OPTIC STEAMROLL FAZE! | GENTLEMATES DOWNFALL CONTINUES? | THE FLANK FT OCTANE ENABLE ACHES

0:00Hey ladies and gentlemen, welcome to another episode of Valve Link. I'm joined by the one and only the human turret, one of the best ARs to ever do it, give it up for the world, give it up for himself, Sam LaRue, Octane, we got the multi world champion, the multi champion of legend and icon through the quality of seeing, give it up for Patrick Price, eggs, we got another multi quality champion, a world champion in the building, give it up for Dylan, attach price and of course we got the multi FPS champion, give it up for Ian, enable, Wyatt, gentlemen, how we feeling, how we doing, Pat, we'll start with you, Slay, what's going on Pat, talk to me, how you feeling? I mean, I'm feeling good, Tom, I actually, I wasn't home, I was, I was, I was, I was getting some pickups from food and then I was, I was like, shit, am I going to make it, am I going to have to text Tom, I'm not doing the flank today, then I, then I saw

1:03the schedule, saw Ben was not at Tom, I hit 90 on the freeway, got him as fast as I could, yeah, but I'm good now, but I'm good now, Tom, great, another, another, another Ben J list flanks, always a pleasure to hear from you, Pat, always a pleasure, Ben J called you a bitch in a chat, we'll just keep it going. Did we band it? Get him, Ben J. That money, the band, I don't know, we money, the band and Pat, I don't know if that language, we, we shouldn't have that language in a chat, Sam, what's going on with you, Sam, you doing all right? Ben J's pain, man, he got him tweaking out, man, all right, man, nothing, nothing crazy, cause a little underwhelming, but life's good, you know, can't complain, I love that, love that, don't attach, talk to me, what's going on, I see you at the Stalin's Jersey hung up in a pack, man, I love that. Um, um, my boys, they won a one map today, so that's a celebration, I don't know what you're doing. What? What? You got to get one of the new ones, we're going to hang right there, they're still learning, they're still new, but, uh, we're putting jerseys in the raptors for a match.

2:05So gentleman's coming to the map, so it's like, I mean, no one else won a map today, so why are we hanging on Stalin's? That's true, Dylan, Dylan, that's true. No, Dylan, I was fucking hearing you, brother, you know, it's going to be, but yeah, the match was so bad today, I went into my grocery shopping for the week after the first two. Um, yeah, now we're back. Let's get it. Absolutely. And then, of course, we got the multi FPS champion, look at a million dollars over it. Ian, what's going on in? Are you doing all right? I'm doing good. Went through one in the picks today, looking like I'm going to belt you in fantasy. Um, the only thing that sucks is that you could probably see on my nose, bro, my cat tried to kill me last night. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, what happened? Bro, I was in, in dead sleep, bro, in dead sleep. I felt something tickling my nose in the middle of the night, and I thought it was cat. And I was also going to be confusing so well, cat and cat Catalina, my wife, not her. It wasn't her. It was my cat little man on my face. And so like, obviously, I fucking move and he just calls me in the nose.

3:06Nah, see cats, bro, that cats be doing shit like that. Like they're devies and you want to know for this part? I didn't even realize I just went right back to sleep. I woke up this morning when my human cat was late for work and she looked at me like I was a fucking alien. And she's like, oh my god, your nose. I was like, oh, fuck, I got a pimple on the blank that I, and I go to bathroom, bro, she's blood everywhere. Oh my god. Yeah. Yeah. I'll teach your cat act. No. What are you doing? What are you doing? What do you mean by that? Oh, yeah. I'll figure it out. I'll get him acting out. No, no, I'll give you. All right, man. Let's not waste any time. I'm glad you're all right, Ian. I'm glad you still with us. Let's hop into it. We got three, four matches to go over today. It felt like three matches. Well, how fast they went by today. Clearly, these matches went by pretty quickly here. But let's hop in to the first series of the day. We got the Paris Genoates going up against G2 Minnesota.

4:06And this one wasn't even close. G2 Minnesota with a three O victory over the Genoates. We start things off at a scar heart point. We see we had a close map 1, 250 to 240. G2 were able to close that one out. But then it was smooth sailing after that. We go into raid S&D. G2 wins six to three. And we go into an exposure overload where G2 wins five to two. We'll scroll down at the stat sheet. Nearly a red carpet for the Genoates. It was Dante Sib with a 1.27 who saved them from that one. We had a 0.89 from Neptune. A 0.79 from Dan Gosty and a 0.72 from Dylan Ambole. So Sib needing some help over here today. On the other side, everybody in the green. You got a 1.02 from Astro. A 1.06 from CREP. A 1.05 from Mamba. And a 1.32 from Caesar Skies Blano today. What a pleasure from Caesar. He's been on fire as these are match MVP. A 1.28 in heart point. A 1.06 in search. And a 1.3 in overload. Caesar's been insane. He's just been nuts.

5:06Dylan will start with you. We'll work our way down. G2, they come out to get the victory over the Genoates. Genoates are now dealing major one champions. But on a three match losing streak here in stage two. What are your thoughts, Dylan? What are your thoughts? Well, first of all, Caesar, I'm sorry. You know, last night I said some things I shouldn't have said. You proved me wrong. I will admit what I'm wrong. You proved me wrong. You've been you played absolutely fantastic today. Pat has been in my ear saying G2 needs to make a change. And he started getting to me. But I think he sticks it out. I think they stick it out and keep going because if Caesar could play like this, this team could make some deep runs on Sunday. But going back to Genoates, I said, I told CIP to start trying online. And he's been frying. The C9 match you played well. This match you played well. But everyone else has been costing him. So I'm really not sure what's going on with the Genoates team. Losing the scene down Genno, Genoley might have broke this team. They're just over thinking they just look nothing like they used to. He was them in optic. They were the top teams looking so good together. But now it's just optic.

6:06Genoates looks horrific. I don't know because they scrimmed the Amazon wake or what it is. But this is the biggest moment of the season for them because they have a lot of personality on their team that could potentially clash. So if they can get through this issue and get good again by major two, they could bring it back. But this is make a break for them because they look God awful right now. got awful right now. Yeah, for those of you that don't know, Jenna mates did snake last weekend. So they got a punishment of one week with no scrims against pro teams. None of the pro teams scrimmed them for a week. What's I love to see? I love to see the pros actually keeping their end of the bargain here and making sure teams are getting punished for breaking GAs. But Sam, we'll go to you next, Jenna mates. Are they worrying you a little bit? Sam, Jenna mates, they're looking off. I mean, I know you think very highly of his team, especially in the off season going in. You called this team being really good. They come out when major one, but now they just seem like they're regressing so much. What's going on with these guys? Oh, I think it's like a now at this point with this loss, I think it's more of a cascade of failure. Like the the C9 loss. Bruce Lee, I think that they just didn't take them as seriously as they should have, especially with how C9 look after that. Like I just can't imagine that

7:09they even attempted in that series. Um, I think that the losses after it's just like slowly starting to get more and more like irritating to them. And now I think that they're approaching like the overthinking thing. Like you said, I like, there's mistakes that have happened in their last couple of series that were just never a part of their gameplay for the first couple of months. They were so clean and hard point. Everything was on point. Their breaks, they like, they're three to one time is they were just so concise and clean with all all the gameplay that they had. And like today, well, you probably have a clip for the end of the first map. Like neb's just awning back green on a P3 and just sprinting at the hill and dying. Nobody looks mid, Cremp walks out gets the two piece to win the game. Like stuff like that, it seems very routine and very basic to this team to the start to season is no longer happening, which is obviously worrying. But the individual performance hasn't really been there. Dill, I feel like has just been getting shit on for like three or four series straight now. He he has not been great. Um, and that's not just still, I think the whole individual performance across the board has has gone down for this team. But this is what we were really worried

8:10about. At least I was worried about. Um, I'm sure everyone in the chat and you guys probably share the same sentiment is like when this team is bad, what does the process of getting better look like? And that was like when the practice room can get a little toxic, perhaps like the personalities can start to come out on this team. Like, what does this team look like after a couple of weeks of underperformance was like where people had their worries and we're going to find out because they look like shit right now. Yeah. Is it the Neptune haircut, Sam? Did he lose it? It might be costing. I mean, Pat, let's go over to you. Pat, gentlemen, it's clearly struggling right now. I mean, what do you think is going on with these guys? I mean, I think it's a handful of things, Tom. Um, I told the envoy definitely not helping them. What did you just call him? He's a terrorist. He's crazy. Where's Ben J when we need him to fight back right now? Well, Sid turned it around. Obviously from his online not trying, but like these guys, Tom, they're shit in the sheets. If you click

9:11on his last three, he's been terrible and all of them. And back to your point, Dill, which I see what you're saying, but I don't agree with it. And I'll tell you why there's one reason. If you listen to estrials interview, when when I think Puckett or Nameless was like, what do you what do you think happened? Like what makes you guys come out and you're able to play like this? He goes, yeah, I don't know. Sometimes we just wake up like this. And and that's all I need to hear. He said Amy. He was talking about the energy though. He wasn't talking about like money. Paul's merchant. Sometimes they're good and sometimes they're bad. For me, I'm never putting money on that. So like I said, sometimes yes, I'd be like a 1.4 congrats, but that's not a consistent style. And I mean, they're beating up on a team that's worse than C9 right now. So that's really all we need to say about that. But I still think G2 need to change, but yeah, they got to win today. But I mean, this this story today is about how bad the yeah, gentlemen are looking really, really rough. Ian, we'll go to you. What

10:12do you think? What do you think of this series? Yeah, Rudolph, what you got? Come on, man, too soon, man, too soon. How often does this happen? You know, a team starts the beginning of a cod cycle. They're just ahead. That's what gentleman's was. And then other teams catch up. And now they need to really lock in it. Obviously, losing what three series in a row now, I believe is not good. I know Sam in the the preseason tier list, we had talked about that. We were like, ooh, this team has the makeup to be great. But if they start losing, yeah, like you're saying, are they going to overthink the personality is going to come out? They're not there yet. Like if I was a gentleman's fan, I wouldn't be worried. But I think right now is the coaching staff, everyone involved behind the scenes needs to like lock in and make sure that they don't go off the rails because I think they're close right now. They're you lose a C9, whatever. Now you're just losing everybody looked like the worst team in the game. They're not. So hopefully they can get it together because none of them

11:16have been playing well. Besides, I'd say it, I guess individually online, but none of that really matters. On the side of Minnesota, they're just pads at it. It's a coin toss. Even though I will say this, guys has been like their best player. So I took my hat to him. I think he may be the X factor for them. Low key. Like if he plays well, they win a series. If he doesn't, they lose. I know it's not all up to him, but he's been having some pretty good form. So I don't know. I can't. I don't really take much from either side because I've been liking G2's performance, to be honest. I'm liking the mini map. They're like, they're taking the right routes. Like their setups are looking pretty good. It's just, you know, can they consistently do it? That's the way they wake up feeling good. That's what he said. That's why I want to piggyback off like the 50, 50 thing because I do want to tip G2 because they have been consistent more than not. But at the same time, like Tom, we watched it yesterday, they, they just facemashed every hill on a scar hard point for 10 minutes straight. And then they take routes and let's like, oh my God, they look like fucking major one, gentlemen. It's yesterday they get three out by Miami.

