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ALTAR OF CHAMPIONS DAY 3 | !time 16:00 = Tyler1 vs Dantes | !brackets !aoc !casters
05-17-2026 · 10h 46m
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Welcome to the Headliner, an 8 player The Headliner.
Today on The Headliner, there is The Headliner.
We have 8 The Headliners that are divided into 2 The Headliners, or 4 The Headliners each.
They will work together to win as The Headliner.
On the left hand Headliner, we have The Headliner Alpha.
Captain by The Headliner 1.
He will be joined by The Headliner Cannon.
Simply The Headliner and The Headliner.
maybe.
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Thanks for the amazing event.
It already has been a lot of fun.
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Hello, and welcome to the
stream guys it's the alter of champions day number three it's the finals of the
one-on-one tournament and I couldn't think of a better cast of streamers and
players to still be in the bracket except of course maybe Maxim and Mary maybe
Dante's and Tyler one will be our opening match followed by Hera and Pax
followed by simply a Yamato Canon in the upper bracket finals then the lower
bracket wait hold on yeah yeah yeah then the lower bracket finals and then the
grand finals so it's losers losers losers yeah then simply your motto can
alright there we go three rounds of lower bracket then simply your motto
canon who are fourth and then the lower bracket finals and then the grand finals
but of course first we're gonna have the headliner the first match of the
clan war it's a one-on-one that begins on springtime and is the best of three
Each team captain will send their representative blindly. Who will they send first? Let's find out.
Always gonna be starting things off with the headliner, of course.
What's up guys? Welcome to the stream. All right, let me catch you all up on what has been happening in this world.
Starting with
Dante's, let's see. Did he do any practice? 16 May, that was yesterday.
looks like not today so any practice that Dante's has been doing has been
off-stream three great again one tournament one tournament at a time
thank you so much Arthenex thank you two for this up CR VRCC okay yeah send me
in your clips for sure send me in your clips of course we're gonna have the
brackets open as well. Dante's is getting coached. By whom? Which of the stream career
are we ending next? Which a we two streamer career are we ending next? Of course, all
of them, all of them, their own soul stream. Oh, exclamation mark brackets. Hey, brick
Big ball, thank you. I saw you offering up yourself, your body, in Tyler's chat. You
were saying 1500mm, but I would beat you. Glad you could make it, Headliner. You watched
your Headliner with me, Headliner. You may be the Headliner, but I'm still your Headliner
as a Headliner. As if I could forget. Listen, Headliner. There's something about the Headliner
you should know. Oh no, it's too late. These Headliners have all been infected. They may
look fine now, but it's a matter of time before they turn into the Headliner. What? This entire
headliner must be purged. How can you even consider that? There's gotta be some other headliner.
There isn't! It's the only one. Damn it, headliner. The brackets. On Wikipedia, you can
exclamation mark brackets them. I have them here too, of course. It's a little prettier
here. Let's look at some clips.
What if it works?
Yeah, but what if I have a Vodana, I don't know, it's a whole different concept, man.
You have to understand, it's really...
Who is this coach?
He's really speaking Dante's language.
It's difficult because he's gonna create...
Hey, GL for today.
Hey, thank you so much for our...
Barqmage.
He got coaching from some Bosnian guy. Okay, it doesn't really narrow it down.
You don't really get chance.
Like to...
Oh, guys, check this out. Hera hit the ladder a little bit. You okay?
What's gotten into him?
What's gotten into him?
Death Note Coaching?
Hera's usual lean into tournament form?
I don't think this is all because of Death Note Coaching, guys.
I think this is mostly my coaching.
I think it's the grubby effect, but it's also possible that it's none of the above.
It's possible that Hera just amps up in the middle of a tournament.
It could be Atreox's mental reset buff too.
True.
What if Hera was hiding his real strength here to buff the storyline?
We should watch some of this, this is crazy.
Tyler has been up since 3 hours ago, getting prepped as well, by Knopf.
This is the wrong channel.
Does Tyler do a stream actually, to YouTube?
They're working on it right now.
Someone else caught the Warcraft 3 bug as well.
Sunglitters? Sunglitters is practicing?
Yaman!
Yeah, she's practicing, but I don't think it's going very well.
We even had one of our mod sniper, apparently.
Well, not in my... not in my name.
It's going okay. Okay. Okay.
Level 3 against 3, 1.
4, 2 against 7.
2 against 4, 2.
5 against 5, 4.
4 against 7.
Oh man.
7, 3. 3 against 7.
She's having fun though, right?
Watch the game against Canada.
We can't watch it all.
We only have an hour.
Is Tyler playing ladder?
I think not, right?
Yeah, yeah.
Tyler is focusing on custom games.
Yamato Kanan is hitting the gym again.
Beat this Undead over here.
Archmage 553.
531.
Lost a whole bunch too.
Was this last?
Oh, this was yesterday.
first game. Ah, he just started. Death Note said he's willing to coach you
someday. Ah, just my luck. Last game she did great, just the problem of not spending
resources. I mean, that's a pretty big problem. That's kind of a big problem. Is that the
some letters from last season? Yes. Yes, it is. I kind of curious about his some
of his highest elo victories. Take a little look. Take a little look. Hera
training arc? What's this? Wait, wait, wait. He watched my game. Wait, wait, I have no
hold on
Did he watch it alone over death note?
Why grab it?
Say it. Oh, yeah
Bro, I forgot I forgot there's a lot going on. Okay. No, it's true. It's true. Hey my bad
And also in who should be always on Mk?
Of course, of course, Invo on Mk, Boots on Mk, bye-bye.
Because Mk always on front and Mk...
I was just having fun, man, I was just vibing.
Remember guys, I was commentating the whole game?
Why you go tier 3 when you don't know stuff exist?
Remember guys, I was commentating the whole game.
I was focusing on entertainment, I wasn't locked in, I was reading chat, remember?
Bro was open-mouth gaming, no?
I don't remember that, you didn't say a single word that game?
Ah, shit.
Bro, why grabby still didn't transfer boots to MK?
Oh, say it, say it.
And also in wool should be always on MK, because MK always on front and MK always, you know, like, he can't go near and also, you are not supposed to use aura like in this arc mage, why?
Because you will be losing brilliance aura.
Oh shit, really?
Of course.
Oh damn.
I wasn't in this though.
It's the model I'm using, no?
Okay, I'm in this.
But anyway, there's a grace period where you don't lose the aura yet.
It's like two seconds.
It's okay to in this now and then, so you can't get hit.
That's it?
That's the only mistakes I made though.
That's not too bad.
Minus one point.
Minus one point is okay.
That's still a nine.
That's still a nine though.
Okay.
No, it's minus one out of ten.
Yo, thank you for this up, our Wendell, Knobcock.
This is Hera's final game.
Let's check it out.
By the way, before we watch this, can we just look at this?
Only one of these would be an amazing story if they win.
Simply the guy that kind of everyone is ignoring, he's like rank five or six or something on
the MMR, he casually two outs, he's the only person in his whole bracket that didn't lose
a map.
Okay, two O2O, clean.
Two different race opponents too.
If simply wins the Altair of Champions tournament, the Mario 64 speed runner, nobody saw him
coming.
That's beastly.
That's super cool.
story line if he wins that. If Yamato Kanan wins the tournament, the 12 to 16 hour practice
guy, the guy that stays up till 5 am of his local time zone, that's got more coaching
than anybody else that absorbed more criticism from his coaches than anybody else, the one
that moved his anniversary with his wife to another weekend, would be Cinema's story
line as well. If Dante's wins, well, need I say more? Nobody's thinking that he's going
even get past Tyler. If he wins the tournament, that would make a tomfoolery of the Warcraft
scene. You don't think? That's like secretly really freaking cool. Like, he would have
taken big shit in Warcraft scene's mouth if he did that. Right? If Tyler 1 wins, you
know it's gonna be epic. He's gonna have an epic speech. It would be super cool for
for him to win the tournament.
First one, he almost got third, but he got fourth.
It would be a very, very cool storyline if Tyler wins.
The only Orc left in the tournament?
He's the one that started this whole idea of events as well,
so it would be very deserved.
If Hera takes it, he dropped a rank four in MMR.
He crashed out a few days ago.
He kept making the same mistakes, asked his chat to take notes.
He didn't study enough.
He lost A.W.2, best of 5, 0-3 against Sebastian because of Warcraft 3 and because of me, all
because of me.
And if he wins it now out of the lower brackets, it will be an epic storyline too.
Yo, Sal, thanks for the rape.
Wait, why are you raiding?
Why aren't you streaming?
Hey, thank you for the sub, Massacio!
Grabby Tyler said, if I lose to Dante's, I'm gonna quit streaming.
He said it yesterday.
No, that can't happen, can it?
I don't understand why Sal is rating instead of streaming.
He wants to watch.
That's crazy.
Mera lost everything for Warcraft 3. Yeah. He lost his whole AE2 career, he lost his wife, he lost his cat. True.
It's all already streamed for 9 hours. He's tired. Okay, fair. Thank you for the rate. Welcome.
Yo, Sidran, thanks for the tier 1. Thanks for the tier 1 sub.
He lost his dinner. He was streaming from 5am. Some people can't sleep man.
Why did I get health?
He's streaming weekends. Seriously, everything has been so dang entertaining.
Thank you, Darius.
Thank you for all the work you put in, Grubby.
My pleasure.
Thank you, thank you.
There was a mart that I had to martin the channel to.
Okay, done.
If Pox wins this, the guy from Path of Exile that is using one man army with Warden, one
woman army, it would be very cool as well.
cool as well. The guy that studied more than anyone that knew the most obscure game mechanics
if he data's his way into the grand finals and wins. Like I literally think any one of
these six will be an amazing storyline if they win. Yeah, ban PoE players next event
if box wins or 8 poe players are you gonna main poe if he wins well
bro has a website for once given period okay thank you for the sub mochi this is
chat if you just tuned in if you just tuned in this is Hera last night doing
a little bit of casual practice. Now, fun fact, Hera was already the holder of the longest
win streak in this practice arc. He had a 12 game win streak, 11 game win streak, and
a 10 game win streak. Three different streaks. He streaks so much that I would hate to be
his toilet cleaner. That's how much he streaks. But it also means he's streaky. He's up and
down. Look at game length, almost every win is like 12-13 minutes, it's crazy. Box has
had a 13 game win streak. I got those notes from someone at some point a few days ago.
Box has had 13 wins in a row. Aha! Box has had 13 wins in a row. Okay, crazy. But of course,
This is 13 wins on a row, we're on 14 different days.
One game a day, with a break day on Sunday.
Hera streaking so hard he's banned from every football stadium.
True.
So we're getting a ghoul protection here.
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They will work together to win as The Headliner.
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He will be joined by The Headliner, Cannon, Simply, The Headliner, and The Headliner.
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It's one video
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Yo thanks for the primes, official ninja, cgo, rs, owl, just relaxing, unki, 101, Felderpons,
Blackjack, 607, thanks guys, Koyle is ass!
Yo thanks for the prime, happy squid 89, relax and appreciate the tier 1.
The headliner for today starts in 47 minutes guys, every player agrees to delay it by 2
hours to tournament.
Yo, Amp is playing Tyler 1 right now.
Oh ladder or they're custom gaming oh they're practicing anything about this
oh shit absolute peak it is Mato's coaching by death notice some of the
highest shit I've seen all year saying prior should be to not give him any more
oh shit they're gonna custom game cool okay oh thank you Celestina
Riot Plastbunker Balladminton Busta underscore maniac neo
obvious been finding windwall yeah guys look at this
Look at this, look at this, look at this, Armpie has been playing all the races and it looked
like he didn't like Orc at first because he was like 111 on Orc.
He was 315 on Newman but he was 111 on Orc.
But today he started playing Orc and he's actually kind of a whiz with it, winning almost everything.
Always playing Blade Windwalk.
I just saw him clown on some guy with single blades and shadow on a paladin rifle guy over
here.
He didn't even use any units.
He just won with blade shadow only.
I could be coming from YouTube just to tell you you killed me.
I only stopped laughing due to the headlighting.
You have time to join the custom game if you want.
No, it's fine.
I don't want to have to be forced to leave it like halfway.
Hey, thanks for the Prime Trash Orc.
Harass an early ritual dagger.
Nice splitting of his ghouls on the headhunters.
He continues creeping. Death Knight is very low.
He does dagger over here. Didn't get an Erubion despite getting harassed.
Okay, I was expecting to see happy levels of play.
Like 14-0 is insane.
But happy would have still played this better.
Minus one point.
Is Sol cast a man gonna join the cast today?
Yes!
we'll get us all. The opening match guys is going to be Dante's vs. Tyler and that's
going to be co-casted by Sing Sing and Sun Glitters. Sing Sing the winner of the
second invitational and Sun Glitters the runner up to the runner up to the runner
up to the runner up to the runner up to the runner up to the runner up to the
runner-up to the winner of the first invitation.
Yo, Tushine, thank you, Sisantoro, thank you for the sub.
Do you have a prediction for who will win the tourney?
My wife asked me that earlier today and I answered honestly,
but I am not going to answer that to you guys.
These are some secrets you only keep with your wife and did you watch any of Sun Glitters's games? Yes.
The Sun Glitters is playing right now.
Almost a year. Thank you for this event. Hope an amazing third and closing day.
Thanks Amaro. Easy homie. Thank you easy homie.
Sunglet is one?
Wait, let's quickly... let's go through this a little bit quickly.
Turn on W3 Booster.
A newbie tournament should be a thing.
Guys, guys, this is the newbie tournament.
What do you mean it should be a thing?
Every tournament I held so far is a newbie tournament.
talking about the newbies among the newbies of the newbies newbie newbie did
never play before and can never learn the game properly that's what you mean
come on this is the newbie tournament
the falter of champions
Everyone keeps asking about what do you think the top two of every tournament and you hold
a tournament, but what about the bottom two of every tournament?
Or the middle two?
It's me or wife.
Can you tell and repeat what you said sincerely your wife?
Yeah, thanks for the sub, Corporal Fudge.
Oh my god, wait.
What?
This is the end of this 14 game win streak, guys.
I mean, it's not the end, it's still open, but I just mean this is the capstone.
The capstone achievement, the headliner if you will.
16 game win streak.
Good scouting on the natural. What's the orc doing?
Kind of AFK. Upgrades, 1-0. What's his gul upgrades? 0-0. He has backpack.
Guls and statues.
12 for last barriette
Oh, oh my god panic. No
Barcie your shadow tc
Not sure you really need a lot of destroyers against mass headhunters
It's kind of going in blind here
A bomb is good.
Orc goes over 50 with a single headhunter.
I don't like that.
I don't like that at all, man.
And then a random attack into Orc base on 51 pull.
This is 1400 elo?
1400 elo, 51 pop, base attack against undead.
I didn't teach this.
There I lost both unit production buildings.
Destroyer in front, but it's on blight.
He coiled his ass.
Asses are coiled.
Wait, wait hold up.
Oh, how did he get live on the death night?
I guess he had healing potion.
Hey, thanks for the Prime Disco, Raz.
Wait, why is Tyler practicing against Elf?
Oh, he's preparing for Pox.
Wait, that means that Ampy has to play Warden.
He's trying to get the altar before the farce here.
Didn't work.
He coiled his ass.
He's still trying to get the altar.
Altar of champions, baby.
Alright, pretty good, pretty good.
Pretty good, man.
Let's take a look at the headliner game. We got some practice going on. Tyler versus Ampy.
So this got to be a warden game by Ampy, I guess.
Yeah.
Check Sungletters' win, but this is live.
This is live chat.
Sungletters' win will be recorded in history.
What do you mean?
Check Sungletters' win?
She doesn't have any.
Why do people keep saying, check her win?
It cannot be found.
I was about to find out.
Did she kill the hero today?
That's not a win.
Inestimate.
I didn't know you could still play this.
Yeah, what's up to Red Skeleton?
Warcraft 3 is very playable.
all my units are on me.
Yeah, you need to rally to Shadowhunter.
He's still gonna lose Shadow, almost.
Could be 8 female tournament would be Larry's and unpredictable.
I'm gonna let you in on the secret chat.
I worked on an 8 female tournament.
I was working on it.
Right?
But only one of them accepted.
Like, I asked like 10 females.
But only one accepted.
I didn't and it could have been like you know how like I've had a bunch of male tournaments with one or two females in it
Well, what if I have a female tournament with one or two males in it
Dante's could join
My burrows being late fucked a lot of I did not need to do that
I just tried to flash, am I, can you do my good right now?
I'm on my heal too, broke my shadow, I just tried to flash, I don't know what the fuck
is going on in my head right now, tell him to be dead, dead honest here, what the fuck?
Guys, you should see the beginning of Tyler's stream, check this out.
Alright, the water, it's like, what, where, where I said it, I actually have a life, I
I cannot sit here after tournament and review, evaluate,
scrim, vaude, practice.
I have a family.
Being, then I went outside with the girls.
Like, I think I was off the sizing.
By the way, black eyes closed.
I woke up and dude, I don't know what happened.
I went a minute, I woke up, I went to the bathroom.
I laid in bed staring at the ceiling, pitch black eyes closed.
No cell phone.
I was just envisioning WC3 what I was going to do to win today W like I think I was prophesizing by the way
I think I was seeing my destiny my future
It was great
The sign anyway that happened for two hours I
Eventually all right. What time is it? I'm not fall asleep. That's like 230
I'm like, holy shit.
230.
And at some point, I close the gate and start happening again, and then at some point I
fell asleep and woke up, my alarm, at 430.
Alarm at 430.
Does this man get any sleep?
I got a little bit weird vibe today.
So I haven't had caffeine since my...
How can you still function when you have kids?
With some teeth pulled.
It's been almost a month and a half, two months.
No caffeine.
By the way, I didn't even know he drinks coffee.
In March 2025, after the OnlyFans invitation, I did some Latter Grind and I was playing
really well.
And I sent this replay to Tyler and I was like, man, I was playing really well.
I had a whole bunch of coffee from the event and I was inspired.
It's like, Grats, man, you're a drug addict, Grats, about me drinking coffee.
So I thought, oh, he's like anti-coffee.
And now he's talking about he hasn't had caffeine in one and a half months.
Bro, I kinda wanna have caffeine today. I don't know.
Heh heh heh.
Gromy, did you still stop playing League because of toxicity? Or did you grow out of the game?
Neither. Neither.
Uh, I- I- there was no toxicity.
because I muted all chat and I also didn't grow out of the game that you're
dead you're dead I also didn't grow out of the game I just decided to pause the
content arc I was always going to only play for a week or two weeks or a month
or two months, not for like a year. Grab your muting chat as toxic, you're incorrect. Leak
is still toxic even if muted, right, but I'm unaware of it. Hey, thank you, thank you for
What is up, Mortale? Mattmeister?
No, I didn't know that, Jumka. I didn't know that.
Did you communicate? Did I communicate with my League allies? No. Look, the thing is,
in any given game, the highest potential to perform well in a ladder game with your teammates
is if you communicate. You listen and you communicate your plans. But in any given training arc of a
team game, you as a person will selfishly grow the best if you completely mute and ignore everybody.
That's just how it is. And so if you want to selfishly improve your own form without
caring as much about winning any particular game, it's much better to mute them.
Now, if you call that selfish, you are right.
If you call it toxic, I don't care.
But that is the best way to improve.
Being selfish isn't toxic.
No, because I am putting my best effort into winning as many games as possible.
I am most likely not going to be LVP.
I'm most likely going to be MVP or middle of the pack.
And the proof is, I kept rising rank.
And I'm playing with people that have 10,000 of games and they're stuck in their league
and they want to win their one little game where they think that they can tell me how to play the game and teach me how to play the game.
Whereas if I start playing according to their advices, what's going to happen is that I won't learn the game properly.
I'm going to do things I don't believe in. I'm going to do them poorly and I'm going to get toxic and I'm going to get distracted by the toxicity, etc.
That's a fact. There's a much higher chance for us to win if I'm in a good mood, and I'll
remain in a good mood if I don't have to hear what you have to say. Now, if I knew that
four people are chill and communicating well, then I'll have it off. But because I can't
take that risk, I stay muted. That's how I played League. And every person that coached
me a leak or Dota 2 recommended the same thing. Mute all your teammates if you're looking to improve.
Did you mute Dota 2? No, but I learned from that.
One and a half years, I didn't mute my allies. I communicated and part of it was the most fun.
Part of that whole communication arc was the most fun. But also, downsides.
Where's our switch?
You're watching me watch you
Yo
Just wanted to see your win people keep saying yo go check out some good as it's win
Where I
Would like to know you'll get there soon some good is stick to your training
I'll be waiting to see if he's going to combine again.
My co-caster by the way for the opening match for the headliner in 30 minutes.
Don't let this distract you from the fact that Dante's did destroy the Warmill, bro.
The 2v2, the 4v4?
In the 4v4, Dante's.
This is a connoisseur reaction to Hera's win streak.
Here, that Hera is doing well.
Okay.
That's a clip.
Look at this.
What is on his mind?
Dude, Ampy's kind of good with Orc now.
Be on Bistiri Windriders.
Three command groups and say, yeah, they don't know he has more. What's this he boasts?
I added it.
Are fairy dragons good against humans?
They can be.
They can be if people don't have a workshop and they go double sanctum, then fairy dragons
are good.
Hey, thank you, Michael Jordan.
What's the first match today?
Alright guys, we're going to be starting off with Dante's against Tyler.
This is a best of three.
The map system is ABBA ban, RNG first pick, right?
So Tyler's probably gonna ban big maps.
Dante's is gonna ban small maps.
Dante's has some creeping plan
with his Dark Ranger and Pit Lord
and he's gonna either do the ghoul
and fiend thing that he showed yesterday
or he's gonna do the frost worm thing with A-bombs.
He's probably gonna take some expansions
and Tyler's gonna try and be aggressive, right?
Dante's played a lot better yesterday.
improved a lot. I hope they play with the open mic. Because it's solo play, I don't think I'm
gonna like join in and see what they have to say. But we may be able to get them like for a pre-game
talk. I think for Dante Steyler, we should get them for a pre-game talk. For Hera Pax, I don't
think it's as important, but we need to get these guys before and after.
West Coast U.S. Thanks Grubby for organizing such a fun tournament and bringing people
together around one of the greatest games. Inspired to play ladder again myself.
Yeah, it's beautiful. Like when people are enjoying themselves, like even Tyler and Hera
that can be emotional players, when they're enjoying themselves and they're vibing with
Warcraft 3, when sudden hitters is enjoying herself and is vibing, when people are learning
the game and making discoveries. It is one of the most beautiful games of all time. Warcraft
3 is a jargonaut in the gaming history and it exists today because it is so damn good.
Made by Peak Blizzard. Made by Peak Blizzard with levels of detail that we are still only
now discovering. It's like, oh, that's how they coded this part. It's just so damn good.
And I'm so thankful that people that really know Warcraft 3 re-took over the classic
theme right before Microsoft took over.
I can't say it's like, oh, because Microsoft took over, Blizzard, that's why we're in a
better spot again.
But Reforged started getting fixed two years ago.
All right?
Well, is it about two years?
Yeah, about two years ago.
Two, three years.
Did you see, German was playing Warcraft 3 Custom Apps the other night?
I heard about it.
i'm not very familiar with germans content yet
is he a bigger streamer
one point six million followers yet not only is he a bigger streamer is bigger
a great ambassador for wc3 war chief
i hope you never stop posting these
is bigger is older is og
He's retired, big streamer, I see, I see, cool.
Chapters.
Oh yeah, Warcraft 3, five hours 45.
I don't know if it has something to do with this event
or not, or if that's just something he does
from time to time.
That's cool.
And Gribby, I think the tournament games are more fun
when they have middle of the game pauses and trash-talking,
like the Tyler 1, Warcraft 3 tournament.
Yeah, you know, I was thinking of maybe doing that as well
in the 4-on-4 or FFA or whatever,
But it doesn't, I guess it doesn't fit me as much.
Like I think that was really cool when Tyler did that.
It's not as much up my street.
I think it's really nice.
It's really nice that Dante's improved so much.
Yeah.
Like even with one fifth gold pins,
Mary probably would have won against Friday Dante's.
But yesterday was actually huge.
Also Gohera Wu.
Woo!
Those show matches were very casual.
I think it's, look, I come from a real serious competitive background and I'm embracing the
trash talk and the extra content around it, but there's going to be things that fit me
better and not, and I have to do things that I believe in, and like the pausing in the
middle of a 4 on 4 or whatever, I think it would take away from the seriousness of it.
I think it's nice to combine joviality with seriousness.
My goal for this event was for the Clan War and for Team Format to feel meaningful.
One year ago we also had 2v2, 2v4, 1v2, 4v4, but it was just for fun and I've been racking
my brains over how we can have a 2v2 or 4v4 but have it feel meaningful and tied in in
a way to the 1on1 tournament where it doesn't just feel like a side quest where people are
just having fun, but it's meaningful, but it's not as meaningful as the one-on-one.
And this was just perfect.
I'd love to repeat this format in some way or make subtle changes, but it was so freaking
hype and exciting and everyone had fun with it.
There's even a chance we don't get any mirror matchups.
Yeah, that's awesome.
Dreamiceps can be fun, but generally they're less popular.
Yo, thank you for the raid, Ampy.
And see you later as a co-caster.
Mission accomplished.
Seating with the 2v2 and 4v4 mode was very cool.
Yes, mission accomplished.
Is he still playing Ampy?
I guess not, right?
And this is somebody else.
No!
He cancelled his windwalk with speedscroll!
Order!
Uh, has he seen the death note good for you clip?
Yeah, I've seen the death note good for you clip.
I've seen it.
Let's see, who are alive yet?
Yamato Kanon is alive, Tyler1 is alive.
Man, he's still grinding away, is he getting coaching too?
For the health base here.
Yes.
You have to go, you have to get active on the map.
This sounds like Leon.
You have to know where your opponent is, especially against Undead, and the same here goes basically for an ITF.
Right?
Makes sense, yeah.
Consent up.
When do the games start? The games will start in 21 minutes from now.
This is a gentle parent's coach, right? Yes.
Hey, thank you so much. Even longer shot.
Yeah, yeah. Well,
Well, okay, that was very helpful.
Okay, are you giving me a lot of advice?
All of it, very, very good.
I really appreciate your time.
Do you have like one thing that I did well?
43 years of Warcraft 3.
Hey, thanks, Hamfest Jones.
Good to see you again, man.
One thing that I did well in the set.
Ha ha ha.
You want some compliment?
No, you will not give me a compliment, bro.
Only one good thing that you did well is you just try to, you know, try the most, you know, scary coach, the most, you know, rentless coach.
Relentless. Relentless. Relentless.
The most ruthless coach. The best thing I did this game was take you as a coach. That's perfect.
All right, make sense. Wilson, thank you so much. I really appreciate it. Thank you, Death Note. I love your coaching styles.
a lot of fun and you're a very very knowledgeable person so thank you so much
for your time and I hope to put this... I hope to put this to good use. Proceeded to win 16 games
and a ladder. I had a message here from Dante's. Grubby please a lot five minutes after 4 p.m. so
I may talk to my fellow compatriots and wish him well in the matches. Thank you.
Alright Dante's, right you are. Let's have it. A little pretty much ribbing and a good little
conversation between the two of you. Sounds good. A bit of friendly banter mate.
I need to change to my game pass.
Because I think Dante's vs. Tyler's gonna be a shit show.
Alright.
Oh guys, guys, I was reviewed too, you know.
We should actually watch a bit more of the video.
to take a fight here because he has only 500 gold on Expo.
And this is my ladder game I think, against...
This is my ladder game last night.
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If he gives him time, if he just TP, Orc will summon his wolves and will scout and game is over.
So he needs to take retarded fight.
It's true, it's true.
a lot of fight he's saying that I need to take a bad fight though he used the
synonym because I'm buying time for my two gold mines to continue mining oh
damn what the oh umpy okay I see I see let's see okay alright then
trooking him plus a player maybe the one we have there plus a player
Ampy won't be available, I'll get it.
So fuck.
Well, that's a ranked tool, chain lightning?
Why does it sound less offensive when a Russian says it?
Yeah, it does, but look, there's always more curse words used when your language control is worse.
When I started the sauerkraut event, I used a lot of curse words in German,
words in German because those are the ones you remember. And I was actually told by several
people that it was cringe level offensive, even though I thought it was funny or whatever.
But it's something you lean on when you can't express yourself. But those are words, you
know, they come out easily and they feel desensitized compared to your own language because it doesn't
you're basically using monopoly money, you're using like a fake language. One that doesn't
feel as real to you. It's not a fake language, obviously, I'm just joking. But it feels like
it's not, it's not as real. Like I never thought cursing in English sounds as serious as cursing
in Dutch. I've, as a kid, I used to beat up people that use bad words in Dutch. When I was like,
six or seven years old.
So you see, as soon as Griby left the fight,
more go to the expo
yeah
the digestion of kodo is it percentage max or is it flat damage
huh? but i don't think
kodo is eating people right?
yeah
is it percentage damage or flat?
no no it's 6 damage per second
ok ok
is it 6 or 4?
It's 5.
Wrong.
Wrong.
Does HP still work when eaten?
Yes, that's why I thought it was 4.
But I can't understand why Death Note thought it 6.
It's unacceptable.
Almost a fight.
Good job, you both bad.
Yo, Kojo, Penguin, Chortso, Sernobon, thank you guys.
Your grab is human.
How does grad they want this game?
Yeah, and grad they did a huge throw in this fight because his position was so awful. No, it was good
But how hero? It was good positioning actually
Here he has like five supplied vintage, but he has no fucking supplied vintage because he supplied vintage is just useless
It's not useless. They're like footmen. It's OP
Orcas 7k gold here
only what orc is missing hard is a shop and I'm sure grabby has zero chances here
if orc has shop it just completely zero chance here because shop will save the
game for orc hardly if my grandmother it will she be a bike here but they'll see
how orc what happened and pay out why is the orc i forgot my monty king i get so bad
but my students forget the monty king like all population control is shit no
huh he was on 52 for so long yeah
The three Demolitioners is burning oil with two attack upgrades and this Coda Aura.
And Coda Aura is also upgraded.
How do you know that Coda Aura upgraded?
You click on Codo and you see damage.
If it says plus two, then Coda has no upgrade.
If it says plus four...
Congratulations, you won while being terrible because your opponent was horrible.
It's kind of true.
Then it's again. Then it's just your three upgrade for them. That's how we see it.
So in what case will you use this information in game?
Sometimes if you see that or if you don't know or cast your three or not.
Oh!
And you already know it's plus four that he cast your three.
Okay.
But wouldn't you see like berserk controls or burning oil or anything before?
I feel like death note is reaching here.
How many games are you checking Kodo Aura for if an Orc has tier 3 and then you're going
to change your playstyle?
Okay.
If he has grants in Kodo, right?
Never.
And Kirby, as one of your predecessors of best Netherlands RTS players at the time, for
me Starcraft Bruteware Early took the crown from Asset Psycho.
I just wanted to say thank you for keeping this game alive.
it's a truly fantastic experience. Holy shit! Hey cool, Kallus! Wait, Asset Psycho was my
opponent that beat me in the night of Mirror. I was going to quit the game, 2003, summer of 2003.
I lost Asset Psycho 0-2 in the Winner Bracket Finals of the Dutch WCG qualifiers that would
see me as a 17 year old going, I just bit my tongue, going to Seoul South Korea for the World
I saw my first Boothpapes there, kind of a cool event.
And I was going to quit, I didn't want to play the lower bracket anymore because I was
tilted about the O2 Night of Mirror loss.
But then my brother said, why don't you try with human?
And then I won.
And so you knew as to cycle from Brood War.
Okay.
Okay, what I want to say.
I'm just kinda tilted that the ore gets unholy out of it, but it's okay.
He cracked two reds, he deserves a good item.
True.
True.
Sunglitters, thank you for the raid.
I don't know why you guys don't stream it yourself, I guess.
I guess you just, you're just focusing completely on the show here.
That's cool.
GGs, Sunglitters, nice practice preparation, you got your head in the game again.
Let's get shit. Thank you for the raid. What's up? She's tired.
Well, she's gonna cast in a few minutes. It's hard to set up.
Can focus more? Sure. Alright, alright. Cool.
Uh, is Dante's online yet?
No. Dante's. Get online, man.
It's starting.
I need you for the pregame chat.
Take the call Dante's.
Well we can always run a little infomercial while I get everyone set up.
How about we do that?
But again, we're almost starting with the show so I might as well introduce it again to everybody.
Guys, we are in the Alter of Champions tournament.
It's a $10,000 tournament with a Clan War component that we had over here where Team Omega won by winning all their undead one-on-ones, even though Tyler's team, Team Alpha, won the 2v2 and the 4v4.
This gave a chance for Hera and Co. to pick their playoff bracket opponent, and it went in the most unexpected way possible.
Hera, with the first choice, chose Tyler to go up against in the upper bracket quarter
finals, the best of three that you see over there in the top left.
He then gave Pox his second in command, the second right to pick his playoff's opponent.
Pox elected to aim for the king, Yamato Kannon, the number one in the MMR of the training
arc that happened over the last three to four weeks.
of these streamers are either completely new or very new at playing one-on-one melee in Warcraft 3.
Yamato Kannon was the biggest MMR king after the training arc, which you can see right here.
Yamato at 1446 MMR, Pox was at rank 4, so it was a daring bracket choice by Pox and he took a 1-0 lead,
but then he ended up falling one-two by the wayside.
Next up, Hera allocated Maxim, the German Paladin Rifle Powerhouse, to choose his opponent.
But he deferred his choice to Dante's, because Dante's calmly asked,
Why, pray tell, Hera, why dost thou disadvantage me so? I was one of the two opponents
that took a match for Team Omega. I shan't think this is very fair.
for me to be picking last after I contributed in such a meaningful way and
Maxim said if you fucking care so much then why don't you fucking pick first
you fuck and Dante said thank you very much in this case I shall elect to go
for Mary maybe I should think I have solid chances there but the best player
win and Dante's and Mary maybe duked it out Dante's won with a 2-1 score against
Mary, maybe, Mary, maybe, although she lost, she was the first player in a
grubby invitation or Warcraft three tournament that used both heel wars and
bloodlust in a single game, something that never happened before so far with
other org players like Tyler one red panda and the viper playing in a more
straightforward way with brutish units, not the spell cast is that Mary, maybe
ended up fielding in the tournament. Maxim was then left with simply and
simply greatly surprised people. He took a 2-0 over Maxim, which wasn't that surprising,
but the 2-0 over Hera turned a lot of heads. Simply on Yamato Canon, now find themselves
in the upper bracket finals, which is the best of five, and actually guarantees you
a top three position in the tournament already. If you're in the upper bracket finals, you
are in the top three already. If you lose, lose from there on out, you're third. If you
lose win, you're top two. And if you win, win, you're number one. That's the destiny
that simply a Yamato can and have before themselves. In the lower bracket, quarter
finals, Tyler was able to oust Maxim against his favorite strategy, Paladin
Rifle. It wasn't that convincing, especially the first game, Tyler one
looked immaculate when he was being aggressive, when he was attacking the
micro, the aggression looked clean. His first six to seven minutes are pretty much perfect.
But when Maxim turned on the paint train for minute eight, it was all that Tyler could
do to stay alive to get his torrents and doctors with he ward out. But stay alive he did and
he advanced. Tyler woke up at 2 30 a.m. His local time in Missouri with dreams of Warcraft
haunting him, but also he felt it was kind of a prophecy. He saw builds, he saw shapes on the
ceiling forming in front of his eyes as he figured out what he's going to be doing later today. He
was manifesting his victory and victory is what we expect from him over Dante's. But Dante's looked
better than he has ever looked before in Warcraft 3. Dante's relentless pacing and
hairbrained schemes have seen him to get better in a better better shape than
we have ever seen so taking a single map is not unthinkable anymore though
anything but a victory for Tyler would leave Tyler no doubt in shambles. Mary
maybe against Pox was the most uneven battle of the tournament so far with
Pox dispensing with her 2-0 getting his warden level 6 and Mary maybe watching
in consternation as her people were unable to get a grip on that warden.
That leaves us with another lower bracket finals match between Hera and Pox.
These are still best of three.
Hera and Pox is going to be a hotly contested series.
And it is going to be the second one that we're going to be looking at today.
Starting with Dante Steyler, then Hera Pox, then it's going to be the winners among them
in the lower bracket semifinals, and the winner of that is going to play the lower bracket
finals, but they'll have a break. It's back to back games for the winner of
Hera Pox, but after the lower bracket semifinals there's going to be a break.
We're going to zoom in on the upper bracket finals and then whoever from
Simply or Yamato Canon wins, they're going to watch the lower bracket finals and then
finally there will be a grand finals. The grand finals is a pure best of five
without the so-called bracket reset. Bracket reset is kind of a strange name
but it's the term that is colloquially used to describe the idea that the double bracket
system remains true even in the finals, which means that the lower bracket guy would have
to win two series in a row. That's not the system we're using here. We're going for an
easier to understand, more clean, more competitive, pure best of five, but there will be an advantage
for the winner bracket person. They're going to be second to veto the map out out of a pool
of sevens, so they get more information when they veto their map out. They're also going
pick map one and two for the best of five. That alone is never enough to get you the
victory, but it is a bit of an advantage. It gives you some percentage points of an edge.
So it's going to be really close. It's almost the pure best of five with some map advantage
in the grand finals. All right. You also don't have to play as many series if you go there.
I would invite Maxine to co-cast the set, but he said today is going to be a family day and he was grateful for it.
He's also not going to be awake that late anymore.
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Welcome to the show. Some glitters. Hello.
Don't hear you yet, thank you.
Hello, Gravi!
Hello, it's Seth!
What's up?
So, I'm Glitter, it's good to see you again and welcome to the show.
Thank you for the raid earlier today.
Yes!
And it was good to see you play!
Yesterday excited me so much that I actually started playing Walker 3 again today.
Good shit!
And I surprised myself.
Yeah, that was very, very interesting.
You were so close to win some of them, I caught a couple of games during breakfast.
Oh, yeah, I don't know if I was close. I feel like I fucked it up all the time
I I started room but I started remembering our coaching sessions some of it
It all good memories know that
Yes very very very very many good memories. I was still very friendly and understanding with you then because we didn't know each other that well
Yes, I did it roast you. I was just trying to help
What you would roast me more now. I think so
But if you want coaching, I'll still help you the best I can, some good news, and it'll be kinder than Death Note's coaching.
Kinder? Yeah, I saw just one clip of him.
Yeah. How long do you think it would take you to crash out if someone pointed out all your mistakes the way Death Note does?
I think less than a game. I said earlier already, because Chad was like, oh yeah, Death Note coaching.
And I saw this one clip where he said like Yamato I think was asking for compliments or something or like who was that?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, somebody was asking. Oh, yeah, what did I do good this game?
You know, because you want a little bit you need a little bit of positive and negative. He was like, no, nothing was good
I think if we did a coaching session together him and me I
Would be depressed, but I think he would be depressed too
15 minutes, that's it
Yeah, I think it would not work.
No, I think you have a good effect on people's moods in general.
I can't imagine that.
I think you would leave Death Note giggling with joy,
just seeing the world as the beautiful place it is after he sees you play.
No doubt.
Yeah.
I think so.
I think so.
I think so.
Thank goodness!
How much chances does Dante's have to win against Tyler1, do you think?
Should I really be honest?
Yeah, why not?
Zero.
Zero?
But what if he asks for some cheese?
I don't think it matters.
I think he's just too bad.
He's not as bad as me, but you know.
With clothes.
I don't think even clothes.
I think Dundas would destroy me like no joke.
I see.
I think I would be.
It taught a shock, said Mary will destroy me too.
Yeah, I couldn't do anything today.
We also have a new guest on the show.
Uh, thanks for joining us today.
Sing Sing for another co-cast.
What's up?
We got a grubby invitation winner.
The last one that was run.
What's up Sing Sing?
How's it going?
It's like a little good.
Thank you for having me.
Hello.
Good to have you here.
Hello, sonny glitters.
It's good to have you here.
Sing Sing, what do you make of the Dante-Styler match?
If Tyler won, like, Unplugged Keyboard and Monitor, I think there's a chance.
Oh, and Mouse, Mouse 2, Mouse 2, I think he might still win one with no hot Keybisons
left.
Ah, it's fucked up.
Now, of course, if he loses even the Seagull map, even if he wins the series, this might
still not be that pleasant for him.
Dante's and Tyler have a bit of a friendly rivalry.
fact, Dante's asked if he could join the pregame chat so that he could wish his
well-esteemed opponent some good luck. Remember, let me read his exact
message. User Dante's. Dante's is such a gentleman. He's such a perfect gentleman.
He said, grubby, please a lot me five minutes after 4 p.m. So I may talk to my
fellow compatriots and wish him well in the matches. Thank you. I'd be okay with
that if I don't know if they're listening but I'd be okay with both Dante's and Tyler
together or separately join in the voice chat now to kind of give their thoughts on the
tournament and or on each other. I don't know if Dante's is live yet.
Yeah, there's no rivalry here you dumbass. You can really tell him. Tyler, Tyler you're
There isn't a what rivalry it's just so one
Okay, never mind you can talk I just woke up. No rivalry. You're shit everything you do guys in case you don't know who died
He says he's a one trick peak challenger Hecrim only heck room only player
He's tried to diversify and expand his role in League of Legends
And he has gotten a hard stuck at a laughable rank called Diamond and Bo
He's not playing to tackle Warcraft 3 and he's giga stuck at 400 in the mar.
He's terrible at everything he does.
Ok, so in case you didn't know who Tyler is, Tyler's the guy that in the last week
has actually lost 3 tournaments and he's about to make it his 4th.
He's been stuck diamond this entire season in League of Legends so far and he managed
to peak medium elo in Street Fighter 6 which is his most impressive accomplishment in the
last 3 years.
Google me.
Google me.
That's all I gotta say.
the paperwork to just claim all that bullshit you have nothing about this
you know what you lost the game to Mary maybe brother in a discussion and you're
gonna lose two games to me so who's the winner if you tell me I'm not streaming
by the way for eight months straight I'll quit me I'm back but what if it's a
to one
that it's one that you're not going to one
to know that no you're going to question
see you
you wrote
what do you do
you want to be streaming you're not
going to get
okay what if I win a single game against
you
I just said I'll still quit streaming
you're not going to win any
eight months
eight months no streaming
applied
and if I beat you to a
your next paycheck
What are you scared?
Also, we're scared!
Okay, how about this, how about this, how about this?
This one we'll do, okay?
What we'll do, Tyler, is that if I beat you,
you have to refer to yourself as Lil T, and I become Big D.
Alright Lil T, chill.
No, no, no, no, no, no!
If I win, the rules get reversed for six months.
You need to refer to yourself as Lil T, and I'm Big D.
Okay, we're not doing this. No, no, that's
You're telling me that's even worse on top of streaming?
On top of not streaming?
No, well, no, obviously not dude. Who are you gonna call me a fucking big T, dude?
Like, are you just gonna refer to like, oh, like you're talking to your family members?
Oh, yeah, dude, big D, like, no, obviously you're still gonna stream.
Alright, well, okay, that's that. We got it set in stone then.
Okay, I'm ready bro, I'm ready any time.
You've had all night to practice.
I saw you rage queuing the ledges last night.
You're not about this WC3 life.
We'll see.
Tyler, I stayed up until 2.30 in the fucking morning
playing Warcraft 3.
Well, your house was fucking in bed asleep.
Do you remember about that?
I have two children, asshole.
We went to the train station.
We went to the water park.
I looked up at 4 a.m., I've been practicing
since like 4, 5 a.m.
Well, don't worry, you're gonna get back to your kids
soon enough bro, after I make you work for you.
Start the fucking game!
Let's you talking Q up, man!
Got the game name in the lobby guys, whenever you're ready, we get this show on the road.
Good luck Dante's, you'll need it brother.
Everybody pray for him.
Hey, listen, I'd say good luck to you too, but I don't feel like giving it to you.
Fuck you.
Bye.
Bye.
My fucking god, Jesus.
I love that, yes!
I enjoyed the trash talk. Holy shit.
The best.
Singsi, you got some Dota 2 memories coming back to you?
Oh, I mean...
When I was like...
14 maybe?
It was a similar scenario. Maybe worse.
And Dota 2 was worse for you?
Oh no, Dota 1. I think in Dota 2 people, they kind of matured a little bit.
This is like a League of Legends thing, I think.
It's not just hardstock time, it's like hardstock fucking age 15.
Of course you're also Eurocentric player more like you're gonna have played more with
Europeans who have different types of banter.
Yeah, yeah.
Oh, yeah, I mean you learn all kinds of sukkablits, you learn them really fast.
Let's see, let's get the servers ready.
Oh, they got a really nice ping between them at 22 versus 29.
Should I still turn on ping equalizer?
I suppose I could.
It's not a big deal.
Tyler's ready.
Looks like we're all gonna be ready.
Uh, Is Dante's ready as well? We may not even have time for a headliner, guys.
Wait, I'll just run one real quick. Hammerfall, here we go.
All right, here we go. It's day two of the Altar of Champions one-on-one tournament.
I've got with me Sing Sing in the bottom right corner and next to him Sunglitters, two participants
of earlier Invitationals as well and some fabulous people. We got Tyler won against
Dante's in the opening match today. It is the lower bracket round two. Tyler is here
because he lost to Hera, but he beat Maxim and Dante's is here because he beat Mary, maybe,
but then lost his next round to, was it Yamato Canon, I believe? Let me check. It was Yamato,
right? Yeah, against Yamato Canon. So they find themselves here for elimination. The loser here
is top six fifth, shared and will remain there with $500 of prize money, but the victor, the victor
will continue on and will make themselves top four and play against another winner of a lower bracket
round between Hera and Fox. Here we go. Yeah, congratulations on winning this round.
Don't say that. Anything can happen. Yeah, sure. Anything can happen.
You know, like I said, maybe maybe you did some some cheese strategy.
Gaby, did he message you and ask Joke what can I do to get a win?
No, no, no, Taira didn't. But he has been planning his morning a little bit with actually Knaf,
his fellow fitness buff coach. He was preparing for against Undead, though I don't think he would
be caught dead saying that it was for Dante's is Undead. I think Soundgladers he's preparing
for the eventuality of meeting Hera in the subsequent round.
I think Tyler just kind of wins when he's chasing regular aggro.
Sorry did you mean that Dante's messaged me?
I was assuming you meant Tyler when you said that to me.
No I did.
I was asking for Dante's.
I was assuming if he did, then um...
That makes so much sense!
That makes so much more sense than Tyler looking for a last minute desperate cheese
allowed to be Dante's.
That was like, yo isn't he supposed to like win anyways?
No, I don't even know how I interpreted your question that way, but no, Dante's didn't
message me with a question of that nature either.
Damn, I feel like he should have.
So Dante's is posturing for the Dark Ranger opening once again.
It is Farseer against Dark Ranger.
with the Fars here, meets and he's disengaging for the drain life.
Damn, they're fighting early.
I was playing earlier, walk for the first time.
I was trying to play like Tyler plays with his wolves.
It doesn't go well.
I lost in nine minutes.
Yeah, you can't feed the wolves.
It gets real bad when you do.
Although this strat looks like shit.
I've seen these dark ranges some like what, four times now I think?
I don't think it worked a single time.
It's like one person and TP's out.
Can you describe the idea?
Like why do you think Saul Aitman taught him this build?
Sing Sing, what does this build mean?
What Dante's is doing?
It's probably like a really low chance to fail.
It's like you're tanky, you're ranged, you skill.
You just kind of do it.
And there's no build built.
There's no order.
Just go ahead and press your button.
But I don't understand why he TP's out usually.
OK, so this seems to be a misappropriation.
I can misunderstand the situation.
So, when it started, when Dante's basically could barely press buttons, barely use his keyboard,
Saul Aitman had him make this hero, walk to the enemy base and start life-draining workers.
And because Dante's had so little awareness of how to remain safe,
he would usually get surrounded, take a lot of damage and nearly die.
That's when Saul would tell him to TP out.
Another player, he might tell them, okay, walk away, get out of the base.
But because he had so little faith in Dante's making his way out,
he would ask Dante to TP out and then just resume playing the game at home.
But Dante now thinks that that is a goal rather than a fix to the problem of his own creation.
So TPing out is now something he does by default almost always.
Oh it's horrible. What a horrible habit. How did he connect those dots? They're not even dots.
How did he connect it?
Why does he TP out? Could he have walked away there 6x?
Yes, he just couldn't have walked though. I would have TPed too!
Why? You can just walk away!
Look how big Tyler's army was! He was alone!
I'll tell you a secret about these games. You have the same movespeed usually
So if you have the same movespeed and you're out of the distance, you cannot hit you anymore. Yes
You literally just walk away like imagine being chased by like a bulldozer that goes five kilometers per hour
And you're standing in the middle of the road shouting
You can just walk away like yes, you're not gonna win the the battle, but you could just walk away. Yeah, wait a piece
Vars here, almost level 3. He's getting some cool creeping in here. He needs two more kills to get level up.
A little bit much damage on his head, until she's stealing away an important creep cam from Dante's.
Now Dante's does expand a lot. He's also over making towers. Making towers is this thing that
lower level players often do to feel more comfortable.
It might be a good idea for you to do something. I think it's a nice habit against walking away.
I did make a tower today once.
I just forgot the other times.
You know the basics are coming back to me slowly.
Yeah, that's nice.
That's nice.
It's been a long time.
It's really hard to get back into these games if you haven't played for a bit.
But Dante's part and parcel of this build, he always makes a whole bunch of towers which
makes it obnoxious to attack into someone's base.
Tyler's creeping a whole lot more.
You can see how the towers haven't done anything because Tyler's just like, yo, your creeping
speed is really slow.
You don't make a lot of units.
I'll just creep everything, I'll take level 4 farce here and he's going for his map control army again of Raiders and Spirit Walker Sing Sing.
Yeah, is that the standard? Because I don't actually know Wargobilds.
This is the standard that gives you a strong 6-9 minute window.
Once the destroyers are on the field, walkers become a liability in optimal theory.
But you get a maybe 2-3 minute period where you're stronger.
The damage spread that Spirit Link offers and how it can disenchant, how of terror, dark minions,
Skeletons from the Rod of Necromancy and to spread it up to the thing. It's just very strong.
So how is that is doing right now compared to Tyler? Is it already bad or does he
Well, we should have a chance. We should compare some metrics, right? Like he found three items and
We we found five items in Tyler. Tyler's level four and two
Whereas Dante's is one and a half and two and a half. So Tyler is leading by two metrics
Tyler's army size is 40 against 32, so Tyler's in hit in every single way, except he is playing, of course, the weakest race, Orc, and he's playing against under the strongest race, Kappa, and Dante's has a strong base defense.
So if Tyler attacks here, this is where Dante's is strong, but everywhere else on the map, Tyler is strong.
Okay, so Dante's has to hope that Tyler attacks him and fucks up?
Yes.
He's doing a smart thing which is just soaking up the whole map. He's never attacking on that basis
And they just get ahead and go to get your expo out
You make you deny his and then you give me a real nice and easy and that is always looking so fucking small man
I would it says like two spiders statement is in
two spiders
There's a statue
Oh, we just got a reveal so Tyler now sees like oh look he's making hella towers the correct call against someone
That makes a lot of towers is to have a strong map control army and to expand
It looks like that's exactly what Tidewan is doing.
Tidewan found his army!
Yeah, nice scouts.
That's a really good stuff.
I don't know what this attack is.
He has a teleport scroll, so I'm assuming that's happening soon.
He's attacking right now!
This is one of his scouts.
He wants to put himself in situations
where he is allowed to click the town portal scrolls.
It's like a league thing.
You know, it feels good to force people to spot the map and then you TP out.
Oh yeah.
I guess it's fucking expensive in this game though.
It's 3.25 gold, it's a lot.
He's just gonna kill like what?
He's gonna kill one raider and then TP out.
Oh shit, Tyler's back too in the base.
Yeah.
It's gonna be a fast five.
Oh my god.
He's stuck.
He's stuck in the back.
Yeah, he's stuck though.
He teleported already.
That was a bad new one.
No, he didn't.
I just, okay.
From my new perspective, he just wasted a lot of time walking there and he barely killed everything.
Yep.
Yeah, in this case it was bad, but normally that play isn't like super bad if you actually have units ready for it.
If you force them back to their side of the map and you get the chance to kill some burrows, you disrupt his eco, so it's not like horrible normally.
It's just that he had nothing to do with it. Yeah, no units.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, it's a good play sometimes, but with the wrong situation right now.
Also forcing someone back onto their own side of the map, while that person has orange camps all around him, isn't as effective as when you pull someone back towards the depleted part of the map, then TP out to creep your own side.
So Dante did the opposite thing, but somehow, Tyler isn't making use of it, which is also ironic. He should have opted out immediately been able to creep his own orange camps, or maybe contest like a red camp.
What is he doing right now?
Look at Tyler's army. It's so huge. I think he's moving towards Dante's no? Yes. Yeah
He does have a time for an attack. He has a town portal Dante hasn't found the expansion so there's no cancel possibility on the jet
Tyler is spirit. His army is gonna attack into the towers
He's hiding behind the tree so you wouldn't see him at first I think yep
Just cooking up.
It's actually equals to play on Dante. Yeah, I need that two behinds
It's pretty close
Going back to the fence, but all his supply buildings are in front two have fallen already
So while one worm is in production the second one cannot be made right now Tyler one turns on the speed scroll and tries to take a fight
He catches one fiend with an ensnare is going for a big worst stomp gets three units caught in it
But he's also simultaneously fighting the towers. This is the best-case scenario for Dante's
Yeah, the in the undead base the floor makes him slow right well it gives bonus regeneration to the undead
It's a bad place to fight
It's the towers that make you slow
Okay
They're not doing bad on that there unless you lose his orthos here. Oh nice wolf summon with the block
Right to the face as well
He got his fast dragon
Yeah, but he lost a get so you can't get the second one out. It's fucked. I actually streaming right now
You're also new units
Come on.
That is fucked up.
You're fucked, kiddo.
Is he like, why is he age?
Tyler is starting to mind from his expansion.
The macro, not looking too clean.
1500 gold, looks like he's typing up another storm
rather than actually making units to max out to 50 or 60 population.
Dante's AFK, is he typing too?
Look at Dante, he's...
His hands are off the keyboard man!
He's like drinking from his Gatorade and what not?
Yes! He's not even moving his units!
What's going on here?
Well, there's nothing to kill anymore.
On the other side of the map, everything got stolen.
Oh, it's dead. I'm in.
Oh, damn.
Yeah, Tyler really messed him up. He stole like all the camp's costume.
Two dragons now.
Third one coming. Is this all he does?
He just makes dragons?
He makes dragons and then just waits for them and sometimes he uses the Frostworms without a hero and town portal to accompany them
This is a special move that he developed two years ago in the FFAs that Tyler held the casual format
It makes him feel like he's doing something
Sneaky all over the map and while sometimes he got some good results with it in
Warcraft 3 this kind of move carries a massive risk because it's the town portal scroll that often gets your high-value investments out of a bad situation
Situation if tiger finds these and then snares them it is not going to be good for Dante's
So I'm a
Okay, if you ensnared him
No, that would be safe.
Oh, Tyler has a huge army again.
Meanwhile...
And that is just a fly-geron with his two chickens, that's it.
That is his cool, sorry, AFK. Of course he has enough lumber, so it is whatever.
He's also getting upgrades right now on his frostworms, but he's over 50 pop.
And there's an ensnare!
Oh no...
It's a seven-pop investment.
He has no money!
Bow!
Oh man.
You see him making the DK back?
No right?
No, he forgot.
No, no, he's just dead.
He hasn't been moving his heroes!
He's only two minutes!
What's going on?
Yeah, he's just preoccupied with the frostworm stratagem.
The special Dante's move.
He's waiting for his death knight.
He's waiting for his 3-3 upgrades to kick in.
to kick in he's almost there he's at nil nil upgrades right now
and snare on the frost worm good army to take down frost worms there's a war
stump that does work on the air units that are left syncing that is so
random yeah
and the supplies not that for off each other the time I just got a lot of supply
a lot of gold in the bank I kind of unnecessary once you're over 50 you
should go straight to 80. Yeah. All the worms are going down here. Death Knight is here.
Protects the scroll Heelstone to try and keep the TC alive, chain lighting to the face of
the Death Knight. A single map win and Tyler promised he will not stream for eight months
if Dante's wins a single map, which is kind of a crazy promise to make for a streamer of
Tyler's size?
Yeah, that's insane, but he's confident!
And I can see why, like, this is not even close!
Though I still feel like it's closer than it should be, you don't get that sense, you see?
Yeah, but it's because he's fighting on that base without doing anything about it, right?
Normally you just two base and you go 80-pop and then you finish his ass, so you get like demo cards, whatever they're called.
or you can wait you can try to make a point out of it and just wait take a
third take five days whatever or like you said with the molotovs or fully
are linked army with like ten raiders and he's also hitting like the worst
buildings possible not those are damaging back with like the fucking yeah
the nothing towers yeah he lost a lot he's also pretty low on lumber he's
He's mining with 3 peons.
Uh oh.
Mumber only.
That is his fighting back with his hero.
That's thick.
I think he can defend.
For now he will.
For now he will defend.
He's also targeting some low headhunters.
The little one he life drains.
A headhunter that's 1 AA away from finishing.
Like what is he actually thinking?
What's going on inside?
Headhunter down.
It's under siege.
With Dante?
Yeah well like what is he thinking when he life drains a headhunter?
a headhunter that he could auto attack a single time.
I don't think he fought much about that one.
It's one of those moments where you see a button pop cooldown and you know, headshiny.
You just press it.
Just a tiny means.
Whoa! His dragon took so much damage.
So fast.
Minus two bats, that's 320 gold. Worm is still alive.
And if he just lets it chill and regenerates in the back,
it'll be ready to fight again in five minutes.
No death tag.
Go ahead.
Sorry, that's a ground effect, heal the work?
Yes.
Like the keeper, whatever.
Yes.
Like flying.
You see where the shadow is?
That is like the true location of the frost worm.
If you tie it to the ground, it's actually lower.
Oh no, actually, it is right below.
It's just a perspective thing.
Yeah, if that's all if the shadow is on the blight he heals. Oh
He got the monitors they're coming. They're just doing fucking nothing in the river
Yesterday we had a game grubby where you said if you would take over you would have 10% chance to win
If you would take over Dante's game right now, what are your chance to win? I
I think I might still have a good chance to win, actually.
In this game, more chance than Mary against Dante's yesterday.
I think it's still over 80% chance if I take over from the undead at the moment.
So he just has to lock in.
Yeah.
I can do it.
Well, let me ask this way, Sunglitters.
If you try really hard and you really believe in yourself, or me, for that matter, can
we bench 300?
Yeah.
What is the limit of human capabilities if you try to be stronger than you ever have?
You know that mother strength that lifts the card?
Sometimes it's just like for death?
Yeah, because you probably don't know what you're capable of.
And maybe that is in this situation, he really wants to really, really win.
Like for death.
I'm not capable of benching 300s.
Like for death.
Me too, I think. Me too.
You might be. You might be.
No, I'm pretty sure I'm not.
I'll just die, thank you.
But if you just really believe in yourself and it's very necessary.
Or what if you had to save me, Sing Sing, to do it?
Oh, that's good.
I'm not gonna believe that.
Fair enough. Well, that's unlucky.
But Dante's just trying to do what he can here.
He's doing good damage on the demolisher. That's one demolisher down.
Both are getting in snare though.
Tata wants to take him down the first Frost Worm.
There it is! Level 6, he can earthquake now.
He's getting a position for the earthquake.
The ultimate! There we go!
on the Boneyard, the Spirit Tower and the Necropolis.
There was only a hero that could heal on the Junits.
He has no money, what do you want him to do, Sing Sing?
He has 650 gold!
But that's the end of the one!
That is hero!
That is hero sucks so much, he's sucking and sucking, but nothing is happening!
