BLG vs. TL — VALORANT Masters Toronto — Swiss Stage
i just wish you’d say it breaks through the casing it’s too much to carry it’s too heavy i keep running i keep chasing things just wish you’d say it to me i feel it they can hear us and sometimes it’s amazing when the weight breaks through the casing when you tell our stories do you taste me what if I told you it’s not there what if I told you I’m not here i know that I’ve chosen to erase you i miss my seat i wait up i wait up i hold on so long so low loving nothing’s helping me feeling weak every week i just [ __ ] around with these beats love so sweet so sweet when I’m loving her the city lights kiss my tears while I’m hugging her i love her to death but the death of me is leaving her my foot in the head to I’m miss you fully committed should I admit it let it go there is a purpose there is a cure for this just go slow while I wait you never love us with the hurt I’m feeling you are the pain there will be on the other side of this we will find our way we will find our way if you’re feeling all right Heat heat heat heat remember love is with the hurt I’m feeling you without the pain there will be on the other side of this we will find our way we will find our way if you feel it it won’t heat you can feel it if you feel it walk 8 let’s go let’s go give it to me i like it give it to me i love it give it to me i like it give it to me i love it we got the heat give it to me i like it give it to me i love it give that to me i like it you can see it don’t play with your karma don’t do a kink in your armor don’t do it don’t fake like an actor don’t do your faster don’t do focus like a laser foc go when you leave from the raptors when you leave better off going harder going you don’t want to be m you don’t when you flirt with disaster when you flirt with When I Look at this oh yeah don’t steal from your brother it might tear what you’re after it might tear prepare for the danger prepare when you call your master call them out don’t trust in stranger get your caption sabotage in the You don’t want to be murk with disaster when I disaster I am so ecstatic and happy to be here right here in this arena with all you repping my country of Canada as we’re about to witness the most stacked masters yet we have 12 teams coming into the stage for these three weeks and they’re going to give their all here on the stage to try to hoist a trophy in Toronto so I’m only asking for one thing from you all Toronto for the next 3 weeks i want you to get as loud as possible i want each and every one of you to show that Canada is the place to be for esports you guys are awesome lots of stuff happening here on the stage we have Paper Rex and Heretics coming up we also have Billy Billy and Team Liquid coming up so make sure you make some noise and give your love to all the talent that you get to see on camera here so much love and enjoy the show thank you when you learn a disaster this stream contains fast flashing images that may affect viewers who are susceptible to photosensitive epilepsy and other photos sensitivities viewer discretion is advised 12 teams have traveled to the great white north but only one will walk away with a trophy and the glory hello everyone from Canada it is day one of Masters Toronto and we’re coming to you live from the Anare Center for our second global event of the year i am your host Yung Su and I am bringing you guys a heck of a lot of credibility here on the desk i’m joined by Mel twotime game changers champion IGL in fact bringing 16 titles to this desk yeah we have 16 titles combined no we don’t we have 18 combined because you and I have both won an Emmy hey yeah there we go we take that we take that 18 between us insane actually I can’t I cannot possibly be on the same desk with two Emmy award winners 16 time champion i mean we we claim the 18 between us we claim it i like the way you think yeah we’ve contributed a little bit to this uh but let’s talk about Masters Toronto because So excited as I mentioned we do have 12 teams but Ender uh we’re going to have to wait a little bit until we see the first seeds it’s true first seeds coming after the Swiss stage the basic rules here win two series and you’re through lose two series and you’re going home what I am so excited for in this tournament is we have the return of so many teams that we were missing back at the start of the year we’ve got Fnatic Paper X Heretics we even got Obos back on the international stage it’s going to be awesome well we’re missing one though one crucial uh team that is not making its return despite returning almost every single time yeah are you a fan of Swiss stage Mel are you a Swiss fan i am i love Swiss i’ve always been a huge fan i love it especially when they brought it to Game Changers like North America huge fan like I couldn’t be more of a stand for it honestly and I couldn’t be more of a fan of the first two matches we get on opening day heretics versus Paper X our script writers are doing well they’re they’re doing overtime honestly like coming up with that right out of the gate i mean historic matchup right there but also two teams that have serious talent on their roster right heretics coming in after just losing to only Fnatic in EMA they’re a second seed but they’re a scary second seed yeah and we’ll talk about this a little bit more later but Mel no Nats with Team Liquid on day one that’s got to hurt i mean I’ve been a longtime fan of Nats since the Gambit days seeing this actually hurts knowing he’s playing at Master Toronto when he can’t actually play um I really hope he’s able to get back and get the visa sorted out but it’s going to be really interesting considering Penny is subbing in his place a dualist player normally but subbing in for not only their IGL but their centi player is a little bit insane home crowd advantage and thank you Mel uh exactly I think 3 minutes since uh the show started that we mentioned gambit that’s a new record yeah it is really impressive we’re going to see if that’s record we’re going to check that but uh if you want to leg up on your pickups perhaps listen to what me and Wyatt had to say during Swissology take it away past self thank you future self now we are two humble Swissologists here to predict nay to tell the future exactly how these matches are going to go down wyatt the rules are simple you win twice you advance you lose twice you are done wyatt this first match up Heretics PRX can we start with something easier cuz that one that one is too tough you don’t want to start with We’re going to go We’re going to we’re going to go with Sen and we’re going to go with Wolves because let’s be real we all know Sen winning that okay wolves go down here i’ll allow you to take the second one okay i’m going to jump in with Geng MIBR now on paper you might think Genji stand a chance but no remember what Verno did to Genji in the offseason in soup this guy went 56 and 22 3 with NRG it’s MIBR all the way i’m with you i agree that one I think controversial but I’m with you on that one uh what do we have next oh Billy Billy versus Team Liquid i’m sorry but they’re going to take this i’ I’ve got them yeah I have them winning this and they’re going to go up against Sen because Billy Billy against NA teams iconic so that’s who they’re going to be playing and then Team I’m putting Team Liquid versus WE uh sadly no gnats no win do you think they’re going to get farmed by both well we we’ll get there okay this is the tough one though team Heretics and Paper X i’m going to be honest i don’t know who’s winning that game so I have I think you’re delusional if you think it’s close team heretics are going to absolutely I’m You think it’s delusional i’m a believer i don’t believe in the mini effect it’s team heretics all the way i The thing is I’m so 50/50 and you’re so confident I’m going to allow you to do it but I just don’t I feel like it’s so 50/50 okay minioo is back is what you have to understand let’s keep going okay might be over to see her first that’s That’s 10 seconds what okay hold on put them there you want I’m going to go uh Okay wait hold on then Liquid and then we got too much and then we got paper yeah we’re going we went way too deep paper X liquid liquid’s gone no penny yep liquid are gone wait wolves wolves heretics that’s heretics can’t be one and one wolves down here no wolves beat Heretic or TL no they don’t no that’s why I have to wait that’s why I already can’t win and lose there’s no way wolves are losing i’m sorry am I advancing and Sen it’s Sen where’s Sentinels sen sentinels are in okay yes put curious that both America’s team seemingly in when the production said “Is a minute and 30 seconds enough?” That’s not enough what What do we have deck wait they can’t be here they’re here i’m so confused uh and then advance that makes no You have Billy billy W oh wait yeah no they are there you’re right this makes sense you’re a badologist you’re not licensed he’s unlicensed wait how are heretics losing losing MIBR that’s crazy but sure they’re in there yeah and then uh paper paying okay so yeah and I think that’s a reasonable top four reasonable but it we took a I I wish you were Brent road to get there but I think that’s a perfect top four actually that’s who I would have predicted so perfect perfect are you going to toss back to yourself uh hello bye future self what are you thinking of right now you know I’m thinking that me and Wyatt first of all he trolled me during the whole thing second of all we literally talked afterwards and both of us thought that MIBR was losing that second matchup and that they shouldn’t be instantly going through so I don’t know how we ended up with what we did i like the super mention though as we all know the most important trophy in the offseason i got your back FNS now uh let’s talk about the patch we’re going to be playing on this will be 10 point 10 mel do you anticipate that this will actually I guess take remove Tejo out of the meta absolutely i think it goes without saying at this point I think Teao is fully dead i don’t even imagine really any map the only map he could have been played on was Fracture but we all know we also got rid of that so I think it’s going to be very tough to justify running Teao it’s It’s bad news for Tejo but I also think it’s kind of bad news for Breach obviously that was that a more minor nerf to Breach but Breach paired so nicely with Tejo and with Teao just getting yanked out of the meta i think a lot of teams are going to stop playing the breach and maybe stop playing like more double initiator comps and pivot into either more double duelist double sentinel ideas without those two sort of meta defining agents are you a purist do you like seeing him maybe nerfed a little bit i do i think he might have been nerfed a little too much cuz like I said I don’t think there’s really any viability for him at this point but it was it was kind of interesting having a broken agent like that for a couple months period and of course there’s a change in the map pool as well and I’m so happy we have you here Mel because tell us what you’ve been doing on Sunset you know you guys actually had an opportunity to play it in competitive yeah i mean okay hot take i’m a big fan of Sunset not in terms of oh I love the map’s design but in terms of I just love abusing and exploiting all the cheesiness you really like winning I’m hearing i love winning i love winning i’ll do what it takes to win like you see here I don’t even take the the 1 v one fight i’m full sticking and that’s something we love doing like playing postplan on this map is just insane just getting off planting the bomb falling back into B main playing spam you might think oh it’s all gone because there’s no more pings but oh I rest assured it is still well and well and alive to do that yeah the the two main like plant spots both on stairs and in that corner nook on site it’s like well there’s not a lot of places to actually diffuse the spike you can still very much get the spam post and Ender a million-dollar question who does this map buff and nerf uh honestly do you remember how good Sentinels were like initially on Sunset back in the day like they were like early innovators playing like the KO ideas and with breach nerfs and I think a lot of teams just going back to old comps on Sunset cuz we didn’t really see this map with Tejo i think teams that excelled like Sen in the past are going to be really good oh okay well we’ll see we’ll see if they actually play it now it’s time for our Mastercard fan poll and we want to know which region you think is going to take home the trophy scan the QR code to cast your vote and we’ll have the results later on and while you’re at it tell us who you’re rooting for with a hashtag Valerant Masters or BCT so we can feature you on the broadcast as well i’m interested to see how this poll is going to uh pan out mel you think there could be a clear front runner coming into this tournament regionally regionally regionally i mean I have an America’s bias but even I would say I don’t think there’s necessarily a big standout i mean obviously besides G2 and in hence like America’s but I think EMA does have a pretty good shot here as well i genuinely believe that yeah unfortunately America’s got burned once before already this year when we were supremely confident so I refuse to be that confident this time yeah i’ve never been confident for sure not about EMA i never paid for that before for sure not for sure not uh but if you’re well if you even are watching from home this is the part where you might be feeling some FOMO because your boy Van Silly is living his dream out here surrounded by our awesome fans we’re back here in the fan activation zone sitting in front of the meet and greet table where behind me we currently have Sarah and Alexis of Shopify Belling Gold backtoback GCC champs and we also have a sea of fans behind me getting ready to meet their favorite players and throughout this whole event here at Masters Toronto you’ll probably have a chance to meet your favorite team so make sure that if you’re here at the enterare center check out the schedule and hopefully you get to meet your favorite player i’ve already met my favorite player so I don’t need to go and laugh at you but are you going to be down there you’re going to be down there at some point doing the meet and greet maybe oh yeah we’ll see we were already down there you missed it we already met like a bunch of cool fans we were getting lit we are getting lit i missed out i missed out all right okay i’m going to have to check the schedule and see where Mel is on we’ll go We’ll go queue up we’ll go line up a sport mail uh because Mel you are my MVP i’m just going to check that out check out that segue check out that segue wish I could get some gas like that come on um I’m sure you’re someone’s MVP Christie you’re somebody considers you the MVP out there make sure you tweet even my team called me a paycheck stealer like it’s cooked oh no um but do you know who’s not a paycheck stealer our MVP bracelet winners in the past of course Kunga and Meteor did not qualify for Masters Toronto which means no matter what happens we will have a brand new bracelet winner at the end of this tournament any early shouts oh I’m going with one singular Maple Leaf from G2 he’s taking it oh yeah it’s so free yeah I like that what about you Mel in in the spirit of not jinxing my favorite team and I will go out i’d already forgotten I already jinxed it but in the spirit of not jinxing I’m going to say kayak oh I know out of nowhere i know i know very surprised but I truly believe that i do you’re That’s just the anti-jinx though you don’t actually believe that um I think uh I think Forsaken I think Forsaken will look really nice with that bracelet as well i think it suits him yeah he’s got the aura he’s got the aura that’s a good shout we’ll see i All of us are going to be wrong i can already tell that’s just how it goes we’re going to have a T1 situation again it’s going to be wrong we’re going to be wrong uh but there will be a lot of MVP contenders I feel like in this tournament and I think some of them will be playing in our first matchup team Heretics taking on Paper X both teams have finally made it back to the global stage and ender everything feels like it’s back to normal right we had one event where they won there yeah it feels normal now that they’re here but it’s kind of not normal how Heretics got here because they were looking so dominant during stage one i think they only dropped even maps in weeks one and two then go on a basically flawless run up until meeting Fnatic the fact that they are not the number one out of EMA is a is a big surprise yeah and uh it looked like at one point that Mel Heretics uh Paper X even weren’t even going to make playoffs how the heck did they make it all the way here it was crazy i mean they added Pac-Man lost one match and then just have won everything minus the grand finals it’s kind of insane yeah it’s the track by track are you on the train i have to mention it the paper X train i I’m a big believer in the improvement they’ve made like it is so clear how far they’ve gone when you go back and watch like early VODs of sort of like how they play the macro of their map i think they’re masking a lot of their strats in pre-rounds uh very effectively they’re just playing better team Valerant towards the end of the stage and I think that factor in their improvement is why they were able to make it all the way here i am so on the train i think I’ve been on the train since 2021 tickets at this point literally OG paper pal over here paper X of course will be a scary opponent but this is actually the matchup that Benji Fishy and Neil Zeno wanted so take a look at this clip from the spike drop a few weeks ago for me the main one I would love to play against is Paper X paper X but I mean they haven’t qualified yet as we record this but that is a team I would love to play against just because throwback for me it’s a throwback to Masters Madrid’s um when we played against them when we lost and I got a lot of hate for that game um because I was yeah I I I was very emotional during that game um well more than him i mean okay I mean we’re pretty we were very emotional i probably set off a bad example which then led to Benji getting a bit more emotional oh trickle down it was a bad example but I think we we’ve evolved from that point you know Sue I’ve got to say that is my favorite VCT ema podcast out there the best one you are thank you for gassing me up i love that thank you very much uh but you heard them talk about evolving since then i’m going to rip the band-aid right off because Mel since Masters Madrid where they face Paper X Heretics have lost three titles they’ve come second place three times since Masters Madrid that is like such a I can’t imagine how that feels like just being so close every Okay hey you said it not me but this is like kind of the second place team versus the second place team matchup it is and I feel like it’s really interesting to see how they both kind of overcome that mental hurdle because it is very much a real mental demon you have to overcome it’s not just talked up for the point of narrative like when it’s happened that consistently something is going wrong but I think at this point both these teams are here to show that they can actually try to win and go for it yeah there’s something going wrong but there’s also something going right when you get that many finals you know group stage Swiss stage demons both of these teams and the fact they’re coming in in this opening match playing against each other first of all there can only be one second place in this game second of all they’re both six squads they are and we throw this word redemption around you know a lot but it really is about redemption with Team Heretics uh and uh there there is just no uh no reason for them to lose that final in EMA they have to redeem themselves here yeah it’s going to be a big I think talking point throughout the tournament you know cuz you don’t have a lot of time you can’t just keep losing and you have to be able to bounce back in a big way but for me I still come in with a very high opinion of this team yes they lost in that final Fnatic i think Fnatic is a fantastic team as well and for my money I think they’re the best second seed coming in to this Swiss stage i I completely agree with you and looking at their map will melt they will have uh Sunset coming back into this and they were one of the teams that just spammed this map when it was in the pool before they are one of the They have the most value from this patch i think like by far not only is there like permaban like their worst map really Fractur is getting taken out but the fact that like Nateo isn’t here either and on these maps they’re already playing Nateo it’s like kind of like a perfect I don’t want to jinx them but it’s a perfect situation for them really to finally get a win yeah and honestly like one of the things that I’m looking at in Heretic’s game plan for teams to break down is their attack cuz I think this team is so good when they’re running their exx with minioo in the front and teams that if if you watch their games in the playoffs like Team Liquid that play a lot of like solo sight anchors Heretics are going to run over those teams teams that have to you know play together play for more retake like they ran into against Fnatic i think Fnatic came in with a very strong game plan that was able to beat Heretics and that’s the adaptation I need to see them be able to overcome soon i also think they might fuel them a little bit right we even if you guys watch some of the vlogs Heretics put out Neil Zeno has some really really strong words to say to his boys after that grand final loss in fact he said “This is the first time I’ve been disappointed in you guys we just shut down it was just losers mentality you can’t turn up to a grand finals like that.” But Mel this is where you learn the most when you do lose like that i mean would you rather take second at the regional or would you rather take second on this stage right you could absolutely see this as a learning moment to go forward and honestly it’s rare we hear snippets like this so harsh and it’s because it’s coming from a place of absolute care and they just want to win like they’ve got second so many times and I love hearing that honestly i know it’s really harsh rest of year to see but I love it especially in a year that has so many ups and downs right kickoff completely flubbed out of that one to then have such a big run like you have to be able to reset so quickly in a game like Valerant where you’re playing a different tournament every month it seems like and Chrissy you mentioned Minibu a little bit earlier just how pivotal do you think Minibu is to this team completely key to this team especially on their attacking side I am such a fan of the maps where he is running the neon his just entry pathing into a site is excellent and if teams aren’t finding ways to get away from his stuns he is just going to blow up your sights completely those exxs are leaving i think it’s one thing to have an insane neon you can game plan all you want you can say “All right the neon’s going to play here let’s push him off this way.” But at the end of the day you have to hit your shot on a sliding neon while you’re stunned and I feel like Team Heritage also does a great job of target confirming both in using their like util like a soa drone or a dart or by him jump peeking and then stunning off the jump peak it’s so strong and it feels almost impossible to play against i like that they have their own identity too Ry you know you mentioned it they they were already moving off to the Taho playoffs in the MA it’s It feels like they played into their comfort and it also played perfectly into the upcoming patch it was like a futurep proofing in a sense for their team comp yeah and honestly I think in terms of future proofing it’s got to be uh looking at Mini Boo because I think that when this team has Mini Boo performing well heretics are riding highs but he’ll go through slumps where the team is also going to struggle this tournament has to be a high for him if they want to do damage yeah and they have to learn from you know some of the emotions we heard them talk about as well because I think that’s what that’s when it kills them a little bit when they get a little bit too emotional yeah um but we don’t have Mu right now but we do have his older brother Buu let’s hear what he had to say to Jen Lee ahead of today’s opening match hello everyone jen Lee here with Buu now Buu I know you guys have been waiting for this matchup so how excited i’m very excited to play against Pepperex again because last time you know we lost but this time it’s going to be different all right so when it comes to the rematch today and the mindset you guys are having heading into today um where are you this time versus the last time you faced Paper X i think the main difference is we are more experienced now more mature um but the mindset doesn’t change we still take it game by game and today we came here to slow down the train for X-ray all right um good luck today and hope you slow down the train choo choo well not many teams have been able to do that so far maybe Heretics could be the one but let’s talk about this train Mel let’s get the people caught up those that haven’t been watching Pacific what’s been going on with Paper X what is this whole train thing i mean Paper Rex as you were saying earlier were on the cusp of not even making playoffs they make the roster change and benching uh Mind Freak and adding Patman and they’ve lost one game and then they went flawless until grand finals it’s been insane track by track track by track yeah I think Sliggy is there you know waving the flag tooting the horn but honestly like I think that this team made a lot of very considerable improvements they’ve also talked about like how they’ve been working with Mini to you know shore up the defensive side he’s done a lot of work with their team and I think it’s very clear in the fundamentals of how this team plays right like I think early on in the year they’re playing hyper individualistic often times on the weak side of the map they’re taking solo forward lines taking fights they probably shouldn’t be taking but they have started playing much better around each other combing off their util retaking together and that has showed in their game plan what you’re saying this is if they lose we can blame Minnie yeah that’s exactly what I said 100% Minnie’s fault if they lose but that’s a big if cuz looking at the map pool there are some places that they like to go that are a traditional weaknesses for team heretics as well so the map pool is going to be very very interesting uh but let’s talk about Pac-Man real quick talk me through uh you know his agent pool who is he uh what do you think of him uh honestly I think that Pac-Man really fixes a lot of the agent comps that PRX try to run because he is pretty much just a dedicated initiator player that can play the flashes can play scout could play the Viper uh on some certain maps but what it allows for the rest of the team his flexibility is it means that something is not going to have to be playing the initiator something can be on the like he can be OP and that works so well for PRX hey look he can play his brimstone on Fracture i’ll give that to him every other map I want I want to see it’s funny you say that cuz he does bring that like finally some level of a consistency in terms of role and still throughout all that Forsaken is still playing like eight different agents every split it is mindboggling he still finds a way to flex to everything i am so happy you mentioned him because it’s been a while since we’ve seen Forsaken as well he’s back somehow like you said with an even bigger agent pool even more flexibility and speaking of Forsaken uh he managed to check in with Jen Lee a little bit earlier everyone Jen Lee here with Forsaken now forsaken welcome to Masters team Heretics though they’re very very excited to face you guys they want their revenge and we’re expecting a lot of firepower from both teams as well so what is the formula against Team Heretics today um yeah I mean I’m really excited to meet them as well i think it’s going to be a banger match and since like they they made grand final a couple of times we knew that they’re really tough opponents but the last time we met them we win so I believe that we can win again this time and the formula I think we just have to be confidence and I also believe whoever win this match I think we’ll go far in this event so Oh okay it’s an important match yeah it’s important match really really important all right good luck thank you i mean long-term Forsaken enjoyers and viewers might be surprised by that answer because he’s traditionally pretty used to downplaying his team at global events there was one time where he was like I would rate us five out of 10 it was like three out of 10 at one point as well so is this a good thing Mel that he seems way more confident coming to this compared to previous times i honestly and you know clock me if I’m being parasocial here but I mean that’s I don’t know why I said that but I feel like a part of this is because I feel like he’s really growing into a true leadership role on the team like I know we’ve talked about before Paper X who’s iging here right like what’s going on and we’ve always been like uh it’s this guy this guy this guy but I heard from Mini stream that he’s also been trying to kind of morph and mold him into an IGL like dedicated for the team and I think that really shows even in like interviews like that just how he holds himself the poise he has how he lifts up his team instead of underrating when you’re an IGL you really kind of need that delusional confidence and I’m not going to go as far to say I’m not going to go as far to say that he is straight uping for the team but we can see like kind of moments like that that kind of give us a little bit of insight of what’s going on in the team i also just I I personally like to see the confidence after not getting to see him and the team earlier on in the year right like especially because Bangkok was a tournament where it felt like everyone was starting to play like a lot more of the double dualist ideas like T1 was like but PRX aren’t here to be able to do it forsaken isn’t here to be able to do it uh look at his graphics this is just silly but that’s the thing like you can run double with Forsaken or without him like he can play everything it’s just the silliest thing but I mean we talked about how Heretics have a trophy that eluded them but they’ve only really been good you know at the global stage for a year a year and a half but Paper X have been here since 2021 and and still no trophy on the global stage yeah have gotten close few times never fully pulled it together and now not even coming in as like the favorite of the event right so it for them to go on a run it would be a continuation of what they built in stage one regionally right where they were the team that was discounted early on then they start building up the train starts moving but there’s so much more left to do to go that full distance to finally get that trophy is it time you know is it is this their tournament Mel do you Is there something in the air for Paper X i feel like you’re influencing me i I can honestly starting to feel the high build like at first I had like basic economy tickets on the train but like maybe if you can get me into first class here you’re giving me this upgrade like I’m starting to believe myself i’ll I’ll check for the upgrades for sure look I’m here i didn’t ask you i didn’t ask you so I know what you’re going to say that’s why I No I was saying I was going to hang out by the tracks and you know a few games down the road if it looks good I’m jumping in jumping on denied access denied uh but we are moments away from walkouts and our first two teams are ready to take the stage so to everyone here currently in the arena head down to the fan zone for a very big welcome but here on the desk for us it’s time for the results did you just wave yeah yeah wave i want to wave as well i feel left out oh oh shout out to the fans they’re waving back at us they are waving back the result for our Mastercard fan poll earlier we asked you which region uh was going to take home the Master Toronto trophy and the results are in i cannot believe only 3.2% for CN do people believe just EDG that much and they think that EDG are not here then their hopes are gone yeah I would say so i It’s all on EDG yeah that’s surprising but also I don’t know like I I I was able to talk to Rara yesterday and he told me that he was the worst duelist in the tournament so I I I’m like there he’s not even believing in himself what’s going on oh my goodness okay don’t don’t tell me that appear weak when you are strong and strong when you are weak i’m writing this down i’m writing this down i learned that from Sentinels John QT oh he doubles wait there is one quote I know from John QT i don’t think I’m allowed to say it okay but you you you know the one you know the one i know the one i know that one okay if you know you know if you know you know um but I don’t think that one’s in the Art of War yeah I don’t think that one is as good as the one that Mel just said but looking at the talent predictions here um I’m cannot believe only Uber advancement for Team Liquid they don’t have insane they don’t have Wait Yu this is outrageous i have I have a bone to pick with you yeah hit me you have Team Heretics winning i do have Team Heretics winning you’re trying to convince me to put paper look at me i got paper here this is the thing paper Ricks are winning the tournament but they’re going to have to you know find themselves early on they can’t do official journey this is like some Simone Biles mental gymnastics i do not know what you are saying they’re going to lose their opening game they’re going to learn so much from it come back stronger and deliver us a crazy uh lower bracket run you know uh-huh is that Is that not what we want though we want the drama we want some stories you don’t just want a flawless flawless run that’s boring i don’t know i would take a flawless you would take a flawless you’re Would I no wait but I always for the three maps every single thing the the elephant in the room on that graphic is the fact that only two people chose Liquid i know Nat is not here but we don’t believe in Penny you don’t believe in that what’s up no we believe in Penny why did you say Penny is undefeated in tier one Valerant this year yeah so then why did you say Billy Billy if you believe in Penny so much because he’s not Nats he’s he’s an emergency sub okay we’ll see we’ll see we’ll see nats is just the goat i mean we we unfortunately do not have the script you know we just uh we just we just guessed we just guessed but this is where the road to redemption begins we have two matches laced with a lot of emotions and unfinished business today we bring you Team Heretics versus Paper X billy Billy taking on Team Liquid it’s time to kick off day one of Masters Toronto in an instant the moment collapses every choice now a memory every decision now question but opportunity rises again the moment is in your hands squeeze the trigger ready set go heat up here leading the way you know ready set go to lock in a game-winning player you have to lose track of everything you just focus on yourself being comfortable in chaotic situations that’s flow state you’re completely focused that whole time then you’re out of it it’s a battle of whose mental is stronger when the lights go off the game moves in slow motion you see the bigger picture always you’re not overthinking you’re not second guessing after all that what is this how it happens you’re just doing positioning does consider this he does you can’t think about anything else but executing your play a 4v2 a 4v1 i think about that a lot it always replays in my head to do it all no hope in hell sometimes it’s less so about focusing on yourself more on your teammates reflection i’ll do whatever it takes redemption to be the greatest leader of all time even when you fall apart you still have your teammate redemption on top of the world it’s not easy for me to be thrown off balance i want to get my revenge this time we’re not going to fall short i think just about the feeling it’s like one mind together as a team reflection redemption toronto let me hear you 12 teams from across the globe have been battling relentlessly through split one to get to this moment right here on this stage in Toronto where their biggest challenge is about to start which team will rise up to the occasion to become the next Masters well we’re about to find out toronto let’s get this started natia Masters Kamos Midna team Heretics versus P RX this is a rematch for the aegis to kick us off at Masters Toronto but a lot has changed since the last time they met it absolutely has but the hype has stayed the same too i’m getting chills when they’re walking out onto stage we got the sunnies all ready to go both teams fully locked in and ready to go for this first map shout out to Vanilli as well shout out to our man Van Silly uh but speaking of the things that have changed Sunset is in play but what we see Al is that a risk you think to to pick Sunset to pick Sunset you have been a phenomenal team on Sunset to pick it off the gate heretics have decided to to go to Lotus instead of Sunset i think that’s a mistake interesting it’s It’s hard to know right without real tape on this Sunset map whether or not we’re going to be rocking a lot but what I’m interested in is Pearl Ice Box because I mean you know better than anyone but like Pearl is historically the worst trap in the EMA pool and Ice Box is historically the best here is a stat do you two want to guess how many times the three EMA teams in this tournament played Pearl during stage one of EMA i should I So Fnatic Heretics and Liquid how many times have they played Pearl combined i’m going to say three i’m going to say one they played it one time and it was team heretics so this is not an EMA map if anything like you said we are terrible on it so uh her paper clearly have done their homework mel we won’t have the sunset uh does this favor anyone you think now you know the maps it honestly it really depends i think it could go like both of them are going to take the map picks and then it’s going to go to a third map for sure yeah honestly for me I’m just curious to see what we’re playing in terms of agents right because neither team was super aboard the the Taho train but on this map of Pearl Paper X had been playing Jet Phoenix tops which are unique to say the least on this map but play very differently to a lot of other ideas phoenix so good for both a main control and fighting around that mid space i’m really interested to see how Team Heretics really deal with teams running a double duelist comp against them as well not just on pro but overall because normally they don’t really run into double duelist in the MA besides Haven that is when everyone’s running the Yoru and the ISO however Paperrex kind of has an advantage because I mean we all have seen the AP pack comps they are crazy they’ve seen everything they’ve seen it all they’ve scrimmed it all so I’m really interested to see i think Paperex does have an advantage in dealing with double duelist comps against them so I’m really excited to see how this turns out and also I think in dealing with mini boost neon as well cuz there’s a lot of neon that we see over in Pacific too right we might see like I mean maybe neon slides don’t work as well in paper the mechanics the ape mechanics are just going to come through i mean the one time they did run this uh pearl against Na’Vi they won we had the Minioo on Yoru and V on Jet which is something they have leaned to leaned into they like this kind of duo but I actually wouldn’t hate it that much if Minibu doesn’t play Yoru i really It wouldn’t bother me yeah because he’ll probably play Neon and no one’s going to have a go at his Neon yeah I mean honestly and I like when we started seeing a lot more Neon getting played