12:17Today they three are made. So it's like, yeah, I want to disagree and give them their flowers, but at the same time, it's literally day to day on whether they play the game in the proper way. Now you gauge that on them or the game itself. I need more black. No, no, no, I'm so down there. It's on that. No, you know, yeah, it's on them. Maybe it could be a little bit of both, but I mean, I have clips to prove it of some of the things that they're doing. I call GT on trying to follow you, Bailey. Well, let's take a look, man. I mean, let's take a look at some of the stuff that's going on. I mean, I mean, I mean, also G2 play good today. I have clips to prove why they did good today, to be honest with you. It's more on the gentleman mates this time around this. This one wasn't was a gentleman's mishap, though, or sorry, a G2 mishap. I don't know what you guys feel about it. I actually don't mind the pinch from Estreo here, but if he's going to pinch number eight, CREP has to stay alive and not push plain. Like he needs to wait. And that's why I think the communication comes in and the comms come in. But if I play this out, you can see Estreo, like if I rewind a little bit, look where Estreo starts. Like he goes to mid and takes a super route here. And then because he does this and nobody holds on

13:19his other on the other side of the mat. And he all push. Estreo comes around the behind from behind him gets the kills. But then you see where the spawns come up, right? And then they flip for me with 20 seconds left to go. Arguably, I could have went up way more. What'd you think? No, what'd you think of that? So if you rewind it, when they get the blood, I think like just hit me cut. Yeah, it's too late to do to do a fool. I would like this play. Like you're going to you're going to flip the like, oh, no, listen, there's still 30 seconds, right? Look at where Estreo's at on the map right now. Like it's going to be hard for them to not make a move. The rest of his team off of this play. You don't you like you, bro, if you rip the guy playing heavy, you got to go, you know what I mean? You're not like holding spawn. If at right here, he just goes mid cut with with Caesar. You just try to trade out effectively. Obviously, you're assuming there's going to be someone around green, but that's just the risk you have to take. Yeah, I agree. I think G2 could have

14:23went up like a hundred points here. If they if they held it just held the blue spawns and just held like a full 60 on the blue hill. I'm like it originally when I was watching, I was like, Oh, damn, G2 could have got a fat lead there. But they kind of messed up that anybody got any other thoughts there on that play. Sam Dale Pat, anything else something to do? Yeah, I mean, if you're if you are going to make that play, like you got a yell at a teammate to stay alive, because that is a pretty deep pinch, but you got to be like, yo, stay the fuck alive. I'm going rowally. That's what they have to say in the columns. But honestly, you guys are right here. You should have just hit mid cut. Yeah, he probably knew he was fucking up in the moment. Yeah, he definitely went in his whole team spawner. He was like, oh, yeah, yeah. Yeah. That was probably I got. Oh, go ahead, sir. You got some? Yeah, yeah, you got spawns. Yeah, that's fun. Showcase, the second, the second P3, this was insane from the Genomeys. Look at the pick here from Dante off the double wall bounds, able to peel them off the English. Then another guy gets peeled off the sandwich and the gentleman's going to clean for what? But what happens after this

15:27that I don't know what happens here? The gentleman's end up getting flipped out here. And this is perfect. And my Nate comes in on the hard point. Everybody dies. Actually, it's a good name from Crenpy to get him off that hard point. The routes, but the routes and then all the kills come in and just look how easy it was for G2 to flip that right back. I mean, in a matter of 10 to 15 seconds, I mean, it went from Genomeys having a perfect rotation to it, just completely collapsing. What happened there on our rotation? I know that Nate came in and killed him off hill. The first guy took the right route off small. That's what happened. Yeah, the first two, the first two like went to the right and they played for the kills. Once they got those kills, they just hit the hill after that with their teammates. And they will get went back to green, hit mid cut, hit green with their teammate. That was literally perfect. They expected the fights off spawn, which sometimes you'll see players kind of get caught lacking, just like gun down sprinting. They just expected the fights, ripped them and then went back to the hill. Do you rewind that though? Yeah. So originally, I think ghosty got ripped, but I mean, I don't. Why is save where he's at? Like, look, like, so would they get the time.

16:30They were really there. Like, there shouldn't really be anybody there. No, no, I know, like, like, right, like, right here. I mean, I guess he's trying to pick a. He didn't need to be here. The lane, but yeah, like, there's just no way the timing as no one no one's rotating P2 in the situation. I mean, they had the cross anyway. Like all four dead, David, I'm going to have the whole cross. You know, they're all swanning it back, right? David has them cut here. I'm going to have them cut. They literally can't pee P2. It's impossible. They have all the info. Sid probably could just hit like mid shop right there and just put more pressure, try to kill the mid cut, hitting the hill. Yeah, he definitely took them out of the play there. Yeah, I kind of just don't wait. I don't even like, I'm losing. Well, why do they even have that set up, though? Like the guy in the hills by himself. Yeah, they got two. They got three guys look at me and ran straight at the hill. Like that could have it. And they still would have broke. They don't want anybody on plane, Eddie. They don't want nobody just chilling on the plane, Eddie. Just calling it. Let's free pickings on a plane, Eddie, and let's you get real.

17:34Sam really compared this to like what gentleman's looked like a couple weeks ago. Like we're not even playing plane on a P3 scar. And these guys were the hard point demons superstars a couple weeks ago. I mean, it would have worked though if Dan doesn't get ripped. But I just, I don't know if I like the idea of this. I don't think Dan even needs the chap. Yeah, he could have played more ratty. Just play a rat, just play a corner, play looking off angle. Like there's still 25 seconds left. You get another wave here. And you get this full, you get all this time and you kind of push them back even further. You stagger their push and you're setting yourself up pretty good for another rotation. They probably, they kind of overchild a little bit here. Dan and I'm going at his cross too. He could have played off Dylan. Just waited for I'm going to make contact and then just played off that. But you can kind of see how it collapses here, right? This was an opportunity for genomics to take a big lead here with a good rotation. And in a matter of 10 seconds, it collapses. And G2 go on to hold some of his heart point. You can get the little mixy, but definitely a big play there. And then we get towards the end of the game. And I mean, this was a mixed fest towards the end of the game. G2 only needed two points here to win the map. You can see it was actually

18:39gentleman to get here early. And I don't really know what happened here towards the end of the map. Somebody gave up mid-cut, right? That's what happened. They just, they don't even look at it. They just sprint to the time. Like Neb dies here. He gets, he gets these kills, whatever traits happen. And then watch what he does off spawn. This is, like, genomics get all the kills here. Dan gets the guy in time. Yeah, nobody's looking at me. That's just ignores, ignores mid. They just run through. They chalk it out. Oh, yeah. Yeah, now just comes out the map right there. He just, he's trying to help the, with the fights front, but he has to get mid-cut. Yeah, you know somebody's pension made. They're always going to be pension made. You got two teammates in front of you playing playing like you're third in line. You just have to admit in this situation. Yeah, I was a misplay from Neptune right there, for sure. I mean, last guy I'll spawn. You got to pick up the pinch until somebody else can get it. And Neptune need a split second decision. Might have costed him that map there because G2, they did a good job. They took the right routes. Got a good break. And then we head into the search. And man, this is bad. Three, four, genomics are down by one round. Neptune actually pops a two

19:42pieces round. Makes it a three V2 situation, which then becomes a three V1 from Sibskill. Dante jumps out of pillars. He dies to V1 situation. Dan Ghosty doesn't wait for number three for Neptune to come kitchen and help him so they can challenge this guy together. They all single child starts with Dante. Then it goes to Dan. Then it goes to Neptune. I mean, Neptune's probably losing fucking composure. He ran through ring pop the two P's and his teammates are soul child mid. I mean, that just looks like, but that looks bad. No, I mean, you're in the watch party. We're like, bro, what are they doing? Mamba just got an easy one V3. They ran at him. Yeah, with the bomb. I mean, he is hurt though. So I see why Dan tries to challenge him. I just thought it was weird. If you watch it from Neptune's pop here, though, like he gets them hurt. He knows where he is, but he just stood still. Like I found that kind of weird. He wasn't strafing or anything while he was shooting him. You just literally stood up and then Mamba pop up, pop up glitched him. Yeah, I think he won't pump him. Yeah, he just pumped him, but Neptune, if Neptune like gets shoots him, starts running up the left side of a square. He probably gets this kill too, but he just like

20:44stood still. It was kind of weird. Yeah, I mean, nonetheless, there's a great clutch from Mamba. I mean, he clutches the one V3 and what should have been four four going into the ninth round. It ended up going to a three five, which is a, which is a big difference. And I mean, G2 ended up closing it out the next round. So if you're a few gentlemen, you're definitely kicking yourself a little bit, but the most important is a lot of papaya, right? He does lay out. You think the papaya's getting to his head? I mean, he might have been on it. I didn't even think that was. That's the entity was never your strong suit. So yeah, of course you didn't. Well, what was your strong suit? Because it definitely wasn't that game. It wasn't that game. That's your fault. I mean, in case you make zero, my shit would last more than a week. Tell you that. Let's go. This right here was really bad from the Geno mates. I don't really understand why they were parking the bus when it was zero zero. And it wasn't really so much over here, because I get it. Like everybody's dying around Dante. So we're just trying to stay alive.