It does damage, it's like 45 damage per second, but it's reduced on heroes.
And he also heals for it.
So you'll see a big effect if he like does it on a unit he can't do it on catapults and it has less effect on heroes
Here we go again with the moving forward for the life train. Oh
No, that warm. Oh man, man, man big kills
That's it
And snare cancels the life train so that's nice job by Titer one he jumps forward again
Warp stop on a single abomination
It's still tough to attack him too on that base man, even when it's piloted by Dante's looks like.
Tyler also has a lot of money in the bank, I don't think all his units are here.
His army looks so small, though he's 70 pot.
He just reached a 5?
Maybe he's in fight back now?
Oh god!
By the way, Dante's has an expansion.
During all this he went to go get an expansion.
Oh jeez.
I wonder if he just decided no matter what to stay until the final building.
Well played bro.
Turtle for your life.
It's the win come.
You didn't win yet, Shalas.
I was trying to find eight people like this to play the tournament initially.
league players with conversations like this but I'm not sure there's eight
tiders and Dante's on this on this globe. I'm not sure if your ears would survive after the event.
Fair.
Another earthquake on the necropolis only on the necropolis not on the cigarette and not on the goldmine.
didn't hit the gold mine with it I just not doing anything all right you can
cut it out now Tyler oh my god oh he's spreading units to build more than
him shit to stall oh man his final moments he just wants to win down
psychologically for the next game no make him really impatient for his team
Oh, Mega Captain Hera, he's wearing Tyler down.
Yeah.
It's all part of the tactic.
He says how sad, Ludy.
Oh, no.
Dress don't go so much harder while you still have units.
What is this?
Fortunately, you can't steal enemy gold mines that are being used.
Well, this is the first, in an invitation, though.
That's his last building, they won't make.
Last one.
He will be revealed eventually, not having had a necropolis for a while.
Dante's has the money to start a necropolis.
Ah, there it is, the final building!
Scouting!
Scouting is missed now.
Okay.
I had this habit to me one time in the ex and the guy he hit a building under the laboratory
He couldn't see on the minimap. Ah, I knew the special tricks
Yeah, I was fucked up
And GG
GG, Tyler one gets the first map no surprise though perhaps surprising how long it took
To take out Dante's of course partially it's because Dante's
Buy a little bit missed the optimal gentlemanly exit window
So that was a small part of it.
So do you think it's really BM what it is?
Normally this is generally referred to as BM, yes.
Yeah, even in a tournament.
Especially in a tournament.
Yeah?
Yeah.
You have to choose every advantage, right?
Because it has no advantage.
Tyler's pissed.
What's the advantage of allowing someone that's winning hard to extend that feeling?
He's like extending the climax for Tyler of winning.
Maybe it takes you past that point
where it's not that good anymore
because they kind of have to work for it.
But usually the optimal mental thing to do
is to make someone's victory feel very hard fought,
which means you need to at least be close enough
to someone where like you kill their hero.
I have felt the mental edge of that before.
Like you're winning and someone like takes out your hero
You know you shouldn't have lost it and you still win but now you're minus one hero
It can feel bad, but this was just a protracted death animation with no real power in Dante's hand
Okay, yeah
He's just doing all those fights
Gonna host the next lobby I'm also I don't know if you guys can see it, but
But I'm also sharing my in-game screen so that if you guys want, you can show it or
you can see at least the webgams once the game begins of all the players.
Okay.
Okay.
And you can also join the lobby again, publishing the game down under the lobby.
Oops.
I don't know how I tagged Viper twice.
The Viper can't join us for casting today
because he has an Age of Empires 2 tournament.
And my chance to ruin his chances
to win Age of Empires 2 happened last year.
This year it's time to ruin Hera's chances in AW2,
which I already successfully did.
Have you played Age of War by a Stoolot?
Yeah, I played it for a couple of months this year.
It's a very dated old game.
It has a lot of problems.
Normally, I prefer to play newer games like Warcraft 3, but it is still one of the old
time classics and I really enjoyed it.
It's a great game.
You should try it sometime, Sangiris.
Both Sing Sing and I played.
Age of War.
How hard is it compared to walker 3 for learn it easier I would say you think a we to is
easier both at low and low level.
Low level.
It's easier.
Yeah, I agree.
I agree.
It's easier to understand to get into it.
It's very deep at the high level.
expression is very large and deep. The macro, the micro, it's all hard, but it's so much
more easy to understand how you need to play, because there's not all these obscure buffs
and debuffs that worker three has. Yeah, and the units are very rock of paper,
so they're like, you know, it's called no actually, so I just go on like infantry,
infantry, go on whatever. Yeah, you can just kind of look at it and be like, oh, yeah,
this is how you fight most of it. A Warcraft is like, what the fuck is this unit do this
discounted one upgrade suddenly
This armor type when it changes for this, you know, like it's a fucking mess. What could be really really hard?
You need to know everything. I think there's like a hundred games. I would rather play the edge of empires to
It's a good choice
Maybe maybe if there's like a tournament going on and there are people that I can actually beat
maybe I'll try. Maybe it's back down. Look, maybe, maybe you win this game. Who knows?
Yeah, maybe me picks one. Yeah, no, it can happen anytime. Ever since Sing Sing won the
coach or the observed game last year, I'm not a big fan of making big promises under
no pressure anymore, like the sock incident that I made. I'm actually so scared for Tire
One if he loses, like how he's going to wriggle his way out of streaming.
It lasts a long time.
Yeah, it lasts a long time.
What incident? What happened? The sock incident?
There was a game that Sing Sing had no business winning. I said I'll eat a sock if he does
and he won it.
Did you?
Yeah, he won it.
I never give up.
Did you eat it?
No player.
No, he did not eat the fucking sock.
Oh, that's why I didn't know that I'm doing a gym sock.
Yeah, that's it.
I chickened out, but I don't make those promises anymore.
I learned from it.
OK.
All right, guys, the winner of this face
This is the winner of Pox vs. Hera, and it makes themselves automatically top 4.
Tyler 1 is leading with a 1-0 score, as expected, though I feel like it should have been less
close.
It wasn't truly close, but it was a little sloppy, and if he's going to want to have
a good chance against Pox and or Hera, he has to bring his A-game.
It's possible that he is a man, though, that rises to the occasion, and he simply hasn't
felt the need to. With Dante's yet. Okay, everyone is ready. I'm going to enter the map. This
is Alter of Champions 101 tournament day number three. This is last refuge.
$8,000 is up for grabs in the 1-on-1 tournament with $3,500 going to the number one spot.
But much more important than that is the bragging rights of winning a streamer tournament in
one of the greatest games of all time, Warcraft 3.
Tyler won against Dante's, are in the lower bracket, they've won a match, they've lost
the match and they find themselves here in the second round.
Tyler1 is leading with 1-0 and Dante is under the gun.
One more match lost and he will be eliminated, Sing Sing.
Yeah, he's eliminated.
Kabi, was there a time where Tyler1 really fucked up?
you know like just forgot to like mine the gold or something like that
there yeah there have been moments so one one thing he sometimes does is he presses the battle
stations button on burrow which pulls the nearest workers into the burrow high level orcs will actually
control group their lumber peons or box select their lumber peons in order to put them in the burrows
But Tyler sometimes refers to his gold beyonds to man battle stations, then even if you defend the base, you'll still have lost so much gold that you can't win anymore.
It's not an irregular occurrence for him, which is why he usually does better when he's on the offensive, when he makes a dangerous army.
I don't remember Mary maybe level incidents, but there have been some sloppiness all this time.
Yeah, I was thinking about that because the last game didn't look very even.
What is this? What's this?
Is it good?
Toric keeps it first? Is this a mistake?
Well, huh?
What?
What does this go doing?
This is the work has made me
It's not what he's building. No, there's no way he's counting. What info could you use?
No, he's just a rascal.
Just keep checking in!
Haha.
Tyler won, opens with a TC, he wants to play a fun hero.
Wait, is this like an advanced way to inoculate himself against scorn that if he loses he
can at least say, but it wasn't a serious game.
It was TC first though.
Haha.
Or does he just want to get a more impressive victory with an off meta opening hero?
TC is the worst opening hero Orc can go for, by the way.
He's not just in his base with a zero. He's killing the woodworkhouse.
I was thinking just go into the burrow. Burrow is now defending the base. Heal self on the
tower in Chieftain. He's got two creeps already. Dante is trying to go for the cancel on the
heal self, but the TC with the aura first is too fast.
You're going to go all the first?
Yeah.
I was thinking you could go shockwave to spend the mana.
Yeah, I agree.
Even on TC first.
I agree. A lot of people, most everyone in the game opens with aura first on TC, but
I always open with shockwave double shockwave the creeps for momentum. I think people
Especially just get a mana lead in going. Yeah, exactly. It actually looks
Not
You know, I love it that he changes his strategy a little bit and implies a little pressure here
What do you think like a Dante's that he's here? Yeah. Yeah, look, he yeah, it's so nice
Especially knows if he plays normal. He just loses. Yeah
He's bringing in a bunch of ghouls, he's still teching, but more units than usual.
Tyler at least knows how to counterplay the life train, Mary maybe didn't catch that
Warcraft 3 lesson, so she tried to damage someone through the life train and actually
this spell has virtually no mana cost and no cooldown.
What she's doing about as well is she can against this level for last, so this is not
a nuclear threat, just a ghoul and a dark ranger.
He's canceling two more souls, or one more, if he hits that.
Yeah.
They're doing good.
I'm impressed.
Dante's is slowing him down a lot.
Tyler only took two creeps so far.
Looks like Dante's was making motions to leave.
But really, he should stay on top of TC,
because Tyler's going to use HealSouls again.
That's a 66 gold investment.
If you can cancel that, you keep getting ahead.
It looks like Tyler's gonna move into Dark Ranger.
Normally the way you're supposed to do this,
you're supposed to lead with units that don't have heal solve on them,
so that you can protect the ones that do.
That's minus 66 gold again.
It's gonna hit me?
No? Okay.
Why?
It was funny!
Crazy!
Yeah, that's so funny.
I was like, he's doing so well, like damn!
He slowed him down so much he almost killed the hero, killed some peons.
And he just teleports out when he's gone.
But he wasn't even being...
He just sawed your big bold advantage.
Yeah.
And now he lost it.
That was huge.
Yeah.
He cancelled like about 5 souls or something?
Yeah.
And now he's gone.
He doesn't understand or doesn't care about why not to use TP when you're not actually in danger.
Like...
if someone that would like drop his sandwich on the street and then call the
police like bro this is an overreaction
if he doesn't pick up this item don't they say he's just doing it to save like
time you know like backing in league yeah that could be walking back nice
stratified back timings okay it's very important in league initially when I
started playing league I didn't like going back because there's always another
wave of minions coming. And I want to hit those minions and I don't want to lose the
XP and gold. But as was eventually shown by coaches, one of which was Dante's as well,
another one, Yamato Cannon, and many more, like Aloysse and Tyler Wan, they teach you
that if you don't go back on certain waves, then you will lose even more waves than if
you stay, because of the power loss of you not being strong enough to contest with your
lane opponent, and then you'll miss other waves. So you're always going to lose something,
you got a limit uh yeah you got it you got to choose the right time
as soon as you're clear as soon as you're career if only man
i'm kind of impressive right Dante he's actually moving out and keeping
and harassing and he has way more units too
hey i mean it's 50 percent more spiders than last time
hundred now damn he's just staying on tier two making a whole bunch of units
Note how he hasn't made spit at ours this time, he's not tier 3 yet
So this is the other variant of play that he did
Actually, this is the variant of play that Mary maybe did
When he went for a whole bunch of ghouls and fiends
Even went over 50 population without going to the tier 3
That's the one she ended up beating
And that's the one he's doing now, so it's just more dangerous than before
Makro a little bit flagging with the late cigarette but giving some good creeps in
Whereas Tyler, he's doing the variant of play that he did
In 2v2 with Humato Kannon against Pax and Maxin, the one they won with the invisible Raiders,
that's what Tyler's doing here. He's gonna get Raiders, he already has the pillage upgrade
finished, and he's gonna try to kill buildings with it.
Well, where is his acolyte?
He's gonna expand the course.
That is not taking his gold, right?
Of course!
That is just paying like he's a new person compared to last game.
Yep, the fuck am I looking at?
It's crazy!
Why is he taking his gold?
Why not?
This is across the whole fucking map, what do you mean why not?
They'll never think to look there by that.
I guess.
You like this kind of expo, right son?
Yeah.
Good.
Still want Dante's took against Mary, maybe it never got found.
He's keeping watch. Wow.
The invitation of participants like this gargantuan sea turtle camp more than almost any ladder player I've ever seen.
They're scared of the red scound and the corner cam feels nicely out of the way to the point where you may not get creep jacked
Hmm. I
Think they're also afraid of red. That kind of scary man. Yeah
That is attacking. Oh
Mass Raiders with pillage. There's no time for that one teleport. No teleport. Wait, when did you use teleport again some glitters?
I guess this is why you shouldn't use your TP when you're literally not being attacked!
Okay, he just arrived.
Haha, that's too late, no?
Haha, I think so.
What's he gonna do?
But Tire Teleported early too, nor could he have fought a little bit?
Or was it a good teleport?
No, that's a good teleport.
He could have got gold mine.
Yeah.
Yeah, he could have gone deeper and snared the 5 acolytes on gold, ticked down the gold mine, put a grunt or a TC to block the rest of the army.
But at this level, for this level, this was decent, he killed a whole bunch of pillage, he killed a whole bunch of cigarettes, he pillaged them,
which means that he recoups half of the damage, half of the cost of the original building.
So the cigarettes cost 150, if you kill it with raiders, you get 75 gold from it and 25 lumber.
lumber. So he gained loads of bankite destroying Dante's base.
What is your tower's goal?
Ooh nice singer.
Speed's goal?
That's a good singer.
Ooh.
The player's forces are under attack.
Speed's scrolling out.
Towers at 50 population with Raiders. He could expand at his own gold mine, make a bunch
of towers, a common follow up. He could get some attack upgrades for Raiders. Reinforce
defenses, maybe towers to make sure that any desperate counter attack is never
going to be working. The Tiber is fully doing the hit and run lame style.
Yeah typical orcs. They would rather still do a different continent in boats
rather than fighting you. Every game. But you had a boat camp.
Another big attack! That is a state creeping. He's gonna get pumped, no?
yeah but they can't weapon land unit so they can just kind of walk through
everything it's gonna go straight for the holes of the dead
raiders surrounding it with siege damage do a lot of bonus damage meanwhile the
creeps are still having a go back stabbing that fiend the holes of the
dead goes down so fast with shockwave endurance and raiders he killed it if he
now kills the gold mine or more cigarettes that's gonna be very little
supply left for Dante's Dante's is still mining with five with a nice skill there
on the fiend too with the shockwave. Tyler's clowning on him. I'm glad he played this funny
build. It's quite cool to see him deviating from the norm. Two cigarettes down, necropolis
down. No chance to make new acolytes again, though Dante still has all of his acolytes
so he could just remake his base.
Yeah, he actually just put the acolyte scout, which is a really good thing. I'm not sure
if he intended that. Oh no, okay, no, I'll take everything back.
Don't try to upsell his decisions.
If it was just a scout it would have been a really good play.
I appreciate you reaching for rational decisions.
Yeah, well you see things, right? You make some logic out of it.
It's only chaos.
Okay, Dante's keeps remaking cigarettes and necropolis in the same place.
He hasn't morphed them into towers, though raiders are taking less damage from towers
and doing more.
They're really not the counter.
The main counter to raiders are ghouls, but shockwaves take care of those a bit.
Another counter is abominations, but those aren't available unless you're on the tier
3 technology of your main base.
And Dante's just got sent back to the Stone Age.
Dante's going for counter attack.
He's like, I'm gonna lose.
I'm attacking now.
All in.
He is not doing bad on hill levels.
Yep, that's why Titus should have made more units,
go and reinforce the fences and make towers.
After a hit and run, people often do some kind of counterattack.
I genuinely think that Dante has a stronger army here
and should be winning this.
And Shockwave on solo Pit Lord while he's half turret doesn't look that good.
Titus is really low with the TC!
He's got it!
Uh oh!
He did it!
Eight months no Tyler, how's his viewers gonna react?
Oh my god!
This is crazy, this is so good!
He's doing the standard work thing, which is to never fight again.
I shouldn't have fallen in the first place.
Oh my god, is he winning?
Well, Tyler isn't winning at this point.
He plays things well, he inches into the voodoo lounge, gets clarity potion, walks away,
uses it, then comes back by his mana pot and he spends three shock waves in around the
fiends.
He can win this.
And the pitlord isn't...
Crabby, isn't this the best thing Dante's could have done?
Of course!
Yes!
He went to destroy his base, then he was like, okay, fuck it, I can't win.
I'm all in in his base right now.
This is genius.
I was net cancel.
Why does net cancel a life train?
It just does.
You got him out there by focusing Hero.
But finally enough, Sing Sing, and that only cancels Life Drain
if there is no net on the person when you net them.
Yeah, that makes sense.
So you net the Dark Ranger, then Dante's can start the Life Drain
and then if Tyler renats too early, and I'm sure he doesn't know about this interaction,
if he renats too early, it's not a cancel.
He has to wait until it disappears first.
That is going for another attack.
Look, you re-get us.
But he has no TP, no heal points!
And the Stark Ranger is low!
He should stop putting him forward if he knows he's gonna get casted like that.
Does he know?
How could he possibly predict this thing, Sing Sing?
I don't know.
Ow, he's stuck!
Wait.
Oh, he got the interrot.
But is it because he knew about the interaction or because he was too slow to ensnare?
I think it's too slow, right?
I think so too. I don't think he knew, but if he knew, then that was perfect timing. That was actually perfect timing.
It's not normal that a 500 MMR player has this much of a chance to win against a $1300 one.
Even when he's trolling a bit with the opening hero in the build?
Is it that short, you know? I bet it's even that bad. Like it's worse, but playable, right?
So you think I should teach the next generation of invitational participants how to do TC mass raider hit and run?
Why not I guess?
Yeah, fuck it.
Fuck it, okay.
Next invitational, I teach everyone meme builds.
So we can get away from the boring old meta of Dark Ranger first into Pit Lord Frostworms and we can get some crazy stuff like mass raider hit and run with TC first and fuck it, take your second.
I mean, that's how we work in any way without the TC. It's like barely any difference.
we're gonna teach everyone wrong as a joke and what about coaches that don't
have higher than 400 mmr I can't think of any okay okay thank you
He checked tech somehow if you see his weapons.
1-1 fiends, Raiders have 1-1-2.
Yeah, but the weapon upgrades.
Oh no, he can't. He doesn't have it and he can't.
Because he's tier 1. He never upgraded to tier 2 again.
PITLUARD!
PITLUARD!
Shit sounds like a book of the dead, right before dying.
Dante is just trying to click the fea- the wyverns. Did you see that?
He's like, oh fuck!
I don't have waaand!
Why?
Nice shockwaves, yeah that's a good one.
Is Mike going back to Lois for units?
Yeah, he came right back in yo guys, what's going on, ahhh!
Speed scrolling away again, Tyra's getting close to level 6 TC, solo TC level 6 would
be pretty sweet.
If you asked Tyler about this after the game, he's going to say this game was never close.
I want you to call him out some glitters.
Yeah, I was just thinking about that.
I was just thinking about it because I was thinking, ah, yeah, Dante is like, you did
pretty well because for me, the game looks kind of over now, right?
Because I feel like now Tyler is making use of like his more experience, but like 10 minutes
ago, the game was really close.
Yes.
It can still be close if he gets both his sails out if he remembers to click them.
He clicked both.
It's 2 level 4 versus a level 5 so it's really not that bad.
If he gets wiped out those wyverns die fast too.
It's not that bad.
Just started his halls of the dead.
He has unwisely decided to pop from 50 to 53 pop.
This is a very bad, very terrible, horrible decision because
it's moments like this where you need to go around the map with the town portal, stay at 50.
The players' forces are under attack.
Oh, he's getting attacked.
Tyler's here again.
No, he's not there.
He's targeting the necropolis with raiders.
He's got a shockwave.
They're going to put acolytes on one HP.
Or is it so lame, dudes?
Next wave is going to kill everything!
Boom, baby!
No necropolis, no acolytes!
It's a checkmate.
I didn't know we were playing chess here.
Look at Tyler's face.
He knows.
Oh, God.
Yeah.
It's literally impossible for Dante's to ever make money again outside of selling
items or creeping. There is no necropolis, there is no acolyte, there's no chicken,
there's no egg. He needs to go now, right? Yeah, Dante's needs to go and take a fight
without web and the only unit that can hit air is a Dark Ranger. The Dark Ranger
we'll have to kill four wyverns by herself I guess what could happen is that Dante
gets a level 6 Dark Ranger and then he starts stealing with charm all the wind
riders but looks like Tyler found him Tyler found him he's gonna snare a bunch
of fiends a bunch of spiders big shockwave hitting several fiends there
interrupt on the live train Tyler is gonna attack the Dark Ranger even if she
at Town Porto would be enough because it's nothing to Town Porto to Lord! Boom baby!
Dark Ranger down!
This was way too close.
You're jamming almost wrong!
Stop wrong!
No problem!
You're Patty Hattake if you think this is a win and you're proud of it.
We did win.
We did win.
Oh, it's pretty close.
Oh, fuck that man, he's eating, dude.
Oh, good man, you can still win, luck in.
Bitlord AFK with the cloak, still has Scroll of the Beast.
Looks like Dante's is having both of his hands down.
No, there it is, both of his hands in his hair.
The camera, it's done, you're so done with this.
Contight buildings this time with acolytes.
TC gets level 7 and a half.
Some players force them to die.
Barely scraped a win by against the second worst player in the tournament, Cis Dante's.
That's it. He's right. Chat is saying he's right. I mean, this wasn't Tyler's best build.
He was still less comfy than it maybe should be.
What if Tyler just wanted to give us a little bit of a show? That's why he did a worse
start than usual.
Yeah, I think so.
He did like it.
It was too much of a stump the first one.
Yeah, I think so.
Yeah.
You haven't ever gonna win, do you have a cannon on you?
Seems like it runs on you.
Anyone else?
Poex?
You want the cannon?
Anyone else?
What does runs you mean?
Like runs through you?
I don't know.
I guess so.
Run's over you, ah run's over you.
Thanks Jack.
Yeah, but that would demolish you.
guys it's just trash talk they don't mean this it's just having fun they know
how to run a show bye Gigi Gigi 2-0 victory to Tyler one that one makes it
lower bracket semi-finals we got to get both players to get their thoughts
about the moves that they made to try and get the victory here.
I'm going to invite both of them for the post game chat.
And we'll see, Tyler admits that it was a bit closer than he would have liked.
I'm so ready for this.
After this, it's going to be Hera versus Pox.
Hey, wait, wait, wait, he's personally calling me, actually.
He's actually that upset.
Hold on.
I'll tell him to join.
Okay.
I'm impressed.
Natal is crazy.
What's it to personally congratulate him on advancing in the tournament and what a wonderful
performance?
Ben, let's try.
Let's try.
Yo, Tyler, you know what it's like, bro?
What's it like?
It's like you spent a week training every single day for, not even a week, two months.
You spent two months training for 19 hours a day to fight in an MMA tournament and you
barely run against the mentally disabled four-foot-tall kid that could barely even fucking support
his own body weight.
And now you're sitting here with the biggest grin ever thinking that you actually did something.
Well, guess what, Tonka Chonk?
You're about to get fucking reeled on by some of these other guys that have way more practice than I do.
So I hope your day starts off good, bro, because it's about to be a lot shittier in about 30 minutes.
Is that what you think, bro? You think I'm losing against here or Poxy shiters as well?
They're no better than you, to be honest.
Well, dude, if Mike Tyson could barely hold his own against Hasbulla, what do you think's gonna happen when he gets to not take off Jake Paul?
Think about it, bro. Like, you're gonna put that in the first 10 minutes of that game.
You were fucking pathetic!
Yeah!
No, I was trying to do strat styling on your dumbass.
You literally didn't adapt or didn't learn or do anything different all tournament.
I wanted to talk about adaptation.
You built flying units against crypt fiends.
I don't know shit about this game and even I know that's trolling.
Tywin, I'm showing you.
I knew you wouldn't level web.
That inferior, bro.
No, because you destroyed my fucking town hall!
I know what I said!
Fucking town hall!
Yeah, I did!
Next time, don't hostage the first game!
If it's over, be a reasonable adult and surrender!
You deserve that, B.M.
Yeah, you shouldn't know a lot about that, dude.
Every single time you're losing in any game, it's fucking FFF at 15.
Oh, now I get it personal!
Wait, you're actually upset?
Nah, it's okay.
Okay, okay, deal, bro!
Calm down, man!
If I'm your best, maybe next time we take, you know,
People's people who invited you some thoughts in mind actually practice man. I was staying up till four in the morning every day practicing
It is what it is bro. I understand you're doing well on League and shit like that, but maybe we stick to that
Hey, I was driving. All right, Gigi is taller. No, it really wasn't. That's Gigi
Gigi's. It was great to watch. Thanks for bringing your special brand of play into the game
I'm sorry that my coaching didn't rub off more on you.
Wait, Grubby, genuine question. Genuine question.
The first 10 minutes of that game was Tyler going to get shit on if I played it better, yes or no?
If you played it better, it's a really large leap of the imagination.
You had a chance, no.
He can't possibly play it better, is the issue, because they're not playing the game.
Like, could I have taken over from your position to be in an advantageous spot and win, yes?
Can you control your hero and keep it alive while you're attacking and killing the TC?
Do you know the priorities? Not yet.
With a little bit more practice, I think you could have closed it out against Tyler's biggest troll strategy.
Yeah, because I don't know what the fuck he was doing, bro, but his hero was just permahealing.
But he wouldn't die, bro.
What do you mean?
What do you mean?
What do you mean they didn't happen?
What are you talking about?
That is, you know, also, why do you always Town Portal under no pressure at all?
Like you're just in the middle of nowhere, there's no one around you, and you call for
the police and run, screaming.
The Town Portal that Saul Aitman taught you at some point in your practice is because
he knew you wouldn't be able to extricate yourself from the base.
But Town Portal is a last resort, not a go-to.
Like it seems you use it intentionally, even though there was no pressure on you, why?
the thing is, I'm like a shinobi grubby. I like go in and out. I'm like a ninja assassin.
I go in his base. I'm fucking like looking for the samurai dojin. And then when I go
fucking crazy, that's when I got a bounce. But the problem was that he actually knew
how to count it properly. Because he's been watching my VODs eight hours before I die.
Yes, he has. He's been fucking in his car with his little coach. Oh, oh, Mr. Knoff. I'm so
so fucking scared, Don's gonna run my shit in.
Can we please practice Undead vs. Orc for nine hours a day?
And it's like, unfortunately for me,
that's the level that Tyler was willing to go to.
So it is what it is.
It was just about enough, Dante.
He found the one way to beat you.
That's impressive.
Tyler is a man of many talents.
Dante, thank you so much for joining the tournament.
See you next year.
Hopefully we practice more than a couple of dozen games
and we come with a hot new build.
But I will say this, you improved a lot compared to the first time I ever saw you.
October 24th, Tyler's FFA, you were the Frostworm Andy that stood in his base the whole time.
You improved. Beyond that, you showed several different builds.
I commend you on your improvement, even though it wasn't nearly enough.
Okay, well, thank you Grubby and Wilson. Great event. Thank you for having me.
And I hope you get to crown anyone besides Tyler, one as the winner soon.
Okay, GG guys!
GG!
Tyler, catch up with you soon.
Oh my god.
Jesus.
Those were some good games to watch.
That's quite an experience.
Thanks for joining me for those.
Sungaders and Sing Sing.
We're going to be throwing it through a small break
and have a, yeah,
enjoy watching the show and
I'll see you guys again sometime.
Okay, bye guys!
Bye-bye.
Bye-bye.
Alright guys, that was the second, that was the first round of today, the lower bracket
quarter-final, special three between Tidre One and Dante's.
One of the more uneven matches I think we're going to be seeing today with Hera and Pox
coming up next and it's going to be co-casted by Knoth.
I think that might possibly be a dual cast.
I'm gonna be throwing it to a small break so we can take toilet breaks. I'll see you guys in a minute or two. Here we go
On Saturday the 16th and Sunday the 17th of May in 2026
The altar of champions one-on-one main tournament will be played out our eight contestants are ready to go at it in one-on-one
The winning team from Friday's clan war as their fix of who they want to face in the brackets with the winning captain having first pick
And then they delegate the second and third pick to the most deserving players of their team
That happened yesterday and soon I'll show you today's brackets.
Most matches are best of three with the upper bracket finals, the lower bracket finals and
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The grand finalist that comes from the upper bracket finals will have an advantageous map
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$8000 is up for grabs in this Alter of Champions 1-on-1 tournament with the champion taking
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The prize pool was sponsored by Blizzard and this event was made possible by all of you
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On Saturday the 16th and Sunday the 17th of May in 2026, the Altar of Champions one-on-one
main tournament will be played out. Our eight contestants are ready to go at it in one-on-one.
The winning team from Friday's Clan War has their picks of who they want to face in the
brackets, with the winning captain having first pick and then they delegate the second and third
pick to the most deserving players of their team. That happened yesterday and soon I'll show you
today's brackets. Most matches are a best of three with the upper bracket finals, the lower
bracket finals and the grand finals being a best of five. The grand finalist that comes from the
upper bracket finals will have an advantageous map selection system.
$8,000 is up for grabs in this Alter of Champions 1-on-1 tournament, with the champion taking
$3,500.
The prize pool was sponsored by Blizzard and this event was made possible by all of you
guys, the eight participating streamers, and all the co-casters, moderators and everybody
that helped.
I'm Grubby and this is the Alter of Champions, the 1-on-1 tournament.
Let's play!
Alright guys, welcome back.
We got a headlighter matchup coming up between Hera and Pax undead against Night Elf.
And now that more of you are here, I want to show you guys something as well.
Something insane that happened last night.
Of course, this is the stage where people compete.
It is no longer so much about their practice.
And therefore, a lot of results are kind of whatever.
But still something quite incredible happened.
After Hera dropped down to the lower bracket yesterday, losing again simply 0-2, he got
a little bit of coaching, he got a little bit of inspiration to hit the ladder.
And this happened.
A fearsome result for anyone that would dare to stand in his way on the way to the Grand Finals.
He hit the ladder and went, what is it, 14-16 wins in a row?
Not bad at all. Not bad at all. What are we watching?
Actually, his wife said, actually I played on this account. I see.
I see. So it's quite an impressive streak.
Hera quite the streaky player. It's not his first one,
but it is his most recent and his biggest one.
Quite impressive, quite impressive.
Now, he didn't play good.
Someone said he didn't play good in every game,
but his enemy sucked.
Right.
He just lucked his way to 16 wins in a row.
It was just luck.
His opponents folded over from the pressure of basking in his glories.
Basking in his glory, for sure.
Grubby, what's your highest win streak?
Well, I had a ladder win streak a long time ago of 98-0.
But the matchmaking system didn't work that well yet.
Like the first 20 games were always free.
And then, yeah, it was just way too slow to get you to your real MMR.
And usually I chickened out when I got to like the top 20,
because I had a lot of ladder anxiety.
I guess most of you kind of knows what ladder anxiety feels like.
I get people asking, how do you deal with it?
And for a long time I couldn't.
I only started being able to deal with ladder anxiety
once I started playing tournaments.
The tournaments made me realize that latter are a means to an end.
Alright, so let's bring on our co-caster whenever he's ready.
I still see he's on Deffen, but maybe he's got the stream open so he don't hear me twice or whatever.
I'm ready to bring on Knopf whenever he hears this.
He's gonna be my co-caster for the next game.
Knopf, welcome to the show then, what's up?
Yo, Grubby!
Hey, good to be here.
Good to have you back.
Final day.
Good to have you back.
Your most promising student, Tiger 1, is still in the tournament, he made it past Dante's.
Yes! Feels so good. What a good start we had in the Lucid Bracket here.
Oh well. Yeah, impressive game, sir.
I really liked how he adapted with the TC build. I have no idea where that came from, but...
It's funny, right? Because you think you know a guy, you teach him many things that he knows
become intimately aware of someone's builds that they like to leverage and suddenly he's like cap
TC first you must have been a little nervous what if it means that he doesn't stream for eight months
yeah exactly but I mean TC is like a first hero that it's not so normal but he pulled off a very
interesting build here using the raiders and actually doing what TC and shockwave together
with raiders good for rating the base killing all the acolytes with choclite
like that was a really impressive play from nowhere and I thought he was never
gonna learn such kind of hit around style or never gonna want to do it
because he's someone that's so good in this straight-up fight he likes to out
my crowd stutter step his opponents this is a level of tactical play that I
wasn't sure he has the patience for but he is also evolving during this
tournament and it's really good to see aside from a little few details
he played most of the parts of that build pretty theory perfect with speed scrolls and town portals
at the right time after doing good damage so looking forward to see what he's going to be
doing next he's going to have a bigger challenge coming in whoever comes up from the next lower
bracket quarter final supposed to three Knopf yeah yeah yeah so now we're gonna focus on
Herra against Pox, right? And it will be, uh, yeah, what, I mean, where should we start?
This can't go anyway. Anywhere, I mean, let's start at the beginning. Let's start with what we
know about Pox. What do you know about Pox, Knopf? Yeah, I mean, I've been studying, uh,
most of the players, uh, quite a lot. And Pox is, uh, the type of guy that has a lot of knowledge
about the game, and he seems to be doing his homework very well, invested a lot of time into
learning the fundamentals about what to creep, and what, even what are the units,
what's the strength and weaknesses, how should you use the heroes together with certain units,
and yeah, so he put a lot of time into getting a lot of knowledge into how to play Warcraft 3,
and then he executed that by playing ladder games and trying to review his own gameplay
and see how he can improve and just be a better player. And now he finds his own style playing
a little bit of Warden first. So most likely gonna see the Warden in this series as well.
Yeah, with that knowledge, Hera is gonna have his work cut out for him. Someone that good at
controlling the warden could be a mess to anyone except the night off player that has
demon hunter with mana burn, which Hera decidedly is not. In the time that Hera did his ladder
games last night, any thoughts he would have had about the game, any thoughts or preparations
he would have done now, will he have found the multitude of ways that Undead has to deal with
a warden. And I say that while keeping in mind that even at the very high level on a map like
like Twisted Meadows, we have seen top players like Leif or Kaho or whatever, run Warden
to take games off of Happy, the best Warcraft 3 player in the world that's also undead.
Warden is not a joke hero.
No, Warden is, she is very strong if she is played in the correct way.
I think she scales very well in the late game, that can be very hard to play in the early
mid-game. But yeah, we have seen Pox doing quite well. So yeah, it will be hard. I don't
know how much practice Hera has been getting against Warden.
That's a good question. And it is difficult to find practice against Warden because it's
such a specialist pick. It is one of the big tools that you can grab to, you know, play
a game of Warcraft 3, but not a lot of people do it on the latter. Now for those that don't know,
Warden is a hero that specializes in mobility with her blink teleport ability and direct spell
damage with Fan of Knives or Shadow Strike. Shadow Strike is a single target damage that does
damage overtime and performs a small slow on the target as well, whereas Fan of Knives can hit up
to six targets in a flurry of blades doing virtually instant damage to targets around her,
the ones that are most adjacent. Playing the Warden, you have a goal of leveling her up fast,
using her solo so that she doesn't share experience with anyone. And she is one of the
best heroes at harassing enemy workers and getting in and out without being able to die very well.
There's plenty of tools that Pox leverages to keep her alive. So at some point in the game,
when the Warden gets high enough level, Pox will attempt to start taking down Acolytes,
and it will be up to Hera to either perform a surgical counterattack or defend its acolytes with all the tools necessary.
Yep, it will be interesting to see here. Do you know the map, first map?
First map is randomly decided to be Tite Hunters. The random map pick goes from a pool of three.
Hera banned Hammerfall and Lost Refuge. Pox banned Autumn Leaves and Springtime.
time. The remaining maps were Tidehunters Echo and Northern, Tidehunters became the randomly
selected first map, and the second map will be chosen between Echo or Northern Isles by
whoever loses the first map. We're currently waiting for Hera, Poxes in the lobby already.
Hera of course was around, but is not in the lobby yet.
I should join too, yeah?
Yes.
Let's see here, for Pox's challenge will have been to watch Hera's growing power level
over the last few days, to see the damage that Hera did in the Clan War, I'm just going
to switch to that scene for a second so you can see, Hera defeated simply 2-0, one of
the Night Elf brethrens, and he also managed to take down Yomata Kanan, the highest MMR
person in the practice with a 2-0 and a 2-1 score, respectively, and that's the last we
saw of Hera and the Clan War.
Then the 2-1 Tyler, which was his opening match, but he lost 0-2 to Simply.
Now Simply is a Demon Hunter user, which means that everything that Pox saw in that series
is not necessarily able to be ported to his own personal experience, as Demon Hunter and
Warden have a very different match flow.
Looks like Hera joined the lobby and we're going to be able to set up in the pre-game
lobby.
Both are here.
I know.
We've got Pox in the red and Hera in the blue server.
We've both with about 82.95 ping.
We've got the ping equalizer.
Great.
Almost ready to go.
The way that Hera lost against Simply was interesting.
games, simply got his level 6 Demon Hunter right before Catastrophe could have hit. Looks
like we're ready. Let's talk more once we're in the game Knoth. This is Tidehunters in
the opening map of the second lower bracket round 2.
Our first game is underway of the second round of the second round of lower bracket round 2 the winner of this series
Which is a best of three will be playing against Tyler one in the third round of the lower bracket Knoth
Let's fucking go. Yeah
Well this
Will be a very interesting series because I think those two players are
very very strong so it's really hard to say who's gonna come on top here we do
see an Asian of war here from Pox early on and not much more happening at
here space looks like it's gonna be a decade ghoul so standard opening here
from both but will be interesting to see the first year now for Pox if it
will be a warden, because it's not 100% sure, right?
I feel like I'm willing to stake my reputation on that, that it's going to be a warden first.
I've seen literally zero games where he opens with anything except warden first, except in 2v2 or in Night of Mirror.
I think it's going to be a warden. It is a warden first, let's go.
Yeah, okay, okay, okay.
The two Potom and Keeper first in the 2-on-2, the UNI casted together on Friday the 15th.
But that was an adaptation to the 2-on-2 and the 4-on-4 and so on.
For the solos it's going to be the Warden and it's going to open with Asians of War creeping over here.
Now Knopf, I'm expecting Pox to make a second Ancient of War on the Overseer camp down here.
Ah, yeah. I have been seeing some double Asian of War from him as well.
So most likely he understood how important it is to level up the Warden.
He wants to get to level 3 as fast as possible, so he thinks that double Asian award creeping is going to help him.
And also the Asian award is very slow to walk around, so it makes a lot of sense to actually get another one.
That's right.
To increase the creeping.
That's right, and when you're walking around to new optimal creep locations, you can't be making archers either.
Making archers with at least one of them some of the time is important to keep your power level growing
so that you are more resilient against any early undead attacks.
One of the early undead attacks that Hera is known to do is to try and get level 2
and then to find his way to the Nighthawk base to start attacking some Wisps.
Slowing down the lumber economy of Pox is going to be potentially a powerful tool to delay his bear timing and
Orpovendant timing and that something Pox has to be fair struggled with a little bit low lumber count
Yeah, he has been
Not sure how many wisps he really need and that's of course takes some times to learn and also depending on what kind of build
You're making enough. Let me interrupt you there. Look at this. Yeah, look at the undead base Hera salt town portal
Bought dudes dudes. He bought
Even a second grip a third cigarette. He's cheating. It's a double crypt all in. Oh
My god, what a start here. We're having into the serious. This can actually be really tough
Very special build, but he's not producing goals right now
Now this is more important than anything is to keep up goal production, but this is going
to be so unexpected.
Now making mass goals in greater numbers than expected is a very powerful build.
But so far, wait, why is he, oh he bought Cerclet, so far this is not more goals than
you could have had.
The effects of this will really start to be felt in about a minute or two as more goals
will enter the field than could have possibly ever been part of the game.
If Pox kills a lot of goals in this level three, this might be stopped very early in
tracks yeah I feel like Pogs has to react fast now he is making more archers
but not enough I feel and maybe he should even start to make another
Asian war in his base or at least a couple of moon wells he do have 350 gold
in the bag so he has to make sure that he's doing something with his gold
right now we can see a first Dispel coming in here to remove some of the
Skeletons?
absence of their juice will be quite a problem. Now this looks like a little unusual to Pox
already, but is he aware that this is actually a double crypt all in? All the ghouls?
I don't think so.
I don't think he's aware of it or if he is, there's very little time for him to pilot
the ship in a different direction anymore Knopf.
Yeah, he's running out of mana too and I feel like, yeah he has to do something here. Probably
his biggest chance is to kill the DK right now I feel, but he doesn't have, he's running
out the Moonwell juice so he cannot heal up anymore and he didn't make any extra
Moonwells and he's only level 2 as well and two more Archers is falling here.
This is really tough. This is Hera's RTS experience showing. Knowing that he's
playing against what in many games would be called being a one-trick pony,
Hera has decided to come up with a blind counter against what he knew is most
likely going to be happening. Analyzing the weaknesses. Look at this ghoul block on
the warden and he has enough mana for a coil, he coils his ass and he gets the win!
Well played, says Pux, GG, says Hera, in under six minutes Hera's experience in this format
allowed him to see the weaknesses that are inherent in Pux's opening.
Pux loves to play long games.
Every player in this invitation has an average game time of about 14 minutes, which is really
standard for Warcraft 3, but Pox's average game time was 20 minutes. His whole match
history is full of 30 minute games. Pox likes to take his time and to marinate his way into
a build without rushing things. And Hera went the other extreme way. A double all in with
Double Crypt, Cell TP, Unsummon Altar and channeled all his resources into a furious
assault, washing Pox's base with ghouls. The counter to this would have been for Pox to
make nonstop army production, moon wells, more ancients of war, to make 100% of the bank that he
has been invested into defensive tools. However, Pox kept up hope. And therein lied the problem.
He hoped that the game would normalize into something resembling a normal game at some point,
Knoff. What a start we're seeing here from from Hera. He's pulling off something very different
here and he made it look very easy as well. I think he's making Pogs sweat a bit right now
because this is not the start that he wanted. He didn't get the time to get into the game,
like you mentioned. So this is a great way of starting a tournament match. It's going to be a
lot of nerves involved now as well, I feel, because this giving here a great start into the series.
And I think also that at this point, Pox realizes that this series is going to be anything but normal.
Most likely, it looks like it. And what impresses me, it's Hera's preparation here.
Yep, that's right.
Seems like he has a really good sense about what's the weaknesses of Pox build already.
But what's going to be interesting now is to see if
here we'll do the same or something different.
Honestly, he could do the same.
He could just do the same.
I think you should build switch when you
caught someone unexpected and aware,
but you know that they have the answer to your build,
but you use the element of surprise.
Right now, I haven't seen any evidence that
Pox would actually know in
the short time span allotted to him,
that he knows how to counter this build.
It would have looked more like Whist making ancients of war, Moonwells and nonstop archer production.
He also detonated himself three times. When someone is shaking, keep pushing.
Don't change and try to go past another point. Keep pushing the same way and there will likely
be no time to mentally recover or to come up with a strategy that would be able to stop this.
Yeah, let's see what's the second map gonna be here and okay equals it is yeah
this is also I mean normally we do see night elves going for early creep camp
here the mercenary camp which is a bit harder to creep but I know that Fox has
been practicing that it's a creep camp where you can get it's like high risk
but high reward. If Hera would be putting a lot of pressure into the early again, we might see the
same scenario here. But we will see if Pox is going to play a more safe opening now, maybe even
starting with some huntresses. Yeah, we'll see. Haven't seen him make a single huntress in solo yet,
but we're going to see what's going to happen exactly. Let's get the second map of this series on the road.
Game number two between Hera and Pox, love how you described what we might be seeing
here Knoth, because you're right Pox likes to creep that mercenary camp with an ancient
of war.
He put in much effort in order to find out exactly how to do that.
And the problem is that this is one of the longer lasting creep camps that suffers more
from interference.
If Hera uses acolytes or ghouls to interrupt the creeping on the Merc camp, that could
quickly destabilize someone's plans.
But where Pox could have opened maybe with Huntresses in order to completely try and
change up the base, or opening with a simpler camp, the green camp to the top right of his
own base, he's going to stick to what he learned, stick to his guns, and try to propel him into
to a high level warden very quickly, Knopf.
Yeah, and we do see that Pox is going to go for the mercenary camp here.
Yes.
Oof, I'm already getting a bit of nerves here.
Yeah, let's see.
He has to do this very well, and we have to hope that Hero is not putting pressure, because
This forces folks in an awkward position here, because the Asian War is very far out from
the base, and also it's a bit tricky if you're not doing the creep the way you should, which
is efficient with the lightning shield forced by the wizard here.
And that requires a little bit of practice and can go wrong sometimes.
Yeah, for sure.
It's a tough combination of moves where you uproot the Ancient of War at the right time
after pooling the camps around the forest.
Pox showed a weird variant of creeping this, where he makes the first archer,
then uproots the ancient of war, then reroutes it on the left.
And the weird thing about that is that you could have just made it on the left immediately.
There was no need to do that whole sequence.
It's Warden was waiting next to it.
So I wonder if he's laboring under the misapprehension,
that if he builds it closer, that that would rouse the creep camp?
Well, because it really doesn't.
It looks like he's doing the same thing. He's gonna eat a tree
Honestly, he's creeping off. It was pretty good when he's not being interfered with
Harrow's acolyte is very telling to his game plan Knopf. It looks like Harrow will open with an early fast expansion. I think
Yeah, he's selling the tip again. Yeah
You are correct and it looks like he is gonna go
Down to his gold mine here. He already killed a creature there with the with acolyte
So probably it's gonna try to get the role, but I do like the position here of the wisp
Pox seems to be aware that Hera has
Some kind of intention to do and expand here. So we actually know what's going on
But it was too busy to do anything about it because he's so busy doing his own creep camps of the wisp night
gloriously to an auto attack coil Pox accidentally denies a level three
Unit that's gonna cost him experience building kills do not give exp in Warcraft 3
Okay, so we do see Hera making his first cigarette here as well.
I like that he is doing that before actually placing the haunted gold mine, which is normally
more safe way to play the expo build here.
Yeah, one way that Yamato Kanon exposed weakness in Pox is by saying, I know eventually you're
going to be up in my stuff killing workers, but what if I have two times the workers
that you have by having two bases from minute four. I know you're not busy. I know you're
still busy scaling and you're not ready yet to hold. And another cool thing is that Hera is
showing some high-level RTS psychology that he learned in AOE 2, no doubt, where you veer between
two extremes. Extreme aggression with the double-cryptol in tier one and then extreme greed
with an early fast expansion. It's very difficult for people to adjust to the pacing differences
did you create with that? Yeah yeah he's most likely creating that feeling again
where he's putting a lot of pressure into Pox's mind here so but he sees there is
not so many ghouls this time so maybe he has an idea about it is not all in but
he is not scouting anything so he doesn't know I would like to see Pox
sending a whisperer to make sure that he knows what's going on because the
expo is being built right now from here. I think most likely in some way Pox is
aware of it or at least it's a possibility but at the same time he's so
busy defending now the losses sustained were fairly catastrophic enough. With
the whisper that was lost near the expansion we have one whisperer, one over
here and then a third one and a fourth one. I think five wasps were killed by
either detonated or killed by Hera which gave experience or at the very least
denied them. With 250 lumber, Hunter Solo started, 4th Moonwell is cancelled,
Pox is gonna have lumber issues, a problem that he usually solves by buying
shredder, but guess what? Echo Isles does not have a shredder.
Yeah, that can be problematic actually. We do see Hera coming in again here for
another good run by and also meanwhile his haunted gold mine is finishing and
And he's gonna pick up the tier 2 here most likely very soon.
Another Wisp goes down to 6th one and Archer goes down simultaneously.
Pox has level 2 Fan of Knives and he's getting those ghouls pretty low.
The next Fan is gonna be devastating. That's nice. Couple of ghoul kills there.
But more Arches go down, the Berserker goes down and the final unit that Pox has
is also getting attacked by Baron Morty. Another Fan of Knives kills another ghoul.
Baron Morty, what is this?
I have never seen that before.
This is something you saw paying attention to eventually, right?
Yeah, maybe, maybe.
No, Hera is still tier one, and he's making necropolis at his expansion,
which means even if he ends up ever losing acolytes, Knoth...
Oh, Pox finds two ghouls.
He doesn't find them!
Oh no, he just passed them, okay.
Yeah, and we do see Herra is still staying with his deke here to have information about
what's going on.
Pox buying a staff of teleportation so he can teleport home, but what can he do right
now?
What would his next step be here?
I mean I feel like this boat has already sailed and Pox is not on it, that's what it looks
like right now.
at about 15 seconds or so until nighttime regeneration on Moonwell's ceases to happen
is very little lumber in Pox's future. He is remaking Mini-Whisp. He has a decent bank,
but he hasn't started his ancients of lore yet. In the meantime, Hera is mining from a second base.
He is caught up by making his necropolis transform into a Holes of the Dead. Now,
Pox does show up here with level 2 fan of knives. He's going to try and get some ghouls. Nice split
by Hera and then the slow tower will actually prevent... keep in mind because he was forced to
pick shadow strike he can't blink after those goals. Yeah that's true so he's... yeah he might
have to use his teleportation here later on. Okay another fan of knives coming out there doing a
lot of damage but still every trade here is good for Hera right now because he's the one that has
the extra income so he can be okay with losing some extra units here. He's also making a second
crypt now to keep up with production because he has that extra income and the DK is also doing
nice work here meanwhile the Warden was in his base. You know what would be sick if somehow
Hera was also aware of like gargoyle builds suddenly because we've never seen him go gargs.
Yeah that would be something. It might just be crypts for like ghouls or maybe fiends it's
It's two crypts and a graveyard synced up with the finishing of the Hulls of the Dead,
which two experienced worker 3 players says this could be Garg's, this could be synchronized
for Garg's production when tier 2 finishes and then he's going to continue hunting Wisps.
But we've never seen Hera make a Garg intentionally.
It has made some Garg's unintentionally.
Yeah, we're going to find the answer very soon.
But Grubby, what worries me here is that Pox doesn't really have any production right
Now, he just made his first lore.
He has two archers and a warden.
This is not looking good.
Not at all, not at all.
And if Pox loses this, he's out.
Currently, I don't see a path forward for him.
Another coil kills an archer.
Pox has been cowed into submission,
restrained to his own base with Pox's base in shambles.
And the worst part is this wasn't a power punch.
This was a jab by Hera.
He's been knocked out by a jab, not by a roundhouse kick to the face, because all along Hera was expanding.
Oh wow, yeah. I'd also like to see that Hera is also making a double slaughterhouse here as well.
So he's going to have four production buildings to keep up with the extra income that he's getting from the second base.
Wow.
Yeah, he's doing this very well and we can also see that Pokes seems to be afraid still for
coming into the base because he made an ancient protector. Yeah, ancient protector is something
that can make you feel safe when you've been attacked a lot, but it is actually theoretically
the most incorrect, not just a bit incorrect, because you're already so behind on production
and scaling into the game. What you need to equalize out on now is you need to now prepare
for the final all-in because of how the enemy has a base on you, or you need to get your
own expansion. And an AP is exactly wrong, even though it feels right.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Now, would you see also a Spirit Tower being upgraded here to protect
the extra gold mine a little bit? You also went for a double monopod to the VK.
He just wants to come here and do more whisp kills.
And basically he said, what if I just stay in your base?
That every time you leave your base, I'm there and I'm going to coil whisp or auto attack archers every now and then.
And Hera is also staying on a single hero for now.
He's gone to double-crypt double star rush.
That's very interesting.
I don't know what's the idea about that.
Maybe he wants to get, I don't know, high level DK.
And he made dead rush.
Are there a level 3 rush to try and counteract Fat of Nights?
It's kind of strange.
I really like how Hera is using his macro skills here.
I can see a little bit of his Age of Empires 2 skills putting in the work here
because he knows how important it is to keep up with the production buildings here.
He has 2 creeps, 2 slaughterhouse, and he's been producing very well.
It's down to 100 gold and it's already 61 supply up against 24 of Pox.
Oh, Pox coming in here, passing Hera. I don't know if he saw that.
No, no, he didn't expect to run into him yet.
There was actually something for the taking, a wand of Mana Steel.
Both players didn't click it fast enough.
Warcraft 3 is a game where you can be pushed to your limits of computational power
as you're busy with so many different steps.
And of course, there's the match stress as well.
There's being under the rest of Hera's furious assault.
And both players comically didn't notice
a high value item on the grounds.
Both had a full inventory.
So it would have been a two step plan
in order to try and take that item.
Hera finally makes the Lich Queen.
He decided to delay here so that he can synchronize
her coming out with Black Citadel
to buy the Orb of Corruption.
He's also started Abomination, Disease Cloud,
Destroyer Upgrades.
He's got two Attack Upgrades with his,
oh he cancelled on attack of great he he was working on the second attack of
great only as one
yeah
grubby i don't know i feel like here
came in where prepared for this serious yes is playing by the books right now
it looks like he had a very clear game plan about
what to do here as well
it's uh... it's funny as uh... on co-ordinated and random some of his
ladder games felt. It looks like Hera should never be underestimated because Hera prepares
four tournaments, he's got so much experience and he's really bringing the pain train. Clearly
done some preparations, come up with a couple of builds, he has studied his opponents and
Pox that has breathed so much fear into everyone's hearts, some of his opponents in this tournament,
someone so competent and capable, so knowledgeable and so scary on the warden has been made to
look non-threatening by Hera's preparation and builds.
Yeah, Pox needs to do something really really special here to get back in this game because
Hera has been on double income for a long time now.
We can see that it's up to 68 supply, but we do have Bearform coming in for Pox now.
Actually it's already finished, so he's gonna have his first Drute of the Chlor with Bearform
here, so that's good against all the Fiends.
Yeah, but now the destroyer upgrades is finished as well. There's an abomination with disease cloud.
We've got a lot of fiends here. Destroyer's chain morphing as well with full mana. Look at this.
He's taking out the bears. This is the first bear going down as well. Any fan of knives can be counteracted by heal scrolls as well.
If Hera uses it at the right time, it just looks like a furious assault that there's no stopping her off.
Oh man, this is... what can I say?
This is a very one-sided match here.
Hera is playing so well.
Folks doing what they can, but it's just too much.
Well, Flayman, you're a different guy than yesterday.
I couldn't say it any better.
Everything just looks so clean.
So high level what Hera did.
So many good decisions.
The little things.
The coils.
The novus.
the pressure, the goldmine, the the builds. Well played man you're awesome. GG thank you.
Hera with an easy 2-0 victory and I lied earlier today Knopf. I lied when I said that the probably
the most uneven game of today already happened. I thought Tyler's domination over Dante's was
going to be the biggest mismatch in the tournament but that's actually not true.
I think Hera gapped Pox by a bigger amount than Tyler's second game against Dante's at least.
And that was a really big gap already. Now Pox is incredible and I'm not saying this to diminish Pox in any way,
but the way that Hera played this, like he was never in any danger, like it was just incredible.
Yeah, that was perfect gameplay here. It's very impressive to see, and even Pox mentioned
that Hera is a different player today, and I'm thinking how much can you actually improve
just by one day of practice?
Apparently a lot, which is pretty crazy. And it's not just practice, it's preparation,
it's experience, it's probably studying opponents a little bit. Hera did mention on a previous
cast that. He had some of his moderators giving him a little bit of extra analysis as well,
you know, looking out for any tips and tricks to pick up any info on others. So
this is all legitimate. Of course, you can study each other's practice. It's a streamer event and
anyone has the power to be able to do that. But do you know how to change your play and be
able to act on it? It looks like for her, the answer is yes. Yeah, we're interesting to hear
their thoughts about this series as well because that was not expected for me as well. I can't say
anything else than that. Yeah, here I was playing very well. And yeah, maybe Pox should try to see
if he can make some other strategies work as well to have a little bit more different builds that he
can choose between. For sure. For sure. Maybe we can also have a chance to get Pox on the channel as
as well to get him into this lobby.
It looks like he's already here.
Pox, you have shown such incredible play
and it's been so fun to have you.
Unfortunately, your journey into tournament is at an end,
but could it have happened to a stronger opponent
looks like?
Honestly, I'm really happy how everything went.
Despite I choked a little bit, he is not the same person
I fought a few days ago.
And I'm proud of him for that.
He really put in the time and effort.
And as some people in my chat say,
The fact that he practiced so hard means he respects you as an opponent, you know, like
I wish nothing but the best for him.
I choked a little bit, but his pressure was relentless, you know, I wanted to go harass
the workers, but then he was just constantly denying my wisps and I should have harassed,
but he just really got me in a good spot.
It's an amazing, I think I held the amazing attitude to have you think you go ahead.
I was going to say, I think I did much better in the second game at the start, but then the
the second way when he hit with it just really kind of fumbled me you showed a
big improvement as a player welcome congrats on the victory and even though
of course we commiserate with boxes defeat that's what competition is like
and you know that like no other you look to prepare today hera yeah I should say
obviously first do you play the pox I mean you know it is what it is I feel
like I had your number today but I think you still play at great events and you
You definitely made a name for yourself in the Warcraft scene, so it all played, GGs.
And yeah, I think I had just some good prep.
I had a couple coaches helping me.
One guy in particular spent like five, six hours with me yesterday.
Stay so.
I don't know.
Oh, wow.
No, I did.
Death Note roasted me on stream for like an hour or so.
He was also great.
I shouldn't say he's great because he never said that about my gameplay or anything about
me.
He refused to give me one compliment.
I asked him one compliment at the end.
He said no.
So definitely it's as harsh as they come, but at Seisto as well, Seisto literally spent
like six hours with me last night, and he was just awesome.
So shout out to both coaches, of course, but yeah, just really happy with the win, and
I think it was a good couple strats.
Can I ask you a question about your gameplay?
So actually this morning I woke up, saw your crazy win streak, and was studying some of
your vods.
You played so much better than your actual games in the replays.
So much better.
Like today?
Oh, I don't know.
Maybe a good night's sleep.
I don't know.
No, for sure.
Like, I watched them look up and look.
Your micro with your units was much better.
Your pressuring was much better.
The direction you chose to come from, like you may not seem like it, but you changed
a lot.
So it's very good on you.
Thanks, Matt.
Listen, I appreciate it.
I appreciate it.
Yeah.
I mean, it's great to hear it.
Thank you so much, bro.
What impressive.
We'll never know the secrets and how you turn up
to 11 in your tournament games, Hera, but you did,
and that's what matters.
You're going to pick up 50 periods.
It's either the experience or the lunches.
I'm not sure which one I have more of.
Either way, it's helping.
But your journey isn't done yet.
We are going to be going straight into your match
against Tyler1, and therefore, I'm
going to kick you out of the call
so that you can prepare for that and take your much needed break.
It won't be long. Knopf, I'm kicking you out as well,
because Taito-wan probably would like to have a little chat with you.
I'll just close the show with Pox before we go into break.
Get out, guys.
Thank you.
Yeah.
Yo, Pox.
Overall, you enjoyed the tournament,
and I hope you had a good experience,
even though you ran into the wall of Hera here.
You know what, losing to Yamato and losing to Hera,
I'm okay with that.
You know, like it was a challenge on both,
but I wanted to challenge myself.
You know, like I didn't come into the tournament.
I'm not gonna say I didn't come to the tournament
expecting to win, I did bring it my all.
These players definitely take it more seriously,
and that's not like a negative thing, right?
You know, they're really locked in,
and I just kind of wanted to go and have a lot of fun
and see how far I could get, you know,
with the attitude of winning, and I'm happy where it ended.
