All language subtitles for PLAYERS 2022.S01E04.HDR.2160P.WEB.H265-KOGI

♪ ♪

[cheering, applause]

RIVINGTON:
Welcome to what I consider

the most exciting series:
the relegation match.

Fugitive Gaming is fighting
to become an LCS team,

and Gravity are fighting
for their lives.

The tension could not be higher.

[hip-hop music playing]

PHREAK:
So, most people don't care

about a Challenger Series team,
'cause who cares, right?

They're probably not
gonna make it anyway.

But for Fugitive,
they actually popped off.

[cheering, applause]

JATT: And what's kind of
shocking to me is Gravity,

the LCS team,
I think, has fewer fans

than Fugitive Gaming,
the Challenger Series team.

CREAMCHEESE:
Until that match, I mean,

we were huge on the Internet,
but to actually see

your fans in person,
there's nothing like that.

CROWD [chanting]:
Fugitive! Fugitive!

CREAMCHEESE: After that,
I couldn't imagine going back

and playing alone
in the kitchen.

All right, yeah. Who else
wants their face signed?

PHREAK: If you're playing
for promotion into the LCS,

it is almost certainly

the most pressure
you've ever had in your life.

And you get one best of five.

You get, you get three hours to
prove that you're good enough.

-[shouts]
-A million times.

KYLE:
You're thinking,

if we win this,

everything we've worked
so hard for becomes a reality.

[cheering, applause]

[chanting]:
Fugitive! Fugitive!

Fugitive, baby. Come on.

KYLE:
Ah, the chairs.

Perfect. The desk height
is perfect.

Since then,
I've played on bigger stages

and I've played it in front
of bigger crowds,

but that was special.

And it will always be special.

JATT: And we're underway,
Fugitive versus Gravity,

fighting for a future
in the LCS.

KYLE: It was a different level
of competition.

I mean, their mechanics
were sharper,

their comms were better.

JATT:
And that's a two-for-one

in the TP gank.

Gravity jumps out
to an early lead.

RIVINGTON: Ooh, that's
a tough start for Fugitive.

Playing in the LCS
was always the dream,

and we were on top
of the world that morning.

KYLE: Yeah, they got it.
It's okay. It's one game.

CREAMCHEESE: But actually
playing on that stage,

it was intimidating.

RIVINGTON: And with
an outstanding performance

like we expected,

Gravity jumped
to a 1-0 lead in the series.

JATT: And I think
a little of that is from their

LCS experience. Gravity just
looked calm, cool and collected,

and Fugitive Gaming
looked a little shaken.

They're gonna have
to calm their nerves

if they want a chance
in this series.

FORESITE:
It was horrible, uh,

not only for the team
but-but myself. [chuckles]

I-If anyone thinks
that I'm the greatest player

of all time in NA,
they should not watch that VOD.

FORESITE: After that game one,
we go back into the team room.

We kind of all want
to do our own thing,

but Braxx gets us in the huddle.

I could tell there were
a lot of nerves in the room.

And, you know, our-our coach
wasn't saying anything.

And Braxton, out of nowhere,
just, like... starts asking

the stupidest fucking questions
I can think of.

And I said, uh, "Tell me, how
many turrets were on that map?"

And I'm like,
"Um, can you shut the fuck up?"

[chuckles]: Like,
I'm trying to focus, you know?

And I say, uh,
"I'm not gonna shut up

until you tell me how
many turrets were on that map."

Cream's getting really annoyed,
so I just say "22."

So I keep going,
I say, "All right, well,

how many inhibitors were there?"

PuttPutt is like,
"There are six inhibitors."

And he keeps going.

"How many Nexus are there?"
Someone says, "Two."

And all of a sudden...

you know, I just see
this light come into his eyes.

So I said, "I think you'll find

"that there's
the same number of turrets,

"the same number of inhibitors,

"the same number
of Nexuses on that map

"than in every game
we've ever played.

"Doesn't matter
if we are in my kitchen,

"doesn't matter
if we're on the LCS stage.

"What matters

is what's in this room."

