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ladies and gentlemen sorry wasn't it are we starting yes ladies and gentlemen welcome to episode riley's choking what's the episode number let me guess 222 my guess is 278 minus you are way off 181 281 you're way off too there's no way we've done that many

Yeah.

What happened was... You couldn't find a remote to close your blinds. So I was like, okay, I'll come close them with my remote. So my blinds were already shut because I was about to go to bed. Then I went in there and I closed his blinds. And I went back into my room and my blinds were open. And I was like, wait. So when I closed his, mine opened. And when I closed mine, his opened.

So we were texting back and forth. I was like, I had to close it a bit. We essentially got it to a point where, like, We each have an 80% shot. Yeah. And that's the best we're going to get it. But it's good enough. It was like a game of Tetris with the remote. I was like, good? He's like, good. Perfect.

I'm not arguing with that.

We would fall to Vegas. We'd fall down to AG. That's scary.

He was limping into dinner slowly.

I wouldn't let you drown. I promise.

Everyone was cooking our shit. But I see our match versus FaZe, and if that round 11 goes differently, I don't think we looked bad against FaZe. No, not at all. I think you look at that FaZe series and you take away certain highlights, and you try and just... Run with that. We could have done this. We were right there with them. Let's go take care of Breach.

Depends how big it was.

I'd sprint up to the balcony, though. I'd sprint up and take it from there.

If they wanted you, they're quick. You're supposed to run diagonal, right? Yeah, yeah. Oh, I'd be Saquon. You think so? Oh, I'm cutting him up. Oh, you'd get eaten. I'm not dying that way.

What the Ferrari rolls? I'm just like, how did you spawn and what did you do? How many businesses have been sold in this world? Crypto. Because everybody here is rich. I'm not sure if everybody's rich or if... Everyone's trying to look rich. Like, I don't even... Everyone here is rich. Yeah. Like, loaded. Yeah, yeah. Like, a different level.

I'm like Utah loaded.

You're Utah loaded? Utah loaded. Miami broke. And then you're a Cali, too. Oh, yeah.

No, I'm in New York City. Cali, New York City, too. Dallas, got a five. You get me to Utah, I'm like an eight.

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Yeah. What is he, a Pokemon?

Yeah. Imagine they came out of the watch party with a chicken bake. Dude, but I would lose my mind if they started saying that shit in my face. Like, boom! I'd be like, dude, what the fuck?

That would be hilarious.

Halo, Halo, CS. That's like an FPS fan's dream.

That's it. I think CS is like the biggest tournament there. It's an IEM. Yeah, what? Wait, the GeoGuessr Major is there? Oh my gosh, never mind.

Have you ever seen that?

They'll see sand and be like, yep. No, but have you ever watched, they have, like, an analyst desk, and I'm like, what the fuck are you analyzing? They're just like, yeah.

So-and-so just knew it was Malaysia.

That's, like, a different level. Like, to know the world to that extent where you can see brush or, like, a certain type of tree.

And be like, oh, well, that tree only grows in this country, in this area. It's like, dude.

$250? No, ours was like $400, I think. Yeah, it was like probably $400.

It's kind of sad.

Ravens have been all over the place. Well, Ravens, I can't even tell because they have one match with Dylan Rex. They get 3-0 destroyed. They got slammed. And now they're playing Thieves first round. So I kind of feel bad for the guy because this guy can't even try and get any type of momentum or confidence. He's just getting railed by scrap every fight.

100%.

Go down. That's a pinned tweet.

No, he's playing.

I'm going to see if I can get live intelligence.

I feel bad for Beans.

You play and you practice to not be able to go show your – Well, I just don't know what – like whose fault this is. Because you know you're coming to the U.S., so I hope that the visa was already figured out.

If you do have a normal visa and there should be no issues, you should be able to get in fine.

So I think someone somewhere screwed up. Because if he has a valid visa, they would let him in. That's just the way it works. Yeah. They can't just – if you have a P1 visa to go compete, they can't just say, yo, you can't go. We're just saying no to you.

So something had to have been wrong. Hopefully we see him playing. If not, I think Mercury has one of the best chances to make a name for himself. Get slotted into the ultra when they look this good? Yeah, it's impressive. I mean, it's a potentially career-changing opportunity. So hopefully if he does play, he runs with it and he shows out.

