man himself.
He's feeling good. Keep your faith in
them. All right, that's going to do it
for me and Chris on the stage. Other
Chris, take it away.
>> Thank you very much, Guy Blaze. I want
to put like a priest collar on this
dude. He is handing out some sermons
tonight. Let's take a look here at what
FaZe just accomplished because you are
now guaranteed top three at Champs.
You're moving into that winners's
bracket final and you did it with a
clean 3. Here is your scuff play of the
game. Walk me through some of the big
moments here as Drazza crew popped off.
>> I mean, death taxis and phase Vegas on a
Sunday. Yeah, I mean I feel like we all
know how this story goes, but I think
this overload is definitely a statement.
You know, we come in talking about their
respawn and maybe the wolves in search
and destroy, but I mean like Seth said,
he feels fantastic and we saw it when it
came to this scar. And
>> yeah, I mean we've never heard Simply
talk like that. Like I'm crying saying
that. You could tell maybe last month
getting to him a little bit. And this is
kind of what we've been hinting at how
good this phase team has secretly been
when he plays like this. It's going to
be three 0's. Like think about what we
saw from this Riad team yesterday. Yes,
they pushed him a little bit in this
series, but in the end when Sim plays
like that, they are untouchable.
Phenomenal even in the clutch.
>> And Sim has something to prove here,
too. He got second team all Allstar. He
should have probably been on the first
one. And at champs last year, their team
did not do well. So, a lot of people
were saying Sim just might not have it
at champ. But the way they're playing
now, he's starting to wake up. This team
has a real case and might potentially
win those rings.
>> All right, we got to talk about Sim's
situation. The man is looking at a third
ring. But more importantly, his former
teammates Aziz out of the tournament.
And you just beat Selium. He is proving
it wasn't just the trio fighting
success. He was a key piece of it.
>> Yeah, 100%. And to enter the year, that
was like the biggest storyline, right?
Like the phase trio had broken up. Who
would rise to the occasion? You know,
Abzy and S, who would get that third
ring? Well, you look at S, he has a
massive opportunity now, and he's full
of confidence. And with the way the the
other three have been playing, they have
a real shot.
>> Ladies and gentlemen, there are only
three teams remaining in our winners
bracket. And on the other side of the
break, I have a man with three rings
joining the desk. Let's take a look at
your bracket and what we have in store
for you because Optic is still in the
fight. Paris Gentle Mates still in the
fight. That is our next best of five.
Dylan, if you missed the regular season,
what should the fans expect from this
one? Well, at the end of the season,
Gentle Mates picked up Joe Dees, who has
arguably been the best player in Black
Ops 7. Generates found early success
with their old roster. Things went south
after that. They have Joe now. They've
had a couple weeks of practice after
their major. They got a top three up to
a couple weeks of practice there. Now
they go up against the best team in the
game. This should be an absolute banger.
>> Final match of the night. It is day two
here of the Call of Duty League
Championship week in 2026 presented by
Player X. lock in cuz there's a Crimix
on the other side of the break.
Nice.
>> Keeping. Keeping
official
controller of the CDL.
>> Player X is the official esports fantasy
partner of the Call of Duty League.
>> Monster Energy, the official energy
drink of the CDL,
>> brought to you by America's Navy and the
special operators who work in the
shadows.
But that's how it go.
I'm going out the rail.
I know that things are going wrong for
me.
You got to listen to my words.
Yeah.
crazy.
Here
we go.
>> Glory isn't given. It is on.
>> Oh,
what did we just see? Easy
>> trying to avoid
another silver medal.
>> This is my time to go.
>> We win. We boost. We win.
>> Back to back champs.
>> Oh my god.
>> Out of nowhere.
>> Unbelievable.
>> It's history in the making.
Oh my god.
>> Oh, the champions of the world.
>> Oh my god.
>> Oh my god. Oh my god.
>> What's up everybody? I'm here with one
of our favorite partners of the Call of
Duty League, America's Navy, as they
have came back yet again at Champs.
Brought a lot of fun games out. They're
playing some hardpoint 2v2s on Colossus.
Now, I got Apollo with me. Now, Apollo,
are you going to be playing on some of
the games in a in a 2v2 hardpoint? Do I
have to play against you to get a prize?
>> Uh, you don't necessarily have to play
me. I brought my team with me. Um, the
Goats and Glory Navy's Esports. They're
all willing and ready to play, and you
can come and win some prizes. We have a
hat that says America's Navy on it. It's
a dad hat. And we also have a nice cool
little um customized pin.
>> Last event, you guys had the pull-up
competition and the push-ups. Is that
bad?
>> It is. So, you can also win the same
exact prizes on the push-up and pull-ups
if you don't feel like you want to play
the two.
>> Okay. If you guys think y'all can knock
out some pull-ups, knock out some
push-ups, or just win some 2v2s with
your duo on some Colossus Hardpoint,
come on through and hang out with our
favorite sailors here at America's Navy.
time, man. Like when you have the
slayers, when you have the talent there,
it's all about putting it together.
>> Three.
>> He's top three.
>> Who are you looking forward to?
>> Oh my god.
>> You're good. You're good.
>> Just run him on the way out,
>> bro. I'm like, yo, he's going for edge.
He has to. No, he's going top three.
>> This is the funnest.
Hey, we won. That's all that matters.
>> Yeah, we won. But like
>> All right. Hey, chat. Watch this.
>> All right, we got to go play the game,
dude. Let's take a look at this bad.
One small one. Wing me blue. Raping me
blue.
>> What? Blue.
>> Yeah. Yeah. Low pass me. I think low
pass me 100% on me. Last me. He's low.
Below me.
>> I'm me. I'm right. But what is
happening, bro?
>> I don't know what the
>> doing.
>> These guys are horrible.
>> I don't know the
>> What is going on?
>> What the is going on? Why are they not
hopping the bomb?
>> These guys don't know how to plant. They
don't know how to hop bomb.
>> That's a streak. Six at us.
>> Don't play with this guy, bro.
investigators hold it.
>> I'm pretty sure if you have to work with
me.
>> Oh my god.
>> Oh my god.
>> He did it again.
>> Oh my god.
>> No way.
>> That's what he wants to do.
>> Okay, bro.
>> That's what he wants to do.
>> Okay, that's how that's how the series
ends. Okay.
>> Oh my god.
>> He just stamped them. He just stamped
them.
>> He just stamped them.
>> Yo, he just stamped them.
>> Second tick is done. Azy is cheesing.
Azy is cheesing. That is filth.
Series isn't over yet. Face now a chance
to smile.
I'm watching mid cut. Just watch.
>> We have the enemy exactly where they
want.
>> Three down.
>> Hostiles have the hard point.
>> System was eliminated.
>> Oh my goodness.
>> Control the hard.
I mean, maybe you can ego chow at times
some teams if you're phased, but you're
not doing it to Sim. There's two that
line up in front and cell maybe making
the play trying to stay alive. Pushes in
and cell goes nuclear.
Holy go. You
>> Oh my god,
>> GG. This is GG, bro. It's not GG. GG.
GG. Not
>> you.
Holy.
Holy. Let's go. Holy.
>> I just
jinxed them.
through bomb. I'm bomb.
Nice. Could be pinched. My bad. Yo, I
have their side. You have their side.
>> I have their side.
Oh my god.
What the are you?
You will never be in a finals ever
again. You bum.
I just want to say um I lived two great
years in the league. I love all of you.
Even the Greenwell fans, you know, love
all of you. We make code so much
special. It's so nice to have it in
Espña.
steals the record for most kills dropped
in a single match. It's 115. It's Gwen
on the collapse. He gets the angle. He
gets the kill. His series continues.
Gwin's here.
>> Yeah, this is his place. Double head
shot. Seven in a row. He is taken over.
Maybe just trying to end the rookie of
the year conversation. just put himself
back in front with just a dominant
performance here. Time to go. TJ going
to drop. One is falling. Second will
drop as well. They collapse. Oh, of
course it's on Gwyn. One player left.
Hudson finds it. Gwyn seals the deal
with a record setting series for Gwyn.
Gwyn is different.
>> Happy birthday
to you.
>> Oh my god. I have big
>> reset. Reset. I'm
>> in front.
>> And we heading one more. I'm actually
watch I'm in I'm in I'm in
one.
Ladies and gentlemen, we are back at the
Mlob Ultra Arena for the 2026 Call of
Duty League Championship weekend. And we
are joined by one of the greats. In
fact, I still call him the GOAT, the
original greatest of all time Call of
Duty League player. We've got Crim 6 in
the building, ladies and gentlemen.
>> Thank you.
What's up, buddy?
>> Three rings, millions of dollars in the
bank account. What are you most proud of
in your career?
>> I don't know. Maybe playing in arenas
like this. This is absolutely insane.
Uh, you know, Call of Duty when I was
doing it, when you know, aunt was doing
it. Dylan, I don't know if you were
around back then. Um,
>> a little bit.
>> No, no, you were still battling.
>> You really were. He was trying to wall.
>> That's when I was young.
>> Point is, it was a hobby, right? We were
playing for Cup of Noodles, right?
>> It's true.
>> And now look at them. So it's absolutely
insane to see how far competitive Call
of Duty has come.
>> Unfortunately, Shotsy was able to tie
your three ring record last year.
Glacers got three rings. And Dashy could
get his third ring with a win this
weekend.
>> Are you nervous about other people
catching up or is it about time?
>> Nah, man. It's about time. It's about
time people caught up. Uh
>> yeah.
>> I don't know. I'm not I'm not salted by
>> No, I'm sure. I mean, I want to ask you,
you know, with both those guys, you team
with both of them.
>> Yeah.
>> Early on, did you see this type of
success for those guys in Call of Duty?
Cuz obviously they were so young and
you're trying to teach them the ways and
it's just seemingly winning backto back
with this opportunity is wild. So, talk
to talk to me about that a little bit.
>> Yeah, I mean I I'll start with Ant. I
think Aunt like the potential I saw in
him was like immediate. I knew that like
he he had that work ethic and he had
that sort of like ability to find the
most efficient way to play. And uh with
Dashy, with Brandon, man, he actually
matured so much since, you know, I was
playing with them way back in the day.
And uh yeah, he's he's even got his own
chant now, which is awesome.
>> Uh you know, but overall, just really
proud of both of them. Yeah. Because if
they can pull this off, if if they can
go back to back to back, that's
something that's like never been done.
Literally, I I wasn't able to do it. So,
one followup to this. So, I know you
watch a little bit here and there, but
about Hercules, this guy came onto the
scene. People are calling the lean out.
>> What have you seen in his game for a guy
so young to literally be dominating this
early in his career? Well, I've only
played him in like throwback tournaments
and I don't really see them. I just die.
So, so I don't really know. That's
unbelievable.
>> Yeah, that's a good question. I I don't
know the answer to that.
>> Current production is hot on their feet.
We just told them that you were
available for this interview and they
were able to gather some footage. Let's
take a look back. I watched you gain
your first ring with Complexity. Which
ring was this
>> and who are you playing with? The final.
>> Oh, that that was Shotsi, Puke, Ender,
Illy.
>> He had 40 steps daily average for a
month.
>> That's a true story. True story. 40
steps.
>> 40 steps a month.
>> Oh yeah.
>> And one of my duos plays through.
>> His chair must have been stinking.
>> No. When when Ender told me that his
daily average was 40 steps over a month,
you knew I was like, we won.
>> Yeah, guys. We won.
>> As we revisit Shotsy Crimix's win
together, we'll remember I in the best
ways possible. competed 2008 to 2022,
winningest player in history, 38 major
championship wins and three world
championship rings. You did a ridiculous
job performing from the start of your
career to the end. Crim though, I got to
hear from you. What is the official
definition of a ship or winning one of
these on your
>> How many you got here? 38
>> 38
>> and and
>> sheesh, that's a flex, bro.
