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champion our cozy and iron ship guys playoffs have been a wild ride us for
yeah you can say that again yeah I'm going off in two hours to sleep because
the game. I think it's the
chaos of last night. Pure
chaos. I mean, we had game
match fives all around. It's
not the definition of the
America region. You know, the
top kind of figured out, but
the middle of the pack chip, so
it is absolutely nothing, but
still figured himself out in
this ever changing scene. It's
like chaos. I mean, I love
it, though. I love every
minute of it. I think the
America's region of Marvel
Rivals right now has been.
It's any given day for any
given team. We say that
often, but I'll say it
again. I mean, I just can't
This is the first match, there's been some differences in terms of win-loss rate, but no matter what, this should be a banger series as we head into the finals.
I love that the way our cameras are cut out right now, it just looks like mom and dad and we brought shit to you today.
Well, we brought our kids because listen, this is the event you're going to bring your kids to, because they have to witness how champions are crowned.
our champion here in the preseason will get the lion share of a 50k us dollar price pool 16,000
dollars and of course ship they also get the most valuable valuable valuable currency of all
the absolute undisputed bragging right yeah that's it you know how important that could be
and especially on x you'd always see a lot of you know bragging going on people feeling
confident i love stuff like that i think it's great for the esport in general but
Yeah, definitely want to take this home early on as it does put you in a good spot moving forward.
It doesn't eat now cozy. It was a heartbreak hotel yesterday. We sent home not one, not two, but three teams.
Yeah, absolutely. I mean, listen, when we looked at the prize pool there, I've talked to a lot of the teams moving forward.
And what's so cool to highlight as you look at the bracket here is we've got essentially the top three, two of them non-orbs, right?
And so what a crazy scene that's become and that makes it way more important than just the money, you know,
you know, I'm not sure if it's
going to be a good one, but
obviously, you know, TLC
winning obviously their sign
ready to go. And the money's
great. But getting that first
for these, you know, other two
is much bigger to show that you
are worth the sign the belief.
And I've got to be honest,
guys. That's the last couple
of days. I mean, if you are
not watching this ever grown
eSport, you are missing out
because this has been pure
just fun. If I'm being
honest, just because you
never know what's going to
happen when any team can
paper at today's matches you feel like you know who's gonna come out on top but
also we felt that way before every single time we looked at the match
schedule and oh how wrong we've been we're now seeing it yeah we lost who's
already made it into the top three here in the Americas preseason and they
will be going up against Team Liquid Citadel once more let's just say when
they met in the semis it was clean it was not pretty so they have
everything to prove right now and they will fight for a spot in the grand final against
swamp gaming.
It should be a ton of fun to watch today, but I mean it was very much. Yeah. I mean last
time they met it was a little dicey. But yeah, we lost is definitely grown as a team. They
looked solid yesterday against Sentinels. Another heater series like you just talked
about cozy multiple map fives going across the board every single day. Yeah. And
with this first matchup right with yeah, we lost in TLC, you know, opening up
the game. We're going to look
at the game. We're going to
look at the game. We're going
to look at the game. We're
going to look at the game's
domination was a little bit on
the rough side, and I think
yeah, we lost. I'm going to be
honest. They haven't been
great out the gate with when
it comes to these games. So
don't worry too much into
that. But the last time they
had, you know, the matchup
when they take it to their
hometown, you know,
contemplation spoiler, they
were looking the part for
just a brief second, right?
And that is the belief with
this team. They're either
lightning hot on fire or.
In some cases ice cold,
right where we have to wonder will yeah we lost come in with and nothing to lose kind of chip on
their shoulder which is a good thing that might also come in energized from their narrow victory
over sentinels that no one believed they can get it done and they did get it done in a five map
banger or is there some severe mental damage from that 30 stump in the semis like is that still
sitting with them you think it's definitely a possibility you know I was some of the stuff
we saw from yeah we lost on those matchups were you know they were having fun which I think
I think it's awesome, but you also want to practice against TLC.
I would say like if I were on that team, I'd be like,
we got to try to figure this out because if we go up against them again,
I want to win, you know what I mean?
But we saw some Wanda, we saw some widow,
we saw some craziness going on and I don't think we're going to see that today.