At first I just thought
he was being a fucking idiot,

and then I realized I was
witnessing the birth of a coach.

So the speech was
from the movie Hoosiers.

But I changed it to be about
League of Legends stuff.

JATT: Fugitive look like
a completely different team

here in game two,
and they are dominating Gravity.

Creamcheese, baby.

-That's it! Fuck yeah!
-Nice.

RIVINGTON: Foresite absolutely
carried that game.

Foresite played great.
Creamcheese, too.

JATT:
They really bounced back

in this game, so we're gonna
have a great series ahead of us.

Fuck yeah.

JATT: Guru's coming in for the
gank with a flashy ultimate,

knocks back to Kassadin, and
there is no way he escapes this.

RIVINGTON: Delivering
a final ace for Fugitive Gaming

is going to put them ahead
in the series 2-1.

[cheering]

Only one game away
from becoming an LCS team.

-Almost there, almost there.
-Yeah, okay, go, go, go. Yes.

JATT: At this point, I don't
think Gravity can stop the push.

Riv, this could be the game.

RIVINGTON:
They can taste it.

Fugitive are ready
to lock in their future.

[exhales sharply]

KYLE:
Day my kid was born,

day I married April...

...winning the relegation.

-Best three days of my life.
-RIVINGTON: Turrets falling

for Gravity, and they can't do
anything to save the base.

Fugitive are gonna take
the Nexus and a spot in the LCS.

JATT: What a journey
for this Fugitive team.

What started
as five guys and a dream

just became a reality.

-We fucking did it!
-Oh, my God.

-Fugitive, baby!
-[whooping]

-Yeah!
-Let's go!

Let's go! Let's go!

When we started,
nobody thought we could do it.

I don't even know

[chuckles]:
if we thought we could do it.

But proving the world wrong,
proving my parents wrong,

that was the best part.

I'm a professional gamer.

[chanting]:
Fugitive! Fugitive!

Fugitive! Fugitive!

APRIL:
That moment changed everything.

Some of that change was good,
was amazing.

Dude, if you were not a pro,
you'd be tased...

-I know.
-...if you were back here.

GURU:
Pro players only, baby.

And some of that change...

...was not as good.

I'm here with this fucking
legend right here.

-Oh, come on, now. Come on.
-This kid...

♪ ♪

ANNOUNCER: Fugitive is gonna
take the Nexus!

It's all over.

We'll probably win
seven championships.

MAN:
A two-year, $3 million contract?

WOMAN:
He's gonna be the youngest

pro player in North America.

MAN 3:
Creamcheese is a choke artist.

CREAMCHEESE:
This would've been the perfect

setup to wombo combo.

MAN 3:
Is it time for Fugitive

to move on from Creamcheese?

MAN 4: Something
is brutally wrong in this team.

MAN 5: This season will make

or break the Fugitive franchise.

♪ ♪

CREAMCHEESE:
You guys ready for this?

[all screaming]

You like that?

-Is that sick or what?
-KYLE: It's so good.

-It's a beautiful thing he did.
-FORESITE: This is beautiful.

-APRIL: I know.
-He did something

-really beautiful...
-[all screaming]

What the fuck, dude?

It's gonna get infected.

I'm gonna get gangrene.

JATT:
Going pro is the dream,

but dreams are expensive.

Overhead, salaries,
compliances, I...

You know, we weren't a
kitchen-table operation anymore.

But luckily, April had a plan.

APRIL:
I lined up investors

and sponsors for funding.
We could sell equity

in the team but keep
the controlling stake.

That way Fugitive
would still be ours.

On the other hand,

we were getting offers
for the whole team.

So the question was,

would we rather sell the team
and take a guaranteed payday now

or take a chance on making
much more money in the long run?

To me, it was clear
it wasn't time to sell.

KYLE: I was thinking about
building the team

the way we want,

which is why I liked
April's strategy.

And then a big offer comes in
at a whole nother level.

JATT: In 2015, everything
was changing,

but nothing was as exciting

as massive NBA
and NFL ownership groups

showing interest
in esports teams.

DAN PATRICK:
So this is interesting.

