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All the gamers are here
We're all
In front of the maze
Whoa
Come on, one, two, three
I cast a spell with them
Both of them please
Stand in the middle of the maze
Till we get into the cage
Time over comes
And so we fight
Over comes
Time over comes
Time over comes
Time over comes
I don't know what's next, it's time for action
Which in my TV set it's not for me
Just a few more hours and I'll be next to you
But I suppose there's nothing we can do
Girl, I'm gonna live, I'm gonna live, I'm gonna live on my own
Just a few more hours, and I'll be back to you
I suppose it's not that I think you're true
I don't know what's next, it's time for passion
What you might see, he said it's not for me
Just a few more hours, and I'll be next to you
But I suppose there's nothing we can do
Just a few more hours, and I'll be next to you
Just a few more hours, and I'll be next to you
Take it all
Last and last is nothing we can do
Hear me living, living alone
Hear me living, living alone
Just take it all out of words
And I'll get back to you
Last and last is nothing we can do
Here we go, here we go, here we go, here we go
Here we go, here we go, here we go
Just a few more hours, and I'll be back to you
As always, it's all that I can do
You said I loved you back then, but now she knows you're good
You said I needed a better man, but she's all for you
You said I loved you back then, but now I know you're good
You said I needed a better man, but she's the prettiest
Now we want to get to the tip
Get to the tip
Get to the tip
I
Here they come a creep are coming for you
Here we come a walking talking with big
Don't look to us because this ain't our time
In the common wrong it comes before your paya, paya, paya, ha ha
That's me and Maribay the night you're doing
In the common wrong it comes before your paya, paya, ha ha
That's me and Maribay the night you're doing
I can't fall asleep, I can't let you in the eye
Don't you dare hit me, it won't let me cry
Don't you dare hit me, I don't want to leave behind
Just keep that ring, we can have it tonight
I've been going nuts, lost in the night that you never heard
Stuck in the bottom line, what you've done that you never heard
I was raised in bed, changed between the lines
Don't you've got to see that I'm not doing fine
I've been falling down, I've been falling down to the river
I've been on the mountain, and I've been crying like a devil
I've been on the mountain, and I've been going like a devil
Like a devil, like a devil
We are nowhere, we even know where, nowhere is our home
Cast out, soon rejects we are one
Stainless, we are all without a name
You, nowhere is our home
I've been so loud, so sad, I've been so loud, so sad, I've been
Oh girl, it's the sun
Still, the morning I rest, I'm here to listen to our pain
Listen to our pain
It's been so loud, the sound of my face
It's been so loud, the sound of my face
My heart wants a stone
Shut up, I'm gonna beat you
You're gonna get away with us
We're gonna get away with you
My heart wants a stone
Beat you down
I'll be right back
I'll be right back
This door now
Is a silent break
This door now
Is a silent break
This door now
Stare at me, Stare at me, Stare at me, Stare at me
I lose my way, deep inside I feel the pain in my head
I put my weight deep inside
And what the hell am I doing?
Let's wait and save my life
Take my life
And if I'm left alone
I can't leave my weight deep inside
I get away from this life
I lose my way deep inside
What I'm running to is my life
My spirit is going away
Take my life
I'm going to live my life's a lie
To me, I'm one
To me, I'm one
I moved my way
to deep inside
And I feel the pain
in me blowing
I moved my way
to deep inside
And in one time
I saw
I stood the stone
away
I'm in charge, pulling in strings I don't lose, everybody wins
Spotlight shines and I'm getting locked in Spotlight action
Bish, can't steal my shine, I'm giving up now
Always said that I get it somehow
But a big family, I'm doing them proud
Yeah, watch me work, all the top rope
Been getting shut down, I've been a king
And I'm telling them loud, little subjects
Not taking my crown, yeah, watch me work
Champion do my thing, I step-fly
It's like I got wings, I'm on top
And I know what that brings, spotlight action
I'm in charge, pulling them strings
I don't lose every day of wins, spotlight shines and I'm getting locked in, spotlight action
Gans in the top when I do a report, every day fresh when I'm flipping in stores
My destination I'm staying on course, get right on track
They wanna test me up in crew wars, never boxed in, I've been breaking down walls
My whole team has been open in port, run that back
Oh my gosh.
I can't get into my things, I can't fly, it's like I'm on wings, I'm on top of it, I know what that brings, spotlight, action, spotlight
I'm in charge of putting in strength
I don't lose, everything wins
Spotlight shines and I'm getting locked in
Spotlight action
Never doubt it, you were by the haters And if you're not with it, then mmm, smell you later
Had to break in my back, give it all to myself Now, but count me out, I know it all too well
I hear them in the voices so loud
Rocking out all the sound
I can never stop them
Hards in the hearts they don't know
Until I take the crown
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
We can go on
We can go on
Back up, back up, come on, come on, come on, come on
Back up, back up, come on, come on, come on, come on
You ain't ever gonna see a gun like this
If I step up and you know I won't miss
Heading to the clouds, I was never looking down
Had these real big dreams, trying to hear that crowd
Think of my family, I wanna make them proud
I can't hear my haters guessing that
I hear the voices to the loud
I'm knocking out all the sun
I can never slow down
Until I take it down
Until I take it down
I'm coming back to life
I'm coming back to life
You ain't ever gonna see a run like this
If I step up and you know I won't miss
You're back, you're back, you're back, you're back
You ain't ever gonna see a run like this
It's a step up and you know I won't miss
I shouldn't know when you lied
I don't know why I tried
You cut me deep
Now it's your turn to bleed
You better watch your back, you son of a bitch!
You better watch your back, you son of a bitch!
I'm gonna find the way to ruin every man in the southern line
The dark and pale dark of a king!
And you're gonna win when I'm in front of you
You're gonna love tonight!
You better watch your back, you son of a bitch!
I'm gonna start you back to me, you're so confused
I'm gonna put you through pain, and I'll stop the rain
I'll start a couple of years, that's my end, you know?
You can't believe
Now it's your time to bleed
I'm gonna go
You're gonna land a land to the back of the sky
Come down and fly
And my way to go
I'm living my life to start
The darkened clouds are the light
Hold your blood in the rain
And I'm gonna find the rain
Keep burning them and I
You're gonna land a land to the back of the sky
But you're gonna lose
I'm the last bitch you watch, I'm grown up, I'm just a little useless
I'm gonna push a boat, carry on the silver rain
I'm so much of a rain, that's my engine
Now it's your turn to bleed
You are still wild, always waiting for the day You know it doesn't really matter
You want to break me out of my silence, so worry less about how it's done
Yeah, it's worth making my own, yeah
That feels like a wheel and it's spinning around
That feels like a wheel and it's spinning around
Don't know why you can't stay by this side
I don't want to stay sitting behind
That feels like a wheel and it's spinning around
You say the future's really something we control
I see a traveling in time
Please tell me how you did that
I'd like to know
I see things only in the past
I can't fly the wheel and spin it around
I can't fly the wheel and spin it around
And I know
I don't know what you get
Can you find it right?
Or are you chasing me?
And the blood is black
The wheel has been around
Why do you mind?
Feel like I can
I love you
Why do you mind?
ESL One Birmingham is brought to you by DHL and CheX.
You're a bullet, but I'm a no!
It's for our final stage if you're ready!
You gotta sit like you're a black headed, or a rock of new brand finals, saying here,
I need a solo on carpet, and I'm a no-brainer, check your phone, wait, this is it!
We have another three teams, baby!
We're in teams, baby! We've got extreme gaming!
A team that every single time they win, the entire audience is happily...
They got this! Go away!
They make fun of it and they want it now they want it!
That's how they do. That's how they do.
They're gonna get a mix.
We're gonna get a mix, coming up.
I think they've got a chip when they show they're hungry.
They're not gonna look down on my thunder. They won't fall out.
Absolutely.
Now this team wants...
They're experimenting a little too much.
I'm too close to this crowd.
But they come back today and they want to be actually against the Grand Finals here.
100%! I did speak to some of the guys from the airbecks, go into the crowd and drink with the fans in between some of the games.
So hopefully we don't see that here today.
No, that has to be in the series at least.
Interesting ideas.
And then the winner of this series gets to face Tundra in the grand final, Ari.
My point, Ari.
The UK's best football player.
Glad we didn't call an army boy, you can deliver it.
But hey, that's what it does, that's what we play.
How's he not willing to get ahead of ourselves?
I did.
Don't you guys have chance over here?
We do have a chance of army here.
Yep, sir.
Army, army, army!
Army, army, army!
All right, we don't play here.
All right, well, I'll get a little safe.
All right, fantastic.
Well, guys, we have such a huge day for you.
Everybody is here so early on a nice Sunday,
and I want all of those goobers at home
that are watching from their beds in their basements
to remember that they should come here!
Let's let them hear it!
All right, all right!
Ladies and gentlemen, let's get started
with our final day as we talk to our friends on the panel.
Thank you very much.
Here in the Andes Flags,
we are getting into our final day of action here
ESL won that Birmingham 2026 you heard it from them on the stage we started out with 16 teams and now we're down to just three
And I've got three other panelists to help me walk through it T
It has been a heck of a journey
But I think overall the Dota the crowd the patch everything has been delivering
Yeah, you couldn't ask for a better final day right especially because you have three different teams three different regions
as well. Like often in Dota it's like, oh, it's European dominance, but no, I feel like
is everything has come down just a beautiful ending to ESL1 Birmingham.
Representation across the board, it's fun to see the diversity in terms of the Dota
as well, and diversity in terms of the roles. We've got Rowan Atkinson on the panel. Is
this the, what's the, what's the bit? It's a Mr. Bean thing. He's Mr. Beaning.
He's Beaning.
He didn't know I was Mr. Bean this morning.
Unbelievable.
I will... I apologize.
He asked me if I was Mr. Beast.
Yeah, no, it's a common misconception, but he asked me.
But he just... he asked me. He's speaking.
So, what did he do?
He brought characters instantly.
Yeah, you're right.
Anyway, the Dota has been really great.
The patch during a major tournament, this is...
I don't... has this ever happened before?
It's usually during Dream Leagues.
A patch and a letter patch I don't think has ever happened.
So it's been really crazy.
The teams have adapted really well,
Paravision who unfortunately got knocked out yesterday. They adapted very well extreme within a series
They've adapted this is a tournament about resilience over everything and I'm just hoping I'm hoping today
We have something incredibly competitive
I don't want to see some plunder a 3-0 smash in the grand finals
We got to see some five-game series all teams are gonna have to show resilience with extreme
It's showing resilience after their inevitable game one loss because that is just happening consistently with Yandex
This is hopefully showing resilience after getting Smash 2.0 by Tundra and for Tundra waiting in the grand finals
resilience against RERERI OI OI OI every five minutes. That's what I'm assuming, Purge, but who knows what's gonna happen.
Yeah, it's been seriously, resilience is a story. Just to see the patch come out and for Xtreme to have more stable drafts
and not take too much of the new stuff, but still smash their games has been cool to see.
Like they're dealing, they knocked out Paravision who's been picking weird stuff, doing goofy things in the draft.
they broke their draft, they moved on. So they have that nice lower bracket momentum.
They've definitely seen the calmest team out of all the all the teams remaining I think.
So I'm excited to see how they do here. It's going to be fun to find out how these teams are going
to be able to crystallize their strategies on just a few days of figuring out the patch.
And it's a shame that they didn't get that much time because they have to figure out how to
get points for the Esports World Cup. Now only three more point awards are going to be handed
And the rest of the leaderboard is pretty locked in for the third out of our four spots on that journey as extreme gaming are
Quietly rocketing their way up the list. I don't remember what their starting placement was
But I'm very sure that it was not second. It didn't look like this. This is this is incredible for them
They could pretty much bomb out of an extreme league and I think they're guaranteed EWC
So they're they're sitting pretty happy
Which is also encouraging for the rest of the Chinese region because finally it's not going to be like five teams scrambling over one spot
No, I feel like any region loves that when their team kind of actually finally makes it to get an invitation to any big event
Right, like you know China SCA and a essay that I think god that better now
So yeah, I think for XG in the whole Chinese region. There's like a cyber relief
So we are gonna see you know more Chinese teams rock up
There's something historical to and Dota that it just doesn't feel like a real major Dota tournament unless there's a Chinese team
team that is making it like top four. I'm glad we finally have that because the way that
they look at Dota is so different. You always have this like clash of styles and it looks
so good.
I feel like the last time we saw a Chinese team get this far to DS01 was I believe 2023
qualifier with Azur Ray winning the entire thing. So that's even the last time a Chinese
team got top three. And if history is to repeat itself, maybe they're going to
be lifting the trophy and lifting a hefty amount of cash as a well because it's
It's not just the glory of the EWC prize points, but it's also a little purse as well that
they get to take with them.
I don't know, what's the conversion rate for pounds to USD?
Not good.
Yes.
Unless you're getting paid in pounds.
You're like, oh my God, I'm rich.
The local crowd, I'm sure, they're looking at these prize pools and they're like, well,
I can buy like two beers with this.
Purge, how many protein bars could you get with 250,000 pounds?
It depends.
Are you buying them through Uber Eats or are you going to an actual grocery store
I would say let's say bulk like Costco type
that's a lot that's a lot of more protein than you can eat or for sure
this man chugs it you see you see these mr. bean games
oh me know this guy's addicted this guy's addicted to protein
yes and sweet and he's never been the same design you've got to keep that
brain running for all these patches that keep dropping protein that does that
yeah protein sugar it's the sugar right here we go yeah we have been
Talking about how extreme a gaming are always struggling in their game ones, but how would you like to see some of their game ones?
Let's look at all of our games from yesterday our second last day of play here at ESL one of Birmingham
2026 we started things off with Aurora and party vision with tea party vision continuing their
lossless streak in the patch and Aurora were the unfortunate victims of that
Yeah, there was two here
Sorry two games one here you're gonna see across this series was the enchantress p vision
and you lised it beautifully against Aurora, and that's where, of course, later in the day,
XC just understood that, and was able to craft some strategies to eventually knock out P-Vision,
but you had to say that the way that they were playing, even in no one's interview,
he felt like they had that ability to get to the grand finals, like they had that aura around them.
They were playing so damn well, but it just comes down to one draft change,
and suddenly that aura, it just vanished.
They understood the patch for sure and I think also the patch hurt Aurora the most because of KOR's hero pool so
It's unfortunate, but it's part of Dota and contrast
This was a pretty dominant victory from a team that is kind of sticking to the 7.4
Oh a meta Tundra just largoted up and purge they were able to confidently take Yandex down to oh
I am not extremely surprised. I feel like if there's any team that was gonna blast them
It probably was gonna be Tundra because they are such a skilled team and they are good at these new patch
Situations they have lots of confidence as you can see from here. They're on the stage. He's like please cheer for me. I'm excellent
Which I don't blame them. I've seen a lot of people
Say who is the most entertaining carry to watch and here is consistently been a common answer for that
And then in final series over the day if you missed it last night
Extreme gaming lost a game one as you can see from the little tick mark next to party vision
But boy a team did they figure things out in game two and three
Yeah, I can actually have been one of the only teams in the tournament
I feel that they are
Absorbing the strategies of other teams as they play through the lower bracket, right?
They weren't really playing the vendor too much now suddenly taken in they have the
Sorry the slaughter they just doing game one the rubik as well
They can absorb it into their strategy and they go, you know what we can do it too
So when I look at XG, I'm expected that to happen as well in the series today.
100%. One of the biggest strengths of this team is not in the game of Xiao Wei.
It's the guy that he's known that if you have a series in all three games,
there will not be a repeat of the same hero in the drafts.
That's kind of the meme. Wasn't true yesterday, but he's very capable
where they lose to something game one.
And either his draft will be utilizing the heroes on the enemy side, like you said,
said in absorbing the strat, or picking an entirely different meta where that strategy
simply does not work against what Xiao Wei is picking, and he said to his team, you have
to be able to play everything because we are going to play everything.
You're going to play every single game on the way there.
You can see Extreme Gaming's entire lower bracket run, 2-1 against Maus, 2-1 against
Spirit, 2-1 against Parivision, and now Purge, we're just left wondering what's
going to happen with them in the index.
It's just so spooky playing against a team that's done a lower bracket run like
Because I just feel like those upper bracket teams is like a consistent story that we see it's so many tournaments
Whoever goes through winter bracket, but then gets knocked down sometimes
They're just they haven't played enough matches
And if actually is really building and throwing like little like jewels onto their strats that they have pre-existing
That just makes them so much more fearsome in these little bracket final moments. They they feel confident they face adversity
They don't have the stress of being like, oh, we almost got knocked out
They're not like four times now
They're like well we made a lot farther we expected after that start
So it's a very spooky thing to play in.
And that's just in the context of a standard tournament run.
The fact that they are also absorbing all this information on a fresh patch,
each game is worth its weight in gold,
and we're still trying to figure out things on the new patch, such as items, Jenkins.
What's up with these, uh, the wraps, the hats, the other things that run with that?
Every time a new patch comes out and there are items,
what Valve does is they combine to come up some crazy active,
And then the stats are way too high, because they would rather nerf the thing that's boring,
which is stats rather than nerfing the active.
So you can see that a lot of the winning builds in the previous day, were people utilizing some of these items.
Nine Class went for the Vision Urn, that looked very good.
You're getting extended debuff and buff duration from Curiosity, so you're actually able to heal your team more with this item.
A BGM build Bloodstone on Ember, which now combines with the Vale of Discord and is giving Spellamp in like 650 HP.
That's a full fame amount of HP. This makes a lot of sense.
And Aume went for the Hydra's Breath.
I thought this was something that he would only do on Weaver because you have like multiple attacks and multiple chances to proc this.
People are going for it on Puck with the Agnem Sceptre as well.
No, he went for it on Morphling. Like he straight up just thinks this item is broken.
It does seem very situational against the enemy. So for people who don't know what the Hydra's Breath is
It's the percentage base damage based off of max HP purge is that right?
Yeah, I believe that's right
And you have the chance to multi-shot as well that's from three specialists or the other special story
But it's three extra hits instead of two specialist arrays to and it works on
Specialist Ray doesn't work on like buckle for example, but Hydra's breath does I'm assuming it's the same thing with weaver
Sakuchi and the Agenem Shard that it's like glitched working on these
pseudo attacks. I remember seeing the explicit patch line that was like it
doesn't work on Warch's Gunslinger, it doesn't work on Splitshot and it
doesn't work on Flak Cannon. Exactly. That's the other one.
That's the thing with Wii right? It's like when you're Sakuchi and you're applying this
mark and everything goes crazy like there are some very few heroes that
will make it work and I think Army is trying to tell everyone, hey I'm
On finding the heroes, maybe you want to copy me at some point, but you might fail if you
copy in the wrong way.
You can't always be built the same way as Armin.
Let's see if he's a built for this lower bracket final.
Let's get into some Yandex vs Extreme.
Dropping down the lower bracket doesn't feel great.
I mean it's fine, you get another chance to play another day.
Just annoying part is I guess that we didn't really get to play in the after.
Carrying the team or whoever supporting us, watching us, including myself, wouldn't
be expecting us to be reaching the final day.
We were so close at getting out from the group stage, yeah, we made it, so I'm really grateful and happy.
I don't know if it was because of playing on stage or something, but yeah, we're just doing a play at all and all, like maybe 30% of what we can do, so...
As long as we get to play our own game, we get some good heroes, comfortable heroes, and I think I'm pretty confident.
I think against the Undex is an honor, it would be a real tough match and it's a good opportunity to finally take it home.
They're facing extreme, but they're interesting, they're a team that always has the potential to do good,
but most of the tournaments they are kind of consistent with nothing else, so it would be nice to play them,
it's also nice to play a Chinese team every once in a while, so it would be nice to play against Amnesty.
And you are going to get that opportunity, Stokzda, as the lower bracket final is between these two titans of Adota,
And it's always fun to see the regional showdown.
It is going to be a China versus Eastern Europe,
Yandex versus Extreme,
and a special guest that's joining us from this Twitch channel.
Welcome to the panel, my friends.
Thank you so much. I always love being here, Tsunami.
How's the co-streaming experience been for you so far?
You've been, like, over there somewhere.
Yeah.
But getting the vibes.
Yeah, it's great.
I mean, right in the middle of the crowd, I feel the energy.
I've never done anything like this before with such a big crowd.
and Birmingham is like the best crowd to sit like, it's amazing really.
It's living up to the standards consistently
and I'm glad to see that they are happy to prove that time and time again.
How about the Dota though? How's it been playing out as per your expectations?
I personally love, I hope they drop a new patch every tournament.
Because it's so chaotic, you know, the teams hate it.
Everybody I talk to they're like, oh my god, I don't know what happened, like, et cetera.
But it just creates a whole new dynamic and it's really entertaining honestly.
The games are unpredictable, to say the least.
For sure and being able to see extreme going for this to toe-to-toe every single time
We've touched on multiple times purge
But the fact that all of these theories are going three games
It's giving us a lot of opportunities to learn about this team. It is yeah
It's been quite interesting to see draft differences
I think between games to games because some teams have very consistent preferences and that gets thrown the bin
They might get stomped on game and then later on they have to pivot and the pivots
Sometimes are ingenious and perfect and solve all the problems
In fact, what Extreme Gaming did that I thought was very interesting is that they had this crazy run
where they're picking Underlord in the second phase consistently,
and it made a lot of difficulty for their final picks, because now you didn't feel like you could pick Spirit Heroes,
you couldn't pick Pux as your last picks, it made that last pick.
Illusion Heroes, yeah.
Illusion Heroes, there's a lot of problems with that, it reduced damage.
Extreme Gaming finally broke this thing, and they did it in a nice way.
They picked the Sand King, Roots are a little problematic for them,
but if he's already in their Epi-Standard Sandstorm, it's not that big of a deal.
So I really loved that draft group pivot
They solved something that had been terrorizing so many other teams and knocking them out of the tournaments.
Sankking looks insane in general, honestly
Like I don't know if something's glitched with the hero
I was running the numbers on the NA and seeing if it's more damage on caustic than last patch
But it's not I mean there is the 20 talent which is now giving you like epicenter pulses
Which was the 25 talent sure and then at 25 you're getting extra stinger damage
So technically now there's two
Damage talents, but it's like so late in the game
and I feel like Fanking's like 1v5'ing before he even gets to level 20.
He's just the most stable hero mid too, it feels like he almost loses no matchup, you press handstorm,
you walk through the mid lane, you know, you hit by my creeps and then you have a 9 minute blink tagger, like,
XMV, like, it's unreal.
And even if you do lose the landing phase, you just go to the jungle and do the exact same thing.
Yeah, hopefully some big ancient stack as well, it's so easy.
And if there's someone in making those ancient stacks, it's probably gonna come from the supports,
we've got a chance to catch up with XNova before the series begin.
Yeah, hello, I am here with Ex Nova from XG.
Ex Nova, first of all, how much excitement do you guys get from playing in front of a crowd? Does it give you a lot of energy to play?
Yeah, for sure, compared to all the events before, I think most tournaments are online, so it feels very great to be back on the stage.
I always thought it would be nerve-wracking. It would make me very nervous to play in front of these players, in front of this crowd.
How do you stay focused when you can see the crowd cheering and going crazy?
How do you focus on the game?
Personally, I feel a lot of chills and excitement from the crowd.
And you just get more motivation from it.
Fantastic.
We've seen you guys come from behind quite a bit in these series.
It feels like you lose the first game and then you find yourself.
So by game three, you're rocking and rolling.
Does it take time for you to figure out the opposition or to warm up?
What is happening there?
Most of the time, I think on the first game, we mostly got out drafted.
Maybe it's because of lack of prep or not understanding well enough or draft or also the opponent.
But the good thing is we managed to pick up quite fast and get to learn how we should play against each opponent every time.
So yeah, that's why.
Fantastic. What are you expecting from the Andecks today?
We've seen them drop down playing against country yesterday. What prep have you done? What are you expecting from them?
From their losses today, I think it's mostly because they were trying out something new
Like we see Iowa tiny and also some all girls and it was our
Well, I think if they are playing what they are usually playing there
They should be a very strong team and it's gonna be hectic and intense
It's gonna be hectic intense. It's gonna be great fun to watch extra over
Thanks for taking the time to talk to me. Good luck in your game. Back to the panel.
Back to an intense old as it makes for a very entertaining game of Dota 2 Watcher though,
and Extreme Gaming are hoping to take advantage in this lower bracket final.
But if it's hectic, that means that they may not get as many opportunities to focus on the objectives.
Because Jake, as a lot of these objectives are very time-oriented, and Extreme Gaming and Yandex, they focus on these times quite well.
Yandex in particular, I have always felt like that team is hyper focused on you know being at the torment at the right times
Taking early Roshan's taking towers like they they don't smoke to take kills
They smoke to take objectives, so I looked it up and it turns out they do have the highest average Roshan kills per game
2.06, you know the number maybe doesn't mean anything
But when you compare it to Falcons who's also very objective focus and you see the differences
Point three nine and that the difference between that and the next one is point eight like you can see how much more these guys are
Valuing objectives and you can see that
Making its way also into their drafts. They very rarely will
Not pick heroes that they can take these objectives. So I highlighted here. These are some of their previous drafts
Where you know slaughter shadow shaman they will take Rocha on TA plus tide hunter double minus armor
Yeah, Game 3, yeah of course, the classic Game 3 Spirit, I mean they lost this one maybe
it's because they didn't have some Roche on taking, but yeah it's very important like we've
talked a lot about if you can get Roche between like 15 to 20 minutes then it'll respawn
on your side most likely and then if you get it between 15 to 20 minutes, 20 minutes
Tormentor timing, you take the Tormentor, like this is why teams are snowballing early
game because they know this flow chart and I think it's still the same it's just
flipped sides, but that hasn't changed in the last patch.
I had the pleasure of playing with Sox that a little bit a couple years ago, he carried
me through a qualifier and the guy is systematic.
I think he came to this team, he brought a system in where they do this kind of objective
taking and he kind of creates a little bit of chaos early game, which the POS4 is really
good for, but yeah, I think Sox has the driving force behind this objective taking
if I had to guess.
Yeah, and a lot of the time he's like the Shadow Shaman, right?
So he's the guy walking in, dropping the wards and like, we're taking this
tower, we're taking this for O'Shawn, so it makes sense.
He's setting up the blueprint and the rest of his players are following it.
We also got a chance to catch up with Malady before the series began.
Hello, I'm here with Malady from Yandex.
Malady said first of all, the series yesterday gets Tundra.
Obviously didn't go as planned.
If you guys had a meeting, if you discussed that game, what's happening?
The reason why the series went so bad because the new patch was released 741A and I guess
they just prepared better than us.
For today, we didn't prepare at all.
We were here to have a good time, to be honest.
Nothing else.
Here to have a good time.
Do you enjoy playing in front of this crowd?
Because the crowd in Brom is especially loud and supportive.
They love watching some good notes.
Is it exciting?
Is it fun for you?
Do you feel energized playing in front of the crowd?
Yes, of course I am.
It's a pleasure to play in a crowded arena.
Because it's not always like this. Usually tournaments are online or even if there's an offline tournament, there's no crowd at all.
So yeah, I enjoy every last moment of it.
Fantastic. I know they love watching you guys play. Obviously you're up against XG here. You're looking for a place in the final.
You've got to ask what do you expect from this team? We've seen them kind of up and down.
They tend to lose game one and then win the next two games. Kind of unpredictable.
What have you got in terms of expectations for how XG are going to play?
I think XG will probably play some long data, so Army can farm his items and carry the game 1 vs 9.
That's what I'm expecting from them.
So shut down Army, is that the order of the day?
Yes, of course. We're going to focus Army today.
Okay, fantastic. Thank you so much for taking the time to talk to me.
We really look forward to seeing you guys playing in the semi-final and good luck. Back to the desk.
It's a pretty safe expectation from Malady as that has been a consistent secret to success for Xtreme throughout this entire tournament.
But if they can able to continue that success, will that remains to be determined?
Perhaps Yannix's lack of preparation might work in their favor, but to do so, we're going to have to bring them out onto the stage.
Yes, thank you, Neil. We are going to be bringing them out onto the stage momentarily.
First of all, what a fantastic crowd we've got here on a Sunday morning.
We should all be, and you've been a little bit hungover, who's to say?
I'm not going to say that I saw a lot of people drinking a lot of beers yesterday.
So what is this here you've got? What does this say?
Seroce this. And this says, lich my balls.
That's a jolly good picture of lich. I like that.
No banners today, gentlemen. No banners, sadly.
Any other banners? Who's got a banner? What's this one?
That's just says XG, fair enough.
Famos? Sandra?
I can't remember. Tundra, that makes more sense.
Don't know who Sandra is.
So this crowd is all ready for the semi-final.
I'm warmed up. I'm looking forward to it.
Let's get some teams out here.
Let's start off with Team Yannick!
I'm not going to let you go!
I know that is the way!
Extreme!
Get away!
The teams are taking their place, and the heroes are going to be on our screen as soon.
Cork, we heard from Ex Nova that it seemed yesterday that Yandex was doing some experimentation.
You've been playing Gilda and watching Gilda for a long time.
Did it warm your heart to see that IO Tiny is like a throwback to ye olde Dilda?
Oh, like not man.
No, it's like I love this combo. I remember 10 years ago I was queuing at 2am,
GH would pick IO, I would pick Tiny.
I asked them who's the best Tiny, he still said Miracle, you're not better.
I understand.
That's a peak moment though, and yet somehow as time has marched on,
it did not seem as dominant in this game that we saw on the air bracket.
I mean, this patch is super interesting because I feel like it rewards creativity but also punish creativity.
Yeah.
It goes both ways and they tried something new. I love to see that.
But if you fall back to the old patch things, I think you're still gonna lose.
I think trying new things is still key. You gotta go with something new here as well.
It's the right balance between the two and hopefully Yandex were able to find it.
They were able to find it in their upper bracket journey to this point because they did 2-1 Spirit on the new patch
to make it to the upper bracket final, but I don't know what it was about the Tundra team
purge that all these new strategies that Yannick's were bringing out were just getting consistently
shut down. I may think Tundra's just kind of built different, unfortunately. They are so refined in a
lot of ways, and I feel like picking and trying new strats at this point in the tournament is
harder. Like right when the patch comes out, maybe the day after, there's some surprises
that that could like blow you out of the water, but now you're kind of like reaching deeper
into these other things. I think this could be good. That's the kind of stuff that takes
refinement there's maybe too many pieces into it and that's why I kind of favor
extruding drafts because I just feel like they're drafts you could take a look at
their draft and you could paste it in any year in the last like five to ten years
and you're like oh that's a good draft it has Mars in Phoenix or it has stunners
on four different places they've got three different ways to initiate and
I've got a great hard carry I just feel like their the drafts are easier to
look at and say this is cookie cutter it makes sense and it fits the game and
as long as they can keep on me towards that like last pick of the
draft where he gets like good hero mentions I feel like that's the
the foundation for winning your drafts on average more than your opponents.
There's always an over adjustment that happens at the start of the patch, whether it's from
individual players in their pubs or from teams where everything is really chaotic, you're
trying a bunch of stuff, and I really do feel like in history the teams that have just
done what is like classically good in Dota and what was good on the previous patch
and then maybe plus or minus like two zeros, those are the ones that are very successful.
Now the question is, how do you figure out which heroes are the plus or minus that you should add to the draft?
I think Sand King, after seeing the series yesterday, that's a big one to look at.
There's a few that are curious, but it's hard to say for sure.
I have to disagree with that. I think actually it takes more than just adding with Hero 2 in this patch.
I think it's more about, like Kurt said also, this is an old game now.
We can go back 10 years and look at what was good 9 years ago and just be creative and just do what you're good at.
And I honestly, I don't know when you're supposed to be professional, but I felt like actually you're gonna get blown out of the water.
I didn't think they were a good team.
Coming into this, they almost lost to Maus.
I thought they were gonna lose yesterday for sure to Paravision, but I changed my mind.
Like these guys are super impressive at adapting.
Game 1, they kinda got rolled over.
But game 2, I was so surprised to see so much creativity.
First banning, like stealing the rubik, first banning the rubik, and then making them ban the rubik,
and then busting out a specter against Spirit, like that's unheard of.
Yeah, I don't know how they manage to do it because I think I've heard the same thing from multiple people like,
oh actually should have made it this far. Then they end up winning again. And then it's like two more times there.
They're just very resilient. And we'll see if Yandex can bring the special sauce from the Winter Bracket.
I also hope it is not a red herring for Yandex to focus too much on Aame specifically because my MVP for Extreme Gaming so far has been X-XS.
success he has been so consistently clutched every single game-free moment
he is initiating flawlessly and obviously that's a product of all of the
vision that the supports are giving the damage that the cores are giving but
still the fact that he is starting out fights so smoothly it's getting getting
a lot of props from there it's it's hard to take malady seriously that's
the thing I love the guy we thought that if he's memeing or not because like
Oh my god, you know, this guy's got aura. That's that's the meme
But I do feel like all may
Like extreme played fast in the third game of the previous year
Yeah, don't underestimate the strategy of lying for the crowd. Yeah, he might just say we're gonna focus on that
They're gonna ignore on the line is over part. Yeah, because it's it's not like extreme is just running
You know on a 1v9 in every game. Oh, he can do it for sure
But they've managed to figure out how to also
so apply a lot of early game pressure.
And I hear a lot of players almost complaining
that the game is determined by the first like 10 minutes,
more so than any patch, you know,
it's just like the flow chart after that point is so easy,
it's so hard to come back from.
So you have to be able to play fast and extremely shown
that they're very able to do that.
To be able to come back from the 10 minute point,
you really are the only team that I can see
really doing that is in the Grand Finals, Tundra.
They have some sort of strategy they're relying on,
like the Alchemist or maybe a Largo pick
and I pull them through
They are just the best team that's splitting the map.
I mean, I think Yandex are the closest to doing that also.
Taksa still has that thunderous spirit in him.
But yeah, if XG fall behind, I'm a little bit worried for them in this matchup here.
Of the 7.41 flavor that Xtreme has been most consistently bringing,
because they have been changing strategies,
Purge, I think this weaver that they've kind of lasered in on
is proving to be quite successful for them.
Yeah, I think it's a great carry for a multitude of reasons.
The little buff to damage increases nice.
Like, you can't be upset about that, it makes your items a little bit flexible.
But also, it beats some heroes very effectively, it's very evasive, it's hard to lock down,
you don't have to worry about slows very much.
If they don't have enough stuns, then your ulti becomes amazing.
And the hero can pressure early as a hard carry, but also still carry the game late.
So it's kind of a perfect position hero to do everything you want to do.
Win laning stage, not die too much, force your opponents to have a specific draft that counters you.
Pair stuns if you don't have them.
Like, it's just a lot of boxes to check, and the hero is hard to just stop in the lane, I feel like.
Yeah, very hard. It's hard to think of an offlane to pick against me.
Yesterday we saw Beastmaster responding to Weaver. That was not my choice, and they obviously got punished for it in the end.
Not my favorite hero.
For Yandex who were left figuring out what they are going to rely on, will it be the new ideas,
or perhaps the looped back ideas of this tiny I.O. and the Ogre Medusa, I guess we didn't
really talk about that.
What was that about?
I don't think they're coming back.
No, but okay, I will give credit to the Ogre Medusa, they did not lose that game because
of the Ogre Medusa.
Now I'm being nerdy, but they should have blocked picked the pango on the last pick,
I think they talked about it in the post game interview, like 30 seconds, I don't
know why they didn't just pick pango.
I think they might have actually won that game.
Do you think the Ogre is worth picking though, I mean he lost his learning curve
faster so he doesn't have like a good level 2 timing. The only item he ended up buying
the game is Midas. It doesn't give you experience anymore so it's like legitimately just a gold
sink that doesn't do anything.
It could have been any melee hero plus Medusa. It didn't have to be Ogre. But you know Malady,
Malady was cooking. He wanted to see if the Magi would work on this patch. It certainly
didn't. Yeah with Medusa it's interesting because there's, in any meta there's usually
only like three heroes that are really good at countering her without just ruining
you're draft people even force anti-mage off-lane you know so it's like you
you talk about blocking in pango you can legit do that and then there's nothing
there's no other option had anything so I'm not gonna say do this out of the
tournament I think it might come back as an 18 pick for either team here depending
on how fast or slow they want to play then you block it you protect it with
the two bands yeah two bands and pango needs to be out obviously we'll see
what's priority list pango goes in today yesterday we saw him being picked
first they did get punished for the end up losing on parabasit maybe
that not the hero that we're going to see prioritized today. I'm curious to see.
It's just been so... I feel like it's sprinkled into every single series no matter what, just
because it provides a really good team fight now. That Stunderation buff has made a big
difference. I feel like post the previous patch where the Stunderation was like 0.8 seconds,
you get like two rolls on a guy. Maybe before they finally are able to mant a BKB dodge,
jump away, cast their spells. But now that it's back to 1.2 seconds, we're
talking about like a triple, like a triple stun on every single hero. This is the
the first drinker of the tournament, I believe, is on the third.
We've seen it come. No way, she's double fisting all the way.
In a way. In a way.
Incredible. Incredible work.
That's harder than it looks. I've heard that too.
And I don't know. I'm very impressed.
I did a little research. I found out that the average human stomach can hold four liters of liquid.
Oh, that means you need two more of those.
Somebody get her a beer.
For the best of five, she's got a best of three to prepare for, as it do Yandex and Extreme.
It's getting to the draft for a game number one, where there are these pocket ideas that have been slowly bubbling up, such as,
wow, maybe I have to think about FY Rubik for the first time in two years.
Rubik first, man. What a year.
This is, I love it.
It's incredible. It's a very good hero. This innate giving debuff and buff amplification,
like I know the way Valve did this. They just recoded it. This is not debuff amp.
Somebody in the audience was telling me if you steal Chrono, your Chrono duration is increased.
You could just Chrono like the half-
Oh, it's like a timeless Relicon steroids kind of thing?
Kind of. Like basically they had to recode it for Rubik because it's also buff amplification.
So if you steal any buff, like you can oracle somebody for like 15 seconds for example.
So they've just simply recoded it it might legitimately be bugged in a lot of cases
It's all it's like it is doing way too much and then the fact that he's also giving damage
Reduction, it's all damage and not just attack damage. It's crazy good
How do you win a trade against the guys just reducing your damage?
Yeah, imagine like trying to cast your spell many fable to you right before it lands
Yeah, it's like oh, I just lost 28% damage or it's rough
9-class was the first on the train and an FYI was more than happy to board that train afterwards.
Elsewhere though, the other 7.401 terror has been coming from Venomanser consistently, so I'm not surprised to see that back up.
We got like it in the audience.
A little doggy like it. Going down the lines.
Alpha wolves.
It's dominated.
Tom Creep, yeah.
Little alpha wolves.
Well, Phoenix we saw in the previous day getting first phase banned a lot.
It's a very solid hero, Keori, obviously.
Well known on it.
The one guy that will not get it, that did not get it.
But it gets through against Yandex.
The left shot comes back.
I wasn't so sure what to think of him after the A-patch.
Some team didn't really prioritize him that high, but I think he still seems extremely
solid.
I think he's a really safe opener because he allows a lot of like, trained stun combos for your team.
It basically makes like, kills easy in a lot of circumstances because you just need some other stunner
and then Leshvak with Blink Dagger now becomes.
Because he has a way into the fight, he can layer his stun and he can almost certainly kill one hero.
So it, uh, I feel like it solves a lot of problems and has, uh, makes your draft easy from here on out
because the hero is just so good.
I'll be honest, uh, what's the name of the one? Chronoptic what?
Nourishment. Chronoptic Nourishment.
Wait, that's an item?
I thought that was the fastest.
That's the fastest.
No, no, no.
Crozier.
Crozier, yes.
That's a hard one.
Oh, the Ghostsector.
Yeah, yeah, the one.
The new item.
Yeah, I think as you can see here Phoenix provides some healing and I think that's the best
item the Crozier is on Lesh.
And I think you can really abuse that.
I think that's a big part of it, just blink in the middle and use it.
You saw 33 doing this on Largo as well.
It's really good against healing.
I think Lesh is a perfect hero for it.
70% healing reduction is crazy.
Yeah.
And then it's a 30% aura when you're not using it.
Come on, man, this thing.
That's wild.
It does so much.
Lesh loves the new Bloodstone as well, new Sheeva's,
like all of the items, the wraps.
Yeah, the consecrated wraps.
Like Lesh is pretty much the biggest abuser
of all the new items.
That's why when I saw the nerfs,
I know it's like 10% damage nerf to his edict.
Obviously, that's a pretty big deal.
But the items might make up for it.
But the items make up for it.
Yeah, they didn't really get nerfed that much, so.
No, not too much.
I assume we're going to see a Mars band here from Extreme Gaming.
I feel like giving my Phoenix Mars is too difficult.
Yeah, it's a bit bold.
And Mars looks really good with the new Aghanim Scepter.
Yeah, it's so fun.
One of my favorite moments of this tournament was the Aghanim Scepter combo with Gyro on Nightfall.
Wow, I've never seen anything like it.
He had plus 100 and 40% damage.
Yeah, it's literal rapier damage.
Insane.
So you think Yandex are rolling back a little bit to their older strategies with this Phoenix pick then with my Mars Phoenix
Maybe something solid. I think they should I feel like yesterday was a it was a bit too much. It was a bit overcooking
You know Ex Nova called it out in the interview
I just I'm not a big believer in tiny I are right now. No
Yeah, the tiny was a bit strange
They ended by me in the pango instead pango definitely has a stronger early timing against the last track
Like I feel like I can certainly be punished by rolling thunder plus two heroes because he's gonna get changed on for
enough time that he doesn't get to defend himself or use his high movement speed to get away.
He also suffers a bit from the minus armor now.
I think you don't really want to get an early Shiva anymore.
There's other options like Bloodstone.
So the pangal minus armor could be a reason as well.
Very safe second pick here for extreme gaming.
This Tusk just is jack of all trades.
Very safe in an early opening.
Has the same ally.
Can BKB pierce down, can increase your damage.
I still don't understand why we haven't nerfed a level 10 talent on Tusk yet.
Maybe.
That's putting that out there.
a good point actually that like extra 0.8 second stun duration, it makes it so much easier to
chain stun.
Especially now you don't have a double BKB late game so it gets even more bad.
It does.
Yeah, we were theory crafting.
We being Niki, Kezu, and Quinn, the refresher changes are very interesting.
Like who does it benefit more?
We were talking about Mars, like double Mars arena, late game now the heroes that
would counter it but have the double BKB and they don't so yeah is this better for
Mars or is it better for the heroes against Mars that refreshers like this I
need to see more refresh or on this patch I feel like there's a lot to be
explored there still definitely the bar right here with Phoenix is kind of
interesting helps you basically keep heroes closer towards where that egg is
going to be they also have fire yeah three stir fires actually a lot of a
lot of fire team fire team for sure pull people towards egg don't let them
escape. Ember's gonna be able to disable very easy mage slayer buyer, so they're gonna have
some solutions there against Lesh. Oh that's a great pick. Man, it's only magic damage on
the enemy side right now. Fire magic damage. Yeah, fire magic damage. It's also blue. Yeah.
It's just really aesthetic. It kind of looks like rain, it's really effective. That's
true. It gets fire damage. Or just maybe dispelled against a bad rider, that's also
pretty effective. Another nice thing about Ember Batrider Phoenix is it's very
pokey damage like Ember can just kind of like slight chains you there's the Mars
block picking it a little bit there you can you can just like slight chains and
casually poke and if it looks good then you can commit the lasso commit the egg
and you can kind of like pick and choose your fights it's a lot harder against
Oracle and Tosk now there's two saves one thing that concerns me a little bit so
far and extreme they haven't really found a solution to the egg yet in the
first big Phoenix they're gonna have to either ignore it or yeah or like
kind of died to. Yeah, I guess maybe the idea is like Oracle, Old Brownway, Oracle,
Fatesedict, or Alay. So right down the end, I'll be drafting some sort of
AoE control if I could. Maybe I'll be looking at even the Tidehunter or
something like this unless they want to run the Bat-Post 3, but normally now I
think it's more of a support hero. Aside from when notice is playing it,
that's why I actually very much like this Mars steel, because they put up
the Oracle, they say your Batrider is gonna have an awful time. If you want
to change the position, well you can't take Mars because I'm taking
that away from you also. And so we'll see if Nodus Phil wants to take Batrider as a core
or if he'll just grin and bear it.
Yeah, they're going to go for the best carry remaining, leaning into the Mars. The Kess is
not so popular anymore. It's also very high single target physical damage against the
Lesh, so you can kind of kill him through. And also they need the physical, like you
said, they're all magical, the Oracle, Fates Edict would be a bit too hard to
deal with. I like this pickup, my Andix.
You can kind of insta-kill Oracle on a lot of fights too. He basically needs
to get a Ghost Scepter, but a lot of the time, he would like that first item to be Blinkett's
Vest, so that can feel pretty bad in his build up.
I think Lawson is the best EA as well.
Oh, this guy's a drunk, man.
Oh my god, that was fast.
Pace yourself.
I like that when you're pointing out the TA killing Oracle, they outslive away to get
vision.
Ember Spirit is quite survivable.
He's not going to die super, super easily against enemy draft once he gets good HP,
so he can find that Oracle, jump to the back lines, get slides on him, and that
should make it easier for TA to play the game.
Good Medusa band. Very good Medusa band.
It's been one of the few answers to when we saw T.A. was broken last patch.
Medusa was the one that kind of could out carry her.
And they already had to ban Pango in the earlier phase, so that's out.
They could have just done a quick AM ban and pick Medusa to call it a day.
Underlord would have been quite effective. A lot of AoE root and disable to make it harder for Extreme Gaming to get their Lush Rack out of danger.
Also good against Tusk when he tries to save somebody.
They still need control for that egg, I think, to keep them in place a little bit so Tia can hit, so whatever Yandex are looking for is in that kind of melee-hero-control-artifact.
Do you have a preference whether it comes from the mid-lane or the off-lane, because we still don't know where this bad rider is going?
That's true. I think people from what I've seen, that's mostly supporting nowadays, but maybe they've tried something in scrims, they're gonna bring him back as a core.
Yeah, let's see. I mean, I would love to see Tiny, just in general.
Tiny plus Oracle is a very good hero.
It got buffed in the letter patch. I think it's a good hero.
We're talking A, we disable. There's not much in the 4 position.
Is it worth it against Oracle who can stop his damage and also because his toss is way less A.V.?
One of the best things against Oracle is repositioning.
He can toss them out and put them away from Oracle's range.
But the difficult thing is that Yandex, like you guys are mentioning, can run Batrider offline or Batrider 4?
Yeah, I would get to see.
Yeah, I mean, I agree with you.
T.A. Ty, it gives you everything.
Yeah, T.A. Ty, Cloud.
I don't even know what to say, though.
You get to say, though, I feel like you've said that like four times this tournament.
I'll keep saying it.
He will keep you up and you'll get it.
I'll say it.
Don't want to die.
It's good. I mean, he can die to Leshrac as one spooky thing.
It's like so much overpowering damage, and his Kraken's going to proc constantly based on the line.
But it is a really good teamfight for sure. He's done both the kill.
They didn't end up banning the Earths against Tide, which is the number one team, the number one ban we see from Princess Mausoo, and Monkey is the second one.
I think Earthsup fell off a little bit in priority, and he's not as good against T.A. as Monkey is. Monkey can kind of like kill her with his Wukong if they manage to do Locker down.
Yeah.
Now this is a really good pick.
I mean teams in general are valuing the Monkey King now that you level it up and you get the old jump passive
Yeah, you basically get two facets for the first one
Yeah, you get two facets for free, which I think for like four Monkey King people don't really care that much to have the changing of the guard
But for Kerry, it's insane
What's he gonna get?
Pikachu? Charizard?
It's not a holographic SSR
Oh no, you got this, you got this
Alright, it's there
He's gonna control who wins the game
That's not the one you had on.
Oh he knows the method, huh?
Yeah, okay, let's do it.
Okay.
Oh, that's nice.
That kid's who's not here, right?
Come on, come on.
Give us the little...
Oh!
That was not bad.
What is that?
I don't know.
I couldn't see what that was.
That's not bad.
It's a full...
Four cars.
Yeah, so you know what it is.
Four cars?
No, no, no.
It's a full-card art.
It's worth more.
It's worth more.
No, no, it's if it's a full card artist. It's worth more. Oh, now I forget what was that
I only know the boomer one
We'll stick to your area of expertise then Gork, which of the drafts are you leaning towards?
Honestly tough call. I really liked this last big monkey by Ame
I've usually accused monkey of being a bit of a volatile here
You feed once or twice and the game is over, but listen
I saw I'm a play yesterday the last two games
That was one of his top performances to carry the past few years.
He's like he literally does not die, and I think monkeys are perfect here for that
Yeah, they might just run away with this game you say it like it is volatile 100%
But with Oracle not really right that yeah Oracle Oracle monkeys an old og combo. They used to run all the time
I love this combination here. I think for it's usually not smart to say she's gonna win the first game
But I think that's maybe for once I'll say they have a slight edge of these if you're an extreme fan
you don't want them to win the first game.
You want to lose game one and then win the game two and game three,
but maybe they'll change that dynamic.
It's time to get into our very first game of the day here on the last day of ESL
one, Birmingham 2026.
So let's get into it.
What's up, bro?
Are you guys ready for the final dance?
It's one-burnin' up!
That's right!
We're here with Extreme, Versus Yandex!
One team, he said.
They only played 30% of their game.
Versus the other, who has managed to push every series door.
One team, they only played 30% of their game, versus the other who has had to push every series to 100% every single time they go to that game 3.
SG, they've been farming some extra games here on the new patch, it's not only farming some else, but also farming some W's.
They've played the most games on this patch of ANC that has to be an advantage as they've just been building up the experience.
The index though, as the panel mentioned, they are hungry to go back to those finals.
I feel like they did not get to show what they were capable of yesterday.
Oh, certainly not.
And that has got to build a lot of spite, you know, like, we need to go out on our terms
here.
So both these teams are going to be very hungry to get into that Grand Final.
It's interesting to see how they match up against each other.
I couldn't really quite actually gotten this game one though.
What are you really about it?
They have some really nice combinations and they have a lot of stuns to play
with.
I think XG for me plays better when they just have simple stun combos that they
They can enter the teamfight with set each other up, play around the map.
This Lush has been a beast of a hero for them, and they have four to put the back of up.
Here comes the Tusk came, but he finds himself outnumbered, and this was not a two versus four.
Nice scum belt from the Monkey King, that'll keep him alive, and our squad's still on plane.
You know, a little bit of spell action out, but the Tusk is gonna be really late to the slaying top, so maybe you can get a little abuse going up there.
If you said the Phoenix quickly to that top lane though, he's gonna have to gate here at Xnova.
Scouting him out is delaying Malady from getting up into that 2v1 top.
Kind of awkward position for this Phoenix right now.
I think the Oracle, Monkey is a panel match and also something Liquid talked about.
They really like this combination. It goes back to OG as well.
The Oracle deals with a lot of the heroes that naturally give Monkey problems, right?
The Bat Rider, the Phoenix, all these debuffs.
The Oracle can help them power through that.
So there's a lot of push them back, Aix Nova gonna be out of position after the gush and the bloodgrain's flowing him down.
First blood is available, but Soxa, he's gonna go in for the dive underneath the tower.
X-Gover tried to joke about the tree, Soxa cuts down the tree to get the first blood.
And Amit, he was just hitting the tide.
Maybe didn't expect this barrier to dive under the tower, because that's a return kill for sure.
Easily, Soxa just did one or two more hits, was left, but now he's even gonna be able to get the creep wave pulled.
That's a big win for him.
If he gets Juke there, if the monkey hits him, he dies.
This lane can look very different.
You gotta get these small victories in the early game.
The thing I think that stands out the most with this Yandex lineup is
the teamfight, right? This TA Tide get going.
And you just go in that Roche pit with Supernova, Ravage, TAs hitting it down.
That's a tough contest for XG.
Yeah, you can just false promise someone in, they can tank it.
But they're gonna be able to kill someone through the tank in this lineup.
You have to get through refraction, you have to get through Sunray,
you have to get through Tidehunter with Auras.
And Burr's gonna be a mobile hero.
There's a lot to deal with here in the true 5-on-5, so you definitely want to see some momentum for actually early, maybe a return to their form yesterday.
That game 3 was the most impressive by then.
Oh yeah.
A team that has just been getting better and better, as you said. They have played the most games of this patch.
That matter goes through the lower bracket. It matters a lot.
Like, you're trying to figure out the feel of the game, the feel of the map, when these objectives are needed to take it down.
You get more reps in?
That can make the difference here.
Next level strat from shall we, you know?
Sandbag a couple of games, it'll look a little shaky, but all of a sudden new patch drops, you're the most experienced team.
That's true.
Out of that mid-match I've gone, it looks like the CS is very even between the left rack and Ember Spirit, nothing to say, versus Jury Jr.
I'll get the edge too.
I like Ember in the early game, if you can get a lot of points and chains and just start chaining the slash in the early fights.
I think it is potential for NTS to not be able to close that gap
He does have the Oracle to kind of help again like this Oracle's a big X-Factor team
But yours getting sunrayed down Batrider's cutting you out your gauge paintings. You get gushed
I could see this being a little tougher Lash
That said if NTS you can get some of the tank items up early
What into it you get false promise do you care?
Kind of to choose who your false promises
Are you putting attention to the monkey or you putting it into the Lash if you picked one over the other and all these
these DOTs just going out of their hero and kai can actually be a little sad.
I assume that for you, you're looking at they should play around the less rack as much as
possible.
I think it actually changes at different points in this game.
Okay.
And I think the focus for Yannix is going to change too.
I think that in this early game, depending on how much the monkey snowballs, I would
rather shut down the less super early and in the later portions of the game shut
down the monkey a bit more.
We also got to see how powerful this less ends up being with some of the new item
builds that can come out.
Also, be careful a little bit.
So far, quite a laning phase.
I may have had that early flash, but otherwise, no heavy rotations.
We've seen some of the supports take the mid, but that's just here.
Just to secure some water rooms, or nothing to say, in this LESH rack,
which does leave Aume alone to hear the TP back coming in from the Oracle.
And that'll be enough.
Dissuade Soxa from continuing the dive.
really play too aggressively against Oracle. Really hard to dive some of these heroes if Exnova can
respond. Look, any STP out there, if you can make these kind of poke plays, force a response,
and then make a play elsewhere or go for like a redive, and play around the hero. Oh, nice!
Blame break! Shooting him down as Ame tried to jump on and notice there. Stopping a bit of damage
and slow.
Also the...
It's down here to get the Jigoo, two points in that.
So the army is struggling a bit in HP.
It does have Lotus to fall back on here.
It'll be okay for now.
Not a bad laning phase for actually, which has kind of been one of the weaknesses in
a lot of these series, particularly Game 1.
Yeah.
Well, the fact they come on here and they have the top 3 CS, that is a G here,
You don't care too much about the time while a geek it takes to fight to nothing to say anyway
He's doing pretty well in this midnight. He's gonna hit a nice level six timing here
Well in time to be strong and have full resources for that six minute power and contest
Which is a big room to get here for both these minutes
Particularly if it's a region rune or some extra arcane resources on the map or two
These heroes that want to use a lot of mana in this early game
Yep, they can potentially contest seven minute wisdom trimes
We've seen NTS make that play with the same king for example. You can do it with the less here
It is available potentially.
It's a hero that can run into Tidehunter and bring him down early in the game.
Malady's gonna...
...train sneak up your spot FY, so we're just gonna have a standoff here.
I'm really trying to put some pressure on this Vizier one.
Before the Ember 6 comes out, he's one creep away.
And the Batrider and Oracle also, both running through the jungle together to get to these power runes.
And it looks like a dreamgamer gonna make the stack on a top lane.
Which Jira Junior can contest with a slight attempted steal,
But he gets pushed out of the way by FY doesn't manage to go through the steal and now the shield wound immediately pop by nothing to say they hit
The fortunes and on to malady, but he's able to still make a dive out. So the kill still remains
elusive for extreme
Resources for NTS. That's about all you get out of that play
But it's important that XG are taking these ruins away from the ember
Don't want to let him control the map against your support through
And Amber, he gets to get the free trip to base, comes back.
Tower did take a lot of damage off that catapult, so actually you do get a little more value
out of that exchange.
Two thirds of that tier 1 going down.
Notice, he was trying to pull the creep way back because he didn't want to play the
1 on 1 against the monkey king, but the two supports are going to sandwich him now,
and he's going to just keep hitting these anchor smashes, going down the damage quite
a bit.
This is not the fastest kill.
It's gonna cost extreme flight a bit of time to make this one happen
Especially with some pure fucking flames healing up notice. He purges it off and they should eventually get to it here
Man, I took forever. Was that three jingu?
Three full jingu build-ups just running it down. That was ridiculous. You can only save the stuns. You can't TP out
Yeah, that is a a slow crawl to a kill. You did say this tight hunter was gonna be a beefy boy against some of
Oh, yeah, I think the lesh is your best answer to the tie in the early game
So if you're not willing to bring that NTS into those places, it's gonna take a while
The monkeys a great matchup, but you need more points in the G. You need an early damage item
Actually gonna go radians here that would be I
Don't be surprising white greedy. I haven't seen this brilliant monkey building a long time since the radians got nerfed
It's a better build against Templars. Yeah, that's the biggest factor here
It used to be a really nice matchup for monkey against some of these high physical burst heroes
And of course Thompson was definitely one of the pioneers of this bill
Don't tops it doesn't got it. Yeah, that's true
eight minute
Cheer junior jumping to the other side going for the contest again
It ends up falling for nothing to say ex noble this line and wait for it
Knock it out of there. I feel like you had a second there at the end either way
That's a huge kill to grab here
This ever is getting shut down the tide got shut down
It's early game looking very strong for a tree gaming right here
He might even be able to take this big tower pushing in the label the embers built dead
That's the power of the Lesh if he kills you you leave the lane
He's just gonna start taking buildings and with the Oracle behind him
What are you really afraid of in this early game?
You can't change them and just gets this build you can't put magic damage into them because of the fates eat it right?
And then what do you say? Oh, well, let's bypass the lesh and try and threaten the support through around the map
Well, that's dependent on your Ember getting some power runes, getting like early phase boots up,
being able to output some nice physical damage towards that backline.
Tide's not gonna join that Skarfish.
Cool, look at the stack difference! I mean, extreme gaming!
They're never really much of a stack team, but goodness!
One to eleven?
A lot of it's in this upper jungle.
We're seeing Wattson clear through like a double-golem camp up here.
The Boglets just got stacked four times?
There's a huge amount of Boglets up there.
Yeah, this is a dance of something, a dance of attorney down here.
Yeah, I don't think Kame really has...
Yeah, look at that boggle camp right there.
Yeah, I lined him up.
Oh, I've never seen so many bogglets.
Oh, yeah.
That was pretty good.
That was a good crowd like that one.
The Watson well on his way to his desso.
So even if the Ember is struggling,
and frankly the Tidehunter isn't doing much better,
At least the Templar assassin is leading up the chart.
Yeah, makes up for it here.
Watson can definitely pull these other two cores back into the middle of the team fight,
especially if it's a fight around Roshan, that mid-game or something.
It's another hero that can be a problem for Lesh.
If you get a fast gas, so Dragon Lance, you're just kind of laying the physical into the Lesh before he has the armor.
Yeah, but that matchup also goes both ways, right?
Yes, it definitely goes.
A third Pau Rune is nothing to say you're going to get for a kill.
Third time man!
Well, that's Oracle.
That's Oracle.
Unfortunately, Dan got him on the Emberspear, they're going to collide and they're just going to bring all their stuns before they bring down Shira Junior and finally take this mid tower.
Five heroes going mid.
Gee, I mean that's the power of prognosticate. You just go to the side, you know where the road is.
Oh, right, right, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, never forget about that, Austin. And now he can...
You can do the Roche, right?
Yeah, that's why Shira Junior jumped to the other side before, right? He was like he knew nothing to say on the right side.
Definitely getting some nice early runes here though. You know where they're gonna spawn doesn't necessarily mean they're gonna get ones for you
Yeah, but getting this regen at the 10 like you want an early regen runes here. This gives you so much staying power on the map
This oracle is just gonna shut down so much early rushers. Yeah, these early kills got him to level six pretty quick
It's really hard to skirmish with that Phoenix supports. Yeah, it's early dispelled
You just don't build the damage up, so it's definitely gonna be a slow economic game from the end, so they find it's a yes!
Oh, I'm way just way too far over there! What are you doing on the other side of the river by yourself like that?
They get a change connection into a huge lasso find from Soksov.
I mean, if you're gonna be playing there, you gotta know for sure that your aura goes behind you.
He went to blink first build. He just got the blink delivered.
A very aggressive Lesh build. We've seen some players deviate from this as you just try and play it for scale a bit more.
You know this build, you don't want to give up a kill, do you? Like, you just want to be okay. I'm gonna TP top, instantly jump on Watson.
Which you got to be thinking about here. As well if you're Yandex, where is this Lesh gonna go when he respawns?
That's the biggest factor right now.
Gonna go back mid. He's gonna show that safe side of relief for Yandex that he's not smoking onto any of these big cores.
They do have a smoke in the backpack of the Oracle who's
Probably gonna be sticking to the hip of this Leshrac a little bit closer than he was before.
And stacking for another Power Rune that Yandex just have no hope of being able to contest, so...
No, it's kinda nasty. Guaranteeing Leshrac of all heroes, every single Power Rune.
Thanks to that aura on A.
That is another nice word to get here as you have the blink online, now you have a haste to back it up.
Definitely time to try and connect this Leshrac onto the TA in the jungle.
Yeah, try to run over this top lane and they are going to smoke through some bish in here so...
Oh, they're going to hit it.
A Templar Assassin.
Watson thinks he's safer than he actually is, but the smoke is perfectly played.
He catches Watson in the jungle, brings him down, and now a move to that top tower.
That perfect connection here for a stream gaming.
XXS trying to chase after him, slowed down by the TA trap, so he's not going to catch the feeding immediately.
Malady can kill off this wave.
That nice creep bolt. It's got to delay this push a little bit, but...
Yeah, it's best to keep him down here.
He's dying, gets the way up into the trees.
Oh, the splitter off the map will stop him.
Okay, paceroupe.
Hey, Dividends here.
He didn't connect.
Oh, maybe that played.
And look at this fast rotation.
X-Noven's going to TP to the tier two,
and then they had the Tusk TP to the tier one,
trying to sandwich Sox up.
But he's able to have the benefit of flight,
and just goes up into Clive's area, no problem.
That's a secure value room.
I mean, actually, moving around the map really fast
is generally how you want to play with this carry one.
You can just connect to all these plays,
give you the numbers. Super strong in the early engagements with this Echo buildup.
Glad he did not try and rush a Radiance or something here because I think you want to
play a faster game. Sure. Probably Harpoon feels pretty good in this game too. Oh yeah.
Can't still catch Soxa here. Alright, back up the jungle. Yeah, they got him.
Forge and Xand will hold him in place enough to stay. Bring him down. Did they see the Ward
draw. I think they did. That is a word that the index could potentially go back to here.
With Foo, though. Yeah, that's a fair point. It's like they got the Ember spirit, and that's
it. It feels like it's kinda it. Tied in TA, or Brug just probably playing some AFK-hitting
Neutral's games. If you have a guess on Tia, maybe you bring Watson into this
game a little earlier than he would like, just for the damage. You're gonna have
Mage Slayer on the Ember very shortly. That's kinda your best early fighting
I don't hear a damage, I don't know if you gotta use this Ember Mage Slayer.
Very nice landing against the Lush.
Okay, trying to ambush this bottom lane, make use of the Ravage.
Oh, if you can use Ravage in this game, that is...
That is the Crown Jewel.
It's very difficult for this tide to get involved right now, but...
Yeah, if he does, he's strong.
Other traps at bottom, socks at trying to just get some extra creep farming.
He will go down? Maybe? Nope?
They're running. They're gonna run for it. He does get out with just 100 HP.
So it's gonna be a deso for Aume now.
He's just going full early physical damage monkey came.
Oh, George, you gotta be careful there, because this Mars does have a ULT.
Which is a great answer to the Embersphere. Aume jumps
forward and feeling the threat there. Thinking there was maybe a third hero
behind these two.
He does have two saves behind him in this game.
Yeah.
Saves are super nice with Monkey King.
The need you can hold on to some of your spells
a little longer in the fight, see what develops.
It really is true, especially with the early game
lead that extreme gaming have got,
you're going to have a relatively fast blink
dag or 4FY at this point, 100%.
So that's another reason I like the deso echo here
as opposed to the radiance, because you
can go and join these fights earlier with Monkey
and have the confidence that you're not just going
to feed that's something like glass cannon.
You just can ravage the die.