on Pearl earlier in the year I was a big fan of it like the X you can run yori usually plays a lot slower you know it’s more macro TP all that type of stuff but Neon can just overwhelm sites and that is what heretics are so good at and I do want to shout out because I can see on my monitor I’m sure you guys will see in a second Mind Freak is here he did travel with Paper X and he is sitting in the coach booth next to Alex so maybe that’s a bit of a buff as well cheeky bit of assistant coach power yeah i mean I wonder what he feels his role is in the assistant coach is it just keeping him calm is it keeping Alex calm or is it more just like he’s like bad cop good cop i wonder what the vibe is there every time I’ve seen Mine Freak in the coach he’s always been smiling though maybe I’m biased from the clips I’ve seen but he always seems to bring a good vibe so I’m leaning more towards good cop bad cop bad i just think it’s great that for so many years we’ve seen the freak and now we get to see the mind oh my god oh my god you know what i’m really mad when other people are funnier than me that that makes me so mad you already won the day with the intro with the 18th title so I’m trying to catch up no but I I think you I think you beat me there i think you beat me there uh but the agents will definitely be very very interesting because we all seem to be very very convinced that we might not even see a single THO you know we won’t see it but you know we don’t always know we don’t always know how would you be mad at all if we saw a Tejo on Pearl out the gate i would have a heart attack i’m not going to lie that would take me so off guard for either of these teams teams that didn’t really come into play and is this what I think it is yes we are having live agent select right now you’re seeing the players pick their agent in real time and this harbor hover really makes me worry yeah so importantly Paper X look like they’ve all locked in heretics are not locked in don’t freak out just yet they’re all hovering and uh maybe going back to some more normal things uh but I I think to talk about Paper X for a moment this does deviate from what they’ve been playing a little bit i do think they have a recent game playing this comp though uh with the the Yoru raise uh double dive options which I do think can be very powerful i’m really curious to see how that plays out on defense obviously they’re going to be starting attack so we’ll take a while to get to that point but that is really interesting i could see the rays being really annoying in terms of disrupting like sentinel setups getting that nade or the satchel to break it so then it allows your other duelist to go in an entry afterwards yeah and it’s not just anyone’s raise it’s the Jing the classic that is the tech’s raise but on the other side of this Vu playing breach is not something we see a lot in fact only four or five times in the past but you have to he has to kind of flex here because Rian’s fade is phenomenal yeah I mean the the Rian’s fade you you can’t give up on that for sure but I I’m curious to see how this bleach plays uh up alongside with the nerfs right how can you combo those stuns with stuff like the Orio well we have 18 titles here on the desk i’m sure we’re going to be adding a couple more as I throw this over Toronto to your casters Uber and Wyatt thank you very much Hinsu great to be here in the six to kick off this Masters Toronto in the best way possible it’s two teams that take these tournaments at breakneck speed but why they’ve been cursed to stumble at the last hurdle in the past so many second place third place finishes for these squads respectively the tournament is going to begin here they’ve met before in a group stage that was a long time ago back at Madrid and we haven’t seen a whole lot of Paper Rex on the global stage since then it’s time for redemption to see if the train is going to keep on rolling here we go folks into the pistol heric start on defense already we got this play up through connector here it’ll leave me the prowler that tries to get him in woot on the breach this time around a fault line comes out at a decent time could be in a bit of trouble if there’s a part flash out of this but no it’s just going to be a pivot towards the spawn the mini map is bizarre right now triple push from team heretics all the way through b creeping into the spawn of the attackers it’s going to defeat a lot of this kj util placed in a main px here able to push out from link there’s just no way that they’re going to expect this retake to be coming from all of these angles benji Fishy biting his time right now allowing the rest of the players to get in position they had to know they’re on a clock though look at the low coming in from Buu he’ll be turning up from a main in time but PX want to push through flash in the directional Flowers doesn’t see anything briefly pinged out on the site that haunt does give a lot of information now px want to push ahead of this wide but look caught in the grabwell here divide going to sit and woo going to take first contact but Divi tucked in the corner it’s a two for two forsaken divides this time off to double back there’s no plant yet no they’ve got enough time though they want to try to pivot to beat but these one v one’s being taken or awkward for Ssen lovely trade brings it to the two versus two and in the meantime Pacman had been making his way over towards this B site it’s going to be awkward for Team Heretics on this recl there’s so many positions that these last two players could be talked into but they opt for the double halls play together of course Pacman dubbs as the handler for this team he’s a tight leash on them and deals with mini boo as he tries to approach from beg it’s on Buu now they know he’s here the horde reveals his location and the IGL now needs to make a play for Hall he knows what the setup is but he has to face it natty and Pacman deals with him as PRX with the pistol and as the steady hands of the man who has just been a consistent element since joining this PRX team comes up in the first pistol round for his global debut pivotal 2k for Pat then wins that duel towards long what a bizarre pistol to start off this game the mountain being entirely flipped by both sides but Paper Rex making that nice pivot with those 30 seconds or so remaining getting over to get that plant on V the double back on a got taken low but have a clear call to hit that Bside now let’s see what they got for this anti-co it’s a group up towards that B side note that the shear wall has been placed behind them this is looking just absolutely free for paper here two heretics opt to go for this gamble stack towards the A psych they’re not going to find a thing and that they’ve got all classics but of course when you’re running this Euro you are going to always be prioritizing just farming up those orcs the dimensional drift has just been one of the highest power ultimates in the meta this year razer vine deployed in horses is tough for Benji and Jing explodes it’s an easy judge pick up and now for the rest of the team heretics spike planted they’re going to have to likely perish to the spike so Slicky and mollies here mate feels like running rathodox doesn’t do justice to the agent being played here it is so uncommon and that kind of play that double satchel back into holes we’re going to be seeing a lot of that from Jin taking opening engagements being set up to try and get in really deep with these satchels on attack the divide with this ghost hoping to just pick off a couple players right now second guess old line they’re trying to catch him out some old orbs on the table here though for PRX if Heresics get a little bit too close Orians will have his and the rest of PRX have already gotten out of dodge and that’ll be that four perish to the spike for Heretics but now we’re well and truly on the road and this is a comp from PRX that we’ve seen him pick up very recently to good success we’re kind of figuring out on the fly exactly how they’re going to make best use of this raise mobility i mean after watching months of Tejo on this map both teams have come out with very unique approaches if these guys tried to do any prep for each other that is out the window entirely this is going to be who can call best on the fly who can adapt the most or are these just going to be two teams running it down on each other we might get that makers look at the util set up for this a main fight minioo fancies a little bit of it but Prex is slower on the uptake it’s a smoke out on them but they’re going to try and follow this rage utility in ninu has a swing something gets ahead of it rens though able to follow up on the grab well and now will take up this position the boxes and outstanding stuff for Rian just what the doctor ordered forsaken is out of the game essentially how do we break back in on the breach in a situation like that you’re going to see this utility from the team heretic side be so powerful honestly remarkable that something isn’t even able to get that first blood you’re trapped in the gravel well there’s a stun being thrown onto him as well hyperrex off to go for a pretty loose call here just enmy triple swinging through the smoke with multiple players there the wind up just doesn’t work out let’s go nice move got the bonus I think the PRX were looking for heritics really taking control of that a main position and PRX might be tempted to test them again placing swarm grenade here we go this is Paper X economy on the line in their first high round a lot of emphasis towards it looks like they just want to go for a very quick a splitter or at least threaten there to open things up here comes that double satchel in the push of be getting that oh there’s more but that came from a wide divine having to deal with Benji and now you’re trapped if you’re reen in a main he’s only good for the one minioo needs to try and find a way into the game but he’s at risk of being crunched on here as Forsaken gets the spike down clock is ticking for Minioo and eventually he’ll be duck out of position it’s on Buuck here for Flowers there’s not a whole lot to be done that’s exactly what you’re going to expect from this paper team just mental double satchels in from Jing that you are never going to be prepared for it you’re never screaming against this they are a one of one team and Jing is a oneofone raise and it’s going to come down to these adaptations on the fly boo caught by something paper Rex in danger of being on an Eco if they lost that round but taking it in convincing fashion this is no way you’re ready for I mean having to make that adjustment look at he dodges the fall line as well that movement is so smooth and again we’re seeing her try and slow the game down with these nebulate right smoke up and you know force PRX to flash through them that’s another situation where that attempt to store for Heretics is utterly defeated the first round where I this is the first round we’re going to have an ultimate on the playing field ends has already put up six kills has gotten to that nightfall relatively early so perhaps that can be the critical element of team heretics winning this buy round that does just have a boom on a bucky that was just really a token effort for PRX to keep Benji interested here over towards connected because they have pulled out after that prowler was deployed over towards this B side there was a prowler recl just then from Rian’s towards Art and now opting to double up control a main with many bar X though they have just slowly pivoted over towards this B side here comes the full execute so much utility for backalls but at the moment that Molly is going to keep Jing at bay they know who has this Bucky they can just try to avoid him he clears the razor vine though so there’s an option for Boo to spring forth should he need to but he sat here with the Bucky it’s an awkward line to be on patience for Boo he’s going to get shot up through the wall though benji can’t hold mid and he finds his one and now from tower heretics have to make the play god it happened in light speed prx rack up another one and this is two teams that are going to fight round after round to impose their will on each other there’s no backing down from here this Paper X team that has gone on the run to get here have maintained that lightning fast exciting play but it’s just so much more regimented than when their stage one started when they were going 0 and three when they looked down and out that execute is fantastic and I love that they are able to slow down the game get into that little tight double peak jiggle to deal with the Buffy back site and even in that moment something takes the fight but he backs off they just play safe disciplined when they need to now that’s fully on display in a round like that and it would seem heretics on an eco heavy PRX pings towards back hole here looks like they’re not going to waste too much time getting up on this B side once again c thrown in king disrespects the razor who is absolutely not ready for that he’s wrapped around with the judge of this where that came from apparently Jing is unchanged cannot be stopped at this stage herics don’t quite have the arsenal to slow them down meaningfully grab well is going to be avoided by Rienzi extricates himself but now the boys are back blooding into link ruthless ruthless just taking the fight to the players with the sheriffs when you have Jing on your team one of the greatest Rays players in the history of this game just let him run wild build your your plays around him no one’s running the race here but they make it work just destructive when he’s getting his pace into the back hole how is Blue supposed to establish a foothold in Halls against this fade util against the Vice uh you know util that gets thrown down there they can’t it’s too overwhelming they can’t anchor this site right now they’re going to have to pivot to try to play towards a retake and especially out of this timeout rian has still been holding on to that Nightfall they’re getting close to other great ultimates and so that should allow them to just safely pivot off the site absorb that initial utility that Paper Rex are throwing which has been a tsunami wave and then come back in with those ultimates after the fact so much of what we’ve seen from Paper X in this game has really broken your average conditioning on a map like this you’re not playing against it’s the average Valerin team if you’re heretics and now you really know it four ultimates have been developed on the PRX side though including that showstopper and that steel garden and so far it’s been about a tease towards art or connector early in the round and then wholesale PRX have pulled out towards that B side of the map the one round where things went a little wrong for them was when they fight doggedly for that a main position and heretics have great util right that a lot of that astro util to slow up to smoke up and force px to take a risky flash out and get gunned down oh listen when this paper team run into the team heretics stack they have fantastic utility to slow them down win those engagements paper X have just been hitting a free sight multiple rounds here now this round seven is going to be pivotal to the outcome of this first half four ultimates available for Paper Rex team Heretics the one but close to a couple more with their economy on the line full investment line off the rip jing here expecting almost a push into Plaza by Heretics it doesn’t come and now they’re going to start to clear into connector was given up this space play a more passive line doesn’t see them cross shows stop kick is headed on the guts oh he’s headed over towards Art surely he doesn’t wrap on this player benji’s about to get real busy folks and he starts the rockets however Pac-Man handles him once again playing through these smokes though boom slows the pace down the shots have been good enough to make it something and Forsaken burst three who’s next is slowly flanking nebula drops but the ultimate is ripped by something going to get all the information on the side clearing out Secret just letting Forsaken know that he’s safe to pivot towards this back area they want to flip the map right now stuns coming through something feels like he’s in so much danger gate crashes out to main and that’s just going to separate these two Paper X players it’s going to come down to individuals one v once the cosmic divide even being used here this is going to at least give a safe pocket for something to get that plant he gate crashed away from the fault line oh what a timing for Forsaken and Mini just has to watch too many angles he’s so scared he knows that you know Forsaken could be going for him you got two initiators up here for Heretics decent util for this retake but the cosmic divide is a bit of an issue forsaken’s going to anchor here behind this Nebula information though is kind of out of date about where Heritage could be coming from now a bit more of an inkling for is going to blind something handles it there from a main forsaken does his job that is a five round lead already amassed by PRX that was the perfect swing timing from something in main well the game gets chaotic that is when Paper X thrive frankly you could say the same for Team Heretics but that’s even more of Paper Rex’s element than theirs rian’s used that Nightfall but to no avail and you’re just seeing placed in this uncomfortable situation has to watch a couple different angles they’re feeling good both brothers on the heretic side have definitely looked overwhelmed in their position so far and here’s a double satchel plate for Jing well you’ve got a main control especially up against this half it’s a cool way to take a main that pop double satchel and they just want to continue this in teleport from something j with a nade kill something beautiful lined up multiple head shot making light work of this ego and now her got the double marshall blade available to you is going to have a crack see what he can find jing has no time for it though and Minibu will get wrapped up oh no don’t do it oh no something this is a masters you can’t do that you can’t do that in the first half of the opening game oh buddy that is called the opener oh come on man that is a devious move from something inflicting 5,000 mental damage the Heretic but the six round lead wasn’t already enough here’s this heavy Utah play that forced Yeah bu out of that position right between the shoulder blades and it’s all smiles for PX right now wyatt rifles back in the hands of heretics though a focus over towards his art and a main split potentially they want to act fast here comes that nightfall clears out sight a main not going to ping onto anybody the Lambo triggered on art oh Team Heritage is going to try to fight this you could have min try to pop flash out with Paper X get onto the site steel guard going to be ripped going to connect onto everyone yeah okay we’re going to have that one in play div is going to make it very hard for Heretics to defend this properly they’re going to have to give it up potentially but they’re anchoring in sees a bit off that dimensional drift but Perex have actually syncopated the tempo here and there’s a drift over to B from the defenders this feels like a new paper X round right now again just slowing it down they tap the plant they want to take this utility out it’s about to get messy folks strap in there’s the ping the horn sees two jing with the spray buu is down in dugout something trying to emerge behind the flash and wounded caught with utility head there is something closes the account prex show us another side to the coin it’s a pump fake slow roll on a that teases heretics out this is simply not the paper of old you are watching a new team everything they do there controlling the tempo is just utterly fantastic it is perfect play they slow things down allow some of those players from Team Heretics to leave after that steel garden was used they tap the plant just to bait out that initiated utility then they get back in post up refight it is picture perfect Valerant from this team all right big breath here hearing from heretics and press conferences and the like they’ve said they’re very aware of the sort of second place curse on them right now but it’s kind of not something they want to consider because of the the road that still lies ahead of them here through our group stage but they’ve said that they’re they’re not inexperienced kids anymore you know what I mean they feel like the issue more recently for them in that EMA final where they got blown out by Fnatic was just the me mental preparation in general feel like they’ve got the experience to stay you know comfortable confident at this level but how do they dig themselves out of this seven round hole they’ve used both their timeouts here and it’s only round 10 and last year Heretics they were the team from EU that really shocked the scene in the off season hopes weren’t super high for them then they come out swinging they have a fantastic 2024 with just a crop of all of the upcoming talent you know you have Mini Boo saying in that press conference yesterday a lot of the kids who were last they are mature now they’ve got a mental coach added onto the team to try and get them over the finish line maybe they should get off the starters blocky first it’s the one round i mean devastating for either of these teams who are favorites on the group stage to immediately go 0 and one that gang crash didn’t go into halls for something it’s tucked in that corner benji not close enough to see it so they pulled out of halls entirely of Heretics and again this is just mostly a sheriff’s round stinger for Minioo who hasn’t gotten into the game in a meaningful way yet either wyatt and PRX are swarming over B they just love this anti-eco slam with getting into the holes with a judge this time Boo’s out of there he’s not trying to die to that again what can Heretics dig up here forsaken aware and he’s already seen that prowler knows it’s coming fault line thrown out here no one to catch on to or perhaps the vice behind him but Forsaken is confident standout player on this PRX roster and boy howdy he’s sharp as attack folks he had an unreal run with Paper Rex when he went on that you know fivegame win streak when the train began rolling in the playoffs to qualify forsaken was their most lethal player on any role that he had to be thrown on just the blue on this team all the five different flawless in the lower final going plus 34 someone who can do it all this is going to be a huge amount of pressure heretics are feeling at least those rifles are back locked down to work with cosmic divide at the ready for boot hyperx playing a 22-1 right now late in this half slowing things down they have been at their iconic lightning fast pace devastating executes into these sites here they’re just waiting out to see if Team Heritex want to go for something more proactive with this breach that they’ve got mini Boo is posturing a main right now here comes that dimensional drift so he’s going to get spotted mini boo under a lot of pressure at the moment just hoping to fight ahead of it this might be a safe pocket for something here to just emerge in a cancel and get these done oh he’s ready for him that might be a little bit audacious even for PRX mini Moon tries to hold it off fangle Jing is just a little better the guy is running rough shot over the defenders and Benji’s going to get caught on timing most likely forsaken just rips him a new one and Buu again hands out wide says “What do you want me to do three players are spotted by the dimensional drift from something he still gets out of it in secret jeez three players yeah let’s just hit the site with our four now they they really said no I’d win they they do not slow the game down there that’s just crazy decision making but all five of them are so on point the guts the confidence for something to get out there is crazy and they follow up team Heretics they are divided they’re losing one v1s jing getting that opening kill for the team to get into that sleeping mate we are sleeping sleeping says Neil Zeno the last time these two teams played it was PRX that mathematically eliminated heretics from Madrid last year they said the emotions got the better of them but now they’re sleeping maybe they could use some of those jing pops himself up the showstopper that’s avoided for the most part just he already clone there in a main eyes turn towards Lincoln art does get some valuable information even though it’s unfortunate that that rocket was not able to get any value for the paper side they had their eyes on mid no pressure coming from heretics there so they’re going to go back to this B pivot so many rounds for them they’ve had the ability to hit the site just one player anchoring opportunity for Benjamin but noi certainly can’t go for more just has to back off tries to anchor knows he’s going to get overwhelmed by in fact paper X they’re just going to use two ultimates that very safe cosmic divide to allow the free plant and they can fall back off this we can go back to it’s uncharacteristic the post plant spam set up for VRX but they’re more likely to play ahead of it now this is a wrinkle in the plan the lock down will allow her to potentially filter in here but something they got rid of their lock down never mind something’s happy to wait and bite his time here going to double up with him as well something wants to get some early spam All this bottling thing the side up enough is going to go for it he’s able to find two and that’s the best heretics have looked this game and it’s God it’s not even close to enough the fundamentals are just fantastic pman getting back into holes to double up with something multiple players swinging through the cosmic divide that was thrown down just decimating Heretics on their re-entry well we’re here for a good time not a long time apparently folks that is a brutal first half for Heretics we’ll be back after a short break collect yourselves and we’ll return to this opening match up of Masters Toronto i might just never know baby you I’ll tell you what we’re going to come back from our half with our Coinbase econ report about a measure of the bang for the buck that you get off your credits and Forsaken is off the charts 50 to 70 is a great recall rating that is crazy from Forsaken but yeah that’ll happen when you die twice and you never actually have to spend your money forsaken is on a tear just continuing the form that he had that we mentioned previously that run the Paper X have been on to get to this tournament coming out of nowhere he has just been their star no matter what role they’ve thrown him on last time we saw PRX on this map it was an overtime loss to RRQ in that lower final of Pacific something was with him making some really odd decisions in the clutch situations and Forsaken wasn’t able to get them over the line but here it’s a different game plan a different comp and by god it’s a different outcome i did not expect this map to be in the pool i certainly didn’t expect one of these teams to pick into it so that was very surprising as we got into this but it’s no surprise anymore hyperx they have been grinding this map before this tournament and it is showing this is some dominant exceptional and unique gameplay the words of coach Nilzenho heretics have been sleeping for that first half hopefully 11-1 brings to the tune of the alarm clock that gets them back in this game moo’s already gotten his way onto this a site now tapped up a little bit and PX have not quite shown themselves yet something lurks amongst the shadows that’s a bloody good timing at least for one what a shot bu just runs into it woo can deal with him at least player advantage for PRX though that is a late swing but a crucial kill from Woo benji can he catch a timing he would have to be the one for Heretics right now to save them to get this pistol round keep them in the game looks good however reaching around the corner it’s a very low health w that’s able to dispatch him now we’ve got a God’s honest two versus two and here’s Forsaken gets the spike loose it’s up to Benji prowler play from behind and Pac-Man sees his quarry not quite ready to finish the job 35 seconds left in the round pac-man holds his ground a diabolical start to the second half for Team Heritage it might already be over he’s won both pistols for this team obviously Heretics are going to have to come into this with a tragic force hope that they can look like G2 with some stingers maybe this is stunning from Paper Rex finish off briming with confidence forsaken is loving it just doing the little things right there’s something with the confidence to push out of that smoke when Divi is being pressured they fight together the fundamentals are just so clean right now what a joy this is to see Paper Rex in prime form that could be the last of the game and there is a stack on the B side batman though takes that one for the team forsaken finds his and then PX realize there’s action elsewhere we got Jing’s going to start filtering up through connector he may see the second wave here from Heretics Cross swing out he will gets the first half down and double swing forsaken follows in a mini boot cart on the lurk and it’s the IGL the big brother of the team in the unenviable position of having to salvage an impossible situation for his team this would be one of the nastiest losses that Heretics have suffered in quite some time boo here is going to try and go to work with him but Dubai shuts the book on this first map what a way to make a statement here in Toronto paper X are back find me one person that printed a 13-1 on Pearl for Paper X i And if they did time for the lottery time for the lottery what a showing stunning from Paper X absolutely stunning just a casual 324 ACS for your boy Forsaken paper X looking hot off the starters block here in Toronto but it’s a full series that’s going to be played so stick around folks i hope you got plenty of energy saved up for the rest of this series guys if they just like run just run guys let’s go let’s go boys nice one bro nice one free to face your death roulette with each step I progress no less go ahead and place your bet cuz we know where we at we know we top cuz all the hat that you bring we know it stops here i’m taking off like a rocket and stopping here it’s strange how they cannot see the future but see profit here we going to always win promise that that’s not a promise yeah that is a threat you know that I promise to bring the team when the whole team win that’s when you flex and I’mma do it again watch me win then watch me do it again hey let me show you how the [ __ ] does it oh man I was just getting warmed up spike diffused red Bull gives you wings i might be a saint i try to explain by the chain i can never be irrelevant they know me by the name they going to wish that I never went back to my old ways i might be insane and I know I’m not the same i try to explain by the chain i can never be irrelevant they know me by the name i wish that I went back to my old Ilant and I know I’m not the same i try and explain instead of hanging by the I can never be irrelevant they know me by I never went back to my old I’m don’t try I’m try I’m like I’m I’m try I’m I’m try I’m I’m don’t try I’m I’m You know you know that like you know I like that you know I like that you know my stay f I might be insane and I know I’m not a saint i try to explain still hanging by the chain i can never be irrelevant they know me by the name hey guys Jen Lee here with coach Alex now Alex what a great start i mean 13-1 how on earth did you guys manage to pull that off i have no idea to be honest i think everyone’s just on fire so we’re very happy to be here very excited to play and uh we’re going to make the most of it it seems like your pearl is stronger compared to how it looked like in Pacific Stage One uh was there anything that you didn’t like about how you know Pearl went no I mean I can’t complain at all yeah impeccable right um when it comes to Pac-Man seems like he’s not nervous you know it didn’t look like it was his debut and it seemed like he was enjoying it so you know what do you think yeah I mean I kind of think most rookies actually play very well on their first time so it’s not it’s pretty much more of the same and Ice Box is going to look as strong as Pearl sorry icebox is going to look as strong as your Pearl i hope so okay can’t wait to see it thank you thank you a happy Alex i could get used to this yeah i mean look that one round they need to clean up you know figure that out but everything else was looking good no they are looking good uh almost too good mel maybe Heritage just didn’t manage to get into the game yeah I mean Paper Rex just had so much momentum and I mean he was talking about Pacman the rookie here on the stage and it’s like he won two very crucial 1v ones and to bring that to the 13-1 so I’m very much impressed i think we were all you know kind of leaning towards Paper X here but to expect that level of dominance I don’t I mean even Alex was like wow like what is happening the train has truly arrived at this station but it’s time for our Verizon highspeed moment and this one goes to Paper X’s uh pistol round the first pistol round they started off beautifully here it’s pistol round and already Paper X are just going to be working for this early mid space and the I think their calling was really highlighted throughout this round and also some of the aggressive plays from Forsaken initially they’re just working over into this connector area and they’re playing this round out without any sort of wall coming in uh from their from their vise so right now they’re a little bit concerned as they run into very little resistance in mid okay there could be a walk up B there could be a walk up into A but pretty soon they’re going to hear this killjoy turret on A and start realizing hey there could be players coming in around the side so they call to move into this split pinch in towards A and it’s going to be interesting because they don’t actually run into anyone playing up forward in a main so this is about the time where Paper X have to decide okay do we just plant the spike and and play the post plant do we turn around and fight these flankers i think if you look at past iterations of Paperrex they’d be looking for the fights against those people coming in along the flank but instead this time they try to hunt away the solo side anchor find out where the killjoy is this fight over into back site as soon as the smoke comes down you’ve got a Yoru flash going into the ground that’s going to flash out anyone playing back here but they don’t just stop there right paper X keep walking forward cuz they know there’s multiple players coming in either through art or through a main they’re going to keep fighting forward until they can find the killjoy this is where things get a little bit awkward they leave this uh solo anchor back there in towards secret divi is able to find one kill and at the same time Forsaken gets another kill in towards Flower so they make the decision actually we see all those players on A let’s just sprint over towards the A site unfortunately Jane gets a little ahead of the crew so that actually encourages Forsaken to stick around and he plays this very aggressive line trades that kill out and he was doing this consistently throughout the game his Astra was so aggressive once they fell down into numbers they end up pushing forward going for these two players coming on the flank on the other side but Pac-Man and Forsaken play things beautifully to close out this round and get the ball rolling in what was a complete storm and Mel this is the definition of growth right when it comes to the way that Paper Rex are now playing compared to a couple years ago yeah like Ender was saying old paper racks they take those fights on the flood new papers are like mid rounding to a level like I haven’t even seen a mid round like that especially on a pistol ever and that was insane and also probably the most mid rounding we saw of the entire map actually yeah they were making so many decisions on the fly right cuz that first fake spike tap they’re saying okay if we tap this there could be like four people flooding out from flower as soon as they don’t see that they know that there’s going to be a lot of players coming in on the flank well we’ve heard from coach Alex let’s hear from coach Neil Zeno ahead of map 2 hello it’s Jen with coach Nilzinho now New Zeal uh what do you think happened i think it was honestly an embarrassing performance uh like we were behind them at every single step of the way individually we were off macro-wise wasn’t great we just couldn’t get anything going there was a couple of runs that were in it but honestly we were just completely outclassed um so we just need to wake up immensely for the next two maps you know um yeah we need to bring our a game and that was nowhere near it and earlier today Buu mentioned the importance of having a stronger mentality and how it’s something that you guys been working on for years right so um and now would be the time to demonstrate that growth uh how do you think the guys are doing what did you tell the players to make sure that they could mentally reset i mean this game it just felt like we were so scared to we were playing to not lose basically and we just were terrified to make a mistake so again we’ve just given them complete freedom they’ve been here before um we’ve turned around things fast before we need to do it even quicker so yeah we’ve got Ryan our performance coach with us as well he’s said a lot of good words and it’s just given them confidence because they need to really believe how good they are um and right now in that last performance they didn’t show it but we’ve got two new maps now we forget about the last one we got completely outplayed it is what it is we go next right thank you and good luck thank you and it is fortunate that the map we will be seeing next will be ice box this is where Ender we expect a different performance from Heretics they they’ve got to right and the player I am looking at is Mini Boo because that map one was quiet on the Yoru but on Icebox bro is like the only guy that is playing Neon and he is so clean on it i love seeing what he can play i am a big believer that this team rides or dies by Minibu’s individual performance and he has to show up would you like to see them stick with the comp that they ran you know uh through stage one which we’re about to see here uh I think so personally considering they’ve had a lot of success with it and we did just see them play pearl with changing their comp going into the more double innie and it was not convincing in the slightest right and I’m really excited to see Yep and there is the Neon i think ice box is a map that really requires a lot of mechanical skill and confidence considering how many fights you have to take and there isn’t a lot of util to supplement those fights and on Neon this is his moment this is the time for him to stand up and show up and be the leader for his team mechanically in the stats and just go on pop off on paperbacks and I think it works for them too having double initiator SOA and Gecko to find more forward fights as well fight through viper walls fight through smokes take control of her backside fight towards snowman on B you have to get active versus I think because their util combos honestly were looking so good and I think a big part of this too is the fact that team heretics is starting on attack this time as opposed to defense and they can set the pace they can get in their face and that’s something they didn’t have the the virtue of having in the last map well they wanted this rematch they got to turn up on this stage otherwise Uber and Wyatt Paper X are going to walk away with a clean two-0 we expected a banger of a match i think a quick two definitely wouldn’t have been on our bingo card today Yinsu but what we got served up in that first map hearing it from Neil Zenho was not good enough from Heretics against a team like Paper X you cannot afford to start slow in a match like this before this game Benji Fishy had said he wants to play against Paper X and he got his