The Sacramento Kings
ownership group

is looking to expand
into esports.

GABRIELLA: Suddenly this
big-time guy with NBA money

is interested in Fugitive?

I guess if you can't win
in the real world,

you might as well try
to win in a virtual one.

Imagine if the NBA

had real-time data
of every pickup game

of basketball
across the country.

That's-that's the difference
here, in esports.

APRIL:
He thought we'd make him money,

and he was gonna do

everything he could
to acquire Fugitive.

CREAMCHEESE:
The $1.5 million purchase price

is just the beginning.

He was telling us about what
our futures could look like.

Like, the celebrities
we could meet.

What kind of doors
he could open for us.

Talking about
the player salaries,

the things that
we would get, the bonuses.

"You guys can have
whatever you want."

And I was like,
"Let's test this guy."

I-I want a chalupa--
I don't just want a chalupa

from Taco Bell down the street.

I want a chalupa
from Taco Bell Cantina.

And the closest one
is in Las Vegas.

So I'm like, "This guy,
if he really wants to show me,

"he's gonna have
to pull out his phone,

pay some Postmates guy
to drive from Las Vegas."

Nathan looks me in the eyes,
he says, "Come with me."

NATHAN: This is how you guys
should be getting around.

-Holy shit, bro.
-This is it.

-Enjoy. Step in, step in.
-Oh, my God.

CREAMCHEESE:
He drives us to a fucking hangar

and puts us on a private jet
to Las Vegas.

GURU: Oh, my God,
I can't believe we're here!

FORESITE:
If you've been eating Taco Bell

your whole life, thinking,

"This is as good as it gets,"

you've obviously never been

-to a Taco Bell Cantina.
-CREAMCHEESE: Guys, is this--

This is beautiful right?
Like, this is art.

It is a non-negligible step up
from regular Taco Bell.

PAUL: Th-There's alcoholic
slush things, there's a DJ.

There's cool lights, it's very
clean, the food is really good.

There are often bachelor

and bachelorette parties
at the same time.

FRUGGER: Taco Bell Cantina is
like Taco Bell after dark.

Like, it's-it's not,
like, a strip club

or anything, right,
but it's... it's close.

APRIL:
As soon as we got back

from Vegas,
he wanted to show them

the new living arrangements.

-This is it.
-[excited chatter]

CREAMCHEESE:
I could get used to this.

He'd put us in this house
that had the resources

that we needed to level up.

FORESITE:
Scrim rooms, war room,

coach's office,
our own bathrooms?

APRIL: On top of the perks,
Nathan was offering

six-figure salaries
for the players and me.

CREAMCHEESE:
It, like, looks-- it looks--

the sky looks nicer here.

I remember, at the time,

April and Braxton were wary.

And I think Guru
was especially wary.

Looking back,
that was the beginning

of the end with Guru, you know?

I haven't spoken to him
in two, three years,

and I think
that's the main reason why.

We are worth so much more.

Why would you take
the first offer, is my point.

And-and Cream
and fucking, uh, Foresite,

they're just ready to take,
they're ready to sell now.

APRIL:
I rarely agree with Guru,

but I was looking at Nathan
rolling out the red carpet

and I realized
we could have been worth...

12, 15, 20 times that
in a few years.

We didn't know
what the ceiling could be.

Money aside, this was our team.

We built it from nothing,

and-and Nathan just didn't
have anything to do with that.

CREAMCHEESE: Kyle and April and
Guru, they weren't as impressed

by the glitz and the glam.

April doesn't even like
Mexican food that much.

PuttPutt to a lesser degree, but
Foresite really wanted the cash.

And I wanted to go
where Foresite was.

FORESITE:
I wanted to win NA.

I wanted to win Worlds.

And when Nathan's
offer came through,

if we didn't take it,
I felt like it meant

that we didn't want to win.

It was clear he was saying,

"If we don't sell,
I'm gonna leave."

And I wasn't
gonna let that happen.

I-I-- We were the Axe Bros.

A-And I didn't really see

the downside either.

The team was pretty split.