You have states to bail you out and this is a nice build against the tide who normally a tanky hero doesn't have the early armor
So some issues that the index have to address here, but the mage layer coming out for the ember shortly
And the dagger done for Soxa. So yes, this is a great timing
Now they could start to look for a bit more here. They're only down by 2k
Oh, yeah, easily derex fight with just one pick off
That's gonna be power room setting up right now. They had the vision of these heroes stacked at top
They're gonna surprise him at why I gotta be caught the oracle grab on to the oracles
He think person down but it's a supernova. No, I'm just give the false promise off on himself
The snowball from FY will delay his own death. Was that enough to get nothing to stay out of here?
What link up one second? He's got the blink
He's not to use it. He's gonna turn until the embers spirit
Coming through with the clutch and now on a hitting a big time with the two-man boundless strike set up on the supports
Oh the death though though Watson makes short work of nothing to say in this fight
He brings down the left track pretty damn quickly and on me under this threat had to pop his ultimate here
Try to get up the ability don't judge reason that won't be able to he's gonna be ravaged in person
The gush is more than enough damage. Maybe notice dies the pure line plays get the kill right before Watson does a
Triple for the carry of the index so many small things actually were trying to play off of there
They had a lotus on the monkey. He had a boundless strike up if he gets that off
maybe they could turn that fight a little bit more very clutch dual scepters from xxs
in two instances there on the ta going in at the end and on that ember initially that bought time
for the lesh to kind of regen up and rejoin that fight and she making some small plays work for
them but this is still the 55 the index one with all of their holds up get very clutch duals
wind up taking down the ember saving the lesh this turns the fight two man stuff in the
the high ground. It's all looking great here for XG, but this Watson TA hurts. That's that
Lesh TA matchup if he gets to play it on his terms. I'm surprised all that went back in here.
You could just back up. It seemed like he was because the urn was kicking if he was trying to
jump to the trees, but again if he gets the foulest strike off there, maybe you kill Phoenix
and hide instantly. Yeah, you can turn that bike. These are very close exchanges.
And at the end, the index, they walk away. The better for it is now the net worth is even
between the two teams. They walk away a lot happier because they also got
decimal charges on Watson, right? Like he's sitting on eight now. Yeah, how did Ami end up with
the node? He just finished it. Oh, okay, okay. This is a big, big damage difference as these
two carries are trying to scale up. But also Watson getting involved, getting those kills,
He's level 15. Oh, XXS. They drop the ward. He blinks forward, but he doesn't get the ULTS off in time.
Longstin is too fast for extreme gaming.
You really have to be careful of those games, because that ULTS can just instantly put you...
They just showed a lot of heroes, so Hameg has to use his ultimate defensively here.
Now the rest of the team, he's going to come in. The ULTS after on the Ember spirit.
Is this going to be enough chain stun? It is. With the best though, Ed Ember dies pretty quickly.
Pretty quickly nothing to say jump sent misses out of the split earth Watson side steps it with a blink of his own
An extreme gaming they're gonna have to reset and back up a little bit here
It Watson
These fights are a nice answer
He's basically killing heroes or he's just getting a hundred is here. He gets caught by some of the what's wrapped damage
or supposed to be stuns
Stocks does still stuck around xxs finds the opening but
The Andics are here, and they're very far off.
All style here, the Disdarm, Otto Watson's gonna slow down his damage, but eventually
should be able to kill X-Men.
They even threw the False Promise.
It's gonna be hard for him to out-kill that.
X, X, X, signing away the trees.
Just don't TP.
Does he not have a TP?
Do they not know?
They don't know.
They don't know about the little puppy.
Ah, they found him out.
He's gonna burn him out with his burning life.
All right, well, you got the False Promise out of the Oracle, arena down, you
killed a large, you get a tower.
Okay, we need some work in this game right now, and big.
We've even got a TP mid and potentially look for a bit more.
So last so available, Flint Dagger up for Soxa.
Yeah, no false promise, so if they could slight change the give, wants it on top of the Lestra, he'd die.
You really have to be careful in these moments where you don't have Oracle.
It hurts your formation a lot, and it's just a green light for Soxa to go in and try and find anybody.
Aame, given the vision to apply to snowball to the neutral camp, unfortunately too many TA traps that Soxa doesn't even have to expend last over here
then last over here to get the kill. There you are going to drop the ultimate here for the monster team,
meanwhile the jump in mid lane, they got nothing to say, and X-Mill is going to die as well.
Now, Yandex are really beginning to cook, because they're cutting out extreme gaming to control the map entirely.
Great ravage connection.
Wanted to find somebody with it at some point in this early game, and that is a great find.
You get another tower off it, potentially even threaten Roche on here.
Yeah, they've got a great Roche taking in for a mentor team, so objective.
They're a region for the TA, like, free.
If you're without the Ravage, you're not confident to do it low,
three spawn times on the Leshrac here.
But finding three kills across the map during that false promise downtime,
that feels great here for the Index.
This will get you to your Tidehunter blink, so
you're gonna have multiple sorts of initiation,
multiple blink daggers, you're gonna be able to go in Ravage,
use the zone control
to stop the saves coming out,
and just burst that first target down.
Now, they will not have some of these big teamfight ultimates,
so a big stream can get here in time,
Especially this new tier of Tormentor.
That is so tanky.
Pushing out the lanes, but they're not moving fast enough to get here.
Actually, you might take the fight anyway.
The only question mark is, can you get the Monkey King here in time?
Oh, it's gonna break on FY. Soxa spotted. Blinks forward. Blink for blink. Got him inside the arena, though.
Malty, first target. Trying to take out the Phoenix. Do manage to deal with Soxa as well.
Supernova goes off and manages to hit the spirits on the Chubba.
That's doing a lot of damage, and they have to back away.
They got the tide though. Oh, that's nasty.
And it is a better target instead of the Phoenix.
I like to actually take that trade, like whatever, you can live with the Phoenix, but...
Oh, there's a fish in there. It's true, he never got the fish.
Trapped in the trees.
The poor fish, man.
That was a nice sound effect, too.
Very good.
The index.
He's still up 3k off of the Tormentor, but it's kind of crazy that it's off gold.
A lot of this leaves on TA.
They were very efficient with the stacking in the early game, that's kind of what kept
them in it.
And he's super high level, level 18 on this Temple Arts Ass, and there's a nice little
fish cam right there.
He's loving it.
Look at him.
This way he's going to grow legs, kind of walking around.
You can evolve.
We got double DKBs too.
And that's going to be pretty nasty Watson can almost find out entirely and she or junior just 400 gold away
So I feel like the scales really tip the end of this favor at that point
Maybe they're strongest relative itemization point this game
Double BKB with the pipe with the mage layer that is a huge amount of magic resistance. Yeah, some of its overlapping
So you're losing some value. That's another way you can look at it
But it's gonna be overwhelming around that Roshad fit in particular, which means you really need this monkey to output the physical DPS.
If you're extreme game, you're playing into a huge amount of magic resistance.
What do you have to bypass it? The Deso Monkey. That's about it, yeah.
And he didn't really get that snowball rolling. He stopped waiting fights as soon as he got that Deso, so he's only got two charges.
Andix, starting to get more aggressive. They have the blink on the tide, smoking through mid lane.
The BKB is flying out to the Ember right now, so perfectly aligning these big timings and instantly looking for the jump.
This would be very big if Extreme Gaming could limit their losses during this big play.
They do seem to have a pretty good read of the situation. Looking at them playing very defensively.
Even Aame, who was actually free out there in that bottom lane area, he's mad.
Finish this BKB. They're willing to join the fight now, but they're missing the bloodstone on the ledge.
In the contest for Roshan. I mean, that's a very different fight. If you're able to catch Yandex inside of the pit,
they do have very good Rosh-taking potential and good ways to defend the area between Ravage and Supernova,
but if the Monkey King can get in the right position here.
Look at this angle. This could be sick.
Looping all the way around.
You have to find a really nice arena jump. You have to set the fight up.
XXS, he can't just go for a Jules initiation. He's just got a blink spirit. FY tried to make the jump. He doesn't find it.
And Shira Junior now activates his DKB. He goes after Leshrac. That's gonna be maybe an easy kill.
False promise does go down. Not pressing up with the last open. It doesn't really matter.
You've already surrounded this Leshrac. Done more than enough damage to kill him through the false promise.
And XXS only just now getting the arena off Amme.
He did all that time all that looping around to set up for a Roshan fight and they didn't even fight there I
Think that fights over the second toss jumps in yeah
I just don't even know what you're gonna find off that initiative. It's gonna go well for you
You're gonna end up clumping into a choke point on that hill into ravage supernova Sunray
BKD ember you basically had to kill one of these cores before a BKD went off
And it's extremely difficult into the high ground mission into the TA traps
That's why they were looking for this unique angle.
Did you think it was going to be easier if he elicited with Punch for X-XS to follow it up?
It just seems so odd.
I just felt too far away, I think.
Like, in theory, there's a world you can pull that off, but they can always just blink and ravage it, and there's no BKV on Mars.
They can prevent the chainslip going out.
I think this was a really tough fight to take in general, just in terms of the item findings.
And that's the power of the indexes on it.
When they hit their timings, they group up.
I think that Roche contestant's game was always going to be really difficult unless your monthly team was just snowballing out of control.
That's a big setback for actually 8k lead now for Yandex. They're going to take this map over. This team is untouchable.
Looking for the Ember.
Got a nice pick up for Xtreme. This is beginning to look a pretty grim for them down 8,000 net worth.
Yeah, they need more of that, right? Two or three man pick offs with the map. Don't run into this Yandex ball that is a little out of control right now.
Does that change at any point? What do you think extreme gaming can take the 5 on 5 again?
With the Lestrax itemization? Or do they just always have to play from the gods?
Away from the big tight hunter rabbit.
Or survivability is when they can just man up for these 5 on 5s.
You need like bloodstone sheevas on the last. You need some other stat item on the monkey king.
Because you can only false promise one of these heroes.
And as we saw in that fight, if you false promise them in the end, they say,
Yeah, nice ult. We're just gonna run through you anyway.
Yeah, it doesn't do anything for you.
And the power of all that A.U.E. teamfight.
Also, BKB on the Mars is a big deal in these games, because there's a BKB advantage for
the index right now, and they know it.
They're just trying to run you over.
Level 20 on this Templar Assassin right now already has the Meldar Reduction.
Approaching Daedalus.
I would not be surprised if the index tried to take it pretty early racks in this game.
Maybe not with this Aegis, but I think that option is available with just how
high level and how farmed Watson is and the BKV superiority right now.
And the fact that you want to force extreme gaming into Flybond.
Exactly.
You can, right?
I think you'd rather play right now than say 10 minutes from now when this game could
look a lot different.
I'll make cutting bottom wave though, very heads of play.
They're going to flip this too, yeah, this is really going to stall the group on this
bottom lane for Nandex.
This is about all you're going to get from it.
The back door might even kick in here.
Yeah, the final three dies, backdoor protection will be up soon.
could be close you have fast enough though okay back door just said i'm taking a
break okay tower goes down okay king gonna cut some more and they've got the
top lane pushed in pretty aggressively as well gonna work towards scottie on
army oh army army army right it sucks the clears through the tree that he
was a bot how did that not cut that tree man i can't believe he just sat there
I know right like what I thought he was gonna be jumping way earlier
Goodness
All my things, you know he read the trajectory down to the pixel. I guess so
And he is going into the Scotty so you know like that if you need some big stat in this game
Maybe it's not ideal. Maybe just rather ramp the damage, but
He'd be survived. It's okay, Scott. Yeah, the lesser. It feels like you need to be gave you as well
Yeah, he's fine. He's fine
What? He was way out of the lane, you know?
I mean, even if he does manage to cut it down, he probably wouldn't have died just because there was no one with Fox.
I like how we had a cam on him after that play, because if Bobby was ever going to give us an expression.
You have to manage to friendly dead inside.
One of these days, you know, he's going to freak out.
Yeah, that will be when he finally beats Magnus in a game five.
Okay, you don't have to throw that out, boss.
14 to 14, 7k up, 4 Yandex, and they still have a minute left on this Aegis.
and they are pushing towards the triangle.
They would still love the fight right now.
They're gonna get caught here.
BKB and Ultimate for Aume.
He's gonna be last though.
Hold the wait for staff before they can get the false promise off.
Uh-oh, that's gonna be in trouble.
Aume trying to keep himself alive with the lifesteal
for the Ravage intercepts.
Ines saves.
They bail on that play.
Yeah.
No way you're taking that fight.
Five blades.
Next to a blade.
Still ages for a minute here.
That's why Yannix was pushing so aggressively.
You have a Daedalus to you with ages.
Do not want to commit to that kind of fight if you're HV.
Yeah, Exnova picked up a Gem.
As soon as that poor staff happened, he said,
Goodbye, brother.
I was also watching, like, you're not linking in there to say
even when you're carrying Gem on this Oracle.
Yeah.
You need Gem for not only awards the TA traps this game.
Yeah, the TA traps are gonna be a big problem for Adshremen
trying to stall out this game,
especially when their side lane pushes like this Leshrac get caught.
Now up 10Ks, the agents about to expire,
And Yandex are clearing through all these tier 2.
SG giving up some big kills around the map. They were ratting pretty successfully for the first few minutes of this ages.
Yandex found some big pick offs and that's going to build the seat significantly. That's what they wanted during this period.
They wanted some tier 2s, some deeper map control and some big core pick offs on the rat action.
Set yourself up for this next Roshan where you can go high ground.
Because they're going to have a lot more firepower when that moment comes.
You're going to have another big item on the Ember. You're going to probably have the eggs on the Tidehunter.
And extreme they kind of need to get to BKB on the lush rack, so he's not getting stunned
last round.
So...
False promise here.
Yeah.
That was just a solo play for those oxen.
So that was the one instance where you didn't need the false promise here, but of course
you do not know that.
And another war kill.
Just no way to maintain the vision on the map right now.
You're just being gaming.
Yeah, everywhere Yandex shows.
Just able to pull extreme back
They can get to that Scotty of the monkey king at DKB on lush rack
I'm not even gonna say sight advice with Mars because frankly X6S
I don't think he's gonna have much time to farm here after when fights or kill heroes to do that
Yeah, the index have not given a lot of openings this game. No, they don't really have too much map control
Yeah, it's just still there. It's killing. Oh, yeah. Oh the crow ball
He enjoys watching the fish
Alright, next poor mentor, next rogue, Sean. I mean, frankly, this is just going to be
Yandex's game. They kind of do whatever they want for the next few minutes. An extreme
game here. Just going to try and siphon as much gold out of the map. Stay away from
me and x where they can't you'll pick up for the toss interesting
potentially something to interrupt this tide hunter can interrupt Sunray you
also use the bat when you blink skin chair and she pretty nice here
I see the network this is weird game the network chart doesn't look that terrible
for next year in terms of the cores but the supports are really far behind
behind in the experience differential is pretty large here.
Yeah, that is a nasty network difference if you just look at supports and experience.
They're both three levels down.
So you've got the 15 maxed out abilities and 15 talents on both supports in the end.
Support diff is kind of crazy right now.
And it finished the Sheeva's on this Phoenix as well.
An agonim stepper for the Tidehunter.
So AoE gush combined with Sly to Fist and some side blade stuff.
They're gonna just have a lot of nasty physical damage being thrown around.
Nothing to say, gotta be spotted in the trees.
Everyone here with no BKB.
He just wanted to hide away in the trees.
Maybe catch one more wave and he'd have that BKB.
Instead...
Prolonged even more.
Downside of the Oracle Tuss Support Duo.
It need to get a little more action done in this early game
because they're not great in playing the map.
Pretty weak at pushing the lanes out.
You can sit behind cores and protect them a little bit, but at this point...
If you try and sit behind one of these cores, you're just gonna die too.
Right, it's largely been the Monkey King, it's the only hero that feels secure pushing out deep into the map.
And Yennex, not even gonna wait for the Roshan.
They hit the high ground early here with 30 seconds left on the Leshrac saying this Monkey King is not gonna be enough to stop us.
Potentially risky if you die here, you could lose Rosh too.
Well, to make it easy to go down, try to go for the spear back from X-XS, he fails in that attempt.
And now has to do a BKB walk of shame.
They used Wukong, all they expect is not to land, no more ultimates, and that means Yandex
they have complete control of this area. Even if the Leicester comes back up, I don't think they can take the fight.
I think this Rax is just gone, yeah. You had one opportunity there, and you blew it.
Yandex gonna capitalize, or Deser of Charges for Watson.
If you will back up Long Row spawn, that's a little interesting.
Does kind of weirdly give an opportunity, Wukong's man will come back up.
Yes.
That's the only thing kind of working for a key right now.
Somebody give nothing to save some gold, man.
It's bad enough that like this Templar Assassin, just two or three shots him so often,
but Elise has a chance to kite around if he has a DKG.
How do you sneak-y play Sox?
I have a PaySword, Fy.
I think I'll die for this one.
And they're all waiting to punch!
What a reaction from Fy!
He's going to get speared!
Can they kill anything off of this though?
Yandex, they quickly jump in off the supernova ravage.
They're going to ensure they actually get two kills for this.
Now, it's a lot of big team fight ultimates down,
but Extreme are not going to blow buybacks,
especially with X, XS having already used the arena.
The team play for Yandex is just so insane.
Yeah, you get so much value out of the ravage that's covering both of the saving supports when you go in on core
There's nothing they can do
Tell me for the last track but
What cost it looks like the game may already be done. They do buy back on the Mars
I'm gonna try and commit here trying to get the balance right in his whatever looking to blow up the Templar Stas and the
Supernova in response and now okay to get off the false promise
They're all ending on this Watson hero, but they just do not have the damage simply put. He forces Afts down to low ground
He'll be good at last rack dies from the false promise
It simply could not get enough deals to stop the damage of Watson who comes back in a play jump scene after xxs
He's gonna be knocked up in the air by a fly got the spear on they got him
They killed Watson the temp bar assassin is down now a desperate TP waves in the ember spirit almost dies there
Aume couldn't finish him off. Can they get anything more? It's gonna be Soxa. The fortunes end, catches him, no blink out.
A third kill for Extreme Gaming cost them two different buybacks, but they do have an opportunity to take Roche.
I'm very surprised this kid dies in this fight. Yeah, me too.
Maybe there's a world you can back out there as the Index, but you keep your big price pushing.
Now what's the risk of pushing when the Roche was gonna respawn?
quite a lot of teams just don't want to do it even if you're favored maybe there's a little window here actually can get something
NTS somebody has to just go in and sacrifice their life. Yeah, pretty good false promise all things considered
The enders just have so much damage to throw into it. You don't care and this is the point in the fight where you're like, all right
Watson is out
If I kind of looks over you're gonna go back in maybe this is just game if they wipe them here
Watson recommits the ullthodge pretty pivotal here as you can punch and then reset it up and now
I
Weeding out another hero cheer junior in some trouble does have the
Remnant out get away. That's Jesus. Oh God. He snowball quick pick up onto the monkey king to put him on top of the Phoenix for yet another kill
You have to go rose your direction
Absolutely extreme gaming you have been given a breath of life in this game one
You've got to make the most of it. You have to seize these little momentum points in these games
Bring the crowd back into it. Start to gain some advantage.
It doesn't even matter if it's the right strategic decision.
It's the right decision based on the momentum.
Yep. Just go for the big plays here.
Take as much as you can while Yandex are faltering.
And look at this, the fresh items that are going to be picked up.
X-X is going to get his 9th advice.
We saw how crucial his initiation was when he failed the initiation earlier.
The teamfight was all over, but now it's going to be played so much earlier
and he just has this point and click stun.
I feel like this game is, it's not on him, but it's pretty close right here.
They are super dependent on the Mars Lockdown.
The only reason that fight went okay is because you had the Mars Vibe.
So you have two goes from X-XS to make something happen there,
and he had a very clutchy ULT dodge.
Look at these stream, they're trying to get even more pick-offs.
They know Yandex, the little reeling right now,
timing behind the Tier 2, hoping they can...
It's the right idea.
...wompy in their positioning.
Yeah, it will not be.
When a team falters, you need to extract as much as you can.
This butterfly's gonna be nasty.
Monkey King with the butter and Watson was thinking about a swift playing so if he goes for that
It's gonna be a long ways to the MTV. I also thought this game was gonna be over in that push
Oh, I just sent that gush came through and the tea is about to go back in. I thought that was just gonna be Giva
XG they have other plans
FYI he's had some really fast reactions for
An old man, what is he, party?
But his punches they have given an opportunity time and time again for extreme
Oh, I love this part.
Look at his presence felt here.
This game goes later and later.
This double save lineup can become more annoying if you're able to hold the formation.
The big problem is the index have just broken through your frontline so fast.
Yeah, we haven't seen XG's formation set up.
Deal with it at all.
So, in order to maintain that formation, you need a sturdier let's track, right?
Like that, this is one of the biggest problems.
He doesn't have any armor, and now he's still going to be going back for that Chivas.
Hope for prayer.
It has some gold.
Where do you start the fight on your turn?
You find that initiation with your ours.
And then that all comes down to what XXS can find.
He's just in the monkey.
Walking into some vision here.
Light goes down.
Arena.
Trying to catch him.
Gauri, you got Supernova.
Can you kill the Aegre real nice and quick with all their DKBs?
They're trying to go for it.
The last one.
The last one was stopping them.
The Aegre goes off in there, faced in extreme.
They dared to get on the offensive.
And now that's gonna be a problem, a second line for Amé. Poms to BKB, can he do anything with this?
He goes after the Amber who got hit by this side, the Fice, now looks back to the Phoenix,
but now they're gonna be ravaged up in the air! A perfect timing from notice!
Now, nothing to say, and Amé will fall, fall! It's an absolute team wipe!
Perfect team fight for Yandex. There's no way you're killing Egg there.
Especially with a double-agged lasso coming through on both of those core targets hitting it.
That fight was over at that point.
Sick fight from Sokza.
You had to save the ravage for the end.
That's just the cootie grass here.
Man, there were some brief moments in that where it's like,
how actually you gotta be able to do it here?
Now, they gave you a whole fucking steady end.
They just quickly shut the door on any potential comebacks.
They now have the MKB.
MKB done for Watson's.
Didn't go for the swift link.
They'll have the answer to the Monkey King butterfly.
They had one opportunity, one team fight to be able to take it.
Now, Tier 3's falling a final set of racks down, it's going to be Megas and they can easily hit mid as well.
Just such a strong 5-5 lineup. They had very good positioning on that fight.
Probably even had 5 backs there, even if you killed that egg. I don't think that fight's going much better.
It was a scary part.
GG.
Extreme are going to call it on this game one.
And it was a very dominant game for Yandex through and through. Extreme gaming gave themselves one hope, one opportunity, and in the end they just were not able to clutch it to keep the game going.
Yandex just too damn dominant.
That was probably the best early we've seen from XG in this play-off run.
Yeah, it was pretty smooth. They were warming all three lanes. They had a pretty fast line-up of connecting the Monkey King.
You think they're starting to build the lead and then it just could not take the 5 on 5s.
They can't run the damage dealers in.
It kind of goes like that to that blink lesh bill.
Like was that the right build in that game?
You got the blink, you get to die, and then your momentum just went out the window.
It's not a tank item.
It's not a stat item.
You need you to be able to snowball off of that blink dagger, and it just doesn't
work.
And then they continue to try and take some fights, but frankly that was just when
the Enix was much stronger.
Yeah, at that point it's really difficult to find openings.
Yeah.
faster game from XG. I guess the good news for them is it's game one, which they've lost
every game. That's true, that's true. If you lose it poorly or well I guess it doesn't really matter.
They are used to it at this point in time. 19 to 28, the final score, Yandex, very dominant,
game one from them. They took it over again, they stopped the that laning phase victory that
was kind of going okay for extreme gaming, and she hit a very nice big game time. It feels to
me like the European teams have just a better read on being able to stall off the game
to hit their timing and knowing how much stronger they are at the end.
Alright, well that was Game 1.
Plenty more on the table if Extreme Gaming have something to say about it,
but Yandex are hoping for the fast 2-0 to get to the grand finals.
Don't be discouraged if you're an Extreme Gaming fan.
You shouldn't be, because you should know that this is hard for the course.
Consistently, they will lose Game 1, and maybe not this triumphant of a fashion.
but they all lose game 1 and then they learn from it and they look towards a game 2 and game 3.
I'm slightly hesitant because this is maybe a more emphatic game 1 loss than their typical ones.
It's a bit emphatic, I definitely know what that means, you know what I mean.
You know, there's some things to learn from this. I think Gork had a very solid point
on the previous panel that Tidenhaunter looked like a really great pick which we were thinking
to protect the Phoenix egg and looked really strong, which he did in a lot of these fights.
Like, he was very important for making sure that thing popped. Phoenix was doing a ton of damage
in every single fight. But also, tight-hunter, the way you counter these single target saves,
such as the Oracle and the Tusk Snowball, is AoE. It's counter-intuitive, but it's because
you can jump in, ravage everyone, including the backline, including the saves, and then
focused one guy so it's like ironic the big aoe spells are actually the best at
single target focusing one guy because in a lot of these flights XG just couldn't
play like Titan under but the ravager was too good. There's some cases too where a
guy would get low he would get ultied by Oracle you're like oh that guy's not
gonna die and Titan would still blink and ravage that guy because that's gonna
lock him down for two seconds he's gonna be in that area you have a better
chance of killing him after it ends and in the meantime you're hitting
everybody else it's like the normal doda thing save the guy that's dying
you clump a little bit it's gonna make the ravage better and it's gonna
to get better impact. Yeah and it worked really well with Ember
Spear as well. We talked a little bit on the prior panel about kind of like the
pokey nature of Ember Spear. You can go in, you can get vision of supports, which a
lot of the time resulted in like Oracle just straight up dying, FAC's Oracle
instant blink jump, and a lot of the time Exmova was using Oracle ulti on
himself, which is like what are you gonna do? You have to do it, right?
You have to ult yourself because you want to waste the enemy time, but
Then Yandex, what they did is, they ignored him, like they didn't even do the thing where
you're trying to deal enough damage to kill the guy when the Oracle ult falls off.
They legit just ignored him, and they played the fight somewhere else.
They're like, okay, we've popped this, you know, teamfight ability, and now we're going
to go focus on something else.
Like they had a flowchart of how they wanted the teamfights to go, and they executed
it flawlessly.
Do you want to show us some of the moments in that flowchart part?
I would love to, yes.
Some of these actually did lane quite well.
They had a nice 2k advantage at about 16 minutes into the game, and these
These rune fights were really really impactful for how things went.
So watch how they're committing Oracle, they had to basically use it defensively because
Soxia grabbed him with the blink dagger.
They're trying to keep their opponents near the Phoenix egg and you might think that this
fight is over but the index is actually looking for more grabs here.
The chain stun on the Ember with the Sunfall off from the Leshrac basically made everything
a little bit cleaner in terms of getting kill pick offs and Aumys also trying to
utilize his abilities but the problem is that Watson does so much physical damage
that a hero like Leshrac cannot stand up against us.
Even the Monkey King has some trouble
because the single target damage is so, so, so high.
And both teams just over fought a little bit for this.
Maybe Aume should have retreated.
The Ravage ends up making this way more straightforward,
and they're able to clean up this fight and get advantage.
And this kind of just cascaded for Yandex here.
They had good engagements all over the map.
They were killing FY here at the 20 minute mark.
They, after killing him, they ended up diving
towards the mid lane as well.
And they turned this into a really nice Tormenter,
which catapulted their lead.
that gives them more gold advantage and finally a really big fight here.
We won't be watching the whole thing, but look how separated they are.
I'm going to restart that story. I'm at a high speed.
They're going to jump in and they're going to put Ember directly on top of the
Lash Rack here. He gets jumped.
He's going to have to use Oracle ulti just to save him.
The Ravage hits everybody.
Yeah, they're just getting every single piece of the puzzle put together here
in this teamfight.
And this was like the biggest teamfight moment of Randex.
They ran away with the game after this point.
It's so beautiful.
I love watching Dota when it's played like this, where you can tell that everybody just has like a really clear idea of how to take the fight there.
There's this synergy that's there. And for me, it's like heartwarming to see Watson play like this, because I feel like this was his problem for a long time.
He would be top net worth, but executing the fights and actually carrying the game would sometimes be hard.
But the way that he's playing these fights, like, utoro level, you know, it looks so nice, so clean.
That's high praise, but he has earned it and it's encouraging to see that he hasn't been thrown off balance by that 2-0 in the upper bracket against Tundra.
Now we need to see Will Xtreme continue the script of losing game 1 into game 2 and 3 victories,
or if Yanix have finally flipped the script and are going to clean out the series,
find out as we take a break and return for game number 2.
I
Can we throw a lady we have scrims
They was such a green so was yesterday and so will be tomorrow
Do you ever think about losing?
Some things have been happening that might be related.
I kicked the wrong hero in the draft, I forgot when to stop camps,
and I stopped getting razors on SF.
No razors?
I don't know what I can do.
You have to go to the real world.
Wow! This is the real world! What's going on?
Why is everybody looking at me?
What the hell is that on your neck? What are you, a Fortnite gamer or something?
It's Dota 2, actually.
Dota 2? What the hell is that?
Dota players outside? That's impossible.
We haven't played Dota in like five years.
Oh.
Oh, one of the best.
And it's no bad Dota player.
It's back in the steamhouse!
Dota player's only half one ending.
Get that Dota player!
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No!
You can't just host Dream League!
Why not?
I have 15k left!
People underestimate just how much these guys need to live this game in order to do well.
And I should know.
Team Liquid almost wins everything.
When a new patch drops, everything changes.
Our habits, our gameplay, but with every patch, our lives change with the game.
Like literally.
After the last patch rolled up, we just woke up and were like, what the hell are these?
Worked out better for some of us than others.
Every morning it's the same.
Wake up at 1pm, hit alarm, and choose the facets for the entire day.
You pick the wrong one accidentally and all of a sudden the entire day is screwed.
Oh
I'm not a fan.
Misclicking facets can be bad, sure.
But some people just have garbage facets.
Unlock.
Omar, what do you want to do today?
Brother, you can pick one of these two.
Doesn't matter. Anyone is really good.
Snaking. Can you please pick your good facet today? Snaking. Snaking. Snay! Hey, Serious!
Tweet! U-O-G!
Letting players choose their own facets puts a lot of pressure on us coaches. Because,
you know, players are idiots.
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only for the army if filthy stealing grubick what's the matter if I take one killer two
at the end we're one team stop stealing my kids
Hey buddy, how are you doing today? You're feeling fine? Everything's good? Get your nice haircut, okay?
We're gonna make you look pretty, and also your friend can watch. It's totally fine.
You're gonna get this guy the best haircut of his life! You know who this guy is? He's an ignition!
He's gonna get you the best haircut of his life!
He's gonna get you the best haircut of his life!
He's gonna get you the best haircut of his life!
hair cut of his life you know who this guy is mission God from Indonesia the
jacarro God look at him you need to be looked at right now
let's go baby it's all good in the hood run it back let's go let's go look at
that we soon then on the white wine haircut for it about you so that's
I'm so upset with him.
What's that?
He had such glass hair too.
That's the worst part.
I've been around for a long time and played a lot of different patches.
And to me, new patches, they motivate me.
Oh, come on.
Yeah, it can be a little demotivating too.
My facets suck.
At least I've got a huge innate.
We're here at SL1 Birmingham, I'd like to give a big shout out to
Firstie Aaron and secondly to Bobair, okay?
Thank you so much. Shout out to Bon, the smallest man in the world.
My boy, my king. I just want to give a shout out to all my queer people, all my
queer gamers. Love you. I just want to give a shout out to
everybody that treats the game as a regular game, isn't toxic all the time
and actually just has fun with it. Enjoy the rest of your games
and enjoy Yosemite Booming.
Shout out to all the unranked gamers, unranked masterbies, you guys know who you are.
Big shout out to my buddy Lee, he couldn't make it this time but you know, we're cheering on your behalf
and I do have your goodie bag, so look at you.
Hi Anuka, I would love to have you here but I'm very sad you're not so I hope you enjoy watching
and I love you, see you soon.
I love spending all these moments from the crowd, especially for a British crowd specifically.
Make some noise if you're local to the UK.
I figured as much, and it is a full house.
So we thought we'd take the opportunity to celebrate
two of our very own homegrown talent.
Ladies and gentlemen, it's Pirion Flags and OD Pixel.
Thank you, Neil.
I'm loving it here today. How are you finding it?
It's been amazing.
Since the beginning of Friday back,
we turned up in midday Friday.
It was pretty much already full.
Everybody was turning up.
It's amazing. Every time we come to Birmingham,
you know, we had two years ago.
I want to be here every year.
I know, and when we talk to the players, they always say it's a great crowd, good crack, always good fun,
and a lot of noise in the arena whenever they play, so it's always good.
Doesn't this take us back to humble beginnings when you and I used to do UK Dotson.
There were no big lands here, it was just like epic land, which was in a hotel,
and Ireland was here, of course, shout out to Shane.
Do you miss those days?
Yeah, I mean, there was people fun.
I mean, even in those days when we had a small crowd, you would still get a turn up,
and the British crowd would just be there loving the games.
They didn't care who was playing, what was going on in the match.
They were just there for the good close matches.
And we've seen that yesterday.
The Stomps were still fun, but what's going on there?
Ladies and gentlemen, who would have thought
that on this day of the Grand Finals,
both the British boys would both have a birthday?
We got period flags on the 8th, big old 25th birthday. Congratulations here. And Owen as
well. Happy birthday Owen. Now, I know it's cringe to have your event at a birthday at
the event. I thought we would have the entire crowd saying happy birthday. But, but a true
present to you. Why don't we have the legend himself, the voice of the international
punch himself!
Let's bring our John Patrick line!
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And we're going to have punch!
Thank you guys, happy birthday!
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He makes you almost at home.
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Happy birthday, period, and Odie Pekstor!
Thank you.
What happens for you in the back if I don't eat them all?
Well, thank you guys so much.
Thank you, Joe.
That was incredible.
Thank you.
Well, happy birthday, Alan, and many happy returns to you, brother.
Absolutely.
It's huge success.
Thanks, guys.
Thank you, Perry, and Owen, for the years of entertainment that you've brought us, hopefully,
the beginning of many more to come.
It is a pleasure to commemorate such a special time with you on this final day of ESL One
of Birmingham, 2026.
But the order of business at hand is still elimination, as Yandex and Xtreme are fighting
for a spot in the grand finals to face off against another Brit to face off against
RA.
some more insight on this game too. I've brought a TI winner onto my panel. Ladies and gentlemen,
make some noise for Amar! Welcome to the panel Amar.
Thank you very much and thank you for my introduction.
Yeah, thank you for joining us. What do we owe the pleasure? You're bringing some TI
insight. I'm sure you would prefer to be on the stage, but you're here to share
your brain with us a little bit?
than TI, I also was the last Birmingham winner, right?
That's true.
So, yeah, I'll see what I've got.
I'm looking forward to seeing what is your review of the series so far.
We've seen Yandex, we've seen Extreme, we know Extreme, they love losing game one.
Every single time they take it and then they're like, game two and three I'll figure
it out.
You think that's going to happen here?
Well, that actually what happened with us last Birmingham, which we kept losing
one game.
That is true.
So, think about that.
So like it's kinda funny but maybe the history repeating itself in a different way.
So there is a chance they can come back but yeah they have to step up on the drafting
a bit cause like giving Watts some TA and giving the tide with it is a bit of a problem.
Yeah that was crazy.
What do you think about Mars, the new Agatom Scepter where you're getting the plus 20%
damage or whatever?
Like do you think it's better than it was Lost Patch?
I mean it's 35 and it's not half for your allies, but
The issue is buying it is not the issue that yeah, it's not it can also stack so like I see it
Super late game. It's very good, but it's just hard to buy it
If there's one fight nightfall had like plus one hundred forty percent damage or something like that on gyro
Because he had he had the Mars on his team, but yeah, you're right like forming on Mars can sometimes be an issue
And extreme recognize one of the problems they do indeed take out that Watson Templar assassin
It's a really good solution against the left track
If you don't get a plate mail or splint mail or something like that at some point in the game
You're just gonna get shredded like the bloodsum bill was great
You kind of need the kayak but I feel like against the TA the minus armor is way too strong. Oh
Okay, cuz I looked this up whenever the left track showed up and I was like, oh
So, once the last time Exnova played Io, it has been two years since he has played Io,
and now they are first phasing it.
I assume it's Io4, because everyone is thinking that Io4 is the new thing, it's the 9th class,
it's his best hero and you showed him how broken this hero can be.
What was the strongest thing about it in your opinion?
I mean, just like his daning is still very strong, so that's probably the best thing,
The fact that everyone just buys the raps
and like you just buy raps in your mate, you buy pipe on your off-linner and it feels like one hero is just uncoolable.
So you send some LESH, some like, I mean LESH is probably not so good hero, but like this type of hero.
It would be just like, never can die and deal all damage.
Yeah, we've seen LESHs, we've seen Marcy's, Yandex tried to do the tiny IO.
I'm assuming that's not what you want, because tiny IO did not work out that well.
Yeah, I mean the tiny is yeah, I'm not sure like what's what do they see in the
hero being core to be honest like they probably have some idea why but yeah
I'm not so sure. I mean gyro also is a really nice eye outfaring and it's good
against Phoenix as well you can flak off of the egg I was waiting to see that
one because you're gaining spell amp and damage now right like you have the
Shard built in your sorry attacks me attack speed and spell amp. So
Feels like a mixed damage hero would be pretty nice. They they choose not to ban the last try
Yeah, interesting. The storm was the other pairing that was popular or at least got played the other day. Yeah, that's a good one
Sanking also just easy spell up on him play options survivability. He should be able to be aggressive too with all I open
I mean, Tanki just seems like a busted hero.
Something about his damage, it's too high.
Like, there's some bug in the game where the damage is not right.
Because this hero feels like it just shreds teamfights.
Makes sense with the bans, there's no neandes to take those out of the pool, but still,
I am left wondering why leave Leshrac.
But this is also rare to even see a first phase IO in the first place, so things
are off balance.
How do you feel about Pango right now Amar?
Yeah I mean the pangolier change has been very nice, they're very good.
I'd say the hero problem is his early game is kinda not so good laning.
When you win the diff it feels very good but people buy Mestir so I'm not so sure
how this hero really works.
But yeah like at some point when you reach like level 20 acts and nocturine like you
One thing is that the swashbuckers slows through BKB.
Oh, holy shit, I didn't know.
Yeah, probably it destroys heroes so badly. You don't even get to buy a Basher.
That's cool.
It's good against Phoenix in both lane and game.
I mean, it's a good setup for IE, but it's not a combo with IE.
They're probably just thinking like, we'll flex this pangor until the end and pick some carry, like Jair or whatever.
If it is the off lane, I'm gonna be like the lane combo of an IO pango, if that is the lane.
I mean, I love IO. Like, I'll play IO with any hero to be honest. It's so nice.
I think it's fine. I think if they just able to follow, I think it's super fine.
On the previous patch, the off lane was kind of...
I was gonna say feast or famine, but it was mostly famine, just getting like tranquil boots, going jungle, like,
like very very hard lane against some Chikiro, like Treant, do you feel like
that's still the meta for the off lane or is it easier to like dominate the lane
yourself? No I think the off lane now can actually play the game, it's not like
Inter with like mindset of solo, instantly lose. If enemy just picks X-Tron heroes, now it's actually more playable.
So yeah, off lane now can actually play to win the lane and the safe lane, the position 5
feels this week so it's much easier to do. I guess that's part of what makes pango flex to the off-lane
is there's you're not playing as some jikiro in the lane getting destroyed. Yeah I mean ever since
they removed double jump this hero has been horrendously old. It's been rough. But the monkey
king answer to pango is very good like they can find like another hero on mid or safe zone
that can win lane against pango I think pango will not like have a so good time.
I might take it away from Xtreme. How's your stance on off-lane Batrider?
Because a lot of disruptor shows up.
Because a lot of players seem to prefer Batrider on support these days,
but noticed as one of the rare players that will take Batrider off-lane?
I think Batrider is still fine in all positions.
He still flashes farms everywhere.
It doesn't really matter where you're playing. He's still fine on both ways.
It's an interesting picture, the Disruptor, we've only seen one other time this tournament.
Didn't really seem to get any major buffs or nerfs, but it makes me a little worried.
They have slightly weaker lockdown on the Ephraim Gaming side, but they certainly can get some really important kills they can punish.
And because the rotation should be more successful, it's gonna be hard to get away from rolling Thunder and Glimpse.
I feel like the Disruptor dissuades Bat being a 3 a little bit more just because it's difficult to cut wave against Glimps.
You can get run down pretty easily.
Yeah, I mean the Disruptor is just a classic counter to Bat.
Like if you just get like a strong core, then yeah, the Bat does not have so good landing.
And now we get the 18 pick coming out.
This is the hypothetical strongest one in the draft for Yandex.
They go for more attack.
Well, I mean, Pango is all physical damage, the supports do no damage, and then Bristol is all physical damage too, so this is a hypothetically pretty free moir of the game.
The only downside though is that it kind of forces your monkey king into mid lane, unless they do some goofy like Monkey 4 with Bat3.
How much I would love to see Sox on Monkey 4. That's a classic right there. Everyone forgets he can do the 9 class stuff.
Because they know where Yandex is probably going, this could give them pivot potential.
Because you're expecting Midlan, Monkey, Carry, Morta?
Yes, you could just hypothetically but Tango in the offlane.
Maybe less good, but...
Yeah, I mean they still can't do anything, but like to be honest they still...
They have two good lands against Pango, so I think it's pretty much most likely set.
To Monkey just go Midlan, Morta just go... Hmm, safe lane.
Does Yandex need to be worried about a Medusa coming out from Xtreme, or can more to handle it?
The problem with Medusa is that he'll just get lassoed and with Monkey Diffusion lead,
and his core is like all physical damage, so to be honest, I would not care about Medusa to be honest with the game.
You want some more mixed damage coming out of Ame's hero?
Yeah, I mean, if Ame could play Bristol back and they last pick some Mars, I think it would be very good.
very good. Oh that's nice.
It's like Bristol Stratum, I don't think we'd lose lane and do anything, but I'm not sure
like, I'm not really a Bristol backlayer. It's kind of a hard pick for them, because
the Bristol and Bangor just makes your carry pick very weird. Like you're most likely
physical and you don't know how to pick a physical, it's more physical.
So for Bristol, they've removed the scene red facet and then they kind of move
the other one a little bit to the nasal goo.
When you saw this change, did you think this was a nerf to Bristol?
I would say it's not a nerf, it's not a buff, it's a change.
It's just a fight, right?
Yeah, he's more objective based hero, more than like a solo carry type.
Oh, I see, okay.
The problem with this update is that the Diagram's build is not as good, so the boost
technique is not the same as before, you would just solo kill Tormentor, solo everything
in the chill.
But still a good change, like six goos is really nice.
Extreme taking out the offlaners, they are expecting this Batrider to be a support, they take out Primal and Tide.
I mean, they do have a lot of physical damage on extreme team meeting inside, but I mean, six goos plus pango means they could definitely shred some heroes.
The more to all of these gonna cause problems with that, but...
I feel, I feel good.
Gandax can take Mars, right?
Yeah, I mean, if it were to me, I would just pick Mars, it's a very good even style of destructor and
Bristol just turns into front.
I feel like you don't want Extreme to happen either. Okay, they go for Hubert.
Okay, monkey support, Bat3, I guess?
I mean, maybe Nautus would play monkey offline, I don't know if he's been practicing it in his games,
but he used to be a carry player and he used to be his most played heroes.
I mean, if it's a Bristol carry, that definitely sounds pretty decent.
Yeah, I mean it would, I think it would not win the lane but like he'll have slight pressure. So it would be decent.
So then do you still want Bristol to ideally be the carry or you want a different on a hero now?
I think for their comfort, I think it's better to just give him a last pick. Not sure what looks good for him.
If he doesn't want to go all in on the physical, Luna is still in the pool.
Or if he wants an illusion, carry, Naga is still in the pool.
What if you just do Morphling?
Morphling against Morta was really good in the group stage.
That's true game, yeah.
They should do more.
Does it still work though?
Because isn't it ethereal?
Is it tied to her in A?
Yeah, actually you can turn into Morta and then you just do more damage than her.
Because you can get a butterfly, like second item, she has to get like mobility and
stuff.
I'm just checking the patch notes, because that was tied to her NA before, but I'm not sure what the...
Yeah, it's actually tied to the NA, I'm not sure, too.
Okay, so Pierce the Veil, it is tied to the ulti, so I'm not sure if it works like that anymore.
It's for a faceless void instead, and the crowd loves it.
Oh, it's a Socks of Monkey King! Okay, well, I'm very happy about this. That's cool.
They need more lockdown, that's for sure, so that'll help out.
They're drafted a little bit slow in the sense that it's Bristol and void,
but I think that Bristol plus Iowa should be able to do the lane really well.
They can get really aggressive here on Watson.
Amar, when you're on stage like this, if you're chugging and the crowd is cheering,
can you hear them through the headstaff?
I mean, two years ago, we literally thought people were smoking because of the...
They're chugging.
Yeah, them screaming, and then we literally thought they were smoking.
We just keep going back and forth.
We watched streaming and we were like, ah, so it's just a cobalt.
Yeah.
Oh, god.
It was so funny.
It was actually the ruling of the game.
You didn't understand.
That's good.
That's meta.
And I brought it up that Exvenova has not played I.O. in a while,
but it turns out F.Y. has not played him an even longer.
It has been since TI 10 that F.Y. had his last time on the ball.
But it was like two years ago, right?
Not that long?
Yeah, sure.
Time, time.
In Dota terms, that's not too long ago.
All right Amar, you see the 10 heroes on the board, any draft that you favor?
I would say...
I would say Yandex, because it's so hard to...
I mean, the X-Teen have the late game and they're like late game like...
...delayers, they like to delay games so much.
That is true.
So when they reach late game, I think it's easy for X-Teen, but...
They should have good lanes or two lanes for Yandex and bad monkeys should at least get far.
Monkeys should be able to skip works, because void shouldn't be able to really pressure the disruptor.
It doesn't really deal damage to them.
Jackens, how about you?
I'm just so curious to see how to play Monkey King right now because a nine class couldn't make it work.
And I feel like if he can't do it, the only other person in the world that can stop him.
So, let's see.
Let's see it happen in the game number two.
Four series, four losses in a game one.
Extreme gaming have played on the brink every step the way through this lower bracket.
But Avery, can they make it to the grand finals?
Have they run out of steam?
Well, the grand finals are just another series they can lose game one,
so they have to be able to get there right to continue the streak alive.
This is a very ballsy draft.
I cannot believe they picked up Faces for that.
Yeah, that is wild to me.
This might be the craziest draft I've seen Jawa pull out this entire tournament
when everything is on the line.
You don't have any more games to throw away here.
I got a favorite handaxe in terms of that department.
I think their draft just looks way easier to execute.
They have so much more skirmish capability.
They have damage.
They have cores that can fight early, mid, and late.
You last picked this Faces boy for Aume.
He had his choice of a couple of hard carries there.
He's there, he's dead.
Oh, he didn't want a time walk too early, but he'll be met with multiple stuns about
the strike and the dead shot.
First blood already to the Bat Rider.
To notice, yeah, the Bat Rider.
I think the carries they were debating there, the Morphling was probably pretty juicy, but
you're not sure if that Martho was actually carrier support.
There's some decent flex potential for the Index, even when everything was shown.
I thought the Slark could have been interesting, they ultimately went with Void, which has
almost no synergy I would argue with their lineup.
No, Io face this boy.
Yeah, this is Garth.
No one's like, man, I remember when OG was running Io void.
It's not a thing.
Just rub their soccer aim with this hero.
It's very low damage.
Gellin, you want support them, but damage into the chrono?
This is about as low damage support as you can get.
And it's two melee cores that also don't offer you
the best spell synergy in terms of, you know,
I core up four heroes, guys.
OK, I'm quilling it.
I mean, congratulations, right?
So to me, it's a really awkward pick with what they have.
It can do some decent damage against the Andix, and it will scale here.
If your ex-G, you say, we just want to go late, we want to have the guaranteed scale.
Yeah, you pick faceless void, but I'm a bit concerned about the lineup synergy.
The Andix, I think they have it all.
You look at this squad, I mean, their lanes are strong.
They have wave cutting, they have stack clear, they have early fighting with this monkey.
The Morta is going to scale really well.
This hero does a decent amount of damage.
I kind of believe about this Morta into any Mauchamp, other than maybe that Orphling.
Yep.
or like maybe some illusion carries, so probably this Void is in too comfortable a spot, actually
are really gonna have to post out all the moves here so they do not fall behind in the early
game. I mean in my head isn't where it's a great matchup against Faceless Void in many different
ways. I feel like within the Faceless Void picked up thinking it's going to be a Monkey King
carry and because of the swerve they don't have synergy within their own team, they don't
even have like a superior matchup. Generally Moortha is gonna out carry almost anything,
As you carry, at least with Void, you have the chrono all in potential.
Sure, that's how I think about it.
So, I think you can play this match up with the Void, and if you don't land some of the stun silences on the Void
and you can just time walk out of your ult or something like this, then it can start to turn a little rough.
Sure. They do have plenty of lockdown, and it's going to be a real dangerous if-notice,
if they just have it a good game, which I already got the early first blood.
We'll see how the rest of the lane plays unfolds.
Extreme gaming is doing pretty well though in their own offlane,
off lane as XHS is 13 and 3 so the Bristleback is off to a hot start.
And to me, he might be the player of this game too for both teams.
How much could the Bristle get done because he has the Isle pair and the best synergy in
that department?
We have our opposing heroes in form and if you're the Andex, this Bristle can become
a problem.
You don't want to let him just start running into your cores, taking space around the
map.
You need some big ancient stack and he's just the most farm hero in the game and
you don't have the damage form.
I think you have some good matches against him.
The monkey's pretty good at the back, he can create some stacks,
Mortha can chunk through him.
So, X-XS's item timings are super important.
If you're ahead in the index and you can just punch through them,
you get an early Silver Edge on the Mortha,
you're gonna feel really comfortable with this game.
The X-XS is ahead, and he's starting to build some of those early Disbells,
he gets a super fast Lotus, whatever he wants to go for,
and the IO is just running him into everybody like a wrecking ball.
This game could get pretty spicy.
Yeah, I think it's almost guaranteed he's gonna get good farm out of lane, right?
this look IO into the off lane. We saw it earlier with the like the tide hunter where he was just able
to get super farmed down to that lane. It was a first pick IO right so they kind of called this
bluff with the phoenix like if you want to get a little greedy play this five phoenix we're going
to bring out the old school counter of the IO on the lane with the early regen early headdress
it's a classic support match if you just sit up here phoenix can do nothing that all thing
was almost guaranteed free farm no matter what that's the upside of this IO take and so
far it's worked out enough again another triple cs top of the board for extreme
game we have not seen this a lot this event maybe they played better from
behind honestly so maybe they should be losing lane's heart that's true I mean
they certainly showed him time and time again these game 2 and game 3's to
where it looked like they were gonna get knocked out still managed to
formulate some sort of comeback and you can see that harassment even with an
IO in lane with him the Priscilla back is uh he's
He's cockyped away with a level 2 fire spirit then against a Harry Muerta.
Also a lot of harassment in the mid.
Just again we see his Pango Ember matchup we saw earlier in the event a couple times.
Yep.
Pango can do some decent damage in the level 4 and 5 with just a sloshbuckle spam going into the Ember
and then you get that fast defuse off, you start burning his banner.
This would really be Pango's favorite on this new patch.
Yeah, another matchup that is going to be very dependent on winning the lane and snowballing off.
It's so extreme gaming we're going to have to get a lot done in the first one.
There's also this curious question to go boots or some, you know, fighting orb on the pango, or do you just rush the fuselage?
Like, the Frenches want the fuselage.
Get it out as fast as possible here, you do a high auto play with it.
So that gives you a lot of shabu speed and you get around the map.
Knock the flag bear away from the Ember spirit.
I wouldn't mind just draw the fuselage here.
Yeah, it does look like it.
I think you need the early damage too.
Again, your support duo is very low damage.
As for Monkey King, pretty easy block out chance, and it's going to be the one advantage
they have there.
Malady, pretty low, he's going to have to make a dive away, almost dies there.
He did have a blood grenade, but he also loaded, so...
For Fairy Fires.
So many Fairy Fires in these early games now.
You really have to think about trying to haul into these kills.
Yeah, you've got to really be doing the math here on what exactly, how fast you
could burst down to here, especially because some of them are going to have two Fairy
Fires.
one early when you go on them.
They scared X1 off.
Lobston left alone as the Phoenix had to go back.
And with Xnova coming through the gate,
he's saying, we've got to kill it in our hands if Y gets low.
But he does not give up the first blood.
He'll die second as Soxa followed Xnova through the gate,
but arrived too late to have an impact.
Aggressive high-oh gameplay.
You don't see it every day.
Able to find a nice little kill up here on that more.
The snowball is personally even more.
Nice turnaround for Soxa.
I was kind of expecting him to make some rotation
around this point as you can just
lead the battle. You're not putting pressure on a faceless void. Effectively kind of a
deadline for the index unless you're willing to rotate the ember down there at some point.
So this monkey needs to find some action. Probably Tommy in the sugo tri-link or mid.
Got low tier juniors with hasteroos. It's just gonna run him down, pops a fairy fire.
But it doesn't change anything. Nothing to say. Keep running at ya.
NTS stepping up in game two. This is gonna be a really fast diffusal.
to pick up great play, but a lot of luck that comes from getting that power rune.
Deadshot trying to push him back in, doesn't actually get him!
He retains his back turn to the enemy, but does not get enough kills to get the pick off on Soxa.
He dies without a turn. A lot of that was the pressure going in bottom.
It forced us to interrupt their TP bottom. We saw the IO TP mid, so there was no support.
We could go top to help that bristle. That's why you end up manned up on that dive.
They got to get the seal here, because we are going to see Yandex get aggressive
on the other side notice this aisle they don't get off a rolling thunder in the
league he does mention she'll crash inside rolling thunder though means he's
gonna be bouncing in and out of the shrine area doesn't have any support
why does get the other one though so that's why he was able to just let it be
step the trade off she probably still happy with how this is going they
just want this person is farmed as possible he's missing a little level
So that's the concern here.
That Death Set X-XS back.
But if it's the Void's free farming,
can you ever be too sad to give a free farm face to this Void?
That's the strength of the pick.
He's gonna be able to sit down there.
So all the action, going into the aisle lane,
and they will be getting another tether out.
No, tether's too creep then.
We'll die.
So this tri-lane situation
is working out pretty nicely for Yandex.
They took away one of the lotuses,
threatened to wisdom shrine.
Almost got yet another kill,
had no stuns available though.
other trialings. Very strong in terms of that kilter. The monkey off the map, it's pretty
hard for actually to read. Disruptor is not creating the same amount of pressure elsewhere.
What is X Nova's threat? I'm going to go into the chrono. This lane is not that scary.
And one by one they just keep on walking into this lane. Getting gone on, of course
the Bristleback is a bit of a different story. When he's full it's very hard to make
this play. You got to chip him down and maybe bring
Ember with a Powerrunner or something.
Rija back up going for a second time as the plane from the Disruptor. Now XNova, it's like I'm dumbling right bottom.
I want to get some action done up here. All the attention on this safe lane, but there's the Ember TP.
He had to jump in from the Monkey King. Sox has already low. He's got a back away. Let Chira Junior do the damage.
They've already killed the Isle, and X6S is turning his back to Chira Junior,
especially can't hear from somewhere. delivering some damage, rolling Thunder, threatening Chira Junior.
Desmond should clip him once here goes after the other backline heroes don't kill the Phoenix hits Watson once
Missed him the second time once and oh
What outfaces for you know spear with a swashbuckle on top nothing to say picks up the triple
Nobody expected all made to be joining this fight
All right, that is not even a come from not even a bomb boy just comes in chronos gets a really juicy core kill
Well, I guess he doesn't get it, but NTS is very happy about that fight.
And now he is mega-fucked.
That's the fusel done.
There's going to be a nine minute flat diffusel here.
And then he must have TP'd in late for this one.
The thing is they had a ward down there, right?
So yeah, they saw these heroes coming in off that tier one.
Yeah.
Just get caught in a bad fight where the Ember runs out of resources.
That's the biggest thing from here.
I feel like they just put a missing man on a lot of heroes, and the Bat Rider, we see him on the minimap, he's cutting bottom late, he did not want to join that lane.
After joining him on that gank, he went through the gates back to his safe lane, but now he's in some trouble, slowed down for the dive, and noticed to get a good on top of him with the lasso, he's dead.
I had no chance to get forced into the time walk early, these heroes are just gonna run you down.
It's a much needed experience, hermality off of that, who is closing in on a 6.
Gotta keep notice in mind this game.
if you're exchanged. If this back can come into fights or kills later on where he can kind of dodge
that time dilation in the mana bird, yeah, he's just gonna run these melee cores down and it's
gonna be pretty strong. They do have some nice supports against them, glooms can be annoying,
the moosebeats from the tether. He's the one to end up in these isolated scenarios and he is
the most farm hero for Yandex, so they're gonna lean on notice pretty heavily here in these
early fights. Especially since the Ember spirit is still far behind compared to this Hang-Go.
And with the time dilation and see if the disruptor can help them get a kill some around here
Malady with the time up top. They just need the vision for a glimpse, but no, they actually went for notice
Nothing to say did come a real win. Nice relocate play from FY's IO
Putting that diffuser to work here. Thanks another big core kill
Yeah, it's just gonna make this because we already saw this in this matchup the pango
It's just kind of he's constantly smothering you with these swashbuckles if use of blade hits
And if you can enable him to be even more around the map and constantly on the map through some regen
That's gonna feel pretty nice. This is actually placed off to a team
They create these items where there's a lot of obvious move to make because you don't want to over extend against glimpse
You don't want to over extend against reload
Maybe the chrono is gonna come at the end of the fight and meanwhile this mid hero is just chipping your resources which makes it harder to make moves
At the same time though, will they get enough done to stop Yandex from hitting their time?
They try to get him inside the kinetic field, hit him with the static storm, but the kinetic
field doesn't latch.
It gets out of the static storm, no problem.
Still the rolling thunder is going to be a threat, so it's not like Yandex are going
to be immediately able to take the fight hit by the rolling thunder once, twice,
and now they get bursted down.
No way whatsoever.
It feels like you couldn't go for it.
And last though, holding in the pango gets a little bit of help from the boy, but
it's not enough time dilation though.
Maybe they can clean up something.
The member fear jumps back to his rent that was behind the tier 2 and finally drops the chronosphere.
Going for his very tanky hero. If he gets enough bashes this would be an excellent pick up.
The highest hero of Gandex does go down, but now with a dead shot back at the side.
I love able to get the jump away just before the bout in the strike.
And XXS just zoning out some heroes. Still at half HP.
I'm even jumping back in to hit that time dilation.
Valady went for the dive, got ex-Nova killed, and put a little damage on ex-Ex-S as well,
so in the end, super kickoff.
Was that kind of an even trade?
I mean, I gotta see the chart on this one.
There's extremely even across the board.
I guess the faceless ward's happy he gets to live there, because that was very close.
Yeah, a little bit more gold and experience for Yandex off of that.
They took down the pangol.
I mean, that's the victory for them.
You're slowing down the strongest hero on the map right now, so the second you
You could hang where you're kind of happy with that almost no matter what, but the fact that Bristle took down the Ember at the end, that's really nice for XSS here.
Man, if you get Egg off here, how would he put up both the trigger, right?
He's trying to fade it out to the last minute. Just doesn't get that ult off.
I guess he pulls the trigger early, like the Io's gonna be able to hit it, but Ame was also sitting inside waiting for him, right?
He probably just time locks in Chrono Spears to make it.
What was this? Those hero-fashioned Cardinals?
He got it towards the end of these.
Sure, saving his RNG for later perhaps.
This he should be dead here.
Disgusting.
That would have been a clear Yandex victory, but instead, kind of a bit of a trade here.
And now the Muerta is going to be in some trouble.
So the last teamfighter was the Ember Spirit and the Batrider who died.
And now the Muerta is going to fall as well, unless he can bail out.
No, Junior. He tries to do what he can.
He can maybe clean up an IO kill, chasing him down another flight.
We're doing a good workout of all this mana though.
Turret Jr. is in some serious trouble and I think that's just charging forward.
There's nothing to bail out this Ember Spirit in fact.
Socks up.
Now he's just going to die alongside them.
Best you can hope for is a kill on X-File Bay's head.
He's going to be close to it.
His boundless strike is not enough damage.
This is an essence to skill of a monkey king.
Kind of playing that support role.
A little offensive potential.
But once you're stuck in the middle of this course, you're just kind of food.
You're not offering a huge amount outside of whatever you're going to be able to farm in this game.
This is core domination right now from Extreme Game Law.
You have flipped the script from that Game 1.
Supports are still behind, but these cores are going to scale a lot harder.
That's the scary part.
It's not as if you're ahead like in Game 1 and you're about to fall off.
It's TA scale.
You have a baseless void and you won the early game.
Skilled, top 3 net worth on all the core heroes.
Smoke up the disruptor very quickly, starting to get to those later levels, so three points in the glimpse now.
EMP damage on NTS in this play, this is the most dangerous here in the game for sure.
They're running right into Watson, Watson does have Pierce to bail, but if he doesn't get it off fast enough here,
he gets it off now, the rolling thunder, but here comes the IO relocate, so they're just going to break all these numbers.
He tries to deadshot and push him away from him but he's completely surrouded back to back desk for one thing.
Really nice smoke. They hit their target perfectly. They do see the reload top.
Okay, so, yeah, next we're gonna... Yeah, okay, knock that up on that one.
Who's the first to back after all?
This is a consecrated Raps.
Ex-Excess Virstill back. He is extremely tanky right now.
All the early Bracer treads. Long build up, you have anoid behind you.
And he's about to have a Holy Lock-It on top of that.
So the first heal item coming in for FY here.
MAP is getting scary to play for the Endix.
They're not really able to get past the River.
Afraid of the Revo setup?
Afraid of the Chrono? Afraid of the Glimpses?
Not easy.
Pressureless Tier 1 mid.
Playings are their war. They have a ward behind this Tier 1 tower so stream gaming.
Just want to pressure the towers, and if there happens to be any Endex heroes in the area, they would root them out with a deep ward and a glimpse.
Not the case here, Mowdy's able to dip on by with a dive.
I'll just give up the tower while Sox does out hunting couriers. I'll get another one.
Two for one. Got an arcane boots on it.
Decent economic damage. You're gonna have to wrap this game a little bit here if you're in Endex.
No way you want to take full teamfights right now.
Oh, notice!
He's taking some stats here.
That is really nice and he's gonna have BKB.
Is that enough that the Andex can fight around it? Well, not if they're gonna continue to get picked off.
Maladene and Bonnie, how did she get away from that off lane push, went through the gate still,
get found on the other side of the map. Just no threat.
All these heroes pushing the lanes into them right now.
The Andexes are needing more to join the kill attempts?
Or like you said, maybe this BKB path isn't up to start fighting some people down
keep it down and it helps them ignore the time dilation and static storms.
Yeah, do you feel like there's a world where maybe the Bat Rider with his EKB can just charge forward,
laugh, he'll pull somebody back into them where it's on.
But do they die?
Do they die though?
That's the question.
Even if you also drag someone here into Morphe Damage, there's a reload chance.
There's wheels from the aisle, maybe they get bailed out,
maybe Chrono comes in on top of it and then you're just locked in a bad fight.
Yeah, maybe it's not worth it to try anything aggressive at all in that case,
knowing that there's so many stays.
There's another courier site. You got three here.
Not gonna have damage.
That's gonna add up, but a tier two already taken. 17 minutes.
Extreme gaming is up 4k. Now they feel like in a very dominant position.
Not actually up that much net worth though.
You can't do that. You're doing their best to rat out the map
and notice having to use the BKB just to get away from the relocate time.
That doesn't feel great.
If you have your early fighting units, the mage slayer on the ember, the BKB bat,
on them or the in theory if your index you do kind of want to take a skirmish
right now the skirmish but you're not stronger than the enemy so what is that
strategy look like what is your next time it's silver edge more time is a
higher silver way might be I mean it might be a game where they just have
to wrap her solid 10 minutes or so malady okay okay okay that's some
hate god damn drops the cronies here to make sure malady is not going to
He almost died and they get the kill, but the Bristleback is surrounded, so there's the little skirmish that Yandex finds. A worthy trade for Yandex.
Oh yeah, that's a takeover. I mean, you traded Phoenix for Chrono and Bristle.
Super happy about that. Anyhow, killing spree, too.
That's true, Rusty. They got some decent gold on that.
