Hey, I'm Jesse! I'm a broadcast analyst and caster who's been covering FPS esports since 2015. I specialize in statistics based analysis while keeping the broadcast fun and engaging.
If you're interested in working with me, send an email over to: ๐งJesse
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Talent MUST leave the hotel by 8:20am.
8:05 Pengu sits down at breakfast
8:09 Pengu orders avacado toast
8:21 the car gets called
8:23 the car shows up
8:23 the avacado toast shows up
8:23:30 Pengu finishes his avacado toast.
This is why
@Pengu
is a world champ and you're not.
The longest game in professional Rainbow Six history (67 rounds)
The most kills in a single major ever (Cyber, 181 kills)
The first time a European team has won an international tournament in 1015 days (NaVi, Tokoname)
wow.
If it upsets you that R6 is finally getting a gay operator, please feel free to stop playing the game and never speak in our community again. You won't be missed. ๐๐ผ
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Pengu won,
2/4 Invitaionals
1/2 International Majors
4/10 Pro League Finals
1/1 European Championships
5/11 European Pro League Seasons
1/2 GSA Finals
1/8 Minors
Undisputed GOAT of Siege, enjoy the well earned retirement
@G2Pengu
The last time EU won an international tournament was 960 days ago.
For reference, it only took PENTA/G2 939 days to win their first 7 international tournaments.
Back, to back, to back top 4 finishes for
@TSM
at SI. Despite all their troubles this year, there has been no team in NA over the last few years that has shown this level of consistency.
I think Siege could become a lot easier for new players if operator categories were implimented into the game.
Don't restrict what people play, but make guidelines and recomendations based on roles (these don't have to be the exact categories, just an example)
Thoughts?
You got sick a week ago.
We took you to the vet on Sunday.
Got the results back on Tuesday. (Middle of our show!)
On Wednesday you were gone.
RIP to the goofiest and most energetic cat I've ever had, thanks for 8 years ๐ค
Stream is suspended due to the current situation. I hope everyone at the Ubisoft Montreal office is okay, thank you to all the viewers for understanding and taking this seriously.
When TSM lost Merc for Mexico, they completely fell apart.
OXG have lost arguably a more important player, with less notice, and with a worse substitude. That's gotta be such a huge blow.
North American Challenger League Season 11 Teams:
โ๏ธ
@SoniqsEsports
โ๏ธ Former Rise Nation
โ๏ธ Shook Squad
โ๏ธ ExG 2.0
โ๏ธ Okami
โ๏ธ Team Reckless
โ๏ธ PogChamp
โ๏ธ Joe Esports
It's gonna be a good season.
If Rainbow Six had a Hall of Fame, who'd be in it?
And to make it harder, let's they must have been retired (no competitive play in any form) for over a year.
Since
@R6esportsNA
recently hit 50K on twitter, we're doing a little give away for the Y6S3 Valkyrie Esports Skin!
To enter:
โFollow
@JesseJChick
&
@R6esportsNA
on twitter
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Two winners will be slected 48 hours from now. Good luck!
Playing ranked is actually one of the WORST ways to understand this game at the highest level. Understanding the meta and team strategies can only be learned from studying the highest level of competition.
Kix was an amazing person, a role model, and a great friend who cared so much for this game and this community.
Iโm so grateful for being able to hang out with him one last time in Mexico, to learn from him, to chat with him every day before broadcast.
Rest In Peace Michael โค๏ธ
Sad to announce that due to personal reasons, I will not be working the
#R6NAL
Finals this weekend. Shoutout to FACEIT/Ubi for being so accommodating with this.
Still exctied to watch the event, from what I hear they got an incredibly cdapable analyst to rock the desk instead!
Ya opening the NAL is cool, but have you ever spent your Tuesday afternoon explaining to US border guards why they should let you into their country to talk about video games?
(I managed to convince them, I'll see you next week ๐)
R6 2024 ESPORTS CALENDAR
๐ฌ๐ง MANCHESTER, May Major
๐จ๐ฆ MONTREAL, November Major
๐บ๐ฒ EAST COAST, Six Invitaional 2025
Which ones will you be at?
Sorry for the long break between games guys, Soniqs vs Xset will be starting soon!
Big shoutout to
@XSET
for playing a quick game of T hunt on stream to keep the viewers entertained while we look for where the Soniqs went!
NFT videogame cosmetics are a bad idea. We traced ownership history and sold unique items for years in TF2 before NFTs were ever a thing, why do the new ghost recon items need to be NFTs?
Shoutout to the NA fans that stayed up for CL finals, got like 4 hours of sleep, and then woke up at 1am to watch NA get 14-1'd in their first 2 games ๐
I don't think it's a coincidence the top 4 teams at SI (VP, FaZe, G2, W7M) all kept the same 5-man roster for the entire year.
NA has some insane potential with great players like Ambi and Ashn, but they need stability to develop before an NA team will be world champions again.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but Xset playing in the NAL will be the first time a team will be playing primarily with players from a different *major region* than they're in, bringing in a majority LATAM ๐ง๐ท roster to NA ๐บ๐ธ
Yoggah's last alive on site, in the 1v3 to make LAN.