wish he might be regretting that but we are heading to a map pick where Heretics have looked really good with this Neon look at this push up already from PX on the defense side they absolutely want to brawl heretics though have to be ready for it but how how do you stand against this avalanche of defenders wood is going to limp away from that early encounter here’s one shot has to cross the mid that has on lock they’re doubled up even with something and Dvi had been patiently waiting on that angle anyhow nice little 10-second round coming through to this game paper X yet to lose a pistol heretics yet to gain an ounce of momentum and counters like this early in the round are just going to stretch your cohesion in these firefights to the very limit what we saw there frankly is classic paper X on this map they play standard stuff but they play defense in a far more proactive way than most of the teams in the current meta most teams play a lot of safe positions then go for retakes they are constantly doing fourman threeman pushes down you know a main down B main heretics are going to need to be very concerned with that inching now over towards the speed side of the map see something back up here to bolster this B presence standard Viper will hear from her definitely indicates they intend to head this way momentarily looks like already the Dizzy is trying to scout the way weak neon composition it’s going to be tough to find a foothold though with something takes his and gets off the line fair amount of damage done though now it’s something with the rifle yeah may may want to toss that over to forsaken or divide if they can actually meet up and it looks like that’s going to be the case the much healthier full armor divide will take control of that vendor as team heretics want to pivot back towards mid with this neon i like to go for a lot of B splits a lot of fast pace action dubai here from multiple angles can operate here can play off the turret take contact as they try and push up in the kitchen here’s something says I have my rifle back thank you and there it is another quick round as PRX don’t give an inch maintain all the rifles just lose one of the pistols basically as good as it gets heretics invested nothing so they can get the absolute max here the one round they did actually win on Pearl was an anti- bonus there’s pretty risky stuff something there but part of the course will be very familiar with that let’s go let’s go let’s go now of course buy up here for PRX or Heretics rather forsaken has a Bucky baby X have three players be main time to walk right at the attacking team as they always do heretics they’re patient they’re waiting while they’re losing the DS great trade from Rens though little oneway something tries to put together on a dime but Rens is a little bit quicker now will remove the presence from mid as Forsaken starts to take advantage with his spaces given up there will be a turret spot him out pac-man with the Bulldog stacked up here alongside Jing does the bite match the bark for PRX on this B side now when Mini Boot is alive they love to go for a a bolt in tandem with a recon to take back Yellow but without him it’s going to be much tougher p wants to fight this but the Dizzy connects late basey’s not there jing actually got off that line but Oh Highwing Man he needs to get ahead of it though the spans coming in through the smoke still pick cut down to two here the taken with the Bucky last player standing it’s all going to be on Divine now benji and Woot armed to the teeth but no plant just yet but no wingman to get it done for free they want to slow this down divide is pushing by he’s peeking out and wow he gets another heretics they convert the anti- bonus as they did on Pearl but they escape with only one gun that is devastating for their economy the spicy looks better trading into that B side of the map they sustain heavy casualties to do so perhaps they’re starting to get a feel for that style but are trying to throw at them defensively you can see that they were waiting minioo is just chilling on that angle but didn’t win the duel chrissy called it out on desk that Minibu does need to step up he has given so much util on this map to thrive when they’re on attack he needs to come to life something already wants to assert himself at a as the drone starts to make a for on the B side of the map looks like that wants to play safe for the time being it’s something with an outlaw this round posts up on that deep A line wants to go even further off the drone that Forsaken is sent for him does actually spot out Boo one way will be refreshed give Pac-Man the edge but it’s going to be a dizzy on out pac-man already on the spray he got his slowed up somewhat on their way over towards this B side of the map but now that Viper wall is something they can play from behind nanosarms triggered cover that was a great way to fight that from Team Heretics multiple players jumping out to face together off of that dizzy when the crosshair would be thrown to break it by a defender something now posted up and mid you can see Paper Rex on the rotates getting towards this B side will Benji catch the timing he’s got a player though coming from his left might not be ready for the two push and there it is once again prex give as good as they get rifle upgrade for Dubai now as well wol though these shocks have done tremendous damage it’s going to force out the thrash can it actually get a connection and even if it does can anyone get a kill off of it no decent ping though on the side of PRX but here is Forsaken with the Odin ding wants to try and push up hood is very very low but there’s still a spike to defend now heritage just going to try and hang on here hold on against this relentless onslaught but Divide wraps on yellow and just has nowhere to go paper X on this map are just so oppressive they’re taking so much forward space and they’re so happy to make fast bold defensive pivots off of that information to stack proper sights this was a great moment for Team Heritics highlighted but from there you just have Forsaken coming back in with the very rare Xbox Odin one enemy remaining at least tried to manipulate the pace or at least dictate it to some degree but paper are always asking for more always trying to assume some of that real estate that mid push that catches Benji out eventually Forsaken steps up on yellow heretics are going to be on a clock every single attack side round and here we go three players ready to fight from Paper X towards A and they find another first blood and it’s Minioo down at the start of the round again why something he’s on the line able to get back and he knows there’s more that came from the shorty god he’s thirsty for it spike down there’s up to as it often is again this will be PRX with another stunning start to the game this by the way is a team PRX that has an 83% attack side win rate on ice so god forbid we get to that part of the map and they’re ahead now even at this juncture in the game they’ve beaten Team Heritics to getting multiple ultimates the one that Heritage did have that thrash had already been used by Woo to try and convert that pivotal gun round was unfortunately lost for them one enemy remaining the economy for Paper X getting out of control and Heretics they have opted to go for another early timeout here you certainly can’t blame them neil needs to get these guys heads back in the game i mean back in in for the first time you know some players they talk about how things slow down when they get into the server right feels like you’re walking through molasses time slows i feel like against Paper Rex it’s the opposite these guys set those phases to warp feed and make it very very hard to stand on even footing at this pace of play and Heretics have been that kind of team that have wanted to dictate set pace right they play me on this map for God’s sake they want to make these fast rotates take that mid control be the ones that forces you to be reactive but they have never in this series so far been in that position well they’ve gotten dominant wins in their run in EU it has come from being relentless with that pace by disrupting the defenders with the neon but you can see that they’ve gone into this with as they intend because they know that Paper Rex are just going to be sending it at them on defense so they’re not getting off to those fast aggressive starts that they want to they’re not able to claim that space early forced to use a lot of utility to try to reclear late and most of these rounds they’re just losing the opening tools neil said on map one but they did not bring their agame in fact they were nowhere near it only two rounds to their name at this point across this series okay now no turret to play off of in kitchen nice little lineup and already those one ways being set up allow Patan occasionally to swing on them and he hears Dizzy come out so he knows there’s the pit of patter a little heretic’s footsteps in his B side of the map tret down diva’s been drawn over in that direction to assist with the curry spot okay not too shabby my friend hol down admirably that is definitely going to throw a wrench in the works for PRX and now that lock down will allow Dvi to at least get some space re-enters waiting for him caught by the players who were able to just get out of that lock down circle play in the corner credit to Benji Fishing he just wins it out straight up two for one and then Pac-Man was trying to anchor back yellow but that’s a position that you really can’t be in alone against Team Heretics jin here has got very little to see yeah likely just to try and walk away from this one with cover going out weapon intact even though there’s enough currency here for PRX to continue to take some risks and try and keep a lid on the economy jing does not like his chances that anti-eco flawless they had earlier has put them in an excellent economic position but like you said might as well just save keep the cash rolling for Paper X even in this round loss i think Pman is realizing on this one that trying to anchor back yellow solo against the way the team heretics like to fight towards B is not going to be the right choice they send too much util back there it’s tough to deal with the Neon the Benji is ready for this inevitable mid push and I think Dubai does not account for the pocket that’s left in that aside by the lock down he sort of doesn’t check this at all is ready i know guys already guys we’re doubled the rounds from last map it’s a puzzle i got a quick map they’ll take it they’ll take it i mean for a team like Heretics who are just filled with talented mechanical shooters that’s the first time any of them have really gotten a highlight worthy play credit to Benji fury now from Rian speculative doesn’t yield any information whatsoever they are aware of course that the Odin is in attendance today and those would be positions that Paper X would typically love to just play into but it’s actually towards B where they’ve gone full aggro something posted up close with Batman and that’s allowing the rest of their squad to be pretty steadfast towards this A site odin is going to be obnoxious to deal with no one was watching pipes at the time they can actually get back this could get dangerous but now that the lockdown is used that hunter sphere going is going to need to be expended to break it unless they just intend on getting out of here which is going to be the case oh the shock does not hit that lock down will be intact and now her able to make use of that to get entrenched here at this aside and they’re going to want to use this hunter fury with the paranoia to get back in this is fast this is pacey from Paper Rex here comes that Hunter Fury but later it is it is but it’s going to be Jing going to work with them he’s gotten in that under rafters something again benji that answered that late round lurk woot deals with Forsaken jing gets his tap he was already able to find these first two kills but to expect him to make it five even for him might be a little bit too much woo with the shoulder peak shot through the knee still an adventurer though bu and Benji happy just to stay entrenched a hard hard fought round here for her and finally PRX train is forced to throw the brakes on oo beginning to hit some shots so I’m going to need to see that Benji one on the replay from his point of view please that looked ridiculous something on the updraft with the blade sword just plucked out of the air all right Heritage heating up a little bit individually that’s crazy that is a mental shot from Benji who is starting to hit still cranking 90 paper X are on defense they do display something that they are typically very good at which is very very quick floods with excellent utility now here more classic paper X fourman push up towards this Aside getting all of the space collecting that orb and then they post someone up and immediately go stack the other side this is the name of the game for them on this map once again though it’s just going to be Dia B for now one away from that Viper pit there’s Benji again push up he is hidden as P trying to trade the CS but Bji gets out of way oh this is stunning stuff bji Fishy that’s three caught by the paranoia forced to give him some ground but now the youngster has some wind in his sails all right wingman is going to be thwarted in his plant attempt but the thrash is going to go ahead now to pave the way surely Jing spotted now detained he’s got the mind to watch him relay bomb comes in a mini with the slide across heretics finally turning up to play stun just in case he starts throwing hands without his gun i guess why not all right Benji’s heating up it looks like he’s playing a trainer just has found them gosh from all big foot angles swinging onto him that awareness to catch the second that was coming out of a was so nice and that is a a read on a typical paper rex play knows that when they’re making that full rotate there’s going to be someone in a main four and two is Heritage’s Ice Fox record the only losses to Fnatic in fact five out of seven of their map losses in EMA stage one including playoffs went to Fnatic when you watch them play against any other team in EU on this run they look like world beaters but Fnatic have just had their number they’ve been able to really counter the way that they’re playing paper X early on they were countering it but in a totally different way than how Fnatic actually opted to very proud to debut our new reinforced tungsten carbide 1088 steel tables just for this occasion i tried to elbow drop wide into it it held so good luck Alex breaking this one i hit a moon salt on Vanilla he didn’t even go through it hit him with Walter Jericho nothing and again first time this whole series that Paper X have been put in a position to have to call this time out they’ve been struggling a little bit to hold on to B even though they’re refreshing that one way over the containers still being overwhelmed how will Paper Rex adjust out of this they’re going to be on a half by here to the extent that they can at least get a hero rifle over to Ching who obviously has been playing very well some highlight moments already especially on that rays back on Pearl but this is one of the maps where he’s not playing Rays it’s just not what they like to do they just love this very standard comp and they’ve had a lot of success with it benji so far has been feasting playing that mid that’s where so many of those kills have originated from prx just not respecting Heretics there i think they’ve now been forced to bend the knee somewhat with this Viper pit down that’s a fairly big commitment here you do have Pac-Man with that close-range stinger to try and find an opener shut down an execute if it comes in and you’re just expecting from Team Heritics at some point if they intend on getting into this pit which certainly looks like they’re going to do you’re waiting for Rian to use this owl drone clear things out take flight jin with the hero rifle we’ll watch the mid pivot but yeah there’s going to be action over here towards the pit that med cute but not good enough tries to out Fox the Al i respect it i respect the attempt gets up on that line pretty quick mini Buu who’s been quiet in this series and in this map as well just needs to be a bit of a nuisance remains at large here over the site and snake’s going to make it hard to play in from upper rafters this is good looks hero rifle is still in play jing might try and wager it for something here take a pretty prescribed location one that’s going to be watched for at the back of the site heretics have seen enough it’s up to Jing here to step up get himself some value off this round potentially once more he will be sorely outgunned outnumbered and outdone by Benji flawless round here for Team Heretics finally steering the ship with the wind they’re going to have an opportunity now as well to get a lock down for Benji who’s just one away batman trying to time that hey I I’m not mad at it he’s got the stinger on an eco round going but he is caught out you can just see from Mini Boo’s point of view there hitting this a site how many options he has playing the neon getting into so many unexpected unorthodox positions there can be incredibly effective so something’s taking up the OP now yeah that is the adjustment that was certainly called on that time from the prior round wants to post up towards mid doubled up with Jing a bit of protection for him turret just got cleared looks like the ghost signal there for Heritage on the B side they’ve just indulged in a surge forward here at B and their main intention really was to get that orb get the lock down recon is sent in to clear out back yellow from reensing hey we are getting that position back yellow shocks as well and now we’re going to slowly pivot back the spike has just been over there with route on a the entire time but this is the danger something has been waiting for this cross on a very tight line he’s going to see one and that’s Rian’s trying to cross dealt with something wants to repost the line but very quickly Heretics all got across to A and he’s going to know that in a couple of seconds and look at Paper Rex they’re already rotating off this B site they have Hatman deep yellow and the other two players are making their way to A with some haste so they try to flood in they might no not with that lock down though certainly going to be kept at bay i don’t think BX have the mechanism with which to remove that so they’re going to have to respect and pull off the site that early rotate now kind of nullified we’re going to get a plant down heretics look to dig in here and anchor and it looks like they want to come right back in recon paranoia here come Paper Rex heretics Vipers pit now to play with Woot inconceed safely within the poison walls here’s the Saken sees this come his way happy to spam through eventually prx are going to have to commit woo has been dealt with the Viper though spawning the pit still at large j wants to get past this now spamming Boo’s direction mini Boo dealt with Batman is in here sees the Viper and there it is the wall comes down as does the curtain on Heretics in this round bu with a parting gift but that’s all that Heretics can muster overwhelmed by the numbers no real positions deep sight paper Rex are just able to get right back in for three and overwhelm everyone in that pit it’s somebody getting that opening kill and then spam connects on to Loots from there one enemy remaining you see how much PRX invest in getting that midline held they send Ging with something and then whichever way you slice it whichever way they rotate something is going to see someone benji Fishy is actually picking up this attack operator and it makes sense with the way that Paper X play exploit their aggression allow them to make their way into the angle that you’re holding to get an opening kill keep the game slowed down alarmot out benji here it’s a very passive he’s just watching for the two push down that’s not the plan for PRX this round apparently once again that’s the one way being set up by Jing for the sake of Pac-Man the solo B player right now orb taken by Forsaken into the deep drone on A we have read this story before hyper Rex to adjust some of their players more towards that B side batman feels the need to retreat at least temporarily recon for back yellow yet again here comes that dizzy see her making their way in claiming this space at some point they had to disrespect the one way they had to get moving so herex now have that yellow control benji still waiting for mid he might not get anything with that op here see her they do need to wait for this wall to come back up oh my god paper X they just want to go in the paranoia with a recon looking for their own timing much to the beat of their own drum that’s Whoops what a stunning mosh pit there to shut him down divide able to find his two and Benji’s not in a hurry to get involved heretics have done well to trade up on this B side this has drawn something of Forsaken across the map we’re going to have an advantage attack side posted this is looking highly awkward towards mid forsaken left on an island towards B just wants to slowly maneuver forward m get this kill what a snappy shot now have to deal with Woot tucked in corner by yellow doesn’t want to give himself up a forsaken don’t even think about the night here comes the thresh something knows he now think he needs to gain some altitude but finally Benji is rewarded for his patience in the round that lurking operator comes in at the very end the final hour that was interesting for Paper Rex that they go for this pre-flight attempt before there’s any effort to actually get the spike down the wingman wasn’t planting it wasn’t really a push forward they just tried to catch raw timing it does not work out we’re finally seeing I guess that we know the question is like what is the queue that PRX are playing off of there if they’re just trying to manufacture a timing of their own doesn’t work out cuz has a really nice mush bit now here’s some pace from team Heritex getting that neon bat yellow quickly they know Pman could be in this cloud some shocks going in there but they don’t actually connect any damage before to retreat definitely a bigger commitment to the Bside by PRX in this round hunters Fury lock down both available here in the last round of the half for the defenders so behind the Vipers Pit here come heretics they are really looking to take some snowman space potentially here wiming doesn’t pay off once more hunter Fury now for Forsaken gets a tap on Benji still no plant yet right here that Hunter Fury just used a little bit late pu has gotten his way all the way into the a site and there’s more than enough time for her to make this game yeah Forsaken can catch a couple in mid though is he too far forward i like the high low set up that is brilliant heritics always aware of the thrust up mid from the defenders we’ve seen it all half so far a great double face there 30 seconds left all right now the the little things are beginning to come together for Team Heretics and we’re finally seeing a paper Rex who were utterly dominant now struggling a bit with some of their timings again they refight into B before there’s any attempt to get the spike down that Hunter Fury comes a little bit late and Heretics just have their crosshairs placed on all of the angles that they could be pushing out from diva giving himself away no reason not to fully commit to this one but there’s Boo takes him out 75 half for heretics and as you mentioned heretics have a a rather paper have a what 80 plus% win rate on attack Icebox so you know despite the 75 they are not out of the woods yet close half finally some light from heretics stick around we got a quick break and we’ll be back with more ice box that everyone gets a free phone on any plan count Yeah try and beat it i’ll give you a sec explain to me come back come back to me quite a contrast between this ice box map and the Pearl one that we started on much better showing here for Heretics a rockier start but they really start to string rounds together round six onwards they win six out of the preceding seven rounds put themselves in a very reasonable position here their map of choice finally able to find a moment where they’re actually in the lead in this series benji Fishy leading the way as far as the Econ report goes something in dire straits was investing into that operator but wasn’t extracting the most value from it had that one good round where he was able to catch a kill on the cross but after that for the most part was being avoided ze heritics did a great job countering the play of Paper X that was working for them within those first five rounds but then eventually fell off things began to get very disjointed on their refights heretics are looking good benji was absolutely the hero for them in that half started started getting those highlights and then that inspires confidence in the rest of your team as well when you see someone starting to hit like that 15 and six after 12 rounds honestly almost a mirror image of Forsaken’s performance in the first half of Pearl very strong showing and it was Benji’s stalwart performance in mid that really held PRX at bay but PRX on the attack side of this map really really strong 83% win rate through Pacific stage one lossless on this map we’ve seen when Heritex have had success on ice box 2 it’s actually typically as far as the scoreboard Benji Fishy and Woo that are putting up the big numbers as Miniu draws a lot of that attention on the M this is fast right now from Paper Rex collecting too early that is mid thrust here from Heretics might have fumbled rens waiting hips in the night yet to leave poor but eventually someone’s going to raise anchor and get to it rage gives himself away jing wins it out what an ill-fed encounter for Heretics and it’s up to Buu again boy howdy what a mountain he has to climb spike of course already planted is what you ask for for PRX fans getting off to a good start with a pistol win here all they’ve had are good starts they’ve won every single pistol if Team Heretics could win this map without either pistol round win that would be a tremendous feat for them and they’ve shrunk of course the lead to a singular round and once again it’s a short round his early engagement here in mid jinx sees Ax on the B side gets involved there then whips around that’s an old That’s an oldtime he knows someone is there cuz he couldn’t move forward blocked hold up let’s go our pistol all right Paper X are just too good on these pistol rounds it’s gonna be Mini Boo investing actually into the Marshall for Heretics on that deep angle from yellow over towards B pretty standard there with the shock and the molly to deny that early access to the orb from the defending team benji is absolutely playing the most important position on the map just as we saw from something in the previous half unsurprisingly Pat’s moved up mini be punished though on that little swing tried to set him up with the Marshall but he will be ruined run over there given no space at yellow whatsoever and Buu now is about to feel the net close in that man up walkway see what was that okay up on the ledge he goes proud as a peacock but Rens is able to find his brace of two once again though it’s a heavily disadvantaged situation ahead’s desperately trying to avert an even game here likely has too much on his plate will silence him fair enough bringing the three most important rifles into the next round cash from the spike clan as Also Paper Rex will be more than happy with that two Heretics have done a nice job on these anti- bonus rounds that has kept them in the game here otherwise things were really spiraled out of control early some nice shots from Rian who is just a a consistent presence for Heretics for me really just has all of the aspects of the game on lock he can really do it all looks like the Heretics team have said we are not kids anymore we’re not rookies there’s no excuse for us to drop these important matches and they’ve recovered well here on Icebox but there might be an inflection point lying here in this round as both sides have rifles it’s a very healthy bonus for PRX taking the time at the moment something has been allowed to take all the space and be made oh no that is disastrous boo just done this and think that someone would be that close last time it was Mini Boo got caught out at yellow this time Bu is just got a little bit too close to the sun swang grenade out bear in mind this is team heretics with absolutely nothing left in the bank this is must win at the moment pman this fight is so awkward that’s as messy as it gets late paranoia comes in but Pacman definitely supported in that engagement something eventually though is put to bed on the B side of the map and this has precipitated a pivot now with mid control PX can go towards A not worry about getting caught but it’s a pump fake what a timing for Pac-Man to catch and they have forsaken playing towards a again they could really pivot anywhere here it’s just we’re playing TDM wins that out pacman the Viper the stabilizing element of PRX by the way is just taking DS across the map and he has opened it right on up for PRX mini has to play second fiddle now and try and make use of that mobility to cross the map wood is already set up in crow’s nest though does have the wingman to actually pressure a defuse force some people to swing out maybe that’s a way in find a pick small gap in that smoke will be challenged will have to drop down and the spacing isn’t quite there apparently steps out only to be riddled with vandal shots paper are just so ready to swing together at any audio quue boo so frustrated in this moment not expecting that anyone can be pushed up that close the gun all out for free oh man that was I mean Benji’s been credited with some very sharp moments on this map look at him shut down something as he wrapped over towards belts that many rounds ago it’s they’re bringing in five sheriffs five regen armors obviously they have the shooters to pull off a round like this forced off pipes there 410 smoked out giving something on the staging ground all in rafters heretics committed to anchoring this site with these sheriffs how far does their gun skill get them against a fully armed PRX team on a roll listen they’ve got the right stack to do with the weapons might be decent enough something shut down early they’re trying to get into this side xing is pushed off but can’t connect messy stuff divine Forsaken now going to pick it up but there is Forsaken quick response and he doubles down oh fury he’s susceptible to just one shot from it but he’s able to get out of the way but again read by Rian he’s too smart too aware yeah with the fury of Olympia now has to recover the spike and put this together both of his opponents half armor and sheriffs he has a vandal to his name and he has to fear a potential flank because he was out of range from the turret that was placed wants to double back now 30 seconds to play with does he just try to clear this out get back to A does he try to gun it to B yeah he wants to leave he’s hoping that in this situation Team Heritics would just leave the two on A and then you know go for that advantage retake over towards B but when the spike goes down that will allow a rifle to be collected perhaps or no they just want to go for this with the Sheriffs rian does have a recon divine has a turret to play contact off potentially does he have the time to set it up yes not too bad to have this sentinel utility at your disposal in such an important clutch look at Dai he still has to be weary about this flank as Rian is making his presence known forward trying to get ahead of the alone does he have a timing on boost watch him out utility in hand divine is divine what a Red Bull clutch to keep PRX well and truly on the tracks team Heretics know that that round could have absolutely shifted the momentum but it’s a four round run for PRX now in this second half disaster for the European side forsaken comes up clutch with these two kills to get them back into the round one enemy remaining both Rand boosted pulling up their trousers util hands can’t play off of each other at all that is huge they feel like they didn’t have the time to waste either to collect some of the rifles that were a little bit deeper on that a site they go for it with the sheriffs maybe regretting that decision at this point he’s the tension there between Weber and Neil Zinho it’s palpable so another timeout here the last one available to Heretics on this map that’s an absolute heartbreaker this is Heretics coming off of obviously a run to qualify here but then getting blown out in the regional finals against Fnatic neil the coach saying that was the first time he felt disappointed in the team after that loss that that hits heavy they’ve been a team for a while and you heard what he had to say just in that halftime break not looking themselves now they managed to find their way back into the game guess they’ve got a rifle round coming at you folks but Hunters Fury lock down Vipers pick three of the most impactful ultimates you could ask for paper X on a so far flawless attack side they have four rounds in a row put together paper X just have the easy one two alt combo right now get the space with the lock down drop the pit and they’ve even got the Hunter Fury late if the spike is really being pressured by a Team Heritage retake they’ve got two alts they’re relatively close to maybe they can get this orb maybe route finds a kill right but nowhere to You’re asking oh my god the early H very double connection oh that’s devastating this was the round that Heretics were trying to shore up their half the map benji at least is able to lean in intercede to find a kill that is an awful way to start with then he’s pinged out again he’s got to give this ground up all of the aside now belongs to PRX look at the timing though trying to get in ahead of this but mini is shut down instantly for Benji the lean as he is on all sides does the trade at the kill droid and that was absolutely diabolical something it’s an amazing deep position there as well all the way back rafter that was eventually going to be the nail in the coffin on that round no matter what I was talking about forsaken he could use that in a post plant or just get an immediate drone tag double hit Jing takes all of the space that was created because of that as well oh my god whatever they had planned in that round couldn’t even begin to guess i mean it was just out the window immediately that’s as fury comes in you can see Weber just throw his head back okay heritics credit to them still want to find a burst of speed here but oh the boys were waiting for you you were expected yeah just hoping that Forsaken would be in that closer tucked position that a SOA will often be in but was safe playing back for multiple players to guard him it’s just filthy they’re trying to make hero plays you can’t blame them they’ve only got sheriffs paper Rex have absolutely shut them down their economy is completely out of control don’t do it again don’t do it again don’t do it again all right thank you we can’t have two knives in the debut in the debut game cure for hypotension we cannot do that so very quickly those two rounds fall heretics back on a buy now with Crash and lock down to work with like I like the idea heretics obviously with a back breaking round they were virtually two dimensional after that one still want to go forward play that PRXes aggressive Bside play at least their neon to get something but man I mean wrote the script for that they were there when the deep magic was written sixround run coming into this with an 80 plus% win rate on attack we’re seeing exactly why deep recon is going to come through mid and then something can swing off this with Hatman no one is going to actually be spotted by No benji caught and there’s a teleport into spawn disarray for Heretics oh man they’re getting clowned on this is the wraparound and they were trying desperately to bail water out of this quickly sinking boat and they’ve already been cut down to three players and Pacman is on a timing there’s an awareness here for Woo he kind of knows it and he’s ready i was going to say Pac-Man is just in the walls at all times but Heretics ready now this is winnable yeah something spotted out here comes a fast retake for Heretics good stuff forsaken dealt with Ra’s control assumed woot very sharp this round thrash here will look to find Divide the last standing member of PRX and in midair he is detained heretics come up for air it’s a breather a brief respit but boy howdy look at those wallets on the side of PRX they are bulging desperately needed round win from Heretics they’re losing players early and they still managed to pull it off they do a great job getting back into that sight together the distraction from Raptors and then you have Woot coming lower i mean the distraction benji knows he’s in there but just can’t do anything about it come on it’s that moment where something tucked in that deep position again is forced to look towards rafters and Woot takes advantage of that distraction to get a free kill this is going to be such an uphill battle for Team Heretics as they have to just face down a paper Rex that won’t be saving any time soon if at all this half it’s possible Alex took exception with that round from PRX i can’t be sure wow oh Boo is not ready he’s clearing the recon and Jing is just too far ahead of the play for him he just double teleports forward he gets all of that space for free you’re never expecting it on defense rian’s house has the salvage the only player inside the aite for now disrespecting the smoke at rafters and look at Pac-Man push all the way up on B he’s just got the craziest lurk timings he’s going to have to accelerate a bit the team heritage try to get in off this fast lane they’re getting towards screens it’s slow right now relay bolt doesn’t hit something here comes the lock down he’s going after it by Hooker by Crook something is looking for this and there’s Batman on the lurk timing oh the lock down from under Heretics i can’t with this guy is crazy and now Heretics know they really can’t play off the side they’ve got to commit they’ve got to challenge this not too shabby there from Mini Boo but Jing dames to descend from the ivory tower to deal a down blow to the This is winnable pman’s too far away can he get a touch unreal the Red Bull clutch a crucial one here for Wound as Wingman does the job man they really had to fight Scrappy for that one wide three up for Heretics and they come out with a dub his little pal just gives him that effective two versus two wins the highest impact one v one but talk about mini what an adjustment looks like he’s already in the grave when he gets this third kill what is that man what is that so Heretics have taken a chunk out of that PRX economy one round closer to their total there’s a lot of work still to do we’re going to have an early viper spin on the B side of the map prx clearly no interest in challenging it early this round batman wants to go on another wild adventure go up to while the rest of the team are focused on a team heretics triple stacked up they go drones for drone oh my god as the last hunter fury was really solid nice moves there from Mini Boo avoids would have been a lethal connection yeah Rex had to be satisfied with a little bit of damage onto the Neon but Minioo also has that overdrive and already here’s Jing again they are never ready for Jing from the top rope he’s able to find his re claps back now has the drop to the side this is good anchoring can he do with something no the shorty more than he can deal with and Buu laboriously will drag himself across the map to challenge this planted jing has just been an absolute animal on both maps countless first kills boogie is a double swing he’s going to have to deal with it oh the king’s horses and men emerge the Neviper is dealt with match point now comes up prx there was a narrative right if you’re a PRX fan or even a hater you’re familiar with the feeding narrative but it’s never been less true with Batman joining this lineup that stabilizing force so clean they’ve