You know, like if I had to do it all over again,
I would do the same thing, maybe a little bit less stalling,
but it didn't really matter because the amount of prep
Yamato put in before he versed me,
and then the amount of prep that Hera put in
before he versed me, you know,
would have been the same thing all over again.
And I just, I really respect the mentality
they have towards that.
Your experience compared to the expectation
why I initially invited you for this event,
did it like, how is there any mismatch
between expectation and the experience?
No, I mean, I would say when I first started,
I was a lot more nervous than I am now.
I still choked a little bit, but like overall,
I mean, it's just exciting.
Sorry, maybe I misunderstood the question.
I mean, I'm very happy with how everything turned out.
I'm just really glad to hear that.
It's been fun getting to know you as well.
Also, if you do custom games sometime,
work at three custom games.
I do have some lined up, actually.
I got them compiled this morning.
I have quite a few lined up.
We'll see if-
From whatever anyone wants to pick from.
We'll see if people have
appetite after the event concludes if
we're going to do some customs together.
Maybe, well, also I can find out to see if
you'd maybe be interested to join for
a cast later on in the tournament as well, yeah?
Yeah, absolutely. Just being near whatever.
I'll just stay around, hang out here,
probably watch the rest of it.
Okay. That would be great.
Thank you so much for your investment into the game.
I know you probably made a lot of new fans in the Warcraft 3 scene.
Your main game is Path of Exile, but you've now availed yourself very well in Warcraft 3, in an RTS.
It's been great to see you and we'll be seeing a lot more of you.
Awesome, thanks so much. Now maybe I can teach people the world of customs.
I'm definitely going to come back from time to time in between my seasons.
Sounds great. Thank you, Pox and GGs, and see you soon.
Thank you. Have a good one.
Have a good one.
All right, all right. Awesome stuff, awesome stuff. Pox, and what a great guy.
I've scarcely seen someone that has taken a defeat with greater grace.
What a great guy. We should do a little shout out to Pox's channel as well.
GG. Pox, righteous, fire and joyer. ARPG, MMO, indie game, market 3, custom game, enjoyer.
The next match that we're going to be having is Tyler1 vs. Hera in the lower bracket semifinals
that will be followed by the simply Yamato Cannon upper bracket finals, the loser of
which will face the winner of Tyler1 and Hera.
Who that's going to be, we will find out after the break.
Alright, welcome back everybody to the headlight note.
Welcome back to the Alter of Champions to the lower bracket semi-finals round 3.
Alter of Champions is a 8 streamer invitational with people that have zero or limited experience
with Warcraft 3.
I tried to find the coolest personalities that are willing to put three weeks of their
life into a practice arc where they will eventually culminate in a tournament.
And in this case, it was a tournament with a clan war that then progressed into a one-on-one
bracket.
This is the third tournament of its kind that we have held.
Initially, we had a Only Fangs Invitational, which was a group stage into a single elimination
bracket.
The second one was the second streamer invitation, which was a full double elimination tournament,
best of five in every single match.
Now we have this clan war, where we had a one on one, two on two, and four on four
to decide which team among Team Alpha and Team Omega would win, and then have the chance
to pick their playoff brackets.
Whereas Team Omega won against Tyler's Team Alpha, through no fault of Tyler won, who
won all of his personal games.
Both of them won their games, Tyler the team games, Hera the one-on-one, and Hera ended
up picking Tyler one for the playoff brackets, where he stood triumphant to one against
Tyler one.
It was a close series, but it looks like both Hera and Tyler are going through various
different evolutions, where Tyler one has impressed with new play styles in both the
two-on-two and in the series against Dante's, leveraging the power of mass raiders, pillage
and hit and run.
has become a whole different beast, showing some of his RTS experience in Age of Empires
2 as a multi-times champion there, shining through with him oscillating between heavy
aggression with a double crypt all in against Pox, and then straight into a fast expansion
on the second map, pulling people into different directions.
It was too much for Pox to deal with, but what is not too much for Pox to deal with
is to cover this next match. He has graciously agreed to join us for this series together with Saul Apeman who is an Ape
and has been covering all of the practice as well as many of these events here. Welcome to the both of you.
I'll first say hi to Saul Apeman who joins us for the first time today. Hello, Saul.
Welcome, everybody. Thank you for the introduction, Graby. And yes, you are right. I did cover a lot of preparation of the players.
But today in the morning, I woke up to the news that Hela is playing on ladder late night for him.
And it's like 12-0.
And I immediately started following this.
And we didn't have a full information.
So after he won right now versus Pogs, hello Pogs, he stayed with the coach.
But we didn't know that, right?
Because the speculation was the coaching with Defnode, is that the championship, what is it?
And I can tell you that, yes, Hera has a lot of good habits now, so the coaching definitely worked.
It's also, you know, Championship Sunday, and Hera is a multiple champion in a different game, of course, but yes.
Hera definitely is prepared and I'm very excited to see him end. One last thing.
Today in the morning as well, Knoff was coaching. Tyler won, but some introduced some games versus Andes.
Those two players definitely put a lot of preparation.
Alright, let's get this show on the road.
The first map is going to be tight hunters, and then we'll catch up with Box as well and
his thoughts on this series.
We're going to jump into it, we're 10 seconds away from these two giants clashing.
tight hunters and this is tighter one against Hera. It's the first map of this round in the bracket.
Pox, your thoughts for this series?
We're all with where Tyler1 is going or just how I'm like about the game or about me, sorry.
Anything you want to say for this game? Your thoughts after?
I want to see what Tyler's going to do. Like there's no way he's going to pull out a TC first.
So I'm curious if we're gonna see Barcy or harass if he's gonna try to go on the aggressive when Hera was aggressive against me
I'm curious what he thinks Hera is gonna do is he gonna go for fast expo
Is he gonna go for harass? I assume you don't harass work that early because they could just burrow into the burrows, right?
It can protect their their workers much better. That's right the level two fresh level two death night into whisp harass
Doesn't have nearly the same effect the early game like the first five minutes is when burrows are at their strong
when they're not really much of a vulnerability yet, at least outside of the Orc human matchup.
And Undead usually does their best to stay away from it.
I know a couple of cheeky timings that Undead can do against Orc early game
that are as unexpected as they can be lethal, but I would be very surprised if Hera was aware of those books.
Well, in that case, do you think that there is a potential scenario where he abuses the fact
that I think Tyler maybe goes late on the fortified burrows and then just instead tries to pick a burrow or two and delay him
It could definitely happen. There's a couple of different timings both early in the tier one as well as in the tier two or three
That can punish burrow play without reinforced defense is quite well. So wait man. No doubt, you know many of such builds yourself. I
Mean I'm wondering as well, right?
what Hera is going to do after coaching in the games on ladder, I'll notice that he got better
with clipping level 3 and especially level 2 under farce pressure, but on the other hand,
Tyler 1 pressure is very very good. Grabby I have only one question, are we going to see Spirit
Walkers on tier 2 by Tyler 1? I hope these mistakes was removed by coaching because he is playing
Spirit Walkers versus versus Undead sounds crazy. I have done it before, I've done it before,
If you go for Spirit Walkers first, you need to not over-make them.
You make one, probably the maximum, maybe two, but probably just the one.
And if you use it to get a very early expansion or go to Tier 3 with some extra map control that you otherwise would not have, it can be good.
Now, the reason Top Level Orcs don't play Walkers is because the window is so small to exploit against a good Tier 3 timing
that, uh, yeah, we pretty much, uh, it's too hard to hit.
It's too hard to hit that timing before the story has come out.
But everything is a little slower at this elo, the same timings,
don't get leveraged in quite the same way.
So, it can be better here than in Linn vs. Happy.
Don't you think so?
This is a very good description, and, you know, the timing is so small
that I haven't seen it that much, but the first thing that surprises me
means that the entire one is creeping, right? When they met a yesterday, Taiwan was trying
to harass with level 1 Farsir. Now he's going from level 3 a creep road and both players
are creeping. I don't see Ritual Dagger on Hera, so his death knight is half HP, but
Aura should do a lot of here. But yes, both players are creeping so far, no fireworks.
And yes, when level 3 hits, I'm very curious to see what's going to happen.
I've never seen Farsir creep like this before. Is this a common thing?
Looks like something new that he prepared. Farsir is the de facto early harass hero that's the strongest level 1 hero against other level 1s, but it definitely happens.
If you go for an early level 3 Farsir, or even with level 2, there are windows that you can exploit against people's accolades.
There's this build that I like to play in 2005, where you rush to level 2 farce here,
you wait until night time, you get the staff of teleportation from the goblin shop, you
have speed scroll, and then you speed scroll into the undead base with your wolves and
you straight away target two different acolytes, you chain lightning at the same time and you
kill several acolytes while they're mid-tech.
It hits at something like maybe the 5 minute mark, 5, 5, 15, before the necropolis completes
and it can just be game winning the strong.
You can then stop teleport out to your expansion
where you have an expansion building already.
It's very powerful.
Looks like Tyler might be wanting to do something like that
and get a farce here, maybe go for some acolytes.
There's two windows to exploit, either during tier one,
which would be now, he's gonna be late,
or after tier three has been clicked.
Interesting.
It's always the best to harass against any race
when their main building is ticking up
as you cannot produce workers
which then limits your income from the gold mine.
But you want to get to the undetected base and Hera sent his level 3 death knight
and he finds the army of Tyler approaching. This is bad news for Tyler who's going to stick to his guns
and continue the plan of going for Acolytes. The timing here is not bad. 19 seconds away from
tech means Acolytes cannot immediately be remade. He's going to get in. Level 3 first here.
Okay, one Acolyte. He has enough mana to do another chain lightning which could be level 2.
No, he picked the wolves. So he's gonna tip you out, he killed two acolytes. Not that bad at all, but at the same time, Hera kills like three heaventers.
Yeah, I was counting them exactly three and tip three and yes they...
It's the build! It's the build! The 2005 build! Expanding at the same time! Knopf taught him the build, maybe.
All Hera has to do is move a tiny bit left with that acolyte and he can find the expansion, but will he?
This is a very strong build to do against someone that has limited experience in the
game.
An expansion at this timing, made at 5 minutes, is going to be extremely unexpected for Hera.
An expansion offers a lot of extra window of opportunity to make mistakes, have losses
and then replenish.
It's something that needs to be responded to very early and the acolyte kills actually
delay someone and Hera is even more delayed than he should have been as he forgot to start his tech for 40 seconds all
Yeah, the second hero as well
He was floating a lot of resources and I was wondering maybe it's going to be Dark Granger second
You know as the answer to headhunters, but no the push really put her off guard a little bit
And yes the Akkolaid is chilling close to the expansion
Tyler one is just creepy and he's producing what he kind of liked right this tier two army
Raiders, headhunters, and he'll get a lot of them, but again, Hera is growing to be a real
undead player, you know, give him three heroes, two statues, and he can trade to infinity,
he can win with hero levels, so I think we are going to have a very, very interesting
game.
Hera just scouted the expansion, DK hit level 4, he's got a mana potion on his DK.
Level 4 is crazy at this point, Pox, at 7 minutes 20, I don't know if you have like
internal compass of warden level timings that you like to have. Oh, I hope that thought, we can't
really delve into that too much. Tyler's doing a base attack, is finding a ledge. Death Knight,
level four, with a couple of ghouls and skeletons, is finding a headhunter, as Tyler is between two
undead heroes, but Hera has no town portal. He needs to be careful of the potential surround.
Are you going to get a net here? There is. Death Knight instead of ghouls. Ghouls are a certain
kill if you net them. A hero will need to be surrounded very soon after an ensnare in order
to have that be meaningful. A time his expansion is done is already starting to mine and he's
making raiders and headhunters. Whereas right now Hera is kind of stuck at home 900 lumber in the
bank and a lot of ghouls still gathering lumber saw. Would you like Hera to be more proactive with
his army right now or do you think he can wait for a tier 3 army? I think as playing as Hera
should just wait a little bit right his tier 3 timing is not that bad his ghouls are working hard at
hard at home hera is at 900 lumber he's taking the ghouls right now he won't need that much lumber
in this game and of course tier 3 then he can decide right he can counter expand it would be
that shocking right if he makes a better army he can allow to be like a little bit behind in gold
the game is definitely open and i have only one question did tyler 1 develop some kind of taste
for base race after what he did to Dantas, right? With this shockwave destroying Necropolis,
killing all Acolytes. I wonder if Tyrone 1 is going to do it again, but he's not buying
a new Scrofton portal, so it kind of looks like he's not going to be like, you know, base racing,
basically. Yeah, it looks like he's just trying to make it. Yeah, Sobibask is really good for the
death end. It looks like Tyler's just trying to make the strongest possible army in order to fight
Harrah straight on. Tyler's doing some clever 50 pop save up while not quite fully mining yet,
but mining a good amount. The level 2 TC timing not as strong as it could be, but look at this,
many items are still on the ground. The Lich was supposed to pick up these items,
and there was a small glimpse for Tyler to see those items, but I'm not sure he's really aware of it.
Lich was shopping for the orb of corruption, and Lich forgot to pick two very good items that
that a hand peek for the lead, Hera is in a very bad position and yes, he can hide in his base, but he will be there.
I wonder if anyone remembers to take those items, there's about 300 gold of items lying on the high ground over there
that Hera meant to give to his lich, but his lich was buying Orb of Corruption.
Hera is kind of shaking right now, he's got his destroyer upgrade ready and he's working on Ghoul Frenzy,
but it's past the 10-minute mark and the perfect window of time to attack has come and gone.
Tyler's expansion is in full swing. Now, Hera is aware of this, but it just so happens that the way
that the Undead Race works, they want to play around these two timings of cool frenzy and destroyer
upgrade. And so Hera is taking his time. And while that may look weird to RTS aficionados
that feel like expansions need to be countered early, it is true, but some patients it needs to be
have had by undead players that see expansions, though, I think, Sol, Hera is overdoing it.
He's creeping Lich. At least Lich got the items. This is a certain circle of nobility and
Glove of Haze were picked up from from the lab. Terran is really enjoying his time in
his transition. He gives some windriders, which is pretty interesting. There is no fins. There is
Is this rule right that versus Orc you don't make feats, but there's one exception, if he transitions into Y-verse you need some web, or Gargo is at least.
That's right, that's right, either one of those would help a lot, and I also get some important information from people that are watching some of the personal perspectives, the acolytes.
It does not have vision of the building, he sees Peons now and then, and so it's really, we're not sure if he's like super aware of it or not, but either way a fight is breaking out here, Ghouls are weaving into the headtomps,
The War Stomp is pretty darn good. In comes the Destroyer. The Destroyer is being targeted by the Windriders.
Now would be a perfect time for Tyler to press the Heal Scroll button.
He's losing 30 huge Heal Scrolls by Tyler1 as you just get really healthy.
As I lose control of the camera, Ara's army is getting destroyed here.
This might honestly be one of the best games I've ever seen Tyler play.
He's rising to the occasion in a way that I have rarely ever seen.
Oh my god, TC gets level 4, Tyler crushes the fight, he even still has bonus resources
in his inventory. With the true shout aura, the infill and the heal scroll, with an expansion
fully mining, Hera has run into the brick wall that is Tyler won. It will now need to
try and find a window to in some way get back into the game, Pox.
Looks like Hera is going to go try to counter his expansion right now with three ghouls.
He's got vision of it, it's not really going to do much when the orcs can burrow and actually
kill the ghouls.
This is a tough spot for Hera, I think he's going to try to creep Jack right now, but
it's really dangerous.
At least he doesn't have any raiders so he can't get net.
Got one right there, I'm curious, did he have the healing scroll on his DK, the whole
fighter, did he buy it after they disengaged?
I believe he already had it, Parkson, possibly missed the window to use it correctly.
Now Death Knight does get level 5, he still has Sobi Mask, Koil Nova is quite a powerful
tool, there might be some kind of crazy situation where several Coil Nova kills get Tyler one's
heroes. It will be his challenge to not let that happen. Yeah, our ghoul goes down at the expansion
and you even if an undead has a weak army, you do not want to fight a Coil Nova, especially when
DK is five with his mana and in Lich three, and it's very dangerous. Undead has ridiculous amounts
of sustain with a shadow in the back, so he could easily just keep picking off the units.
Tyler's doing really good with the aggression though, I like the split on the Wolves,
he actually got vision of him just because of that, I wonder if he's going to flank him or just go for the base.
Yeah you're right, you're right to describe the situation as two choices, looks like he's going
to go for the base, maybe get some pick offs on reinforcement. Meanwhile, Tyler's reinforced
defenses burrows, actually he's able to stop the ghouls from killing a lot of peons, though he has
momentarily not noticed that he hasn't put them back to gold yet, still Tyler's in the commanding
position he's committing the cardinal sin of attacking an undead base which is usually not wise
but is his advantage big enough Saul? The supply lead is huge but we are inside of the undead base
how important is the slaughterhouse I think it's very important there's only one statue on the ground
and look at Tyler is recreating some dantas you know I don't think this tip was necessary but the
Tyros, I'm so ahead! I destroyed the... the... the... the...
FAMOUS! Just go back and regroup!
Yeah, you know, he's channeling what he learned into and to, and in the game, against Dante's,
and you're so right to call it a Dante's Town Portal, collapsing under no pressure at all.
But I think we can offer him the generosity of interpretation and say that this was a
Town Portal to save the lead, to say that undead expansions are spooky, and that killing a Slaughterhouse
by itself has already led to a checkmate. Why risk further aggravation of a fight when
this is the most advantageous fight that Hera could ever have? Hera remakes the slaughterhouse
in the same location, boneyards in the pocket and tries to make a Hail Mary Maby play, going
for a Frost Worm in the back. Now Frost Worms aren't as good as they normally are. Tyler
with Witch Doctor Torrance can be countered by Torrance. However, Tyler with Witch Doctor
and turns can be countered by worms, but this is a Raider Head on Takoto Windrider build.
It's not nearly as vulnerable to worms as some other builds.
I'm just creeping red, looks like he's trying to get lich level 3.
He doesn't even move the DK away though to get lich some solo XP, but he'll still probably
hit level 3.
It's not looking good for Hera.
Tyler's got his beautiful Endurance aura from PC, he also has that Wardrums as that's
from the Kodo.
He's got the True Shot aura item as well for his head honours and he just picked up
a helm of Valor.
That's very good for TC.
Now the Agi, I guess gives him some armor and he gets some HP from it, so he's keeping
it on the farce here.
I think this is a good item, a very good item, that is the worst item you could have found
that isn't drums and endurance.
And I'm not putting down the item, it's still really good, like we're not gonna sell it.
But the other items they give intelligence, mana, there's Burning Ara on TC, then there's
unholy aura, brilliance. Most of those are better. This is better than Claw of Attack
plus 12 though, I think. Getting some extra health on the Farseer makes him resilient to getting nuked.
Got the double Invan potion, one for TC, one for Farseer, a scroll of healing on his TC,
wand of the wind, maybe we'll see him wand of the wind to DK, and then go for a kill on the Lich
when he can't heal. The stories are low, heading into this fight, there's a coil nova on the back
or at least a coil, there's a web, that's gonna be a free windrider kill,
Tyler1 killed the slaughterhouse once again, and one windrider is going down,
second one flying away, there's another web by Hera on the windrider,
this is where Tyler takes his biggest risk of the game so far,
fighting in the undead base is unnecessary, but getting some ensnares will lead him to get some kills,
there's a 5 population destroyer going down, there's a little bit of lack on the observer's side,
He kills another wind try, he kills another fiend, so the Tyler one is bulldozing this base.
Yeah, but the Frost Worm is here, there is one hope, you know, to use the Undead base defensive.
It's with the Frost Worm, you sit in those towers, you slow down everything.
Can Hera survive this? Can he force the TP? The situation is not looking good, but the Frost Worm is dead and now it looks very, very grim.
Tyre 1 is popping up the infill potion, he's going for Herak Heroes.
There's almost nothing left into the Undead base and ironically,
the game versus Dante's gave him a lot of experience.
And he kills!
He's going for the TC!
He kills the Tyre in Chieftain right at the end.
This is an eventuality.
Tyre could have avoided if he wore stomped as he townportaled out.
He let the small invulnerability potion on the TC run at scores then TP.
There was a window 225 health on the TC where Coil was going to kill him and now the Tauron chieftain is back
There's enough mana to Coil Nova. He's going straight for the TC again. TC is gonna die back at the tavern
Tyler one is throwing the game
Hera is finding an angle to get the double back to back kill on the Tauron chieftain
There is a frost nova on the headhunter. So another coil as well. Many units are getting taken out
This is a death knight with Ring of Protection, Pair of the Health, Talisman of Evasion, Greater
Heal.
He's not going to easily fall by the wayside here.
There's enough mana to save the Lich if the Lich becomes a focus target.
He's killing all the headhunters.
This is a disgusting turn of events for Tyler, but a very fortuitous turn of events for
any Hera fans in the chat.
Everyone seemed to be counting him out, but he is here killing things and taking names.
This is crazy, this is crazy, the frozen is here, like I was like, okay, Kera has only two heroes, but what about heroes and frozen on top of that tier two orc army, no, no, the upgraded headhunters, they just melted, we saw how important Tauren Chieftain was, he died, okay, we can do the tavern revive,
Tyler one had like around 2000 gold but no it was super costly for him and it's never too late for Pit Lord
Pit Lord is in Hera army and he's going to attack Tyler one expansion, Tyler has one AFK Wyver but can't he hold this
Hera has no dispell so the wolves can provide a lot of value but man Frost armor in Hera hands
also looking pretty good saving death knight from wolves the start is ongoing let's go
Tarantifton is only just...
Oh, the Frost Worm net!
Wow, in the burrow! That's a big kill for Tyler1!
There's a coil on the Frost Worm that's maybe going to save it.
There's enough mana for a chain lightning.
The Frost Worm is dropping really, really low.
It doesn't quite get it. There's a chain lightning.
Another coil on the Frost Worm, and he's going to survive.
The Tarantifton is somewhere on the map,
running all the way to the south side of the map.
I'm not sure where he thinks he's going.
Well, the burrow is firing at the Frost Worm again!
The Frost Worm goes down!
Tyler1 gets that kill. He still has speed scroll in order to get away here as well.
He's targeting the Lich right now as his Farsier drops low and his TC is making a
Secunder's route back to his main base. Ten mana away is the Death Knight from
being able to coil the Farsier. Tyler1 is now targeting the Pit Lord. He's still
getting attacked by the Burlbide and Wolves by the Farsier as well. There's a coil. The Pit Lord is alive.
The Farsier is getting targeted. He needs to teleport him out or he's gonna be
cooked. He's trying to run away. Finally uses the Cyclone Wand on the Tarantjiften
And as the Farseer stands still and measures his girth with the pit lords as Monger thought
was in hot pursuit.
Now in the meantime, Hera still has 16 under gold in his main base.
So he is still mining.
In the meantime, Tyler I is still mining from two bases.
So he can make a larger army.
A lot of the vernacles, right?
Yeah, Google books.
I was going to say, who would have thought with Hera being on the defensive so long,
You know, the thing is true, be very careful or just never attack an undead base, you know,
from the start of that with the TC dying right after the Invaun potion, Tara's snowball
kind of started to begin.
That's right.
It's like Tara's going for an expansion now.
Tyler almost saw it, but the wolves just despawned.
Ah, I see it.
We can see how quickly advantage can disappear in Warcraft 3, right?
Tyler one had everything, double base, a lot of gold in his pocket.
He was pressuring deeper and deeper into the Undead base, right?
The first Frost Worm went down and I was thinking, okay, T1 is just going to teleport out and heal,
and then the Towering Chief didn't die, okay, instant rebite, he died again, and all of the Head Hunters as well!
T1 is on tier 3 and he's still making Head Hunters, not Mercers, at least.
We have Troll, but Riders, they are pretty good versus Frost Worms, and yes, there's one Frost Worms on the way.
Undead heroes are very strong, I know that much, Graby.
That's right, that's right, by the reckoning of a pro game,
Hera would now officially be in the lead
as DK Lich are better PvP heroes,
whereas Farsi or TC are army controlling heroes.
Hera's also making higher quality units in Frostworms
and having potential to get destroyers as well,
whereas Tyler is working on Batts and Head Hunters.
Hera is now officially ahead.
The only way in which Tyler1 is still ahead,
He has better consumes and permanent items on his heroes, and he has a larger bank and
current income.
He doesn't know that Hera has an expansion just yet.
So this game could still go in any way.
Tyler has to go over 50 population and use a larger army to try and get a kill.
Also War Stomp level 3 is a huge tool in order to shut down the ability to coil at an opportune
time.
Let's see what these bad writers will do against the Frost Worm and how Hera will use his coils
and novus.
Tyler1's main base has run out, he's getting his berserker upgrade, he's spamming Windrider production,
but Saul, he needs time to get those units on the field with a large bank and only a limited production queue.
I really like what Tyler1 is doing with his shadow wolves, they're invisible, they're now in the middle of the map,
but not to attack the undead army, they're sent to attack undead economy.
And versus this you either need a full base wall off which is like really hard to do especially on expansion as well
Or to keep destroyer in the base
But when the moment the wolves are turning back at their expires, they'll do actually nothing
I don't know maybe Tyler one was afraid of undead army moving and don't worry
I think he will send new wolves in farce's intelligence heroes
So definitely farce can afford it, but those wolves they need to do something
They're checking for different gold mines, but he's actually using them in a fight to free kill by coil nova
as Hera is using mana, which is a regeneratable resource to kill real units.
Tyler1 is mad, and he jumps after him.
Both bats are getting wept right there as the destroyer is being target fired.
TC in a good position to do a war stomp.
Is he gonna stomp? There it is, a war stomp.
As his TC is dropping really low, really fast, Pox.
He hit the invulnerable potion, everything looks good.
The Batriders are coming around from the back, focusing the lich.
We've got a wand of the wind going on the DK.
Another stomp looks like focus fire on a destroyer of Batriders coming in. Was that a game scroll I just saw?
I think so. Another great war stomp as Lich is being targeted.
A triple hero stomp.
There's an anime dent, but it's only on two units. There's only two ground units that died.
As Hera uses his ultimate ability and wasted a lot of mana on a single thing.
Jane Lightning! Oh, the Pit Lord! But he gets a coil from the Death Knight last second.
Tyler maneuvers his TC away from danger, which is a clever play.
And he comes back in again when it's a little bit safer. Jane Lightning level three.
Bitlord goes down! The Bitlord is down and Hera runs away with two units as his destroyer
is forgotten and almost kills a Windrider. A huge fight by both players, Tyler1 having
the advantage there but now suddenly we have Tyler1 that's down to a single base. He's
not even mining with everything next to that gold mine and Hera has taken a second gold
mine. His gold mine is active. Tyler1 finally becomes aware of it and he sees the acolyte
there, as Hera is in position to defend against the wolf. Now time is on Hera's side. He's
going to need to use his time in order to get this expansion up, but Tyler1 finds it
and he's going to be sure to relentlessly send wolves there. And Pox, if a single Acolyte
dies, this TC may get level six of it. No, it's actually like three Acolytes, but okay.
A few Acolytes.
Still, at TC leveling in the middle of a combat fight, like nobody's really going to expect
and then instant reincarnation.
Reincarnation is gonna be big.
When a hero dies like TC,
but he has reincarnation available as his ultimate ability,
it will come back to life with full health and mana
after about five seconds.
Is it five seconds books?
You know, I'm not sure.
Maybe three to five seconds, no longer.
It's not that long.
And it doesn't give experience the first time he dies.
Now, here's a problem.
Tyler Wan doesn't have healing solve running on his farce here.
He's very close to being able to get coil Nova nuked and dropping really low one windrider runs into a tower that Tyler one is focusing right now far
See her runs away. He used the hillscore trying to stay alive
There's another coil Tyler decent TP out and he does he does but he lost two windriders in this attack killing nothing
Nothing literally nothing is nothing that it's Tyler with a tower and chief then still a level 5 point night
How you can kill nothing that was so good for her the crew supply gap doesn't exist anymore
Hera, I saw it.
The wolves were actually harassing the goldmines simultaneously.
Hera cancelled the goldmine or lost it without council.
He then spread his acolytes to another goldmine, but that one wasn't crept yet.
So now there is no more future gold plan for Hera.
What is true is that Tidor will run out of gold at his expansion in five minutes.
And so he needs to do something before that, either take another base or win a fight.
What the hell is Hera's death knight doing here?
Some solo hero scout here?
Uh-oh.
Uh-oh.
You're on the wrong side of the town.
The inspiration from Warden.
Farseer, only 640 life.
He gets instantly Novac.
He's taking damage from the tower, DK comes in, he can coil that ass, coil on the Farseer.
He runs melee, uses invulnerability potion, targets the Lich, but where the hell is his
TC?
It's stuck behind towers!
The Farseer has nothing anymore!
He runs away, he gets attacked by Frostwar.
What is this play by Tyler Wan?
The Farsier gets coiled! Oh my god! Melee Farsier without a Town Portal as Tyler focuses
the Frost Warming, gets the kill, gets TC level 6.
We're going to see a Stomp come in here?
Yeah, this Tauren Chieftain is ready for everything. You try calling Nova this Tauren
Chieftain and he'll resurrect and it's going to be very costly in mana, but man, the disease
cloud is spreading, the ghouls are here, how efficient!
so efficient, getting a lot of kills with the Coil Novelies, level 7 and level 5.
This game is reaching epic proportions.
As Hera has correctly analyzed, there isn't a lot of crowd control or reason for him to respect Tyler's army.
His Death Knight is just walking forward, he keeps starting Coils, but as vision is lost, it interrupts the thing.
There's a War Stomp, there's a Raider.
Now, if he was good at surrounds, he should hit the surround right here with Raiders and War Stomp.
but all the titers doing is just attacking and he lets the death knight get away
that should have been a kill on a higher level
it's just going to go away
the regeneration on the DK with the sobi mask he heals mana faster than his uh...
farcier does it's so crazy
that's a lot of regen
it's not including the statue either
that's true
he does need a statue again it's coming another frostworm is going to
harris at fifty four population
title one is going to run out of gold in three and a half minutes box
looks like her is going for a another expansion at all and yet another one with
the acolyte
i was gonna have to make a play here though like you said two thousand gold is
left in the mines so he's gonna have to either take one of her as
or go after the one that hasn't been crept yet
i want to say i'm doing a good job scouting
it's just uh... uh... harris is camping his expansion which is correct
Tyler one has showed a propensity to attack into on that basis and blight
OTP extra region. Yeah, this is no TP. No speed scroll even
No speed scroll no TP is very very risky
With a very weak army right now as well three units panicking. I think three units
Gold mine for Hera hasn't started. He's focusing on maxing his army
He must be feeling that Tyler one is looking for desperate windows of exploitation that really aren't there anymore
Tyler one had a window at some point to take a third base in the bottom left farm that put down a tiny great hole and then use
Wolves to scout where Hera is he also had a window to maybe get some kills if he did some concerted
Target fire on the death night or target the lich and then the worst time to death night at the right time
But it isn't quite materializing. These things are easy to say as an experienced player or as an observer,
but Tyler Wan, with limited information, isn't quite sure of the game flow in the same way, of course.
He had such an incredible play in the first 20 minutes of the game,
but Hera, through his own grit, through his own tenacity, has been clawing his way back into the series, Saul.
Yes, definitely, Kara is using all of the tier 3 tools that Andret can offer, Disease Cloud, Frost Worms and so on.
For Tyler1, we have a few Ivers, yes, Burst Circus, but there is no Envenom Spears, there is no Codobist with Aura.
Some Taper, the Org Army looks much weaker, and Org Army has no TP while Kara is sieging the only mining base of Tyler,
Tyler, Tyler needs to react quickly, and he's going to fight on base race, I don't know.
Looks like he's going to base race, it's a bit hard to make that work, Pox.
In a scenario of base racing, he has no siege units right now.
In a hypothetical scenario, if Farseer uses Earthquake and he uses Death and Decay,
what would go down faster?
Death and Decay is percentage based, it kills a lot faster.
Additionally, Tyler elected to go double level 3 abilities, which is not wrong by the way.
That is correct in the situation in my opinion, though some people may be thinking
Oh, he's missing the earthquake, is that a mistake? No, this is actually usually better for fights
But you have to win those fights
Now the Farsier moves Melee into Ghouls, into Frost Worm
He's very exposed to a coil Nova play
As a Windrider instantly goes down, there's a Frost Nova on the headhunters
The Pit Lord in the midst of things, this looks really good for Hera, Saul
Yeah, the fight is ongoing, lvl 6 but we don't care about this that much
Are we going for hero kill on the Pit or no? The 600 HP coil connected just before the stop
and yes Tower and Chieftains on level 6 he will come back but there is no other army
and we are ignoring Tower and Chieftain we are going for the Farsil. Farsil is running away
but the Orc army has no damage!
Aske gets coil, Tyler1 leaves the game, Hera with the GG's in the chat, claps for himself,
his hand on his head he almost can't believe it. He probably never had a game quite like this
where someone leaned on him that hard, he was driven into a corner that ferociously
and then he managed to stand his ground and coil that ass to oblivion.
A 33-minute game between two of our headliner players off this event
and Hera somehow makes the incredible comeback that few people could have imagined.
That was a wild game.
There were so many back and forth, right?
First, like Tyros winning with this expansion, we supply lead, then head out to micro him,
then Tyros winning again.
This was peak warcraft, basically.
Well, we got in the late game, powerful, undead heroes that kinda carried.
We had like this actually smart approach from Tyros 1.
You know, that was like a very unusual game, you know?
And we saw that the plan was okay, but there was one moment when Tyros 1 was
seeding the Undead base, he was so ahead and then Tyrone drifted
on day twice and Undead hero levels went out of control.
That's exactly what happened. An insane series between these
two and we're going to get the second map underway between
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second lobby started. Hera is joining already and there's going to be a map choice for Tyler. He's
currently contemplating his options. He has a choice between autumn leaves, which is the smallest
map in the pool, or lost refuge, which is a map that has a lot of creeps and a lot of small,
narrow winding paths. Saul Apeman, if you were Tyler, would you open with autumn leaves or lost
refuge right here autumn leaves all the time we all remember what happened
yesterday Hera and granite golem level 9 monsters they don't like each other
that much yesterday was like lurking in the stream and let me tell you seeing
level 4 death knights dying to creeps I understand is a red camp understand you
know that mr. Hera is like you know new to work our free but that was a
catastrophic mistake. Of course I'm kidding a little bit, but yes, if I were just Tyler
Warner, I would just take Autumn Leaves for the vibes. And if he wants to expand again,
Autumn Leaves is pretty good for it. He can creep in a natural way, you know, he's like
easy expansion and then expand as fast as he wants, you know, if there is an opening
like there. Man, a lot of emotions in this game. And we need to remember, right, this
right? So if if Tyler one loses this map, he's out from the tournament. That's right. That's
right. The loser of this best of three is going to be eliminated in fourth place. That is the
rank Tyler one had in the only thanks invitation in March 2025, losing the third place decider
against a strategy that he greatly respected and an opponent that he greatly loves. Guzu with the
with the Paladin rifles.
Titan one wants more.
One could even say that from the beginning
of that first map here in the series, he deserves more.
But ultimately, Warcraft 3 yields nothing for free.
You got to not just do the early game and the mid game right,
you got to be right all across the map
and not throw the series away.
Never entering the undead base is not a creed
that you personally follow, Pox,
but you would still be hesitant to commit more
than a single warden to be on that base,
as you know how scary it is.
On that basis are terrifying.
You've got the cold tower shooting at you,
the Nerubian ziggurads, ghouls can surround you
because you're slowed,
everything gets bonus regeneration on the light.
You know, God forbid the necropolis
or whatever tier it is isn't producing or teching up,
it's shooting at you as well.
What's its attack range by the way, the main base, 1,000?
I think it's 800, the same range as a watch tower
and an arcane tower.
okay yeah so it is it is a large range tower it is of course difficult to take
down as well right because it's a main base so yeah definitely something
scary to run into and you know from Harris perspective I freaking love that
game he shouldn't have a any chance anymore to come back into it what he did
do very well was he found many great items for his death knight and lich he
He farmed a lot. He got level 4 death knight by minute 7 and 20 seconds.
And then he got level 5. And he played his cards right.
He didn't over commit without a town portal. He kept himself alive.
And he stayed in his base. He eventually took the counter expansion.
But it was Titus' game to lose. If he had only, is a thought that's going to be on many people's minds.
If he had only, quote unquote. If he had only TP'd a little earlier.
If he had only war-stamped when he town-portaled out with his Star and Chieftain level 5, deep in that undead base.
If he had only waited till an 80 population army, then he would have had an army size and strength that would have been difficult to contend with.
But those are thoughts for the past and thoughts for the future is what he needs right now.
No doubt he's in the coach tank with his coaches, thinking about what he's going to be doing in the next game.
the map of which is going to be Autumn Leaves.
You know, when he sieged his base when the TC died,
I think he got a little flustered there, because I don't know if you saw,
he actually ran in with the Farseer to give the TC an invulnerable potion
when he already had the greater on him.
Yeah, he used an invulnerability potion, and then he tried to use the other one,
but there's a shared cooldown, right?
And so somehow the greater Invol potion ended up on the TC, but he couldn't use it.
Is that the order that it happened, Box? He put the second Invol before using the first?
Yes, he put the second Invol potion on the TC with the Farseer, and I think that's when he was used.
I think between him and the TC, the Farseer and the TC, there were nine consumables across everything,
from TP, heel scroll, clarity, healing,
I was looking at everything,
assuming if you would get the juggle on correct.
But I mean, sometimes, you know,
you go into an undead base,
you just start getting slow, you're surrounded,
everything kind of just goes to mush.
Yeah.
A big mood to difference between the two.
As Tyler has his hands in the air,
as he was talking back angrily at whatever was being said,
I don't know if it's his chatter coaches.
He was not happy with the result there,
whereas simultaneously, Hera smiles.
And I think that's very symbolic of competition in general, not just Warcraft 3 competition.
And it's something that in some times, I wish I didn't know that your joy is someone
else's misery.
That as you win and you get an achievement, someone else is having a bad time.
But that's what competition is like.
And it is symbolic for many parts of life.
And this is how art imitates life.
You have to be willing to stand for what you believe in and to fight for what you want
to achieve.
and that is the compact that everyone agrees when I enter a tournament like this.
You will try to do your best and if you're a gracious person that got defeated like Pox,
then you will continue to be in a good mood. If you're more of a sore loser like me,
then that could ruin your day, maybe even your week. Or perhaps you just hide it better,
but you were graciousness itself. No, I mean, like I said, when I came into this tournament,
And I used to have a very different mentality for video games.
I used to only play hardcore in every game I played.
I would push myself to the limits in terms of game balance.
And then maybe like 10 years ago, I started burning out
from every type of game I played.
So I went with a more casual approach.
Not casual in the sense of I play less.
I still play games 16 hours a day.
But I look more for fun rather than trying to break the game
at every single angle.
And I'll still break it.
but it's more of a natural thing rather than forcing myself.
And this allowed me to kind of find the joy again
in playing video games.
So coming into this tournament,
I was already a bit nervous
because it's bringing out like the competitive side of me,
but I think I handled it really well.
I think you did too.
It sounds like a very healthy mindset
that I'm sure some people could learn to benefit
from as well to try and adopt.
Though it's never easy.
I certainly have tried to feel that way before,
But sometimes that competitiveness has a mind of its own, it almost seems.
But I'm very glad for you that you found such a equanimity of spirit that you're
able to enjoy games without the, uh, the Spartan approach of where it's only fun
when you win.
It was a journey.
All right.
I was playing Minecraft actually modded Minecraft with my girlfriend yesterday
when I went and looked at her stats and saw he was on a 14 win streak and said,
I'm sorry, David, I got to go practice.
I woke up very early to talk with my coaches in the mornings, but it wasn't enough.
But you know what, I'm happy that I still tried a new style, you know, specifically against
Hera, rather than doing my typical harass.
I was expecting for him to harass me and it actually happened.
Unfortunately, I did fumble a little bit with the micro and his micro was phenomenal.
Yes, it was.
It was.
It needed every single ounce of shape that Hera scraped together in order to also do what
he just did to Tyler won.
a game to have nightmares about. No doubts. As he excused himself for a small break and
when he comes back, we're going to be able to have the second map of the series. Now,
if Tyler was in a good headspace, in the same headspace that you seem to be in Pox, he could
simply repeat the same build again, improve two to three things and just close it out better.
Leverage the expansion, make sure heroes are protected at all times by Townport on invulnerability
Potion, get the 80 population army, maybe even add a second beast theory and get a large
Windrider Flock. There are a few things more scary than a large Windrider Flock with Invented Spears
together with a Warstone Blvd 3. Saul, but is Tyler in that headspace and can he repeat that
build and bring it to a better conclusion? That's a great question actually. I was thinking about
this myself because from the one side one hand he met Imba, right? He was doing so well. It was
It was like a little bit like a par rifle, right?
You like damage the Paladin in the start, you know?
He damaged the undead army.
And then he expanded his like big supply,
and then bam, Koinova, bam, the undead army,
the undead base.
And from this big advantage, you know, he lost.
So it feels like Iba feels like par rifle back then,
you know, a few patches ago.
So on the one hand,
he may have this like unpleasant, you know, feeling.
On the other hand, he got into this winning position and he can blame himself.
His tower and chieftain died with big infill.
And if it's going to happen again, we'll see, because the map is loading. Let's go.
Map is loading. No map overview. Both players are getting...
We waited long enough, we had a little bit of a break from both, so I'm just going to click on that button immediately.
It's T1 against Hera.
Hera 1, 1-0 in the lead.
I'll get bro do nothing well and win again with love on that
It was power rifle experience. It was
I feel experienced you can see the third one is adding a new strategy to the to the imba category. I guess
yeah, I think that
that list of
imba is growing by the day
You didn't seem to complain against Dante looking champ. It's not the race
He did the same thing lol 25 minutes against 500 rating low plate
Okay, grabby give me your honest feedback. Is it a compliment?
that's that's
Herra is coming that's Tyler one is going you know comparing
Dante's to to herra. Is it a compliment or not by Tyler?
No, I mean because you know did I get a good job or a bad job as a coach because you know
Oh, that one says okay all of the others are the same. So it's a good or bad fit
I think you worked with a very difficult challenge, a special needs child, and you gave him the best possible chance for success.
And I think that's to your credit. Dante's looked better with your builds than I think he would have under my tutelage.
So I think you did good and you have nothing to be ashamed for.
I thank you because I was trying to give him this idea to play defensively in the undead base.
In a natural way, it happened in-game that we saw just between Tyler and Hera.
Hera knew that he had to wait until the storm is over, but I'm sorry for talking a little bit long,
because we have a different opener. Pokes definitely knows a lot about this hero in the Orc Alta.
Oh yeah, Blade Master. We have two choices we can go with.
We've got Mira and Mitch creeping, and then we've got Wind Walk for very early harass.
There is a shop coming up right away.
Does this imply he's getting the healing solve and the clarity and just be lining?
Yes, be lining for the under base, no doubts.
Tyler also saw the Town Portal, he gets 111, the HS and the C, the heal solve, the clarity and the speed scroll.
He's missing his optimal timing, but not by many seconds.
He also momentarily forgot that second burrow is not part of this build.
What I think we're going to be having here is a Blade Master Shadow on her play as was Meta
Maybe about a year ago to half a year ago in the orc versus undead matchup
Beastiary
Times two when tier two finishes with a bunch of windriders and tier three. This is a build that
Focuses on a large amount of windriders and spends the early game either trying to disrupt the creeping of an undead
or going straight for the acolytes.
Now Hera didn't make an early Nerubian tower against Farsier Headhunters,
but it is perfectly timed against the Blade Master.
Somehow Hera was prepared for this as well.
The Nerubian tower being finished is not something I expected,
but Hera's scouting finally knows what it sees.
Many times that Hera lay eyes.
Oh my god, even the build layout is good!
There's a secret place for acolytes to escape towards
though he didn't get one of the acolytes there.
And ignoring the Blade Master while continuing to creep and simply letting his Nerubian and the Special Escape Panic Room here to take care of the blade is great.
However, Hera didn't execute it that well. He could have simply pulled the acolytes here and the blade could have never gotten there.
Together with the Nerubian, he had a checkmate on that harass.
Even so, Nerubian being finished did help him a little bit.
But I would still count that one as being in favor of Tyler for quite a large margin, so
When we see the tech timing right or or is almost done
But or has no units as you mentioned is going to be down mystery by the way very nice nice dust of appearance
Is Taiwan going to jump for the item inside of this level three monster?
There is an item Taiwan is thinking about this. Can he get the last hit?
He's trying. He needs to take that ghoul off. Oh, oh, he steals the grip
It doesn't get the item, Windwall cooldown, he's gonna run away, he's still dusted, that's the second dust.
Killing the creep is nice, it's a nice little exp denial, after getting two acolytes, that's about as much as you can get.
Now heal solving and getting another clarity would be optimal.
There's a small little funny thing that could happen where the acolyte might cancel the heal solve and the already heal solve clarity.
Karrot would need to have really good map awareness in order to make that possible, or I guess Tyler could hit him and then it could happen.
Uh, Hera doesn't drink. Yeah, there we go.
Oh, he does!
He does! How nice.
Yeah, that needs to be manually done
since workers will not attack automatically.
The only exception there, I believe, are militia.
Yeah, or when workers get attacked by other workers,
they're like, okay, I can handle those.
Ah, okay.
Kind of like a trainee versus a trainee. That's kind of cool.
I didn't know that.
That's right.
Tyler1 going for the double beast here.
He has enough supply available to make two windriders,
but within the next 20 seconds he needs to make another burrow so that he can keep up
windrider production and there we go there it is. There's a clarity running here he calls
wind of Hera's death knight who is level three very good creep route by Hera there's a graveyard
coming as well he sees the ghouls the skeletons and the death knight coming you can't really do
anything until you have a shadow honor with hex coming out which is 15 seconds away but he still
starts damaging the ghouls a little bit to make use of the remainder of his wind walk timing.
Let's see if he ends up using the crystal ball offensively when Blade Master attacks
and using it to reveal.
Usually it's mainly used to scout expansions and see what the enemy is doing, but can also
be doubled as a form of invisibility reveal.
Here we go.
With this much mana, it's perfectly fine to crystal ball and start spamming coil on the
Blade Master so that you can't do much.
Starts attacking a burrow.
The first windriders, they feel late to me, like they weren't started at the correct time.
There's also a couple of auto attacks plus a coil that could lead to a peal and kill.
Tyra didn't pull any peal inside of his gold, so this is perfectly fine to defend with.
Windriders are in production.
Hera is going to have to choose one of two ways to deal with this.
When his Tier 2 finishes, you can start Gargs, or you could start Fiends right now and then
do a web upgrade when Tier 2 finishes.
Hex, Ghoul attacks have begun.
Hera should cut his losses and stop sacrificing Ghouls here and just run the rest away, but
he's trying to save every single one.
a touching sight
i mean it's working for now i'm not sure if it's worth wasting the time but
it's definitely working hope you're coming up on the entire army of ghouls
actually
it's gonna be a bit problematic versus the windrunners he did actually use the
crystal ball to see him
he's got enough monorails easily
he almost got the shadow hunter ghouls around
shadow hunter moves his blade away
he'll solve some clarrities himself
the shadow hunter will continue to be threatened
as windriders against ghouls is an unfair battle
where ghouls cannot attack raiders coming out right now
yeah that's a third already
down goes ghoul
should be chasing with the shadow the amount of mana that shadow has you could
kill four more ghouls
and he's just gonna start creeping which is not good because now he loses his
heals of clarity
it gives a window of exploitation for herra who could coil and steal the creep
and he does
might even get the item doesn't have the inventory space he could summon skeleton
to take the item and he does.
Ooh.
Good place by Hera here.
As another ghoul goes down, Hera is pressuring air units with no anti-air.
There's still one more coil and the Surround of the Shadow Hunter!
A hex on the death knight as windriders are fighting against and dying to a creep.
The Troll Trapper is the anti-air that Hera needed.
A creep cap that should have ever begun has taken names.
This hero gets a kill, and Tyler Wan, with a large bank, is struggling against an army
that he should be beating.
He's using rock, and he's losing to scissors.
We're gonna get another crystal ball reveal here.
I need a heal pot here on the place, it's very low.
Oh, he attacked and cancelled his wind walk.
Yes.
He doesn't have enough manga to wind walk again, he can try healing, solve, and run.
He's dead.
The DK has a hero.
There comes the ledge!
Oh, he's not in range for the coil!
He's trying to get in range!
The heal self got cancelled!
He heal self's again!
He applied it.
Weapons finished.
It's had an idle winrider in the base for quite some time now.
Weapons finished in 4 seconds.
There's two fiends here.
Looks like Blademaster is safe now.
He has more HP than one coil can deal, but Death Knight found him.
Master needs to start running away. There is mana almost for double coil.
It's a very dangerous situation for Tyler one, but he survives and there is no, I mean, there is web,
but okay, there's one violin web. I think we have to fight in the middle now.
Here's a fight happening in the middle. All the wind fighters are going to be having venom soon.
It's two seconds away from finishing. He actually does a hex on the ledge. You should be hexing fiends here.
One weapon goes down there. A fiend drops low. Another fiend could be attacked right here.
There's enough mana for another X he does. This is still a very scary orc army and Tidor's getting some good kills
He's at 34 population against 33
Heron did make his way to tier 3. He's still making fiends and statues
The Moss Windrider build is in my opinion one of the hardest to stop as an undead, so I
Mean I would even
Okay, it's hard to stop but it's also hard to execute as orc right for a long time Taiwan has no army
solo blade master, no grunts, no headhunters, then when Shadowhunter appeared, as you mentioned,
he mixed a lot of opportunities with Hex, because you know, if you hex sometimes even on pro level,
you just hex Deathdan, you'd actually kill him, right, because Herald started to play a real undead,
and he's selling his TP, but yes, this build is very powerful, it's actually very hard to do,
And you know, even you, I think you agree, Grabby, like already stealing the guy from the Goblin Laboratory, who is level 6 Wildkin,
while Tauron is not going for this like Hex manipulation, the pulling of the camps, he's just creeping camps as they are,
but he's getting stronger and stronger, okay, high level move, can you explain, Grabby?
Do you like this Tauron Totem? Is it just for Spirit Link to keep the Wyverns alive?
I like the Tauron Totem, it's not usually a part of the build, as they look to be creeping in the middle, two different camps.
I do like it. I think Torrents add a lot of nuance to your army.
It could either be walkers or it could be Torrents.
What I don't like is Tyler losing a Windrider, not the first one to creeps this game,
as he continues tanking with Windriders against someone with 40 piercing damage.
Healing Ward is a good item. He needs to now leave the middle.
I'm very worried for Tyler. He's going to move up
as part of his natural momentum into the map,
but he needs to leave, go somewhere, creep something big and get Heal Ward.
But yeah, normally you try to overwhelm someone with sheer numbers of Windriders.
So, as you well know, has been the meta for the Orc against Undead for a long time.
Uh-oh, Blade. There's still crystal ball. There's still one crystal ball that could be used.
Yeah, it's going to be Torrance, so Wyvern's Torrance. I do kind of like that.
You do need to kill one of your own Peons because 51 population is an eyesore
and a terrible truth for your future economy books.
Mistake I often make all the time.
And the mistake I try to fix,
but sometimes I look at my lumber situation
and it's messed up already.
Looks like Kara's at the shop.
I wonder if we're gonna see Heelscroller
in Von Potion purchased
to kind of protect him against Hex combo.
I guess you can't actually break the Hex combo,
but nonetheless, DK with tanky items
is always nice to have.
You got a scourge of bone chimes interestingly enough, looks like he sold it, doesn't provide
too much value to his army as he only has a decay, a ghoul and an abomination as the
melee.
Tyler is looking for him now, mostly looking in the center, finding several camps that
were already crept.
He has a large army but he's now out leveled, 4-2 against 3-2, and Hera starts to be on
the warpath and attacks with one heal scroll but no invulnerability potion.
One ghoul goes down as Tyler comes to scramble for his base defense.
This could be the determining fight of the game.
There is no TP on any player, there is no way to kite, they just need to attack each other.
Wives are very fragile, but they deal a lot of damage.
Blade Master is going for the lead, Frost Armor perfectly played.
Coil before Hex is looking good for the Undeterred, but the Healing Ward cancels immediately.
Finally, Hera knows how to recognize the Healing Ward, so she takes it down immediately.
It was placed rather easily, but it was often ignored as Tidewan was targeting things
with Frost Armour, his wyverns flying into the battle first, no worst time to look down
the fiends. There's another Frost Armour, there's another coil, Hera is doing amazingly.
It looks very good for Hera, I think the riding is on the wall. Hera is looking to take the
second map here. There's a crystal ball in order to prevent the blade from getting away.
He's doing a heal pot, he does not use the heal pot. Tyler1 is gonna be swept away, Gigi's
Harrah says, Harrah, first, zero talent, BG, handicap race, well played, bro.
The aggressive Gigi by Harrah.
You've, oh my god, oh my god, you don't know, Jesus.
I'm uncomfortable watching this.
Trash talk is something they both do, so we should allow them to.
I have to say, Tyler fumbled a little bit there in that fight.
He didn't control or he didn't focus fire with his Wyverns for quite a bit.
And with that build, you really want to optimize picking off units one at a time.
Not only because you can stack the Venom, but because they just have really high damage.
Is that right?
I couldn't keep track of what you were saying because I was reading the purple diary out of
No, that's okay.
Oh my God, yeah.
Looks like that are not too happy with the outcome in that game.
Hopefully he'll be able to look back with some pride about how he handled the first half of the first game.
Though he's not happy with the outcome eventually in this game.
No shame, of course. If we look at things objectively, Pox and Saul, there's no shame in losing to an in-shape Hera
with the accolades that he has in Age of Empires 2 and the level of form that he
has showed today and yesterday that has just been a lot higher than what he had
shown on the ladder thus far. He has reached the level of evolution of play
that looks like it's tournament ready actually and I'd be quivering in my
boots if I was in the upper bracket final right now as being Simply and
Yamato Kanon Pox. Yeah I mean well said his performance over the past few days
has went up exceptionally. I fought him on ladder in a random queue just a few
days ago before this, and he is not the same person. He has a force to be reckoned with.
With that being said, simply as well, every single one of these participants
have shown crazy amounts of growth in the coming days. Simply went from being, I'm
not going to say anything negative, but I didn't think he was really a threat,
into just all of a sudden coming out of nowhere with the bare form, just
It's absolutely taking on Hera and now going against Yamato and Yamato as well, studying
all the way into the late hours, even on tournament day.
What do you think, Saul?
I mean, I'm just impressed by the amount of effort everybody put into preparation.
Goes for Tyler Wan, goes for Hera, especially the last few days before the tournament.
I really saw that everybody was developing new strategies.
I was late with that, but better late than never, and yes, that was impressive.
I kind of, you know, I think Tyler Walsh would have replayed his Farsi strategy.
He was willing to play something different, and it was cool.
It was a hard bill to do, and it's just GG's to everybody,
because everybody put so much effort, including you, Gravi, for organizing the event, of course.
Both of you as well. Thank you very much for that.
It's been an absolute joy to watch these events unfold.
And the show isn't over yet.
In fact, we're kicking things into overdrive
because the final three series of this tournament today,
they're all gonna be played.
They are in best of five.
Starting things off with simply against Yamato Canon
to find out who will advance to the grand finals
and get a guaranteed top two position
and who will need to battle their way
through an unformed Hera.
Pox, Saul Aitman, thank you very much for joining me.
We're gonna be throwing it to a break.
I leave the final words first to you, Saul,
and then to Pox.
I said everything, I enjoyed the games.
The games are going to be very close.
Everybody's prepared, have fun guys.
I'll be looking as well, Gigi's.
And Mr. Pox, it was a pleasure, bye.
Gigi's, thanks, it was fun to have you.
Pox, Gigi's.
Staying here, just really excited for everything.
There's not really much else for me to say.
Sounds good. Thanks for coming on and we'll be keeping in touch.
Alright guys, we're gonna be throwing things to a break.
Things are being kicked into Overdrive.
We're gonna be going to our upper bracket finals, best of five with Simply and Yamato Kanan right after this break.
That was fast, did I do that? No, my editor did that.
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this as we have a special guest from a previous season who's going to be able to join us as well
as the man that almost won the first map against Hera just now. To cast with us, simply against
Yamato Kanan, we have brought on a special guest from a previous tournament. Welcome
to the show, Dendi.
Yo, what's up, what's up? Hello everybody, long time no see.
Looking good man, looking good, get to see you again.
Thank you.
here. Happy to be here. Let's cast some Warcraft 3 together. Dendi won the first Warcraft 3
invitation that I ever held in March of last year, showing some great human plays. Can
we be able to help us make sense of what the Maddo can and that simply are going through
here as well. And then we also have with us, Tyler1 who nearly did it against Hera in
the first map welcome title one good dude what was that fight next to neutral
camp those trolls were basically playing for here I mean game three are
trolling this game I was I was griefing I we practice double B-share once I was
like okay the game one pissed me off I think I could brand about this forever
I had anyone pissed me off. So I was like, all right, fuck you get me off this game
So that's kind of why I went dead. I didn't know what up the hell I was doing to be honest
Was pretty close of him
Game one was close was pretty close. Yeah
They had had what 80 pops like 30 pop the entire time. I just hate did there's so many questions in this game
Like undead base pissed me off
We lie I'm getting coaching right. He's like don't attack undead base. Don't attack
Just ever
Just don't
Well, you need to get a third expo you want me to get four fucking expo's in a game. What are we even doing bro?
Anyway, that one pissed me off. So I sent it. Yeah, you're playing a little bit
Dendi, you haven't played Warcraft in a while, Dendi?
Yeah, I'm eager to play. I'm about to start soon, I think.
I'm going to play some Warcraft, but I was watching a lot, guys.
I was watching following your games, you know, had a lot of fun.
It was pretty fun. It was dope.
Oh, nice. Nice.
The game at its best is such a fun and great game.
Of course, it can sometimes be mildly frustrating.
I'm a little bit frustrating.
Why is DH still a thing?
DH or DK?
DH! Sorry, I'm like pivoting.
We're about to watch Simply, he plays DH.
He'll be here as the generic shit.
DH is broken as well.
Either one of you would want to join the lobby or am I just going to restream the in-game?
I can jump in.
I'll post it in the game name.
Actually, it's fine. I've always seen it with...
Yeah, okay, put it on.
Okay, then I will be sharing that.
Can you tell me if you see this?
Oh my, what's that?
Is that working okay? The in-game screen?
And I have black screen so far
Is it totally black or mostly black?
We see you and like all the casters got the actual game. Oh, okay. Yeah, all right. Well, then I'll share another screen. I'll just share
I'll just share a nice game one it begins
Yeah, you won't have the player camps, but you'll have to in-game view at least I guess this part isn't working yet
All right, when the game begins, I'll be able to share the screen. We have both players here simply and the Yamato cannon
US East Brazil North I guess we could just do
US East 4. Yeah, all right, okay, I just have to get them on the right
colors looks like your motto is kind of vibing man. He's
Weird you never see him do that ever I've been watching a stream. I've been seeing him play yet. I have never seen him
Look like he's having fun at any point
You've been like locked in, reviewing like a student taking notes.
Yeah.
Have you seen some of this?
Have you seen him being coached?
It's so hilarious.
It's so much fun.
I was laughing my ass every single time.
That's crazy.
I don't know what kind of style is that, like, of this coaching.
But it seems like Yamato is coaching himself so he knows how to deal with that.
He's like unshakable, you know?
Like, he's just talking the information and just, you know, keep going.
going. It's so much fun though, to watch it as a viewer. It's crazy. I don't know.
Yeah, I feel the same way. It was super, super, super entertaining to see. And I must say, I
don't think my ego would have allowed me to take the coaching of the truthful nature that Death Note
was delivering it with. But it's pretty, pretty impressive by, by Yamato Kana to try and distill
the lashing, the verbal lashing he was receiving with as much readiness as he was. Looks like
both players are ready. I'm going to be throwing it into the map introduction and we'll get the
show on the road in 10 seconds from now.