21:45But right here, boom, too dead. Right? It's on the ball left, bro. Three dead. And then look what they do here. Like three, three is dead right now. Like, what's the hold up? What are they waiting for? Then they start to go a little bit, you know, after a three, four second delay, they were lagging out for a second. They get more kills here. Right? Estrials one shot. Dante decides to back on up again. Instead of pushing forward and look, they bring it back again. He's bringing it all the way back. And then Dante's getting pinned to back. Everybody, everybody from the Geno mates is just chertled basically in spawn. G2 got him right where they want him. And then when I let this play out, I mean, this hurts him here. End of losing this point. Neptune tries to make a plate. They're mid. He dies. Then Astro makes a plate. They're right. He dies. Everybody's dying. Last one up is Dante. He's still in spawn here. He gets caught out. And then the cap comes in from G2. I mean, what was that? They're just playing so slow. Are they terrified? Well, initially, initially they get the kills and they try to run up and meet it with the ball. Instead of just taking a side, go left, go right. Like running on mid is the last thing you

22:49want to do with the ball right here. Get aside first. Right here is three dead. I mean, three to get the ball up the map. Three dead. Just, bro, you could have ran right. You could have ran left. You could have ran anywhere here. Just do something. Make a decision and go. Damn, this is my biggest pet peeve when people get kills that they don't do shit. They just stand there and God has a game of seconds. Okay, you can go. If you go in two or three seconds, it's too late. You already missed your timing. Like, you got to go quick. Like, once you get the kills, move. Get pushed up on a map. And I, I'm going to be honest, I wouldn't expect Geno mates to be a type of team to be playing like this. Like they look like they should normally are. They're in their own. They're in their own head right now. They're just overthinking for sure. I feel like teams are falling victim to this though right now. There's so many other teams playing overload where they just, they keep trying to do the whole baiting one lane and then rap and then rap. You know what I mean? But I would have liked just them to either go as a unit somewhere or someone just take a route in pitch because they literally just kept rapping to like the

23:5150 yard. That was it. Yeah. Like no one even made a move. I don't, I don't know. That's the whole situation. That's weird. It's just moments where the Geno mates are just, they're not looking like the Geno mates right now. And I'm not sure what it is. And you know, Pat, I know Sam mentioned personalities on the team. Do you think this team is going to be able to bounce back pat? What do you think? I mean, all they needed some damn confidence. Like talent-wise, they're there. I mean, I asked the other day, who's their coach? I'm not like blaming, but they don't have like, you know, that guy in the locker room that can, that can build these guys up. And I feel like that's what they're needing right now. They just need to get their confidence back. They think they're lacking confidence? Yeah. They're getting fucking shit on. They're 0.7s across the board against like the worst teams in the league. They're on a three-law streak. They lost to the goddamn C9, dogshit team. Like, yeah, they're lacking some confidence. Lacks. Lacks. I mean, every law, every loss, I mean, we've all been a part of the losing streak, bro. Like, every loss compounds on

24:51one another, man. First, it's like, all right, like, we got like, you know, whatever one series. Then the next one's like, all right, like, take some script series this week. Then there's a third and you're like, okay, we like, what the fuck is going on? Then there's a team talk. Yeah. There's got to be a team talk on top of each other one after the other, bro. Yeah. For sure. Any other final thoughts on the series, guys? G2. Didn't care business. Yeah, you think they were getting waxed and their challenges. Scrims this week. I saw Cammy frying them. Yeah, Cammy was dogging. It might be over. It's not over, but I'm a little worried about how they're going to perform in the lock-in. General makes next matches versus Vancouver. If they lose that, they're probably compromising chalk, but I think this is a really good like bounce back match to like get your footing back. They got a three oh no. This is even if you win three two, you think it's an L. Yeah, we still kind of suck, even though we won. Like, that was way too close.

25:54That you guys ready for the next one? Are you ready for the next one? No, no, I'm not. We got optic Texas going up against phase Vegas. And this one wasn't even close. A three oh for optic Texas. We start things off at a scar heart point where optic went to 50 to 190. Then we go into a 10 SMD six to one. That one was was rough, uh, to say the least. And then we go into a scar overload where optic Texas went five to three. Another door dash for optic Texas as they take care of business here. We'll scroll down. Take a look at that statue that it is a red carpet for phase Vegas. You got a point eight three from 04. A point nine three from abusa. A point eight nine from drasa and a point seven seven from simp the pimp on the other side. You had a point nine three from merciless. He's human after all, but you got a one point two two from dashy a one point fourteen from shot team. And my MVP at a stage who I think has just been unreal is hook with a 1.4.

26:57He has been nudge. We'll scroll down to go look at the match MVP doesn't surprise me to very well-rounded. He had a 1.37 and heart point a 1.25 in search and a 1.46 in overload. Great place coming in from hook to nuke. Uh, I mean, we'll start with you, Sam. And it will work. We'll work our way down. What'd you think of a series optic Texas? They come out and they get face the bell here, Sam. I mean, what the hell happened? Uh, I think she's that good. I think he's like optics just in a tier of their own at the moment. I know there's like a lot of people who you know want rankings for the league and, you know, who's the best team who's the second, but it's just optic. And then a whole shit pile in the middle of the league and then like C9 and Vancouver at the bottom. So there may be a tier empty tier. It may be off. There's no way to here. There's no way to use empty. Yeah, B tier is just like seven teams. Um, optic just taking care of business. The, I think the, the most interesting thing to me is that Merck has looked pretty mortal for the, for the last couple of weeks. I feel like he's not doing like he's had

27:58some moments like he had a crazy pop off in the heart point. I got like a three piece at the end of the game. He had a, he's still phenomenal. That's indeed. He's ripping in search, but like he's not, he's not frying, you know, like where he used to, but Kyler has ascended, dude. He is fucking unbelievable for them this stage. I agree with the MVP sentiment right now. He has been unreal. Um, but I mean, if optic don't win major two, I know the curse. You guys are going to get mad at me whatever bro. If they don't win major two, I don't know what to say. These guys are light years ahead of every other team right now. Um, on the face side, Simp had a bad series. Can I really be mad at it? No, it's just the inconsistency on this team. It's just, it's just so evident, bro. I don't, I really don't know what is going to happen to major two. I don't think they know what is going to happen to major two. Um, they could potentially still be in the play in as well. Like there's just so much uncertainty involving this team. I, I really don't know what to say. Like the slang isn't consistent. The game modes aren't consistent. I just other than Simp and abuser for the most part who I think has been pretty good for them.

29:02I just, I don't know where this team goes. I don't know what they're good at. I don't know if they're going to win or lose on any given day. It's just, it's a, they're another coin flip team. Yeah, I mean, it's also their decision making too, right? Like their decision making have been so bad in somebody's maps. I got some clips to pull up, but Pat, what are you? Optic, Texas, looking like they're in a tier of their own right now. I mean, what are your thoughts? What are your thoughts on a series? What are your thoughts on phase? What are your thoughts on Optic? Go ahead, Pat, floor is yours. I, I agree with you, Tom and Sam, that they're in a tier of their own. Um, and it's the online tier. Um, what? The online team. We've known that for, for almost ever. Uh, it's not surprising. They're by far like we, we know like some of these players on this team are just insane on the line. Can't be cute. Um, and then we get the LAN. It's different story. Um, they don't have a lot of them, but it's not a story on them, Pat. One map game seven. Don't lie guys. They don't have the ice. Like already, that's one point out guys. I'm feeding.

30:05I'm feeding. Um, the world champion. I wouldn't be there to have the ice of the world champs, Pat. Yeah, not on black ops seven. Um, okay. As far as phase go, I mean, I joined the fling yesterday last minute, because I saw that clip that came out. Um, oh, four. Yeah, I think, I think they need to look into a change. Uh, that was rumors that the aloo could got his work visa or whatever. Like, maybe if not, no, that's not a rumor. That's a fact. He was in the chair. Oh, that's a fact. Well, okay. Well, they might want to start right now. He's in the viewer list or knocks or whatever. Like start, start thinking, uh, because yeah, oh, four has just been horrible. Um, and again, we've seen it with so many teams, bro. One roster change can make, uh, all the difference in the world, one person, one swap. Um, and like, like you guys said, who's just been really good, sims, been godlike aside from today. Um, so I think that's something they need to

31:05definitely start considering. And I don't, I don't want to wait, right? There's no reason to wait till major two. Um, you are, you can tell like where your team's at. And they don't have a winning recipe with how these guys are playing right now. But, um, yeah, good win other than that. Um, but like I said, I don't, I don't think this would be the case unless it is what it is. We're in online matches. I get it. Yeah, ask you a question. What's up, Sam? Based on online call duty, you know, because you know, you've argued on behalf of online recently. I will say you've advocated for some online call duty gameplay. It's like you think you do. Who do you think is winning major two? Right now, you're putting on the spot right now. Right now, major two victors. I personally, I know. It's the LA team, Sam. He's fucking correct. I think they're going to put it together on land. What are your, uh, no, what are your thoughts on the series phase object? Speak to me.