Yep.
They don't have only a 3K lead.
Okay.
Those are the kind of moves Yandex needs to make. We need to split the map.
Keep farming these back lanes with the Batrider.
You're just thinking about something there.
Doing some calculating in his head or what?
What have I done to Ame to make him hate me so much?
Probably lost in a club or something.
Very possible.
Ame's gotten some pub and deeps before.
It's the hunt that he took to the left-down couriers, man!
That's number four.
I mean, this man knows to win to change up his playstyle.
Ooh, can he get the glimpse?
a little hard, but ends up missing out.
The rat actions get a little annoying for it.
You'd have thought they'd be able to catch me better.
You'd have to disrupt their aisle.
That's where these heroes are supposed to do pretty well, for sure.
They're just not finding the lockdown.
They don't have the ward's division right now.
Socks has been really annoying in their jungle.
They've given a lot of information.
And it's even worse that the Bristleback was the one to get picked off earlier,
because it's the hero that they probably think to themselves,
okay, we can put this guy out on an island.
You know, the Andex are not gonna go for him.
He's just too tanky. Not the case. They showed they can bring down this pistol back.
It's just getting in general limit the efficiency out on map for Yandex making a dive for Fy just trying to stay away from Aame and
Fy they're gonna come into the egg. They will have the damage, but so will Yandex training up support for support but here in junior
That is mana burned away by nothing to say
Now there's gonna be some objectives on the table. They're about to get some damage for Roshan
Dumbetour mentor is also up, so for the game can start to accelerate Brechty with their lead.
Especially, as you mentioned, the Bristle can continue to push the lanes in solo.
That's what's giving them map control right now, yeah.
The index really want to take X-X-S down every time he shows a loan.
You're a little worried about the reload threat, and in a sense like that, the IO's going down.
That's pretty juicy.
And a shard of four IO.
Getting right up.
Can give you a little extra damage and heal.
I feel like the hill is definitely the bigger part of it right there.
An extra heal he can put into the Bristleback, or the Faceless Void,
allowing him to live long enough to get off the time lock.
Yeah, now he's all of a sudden pretty far, right?
Yeah, he's got the lock, he's got Max Shard.
He's got Cruisin' here, level 12 as well.
So, Tormentor gives them a bit more of a gold bump.
It's not surprising, it's just kind of like the way extreme gaming play.
They're so blunt in their way they approach objectives and play the map.
And once Tormentor is available, once they feel like they're strong enough to do Roshan, they'll start bumping up a little bit in this lead.
But otherwise, when the game stagnates in the Andex, they seem to be able to play the map a lot better.
This is the strength of XG's lineup for them, is their confidence in the scale.
So that's where the Andex need to start thinking about, you know, how are we going to itemize to hit a timing in this game and take control back?
What does that point look like for us?
for us. Yeah, it's not just about trying to equalize the network, it's like gaining a lead with this kind of lineup, right?
I think it has to be Shadowblade for Watson, along him to join the fights, like DKB Ember, and you're finding initiations with that.
You're dragging the Void or the Pango into the Chain of Silence damage, just bursting them before the reloading come out.
I think you can take that 5x4.
Okay, so just another midair to an expecting Andix to start getting close.
They're getting close.
They're close here. They're, you know, a thousand gold off on a couple heroes, so you're looking at three minutes or so.
And if they could do well enough with that, it could even be Yandex taking the first Roshan.
But a smoke from Extreme Gaming, their head through to their style, sticking the five-man,
not giving Yandex any more pick-off opportunity.
Massive power-manage for them right now, if they find anything and not, you just force the Rosh.
So, they're taking advantage of the fact that Yandex are a little bit behind in all these old timings.
They don't see any heroes, though.
Stream to the Roshan, Pitch, you're a junior though, on the other side of things.
He can do something sneaky here.
Actually, if I might be able to catch him, Kanemfield goes out in a long spot for it.
and he's blighted and jumps away, knowing that it'd be too easy for him to get just Chrono Sphere or Static Storm.
They give it to Ami here. I do think there's a discussion about this, like, who do you want to give it to in this line of fire?
Yeah, the Pango would be, I feel like, worthwhile just because he's also in that situation, high damage, but can be bursted down.
I almost kind of want to give it to Priscilla here. Really? I'm like, he's not the true carry, but you can just play so Priscilla with...
I'd be a little tempted, huh? I'm not sure I would do it, but...
Getting spotted out as they come through the gate for the first hero they're going on.
It's the Pango stuck inside.
Oh, nice save with the relocate.
Get him back up to the high ground so he can get the rolling thunder off.
Malady, he gets stunned by that rolling thunder.
Dustman to get off the A, got off this area, not gone.
With the man to easily able to get away.
Notice, unable to escape.
And they tried to ambush Extreme Gaming, thinking,
ah, they took Roshan.
They're going to split the map.
Right, some heroes are going to come to bottom.
Other heroes are going to push out mid and top.
But Extreme Gaming stay as a unit.
They stay with that 5-man!
If you can't drag someone into your entire team at this point, you don't have the damage.
You have to respect what this aisle can do, both in terms of the reload and the sustain.
Map is...
Gonna start to crumble pretty fast for Yandex if you believe the Batrider is special.
He's the best hero to keep out on the map in terms of some sort of threat.
Wash, you play like that.
Just sets you back considerably.
Now you're just falling back on the Watts and Silverash timing.
Like, you're hoping that this Wurth is gonna get there and be able to break the bristle.
Give you some sort of opening in the fight.
Yeah.
You know what's interesting with so many... I think the distortion field is actually quite of a problem.
Cut Soxa, and he will have his team be denied from him.
So another pick-off for Extreme Gaming. We'll found the Shrek using the Shard to get away two more seconds.
Nothing to say trying to tag him with damage, but we can jump away into the trees.
But Soxa is away. Okay.
Now goes that support monkey king is a little loose in here.
easy escape for him cut some waves and look for some couriers three minutes on
the clock for this ages I'll make about the finished meal near his damage is gonna
skyrocket here approaching that level 20 talent to that's what this year becomes
absolutely terrifying
Malady is probably just gonna try to cut here and X just trying to split past
Last extreme gaming where they can to get at the next creepway.
Start pushing in.
Jirr Jr. will not be able to do that mid.
Malody, Dinkbore, bottom lane, immediately countered.
They may get the neutral creep deny though.
Okay, that's something.
It's about the map control, right?
You see Phenus is reloading.
But yeah, nobody is getting past the river in this game.
They know Yandex is not really fixing for a fight,
so you don't have to hold that reload game for anything.
Just can't see his heroes out on the map as quick as can.
They leave on me to it in the mid lane still thinking about that
Still running over in the map over in his head
I'm gonna catch something up here. Yeah, they found sure junior
He's gonna get some well thunder hits them
Here junior does he have any opportunity to be KD and get some remnants out is it worth even trying at this point?
We still going resources another red that goes away, but yeah
It's just gonna hold the BKB saying, you know what?
I think he got me.
That's what's interesting is where I agree.
It's almost better to save the remnants.
Just take it to death.
Oh man, all the neutral creeps.
Oh man, no, it's all dead over here.
And he's going to follow the trail of dead neutrals
all the way to Watson.
He's gonna catch him inside the chronosphere.
Easy pick up.
Actually playing this map beautifully right now.
He just turned on a dive
and just shut the whole thing down.
It felt like Yannick swam.
Good job of kiting them around all of a sudden.
It's just like this two minute window has just completely shut the index down.
Another reload top looking for the bat.
It does have BKB here, but they're gonna be happy to force it.
Yeah, see if they can get him out of him and they do with enough slows.
BKB down on the other side, mid lane.
We got good style! Look at the side of his own ultimate!
Soxa will be given absolutely nothing!
This is turning very quickly here.
This is what we've seen from extreme gaming, I feel like the entire tournament.
They lose game one, you got some confidence, you go into this game two and all of a sudden...
It's like you're playing against a completely different team, yeah?
And they don't seem faced at all about these game one losses, like you look at these games,
XG, they're chilling, they're having fun, they're playing the map.
Very different style from game one, but they're executing it perfectly here.
And they're playing with comfort, right? They always have that on-the-face-as-word to fall back on, like,
all-everything they're getting is just a bonus, right?
Oh, this game should be way harder than it is right now, so...
We're absolutely chilling here if you're a 3-gaming.
And now it's absolutely all-in-on.
I mean, this Warth is gonna have to do some crazy heavy lifting.
No BKB.
So there he comes back.
Notice, he's gonna be dead as well here.
He can't even get through as the Kinetic Fence is gonna blot him out on the left side of the field.
New shark.
A little extra control and annoyance in the T-light being faster and faster now making a play through the gates.
I'm just always looking for the next play here.
Not stopping to hit any neutrals really, just pushing in lanes and hunting down heroes.
And it's also hunting though. They have that Silver Edge.
But look at this area, they've made the read for it!
They're gonna bait out nothing to say, they've got some supports behind it.
It's Ex-Nova spotted first and that just means the rolling thunder gets to beat the
offender's sonic storm on them where Ted they're gonna go for the egg they've
got that well in hand and so is them where it's not going anywhere that was
your worth of time he did 500 damage with a dead shot I mean XG just have
their number in this game how does this team just do such a brutal one and
he's from game one to game two I mean this is just such a harsh shut down
Hey, his Yandex have been given absolutely nothing.
They are on us.
A hit in Barracks and Yandex can do nothing to stop them.
This is all they take in a racks at 30, 3-30 minutes with a faceless life, didn't have to use Krono for it.
Oh yeah, he still has Krono.
And he hit that level 20, so now he has Krono's even.
Alongside the board, KD, you can't kill him, he's got heavy amounts of damage.
Game is getting shut down extremely fast, so you have one more opportunity here if you're
in next. Try and find a lasso initiation on a big core target, drag them into the break,
and take the fight under supernova colony. That's your best bet here.
Have to find a core lasso connection. All in notice.
Region. Not gonna find much. Extreme have already retreated back behind their side of
the river and huddling around their tier one tower.
Our dreams just have such a good leader with these smoke.
The leader of this game has been insane.
They caught everybody they wanted to catch and now they're just dodging every single
play.
There's nothing you can do there if you're a Yanis.
Unless you're willing to run monkey behind the tier one and just sacrifice him for
vision.
It's not going to be a fun time.
I'll have three next to the IO.
What else do we got?
Octaree coming from Mango soon.
He's going back for, uh, okay, he changed up.
Right, the second area, X-Tex has some thinking about, uh, you know, why not a plate now
against the square stuff?
But, ah, just scale your idea.
Yeah, he's gonna go PKB instead.
Rejoin the OmniFace's void with this smoke who put together their five-man team fight.
You're still this tier one mid.
And it's causing Yandex a lot of problems trying to make these smoke plays as tier one mid standing.
Saw the issue earlier.
You need to run back towards the bottom of the map.
NTS is a little alone here if they run into him.
Yeah, if they have the vision for him.
He's caught him, he links back, swashbuckles.
Getting back to his team and a scramble here.
Yandex not able to get the punish.
Gotta get a comeback by our right-hand motion.
If you can find Aumei, that's amazing.
Makes Novos quadded.
Oh, they're gonna go through the gate, but they can't come back right through.
Socks is gonna jump in, jumps out.
Now this is really awkward, only three of the heroes will remain on the side of Extreme Gaming.
They're quickly swarmed by the full of Yandex.
Now, Aumie has come back into play, and she can get back through the gate.
It's the nice pronosphere that launched down the moira to kill Cieg, but he can't get back through.
He's got a time walk down to the low ground, can cheer and junior chase after him.
They've left X-XS to play in its flow right now between these two chords.
Ramping up the quills.
Look at the dammit.
Death of Amic who's back in the play and they're able to wipe through the index.
Even in a fight versus three, the index can do absolutely nothing.
It did two supports with the cores. They're just too big.
The cores are way too strong in this game and the damage is split across all of them.
It's not as if you can take one of them out of the fight and suddenly kite the rest.
They're all carrying a part of the load here.
Corno for an A.
It's good enough.
You keep your cores alive.
Your supports go down early up a really weird gate.
I'm probably the best over here to get your good index.
Some heroes go through the gate. They have to come back.
It's super chaotic.
Actually, you aren't really sure what's happening, but they're just so damn tanky.
It doesn't matter.
I am just relocating to give the boys some heals.
Off everybody off to make sure they're gonna be okay.
Finishing off this lane of barracks.
Now just one remains.
It can go back and do Roshan as well with the BKB now.
Why not with a bristle back?
Bristle's been a menace.
Yeah.
See here, I mean, it's good initiation you're gonna get.
You get the start on the aisle, the monkey scouts it out,
get a guaranteed supernova,
or do you omni just kind of solo kill it?
All the rest of that fight's happening on the side.
And then Muerta has her entirety of her ult,
and then kind of controlled in that chronosphere as well.
Yeah, exactly.
Even if you couldn't kill the Muerta,
she wasn't doing any damage during her ult.
No, I don't think Watson's been able to really play a team fight on his terms at all this now
And you know where near the same amount of resources at this point in the fight
The mega kill streak for that man right there
He's having himself one hell of a game on this all-time whistle and just get one more pick up before you hit the final high ground here
Nothing is saying
feeling spree for him in ages for Amé and a 22,000 network lead up for each street
I got 5,000 gold for them.
Pick what you want here.
Oh yeah, he could just buy out the Scotty if he really feels like he is untouchable.
After all, he's got two lives.
I don't really know how they work through both of them.
Like, there's a world where like, yeah, maybe lasso into the marital,
and then they can kill him once.
But that's second life.
And those abilities on cooldown?
Like, is it even possible?
He's got 3,000 HP.
Drag him into the fountain?
Maybe, huh?
You can bait him back there.
Jira Jr. Trying to solve the back line here. Just want to pick off one of these supports with his VKB will not be able to get it.
Okay, Chrono, well I've noticed. He did get off the Ghost Scepter though as the Chrono spear expires, so they didn't get the most for this one.
Aume though is just completely fearless. Shumps in for the Phoenix and will kill the egg.
Giving up his life in the process. The Bristol back has already done so much and he warps down Watson.
It doesn't matter which core it is, X-X-X has winged and he is knocking the X-X out of this game too.
He's just looking to take a couple more kills away from on X-X, he has the fast KDA to end here.
X-X-X working on it now to fight.
What a game for the X-D, this team is on something this event.
This has been one of the more impressive low bracket runs I think we've ever seen.
They lose so many game ones and B on the ropes.
And then just time and time again, click the script.
You hit that switch, you go into the zone, and you just turn it up in game 2.
There's such a level that it gives you momentum going into the game 3, and it feels like
they just punch, seems so hard in the game 2 that they can't recover.
Yeah, but what just happened? Now we have to adjust.
Stick draft adjustment, stick ideas with some free-to-me on the new patch.
This is another one where like, I have my doubts about this draft.
I still do look at it.
I'm still not sure if it's supposed to go this well.
Yeah, but they play it to perfection here.
And Yannick's are probably railing a little bit. I mean, Shellshock, they had such a great game one, to be hit like this in game two.
I'm sure Sox is looking back at it, and it just feels like the matchup against Dungeon World, they're giving the play 30% of what we can show.
Oh, absolutely. And maybe something Yannick's gonna think about is they had a lot of flex potential.
Even after all five years were picked, you could still play support, weren't they? You could play support, monkey.
You could hear him talking about the off-lane monkey, right?
Yeah, they were supposed to have the Gautchen.
Exactly. Sometimes when you have so many options, it means you're not focused in on what is our draft doing with Gautchen, the role you play.
And it sometimes just gets too confusing for himself so we might see something more streamlined from them in game 3
In terms of like let's get Watson his hyper carry
Let's get a hero in mid that can enable our supports to play through him a more streamlined the index game 3 is what I expect
not an extreme game 3
Who the hell knows I mean take your pick. It's gonna be some crazy draft from shall we again?
And you're gonna have to be ready for it another laning phase victory from extreme and better late game
but they didn't need to go there. They just steamrolled through this game too.
And the script continues and lose game one and to win at least game two.
Now we'll have to see what happens for our game number three
and consistently extreme that happened to make this a series to come back
with some new heroes up their sleeve.
FYI-O is a treat to watch.
I don't think I've ever seen an IO be so effective
at cutting down monkey king trees but boy was this a clinic in all of extreme Amor I have to say
this is a great comeback. I mean before the game I said like how the AR should be winning the Lens
but to be honest this IO4 is so broken you know I actually couldn't forget that it just changes
matchups. The Moerten to Bristol like it's favorite for Moerten and Felix is like he's an
He's a thinner, but to be honest, I was so broken with it.
And the mid-matchup, I guess Ember just doesn't skill Flamegard,
so he just gets absolutely destroyed by Pangolier.
So yeah, that actually just changed the game, the fact that they can win lands.
And their late game is impossible to beat.
Every time we've seen Pango vs. Ember, it has not looked good,
and we have Quinn backstage, so this guy is like the Pango expert,
and he just keeps saying like,
Dude, I can't believe people keep picking this, it doesn't work.
like pango counters ember and the more we see it the more it looks like that
maybe there's like a little bit of a skill diff between the two midlaners like
nothing to say pango is one of his best heroes if not his best hero cheer up
people have you know CJ he's had his lane struggles in the past so maybe
there's a bit of a diff there in this particular matchup but it just it it
does seem really good and I think we are seeing some heroes that are just
overtly broken IO like you said seems broken some teams were first phase
banning it, I feel like it probably could slot into that category if it's changing matchups like this and
Yeah, your first phase is getting very crowded with support bands then because they're already permabaining Rubik seemingly
They're permabaining Venomancer and the other one was Slardar
So purge if they're gonna slot in an IO then all of a sudden x-axis is having free reign
Yeah, definitely makes things harder when there is that much stuff to put together for sure
And the IO didn't even have like the most amazing pairings like the like Leshrac is the most obvious one the time
Yeah, one historically, but it kind of just seems to work in any drama. I do have some clips
I'll show you guys look at look at how much they get done in the early game
I mean there were eight minutes into the game
Bristol back is getting extra regen he's getting more survivability
IO does die here pretty quick here
But the extra amp that he's giving his team is very helpful and ultimately what comes over is the pangolier with the fuselblade finish
You just do a ton of damage here rolling thunder is just fantastic at this phase in the game
And even though Marta's not supposed to be taking any physical damage and she does when she presses her ulti,
she just got bullied so much in these early engagements that things were tough and even Aume rotating over,
look how much this washbook was doing, man. It is just crazy.
He didn't even have the Fusion Blade finished there. And then 13 minutes in the game, even though zero damage to the Marta,
do they care that much here? They're just still killing him. They're disrupting him. He's not, doesn't have high mobility.
He's just getting ran down repeatedly and the pressure that XG was bringing on the index was repetitive.
And there's so many moments like this where Ember is scurrying and all of a sudden he's just out of mana
and he gets ran down and the hero is just not good anymore because he's getting so much mana burned.
So these continuous engagements from XG just was getting them further and further ahead as the game cascaded.
But this fight was probably one of the biggest ones here just because they lost 0 heroes.
Great relocate showing the value of IO.
It doesn't have to be the perfect parents.
You're saving allies.
You're helping your teammates get easy kills, some of which are going to be eggs.
So just overwhelming advantage from Extreme Gaming that they took all the way until the end of the game.
It's definitely showing the strengths of what these heroes are capable of,
and Bristol back in the right hands is also a force to be reckoned with.
So Amar, now that we've seen two of these games,
are there any heroes that you are considering to be,
you gotta get rid of them or you gotta start thinking of a strategy against them for game three?
Yeah, I think it's what they should both be looking at, like,
At least if they don't ban the heroes like trade, like if someone wants to just play IO against Rubik or Rubik against IO,
like whoever, and if you have Westpac you just take the better one.
And yeah, if you have a ban, like, I don't know if they can like remove the starter or something like this,
that can just ban IO and stick to their guns, I'd say.
But I feel like just ignore this Phoenix, or just ban IO for Phoenix too, because to be honest IO does destroy Phoenix.
And it's completely destroying lane matchups as well.
Now we get to push it deep distance.
Game number three of this lower bracket final.
What a treat that we have.
We're going to go to a quick break and when we return at the final game of this lower bracket final.
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You can't get this club
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If you have no idea what we're doing here today,
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Scan that QR code as soon as you get it to enter.
And if you're watching from home, feel free to play along,
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You must have made the effort to travel to Brom
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Otherwise, it's just a bit of a laugh, isn't it?
And they gave me the gun this time, Slack.
That's right, Baryon Flaks.
As soon as we have, let's say, 1,000 Kahooters,
we'll start shooting off some shirts.
What do you think?
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All right.
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I do.
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First person to get it gets the most points,
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The Hooters.
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Cahooters!
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Safety off, pumped up, get ready, Cahooters.
And this, today, will be about debuffs.
Whoo, there we go.
Debuffs today.
Oh my god, we just nailed the producer.
That's not good.
I hit the sound desk, sorry guys.
What's about the following abilities?
It's not a strong dispel.
Is it repellent?
Pathotic shield, false promise, or a dark bag.
Fox I need a reload reloaded. Thank you. Reminds me of my left for dead days
Reloading! Let's spin that. All right here we go five, two, three, two, one!
Repel is not a strong dispel. Timeless dog. Wave your arms.
The teammate is under the effect of the following abilities.
Which one would allow him to be denied?
Oh, this is such a good one!
Ooh!
Bipershrike, Venomous Gale,
Megatize,
or Validate.
Ooh, that's a good one!
This is not a good one. This one's so easy.
That's a tough one.
Do you know?
It's Mallory.
Don't say that. Sorry.
You're tricking them.
It's not nice. Or are you?
Load up the next shot on the teacher.
It is Venomous Gale, of course!
Don't say that!
If you get it wrong, you're far too late.
Don't say that!
They won't know!
It is the end of the scale.
Everybody knows!
Sorry if you did not know.
That's sturdy.
Sturdy scorpion.
All right.
Go ahead, Peri.
Among the following debuffs,
which one has the longest duration at max level?
Oh!
Just plague,
Ice Blast,
Carousa Case,
or
Nightmare.
Nightmare?
I'm gonna show the t-shirt while we wait.
Pump it up, bud.
PSI is increasing.
The safety is off.
Do not aim at our pur-
Oh, wow!
You shot in the one place, I know it went.
Hey, we got it!
All right, so we got it, we got it, we got it.
I'm gonna go in.
All right, answer coming up in one second.
It was corrosive hate.
Corrosive?
That was tough.
Well, shawming crane takes the lead.
What is the longest possible stun in the game
considering talents and optimal circumstances?
What does that mean?
Um, Optimal Circuit? Is it Sacred Arrow?
I mean, so, yeah, it's clearly gonna be, uh...
Things grip. Shackles or whatever.
Optimal, does Optimal Circumstances include items?
Optimal Circumstance in my game is my carry isn't an idiot.
Oh, uh, we'll see about what that is.
I thought Optimal Circumstances in your games was you weren't Communication School fan.
Optimal Comm- Optimal Game for me is not low priority from reports.
Here we go, in five, four, three, two, one!
Jackals! Oh, it's Fiends!
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I'll be ashamed if he got it wrong.
I'll reload you, don't worry.
Be load, please.
I'll reload at the end, R.A.I., don't worry.
Among the following abilities, which one cannot apply fear,
and there he is with a beautiful guy.
Spirit Scythe and Cinder Bru.
Savage Roar or Scream of Pain.
What?
Which cannot apply fear to Cinder Bru?
And not apply fear.
So Spirit Scythe does. Savage Roar does.
But don't say what does.
It's too late. If you haven't got it already, you're done.
Gah!
Savage Roar is just a stunt.
It's got this. It's got this.
I don't know what Brewmaster does. I can't microme.
It's got to be in use to fit it.
Why would someone be afraid of drinking?
Scream of pain.
Who says people in our zone should have wrote down the last one.
Okay, Charming Crane!
Where are ya?
You were ahead the entire time. You had three streaks.
Raise your head, Charming Crane!
Mr. Crane?
We got it over here!
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When this guy walks, I'll just shoot him right in the face, okay?
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Have an airbag.
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It is time for the last game of our lower bracket final, Yandex and Xtreme, going at
the distance just to make it to a date in a festive five with a tundra so every
bit of energy that you're expending in this series is time that you're not
getting to focus on the grand final and more data that tundra is getting on your
ideas such as teeth welcome back to the panel now you suddenly got to worry
about oh extreme gaming they got IO that I need to worry about now I love the
pacing of the second game right the fact that you've I also grown like
Max Orbs, right? Like, when was the last time you saw the little balls of fury spinning around,
pressuring in the lane, you know, it's hugging the Brazil, hugging the Pango, just making moves, so
yeah, they actually, once again, sure, they're absolutely shit in the first game, but the Game 2,
Game 3, my god, they've come alive! You'll love to see it, it is, brought them success thus far.
Let's see if they can keep the good times rolling, but as much as I'm saying that teams are
getting data for playing more games.
Purge, it feels like extreme gaming
are just adding to the list of heroes
that they are apparently very competent on.
Yeah, they've always had a pretty wide hero pool.
And giving the right pick for the game
is definitely very important for them.
So if they leave on me for this last pick,
it's something they've been doing since TI and even before.
And he gets the right hero matchups,
and the rest of the heroes are solid.
It just feels like they're going to beat their opponents.
I don't know why they're just out drafting everybody,
but it just keeps happening.
And Amar, we talked about it at the end
of the last panel, but it seems that maybe this IO and Rubik might be the idea, but I feel
like Rubik was only really a party vision thing, and then Extreme Gaming were like,
alright, we'll give it a shot. Do you think Yandex would prioritize Rubik themselves?
Well, I mean, Saxa is a very good player, so I think he is able to play Rubik. I
don't think he's ready to play IO, I don't think he's ever an IO player, and
They don't think Maddie is a venom player, so they probably, it's either they will give them starter, or they will just, they will just first pick Rubik and Banayo, like I think this is like the two adjustments they probably will look to make.
And then in contrast, do you think Yandex are still going to prioritize this Phoenix or this Batrider as their first phases?
I don't think it's as scary as the other ones to be honest and Bango will also be prioritized
because they banned the first game, but this time they might just pick it.
Like they might just also prioritize first picking it.
Interesting enough XG of course have been second pick in all three games and also radiant in all three games.
So when the coin flip has happened, the priority has kind of settled that both teams are very happy with what they have been given.
within mid-given and of course XG going from game one to game two the main
change was game one they banned Jokera, game two they banned TA in the first phase
and that was a really good adjustment and I wouldn't be surprised if you saw the
same four bands from XG as we saw in the last game.
And now with Venomance or Ann Rubik allowed to go through by Yandex Extreme
Gaming need to figure out which one they enjoy more or if they'll continue
expanding their pool.
Ooh, I've already rolled. What can you do?
Yeah, Phoenix gets first phase banned out by Xtreme.
I guess the Phoenix was a problem for them unless they have IO, that was their idea.
And they don't want to ban Venom because Rubik counters Venom, so I'd just say like they'd just first pick Rubik and they wouldn't worry about Venom.
Hard to just pick.
It's gonna be Yandex taking the Rubik, and I believe they haven't played it yet on the new map.
In fact, I'm gonna go see when the last time Stoxa played it, period is.
I mean, it's a quintessential 4 here, I'm sure it's going to be fine on it.
It just does a lot, it's pretty safe to pick early. This is maybe one downside though.
It's going to be a creep to bully, and if you keep them a little separate from the hero, at least both of you won't get fated bolted.
So it's kind of cool.
Here is right from XG. We saw that they are very good at just absorbing other team's drafts, like we said earlier in the pre-show.
And Chantris here, that was kind of like a struggle for them yesterday.
Now you know what? We can take it ourselves.
So I'm looking at actually to bring that pacing play the strong lane twin gate take the talents of the andex start building some heroes
I can just with the handle the you know the expected and charges pressure in the early game
Removing the doom factor from first phase is like a moving one-inch counter. So
They could take some just still like the hero who does that is very tanky against the edge
Like, it's either to make a match up or like play to kill the lane with some...
Yeah, I don't know what kills lanes to do, it's nothing nowadays, so it's not really as easy to pick, I guess.
And they'll just give Aamil as a mix up, yeah, safe lane is very secure for them already.
Are you sad when you saw Doom get buffed?
Do you want Doom to be an average hero so that you can play and show how good it is?
Like, when I see the buffs to it, I'm pretty sure you're gonna be upset, right?
Well, for our team, that's how it works.
My heroes are just fine or good, they're like, it's the best they can be, because when they're broken, they just get first place banned, and I have to ban them against other people.
Like I don't play them, and I have to ban them, like it weakens me as a player.
And I did look up the statistic, this is a very interesting spread, so Soxa actually has Rubik as his third most played hero of all time in competitive,
but he has a 46% win rate on it.
on it. I do not see most played heroes be sub 50 very often.
That's kind of rare. I would say maybe one thing about it is that Rubik's payday was a
little bit before Sox's time. That could be it.
Or Sox's prime.
His prime.
His most successful years.
Does hero winrate factor into your drafting amor? Because obviously you have the hero level,
you don't have to be high level across the old OG meme. If a player has a low
winrate on a hero, do you go, I'm sorry mate, it has to have minimum 52% or something?
Yeah, I mean, my only hero that has bad win with good pick rate is like Sand King, he's like 44 or something like this, but they still pick it, you know?
You have a sub 50% Sand King?
Yeah, my Sand King is like awful. That's why I'm not being just ends up playing the whole seven wins TI with it.
You know, like, yeah, I've tried Googly before the Amasa. It's not very good results.
Well, the Sand King does get banned out in this game along with Fyze Tusk, and with the
Rubik being stolen away as well, it seems like Fyze is going to have to spread his wings
a little bit.
Yeah, the Tusk game banned, I think, makes tons of sense.
It just is very, very safe at the beginning of the draft, lets you change your draft
as you go.
It makes you very flexible.
And TA is also removed, which is a very strong carry for Yandex, maybe Watson's
best.
So would be good at blowing out the enchantress. That was
That's why he's not in the panel. We actually it's just on his way. He's on his way right now. Yeah be ready
In XG though, whatever is gonna be for the full position. I just want to see that additional pressure
I want to see an offline combo that can try and kill the enemy carry five again
You don't see it so you might be picking, you are picking behind it scary, but I want to have that mindset from XG, that you're XSS and FY,
they can click their buttons at level 2, level 3, and that will invite the Enchanters into lane.
If I see a passive off lane that wants to pull waves, I am worried the Enchanters could get lost in a game, right?
So I want to see that kind of forward thinking double pick from XG, and already with the Bristleback, you are kind of moving in that direction.
Yeah, gives them the potential to dive, you can definitely pressure carries very effectively with this hero.
I know you played Bristol back a little bit this tournament Amar. How do you feel if that's in the straf so far?
I mean Bristol is kind of a hero that you just first pick like you don't really need to see a new hero
You just pick and you you just you kind of just need stuns around this hero and it's kind of easy to like
Play as long as like you don't lose the lane or like when you lose the lane
You have like a comeback like you just go back to the two camps was Bristol is like one of the best heroes to follow
I think it's really fun to just pick this hero anytime.
So how does it change the draft though?
Because I feel like a lot of drafts center around like Estonian off-lane here.
Does it put you in a weird spot now that you have Enchanters and Bristol as your first two since you're lacking disables?
I mean you definitely need to fix it with like your, like your maiden position for which what we actually do with this hero
is a lot of how we drop, like we have Snaking on Ench and me on Bristol.
So they just need like they just do the same again.
do the same again, they had the Sopter Pango, they're just gonna like pick two heroes similar
and just which ones are more stable.
The Sanking and Pango band, which is like the most stable mids, I thought position 5 they
probably can go for the Sopter again, I don't know, there is something else.
Well the Phantom S are still in the pool, they want to go back to that one, but not
really stunned.
Oh, Careplay boss, that's a double cut as well.
That's right.
The Andex though, alright, the flexibility with their heroes right now is a little
very scary but the pain them that they bring, when Ench was to step up to a tower with a
creep, you are going to be jumped by the Marci, by the Tiny. There's a lot of ways for Yan
Dex to skirmish you early on. And XQ, they're going through some classic combinations but
no stuns yet. Amar, of course, was talking about how important it was to lock down Heroes
X with Ristleback. Right now, it's all just kind of, kind of, you gotta run
at them but you're not actually locking them down in any way with the first 3
Heroes of XQ.
Yeah I mean definitely with the mid, there's a lot of work. I guess it's going
There can be some Ember and Storm, but I don't know if Shiro Junio would play it, but if they do pick, I think Husker would be a very good choice for me.
I haven't seen any Huskers yet. They've been a couple like, oh, it's Shiro Junio.
Yeah, the Spirit Breaker.
Who's the core?
Is it Foddle or is it Spirit Breaker?
Alright, boys, alright, and girls, in the arena, be ready for the fact that Agonis on Spirit Breaker is a little silly, right?
Xiao A at one point in his career, he started putting the mid Spirit Breaker, the offense Spirit Breaker.
Are we going to see it here?
Probably not, but be ready for the agonist.
It is actually broken.
Maybe not this event, but next event,
people will be talking about it every single time.
Keep your light though.
I'm expecting to be the mid laner, personally.
Just shove the wave, you can play into the tiny,
and then you bring that pacing,
the entrance break I want from a mid laner.
Sure it's not locked down, but I don't know.
It's not even a thing anymore, I can't remember.
Maybe it's not.
Is it a thing anymore? I can't remember.
It is, like it's the spelling,
it just doesn't have another one.
Perfect, wonderful.
I completely forgot what he did whilst I was waiting that monologue, so that was awesome.
The facets are gone, it is confusing.
Yeah, no worries, but either way, that is a scary run at you lineup.
Definitely has very good early game potential.
The tide is going to be a little bit harder to kill through, however.
Definitely front line a bit.
Put a nice ravage sound to buy some space for Yandex to make good team fight decisions.
Where are these heroes going? I'm not sure yet.
Yeah, I mean, Yende, like, what, so we can play both, like, I mean, it's kind of weird, yeah, I don't understand, I mean, the rubik has to be four, like...
Tides three, but is the marshy carry or...
Yeah, the marshy can be carry or five, I guess, and the tiny...
Tiny is middle, I mean, I'd say that tiny is middle already, because Shirojumi plays it a lot, and I think they just picked Kota to steal it, actually, when I think about it.
And the Marci's either gonna go, no, Marci's gonna be playing KD right now.
They removed the...
The two hits mechanism. Yeah.
I mean, it feels like Marci is meant to be the support, right?
You bodyguard up an ally and then just gotta go in together.
Does Bodyguard's different though now, right? Does it give you armor additionally?
It's a barrier?
Oh, it's a barrier? Okay.
Not the 300.
Okay. You used to bodyguard your teammate and if they got attacked, you could attack the guy that attacked them or something like that.
That got removed, I believe.
So it's a little different, but you can rebound an ally automatically now, if you wish.
I'll bring it up again because these last phase bands keep having it happen.
Is Medusa a concern for Yandex or can Marcy go to Fuselblade and you don't need to worry about a 24 Medusa?
Kind of interesting thought, I mean they can pump the mana into the Medusa.
Yep, model Medusa.
I would say they cannot really worry about Medusa because they have no stuns, no no stun from Medusa.
So the hero extreme that needs to pick is kind of independent.
Because he is only playing off one Spirit Breaker and they are still their advantage.
They have quartered everyone in Spirit Breaker with stun.
Do you want Aume to have a stun? Because yeah, it's basically just Spirit Breaker with a stun right now.
Not necessarily a stun, but an independent fighter.
I mean, the band Wurzowsk is not a stun, but he's an independent fighter.
I mean, then bring back the Beastmaster, I'm sure Tide could be a bit awkward, but if you are Beastmaster Plink, you could pass the Titan to find in the Master, your Tide, whoever the core is going to be.
And then you have simple Koro pet partnerships, right? I amp my Bristle or amp my Beast, it could be a way just to really, you know, amp up this temper that actually has.
Yeah, I mean, the Beast picking you into Tide sounds bad, but to be honest, it's actually, the lane is good for Beast, so I would say like, to be honest, they can do it.
If he sees a good carry matchup with his Bristol to fight together, I think it's fine.
That's really why I decided to be bad.
That'd be all good.
Fox said he did lose his moustache in force, and fortunately for the stage matches, that could affect his gameplay here.
His hinter upon us is absolutely fucked right now.
Yeah, absolutely.
Extreme aren't confident that this march means the carry.
But it looks like Yandex are happy standing there, and Void's spirit will be the mid.
It's a tiny massive lane together and Rubik died. Or they might swap subs I guess. I don't think we're not in place Rubik, but they might just swap the lanes or something like this.
And now I would say the lockdown is even more important if you're dealing with a Spirit hero. Void Spirit does not have very much to worry about, especially if he's laning mid against what we're assuming is the Coddle.
Yeah, the same picture looks weird, to be honest both drafts look weird, they look all weird, I don't even know what that's for
I just feel like they're going to struggle to get value out of the Tiny as a 4, especially Tiny plus Tiny
Oh, yeah, BoogNor, genius, thank you very much Amor
I do indeed get the Beastmaster and it will be going into the Tidehunter
Watson's playing the Tiny, though it's Carrie Tiny
And it is mid-cottle, then.
Oh, there was such a sliver of hope, I was gonna scream into this mic.
But there's fine.
Okay, does Carrie Tiny change your math, Amar?
How are you feeling about this hero?
Yeah, I mean...
I played like a ranked game with Watson yesterday, and I told him,
please don't pick Tiny today.
You literally told him.
I literally told him, please don't pick Tiny.
Did he pick it?
Yeah.
So, no, in the game he just picked something else.
When you warned him, when you go to the stage, do not pick carry Tyre.
Yeah, I told him to play Tyre and like two more heroes and he won't play Tyre, right?
But like, I'm not sure about this tiny carry, but it is good against Brist.
It is a good tiny carry too.
Is the build still like Echoes, Silver Edge kind of playing more like a hunting style of Tiny
or is there a different build that we're missing now?
I mean, I don't know what other builds, because I've never seen this hero.
Like, I played also and my team also played.
Like, we never saw this hero in the carry.
I assume he doesn't use silver, so yeah, he will go eco silver and try to burst, and against this new item, the magic resistance, the raps, can't spread raps, yeah, I don't know how to say that, it might not be that easy, not to warn you guys, but I think Amal might be right, Watson has a 30% in rate on the tiny, only 11 games played, but just to throw it out there, they have picked maybe one of the weaker Watson here who's in a potential elimination game.
And on the other side, the Beastmaster has been quite effective, it doesn't win every single game, but it's certainly solid.
It's hard to say what's going to happen. The drafts are kind of weird.
A lot of heroes and positions that haven't been proven yet.
Some weird roles.
Spearbreakers in the game, there's a caudal, maybe, like...
A caudal med?
So much is in the air.
I'll make sure to read the patch notes and caudal before I do the post-game analysis somewhere.
I mean, there's a lot of tanky boys.
what tide enter plus timing I feel like coddled with the fast vessel should be able to get
stuff done in terms of these sideline pressures and bristle and enchantress creeps and spear
fighter they're gonna be able to run at their opponents big time so that's one good thing
going. That's the thing that when like when ent makes the move right if there's a ward
on the twin gate and you're anticipating it amass you or rubik any here that rotates
into it if you have the numbers and kills the ent you can really break an ent's
game before it gets online if you lose the early tower then the mid tower and
You allow the game to kind of cascade into this tempo for XG, you have major problems.
And I think Yannick's, they do have the heroes for it, but it's about the efficiency of the
first four minutes of the game.
So they are ready when the inevitable kind of mass will hit your table of towers.
Which is going to be a caudal rolling up, a beast master rolling up, an enchantress
in a creep rolling up, a spear breaker coming from behind you probably at some point.
And the crystal back is the tip of the spear.
They do have a craplet of stunts though.
If they mis-execute this dive, they've got to deal with telekinesis, they've got to deal with amatoss, they've got to deal with rebound, they've got Rammage, they've got the Void Spirit, they're ready to punish these mistakes and layer a bunch of stunts.
I guess we didn't get to touch on it too much or more, but why the Void Spirit as the 23rd?
Well, I mean, Void Spirit is very good against Kotal, like he should win the lane.
Like, I think if he wins the lane, I think that they slow them down very hard.
He buys Vazel against Evil Kilinch and things like this.
Let's see if the speed is converged as it's time to get into the final game!
Let's get it started!
The final game of the lower bracket final!
I just want to get a game to the crowd here!
Who wants to see Endex in the grand finals?
And who wants to see extreme?
And who's here to just have a good fucking time?
Glad to hear it, because we hope this game 3 will be a good time for you guys.
We have had a bit of a one-sided stomp on both sides, I know, I know.
Pause is never a good time, but we'll try and fill it where we can.
But it one-sided stomping game one kind of one-sided in game two is well, where do we go from here every?
No, this is again XG flipping everything on that table
Boyd carrying game two and now let's just rip the beast master care
That's why it's super surprising because I feel like in game two they said okay
We want to have the better scale want to be able to play out the fence of reactionary lineup
And then take them over and this is like no we're gonna play mid-cottle and one you over in 10 minutes
You're not even gonna be able to play to over so
Power to XG as they just continue to surprise. I think everybody with the styles of busting out
I'm sure this Beastmaster pick is there's probably half the people in the world
You're like yes, I'm a beast man. There's the other half are like dear god. No, not all babies
Master. Yeah, so really anything happens. It's a very volatile lineup and they gave the index some really strong
Oh, ex Nova! He chose impetus level 1. He doesn't have the heals. He does have fairy fire though.
It should be fine, but...
It feels like level 1.
Yeah, he's really going to put the pressure on this time.
I have not seen this in a long time. This used to be an old school build when it was a little stronger.
You could just spam offlaners out of the lane.
Yeah, it is an effective spell against Tide.
So there's some argument for here. Maybe you just push notice off the early waves completely with axe plus impetus spam.
Yeah, I feel like if you only have 1, it's not going to be good enough.
If you only have axes or only have the impudence, it's not going to be enough to stop this Tidehunter.
They're going to jump on Ex-Nova, but again, he's got enough heal in the back pocket.
He's perfectly fine.
And I'll see if the attrition can out up here for XG.
I still think getting Tide and Rubik is pretty disgusting.
I think it's one of the things that made me shove them towards the Beastmaster.
Get a hybrid carry who's not going to go in and try and right-click into Anchor Smash plus Fable.
That sounds pretty tough.
I'm still a little bit worried about actually playing against all this damage reduction
and how 10 key indexes line up can potentially get here.
Yeah, you've been talking a lot about how you think this fade bolt to just bust it.
I haven't even asked you about it.
It applies to spell damage as well.
Like, I don't know if Rubik's broken, but this spell is absolutely perfect.
There goes that fairy fire, Ex-Nova survived another bout,
which noticed in Soxa.
You're gonna, someone's gonna die down here.
Yeah, notice getting lower and lower has to pop his own heals here,
and he's out of reach out.
There is no way someone doesn't die on this lane,
like the first two or three minutes.
It's just, it's a spam war to try and win that first blood.
An early healing salve had to be pulled down to the Tidehunter.
Got a bash on Malady here, big block in, he's in big trouble, the avalanche
Oh he's got it
Closed him down but he got the goo and that will ensure it
First blind goes step wide
Boots, spear breaker, cleaning up with some goo stacks
XSS back on this bristle
That's got to be a vote of confidence here because he's a working game too
I kind of like the bristle here again, I know the Tiny can break him later on
and be a good matchup but I think the Tiny also gives bristle a good lane
early
I think XSS is going to get back here and he's against three melee cores
And a melee supplement.
There has to be an annoyance there for Yandex in terms of we have to deal with XSS on Cyril again.
He's probably gonna have the wraps. I think this hero is one of the best consecrated wraps users in the game without a doubt.
You get early bracers, you get the treads here, HP just goes up so fast that it just makes you a beast.
It's a scary hero to play as. And yes, Coddle. They can give him some buffs here.
Yeah, what did we...
Not the poor Coddle, but...
Why did we go for the Coddle, man? What do you think about this hero?
I might be a misclick honestly, I have no clue where Vidcala came from because I did not read this patch and go, oh this Vidcala's back, you know, it's looking great.
He was going to go this vessel build, maybe there's some like sneaky item build you can go on this hero with some of the new like the Crojage just going in your go scepter to your slowing people and they're getting solar bound and no one can hit you.
Maybe there's some crazy stuff you can do with that.
It is still a very fast hero.
He can farm lanes against almost anybody, but he's not when you mid.
Boyd's Creek is one of the better laner lances, as alarm mentioned.
Nah, he's killing it.
17-9 versus the 12-2, I mean, this is very one-sided affair here in the mid lane.
That's why it's curious, because I think normally, at least historically, when you play mid Caudal,
it's because you see some mid heroes that you can just abuse the hell out of, right?
And you get mega-fat, you run around the map with a super early vessel, you take that game over.
It's not a hero that traditionally scales that well, or at least a mid-hero that is abused by Solarbind, right?
Yes, but Solarbind is good against Tiny here, and that's kind of it. It's not, or the tie does natural dispel.
And the Void Spirit doesn't care about Solarbind too much.
And they even have double repositioning supports, which is kind of interesting, while the Rubik, if he gets his shard,
and then the Marcy being able to throw heroes around here.
So definitely a lot of questions in this draft, but ultimately these game 3s and questionnaires come down to execution.
and then come down to gameplay and avoid the XGXQ and that game too.
So if they can repeat that, they're probably favorite of almost anyone at the price.
It's about stepping up here as the index in a very minor situation.
So the tide is 22 and 3 in CS, here comes the charge on Watson.
Slung down, lot of co-stacks, full-on-climbed armor.
He's at naked at 6 right now.
The Gwild burst him down with ease.
And this is why I can serve for the carry-finies, the lane.
You're playing into this off-lane burst, I think you're giving X-XS so much freedom.
Rubik is not a lane-winning support. This is not the Malady Warlock.
This is not the Malady Jekiro, right?
Right, Rubik's going to pay off in the big game with Insane Fable, but he's not winning you this lane.
It's a very different setup for Yandex than we're used to seeing, especially on the previous patch,
which means these other two cores, Interior Junior, notice they got a step up here.
Have a good lane phase themselves and put some pressure on the map.
Yeah, so far, notice, top of that CS chart, he's doing quite well down here.
The impetus didn't really pay off for Ex-Nova.
Well, it did and didn't, right?
Like, he's top CS, but he's actually not that good a network
because he's had to blow so much on the last crew resource, right?
He bought an infused raindrops.
He has ferried out that early salve.
I'm sure he's bought even more regen since then,
so he is not that far up in network.
In fact, the Bristol back is ahead of him
despite the Bristol back not having the same kind of CS
as the kill.
That's one way to look at it.
Best off, the best defense is often a good offense
and you just get them low.
There's no pressure going into Almey down here.
First year.
In that sense, it's securing the lane.
But it's Lloyd's here at the top.
Here, Junior.
Having absolute free par mid, top CS and top net worth here,
he's going to have a very fast turn.
And he's going to need to get more done with it
than we saw in the upper bracket.
He also had some good starts there.
But Almey from behind.
Malady shows up.
Batbold's bringing some low.
Telkinesis taunts back on the rest of the team.
Another round of actions.
Almey is so low they finally get the hit in to finish him off.
But now, Stocksman's certainly gonna die, and notice he's gonna be pretty low as well.
F.Y. that as they get out, and notice still has his Crackin' Shield.
Activates that one, stops taking any damage.
And gotta get over.
And that's true, gotta go back for those fish.
He put in fish, and with the over-chasing him down, they can still get this one.
One more impetus.
He's not gonna be able to get it.
He's gotta run.
Nothing stays on his way, though, with all these low health heroes,
makes up a load as they're all behind.
First to go out here.
Jiro Jr., with the haste room though, is already cleaned up this support.
We'll chase back the Connell, hits him with the red, then pulls him back in.
Even Dither.
Now look at the body blocks, body blocks, nothing to say.
Low enough, Gush, he makes it with the stun, gets the heal off, nothing to say.
And underneath the tower, we'll finally die as Chiro Jr. picks it up.
The charge from across the map is coming, these heroes are low.
They're going after Ame as well.
Hit the magic wand, here comes that charge.
He's noticed but Chiro Jr. cleans up Ame with the pulse.
And now he's looking at me, he's not taking it.
It's a crack of challenge, two damn dicks.
The boy's too bad until I finish, finally finish them off, but Exnova, he's gonna die again.
Chara Jr. is feasting an ultra kill, and he's only resources that will stop it from a rampage.
He got so much value out of this urn, four urn charges going out in the middle of the fight.
He still has two left. Four urn charges and a 4,000 net worth.
He got four astral steps off, three pulses, three remnants.
That was just the voidspear dream. You come in here with that six minute power
and just clean house. He is gigafat out here.
Oh, he is... Whatever plan you had with this mid-cattle is out the window.
Yeah, like you are supposed to be dominating that early fight with the blasts,
healing people, up dealing a insane amount of damage, putting your earn to use.
Instead, all of a sudden you have a very poor coddle and a very rich void spirit
and it's extremely happy about that exchange.
We just saw the power of the tide hunter sitting there with his Kraken.
He absorbs so much damage.
two levels of it early and the only bright side for extreme gaming is that
xxs's bristleback is second in net worth still free farming up here but it's
nothing compared to what this void spirit has gotten the charge going after
malady here didn't get the telekinesis to stop the charge using the bristleback
yeah and if f y can get enough body blocks to allow another round of goons
That's the bash as well, that was crucial!
It's a bash like the kill, yep.
That's why I'm in the zone.
I think so, I'm pretty good early game here, all things considered.
It really is.
I mean, you're looking at it as like, yeah, the bristles farming.
I look at it as XG took a fight with everybody who fought the bristle.
Who is the strongest hero in the early game.
It's Yandex fighting on their all-planer instead of that game too,
where all the action kind of was around XSS.
Big difference here in the early stages.
You might get a tower off this, and Chancer's always looking for these tier ones.
Yeah, they might be recognizing that fact and saying okay, we gotta play two of Bristol now, let's bring both supports up there,
let's pressure this tower, and if the Andex want to fight us for it, we'll take them.
I wonder if our success will go bottom after this though, there's an opportunity to kill this tower and then defend your own.
This is a full HP tier one bottom, a Tidehunter is taking through right clicks, it's not that efficient right here.
You have an opportunity to win some map control.
It's also heavily risky, right? You're gonna be taking this to a point, a lot of Andex heroes, and there is an Ant-Damage on Chira Jr.
So, that's pretty terrifying.
Yeah.
If you get isolated down there,
you're already going to come collect.
He already has a vessel.
Yep.
Oh, he is ginormous, right?
I get a hand damage of a vessel in nine minutes.
This is insane.
Anybody he finds is just guaranteed dead.
There's a reason XG are baking the premises here
around this mid lane.
They do have a ward that scouts out some of the sanctions,
so that ward is doing some work right now.
It is.
It is.
A lot of wasted time there for the Andex trio.
He has to have his, he also has his.
Not the worst timing considering he didn't get anything out of that fight.
I think he's still a lot of space going towards his bristle, so
next time he's just gonna have to do some heavy lifting here for XG and
this game got a little weird for him because to me their line of his early game domination.
Like, wind lanes, no wall with enchanters, taking towers, coddles, running around them.
We haven't really seen any of that, but he indexed all the way, let's keep 3 after that follow-up play.
So how much does that matter for XG as we go later and later here? We're gonna find out.
Maybe they wish they had the spectre of the faceless void right now.
Kind of back to chilling.
She does not ever feel great for a caudal.
Also worth noting that Rubik's charge interaction did get fixed.
Okay, that's good.
Yeah, so you don't get like the AoE on the bounces, so you can't just charge people on a crew wave and the entire server explodes.
Yeah, we're not going to see Malady, Rush, and Ag or anything here.
But it's still pretty strong spell to steal.
So this is those little interactions to look for. How much can FYG do with the new and improved Spearbreaker?
Malady looking for some strong spell steals in this game.
I mean, if you get the roar or the axes, it's pretty nice here.
here this smoke move disguised by the fact that notice has just been pulling
the wave and farming those extra neutrals so Amme thought he was gonna be
fine farming down here got off the war makes a run for it taking to the spirit
vessel will still fall she almost got out of there let's close fall that's a
pickup for a cheera junior first was at the top but the fourth spirit's controlling
the game right now yeah that's not like exit test can really do too much right
right now. He will have the rats pretty soon, which is...
That's his time to start throwing the game.
But how do you inflict any sort of presence on this game?
It's tough.
You've already taken the mid tower, so it's not like there's anything to go there.
I was about to say that your best point of attack is you swing this off-linger around
mid. Yeah, and you take the fight around that vector that's already gone.
It's maybe even hurting you a little bit in some sense there.
Especially if it's only going to be support sitting there from now on.
F.Y. hits the charge, but Cheer Junior does manage to dodge it, but then simulates an F.Y.
He's gonna be punished! Nobody can sit down here at this bottom Tier 2 area, with notice cutting the creepways constantly.
There's pressure on the tower, there's creeps dying underneath the tower, and it feels really bad for Extreme that nobody's there to be able to collect.
No surprise they haven't tried to put the caudal down here or something, if they're not gonna look for aggressive moves, because no one can stand on this lane against the Void Spirit, it's just about sit down here.
The map setup for the Andex is really nice right now. They're just getting to farm everything top with the Tiny getting soloxed.
He's already level 10. The caudal's not making moves. You're gonna try and get him involved right now.
Have Solarvine, level 4, on the blast. Then you bring Tide down.
Five heroes running at notice. They're even TP'd in. X-XS onto the tier 2.
But if you notice, you're like, alright guys, you can have it.
I'm not even gonna try and blow Ravage for this one. Congrats, you got me.
5, 4, the one tied on Earth.
It's a little inefficient. Yeah, it's a little inefficient.
Here's a high xp here to kill. Like, you was level 10.
Soxla just immediately pops his ultimate to pressure the offlane tower,
because there's also the wisdom shrine in a minute.
So, if you're extreme, you've got to start planting this out.
Are you committed to playing in this side of the map?
Are you going to go for steals?
And in that case, yandex, I mean, they could very easily fight you there.
They still have the ravage.
He also just plant the tiny concierge up maybe go for their home with this type hunter TV in the bottom
Not the most mobile lining from XP
You know where the bristle is you're not afraid of too much. Yeah
Consecrated raps for the coddle to
25 seconds to go. This is the index make their move they smoke up and they're going straight to that wisdom shrine steel
I like this idea they they saw the bristle back up bottom
They know he doesn't have TP because he's keeping it in that high kill. Yep. Yeah, yeah
You're just gonna be missing one of your personal heroes that there's just no way extreme
I think can win this fight. They have to keep it everybody instantly
including the BB
The remnant it's gonna catch
The spirit breaker initially the avalanche over the cross on two different heroes than the coddles already low
Jared juniors chasing after him and he'll try and help him out
He's got one more step a red net to land and that'll be enough kills the coddle
Will not be able to make it out though Axe's land on the mark for Aame.
What about the shrine?
A quick little steal, Soxa.
He gets inside, TP's away, go!
He got roared in just the last half second,
but at least he steals away the wisdom shrine.
Yeah, it's probably worth it for him to get the shrine.
Yeah, the sad thing for him is that streak went to Aame.
He got the 7x wicked streak on Jira Junior.
Yeah, a fast axe as a result.
That really helps his game out.
That's probably the number one hero you wanted it on there.
I can't believe that fight went as well as it did for Extreme considering they don't have the Bristol back early on in that fight.
Yeah, he got their last.
This TP did come up in time, but he didn't TP till...
He TP'd to Outpost here.
It was kind of a weird decision from XG, like, they're debating whether they're gonna contest this.
Then there's more heroes than they think. The Bristol flank, so he ultimately gets a good fight past the BD here.
Yeah, he probably just figured there was... Since he was last to TP, there was just too many TVs.
Yeah, if it's gonna be so delayed that you might as well get outposted to see if you can collect an extra kill, which...
In the end they did, but it was through AMA, not through X-XS, through Bristleback.
Now, hard to tell if the antics are happy with that. Probably not.
They probably wanted a more dominating teamfight for themselves, and...
Particularly losing the Void Spirit streak there, that hurts a little bit.
We're seeing the recovery here from XG's core, something's beast and Bristle are...
...picking up...
...picking up some power here.
It did be noticed when Scree farming on the other side of the map at the same time, so even in 2-2 split Wisdom Shrine steal and notice Scree farming, he is, uh, almost...
...picking up a pipe.
He's a big boy.
A lot of that damage goes out the window for extreme.
I really have to respect the tide in this game.
He can still threaten him with a Pristelback though, immediate ravage! Just all in on Amin!
They throw every bit of damage they have to kill him and start back away from Scree's Pristelback.
Oh yeah, he was.
managed to get the toss to free him there. Nicely done, charged on through, finished off.
Now he did some decent damage. The X6 says he's reffing it up here as he's got a whole
lot of mana. The brills are stacking through. He could just keep on chasing after them as
long as he doesn't lose out on his backlight. Cheer, Junior, unable to execute nothing
to say just yet. Hitting with a blast. One more step, gets through, TP's away.
And he is going to be able to get away. He's good for now. X6 says, keeps on moving
forward. He killed the tie-dunner. Now looking for the kill on Soxa as well. Good coverage
with the avalanche to give the TP away.
This bristle is an absolute menace.
They have no answer for him here until that Silver Edge is online at the time.
He's just rampaging through the fight.
No one's even attempting to touch it.
Yeah, no, he's too big.
You know, 2,000 damage is tied.
Just runs it down.
So half of that damage from the bristle is just killing notice.
Who pops the ravage early, which, yeah, that feels great and kill on me,
but then I feel like that's a green life for bristle.
And I think we saw Tira Jr. like the mis-judge, right?
He was able to kill Kado really early on in the last team fight,
but now the wraps are done.
on the title and he's also got the Ash Legion shield just a little bit extra barrier so
it was a very different scenario when he commits his full hit.
I'll pick up the Enchantress here for Vestal Trilos.
We're on the outside of the avalanche, not gonna matter so he'll get the kill eventually.
Gotta keep finding some action for this Void Spirit and keep him scaling in this game.
You don't want to end up in a scenario where your Titan Void fall a little bit far behind
and you're trying to just play 4 or protect the 1 for a carry Titan.
Not the type of game Watson wants to enter closing in on that silver edge
So we've got to have a nice timing on it. I did Watson get top net worth though. He's tiny. I guess yeah, honey does what tiny does here
We threw that jungle pretty fast. Yeah
Pretty huge CS leaves over anybody here
Breaking the 10k marker
Use this tiny
Pressure on the map push out these waves
Extreme gaming staying huddled up though. Just like we've seen before, playing around each other pretty heavily making sure they don't give Chira Jr. free coverage on Power Wheels.
His car wheels have been doing some work in the fight.
Another round of wraps. Okay, notice.
Yeah, there's number three.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Uh, I mean, is it the Bristleback still kind of a problem for him?
If he's too far out on the map, I don't think the ramps change too much with that interaction.
No, it's just a pretty bad matchup for him.
He wants to dodge that as much as possible.
Or you're just bursting this Bristleback down, and there's your tiny Silver.
So that option is available.
And that's the easiest fight for you.
This is, if you get the break, you make it a 5v4, you take the highest damage dealer out of the game, right?
Great, you can get the toss on the Enchanter, that adds a result.
He still got the kill, due to the break, doesn't have to worry about that slow attack speed.
And these TVs from Xtreme, in response, not gonna catch him, he's already out.
It's also a level 1 nature's attendance.
Ah, yeah.
Though this Enchanter is a lot squishier than we see in previous patches, or how
you could skill it here.
Maxed out into this, then going Dragon Lance, you definitely see Xdova feels like
He's gotta help put the threat on the Tidehunter, I assume the game plan is him and the Bristleback XXS.
They try and make it so the Tidehunter just can't sit in the front lines and be invulnerable.
Definitely part of the D-Client here.
Still gonna stall, and reman smoke from the index, where do we go from here?
Well Tide?
He just wanna get a fight into the roach.
He shows up in mid lane, we got Watson.
Backing him up with the Silver Edge, he's gonna join in on this smoke.
There's no BKBs on the side of the edge here though, this ravage is, you know, so terrifying to fight into.
Means they're gonna stay away from the Titehunter, they smoke down to the lower half of the map.
The Andex are gonna chase after him, notice they're just gonna take this mid tower by his lonesome.
He's bluffing it right now.
The stream gaming, FY, his smoke is gonna be broken, caught by Watson, so, at least the Andex gets something out of this smoke.
Well, they get more than just something.
Yeah, it is.
A tower and a kill.
Because they left the Tide Mid, it's pretty decent here.
Yeah.
Especially since XG, I don't think they
hit a creep during that entire sequence.
They're just trying to dodge the play.
On the bristle bottom, you know.
He'll make a skipbook, and the tossback, and the break.
Really nicely done by Yandex.
This bristleback is not as tanky as he thought.
Now that Watson is a part of the equation.
You can't stand out here anymore as that beauty.
Earlier in the game, sure.
But now, Yandex, they show everybody down here, they get a quick kill into the tower.
This Tiny is starting to take this game over, 5-1-2.
Lots of meat in his element right now.
It's got some decent value out of the Silver Edge already.
Man, I can't believe that Big Carrey Tiny is doing better without the Isle.
That really is.
He doesn't have the brick tether to him, taking all his XP.
Oh, nice.
He's level 16, I think he's already higher level than he was in that game in like 30 minutes.
Makes a big difference for this hero.
They're gonna go straight into Porminter.
Very efficient map movement here for Yandex, and that's why we're seeing this lead build considerably.
Yeah, once again it feels like Yandex are, uh, they have a better read of timings than when they're stronger,
and they're able to play the map better during that window.
Extreme Gaming did just pick up, you can't be unawame.
We're gonna try and sneak in a little Roshan here, knowing that they're on the other side taking the Tormenter's thing.
You can have the Shard, we'll take the Aegis.
You gotta get some objective here, yeah.
You can't lose every objective in the early game with a mid call.
You're just not gonna have to much gas to power up this mid game.
Yeah, that's a good point.
They aren't down to be made with a mid-model.
This is gonna be awkward though.
Inside, notice, Jumpstain hits the ravage too late.
The DKB already went out for him on a still though.
They might be able to win the fight even against his Aegis.
Loving down Watson, he's been solar-fined.
They're gonna use the roar on him.
They want to kill Watson.
That is number one target for extreme gaming.
Do they have the damage to be able to cut through him?
Just the AWE is killing Stocksler right now.
And Watson's cleaning through the hero after hero on Xtreme, they took down the Fristleback
Rather easily, Kira Jr chasing after the Kata with help of Soxa, who didn't quite die
A blast, they'll finish him off in the end alongside that Solar Bind
Back to Vality, Aami on the 2nd length will run down the supports
But the Tiny is still getting away, he still bridges into the 9th
The Tiny is so strong with the wraps on the front line
Until they have a break or something, I think putting damage into him is almost pointless
Like yeah, you're gonna get some AoE damage from Blast and Fristleback
You cannot focus it down, but these Tynes are so insanely tanky too!
I'm gonna be doing some decent damage.
Makes pretty good use of the Aegis. Got a perfect VKB timing.
Oh, you get the supports. This lead's gonna continue to build here now. 8K.
3D Index as there are big boards on the frontline. Too much to deal with right now.
Yeah, this could have been a time where Extreme Gaining Off and an Aegis could have
brought back some of that with lead. Avalanche is a problem for this poor Spirit Breaker.
It does make you get the strong shot though, not quite enough damage. Will this tree kill him?
It's gonna be a lot, but he had the extra heals, so he's good.
So where do you go from here, Gerex?
I mean, that's the big question.
You don't have the ages to play the map with.
Are you confident scaling like you were in Game 2?
I'd say you're not.
Especially with, uh, I mean Yenix aren't even going like early DKBs or anything, so there's-
Oh, they're playing like a really good mid to late game timing?
Yeah, they're playing for the long haul.
This voidspirit's only gonna get stronger.
Man, these are gonna be a big problem for the caudal on the backliner.
Tier Junior's just been hunting NTS out of every fight.
Yeah, look at him go.
Playing on the enemy side of the map, searching for heroes that smoke.
Mako undetected though.
Gotta get a good initiation.
They could be on the high ground here. Tier Junior runs right into them, hit him with a charge,
Can't even win the Roar on Soxide!
Oh, Tier Junior, what was that damage?
Oh my God, I thought, oh it's like Roar really on Soxide just to stop the rebound, but they had it well in hand apparently.
Well, he got triple bashed off of...
Look at that, he's hanging around in the Tier 2 here in the world.
Well, that boy, Tier Down, messed up.
Yeah, 1200 damage with the Solar Bind and then he got blasted.
Yeah, I mean, that's still a bash.
Enables so much damage if Fy can get some damage.