It reminds me of like the rookies and the NFL that do like the big time like touchdown celebration day.
You know, it's like almost it's like,
okay, they're learning as they're now going from the tier two scene to pros
and some of the stuff to clean up and you're actively seeing them
that's why I think today, maybe, you know, a different case in some ways within the definition of a breakout team.
Yeah, I think the opinions are split. Like someone would find it very entertaining. What we saw from Yaby loss and that last map against Liquid Citadel.
They found it funny, but they just came out the spawn door with literally mystery heroes, like whatever, like stroke their fancy at that very second.
uh... like stroke their fancy at that very second
other side that they just
really gave up and in trying that which is like kind of a throw as entertaining
as it might have been
is it the right thing to do like are you taking anything away from that are
you learning anything
that said speaking of learning guys
i mean liquid citadel is finding themselves in the lower bracket which
means they are coming off of a loss it's a three to two loss against one
gaming in the upper finals and
It seems to me if you're going back to watching that game, that Swamp Gaming may have delivered a bit of a blueprint on how to at least draw blood from Liquid Citadel.
I like that thought process. As we're looking here, yeah, we lost this composition across the board. I mean, yeah, a ton of talent there, quickly to address them.
Like, yeah, maybe they have looked at that, right? They saw, hey, these comps worked against them. This is maybe this, you know, the idea of what we want to run.
But yeah, we lost. They typically don't try to look at other teams comps. They just run what they're comfortable on and do some weird stuff to shake things up, right, Kozi?
team. You know, I think that
you're going to be a great
team. I think that's what you
think, Kozi. Yeah, for sure.
More on that band pick thing
because there's a lot to that
trying to find what works against
a team full of talent. But you
know, I spoke with liquid
Citadel a little bit here,
obviously, you know, same day
of casting them pretty much.
And this is a team that has
so much high expectations. If
you look across like swamp
with the up and coming like,
Oh, wow, we're surprised.
They're great. But this is the
team in. We expected them to
be good and expectations. Only
team. We saw that last year
year one with energy and
flight question. The losses
were good. They cleaned them
up, got them ready. Obviously
talent across the board,
flexible across the board. But
yes, the blueprint Zoe, as you
said, is now available. And
what that was was trying to
shut down a bit of that
backline in the target bands
on speedery. We're going to
look at that potentially again
in the grand finals. But
even down here low, I want
to see if yeah, we lost
picked up on that. Yeah,
but then it goes back to
what Chip said, right? Like
But then it goes back to what Chip said, right?
Like, yeah, we lost it, don't seem to like care
about that kind of stuff.
They just kind of wanna run what they're comfortable with,
but that can be targeted.
I mean, that's what Liquid Citadel did, right?
They have a very clinical approach to dare drafting.
And last time they just like targeted like
Kendrick, Syrup, Paul, Karl Hulk was banned out.
Like they targeted the pillars of, yeah,
we lost play style,
which then were forced into very uncomfortable positions
resulting in them looking very outclassed.
Yeah, I'm not sure if he should.
Yeah, I'm with you.
Like, that's the idea, right?
They just want to try to shake things up.
I don't even know if we're going to see anything
that's been the same from them again today.
And that's kind of the beauty of watching
Yeah, we lost and why they have.
So it's such a large fan base
and they're so exciting to watch
is they always just do weird stuff.
So my best case scenario for them
in this first matchup would be
they pull out something that we haven't necessarily seen
yet.
I was like, Oh, man, I'm
going to be like, Oh, man,
I'm going to be like, Oh,
listen, it went to like 4 a.m.
for the East Coast. If you
missed it, let me fill you in
on what happened. Essentially
whenever it got two to two,
they took it to the third map
and out of nowhere. There was
gambit was banned every game.
They then saved the gambit
and the rope together and ran
that comp mask always playing
Thor like so that's the
stuff. It's a pocket aces.
