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00:00And when you're talking about falling back on that, that micro-coordination, just knowing what's up with your teammate without having to fall back on a strap hook, that really goes to Hyunmin in flashback for me. DRX's entire read on this tournament was to prioritise these guys on the double duelist with the waylay. Of course they're going back to it. Both of them didn't have a particularly incredible map 3 of the series. They got smoked on map 2. This is the map where they have to find that form that brought DRX here.
00:26Absolutely. Pressure is on for both of these teams. And they're going for that Mosquito Cup, as we talked about before. But Fnatic, Bea, one step away from being able to fight for a Masters trophy. This is huge for them.
00:39Yeah, it's the first time that they might be able to make it into this grand final.
00:43I said Champions. I said Masters.
00:44Yeah, yeah. I saw Masters and I was like, maybe I'm in Toronto, so I don't know anymore. But yeah, one step closer to the first Champs finals for them. We know that Crash is your baiting. We're never going to buy that. It's never going to happen.
00:54But of course, pound for pound, this should be very comfortable positions for every single one of the players on Fnatic.
01:00I still think that for DRX, I need free and stepping up. I think that in the last couple of episodes, he's been having a terrible time.
01:05There's memories of moments like this from years before for Mako. The closest he ever went to a Champs final was against Crash.
01:12That was back when he was on OpTic, a very different man, a very different player now. But that opportunity has always eluded him.
01:19He's always spoken about wanting for Mako to finally lift that trophy. Had to watch Gen.G do it last year. Had to watch two other Pacific teams do it this year.
01:28Now, last chance to keep his team in this one now as a leader.
01:31Can Mako call the game that brings the boys to map five? Let's go ahead and find out. Send it back to your casters. Here's Brent and Sideshow.
01:39Not a lot of players get tested quite like this in their careers. When you get down to these moments here where it is literally Fnatic in the driving seat, in this lower finals.
01:50Now they're on the impetus here. Depressor is all on DRX's shoulders. As a player, listen, you might have experience with Mako up there.
01:57We have young players being formed around this core. And now the question is, how are they going to survive under it all?
02:03The last two maps that we have here in the BO5, though, are both maps in which you've seen DRX have three and zero records at Champions League.
02:12Yeah. So they're very strong here against the rest of the field. And it's where Fnatic have been a bit more shaky.
02:18So I think if they play like they have done in the rest of the tournament, DRX can make it to a match five.
02:25They can make it, perhaps, still to the grand finals. But it does come back to what you were saying, the experience.
02:32Because being able to play like you did in those games that didn't matter as much is a skill in itself.
02:39You have to shake it all off. The pressure, the expectations that you're weighing upon yourselves.
02:44Tire tournament long, DRX have been taking it one step at a time, but with an early kill like that, it's all gone to pot.
02:50That's greedy, playing for the ult orb.
02:53Fnatic, well accustomed to playing in positions like this, in the driving seat, the ball in their court.
03:02Freeing feels like he has to make a play.
03:04Yeah, and he's eventually almost overstepping himself, barely getting out of there.
03:08Escapes and flashback through the teleport, making it feel like it was his clone.
03:14Does Crashy's clear this corner? He's been diligent, but he backs it up.
03:21Timing to be taken here by flashback. Potentially against a drone, they've missed each other.
03:26Now Leonis on flashback to see what he can do. Pressure, apply, potentially.
03:31Shadow's control still there for DRX, and he's found it. Doesn't wait it out, just wants to take the kill.
03:35And a shot straight away, white face in the end. Ghost aim!
03:38This is going all over the place, doesn't matter how much you tip-tap away.
03:41B-site entirely open now for the taking.
03:44He's kind of got that early ground.
03:45Yeah, he's so deep, isn't he?
03:47And Mako, will it be anticipated? Not quite.
03:51Doesn't expect them already to be that deep here.
03:53This is DRX getting cut out one step, one player at a time.
03:59And now in a 2v4 that will be a nightmare to recover.
04:02We don't know if there's a player deep towards elbow. Could be in any positions all around the site.
04:07And Crashy's still with a bunch of util to work with. Kayak with a flash.
04:13Fnatic pushing and pulling on the pistol round, finding those gaps in those openings.
04:18And how do you even play this? No smoke to work around here.
04:21Everybody ingratiated themselves into the deeper corners of the site and the map.
04:25Fnatic cleaning up easily as that. Only one player dropping.
04:30Letting nothing slip here. Early beginnings for Fnatic themselves.
04:34And they're a team that want to close this one out.
04:36They don't want it to go to distance, not to all five.
04:39I mean, this was just straight of greedy, I think, from Bane.
04:41Look at the wide swing, though, from Crashy's.
04:43Yeah. I mean, that's confidence.
04:44That's a player with experience who knows that in big matches people are just going to shoot too early.
04:50They're not going to settle their aim and go for a steady kill.
04:55And he can mess with people like that.
04:58He's now picked up a Phantom.
05:00Three rifles available for Fnatic in this round.
05:05Looking to try to put some pressure over here.
05:07Yeah, that's a deep TP through the T.
05:09It's a weird one.
05:10Yeah, let's see the gate crash behind.
05:12I'm not sure that Fnatic got the read on that either.
05:17Potential for Flashback to end up in a weird position.
05:20Every stack of bodies over the water.