>> What is What is the definition? invited.
Pro teams got to be there. How many pro
teams?
>> Okay. Well, the one in Australia.
>> Yeah, that the crown invitational.
>> Wait, wait, hold on, hold on, hold on,
hold on. We had to win a tournament in
our region against the best in North
America to get there.
>> Is that true?
>> So, I'm sorry, JCap. I'm sorry that I
smoked you in finals and you didn't get
to go to Melbourne, Australia to play
Call of Duty. Hey, Cap, you suck.
>> Oh, JCap is watching it.
>> I'm beefing again.
>> Can someone please clip that and send it
to me ASAP? I got to put it in the
fantasy football chat attached. We've
got a while here to chirp with Crimix
while the players get ready. This is our
winners bracket. Semi-final matchup.
It'll decide who is going to be playing
phase guaranteed top three. Big matches
on the way. But let's talk history here.
>> Are we in the plumber era now with the
aim assist?
>> Oh man, we have the studio. We are open.
>> We are.
>> Listen, I will say the game since MW19
has been a lot easier to shoot and a lot
easier to move. the game will does do
does it for you. Back then, we didn't
have all the capabilities. But I will
say that top top players who win
championships nowadays and that top
players who won championships back in
the day could go swap generation. They
would still be the top players. But
we've seen some lower tier players who I
don't know.
>> Go shaking his head. No. Go shaking his
head. No.
>> Propaganda, bro. We can't do this.
>> Trim thoughts.
>> We were better back then.
>> I mean,
>> we were better.
>> We were better. See, see, there was
passion back then. Okay. We competed for
literal pennies.
>> We'd win tournaments and win $500
sleeping on a hotel room.
>> Exactly. And we didn't care. Okay. We
didn't care because that's how that's
how passionate we were back in the day.
>> They they faked bathroom breaks just to
get in their opponent's minds back in
the day.
>> I did that. Ask Vance.
>> They had Maven standing behind them
yelling at the opposing team back in the
day. It was a different ball game.
Weird.
>> Now though, you're playing with way more
incentives. You've got millions of
people tuning in from around the world.
You just saw what we did in Paris with
the biggest audience we've ever seen.
>> That was insane.
>> Do you feel like the pressure has gone
up for these players over time?
>> Ooh. Now that I would say yes,
>> that I would agree with 100%.
>> Yeah, we nitpick a lot more. We like
this guy's having a bad map or a bad
series. That might be the end of your
career. If you have a bad couple of
weeks now, it could have slid back then,
but now everyone's watching the flank
after the shows, all the watch parties,
they're calling your name out. You might
get dropped if you a bad couple weeks.
And final question here, Crimix, before
we dive into the match breakdown here is
I want to know from you. It's easiest to
look at numbers. That's the data that we
get out of the matches. It's the cool
thing that we put on all the graphics.
But to you, what defines a good or a
great Call of Duty player? What do you
look for while the matches are going on?
>> Man, that is a deep question, man. Hit
me with it.
>> That is a deep question. Well, I would
say number one, the ability to play with
it with your team and being able to
adapt with your team. Okay. So, like
your opponents are constantly going to
be shifting different play styles here
and there. If you are not adapting on
the team level, right, you're never
going to be a great Call of Duty player.
So,
>> better.
>> Yeah.
>> Got to adapt. And we are going to adapt
our way right into our first video
production. I don't know which team you
want to talk about first, but I assume
it's Optic Texas.
>> Fans are happy about that.
>> Let's take a look. We've got Hercules
looking for his second ring this week.
And Dashy trying to chase down a third.
Hook a third. And Shotsi looking to
become the first player with four World
Championship rings as a competitor.
Yeah. And you know this team, they've
just been unbelievable. As we said, you
know, they're going for back to back to
back. Prim. Does this team remind you of
your team at all a little bit? I asked
Damon this question. He didn't give me
the goods. Team that won the World
Championship.
>> Complexity. The optic team.
Yes, it does.
>> A little bit gas.
>> That is crazy.
>> I don't know. They might be better,
>> boys. They might be better.
>> They're a little bit more wellrounded, I
feel like, in terms of search and
destroy all the other game modes, but
that's what makes them special. And I
think, you know, with Dashy and his
ability to play like this at 27 at this
age, and be kind of the vibes guy as
well on top of it all.
>> 27 and he just won an MVP award at the
last event. So, what do you think is his
peak? How far can you go in this game?
Counter-Strike had players going up to
35 to win a trophy. We've seen people in
Dota go pretty deep, but this is a young
man's game.
>> Yeah.
>> We take a look at the numbers. Gentle
mates on the right, Optic on the left.
In their meetup, it's been 5 to1 in
favor of Optic Texas. The KD seems to be
the difference and overload has been
dominant for the green wall. Yeah, and
Optic has just dominated this matchup
the whole season. Barring that major one
where they met up in the grand finals
and GMates were able to clutch up. Optic
has been lights out ever since verse
them. The one thing though, Gentle Mates
has Joe deceased now. Maybe they have
more time to get comfortable and form
that team chemistry. Let's see if they
can handle Optic right now at COD
>> On the other side, you do have to pair
Gentle Mates. You remember this guy,
Gaga and Broken, they put together a
super team. They've got a watch party
going on and everyone in France made
noise for this squad. When they beat
Cloud9 in the opening round of the
winners bracket, the crowd erupted. They
are on their feet every moment of the
way. And Joe Deceives gave them multiple
reasons to be on their feet for all the
highlights he delivered.
>> Yeah, I mean they just have a spark
since that last event. And I think Dylan
just said it like Joe Deceives, you
could argue that he's been the best
slayer this entire year. And as of late,
Civ's been unbelievable. He's just a
straightup shooter. And their ability to
apply pressure in the respawn modes, I
mean, second to none. And you think
about that run at the last major,
winning all those search and destroy.
It's kind of all coming together. And
now they've had a few weeks. So, this
team is very dangerous. Like you said,
Optics dominated this matchup, but this
is a brand new team. They've had a
couple weeks of practice and now they
got to deal with the green wall.
>> Grim, you got a star started lineup.
Whose game do you like most on the
Gentle Mates right now? Uh well, I still
maintain the fact that uh when I
discovered Joe deceives in a ranked play
game, I thought he was hacking.
He's hacking. I think he is still in
fact that good.
>> I remember it was in the notes on your
phone. You had a whole paragraph of why
Joe Dece is hacking.
>> Yeah. Yeah.
That guy's not that good. He's not that
good.
>> He's not that good. He put up a 1.33
yesterday, but his teammate Civ dropped
to 135. Nameless. Is he your player to
watch or if the gentle mates are going
to pull off another upset in this
winner's bracket? Who do you got eyes
on?
>> I got my eyes on Ghosty in this matchup.
The last couple times he has not played
well. And when you think about, you
know, their last match up, Mercury's
pulling out that MPC, that was the
difference in my opinion. So, I think
Ghosti needs to have a big one here.
Earlier in the season, he was on top of
his game. He needs it at Champs once
again. And then Dylan, I wanted to ask
you, we've seen Optic go to multiple
grand finals, but they've done that
through the winners bracket. Do you
think if they lose tonight, they can
battle through what is turning out to be
a stacked elimination bracket?
>> Oh, absolutely. This Optic Texas team
can face any adversity and come on the
other side and come out on top. But I
don't know if they're going to be
dropping down to losers this early. We
have seen this year, every team that has
lost in the winners finals went on to
win the tournament. So, you don't you do
not want to do the tactical loss yet.
All right, everybody do media a favor.
Look right here in the middle camera.
Big smiles.
Crim six is in the venue. Make some
noise. Vegas.
And of course, we've got your best of
five ready to go in just a minute. We're
waiting on one player to get out of the
back rooms. When he is ready to go, we
will be starting on Scar Hardpoint. What
is your search and destroy? Well, we're
going back to a Black Ops 2 classic for
game five on Raid. You know, Prim and I
love to see that. Dead will be searched
for game two and we've got scar for
overload game three. Do we get to a game
four colossus nameless? Or could this be
a three-0 for either side?
>> I think this goes the distance all the
way to a game five. I think this Paris
team has put in the work and they're
ready to go. The green wall has been
unbelievable. Hey man, we need another
one.
>> It's time to lock in our scuff pickums
and make it official here on the desk.
Nameless as the pickum champion of 2026.
To us the honors who is moving on to
play against FaZe in the winter final. I
mean, Optic, they've just been in every
grand final. Just won. Dashy's
unbelievable. I think they get this one
done, man. In that game five. Let's go
to round 11. Attach.
I think the green wall gets it done
here.
>> Crim six,
optic 3-1.
>> Player to watch.
>> Still Joe deceives.
>> Still Joe deceives on the other side.
>> Make sure he's not hacking, bro. Check
that PC.
I've been riding with Optic. They've
been the number one seed for a reason.
Despite Joda Sees being on the stage,
you got to deal with Shotti. Rosalie,
are you riding with the gentle mates?
>> You know who she's picking.
>> Give me Perry.
>> Perry.
>> The match is ready. We set it to the
stage with Guy Blaze, one of the other
teams.
>> That's how you make it official right
there when it comes down to our desk
picks. But Vegas, I'm curious to see
where your allegiance lies in this
matchup. We got our major one champions
and our major four champions of the year
ready to make it to the top three to go
against FaZe. They're ready to go.
Vegas, are you guys ready to go?
And I know you ready at home, especially
the green suits out there. Get loud cuz
here comes the Paris gentle mates.
Jonas,
Astrio,
Sib,
and Ghosty.
The gentle mates with the green suits
behind them. All the cheers around the
world. They know they can get it done
and they are ready to play. It's Paris.
>> I mean, these guys are coming off of one
of the biggest stadiums in Call of Duty
history, screaming their name. I don't
know if this venue can boo them into a
poor performance anymore. If anything,
the pressure might be more off of this
squad after that insane match yesterday.
They're definitely staring at the cross
of this stage knowing that they're about
to put their best foot forward. Guy, I
hope we're in for a banger.
>> We are in for a banger. From heroes to
villains, we'll see how The Gentle Mates
is going to fare in this matchup. But
the real heroes of this matchup, the
team that's about to make this stadium
erupt. Get ready for the backto back
world champions. Optic Texas,
Hercules,
Hook,
Shotsy,
and Dashy.
Optic Texas are ready to make history
this weekend. But to do that, they got
to take down pairs to make it to the
winners finals. Ladies and gentlemen,
get loud by the Texas. The arena is loud
right now. They are the hometown
favorites. It is not even their hometown
event. Dashy, the potential MVP
candidate. Shotsy Mercury's who this
team is trying to become a dynasty.
potential dynasty in the making. Let's
see if they can keep the run going.
>> Let's see if they can do it. We had so
many MVP candidates on that team and
they're ready to show out on this stage.
Last two times we saw this series, it
was a threeon optic. Is it going to
happen again? Miles Chance, what are
your thoughts? A
>> history repeats itself all the time.
Blaze, we're going to find out if the
same thing could happen here in Vegas.
Starting to get real loud. Starting to
get real green late into the night here
on Friday. Welcome folks to the last
match of the night after Texas Paris
Channel. Should be a delight.
>> It's going to be a fun one. Venue
starting to get electric. The vibes are
flowing. The gas coming out of the desk
is absolutely fantastic. I I love the
look from Crimix of like old generations
better that Joe played him. I thought he
was cheating. New gen has some shooters
and there are many on this stage.
Obviously again a three for optic. last
time they played at the Paris event.
