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Bro, I was watching Black Mirror, which is already, like, Black Mirror for anyone that doesn't know. It's not really, like, a thriller, but it's kind of like a psychological, like, sci-fi show.

And we were talking about ghosts and shit before we went up to go to bed. And all I saw, my blinds just did this. And they went right back up. I was like, whoa. You immediately hit the chat. I was like, whoa, Zen, did you just try to close the blinds? And his shit worked through the wall and opened my blinds.

Freaking out. Yo, I did run zillion cornhole twice yesterday. Ten gifted each. Yeah. You owe me 20 gifted. You're not getting that. But it's nice to be here now. Now that I'm here, I kind of do wish I came when I was supposed to. But I was really looking forward to fishing with Hector. And then Hector was like, I'm not coming anymore. So I was like, fuck. I really wanted to go fishing.

So that was my cop out.

I don't respect it.

That's fine.

Yeah, Mark got hurt in the pool.

And then he came downstairs and said he popped it back in, and he was all good.

After them beating us online, we didn't think it was going to happen, and then it happened.

I wouldn't let you drown.

It's like the movie scene.

He's going to be kicking you in your chest. He said if a gator pulled up on the lawn yesterday, he'd push me over and run away. This guy's a fucking asshole. He said he'd push me over and run inside.

But yeah, the city's good. No, it's beautiful here. I'm hyped to be here. I'm excited for, because we did this last year. We did the same type of thing. We did the Airbnb at Miami. How is everyone this rich?

You're in Cali, too, but you're in New York City. I'm like Oklahoma loaded.

Yeah. But what else we got going on? The major four DreamHack Dallas games have been announced. I think we're going to be there live at the venue.

A legend appears. He's up there with AJ and Big Justice.

Can we get five big booms for that chat? Yo, we got to meet those guys.

Yeah, I hope we come out and we win, man. I think playing Breach first, I think we have one of the easier round one matchups just based off all the other ones because Miami and Ultra both look great. Surge and FaZe both look great. Obviously, Thieves have looked good.

Got to get five big booms.

Yeah, but the event's going to be dope. It's the first time in a long time that we're going to have multiple esports under one roof. We got Halo. So I think the Halo Major is going on at the same time, right?

It's Halo, COD, CS, 100%.

Or certain sand.

But, yeah, it's going to be fire, man. We got multiple esports under one roof. I mean, it kind of sucks, though, because I like to watch the Halo majors and shit. We're probably not going to be able to watch it, like, at all. If it's a COD major, they're going to be running, like, side by side. So... Damn, they're charging $550 for Challengers Pass these days?

You think so?

Well, there was also like probably quadruple the teams showing up. Now they got a fucking... I thought it was $400.

But DreamHack's going to be fire, man. And again, we're in the home stretch of CDL. It doesn't feel like it, but we have this major. There's no break, so we fly back Monday. We have three days, and then matches start up again. Three weekends, same as this split, and then another major, and then that's the regular season. Isn't that crazy to think about?

And yeah, Beans, I mean, talking about roster changes, this wasn't a roster change, but Beans almost couldn't play at the event. I believe he's playing at it now.

Because he originally...

Whoa. So he's not playing again. Oh, my God. That sucks. So Toronto Ultra... I'm DMing him.

But, yeah, basically, for anyone that doesn't know what we're talking about, Beans was having visa issues. And, I mean, visa issues, you can't really get around that. You can't make money in the U.S. if you don't have a visa. And he apparently got stopped at the border in Toronto, I think. And... Checked his papers, and I think he was good because yesterday we were like, oh, he's playing again.

And now they were going to play with Mercules, who's an up-and-coming Challengers kid who's actually pretty good, I've heard. But I guess now he's not playing again, which would suck for the Ultra because I feel like they've been – I felt like this was the tournament where Ultra could have came in and potentially won the whole thing.

I mean, that always sucks.

Yeah.

Well, I guess we'll figure it out in due time. It seems like he's not playing right now, but.

Because it's like, what do you do? Yeah, it's a tough one for sure. What is this? PS5 is rolling out loudness EQ? Damn. What? I mean, I feel like that's good for them because, I mean, I'm running Sound EQ. I'm fucking retired. I'm running Sound EQ all the time. I don't give a shit.

Okay, well, that's good for PS5 players at least. I mean, even playing field at that point. You know what's crazy?

Was it even a thing? Like... When did sound EQ become a thing?

I definitely didn't know about it until later in the game.

They were going into their bios and shit.

Yeah.

See, I got a Switch, and I thought I was going to use it. I played Zelda, and I never used it again.

Because now on flights and shit, the only time I'd use it if I was on flights. And now when I'm on a flight, I watch a movie. And I was watching Onora yesterday on the flight. We were talking about it a little bit. It's like one of those, because she's a sex worker. But it's like this movie got nominated for all these awards and shit. And you're just sitting next to the guy next to you.

And she's just getting fucking clapped up. And I'm like, yo, do I got to pause this? And I just sat there fucking. Straight face. He looked over. I made eye contact with him. You should have went like this.