And they did,

in retrospect,
the most ridiculous thing

to decide whether to run
the team on their own

or take the payout
from Nathan Resnick,

and they played

a game of Mundo Dodgeball.

And they recorded it
and they posted it to YouTube.

GURU: It's a tie vote to decide
whether we completely bitch out,

-sell the team, or we man up.
-I haven't watched this video

in, like, three years.

It's all gonna come down
to one game

of Mundo Dodgeball.

-We're bitching out.
-Foresite versus Braxton.

Let's go.

Mundo Dodgeball is simple.

Two Mundos enter the Baron pit,

no items, one ability,
you dodge or you die.

I mean, if you want
to decide, like,

who's paying for the pizza,
you play Mundo Dodgeball.

You don't play Mundo Dodgeball

to decide the future
of your franchise.

Hot sauce shots
for the players.

CREAMCHEESE: It's over.

APRIL:
Patrón for the peanut gallery.

Braxton's got this baby.
Let's go.

GABRIELLA:
To me, that video is just

the perfect metaphor
for where esports went,

because nowadays

it's very normal,
this franchising,

big, booming lights,
all of this investment,

and this is the moment
where it started.

-Axe Bros, baby.
-GABRIELLA: I don't think

we're ever gonna see
anything like that ever again.

This is a million-dollar game
right here.

-This is a million-dollar game.
-You win this,

you get a million dollars.

Based on the valuation
of the team now,

it turned out to be a lot more

than a million-dollar game
of Mundo Dodgeball.

-Go.
-Let's fucking go, baby.

GURU: Come on, come on, come on,
you got this, baby.

-Ah!
-Oh! Out the gate.

-All right, all right...
-Out the gate.

Suck our nuts, bro.

KYLE: I'm here to lull you
into a false sense of security.

[sighs]
Oh, my God.

[indistinct chatter]

Fuck yeah! Okay, you're done.

Fill me up.
Let me do another one.

Let me do another shot
of Patrón.

-APRIL: Kyle?
-GURU: Come on, man.

[shouting over video]

-That's my boy. That's my boy.
-APRIL: That's my baby.

Stop. Mwah, mwah, mwah, mwah.

FORESITE: He did have a bit
of momentum near the middle,

but I just absolutely
smashed him near the end.

Okay, that's basically
the end, dude.

And the rest is history.

[overlapping chatter]

GURU:
Fight for it. Fight for it.

-Fuck! Fuck!
-Yes! Yes!

-Thank you, fucking God!
-We're fucking millionaires.

You fucking god, we are rich.

FORESITE: We are fucking
millionaires, dude!

-PUTTPUTT: Oh, my God, oh...
-GURU: We're all

pooling the money,
so no one's a millionaire.

CREAMCHEESE:
It makes me sick.

We're millionaires now. I don't
know what you're sad about.

It fundamentally
wasn't our team anymore.

It was Nathan Resnick's team.

-We are not millionaires.
-No.

We're splitting the money.

You know
how pooling money works?

Do you even know
about taxes, dude?

I'm just being realistic
about...

[clatters softly]

Do you have a question?

♪ ♪

CREAMCHEESE:
Come on. Nightfall.

I'm coming, coming.

-What's going on?
-Take a seat.

This morning, Nathan Resnick,

the former president
of operations

for the Sacramento Kings,
was fired

by the Liberty Green Group.

CREAMCHEESE:
Fuck you, Nathan! Fuck you, bro!

KYLE: Cream, let's-let's
not celebrate yet.

Uh, we don't know
exactly what's going on.

Ownership does seem to be
focused more on the Kings.

-But we know Nathan's gone.
-Nathan is gone,

but we don't know
what that means for us.

It probably means
they'll sell us.

I love this frame.
Can we get this--

Do you think there's a way
we could get a poster of this?

Holy shit.

My nipples are bleached white
after this shit.

This is, this is some news,
winners.

Nathan Resnick
is out as team owner.

-He's fired. Fired.
-Fired.

Liberty Green Group
w-was h-his boss?

-They owned...?
-Liberty Green Group, yeah,

they own, they-they own,
basically,

the Sacramento Kings, right?

