TeamNade Ep25

is happening everybody welcome back to the team nade podcast episode 25 13th of may 2024 at team nade pod on x joined today as always by our co-host brian how are you i'm good man i like how you asked me if i was ready to start recording and then didn't wait for uh and honestly you just you just hit record well i mean i i left a fit a sizable gap about 3.2 milliseconds a nice one bang record right sentence there in chilling mate yeah no dangerous how long does it take for your brain to go uh yes or no a while right but yeah i'm good man i'm all right what's been happening oh i'm excited to chat about some e-sports we got we got a fucking a lot to get through today oh mate it's a busy busy episode should we should we start with the uh let's start with miscellaneous news miscellaneous news what's the miscellaneous news imperial how is no longer a part of tsm apex oh apex ah yes i don't know i don't know he's teaming with two of the guys from dark zero but the word someone pointed on twitter the word in the tweet is quite ambiguous because it says it doesn't say i'm joining dark zero it says i'm leaving tsm and i'm teaming with these guys right so whether that's just like political wording because that contract hasn't come through yet or they're going and joining another org i've seen potentially optic could be picking them up that's a rumor whether there's any any weight to that i don't really know wait wait you said optic optic yeah but the object doesn't have an apex team anymore but they might do if it's this team because because because like if it's this team then this team will win dominate like sure well or should dominate like it's literally like um it's like an absolute god squad you know what i mean saying that we've always had the discussion before about a pet like optic not having a name but yeah and we reckoned it was the sort of the wage bill for daltouche is that his name yeah daltouche yeah we've always got that wish build that and then kind of reduce the amount of money that's outgoing to a sport that they're not like an e-sport they're not actually getting anything back in i mean like i mean don't don't get it don't get it twisted right like the optics um apex team was probably one of the top five teams in the league yeah like they were a really good team like they almost won i think they almost won an event um there's a pretty cool video on it on youtube which i would recommend anyone to check out if you're interested in apex content um but then like some it was like some like really weird stuff was happening in the game and they didn't end up winning and you know i mean but like they aren't good play it was a good team they were all good players like um but if it is because of the wage bill and that's why they're exiting then they won't be picking this team up but with that being said i feel like something like this would have been in the works for a while i mean and it's like you know if if tsm knew that how was leaving when his contract expired after the most recent um event then that would also go to uh go so far and explain in as to why potentially they say seemed a little bit off when they were playing at the event tsm yeah i mean yeah definitely um but you know it's all this is all conjecture there's no way for us to really know but absolutely huge groundbreaking news groundbreaking groundbreaking earth shattering i think jack around in the tsf tsm will pick up any of the boys that were on opic though obviously been released now i don't know enough about apex to be able to say like i mean i feel like that they'll be in the market for an igl i guess which means that like sweet could go if they can get him out of i think he's on lg if they can get him out of lg then i could see that happening but then also like he's kind of conducting his own little experiment over at luminosity so whether he wants to abandon that to get that tsm money and team with two really good players i i don't know you know yeah it's one of them i definitely do not know enough about the players and the um ecosystem to be able to accurately make a prediction yeah you know i mean yeah if sweet it wouldn't surprise me well they're gonna get like fucking albro early backers and shit like that yeah which you know is incredibly interesting well i'm waiting to see when it actually comes out because we won't actually know isn't it we're not iranians go on the what god i'm gonna say snipe down returns to tsm you've got a lot of you love snake then do you oh snipe down um snipe down gave up that tsm bag to go to face halo okay and look at that turned out for him yeah he's made it all the way what is it all the way to quadrant what's night down there's less than a recording or what's a snipe drone bro ah he's a mistake we're staying down it's different what's my down slide downs on um i think he's still well actually i don't know because he was listed on the furia roster at the most recent lan event but i was like i mean i haven't really been following snipe down that closely since he left halo um but i was under the impression that he was staying on phase apex like he was staying with phase and he was going to be the main guy on their apex team but then i think they've been through like various iterations of the phase apex team and i don't think it was really going that well so i don't know whether he's out at phase or whether he's still a part of phase or what i don't really know but i i'm unable to tell you i don't know about tsm snipe down tsm snipe down i don't know what i just said there bro but it wasn't what i meant to say yeah i could see the return of snipe down oh well but definitely let's keep an eye on it'll be interesting but all the cryptic tweets of like nba gifts and shit that the tsm players have been doing for the past like week all kind of makes a bit of sense now bro everybody does that yeah i know it's like when like it's i don't know what it is right but like there's like a thing with like halo players in the eu where they'll just like post like a dragon ball z gif and it's like what the fuck does that mean like what does that actually mean though like what card folk are all about the fucking the basketball shit as well hey bro i'm telling you now though right like i can't wait until we uh uh some kind of sponsorship contract so i'm definitely tweeting out like the contract signing gif nice wow these cryptic fuckers on twitter bro bring us to our sponsor of this video raid shadow legend we're not affiliated with raid shadow legends by the way like no it was going to be a rage i was going to do like i was going to make a like a a really bad photoshop of raid shadow legends which then leads into one of the legend one of the characters in raid shadow legend having a manscaped razor and then it was a manscape ad see thoughts bro like your market i can like the marketing mind of yourself is fucking insane bro even i i wouldn't have comprehended that i think you could have put 15 marketing executives from a top company in one room and they would never have come up with that no that you said just said groundbreaking about news of that is some groundbreaking visionaries what can i say you know keep an eye on the socials for that one people yeah i'm excited yeah i think i have to look far don't