What if they went out there and won? What do you do?

Yeah, that's a. Bro, winning is different.

If it's a top four, I agree with you. Beans is in.

Winning is hard. It's hard, bro. Winning. Can't do that. I get what you're saying, and I feel the sentiment, but winning?

There's no better time for a honeymoon phase than years over.

Not really. Listen, I don't think it's going to happen, but I've always thought about that scenario where if a player can't play for some reason and the team performs better, what does the team do?

Is that when we were competing, I never once for a match or a scrim used sound EQ. On my grandfather's grave. Never once have I used it. I only used it when I started playing S&D Childs on Mule Team 6.

Vanguard, right? PC. Whenever we moved over to PC. There were some players using it when no one else knew.

Exactly. And there were some players that were definitely... Think about that. There were some people using sound EQ... They were spartan the dog.

When we didn't... Well, no. I mean, it was just easy to do. No one was looking for it.

There were some people using it, and we just weren't. That's fucked up, man. I know. You know Porter had that. He's like, oh, throw this on the south side.

That's free intelligence. Okay. I saw stuff with the new Nintendo Switch came out, I think, and I saw everyone tweeting about... I don't know who it was, Target or one of the, I guess they ordered it and they never got a confirmation. I saw it trending, I think, last night.

I think the new Switch dropped, and I think there were issues with fulfilling orders, and everyone was on Twitter talking like, oh, screw this place, screw this place.

Really?

The whole first class cabin was watching it. I put them all on while I was in the last seat. Entire first class bricked up. Bar you. Of course. Married man, of course.

Our DoorDash is here, by the way. I fucking love to hear that.

Yeah, I genuinely can't wait. Majors are my favorite. I was saying, like, sometimes, just to keep it a buck, it's easy to zone out sometimes during the online matches when two subpar teams are playing. We have a sports game on the TV to the left. I'm just...

Man, you want to talk about Vault P4 again, chat? Between these two teams? Because we can. These guys are just getting railed. There's going to be a guy in time soaking. There's one guy in the back. The opposing team is going to try to break through statue and hit the back. Hey, at this point, we've done a good job on the watch party.

Miami ultra surge phase. Then you look at the loser's bracket, and it's a bunch of wild cards. You have Falcons, who very well could have got a winner's bracket spot. They're pretty gross at hard point. Their comms are hype. Those guys are all playing for their longevity. Every single player on Falcons, they all know, listen, we're not going to make champs.

Extra analysis. We'll be locked in. Majors are so fun to lock in for because every match, like the winners, we have four bangers in winners bracket today. That's amazing. There's not a single bad match today.

Right now? If you were to say right now who wins, who would you say?

I hate to say it.

I'm going phase 4P, too. I'm saying phase 4P, too. I'd say Thieves. If they 4P, dude. Until they prove me wrong, I can't, like.

Well, because, okay, think about how good Serge is. FaZe mopped the floor with them in the grand final. The best of five was close, but the best of seven, they stomped it.

That's FaZe's specialty.

They got that longevity. The thing with FaZe, like look at Thieves. If you play Thieves, you know the odds you beat them in control are slim to none. They're just that good of a control team. FaZe is scary because it's like they don't give you any game mode to where you go in like, yo, FaZe is bad at this map. It's like, no, they're not.

Their map pool and their game mode, how good they are at each game mode is consistent. And that's what makes them scary.

Then they steal the hard point. Now it's 2-2. You just don't see very often like three of them get shit on at the same time. It's like one guy sometimes, and then it's draws, for example, in that one series. He goes like 10 and 30 and then drops the highest KD in the series. Yeah, that's nuts. It's like they were so consistent across the board. So if I had to put money on it.

I'm going phase 4, Pete. I would say phase 1.

I'm hoping to God that our team just catches some insane momentum and just runs through this tournament.

We need to secure a spot as professionals going forward, and that's what they're playing for. And honestly, I've been seeing it. I think all four are playing well, stepping up. I fucking love Exnid. Yeah, I'm a big Exnid fan. I love how happy he is when he gets map wins or series wins. And it's just like a... It's a beautiful sight to see when he's playing well.