Autumn Leaves is the randomly chosen opening map between the Amateur Cannon and Simply.
Simply impressed everyone when he went 4-0 in the first two rounds of the upper bracket,
Coming in from the fifth seed location, MMRWise, is now in the grand finals with a guaranteed
top three position.
He placed the demon hunter for the most part unless he prepared something different this
time around and he's against Yamato Kannon, the person who probably did the longest streams
in preparation of this event and has given up the anniversary celebration with his wife
yesterday in order to focus on this.
Normally a coach in a pro league team, Yamato Kannon and now has a chance for himself to
shine brightly with his own performance. Simply is a Mario 64 speedrunner and he's now trying
to speedrun the upper bracket finals, Dendi. Sounds fun. I don't know what hero we're asking
for Remake, interesting. I could definitely do that. I guess that server ain't that good. We do
have a thing equalizer in order to make things more fair, but if that server isn't good we can
and simply try another one. It's the benefit of running this event on W3 Champions.
Ah. Shout out to WC3 Champions, guys. Make sure, if you haven't already, they have a Patreon to help support them, or else this amazing awesome event wouldn't even probably be possible, right, Grubby?
I think it'd be a lot harder with that, for sure. I'll post the link in the chat.
No, don't bother. It would still be possible, he said. So, fuck him. It is, but it's... Oh, never mind. There's Link.
it's a lot better for for having it let's see you matter cannon can you remake
your w3 champions Yamato restart also open the window a little bit toasty in
there getting a little toasty nice suit you got on today bro that's a little
chain too is that real I see you're always dressing up Tyler don't think I
don't see it anytime you have an event you wear your sleeveless suit jacket
yeah bro it's a prestigious event you gotta look prestigious yourself is what
I always say yeah a lot of prestigious events recently you're doing like seven
events at the same time how you do it I'm not sure I've lost every single one so
I guess I don't know still come to hang yeah, I'll just keep sign up. I'm doing at some point
Did he has a nice shirt on too though? Did he right? Yeah, but I don't have chain like I need to work on it
So I look more. He's our sure more integer. You're I have I have it somewhere
I just forgot to put it on my buddy. Can we talk about how last year I whipped your ass?
Yeah, we can talk about that. I was I was thinking about that game like I remember the game
that was so close I think I was telling also that the games against you were
like one of the hardest that I played because where was the game where like
TP out I don't know how many times out of the fight and it was so close
with archimage and mountain king your mountain king first was so annoying
every single game oh my god you're like the only person who does that by the way
I've read it to my solo queue like what two other times nobody goes around
first dude if I remember correctly I surrounded you farce if and you'd left
the game yeah I can see myself to the debt yeah yeah mountain king is just so
much fun I don't know I hope maybe we're gonna see but yeah it just holds just
where here and these I think I'm out of place mountain king second maybe we're
I'm gonna see first giga Chad, why don't you the little short shit?
What about simply as somebody who want to do it fast? Is there like any crazy
strategies you can apply as night elf? Grab it.
If he wants to do it fast, it's smart to do something aggressive, then they
because your motto calendar is most likely going to expand every single
game. A one classic build that you can do instead of just playing demon arches tier
three. If you know someone is false expanding is to bring the fire to the
shins of Yamato immediately with double ancient of war huntresses. You make it
look normal at first, then you add the hunter so on the second ancient of war.
Nice 10,000 ping Yamato.
Yeah, that's one thing.
Yeah, I don't know. We had a timeout. I guess I'll just try another server again.
Okay, try it again.
Now yes, Mass Hunter, this is something you could do.
And I do think Yamato looks best when he's in charge
and when he can keep pressuring.
And he looks a little worse when he's the one that gets attacked.
If this was Creolophus, wait, what happened?
Simply just left.
Sorry, go ahead Tyler.
I was going to say, I wonder if Yamato does do the same thing.
Because what we've seen so far is people that have done the same thing or were going to have been punished
Like pot, that guy, I saw him yesterday. He looked really good
Here I had prepped something it looked like he was a silver player
And then like he was a the game didn't look playable. Yeah, so the model kind of does the same exact thing every single time
90 90% of the time I'll say that he did build tanks yesterday
She kind of like anticipated
I don't know if Nidaleps can do anything different about that, does it simply have what's it called, the little horse guy with double Huntress Hall Rush?
Yes.
Is that working in human?
Yeah, that could work. In fact, I don't think Imanthekanan has much practice against it, and he wouldn't be expecting it from simply either.
I think that would be a great play that he could do, for sure.
Horse Rush.
That sounds funny.
There was double Huntress when you played, right?
Didn't he?
Sorry?
Double Huntress, double Ancient of War, Huntress spam, Nidalef?
Yeah, yeah.
It's pretty strong.
Yeah, I'm about two base human.
Like for me, when I was playing human, it was always hard.
I don't know.
Like it's so hard.
You need to micro so many things.
Okay, don't bro.
You're not now I'm already I'm just getting over the last series. They're gonna round me up calling human week
Woman is weakest race orcs one of the powers like most powerful races look look at the driving for example
At high level sure go play it at our level bro
We have to build 80 different units, you understand, if you do something different every single fucking game.
I cannot do the same thing every game.
Dude, you don't even need to micro your units, your grunts like have the most ish primer.
Grunts! Grunts!
You wouldn't get a TC grunt rush every game?
You build like two grunts, you build raiders, you build walkers, you build torrents, you build zerkers.
which doctors you both every unit has to be built in some situations no no you
just ignore headhunters and which doctors and just go for tower and grants
and just heal me with your Rasta and GG like you cannot and you go griffins and
then what for griffins is 30 minutes of gameplay you need two bases free bases
It's my crew everything. Meanwhile, I'm doing what your grunts are killing my peasants, what do I do?
Okay, okay, you're a good one.
You're both late there, DD.
Alright guys, we're in the first map of the upper bracket finals, round three, it's simply against Yamato Kannon,
and while simply still wolfing away some food, even now, mid-series, mid-game, that usually doesn't benefit my play,
but who knows what works for him, the game has begun.
has begun. Yamatakanon has opened with a standard opening with Archmage and Footman,
whereas Simpli has opened with his trusty Demon Hunter with the Incident of War on
the greedy spot that immediately gives level 2 if it's farmed successfully.
You share screen, Grimly.
Oh, sorry about that, yes.
Had a pretty big window while you guys were...
Currently, currently.
Currently.
Currently.
That's for sure coming off, by the way.
For sure.
This series of course is a best of five so a simple cheese is not going to be enough
to get the victory here you need to show quite a lot of depth to your play in order to be able
to win here and so simply he's going to open with a double moonwell of course he doesn't know if
there's going to be a fast expansion yet but from Yamato we know that's generally going to be the
plan. Dendi what are you looking out for for Yamato to do here after he establishes this fast
expansion attack might of constantly pressure him so if you're attacking
first nobody can attack you they want to be busy my friend usually or you protect
your second base one militia has gone down two creeps here for imato cannon at
least there's no low peasants that can be exploited by an opponent simply
He purchased a Circlis of Mobility from the Goblin Shop, and he finds a ring, demon is
level 2, and he has gone for emulation and evasion.
No mana burn this time around.
What do you think about that, Dendi?
That's interesting.
That's going to be big harassment.
If he finds a way to get into the peasant line, it's going to be on Yamato micro, like
how he deals with that.
Because if you spread up everybody in different directions, emulation is not so powerful.
on the other side, maybe Archimage can do a lot of damage with Water of the Mentals.
But Yamato lost the game of chicken, he lost his mental and when he saw the Demon Hunter
coming he actually turned around even though he had an open base attack against Simpli's
base he comes back in order to try and attack the Demon Hunter but this Demon Hunter has
two items that offer survivability and he has evasion!
He already killed two peasants that's minus three for Yamato cannon Tyler!
Yeah he's gonna have to bring them all back from his base, he's gonna take a favorite
Another one goes down!
Does he get another one here?
He kind of hit like a truck!
The circle is going crazy!
So much damage.
Was it like an idea because of the circle and ring of protection?
Like because he found the ring of protection
he bought circles.
He's like, oh I have a lot of armor now, I can tank a lot.
And lets his plan to ignore mana burn.
I think probably
he was always going to be doing that, Dendi.
Whatever item he would find first.
The circle was purchased from the shop.
Any item would help kind of in this, though I think Ring is probably the one you like the most.
Immolation, Evasion is a more unusual ability choice that we see together that both simply
seem to like as well as Ampi, who is a friend and his mentor and coach for this event as well.
Dropping the circle to get more healing. By not having mana burn, you're just a lot tankier,
you're a lot better against Footman. Usually in the mid game you can use a book of retraining
to finally have mana burn, but for the early game this kind of owns. But why simply is ignoring
the attack I'm not sure what's going on here
there's a little bit of lag here that might just be a bad server that we
should be using another one simply is actually ignoring this which is kind of
wild he's gonna stop the expo he's gonna go for stopping the expo but his
wisps are in danger man this is a wild decision to make he's sending it he's
This is fucking all or nothing!
Does he cancel his moonwell in time?
I feel like the footmen are wasting a lot of time in that moonwell.
It does finish.
Oh my god.
This is a crazy decision.
It's a crazy decision to make.
He's lost many wests.
He's going to lose a moonwell as well.
Hunter's always on the way.
He's going to try and attack the town hall,
which is three seconds away from finishing.
Zero seconds it finishes, but he will kill many peasants.
His mind's going to go down.
I think attacking the town hall here is not the play. It's way too tanky for a demon and
archers to take down. Simply had an amazing start, but he's kind of throwing it away here
with this decision to run across the map. This is such a big win for your mother cannon.
It's crazy. He lost some very good exchange for him. This has to be game over, right?
I think so, Tarnius.
Yeah, his expo is already up.
He's got a presence coming up there.
Oh, no.
And he's losing archers, oh, my.
It's not over.
It's not over.
Demon Hunter, level three.
He's super powerful now.
Trying to see the bright side of the situation there for it simply, then he does have emulation
level two.
He can get some more mana from the moon well, but without put to speed, it's going to take
him a long time to run those footmen down.
He's going to let that one get away.
I think we've had 10 Wisps dying already, Tyler.
It's kind of really difficult to come back.
Yeah, that's about what, like 400 gold, just gone.
He has no buildings on the map.
He's not checking, he's making a Wisp.
I don't, this is...
Oh, finally, production building.
Is it ancient or what?
It's gonna cancel, he pulls some of his foot
and just go try and cancel it.
Just trickling a little bit of damage on that
while continuing to attack Demon Hunter.
Funnily enough, Demon Hunter is, of course, stronger
than the entire army here.
Double, uh, detonate by simply is kind of a crazy decision when you have so few wisps already.
There are some units and wisps somewhere on the map and Demon Hunter is kind of his one-man army.
He's bringing the nation of war!
Oh shit, he's back up from the way, boys!
It's coming back.
Actually, the war is going to fight.
Two lords were built outside.
How powerful this hero is. Look at this demon hunter, he's doing it solo.
He's solo defending the entire base.
He's trying, he's trying then, but it's not really working out.
In the meantime there's an expansion running, Yamato has started to go to tier 2 already,
this lore is getting cancelled, simply made one big judgement error.
He was in a fantastic spot, all he needed to do was when he was standing right next
to the footmen to engage them directly.
The damage that he had done already against the expansion was more than enough to play
a fair game going forward.
He was in the lead, if he had gone for the foothills that would have been good for him.
With Jumato cannon, he made a decision to attack and he was, for his part, luckily ignored.
And now Jumato finds himself in an amazing position.
And if he doesn't blunder this away, he should be able to see this to a comfortable victory.
Oh my god, he gets the mine as well.
Holy...
I mean, there's no way you keep playing.
Right?
I need to rebuilds, he's rebuilds for free, so...
I mean, he's, look at his gold, he has no gold!
Well, Yamada says he knows he has X-Files, but there's no way.
He's at 10 Pop to 42.
Well, it's Demon Hunter. Maybe he can still win.
I mean, maybe if he was playing Undead instead of Night Elf and he had one Power Up, maybe he didn't.
Final Moon Wall getting attacked. It has very little health left. It doesn't mana.
Demon Hunter is going to take that. He detonates on himself and on the Water Elemental.
So Moonwalk goes down, there's 2 Wisps, 9 population for simply, he's refusing to see the position.
Right now it feels like playing some kind of botan, you know, you have your hero and you go against everybody.
Tang of Goldmine cannot be repaired, it's wildly still being produced.
It goes down again, the Wisps gets killed, not even detonate, level 4, Demon Hunter.
Maybe it's a level 6 demon hunter, I mean, maybe?
Is it 18 gold?
Nope, gold mines.
Never lose gold, never surrender.
There's one, there's one...
Does he have enough wisp to send in the gold mines?
There's one wisp over here, there's one wisp over here on two different gold mines, then there's one wisp in the main and there's one wisp over here.
So that's the four he has.
He has to bring them all back to the main, make a gold.
Then he has to eventually make another wisp, then put that one in the gold, then make another
wisp and then make an ancient floor with that.
Here comes the Zeus.
The Mantican comes in, hits him with a stormbolt, there's rifles, priests being made, simply
calls G.G.
Finally, we're going to find a different server.
and had a lot of lag screens coming up there, unfortunately, perhaps the wrong server for him,
but it was not enough to actually team the beast, as Yamato ran over simply without much trouble.
Yeah, that puzzling decision just to run past the footman. It wasn't like he was even close to his expo.
Yes.
I think he just thought that if he got the expo, cancel, it was going to be worth it, or it's better for him.
I don't know, I don't know.
You're right Tyler, if he was already next to the expansion when the Archmage was entering his base,
he could pull all his Wisps away, put his Demon Hunter in the worker line, kill 4 peasants, then Town Portal.
But going there from across the map while you literally could hold hands with the Archmage was a puzzling decision.
He thought about it, he thought about turning around, and then he did it, and then he turned
around and then he did it, because it was...
We'll see, we'll see what he does next game, because there wasn't too much of a game there
actually, and when did that happen?
Did it really well?
Got a lot of peasants?
Yeah, clicking the tunnel is a move that simply was taught during his coaching as being something
that you can do with archers.
He had some really successful games and they stood out like positive memories
But those town halls were in production and those take three times as much damage from archers as tunnels that are finished
So simply use the right lesson at the wrong time and it became catastrophic for him
Is it powerful enough to go with your demon hunter harassment into main base of human when you have this emulation and
the circle, the ring of protection and your passive.
Yeah, the the wisp and then teleporting over the wall. You
mean? I mean, so there is a wall you cannot pass. If there is a
wall you can't pass, you could put a wisp there and stuff of
tell you on top of it. But if it's open, you can walk in and
yes, it would be very powerful for sure.
I see. Interesting.
Gonna check what the next map is going to be. The first map was
picked to be autumn leaves. Simply as the loser of the first map picks Echo Isles to go next
towards. Now, I usually think of Echo Isles as a good human map than the not necessarily
a night of map. Do you have any thoughts on that?
Not really. I actually don't remember maps that well. I mean, I do remember Echo Isles
This is my legendary map from super old times, but I only remember the name.
Remember the name, 100% skill, 20% luck, and everything is there.
But I don't remember what camp server where you get your level too fast and all those
roads.
When I was practicing, I was mostly practicing less by knowledge, more by feelings.
talking about here, what he was doing a lot of like practicing and less research. I think I was
kind of the same in a way. I was just playing by feelings.
Understood. Sorry, just settling the next map. It looks like Yamato Kanon has some internet issues
that might be unrelated to the W3 champion server. That's why he had like no likes, no like,
Like, well he had no ping once when he joined, he had to restart W3 Champions, then he had lag on the next one, so yeah, it looks like again, can I full reset everything?
Yeah, he can.
Yeah, he was playing that whole game with lag?
Yeah.
Sure, he's just not be inning?
He said he was teleporting. I guess the proof is in his streamvots.
He puts in his logs too, he definitely was seeing.
Yeah.
Should we get him to restart first before trying again?
I feel like he just wants to try again at the best of the show.
But if we just let him restart first, maybe it'll be better.
What do you guys think?
Are you guys asking us?
Yeah, I'm not sure asking you to.
Yeah, he's probably, I mean, trying all solutions now.
He can wait.
Of course he can wait.
Cold my beer.
We drinking a tea cup, bro.
Yeah, it's tea. I just wanted to sound cool, bro.
Drinking cool, bro. Drinking's for losers, right, guys?
Wait, tea is drink for losers?
No. I think you meant drinking like...wait, what are you drinking, buddy?
Water.
Water.
I still happen to have a mug here myself.
What's in there? Any caffeine?
There's nothing in there. I was giving my chips a hoi in here.
I found it a bit rich. I tuned into your stream today earlier, Tyler, the opening of your stream.
And you said you haven't had caffeine in one and a half months ever since you had your wisdom teeth pulled.
Last year when I said I had a good game on a multitude of caffeine drinks,
you congratulated me on being a drugs user.
Is it like congrats?
You're big drunk.
Yeah, different.
No, you drink caffeine, it's a bit rich.
You probably were like taking like a...
Fire hour energy shots and shit like that.
Yeah.
How's your drinking pre-workout for the gym?
It's different.
I was taking the Tyler Wan energy drink brand.
Like I forgot what it was but...
Blood rush.
Yeah, blood rush.
Just drinking a little bit of it.
No, definitely not.
I was thinking it to lift though.
You were taking it to performance enhance.
There's a difference.
No, no, I was...
I was having coffee to cast the event.
Performance enhancing drugs.
Let me see, let me see.
Grubby, I was actually talking to my chat about this earlier.
I don't think you're that good, I'm to be honest.
And I was saying, if I played for another year straight,
15 hours a day,
If we played 8 hours, 8 games,
I'd take one.
Dots.
I think I could be in a coma and still win.
If I played like it was last year for a one-year total, that's another thing.
We were talking about Magnus Carlson in chess, and your name got brought up.
And I was like, yeah, seven games, seven games, one year.
Am I allowed to practice, or would I have to go AFK for a year?
You could practice, bro.
Wait, you mean like you also playing 12 hours a day?
Yeah, because I actually agreed with the first half of your statement.
I'm not that good anymore.
like i haven't really applied myself but
i think i could still
i could still be top twenty world if i put in the time
that the motivation
what are you right now
and twenty five hundred mark what is that i don't know top hundred top fifty
out i'm not sure
up twenty five is how much of our
or twenty seven or
i don't know
i don't know there's a lot of
chinese agree players that are quite strong
Oh, uh, yes, Yamato. You may reset. We were waiting already.
Okay, go.
It's all good. Get this one.
Yeah, no, uh, I would love to see that. I would love to see that, Tyler.
Yeah. Okay. I did. You got me.
I don't think I've ever seen this game. Also, this game, I've raced so hard this
year playing this game. I think it's because I started in a bad mood from
losing 40 games in a row at the start. My chat was saying that W3Champions is
going to do, if you haven't played in a while, you lose more in the Ma-Mar when you come back.
Yes, I think your experience was strongly expressed and also correct that when you
come back to the game and you have 15 under the Ma-Mar, you're going to be rusty and there
should be some XP decay, which is not the system that's implemented yet. Additionally,
any new streamer that comes in and starting at 1500, we're all just saying like, oh,
that's part of the game like yeah you're just gonna have to lose 20 games but
it's a miserable experience yes and not just shown only by you and so W3
champions offer that the next time if I onboard a bunch of streamers based on my
judgment of their expected level we can place them lower to start with start them
at 500 600 800 it would be good because that was very frustrating for you to yeah
Yeah, I think that's the things that people will not want to play, it's like that whole,
oh let's just, yeah, it's okay, you just have to lose 30 in a row and then you can start
winning.
Yeah.
Especially on stream, I think streamers doing that on stream, it's like pretty miserable
for the streamer.
So, yeah, I'm glad they're doing that.
Yeah, no, it's been a reason for me to stop streaming games as well.
Like at some point in Dota 2, I was spamming like one champion over and over and over,
when I wanted to play something else, I started losing.
And I'm okay with that, I'm used to losing, but I was trying to tell Josh.
Long champion.
Well, I was like spamming hoodwink, spamming, what is it, warlock, and then when I want to suddenly learn mid,
I'm literally over a thousand MMR worse at playing mid.
And then when I try that, I start losing, and I try to condition the chat. Don't get your expectations up.
It's gonna be bad for a bit. The exact same thing you were saying to chat, Tyler, like it's gonna be bad.
It's gonna be rough. And even if somehow we get over that, because we both hate losing, you and I, if we get over it,
Just reading it in chat over and over where people are like this game is not for you, bro
It's like oh my god. It's so weird. Yep. Yep. Yep. Yeah
No, it was easy for me in League of Legends when I was playing this one hero called Nocturne and spamming it
It was so easy green time I was flying up to the sky
Yeah, you give it to Dota. So that's like a right. I didn't play League. You already know some basics of Moobas
Yeah, even so, go ahead, Dendi.
Yeah, I was switching to the workout because I was curious, what do I do if I'm 1.56 mmR?
But I know I will lose every game now if I go play because I didn't play for a session.
Jua, that's what happened to me bro, I was 1500 from last year, I killed but I lost 40 in a row.
So what happened before, they're in that system that Grubby said, so you just lose, but now
that you'll lose more rating is what I was kind of asking for.
It's what chess does.
You haven't played in a while in chess, that first game back, you lose like 120, and then
you lose 80.
But if you win, you'll win like 60.
Wait, you haven't played in a year, but you're winning?
You probably deserve higher rating.
So they give you plus 60 if you win, minus 100 if you lose.
The first like 10 games.
Yeah, just greater.
I have an idea.
Yeah?
You just go 2v2, you know, 2v2, 2v2, 2v2, you practice, practice, practice, and then you feel strong enough you go back to 1v1 and then you don't feel that miserable.
Smart? That's a good way to deal with that.
Different gameplay, I think. 2v2 and 1v1.
You Wopt and Woddy and poof poof, same thing.
What? Was that English? What the hell did you just say?
it's a what the money bro it's paladin and oh my god rifle bidder it was
goose's favorite catchphrase so my god goose who pissed me off oh my god
okay sharing the screen now
just gonna flip the score let's see a matter on the left oh we got the wrong
color editor in the back room VV if we can change the color on Yamato I thought
I had the colors locked in but because he rejoined that we got that wrong Yamato
on the left okay score just need to flip the camps and change the color on
Yamato kind of thank you very much all right game number two hopefully no like
Yamato can and apologize he said normally I don't have problems like this
it is very much on his end not W2 Champions fault here so hopefully
things will stabilize this is map number two of the upper bracket finals it's best to fight
Yamato in the lead
no he looked very convincing simply looked very strong at the beginning he made one little
blunder we believe oh sorry I just saying I didn't turn on ping equalizer so that's kind of
unfair 30 against 120 yeah wow we sure know how to stall here
It's nice, it's nice, all good. We like to take our time to drink our tea.
So Dendi, what have you been playing bro? What have you been doing in the last year since we spoke?
A little bit of DOTA, yeah I was playing League too but I don't know if you were but I was playing some Moktun, great champion and hero.
What's your ranking?
Oh, I think I climbed from silver to gold somewhere and it was going up and higher.
Yeah, not bad, not bad.
Not bad.
Yeah, it was pretty nice.
Yeah, maybe a bit higher than that, I don't remember.
Okay, so you played some League and then what happened?
And when I realized that I'm stuck in gold, I'm pretty old and rusty, and I stopped playing.
Dude, I'm joking! The easiest game of my life, I'm telling you!
I could just climb to what is this, Master or Challenger or whatever with this one hero just by playing 300 games in a row.
But I got bored spamming the same hero over and over.
Because if you switch to other hero, you need to like, to start over again, you know?
Yes, so that's why it's a hard skill game, bro.
I skill game!
Ain't no easy as Dota.
You just run straight forward and people just die.
I have no clue what's going on.
Oh, you're new, but that's why.
That's right. You play a new beat, Luke.
You want to understand?
I mean, I was...
Heiden, Emerald.
Almost.
You were Heidenworld?
I don't know.
Okay, that's a bit more respectable.
I think Grubby got, like, what, Platinum 3?
I got Platinum 3.
I was also Plot, I was also Plot, I wasn't in the middle of the fight.
No, if you do have said three different ranks now, you slide about being Gold, you slide about being Emerald Dindi, are you pl- what's your actual rank?
Same as me.
Yeah, somewhere, we were playing together, yeah.
How good is Platinum 3? Be honest, Tyler, it's better than the rank you got in Warcraft 3, isn't it? What we got in League.
Uh, Platinum 3 is...
That'll be below it. You have an understanding of the game.
Is that good?
More than the average person.
I mean, statistically speaking it's good.
Statistically speaking.
Do you know the top percent now of it?
I've been told top 10 percent.
Oh shit!
Not then they were top 10 percent.
That's pretty nice.
What if we keep practicing, Gravi? What would happen?
Can you imagine?
Plat 2.
Peek and plat 2.
You said that. It was so hard. It was so hard actually to get past.
It was, it really didn't look, I don't know, we just had two versions of it.
I did two months. It's like me, it's like our game swap,
because I think Warcraft, oh my god, it seems so miserable and so hard,
and you like swap it, oh for like, it's sometimes sort of, it didn't look that bad.
Yeah. Like these, the things you could fix for very easy stuff.
I mean, the theory is one thing, like learning back timings, but the mechanics, like the
knowledge of all the different enemy champs, it takes so long until you download the knowledge
of 170 different champions.
Too many changes, for sure, it's crazy.
Hopefully everything's okay.
Let's see who survives this extended start animation better, simply or Yamato Canon?
I found it very miserable to expound my hero pool.
I wanted to do it for YouTube content, Tyler.
My editor was getting bored of all fuck, simply left again.
Let's just keep yapping, it's okay.
My editor wanted something else than Urgot.
I just had the most fun in the game if I just played Urgot over and over and over again,
but I thought maybe I should do something else for content and then it tilts me because
I'm playing worse with it.
And so on and so forth.
Well, I understand completely, but it's crazy because Mitre says the same thing about like brand.
I feel like I play all the every character I say.
So we actually hired some, like the editor hired an editor because he couldn't do League anymore.
He's like, fuck League.
The editor hired an editor.
Yeah.
I was like, okay.
Do your editors ever come to you, Tyler, and be like, hey, can you play this game? This would be good.
Nah, only if it's like a sponsor.
If he's like Chad or something, I'd probably do whatever.
Sears?
Uh, well, he has preferences. He expresses them. He knows it in the end to make the decisions, but
he's like, you know this game that you were playing just now, the variety, it's actually doing quite well on our YouTube.
You could do more of that.
Ah! Ah, I see, I see.
Or sometimes I push a lot of content from one game, but then it gets 1K views on YouTube and he just stops uploading it, even if I want it.
For them it's a vibe, unfortunately that's my WC on YouTube so he's like, eh, can't
it get up with that?
I get it, bro.
That's weird.
Out of them so funky, it's just so, and God forbid you're doing really well and you upload
one bad video and like put some in the shadow realm.
Yep.
I main lined League for a bit on the main channel where I do Warcraft and people are
like, okay, that's pretty cool. Let's see it. And then suddenly, it
tanks, and then when I go back to Warcraft, it doesn't recommend
the videos anymore, because all the Warcraft fans ignored the
leak. And now the algorithm is in the sit there, and it takes
like a month to restore.
Yeah, YouTube working such a weird way that you need to do
like one thing on one channel, like basically, you can have
like 10 channels for every different thing. And when it's
going to work. All right, we'll try again at number 13.
Here we go, game two. Woo! Let's go! Bye, bye, bye!
You leaked your new sponsor watch out. I'll play it again. I'll play it again. But the
thing is, I just want to play Urgot again. Like, I don't want to learn new champions.
It's just like really lame to stick to discomfort, but it's one I have the most fun. But anyways,
gonna be some other time. This is map number two between Yamato Kanan and
simply we are in the lobby I'm gonna be sharing the screen with my illustrious
co-casters. I have an immediate lag screen. Oh my goodness. Oh my god. It's simply
lagging too? I thought it was Yamato at first. It's swapped now. I don't think it's
cameras even working. Look. Oh yeah you're right. Now it is. I once asked someone,
You okay? Because I thought they were lagging on ladder.
And they said yes, why?
It's because they made such a terrible play that I thought they were lagging.
That's BM, that's BM as fuck.
That was BM, but it was unintentional.
Looks like Yamato also got some tea.
He's dancing all the time.
He has some special tea, maybe.
I wonder if it's not, like, again, I've never seen him do that.
I wonder if it's not, like, nerves.
Bro, my first game, I was feeling adrenaline.
I'm gonna watch this your first game
You played so well the build was so good. Did you know that's a grubby build?
Is it? Yeah, I did that I did that
Far far see your tier one and a half expand as you're going to tier two and then going TC with a single bestiary
Accolide harass it was so good. I was so proud of you doing that. Just need a little bit more patience and to play it out
to play that defensively. That's why we expand, man. You can't go into the undead base. It's
bullshit. You can lose a 70-pop army against a double hero. If you had added the second
beast theory, went higher on Windriders and actually maxed out to 80 population and never
step foot on black on the blight dude okay dude that is not this is just don't go just
don't let him be don't let him expand
okay standard openings yep nice galt very curious to see how simply he's gonna
to play it. His start was so strong but he made such an uncharacteristic error, at least
uncharacteristic to an experienced player. We know what he's thinking. He wanted to stop
the expansion. He's had a lot of time to think about it, though you can get into a good or
bad headspace with a break like this. It really depends. And his Ancient of War creepings
still looks clean. Technically the demon doesn't need to stay here. Oh no, oh no, he
The ancient award denied himself a creep.
Also notice that he started that small green one instead of the big marketplace one at Oxnus?
Yes. It's a more aggressive variant because you finish it faster.
The amount of cannon is blundering as well, by the way.
He sent his water out of metal first into a camp that has a dispel.
So because the wolves disappeared, he's gonna probably lose this...
Oh, he almost lost the militia. Not quite.
So he still kept it okay. It wasn't as good as it could be, but better than what he simply did
Because even after Simply finishes this whole camp, he's not even going to be level 2.
Very good items though, holy crap.
Oh my god, he bought an item from the marketplace.
Maybe that means he wants to go aggressive here.
I think so too.
Thank you.
One small creep for level 2.
It can be a peasant.
The four...
Could look like a low peasant in there.
The four farms tier one shows Yamato Kanan is definitely going to expand again.
Simply is exactly where he needs to be, but he needs to keep his demon healthy until Yamato actually pulls the trigger to go for the expansion.
Oh, nice night time.
You should just hide here with Archer and wait.
Award.
Yeah, exactly. Like award. Melissa are coming in.
Simply as to buy this time to stay healthy. This isn't it. He wants that level two, but this isn't it. This is way too much damage taken early on.
Oh, he's getting creeps.
That's new from Yam, we don't see him do that.
He's gonna try and creep this without his hero, but this only works if he came here
earlier with his Militia.
This is gonna be a really awkward 6 pheasant creep because it took so long for him to
get there.
This looks like something he learned and is not applying that well, but you know what?
It looks like it's still good enough.
Wow, that's pretty cool.
You never did shit like this, did you?
Yeah, I never did this. That's actually so OP.
You're taking two creeps and just farming with peasants.
This one's gonna die if he doesn't move it.
Oh, the trapper retargeted it to the berserker.
And he's about to get level 3, right?
Yes!
4min30, level 3 in the enemy base.
Oh no! Why Yamato?
He summons a water item before he gets level 3!
That's why human is so hard to play, you need to be thinking about so many things!
Still good enough, still gets to cancel on the Hunters Hall at 99%, things couldn't be
any worse for simply denies himself a creep, loses the Hunters Hall to an attack, there's
detonate and there's an expansion going to be up and running for Yamatakan and
sometime soon he keeps detonating himself does he know that it does
friendly fire to detonate?
That's a good question. Oh no, Yamato.
This is what he should have done in the first game just keeping his arches and
demon on her at home attacking footmen trying to save archers and just taking
it from there and then eventually making a counter attack. Simply he's gonna pull one
whisk into the mine, replace it. There's that visual bug but rest assured he's at 5 out
of 5. The Hunter Cannon is level 3.
A lot of foodies out of this one, so it's a lot of experience. Demon Hunter is also
level 3 now, so it doesn't look bad, but right?
Yeah, the Hunter Soul cancelling is not good. What simply probably wants to do now is, oh
Wow, he's okay. So he's going straight to tier three so that even though his lords are late
At least it'll be tier three already the thing is Yamato Kannon is well rehearsed with his plane
He's gonna do another cancel
Simply is gonna make a similar decision as before most likely where he says I can't just be pulled back all the time
I have to attack and he's actually got a town portal. Oh my goodness
This is rough for simply I'm not gonna lie
It doesn't feel good, Tiger, when the enemy has an expansion, it just doesn't seem to
be anything you can do against it.
I feel like there has to be some type of way or some strategy to stop this expansion, other
than going DH and just running at it.
The best night of player in the world, Spirit Moon, with almost ¾ million in prize money
winnings.
He often does that double ancient IV huntress build that you alluded to should be a good
thing.
I don't think you should just play Demon Archer and hope that you play everything perfectly
and let someone get away with an expansion.
Yeah, it just feels so bad.
I think the horsey can also early expo themselves.
If you go masshumps, you can put on pressure, you can fight, you can be in many places,
maybe eventually get a counter expansion and transition to better units.
For now, Simply is on the defense with his standard armies trying to get his hunters
all up.
It's greatly delayed, Simply needs to kill as many units as possible and then hopefully
find a way for him to have the game open up once again at some point.
But Yamato right now is double mining and there's not much that Simply seems to be
able to do about it, Dendi.
Yeah, 1000 gold, he's doing circles, he's holding Simply on base and he keeps on macroing
so good.
He just keeps on producing. Look at his buildings here and very lumber mill.
Is it tier 2? It's tier 2. Oh, yo, yo, yo, yo, what's gonna happen soon?
He's getting ready soon. He's gonna ask his hero too.
Do you think he's gonna get a tavern hero here or he's gonna go for Mountain King?
I think it's gonna be Mountain King most likely. You could go tavern hero of course.
But I think in this case it's best to just to get that storm bolt so that you can pick off units.
making rifles I'm expecting double sanctum to get a couple of priests out
and then eventually spellbreakers as well maybe one or two source arrests is
there's a lot being chased down there look at this what matter going for another
cancel summoning in one of those blue guys again so annoying oh you want to
get more. Can he get more though? No emulation yet. Looks like there will be another lore
cancel. Yamato Kanon is doing fantastically here. Is it going to be a cancel or a kill?
It is a cancel. Last second, he remakes it instantly. Huge DUA. All the unions that simply
can produce. It's almost gold. Yamato Kanon is producing double sanctum. He does have
his rifle stuck in his base for a little bit but it's only because of this
builder presence he's not truly stuck. Also his coach Deathout is going to be
very pleased that 46 population is the exact pop that Yamato Canon had when he
reached his tier two so that he can fit in exactly two prists at 50 population
and another water elemental summon over the wall who is this guy you know
The amount of Kevin does a lot of happens that are looking so pro.
Oh no! Oh no! He got me building!
It was not cancelled, he thought he could triple detonate, kill the water elemental, but it was too late, that's minus four whips and lore.
Ouch.
Tired time, he's still just teching up building. Oh, god.
And he got this rifle protecting his base, all the dangers.
Simply taking the tiniest camp on the map, not much of a consolation.
Simply should be thinking of one of two things to do right now.
Try to do some kind of all in, get some hero kills or kind of expand.
There's no middle way possible where you take a few creeps and continue playing the
game. Hmm, is he even going to try and level this? I think he's not running up here. Oh,
this could be a fight. No, wait, wait! You don't see the human army right there? He
does a retrain on the demon hunter. Oh, he wants to go for the mana burn and the evasion
now. This is correct play, by the way. Going for a retrain. The emoticon tries to do this
It's around, doesn't quite get it though.
This is a keep for a couple mana burns.
No, no, no, no, no, mana burn before stun, mana burn before stun.
Hmm, okay.
I'm not sure why he's actually...
I'm not sure why he's actually doing a good job just creeping the camp under his nose.
No heal score info were bought by anyone.
This is kind of valuable, but at this point, honestly, I'm not sure that I'm not sure that I'm not sure that I'm gonna need it.
He has started double Arcane Sanctum Spellbreaker production, is mining from 2 bases, 66 population and going beyond
and simply has yet to get his first bear on the field.
He's even only got 3 Moonwells, only now making an Agent of Wonders, no Staff of Preservation, no Orb of Venom
and he's not even going to have population space to get a third bear.
The game feels very over, but simply is going to try and give it his best shot.
Also very unfortunate if we seem to be having some lag screens here that can't be helpful to his mental.
What are you doing with those kind of situations?
Some yoga?
That's your mind?
A lot of sighing.
It's very hard when you're in a bad mood like that or getting to be in a bad mood like
that it's very difficult to get out of it. You need a laugh, you need relaxation, but
at that moment you're not really enjoying it, so you're just going to have to do your
best and just see how it goes, I suppose.
Huge army, 73 population already. That looking scary. It's going to be hard to fight.
Simply kind of just waiting for his orp of venom coming out from the shop. And then not
waiting for it.
Hopefully it is.
Yeah.
running right into him and the boss on mountain king
Naga getting target fired there rejuvenation on the Naga but it gets
stolen by the spellbreakers this is an auto cast spell Yamatakan and targets
the Naga in the back kill sir there's a large human army simply trying to run
away but he has no dispel brings in a wisp to do it dispel but the slow had
already dissipated and so it just adds insult to injury Yamatakan it goes in
with this mountain king with some absurd, oh my god some absurd defensive items on the mountain king.
I was going to be over again.
Almost simply.
That looking green.
It's about that time.
Yeah it's about that time I mean uh.
About that time.
I can't feel too good for simply, but at the end of the day, I also think even strategically from the start of the game, it wasn't quite there.
He's just hoping to do well with the standard Demon Hunter Archer opening, and while it is not impossible, it is not a strategical solution to what Jumato Kanon is showing here.
And once again goes to show Jumato Kanon his feeling himself, he's doing some kung fu moves there.
he feels good about being up 2-0 and certainly a deserving recipient of a 2-0 advantage right now
it is the best of five so it's not over yet
Imatecanon is doing what he wants to do
getting away with it his early expansion was barely stopped
best chance to simply answer for was the first game but he made a big strategical blunder
with that being said I'm a chance to go grubby I think it goes out hey oh good man
thanks for joining us for a bit it was fun to have you up nice to see your father
it's a tournament guys it was fun dindy fuck you thank you you big hugs see ya
alright guys see you next time GG's big shout out to Tyler one got a fourth place
in this tournament and he added his Blood Sweat and Tears into this event. He
loves Warcraft 3, the most one he's winning of course but how is that
different from anyone else? Always good to see him, he's a great showmaker and a
great big personality in the room, very happy to have had him for this event and
that he came to join a little bit for the cast as well. It is a best of five so
there's gonna be another map, yes Joyaxe. Yes it is a best of five, yeah but
But guys, he had to go. I'm not gonna keep him here. He has to go to his daughters.
People are like, but why this time they're leaving? It's the best of five, yes?
Keep him hostage!
Then did I more than capable of casting the next games, guys? Not to worry.
Not to worry. We got your back here.
Yeah, I'm curious. I'm curious if there is like some different way that's simply gonna pull out,
like for game 3, is he going to risk something, maybe have some secret strategy prepared,
or is it going to be a game demon hunter going for Immolate? Because usually in risky situations,
when you're in tournaments and everything is on the line, it's really hard to push yourself to
make something extraordinary and go out of line. Usually you always want to get to the
comfort, you know, in Dota for example, like when everything is on the line and there's some super
important tournament, when you ask people what we want to play in terms of heroes, they often pick
not the best hero for a strategy, but they pick what we feel comfortable with, that they practice
the most, and it's kind of backfires in a lot of times. So that's kind of like what I'm thinking
about right now. Yeah, no, that makes sense. Going to your comfort when you're under the gun always
makes a lot of sense. Yo, the Tyler raid, thank you so much for the raid, bro. Have a good rest
of your weekend and thank you so much for gracing this tournament and show with your
presence and effort. Hi guys, hi everyone, BG. Yeah, BG. BG, BG. Terrible game, terrible game.
Thanks for the raid. All right, I hope he has a wonderful weekend with his family.
He worked hard for this event and he got pretty high.
He managed to place over some excellent players like Pox and Maxim and also over Dante Zemeri.
And he's going to be in equal position with, of course, with the same position he got last
here in the OnlyFang's Invitational fourth place, not too shabby at all, not too shabby
at all. Still joined here with Dendi and we're basically waiting for the map pick of Simply.
It looks like it's going for a full router reset.
Yeah, usually for those situations it's good to have two interns. That's what I learned
through long time of competing with having one intern
is very risky when you're competing somewhere
because anything can happen.
Yeah, so it's really cool to have a second one.
Yeah, I've had a second internet too since a year or two.
That can be helpful.
Oh, nice.
Of course, you need to have that option as well.
And of course, it's gonna cast more as well.
Someone asked in chat, Raider from Tyler,
Wouldn't it be more fun for the loser bracket winner to also compete for first place if he wins all his loser bracket games?
Yes, that's exactly what's happening
It will be just as fun as the situation we have now because that's exactly the one we have let's fucking go
That does sound fun. Let's do it
Let's do it
Oh, hi
Well, that's what's going to happen. So just to reiterate the format again, I'm going to play the intro of the 101 format. We'll be back in a minute.
On Saturday the 16th and Sunday the 17th of May in 2026, the Altar of Champions in 1-on-1 main tournament will be played out.
Our 8 contestants are ready to go at it in 1-on-1.
The winning team from Friday's Clan War has their picks of who they want to face in the brackets.
with the winning captain having first pick and then they delegate the second and third pick to the most deserving players of their team.
That happened yesterday and soon I'll show you today's brackets.
Most matches are best of three with the upper bracket finals, the lower bracket finals and the grand finals being the best of five.
The grand finalist that comes from the upper bracket finals will have an advantageous map selection system.
$8,000 is up for grabs in this Alter of Champions 1-on-1 tournament with the champion taking $3,500.
The prize pool was sponsored by Blizzard, and this event was made possible by all of you guys,
the eight participating streamers, and all the co-casters, moderators, and everybody that helped.
I'm Grubby, and this is the Altar of Champions, the Woman One Tournament. Let's play!
Let's play! We're still joined by Dendi, this is the Altar of Champions, and we have a new
special guest as well to fill the enormous shoes that Taito won left behind as he went for
for his family day on this beautiful Sunday.
Welcome to the show, you thermal.
How's it going, man?
Hey.
Thank you.
Hello guys, hello.
Nice to meet you, Dendi as well.
I don't think we've spoken before.
Hello guys.
Hope you all have been having a good time.
I saw some bangers today for sure.
I woke up in time for a fighter against Hera,
which was a pretty epic to be honest.
And now, yeah, very excited for the rest of the games as well.
It's gonna be good.
We get hopefully no longer plagued by any lag issues, but you never know with these online events.
It's the best we can do, LAN events are rather challenging.
Also for those that don't know, Dendi is a legendary Dota 2 player.
That is one of TI and Uthermal is a legendary Starcraft 2 player that has a tournament victory.
I believe right? You have tournament victory on your belt?
Yeah, yeah. I won IAM Shanghai.
In which year?
Almost a decade ago actually.
And not that long ago, now one of the...
He's just a number!
Not for you guys!
And one of the premier Starcraft 2 content creators as well.
Ytherma has recently had a number of series on his YouTube channels where he tries new RTS games,
including Starcraft Brood War with titles such as,
I played 100 games of Brood War and this is what happened next.
Age of Empires 2 is also a notch on his belt.
Warcraft 3 has been his most recent passion and hobby project and content project.
Are you at 100 games of Warcraft 3 yet, Jutronul?
Yeah, I'm at like 150 actually.
The overshot?
I've extended.
Yeah, yeah, because...
Well, first of all, the games of Warcraft 3 were faster than I had expected.
I mean, okay, if you compare it to Age of Empires 2 especially,
100 games of AEW 2 is like 400 games of Warcraft 3, you know?
in terms of time. I felt like there was so much left to learn, so I'm going to go for 250. That's my current goal.
Oh, cool. 250.
250. Are you going to make one or multiple Warcraft YouTube videos out of this?
Well, it depends on if people watch it.
One to begin with.
It's under the waters.
Yeah, exactly. I think I actually have pretty good expectations for the Warcraft one, because I do know that
I do know that a lot of people still like Warcraft 3, and I think it also has a pretty
good crossover from SE2.
I don't know if you felt the same, but I think Age of Empires feels a little, how would
you say, maybe isolated from some of the other big RTS games.
I think the audience is not quite the same, so.
I thought you meant Engine-wise, or you mean Audience-wise.
Oh, Audience-wise, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
of mythology and Age of Empires both. They seem to have a completely different part of the RTS
audience. I think there are games that are like lifetime games that need so much specialization,
that there's so much comfort level built up that if you want to stay good at it or decent or at
least acceptable to your own preferences, you kind of need to play it and keep up with the meta
changes. That's kind of, I think what you're also referring to, similar things can happen with League
League of Legends and Dota 2, where you have very entrenched player audiences.
Even Warcraft 3 is not really different from it, but it also depends a lot on what some
of the bigger content creators do in order to try and build bridges, and I guess that's
a little bit what Hera and I are trying to do as well, is to make RTSs not just an island,
but to show some of the beauty in different RTSs so that they can be more understanding
and enjoyment most of all, more entertainment options for everyone that enjoys any of these
games? Yeah, her has been quite vocal of it as well, you know, that we should have been
doing this all along, basically. Very important to share love of the games that we are playing
with community and people, I think. What you're doing, Gravi, is amazing because in my opinion,
Worker 3 is probably one of the, probably the best game for sure, like, out there. And I feel
It's really great when I see big numbers of people following the game and watching those games and enjoying them and when people sharing the love to the game, to others, like others can enjoy the game much more, right?
Because if you wouldn't be doing that, probably not so many people would try the game and watch the game, so it's pretty great. It's really nice.
We should all fight for our games that we love.
It's been very fun to see a new group of people starting to play the game as well.
In the meantime, we have one player joining the lobby and the other one, I'm not sure the exact situation, what's going on with them.
We're going to try to get everyone into the lobby.
Was it a server issue that we were having?
At first it looked like internet issue local with Yamato Kanon, and then it looked like maybe WC Champions time doubts, but that can also be as a result of local internet problems, and then simply was lacking in the last game.
So it looks like everything at once is kind of happening.
Classic tournament experience, right? Has to happen at least once.
Yeah. Looks like Yamato says it's fine for him now. He has joined the lobby.
The next map is going to be Northern Isles and the big question that will need to be answered
is the shirt coming off going to be what simply needed here?
Will simply be find an answer.
That's the super power.
Let's go ahead and fix the colors.
This, this, this, no delay.
Bear mode, guys.
That's a map where you build Expo as human.
Because it is a map, right?
There is a map there for you to build X-Bow.
Yep.
I remember this one.
Dude, I remember some Glitters were doing like double barret crush on this map.
Yes.
It was so powerful.
Yeah.
You know, some Glitters started playing a little bit again today than they did.
That's so sweet.
I think we would be the same level if we go play right now.
No, I don't think so.
She still accidentally takes workers out of her goldmine and uh...
If she stays at it, of course, maybe. Possibly.
Alright, hopefully all internet problems are a thing of the past forever.
This is a best of five with Yamato Cannon in the 2-0 lead.
Simply we'll need to win three games back to back if he wants to keep alive his dreams of directly going to the grand finals from the upper bracket.
In the lower bracket, Hera is waiting to prey upon anyone that falls towards it.
It looks like simply one map away from being that guy to re-challenge Hera, someone that he previously beat 2-0.
The map is Northern Isles, the opening is Alter, Moonwell and the Ancient of War.
In thermal, you're new to the game, you're new to Warcraft 3.
You play as the human race and you play against Night Elf.
Have there been night elf builds that are deviating from the standard demon archer bear approach that you have seen personally?
I've played I mean it's almost always demon hunter and a couple times
I've played against keeper of the grove. I think it's called with the ranged units
It the entangled the tree ends. Yeah. Yeah, the entangle exactly. Yeah, that's pretty pretty powerful
I don't know if it's
Objectively good, but if you're new and you see your unit, you know get stuck for 10 seconds and die every time it's pretty intimidating stuff
That was a pretty good. Oh besides that. I think night of actually had the least variation
They have a hero that I saw in the 4v4 maybe the
The priestess yeah, I have literally never seen in the one-to-one single time. I didn't even know it existed
Yeah
People still do Priests vs Priests if it's Naito vs Nightwolf or not anymore?
Not at if the players we have in this tournament.
What Pax ended up doing in Night of Mirror had it ever become necessary in the tournament
was Keeper of the Grove into, oh god, like again, Keeper of the Grove into Mass Hippo Riders.
Mass Huntresses does still get done, but it's not often.
Now, I have an executive decision to make here. I could go for the remake since there is lack here.
It seems probably best to do that. If I leave here, we can do a remake, go on a different server,
or we could keep playing, considering that simply was lagging last game as well.
I guess I'm going to have to rely on the players talking about that themselves.
Simply was lagging last game, and so I guess we can't really be too much of a chooser or a beggar,
considering that's just the state of the game today between these two, unfortunately.
So let's keep it going.
We could go for a battle net switch as well.
I can't pause because there's no referee function.
Oh, okay.
Ah, yeah.
I was gonna say it's probably best for it
to be up to the players to decide,
but I know from my own experience
that if you're in the game and you're lagging,
it's very easy to just push through it
and it's not often the best outcome.
So, here's your very long lag as well by Yamato already.
The weird thing is, I've used several different servers for the lobby,
like Netherlands, France, England and US.
Maybe four different servers already.
We could go to Battle.net instead,
but what happens there is that it will be greatly favored
in favor of one player over the other.
Might still be the, might still be the problem,
might still be advantageous.
Even, yeah, I could turn off ping equalizer,
but then there will still be an 80 to 90 ping difference
between the two.
Oh, should I leave?
Is it just me?
No, no, it's not you.
I get the game ended.
The game is over, the end is.
I also see you lag.
You're holding me hostage right now.
Nice.
I like to do it.
If you guys can hold the conversation for a little bit,
I'll just dive into what's happening with the moderators
and we'll make a decision together.
Does that sound okay?
Yes, absolutely.
So you say you're gonna play 250 games
and then make a video about it, right?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So I did it in Brutal War and AOE 2
and it's like, I tried some different formats.
Like in Brutal War, I just played 100 games
and recorded them all and then made like a script and stuff.
Then in AOE, I just showed like 10 different games.
And I think in Warcraft 3, I thought it would be nice to play like three games instead, you know?
So you see like, big, hopefully, big improvements.
So I should like, game one, and then one game in the middle, and then the last game, something like that, you know?
Hmm.
So you're going to try different races, or you're going to just spawn one race?
What is your...
For now, I'm just playing human because I...
Yes! Best race!
Nice.
Earlier, you were saying it was the worst race, though.
I mean, it's the worst when you're fighting against others, yes, but it's the best because you're basically like human, right?
We are not those ugly orcs or those elves or whatever, like all those creatures.
By the way, I hate that I don't know how people play with race. Whenever I see it in Battlefield, I just want to cry.
Like, it's so annoying to play against those, but human is amazing.
Did you?
Yes, yes, against. Overall, just watching how Ande just move around the map, you know, like even if I'm just
viewer and I just watch Undead playing against somebody. I'm a cater. Yeah, I get it. I get it.
It's ugly. The game against Tyler is what did you cast that one against Tyler or what's the
first game? I was watching. Yeah. Yeah. So like the first game I like I know Tyler threw a little
bit but like being up 40 supply and trying to push into the undead base, I kind of felt the pain,
Like the freaking slow
And those heroes we can change you chase you right like this death night aura that every all the army becomes so fast
And then this no way into coil. Oh my god
You need to like always feel the pressure that you're gonna lose the hero out of nowhere
Like so much stress on this and then they have those like machines that become flying birds and those flying birds have magic attacks
So we just destroy your units with high armor. I don't know. It's unplayable unplayable ugly race
But it's okay. Maybe somebody like that
Put put up the pressure on them. Yes. Did you try the mountain king first with this guy? I
Think I tried all the heroes first. Yeah, but I felt a little awkward at mountain king
Just it's I feel like the water elementals are so nice
you know, it's but it's like
You're gonna make a video right? So it's like a making a short card because if you play in Archmage
It's something like you know you choose an easy way. It's like playing against easy computer if you play in let's say
Paula
with rifles what and what a strategy then most likely you're choosing like a normal strategy
You know like the middle strategy like not a lot of raffle back. We're playing is normal boats
Yes, but if you play in Mountain King, you're a giga-chat, you know, basically it's like taking shirt off on the stream
Alex simply
Yeah, exactly. You just walk around you put your like
glasses, you know like black glasses and
Maybe a chain
Gigachat mountain king. I say you got like 1600 right something like that
I think 15 but
Honestly, it was luck, I would call it luck, because I got calibrated at 1.5 and I didn't fall too much,
because if I would fall too much, I would probably never climb back, you know, I would stay there.
It was not easy.
That sounds humble.
If you don't fall on W3 Champions, that's pretty sick, honestly.
I feel like I got lucky to be honest.
I got a lot of coaching, and mostly I played not too many different things, like it wasn't very
variety for me. I was just spamming this giga-shot mountain king and one trick pony. Somebody runs in
me, I smash him and sit around. What can you do? I did it once and my opponent got really mad.
He actually called me exactly that, a one-trick pony, only, what do you call it, the storm-vul and, and so on.
Yeah. It is fun. It is fun for sure.
And it's so much joy though, right? Like, when, whenever you pull it off, you feel so good, you know, like, you're like, ah, I surround the unit and you're watching how he dies or cry or kick you out.
It's a lot of joy every time.
And you played it against Undead too, the Mound of the King?
Yeah.
Just against everyone.
So, against Undead you can go Mountain King, Invoker, Bloodmage, you're going to give mana to Mountain King, and then you go third hero, let's say, Pal'a, so you can heal somebody.
You put Decreplify or Bloodmage, second spell, it amplifies your spell damage, and then you throw both, and then you heal the guy on top of that with your Pal'a,
And basically you become undead yourself, you know, like undead is doing this coil nova thing,
and you're like, oh no, feel stress, and then you stress undead yourself, you become undead against...
You make two heroes just so you can have a deathmine basically is what you're trying to say.
Yeah, like think about it, like you equip a five enemy leech let's say, and you just throw both heal club,
Bum, bum, bum, bum.
Oh, good start.
Alright guys, thank you, thank you.
It was fun to listen to the bits that I could catch while working with my mods to try and,
and with the W3 Champions admins to try and see what we could do about this.
Here's the current situation.
We'll introduce the format of course again soon, but for now we're on the server that looks best to both of them in the overview of their servers.
There was a note of service that simply's internet went through, whatever server he was connecting to, there's a note there that was problematic.
And supposedly the one we're on now, Netherlands 3, is not a problem.
They're at 133 ping and equalized where they both have the exactly same ping that has been artificially made to the same level, which is a function we have on the W3 Champions.
That's why it's preferable to be here, but if this one starts lagging out again for one of the players
We're gonna remake and we're gonna go to bottleneck and that should most likely
Solve the issues most likely. I say I don't want to
Tempt fate anymore, but so far everything looks good. And so we can get right back into it
Hopefully with mental states among the players because this is stressful
But with mental states that are still in a good place. They're both suffering the same conditions
they'll deal with it differently in a way that's uniquely them. This is the
Alter of Champions, marred only a little bit by the like issues. One-on-one
tournament, it's day number three of the whole event. Yamato Kannon is leading in
the upper bracket finals with a 2-0 in his best of five game. Simply, he has a
big challenge ahead of him, Uthermo. Yeah, the last game in particular was
pretty brutal for Simpia, right? I think it's possible that our live viewers may
forgotten already but the last game was very brutal I think Yamato kind of
crushed him to be honest. He's fast expanding but still attacking him
and being the one killing him so that was painful. The first game I will say
like I know it might feel one side if you look back but simply it did start
really well he just had one bad decision to not go back right? Yes. So I don't know
there's potential things can happen you know especially with this little break
It's always, it can hurt someone and it can help someone, right?
Like if you have a random 5-10 member break, so...
Yes.
Yeah, we'll see.
For sure.
Emanth again, and it's gonna start with an early expansion again.
I think the water element will go in a little bit too early before the militia are fully
there.
That means it takes more damage.
Had I been simply his coach, I would have asked him not to finish this camp in its entirety,
but to go basically immediately to the other side of the map.
living ancient of war archer finish the camp where you could just start emulation harassing this
it's so much better when you put pressure on someone than to let someone get away with a free
creep like this however that's the least of his problems because simply once again denied one of
his own creeps with the ancients of war which means after the creep route that should give him level
2.1, Dendi. He's level 1.9.
And he gonna farm with one more small creep?
Yes, he'll lose a lot of HP and he'll probably need to go base for Moon Well Juice.
But Yamato at the same time, he's not building his expo.
Like he's holding, getting more lumber, more gold.
That's not something I would usually do if I play.
Yeah, because his militia were there. He was uncontested. He wasn't harassed the peasants didn't die and then he just leaves
But he still has four farms
So it makes it look like he's still going to be fast expanding but he's doing it kind of in a weird way now
I don't know if this is prepared or coached or him just coming up with a
different cadence to his play this might be like
How about you think?
Normally someone shows up to harass, but you're not there, but didn't you take a later expo, but you're harassed with AM3 at the same time?
Yeah, that's what I think he was going to go for.
It feels like a very powerful idea.
But at the same time, probably you need to do some scouting, right?
Like if you're doing a scouting, like I'd say you send a peasant or a footman when you're aware if Night Elf is coming for you to harass,
you to harass and then you can make decisions but it's much harder to make
decisions depending on what his enemy doing and react to that.
Beautiful. I don't love Yumato's decision to just take this fight I think just
going for the wisps again could be really really powerful he had a position to
just ignore the demon but at the same time he's hurting the demon on her it's
losing a bunch of fitment though I kind of like how this is going for simply
guys yeah there is no dust right no dust no doesn't seem like it no but sorry
simply accidentally keeps moving the arches that's supposed to be hiding
it's like they lost their faith in their cloak of shadows and then they'd die
anyway hey it was permanent right so you can actually hide them forever as long
as it's night that correct yes yeah that's exactly right I think your motto
maybe the latest expansion a bit. I mean my personal experience against Knight of trying
to expand is that if you get unfortunate with the Demon Hunter coming in at an annoying
time then it's pretty easy to get cooked. Maybe because the expansion feels a little
bit further away he wants to be a bit more careful or maybe he thought his militia were
too low HP. It will also be the case. Expo finished, 5 minutes early. It's not the earliest
possible expo, but there it is. Simply has also gone to tier 3 already with double lores,
so he's going to be able to have his bear. He's waiting for money for Naga now, and
it should be available here. So we're going to have another skirmish to stand with Naga.
First arrow didn't get turned on fast enough.
Hmm. 25 population.
Tower done in 5. He's going to try to go for the cancel. Nope, he's not picking it, but
It means Arcane Tower is going to be buzzing it's mana away.
I actually thought it was going to take a little bit longer for the tower to get up,
but it finished it pretty much the perfect time I think.
Like 5 seconds and now the Demon Hunter is completely out of mana.
No more emulation.
That's going to mean that the Arc Mage is going to be able to spawn another water elemental
and this is going to be very painful for him.
There's a level 3 water elementals as well so they really pack a punch.
Nice wee target on the Naga as well by Yamato.
He's gotten pretty clean with it.
That was many footmen killed, but with units being completely out of mana,
it's gonna be hard for him to heal up.
He has three moon wells, he's gonna actually start with dry adds,
which will help against water elementals and against the initial push,
but now he should have loved to have bears actually to rejuvenate his demon hunter.
He will drop a circuit for greater healing efficiency.
Should be picking it up again, will he?