05:22Fnatic are trying to make sure that this one lands safely over the A.
05:25Sight Kayak.
05:26Again, serving himself.
05:27Full control over the water.
05:28That showers area.
05:29And it's a fake with a TP.
05:30Looking to re-clear this one.
05:31Again, needs to be held into the smoke.
05:33And right-click and a recall.
05:34Not enough to treat.
05:35You can dissuade the plan from going down.
05:37Look at the ones now once more in control.
05:40Don't know what these players are like.
05:42Salmos as well are going to be meeting.
05:45Top of that.
05:46Seas collected.
05:47Right-click there.
05:48Hold on.
05:49That's a Saturator.
05:50It does connect.
05:51Pull up to landing right now.
05:52Pulling apart these players.
05:53It's going to be up to players like Kayak to see if they can do anything about it.
05:56TP backing away to Prowler.
05:57Forces the issue.
05:58But again, the issue is weaponry.
06:00Mako doesn't have the rifle.
06:01A tap to force the pull.
06:02Kayak again.
06:03Might be expected onto that position.
06:04A bit of spam forwards.
06:05Again, these kills being rattled across.
06:07DRX doing a lot of damage.
06:08But it's left up to Mako.
06:10Spike already ticking far too out of range.
06:13Can't play for the win, but he can play to do the damage.
06:18Just making sure that Chronicle goes down with him there.
06:22At the end of the day, it's just about that economic damage.
06:26DRX looked like they had a chance of being able to get that through.
06:29And it shows you how powerful some of this util can be.
06:32Because as soon as they landed that saturate, there was an immediate follow-up possible.
06:38But here, Fnatic are not going to have the greatest buy heading into the next.
06:42They bought three rifles there that they were hoping to take with them into the bonus round.
06:45And they can't.
06:47Kak Bost are actually forcing.
06:49Which implies he's going to, I don't know, run a Judge or a Stinger or something next round.
06:53So they've actually got quite a bit of weaponry to work with.
06:56And back to the pistol round idea.
06:57White face.
06:58That's way too many players to deal with.
06:59Jail card called here by him, and he's going to be backing all the way out.
07:04And Flashback coming to reinforce.
07:06Hold on.
07:07The fighting showers.
07:09Orb tapped.
07:11Given up and conceded.
07:12They want Kayak's ult online ASAP.
07:14Deep Drone, that's a saturate refight.
07:16He's got four.
07:17TP out, but they've left Alpha out in the middle of nowhere.
07:19Boaster.
07:20What a step up from the IGL.
07:22He forced a bulldog and he's come away with a potential round win.
07:25And look at Crashies.
07:26Look at all the space he's gathered towards the back of A.
07:29Freeing is on an island.
07:31He is.
07:32Tight in the corner here.
07:35Clearance will spell defeat.
07:37Here's the pressure.
07:38Here's the footsteps.
07:39Wall goes up.
07:42Crashies all the way around to the corner.
07:45Getting cleared out.
07:46They know roughly the position.
07:48Gotta suspect that something was up.
07:50Especially with Crashies in such a deep spot.
07:52And none the wiser.
07:53And Mako again.
07:54Same as the pistol round.
07:55Rotating back to the site.
07:56Bones conversion.
07:57Doesn't realize how deep somebody is.
07:59Bike planted.
08:00Crashies is just pushing the very limits of what he can get away with.
08:03I think ever since Map 2, he's realized that there are gaps in what DRX are doing.
08:10Whether that be to do with their micro or their macro.
08:13And he is testing the very limits of it.
08:15And he's getting away with murder.
08:17The kind of things that you wouldn't expect players to be able to do in less tense environments.
08:24Sure.
08:25Big games like this.
08:26Normally you're thinking about a safe play.
08:28Not one to take risks.
08:29But if you can take the risk.
08:31If you're the kind of person that's got the experience and know which risks to take.
08:34There's also more mistakes being made in these kind of big games.
08:36Yeah.
08:37There's more gaps.
08:38Actually.
08:39Because people do tense up.
08:40Because, you know, you run out of mental bandwidth to be able to cover everything.
08:43And here the gap was all the way through lamps.
08:45Nobody from B rotated over to try to pick that up.
08:48They just left freeing in showers.
08:50Already seeing difficulties here for DRX.
08:52For Fnatic.
08:53It is a dream beginning.
08:54Potentially a closer of a map.
08:57Secure a ticket to the grand finals to get their fated matchup against NRG.
09:01And a chance to potentially get their hands on a trophy that has always eluded them.
09:05They've already done the best that they ever have at a champs.
09:08First year they made it to the quarterfinals.
09:11And they took a step further.
09:13A step further again and made fourth in 2023.
09:17And then slid back.
09:19And this year.
09:20Podium finish at the very least.
09:22But eyes on the trophy.
09:28See the disappointment on the DRX coaches faces there.
09:31Yeah.
09:32Not happy with the way that their team's playing it.
09:33And it makes sense.
09:34Kind of like a flashback taking the duel over towards showers.
09:38Flashback getting the worst end of it.
09:39And having to leave.
09:40The rifles just chewing them up it.
09:42Shouts in the hands of these DRX players.
09:44It's going to have to be real precise.
09:46Sharp shooting on their end.
09:47If they want to see if they can find a way back in.
09:48But that orb is conceded.