want to i know i mean hopefully it'll be better than that poster that i made so it's definitely not gonna be embarrassed like come on now is it your ad going to be presented by respectfully your adosa productions yes and it's just going to be me drawing stick man so it's a raid shadow legends legend therefore but like a really poorly drawn manscape razor see done look at that sponsorship that's how you do it sponsorship man yeah it's bare bones guerrilla marketing bro i like it yeah fuck fuck all this like fancy shit nowadays you go break and bring it right back to right back to the bare bones yeah stick man that's right we're doing mail outs hold on to your hearts because the leaflets are coming they're going to be fucking rammed in your door letterbox and carpet in your floor when you return from hcs london and you're not going to be able to open the fucking thing and you should be like what's all this team no stuff what is that and then boom you're going to come here and listen to this either that right are we going to get even even further before the postal service i'm going to turn up at your door welcome back to episode 45 here we go get you on the decks and after party bro yo yo yo yo can i can i can i play can i play it soon yeah get my phone and also right it's like welcome back people episode 25 of the team you've got it wrong what you do is you're like yeah yeah don't worry i'll get on this like and you start absolutely the normal dj set you start in the beat get the beat up okay i'm really high just before the drop you just wait in the drop and they go welcome back to the team they'd episode 25 and then the beat drops see if there's any if there's any like djs or producers out there that listen to this shit can we get like a a drum and bass remix of the team no podcast why didn't that go hard and if you send me a video of you playing it in a rave right and it getting like an insane crowd reaction i will personally give you 50p just can't wait for that to be in the club just ever so yeah marketing budget right now welcome back to episode 25 two for one vk's at the park oh they're moving on bro moving on right so that's just reminding me of something else right would you like the cod results yeah i i did not i didn't oh no i did see one cod related thing this weekend but i didn't see anything else about it i was busy the entire weekend so i didn't actually do any of the games home refurbishments weren't you yeah talking about it um but i do know the one game on a sunday hey bro does that make you ground forbes set a ground force right it's good though isn't it just like sos diy isn't he an sos in here bro find yourself a new co-host bro fuck you bro all right look bro i've been saving that one up for like three days my mom thought i was like oh it's fucking sick hang on wait it's not fucking fine oh dear no i didn't like fucking grand forbes what the fuck is that that's good man that's the new that's the new gt what do you mean that's you on the golf course bro oh fucking no i want to i want to start playing golf again i miss playing golf i played him yesterday and got absolutely smoked like it wasn't even funny oh wow he's had food poisoning as well and still fucking bad me what's new that's just rude you're getting barred on golf yeah i got like 99 short game now have you how long how much have you been playing not a lot that's a cap i went to pgahacks.com i got onto our mutual friends for the jay yeah pulled out of the garms i got the jaytag with the garms jaytag the jaytag arms sounds like the shittest pub ever jaytag arms the jaytag arms we gotta remember that for the time i've started business the jaytag arms that's what the team lead officers can be called bro the jaytag arms that's what the bar in the basement's called the jaytag arms the bar in the basement yes yes oh fucking hell right cod results here we go friday the 10th of may ultra 3 boston nil lat3 surge one only two games on the friday whoa whoa wait a minute lat3 surge one yes shut that down ghosty yeah so lat squad they started doing really well like playing really really well together it's still the same still the same team it is dan ghosty cremp uh nasty and joe deceives yeah nice one yeah i think afro off the team has actually really worked for them or whatever the issue that afro was having i can't remember what it was yeah what's happening so you go in there getting changed out for joe receives and that seems to got them working again especially against the surge team which then surge surge is such a weird team because it's like they need to do really well or they're woeful so who did the surge beat was it uh ultra i don't know which team they won they won against one of the big teams i can't remember which one it was new york on the 20th of april they won against new york three one um in fucking new york what new york subliners you're not finally new york no probably not no i mean i i have a problem with new york they're just very inconsistent yeah this new the new roster they've got with fucking yeah it just doesn't doesn't seem to be hit no there's something not quite right about it i'm not too sure what it is but it can't seem to just gel i don't know i said i honestly i couldn't tell what it is it's not it's not working yeah they're just they're just like not on it no but pretty bog standard also three nowhere in boston yet again continuing their their terrible streak of games um and then lat surge lat coming through um saturday the 11th of may um boston two legion three rocker one ravens three surge one phase three um as i just said boston continuing their lost streak really just not a great team a lot of boston no just just i don't know what it is it's just nothing the beans pickup just doesn't seem to have worked at all is um i've seen a video i think it was slasher was on the breakdown the skunk and podcast okay yeah and he said that i don't know if it was recently but i seen the clip today saying that um they should like snoopy came into the league too early and had more time and challengers to find his own style um okay yeah no i did actually i saw this one as well yeah yeah yeah um so it's just something not it's just it's just he's trying to copy too many people he's very very similar to shotzi in the way he just kind of just flies everything in his place super fast constantly uh he's trying to do shotzi stuff without being shotzi yeah it's just it's just not his own identity in in playing in the game the gameplay he wants to do yeah um rocker losing against ravens ravens have really played well playing in a facility together like rocker just seems so off the boil as well with their their gunless pickup and and who else have they got it's lynn's accuracy gunless and i can't remember the fourth person who is on rocker it is escaping me it's not fame is it or is he on gorillaz dandy yeah okay just whatever that team just isn't doesn't work i just i wonder i wonder why i think the the the duo of stanley and lynn's is supposed to be working well together and they're just not nothing works no they're just not playing together they're just not playing off of each other they they got rid of awakening they like released him entirely so he's not awakening was quite good though yeah awakening was really good i