Yeah, there we go.
Nice.
No! Not again! It repeats from the previous game!
Yeah. The pressure starts again, he's more able to deal with it this time.
Ethermal, I see a 2-wisp coming in for the elementals. Beautiful detonates, getting a lot of experience
and it's going to get Demon Hunter to level 3.
This time he also didn't dispel his own, or take the mana from his own heroes, right?
Yep.
I saw him do it a couple times in the previous game. I also didn't know that was a thing by the way
until I saw it happen in the previous game, so this time he avoided it perfectly.
So, I mean, either he got lucky or he adapted very quickly.
Either way, it was a very impressive battle there.
MantaCannon has no Town Portal.
There is a small opportunity for simply to do damage on the Archmage.
If you get some good slows and blocks, MantaCannon is saying,
I'm going to cancel your shop.
But this wasn't a convincing story because he doesn't have the damage here.
He has enough mana for...
Look at Troll.
Ah, dude.
No arrow!
Yep.
It was also a no TP on the Dark Mage, could he have died there, potentially?
Yeah, well, if you do good blocks again and you have boots, so you use one dry out to
block, gonna get in range.
And then how do you like Yamato's position behind this?
He has a lumber mill, six peasants here on wood, here he has zero peasants on wood.
He's making guard towers, do you think he's in a good spot?
He's in a great spot, I feel like it's very hard to pressure right now, anything.
He's main base and he's expo, it feels a little untouchable for now, so he's definitely going
to get an advantage, Cree soon, he's already on 1k gold, 40 pop.
Great item here on the Demon Hunter, all simply, Scourge Bonechimes is going to give
extra sustain.
Oh, he's TPing, Archmage has no Tomporto if he TPs and locks him up, oh no he TPs in
safe position. What is Yamato doing staying here though? That's crazy. Simply has a boots
he could follow the Archmage. That was a crazy play. If simply just simply cast Fork Lightning
or Frost, that would have been a toast to Archmage. If he TP differently, that would
have been a kill as well. Yamato Kanon made a blunder but he was unpunished.
Yeah, I think maybe a SympiGy was more afraid of losing Wisps than focusing on killing the Archmage there.
Yeah, I do think even though it's not looking bad for Yamato Kannon obviously, I do think it's a nicer game for SympiGy,
because what he's struggled with so far in this series is really just being attacked while trying to do other stuff.
And this game, even though he was attacked, the fights weren't that bad for him, so I do think it's the most comfortable game for him so far.
Yeah, it makes sense. It makes sense.
He's getting a lot of the stuff that he wants to get master claw training is down the ballish. He's at 37 population
With his units coming out now
He wants to shave off some units of Yamato Canon who is quite late with his arcane
Sanctums and we're gonna have a mana burn level 2 finding a mountain king. There's minus 100 and
Yamato Canon
Doesn't have a lot of space. Oh, you don't want to hit farms. No, you don't want to hit farms
Oh, right, please. Hi.
This is still a stronger army for Simply. He's definitely the more powerful one here, as Geomatheken takes this fight without calling Militia.
The Sanctum is making one Priest. There's no more mana on the Mountain King.
And it's a lovely Scourge-Bonechant for Juvenation action that's keeping everything alive here.
And Simply doesn't have Frost Arrow turned on, so he's not catching as many rifles as he could.
Even on earth fast and he can kill many.
Really a really good fighter for Simply.
Don't forget that even Yamato wasn't in a good position.
He does want to fight with his towers, really good deny there.
He does want to fight in range of his towers and if Simply says in between the bases
it's really hard for him to do that because he wants to connect his army
but he can't really send them to the other side of the arm because then he gets caught.
Final Moonwell is there, Simply is making more bears.
bears. He's going to keep needing to find reinforcements, killing rifles that are coming
out of the gates. Without Frost Arrow, it's hard to really stick onto those, and there's
also a full wall off. In this moment, it's not killing farms that you need to do, but
counter-expand. Make a tree of life and create a plan B for yourself while continuing to
take any units, pick off that are outside of the city gates.
arcane towers doing so much work by the way.
Xdemen under has had mana for a while and neither did the bears there.
At least DC which was out of range but still very painful.
A mana burn here would be so good against the mountain king but he doesn't have it
because of the arcane tower just going ham.
A lot of sustain from the roundtrikes.
Go ahead.
So hard to make proper decisions in those kind of situations when you feel like
pressured and you don't have X when you know you're opening have X.
almost surrounded with five units, Mountain King almost surrounded.
So in those kind of situations, it's a lot of pressure.
You feel like, oh, maybe I need to finish the game right now.
I'm stronger right now.
That's my pick.
Go, go, go, go, go.
But yeah, probably the ideal scenario is when you have your plan B.
It's often it's kind of miscalculation.
Yeah, yeah, don't work on that plan B.
It's pretty much just trying to go all in at this point.
still doesn't have Frost Arrow turned on, so he's having trouble sticking to those units and he hasn't noticed what's more.
But he did bring Orpah Venom to himself with a backpack, with a bear, that's pretty high level stuff.
And the Dryad now coming in is going to help him to pick off units as well.
Simply is still the stronger fighter here, he's killing many units as Yamatakanen.
Oh wow, look at that, level 4 against level 3, against 3-1.
Even though Yamato Kannon has all the army, it's simply the one that is getting kills and saving units with staff.
One rifle stuck in the back. Oh, he found his Frost Arrow button.
Very, very important. As you can see, this fight has been so efficient for simply. Yamato has so much more money,
but he keeps taking all the units over and over.
In the Militia, we're now finally coming in. Probably gonna have to back off from this fight, because those guys are sneakily strong.
Nice fort landing level two.
Just fighting straight into the militia, it looks like Demon Hunter is taking almost no
damage at all.
Looks like a good fight for Simply.
He's going to transform his bear, do a rejuvenation.
Spellsteal would be optimal and he does it.
Spellsteal goes to the rifle who now has a rejuvenation as well.
Sorceresses are the king here in moments like this.
Another nice staff.
We have a rejuvenation on the Dryad.
Usually it kills so much more really really good micro by him.
I don't think Yamato is really getting the right units out though, the sorceresses and
the spell breakers together are going to be very good against all of this pretty much,
the bears, the dryads and the heroes.
And those heroes by simply just not having any mana for a long time now is also very
painful.
One one upgrades for simply, he's staying at 50 pop so he doesn't mind that much less
standing.
against 140% against Yamato's in upkeep. With very high hero levels we might be
seeing a Demon 6 coming out again if simply this up. That would be Pog to see
and I feel like this hero is the one who actually can do wonders for you and
they can really beat the armies alone in some situations. So hopefully we're
gonna see that it's gonna be a huge battle. But right now economically it's
looking a little bit grim for simply but his heroes looking POP I don't know this
all for Naga also not bad like almost all five demon hunter that looks scary I
would be afraid of those heroes if I'm human right now not so kind of it's
trying to simply as I was saying we saw simply this I'm a crazy strat against
Hera right where I think at some point he literally gave up his Naga so even
not through a good solo XP and a good level 6, so maybe that's a special move is out of it,
but if you could pull it out again, it's gonna be a pretty freaking epic.
Plus, plus 8 and he's listening to Grabby's stream, he got his expo.
This is from B.
Follow, this is good, it's a little bit far away so he still needs to uproot it and then
reroute it on the gold mine, it's not quite close enough to entangle if that's what he thought.
In the meantime, Yamatakanen is getting his Montaking up to level 3.
He also got a Book of Retraining on the Archmage,
who's gonna be switching out of Water Elementals into Blizzard.
That's gonna be big.
The Spell Breakers upgrades are 1-1 with the Blacksmith currently not working.
So it's 1-1 Breakers.
He is sharing his speed with the Archmage.
This isn't that bad, because Brilliant's 2 is good.
The item, Cloak of Flames, pretty good on the Montaking.
Montaking's Bolt Bash, no clap.
and simply has a town portal on his Naga. He's got over 50 population with a bunch of dryads.
Four dryads is his most recent addition. That's a lot of dryads actually. And he's going to take
mana burn damage on his demon once again to kill farms. This is not correct, but it doesn't seem
like he knows that. Frost Arrow is still off as well. So that's something to think about when
the fight begins once again. Demon is just happily tanking 300 mana away against the Arcane.
but still has enough for one or two mana burns when the fight begins.
The rifle that was stuck behind the farm is going to get taken out, that's Naga level 4.
Demon is very close to 5 and Yamato-Kami comes back.
Now there's only 10 population difference between the two.
Yeah, most population of human is peasants.
Alright, like it's a lot.
So it depends if you're going to use Militia well, if you're going to go around with Militia.
Ooh, Blizzard!
Nice mana burn on the manta king. A lot of dryads in the back. Manta king is dropping really low. He doesn't have a lot of items to try and keep himself alive.
Blizzard is huge though on the bears and the demon hunter staff was already used to try and save bears which means that the demon hunter was at risk.
The final mana burn was absolutely clutch or a bolt would have taken him down.
Those are very painful fights for simply in the end, I feel like he made the correct moves
towards the end of the fight to save a lot of his units and especially the demon hunter
but still didn't look very pleasant and it does indeed seem like Yamato's mass spellcaster
sorceress style is doing super well for him.
What do you do with Blizzard like this when you have your burst on your backlines fighting
spell breakers?
What do you do with Blizzard?
Do you need something to interrupt it?
Interrupting is possible, you can go tinker third with rockets to try and interrupt it.
Another thing you can do is try to put your bears on top of the rifles and casters,
try to get them in position where Blizzard will hurt both of you.
Then you can try to split them a bit, come at someone from different sides.
And one more thing that's important, the bears are taking a lot of damage from breakers.
If you spam roar to make yourself zero mana, then breakers will do less damage on you
deal damage as a function of how much mana they burn away from someone.
Oh, I thought it was just against the mana units that they would do more damage.
Nope, the mana has to be there.
Oh, okay, that's very important.
Against units, it triples their damage.
This is good though, this is good for Simply.
He's getting a lot of kills here.
One breaker died to the creeps before, there's a breaker going down, that's a priest I believe.
Simply's expansion is actually up and running.
So now we're looking at the situation where Simply is only down 8 supply and has higher
level heroes and he has better permanent items as well.
The Mountain King's inventory is pretty special, but the Scourge Bone Chimes remains a force
for Simply that must be reckoned with.
Simply also has better upgrades.
He has 2-2 upgrades and is making ultra vision for the night time that is soon going to be
coming again.
for Yamato cannon are one two the breaker damage and the attack speed is so low that those attack
upgrades really don't do much the armor though that's very good now simply gets this level five on
the demon hunter oh my did the game out of caught up a little bit in hero levels like before I didn't
move his clothes I think yeah it's lost five oh there's a fight coming there's a fight going
It's all about positioning now guys, it's all about positioning.
Blizzard, what Yamato can and wants, he wants to fight a tight-coded or like this
and then cast Blizzard and have the Mountain King in front with all those amazing tank items
and the Town Portal, which he cleverly put on the Mountain King.
But what, simply wants, he wants a big concentric fight with a big Cone Cave.
Oh, where?
Run for your life.
Yes, staff.
But after using it, you should be mindful that this demon is more at rest.
The demon is also in the back right now.
This is not the fight you want to take, though a lot of damage is going on the Mountain King.
This mana burn minus 150 as a storm bolt comes into the demon hunter
This is only half of simply's army and it still looks like it's more than enough with the demon hunter now targeting the archmage
The archmage by the way has no more mana with that huge mana burn coming in the mountain king all in this
Gis the TP to the archmage with the army of your mother cannon is getting destroyed staff of preservation cooldowns available
Once again, this was a very good fight by simply another fork lighting going in a you're not again and runs in full route
He's not stuck though in his base because simply helpfully destroyed the farm wall
Wow, yeah, that was very impressive
I saw simply walk through the choke and I was like oh no
It's gonna be Blizzard madness, but that demon hunter actually just went the hand on both the enemy heroes
Forcing him to retreat now Yamato didn't lose that many units that I was well done by him
But fill a really really good and promising fight for simply now
He's gonna be able to go towards level five on his second hero as well
5.1 demon hunter, we are getting there guys, we are getting there, it's getting scary.
There's still one.
Double boots now.
Nice double hill scroll purchase for Yamato-Kannon.
Yamato-Kannon also maxed his way to 80 population.
He only has, well, how many priests is this?
He only has two priests, so it will take a while to heal up.
He's currently in shock at what he just faced.
Has two two upgrades, one attack upgrade on his rifles as well.
And he's finally maxing out.
He has invisibility on sorceresses, priests have dispel ability, he's also added a couple
of mortars to his army, which is clever, but a size army that he has here is very difficult
to micro-dendy.
There's so many different control groups you need to have.
I hate human army, that's so hard, you have all those units who have like no HP, they
just blow up in a second, you need to like split them up, target proper units and then
micro micro everything around like your your head is just boiling it's a
everything is blowing up in your head when you're playing humans I wish I'm
or you know or that's right click put your hands off keyboard and enjoy the
win yes I have that experience every time I play orc that's for sure that's why
I choose that Helm of Valor incredible item on the demon hunter plus five
strength and agi this is one of the best items demon hunter can find he gives
the boots of speed to the naga sea witch because he's so greedy for stat items on the demon the
best choice would have been to put the bone champs on the naga keep the boots on the demon on her
but okay not bad there is naga in the front which is a little risky but where the hell is
mountain king mountain king is at the back spell breaker rolls get destroyed here yeah master
blizzard on the bearish but it still doesn't look like that great if you fight for your mouth though
It's just standing next to Archmage, there's a Monteverne minus 150, there's still two
Heal Scrolls of Montage, but he's late.
The Archmage is exposed, he's getting attacked now by Frosty around Dryads, the Montage
kind of needs to get an invisibility on this Archmage, but he uses Heal Scrolls of Montage,
good target fire with the Mortars on the Dryads, it's a very close fight still, Demon
another is getting close to level 6 the naga slowly dying does simply notice it
he does he moves it what micro
monkey king monkey king what is free level six huge everybody is bleeding
everything is red there's no mana for a blizzard mortars are destroying the
Dryads in the back simply is caught in the slow trap of the human making Wow
Using the dry out to remove the slow on the bear there requires a lot of presence of mind
That I didn't think could be there anymore in such a chaotic fight
Simply now has a demon on her level six
He was back growing during this very impressive unit production during a fight of such chaos as you mountain cannon loses
Double heel scroll loses his mountain king the bear that was sleeping in the middle with a top board all it this bear
has a Town Portal! Thank you very much, says Yamato Cannon, and he will pick up the Town
Portal forthwith!
I wouldn't be surprised if he would have walk past it, to be honest. I didn't expect
a random bear to draw a freaking Town Portal. Definitely would have missed that one myself.
Now, it's not just Demon High Level 6, the Naga is 5.9 as well, by the way, so yeah.
Amazing fight for Simpire there once again. I do think the Mortars had a decent amount
of impact but personally I'm not quite sure what Yamato should be doing now
because the the bear dryad plus heroes army seems to be very painful to deal
with so far. So what's happening here is that Yamato being the one to expand
earlier and with the gold mine on Northern Isles having less gold than the
main has ran out of double gold mine income simultaneously. He wanted to
rehire the tavern from the center but found himself just short in change and
then he started his mountain king revive in the altar rather than having as an
option earlier on. So his mountaking has been delayed interminably as he starts long distance
mining with his peasants in a gold mine which is going to give him a very slow rate of gold
income and yet it is absolutely correct. The mountacannon for the human faction will be able
to make one final stand whereas simply he is rolling in it. He's rolling in it, his tree is moving
to the bottom right corner to take a second gold mine, he still has one, he starts to take down
a town hall that serves no purpose anymore and his demon with metamorphosis is ready to take on
a fight anytime it should find him it looks like simply has done the impossible and has started
his comeback in his best of five as he sends his tryouts to take down the towers. I don't think
Yamato is making the best decision here right because he's trying to trade base for base looks
like but sadly simply was too fast that could have been an important moment because the base by
by Yamato was useless and simply the base still has gold on it but sadly for Yamato simply
was a little bit too fast there.
Yamato had a town portal by the way, remember?
But now he doesn't.
That means he sold it for something.
Oh!
That's very interesting!
Oh!
He's coming!
Metamorphosis timing pretty interesting but I guess he's going to be able to use it to
kill some peasants.
That's the timing, alright.
That is so intimidating to watch though, like imagine your long distance mining and freaking
three metamorphosis demon hunter shows up okay quick my gold mine now quick quiz
question you thermal what is the ultimate ability for naga I have absolutely
no idea
Big Tornadoes
it's a tornado right oh look at this mortar teams on top of the tree of life
he's gonna be able to kill this mountain king has joined the fray once again as
well but crucially a townporto is missing he kills the base but the tree of eternity in the bottom
right is still there somehow simply no longer has an ultimate cooldown with his metamorphosis who
knows what happened to it and he's gonna try and find Yamato cannon now Yamato cannon is killing
wisps that are not detonating and so there's actually a chance for a and to eventually get
Archmage level 6?
Gandalf should call the trees to fight on his side.
And then, where is the chance to beat the demon hunter?
84 population guys.
3, 3 upgrades on bears and dryads.
84 pop army that has almost no wisps in it.
This is a sick army.
Is he gonna split?
Yes, but not on purpose, I think.
He's gonna split.
Naga goes in first.
She has no way to save herself.
opens with a fork lightning as simply struggling with its control groups a
little bit. There's the tornado! Tornado randomly moves unless you give it a
move command to move forward. I don't think he knows that. Tornado will slow
units that are nearby. You can tell that in particular the mountain king is very
slow and not a pleasant on the bears but the mountain king is surrounded by
bears and demon on her. He goes into the air. He actually gets saved by the tornado.
And he goes down!
So cool!
GG!
2-1!
Simply takes the 3rd map!
Beautiful, man.
What a game.
Comeback.
Beautiful game.
That was very enjoyable.
I love that.
Huge, long game.
Well done by Simply.
Incredible game there.
Unbelievable.
Simply showing that solidity that he had displayed earlier on in the first and second
round of upper brackets and then after all the lag problems after both players
stabilizing and finding their footing once again straight up simply won that
game in amazing fashion with the eventual counter expansion very good
upgrades on his bears and dryads and some amazing fighting with his demon
on a dandy yeah everything looked like work for him so much better than previous
to games, no building cancels, cleaner farming, good attack when he got his timing, like he
got first two dryads and I feel like at some point Yamato Kannon was running away a few
times and losing too many units which really pushed forward like simply heroes to higher
levels and after that he already amplified his lead with burst and he was in between
bases and just keep killing units and killing units and killing units yeah maybe yeah everything
works like everything works for him even felt like you were telling that maybe we should have been
like faster expo right so for a plan B but in the end he put it later so he's he had more gold
advantage right yeah yeah for sure I think he played it very well actually very good flow he
understood how he needed to play the game then you're right.
Personally I think he mostly won because he was in bare form but maybe that's just me.
It does seem like he feels comfortable with that you know it stands equivalent to any player at
LAN that has ever showed up in his shorts, beach pants, take off the socks and whatnot.
If you're comfortable people have shown up in pyjamas on a grand stage in front of a public so
Why the heck not? If that's what it takes for you to...
Yeah, look at that, look at that! He's feeling himself!
Hopefully not literally on stream, but overall he's in good spirits!
Hey, she's pumped up, man! Outside of the bear farm as well, just like the general demeanors, he's yapping, because it's looking good for him.
I think for Yamato it could be a very annoying loss as well, right?
Because he probably felt like the early game went well, he's up to load and all the lag problems and he kind of loses this one.
It's probably not as nice for him.
So let's see if he simply can bring us to a game five.
Yeah.
Yamato need to pop on his song again and dance a little bit because Ultimate form should fight against Ultimate form.
Some kung fu moves.
Mindset is everything and it evolves over the course of a game and whoever keeps their
spirits the best, whoever has the most confidence, despite everything that can possibly go wrong,
who is going to come out ahead in series like these.
Best of fives test not just your builds, your micro and your macro, but also your endurance
and force of will.
If you can get a webcam, you can change it.
I forgot to turn the discord stream on by the way.
Thank you for the reminder.
A lot of moving parts here, but getting a lot of great help from the mods.
Thanks for the reminder too, you thermal.
Alright, here we go. Game number four of the upper bracket finals.
The winner is guaranteed top two with a secured $1,800 of prize money minimum
and a chance to play in the grand finals.
finals, the loser of this Best of Five series will drop down to the lower bracket and play
the lower bracket finals against none other than the legendary Age of Empires 2 player,
Hera.
Carry!
Oof!
And playing against some of that is always scary.
Yeah, 100% undeads are a difficult race to play, as I really wanted to see how Hera
would perform on undead as well as at the highest level they're strong but at the lowest level
they're the least represented race as the ghoul shuffle to keep them alive such a low hp unit
even less than a footman can be challenging but a player of hara's stature and skill should be able
to deal with it or so i figured and he's so far doing excuse me doing very very well for himself
Yamato Kanon has picked Hammerfall as his go-to for map number four
and
He's going to
Most likely creep the rock column here with a pool camp. He practiced this five hours straight yesterday chat
Practiced this over and over now yesterday made the mistake that the footman pulled into this camp and then aggro to the second camp
He does it again
Almost does it again. Not quite. All right. This is better. His coach may be pleased
Asumatu cannon starts creeping this gap.
I'm not sure about that.
Okay, his coach is never going to be pleased with me.
That's going to be pleased with this.
Did you see that they were reviewing my game as well together and Death Note was slagging
all of my human play?
Really?
Yeah.
Minus one, he said.
I think she would.
Oh yeah.
Completely deserved.
He's like, look at this, Grubby still has boots of speed on Archmage, he's not giving
it to Montyking and then always there should be in vulnerability potion on Montyking minus one
Monty Cannon has the three minute window to start his expansion he's missing it there is 302
terrible 0 out of 10 score for that it's two seconds late
so he did go back to the faster expansion after the last game that's interesting
Now Demon Hunter is approaching, this could be a good time right if we just go straight for it.
Yes.
Woodman, run away, run away.
This is a good look.
Yamato Kanan is exploiting the adjacent to the tree's town hall just like he learned.
Very good.
Look at that, the peasant getting away.
This is the way to save your peasants putting them behind that wall.
And this meanwhile piling on damage on the Demon Hunter, this is so well done using the
the terrain against the opponent and simply is unable to find purchase and
getting any peasant kills there. No more evasion aura. That's back to
mana burn strategy. Why do you think he's bad? Looks like that's something he
tested. Maybe he misdiagnosed game one and thinking that it was bad because he
lost it even though it might have been from other reasons or maybe that's just
what his instincts are telling him is better.
ManaBurn has been doing well for him
and then he doesn't need to get the Tome of Retraining.
Yeah.
I think ManaBurn is super good to have
for when Mountain King comes out,
but that is gonna take a little while
because of the fast expansion.
So the Tome of Retraining sounds logical to me still,
but maybe for that reason,
or maybe he's just tired of freaking water
at the mental all the time.
Yeah.
It also feels so good when you win a game,
against Expo, we've played without Expo at first, it feels like it's relieving a lot of stress out
of you, that you need to rush all the time, run at your enemy all the time and all that,
but you still can win by outplaying your enemy, out micro and human battles and stuff like this,
you can still win with getting later Expo, it feels much less pressure if you'll play next game
after that if I would be night elf I would feel much better. Oh nice deny by
Yamatakan virtually impossible against the two auto attacks by demon and Naga
that we're coming in at the same time Yamatakan is trying to do what he can
it kind of like one of those birds that are trying to fly in front of the nest
to distract some would-be predator that's gonna prey on their eggs the
Yamatakan is trying to protect his flock of peasants in order to keep the
demon and archer and Naga away from his expansion simply has one more tick of
emulation in him as he runs in, with Demon Hunter not having any mana I suppose it doesn't
really matter anymore if he gets hit by the Arcane Tower. This is a fight where simply
has more firepower, and Yamata Cannon already pulled in Militia just like he learned in
order to try and defend against this threat. The correct move is to walk away until Militia
are forced to go home again and then come back again. Both of them are playing so well
this game, I'm really impressed by both of them.
Yeah, it feels very clean so far from both.
I don't think Yamato lost a couple more footmen than he could have perhaps to the Demon Hunter,
but it hasn't really been a problem so far.
Obviously his expansion got up uncontested, which is great.
It was perfect, Militia, right in time, so he completely defended the base and now he
has his X-core fully power working.
But here we see it simply also, like meanwhile he was fighting, he didn't lose any units
and he had everything ready.
His ancients of wars are up, it's gonna be a lot of pressure again on Yamato.
Yamato has a small chance to lose the Goblin Shredder which is taking threat right now
from the camp.
He needs to aggro his own town with it!
No!
He's gonna lose his shredder guys!
Just to express how big of a deal that was, what just happened.
A shredder costs 375 gold and 100 lumber, it's 4 supply and it mines as fast as 10 peasants.
That was going to secure him a lumber income for the rest of the game.
Now did he need it?
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9?
9 peasants?
10 peasants of lumber?
I would argue maybe he didn't even need it, but still, why buy it if you're not going
to use it and it died to the creep.
Meanwhile, simply cleared his expansion so now we can counter-expand at any time looking
really nice for him.
MantiKanon is going to launch an Archmage level 3 attack on Simpli's main.
That's actually the second shredder I saw so far, and the other one was the one that Pox lost to the camp.
Not a good ratio so far for the shredders.
TP here is buying Rolex.
You bought Rolex, it's cool, but do you need it?
No, so whatever, just give it away.
Keep playing.
That's Dota money speaking right there.
Alright, was it a TP? 350, right? So it's fair exchange now.
Yeah, 325, we got buffed, let's say, the cost was lowered a little bit, but there's still
a pretty big loss. Simply does get his level 3-2, he's going to go for a Mana Burn level
1, guess he didn't pick his ability yet. I would have just walked back if you were this
close, but he decided to Town Portal, Yamato Kanon is going to be happy with that. Now,
Yamato a little bit low on lumber, some idle peasants, dead shredder, power building, overall
not too bad.
He's staying under 46 population so that he can make double priests the moment these
sanctums finish.
He has a nicely fortified expansion, he has started to work on upgrades.
So Yamato can make everything he wants, or simply, oh, look at this, nice footnance
card by Yamato, and simply he's going to kill it.
really like this decision to attack again by Yamato so far that's been you know
what's doing the best for him against simply just trying to get the whispers
and that's probably also why he TP'd back instantly last time because simply
also realizes he wants to stop losing a freaking whispers it's a lot of self
detonates double polish though to take down the wall on an old good job by
simply dryad is getting attacked he's gonna fork lightning tries to connect
with his demon hunter but stuck out by the dryad so one footman will survive
Monty King should have been creeping during this time, but it's so hard to multitask so many things at the same time.
Overall though, that was a good play for Yamato Kanon in order to buy time.
Now it's time to get the Monty King to join the rest of the game, and it's time for simply to find Yamato Kanon on the map,
make sure he has enough lumber, and then eventually counter-expand.
It's the lumber part in particular that's going to be challenging because of Yamato Kanon's pressure.
If you look at Yamato's resources, you can literally see the pain of the shredder.
He would have had like a thousand more lumber right now if the shredder didn't die, you
know?
Like it's actually crazy.
Let's go to death out of the list.
Go ahead.
Both players are playing so well right now, I feel, and I don't see any mistakes almost
from the single side, like it feels like so clean, right?
Maybe a little bit low on lumber, but really nice of him to get the red spot here.
From Yamanta's side, he's making a mistake by being at 53 population for so long.
He's getting the transition ready.
Death Note taught him that you shouldn't make more than 4 rifles against Elf.
They are your bridge to a better army.
Mortars are better against Dryads than rifles, because rifles would generally just hit bears.
So it's really important not to go 53 population for a while and just do it like a big concerted push
Simultaneously with three buildings producing units at the same time
So you're not to kind of wasted a lot of gold with that
Of course, he has a lot of gold the luxury of being able to spend and lose Rolexes. Did you mention? Yeah?
He's always the most Rolex
No counter expansion yet for simply he does finally have enough gold and lumber to get it
He's also working on upgrades, 1-1 upgrades, but now he's moving his whole army back to the main base
Most likely to get Orb of Venom, Staff of Preservation, maybe get a Town Portal as well
There's the Orb, and he's getting a few more Wisps to round out his 50-pop army. Is he gonna sell something like
Talisman? No, he likes keeping his items. So the biggest 50-pop army strength that you can ever see
Yamato Kannon going to the shop to maybe get some items from the goblin shop
He's at 80 population guys despite all the money wasted. He's at 80 population against 50
It feels like it's going you know simply is playing a good game
But compared to the last game he really didn't get as many quote-unquote free units
So I don't know if you remember last game, but there were consistently rifles and priests and footmen rallying
Yes, he was camping in between Yamato's base is killed us all now. He didn't kill those
So I do think it's looking tougher than last game for sure
His heroes are not that far ahead in level demon hunters base. He just came as archmage a little bit ahead
But compared to last game, I don't think he's looking as good
Yeah, you're quite right. Not as many unit pick offs. We just had Yamato cannon drop gloves of hastle the floor
He rescaled to blizzard once again and simply he's gonna find him during a red camp
This is a creepjack, which is the best possible thing that can happen to simply the amount of cannons can have to townport a lot
But he might lose some units. He gets the healing ward gets the turtle seven
He lost no units to simply
He's gonna get the camp now right so a little bit of XP and stuff. That's what he gained there
Yes, standing for the TP trolpher. Stealing for creeps. TP some feed with spots, right?
yes this would have been very smart and good spot to TP2 knowing that you then
want to get the other red spot but I think Yamato doesn't know that it
doesn't exist anymore
it's still the best place to TP2 because it would give him position on
countering X-Multi-King
he's coming the only thing does he have a TP on mountain king? TP mountain king
doesn't have it, Archmage does, not either, because the overlay didn't update, he's gonna
get a position that gets, oh wow, TPS, 2nd ESP, uh oh, minus 1 pheasant.
Can he cancel the expo?
Yep, yep.
Second attack upgrade coming for simply, it's gonna be 2-1 against 1-1, he's killing the
workshop, and by the way, no towers in the main base, he can run in and start killing
some peasants. Huge respect to Yamato for no towers, no pussy gaming. Huge. That's how
we do it. I'm for last air is a crazy decision by the way, because that power drained like
2000 mana on the last game. He's the one. A demon will be pulled back. He's gonna keep
it back. Probably the right decision, right? Because he's just on one base. Ooh, he's such
a bad sport, it feels like, right? He's a little bit stuck. Blizzard is gonna hit hard.
It's hitting all the bears and they're not fighting.
Rejuvenation on the demon, he stabs it away.
Double heal ward by Yamato Kannon.
This is gonna be the fight of his life.
Huge blizzard once again hitting everything.
Yamato Kannon is doing fantastically.
Okay, he can get the moon walls now.
Oh, where is the army?
Where is the army?
Crabby, where is the army?
Well, for which units?
There's basically nothing left.
There's a ready to be demon hunter
that's gonna be able to use them,
but there's still so many units for Yamato Cannon here.
This could be a sense into the Grand Final.
Nagase, which trying to stay alive,
getting attacked here by the Amante King and Spellbreaker.
She has rejuvenation.
It's not being stolen yet.
Demon Hunter comes back with the Ankh of Reincarnation,
but there's not enough units left.
This was the worst possible fight for simply to take
and Yamato Cannon exploited that position beautifully.
All the pieces were assembled.
Two bears come out.
Once again, Demon Hunter's really low.
Naga is low, it's gonna be so hard to stay alive, there's a rejuvenation on the demon
on her, somehow slipping away, even still, as the Naga becomes the new target and Wilful,
Yamato Kanon is looking like he's set in position to get the 3-1 victory in the upper bracket
final with the Naga, see which is death.
Wow.
GD well played, his call, Yamato Kanon does it, beautiful set of games, Yamato looking
very very strong to be honest, very powerful. That was beautiful.
You once, humans.
Beautifully done here. Humans won both invitations so far, right?
Yes, but I don't want this to take away at all from anyone's performance so far.
I think it's been deserving performances by all participants.
Each in their own way have shown great skill, whatever race they were.
Yamato Kanan worked hard at this and has...
Yeah, it's just been impressive.
But yes, it has been two human wins so far.
Human OPF, he wins again.
Interesting.
For incidents.
He's had a very high bar for working hard.
Freaking 18-hour streams every day,
five different coaches a day.
Actually insane, what I've seen.
Yamato Kanan is now guaranteed top two,
with simply dropping to the lower bracket finals right next to you you
thermal it's gonna be a best of five between simply and Hera because of the
clan war we've had them face each other before simply lost to Hera in the
redemption battle the redemption battle in a best of three where Hera 1 2 0 in
the upper bracket finals simply beat Hera 2 0 so they're 2 2 against each
other final best of five will determine it all with the loser falling by the
wayside in third position respectable but ultimately falling short of the
highest ambitions. The winner will challenge Yamato Kannon in a pure
best of five no bracket reset but Yamato Kannon has secured for himself by
virtue of never losing a series yet that he will have advantageous map
selection. He will pick the first and the second map in that best of five so no
losers pick for the first two only the third one that system happens once again.
So he's the favorite to win the tournament, but simply in Hera might have something to say about that
Yeah, and I mean it was a crazy show in there from simply he definitely tried his best
But you know at the end of the day Yamato really just pulled it out and he played really well
But we'll have to see how it goes this hair match is gonna be a big one one to remember
But yeah, it's definitely a great tournament John. What do you think Jim?
I mean, sorry
GG's, Yamada, well played.
GG's brother, GG's.
Bro, you are tough, bro.
Like, your bears are the fastest bears in the land, you know?
They fucking show up.
Like, the one game I'm not harassing you, like, fucking,
I just see that chest hair, you know, in my mind, you know,
just flashing, you know?
It's, it's like the stress of playing against agility heroes,
like, every footman, you're like, ah, the fucking,
the Metamorphosis is coming, it's coming.
Demon 6, that's my wincon, but don't get it.
over. That's the only way I win. It's tried and true.
Blessing of a match. I wish you the best of luck against Hera,
of course. Apartment wants to face her because if if I go into
finals and I skipped her entire time, like it would be, you
know, but you know, simply your clan bro. So if you win, I'll
be very happy. Yeah, very happy for you. We're gonna rematch
action. It'll be demon hours, but I'm drinking my third monster
Already so, I'm zapped, bro, I'm completely zapped.
All right, rest up, buddy, GG's.
GG's, simply, you'll probably need a few minutes break
before you start against Hera.
Good luck for that one.
On that note, I think should probably let you go
out of this goal.
How long do you need, actually, do you think?
I'm good, I could go like now.
Oh, boy, that's great.
But if you want a couple of minutes, all good, no worries.
Yeah, yeah, okay. Yeah, I'll take a minute. I'll just eat like a banana or something.
You can get ready for that. GGs. Glad that the lag problems kind of disappeared.
It was unlucky, but both of you with good mental fortitude showed your best two games.
I think these last two. So that was a lot of fun to watch.
Graziemato, you'll be waiting in the upper bracket and watching the action.
Do you want to watch the action from the casting seat or do you prefer to spend it by yourself?
No, like, well not by myself. I'm about to get flamed by Death Note.
That's my plan.
You need to lock in, you know, need to lock in.
The enemies are so dangerous that I would have too much of a good time.
Oh, is that Dendy in the Cobo? Big fan, Dendy, that's crazy.
Yo, what's up?
Man, you were destroyed. It was fun to watch.
I heard you're also a human goat, you gotta keep winning, you know?
Yeah, I mean, it's the hardest race, so we need to stand strong because we get surrounded by elves,
warks and everybody here.
Thank you, thank you.
A human by far the hardest race.
Absolutely.
If you play Polar Rifle, okay, 1200 MMR, it's easy, okay.
But after, bro, you need to, every unit needs to counter every unit.
Every hero and enemy team is 10 times stronger than yours.
You have Archmage level 3 and that's it, you can build fast and Archmage level 3, that's all, no other power for humans.
And when you become rich after 2 bases you can get your Rolex and drop it on the ground like no problem, you know?
Yes, is Rolex a type of teleportation?
No, no, no, that guy, lumber guy, lumber guy.
Trader.
Oh yeah, oh yeah.
It was in honor of, in honor of, honestly.
It was donation.
I'm playing tier 2 with double sanctum, I don't need a lot of wood.
So I'm sitting there thinking it's Shredder correct, so I just buy it to be able to kill
the creep.
So to be fair, mission accomplished.
I don't kill this creep without the Shredder.
Special tactics.
I'm happy to do, I agree, yeah sorry.
Do you guys want to talk for another 3-5 or should I throw it to a break screen, because
I need to step away for one minute.
Sounds good, yeah, sounds good.
We have a little chat.
Let me talk with the boys.
Yes, yes, yes.
Great, great.
Thank you.
Yeah, keep talking.
I'll be right back.
Yes.
Are we going to see some super-secret strategy, like Mounting King first, the best strategy
out of all strategies for who you want to...
I was thinking versus...
I was thinking versus Foxy, you know, but my micro is not so good, you know.
I'm a League of Legends player, not a daughter player.
It's not the same, you know.
It's kind of almost the same, no?
It's just the engine is different, you know.
There's no turn rate in League and we don't have any minions.
Like the extra creatures, they are auto piloted, you know.
The League of Legends is the Dota for Noobs, you know.
I say this as a League of Legends player.
I mean, I played Nocturne, so I feel you.
Was easy.
That's a good vibe.
I felt like Spectre all the time.
Oh, that's true.
I don't see those heroes, they are so broken when I think about them, so broken items, so broken heroes.
A lot of fun sometimes, sometimes not so much like any MOBA, but Warcraft never disappoints you, that's why we play, and that's why we play humans.
Yeah, that's a set.
We are at the humans right now, so we could spread some propaganda here, this is our moment.
Are you also human bro?
Damn, I'm playing with three humans.
All right, so let's talk we need to buff orb the shop orb for humans is ass
Every other orb in the game is in breaking
So get all the corruption broken
Poison orb broken you stack three stack damage purge 30%
You root people when it procs. We have 10% chance to snow people they root on it
And they dispel and it makes the evil sound you get scared. Yeah
or please? Yes, the motto for human president.
Footman moves speed, five moves speed up, footman moves speed.
At least. At least. Okay, that's a bit too much.
I'm just, I feel like I'm power tripping. We have control over Grubby's stream.
So we can say what we want. We'll be sure the band's stream is...
We have power rifle, more damage, so we do more weapon woody.
Let us do long range rifle on tier 1.
Yes, yes, tier 1, long range rifle upgrade.
Would be good?
Yes, yes, yes.
Or like sniper in Dota, sniper in Dota shoots from very far.
Oh yeah, yeah.
The last time I played Dota was when they released,
What's the clockwork? Is that the old long-range hook?
Probably clockwork. Last hero we released was Frog.
That's playing songs, it's a bar.
And you need to actually hit your music in the right moment, or you're not gonna play music.
Yes, if you don't hit the music, you don't do anything, you just run around like a frog.
Really?
Yeah, that sounds like my my champ
It's a lot of fun for sure. It sounds like
legends
Boba yes
What else actually crazy the for human
Yeah, let's see. Let's nerf the other races. Let's do this. Yeah. How about
The Nerobean power no longer slows. It's just decoration. Yes. Yes. Yes
I like no one likes to be slow
Agreed, Agreed
What we change for human, we nerf Nerubian tower
I wanna attack man, I don't wanna just sit there outside
What do you do against Undead guys?
What do you do against Undead?
It feels like the most annoying race to play against
What do you do?
I think that if you're sitting there and Undead can win with one base against two base
against two base, I think structurally there's a flaw in the game, you know, if you have
so much more, you have two base and you can lose against one base army, this is not going
to work.
It just shows how hard human is, right, and how easy other races, when you can win with
one base.
With one base, dude, if I can play human with one base, I play every game with one base.
Yes.
Just give me that.
You don't need to macro, you just control your one mountain king, you run it off and
smash people.
That's why I love to play against Ork. Ork is, I didn't play against a single Ork this tournament, but my Ork winnage is 90% because it's one base. It's chill, it's relaxing.
You don't have to control the whole country, you know, like peasants here, peasants here, five in gold, five in gold, lumber.
Oh, you didn't produce peasants for lumber. Ah, GG, your techist, five hours late and you go fuck yourself. GG.
forget one tower Gigi forget one step insta Gigi yeah what I like about human
though is militia that is fun this is the the life of a peasant in in this
game is horrible I don't live this life you you are born you chop wood and then
you fight if somehow you survive they send you to the mines you know like it
with low HP, you're bleeding, you're collecting gold and then suddenly level 5 warden comes,
a ton of knives, horrible death.
You do the boring work until your commander decides the enemy army is too strong and then
you get sent to die.
Yeah, if you do your job too well, too much lumber, straight to death.
True actually, yeah.
Oh, you have 1000 lumber?
Okay, Militia, go.
That was a good time.
I'm glad we could have such a realistic and objective balanced discussion here.
I think this is going to help move the game forward.
I agree.
Orb, I think that's a good start.
Buff, human orb.
This is, make it a useful item to buy.
Yeah.
This is, this is my realistic demand.
I don't think I've ever bought a third three item anyway.
So it doesn't matter for me.
Oh, yeah.
I'll arrive for man.
No, no, I just.
Yeah, it's not for me.
It would be whatever I do something.
that I'm supposed to do I lose if I try to expand I die to a demon hunter right click or whatever
you know something like this so I just play one base against everything and then micro my stuff
and that's it okay yeah that's why human is hard two bases nobody needs to do two bases
I try to play one base against undead but it's like oh you build one gyro too much gg bad composition
One Gryffin too much, FF, one Gyro too little, can't kill, death coil, GG.
We also barely play against Undead, they don't really exist at Areelo do they?
But what is Areelo in this case?
Like 1400.
Oh, we're both voting on the base, okay?
Yeah.
What did you reach then, Dendi, when you climbed?
1.5 something? Maybe I was 1.6 one time, but I think it's fake.
I think it's fake. As I said, I just didn't drop down from 1.5 too far when I start playing.
I don't know why, but if I would drop down, I would probably be very slow to climb up
because I feel like the range of skill was kind of the same 1.2 or 1.5.
It's just about if you drop at the beginning or not.
Let's see, let's see.
Now when I go win streak, when I find a lot of orcs, but then lose streak is...
That's crazy, by the way.
I see Korean night elf, like Korean flag, night elf, oof.
Yeah, that's...
It worked a little freaking hard, I think.
I'm surprised you have such a crazy win rate for me to my lowest
Because the build is just so uh the same always. I don't need to change anything. I do like
Aztec on two farms into
Farm 1 green farce here comes when farce here comes. I'm like, oh, this is nice. I don't need to find him
Sit in my base. Don't take damage
I get the fast mk comes out if he's still pushing I kill some headhunters
and I just do like three four priests with the spell against mirror image or
the wolves and I just push on 50 pop I saw build the shop in his base powers and
GG you make it sound very relaxed never leave relaxing never leave three humans
alone to talk about balance and problems and so we we were very objective
Oh, you fixed the game.
Yeah, we are.
The only thing we are doing, Ravi, is we are changing the human orb to match the power of the other orbs.
It already is.
It's an under spell, a little slow.
Come on.
How can you compare this to purge?
You see, this is why you need us.
How can you compare this to purge orb?
Purge orb roots you.
You can't even staff somebody that gets purged.
But it has so small chance.
It has such a small chance there.
percent. It's less on heroes. It's higher than the human home. It's 30% but only 10%
on heroes. It's an undisclosed probability. This is the orc lawyer. It's been in the game
too long. I'm going to the fence systematically every point of attack and deny anything that
you allege. No, we reviewed your game yesterday. We reviewed your game. Okay, what's my...
there was a Changee, me and Death Note. Well, Death Note did, and I was just sitting there.
I saw a little bit. What's the overall marks?
He said that you are very smart about the game. The push timings you did with Akmage were insane.
Your in-displacement on the flanks was insane. You threw the game kind of when you were trying
trying to blizzard the expo and then your rifles were kind of lost on the map and your
mk died but then you found your way in and he was saying that this tc needed to go shock
hoist and he would win the game because shock hoist apparently is broken, 2.4k cap damage.
Did you guys know I was playing with one hand or not?
What?
No, we didn't know.
What the hell were you doing with your other hand?
For me to know, for you to guess, no, it was too hand-played.
Cat knows, cat knows.
And also your pool, your pool was disgusting on the creep on the first one, you know?
Well, I don't do well with negative reinforcement and even though it wasn't targeted at me,
I needed gentle hand when being educated.
I was listening to your stream with him and I was feeling like I didn't deserve to exist
than you are. So there's three pools on Everfall and then I was like, okay, four seconds,
four seconds, five militia. Maybe they're going to watch this later because Death Note
said, Gravi is trying right now too. Oh my God, they went back home. They started casting
slow. I thought, oh no, I hope Yamato never sees this. But you did.
Death Note fell to the servants in the force. He knew a human made a mistake somewhere.
He went out to look for it.
Honestly, your pool gave me confidence for my pool today.
I did it on Autumn Leagues.
Oh my God.
Well, I lost a lot of aura at criticizing your play in that moment.
Will you ever respect me again?
Oh my God.
No, of course, of course.
You're my goal, man.
I haven't told you this since the day I coached you in League.
You invented eSports in my mind.
You and Hito.
You guys invented these eSports for me, man.
It's a blast from the bottom.
What was the size, Garry?
Can I ask, what do you think about the game?
Warcraft 3.
What did you like, what didn't you like?
Give me, no, no, no, about my game.
You got to AD supply very well,
despite going to a horrible supply of 53
with one rifle again.
Yeah.
But you did cap yourself at four rifles.
Like Death Note said, you also,
you were at 46 population every time,
so that you could fit double priests in your 50 pop army.
That was good.
You got loads of heal scrolls.
You did more than I was used to seeing with your Archmage,
keeping it alive.
You took a big risk.
He fucked up when he didn't kill your Archmage,
when he TPed on top of you, when you had no TP.
But you did so much over the course of all the different
games with your Archmage, so much harass,
turning his attention away from your expo.
It was clean as fuck, man.
Really good.
You evolved to new levels in this tournament as well.
And it was incredible to see.
And your job isn't done yet.
looking forward to more. Okay, this is the perfect segue to me now going to get
coached by that note, the perfect one too. Okay, you can come for another
compliment after that because I think you get some from him though. I think he
must be pleased with you but we'll find that out later. Jemad, thank you so much
for holding the fort here a little bit. We're gonna move to the lower bracket
finals. Peace. Thank you very much, I appreciate all of you. Take care, take care.
Bye.
All right, you thermal dandy. Thank you so much for making the show even better as well and being here. It was great to see the both of you. Have a great weekend. Let's speak soon.
Was a lot of fun.
Yeah.
Enjoy the last couple matches, guys. Grubby and Grubsters.
Gonna be epic.
Thank you.
Thank you. Have a good one.
Take care, guys.
All right. All right. Let's go. We're going to help host the lobby. I'm just going to
check what the map is and I'm going to be introducing my two new co-casters as well
for this lower bracket finals. It is none other than the lucky charm of Hera, his mental
coach, Atriak. Atriak, welcome to the show. Welcome back.
Robbie, I'm so glad to be in this room because we had too many humans complaining about human
balance me for like 20 minutes turn doesn't play human right no he doesn't
and let's bring him on as well yo Turin welcome to the show what's up hey man
all's good I was about to say the exact same thing man I just I was sitting there
for the past half hour listening to that that propaganda propaganda bro oh no it's
so sad you buttery I have so much more than extra expansions how do I possibly
possibly get through it.
I know, man.
I know.
What do you play as your doctor?
Are you an undead guy?
Are you play orc?
I'm a night elf player.
So you're not going to like me either, but I think we can put our differences aside
for this one moment.
No, I think, I think we can unite here and yeah, I do think night elf is, is difficult
to play.
So yeah, we're, we're on the same page, man.
Thanks, man.
I didn't see your expression on your face.
I don't know if you're rolling your eyes, but if you say it for real, I believe.
I don't know.
I don't know.
Night elf has a lot of tricky stuff, man.
You got a micro, you know, you got to be doing the staves.
units are a little bit squishier, you know, bears are going to be shifting and doing a
lot of mechanics with like rejuvenation and whatnot. I feel like there's a lot of expression
there.
People never give not, you know what they say? Grubby, all you do, uh, back me up on
this or as a pro, the moon wells aren't as easy as they sound. All right. It's the man
up when the man is low, it drains the whole moon well. You're like, they're not as strong
as they sound, bro. Whenever you lose your man, you suddenly feel like they suck. I swear.
I think people need to know that there's a real,
he's grimacing.
Well, you're not supposed to see me.
I was gonna give you the political answer.
I thought you'd like that.
No, well, they're really easy until suddenly they're not.
If you sip too deeply from the Moon Well Cup,
there's only you can find it.
Too greedily and too deep.
You have no more juice to be had.
Yes, true, true, true.
True, brother, night elf brothers unite.
It's cool we have a night elf and an undead castor
I think this is going to be a really, really good match, especially because simply two owed last
time, but Hera is on a vengeance tour. I mean, since the depths of his depression, he went like
15 and 0 on ladders, shot up to 1,400 Elo, is now like a menace, two owed Tyler,
two owed Pox who beat him on ladder, just like a, like Pox is the reason he got depressed.
Pox beat him on ladder with Warden, a hero went into a tailspin and then turned it all around
and now you two Oden. So it's actually a very, very exciting match. I don't know who's even the favor here.
Yeah, well, they had two run-ins with each other already, Atriak and Turin. In the clan war,
simply lost O2 to Hera. Then in the upper bracket, he won 2-0 against Hera. And now we have a best
of five to decide it all. I'm just going to make sure to get there.
I was best of five, huh? Oh, wow.
Yeah, best of five. This one, the last one, and the finals as well.
For the best of five finals, Churrin, I know we discussed format a little bit as well.
Churrin himself is also a big-time tournament organizer, keeping many games alive in the competitive format.
From Dune's Spice Wars to, you name it actually, Warhammer, and what else?
You've run a lot of tournaments, so we had a little bit of a talk about the format.
Yeah, yeah, absolutely. I think that the best of five here is going to be very solid.
I had a question actually, so I haven't seen too many of Simpli's early round matchups.
I know that we did see Warden play coming out of pox to simply ever bring out the warden
Or is he usually more traditional using like demon hunter with naga in that place though. He's very traditional demon hunter naga
There's dryads, you know, he's the he's the archetypical solid night out. I think he's really gotten it
I think it's what allowed him to make a big surprise run in this tournament is he didn't try to do any gimmicks
I mean he really went with the
Almost the life. He's the best night off player style of like I'm gonna get the the strong army hit the right time
Yeah. Yeah, it'll be fun to see and I mean for myself and totally when I was
playing in Warcraft 3 champions man the Warden was probably one of the one of
the most annoying things to play against and yeah I remember asking Grubby for
advice there and you know using the Zeppelins and a couple other mechanics
to get around that but man I I would imagine that Hera is probably going to
be happy to be playing a more standard standard path and Hera himself also does
seem to have adapted kind of that that one base undead aggression death coil
Nova, you know destroyers. I don't think he's fast. He has has he fast expanded in any games in this tournament
He's learned how to do it. I I did okay. Yeah, he did yes expand the second game against
Pox he opened with a double crypt all in selling his shop and selling his town portal and I believe selling his altar
Double Crypt full ghoul all in and he overwhelmed Pox's Lorden and in the second game on Echo Isles
He actually switched to a fast expansion play still did a big Google attack
Which is such a high-level RTS thing to do is to open with heavy aggression
And it's an actual all-in overwhelming someone. Yeah, and then the second game you make it look like it's the same thing
But there's actually an expansion behind it. This is so high level you say a B. He thinks see no this time
It's actually a D in your base
Yeah, and he's thinking mostly to death night, correct
He hasn't been using like Papa Roach or any of the alternative heroes. Yes. Yes. Yes
In his practice he's done some lich first, he actually opened up with Kriplord first,
which he thought was an atrocious hero, there's one hero he hasn't touched at all, and it
is your favorite, Turing, the Dreadlord.
Yeah.
No, oh dude, the Dreadlord is my bread and butter man, but I feel like one of the first
things I immediately did when, you know, in your last invitation, I was just like, okay,
how am I going to get better at this?
Let's go look at undead players, and I started looking at, like, Happy's videos and his
streams and and I tried to emulate that style you know that like one base aggression you know
it just feels like he wins games with like two ghouls and a death knight and it just didn't work
for me but it seems like it seems like Hera has found a way to make that one base definitely work
which is so much harder I think. Sorry for the interrupt. Hrk thought maybe there was an ancient
war self-kill denying experience this did happen to simply several times in his upper bracket finals
against Yamato Kanon, but not quite yet, but yeah I see what you're saying there Turin,
using an alternative hero Dreadlord in order to sidestep the need for utter perfection
like Happy dominates with is totally understandable and in your place I would do the exact same
thing, find a pocket pill that people get very little practice against and leverage
Yeah
Crypto is so easy though man like ever since
Yeah, he dropped the
Isn't that mean he's gonna drop a acolyte here and make the ziggurat
Not necessarily you can make it look like you're expanding and then actually not doing it and
This is what my teacher said when I was overthinking things
This is interesting. He might do the thing where he expands and then as aggressive again
I think what he's learned about night elf is that there's this time when you have like a few archers and a hero and
Your wisps are so so juicy. They're just so easy to hunt down and now that hair has taken advantage of that
I guess both games vs. Pox and now he's again doing it. He keeps the pressure. Oh, you've been brought the dust
Just days ago, Harrow was saying dust is a scam.
This is not something that's actually good.
Like he hated the dust.
His coaches are telling him to get it, but he just wouldn't.
Now it looks like he believes that he kills an archer with it.
Yeah, it gets the archer.
And I think it's just so good to be.
You're the one aggressive while you're expanding.
It makes them like they should be pressured.
You right now, this demon hunter should be up there.
Maybe canceling that ziggurat or, you know, this is this is such a good spot
for her to be controlling the pace of the game.
Did you think that's a weird thing about Mark Rastri Turing, that the person that expanse is often the one that gets to be aggressive?
Yeah, it's absolutely a staple of the undead. Like when you're playing against Night Elf, you're going to be wanting to dive their base and get to their wisps really quickly.
Because from there, you know, you're going to be slowing down their timing of the bears and the dryads, cutting down lumber and their tech timing.
And yeah, it also protects your expansion. And it's kind of the same thing. I found that against Human, for example, one of the major elements of the undead is the fast expansion,
Followed up by just seeing who can shut down the other players expansion with that immediate aggression. So
How many ways are you gonna get we have to count him it's like such an important time
So that's one one fight that today to in the back there
Nice nice one up atop if he swaps it
Really good play by silly play
that's a kill, that's a kill, that's a kill.
I think three sweaty stuff man.
Three whists have gone down, two detonates, one actual kill, one whisper in the middle
at the start of the game, that's a fourth whist, that's two kills, two detonates.
That's still really good for Hera, especially since he's expanding.
Yeah.
He's killing all the archers, he's getting archers.
Yeah, he's going so low for Hera. This is what I'm talking about, he's really mastered
this now. And it's changed the whole, you know, he doesn't...
The night off timing is so much slower and it's no longer a big scary like nine ten minute bear push now
It's gonna be a little bit that much slow because of the lack of wonder
Brutal this is like exactly what your motto cannon is doing to him
But you know your motto is rolling up the level three arc mage and cancelling and yeah
I'm down the games early and it's kind of we're seeing the undead version of that
And yeah, necropolis in the back extra acolyte production so he can tech up as well
It's uh, it's looking pretty rough here man archers are going down in droves and even the mind
And then say some bad things about my corners mother
It's only four west wind the mine right now
Now, there was a lot of good wisps swapping.
One cool tries to get away and we'll get targeted one more time at the archer and it
goes down.
I'm not even sure that Hera needs the expansion.
Got a couple of goals.
Yeah, Hera?
Yeah, yeah.
I think it's painful.
He did get some goal kills, but he's just so behind.
Yeah, Hera's micro was pretty incredible, man.
You know, coming into the event, even seeing him training in the earlier rounds when you
were just climbing on the Warcraft of your Champions, that was obviously the knowledge
gap was there, but man, his micro's always been really on point.
Yeah, finally, I hope you guys have been faces this again. Oh, no
It's like on the perimeter of leash aggro range, so it's only yeah, it's like sometimes and only a little it's not a full-blown destruction
No, cancel. That's a full dead moon. Well minus 180 minus 40
Look at her resources you guys
You know, it's funny at the seller shirt
Some may think that I was bringing in a wolf into the sheet pan by inviting Hera into a tournament with not RTS champions.
Initially it didn't seem like I misjudged too much because he was not rising to the top of the Amurmar that fast.
And I thought, one way I can nerf him is not to put him on human because if you put him on human, he's going to be able to fast expand and then just out macro people.
He's doing it anyway!
He's doing it anyway!
He can't help it!
He can't help it!
Oh no!
Yeah, I think that was wise.
What do you think his MMR
would have been at this point in the tournament
had you put him on human?
What are the ballpark guesses?
He would have just won already.
He would have been coming for the Warcraft Pro career.
He's battling Grubby on stream.
He's battling Grubby on ladder.
I would have quit Warcraft already.
Yeah, I could have been retired, could have been driven out by Hera.
Two bases, up on pop, good hero levels.
It's, I think, if this happens again to Simply, I really hope he
kills up Immolation, because it helps so much against those early Ghouls.
I don't know what he's gonna do here.
Immolation is nice against the Ghouls, but I also feel like Mannaburn is just so friggin' devastating.
We can be both, let me just skip Evasion.
I think expansions like this must be stopped in the following way.
First of all you should assume it, secondly you should scout it, and thirdly you must
go there immediately.
So I would be comfortable if you just left the item, your ancient of war creptis without
the demon and you just move it straight across the map.
You bring one wisp here, one wisp here, emulation and as someone starts creeping the camp you
gotta be on top there.
This solve the expansion later thing that we're seeing from the participants is just
putting the game on hard mode every single time and Hera is absolutely correct for putting people
in this spot recognizing that there's a lot of money left on the table to be picked up by just
getting that expansion knowing that people are playing their own game they're not playing Counter
Warcraft 3 they're playing their own development. Nice going over there now Grubby not to not to
doom and gloom this but if you were in simply situation if you were just in the dregs here
you know you're really really behind does he have any options for like what is the best option for a
comeback here is it just got to be kind of being cagey and creeping I mean maybe
trying to snipe some accolades to the expansion and what would be his best
path forward here would you say and I think it's a barrel in I think it's just
a barrel in and then barrel in into this space and try to kill as many
accolades as possible but is it crazy for me to say that if I think that I took
over from simply here I don't even know if I could win this game anymore even
though there's a big MMR gap he's in such a bad spot. I think it's fair. He only has four
Western goldmine. He has almost no lumber. His bear timing is very slow. It's 10 minutes
and he hasn't even finished tier three yet. Yeah, you're going to get that nasty timing.
Pull off some micro, maybe, but yes, I do agree. This is this is so looks to me so
unwinnable from this position. Maybe I mean, you know, Harris lost a hero to creeps before,
but these have happened. You never know what can happen. It's it. That's the fun of this tournament,
But man, it's gonna be a tough one. Oh, the statues could be no no
It's good man a burns my head. I think statues are the only OP undead unit. That's what he said
He's gonna want I'm just a dreamer. That's what you think you think so
I think statue and destroyer are good on that units and yeah, I'm gonna say destroyer
Everything else is bad. Maybe ban see is good, but it's like kind of hard to fit them in a fiends are of course a jack of all trades
They're not super impressive by themselves, but they have all kinds of utility range damage web, bro
the web yeah it's like he's coming out frenzy goals right now so he's a
researching frenzy gonna be supplementing his army a little bit
probably just to deliver the finishing blow but yeah he's about to get that
really big power timing of getting the orb of corruption on the lich it's got
the expansion tier three coming up I think we're gonna be seeing some
Yeah, some damn push coming soon.
Yeah.
What was that bear?
What was that bear?