Now, it's charge damage into Nether Shrike and then bash them on the one hit after.
So basically, I tripped a bash, 800 damage.
Oh, that's pretty nasty.
I thought maybe he'd got some bounce off a creep or something,
but no, that's just the power of the breaker here.
Yeah, they got a lot of weird movement,
and including that alongside the Blinding Light.
I guess there's some hidden scale here for XG and their support duo,
because you're building this edge to do right-click,
so you see what Spearbreaker can do with this patch with an axe later on.
You can bounce some heroes around pretty considerably.
Maybe that's the X Factor here
to make up for the Caudal potentially falling off.
I don't want to give too much to these supports.
There's the axe for the Void through though, so this is...
This is really scary for XG.
You don't have a lot to deal with the Silent Pulses going out.
Chura Junior's already been a menace in this game. He's just going to jump your supports jump your caudals
Take him out of the bike completely
Put the anchor on all night. He does have PKB. He's not too scared of anything wrong his way
You have to go silver in them. I feel like you might
I mean he would help you play the map as well, which is not the worst because this game
Seems like it's going to be stalling out, less Yandex just over here, which maybe if
they kill this Crystal back.
Nice setup.
Hitting with the break, hitting with the Avalanche, combo it up, then got through the
ramps pretty quickly, got him to half HP already, holding on to Telekinesis with
Cheer Junior joining in.
It's an easy pickup for Yandex.
Another nice line from Watson.
Definitely the best show of this time we've seen a lot more effective at another
game they dropped against Tundra so join us when this hero is capable of it. It's just great.
So much space around the map because every time he's off the map you're afraid of where this tiny
is. The anchor on the Connelly is a whole lot more threatening. Go Aume was in the area,
hits him with the roar, on stocks then the big damage threat quickly take out that support.
Arcane Room 2 doesn't reduce cooldowns here for Aume. They keep their mid hero alive and
and then there's the PPD for the breaker.
He's about to pick up his shard, which is, uh, I think one of the big spikes for this newer Beastmaster.
Every single one of these hits, giving him the Wild Axe and Sam.
Yeah, he really likes to go, like, shard into a lot of this attack speed.
Yeah.
Just turn him into a traditional right-clicker almost.
Again, you have to remember though, you're playing this beast into Rubik plus Anchor Smash.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
You have your BKB duration to play with, but your damage is going to get reduced in these fights considerably for these melee force.
Yeah, there's even a possibility now that he gets to level 20, you get that Fade Bold Damage reduction, another 12%.
36% reduction, it's a ridiculous amount. That's crazy.
It's no run.
You do not know how close you were to death.
Let's do a little enchantment round action.
off the TPU, who would not be surprised if XG trying to dodge until Rosh is back on the map
and then they take that objective base fight.
Okay.
Don't think you want to get sucked into a lane of skirmishes right now.
They haven't been favorable.
There's not a lot of vision scouting this time.
I think Watson has even scouted on a century once in any of these plays.
I don't think so.
Yeah, he should have been moving effortlessly through the map somehow.
If they can get to Octorina on nothing to say and use that around Rosh,
That doesn't seem the worst if it's at a preset area and nothing you say is just able to get blast after blast and maybe enough
Take away the tight owner advantage
Balling in the pit, but if they pick off nothing to say before he can get that
Great Ward setting that play up. Just never got killed here
Easy jump for the voids looking lots and go he sees okay. We got the pick off in the mid lane guess what I'm taking it
It's here to gowering the stitches of the map to find another
Sweet this map so difficult to play
It's gonna close in on a full satanic. He has 4,500 HP on this tiny
That is a lot of strength right there. Yeah, that is gonna be nasty to get through
Again, you end up just tanking up all the heroes are gonna continue to become harder and harder to bring down here
Yeah, saying you're gonna run out of damage before we run out of health
I think the most effective games we've seen for Manics are when they hit this 30-35 minute window.
The ball comes online. That's why they love Tidehuncher.
Yeah, he thrives in that area of the game where his tank is so hard to deal with
and you don't get to the late game TPS that most players need to break through it.
You just end the game in that.
Most dangerous part of the game is coming up for extreme
and they get to the items to push through this.
Can they even maybe get the advantage when it comes to this Roshan fight?
Potential Roshan starting in a few seconds. They just continue to get picked off around the map
Yeah, that was a big kill too because if that was his dieback timer right? Yeah. The 70 seconds here
It's as if he's a level 20 enchantress or something, which he's not
The map for a long time. Oh the courier is gonna be scouting here
I think they picked off that career that was trying to get the odd green for the Goddals
Oh, there would be nothing to say is locked right there.
They got it.
The reduced cooldowns are finally here for nothing to say.
You don't quite have level 18, but this has got to be one of the stronger periods for
this caudal.
This is going to be a really long fight though.
The caudal needs a long fight and everything about the index of this.
Bursting heroes are letting you do it.
Yeah, everything about Chirin Jr. especially.
But he's got a lot of frontline.
Spirit Breaker, Bristleback, Beastmaster, if those three can cause enough chaos,
you have to hold that frontline for dear life here.
Yeah.
And of course, the Void Trick can always just find the column.
It's been the story of this game.
Quick smoke from the index.
They have to satanic on the tiny.
They have shivers on the tide.
Their frontliers are absolutely ready to go here.
They are going to be playing into a top Roshan,
which does give the extreme game the advantage
Off of the flybacks and they're gonna need it because it feels like Gandex is almost guaranteed to win a straight five on five
Oh, it's just gonna find the bristle. Yeah bristleback broken already hip of the avalanche trying to come in get off the roar
But he's going to be ravaged in the same time tonight started so low good or they free it's there from f y
But he's running into cheer junior cheer junior hopes to run him down and they can't get the heels
Not from the enchantress not from the coddle. He ends up going down in the end xx
He says, struggle to kill Rupik!
A Rupik for God's sake!
They can't even finish him off!
The tips go to Malady as he survives through it all!
Or for nothing!
That was not even close.
They absolutely massacred them with the DPS graph of the Tiny.
Just chunking the beats faster down.
Perfect initiation.
Do you find Grissel to start you break in that fight?
It becomes very straightforward.
I can't believe I might have didn't pop the BKB
when he blinked in. Not ravaged up.
I think that had to hurt a lot.
with 4500 HP to take the shield. Look at the bars on that hero. What are you doing at this
fight right now? You got through the shield and congratulations you're not even close to breaking
the mountain gear. You can kill Rubik, I mean he had an essence to skill earlier, he had a ghost up there.
The damage test came and it came a lot faster. The next few were prepared to deal with it
there and massive trouble in this game three. They failed miserably and now their high ground
is about to be raided.
Level 20 Tidehunter, Crack and Shell Clems, triggers Anchor Smash, so it's gonna be problem
hitting him.
We've got Woxin, hitting the tower for 700 damage, I mean, you're under pressure right
now if you're extreme, the movies are gonna be dropping fast.
You have to combo together some sort of defense.
He's got that bodyguard too.
That's light steal and extra face damage, which is ridiculous on this hero, so that's
the combination here.
Charge comes through, he does have the Aegis, so they can't be an over-committing here from Extreme.
They want to take this life without getting up the heroes for it.
Try to jump in, hit by the Colony, pull back once again to BKB from on it.
Another stroke too late, he gets another stroke and dodged, and then now he's just trying to run.
He's not going to make it out. It's up the X-XS, they're going to use the buybacks here.
They have to chase down these heroes. Yandex is on the run, and look at that.
Socks, they're just delivers Wattson to the safety of the high ground, and now up here, they say,
stream if you want some come and get it are you afraid to chase up the committee
double buyback I mean you you gotta be Watson these been super scary they
need to jump first they're actually gonna go after good charge though FY stop
watching they can't let him hit on me but anyway the big life steal Cleveland
and Watson is still alive on this first ages life they're chipping away at
him but they just can't stop the beast it's all an XXS no carry
Terry Jr jumps forward onto the enchantress, hit him with the avalanche, get in front of him, there's a ravage, knock him out!
Extreme gaming! Even with the extra lives, they have nothing on Yandex!
They have made an insane lower bracket run, but they have run into...
GG! It's all over!
Yandex will get their chance at revenge!
In the grand final!
What a game 3 bounce back from them. Easily could have crumpled in a game 3 where all the pressure's on but they say
Hell no, we're gonna go back to our tiny strat. We're gonna let Watson play his game on a hyper carry that's getting beat up from this bodyguard
Marcy just a sick combination as he starts to scale. They had answers for the versatile this time. They gave it again
They said we're not deterred. We're gonna play a lot better around breaking him and starting the fights on our turns
And I think actually struggled to find the last pick there that made sense with the rest of the lineup
Like, what's gonna play fast with his caudal, bring objectives to all this game?
Is that their style?
Really, isn't it? I feel like the index were just way more comfortable in this one.
Put themselves in a lot better position and we got to see a lot more of their potential.
Sick game for notice on that side. That hero is...
really terrifying. Like, when it starts eating fish, when it has a good lane phase,
it's just standing in front of you, the game just deals impossible.
Can't kill him. How are we gonna kill anybody?
And, I mean, Chira Jr. Ultra kill bottom lane.
at like six, seven minutes.
Yeah, if you're extreme gaming, you're just like,
oh, no, guys, we were supposed to have the tempo
and it just got ripped away.
That was almost the game in that whole,
because of the position you drafted yourself into.
You cannot let boys here get an older kill
while you're caught on a summer.
It's supposed to be the other way around.
So just a standout performance for those two cores,
the young boys on this Yandex squad, carrying a heavy load
in this game three clutch scenario,
they get a ticket to the grand final of rematch.
Maybe they got to learn a little bit
in the Soul Bracket Final, right?
I think it's going to be nice, especially on a new patch,
you get to play some extra games,
formalize your strategies,
and now you get a chance to compete.
Yeah, bring that extra 70% base that they were missing
in the upper bracket final.
Then no surprise, Handex,
they are going to be heading to the grand finals
and we'll see.
Soxa, in period for the winners' interview.
Yeah, thanks, Cap.
I am here with Soxa from the Annex.
Soxa, how does it feel to get into the grand final here
at Birmingham, 2026.
Feels great.
We have another chance to perform.
And it's nice to go into it with a W on the way.
Absolutely.
That looked like a tricky series.
How worried were you in that game three, or did you think?
We've got this in control.
Just tempo, blah, blah, blah.
I think game three was after the landing stage,
I thought we got this.
And our draft was kind of looking strong, so yeah.
It was good.
And what are you expecting from Tundra?
We know that they're a strong team.
They knocked you down to the lower bracket.
Did you learn from that experience or you like we've got him this time?
I think we will change some hero priorities and hopefully we have some better preparation.
There are tough opponent, but we will try our best.
Fantastic. And is it great to be playing in front of a great crowd, especially this Birmingham crowd?
cheering for you guys. It feels like it's pretty hype.
Yeah, it's nice to play in the line. It's nice to play here in Birmingham.
And hopefully we will have a good best of luck.
Brilliant. Thank you, Saxon. Best of luck in your series.
Let's give it up for Saxon! Team the Andex!
Because this is the journey that Yandex have been on.
They've won an online event.
They've won DreamLeague Season 27.
They've won a LAN event.
They've won Volakia Season 7, but they have yet to win in front of the crowd, and they
are hoping to make that a reality by the end of today.
They dropped down to the lower bracket after being two-oed by Tundra, but T, they have
Dusted off their shoulders and they're proven that they are ready for a rematch. No 100% in this third game
You know under the pressure of what XG does in the lower bracket
You have to have a good drafts and understanding and they felt like I just mentioned after the laning phase
You could feel that they knew like this will our game like the tight hunter kind of just tanking this fight bottom
The skirmish and cheer junior ultra kill like they were just more chill in this game
Just kind of on cruise control just kind of breaking apart XG
Yeah, you can tell and notice like this guy wants to prove that he he's the guy
You know what every it's like DM comes in they win the land like you talked about and noticed is every time you have these
Stand-in situations where a team does super well and then the replacement guy who has to live up to like the big name
They come in and they always pop off. There's like some sort of motivation there. It's super interesting. He made his
Tydon't it looks so freaking tanky too, and I just reread what the fish does and it's they're really not that much
They give you like it's not the fish
HP they give you like one damaged block maybe a little attack range. It's not the fish
It's the consecrated wraps is a big part like he's getting this magic resistance built into the hero
He's getting raw HP is getting stats
So it's easier to survive for long-term hits of crazy moments that came
Surviving for almost infinite amounts of time and ultimately what that is allowed his course to play well to make good picks
And good take good moments where they got kills and snowballed the game slowly and got really good KDA's
Yeah, they made that happen and very very quickly though and as a result one of the Cinderella
runs and now it comes to an end. We've got Perion standing by with XXS.
Yeah, thanks Neil. I'm here with XXS for next year gaming. Fortunately, they've just been
knocked down in the semi-final. XXS is going to make a fantastic lower bracket run. You
guys got a lot of fans here. A lot of people were cheering for you guys. I know you're
disappointed, but are you proud of how this team did?
I'm sorry to all the fans for disappointing them. I don't think that we played very well. I think that we had the potential.
We have to support them.
Thank you for your support. We played very well. I think we have a chance to improve.
I just want to say sorry to all the fans for disappointing them. I don't think that we played very well. I think that we had the potential to go a step further. But unfortunately, we kind of missed play.
Thank you. What do you think in this semi-final in particular, especially in that game three, what was the point where you thought, ah man, we've lost this? What was the deciding factor for you in this series?
I saw you guys are trying hard to win the third round. Can you tell us which stage was the best for you guys?
I feel like they managed to control the game in 6 minutes, and the second round was a big turning point.
They were all leveled up.
and you know got the ultra kill there and then got a huge network lead I think
that was the point where we felt that you know we're kind of in trouble here
yeah rough moment for sure um so let's talk about Yandex you were a
bonus you just lost to you do you think they've got a chance against
tundra this is a team that it looks very strong do you think Yandex can
go and win the final
I think Tundra is going to be a Tundra as the grand champions because Tundra just feels absolutely
insanely strong right now.
For sure.
Alright so you've had a lot of great support here in the arena.
I know the XG fans have made a lot of noise.
Is there anything that you'd like to say to them for supporting you guys throughout this tournament?
We have a lot of support fans on the spot. They've been cheering for you guys.
In the end, is there anything you'd like to say to them?
Guys, let's go back to the next tournament.
Thank you everyone for your support, we'll come back even stronger at the next tournament.
I don't doubt that that's true, you guys are fantastic to watch that success, Mr. Odyssey.
You go, thank you for playing with the tournament.
Back to the panel.
And for as much as he is apologizing about the performance, I would like to zoom out
a little bit because Jenkins' extreme gaming entered this playoffs with a losing record.
They got on the group stage six and eight, and yet they managed to make it all the way
to the final day of the event.
There is no shame in a result like that.
Not at all.
And this is how they were at TI as well, where they had some shaky games.
They learned to adapt.
Like within a series, they're one of the most adaptable and resilient teams.
And to be honest, I'm just really happy that going into TI season, we have an
incredibly strong Chinese team that can win anything.
They could have gone all the way and I think if they made it to the Grand Finals, they wouldn't learn enough
to that point that they can maybe take it to Tundra.
And I think Gandex, same thing on both sides. We have such strong teams in Dota right now.
Yeah, I mean, in 7.41, when any patch dropped, right, you could be a team that would follow the meta
or you try to set it. I think XG, they were one of the few teams that was consistently trying to set the meta
through their picks and unfortunately for them, of course, in this third game, you could argue
maybe they flew too close to the sun and the draft didn't work out, but this was the reason why they are here.
They are top 3. So again, it was an incredible run from XG. There's nothing but praise from them.
And it's just exciting. If they can keep this form, can they improve? Because there are some big
tournaments down the line. I just really hope that they don't take it too personally. I think
there's a lot of pressure on the Chinese team sometimes. And I think the last couple of
the last few years, people have been less critical on them, at least from the Western
scene. We're just happy to have them here for them to have really good runs sometimes.
So I just hope they don't internalize it too much and don't see themselves as failures
after having that incredible lower bracket run because they really did an amazing thing.
Yeah, and the last time that we were able to consistently consider a Chinese team to be a
grand finalist threat was almost like two years ago with Azuray taking that qualifier
championship. So since then it is encouraging to see extreme gaming rise up to the occasion
and I'll be encouraged for them moving forward that I get to see Fy go back to some old
reliable as he finally remembered Rubik exists finally remembered IO exists and
now Jawaid has a wealth of opportunities to pick against
Spirit Breaker as well. Spirit Breaker as well.
Stayed free please. Yeah, yeah.
Spirit Breaker just warms my heart to see him play it.
Thank you very much.
No that means that Yandex now get a rematch opportunity Jenkins.
They have hopefully short up some of their shortcomings.
This series did go three games, so it's not like they've gone by completely unscathed, but Tundra is a different beast.
They are. Tundra has figured out the patch more than any other team.
I think anybody is willing to admit that. It's 33. Like this guy, he cooks, but on the flip side, Watson cooked in this game too.
We saw the Tiny yesterday, Tiny Iow, and it looked a bit sus, but they went back for it in this game.
He trusted his reed that Tiny is a good hero after the letter patch.
He got some buffs.
The build was still roughly the same.
He didn't complete the entire Echo Saver, but we did see he was doing a lot of damage, man,
especially playing into Bristleback, Beastmaster, heroes that you really want to break, even Enchantress.
It was a really solid Tiny game, so it does make sense to run it as a carry.
I'm still looking to see the Agatum Sector.
I feel like that's the eventual late game build where Tiny right now is insane,
But it's cool to me this see that teams are not only like still cooking at this point
But they're trusting their instinct on something they can lose with something say okay
We just need to play better like we made some mistakes in the early game
Maybe a small adjustment in the build and that's enough and it got them the dub here against extreme
I'm sure it's under it was keeping a very close eye on that game number three as was purge
Would you spot a lot of tiny carry stuff that I was interested about because the other game did go very well for
Or again, X because of the void spirit and the tide being really aggressive.
But what Watson did with that advantage was interesting.
The Silvredge build, the Ava toss, the right click, his attack speed ended up getting him a couple of crucial kills.
Found the Spirit Breaker, shortly after this with the really nice Silvredge buffs.
Lots of damage, lots of stun duration.
He is kind of like a quintessential solo killer really with the amount of stun duration and the break that he's putting out.
Even against the Bristleback, the break against him.
Fantastic. You can do toss backs, bring your team into the mix.
It lasts so long that that guy only had like 20% HP before he ended up dying.
Now, keep in mind some of that's Consecrated Raps if he's got a BKB instead of that item.
Maybe he just survives these moments. It's a little bit hard to say here, but in another example here,
slowly falling in the Bristleback, Silver Rod Jim, we're hitting him so many times that his tree stops working.
He has to use his fist afterwards.
He just got a lot of kills, and this eventually translated to a Gold leaf.
They're building up Gold leaf this whole time that they're getting pickouts on the map.
But look how quickly Beastmaster is going to die right here, it gets hit twice there with the Silver Edge, drops tons of HP, basically forced to retreat.
Despite having heals from his eggs, despite having BKB, Watson just ran him down at this point.
And this is the moment of no return basically, you have a high armor carry, Tiny.
He does lots of damage, he's got Silver Edge Break.
These physical damage heroes from the XG line-up, they really just couldn't match him at this point.
It has been a very exciting lower bracket run to watch as a result of all these ideas clashing
and all these new concepts bubbling up on what is good in this new patch and what can survive.
Unfortunately, Xtreme's amazing run of 2-1, 2-1, 2-1 finally gets inverted.
And yes, now Yandex get the opportunity for a rematch against Tundra.
It's fun how this bracket played out.
I mean, for Yandex, they have a massive point to prove right.
As an organization, the first year one grand final they got to play in was against Tundra in front of a crowd.
Tundra slap them to a 3-0 defeat. Yandex, unfortunately, weren't able to do it. Sure, since then, they've made some rungs, but based on what Pergell's showing us, if Watson can find these heroes, find these nudes, have that comfort, then maybe it won't be a repeat, because Yandex, they want to defer in Tundra, they want to get to another Grand Finals against them, which they have finally achieved, and you know, I just, surely, this time around, it's not just going to be a 3-0 for Tundra.
Okay, I appreciate you campaigning that way, but now show me your true colors.
dollars. There we go. That's
actually you don't even need to
say anything else, right?
Because Ari is on tundra. And
of course the entire crowd
will be going Ari, Ari, Ari,
oi, oi, oi, and then everyone's
going to be cheering for them
and it's going to be very one
side in front of the crowd. So
the only thing they have to
beat, the fact that they
cannot beat tundra in a grand
final, and there's going to
be a crowd against them is,
you know, they are the
underdogs for this one.
We also talk about 33, like
he's this creative genius
when it comes to new patches,
which he is probably the best
of all time. But Ari, since he came from Heroes of the Storm to Dota, this guy has forced heroes.
Like, he has forced the meta to change around him. So, if there's anybody that can cook
something crazy on a new patch, it's for sure him.
So, they have been playing their cards close to the justo far. I feel like we've only seen
the tip of the iceberg of what Tundra's capable of.
Yeah, I agree with that. They haven't had to pick super wacky stuff. Their foundation feels so
strong. And that's a really powerful thing to have. Their foundation is strong,
Their hero picks are normal. They haven't even like had to dip into weird stuff yet. They don't have to be like
Oh, we lost too many games. Let's throw something else at the fan. Let's see if it works
So I don't know if they're even gonna have to go that deep
But the fact that they have that quiver is really nice and hopefully we'll get an opportunity to watch it while feeling a little bit
Lose gentlemen you ready to hit the bar because that's it for this lower bracket final
I can finally have a pint. You know I have a friend we get the watch
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Ari is better than Watson.
Toxic, why?
Why did you do this?
Because we're going to smash this.
Looks like you're looking for them.
They're not here. It's okay. They're not here.
Oh, he's waiting for us to put his headphones on.
That's okay. You don't have to be afraid. Don't worry.
Thank you so much. What's this?
It's Ruth, my friend Hugh's mom.
So if everyone says hi to her.
Okay, hello Ruth. He'll be seeing you again soon, Ruth.
Don't worry. All right, five game finals. Very nice. Very good.
Two years ago, we had a three-oh-three. I'm sticking it out.
I won five games. Yeah, baby!
The biggest oversight. I'm not familiar with this.
I'm not familiar with this. Can you explain this in detail to the entire crowd?
Yeah, I just really like the gameplay.
Okay, fantastic. That is so much absolutely. I'm the trucker now. Hell yeah!
That's base. Let's go. Thirteen mana, boy.
Puppies gone, man. I'm so sorry. I'm heart breaking.
Okay, I must think this double pint for the Golden Ticket.
Oh my god. Reveal yourself. Oh my god, it's a combo.
Don't do it! Don't do it! Don't do it! We're gonna come back to you.
I like this one alive. I'm feeling it.
We ball as I am.
Alright, go ahead and do it.
No.
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I am Part T. Oh, that guy?
Oh, the king, yes, yes.
He's back.
What is the charge?
Say, can you say it, Boris?
What is the charge?
A succulent Chinese meal.
Thank you so much.
All right, oh no, oh, oh, the mids.
This is very good too, I love the drawing, incredible job.
CC&C, we've got clockwork, we've got band TP scrolls,
that's a hot take.
You saw one doubling.
Fast thing yet, I'm not a fast thing yet.
All right, one day, let's go.
Revenge of the fast, it's Aged of Labor 3.
Oh yes, I remember you went in for yesterday.
Is this what Suns fan warned us about?
Is it?
You don't know? Tino Gaming? Is it? Is that a man? Oh, I'm not reading that. That's very inappropriate. You're a bad man.
Just leave me there.
I always have to see you. I've got a hole, but I've got a daedon for you, big dog.
Alright, fresh meat with no mercy! It's in the bag!
Oh! Everything going good?
Yes.
Okay, these guys are live-streaming right now.
What's up? Kuki and OD3.
Hello, hello, welcome.
All right.
The boys, hell yeah.
The noise.
All right, what does it say?
It's my birthday, and I want an Ari Rampage.
Ari Rampage!
I know you can hear us, Ari.
One Rampage, the perfect present.
OK, I will just declare you the winner.
No, no, I'm going to save you for a special challenge.
I like your sign very much.
Hold on.
Thompson but Harold!
I am from Newgee.
Holy moly! That's a good one. I like that one. Released in for one. UK, BSJ, Pick, Marana, BSJ...
What? A lot of BSJ fans together. Thank you.
Vamanos Tundra! All right.
Oh, gracious me. I'm not going to say that one. That's... Can we just yell that out for him?
Say again?
Yell your sign, please.
Um, get your clock out for the lunch.
Thank you. I can choose the cobalt life and a beautiful chalice are wonderful guys.
Silence sir, very good drawing. The Dendy guy from Reddit, incredible.
Thank you, thank you. I'm giving the Dendy away. My wife doesn't want me to bring back home.
Anyway, wanna?
Damn, now you gotta take Dendy home. Four more hours home for you.
Ladies, I'm single.
I just wanna say, I'm single ladies. I'm a big excuse for your slags.
Hell yeah, take off your shirt, show them something.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Alright, defeat, oh, very good.
Just a long stocks, great, thank you so much.
Lynch, oh the absolute cinema hoger is really good.
Okay, okay, I think the time has come.
First to go to the top three.
Everybody here, I need you to help me out a lot.
We're gonna do three based on people clapping,
and I think I have some very good ideas.
Number one do the entire speech without looking at it if you can perhaps you'll be successful crowd cheer after he stops
Here we go. You ready?
From the ghastly ear, I can see to the end of the world and from this vantage point
I declare with utmost certainty that this one is in the right!
The crowd liked it!
Topson, it's such an honor for you to come.
Give me one more Topson impression and crowd, let me know what you thought of it.
I love my wife.
Very good.
And last, Mr. Cobble.
I don't drink again.
But do you guys like Mr. Cobble?
Okay, okay, okay.
Okay, okay, I think it is down.
Unfortunately, you did a great job on Gasly here.
He was perfect, but the crowd, it's Thompson there.
I'm so sorry. You did amazing. I wish it was you.
All right, this is for the final.
He's gonna chug. I know that son of a bitch is ready to go.
One more impression. This is for the win.
So if you guys want this guy to win, go real hand.
Here we go. Last Thompson impression.
Pick me in Volka.
Oh, no!
Maybe the guy might vomit when he drinks.
We never know.
If he doesn't finish it, you're probably going to win.
All right, Mr. Cobald.
I'm not going to lie to you.
If you can do this, you got it.
Let's go, Cobald!
Oh, that's a big glass, too.
He's got a big one.
Oh, my God.
Get your ass over here!
Thank you, Thompson!
Thank you, guests!
The Erie Man are welcome to the Soap Art Drive!
Ladies and gentlemen, there's one way to win the crown,
and my Mad Men was fantastic.
Here you go.
I'm going to leave you to get this out of here for you.
Here's how it works.
When you guys know the answer, you flip it up,
and then you will get to guess.
Now, if you get it wrong, you are not able to guess
on that question anymore.
And if I'm feeling real angry, you might not be able to guess on the next one until someone gets to go first, okay?
So think about it for real. The questions are separated into a variety of different things. General knowledge all about Dota.
Let's talk prizes. It's very important my friends, okay?
Prizes! All right? You guys will win one of our three
interlife props that you get to choose when you lose.
You will also get, for third place, the Sniper Spaceman Immortal, very expensive.
He likes it.
Alright, you might, if you get second place, you get a Dragon Claw Huck from Pudge.
At first place, you get the Mace of Aeon Spaceless Void along with these.
Oh, and I forgot to mention something.
If you get first place, you get a free ticket to the next ES Elevent,
Which could be either Dream League or our next LAN!
So you can come hang out with us for a week in Dream League
if you're really stupid, or you can go to the next LAN!
All right, all right, let's see how we go.
You guys ready?
May I reintroduce you guys to Lena's feet?
Welcome back, our winner from day one.
My name is Jeff.
Okay, thank you, man.
So good to see you again, Jeff.
Welcome back, can you remind us your name?
Easy.
All right, you ready to win?
Yeah.
We're very, very confident.
All right, thank you so much.
Hey, Mr. Cobold, introduce yourself to the crowd.
My name is Tom.
All right, you ready to win, Tom?
No.
Great.
All right, gentlemen, ladies, tickets down with,
no, not down on the ground.
Big enough.
Have it down here, and when you know, flip it up.
All right?
We're gonna start off easy.
You guys at home, feel free to cheat.
I do love it.
Here we go.
Number one, easy.
Luna serves witch goddess.
Is it A, Marana, B, Crella, C, Celemane,
oh, you guys didn't even wait for D,
which was Celemanes.
No, Celemanes.
Are you sure you know the answer?
It's Celemanes.
That's Celemanes, all right.
All right, let's explain the rules.
First person that three moves on.
First two, and then it's head to head, I believe.
So, all right, here we go.
Which hero now has the deploy turret's ability?
Oh! Tinker. Tinker. Oh, very good. One-one.
Okay, which hero did not have a facet before they were deleted?
Was it A. Largo, B. Hoodwig, C. Largo. Largo! We're gonna take you in.
We're gonna take you in. You have made it to the next round.
Well done. That's two in a row. Down to the head to head.
Don't you're fine
Death Prophet ultimate does what type of damage is it a magical be pure see physical
magic
Wait, let me finish or D chaos
Okay, magical pure physical or chaos
physical
All right guys, it's down to why you have to get the next question right
Which item was removed from the game last patch? Was it Chiba's Guard, Crimson Guard, Blade Mail, or a Turtle Shroud?
Turtle Shroud.
Okay, we're tied up again, my friend!
Last question. Winner of this gets it. Here we go. We are onto Medium, by the way.
Which heroes were not featured in the Dota 2 anime? Marcy, Dragon Knight, Winter Wyvern, or Pingalir?
Which one maybe they didn't watch it don't worry about all those booze
Don't hang up hang go
You are correct it was Pango Pangos. I thought it was featured but not Pango.
Ladies and gentlemen give it up for Lena's feet. So good Jeff. Jeff you get to have
whatever item you choose what would you like. I want that blink dagger.
Alright the blink dagger for you my friend enjoy it and you also get
That's tonight for a mortal. Maybe you could trade for something. Oh, congratulations, sir. Thank you very much. Thanks. We love you
I love you too. Thank you so much for doing these ladies
All right, the score is cleared it's a best of three now
First it's who correct but that the other guy going wins unless I get bored then we'll go to a vessel top. We're in media
Which of the following can you not mitis an
An enchanted, an enchanted, enchanter's creep, a converted chen creep, Helm of the Dominator creep, or Lycan Wolves.
Another chen creep.
Lycan Wolves?
It was the Helm.
Which of the following heroes is 100% dead in the lore, Death Prophet, Undying, Kunkka, or Spectre?
Death Prophet.
Undying.
That's right!
Undyed, Death Prophet cannot die.
Conqueror may not be dead, and Spectre is not a ghost at all.
Here we go.
Last one, hopefully we can do it.
What is the most expensive item in Dota is between these?
Divider appear, Bloodthorn, Refresher, or Swiftlink?
Bloodthorn.
Refresher.
No, move it on.
Which one of these heroes is not part of Mare?
Naga, Flark, Kspana, or Warfling?
Or what?
Oh, um, I think...
Okay, what was the question?
Which one of the heroes is a mare?
It's not a mare, not a fish person.
Naga, Swark, Svendor, Murphling.
No!
What was?
Just say one.
Swark.
Okay, well, I'm afraid it was Murphling!
There we go!
How many points do you have?
We're one tie.
Oh, great.
All right, next.
All right.
What is Outworld Devourer's current name?
Just say it.
Outro of the hour.
Outro of Destroyan.
It was Outro of the Star!
There you go!
Keep your eyes on the winner!
Well done, you won this too, right?
Yeah, that's too hard.
Second place, please.
Which one do you want?
Would you like the Midas or the UL?
The UL.
Use two hands on this bad boy, okay?
Two hands.
All right, here we go.
And keep your eyes on the winner.
We are going to go.
You're going to the next event.
You're getting that hand of Midas.
You're getting the dragon claw hook.
And we are going to the next game! So thank you so much for being part of that super-topple she gots to do!
Super excited to play in front of the crowd in the final, completely unbelievable and surreal experience.
It empowers me and excites me to play these games.
Facing Tanger, obviously they're tough opponents. If you play on a level of 100%, of course we can beat them.
As long as you fix these issues, I think we can face them all harder.
Tio tries to jump in there with the tether, he'll die for it as well.
Once he comes in, he doesn't need to get tossed back on the Emberspear.
They're gonna do all the compound farming of his own, they take over and break it.
Honestly, if they can keep people under control for Crystal of the Heaven, yeah.
When they're little friends, timing, they never expect it, but they ought to.
The Rune, the Rune, that's right, look at how he just think of vision.
Oh, he's gotta be careful, dammit, he's rooted.
He's low for health care, sister.
Yeah, hands are all dying.
I think we're pretty confident that we can beat the L.A.S. again if we play our game the way we want to do it, then we're the strongest team.
Tundra may have put us into the lower bracket, but playing a best of 5 is a big boost, especially when we can adapt.
So looking forward.
the stocks that calls it and we are gonna talk all about it and all about these two teams,
the best two teams in the world right now and only one will be the best.
We're gonna talk about it with three people I have on my left, Kezu, Effie, Quinn, Quinn,
how are you doing today?
I'm doing great, I'm very very excited to get to watch my ex teammates play in a final.
I could possibly be better than that, not biased at all by the way.
I'm sure of it, not biased at all, how are you doing Effie?
I'm great, I'm just excited for the upper bracket rematch.
Did they learn any lessons in that lower bracket? Are they going to come back for the revenge?
It's always going to be fun to see something like that.
Yeah, Yandex is the only one that could beat the extreme gaming flow they had going.
Yeah, like Yandex overall, I think they've learned a lot as well from their games.
And I'm also hoping that they did because against Tundra, I'm not going to lie, they didn't look that good.
Like, Tundra definitely had their number. They've had their number before, but I think, you know, Yandex are definitely a team.
They love love, so I'm excited to see what they can cook.
Yeah, best of five allows more time to adapt, not just to the team you're playing,
but maybe also with the current meta and all the changes with the patches.
Yes, plural. Both of these teams very accustomed to those best of fives, though, Quinn.
Yeah, they are. They've played several throughout their careers,
and Tundra specifically has played several this season alone,
and all three of the finals they've played in, they won.
One of those, you can see there, is against Yandex 3-0 in BLAST LAM, so they have been doing very, very well for themselves.
And I think for Yandex there's a bit of a rematch here. I think in a lot of those games, it was very close.
They were a lot more inexperienced back then. They've improved a lot, they've changed a lot.
I think especially in Cheer Junior, Nautis have improved a lot as players, and so I think for them this is okay.
You beat us last time, sure.
Pull me once, shame on me. Pull me twice, shame on you.
Since that crown finals as we can see here as well there have been two more finals that Janek's was able to take the crown
So these are the two most successful teams Kazoo and Dota right now
No, I'm also very happy like that we bring it up because Janek's at the start on Lance
You know like when we're saying they didn't look that good
But I think also when you have like the younger players you need this experience like play in front of a crowd
Maybe you know have the nerves get to you once or twice and like you know just deal with it get better
And I think now there's a very good test for them
Yeah, and they've shown a lot of improvement in the tournaments that they have won in.
Like, I remember watching the Wallachia, Yandex at the start looked a little bit shaky,
but then as the tournament progressed, something clicked and they got better.
So they're the type of team to adapt as they play,
which means that today there could have been an adoption to make these finals even more exciting.
Yeah, I would imagine there's been a lot of adaptation that has happened since they faced even yesterday.
There's going to be a lot of lessons learned from that series,
both for Yandex and for Tundra, of course, as well,
with maybe even extreme gaming, getting some extra information out of Yannick's in that previous series.
Now, we're going to focus our attention first on Tundra, because this team has just kind of,
not just this time, but they have kind of a history of setting the meta a little bit kezert.
No, they absolutely do. Like, this team, I mean, they have like some of the greatest minds, I think, in Dota, like, within their team,
and you just have to look at, like, their pool of heroes.
I don't think it's like incredibly big when you look at it overall, but it's like very strong archetypes.
And the one that I like to focus on, I mean, you know, when you talk about Tanya, you need to talk about 33, you know, his doom, his Largo, the tides, his timbers, whatever it is.
But for me, it's a lot about the support tool. Like, I think Ari on Tusk, this is a hero you have to respect.
And same also, like with the White Mon Phoenix, and I mean, you can see it on the rest.
It doesn't matter what player it is in this team, they have staples, they have standouts.
Yeah, and they seem to be the first to find these standouts, too.
Because the Dream League that they were owning in on the new patch, they were the ones who discovered Tide, right?
like wait this time here that could be broken and they picked it and they also
brought new combos into the Largo matter like the Largo plus Cattle they did that
first and their team started to copy that the Alchemist won this new patch that
was also their invention yeah man I think a lot of them have also learned from 33
because when you think about him we think about he's got his pool of heroes
just three or four dudes and they're all broken in borderland unbeatable and
I think the rest of them have sort of stepped into that like box of having
the same thing Ari right he's got his tusk and in other metas you don't
have a shaman he's got his few heroes that just feel like they're
getting first base ban it's almost the nine-class effect and what they
have this for all their roles or you showed multiple heroes that are big
problems and so I think this is tundra's classic way of drafting is we've got our
stuff come and beat us and if you can't we'll see you in the dumpster. Yeah
there's just too many heroes you have to address and respect in the draft so
there will always be some that will be let through and I want to focus a little
bit more on the position four. I think that goes without saying of course a
lot of focus here tonight is going to be on the position fours. Yes we're
both maybe a little bit more from the left side than the right side here
But this is quite the difference as well in the amount of matches played in all these heroes.
Not a lot of different heroes on the side of Ari.
I mean, when you're winning, and you're winning convincingly with two heroes,
your hero pool is gonna look a little bit smaller, right?
Just by me to have not played as many games.
But Ari, this is his bread and butter.
He picks a few heroes that he gets really good at.
He makes them a problem for the enemy team.
He says, address this hero or I will keep picking it.
That's always been his staple.
And he has been owning, he's been a playmaker.
It feels like he's brought his ideas into Tundra
in a way that hasn't flashed through the team, but rather integrated into them very seamlessly.
And it's also like, alright, he's always been like this. You know, he's like, he's a bit of a
sub-rank player, but he's very confident. When he gets these heroes like this, and I think also
him playing with 33, it's a super good mix because he needs to often add that like he can
respect a lot. So like, you know, you have the ideas to go back and forth to really figure
it out. So I think this combo and often it's so, so scary. I mean, I look at this Tusk hero
specifically, it's just, this hero is terrifying. This hero is very good, it is like another level,
It does too much. It saves, it kills, it's strong in lane, it ganks, it does literally everything.
I've lost many a tournament, it is a stupid hero and it's too good. So you really have to be careful
about walrus man. Yeah and that's just one of the the heroes that Ari is playing and we're
going to actually listen to him right now because Pirion had the chance to ask him some questions
about some of those heroes. Hello I am indeed here with Ari from Tundra. Ari first of all
how are you guys doing? Are you looking forward to the grand final? Yeah super excited,
really, really glad that we're in this in this position. We're feeling confident, we're feeling
calm at the same time. We should win. We should win, fantastic. Now, speaking personally, I was
looking at Likipedia says three of your signature heroes, Rubik, Marci, Hoodwink, accurate, and if
so, are you happy with how those heroes are looking on this new patch? I would say they're
all playable. They're not all in the best spot, but you definitely could pull them out if
the moment strikes and having watched the other games here do you feel like
even though it is early days on this patch that there is some kind of a
method developing we're starting to see quite a lot of the same heroes getting
picked but not as much as we did towards the end of the last patch but you
think we're starting to say alright yeah these are these are the strongest
heroes so far yeah I definitely think the strongest heroes are at least in
like the circulation of all the teams strategies but I think some of them
are being undervalued and some are being overvalued personally but we
you'll see. Fair enough, obviously as we're talking, the semi-final is going on, it's
XG against Yandex, who do you expect to be facing and if you could tell me who would
you rather face? I would say I'm expecting to see Yandex, I think they're stronger,
maybe I'd find it more fun to play against Extreme just because we've never played
against them in the final before or anything like that, it's like a bit different but
I'm perfectly happy to be Yandex as well. Great words Ari, do you have any words
for the fans who are going to be looking out here to see you guys, they're going to be
going to be Ari Ari Ari Oi Oi Oi Chan. Can you hear that? Do you like that? Is that
fun? Do you want to keep doing it? Yeah, I can hear it. I really feel the passion. It
just gives me motivation and it destroys me more. Brilliant Ari. Thank you so much.
Best of luck in the grand final. We look forward to seeing how you do. Back to the
panel. I think we can accommodate that. Oh, absolutely. I'm going to move the
mic for a little bit away so I can get the volume out here too, but if you would
be so kind, Birmingham. Oh, they're already at it.
Someone's putting in heavy lifts in here.
Help me out, guys. Let me help.
Ari, Ari, Ari!
There we go.
Oh, that's hype. I love that. Keep that coming all night.
That gives loads of energy to us and to the players all on the stage.
And I bet it fires up. Actually, quick question.
Does it fire up Yandex in this case, in your opinion,
when you know the enemy team has the home crowd advantage.
Absolutely. I think it might even fire them more than it does already.
He just doesn't know it.
Being in the crowd when the other team is cheating for the other team exclusive,
it's like, okay, fine, stop. Stop with the talking.
I'll prove you wrong, right?
I think Yannick will have that fire, I think especially,
I think of Malady, someone who's like, yeah, sure, you want to talk?
Yeah, we'll see who's talking.
I think it probably depends on the player personalities,
but we're doled players, hatred kind of fuels a lot of things.
You're like, what? They're cheating for him.
Screw you guys, we're going to show it to you.
I just hope that that fire for both teams will be very noticeable in this Grand Finals and some other fire that we have seen throughout
the entire tournament. So first the fire coming out from the safe lane on turn up.
Yeah, these guys are, they're nasty. Like going up against the safe lane,
I think they're probably some of the best players in their respective roles.
Like if you look at wipe on and pure like 350 games together, 64% win rate.
Like you know pure wasn't at the previous event. They did okay like 56, but he's back.
They look like a new beast. They're not really ever losing and white one from the post five. He just got it
What can I say? Yeah, I mean if you talk to any pro player about who they think the best five is
Mostly all of them are in agreement that it is white one. He's just so high skilled and
Expensive he's also a type of player that doesn't provide you with one thing as a five
He can be what you need him to be in the game
He's either like a killer a farmer a dewarder someone who can provide vision whatever it is that you need
he can do which is quite rare because usually five players in Dota are specialized in one thing.
They're known for one thing like farming or fighting but not all things. He's everything.
That is honestly an insane rarity to have someone who can actually play multiple styles.
We all know that Dota has shifted into a box of people being specialized in doing one thing well
and he is just sort of I don't know this anomaly if someone who can somehow do everything
well even when you play with this guy in pubs on corals he's still owning like the guy is
It's just a beast.
Well, then if we shift our attention to our Jandex
and their safe line and their carry potential,
of course, the entire safe line is Quinn's former teammate.
I would love to hear some thoughts on that.
I mean, I think they have amazing synergy.
I think that's one of their biggest strengths.
They've been together for a really long time.
They've played together on multiple teams
over a large period of years, sort of on and off
over time.
And I think that synergy is something
that's like hard to take away from.
Are you think of like Soxa and 33
playing on the same team for a long time, right?
was a storyline for a very long time and I think Watson and Malady are building something similar
now they're still in the early days of their careers but I think that that that combination is
hard to just I don't know manufacture from a new pairing. Yeah and if we see from this graphic we
wanted to take a look at what Watson's highest placements were before Yandex and he was on a
lot of notable teams but never quite found success with them until getting gladiators but
he's success with gaming was all second places he never quite got that first place
but this season with Yandex he's been able to get this first place he's the type of
player that needs his team to accommodate his playstyle to fit with him and they found that perfect energy here.
And playing in front of a crowd also might add to the factor here for them as well.
Yeah and I think also like just to go back to Watson I think to me he is probably the most improved at
least carry player I think of the entire season and I think you can see it like in these games
and like you're saying you know playing in front of a crowd getting more experience and more
against with your team and for yourself like it's just I think it's just great and it's showing in this
There's two players we haven't really talked about, but they were mentioned because 33 and
Saxa used to be the duo, and now they split up, of course they're both in the Grand Finals
anyway against each other. Quinn, how do you feel like that dynamic is going to go? Because
they know each other very well. Does that help?
It's interesting. I think in some ways, I think it helps Yannix more than it does
Tundra because I think 33 is more of a specific playstyle where Saxa is just
to kill it right? He's gonna hunt heroes, he's looking, he's setting up on the map and
that's not something that you can necessarily counter and draft or even play, like the guy
just wants to kill you, okay how can you counter that right? Whereas 33 he's got a specific
style, you know Soxa knows the way he wants to farm, the things he thinks about the
map and positioning and so for me, if Yennex can get a good early game they can actually
hunt them and pressure them up, kill them, not let them get to these key tundra timings
we always see.
It's probably like about both players because like when you're saying they know each
other and while Soxa like wants to kill everyone, I think 33 is also the best
not feeding, having a very stable game and knowing this is where Sokso wants to move
and now he can't kill me but maybe he goes somewhere else. I think it's very
intricate things that might happen in the game where it's just like because they
know each other it could change the early game quite a bit.
They integrated a lot of play styles together. A couple of years ago there was this thing that they were doing
where Sokso was playing like 4-1 ranger, 30 years playing stand-king off lane who
would only lane for two levels. Sokso would stack the camps on the side and
then he would just go to the jungle level 3 then Sokso would take up all
all of that space in the off lane like get some gold and that was something they built together so
I feel like they have a good understanding of what each player wants to do in one.
Yeah maybe also have some extra experience on how to deal with patches because both are considered
to be big brains in Dota 2 and when we are considering that there was there were two patches
this event so far I'm very curious to see what's kind of going to come out in this best of five
because Tundra has just been cruising through the supper bracket
and that means they've had extra time, Kezu, to prepare and to come up with broken things.
No, that's true. I mean, they did have extra time, but maybe this is one of the few times in your tournament
where it might be nice that you have like a lot more games.
You know, people like to talk about the fatigue, but Yanis, they've had a lot more games.
And I think proving or like having to test stuff in like a tournament setting
and in these kind of games might be better than just like having more time to talk about ideas.
At least that's my read.
Yeah, no, I think also the fact that they lost to them, I think that loss was very valuable because they got the test giving them Phoenix, giving them Doom,
two heroes that I think they will not give them again, so they sort of, you know, they poked the beast and were like,
okay, no, we're not poking there.
Nevermind.
We're going to poke somewhere else this time, right?
So they know the areas that are impenetrable, and maybe areas a little weaker that they can, you know, get an advantage in the draft.
Advantage in the draft will be very important.
We don't know right now what's better, first pick, second pick.
That's all going to be decided, of course, by the players, and what feels best is going to be most important to them.
I'm happy.
Jesus Christ.
Jesus, we struck by the...
Something is afoot.
A lot is going on here.
There is a lot of food.
But this best of five
is going to be...
Hopefully, there's not a very
instant like on 3-0.
We've seen Yandex fight back.
We know they are prepared for this one.
Tundra is
the final raid boss
them can they can they deliver in this best of five oh my lordy come in there
okay yeah we've been having some stuff being hooked up here for sure yes a lot
of stuff being put up one best of five to decide who is the best who takes
home the lion's share ladies and gentlemen let's get ready for the
grand finals
and asked my hammer of us, he said ask the end-bill what you require of us.
The hammer asked the end-bill and she had once agreed that they should meet together
in the way that I decreed and it's spot-finding, passion strong.
I am a blacksmith singing the hearty of the song.
I thought to make an anchor for taking on the main
The hammer and the anvil relented once again
So they sat there together as I prepared the cast
They've raced themselves for impact like a sailor on the mast
And it's Sparks of Wying, crashing stone
I am the blacksmiths in the front of the Anvil Song
I thought to make a broad sword for fighting on the field
Just as I know the hammer is a noble thing to wield
And though a humble trade spoke, choose a quiet life
The gods of war come to the door of the hammer and his wife and its
Sparks of lying, passion strong
I am the blacksmith singing the harmony and no song
They asked me for a statue of a general who died
A sword placed in his iron fist and a war horse at a stride
And though I may for what I did decide
I'm stuck in a hammer!
The buyers' slide and it's smart to play it
Passion strong, I am the blacksmith singing
Now all you merry blacksmiths, a warning, take by me,
Stick to your country or choose your anchors for the sea,
The gods of war come calling, promising you gold,
They'll take your hammer, take your anvil, take your very soul,
And it sparks a lightning, passion strong.
I am the blacksmith sticking the hammer in the angle song
Yes, spots of lying, passion strong
I am the blacksmith sticking the hammer in the angle song
Oh
Ladies and gentlemen
Absolutely brilliant to come here every year and enjoy the best culture in the world!
The best teams, the best crowd, and the best people that can talk a bite are going to sing!
Oh man, I'm the longest-joined, the front-flying city, thank you guys, you're fantastic, you're the best!
That's how not only Adam Bell J, who will wield them in this grand-file tundra?
We got this!
Absolutely, absolutely best teams in the world, guys.
Who here thinks that it's gonna be?
Yeah, yeah!
Who do you think this is gonna be, Tundra?
Our bodyarm got ready to go up!
Absolutely mad!
Welcome to peace, Father!
Run, Father!
Ah!
Welcome to my field of magic!
You are slower than this is behind me!
Never!
All of these fights are exhausting.
Introduce myself.
They made me wear these clouds.
I'm not really comfortable with them.
Would you mind if I just sort of swatched off your skin
and wore it as clouds?
Thank you. I'll get back to you later.
Right! Look who has come to be my dinner tonight!
Ah! Look at these! Makes me angry!
First the head!
Turn over here!
Bend your eyes!
Come on!
Calculate it!
Terrify!
I've never seen you here before.
Oh well, go on somewhere else.
And over here!
Over here!
The Dandex!
What I mean here then, is that juicy, defiled, red-and-white wings of the Old Belts.
Get the butcher's business to murder you, God, and the Old Way.
Well, I wait for you there.
There are always tasty parcels.
Serve you up with a bear sauce.
A few meatballs.
Delicious!
Well, don't you all know a good slaughter!
Gentlemen, sharpen your clay vats.
Sharpen your clay vats.
It means sit down, you goats.
Take your seats.
Sit in your chairs.
What do I think there is to me?
Sit down.
You know?
I'll get going.
Are we ready for some fresh meat?
Fresh meat!
Fresh meat!
Fresh meat!
Fresh meat!
At this point, Tundra and Yandex are not just fighting for this championship.
They are fighting to decide which one of these two teams will be the best team of this season.
Both teams having multiple championships to their names already.
Tundra in the lead with three first place finishes.
Yandex close behind with two Ken Yandex tie that score.
We're going to find out one best of five to decide who takes home the trophy, who takes home the honor.
And we're going to talk about how they're going to do that.
If we got the gun, I'll wear it anyway.
This is going to be a fantastic series and we are about to get into the nitty-gritty of the draft.
And I do want to ask you guys how we feel the teams are going to be trying to achieve this success.
I mean, I think a lot comes down to the draft.
I think a lot comes down to comfort and confidence.
You can hear it in Pierre's interview.
Or sorry, not Pierre, it's Ari's interview.
I think the confidence this guy exudes is out fake.
It's not the kind that he's putting on
to be cute for the interview.
He actually believes they're just going to smack them around.
And I think that is one of Tundra's strongest points.
What makes them so good is everyone on this team
genuinely believes in their bones.
They are the best team, and they come out here to prove it.
And I mean, like for sure, like they have shown us,
so obviously like they should feel good.
Like when I look at Yannix,
I'm hoping that they can take the momentum, you know, from the lower bracket having played already, getting a W there and just having more games overall
and trying to take Tundra like at least a little bit out of the comfort zone. I think it's very hard to achieve that, but even if it's just one hero or one little playstyle that you can make them change, I think that's already a very good start for you.
Yeah, the thing with Tundra is they're so hard to draft against. That's kind of their thing, right?
There's not really a good hero that you can give away to them. You can't ban everything.
So it's either you're dealing with that Largo that comes out, that Doom that comes out.
Something, even starting with the Phoenix, taking it away from the Andix is something that they can see to do.
You cannot cover enough of their heroes in that banning stage.
So you have to come prepared with how you're going to respond to what poison that they're offering you.
Pick your poison is such an iconic theme in Dota Grand Final.
So we come to know as one team or both teams coming in with these or ideas and they just step them on the table.
And it's sort of a match of the brains. Obviously there's gameplay as well, but the coaches they've done their prep, moon meander and excel.
There's a lot that goes into these series beyond just the actual gameplays. A lot of prep, a lot of thinking, a lot of trades. There is so much foresight.
Let's not forget the issue of Alchemist, right?
Yeah.
Hunter showed us that this hero is a problem. There was a letter patch where they nerfed it slightly.
But it's the hero that you have to come into this series considering what you're going to do with it.
Are you going to expand a ban on it?
Do you plan on trying to take it yourself?
Are you just gonna give it away maybe call their bluff? I'm sure like tundra
They love this here. You know even with a small nerve. They'll still take alchemist ain't no problem like to me
It's the toss toss is a huge problem. We talked about before our is tough is
Incredibly good and 33 is like one of the best players and like helping you play this hero the way you want
Yeah, and we had the four horsemen of the apocalypse last patch
And I think right now the heroes that I my eye on or the toss like Kez you said
I think this Phoenix and Doom these heroes need to be banned or you'd have some incredibly solid answers for them because like flag
They're supporting the boys mounting watching this good seed also to see where do we think the pressure is going to be because normally game one of a best of five
You see both teams go for their own plan and just like oh, hey, let's see what happens if we let all the buster heroes through
You know because they have a certain plan
Crafts around that is that something that we expect to see here in game number one
I'm not sure like overall I think it can be nice if you just make sure that you stick to your comfort and like maybe you
Ban out what you can from the enemy team
But there's always like this world where you give them one or two guys
And if you try to if you break it in game one
Maybe you don't have to like you know you don't have to ban it in game two or game three because oh, you know
We have let you take the zero. We just leave you fair in square
So I just overall hope you know whoever feels pressured that their teammates also overall, you know, they're rallying
They're like, you know, don't worry brother like we got this
unhappy and good game because in these finals it's very easy that the emotions can get to you.
idea with their IO and their Caudal and their Bristol Dark and their Tiny, but maybe that
was too many ideas. Like they came with too strong ideas within the draft. Maybe if you
limited it to one and worked around that then you can respond in a pick or two.
Well, we have started the draft for our first game. We will have Tundra and Direcite at
first pick. Yonex is thinking about their final bounce here. They are radiant and second pick.
They have already removed now all four of heroes that are kind of the usual suspects
in terms of first phase ban for the Doom the Bat, the Elk and the Phoenix,
whereas Tundra goes for the Flavor Bans luxury because they are first pick
with the Shadow Demon Temporary Assassin and the J'Kyro.
Let's see where they go from here. What do they consider is the hero that they
will craft their draft around and will it be that trust that is so important to them?
Could be, can also be...
Or Pangol!
I mean, this hero has definitely been gaming like stocks over the last couple of days and games.
And Yannix, they have also played it a lot of times, like both BGM and CJ.
I think they play Pangol very well. The hero just looks like he's a great laner.
He builds good items, gives you amazing team fight.
He's just a good hero. He's back to what he used to be.
Yeah.
The hero is just conceptually broken. It gives you way, way, way too many things.
And it's a hero that even if you counter it, he's still going to have the early game impact, right?
He's still powerful in the runes and his skirmishing.
It's just, the hero is Beast Mode and the reason why for so long, he was perfect every game for like two years.
Beast Mode?
Holy Gopro, oh my goodness!
That was the most impressive one of the tournament.
I love that on that. With Pango, it does feel like he provides that early game tempo that
I felt like it was this thing from a lot of the mid laners that were popular in last patch because of this nerf
Yes, there were the Void spirits and the Small spirits, but they don't quite do in the early game what a player does
But you're really enabling this hero, you need supports that are going to play around that mid lane
You want to skirmish on these heroes, you want to just bring those heroes there that first time in the game
So you've got this starter against the pango, I know that starter is quite good, I think also overall like in this like you find in the lane
But I think also in the game Amplify is super annoying for pango to play into
I think if Yannix can find a range carry, which in my mind is also Watson's best carry style,
like you have a range where you get to flick, you aim the pango,
if you're not ready with a low disordered to get covered, this can be quite difficult to play into.
Yeah, we've seen combos like Slaughter, because Weaver and Weaver get to stand out,
in the late game with the Hydra's Wrath, Weaver was just spreading through the screen.
Yeah, that hero looks nasty.
I mean, anytime a tundra is in a series, I think you have to appreciate how incredibly precise their bands are.
These first three bands are super targeted to Aenex.
I think they are the best team in the world at figuring out what that team really needs,
what they want, what's really core to their heroes.
And so many times I play seriously against a team where you want to hero the next phase,
you're like, oh, this could be good, or that could be good.
Good. And they banned both of them.
And you're like, ha, ha!
It's so consistent.
It's genuinely insanely impressive.
I think the leader is a perfect band.
And I think that it's just honestly very impressive.
One of the best teams in the world is...
It's your tongue, right?
There's also a high chance, OK?
The Tidehunter gets talked about in a lot of games, I think when you play starter it's
not really the hero you want to play into.
The anchor is super annoying, it's just a great teamfighter.
If they could look to cover that, I think Tundra would be very happy.
It's one of like 33 best heroes, but maybe I guess we can first look at like the supports.
A lot of them have been banned out there for both sides.
It should be the next double pick, should involve those.
Yeah, definitely a question of the Tide, but also a question of the Largo, we know
that they're key in playing Tundra if they can.
They do have squad that are already in Yandex, which can be a solution to Largo by
outfinding the damage and just being able to burst him, but that's always on the table when you think about Tundra.
Yeah, I mean, I think something they're potentially considering here is are they picking Tust, are they banning Tust?
If you pick Tust, you can put it in the Stave Line and potentially set you up for that range carry down the line,
something more situational, like a morpholine or a draw ranger, something like this.
Whereas, you could also ban it, right, but then you mentioned the Tide Hunter, and this here becomes a big problem.
You definitely have to consider in this phase because you've seen what this hero can do when it's unchecked.
unchecked. I don't know if you want to give Mr. Matthew Walker aka Ari his tusk,
like he just he's played it in all his last games he's so good the shard is good
just everything's good about it and you can tell that Yandex no they're
taking this their sweet damn time here on this band.
I mean something new about the tusk as well we're talking about backstage is
that the drinking buddies on the shard just gives you 10 armor now when you
grab them so against the hero like Sardar you just pull them and then
And now suddenly they're way tankier against the Correlative.
They go for the Largo ban instead, which maybe they don't want to deal with this here right now.
We may be reading that, R.E. could be going for the Coddle to do the Coddle plus Pango combination.
And they just didn't want to give them the Largo on top of that as well, because it would sit their dives.
I think it's a good call on the Largo ban. It's just quite good against Varda, you could dispel the Haze.
I like the Murata. I know that, like, Gave Murata has been changed a bit, but she got buffed again in the ladder patch.
I think it's a good flex. First of all, it's a good lane if this is gonna be your offlane with the 3 and 4,
but you do have the flex available to Watson on the carry roll later.
I think it's quite good against Mango, you know, and your ult, you don't care about his roll at all.
So I like the setup here.
I'm curious to see what 33 goes for against the Morph.
Because we don't see it against Tundra too often. For the most part, it's pure playing this hero.
They're the ones picking it.
They do get the Rubik. I'm shocked that it went this far because this hero has looked completely bonkers.
Those who don't know is fable it's fast your all your damage out so match damage pure damage anything any damage you do
You just lose 24% of it when it's matched out. So the hero is completely crazy
I also think something against something like a more it's a right to hear they used to burst you very quickly and ulti
If you press salt and you just fable then suddenly he's just one fourth less strong
This is our first rubik
I think on tone like I was a great rubik player
But they haven't seen to prioritize this hero as much as they prioritize the tusks and the shamans and the canyx
But I'm excited to see what it brings to the table.
We've seen on this main stage what Ruba can do, and he was just existing in a team fight.
His damage reduction from his free-fold now is ridiculous.
It's definitely crazy. I think also against these heroes, you're quite happy.
If you steal haves, it's great. Generally against Mord, you're getting either the silence or the net shot.
You're very happy with that as well. You have good skirmishing as well, with your other few heroes.
So I like what Tundra are doing here.
The Malady Tree.
Yeah, that's been a little while. How is this hero doing?
hero doing it is legendary history and yeah I think he's the only pro player
who's grandmaster of three it is his hero it is I don't know how good it is
right now though train shard got completely put into the ground like
that was she knows that you'd have to find a different way to play this hero
you know to me it looks like they just want to play this word to carry they
want to secure that very strong lane partner and make it so that 33 dog
doesn't have a comfortable lane the issue is outside of the landing page
I'm not really sure how good Trian is.
Yeah, I mean, neither, because the hero he did receive a lot of nerfs, like you said,
the Shard.
I think Living Armor also earlier is a lot worse.
I mean, let's see here if you're thunder.
Of course, you have the choice between you can take your carry here if you really want
to, but this one too.
I think it can be like two-sided maybe later against Murata, but it is looking like
a very spicy timber game if you get at least just a little bit on that worth.
Yeah, I mean, Tundra's heroes, they're just very strong, right?
You look at all their heroes, skirmishing the scaling, the way they fight together.
It's a lot of in and out.
It's a lot of poke.
And that's something that's generally pretty good, and it's more that she's good against
stuff that commits all on you, because you commit, she versus Ulte, she turns around and
slays you all.
Whereas, you look at Tundra's heroes, they're never, who's committing on you?
They're throwing a chocker?
You're getting swashbuckled?
Sure, maybe Pengal's rolling on you, but like, you can't do any spells to them.
So I think Tundra, they're in a pretty good spot here, and I question, I don't
know, I'm not sure about these Yannick's heroes, just as heroes.
I just worry that they've kind of all-in too much in terms of making their safe lane strong
because let's say one rotation to the smart kill from Thundra goes well and they're not
able to respond to it in the end.
That's what I mean.
The more it is that then you've lost the leading strength of the two heroes you paired
here and that treat, like we mentioned, is not going to give you that much in the mid game.
Then what?
What's the time being?
Yeah, I share like a very similar sentiment.
I think Thundra, they have like a lot of good collapsing but the good thing for
that they have last pick, you know, you can try to like swing the matchups like when you're laying have a hero that can kind of like
fortify the Muerta in the same thing. Okay, when they make the first move like I can TP whether it's like the mid pig or the often pig like to turn
the fight around. I do think it is it is super super important because yeah, you're set up for later like Muerta starter
we all know, you know, they're great. They can take Roach. You have good carry matchups.
You should be happy, but the early game you definitely have to get through it.
I mean, I think another really important thing to consider is that, you know,
Mira talked about the fighting on mid from Tundra, and I think their mid-fighting is a lot stronger than the Andex's
Tree is a hero that is famously kind of crapper on the middle of the map because there's no trees to sneak around on
Generally the hero thrives on the side lanes, so around these rune fights
They have potential to flex this Florida off-line last pick a hero for Mr. CJ that he likes a little bit more
But the rune fights will not be that easy on the Andex's side
Yeah, try to think what you can do
to get it, to have a good matchup later into the mid lane, we see people try the Ember
into pango, which the more I see it, it doesn't really look that good, so I think maybe you
decide, okay, depending on what carry Tundra pick, is offline starter fine there, do you
want to go for a new mid or vice versa?
You can still pick Puck if you're in the Andorff's. The downside of this rubric
is that you're not getting that strong raker, that lion, a lot of heroes are
against the puck type of heroes. And it has been nerfed but it's still an effective hero
in a position like this.
Yeah, a puck is definitely possible. That lane is a very skill based lane. Puck can lose
to Pangolary if you're not really on point with the dodge. It's the kind of lane where
you need to be very sharp and it's a very skilled expression lane. So if Yennex could
go for that, I think CJ needs to be locked in because it's not the lane that you
can sort of lax the days of play the first lane. Just wash you one time and lose
half your HP. Suddenly, you're in for World of Hurt.
What kind of matchup on the lane do you think benefits DJ more what kind of you're like the void spirit types
What's good? It's not bad
This jargon after ban. It's also possible that you want something against that like slaughter lanes totally finding its pangolier
It's a it's a chill matchup. You want to put in there? I guess something better for the game
I mean they banned the monkey king. I think that's one of the best ones against the pangolier
There's some classic stuff like dazzle mid, but I don't think that's very good in this game or in general
Yeah, what happened to, like, QWAP? Like, QWAP in Japan, is that something you could do?