09:50Given up and after dimensional drift now earned.
09:54The danger.
09:55Especially with these compositions on bind.
09:57Easy access to the orbs.
09:58You see the ult start to get generated.
09:59The war chest brimming with them.
10:01Big one.
10:02Hyunmin spots it.
10:03So that's to try and disengage away from that.
10:06Especially with the seas and a snake bite just in time.
10:08But looking like he might want to take a fight forwards anyway.
10:10Saturates there.
10:11Prowler meets Prowler.
10:12Salvas at the back in a dimensional drift as well.
10:14This is highlighting the position.
10:15Hyunmin.
10:16He's not sharp enough.
10:17Not quick enough at all.
10:18He's been up back of the Banes position.
10:20Completely highlighted.
10:21Pinpoint accuracy and pointed out by that dimensional drift.
10:25Drifter now you're seeing it.
10:26I mean Fnatic are just.
10:27Again.
10:28All the momentum behind them.
10:30The wind in their sails.
10:31Taken from Haven to now.
10:33All the way to bind.
10:34Yeah they're running away with things.
10:36But I think there is a small silver lining in this round.
10:39That DRX the pressure over towards Garden.
10:41Did actually force out that dimensional drift from Kayak.
10:44That they accessed by the showers ult orb earlier on.
10:47So.
10:48Fnatic at the next rifle round.
10:50The one that really matters for DRX.
10:51Toxins going up.
10:52Are not going to have.
10:53That huge ult to be able to tie.
10:55Turn the tide.
10:56Or rather keep the tide going in their favour.
10:59It is obviously a disaster start for DRX.
11:02But I guess my point is it could be worse.
11:04DRX though.
11:05Next round.
11:06Need to find the adaptation.
11:08They could try to run a showers crunch.
11:10Right?
11:11Fnatic have been baiting that they're going to take over towards showers.
11:13Repeatedly.
11:14And then when they're tapping the ult orb.
11:16Tapping the ult orb.
11:17It is Kayak.
11:18He's probably still going to escape.
11:19But at least you keep control of that area.
11:22Especially if you do a crunch with your Yoru.
11:24And you can then TP back over to B.
11:28You've got to adapt to what your opponents are doing it.
11:31Right now Fnatic are saying loud and clear.
11:33We are taking showers.
11:36Another round.
11:37Same idea.
11:40Nobody set up the crunch.
11:42Nobody really set up the fight.
11:43Yumnin's just sat inside a Astra star.
11:45I don't really know what's going on at DRX.
11:47I need some sort of hit back.
11:48Okay.
11:49Sure.
11:50That's one way to do it.
11:51Just hit the shot.
11:52Hitting.
11:55Might be signs of life yet.
11:57Yumnin, you are hard committed.
11:59Let's get the info.
12:00He's looking forward.
12:01There was a smoke blooming in his face just before.
12:03Two recall stars.
12:04He might be tempted to push back in.
12:06Those recalls might make him think that Fnatic have left.
12:09Looking like it.
12:10But now disengage, pull back and away.
12:12I think partly the reason why they're happy here is because Bain's jiggle peeking towards B long and getting them good info.
12:17So it feels like it's still going to end A.
12:19Crashies.
12:20Hold on.
12:21What's going on here?
12:22Suffice to be happening across the board.
12:23What's this A sight?
12:24Sowers are sent flying forwards up into Lamps.
12:26Yumnin.
12:27Hand committed.
12:28Tucked tight.
12:29And that is insanity.
12:30He's up for an A.
12:31So the round like this.
12:33And he's pulled them straight back into the game.
12:36What a timing for it.
12:39They needed an adjustment.
12:41I'm not sure they even had an adjustment strategically.
12:45But he just went out there and killed all five of the players on Fnatic.
12:48So that I guess will get the job done.
12:50Brent, still though, no one on DRX out of their seats.
12:54No one on DRX, from what I could see, particularly popping off, I just...
12:58A quite reserved reaction from Yumnin.
13:02Acing to get the first round on the board.
13:05Yeah.
13:06To fend off being eliminated from champs.
13:08If you're not reacting to a play like that, then when are you going to be reacting?
13:12I think it spells it out quite clearly.
13:14God, he's looking for another fight again.
13:16He's just sat inside these Astra Stars.
13:18He got it done versus Paper X.
13:22DRX played against them.
13:23The opening match looked like Jing was going to be running away with things.
13:26And it was Hyunmin to step up.
13:27Oh, he activated.
13:28He bought enough time for his team to lock in, shake off the nerves.
13:31He got 20 kills in that second half.
13:34Yeah, he definitely did.
13:35Here, though, they've lost B long control, which I think was crucial for Bane to be able
13:40to get that info in the previous and get a three-player stack on A.
13:46Yoru's messing around with the teleports.
13:48Fake pressure.
13:49Yeah, well, flashbacks is real, though.
13:51He's committed to this one.
13:52Come on, Chronicle's watching.
13:53Chronicle's watching, and look at that.
13:55Primed and ready onto it.
13:56It's picture-perfect, but across their placement.
13:58And even posted with his attack side op.
14:00Laying claim to his life.
14:01There's only so much you can do from a spot like this.
14:03Hyunmin might be forcing the issue again.
14:05Sidestepped.
14:07Out of the ire of it, at least for now.