thought awakening either goes really big or is lost there's never seems to be an in-between with him that's what they were trying to get away from and like the inconsistency possibly but they've just picked up something that's just exactly the same yeah exactly the same type of player yeah exactly at least uh awakening brought something to them and managed to actually do well they got to a certain point i think it was last major they did really well they managed to get through and try to have a quick gander back through my notes for major two what was major two again was it march oh but hang on i can tell you yeah it was yeah march um since march 24th oh i say that rocker lost lag so i don't know rocker always felt like a team that could do really well and they've just lost all entirely and with awakening now being released it just seems to be diving deeper and deeper into something i just don't see them pulling out yeah they do get better online that's the only benefit i could probably say for them but i've not a lot of confidence legion with the new pickup of johnny it's the the only game they got to play was against boston so that's going to be an interesting one to see how that goes into the major um boston finally won a search holy shit yeah they finally won a search that was their one against uh against legion what were they they were what did i say last week 13 searches without a win went to 14 no 14 went to 15 and then they finally won one after 15 losses in a row for search they finally won one uh ultimately didn't come to anything because they still fucking lost against the legion so i aside this one still doesn't look that great and then phase doing what phase do winning and surge with no real fucking difficulty lost one fucking map but shooting bodies probably i didn't want i didn't actually i didn't watch it i couldn't i didn't have time to watch it so i'd imagine you could probably it's a safe bet that somebody in that team shot bodies we're gonna sell last week against who was it against last week to sell this started doing it like first map like like one of like the early kills against legion we're just shooting bodies against legion or ravens early on it's just such a wind-up merchant and then moving on to sunday the 12th of may heretics three lat nil ultra three new york sublinners one lat one optics three so heretics being the lat managed to confirm them winners bracket for this major even though it looked quite bleak there's their uh split for this uh run up to the major looked quite bleak they were underperforming massively made the change to get real in who is coming in and has managed to secure them winners um ultra i'll talk about lat and optic first optic played an unbelievable search uh no search a hard point um this was hard point like the game four hard point they won 250 to 86 oh wow excuse me massive um there was tweets come after it that kenny said that he wasn't he was only able to shoot for but when we play hard point like that doesn't fucking matter it's very true it's like that sort of fucking that sort of domination of a hard point is like what you expect to see from the the big the top end of teams that's where you know like yeah it's like it's like having a big team against a challenger scene that you just can't get anywhere fucking near it no matter what yeah yeah yeah uh and the amount of money that i'm paying for that team oh yeah you should expect it yeah i mean you should be that's what you expect especially against that i mean i don't mean to disrespect lec but like they are a weaker team you know yeah they're a weaker team that's called a spider spread they're not as good as optic like you expect that sort of thing to happen yeah but it's nice to see that this is the capability that you have is like at the end of the day it's just four players and it's four players they're all very good in their own respect yeah you can if that's what you can produce unbelievable which speaking of hard points brings us on to the new york oh this is the only thing that i saw right what did you see did you see the hard point result or what happened in the second hard point on game four i saw it was it was one screenshot right and it was like new york this score yeah okay yeah this is the score and then it was like the same thing and it was just like what yeah yeah so this was map one hardpoint vista now vista is an incredibly difficult map new york the one that when toronto played it the other week against phase they kind of like shit a little bit yeah um both the teams had only played once they had both lost each time um i believe new york was the best on rotation but the worst on holds also were the worst on rotations but the best on holds in like in the compared to the two teams okay yeah so we go through an entire set of rotations how many rotations on a map um five five or six i think it's five um by the end of it coming back to p1 it was 171 to new york 49 to ultra yeah so a hut was 123 121 uh 22 score lead two full set of rotations two full set hills ahead with three minutes 58 left in the clock they then proceeded to new york but then proceeded to lose that map 244 to 250 i love that fucking what in the fuck shot in new york man like unbelievable like to drop that much it's ridiculous that you can't like you don't even need to get you can get scrap time and probably do better do you know i mean like you have the ability these are like the top teams like the ultra in new york are classified in the top four top four teams they should not be allowing this to happen it is an entire breakdown of what of what their like their whole squad is which brings back to the starting point of new as you said new york is so inconsistent that this roster just doesn't seem to be able to continue like good form yeah yeah yeah they just can't do what they like it's like three no against heretics on the third of may three no against legion on the fourth of may um obviously they lost 31 to phase which is not something to be i'm not nothing to write like to go on about because it's it's face they're like the best team in the game period um they lost three twos against ravens on the 19th of april that's a fucking shocking loss 31 to surge on the 20th of april again another shocking loss and then you go back even further 31 against rocker it's further again three nil against ultra they can beat ultra you know like it's like they have this ability but there's just no coordination and consistency to get those games sorted and put to bed yeah i mean maybe that's maybe that's the problem right is a close shot i mean i wouldn't say it's like the biggest worry for them i guess because like i feel like like what last season they wouldn't made one and then they were like pretty bad for the entire year and then they come out in champs and they slap everyone yeah you know i mean it's like you know i feel like you know they've got the players they've got the capacity and the capability to really get into the reasons why and to dial this in yeah so maybe we could see a back-to-back well i just don't think that we will because like to add on to the i just don't think that's going to be a thing to add on to the inconsistency of not being able to finish out games they've won the search nobody's fine one one one one