In addition, he uses a shotgun and a submachine gun, both without a scope but with a silencer. This makes aiming not only more difficult, but the silencers also result in damage loss on the weapons.
Rogue, on the other hand, employs a strategy in which the team splits up and applies strong pressure from many different sides in the attack. This carries the risk of being picked off individually, but it puts G2 in a position where they must react quickly in different directions.
Why did they do that? During a short break, commentator Tobias “ShatterxX” Richter explains that the choice of weapons for these situations is not as unusual as it may seem.
Shotguns are stronger when fired from the hip than most other weapons. Since the map they are playing on, Border, has many tight spaces where action can happen quickly, shotguns can reliably secure kills here.
The map also has many walls and floors made of wood and other destructible materials. With shotguns, these walls can be easily torn down, destroying the opponents’ cover, usually to the defenders’ disadvantage.
The silencers, on the other hand, are difficult to explain. It is possible that it was simply a tactic to unsettle the opponent. Just last week, a player from WarKidz secured a victory with a silencer, but only in a single situation:
Should I copy the tactics?
G2 narrowly escaped a loss. So far, the team has always won, until this first tie, and has thus maintained a perfect record in the ranking. The team had even a fair share of luck, as is especially evident in a scene where CTZN avoids death when the recoil from an attacker saves him from a grenade:
Rogue, on the other hand, has two new players in the roster with whom the team still needs to find its rhythm. If that hadn’t been the case, G2 might have lost.
From fans and in the chat of the match, there are ongoing accusations that G2 is trolling and not taking the entire match seriously. If that is the case, it almost cost them a victory. Therefore, it is not advisable to copy the gameplay style of G2 from the evening of the 7th – you risk giving away a victory unnecessarily. For starting in Rainbow Six, you can find 5 tips in our guide.
If you want to watch the entire match and all plays of the professionals, you can find the game in the embedded video starting at 3:35:40:
Results from Matchday 7
Here’s how the other matches went: The match between G2 vs. Rogue is the highlight of the evening, but the rest of the teams in the GSA League performed well too. Many quite clear results have been achieved:
- FACT Gaming 7:1 mYinsanity
- DIVIZON 7:5 Team Secret
- Rogue 6:6 G2 Esports
- Turtle eSport 5:7 WarKidz
After three consecutive losses, FACT Gaming shows its strength again this evening and why they are a newcomer who could become a real problem for the professionals. However, many decisive matches will only take place in the coming weeks.
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What’s next for the GSA League? Now, after the seventh matchday, all first halves are completed. From now on, the second halves will begin, in which the teams face opponents they have already fought against.
Most teams should have collected plenty of information and prepared better. Therefore, in the coming weeks you can expect stronger gameplay from the pro teams, but also finally see which of the two newcomers, DIVIZON or FACT, will be the stronger team in the end.
It’s no secret that professionals in shooters like to deviate from the norm, and this is often the case in Rainbow Six Siege. However, what the professionals of the GSA League demonstrated on Matchday 7 runs counter to everything you think you know about Rainbow Six.
Who are these professionals? It’s about G2 Esports against Rogue. Both teams are well-known professionals and also play in the EU League (formerly Pro League), which has also been running since Monday, June 22.
In the currently ongoing GSA League, which is now taking place parallel to the EU League, G2 and Rogue faced off yesterday, on June 25, and pretty much ignored everything that players typically know as standard or “meta.” The result is an extremely close match with a tie, the first in the GSA League.
The match excited thousands of players. Over 6,500 players tuned in that evening to watch the match of the two top teams. The constant back and forth of the professionals even inspired some memes:
Interestingly, the two teams had played in the EU League just a few days earlier, on Monday, June 22. G2 Esports had previously defeated Rogue quite clearly with a score of 7:2. Both times, it’s the match of the day.
G2 ignores the meta and gets punished for it
Why this match is so interesting: Although G2 Esports is currently considered one of the strongest teams in Europe and even the world, they faced some issues in the match that evening. They start strong but are then caught up by Rogue.
While G2 does manage to build a small lead repeatedly, Rogue quickly equalizes it shortly thereafter. This is evident in the round victories, as well as in the rounds themselves, where G2 struggles to hold an advantage for long before Rogue levels it out again.
G2 presents strategies in the match that rarely or never occur in the competitive scene of Rainbow Six because they do not belong to the strongest or “meta” strategies.
In the last round, it was even 6:5 in favor of Rogue, and G2 had to push themselves hard to avoid a loss. At this point, even the professional team can no longer afford experiments.
What did the professionals do differently? Already in the first round, CTZN from G2 plays the operator Amaru, who is hardly played anyway. Amaru’s special gadget, which allows her to pull through windows and hatches, is generally considered situational to weak.
In addition, he uses a shotgun and a submachine gun, both without a scope but with a silencer. This makes aiming not only more difficult, but the silencers also result in damage loss on the weapons.
Rogue, on the other hand, employs a strategy in which the team splits up and applies strong pressure from many different sides in the attack. This carries the risk of being picked off individually, but it puts G2 in a position where they must react quickly in different directions.
Why did they do that? During a short break, commentator Tobias “ShatterxX” Richter explains that the choice of weapons for these situations is not as unusual as it may seem.
Shotguns are stronger when fired from the hip than most other weapons. Since the map they are playing on, Border, has many tight spaces where action can happen quickly, shotguns can reliably secure kills here.
The map also has many walls and floors made of wood and other destructible materials. With shotguns, these walls can be easily torn down, destroying the opponents’ cover, usually to the defenders’ disadvantage.
The silencers, on the other hand, are difficult to explain. It is possible that it was simply a tactic to unsettle the opponent. Just last week, a player from WarKidz secured a victory with a silencer, but only in a single situation:
Should I copy the tactics?
G2 narrowly escaped a loss. So far, the team has always won, until this first tie, and has thus maintained a perfect record in the ranking. The team had even a fair share of luck, as is especially evident in a scene where CTZN avoids death when the recoil from an attacker saves him from a grenade:
Rogue, on the other hand, has two new players in the roster with whom the team still needs to find its rhythm. If that hadn’t been the case, G2 might have lost.
From fans and in the chat of the match, there are ongoing accusations that G2 is trolling and not taking the entire match seriously. If that is the case, it almost cost them a victory. Therefore, it is not advisable to copy the gameplay style of G2 from the evening of the 7th – you risk giving away a victory unnecessarily. For starting in Rainbow Six, you can find 5 tips in our guide.
If you want to watch the entire match and all plays of the professionals, you can find the game in the embedded video starting at 3:35:40:
Results from Matchday 7
Here’s how the other matches went: The match between G2 vs. Rogue is the highlight of the evening, but the rest of the teams in the GSA League performed well too. Many quite clear results have been achieved:
- FACT Gaming 7:1 mYinsanity
- DIVIZON 7:5 Team Secret
- Rogue 6:6 G2 Esports
- Turtle eSport 5:7 WarKidz
After three consecutive losses, FACT Gaming shows its strength again this evening and why they are a newcomer who could become a real problem for the professionals. However, many decisive matches will only take place in the coming weeks.
What’s next for the GSA League? Now, after the seventh matchday, all first halves are completed. From now on, the second halves will begin, in which the teams face opponents they have already fought against.
Most teams should have collected plenty of information and prepared better. Therefore, in the coming weeks you can expect stronger gameplay from the pro teams, but also finally see which of the two newcomers, DIVIZON or FACT, will be the stronger team in the end.
