It's still an event to be able to prove
that you're one of the best in the world.
There's a lot on the line for us.
You know, it's kind of like a redemption arc,
to show that we're still a titan in the Siege esports world.
This is the end of the year.
This is their last chance to really show who they are
and set the expectations that they think should be correct,
going into the big world championship just a few months after.
It's really interesting to see how all of these teams have
kind of battled up against these others.
I feel that, you know, clear your mind, play your game, do you,
and whatever happens, happens...
My name is Jason "Beaulo" Doty,
I am 21 and I am a player for TSM R6.
Rainbow Six is a tactical first person shooter,
but it's unique, because you can destroy the map!
I usually explain it as "the chess of FPS".
There's a lot going on,
there's a lot of things you've got to think about....
And you can construct it how you want to.
So the architecture of it is all up to the players,
it's all up to your imagination,
and that's what separates it from
pretty much every other first person shooter out there.
Siege is the apex of competitive FPS.
It requires aim.
It requires constant game sense.
It requires full usage of the game's utility at all times.
It's easily the most demanding game in the FPS market, in my opinion.
My role in the team
being like a flex entry,
it's basically just whatever is needed for
a switch up, a different strategy, or whatever it may be.
I'll kind of try to fill that.
If nobody else wants to switch their stuff, then I'll go to it.
Beaulo has always been a player that does things that just gobsmack you.
He is one of the best to ever touch Rainbow Six Siege,
and the craziest thing is he is still unbelievably young.
I think that, honestly, his name speaks for itself.
There's a reason why everybody asks "When does he play?"
This competition represents... all of our work
in this stage with our new players leading up to a culmination of all of our work.
For a lot of teams in esports,
I feel like there is these moments where they hit this absolute peak
and if you don't capture your light at that absolute peak,
then there's not exactly a guarantee that you're going to be able to make it back.
And not a lot of people do, just because of the mental struggle
that happens after that moment.
This major is the best sixteen teams currently from each region
Four from Latin America, four from North America,
four from the EU, and four from Asia-Pacific.
So the majors for Rainbow Six Siege are a lot like the majors
if you watch tennis, for example...
We have a big collective tournament once every few months
where the best teams in the world all come together to try and prove
who is the best.
The best, not necessarily in the world for that entire year,
but for this short quarter, for this few months of a period,
and that's what we're trying to decide here in Jönköping.
At least in tennis, like a lot of times, people try to win all of them or whatever.
In Rainbow Six, nobody's ever won all the majors and the Invitational, so...
I think for TSM, it means a lot to them because just this year,
they were the Six Invite Champions in this year, 2022.
So really not all that long ago.
I think if you were to ask any TSM member what their most memorable moment
was on stage, it would probably just be our previous victory at February 2022
Six Invitational in Stockholm, where we won the Invitational,
and I don't think anyone else would give a different answer,
and I think that's going to stick to me,
for years, decades and maybe my whole life.
So coming back to this country has a lot of history for them,
and so they want to repeat their form being major champions.
We had a little bit of a downturn. We made two roster changes.
We picked up some really young players, some rookies.
With how Siege is and how grind heavy the game is,
you really got to get in the lab
and cook some things up in order to be one of the top teams.
It takes a lot of effort, and for a lot of those top teams
there is, kind of a burnout near the tail end of that,
and that's kind of where NA has lost out for this later half of the year, so,
all those teams had to recreate themselves, including the Sonics, including TSM,
and they've bounced back and a pretty convincing way.
This competition represents... All of the work we've done
with our new players, leading into this event.
And it's important for us
to really prove what we can do with these new guys and with our old players.
I mean, it feels really good to be here, but, you know, the job's not done.
We still got a long way to go throughout these playoffs and hopefully we can
replicate our Sweden victory from February.
Sonics, they look good.
They come out of North America at the moment.
They've just recently picked up Geometrics, who's actually a former
teammate of that TSM roster.
He's come in with that new IGL (In-Game Leader) power, it's all nice,
They got some really great firepower in their front line.
They've got really great entry fraggers and it's all supported by Geo.
He's there on that IGL-ing role.
There's a lot on the line for us, you know, it's kind of like a redemption arc
to show that we're still a titan in the Siege esports world.
I feel it, clear your mind, play your game,
do you, and whatever happens happens.
When does Beaulo play ?
How about now ?
It's TSM !
Our team is very, very good at being fast, aggressive, get in people's faces.
That's why we do very well internationally, as we're able to just say,
"Okay, maybe we need to just slow down, relax, and we'll just win three rounds"
So I think that's what makes us very strong, it's that we're very adaptable.
Personally, I do feel pressure from,
the fans, the whole community...
If you read the comments or read, anything,
it's basically just everyone talking shit on you.
You don't like that...
Individually, I probably put pressure on myself.
I always feel like I have to perform.
I have to keep up with certain status.
I know my limits and I know I need to be up at a certain threshold.
And you know, every day, every match I'm trying to get there.
Because the only one that's going to really defeat us, is ourselves.
Sonics pummel TSM in the third map,
and they're going to the semis tomorrow!
With TSM eliminated, the final four teams here in Jönköping
will all search for their first international Major championship,
and we will have a new champion !