Surge phase is an absolute banger. Dude, the matches day one are just so good. I love majors, man. They're just so good.

Nah. Great movie.

I looked over to my left. The other guy to my left was watching it with his horny ass.

Yeah, he turned it on.

Of course, married man.

Yeah, our DoorDash is here. We got bagels. We got bagels. Some breakfast bagels.

We have a big day of watching today.

100%. And people are like, can you guys talk about the game? But sometimes it's like, dude, some of these online matches, they're just getting railed.

Everybody knows how to play the game. Everyone knows what's going on. We always break it down. We'll be breaking it down.

You just don't have bad... Because even Ravens could come out and play good against Thieves. There's not a single bad match, and there's also just great matches. We have Vancouver fucking FaZe. That's such a good match. We have Miami versus Ultra, and Miami's look great with Super. We play Boston, and Boston's look like... Boston's look solid.

We've looked kind of shaky, but... Who do you think wins the tournament?

Listen, you got to tip what those guys have done. 3P-ing already is so hard. It hasn't been done a lot. 4P-ing in the CDL era is very hard. It's hard to win in the CDL era. Like, there's teams. Like, you got Thieves. There's so much talent in the CDL. It's like, bro, it's hard.

And that's what O4 was talking about, though. He said, we're trying to work on our map pool because in the final, our map pool wasn't good enough to keep up with them in a best of seven. So he's like, we need to work on our map pool. Because in a best of five, Vancouver, FaZe, you're like, Vancouver could win this. But when it goes to a best of seven and there's more maps in the mix.

Now it gets a little bit more difficult.

If I was putting money on it.

That's all it takes, bro. Look at champs last year. We go down 2-0 to Thieves. It was a winner's two. We go down 2-0. We're like, okay, this is looking grim. They reverse sweep Thieves, and then they look like a different team from that point on at the final tournament. It's like one moment like that where you get fully tested, and it can just be a spark for a team.

And we talk about it all the time with Cod. Cod is such a fickle esport where it's like one moment like that could literally win you a tournament.

My dark horse?

But people are saying that's not even a dark horse because Miami's look good. But I still feel like a top three placing for Miami is like – I thought you meant to win.

I wonder what the turnout's going to be like at the event. Like, I wonder if it's going to be, like, popping. Because it's a smaller venue, I think. I wonder how it's going to look like. I hope it's hype.

I hope it's, like, hype inside. I hope there's energy.

I mean, it is tough to follow up our event because our event's always popping. Yeah, ours is the banger. Ours is always popping. We know that, Chad. Thank you. Optic events, they do a great job. We know those events. Shout out Corey Dunn, all the event team. They do a great job. Hopefully the event has some energy in there. Hopefully the players can feed into that.

I'm actually curious to see what the stage looks like because last event we had the players facing each other. I think that should be the standard moving forward. They should always be facing each other because the amount of pop-off shit talk moments was exponential comparative to any other major.

Neptune, that was the funniest clip of the weekend. You better never do that. Ever beans.

And hopefully, knock on wood, but hopefully there's not too many tech delays. Knock on wood, man. Yeah, knock on wood. We don't really have any wood here, but there's got to be wood somewhere on this couch. But I have a question for you because you're really into hockey. So we got to talk about this. He's really into hockey postseason. What is the best postseason sport?

Mine's NFL, biasly, just because that's the only sport that I actually sit there and watch.

Seeing that just pure passion.

I'm blanking right now like the impact each goal has is just that's why the stadium lights up like that I mean it's like soccer it's like there could be a 1-0 game and that's it but NBA you're like water fucking splat like you know I like when it comes down like 50 seconds one team's up 1-0 shitty fouls them he hits free throws he comes oh he hit a 3 what the fuck see I do agree with you though you could sit there not watch a single second of an NBA game until the last 6 minutes and that's like when it's crunch time

Like hockey, you sit there for the whole, it's 1-0 through two periods, and, you know, it's always you're on the edge of your seat.

Well, Vegas was one reverse sweep away from them being in winner's bracket and us being in loser's bracket. If they don't get reverse sweeped, if everything happened how it did, I'm pretty sure we're starting in losers.

Like a regular season game? See, I go to a live baseball game. I'm sitting there. I'm just enjoying the drinks and food. I'm just there for the ambiance. You know what I'm saying? And to hear the bat, to hear the wood, that ASMR, that's fire. But baseball regular season, hell no.

Motherfuckers are hungover out there. I don't give a shit. I'm like, I just want a 162.

I mean, that's like anything, though. It's like you have your one team that's like, this is my fucking team.

Our obligations definitely changed, too. Now we're... Exactly. We're...

Did you know Zinni and Mitch Marner are dogs?

It's always good to have something that you like to watch. I mean, regardless.

Yeah. If we were to lose.

See, I watched football during that era, and then I stopped watching football for like 12 years, and now I watch football like religiously.