stringed together six attack side rounds as the half began the heretics on defense have had absolutely no clue how to deal with Jing getting in these absurd forward teleport positions playing with so much more aggression than you would typically see from omens on this map something connection wow damage for damage they both take a hit there now being deployed by Rian what is there to find here comes up with nothing pats him how is he here already the conditioning utterly broken on the side of her and now it’s up to Boo again 30 points of health to try and slow the PRX train down but Choo Choo baby we have more than left the station paper Rex have arrived in the six feels like they’ve never been faster actually 13-1 on the first map dominant on map two not one pistol round loss all of the momentum brought both of these games slowed down for just a moment but they immediately bounce back and utterly crush Team Heretics in that second half of Icebox listen we thought we were going to get a close banger game but we got some exciting plays for sure from Paper Rex highlight real stuff coming out from Jing both maps forsaken incredible on Pearl batman with some mental lurks i don’t think anyone expected this to be so dominant this is Paper Rex at their best batman’s reputation was the one that would keep it calm keep his team in line but instead he is dragging them kicking and streaming straight down the throat of heretics and so history repeats itself once more wide a tough loss suffered by Heretics at the hands of this phenomenal outfit forsaken shows us exactly what it was they got Heretic rather PRX to this game and no one on the side of Heretics can deal with these timings that Jing is throwing at them give it up for Paper X guys you know what celebrate with the fans celebrate with the fans enjoy this moment but hey guys is it okay if I still forsaken oh that’s fine that’s fine all right hey Uh let’s have a chat forsaken pure dominance 13-1 on Pearl what the heck to be honest I don’t really know what happened about Pearl i I don’t really watch heretics Pearl as well i think I think their weakest map is Pearl which is we right so yeah okay and you know you seem very dialed in you know standing up shouting a lot very animated as well so you know uh what was your mindset you know are you just happy to be back or you know you just kind of wanted to you know show off your guns um actually I just want to hype the team because last time in Pacific I realized that we we were winning when I’m I’m standing up when we’re not quiet we were winning so I think I’m going to do this all the time so we’re like pinging you know you know what just don’t sit down play standing up uh let’s talk about Pepman you know how to prep Pepman uh for Masters because you guys had to play other tournaments in between stage one and Masters Toronto uh so you know can you talk to us a little bit about getting him ready uh yeah I mean actually it’s his first time in international and we win our first match so I’m kind of really proud of him that he can play well even though he maybe a little bit nervous but so far I think so good maybe a little bit of jet lag still but we believe that we’re going to get it done yeah okay i hear everyone on the team saying it’s about time that we won something right so is Paper X train going to ever stop until you reach the trophy no jinx but hopefully the trains keep going on you know you know yeah track by track track by track guys track by track let’s go all right thank you Forsaken go celebrate and enjoy this moment and that’s all from me too the human body was built to move not trapped at a desk in one singular posture for 12 hours a day it’s time your chair evolved this is Secret Lab Titan Evo ergonomically engineered for you gamers hybrid workers artists backing your every move an update is required financial system updating system updated we will dance together again the future of money is here feels good red Bull gives you wings h no me I’ll be moving move it i’ll be hitting I’ll be hitting no catch me i’ll be hitting Move it catch me i’ll be hitting it hand me up welcome back to day one of Masters Toronto and it’s time for our second match of the day billy Billy versus Team Liquid i am your host Yu and I’m joined once again by Mel and Ender now another EMA team’s about to take the stage are they cooked is is it EMA cooked today uh I mean after what happened in in series 1 quite possibly also Team Liquid coming in you know uh emergency sub for them as well so definitely not looking great for EMA uh so far it’s not but however it might be a great day for Billy Billy they’ve had a hell of a year so far as well and Mel it’s Billy Billy that made it not EDG and they managed to actually beat them regionally for the first time ever and I think that is a shocker for everyone i don’t think anyone saw that coming it’s honestly a testament to the skill of the the Chinese region to be able to have such competitive especially with the fact that EDG legit won champs not too long ago so to see this level of competition and see EDG is able to be taken down by Billy Billy is a testament to his region yeah and now it’s the time for Billy Billy to show up on the international stage because the last time we saw them win a game on international stage champs 2023 against NRG they’ve only ever beaten NRG globally twice twice mind you in the same tourney they have to be able to show up now that they have you know overcome EDG who’ always had their had their uh had their number yeah and as Kite would say FNS are you okay i know he’s watching us uh but I have another FNS trade that’s just That’s my goat that’s my goat that’s my goat but the roster does look a little bit different uh Ender however this time around they have made changes have you liked the changes they made i I think overall yeah I I think Billy Billy play a much stronger game uh all things considered I like a lot of the the mid rounds they’re able to look Kite on on the lurks going into mid like they do uh they have a lot to go for them coming into this tournament i think that they are going to put up a real challenge against CL today i think it’d be a mistake to assume this is the BLG of old where it’s like oh they only get by by cringe judge Gaming on Split or something absolutely not like if this is your first time seeing Billy Billy ever since the energy incident like this is a very different team like you said very capable of mid-rounding and they bring a much more convincing play at least I think so to this international stage yeah and I love Nest joining this roster as well i think you can see what he’s brought to this team and taking a look at their map pool i mean in VCTC they’ve been a force to be reckoned with can they replicate that however on this stage look Yansu I’m looking at Ice Box and Pearl because we just had a series against an EMA team where Ice Box and Pearl were in the pool oh my god look TL you got to get rid of that Pearl it’s not going to look good if you let Billy Billy play it versus you i’m going to mold for one second if Team Liquid do not ban the Pearl today I’m leaving i’m walking off we got to get I’m going to leave Toronto in the audience nearest airport if uh they do what um Heretics the mistakes Heretics made because Mel it is a it is simple coming into a tournament like this if you’re an EMA team like Team Liquid the options are there why will they take that risk against uh Billy Billy who were good on Pearl you would have to be severely severely underestimating your potential on another map in order for that to happen it would be I agree with you it would be a huge miss it would it would now you mentioned the judge a little bit earlier ender uh are you on the side with with Male here that they no longer rely on Wise yes can still use it don’t get me wrong a great guy yeah yeah let’s bring that in there no but I I think this team played a lot more uh a complex playbook I would say right i think that what they would do a lot in mid rounds especially is they love to work the center of the map regardless of the maps they play but I think especially on Pearl which is a signature map for them they do a lot of pingpong between sides they pull out late rounds that aren’t around about huge exs with a judge flying into back sight no it’s about trying to find those pressure points on a map they can exploit and use that to take a sight yeah and for uh Billy Billy and and Wisey as well you would think coming into a tournament like this the leading jewelist when it comes to stats you know be your zeons be your Kaya be your jog but it’s none of those players it is Wisy Mel and despite uh whether teams might respect Billy Billy or not you have to respect Wisy and I mean if you It would be a huge disservice like I think if you go in the server and you are sleeping on Wisy I think you’re setting yourself up for failure you’re trolling you are trolling yes and I’m honestly really excited considering YZ has been on the international stage before something his teammates haven’t had so not only is he expected to lead mechanically and stats-wise in the server but he’s also I’m looking to him personally as an emotional leader on the team to show them and be that anchor for them on the stage this is ridiculous look at these stats i mean his his stats are crazy his first kills also are ridiculous if you look at recent performances like this is a guy that is so constantly giving his team an advantage uh that it makes the round so much simpler to play out they’ll play those slow rounds to enable him to go on those hunts find a pick and then play it from there yeah and just a very annoying player to Well at least when I’m watching right not if he’s on your team yeah but how do you deal with that because he is going to be all in your face you know he’s not going to be afraid of anything i feel like you can definitely feel as a player the impact of the most annoying players it might not be the most insane best players well in this case it is both the best player and the most annoying player but often times it’s like someone that is annoying someone that is outlawing someone that’s judging someone that’s Odining someone that is going across your screen with the slide like those are the players that have the most impact on you not just statwise but like mentally in the game that you can’t run away from these people yeah I can’t wait to see what he’s going to be able to do back on the global stage and also hear from the man himself who spoke with Jen Lee a little bit earlier hey guys it’s Jen with Billy Billy’s YZ and Vera for some translation now congratulations YZ you guys have made it to Master Serrono of course Mast’s debut for you tonight so what is the mentality here you know do you see yourselves as the underdogs or the tournament favorites or are you just here to play your best game i don’t really care much about those tags since we came here we just want to win this tournament try your best yeah okay good luck Dio thank you Dio winning this tournament is going to be a big task uh but but just some context for the people that don’t know uh why is he this man on your screen he is actually a very very funny guy you know backing in in BCTC and now EDG haven’t made it a lot of the fans that are backing Billy Billy they love him he’s also a really really funny streamer he streams a lot on Billy Billy funny enough um amazing personality really dry humor we even saw him at the press conference talk about how like if you beat us I’m going to go back to China i’m going to tell Kunga what you did and he’s going to come back and sort you out a chance so he’s very very funny he’s got an amazing personality and I like the confidence he’s here to win the whole tournament he’s truly the the Valerant Renaissance man you know he does it all he can lead he’s funny he shoots well he streams what can’t he do everything everything maybe even win a trophy and uh but let’s move on to Team Liquid who unfortunately will be playing with a sub for today’s game and that sub is going to be replacing Melnat can anyone on this planet you think adequately replace somebody like Nats i genuinely don’t think so and it’s just such a tall ask nats is such a prestigious player there’s so many people even in the scene even at this event that look up to Nat to this day and the fact that he’s had such a long career and he’s still coming to these international events well hopefully he’s able to secure the visa but the fact that he’s IGLing now and he’s still putting up these numbers it makes it impossible to replace that that’s the biggest thing to me cuz a lot of people like if you’re not following closely you’re like “Oh no we lose Nats we lose lose one of the sharpest shots in EMA we lose one of the best lurkers in EMA.” But I think what he is really doing for this TL team is just making their mid rounding excellent those pivots on the attacking side when they’re switching up between the sides they’re going to i think he does a great job of varying the tempos in his calling and making it really hard to actually get a read against TL and that’s going to be the the void they’re going to have to find find a way to fill and that’s there’s a reason why he leaves such a big void everything you two both mentioned as well and for those of you who haven’t had the I guess uh had the chance to see what Nat is like in game we have a clip here just to demonstrate how important he is for Team Liquid anything wrong with you or you locked in 100% 100% but K you locked in 100% yeah J you locked in 100% michael so okay lock in on 200% boys are you guys not going to let them just take them up from us like that or what we’re not not speaking even boys which is literally full autopiloting and not just Michael boy michael you full lost so focus up on this but Gio also you are full lost right now you’re not playing with any confidence camil I’m I’m happy that what you’re trying to but try more Patrick the same try more boy naf give everything yes we had the plan for all of these three matches but okay give all of your right now because I don’t know what why we thinking about the grand final or whatever going to be happening tomorrow we not deserve to be tomorrow anywhere tomorrow we deserve to sit at home if we’re going to play like that let’s just make ourself happy you might think that this is just like a oneoff he says this but Mel he his speeches are legendary in EMA he’s always yapping did you expect him you know to to be I guess this harsh and direct i honestly no i would say that’s one of the hardest parts of being a leader that people don’t see honestly matter of fact let me get my peripherals and get on the stage that’s how motivated I am like that was actually like chills i think a lot of people think an IGL is just calling and thinking of the macro reads and how can I outplay the other opponent and also at the same time balance my mechanical skill and your individual uh like calling but I think a lot of it is actually the nitty-gritty the things that you don’t see talking to your teammates and not only bringing out the best in them but knowing when to hold them accountable and hitting that perfect balance of the tone of you’re not just like you know degrading them you’re trying to get the best out of them and I think that is irreplaceable especially like during a match day as well like that’s such a high stakes moment to be able to do it is really impressive all right let’s uh let’s hype up the the substitute we’ve seen a lot we have a we’ve seen some amazing players you know having to step in on a global stage and own it so and uh give me some hope here tell me why we should be excited about Penny well Penny’s coming in for his second Masters performance here he played on V1 way back in the day ironically got a win up against Team Liquid back in centuries ago in Raikuic uh but he also he’s been playing in tier 2 in in North America right for YFP has been looking solid there coach sorry I had to tell true actually it’s it’s iconic but but honestly he is a very solid player and we even had him and the rest of the guys jump in for Furia back during kickoff when Furia couldn’t feel the roster in Americas penny comes in wins his game and dips out he is the super sub you’re saying it yeah and very quickly while we look at this agent pool the I I kind of wanted to bring Serial into this conversation because when Serial joined Team Liquid there were questions about what the heck is he going to play cuz him and Nats have identical agent pools serial he plays Cyber he plays Vip but he couldn’t do any of that but Mel maybe now with Penny in the mix that kind of you know the the role isn’t going to be as outrageous as it looks on the outside i genuinely wish I could even think about what the roles are going to look like cuz I have no clue i haven’t really ever had an opportunity to say that someone is a secondary sentinel on a team like that is how much Serial and Nat’s agent pools overlap and I’m genuinely just so curious to know who’s going to IGL how is that system going to work i think that’s the awkward elephant in the room like one roles and agents are already out the window but who’s calling patty seems like the obvious choice right all of the other players he’s a very vocal player we’ve seen him on Team Heretics when he was subbing he was still extremely vocal which is hard to do as someone who’s a sub and I think that is the most obvious choice but I know Penny is someone that is very high game IQ when it comes to the game so I’m interested to see what there’s a very real world where it’s just a little bit of everyone to be honest do you reckon E has taught Penny all he knows at this point when it comes to maybe IG i’ll let Eie speak for that i’ll let EP speak i think it’s the other way around penny probably taught E everything he Let’s be real this is the thing though cuz I tried to do a little bit of digging with the IGL situation i was in Kiko’s chat you know instigating asking him was IGLing he was uh during duo queuing with Nats at the time and NAS basically said “Kiko do not leak anything don’t you dare leak anything.” And it sounded it sounded like they hadn’t decided quite yet a couple weeks ago who was IGLing but I’m hoping Penny has some answers this is what he had to say of his return to the big stage hey guys this is Jen with Penny from Team Liquid now how are you Penny uh I’m good i’m happy to be here happy playing in well my home city right so yeah I’m excited i imagine you’ve been busy as a beaver get it cuz it’s Canada um you know trying to catch up with the team figuring out what the rules are going to look like so can you tell us a little bit about the preparation process and how ready do you feel coming in today um well I’m going to be honest we’ve had two days of practice together because they just came like a few days ago and I’ve been here the whole time and it’s a bit hectic we’re getting things together but honestly I think we’re just going to have to rely on some vibes some individual play and I think we have it in us so yep get the vibe going okay yeah good luck let’s go vibe we’re vibing off two days of practice that didn’t give me a lot of confidence two is that enough okay okay here can I come in with some copium yeah okay so here’s my thought process right we were talking about how people on this team they play a bunch of different agents we have a secondary sentinel player we have Kiko who also plays controller and duelist we have two duelist players in the team and one of them fills controller i’m thinking and Penny is someone that can also flex i’m thinking that because they are all able to play all these different agents they have the flexibility to pug and to potentially at least make this a competitive series oh like a ziptoe like a ziptoe on Lotus exactly oh maybe not five jewelers exactly maybe not it was four jewelers and cipher it was four jewelers are we doing sage roulette or like what’s the call here do you agree you think this is the style they should be approaching today just plugging it i mean to a certain extent you almost have to with that little practice i I think it will be like probably a little bit more calm than that but you’re not coming in with like a huge playbook right like Penny is slotting in here you don’t have like a ton that you can dip into in terms of your history but honestly that might suit them you know I think Team could already as a team like to take a lot of like aggressive fights even on the defensive side sort of group up three players walk forward and see what they can find so it might not be that far from home if they just choose to play a more aggressive style for me it’s a little bit about the rookies as well you know we have some players on the side of Billy Billy they’ve never been to a global event before and on this Liquid roster Serial it will be his first time it took him a while in EMA to warm up you know there was a couple of maps here and there where he was a little bit shaky you can feel he was maybe nervous he even talked about it uh at playoffs he was a little bit nervous and usually you have Nats there you have Nats there to be your anchor to kind of pick you up so I do wonder uh Ender today uh maybe Penny could be the one to to to keep them grounded see I was going to say it kind of goes two directions cuz on the one hand everyone all the core members of the roster have to be the one that’s making it comfortable for Penny you know sort of like enabling him like asking what you want to do but at the same time Penny does have a level of experience coming in playing on a master stage previously so I do think that with just his longevity in the scene he’s one of the better people you could find to just slot in for a game like this mhm and I think too a big part of it is the fact that I think Penny has been competing in challengers a majority of this time and I think that shows grit and this is a moment where you need grit you got to bite down hard and you need to push forward and I think if you were going to pick anyone it’s a guy that’s been grinding it out in challengers this whole time after making it to Masters Toronto he didn’t get a big ego about it and quit and throw in the towel after not making it he’s been playing this whole time so I can see a lot of perseverance and a potential for I mean maybe something can happen maybe subs the super subs have had a good record so far i was just going to say too that like the challenger like schedule is legit too like you play a lot of games there’s like third party tournaments as well like he might have actually played more games than some of the people on stage this year with just like the amount you’re packing in tier 2 and one I’m kind of talking myself into i know I predicted Billy Billy but now we’re having this conversation i’m kind of convincing myself purely because you spoke about you know the comps the agent choices liquid have been just cheesing their way throughout EMA you know with the double centis they’ve been playing we’ve heard other players Mel talk about how this is super annoying to deal with and you need a lot of counter strat as well so they could just do this on the global stage i wonder too if it’ll even throw off Billy Billy more if they come to the global stage and they don’t exactly stick to the script and I think that leaning into the puginess and like the lack of a playbook I think will actually help Team Liquid in this regard in terms of getting more cheese yes well when I was looking at this matchup uh initially before knowing about Nats and you know questions around you didn’t know about Nats before this game no no no way back when I was looking at the matchup stylist come on yeah yeah sorry Nats i wasn’t familiar with their game one I don’t know i was like I don’t just a bad place uh no honestly I think like stylistically Team Liquid should be favored in this matchup like I think the double sentinels ideas especially against a team like Billy Billy that play such slow rounds consistently on their attacking side like Billy Billy would often domestically run into time trouble uh as well ping ponging between sightes um so if TL stay to that style I think it benefits them but I’m not sure it actually suits the players with Penny coming in maybe this is a hot take but I feel like it would be a mistake for Team Liquid to try and chase what they have with Nats i think they need to find their own little nook with the sub and not try to go after what they have with their IGL when he’s there cuz he’s just not there and his impact besides IGLing but is lurking in his game IQ also isn’t there so we cannot rely on our old game plans and our old system in my opinion there’s only one thing that makes me even more espresso depresso than Nats not being here which is we’re not getting cats uh today and cats has been such a mainstay of the Is that why you’re wearing the ears um no but I I will say I will say yes just uh I mean we get Kiko we get one half of cats we’re going to have to see if Nats do manage to make it uh in the end but again Kiko after the roll swap this year Ender has been incredibly impressive yeah cuz Kiko was I mean if you go back to what was it 2023 uh like in the ascension like he was just the god player right that everyone was saying was going to be the next coming uh of all those durka whatever trying to ascend up into EMA um but I think he really has found his form in this year like you’re talking about isn’t going to have that duo there but his agent pool is also wild because he has that back history of playing the the duelist for so long it’s kind of reminiscent of demon one on EG right having your duelist like play Jed and also controller on some maps it kind of gives me that vibe and it’s really cool to see another player kind of fit into that niche what would you do here though because obviously Penny coming in with so much experience on that duelist now they have three dualist do you just keep Kiko on the smokes and then or do you play three dualists oh okay that’s a little I’m actually kind of down for that i I mean Team Liquid once upon a time played no smokes so I think this is like fine this is okay though no I don’t condone this actually I’ve changed my mind you change your mind you change your mind but can can you realistically out surprise uh Billy Billy because Billy Billy are normally the team that come out with you know some surprises and teams not fully knowing what to do i think when you just have a new roster you’re coming out with with more surprises certainly um but most of us are on the Billy Billy side i I think Uber and Vans are the only people that believed in Liquid i would love to get a vibe check here in the arena because only Uber and Vans believe in Liquid uh Toronto if you can hear me give me a cheer if you believe in Team Liquid oh okay all right okay billy Billy’s about to pop off though give me a cheer if you are a Billy Billy believer any Billy Billy fans oh that’s more for Billy Billy oh even the fans in the arena uh are believing in Billy Billy and so are the three of us but like I said there were Hold on hold on wait whoa whoa whoa i hear I hear people from across the Atlantic chanting Team Liquid’s name it’s coming through the walls they believe Sue they believe in Team Liquid i’m glad somebody believes in Team Liquid so there’s those people and no that’s Uber that’s Uber Advance you hear it that’s Uber Advance but enough yapping from us over here it’s time to send this back down to the stage and bring out Billy Billy Gaming and Team Liquid billy Billy Gaming Team Liquid we have seen a lot of super subs over the last 5 years today Penny makes his return to the global stage and see if he can do some damage with this Team Liquid roster they’ve never played against each other before which is very very exciting but as we mentioned there is a map that you know EMA have been very weak at this year it is Pearl i do wonder if Liquid are going to take it away and mail me thank god I do not have to get on a plane i mean should you just do the vetos for every EMA team i feel like you just have an idea you know exactly we should put you in charge i agree thank you honestly thank you but I mean this is ultimately what we wanted to see right we don’t want to see liquid take risks do you like the Haven choice from them i do i mean I think I’m biased though cuz I just love Haven as a map so the fact it’s even getting played at all just makes me excited yeah i mean I I like the way Team Liquid play on Haven i think they’re very ready for reclers that come into them they play a very aggressive style on the defense side as well you’re going to see them walking out into mid space checking that forward space over towards A as well so Billy Billy Gaming are going to have to be on their toes versus that yeah and Sunset got floated we might actually be able to see Sunset on day one of of Masters i love B main post plants let’s go i definitely do plus one to that i’m so excited i actually can’t keep a smile off my face right now seeing Penny here on the Masters Toronto stage last time we saw him was actually Raikuic and here he is playing against Billy Billy could I make you a little bit more excited with the possibility yeah I could be convinced of either a double harbor like both teams running harbor on Icebox or um a way a cheeky way could also also be thrown in there okay i I I don’t know if I can I can get on board with the way but the double harbor that’s America’s that’s America’s bread and butter with no America’s teams it’s a CN team on an EM but I’m ready for it i’m ready for it it’s It’s good honestly I I really like what it can do for you for either early control on the defensive side over mains but also just like permanently stalling out once your Viper wall goes down your harbor wall goes back up you can keep that cycle it’s a really solid pairing on that map if they do that though how does it what does Penny play so if Kiko plays harbor uh Serial plays I guess either Killjoy or Viper i guess you could put Penny on the Viper there you go i mean I suppose you could you could I genuinely have zero idea how they’re going to slice up these roles i’m really anxious to see what agents are being played and who’s even playing them yeah I I’m I think BLG is pretty locked in on this ice box map they play a lot of the the basic double smokes but Team Liquid is wide open in terms of the options you can do cuz there’s also so many different reads of ice box right now like we just saw in Omen comp being played some teams still like geckos some like double smokes some aren’t running duelist like there’s so many options and I just want to remind everybody this is where Billy Billy managed to beat EDG on ice this is where they shine they managed to take that map win it ended up uh uh snowboard into a serious win and as we take a look at the live agent select Penny is hovering the rain the the Kiko Harbor is locked in though already we’re just ready to go on that one oh are we going to get Harbor and Way are we Are we that lucky today surely not shout out to Billy Billy for keeping things you know straightforward for us no they instantly locked yeah this is the the comp we kind of expected from them right they’re not they’re not making any changes look that is different they’ve never played clove on this map before what is going on uh hello going into triple and if Patty locks in Phoenix I’m going to be the happiest person there’s no way there’s no way uh I mean they’re teasing us out with it we are really Wait hold oh I just got ahead of myself but also like it’s no Viper with triple smokes as well which is really whacking double circle smokes mel this is what you wanted you wanted them to just be weird right i mean I said weird i I didn’t say be crazy this is insane this is beyond anything what I was expecting triple controller on ice box and I’m going to guess no duelist and Omen is going to be going to steal that duelist role i don’t believe it for a second that’s what I thought so I think I think when you run that many smokes you need multiple agents that have flashes that can fight through them cuz you’re using the smokes like cut out a lot of deeper angles on the map and then you need the flashes to be able to pop out of them and scale forward yeah and out of all of the agents um Penny has played in his career it will be his first open i mean this is crazy sticking to this comp with a sub is just insane no killjoy ice like where’s our info how are we getting info on this map this is hard comp to play to say it lightly i can’t wait to get into this map after that agent select and throw this over to your casters toronto give a warm welcome to Achilios and Paper Fin hello here we are live in Toronto i’m Achilios that’s Paper Thin and we are going to be guiding you guys through what is looking to be a very chaotic map of ice box to say the least we kind of already knew it was going to be the case just given the two teams playing given the Nat is not here but the comp swap I have no clue what’s about to happen me either i I mean this is very offkilter no duelist it is going to be very reliant on positioning and timings uh making sure you’re getting tons of value out of the Gecko and the KO is really what’s going to be important here for Liquid but I will say this coming into uh this tournament when I’m watching BLG I think they’re a very stock standard team they’re going to play you know by the book Valerant coach Bile is a very you know old school Korean style coach and he’s going to come in there and he’s going to want to play good post plants good setups good info this is one of the things that I was worried about for BLG in this event is when you got chaos thrown at you what are you going to be able to do against it let us find out barriers are dropped quick little orb take here as zero point going to get a decent amount of information believe three players going to be noted by that liquid able to identify the stack spike at the same time slowly being ushered across towards this B site alarmbot is in position as the wall gets set up there you can create a lot of confusion with this comp as well you’re never really going to be sure which direction they’re going they can throw smokes everywhere on the map they’ve got a bunch of different utility to use with the initiators to sell fakes this could be really tricky but so far BG just holding the line behind their high tide just waiting this out yz right at the ready attempted a little bit of an audio bait there from Camo as the swing gets ready to come through panic already cleared out now camo going to be taken down that spike immediately is going to be pivoted back towards B no cuts across through mid like the approach here under two levia in position though striking penny going to be down on the floor serial dead kiko able to fight back for one but needs a hell of a lot more and those are some shots as oh baby the 4K damn near gets the ace clutch but won’t be able to squeak it out in the end and it’s going to be Billy Billy taking the pistol oh he has been just electric in the NEA this year and almost pulls off the miracle eg gets a good read early there one enemy remaining ready to spring the trap right off the back of their own high tide one enemy remaining that one caught Team Liquid just enough off guard but the response there almost got it done and that that’s almost like feels like a win in that round like for Team Liquid you really don’t quite get it coaching staff there lohan thought maybe oh so close took a second to realize but yeah that is going to be a damn good effort and also fasttracking that ultimate so they can be online very quickly yz able to find Patty sheriff besting the classic enough for the moment alone gets a little bit of reinforcements from Levious as Team Liquid look to see what they can get done here on the side penny tping up above levia is about to swing in identifies it he’s able to save his teammate does end up getting taken down but not before he’s able to find two head shot does connect but Camo can’t confirm the kill see if Kiko’s got a bit more of that left in the tank just three targets to try to get through this time could get the reckoning off a kill i don’t know if he’ll find an opportunity to use it push coming through there’s the head shot alt is online bulldog recovered but why is he down below will be able to drag Billy Billy over the line here in round two closing out the anti-EO but not without cost you failed no it isn’t looking the cleanest there for Billy billy in some of these late game scenarios losing some players when maybe they don’t need to but this aggressiveness again these extra layers of smokes that Team Liquid is creating using that to get players up high low keeping Billy Billy really off balance and then of course Kiko is just lightning right now has the reckoning already for this round and it’s a big stack over towards B for Billy billy just leaving Levius all on his own on A with the killjoy util i wouldn’t be too surprised if this is a read to kind of just dodge the reckoning play for retake see what you can get done beyond that plenty of noise being made here by Team Liquid stomping their way forward i suggest you move maneuver starting to come out here from Billy Billy as they look to try to get into position here forward pass garage site however wide open levius leaving it for the taking waits out the reckoning spike now going to be planted they’re going to be coming from a lot of different angles milly Billy very patient very diligent team russia going to be noted there around the back paranoia going to be sent off the back of that Dizzy and that’s going to be Leas now taken down serial able to find Nep and Team Liquid looking good to secure themselves a win here in the anti bonus remaining players of Billy Billy now arriving over onto the side full connection on the flash wise he has to tuck back back camo on the peak able to find K9 binding Russia now it is just YC to see if he can put a dent in this liquid squad at all and he cannot flawless fashion team Liquid get themselves on the board this is beautiful from Team Liquid and Penny the hometown hero with a great paranoia to clear out Levius on the stairs really nice stuff from Team Liquid but you can see the game plan here it’s to scale off of these smokes quickly and keep Billy Billy off balance this is something I think that they’re noticing a trend with Billy Billy in China is that teams like XLG that come at them quick they don’t often react properly to it and if you can catch them when they’re trying to get their setups trying to get their perfect plays into position they often crumble go into the first buy round now see if Liquid are going to be able to go ahead and tie up this affair wisey once again full flash connecting has to drop down off the back of yellow liquid though slowing down a bit as the thrash is going to be invested why is he at risk out completely and utterly detained pad able to just run him down gets right in on top of him spots out the legs of Nef gets himself a second kill russia able to peel back one penny does get taken down but Pat on a mission finds himself a third now it’s just Russia quick little taps finds the head shot but camo swings around the back and that is Team Liquid now tying it at two to two yeah there’s just no follow-up plans here for Billy billy this thrash comes through and Nef is stuck trying to figure out a way that he can get into a position to be safe and instead he just gets stuck in a spot where his legs are right out in the open he just gets cut down this is looking really nice for Team Liquid they’ve got some good plans coming in to this attacker side on Icebox these smokes in particular making it really tricky for Billy Billy to find the angles that they want to hold these positions to kind of play against the utility that they’re expecting to come outside of the pistol and the followup it hasn’t looked that great and even those two rounds were dangerous orb does get taken russia going to be one away from that next reckoning two stingers and sheriffs abound here for Billy Billies as they look to pull off a thrifty once again though stack from Team Liquid working their way in towards this B site to get a clear on the alarm bot tp back yellow and it is just Levius here not much