32:09Listen, this is just the best team in the game, panel and business. I mean, who's definitely MVP, he's MVP candidate for me. Uh, it broke. Tyler's super impactful for this team in general, but the level he's hitting, like you guys have been saying, if he plays like this on an individual level, while adding everything else that he adds to the team, like, they're just not going to lose. And they're seven to know, which is unbelievable, but the biggest thing for me is they're 21 and four Mac count. Like, they're ascending not only to like, oh, yeah, they're like, they're the best team in the game. Like they are foreign beyond right now. I don't think that there's a shot in hell currently that they, that they don't win. Uh, major, the only thing stopping him is the double curse that they could encounter here. The one seed, we don't believe in that. The one seed and undefeated. Those are two things that do not go well with major winners. I will say, they got a lot more batches. There's still a lot, but here's the thing about. I just love good,

33:17good ball, good competitive ball. Optic has some of the best arrows I've seen in a very long time. This is Optic team right here as some of the best arrows as a whole, threw out an entire game throughout entire series. Like even other series we watch, they could be good. They could be entertaining, but there's so many fuck ups. Like Optic just looks so polished right now. I can't see them losing. I got the Falcons beating. Yeah, okay, of course you just, I mean shot to your superstar bet. Do you have even one point? Well, four, eight thousand is the fourth best player on this team right now. Oh, yeah. My face yet. I don't think that's really like a bad thing. They're all superstars. I don't care. I'm just saying superstars aren't the fourth best player on the team. That's what I'm saying. That's for sure. Okay. So if you're the fourth best player team, it's the fourth best player in the game. Top five player in the game to superstars. You know, I think last time we checked, he was like the number 27. Oh, man. Oh, wow. I think he's got his numbers

34:18up a little bit. I'd be like five. I mean, I had a 48 lineman before. So I'm one point 14, a one point 15, a one point two seven, a one point two four, a one point eleven. This is all as an aggressive some machine gun player. I think if I spawned in right now with merciless and major two hook, I'd have the same numbers. Yeah, you think so. Yeah, I wish we could make that happen. I don't know. I just signed a highlight. That's a real highlight. Get a series in. I might have better numbers to be honest. Now let's pick it up. By the way, it's being an app. By the way, because say I'm used to like mercs looking human stuff. Merk doesn't have to do anything. No, he does it. That's a thing. Like if if hook was having a bad day, or shots, he was having a bad day, then you have to get through Merk. And it Merk's probably going to pick up the slag. And if you don't get the Merk, then you gotta get through that. This is the shit that they were saying about phase when the trio was together, bro. Oh, you're gunning Sim. Guess what? A beezy's there. Oh, you're gunning a beezy. Guess what sells it. It's like, yeah, there's never stops. But Dylan, what'd you think? What'd you think of the series, Dylan?

35:21Well, just to go off what you guys were saying right there, the biggest thing like Merk, the past couple of matches, he's been like even doing his thing. Everyone else has been frying. But when it comes to search, because that's where you used to catch optic lacking a lot, like you could just nestle them. You win one respawn. You win a search, but Merk has like a 1.6 or something in search right now. Like he is just making every single play perfectly every single game he's frying and taking over. So they're not weak in any game mode. And they look like at the end of black ops six, optic was playing a different game compared to everyone else. Like they had mastered that game and no other team could come close to them. And right now they're doing the same thing. There's no other team in the league that we've seen that could put together a consistent series across hard point search and destroy an overload right now like optic does. They they pretty much mastered B07 at this current state. And no one else is close. So they just got to keep doing their thing. Major two should be a guarantee a lock. If I I would take everything and put all my money on them winning because I don't see any other team being able to beat them or just being this consistent in this game right now. But when it comes to phase, like Drausa has to he has to

36:24stop that shit. Bro, he's tweeting out like the grim Reaper gifts and he's getting three-o-choes slammed. Like you can't just do that. Like it doesn't it starts losing its effect. Like I don't know if he's trying to like bring it back because the team is what's up. What's up? I agree with you. Do you remember 2018 champs? I do. I do. A neighbor is tweeting out Joker gifts all weekend long. Wait, wait. Is that one? It was on his lowly. You shit on Twitter. I was tweeting them first. It's not even real. He's still trying to win one and one down that round. No, no. Try to. And then what happened, how would you do? Oh, same thing Batman dude. I was going to say just go down for a few champs because like Ian, great friend of mine. Lamar accuracy, great friend of mine. Like Tom and I, we didn't even want it when that ring. So we gave them a chance to like listen. You guys don't have rings. Go get a chance to But don't get your ring. I don't remember. I can't. I don't want to win that ring. I want it. I'm not bad. Yeah. Not a bad game. Five. You know, I got ripped off tower. Heady. And it's what it is. I want to talk about it. I want

37:24to talk about it. It happens. But yeah, it was bad. It was bad. All right. Back to the face thing. I was free. Oh, bro, you got to be my Kenny, bro. You got carried by prime Kenny. I don't want to fucking hear it, bro. You didn't do shit. Not to face though. They probably should make a change before major too. I do. I don't always agree with that. So blow it up changes because he tells everyone to blow it up. But it's probably time now. Like they're just so inconsistent. Some days are going to watch for you. He's been like, wow, this seems really good. Other days are going to watch and be like, what the fuck am I watching? These are not four players that are two champions, two world champions, and then a booze and oh for who have been really good. Like it's just, it's a coin flip how they're going to show up. So I don't think it hurts to make a change right now. Get some momentum before the major and just see if shit works tonight or see if shit works going into the major. I don't even got a drop-oh for him. He just put him on the bench. Yeah. That's a couple matches with a Luca. Let's just see a quick trauma. Nobody I don't know about that. Of the of the first map here, well, you want to add to that and up? No, I just mean, I just think that's a bad. That's

38:25a recipe for disaster, no? I mean, but like the option is they're going to drop it before any way after major too. Why not just try fucking a Luca now? Like what's the, what's the difference? I mean, here's an example, right? I mean, just to look at some of the stuff that's going on. I mean, both P4 rotations for phase were so bad on this map. And this is a money hill. This is a hill where you can lock down a lot of time, right? And they get the kill on the playing side of the map. They have all the mid. They have all of right. They know they don't want the info. If you're oh four, at least this is how I always think it in the moment when I was watching this. You know they're coming left on you. You know they're spawning P2. You know they're going to be pushing this last side of the map. You know they're going to want to play for the backsponsors. 53 seconds left. Just play a corner. Just lay down. Play a corner. Don't move. Just just play an off-angle. But he has to be in aggressive. He gets aggressive here. He tries to make a plate through the window. He gets shot in the back, opt to get through to the left side. And I think you have sitting in the corner was the problem. You wanted him to fly at it. I want him to shoot his gun. Yes. Well, he

39:26let him go and get him. Like he could have just. He just gave shots. I mean, they were already there. They were already there Sam. When he when he when he came. He used to spray forward and shoot his gun. 100. He just spawned here. Hop on top of that fucking roof and take a gun fight. You have the complete mid and right side of the map under control. There is zero threat on that side of the map. He sits in a corner. Let's shots. He get perfect timing through and get four all the way up on that because he's playing this fucking shit. Credit behind the hood. Like he just gave all of he gave up every time and possibly. They have to. So they have numbers in the situation and no one they don't have anyone cutting top. That's those shoes you're gun. And he's supposed to make it close to blitz. And that's his thing, right? He definitely he I agree with him. He just just trying you get. I mean, you know they're there. If you get one, that's you got to say that's a lot of this push, bro. There's no way that I think should be able to get across completely for free with no gunfight. Shots. He just gets across, gets top and he does the same thing on that. Too late. Yeah, he gets too late. Can you bring it on back? I'm trying to understand. I'm

40:27trying to understand his. His thought process. With a small timing. It's really perfect. I mean, it's either one or the other though. No, don't you got to just be decisive either play the corner and guarantee a kill or yeah, just challenge. I mean, I think I think he has to go for it because he realized he fucked up his timing. And that's what gets him killed. He's like, Oh, shit, like I need to get into play after sitting in this corner, not seeing anyone. So now now it's time he's fucked. He realized he fucked up his time. And then so he tried to figure it out. But because he already fucked it, he got shot at the back. Shots. He also made a really good player getting through like shots. He getting through here and finding a timing and just getting pushed up top blue. It's just a good play from him. He gets a guy at a time and then he pushes through to the back. And he helps his teammates dash pushes through. It's just a good break as well from optic. Because it was great. But like even 0 4 if 0 4 pushes up and doesn't shoot shots in the side and dies. That's that's a good, like some deaths are good deaths because then you know what they're doing. They're either going top blue. They might be going back left. But since he sat there, they just got to top blue for free

41:27without anyone knowing. Yeah, you should play on your screen. And often just appeared on the guy in the hill on their screens. You can only play a crate like that. If you have like a crossfire setup, like your team has a something that they like. Sort of in top. Yeah. Or if your players on the other team, like if six and five, if they were getting super aggressive, you know, I mean, like but they're obviously not. You're not going to be super aggressive on the right side of the map on this hill. Like he has to just fly out like Sam said. If he gets one and dies, a plus work. If he. He might do it, but maybe we just want to maybe we get one. That's still okay. Like in anything more than that, they hold the seal. Yeah, get the info at least. He might get double ripped off. He jumped. I mean, shots. He's never had a jump top. I'm not saying that but like he needs to he needs to be the one to give his team the information. He's getting the left spawn. He has the right to die. Like he can die. It's I think it's completely fine if he dies.

42:28He staggers their push and lets Abusa and who's a draw is like get into the play. But because draws and Abusa are securing the last kill on that fort and if you before you started this clip, that was the last kill on the right side of the map off hold. So they were guaranteeing that kill and if he had staggered this in extra one or two seconds, they could still have the ability to hold and they deny and getting top for free. The number one break. Like option for every team on on this hill is getting top control because it allows you to hit the back the front or the stairs like it gives you every option to break the hill. You have to deny top control especially through p2 grow. You can't just let them cross completely for free and you know I would rather him just die. And you know they're there right? I mean you you have all the info made and right you know they're spawning p2 right like you know they're there you can look at sim too like Simple is tweaking in the hill. He was looking watching front door and he's like oh shit I need my top he gets his top but at that point it's too late. I take us to yeah I take it to the next one because this is the second this is the second rotation now. There's a listening during this we shouldn't we should listen to all right let's listen into to the rotation here and see what happened to face. You'll hear the timing it's between

43:29you you'll turning your face up. Hey only one has dead. I'munting a browser. Hey Kasi, help that guy. Brandon that's your balance. Make it a 2 times that. Yes. One big P five, I'm in night. I'm dead I'm dead. How's that? I'm going to make it. Please do that. We should be fronzed back. Let's go. Maybe spin maybe spin? If someone's left standing, Brandon did it. Maybe when he points it, I've got a B five. Go away with it. Go away with it. We got him. They're going mid. I don't know more to listen in there because I do want to talk about this play so one their comes always sounds frantic So come and just always seems like so cluttering and so Yeah, it's a little hard. It's a little hard to understand sometimes. I mean, I

44:33think it was too bad. By the way, who got through with my bad enough shots. You're good. I mean, the time on this is unreal. Yeah, I mean, I don't think it's timing. That's not bad. No, but like, go back right before this time. Why are we pushing at all? Like, why is there not one person pushed up P2, guaranteeing that someone else picking a mill? Like, they just let, he just walked out of shop. And didn't get shot by any. Didn't get shot. Didn't even see anybody. Like, this is another thought to army. Like, they have multiple kills. Like, push up a lane, guarantee something. You know, I got all left. They could only go mid. And then your teammates can like comfortably look at me, but they're all camping in blue. Yeah, I don't know what the hell happened here. This, this was crazy. They did. I mean, I mean, I mean, three in a line. I think I just don't even like, why are they playing a double blue set up? Like, I feel like you're so trapped in there. Like on rotation. Like, no one's taking any space. You don't even give yourself an out. Man, if you were winded to, I mean, bro,

45:34they got every single kill. Yeah, like, bro, they should be pushing. Like, bro, they're literally like right here. Like, they get the kill. Right. Like, they, like, number six, even now, even draws like can get out. Like, draws can get out. Like, somebody can get out. Like, there's so much time for these guys. Like, they just got a clean wipe. Like, they're, they're spawning in the back green. They spawned back green. Yeah. Yeah. Drases playing just way too passive. They didn't take any space. They got the chat. Nameless said they're playing like pussies. Well, I think I, I think the issue is two is they, they called out the split originally. But draws was in such a good spot. Oh, four. I believe it was. Oh, four. He went big and got the split. But then they were still looking for ghosts. Like, they were still. They were. And they split one or two. Yeah. But like. No, they, no, no, no. Once they killed the last guy. Like, they should be draws. Needs to run over. Oh, four said there could be another one. And take some sort of space. And he said there could be another one.

