Friday, June 16th.
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NRG Team Room, 6:00 PM PST (Ardiis bro count - 433):
Chet has not slept in 56 hours, yet he sits in front of a computer screen with FNS. They have been reviewing FNATIC's setups.
"This will be a hard one," exclaims FNS.
He gets up, kicking away the hundreds of empty gum boxes on the floor, "Today is all or nothing."
"...." replies Chet, in silence. He has fallen asleep
"WAKE UP CHET" yells FNS, Chet sits up with exasperation. For a moment, he can only smile as he treasures the few seconds of unconsciousness that he was gifted. Alas, however, he must suffer if NRG are to win.
End scene
FNATIC Team Room, 6:00 PM PST.
Derke is busy shining his head, Alfajer is in a discord call with one of his girlfriends, and Chronicle is browsing babysasuke's post history. Boaster is looking at himself in the mirror, flexing his muscles.
Yinsu walks in, "So you're finally gonna play NRG huh? Good luck out there"
Boaster, in a johnny bravo voice, says "It's alright baby, I will crush those NA dogs and make them bark for me HOO HAA!!" as he proceeds to strike a pose.
"Wait a moment... where's Leo?" asks Yinsu
"Right here" Leo replies, sitting in the corner of the room. He had not said a word all day
"Oh Leo" says Boaster, a laugh track ensues.
Arena backstage, 7:55 PM PST (Ardiis bro count - 764):
Chet has aged 43 years, crashies has turned into a giant blueberry while victor stares at him enviously. s0m has just called FNS his little pujy wujy, and all FNS can think about at the moment is how to cope with the amount of cringe he has just received.
Boaster is twerking with some japanese fans. He sees FNS and walks up confidently
"hey mini, call animal control, I think a few strays have made their way into the arena."
s0m barks. Boaster gets flustered and leaves.
end scene
Map 1 , 8:32 PM PST (ardiis bro count - 5402)
The scoreline is 8-4 in FNATIC's favor.
FNS, the weight of his team's victory on him, closes his eyes for just a moment. In his mind, he thinks "Chet, i'm sorry master but just this once."
In an instant, FNS' brain accelerates twice...no thrice the speed it usually works at.
10 minutes pass (7670 ardiis bros).
The scoreline is 10-8, still in FNATIC's favor. NRG have made a bit of a comeback. crashies can't stop clutching rounds. FNS' reads are becoming more and more on-point.
10 minutes pass (51411 ardiis bros).
FNS has achieved a state of nirvana; every audio queue, every piece of util used forms together to make a real time image in his mind of where each FNATIC player is.
NRG wins map 1 15-13.
Fnatic wins map 2 13-4
NRG wins map 3 22-20
end scene
NRG run back to the NRG area, only to find chet soundly asleep. They carry sleeping beauty back to their hotel and go on to win the rest of Tokyo.
Fin
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