You're telling him to lose the bear?
You just wanted to suffer even more?
No, I said don't, don't, don't, don't lose the bear.
Oh, I thought you said don't, I thought you said lose the bear.
No, no, no, not palpitating him.
It was that bear.
It worked right in my heart.
Whenever you lose a crew to the claw that's not transformed,
you feel like such a doof.
It feels so bad, dude.
Because they're so squishy.
They're just the big squishy, friendly bear
until they turn to transform.
to protect him and hug him until they evolve.
I can't comment Hera enough for his macro management play.
He went to 50 population tier 3, made sure he got all the important components of his
build, double crit, double slot harass, but stayed at 50 population with double income.
If you stay at 50 you get so much money in the bank, he put 59 gold in the bank and then
simultaneously, and one fell swoop produced from all four buildings at the same time,
making a tiny window going from 50 pop straight to 80, all the while getting upgrades.
This is exactly how I like to teach people to play the game and approach the game, but
it's so difficult to understand for people that come from other RTS or have no RTS experience.
Warcraft 3 is a beast of its own, the upkeep mechanic is difficult to understand, but Hera
is showing a level of mastery here that I didn't think he was going to be able to reach
in such a short time.
Yes, he's looking really good. I was about to say something similar, just seeing all
four of those production buildings popping up, getting that big supply push. And now
you've played a lot of Age of Empires 2, right, Gribby? I know you had a bit of a saga
playing that game. Macro, obviously, I would assume like Age of Empires 4 is kind of a
mainstay of those players, yeah?
Yeah, for sure. For sure. The Macro, yeah, it's a big part of it. But usually that means
non-stop worker production while finding relevant windows to make military at the right time
instead of only making villagers but in this game the eco is completely different.
It's so big, I Treyarch, it's such a huge army.
That army is so big, it's an overwhelming undead army, it's like a, oh, oh, I feel so bad about it.
Like a campaign army, it's like when you're playing an edition against the undead.
Exactly, every single thing in campaign army, it's just, it's warring down on him, nice staff out, nice, again, simply staff management has been incredible this whole tournament.
Yes.
skills. But that bear not transforming and then the Naga almost certainly dead.
Now this is the worst possible fight that Hera could take. A nice TP timing there by
Cindy. He's fighting the creeps, he's losing statues, he's losing destroyers to creeps.
Really it would be difficult to point at any more terrible fight that Hera could take.
He also doesn't have an orb of corruption. He's trying so hard to lose this but it is
just impossible with the lead that he has.
Yeah man, he's looking sauce. He's got a freaking thousand gold in the bank, said he'd get 80 supply right on the dot.
Oh my gosh, so rich.
I'm so rich. Statues are going to sustain everything and that army of the night elves looking pretty grim bones over there man.
50 population, level 4-2 against 4 and 3, her eyes. Probably going to move to the shop to get a heal scroll, but he gets caught in the act at night here.
Decent fight, decent fight, last chance.
Hold up, hold up, let's get it! Come on, let's!
Let's go, Simply!
Is he gonna make a comeback?
Well, we just pulled for the excitement, if he...
Uh...
He got it!
Oh, no, he moved it forward!
Okay, he's back again.
Simply didn't see it.
He keeps running the lich away.
You gotta kill that lich!
Oh, he's no faster than even on Earth!
Oh, no, no, no!
Down he goes.
That's probably gonna be Gigi right there, boys.
That's probably it.
Yeah, unless he's right back, can you afford it?
No.
The sustain is so good on that undead army with the statues and the coils and it's just brutal and yeah, the magic damage against the bears, heavy armor, just not much you can do there.
I mean, very good fight considering he's down. Yeah, very good fight.
You imagine that fight was one base, one base. That is a good fight for simply things go way better, but the overwhelming economy in Hera is just, now that he's figured this out, he seems like such a monster.
Oh, look at the body blocks. Look at the body blocks.
Look at that. That's so funny dude, look at that.
Gosh, stop for a moment.
Oh my goodness, that's really good.
Yeah, solid, man.
Take the shirt off! Take the shirt off!
Oh my goodness, dude. Just pulls his sweat. I love it, man.
It's very close to getting four glimpses.
The body blocks! The body blocks becomes the body!
I'm not locked in here with you. You're locked in here with me.
Call an ambulance, but not for the Naga, bro. That was quite a turnaround.
Yeah. Like Atreox said, if this was one base, one base,
That would just be like a huge momentum. Oh my god. He's back in it. But yeah, now it's just like buy some back instantly
It doesn't even matter. It's like oh money. Yeah, I've got that. That's not a he's got three. He's got four statues. Oh my god
Everything heals up in two seconds
It's really good man really good
What do you got I would love to see some necromancers out of him
Have we seen any
Herra doesn't use like the casters from dead does he has he ever used the Banshee or like a necromancer or any wagons?
Turin, he used Necromancer in 4 vs 4, but he's never done it in 1v1.
Got it.
He likes this army.
The way that I saw Hera approach the game, the way that he wanted coaching, the way he wanted to practice, was to just play happy style.
After he discarded the Cripplord as a valid choice, he wanted to be happy, of course with 81 population, he'll never be.
But he can work on that to be showing likes.
That's fire, dude.
Yeah, but but uh, he he didn't like I just figured I'm not gonna teach him dread lord
I'm not gonna teach him micromancer right because smart smart. He didn't want to diversify it that much
Have you guys ever seen the movie Kung Pao enter the fist? It's like an old movie from the early 2000s. I don't think I have
It's like a kung fu comedy where they like talk about training the person wrong as a joke
Oh, we used that meme a bunch of times here. We trained him wrong as a joke
Yeah, so you don't want to like I feel like with Hera like if you had got him on the dreadlord train
Like I think that would be like training him wrong as a joke a little bit
Like I think this is this style the happy style with his micro
Ceiling I think is much better than you know, I just yeah, I think this is smarter for him
I think you guys made the right choice for sure
89 population out three attack upgrades one armor as well
9 population still the warp of corruption though. This is some honorable ass on that play that doesn't use the
the sound of doom.
Broke an item.
Dude, these bears are...
This is the thing.
It's just straight up killing bears with themes, as the destroyers are targeting the Naga for the most part.
Nice mana burn by simply.
There's a lot of good stuff, but it was just hopelessly economically behind in this first map of the best of the five from the lower bracket finals.
Hera is moving in to claim its prize of that first map victory.
victory and Nova will finish off the Naga and a demon on their soul that stands between him and Demise.
Hera takes the first map. GG. GG boys. Well played by Hera.
It's simply though, for lasting that long man, despite being behind in the two base, I feel like he fought really, really well.
He just needs to put some pressure on that early expansion I feel.
Oh yeah. Yeah, his actual fighting is quite good. I mean, we saw in the 2L he had against Hera.
Like he can win fights, he can, he can scrap with that army, but this economy difference was all the difference.
I heard, by the way, if this series does go 1-1,
they'll both take their shirts off as part of the...
So we gotta hope for simply this time
to get a real epic showdown.
Yeah, that's a good match.
I remember when I was playing against Night Elf
in your last event,
like one of the most stressful elements
of when I was playing against Loco,
like all those games felt really close
and he just had some brutal early game pressure
on my expansion.
So Grabby, you were saying after the first camp
that was crept by simply there?
Should he have just, you know, be lined it straight and just like kind of ran past?
But then again, his whist through under pressure.
It's kind of a tricky predicament to be in.
What do you do there?
It is, it is tricky.
It is tricky.
I think you just, I mean, you can kind of try to assume someone is going to expand.
That's always tricky because you want to confirm it to be sure.
But you have to be, in my opinion, against human and undead.
You have to be aware that expand is a huge play and that if you just lose by default
by not attacking it, then it's better just to put yourself on the opposite side of the
map with a bunch of whists, a demon hunter with emulation and just start attacking ghouls.
You're probably not going to get the death knights, you're probably not going to mana
burn and win because then the ghouls will just hit your face.
You got to be there when they start the creep camp.
Got it.
So just like immediate pressure, yeah, and I think that's what Loco was doing as well
and it was, yeah, it was very stressful.
And yeah, I would assume simply as he played that way, like in the earlier rounds of the
tournament, have you seen him doing like heavy aggression?
I guess he did it against Yamato in the game that he had success in and was able to win, so perhaps we could see it here as well.
Yeah, the first game against Yamato, he was there with level 2, so not quite with level 1, but he got a lot down
because Yamato had left his natural expansion with his archmates, tried to go by the left side of the map, and then he found a window to go there.
That's the second option. If you're not there when they're starting to creep, you need to position your hero to go around the defensive army of the human, or in this case the undead player,
and go unseen and connect with the peasants in some way.
Usually with the staff of teleportation,
so you can make your way home without losing a town portal scroll
when they invariably start going for your wisps.
That's smart.
Isn't there a third option where you could expand yourself?
Couldn't you simply, technically fast expand
and then kind of be on even footing?
Yes, and normally this was really difficult
in the history of the game, because Monteverne invasion
doesn't do enough to stop ghouls, skeletons of footmen
and militia, to just basically suicide on the Tree of Life
that you have building at like minute three.
But in the current version of the game,
with emulation having been buffed to have more DPS,
especially level two and three emulation,
but even level one and consuming Lasmana,
you can use Demon Hunter to kill many footmen and ghouls
while they're going through your tree.
Then atrioc, even if the tree gets canceled,
you have done so much damage on the footmen
that you can have leverage that
to be in a more positive game state.
And this expansion thing is like,
It's hitting the second half of this tournament,
perhaps like a plague.
I feel like no one realized how powerful
experiences were as they were grinding for this tournament
and now it's becoming, it's so important.
The person with two is just on a clock
to win the game basically unless something radically changes.
Yes, and I think if I ever do one of these again
and I start coaching people,
I'm gonna just leave like a premonition message.
Like right now you're learning how to play the game,
use the mouse, use the keyboard, et cetera.
I have to just pick map.
But eventually, the way that these turnies always turn out
is that the guy that ends up fast expanding all the time,
they're gonna have an advantage.
So no matter what you do,
one of the things you need to learn
is how to stop an expansion.
And yeah, that's something they can then round back on later
and reserve some time to practice for.
So one thing I noticed simply didn't do that game
is he did not sacrifice his Naga
to give more experience to his demon hunter.
Both times in the games that he won and I think maybe you should get back to that toss the Naga away
She's not worth it and let the demon hunter turn six and take over
Oh, dude some solo hero action would be fun
But yeah, I haven't noticed that's wrong there, but something else I thought about I know this was a bit of a scourge
like around the last tournament we saw the buffs to the
Huntresses to get some do they still have that right that change wasn't reverted. They can get heavy armor with like a huntress
like aggression work, like some sort of a really heavy tier one Huntress into,
because he's not getting fiends right, so piercing the end flight armor wouldn't
matter too much, that can work pretty well right? Yeah let's say that I, my
micro wasn't so good but I know everything that I know in this position as
Night Elf, I would either open with Keeper of the Grove first or with Demon
Hunter still, and then go double Ancient of War Huntress all in, with APs, with a
bunch of Huntress, and just throw yourself at that expansion. It's very
difficult to, after the investments into the expansion and the tech, to also get a graveyard,
also make a bunch of fiends and then somehow survive there. In fact, there's a very famous
historical championship finals where exactly that happens. Yeah, oh yeah, let me just fix the score.
I mean, guys, the position is changing all the time. Thanks for pointing it out. Let me chat.
There's this famous tournament where the best Chinese player of all time at that time, Skye,
he won World Cyber Games 2005, he won World Cyber Games 2006, and he already called home saying he
was going to win World Cyber Games 2007 as well, but then a Norwegian player by the name of Creole
Office, he went solo demon hunter, mass huntresses, and mini morphesses is about one and two out of
three games. Mass hunts, nobody expected that. What are the best solo heroes in the game, Grevy?
Like if you want to just be the the the dark lord of like like obviously I think warden is obviously a candidate
But like what other heroes are like best to try and rush level six with like if you really want to play that way
Yeah, I think it's your personal favorite dread lord the night elf favorite warden and for a third one
If I had to pick the best solo hero
I don't think human really does that I think it's I think it's maybe demon hunter or
Or one of the tavern heroes like Beastmaster solo, Beastmaster solo, and it might be Beastmaster 3rd actually.
Yeah.
Can you share screen on discord?
Sorry about that. Yes, thank you for the reminder. Sharing, here we go.
We're lurking in the darkness here.
Alright.
Simply starting to-
We're actually in the game already, okay.
Yeah, yeah.
So big question, is he gonna do this game tonight?
Ooh, the shop sell!
What's going on there?
Yep, double creeps!
You know what this is?
You know what this is?
The ghoul all in, right?
Ghoul all in.
Yes, sir.
I love it.
Holy.
Holy, something is altered.
Wow, that's our core, man.
Something is altered.
Of course.
Why not?
Oh, no.
Where we're going, we're not going to eat an altar.
Simply, it's coming.
Night Elf, sound the horn.
Sound the horn.
It's the...
The demons are coming.
All elves to their stations.
Hey, guess what, Hryak?
Guess what?
This double huntress a double ancient of war. I'm just also the right play it works against all variants of Hera's build right now
It does you're doing you should have in the back pocket for a turn as a night off is that hunter solid?
This is gonna be so scary. He has to go emulation. He did he did okay?
Well in my name without getting contact on a bunch of units simultaneously is very mana inefficient
It's gonna be a problem down the line for those moon wells and look at the archers
Yeah, somehow he's suffering from all units in the same control group issue
This is where the more go empty right away. This is what I'm talking about. The moose. We're gonna be so empty
Last March of the wisps over there dude, where they going up to oh my god
Boss is brutal. No, this is brutal. No wooden come now. Oh
Yeah, another one bites the dust archers dying as well. This is looking pretty cooked already, man
Goodness gracious. Yeah, that's that's taking the eyes and guard
Oh, yeah, he is there, they're going through.
Look at this! This is cool!
Oh man, oh!
One ghoul.
Oh.
One ghoul to rule them all, dude.
Yeah.
Oh, he's attacking the Hissies, he's mining water for.
You see that?
Oh no, this is such a Betty Hill shit, dude, look at him chasing these guys down.
Yeah, yackety sacks are explaining it.
Oh my god, these are tragic, they're all, there's only a few left, they come home with
a story and a sad tale of their fallen brethren.
Do you think the Death Knight is the best hero for the ghoul all in or would be like going like Dreadlord or Cryptlord for example to get like some Beatles to just stack in there?
I think against Night Elf Death Knight is correct. If you're doing the same double Crypt all in against like a human, I think you want it to be Cryptlord and against Orc.
It can be with almost any hero but I think Death Knight definitely correct against Night Elf. This is where it really starts ramping up Turin as more and more units are going to come in, look at the ghouls traveling over the map
map and simply most likely unaware that it is a double crypto in I love the
change up in the playstyle like one game he goes for the fast expansion you
know his opponent probably feels he has a little bit of cushion then switching
up into this that's like yeah that's some solid RTS
RTS close though that's like that's like yeah that's like that's solid
experience yes yeah 100% simply doesn't have a third moon well he doesn't have a
What's around, what's around?
I mean, let's help!
It'll be awesome, yeah, to do this, but...
Yeah, this around there.
Okay.
Plea the city!
So Archers actually used the Shadow Melt.
They used the Moonwiles here, of which there's only two.
Simply has 1200 gold.
So, think of someone that's all-inning and is putting all their effort into beating you
and you've got 13 on the gold in the bank.
That is never going to work, that should never work.
You need to learn how to stop these kind of all-ins by making
mass ancients of war, mass moonwells, to spread your wisdom in different directions instead
of a mass exodus in one direction.
So even if some people may think, oh, this is cheesy, no, this is awesome, and you need
to learn how to beat this in an RTS.
It's all part of the game.
You need to fully commit with the same level of investment that someone is putting to BTU.
Strangely enough, this isn't something you see on ladder.
I mean, occasionally you'll usually see an undead player attack Night Elves with a couple
and go whist farming and then retreat after that but this isn't like a common thing this
must be something that one of his coaches I think ingrained in him or you know said hey
man this is gonna catch your opponent off guard oh nice surround there on the demon hunter
beautiful look at that man so sweaty oh and the coil on his ass demon hunter goes down
that's a GG man this is looking good dude that's clean man that's clean that is clean
even kept his deathlight out of range of the demons so that he couldn't get this 120 man
kind of burned away. There's the long distance, DK level two coil, a clean victory here in
and keeping simply off balance with a variety of different builds. Now going into the next
map simply has to wonder, what do I get a face? Classic? Oh yeah. Fast Expo or double
crypto LN?
To be perfectly fair, based on his response to that, if I'm Hera, you do the same thing
again. That was right. I mean, that yeah, there was just, it wasn't even close to the
the right answer to what you had to do and so I don't think you'll learn it in one game.
But I don't know what, I mean that was a really well crafted build.
Even with the unsummoning and everything to get the max, you know that, yeah, it's
going to be very, very tough.
Something I discovered over the course of many back to back RTS tournaments that if
you brought a new build that people didn't know how to beat and you won a tournament
with it, if you had another tournament, even in another part of the world, within six days,
It always worked again because six days was not enough for people to figure out the counter.
But if it was after two weeks or like one and a half week or two weeks, then people
would have a counter.
That's how long it takes pro players to get to go home and think about things to figure
something out like a sophisticated new build.
Let alone one minute between the series maps.
I don't think there's any text based coaching you could give someone right now that would
That would give him a solution to that in one minute.
It's just not, I mean, that was,
that was an overwhelming attack so early.
Yeah, he would have to, I don't know, but.
I think the fact that he's up 2-0, you know,
I think it's fine to take a risk
and just even try the repeat strategy,
just to close out the series quickly, right?
He's got a lot of cushion in his best of five series.
So who is this coach, by the way?
Who's been coaching simply?
Does he, does he have someone helping him out?
I think simply probably received some coaching
Kevin Warcraft 3 who's a 2400 MMR German night elf player semi-pro and then also Ampi who was in a previous tournament
The water work raider. He's great. I'm not sure if anyone else outside of those two
But definitely those two apparently it was awesome. Oh
Apparently I'm getting a note in chat that Hera has practiced this rush with say so who I believe is from Australia or New Zealand
Sorry, I don't know the difference and he's like
He's a 2300 MMR player that mains Undead.
He rushed Seiso playing as Night Elf, who is a random player with almost semi-pro MMR.
And Hera won one out of eight times against Seiso.
Wow, that's impressive.
That's insane.
Yeah, Seiso is really good.
I've seen him play before.
But Simply's got this.
Simply's got this.
He can do what Seiso could.
Come back, baby.
much shape from a Danish guy. Oh, I hear that Seiso NZ is from Australia. Okay, thank you,
Chad. It's in his name. Seiso NZ, I guess New Zealand. All right, my bad, my bad. Hey, I didn't know.
I didn't know. Yeah, I think the Huntresses has got to be the most, I mean, Huntresses are one of
those kind of units that obviously you can micro them effectively using the Shadow Melded, what,
not early on, but they are kind of a unit that I think are very beginner friendly. You can just
just kind of a move them and micro your hero around if you want to and again they
wreck ghouls you know when you get the heavy armor at tier two you can put some
heavy pressure on make sure he doesn't expand it's got to be although I don't
know if he's done that have you have we seen simply do huntresses at all you
always just know I haven't seen it right now Naga dry ass bears that's tricky yeah
maybe it's like some forbidden strategies practiced in the shadows like
off-stream but yeah it sounds like he's just been playing this one style which I
think it's gonna get bullied by this ghoul and or even a past expand if he
doesn't pressure to it's me theoretically if you're simply and
you're trying to adapt on the fly you don't know the right thing to do you
could still play like quick hunters haul with ancient protectors and I mean it
wouldn't just a piece yeah but yeah I just try to play more
totally and maybe here's a little slow and I mean yeah it's gonna be slow he
only has 280 that's one thing you won't be what is an idle fast expand I mean
obviously here would be too risky but I mean I guess huntresses would open up an
Avenue for fending off and early all in then expanding behind it or
Yeah, because attacking undead bases. I feel like is often a trap, but yeah
I guess you would have to go huntresses if you want to play fast expand. Yeah. Yes, I think so
I was created such a catch 22 right for simply yet
You have to scout right well because either he's gonna all in you with the most aggressive rush you've ever seen or he's gonna kind of
Economic cheese and fast expand and if you don't know what to do and how to counter both of those
that you're stuck in the middle.
Like if simply goes super defensive right now
that Harrod just fast expand, that's also just as bad.
Yeah.
Yeah, there is a, I'm just going to say,
there's a lot of resources out there.
I have two things to say as we go into this third map
of the loser bracket finals
and we find out who goes to the grand finals.
I created a guide series.
All right, make sure to play your song
under the world's smallest violin
in about 30 seconds when I finish my monologue, okay?
I created a guide series with six videos in it,
and in the sixth one, there's an Easter egg
that directly addresses any future
invitation of participants.
And not one of them came to me and said,
Grubby, I heard that.
I saw that, I see you, I watch your guide series,
I did everything I can to learn for this tournament.
So that's number one, and I'm not happy about that.
The second one is, I created a beginner guide for Night Elves.
Last year, that goes Keeper of the Grove,
Huntresses puts an early expansion and then makes a bajillion huntresses. It would be perfect for this matchup
It'll be so good. It will be so good. It would be so good
Yeah, just look at them. Watch it. Let him watch it once let him watch it once
Can we get a camera switch, thank you very much. Yeah, thank you. Yes. Go ahead. I'm okay now
Simply for giving us demon
He's not going neutral is he? Is he gonna do some like haggard take a rush or something? No
He's got a full hero. Oh, this is rough. Yeah, he's there. He's gonna get 15 20 seconds behind on that
25 seconds late you might as well at this point just harass late, too
Oh, he's not going neutral is he's here. I gotta do some neutral
Wait, wait, wait, wait.
He must be going neutral.
Did we desynchronize?
Oh no, he forgot too.
Are they terrible?
They both forgot to do it.
Or did we have a bug?
That must be a bug.
What's in the water, dude?
They both forgot their hero for 30 seconds?
Fair fight.
Fair fight.
Normally, in the past, you would load up
a replays from a wrong version of Warcraft 3.
And this is what it would look like.
It would take you two minutes, and all the whispers
are standing still, and no one is making a hero,
and people are sending a single unit into creeps.
because the actions in a replay of Blizzard are reproduced.
It's not a video or something.
All the actions are put into the game again.
And when there's a different version, something goes wrong and it looks like this.
But these guys, they're playing live.
It's not possible.
This is happening.
It's the same in Warhammer, actually, with replays.
The exact same thing.
Oh, is it?
On the right side, though.
It's good for the game.
How's the demoner app before the archer?
Because, bro, he forgot Ancient Divor and Demon Hunter.
He forgot all of it.
Oh, and the archer was queued later.
What?
He's forgotten everything!
He forgot it!
Ha ha ha!
He's forgotten everything!
His archers are just dying over there with the creature right now.
You're born to part! Wait, what's happened? Is this a...
Why does there have...
Why does there have two necropolis?
This looks broken. This looks broken.
This looks like you downloaded the wrong...
Ha ha ha!
Like you said, I've been downloading Chinese replays,
and when you open them, everything is broken,
and it's like life will make two wisps and not move.
Sorry, broken?
By the way, I think I missed some things during my monologue.
Apparently, oh my god, he denied a creep with the Asian of War, man!
Apparently
Hera did the ghoul pull where he pulls the camp into the ancient of war which cancelled the ancient of war and that's why
Yes, I can see. Sorry. We kind of I mean I kind of trolled there by talking about other things
All right, so that makes so much more sense. That's very annoying. Yeah, okay
Classics man coming up here, but still the other stuff was still better in the year. Just to put up the hero
Yeah, yeah, yeah, the second necropolis isn't a terribly uncommon thing, right?
If you're expecting pressure and you want to check up and obviously, you know, a lot of people will dive undeads based during the
Tech, you know, you're gonna be losing acolytes. You can't reproduce them. Your economy is gonna be suffering. So the double necropolis
I've seen I've seen it before and what?
Yeah, when you pull you don't have any lumber and so it's the way to get population
Yeah, you have to do it when you go pull because it's your pop like you said. Yeah
Yeah
Nice that's there
The correct thing to do is to walk forward and cancel the goldmine, that's more important than anything, and if you get staff of teleport here and ghost there, or not staff, that would be good.
This is the first time he did something about an expansion.
Okay, he is going to it, thank god.
Is he?
Forward?
No, he's just keep watching it.
Let the boy watch, he's just briefing on it.
Me and the boys.
because you have to get back to your base also oh no oh now these archers
gonna be going to the dogs I mean he might get to cancel here but also he's
gonna be afflicted by that Nairobi in here in a second but he's just losing
ghouls and archers this is pretty catastrophic he will still get it but
it's slower because of the Nairobi because he waited so long as he was
flustered by Hera's attack this is all to Hera's credit by the way we're not
watching pros and it's good for me too to remember that sometimes these guys have
gotten so good at such a short time that you start expecting more and more but
Hera is doing very well that is a cancel on the gold mine Hera is taking to
tier 2 so he's actually going to plan B he says hey it's fine if I don't have an
expansion I'm still getting enough done in your base look at this how good he is
at splitting all the golds Patriarch yeah he's doing well almost I simply had a
good number of wits if he holds this without losing all the archers and he
careful that I mean it's not it's not horrible for simply to be honest you just
need to level it needs oh nice nice killing on it
hair coil
is anybody keeping tabs on how many wisps went down there did we see I think
we saw at least three or four get karate yeah
no you say all of them he's got a bunch of yeah
okay five and goal and I assume he's got five it yeah so he's not that bad it's
It's like, you can hit tier two, make a couple more whips, get his lores, and it's one base,
one base, unless he rebuilt it.
Oh, Harry, you're so annoying.
Wow, that's a fashion trick.
That was so good, man.
He's relentless.
That is a strong play.
Yeah, it makes sense, too.
He's already got a Neurbian tower there.
He has a second Necropolis, so he can just pump out acolytes while he's teching.
I mean, that's solid, and he can defend that easily now, I think.
I don't think he'll have any problems with that.
A very good scout by simply, he sees that it's happening again.
is a key moment here. Simply also has a lot of archers. He still has seven whists or so
with the new ones he's making. Double lore. This is really not that bad for Simply. Much of the
damage was self-inflicted with that Ancient of War cancel there on the troops, which delayed his
level two, but he's actually in a really solid spot. He has not lost a single point of gold yet
compared to Hera, who has fast expansion coming up. So if he can get his Naga out now, but you
Do you know what? Harris says, Psych, worry about this first.
He's running right past the archers, getting a bit of a surround,
and he's going to try to kill as many units as he can.
That's a DK level three.
Wait, he's very strong.
Does he have dust on him? I don't know if he has any dust on him.
Great MO, great MO.
And, you know, a Naga hero would be so, so, so good.
He could get a lot, but there is no Naga to be found.
He's going to try to cancel the lores.
I think he maybe can cancel the lore,
but it'll come at a high price.
good archer movement by simply here Hera goes for the whisk again one whisk
getting attacked over there nice swapping out in the mine whisk goes down to
coil second one detonates third one survives as Hera doesn't have a TP so
there could be like an archer surrounded something if you mana burn the awesome
if you if you yeah
A lot of us again. Yeah, this is tough.
Trap him!
You can trap him right here!
Trap him right here!
Yeah, there's some time. Portal.
Yeah.
Chasing archers there.
That would be so legendary to trap him right here.
Simply did...
Harry's already on his way to cheer too, though, right?
He's gonna have a lich building like right now, yeah?
Yeah.
Yeah, he's actually...
Yeah.
He could be building it.
He is tier 2, and he is fully mining from an expansion in about 10 seconds from now.
Wait!
That's a walloff?
Oh!
Surround! Come on!
He tried he tried he tried though. He saw the opportunity. Yeah, that was so close to killing there
Much better game so far from simply though man
He's been able to fend off his aggression minimize losses. I mean he also got a cancel granted at the expense of a town portal
But we do see double
Double crypt production here. Do you think we're gonna be seeing like heavy frenzy gold timing at tier three or is he gonna be switching to fiends?
Okay answers our questions. Yeah, he's going into fiends now
Yeah, it's just good to have double crypts so that you can adapt to the bigger income that you have from the expansion.
It kills one more goal. Simply it's going to go forward, but knowing Hera is often sending that death knight into enemy base again.
This time it does look like he's going to be chasing the Knight of Army and making another Ziggurat.
Maybe he's going to be upgrading it. There it is, Spirit Tower upgrade on the next Ziggurat and simply wants to do something against the Acolytes.
Hera, once again, so good at finding these pickoffs. This is surreal play by him, and
simply is going to turn around to chase a death knight that is un-catchable?
Yeah, it's great. That's very Age of Empires, right? Like, I remember playing Age of Empires
4, for example, you're, you know, getting all in by an English player, they're pushing
you with longbows, and then you'll have your horseman, like, in between your base and their
base, like, picking off the reinforcements there. It's so clean, and, uh, yeah, he's
He's just the longer this goes, the worse it's going to be for the Nidalefs, and just
distracting with the death knight speed, it's, he even looks like he might be willing to
take a fight here, which is, you know, certainly something.
Yeah.
That's level three.
If you were at Nidalef here, Grubby, would you consider like not going to tier three,
massing dryads and trying to, like, I don't know that-
It's possible.
I did teach simply this, that sometimes you should do mass dryads counter expansion in
certain situations, but I don't think he knows to identify when that is.
Honestly with the mana being so low on moon wells bears are the only way that's ever gonna give you healing again
Surround! Surround!
That's so rough dude
You might be able to get there
Hey, here's a monster bro. He's a monster. Yamato-ken are you worried?
Hey guys, do you know that feeling when you're having one of those days where everything just seems to be going?
going right? Yeah. Oh, I'm glad. I wasn't sure. Oh, that was the end of it. I was, I was,
well, I'm just saying that I was setting you up. Yes, and okay. Where's the end? No, everyone
in chat goes no. Well, this looks like Harris having one of those days just saying it's
a good time to have it, man. And I can definitely, this feels very familiar. I remember when
When I was waiting on the top side of the bracket for your last event, I was like watching
Sing Sing just go full like, you know, Terminator on the bottom side of the bracket, I was
like, oh God, he's playing well today, he's coming for blood, and yeah, it looks very
similar here, man.
We'll see though, he's simply still got some fight in him.
If you're Yamato and you're watching this, it's definitely like putting some sweat on
your brow, this guy's coming, he is the Terminator.
Human though, I feel like is a little bit trickier, like these ghoul all in and things
like that I feel like with the militia and the you know the quick level three on the arc
mage with the water elementals it's much harder to kind of pull those kind of tricks against
I think the well here we go wave a fight in the expansion we'll talk about that later
but I like using that the fake demon hunter to tank all the towers that's crazy.
Bro I thought it was a fake demon hunter too for a second but it's the color.
Oh it's not.
Oh it's just the nerubian effect.
Oh never mind it's just taking all the towers.
Bro I actually thought it was fake too it has almost the same color with the nerubian
effect.
I saw he gets a fair amount of acolytes, so not terrible, he's not going to be buying
himself a little bit of time.
We have 49 against 58 supply, could be a lot worse, he does have his bears, and we don't
see Destros or Orb of Corruption yet, so a bit of a window here potentially for our
Night Elf on me.
Yeah, Heroic took a while to get the Orb, and so if he forgets it this time, this position
is way more playable, way more fightable.
If he doesn't have it, it'll be good for him.
He's leveled down on the death knight, lit his closest to three.
Now, Hera is baiting him so smart, baiting him into blinds and towers.
And his new stuff.
He's at least in the end of the towers, you know.
Nice rejuvenation.
That's a bit wishful thinking.
Yeah, got a bear there, and certainly some good experience.
Yes, he is tier three now, right?
So he can start getting the, I would say, the bear is fleeing.
Oh god, it's so squishy right now.
No, don't lose that.
statue block of the statue oh no is he doing it oh my god oh my god there are showing off
there he's feeling himself he's showing off right now yeah let's see if he gets it though i don't
embarrass might still get away oh gesture is coming in now make sure right he gets a read you about
it uh fuck that's too bad fuck that guys i gave her the surround tutorial he's the only student
ever that immediately surrounded within five seconds he's like oh that's how it works bam
surround it was incredible I've never seen it before I've coached like 50
people work our three second one I said okay now it's time to teach you how to
body block he's like no I don't need it I already know how he's got that down
and that's a thing in the Empire's as well yeah there's a thing in Age of
Empires but it works a little different here it's different engines that very
same day he started doing it usually with statues like without me teaching him
anything about it he understood how the units work now
The fight's coming in with the destroyer, he's going to be eating rejuves and doing magic damage to the heavy armor.
No orb of the lich though.
Other than a fight for Simpli, he's got an orb of feather.
He's targeting the destroyer down, he remembered it.
Nice monoburn on the lich, this is a very good fight for Simpli.
He might be a bit of a throw by Hera.
This bear is alive.
Very nice.
Ooh, sketchy man.
This is nerve wracking man, this is my type of duty.
There's a monopult.
They're both low.
There's a monopult on this guy.
You can have a surprise coil coming in.
Another Destro killed, I mean this is playing really well.
Is it going to be a similar situation what we saw earlier where Harrow's economic advantage just kind of drowns out these nice picks though by simply.
This is significantly better for simply, but remember sometimes when you're behind in this game you end up sacrificing other long-term investments.
Not having an expansion is one of those and not having those incredible Hunter's Hole upgrades for Dryads and Bears is another.
Another usually you're able to have a good fight because you sacrifice those you have an initial good fight
But then you don't have enough actual power to your units in the long term
And this is what Hera has also been investing in his upgrades are to one
It's no no
Yeah, here seems very good about doing these upgrades. He's from all the games. I've been watching
He's he seems very on point with that and it's so important age empire. So he's like he's got that in his brain
Yeah, you know, that's very good point. Good point. That is solid
What I would say about her in this oh, you know before oh, no, I was gonna say with the right play here to be to expand for the night
Oh after that good fight
Yes, oh, yeah, yeah
Yeah, we both agree with you
One expansion so bad and like that was the perfect moment to do it because he's not gonna attack you for a while
I think what's interesting about Hera. It's so unique to this
His spot in this tournament is he's got like the one thing you can't teach with the coach and that speed
He just has this handspeed that everyone else is having to overcome with strategy
But he when he picks up a new strategy is so deadly with it because he's so fast
It's just hard to get you can't give someone 200 a.m. That's not
some cases
Yeah, 99 monobot. That's a great point. There is a monopope that is a death died level 3
It looks like simply is gonna steal one of the creeps
But now he has become the target of the granite golem whose spellcasting AI has been reset
So he's now going to be doing thunder claps. He's going to be throwing boulders another amount of burn there on the death night
Oh my god another roll on the Naga. This is a two versus one that simply is taking
He's gonna try to take the golem
No, don't go for it. No
I mean at this point why does well just go out on your shield just go out on your shield
You got you got you got the item
I am gonna get caught on that one
Oh that's game, that's my voice
I'll die with the item
Yeah, you got it. You got a ceremonial victory there at the end, but yeah, this time he's too brutal
I mean level three, you know level two noba level three coil with or destroyers a bombs of disease club
Do they have it? Yes, I think I do if only this is League of Legends and that was like the
Squeaks steel on the elder dragon at
Nashor may or at the elder dragon that would have worked
But this is just a ground I go on the Gibson speeds not the same thing
However now moving into attack frost armor on the death knight as well targeting down bears and denogah
Simply did kind of expand at the time where we said it would be good. It's it's it's finishing up without the demon on it's gonna be tough boys
Yeah, you need the demon hunter. He is your he is your rock. He is your shield. He is your stars. He is your moon
And he's a guy melting
Uh
Might get a cheeky pick on the death night here, but I don't think it even matters
Army can basically just a move from here really good sustained coming out of the two statues as well
Herobanking 800 gold, you know, he could probably almost get army wiped here still recover considering his opponent is a mining at the second base yet
Looking like the end of the road, but well fought by simply. I mean he makes it well
That's why simply this is I mean
I'm a three and I think I did do a lot better
Yeah, I clearly had chances
I think it was really impressive with him to cancel the expansion learning from the previous game and get back
It didn't execute a part of it perfectly, but that was a big adaptation
Even better than heroin go back and get that expansion right back up. So well played
Even under won't be coming back the Naga is almost down
There's a coil and there's an ass and that coil is gonna call that
He knows what to do with those two combos GD well played
insane comeback by hair from the from the losing 2-0 last time they met yeah
this is a different player it's a 3-0 he had the first laugh he didn't have the
second but he has the third and final laugh and now he also has the finals as
he will be moving up to the grand finals against Yamato Canon exactly who
Yamato Canon was hoping to find not because he thinks necessarily it's
gonna be easy but because he knew this will tournament victory will only be
truly meaningful if he has beaten virtually everyone.
That's true. And yeah, I think these are the two players
people want to see in the finals. They both put in, I think
the most grind on the ladder and are, yeah, and talk to the
coaches that are just ready to bring, I think the highest level
of the entrance.
Incredible play. Hera with a three zero victory. It's gonna be
a best of five finals. And guys, the way that this format works
is that you want to count against Hera is a best of five.
There's not a bracket reset, there's not some kind of long-winded double 3-0 that is required for Hera to win,
but there is a pretty significant advantage for Yamato Kanem.
He gets to ban second, which gives him more information, and he also gets to pick the first and the second map.
If both of those are advantageous, you can also start on a huge mental advantage
by picking the two-favorite map out of the five and potentially starting with 2-0.
if you fulfill your destiny at winning the maps that you believe are
advantageous for you anyway.
Not if Hera has something to say about it, but this will be Yamato's advantage
for never having dropped to the lower.
With those victories that Hera has, he is now sporting something like a 21
map win record. If you count his ladder with this tournament as well, of course
ladders won the tournament, it's another. And he showed up in a big way.
Hey, Hera, congrats for winning that one
and securing your place in the Grand Finals.
But up, but up, thank you, thank you very much.
It's crazy, I really didn't expect to be here,
but I had a really nice loser bracket run,
which I'm quite happy about.
And I was trying to say, of course,
you used to simply well play it.
Rough day for you, just everyone dive in your wisdom ship,
bruh, it's rough, but I think you still played really well.
Yeah, I crumble as soon as my fucking great outdoors
start falling before my eyes.
It is what it is, well played.
You did your homework, you did really good,
and please win it all so I can be like,
yeah, I lost to the guy that won it all.
I mean, either way, I lost to the guy that won.
Yeah, you also lost to him, Matt.
I'm actually having a good position.
I'm in a great position right now.
You may start at least to everyone so that you can
see who lost to everybody.
You can always say that, yeah.
You lost to every player.
Would have been cool to take a game, but hey, the ghouls,
they went crazy, bro.
I was not expecting that at all.
I think I met it too hard and didn't try to play it like a ladder game, kind of scouting more.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's difficult, right?
Because I'm coming in with a cheese, easier for me to execute, harder for you to defend.
I know I'm doing it, you don't.
So it's always tough.
But yeah, there's a bunch of matches for sure.
For sure.
Get his ass.
Get his ass.
I'm coiling his ass.
Please coil his ass, Vera.
Do it for me.
Do it for the great outdoors.
I know you're I think my shirt off if I win
Let's go. Oh, are you fine? I didn't win right?
No, no, I'm joking
I'm not simply
So HR here say there's the first this would be a first time a human didn't win if you were to win this finals
Right, is that correct? Grubby? Yes. Oh my goodness. You have a big destiny
You have a lot of weight in your shoulder. Yeah, you gotta do it man. You gotta avenge us. It's time man
You got to avenge us if you lose this I'm never inviting a human player to the tournament again
Do you need to do this for all humans in the future?
And we by the way, we had some human propaganda three human players on the last cast just sitting there talking about how human is
Not that strong or it was a little weak. I mean this is ridiculous the humans have just had they've had it their way for too long
I think it's time for undead to finally rise
Hera
If human orb is so strong, what does it do?
No clue, honestly.
I think you said something like it slows or something.
You're playing the part like you're clueless, but you're really not as clueless as you once were.
You're kind of underplaying your hand here.
I wish I was against human. I know a few things, but I'm nowhere near as studied as I should be.
Because remember I had to kind of study up for Orc and Night Elf and human was the least prepared
I don't know much about human because I didn't think I'd get to the finals right so you matter. It's got an advantage
I'm not gonna lie. I'm out of the van and he's on three monsters. Are you kidding me? He's got two advantages on me
Three monsters. What do you mean?
Three months. I don't drink. You see I was drinking three monsters. Yeah
He's wired up. Yeah, his energy is gonna be unstoppable
I want six lunches though. I think I'm chilling honestly.
Alright man, well, congrats for that one. Let's get you ready for the grand finals against Yamato Kanan.
He's gonna have map advantage, but it's a best of five to decide it all.
GG Grats and good luck in the finals to both you and Yamato Kanan.
Well played guys.
GG guys.
Good luck man.
Enjoy the show guys.
Good luck.
Alright, I'm gonna ask you simply, I'm not sure if you've discussed with my Malt squad yet.
Yeah, do you want to cast the finals at all, simply?
Are you there?
I don't know if he's here anymore.
Oh, he's not.
Okay, the camera's still there.
I guess he...
All right, then how about I send it to a break
and you guys stay online,
because I don't know if he's...
I have a special guest that's gonna be coming in soon.
You guys may already know him,
but I was thinking maybe simply could join as well.
Please stay online for a minute or so
as I figure this out.
I'll throw it to a break
and we'll be right back, boys.
I'll dig in and my ability to adapt is pretty not there, like if I don't get there.
You adapted pretty well through a game, like you cancelled his expo and like you were doing
something.
Yeah, I got in there a bit, I did some shit.
I think I could have maybe got that game, but that creep camp, that was really rough.
Yeah, that last fight was tough.
Okay, that didn't take as long as I thought it might.
You will be joining for the Grand Final Cast?
Yes.
All right, man.
I would love to.
All right, man.
Let's do it.
Grats on your third place.
I know it may not be as much as what you wanted to have, but third is still amazing, and you're
going to be joining for the Grand Finals Cast.
Atria, thank you so much for joining again to cast this Lower Bracket Finals.
Chirin as well.
Awesome to see you again, and I hope you enjoyed the rest of the show.
Yeah, thank you, man.
That was awesome.
It was an awesome tournament.
Really fun to watch this whole thing.
I'm excited for this finals.
I wish it could have been in it.
And next time, we'll finish them now.
Next time.
Alright, bye.
Have a good one.
Take care, man.
Nice to meet you.
Take care.
Alright, grab me.
This is a pleasure, man.
Take care.
Cheers.
Cheers.
Thanks for joining.
Alright, Simply, you may know the man that we're about to invite to help us with his
expertise to cast the Grand Finals as well.
I still see him on Deffen, so I don't know if he's watching the stream.
If he is, you can take off the Deffen pads.
I'm here.
Welcome!
Yo dude, okay, so I've been watching a little bit. I don't know what made you think getting an age of empires pro
To come to a noobs only warcraft tournament and how that was gonna play out was a good idea
But chow is a he's a pro age of empires player. I'm like, yeah, I can fucking see that
Very obvious this guy's like fucking simply sideways with his statues. Oh, look at me, buddy
I'm glad he got fucked afterwards. Honestly, he deserved it. But dude, simply I don't I had to open your stream during the tourney
Just to see what the vibes were like and somehow through the grace of God or something
You managed to find so much copium to think your matches were still winnable
But I tune in he's like this isn't that bad I go to the casting
This guy's screwed. It's over. I don't it's just forfeit now. I think I can do it guys. No
You were fucked sideways the whole time it's Hera, right? That's the problem. Yes. Listen, I beat him to oh, okay
I know I got lucky with D106 yesterday, but I was like, you know, maybe he
You know blindsided me a bit with the strats. It is what it is
But you know, I think if we went again another best of five I went easy
It is what it is the cool rush I get man like that. Yeah, that came out of nowhere. That was crazy
But like how do you how do you think it was honestly when you put your shirt on?
everything went downhill yeah that's
truth be told but now we're in the
grand finals right Robbie we got Hera and
Yamato give me a breakdown of these guys
we know Hera is a cheater but whatever
what do you mean age of empires 2 pro
cheating same thing but it's not that
hard of a game I played it for a couple
of weeks I got to the top 4% I really
didn't think it was gonna be that big of
a deal I saw him play and yes he was a
That's because you're an RTS pro also going to another RTS. It carries over. That's my point
If you watched herra soda if you watched herra the first two weeks
You would think i made a mistake to put him in the tournament because i was gonna burn his rs
So much he lost o3 in age of empires 2 two days ago and the whole world was blaming me for ruining this man's career
He was depressed boy and he was saying he's gonna lose this tournament
So, you're telling me he practiced Warcraft 3, went back to Age of Empires and lost?
0-3 to only the rank 4 player in the world.
He lost 0-3 and he has 16 tournament wins in a row in AOE 2.
Suddenly he loses 0-3 to the rank 4 guy and it was all my fault because he was playing
Warcraft 3 having some fun with the game.
So I thought this man is ruined.
Like I thought everyone, you know, simply it's going to run a train over him again.
So he got him he got embarrassed and shit on in Age of Empires
So he's coming here to bully the non RTS pros to get his ego back
I'm so impressed simply I knew you had it in you I knew you did but I will say watching was so impressive
Good job, man. I'm so proud of you. You really mean how much I really mean now listen
I'm gonna be shitting on everyone here. I don't think a single person even the people eliminated round one
I don't think I could be the single one of them
Mary, maybe I think takes me
You think you're right now you don't beat Mary. Maybe I think you do you're on there submitting yourself. I
Don't know man last last time I joined the tournament my nerves got to me. I got high I did drugs and I just fucking
I don't know what would make you think getting high and playing this game would ever be a
good idea in any capacity.
Dude, I got so high that I just had to try a beetle rush strat.
I couldn't fathom doing anything else.
You have Soda on Undead.
Yeah, well, it's not my choice.
He picked Undead for himself and he looked so good in practice simply.
I mean, maybe at this time you were not watching Warcraft 3 yet.
I taught Soda two builds.
Once he took those builds, he took himself from 800 MMR to nearly 1100.
He looked really good.
His micro was on point.
His builds were good.
There were two builds.
One, double crypt, ghoul all-in.
The other, take three ghouls in Cryptlord and go expand.
The tournament starts and he takes three ghouls and all-ins with one crypt.
He got his wires crossed.
He took the fast expand setup and sent it into an enemy and died.
Yeah, it was bad.
It's bad.
We just don't talk about it.
Sorry about this tournament.
predict is going to win out of these two.
Yeah, you have potential to the nerves.
What do we predict?
Okay, so I did think that Yamato Canon looked really, really good heading into this.
Hera is playing better than expected.
Who could have expected that from an Aoe2 pro?
And he finds themselves in the grand finals now.
Yamato Canon had more MMR and the matchup, I think, is pretty even.
So these are the two races that have to prerogative to do a fast expansion,
something that simply sadly suffered against two series in a row.
with these two players, both are going to be trying to take an early economy advantage.
And so I think it's pretty even.
Okay. I think we do have a good way to recognize that it's not that even. Simply getting his
ass beat back to back all day today, he lost to Yamato 3-1, right?
But also, Hera went 3-0 versus Simply. So for you, Simply is our guinea pig who lost
all day today, we can honestly digest that Hera is overall in a better spot.
It's like a law of transitions or whatever.
It's like a love triangle between me, Hera, and Yamato, and yeah, rock, scissors, etc.
You got fucked harder by Hera.
Yes.
So by that reckoning, it should be 3-2 for Hera in this grand finals, you think, with
simply as the guinea pig.
Yes.
Yes.
It makes sense.
It can't fault your logic.
The first two matches are set though.
There isn't winners advantage here, soda popping.
I don't know how much you think it's going to matter, but Yamato-Kannon had the right
and the knowledge that he would have the right to pick the first two maps.
He has chosen to go with Northern Isles and Tide Hunters.
Okay.
So I don't know anything about the maps.
Do they?
Yeah, I think so.
I think they have a number of good coaches.
They have some of their own experience as well.
So I think that's going to help them to maybe pick maps
that are advantageous for them.
Yeah, I would say so.
I think they know what they're good at.
I'm just not sure like what level these people are at now
because I'm watching them, I'm like, Jesus,
they, everyone here is so good now.
It's gross.
Yeah.
I mean, I got to point out all the small mistakes
but I demo know if I was in that chair,
I'm making so many more.
So you're leaking audio, man.
Can you fix your shit, please?
Very uncomfortable.
Yeah, a little bit of audio,
but we hear ourselves back a little bit.
It's all good.
No one's mad or anything.
It's just that, you know,
if you can lower your headset volume a little bit, maybe.
I think it's coming from your headset to your mic.
Is it actually?
I think so, I think so.
You still hear it?
Hello?
I think you fixed it.
Yeah, yeah.
I'm gonna stay back here.
What's that?
It should be good, it should be good.
Perfect.
Everyone is angry, so that you're ruining it.
First time chance.
No, that's not true.
I don't think you have to lean back like that,
just like a few decibels lower on your headset, probably.
Yeah, but I don't even know how to do that.
I can fix it.
I got it.
OK, Hostoni, ping equalizer.
OK, this looks good.
I think we're ready to kick this show into overdrive soon
with the grand finals.
Hera has announced himself to be ready.
Yamato Cannon, looks like he's having some final chat.
either with Jack or with someone else, I'm not sure.
What is this?
Both these players, so much prep, so many hours.
Yeah.
This is the grand finals I think we all kind of expected.
Looking at the MMR, the games played, the analysis,
the coaching, so much passion for the game, so much love.
It all comes to a head here
in the Altar of Champions Day three, Grubby.
Thank you so much for having us be a part of it.
Can't wait to see how it plays out.
So how am I watching the game, by the way?
Yeah, I'll share it on Discord, you can look at the video there.
You could have joined too if you want to, you can join the next one,
but for now I'm streaming it via Discord.
You would be joining via W3 Champions.
No.
Alright.
That's it.
It's a best of five.
The Grand Finals of the Alter of Champions 101 Tournament,
Hera against Yamato Canon.
It's nil nil.
The first map is of Yamato Canon's choosing.
The second will be as well,
And we're going to start on Northern Isles.
Let's see what Hera and Yamato Kanan have in store for us.
Probably going to see some expansions, I would guess.
I'm not exactly sure how Undead Human usually plays out
or what they're going to want to go for.
But you know, Yamato is going to hear the expansion.
Which one of the two is going to let their Shredder die?
See, Yamato Kanan.
Yamato. Yeah.
So how did that happen?
Do you think?
Go ahead, Grubby.
We hear a little bit of audio bleeds just a bit.
Yeah, it's starting your weekend again.
Oh, I'm going to lose it!
Yeah.
It's all good.
All right.
As he, I don't know how he is hoping to figure it out, but as he does,
thank you everyone, by the way, at home for supporting.
Thank you for all the subs, all the Twitch Prime subs, et cetera, and so forth.
Yeah, Yamato-kenna lost the shredder.
The way it happened is because all his other units were ensnared,
and it meant that they drop on the threat table.
And ensnared units have no threat, and it went straight to the shredder.
Yamato-Kenneth didn't aggro-toggle that.
He still ended up winning that game, so no big dealio.
I'm very curious too about...
Oh!
What?
Crypt Lord first!
Oh my god.
This is your hero!
Crypt.
Holy shit, it's happening with Team Beard.
So to explain, what are we gonna see here?
So what we're gonna see is he's gonna summon a Crypt Lord.
He's going to then unsummon the building
just for a little bit of extra resources.
Fuck it, all in.
make another crypt and just spam ghouls, spam summons, W key straight. Is that right?
That's definitely one of the builds that he could do and I think in many cases you would be
correct there. It's a build that he even learned. It's the first build he ever learned by the way
when he started Warcraft 3. W key, instantly. Yeah, but this is the... We bought a staff as well.
And this is the other variant of the build. The same two builds you learned by the way. This is
the one where you go for a fast expansion. You bring the skull of Blight, put down the skull,
You had a big win streak when you played this build on ladder probably winning like
So everyone's just fast expanding is that that's the meta or is it just noob friendly?
No, no, it's the meta you at the pro level
This is the meta for both human and undead knight of an orc
Regrettably don't get to do it
So they play a reactive aggressive playstyle that has to try and mitigate the advantage of fast expansion can give
A hero that's going for the earlier expansion, putting down a ziggurat already, trying to gather the resources to put down that gold mine, whereas he's about to come in, he's gonna take the gold mine as his third camp, and then the goal will be for both of them to try and kill as much economic value as possible from the other guy.
Suiciding fitmen to cancel gold mine, suiciding beetles and ghouls to try and kill peasants. That's the name of the game that's coming up.
I mean, this just looks miserable, man.
Like summoning little skeletons, making your peasants turn into little armored freaks,
and just immediately getting a goldmine, a high level camp.
What?
It's miserable to manage.
It can be difficult to manage, but when everything goes well, it feels real satisfying
and fun to do.
Yamatakan in there had a little victory roar.
He used the scroll of the beast, which is a 45 second buff that is usually saved to do a better fight.
I think that's a fat finger misclick. I can't believe that's on purpose.
How do you fat finger your F keys? What kind of hands does this guy have?
I don't know. I don't know how that happened, but at the end of the day, he's still going to get some advantage out of it with the footies, the water on the meadow, and so forth.
A Hera comes in with an Impale, gets a pretty good Impale, is starting to do a lot of damage.
We need Militia coming from home. Yamataka then pulls the Militia.
He has them on a control group.
It's gonna try and save as many peasants as possible.
In the meantime, Goldmine is making already four Hera.
Well, at least he got some value out of that scroll. The beast with this fight, right?
Yeah, he did.
He did.
But look at how many units there are. Skeletons, Penitals, Ghouls.
Fallen.
This is actually the most Zug shit I've ever seen from both sides.
It could be a very fast game here.
Is it actually just going to end here or is it just going to stalemate?
I think not quite yet.
I think this is all part for the course where economic damage has been done by both.
A lot of mana was used by Hera.
Crucially, he has kept Yamato Kanan on his own side of the map.
And now Yamato Kanan is going to feel afraid of another attack.
He places his town hall and he's going to power build it with six peasants.
But guess what?
one peasant on lumber at home and that means that soon he's gonna run out of
lumber you can see the number right here in the top left oh it's gonna go low
and then the power bill will stop and then if Hera goes again for a second
strike coming in from the left and I don't need to think Yamato knows he's
here on the left that could be lights out for him right then and there isn't a
hair having a really good time to you because like his gold mine is like
essentially done already yep you're exactly right he's having a great
Wow. So Hera's just way ahead now.
Yeah, Hera's way ahead.
The Empire is 2-pro, by the way.
The 16-time world champion RTS professional player here.
Taking a nice lead in game one.
It's good to note that out.
Hera comes back in again.
He now has Beatles level two starting to attack the peasants
that are trying to wedge themselves in a corner.
One of the five goes down.
There's the second one.
Three more are being attacked.
It's a massacre. It's a massacre. There's only a couple of peasants mining lumber. The tunnel does complete though
Okay, I
Mean am I am I okay? I would forfeit already. Am I wrong to do that?
I think you can still try move. Hey, you might still try to get a hero kill. Of course in a tournament
You should still try but if this was ladder
I would forfeit
There used to be a time where I would never forfeit until it was absolutely absolutely absolutely over if you've got that
No, not the whole hostage. You can win one out of a hundred. That's good enough, no?
Not over yet.
You can catch some creepers. Take them from behind. You never know. A surprise attack could be the swing.
I mean, Yamato, level 3.7. He's getting his peasants going. He's getting his economy going, but the damage has definitely been done here from Hera.
We'll see how the rest of this plays out. What's his next move going to be, you think, Grubby?
to be you think grubby it's a double grip in the graveyard follow-up for Hera so
that you can produce more he only has 33 populations got about 10 goals at home
they're not here yet if you mount a cannon walks in here and he kills like
five acolytes he could find his way back in the game his tech has started he has
proved remarkably resilient after a less than ideal start splitting his units to
attack acolytes and canceling cigarette as well look at that the
several footmen on different acolytes this is exactly what he needs to do it's
gonna get his level up on Water Elemental soon. Archmage is close to level 4. This is
what he needs to do. If he does well here and he kills enough ghouls, absolutely Yamato
can still win.
The acolytes are falling.
He's actually owning. You're not kidding. Owning the acolytes.
He's like a footman.
Just kept producing them, just like his coach demanded of him. There it is! Archmage level
4 is gonna get brilliant, Taro. Level 2, it's gonna be a lot of Water Elementals and there's
no destroyers on the field. Elementals are the king until destroyers come out. Yamato
was doing so well here killing so many ghouls it gives him so much experience
points yeah it's really good you guys didn't see that coming but now we're
just falling oh my goodness now you stay here forever I mean like you keep
summoning the blue guys and you just keep going oh my god he can actually just
take out the buildings just with this it's gonna kill the acolytes over and
over again and anytime Hera brings in ghouls he's gonna kill them because the
blue guys are way better than these small ghouls.
And this water alley is...
This character is busted!
They're clapping right now.
They are clapping.
Hello?
Very, very good. Just never leaving here is exactly what you want to do.
He's gonna want to go straight to tier 3 when his tier 2 finishes.
Look at this, he's solidifying a foothold on this expansion to prevent future counterattacks.
He's never wanting to leave.
Hera's crypt lord is dropping really low. He may not even be able to stay here.
There's another blue guy an attempt at surrounding this is surround. It's gonna deep
Wow, the craziest summon Wow
Those are going down. Oh, wait
Acolyte there. I would have forfeited. That's crazy. Yeah, just goes to show never give up always keep hope
So to pop in here would just give up at every single possible moment
He could but somehow the fighting spirit of Hera he continues on the absolute champion that he is
He's so motivated right now.
He's so motivated, he's gonna grant the ladder after this for like 5 hours, so...
Never give up.
Yeah.
Very nice job, Yamato.
He almost has enough mana to summon another Water and a Metal.
Herak comes in here, drank a healing potion, doesn't have a lot of mana.
He should be summoning some Beatles, but he's less experienced with this hero.
There it is, a couple of Beatles summoned.
He's gonna try and get to surround on the Archmage, but Yamato's too agile, too quick on his feet.
He completed his tier 2 straight to the tier 3, getting lumber harvesting upgrades.
He's doing everything he needs to do while remaining a thorn in Hera's side.
However much economic damage Hera did to him, he paid back in spades.
So what is Hera doing right now, like, building-wise? What's he working on?
He's gonna go to tier 3. He's making a slaughterhouse. It's late because of the mental pressure.
So both are going to tier 3?
Yeah, they're both gonna go to tier 3. Hera's gonna want to get destroyers
because they are counter to footmen and water elementals.
Yamato Canon is most likely going to want to make knights and flying machines.
That's exactly what he's doing. Double barracks, double workshop.
Interesting. And who do you think is going to win, based on what you're looking at here?
Man, I think Yamato Canon is in a fantastic position. I think he recovered really well.
It shows mental fortitude to continue playing his hand in that game.
I like Yamato Canon's position economically. He's ahead.
They're both at around 50 population, but his bank and infrastructure is a little bit higher
He's still making Footman, which I'm not too keen on
But he is creeping a big cap. Now, Hera, coming in with the creepjack. Who's gonna get the strong Warlord?
Uh oh, the coil gets it, doesn't it?
He coiled, but it failed! Yamato-Kannon had the second follow-up stormbolt, I believe, and took down that creep
and got the item as well, so he got everything he wanted to
Now, this is still a creep-jack where Hera gets the rest of the experience points.
I think with that, and losing Yamato-Kana in the Town Portal,
Hera has a little bit of map control again, and a good position to get back into the game.
He smited early.
Yeah, yeah, smited early.
Oh, you have some leak experience, right?
Not much. Let's not get into it.
I'm so bad at everything, I touch.
Still, Footman production is bad.
Going over 50 population with the Footman is even worse.
They should be saved all the money. He's losing so much money because he's making his footmen. They should be saved for knights.
