Back in the League

The real public shift came in the match against Mason’s old organization. Before the game, his former team said they knew exactly what he feared, exactly how he broke when a match became a pressure round, exactly how to drag him back into the old version of himself. That quote got cut into the promo package alongside slow-motion footage of Mason’s Paris collapse. It looked like a public trial. The trial never happened. On map one, with the score at 12:11, Northstar Forge were defending and down a round. The enemy wanted to burn utility through a default, then close the map with a clean hit. Mason read the movement first. He didn’t swing alone.