to be done wraps around the back of sight has an opportunity here for the shot but no camo will be able to find it gets the overheal right as rain dropping a smoke now he have to deal with all of these smokes in a retake scenario it’s an absolute nightmare for Billy Billy camo one away from his alt too that’s another piece of the puzzle to consider here for Billy Billy no peek in cycling the smoke risha just here alongside him would be able to find the kill in all likelihood given the stinger and there you go finds it off screen penetrates one back onto Rishia outlaw used finds value and now it looks like widely Kite and Ne more than happy to just go down to the spike if possible but Pat will go ahead and get himself another elimination team Liquid now going to find themselves in the lead the rounds coming away pretty cleanly for them as well oh absolutely uh they’re really really on pace to make this half very difficult for Billy Billy in a map that Billy Billy has been very good on they beat EDG they beat Wolves on this map in their runup to qualifying for Masters whereas Team Liquid has struggled on this map the only team they’ve actually beaten is Fnatic in EMA in stage one but outside of that they have four losses so this is a map you would think is Billy Billy you can kind of just be in cruise control play your game but I think you got to dig a little bit deeper here i think you got to start getting aggressive things that we saw in the pistol round that worked for them playing a little bit of trickery might catch Team Liquid enough off guard because these smokes are just too difficult right now for Billy Billy to deal with playing passive isn’t paying off you need to change the pace for now still a bit slow here find the head shot tailwinds out but you mentioned before Camo has that alt online so not dead yet we’ll see if he’s going to be able to find an elimination to earn that life back no will quickly put him back into the grave still though a one for one exchange now fred up now equalized is why he on the repeat able to find one and it’s a messy fight of it but Levious holding down M1 able to find that final kill the tie is up at 3 to three but I love this from Billy Billy a slight change here and that’s getting YZ in a position where he can start doing damage early before Team Liquid can really get their execute set up the way that they want to little bit little bit shaky there for him but he still gets it then they’re ready for that player to be up on a pipes can’t convert then the trades are there and they’re good le right on point for the final two lucia bigging them up see if Billy can start stringing some rounds together they’ve got some big als they’ve got a reckoning they’ve got a lock down do some damage penny where’s he going to go okay back towards Snowman here they threw a fake smoke into spawn to try to confuse him but he’s shut down they have eyes on it nef gets himself on the board with that kill undoing minute backstab why is he on the peak still managing to find that kill before getting taken down nef gets himself a second so now it’s going to be the player advantage here for the side of Billy Billy lurk up here from Patt but Levius reading this suspicious sends out a timing on that nano swarm the damage not to be found gets another one though and this one does manage to tag up Patty Techch just a bit lock down now going to be sent through patt does have the fragment could try to clear it instead to try to get a catch there onto K9 and is able to do so he’s going to be in such a rough spot he needs to clear this out but he’s not going to be allowed to do it spike planted a 1 v one camo tagged up a bit green scales forward gets himself past the wall does Russia have any idea at all goes for the tap seems like he is reading that he’s going to be nearby camo going for the 321 pushes in and catches the timing finds the head shot and Liquid once again get themselves into the lead what a round from Patty Techch there just being so aggressive once that lock down is planted and it catches Kai completely off guard and then he throws a great flash to make sure he can clear screens and at least make it a 1 v one for his teammates really nicely played and Chem Coleman collected there at the end finds the perfect timing you can see Patty Techch biging him up and not going to be the best feeling there in the coaching booth for Billy billy once again going to be knocked back onto a very rough economy phantom Guardian wise he does have the jet knives once again snack from Billy billy’s on the wrong side of the map five player push getting ready to come through here from Team Liquid the walls getting set up the smokes ready to be cycled in is it Dizzy clearing things out and Wingman at the ready to go for the plant yeah Team Liquid’s been doing a great job of keeping Billy Billy guessing in the early parts of these rounds a lot of 4-1 splits and they’ve often found the weak side to try to interrupt let me get a nice head shot there k9 going to be taken down so won’t be able to see the hunter’s fury come into effect spike now planted spam for Penny able to go ahead and find the kill on the Nep on to Wise puts him down to 10 has to wait this out and that’s going to be precious seconds lost now as they try to go for the retake the wall falling camo collecting as they’ll make it a little bit close get a bit of damage in but the coffers are still there full for the side of Team Liquid plenty of cash to continue the buys again it’s these smokes that just stall stall stall and buy extra time and make Billy Billy feel that pressure and finally timeout is going to come through five to three oh right as the wall is coming up he gets the shot to connect with the outlaw yz shut right down there one enemy remaining flash come through just before they’re just their their timings are so good right now damn clean that’s one of the things that Billy Billy is lacking with his composition is those flashes yes they can set up walls themselves they have the Viper they have the harbor but they don’t have anything to send through it to try to enable these peaks from Wise when he’s trying to play that wall to retake space over at yellow there’s no real way to guarantee any kind of safety no it’s really true and that’s why I need to see them be more aggressive they need to get ahead of the curve because if you’re playing behind those smokes that’s advantage Team Liquid that’s where Team Liquid can throw either another layer of smokes or the flash util all that stuff can come through and you’re just left stunned behind them so yeah I I’d like to see Billy Billy take more back control get get a little bit aggressive towards mid do things like that to open the map up for yourselves so you can then keep Team Liquid guessing cuz they don’t have a lot of ability uh to control their flanks there’s no Sentinel here on the side of Team Liquid so you got to find ways to exploit the weaknesses of Team Liquid’s comp back in we go we’ll see if the words from the coaching staff is going to be enough to spur Billy Billy on to running this back a bit are starting on the defending side which is typically going to be the weaker one here for Ice Box but given that it’s your map pick given that Team Liquid has only had two days of prep with Penny he certainly should be expecting some cleaner results here for Billy Billy wall sent out over towards B a bit of a fake there there’s a four player push works their way up in towards A and they actually get a minor little rotation here from Kite who realizes that they completely left mid wide open but I like what I’m seeing i like what I’m seeing here from Billy Billy getting aggressive early towards B main this might catch Team Liquid a little bit off guard kiko finally turning turns back and he’s going to have the jump and it’s a one-two tap wise he knocked out of the park to push forward into the smoke and Levia dead to right camel perfectly poised and now it’s just Nef and Kite with not much left to be done there’s the spot out but Nef somehow comes away taking the brunt of the damage here the call the save is going to have to be made just so well read kiko there might have gotten some sound cues as well to give him a little bit of a heads up but again then you see Billy Billy pushing into those smokes it’s a gamble every time you walk into one of those smokes you have no idea you have no util that’s really going to help you clear it so you’re just flipping a coin hoping somebody’s not in there waiting for you and again when they tried to go for that retake after they lost two players early it just got shut right down team Liquid players right there ready and waiting with open arms and they are up to six and at the very worst now it’ be an even half for Team Liquid but with the way they are playing I think this is going to be heavily favored for the EMA squad tret out it’s looking damn good let’s see just how many more they’re going to be able to rack up eight and four certainly within the grass maybe even that nine and three billy Billy still a bit of money to work with here question is do they just send this pit off the rip they do have the heavier stack on a so it could just be Nef getting into position to set this up here at the start of the round and try to dissuade Team Liquid but keeping the comp they might just try to barrel through it honestly so far Nef not sending it yeah I thought maybe off all that util I think Team Liquid maybe trying to bait it out a little bit there as well but again aggressive positionings from Billy Billy like the ideas team Liquid read it so well it’s pretty much everybody spotted out does get the drone tag on to camo they should try to they’re waiting for this in from the side yeah K9 is here to try to back him up and show comes away with that elimination forces out the not dead yet now they can just back away try to wait out this ultimate they’re just sprinting out of here wisy sticks around for a little bit but can’t help win out to safety and camo is right back into the fray just handed him a resurrection on a silver platter it’s a madman peeking alongside the wall trying to see if anyone plays here at pipes but Team Liquid they pump the brakes exactly when they need to i mean YZ he is known for being just a wild player there’s the up and over the top but have the secondary peak in from camo gets them the advantage back into their hands and Russia is just getting overwhelmed line up there but Levia only able to collect on one spike planted down to a sliver they jump up over the top nef able to find the first serial does fall 20 health here on the omen kiko unscathed so far and they’re just going to look to try to double stack here got this backside position now separating a bit there’s up and over the top he’s just got no idea kika will collect it and that’s going to be Liquid guaranteed the lead here at the half yeah this one this is a tough one for Billy billy Wise is a tremendously skilled player his mechanics are very very good but he gets spotted right as he’s trying to come down of course he’d been spotted before that as well up on the Raptors but no charge 30 seconds left that’s a That’s a mistake it’s one you can’t afford at this stage in the game see going to give minimum seven to Team Liquid on this half as good as YZ can be sometimes he does have rough ones the last time we saw Billy Billy on the international stage was against Crew Champs he did not have the greatest series he lost O2 and he was 27 and 37 in the kill to death column so we need to see him pick it up two more rounds of play here in the half there’s the pit now finally going to be invested le is able to find one penny going to be taken down but he does eat quite a bit of damage down to two HP here is the killjoy had attack just spraying through catches a stray and rush gets taken down push forward through all the walls all the smokes but why is here this time he’s coming up with the goods camo cereal both to be eliminated levius gets team killed by Kite as we are diving into the depths of chaos patitech will not be able to make it happen wise picks up the Vandal finds the head shot and gets Billy billy another round win breaking the win streak of Team Liquid that is one way to pick it up nice round for YZ there ready for the push out of these smokes we haven’t seen Team Liquid get too aggressive since the early part of this first half they just walk through there not ready for YZ to be tucked in there they don’t have any util to try to clear those smokes and YZ makes them pay for getting aggressive and that was a much needed round for Billy billy they’ve got the lock down got a chance patty Techch has his alt there it goes command coming through levia is going to be making his way across the map his position is Oh wise is just absolutely screwed fragment at his feet previously tagged up but Pat now going to be on the floor res the bull but camo and Penny both end up falling zerial able to fight back for one sees his teammate there on the floor would love to try to go for the res but just cannot make it happen spart too risky go at the same time lurking forward here in towards kitchen the turret does reveal that should lead Billy Billy to realize that there’s going to be this rotate across certainly have it confirmed here in a moment as the spike gets ready to be planted they’re going to go go pushing out through a main though trying to get a wrap around across into green got a ton of util here for this retake you’ve still got Levia’s alt buting all this yeah for the backstab oh yeah certainly going to be not Thrash now the D try to slow down the approach here trying to get a catch but will not be able to find one but Kiko getting closer circling them here as the lock down is invested and he’s going to play it patiently now striking finds one lock down going to be cleared out gets away sliding back to safety spike now fuse getting started a bounce there not able to find it dropped down serial taken out kinko trying to make this happen has to go for the repeat and Russia nearly gets it done 7 to five at the half a couple seconds is spare billy Billy recovering the half oh that was huge for Billy billy Russia able to hold the line 14- 11 on the half keeps Billy Billy in it dangerously close liquid out at the lead but only just we’ll see who’s going to be able to take this opening map we’ll come back after halftime go ahead and know where we at we know we top here cuz all the hat that you bring we know it stops here i’m sicking off like a profiter and stopping here it’s strange how they cannot see the future but see profit here wait up we going to always win promise that that’s not a promise yeah that is a threat you know that I promise to bring the team when the whole team win that’s when you flex and I’mma do it again watch me win then watch me do it again hey hey hey make If I break All righty we are back and about to go into the second half here of Icebox first map and our second series and we’ll go ahead and take a zoom in on the Coinbase econ report yeah so this is a stat guys that’s going to give you an idea of how the team is doing with the money they’re spending so basically you take your damage done you divide it by the amount of credits you spent you get an econ rating there is a minimum floor on it i think it’s like a thousand but regardless it’s all about you know how much value you’re actually getting out of the money you’re spending so like you saw earlier uh with paper X like with something he invests in the OP his econ cuz he wasn’t able to find a ton of value out of it uh but if you’re able to you know buy get these purchases coming through and you’re getting a lot of damage done you’re going to get a higher econ yeah I think an easier way as well is just if you’re trending towards 100 that’s good that’s that’s kind of going to be the benchmark that’s where you really want to aim for it’s like you know 10 CF permitted in league that kind of thing get yourself up to 100 econ you’re getting good use out of your weapons but enough about that is now time to go into this second half opening pistol going away at Philly Billy team Liquid though in the lead we’ll see if Liquid are going to be able to steal away this map pick with their chaotic comp toronto are you ready to get back into the action music to my ears let’s go ahead and see who’s going to be able to take this one in second half already Kiko trying to take some mid control we saw it on the attacker side he was pretty aggressive towards that space using that high tide to keep Billy Billy guessing but right now Billy Billy just looking at a but where they start is rarely where they will finish double push keep going able to find one Pat that timing trying to swing out but tremendous amount of damage and will actually just get wall banged out wisey able to find him there with the sheriff in the end so player advantage to Billy Billy as he’s going to go creeping up the tube this double push do they focus at all the turret certainly is going to now maybe with an opportunity but actually doesn’t go for the peak outside window he’s trying to play this still quietly but he’s getting encroached upon here as camo rotating around the back but got knife out that’s what Nep does strike steering side down as Wise just got him lined up it’s going to be another pistol going the way of BLG as it’s now just one round separating the two teams yeah so this is quite interesting you know BLG they are one of those teams who will work the map they are going to spend a lot of the early part of the round kind of ping ponging back and forth trying to figure out where the weak side of their opponents is trying to see what kind of util they can get baited out as well they’re able to do a nice job here reading this mid aggression from the side of Team Liquid and quickly rotating back to punish it and then retaking that open space that Team Liquid gives up over towards a of course N with a great lurk let’s see what Wise can do here he is just rushing it right at him finds one gets out beautiful they went on the exit camo dead obviously still put up a couple smokes here to try to dissuade the push onto the A site but BLG already starting to set their sights on B no contact no interference on his approach to the site so they will just go ahead and full send it yeah and this is something that I loved about this team when I was watching their bots yes they take a lot of time sometimes that clock does get dangerously close to running out but they’re so diligent that they are 90% of the time finding their opponent’s weak side they’re great on the attacker side on this map throughout most of stage one and they have once again just found an open sight got a plant and they are very very good in their post plants that is one of the most dangerous aspects of BG you let them get into post plant safely obviously in this round not important but going forward they are deadly well we get to just sit back and relax as we wait for this spike to go off team Liquid pretty much just playing the mini game of don’t die to Wisy or Nef trying to get those spawn line but YZy one’s going to be another wall bang kill onto Patty as Rush wants to try to get a bit more charge here trying to get that reckoning online and if he’s able to find the god timing might be able to make it happen drop down however going to be hurt he’s going to go rushing forward but the spike will swallow them all up seven to seven we are tied up okay looking good for BLG but Team Liquid you saw once they got rifles in hand that’s when they were able to start stringing rounds together the buy not going to be super amazing for BLG couple rifles Bulldogs and a Stinger team Liquid spreading out the map a little bit you got Patty Techch camo on A Serial in mid and two smokes over on B just really trying to get a read onto Billy billy bit of early pace there from YZ but nobody from Team Liquid overstepping a lot of this is going to come down to Nef he can break open some space into Kitchen tuck just behind this corner of the wall poison orb now going to be sent up serial not spotting out anything here the swing in there’s a spot and Serial will be able to find the head shot stay taken care of paranoia now going across russia spike down on the floor as well two-player advantage now for the side of Team Liquid the spikes position confirmed team Liquid once again looking good to close out this anti- bonus takes some real heroics for BG to try to drag this round back in for sure they’re going to try to go towards the other side of the map maybe use Kite he can sell it with a recon here but they’re still thinking about B oh goodness not quite able to find it been a hell of a shot le going to challenge them he’s just going to tuck in and they’re just going to send YZ out on his own look at BLG here playing isolated just trying to find an open side but they got a little bit of a spot there on the Patty Tech they’re going to lose K9 everything’s crumbling everything falling to pieces there this is going to be a flawless fashion no damage dealt here to the side of Team Liquid and that’s going to do wonders for their economy blg yes now go in for the actual full purchase round but not being able to even get a lick of damage out a rough look for them going into round 16 man another great paranoia into a kill for Penny one enemy put in some real value and this is something BG does from time to time when I was watching their bots is they like to spread the map but they usually do it on EOS they usually do it when they’ve got sheriffs in hand this round though with losing a couple players early oh boy hold on might have a bit of a messy fight here okay russia just has them lined up he go and camo standing ahead dead off the rip what what happened not sure either way russia god damn lucky with it why going for the push looks for the transfer and is able to find it’s down to one HP regen shield will reinforce a bit but Pitech that now all alone got to be wondering what in the hell happened outside of B finds the kill but there’s the backstab a 3k for YZ 1 HP no problem we’re tied up 8 to eight billy Billy not letting Liquid run away with this map yeah Liquid trying to push the pace he didn’t even see him he didn’t even see the second camo was still behind the cascade one enemy remaining unreal and YZ is starting to come online and this is a player folks when I talk to people in Pacific and Pacific teams Grim Chinese teams quite a bit everybody says one of the first players that comes to everyone’s mind is Wise when they play against him because of how good he is everybody’s like “This guy just destroys us in scrims we hate him we hate him.” Well that’s going to be a timeout call now from Team Liquid pumping the brakes maybe looking to try to calm things down get everybody focused in and prepared for this aggression that’s been put on display from Billy Billy i’m kind of curious about this defender side for Team Liquid with this unusual comp that they’re bringing we saw the ideas on the attacker side uh able to really abuse those smokes uh to take positioning use the flashes behind it catch BLG off guard a bit but here on this defender side it’s going to be a little bit tougher to do that because you’re kind of you kind of just know like as BLG you see those smokes and you’re like “Okay they’re there or they’re not we can either push it or we can just go in a different direction.” And that kind of plays into BLG’s hands cuz they want to work the map on you they want to move around so as as Team Liquid I think you’ve got some questions to consider do you want to play more for retake do you want to kind of be a little bit more passive are you really just going to turn up the tempo cuz I’m seeing a lot of players going for some kind of crunch potentially and you’re talking about tempo look at how many players from Billy Billy are getting ready to push forward around Garage they will leave enough over in towards mid to try to go for this lurk once again completely opened up here from TL billy Billy ready to fight as a little minor botch there on the upstrap but nothing going to be spotted zero point will tag on to two as now Billy Billy get ready to strike the a site looked like Team Liquid is maybe anticipating that somebody was going to try to push in towards two maybe they were looking for a play to shut Nef down as he tries to make his way up there never came to fruition as BG was fully looking for a fight at the front of B nothing really materializes trying to fake the Exec a bit but Liquid not quite biting on it they turn their sights over towards mid will be in good position to try to get a bit of a flood retake going here potentially i think that’s the better play here i think playing for retake definitely going to be the wiser option and I think suits this comp pretty well why is he on the peak pops down back of screens some very dangerous movements here from the jet but does go unpunished and spike now gets planted hanging back three players going to be remaining here on the site to try to defend this i suggest not much as far as postplane util is going to be concerned here as the peak out over the top ne is able to find one camo good for a kill onto YZ but the wheels are certainly coming off as Ne gets himself a 3k potential for the fourth penny says no fights back finds two but needs to get four kite noise going to be made there on the rope as he gets the tap he’s swinging around the back of sight though knows that this omen is going to be low on HP has the shock darts at the ready penny a bit of damage in swings out but Levia stands tall billy Billy now back in the lead 9 to8 yeah this is starting to look a little bit sty for Team Liquid seems like even now playing for retake of course that reckoning makes things more difficult but Nef’s position never able to be cleared he finds really nice timings on those peaks and is really clean with the shots to make sure he’s cleaning it out they’re starting to get fired up the wind back underneath Billy Billy sails it’s just sheriffs now for Team Liquid yz similar play behind this cascade round after round this time he’s going to try to tuck into the corner the change up there’s the drop down the push coming through wise getting a little bit frazzled but eventually he’s able to stabilize the aim to find one but Patty Techch does put it down trades it out question is can the weapon be recovered looks like the answer is going to be no a bit too far forward there’s camo still cycling these smokes in look remaining useful from beyond the grave but yeah as you say serial tucked in here at the bottom of tube here’s the footsteps turret however gives away the position just clears that out it’s ready to turn back in towards this B site standing ahead yeah just Penny over there right now towards B smoke should come through give BLG the opportunity to get this going but being delayed going to use the MSH oh cleared out they don’t have that for the post plant anymore and seems like widely they’re fully dissuaded realizing that they just don’t really have any real control here they’re going to have to wait cycle up some more of these walls serial getting closer spike planted go up and over the top going to be looking for that peak there serial going to be taken down though k9 finding one little bit of damage out but BLG superior weaponry line up their shots just the one casualty as they now get up to double digits yeah this is a really nice hold from BLG in the post plant had to wait things out a little bit longer than they would have liked but they got a lot of that utility out of the way early penny throws a paranoia they try to push off the back of that but again oh my god K9 fully blinded by the gecko flash didn’t matter but their post plant positioning so good that’s been a hallmark of this BLG team this year as they are a very fundamentally sound team foundations are strong for BLG but they’ve got to find another level they want to start getting deeper into events range up though updraft top tube play here for the side of BLG trying to catch somebody off guard serial does manage to slide away and keep himself safe well Nef he’s actually gotten underneath Boiler camo’s dead adekch does find the timing does get the catch so Nef take it down that lurk no longer a concern here for Liquid but now command out trying to go for the suppress spike doesn’t get planted going to take it down the push out of the wall there why is he able to collect one trump’s down he’s point blank alongside this one he’s still finding more penny taken down levious in range it’s a spray and pre kill on the Patty Techch and the cleanup is swift why is he playing like a madman is seemingly catching Team Liquid off guard billy Billy now a massive win streak here on the attacking side two rounds away from taking Yeah it’s so fun to watch YZ play because he knows that the rest of his team has got his back they can hold the line they can hold the angles and he can be creative he can open up some opportunities that you normally wouldn’t expect with a team that plays structured like they do and next they’re starting to get pumped through in it too and they’re going crazy they found their groove liquid trying to change the tempo here a bit second timeout call they try to write the ship three rounds it is recoverable they’re going to have a buy coming through still a bit rough around the edges though well now you’re starting to see some of the problems that the NOS desk was talking about before we got into this map with the inability to get info sometimes you have the gecko to give you a little bit but you don’t have anything else beyond that and so now they can’t because they don’t they’re not the ones setting the tempo they’re not the ones kind of pushing the pace like you would on the attacker side with this comp it’s harder to find the the value out of those flashes it’s harder to find the timings with those smokes and Billy Billy can just kind of wait for them in standard postpl positions you know play anti- flash a little bit and then just swoop in and start cleaning up kills and it helps now that YZ is fully engaged 20 kills on the map right now rushi as well having a whale of a time 19 i mean he went from being the hard carry to now you know joining in alongside YZ and Levius on occasion like he said Haditech can he hit somebody with a zero point if not okay we don’t know anything else right or the gecko maybe gives you a little bit but it’s it’s hard what is the play call for now one 122 fan out from Team Liquid pete coming in camo well yeah they they read that really well this is one of the first rounds that we haven’t seen that early cascade from Billy Billy and Camo reads that perfectly expecting a delayed push from YZ shuts it right down the strat calls shoot YZ in the head camo sticking to the plot toxins going up smoke going to be cycled out here as BLG interest on this B site but it’s heavily stacked now there just to try to clear out this closed corner but it seems like already not really enjoying what they’re seeing here so we’ll pivot back across they don’t even have Levius in a a very forward position today at all that’s okay i mean this is going to be interesting tons of noise being made not going to be Patty Techch knows what’s happening okay going to be going through levious not letting Credence to this side of the map nef is here along the bottom and Serial gets the one tap with the Guardian this round has gotten completely and utterly away from BLG since the moment that YZ had died it seemed like they just didn’t know what else to do it’s going to be Team Liquid now fighting back bring that gap down to just two rounds 10 seconds left k9 seems like he wants to get his ultimate online no matter what it will be in death this is kind of one of these rounds for BLG where they they start spreading out they start trying to take some individual fights and you know they get caught off guard in some of the situations and they’re not able to win them this team is at its best uh when you’re kind of fighting together you’re looking for that weak side and you’re trying to exploit the defenses of your opponent well done well done that is excellent that is an excellent cosplay sir he his his mustache isn’t quite it’s not it’s not twirling at the end it’s close we’re getting there he very much looks like side hey he’s getting done nice nice i like that he’s got a picture of Wyatt as well you guys have been awesome i mean it’s great to see the turnout already just here on day one we’re here for a couple weeks it’s going to be a hell of a tournament you guys having a good time so far yeah that is what we like to hear we’ll see though as how much more of this ice box we get so we can get ready to come out of this timeout two rounds away here our Billy Billy and if you want to riot gun buddy make sure you get into Mitch band’s DMs he’s got the hookup he’s got plenty he’s got plenty to go around well here we go billy Bailey looking to get themselves up to match point here thrash on the opposite side as well as the not dead yet they themselves a pit for a post plant as well as a Hunter Fury she got tools as Team Liquid to clear the the Viper alt so I think actually this is kind of one of those weird rounds for BG where you can’t lean too heavily into that that alt you can’t care about it too much it’s nice if you can get it there but you don’t want to invest a lot of resources inside of it because you got to expect the thrash and other things to come here goes YZ another attempt here as Bosch landing right there top of two but he’s going to be out to the open and Penny across the way on the B site is able to get the kill another solid shut down here yz just not spotting him whatsoever that’s a beautiful combo play we’ve seen YZ try to get up on that two before and there was a good answer for Team Liquid when he digs back into that well and he wanted to get the punish but the Cove was there to protect it as now the pit is going to be there on the back end reckoning sent as well everything in the kitchen sink pretty much getting invested here for the side of BLG just wanting to lock in that map point risha here alongside the push forward cano going to be taken down instantly pops the alt and Ko is able to find one as the wing man is just going for the diffuse they narrowly are able to interrupt it nep coming up big looks for a bit more but falls to the wayside hunter Fury now out wide gets the tag looks for the kill cannot find it k9 he’s just not going to be able to get there in time because it was previously held to half team Liquid persevering and they draw out damn near everything from BLG just beautiful stuff from Team Liquid again so many alts there that are so impactful the not dead yet allows you to keep scaling forward to make this post plant so so difficult serial gets the spot and he’s ready with the MSH to set up Penny very nicely done nap here almost takes matters into his own hands almost brings a miracle through but not happy about that one that was a lot invested without the result you wanted and now Team Liquid isn’t reaching distance one round away from BLG to tie things up bg very quickly wanting to try to get the take here on the site and this time Wise not going to be taken down off the rip finds the kill penny does fall down as Levius on the lurk similarly intercepting Patitech causing chaos going up as well as disinformation here for Team Liquid they can’t really focus on trying to get a retake on the B site when they know that Levius is going to be in the back line serial though gets off of it realizing that just doesn’t have the time to try to flush out this KJ and that bites him in the rear blg a 5v2 as they look to get themselves up to 12 the peak is not spotting him out and that means YZ is able to collect the kill on the camo completely and utterly free flawless round BLG one round away from taking Ice Box it’s just so important for BLG to get YZ activated in these rounds to get him that first kill and then you’re just opening things up for yourself so nicely not only are you scaling into sight you’re opening up the map for Levas to lurk so that he can counter Patty Techch quickly in a in a spot we haven’t seen Leas yet he hasn’t really been doing that quite yet do have a lock down do have an operator for camo and a couple Guardians yeah big change up there operator has not been seen pretty much at all in this map go for it hits the shot wave crashing haven’t been keeping complete track but typically these rounds when Wisey dies first BLG have not been able to close them out that’s helping that econ rating see a little bit of more of that still though BLG do get themselves a line share of the site for free just looking for a timing shot there but unable to find it k will expire spike now planted the thrash going to be sent forward here trying to get the catch and does manage to detain one but not sure if they’re going to be able to spill forward fast enough to try to find the punish here weapons about to be recovered the lock down going through as well tuck back they’re able to avoid getting detained 4v4 now on the retake still just that operator in hand the push forward they’re not reading K9’s position and they’re not calming it either pico taken down the drop k9 finding himself a third maybe on for the fourth as it is just Penny the hooktown hero to try to make it happen but with HP he’s not doing jack 13- 10 BLG sweating in that first half but they run away with it in the second they pick up a win on their map pick yeah team liquid trying to throw some curve balls but BLG on point ready to receive that attacker side looked so so good comes alive and it was amazing All right well Haven on the horizon we’ll see if Liquid are going to be able to make this a three mapper smash red Bull gives you wings eight let me show you how the [ __ ] does oh man I was just getting warmed up spike diffused i might be I might be I might be I might be the same i try to explain about the I can never be irrelevant they know me by the name I never went back to my old way i might be the same and I know I’m not mist I’m don’t try I’m like I’m I’m don’t I’m don’t try I’m I’m I’m trying to stay like that you know I like that you know I pull up like that you know my stay f like that i might be insane and I know I’m not a saint i try to explain still hanging by the chain i can never be irrelevant they know me by the name they going to wish that I never went back to my old ways i might be insane and I know I’m not a saint i try to explain still by the chain i can never be irrelevant they know me by the name wish that I never went back to my old I might be the same and I know I’m not the same i try to explain hello everyone jen Lee here with Coach Bile now Bio a little bit of a struggle in the second half but you guys closed it out you know can you give us your honest evaluation of the first map fake uh well yeah it was a little bit of struggle in the uh second half and of course looking at the triple smokes I didn’t think that Team Liquid was going to pull that out but I told um the guys on our team you know remember FPX comp about a year ago uh the comp it usually sells a lot of fakes don’t so don’t fall for this fakes and uh we were really confident uh with our attack so you know what you know defense was pretty hard but I told them five is enough just get five rounds we’re good to go but yeah it was definitely a hard game tough game but um it was really good and I told them you know what do not care about where they place the smokes just you know focus on the attack well thank you very much Bio good luck in the second map thank you is a hardcore victory but it’s a great start for BLG i’m your host and I’m back here with Ender and Melt you heard it from Coach Bell they’ve seen this comp before they played up against this comp back in uh CM but they did get absolutely owned the last time they had to play against FBX uh brave choice for Liquid to pick that into Billy Billy it was interesting i’m honestly I’m surprised they put up as good a fight as they did right 13-10 it was in within touching distance some rounds go their way on defense it’s a very different story but this was a struggle I think for them once we got into the second half of things uh with I don’t know with all the different like