Who's your dark horse that you think could place top three? Miami. I'm Boston or Miami.

To win is going to be tough. I think Super has a lot to prove this weekend. I think he's been playing great online. I want to see what he's got on his first pro event. So I'm excited to watch Miami play this weekend.

I was pleasantly surprised with how many players talked shit that I wasn't expecting to. I was like, oh, I think Scrap will. I think Beans will. But like Neptune, for example, and other like just people that you wouldn't expect getting up and talking shit just on that natural adrenaline. Like it's just it's a fun watch. I agree with you.

I think every postseason sport's amazing. I think hockey, NHL, postseason, amazing. MLB, way better playoffs. NFL, one and done.

Best postseason's tough. I think live in stadium, it's hockey. It's not even close.

Hockey is the best live sport in my opinion. When you're in there, I think the energy is crazy. The Dallas Stars game that we've gone to.

In NBA, you have a lot of six shots, a lot of threes. Whatever, guys hitting clutch free throws. It's like constant. We were talking about that yesterday. The thing with NHL is you don't get – it's not like the score is 14-3 or like 14-12. It's always like 1-1. It's always 1-1, OT, like sudden death. I love the –

Getting a 1v3. He's doing his thing.

I can't argue the facts. Yeah, I think it's hard to discuss best postseason. My favorite live sport is hockey. I love all postseason sports. Like when I watch the Yankees play in the postseason, I'm locked in. When I watch playoff hockey, playoff NFL. Now coming up, number two. Now batting for the Yankees, number two, Derek Gita.

I would say my reasons change. There's 160 games. Yeah, I know, but it's nice to watch a game.

Yeah, what? If I'm going to a regular season Yankee game, this, okay, so let's talk about this because I'm curious how everyone else feels. And you might call me a fake fan. Wait, did the Stars win last night, by the way? Yeah, overtime. It was sick. Fuck yeah. They survived the power play? I struggle – yeah, for four minutes. I was insane.

I struggle to – I'm still – I will always be a lifelong Yankee fan. But there's something about watching that original team all retire that makes it very difficult for me to care like I did before now. Yeah, me too. Of course. I'm not sure if I got older and I got different obligations, but, like, not seeing Bernie and Mo and A-Rod, Jeter, Posada, all of them. I met Posada, obviously, and then –

What I'm saying is, I could go to a regular season game for that team, and once again, this could be because I was a kid, and now it's just different. I don't like... I was like, that was my team that gave me comfort and stuff. I could go to a regular season Yankee game with that team any day of the week. Now, if I go to a regular season Yankee game, it's because I want to bring my dad.

I think every team is a wild card besides Gentlemates. I think Rocker can turn up at any given time. Falcons and then Cloud9 too. I agree. But we would fall to Vegas 100%.

I'm barely in the tri-state. I want to go there, enjoy it with him, enjoy the vibe.

I get what you're saying. Because I think I like NHL a lot more now than I did when I was a kid. Because when I was a kid, I was so focused on the Yankees and the Giants. Now I'm like, okay, I want to watch the Leafs play tonight.

I didn't say that. I'm just saying... I'm just giving it a hard time. Back then, I liked watching Lundqvist and stuff. But now... Like this, and Ovechkin's still playing and all that, but like this generation of hockey is what I'm really into compared to when I was a kid, if that makes sense.

Even like, oh, man. Even like the OG Giants, man. Plaxico Burris, Tiki Barber, Eli Manning, Jeremy Shockey. I had every jersey. That's all I'm wearing to school are the Giants jerseys.

Well, back then, the games were so good, too. The Madden games back then on, like, PS2. Oh, yeah. Oh, man.

Let's just hope we don't fall, man. I think we need to feel the wind, take care of Breach. Breach this season. Feel the wind or feel the wind? Feel the wind.

Well, because what? You had Madden. You had MLB The Show. Oh, my God. But you also had a different MLB game. Am I tripping?

Total season, if I had to pick one?

NFL, for me. Just say hockey, bro. I mean, because NFL, I'm like 50-50 on NHL and hockey right now. Or NFL and hockey. Okay, so what is it? Ah, man, I would say, I would say NFL. I would say NFL. NBA? NBA?