14:09It's going to be sidestepped.
14:10Horn forwards again.
14:11Sees.
14:12Close quarters.
14:13Crashies.
14:14More than ready.
14:15It's going to be that fifth round added up to the tally, because Fnatic are not done yet.
14:20Picture-perfect response from Fnatic.
14:23One blip of Hyunmin acing, and Fnatic straight back into things.
14:28Real calm.
14:29As soon as the teleport noise is made, it could well be a fake, obviously.
14:34That's what happens when you have Yoru's with clones on Bind.
14:37But Chronicle tucked into a corner.
14:40Make sure that he gets the punish onto Flashback.
14:43And then the attack side-up that Bosa loves to bring out on this map.
14:47Punishes an infopeak over towards Short as well.
14:50Marco has had the wrong read on where Fnatic are ending every single round.
14:56I guess apart from the previous, where Bane was just jiggle peeking B-Long.
15:01I mean, credit to Fnatic as well.
15:03They're throwing in enough misdirection.
15:05Yeah.
15:06TP in, the deep drone into showers, making it feel like it could be maroused.
15:10And look at it.
15:11The infopeaks.
15:12Yeah, it's just DRX trying to put together a clear picture of where Fnatic are.
15:16Punished for it.
15:17You're playing right into the playbook of Fnatic.
15:19There needs to be a timeout.
15:21Something to cancel out this momentum.
15:23And it will deliver.
15:24Hitting the panic button here is DRX, because this is your last chance.
15:27You can't let a team like Fnatic just run all over you.
15:30They will take that opportunity all the way to the bitter end of the finish line.
15:34And what I'm worried about here, Bren, is that it's not just that DRX are losing and they're down 5-1.
15:40They haven't really changed too much.
15:42They're still trying to do the same kind of stuff where it's like one solo player contesting over towards showers.
15:47No attempt really to crunch.
15:49Still trying to do the same game plan of flashback going into the sands TP.
15:55They're not reacting and responding to the changes that Fnatic are throwing out there.
16:00They're just running their own style.
16:03Which is fine if it's working.
16:05Terrible idea if it's not.
16:07Genman's Ace has given him the ult.
16:10So that at least is a tool to be able to work with.
16:12But you know coming out of this that Boaster's going to twist things around, right?
16:16You know coming out of Termi's timeout it's an opportunity for Fnatic to try to land a curveball.
16:24Something weird.
16:25Sort of idea to get them back on track.
16:30The last two BO5s that DRX played.
16:34They did very different teams.
16:36I should say that to start.
16:37It's only Mako really that remembers those games.
16:39But they both went to 5.
16:41So in spots where DRX has made it to a third place at champs.
16:46Semi-finals before.
16:48They've been able to go the full distance.
16:50Here it feels like they're running out of gas.
16:53It's a question of best of 5 territory.
16:56They have those hidden reserves.
16:58Can they pull and dig deep?
17:00What's the adjustment here?
17:02Bane is taking a slightly deeper line over towards B-Long.
17:06Just getting in front of the Viper Orb.
17:08Still Hyunmin solo contesting showers.
17:10The only major difference is that Flashback's tucked up a bit closer in short.
17:18Broken two plays lying away.
17:19Bane, Bane, Bane.
17:20He's trying to make a play!
17:21Util into the hands.
17:22Tries to adjust the aim as Crashies.
17:24Left to contain.
17:25It's an even trade out.
17:26It's a very solo effort though.
17:28It is.
17:29And it's all feeling like Heroics.
17:30Nothing really joint together from DRX.
17:32But maybe Heroics is what it will take.
17:34Flashback.
17:35Alpha gone.
17:36Out of the fight for now.
17:37But an Operator still deadly.
17:38And still god damn dangerous.
17:40Bosa gets his weapon into his hands.
17:42You're playing right into the palm of his hands.
17:44Flash to reclear.
17:46So DRX with some information.
17:49Racer's gone.
17:50Hold strong.
17:51Back it up.
17:52To the open with the smoke dissipating.
17:53He spotted this player out.
17:54Dimensional drift forward.
17:55No way!
17:56Sorry!
17:57It's all gone wrong!
17:58How has Boster managed to punish Flashback there?
18:00Chronicle forwards taking a step.
18:02But this is free and crosshair placement impeccable.
18:04But it's a guessing game.
18:05This Boster could be landing anywhere.
18:07He's gambling onto the A side.
18:08Excuse me.
18:09It's freeing.
18:10It's freeing.
18:11He's going to be left wandering now.
18:13Wipes the sweat off his mouse hand and gets the plant down with ten seconds left on the clock.
18:17Ten seconds left.
18:18Fairly far away.
18:19Boster not with a great weapon for the job though.
18:21He's still going to be left guessing.
18:23Where could he be?
18:24But he's taking risks now.
18:25The reposition.
18:26Has stars to work with.
18:27Delay the plant.
18:29Big reposition.
18:31Wrapping all the way around.
18:33Here's it.
18:34Concuss into the pool.
18:35Disrupts it enough and buys him time.
18:37He's going to move on.
18:38It's knife out behavior.
18:39And freeing still left guessing.
18:40But he's guessing incorrectly.
18:41It can be going wrong.
18:42Smoke up.
18:43Propped up.
18:44Shows at the TP.
18:45But that is going to be the snake bite.