fake moves that BG were going for and with how well their top prior were playing it was a tough one like you said it was a competitive affair until around 88 I think Team Liquid started to lose their footing and that’s when BLG just took it to the distance and took over took over the map i think honestly shout out to coach Bale that is some great coaching out of him to make that call back to when they did play FX cuz albeit they did lose but learning from that and being like hey he instantly had the solutions ready to go and ready to tell them exactly what they needed to do and I think as well at the at the halftime him being like hey we only need five it is defense ice box after all and they came out on top so what more can you really say and honestly I think what he’s alluding to is like don’t care about their smokes usually when you play against like heavy smoke teams like not every smoke can actually be held so at some point you have to start disrespecting smokes fight going through them fight through it find your timing though they did it with util which is nice with util sometimes but there were other rounds in like postpl pushing pushing forward uh that was pretty cool even with harbor util coming in against them so I thought they played really uh adaptively around those those i really loved how Weezy uh Wizzy specifically was always pushing the boundaries of the space they had and pushing through those smokes you’re talking about i swear every time he was on his POV in a post line he was in space that he he was in no man’s land and he was always getting value getting his one and leaving getting two and leaving pushing through the waves pushing through the smokes yeah triple smokes and no Viper the only team in the world in tier one right now that do not run the Viper on ice box and uh the reason I kind of wanted to take some highlight looks at highlights of Russia is that there are so many smoke players on the server ender but he was by far the best one he was so disciplined on his harbor yeah I mean he was dominating in this game i think mirror KD with Wisy who was also popping off which is super impressive to see out of a Harbor player right usually these guys sitting back throwing up smokes but he was involved in actually a lot of first kills and was doing well on that front too so he was just locked in and firing on all cylinders we heard some great insight from coach Bale but let’s hear what coach Lohan on team liquid had to say ahead ahead of map 2 hello everyone jen Lee here again now this time with team Liquid’s coach Lohan lohan I understand you guys only had two days to practice implement Penny into the team but somehow you guys whipped out this creative comp so can you talk to us a little bit about the decision process uh behind this triple smokes yeah like we said like we have only two days of practice with with Penny so we need to try to make something different uh I think it’s still quite good i think the team can still play like very very disruptive varant in their faces and let’s see what you do for the next map um second map quadruple smokes what sorry I didn’t understand sorry second map four smokes four controllers all right um let’s see you guys will see in a second it’s going to be interesting yeah all right thank you and good luck i wouldn’t put it past Team Liquid because they’ve shown some creativity on Haven to say the least but Mel that’s not always a good thing when you keep changing your comps and not finding the results yeah I mean sometimes too you might just pick a comp that you know your opponent has played against actually before so I mean Team Liquid as a team I couldn’t even guess what comp even more than what they did before on Icebox because I think the last three times they played Haven each comp was different yeah they’ve got like double duelist they’ve got double smokes they’ve got double centi it’s it’s a little bit of everything but honestly like the one thing that I think I saw stick consistently between both their previous performances with the old roster and also now minus nats was on defense this team was getting very aggressive now you kind of had to see that on ice box when you don’t have uh you know a sentinel to actually give you that passive info but expect this team to be going for a lot of walkups into the mid space into that a space on defense they like to sort of bring that fight to you instead of waiting around for you to come to them i would also love to see what Billy Billy are going to do because they were hard into the Yoru Tejo breach which so far now all the teams so far at least have abandoned that so they they have choices i guess I could see them absolutely just ditching the Teao subbing in a Silva i think that comp they run is just as fine but I’m really interested in Team Liquid are they going to play to Penny strengths this time cuz we saw in Icebox they had Penny on Omen which is an agent he has not played on that map before so I’m wondering is he going to be more towards his duelist more of a natural role you see him hovering breach here and Billy Billy they just they just don’t mess about insta inst I I respect it you know not always saying anytime until you are accidentally thinking you’re on a different map when you install lock the wrong guy every single time every single time I’m in agents list I’m like I’m always hovering and I’m just like okay I have the right agent this is the right map and I think Billy Billy probably feels the same yeah and it looks like we got the YZ neon on Haven i’m very excited about that yeah again like this comp so good at just running ex the neon overwhelms sights in a way that a Jet or or Yoru just simply cannot uh it makes it really hard to actually anchor especially as a solo player so you’re looking to play maybe a little bit more offsite fast flood in with teammates to disrupt that and maybe his teammates are the ones playing offside and YZ is going to be in their spawn probably if I had to guess especially on the Neon i’m really excited to see him just overrun these sites yeah I don’t want to read into things too much but I for one moment I saw uh a cheeky little SOA on Patty’s screen and then maybe a breach on the side of Penny as well i don’t think we saw the full lock from TL with the hovering was weird because I really hope they play into the strength of some of the players that haven’t had to sub him because Patty’s got to be playing the breach man i don’t want to see him having to move over to the SOA yeah well I’ve got I’ve got I’ve got good news for you and your speculation Sue uh I’ve been told they’re remaking the lobby right now to to get those agents locked in correctly so we’re going to we’re going to wait a little bit before we confirm that one yeah assuming that Billy Billy’s ones were correct you know assuming we will get a uh wisy neon this is where everything you spoke about Mel in terms of him not being afraid to make space it’s going to get really really tough for Team Liquid i honestly want to see what the reaction is going to be because he’s playing extremely fearless right now he’s always on the precipice of the space that they have and he’s always it kind of from the outside perspective it almost looks like BM the the peaks he’s taking and the space he’s taking but really he just has that desire to win and he’s going to do it himself if he has to and I wonder is Team Liquid are we going to be more aware of these spots that maybe we don’t typically clear in scrims like the aggro angles cuz Yis is not playing scared he is here to win i would love to get a zoom in there on uh Russia’s like screen because he was checking out his cosmetics you know his gun skins i wanted to see what he was equipping yeah yeah yeah imagine that’s the reason oh wait remake lobby i didn’t actually upgrade my skins i don’t have the primordium vandal for something i I I mean we have a lot of players that I mean Mel what’s your what’s your preference you know well my preference is on tourney client i always equip the primordium vandal cuz I don’t have it on my main account i would love to have it but is that a buff it absolutely is i had the primordium phantom i’m just praying it’s in my store but I don’t have to know what Vandal YZ is using i’m interested to know i pray for you as well i I believe what I does he use the um does he use the durka judge skin i don’t even know what it’s called it’s called the durka skin i’m not I’m not deep on the skin lord you know what I mean the red one um all right we’re back in now and is that a hold up that’s a penny phoenix what is this 2021 Iceland in full swing he’s back he actually jumped in the time machine he is V1 penny ready to go after it he is rolling back the years yeah it has been locked in so do we like this again another surprise from Liquid i’m kind of down for it i mean I haven’t seen a Phoenix in in so long besides the Pearl that we saw i was going to say didn’t you used to like play versus Phoenix on Haven versus like old Fly Quest so yeah my current teammate Dodo Nut she was on Fly Quest and she was playing Phoenix and we would play against her honestly once you kind of know what the Phoenix is going to do like there’s very common spots they love playing short A they love farming the A orb they love farming the C orb when you’re on attack you kind of it’s kind of predictable in a sense but I can see them struggling to adapt quickly on the fly well Penny he’s played five jewelists on Haven before but never the Phoenix so Kios and Paper thin I can’t wait to see what Team Liquid are going to bring out on this map we can’t wait either and fortunately we don’t have to we are ready now to go into this second map liquid’s pick of Haven as they look to take us to a third and final and give us our first glimpse of Sunset this is this is madness i mean the Phoenix we’ll see if it can come through got two neons should be pretty explosive the pace pretty pretty high on that last map so let’s see if it keeps up here on Haven certainly should two neons in the mix with a Phoenix to boot let’s go ahead and see what happens toronto are you ready let’s see just how chaotic this can get this is going to be quite interesting yz plays the knee on a Lotus a lot take first contact it’s a little bit of damage but is at least able to clear the space exchange of some shots they want to go ahead and recle this barrage position they’re able to do so but he go out here at window comes up with one well not really able to find too much there off the flash as Russia is going to be noted sends out a paranoia but there’s just too many bodies here in window as Penny is cooking them levious and K9 both burning to death ne is able to find camo but he’s going to get caught off guard that is going to be a pistol take here as Liquid get themselves on the board nice and early on Haven this is uncharacteristic to me for BLG for them to get that aggressive post plant this is usually a team that’s so happy to just plant their feet and wait things out make their opponent make the move but they try to catch Team Liquid a bit off guard here in Garage the early flash push is good then the hot hands right into the cyber cage catches Kite and Levius as they’re trying to get out and then then it’s just Nef on his own not much he can do there team Liquid players coming from a couple different angles patty Tech he’s been the hype guy for Team Liquid and they’re able to get a pistol something they couldn’t do on Icebox the diffuse handed over it’s going to be Penny halfway towards having to run it back online minor amount of damage going to be pushed forward there onto Nef quick clear on the cam just confirming yes he is in fact still in the sewer bomb at the ready push getting ready to come in and serial looking to try to cut them down does manage to find himself a second elimination as the outall shot second one will connect kiko gets her to YZ now just Nef and Levious Sheriff and a classic to try to see if they can get a bit more damage through well Levius might get the read that A is open although Patty Tech kind of angling in that direction but how do you even safely try to get meth over towards the site at this point can to fight his way out finds a head shot they’re on to one now knows that he’s positioned but Kico will just peek in that’s a spike now dropped levias need to try to win this out is able to do so suddenly the damage dealt looks a hell of a lot better two players alive a Bulldog now upgraded for Levius 65 HP see if he can a little bit more dealt but no he cannot penny snappy with a head shot and spares them any more losses but that’s still three weapons gone yeah really like the early layering here by Team Liquid with Serial trying to play off some of that KJ utility gets overwhelmed but then you’ve got the Outlaw in Kiko’s hand enemy remaining to lock down that extra angle make it really difficult for BG but they fight back get some big kills that’s just the Phantom and the Outlaw carried over couple ghosts and a sheriff for camo otherwise it’s phantoms and yeah all phantoms rushia thinking about it okay goes for the Vandal but style choice there yz with a Vandal as well a little bit odd as Okay it’s getting cooked again same two players this time not going to be taken down but that is so much damage dealt off the rip as Liquid look to convert this bonus trap play comboing the util there for Liquid set Kiko up here with the drone sean’s flying kiko needing quite a bit of damage there in exchange down to 14 still is alive though kite spotting out onto Serial he’s just going to rotate back around the back site let’s see but you can see BLG there not liking that that info’s been given over kind of leaned in the seaside direction for a little bit kite still making some noise trying to keep the extra players on that side of the map ball connecting on the two penny gets one looks to just go ahead and get out and Camo swinging in from the top of the ramp is able to find that elimination just trading it out try to keep protected as Penny holds his ground for another two players now left alive with Levius down to 36 30 seconds very doable for Team Liquid as the shock darts absolutely tear K9 is under 55 HP here on the SOA pat going to get the quick peak here with this outlaw and the amount of damage come away with the kill plays it patiently sets up the recon quick clear the spot out k9 find one levious gets himself a third and there’s the fourth as PLG scrapes by with a round win but it is not comfortable at all well it’s tremendous stuff by Levius again able to find just enough open space to get into that a sight and bail Billy Billy out this looked like it might be a bonus conversion he swings through takes camo down i think something you got to start considering here really quickly for BLG is figuring out where that Phoenix is that almost completely shut down that round penny had a really good read and was able to use those curve balls so effectively there he’s five and one too quick little push camo getting tucked here at Cubby triple stack on this seight blg still sticking around as the drone’s going to come in up over the top camo able to go ahead and quickly reposition as Patech just fishing for any kind of damage that he can find but go whizzing past but unconnecting rushia has got to judge here see what BLG wants to do with this but for now kind of rotation and it’s shut down camo trying to push out the doors hell of a shot there from Nev not sure if Kiko had been scouted but now he certainly will be the neural depth getting the ping reveal he spot out three players towards this C side it’s once again just a bit of a delay here from Kite just trying to keep interest on this side of the map but the rest of Billy Billy ready to push forward but Wisy the great position to get the jump there head shot does connect and Penny he’s up on the floor paranoia dodge serial trying to hold down the sight he’s unable to do so wise he eventually does get flushed out kite now starting to make his way around here on this very long deep lurk spike planted wire cleared a couple shots narrowly not connecting as K9 now hearing seeing the jump but not able to come away with the kill is that enough to spur Liquid on to try to go for a retake still do have some time on their side but know that they’re playing against three and they’re actually going to get the Rolling Thunder out as well dodge by Paddite they can’t really scale forward still just too many angles to try to clear here as it looks like in the end yet the call the save will be made blg have to invest an ultimate but they keep three players alive and they’re going to tie it two to two yeah I love the way that they’re spreading the map here as BLG making some noise around the backside that baits out camo and Nef is very ready for it nef is one of these players who really likes to hold some tight angles for his team to find those opening kills he’s a really really heady player knows where to be when to be i’m out of here and he finds a great opener there but this kill on the backside almost cost BLG dearly get it got the alt out that definitely hurts that rolling thunder very big piece of the puzzle on this attacker side now you got a weaker buy couple rifles there penny does have the run it back just a sheriff in hand maybe just invest it off the rip here out the door we’ll see well just an exchange of the darts cleared out patty Techch very much disconnected back onto the site lob on the shock dart here looking to try to see if they can clear out any util in case that alarm bot might be situated out front of B you can see though full KJ setup there to try to hold down the seight look at camo he’s like why is he was here earlier maybe it’ll work for me tucked into the scubby just the sheriff as for now serial going to be spotted by the drone push forward into the garage but here comes the slip around the back camo looking to try to get the back stab but now he’s going to be spotted nef the very moment that they needed him clearance gets line of sight and does manage to get that kill kico with the Vandal gets two nasty taps and suddenly Team Liquid on for this round win wisey does manage to break open the Aite a bit fast lane to try to delay weapons maybe one can be recovered serial reroutes and looks like he’s going to do just that won’t be able to pick it up still just going to be Penny here hand it over now gets the Vandal and that run it back could certainly come into play and it’s going to swing timing why is he able to find one now it is all on Nef intercepts the Phoenix cancels the alt just one flash slowly drifts back gets himself tucked in over it long time ticking getting lower and lower the path to push forward the head shot he’s going to re swing and he catches Penny completely off guard red Bull clutches his as is the lead for BLG i love the proactivity here by YZ and Nef you know the alt’s there you know Phoenix has it you know he’s going to be setting up outside of that door go YZ says “Well I’m just going to try to go for it see what I get out of it.” Nef plays this brilliantly right as the hot hands is coming through oh my god incredible almost gets martyed by that molly on the ground does manage to go ahead and keep the weapon it’s rounds like that that are going to enable him to just very quickly build up another Rolling Thunder he’s just about at the halfway mark as there’s a pin reveal out onto Patty look at trying to stun him out but it’s going to be Kiko actually over towards Sewer who gets caught very pacy hit here from the side of Billy Billy as now there’s a hunter spear they’re all scattering to the wind rash trying to collect but cannot camo doing well to find that kill they’ve got two players tagged up penny now trying to get the heals coming in serial trading it back as wise as he falls penny finding Nav hamill finding Kite and suddenly Levius last one standing eats the relay ball find Serial the low HP member but Penny with 22 health will go ahead and trade it back and we are tied up at three to three man after such a beautiful start to this round for BLG Team Liquid catches fire with the rifles it’s a great early util usage here by BLG setting up YZ to find their first kill onto Penny the Hunter set Rushia but they just can’t connect the shots there’s too many targets here rushia little shake of the head there yz caught a head shot as well there on the camo I believe in that exchange they were all so weak and yeah that’s frustrating target rich and aim poor rishia hasn’t been able to get himself on the board quite just yet 05 and four at the moment there we go that was a critical moment for him couldn’t make it happen overdrive pop from camo quickly takes space outside of see actually caught a glimpse there as well as YZ very snappy gets a shut down onto Penny i was just about to say YZ’s got his alult maybe he could pass the rival over to somebody else you know what never mind just let him do it just go ahead finds the opening kill overall the 5v4 conversion from BLG on the previous map was very good see if that rings true here on Haven as they still do have two players with just pistols behind this could be a very big round win kind of a tucked in position there for Serial has the lock down at the ready all of the info right now while the alarm bot gives up even more so but you see I mean camo sliding around the back there is not a trip wire set up to intercept him just the one in window so no real way to try to get a read on this one yeah that doesn’t doesn’t do that camo now striking as they try to escape they’re all going to be coraled into the corner gets himself another head shot there k9 take it down to 50 neighting though comes up with two for a little bit more why is he on the top of the overdrive instantly gets the elimination and that now leaves Kiko all by himself the swing coming in eventually is able to find that kill can he escape is the question nef is on the hunt on the prowl pushing forward waiting for him to come down the stairs another multi-kill round here for Nef as Billy billy regain the lead these rounds are wild when it feels like one team has an advantage it feels like somebody’s got a good read the other team is turning on it turning things on their head i mean this early kill okay great and then you’ve got this backstab from Camo and I’m like all right this is Team Liquid and then that one has been incredible here on this A site well even though the round count is neck and neck here between the two teams Team Liquid they’re going to go ahead and pump the brakes as they get ready to go into a bit of a save here see what the play call ends up being hunter’s Fury from the Shadows the only two ults to speak of penny one off having that next run it back available and Nep’s back into another Rolling Thunder already so some things to consider for both teams in the alt situation here for Team Liquid this is tough i mean BLG they’re getting aggressive they’re being a lot more proactive than they usually are they’re they’re kind of this slow paced team they usually don’t like to get mega aggressive even with the Neon they’ll do this on Lotus they they run a neon on Lotus and they kind of just shift around the map again looking for these weak sides but now they’re looking for weaknesses in Team Liquid’s defenses early yz’s game plan here on Ice Box and now we’re seeing it again on Haven is to just kind of go for what he feels like he can find go for these openings go for lurks he’s been lurking on the neon for God’s sake he It’s just a very different Billy Billy that we’re seeing today i mean obviously it was going to be a different Team Liquid but Billy showing us some new stuff as well a couple sheriffs serial just a classic this is going to be a mid rush here paranoia out tp forward into the window nothing going to be spotted plenty of noise made penny looking to try to see if he can spot anything out here’s the swing in though and Russia gets himself on the board being around peaks instantly gets the dink and the straight out is okay he’s alive and well it would seem three quick kills and Liquid trying to go for the rush play and come up empty-handed it’s a great reaction off the rip from Russia see what Patty Techch wants to do low on health still trying to identify targets as Rushia recon not going to spot Kiko can find anything nope kite not having any of that and just instantaneous with it patty Techch needing to die looks like he’s going to try to hunt to find something try to get some damage in but won’t be able to make it happen levius finds it and that’s going to be Billy billy now stretching the lead by two rounds as they pull off a flawless yeah Rushia has been so good in BCT China he has really been a standout player on this controller slow start on Haven great round to pick it up great identification here that it was going to be a fast mid hit from the side of Team Liquid and he’s tasked with a tough one to hold the line there while the rest of his team goes towards the C site to get the plant through and he executes it brilliantly ooh ooh ooh looking for some chip damage there does put Nef down to 78 penny obviously heal got the Y get forward into the blaze wall they’ve been patient yeah they’ve been patient with the run it backs looking for contact or saving it for the retakes it’s not It’s very much not prescribing to the Paperrex style like oh we have alt use go you yeah oh go now question is is it too reserved for now though snails pace in the round something that we haven’t really been seeing too much and a lot of patience will be rewarded as Nef the raid boss himself ends up getting taken down and that’s that rolling thunder now that you do not have to be concerned about for the remainder of this round it’s a nice little identification here by Team Liquid you know Nef’s been kind of guarding that angle and it’s cost them spot from Levvious just going to have to use the cage to get out meanwhile cool man scattered meanwhile serial just pushing forward and the alt is there it’s almost like Rish had realized that they were going to lose their player and have the spike on the floor instantaneous to get the pickup makes a TP spike now planted wisey staying tucked here into the corner shrugs off the relay bolt russia instantly gets the clear here paranoia going to be sent but they haven’t scouted Wisy as Russia finds another TPS for the reposition to push forward looking for a timing there is Leas is able to find one swing around the corner though and Penny will be able to get the final kill team Liquid the timeout call seemingly working a treat still costly economy not in the greatest position but they get the round win just one separating but they’re finding those moments now to punish some of the tendencies that they’ve been seeing from BLG the early kill on the Nef here by Kiko saw the head there a little bit over the box and then getting the cross expecting the change in positions nice heads up play from Rushia that Phoenix so annoying in moments like that nice boys beautiful those close quarters battles those tight angles where those curve balls are so effective makes it so challenging team Liquid still keeping it close one round behind yz thinking about trying to take a little bit of space serial wise to it he remembers what happened last time continues to press this they’ll find that that C site relatively open it’s just a little bit suspect not seeing any resistance there bg reading as well drone doesn’t look right actually hasn’t spotted but now they know there’s the reveal and now Levius is in a bad spot down to 25 TP forward as Kiko just refilling that space in Cubby why he gets damaged and Leius has not read this at all so he just gets taken down the spray going to be living off though camel unable to find that kill nef fighting back finds it and Kite expounds upon it gets taken down why he looking for the timing swing to come away with one but the trade up here is just monsters from Billy billy three players still alive kiko they have a fault line ready just off any kind of contact node they just send it on a timing and that leaves him dead to rights k9 with the 3k blg now up to six i mean YZ is just being so aggressive at a link old ways are he is either just pushing through that door or holding the door one way or another and it is giving Team Liquid bits and that’s their able to just barely scrape through in that battle but you can see then right away he’s able to call through guys they’re pushing spam spam that angle and they profit through the smoke nicely done yeah that’s got to be frustrating for Patty Techch and now you’re back onto a weaker buy again for Team Liquid delta really tough hand you tell that round results very much getting to them here russia just stunned up it doesn’t know where he’s going eventually just kind of dog walks out in the long gets taken down there by Penny two away from another run at back should be able to have that to try to close out the half as Livius though lingering here in window unscouted hearing all of this noise the swing now coming through he’s instantaneous with the first looks for a little bit more penny desperately trying to fight his way through allow for this KJ to join in but will be able to collect the kill all the same watch out however still planted relay both going to be set to swing forward wise he ends the transfer he knocks him out of the park needed up doesn’t give a damn holds down the spray as Billy billy locking in the lead this is just a wild round for Billy billy Russia just has no idea what’s going on over here but he buys a lot of time he’s got three players over on that aside because of that push out that opens up the space for them to get the plant and YZ finds his moment he’s been waiting he’s been chomping at the bit for that angle throws the relay dashes in he gets two i He is just so talented individually and now he’s got an attack off on the Neon TP forward once again bit of a window mid crunch here as Penny sending out that curve ball but will just be snapped back al Value ultimately not going to be found as Camo similarly is pushing out with no assistance ends up falling to the wayside as Kiko is at least able to find a kill tag down to 25 he has to use the alt just to get out safely the dust settles we find ourselves now on a 4v4 it’s just crazy team Liquid is just trying to press the advantage but YZ has the angle held destroyed team Liquid they need to try to clear they need to try to get information it leads to them just dry swinging still going tit for tat here will be a 3v3 had to be careful quite a bit of damage dealt the kill cannot be found man you want to keep K9 alive he has that alt for the post plant that was crucial that he wins that fight serial in position could go for the lock down over at window 30 seconds left we’ll just do it on timing i’m pissed blg they will go ahead and push off the back of this side plant towards that A connector serial is able to find one ne going to be taken down k9 down to a sliver of HP but Wisey still breathing still firing back as it all comes down to Kiko and he cannot make it happen the 3K from YZ blg up 8 to four at the half yz is having one hell of a series 15 and N in that half unbelievable unbelievable well Team Liquid needing to rally back we’ll see if they’re able to do it after halftime enemy is a $2 billion industry now but it all started in dingy basement and cramped living rooms from how the pros train to how the money flows this G2 and Mastercard series breaks it all down 12 episodes packed with insight and lessons for anyone looking to understand the world of competitive gaming ready to learn the game behind the game stay tuned for what’s next you won’t want to miss it off what about the times you said you never you feel the black the Baby we are back liquid needing to try to rebound down by four as BLG just running away with the ladder bits of that half you can see here in our Coinbase Econ report things kind of flatlining a bit for Penny started out strong in that Phoenix i mean you’re looking to get a lot of value out of the Phoenix you’re looking to cycle those alt orbs here on this attacker side so you can turn it around a little bit economic report does get helped a bit when you’re just burning people to death as well it’s not like you know the hot heads doesn’t exactly cost much of anything for you and uh when you get those kills and eco rounds it can help bump up the numbers quite a bit but we’ll need to see a bit more oomph behind this Phoenix here still overall a very good score for him 86.5 is quite good he’s having a solid effort but BLG just really starting to come alive some hero plays from Nef and YZ is on one today he certainly is team Liquid needing to start off this half with another pistol win they got the first only having three more round victories off the back of that certainly not going to be a good feeling but now they find themselves on the attack a lone occupant here at the sea site does have a cam as well serial looking to maybe try to break through this garage position but why is he staying quiet tuck no actually swings out dies serial nearly gets himself a second kill pit’s going to be lobbed in there camo able to find Livius as spike can now be planted being revealed but no way to really play off the back of that great usage of the util early again for Penny ball getting the connection camo find the shots double just death ball push here from the duelists gets Team Liquid their second pistol win here on Haven it’s again another pistol round that’s just a scrap around the garage and Team Liquid comes through two times now they’re able to get the pistol wins here on Haven but isn’t going to be able to convert that further yz just looking for a timing there it’s absolutely roasted get a roasting penny doing a great job there using that hot hands really nicely to flush Levius into a position where he was an easy kill for Team Liquid really good reactive play from them it’s the exact start that they needed once again hefty investment this time to have Cerial with just the ghost kind of curious if was thinking about challenging that orb looks like it and Team Liquid not really content to try to fight for that so over to the other side of the map they go i mean again most teams when they run Phoenix they just want to get these alts going as quickly as possible and Team Liquid will find the open side of the map so seemingly for BLG looking for ways to die to the spike once this one goes down almost certainly maybe you send Wisey in there with a frenzy try to gap close and that wouldn’t surprise me yeah is all right we’ll hand this over to Penny says “Yeah I’m over halfway to having that run it back so let’s go ahead and give me the plan.” Guys I couldn’t get the C orb i need the I need the spike plant or please why is he thinking about trying to go for that push in towards a lobby is of course being watched by two players they have the alarm button at the top of sewers as well looks to reroute Billy billy they know that if they’re going to get any kind of damage here it’s going to have to be just a full fiveman death ball push in towards the site like to see Serial go for it oh they’re just going to shuffle the guns and Penny that makes a lot more sense get those alt orbs wants to go hunting ghost at the ready to sprint for the slide out does get that kill that’s going to be alt online going into the next round looking for a little bit more damage but seems like it’s just not quite going to be Pal so two spike deaths here for the side of Billy Billy as Liquid start off the half two zero they retain all of their weapons this time ah this is a really nice anti-EO hard to do it much better and just reading the map really nicely you know you don’t have your normal IGL here for Team Liquid so it’s kind of a bit more of a committee that’s going on behind the scenes we’ve heard some rumors that there’s a couple players that are being more vocal than normal maybe Kiko maybe Patty Techch getting involved uh but certainly you know just trying to find the flow trying to find the feel of the game and they setting up for a B hit maybe that run it back clear the trip wire and the sight is wide open for the taking here for Team Liquid does come through you can see Kite shifting over not going to dissuade much when you have an Eon camo sprinting in towards backside k9 does get the shut down penny interrupted ammo is absolutely tearing them aunder two quick kills going to be found paranoia gets sent out oh a timing there benny unable to escape still though damage dealt as Ko set up here at back site and Russia now all alone to try to clutch this out in all likelihood we just have to try to go for a save this is going to be a bonus converted here for Team Liquid as they are clawing their way back into this map three rounds consecutively one separating from tying things up as Risha now just has to try to stay alive they’re going to send Kiko out to try to hunt him down see if he can get him in time slowly working his way up the stairs goes in for the swing russia will be able to shut it down finds that elimination but Team Liquid not going to be breaking a sweat about that final death they’ve got cash of plenty and opponents converted someone see the pace that they’re coming at BLG with so aggressive camo and Kiko just deadly with those rifles doing a great job making sure that any of those flanks and other angles are just shut right down clearly not bothered about dying there no no reason to be and they’re just doing a great job finding the open sights two rounds in a row where BLG has left oh wow yz and that’s the outlaw finds that kill up and over the top there’s Rush just kind of dancing around on the B side does get a bit of damage on the camo but cannot confirm the kills 4v4 with all this chaos in mid does allow for Nep to slide forward gets himself tucked in and Penny is quick to trade it out but cannot prevent the deaths as Kite similarly does shut down the Phoenix suddenly we go into a 2v2 yz working his way across towards this A site levious slowly drifts his way in towards hell sheriff at hand this position completely and utterly uncleared can he find the timing to interrupt the plant no can’t do that but he can certainly collect one and Serial will get taken down kinko trying to get the spray but why is he dances around him the diffuse to come through and Billy Billy they stop Team Liquid from tying this up they maintain the lead now 9 to7 that was a nice combo play there for Levius and YZ yz uses that fast lane to set Levius up that he can get around that box that was so nicely timed and all these little traps that they’ve set up with the stingers kite there flashed up and just helped trigger down yz just runs out in the open almost dies one more bullet and he was gone just barely able to get through he’s popped up that was a hell of a pop off close but no cigar for the side of Team Liquid what is basically a thrifty that one’s going to sting just a bit will purchase across both teams though wisy catching the glimpse but can’t quite find the elimination serial keeps his life intact narrowly so as he takes even more damage on the way out man down to 55 and looking to dip back over towards the C site maybe or B depending on what they can find that’s open spot out on the two but Leas bit whiffy there with the spray just setting up the wall as Nepin from that a connector is able to find one but camo shuts him down on the alarm bot the window being watched overdrive now popped as Team Liquid go for a pivot cross over towards that C site Russia however tucked in at the cubby is going to look to try to catch them off guard here caught a glimpse but cannot catch the shots hunter Fury however out from K9 able to find serial as the plant goes down the swing forward clutches out camo as it’s now all down to Patty Tech and he cannot make it happen three players left standing billy Billy get to double digits man the coordination on these retakes for Billy Billy is so good right now and that’s great patience from Kite heard Team Liquid stomping over towards C and was nipping at their heels and found a kill gets his alt lets it fly huge stuff here right on the money with that Hunter’s Fury and that is setting up Rushia and Cam excuse me and YZ to get in there and finish the job just brilliant brilliant stuff