46:34But they ain't looking for another one. I'm just looking at mid right now. Yeah. I forget my teammate. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Somebody's got to take space, though, because. Shit, like, Buchasi just did. We'll just happen. I mean, that. It is kind of bad. I mean, but the whole set other. There's timing shouldn't exist. But the timing itself was. Yeah. I agree that the timing should not exist in this situation. For sure. I was just saying, like, the, the, the millisecond for O4 to say, like, I got your mid look left. Like, then shot. He hits the time and you get bottom. It's just crazy. Yeah. And we get into the end of the game. There's a scenario here where I actually thought, Facebook would have been able to bring it back a little bit. And then Mercury, pretty much calls game here. I mean, you can see kind of how opting to able to break onto gone to his P1. It was a face Vegas. We got a clean 4 dead. The tax are coming in, but take a look at that mini map. Number 3, Merck going all the way around, taking a route plain side. He's able to find one off the hard point. Then he's going to buy his time. Went to another fight on a guy hot slides the corner, takes that on for pops of three piece. And just like that, Merck, you least calls the game on face Vegas. I mean, I was a phenomenal

47:36play for Merck face face. That one, 30 bro, winning his team the game right there. Yeah, you even know, you know, stats don't really tell the whole picture. Merck right there at the end of the game, just making a guy play hook again, 36 and 26. I mean, it's just phenomenal. It's phenomenal for my big Texas phase, making a couple mistakes on the on the blue rotations. I'm both on both the first set and the second set of rotations. They fucked up the Pete, the blue hill. He's a P2 and a little that's here that you didn't grab. But that one was probably the worst mistake of the whole game. Triple the first one. Yeah, the second one. It was like basically a tie game. Yeah, I think that's the one that O4 had to end eventually streak on, but there's just a lot of mistakes from face and that map one. And it's like, I know the slaying is the thing. This is this is what I said either yesterday or maybe a different show, but I get the slaying is the thing. I get everyone wants to look at O4's Katie and draws his Katie. Like I get it. But like the decision making on the map is like is really killing them. Like you can get out slayed and win the map if you're playing properly, but they're you can't have both, bro. They're they're playing like shit decision making wise and they're not going to kill. So it's just it's just bad. Like they're doubled on the hill

48:37on a rotation. They have no one top. Great. They have to look mid because optic did a good job getting me kill off old to make them look mid, which is phenomenal play from optic, but like they're doubled on time, just waiting to get broke here. I think it might be their comms, too, to be honest. Like after listening to multiple phase listeners, like they all are just calling out red dots and they don't talk to each other. They don't listen to each other. When something happens, they're not really listening. They they're all calling out their own their own little world. And you can kind of tell what the decision making like Sam just said, like they're not thinking ahead of what everyone needs to do. Boom, pick this up, get this, get this. They're all just, oh, you're here, here, here, but there's no like conversation between each other. Let's let's listen to the optic Texas common and compare the differences. Let's tune in. Hey, what's up? Time. I'm dating. I'm dating. I'm dating. Stop yourself. I'm giving me. Yeah, I'm sure now. I'm sure now. I saw no time. Let's finish. And what's up? Stop. Stop. Stop. He's going to do it. You're in an absolute centered. How was you all? 131, 131,5.

49:38There you go. You need it's a nine or something, that goes thick the guts. Low Juns, they have a triffa know. Ok How much of the Come to him, come to him, come to him. I got it. And we're top. We're top. Top's got me. We're going to. Oh, whoa! Nice. You can go for it. One thing that serves me something.

50:39Yo, P1 in the top. A tapul. I'll hold it. In the field of the work. Come on. Open those one tap going because I don't have the touch. I'm going to have to stop playing. If you can, then over here. All right. All right, do you guys hear the difference? Do you see how calm it is? And you can hear everybody. And it doesn't seem too chaotic or too hectic. Like they're just talking. They're just talking, having a conversation with each other, but that's tough. That shit, man. Like listening to Beethoven. No, seriously, bro, I can't stand, like, he comes, like, I hate that shit. I mean, I also call us the best, Tom. He's the most he's the complete player, bro. Yeah, that's what the game that's that specific clip right there. I think that was the game, bro. Like there's a 30 point game face had rotation. You have a streak as well that you're forced to burn. Like I think that was the biggest moment of the map. Yeah, that should have been fucked up a lot of rotations. And then let's take a look at the 2v4. So I think of one over the search at the 2v4 situation in the second round. Dashie and Merck against the whole phase squad. And just look at what phase does here.

51:39I mean, oh, four gets picked by the snipe. Tries to throw a grenade that one guys is jumping. Dresses literally just jumping at him. Like doesn't give a fuck just giving him a freebie. And then dashie slides the corner gets a quick score. It makes it a 2v1. A booze probably said, what the fuck? Booze is probably like, what the hell just happened? What happened to everybody? Faze got to know that they could just chill and let optic plant, right? Like or like it's a 2v4. Make them make a play. You always do what you have to do. You got map control. You have the kills. The game should be so easy for phase now. But they just want to end the round too quick. So they run at them and then they get clutched on. Yeah, look at this. Look at this. Look at this mini map right now. Look at this mini map. 4v2 bomb is down 10 drop your controller. It's over. Yeah, like there's don't do anything. They literally don't do anything. Just chill and instead it's the opposite. Hope 4 goes for a nade he doesn't need to throw draw. I don't know where drives is going. He's dead. Simps like fuck. We sent it and know what the hell is going on and he dies. And then yeah, it's it comes down to a 2v1 situation. A booze is left by himself and he ends up getting taken down here. They actually just post run at him.

52:41That she just runs out on what a pistol and takes him down. I mean, it's a great 2v4 from optic. But again, it's like you're looking at the face side. Like, yo, what are what are what's going on? What are these guys doing? This is a team that's in overthinking mode. They don't know what's happening. They don't look good. I know what they're shit to be honest. Here it is again. This is the sixth round. Okay, if optics up 4 1, phase phase, a blue defines a pick with a snipe, draws a fine to pick on a shot. See it's merciless and dashy and a 2v4. Listen, again, let's see what happens here. You have 0 4 who runs out mid cut by himself. He gets picked. He does. I don't think that's needed at all. A booze is still challenging with this night. But I don't think he needs to be challenged this night. He's they already have the numbers just take together and work some trades. And then they're able to make it a 2v2 situation. Merkets pick. But now it becomes a 1v2. This was insane. Dashy, he's going to plant the bomb. He's actually going to full wrap the map and get himself to mid.

53:42I actually like the route here. Dashy plans the bomb and he goes all the way around here. I think this is a good route from him. He readjusts with the sniper. He's got the pistol snipe. Well fast forwarded. He spots a guy on bomb and then look at the plays. I mean, I mean, Dashy just takes care of the rest, right? Turns the corner play right here. Finds one on the draws, finds another one there. It's just great place from Dashy's phenomenal. It's just too icy. Big Bruce, he just making plays with the snipe. I want to see him snipe more. Sam, I think it was you telling it that, you know, we want to see Bruce. He snipe as much as possible, honestly, with the way that I mean, his pistols insane. His snipes insane. Yeah, I think maybe he just tries to switch up the looks, but yeah, he wasn't missing today with this sniper. I mean, it was phenomenal. Oh, she's not more because he does show like that. But again, right? What did that not look totally from phase again? Did that not look like they're playing copper, right? When they added some flinch to that sniper, though, there was flinch there. He's shot through it. That means there's not enough. Yeah, I don't know. Yeah, out of that hole, there's some, there's some flinch coming back. I mean, it's kind of same kind of flinch

54:43that you had this morning when you kept bopped your ass. My fucking got my ass. That almost meant my maker. Uh, any thoughts on the search, guys? Any thoughts on the search? I mean, I thought it was so bad, bro. I thought that was terrible, but Tom, we need to start getting on these teams asked more like we saw with LAT yesterday. Remember what happened in the, uh, what was it? 3v2 on scar. They have defense. Neon flanks through plane. Try to make a play. It's the same shit that phase is doing, bro. When you get numbers in search and destroy and you are on defense, the other team needs to get an advocate on plant the bomb. Stop running around. You have to end the round right now. Let the round play out, make them make a really good play. Get the ball and actually have to clutch and you don't just fucking run at them. Like why the fuck are teams just giving away rounds when they can just chill? Get together and make a plan. Do and you can probably test it as to knowing Crowder and RJ. They're probably losing full seeing these plays because I know how they think when it comes like, yeah, the amount of times I've heard Crowder say, drop your fucking controller and stop trying to make a fucking play is like engraved in my head. And when I'm seeing them make these plays, like I know the code just aren't happy. I know they're losing composers seeing this shit.