I think Gyro overall doesn't really enjoy this matchup very much.
And maybe you're at least the type of hero where you can go around on the map and do something?
That's QWAP for sure. I just don't know if the hero is good anymore after the patch, to be honest.
Yeah.
It's very weird. The streamers damage to you, you lost your facets.
So I'm not sure if the hero is legitimate. If it is, it's a great QWAP game.
Yeah.
This is what you're looking for often as some of them are fine, but they're like not amazing.
I think like Centaur, Mars, Underlord, you go for some of those.
Okay, they're going with the Nanking.
And these heroes look very, very good in like a lot of games.
But I'm not going to lie.
Like if I'm Rubik in this game and I'm not getting touched first,
I am pretty happy playing against a lot of these heroes.
Yeah, I mean, it's the kind of game I think where CJ is looking to explode this Rubik, right?
He's sitting with Epi and he's waiting for this Rubik to show himself
and you're just insta-killing him with Epi and starting to fight that way.
I think if this tanking isn't able to initiate on the supports in Vanu and Ruvik every single fight, the fights will be hard.
But we have seen that agg plus B2B plus full build on this tanking just shreds the supports.
So it's going to be a lot of pressure on Shira Junior here, but tanking has made some magic happen on this main stage.
Yeah, what I like about Yandex's heroes that they have is there's a lot of like damage amp.
You have Slardar for physical, Hoodwing, Shard later with this tanking.
we've seen it, it's like how Falcons want TI just with these like with the zero combination. So I do like what they have for themselves
but when I look at Tundra and overall what they have like I'm always very scared looking at a 33 Timbersaw who I think
Should have a good game like eventually if he gets to like the fourth flood
I think they're gonna have a hard time dealing with that so we get Tundra
So if this goes like it is looking pretty grim for Yandex potentially if I'm hearing you guys correctly
it should all be focusing for Yandex on the skirmishy part of the Erid's mid game.
In a way, yes. They need to really win those lanes because they drafted to win those lanes.
They need to be able to outskirmish all those rooms, but their late game scaling isn't too bad.
What I'm concerned about is that if they're getting snowballed on by this panel plus this timber, plus this gyro draft.
We're gonna find out what's gonna happen, ladies and gentlemen. Ground finals time, game one.
Tunner off versus Yandex!
This is going to be an absolute showdown between these two teams, of course, about Tundra,
I think Tundra has more of what we've seen as the OP kind of heroes in this patch.
I feel like they did go back for more of these more dated heroes, right?
The tree has got a nerfed heavily, a hoodwink pick that we haven't been seeing as much to.
So looking forward to see what we're going to get out of them, is it going to actually
work versus what we've seen just looks pretty crazy, the Rubik we have to talk about.
It got pretty deep in the draft.
It did.
And surprising too because you look at it has great spells to steal across board, great
damage reduction and they do pick that Sanking into it, which because it was Sanking at
the end, this is a dream Rubik game.
So many spells to steal, great things to reduce and damage.
Let's see how these lanes end up going down because I do think the Sanking, Chair
Junior, we saw nothing to say have pretty insane games on this Sanking a couple times
they're literally almost carrying from the mid lane.
So let's see if he can stabilize the early game,
allow them to get to these later stages perhaps,
and actually have this kill threat
versus this heavy sustain and just damage reduction draft.
The Rubik and the Timbersaw are gonna be problems
in terms of how much they soak.
And yeah, let's have a lane boost, right?
This Rubik Timber, they picked it to counter this tree.
So let's see if Malady can actually have an impact
to protect Watson, because this has not been
the hero we've seen too often now after the nerf.
It's not, I mean you're-
It's a pretty massive nerf as a tree.
I was gonna say, right?
I deserve the great last pass. This one was one of those supports that you never really wanted to let get through
No, I mean the living armor got completely reduced
You can see the max damage block on all levels have reduced and then the honestly the shard is the big one
It went from like a 50 second cooldown told two and a half or two minutes and 15 seconds or so
I mean how do you play this lane as the tree as this nerve tree when you are against you say the strong off lane duo a
Timber saw this can be cut down all the trees
You know what do you do is the support tree in this lane match up sometimes the tree in the past could be play a
little more aggressively. I think this is you just play it as a much more defensive posture.
You don't want to walk up and eat some shocker. Sorry, eat the whirling depths because you
can't just die. So just play fully first sustaining Watson. You're going to be the
ones tanking the spells. Maybe you'll die on this tree, but that's your job in this lane.
Just let Watson get the CS. But it's not going to be easy. I don't think for Watson.
These two heroes, as we said, they just feel incredibly strong right now.
See how much Watson is able to get out of that safe lane. On the other side of the map,
How do you think things have ended up looking for the pure here on the carry Jiro with what he's been sort of dealt with playing against him in this top lane?
Deftly set up for success again where he picks this Jiro into a lane that he's gonna have an absolutely free time, right?
Last time he's played this Jiro is versus a Batrider and there was no way for them to even touch him.
This guy he has not only has the backup of a Venom, but he's into this kind of weaker lane until they have levels.
The Slaughter in particular playing versus that Jirocopter can be pretty problematic.
I'll see how they're able to manipulate creep waves, and keep what they count out of this
top situation.
You're next.
He did get at least that one pull there, but now it is a double range creep pushing forward
here, so let's see where they want to go, and what Soxha wants to do in particular.
I'm looking for what he's going to do in the hoodway, because this hero also has
not been seen too often.
Cherra got some cast range increases to build the Langer bushwax easier, but it's not
been the traditional kind of buff tier that we've seen.
Yeah, it was that support.
It's gone to the end of the last patch right where I full it.
We did see a lot of teams like to run this duo right off the Slardar and the hoodwink.
Gives you great kill threat, it gives you good damage and all stages, and you have damage amplification too.
I think that's maybe what they're looking for with this hoodwink.
It's a classic with the Falcons combo, right? You get the shard on the hoodwink, you have the Sand King.
The Api Center is going to be very effective.
I notice.
I'm going to make a bit of a go for him here.
I'm going to miss all out.
Bushwack missed.
He's not going to catch onto Pure, the Flak.
He hits a bringing notice down very low.
You can very much see on the last hits right now. Notice not getting much out of this lane whatsoever
Only five last hits so far in the first three minutes
Solid landing start. Malody will be able to get the healing Lotus bottom and they're doing a pretty good job
Sure, you're not seeing Watson getting every single one of these last hits
But they're keeping him pretty decently sustained and Malody so far not dying to the duo of the Rubik plus Timbersaw
And 33's kind of low. Sitting at 300 HP right now
Obviously not great bottom, but not bad, all things considered.
He's going to have a few more creeps coming in under the tower now, top notice, so...
Soxer?
If he ever would have continued to run from White Mon, White Mon's not going to want to
spend too much time chasing.
He stopped the drag though.
That's what Soxer was trying to drag, the wave to get his spot or something.
White Mon got the pull because of that.
Just getting the Gale on him and zoning him, he gets the pull, he's going to
deny a full wave from the spotter who is already really struggling.
Notice only nine last hits.
And not the easiest of offlaners to recover on right.
It's not going to be one that you can sort of turn and clear stacks very easy at all.
You'll rely on your Tira Junior getting an early blink dagger, making a rotation cue, and you're getting catch up from a kill.
True, well you had to just be able to dive the tower, get it on top of this gyro before he's too strong.
But definitely not something you want to see happen for this Lardar starting this slowly.
Another mile of these around this area.
Careful.
We'll be fine.
You see, up top, making a bit of an attempt here for Whitemon.
Come on with the pushback into the crush, put the mistiles out onto notice.
It's dangerous, and Whitemon's going to be able to kite, notice, and notice.
Might be in a lot of trouble there, Pure and Whitemon ready to chase him down a turn with a crush and a bash, trying to get away.
You will win!
I got the stormy pushback, comes in for Stax as a whole back Whitemon of Pure.
And if I notice, he's thinking about closing back in on him.
I'm just so low in this lane, and the Rocket Barrage of Flat Kit comes out onto the two of them, Staxa, and notices they'll crawl away,
Take it down, Nostacra! Another playboy dropped down the damage over time!
He's gonna be fine!
He will live!
They're both playing with just pretty much nothing.
The fairy-fires keeping them alive on both sides.
Almost getting pure, but all this time, no CS for notice, of course, in the meantime.
Some creep-dragging mechanics we're seeing.
Chira Jr. doing what we started off him to say due.
Just maximizing as much as possible.
BZM looking to match him.
Pueris thinks it's so low.
They're just confident in the knowledge that nobody's going to step forward and snipe him.
I mean, that might change once Saks is healed up and is able to get back into the lane as
the hoodwing.
See the salve coming on pure, I imagine.
So yeah, he does.
So he's going to get pushed back.
Bottom lane.
We're seeing Watson.
Great.
Starting to get that sustain.
He has a ton of wide charges.
He has the heal in the Lotus too, so he should be able to stand his ground here.
But 33 now also does have the ring of health, so he's sustained to be able to continue
just standing down here.
And he's not getting pushed out anymore.
This is a dangerous game for the Timbersaw.
Their game just came for them versus the Timbersaw, can absolutely get to these incredibly tanky points that they might not be able to deal with very early, even though they have corrosive, even though they have great ways to aim.
Yeah, it's just the fact that two of those heroes are heroes that look to jump in, they're gonna be in melee range, so 33 is very likely to be able to turn and get a huge amount of burst off.
And the Fade Bolt, right, that's the big thing that I'm gonna be looking at, if they get Fade Bolted then that's gonna pretty much turn every time if they do want to go for a kill onto this Timber.
Lotus, little bit for pure.
Gets himself an early neutral item too, so he's got the possessed mask, really early in the laning phase, which the smallest of his name matters.
Wipe on.
Look at the opening. It's enough first this time round, young dex, they'll get that first blood.
And look at Tia, he's up here.
They're going to be able to turn into another one.
What's up, guess the borough strike.
At least for sort of moves they need to make around this slot iron.
Get notice of that chance to get that bit of boost of XP and gold.
I'm having a bit of a slower start on the CS.
Great patience from Sokso, just finding these bushwack opportunities and then waiting with the acorn.
You can see that Pure was like, oh, I don't want to run next to my buddy because that acorn is going to bounce back and that's exactly what happened.
Nice moves.
I'm for sure. You know, notice, even though he did have that slow start on the last hit, it's getting involved in that.
And the fact that a lot of the lane, he was sort of taking up the solo XP.
He's almost next.
Exactly. He's sort of comparing the off-laner situation. He's at a full level ahead of 33 on the timber on the other side of the map.
They've got these stacks built for Chira.
Well, that's somebody's here.
Ari knows something's up.
No, he's going to get pushed away.
He's not going to mess around with 33 shows.
So Ari will be able to secure the shrine of wisdom themselves.
But the safe lane is getting its farm.
The same exact farm for Watson as for Pure.
Chira Juni, he is going to be on track to hit a very, very good blink tag at
timing as we can see him from these sand kings.
This hero, as you said, in a couple of these games in the lower bracket, absolutely carrying it to the mid and early games.
Just gonna have so much jump and stun and just lockdown run between the lineup of Yandex.
Whether it's the satan king coming in first, the crush to pull up, the bush back, the overgrowth.
A lot of AoE control that it's just gonna be incredible around this goet.
So once what's against the plumber, he wants to start taking up the fight.
White month in the river.
It's gonna get tripped up there by Chera Jr. coming in with a porous drive.
VZM has rotated over. They can't really get on top of the Sand King right now.
Chura Jr. able to stay safe under the Sandstorm on the high ground.
The thing is too, they don't have a save either, in particular for Pure.
If they do get that Chain Sequence and stuns until way later, until the Rupi gets the Shard,
potentially they can lift and move him out of position. That could be a big one this game.
But if they do get Pure inside of these Vodes, he's absolutely underkill-threaded.
Almost all stages. Great damage on their line-up.
And the lanes have gone pretty damn well. You know, even though that's Larda,
as we said versus that gyro could be difficult he's gotten away with it almost level seven and then socks are absolutely doing a great job
Mid lane can they keep this tower alive? I want to try make the dive play potential for Malady
See the wrap around
In liftable it's by aria. Get the vision down here is here
The quick bit of a zap there with the fade ball
And we're seeing BZM doing the field that he's done every single time to straight the fuse and we're seeing more people
I was talking to Quinn about this actually I last night
We're on the shield crash build now more people are just maxing it rather than 4 1 4
They're going to the double new fields which absolutely seems appropriate the cooldown does drop very low on shield crash
So it seems very strong in terms of mid game fighting
Turning to the mid there cheer junior will be enough to stop tundra from continuing to push for now in the mid lane
He's close to this blink dagger that's gonna allow them to go for early setup kills
Tundra's trying to sweep up towards the top lane here with both supports, but it's fully under the vision of Yandex, so no chance of catching anyone by surprise.
Watson's going to make the rotation up top, join forces with Nautist and Saksa. Ideally find a kill, and if not look for a tower, pure. He's got to be careful.
There's the opening. That's caught.
To be the bush, Watson's ready to bring in the damage.
Perth immediately gone. The reaction will now come in from Tundra.
See what they can find. Notice. Looks like he'll get left behind.
33 TPs across. They'll be able to make sure that Tundra get a kill and return.
Great word by Sox on the left side there.
Allows him to see pure in a tree line where he didn't expect to actually get caught by the initial stun.
He dies super fast.
Initially caught by a stun and then just the corrosive haze is more than enough to end it up.
I imagine one of these the word either is they're going to expect it's behind the tower or in the lane there because of how he got caught
And is now there the blink dagger out for cheer a junior course doesn't have the epicenter
I'll have to make that play just now but could still look to combo with something like notice on the slaughter and just look to dive
That tower they should have a chance of getting those kills even without the necessity for the damage of the epicenter at this point pure
He's still pretty fragile. Very vulnerable
It looks like it nearly there, from Saxon. Doesn't quite get the catch.
Jiro overall as a hero is still about just, you know, destroying the lane and getting that huge advantage.
The fact that he's getting jumped again, that's a third death.
I mean that was just getting caught completely by surprise.
First back, also on Uari, this top lane's becoming a bit of a nasty spot on the map for Tundra to show up in.
Saxon is just always about that killing. So, yeah, all the teams always talk about, sure, you might have these defences and great postures,
but Soxa loves to get these kills and he's great at finding them 105 and they might just get caught by another.
He's gonna get caught by the jump as well, so this Blink Dagger from Tira Jr.
I mean it, I feel like he's gotten way more than it should have.
Tundra maybe a bit too relaxed there with the positioning of pure pushing out on the top lane.
They did not respect the fact that it was highly likely that the tanking at this point of the game was gonna come straight back onto the map with the Blink Dagger
and then BZM getting caught out in that spot.
That's not too great for them, that's a bit rough.
Tundra overall, I believe they probably are anticipating themselves having a great laning advantage with these most of these heroes.
Except for probably the mid lane, because that's faking it so good, but this is just completely broken now at this point.
The slaughter is ahead of the gyrocopter, the supports are catching up.
They gotta get pure some space.
And this top tower is gonna die, so I might have to just play on the right side,
and BZM has to occupy this dangerous spot.
Should be able to find Sox though? Or is he?
He's dodging around the tree.
He's gonna get out of this Sox, so BZM is not gonna be able to find him.
Maybe if he goes deep with the rolling thunder, but now he'll stick around and get the bigger kill, they'll take out Nautis.
33 comes up to make sure they can get that slaughter out of the lane. A pretty important kill.
I mean, Nautis, he was getting pretty close to his own blink dagger, but how good those last few months have gone for him up in that top spot.
They had to slow him down.
They were starting to build up a snowball pretty hard and a very dangerous one for Pure if that slaughter was able to get it at that time.
A good slowdown and talk so you know.
He gets away, but you lose your off-laner for it, so a bit painful for Yandex after having a pretty perfect start and opener into this game.
Level 11 on Chira, he's keeping up with the clock. He's almost level 12 now, too.
This has been super impressive from these Sankings on the main stage.
It's got that epicenter ready to go. If they've got a smoke out, they do on Saksa.
And looking at the difference between the two carries in particular too, right, Watson.
This bottom lane did not get pressured by the Timber in the Rubik, even though he was designed to pressure them,
he's doing phenomenal.
Actually got a thousand over his counterpart right now.
And he's going to have the amp up always in this game, right? He's going to have the corrosive haze,
unlike the gyrocopter wall. He's not going to have any of these just natural built-in amplifications.
Look at the smoke as well now from Yandex, Daxxed, Chirijunio, on the hunt.
Yeah, they deep deep they do look to go maybe they'll just wrap back ground towards mid lane white one showing right now
They are in a defensive posture on tundra. They have good counter initiation
They are gonna go just for the jump straight away onto wall swing on with the sharp shooter BZM coming heavy damage on a cheera junior
They'll take that trade
Excessively baiting there with white one they come out on top of that one
Ari did not get the stun steal though. So cheera junior very quick to get the stinger out to make sure he doesn't give that stun to the Rubik
Well, look to resume the push potential on this mid-tier one. It is low, of course, slightly getting healed up by the living armor.
They've stalled the push out pretty well, though. It is 13 minutes in with living armor, and it's still alive.
They really want to push forward, but the starter is rotating over. He has Blink Dagger.
They don't want to lose this tower, and it will just continue to get healed up if it does not drop.
It just don't quite have the firepower to finish it off between the two of them against that living armor.
Ari does get a good spell steal, though. He did get the push whack on the tail end of that.
So they might, I mean, can they actually look for a play to find Watson?
I was gonna say, surely that's gotta be top priority right now after Tundra.
You, you're gonna do something about this Black Tina.
Watson, he's gonna have the man on his way out and highly likely if this continues,
that he'll get away with just being able to go for that full-out Mjolnir with seemingly
not too much pressure at all.
I mean, what do you think they are waiting for on Tundra's side of things to make
that sort of move and try and mess with Watson's game?
I think they can go right now.
I think they're just waiting for a long Thunder.
It did come back up.
They cleared the good wave.
So, looking to go for that pressure play.
Tundra is a very, like, they like to just hit their creeps as well too even if things do go wrong.
They won't always make these moves, but the throne thunder up absolutely can land on Tundra.
Now that's a pretty good spot to block this off.
He'll tank it.
All part of the plan there really.
Yep.
Yandex, helps to get to live another day.
But the tower, it looks like they should be able to get.
This one, can they get a trade exchange?
Chira is looking for something in this up top,
but hopefully he's gonna find anything.
Tundra, playing the economy game.
Have brought it back down to that even.
33, and at the top. Very close to having the Kaia stand on line.
He's gonna be an issue, that's for sure.
Because down the line, what are some of the best means for Yandex to be able to kill the Timbusole?
Who's gonna have that scaling that allows them to take down a fight, or is it very few and far between?
I mean, it's the more it's in the corrosive right at some point if they're able to ice-calate it, but they want to jump the backline.
That's the big thing, as they were mentioning on the panel.
Tier Junior's job is to lead these two supports, don't let the Rubik reduce the damage and allow them to actually hit these because the damage reduction versus where it is is incredibly effective.
Malady, he's giving us some pretty good info here.
He's gonna tank it again.
This time won't even cost him his life.
Tier Junior continuing to just yet clean up incredible amounts of stacks here.
From the side of the map.
And the lot on the Sand King.
33 is so farmed at this point.
They might have to throw quite a lot on some just to bring him down if they do want to fight versus this timber at this point
But they're happy their content was sitting back since Watson is getting the farm
They don't have to go for any kills on this timber
They've got the blink on the slaughter who's made it a great game in this game that could have been very complicated from the start
We're not sticking together as a unit tundra around this mid area. I mean it's their potential for
early roast from me from the side to match with Tundra's line I'm not too hot
right at taking the Roshan but both decent because there's lucky shot on one side and
then corrosive on the other so it mean if they do get a team fight win absolutely
could see that happen smoke from Tundra looking to protect pure rise on
Saksa can we actually close the gap? I'm gonna try my best to chase him down
they'll find him so again getting these supports but the cause of Yandex
It's obviously able to stay a step ahead, because of these support deaths.
It's a pretty interesting rotation that Tundra does, maybe perhaps reading a play that they're gonna look the pressure pure,
because they still haven't finished that mid tower off, right?
They get a power ruin, the mid tower's low, but they decide, you know what?
Let's make the move toward top instead, and try to protect and make sure the pure can get this face rather than going through this power push.
What an interesting one.
Looks like they're gonna swing down.
Probably look for Watson potential, just not him over and over again. They might burn into Valady again.
Last time I thought he was able to get away, but getting information and not even getting found.
He did get the dream.
He got the Tumblr story, which is one of the best items, best neutrals you can get on
this tree.
Just because you can go up these high grounds, high-pass through trees, get better ulti positioning.
It's not a blink dagger, but it's like a mini one.
You can kind of call through the tree at times.
So Tundra slowing the pace down as they tend to in a lot of games.
Getting that farm built up for pure catching back up, but he still is one of the bottom
chorus in the game. It's going to be these agonies timing really for the mids that post
sides are looking towards. Jirijunia just 500 gold away from having it done on the San
King. And interesting to see about 1500 here for BZM on the panga. We'll see if 33 does
want to go for maybe one of these aura or slight aura items eventually, but right now
it's still just going on these loaders. So where I'm chipping a bit of an honest
game of no auras on either side. The only aura we have is what, drum? I think
They've been picked up so far so it should be some pretty cool, pretty awesome teamfights in particular.
And Agonyms though for Chira, it's going to come out very soon and I feel like for them they're going to fight around that.
For sure. Yeah I think we're going to see the spikes straight away once that's delivered.
And maybe even having Watson come and join the fight as well. Top!
Yep! Kind of under the tier two!
Is he going to help?
It's going to come in!
He's dead already!
He's going to have to save him, he's gone!
Just the two heroes.
I'm down on the bottom side there looking towards Malady, put the overgrowth he has Watson by his side so he actually can just set up for Watson to get a kill.
He's gonna be able to get the dead.
Back up top, they're still trying to get something more from this, but BGM is kind of what is only against the two of them.
Has a regen so he is strong, they do get the stun, they'll be able to disengage.
Very nice, he's done that from the handset tree.
Successful dive on a pure up top being able to play around the carry themselves on the bottom
They setting up for Watson to get involved in two kills
Love the way that the honesty it sucks and the notice so far being able to get these extra kills being able to just shut down the
Giro is zero and four still on pure and Watson
He's getting enabled getting involved in some kills so he doesn't get the new supernatural
You get this little bit of spellab sure when you die you lose some of the stacks, but absolutely matters
Lot of extra damage you can provide pure now sticking with this team a little bit more
This carry behind though, level 12. Where's this level 15?
This is the thing, overall the net worth, it's not too different between the two teams.
But it's just the fact from the time you're side, a lot of it, it's on 33.
He's probably going to be a little bit behind that of Watson on the other side,
but it comes to just comparing the carry situation.
It's probably going to be like 33 and BZM that have to take the torch in terms of kind of
carrying in the midgame until Pure gets to these way later stages of timing.
Since it just shows up as we saw there, even just two heroes can kill him.
Where to eviscerate him as well if he shows up early?
But Tundra.
I mean, they might just do something with the molotov now, yeah.
Watson and Chira Junior ready to join the smoke from Yandex coming in from this tier 2 boss.
He's got Pyke, he's got 15 talents as well.
Too Watson is strong now to keep playing around.
And this Aghanim's tining for Chira, it's around the tormentor.
It's gonna be very difficult for Tundra to turn around the teamfight if they get jumped by this smoke from Yandex.
It's just how weak Pura is in comparison to everybody else in the game.
So if they wanna...
The core is the least.
What's the plan going to be here from Yandex? Just take the Tormentor?
Yep, they should be able to just get it essentially for free. Are they going to be able to trade anything on it from the south?
Tundra. Maybe catching them on the retreat could be an option.
I mean, Tundra looked like they do want to come over and fight around the Tormentor.
They are scared. It does do a lot of damage back to you now, so perhaps they are both hesitant in looking for the fight beforehand.
I mean, it could be a difficult fight for Tundra to take.
Well, they want to try.
I'm going to try.
I'm going to find who it is.
Shields were not BZM.
The front line is tanky from Tundra.
BZM?
He jumps in.
The high ground is going to get immediately caught
by a dead shot.
The bar is back in the air becoming a bit cheery.
Judy is caught in the back line.
The other guy is going to cross it as well.
Locks them all down as 33 has to run.
This is going to be the TP out from pure.
The dead shot catches him.
The interrupts there.
The angle perfect from once.
And the bush whack comes in to follow up from Saks now.
He'll dodge the crush in pure.
They clean up 33, the only one to live, I mean making the move into that area, it was a risk from Tundra trying to go for this teamfight.
You look at the numbers, you look at the net worth, it's close, but you can't have a feel when it comes to these 5v5s right now.
Yandex, they're just a little bit more suited to these sort of situations and they had to set up, they had the high ground.
And they didn't hesitate that's the big thing out that I was really happy about see there was a shield rune on BGM
And it didn't even look like it because they immediately jump in and then Malady gets what a format
I think the tumbler forward gets a format overgrowth the fights is over from there
They lose their pango their strongest hero at this point 33 is too scared to jump in afterwards without him. They'll roll in thunder
Beautiful beautiful dead shine goes there from Watson
And we saw the boomerang come into play as well too, right?
It sucks to amping up that damage for his team too.
Tundra getting a bit frustrated, not able to get pure involved into the game,
and he just gets caught at the tail end of it, 0-5 for this same-play Jiro.
Looking for Chirijunni, but here's a slippery one to catch,
and it's only gonna get harder once he has the BKB done.
Looking to start working on that next here is the Sand King.
Gonna have some pretty good BKB timings, the offlaner and that mid, of course,
will have a very quick BZM.
We'll find another power rune, but it's still not protecting him.
You see that saves are just not there not having the four staff yet on the rubik no shard or anything arie is getting closer
They do need something like that it feels like to get them out of the chain stone
You know you mentioned it in the beginning the chain stone is really strong from the index or absolutely seeing it
You don't want to get caught in this overgrowth and epicenter combo
It's just too much for tundra to deal with right now tormentor was able to get claimed
What looks like tundra are trying to see where the index is coming. They are heading over under the cover of the smoke
So as you say, can we sometimes a little risky to go for these with the amount of damage you take?
Looks like they will be able to do it quick enough to get the Tormentor.
Malady's here for the retreat.
Can they get out?
Going to TP him back off.
Will Malady...
All pure?
Is he gonna find him?
Not pure as now!
I'm not gonna be the case for Whitemonster.
All things said and done, you know, time for the get the Tormentor.
They only lose Whitemon.
Pretty much as good of a situation as they could have for that.
I think they're a bit lucky to only lose the one there, honestly.
If Malady was even a couple seconds faster, may have been able to cancel one or two of these TP's.
And Auri, he gets it for Frey. So we were mentioning they did want a save.
Kind of nice one that he's able to get for Frey now potentially.
Able to distance them from the chain stuns or from the calling.
Could potentially save these heroes to get these spells off.
Because they do have low disorbs, they have good ways to protect each other if they don't die immediately.
I'm coming for BGM up top though, Jiren Jr.
The opening power strike. Auri is dead. The Psy can he do anything to help out right now?
Doesn't look like it's Sharpshooter, comes in, burst through BZM!
It's two of them.
And Kachari is well on the high ground.
This tanking, we said it right, on the main stage it's just been looking phenomenal.
Chir, Jr. having the game of his life, 7-1 and 6th level, 18, BKB soon on the horizon.
Not seeing him falter whatsoever so far here.
Starting to turn into a difficult one here.
It is.
Time to skill on the farm, I mean 33 continues to be massive!
Just the pure difference, right?
Pure is 10k, the slaughter is ahead of him.
Yeah, it's gonna take a long time for him to catch back up as well.
Just with the build up, right?
There's no farm acceleration on him.
It's this Manta, Instacristus, which of course we have seen a lot of the times,
but it does mean that if you're not really taking the fights,
able to get these kills,
no Solar Crest,
but the farm's gonna be slow.
Yeah, no Solar Crest on anybody either.
They have the four staff on RA,
but then they have the essence distiller on the Venom.
So not quite that amplification in Roche.
It's gonna die very fast.
This Wirtz might not die.
Starting to look like it with this BKB now finished up as well has great protection the team has played perfectly to give Watts in the space
Want something I'm gonna great on
Question for Tundra really is gonna be is how could they mount the defenses now at this point can they get these oldies
Can they get the rolling thunder to control some of these heroes?
Do they have not really been able to bring down the main cores in this game?
Sure they killed the squad are a couple times, but it feels like he's done more than he needed to in this game
And yeah, it's gonna be forever it feels like until pure is recovered
You know, he's the bottom of the course. Now BGM is also down there.
It's farm move!
You know, finally start to pick up a little bit more once he has the Aghanim stun.
He's kind of close to about 1100 gold short, picking that up as Gyaracopta.
Just worried about how fragile he's going to be, right?
How is he going to get involved into the teamfight
unless his Timber and Pango just literally soak everything?
Feels like he'll die in seconds.
Look at the wards down. So where the Chiratunia was sneaking around in the tree line,
He knows now himself as well with the playboards making contact.
They'll smoke up from the side Jamdex.
They have a high ground ward. They do see 33.
He's got the Jamdex though. He will be able to take it away.
Tundra probably wants to just avoid these fights into the sages.
Tundex are getting in onto the high ground.
Tundra probably can't afford to even stay close to tier 2 right now.
It's far too risky.
Don't want to get jumped behind there.
Gonna go maximize pango's gonna keep me top here is farming
You know these dangerous positions that he just kind of has to go in and he swapped the bill by the way
Curious feeling like I'm not gonna have time to just go for a names. I need to get BKB and perhaps try to get it
All right, I'm gonna do you sort of see that that sort of vibe in this situation
Do you think there's a chance of much for you to gain?
You know what what is he looking at?
What is he considering when he is switching between going for the axel going for the BKB as his next pick up?
I think he's just worried just gonna chain feed and he just cannot play the game without a BKB as we saw in multiple times
If he gets stunned, if he gets called from anything, he is literally just dead.
Perhaps this doesn't need it.
Even just to survive, and even just to farm safely.
Yeah, would it be a BKB that he picks up, and just to continue to sort of play past it from farm?
It's not gonna be like a BKB smoker for trying to force a fight.
What do you think, though?
Especially not at the Aegis.
Perhaps maybe when the Aegis goes down, then they could look for it.
Thunder have to be super careful in these next few moments, though.
They have to hug it. They have to play around the two strongest heroes, right?
They have to hug 33, they have to hug BZM for now.
I mean, how likely is it that 33 with this amount of power that he has on the Timber Sword
can just sort of keep the game alive long enough to allow Pure to get in position and carry it?
He still could die. He has BKB and Lotus, but if he gets caught by just chain stuns,
he absolutely can't still get bursted. There is that much damage on the side of the index.
They have every type of damage too, right?
Not pure. Not pure damage in general, but they do have corrosive haze with all this tanking, with this where to just amp up.
Bottom, Watson is a little isolated here.
So someone stuns us through that Aegis.
They're gonna try and go for the move, they'll get him underneath the tower, but he's put the up at the old top limit as well, and he's got Cherie, Julian, by his side, makes the jump to 33.
The BKB's out before the pushback connects, 33's ready to go, straight back over towards him.
They'll burst through the Aegis once, let's see if they can go for round two.
2, Malady tries to hold the map with the overgrowth of Pure.
That's the tech BKB.
Pure but now the BKB is up for Watson, turns, shoots down Ari, now turns into the tech towards Pure.
Tira Jr. notes he's ready to come back in and keep Watson safe.
Forston in trips, now gets in the triple, BZM does jump in, but the dead shot hits on the wall,
BZM finally Watson dies.
BZM can he get out of this? He cannot, the bash is there.
Another porous throw gone to more 33, but 33 is still pretty strong.
So Yandex, they're going to have to start backing away from the timber.
They've killed everybody else, but killing the timber at this point,
Especially without the Moetras, a bit too much, so they'll bail out of there, back off.
I mean, time really to take the move, they do. They get the Aegis out of Watson, they are able to kill them a second time.
Does cost them pretty heavily, though. They lose four lives.
But we are saying, if they can make that move, take the Moetra out of the equation,
then 33 is kind of invincible at this point.
Yeah, but it also was an opportunity where they saw, right?
It was him very split up from the rest of the team when they were able to isolate him initially.
But then the rest of the team comes in for it, because look where noticed was, the slaughtered TP to the tier 2 bottom, sprinting, he's like, oh wait a minute, Watson is a bit deep forward there.
So the pure BKB could see the job of it, but still he doesn't get too much benefit out of this fight.
But at least they do bring down this past me where to finally in the game.
Lots of damage, I mean they were very close to being able to maybe even save Watson towards the end then coming in with the extra bar is.
Close bringing him down and of course going to 33 so more money for him
He used to sort of be that the 33 in the Watson show when it comes to the farm these two
Absolutely absolutely stacked for the father's game very on the level where you're level 20 on the both of them
Time to tense to be very good in this economy game
But as we said here still needs to get more and more space
He wants to be the one getting that clean up the enemy they're not 33 of course
Now basher cheer up continuing to get that extra growth the clear separation between him and the other court too
And Watson is about to have that really big damage.
Yeah, that's gonna make you shoot it.
The Daedalus, he would have killed them just that much faster to...
He might have a ramble.
He might have survived.
Yeah.
By throwing a Daedalus on top of the Smuets, and yeah, suddenly it's not gonna look as
close as it did when it came to kind of pure amb Watson trading each other in damage,
trying to bring one another down.
But with the score of, you know, 23-9 and how the game state is overall felt, an
okay situation for Tundra, all things considered.
Of course, still a very big mountain to climb notice now, also with a nullifier.
are farmed on the slaughter as well. Good game for the first of these four
staffs right they need ways to be able to distance this gyrocopter away the
nullifier is gonna just stop that in its tracks. Although Rubik lift has to just
keep our eyes on that one if he's able to get these big lifts and kind of
protect the gyrocopter as well. Haven't seen it yet. There we go smoke time
around the day the list of Watson and a DD. Chira also got Basher so
kind of doubled a triple item timing for the cores on the side of the
And it's
My mind he's already dead
Almost wish-harded more hand to be taken down there by notice
Jerry Jr. Already
Sort of moving away from the rest of the group trying to set up a solo play even deeper
Tons red that pretty split across the map though making sure that whilst this sort of smoke moves being made be easy
and
Then something was up just in time
time.
Push down at the vents, Watson does have the backup of his team near him, they are starting
to split away, but looks like he should be able to bring the tower down quick enough,
he can't react in time, they're even hunting, Sasa!
They're gonna find Auri, I'm in the bush black, easy burst right now to just clean
through the rubik, Sasa king is looking so good right now, every time that we've
seen it.
And this was even in the draft where we saw it come out towards the end as that
last pick, and in a situation where in sort of previous times you might not
wanted to pick the Sand King because there was, you know, decent heroes to counter or to play against
different sides of Tundra, but here they didn't care, they picked it anyway and we're certainly
seeing why they didn't care. I mean, we had the record so far with the heroes for six and one,
I think, on the patch, right, so far in this tournament. It's just looking really, it's looking
safe, right? It's looking similar to like the kind of pangolfin where it's a safe hero that you
can pick in a lot of instances, does good in almost every single matchup and scales. It does
massive scaling, it's big good scaling too. He has it 20, so I think this is another reason
reason why this hero is coming into fruition, you get the epicenter pool since they're twenty
here.
Thirty three.
Has found Watson but my goodness, I never mind Watson's found him.
Well that's thirty three going down for the first time this game but my goodness he went
down fast.
Can the rest of the time to find something in return they're going to look towards us
and keep a two three to set up a bow strike down to the low ground.
Jump forward in for BZM and he can't quite do enough damage to finish off Jera Junior
and now you notice he's just straight back into the course of the turn and BZM will
Get the shield crash off, but no, just moves forward, cuts it with a bash.
The push back there for Saks, and catches the two supports up on the high ground.
Pure as dealt within the river.
As Yandex, they're gonna be able to run down the rest of Tundra, one by one.
Ari trying to escape.
Waimong gets crushed by no.
What a shot.
So shoots down Ari.
They get team-wiped.
As Yandex showing indeed how comfortable of a spot they are in right now.
And this game won.
Tundra struggling to pull things together,
And that's gotta be demoralizing right in that position right up to this point thirty trees like well
Maybe maybe you can keep the game going. Maybe he is gonna be unkillable
But this dayless more it's a pretty much three four shots in and that's gonna hold for tundra
It just gets completely destroyed and overall pure he he looks almost like a creep
I gotta be honest he runs in with BKB and he dies in seconds versus this out of rough one overall insane damage
They just bring the look like the lane set up at the start of the game was pretty good
Like, notice was not having a good time when it came to the creeps, but those rotations, those early deaths on pure in that save-plane, that really completely shook his game up and he was never able to recover.
I mean, Sox didn't notice, yeah, Sox didn't notice just absolutely opening up the game for them, and then the tier rotation kind of sealed the deal very early at least from those 16K lead range racks to fall.
They can back up and pick what they choose now.
They've torn bender, they have roast soon.
And it's very hard for Tundra to approach these fights.
Everyone just dies so fast.
Even if the rolling thunder comes out,
absolutely can't die.
This might be a last hurrah.
I think you've got to go for this if you're Tundra.
Yeah, you just have to last hurrah.
You just have to last hurrah.
And sort of just roll the dice, smoke up,
and hope that whatever you throw at Yandex
might warrant in something.
The babe is you, but as we see.
Oh yeah, yeah.
A bit of an eye open to there.
It's like, oh, okay, I guess they do kill me
that quick. That's not good.
It's like, guys, we're in a really rough squad.
That's a rough one.
Yandex, a 30 to 10 right now, 34 minutes and 18k gold lead.
Yandex just one step ahead in every single case in this game.
The lanes, as we saw the mid game fights, the rotations.
Yandex with that smoke, they...
Nice, Axia!
So, they'll get themselves something.
They may get out. There's no question.
Because, yeah, Yandex, they'll happily take a 4v5.
Looking for the flank positioning here.
Looks like they'll respect it, actually. They're gonna back away.
They just have to keep going.
There's a small window.
No, a hero is dead on Yandex.
They have to try and go for more, but as you can see,
Yandex have already backed up right back to their side of the map,
back to their base.
Smoke's not going to catch anyone.
They're playing as careful as possible.
They definitely know how much of an advantage
that they have here.
They could have gone for a fight.
Yeah, they could have absolutely tried for it,
but they're like, you know what?
Let's not take any type of risk whatsoever here.
We have great information on the map with all these trees
that have been placed down from Mount E.
Do you think they expect this sort of move,
this sort of smoke up into the twin gate and then to sort of sweep the bottom side of the map
might someone get caught out by this? It looks like they're at least just playing safe right
they're all just hugging each other they're waiting until Sokso responds nobody's even stepping outside
and Tundra they're trying their best to just get these desperate kills we'll get the one
it's just a support can they get the rush though this will be something they are doing it
pretty quickly, off HP, and they're starting to move over.
They can get this and get out.
Certainly go quite far in holding the high ground.
They get the kill.
They get the Aegis.
Now they just have to run.
Maybe a little too defensive of a posture on Yandex here.
In the way that rose, Tundra will be very happy
about having that.
Shira now actually has a potential
to do something in the fight, right?
Just look at their light.
They're still hoping out for the base, though.
Tundra, they want to try and fight this,
but already the jump's been there, Chirijun is gonna get him on top of Waimon.
Waimon's gone, BGM is gonna just have to continue to roll away here with the Rolling Thunder.
There has to be no part of this.
Even into the ages, there's so much stronger, of course.
It's just this could potentially allow Pure to maybe get some type of attacks.
Maybe get a kill in these.
Is the game going?
Yeah.
Yeah, trying to do whatever they can to add these extra minutes to the game,
so that maybe Pure can get in position to carry.
Just can't even build toward a rapier, it feels like this game.
Watch the Jr.
And just walk up to the high ground.
Gonna find BZM here.
Gonna go for a bit of a solo play, but Ari's there to help out.
Although, Traderunters just wanna continue to go for another jump.
Now they're gonna start backing to the base here.
The base? Pure?
Actually, on top of Traderunters, I have to put the man through the tree.
We need pretty much the full squad to try and push back Yandex from this...
Siege that they're getting away with.
I mean, it's dangerous even for 33.
I see him walk up like that. He could just die in a single stun.
You see how much damage that Watson's able to kick out.
They just walk in.
There you have, not afraid of that Aegis as we were saying. Just walk in, don't care.
Full Sheva's now for the stanking as well.
Just very careful Dota from Yandex with this advantage.
Tanya there still?
Trying their best.
Heading out of the base as well, you know. They're not falling back.
It's just that they'll just sort of wait for Yandex to come to the high ground.
I think they know that they'll just lose if they just play that kind of defensive posture.
They need to go for these risky kind of plays allow pure to get to a point where he can actually play the game
One and seven one of the more rough games. I think I've seen from pure this tournament
I guess that the pressure is kind of on a hurry right?
He is the initiation right blinking him at the telekinesis nobody else really has that instant catch to start things
It's gonna try gonna look for it. It's got the calling
Telekinesis onto the behind the tier 2 is a bit too much for the to push for is I say that BGM is actually going in
for this one. 33 is going to end up charging straight over to Watt, but Watt just puts the
beam gap in the overgrowth there. Watt's ready to turn down, lay down the damage, as
that's BZ and the white monster cut down. 33 will timber chain away. Pure. I mean, I don't
know if he wants to stick around. He's hovering around the tree line considering getting
back in on some Wattes, but he cannot do the damage to deal with Wattes, and Wattes
hits the dead shot, catches Pure, Pure, and illusions are cleared out. Notice closes
in, missed it to crush. Ah, but they'll slowly but surely be able to find the
Jarrah there once and almost certainly the second time. Watson ready to move over,
they'll have to immediate lock down, take out Pure a second time. Yandex they were ready for them.
They're just too far behind Owen. They're trying for these players. I mean a kind of Q play from
Ari blinking in, going for this play. He actually steals overgrowth but couldn't get in
position for it afterwards, but you're just seeing them. This deficit is too high. Watson
doesn't even have to use the tattic. Nope? He's pretty much ready to stand there.
split team fight right now, his amount of farm fantastic, it's getting even more explosive
to damage us now, he's able to have the luxury of finishing that Mjolnir.
This is the beautiful game.
33, unlikely to be able to get back to the base, they've caught him in the corner.
Another one.
This thinking is, it's probably, I don't know, it's probably going to go, I think so.
It's doing too much.
Got through what's the last pick right?
Yeah, but this top lane also, I do think the Tundra maybe making some big mistakes
up there.
I just didn't know so many times why one shows himself immediately jumped upon by cheers union notice
Onto the mid set of barracks
This is impressive stuff
The index blanks super fast in this game great lane never really slow the pace down too much here
And Watson is the buildings
You have to buy back perhaps on 33 if you do want to continue playing here. I feel like they've got to give him one final shot
You're up in a few seconds standing his ground.
Two fours are falling.
Buffed up.
If Tundra can give it one last attempt here in this first game,
Engines exposed once he's ready to close it up.
BZM is going to make the jump in but straight away it just
turns the cross to the baron track.
He's gone.
He'll buy back BZM.
33 still holding his for now.
You're starting to step up with the engine.
Already a half HP there, it's the buyback from 33. Let's see if Tundra can force back Yandex.
I've just got everything ready.
And he's just ready to turn on 33, 33 and put the BKB, the stolen overgrowth comes in from Ari, but the BKB is ready for Monson.
Here he comes with a bow check onto the two supports, wipe on an Aria, gone.
Now buyback here on the both of them, but that's 33, dieback, he's out for two minutes.
What's the move in here ready to close this one up?
Is he's going to be able to light the kill? PZEB sent you through this row, he thought he'll try and try all the way, but this game is all that Gigi is called.
Yandex coming in hot air in this game one.
This tanking looks amazing, but I have to give so much credit to this top lane.
I think notice it's not to kind of broke the game to the point where Pure was never in a position to play.
One, eight and two. Probably one of the roughest games I've seen from him.
Really was, was just never able to get his farm online and have any sort of presence in the team fights.
And they dealt with that perfectly, Yandex.
And against the Tundra where we've seen before, right?
They might get behind on the kills in the early game, but they're kind of keeping up in farm.
They were doing that here, but it didn't matter.
Gandex was still just able to blow the game open, because they knew even if Tundra with this lineup
were keeping up in the farm on some of their heroes as they were with 33 on the Timber Store,
it just didn't matter, because they had the means to deal with them.
This just sort of untouched.
Moeta from Wattson only down to one 13, one 11, just seemed to have to answer for anything
when it came to the question of do they have the damage.
Yes, you look at this Moeta, he's cleaning up everybody.
This lane just went way too good for them in particular.
When you're looking at a gyrocopter and you're like,
hmm, this Florida has similar net worth as him,
it's a disaster, right?
So for Tundra, big things to improve Yandex,
keep this up, this looks phenomenal.
Yeah, absolutely.
They look fantastic in this game.
One, Yandex, take the first game here at the best of five.
Wow, what a start to this, the best of five series.
It's not the first time that Tundra drops kills
to a team in the early game,
But normally, you see Tundra still like gaming net worth constantly.
Not this time, young Nex was able, Kazoo, to make sure that Tundra did not get that net worth lead,
and they did not do the Tundra thing.
No, absolutely not.
Like, Yannix's early game, I think their lanes were super good, you know, top hook drop,
but then they got a couple good kills.
CJ in the early game as well, they had stacks for him.
He kind of, he owned like really, really hard on the Sanking as to what.
So I think, you know, Yannix, they're definitely, they came in prepared.
they came in with momentum and they just took it through this entire game one here.
Yeah and I gotta say they really manhandled Cure's Gyro, like that was rough. They killed him eight times,
they hunted him in the early game, with the Sand King they brought him top,
noticed on the spot I was like diving tier two just throwing his body, anything to get the kill
on the Gyro, then bought him, they run at him again, they make sure that this Gyro isn't off
to a good start because if Gyro doesn't have a good start, it's not a good game for him on paper.
Yeah I mean I think the thing that stands out to me the most, from CDJ but from everyone is that
They played really confidently you felt that in their clicks and their movement and the things they were doing
There was none of this fear
There was no freaking out or panic or any of the stress that can come with grand finals. It was pure
We're gonna play the Dota game
We're gonna show that we're the best team in the world and in this game. They absolutely showed that
It's like also like to me. I think melody is free and you know, it's a hero
We haven't seen very often but he still went for the short yet a lot of like very nice vision
Even like deep words as well throughout this entire game
I mean you can see from a lot of the KDA is like this game
It was very, very chill for Yandex. I think Thundra didn't really get going the way they wanted.
I think also I wonder if 33, like if he could rebuy his inventory, if he would go for something different.
Because with the network he had, I expected a little bit more. I mean, it wasn't easy, but yeah, I expected a bit more.
Yeah, I was wondering how they would activate that train, since we've seen that hero get nerfed,
but Malady was absolutely great on that lead. Not just providing vision, but securing the lane for Watson.
Going to the mid lane and spending a lot of time defending it while CJ was able to move around.
And later on in the game the overgrowth was a problem. It was picked for a reason here.
Yeah, it also looked like this game showed us that Muerta was stronger than maybe we initially thought.
Is that fair to say, Quinn?
No, I think so. I think the pairing with the Slardar was really, really good.
And we knew that the classic AMP and range carry against Panglera would be good.
But I think it looked better than even when we thought.
I think Watson was absolutely owning on it.
And I think there were some questions about would he actually have the damage
to come through to Timurite Muerta?
Got kind of nerfed and then buffed up a little bit again.
So there's sort of a question of where her strength level is but it looked very very good
And it's a hero that Watson like loves to play
I remember picking it on four and the ones always like we can flex it
I can play it. I can play it. So here he finally gets to play it
So he gets to play for sure. There were a lot of cool fights in
In this this game like when there were a couple of things you you wanted to highlight up those flies a couple small things
There were a little little moments here and there that I think add up to mean something big
We look at here Malady
They're kind of just going on them after a fight that happens elsewhere and you can see it
They're chasing him down and he doesn't even press his wand here, right?
He gets super low, down to 80 HP, he doesn't press his wand.
He's not freaking out, he's not panicking.
Now, this may not seem like something very big, and at the end of the day it's not really,
but I think it's indicative of Yanex's mental state as a whole,
which I think is really, really important for this team,
especially since they've lost a Tundra in the past.
The fact that he's not panicking, like, oh, I don't want to die!
No, he's just playing to what is in the game,
and I think that is really, really important and valuable.
I go and I look at this next clip,
And I think this is a similar thing where they make a nice move on Jarvanthopter, one deep under the tier two.
This is a very manly sort of Chad move to make.
It's not something that you make if you're playing in a very scared way.
And then you look down on bottom, they go on Nality, but Watts is there to turn this around.
It's another moment where it's not like you just say, oh, just let him die, stack him.
Compare that to Ori, his pathing here is very questionable.
If you look at the way he dies, he'll go back and stack him or whatever.
Anyway, he walks down the hill in this goofy sort of way and gets stuck away from his team.
Look at this, look at the little movement. He remembers to use his neutral and he juke's up and around.
If he gets hit by the roll here, he dies.
It's these little things that add up, I think, to make a really, really big impact in the later game.
And a similar thing here, look at Tundra, they sort of run up on the hill, and they just get gone on and die.
It's very disrespectful of the way Yandex is playing, and I think all these moments to me say that
Yandex, they were honestly just more on the ball. This game more crisp, and I think a lot of that is a mental thing.
So much of Dota is how you're feeling. Are you in the zone or not, right? We talk about zone all the time.
And when I look at this game, Tundra, a lot of their players just fell flat, they were not in the zone.
Whereas I look at Yannex, I look at CJ specifically, the man was cooking and I think they were all on point.
Yeah, he really was cooking and I think Crisp is a great way to describe it because
you were talking about the importance of jumping this Rubik and going on the back line during the draft
and that's exactly what they did. The coolest thing about watching them this game,
especially when they were doing that top tier 2 push with Muerta,
was that they were distributing their priority really well. Not everybody was going on the same guy.
When Watson was fighting Gyro on this side, notice came to back him up, but CJ was taking care of the rest of the team.
And speaking of Watson and the Gyro curfew from Pure on the other side, that's something you wanted to highlight, KD?
Yeah, because it's kind of like a night and day difference what they did in this game.
So, you know, we kind of have to highlight that.
If you look at this KDA, this is ugly for Pure.
And this is not usually, you know, what happens to this player.
He's usually owning, but in this case, you know, it's Watson on his range carry.
His KDA is like so lovely. His hero damage is insane. It's more than double.
Gyro is supposed to have very high damage on receives. He's hitting everyone you ever called on all the other heroes as well
So I think they just came into this game like very nicely and I think we're putting out very well
Like I think they played very confident
But also like that confident and calm at the same time like this controlled pressure throughout the map using resources here
And they're very nicely and I think like it just showed in this entire game
And it's usually not what you see from thunder when they play into these other teams
You know usually they're the ones that actually beat you down
So I'm really happy to see this from the index and you look at what's in KDA this game 13 1 and 11 with where just new changes
That kind of Katie is pretty scary right because her innate now gives her 1% spell amp per any hero who dies in a circle to her and
If she dies to lose half of the stocks
But really died one time he was playing with like almost max stocks on that innate and that is just ridiculous scaling if you
Think about more just new changes as well with the shard this flugger
I'm not sure how Jair is supposed to fight that if he doesn't have a good game every 12 seconds where it can just turn him into a ghost
It's a lot to learn from this first game of the series
We're gonna find out if Tundra can adjust and if Yonex can continue their momentum
Of course the teams also get some time to think about everything that happened everything that will happen
We'll see what comes off it after a break
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What's the last kahoot?
What's the topic today, Jake?
Wow, my friends, the topic today is what you guys love.
It's Lord!
They're cheering for Lord!
They're cheering for Lord!
It's just Lord, because he's here!
They're cheering for Lord!
What do they call Lord goes home land before he left?
They called it looting.
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Was it the Froglands, the Tad Bull Nursery,
the Living Island, or the Eerie Bog?
That Eerie or I-Ree?
I-Ree Bog.
Oh, I-Ree?
You know, on my voice line, they said it says,
Woo, Marie!
I say, Woo-wee, and Valve refused to change it.
And now I have to tell everyone
that my wife's name is Marie, so they stop asking.
The answer is, of course, the living island of Gary Bogg.
We all know that.
That was Platypus was quickest there.
That's right.
Question two, Juggernaut used to be in a relationship with which Zota hero?
Oh my god.
Crystal Maiden, Sven, Lena or Templar Assassin?
Poor guy.
Man.
What a choice.
All of those were absolute stunners.
Oh god, how do you choose you get that absolute of stunners? Well, what do you don't have a stun though?
Stuns me when I look who watched the slaps little guys in videos shut the hell up
So that was three parts ass in which you would have known ta. Dang it. I did not know that innovative ferret
All right, ladies and gentlemen next one rubik is the son of which daughter to his
character. Could it be Keeper of the Light, Agonym, Roshan, or the Shopkeeper?
What you would know if you watched Pirion Flax's Microsoft Paint videos, he did
do one on Rubik's. I didn't do this. He did it. He's gonna do it after the event.
Ladies and gentlemen, do you want to see one more Microsoft Paint video? No,
nobody does. No. Yeah, you like that? Yeah. I'm not gonna do it. All right, five seconds left. Who will it be? I
I reckon it's, uh, I reckon it's Aghanim.
Wow, nice shooting in the back.
There you go!
Minimal lore knowledge achieved.
Well done, Winged Kangaroo.
All right, Winged Kangaroo in the lead.
Two heroes currently work at the Tyler Estate.
Name one, Ricky, Nix, Bounty, Auntie Magoo.
Who's it gonna be?
Auntie Mage, okay?
Auntie Magoo.
Ricky, Nix assassin.
The Anti-Hunter or Anti-Mage?
Ricky, Maru or Anti-Magu?
Anti-Magu or Ricky, Maru.
The most powerful safe lane combo?
God.
Support, Anti-Mage, carry Ricky.
Have you done that?
Gotten them.
I used to do post for Anti-Mage.
It's a hell of a time.
Is it?
For the enemy.
I've...
Ha ha ha ha ha!
Oh, never did he know this.
Whoa!
Guy who's Anti-Mage!
Worked at the Tyler.
Oh my God!
Wind Kangaroo?
Well done, whoever that is.
This guy.
He watches it.
Venomansum's home, the Isle of Yeetie, was recently transformed into what?
I read that as the Isle of Lidl.
No, it's a marsh, a developed nation.
A trading camp or a tourist.
You can't say that.
It's a developed nation.
Venom's island is in the Bricks Federation.
A marsh.
The Isle of Yeetie just got their first Nandoes.
We are a developed nation.
Vettelman just squeals in delight.
All right.
A tourist attraction.
Oh!
Hell yeah.
As said, in the Wayne Ranger Arcada when she bought the Tome of Knowledge.
There you go.
This is a big deciding question.
Oh!
Now she jubilens Turtles.
5 out of 5.
And well ahead.
Jubilant Turtles, where are you?
Jubilant Turtle.
Wave your arms around.
Wave your arms, my beautiful turtle.
Up there?
Up there!
In front of this area.
Up there?
Jubilant Turtles?
Wow.
Jubilee Turtles literally the backest seat ever who would have thought the person that knew the most lore would be way
Incredible all right. We will get this back to you. I promise we will get the bag to you. Don't worry now
What what is uh, what's the price the price is a piece of paper that we all hurriedly autographed
Boxing we autographed it in a bag
Congratulations, you know your lore knowledge has finally well done finally been cashed in laser job
We're about to get into two game two of the grand finals. Do not go anywhere. We're coming right to you
Can you feel it? Desperation. In the air. On the streets. In the alleyways. Everyone's looking for a killer.
Not because we're trying to stop him, it's because we need him.
There's one man on this planet that could murder that bastard, Barge, and Scotland Yards
been looking for him since the start of the year, the whole world's asking, where's
Icefrog?
So I come to you, you found the man who killed the Battle Pass, the man who leaked
the Doropas files.
Well they asked me who could save us, who could find Icefrog, there was only one
name.
Fucking arms.
Largo contested in every single game.
He's undeniably broken.
No updates.
And no fixes.
People are still playing to cure him.
Yep.
He's gone alright.
Pack up the things Watson.
We have a case to solve.
Fuck.
You come to my manor.
To my fucking bullseye!
And you expect me to roll the polly for the chimchums, is it?
For me mates!
Right!
So fucking scrap you, tosser!
This guy's gonna kill you!
Elementary, dear Watson.
How's the interrogation, Watson?
Are you getting him to talk?
Yeah, getting him to talk.
Son of a fucking person!
I will never be there!
The facets have created a digital perfectly balanced eudopia!
Ice Frogs! Greatest creation!
Ice Frog is done!
Why is Tigo streaming?
We found Ice Frog yesterday at the bar
and he just kept taking shots and deleting facets.
He went crazy.
Oh my god, not the fastest sword!
I'm a support viplier!
That's a fact, bro!
My dragon-eyed cosmetic scum!
That's fucking a fact, dude!
Also, Lago's still broken.
Now, absolutely, hack off of poor Ari Holmes
and his time kick once and also going head to head here
in the Grand Finals of ESL One, a Birmingham young next now one game up in this best of
five. But very soon we'll see if Tundra can strike back and tie the series. We will be
heading into the draft of game number two and we will learn what lessons Tundra has
taken from this first game. Looking forward to also hearing the opinions of both Kezu,
Win and F3, really nice to know that there is a name for 3 people, because I said both, there should be 3.
Yeah, for both then you go with 3, I think it's the skit, you know the skit's like taking us out of control.
It is!
This group, like the first one you have those two guys that played and they're both in the finals, that was a bang of skit.
Oh that was amazing, I love every second.
Okay, so what we got, coming.
They changed up and banned out the slaughter, which was a big problem.
Yes.
In game 1, because Sandra first picked one more time.
Yeah, that means that either one of the two teams prefers second pick slash first pick.
So they're both probably happy with the situation.
Other than that, it's with the slaughter ban, it means that Jekiro makes it through.
The bans and Janneks are the same, and other than the slaughter nothing changed.
So we'll see. Last time Tundra started out with a pangou, this time.
Woohoo, going with the Largo.
Doesn't matter if he's there, it's still good.
Yeah, I mean, this is where they have to prove they have an answer, right?
They weren't banning it first phase, so they clearly thought about Largo as an option.
second phase to stand at last game, they think their best option is stanking, but I'm not sure if this is actually a direct response to Largo.
I think it's a stanking is getting banned second phase. We really want this year.
We don't think there's any counters to it. And we have multiple options we like against the Largo.
I think it's the more likely option because stanking is not like really a direct response to Largo.
Yeah, he's just looked very good like you know in all the games we've seen before and the game we saw like just now as well.
I wonder if they're gonna look for again like damage and you know from some specific way.
I think the hoodring looked very strong last game in South's hand like with the Sand King
So I would like to see time at least consider that hero as a ban
And they do respect band the Muerta so it's a similar thing to last game even though it's not quite the same right there
The pangler you want stuff that kills him as he runs in Largo is very very similar
You want stuff that blows this hero up
You need enough damage to get through all the stupid armor and healing this hero does so Muerta is a very sensible
ban and Yannis have to find something in a similar vein that has enough damage, but Oomph
to kill me. Snanking does AoE damage, it's somewhat slower damage and Largo is going to heal a
lot of that, potentially get a pipe on someone at some point, so you need Oomph.
I mean Tusk is still in the pool, and it could be providing that Oomph for Yandex if
they knew that you just need the damage to burst it, and you can pair it with
another Watson-arranged carry. No, for sure. I would definitely like that. I think also like
Largo's a hero, he doesn't like getting beat up in lane at all. He is very slow,
He needs a good start and then you know you farm the stacks and whatnot
Maybe that's another benefit to having sanking you can invade like the enemy triangle
You know if you're stacking up maybe like force a fight there with an early epicenter with high levels in the sandstorm
So I can see why Yannick's are going like with this for now
Yeah, I like it quite a bit
I mean we see all the popular meteors right now sanking is I think one all the games
I've seen against Pangolars, so it seems to be pretty good
Yeah, Queen of Pain, Hustbar, these are generally the two best heroes against sanking and they're not really getting picked right now
So they do steal the tusk which is very feisty. It's a hero that's good against Largo
We talked about it last game having did the melee do to beat him up. So this is this really cool
And they got an opens up for another Watson range carry
Yeah, I do wonder like obviously they will see a little bit more
You know like maybe the support matchups that can help you a bit more because yeah
Like the tusk with the range carry that we talked about for what it should just do like really well against the Largo
The quick question wouldn't that previous series we watched and yesterday as well
we saw Io pop up more and more when the previous game was ignored.
Maybe together with the Largo seems like it amplifies the healing even more so.
Is that anything that these two teams will do with the Io or are they just not Io teams?
I don't think they're Io teams.
Yandex maybe more so. I have not seen Whitemon or Ari played at Hero.
I would assume they're going to stick more to their comfort and take it from there.
I.O. is also a bit of a team hero. Like it's not just an individual player here, the way Relocate works, the fact that you're tied to someone else, like the people you pair with and how you split the XP, all this stuff is, stuff that takes quite a bit of practice and it's not something that you can just rip on the fly.
So even if I.O. is good, I think it's the kind of thing you practice in scrims for a while, not the kind of thing you play in a tournament that happened or the patch happened in the middle of it.
Fair enough. Better stick to comfort, which for I.O. is definitely the keeper of the light.
Yeah, it pairs very well with the Largo, the ability to give him mana early on makes him skill is all too early on and maybe make some aggressive plays.
You can also open up some CJ combinations where you can get some Storm Spirits, some Tiny's, some Pengos, some Amblers.
If you're not looking, okay, so they go for the Jokera as well, just to also go back to the lane, like Largo, Kago, if these heroes lane together, it's like a very cheaty lane.
You know, you throw your frogs, you do the Illuminate, you just kind of like skip through it and you try to get around it.
But I would also say you can play Tusk in this lane and go for some pressure, but of course also if they do that, you can go for the blinding line.
So I like the turn I went for the Caudo here.
It's got to be attempting Rubik thick now.
This year has been trending up.
We see the Ice path.
The damage reduction versus Largo proves to be good in the Paravision versus XG series.
No, that's a good shout, and definitely something they're considering, I think.
I wonder if the Caudo is also somewhat Marci repellent.
Like Marci is the hero we've seen a lot of success against Largo, and if it's not the Largo, you just bounce him away, right?
So there's potential there that a lot of times when teams pick heroes
Not only is it because they they're good with each other, but they protect against each other's counters
I think there may be a little bit of that with Kata with the balancing stuff away
That's the range carry to play with the tusk. Yeah, they're looking like a five tusk right now
I think so. I mean and with that note
I think the rubik is good
I would like to see the hook wing also, you know if you want to run that back
But we've er I like it a lot against these heroes like you hate playing against this guy
If you're any of thunder series currently you can lane with the tusk
You know, you bet that so later as well, like even more damage and if you want to
Shroud of Shaman for Saxa
Yeah, I mean it's hard to go wrong. He's you know, we talked about him being a catchy player earlier in this series
and Shroud of Shaman as well as catchy as it gets, where there's got two spawns and
It's a hero that lets fox and communicate and dominate the way the map is played
I mean this is a very sensible pick storm Caudal is very very good together we go back
patches and patches and patches always been good you just give them a bunch of
mana it's pretty straightforward but a very powerful hero that's good against
danking because you can't actually 100-0 oftentimes in the stun epi and you can
get out of the epicenter very easily compared to something that gets bogged
down and stuck in epi it takes the whole damage. Also it's super good like
they have so much damage amp as well like the caudal the Largo as well I
think if you're Yandex you need to look at a way to check this storm like
the storm alone is already like very good in this game here's so many buffs
I think if you're Yanix, you're probably looking at it here like maybe Underlord, Tidus also like a very good ban
I think you know the anchor you're very good for the teamfighting
But getting like some more roots or even like damage reduction
I think it's something Yanix should be looking at. Yeah a pipe would be so valuable versus Thunder drop because it is all magic after
What pipe here is our left?
Underlord. Yeah, he's like number one. I would say because you know you need you need three options
I mean I guess also what's nice for them they will like pure has to show his hand like first right and I kind of maybe also
cover it with his pick
It I would say it's a pretty damn good faces way game. It's slow
So you also need to find like the right band for it. I think if you are pure here
But it is one of like the best corners to like weaver at least in a one-to-one matchup
I think it's a great dilation game also
It's also great against tanky for similar reasons to storm like he jumps in and stuns you an epi's you
You don't care you can just leave away and refer all the damage. He's not gonna burst you like that
So I'm thinking works. So definitely can be a very very good option. I
Agree with me or though. I think the pipe is
It's very important like Yanix
I think they've got quite a bit of damage if yours that are very good at skirmishing and very good at punishing
So it depends a little bit on what pure picks, but I think they could lean in the realm of more damage
I think they don't want too much more catch and I think they could also lean the aura tank up
Build you sort of gauge depending on if you think you need more damage need more tank depending what pure goes here
And that's sort of like what happens in these last phase.