all around at the end final timeout call now going to be used by Team Liquid they’re very close just three rounds could still turn this on its head try to take us in towards Sunset the need to figure out how to counteract Billy Billy’s aggression right now it’s tough i mean Billy Billy has kind of come into this match saying you guys want to come at us you want to come out fighting we can do it too no problem we’ve got YZ he is happy to play that game but it’s more than that you’re seeing some great plays nef Levius I mean K9 there in that last round russia starting to come alive after a really rough start the whole team getting involved here and Team Liquid has had some really good moments they got the bonus here to start this half but a little bit of struggle on the back there patty Tech only two kills right now on that SOA not able to really find that value it’s going to be a bit of a half by for the side of Team Liquid couple rifles bulldog Sheriff Stinger they’re going to try to get through looks like they’re leaning towards C but BLG is fourman strong on the A side they’re just going to leave Levius over there on his own to try to anchor that down so if this is a fast hit could just be a play for the orb just have to wait and see all set up at lobby try to maybe prevent any real forward pushing levvious sat here towards back sight goes across TP towards top plat we’ll see that the site is opened up and that’s going to be the plant now coming in here for team Liquid blg quickly getting clustered up as a threeman push in towards window throne going to be cleared out needs a little bit of damage here let’s go for the reposition spots out the camera clears that yz trying to sprint his way in ends up on the wayside as Ko comes up huge three quick kills and the timeout call works a treat team Liquid right the ship and they get it done in damn near flawless fashion i mean once again Team Liquid just finds the weak side and presses that advantage and BLG can’t really get their footing for this retake it’s just shut right down yz just trying to dash in be a human recon drone there try to cause some distraction kiko’s having none of it and Bile neither is Bile yeah Bile not thrilled again it’s going to be an immediate timeout call in response here from Billy billy probably looking for a little bit more util on that uh entry there from the uh from the retake attempt things like that but I mean Team Liquid when they get the right read they have really taken Billy Billy to task they just haven’t been able to recover it’s got to find ways to delay to force some rotations out of Team Liquid and they know they’re so very close to just locking down this series getting out with the two-0 getting themselves set up at that one zero score line for the Swiss red draw vile not wanting to take any chances still does have another timeout here in behind just in case this continues to get closer but he wants to further separate he wants to get this team up towards that match point we’ll see what the adjustments look like for now though YZ operator in hand is going to be playing over at a long and that’s where everyone from Liquid is getting ready to push yeah they want to get that lock down set up for Serial so comes down to NYZ find value thinking about maybe going for a timing shot that attack getting a bit from the shock dart there’s the peak and now operator is going to be confirmed but it’s going to be a fast push coming through out of the zoom advising on the repeat however here at long a gets a kill onto K9 he’s just going to no scope him right into the back as Nef trying to play anti flash but Paranoia connects onto him all the same still gets himself aligned against the boxes kiko TPS crossed towards the defender spawn as the spike gets wrapped around you should run lock down in play curveball coming through but Rushia ahead of it but a huge timing as he is just strafing him you can’t be doing that to him what a shut down billy Billy just absolutely swat away all of the efforts all of the attempts from Team Liquid just great stuff from YZ knew he had to deal with camo show me this one enemy remaining all right you get those sometimes that first one was great jacob said “Yeah cuz I’m not i’m having the time of my life to be honest bro at least they’re taking it all in stride here let’s see though they’re going to run this back team Liquid needs a start now but Penny is out into the open ultimate immediately nullified by Russia up on top of the box but why is he how’s he how’s he got here i haven’t even looked at the mini map he’s suddenly in around the back outside of a lobby that attack dead there’s nowhere to go but forward onto this aside serial Kiko desperately fighting back as Penny does find Rushup a 2v2 penny slowly ticking up getting some heals but serial dead from above they’re finding the timing as it now comes down to Penny to try to clutch this out to keep Liquid a float to give them the opportunity it’s been a while since he’s been on a master stage like this a curveball in hand but he doesn’t need it red Bull clutch off the back of the 3K penny he keeps him in this and the Canadian local comes up huge for Team Liquid there it looked like this might be Curtains wise in your back lines you’re getting chewed apart trying to get onto the site and it’s a 2v one here at the end penny able to dodge the op shot and catch Nef at the wall and that’s huge and another frustrating one for the coaching staff of Billy Billy and life has been breathed into Team Liquid once again how long can they hold on to that life is the question a bit of a waning pulse here art is still beating as Russia immense amount of damage pushes good damage back onto Penny but obviously can go ahead and heal himself yeah just Oh man that was close and somehow camo not taking any damage there double setup peek in towards Sewart gets away scott free kiko now planted outside of B russia going to look to try to go for this peak and finds the timing as Levius is there as well and he dead wisy he’s swinging around the back once again start of the Kiko nothing that he can do one by one they fall just getting torn to bits billy Billy flawlessly get themselves now up to match point team Liquid need three in a row to force OT this is just a brilliant read here by BLG they’re not getting any pressure anywhere else on the map and Rouia had a little bit of a scrape in towards B early and Team Liquid thinks well there really isn’t much defense here on the B site i think that’s going to be open for the taking and we did a lot of damage to Rushia so he’s probably going to be playing pretty far back pretty cautiously but that is exactly when BG is stacking three players into there and they strike yz looking to get aggro here but the turret dissuades him might just have saved Team Liquid as they quickly get themselves barreled in towards this B side cam is set up shock not going to be able to get the hit there fury going out looking for some targets and camo making that stinger sink last player standing kiko holds down garage yz dead that leaves just Kite all alone on the opposite side of the map to try to go for the save will have been heard made some noise going down in towards Sewer some camo maybe wanted to push to try to get the punish here take that weapon out of his hands billy Billy will have money for another buy but seems like Team Liquid not quite finished here yet yeah we’re going to go for another match point penny moving up into heaven kite though just going to tuck in behind the box try to wait this out i think Penny’s going to find the opportunity that should be the next round just a crazy call here from Team Liquid love the idea said “Hey it didn’t work last time when we took kind of our time getting to the B site but if this time just pedal to the metal right off the rip we can catch him off guard and that stinger deadly.” Camo’s hands kiko there to follow up one enemy remaining yz only good for one before he shut right down say anything the way I die is impossible to play well that’s going to be another timeout force here by Billy Billy everything now used coaching staff hoping praying that they can just push this out have the team be able to get them over the line get that 13th round locked in team Liquid though two more to take us into overtime to try to find that win to still get us over to Sunset you’re going to have a bit of economy to back this up for Billy really going to have enough for another operator for YZ i mean I think what’s been good for them has been kind of pushing some angles with YZ on the map taking a little bit of map control sometimes it falls apart in the post plant stuff but outside of that they need to establish a little bit more presence on the map because these fast hits these kind of coin flippy rounds that Team Liquid is playing where they’re just going to try to outguess BLG where their weak side is going to be it’s kind of been the rounds where Team Liquid has found the most success just get those plants down early and BLG doesn’t really seem to have much in the tank for retakes reach this time open hand here for Wise once again they’re stacked on the C side this time oh and what a very solid read i mean clears out that trip but also gets a good amount of damage onto Levious going up over the top immediately going to be dropping back as camo overdrive popped working his way forward out of garage sets up the fast lane gets the ping reveal onto one spots out Ne instantly finds the kill Penny gets rid of Levius Russia still here at back site but now they know exactly where he’s at he’s always flashed up and Penny’s able to get the elimination Kite once again last one standing this time no escape flawless fashion Team Liquid are one round away from taking us to OT T once they accelerate their coordination is so good they’re just finding these great moments here what a read from Camo he got the spot a lot of players would just go for back plat there off of the info from the SOA but he’s wise to check that angle on top of the box on the side he knows they’re contained brilliant one round to go for OT toronto do you want to see it i have this well let’s see if Liquid can deliver no operator to be concerned about levious just with a sheriff russia with a judge set over at the entrance of C but right now Liquid not looking to play around that site taking their time this round thinking about how they want to make this execute go if they decide to go for the B hit a little bit of a trap play here however is going to be a big whip at the end nothing spotted now don’t have that to try to dissuade a plant coming through camo hell of a lot of damage can’t quite find an elimination Patty he’s waiting for YZ swinging it around the back and Patty is able to win out the gets himself his third kill might just have gotten his team into this OT to still have a chance to take us to that map three instantaneously finds Levius there in the head kite dropped it’s just Nef and Russia to try to turn this on its head but it’s just not going to happen nef all alone whittle away down to 37 spots out but can’t do a damn thing about it they know he’s not on it the time is bleeding away the recon cleared out but there’s the final kill 12 to 12 strap in we’re going to overtime baby switching sides phenomenal phenomenal stuff from Team Liquid able to really pull it together as that half wore on you thought maybe Billy Billy had this done but three rounds in a row for Team Liquid sends it into overtime and Penny coming up huge the hometown hero going big and a short notice call up presses here for Team Liquid on Haven 2315 and 12 for Penny at the moment three charges all that is needed in OT to try to get that run it back online billy Billy starting on the attack see how they fare this is going to be a bit of a crunch for crunch and camo gets the head shot on YZ that spelled disaster for Billy Billy throughout these two maps whenever he gets dropped first just spotting paranoia high value but opposite save it for now no real way for K9 to try to push forward given that the smoke is just right here in his face yeah they just got to get away that drone even catches a ping there so Team Liquid still going to maintain their hold over at A levvious trying to get some information over at B smoke in his face though little bit of a timing there on the nano once this alarm bot gets popped they’re going to know trying to clear it out sprints into the door they’re going to tuck a player over into the sewers looks like they’re setting up to try to get on to B but got a couple players ready and he watching here on the angle smoke does come through blocking them off the connector tiny amount of damage going to be taken there as they send out the hot hands as well as a shock and camo notes the lurk kite dead it’s got to be a repump but a double push into B the spike at the moment is going down into is about to hit camo and camo finds himself with the 3k reus is now the last one alive for Billy billy the time is not there the round is already over team Liquid they find themselves in the lead map point is now theirs unbelievable four in a row now for Team Liquid they’ve got a real chance to send this over to Sunset it’s been a while since we’ve gotten to see that map we may get our first look here at Masters Toronto as it comes back into the pool but this is just brilliant work here individually from Team Liquid again the early kill for camo to shut down YZ using those using that utility so early catches off catches Billy Billy off guard again we saw very early in Billy Billy’s attacker side they lost some players some of those crunches you throw that Phoenix util in there you throw the relay bolt in there it can really cause some problems and Billy Billy caught sleeping just enough you lose YZ you lose that entry power and then you’re just trying to spread the map and find some kind of opening and Team Liquid didn’t give you an inch well needing to streak together three rounds to try to look for a 1513 score line billy Billy final timeout call has been used no more help from the coaching staff as they once again pivot now over towards this defender side not being able to get the round win on the attack it might just be absolutely catastrophic for them it’s tough you know it seemed like they had a pretty good read on their defender side but then Team Liquid makes over just able to find that that pulse that tempo bg no glass cannon but they send out some util early themselves get a little bit of info on these deep positions something that was just talked about I’m sure in that timeout was how patient Team Liquid was being outside of a main in that lobby area see if you can get some info on them and that has been kind of a tell maybe they’re going to go B or C swing coming in camo eating a bit of damage there just hopping back away to clear out any potential util situated here in garage nothing to be found there yz though pushing out double push in towards mid but turret keeps them honest nef was so patient with his util there thought maybe throw the fault line off of some of that contact with the killjoy util but BG doing a good job reading this got players in position they’ve got the Sentinel utility kite full salvo ready with his two trips to try to intercept the smoke does fall tripwire going to be cleared recon up over the top there’s going to be the pin reveal here on Levia in the back hambo able to go ahead and find that kill but Wisey quickly trades it back one for one sat here tucked into the corner fighting back serial dead penny kill off at the same time kiko now activating the flank sends out the paranoia trying to open up for Patty but the time is just not there the spike is stranded on the opposite side of the site and Billy Billy will get the reset 13 and 13 we’re going deeper that is aides beautiful round and a great time out for Billy Billy they read that from start to finish using their util early to force Team Liquid back then getting the ID that they were still stuck by their spawn using that info to lock down the B and C site force the rotation over to A where they are waiting with open arms and even though YZ spraying through some smokes his position not particularly obscured still comes through with some big kills cuz the rest of the team is there to back back him up that’s what you need now Team Liquid’s turn for a timeout to try to figure out what they’re going to do back over to their defender side see if they can replicate what they did before billy Billy just got to be careful those early traps you got to be diligent about making sure that you know if you’re going to go for a long you could maybe take a pause wait to see what kind of util’s going to come through i’d be wary about mid doors double doors it feels like that could be a potential spot where Penny’s going to set up a trap play with the Phoenix things like that have to be considered back onto the attack all timeouts now burned just the players left to their own devices see who comes out on top here who can take that first step lock in that map point once again it’s Billy Billy large cluster here towards the seaside just the turret as far as early alert systems are concerned it’s quickly cleared out fast lane now going to be sent couple shots out from Serial fishing for some damage but none to be found spike quickly going to be planted here billy Billy in control liquid now needing to go for the retake this is normally where Billy Billy’s really good really solid is in these post plants but it’s a straight up 5v5 still have the paranoia still have some flashes now you know where YZ’s at exchanged and Pitech just swings in being revealed long enough to be able to find that kill but Camo serial quickly going to be taken down as they’re out into the open and K9 is mad covering them billy Billy once again find themselves in the driver’s seat one more round win on this defending side and they will be beating Team Liquid 200 love the way Billy Billy thinks about this round they’re going to be slow pushing up towards C long the whole time and as soon as that camera that Levius throws out gets cleared that’s when they turn on the gem smokes are out fast lanes down they’re on the site they’re getting the plant they’re getting into comfort they’re setting up their crossfires and they handle it brilliantly now Team Liquid’s going to take a go all set up to try to go for the orb here levius just sat back sight staring at the camera as Nep nearby try to slow up this approach tp up on top of the flat a little bit of a stun there on the Kiko looks for the transfer cannot make it happen it’s just going to be one for one finds the kill wisy find one trades are there from Team Liquid to keep themselves in with a player advantage push and K9 try to get themselves back into this site but it seems like it’s not going to happen they have to clear out two more spike now being planted and shock dart doesn’t connect run it back is there quickly clear sees his head tries to spray him down but Penny stands tall 1414 we keep going he’s done it again he is incredible 28 kills now for Penny just a couple of days with the team and he is playing out of his mind slams into the sight breaks things open and when it looks like Kite was going to send BLG into the one zero stage of Swiss Penny had other thoughts nearly ejected from his seat can’t fault him for that for Bile there’s nothing more to be done eg being it quiet here to start now looking to try to storm their way forward onto the site however stun connecting YZ he’s not able to get around back sight so they cannot get a pick here onto Serial he tping forward serial finding the shot russia going to be taken down aftershock try to flush them out into the open here comes the sprint here comes the spray definitely for the transfer on for the turn cannot make it happen cereal is there and Penny once again closes out the round 15 to 14 Team Liquid one away from sending us to Sunset you can’t have mistakes like that you can’t bault line YZ when he’s got that relay bolt nailed on top of Serial to clear back flat and that’s when things crumble that buys Team Liquid the time they need to get in there and back up their Sentinel nice little bit of a mistake and it costs BLG dearly can we reset once again blg back onto the defense wisy up and over the top here’s the sprint coming through instantaneously finds a head shot penny going to be taken down camo alive still looking to scale forward here gets the spot out gets some damage in but cannot confirm the kill there and Serial fighting back for two more step into the corner finding one but it’s not fast enough for Ko it’s all on Levious the swing in finds a head shot but Serial gets it done 16 of 14 we are not done yet map three is going to be coming up as Team Liquid persevere on Haven tenacious stuff from Team Liquid looking to get back into sunset we finally get our first clip summit we’re going to go to a much needed break we’ll see you guys on the other side no it’s coming we’re quit did you see how I died yeah but who cares cuz I’m not I’m having the time of my life i don’t getting smashed nice at least you’re back happy for you i want you to win us this game for us okay I’m trying can I get a nice i’m trying my best bro all right try harder i’m old school up let’s go let’s go let’s go every day God When I uple when I up down up down up down up down up down up down up down up down up down up down up What a response from Team Liquid we have a match on our hands i am your host Yangu and I’m back here with Ender and Mel uh this is what we expected right something a little bit more competitive oh yeah okay sure i I wasn’t expecting the 30 bomb out of Penny i mean that was just a banger of a match the super sub completely delivered in the second match to force a third i mean it was looking pretty scary for Team Liquid 2 and then something just clicked and the game got so close and I was just I was awoken by that i literally locked in i moved forward i’m like “Okay wait let me pay attention.” And they actually came through with the comeback that was insane to watch and you can see why Penny maybe wanted to play that feast i assume that was his idea i can’t imagine coming in as a sub and your coach saying “Yeah you’re playing Phoenix.” By the way speaking of do you remember the last time we saw a Phoenix on Haven on the global stage i’m going to guess it was like Scream that’s That’s my guess oh so like 2022 2021 long time yeah i say I want to say Jen on paper rex played it on Pearl that’s a Well no on Haven give me a Haven haven oh I Phoenix uh you’re going to love this answer it was Zelsus back and lock in on C9 so memory nowhere in my brain but Zelsus wasn’t doing this look they had stun from Neon plus Phoenix Molly combos they got a 2k on the pistol round then had uh one later in this third round as well I believe um but it was just wild to see that they were actually like trying things like that and then on top of the fact that Penny was just finding kills all over the place you’re right uh Zelsus would never really um You’re going for FNS you’re going for Zealth who’s next to be fair Penny’s teammate there you go where everything is connected everything is connected uh but there was a moment though it felt like maybe Billy Billy could have closed this out to zero there was a world i mean there were a few different moments it felt like especially in overtime but it looked like in like those early overtime rounds both teams started running into these like clock problems where they can’t find a site early in the round they’re trying to go back into a sight late on the other teams reading that getting a stack in it was really only once Team Liquid were able to get that round on the attack that it was going to go their way and they finally managed to punish Wisy when it really mattered right and I was wondering I was saying to you backstage I’m like I think Wisy might be my new favorite player this guy is just so fun to watch he’s so explosive and when Billy Billy was looking good it was off the back of his aggression whether it was off rip I mean I want to say he probably has the most meters traversed in the first 5 seconds of a round on Haven like you look 5 seconds he’s in garage window he’s on a site within 5 seconds he’s running it down and I think when Billy B looks strong it was in those moments but when they were failing it was also off the back of them maybe not getting those entries and closing out those rounds we need someone to confirm that you know a stat nerd out there to get a heat map give me a meters of how far ahead he is in rounds we need that we need How many steps has he taken he needs minimum 10,000 I think uh but it’s time for our HyperX Reflex moment of the day and this goes to the IGL of Billy Billy and uh this was an incredible 1v2 and the crazy thing is Nef had like three or four just insane highlight rounds but here in the 1v2 he chooses to fall back off of sights no smokes on the other team so he plays this angle deep from Long and then creeps back in after he has some audio info and then going for the push through on this catching Penny with Molly in hand is beautiful this was such a great play decision to fall back and play bomb knowing that the other team that the defense does not have smokes to diffuse is such a it’s such an experienced play i feel like a lot of nervous players maybe in ranked tier some people would just swing backside with the flash but that obviously was not the play and he just falls back and cleans it up so well isolating the 1 v ones and speaking of nerves you know we’ve seen Kiko in the past coming as a rookie on the global stage this time I don’t know if he is the IGL but he’s kind of maneuvering things and being very vocal from what we’ve seen and he’s been super consistent even on map one when they lost Ender he was you know doing his trying his godamn best yeah a couple of great maps out of him and honestly I think pretty core in a lot of the ways that Team Liquid are trying to play because they are playing a very scrappy style like they’re just walking out and trying to find a lot of fights kiko is involved in those frequently as one of the bodies either offering up some utility or taking those fights as well so the fact that he can be consistent for the team has been really impactful i do wonder what he’s going to play as we move on to Sunset we get Sunset on day one let’s go let’s go uh because previously when he was on Liquid on Sunset Kiko was playing Gecko um which is a choice for Kiko oh Kiko gecko there you go kind of rhymes uh but obviously we remember Patty on a Heretics dominating on Sunset one of the best players on this map so they have options but also we’ve seen them play no Sentinel ice box triple smoke and then we saw a double duelist comp with Phoenix as one of the duelist so it’s going to be something freaky i think when they lean into what Penny is going to be comfortable with I think that is probably their best win condition and maybe that’s recency bias because I just saw Penny drop 30 on Phoenix but am I wrong like Ice Box he’s playing an he’s playing Omen on a map he’s never played Omen before and then we’re seeing on Haven like he plays duelist he’s familiar with Phoenix and he drops 30 like if I feel like if they really want to make this competitive if they want to win this third map they need to get Penny comfortable well on Sunset Penny has only ever played Ray and Neon is there room neon I mean I mean it would require the Neon player to kind of back off and play another role but I could see it over Camo you think you put It’s tough it’s tough i mean how do you justify it they are both I was actually really impressed with Camo’s neon gameplay i think he was matching Wizzy like towards the end of the game like bar for bar he was matching his aggression why not both but then what does Kiko do kiko it’s been a long See there’s too many questions just questions that that is my job and that’s why I’m here uh but it’s been a while since we’ve seen Kiko play a series without at least playing a jewelist on one map you know he is the secondary jewelers he usually kind of flexes onto that when we go to maps like Split for example but let’s take a look at Sunset billy Billy have pretty much install locked every agent selected it’s a Kiko ISO it’s a Kiko and a camera and Penny’s going to just keep playing the Omen fair enough interesting having Kiko play ISO over Penny which again like I’m I’m not saying by any means that Penny is not insane on Omen but Omen was the agent who played on the first map and they did lose that map so I’m a little I’m a little skeptical looking at this yeah i mean it it’s hard to see without without the footage here but honestly like there are some things that you have to remember like coming in once you see like a a stranger pick like an ISO like iso next to SOA you’ve got combo ideas there right with the undercut and the ultimate these different types of things but really it’s just about affording more opportunities for Kiko to find fights well welcome back Sunset and welcome back your casters Achilios and Paper Thin take it away don’t mind if we do map three to go ahead and close out the first day of Masters Toronto we wouldn’t have it any other way that Haven absolutely nutty 1614 what can Sunset deliver that is the question feels like that’s just going to be what this match is all about it’s just who can create a little more chaos having this ISO in there for Kiko he’s only played it two other times before this game and it should be interesting to see how they want to pilot that ISO around this map wasn’t one of the agents I had in my mind coming into this i thought maybe they just lean into Phoenix again with how well it went on Haven certainly could have done that but the barriers are about to drop toronto could I perhaps bother you once again to make some noise fantastic blg on the attacker side trying to get through B but camo tucked in the corner yz just bounding forward but it doesn’t even matter serial’s just absolutely mowing them down three quick kills wisy able to clear the shield here but the head shot will connect a blink and you miss it pistol round team Liquid racking them up billy Billy just trying to disrespect the cipher one way they pay the price oh they just line up for him brilliant from Serial there’s just Crossfires galore just walking right into the trap oh my god I got so happy that I Team Liquid again unbelievable claiming a pistol they’re up three to two in that category for this series just a frenzy and half armor here for Wisey a shorty for Russia no other real investment to be found smoke cycled over towards Markin material out in front of it and there’s the pull back no one clearing the trip wisy absolutely dead to rights they are able to find an elimination but camo it’s his turn to get the 3k and just like that it’s another swift conclusion over on that B side of the map well Billy Billy tries to dip into the be well again and similar results right back go any further something you’re going to have to be diligent about here as Billy Billy can’t let that cipher util slow YZ down he’s got to be free to break into those sights and Desk was talking about it when he is the one kind of getting that space getting those kills early that’s when Billy Billy was at their best on Haven nef thinking about some deep utility there but ops to not go for it now they’re going to try little bit more of a crunch attack towards Oh what double line up there that’s going to be the duelist now eliminated taken away from Team Liquid shots from Russia cage triggered there’s the spike now going to be ushered across the map serial investigating over towards Market knight will just swing out challenges in wins the fight always made Patek position known over by Boba as Risha does get caught on timing penny able to find that one can get the weapon upgrade takes a TP but still has no real way of getting into this position will have to reap the field it’s a hell of a head shot and if nothing else making this costly for Billy billy still going to be net positive for Team Liquid you know you got to break through on to be main there’s a little bit of room there to try to work with but forced off the diffuse penny get taken down billy Billy very much well poised to go ahead and close this out with three players surviving not too bad of an anti- bonus but still some damage dealt patite will go ahead slink away hold on to the Phantom as Billy Philly get themselves around win at Team Liquid once again looking for some of those early trap plays this time outside of A and Rushia just in a perfect position to punish it meanwhile setting up for a crunch onto the B site on the other side of the map works out well initially patty Tech hit some nice shots but not much to be done once they’ve got B main control very tough to flush that out got to have those flank angles often times you got to be coming in through your opponent’s spawn area you know there’s going to be cipher util there tracking you to try to get through mid bottom here goes YZ oh gets a spot out don’t think he was anticipating that whatsoever closes the gap he gets on top of Penny before the TP can come through pitech does manage to fight back gets the trade for one thus far as the drone coming in over the top they try to get the spot out wall going to be sent over TPing up over the top ends up just getting dropped he just got Kite trying to maybe play for a timing here on the drone but just cannot close that gap they’ve been held to pay they’re going to have to assess if they can rewrap cross towards that beast site or if they have to just go for a save and they’ve got a little bit of info with that cipher cam they’re going to try to work towards that part of the map but Team Liquid’s going to use that opportunity take a little bit more space make sure that A is cleared out there’s the Nural theft so Serial know for sure there’s the trip cleared cam as well getting the dart slows him up for a little bit long as the market door broken open the line sheriff wait here on his shoulders for the damage across it oh Ko just strakes into the head shot material now trying to be the hero and he gets it done the one-two punch team Liquid now up three to one he is having a whale of a time here on Sunset on the Cipher serial so ready this is just a great round for Patty Techand making up for some of the wrongs maybe on Haven he’s had a really nice start able to take down YZ yz was ready for him to be on site the crosshair is almost in the right spot but Patty Techch was just a step faster and that slowed down BLG’s hit and that really opened things up for Team Liquid cuz they’re able to get their forces over yz thinking about B not being subtle about this it’s a weaker buy now strafing out into the open making it very easy for Cam to go ahead and collect that elimination i’m out of here that just very much brings a halt to any kind of pacey hit that BLG was looking for and they’ve really wanted to see if they could find openings at the front of B early team Liquid so well prepared for anything like that they have shut it down every time now you got to try the other side of the map knife there clear the corners penny though enough to go ahead and get some interest in a rotate for sure but this is BLG you never know when they’re just kind of setting up for a fake on the other side of the map that camp tells why is he still swinging out there’s a firing squad waiting for him as Camo collects another elimination and now I mean they’re just worlds apart kite 30 seconds left going to try to escape but Levy is trying to clear back sight over towards Ally he’s just dead to rights tp4 and Nef reading this well but can he get the jump is going to be the question spots him out lines up ahead does manage to find that Kite at the same time gets a shot there on a serial just at market door spike going to be planted a hell of a lot of damage off the overdrive there campbell finds himself a 3k kite is not going to be able to get it done dead on the swing team Liquid with the diffuse now up by three i think you got to be thinking about an early timeout here for Billy really just kind of some odd decisions trying to take some of these hero play battles these isolated battles one enemy remaining and you know Billy Billy I didn’t see them doing this a ton in their region but here today with how scrappy things have been against Team Liquid some of these unusual agent compositions they’re running against seems to have thrown them off a little bit with their mental and yeah absolutely you’ve got to write the ship here at the very least you got to get them playing a bit more as a team get the comms under control it’s like you said when YZ swings out there just shouldn’t no reason for that no reason for that for Russia as well to start the round yes so yeah I think a couple screws coming loose here while trying to retighten them this has got to be painful frankly to say the least for Billy Billy this is a series you come into and you should feel like okay we have this unlocked they don’t have Matt instead they’re playing with a guy who hasn’t played on a stage this big since Raikyu and they’ve had two days of prep their team huddled at the start of this was basically the same length of the prep time coming into this tournament and right now you find yourselves in a map three situation down by three rounds well you got to worry about what happened on Haven i mean you had match point so many rounds in a row and you couldn’t close it out it goes into overtime and you can’t close it out again and now you’re at a pretty big deficit early three rounds down full regen shields and there’s an outlaw in the hands of Patty oh boy i’ll get their economy he knows it do some damage situated here top mid won’t get too much of a glimpse in towards Tiles though before that smoke blooms recon cleared just a slow drift forward here nef and YZ ready to try to pop flash send it out through the smoke nothing going to get caught there but Kico still able to find one as YZ gets taken down take flight on the trade milkman now popped as they storm their way forward onto the A side penny trying to hold the corner here slides back in towards the alley fights up against Kite gets some damage in but cannot confirm the kill player advantage now gets ready to come through but Team Liquid in position to try to go for a blood retake fragment will delay spike planted and Camo has to win this battle oh and he cannot k9’s got him he was looking back over towards Maine getting taken down serial flash down k9 coming alive here 3k for the SOA looking for a little bit more but it’s going to be enough to go ahead and close it out billy Billy find their second round win fairly clean fashion but it’s them playing together here even though they push up through top mid and try to reroute over towards A it’s a 3-2 split they’re clearing a lot of space at the front of A it’s really this push through and immediately there for the trade is Nef that’s the kind of thing Billy Billy should be doing more of just holding their angles nicely hey Knight having a really solid round there they needed that they needed that big time absolutely do now they’re going to try to up the pace here around the corner taking an immense amount of damage there from the overdrive is okay wisey pulled into the goolog swing around the corner clears it gets the head shot knocked to Kiko out of the park on the last player that you wanted to grab up with that ultimate about to say it wisy he’s good for it now tucked in here behind the box swing from Ne about to come through relay bolts sent flying wisy now ready to strike tucks back in covering fire is there beautiful ne bails him out and Patty Techch can only find one more kill stopped it from being a flawless but Billy Billy last two rounds looking worlds different from the start of this map yeah the back and forth here the team play between YZ and Nef so good is absolutely ridiculously talented the Nef there playing this so nicely back up his duelist kite again good on those off angles making sure that everything is under control still have a hunter fury here for Kite levvious has a neural theft adite has his ultimate as well ooh out in the open that’s one for camo with the sheriff no more found oh a shot