55:46And then we have the overload and go ahead. I was just going to say like to go on with what you're doing. We're saying like it's just that's such an obvious play. Like when you're a team that's getting blooded, you're now man of anage. Yeah, that's probably like like, yo, let's see if we can let one of them scam and then all four is fucking getting sacked. He ain't blitzed shit. He's the one getting sacked. Like I just don't understand what the individual plays are. It's a free. It's a free kill every time. Then we get into the overload and phase. They get a clean wipe. They kill all four players. They get a clean three day. Last guys coming off spawn, right? They bring the device P two side. Do you guys like this on this side? Then bringing this towards P two. I think they should like, I think right here number eight should be pushing out plain. Like once they come back, right? When we get to plain look number eight's already running towards it. Like get pushed up plain and then just bring this device to the left side. Like I don't think you should ever be bringing the device P two on this side unless it's like a perfect situation. This is kind of troll because it look what happens. Like they bring it P two optic rotates over.

56:48Number six tries to make a play. Draza dies. And we're just trying to make a play through middle. He dies hooks on the pinch. Right. All the kills go down. Boom. Now Optic gets a clean wipe. Now Optics running it through P two with optic players pinching through mid. Right. It completely flips on him. And it fucks him here. Like they they pretty much just delivered the optic device and said here you go. You guys could take the device P two will give it straight to you and call it a day. Like in an ideal situation, like I would think number eight gets plain number seven brings a device to him and then you let number six pinch. Like six can make a play and pinch five spoons with them. They can make a play through mid and pinch and like try and get mid map. Like try and get kills mid try and make a play like around the right side. Like just play the plane. Heady like make plays on a pinch, right? Like worse comes to worse. Like if you die like you, I mean you you still have all that info, right? You have players pushing through mid. You're holding playing your most likely not going to lose those fights. If you're on the plane, Eddie, like you're going to hold thing. You're going to win those fights. Most likely if you're on the plane, Eddie shots is probably not even running through this side of the map.

57:49He'll just shimmy it, see that the wrong plane, Eddie and probably not even challenge. He'll probably just back away from it and just wait, right? Like I didn't like how they played the situation at all. I don't know if you guys agree. Do you guys agree me? Can you rewind it out here? Yeah, I can rewind it. I wanted to just see the the timing when oh four. So like the kill. And they get all they get all the kill pretty much their whole team. Right now one guy in the middle of the map, Simplons of Guy made then oh four and lose the killer guys in the spawn. All four dead. Everybody's coming up. Sim tries to make a play through me. He dies. And then you see that he tried to make a play through right. He dies. I mean, what'd you think? No, I agree. No, no, I mean, I don't I definitely think teams are just kind of adapting to this whole like I said it in the the exposure were gentle mates were like, yo, if we get the kills here, we just default. We have to wrap. You know what I mean? Like I it's so rare that I see a team just straight up run the lane that they got

58:49the kills and then they have the they have the rock. But I think your spot on where Optic does a good job of it specifically in there. I mean, they're like one of the only teams that do. But to do what you said, push, get space on the lane that you already have space. You know what I mean? The game is giving you this take space and then have that last guy make a make a play. Yeah. Like a batch number six was pinching here while they're bringing the device plane. Yeah, exactly. He's getting into their he's getting into their blue. And he's he's just number six is flanking just shooting Optic members in the back. Literally just shooting him in the back. They're getting freebies. And the thing is the thing is to hit the ball indicator Tom. At this point is pushed up a little bit further. All that does is just gravitate all the Optic players to that side of the map. So it makes it easy for the pinch. Yep. Like they know that the ball is still in their fucking spawn. So like they they already know what the play is. Yeah. Like they know that they're not getting pressured. And even here number five or number six. Like if it's simple in playing number seven, follow them up.

59:49Number five can cut can cut their mid. Just hold the cross. Just hold the cross made like nobody can flank them playing like you're good. If Optic tries to make a play on the pinch, like you're good. Somebody's holding your pinch. And most likely like they're going to get that kill. Like they just play an offing like a blue. They just told us I mean he did it, right? Like he he goes to fill a mid. The only thing I can think of is. Faces bringing the device towards where they're spawning. But I don't know if you always got to think like that in overload. Because where those players spawning up on P2 like that. Like they have a free pinch. Like it's free for them. They're just trying to reinvent the wheel here. Like when you play overload, there's clear sides of where you want to take the ball. Like on this map, when you have Optic spot Optic side, you want the ball P2 hotel area. When you have phase aside, you want the ball playing. But they're just trying to do too much because the teammates probably spawn there. But what you guys said earlier was perfect. They should have took the playing control number A should have went playing ball goes over there. Because that actually opens up the hotel, the P2 pinch for whoever I think was number five or number six. And then they can make a play right there. But they're trying to just run it to where Optic wants the ball.

1:00:51It's way harder to cap on that side. So that's just what he's doing too much there just like overcooked the normal game plan. They overcooked it to the GP on GD. Oh, yeah, that's awesome. Mars stick right there. Yo, I just nameless texted me so I wanted to shout out his point. Oh, he was getting bodied in the chat. Zumafee was eating his ass up. He's got a valid point on this current phase team. He said, it doesn't even make sense to Vodcheck Simp. Like even if he made the wrong play, he made the right play and work around his play. What? I don't know. And we'll say black hearts are going up next. I don't disagree. He said black hearts the best hard point. Black hearts is the best hard point. I mean, you think it's the best. That's like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Oh, okay, okay, okay. I mean, that's just like even if he made, we don't got a Vod Review Simp. It's insane. But black card in the combo. And that's all I needed to know, man. You put black card in college. What do you think Tom? How do you feel about this phase team?

1:01:52What do you think they're going to make? Is you got a dog in a fight here? I mean, I think Simp needs some damn help, man. I think Simp needs some help. I think that's what Daniel's just trying to say. I think their decision making is horrible. They're decision, like they're all talented players. But the decisions that they're making on the map are so bad. Like it looks like they're not on the same page. And I do think a lot of that comes down to the comps. I think the comps is a big issue. I think people might not agree with the comps. But I definitely think the comps is a big issue, for sure. And I also think when they're coming off spawn, they just don't know what play to make sometimes. Like they're indecisive. But I think they're overthinking their plays. They look like they don't know what they want to do. Do I hold? Do I push? Well, that's not how God has played. Like God has played at being decisive when you come off spawn. You come off spawn. You hit the pinch right away knowing that's the right play to make. You come off spawn. You rotate and you pick up the OE. You come off spawn. You hold and play a corner, right? Like you know what to do instantly when you come off spawn. And it doesn't, it shouldn't take you three or four seconds to make that decision in your head, right? Like it's not, there's no decisiveness.

1:02:52Like they're not making the right decisions right away. It's almost like they're lagging out in their heads. Like they're delayed. Like they're delayed, bro. They're lagging out. They need to update their drivers. And here's the thing. I know they're good players. Like I know they know how to play God. Are you sure? Are you sure that? Are you sure? All of them? I'm just kidding. No, I just want to, I'm sorry. I mean, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I know. Simple knows how to play God. I mean, I brought. Yeah. We all know who does that. Who does that. Who does that. I'm going to be honest. They all know how to play God. Well, 40's guys don't want to play God. I think it's a confidence thing. I think it, I think the comms are hectic. It's making them tweak the fuck out. I think there's a lot of things that are, that are, that are, I think these guys need to relax. I think they need to take a deep breath. I think they need to relax. And I need to just start having a conversation with each other in game and stop overthinking shit and just, and just have some fun and make the right play. All right. I might need to give them the fucking World War II season one speech doing. I need to give them that shit. We were in shambles and we wanted chips. They just need to calm down. They need to calm down.

1:03:52Who is the speech? What was the speech? To fucking have some fun and calm the fuck down. We're tweaking the fuck out. Just calm down and play the game the right way. Like, we're tweaking. And I should work the rumors. Fuck the rumors. I'll try to talk about it. Yeah. It's not true. It might have been true. Fuck the rumors. I don't want you to get dropped. But y'all may, if we don't fucking turn this shit around. We went from blowing it up to the win of the tournament. The win was comedy. You know, you know, that's just, yeah, that's my thoughts. And, you know, I know the coaches are probably not happy. The players are probably not happy. Sure, the players are pissed too. I mean, I know the player. I know the guys. They're up last week. Yeah, they're pissed. I mean, I'm sure. I'm sure they were. You guys got any other thoughts on the series? Any other thoughts? I spent a lot of time on the first two series because I didn't have much for these next two to be honest with you. There's not much to talk about. Yeah, not much to say. Cheers to yell at us. If we break down Cloud Nine Vod. We'll go out. Just to let the audio listeners know what's going on.

1:04:52We got the Riyadh Falcons going up against Toronto Coy. Toronto Coy. They actually lose 3-0 today to the Riyadh Falcons. We start things off at a Black car heart point. I don't know why teams are playing Falcons on Black cards. Clearly a very good map for them. Black car Falcons went 250 to 160. There was a period of time where it was 160 to 160. Falcons just chained two hills together and closed out the map. It was phenomenal work from them. Then the raid S&D, Toronto, they were up what? 5-1, 5-2? In that one? 5-1, 5-1. And then the Falcons come all the way back. The mid-round adjustments. The plate calls from AG. The boys bring it back. X and X has been looking a lot better in search. Falcons went 6-5. The round 11. Exposed overload. That wasn't even close. 7-2. I mean, both harp, both the heart point and the overload. The response weren't even close. Riyadh Falcons take them out back. And we'll take a look at a stenchy and yikes. It's another red carpet here, folks. Got a green carpet on one side, a red carpet on the other. You got Kleenex with a 0.75. Insight with a 0.74. Jota C is with a 0.7. And Kips with a 0.83.

1:05:52They're all getting shit on. Any other side? You got Selian with a 1.49. X-Nade with a 1.31. Kismit with a 1.3. And Pred with a 1.24. We'll scroll down to go look at the match MVP's out. It's X-Nade with a 1.35 at heart point. A 1.4 in search. And a 1.25 in overload. Pat will start with you on this one. The Falcons come out. They take care of business. Pat Toronto were looking good. I mean, they bring up Kips. It seemed like everything was going well for them. And then the Falcons come in and they mop the floor. What do you think is going on? Would you like to get a series? Sorry, Tom. I was in the chat. I gave my thoughts in a second. I was in the chat because some guy was like, I got carried. I asked in the name one event. He said, you just need to add. I just had to look it up real quick. I don't want 1.21. So light. Something light. Something light. Something light. Something light. Something light. Speaking of 1.21, it looks like some of the Falcons cats finally in my territory in the 1.2 plus range.