18:46But it doesn't.
18:47Slow it down.
18:48What is that?
18:50Unbelievable.
18:53Within a fraction of a second.
18:55Just as he's about to die.
18:57Acid creeping up.
18:59Melting his ankles.
19:00He lands the shot.
19:02Top fragging for Fnatic.
19:05What's going on there?
19:08Boster.
19:09Oh he's outplayed him.
19:10Having an absolute life game.
19:12Life out.
19:13Anticipating it.
19:14Oh he's done him.
19:15He's eight and three right now.
19:17When Boster's playing like this.
19:18There is no stopping Fnatic.
19:20Boster with the attack op on bind.
19:23Actually an iconic combo.
19:25Made history with it.
19:28You're ulting.
19:29Now looking to do it again.
19:30You've got sheriffs to work.
19:31Your friend's got a stinger.
19:32Vibers pit but it.
19:34There.
19:35It's pure desperation.
19:36It is man.
19:37They're also just not doing anything different at the start of these rounds.
19:40I guess this time.
19:41With the pit.
19:42They've managed to double up in showers.
19:44But.
19:45They're just allowing Fnatic to run their game.
19:47Over and over again.
19:48Tap to bait.
19:49There's no refight.
19:50Alpha happy to pick up the orb.
19:51He's got his ult now.
19:52It's just got to be shots hit with the sheriffs.
19:54Once more.
19:55Form factor.
19:56The RX put in so much reliance.
19:59On their players to deliver.
20:01With the mechanics.
20:04Mechanics just isn't enough though.
20:05Against a team like Fnatic.
20:07Fowler forwards.
20:09Catches that contact.
20:10Bane forced to respect it.
20:12Maxim south foul.
20:13I mean the way that Fnatic are working.
20:14They've had access to the orb the entire bloody time.
20:16Drones good.
20:17Saturate there.
20:18Just onto the one.
20:19And it's being covered here.
20:20Wide face.
20:21Wide swing.
20:22Shots need to be landed.
20:23But they don't have the guns for it.
20:24It's a dynamic duo.
20:26Flashback and Hyunmin.
20:27They collapse under the might of that pressure.
20:29Welcome to my world.
20:31At this point it's looking like an inevitable.
20:327th round added up.
20:34Freeing has a gun that he could try spamming with.
20:38Clant's not down yet.
20:40Oh god.
20:41What is that?
20:43It's faith firmly on the side of Fnatic with plays like this.
20:48But they haven't stopped.
20:51DRX have been out here running the lower bracket this whole tournament.
20:56Giant slaying.
20:57Taking down top seeds.
20:59Left, right and centre.
21:01But against the greatest team that we have in Valorant.
21:05They are coming up short today.
21:07They're looking out of their depth.
21:09More confidence than that.
21:10More confidence than that.
21:11Listen.
21:12The confidence difference couldn't be bigger.
21:13The energy's there.
21:14And it feels like an inevitability at this point.
21:15DRX.
21:16They don't have those hidden reserves.
21:17Finally, something different.
21:18This is it.
21:19It's a Horn play out of the TP.
21:20But flashback.
21:21Taking it one step further.
21:22Feels like he needs to take that necessary step.
21:23Almost dying for it.
21:24Almost punished.
21:25Barely alive.
21:26He's going to be limping into the next engagement.
21:27Reposted up.
21:28Now Prowler to try to get him on the line.
21:29Two players.
21:30Double Prowler.
21:31Broken early.
21:32Bullets are raining.
21:33Chronicle.
21:34He's hunting.
21:35He knows he's there.
21:36Caught into the corner.
21:37The defence from Bane.
21:38Hornbroken.
21:39Sees there still.
21:40Comes down to the reactions.
21:41And he can't handle it.
21:42Not against the heat that's been turned up.
21:44Crashies.
21:45Oh.
21:46Oh.
21:47Oh.
21:48Oh.
21:49Oh.
21:50Oh.
21:51Oh.
21:52Oh.
21:53Oh.
21:54Oh.
21:55Oh.
21:56Oh.
21:57Oh.
21:58Yeah.
21:59He knows what it takes.
22:00To deliver a team to a grand finals.
22:02Especially on the big stage of the year.
22:04I can just lie in wait.
22:05It's all too predictable.
22:06It's all too easy.
22:11The DRX are left scrambling.
22:13Wondering how the hell do we find our way out of this one?
22:15Macko with his back against the wall.
22:17In a rock and a hard place.
22:20It's crashes just forcing the issue.
22:23He's hammering the nails into the coffin.