and now the spike is stranded you’ve got this quad stacked has to burn the alt just to go ahead and scoop up the spike go go go decent value found here for the side of Team Liquid now at hand as Hunter Fury also opened up pad getting a tag on one there’s the kill yz taken down the final pump gets rushed in a boot i have retrieved the Team Liquid i must wait a moment looking to keep this score line separated just incredible the info gathered off that one Sheriff kill they know they have to rotate back over on Serial spots him out they know where this spike is going to end up plant to come through but can they hold the line another weapon two more now picked up at Serial striking first kite flushed out of market swing forward gun barrel spot with Levi is down to one HP can’t do a damn thing the 3k from Patty running it back after his performance on the previous map liquid maintain the lead get themselves a Mastercard drifty this is so nice for them that early kill again spike is down you know that it has to be a reroute and the info on the wall yep the info from the the cipher util as well able to set up that Hunter’s Fury just beautifully handled by Team Liquid and that was a that was a thrifty that’s brutal for Billy Billy it looked like they were maybe going to be able to get themselves back into this team Liquid answers right back go go go jump out of the corner why is he a full amount of damage there is yeah there’s the double damage as well pushed forward olivia is nearly finding a good timing but still can’t get the kill serial stays alive he didn’t clear it and nothing cleared out both trips still intact on this B site levvious’s little adventure not really working out for him penny still on the jiggle peak just sending out the paranoia forces them back away buys a bit more time let’s see how aggressive Team Liquid wants to be they know that this is going to be a now no presence at the B site at all this has to be explosive for Billy Billy zero point does get the reveal here onto Camo penny swinging out able to strike finding one kiko similarly though peeking in some self elimination holds down Kite on the swing to find one on the backst step now trying to be activated here from Levvious once again gets some damage in but cannot confirm that kill 30 seconds left spike still on the floor here at backside rush swinging corners to find the timing yes he does neural now invested serial getting the reveal here they line up for him but he cannot quite pull the trigger four kills for Russia four rounds for BLG just one separating oh that was scary for Billy billy they get the trades on the way through this time they TP Rushia up on top of the box again this time it works and this time it works exactly and it’s because the teammates are there to back him up the sight’s clear for him so he’s able to press the advantage and he’s able to regroup with Levius that was kind of the thing that had me concerned there for a second was Levvious was completely cut off from Russia and Team Liquid knew and they kind of had to decide which way they wanted to go they opened up just enough space there for Russia to sneak through back over in towards Link now it’s going to be Team Liquid’s turn for a timeout to try to figure this out i mean they make some pretty good reads here but BLG getting that teamwork in order finding those really important trades that’s really started to turn this map around for them but man this Team Liquid team they are so fun to watch today they have really showed up with about the shortest amount of practice time you can possibly fathom yeah and they have looked really good streets ahead of our expectations and if you weren’t expecting it you were streets behind very true well it’s going to be a bit of a change up here there’s Penny getting an operator handed over by Kiko let’s do some half armors but BLG on the attack not looking to bring an Outlaw to bear see if this catches them off guard for now penny just going to be situated over this a alley trying to see if he can find a target put that off to good use definitely unorthodox quick clear on the dart nothing going to be started nothing going to be found there she got to be careful if YZ accelerates oh okay well now you know why is he leaving the punish he’s able to find it off on the floor penny has dropped blg site is wide open for the taking just the instincts there from Yu how are you meant to try to retake this the null command now as well in your face is just by everything kiko does manage to find one that’s the first step the re-swing out why is he whipping camo comes up with the kill one noted a shoulder and elbow spotted jig confirming as Risha trying to go to the reposition there but gets caught tp in hand pitech able to put him down he’s still low on HP but he’s still fighting back finds that kill leaves it now all to Nef ring around the Rosie shorty V shorty but Nef’s got the lower end of this deal but he’s just playing in time he’s dancing on him and he will get the Red Bull clutch to tie it up at five to five nef’s done it again another big clutch for Billy Billy when they absolutely needed this i mean just madness here but this is what I was worried about off the rip is that if you get spotted by the utility or in this case if you get jiggled you just get jiggled by by YZ and then he runs at you you’re dead you can’t TP away from him neon’s too fast it’s got them on their feet couple plays away from K9 asking if somebody on the opposite side of the stage is okay they are right to be well energy energy is not here so no they’re not ko staying tucked here in mid trying to catch him off guard bit of an unorthodox position to play from toggle on the cam only gets the spot here onto camo identifying one but this is all to try to disguise pad now goes for the strike but only gets a tiny bit of damage there onto Nev’s shoulder they lose serial in the process tp to check over onto the a site going to be spotted there still lingering lurking but not able to find the shot gets taken down camo now dead it’s Penny with this judge try to be the difference maker forward though and he has no idea why he’s just outdone him in every single pass it as it’s a flawless round for BLG to get to six i must wait a moment last round before the switch blg starting to have their finger on the pulse of this match they’re understanding the way that Team Liquid is trying to approach some of these trap plays and they’re outdueling them now russia there waiting for a little bit of help after he gets the identification that there’s a couple players setting up a crossfire wise is one of the trickiest Neons I’ve seen he’s been finding these crazy flank angles back to Haven over to here now he’s so smart sometimes with the way that he plays just finds these openings in Team Liquid’s defenses slippery as Levias has him lined up here at top mid he padd both gunned down serial now to try to hold down this B side the hunt however is perfectly dialed in on him and YZ will come away with a head shot pushing forward here into the smoke camo dead why instantaneous the overdrive popped cuz why the hell not it’s the last round of the half and Penny going to have to pull off an ace clutch hits the paranoia holds him off for now but he cannot delay the inevitable it’s just going to be the one kill found 7 to five at the half billy Billy in with the lead what a bounce back for Billy billy a good start for Liquid but it crumbles as the half wears on liquy’s been good about the pistols since Haven scooped up those last three feels like they’re absolutely going to be needing that fourth and final one here as we go to the second half of this one but for now just send it away to a quick little break for halftime one enemy remaining up it’s perfect thank you for the stick all right we’re about to go back in to sunset here to settle this series blg in the lead by two rounds seven to five at the half those last four especially were absolutely electric from the Chinese squad i’m just so impressed with the way that they’re able to regroup after a rough start after a devastating loss on Haven one time out and they’re really able to get things going again the Coinbase Econ report looks like you know nobody’s really It’s Yeah it’s been Well I think Yeah it just kind of goes to show that they’ve just been beating the piss out of each other to be frank and to be blunt uh but Nef has been running it back clearly across those last little streak of rounds that Billy Billy were able to pick up well he just hit his stride i mean we saw it on Haven as well where he had a couple huge multi-kill rounds to change the tempo change the pace for Billy Billy you know a guy who was on the ascension winning bleed team and is now here on the big stage with Billy Billy again and he’s a he’s a glue guy he’s there to be good with the util saw a little bit of a whoopsie on Haven but he has had some phenomenal moments by TMV standards being a glue guy maybe not the best thing that’s true i mean in terms of keeping the team cohesion not slowing everybody down precisely the 0 point over the top doesn’t get cleared get a decent amount of info but Russia able to just go ahead off the rip find a kill flash ammo dead now send that pop flash smoke does bloom full blind there onto serial but he is still able to get himself onto the site flush out the enemy Omen 4v4 paditech he’s 24 HP but real damage so you have a way around this particularly has to clear it out so eyes can be set back behind him gundro spotted that’s going to be a head shot through the box here as Kite an immense amount of damage only confirming the one kill position not going to be known yz is just mowing him down with a frenzy in hand the pistol cannot be found billy Billy will stretch their lead now up 8 to five yeah just stellar patience here on the retake from BLG they make sure that they can get YZ into position before they really start committing to the fights and Team Liquid kind of gives the script away in a few of those moments takes some shots kind of reveals where they’re trying to hide ridiculous three fire enemy enemy shows up to the party and he is the life of the party for sure a demonic pop off i love it nef such a good series overall smoke blooms not going to be able to get the spot out there on camo’s push but door gets shut he’s going to continue to try to swing forward but they’ve given up the position they’ve given the space over so they’re anticipating this aggression yeah Billy Billy happy to try to use their weapon advantage set up these longer range fights don’t let some of those close-range guns take you down those classics don’t get into right click range couple sheriffs though and a ghost so actually little bit of firepower here for Team Liquid especially on Kiko on that ISO he can find some value there could be all of a sudden a different round but Team Liquid has managed to sus this out starting to lean towards the weak side oh that’s a spot out there playing off the oneway rushia just moss down to Zerial and Pat both dead one bullet remaining in the mag has to go ahead and go for the reload but now go for the repeat and that is going to be Russia coming away with three billy Billy not looking to let Liquid back into this at least not in any kind of thrifty fashion one enemy could you imagine if he swung with that one bullet and got the kill like I could imagine we’ve seen crazier things i thought he was going to do it for a second one enemy remaining he’s been playing like a madman they I mean Billy Billy is kind of let loose they’re unleashed and they are thriving they’ve got a four round lead coming into their bonus only couple specters Guardian Bulldog Sheriff Nefressed little bit of a spot but nothing super interesting there just the Sentinel identified liquid looking to set up an A hit lead the way with the drone double damage looking for the punish here just running it down here as camo but K9 is there the layers are there to back this up quick clear on the drone shock dart going to be sent k9 needing a bit of damage sees the wall shock of his own soften up the players here a bit ends up getting dodged snip open plant in the open as well planted spike in play wisy once again trying to swing around from the back but has to clear this wire just trying to math away that he doesn’t have to shoot it spot good for one looks for two can’t quite make that happen oblivious still there running and cutting with that spectre in hand but serial absolutely devours them the 4K but that is still a damn good bonus for Billy billy Team Liquid though stopping the conversion i just love the proactivity that we’re seeing from Billy Billy on this defender side getting YZ out into the open early getting ready for these retakes coming from a bunch of different angles pushing i mean they line up for him there but he still collects he’s not getting the relay from Moyes he passed it and he was playing there at M liquid still able to scrape together pretty decent purchase why is got an outlaw though and he does and everyone is vulnerable to it patitech already eating a bit of damage as well on the camera go it’s three players here on this side really pull the tide of the way ragn trying to cut off market access and K9 finds both duelists of Liquid ko Ko both going to be taken down now out onto the corner gets the spot here onto Serial spike still in market coming through why is he able to find one serial going to be dropped why is he on the repeat peak loses his head and Pat is completely contained within a quarter and it’s going to be a three player high low blg not allowing for Liquid to string together consecutive round wins in this half they get themselves now up to 10 they’re just doing a great job delaying playing just enough stall and then the reveal comes through there as well kite collects YZ on those flank angles has been really really impactful so many big moments and there you know I mean you’ve got Liquid coraled you’ve got them trapped and things just crumble now you got to think of a way out of this vi is going to be a little bit shaky for Team Liquid coming into this next round they do have a couple alsury they do have a neural so there’s some ways that they can turn this round on its head for sure we’ve already seen them pull off a thrifty yeah but pretty desperately need another one right here Patch looking like he might be risking his entire economy flies down to get a Vandal into the hands of Kiko want to have that impact from the ISO one charge away from having a kill contract online so again you’ve got a lot of options here as Liquid actually coming into this i like this timeout a lot because you could talk about two things you could talk about how you want to cycle these alts for this round get get that orb for Kiko get him into a position where he’s using the kill contract not on YZ hopefully and somebody else and then you can use the Hunter Fury maybe scale up in sight if you’ve got that kill then you can use the neural theft like you can actually shut BLG out of this round if you can get all the cards into place we’ll see how they start this is that’s a fantastic way to kick this off as serial back to back gorgeous head shot with two players down to the floor near death now getting the reveal spotting out this attempted aggression from a it’s will now come through and Levia is no escape other than to fight your way through walls falling pico narrowly surviving snaps back through full HP full armor and Russia and K9 just have to drift away and save the timeout call from Liquid working a treat shadows traveling yeah Billy Billy thinking they can maybe catch Team Liquid off guard go for a Tiles hit and it just gets shut right down serial has continued to be a real menace on the Cipher nef just caught sleeping there maybe wasn’t expecting serial to go for another peak but you got a sheriff and you’re feeling it why not you can throw that neural theft in there nico’s got his allifty and it is all good to go another Mastercard Thrifty here for Team Liquid and they’ve cut the lead back down to three and it’s a flawless Thrifty at that unreal serial now tying alongside Richer there at the top of the board such risk shots to be found cover into the control step there fantastic value found team Liquid still hanging on by a thread in this map still with a chance to take this series for themselves need three more to tie things up camo lined up there for the moment hunter Spear going to be coming through why is he not ready penny got his wide swings on him he’s able to find the kill nef does have to go ahead and pick up one but camo’s made his way through alli finds rush it gets Nef sight wide open some shots from K9 but once again you’ve got two players left standing and BLG are going to go for the save once more yeah it’s if you can break through those initial defenses things just crumble for these defenders and Rishia again trying to TP up on that box and it just is a little too late i mean I think teams are obviously it’s been a while since we’ve seen this map and not respecting the speed of the Neon sometimes we’ve seen it on this this very moment where the Neon’s coming through and you’re trying to TP somewhere and it the Neon’s quicker I’m out of here looks like maybe a little bit of hunting to be done got to go plenty of money want to get these weapons out of hands make this as costly for BLG as he possibly can double stack setup though levious on the camas should be foot spotted but K9 will be able to get the head shot so camo does get shut down guys guys can we do it like this look look put the put the cipher cage here hope the cage penny and we’ll never know what he said we’ll never find out what the rest of that strategy was talking about the execute throw the cipher cage throw some util and get on in i mean YZ had a chance they hit YZ with a sleep dart wasn’t ready at all for the swing on the corner go go go he’s got the OP cut down for a Guardian he’s got the OP but he’s on the wrong side of the map to try to utilize it here camo caught by the trip wire levious once immediately sends out that neural theft breaks the shield to Kico but ends up falling so the reset comes through hunter Fury going across ne the fragment able to behind Pico pat buddy back for one left on the floor a 3v2 yz now getting into position oh flushed out by the shock dart serial once again has to try to clutch things out but YZ will find the value blg once again keep Team Liquid back three rounds separating once more blg two away from taking this series and this is back to some of the stuff we saw in Haven from BLG where you leave YZ on his own with a sniper rifle and you stack the other side of the map and Team Liquid falls right into the trap great util combos there to flush Ko out everybody getting involved for Billy billy got Neol oh my god is just he is basically pre-firing the angle breaks the shield hits the head shot now the ult command could be popped and it seems like they have a pretty damn good idea of where Penny went with that TP had to be able to find one penny puts them down they line up and Penny comes up with three enemy down ends up falling in the wayside the res can come through it’s a hell of a lot faster than it used to be spike is planted camo is here for the backstab that is well tagged that shot caught him through the box flash down to 50 HP seems like the heroics of Penny may have just been enough to go ahead and get them at least this extra round win going to try to fight this out but they’re a lot closer than he anticipated team Liquid not going quietly into the night and it’s Penny again steps up for Liquid it looks like this is just done and dusted i mean Rushia gets a free kill it’s a 3v5 and then Penny’s had enough they line up right into his crosshairs they get the reds and they are not ready for camo to be back there already just a great timing play for Penny every round it’s like an like Shyamalan film if you think you know where it’s going and then it just goes so a completely different direction what a twist now you’re on a weaker buy you invested so much to get those operators going put a pre-fire there some chip damage onto the neon but again Ne has his alt and they’re still going to put a rifle on him i do find this interesting but that’s good enough again that I understand they’re just looking for any kind of info that they can get but a repop of the smoke it’s going to make it hard to get any info mass lane set up not going to get the clear here but not going to get them baited forward manage to get Kai in the the perfect position but Team Liquid they make the right choice they successfully straight away paranoid tucks in back sight and serial through the smoke just gets a head shot on the YZ maybe some noise made to try to give it away but this judge isn’t going to find too much else other than a bit of damage 30 seconds left spike now to be planted with just this ghost camo taking point names finds the kill nef dead and that’s the other two players once again having to go for a save team Liquid barring any deaths on the hunt they are going to get themselves within touching distance one round separating in flawless fashion just what tremendous diligence being shown here by Team Liquid a bunch of traps set up by BLG one on each side of the map and they’re able to just not fall for the one on B go over to A where there’s the judge and you put a cam right outside of the smoke that forces Russia back he tries to hide the judge switches over to classic to clear it they sniff it out oh boy that’s big that is catastrophic he’s not really there you can see half armors across the board as the timer gets paused and it seems like it’s going to be timeout call here from Billy Billy is what dude is just feeling it that is filthy need an admin to check that PC that is ridiculous yeah I think it I think that accurately summarizes this entire series all of the expressions we just saw basically final timeout call used here by Billy Billy to try to just ek out these last two round wins team Liquid nipping at their heels it’s tough i mean you’ve had so many things start to go right and then it crumbles and each time feels like you’re back on track one of the other teams just is right back in it they found an answer i mean credit to both squads they are fighting tooth and nail today it has just been a tremendous series absolutely has been and I mean the score line this tight all timeouts used overtime sure why not i’m I’m about it i’m here we wouldn’t mind it toronto how about you guys you want to see another overtime this is a nice spot we’ll see if we can make that happen for now though some rifles and a guardian for BLG the affformentioned half armors two of them regen no Outlaw on the attack though for Team Liquid to try to capitalize off that kiko’s got his alt something to be wary of for sure oh why is he dragged in once again can he get the victory the answer is yes he absolutely can but now he’s going to be likely at risk as he back in no he’s just fighting right back serial penet two minutes to go ahead trade back a couple kills but suddenly Serial left all alone tripwire gives the position away swings in spots one and Levius is there close angle shuts him down blg up to match point team Liquid need two in a row to get that OT liquid trying to scale off the back of Kiko’s alt i’m out of here they’re so ready for it and this is again the worst player possible and Wisey should be in the worst position possible coming out of this but they’re just not looking for him they’re all just focused on Levius and he plays it brilliantly hits his shots when he needs to most and that’s got YZ pumped one more round and BLG’s got it hunter’s Fury the overdrive one away from a neural theft here for Liquid just wise from BLG use a drone to check the front of Bside here being left open a bit the CAM nowhere here we go going to be set down camo not able to find too much of anything there pattack does manage to go ahead get a pick onto Levius as well as a pump of damage on to Nef puts him to 70 it opens up the sight the spike can now be planted drone trying to lead out yz overdrive popped wrapping back around basic side kite finding one doesn’t check the box he goes striking he’s only able to find the one though wisy zaps them all to death the diffuse to come in and that’s BLG closing out the series 13-10 on Sunset two to one on the set what a great series to close out the first day of Mast’s Pirano couldn’t have asked for anything better a phenomenal back and forth but just barely it is going to be Billy Billy who is going to go up to 1 and0 here in Swiss we knew it was going to be scrappy we knew it was going to be chaotic especially after seeing the comps locked in here for Team Liquid but credits to them they come in with the deck stacked against them they don’t have Nats their their hero player their top fragger their IGL and they still manage to take this a distance and play it damn close billy Billy certainly are going to be sweating after they scrape by with this victory but as you said that does lock them in as a one zero team here for the redraw in Swiss they can help breathe a cyber relief and get ready to try to prep for their next opponent but we’re going to go ahead and send it down to Jen’s going to be standing by for Horizon postmatch interview hey everybody make some noise for Billy billy YZ we need to chat over here allora I need you over here in the middle yes you are YZ okay the goat oh where’s YZ yz YZ I’m blind right now with a flashing light okay YZ my man close game right but first one in the bag how great does that feel uh I feel truly happy because we stand in such a big arena and in front of the crowd they are very passionate and now it’s our new roster new BGI and it’s our first wing on global stage so I’m truly happy yeah you seem super excited after uh the sunset ended but um I feel like every round in this series was super unpredictable you know a lot of curve balls thrown from Team Liquid side so how much of a challenge was that for you um I think their play style is very unique but also it’s very simple after our coach like investigate their uh their game their runs and they know how to deal with them and they told uh he told us and we know how to do okay well congratulations once again YZ enjoy the support and celebration with the fans What’s he they have done it their first win here at Masters Toronto on the global stage i am your hosting i’ve got Mel here with me and a very special guest Nef congratulations um that was a tremendous um match you guys played i know some of your teammates they’ve had the taste of victory on the global stage before against NRG but this is your first global win so how does that feel i mean it feels absolutely amazing i mean thinking back on the Champions 2024 I mean we had a terrible run and I’m still filled with regrets from the tournament and this tournament i put in my all i grinded the game every day and I’m proud that we achieved this win together as a team yep i wanted to ask you your individual form right now is really good on top of IGLing i want to ask you what’s your secret what do you do i’m going to Hold I’m going to fix your mic so we can hear you properly yeah go uh there’s like no secret I guess i mean I just spend my time like reviewing my own demos as well as other teams competitions and for my own indiv individual performance i just just play the game you know DM range all all that aim lab and kind of stuff i just do all those and with the help of my teammates I’m I’m happy that they they also trust me in my IGLing and that also helps me in my overall performance yeah you you are clutching left right and center out there uh Nef talk me through some of those moments i think we saw like a crazy good clutch on Haven the 1 v2 and then the the ring around the rosie 1 v one on sunset as well do you just already feel very comfortable on that stage uh at first it was kind of like shaky on the first map of ice balls like uh I had I didn’t have like a good start and then on haven you know uh I slowly fell my form and then for the haven clutch you know the phoenix outed and I knew I had to kill him in that in that moment right and then in the one v2 I just play time and for the second clutch on on sunset you know when I was around the box I was just thinking about dai clutch uh back then that’s crazy for that can I ask you just had such an intense series and you’re up here and you just sound very calm very cool and collected on the inside are you still like a lot of adrenaline or is this just how you are uh no i mean definitely I’m still very hyped and like uh it’s just like I just wanted to speak clearly and uh give away my thoughts you know to everyone yeah oh you see ice cold bro yeah I love Oh look at this clip as well oh my goodness what were you talking What were you saying uh I was saying nice and then can you defuse the bomb please um looking at some of the comps we saw today uh these were your comps but on the side of Team Liquid they ran some pretty funky stuff um was there any at any point when you saw the agent select first of all did you expect any of those crazy comps and second of all did you at any point feel like oh this is kind of free you know I know what to do against this um not really i think I mean obviously like Net’s going to come right they’re IGL and a very good player and uh we knew that they are obviously going to make some changes with Penny coming in and he’s a dualist player right so we kind of expected like double dualist coms coming out and although it was uh kind of funky to take care of it at the start but in the end we just adapted and we just play yeah sounds about right so I’m guessing any anti it wasn’t very much anti- stratting it was more just adapting on the fly what you were coming up with and is there anyone else in the team that helps you out with some of the mid rounding and some of the the prep and the ideas uh definitely like this definitely not one man job by me i mean many people are giving ideas including like all the players as well but mostly it will be like Wise and Knight i mean we have played together for like very long long time now and I think we just have that chemistry going and they are also very smart in the game as well yeah I mean we even heard uh Wo wise out here just talking a little bit about how yeah they have a unique play style but it is simple and he gave a lot of credit to coach Bale um so also talk me through how Bale has been helping you guys with these counters and these game plans uh I think Bale is just like uh very strategic you know as a coach and then like he does a lot of like anti- shred and then like although this particular match like we couldn’t really anti threat as well because you obviously they had a substitute but I think overall he just helps with like the overall gameplay and our own personal mechanics as well and just gives a lot of feedback to us yeah um I’m I’m looking in my prompter here and I’m this is like a what’s the word when it’s like selfinflicted no it’s friendly fire to myself because um yeah here we Oh goodness chronicle thanks for this um EMA is cooked oh god what do we think i Yeah yeah ema is cooked burnt even did you watch the game the Paper X heretics game earlier uh yeah I mean Paper X is just insane you know do you know what the the Southeast Asian boys are making all the noise right now you know um very true yeah and I know you you’re close with a lot of them you know even some of your former the bleed guys a lot of them made it here as well so how happy are you to see everyone um from back in the days to make it and also to be winning cuz paper won very dominantly yeah I mean paper is just insane right i mean they are just they’re very good as a team and I didn’t like qualifying for this tournament like as the last out of my friends i was just like very happy to get to see like the former bleed boys you know uh in the end I mean in the past like after we won Ascension like things definitely like did not go well and then we all know what what happened to Bleed right and I’m just happy to just see everyone reunited again yeah yeah i think it’s time now that people maybe stop underestimating some of the regions and teams and players because in our poll early I have beef with you guys voted in that poll so we asked everybody who they thought which region they thought were going to win Masters Toronto and CN only got 3% of the vote that’s outrageous right Nef that’s not on i mean my thinking is that everyone is entitled to their own opinions you know even if they’re wrong even if they’re wrong yeah definitely i mean Cien is definitely not a weak region uh even though like of course EDG couldn’t make it unfortunately uh the other three teams that qualify us Wolves and XG are all forced to be recommended and I think that no one should be looking down on us y I wanted to ask now that you’re here on the international stage again and you’ve won a match is there any teams that you’re looking forward to playing maybe some of your friends or any any beef we should be aware of uh maybe from my couple my other two teammates they probably want to play Fanatic right with trashes uh for me I kind of want to play Sentinels you know cuz I think they are very interesting team and like they have very good players and I really want to face off against against Zen and the hype men’s i’m glad you said that because tomorrow when we come back and uh show you the other two matches at the end of that as we take a look at the bracket there will be a draw show which means if Sen win their game Nef there will be a very real chance that you could actually draw them and play up against them the lower bracket is where I am getting sweaty because Mel Liquid could end up playing heretics for the elimination game which will mean that EMA is definitely cooked if that happens it’s fully cooked at that point like there’s no returning like it’s going to be it’s going to be kind of over yeah and since you do get a little day off tomorrow Nef and the schedule here it says that we got Sam versus Wolves and then Genji versus MIBR who’s your money on who do you think is going to win those two games uh Central and Wolves i mean of course I have to give to my boy Juicy and the Fedy at at Wolves right i think Wolves hopefully will win the match and for Jenji I might be I mean my Pacific team Jenji you know ooh but but you wanted to play Aspass too right i heard I saw an interview yeah but I got to support the Asia Boys you know i love that i love that i love that i love that but thank you very much for joining us massive congratulations once again and thank you Mel as well for being here with me we are going to be back with more games and more Valerant action tomorrow thank you so much for watching everybody have a lovely night and we’ll see you then 12 teams have traveled to the great white north but only one will walk away with a trophy and the glory this is a rematch for the Aegis to kick us off at Masters Toronto but a lot has changed since the last time they met getting up on this B side once again sees thrown in jing disrespects the razor who is absolutely not ready for that he’s wrapped around with the judge of this where that came from apparently extricates himself and now the boys are backing into the link ruthless all this youth not opening the side up enough nig’s going to go for it he’s having a find two and that’s the best heretics have looked for this game and it’s God it’s not even close to enough what a showing stunning from Paper Rex absolutely stunning februx genius pushed up but he can’t connect messy stuff divine Forsaken now going to pick it up but there is forsaken quick response oh fury susceptible to just one shot from it but he’s able to get out of the way but he can read by Rian trying to get ahead of the outro does he have a timing on spots him out in hand divine is divine what a red ball clutch and now heretics know they really can’t play off the side they’ve got to commit they’ve got to challenge this not too shabby there from Mini but Jing this is winnable pman’s too far away can he get a touch unreal the red bull clutch a crucial one here for Was Wingman does the job batman hears him how is he here already the conditioning utterly broken on the side of Heretics and now it’s up to Buu again 30 points of health to try and slow the PRX train down but Choo Choo baby we have more than left the station paper Rex have arrived in the six we have seen a lot of super subs over the last five years today Penny makes his return to the global stage and see if he can do some damage with this Team Liquid there’s up and over the top but have a secondary peak in from Camo gives them the advantage back into their hands russia is just getting overwhelmed separating a bit there’s up and over the top he’s just got no idea kika will collect it that’s going to be Liquid guaranteed the lead here at the half fragment at his feet previously tagged up at Patt now going to be on the floor resol but camo and Penny will end up falling dropped down serial taken out kika trying to make this happen has to go for the repeat and Rashelle nearly gets it done 44 now on the retake still just that operator in hand the push forward there not reading K9’s position and they’re not calming it either k9 finding himself a third as it is just Penny the hometown hero to try to make it happen but with HP he’s not doing Jack 13-10 BLG swinging in from the top of the ramp is able to find that elimination just trading it out trying to get protected as Penny holds his ground for another clear spot out able to find one levious gets himself a third and there’s the fourth serial dead from above as it now comes down to Penny it’s been a while since he’s been on a master stage like this a curveball in hand but he doesn’t need it red Bull clutch off the back of the 3K gets some damage in but cannot confirm the kill there as Serial fighting back for two more it’s all on Levious the swing in finds a head shot but Serial gets it done 16 to 14 we are not done yet just man to find one that’s the first step the re-swing out why is he whipping he’s still low on HP but he’s still fighting back finds that kill leaves it out all to Nef ring around the Rosie shorty V shorty but Nef’s got the lower end of this deal but he’s just playing time he’s dancing on him and he will get the Red Bull clutch to tie it up at five good for one looks for two can’t quite make that happen but Livius still there running and gunning with that spectre in hand but serial absolutely devours them aside k9 finding one doesn’t check the box ko striking it’s only able to find the one though wise zaps them all to death and that’s BLG closing out the series what a great series to close out the first day of Masters Toronto mirror mirror wipe my eyes so I see clearer over here you tell your friends I think I need her dreaming about the girl you want but I can’t be her sabotage is on my mind cuz you’re a keeper no it doesn’t work no it couldn’t hurt but what if I’m the first one who sees a curse barefoot on the floor i’m going shut the door cuz how could I be sure never try before looking in the mirror and I’m close my eyes spinning all around like I’m hypnotized saying all the words even all the lies cuz I don’t want to go i don’t want to try here I go on the road riding home i decompose in all your clothes and you don’t know what I wanted it’s all subconscious it’s toxic i’m conscious so ordinary if I try and win any game in the end then I might try to set fires in February if it works it’ll hurt cuz nothing could be worth trying to love you the right way it’s way too scary no fun can’t run once you’re done once you say those words it reminds me of Bloody Mary i can take it i can fake it i won’t make it so I won’t say it i would hate it i would break it i can’t shake this so I won’t say it here I go on the road riding home i decompose and all you close you don’t know what I wanted it’s hard it’s all subconscious it’s toxic i’m nauseous you’re so ordinary if I try and in and again in then I might try to set fires in February if it works it’ll work cuz nothing could be worth trying to love you the right way it’s way too scary for fun once I’m done once you say those two words it reminds me of bloody Mary
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