The First Ticket

the team. The real turn came on defense. The enemy clearly started targeting Mason, trying to double-pressure his space and bait out his movement abilities before layering the site with crossfire. The old Mason would have taken that personally and swung anyway. This one didn’t. He waited for Aiden’s information first. He let Jackson read the route. He decided whether to fight, fall, or counter-hit as a team. It was a tiny change. It changed everything. At 9:8, with Northstar Forge still down a round, the other team committed to a fast hit on the assumption that Northstar’s economy was too thin to stop it. Mason was holding mid with an Operator. He didn’t scope immediately. He waited until the opponent’s utility had already been spent.