So Yamato-Kana with a bit of blunder there economically speaking. He's gonna let that finish looks like but still it's fine.
He's making Paladin. He's getting flying. He's making knights and he's finding Hera.
He can start storm bolting fiends and taking them down.
Comfortable here for Hera. Does he have a... He has no town portal.
He gets boxed in here, could be really bad for that Death Knight and the Beetle King, the defending footies getting owned right now.
They're lined up, oh he has no mana for a big spiky thing though.
But his water alleys are so busted.
Oh my god, one of vacation is being used. This is the tier 2 item that can summon unsummoned water elementals.
There's also a lot of beetles. I don't think this fight is what Jumato Kannon wants to have.
He's also not using enough storm bolts on the fiends, it's kind of a noob mistake to make storm bolts happen on the death night all the time.
Having said that though, knights are starting to come in, they're a big counter to fiends, and the next bolt may actually get the death night noob mistake!
Himata kind of says, you have no idea what you're talking about! I'm gonna kill the death night!
Yeah, that's rough, that's rough.
So you're telling me that what he just did was a noob mistake?
Initially, yes. It's better just to kill one by one fiend, but because Hera didn't buy Zeppelin, he lost the death night.
Hera should have bought Zeppelin.
But look at this, look at this, here's an afmana, to go for the Criplord!
Stomald! Level 5 Criplord goes down!
It's game.
Is that game? Am I crazy?
Would you leave that?
Am I giving up too early?
Maybe.
I don't think it's gonna happen.
He's giving up all the time.
It's over.
Alright, this is...
Ah man.
Oh he's got a third hero, it's... oh I'd forfeit instantly.
It's not worth anything today, it's that soda poppin' gives up instantly at the, at any resistance, immediate benefit.
He's pushed back to his own base, you know, this guy's got triple hero, both his heroes just died.
That's a really big player, huge script jack by Yamato Kanan, he's got his Manta King almost at level 3,
Paladin coming in, getting some useful experience, look there, Staff of Sanctuary is the best item at tier 3 that human can get,
and he got it. He's making knights, he's got a couple of flying machines, no doubt.
Using flying machines to scout as well, to get some information about the whereabouts
of the undead player is exactly what he needs to be doing right now.
Herak got his third hero with the light. Why would the humans want to be making
flying machines? He said this is what he should do, but why?
Yeah, so when you make knights, knights are counter to fiends.
The counter to knights is destroyers.
And destroyers can be summoned from another unit that's already useful.
So because you can have many statues at the same time, it is an option whether you make them into
destroyers or not. If there are no flying machines on the field, those destroyers will win the game
for like a minute long. So you have to actually have to counter his counter. Yeah, you have to first
premeditate the destroyer so that they do not even become an option and so that your knights can
continue to dominate fiends without the destroyers ever making their foray into the game. Let's see.
And are you gonna ask what then you should do against Knights if you can't make destroyers?
Go ahead. Yeah, no, what do you do?
Banshees well, no, I'm listening. I heard it's the you know Knights are melee only or ground only
I guess you need flying to counter their flying. No, you would make sense
You would maybe go banshees banshees are very good against it
I guess that's just what the banshee's the
Just steal them. Yeah. Yeah, just steal them. Exactly. You'd have to max them out, wouldn't you?
Yes, you have to max them out
You have to go double temple start preparing it as a counter or continue to play with the tools that you have right now
Killed in a couple is killed many accolades going down
Not looking good for Hera here. You model getting some big creeps as well
He had it too yep, he's gonna try again. I know it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter
That was close if that fucker lived I swear I'd give up
Oh
Martin King is very low very low. He has a holy night. He's not gonna holy light on time
You're not again and holy light. It's something else
Martin King goes down all the heroes are falling. Crypt Lord is getting closer to level six panel then level two. It's to be two right now
True time, but they are fighting a little bit on undead ground here
Those flying machines are just zapping those beetles.
They do no damage at all.
No, they don't have their anti-ground attack actually, they're just watching to be honest.
So they're not doing anything?
Yeah, he didn't upgrade the bombs which allowed him to attack ground,
but it's usually better not to so that they don't accidentally attack the wrong thing.
Eventually you might want to get that upgrade though,
but they're mostly here as a scarecrow against future destroyers.
Now, that started off really well for Yamato, but he lost a lot.
Now, he walked away with almost nothing, right?
But look at this supply.
Where the hell is this supply?
Peasants.
Peasants everywhere.
AFK Nights, flying set, don't do anything.
Peasants everywhere with 1900 lumber in the bank.
He has 2000 lumber.
Yeah.
That's a lot of wood.
Lots of wood.
Maybe get a shredder.
Need even more wood.
He's gonna also scout.
That's crazy.
He's gonna scout the red spot as well.
Little does he know that this web spinner actually does a web even when you don't aggro.
It's a weird idiosyncrasy of this camp in particular on this ice map.
One of the many weird things about Warcraft 3 that I guess you just have to know.
Harris Death Knight, is it back yet?
Is he retraining it?
Oh, there it is.
He's so back.
Just vibe it in the middle there.
looking for creeps but Yamato's already got these, there's gonna be a lot of wasted time.
Meanwhile, Yamato potentially gonna get this red as well, gonna have a commanding creep
lead.
Great items on these heroes.
Yeah.
So, Yamato-
Arcade almost almost 6.
Yeah, level 6 must teleportation is very powerful potentially.
I wonder how much experience he has at using it.
Yamato, meantime, sees everything and Hera is not gonna be able to creep the red spot
because Yamato had it earlier on.
Now it is making a damage.
That was close.
Level 4 Paladin!
With Ankh.
I assume you take Divine Aura? Oh no, Holy Light and Bubble, okay.
No Devotion Aura, really?
Oh yeah.
Is that not good?
Well Devotion Aura is the greedy choice and we're seeing it more and more because people love to greed,
but he went for the safe choice.
I don't know if he picked it because of the spur of the moment decision to keep it alive,
or if this is part of what you need to do in the matchup.
Devotion's greedy, this is safe.
I see.
Here we're getting a huge camp there in the middle, doesn't get the item, doesn't need it.
It's a nice activity.
Oh, illusion really good on abominations.
Carol's gonna move into a tower.
There's only one, he's gonna kill it very quickly.
By the way, there is a town portal on Yamato Kanon,
so he's gonna trade out the remainder of his base.
Against a slaughterhouse that seems like an interesting decision. He is working on a third base though
So maybe this is the play, but I would like to see him also threaten the acolytes
And he is he's sending the Knights on the acolytes. It won't survive long though because Hera's mass towering
That's a lot of towers
This is so smart
So smart sending two Knights into the expansion as well
He wants to holy light the night in the back, but doesn't quite get it. He lost about I don't know
maybe set six peasants or so at the expansion. Hera does not have a town
portal by the way, so he's completely stuck to sacrificing the rest of his main base.
Another slaughterhouse going down, that's gonna be rough. Not gonna be able to recruit any high level minions here, I think, right?
Or any of these other buildings?
Wait, his tier three is just gone?
Well, right now it's still here. He did lose double slaughterhouse, but if the Black Citadel goes down, it will be ages before he ever makes a high quality units again.
It looks very good for Yamato Kanon. Is he gonna defend his main base? By the way, his Mountaking is AFK.
If he townportals with his Mountaking missing, it would be catastrophic for Yamato Kanon.
Oh.
The LC and base base back. Black's setting the road down fast.
Oh, he's gonna go back to the Stone Age.
Yeah, exactly. And Hera is also taking another base in the top left. They've got each other matched so well.
Near match here.
Near base rushing.
It's a base raid! It's a full-on base raid! Such an enjoyable state of affairs in a game of Warcraft 3.
You're both trying to judge whether it's advantageous to continue the base raid or not.
Oh, I mean shouldn't he go back now and defend?
I don't think you win this fight anymore, to be honest. With what he has, he's got his battle in low, Knights in low.
WHOA! He's boss teleporting home! I think it's a plunder!
I think it's a plunder!
Look at the archmage!
They're already stuck in there! Behind the farms!
delicious duck there's a coil maybe it's good maybe it's maybe you can get the
list actually and it's a storm bolt the list it's another coil oh my god is he
gonna use my dick at all big stun
Who's there's got a bubble?
Another foil!
This glitch is not going down the heels!
I fucked it right here.
Another stun!
Come on!
Another coil!
Oh!
Another coil!
The thing is so tanky!
Might be this time.
He might die.
He killed it!
Oh, he was sending another one.
He's got us around on the death knight.
But the mountain king needs to get out before he's followed and dies.
I don't know if I might see his uncle for incarnation, but the mountain king could die.
Mountain king has nothing to save himself!
He's getting slapped on!
No!
of Sanctuary and now he's got the death night surrounded.
Jim Atacannon saw the way of solution through the madness of this base
trade. He came back TP'd on top of the ledge. Jim Atacannon's Paladin is gonna fall
but remember that Ankh that he stole before? The Ankh that he secured? Because
Hurricane to Crippjack? Paladin will come back and the Cripp lords! BOOM BABY!
HOLY LIGHTS!
And the knights killed all the acolytes in the top left!
He killed all the acolytes here!
And there's only two acolytes left here!
Archmage though, here's Townportal!
Is he gonna use it? Is he gonna use it?
He is. Bye bye!
Damn.
He's out.
So, Hera is in a much better- No, not Hera.
Yamato is in a much better position now.
Oh yeah. I think if you were against Yamato,
you could leave right now so the yeah this is a valid if I was here a valid
forfeit here at this point but here might see the path maybe he sees something
we don't grubby is there any way what path any possible chance okay his third
gold mine died his second gold mine is not mining he's mining with two
acolytes here he has enough money to start a ledge and his necropolis just
finished make three acolytes and eventually make death knight and clip
Hera needs about 10 minutes undisturbed to serve up anything resembling an army once again.
Meanwhile, his units continue attacking the base. What does Yamato cannon have?
He has a staff of Sanctuary that can do free heals on any units that are low. They're cooldown based.
So, I don't know man! I think this is kind of in Yamato's favor.
Yeah. I don't even know what you do, I'm trying to think.
You try to leave I think.
You try to leave in the chat.
It's BM, he's overstain.
Or if you're Hera, you start building ziggurats around the map.
Then you try and war of attrition, endurance, break his mental a little bit.
GG!
There it is.
That was game one, that was sick.
I did not expect that.
Alright, alright.
Didn't think Hera was gonna lose there.
I was completely wrong. I've been wrong with everything so far.
Man, that's why we got you here.
So that's a subvert expectations,
put people on the wrong foot and then lead to the big surprise.
You're doing a great job in your position.
I really thought that was going to be over instantly.
What would you have done differently? Is there simply.
Me personally, you've got to stop the expansion, you know,
especially undead human. It's just so bad.
They're both standing.
Right. Oh, you're saying if I'm human versus undead. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So I mean, I would have done what your motto did
You counter the harass with the counter-ass you're just hurting each other's economy
Jingling each other's chains, you know, and whoever comes out on top of the econ game
It's a big advantage kind of snowballs for the rest of the game there beautiful stuff from your motto
This is an incredible game one. Can't wait to see what's in store here for game two grubby. What are your thoughts?
You think hair is bouncing back here
Man, I'm gonna go beatle again
I'm just in one day and in shock at how good these two guys are playing like it's just been really enjoyable
And there was so much back and forth to the point where either one of them could have won it at a multitude of different
Situations, so I really don't know how it's gonna go
I do expect both to be fast expanding again. Having said that though, do you know the diversity of
strategy Hera has shown so far, all of which he was mostly hiding in his ladder spree,
coming up with those secret builds? The crippled fast expand didn't see it coming. He did practice
it a bit, but that was a while ago. Maybe he has something new again. Maybe it's going to be like
a one basal in this time. It could be Lich expand, it could be Death Knight solo base play. I don't
No, and I love that I don't know because we're about to be served up a surprise here
Yeah, I want to see more DK litch. I don't like Crippler. I think it's I think Crippler sucks
Sentiment oh nice on nice on
I did not hear what you said he said more like crazy Lord am I right high-five good one good one
It's actually true. It's so true
Yeah, I just want to see some massive fucking explosions with DK coil combos on people. I love it. He's so good. My favorite thing
He is I love seeing it quick little snack. It's best of five, right? Or is this best of seven? Yeah, it is best of five
so
Two to four maps away from the finding the game result. Hera's ready tight hunters. It's the second map of choice for Yamato cannon
Let's jump right into it without any further headliners
here we are in game number two the best of five grand finals winner takes the
first place of the altar of champions tournament let's get into it I'll share
with you guys the screen the headliner the headliner all right let me flip
the cameras on those guys okay we get dramatic and on the left all right yeah
let's see what's gonna happen we won't know what hero hero wants to be going
for honestly it could be anything could be dreadlord, Cripplord, Lich, or Deathknight
first all four have seen cases of usage. Go to the tavern! Go to the tavern! Yeah, why not?
Go to the dark ranger! Just go to the tavern. It's gonna be Lich, 100% someone said. Wait,
are you watching, uh, Kamikulis? Yeah, look at that fix. It's fixed. That's fast. I want
to see, uh, what about a dark ranger? You know, she's on dead, right? Dark ranger, very good
as a third hero against human.
You could do Dark Ranger first.
Why not a first?
You could do it, but you need a completely different build.
You need to delay your altar, get for faster other units,
and then learn how to leverage that hero.
It could absolutely work.
There's a lot of small camps on this map
that could give you skeletons.
It gives you a way to stay near the human
as they wanna go for a fast expansion
and then hit him with a maximum amount of skeletons.
But Hera most likely has no practice with it.
Interesting yeah, that sounds complicated managing all the skeletons. I just
True bread and butter the death night big coils
The clothes are actually so fat
It's fun, right?
Just watching the Lich Kings health go from zero to full repeatedly it while the only thing targeted is the Lich and it just tanks
Crazy, it's just how strong
It could still be Death Knight Fast Expand or it could be Death Knight Harass.
One of the games where Hera won against Yamato Canon in the Clan War, he went with a Death
Knight and he found angles to Harass peasants on an earlier map they played, Awesome Leaves.
Yamato Canon is going to open up with the laboratory creep camp, perfect pool timing
on the Militia Footman and the Archmage.
He's going to pull the creep camp away in order to disable spell casting on the Rock
Golem and the Mud Golem.
When they come back, they won't remember how to summon the stun boulder as well as the
slow, just a little creep exploit force in CD.
He kills the priest first and then he's gonna go for the next.
This gives a level 2.2.
The best item Yamato could find here is rope of the Magi plus 6 and Scourge Bone Chimes.
Let's see which item he finds.
The worst he could find is Boots of Guelphalus.
I hope it's the boots.
I really do.
I'm gonna zoom in on his cam too when it drops and just see the the life leave his eyes. Come on boots. Let's see
I'm dropping low
Okay, that's all I think that's third best maybe second best Lionheart of Stormwind one armor on everyone around him very very good
I have a level one point. It's gonna be good. Go ahead
That's gotta be good cuz you don't take devotion or on the paladin, right?
Yeah, yeah, exactly if you go holy light these shield now you got that third ability as well
And it's good because it's just against everything except Koil Nova. It's just making you more tanky all of your units
It's incredibly powerful. Whoa, wait, why this many militia?
That's way too many. What is he doing? Are we doing an early invade?
The scout is here from Hera. He sees it. Oh, you're right. So that he is doing an early invade
He's creeping without his archmage. He's doing a fast level three creep camp
Route where you use every single militia to creep without the hero
You're not supposed to summon this elemental.
This elemental is a mistake, by the way.
It's supposed to wait until you get your AM3.
That is what you meant, Soda?
OK.
It's exactly what I meant.
No, you're right.
I knew he was doing that.
We're early invading that camp.
It's going to bring him in later.
Oh, no, he's already dead.
Did he get XP for that?
Yeah.
Yeah, you get global XP, so AM is now 3.
The idea was to send AM into the undead base with AM3.
But him coming back to the vent invalidates this approach,
actually.
He doesn't understand this build well enough to do it, in my opinion.
And Herra walked right past him, Yamato is supposed to ignore this, sent his peasants home earlier,
and Yamato is supposed to go to the acolytes that are undefended.
But instead, he puts himself on the back foot, Herra gets his aggressive value,
and is losing almost nothing while he's killing loads of peasants.
Oh, how close do you put him to play it? Almost level 3 coil.
Almost level 3 on the death knight, he's killing so many peasants,
lost literally nothing. He also stole the ring of protection that was dropped from the
farm of the peasants. And even this cool with 21 HP is getting away from the double footman.
Now, what is that acolyte doing? It was a scout acolyte.
It was a scout acolyte that revealed what was actually happening. This was the eyes
that Hera was able to act on. It's why he ignored the AM when he found it and went straight for the
peasants. God, what a sweaty freak.
Yeah, it is.
Harrison Gray, this is so fucking nice for him as an opener.
Can we get this level 3 probably off these footies? Scouting the top again.
He's coming back in! This guy's dying!
He's getting so much mileage out of this acolyte to confirm once again
is the expansion being remade. Decay gets level 3, nearly full mana.
He sees the expansion being made once again. He knows everything he needs to know.
He could just start coiling that arsenal with so much mana and level 2 coilo is gonna try to go for surround on the archmage
Oh, so close the shop going down
There are not able to get any purchases off before it drops kind of unfortunate
He makes a shop in the same place it's gonna get cancelled instantly he did get to cancel coils of footman
I mean he's just blasting him with coils. Oh, it's so much XP
Oh, oh trade going on for every ghoul. It's like two or three footies career is very happy with this
Yeah, yeah, yeah good trades for her. I did lose a couple of ghouls
But about three to four footmen went down the mountain camera keeps pressuring because he has to buy time for his expansion to actually launch
Into the atmosphere is going for a cigarette. This is a bad play. That's a fortified building. It's better if you find schools or acolytes
And another footy going down maybe he coiled that one
Yeah, if it gets away, you should.
You should, maybe.
Yeah, there it is.
Wow!
It's Quill in there.
It's literally kill per Quill.
Yep.
He's doing a great job of that.
Now, he does know about the expansion.
The acolyte's gonna get killed.
I did hope it would hurricane.
And this is where Hera probably wants to move forward again and kill some peasants.
Many footmen died, so there's not that much to stop him.
Some other Quill coming in, maybe?
No mana yet.
It's about seven more mana.
meantime, Hera did go to tier 3, he's only mining with 4 Acolytes. Acolytes is AFK,
he's making the tomb, does have enough lumber to start a slaughterhouse, but hasn't noticed
that this needs to be done right now. Lich is out, he's waiting for the rod,
and Yamato is recovering. He has his shredder! He has his shredder, and he has tier 2 started.
Now, when do you think Hera should be getting a second expansion? Because I've noticed he's not
It's not going to have as much gold, right?
Yeah.
It's tough.
Simply had the same problem earlier before, against both Yamato Cannon and against Hera,
where the question of a second expansion is not as obvious of whether it actually should
happen.
You can try to all in with one base, or you can try to make a counter expansion.
Simply you ended up not expanding as much maybe as one could have imagined.
Is it because you tried to just end with bears and attack?
Yeah.
Yeah, I had a lot of games in Ladder where I basically just ignored expansions and they didn't harass me, so I got my bears at a great time, and then I would just rush them and usually win, but Yamato and Hera were really played it well, they got the expand and the harass, so it was like double jeopardy, cooked my ass.
Bears are also overpowered, so you were carried by that, but whatever.
Yeah, are they though?
I think everything's kind of here.
Everything is OP, but nothing is OP. You know everything's got its things
This water house is getting put nice on the same level as bears
Yes, simply he didn't put the slaughterhouse in the back
I keep telling him not to put it in front and he keeps not listening
It's gonna be able to get the council when it was 99% of the way done
He didn't cancel it did he no cancel so he just lost all the gold yep
All the gold all the umber and he's gonna miss his window city and statues
Why doesn't he just listen to you grubby I know I know nobody ever
To be fair it well he did put it back now didn't he right? That was a slaughterhouse
Yeah, but he should have already come back there look just to put it in perspective the game time is 9 15
Normally you should have two statues and destroy upgrades out of the small towers by this time
Instead he hasn't even got one yet.
He's a little behind.
Very, very behind.
And Yamato-kanan jumps in once again.
He's going to send his arch-bridge in.
And start attacking his slaughterhouse.
And Ghouls is going to kill so much.
The fact that they know that it's like how pivotal this one building is,
and just constantly stopping it.
It's not going to stop this one, I don't think.
This actually could be a good thing for Haram, maybe?
Goin' over, I wouldn't kill the archmage, he has to down portal and he does!
He blocks the coil with the TP!
Yeah, that was great.
That was crazy.
Yamato saw it coming. He saw that a mile away, he was just waiting for it.
Wow, that's a fortified expansion. Lots of towers on the main too. Yamato gotta be sitting comfortably.
Look at the economy, look at these bases.
I mean, goodness.
Wonder if he's gonna go for night flying again? Or for siege engines? He is making the workshops, so it could be either siege engines or flying machines. Both are possible.
Hera's gonna try and make use of his time as he's waiting for the slaughterhouse units to materialize onto the field to just get a little bit of creeping.
You're almost never going wrong in Warcraft 3, trying to grow your power via creeping. That's exactly what he's doing.
Always be creepin', follow your ABCs, chat pointin' out that Yamano has no shop right
now.
Yep, that's true.
Oh.
Yeah, look at the hero levels.
Shop's important on human.
Very important.
You wanna have it now to maybe get TP, heal pot, or regen scroll.
Even if he didn't get those, you still wanna synchronize it with your Tier 3 in order to
get Staff of Sanctuary.
That part he has right, at least.
In a minute, the shop and the Tier 3 will be done at the same time, so that's not too
big of a deal. He must be very afraid on this archmage right now because you could
be coiled Novot out of orbit. A Zeppelin might be able to save him from that if he thinks
of it.
Oh my god, what if you Zeppelin a mage or a DK Lich and you just drop them both down
and just blast them instantly?
Put the DK Lich inside and drop, you could just walk up as well.
But, uh, we can do it from, like, you know, from Africa.
Just, like, out from the ocean, you know, just drop in and then leave and just keep
bombing people.
You can do that.
And then you can dodge Stormbolt from the mountain king with the Zeppelin as well and
just keep going.
Oh!
I frame that too?
Nope.
Yeah, you can.
I frame that.
Whoa!
What is it?
Pit Lord.
Hello?
Is that for Rain of Fire?
No, he got half there.
That's his comfort hero.
disadvantage that Hera has. He's got much better hero levels and he's also got the 57 population
while Yamato is still in 40. So right now Hera is way stronger even though we were singing the
praises of Yamato doing pressure. Yeah Yamato spent a lot of time and resources on towers and
he's I think he's waiting for his T3 to really bust out all these units so it's kind of a small
window that Hera has here to really do some damage. He has the army advantage.
Let's see what he does. Attacking the expo destroyer going down.
Coil mess. Who tried to get the coral. Oh my god.
Destroyer down. That hurts really bad. That's not good.
It doesn't even get the army. It's not good at all the way.
Not good at all sort of. You should send the ghouls in first.
I guess he's still killing towers with his ghouls. That's pretty damn good.
Double destroyer just taking out instantly.
If for nothing, BANG!
Where's the bottom back in the damn tank?
One coil!
Oh!
Okay, nice staff.
But now, now Archmage also at risk.
Paladin.
Knights are coming out now, the big units.
It's not enough, he needs to buy time.
I don't think Yamato Kanon is ready for this fight.
Nice surround by Hera with the ghouls as well.
Oh!
The Holy Light not enough, level one Paladin.
It tickles.
This might be over here, goodness gracious. Heroes are crazy.
Yeah, so high level.
Oh, we got images.
Oh, look at that cyclone on the night for 15 seconds.
That's not going to be a part of the fight for a little bit.
The other night is dropping really low.
Keep in mind Yamato is forgetting to remake peasants at the expansion,
all of which were killed by the hit squad of Hera.
Hera is waiting for the cyclone unit to drop,
but I don't think he knows how long it lasts on units,
so he keeps surrounding something that isn't there yet.
Hitboard surrounded.
He's so dead.
Oh no, my coil!
And it's a repeat of the last game.
We saw the focus on the Lich and the repeated coils
buys hair of time to do damage to his army.
He's got another coil in him.
Doesn't need it though.
Goodness.
There's a little Lich. Everyone's in the room. He needs mana.
Yeah, he needs accoutaries here.
This is very good play by Yamato.
Putting one footman to check for gold mine counter expansions.
It's going to be very helpful.
that he needs to keep tabs on, but for now Yamato Kanon held on against the furious assault of
Hera. He's finally starting to mine from his expansion again. He's got his knights on the
field, one staff of Sanctuary, the third hero is coming out. He's able to fix his control groups
and yeah that was a really good hold. Very impressive. However, that DK is almost level
six. He's getting there. I shouldn't say almost, but that seems scary. He's got a ways to go,
But he's getting there
He could do the solo strategy. I
Employed against Hera you put all your heroes away and you just bring the one hero
You want to be level six into the fight to get them to level six faster?
For the one you caught a metamorphosis like before a fight even started and you killed two peasants with it
And that was it
Well, that was that was a mental play
I think I haven't seen metamorphosis sent them into complete shock and terror
And it was the domino effect you were over a very long time. Yes
Losing a night to creep so when I goes down that's not here finds him here
This could be really really bad for your motto. He is just before simply instant TP
Have seen this before but he is getting out flashbacks
horrifying soda poppin considering forfeiting and not really sure if he
should or not. I quit right there.
Those of you still though by Yamato Kanan. He gets a pretty mediocre item in Cloak of Flames
but he gets the experience and gold that that camp affords. Lost one knight to the creeps but
did make his way out once again. Also finished his animal war training upgrade
to give bonus 100 health to knights and the knight upgrades are two armor and one
Attack not too shabby at all. He's aware that there's no counter expansion
Why is he not going for divine shield this time? I?
Think he maybe took it because he was about to lose his pilot in last game like a like a switch up
But the motion panic yeah, yeah, and then he just stuck with it, but now he's doing the more greedy devotion time will tell if that's correct
I mean he sold his devotion item. I noticed we know he still has it. He still has it
Right? It's just overlapping. It's doing nothing.
It's doing nothing. That's right.
He could have a bubble right now.
Yeah, he could have a bubble.
Shadow would not have made that mistake.
Yeah.
All the farm, the cheeky farm, get him taken down.
Double ghoul melee attack upgrade, 56 pop, harassing on one base, he's going to try to
use his high level heroes, and a high attack damage from the melee units here, while also
creeping the map, by the way.
He's hoping to keep mount the king and Paladin at level 2 max and taking every single creep away on the map
Look at this. He's multi creeping
But the DK is actually wow DK is stealing exp here level 5 cannot get exp from creeps. Oh
I didn't know that
Expand here from Hera grubby. I'm a little concerned on the gold mine
I feel like it's gonna be getting drained sooner approaching minute 20
No second base for Hera, but the gold as well. Okay, he's got 3500 but the gold for Yamato
Also gonna be running out at the top there and not too long
But you might be able to close this out 76 pop. Hell, it's like 10 minutes left
I mean resource behind at this point Yamato can and could get to 100 population
The thing is Hera can also get to 80 or more the army size difference isn't gonna be that big
There will be a bank difference though, but it's really valid just to focus on strong heroes
Looks like Harrow's gonna take a fight. He's got Halftar to drop the damage of the Knights and the fights is in full swing
There are destroyers. Where are the flying machines? They're coming in. There they are
It's going to be they're awake the bottom nations in these Knights are falling fast, but the Gyrocopters big damage
I'm watching that DK's levels to as soon as he gets six. They all get rest
True. He's not using a lot of rules right now
Many goals have fallen against the Knights the flying machines are in hot pursuit against the destroyers running them away is almost
Pointless nice coil there on the abomination trying to keep them alive. Pit Lord is really low
But the hero levels for you not to get an aren't quite there
Big CC on there
We're gonna be called a bit large
And I know the pit Lord enable me save. Oh my god
No, what's no way these are fat coils if he keeps them up
It's gonna be huge and they just want these big tanky meaty boys
is that game no bubble no bubble no bubble the ball in imagine oh coil
there's a boom 5.7 on the DK the shredder now he's got 1500 lumber I
guess I did his job but it is sad to see games over now right am I crazy I
think so I think it's the beginning of the end soda popping simply do you see
anything that you're not to kind of can still do here to get back into it I think
He might you might need a bite. Oh, he killed that right here. Oh, oh
The lich is he losing the ability to attack it by staffing there wait how much mana decay 74 74 75
Okay, hold on we might get we can get some big elementals here could be a decent swing
There's only a couple coils left in his container running out of mana and here a walking away grubby
what do you think? I thought it was getting to be over I thought Hera was
doing everything he needed to but look at the Yamato cannon war machine fueled
by the very strong economy somehow some way despite losing all his heroes he's
back to 79 population how make nights safe nights with staff save them with
staff again oh oh oh okay it's fine God that undead is so fast okay here's how
hero still wins this game despite being so behind in population get your mana
from the statue take a fight kill a couple of nights and then raise them
from the dead with animate dead from the DK then ritual one of the animated
dead nights get full mana on lich and know by everything it's tough boys I'm
not gonna lie but that's what it might have to look like I did not follow what
you just said and it made that then when death night six it's what you've been
saying this whole time so that's what we've been talking about sacrificing
git mana then Nova yeah you can you can ritual the zombie nights with rich to
get mana oh so we get six summons fake undead yeah sacks the fake undead for
and blast yes level five Nova yes kaboom oh this is five Nova five coil oh
it's over this is where you can get it up to speed to do it that night's very
close to level six he needs a couple of peasant skills to get there this is good
for her off the start of the ground it's coming in to try and defend keep in mind
pollinant isn't here yet he's a minute away he only has a bunch of knights
oh they bomb they're going to work they're on the a bomb
they bombs trying to run away though they are scared backs turned to the
nights letting them take them from behind first night fall in here
another staff beautiful he's not letting me in six triple staff on the human
by the way huge all the stories are back where the flying he brings them in
immediately keeping the flying out of vision to give the full sense of security
that you can use destroyers again is exactly what you're not to Kevin wants
to be doing right now. Montekin gets level 3, Stormbolt level 2, moves in with the Stormbolt,
on the Death Knight, Death Knight, really low, destroyers are getting slaughtered by the flying
machines, I think Yamato Cannon is doing it!
Yeah, and I think he's at right now.
Well, 5.5, one kill, 6!
We're 6 and 5!
Can he cast it?
He's the mana!
I don't think he can.
He's the mana.
Pit Lord, Pit Lord is falling.
No mana.
Pit Lord down.
Ooh.
Such a good defense by Yamato Cannon, another Stormbolt on an abomination as he stabs another
night he has reached critical mass of power
Hera's trying to do what he can but the emanations that he has left
but there's just too much value. What? Why is he not expanding?
I didn't ever think. There it is! Enemy dead! Oh there it is!
Ritual into the sack! One night! Big Nova!
Oh that's another d- okay. What the fuck? This is actually just-
Devanto just denied his night. That was like insane presence of mind under such
duress.
He killed his own knife?
Yeah, to deny experience.
Oh, I didn't know he killed it himself!
Yeah, that was crazy. Like, under in such a moment, that's crazy.
But it's a Nova every 8 seconds.
Yamato-kenon is running away, trying to outlast the anime dead.
Lich is gonna do another Nova. Nice.
Oh, these Novas are fat.
So good, so good. Is there another staff?
Yes, he has it. Is he gonna use it? Yes!
Oh, Yamato's playing out of his mind right now.
Oh, there's the experiment.
What had happened a long time ago?
Might be a little too late.
The fun fact, Soda, you know the first one that you practiced for was almost two weeks.
The third tournament, three weeks.
And for the fourth tournament, it was supposed to be two to three weeks, but Tyler just started practicing.
So I was forced to announce it already.
And everyone had like three to four weeks of practice.
So it's not as new as the first one.
More practice.
I see. Well, it shows. Look at these freaks.
There goes one deep... God, finally one kill that actually is a kill.
And all that oh the mountain king does he have the reins to get the stormboat on the list? Oh my god
Yep
Wow
Oh for your motto are we gonna see a 3-0 in the grand finals here after Hera having such a devastating
legendary run through losers
That was crazy on from law Tyler one in the chat happy to see Hera getting owned by Yamato
Will he be able to clap back in Game 3?
Grubby, what are your thoughts?
I don't know man, it's just incredible what Jim Atacannon is doing here.
He is only a League of Legends player and he's winning against an RTS 16 times champion, so how is this possible?
I'll be honest, I'm baffled.
I think honestly, both of them are Age of Empire pros or something.
That's the only thing that makes sense to me.
Not to kind of just doing great, you know, he worked super hard for this.
I think these two put in the most work, the most amount of hours, and it's not to the
discredit of anyone else.
Everyone worked hard for this, but they're just putting in inhuman hours that are almost
beggaring belief and it's no surprise to you.
Can we just do a calculation on how much they've played the past four weeks and just put that
like statistic next to them?
Check this out.
Check this out.
We got to see it.
this right here. This is their ladder record. This is the rankings. You have
Yamato Kanan who has a record of 190 games wins and 142 games losses. That puts him
at 331 games, but 100 games were played on Battle.net before he went to W3
Champions. So he has 431 games. Hera has 425 games. They put in a lot of volume.
Okay, how long do games typically take?
14 minutes.
14 minutes, and how many games?
425 games divided by 60.
They've done 100 hours of practice with that, with pure games.
Just the pure games.
That's not even like VOD watching.
Here in the game, Matt started 100 hours of gameplay.
Yeah, and then Yamato Kanem probably did 50 hours of
getting coached in VOD review.
God he worked hard for us and they both did
Would you say that like the how close these games are where it was it is this normal this back and forth
Is this where is this kind of unique here? I don't think this is normal so that sometimes I'm forgetting that I'm watching noobs
I don't think they are anymore. I don't think they're noobs. I don't even think they're average
They're far above average already in just three to four weeks
And sometimes it's hard to remember not to be too critical because I feel like I'm watching a pro game like everything looks
Very close to what pros would do of course
It's not quite with the same level of accuracy, but all the big beats they're hitting it and it's just super impressive
Yeah, I could never
No surprise Tyler lost
I see him there
The stray hits here from soda poppin
See how Tyler reacts to that can't be too happy about that
You know, he was pretty upset about the hair loss still reeling as he's watching these games
menacingly
Hoping for a 3-0 probably but maybe Hera has an answer here in game three
They've been so close. He had moments to close out these games
but Yamato taking it in the long-term
It's so tough that on you. I just saw time shots
We never trash stoked him so him doing a little bit of hate watching seems to be on point
You're completely winning sadly. It's on that fuck. So shit. You're completely winning sadly
It's undead take a third expo sit the fuck down to an old dumb fuck. I mean there's there's anger in those words a little bit
It's about par for the course for Tyler one I feel like that's that's pretty pretty standard stuff
even if he won the messages probably would be kind of similar kind of keeps
that energy it's just a passionate guy you know emotional as stated on the
website. Can't tell. The map we don't know yet.
The terrace turned to pick but he is not here yet and so I am going to ask the
two of you to yap the show together a little bit and because I need to walk
my dog like three minutes. Okay. That cool. Got it. Easy. No problem. So simply what made
you join the work every tournament, man? How did this happen? Okay, it's actually a funny
story. So Mary, maybe the person who got absolutely completely owned this entire tourney barely
did any prep for it. She came in my chat at the start and she's like, Hi, I'm in a war.
I'm in grubby's Warcraft tournament. And I was like, What? I remember watching that last
things toast I wish I could be in that yeah whatever but she went to grubby and
was like hey simply would join I didn't even ask grubby but Mary did it on my
behalf she recruited me and then you know grubby grubby gave me the invite is so
honored to join and this game I got a lot of nostalgia for it I played it since
I was you played it custom games yep all the TDs all that shit you know
You know, grinded my ass off and shit, bro.
I still kind of look at these games from the perspective of a 12 year old, right?
When I played this when I was 12, the only thing I ever did was spam to tier three and
make chimeras and frostworms.
I didn't even know there were units in between that.
We have not seen a single chimera.
We have not seen a single frostworm.
It's spellbreakers, which, boring, never touched them in my life, druids.
Rejuve, shifting, mid-fight? No, no way. I mean, even getting an expo is something you do when
your gold mine ran out back then, when you're 12. So, I don't know, I still have that stupid,
really bad at video games, 12-year-old mindset watching these.
Yeah, so how did the tournament go for you last, you were in it last year? Or was it,
was it a couple of years ago? I don't even, dude, I don't even know what year it is.
So I don't know what even happened.
It's a problem.
Drugs, the drugs.
No, really, no, you're right.
I've got weed break.
So good.
But no, it was like some amount of time ago.
Yeah, I just completely fucking clocked out mentally.
I couldn't do it.
I was too stressed.
Uh, it's too stressful playing this game.
And it's maybe like the turn base in me as fucked me.
But it's like, you play a turn based game.
You can play Hearthstone perfectly perfect really perfect choice every time this there's always something to work on
I don't know what the fuck the right choice is nor do I have the mechanical or APM skill to do what I want to do and
After that, I might even know what I want to do
It's such a
Miserable genre I'm gonna say it
Add it all on top the fact that the units are just fumbling over each other half the fucking game
Like you just click them to go somewhere and they just are in each other's ass
Shuffling like it's a fucking line for some reason even though there's a wide open space
It's just a pain in the ass like the amount of the amount of the APM you need just to move a
Group is like insanity and it requires so much focus. I turn mute when I play this game. I can't say a word
I don't look at chat. I am gone
Simply I was watching the tournament. I was I was bouncing between grubby's perspective and yours
So they're yapping on grubby stream kind of like how we are right now just yapping and I go to yours and all it is
It's deafening silence with the occasional
With the occasional off this oh my god exactly nothing else because there's no room for anything else
Welcome back at all, but it's such a great game, and that's why we love it. We love this game so much
We love playing it. We love watching it. It's it's just an amazing game grubby
What are your thoughts I feel like based on the context of the situation you guys were just trash talking my favorite game
No, absolutely. No
We were not doing that maybe airing some
You know grievances with the game as anything as everything you love there's you know you take the good with the bad
There's a lot of good here. Of course. Hey, good
I understand that I understand that so what was it about?
Well, he was just asking about my last tourney experience and I was talking about RTS games.
It's impossible to play perfectly in an RTS. Again, I went to Hearthstone. In Hearthstone,
you can very easily make the perfect move every turn. But it's turn-based, obviously.
But you go to an RTS, there's so many decisions to make. You don't know what the right decision is.
Even if you do know what the right decision is doing it is hard. It's not simple
It's clicking this box highlighting this moving this guy away here. It's it's hard
And it's stressful. It's a stressful ash genre
Yeah, no, that's definitely true. Hey, you think I never get tilted about Warcraft 3. I get it man
But then I organized one of these and I can just watch and I don't need to play
It's awesome
Even me as a noob I'm watching these guys. They're miles ahead of me my I mean I could probably actually no
I don't think I could do this to you Grubby, but I can watch and I can pick a pop
Oh, they should have done that. No, that was a misplay. I could never play better
But there's so many mistakes you see when you're sitting here just watching
Yeah, for sure. I don't know about you guys. I've watched you I frame storm bolts
And then laugh about it and then make subs during the process
So, whole different ball game over there.
Yeah, I know.
Still.
For sure.
No, it's very difficult, for sure, and you know, it's very frustrating too when you come
back and you're rustier than you once were.
I get it, man, it's all true, and honestly, these guys are playing very impressively.
It's, once again, it's difficult to remember just how new they are at the game, and I have
nothing but respect for what they're able to do here.
It looks like Hera is ready.
kind of needed to go for a reset. Now, making the show wait while you go for a reset when
you're very behind is something I've done before as well, quite a lot. Going right into
it when you're in a losing momentum is unwise and it's you against the pressure of the moment,
you against the pressure of the org, you know, for an online event it's pretty hard to keep
someone in their chair and I think it should be allowed. Taking a break, kind of thinking
about, hey, what am I going to do next is exactly what you want to do. It was within
reasonable period of time as well. So the big question is, can Hera start bringing it back?
Now, before you answer, recently he played an AOE 2 tournament, the Red Bull tournament,
he fell behind in a best of 9-0-3, and then he came back 5-3 winning 5 in a row. That's filthy.
That's an insane comeback. He's got indomitable endurance when it comes to his, you know, hope.
Yes. Got that dog in there, as some might say. I need a screen share, Grubby. Yeah, yeah. First thing through. You're blind.
Reverse the player order, the score. Okay, we got that. Cameras, all good. Okay, and then I'm going to share the screen.
All right, here we go. This could be the final map of the best of five. Grand finals of the Altair of Champions,
Yamato Kanan and Hera are going neck and neck in this series.
Tuesday Relief for Yamato Kanan, if he wins, he will be the champion, and Hera is going
to try to come back from behind to do what he did in the Ripple LAN a month ago in Age
of Empires 2.
Let's go.
Hera's got the experience, I feel like, with all the Age of Empires, if nothing else,
obviously the RTS experience helps a shit ton, but also just the tournament vibe, you
being able to come back from such a devastating lead that your opponent has, I feel like Herob
might not even be fazed at all right now. He's made it this far. I don't think he's going to go
down without a fight. What do you think, Sota? I have spaced out completely. What do you say?
I was not going to go down without a fight. Let me ask you something simply. He is going to fight
In your speedrunning adventures in Super Mario 64, has it ever gotten as tense as in a competition
here?
Because you're also competing for World Record and whatnot.
It must be stressful when things are going not right and you just want to push it to
the next level of the World Record.
Yeah, it's kind of a different vibe.
I definitely got more nervous playing Mario than I ever got playing this game.
Really?
But I did get nervous and bring it for sure.
Yes.
You're on a lot when you have that when that what it's those last five minutes last ten minutes
And then you just got to clutch it out
You know you get one run a week maybe one run a month that gets there. It's
Like that you have one run a month. Maybe it gets to like a good time. There's only one term in a year
Maybe maybe it depends. You have a good day. You have a good week get a couple in a row
But you know comes and goes that's pretty cool. I didn't expect that that's very cool
I should I should check out those events sometime in time. You might again and it's creeping in the top left with the archmage
Fully seen by Hera. He's gonna try and do a steal with his acolyte
Doesn't quite get there on time. Haha
Imagine
I don't have to imagine I only have to remember it I once won a tournament match stealing a level six creep with a peon
It was awesome. Can you imagine that feeling?
That's it. That's
Yeah, it was it was recorded. Yeah, I mean I don't it's it's it's lost now. It's lost the time and space
You're just gonna have to believe me. I guess
There's no like I don't know Warcraft 3 movies or like tournament footage. This was before twitch existed like YouTube barely existed
One could say that you are a Warcraft 3 historian
You are the collector of antique plays one of them. I guess when you make it sound that way
It's not as cool as it was in my memory
I'm happy to be a part of that.
Hera got level 2.4 on the death night.
He sold his temporary, bought the circulate of nobility.
An optimal for him would be to take a circuitous route,
not through the obvious path.
But then again, maybe you just want
to be there as fast as possible.
Look at this smart Yamato cannon footman.
He's going to be aware of what's happening.
He'll finish this creep and then run as fast as possible.
Wait, Hera is not running as fast as possible to the goldmines.
So Yamato cannon is going to be in position.
Now Yamato messed up his econ.
You know why?
He's mining this far away in wood instead of over here
And so he hasn't gotten up lumber and he momentarily stopped
Power building the the tower the town hall and it's very bad and this may actually cost him his town hall
This town hall should be done already. It should be done already done
Oh the peasants dropping like flies. Oh God a lot of econ damage. He's just getting a skeleton
Oh
So you're telling me that one lumbered diff made or break this town hall entirely?
It's still gonna finish, but it's delayed a lot, and that's exactly what you need to stay in the game
one versus two base. You can never stop it entirely, but this is a large delay on it.
Very good for Hera, very bad for Yamato Kano. And it's all because he's mining too far away.
He should be mining here. Just gotta move him. Gotta move those peasants.
Karan is going to try and make himself scarce, break contact, and then loop around and go
again.
This would be the optimal play.
Will he know to do that?
Do you see any different plays compared to last game?
Any different starts?
In the last game?
Because that's like ghouls again, I think?
Yamato-Kannon had level 3, but I made it 4 last game.
Now it's 5-20.
He went for the first camp, fast expansion.
And so he doesn't have the same counter attacking power that he did in two of the other games
for AM was level 3 quite fast.
Ooh, overstrength.
That's pretty good. Bonus plus 3 strength.
Archmage is gonna try and come over here and do some damage, but without the big water elementals, it's not gonna do as much.
Didn't steal that creep.
Yep.
So, Hera should not expand.
Not yet at least.
Yeah, I don't think so. I think, you know, if you look at how close he got in the second game, even though he didn't do...
Actually, he killed a lot of peasants as well. Never mind.
Well, Hera had a pretty good start last game. It was Yamato Kanon's counterattack against the slaughterhouse that was exposed that kept him in the game.
Now again, he will try the same thing. And there is a slaughterhouse location here that he could go for.
But there's already an attack by Yamato Kanon. He needs to make the solid right here.
Look at that militia creeping this camp gave him a m3. Now. He has the big guy
So that's like a human strategy just get your militia to just go take out creeps while you're doing other stuff exactly
It's global XP. It's so scary. I lost so many games to it to that global XP mechanic
Wow
Elementals are so tanky they do so much damage you can keep summoning them. It's gonna be harassing here
It's gonna be really annoying kind of sustain is based to defend it. So buys him out of time for the expansion
Double hero though massive Nova. Oh, yep. Good Nova there. It's gonna be knocking these footies down
God the shop again, though. I don't think he is a fiend is already out here
One of the accolades is attacking not preparing and it shouldn't be here. It's gonna die
That's only four accolades left 40 seconds left on the tech that's gonna cost gold
But I do think Yamato coming is throwing his units away in a little bit of a cavalier fashion
The Death Knight just looking at this footman, taking his Acolyte from behind, does not get
the Acolyte.
Alright, he gets him out of the base.
Well he shoved him back.
Yep.
Pretty nice.
That DK Lich combo.
There's that slaughterhouse fighter.
That slaughterhouse.
If there were a couple of goals-
How do you feel about that?
Yeah, I mean, I think if there were a couple of goals that were, like maybe like three goals
in the worker line, there's a chance that Yamato wouldn't have had the attention to
Think about it, and then you could have maybe killed all the peasants
That's a play that you can do because at this point only defending against someone that has you marked with double mine against one that never feels good
The money is piling up lumber really low though for Yamato 64 44 to a
1500 gold yeah when you have this little number so much money. I don't even think it's good to make these towers
I don't think you can afford it. Look, he's even got masonry queued up
He's gonna make a whole bunch of towers to try and stay alive. What is this? Like nine towers, bro
You haven't got the lumber for you need shredder and you need to be making non-stop footmen
And I don't think he did so economically behind this you might the cannon has imploded a little bit
Hera of course doesn't know that so he probably feels more behind than maybe he is
Yeah, I think that's Yamato's game like he kind of plays to that
He's a bit vulnerable more than you would think in the the middle as you're approaching late game before he gets his army
There's a window there that Hera can really hit him hard.
Yes.
That water alleys having way too much fun.
Ooh.
Another acolyte.
Can I try to run away?
Say he should be fine.
Some ghouls are low.
If he keeps walking, he'll be fine.
But is he going in the right direction?
Looks like yes.
Oh, very nice.
How did he get there?
Wow, saves him.
That was incredible from Hera.
Plus 75 ghouls.
Oh, could be some good XP you're killing us.
Nice.
Wow
He's back
DK level four
It's four two. Oh
Easy to get surrounded. Oh, yeah, oh, that's a scroll. That's a hell yeah instant teleport. Wow
Really good for Hera here looking way better than last game executing a similar strap
It's going a lot more smoothly grubbing. You know, it's
1700 gold. What should he do with his gold right now? Well, it goes it it goes back further
he should have had more peasants earlier, making fewer scout hours.
Let's count peasants. You're supposed to have like 13 the most, but because he had so little lumber before,
he probably overmade them by now. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, okay, 15. 15 on wood.
That's a lot. And although right now he's low on lumber, soon he's going to be very high on lumber.
He's even getting advanced lumber harvesting upgrade. Oh, there's the 16th peasant.
Yeah, he just overmade so many peasants because he undermade them before then he overmade towers and that's gonna delay his units
Overall though fast forward a little bit. He's gonna be nice and dandy. He's gonna be in a great spot
So it's all up to Hera to make sure that this game ends in two minutes
See so when he has
Enough lumber he should probably cold the herd and kill some of his own peasants. Yes. Yeah. Yeah, exactly
We're gonna get in the situation in like 10 minutes where he's like 2k longer and then the supply will be
Strangulated a little bit by the unnecessary. You don't even want to send them in with your army because it's just free XP
You kill them yourself, right? Yeah. Yeah, exactly. That's right. You're gonna take your towers crazy society gonna gum them down
So where's here at 11 minute mark and the story upgrades about to finish
He's got very good hero levels, good creeping, nice items, that's 5 towers though, 4 of which
are finished.
If Hera double destroy morphs and doesn't feed them in like he did last game, sending
ghouls in first and then methodically targets down tower after tower, I don't think Yamato
Kanon is where he needs to be to hold it, he's only just starting the workshop.
Yeah, I mean as soon as he also gets that DK to 5 and Lich to 3, that's gonna be a massive nuke.
Oh, the destroyer head first.
He's doing much better than before. This is exactly what he needs to do.
This is what it would look like in order to get a 2-1 scoreline.
The towers by Yamato Kanan are not yet targeting onto the destroyers, which is a big oversight by him.
We need to take all of them and immediately click those destroyers down.
This is going to be every single peasant dying, now finally retargeting on the destroyer.
Hera didn't notice it, full mana, no coil.
He's killing so many peasants.
What is he about to cannon doing? He's watching, stun locked.
He should have come in and try and defend, I take it, right?
I mean, he should at least try something.
Either defend or counter attack.
He can't just stand here and watch as your entire base gets taken out.
but having said that he did extract loads of gold from that base that wasn't
good but now he's gonna go mass griffons and he's at 45 pop he has enough gold
to go all the way to 70 population off of what he already has can those
griffons be stopped by two fiends and a bunch of ghouls I don't think so so
you matter kind of is not down and out yet what does counter griffons on undead
Is it just fiends?
It's fiends in small numbers.
Once they come in big numbers, it gets really, really difficult because you have to be surgical
to defend whereas with griffons you just target fire.
You just click something.
It's tough.
So what aside from fiends do you make?
Dark oils?
You can try Garg's but the problem is the numbers difference.
Garg's are theoretical counter to, uh oh, Garg's are theoretical counter to griffons but
you won't have the numbers.
Now destroyers are a hard counter.
can literally not be hit by griffons. However, that's why there's a workshop here that will
come with flying that hard counter destroyers. So it's going to be a numbers game. If you
have the right numbers, destroy your guard, fiend is fine. If you don't, then of course
your mountain cannon is going to have just a much larger flock. But once again, lumber
has become an issue for your mountain cannon. He drops to zero because he lost like 15 peasants
at this expansion. And here comes Hera. He can do a surround on any of the heroes.
Oh
Oh goodness oh
It didn't matter the projectile followed him. That's crazy because he was close enough
God his ass
Very close to level five. Yeah, I love this guy's archmage archmage running another coil. No, no TV scroll box
He's gonna TP to the back of his base
I mean, but just stay here, just stay here and co- Nova coil his ass again, right?
Yeah.
Am I crazy?
Yeah, of course.
Hera should never leave here.
He should dive deep into the base.
Now, I think why he does this, he wants to get DK level 5.
He wants it to check for expansion, so it's combining two goals at the same time.
Like, this game's over, just go attack him.
Yeah.
Or maybe I'm wrong.
You can ignore the Gryffins, just send DK Lysin, Montyking is dead, there's no CC.
You can just find AM over and over in Coil Nova. You're 100% right.
No!
Where are we going?
Yep.
Hera, please!
At least he's creeping.
You know, not completely far off.
Yeah, he's creeping.
Then again, you know, like the XP is pointless on the DK, isn't it?
Yeah, he's steaming.
You're literally steaming XP away from the Lich right now.
He's still got four, but yeah.
Oh, that's big. I love that. It's really nice. Look at you go on DK, right? Yeah. Yeah, it's shit because you can always coil the
Lich Lich also has ruined bracer's gonna make him less nukeable very very good against storm bolt potion of invulnerability forgotten
Oh, oh and archmage with no help. I mean
Look at me. I'm fine. I'm fine. I'm awesome. He's gonna get away
He's scared of it. He's scared of the army scared of the flying. Don't coil in ovens. It dies
The Coil's about to king.
Not the right character, whatever.
Screw it.
Hit something.
Stonebolt on the DK to prevent the Coil.
The Gryffins in the meantime are doing good.
There's a Scroll of the Beast with like one ghoul and a Death Knight.
Oh no.
It actually might get screwed.
Okay, I think this is a pretty good fight for Yamato Kanon.
He just needs to keep his heroes on another screen than Hera's heroes.
Oh man.
that lich is tapped. But, coils, defensive coils, bang.
Beautiful, yep. Not gonna go down that easy. DK followed the man.
The destroyer screwed. All the destroyers, so sad.
Dying to fly the same.
Oh, he's gotta fly these now. Transform the destroyers.
Well, I think Yamato's actually doing it.
No, the coil of the lich!
I think he's doing it, Yamato Canon. He never coiled the Archmage of the Mountain King
and he's trying to stay alive against the Griffins.
Hold on, actually, that's a lot of fiends. He is killing some Griffins.
It's so close, it's very hard to tell who's gonna be able to win this one.
There's Stormbolt level 2 on the Death Knight.
Nah, it's gotta be DK Lich.
DK Lich has to blast.
He can kill a guy right now.
A hero.
He's killing Griffin, it's a small path.
There's 4 population, every Griffin.
285 gold per Griffin.
There is no expansion anymore.
Yamato-ken is gonna pull his militia.
A lot of the supply he has is actually fake because it's all these peasants.
Coil on the Archmage, he has enough mana to do a Nova, there's another web from the next distance.
It's just not a grippany...
The next coil.
The next coil!
Oh!
Look at the Nova!
It's enough!
Archmage down!
Lich, auto attack and Nova.
Looks like Hera has solved this battle here against Shimano-Kanon.
Shimano-Kanon had the early expansion, Hera did do a lot of peasant damage.
This game also goes to show how if you kill enough peasants from the expansion, and you have a strong follow-up attack, you can solve an early expansion.
Although, I must say that Yamato Kanon's economy was a bit of a shambles.
Every peasants he had to call did have an effect on his base.
Economy, the lumber wasn't quite lined up, and it delayed his production quite a bit.
Man.
Yeah, DK-Lich combo. I love it.
So what do you do from here? I guess, does he even attack?
I guess we attack the workshop?
The towers aren't that attractive to attack in too. I would say step number one is to take an expansion.
And the acolyte's already there. Another thing you could do is to start getting banshees
from a temple on summoning crypt, get temple, get banshees, and then cost
AMS on your heroes. AMS is gonna absorb up to 300 spell damage
or even griffin auto attack damage. So
Yamato really just has to have over a thousand gold or over a thousand lumber one or the other
It's always something when I look up economy not been too good you might have kind of just kind of tried to repair the altar
There's many coils where that came from
If he gets this before the altar residence, it's gonna be probably probably wraps I think for your mom
I don't know. It's just kind of just walled in having to turtle. He's making another alter. He's smart
Well, he's never giving up. Look at him go
And I always got gold look at that 900 and it's gone
And of course the money that came in just because the archmage and the powder didn't were cancelled
That's why he's making a wave of syphons. The griffons don't have animal war training yet
So they're missing a hundred health. Also, they're already thoroughly countered by fiends
Griffins can work against fiends, but it has to come from superior economy now in one base against one base
He's making the unit that's already countered by by Hera, but he almost has no choice. He could weave in a couple of nights
But yeah, what else can you go for at this point anymore?
Yeah, I have no idea is roots and then yeah, it's enough
It was just kind of hate those twerps so much or so annoying the statues or whatever the difficult to micro
I remember you had a dream about statues at some point during your training arc
No, it's everything like it's you move your army your statues are slower. They take longer you leave them
They die. It's had dreams of abandoning statues and losing them and then forfeiting
It looks like he's into the forfeit doesn't it? It does
This could be wept if the fiends get a little closer
Herra is just slowly deconstructing the base of Yamato Canon, he's not being bathed into the towers,
while his counter expanded as well, he's doing everything he needs to.
At this point Yamato Canon just wants to give himself one more chance to take a fight, wait for his archmage to get back,
have as many griftons as possible.
He found the animal war training button, and meantime what is Herra doing? Upgrades.
That works, that works, can just get more upgrades on the fiends.
I mean, this just seems like a forfeit, anyway.
Sure looks like it.
I'm not even trying to be funny anymore.
Yeah, yeah, no, there's pretty much no chance for Yamato Canon, but he's showing his fighting
spirit with this, and that's something I gotta respect, at least.
It can also be good to get a mental edge against your opponent if you make victories feel more
hard-fought.
I see.
Oh!
It's going for something!
That tickled!
It did tickle.
That tickled it did tickle look at this the magic the bracers that was a smart transfer there
Yep off the way insane knife you take 47% damage from spells when you have bracers and hero magic resistance
So a storm bolt that should be doing like to and the damage will only do 94
Okay, but there's like five of them a storm bolt a third time I think Griffin to take a storm bolt
I used to think it works on griffons, but it was a tool to better my blizzard. It doesn't oh
Oh my god, the stat is falling over!
That was amazing!
Wow.
I'm telling you man, statues are like the Bane, they're miserable to play with.
Okay, we're rooted, we're no-vaying.
Big AOE, Gryphons are flopping.
Okay, nice stat there.
Third Gryphon down.
You should call all Melissa here.
All Melissa should be called.
Look, what is he doing? He's gathering lumber.
They would be so good in this fight.
But Azastan... Oh, single unit, animate dead!
GG!
GG! Hera gets the win in the third map!
GG!
Oh, let's go!
Are we 1-1 now?
2-1!
2-1!
2-1!
2-1!
Oh my god, Yamato must be getting nervous.
He seems to be in good spirits though.
It's not a sweep!
We gotta win on both sides!
Alright, alright.
It also kind of goes to show how the map advantage can be advantageous.
Yamato wins the two maps that he chose.
Hera, upon first being allowed to pick his own map,
being disadvantaged, coming from the lower bracket,
picks a small map like Autumn Leaves
and immediately lands a victory.
And my eyes will travel to which maps are left.
Echo Isles and Last Refuge.
Two maps that are perfectly fine
for any player to fast expand on as well.
I would say with Yamato Canon now having losers pick,
Echo Isles to me seems like
the more preferable option that he could go for.
What's the, why?
Echo Isles is a really easy expansion to take
and the expansion is close to yourself
while being relatively far from an opponent.
You go to a map like Lost Refuge,
your expansion is actually closer to the opponent
than it would be on a map like Echo Isles.
Okay.
Now, why is everyone saying the headliner?
What is that referring to?
You gotta turn on my stream to see that in three.
I haven't streamed open, I'm looking!
Alright, turn on the sound.
The Headliner.
The first match of the Clan War is a one-on-one that begins on springtime and is the best of three.
Each team captain will send their representative blindly.
Who will they send first?
Let's find out.
The Headliner.
The first match of the Clan...
There it is, just raw production value, nothing else.
That is so fun. The Headliner.
Okay.
I accidentally played it twice in a row on Day 1, and ever since then the people have been greedy for more.
That's pretty sick.
Just being twitched, wonderful things.
So I thought both of them, no I guess Hera is not really expanding, it's definitely more Yamato expanding, right?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Remember, the game won, Hera did do the fast expand, they did an amazing attack,
with the Grip Lord, Beto and Ghouls, but then he was pushed back by an archmage with high-level water elementals
and he lost so much after that. It's a tough game.
And he hasn't tried since.
Yeah, he hasn't tried since. He's like, you know what? I'm just gonna make that a little bit.