It's things that people will
not expect it. It showed me
one thing ship. It did show
me that they are flexible
from them and we kept saying people are going to just figure this thing out Zoe
they're gonna know how to stop them shortly but it's then flexible on the
change even if it's still off meta at least they're changing it up yeah there
was absolutely a plan B even a plan C and a C and a half because numbers and
letters make so well but yeah I think if we're looking at that the community
sentiment right like they have a massive fan base because they are so
entertaining and especially in a matchup like this against liquid Citadel
it's like the yeah we lost being like the scrappy unpaid ranked warlords taking
on like the big org like the big pharma kind of thing right so you you can't
help but to root for for the little guys for for the David's yeah I mean and
we're looking now we see the map's gonna be Hell's Heaven I'll tell you what
that was a map that was really dominated by TLC in the last go-round as
unswamped so it's gonna be tough it's tough but also yeah we lost it's
good there too so it's tricky right Josie it's this is the map they
they always take it to win.
They lose on the come around
not the second map.
That's obviously museum of
contemplation.
But yes, this is where they
try to get things right.
And funny enough, last time
they went against each other
twice they try to get here.
And if you look at that matchup,
it was the third map and they
at least got a point on it.
It was 3-1 for that final bit.
But yeah, this is a map they
like to play because it really
suits.
Yeah, we lost his play style
and gameplay.
But listen, if there's one
thing TLC is flawless and
perfect in, it is domination.
They have not dropped the
Yeah. Yeah. Guys, give me the matchups to watch out for. Like, who are we having our eyes on on domination?
Hmm. Oh, I mean, I want to get your opinion on this coach. First, I'm gonna say Xantho looked really good yesterday.
I was surprised with Xantho on the gambit. I thought the gambit looked clean. A lot of finals, insane healing and really good initiation.
And that's what you want on a gambit player in this meta.
Yeah. So we keep talking about the back lines of Swamp, back lines of TLC.
Hey, we got to start the conversation of Xantho and Kendrick because there's some craziness that they do
to do an opportunity is doing
way more than the heel job.
Kindred being on the Fox so much
and having crazy plays as well.
But for me, Cart is a big heartbeat
of this team.
If you ban out Hart and he's kind
of having an off thing with
venom going on.
It messes up their flexibility
because Jitward sometimes goes
venom and then they can't really
flex to what they want to.
Now with Jitward opening the
Deadpool as always for me,
it's watched the messiness
and the craziness of Jitward
in the back line of Cooper
and Nero and how they handle
situation and peel for that. That's what you have to like shut down and in their first meeting it was
just kind of energy going like nuts like turns out if the entire team is dead they can't do anything
to your back like simple as that uh so yeah those are definitely plays that you don't want to get
give them their like best heroes but then energy showed us yesterday i can play pretty much
anything so it doesn't really matter right yeah energy is a human name bot right i mean
I'm not sure that's going to
be the case here. I think
it's probably going to be a
double gambit matchup, but
I'm not been again. Who knows
these teams are trying to shake
things up. You could list
pretty much everyone on TLC
for a solid conversation about
how they play, you know,
speedery in that conversation
for one of the best, not only
do less, but also can run that
backline Ultron probably the
best Ultron so far in the
Americas region, but maybe
even the world. And then
yeah, we lost it. We look
at their stat lines after
every game. Everyone's got
involvement. There's like
rarely a time it's
there's like rarely a time
that someone doesn't have
involvement and you mentioned
cart. Last time we saw cart
had three finals I would still
argue had the most involvement
in the game because it was
constantly on point. So
there's stuff like that. I
mean both sides definitely have
a lot of skill and that's why
they're up here. Yeah, my gut
tells me they're going to
allow the El Saban to
gamble. I usually hate playing
against the gambit with Cooper
having that access. It gives
them a bit more of the dive
that they can go with when
you kind of get chaotic
with jitward. That's what
my gut says with them at
least. But yeah, for me,
listen, I think it's a
that. I mean, it's a
really, really, really
important thing. I mean, it's
a really important piece. But
yeah, for me, listen, I mean,
it had to have perfect things
that happened for TLC to fall.
Energy was still pretty much
flawless. It was just that
mellow, you know, mellow was
just going crazy yesterday, so
like he's going to show up and
do his part. But it was
spark chief and cart. Those
are the two that if one of
them are having an off bit
of the Vanguard play, the
other is going to fall, but
I just feel like, yeah, we
lost. Don't play well
in this entire thing.
Oh yeah, now his vanpool has been clean.