1:06:52Yeah, Tom. This was impressive. I won't lie. This was the most. Not shocking. Shocking is not the right word. But surprising. This was the most surprising match for me. I expected Toronto to come out. Take care of business. They've been looking great. I thought that last weekend, I was like, yeah, these guys have been looking phenomenal. But somehow, some way Falcons came out and just played better quality. They crossed the board. Put them on the red carpet. We haven't seen that from Toronto. And. Yeah. When they had been psyched. A couple of weeks. Or not inside my bad. Real. They. I just. I don't know, man. Because I'm still not high on these Falcons guys. But I won't lie. They're looking good right now. They've turned. They've definitely turned it up in the last. Month and a half or so. And like I said earlier, I got an upset coming of these guys beat an optic on March 21st. I think it is when they play them. So. It's impressive. Clay. I don't know what you're doing. Probably using shit. I told you back in the day. But it's working. Right.

1:07:52All right. You know, my name is dead. I mean, I had to Falcons, you know, I had my fair pro player, so who's gotta show him some love? No, he might be their best fucking player right now. And look, I really hate to do this. But I remember a couple weeks ago on a flank. You guys weren't saying it. I forget who was on the flank that day. But there was talks about, okay. What do the Falcons do if they blow it up? And I know you said you guys were like, oh, X is the one that go. I couldn't believe it. So what he coached not do. He missed out guy ranked play. He became a duo ever since. You're taking credit for so. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. No one was guy turned it right. I had to carry yo ass. He ranked. No, no, no, no. We were just vibing. I was getting his mind right. You know what I mean? These last five series. He's been out of league. You had to get rid of shit. Yeah. I had him. Yeah. Like you said, Tom. When you're overthinking, you're not having fun.

1:08:52You're not playing well. You know what I mean? It's true. Yes, I'm saying that. Jim's in the game. O. Look's a demon. He may be a MVP candidate in his split. But on the side of Falcons is a whole. They've all been insane. The last couple of matches. They've all been playing, playing very well. I think Fred is insane at this game. Fred's very good. I think he's actually fucking gross. I think he's discussing. I think this Falcon's team has the, the posture or the potential to be like a top three team. I truly do. get on the same page, which is what they're starting to do. Like whenever we would go where Falcons VOD and just by watching the matches, like they're getting the kills, but it always looked like they were lost. I don't think that they're necessarily there yet, but they're starting to play more as a unit. And everyone's fucking finding success individually because of that. Toronto, they just got belted. I really don't know what else to say. Like there was no positive, you know, they do look good though, since the pick up of Kips,

1:09:54you're not going to win every series unless you're optic, you know what I mean, but it was surprising series for me. You know, I was surprised to see some people in the chat, not agreeing with my predtake. Like, oh, you think everybody's good, or he's just a killer, he's a very good kill war. He's very good at killing, which is good. Kill Horns is not a bad thing. So who's the best player to Falcons, though? I'm just saying right now, it's my guy. Hi, what did you think, Dylan? What do you think of the series? Yeah, I mean, I was a little high up on Toronto, before this, but then I went and actually checked the stats, and I think they're frogs to be honest. Yeah, it's my bad. If any team, if any team plays Toronto, all you have to do is veto Den, Den, Den. Let me read you off some stats. Okay, so the only hard point that they're positive in, Den hard point, five and two. The only S and D they're positive it in, four and three on Den. The only overload they're positive in, seven and two on Den. So if you just ban Den Verstrono, they're really like a non factor team. So I, they are two and one on scar.

1:10:55That's the only map, two and one on scar HP, but like other than that, I'm not really worried if I'm any other team. If I just ban Den Verstrono, they can't do anything on any other map. What tricks? But on Falcons side, I need the Falcons side. They're good. Their S and D just sucks. They clutched up today, because Toronto started breaking down. But that's the one thing that's going to hold this team back from making those deep runs on Sunday, potentially fighting for a championship if they can. They got to fix their search, because their response are really good right now. The fact that they get to play Blackheart or Colossus, guaranteed in every series is a huge. That's like, that's their win right there. That's almost a guaranteed lock. They almost have one map. They're winning every single series for free. So S and D if I'm trying, or if I'm a Falcons hard focusing S and D, because that might be the reason they get a top two a top three at Major two. What about you, Sam? What do you think of the series? Oh, I was surprised to see Toronto get belted as hard as they did. I thought that they would put up a little bit more of a fight. Falcons, their search is definitely still a pain point, but their consistency and hard point is,

1:11:56it's got to be talked about. They've been fucking fantastic in hard point this stage. Blackheart, Auto Vito, if you are any team playing them, I don't care what team it is. I'm playing them on Colossus every day of the week. I think the map, Blackheart is just, they seem like they know what the fuck they're doing, bro. They limit tests on that map and matches, and they do it like some of their holes are just fucking. Even AG said it. Why are they playing on Blackheart? They figured out that map, band the map. They're overload. I actually, they played a lot more different than the majority of the league. They're very defensive. They're very counter oriented. I think the score is a little misleading because Toronto pretty much gave up second side. They rattled off like five caps in a row. Falcons are very counter heavy, very defensive oriented overload team, and it's fun to watch because they, they're like neutral scenarios are, or they're 50-50s when the map is just split for people up, like Falcons, they're very comfortable in those situations. They play really, really well off of counters and defensive plays, which is a lot different

1:12:56than we see with a lot of teams. I think it's very proactive, for example. They force the issue in force caps. So I think Falcons are an interesting team. Their search is just fucking bad. I know they won today. They probably shouldn't have. I will tip the five one, of course, but Toronto broke the fuck down if we're being honest. Some things I would like to see on their side for search. I want MC to snipe. I think he should be sniping for them. I just, for how prominent good sniping is right now, I don't know how good of a search team you can be without that threat. I look at every good search team right now. I'm see Dashie, I see Super, I see Sib, I see Skies, like these are prolific snipers. And I think if you're playing Falcons and you don't have to worry about sniping at all against them, you could fucking run out mid, you could shoulder heavy, you could do whatever you want with no threat of being sniped. So I think MC should snipe for them and I think that actually did a better job in the second half of the map, but like just playing around excellent a little bit more to enable first bloods and like traditional fucking running it down. I think they'll be good, but I was pleasantly surprised

1:13:57to the sorry for the other. By the way, real quick, just add on. That's why you have to have videos, by the way. The dead thing? Yeah, just, it's not just that this example, but it's the reason videos have to exist, bro, because if one, like you don't ever want a scenario where like one team in a map generated fucking bracket just gets their best maps. Like, it's the reason video. Unfortunately, that happens a lot because people do not have fucking video in our league. Oh, it's different, that's a different problem, yeah. Mm-hmm. Now I'm gonna be honest, bro, videos have been really bad this year. Like people keep giving teams their best shit. Remember, people are giving crepe losses, like what, like fucking five weeks in a row? I tell eventually, like it became a thing, like, they still do that shit. Mm-hmm. They're giving Falcons Black Heart, like, and Jack. This is not a lot of, it's just not a lot of, we're not in the high IQ era of the CDO. We'll never wear a sheet in the CDO, but in Cod. This is not a lot of cats with high IQ, and they just out there playing. Sorry, I was a little lightheaded,

1:14:57I've been eating some grapes, some cheese, just get a little, how you doing? Sorry, I'm just reading. But speaking of, this day, it's the only team to knock at 3.0 today, it was Cloud 9. Uh, it's just Dowlings. Dowlings, do it, so it is. That's the best we got in Cod, though, but don't tell me. It is. There we go, that's my boy. It gets real. Awesome, Breech. Why did Ben just say chat realizing I speak facts? Who realized that? Ha-ha-ha. Wait, what did Ben say that was fat? That's it. I missed the combo. I just thought Ben put it up there. Oh, man. We got the most of Breech. Go to Guts Cloud 9. This one ended in a 3-1 victory for the Boston Breech. We start things off on a scar. Heart point, Boston 250 to 176. We've got Colossus S&D, Boston win 62. Now on a scar overload, we're Cloud 9 clutched up at the very end, win that one, 3-2. And on Colossus, Heart point, we're Boston win 250 to 156. We got another red carpet.

1:15:58Ladies and gentlemen, we got a 0.74 from Encourage, a 0.86 from Hyde, a 0.8 from Nezra, and a 0.76 from Okiz on the other side. We got a 1.10 from Nasty, a 1.41 from Perge, a 1.33 from Snoopy, and a 1.19 from Spar. Matt Temmie-P, probably Perge, with a 1.41. The most damage in a lobby over 12,000 damage. It was good work from him. I'm just going to be honest. I mean, this is what we've been saying. Cloud 9 just don't know how to play the game. I mean, it's pretty obvious. Everybody's not going to be surprised. Love them, bro. They are the stats. Atters, bro. They don't know how to play the game. The body on your team's guaranteed a 1.4. Yeah, like guaranteed minimal. Bro, when you see them on your schedule, like you just help people keep their jobs to be honest. Like if Cloud 9 wasn't here, boosting some stats up, some people might be back into the challengers. They might be playing for the stallions. That's kind of crazy that these guys beat GenoMates with the way that they're playing right now. I think that passes it gets more insane. I thought it was the Blackheart. I thought it was. Now I'm just thinking like GenoMates was just checked.