22:26coffin with every single kill with every single round spike planted the 1v4 again miracle plays
22:34ordered up but can free deliver one player found three more to deal with tps misinformation
22:41sewing it into their minds and what a flicking adjustment again they can't be stopped at this
22:46point it's finale with that day with destiny they want that for a grand finals they want that
22:52waste one there they want access to a trophy that they've never been able to lift before
22:56they can feel it can't they the confidence in which they're taking all of these fights
23:03when you've played enough big games like this you can tell when your opponent's starting to
23:07crumble and you can keep increasing the pressure drx for once at least try something different
23:17they tried to pop through that teleport over towards showers see if they could set flashback up
23:22but then the refight trying to get flashback posted into a viper orb it's like they're not taking a
23:29breath and adjusting and thinking about whether or not the decisions they're making make sense
23:33the pressure seems like it has cracked this korean squad and mako i've got a feel for it because
23:42it must be like a nightmare loop happening again every time he gets to these kind of positions
23:48they just meet a brick wall one of the best players ever to never lift a trophy and this
23:54has been their closest chance in a long while yet but you're exactly right it's nightmares repeated
23:59he's the one consistent element that's followed from vision strikers to drx the last five years of
24:05valor in history it's been mako as that centerpiece but it's all happening again history repeating itself
24:11they have to turn it around it has to be now the final time i use for interjection at least on the
24:18drx side of things confidence needs to be there it couldn't be much worse for them and at this point
24:23they have to put in everything because you have nothing left on the other side of it
24:27they're obsessed with showers drx determined to try to hold this area this time with the smoke
24:35locking it off and immediately fanatic realizing something different is happening start to take the spike in a
24:40different direction just maneuver around it like water flowing into the cracks in the pavement
24:44oh timing for a moment there could have been mako going down
24:49and this viper orb that's been in bane's face has been horrible for him too
24:54chronicle keeps putting it up and down limiting his knowledge and information that he's got access to
25:03it's incredibly static by drx we could guns but not willing to take a risk in a moment like this when it
25:08could turn it around no switch up no change in the confidence and armageddon's going to be waiting
25:17to layer it down that's a red carpet rolled out behind and a deadly one at that or it's going to be
25:21dealt with snakebite as well to follow up and it sees close quarters kayak he's in and through it oh man
25:26heads of turns and they were not ready for that they had no clue kayak had an easy entry
25:33shooting players in the back the side of their head bane and free and left reeling
25:40and the retake just has no hope surely three sheriffs kayak going so wide i mean this is just mad
25:49confidence it's done the dreams for drx carrying the pride of their nation on their shoulders the pride of
25:59pacific looks like it will be ending here fanatic who are writing that next chapter and they're using
26:05the blood of drx to bloody do it it was chronicle actually who we just heard say that they felt like
26:12they crumbled under the stress against nrg remember that for all that we talk about fanatic being in
26:18great positions before champs is a little different they haven't even been in this spot
26:22but they have so much experience in big bo5 games and this time they're stepping up to the moment
26:28rifles back online for drx again doubling up this time with the viper over towards showers
26:35slightly different setup where flashback picks up hookah and is able to teleport away to a if they need
26:41it an operator they've not at any point tried to fight hookah aggro
26:46bain now trying to grab information over there it does seem like a good defensive swap
26:55i like the adjustment they've made it's round 11 you're down one tonight too little too late
27:01it feels hopeless the old stacked against you drx might have them themselves but it never been put
27:07in a position to use them now drone forwards pressure applied evenly across this a site freeing
27:13and mako are going to be asked the most can you hold back the onslaught showers control
27:18vitally important salvos to clear at least one side of it
27:22all but trying to make it difficult to tell when they're actually going for a big sight hit
27:27there are huge ultimates available for drx mako's waiting trying to figure out when to use his
27:34smokes when to use his molly and then of course he's got the orbital strike in the back of his pocket
27:38too 30 seconds left star's going to be dropped down out of dimensional drift again to layer out a path
27:42to success or even the cosmic divide is seeing it everything being used conversion pass to slow
27:48down he approached it's a flash in the face of mako we can't withstand it it's too much heat turns up
27:53all the way you're out of the bloody pan and into the fire at this point it's up to hyunmin to see
27:57we can deliver it nightfall ults everything being invested it's a last hurrah and a last chance at that
28:04drx they've got to win this out and they need to do it now bullets through the box that's another kill
28:09claims and it's going even at that with a 2v2 another flash still rapid action stars lay it down
28:16it's never ending the pressure being pushed on tap forces it to pull finding it seconds being bled out
28:24stun connects chronicle slinking in from behind the deliver of death and more
28:30and he's hunting for that chance to gain another trophy
28:38they're just not worried about anything he's running front of the waylay out there chronicle
28:44scaling with the spike and then the post plant walks fully through lamps about as quickly as he could
28:49without making any noise because he's not scared about being punished they know they're going to win
28:56boosters running out of dance moves not enough emotes slots at this point it's 10 to 1
29:07one more round and a half but
29:11demeanor is just in the dumps for drx nothing they've done is working aggro play white face at that but
29:21straight into the operators a missed shot for boaster
29:26every time they try to take the fight somebody on fanatic just backs up and drx never get that
29:31clean engagement they're looking for now meanwhile they lose space elsewhere master class in calling
29:37that's being worked by boaster that's a really good indication of buying defaulted kayaks if i take
29:43in that's just a stun of the contact even if kayak is alone as a gate crash to get out there will be no
29:48trade in sight and again risk to be taken it's freeing oh yeah stepping forwards might be able to
29:54catch the timing again as backs turned towards him but he's fires too soon and he's lit up on either
30:00side and things can't rejoin the rest of the pack one last chance here but mac is not even going to get
30:06it with the molly lay it down eight short controllers there's time is ticking it's fernando working
30:13him like a fiddle though hyunmin forwards onto the angle needs to be sharp needs to be more stunts up
30:19into the corner alpha takes it bane towards the back it's left into that 2v2 for one last chance
30:25to really correct the course
30:29fanatic sidestepping dwindling into the fight damage stuns awarded them from behind bako gives him a lifeline
30:37a shot in the dark but they have to follow it all the goddamn way it has to be perfection on the
30:43second half drx have put themselves in such a hole here it's a nightmare scenario a two to ten
31:02yeah let's go
31:07a little bit of a knife
31:10so
31:11the
31:12the
31:14the
31:16the
31:18the
31:20the
31:22the
31:24the
31:26the
31:28the
31:30the
31:32the
34:11Flashback the furthest one in over towards showers at a very rough half.