So you've got a few options and they're either better or worse depending with their last phase.
So you've considered them and then you look and see what they do.
It depends now on Tundra if they want to preemptively address the pipe hero.
Maybe just wait it from coming with the Monkey King or Ursa.
Because these are typically the anti melee type heroes without sacrificing their drafts.
I don't necessarily think Ursa puts in a bad position,
but as the game progresses, it could be hard to play against Weaver.
It definitely could.
I'm trying to think because it doesn't seem that easy like to pick your carry here
I think it's nice if you have like semi high HP pool so that you don't have to like go in with your BKB every time
And you start gonna heal by your Caudal and Largo. They will go for the monkey
I think nice call also has this year's look very strong like I think that
3dance has like no cooldown your level 10 talent is cast range on that as well makes you so damn mobile
Are they looking at primal beast?
because they've run out DK Void, which are like the prime of these lane counters.
Or did they just see them as potential skirmish heroes?
These might also just be carry mashups against Weaver.
I think that the giga-high armor from DK and then, you know, obviously everything on the Void is going against Weaver.
Weaver's horrendous thing in Void.
Yeah, it's fun.
I mean, I think the monkey is quite good here and it begs the question,
is Noda's going to try to play something that's more game-countery or is he going for, you know, the lane, right?
There's stuff like Phantom Mancer that's still on the pull.
You can play offline if you want to get really crazy like this viper that is historically good against monkey king
Or are you saying okay?
We're just gonna play the lane normal and we think we can outplay because monkey king is not that strong on the early waves
It's when he starts getting to level three and four jumping on you with the extra levels in jingle that it beats the crap out of you
So there is some potential to outplay. I've seen melee heroes beat monkey king in the past
I like the monkey king for like all of those reasons. It's just good for you
You'll line up one said your Largo is very slow
You know if you're also like kind of cover for this and the hero that Yandex are looking for at least for draft
integrity that most of them are bad against monkey king so this is like I
would say the hardest thing for them to like try and find here they're still
brewmaster or noticed it's quite a good brew game I would say it's not great
against Largo as game progresses because he keeps everyone alive at the same time
it's sort of that lower damage range there it is it's a good call though
it's good again obviously amazing against monkey king and it's pretty
good against the rest like it's this chaos it's this randomness sort of in
the fights, which I think is very good. In general against Tundra's heroes, because you've
got these two squishy backrunners. Now you've got Pannus running at him, you've got Senekeen
blinking on them, Weaver hunting them, but it's not an easy game for Coddle to secure
to play. It's sort of stable. We sit behind our cores.
Yeah, the one thing about Bru that's been really nerfed in my opinion is just his level
1 ult. That Cyclone is only 3 seconds, which was pretty significant, but as the
game progresses, that'll be a pretty minuscule change. So long as he can disrupt this
bot lane, then he has thought up his team for success. I would still love to see a pipe though.
I know it's not the easiest item progression for notice, but it would be fantastic.
Yeah, I don't know if you can slot it in. Maybe it's a bit hard, but I like Yannick's heroes together
quite a bit. I think, again, they like this collapsing that they didn't in Game 1-2. You
know, your Weaver can go through the gate, your Brew gets six. You're like very strong
together when you make this happen. And again, I think it's over the peak of Sanking Game,
but I could see Yannick's run into some damage problem in like this midgame. If you don't
Don't get a good jump, coddle old with Illuminus, Largo plays a stupid song, everyone stays high HP.
I think if the first 5 to 10 seconds are not that great for Yandex, I would prefer playing Teamfights on the Tundra side in this game.
It sounds like Tundra has got a lineup that allows for Largo to be set up for success in a game like this.
Yeah, I think so. I think the frog is going to do his thing. Assuming they can't beat him up in the lane, I think that's a really big test for the rest of the series.
Can you actually beat Largo?
There's gonna be also a lot telling if they can how the rest of the drafts are gonna be going
We're gonna find out if that Largo can find success if tundra can tie the series here one to one
It is time for tundra versus Yandex game two
We've got these two teams right up for Freddy to go and put the drafts for, I was most surprised
about, we're coming to this game too.
That's back, he's coming out straight away, it has to be right, if he doesn't go in there
to a junior, he's not going to get it.
Absolutely, there are adjustments made though on the side of Tunger, I do believe and I
do like the points that Kezu and the quit we're making there.
The Storm Spirit in particular can be a very hard hero to burst sometimes with this epi bro.
And if you don't get burst, you can actually get out of that epi.
I think that was a really good point that I was hearing from Quinn there,
because a lot of these times, I'm seeing them just get stuck in the epi and they can't move.
Storm, they have the sustain as well too that comes from the Largo and the Cottle,
so they're looking for adjustments to deal with that stanking in particular is what I see from this draft.
There's a lot of sustain, right? Largo, Cottle, Monkey King as well too when it gets to the Jingu build up.
So absolutely there's adjustments being made.
That being said, Yandex with a very strong aggressive lineup again.
Weaver the Tusk, a very strong duo. The Shaman, we've seen how impressive and how aggressive Sox has been able to be when he can catch, and this is one of the best ones for it.
And then yeah, the Sanking.
Absolutely, they're going to have to catch also, yeah, just going to have that safe potential a little bit more reliably from the Tusk with that snuggled potential from Malady.
Let's see what they can show us here in this game to Tundra, after having a bit of a rough game one.
I mean, all in all, when you sort of look at the lane setups, do you imagine that, is
it set up for a bit of an easier time for jerks than for the last game, just didn't really
get to sort of play his position as the carry right, he was behind the whole game.
I mean, he just kind of set up in a good position for the last game as well, he just,
he played a little too aggressively forward and just some really good plays from Yandex
called him off guard, right?
They placed that ward that caught him when he was starting to catch back up
right behind the tower.
So I think Yandex just, they played that lane pretty much to perfection.
But yeah, versus Jikiro, much harder.
Nice damage on top!
Ahri! Ahri!
He's gonna end up dying!
Maybe what's the price for?
He does!
Time to at least get in the trade, but that will of course be first.
Look, the Yandex there with Malady taking down Ahri.
This is gonna be a fun lane to watch in particular.
Largo, I think 33 is showing that he's at least been one of the best ones in terms of being able to lane it.
Most other players just immediately leave.
I've seen them actually play the lane a lot stronger with this Largo here.
Nice catchy place to get that extra regen too.
This duo is very strong, the tag team plus the weaver with the damage and with the geminate when they do get more levels
Oh yeah, we were saying that right there. Oh, yeah, Ari especially has to be super careful
They of course have blinding light which will help that this chance will be very effective versus some of that physical damage
But still might be overwhelming in a lot of situations
Overall obviously with how well we've seen the sanking do at the moment in this patch with these players
Obviously you're having to come out to the first pick surely this there's got to be a trade-off for that
You look at what Tundra has done against it. Do you kind of see an idea of what they've got that's going to be able to stop
Chura Junior from just having such an explosive game as we're seeing time and time again from these sanking mid-players?
I think overall BZM is just feel more comfortable on the storm than I was mentioning.
I think this matchup in terms of mid game can play around the sanking a lot easier and just the sustain work, right?
They're gonna have this sustain if someone doesn't get popped by that heavy, they can reset out of it with the songs of the
LAR. They'll get the heal going from the Coddle as well, too.
So I'm pretty sure they left it in to make some adjustments and we're gonna see if it works or not.
And then in terms of the final pick coming in from Yandex closing things up, we noticed
getting the brood.
Do you think that does feel like some of the slots quite nicely into the draft or was it
something that they were sort of forced into because of the lack of other options?
How good does that last pick feel?
I like it a lot for notice.
I think it's one of these things that breaks the positioning of how you want to line up
to work where you're setting, okay, we have Coddle in the back, we have Jakiro
in the back.
The brood just runs through, finds the targets that he wants to go through.
Or you can just lift the Largo in some of these teamfights, so there's a lot of potential.
I do feel for this brewmaster.
Even though it could be a bit of a risky pick in some situations, versus this lane, the
mid game can be very powerful.
But yeah, this was a pick that they went for for Tundra to just completely secure
Pures game though.
The Jekiro, plus that Monkey King, an incredibly strong duo.
And not as volatile, that's something like the Gyro as we saw there versus the Hoodweek
to reposition.
This is an incredible move.
one hand maybe already just determined that they have to sacrifice that lane
bottom well they can get out of this are he's in trouble locked off by the
shots with the licks
does it save him?
it looks like it will, I mean one's trying to dive
a little bit of a board cut him from BZM
no ball, I don't know
do they really want to dive back forward for it with the bug on him
they pass the Lotus, they pass the heal
if they dive I think there's going to be a solid chance that they should be able to kill one of them
They're gonna go for it.
They're gonna go for Ari, so they're going out of the tower to take the kill.
33 also.
Ari might just be able to kill 33 as well.
There's a lot of damage.
Watson is tanking the tower quite a bit.
He's gonna get out with the Shikuchi so he'll get away with that dive.
Look at this creep wave.
They want more.
Yeah, they're gonna be ready to go back in.
33's gonna get held in position by the shackles.
They have the damage to take him out.
And now they might just be able to turn for Whitemon as well.
That's what a rotation.
Ari's trying to help out with the shards.
We'll block him Whitemon.
Heads-up move really from Soxa, right? Just identifying that this bottom lane notice just has to play it as it is because they're not going to be the trade versus the monkey.
He just leaves. I mean, that's the code.
You don't expect that, right? You really don't.
Level 1 shaman to just turn up the shackles off the back of that twinge rotation.
Like if it was the opposite kind of position where he's ganking the safe lane, right?
You could maybe expect it, but ganking the off lane like this is a very clever move.
Soxa, as you said, a killer in most situations.
Getting themselves off to a good start here at 3-1.
I cannot play in getting away with it.
Lane won't stay from Chura, Juni, my goodness, museum taking quite the damages as hell in the sandstorm, but why mom boots are not trying to help with the warding around the mid?
Pure will have a free time. Notice they get a couple creeps to catch up with there, the lane did get into a better position, but now Pure is going to be able to just dominate this one.
In a 1v1, so let's continue to see what the rotations are going to be. Sox is just going to still stay top where they find Ari again.
Might be in a... Faber to trouble once more, Ari get for a third time in this lane.
Looking to enable Wattson as much as possible. Missing a couple last hits that we do see here that are on the weaver, but getting the kills to make up for it.
Trying to punish that Largo, punish the greed, and it's coming out from Tundra in that top lane.
So I'm just trying to have the moves to do so...
So far. And let's see where Soxa wants to go from here. I'm seeing him bringing out a clarity.
He brings out a raindrop, brings out some ops in another place. That's a blood grenade.
So could potentially look for more moves still here.
Not the easiest of course down toward bottom, but the storm isn't level 6 just yet, so if
Jira hits 6 and they have Epi, and he catches him in opposition, they could potentially kill
the storms.
Gonna make her go for a note instead of Ari back out on the map, can live the bomb back.
She's to blast back into the boundary strike down to do it.
Mid lane, they do get the timing.
They've got the shackles, CZM trying to back off with the snowballs coming in, so
whilst they might have lost notice from the bottom lane, they're able to group
up and make that counter play around the mid and slow down BZM hitting that level six.
Tox is everywhere. He's been to all the lanes already. The World Traveler.
1-0-3.
Oh, in a career.
Karia and a bouncy rune.
Why not?
And it continued to be incredibly annoying.
That's a good career.
Indeed it did. That was going to be the full treads.
Sort of denied for the next minute.
Pure was getting sent out towards them.
It's doing a fantastic job of setting these lanes up.
They have an advantage coming out of these lanes up to 1K.
Well, Milo's getting the, uh, Decorio 33 out there, which would have been his complete phase boot.
And bottom, look, noticed he's getting a fair bit of experience here, too.
It's a triple creep wave he's been able to build up down here, so...
Soxa, he's gonna soak some of the 6p he is.
Maybe expecting if they dive under the tower some TP rotation if he gets a grab.
Yep, the Sankin's coming over with a haste.
Coming in with the angle!
Blood grenade!
If he can get his hands on pure...
He's trying to get the tree dance off, perhaps waiting for the moment he does.
Ah, he'll be out of there, so if you're able to avoid- Oh, I'll say that!
Chirodrin is going to start looking along the tree line, but it's so hard to make the
calls go from the blind bar to the straight.
You don't know where the Monkey King is.
All the Earth is away.
All the Monkey King's have been doing the same thing, saving that skill point just
in case of things to protect themselves and turn into the lane to get that tree dance
up.
33 will also survive top.
A more balanced laning phase this time around than before.
So just a slight bit of an edge here, BMdex, due to those early moves, those
early kills. Tom Wayne, 33 is staying pretty low and Charlotte's gonna catch him
Arius there to try and help him out and actually well, how long have you just had
the time for this one and 30? Now, he'll get some time to watch him. Watch him, he'll still be able to clean up the kill with the Shikuchi.
Get out of there. Brock Stomp was doing a decent amount of work there now. Pure.
The numbers are coming in. He blocks off here by notice. He can't jump in
the tree this time. He'll turn with the boundless onto the two of them and
they'll still continue to chase up. He'll try and look towards the
Twin Gate but there's nowhere to run or escape. The chase down from these three is again
Yandex just getting a little bit more in this early game and Saxie
Everywhere once for a four and this Shadow Shaman is quite the what a lot for Dundra to try and deal with right now in this landing stage
He's everywhere
Everywhere he goes. He's gotten the kill so one zero and four for him continues to just bring out clarity
So they can keep his impact on the map. BCM does find an amp damage
You could have a good ward here in the lane as well too. Might be able to look for notice.
He has hit six. He's short on the mana.
He's got the grab on him here.
The control in the boundless.
It sucks the two.
Unless they want to try and dive.
They'll put the hex off into the shackles.
Now if you watch him from the side, can't really do much to help out.
Tundra, they'll get the two kills.
Nice move from BZM. Getting him something.
Nothing wrong with getting those galvanized stacks, because you don't get them of course with leveling up.
They're ball lightning. We'll get himself off to the battle too, and could potentially get this tower also.
Still with that amp damage.
Good rotation from BZM and the supports.
Some of the early moves from Turo Jr. last game that started to shake things up.
Maybe BZM can sort of perform the same sort of early rotations.
Do so here in Gang 2.
And it looks like also in the meantime, they did place a sentry.
Ari was able to block, or at least get some information of the camp here.
Doesn't make it so the creeps hit you, of course, inside that sandstone.
So it is annoying even just having a- even though the sentry doesn't block,
you do get hit inside your sandstone a little bit more because of that sentry placement.
Largo, starting to do what Largo does, farming the stacks that have been made for him.
Get the scum down here.
He's in those that- no, just his back around in the area.
This time it's much harder.
This time he has mana for the primal split, before he was 30 mana short, so got a little bit unlucky when he used the sticker too early.
I guess we can try and force it out of him, watch out for three of you downhits.
Pretty nice, he sort of eliminates the chance of him diving further.
Kira, actually walking into BZM, waiting on the high ground, gets caught by the ice bomb.
He's gonna try for the TP out, but the burst, it's enough for BZM to get the kill!
Great read from BZM and Whitebind, that ward that they placed him earlier up on the secret shop, it saw Kira coming down as well, so they were positioned perfectly for it.
I'm imagining he just felt strong because they did have notice in the area with the split but ready they wanted to try for an aggressive move themselves over the walls of the mid-area, Saksa gonna get found in by Aryan 33.
Not easy to get shackled off.
BGM's ready to join as well to get involved in the action, starting to build up the kills themselves, managing to keep it even here 7-7 and starting to put this pressure onto the tier 1 mid.
And BGM for Galvanize. All those kills, racking up, gets a regen as well.
She was able to go for this tower, and he's truly enabled this game on this Storm Spirit with the coddle behind him.
Gonna be getting constantly just manned it up, have the Solar Bind to amp him up as well.
Chira's being slowed down. This time the snanking. It's the first game I've seen on the main stage,
where he's not gonna get like a 9 to 11 minute blink dagger, it feels like, because of that death.
For sure. I mean, you'd imagine it has to be that way, right? When you go for the snanking, it's the first pick.
a team like Tundra, they have to surely have an idea of how to shut him down.
And you can see the adjustment in practice.
Yeah, that's just the natural concept of the heroes that we were talking about with this campaign.
Looking to Saks, but it's pretty deep, and Chura Juni is here by Saks's side.
Ari will get caught.
Ari, he dealt with by the rest of Yandex.
Pure has to be careful here, doesn't want to show himself.
He'll have the Trigianth dance, of course, to build the game and stuff away.
The tower, or the catapults, he wants to kill it off though, and he will.
I was like, that catapult is one hit away.
They'll be able to get the tower anyway.
Tundra, I'm trusting.
Holding onto this one right now.
Happy with the space they're getting.
I was flat 33.
We have to halfway through the agonims.
So the big thing too for Tundra this game, I'd say,
is that even if Pure does get slowed down, right,
they have a semi-carry slash carry from the mid lane,
right, who's going to be super enabled this game.
So you just see Pure slightly getting slowed down,
but this time, yeah.
BZM is getting all that extra space all the extra buff ups of his allies and the Largo is doing the Largo thing where he is getting to get his timing
Very two components of that axe. I'm gonna start giving the points for the croak of genius
For BZM as well. This is truly one of those games where BZM is set up for success all those buff ups
That's true. He pretty much had Largo and told behind you
He can't ask for much more as a storm spirit right thrown in IO
Maybe that would be the craziest type of full buff up kind of lineup for him
But yeah, this is pretty much the same thing there.
Jirijunia, this pre-wave will give him the blink, Doctor.
Just don't burn it so insanely fast, of course, but not at that 11 or 10-minute mark that we've seen a couple times.
But where do you think the move's going to be with this first sort of reveal of the blink?
It depends up to them, right? Do you want to slow down the Largo Axe timing,
or do you actually are you more scared of the monster chain?
That's up for them to decide.
They look to get either of them.
I'll give him the notice.
Yeah.
He's got to find the foulness to open things up.
Ari Whitemont and BGM hot on the chase.
He'll hit.
Split off in time though, notice.
So we'll be able to run.
Fully defensive split.
And Largo's in a defensive position too, so 33 isn't going to get caught from any of this movement.
Mid tower.
Shaman has hit 6.
He should be able to finish it off. He'd be coming in from Largo.
He's also about back up.
Okay, I was going to say if he comes in just alone, it could be a little dangerous.
to be a little dangerous. Talon looks like he's gonna go down regardless.
I can get kills out of him. Acropyde dropped down on the stacks.
The BGM's got the control on to Malady. Stacks at a fall.
Malady's gonna attempt to hide in the trees.
I love how BGM's are showing up to every fight, but getting those Galvanized stacks
knows how enabled he is from the team.
He's leading up quite a bit of those wards as well.
Gotta do a long jump. A little bit of mana left.
We'll be able to close in and pure as they're ready to help out.
It's a snowball buying a little bit of Sanctifumality to the premise the entire team of Tundra is there ready to take him down.
Another galvanized for BZM.
He needs to just get involved in every single one of the moves.
We said cheer up, the blink is done.
So let's see how much they can get involved with an epicenter, but there are ways to play around it.
Like we said, the storm can zip out if you don't burst them immediately.
There's a modest sustain that can come in too.
So as we said Tundra, they made the adaptations in this game to deal with the Sanctifum.
Junior, he went for the rune there in the river, was able to pick up the shield rune,
does get away, PCM's going to come and chase her forward, the backup's coming in, they've
got the shackles in on towards BZM, he's in the plunge up as well, Barric's right there,
they've got the lock down.
Little of a sound loss.
Five, Tunger, chased a bit too far, he's going to cost them White Mons life as well,
Yandex was not going to let them get away without one.
Oh, happy to see BZM playing extremely aggressive, but also have to be careful because there
There is a lot of stuns he has to deal with here.
Doesn't have the backup of everybody to protect him just there.
2K lead now.
Sanking was starting to get shut down.
For a small moment he gets the blink now.
He's perfectly fine.
Level 12 still unsanely farmed in Watson.
He has Tesla already finished.
He's just gonna be pretty deadly.
I mean, Ari could just die with 2B.
Yeah, it's gonna get pretty nasty.
Let's see.
Bugs are out.
Oh my God!
The blinding light of the Shikuchi will be there to chase in.
Couple more hits and Ari's gone, Watson!
You can keep doing this against these squishiest supports now.
And overall the Weaver 2 vs the Largo we have to talk about, you know, he can't hit the bug
when he's singing a song in a lot of situations too, so there's definitely plays where Watson
can also deal a fair bit of damage to this Largo.
33, the timing, soon there, Aghanim's is about to be finished for him.
Link's soon on Soxa.
I don't notice, he's got back up here, can they at least force the split out, then the
Hex is going to come out from Sax over towards BGM, it's an awkward one, doesn't hit anyone
there with that Boris drive.
So they're just going to have to pop the split and back off.
Chira, BGM he's thinking about diving in for more, goes up towards Chira, Chira the
Macro player laid down both teams keeping to the edge of the fight. They're awkward.
Just done nobody there with yet with that stone. I'm a tundra
They sort of see the favoring in those timings though now that they know they've forced out the sort of jump from cheerjunior this split
On the brew they want to make that come once again
They're in on a cheerjunior be at a part of the diagram what's just turned up to the fight as well
Kiting up pure for now turning with the bugs in the head brings pure down very low
Wards to drop but BZM has enough money to jump out of the serpent wards
Awkward. Both teams are just going to walk away. Can't actually commit for a kill too
afraid. BZM gets all the mana restored from that coddle.
Definitely the more costly ults though dropped by Yandex and that's the duration. Surfer
wards. Split used. Nobody ends up dying. Tundra was hesitant to go into, I think
at the center they knew that it was going to be coming back up so they were hesitant
how much they really wanted to commit forward. But now without that Bruce Split, Tundra
They're looking to pressure here around Pure, and they've hit the scan so they know that
this is likely approaching from this angle.
See if Chiric is lined up there.
I'm back inside the tower though, yeah indeed.
BGM's going to go immediately in, on towards notice, they have to fore-check to drag him
back to...
And it comes in with a jump!
Pepe on the wall for two supports.
Heals!
Bringing them down low, but it's not enough damage to kill them!
Arya White wants to buy!
Chiric, you need a notice, we can take it out, the sustain, it's enough from
Tundra.
You are seeing signs already of that approach against this Sank King.
And it's incredibly effective, right?
If you're jumping in like that as the Sank King, you're not getting anything.
Your game gets pretty hard.
As you can see, damage was pumped out from him, but they have the answer to that damage at this point in the game when they're grouped up.
Because he jumped both backliners.
Oh, sorry.
Uh-oh.
Bit of a nasty surprise from there as a couple of Wing-Gate, Watson and Saks are over there and waiting.
Yeah, Jira. Just not anticipating how much healing it's really going to be, because in
almost any other situation, both supports dies, right? But this time, you're seeing the heal
in the draft that Tundra's gone for to deal with the same king. He gets no backup, right?
They don't really have anyone else that wanted to come down and go for that play, so here
you get to see it.
33 just straight in, ready to help out and ensure that Arya and Whitemon are able
to walk out alive.
Truly all the little things keeping them alive there. The Coddle Blast that heals
in the Largo. Very even early game here. 12-11, less than, pretty much 1k if not less for the
side of Yandex. Ulti is at the ready for the brew. They don't have the epi at the moment.
And Tundra not really cool down Reliant. This is a draft that they keep playing at all times.
We'll see if the trees don't sacks from watching that found Ari straight away. They go to the call and the shackles are there
They're taken down. They're a look for more with this pure
Shots block him in and put the punch up you're going to try to stand his ground
It's your duty comes from the bar strike. You're still trying to get with us come on
I was blinded but he dies at the same time. He's been thrown up into the air
He has come in a manner to break away a little bit from them as him white one of them
She tried to get my children isn't again
Catches the boat for the bar strike white one taking down low Watson cleans up the double
And now they can surround 33!
Another jab!
Yeah, Jax, this time they bring together the fight to take the team wipe!
Just diving too far forward, sure you don't have cooldowns, but you're playing into a strong cooldown lineup.
You don't even have to use the epi. Just to bruce play it enough, they get the catch with control.
This Weaver, he walks in it, absolutely owning in this game against 6-1 and it's so much damage he's dishing out.
Already 14 charges on the Desolator at 19 minutes in.
We did see a couple of games also of this Weaver be pretty ridiculous.
The way they start the fight is the perfect thing, right?
They catch the Coddle, they prevent these heals, and it's almost immediately panicked
from Tundra.
Puree gets caught, and it's rough.
Tandron away.
Trying to lead in there with a boundless strike onto a tough target to take down, and a rough
moment in terms of the progression of items.
You're trying to make this play around this Monkey King and Puree.
He was a few undergold off the Desolator.
They went for that risky move without waiting for that next round of big light pickups.
It cost them big time.
And now it's going to be a big round of pickups for Yandere.
On the opposite side, not only do they get the Aegis, but I believe the Agadims is going to be done for notice.
And they're going to have the saves too, so for Tundra, picking and choosing their fights is going to be a little bit harder now,
because you want to kill the brewmaster at the start of the fights,
but there's going to be a toss to come in to save.
There's going to be a sank to come in with the Effies.
Tatsu, let's put him in the trees.
I won't be getting any out pairs, so I'll say that.
Watchman's actually telling them, maybe he will.
He is alive.
He gets away, and Watchman's going to look for Ari.
See if Hari comes up from this one, a couple of boys flying in, he'll get taken down and
they do not have the means to deal with the Weaver, they've got to keep running here Tundra.
Whoop!
Fire Strike, we'll get dodged by White Munt.
White Munt finished off Soxa, Soxa was looking to blink back in to get an extra
catch on the BZM, but he just threw a macro fire on him so we'll be able to clip him
and finish him off at the least.
How do they deal with this Weaver, Watson is a 7, 1 and 8.
And they're absolutely lacking in lockdown in this game, right, so.
Yeah, it's got the crystal that's coming on the way out next, so this damage is
gonna be insane. A couple of geminates and he's not gonna stand a chance to keep
for the lights. I wonder if anyone's gonna even be able to pivot and adapt to go
for any type of extra disable. It's gonna take a long time for them to have any of
these like hexes or pretty much any of those right to get that extra lock down
for the weaver. He is an issue. It has such an early aegis to the building at
this tormentor as well for free with the minus number building up. And he's
gonna go Daedalus. I was actually hoping that he would do the same thing that he saw
The you know we stopped from our main going for that Hydra breath which looks pretty cool in the game
But this is an insane amount of physical damage and we're seeing Ari. He dies and literally one Gemini. Oh, yeah
Absolutely, you know, it's a bit of a nightmare right now to be the call in this sort of game with this weaver
Moving around as he is
Tunger's got to be careful to just make sure that they don't break formation too much
They have to ensure that Ari can survive in the fight to get the mana pumped up for BGM allow him to sit in
The back lines because oh so many times now they're fighting already they're gonna get him again for sure
No way to run! No way to hide!
That's nine times they've been able to find Taro.
Yeah, I was gonna say that wasn't gonna work.
Yeah, BGM trying for TP quickly realizes that there was still a punch available from Malady.
So it has to zip away.
They're getting the ball rolling. I mean, continuing to look for these kill stocks to on the hunt.
Max hex.
Mag shackles.
Tundra's gotta find some sort of way to slow this down.
Yandex.
It's dangerous for pure tool. He's sitting at very low HP.
Without a BKB too, this monkey king showing up to fight is probably just dead in every
single one of the scenarios.
So he needs time to finish that off versus this lineup of Yandex right now.
Let's see if the Largo sustain can keep him alive, right?
Without the BKB, very vulnerable, but if there's anything that can keep him alive,
it might be that Largo.
Saksa?
So they want to try and go in if you round this tier 2, it doesn't look like it.
Oh, they just drop a macro pyre and bounce on the side of Tundra, they might drop the
wards to just push forward and port here because they have this castle.
They will.
Should just get brought down here.
Trying to find the way to Wolfwood next time, pickups across the map, 33 of course
Just going standard, getting the Kyostan Jon Lai off to the Ag and Emerson BZM.
If he can get that next big pick up online, get that Bloodstone before he's forced to turn up to the next fight.
A lot of pressure on BZM in these next few moments, it feels like.
To get that space to allow Pure to get to that MKB that he really needs in this upcoming fight, just so much overwhelming damage.
Chira, the Ag's is done.
Set up for the fight top, they still have this Aegis.
It's ready to go for this one on the back line. They see white one in Ari, Jirijunia
Don't go for the jump quite yet. He got essence and still early
So he cannot actually make the jump forward there. Good little disengage from Tundra
That was scary for a second Ari needs to keep himself in a very defensive position
Closing on the four staffs so will soon have at least something to help break away from the chase of Watson on the weaver
Needs anything. I mean honestly goes after as well, so he needs any type of survivability
The first blue notice, they can't, he's able to pop the spread.
And now pure, perhaps in trouble, they pack up some of the wave, Watson's ready to deal with the damage.
And Saxon's got the control, they get to pass under, what's pure, pure's gone, Tundra now without the Monkey King, they have to run.
The stun trying to out on a wall is 33, Watson's going to try and stay on top of the lago, 33, pretty tanky of course, as he plays his song, but a lot of damage coming out from Watson.
Another stun connects, Watson moves in.
BGM?
33 will not survive this, as Watson finally takes him out, godlike on the Weaver.
They are owning now, and they're just starting to steamroll through.
They're gonna get themselves another Team White Piannex.
Wow, Tundra are crumbling after what looked like they were gonna have at least a bit of a better shot at the start of this game for a look at my shit.
It is disappearing rapidly.
Watson is playing it perfect.
Soxa is getting the catch every single time on the right hero here too,
and the Largo is not looking that tanky, it's too much physical damage.
See, Watson just dishing it out on him with the bump-up that he's got.
And notice, he wasn't even really that close to dying, right?
As soon as he got the boost, but also hit his danger.
And pure, with no BKB, he's just a free kill.
And it's playing this absolutely beautifully in these first 25 minutes and a lot.
I mean, I have to give a lot of credit to Soxford just with these charge-throughs,
setting them up for success, getting this weaver off to this point.
Watson, he is looking like he's gonna go a bit of a defensive route backwards.
Playing it safe, why not?
They probably, I mean, I don't think they can change something. He'll get the BKB off in almost every scenario, because he also has a tusk behind him today.
I mean, because what is this? It's more Texans, the ice path in the battle, and they strike, and these aren't really the longest of stuns.
No, I mean, sure, we do have to talk about it too, right? He got the Deso how long ago, he has zero stacks on it too, so Vantage has not racked up at all.
Meanwhile, the Weaver has 20 stacks already built up.
Yeah, that's going to feel bad.
Yeah
They need to get something going for Tundra even just a kill because the galvanized stacks too for BGM, right?
We were mentioning he's getting involved in a lot of these kills. They're gone
He had I think six or seven at some point. He's down to the one
Yeah
Let's show himself. He doesn't have his BKB yet
I'm gonna be able to find him on this
The CP away will get him out of there.
Great space, that was pretty much the entire team of Yandex that did head up to that top side of the map.
And he does have the BKB now, so if anything, this is the strongest point that Tundra is at in this game so far here.
He says, yep, is it strong enough to fight for this incredibly powerful Yandex draft now with this level 516 brew with the axe that we've seen.
He can just kill heroes as well. He does a lot of damage with the box too.
There's nothing to laugh at when the brew is hitting targets with this weaver box on targets.
I can be full panicked because I'm gonna have to try and run and as you say, if the logger from 33's got a really decide if he can afford to play the music or just get the log off of it.
Yeah, definitely not easy.
And the supports at this point are just so fragile.
Yeah, you've got to force that. You've got drums, but six armor and then 12 on the coddle.
As you said, two, three hits and you die.
The undexed are on their way over.
Easy, huh?
He's spotted.
They're just gonna get completely out of this shortly.
And at the nice opportunity, he finds a two and a beautiful Boris Drag coming across both BZM and Weidmann.
Jesus, that damage from Watson is absolutely crazy. This hero, Sino again also, snanking in the weaver.
Couple of these games on the main stage is also very, very good.
Maybe this Sankees just got to be one of those opening bans. I mean, if the Andex were able to do this where they show it, it's the first pick.
That's true.
We saw that one moment where it's like, okay, we're seeing the idea, you've got this lager.
at least off-saving some of the damage that's coming out for the Sand King but I guess those sort of moments are very particular
and if the game starts to pull apart like this the Sand King's still gonna get to pop off.
Nandex, 11K, now ready to start
approaching the base of Tundra. I love how aggressive we're just seeing them play right.
Tundra is a team that does like to kind of farm a bit here.
Nandex is showing that this is not a team that's gonna be farming or hitting creeps whatsoever.
but it's all about the aggression in this game.
And in the last game in particular too, right?
Sox has definitely set the pace in terms of the movements
to get them with all this,
but very impressive stuff that we've seen.
Tundra.
Where do you go from here?
Any major pick-ups soon.
I mean, the next starts they're gonna be looking for
on BZM is here with BKB.
They just gonna fight for now with the timing.
Yeah, you have to play around here with BKB.
Like, bait him, hope that you can get something off of it,
because this is still the strongest point
for quite a long time that they're gonna be in it.
They're pretty huge couch.
It's a BKB though.
They're opening with the four techs, they can't get the pull up, look down onto wards in.
They'll get the balance down onto the bottom, but what's the time now?
Back onto full HP. Pure.
He's going to attempt to hold his ground with the Wukong's command.
Watson and Jirijin are back off out of the Wukong.
They take out the support.
Aryan, Wife, I'm gone.
BZM with his final bits of mana attempting to take out Saksa.
Saksa will get up to the high ground.
high ground BGM will chase off forward and we'll get the kill. Can they get out BGM? He's now got a lot more
mana to play with and there's the jump forward informality, gets the punch up into the bar and
drives the cheer of Junior's 30th. He's trying to help BGM up at BGM's and we get the bloodstone off.
He's actually going to continue to play aggressive here with those fightovers the
mana forcing back the rest of Yandex. They might not have two supports, they only get the
one support themselves but we did a lot of respect really there from Yandex to the end
of that fight. They didn't try and force it with the remaining four of them and they back
Take away from Tundra.
Watson a bit afraid, right?
Because he's having this pretty much flawless game so far.
Had to use the BKB and just reset.
Mostly he did not really get to do too much damage
in the inside of this fight because of how Tundra started it there.
So pretty damn good fight from Tundra.
They forced a buyback as well, too, so all things considered.
They'll take that.
33 gets to survive and dance and sing his song, too,
for the most of that fight.
So starting to see the healing if they're
able to get some of them off.
And here he gets a Deso stack.
He does.
So one at least for him.
Just stacks up.
and we'll now be able to start working towards that butterfly.
So it'll be a pretty decent solution eventually against Watson, or Watson.
Not really wanting to get any sort of true strike into his build up this game.
Nope.
Watson will finish up the Daedalus now, so big increase of damage
and also notice has now hit that level of money, level 4 split as we call it.
So big growth from them in these last few moments.
Yeah, done, I think.
I think you have to kind of still keep going with your ulti's.
Every time you have Wul'Kong play around the BKB,
Just have to make sure you don't break that positioning. Make sure you can protect the Coddle.
And still not easy.
Epistence is back and available, and the split's gonna be there in about 14 seconds for notice, so it's not that smoke.
Kieran?
Yeah, he's there.
He's a war cheerleader, they're gonna go for this, they get the full takes, drag back, go get the Wukos,
come on off the hexadev, the Wukos, come on off the Zordy out, they'll get control by the Shackles and the
Strap Awards, but they're dealt with by the BGM, jumps over to Walsh, no just, they'll get the
spit off, they look towards BGM, BGM using their last bit of HP to get back over to the side,
cheerleader comes in though with the FB, cleans up BGM, pure though, battle is strike, straight
down on the Walsh and he's gonna try for the TPR and he'll get out of there, but Ari will be
They're left behind, the Undex they'll take out four, they'll only lose two of them themselves, they didn't get pure
but, you know, two for four, it's never gonna feel bad, sure they lost their San King Chura Jr.
but, he already kind of got the work done, Getsing gets a lot of damage out with that jump.
Great save by Malady, being the sacrifice every single time against that save
and then also just the FB follow up afterwards, BZM completely ran out of steam, he ran out of the manor
and they're gonna probably just be able to turn this into a free roast as well, nobody gonna respawn in time.
And I think they got the jump, did they steal that?
I think they, at least they got one of them. I wasn't sure if they stole it away, but...
See again there, on the replay.
Also, a socks that I have to say, he's being super annoying.
He's getting these catches, he held pure inside of the, like, inside his wukong for so long that the fight gets really awkward for him to reset.
And then he gets the follow-up grab with only, what, 10% HP as well too?
This charmant continues to be super annoying.
Yeah, all stages of the game.
Then of course get blast with Aether... I mean he bought the Aether Lens, but he did get Key Knight as well too, so crazy Caster Ranger scene coming in from him.
Couple of Deso stacks though, from here. Small gains. Hacks break, now online.
Nearly having the BKB for the EZM.
Doesn't need it.
Did see them just go back to back with those two smoke attempts, so likely to slow down again here from Tundra before they go for that next move.
for that next move for AC now so even more damage for Watson is having a
picture perfect game so far here these damage continues increasing and now his
survivability also is about to be much higher too with the satanic then he can
play the fight unlike before we had to be TV and run it then he can come back
in pops a tiny continue looking for it
it's a mentor for them as well very much proven to be on top for me so fun
this grand finals Watson yeah both games pretty flawless carry
performance is up until this point pure is about to have a butterfly so that'll be
even the least a decent window to perhaps be able to trade versus that
weaver there is of course gonna be this ages that he has to get through as well
just continuously takes the amount of lockdown that there really is from the
side of the index it's proving to be a big problem for them there
Tundra, they have a couple, but not nearly as many.
Next.
Where to next?
Chirad did get himself a free shard.
Pushing mid with the Urniconda.
And 20 for the Sanking.
So some big 20 towns have been hit. The Primal Split pulled down the Sanking as well.
Do they have the 20 on the Monkey King?
They do at least have that one, but not on the others.
Not just yet.
Quick smoke. See if they can find out on the map. Confident with this Aegis.
Oh, he's at the ready.
Hunter very split up at the moment.
EZM's watching.
The wrap round is coming in.
R is going to be the one that's left behind once again here.
EZM, at least they're able to escape.
R having a really rough one. Two and thirteen.
He has to hear how they're focusing the most in this game, of course, but every single
time they do seem to find him, and Soxa is actually on the hunt still, oh and...
Two of them.
You count him and notice mess around with Pure.
They absolutely can, especially with a plus block coming in, he's got the hex.
Soxa, ready to open up the play.
We'll see 33 BKBs here though to help out Pure.
Ripped play.
BKB.
Soxa gets away before the disable from the storm.
He can get the catch on the way down.
BKB's gonna be there immediately from BZM, but the bash is there for Tura Jr.
And these guys are starting to dip incredibly fast back to the base because the damage coming out from Watson
Of course it's insane.
Homo Stratus had two shot if he gets psyched going up.
But you're just thinking about going into the jump.
It'll be okay.
It's a little too deep.
There's force to the BKB.
Yeah, there's a chance to go back to the fans.
If you're able to swing straight across the wall at the mid.
You know, it's got the butterfly done, looking for the Bash in X.
Scary because there's just the way that they're threatening on the side of the Andex, right?
It's just one or two heroes are showing and they're actually forcing Tundra and the defensive posture right next to their base as well.
to their base as well too so the map feels very small for Tundra to farm with the way
that they've been able to swing around and get these catches. They're always waiting,
but Chiro's already waiting for top in case somebody does show, he's got the epi as they're
ready with Soxa to the side. I'm just struggling to get outside of it here. Bottom there is
that sneaky ward that Soxa was able to, Malady was able to place as well too that's not
going to be taken away. That's that next big timing, it looks like it is 33, having the BKB
finished. So you do have triple BKB cores, but have to be careful of this first
stun it. They get caught from the initial one it. There is the change stun it. Use
someone was around there, Saks, 33. Up ahead, White Mourn is gonna get found
outside of the base. Chirra's got BKB, no TP, Poundless comes in there from Pure.
Now Flying Chirra Junior! That's a gem. Okay, they get them killed, it's a big one.
taking the sacking out of the match for 70 seconds will certainly give them a
bit of time to open things back up at least you know leave some of the
pressure that's been put on get themselves a despo stack get themselves a
galvanized small gains but something of course top push Watson should be able
to finish that one off he said 25 and he actually goes through the other
talent by the way so he goes for the shikuchi cool or about mobility
that's quite a rare one right I can see perhaps reasoning though playing
versus Wul'Kang versus Jekiro. It's all about positioning on Tundra. If he's able to just
pierce through that position and find the backlines, I can see it. And his damage is
already good enough, let's be honest. He is literally one shotting hero. Another one for
Tundra potentially as they find Saksa. And that Jampiq up right there, coming into play.
He did get the glimmer off of it. They do have that vision to close the gap on him.
It kills.
R came in as well in the bolt. They might be tempted to make a smoke play. They
have any out on them. Not at the moment. Oh no, they do. They've got one ready
here on white one. They want to try and make a move around that arcane that BGM is going to have.
If they've got arcane, they've got all three BKBs, definitely a possibility.
They can keep sequencing it while all the Yandex heroes are not up and in position.
Give you a chance for them to take these next purple fights.
Watson looks like he wants to finish up that MKB before he looks for that next fight,
so he can actually just focus pure. Because right now, just hitting pure is a little bit
difficult, but if he wants to maybe stop the dragon lands, pick up the MKB, it's an
an opportunity for him. Then they can full focus pure. I think before that it's
going to be a little hard to just completely bring him down since they
are bit physical dependent at the moment, just like Chira. Saxon. And we here ready
to back up Chira Juni around the tier 2 defense. The entire team in fact coming up.
It's under house, they do they play it. Maybe they can catch by now. Saxon!
Found another tree, BZM will come over to help, have a stay with the ball, let's try and catch him on a pure
He appears to be getting the VKB off, but the Bastion is coming from the Sand King pure.
Through just the Wukong Tamado, he's trapped into some of the walls.
Who'll be able to jump out to the side?
Here it is!
And out of this, he's still alive, surviving for it all.
The heal!
He's gonna live!
They keep him alive, finding his verbal cousin is still on enough to kill him!
Too much heal!
The Kod died!
Three dead on Yandex!
They kicked the Monkey King alive from the pure, able to jump around the Wukong's Tamado.
They couldn't get him!
Stacks on a four!
It's not large enough.
They've come down the four of them.
The formation, they get to stand it up, this time Soxa, he jumps, he doesn't have the full backup there in time
and that butterfly absolutely kicking in. I thought they would wait until they had MKB, but you can see
those evasion hits absolutely coming into play.
So close to nearly killing him, but I couldn't get him!
The heroes, I mean, how much of a stain was that? We have to just watch how much he got healed for truly in the fight.
Because it's a good eye, the bar strikes there, the bash isn't coming in, another one doesn't come in to interrupt the wukong's command and then
Just like that.
Look at the heals, just a blast.
Jir, able to disappear around the Wukong's command.
Once he's trying to finish him off but again,
he's able to move once more
and they can't get those final hits in
and kill the Monkey King,
pure surviving thanks to the team around him as well.
What a fight.
And Tundra finding a fight,
they desperately needed the game now,
level and the sort of net worth difference.
And Tundra, they're ready to start forcing down the lanes,
cleaning up some more objectives themselves
to take the tier two in the mid.
Ever since Pyrrha's butterfly pickup, he's been able to do so much work,
take so much more for the team for them to get that formation set up,
and the Largova song is singing up to a Lincoln's now two to protect his allies.
And you see the damage he was dishing out too.
It was pretty insane in the fight, not just the heals he was doing.
Everybody just dying around him. Impressive from Tundra, exactly when they needed.
Look at the heals from the two of them there.
I do believe I saw Holy Locket also coming in from Ari onto Pyrr,
Keeping him just alive in that fight.
Gandex.
Have lost all that lead that they do have here.
I think Watson out, probably telling his team guys,
I really need this MKB before we do something like that again.
If he had it, absolutely pure does die.
It would have been a very different story.
Yeah.
And you can, you know, you can put him in,
I'm mostly gonna be selling for that.
I imagine we could take him to the Shikuchikoran.
I think the Lance.
You could take the Shikuchikoran,
I think you're right.
You could get the Treads right,
cause the movement charge is less important.
Sure.
Cause he's just gonna have this constant Shikuchik.
Yeah, either one. Yeah
Probably treasure brought right Scottie now finished up for pure though
So he did get a massive increase in terms of tank ability after the butterfly now to with this
It's gonna be very very strong versus the weaver just slowing down some of that extra damage
Can't let them just sing the song can't let them just get this type of heal opportunity
Everything just sort of meshes together as a team and if he fights Dundra
They may have been at what a 13k deficit or so, but it's completely gone in terms of not
just gold experience too, it's just dead even now in terms of that.
Massive, massive fight from Tundra.
And such trust in each other, right?
Pure just being able to sit his ground with those heals, super impressive.
asthma now for BZM and a regen for the next fight too.
That sort of being the first big shakeup that they've gone through this
series in this first game is the second game Yandex. Where do they go next?
They have to hit the back line. You cannot just let the cartel play the
game like that. You want to see them continue to play aggressive. They don't
see it. Yeah, still play aggressive. Yeah.
Trying to get over this shackles of the hex open a notice using the split the time is gonna be ready to turn up and group up once again
They're just engaging. They can't push on for more
Immediately just forced out themselves away the cuddles in a great position on that high ground
Shaman wards wasted rule wasted. They have a refresher on the bro. So can't go for another type of play here
Mike catch them off guard if they didn't see it, but I do believe they did scout it rosh is up
More easy to force the road chef
They do kill it fast, but definitely nothing easy to fully commit for, versus a storm and
versus a monkey king.
Small coming out, Tundra.
Ready for the fight.
Now ideally wanting to at least force the usage of that refresher all on Lotus.
Maybe also trying to force the fight against, watch it before you get pwned, pick up
the climb, and in the trees there, Lotus, Poundless Strike, comes down upon him.
Shackles are going to be there though, locking down BZM.
He's forced it down to center low ground, but he's actually there to start on the bow for the BGM.
He's delivered a simple way, the Wukos come on it down, BGM will get caught again,
but finally able to set path inside of the fight, Q-Junior.
His BKB about to come to an end, he's going to try to run for the battle, and now for pure!
Q-Junior's gone!
All right, just died, but he buys back straight away.
Watson trying to lead him from the side of the fight, he's passing it along for the ISEPAT.
Kax is at the back of the damage!
Watson, he's coaching it to his own death, and now Malady left behind.
Kax dropped the final three of them.
White mod with the ice pack, it's only one stun needed, does not get the BKB off, the Weaver dies in an instant.
Tundra, now set up for the roast, they absolutely turned this game into their favor.
They really have mistakes coming out, it must have been Ari with his four star.
And he pulled back too, he pulled back at the end of it because they did get that epicenter on top of them there, but the rest of the team split away.
And now they get the refresher shot, the Aces will see it kick off again here, you know, they start with the sort of immediate reveal.
It looks like maybe Yandex have a charge when they come in with this jump from Chirijunium.
Catched the backline, right? Catches Auri, but absolutely that buyback and just this Wukong's making it problematic for them to just commit and straight run through.
You can see they were incisive of which angle they wanted to take, and then Watts is like, wait, I can take this angle, but look how ready they were.
It's such a risk, you're heading up into the high ground, it just takes one stun to catch you,
And then you're just dead and gone. It doesn't matter how much value you have, how much bomb you have in this Weaver
You still die very very quickly right now against what Tundra have ready for you. So much damage coming out from Cure there
See the frustration in them. They had such a big lead in this game
Yeah, this game quite the challenge now after what was a pretty at least look to be a pretty easy game for them in
Game 1. The opening to this game 2 looked pretty hot again
But Tundra showing that this time round with their approach they they absolutely have the answers to just stop this sort of
Sanking strategy just run out of control, right? We saw it early then mid game
It didn't really hit that much now. It's hitting again
We're seeing the heels build up in the Cotto also now his hit is big 20 time. It's got that spirit form duration
Almost permanent uptime now for Ari
Getting towards some bigger items, too
He's gonna have a big disable on top of everything to Watson's game getting a lot more difficult
And he's now just finishing this MKB.
I thought we were talking about it ten minutes ago.
Yeah, we're talking about it on that one.
So much slowdown just after that one fight top.
And still as we saw, you know, there's not going to change the outcome
if he does get caught by like this ice path.
Once done into the damage coming in from the Monkey King.
All it will take is that one disable.
Storm also now overload bounces,
so even more damage being spread throughout these fights.
Let's see what the approach is from Yandex.
Double brew split in 15 seconds.
Feels like they do need it.
He's also very close to 25.
Got to watch for these angles as well from Whitemon.
He's getting a blink daggers sent out, so.
Could look for some pretty big brain ice pops.
That's that.
And it looks like it means he's back up to the base.
They don't want to fight here.
Sick blinks.
Get the hex on the mid-air jump from the monkey king and then double blink
a double triple blink out from them rest of this ages though you said they don't
want to fight outside and this ready to go on 33 so another backliner that's
just not an appealing target it's gonna be pretty much impossible to force this
Largo out of the team fight and the important thing is when he doesn't have
the blink factor but the a on this things link it's everything lasts
longer of course remember the encore from the Largo his innate ability
It lasts forever.
And Watson, even though he really does need that extra level of protection himself.
So look at who was picking up the butterfly and get that evasion online.
But it's gonna take a long time to get to that.
All this while, Tundra, building up more and more items.
And Chonet, they didn't even need that hex.
You know, I was mentioning perhaps needing that extra lockdown, but we've seen they do not need it.
They can get that formation built up for themselves.
All it takes is one disable.
Disable yeah, because now at this point just the damage they've got is it's high enough for me that longer duration
Yeah, what they have is enough
Double split at the ready level 25 on the brewmaster as well, too
They still have a lot of damage on the side of yandex. It's just if they don't pop a target if
Tundra's able to do that resetting constantly, which they absolutely will be able to do because of this Largo
Yeah, it's gonna be a problem killing the largest who are because he has a on this
He has to make a top-up.
It's too much for him to just break through and just be like,
okay guys, let's just kill him.
They still kind of have to go for the same thing,
where they have to know where the coddle is,
try to isolate and let this weaver just do as much as possible.
And maybe now, you know, he went for the Shikujiku,
then maybe he is lacking that damage that he might have wanted from the Gemini attack.
Because he is pretty much, you know, that is the highest VPS they have, right?
The Sanking, the Primal, sorry, the Bruce Master with the Primal Split.
It's more sustained damage out of the longer duration,
and they've got the answers to that type of damage.
It's a bit for BZM.
He looks for the target he wants to offer.
He wants to go for the support.
Get the grab onto Malady.
So Malady probably going to be left behind here.
Unless he can make some sort of crazy blink play.
He cannot damage his catch.
As soon as he's out of the snowball, he's got a nice stack.
He's actually going to lead in on this.
He's trying to do something with the split.
In his hatch computer.
They've gone and locked down on the cliff.
But BZM's going to be ready to help out.
Jump start over.
Looks to make the jump.
One more stack to Ari.
He's going to have the ice bar from Whitemon coming in to cover him with the macro
But Ari is alive!
Nielus, well, we'll end up getting taken out for the post-apolls dead on Tundra, but Chirijirid is going to lose his life for this one.
They had to commit a lot just for the support.
They really did.
Still have another Bruce Split, but not going to fully engage into this here.
They could probably hit the high ground now. There's no tanking. How confident do you think they feel, Tundra?
I think they still have to be careful. There's another Bruce Split, so they don't have to be a little cautious with how they just go forward.
Since they did lose both supports, and Ari did use buyback in the last fight, so it's going to take them a little longer to respond.
So they'll get that respect
She was got picked up by BZM already took an eternity to die
So much awesome there he nearly did survive so we do see the three course of pundits
It'd be too tanky for them to deal with also at this point
Gonna take them a little more time for them to do so as pure as ages about 30 seconds. So it does get reclaimed
Notice it does have a lot of money on him
I mean we see sort of two items in consideration to drop the aggressive the hex first with the defensive the key on this first with this brood
I'd like the hex. I think you need to play to win
I think if you're playing going for the a on this you're kind of just playing at this very defense
You need every little thing now that you've kind of lost the lead that you can so I'd like to see both hacks
I'm gonna try and leave the way the rest of team is coming across they're gonna turn straight over the walls pure
His backup is on the way, but they're not gonna be there in time to save him pure
He just dies on his own!
The ages just...
The ages got reclaimed there before it, maybe he thought he was still having it a little bit longer, but...
Yes! But that was an overly aggressive play!
Enough 33, he's got Lincoln's, he's got Ann, he's very speedy.
The rest surely should be able to run away, but still that's 100 seconds now without Pyrr.
Wait, he's back too?
Alright, well...
Whoa! Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!
Look at that one-month slide.
They don't have to creep with them, they don't have to go back and get the midway,
But it is on the river so they can look for a fight and even just drop wards and perhaps force another tower
He overplayed
Ever felt that there was just the one here or there or that the rest of team was close enough
I mean they were definitely coordinating a move there because the team was heading over
That's just that he was a little bit of a step too far away from them. They could not connect
And you don't notice it's gonna pop all right. They're up on the high ground
They're gonna drop the south of war
They kill Buildix very quickly here with these...
That's right, what's the shot?
Split's trying to die.
Oh.
No, it's not.
It's taking a lot of damage.
Has the refresher ready for a second one, if necessary.
He gets pulled.
Hey, he's going to have to put the refresher fully.
He just died.
Alright, now Stratus is in trouble as well.
Uh-oh.
I mean, I guess he didn't want to use the refresher.
Yeah, I guess not.
But maybe he didn't anticipate how much damage they really would deal with the problem of the storm.
I think he must have just not wanted to use it.
I guess not.
and just accept that that was a sort of a move gone wrong.
I mean, it is an absolutely insane amount of damage the Storm deals with the Croak,
plus that level 25 damage.
Look how much he actually ended up doing, right?
4700 for BZM in just a couple seconds.
And I do want to say, I think the Serpent Ward's kind of trapped him, right?
Did I see that right?
Because it looked like he was trying to walk through them, but he got stuck.
He got stuck.
Well, yeah, I think that was sort of the first thing he made me think,
well, he's probably going to want to pop the refresh, he didn't just get out of here.
But yeah, a lot of damage being done, as you can see at this point, by BZM on the Storm Spirit.
They kill buildings fast, but they also kill those Serpent Wardens and everything very very quickly, as you can see.
That little bit of a mistake from Pure doesn't end up costing them too much at all.
They hold a great defense without him anyway, and Tundra able to maintain this advantage.
And BZM getting to ridiculous levels in this game also too, their Tri-Core is absolutely hitting.
He's got Nagonums if he wants to buy it.
Let's see what we do with the build from Watson.
So he's got 6k gold in the bank, as you can see from now.
He has got this Butterfly QW.
Is it a debate of a rapier?
It might be a debate, right?
I feel like you probably just rather play with the butterfly and buyback because having that second life can be
You know pretty powerful on the weaver like do you want to go all in on the one play with the rapier?
I don't know if that's a risk that Watson's going to want to take right now
We'll see he's gonna have to make that decision soon
You're certainly not gonna want to be in that next play in that next fight without having some of this money
Spends up depends on how much of a risk he wants to take now. They actually switched to build also
I noticed by the way, okay, well didn't go for the hex didn't go for the on this
Nope. Now he achieves us, and he's going for the overwhelming blink himself too, so maybe he's just feeling like he has a 5th squishy.
He'll force him head to the shop. 7k gold coming up on this weaver.
I'm hoping for a radio, I don't know. I'm the one saying it and not you for once.
I mean, it's just we've seen how quickly he can die.
True.
And I think, you know, that's something that Watson's going to remember after you go.
It's a point of that quickly. We're still in the mid.
Chira.
He wants to put the BKB to get away from BZM.
Chira has also hit level 25 in these last few moments, has the enchanted Bobble as well too with Timeless, a lot more damage for him.
It's gonna be nothing too crazy, sells the Dragon Lance, he's a strong fighter.
He's gonna complete for the bottom line.
So he's playing safe.
And...
He's gonna open up the star of the spot, look at the hatch straight away on the course, the two supports, he's gone, sacked and a fall!
Deleted! The two of them!
I noticed that to run again, we see how quickly they could just kill him off through this blue split.
I don't think you can get out of this one here, they kill it so fast.
Yeah, that's just lonely, but surely bring it down the upper leg nice timing of the stun to it's ready to take
Tundra these last what three four team fights in particular just have been all various
Super impressive stuff. Yeah, it definitely feels like a lot of that turn around. I mean, it's this logger rubber
How good 33 years with this hero the team just playing really well around it truly
Largo timing with the Kios, the butterfly timing that we saw from Pure, they played around it quite beautifully in fact.
And honestly, BZM's moves right. He has been still the initiation each and every time.
It's also the one time that Pure tried to start the fight. Don't go too great, but the other times what BZM's been doing,
it's looking pretty fantastic getting in there, getting the information and getting away with it.
They haven't really been able to trip him up much at all, BZM, when he goes through these aggressive zips to just start off the action.
And there's just so survivable.
It just truly is so much tankiness on everybody here now at this point.
Even though that Weaver was going absolutely insane damage at some point, it kind of hit a brick wall.
After that butterfly appearing, now a Roche.
Watson has so many items at this point. This is going to be the thing with Weaver when you're dominating, you get to stage 5.
You don't know what to buy.
What goes in my arms?
There's just so much that you need to have.
It was kind of considering another fine expert.
Again, just having to get rid of any of these items that he's currently holding just doesn't...
It doesn't feel great and it just sort of feels like your build's kind of moving horizontally rather than, you know, leveling up that much more.
You kind of hit this plateau.
It's kind of why I was feeling that rapier, you know?
Because I feel like now it's like where do you go, right?
That would take you to that next level.
That's what I was kind of feeling like, but I don't know.
It's still just very hard to make that type of decision, of course,
because one stun and you're dead and the game just ends, though.
It's super difficult at this point as the weaver.
But he also now, it's like he needs nullifier,
but then if he styles the Deso, he loses an insane amount of damage, too.
It's like you're trading damage.
You're trading to get the same damage just to not let them get ghost apps
and ghost apps and course apps.
We'll see what he does.
Because obviously, the things in nullifier, right,
you probably prefer it right if someone else can get that.
Yeah, but nobody can really, this one.
Chira needs the refresher, they need all the damage they can get from him, I guess the broom.
They've both got axe that they can clear out, right?
True, so eventually maybe one of them.
But that's gonna take a lot of time, and obviously at this point,
Andex don't really want to be playing without buybacks available.
No, and the fights still just are really complicated right now,
versus this Aegis and Cheese, the Tunges has been able to get over and over again.
Pure is no longer an easy target to focus in these last three fights at all, as we've seen it.
Very tanky.
They picked up anything else that's- I don't see any other big pickups that they've gotten
just yet, just looking to take the fight with the same timings.
For Tundra they've gotten quite a bit out of these last few moments, as we see the
Aghanim's there for the Storm, he's got an ant damage also for the fight.
Axe for Jakiro, we did get to talk about his.
It's been a bit quiet from him.
Yeah, I mean, just the amount of these agonim step of the team fight is going to be pretty insane right there.
The AoE vortex into the win of Wisp from Jakiro's combo.
So now Jakiro with the refresher.
Let's see how much you can do with that second epi.
That feels like they absolutely need, they need to...
They need to need two of them to kill out the coddle now at this point.
Bargo, all the warming blink is done.
He's going to try and force out reactions.
Starts things off to Saksa.
They're watching from the high ground
What's the big heavy to try and run pure wants to chase them down
But he's actually gonna get caught by the hate does have the ages and they don't want to fully commit on him because of that
So they'll let pure walk away once he has the ages in hand
33 wasn't with the entire team just there yet. So they don't want to force the issue too hard here. They just go for two minutes
Do have vision of museum pretty sneaky war the index has if they can find opportunities with time to split up
That's their chances. Just the team fights are still just looking too hard.
That's easy, I'm just in position if this move does come over to Boston too.
Cure!
They're gonna get the jump straight around to Boston too, cause Pure's gonna get focused first by Watson.
The stun comes in to play as the shackles are there from Saksa. That's the Aegis gone.
That's one.
See if they can do round two here against the Monkey King. Still has to be ready to pop, pops it immediately here, Pure.
You know, it just has to stop backing off here with the Primal Split.
Tundra ready to strike back to get their hands on a Malady.
The foretank there from BZM.
Does it stop the snowball? The Wukong's command's down though.
So Yandex they have to run.
They're resetting.
Malady gets run up into the Anchour,
Juniors back in with the Clara strike on towards him.
Looks to the wall, appears him,
with the refrosion, come back to safety.
Watson looking to try and focus the stall spread,
but he cannot fight into the Wukong's command.
Not no damage, too much to stand.
BKB's coming to an end now from Watson,
so they have to go full on the retreat Yandex.
They forced a good amount of things out to them.
Largo actually ran out of mana from using his abilities too much. They forced the Aeon.
I'm just fighting into this teamfight. Tundra seems...
It seems to go so hard.
Just breaking that formation. Ari's just spamming in the backline.
Nobody dying. Just the Aegis getting taken out of the hands of Pure.
27,000 damage done inside the teamfight and nobody dies.
That's not a good sign for Yandex.
Tundra, they're happy to sort of just survive through these moments, continue to grow this lead.
It's impressive that they were able to get out on stage on the side of the index
We're able to get that second epicenter follow-up to be able to get that monkey came just too much coverage from the allies
And you're gonna be there the next step from Watson there was once you sell the desolator pick up the nullifier
Okay
Loses of course that minus armor. Yeah very effective versus the supports
But first of the core is that minus armor starts to loses effectiveness as the game does progress
Crazy we'll put four contras catalyst
You can pick it up across the board, it shows how strong that one is.
It's very strong with Largo in particular.
Ari, 25 has been hit, even more Illuminate damage shield.
Bites continue to look very hard for how Yandex wants to approach,
because as I said, killing the backlines is not even happening anymore.
It's easier for Tundra to set up for these, and that was them.
We for Yandex having a very good vision advantage too.
Yep, you're gonna grab the power in okay
Because if they can start that fight again if there's no ages right they will have a successful time
And that was pretty much just because they had vision of the two cores when they got the initial jump
It just has to be I mean honestly as perfect as possible from the index
Okay very ready
I'm in no rush, I can wait for the 60 minutes, look for the next round of neutrals.
They also have an insane amount of gold to spend too, we're not looking at current gold,
we actually maybe should bring that one up for a second, there isn't a lot of that they
are holding onto here.
7500, 5600, gonna start spending some.
Cher, about to have a full abyssal.
Nearly.
Level 30 here on the Monkey King.
This abyssal is going to be very problematic for Weaver, for Watson as we're seeing,
He has to kind of get in and out of the fights as much as possible.
He just gets caught by an Abyssal and he could just die.
What's the news, Sheldon? Next.
He's just playing in a state of his cloth. He's not going for the risk that he's right here.
And now, yeah, he doesn't really have room either.
That's to buy a gem for his allies.
Lots of people picked up from notice. They've got double split up at the ready.
They've got everything ready again here on Yandex, so if they do look for that fight outside or not
I don't think they want to give Tundra another ages
Because we could see there if they can't they can't kill the targets at least once and they do have that second round with the refresh here
BGM
Let's try to see what sort of targeting you can find to start off the action gets his eyes on the notice
They don't want to go completely on some more of the proof of the jumpers aren't coming in on some more
They have the hex to follow up, but he's helping to get the bloodstone of the BKB.
Our BZM's ran out already, but it's thrown straight off the stack, so now we're going to watch Watson.
Watson has to run, they've lost Malady, again this was Watson having to BKB and Shikuchi back to safety.
Yandex just cannot take a teamfight right now.
Now 33, quickly comes to Watson, BZM pulling the low on the man out.
That's one blue split gone.
They could just barely touch them.
A tundra, throughout all of these plays, they're just full HP across the board.
I didn't see- did Toxin not BKB when he got the shackles off,
because he got Boundless Strike and it got stopped.
I think they were trying to all in the storm spirit, but something stopped the disable.
I mean, was it maybe a proc of the bash on the Boundless Strike from the monkey?
I might have been, actually. I didn't get the C initially.
Because they wanted to all in it. They can kill one of- they can all in kill a target.
It's not the easiest by any means. They have to perfectly execute it.