Built a very fresh roster that the
French team built for themselves. Now
they've had an extra few weeks of
practice, a little bit of extra
experience. Think they're going to be
ready for the game, but obviously this
is a lethal lobby. Only thing they're
missing is 20,000 fans behind them, but
at this point in time, you know what
you're capable of. You know what you're
able to do. Can they muster and conjure
up that sort of magic here against a
hostile crowd here in North America,
here in Las Vegas? Well, we see the
Paris enemies on the right hand side of
the screen. They're currently our
back-to- back world champions. Optic
getting ready to do battle. The first
match should be a scar. We've been
treated to a couple of absolutely superb
Scar hard points in the tournament
already and no doubt this one fantastic
as well. Trust player you want to watch
on both team.
>> It is a Ghosty versus Dashy duel in my
mind. You've heard the chirps. It's just
Ghosty in finals. Well, this is to get
into the winners finals. But where
Ghosty has struggled in this matchup,
Dashy has thrived. And obviously the
question of the day, would you rather
have a regular season MVP or an
opportunity to hoist the champs trophy?
These guys are hungry. They're ready to
get it. They are after glory.
>> That is Ghosty on your screen.
Last few moments there some wisdom.
Coach Mayhem on the end as they now get
ready to delve into what has been a
solid map throughout the entirety of
League.
Scar hard point coming up soon as Joe
finishing off there. And this is the man
that terrorized Crim 6 in ranked play.
Joe Deceives.
Outstanding statistical anomaly. And
this was all set yesterday. A three map
series kills 88. Yeah, just electric
stuff there for that three map victory.
But he's good for the long game. He's
good in SND. The 18 is topnotch. I
believe that actually ties Crimson's
record. Maybe three players that have
the 18 overall. So he is amongst
greatness here in Black Ops 7. The kid
from Arkansas made his name in ranked
play has climbed his way up and here he
is on the main stage.
A fun career he has had so far. Every
map, every mode truly lethal in nearly
every single situation. A player you
cannot write out and a player who this
squad has absolutely done their homework
on as well. I have had the distinct
pleasure of having a couple of rank play
games with Joe on a burner and I let me
tell you folks, it is the easiest play
of my entire life. I I barely had to
lift a finger.
All right, partners.
It's time to saddle up.
It's time to see what these teams are
made of.
We go to SCAR map one.
>> Got a whole lot of doubs. Go Artic
Texas. It's the last time they played
Parie.
This town's only big enough for one of
these teams. I mean, winners bracket.
You know what I'm talking about.
Need the 10 count for game start,
gentlemen. Take your paces.
All right, let's do this.
Last map of the day. Let's go.
Always a good sign when your team gets
that first kill. We'll see if Shotsi's
first blood has to hold on right now.
His boys with that mid map presence here
through the Delhi. We're getting
rocking.
Goi finds a big three right off rip.
Gets himself at top. Jazzy though
flipping the spawns. You got the
long-term advantage. SMG making the
long-term play. And well, now the
opening salo commences. Bears going to
be inside the hill. the scar. It is an
AR's playground. It's why guys like Hoot
have it in hand.
>> Wow. H good work there on a ghostly cut
his way through. Thinking about P2 as
well. 14 seconds before that accolades
and H going to run. He's a wanted man
right now. Dead or alive. Looks like
Estral might have lost his scent. You
want the bounty on Hook or if you want
that time Paris off the rim. Am I a
measly nine-point lead they're having
going in towards Noo, but they got the
bench and they got surrounded. They do
not know about the Aaron player up top
though. Dashy well trying to be the
nuisance. The optic players are
swarming. Those MK throwing nothing but
bad shade at one another there and a
couple of big kills at a sib and Joe to
make that B2 look a little softer. A
little swinging out but the Paris makes
big shots there out of Shotsy. Estre
looking for a couple. Finds himself a
fire speed before being brought down.
And this is still your P2.
>> And look at the battle. Ghosty starts
off six and one collecting the time
halfway to a helltorm on the flip side.
Dashy 1 in4 has just got his first kill.
That is 2 and 11 combined for the Optic
Texas AR.
>> 71 out at a ghosti starting this map off
right at 52 and climbing to the nine of
Optic Texas. Well, P3 has their name on
it for now, but we'll see if that
changes. Civ on a five. Ghosty at seven
and one. These boys are shooting from
the hip. Yeah, there's AR's tin off on
him. Shot right now. They're trying to
hold that line. And he's getting back
down from plane head and Jon sees has
the moves to get rid of him. Clean up
the back line. No pinches rolling
through. You have achieved the plane
heady. But you have just lost that first
battle. I think not collecting time.
>> Now they're trying to stick their head
right into that hard point. Dig your
heels in boys. Wait for the next wave.
Here come Paris right over the top. It's
Civo. Estreal joins the feed. H finds
one, but they're out. What a break from
the jungle mates.
>> Fourman white s is snapping in position.
He's going to be the front line man. and
he loves nothing more than a chow. That
is an M15 player running you down and
sending you back to spawn. Trades are
going to be easy. The facilitation on
point. You got ghosty hard blocking over
towards blue. This is a runaway game for
Paris. Gentlemen, they got a 60-point
lead.
>> Big lead. Now Joe looking for number
five. Not going to happen. We don't
believe in miracles here on Scar. The
young Messiah sitting at four and 10.
He's having a struggle. See how Hook can
get things rolling. Lucky number seven
turns to eight and that is going to be
the back squads now. Good for Optic the
hero for the team. Eight and seven for
the moment but making those high impact
kills flipping the nap when you need it
the first time since the opening break
where Optic has had control. We go on
Tah a couple of big ones there. Mer we
said nice four on a three. General have
slowed down here some
superb work to slow the pressure.
Looking for an opening now. journal
makes left lane opened up finally able
to cross that front threshold. Here
comes the next hit. Shotsy from up high
brought down as two for Ghosty and now
we make entry. I mean if you're taking
that sort of approach you need to make
sure you get the break. Parish gentle
mates absolutely deliver and it is
Ghosty the sledgehammer leading that
charge though clean up kills and now the
spawns are going to be flipped the wrong
direction. Optic hold this from the
front. Maybe you can win the rotation to
new but it is a scattered mini map.
Anybody's ball game for the scrap time.
Big split now. Pick where they want to
be on the left hand side. Managed to
clean up the generation players now
inside time to tame them. Name of the
game. Parrots find the way out. Joe
Estreal big kills and they're free men.
Harpic fully set up on the rotation or
maybe not. Two players actually spawn
out. So poorly timed. Maybe a punishing
moment in Joe to see if pierces the
setup. Gets through to catch shots. It
is a hook up top trying to buy his
teammates all the time.
Still in front.
That food bound is still looking real
tasty right now. Chelsea holding back.
Civ now makes his way upstairs
undetected as of now. Wait for there's
the damage and Siv don't miss, don't
lose right now. He's in a lot of
trouble. Just walks off an exploding
Jeep like it's absolutely nothing. The
bulls from Hook there to take him down.
It is a fourman wipe. And the plays that
Hook is making to keep his team afloat
absolutely active. They're about to take
the lead. Got that lead shape.
First set. We're going to look back on
this one real close. Three in right now
in a row for Shi. Three for Dash, two
there for who? Just threes continuing
right now. Final 10 before we end the
first set. Rolling the second. And if
you're fearful of AR players in Texas
with the slow start they had well
bouncing right back. He got Dashy 10 and
12 with a minute and 15 in the hill. So
getting back on his BS and everybody
else is sporting cash they can to make
it near the time. It is a small
advantage with the right sides pawns
coming in for Paris. They got blue
control. They had the hill. Welcome out
of M. Slight lead now for second set
starting to get a little bit dicey.
Couple of toes in and out. All these
kills certainly help. Merk laying down
some hate. No kills. Ji on the pitch.
Still thinking about that P2. Optic
Texas all over the map right now.
Entirely surrounding the jungle mates.
>> So good. I mean he just takes the deep
route to make this happen. So shots he
going to be playing for the long game
and his teammates there to clean house
dashy good for two. You're good for the
time. You have every round watch often
facilitating looking good on the map.
Slightly 15 seconds to go on P1. Let's
go through listening.
Jump down.
Look
on the right. I'm just going to play
corner.
Make a push.
2001.
I'm P1, guys.
Watch out. P1. Another one going up. P1.
He's going to try again.
>> Okay. Okay. Okay. Yo, he might
yo Joe's going to be on me while I'm
pretty sure I son him. I saw him.
>> They're going to try
blue. Blue box.
Check it.
Where's he going? Watch out. Watch out.
I'm a bullet.
>> Just stay down here. Stay down here.
Go go go.
You guys pick
it on top. on it on
mid. He's trying still
one
surviving off a scrap time currently,
but there has been a monumental shift
right now going in P4.
>> Well, monstrous two-piece there by Yosi
just to try to get those back spawns,
but you blink and miss it. Optic in the
backline. They spawn right there and
they're going to run them over Estri.
Last man standing. The game of hideand
seek. Shotti twisted. Checking every
corner to hunt him down. He knows he's
here somewhere. Lost track. Here comes
the back play. Catches him out. Finally.
Shotsi looking exceptionally fluid right
now. Goi from the left flank. He seems
about to hit the back door. Boops from
the front. It's a perfect break. Shi
last man and he can't get away with his
life. It's going to be the generates on
time. to the nail on this P4. It has
been a mix in the final 20 seconds. You
spawn. Got to be fearful. Dashy in the
wait and able to drop three more.
They're focused on the rotation. Optic.
They have built themselves a massive
lead going into new. The longer shots he
lives, the better.
>> Oh man, big work. Merk down to pick up a
piece.
>> Goes undetected for now. Siv out of that
top window. That's a big moment. And
that's the blocking of the back spawns.
>> Optic set up on this D5. Everybody for
Paris. They're spawning oh so far away.
They're looking to call map one here.
>> Yeah, they might be going to catch this
player on the way. No, SH is going to be
in for it. Estreal fires over the top
now. It's going to be a 1v2 on new time.
This is a great opportunity for the
parasomics to stay alive, but Optic
still knocking on the door of map one
win. Well, maintaining the back spawns.
They're being a little bit careful cuz
they know as long as you don't lose
that, you're good for the long-term
game.
>> Oh, big bruise through the middle of the
map. One more play to deal with in the
backline. Shoty eyes on Joe making a
meal of it. Big three in the feed. All
down now. They're taking care of this
player on the window, but Jono makes a
surviving.
>> That is a monstrous moment for Jonas
sees able to block the spawns, get the
kills, and set himself up towards that
new time. Great damage being done by
everybody. Impairs gentle mates off the
back of Jonas. Sees kind of make some
magic happen down by 40. Going get into
the new time. Nearly a perfect hold.
Third sets on us. Dangerous time right
now for the gentle mates. Joe hit and
run. Couple more seconds to have here,
but you've got to try to maintain a P1.
Not going to be an easy thing with the
way shoot. Here we go. Third set. Gave
up. First guy watching the cross going
down. Hook in the backline. Hook's
actually late playing for this to make
sure you get those blue spawns and he
cleans house, takes care of business,
and you get the guys off the time. H
continues to make heads up plays.
Holding on. Trophy in play. Dashy yet
again pushing dirty in the kills. Shots
he brought down off the time. So an open
hard point for now. Foot race denied.
Big Bruce. It's an iron wall. No one's
getting past 10 for the win. And hook is
that safety net player. He makes the
lives of his teammates that much easier.
It is a star hard point and it is an
optic 25183 victory.
No new sheriff in this town.
Optic Texas taking map number one.
They're on SCAR.
And the way Optic Texas have been
playing, it is a coach's dream to watch
this mini map. Always so safe. Every
single P1. You're continuing to have
those right side spawns, always hitting
the pinch routes. Take the deep ones
when you need. You got a fantastic
facilitation across the board. Assists
are bonkers. The damage is there and
that is a full fourman effort coming
through from AI. Everybody getting
involved.
>> Still a slight sort of tip further
there. Dashy's massive hard point time
as well. He and Hoop the soers there
assists across the board outstanding.