34:20Inexperienced player looking to try to get a bit more confidence taking the challenge.
34:25Now we're there.
34:26He's eager for that fight.
34:27Feels like he has to redeem himself perhaps.
34:29A lot of util collapsing onto A short.
34:31Deadly trap and even deadlier still.
34:33There's multiple layers to this.
34:34Players lying in wait like crashes.
34:36Mayak's gone though.
34:37It's freeing forwards but no follow-up onto Hyunmin.
34:40This is disjoint to the best yet.
34:41D-Rex are still making the best of it.
34:43Find the way forwards.
34:44Smoke dissipates.
34:45And within the kills are claimed and collected.
34:48Coralda added all up.
34:50D-Rex not finished yet.
34:52Another lifeline.
34:55Mako gave them one to end the half.
34:58Now freeing a flashback combo together.
35:01I'm not even sure that he was intended to get that opener.
35:04That looked like he was aiming for the clone.
35:08By the way.
35:09Freeing with three.
35:10Flashback follows up.
35:12D-Rex give themselves a shred of hope.
35:17The attack side execs really strong.
35:20But we were talking about that on Corrode and they just never even materialized.
35:23Now it's all about just making sure that you have no weak spots.
35:26No sore spots.
35:28Making sure that you clean out around like this.
35:30As best as you can when you have that weapon in your hand.
35:33Mako.
35:34Make sure not to get overwhelmed.
35:36Could have been deadly.
35:37We've seen Fnatic thrifty multiple times over the course of this series so far.
35:43Yeah, this one doesn't look particularly likely.
35:46Crashes in Kayak left with classics.
35:48It's important that you don't allow a big alt snowball to happen.
35:51But Mako's you're not too worried about.
35:57It's this buffer.
35:58Yeah, it's this kind of dive in.
36:01That Bosa will have been prepping for.
36:04We saw the prep come out on Corrode.
36:06I think that's the most similar map in terms of drawing comparisons.
36:09But Fnatic were really ready with some crossfire setups to try to punish the way that Hyunmin and Flashback want to get in.
36:16If Fnatic have done that level of prep here on Bind.
36:20The game should already be over.
36:22We just don't know it.
36:23A ten to four, a six round lead.
36:28It's Fnatic who are known for the comebacks.
36:32Fnatic that have pulled it off.
36:34Oh, that's a rifle.
36:37Yep.
36:39Has to be reclaimed.
36:40Tapping away.
36:41Ghost is there in time.
36:43Hands are freeing.
36:44Crashy's desperately just trying to throw it off the edge of the map there, I think.
36:46He did it.
36:48I think, was that a pistol?
36:49That he recovered?
36:50That was a pistol on the ground.
36:51Yeah, I don't think he managed to get the rifle back in the end there actually.
36:56So this is the first test for Fnatic.
36:59Maintaining composure and dealing with what DRX have got to throw at you.
37:04They're just cheering for the gust off the bloody map, man.
37:08That's the state of mind at Fnatic are in.
37:09They feel like they've already won.
37:11Yeah, spirits are high.
37:12I think everybody watching feels like they've already won as well.
37:14The question is whether DRX can make you doubt.
37:18Yeah, they're gonna have something to say about it here.
37:20Flash and a horn.
37:22Lines it up in the face of crashes, but he does break it in time.
37:24Prowler.
37:26Primed, held in hand.
37:27That's a miss onto the corner.
37:29Flashback being inserted.
37:31They're ready to go for this crunch.
37:33Look at Alfie's position.
37:34Ah, he's just backed it up now.
37:35He was thinking about going through the teepee.
37:37Flash Prowler and there's a squeeze occurring out from the short angle.
37:39Double dash up towards the top.
37:40Kayak.
37:41Tight, tight.
37:42Again, he can't actually escape out of that spot.
37:44So the spam is enough for the traces.
37:45Kronikor forwards again.
37:46Kronikor, Kronikor!
37:47Kronikor!
37:48Kronikor!
37:52My God, man!
37:53Flash back now is...
37:54He could be forced to answer back as best as he can in a spot like this.
37:57But it's just too much!
37:59The trophy cabinet is brimming for Kronikor.
38:04A man like this.
38:05And he's rising to the occasion.
38:08The chance and the challenge to take it all the way.
38:14He's a guy that just seems to get better the more the pressure is applied.
38:17There's a reason that he's been on winning rosters time and again.
38:20I feel it.
38:21He's actually gonna terminate them.
38:2516 and 6.
38:26Look at some of these shots.
38:27How sharp and quick they are.
38:28He's locked in.
38:29He's just locked in.
38:30He really is.
38:31He's in the flow state.
38:33You don't pull off a comeback against that kind of Chronicle.
38:36So the bonus round goes nowhere for DRX.