So this competition, we're kind of a newer team.
This is, for a lot of us, the first major that we've gotten to actually play
in front of a crowd.
So for us, it was kind of a come out here, have fun,
show the international teams what we are actually capable of doing.
Because the last few majors that we've attended,
we've gotten grouped in every single one of them.
So this one, we wanted to come out here and prove people wrong.
North America, this year, as they struggled in Berlin,
they couldn't quite close it out.
It was Latin America versus EU at the last major,
but now North America has come into their form.
They look really good here and they are representing their region from far away.
I feel like we kind of went into the game as underdogs.
Obviously TSM is probably the NA favorites,
so we went into it, seeing all over Twitter, all over Reddit,
"Oh, TSM is going to murder these guys." "They're going to slaughter them."
So we kind of went into it just thinking, "Okay, we're going to play our game"
and we're going to go into it with the mindset of
we're going to prove these people wrong and we're going to
basically shut they're like part of the crowd,
as it was the only crowd that was there were basically cheering for TSM.
So it kind of gave us the extra motivation to go in
and be the underdogs, and come out on top.
I think the rest of not only the region
inside of North America, but the rest of the world
expects them to bring a decent performance to the table on most of these majors.
So don't think that they're being written off
as they may have been in the past.
Although they're still an overall underdog.
I think they're less of one than they were at the beginning of this year.
The overall team and the overall roster has made massive improvements since then.
For me, I would say I always go in every game thinking we're going to win
just for the fact that I feel like
you've got to be confident, at least in esports or what we do.
I feel like you got to always believe in yourself
if you expect others to believe in you.
So that's why I thought we were going to win.
To be a pro player in this esports world,
you have to have a little bit of that confidence, right?
You have to be, you have to feel like you're the best, right ?
Even if you're the most humble person in the whole world,
there's some part of you that still has to be like, "Yeah, I can win this!"
"You know, I am the champion! I'm the best in the world!"
Geometrics won the world championship with TSM
and I think that when you have that experience with a five roster
like those four other players, it's really hard to dislike them, right?
You've gone through such a great, loving, heartwarming experience together.
Even though he's moved on to another roster,
he's never going to forget that experience
and that accomplishment that he's done with them.
I just feel like he can't hate them, right?
He's like, there's just a lot of respect that went into that match up.
For me, like I said,
I feel like if I was maybe a bit younger, I'd be like, obviously heated
because how everything ended.
But I mean, I'm just old now, so I just...
We could have beat anyone. I don't really care what team it is.
And there's no really... There's no drive to just beat TSM like...
We get to play TSM anywhere and I would have been happy to beat them or any other team.
Today we play BDS... We haven't gotten through the map bans.
Yeah I'm assuming we're supposed to do that in the next probably half hour, 45 minutes.
But we're basically going to go into this one with the same mindset.
We're going to go into it, we're going have fun, we're going to be innovative,
we're going to be creative and we're just going to play our game.
It's hard to go into a game like this expecting them to...
Either one, do the same thing they did the last previous days
or come out with the same stuff they've been showing.
So instead of focusing on how they played,
we focus more on how we're going to play.
Whatever happens happens, at the end of the day,
if they beat us and they played better then they were better.
But I think we have a good shot at winning.
Pretty interesting game, I'd say, especially how the Sonics started off.
I thought the border was very interesting.
I really like the choice for North America overall.
I thought we've always been really strong on it.
So those results definitely didn't shock me.
But what did shock me was BDS bounce back.
Just their confidence in themselves and being able
to hold that into the next map not taking it is,
"Oh, we're down a map, there's no way that we can try and do anything with this."
They looked absolutely stellar.
It really looked like they were just playing angry.
You could go out there one day and you could be hitting every shot
that you could be wallbanging people, before being people.
And then the next day you go out there and you're not getting any of those lucky shots
or people are just kind of adapting to the way
you play a little bit better than the other team did.
You've got players from all around the world that are competing for that goal
and it is ruthless as a result, right?
It's the best competing against what they believe is going to be
the best as well.
It all comes down to this.
It's who plays better on that day.
But at the same time,
there is a little bit of luck that plays into it with the smaller
things that go into Siege, because it is kind of like a puzzle.
Everybody is playing for their next month.
You don't know if that you're going to be a player or a coach, whatever in esports
the next year, let alone the next month.
So all of these people
are trying to compete as hard as they can to show what they can do
in order to not only have a job, but also find success in esports,
because that's really what it's about.
Everybody wants to lift a trophy, lift a hammer.
I do think, at least with this game and others,
you can build consistency.
Like even if you're aren't winning your one's or your teamplay
so good that carries more than just your individual skill set.
But I do believe there are some days where you just get ridiculously lucky
and you can be warm and so on every other round
and winning rounds off... That type of stuff.
The esports world, not necessarily just even R6, is very volatile.
It can be very rewarding, but also very dangerous, I guess...
Ruthless, because, you know, one slip up, one bad thing, one bad series
and your name is tarnished, your reputation is hindered.
And, sometimes, it's hard to get out of that.
So... I'm just kind of cruising, doing the best I can
and hopefully, we can make a name for ourselves.