Okay, yeah,
just have him give me a call,

uh, when he gets this.
That'd be great, thank you.

I've called Liberty Green Group.
They haven't gotten back to me.

I have called the league
to see if they've heard

from Liberty Green Group,
and they haven't.

So yeah, nobody can get
in touch with who owns our team.

So, Fugitive might
be up for grabs.

It's like a--
it's like an orphan.

What could--
How much could they be?

Is that funny? Is that funny?

What do you mean, like,
you want to...

Like, honestly, is that f--
That's, like,

-a funny troll, right?
-Think of how...

Imagine the face on Creamcheese
if you bought Fugitive.

-That is some shit.
-If you bought Fugitive.

Light up in the Discord.
I should buy Fugitive.

ORGANIZM:
Uh...

I feel a little scared.

He's gone, but, like,
wh-what does that mean for me?

You know, like, am I gonna
still be able to play?

Am I gonna still start,
you know?

CREAMCHEESE:
Everyone is freaking out,

but I'm just over here playing

three-dimensional chess
in my head,

thinking that there
could be some

Silver Linings Playbook
in all of this.

Can I ask a potentially
genius question?

Why cannot we buy Fugitive?

We'd need $35 million for that.

-Do you...
-We can raise that. $35 million?

Bucket, isn't your uncle,
like, a billionaire?

Dude, he's an ophthalmologist,
not Mark Cuban.

CREAMCHEESE [laughs]:
Who's Mark Cuban?

-What?
-APRIL: You kidding?

KYLE: You don't know
who Mark Cuban is?

-He, uh, he knows him...
-You're making--

-H-He's making up a name.
-PAUL: There's no way, right?

KYLE: No, th--
Mark Cuban is a real person.

No, he is not.

Bottom line,
the LCS has assured us

that we will maintain
our franchise slot.

I know we were all
concerned about that.

In the meantime, Liberty Green
Group is not interested

in our operations,
so they have asked me

to take over all
Fugitive Gaming activities...

CREAMCHEESE:
April.

-...for a couple months...
-Oh, my God.

-...until they find a buyer.
-Oh, my God.

Boss April. Nathan: gone, right?

Fuck yeah,
are you kidding me, dude?

Ugh! This is fucking incredible.
This is the best news

-I've ever heard.
-We're gonna have new owners.

-We've got our team back.
-They're gonna step in.

-Cream, it's a temporary thing.
-It's not forever, dude.

CREAMCHEESE:
This is fucking incredible.

-Nightfall, you got a question?
-Yeah. Does that mean

-I can drive the team truck?
-PAUL: No.

Yes. You can drive
the team truck.

-It's our team now.
-APRIL: They're gonna step in.

They're gonna do what they want.

-Did you text me? What's up?
-Dude. Yes.

I-I have the best
fucking news for you.

Please tell me
I'm back on the team.

You're back
on the fucking team.

-Is he ri-- is he serious?
-KYLE: Hey! Hey!

-FRUGGER: Is he serious?
-We have the old team back.

-Bro, this is incredible.
-Is he serious?

APRIL: We cannot answer
these questions right now.

-Why can't we do this? What?
-Cream!

Can we discuss
strategy later, please?

Discuss strategy? Dude, we're--
This is incredible.

-Cream, for the love of God...
-We get-- Organizm's out,

-and Frugger gets to be back in.
-Later! Later!

-KYLE: Thank you.
-APRIL: Have a seat.

CREAMCHEESE:
No offense to Organizm, but...

it just didn't work out
and he was terrible

and he won't be missed.

This is the best day
of my life.

-[exhales]
-This feels right.

This is what-- Org would
never do this with me.

This is how
it was supposed to be.

PAUL: I-I think we should
hold back on hugs a little bit,

because there's th-- there's
just a lot that's up in the air.

-We can't hug now, Paul?
-I...

Hug police, right?

It's 'cause his parents
didn't hug him.

I heard your girlfriend
dumped you on the phone

-the other day, by the way.
-I don't...