38:40And they have really one last hope of making this snowball a reality.
38:45Otherwise...
38:46I have the spike.
38:47It's doomed.
38:49Finished, done, dusted.
38:50It is your year.
38:51Done.
38:54The spike themselves setting low expectations.
38:56Coming in as the fourth.
38:57Pacific Seed themselves trying to take it one game at a time and having fun with it.
39:02The spare is creeping in.
39:04Yeah, you can't help but hope for more when you get into a position like this.
39:08Exactly.
39:09And then it all just becomes a little bit too real.
39:11Even if you were playing with a house.
39:12Money!
39:14Baden switch.
39:15What a punish.
39:16And he is becoming the Terminator.
39:20Flashback.
39:21Reels back.
39:22Grabs an ult orb.
39:23Two away though still.
39:25Not close to providing that opportunity for his team to engage.
39:29They're gonna have to do this one at 4v5.
39:32NRG were winning a bunch of them against Fnatic.
39:34But DRX gotta go through a nasty crossfire set up here.
39:38How'd he deal with it?
39:39Kayak.
39:41Tucked up here.
39:42Chronicles gonna be force fight out into the open.
39:43That's a shot that does get claimed.
39:45Familiar position.
39:46Kayak still playing here.
39:48Will get traded out in the end.
39:50Even exchange at that.
39:513v3.
39:52DRX still.
39:53To get that plant down.
39:54And the pressure is relentless.
39:55The util soups coming out.
39:56And Alpha creeping from behind.
39:58He's found it.
39:59The right time to strike with Hyunmin gone.
40:01Comes out with the shots and needs to be landed now.
40:03DRX trying to carve a path.
40:05Trying to carve anything at all.
40:06But 12 rounds is inevitable.
40:08Fnatic will not be denied.
40:10Huge performance out there from the players under pressure after Chronicle went down.
40:19And Fnatic get their way up to match point.
40:23They have eight opportunities to close this game out.
40:27In a 3-1 fashion.
40:29Not even seeing the fifth man here.
40:32They go on a rematch with a chance for revenge against Crashy's old team.
40:37The crowd behind them.
40:42DRX desperately clinging on.
40:45But this map felt like it was over a long time ago.
40:52Dream close to dying here for DRX.
40:55Flash forwards.
40:57Aggression.
40:58Name of the game.
40:59The weaponry not good.
41:00Judge Stinger's rifle in hand.
41:02A Spectre maybe.
41:03The trail at the end.
41:04Dimensional Drift Ert up.
41:05It's all or nothing now for DRX.
41:10Taking it forwards here.
41:11But Fnatic gearing up themselves.
41:13Down into their E short angle.
41:14Chron spotted out.
41:15Outside of it.
41:16That's a Judge in your face.
41:17The Tracer coming in.
41:18Dig fast and ready already.
41:19Bain is running all over them.
41:21Shots in the back.
41:22Shots in the dark.
41:23Ah!
41:24Oh!
41:25It has surely done it.
41:27Fnatic.
41:28The Unground.
41:29The Unground Kings are looking for that final trophy.
41:32That final throne.
41:33That has always eluded them.
41:34They are coming for NRG's neck.
41:38An opportunity.
41:39A revenge.
41:40Well earned today.
41:41They fend up DRX twice in a row.
41:42After these squads have gone back and forth.
41:43Back and forth.
41:44Across history.
41:45And Mako.
41:46A small smile on his face.
41:47It all crumbled around him today.
41:48Towards the end.
41:49But.
41:50They can be proud of what they put together.
41:51This rookie version of DRX.
41:52Today though.
41:53Not enough to be able to take down Fnatic.
41:56It's where that miracle though.
41:57A bracket run will die.
41:58It will finish just before the finish line.
41:59But for Fnatic or smiles.
42:00They have a date with destiny.
42:01In that rematch against NRG.
42:02And a chance to lay claim.
42:03And put their hands on a trophy.
42:04As I said prior.
42:05It's always eluded to.
42:06It's been the gap in the cabinet.
42:07But for DRX.
42:08They can be able to be able to be able to take down Fnatic.
42:09But.
42:10They can be proud of what they put together.
42:11This rookie version of DRX.
42:12Today though.
42:13Not enough to be able to take down Fnatic.
42:14It's where that miracle though.
42:15A bracket run will die.
42:16It will finish.
42:17Just before the finish line.
42:19But for Fnatic or smiles.
42:20They have a date with destiny.
42:21In that rematch against NRG.
42:22And a chance to lay claim.
42:23And put their hands on a trophy.
42:25As I said prior.
42:27It's always alluded to.
42:28It's been the gap in the cabinet.
42:30The DRX, they can't be proud. Bowls across the board. Four seed for Pacific coming into this.
42:37Yeah, and equalizing their best tournament run ever, which was a champs in 2022.
42:43But Fnatic, you're right to put the focus there because they've never been in a champs grand final.
42:48They know what, they've never even been in a champs lower bracket final.
42:51And they played today, as you would expect.
42:55Like the goats that they are.
42:58Super experienced.
43:00An incredible squad, able to rely on pillars like Chronicle and Crashies, who have been in those finals.
43:07But Fnatic have been at every single champs.
43:11And this, the first one, where it really feels like they have a chance of being able to win.
43:15It feels real, doable, Fordham.
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