A baby gator? Wait, really?

I'm gonna... Hopefully Riley can throw this in. Actually, he's probably not gonna be able to. I'm like, is he about to jump? He's just smirking over there looking at this monitor.

Wait.

Holy shit, he's in. Wait, Seth. Seth, DM that to Riley so he can show the part. That's great. I wanted to pick him up.

We need to catch that wind. We need to catch the wind. Breach so far this year have been way better online than they have been on LAN, and I'm hoping that kind of repeats today. My worry is, and I was talking to Riley about this, like Breach is pretty solid online. Their comms are great. They haven't been able to translate that to LAN. But how long is that going to last?

I'm excited, man.

Here in Miami.

I mean, right now, when this gets uploaded, we're going to be live. So come hang out. All of us are live on YouTube. You know where to find us. We look forward to talking to you guys. It's going to be an awesome weekend. Let's go Optic. Let's hope that they can make a run. Once again, I think top four would be a tournament that I think is solid. We're all hoping for a win. So let's hope.

And thank you guys for watching. Of course, Chad. Love y'all, Chad. Peace out.

Is this a team that's just going to be bad on LAN every single time they travel? I personally don't think so. I think they'll find it. I think just as you get more reps. Just not against us. They have a young team, Purge. Exactly. So let's hope. I think our searches need to be good versus Breach today.

We're at the point in the game where you have to rotate. That's what I'm worried about our hard point. When we rotate, we play great. When we don't rotate, I don't care. At this point, every team is good enough to hold hills. So if you don't rotate, a team like Breach will punish you. A team like Rocker will punish you.

It's not like you can just walk through on these teams at this point in the game. Everyone knows what they're doing. Everybody knows where you're going. You know, you're going to hit well to break P2 first, then you're going to face slam front. It's readable now. So that's why we have to be on top of rotations. And I think if we're on top of rotations, our hard points should be fine.

221 was the last one.

Like Mark said, the only thing I'm really worried about here is search and destroy.

Oh, Breach loves it. But we've been playing it as well, so maybe we get it. I kind of... I do like playing Skyline. I'm worried about a first map Skyline against Breach. Unbiased opinion, what do you think we place?

Okay, if I'm being honest and I... I would love to say top four, but I would say top six is what I'm thinking. I honestly think right now there are four clear better teams than us, that being FaZe, Surge, Thieves, Ultra, and I have Miami above us right now as well. So I would put us in like sixth, seventh area. But see, the thing is we beat Breach. We're already top six. Exactly. Oh.

No, he didn't, did he? Did you? Yeah.

We win that one series against Breach, we're guaranteed top six. Dude, if you want to be completely honest, if we beat Breach, I think FaZe or Surge is going to be a tough battle for us. Either one's tough. I think it's going to be FaZe. I struggle to see FaZe losing first round against Surge, but those guys always give us great series. But... You know me.

I've always preached it takes one match, it takes one map, it takes one series, and hopefully that could be the series against Breach where we get a win, and it just transforms the team into a different beast than we've seen. Because right now... See, I don't think it's the Breach series, though.

Yeah, but if we beat Breach and just get that... We get the day break. We play on Saturday. I just think that could catapult. us a little bit forward compared to where we are right now. We just need to feel that win on land, hear the crowd, and then get this roster going the way hopefully this roster can go.

Bro, we have a search roster, though. Like, that's where we have to be great because Caesar's a solid search player. That's where we have to, like, we need that one game mode search to be consistent win 9 out of 10 times, 8 out of 10 times. I mean, 9 out of 10.

Hopefully they come out and... I think top four would be great. Top four is like a good... I think top four is like a solid tournament. And then we... Because we need CDL points. I mean, I think we're getting safer and safer with the way Cloud9 and Rocker have been playing. Especially them both starting in losers bracket. Of course, you want to secure a better seed for champs.

A top four here, I think is a... It's not a win. We all prefer a win. Don't get me wrong. But I think top four, given how we look right now, I think other teams have us, once again, phase thieves.

Let's go back online and let's have a good stage four change. Not happy, but like... More optimistic.

Based on recent events.

Yeah.