That shit was sad.
[chuckles]

-It was a...
-That shit was fucking sad.

Yeah, it was.

KYLE:
[sighs] It's a tough situation.

PAUL:
Yep.

What do the guys think
for this weekend?

They want Frugger.

-I-- You know, I...
-Yeah.

Nightfall says, um, start
scrimming Frugger Monday,

-play Org tomorrow.
-That makes sense.

-Yeah.
-I think I agree with him,

if the MSS wasn't on the line,
if it wasn't 100 Thieves.

We'll throw Frugger in
tomorrow, but...

Well, that's the thing,
it's a huge game.

-Creamcheese is gonna hate this.
-[chuckles] Yeah.

He's gonna say a bunch
of really mean stuff to me.

[chuckles]

And I guess that's just
how that's gonna go.

Yeah.

He'll be like,
"You fucking idiot,

-and stupid-stupid..."
-What was that?

Uh, just, like, he would say,
like, "You're fucking stupid."

-Uh, yeah, probably yeah.
-Yeah.

Something like that.

Dude, I-I mean,
this is-- I think

this is a fucking terrible play.

The kid doesn't
even communicate.

Honestly, dude, the FlyQuest
offer is still on the table,

so maybe I should
just go with them.

Honestly, Trevor,
if-if you are gonna continue

every week
threatening to leave the team,

I don't want you on the team.
I don't want you in Fugitive.

-What do you mean...
-If you go to FlyQuest...

-You don't want me in Fugitive?
-If you're going

-to threaten to leave every...
-Are you fucking kidding me?

You can't kick me
out of Fugitive.

-Fugitive is my fucking team.
-It's your team.

I am Fugitive.
Yeah, it's my team.

-I built this fucking team.
-I want to hear, y-you're saying

that this is not as much
my team as it is yours.

That I haven't put as much
into this team as you have.

[sighs]

It's our team. I mean,

-it is our team.
-Thank you.

I know you work hard.

I just feel like... I really
want to win a championship.

-I know.
-You know?

I wanted to win--
I want to win one, too.

-I want that.
-Okay, well, it just

feels like Nathan is gone,

this is our last chance.

Okay, let me, let me

-walk you through...
-Give me Frugger.

I will win a championship
if you give me Frugger.

...my train of thought
here, okay?

On the one hand,
we have Organizm.

Who, while you were gone,
by the way,

held it down with Cronklyn.

CREAMCHEESE:
But he still lost.

KYLE:
With Cronklyn.

I'm sorry.

And on the other hand,
we-we have Frugger,

who hasn't scrimmed with us
since January.

Look, if Org
shits the bed tomorrow,

I'm right there with you,
we put Frugger in next week.

You know, we have him start
scrimming immediately, but...

it cannot be tomorrow.

It just doesn't make sense.
You know this.

[sighs]

Yo, you know
you don't need Nathan, right?

'Cause the only one
that you need is you.

And me, you need me, too.
But you already know that shit.

[laughs softly]

It's like back in college,

when I played against Ursinus,
you remember that shit,

like I was doing everything
in my power to make sure

my ass didn't get cut.

I stepped the fuck up, man.

Eight points,
five fucking rebounds.

I took a charge in there,
I played like fire

'cause that's what winners do--
that's what Elmores do.

That's our shit. We win.

Let me ask you something, man,
you gonna step up?

-Yeah.
-You gonna step up, Percy?

-Hmm? You gonna step--
-Yeah.

-you gonna step up, Organizm?
-Yeah.

ORGANIZM:
Rudy's always telling

D3 basketball stories.

It's like advice
or something, but...

You know he just wants me
to win, and I do, too.

And you gonna prove
that you the shit,

that you the fucking man,
a'ight?

'Cause this is your kingdom,
and you gonna rule.

ORGANIZM:
Because going back to Academy

would just mean that I failed.

And I don't fail.

DASH: Welcome back to the LCS,
where we turn out attention

to the next game of the day,
and it's a big one.

MARKZ: For Creamcheese,
that's who I'm looking at--

he has never missed
a mid-season showdown.

