If they win will be what? their 16th victory in a row?
I still think in the end NYXL will win (both vs VALLA and Vs Boston), but cheering for the Boston guys they deserve this stage for sure.

Oh man idk :( JJonak just carried that second point attack.

Nevermind, NYXL are the best

Or NYXL were just very well prepared for them. They didnt look like they ran out of gaz, more that NYXL just outplayed them for the majority of the match.

Yah they're all insane

I've said it before and I will probably say it again, they are doing all of this without Fl0wer. This team's ceiling is stratospheric.

I thought Janus looked great when he came in also, really happy to see him step it up and go right at Boston.

Sometime in sports and to a lesser extent eSports you see great teams getting broken up - traded or what ever. This crew are getting paid very well, have banked almost a quarter mill and seem to just be a bunch of mates out having a damn good time. Providing the new meta doesn't upset them too much which I really doubt it will given they have the 2 if not 3 of the best supports in the league, flexibility across the board, I can't see how they are stopped either in Season 1 and beyond.

They are just on another level completely. Which is great to see as an old fan of Apex. LW never quite reached the heights of LH but then neither did Conbox, Meta Athena/Bellum etc. and yet their players litter the OWL and are essentially some of the best.

Just to touch on one other key factor for me - how ballsy was it to run strange and unexpected comps. Sure it didn't exactly work out with Bastion on Nepal but they rail roaded first on Route 66 forcing the changes from Boston, really clever strats and something that was perhaps intentionally missing in their play to date.

These guys can afford to cruise/drop a few games in Stage 4 but I doubt they will, given the reaction to each and every point hold and map win right from the start of this game.

Boston played their part, this was a monster skill level game, Striker and Gamsu are terrifying and kind of in a slightly understated way. I don't think having DK in their line up would have massively benefitted them as Mistakes more than held his own against a DPS trio of murderers.

I should also add there is also a bit of recency bias given that Boston themselves looked great all stage. Both teams had plenty of 5 mappers but the draw on Volskaya was the dagger to the heart. Striker was by some distance the best tracer in the stage and thus rightly unoffficially crowned the greatest in the world, but SBB put a beating on BU and then flexed to Widow and back to Tracer. You probably can't argue with the man when he says, he is the best Tracer in the world.