one in the series going into control control invasion two two on the scoreline ultra attacking right they've captured b fully sorted b's done they've only got to get a left right remind me which one b is on invasion that's showers no a's a showers b so a showers two two nine point four seconds left before the game ends and ultra lose right also ultra has 12 lives new york has six okay who's on attack ultra ultra okay so would you like the positions of players in the on this currently just to see their setup right so kismet is on top of on top of gas station presumably with an ar yes okay sib is inside laundry right skies and hydra are on on the point on showers okay right hang on wait give me give me give me a second let me let me visualize this i'll send you let's hang on here you go i'll send you this so you can see it at the time at the time i'm glad you've done that because i was about to try and like make it on the game coach how'd you do here we go right can we can we move in on that kismet is three hi uh sib is four and then skies and hydra are the two on a point okay no so right do you want my prediction for what's about to happen well let me just i'll do the ultra for the listeners so number six is envoy who is outside rugs on the coffin in between the mid street number eight is kleenex who is on uh outside dvd in the mid on like uh p1 uh five is scrap coming around the back on down a street around the back of cafe and inside is number seven outside showers right on the just outside the point in the middle of this like on this on the wall ready to go in okay hit me with your prediction of what how this ends right so who do you say was seven insight yes okay so insight starts pushing up the street and distracts kismet and sib allowing envoy to slip around the back and gun kismet at that point sib panics and gets absolutely slapped by number eight who is kleenex yes yeah right and then kismet spawns out all the way at freaking like back blue like by the uh for the white van okay and then all four of them just collapse on the two guys in the hill they quad stack it and win okay right well this is what happens inside is number seven outside of showers right okay yeah nine points he goes to approach the hill with seven seconds left hydra is on the heady he then guns hydra's head off right okay right number six envoy comes around the back and catches kismet who then dies yeah number eight who is kleenex catches sib trying to get on the cross which then leaves skies left on the hill by himself to deal with three of them he gets none of them they four stack it and win uh yeah it went from six six lives to six lives for ultra and that's our 12 lives to ultra six lives to new york with 9.4 seconds left to being a four man dead no chance of fucking losing it now you know what you know what i think the issue with the way that new york has set up there is what's that is sib i think sib's positioning makes that like a two-two split um because no one's really watching down the main street i would say right you know i mean and it's like it just opens him to be able to be isolated a little bit because it's like kismet has to protect him because kismet's the only one who can watch his back right yeah but at the same time like sib okay sib can control like in front of the hill but like if either of those two dies if either like three or four dies like then the situation just in for you know i mean i don't know man i just feel like their field so for me kismet is trying to put it kismet tries to push out from the top gas he tries to come out to get into the mid which then opens up the the route from behind them obviously they try to push out so he's on top of petrol yeah and he jumps off to come around the back of rugs to then come around the back of laundry corner to like in front of the hill like the middle of the hill he doesn't need to do that because he for me somewhat like the best way of trying to capture a on invasion is to come around the back that's you get they come on the back you stop their close spawns it pushes them all the way out yeah yeah so it's obviously in laundry he's trying to watch the cross who is he's in the middle of a gun fight the scrap and gets caught by kleenex just coming through yeah so yes he is in a it might be in a wrong position for watching his right but he's also in the right position to watch the left and the push but i feel like because insights in the position that he's in and he kills hydra who for me hydra oh yeah like that like that's like the hydra dying is the the key to unlocking that cell phone but that's the thing is it's like kismet comes off envoy comes out of rugs kismet's looking at him and kismet loses the gunfight but as he's taking that gun hydra dies yeah so then yeah and also as hydra dies so sib is then going to look over he's trying to watch the cross and gets and engages in scrap and then kleenex just gets the perfect timing that he nobody's looking at him and takes the night yeah yeah yeah so what we're saying is is that kismet should have been setting up the uh the tent in the little chair yeah in fact what he set up was the storm roof because he fucking sold and like there went four dead and they spawned out like in the car park where you would spawn for like a surge game yeah and at that point it's a four-man stack and it's like 4b 4b2 4b4b2 yeah they've got trophies down 3.4 seconds left on the hill when they get in and they win it like that um which then proceeds to scraps shouting in the camera i fucking own you point pointing and showing in the camera we still don't have a we don't have the voice on that um which then which then okay this gets even fucking worse we go into hard point number two game four two one in the series ultra are winning happy days no worries ultra start they lose p1 p2 this is karachi hardpoint sorry lose p1 to p2 long the new york held it quite well contrast p3 p4 all the way down to p5 and the junkyard hill they start to dominate it ultra have got two cruise missiles in the bank right yeah new york in the game new york ends the game they end the game the host they just fell out now now what was the score i think i'd need to double check it but i think it was i think um also we're winning it was like a hundred and something i think um i'll quickly grab it now because i can i can it'll be in my fucking watch list here wait for my ad but yeah they ended the game now there is claims that they fucking end they ended the game because they were jumping about the screen so here we go the game ended at 250 to 150 is what it says on the cdr website no that's that's that's the overall game but they ended that 100 to 75 that's what they ended that for that first game on they just ended the game um now apparently it was a connection issue with new york are they allowed to do that see i don't know i don't know is that a thing in the rule book where they can just go no our connection is dog shit like we're not playing this i don't know because it's like that's it's it's it's such an opinionated thing do you know i mean like because you're playing online you're always going to have a an internet connection issue there's nothing you can really there's nothing you can do about that like that i mean that that just immediately makes me