He has made it
every single time in spring,

and you know that he wants
to continue that streak.

[cheering, applause]

CAPTAINFLOWERS: And this is
a massive game for Fugitive.

They need this victory
if they want to keep

their chances of playing in
the mid-season showdown alive.

KOBE:
And in order to do that

versus 100 Thieves,
who have been killing it,

they need Organizm to step up.

RUDY JR.: Going into this game,
it was all on him.

-You got this!
-I mean, I ain't trying to say

I was nervous,
but I was nervous.

This is you.

His job was on the line.

CAPTAINFLOWERS: Org follows in
with an aggressive flash,

but he can't finish him off.

And 100 Thieves
will turn that one around.

That is first blood and Organizm
pays dearly for the flash.

Oh, my fucking God,
are you kidding me, bro?

Stay with it. Don't give up!

CAPTAINFLOWERS: Gragas is
circling around for the dive.

They're going after Organizm,
and there it is.

The E flash.
Organizm has no way out.

Okay, fuck this. I'm coming top.

-I'm not gonna stay in bot-lane.
-No, this wave is good.

KOBE: Creamcheese is trying to
make something happen topside.

CAPTAINFLOWERS: Hey, those moves
are going to get them

this Herald, this topside river
is uncontested.

Hell yeah, let's go.

CAPTAINFLOWERS: Organizm
has got to be careful.

He's staying around
for too long--

He should have backed! Too late.

-Fuck.
-Go in. Is this a joke?

CAPTAINFLOWERS: Organizm
is finding himself alone

and out of position
throughout this entire game.

[echoing]:
Organizm takes the Blast Cone,

but he'll be
immediately exploded

by the Gragas cast
and Yasuo combination.

KOBE: Organizm just racking up
death after death in this game.

I hope you're enjoying
your last pro game, Org,

'cause I'm
certainly fucking not.

KOBE: Creamcheese and Organizm
don't even look

like they're playing
the same game.

CAPTAINFLOWERS: There it goes.
There's the Gragas flash.

They engage,
and the Yasuo falls.

It's the end of Fugitive Gaming.

That's game. No, that's game.

CAPTAINFLOWERS:
With that loss,

Fugitive is
statistically eliminated

from the mid-season showdown
here for the first time

in Creamcheese's career.

And all on the back
of an absolutely brutal showing

by his teammate
and young rookie.

KOBE: Yeah, I don't know what
was going on with him, Clayton.

He was just dying
all over the place.

Jesus Christ.
It's time to have a real idea.

I-I can't, I can't.

I-I can't give time
for this shit.

It's, like, seven times?
Eight times?

Truly.

What the hell was that?

CREAMCHEESE: Wait,
are you talking to me?

-Yeah. I'm talking to you.
-About the game?

You didn't follow the game plan.

-You abandoned bot-lane.
-I...

You want to tell me
what you were doing?

Are you kidding me?
I carried the whole game.

It's not carrying
if you lose the game.

[laughs]: It was not my fault
that we lost the game.

There's nothing I could do.
I was the only one making plays.

Making-- You were forcing plays
that weren't even there!

-Are you joking?
-No.

-No, I'm not.
-You think that's my fault?

Are you fucking kidd--
Did you-- were you not watching

-the same game I was watching?
-I was watching the game.

-Nightfall...
-I watched the whole game.

...how many fucking deaths
did this kid have?

It was, like, eight? Seven?
I-I don't know.

-There you go.
-But?

Well, I mean, yeah,
I mean, him dying

is his fault, but, like...

I feel like you-you have
something to do with it, too.

-What...
-Because?

What could I have
literally done?

I mean, like, you came
to the Herald fight

where-- when we didn't
really need you there.

-Yep.
-Like, Organizm said

-he needed your bot.
-Oh, my fucking God.

Are you guys kidding me?
Are you, are you

-kidding me right now?
-It's-- It's true.

I honestly
don't understand this.

You guys are defending this kid

who won't even stand up
for himself.

He-he won't say anything.

At level two, you exhausted
after the Cade headshot,

which costed us first blood.

At level five, you roamed mid

when the wave was clearly
about to bounce back into us.