1:16:59Yeah, I mean, they just been checked. Cloud 9 didn't even bring them. I think Cloud 9 might have been the ones to check them. No. That's where it started. That's where it started. You said it top. They just, I mean, unfortunately, they just don't belong. It's really nothing else to say. So we said these are your guys. Yeah, and I knew I knew they weren't ready to be honest with you. I think individually, they're all really good, but even in challengers, I mean, doing they're making the same mistakes or making the challenges. We would preach about it every day. And I mean, they're still doing it. They're not fixing their mistakes. I definitely think there's talent and potential, but it doesn't look like they're learning. It just looks like the same shit every week. Like they're still making the same mistakes. They're still doing the same brain dead shit. Like if they were getting better and learning every week and playing the game in the right way, then I feel more confident, but they're not learning and they're not playing the game in the right way. They're definitely struggling. They're not taking the right routes. Sam, I think it was you who said it. They can't hold a heart point. Like their holds are terrible. Like they actually have, I'm not even alive. They actually can win some of these maps. It's talent that says it's actually guns good. That's not holding them back. Some of these maps are actually winnable for them

1:17:59and they're in good situations and good scenarios. And they're just like over-challenged or challenging stuff they don't need the chow or just doing stupid shit on the map. It's just, they go back and watch these games. There's what map? I mean, guys, the scar was close at one point in time and so was the closest at one point in time. It looks a lot worse than what it actually was. And not the only one who thought they could have won the colossus in one point, they trolled like two or three rotation. They trolled, but the thing is, they just troll every rotation. They win the heart of the place. They do the heart part and then it can't do the easy part, which is just quite a set up and hold. They still have a high IQ. See, I got the app, I think the app's a sorry deal. You want me to go and you tell me? No, no, no, no. I'll end them. You go for a home. I'll say, like, Rose, the thing is with Cloud9, like, yes, there is times in the game where the match is close, they can win. Those are my guys, Sam and Ryan, Ray, you know, we were coaching them for a little with some of those players. They still in time to develop, but the thing is they are going to make mistakes at a certain point. It's not, oh, if they're going to make mistakes, it's when they're going to make a mistake because they're just young players. They don't know how to fully play the game yet.

1:19:00They can't put together a good 10 minutes of hard point. And that's just what's going to happen. They are guaranteed to make some bad mistakes. And sometimes most of the time we do that versus pro teams, it's going to bite you in the ass. And that's just what's happening. Like Cloud9, this team just needs time. Nezra has been extremely impressive so far, though, but they are still like a mid-tier challengers team. They're just going in against pros and this is what's going to happen. Sam, anything you want to say? No. Please, no, don't put anything in there. You want to say it? Yeah. Cloud9. Cloud9 have the best business model in the league. You think so? Yeah. I mean, they're spending, they're probably profitable right now. They're not going to have to fucking go to Birmingham and spend all that money. Like, yeah, they make am I the best? And they're spending, what, 8K a month?

1:20:002K a month salary for four players. Boom, 8K a month, maybe the coach 10k a month. Boom, they're probably making all their money back just to fucking operate ourselves. MTX sales, we don't, but, no, if anything you want to add to Cloud9, they're just, they're senators. They don't know how to play the game. I love them, Sam. I just, because you said that they did the, you know, I mean, like, they're really, the Gumpfights are doing a hard part, but they can't do the easy things. I think it's winning a Gumpfight nowadays is the easy play. Yeah. And the issue is, I know they're your guys. I'm not even necessarily cooking them, but I know the kind of consensus is like, oh, they just need to learn. You know what I mean? I don't know if they're learning. Bro, they are probably going over film every single day and they're understanding it, but none of that means shit if you can't execute it on the field. You know what I mean? That happens in traditional sports all the time. If you, like, when you're in the heat of the moment, executing the right play is completely different from being in film and just understanding what it is.

1:21:02I think that that's like an issue with all of, well, cloud nine, but all of like the younger players that, that we talk about like this. We're like, oh, man, we gotta just give a little bit more. I just, bro, sometimes it's either you have it or you don't realistically. Sometimes that's just how it is. That's how the cooking crumbles. Yeah. I don't know if anybody's ever tuned into, like, some of our scrim sessions or like our coaching sessions, Dylan, I know you, you've been there, Sam. I know you coached like some of the Stalin's teams and stuff, but I feel like one of the biggest things I know it's when I'm coaching the Challengers players. When I'm talking to them and watching God, nobody talks back. They just sit there in silence and they don't actively engage in the conversation. And I'll be like, hello, that comes like not to cut you off, but I also think that comes with time. Like you, you have to be able to identify your mistakes. Like maybe they, like, truthfully, like we were all amateurs at one point, bro, it's like you got to learn the game to be able to understand like when you're fucking up on your own. And like that's what a big concern of everybody's was when they came to the league. It's like, do they have a support system behind them that are, I'm not blaming the coaches for, you know,

1:22:03them not being good, but just the point that we're on. Like it's hard to identify your mistakes as a team of Challenger players that really don't have a lot of experience. Like watching back to these maps, you could tell, like, yeah, I fucked up like this rotation. I died when I shouldn't have, but like are they really going in depth to the point where like they can after maps over, they're like actually going in depth about stuff. I don't think they can. They're being told what they're doing wrong, but they don't really, yeah. No, you guys, I've already thought about this. You guys aren't thinking about it right, bro. We don't, y'all don't understand the level of damage COVID did to some of these young minds. There was, with the studies, bro, the education, like, count the fact that the rate at which kids were learning, bro, when when COVID happened, they stopped going to school and they did online and shit, bro, was massive. Bro, a big about it. All these challenges, no, no, it's true. It's true. All these Challenger guys think about it. It's 236 now, bro. Code was at like 2020 to 20, let's say 23, whatever. Bro, that is literally the, when all these Challenger kids

1:23:05were in like high school, shit, maybe middle school for some of them, bro. I'm telling you, man, the ability to process and learn information at a fast speed was massively damaged during COVID, bro. And that is the like the peak age right now of a lot of these Challenger kids. It's a fact. It's the 26th or what? They don't have to do shit. And out onto that sleigh, I'm seeing players from Cloud 9 and it's all of them. They're on their phones in between maps. Oh, I'm excited. I mean, I'm the one that's crazy. Bro, they're looking down. They got to be looking at their phones. I don't know what they're, but I see sometimes they're looking down. Look at some, this is the iPad baby generation, bro. That is who is in challenges right now. So I just think you got to approach it with a different program. It's not like it used to be, bro. Like it's not like it used to be. So I think you got to approach it with a different, a different method, bro, because like the traditional learning that we grew up on isn't going to work on these cats. That's all I'm saying. Being on your phone, how are you on your phone? You're going to put your phone away.

1:24:06That's insane. Pat may have been spin because you ever see them videos about how they'd be teaching like kids math nowadays? How they teach a mess, though. Well, no, I'm not going to go into the specifics. I was hoping somebody would be like, Oh, yeah, I've seen that. Like, just like the thought process in like the third, fourth, sixth graders, like it's completely different how to solve an equation or do math. No, no, no, no, they still got pep dogs. Is it there only one way to solve an equation? No, there's no one always to solve an equation, but there's no one else. There's only my conversation. It's not a cover. Now there's backfire. I hope, bro, they were all like I've seen it all over on Twitter. No one's seen it. Anyone in the chat is anyone in the zoo mopby is seen it, bro. I don't know what you're talking about, but I have seen the videos of like different countries and how they handle like basic math equations and like countries do it differently, bro. Yeah, no, there's different ways to solve it. They don't see one answer. Yeah, see people see. Look, that's right. They teach. I saw some example of like how like the Chinese teach us like solving a specific equation is like like when you have to like

1:25:08prove your work is way different than what we did. No, the Asian countries are like, wait, bro, your work. I just can't see you in there. You would know, huh? Dude, the face going in. Yeah. That was good. And I was down before I was actually a good student before I learned about Khan. I thought I was going to fourth grade. Once I played Khan out of the fourth grade, I was 10 years old. I stopped trying to be honest. Yeah, I was a straight A student. Let's do predictions here and see what's going on. Um, um, um, I didn't go to college. We got Miami. Heritage. I don't know. Some short time you would have graphic design. That's fast. I was there for like a year and a half and then I dropped out. It's a little bit my professor thought I wasn't a band. But it's all good. Miami. Heritage versus L.A. Thieves. We got Toronto versus Boston. We got optic Texas versus Carolina. We got Vancouver surge versus the Paris. I got Miami Toronto optic and Paris. Geno mates. That's why I got deal.

1:26:08Who do you got? Uh, give me thieves. Give me Toronto optic. Geno mates. Okay. Sam. Uh, my team can't keep getting belt. So I'm going to go thieves. Uh, coy optic and gentlemen. The sleigh. Uh, bro, you have a screenshot of your webcam. He's. Fucking hilarious. That's not actually your game. No. You should might be frozen. You might need to refresh. Oh, I got thieves. Toronto optic. Fuck it. And gentlemen, it's with a bounce back. Okay. And. Uh, eaves. Listen, I'm going to go Boston. See, see, this is this shit. I'm talking about. What are you talking about? Like, no, but, it's just an idea. What is I. Hey, how many people did you all get right today? Are you sure? Yes. Yeah. That person here today. I had. That wait. No, wait. Might be right.

1:27:08They might not be a dead shot. I'm going to be honest, we're talking, bro. You're like. We were actually so far behind. We're talking. There's no way we're bringing his back. Wait. You're getting. You're getting slammed. You're saying he was null. Well, first off, yeah. Me and pack on the same of points. Segrenol. Lock it. After tomorrow. I'm going to be ahead of Sam and Tommy, I'm trying to I'm trying to But we're down by 17 points. We're cooked guys. We're cooked. Does anybody know that is the major as well? We have we have we could still come back. There's a whole tournament. We've seen a comeback before Miracle and ice. I believe I believe that's happy. Reggie Miller eight point. L.A.T. Boston breach. Texas. Gentlemen. He's out. Absolutely. Watch Vancouver beat the gentleman tomorrow. That would be insane. Yeah.

1:28:08They got to make a change. They might make a change. They actually knowing that they may just They might lose. They just see nine, but they might lose to them. Who knows? Something's off with those guys right now. But I don't know what it is. But I will see. Oh, man, hit the putt. Oh, wait. He's not here. Oh, man. Oh, man. That hurts. That's going to do for us. Ladies and gentlemen, make sure to like, comment and subscribe. If you watch it on YouTube, go to www.fmslustoflank.co.orio.de says Ron. We'll follow at the flank on Twitter. Go to a phenomenal job running social. Go follow at the flank. At the flank pod on Instagram. We've been uploading some reels on there. So if you guys want to go check that out, we'll check that out. And of course zoom it out. GG for the merch. We got new merch coming soon. Take care. Brush your hair. And we'll see you guys next time. And another episode of the flank. Man, thank you guys for watching. Peace out. Oh, bitch. Holy. Holy.