But again for the journal mates looking
at their stats and I'm seeing nothing
but good things as well. I mean a little
bit of a difficult time for them in the
KD department but assistance damage
everything was there. What went wrong
for Paris? Just a little bit behind.
They built themselves a massive lead. P1
and P2 or especially this P2 off the rip
felt fantastic. Ghosti with the 10 and2
start make it 10 and three well began to
falter. Civ also had a bit of a hot
start falters. Joe Dece ends up being
the guy for the team that runs away in
the kills department. We're looking at
the scoreboard 80 to 50 there from
Optic. Well, once they get going that
train never stops. Yeah, it's really
hard to run that momentum away but
gentle makes strong start there in the
finish. We'll see how the search and
destroy goes momentarily. But yeah, the
last time these two teams met on land
way back in Paris at Laton Arena, it was
a 3 nothing for Optic. We'll see if it
changes here. A map win essential for
the longevity of the series. Dash just
has one of those special point of views.
Any AR player that's ever tried to play
COD, they watch him and just go, "Wow,
I'm just not that good. Can't do that.
Can't replicate it. He is in fact built
different." Last ditch effort in these
moments coming through from the pairs.
They were actually making ridiculously
good plays. They were finding the high
impact optic were just simply better.
>> You have such a superb lead. I mean, at
this point in time, it's nearly
impossible. A 250 249 to the LDS a
little bit earlier, but that is as good
as we've seen.
A near one in a million scenario, but
that no need
making their way back up to stage. CarP
getting ready for that search and
destroyer will be going momentarily. And
you know, a very small thing, but I'm a
massive fan of Hoop's gameplay. When you
have that final rotation over towards
P1, he's tucked in a corner all the way.
Bottom blue, bottom P4, allowing his
teammates to be the first ones to f so
he can be the cleanup crew and get into
spawn right back up. He is a safety net
player, an enabler for the team. But
there you go, that 50point lead. Paris
built early. Absolutely nothing towards
the end. They just got ran.
Smooth sailing out of Scar and into
dead. We say goodbye to Alaska and load
of Japan this series. We'll go back to
Scar for the overload. It should be a
lot of fun for our hump map right smack
bang in the middle there. But chance,
how is the search and destroyer going
for both squads again? Very capable
teams,
>> but as far as we're concerned right now,
I mean, it's still optic series to win.
>> Yes, they better team. They got the
three kills. They have been super
efficient from start to finish every
single game mode. you know, they're
cooking up the goods when it comes to
search and destroy for champs,
especially for a matchup like this. You
expect to play a team like Paris if you
want to go and try to win the tournament
at some point. So, be ready for it. And
I just love the shooters we have on both
sides. Bashy gets plenty of gas with a
sniper. He has the power to lift a crowd
on its feet with the electricity he can
provide. And Sib is another player when
he's on point with it, ready for that
square up battle. But both of those
players with the sniper, it's all about
the feel. How are they feeling on the
day? Do they have the confidence? Do
they see something on the map that they
know they can identify and exploit those
mistakes? They want to just be standard
with the M15. I think Dashy has that
vision. If he's pulling it out, you know
he's got something good with Civ. It's
guess work, man. It's a wild card. But
when he hits, god, does he hit. If you
ain't hitting, you better be quick. Put
that sniper away. It can be a real
detriment.
We've seen very few effective snipes. I
think DM has hit one snipe today. That's
all we've seen at the tournament so far.
I'm not kidding. I think that might be
it. Correct me if I'm wrong, chat.
Exclamation mark drops for those
watching at home. I think it will drops
this time. A little little salty about
that. Champs always says the good stuff.
Oh well, I suppose I'm here.
>> We got a good seat in the house.
>> We have really good seats. Actually,
there's no bad seats in this house. It's
incredible. All right, here we go into
Denton. Everybody lock in map number
two.
It's going to be a spicy one. Both
squads won it.
Skyla Gal and Hoo yesterday versus
Miami. It was a pretty free run for
them. Optic looking exceptionally strong
yesterday. Today, tonight it's young.
And Hook is a hyperactive player in
search and destroy. He will be giving
you value at all times through comms,
through positionings, through his
ferociousness on the map. It'll be Paris
though to open up this first attacking
round.
Paris on the assault now. This is what
we expect.
Timing on that unfortunately way too
early there for Sid as he gets up to
that top sto
that 5.56. We now know that he's also
running an infantry. Well, Shotti's
taking space on the top side of the map.
His teammates know they get to remain
stagnant. And Shotti, well, you see the
shots ringing out. So, they've spotted
him and that means well, you want to
deal with shots here. Do you want to
force it over towards B? Harris looks
like the call is going to be this B.
Don't give this up. We made it this far.
Oh, what a nade. Young M start things
off with a bang. It's over to Ghosty now
doing to get the damage. It's not. It's
all there. Estreal gone.
Boss round for
four men up, four men down. Oppitic
delivered in round one. That first nade
there from Hercules. Strike while the
iron is hot. Got to be first.
>> I like the attempt there from the
gentleman. Even after that N pot, they
knew we can't lose this space. We have
to retain some form of initiative.
Oh,
>> to collapse on them immediately. A
decisive round. No kills for the
generators.
Round two. Here we go. And
>> Optic gets to control the action in this
round.
>> Little bit of noise made on both sides
of the map with the nades,
>> but just feeling out the round. No
trophies, no early commitments. You see
the corner shots he's playing. Maybe
trying to set up a trap.
We'll see if the homework pays off. Joe
deceives working with Ghost on B. You
see they're starting to creep up the map
just a little bit.
Here we go.
Joe's going to be the further man
forward.
An obvious position to check, but mid
map bust wide open. Estreal finding the
first and Joe immediately traded out
dashing down. Ghosty superb shots now
all down to Kylo Gar. One v3
round dashed immediately by the gentle
mates.
>> Yeah, Optic maybe hoping for aggression
on the defensive end. They were forced
to make the play and just get caught
towards the middle back. Hercules
actually the guy all the way through mid
trying to sort of find that hero play
hero route. Well, Estreal sniffs it out,
gives you the first blood. Joe Dees
pushed himself up into a credit spot.
Got one. The trades on point. Paris are
in.
>> Sometimes you just need one. Just get
yours.
>> Talk about that all the time in the Call
of Duty world. I got my kill.
>> That might be a new calling card. You
know, that'd be quite a fun one. I got
my kill. Unless we've already done that.
You never know.
One heavy presence there from Optic by
the Bombite. Dashing back in that middle
window position. And the general mates
there electing to the A hit. The timing
on this is so good. Both teams will meet
by the bomb site.
>> Everyone's here for Optic. for three
players.
Merk behind the tree. Dashy to watch
over him.
>> Estreal checks tons. Doesn't quite see
it. You'd love an AR in this position,
but Joe gets in. Here comes the pounce.
Murk in a position to make it happen.
No, Joe has deceived him.
Big nades now. No connection there from
Dashes, but that slime's still in play.
30 on the clock.
Smoke
attempt number two. All hands of the
mask. We are charging forward. Goes
through the deep defense. Lovely
positioning. Dashing over the snipe. Oh,
he connects. Last man. Joe dancing now
to stay alive. And what a chance this
could be. Joe playing it close.
Cleans up both.
What a round from Young Joe. That's what
he's there for. A bailout moment for the
team. Dashy connects with that snipe to
trade out those odds. That would have
been devastation for the channel maze
instead. Joe sees gets to be the hero.
Saw the makings of the optic play. Cross
that smoke line, get themselves in a
position where they can at least see the
bomb, at least contend with it. But Joe
dips out, doesn't elect for the wrap, he
just yo-yos his way back into sight for
the two-piece. in a heady play when he's
leaving the site to cut right over
towards mid instead of going for the
full wrap. It's a tough 50/50 but a
brilliant call.
>> Three spree there for Joe. See how long
that lasts. Shy very tricky right
through the top of that smoke blade.
Gets himself into a corner but still not
a lot of presence here from the gentle
mates. Fourman hit through dojo. We're
about to hit the map. Siv fights his way
forward. Trades out from Merk Estri from
behind. No good. Sim over the top. Good
for the kill on a one in the 2v2. Here
comes Dash on the pitch. Red by Sid.
Absolutely on point. Hoop. Last man
alive. He's trying to flip the map on
its head.
>> He's on the run, but you got plenty of
time here to play with.
Jamate still with position. H gets
himself right into the corner he wants.
Watching that clock. Is he in the time
versus the Jammates right now?
>> Might be right now in this moment.
That fifth man of votic trying to give
it away. The timing not good enough. The
crowd does not matter. The bomb
diffused.
Try to be the fifth man as much as you
want. Paris get the round.
And that is a wonderful gift from the
COD gods.
Absolutely no vision of it. The diffuse
already complete. Luke will walk away
with two kills, but the jet mates walk
away with the round
>> now on the attack controlling the base.
They are straight through mid. Ashley
hasn't been sniping. They're going to
smoke him out and they are going to go.
Three players soaring through. Watching
the B cut, but you got the SMGs crawling
over servers. These are close-range
gunfight. And this is Chanti by himself
and gunned down. Pairs for the first
blood. Full sight control. Ah,
>> he's throwing
now from Optic. How will they rebound?
back through the lobby. Bad news though,
you got Civ on a flank. The timing of
this will be outstanding. Estre holding
the front line. Damage dealt. Oh my good
god. Hercules has killed everyone. Sib's
pinch.
Swift violence on the bomb site. MK
might have taken care of a little too
much. Yeah, how many times have we seen
a retake on this bomb site exactly like
that? Another look at Joe's for the
first blood. Look at number six on the
mini map in this moment. Late playing
over towards the B site. So many of
these retakes. Everybody flies out
towards tree. Sid there just to clean up
crew utilizing that extra man advantage
perfectly. You lose a man, you lose a
set of eyes. You can't watch everything.
4-1. Gentle mates running away with it.
Back over to be we go. Shotsy. The only
man here for Optic and Nate's going to
fall a little short.
And look at this. gentleman swarming the
map. They are flying forward.
They'll open up their flank for a second
here for Optic to try to get on the bomb
side, but look at the pace being set by
Estrial. Stops the plant. What a play.
They sent two. They sent two and Optic
just not prepared. That is going to be
bombed down.
And Shotti caught back spawn as well.
Paris are flowing on dead. What a round
out of Extral right now.
See if there's another map. We're
looking at a possible view. What an
unbelievably decisive round from the
Paris gentle mates.
>> And they're feeling it. They're making
good calls. That is confident game play.
Estreal and Sid struggled a little bit
in map number one. That is a big round
for Estreal to find those two kills.
Back to back rounds both on offense and
defense. Paris just all over the middle
of the map. A wonderful access point.
They get options. You deal with Shotsi
in the back spawn. Hyper aggressive to
get that guy off bomb.
There's gentleman right now. They just
have the vision in this demo.
>> Boys off the spice after he's free from
S. See how much that plays. Not a lot of
points gained in that short life. Josie
somehow finding his way right through
the middle of the map. Doubles his
kills. That first blood so fast. And
he's now in prime position. The bomb guy
effectively cut off for Paris. This is a
very tricky 3v4.
>> You got to win something. Oh, you got to
win something on one side of the map to
make something happen. Chelsea will not
see this
as Joe crosses the back. He's made it
through undetected. Rendezv on the on
sights. Dashing so close yet so far.
Catch this.
Just as dangerous with the pistol. Now
the play is on. Joe can't get it done.
Dashy holds them bay for long enough.
And what do we see? Backto back rounds.
for Paris. Bully them through the middle
of the map. Out of shots, he respond. He
gets Hercules to watch over him and he
just flies through mid. Need that
aggression with aggression. Take down
Ghosti for the first blood. 10 seconds
into the round. Paris well already feels
like a hellish position.
They have a long way to go if they want
to make this come back, but strong round
nonetheless. That map point weighing
heavily on every choice they make in
these rounds.