I don't want us to peak now. I don't want us to peak now. I want us to peak at the end of stage four, and then you have a great tournament stage four, and you'll roll right into champs. Different teams peak at different times throughout the year. I'd much rather it happen next stage than now.

If right now we place top four or top six, and everyone's like, this team blows, blah, blah, blah, and then we go out there and place top two at... The next major, it's worth it. Because all that matters is the tournament before champs and at champs. Because there's no matches in between stage four major and champs. Nope. So you go out there, you have a great major, you're riding crazy momentum.

Yeah, it's a long time, but... I think top four for this current iteration, the way they look right now, would be a solid weekend, to be honest. I agree with you. I think top four would be, like, that'd be great. Yeah.

Yeah, I want us playing on Sunday.

Real quick, though. Congratulations to the Halo team. Oh, yeah. We haven't talked about it on the podcast yet. We watched that after the watch party on Sunday. And it was good to see Matt get that win. It was good to see the team get that win. And it was so gritty, too.

Like two hours?

Well earned. To win two best of sevens events Shopify Rebellion with how good they are. Yeah, they've had our number, too. And then that final slayer, I mean, that was an awesome watch.

I think the way it happened, too, definitely makes you more emotional. Like, to be tested and go to that final map in the final best of seven. What did Legend say? He said, we're just being tested. Yeah, that is cold.

That is the coldest shit I've ever heard.

I'm excited, man. It's going to be a great time. I'm curious to see how our tournament goes. I think we just immediately talk about that, talk about Optic's first-round matchup, and then we kind of go into dinner last night, how the city's been so far.

100%.

Because right now, no one's really – I know Nemesis tested us, and those guys came out, and we're playing great. But –

They probably 3-0ed. And it was a loser's bracket round one match or loser's run, which is just always insane to see. Well, they got the revenge on Nemesis, who beat them in pool play. Shout-out to them, though, because Nemesis came out, and they were playing unbelievable. Yeah, they looked good, too. Nemesis? Yeah. They got six.

Like, it makes me worry. Okay, look at that bracket, right? Let's say Nemesis played Space Station instead of us. I think we probably would have met Nemesis and Loser Semis with the way they were playing.

Shouts out Halo, man. Congratulations to the boys.

As you were saying before, I cut you off about Halo. Yes, we are in Miami or Miami area. We had a good dinner last night in Miami. Went to Coat or Cote. Oh, my gosh. I think it's Coat. We missed Hex, though, man. This is one of Hex's favorite spots, and I called him. Me and Mark were lounging by the pool before you got here yesterday, and I FaceTimed Hector. I was like, what do we need to get?

He said, the steak and eggs we have to get. They have this butcher feast, which is like... Oh, that was a great drink, by the way. Basically, you just get that, and they bring you out a bunch of meats. The drink was good. It was called The Heat. Very, very good meat.

Yeah, same.

Once again, we play today, and I think our matchup is going to set the tone for the rest of the weekend. I'm a little worried. I can't lie. When I listen to Breach's comms compared to ours, I think they have better comms through and through just consistently. We need to show up today in order to make this run. I think if we fall to Breach here in the winner's bracket and go down to losers.

Yeah, he said Chad. If you guys want to splurge a little bit and you're in the Miami area, I definitely recommend this place. Shout out to Hector for the rec. And I told him I'll come back here whenever he wants to go here. They have one in New York City, but it's so hard to get into, I think.

It's such a good cop-out to where if I argue with you, I'm an asshole, bro. I'm glad you got extra time with your wife. I hope it was worth missing the first day in Miami with the boys.

At our $12,000 Airbnb.

You can't argue that. Exactly. It's a cheat code. There's no point in discussing it.

I'm just a scumbag if I start arguing with you about it.

We got dinner.

Had some good laughs.

Last night was hilarious. And also, I have no idea if the Airbnb is actually $12,000. That's above my pay grade.

Zitty was on Airbnb patrol. But no, it's like, I love where we're at because it's like quiet, private. We got a nice pool.

I don't know if they'll find this funny because, like, they weren't there. But I have a remote in my room that closes the blinds. But when I close my blinds, it opens his blinds. So, last night, and we didn't know this until, like, a little bit into it. So, you were watching Black Mirror.