-Oh, Jesus Christ. I can't...
-At level eight,

you flashed Q to take
a kill that I could have had

with my explosive shot.

At level 11,
you went to ward pixel brush

when we saw that Gragas
was pathing towards blue.

At level 14, you engaged
when you should've peeled

because Baps didn't have flash
and Nightfall didn't have ult,

so no one
could keep up with you.

Also, you missed
a lot of skillshots.

RUDY JR.:
Fuck yeah, baby brah.

I agree with all that shit.

That's great.

Really fucking helpful
and insightful after the game.

Because, you know,
Organizm is usually quiet,

I never thought that he would
be thinking about that stuff.

Like, he remembered
every single second of the game.

That was just amazing.

KYLE:
That's what we need.

You see Organizm
finally communicate

in a really impressive way,

uh, and i-it just speaks
to his enormous potential.

You should be a coach.

The coach where, like, you know,
like your team loses

and then you talk
really smartly afterwards

[chuckles]:
about-about why they lost.

-You'd be amazing.
-KYLE: But right now,

it's, uh, well, it's-it's
looking pretty dang clear

that-that Creamcheese

is standing in the way
of his development.

♪ ♪

CREAMCHEESE: Org, should
we just kill this guy

who's way overextended?

Should we make a pick
around him?

-Should we make a good play?
-Yeah.

CAPTAINFLOWERS:
There's the kill on the Rell,

and that means a reset
on Tristana's rocket jump.

KOBE:
A disaster for Dignitas.

Boom. Level six.

What am I doing wrong now, Org?
Huh?

How's my spacing, Rain Man?

JATT: Over 50% of teams go
to the mid-season showdown,

and this was the first time
that Fugitive didn't qualify.

CAPTAINFLOWERS: And that's
gonna be another kill

underneath the tier two turret.

That was insane. All right.

JATT:
But in those last few games,

it seemed like
something had changed.

-The shit, guys?
-Nice, bro. Easy win.

-Nice.
-Dude, what the fuck?

CAPTAINFLOWERS: Fugitive
bouncing back with a win

against Dignitas yesterday.

We'll see if they can
carry that momentum

into a tough match against CLG.

CREAMCHEESE:
When you're playing Pyke,

-do you take E or-or W next?
-E.

Cool. Cool, cool,
cool, cool, cool, cool.

I'm glad you told me, 'cause
I was gonna take W, for sure.

As long as we play good,
I don't care what anybody says.

Org, that's on you,
that's on you, Org.

CAPTAINFLOWERS:
And it's Organizm

racking up the body count.

-Yes! Fuck! Yes, bro.
-Nice. Nice, nice, nice.

CAPTAINFLOWERS: Another
incredible performance here

from Organizm, seeking
redemption and showing up.

-Hey, Cream.
-Come with us over here.

CAPTAINFLOWERS: Man, that is
a big win and a moral victory

for Fugitive Gaming heading
into the mid-season break.

GABRIELLA: For most teams,
there is a four-week off-season

between Spring Split
and Summer Split.

But if you miss the MSS
like Fugitive,

you're looking
at a full six weeks of downtime.

-Bye.
-Great work.

CREAMCHEESE:
Nightfall, dude.

Creamcheese.

KYLE:
Bucket.

Yeah, that's right. Come here.

Come here. Doing great.

-See you soon.
-Absolutely.

-See you, bro.
-Get some rest.

CREAMCHEESE:
Everyone else goes off

and explores the world
over the break.

Not me.

I might spend one day
at Six Flags, but...

I've learned from experience,

it's better just
to stay home and train.

KYLE: Take care of the place.
I don't want it trashed

when I get back, okay?

ORGANIZM:
There's no space back in Philly,

the Internet's weak,

so I'm just gonna
stay here and practice.

BAP: Creamcheese and Organizm
will be alone

in the house in the off-season.

It might be awkward.

[cereal crackling]

[crunching]

Org.

You're gonna have to pick a way
fucking quieter cereal, dude.

[chair clatters]

Are you fucking kidding me, bro?