I don't feel like there were a ton of outstanding moments in this match. On Q1 Arsenic did a lot of work from tank courtyard a few times. We won 3 strong rounds in a row and then Blaze won 2 pretty strongly themselves. One of those rounds Blaze went for a risky defensive push and killed 4 of us within 30 seconds and won the round https://clips.twitch.tv/PolishedPrettyLobsterMau5. On suburbia we had a nice defensive counter attack that shut down the Blaze offensive push https://clips.twitch.tv/WanderingAgitatedAxeTBTacoLeft. There were a few close rounds on Suburbia but Blaze was unable to take a round. We played very aggressively on Tanker and were able to take the whole map without losing a round. On the lower hold attack we were able to eliminate every member of Blaze in under a minute https://clips.twitch.tv/SleepyFurtiveCheddarNotLikeThis .

Blaze came into this match feeling a little weary from the long break and definitely struggled to keep the pace vs the World-Class offense/defense of Globochem. Rallying on map 1, to even up the score a bit felt like we may be able to perform better than expected in maps 2 and 3 but the inability to prepare for a new Season 8 Globo team impacted us in an unexpected way.

Overall, the boys played smart and our opponents can never be underestimated. We expect to see them again in the regular season real soon!