think of that um that opposite game yeah when they were when they were playing new york and new york were on like three ping and we're on like 80 you know i mean like and also right like if they're allowed to do that and they don't get penalized for that then what's the stop any team when they're getting just from going like if their host ending the game or like if they're not host someone just going like you know i mean all f4 and out of the other thing yeah i know i'm a connection what's the thing is like the game ended it was clearly new york they did it because you it goes to the player counts of ultra and insight he's just got his hands up like what the fuck yeah why i feel like if they're gonna do that like if they're gonna end the be like a that's just like an instant win for the team you know i mean because it's just like yeah okay like situation is not like ideal i get that but at the same time like but in the end it didn't fucking matter because ultra then went back into the game and won 250 to 158 the so then i think the what i remember who tweeted it there's a tweet that came out that said reset for that that's got that's got scrap brown all over it bro i don't i don't know which then also i'm going to send you this image this was kleenex after the game ended okay hang on let me grab this copy image brian here we go what are you sending this to me on on discord yeah yeah this was the image after the game ended okay mate look at his eyes like for the for the viewers at home like this is the face cam of kleenex and he's just sticking his middle finger up directly into the camera but like you can see one eye over like the knuckle of his ring finger and this guy looks absolutely deranged like oh my days which also we also got the the the scrap picking up the face cam pointing and shouting down it still not a clue what he said and i don't think we ever will know what he said yeah they can't they can't really which i think i think i think i think ultra tweet like take the picture of him doing it and then put happy mother's day everybody at the top of it wow wishing everybody a happy mother's day that's absolutely wild right also yeah whilst you mentioned a mother's day right like literally i know like obviously in the uk mother's mother's day is on like sunday or something isn't it something no obviously it's in march i thought i was trying to say like it's in march right but like every year yeah like i start seeing all this like shit about mother's day on like twitter and stuff and i'm just like shit yourself yeah i shit myself i literally every time i just oh my god like in the uk we do it differently because uh yeah i've seen all these posts and i went and searched i was like hang on what have i oh no we're in march like i said yeah chilling we've already done that like we're already past that right so i've taken off on off everybody's time with a fixture and the results i'm gonna take everybody's time up on the pictures for major three you ready i'm gonna have about 10 minutes to run through everything to do however long yeah you are probably i'll try and do this as quickly as i can i would like you to do that i can do it i would like you to start thinking of your top four for this for this major okay i've already i've already had a look bro okay okay that's fine okay oh no wait a minute right go on you run through that and i'll uh i'll okay so this is major three for toronto this is starting on thursday so this is the 16th of may running through to the 17th 18th and 19th of may winners round one we've got phase versus heretics lat versus new york ultra versus surge and optic versus ravens um for winners round two it's either going to be phase or heretics versus lat or new york and then ultra versus surge or ultra ultra or surge versus optic or ravens can i just stop you for a second yes you can you know what i wish they had on the cdl website what's that like because i'm looking at the bracket right now right i would love to be able to like if the bracket was interactive where you could like drag who you think is going to win um you know what i mean check cdl pickems oh is that i think yeah um you should be able to yeah yeah cdl pickens my my predictions that is there has to be this this i don't know i don't know where it is there's somewhere in there you're able to put to put your predictions in for it friday may the 10th have we already gone past that we have gone past that yes you're looking for the 16th 17th i don't know if it's there it's not there sad it is not there fuck me i guess fuck you forbes odd um and then i'm going to have a quick conversation about elimination round one so it's going to be phaser heretics whoever loses that one versus legion lat or new york versus boston then ultra versus ultra or surge versus rocker and then optic or ravens versus lag okay would you like my uh would you like my predictions um yes give me your top four predictions i'm gonna give you a full bracket prediction bro right okay right so we're getting phase thieves when it's round two yeah and we're getting these okay we're getting ultra texas ultra ultra texas ultra optic when it's round two in the lower bracket uh i think heretics beat legion okay and then i think maybe new york will play new york okay yeah because they're yeah and i think new york will be waiting in elim three okay and on the other side uh what we're going to get surge rocker i think surge with that and then i think ravens beat lag and then i think ravens are going to be waiting in elim round three um phase i think they're just going to go basically you're just going to go straight to somebody yeah i agree about um and i think they will play oh i think they'll play optic yeah i can't lie i think that's going to be winner's finals phase optic and then i think in the lower bracket i think um do i have an even run three subliners you have lead in and subliners yeah so i think no um no see so you'd have you'd have subliners and then ravens subliners and ravens i think so the ultra or thieves i think if i think it's ultra play and they definitely be um um and then if it's the other way around if it's thieves and ravens i think ravens would not and i think ultra beam and then on finals i think it'll be optic ultra and i think the grand final will be phase ultra i think okay so you have in phase winning yeah i'm gonna go phase ultra uh optic and it was my other top it was my top four ravens yeah yeah fuck it bro ravens my closer well interestingly i have phase winning it yeah also uh optic being second yeah ultra being third radar being fourth hey come on i think ravens are playing really well together and i think they're going to come out swinging yeah i think they're going to do i think they're going to do really well because they're like they they've got like that on they've got that land buff online because they all play in the same room and then obviously they're going to get a land buff off the land buff so i think they're going to get even better yeah all right i would love to see it man i'd love to see ravens actually be competitive online more competitive than they currently are online it would be nice it would be nice and they're always ravens always seem to perform online better than they do online so but that is it for the for