Swing. Well, all I remember is Swing, Swing by the All-American Rejects when you're loading up MLB. Swing, swing, swing from a broken heart.

2K? No, MLB The Show was more recent. It was, like, just MLB, I'm pretty sure. I could have sworn there was, like, two different. I never played the show growing up. It was just, like, MLB. MLB. But, okay, so let's, let's, let's, best, best sport.

We have like a little dock on the end. There was like this iguana, like probably this big, like big bull. I'm like walking. I'm like, yo, if I press him, is he going to jump in the water? I'm like walking down the dock. He keeps running to the end. Just flew out into the water. Did you see the video? Nah. Oh, it's hilarious. I didn't see it. I'm like walking this full down.

Like, what the fuck is this? Sorry, this is fucking... Hold on, I'll find it. There it is. Don't worry.

What'd you say? Holy shit, he's in! What?

And the wind.

Holy shit, he's in.

You heard him go. Yeah, I wanted to pick him up, but he wouldn't let me pick him up. DM that to Riley so he can show. All right, bet. I'll DM it. But that's going to be the end of the podcast, guys. Thank you for watching. Major three starting up today. Make sure to join us for the watch party. We're fired up, man. It's going to be a good event.

I'm sending you this video, right?

Yo, did I actually? No. I saw 221 as the last one.

I think it starts map one, man. We got to come out hot because we lose that map one. Now they're up 1-0. We go into probably like, what, a Hossie search or... I don't know. What other maps have Breach been playing?

Hopefully we get a skyline hard point in there as well. I would love a nice little skyline map one.

So 222, I actually got it on the dot.

Okay, well, it's in the VOD. Welcome to the podcast live from Miami, ladies and gentlemen. It is major time here in the, what's the area code we're in? I have no idea. It's major time here. It's fucking beautiful out, though. We're recording this Thursday. The matches start up in...

I think it'd have to be, like, round two. That transformative win. Like, if we were to beat Breach, we'll be like, all right, we beat them.

Well, Shotzi play calls to, like, set up the ARs to look over.

I mean – Playing with Ant, that's, like, what he does. He's like, yo, I'm going to do this. You watch over me.

So, yeah, it's going to be a fire major, man. Hopefully the boys come out. They have a good tournament. After the last tournament, obviously, we didn't really have any reps with Bueno on the squad, so –

I mean, top four, that would be great.

Like Denny said, that widens the gap for points. It kind of takes the pressure off a little bit going into the last split. Last thing we want is to come out here and get like eighth.

And then we get ten points or whatever.

At least make Sunday. If we don't make Sunday, it would be tough.

Hopefully the boys get it done, man. It's going to be a fun tournament to watch. Obviously, major time. The stakes are just raised. We're all fucking dialed in. It's going to be great. Let's talk a little bit about where we're at. We are in Miami.

It was all the way to a game seven, just gritty.

Two and a half hours. And we're underway for the third major of the year.

Yeah, it was like it gets so close and then we pull away by like three, four kills at the end. The shit was so fire.

No, go ahead.

That shit's so cold.

They lost the CTF. We're just being tested.

But congrats to the Halo boys, man. It was good to see them finally get their win. They've been working hard at it. They've been getting second to Shopify over and over, and then they beat them two best of sevens. I mean, realistically, though, they should have 3-0'd them in winners round one as well. If that team day didn't happen...

Yeah, they probably 3-0ed. It went down to, like, what, 49-49 Slayer map, too?

They almost knocked us out of the tournament. Our... They might have got 7th, 8th. It was either 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th.

Yeah, they looked good. Those guys were playing good. They looked really good.

Yeah, reverse swept them. I was watching that on the couch like, holy shit, please don't lose. And then they got it done.

I went in, and I was like, the one thing is with... Because it's a Michelin star place, and I don't... That might be the first Michelin star place I've ever been to.

I think it's the first, but... So, like, I see Michelin star, and I'm like, okay, we're about to be eating, like, birds. They're about to be bringing gastronomy and fucking bubbles coming out the drinks and shit. Yeah, we're about to get a quail egg this big, and there's... I was like, I want to be full when I leave this. I want to be absurdly full. And I left that place. Stuffed to the brim.

I'm down for that. Let's get right down to business first.

That toast, if you made French toast out of that toast, it might be the best thing on this earth. Yeah, Chad, why are we saying Chad like we're on the watch party?

The boys were on me a little bit, though. I did change my flight, because I was really looking forward to coming and fishing. But I changed my flight, because I hadn't been able to hang out with Iz at all. Because we did the Halo watch party. I didn't get home until like 9, 30, 10.

So I changed the flight.

Okay, but... I mean, you know how it is.

But now I'm here.

We had a good night last night. We went.

We came back, watched some of the games that were on. We watched the Stars. We watched the Houston Rockets game.

Got the watch party. Got some good laughs.

Zinni, he is capping. He was literally the one that booked it. Exactly how much it is.

After we do the pod, we got breakfast on the way. Maybe eat some breakfast, hang out outside, catch some rays.