Straight up towards the top of the floor, they know someone's outside of the base.
Watson.
He's knocked.
BZM has got his eyes on him, the Vortex is down, the Abyssal comes down upon him!
Godlike for BZM, what a recovery from him and from pure in this game overall.
Oh absolutely, they did a bit of a warm up in the game.
Sure.
You know, they've sort of been here waiting in the upper bracket route for Yandex to
get through the series and be ready to play them.
I'm warm up, but yeah, this game too.
And dude, absolute interest to 10-fold compared to what they're able to do in that
on what the buffers are doing, the pango and the jargon, so it's completely different here.
And now we did hear that yell during the fight, 60 minutes, neutral items,
any crazy ones here, what are we getting picked up?
Fleet put it on 33, he's gonna be super fast, but he keeps the conjures catalyst.
He's caught here, he's dead, yeah.
Primal split was still on cooldown for five seconds, didn't want to put the refresher
for it, they do have to buy back gold.
And what difference is he going to make if that's sort of a question that nearly 40,000
gold behind Tundra as Tundra are ready to just close it up, look into the tier 4s.
They're forcing the Bi-backs, committing forward.
Pure, Junior Junior's in with the jump, Saxon, comes in with the form, Hedge, dropped down
the snow ball, but then he's really getting out to the side, a bit into the sling, and
the backflash, Junior Junior tried to pop out of the down towards Pure, but the
Hedge catch it on a Watson, Pure's going to survive, he's got the foul list now
on to Junior Junior.
Junior, the Byback's coming out across the board from Yandex, previously the entire team
buying back to try and force punch her out of this, watching her get the twine that's
up at the final moment. He'll be fine, but can they get any kills with these Bybacks?
If they punch up on a pure, a pure build up of the Jingu Mastery, Saxon of course
hits the side, a dieback on the Charmin, the Hanks catches once again, he's out for
God's sake! He is called Tanks! We'll take game two!
What a comeback!
Up until the 30 minute mark, an 18-1, wow, I don't know what it was, a 13-50,000 load
leaders song.
Yandex leading every single charge, it all takes about one fight top, share with the
butterfly, the extra heels, the sustain, the Largo singing his song, they all kicked
in, and a big slip up from Watson and he went up that high ground, did lose a ton
of momentum.
It's just a story that weaver effect, you can be this weaver and dominate,
But you sometimes hit this point of the game where it's just not enough. You can't do it on your own
The game plan from Tundra though
You can see what they wanted to try versus the stanky at the end of the day
It absolutely does start to work absolutely the strategy was very well executed by Tundra's Tundra
Equalize the best of five for now one to one between Tundra and Yandex
You love to see it in a cantelor the crowd definitely made a little bit of a favor going on there
No judgment though. No judgment this game
If you would have asked me at 30 minutes, who was gonna win the game?
Well, I would have said Janek's hands down, but yeah, that was insane
I actually a crazy comeback and I think tundra is one of the few teams in the world that could make a comeback
But that they're so resilient
They're still good at holding up and continuing to get the farm even when they're feeding even the ending team is ahead
They're still getting the gold getting the items and eventually our goal box does thing
Yeah, I mean the Largo system is definitely hard to play into but I think the easy one up from here
that was so confident and precise with his initiations.
Like, Q was just jumping in and out towards the end of the game.
When they were able to get the jump on him,
Q was getting tankier and tankier as the game progressed,
and he really set the pace.
The most impressive initiation he had was, like,
the Shivas into the Lightnings,
where you run four people and just turn the tides there.
And this was the fight where the tide was turned, Kazoo.
You're like, honestly, Yandex,
I feel like they really had this game.
Like, Tanra, they needed in this game
to have like this one specific fight
that they win, you know, with all the sustain,
It was hard for Yandex to cut through, and once they did, it really felt like it was their game from that point onwards to Yandex.
I think they should still be pretty happy with the game overall, because it came down to the gameplay.
Yeah, I mean it did, but the concerning part is you still lost the Largo, so when you come away from this game,
you can look back and say, we were ahead, we were winning, but we still lost,
and there's that looming feeling in the back of your head, like, can we beat it next game, right?
Everything went really according to plan, they were all owning a total game, and you still lose,
means how much do you question your bands, how much do you change because it really sucks to be
ahead like this and lose the game. That can really mess with you if you're not careful.
And for me the turning point in that game was so every fight, Watson did a really great job on
the weaver of going on the back lines. So Arion the Coddle was always dying first, he was always
harassing Largo in the back so Largo couldn't get into the midst of the fight and heal up
anybody. But the one fight where they went on pure top inside of his ulti and he just kept
Changing the guard and didn't die and then Watson just committed all of his attention on trying to kill him there
That one was tough because once they stopped controlling the back line on
Tundra's heroes thunder could just have free reign of the fight
Yeah, and they had free reign of the game towards the end of the game took a little while to get there
What points of the game did you want to highlight here Quinn because I know there was a lot happening in this game
Yeah, there was a lot of game to highlight, but I wanted to look at the moments where
My thing is not working. So we're just gonna look at this fight
I think this this base fight is honestly a
Yeah, so here we go. It's right here
So they go in this monkey king and this is the fire talking about what they over commit on him right there
The whole game weaver is talking this call killing him over and over and over again
And this is the kind of stuff that can turn finals it can be make or break where honestly
You know the right thing to do it if you look at this replay a hundred times out of a hundred
You'll know that this is the wrong play
We should have done something else instead, but in the moments when you can get sidetracked CD heroes HP going down
It's getting low
You're like oh we can kill him and you freak out and you do the play
you know wouldn't normally do and to me losing this flight. This is a
product of being in the finals of that pressure of that that worry there because this is not a mistake
they would normally make. I think this is a similar moment here where they over commit into the ring.
They chase a little bit too far. Watson runs up and gets ice path. We'll see in a little bit
because the game is still even at this point. It's not totally out of control yet. It's another
instance where you know, Tier Junior, look at he runs left instead of running up into the
roach pit. Maybe he can get four staff or someone can help him if he runs the
you know run straight up but instead he runs left. There's these little tiny mistakes.
Watson over-chasing here before his team gets closer.
This is the stuff that makes finals turn around and games turn around.
And Game 1 is only won by Yannick because they're clean, because the game is effortless.
These little slip-ups, another one here where notice he's running up the high ground,
he's hitting the face, doing normal stuff, and they kill all his pandas
so he jumps out of form. He has refresher here the entire time.
He just doesn't press it, doesn't press it, doesn't press the ulti.
He just dies, 100-0 without pressing any spells.
This, to me, is the kind of mistake that this is not a notice, but kill problem.
He's a very good player, top 20 rank.
He knows how to press his items and spells,
but he kind of just got brain jammed and just forgot to do it.
Yeah, once I think that the top team fight was lost,
I felt like they felt the pressure, I think, in the game,
and you can see it in some of the clips, too.
And I think that's also what the LAN games,
and especially the finals, are about.
If you feel very confident and free and nice,
I think it's easy to play, but once they lost this fight,
maybe that's one of the reasons they will maybe take out the Largo.
Because I think in the early to mid game, they played very well around it,
But then you lose that one fight, the game becomes hard.
I think you can tell that they didn't feel that good.
Yeah, they must have not felt too great towards the end of that game
because it slipped away from them a little bit.
If you are Tundra, of course you're happy because you won.
But it wasn't a flawless victory, so maybe again next year
they might reconsider the Largo, letting it through.
But where's Tundra going to go?
Because it wasn't the type of game that I think
they would either be very happy with either.
I would be looking at Sand King.
I think that hero has looked really good.
four yandex in particular, like maybe just ban it. Like if you have a way to swap out
one of the bans, that would be the one that I would be looking at.
Yeah, I mean, I'd also look at gameplay, right? Like 33 got ransacked in the off-lane early
game. He was massively shut down. He lost like a full wave and a half. He cares way more
about the creeps than he does about dying. And I think for them, they're also just
looking at play this game and saying, hey, we messed themselves up early game. We got
outplayed, socks made a really good move on us, and it shut us down early. And
if they're a little bit cleaner, if the early game isn't so bad, then maybe the
logobo fact that kicks in earlier.
Yeah, we're going to find out what both teams are going to do in our next game.
Game 3 of the Grand Finals coming your way after a break.
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You are watching ESL One, Burn Me Up 2026 and we are in the Grand Finals and we have
ourselves a tie!
It is one to one, Tundra and Yandex going head to head and both of these teams there's
so many stories we already talked about the 33 vs Saxa, old teammates, storylines and
Quinn I was hoping you could shine some light from a player's perspective if there's
maybe more storylines that we can focus on because we do like those.
There are more storylines and one I think is not known, but it's definitely there is Watson versus Pure.
There's some big beef between those players.
Oh, the beat got flamed a couple of times by pure and pubs.
And so Watson very much holds a grudge and I think wants to be pure more than anyone.
When you talk about this guy playing in tears, I want to be pure so bad.
So that is definitely in the back or even the front of his mind, how bad he was to be pure.
Watson versus pure
The real matchup the real finals the new the new drama that we care about
Yeah, I do anyway
It's always cool to hear about the the story lines and sometimes you know
You don't hear too much because everybody's trying to be very very very PG or just that you know
They've sometimes even avoid interviews who knows but the pure versus Watson
Let's see who comes out on top
Let's see which of these two teams will take match points because whoever wins will of course be at two games
Here in this best of five Grand Finals we have next for this third game will be radiant with second pick
Tundra is dire with first pick. So we're gonna go for the same pick order once again. We just flipped sides
We were curious if the Largo is gonna get targeted it did get targeted
It will be first phase band, but that does mean that the phoenix that they've banned out two games in a row is
still in
The rest of the bounce were similar from previous game
It's interesting to me that they think they've revered this bat so highly after we have seen very low success from in the offline
They still choose the band over the Phoenix, which I imagine will get taken here
So they must have thought of an answer. I like the Largo ban. You lost to it once
Just don't bother with it again
But white month Phoenix is probably one of the best if not the best fiends players in the world
So you need to have a real response or he will ransack you in the lane
It's it's just very Giga like we've seen this and I like so it's like the Tongra had like, you know first pick
They had priority and chose that because you kind of know Yannick's there's at least a world where if you take first week again
Maybe they swap out the van which they did you know with the Largo so if we are but new first pick
There's like I would have some bonus attacks. They can't be interesting
Maybe like Marcy as an egg killer, but taking some of these heroes early on I think I just be a little bit too sus
Job I can hear everybody being energized
Is this campaign that Yandex prioritized in this game too, into the first phase?
Do they still feel as wrongly about this hero?
Or do they want to shy away from it?
And they shy away from it and go for the tried and tested Bristleback?
Interesting. I mean, Bristle is pretty good against Phoenix.
Like, more than other tanky heroes are because all of his damage is very, like, backflip.
He has no stuns. He has no way to, like, really slow your get on top and you get in front of you.
So if you stun right, he just turns around and just stabs everyone.
So Bristle is generally pretty decent against Phoenix.
I wonder for the laning phase though, when I've seen the Phoenix, when it's in most powerful is
his hero spirits and just getting the top people, having the dying light and just owning early.
So is Bristle good enough in the early game? What for do they pair it with?
Because you're going to get counterpicked, right? You've pure seized the hero now.
So that's what I worry about the most.
It's definitely like it feels good, at least like for you, because your high move speed,
like you said he doesn't really like care too much about the Phoenix,
because there's like no like super big stuns or anything at least for now.
for now you also something else I think like that's cool like against other teams when they have Phoenix
I think you kind of have to fear like the Mars Phoenix combo
Maybe when you are bristle, but you know playing against thunder playing as 33
This is not really a hero that he's gonna go for so as long as they can't cover what Quinn said
You know understanding maybe what pure ones you should be fine with the bristle here
And I do hope this isn't just a bristle as its own concept
But something that they wanted to do like oh, we're gonna steal the coddle and do like a coddle to this bristle
Or we're about to run an IO plus Bristle.
There has to be an idea here more than we think this hero is good against Phoenix because Bristle has fallen off.
Yeah, I mean it's also interesting that they snap pick it right away because the Chikiro was in the pool, right?
And I think they should understand it's very likely Chikiro gets banned.
So they must also think that Tundra believes the Bristle back is a good response because otherwise they could have taken Chikiro and just gotten Bristle in the second phase.
Chikiro has been, you know, obviously super successful formality and Tundra is very scared of it.
So, it's interesting to me that they prioritized the bristle so highly, because when I think of Phoenix, my first thought is in bristleback.
We really do hope the combo hero is coming. Are there any other bristle combinations outside of Ioriki for the light?
I mean, I guess what you can do that isn't maybe as strong as the ones you mentioned is just overall minus armor.
I think can be nice, whether it's a pango or a weaver in the second phase that you can look for.
But also these heroes, they need to be covered, which is why I think also this next band coming out from Yandex is very, very important.
one ban here and you're gonna have to pick your 16-17 pick kind of blind
so you need to make sure you cover and have some sort of idea of what you're going for.
They ban out the Dragonite here in the second phase. Took a little while to get to that conclusion.
Anything that we can learn from that one?
I mean it's very good with Phoenix. You get stone plus a lot of damage and it's very good against
Bristol because you're a high armor and you've got a really long stun. You're some of the
best things against Bristol. I think what's interesting about how much time they took
is there's a few other big heroes that considering probably like the tide on her which is very very powerful on 18
So you need enough stuff that's good against the tide on her that it doesn't just like own you when they pick it on 18
Because it can be there for sure. They're looking at it
I'm taking even more time here now
Which I think is a good idea this justifies the versatile first phase
But they also need another keeper of the light combo to really make the hero work like last game
It really was easy M show if we talked about the Largo, but he completely puffed up
So we need that DJ here that pango to play with this cuddle to make it even more valuable
And I think thunder they will know this right like whether it's a pango or embers that they're looking for or maybe even a
Storm which you know most of these heroes are quite good against Phoenix because they can like choose to go and they
Don't need to heart commit so you can like poke the egg and get out or poke some spells
So if you're Tundra, I mean this is you know one of their most successful heroes with Tusk, so they're very happy
At least with the support duo. I think like they work very well together. You can apply pressure
You have incredibly good team fighting you can cover the egg in some way
You know with some greedy enchantment maybe later you can get also a kickback which in this game could already be quite good
You know Bristol hates that it can also protect your egg overall just great
Yeah, I mean these three heroes are fearsome in the early game Monkey King Phoenix will win
They will significantly win the lane against Bristleback Coddle, and the worry is that can they also invade your stacks and keep that snowball going?
Because, you know, you talked about the support through it, and I totally agree.
Tusk Phoenix easily outfired a Coddle, especially with Monkey King connecting, so there's already a lot of worries around this early game.
Can you actually protect your stacks? Can you, you know, make the game solid and chill?
They're still the same king, so maybe they look toward that to, you know, stabilize things a little bit, but still some worries.
I would like that, I believe, just having this blink guy that can change the pace a bit.
Because at least for now it's quite hard for Yandex to hold their offlane.
There's a very high chance that they're going to lose that lane and that Tanra can play
through this area.
And Monkey is very mobile.
It's not that easy to get him killed even if you have some Storm or other ones having
an instant lockdown.
So picking your Malady hero, plus maybe insert Sanking or Meteor, does make a
lot of sense.
They go for Murana, taking a page out of Extreme's book.
That's quite good against the supports, right? Like, you have Leap against one of them, you can kill the egg, you can go away, you get Moonlight Shadow. Looks cool.
Yeah, I very much agree. I like it a lot, um, against what Tundra has. It doesn't necessarily super synergize with Yennex, and so I wonder what this carry think it's gonna be that also, you know, makes them not get giga-tided, but also give some synergy to Murana because it's a hero that I think you need to enable in some way.
in some way. It's not just a hero that exists on an island or otherwise the
Aerospinal is somewhat useless.
Ember Spirit, right?
Okay. I mean, you're calling their bluff about Monkey Mid though, because this lane historically is very very bad.
I think the lane potentially got even worse as Ember now, the chains are not, do not hit everything.
So if you're standing in the wave, then there's like a 50-50 chance you get chained or not.
So this is a lane that can be very bad and you can get snowballed on.
Hmm. I do really like the Ember Vic here though. Outside of enabling the Marana,
You have a hero pairing to play with Caudal outside of the Wristleback
But if you look at Ember plus Maron and what they do versus Tundra's heroes
There's a lot of mobility to escape the nuisance of Tundra like you can get out of the Sunray
You can run and out or leap out of the big Wukong arena
Which really was the big game changer last game that level 25 once pure hit it the fight was impossible
It just took these choke points and these heroes couldn't move but this coming around the Andex do have a lot of mobility
There are a couple strong 18 picks I do feel for Tundra and some have already been mentioned
I think Tide is one if you want to run the monkey mid like Ryn said there's also like some faces wait option
I think that you could go for I don't know if there's other mid options that these here where he's like yo
If I have this I super destroy the ember because like you just mentioned here
They need this ember to like their supports have no life if this ember has a bad early game
Unless you know they have like a carry where they can do it so it is super crucial if Tundra can find this pick
I think it could be quite hard for Yandex
I mean even just something like going back for a pangolier, right?
It's still in the pool.
I think we've seen pangolier actually be pretty good against Ember, compared to the past
now they do the watermelon.
And it's a great watermelon game.
Ember doesn't change you at all, caught us slow, you shrug it off, Bristleback's
low.
I mean Bristleback is a two-sided because you can beat him up a little bit.
But there's no real way to lock this tie down and it also frees up the tusk to
run at this Bristleback auto lane.
Your ancients are in more trouble than ever now with the tie which enables the
tusk.
So I am worried for Yandex.
me up Watson's Clark. I mean I was lost. We're in. It looks like a good
park game to me. Yeah I've been wanting it a few times too. I think here it looks
great like against this you know against the supports there's not that much
walking you down and you could you should definitely be able to get it
through the lane right it's double melee so I think that's something that's
good other than that like what could you look for silver edge of course is
always great don't worry guys it just balloons. But like yeah silver edge
buyers can be good but even then you know you have the silver edge
against the tide there is no counter to snowball you know even if you look for
this win condition it can easily get fixed within the mid game team fighting
with just you know a bling save by Ari. The last time I felt the draft was
starting to be pretty favored in tundra at this point in the game or in the
draft rather it was game one but then Jan back still ended up winning because
they had a plan that that none of us were really ready for what kind of plan
would they have here like are they gonna run at tundra and set a super
I think there is a window where Ember gets online, the Cautales 6, the Bristol has like
one item and you can skirmish really well together with these heroes.
They've got a lot of slows and a lot of spells that keep people in place.
Some monkey king cannot skirmish against these heroes until he has like Mantel or BKB
something like this.
So there's definitely an interim period where these heroes work very well together.
There's a lot of skirmishing power.
You don't want the game to be too stagnant though because at some point there's a
Mantel, there's a BKB, there's ways to get out of these chains and we talked
about it.
for their lineup and if you've got some you know gooby gone then there's big
problems for you and that's actually sticking on people yeah and also at the
same time it's I would say it's more normal if we do prefer the tundra draft
at least for now you know their second pick they have like the overall last
pick of the draft to like try and sway it into their favor again but I will say
that it doesn't seem too easy so they did ban out the tree and because they're
carrying Marana at least I haven't seen it but I guess that's something
they're respecting yeah that's cool that would be very cool what the heck
Really? Crazy. There must be some scrim things.
I think so.
Some inside information that Thunder might have over Yandex that we are not aware of.
Would be super cool to see. We'll see where Yandex will take it.
They do ban out the Faces Void, so they're also still respecting some flex of the Monkey King, of course.
I think it makes sense, because we mentioned that this matchup, I mean, obviously this matchup is very good for Monkey King mid.
So kind of just you know covering their bases by just taking out the best heroes of the two respective roles
Yeah, they're good bands and I wonder for Yandex like you
I think you need something that beats up on this tide and is able to TP the fights and turn things around
I think it's a game where you can't be shy of I'm bringing too many numbers to a fight
I guess thunder is coming towards you and you need to be if you win these fights
Then something your heroes are enabling you got all these levels and you can continue to bring the fight there
But if your carry is sitting on an island while the rest of your team feeds
I don't think 33 is gonna be too short time. It's gonna pull waves. You're gonna do typical 33 things and you're gonna problems
That has to be the beast mid right you're not gonna put Kerry beast into Bristol offline
Yeah, I think it's just monkey Kerry. You're happy you picked a beast mid for BZM unless it is a morana Kerry in which case
The Bristol might be elsewhere
Maybe I mean flex maybe we can see where Yannick's pull up. You know what they do with their cooking here
They could run some Medusa cheese if they wanted to.
I would like the Slark more maybe than that.
I like the Slark a lot.
Like just because I think Type Monkey could play around the Medusa a bit more,
maybe Slark is a bit slow, but I think you have last pick, you see everything,
like if you feel good about it, I think you can run it.
I mean anything you feel confident fighting early,
you feel confident bringing the fight back to Tundra, I think is really, really important.
I would love to see a Slark, I love that hero, Watson's very comfortable on it,
but they're bringing it down to the wire.
Not much time left.
No, seven seconds remaining to go for another cat lady, Luna.
I mean, okay, it's nice in the way
that Luna's a classic counter to Tide
because everyone gets the extra damage.
You can actually beat through the Kraken,
your natural Silver Edge bar,
you can do the Ags if you want to have more
of the magic damage.
And it's also a pretty good like pike and kiting game.
So maybe you don't need to buy BKB and Luna,
which is also something she loves.
Those are all things for her, but at the same time,
It's tight, it's still a great game. I still worry for this Ember having a rough lane against Beastmaster
There's a lot of early game checks that Yandex has to pass before I believe in their gameplay this game
And this Luna last pick feels a little vanilla from Yandex
They're a bit too afraid to go for something really out of pocket when maybe something out of pocket was what they needed here
But you know, it's a tried-and-true hero. It's standard. Have a good lane group up with your team early
I don't think the scaling is there for Yandex this time around. Yeah, I'm kind of on board with that because I
So the Luna Marana, I think it's a very good lane, you know, against a double melee.
Maybe you can like abuse that, you know, you're clicking them a lot and you have stuff like that to play with that because I do think Yannix
They need to get through this like early to mid game kind of nicely because out of the three games
I've seen this would be the most favorite, you know that I would give towards one draft over the other, you know
Being Tundra favorite. So I hope that Yannix, you know that this the game they just played
It's not really shaking them
They can still go for you know, they're comfortable and confident plays play quickly because I do think you need to if this game goes
very even and normal, I do not favor their chances.
Yeah, I mean, I agree. I think it's a game where they need to be clutched, they need to own,
and I think this Luna-Morano lane needs to play very well.
Luna be farmed, and you still need to include heroes. Get this Eclipse in early and take the fight.
We're gonna find out which one of these two teams will be on match point.
It is one to one for now, and it is now time for game number three of Tundra versus Yandex.
Yandex put up a situation to say, hey, you know what?
Lunar's kind of alright, but what does Lunar say to Yandex?
I mean, for me, what I'm looking at right now is that Yandex is looking to just kind
of snowball lanes in a way, right?
They want to win the off lane, they want to win their safe lane super hard, and maybe
come out as like a trade in the mid lane, because they have literally no team fight
on that.
That's the one thing I'm a bit concerned about, that's why I'm looking at Tundra,
they have Roar, they've got Egg, they've got Tide, they've got Wukong, they
have so many different kind of recovery outlets, if things do go wrong, they can always
take team fights.
I think they're kind of all in on getting an advantage in the landing phase and then cruising and steamroll in the game
I think if they get slowed down at all, I'm quite concerned for Yandex if they do get slowed down
Yeah, because we even saw sort of elements of that last game in the sense that the team fight overall from Tundra
Just became too much in the latest stages and what you're saying to me now is that that might happen a lot earlier
A little earlier, I would say so just looking at on things on paper, right?
So I feel like Yandex they have to crush these lanes and I do want to see them do that
I think there's definitely possibility for it with this Marana and Luna
I got to see Ex-Nova play that Marana the other day
It was versus an Underlord but a similar kind of tanky, you know not moving hero
You actually do an insane amount of harassment with this new Celestial Quiver and Luna of course gonna provide even more extra damage
So let's see if they can crush the lanes and come out with an advantage off that
Or if they're gonna be running into this heavy team fight at a disadvantage
And the last pick for Tundra coming in with the BGM Beastmaster
Just sort of like that approach here to send it into this match against the ember
Yeah, I mean it's it's nothing like too crazy and flash or anything like that
But I guess it's just something that BZM wanted to play to round things around they have a they have multiple BKB piercing disables now
Can do well in the lane though
Let's see how the top lane goes right because they did pick this Bristol back because they saw the Phoenix and this has been a
traditional pick that we've seen a lot of teams do. When you see the finish you pick
Bristol because the lane can be good, but the fact that there's a monkey king
kind of turns that because Pierre is going to be able to trade pretty
effectively versus the Bristol and the Cattle doesn't really provide that much.
I think Soxa has to just completely rely on pulling waves and play on that blinding life.
Can only imagine that Pierre is going to be feeling very comfortable with the sort of start
and obviously having the chance to have warmed up on his monkey king in that game too.
He's going to be feeling in the zone here on getting monkey king for a second time in a row.
And the matchup of the monkey king versus the Luna, right?
The Luna is pretty squishy, pretty fragile, and monkey king one of the best carries in terms of just getting on top of her
if he does get to a point where he is decent. And we do have the monkey king bug, so...
happens.
Yeah, let's see for BZM.
I actually haven't gotten to see the mid-beast since the change, if I'm not mistaken, with no...
Not having your innate, the block for the damage, right?
Because before what was happening, I know Quinn absolutely hates this thing.
He was getting so mad about it when you just...
You took zero damage from creeps.
So I'm seeing BZM taking a fair bit more damage than he was before inside that laning phase.
So I'm looking forward to see what this lane is going to actually look like.
Chira is also going for a build that we don't see most of the embers do.
They mostly go slight chains now because of the changes, but because he's versus the boars,
perhaps he wants to have something extra, since it's going to get soaked by a boar a lot of the times on the chain.
Mora, I guess you don't expect them when he opens with his first two steal points in those two that...
He's just not going to get a point in chains.
You get second point of flambard. If you're going to get one point, you get the second point of flambard because the first level is pretty bad.
And you must close for these before you start putting points into chains.
Maybe 1-1-4 could be something he looks at here.
The team doesn't have a lot of long timelines. I feel like they all are going to want that from the Ambers pair.
They didn't know they weren't coming in from Auri.
Really early.
And it's going to get them to kill.
Get the first blood!
He's playing his best hero. We have to talk about that as well too.
We have seen a couple of these games, you know, the group that came from Ari, he looked a little uncomfortable.
His card only looked super comfy, and now he's playing his toss, you know, this is kind of his prime self from Ari, you might not imagine.
A little rotation away now, up top.
He's out just in time, that's actually taking a lot of damage from the way up there from Whitebump.
Again in the mid lane, Chira! Ari's still here!
And Ari crossing a lot of issues for the atmosphere as Chira Chidia comes back!
He gets him again!
Oh, that's huge stuff there from Ari.
They do it once, fantastic, but two times in a row,
that is going to make Chiratunia's game just absolutely disastrous.
He's got to walk back going.
He's level three.
BZM is level four in change.
Toxa has to go over, at least soaks up that experience.
But what a start here for Tundra.
All three lanes farming very well.
The Lune, of course, getting a bit more out of that
compared to the tie, but two kills on the Ember.
That usually breaks the game.
Yeah, that, that, that most people still recoveries happens, you know, if there is one, because
bottom lane, he's got a low base.
What's he gonna get out of here?
Oh, I need the loose to beat them!
Oh, alright, take the skills there!
He's gonna jump in with that!
He anchor!
Kill him!
Eat the fish!
Yummy, yummy!
And keeping his cool as well, you know, not having to sort of pop this out between the heads,
get a little bit of a heal, he's like,
well, you're not gonna kill me, he's gonna wait it out,
get the south off onto the end of it all.
Level 2 crack it.
It's that much damage, he just got back, he just got here!
There's no mercy here from Ari!
Oh, this could be a quick one.
Oh, that's disgusting.
That's just mean.
Oh, that is just pulling here from Ari.
He has someone else pretending to get the catch on a Saksa.
He's got boots, he can kiss me on top of him here.
I mean, Ari.
He is breaking the game.
Yeah.
I mean, well, who's going to want to come to this mid-lane?
I thought he wasn't going to want to come over it.
Socks should be okay. He's gonna be speedy inside that river might be getting cut off though from the monkey came
We'll see Ari's gonna chase him out
That is brutal. That's a BGM cheer. I made extra just get the kill here. Oh
Okay, well that just happened
I would have what it would be BGM right now. I feel like Ari put us a few words without bro
I've just ganked your myth this many times and you end up still dying
I'm gonna get no way to the blood notice up top
It was the blood grenade. Honest to church, you came back with the blood grenade, come get through the kill.
He's still chasing Saxon.
Getting that you can't.
I don't think we're in yet, probably not.
He's got a few stick charges, if he wants to throw out another charge.
He might do so here to block off his cape.
He's pinging him out, BZM has no interest to connect over.
Honestly, he's probably going to eventually get the kill.
Someone connect over.
Eventually.
And looks like Phoenix.
Here we go. Why am I just heading over?
He's like, guys, I've been chasing this guy for five minutes now.
Can somebody help?
There we go, bit of a help in the hand, and Ahri,
and we're gonna get the kill on a killing spree here.
Five minutes in.
And after all that here, he's gonna look forward towards the minis.
So, Ahri, hold up, BZM, you died.
He's gonna make BZM, but how does he die?
Why's he here at the same level as you, man?
Yeah.
It happened, and the blood grenade caught him off guard.
BZM, honestly, he played pretty far forward.
Caught him completely off guard.
I mean, we'll see how Ahri goes next.
He might just come back towards him,
and he's gonna be like, well, okay,
If you're dying to this guy, I guess I've gotta come in and gank him and kill him again.
He might be 6 by the time he buys another Blood Grenade.
He might go for it again. Look at this, Jira.
Pushing the Flameguard to the limits.
Alright, yeah. Watch that time, he is just say, 10 seconds until the Flameguard's back up.
Okay, BZM sits 6, R is in the area, Power Moon as well.
He wants to be around for about 6 minutes.
What a wild start to the game.
This Emperor is still incredibly shut down and also this Bristle is having no game, Owen.
Alright, he's back!
He's going for Tera Junior once more, man.
He's going to be here to try and help out Tera Junior.
Rocked off by Ari. The roll comes in for Beast.
Ari the Beast.
My goodness. 3-0-2.
As you said, the last two games, he was kind of racking up the depths early on this time.
He's racking up everybody's else's depth.
He's killing them all.
Killing Tera Junior.
Look at the net worths.
Many times in the air.
Look at the net worths of the men on the off-lane right now for the side of Yandex.
It's 1800 also on the Bristol.
He's going to start cutting some creep waves, but things have been broken so much because the Caudill socks that was running in circles for so long.
He's been chased by Ori for pretty much the entire to the early game.
Only Watson getting to play normal Dota for his team, it feels like, in this one.
And as you say, it should be a question of whether that's going to be enough, because when the team fight started coming together, Yandex fighting into this from behind, it's not going to be easy.
No, not at all. And, you know, the panel was also mentioning something I was waiting to do, so a lot of the supports are completely reliant on the Emperor's game.
They bring what's in over and it's going to try and interrupt them from stealing the Shrine of Wisdom
but they're already able to take it. They're bringing the numbers, they'll kill off Ari.
White Mines getting ult, never do not.
They've got the stuff so they'll get the kills but as you saw White Mines was already able to grab the Shrine of Wisdom
and that did require pretty much the entire team to turn up there to actually get those two support kills.
Ah, BGM.
For Chira.
There's our remnants of the ready Chira Junior so...
I'm not going to be able to do this on his own. BGM in the raw still on cooldown for 10 seconds.
This is one of the crazier starts, it's 8 minutes, not even 8 minutes in, 8-3, the mid and the offlane are really broken on the side of the index, so it needs some way to recover.
But Chira, where does he want to go? Because as we said, the two supports are completely reliant on anything they can do, kind of around this Ember spirit.
You won't be able to line up any arrows around a Lunar or a Bristle.
BZM.
Mumpier wants to go for the dive.
Can't get to deny on the ward there, nice try BZM.
Alright, Watson, I like that he turns up though, I think they kind of need him too, since he's the only one having a good game
for his team at the moment, because he was going to wait and see if Chiraginia jumps over to the
Gremant to grab the rune. Scramming himself.
Stabilizing a little bit here, at least in terms of those lanes. But yeah, the mid and the off lane
really suffering. 33, he has his lads already finished, so he has great timing. Level 7
as well finished up for him. Let's see what Chirag wants to show up. He has slowed down so
much. Shung up to mid. We'll just drag the creep wave, Auri.
I'm thinking about going into the dive, but I'll get a chance.
Auri knows he has free reign. There's just no stunts. There's no real disables to stop
this Tuss from just running at heroes. He's not going to get arrowed unless he just
walks into it. It's only the chains that are going to be able to set up for a kill on
Stacks ahead. Leads in with the roar. Another one.
Andra with a very aggressive draft that also has great teamfight.
The endex as you said, they kind of went for this laning draft so far.
It's not looking so great.
Notice trying to get some type of recovery here, but Whitemon,
he's going to slow him down and Ari's in the area.
He might just steal this.
It's been incredibly annoying for them.
It's looking at a lot of damage there from both of them.
Has to go back to base now and the tower in jeopardy.
Is that just thinking around? No it is.
Like what?
We're very far.
Okay, not able to quite get him.
That was very close.
Yeah, it was.
Space there though. Computer to finish up from tier one.
Two in that lane.
33. Looks like they're trying to set a trap for him.
Creep's still around though.
He's got the ravage.
They should have put the ravage and walked this one off.
They have another chains plus arrow and then they can throw the eclipse.
They're trying to.
Shira's turning up.
I almost don't want to come out towards him.
Got the Eclipse!
It's gonna be enough!
I'm just gonna kill him!
What?!
Um, okay.
Okay, well, wow.
Game is stabilizing for Yandex.
I feel like, you know, Ahri, he's got his work cut out.
He's like, guys, what am I cause to it?
I'm trying to win the game as this Tuscum earlier,
but it carries down the mouth,
flames dive in, what's going on?
Shira just literally just jumped in and handed him.
I thought he was gonna Wukon's in there perhaps.
Ahri!
He's like, you know,
It's not putting the speeds with our guys. I've got to carry this pretty hard. It really is
I've got a tier of 2 here. I can look at the g- oh I thought they were going to give him the kill too
There we go, you know, Ari stands here. I'm going to 1v9 this one, you know, for the crowd
Hi, this is a- there's a wild game so far here
Malady
It's tame not worth this two of his cores on this Verana
Pretty value kill, they can set up for him a day. He does have two weeks
He's got the lowest on the fairy fire might be forced to use both
Both.
Boundless is there.
Ahri punch up.
And Garry will be able to help out at least get the chance for pure to get himself killed.
Actually, it's pretty funny how Ahri's lit.
He's literally holding the TT ever right now.
He's holding them together.
33, shows up mid.
Should be just fine versus these two.
The only way 33 really dies in this early game is to collect.
It does feel like.
We did see just before there.
Trying to get close to mid.
Just the mid, of course Raph is still on cooldown for a minute, keeping the catapult alive.
This tower,
the skin light just go down, Whitemon has HG available.
Difficult to fight into the team fight, always going to be the case really this game.
Fighting into this watermount will be difficult, 33, bring in Mauren.
And then I bring the Bristol to try to push him off the tower.
The chains into the arrows, some reals going to be coming in from Whitemon allowing 33 to walk this one off.
He'll have to back up and reset with that Vlad to get some extra health.
Forced a lot of reactions though, four heroes brought to the mid lane.
They had to bring the bristle to stop the push, which means he's not going to get that extra farm.
And he is very slow down in this bristle, as we were mentioning for Hodes.
Not going to be one of those invulnerable bristles, especially not into this Monkey King,
who I think has the Deso completed if I'm not mistaken. He does.
Even though he did die the once, it's still incredibly fast timing for Pure as he's rushed to this.
He's got his eyes untreated during the mid.
Oh, and they're very squishy.
Oh yeah, they're down this. They've got a lock down there and a wrap.
They're ready to jump away, grab the invits.
Nicely done. Gets that invits.
They've got to finish up the town though, and mid.
33 heals up with the Vlads, back to full HP, and back to pushing forward, a 2k lead now for them.
They're just going down towards the bottom.
Tundra in a very comfortable spot in this game.
This Ember, this Gristle just continue to have very limited space on the map, and they now lose their mid tower as well.
And honestly pure with this Deso, a lot of these targets are going to get...
Kind of just disintegrating. Anyone against Raud, Ravage, Boundless? Yeah.
Pretty much all of them dying at the moment. It's kind of...
It's gonna be... It just dies on what Watson can do here.
It's all him, really.
He's getting a lot of farm top net worth right now on the Luna.
This last pick they came in with Yandex. How powerful can it be against this?
Just rising pressure from Tundra.
All eyes on Watson. I feel like he cannot die in this game.
It has to be picture perfect for him since everything else is gonna fall apart very quick.
33 they've got the eclipse online and I should just drop it
Time burst room or get the rabbit job 33
But cheer Junies out to jump across kill him off. That's a done
Honestly Watson right the difference maker showing up. He's that one that can kill 33 threatening him in this early game
Buddy
Very close
They're getting away with quite a bit here getting some good space you said
Watson about to have been close and closer to having that man to done has gone for the master band is far more out
BGM agonist is done. So let's see tundra how much they want to accelerate things around his axe timing at the Deso on the monkey king in particular
And if you index to fight back versus cheer, I still a bit behind here
Nice jump away
Final remnant for the challenge for the plunge into the role. It's a bit of a tricky one
They do get the connection though, he is dead, has to be very careful.
Arcane rune, BZM will be able to get that one, so no luck for Ture to get that rune.
Level 12 for Watson too, so very important that he's be able to get this, you know,
get a little gap between him and the monkey king, right? He's gonna farm faster because of this
build that he does have, because of this advantage he does have for the moment,
but Turek can show up and kill more heroes. Just Watson wants to be very specific with
how he shows up with the clips versus that Tide.
And overall for 33, once he has this item complete, then that's where the Eclipse kind
of stops doing the job that they needed to bring him down when he's just showing up
to a lot of these fights.
Trying to do what they can to recover though.
So it's just trying to pump up here as much as possible with these chakras
Tundra closing into the jungle on beyond decks
That seemed pretty aware of that
Consecrated wraps are finished up for that bristle
Quite a bit tankier. The armor still not completely solved though. A gush plus the dastel hit is gonna really chunk him down
down. At least that's supported, that tankiness that they are going to need for that front
line. He is farted though, they're bringing him in. Yeah, they want to go for the Bristol
kill in. No, he's trying to grab the creep wave, but the TPs are coming in from Tundra.
That's a hit. Lukongs, he's going to be held in it by Ari with the shards, nowhere
for the Bristol to run. They dropped the egg as well. They really wanted it, daddy.
I mean, I guess they just expected that maybe it was as far forward as he was,
that maybe there was some sort of backup, but there wasn't. He was on his own.
I don't really just... The game is very slow, right?
They can just feel like they can throw those out, but definitely did not need it.
We'll see if...
Again, it's even looks to punish that by any means either.
I mean, it's like Tundra's just going to go again.
Even though they did use the Supernova, they've still got the Ravage and the Roars.
Just built many ways to take fights right now.
Can they get the big kill?
They ideally want to find Watson at least once here.
Might just be able to hurry.
This will be massive.
He knows exactly where he is.
Got the lead in.
Get the tech-snowball.
He's speedy down the river though, Watson.
Backups coming in to help out. Just turn drop the eclipse onto our and he wants to toss dead nice move from cheer
I've backened up his core all about Watson right you have to keep you to back up your boy
Something to protect Watson's game as much as possible he is all important one
He's the only one really having that good game on his team still
They kind of know it. Tundra, they can just look to the Roshan knowing that, especially
with the Eclipse use, they don't want to turn up for this. They have to just let this
go, Yandex.
Overall fighting into the big teamfight, sure Ag wasn't used, but as you said, Ravage,
it's still difficult to fight into this, and it's free, right? It's that Ag's
Beastmaster plus that Deso timing to make it even faster. They're going to back
up and look for the fight, too. Notice it's very low.
I think we could see peace to try and make this play on to it.
There's a Ravage at the ready.
Notice, he's not gonna have any way to run, Raphage there, Pure's ready to move him with the damage, and he's starting to help him out.
The Boundless Strike comes down the podium, and there isn't any further backup coming in for Yandex, notice.
No one goes down.
He was placed, I mean both times placed super far forward, the board from Whitemon, I mean that one he had a creep wave on him too, but getting punished.
It's all a Watson really.
continued to have top net worth in this game 3-0-3 yet to die.
Now the two cores will continue to really struggle as we've seen.
Will they drop up up here?
They do get the hour of connection and they've got the burst!
Nice catch.
He's making the move with two.
Malady is, I mean he's pretty farmed too, right?
Looking at this Marana, he is continuing to catch up with his cores.
Good amount of burst damage that he has if he's playing in synergy with that Ember Spirit.
I'm busy in around the mid.
So they are just going to let Morty get away with taking the tower here with the backup of the team.
Yeah without pure, even though they have an Aegis, they're afraid to just go for that fight for instance in there.
Shield the rune now for Chira. Starting to get this Ember back online.
Alright, if I look for him here too, I think it's a way from the way if they can't go for the slight chain.
Yeah, I think if the Cottle puts the Murata, just continue to fall, just cheer around pretty
much every single time, they are going to be able to catch him back up in this game.
So these BKB tannies now, both teams are looking towards Watson in particular, absolutely
needing it versus that heavy teamfight, but it's not going to be a big save, it's
not going to be the all-ins save for him, since he is playing versus that roar,
and versus that punch of course, but absolutely, he's in this game.
I think the mood's on the top side of the map now.
They've been started to stay west, so it's spotted.
No get him.
They're very quick set up with the panelist, they should drop into the windfall.
Come on again.
They are really throwing these ulti's out.
Maybe just a bit, like you said, a little afraid of the backup and perhaps their tormentor
soon.
33, showing up.
He's the one who's never really afraid of the, you know, the ember plus the
supports that can come in other heroes perhaps have to feel fear some threat but 33 now at this point
how nice to fear nobody nice aggressive wards placed by malady very deep vision that might not get
taken out let's see what the index is able to play around at 33 doing the little step back so
we can't steal the regen with the slight nice little play here's a spot ready to go and
and they don't need Pure to take a teamfight right now.
They can allow Pure to continue to finish up his next side.
So, Bill Yandex contesting this is very, very difficult.
Kind of just sets up Watson to get completely
comboed on it.
Until he has BKB, I don't really
want to see him go into this 5v5 engagement.
I'm just going to look for the fight first,
but now that they see that no one's there,
I think it can be first.
If you're ready to join, now that he does have his BKB
complete, almost gets the arrow.
Malady tries for a steal.
He's a good effort.
I saw the angle he was coming in for a moment.
He's really going to try for it.
A decent attempt, not able to.
Here, he'll get the luxury of getting the shard for free.
That's really nice to get for a monkey king,
especially versus a Luna.
Two different ways to gap close.
He'll be very strong.
Blink now for the tusks.
Well, Tundra, getting that group up going now.
He's super strong, and they can take these tier 2s
without any concern of Yandex doing anything
about this right now. Yandex just having a focus on being split up across the map.
They're getting close to at least double BKB timing on the side of Yandex to try to counteract that heavy teamfight disadvantage that they have.
I'm wondering if the Bristol is even going to do similar, right? It's not usually something traditional you see, but maybe they're going to try to play around like a triple BKB timing to fight versus those.
Yeah, I wouldn't mind if just for sort of the guarantee then that you can like kill the egg, you know, this is something that, you know, when you have those BKBs, the supernova is never going to be successful.
He's going to go.
He's going to go.
He's going to go.
I thought there was a chance that he does do it, but looks like he just still wants
to have those extra oras to protect Watson.
Because yeah, Watson will be a good version of some of these ultis, but the physical damage
might still be a problem.
So perhaps he's wanting that crimson to protect him as well.
Your life's not that important, right?
I noticed it all.
It's all about Watson.
So I can understand why he's going to go for that.
They have the holy locket as well for the Luna from the coddle.
They almost have a solo crest as well too.
So they're starting to get these extra buff-ups and
Play Watson has a 3k gold lead over the Monkey King
Still getting an incredible amount of farm on this Luna
And for Pure
He has Vlad and he has Gosh to be small ones
But he doesn't have a solo crest himself being finished up
Not just yet at least, it's a 4 stat for one
Oh god man, he's put it with stealth by Ari
They will still get the change connection onto Ari
Finish him up
Can we turn it into anything more?
It is this timing with the double BKBs on Kyrgyzjunia and Watson.
Polking 33 for literally a poke.
Still moving forward, Jandex.
I don't think I can find anyone else on the side.
But, Leimung's already out with the dive.
Playing around the double BKB timing, Watson has just had a 2k gold advantage now for
him over the Monkey King.
He's spelling strong, level 18 as well.
push going here noticed in the front line good damage on to the tower around
Watson I understand they're gonna go for it the anchor down on a waltz notice
much shadow here what's the thinking about getting an angle from the side the
supernova is gonna get laid down they want to try and kill it off they do
malice is gonna try and look towards the egg here with what they got it they
kill off the supernova 33 jump sport the big hippies out from what's
He's controlled his ground, but he's surrounded by the ball, he'll get the eclipse off, he's still alone to watch him a fight, and then he falls, the Rammage comes out, and Pytra still ends up being able to team-wipe them there.
It was dangerous for them to do that.
They waited for the egg, they really wanted to go all in on that one, but it was a big commitment from both of them, right, from both Malady and Watson to do so.
You're using a Luna who kind of needs to carry the team fight to try and pull on commit on the support and then out of that
It's just such a hard fight for Watson to win when he gets surrounded by the rest of tundra
And you kill the two supports with the three cores that completely free in this fight for tundra
Notice gets completely isolated. He said they went around to go for this thing one at the egg
But it puts it puts Watson in a really dangerous spot
It just sets them up to just get fully focused BGM with the shield run extra really cool blink forward
and then they just isolate him. If 33 is on top of the Luna, 33 is going to eat him.
Yeah, and there's a scene, and at this point, it's the BKP, as you mentioned earlier, it's not going to make you invincible in this sort of game.
They've got so much physical to go through it.
It's a dangerous move to make there.
33 was shown that he is the unkillable monster on this Tidehunter up to the Six Fish.
Plate mail now for him too. The build is starting to get close and close to completion.
It's just risky, Luna, very dangerously, very risky here, you have to be so careful with your positioning.
If you do move too far forward, you can be very fragile.
And as I said, it's all about Watson in this game. His Ember and his Brists are still very, very far behind in terms of catching up.
Don't really provide too much damage, it's all coming out from Watson.
Bottom line.
There's a freebie between the two of them there, Auri and Pure.
Dessostacks racking up the pure
Up so they're looking at 33
Actually go for this year. I mean they're going to try they do have a clip that they want to drop it on him
I don't think you can really go for them, but they're trying let's say backups on the way
PzM comes with a raw the clip will now come out, but this no balls there from Mari 33's find the weapons commands down
Right, watch it
There's grappling for something, but they're going to get nothing
a neutral gets here at the very least but they sent themselves I mean 33
spry like oh yeah you this is exactly what I wanted to I'm taking absolutely
everything there even if they collect connective full eclipse on to him there
it's very unlikely they get brought down tundra fully collapse on top this
draft of tundra they want the effect of team white yeah I'm just hunting down
notice across the map he's going to be able to get him as well as well as
Shuttle comes in. Doesn't matter. The damage is done!
Number effective. Team wipe there from Tundra!
Yandex is trying their hardest after the disaster of this start to this game.
Sure, Watson been farming very, very good, but as we said, the other two cores are so far behind him.
You wouldn't see it again. It's too much. I mean, you can still see the hesitation.
What? It doesn't really want to use the attempt, guys. Even with that, it's probably not going to kill this tide.
And just all the time in the world for the rest of Tundra to connect over.
33 barely falling under half HP.
And the setups there, they've already closed and used a lot to try and kill him off,
so there's just nothing to try and deal with the rest of Tundra when Tundra turns up.
It's just too much teamfight and too much to get on top of Watson.
Who said it, he's got the two deaths now.
This felt like one of those games where he had to play absolutely flawless
without dreadful those other two lanes went.
I mean, it's just hard to do on a Lunar right.
It is.
One of those timings that PKB timing is kind of like a strong point,
but they just have, they have raw, they have supernova,
they have a lot of physical damage.
It's it's just hard for him to sort of find that timing when everything is just fooling apart
drastically around them. It's just too much for him to carry
It's just a really well look well around to draft the tundra's gone for here and getting a big advantage out of lanes
And I think yandex were the ones that wanted to come out of those lanes ahead with the way they set things up
Full she was now to for the tight
So Watson his damage is actually chumped so much just in the last five minutes the tide standing on top of them
And now with the she was to the slow
notice
Can you get away I'm 33 could definitely buy some good time for the rest of time to head over
Headbends him to the low ground just pulling the Bristol
Noticed
Bring my one down pretty low, but not enough to take him down all the way with him
BGM monster kill 9 1 & 9 on this beast this game
Looking real good him and Ari have dismantled at least this mid lane in particular
It's definitely looking to be that sort of knock-on effect of just how much R.E. did in the mid on those first few minutes
It kind of turned this game into a pretty impossible one for Chura Junita to play
It also it was so is it multiple things because he not only just shut down sure BZM died afterward
But then he chased Soxa for what three minutes and during all that time
I was watching noticed he was getting next to nothing out of the landing phase two without the car door behind him
And the car door was level one
So it was kind of multiple different things that Tundra was able to get just out of these small ary movements that compounded massively
Now with an Aegis secondary one and they have a banner to go for the push and pure has a silver edge versus this Bristle
Who already looks very killable
And where do you go from here on Yandex as we said Watson the next item is gonna be a big one
The butterfly is able to get that but it literally is all on it
Get every buff in the world for him
Honestly, maybe somebody buy Vlad's. I think you need every little buff up from Watson at this point to have a chance.
It's easy kills right now from Purr.
Chira?
He doesn't have himself.
This is one of those games where 12K lead feels a lot bigger though since the Tade really is just one of those cores.
This Emperor doesn't have much that he can play around at this point to kill almost anybody.
Catches the last second!
He does! Catches notice!
I've noticed not having a fun time whatsoever this game.
0-7, the first pick Bristol, completely answered.
There he pushes them, that's funny.
Pushed my commensure, they still have this Aegis, they've got Banner.
Yeah, we'll see how aggressive they want to play here Tundra.
I'm obviously there, so they have to look true. Being able to play this game out in numerous ways right now with
how much of a strong grip they have on it. I do feel like they are the
Stronger late-game scaling drafts as well too, on top of having this advantage, this massive advantage too.
Here.
Swinging around with the gem too, completely constricting any chances for Yandex to get outside. They're starting to get really stuck in the base.
Just follow Watson. Pretty much got to be the case that they got to do until he has this butterfly finished.
We're caught again.
It certainly feels like this game is getting pretty unplayable for both Nautis and Chiragunia.
They just die far too easily any time they show.
This 33 tide is just too much of a beast.
Watch out for that forward.
Everybody just goes straight up into the high ground and starts messing around with
them.
33.
Taking the tier 3 tower.
So what are you going to do about it?
Nothing to fear for him.
Sure.
Got the Jingu built up.
Get the break hit onto Walsh Nautis.
They're going to be able to take it down again by looking for the shots, block him off, ravages there, looking down the breast, he'll notice dead again.
They're just walking through him, tanks the arrow on the tide.
They're using the eclipse, Watson.
He's doing his best to try and do some sort of damage, but they just walk it off.
Tide, one of the best kind of combo breakers, just tanks the arrow, they're just able to waltz away.
That's one of the bigger damage abilities used there, tail from the eclipse. He's got the butterfly finished.
Let's put so many ways to get on top of them and reduce Tundra, we'll back up for a small
moment here.
We've still got the tier 2 tower to take down on the top lane.
Yep, they've still got a lot more to gain, they can farm them up as well too as they
know that Yandex is, they're truly stuck inside.
Another one caught.
I mean what's this going to try and help Maladiela here, they will force the BKP
out from BTF.
Get the chains on of the two of them.
Piers connecting.
What's he trying to push forward onto Ozari, but I already got the snowball ready
Supernova's down, so they have to wait it out at the side.
Tira, they've got the lock down, they've slammed down as well.
They would have bound this onto Tira Jr.
Ahri's also going to live.
Yandex, they can't even kill him right now.
Can Watson get out?
I don't know if it's Pure.
Pushing force, give us the luxury of the AGC for the next minute.
Get through that, AGC.
And they get through that second life, though.
33 makes the jump forward, over to what the supports.
Pure lines down the balance.
Jocos, Jax on to notice the Wukos command down as well.
Watson, he'll use the BKB to try and fight back,
But he just doesn't have the damage to threaten pure and he's alone now and now he has to run
Time for a little cut the trees there. You know a little awkward, but at the end of the day
It's not gonna matter whatsoever as they kill off Watson. They get their hands on towards Malady
He's out of league the new trills. They're dripping him up as well
Malady gone. He tried to hide the gem
He's trying to hide it inside those neutrals there, but five for one another great fight for tundra
and now they'll head up to the base and all without the ravage right just kind of
waltzing right through them they're knowing how strong they are yeah that's
that's kind of rough so that's gonna be there ready for yandex when they
respawn here drops the banner on the floor doesn't even use it there's no
creeps coming in but they're gonna start coming as Watson 50 seconds dead
truly feels done and dusted pretty soon here tundra looking to seal the
deal will set a barracks bottom deals coming in from the sun right
change on the bow for them headband pushes pure out of the base of force
that is what appears BKB was uncool down there but they will be able to bail
him out he's had been placed 33 a very cute
average of the ready so you might just look to jump straight back in on the
war he's gonna go in first with the raw on towards malady pops the BKB
He's balanced on a wards, the Marana, he's out, the Bricon to notice, notice caught in the midst of the Rukon's command, he's dead for 50, no buyback on him.
Yandex, can they kill anyone in return?
Turochi is going to attempt his best efforts as he looks towards BZM, has to put the BKB, now has to probably jump back to the save tube, is facing it with a remnant now, and Clips is coming down on the pure, the BKB's at the ready, Supernub's out pure, standing against ground, trying to heal up, but does die, they've killed off pure, and Watson is bringing 33 down pretty low.
Can he get some other big kills?
They get the Plastoma 33, trying to get into the trees, but they've got it!
There you go!
They will manage to hold, they have to use two buybacks, it's just the two support buybacks though.
Necessary at this point.
I mean it's something in sort of an ocean of nothing!
You know, that's been the case for his past 25 minutes from Yandas.
It's something!
He'll take anything you get, watch it also, he got the last hit, right?
He did get that last hit on Purus, so he got a huge income.
Alright!
Get that data list, yeah, get any type of extra damage you can get.
he needs every little bit possible.
Well we'll see how this exactly went down.
Now coming in with the respawn and away team,
and I didn't have to let you find back to get in earlier,
but that was fine.
Now what's it turning up at this point?
And they're able to bring down Pure,
and he's forced that BKB out,
as to just good damage coming out from Watson.
Stays on target, focuses down the Monkey King,
and without Pure, and with the ult used,
Tundra they have to kind of play it safe.
They have to try and get out of there.
33 though, not lucky enough to do so.
They've got the damage you control to take him out.
It's a punch back.
They keep the game alive a little bit longer here.
Andex let's see where they go with this small gains Watson a full data list finished up
He's now going the other way level 23 on to him
I mean if Watson's able to carry this game now would be ridiculous gonna be one of the more
Most concerned carry performance is you put a senior on the stage and you can see it when he's if he's just standing
It's gonna go to total loan versus the monkey. He can't do it. It's just if the whole team is there
It's there's the big difference of course
Andex just seeing if they could catch out anyone else before tundra had it on back in the game
No rush respawn.
Hunter all gonna respawn.
Top of network for Watson.
Yeah, he's doing a lot here.
He has to.
So the Bristol back is literally a support now at this point for notice.
He has to buy a Ghost Scepter.
I mean that's a good goal.
Ghost Scepter is great for a lucky thing.
But you it's the same thing doesn't look to a lot of thirty five minutes, and he's had a tough one
It is really sad soxer tried to get some space out on the map, but he's been found
Quickly brought down and they're happy to start pushing around this top length on dress
Still is the lane where there's still a tattoo spanning they can set up a roast pretty soon, too. It's gonna be spawning
Fighting around that Roche it's a lot different than fighting inside of your base for yet next
60 seconds no coddle
And if you Yandex, are you going to try and put everything in to the Roche fight?
It's a long respawn.
Now you have to, right? You absolutely have to.
But it's not an easy place to play around all that teamfight.
And if you get the jump into the anchor connection on to what you're doing here...
33 is getting the push gone with his fresh AC.
You might find Watson and Malady coming in from the side.
He sets up with the instant hounder, and Watson puts the peek and he's straight away.
But are you here with the punch?
Keeping Watson held in the workforce, come on.
Watson has to try to stand his ground.
He can't!
The sleeper goes off, that's what's in depth for 90 seconds!
He's short of the buyback gold as well.
I mean, he has to spend all the gold he does in this game.
But now without their Lunar, there's one hope of holding on in this game.
And they probably haven't got much left to throw at Tundra as Tundra are ready to clean up the face.
Fortification will come out.
Thank you, Magus.
Mid-braked. It's going to be cleaned up by BZM.
Tundra up to the top set.
That's cool build by 33, going to the A-C afterwards just to force the issue.
He's got the buyback gold now.
Alright.
Malady did make his way over to the other side of the map, picked up a bounty rinse for the buyback gold, was there.
Supernova out, a second time, and he's got the fight!
It's over for them!
A diebacker wants it!
GD is called Chakra now, 2-1 up here, in the grand final!
that pretty decisive in this game.
Honestly, Ari, we should have had this though.
He broke the game.
He ran it, Ari.
In the meantime too, while Ari is doing this
end break from the game, 33 was getting so much
as this tide runner in the off lane.
Some small recoveries, of course,
coming out lots and having some cool plays,
but this game, it felt like a mountain to climb
from the first, just from the five minute mark.
Yes, it really did.
Sort of the chaos that ensued around Ari's rotations
around that mid lane.
Now you can see that, look at it.
He knows what he's done. He knows what he's done.
He's a BGM Hushesport, 18-0 and 14 and...
He's bringing that death down. He's like, let's talk about that time you died BGM when I killed your Mick three times?
You know? What were you doing?
I'm having a laugh about that one, but what a game for Tundra.
Not a chance to bring that one back despite watching it. He gave it his best at it.
He really did, but too much at the end of the day for him to be able to turn that one around.
round Tundra up 2-1 right now here in the Grand Finals.
And that is match point one, a more game and they will take home the championship.
How did they do it Effie? What do we feel here that Tundra has accomplished?
How did they manage to do it?
Honestly they played such a great game around first of all I want to start with I love
opening up with their two strongest support duos in Phoenix and Tusk.
Tusk, but they played so well around this Tidehunter, like that Tidechart came into clutch so many times in that mid game,
they were able to leash back, bristle back, dump all of these spells on him,
and it felt like they were kind of this wall that Yandex couldn't run into, and then you know, they got the Tundra.
They got the GPM,
they outmacked with them, and they eventually won the game.
He's at it. This is hard to play, honestly. Whenever Tundra gets ahead like this, there's not that much you can do.
I think they were definitely out drafted in this game. It's not a position you can be in against his team.
They're too good. They will take their draft advantage to the finish line
So you gotta you gotta do better in game four
You can't be down in a situation where you have to play perfect because perfect is just not reasonable
Yeah, because I think also what happened in this early game is that Ari kind of got to like run loose like a wild dog
You know, he's going mid getting kills
He went into the top lane like if you're Yanis you kind of know this is happening
He needs to get trailed, you know by Malady on the Marana or you need to have a ward and then I do
Think that Yanis is like a pretty good job at like recovering the game until like the minute 15 to 20 mark
You know they end up losing one or two fights and then they gave us hard, but they had very good recovery
So there are of course things to learn from this game until that adapt into the next game
But I think also time to work first pick now three games in a row. It should be and there's a choice
I think when we come back, you know into the next game, but definitely need to do some stepping up here
I think Watson played a phenomenal game considering the circumstance like he's still old
Yeah, maybe maybe a shake-up of pick order will will help yon next day
This was also the first game. We talked about this before the grand finals even began
This is the first game that Ari actually didn't play the tusk and we see why this has been his most
Winning his hero quick. Yeah, I mean he was everywhere. He was just camping cheer junior to a degree
I haven't seen in a long time and that's also the power of the tie bar
He's sitting there alone even so little kills malady at some point under the tower and in the meantime
Ari is hating on this guy like to an unbelievable degree. He can't play the game
He's been killed three times so how we still soul killed VZM putting a pretty good effort
But even after the soul kill he's down one kid net worth and the toss in Phoenix are just so unable to go around killing the map
It was I noticed that the supports carried this game really hard
It's just like when you play against 100 you know some of the heroes like you have PTSD
You know from like 33 tight hunter. I know when this guy has a good game on this hero
He set up for success people not just help himself
but also his teammates to make it happen.
So I just want to see a few small changes
because I think Yandex, they're good enough to bring the gameplay,
but it wasn't as easy as I would like it to be for them.
Yeah, and that tide chart really came into clutch mid game.
And I feel like when Yandex got this versatile back,
they do this thing where they run with a tier two mid sometimes
and take a bad fight and then the game starts to fall apart.
And I have to express my criticism toward this first pick,
versatile back because I think it baited them into kind of an awkward draft.
They had this idea that they wanted to steal the coddle,
create a combination of the versatile back,
But it ended up doing absolutely nothing for them.
And Miradah got to funky, Watson had to basically do everything,
and the scaling wasn't even there.
Yeah, and we talk about basically every player on the side of Tundra feeling comfortable,
where Yandex felt more experimental in this game at number three.
Of course, they knew that there was always going to be a fourth game,
so they might just have to try something and then, you know,
maybe go back to what works before.
But they're going to talk about that right now.
Now we're going to talk about some things that Quinn picked up on in this game.
Yeah, so I think there were some really key things that Tundra did very, very well.
Firstly, we got to mention this because this is just insanely impressive.
These are some of the hardest ganks to pull off as these mid-TP ganks,
and it's not something that happens very often because it requires great communication between the two.
With this first kill, Snowballs into the later kills.
We're going to show those because it's a little bit redundant.
But I think this is also a really small thing that has a really big impact.
You can see how aggressively these two supports are playing.
Whenever you're a core and your camps are getting harassed like this, it is absolute hell.
And these things add up over the course of the game, not only to prevent people's solo kills in here,
but also just psychologically, it gets in your head when they keep playing on you like this,
because it makes you have a tendency to play a little backward, a little more scared,
and that goes a really, really long way over the long run.
This is a moment where I'm just gonna pause here. I cannot pause actually, but I think if you look at the minimap here,
the tide is sitting minute pushing in the midway, but Beastmaster and the other cores are in the sidelines.
And I think this is something that Tundra does specifically, really really well.
Whenever they have Beastmaster or Heroes or Invoker Heroes,
Meet Heroes that like to play in the sidelines,
they will swap their offlaner to mid and him be the one who plays to mid
because these heroes don't use runes and they want to abuse the ancients
and play this sort of farming style and the sidelines are better suited for that.
So when they have those specific heroes they'll swap it around,
which is not something that many teams do,
but they do it specifically with Tide and it's very cool.
Yeah and we saw a lot of support action of course in those clips as well
and Kezu, I know you also want to focus on the support.
Yeah, we need to talk about Mr. R.A.
You know, his tusk was insane in this game because, you know, Jiro Junior, he had a bad early game
and we just, like, we need to point it out, you know, you saw it in the clip already.
He TP'd mid very early on, like Quinn said.
It is very clutched, but throughout the entire game, he just had their number
because BGM, I think he ended the game like 18-1.
The only time he died is when Jiro Junior somehow even got a kill on him after dying three times.
But yeah, this guy, giving him tusk when he is set up to have a good map, it is a problem.
You know, I hope that Yannick will have a better idea.
If you give it away, have a board that sees the guy, where I have heroes that can play around it more easily.
Because yeah, giving this guy Tusk, it is not a winning recipe.
No, it is actually pretty darn scary.
It does make me think though, there's so many comfort heroes on the side of Tundra.
So if you're young, they're banning out comfort heroes.
And as we said, they've been second pixel, they've been banning just the usuals.
They out of Largo to the usuals, but not much variation there.
You know, Tundra is going to get comfort heroes regardless, because there's just two
minutes about now.