the for the for the card i've taken up enough of everybody's time and i believe you have lots to talk about the halo as well oh mate so much hey let's talk about right okay first things first we need to address na open number three yeah optic win let's go optic after rebellion reset the bracket three two optic sweep them in the reset let's go optic so there we go right and then yesterday bro oh my days yesterday was insane uh so yesterday uh saturday and so saturday and sunday na lcq and in the eu it was just on the sunday lcq so let's talk about eu first quadrant are in pools now didn't drop them up the whole thing okay so quadrant are in final form i also um saw this morning that snipe drone might be the best player in the eu right now yeah uh yeah like i like on a whim i was like i'll go and watch some snipe drone vod because i was a bit hyper on snipe drone right now on the streets so i was i'll go and watch some snipe drone vods and i was watching uh so it was game one grand finals malamere um live fire strongholds and you know how that goes right you know you know how that goes bro quadrant and strongholds go together like bread and butter you know yeah yeah um so the situation is developing snipe drones got the sniper he's just captured a um the rest of quadrant rotate out to go to c so i think malamere come off spawn at c and they'd hit c and b simultaneously so snipe drone knowing that he's about to get hit through the to the garage door starts pulling back towards the window he gets to the platform by the window takes a look back to the garage door doesn't see anyone drops down and then takes a shot in the side of his head so he comes and tucks himself underneath the um the like i don't even know you how you would describe it like you know the scoreboard is on the door and then there's obviously like the window on the left and then there's the a part on the right yeah like so he's like tucked inside the door frame on the right hand side of it off the a side and he's just like pre-aiming scoped in with the sniper rifle this one specific angle mose comes sliding out and he just takes his fucking head off straight away and then just moves on like nothing has ever happened and then proceeds to drop a frenzy and also go like 22 and five but i think the guy dropped like a out of the three games the guy is not missing right now so you know i'm in all right so that that was nuts right um and then in na and the na na was amazing right because um obviously phase ssg shopify uh complexity and optics are already qualified for pools yeah i think there's probably a couple more teams in there that are already qualified for pools um but so like they weren't playing which obviously gives an opportunity for the sentinels proton gaming all of these sorts of teams native gaming to like have a opportunity to get into the pools right which was just it was it was it was really cool um i saw a tweet from um pro on gaming i will go into that in a second right so pro on gaming they like monster their way through the winner's bracket they match up against sentinels they send them to the lower bracket uh sentinels then end up play still deciding which has the greatest online halo player the world has ever seen as a member of this team um and then lethal just goes yeah no that's not happening and just absolutely smokes them uh so we get the rematch in the grand finals of proton gaming versus sentinels and it was getting a bit late i was getting a bit peckish you know i mean i had it on the other monitor turn the xbox off i was like okay cool get a little bowl of cereal before i go to bed 17 minutes they've been playing game three which was uh so so like it's a proton a two zero for the series 17 minutes they've been playing argyle flag it goes to the double overtime argyle flag right so i've got it on the tv now i'm sat on the other side of the thing i'm you know i mean i literally just sit down after making the cereal and bang proton score they win it's all over inside of about 60 seconds and it was like what the fuck so we we have right the pools have been worked out shout out so nasty on twitter you did all the heavy listing for me um because like no way was i going to be able to work out before we have to go live tonight so pool a is space station gaming which is legend bound eco stellar we got proton gaming which is tolic druk lashaw and collect and we have from the eu jump out gang which is sunrise kimbo milsy and zoe and then this pool will be rounded out by my open bracket who loses bracket two i guess that is and that's supposed to be loses bracket one yeah so that's going to be where the position of the open bracket team is in pool b now i think pool b is the is the pool of death pool of death we got optic gaming lucid formal trippy dead zone we have the hometown team quadrant slg seeker snipe drone and glory and we have sentinels lethal precision boo boo doo boo falceted and then open bracket loses bracket round one i don't know these open bracket things are kind of confusing to me but anyway so pool c we have phase snake bite royal to frosty renegade complex the ryanube spartan love to see spartan back on the team of rhino descending and huss and then cloud nine we got tusk sab septify and suspecta and open bracket winners bracket two and then pool d shopify rebellion which is mental suppressed soul sniping cycle the eu goats foe jimbo root and chicken mighties and then still deciding which is rammy monster king nick and money and that will be rounded out by open bracket winners bracket number one so there we go that's the pools pools are set what what are you saying about the pools bro what do you like about what you you know i mean i very much agree that pool b is the pool of death um slightly worried for optic i feel like depending on the optic we get might be worried um i think that's going to be a difficult pool for optic yes like i think that's going to be a really difficult pool for optic especially quadrant playing at home like you know i mean well it's like optic i've got the i've got like the teams that are gonna that could cause the biggest upsets the quadrant and sentinels are not pushover teams no and obviously like quadrant i mean i know that that quadrant roster was very different to what it is now but quadrant have prior form of doing very bad things to optic gaming yes you know i mean it's not like they're going to be new to that situation um um i feel like the rest of them are kind of you come out i feel like you can see who will come out on top um in a sense of space station phase and shopify it's normally it's two that normally come out of the pools isn't it yeah so top two will go into winners um third in the pool will go into losers yeah and fourth is just eliminated um it depends i feel like it depends on where native it depends on where native gaming will come into it yeah because this is the thing right now native gaming are going to be playing through the open bracket now when i was putting this document together i i had native gaming going into pool c um because i was like oh they'll play it tactically to play against cloud nine to get their one win against cloud nine in the bracket in the in the pool and then get to the champ bracket as in winners in losers round one right and then