He slams the first two but has no intel on the 3rd.
"Guys where's the last one?"
"VINDO DO BANHEIRO VINDO DO BANHEIRO!!!!"
"What? Guys I don't understand Portugese!!!"
The comms go quiet...
"bonjour"
Xset lose the round.
6 years of University, 3 of which were done while working full time in esports.
Changed schools, changed degrees, did homework on international flights, skipped exams to go to LAN...
Made it work tho ๐
The 12 teams locked into SI
๐ง๐ทLiquid
๐ง๐ทoNe
๐ซ๐ทBDS
๐ฌ๐งNaVi
๐น๐ญElevate
๐บ๐ธOXG
๐บ๐ธSoniqs
๐ง๐ทNiP
๐บ๐ธDZ
๐บ๐ธSSG
๐ง๐ทFuria
๐ท๐บEmpire
The current holders of the last 4 spots
๐บ๐ธTSM
๐ฏ๐ตCyclops
๐ฐ๐ทSandbox
๐ฐ๐ทDWG Kia
The 4 fighting to take a spot in Sweden
๐ซ๐ทVitality
๐ง๐ทFaZe
๐ธ๐ฌInvictus
๐ฉ๐ชRogue
So insane that the victory also qualifies Team oNe for the Six Invitational as well. Headed into stage 3 the confirmed SI teams are:
๐ง๐ท Team Liquid
๐ง๐ท Team oNe
๐ฉ๐ช๐ฉ๐ช๐ฉ๐ช R6 is headed to Berlin!
Honestly super nice to see the weaker regions like Europe get some LAN events, hopefully it can push the teams to improve and build the scene to a point where one day their teams can compete at the highest level. ๐
So many doubts. So many backup plans. So many nights of almost quitting. 5 years of unpaid bedroom casts. None of that matters now.
I'm joining the
@R6esportsNA
team to cover the NAL. So pumped to join such an amazing team, I really hope we can put on a good show. โค๏ธ
The timeline always goes crazy with these awful "Siege is dying" takes any time some bad news pops up, so let's look at some numbers for a second
For both sponsors and teams, total hours watched (and thus total attention on their brand) is way more important than average viewers
Welp Berlin was great, gotta leave for the airport in...... 4 hours!
Thanks for show Berlin, maybe one day I'll come back and see more than my hotel and the venue ๐
Hey sooooooooo
@MirageSportE
Totally no pressure but you're kinda the only NAL team that hasn't announced a roster yet?
Planning on dropping that any time soon or...
AHHHHH NA ON TOP LETS GOOOOOO!!!!!! 2/4 IN UPPER BRACKET SEMIS THATS WHAT IM ON ABOUT ๐บ๐ธ๐จ๐ฆ๐บ๐ธ๐จ๐ฆ๐บ๐ธ๐จ๐ฆ๐บ๐ธ๐จ๐ฆ๐บ๐ธ๐จ๐ฆ๐บ๐ธ๐จ๐ฆ๐บ๐ธ๐จ๐ฆ๐บ๐ธ๐จ๐ฆ๐บ๐ธ๐จ๐ฆ๐บ๐ธ๐จ๐ฆ๐บ๐ธ๐จ๐ฆ๐บ๐ธ๐จ๐ฆ๐บ๐ธ๐จ๐ฆ๐บ๐ธ๐จ๐ฆ
Tried something new for this SI Finals, jumping on in a permanent call-in position.
Shoutout to Ubi & Blast for giving me the tools to do this. I hope you felt my fun-facts and predictions added something to the finals, definitely something I'd like to do more of in the future!
Alright TSM fans Ima make this easy for you.
If
@teamoneesports
beat
@Rogue
in the quarterfinals on Friday, then TSM make Invite.
If Rogue win instead, TSM gotta go through the qualifiers.
Canadian leaves Siege with the greatest legacy of any North American player. From winning the first invitational, switching teams, and then 3 years later winning another.
We really just had the 2 greatest siege players of all time retire in the span of 2 weeks.
@iiimpa_
I hope you know how excited he was to see you after the major. The whole time we were there, all he talked about was Cancun, the things he was bringing for you, and how exited/nervous he was. He really cared about you a lot. โค๏ธ
6am. At the airport. 16 hours of travel ahead. 2 layovers ahead. Have had no sleep. Have had much alcohol. No Siege peeps on any of my flights. Miss LAN.
The odds of a tie break happening in this format is almost impossible. Combine that with a 0 experiance Damwon Kia upsetting the world champions NiP, and this is undeniably the most unlikely tournament in Siege history.
#SixMajor
I am in the middle of top fragging a Rainbow Six game about to close it out, and my comfy ass girlfriend brings me waffles (not asked for) with nutella as I get a 1v2 clutch.
So how is your day going?
Beautiful run from
@mibr
, nothing to be ashamed of considering the amount of games they had to play through the lower bracket.
But the final 3....
๐ง๐ท
@FaZeClan
๐บ๐ธ
@TSM
๐ท๐บ
@team_empire
All I want to do is make fun of EU for letting all their top teams get dismantled by Mkers, but NA teams literally dismantle themselves so I've got nothing. ๐