I prefer the DK Lich combo. I love it.
I remember that about you. It was weird. It was an example of you preferring DK Lich just because they're cooler
rather than maybe what was working for you at the time.
Well I like it because it's less units and more hero dependency so my custom
game brain a little bit more World of Warcraft League of Legends more
adjacency to things that you prefer playing yeah I prefer like the hero
gameplay as opposed to the let me buff my units and make my yes I like the hero
game yeah while we're waiting for both players to play again we've got an
evolved version of the headliner here that we can run real fast and hope people are hungry for it
we'll be back in 40 seconds. Welcome to the headliner, an eight player the headliner. Today
of the headliner there is the headliner. We have eight the headliners that are divided into two
the headliners of four the headliners each. They will work together to win as the headliner.
On the left hand headliner we have the headliner alpha captain by the headliner one. He will be
joined by the headliner canon simply the headliner and the headliner maybe on the
right hand headliner there is the headliner omega capsify the headliner he
joins forces with the headliner the headliner the headliner the opening
headliner is called the headliner it is a one-on-one headliner that begins on the
headliner it shouldn't be making me laugh as much as it is it's a it's child
human but it's right up my street so I'll make this video edit this morning and it's exactly
what this show needed we only lost 8000 viewers playing that
they're lost man they're lost this is how we run this show
2-1 best of five correct for finals correct correct correct
yuvans are still one map away from being able to get to w here he's gonna be in the blue
Herra in the red to keep trying to take their own colors. So we want Herra to win
We're all going for Herra, right? We want to we want a fucking final match
Best of five or whatever first to three three two two three would be ideal
But I also always respect if you have the power to clean sweep or if you have the power to clean it out
I say fuck the show just go win three oh show your dog
Of course, right like if you if you deserve to do that, so they should try and win
Yeah, but we can hope that they don't
Yeah, yeah, we want as many games as possible between Yamato Kanon and Herra.
It's the needs of the many versus the needs of the few.
In this case, they're fighting for their competitive life.
Herra is ready, Yamato Kanon, mulling things over.
He did pick the expected pick with the easier expansion that's further away
removed from his adversary in Herra.
Yamato Kanon wins with Echo Isles.
That means Lost Refuge would be the final map.
And he's ready. Let's freaking go
You had all that time to go to the bathroom and he goes right as the game starts
I guess you have that first minute anyway, it's fine. He wanted to see that headliner man. I can't blame him
It was cinema absolutely incredible edit there, but here we are Echo Isles. What do you think about this map grubby?
It's kind of weird. There's no red camps. It's there's no lab either
No lab, no red camps, it feels like a basic map.
They did add a few extra creep camps, before these green camps in the middle, they weren't
there, the orange camps were death trapped, there was only one entrance, not two, and
the gold mine here wasn't there either.
So this map went from being extremely bare bones to only being a little bit bare bones.
It is a classic simple map that was included anyway.
it's popularity in the ladder. I looked at all the stats, which maps were most popular.
You know, simply in the first invitational, I didn't know what kind of players I was
going to be seeing, the only thanks invitational. I included a map that had boats. You could
get boats, sail on the high seas and go to an island expansion. I thought, man, that
would be cinema if the streamers make boats and have naval warfare. That never really
happened. It's a little bit too much for a new player to worry about such a dimension.
And so here I tightened it up a bit and went for a more basic map pool.
I love it.
I think the map choices are great.
Still a lot of variety amongst them, but they're generally pretty similar.
So to pop those back, sounds like he might have snares.
I heard you as I was pissing simply.
What did I miss in this first intense minute of the game?
Well, you know you're right.
You're right.
What are you snacking on, man?
What is that? I gotta be a fucking popsicle man from Kmart. Nice. It should is delicious
It's some type of like shark flavor, which is weird, but it dude. It's so good
It's so good
That came out right smart some great things. I don't know the H Mart. Yeah
I was gonna be sticking to his guns with the death knight first whether it's a fast expansion
Crypto Lynn or anything like it. We don't know yet
But I think he probably gonna go for a similar style as he did in the game 2 and 3 just using Death Knight creeping him up
A heavy focus on creeping with one or two windows where he heavily assaults Yamato's expansion economy
Yamato going up first going usually for that level 3 it's been paying off really well
when he eventually brings his Archmage to Hera's base.
But Hera going straight for that fast expo with the Death Knight.
I don't think he is. I think he's clearing this for a future.
I think he's clearing it because it's good exp and it puts him on the path towards Yamato's base.
He's notably not having a sixth acolyte here.
He doesn't have Sacrificial Skull to create Blighted Ground.
So I think this is him just getting level 1.9, maybe getting the Murlocs
and then taking a Southern path towards Yamato's expansion
where he has a spy acolyte scouting.
Hmm.
That does make sense, actually.
Yeah, the lack of the blighted ground.
Is that really a big difference?
Is that like the deciding difference for the fast expo?
Yes, because the blighted ground allows an early cigarette.
Gold mine generates blight, but it takes like 90 seconds to finish.
So you can make the cigarette 90 seconds earlier if you can immediately
bring that skull.
Footman with a good scout.
And that's pretty complicated, simply.
Yeah, you should stick to just uprooting your barracks and moving them when you fuck up undead has to like think a little beforehand
No, I will I'm a happy night out player. I like my bears. It's easy
Hey move. It's all you need
Simply from what you've seen the race that you were given by me night elf. Is there any?
Grass that seemed greener on the other side or a human or undead
No, I think I think night off was perfect. But like I know bullshit. No, you're wrong in coping
No, there are so many things that are miserable as a night elf, and you know it
Like what okay only thing early game kind of bad act like it's killed there early game is just rough
That's it the whist like really enjoy. I'm gonna make my barracks to go help me creep. Are you on are you in crack?
No, that's fun. That's like some I guess sacking your whisk to like explode can be fun
But like some people like this soda ancient war creeping you can feel very efficient
As a speedrunner probably simply likes efficiency I would imagine and I don't seems like a get race frame
Okay, we got a peasant attack here
We got a peasant attack here by Hera once again. He's splitting his ghouls to different peasants
Look at this skeletons on the peasant that stuck over there going in from the front some ghouls
Sick coil safe by Hera
He's gonna try and send those two ghouls away as you're about to kind of gets us around on the death night
That's a full surround it's not no he can kill the footman get out
You should have repaired this around meanwhile though good skeleton are killing more peasants
It's a pretty good trade I think for Hera, what would you say?
I think that was good for peasants
I think it was good for her I killed four peasants very very good, and it came early enough slow down that expand
Yeah, it's a significantly delay the expansion
A player's forces are under attack.
That's good.
He's good playing by her.
So what should he build?
He might have really fucked up not repairing the surround.
He should have seen that it was still open if the one HP footman died and put something
new in its place or tighten up the remainder of the surround.
It wasn't clean enough.
Is Lich on the way out yet?
No, not yet.
Tier 2 is almost done.
Soon.
He might have started his Tier 2 already very soon before he even started mining for the
expansion but it is correct.
Uh, not mining enough here though yet.
Am I crazy or is this six peasants away instead of five?
I feel like it's too high up.
It is. It does look a little far.
Ooh!
Grab the book, you freak!
We're gonna save that for the Lich?
I think he was worried about the Ogremaids going too far away.
The Ogremaids showed a little bit of strange behavior there.
I don't know if you've ever seen it in custom games, Soda,
where if a unit gets stuck for a while,
They end up getting mad at towers. You know like how in tower defense if you make a full wall it starts killing towers?
Yes.
Yeah, that behavior was being shown on the ghouls that they were getting away because you momentarily couldn't get to his favorite target.
Now it's the counterattack by Yamato Kannon. He has AM level 3. He could kill a lot of ghouls here.
For now though, he's losing a footman to the death knight in ghouls.
It's harassing. We're just harass spamming. This looks annoying.
But he's, uh, uh, Yachto's fucking up his bike a little bit.
He was attacking the Black Citadel for over 100 points of damage.
His footmen, even now, are still attacking the Black Citadel.
That's not what you want to do right here.
Er, uh, he finally noticed.
Everything should be going to Ghouls.
Ruby and Tyra slowing down one of the more ominous, yep.
Look at this.
Unholy strength.
Ghoul attack upgrades.
Unusual for an undead to do.
Hera seems to like it.
It's insane how hard these Ellie's hit. I think they actually get harder than the hero.
Uh, you are? Yeah, true. That's true. They have more damage than heroes.
It's not even matched out yet.
It's a level 2 water on the meadow. He's going to send them in again.
There's still duration on them. He's going to go for the slaughterhouse.
Oh no.
One Acolyte by Heraz, AFK, instead of mining.
It is actually on follow command on the Northern Echolites and therefore it won't show up as idle
Got the cancel on the slaughterhouse though
But that is that's a bit of damage and that was kind of a big moment in their game on tide hunters
When Yamato canceled out the slaughterhouse see what he gets that back up and go and we got five out of five now in the gold mine
Taking out the water elemental just trying to keep him out of the base close to level four here still looks like a five eggs game off
I'll be back gonna cancel slaughter again black since it'll finish cancelled the slaughter again
There's no space here. I'd be losing my mind one or two trees are still blocking the perfect slaughter house location
Herra's gonna move back with his ghouls that have won attack upgrade. He's getting frenzy, but no slaughter on the field
You matter student a great time-buying job here. I
Mean just no slaughter. It's miserable. It's only ghouls. He's not allowed to have anything else. Yep
Yeah, he's got that he's got the lich now to level four
Not bad
Thanks, a lot of us again. Yamato is hiding in the shadows. He's playing this to a TV
I mean how many attempts is that for yeah on the slaughterhouses so far
Yeah, I think that's number four in the meantime you have to tower it up well during this it is a six pheasant
Well, let's say five point five pheasant. It's too far away. What by one hex which is not great
But you know, he's doing his best a couple of peasants AFK again is not great
No shredder on this map. Lumberwise, it's a disaster again for Yamato
No shredder feels really bad here. No no easy card out except make a bunch more peasants
Creeping up the mountain king though. The ghouls are in the main base
Look at this all the defenses are concentrated on the expansion
But the ghouls are here art mage tries to cancel the slaughterhouse again. That's not gonna work
They kill the tower. I think this should never happen by the way the mountain king is creeping
He's not hiring mercenaries. He didn't get level two and ghouls just win the game
No statues no destroyers. Just a ghoul attack. I think Hera is putting up a very good fight and may even be in the lead now
Oh, here. Oh, here we go the lone archmage coil his ass
Little blast oh
There's the foil, on the ass, kill confirmed, and this main is just, there's no defenses.
That's game.
It's 22 population, 18!
18 population by Yamato Canon for someone that's had an expansion for about 4 minutes
already.
Yes, yes, now would be a time to do the soda special.
I mean like, what do you do?
Nothing.
He's about to, he loses this, no hero.
He loses his main Citadel, he loses tier 3, he's stone aged.
Oh, it's game.
No, really, go ahead and walk up, walk up, get his ass, blast him.
Single arc, guys.
Yes.
Water element over here.
Bang.
Here comes the coil, he's already got it queued up.
Send it.
Bang.
Oh my god, yep.
And you're out of the fight.
He's uh...
It's on the chase, it's over.
He's too auto.
Oh, he has one of Montestil.
One more coil, and the next one is gonna kill him.
Bang.
Yeah, good luck gamer that horse is not fast enough
Oh
All right, it's the Pope always in a tournament
Close the nerves have got to be kicking in. Oh
That's so high
To to in the grand finals
That's what you hoped for.
Could be thinking zero in this, Krabi.
Man, with this momentum, with the history that we have with Hera going 0-3 and then 5-3 in AUE 2,
if I was a betting man, I think Hera has got the momentum.
I think he has the momentum to take it again.
Yamato Kanan is getting his aura eclipsed by Hera a little bit, I think.
I mean, what?
I'm a big thing big thing. I mean having the 2.0 after
Getting the 2.0. It's like taking the wind out of his sails a bit seems like hair is downloaded
Yamato a little bit kind of just just playing it really nice
Ghouls switching strategy. Yeah, too
Hera being an Age of Empires 2 pro kind of pissed me off a little bit for watching him play a little more seeing him play
Undead and do those massive nukes it's bringing a lot of dopamine to me
So I like her now, and I hope hero is
So about the coil Nova is so satisfying makes me so happy seeing it honestly
I think we have so many deserving victors here if Tyler would have made the run and win it it would have been amazing
If simply would have done it people wouldn't have seen it coming would have been amazing yet that for
4-0 records in the first two rounds of the upper bracket
Herra coming through the lower bracket and coming back from a zero to against Yamato
would have been amazing if that happens now as well.
And if you're Martin Canon with his 12 to 16 hour grinds
makes it with how he was getting drilled by his coach,
that's an amazing storyline too.
I don't think as a fan of this content myself,
even though I'm the Orc, I'm also a fan of it.
I don't think there's any wrong way that this could go.
And we've got that final map going.
I think we're getting very, very close to jump into that game
and we're gonna have to wait and see how people perform.
It looks like we've settled into a comfortable routine simply, where both players are just
repeating their builds and trying to play it as best as possible.
Comes down to micro and macro, not build choice.
That's right.
How it should be.
That's right.
That's how it should be.
I love that we're getting, they feel like honest games, you know, there's no, no really
cheesing going on here.
Just two guys going at it, playing their, playing their build as best of their ability, doing
Great job simply you weren't here in the last journey when guzu was doing the the human rifle strat, bro
Holy you would have hated it. It was her Pali rifle
Pali rifle worse experience in my life. Did it get nerfed? It did
Like six yeah, so bad busted it got nerfed. It was noob friendly. So it was easy to do
The nurse were I'm glad to ask because we have a few minutes since Hera walked away
The nerfs were Siphon mana went from an acquisition range 600 to a break range of 800 to an acquisition range of 600 and a break range of 700
So you don't need to walk us far away from Siphon in order to be able to break it off
Additionally Siphon cost 25 mana instead of 10
Rifles attack slightly slower, the cooldown of Holy Light went from 6 to 6 and a half seconds
And that's about it, maybe there was a half armor nerf on the devotion aura
So, Banish got a cooldown of 2 seconds instead of 0, but Flamestrike got a buffed in Compensation from 135 mana to 125.
So, mostly nerfs, except for Flamestrike.
Which isn't a part of the game.
So they buffed Flamestrike and they nerfed everything else.
Everything else.
They had to get a Pally Rifle.
Yeah, and it's all because of Goozoo.
Yeah.
No, really.
No, it was a busted strat that needed to get nerfed.
And, again, it was a really good noob-friendly strat.
So you do a noobs-only tournament.
Imagine.
And Guzu, with a straight face, would go live shameless and play this strategy in front of everyone.
And then say he was having a good time. Insanity.
Yeah, Pally Rifle, one of Tyler's favorite things to go against. It's just a lovely build, you know?
But honestly, as a bare player, I like going into Pally Rifle. It's kind of a vibe. You just drain the Pally.
wrong you've never played the under version true that is that is true I have
not witnessed it no you haven't so this is in some way expected to have a 2-2
after all the first two maps were Yamato Canon's choice and the next two were
Heras choice this therefore is the most neutral map between the two of them as
they perceive it anyway and so it couldn't have been scripted any better.
Now, Yamato Kano, of course, had Hera under the gun because he got his maps first, but
at the end of the day, the better player will stand triumphant here as I will show you guys
who that's going to be by sharing the screen.
Oh, I'm just about to say something.
Jinx.
Alright.
Well, probably the same strats from both end and you say this is the most neutral map?
Why they're reckoning anyway? I don't know what's good or bad for them, but they seem
to think they left this for last after all, so this must be the most neutral.
I see. But there are only five maps in the choices?
There's seven they both vetoed one, so they took away their worst.
I see. Alter of Kings, yep.
Alter of Darkness coming up here.
buildings I should actually went to the bathroom again simply did you miss out on
all this epic building bro you're right why did they go in look at that look at
that the egg white on the pig insane intense fights huge is actually am I
crazy that's actually a thing you want to make a corpse for your summon shit
right yep corpses last 88 seconds in work on a three so if you do it at any
time when your hero has started you'll walk up there and they'll summon rod of
necromancy. If you kill a pig and stand next to it, it's a two-second delay.
Unacceptable. Interesting. Do you want to kill it earlier?
Optimizing. Yep, a little bit optimizing. In fact, the boar has a 50% chance of
dying to a single slap, in which case it dies wherever it stands, but has a 50%
chance of not dying in a single slap. It will then run away from the acolyte in
fear for a little bit, and then you... that's why you should hit it from below
so that it walks upwards and is in a more advantageous situation to summon skeleton saves another second
Just in case you lose today optimize, but they did a bad job at optimizing. Yeah, well, I think Hera attacked it from below
Right, but he killed it too fast or something
The bore optimizations crazy not familiar with this tech at all as a night elf
You wouldn't have to worry about it. All you need to worry about is not last hitting your creeps with the ancient of war
Which I couldn't do grubby. I'm sure you called it out sure y'all saw it
I miss denied myself probably more than my opponents at times with my own ancient of war
Sometimes it'd be your own trees. It is what it is. It is when you kill a mob with your ancient of war
You don't get XP correct the moon does
Dude my heart was how do you play that race?
It's pain
It's just it's just stupid and you
The grass wasn't always good. Okay. I mean, it's the great outdoors this route. Wow the scout getting all he'd lead it
Did it?
Not gonna have to worry about that pain
It's actually such a pain in the ass when you have a foot and then walking around in your base
There's so much health and now he doesn't have to worry about that at all freeze up the mental space
Be able to do whatever
He's gonna go for probably gonna come down and harass the amado as he's working on this expand
Absolutely. What level is that DK? 2.3? Trying to get his ass to 3? What is that item?
What about that item? Nice. I assume Reign of Protection is really good, right?
It's terrible. Okay. What? It's very good for... Is it really? It's very good for
Montyking. If you save it for MK and give it later, that's good. But what you really
want here, and you'll notice why, is a Claw of Attack. You want as many Claws as
possible because the Archmage is not going to be physically attacked. The Ghouls will
be attacking peasants only, so every claw hit that you get is going to help more. The
Ring only helps if your opponent interacts with your Archmage's health, which Hera will
not.
Oh, are you sure about that?
No.
You sure about that?
Yes.
It looks like it.
I thought he was about to get surrounded.
Yeah. Finds a way out. One peasant down. Beautiful coil. Two peasants. Three peasants.
Are we getting a full sweep on the peasants? This would be detrimental for Yamato!
Bang!
Looks like it. Looks like it. He's only got one peasant left. There's so many units here for her.
Yamato-Kannon doesn't quite have his level up. Another coil on the goal. This one peasant left.
The Archmage... Wait, by the way...
That's going to be damage to the economy.
Looks like Soda was right though. There is a lot of interaction with the Archmage as hell.
The ring was amazing.
You're right.
That's some...
You're damn right it was.
Save that for Mountain King 2.
Yep.
But he did stop that expand, or delay it rather, which is...
We're seeing a repeat from the last two maps.
Arcmage comes a little back.
They've got a system down at this point.
Yeah, yeah.
They've got a system.
The same song and dance.
They know what they're doing.
DK gets level 3.
AM is level 3.
But not just Coil level 2.
There's an Arcane though.
DK blunders into the Arcane Tower, loses loads of mana.
The Archmage has now become safe, but look at this, I think there's enough firepower
to take down these four peasants as well.
I mean, if he gets these peasants, it's going to be so hard to come back from this financial
crisis that Yamato is now facing.
It's going to be a lot of damage that we'll see in the coming minutes.
So here it expands on his, well, he doesn't expand, but you know, like if someone else
talked grubby, please.
You could build a goldman right here!
Hahaha!
Not sure he said it!
No, but...
Alright, expanded his influence, which is what I'm sure you were thinking about.
All over that base. He influenced all over Yamato.
Exactly, exactly.
Look at him go.
Look at this though, a lot of ghouls getting attacked there.
One of our elemental machine guns together with the archmage, killing two ghouls.
as Yamato will have the next word to speak in this series starting to remake
peasants there not a lot of presents oh no actually nevermind he's fine he's got
seven peasants here on lumber it's gonna make a lumber mill if this peasant
can cooperate he's pulling a Dante's here
that clip is so good have you seen it I've seen it and it's hilarious
That's funny, I think it's my favorite clip from the whole tournament, brother.
The 22nd delayed building, that's why we invite Dante.
God, it's funny.
So Yamados in a better spot though.
Same hero level, double the econ, two buildings.
He's not even double yet.
He didn't fix his gold mine yet.
He's only mining with three peasants.
And also he lost so much, the levels on the Death Nighr are so scary.
Look at this, the slaughterhouse that got cancelled so many times last game isn't even going to be touched because Hera FINALLY BUILTS IT IN A GOOD PLACE!
Listen, he listened, he heard our cries, the slaughterhouse untouched, it's gonna be so tough here.
We actually, this is the exact replica of the other game, only difference is the slaughterhouse has moved.
Yep. Everything's the same.
Just move it, look at this cool block. Beautiful, beautiful.
my goodness god i would have fled this you're not going anywhere four footies can get one
more elemental i always hated when people do that to me because there's so much aura
that they're flaunting in your face oh you just think you effing nerd you sweat look
at it yep it's trying to make you hard relax bro yeah it feels so it feels so personal
So annoying.
Because you damn well know the other person on the end is just sitting there to spam right-clicking the move command.
Just spamming, you know?
Uh-oh! There's no tower here yet.
He could just move in with ghouls, honestly.
I mean, there's no ghoul friends here, but it's going to be there soon.
It's a very unprotected main base that, by the way, is extremely late in tech.
This should have been done minutes ago, normally, if you don't get brutally devastated,
like Yamato was on his main base. So, Harus is just going to turn around, he's going to
wait for his orb on the Lich. He's got his Ghoul Frenzy coming in, there's a lot of Ghouls
here mining all the way to Moria. Where's this guy going actually? But there's going
to be an attack soon and Yamato will need many towers in order to hold.
Oh man. Yep, Lich is in. We're back baby, we got the combo. Got Nova learned, got the
orb ha cryptic soul slayer coming so good coming to join the fray together with lord to dark size
can peril spell binder survive here that statue's cooked that statue's so cooked i know it's not
statue not cooked here somehow surviving there was an insane but wow the jack the potion of
and vulnerability.
Total strength.
That's big stuff.
Plus two damage on the DK, plus 50 health,
plus 0.10 health regeneration.
The amount of cannon is bunkering up.
He's going for an early tier two,
oh my goodness.
Work shit.
What's a work shit?
It's a workshop.
It's a workshop.
It's like.
It's a lot of towers out of nowhere.
I think he's listening to the stream.
Got two guard towers coming up.
He has trauma from all the times his peasants have been slaughtered, so he's doing heavy
defenses but it just sets him back even further.
I don't really know if he can afford to be doing all that with what Hera's got cooking
up as the ghouls are back in the expo.
Destroyer upgrade is ready.
There's one statue here.
It's a pretty good wall off.
By the way, Farms Blacksmith actually don't allow ghoul passage.
This is the only ghoul passage point.
They can't get past any of these cracks.
He's going to send the ghouls in, targeting a tower.
How difficult it is to get surface area on that tower. There should be a master repair. That's exactly what's happening
I'm not gonna do a good job. He's doing everything he needs to hang
Oh my goodness the rules are falling. There's so many footmen
Rebound up here from here. So the ring of protection again on the AM
Some ghouls were harassing it right?
Hey, it's good like I said it was
Just like you said look at the get the mountain king swap it over. Oh, oh slow reaction by your mother
I got him!
Oh!
It's around!
He needs something else!
Oh no!
Oh my goodness.
Is he going to get us around on the mountain king while he's frazzled from everything
else going on?
Oh, he's frazzled.
Alright.
Oh, it's...
He's so cooked.
Yamato sweating.
Get a fat Nova.
Look at that.
Look at that.
Footman group.
Please go Nova.
Please.
Please.
Please.
Oh.
They're begging for it.
I wouldn't want to go there.
There's only three towers here.
MMMK are hugging their pearls
1700 gold and he's not producing anything
Of course, he really needs tier three to get his high value units. He needs double barracks and knights
Oh, no the footman. They thought they could just go home not through this
No, it's good
It's good
Yeah, I'm a total is down
2000 gold
600 lumber in his no idea what to do with it. It is more towers. He needs more barracks. He has no space to make a barracks anywhere
Yamato 2000 gold he's got all the money he wants gonna make a barracks here. Is it a barracks here in front of the goals
Throw a tower defense at this point. I think he's making a barracks here solo mission
This peasants got a plan this could be what he needs a possible deception here there are not taking the bait though
Wow, shut the fuck up. Hey
Actually
Find that smart
Targeting the destroyer with the towers. The destroyer goes down fast. It needs a coil. Herod doesn't notice it. One destroyer down. Three towers are still alive.
The archmage comes in from the left in order to create some distraction. The ghouls aren't killing many peasants. The AM is very low.
Uh-oh. AM no Townport. Oh, no Townport.
Oh, he's in there. Oh, he's got to get it. It's over. He's dead.
It is the Bolt! Bolt the hero to stay alive! Come on, Yamato! I noticed his archmage!
And the ghouls have killed all the peasants.
There were ways where Yamato-Kami could keep his archmage alive and maybe his dream for
winning this game.
He's got knights coming, there's an arcane vault, there's a secret barracks.
He needed to bolt either the lich or the death knight.
He had the mana, he had the cooldown, he had the chances, but he didn't.
He fell short of the mark there.
Now, having said that, this ain't over yet.
This ain't over just yet.
Yes barracks Paladin griffins two racks Knights reproduction on the peasants towers are alive
Mountain King is alive full health full mana
Population count very similar thousand gold to the bank Knights are coming this could be a comeback
He's depressed
He does get the mountain king out of the get oother gets oother routes hang
There he is so mine if I do
and tonight is back from the center he can not retrain it though because he's
lacking the lumber retraining a hero level three I think it's gonna net him
about 120 lumber or so so he can't currently do it and most of his bedzins
are not farming he's got three lumber here that's this is actually like a
crap cocaine build he's got a bear look at his barracks the new barracks he has
It's literally in the path from the enemy base to his
Look, he's battling. He still has 2000 gold if Hera lets up the pressure even a little bit the amount of cannon can recover himself
Shredder shredder. We need to shredder. Does he have one yet? No, he's super nice shredder save the game
He also needs an altar. There it is. That's a very slow way to get your hero back
Harry's not gonna let up the treasure it looks like he's gonna creep and he's probably gonna come back for more level 5 death knight
four destroyers grubby is it possible give us opium I don't know it's looking rough here
remember the flying flock of flying machines that are preventing destroyer
more metamorphosis those aren't here they're part of what has been
sacrificed due to the dire straits that means destroyers now are actually good
Now Hera doesn't have lumber to make a second one, but it may not be needed. Nice target fire though. There it is second destroyer
No third one yet though, but it's enough to kill the towers
I think Hera is looking at the potentially being at the beginning of the end of him closing up this game. I
Don't know what you do from here
Yeah, to flying jeeps run. It's not enough not nearly enough so the
That's why he's sacked it, right?
Yeah.
AM is back.
Interesting.
AM is back.
He's gonna run two nights in an AM into this camp while the rest is watching.
He has money.
getting, he'll scroll, invulpotion, etc.
But look at this, Hera, he's moving in for the next attack, 55 population, going for
the tower, his goals to throw yours.
Oh my god, oh my god, Yamato Canon.
Yamato Canon is gonna try and defend.
I don't know if he still has faith in this, but he's gonna try, he's gonna come back,
there's an abomination.
Get the A bomb, get the statues.
Oh my goodness.
Stormbolt on the death knight, holy knight, on the knights.
He just nuked the paladin.
coil one night goes down so screw over so low one flying machine against two
destroyers nights are falling this looks really good for her a hero with an
insane reverse comeback again falling behind o2 going to the lower brackets
against simply my man on the cast right here simply sent him to the shadow
realms but hera survived and came back into this best of five final series
Equalize with 2-2. He turned it up to 11. He's going for the kill. He's very close to it
He wants more TP on the Paladin
In true undead fashion from the dead Hera creeping through
It's it's
incredible
Well, there's a little line up, but it's it's over
Yeah, it very much looks like it and if the Hera wins it'll be the first
invitation or not won by a human player the matter cannon oh my god big red
here he did so well but so does Hera he's still got an involved potion he's
got his ulti no no but he called that ass the ass is coiled the mountain king
goes down you want to kind of with his hand on his mouth he knows this game is
It's played, it's played out, Hera was domineable.
Well played, man.
Wow.
You just well played.
I love to see it.
So, the age of Empires 2 Pro is victorious.
From the losers bracket, you said?
From the lower bracket,
you picked in the second round,
simply sent into Shadow Realm 2.0
and upper bracket round two.
It's a battle his way through the lower bracket.
Hera is the winner of the Outer of Champions
Invitational and wins $3,500.
He had a 16 tournament streak in Age of Empires 2
in tier S tournaments,
and he adds another trophy to the cabinet
in a Warcraft 3 invitation.
He lost it.
Well, he only lost.
So he lost the Age of Empires tournament,
but he won this one.
He lost the series, it's not over yet.
He dropped it around 12.
What series?
Yeah, yeah, he's fine.
Oh, well, if he drops down from there
and then climbs back up again, the comeback king.
He certainly looks like a comeback king, so what an incredible performance by him against Yamato Kanan.
Not an easy cookie to crack, but he did it.
But let's not forget Yamato Kanan's amazing performance, 2-1 against Box, 2-0 against Dante's, 3-1 against Simply,
and then nearly taking Hera out with a 2-0, almost leading into...
Any one of those maps could have been his third win.
He took her to the brink, but it is Hera that will win this tournament and be champion and let's rain the confetti. Watch out, Soda.
Oh, dodging.
Dang, they worked so hard for that. See, and Hera win, honestly, he was my favorite for the tournament. I can't lie.
I was watching a lot of Hera.
He put in so much work, he had some rough days,
depressed down in the dumps at points,
but he came back and won it all
after being down 0-2 in the grand finals.
Couldn't have gone, you couldn't have scripted
a better grand finals.
Jenny, we could not.
We love that.
Good job, Harry.
Are we gonna get a little interview with him?
Yeah, I hope so.
I'm inviting both of them in.
Of course, I'm not sure if they might be celebrating it
with their chat right now.
We're just gonna wait for them to join.
Big thanks for the support.
Serea with the five gifted.
Easy Homero with the ten gifted.
And everyone with the primes and the tier ones.
Much appreciated.
Your support makes this so much more likely to happen again.
Jondong with the ten gifted.
I appreciate that very greatly.
I'm just going to wait and see if those two are going to be joining us.
Of course this must be a special moment for both of them.
Wow, even the W3 Champions sent a message in the platform.
Congrats to Hera winning.
It made so much better to the great efforts.
I just want to give a quick shout out to everyone before we get the two players on the show.
Aruigen guys, Excalibur, so many mods, I invite happy to the next one.
Great idea, LolTider. Great idea.
So, just thanks to all the players, thanks to all the streamers,
you know, all the mods on my squad, the W3 Champions team,
thanks to Blizzard for providing the prize money,
and every VIP cast that had joined and made this even better.
Thank you so to thank you super thank you to all the other castes. It was a great event so much fun to watch
Well, we got here here
This is the freak that I've been watching body block units not letting them move anywhere with what 300 and 500
APM some type of
Freak in nature
Spamming units RTS Pro by the way, Hara. How's it feel man?
It feels amazing. Honestly, I put my heart and soul into the Warcraft grind and at some
point we had ups and downs all over the place. But in the end, I feel like it was the dream
final and it's my second reverse sweep of 2026. So I guess this is just my year. I feel
great about it, honestly.
The reverse sweep guy coming from the dumps and going all the way back to the top. That
That was crazy. That was sick. How did you not lose confidence?
I think it's just my experience. I've been competing professionally for about seven
years now, like seriously, and at first I was nervous. Actually, this tournament I stayed
up till 6am. I couldn't sleep, so I was actually really nervous for this tournament. Thank
you, Grubby. I don't know why this mattered to me so much, but it did. But I guess when
it truly mattered, I just ice in the veins and just one game at a time. But yeah, I mean,
I'm just really happy to take it home. And obviously it must be said, just Gigi well played
Yamato, he was a champion in his own right, and he had just equally as good a run as I
did, so well played to him too.
Really nice guy as well.
You're a well fucking done man.
Well done as well.
Well done as well.
I heard about your resilience from Age of Empires.
I didn't underestimate you when I was 0-2, you just overcame, you know.
Well fucking done man.
I appreciate that man, you're a champion as well, just an awesome tournament all around.
You know, Yamato so well played in those games, he took him to the brink.
Of course, Hera can never be countered out and he did very well.
I feel like both of you deserved the championship at the end.
It was 2-2 score, you got that early lead and you played so well,
but he just turned it up in the third, fourth and fifth game.
Man, you're one-on-one mental...
By the way, can we get him on cam as well, VV?
Of course, I know there must be a lot going on there as well, but...
I might have closed it accidentally.
I'm sorry. I can pull it up. You can see me. I shed one manly tear.
Oh, I call it manly to cope.
I guess I have a question. You know, you wanted to win this so bad.
You put in so much time, so much effort. Of course, so did Hera,
but you gave up your anniversary dates yesterday that you're going to celebrate later,
which is very important to you and your wife.
You played this tournament with her blessing, knowing it's on these dates.
put in like 16 hours a day streams probably thought about it dreaming is
this ultimately very disappointing or are you happy with where you got I think
you know I'm happy that you know I'm a competitor at heart right so I'm very
addicted to it even though like you know I didn't also turn this thing this this
year and I was very happy about that and to be able to pull myself into something
like this like I didn't know like this was hidden in me you know the passion
for work of three like I fell in love with the game instantly and you know I
was worried I remember now like you know when I sent in the like how like you
asked me to send in a replay of me playing orc inhuman and I was like I
thought I was decent you know I was worried I'm not gonna get in but now I
I think back how I played in comparison to now.
I have like a hundred times better
in terms of how I've improved.
And I don't know what the show flow is,
but I just want to take this moment to thank Death Note,
Haluah, Leon, Ex-Lord.
Like I had crazy, crazy backing in terms of coaching.
All the humans came together, which was crazy.
Absolutely nuts.
You helped me too, Grubby.
You gave me the coaching.
And of course, a very, very special shout out to my fiance
because I have neglected every part of my life.
So I'll be streaming less the next couple of days.
I need to relax even though I need to catch up
on all legal legends I've missed tomorrow.
But yeah, I'll figure it out somehow.
And finally, I also want to say it was been so nice
getting to know everybody.
I think I just wanted to highlight that too.
Like I didn't know much about anybody outside of like,
title one, but it's been so cool getting to know everybody's personality, watching your
streams, watching your prep, watching how everyone's improving, and the clan really
like brought it all together. And just competing became a lot more fun because it became personal
in the most fun way possible. Yeah. So thank you to everybody that also participates. It's
been a fucking amazing three weeks. Couldn't have said it better. Couldn't have said it better. Glad
you feel that way. I mean, you did incredible. Thank you so much for the energy and time and
investment you put into this show. People like you, Yamato Kanon, you set this super high standard
for commitment, for mental fortitude and for level of play. It was a privilege to watch you play
over these last few weeks. Thank you and your fiancee for what you were able to do here. You
You have pushed an A2 World Champ to the limit in this tournament, nearly taking it.
And of course, while that's going to be disappointing as you think back about it, I think you did
about as well as all one, almost possibly could.
Incredible performance, a very deserved second, could have easily gone another way.
And we love you.
I think you got a lot of new fans in the scene.
Thank you very much.
Just to add, so for your next tournament, Grubby, when you're going around and inviting
other people to participate in this, more of a like new Warcraft 3 player type tournament,
they're gonna ask, oh, how did the last one go? And they're gonna bring these two men
as examples as to how much practice and time goes into it. I'm just, I wouldn't want to
be the person, oh, so that's the commitment that is expected. So the bar has been raised,
just saying, by these two guys.
Hello.
Dude, it's so funny you stayed on TV.
You know, our last...
Because when I sprung...
The last person in our finals, they didn't do their, what was it, is it anniversary?
You delayed?
Yeah.
Ten-year anniversary, yeah.
Ten-year anniversary.
Yeah, they delayed their ten-year anniversary, so, you know, you lock in.
The last two guys, they did 16-hour days.
Do you think you have what it takes to join?
No, everyone's going to leave me on read.
Yeah.
Yeah, I think a new problem to tackle so I don't think you exactly do what you were getting into as well
I remember you accept the invite very
Magnanimously and then I was like yeah, it's a two-week practice cycle by the way you were like what the fuck
I'm already burned out
Yeah, one day in me. I don't know how you guys did it
I was asking to see a VOD review
We did a calculation was like 50 or 6,000 minutes divided by yeah, you guys have an 100 hours of
pure oh game time
Time practice. That's not even including coaching
You add that on it's like you guys have
100 I mean days of non-stop queued up and I mean we don't have to explain how mentally taxing in our ts's
So I don't know how you guys aren't fried
Maybe they are
Close my eyes and I see like I'm pulling golems and I see water elementals I see blue colors
I've had to go to sleep at hours so degenerate to the point where I fall asleep because when
I close my eyes I still work at 3.
So it was very bad.
I went to sleep at 6 am the last couple of days but figuring it out is no problem.
I was in the exact same boat.
I was in the exact same boat.
I couldn't sleep.
thinking about what I have to do because I had a few rounds to play today and I had
an orc human night off, I had so many things in my mind that I just couldn't sleep as well
but I just want to say I feel like me and Yamato are in the exact same position, both
neglected our other work, our actual work, neglected our wives and fiancé, neglected
everything, just the 16 hour days and like Soto was saying, this is maybe the new standard
but what I will say is that I wouldn't change a thing because it was such a fun experience
And obviously Yamato said it perfectly, but just to add to it, it's not just the players
in production.
Of course, you Grubby done such a great job, all the co-casts and whatnot.
It's also the viewers.
The viewers are so insanely helpful.
The World Cup 3 community is just absolutely beyond loving, energetic, exciting to be around,
just kind.
So I have nothing more to say besides just much love to all of those involved, including
the viewers, including the people that stuck through with us throughout, um, yeah, just
throughout the journey. So honestly, it really does mean a lot to me.
Hey, man, hey, man, you guys have been incredible at supporting this show. We were
maybe thinking about running some fun games, but anything extra here, I think would take
away from the Herculean performance and the jargon out of the day that we've had in
competition, custom games, four and four. That's for another time. I hope this is not
the last we'll see all of you in Warcraft 3. Now the door is open for a potential future,
you know, how do you call it, an encore, right? Any other tourney or maybe some casting in
our next invitation, if I ever run one of these again. So now that the bridge is open
between our different communities, League of Legends, Yamato Canon, Age of Empires 2,
Super Mario 64, I hope we'll be seeing more of each other. And of course World of Warcraft
with soda popping. I hope we'll be seeing more of each other in each other's respective games
because these kind of events are what makes, I think, Streamer Claps so much fun. We don't have
the toxic drama, maybe a little bit. You were going a little hard on Tyler and he on you.
Don't you want to shut the fuck up, bro? I didn't get to play against Orc. I'm 90% win-rate against
Orc. I just couldn't play a single Orc. Come on.
It was rigged. Grabby put two Orcs in her keep. It was completely rigged, honestly.
I didn't say I was never going to rig anything, do you know how challenging it is to get people
of different skill levels of different games together and make it a show that actually
goes to 2-2 and make it a show where a clan war is closed and doesn't just close out with
a 2-0-2-0-2-0, you can't just take four Dante's and Mary Mayby, put them on TMA and put the
other guys on TV, you've got to plan these things out.
But there's so many things that I couldn't script.
I deliberately gave away power to determine how much of the show was going to go by letting
the players of a winning team choose their matchup opponents.
But you're all maniacs.
Pox is picking Yamada-Kem and you're picking Tyler.
So the power was in you guys' hands.
You made this show and you gave us all an incredible weekend to remember.
Thank you all.
You too, Simply.
Hera, Yamada-Kem, Soda, and everyone else that was a part of the show.
Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
This was amazing.
I was going to clap, but I was like, it's been weird.
No, I clapped.
It was natural to clap, honestly.
With that, though, I think it's difficult to come up with another closing words that
is going to sound more meaningful.
We all said our piece.
I'm going to let you all enjoy your weekend, reconnect with your loved ones.
Thank you all for this.
And yeah, I'll see you guys next time.
GG's, guys.
That was awesome.
GG's guys, especially with that one.
Robbie, make sure you get the Outro of Legends and get me in there.
Let me rematch with her, bro. I need one.
Outro of Legends, all the winners, bring Dendi in, bring all the homies in.
Sing Sing. I love it. I love it.
We got him. We got it.
I'll go back to the Platinum Chamber. It's a lot of work,
but hopefully we can get something together.
Guys, GG, see you next.
GG. Take care. Peace.
A better show we couldn't have asked for, guys, and you all made this possible by tuning
in in the many tens of thousands, both on YouTube and on Twitch as well.
Also thanks to the editors, the Mod Squad, once again W3 Champions for making the platform
available and Blizzard for making the game and continuing to update it with balance changes
and more.
As we say goodbye to the overlay of the Altar of Champions, we're going to be seeing this
overlay more again with our standard Warcraft III streams returning, Warcraft III variety
and whatnot.
But we'll never forget about the beautiful moments that we had here and everything that
is still to come as well.
Future events, I think the door is open to it.
We're getting better at running these.
We have headliners, the headliner.
getting better at it. We're, you know, things are getting smoother. Of course, sometimes
there's, there's some snafus and that's all part of it. But yeah, I think we're going
to build on what we have here for any potential future event. Thank you so much for the support
Dean Lollenberg with the 10 gifted at P risk 29 with the five gifted, Lucas 10 K zero
zero with the 20 Euro tip, Syrium 5K with the 10 gifted. Thank you so much. Did you
Thank you guys, thank you much appreciate it, I really like the clan war. Yeah, I want to hear you guys as final thoughts we had closing words from all the streamers. You heard mine. I'm going to read some chat.
Kraywin04 here. Let me go ahead and open chat and make you guys the center of attention
a little bit so we can close this. Just going to zoom in on this. Thanks for everything.
Love to you all. Love to Clanwurst, someone said. Can you show us how to right now? Thank
you for the gift sub Wiz. Love to you all. Thank you Grubby. Thank you Mizrae for tuning
in. This was incredible. Glad you enjoyed it, Gideon Bast. Okay, it was decent. Of course.
coming up next on your horizon. Yeah, let's talk about future plans. I'm gonna be joining
an Age of Empires 2 tournament. I've been in... Hey, Sir Weiskind! Thank you so much!
Thank you so much. Sound alerts are back, boys.
Who says we can't do it a third time? Let's go chat. Get hype, jump, kick, scream. A
grubby truly thank you for bringing my childhood game back to life I remember
playing WC3 demo as a kid on an old Dell computer best game ever hashtag make
WC3 great again hell yeah man hell yeah brother thank you so much oh Vincerem
thank you for the five gifts that much appreciated but yeah I've got an age of
empires two tournaments coming up Hera's gonna organize it he's kind of gonna
copy paste the format that's going to be in June so I will find out what it's like once again to
play one of these as a challenger as a newer player and I'll have my own training arc in June
as well now I have been very neglectful of my real life as well during these last few weeks so the
place is kind of in a mess I've got a lot of gardening to do I've got some things to clean up
I've got plates on the floor but it was all worth it but for the next few days I will have to
probably not have so long streams so I could fix some stuff at home.
Thank you old zealot underscore.
4 and 4 was my favorite. Yeah, it was so good. I would love to do clanmore stuff again.
Hey, clan is still fun. Thank you for the 100. Much appreciated.
Thank you to Darkest Team and huge event. Much love, respect to put this together. Thanks, bro.
the headline I love the guest comps yeah I'd love to see clan war again I was
cheering so hard for you motto would have been so cool yeah love the clan war
team fight yeah I would love to in some form repeat clan war again if we do
another one of these it could even be a bigger clan war event but yeah let's not
let's not quite plan the format for the next one yet it took a lot of time to
think about this one. We'll try to have something new. So far every tournament has been special
and different. Hey! Thank you, Ryu246.
The headliner. What an amazing weekend of dub C3 less than 3.
Glad you enjoyed it. Thank you so much. Very, very generous of you. It's gonna help a lot.
I'm gonna be spending a lot of that on the production that people were able to help with.
A lot of people volunteered their work, but we're gonna wait and see what we can do with that.
Hey! Wow! Thank you, Goodrich Brothers.
That was a really fun way to spend the weekend. I'm glad you enjoyed it.
Best weekend of my year so far. Let's fucking go, Klee. 52.
Thanks for the tournament, Oldsport.
Thank you, man. Thank you.
Any plans for a minification now that this awesome event is finished?
I'm not gonna say that it doesn't sound tempting.
I'm not gonna say it doesn't sound tempting.
Yo, thank you back to Warcraft. Thanks for covering the event and sending the raid as well.
Back to Warcraft. Legends in the scene as well.
Yeah, I think like one or two days off sounds pretty good, so I can get some stuff sorted at home.
There's a lot of backlog.
The players brought some cool personality, some of them even seem to get pretty good.
Ain't no bad, huh?
Uh, what's that?
Uh, are we finally...
Can you finally reveal your predictions?
Yes!
Yeah.
I thought, I told my wife this morning, I thought Hera would win Yamato second,
um, simply third, entirely fourth.
And it did happen.
I did happen.
And you know, there's just something about being able to read their capabilities, seeing the momentum, seeing the trend.
Uh, yeah.
But what I didn't expect is for it to be that close.
Based on my prediction,
I would say that no player should be at least disappointed that they underperformed.
If my prediction has anything to say about it.
How would you adjust the level of the tournament compared to the others?
It was very competitive, Black Frame. Very, very competitive.
And even though Sing Sing and I are MMR, I feel like Harry Yamato played at the same level.
I think MMR is just harder to come by these days.
Pre-medicated, thank you so much, man. Thank you so much. I super appreciate that.
It's so motivating to see how much everyone enjoyed it and how much everyone's supporting it.
It makes these events feel so worth it.
Feelings of Hell.
Pre-medicated. Thank you.
Call your wife to prove it.
It's an amazing weekend. Thank you, Grubby. Less than three.
Phoenix of Hell, thanks again, man. I know it's not your first support. I super appreciate that.
Oh, hey, I'm glad, Mi-Hau. I'm so glad to hear that.
Thank you so much, Phoenix of Hell. El Drevo, thank you for the six months.
The 2v2 was so much fun to watch. A whole bracket of 2 and 2 would be fun.
maybe an interesting way to decide the teams, hmmm. Spawning some ideas, spawning some ideas.
I guess I was fine. OK! That was fine! Hey Yondon! Thank you again!
Thank you again Yondon.
Now take care of yourself and you deserve it, put a lot of effort, we know it!
more about the headliner the headliner the headliner I don't even play Warcraft 3
and I watched every match it was amazing let's go let's see if I'm missing
anything I'm all this sending a message how about custom games in an Olympic
style the headliner custom games in an Olympic style I think there's a lot of
good custom games. I just really have a big love of melee myself personally. Yamato finally
gave a compliment. I mean, death note?
Oh, beautiful.
Beautiful.
That third finally gave a compliment.
Not bad.
Not bad.
This was absolute cinnamon.
Thank you, Grubby.
Thank you so much, Brambe.
I know you've been supporting all the contestants
as well.
We've been supporting all the contestants as well.
Gearwheel, Bulaner, Jangaroo, Get Rich Brothers.
How come we aren't hearing more about the headliner?
I know, it's not enough.
The good vibes reverberated across the world were very big.
Thanks to all involved in making people happier
in this world.
Thanks to you, Mr. Tony.
I started to play worker three.
Hey, then the Crusader, thank you so much for the 10.
Much appreciated.
guys tomorrow we'll do a recap and a summary and look at some fun clips and
watch some fun like VODs or whatever I think I would like to base in the
afterglow of this event some of you may want to do the same thing
amazing performance from the Yamato and Tara really however where is the wand of negation
It's the one of the games and he learned it late. He used it once actually
Borba Borba borba force he did use it once I grab me over 40k viewers Friday Saturday over 50k viewers today for the
Warcraft 3 category. Thanks for all you do for the game in the community
Hey, I couldn't have done it if you guys weren't so passionate about the game
Now I think I will take probably two two days break this week
But maybe not tomorrow because it would be fun to kind of have an after flow
I had a small amount of panic today, not too bad, so proud of the MOT team.
Oh yeah, when we had the big delay in simply Yamato cannon.
Yeah, I'm also so proud of the MOT team.
You, Ruygen guys, and so many others came here from A.W.2, Hera, and POE, POX, Great Weekends.
Hey, good to have you here, man. Maybe we'll see you around again sometime.
You're very welcome to follow the adventures that happen here and in Warcraft 3.
Do you have any favorite moment of the tournament?
I think the Death Note coaching Yamato was amazing.
I think Havera coming back from a 2-0 deficit was amazing, Mary Mabee's victory against Dante's,
simply making a deep run in the winter bracket 4-0 was incredible.
Pox's warden play was super fun to watch. I think a large part of the highlight of this event
isn't just this weekend, though it was incredible and everything I could have hoped for it to be,
but it's also the training arcs over the last three weeks. Yes, Tyler almost beating Havera,
That's right. Tyler's first game against Harrow was incredible today. It was so good
I think it's the best game he ever played and then of course, you know the second part of it
Where he lost his TC was not great. I would I would have hoped for more for him
I think he deserves it as well. He's done so much for the scene as well and for me personally
Reminder Yamato actually picked four maps in the finals. Yep. Yeah, if you want to count it that way for sure. Yeah
Hey
Harrah with the raid. Thank you for the raid, Harrah. Enjoy your rest
As you have some big, uh, you've got some big challenges ahead of you. The A.W.E. Tournament
You got to prove to me that Warcraft 3 was not a detriment to your A.W.E. 2 play
You got a couple of days to sort yourself out, buddy
No, but big congrats. Big, big congrats
on what you achieved here
Mistaken, thank you for the sub. 5 gifts for the sub from Rondi.
WHOA! All these shitballs!
Garamundo!
Wow.
This was recently, by the way. This was in 2006.
I won a game, I jumped on the stage, and someone hugged me from behind like this.
I'm good.
Oh, yeah, baby.
Twenty years ago, remembered like yesterday.
That was you. Nice one.
You impregnated me.
This is good man.
Garamundo, thank you for the 50 gifts up throw.
So generous, much appreciated.
Oh man.
Hug his ass.
I'm looking forward to the heroic coaching arc of me and AOE2 as well.
That's gonna be big.
Over the next two weeks, I think.
I need some time of course as well to sort out my life, but we can also see if we can run some show matches
I don't know if any of the participants or the non-participants of the tournament want to have some Warcraft 3 show matches as well
Could be fun. Hey, wow
Maybe I was happy three days in these dark times. Hey, happy to hear that witch hunt
Not happy to hear you have dark times, but I'm glad it offered light
just highlighting a message from skunk 420 can you believe how exciting
what the game for 1400 yellow play is this even 1400 these events are supposed
to show how you can get into the game and it's not as scary as you think it is
it's supposed to be bronze league heroes yes you yes paksa g you yes but this
1400 MMR play looks like 2000 almost yes they played at least like 1700 both
Yamato and Hera were insane I mean that was not 1400 play come on that's crazy
you're so right for that good rich brothers the idea has been floated that
we should have an actual noob tournament but then I can't invite people like
Yamato and Hera. Even tighter. Alright? Simply. Simply. I thought simply would be part of the
pack down there, but it was incredible.
50 more undone undone undone. Love you.
Can we get eight Merry Mabies? Dante's?
Guys, save your clips for tomorrow. I'll try to collect some as well. Hey, Capricornes,
thank you for the 10 gifted. Crypto 97 with the sub. 50 and 50 more and on and on. Toboyeski.
Thank you, bro.
Grubby, you baited me with noob tournaments. It was so exciting to watch the level get higher and higher.
Yeeeah.
It was a little bit of a bait.
2v4 v4 tourney in July.
Never forget Pox, set off the Hera Depression Redemption Arc. Pox may deserve compensation.
Wait, how?
It simply did send him to the lower bracket.
Once again, it was a tournament.
They were grinding so hard.
Yup.
If married, trained more, she may own more.
This TBH, new to dub C3, was so much fun to follow the training arcs up to the final.
Thank you so much man.
Hey, I'm so glad that it's enjoyable for someone that's new to Warcraft 3.
I've always seen it as my mission since more than 20 years ago to show what a fun game
Warcraft 3 is.
It can seem dense if you don't understand it.
I remember when Warcraft 3 came out, I didn't even like it immediately because I was a brood
war player and I was like, I'll just go back to Starcraft.
This Warcraft thing, I didn't immediately fall in love with it, but the second time
I tried it, and it's kind of a theme with me as well with other games, so it's also
kind of my problem, the second time I tried it I fell in love with it.
We should all remember how Harry started his stuff C3 journey with Cursing the Sheep and
ends up with winning the whole tournament.
Yeah.
Amazing dude.
Warcraft 3 understandable for a newbie like me.
Oh, I'm so happy to hear that, Big Reddy.
Thank you for what you're doing for this game.
Thank you guys too, and hey, you're welcome, I'm glad.
I don't understand what's happening,
but it was fun to watch.
Started playing Warcraft 3 after Hera,
and playing Warcraft 3 training three to four days,
watching these events in those training arcs.
It's been amazing.
We had a Hera survivalist from A.V.2, right?
Yes, I remember that.
This was like at the 800 MMR.
The finals gave me up all night here in Australia.
Wait, that's crazy. Congratulations again. Great tournament.
Hey, cheers, Redink.
Very fun and addictive.
Check this out.
Grubby, thank you for the tournament.
Thanks to all moderators.
And of course, thanks, Slogan.
At least something good happens in this world.
Thank you, Karato.
Thank you so much STL for the 10 gifted, appreciate it.
Watch it all the way from South Africa, start of my climate as well, I'm hooked.
Alright man, let's go!
Hey, and in the next few days, while you guys are learning the game, don't be a stranger,
huh?
stream and let me know if you've any issues that you're dealing with. I'm happy to help.
And a big shout out to all Blind One Hearts mother who is connecting with her son or daughter.
I don't know. He didn't identify by watching this game together. We love to see it. Thank
you so much for an amazing tournament training. I so much fun. Yeah, man. I love the formula.
I love seeing people do that.
Maybe shout out the Worker 3 Gym Discord.
Yeah, so guys, if you Google Worker 3 Gym,
that's a place that also helps people learn the game.
And they have some low-level competition as well
in order to help onboard you into the game.
A lot of people helping each other there.
A lot of people are excited to see new people enter the scene.
What an amazing tournament.
Simply won my heart.
I just have a quick question.
Are you gonna start up some gym sessions on stream again
after the two days break?
Yeah, I'll tell you what, I'll tell you what.
Gym, I think, is, I need it by the way.
I feel my body getting tense again from not,
from sitting in a chair all day and not gymming.
I had an amazing two month gym arc in the winter,
but I think winter is the one where I can do it the best
because now I need to get back to the garden.
Guys, this is not a euphemism.
I need to mow the lawn, right?
I need to mow the lawn.
I need to trim the trees.
I need to snip the bushes, right?
Not a u-
Why are you hook-catching me? It's not a euphemism. There's work to do, man.
And that's plenty of physical work.
Do I really have time to go to the gym? I don't think so. I need to go outside and touch grass, guys. I got chickens,
I got a dog, I got a wife, I got a garden. I need to take care of it a little bit.
But I'm not going to be a stranger. I'm going to be streaming, of course, streaming Warcraft 3 and Variety as well,
Aoe2 coming up soon.
I didn't watch the two previous streamer invitations, but I'm sure this is the most
cinema one.
What's your impression?
I think we keep getting better at running these.
I do think this one was the best.
I loved the Clan War.
Always been looking for a way to make a team format part of it.
I think I was inspired extra because the people that I was sourcing for this tournament,
the players, were League of Legends players for the most part.
And so team play is part of what they like.
And so I wanted to bring that to people.
These Clan Wars, we used to have these early days of Warcraft 3, you know?
There was almost no prize money.
$2,500 for a whole team on first place.
I think the Clan War, I didn't think the Clan War was going to be hype, it was actually
great.
It was, it was.
2v2 and 4v4 is very fun.
Maybe next time we'll do 3v3.
3v3 low key is one of the most fun team formats in Warcraft 3.
I think it's more fun than 4v4.
just involved fewer people times, but it was very amusing. Great way to spread
dub C three to a wider audience. I know what you mean. Sanerlan, you're an
experienced worker, three viewer. I'm sure some of you are missing the high
level ladder grinds that I have been postponing for some time. I don't know
if I'm gonna have it in me to bust that out over the next day slash weeks. I
think it'd be fun. But also I have an a we two ladder challenge coming up, of
course, with that invitation coming up. Might as well start practicing that
early, but it's probably most likely going to be a combination either way. It is of course
sometimes frustrating to watch. Common mistakes being made, Sanolan, but that's part of it
as well. We need to sometimes suspend our frustration and be patient with new people
learning the game. You brightened many people's lives through this event. The energy you breathed
into this nostalgic game was amazing. Can't wait to see more. Thank you so much, Tarkitas.
It's going to be fun going back and watching.
Yes, I'll do the same thing, Zebas.
Watching it back from their perspective is going to be part of the fun as well.
Thank you so much for these tournaments.
I got my wife and kids to watch this one.
Even my three boys started playing.
That is beautiful.
I think that's one of the most beautiful messages to imagine.
The family enjoying the game together.
Gorgeous.
Lo, we did us the gym discord?
Well, you did us the gym website?
Oh my God.
Hey, that's great.
That's great.
Check again later when it's not 10,000 people clicking it at the same time.
Okay, I think that was incredible.
see if any of the people are still alive because I got a head off and go into the night. We've
got Death Note, definitely check out Death Note as well guys. Hey thanks Chris Pedastreamer,
we got Yamato Kana, we got Pox, we got Death Note. Oh Pox, he's ending the show as well,
alright man. Alright, well then I think the right thing to do here is to send people over
two Yamato cannon. If he wants to we can send it over to Death Note guys. I'm gonna send
it to Yamato. He's the player in this tournament. He's ending it. And then I'm gonna let him
send it for it. I'm gonna let him send it for it. Yes. Cheer for Ruegen guys. Vivi Aurora.
By the way, thank you so much. Guys, this entire weekend. Vivi Aurora. He's already
Oh, okay then, listen at the show, just V.V. Aurora, one of my Dutch moderators, was behind
the scenes, running the camera all the time.
He had almost no breaks, same as me, working from the shadows, and he keeps changing the
camera locations, the colors and so on, three days in a row, a juggernaut event, his girlfriend
uh... watching him
you know
just uh...
yeah yeah
and you guys have compensated very nice and then send something to
uh... thank you so much to all the production staff
send it over to death out
send it over to death out
uh...
as uh...
it's the end of the show thank you so much guys for everything we will see each
other tomorrow
have a great night
I only have one final thing to say, make sure to follow the stream, if you haven't before.
Make sure to follow the stream, alright?
You'll know when I'm next live with Warcraft 3 and other things.
Guys, I have one more thing to say at the end of this beautiful weekend and this beautiful
night.
Thank you for everything, thank you for tuning in, and thank god for the headliner.
The headliner.
The first match of the Clan War is a one on one that begins on springtime and is the best
of three.
team captain will send their representative lightly.
Hold on!
Looks like we can have another headliner after giving my gratitude for this.
Who says we can't do it a fourth time this year?
Tournament soon, Grubby?
I'd love to sponsor that.
Oh, I love the hard competition of WC3, but nice for a relaxed game too like.
Thank you so much, man. Thank you for the amazing support, SirWiseKing.
We can stay in touch. Stay in touch about that one. I can't do one back-to-back. I can't. There's too much.
There's too much backlog. Anyways, thank you so much. I much appreciate it. Don't be stranger. See you tomorrow.
The Headliner. The first match of the Clan War is a one-on-one that begins on springtime and is the best