i remembered who was on still deciding bro serious but still deciding is rammy monster king nick and and we all know what happens with monster i mean i hope it doesn't like but like you know i mean bro like my guy is not he's not the gunner on land that he is online like you know i mean yeah i hope he comes out swinging i hope he proves me wrong like but at the same time i feel that like that is probably the weakest team in that bracket in that um pool purely because monster is such an unknown quantity you don't know what you're going to get out of them you know i mean i also don't know if the rosters have been locked yet or not um because maybe they just they just don't take monster with them i feel like if they block it at this point surely because what's that i would assume it would be locked by now because it's only three weeks away in it yeah two weeks on friday um which is mental by the way yeah i know that's fucking mental actually not um so i've got a few open bracket teams okay that people need to look out for um so we have malamere which is flux i7 mose and shard i think that's a really good team they've been improving week on week um i think they have a decent chance of making it into the champ bracket uh into the pool sorry um click esports which is baxter desire and the mains baxter is or was the highest placing european player in any event until jimbo's team i think placed top six in halo 5 okay um so like baxter is like the one of the ogs of european halo yeah um and i think they placed top four this week in the lcq so it's like they're you know they've shown progression as well um bittersweet after their announcement today so bittersweet eu is warlord looney hi i'm ninj and they've picked up batchford again um batchford warlord and looney were part of the mocket esports team with squashy who just absolutely ran things in europe in halo 5 um so i think that's also a team to look out for and then i've also got three na teams we got passion united which is my scuds palpheus and faticus who i think played really well at the last event yeah so i'm like i'm excited to see what they can do at this one uh native gaming obviously like definitely one to look out for which is guilty barcode apg and mcqueen um and reversal percy is apparently looking for a sponsor to cover their travel which is common cherish breaking shot and haynes and i think that they will um that's also a really good team um i think you know i think all six of those teams stand a chance and then two honorable mentions queen three or mlg queen is registered for a team pass there's no one else on our team at the moment but like any team that she's involved with i feel is going to be not one to be taken lightly um and then onvore apparently also has a team pass or onvore is registered on a team but at the same time like some players on that team and other teams so i'm not really sure what's going on with that but if onvore does turn up with a team that team will also be one to keep an eye out for yeah progressing through the open bracket you know i mean i mean i've got native gaming pretty much nailed on to make the the pools if they don't that's a serious serious issue first of all yeah if they don't make it that's a big big problem with native gaming like you know considering the caliber of player that you've got on that team um but yeah i think it'll be i think the pool play is going to be really interesting um and my predictions for what's what's your predictions for top four bro we said four um who do i have winning it i am going to say space station yep optic shopify phase space station optic shopify phase yeah i've got space station winning it but i'm gonna back the boys man i think it'll be space station quadrant foe shopify foe shopify you reckon that's what i think yeah maybe ambitious i don't think four don't i don't think four have i don't think four or quadrant have the ability to beat the teams to get to that stage i don't think they have the ability to beat the teams to get to that stage anywhere else in the world but i think they will have it in london well you got you got to fight shit themselves already and starved in the venue yeah and also all the americans are going to be like you know i mean like you know adderall not easy to get in the uk number one number number two that the food is shit you know i mean number three they're all going to be disappointed that they've been to nando's and it wasn't what they expected it to be i don't know what i see this all the time americans coming to the uk and going like i went to nando's and it was shit wasn't what i expected it to be i don't know what you were expecting it to be it's overpriced chicken like that's all it is it's an overpriced chicken like you know i mean all they specialize in is fucking chicken and sauces yeah you fucking love a nando's though i ate nando's all right no not anymore i went the other day and they've stopped doing that rap battle oh i had to get a fucking bean burger i hadn't paid 17 quid for the privilege and then it arrived and it was shit so top tip for any americans traveling to the uk for hcs london if you go to nando's don't get the bean burger get literally anything else on the menu somewhere else to really go that's a culinary tip if you're going to come to if you are coming to london just prepare to spend a mortgage on food on just being there yeah and if anyone asks you if they can try on your shoes or coat run away really quickly because if you take that off you're not getting a bag and if the conversation starts with ayo big man let me chat to you is run away but run away you run away while saying get your out yeah don't say that why not you're just trying to get people stopped bro but no i mean i i think it's going to be i think it's a really good event um i fucking hope so paid a lot to get there you know i mean like and we're not even like paying the most people are coming from fucking america and everywhere else in the fucking world just to come to this event it's spenny london spenny at the best of times why am i going on oh yeah oh it's gonna be even more expensive than the champions league finals on the fucking saturday as well so that means there's gonna be donnie's a whole lot of fucking german donnie's all the fucking nerds in the fucking america anywhere else in europe and mostly uk all gonna be in the same fucking city it's gonna be big as fuck the tubes are gonna be fucking mental public transport in the sense of taxes they're gonna be fucking through the they're gonna be and like i say london spenny at the best time so now it's gonna be even there's two major events happening so yeah i am so glad i'm not getting the train and then having to get the tube and then having to buy taxis yeah completely forgot i didn't i didn't even think i didn't think there was any football on and then i looked into it the other day and i was like fuck it's in wembley it's like champions league final in wembley and like majority will be in the center of town is that like the center of london yeah we're catching the i mean the benefit for us of it being in wembley is that's like not really anywhere near twickenham true but depends on what and what we're doing that day you know i mean if we're going to go anywhere near the center i don't