No more mistakes allowed for optics for
general mates. You've got a couple to
burn before things get a little out of
hand. 2-2 here for the general on
defense.
>> Perfect corner here from Joe and Sid
playing that close position. Anyone who
crosses the threshold will be able to
spot it. And oh, the banks gets Joe
now. Pressure on towards the bomb. We
got Chanti watching the pen. So for
Optic, they know this is easy. Throw a
couple shoulders mid, but it's all dojo.
It's all dojo.
Waiting for the German mates to make
that move. Merk, very patient play.
And here comes the attempt. Do we wrap
back again? Go. What a moment to turn
now and just make sure that no one's
behind you. Good work on the count. 40
seconds to go. Chi has his friend.
Hercules is here to join him now.
They're trying to run this through. Goi
caught. He's dagged up in one shot and
Optic just switched the map. Now it's
going to be an a plan. Pulled a fast one
on him. 4v3. Bomb out of that. Here
comes the retake.
Estra in the close door. Ghosty stacked
up behind him.
Sid finding a way there through service.
Here comes the smoke. A classic play.
We've seen it many times. In the smoke
we go. Trades on. It is an absolute
mess. Ghosty with the damage. Here comes
Sip through the smoke again. And it's
not going to pay off. Go see it
turns to vapor
in the post plant position. And the last
thing you want to hear after you throw
that smoke is Shotti crawls into it. Oh
god. Now you're taking nightmare
gunfight and Shotti lives for that
chaos.
Just jumps into the mix and with the
extra advantage. Nothing you can do. But
this is just the goat gun. Smoke lands
and we just get active. Shotsi flies
out. Coup flies into it. Everybody
spinning in circles.
>> You were happy for the MPC players to be
there, but I mean S gets there a little
late. Unfortunately, you've even still
got Dashy in the back pocket there. That
was the insurance.
Swaps out yet again. No snipes to the
channel mates. Pressure now from
Estreads it. He gets caught on the door
frame. First blood. Perfect. And they
immediately ran back. Nobody's throwing
away their lives here.
No connection. Worrying about them in
that bit. All bases covered. But wait
down. Damage from Dashy.
How's he pulled that off with a pistol?
Joe 1 v4
and he's swinging.
What a round from Bruce.
>> There's gentlemen. That 51 lead they
had.
>> Feeling the heat now. They had a couple
of rounds to burn, but now 54 hurts.
This was Dashy's perspective.
Great position.
>> Beautiful.
>> The instant swap to the JA 45. Wow.
54.
A five spree for Shotsy. The German
stunned after that one. You had a few
rounds to burn.
And now it is nothing but cinders and
hash
has to hit the snipe out. Now is trying
to make some play now in the middle of
the map. He's got some space to work
with. But wait,
here comes the double check.
Close, but no cigar.
Estreal, what a first blood. There's the
smoke.
It just prevails for now. Nades in.
Dashy banged up, but here we go. Trying
to get that pressure through the window
now. Pressure towards the B bomb site as
well.
M gets away with his life.
3v3. They might be trying to swing this
back. What decision you want to make
with the bomb. Able to catch the air.
And Jod sees the once mistake might be
fatal.
>> Oh, and there's the catch from Hercules.
A four spree and double digit kills. has
wiped the beam bomb site clean alone. 30
seconds to make something happen though.
This could work in a Paris's favor.
>> They're reading it though. Sid wrapping
back. Estro wrapping back. They're man
down, but they are reading it. That's
the main denied trophy place. Oh, never
mind. Not quite enough to get back in
position now. Sid on the outside of
servers. Here comes the entry. First
kill. Fantastic. Gets away with it for
now. He and Estra make it a 2v2.
>> Got to go fast. How good is the teamwork
here for saving Estreal? We certainly
check the bait and switch right now.
Dashy just on the outside of the window.
Estreal prevails yet again down a M. 1
v2
and S. What a retake from the gentle
mates.
An unbelievable test of chemistry.
64 the final score. We're tied up 1-1 in
the series.
Search and destroy. Quite the game mode.
You see this scoreboard. You're going to
see Paris just got out slayed by a
decent margin. Still found the win. So
many clutches. Those late 1v one
situations. Taking care of business.
Near magical moments coming through from
Mic. if they can dash it with the snipe
in the 3v4 for the retake going to be
there. Go to see that one v2 he had that
heroic play kickstarted that momentum
gentleman just built too big of a lead.
No looking at that magical moments as
well. The 1v2 was great obviously that
retake to close it out but don't forget
the diffuse. That diffuse against hoop
was absolutely perfect. Incredible
stuff. Nice work on the diffusers to
Estreal and Sid and those first bloods
as well. Both teams just put on a great
stroke.
>> And you know when you're playing against
OP Texas, your first blood game plan,
you want to make sure does not go crazy.
He only gets one first blood and three
first deaths. So gentle mates had a good
game plan got out slayed but they won
all the rounds they needed. Tied up
series 1-1. It's been a near day of game
five. What a treat it would be to get
one in this series.
>> Where were you? You never know, my man.
You never know what Scar Colossus is
then. We have to go the full distance or
no whatever it was. Well, on the other
side of the break, we do have another
overload game. Uh, quick thoughts before
we go to it. Now, you know what? Let's
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>> got the point
contested.
Oh my
>> Oh my god.
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>> Is it red?
>> Is it red?
>> It's red everywhere. It's red
everywhere.
>> Oh my god.
>> Running. We're just running at him.
>> As Karma finds another two-piece. Here's
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Miles. Chance taking you through this
next one. A little bit of overload,
mate. How are we feeling?
>> It's a scar, man. The ARs have an
opportunity to fry. We saw how that went
in map number one. Bit of a slow start
for the Optic players. They absolutely
kicked up and took over and dominated.
I'd have to imagine they have the extra
edge. That being said, it's all about
the big plays in overload and Paris have
been no stranger to it. Great execution
and yes, indeed. Joe Steves is a monster
and the two players that had a bit of a
slow map one started to kick up getting
a feel for it. We are now settled into
the series. Anybody's ball game,
>> anyone's game. We've still got plenty to
play for here.
>> Playing for a spot in the winners as we
take a look across the bracket waiting
for Faze in that winners finals. The
loser of this one will fall down to play
G2. And that is not a team you want to
have to deal with. You absolutely want
to stay in winners as long as you
possibly can. Grand finals will be a
separate thing. It is only on Sunday.
All the se thematic dealings we have had
for the first four majors though it is
winners bracket you want the whole way
through.
>> Yeah phase set pretty after that 3 0
versus the Falcons.
It's high noon somewhere chance.
We got ourselves 10 minutes to find out
which one of these hit teams is the best
at overload.
Grab that there, EMP. Runner home to
score. First of four flipped to half.
You ready, partner?
>> Yes, sir. Yes, I am.
>> Yes, I am. So, let's do this. All right.
We're having too much fun here at
Champs. What a great tournament it's
been so far. Scar overload first to
eight. Who's going to make it rain?
We're going to go to that Colossus right
after this. Yeehaw, Texas.
Shadow be
>> killing it. Killing it.
Killing it. Wow. There is splinters and
casings and bodies all over the place.
>> And Sid gets to be that containment guy.
Shotsi about to start to get out of
control. You slow the SMG players down
and reset the map. A little bit
aggressive there for the optic players,
but hey, they've made the break. That is
three players standing on the zone.
However, the device that they score
with, they're still in mid. I just had
an optic stack the point memory.
>> There go. Number two picking up. He's
gone.
>> Here we go. It's in.
>> Stacking. No points. No more. We are
scoring the NP.
>> Yeah, they it was too good of a start.
They didn't know what to do. Well, now
they're snapping into position. I mean,
dominating the top side of the map. And
if Hoop's able to get behind you, force
me spawns out. This might be the rally
cap you're looking for. The aggression
is pure, but the wind from Estreal
enough to slow you down. You stop the
device guy. You can take a deep breath.
>> He takes a couple now. Generate set up
on the top side of the map. That's where
the EMP will spawn a reset.
Joe
trying to keep these players out. It's
not a good look right now. That's the
last man dead. Shsy, he's the first man
up at the goal. He's now all over the
spawn. There's the pickup. Trying to
make the run. Dashi's going to try and
stay alive here. What a nade from Joan.
Shotsi's play now denied.
>> Unbelievable. Both Ghosty and Joesie
making the monster play to slow this
down. You still have a shot in your top
green. Well, taking care of and you are
just dealing with the sort of Congo line
of optic players putting pressure on
your spawn. Mercile is able to get to
two. So, he's the next man in line and
Paris can't touch the device with
pressure like this.
>> Just when you think you've got a
football named over the top. An
explosive return. a super the NPC. He
the boys are now going to find
something. But there's a run happening.
Why have we not stopped him? How's he
done that? Shing. There were three men
in the vicinity. What a steal. A man, a
lot of people missing scores in this
moment. Paris at the top of that list.
And I think well looking to go back to
back to back at the tournament and for
the captures here in Overload. Both
sides of ice spawn. They have it in
hand. Dashi holding down low. Motel
open. The run now on. Who's going to try
and slow with the navy? Here we go.
General Mason get a couple of kills
here. Estreal is going to be a pivotal
moment from him on that flank. Oh, it's
all for dead. It's a big run. And it
might be three. Got to go fast. Worried
about the names, worried about the suns,
worried about nothing.
>> What a dive. The possession is
unbelievable
so far. Optic near perfect game of
overload. Just blitz them. They've
outlaid him on every single map. The SND
included right now. They are just
lighting up the kill feed and they are
looking dominant. We have spent so much
time on optic players just living inside
of the Paris players. Another pick up
here. Shotsy trying to be that point
man. He's block looking for the damage.
Big play now. Civ trying to stop him
right in the middle of the map. Only for
a second longer. Big Roose shooting fish
in a barrel right now
over the top. Shots he goes. No good.
Now Dashy with a rock.
stand up and it is an onslaught right
now from Paris as they try to take the
initiative back trying to touch that
device. Might be the first time they've
touched this this entire half. There is
now that front line manage to give you
two device not going to be home just
yet. You got number two shot if you wrap
this back. You're wrapping it back right
into it. Now Joe Siege nowhere to go.
Optic Stuff 80% time of possession. A
dominant first half.
>> Absolutely a one-sided affair so far.
Big Bruce 12 and seven.
Got that big iron on his hip right now.
EMP still in his hands. No more runs.
Civides will stop it. Opportunity
finally here for the journal mates to
make something happen. You've dealt with
Shi in your spawn. Can you get forward
able to get one in this half? You have a
little bit of confidence going into side
number two. I don't know if you're going
to allow it to happen. Everybody
swarming in position. Dashy calling out
all these players. He just tracked the
entire team. Got tags into everybody.
Shots dealt with the player there on the
EMP now down a man. You've still got
Optic holding this back line. Defense is
solid. 30 seconds. We're ripping through
the clock. And Dashy still finding
damage. Merk on the left flank. Can he
find another man here? The run is on.
EMP down. Shotsy yet again. Another
stop. No. Two-piece. Joe. Can he wrap
back in time? Do they have the numbers?
20 to go.
>> Pitch holding the next 20 seconds. See
if you can find that score. Joke is
looking for the moment. Can't quite get
it. Yoshi and Ezreal. Extra men there.
Big responsibility for Chanty and not
good enough. The capture is good. Paris
a little bit of a lifeline into the
second half. Shout out Estreal. I
suppose 18 and 13. The only reason Paris
aren't getting massively outslayed.
Still an extremely strong first half on
Optic. This second capture was
absolutely outrageous from Shotsy.
The first one would get an impressive
hold right off the rim. The opening
great, great, but watch this run. Quick
grab, instant steal. Sim in the top
window. Joe and Estri have gone the
wrong way. And go see from spawn. That
is astonishing. And Sid turned his brain
off for that moment. Unaware looking the
wrong direction to score basically in
between all four player pairs players.