Yeah, I mean, I think they need more aggression, I'll be honest.
I think the Caudal is too passive, and the Brittle is too passive, and I think when we
see the Yannick's at their best, was that game one, one of her socks says on the hood
wink, they're playing aggressive, CJ is on the stanking, they're making kills happen,
they're the ones playing up, and I think throughout the series, the aggressor has been the
one who wins the game.
The team that is pushing the tempo, I mean, they, you know, Tundra did end
of coming back in game 2 but I think you can see the power of the aggression. I think
Yanex needs this. They're not able to sit around against Tundra and play chill, play
that kiting sort of stalling style. They're just not good enough at it against this Tundra
team and how good their supports are at pressing the tempo. So I think, match the
tempo, get the aggression back. Or a man waving there, he's a little too happy.
You've got to make this line a little more sad in this game.
Put him in his place.
Put him in his place.
That's right.
Maybe it's also just identify which heroes of Tundra you think you did better against
because like, again, in this game they have this idea that we're going to
But what happened when they saw Caudle was they gave away Tusk and Tusk turned out to be a much bigger problem than Caudle ever was for them because they actually won the early game in this game 3.
Tundra hasn't been having that great of an early game due to the nature of the heroes that they've been playing.
You ban out some of their other heroes and you give them the Tempo lens?
Maybe reverse that, you know, give them the Caudle, give them the Largo even because his landing stage was bad.
Even the game that they lost against Largo, they did because it would take a long time for Tundra to get in line with that so potentially Yannick could just end early.
No, I think for sure like you could also see they had like more life
I think to the game play like more place like the early to mid came in to go back to the support
Do I think if there's one support you?
I don't want to face it's tough Phoenix
You know change up something to make them have not both or maybe you can have one if your first pick
Maybe you can take one and just like swap it around because yeah, I think it's just you want to make dough
That is you know
Dota is already very complex if you can simplify it in any way whether it's gameplay draft or some items that you go for
Go for it
Yeah, I mean despite how you know the fact that they're down two games or that that last game was very hard for you
I think to stand out of the series so far as Watson for me
I think he played an amazing game one a game two and I think game three
He was the only reason why they were still in this game Kaiser said it earlier and I completely agree
I think he has played phenomenally and if they can just get things a little bit more stable than that
Generally think they have great chances. I don't think they're psychologically down and out
I've seen that I think about this compared to the prior grand final that played against tundra
and it looked like they were mentally beaten to a pulp.
This game, I think they're still very solid,
and I think they just need a better draft
that enables them.
I think they have the capability to win.
You can feel it when I watch their games.
There is life, there is hope.
They're not being totally outclassed.
Was this, would you say, the first game
of this Grand Finals that was clear,
like especially on hindsight, okay, that wasn't outdraft?
Yeah, that game is a problem.
I think they would say it too.
This game is really, really hard to play, genuinely.
And I think sometimes those games just happen,
I think especially against Tundra,
they're amazing drafters,
probably the best drafting team in the world genuinely.
This NetteGuy really, really understands heroes
to a very high degree.
And so you just, you take your lessons away.
I think they don't have an answer for the Phoenix.
And so I agree with Mayor.
You gotta play against his Batrider,
or you gotta play against the Largo
because they genuinely cannot play against his Phoenix.
So every time they give it, the Offline gets mega stomped.
And now your main playmaker in Soxa is shut down
because he has no lane.
I think that's also like the other tool.
Like we said, you know, the call, it was very passive.
I think I would just have Soxa
on his like traditional heroes,
whether it's a Tiny or the Hoodling from game one.
just to like make more stuff happen on the game because I think it's a lot of
like the force like even in this game like we talked about multiple times but
Ari can go to the mid lane I think you want us like half a similar situation
where socks I can do the same because a lot right now I think it's about like
the mid with the four how can you combine it so I just want to see like
more activeness you know bring the heat to thunder and not just that's the
socks of plus noticed in that game one they were playing like Sean and
plus starter and they were chasing peers gyro into tier twos if these
heroes had killed red and they were making something happen on the map
You look at bristle plus cuddles. This is a very passive farming duo and it did not work out for them
So give notice something that you can control the fight for you something where you can enable you to enter the mid game
This bristle back again
I have to say I'm a hater of this hero especially for notice not because he's bad at it because they get baited into really weird fights
When they pick it they think oh, we're bristle. We have our timing. Let's run into a tier 2
I don't know what goes on, but it happens every time
I mean, there are certain heroes like this that bait you to play a little bit worse.
They're also heroes that I think are worse in finals.
And I think Bristleback in some ways is one of those heroes.
It's not a hero that's particularly easy to execute.
You need to lane well.
You need to do all the shenanigans, all the gold, all the stacking compared to tight
hunters just like, I'm a watermelon.
I walk around.
I find this really easy.
He just keeps kind of doing this.
Bristle is considerably harder to play, especially when you're being counterpicked
by players as good as Pyrrha and Whitemon all in lane.
It's not as easy to play and ease of execution is king, especially in grand finals.
they did pick that Bristleback well for them a first pick so second pick overall
so they've definitely were already announcing that the game was going to be
maybe a little bit on the hard side for them but they got a lot of time to
think about what they are going to do for the fourth game of this Grand
Finals as there is just for you a break
We don't take breaks around here this DSL one bourbon and baby we are still here and we are
It is potentially the last Kahoot. Can you believe it?
Oh, it's been such a wonderful Kahoot tournament which is what we all really came here for.
Absolutely.
Of course, everybody in the audience will be able to play along by scanning the QR code
located in the top of the screen. If you're at home, just play along for fun.
Just a bit of fun.
Don't go to the toilet. Don't get a snack. Don't get a glass of water.
Tom comes in the room and says, what are you doing?
It's like, get out of here, mom!
I'm hooting!
I'm hooting!
I've been hooting for two hours!
All right, anyway, let's see how many people we can get.
Can we beat our record?
This definitely looks like the most people that have been in the arena so far.
Yeah, it's a good chunk of people.
I believe the record was 80.
No, it was at like 1,090, like, 50.
1,090, yeah.
1,050.
Let's see if we can beat that.
Scan that QR code.
You don't need an app or anything like that.
You just get in.
You do have a fantastic prize that will tell you about after my guys beat the record.
You won't believe what's in this bag.
Genuinely, you won't believe it.
You'll say, huh?
Unbelievable.
You'll be like, what?
That's 150.
We already beat 150.
How high can we hoot, my friends?
Get your owls together.
Be ready as well, because remember, boss's finger, man.
That's right.
That's right.
It is the fastest person to answer and answer correctly, you get the most points,
my friends.
Not just her.
What?
How many go?
We busted the Kahoot!
12-1, 12-1, 12-1, keep going!
Oh my god!
More, more Kahootes.
Please Hooters, show them 1,300.
1,300.
Come on guys, please stand as you are, Kahoot.
Even if you're to come to win, please.
You can do it, the world record of Kahoot!
Flexing like at a million pound bonus, it's 1,300 people Kahoot.
Absolutely.
It is just one unevil game dev.
If we can make it, they'll pay us.
Yeah!
Yeah!
All right, let's do it.
Okay, what's the topic again?
What a fantastic topic we have here today
that I will keep stalling until it's riddles!
Riddles!
Riddles!
Three!
Riddles!
Two!
One!
My brew is dark, but I am not dazzled
When I can talk to my enemies, get frazzled.
Because it dazzles.
It says on the low dazzle.
So if anyone presses red, they're
going to be out of the arena.
Alchemists, brewmaster, or death cross.
This is so easy, guys.
It's easy.
There's only one spell that has a word in there.
You get frazzled.
It's got to be alchemist.
You know, concoction.
Could be.
Could be out.
Got to be.
So could be.
What are you gonna get?
The one second, it's alchemy!
I told you, man!
And when you said Dazzle, it's out!
We are sick of just watching this time we are playing.
Yeah, we're playing.
We are the ultimate commuters.
Space koala with a nice even one found.
Oh, nice work.
Really?
Don't pick it up.
Impressive.
Here we go.
Not quite human and with enhanced nocturnal sight.
I enhance my allies where and whenever I bite.
So easy.
So interesting, guys.
Interesting.
Slacks addition to the game I believe wasn't this your idea? Oh, that's right. That is right. Sorry about that
100% apologies army
Like and loan druid
Rude matter or Lou
All right, what do you think it is?
It's like it in there. Yes, I asked
Like I feel like if you're getting the answer in two seconds, you're fucked anyway pretty much it is like
Wow, well done.
The riddles are easy. Awesome.
Awesome camel. Awesome camel.
That's caramel.
Awesome camel, sure.
That's one just as Nick's.
Alright, well, this is a tricky one.
You might, oh, hold on.
Wait a minute.
This is tricky.
This is tricky.
You can tell that we did do some cutbacks.
Much like Epic Games, we fired
90% of the Kahoot makers.
All right, about that.
And all the writers.
Yep.
Anyone that could write a kahoot was fired.
There you go.
That is indeed Nick's answer.
OK.
The people who thought it was a trick question
put something else.
Nip the out.
Yep, that's what happens when you have AI do your kahoot.
My stats are fluid, like my form.
When my wave embraces you, your blood is warm.
Why did I have to read that one?
Why not?
Bloodseeker acts Naga or Morphling. When my wave embraces you, your blood is warm.
Are you normally cold-blooded until Morphling? I mean, whichever hero could be?
A Taxi? That's interesting.
Bluebrook, Groot! Bloodseeker acts Naga, Siren, or Morphling.
It's clearly Morphling. Just press 3.
Don't tell them. Sorry. It's Axe.
Yeah, it is Morphling. Well done!
Just a final question coming up.
God bless us. Let's hope.
I'm gonna lead by three points.
Yay!
All right, our last one.
Read at my lore and witness me for I want to die
and join my deity.
Ooh, Huska, let's see the lifesteal of Wulong.
I think this one's about Effie.
No, I just can't.
All right, here we go.
Is he talking about Gora?
What?
Champion of Gora, here, Wulong has a name.
Oh, no, no, no, no, no.
There is one lower hero that wants to die.
It's the server.
He wants to die in battle.
Is it Bloodseeker?
No, bro.
Is it Huskar?
Yes, of course it's Huskar.
It is Huskar.
Absolutely.
Oh my god, you guys don't want to die.
Oh, I miss the lead people.
Oh my god.
That's why we chose Huskar.
That's so mean.
That's so mean.
All right, ladies and gentlemen,
it's the winner!
It is!
Boss!
Gleaming Platypus!
Gleaming Platypus!
Where are you?
Teaming Platypus!
Pointing over here.
Over here, yeah!
Yay!
Congratulations!
Congratulations!
Congratulations!
Congratulations Samantha and she will get it to you.
What is the prize?
Uh, oh, you know, this and that.
It'll get to you.
It'll get to you.
We'll get it to you.
We have, of course, this is not the only quiz we're doing, Jake.
We have a second quiz.
Oh, yes, that's right.
We have to go up there and do.
This second quiz, ladies and gentlemen, we have more quizzes.
players asked for more time. Yeah. We're going to go and do another one. We're doing another
sound challenge, ladies and gentlemen. Woohoo! And by the way, your prize was another empty
bag. It was an empty bag. You got it. It does have a signed picture of Perian Flax without
a shirt. That is not true. Okay. Let's go ahead and head on over. Welcome to the sound
challenge. Today, we have some nice competition here. What is your name? Lisa. Lisa.
The game works like this, you're going to hear a voice line from a hero, you have to guess what hero it was, and then hit it.
If you get a wrong gala, guess who you got over there?
Who do I got? Name?
Lago
Name?
Jacob
Say Lago, that's what he did.
Frog! Frogwing!
Lago
Frogwing!
Conrad
Great job guys
Lot of Lago's and a Conrad. You guys heard the rules right? Press button, stay answer.
Okay, cool. Are we ready? Are we ready? You can feel, feel free to play along in the
audience. Best of seven? Best of seven. Press the button so maybe put your hand
near the button, Largo. Give it a shot. As soon as you hit, wait, wait. That's good.
Just testing, okay. All right, okay. Okay, it works, the buzzer works. All right, so,
So, can we play the first sound, please?
I feel newly forged.
Which hero says that?
Can we play it again?
I feel newly forged.
You guys need to be quiet.
They cannot.
Stop the side conversations.
One more time.
I feel newly forged.
Okay.
Visage?
Not visit.
Not Earth Spirit.
Not Earth Spirit.
It was Sand King.
Sand King.
newly forward.
Oh, goodbye Largo, thank you so much.
Frogling!
Okay, are you guys ready for number two?
Put your hand on the buzzer, Frog.
Play it again.
One more time.
Shh!
Sounds like the...
Take a guess!
Next.
Nope!
Slotter?
Who?
Slotter?
It was North Slotter, you guys!
That's wrong!
It was indeed techies!
Techies!
Oh God, no that one!
Alright, ready for question number three?
Fingers on the buzzers!
Get ready, and here's the sound.
You've got guts!
You've got guts!
Pudge. Pudge? Pudge.
No, it's not Pudge. Did you press a buzzer?
Can we play it one more time, please, for the frog?
You've got Pudge.
They're just saying weed.
Mitch? No, that's Tider.
Next frog, please. No one has to go to point yet.
Yeah, it's one to one now.
All right, are you ready?
Play the next sound, please.
It is dangerous out there.
Come on.
Are you?
Timbuff.
Correct!
Timbuff is out of here!
We're about to put the frogs!
One point for the Largo and the frog.
Let's well done.
Are you ready?
You ready?
No.
We're going anyway.
Well, we do.
Next sound, please.
Time to shock.
Yeah, press it!
Which don't...
Yeah!
You didn't know that, did you?
Yeah, so it's all fair.
Next book, please.
Ready? Go on, round.
Play this down, please.
Oh, it's so coffee!
Oh, it's so coffee!
Oh, it's so common!
Oh, it's so common!
Brumasso!
Hey!
But there's one more.
And then it'll be Thai, unbelievable.
Oh my God, if it's a Thai, we'll just have to do our own.
And then we'll figure it out. Are you ready, Frog?
You ready?
Final sound, please.
I've come to collect.
Bounty Hunter. Bounty Hunter.
It is Bounty Hunter! That's T2!
Okay, okay, so tiebreaker who has an undrinkin pipe now. I'm just here. We're not gonna do that
We're not gonna do that. We have a good question if no one gets it right
We'll figure it out
All right get their fingers ready on the buzzes here comes the final deciding sound here we go. I can't be stopped
Death prophet no
Here again. I can't be stopped
I can't be stopped.
Dawnbreaker.
Correct!
Correct!
Well done!
Well done!
Fantastic!
You win a bag of mystery.
Congratulations.
Congratulations!
You must reveal what's in the bag until you are safely off stage.
Thank you very much guys!
Woo!
What's in the bag until you are safely off stage?
Did you have fun for?
Thank you.
I am long.
Thank you very much, guys.
Woo!
You guys did great.
Thank you to all of us, Rocks.
Thank you.
Wait.
Before we go, can you guys do a little concert here?
Yeah, let's get a little concert here.
Can we have a little?
Then you guys do a little dance.
All right, ladies and gentlemen,
the Grand Finals is coming right back to you.
But for now, please enjoy the musical beat
of Lyregal and the Froglet.
Let's go!
Take on the world, let's be good
Let's turn away, so let's turn it in
Let the sun come down, we're starting new
Let the sun come down, let the world enter
Starting over, starting over, starting over
Time for our greetings
Starting over, starting over, starting over
It's time for the reaction
It's not too late, give up, find your faith, up on the ground, take it all out.
Oh, job, now let's begin
Get it job, better now
Stab it over, stab it over, stab it over
Time will not reach you
Stab it over, stab it over, stab it over
Stab it over, reach you
Stab it over, stab it over, stab it over
I
Then I'm crying
And I'm begging for more
That's a fire
Because I've got doors
That's just nothing
Nothing at all
There's so much of a dream, it's gonna be too small.
Long as breath, long as you can, till I'm feeling
Trace from your hands, hold your breath
long as you can
to the feeling
trace from your hands
shake up the feeling
It's done as before
It's just paranoid
Scream through the door
The flowers have given
Cause you were a change
I take the debt
Let our fortune dance
Hold your breath as long as you can
Till the feeling drains from your hands
Hold your breath as long as you can
Till the feeling drains from your hands
I'm on swap and I know what that brings Spotlight action
I'm in charge of pulling and strings I don't lose but every day wins
Spotlight Shins and I'm gettin' locked in Spotlight Action
Can't feel my shine, I'm giving up now
Oh, they said that I'd get it somehow
With a big family, I'm giving them power
Yeah, watch me breath, all the dots will bring it shut down
I've been a king, and I'm telling them loud
Little subjects, not digging my crown
Yeah, watch me breath
Can't pay to do my thing, I step-fly
Just like I got wings, I'm on top and I know what that brings
Spotlight Action
I'm in charge, pulling them strings I don't lose, everyday wins
Spotlight shines and I'm getting locked in Spotlight action
Getting to the top when I do my sports Everyday fresh when I'm tripping in stores
Night destination I'm staying on course Yeah, right on track
They wanna test me, I've been through wars Never boxing in, I've been writing down wars
For my whole team, I've been opening doors Run that bar
I can't make him do my things
I can't fly, I can't make him go wings
I'm on top and I know what that brings
But like, I can't
I-Yup
Ah!
Welcome back, you are watching the Grand Finals here between Tundra and Yandex, and one of
these two teams will take home the championship for ESL One Birmingham 2026, and it is a
Tundra that is on match point because it's 2 to 1 favor of tundra
Can they do it in case you haven't noticed this was a little bit of a longer break than what we normally have
And I was wondering Kaisu if you feel like that longer break would favor one team over the other
Maybe slightly yandex because I think also they should have like a bit of an idea
Okay, we need to swap this up because in the early game
Ari kind of cooked them and they came from like the tide hunter and other things so just more I think to talk about for
them where seeing tundra are make a little more straightforward what their
idea should be. What do you guys think? I would agree, I think that this break should have been good.
We'll see what it is that they talked about, but they need to remind themselves that the
first two games of this series, that's like a really dominant early game. Even in that
second game where they lost, they were leading by quite a big margin. So hopefully their
conversation is run more along the lines of how do we recreate that? What do we
actually perceive is the threat in tundra? Is it worth banning X-Hero?
Guys, this is the first game of this Grand Finals where Yandex is first pick, so they changed something up drastically with this.
Yeah, and I think it's good for them. They lost two games in a row, it's very nice to be able to mix something up, and it is the benefit that they have to choice this game.
So, they get to ban the Largo, they get to ban the Tide, and they get to pick their heroes with the TA, likely not being banned.
Shadow Demon maybe, I mean, it is going to get banned, but that means something else will be open.
Phoenix, Doom are still in the pool, so if those two are banned, that leaves the TA or even the Jikiro up to them if they want it.
Phoenix overall is also very good, of course, for Yandex. They have played it multiple times. Malady is quite good on this hero, so it's also now up to Tundra, right?
Because Yandex, Doom wasn't banned out there, leaving it in, I guess also. You know, if this hero stays open, you're probably taking this one.
But Tundra could also play around, leave multiple heroes, get one out, but definitely one of the bigger questions for me is also the TA.
That's no worry. He knows.
What he finally recognized you.
Butterflies.
The Doom still removed from the pool though by Tundra, so they do not want to deal with that one.
Yeah, they're using all the reserve time on every pick. It's something you do whenever you're kind of chilling.
You just let the clock take down, even though they know all their bands. They just let it take one by one by one.
It's something that I think Fly was the first one to really do. I can remember games where Team's Fly was on,
they would always wait for the last second even when they know all the bands and everyone else is
kind of copy-decent, because it's kind of just annoying for the other team.
Yeah, you also like you get to like speak towards like the very very last second but
I kind of agree. I think like some of these like the draft matters, you know, depending on like
how do you double pick, how do you use all your time, or even how do you use like the extra
time towards the very end, you know, to talk about your pre-game. Because that's something
else that Yannix I think should be doing and maybe a little bit more. Talk about the early game,
like you know, what is it that Tundra can do to like kind of, you know, put a stop to like
like your early game and like get a bigger advantage the hero that is left in
also from the previous bands in previous two games is Slardar I don't know if
that is something that we are still expecting to come out on the bands here
or if we expect the guy to pick that up should be on our radar it's definitely
something to look at because the index look very strong with it and it opens
up a lot of Watson's ranged hero pool so Hunter need to be aware of that
or at least draft something in advance if they do leave it there.
I mean, I really like this jacquero response to Phoenix.
I think it's something that Gannix sort of going for in the game they played against Phoenix.
And I like it because there's not really a clear response anyone has right now to Phoenix in the lane.
So instead of saying we're going to directly respond to this,
they just pose the same threat in the other lane.
An obnoxious toxic laner with the DOTs.
Like they're very similar in a lot of ways. They offer T-Fight.
And so you say, okay, if you're going to screw offline or we're going to screw yours too.
And I think that opposing the opposite threat instead of trying to deal with it is a very valid response.
Not for sure, it's also because we do mention the slaughter, obviously it's not like a full deterrent, but you know, Jukero is good and very annoying against the fish as well, so going into the next phase, Tundra I would assume, out of phase, I mean you can look for a core if you already know what you want against the Phoenix, but there's also other heroes you still can consider.
I think the task while yeah, Phoenix is of course very good against us, it's still a good hero for you, so anything that makes it easy and it's nice for you to pick out of phase, I think Tundra can just go for that.
No, I definitely agree. I'm not sure if there's any, like we've seen Tundra pick both their supports before like this, they could go for something like the Pango if they want to play it for BCM.
Oh, I would like that also.
They're still both the same king and the Swarovar, so they could get either one of them or spawns if they pick Pango here, so it's possible that they want to see a kill come up from Ganex, and they'll just pick the Tusk which is available.
This crowd is so funny.
He did earlier. He acknowledged it.
Dude, he's meaming way too much.
He's gonna be a little rocked in his own way.
No, no!
God, that's great.
Good job, crowd!
Keep it up, everyone. God, that's funny.
Well, we are so easily entertained.
A little hand wave. Someone give that.
That's a good gift, exactly.
But the pango, I would like it. I think that's a very good call,
because it's good for you, it's good against the Phoenix,
and even if you're not taking it yourself,
yourself. There's definitely a chance we're also Yandex could be looking for this
hero in the next phase. CJ's pango is very good.
Yeah I mean if you wanted to you could even take the same king yourself on Tundra.
You could ban something else in return. So the storm be one of the better
answers to it so you could take a same king ban the storm. They've got options
here in terms of the core they take. I don't think they're super locked out
in any way. I think my biggest question mark would be what hero is
three three gonna play with Largo, Tide, Doom, all bans. So what's what's
his next string of heroes especially when he sees minimal information. That
What is the downside of second pick is the second phase after the 13 pick, the 16-17 can be tricky depending on what you see.
Well, it looks like they will go for a big tanky dude because they ban out Ursa.
Yeah, definitely possible. I mean, that's kind of like why you like preparing like for the future.
They're also kind of saying that for this pick now, you know, maybe it doesn't need the most coverage.
They could be setting up for a Timbersaw, even if they see another range support for Androx.
There's the Stanky, so these heroes have great synergy, it's a jumper with a lot of follow-up.
He cannot ignore.
It's too difficult. Those headphones block out a lot, but the crowd's pretty dug up.
You don't even have to hear what's being said at that point, it's just the intimation makes it clear already.
Alright, the Stanky in. Yum next thinking about their answer.
Two picks in a row.
And I could definitely see them go for something like the storm. I think it's the best response
We've seen to stanking everything else is look kind of mediocre Ember is it's okay
You can mage player but this is a response that was actually pretty popular when stanking was first picked because you just
Apple when he stands on and you can't do the ghost up or post BKB anymore. So it's very difficult
But both armor and BKB so when you press stand storm and BKB you get amp and they beat the crap out of you
And if you buy armor then you died a magic damage or float away Phoenix
So it's quite a cool answer. It's one that was in the past and pulling out with an old playbook
It's also like you can of course like starter can still be made or often you still have the option to maybe go for you
Know the storm that you mentioned later down the line as well. It's not it's not out of the option
There he is once more
He's just very very solid
I would assume here that you're just going for like the 33 hero
You already took out the Ursa before, and the Slardar is still flexed, you know, you can force Yandex to show it later, like what it is.
And this is where potentially something like a Gyro can look very good, but maybe Yandex don't feel that comfortable with it over something like a Weaver.
I could definitely see the Weaver. I think it's very solid against, especially those heroes.
It's sort of the OG counter to like an offline Beastmaster and he's laning with the Tusk, the only thing that's kind of annoying is like the SK Blink reveal later, but you know there's some time to play around, of course you're people that go in first for you, so you could definitely see that one.
Yeah, I would love a Weaver here. I think anything that keeps up the aggression is very, very good. You've got two heroes that are pretty slow cores on Tundra and San King and Beast.
They both want stacks, they both have key timings in the blink and the aggs they're farming for.
And you've got heroes that are very fast, very aggressive and hoodwink Phoenix, so I think the script is flipped in some ways.
Obviously, Tundra supports are very strong in fighting as well, but there's a matching
at least there and the potential for Yandex to outplay in lanes to make better moves and
to speed this game up because if Tundra's heroes are behind, they need to do the classic
Tundra dodge for 25 minutes, and if you execute the map well, then you can build an almost
insurmountable lead.
They're going to need something really incredible to come from Yandex's supports for that
to happen, though, because I do feel like on skirmishing, Tusk is better than a
Hedwig plus Phoenix.
Even by himself, I'd rate him higher.
You add a Nijikiro to the mix and it gets a lot harder to play these rune fights.
Okay, they go for the tiny.
Whenever there's a new patch, this hero does come up as a carry.
I'm not fully sold yet on this hero, or at least I thought maybe with an IO,
or you have heroes that go drum solo across,
or like a bloodlust from an ogre that you can help the tiny out.
I think it has looked okay, but not as good as I would like it to justify an 18 pick here.
That's at least my idea.
It's very durable though, right?
If you look at the durability of Tiny plus Slardar and you look at the initiation on Tundra,
these heroes are heroes that can survive like in Episenter plus like they can potentially
survive without Primal Roar if there isn't any instant follow-up from the Sand King.
So a big part of Tundra's gameplay right now is to just burst the target that they
go on and if Yandex can just keep up the tankiness, it's an easy way to deal
with it, especially if they go for some pipe fire in the last pipe.
Yeah, I mean my worry with this Tiny hero is always I think the scaling right
Right now because Shivas is so good against the hero, it appears in BKB, reducing your
attack speed is a massive problem.
It destroys you.
Yeah, it is a big problem.
And also as your BKB wears down, suddenly you're going to hero spit on, there's a ton
of magic damage on the Tundra side, and it's a hero that is very reliant on BKB in a
game like this.
So, you've got a very strong window, I totally agree, and you are very tanky in those
early phases of the game, especially with the Sunray behind you, it's going to
have a lot of effectiveness, but you will reach a point where I think you can
get kited and out magic damage and Tundra's line up 10 shine.
So what can you do here if you're Yandex?
You can still look for the storm that you mentioned earlier, it's still up in the air
and you can go for Offlan Slardar if you feel like you can slot in the ban nicely, at least
protect it.
Yeah, in terms of mids, there's something like, you can go for a Bristol back again,
it's pretty good against Decent.
It's good with hoodwinkers, you got the minus armor in your feet, it was a consideration.
It's pretty good, I think actually.
I don't know if I've seen CJ play it, but you know, it's not that complicated.
You're good against it, you're good in most lanes, you're kind of chill.
Do you guys think you could just play mid-Slarter, so they could have that pipe in that last
pick, or is that not a CJ specialty?
I think you definitely can.
I don't know exactly how the lingles, I'm sure it's fine and it's an overall
con or later.
Yeah, I think it's just Drosh, and I think it's definitely a pretty decent option.
The pipe here will be huge, you're absolutely right.
Tiny loves having buffs on his team. Solar, Pipe, he's like a guy who just sort of stands there and hits
and those types of heroes really, really like being enabled. It's a draft where you don't want too many solo dudes.
I think Tiny is almost always like that. He's either a mid hero and he's the Enable or when he is a carry.
When he's that clicker, he needs buffs or if the hero on his own is just not that powerful.
I mean, Invoker is like the classic I'm going to enable on my carry, Tiny.
With the lack of ready. Would that be too greedy here?
It's feeling that Hero is just too dead. Like, if VZM is not picking his Hero, then to me the Hero is sucks, like, that's my barometer.
Because he is better than everybody else at that Hero.
And he ain't picking it, so...
One final band coming out from Tundra.
I'm thinking long and hard about it.
I mean, big band, Pangolare so far, so one mid-hero. I'm curious if the band are off-laners as well.
I hadn't seen the Slaughter in mid-lane, but they go for the Bristol too.
This is a good call in the Bristol, I think.
You don't see anything that's like super crazy maybe I feel like it would be nice to make a bit more use of the hood ring with like a
Magic nuclear in a way, so you have like both the physical and like magic
So at least from mid like when already mentioned there's a storm
I think if you're looking for offline heroes at least there's good bands for it
I think a hero like underlord could maybe work of course
Yeah, it is semi-slow, but I think it is also quite annoying like pits you get the pipe
You have a pretty good lane with the hood wing
Yeah, I mean I think the most important thing here is the person who's playing the hero
I mean you're very tall in the Underlord. I think like when it comes down to these last picks
You want the person who's playing it to become confident on it
You got someone else to call your pick you want it to feel natural and feel not pressured
You don't want to feel like you're doing this because the enemy has something you're responding to if you're doing it for your own sake
It's a final
It's an elimination game in that final like you want to be as comfortable as possible and chill in your own skin
And I think in Underlord is that hero that I'm all for because I think confidence is like the utmost importance and like
Comfortability in these last games. I
I mean I feel like this pipe is gonna be big too because up until thunder gets a lot stronger
A lot of their damage is going to be coming from jikiro's ult plus sanky ult and you try to play that into underlord early on
It's not gonna be easy at all
Especially if you the carry beast master this could potentially be that
Yeah, like I wonder now if thunder are like okay, you know, we're gonna put the
Beasts into the off lane with the task out of like out of all the teams
I will trust them to pull off an offline beast master because I think the rest really isn't that good
And I mean they go for the life stealer. This hero used to always be very good against like tiny and under what I do
Think it goes like both ways, you know, he's a bit of a low damage hero under or can build auras
I have definitely preferred to like armlet desolator build on next
I think maybe your Torah was the one that did it because I saw radiance and other games and I don't know
That one didn't really do it for me
And on paper
It's a great life stealer game and this hero was one of the biggest heroes like a fluffed on the patch
But he was being played into a lot of really early temple lineup
So his win rate looked really bad, but this hero still does have a lot of potential
It's great against the cores on Yandex. The only issue is getting him to the point where he's strong
No, I completely agree. Like I think there is very much a timer on Yandex
I don't think these cores scale against lifestealer really. I think they will get kited
And this guy will just be unkillable standing in the front
They don't have the kind of burst like a hundred zero lifestealer and they don't have the sustained DPS to cut through him once he rages
So to me Yandex, they want to snowball this game. They want to play fast
Which I think they can do it's just can they actually execute are they in the headspace to be able to pull off that kind of gameplay?
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Here we go! Game 4 time, ladies and gentlemen here at ESL One, Birmingham.
Tundra vs Yandex. And the terms of the drafts, we get that.
It's all a change of light. That's my name coming back in here in this series from Watson.
We saw it earlier today, the answer from Tundra cut an old school long-right, the life stealer.
It's coming out here from Pure. Is it going to be the answer they need to get that championship title for Tundra?
It looks strong on Paper, right? You look at a triple strength core lineup.
Life stealer in the past used to thrive versus this, versus Phoenix as well too.
He has rage, can go hit that egg.
So on Paper, can absolutely see why Pure wants to play this one.
A great support cast around him.
For Yandex this time, I like their draft way better than the last game.
I felt like last game they were so all in on the laning phase.
This one, sure, they might be on a bit of a timer, but a very strong draft to be able to fight at all times.
They have good team fight, they have great ways to move around the map, and a strong hero to rally around,
which is gonna be that slaughter if he comes off to a good start for Ture Jr.
Can't help but feel though after that last game, they're gonna have to keep a lot of eyes on Ari.
Mr. Ari.
Sort of broke the game.
And look at him right away, looking for some action.
See what he's able to do here, looking towards no test.
They have to get back into the tension, I should have a turn and have control on the two of them!
Coach comes in, Ahri's in trouble!
He's gonna get first blood at this time round as Jira Junior takes him out!
Honestly, such a cool play by notice.
Skilling Pit, you almost never see this, but he knows that he's got the backup of Double Stun,
so they get pitted into Repitted, applies the damage twice, and it's more than enough to get that kill.
And always worth it for the first blood, how sort of rough is the trade-off in lane now from the level one?
I mean, it's sure, it's not gonna be the greatest in particular,
But getting to kill for this game is absolutely worth it getting a first blood for your mid
I think you take that any time sure you're it's got to screw you a little but I think this lane already
It's gonna be hard for noticed anyway
He has to just kind of play it and maybe this route
They can actually do a decent amount with it because they have the hood wake and they certainly are white ones taking quite a bit of damage
Here from the two of them. They do a lot of physical damage down here
Yeah, very cool. You see pure of course, though
We'll get full free farm in that first wave 4 and 2 getting some effective trades versus notice as well
Let's see how these lanes do go down that slaughter versus the Beastmaster
Let's see if he can handle it since it does feel I mean he should get a decent amount
Especially because he got first blood now might just be able to trade farm
But we saw how much BZM was able to do with some rotations from RA
Hop lane we have not seen off lane tanking too much either
It's not much just been played in the mid lane
So let's see what the I mean if there's gonna be any type of difference the timings are probably gonna be a bit slower
Sure, but what I'm playing good
Both of them each and every time, you have to be careful around these routes and this pit is bright clicks.
It's annoying! It's actually doing a fair bit here.
I messed with the CS a little bit now. I'm trying to step back up to the creeps.
I'm saying that the slaughter should come out even though I'm just looking at the Force hitting him in the attack slot.
Maybe the Beast is just going to end up crushing the midlane even though the slaughter got the first blood.
He's literally just getting poked by Force. It's really, really hard to...
Well, not Force. What are they called now? Razorbacks?
Razorbacks.
Yeah. I'm never going to call them that.
Someone will be gone in Malady
And R, he messed it around with the creeps
Not much Phoenix can do to stop this
He's just building up the creep there on R
Just leave the wall situation
But on this top lane, how happy is Watson up here?
Free farm
Yeah, completely free farm for him
But it does also mean that 33
But they're just both gonna farm
They both gonna find ways to get into the game
Yep, I think 33 will be quite a bit slower though
Yeah, I will say in comparison
Unless he's just able to get a kill here Malady
My deuce though, he's dead.
Well, that's the barraestrike, and did not respect the fact that 33 was taking the time to move on over.
Get that kill down on the bottom lane, they'll lose white one.
But pure, he's going to get the kill and return.
She ends up taking out to the damage there that white one laid down before his death.
Taksa?
No, it's his.
Getting some hits. There isn't open wounds, Taksa.
Pure can...
Look at a pretty good attempt there.
Tree cut.
Yeah, cut the trees as well.
Was that the passive?
That might have been the passive that actually cut at that time,
the following is actually still on cooldown. Either way, Saksa will survive, Salva's used,
he's gonna be able to restore himself back up. I'm gonna grab the Lotus,
it's coming back into the lane. And yeah, the Slardar is actually just crushing.
Chirra can't step up, just this slow, it all just adds up too much.
19 and 8 against the 9 and 2. Very hot style for BZN.
Dax, I mean, this is a dangerous lane for sure. This is gonna hurt, right?
Chirra Jr., he just had to go through the struggle of a tough mid situation in the last
This game, this is insane. It's just every single one of the axes. You can't really dodge them that effectively as a melee hero and the boar also slow every time you walk up.
So BZM is going to absolutely be full free farm in this lane and could see R&B rotations to kill again, just like before.
R is in the area but is under the ward so unlikely that we're going to see Chirijunia get caught out by this rotation.
They learned no lesson from last time.
Sure, he's trying to get aggressive but he's taking a lot of damage under the firestorm, has to back off, but backs off just in time, they get the kill, between the two of them taking Saksir out and Pure's gonna be able to stay alive.
Harry, going over toward mid, he's got a snowball skill so he will just be fine, EZM is missing almost 0 last hit, so I think I've only seen him miss 1, if that.
Sure.
We'll be fine. Nothing for... he's not sort of grabbing on towards with the boost black.
Right, because this wave is... he will have 28.
I think he's only missed once he has to a foreign BZM.
Can they bring anyone into the mid to do anything about this?
They might just have to just rotate the Phoenix around so he doesn't get dove.
It just gets constantly axed, man.
But I don't know how much you could threaten BZM because of these double forests.
Now look at this rotation on the bottom lane.
Ari, he's turned up. He's got the snowball in on to notice.
He's ready to set things up for more action for Tundra on this bottom lane.
And Ari, so last game Ari was able to do this without them really punishing in any way 33 got so much out of that off lane
While he was still doing this
So if this is gonna happen they have to make sure that either 33 or something is happening to shut down and kind of punish this movement of
Ari because last game it just did not happen whatsoever
G2 rules there at the mid Ari wants to make the move over is under this ward
I think he's got the next step prepared. He's going to go block the camps of 33 as well too. So this is exactly kind of what you have to do to, you know, shut down and prevent these tough rotations from being as effective. Shut down the sanking completely. Block his camps and don't let him play the lane.
You know, shut down and prevent these tough rotations from being as effective.
Shut down the Sanking completely, lock his camps and don't let him play the lane.
That is mid lane's an issue.
39-15 to the 16-2, the 28 life stealer last hit also in that matchup as we said.
It's a free life stealer lane.
Yeah, I mean we're seeing pretty much on the CS, both Nautist and Chiro Junior are going to have another slow entry into the game.
They didn't have an easy one last game either, both of them.
They at least do have good teamfight to rally around with their team in a very good early game.
Alright.
They're playing out from Watson, but already another catch.
Saks is there with a bush back onto the boat for them.
They cut the roots as well to hold them back.
And they'll actually be able to turn.
Maybe take down White one and get another few right clicks on the Saks,
but White one will fall.
And Saks should be fine.
Doesn't quite take out. He'll survive.
Did one of the hits miss? I feel like one of them did.
Yeah, so he would have maybe had it. Maybe the fairy fight would have saved.
But BZM now is just getting the tower.
And he's got a shield rune too, so he's keeping the catapult alive.
And the Obst was taken away from the mid, so Ary might have a chance of surprising him now from this angle, but he has got Malady by his side, Jirijunia.
He's getting more rotations, they're bringing Watson.
They're bringing him post-support from Tundra, as you say here.
Ghandek's opting to bring in the carry.
They want to get a kill out of that. They'll keep the tower alive for now, but it took insane amounts of damage.
1500 taken onto it already, and an instant small kill.
This is quite a smoke. They might catch him by surprise.
Round the wisdom room too.
Let's see if they can get over to 7 and everyone, obviously put the TP from Watson towards the mid.
He can't head over if he wants to get involved in this.
So, Roar.
There's no point for Roar actually, he's skilled 3-3.
So, he doesn't have Roar unless he gets level 7.
They just got the spam here for the dual breath and the axis to throw down towards Saksa.
Notice around the Wisdom stunning the channel, but now Pure's in position to push them off it.
Tundra, they'll be able to steal the Shrine of Wisdom.
Uh-oh, and this is a pretty damn good start for Tundra.
Pure off to a hot start.
He is queuing up the Radiance himself so he is liking this build more.
33 able to get his.
Alright, so he's up to level 6, the Sanking.
He's not been shut down enough.
They did get him once, they did block some of the camps to look at his net worth.
Yeah, he's still going to be able to farm pretty nicely, 33 up here.
It's just hard to punish, and Watson's one rotation did not get them to kill.
Whenever Roth Watson does make a TP like that, he wants to get it killed, almost guaranteed.
And now Watson, they are setting up for him.
Yeah, they're looking for him.
33 opens things up with the Boris Strike.
He used the Avalanche movement.
They're buying time for the ice bar to connect.
Ari's coming in with a snowball.
Watson in trouble.
Is there any help coming in for him that's not to head over?
He's dead, game.
He's able to fight a little longer,
but he will not make another bar of strike cuts.
And once he goes down, they will at least kill off
White Mourne at 33 and return.
He ticked up.
He absorbed a lot of that damage for time for his team
to come in.
Malady with some nice fire spirits.
Cherie's going to see if he could chase for more.
Oh, maybe actually now I'm going to corrosive.
Ari's a bit too slippery.
I always have to shatter snowboard and mess with the combo so Ari can walk away.
But all in the meantime BZM, just hitting the mid tower, he's gonna have it finished off, a nice try for the deny.
It sucks that they're not gonna be the case.
As you said, a very, very slow start, for notice, and just getting bullied by Whitemon.
Gary even looking to close the gap, they throw the blood grenade.
I'm gonna pop the rage hitter, just move straight for the pit, force him to TP out.
We'll be able to get out at the least, but forced away again, and he's bottom of the cores now at this point.
BZM has been a roar already in the mid, just runs up, drops the roar onto Saks, picking up kills on his own now, BZM.
This Beastmaster is problematic, top of the course, top of everybody. Taking the towers super early on, they're enabling a 2K network lead.
And Ari's going to play around him as well too, just like last time.
Still early days, but if this game does continue in a way where...
...another healer...
have kind of, you know, Chiro Junior and Nautilus fall behind.
You know, what sort of Watson's chances on the tiny this game compared to, like, what we saw him need to have to try and do on the Lunar Last game?
Any easier?
No, it feels kind of similar in a way, right?
I feel like Yandex is a very mid-game kind of draft that wants to be able to fight around that mid-game a lot,
because late game, it does look very problematic with him versus a Life Stealer, the triple strength cores,
and there's Beastmaster who's out of control.
I'm probably careful how they shot.
They got it, they got it.
They're dead. They think of the eyes.
Half onto the boat with them.
Nice Brutes, Ari.
So we'll be out of holding back, but Ari's ready with a snowball wall.
Oh!
I don't know what we'll pull.
I'm having a big lag too.
Okay, okay.
Well, what's going to go down here?
Who's going to die?
Well, he has Infest, so he might Infest Ari, but the TP is coming over.
Oh, that's true.
Someone's going to die.
I think he wants to immediately go for the Infest and Ari, right?
Yeah.
Ari might die.
I mean, we'll say it.
It's so hard to say always in these situations.
And who else is ready to die?
BGM's going to have another set of wild axes in a second.
Here, his TP is taking in two and a half seconds.
The socks are very likely to die.
Exactly. He's got to be depth destroyer.
So there's no surviving for him.
Notice, there's a very fire.
I think he's okay.
I think socks that dies, maybe already dies
and then we'll see what happens afterwards with the slaughter of Chase.
A very oppressive start though by Tundra again.
I mean, we're not missing. They're behind tier two.
Yeah, and on the meanwhile, 233,
he's doing the build that he used to do on the sanking.
He's actually not going to full out rush to blink.
Q'ing up a little bit of a veil first to get that sustain.
It's getting a lot of space over there as well.
Yep.
Let's see who goes down as this continues, Zaxa.
Dangerous veil.
Vyzen indeed, okay, no he doesn't.
BGM snaps him with those axes.
They're very smart.
They didn't need to overcommit.
Ari stays perfectly fine with the infest.
Coming in onto it.
They might stick in the area here too, obviously.
So what I'm looking for is an infest gank.
With the Beastmaster, they can absolutely set up for the slow to cheer up, watch the rune, and does. He wants to stick around for this 10 minute spawn.
And he's not gonna get it. Piers able to get the pick up on the regen rune. Cheer up, Junior has to run.
Open rune, charge off the mark.
BZM, he's got rune in a second.
He's got one charges for the mana, pops the one charges, has the mana.
Gonna be another one there for Tundra, 9 to 6 countergating.
3K lead, very early on here, 10 minutes in.
This beast is out of control and cheer up.
They're trying their best to help him, but over and over again,
just the numbers are coming in from Tundra.
They're one step ahead, maybe two steps ahead
as we're seeing a 3K lead now for them.
And 33 is not getting punished, Owen.
He's completely matching his other cores,
matching the lifestealer, in fact.
Weisen, again, the only one having a good game.
And we've seen so many times how much of an impact
as strong as that Sanke can have.
And he's going to get to have that sort of a show
when he's getting this amount of early game farm.
And the Vale's pretty interesting that he's gone for this build
instead of going for the blink because he's got a lot of different magic
damage that he can just amp up for his team.
That'd be pretty game strong here.
So Yandex, what's the plan from then?
What are they looking to rally around soon?
It's just got to be around Watson, right?
Watson, plus when they get the Phoenix ulti, I think that's going to be the big ones
and maybe looking for the numbers.
If they can use that fiend's gate to catch Tundra off guard
and get that number advantage, that'll be the key to come back in this one for them.
But right now definitely looking difficult because Chira,
he's just super weak at this point.
And it's not the easiest game either for the starter to recover, because more things I'm thinking about and looking at.
There's so much attack speed slow too, right?
There's this Epi, this tag team from the toss, the jikiro spells.
Everything has attack speed slow.
So sure, he's going to be able to use his crush and his corrosive haze effectively, but how much is he actually going to get to attack at all in the game?
Absolutely. Yeah, he kind of needs to blink on the BKB before he's able to do anything, and even then they have ways to fight for it.
And the more I'm thinking about that too, like for the tiny, how is he going to attack?
There is so much attack speed slow.
This might be one of the higher-tax speed slow drafts I've seen.
It doesn't have a Phoenix in it.
And they just don't really have a huge amount of ways to buff one another up on the side of Yandex.
It sort of counts without, right?
No. I'm also still continuing to get him back, so...
See if we'll be able to fix that issue here.
Let's see what I got next, as Watson truly has, again, his work cut out for that last game on the LUNA.
He gave him a pretty good shot on the LUNA.
Yeah, and I felt like that was a hero where he can actually farm faster.
and just better overall right and just actually be that traditional carry sure we're seeing the index in particular the only team
That's trying this carry tiny but it doesn't have to shard anymore, right? So you don't have that infinite hit with your tree grab
It's all about getting the timing around echo and silver edge
That's what I saw on the last one the echo silver edge and then just hunt and get kills around the map
That was when I saw Watson strength as the tiny of the last time
But things are falling apart quickly on the other course and the supports too
The hoodwink last time when they were playing sox who was able to kind of dictate the flow of finding kills all over the place
He's 0-4 this game as well.
And the stacks, they can just do it freely with the bore.
Got the timing.
He did. Very nice efficiency there from BZM.
Coming in very, very good stops this game.
3-0-2, the agonim's just 800 gold away.
It's going to be one of the fastest ones you'll see.
Ag's timing for the beast will come out probably at the same time as the blink timing
for the sinking with the veil on top as well.
These upcoming fights, I mean, a full team fight might be problematic for Yandex
unless they do get that number advantage and notice.
And my one's... See, it's a solo kill already?
He might just, it's close!
It's close!
I mean, no one's gonna try and hide in the trees and be at least access there in time to help him out
because it was getting a little less spooky there for notice.
Much needed kill. Pure.
And that's the relic already finished up super early.
And they're talking on the panel about maybe seeing that different build
But I'm actually like the radius this game absolutely seeing how strong it can be sure it doesn't provide the miss rate in that aoe
But this evasion for himself versus that slaughter can be very nice this game
And yeah, they have so much I mean so much damage around with it to right with that bail
He lost that three-third listen. That's all that
And there's that blink all right, so the 30 minutes in as you said blink base bail
He's ready to rock the roll at 33
How's the timing for the Underlord looking?
It's been slowed down so much, so they're not going to get that great pipe timing to try to counteract the sanking, counteract the Beastmaster by any means.
Things have been slowed down so much for the Sadiand X.
Fights look much easier for Tundra to approach now at this point.
And again, a draft that can force objectives every time they have this Beastmaster always gives you that.
They're gonna make it in time for the 14-minute shrine as well too. I think they will.
They are 10 seconds to go until that spawns. They're starting the TP in themselves, Yandex.
They don't want to give this one up, but are they going to be prepared for this jump that Tundra's going to be coming in with?
It's everybody on Tundra. They've got the numbers.
They make the jump in time. They can. There's gonna be 33 movement over with the Blink Kepi.
Straight on towards notice. Stop and notice from being able to pick up the Shrine of Wisdom.
Watson will try and turn with the rules out upon him. They have managed to kill 33, but can they run away?
Sax hands are ticking out. Watson is surrounded by BZM and Ari.
Tira, Junio and Malady. They're looking for White Mop. But the infest came in from Pure.
They got a ride. Keep the White Mop on safe. The ice pass back up.
He's called Malady. They find the four of them.
Tundra are looking so damn strong and what a timing. Pretty much perfect. All five of them come in.
Gandexed, he had not.
I mean, I said...
33 drops at the perfect moment.
Stopping noises from being able to get that wisdom.
And they do, of course, throughout that.
Actually, get the wisdom and so PCM was able to secure it by Tundra.
I think they almost saved the Sankeen too.
I think something was blocking the life-stealer from getting the infest off.
I'm not sure what it was. Was it a shard or something?
Because I saw Pierre trying.
Okay, it was the shards. Look at this.
He actually almost saves 33 here at the tail end of everything. Look.
Oh, yeah, he really tried there to get that infested stuff.
But I mean, they went that fight handedly,
and great timing for them to all turn up.
Couldn't ask for a better timing on Tundra.
Everything coming in at the perfect moment.
And was he in the next, just behind the farm?
Is this not there on their mid, not there on that off late?
They had to try for that move, Jandex.
Falling further and further behind.
Wipe on.
Get the jump on him.
They got him.
OK, fell on him, guys.
They did only just have the Arian 33 around, they didn't want to throw anything into that.
Just not knowing what was quite behind that gentleman's action, Chiro Junior.
So having the blink timing here on Chiro, this is where they could partner up and perhaps look for that space to open up the map a bit here.
If they can just set up constantly with these two and then maybe get a fiend's gate and then maybe a tiny rotation afterwards,
they can start to get these kills and start to slowly come back in.
The problem is, they don't scale in comparison to Tundra.
Tunges drafts go so hard this game with this beast with this light-feeler's arm
into the matchup that they're up against.
It's gonna have to be some magic from Yandex. Six-Pay leave this early with this draft.
Drink it!
I'm just gonna... the crowd's keeping this going very well.
There we go! There we go!
He kept us on the edge there, that one.
Let's see again if they can look to set up.
How many, okay, do we have a Stafford?
Do you ward?
I think Ari's killed like six wards already in this game, if I'm not mistaken.
He killed the mid one that you were mentioning from the early rotations, he killed the
clip one that they put in earlier to try to defend their stacks.
Another one there, and I think you've gotten at least one or two before that,
so pretty crazy how many ops he's been able to take out here.
Watson has got a Shadowblade.
Alright, let's do a bit of an echo. So a bit of a better chance of kind of getting that opening off the back of a smoke plan
It will come out now from Yandex. See if they can get those pick offs to get that number advantage if they do need in this upcoming fight
This is when he turned the game the last time I did see him play his Tiny when he was able to get the Shadowblade
Fine Tiro split up and get the pick offs
Tundra right now doing a very good job of not falling for those sort of moves there
Incredibly grouped up behind Pierre on this bottom line
And Pierre is gonna go for the armlet next so a little bit of a pivot of bill since he's playing versus the slaughter
The minus armored still has its merits used to be the build of course on the life stealer always armlet
Are you getting closer and closer toward blink leading the charge for a catch
Teams able to completely avoid one another
Tundra, Tundra's climbing, he's still not close to...
He doesn't have one of those auras finished up yet, just yet, and Tundra with this beast
can't just walk into the pit.
They can't contest this.
Should go down pretty easily.
Yandex just having to get what they can to map in the meantime.
I really need that BKB on Chirojunia before he jumps in for the next fight.
Very far from it, so he did buy that shard to get that extra farm.
But yeah, maybe similar to what we were mentioning earlier, wait for double BKB to take a look for a tongue, but Malad is gonna get caught.
Then find Malad the lame, whilst BZM's able to finish off the Roshan, get the Aegis, also able to pick up an amplified damage room for the next fight here on the Beastmaster.
Then he's got the blink now too, to be able to force an issue even more upside down. Cobalt drink, very skillful.
Then Ori, he does take the kill there, I believe, so he's very close to his- Oh, he has his blink dagger on top!
Oh my god, one's coming out for him.
So the save potential's there even if Yandex does get these big catches as well too.
They've got the pipe, so they do have one big tool to at least allow them to tank first with these big ulties, but there's a lot of damage now.
They did a bit overwhelming with that spell weakness that comes out from the Veil too, tier 2 to fall very early.
They're not giving the chances, they're not giving the opportunities to get those pick offs that I was mentioning that perhaps could get them to slide back into this one at all.
Tuntras is playing as a unit. They're not splitting up too much.
And see Watson sort of hovering around each and every time under the cover of the shadow blade just to see if he does catch someone farming alone, but it's not happening.
No, and it's dangerous too, because there could just be an off-century place down Tuntras, very on top of things.
Ready to just go for the roar onto Malady.
Started to get very, very difficult.
They've been difficult, of course, but it's starting to look even harder for Watson to have a chance to even get these kills that he was able to find at least on the Luna before.
What, Mon? I'm pure.
Plus, you can't get away with anything around the mid.
Jump's gonna be there on a pure!
Nice pass there.
And the macro player laid down, gives him a chance for pure to turn, put the rage, tries to move in onto Chiratunia, but it's outnumbered.
Coming with the Avalanche, one of the two of them invested there.
Time's been bought now for 33 to jump in with the epicenter over towards Saksa.
Saksa falls, Watson is surrounded, he's going to try and turn, but the ice bar clips them again
and now Pure's ready to go back in onto Watson.
BZM's going to help out for now by the bashers, but what can run off he's saying?
The timing goes down, and Tundra they might just try and dive to tier 2, crushes their
from tier 2 and they're holding back 33 and BZM.
He's going to try and run, snorples up in a second from Ari.
But throughout the bloke run, the rest of them looking towards notice, he's ready to
They'll strumple one of them, they'll kill all of them, they'll kill all of them!
And the egg! Oh my god, Owen! This game's out of control!
It really is!
They're just walking through, Watson turns up, they can't kill anybody!
Pure uses the rage that infests his body, then they pop out and the backup is there.
The Andex may have just met their match here as Tundra.
Looks far too strong in this game with this draft.
BGM is just crushing it.
Yeah, he's absolutely cruising through this game. 6-0-7.
The beast tusk broke the game before and they're doing similar. This beast is out of control and pure just has this
This godly quarter-core matchup on all three cores
This life-stealer pick does seem to be absolutely perfect socks that will please get them one of the wisdoms first one this guy
But 11 K lead 21 minutes look at the level disparity as well
Absolutely crazy
Just a recipe away from the BKB, maybe with that there's a bit of a better shot of committing
into the team fight.
So we did see sort of how he's fairly tanky and maybe if he can get the BKB off he can
maybe kill one of them at the start.
I don't know, they're just getting tankier and tankier.
The damage is not really increasing for Yandex.
What's Undra?
Watson.
Their eyes gone and BSTM's in with the roar, macro player laid down into the ice path.
There is no saving Watson here.
He'll try and run with the invents, but the damage is gone and he's out for 50 seconds.
Every move is hitting on Tundra.
Just feels like they have, I mean, feels like they have complete control.
All these wards as well too, so they're seeing every time the andex walks out.
Couple times we've seen that this game.
Misplay after misplay after misplay after misplay says Watson.
But the Hunt-Eye Tundras is not kicking in any hope really in this game.
Looking for another fast gank.
Just some creeps to be delivered to.
And the tower.
Tundras, now they are playing a bit split up, so maybe this is that opportunity that Yandex can try to look for, but...
Alright, nope.
Acepon, Sierra Junior.
He's got the opening, sets up with that, he's really coming with the epicenter.
Chirichunia is going to try and run, Saxon's able to TP out.
Chirichunia, can he get away from this, blinks up in a second.
Both of the TP, anything to throw into the tree, let's hold it down.
And Ari!
The shot's around, Ari gets him in the final moment.
He's in there, had ever since that last game as we saw him just dominate on the
toss, this time seeing the exact same thing.
That is a pretty impressive game that they've been able to find during this
Aegis pick up 7,000 gold, as well as taking complete control, all Tier 2s have dropped.
They've only lost one Tier 1.
They've pretty much flawless game from Tundra so far again.
Friandix, they're trying to see if they can find any type of opportunity, but Tundra's just really not giving them any chances to get even a kill.
Full Mensa will be theirs.
The BKBs just have absolutely ridiculous farm, killing up the AC. They could potentially start threatening that high ground.
I'm wondering if they can try to look for a play where they can try to burst the BZM or something, but he's so tanky himself, even if they find him isolated.
I don't know if they can do it fast enough by any means.
They have the BKB on Watson, but still time required until they can get Chiridunius BKB online.
It's a damage. It just really hasn't increased too much. Sure, his survivability went up, but his damage has kind of stagnated in these last six or seven minutes.
Pure. It's pretty much the full Argonim's coming out from pretty soon, I think.
Just about finished that one off.
Super fast timings.
How's Chira?
He's still a while away, just a full recipe off the BKB, so they're going to try and take the risky move,
look to see if they can make a play around Watson's BKB pickup.
They've got BKB in pipe, so a bit tankier, but Tundra's damage and their tankiness is also that much higher at this point.
It's so much controlling, just not giving them the opportunities.
Every time it seems like they know and they group up as a unit, so no one's getting caught on their own.
Andix is trying their hardest to find any of these opportunities, but Tundra prepared for it.
Waiting in the trees.
It's like they know.
And Andix aren't going to...
...preveal themselves too riskily around the mid.
There's that Aghanim. They're already finished off up here.
Tundra?
We're coming up close towards the potential niche, Roshan.
That Roshan could probably have the AC with it.
There he end up, they have, you know, tossback potential.
They have good high ground hold overall, but Tundra also has great ways to just force the high ground themselves to with overwhelming damage.
They could start to use the high ground indeed if they want to.
I mean this lead it. It's so high, so fast.
25 minutes of 15,000 gold lead this early.
It's just getting so much out of the map as we keep Sampeasium in particular.
An insane amount of farm on this mid Beastmaster.
And they always have to save too. That's the problem, too.
It's like, I'm looking at, like, perhaps Yandex can try to isolate a hero,
but then there's going to be a drinking buddy's pullout.
Then the snowball, too, and the drinking buddy's is going to be very effective
versus the Slardar, Cruciface, too.
So many different elements that Tundra has to cover their bases as well.
Tundra.
Regardless of the lead they have right now, they're going to be playing safe for the new.
This is the game, to cheers them the championship title.
Yeah, all they really have to do is close it up, is wait for the roast, right?
If they get that roast, they get the Aegis in the banner, that just looks like a clear
path to victory.
And now they've got to somehow try and find a way to build towards the comeback
team fight.
There's not farming that much, right? The Slaughter Cheer just has those things.
They're not there to BKB.
Oh, and even then, when he has it, right?
There's gonna be a Blink Crush and a BKB.
Well, they might just find him as well. Tundra pretty close.
Oh, the Borson.
He's got a Blink away as soon as he...
There's no sort of idea they're around. BGM's gonna go for the Blink on Saksa.
We're under the hook. Wait, they catch the Ice Barf on a Wars Malady.
The Spose support's dead.
I mean, it's the Pieback Malady. They're gonna start to fight this.
Okay, Watson's here with a BKB. Looking for Whitemon. Whitemon will get the backpire out, but Watson's able to kill him. What's has to get out?
He's down for the TP. That's all they can get out of that.
It sucks it did by back, but is he gonna be so lucky to run away?
Ahri's gonna be hot in the chase here with the snowball.
Jump for from Ahri's. The punch up has to control is to die back on Saxonosis.
He's getting bullied on the way back to the base, but Watson's never stepped back up and helped out.
It passed.
It passed with the agonims traded towards it.
Four strike catches the two of them!
Everybody's...
They just call it!
It's done!
It is called!
Tindra, they've done it here!
An ESL will bury him!
They'll take the Tindra!
Three to one!
Against Yannick!
And my goodness!
Now, with some of these games,
they were on completely another level!
What's the energy between BZ and R8?
BZ and Tindra are at the end there for very good reason.
An absolute insane play.
Both games, the Beastmaster and the Toss,
They probably took complete control of this game.
White mod dies 6 times, but the main port is BGM at 0 deaths, pure 0 deaths.
I mean, they ran through this game.
They really did. We're still in an awkward previously as well.
Just sometimes when they hit the strategy right, it just seems unplayable.
And this is the thing, I'm actually looking incredible in the run-up until this point.
But in these games, just getting completely outclassed by Tundra.
Really good trap, really good play.
Ari deserves that high-five as well too, and yeah, this life stealer pick, it looks incredible on paper and absolutely in the game.
It's delivered. It really did.
They couldn't touch him.
Jere had a beautiful time throughout that all.
I was talking about the Ari Tuskbrite, came out in a couple of games here in the finals, and it just really got in their head.
I mean, ever since that, the whole sort of first five minutes of the game where he's messing around with Tira Junior,
you knew from that point onwards that they'd get Ari on the tuskbegin, it was pretty much going to be over from that point.
He's just too comfortable. He plays his comfort. You can see how well he does play.
How the whole team plays around him. This toss, Ari with the home crowd behind him.
Oh yeah, they love it. They absolutely love it here. They just absolutely deserve it. Ari
popping off here in the finals with Team Tundra. Ladies and gentlemen,
Give it up for you, you still want your best way to play sticks?
Oh, God!
TOTRA!
Fantastic! Fantastic!
Going to get killed up over 10 minutes!
TOTRA!
That's another gonna work with you first, please, if I may.
Come over here so we can see you.
You've led these lads so well. How proud of you.
How proud of them are you to lift this trophy here today?
We didn't let you get your own back.
It was an afternoon with us, and we didn't get your comeback, so I'm very happy, proud of that.
Congratulations, you get those points.
I know that you did such a huge job in this Grand Final.
I know that you carried, but everyone just carries about R-R-E.
And you said, you love this city, you love this crowd.
So, we all got together and decided to make you an official broom boy, alright?
We got you with the official Tarzan.
And it works for this star!
Thank you very much.
The very best tournament is rigged from the start because we can't argue.
So, we couldn't have lost.
Absolutely rigged from the start, not really.
The bag is a bag!
Pure.
So many great carries in this tournament, including yourself, of course.
It must be wonderful to come out on top and have beaten them all.
The likes of Yachtaro and Armey.
But you're the champion. How's it feel?
It's those great guys. Shelby Walk is back in town, guys, so you know.
But the real gangster in our team is Ari Dawkins.
And there are others.
Alright, everybody said that, but we know that behind every great war,
behind every great position, that there is always the God support.
And I am standing here with what many would say is,
one of the greatest supports of all-time white mod, am I right?
So now it's your time to say some words out there my friend, and shout out to the community.
I just want to say thanks to everyone that support us.
My family, my friends, everyone that watching us and support us.
Even though sometimes we try to do, but we try our best and we finally win again.
Absolutely, thank you so much.
Now we're going to grab you two as well Moon.
Moon, my man, I'm going to sneak in here.
Thank you so much.
Moon, we have done so many of these winners interview together, it's kind of getting monotonous now.
I keep talking, you're constantly winning with these teams.
And I do the same thing every time.
I'm going to give you the microphone any words to say about your team,
and any words to say to the crowd here today, all yours.
I know how much this would mean to Ari, that's why I try my best.
And I'm so glad that Ari got to win in his own turf.
Thank you.
All right, Arik.
The crowd's been cheering for you for the last three days.
They've been rooting for you.
Cheerin' you on, hoping for a UK Dots win, and there they go.
How does that feel?
It's surreal, the fitness are real.
I'm very, very much.
in the hardest game, it really fueled my motivation and drive to win.
So, this win is for all of us.
Let's give it up for Arik!
And let's give it up for the whole of Team Tundra,
your extra-one, Burgum 2026 champions!
Let's take thank you to ESL for putting on such a fantastic show.
Thank you to all the people about there who made this possible.
Fantastic desk as well, analysing the games,
but above all, thank you to you guys for being, once again, the best fucking crowd in eSports.
Thank you, Birmingham! And we'll see you soon!
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I see that I'm crying, they're spaying for more
Shots out of fire, it's locked off the doors
Hold your breath, long as you can
Take a breath, feel it, trace from your hands
It's time to be loved
It's time to be loved
It's time to be loved
It's time to be loved
It's time to be loved
Shake off the feeling
This time there's been no more
It's just that I'm not my enemy
It's a secret door
Cause I wasn't given
Cause you were a chance
I'd take the debt
But I thought you'd dance
So don't laugh, as long as you can.
Still got the meaning, transfer your hands.