know if we're going to but if anybody does i'm going anywhere near the center if anybody does go near the center just be prepared to be it'd be fucking mobbed yeah if you go in sightseeing then there's going to be a lot of madrid fans are going to be a lot is it dorpant yeah a lot of madrid fans a lot of dorvan fans like i feel like they should they should travel well shouldn't they there shouldn't be any sort of like big kickoffs or anything i don't think well yeah you say that but just people like it's always that's a potential dinner like i mean you gotta say dortmund fans are die hard like i know dortmund fans are like serious right but like are they like serious like that you know i mean i reckon yeah there's always a riot serious like is that there's always there is always people yeah yeah there's always fucking like the casuals are looking for a scrap yeah so i know i think after that as well just there'll be fucking i don't mean to scare anybody about london but there will be pickpockets with the amount of fucking people that are going to be in london at the time pickpocket will be rife yeah that's another thing on the tube as well like be careful of pickpockets on the tube yeah like i don't mean to give a bad fucking no it's more like just things to be aware of like london's well personally i don't particularly like london but i can understand the appeal from like a perspective and stuff like and it's a nice place to go if you've never been before um it's like the busiest place i've ever been to like it's actually wild oh yeah if you get on the tube stand on the right of the escalators or is it the left i can't fucking ask fuck i don't know there's a sign though and the sign says stand on one side of the escalators if you don't stand on that sign side of the escalators and you're just standing there someone will either walk into you or they will storm up behind you and touch very loudly until you move because they won't tell you to move they'll just do that yeah no that's one of the reasons why i really don't like london because it's just like like i get you're in a rush bruv but like you know i mean it's made double wired so that like you can go i mean if you're in that much of a rush don't get a fucking public transport i think i don't know i can't remember but like just there is signs on all the escalators on the tube so i just be careful just be careful in general it's like londoners like they take this shit seriously and like being not from there isn't an excuse to them yeah that specifically is what annoys me about londoners they have no patience for people that isn't from london like but just be careful in general as you can imagine it's a major city it's like any major city that's massive on tourism there's going to be fucking folk trying to take what's not theirs out of your pockets without you knowing yeah hopefully the weather's nice i'm i'm being distrustful to be fair i've not actually checked the fucking weather you know i mean i don't the venue's gonna be fucking freezing isn't it's either gonna be freezing or it's gonna be absolutely like hot bro like heavy yeah oh don't tell me i can't get the fucking weather until i fucking oh you can't even get the weather that far ahead look bro like they can't even predict the weather 24 hours in advance what hope do you think they're gonna have to do it two weeks i don't know wait oh bbc does it oh bbc gets the 26th we're saying that the weather on the 24th which is the weekend before it is slight rain and and whatever else but it is 20 degrees with a low high of 20 low of 13 for friday saturday is the highest 21 low of 11 and sunday is the high of 19 low of 12 so it's warm it's fucking warm for me i'm used to fucking minus three all the time that's shorts weather that man i have to go get a new pair of shorts new pair of shorts yeah i can't wear these ones they've been bleached by the sun bleached by how often have you been the sun well it's because these are the ones that i wore like every day when so they've gone a bit like it's actually wild right i was i was looking so like there's like a line where obviously like my t-shirt was sitting and like underneath that it's kind of going a bit brown nice i was like oh shit i need to get some new ones but they're comfy though man oh dear but no it'll be good hope to see and meet people at london you know looking out for the main man i want to i want to just meet him and shake his hand and be like he's fucking one shot push him lad i fucking beg you lad he's one shot just have to scream he's weak hi and then run away red or blue that's just all he's got i'm gonna have to say red or blue to him and he'll go you're that fucking cunt there when i was um obviously having to go back to the drawing board with the designs yesterday yes one of the ideas that uh me and our head of creative thinking came up with was you know that thing that i made for the obs overlay yeah i was putting that on the back of it i'm saying brain dead brian says listen to team mate and then putting that and then having the qr code mate i can't wait for him to like we're gonna meet him and you're gonna be like oh yeah right lad this is i'm gonna meet introduce you to brain dead brian just to watch him go off on you for about that one play that he didn't make that you clearly should have made but you didn't he didn't know he didn't have all the facts of the situation all right that's cool man if he if he really wants to if he will he will guaranteed i'm planning on trying to go two for two at halo land events two for two yeah drinking them out of cider completely that's my plan for the weekend you're taking a mortgage out like remember it's london yeah that's a good point sell my kidney right and they were expensive in blackpool as well like a fiver some shit oh fuck it man it could be like 19 quid that'll get you like a symbol i've seen people drink them like that's not yeah that was like yeah that's that was that was rough man and also like you know the um you know yeah i've seen people drink that as well oh bro that's fucking wrong yeah i've seen people drink all sorts of mad shit i think you get when you work in hospitality though i guess yeah i think that'll i think that'll do for today i'll do that's plenty thank you have you got any more halo halo related news uh nothing halo related oh oh but i do have one more thing that i want to say okay one take as always one take end of podcast yeah that was it right that was it for your intro no like no thanks thanks for listening though yeah thanks for listening to that people hopefully you are uh fully armed with all of the information that you need to make uh i wouldn't say just fully armed going to london like christ on me you know let me say right and wait a minute right let me start again okay let me get in the zone the outro outro zone and that is it people the end of team nade episode 25 at team they put on x 12 i almost said on spotify then but that's incorrect uh hopefully you've enjoyed listening to us ramble on about call of duty and halo esports and hopefully you now know what is going on what the latest news around the town is and if you are traveling to london hopefully stay safe we hope to see you there um but yeah man that's about it thanks for listening one take