It's almost like a meta shift. The the
way you expect overload to be played in
this time of the year. It has a natural
feel towards it. Chanti will pierce
straight through that will do things
different. Shout out for that 3-1 lead.
Expect the unexpected here at Chance.
Second half now. Swapping sides. Jenner
makes with a late resurgence. And what
an effort for that single goal.
Heavy stack here but Joe start
proceedings in a nice way there for the
general mates. We got shots. He damaged
and the play is on.
>> Paris and they they're just trying to
get that device out and cross it. If we
get two more kills, but couldn't quite
make anything happen. Optic do enough to
survive. We see the J base come back.
The pressure is absolutely here. They
maintain the middle map. Estra still
marching across it. Pushed right back.
Here's the pickup. Possession is on.
Ghosty down. This should be a good one.
We've got Mans in position. Trophies in
play. Paris are alive. Trophy there for
the long term. S here for the short
term. going to get caught. Two kills in
the feed there from Optic. Make it the
entire squad. They get the wipe. They
get the pressure. More importantly, they
get the plane heading. But Joe Joe's got
a corner. Joe might be able to stop this
right here and now. Here we go. Dips out
for the kill onto the carrier. That's
clean three. Hoop. The only man left up
alive now. An opportunity for Paris to
take the map. This is a tough spot for
you. You don't have the plane heading.
Sid might be able to take it from you.
Great shot, but a defensive trophy.
They're playing for the long game.
Estreal push up into spawn. Paris,
they're looking for the kills before he
can really push towards the spice.
>> Estreal Joe trying to find something on
the other side of the map and they get a
foothold. Go see in a bit of trouble now
there on the pickup. Two-piece and a run
now with EMP
plane side. Backing shots here on the
cross. Great shots from Estre. That is
23 kills early on. And who obviously not
too far behind even 23 itself. We got a
shootout here on Star. 3 minutes on the
play. So playing the first go shuts down
the run still trying to maintain
position. Sims got to find this. That's
not going to happen. That could be
another goal. H the overextension and
here it comes. It's a hat-tick for
Shotsy. 4-2. 3 minutes to play.
>> And it's the classic Sid with the most
teammates you're ever going to see from
a pro player. Delivers another one. And
now you're down two.
MK still at large.
Alting now completely covering the base.
Ah, but a trap there by Joe and Civ now
manages to evict shots as Merkel was
left in position and a great bit of
damage there. Sibstrial on the play and
now an opportunity for Paris to go
forward.
>> Yeah, stress relief. I was going to say
no more pioneers.
Shanti gets this kill. He might just be
able to run this one by himself. Bears
have to turn quick and Shanti whether or
not he knows that's the play.
>> He's got it. That's number five.
Anthony Quos Castro. Nobody does it
better.
>> Too smart. He plays with the ideas.
Understands the game better than anybody
else. Shot the ingame high IQ. He has
such a good look there. Paris. Two
minutes still. Another grab here from
Optic. Another run. Chsy looking for his
fifth. He's gone low. There's the read
from Sim and a stop.
>> 150 left to play. Paris are going to
have to score. They're going to have to
score fast. Three kills in the feed.
Pressure alleviated.
Ziv looking to take this plane side.
They're going to get a little bit weird
with it. Atypical to see go this
direction.
Siv is entirely side with the device in
hand. Still needs to keep the play in
the middle open. This is still doable.
Minute 30 to go. Pockets empty. Go over
the top. It's in. 53. Good patience.
Good timing. Trusting your teammates.
Ghosty to give you two in that moment.
And it is a topside device spawn. If
you're optic, you never have to touch
it. You live on that lane heading.
>> Trying to maintain some presence in the
middle of the map. Try to eliminate the
options optic have got. He gets a bit
overzealous
on board with Estro takes a very
unfortunate wall bang from the nuke.
Optic stacking up now on the new EMP.
>> There's just two players watching mid
cut. He both Hercules and Ash were doing
it. A team kill technically there with
the trophy system, but if you're bears,
you do not have a lot of time.
>> Trying to make something happen. Est on
the flank. He's gone straight past that
plunder above him. And now a red dot to
deal with. Ghosty still. They find the
kill. Man down. And here comes number
four.
It's good. It's a one-point game. And
we're going low. It's going to be Joe to
see the first one there for Paris. And
he knows he doesn't have the pressure.
He does not have the support. He is
waiting for overaggression for the optic
players. Hercules though. They pump the
break. You got the middle of the map
though. You have an avenue now to cause
the damage. Another gunfight win from
Sid. All comes down and Hercules has to
save this one. He's staying alive.
Here's the pickup. We're trying to make
something happen again. Shotsy finds a
corner. Will Siv be checked. He's
through. It's no good. Two-piece. Shotsy
down. The fight is alive. EMP is
running. Hook trying to save it here.
You have to kill Hook. You have to find
him. Joe's going to go. Can he grab it
in time? It's over. Optic take the lead.
And you parked that bus. You better put
the handbrake on. That got a little bit
too dicey.
A cosmic effort from the Paris. Jon
makes to pull that back, but Optic take
the lead. And you just got a slang
performance from Shotsy that is
uninspired. 22 and 23. Only four
assists. The damage not good. None of
that matters. Four overloads in his
ability to find the creativity, the
novelty to get these scores. Two
different ones in this game. Rashotti, a
new player, a unicorn in Call of Duty
and console esports. He simply finds a
way and creates the magic to get Optic
that win.
>> Seeing the space between the spaces and
threading it every time. These
highlights folks, a first half, an
extraordinarily strong display from
Optic. The first three goals amazing.
Paris makes they find the muscle. They
find that magic going into the second
half with a sense that they can actually
do this. And my god did they come close.
Unbelievable tenacity from both our
squads. But the Paris General Banks just
shy.
And these highlights, this could be one
of my favorite maps of the year.
>> Yeah. And I don't know if we're going
to, you know, catch the route that shots
he takes, but when you have the low side
device spawn, he goes plain heady and
wraps all the way around. So, it is the
route he takes before this that is the
difference maker. The most criticism Chi
has faced this year, it is for those
routes. He flanks every single life,
every single time. He's limiting. He's
out of position. He's such an easy read.
Why does he make these plays is because
at top chance champs in the finals of
the winners finals trying to push
through and get to that next level. He
has seen it all. All the repetitions in
the world for these types of moments.
This is why Shotti whatever you see
throughout the entire season you wait to
watch him action.
>> You just waited Dante. I was trying to
say shots in the corner. We just need to
wait. If you wait me too.
>> Should have could have would have
couldn't. to Colossus. We now go map
four.
Jon makes firm position there on the
scar below. The den was great. This is
their last chance in guess work on the
comms. That could have been many
moments, but I believe that was the end
when shots is laying down on the steps.
Josie had the awareness. Talk about a
level like this to understand that
connection.
Could have had the big play, but here it
is. Big time moments. A 2-1 lead for
Optic. Match point.
Oh,
>> still the winners. So, good news. You
know, you drop down, you got a bit of a
loser bracket run. G2 watching this one
anxiously taking notes. Envoy revenge
time. Oh,
>> it's Champs, mate. The stories right
themselves.
>> They're going into Colossus. How we
feeling about this one again? Both
squads dangerous in the response.
>> Optic are the best team on Colossus.
They have been all year except for in
the grand finals. The record has been a
spectacle. You have extremely high
expectations for them on this map, but
oh man, maybe a little bit of a
difference maker. You truly never know
what you're going to see. I do know in
the slaying department, Optic have
certainly had the edge in this series,
including the map that they lost. So, no
doubt about their ability. It's just
about those individual players for
Paris. Have to kick it up a notch, have
to make up for the mistakes maybe that
were rolling through on map three. But a
map on Colossus as well, if you're being
outslayed, if you cannot find kills, you
really will suffer.
>> Vicious, vicious map to deal with from
the back foot. We have not seen that
many comebacks on this map all year
long.
>> And of course, you know, if you're crim
see what kind of magic he can pull off,
but you know, as Shield, the front line
man from SMG, in my mind though, it's
needs the bounce back. He was a key
factor in two different scores. Optic
got where he's making the mistakes, both
a teammate. It's unfortunate it happens,
but that rolls through and turns into a
very quick optic capture. Chanti just
piercing through the plane side running
straight up. He was the guy in the top
window not able to get a side on. Very
tricky moment. I don't know what
happened on his screen, but I don't I
want to see his screen for the map four
and see if he can bounce back. I think
he could.
>> They have the EMP just nothing happened,
which is tough, but hey, we don't know
what was really going on there.
Final few moments here for our coaches
to be on stage and
get it all going here. And all things
considered, the gentleman's camp morale
seems high.
Whatever they're dealing with, whatever
the issue may be, the good times are not
here. Champs is a different beast.
>> What do coaches say before a colossus?
>> I don't know. I mean, Mayhem might have
a tight vibe.
>> Throw your nades on P1. Get statue
control on P1.
>> Yeah, I'm wondering.
He's got some He's got some good jokes.
>> That's what it is. He's vibing. He's got
some good vibing for it.
>> He's got a tight vibe. He's just come
back from the comedy cell and he's
absolutely spit.
The boys definitely seem to be in a very
very good place mentally as a squad. So
for a Paris Gamix fan, and I know there
are millions of you out there, you're
definitely looking at this situation and
going, "Hey, we got this. We're going to
let Joe go wild." But for Optic, it's
barely about the gentle mates and it's
about the tournament in general.
One more map at a time
right now.
That's what he said.
>> I know. That's what you said.
>> Karma
>> DB5.
>> He's filled up one hand, starting on the
next.
>> Starting on the next. Three as a player.
Started coasting in 2023 and he's got
two rings since then. Yeah, we're
running out of digits for this legend.
a 2020 retirement hit like a truck.
>> Can't forget JP Chance your old pal.
Gold stats. GG.
Big fan. Yeah, he was my favorite SAS
guy for a very long time. I'm going to
tip it to Easy Mac and take the moment
and give him the extra edge. Easy has
been out of control the past few years,
but JP built different. What he has done
behind the scenes for this team, no one
questions him at this point. He's one of
those guys that doesn't have a
background in competitive gaming,
probably doesn't play COD at a very high
level, but he is genuinely one of the
smartest people you could possibly have.
He has earned the respect of his team.
And if you earn the respect of Karma
coming with that outside knowledge,
can't speak any more highly of this
young man.
Good sign, folks. So, those headsets
coming off
a moment of ice after that one-point
game of overload now to get into the
Colossus. So, we're going to be redot
going into this one fast.
And this is one of the highest kill
production maps we have in the league in
Black Ops 7. The kill record set on this
very map. It is the one where you're
going to see the most flurry of
activity. Spawn, throw, stun, throw a
take a fight, die, rinse, repeat
endlessly. It is a war of attrition.
You cannot afford to have a slow start,
slow middle, slow, slow nothing. You
have to be on point at all times.
>> Yeah. Yeah, a lapse of judgment is going
to hurt on this map, especially at this
level between these two teams. So, we
are looking for as close to mistake free
as we can get it. As you can see, top
side of the bracket, Optic taking on
gentle mates. Optic are one map away
from a date with Faze. They're in the
winners finals, the grand finals of
champs, the legacy, the ring, the
trophy, the accolades that come with it
are a mere few days away.
G2 waiting there in the lower bracket
for the loser of this matchup. And can
the gentle mates force their way to a
final map?
No more waxing. No more waning. Colossus
loading in.
Map number four. Strictly business here
at the Hotel Colossus.
There's nothing relaxing about this
resort.
Both squads ready to go. Last life here
in the winners bracket for the general
mates. We're opting to date with fates.
This map will start fast and it will end
fast as well. Here we go. Map four. See
what kind of dance this man has. Starts
out. He's in the right side. An SMG
battle on the right side of the map. If
I see you doing this in rank, I'm going
to be upset at this level. That is a
first blood for Shotti. That is AI in
control.
>> S last man now going to back on up.
You're going to hear that little beat.
Know those players are crossing down
low. So that's Joe's job trying to deal
with with shots here on the outside. And
a big pick up. Three in a row. He's
doing laps. It's the first blood on
Estre on the top side of the mini map.
Teleports to the bottom left corner.
Impossible to track. So difficult to
deal with. And by the time he drops,
it's already one of the best P1 starts
you will see all year long. Optic with
30 seconds to none and they continue to
run it up.
>> Single kills. All the journal have got
thanks to ghost and estro now joining
forces. What a dive there. Joe fade away
out of the window into the feed. Hook
his five spree now. Done. Looking at
that P2 journal are in. This is the
bounce back. Great. Great iron chi right
now. He is locked into this game. You
know the next kill he's going to get it.
A six in one start. The right side
spawns for Optic in a 30-point lead
already. Bears players though, they're
pouncing, forcing the spawn out and they
are all over that backline coverage now.
Sosti taken care of. It's going to be a
1 v one there on the front. Mer guesses
right. Big win. Dashi gets his as well.
Optic full control. Everything they
needed to deal with that first wave and
continue to push this score up. And
honestly, a controlled sort of pace. Not
flying and frying for the moment. Just
easy facilitation.
Teamwork's going to be there. Two bodies
in time. You got shots towards the mid.
Tug starting to hit the venge and pairs
are getting obliterated here on the
losses. Another fourman wipe getting
able to P3 right now. That's the game
plan. And Shy and Dash already there.
Big hits now from Sim and Joe out of
spawn and right into position. Shy now
down. This is an opportunity finally for
the journal mates to get what they want.
Oh, first set of kills they're able to
get in succession. spawns though going
to be a little bit weird. He spotted
towards the godheadi. And good news,
Ghosti wins the gun fight to clear out
blue. So you don't have the spawns you
want, but you are safe and secure in
this time. There's the heady. Perfect on
a dash. You going to keep it back for a
second longer. Jonas now trying to fan
out. Create some sort of defensive
network to identify the attack and
you've seen it coming. It hasn't made a
difference. Fall down. There's the
break. Just a drive by from Shotti
soaring from the heavens above. And
well, this is now a very painful
situation there. Shotsi in your cheeks.
So much damage being done. Mercury is
able to clean up too. And you're taking
rounds. It is for a hope and a prayer.
But that prayer pays off. Esther able to
flip this bomb for his team. But you
trade away so much time. Eject shots
from your cheeks for one second. He
finds a way back in real fast. He's a
terrible pest in that regard.
Gash in this left flank. He that is
locked down. Absolute dominance so far.
Unbelievable recovery. Estreal tries to
make it a little bit weird. Gets the
team the spawns. 5 seconds later it goes
by and optic just have the mini map set
up that you dream of able to spot two
extra players. is going to fall, but the
comm's easy shots. He knows pressure in
the back. Cleans up one, ready for the
second. And he's just meeting everybody
with stun, grenades, kills. Knows he's
back here. This is perfect colossus
gameplay. As soon as the problems
identified, they address it instantly.
Starting to get towards that sort of
flow state territory right now. That 14
to 9 for Shotsy, 11 and seven there for
M. 107 for Dashy. It's starting to get
unwinable. I mean this is complete
control of the base. This is not the
fastest Colossus we have seen from any
team. This is just the best orchestrated
we have seen from any team. 100 point
lead and 124 points to go. So the
Genesis only makes that comeback all the
sweeter if they can start to get it.
Second set
as I do believe that is the same shark
from Hassienda.
Optic in the new time.
Here comes the counter. Perfect pitch.
Merg down. Makes in first time truly
been in any hill since the last P3 and
Op take it away from you 2 seconds
later. Relentless pressure. Nades at
your feet. Stuns at your feet. Hercules
there for the trades and Chanti cleans
up the kill. 16 form early on. Oper just
having a kill race between Shotsi and
Merc.
Signs of life from the general mates yet
again. Three corners found a shotsy. He
is everywhere.
No corner is safe. Everywhere has to be
checked twice.
15 seconds to go. P2 is on the cards.
Hoop down. General makes it with a
position to swap. Score some time. I
mean, they're going to have to start to
turn around here if they have any hope
making this come back. Colossus is very
difficult to chain hills together. Optic
with a lead like this, they can just
play the game differently. But for the
moment on the mini map, looks up fast.
You got the top lane cover and you got
blue under lock and key. Estel safe on
the top.
>> They're absolutely going to try to test
the attempt of hold here for the gentle
makes.
Slow things down. It's going to be a
threeman hit through the front right now
for Optic. Here we go. Parties on. Esto
gets himself one. The dance is good. Go
see there for the reinforcement. S joins
him as well. And so far a perfect hole.
Fantastic teamwork. Estreal doing the
right thing. Get your kill to the
damage. Be the bait for the squad and
let them clean up everybody. It's a 100
point plus gap that they're working for
this deficit. D2's been strong and
they're going to continue to tread.
Estreal with great reads and next kill
is going to be a helltorm for him. He's
fighting for it. There's the assist. It
comes through. Helltorm in the back
pocket for Estreal. New fields on. Call
it in now.
>> Yeah, might as well. Takes forever to
call in. Back yourself in the corner and
see what you can do. going to the open
side hill maybe trusting his teammates
to get these first few kills. The five
sprit continues. You still want a bit of
place to do it. Even if you call it in,
you send them inside. It's no good
unless your boys can get the kills.
That's it. You have all bases covered.
Fingers crossed. And the late fall, I
mean, this is 10 free seconds. You might
want to call that a little bit sooner.
We'll see what he can make happen. Go on
the back line. Well, doesn't even get
the spawns in the long term. Well,
Estreal takes down two. And it looks
like Paris have done it. Left side
spawns now. Just 60 points. Well, still
60. Still 60.
>> Such a long. Still 60, brother.
>> Quite the battle.
>> Slow crawl here from Murk on the right
flank. Hasbi
keeps the lift safe.
>> Beautiful nade over the top. Wow, what a
play, but it's not enough to stop the
break. Come through. Optic are in. Nice
and comfortable. 20 seconds isn't really
scrap time. That is a healthy chunk. You
were able to get no trophies means the
nade damage on point, but Optic, three
players surrounding the hill. They are
playing heavy for the scrap time and
they're absolutely going to get it.
Going to have an 85point lead going into
new onto a quote unquote money hill if
you want to call it that on a P4. Paris
are desperate for it. Optic one breaks
to get in position where they already
contest over the top. He cuts down the
defense immediately now towards the
back.
>> Knows when to go, knows when to stop.
Pause the brakes. Send it forward. The
damage dealt. Here come the trade set. A
shiy down. What a play from ghosty with
a Jagger. Still hook on time and the
tables are flipped. Big one from Ghosti.
Going to block the spawns for a few of
these players out. They're going to
start to spawn out or maybe they spawn
right in the back. The second he falls.
Optics spawn right back in. They're
going to take that time over maintaining
this 80sec lead. This is a gauntlet.
This is a runaway game. Such a tough
run.
Hot coals across the nails. Whatever it
may be, gentle mates, you've got to get
it going
by the hook. It's not theirs, Miles.
They do not have a choice in the matter.
Optic. This is the best Colossus we
might have seen all year. This is huge
workounding these players relentlessly
attacking every single dot they see on
the map. Goi with a big two trying to
make it three as the attack towards our
third set begins now. Nice keep away win
for Dashy. You see the trophy on time
there for Paris. A freebie pick there
for Hercules. And well, get rid of the
trophy. Get back into time. Junk sees
impact down low. Mestro working
together, but Chazi clean up crew. He is
everywhere on this map. We'll check the
result now of the jungle mates. How much
fight have they got in them? S with a
lovely late n. Great damage on as well.
What a hit. Pick up now. Trying to get
towards time. Estreal managing to dodge
that one. only getting the boys out of
time for a second longer
>> flying around man if you're looking at
the kills optic aren't even out slam by
this much this is the most efficient we
have seen shanty calling game
>> that is that
one felt personal 25127
we barely got to see the gentleman's
perspective it was such a spectacle
from AI Texas. That might damn well be
the best Colossus we've seen.
>> That is a statement Matt from AI Texas.
That is efficiency. Halfway through this
game, they were dead even in slaying
with a 100 point lead. They end up out
slaying by nine, but that is a
terrifying sight for the rest of the
league. Colossus might just be off.
>> Yeah, that wasn't just that, you know,
you guys want to win champs. It's one
thing trying to win champs. We are
defending champs right now. That was one
hell of a performance.
Flow state achieved. You go to bed
knowing you did your damn well best
today. Just so spooky. I mean that is
hopeless. Sucks the life right out of
you. And again the scoreboard. Yes, they
do end up out slaying by, you know, at
nine kills I think overall. But that is
extremely comfortable game play. Two
minutes in the hill there from Dashy.
Hercules not too far behind him and
Shanti having a kill race there in the
first half of the map. But quite
literally from the jump I mean the P1
there's no trophies in time. You just go
up 35 seconds to none before the
rotation. That is electric stuff for
Optics.
>> Well, they managed to crack the code
there on Colossus.
>> How how short is this game?
>> It's not not very long. We did get to
see three P1s technically. I mean that
is about as good as it can get. Wow,
that really was a very good game of
Colossus. Kudos to Optic. That's very
slight sign of life. That P4 to P2 there
for the general mates is exactly what
you wanted. And against any other team
at any other time, that might have been
enough to turn the game around. But
these guys just found a way. The way
they played that Colossus, that was a
real teaching moment this late in the
season. That was one of the best maps we
have seen. What a series. What a result
there for Optic. They will now play
phase in the winners finals.
General will go down. It is going to be
a battle against G2 that we will see
tomorrow. What a fantastic tournament so
far. Fun stuff there from Mic doing
things different in the overload.
Finding that special stuff to put you
over the edge and get that win. Lights
out so far in the respawn. And maybe the
SD saving it for the grand finals.
>> Save that one for the grand finals.
Still lots of information to learn from
our players. Tons of secrets to be told.
Who I wonder how many secrets he's got
for his players.
I got him here. Everybody get loud for
Optic Texas.
We'll see them go up against Faze
tomorrow for top three. But as I got
hook with you on the main stage, man,
how does it feel to be back on US soil
after winning Major Four and to be
around the Green Wall fans again as you
guys come out here today to play on a
Friday?
Uh, I actually really uh love this
arena. It's been great so far. Uh, the
green wall has been showing a lot of
love. Uh, but yeah, it's been great.
>> It has been great indeed, man. And when
it comes down to you guys in this series
right here,
>> Gentleman wanted to talk take you guys
down.
>> I support this.
They love you and I think you are MVP
out here. If I could give you my award,
I would. But I want to talk about your
MVP performance in this series because,
you know, after it was 1-1, the
overload, it got kind of scary at the
end. You know, once you start seeing
those caps start to rack up on the board
right there, was it more, okay, let's
just keep playing offense. They're not
going to outscore us because you got
shots, you scoring all these caps, or
did you guys just decide you want to do
some defense right there to close that
out?
I was just uh Yeah. No, it got a little
scary, but no, I was just saying uh just
make sure we keep putting pressure on
them. Uh keep playing our game. That's
all we did basically. Yeah. And
>> that's all it was. Okay.
And everybody loves that. Okay. Cuz you
missed the get it all done. All right.
When it comes down to the fundamentals
of Call of Duty, when it comes down to
getting the dirty work done, all the
Green Wall fans know that they can rely
on you and
Give him his flowers, everybody, cuz you
need him to play his ass off throughout
the whole weekend.
And so now going up against tomorrow,
your your next opponent's winners finals
is Classico. You're going up against
Faze. Talk to me about how does it feel
to be able to play those guys here in
front of this crowd?
>> Uh well, they're a good team. Um so we
got to bring our agame. ready for that
rematch.
>> Uh, definitely. Yeah,
>> definitely.
>> Yeah. Yeah. It's always a good series
versus Lambo.
>> It's Yeah, definitely going to be a
great series. And lastly, I want to get
you up out of here, okay? We still got a
lot of Call of Duty to play here
throughout the weekend. And these fans,
they're ready to turn up and party for
you guys win today as they've been doing
all weekend long. What do you want to
say to the Green Wall fans that made it
into the venue today and everyone that's
at home that's going to be coming in
here tomorrow to make this a soldout
show?
Uh, no. Yeah, I appreciate y'all. Still
uh still a long uh journey headed to
Saturday, but uh definitely looking
forward to the rest of the matches.
>> You heard it from Hook, everybody. They
going to do this one for you guys.
That's going to do it for us on the
stage. Chris, take us away.
>> Saw some awesome cosplay here. Shout out
to everyone who made it out to Vegas. I
got my man Nameless attached and of
course the lady Rosaly up here at the
desk to break down a very swift
Hardpoint game four. I want to start
there with you Nameless. You said you
noticed something throughout this
series. What about the hardpoint
specifically did you witness as we take
a look at the highlights?
>> Yeah, that was about as beautiful as a
Colossus as you're ever going to see. I
mean, you're talking about an optic team
where they look at bad situations as an
opportunity. Barely out slaying and
almost 100 point clubbing them is
insane. slowing down when they need to.
You think back to that P3 where Estrial
streaks, they have control. Well, they
just pounce on him. They know a player
going to be trying to press their
advantage and Optic is constantly
punishing players when they do that. You
could not breathe on this map. Your
general mates anytime they thought they
had something good going, Optic
punishes. Ally, was shot cheating in
this game?
>> I think so, Chris. Actually, I was
standing right behind him. You know, I
saw a couple weird things on his
monitor. I'm just kidding. No, I think
we're just riding that momentum run that
map number three. I mean that was an
absolute opener from Optekus to go up
three the way they did and it did end up
close in the end but then you know you
close it out and you go into this
Colossus and it felt like nobody could
kill Shahook and Shotsi. They were
definitely the better SMG duo today in
this series and I do think it's starting
to be a matchup difference at this
point. I think Optic Texas just in
general is a better team versus Paris
Jungle Mage and that's going to be
something General Mates might have to
face again later on this weekend.
>> The scariest thing about this obvious
team is how perfect you have to be. If
you give them an inch they will take a
mile. There was a moment in that P3
second one the last one of the game that
gentleman had a good setup. Estreal
jumps down, looks for a guy tunnel, gets
shot in the back. They instantly get
broken. They don't even get another
point after that moment. Optic, they're
just so dominant when they're in
control, and you're not getting it back.
>> You know what I think it is? Players
that have an extreme motor, like they
just punish like they know in their
heads like, "Okay, gentle mates think
they have a good situation. Somebody's
going to get aggressive. Is it going to
be Joe? Is it going to be Estreal?
Pounce on that." And as soon as you kill
them, that's our advantage now. So, I
think Optic has just ascended to another
level right now. And Joe Deceives, he
can't beat them. Can Optic keep it going
in a grand final? That is the big
question for me because they are so
clean through the winners bracket. For
now though, we got to take a look at
reasons why they cruise through
brackets. It's your scuff play of the
game. Shotsi coming up big, didn't he?
Attach
>> and this play was beautiful out of
Shotsi because they were in control the
whole game, but it got a little sketchy
towards the end. General Mates could
have tied it up. Who better than Shotti
to play a little ratty off angle spot
that General Mates did not check. Guess
what? He gets a two-piece to save Optic
from going into OT right here and to
close out the overload.
>> And I'm going to be honest, if I'm the
rest of the league right now and you
know going into this Saturday and
Sunday, I'm not playing up to Texas on
Star. Like I with the amount of times
that I saw Hook and Shotsi just causing
ruckus as they do, hitting the flank.
Like the only team that was good at
stopping that was LA. No longer in the
building, no longer even in the
tournament. So, if I'm looking at I'm
looking at this match in this series at
the other teams and I am definitely
trying to take some veto notes away from
them.
>> I'm trying to see what the hell Hoop was
doing about these other teams. I'm like,
we got to figure out a way to slow him
down. He was unbelievably
>> if you wait me too.
>> Gentle maids falling to optic. They were
able to take him down at major one to
raise the trophy. Not the case tonight.
And that means that those guys are going
to be falling down to the elimination
bracket where they will be joining
squads like the Heretics and Koi. That's
where we started the day. And let's
remind you how it finished. Toronto Koi
forcing a game five. They walk away with
a slump SND's victory and attach. You
said you saw some things you liked. Was
it enough from the Heretics?
>> Uh enough for them to win this series. I
don't know about making a run in this
tournament. They have they were pretty
sloppy in that game five even though
they ended up winning it. I just need to
see more consistency in the SND for them
and they don't have much time to repair.
So hopefully they can put some magic
together and make it happen.
>> Yeah, I think that's kind of the
takeaway is like it was a messy series.
It was a gritty series but Miami
Heretics did what they have basically
been trying to do all season long which
is do something on land. And for me that
was it you know the biggest event of the
year. You finally get one under the
hoop. You make it to a Saturday and you
also get great performance out of
medals. You said it for this team. He
can be an X factor if he is playing like
this and being a slayer. It's going to
be very difficult to deal with Miami
Heretics in some of these recent.
>> If Dashy is the oldest player in the
league, I feel like Metals is right
behind to see the OGs pop off. You love
to see it. Speaking of popping off, how
about the boys from Minnesota G2 going
up against your major three champs,
runners up a major four. Well, LAS will
not be playing on a Saturday at Champs
now nameless. Yeah, you know, we
celebrate the praises of G2. Incredible
performance, but I feel like we didn't
talk too much about LA Thieves and what
a blunder this was for them. I mean,
after this season, you know, strap be
some difficult conversations about him.
You know, he's been so good in the
regular season. Will you get to champs?
He just hasn't played well.
>> 63 63. That's what I'm saying.
>> Pretty sure it's the lowest Champs KD
ever is a tweak that I saw on the
timeline. Shout out Brian Stat possibly.
Um, don't completely
>> right there with him from Koi.
>> That's bad. I will say I will say I
think the craziest statistic that we've
seen from all this strapping and hydro
that duo is now 0 and4 at COD champ they
have won a total of I think three majors
in the regular season they have not won
a match at
>> do not blow it up before EW not won a
match but they at least have EWC to
still face it worked out for them they
got a big old paycheck is your player to
watch from G2 speaking of player X he's
on my team tomorrow put him on yours and
this guy I have a feeling he'll be in a
of those top drafted squads. Booza has
been a freak all season. Today he and
Drazza get the job done for the ARs.
>> Oh yeah, you know, early in this year I
had Abuza top AR. He's been
unbelievable, dude. I I think Abuza, you
know, he just relentlessly wants to win
and today we got a great performance out
of S and that's what happens.
>> Was it Luca's fault what happened with
the Falcons? Because yesterday they
pulled off an upset. Today they get beat
3.
>> Uh Luka was still doing his thing.
>> He's doing it. Yeah,
>> I just think the Falcons got a little
bit outclassed phase just as a better
team. They've had more time together.
They've won a championship in this game.
They're looking like a top two team in
the game right now. In my mind right
now, it's either them or Octite who will
take this tournament. But I'm loving
what I've seen so far out of phase. And
S showed up today. The simp we know and
love. If he keeps playing like that,
they can win these rings.
>> Here's a look at your top performers on
the day. Reale, Cremp, S, and Hook. Hook
is going to drop a 136 positive 24.
Remember,
>> this is one of the stars who wasn't on
an allstar team. You got S on the
secondary all-star team. He drops a 129.
I feel like some of our OG SMGs are
trying to make a statement here in
Vegas.
>> Oh, for sure. That was all four on your
screen. But obviously
the response, but they needed him in SND
today and he showed up. Flip side real
big question marks on why he was put
back in this team. I feel like he's
starting to show us why. Ally, before we
go to break, who's Pinterest inspired
today's look?
>> No, nobody's. I just went in my closet.
I was like, "This dress is a little
big." And then I remembered I have this
corset top thing. It's all about the
layering, guys.
>> My wife dressed me today and you should
dress yourselves for an epic Saturday.
Look good and prepare to be here for
five matches. We've got five coming your
way in an epic bracket. Take a look at
this bad boy. Nameless. Why is Saturday
so insane at COD Champs? uh because we
get down to two teams for that grand
final on Sunday. But there's one match
in the losing bracket that I'm looking
down at and that's G2 verse the Gentle
Mates. Envoy with the chance to send his
X team home. It's going to be an insane
matchup and then obviously Optic versus
Faze. Who doesn't want to see that?
>> Classico.
>> I will say go ahead.
>> There is maybe a little bit of bad blood
in the General Mace vers G2 series.
Estra used to be on G2. Some old
teammate beef. Who knows who's going to
come out on top of this one, but I feel
like Optic and FaZe, even if they lose
tomorrow, whoever loses that, they're
still feeling really good to make it
back into the grand finals.
>> Low key, they're looking at the rest of
the teams left in the tournament right
now, and they're like, man, just get us
to that grand final.
>> And we've got an awesome opportunity for
everyone watching at home. Get your beta
code as part of our Beta Code Sweep
Stakes on Championship Sunday. That's
right. We are going to be seeing some
peak viewership. If I have a feeling
starting July 19th, 300 p.m. Pacific,
it's over on twitch.tv. Call of
Duty_ports.
Thank you all for tuning in to an epic
Saturday. We started off with two game
fives. We had a 3 0 and a 31 phase
versus Optic. Big dogs fighting for
their lives. It's all going down. Day
three from Vegas in the Nickelode Ultra
Arena. See you then.
I'm legendary.
I'm legendary.
Yeah.
>> I was born with the story. I was born
for the glory. Through the heat and the
rain. Can't ignore me. I'm commitment.
Signed up for a mission. Yeah. Come with
the price. It's all in the description.
My arrived. I can't hesitate. Nothing is
in my way. Knocking down barricades on a
different time
from the jump. I'm the person that can
never break. I ain't got
no
way.
Just you see
I got the power. I've been working after
hours.
The moment I came back
down
I think I can't watch it in 2020
when I fell off
again.
Let's go. Come on, man.
Come on.
Come on, boys. Baby
baby. Come on.
>> G2. One wave and you win map one.
>> Oh, no. We spawn
game.
>> Wait, that was an insane win.
>> Wait, wait.
>> That's what I'ming talking about, bro.
Holy.
>> There's no waiter coming back after
that.
>> He had no business winning that fight.
Zero.
>> Yep. There it is. The blow over the
second as well. He got
it to
completed the reverse.
>> Oh my goodness.
He just got reverse swept out the
turning.
They got me cornered. I'm feeling
trapped. Where can I go when I'm feeling
like that?
to the left or to the right man. I need
some luck like a dice game 71 but 247
there's plenty more coming and plenty
weapons got my head on the swivel
wherever I'm stepping and civil
protection
consequences and repercussions
when you violating disruptive they'll
annihilate you and leave you nothing now
I'm wast deep in these discussions. I'm
wasting.
It's up to me. I got to do it, man. I
got to keep moving.
It's up to me. I got to do it.
I thought I was making progress. Thought
it was all part of the process.
I was wrong, baby. That's nonsense.
Now I'm wasting
the time. It's going down. I'm wast
I'm wast
Got to get out.
I'm waste deep. Got to get out,
man. I got to keep moving.
It's up to me. I got to do
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