In general, I feel like in the playoffs
we've seen so much more vanpool
getting through the bandface
and they've been looking phenomenal
which almost makes me worried against
like, wait, why are we not banning vanpools?
Like, I feel like we should
but the same case can be made about
a lot of other heroes that are for grabs
right now. So it's difficult
if you're banning out meta heroes
or if you're banning out like, just like
position is like an expert in. Four teams like yeah we lost. I mean they want to impose their chaos
and that starts kind of in the face already right? So like they just they keep you guessing
up until things are actually unfolding on the server. Yeah you know what I want to watch
Alphorship for sure. No question about it. We've seen so much of this in the preseason. It has
been the battle of the daredevil. We saw days versus Shbedery. Jitward versus Shbedery is going
me the next thing that we might run into because if you look at the gameplay
we'll talk about this more if it is TLC and swamp on the rematch but it was the
same formula against liquid and the gambit the mantis the Ultron that shuts
down a lot of speed or even if you get rid of the daredevil then it forces him
to go silo something a little bit different but I think the daredevil
daredevils are gonna squeak through yeah I was I was watching the daredevil
play back and forth yesterday obviously between swamp and TLC that was it
was so back and forth I couldn't decide who might be more dominant on the
hero, but now I think that's another conversation.
Jipward's great on that hero too.
Gets banned all the time in the past on different matchups.
So I don't know if that's going to be a target.
The one side of DD's have been a big problem
in these different matchups.
Zoe, any predictions before we go into this?
I predicted good game.
That's what I'm predicting here.
Let's see if, yeah, we lost on the dog.
Can I take it to Liquid Citadel in this rematch
here in the lower bracket final?
I'm looking at Jim.
Yeah.
But you have to jump and hop in band right off the rip from good old TLC,
going to be the Elsa band.
So the inverse, I mean, heck, you were right, buddy.
They're not giving energy, any of that fuel.
Yeah, I think it's just scary.
Energy's just so locked in on that here.
I think, you know, you can do a really good job healing,
which they don't want right now on with Elsa in this current meta.
You know, percent based damage, it really messes up things, even like that for,
it can mess with brawl, it can fit into every single comp.
to get into every single comp.
Goodbye.
They're going to allow that gambit through.
And then, no, they're saving Kendrick right now
with that Jeff.
Yeah, good call out.
It's all about Kendrick because Kendrick
did play the Jeff really well in this map.
Didn't play a lot of Jeff yesterday.
It was more on the Fox and the Strange,
but this is the Jeff map or Kendrick in general.
Zatek's not going to have options for the Elsa.
That's been their game plan a lot,
Shib is protect the duelist that allowed them to pop off.
I actually like this a bit better
because we see that Jitward, if he gets target banned,
can adjust a text. It's just great at so many sidelines. You name it. They don't need Elsa gambit
not making it through. That's a big win for them because speedery is the protection and
honestly ship. I think this is a sneak peek into what we might see for the big bands of swamp
if that happens because you get the old Trump saved. You can at least get them going in the
game plan they want. Yeah, they've done their homework. They're trying to find a way through
it because they definitely mess with them yesterday. It was, you know, it was an
incredibly fun map to watch or match to watch across the board. But yeah, it was it was
the team is going to have to
be able to get to the top of
the game. We're going to see
a lot of players very much
cerebral in the band phase and
teams are going to try to play
chess with each other here
moving forward, and I think
that we lost is kind of, you
know, taking a page a bit from
that book. We're going to see
the save for Nero as well on
that White Fox. There's been
disgusting on that hero in
terms of finals and damage as
well. Yeah, just has been a
hero that has been an anchor
for a team of it pops off
something like right, amazing
yes, you know, and said
show the same. It's like
man, you can get just crazy
the ultimate being able to fall
there right and have alts wasted on you.
But then you come back with a team ship.
I think that's so underrated that you don't,
you know, die and fall after that ultimate.
And it's kind of a second life, second chance thing.
A star Lord going to be banned.
So this is the target energy ban.
If you will ship the getting rid of at least two
of the options that he showed to like in domination.
Yeah, I, but at this point, yeah, you know,
actually I like it. I like it. I do like it.
I was going to say I was wondering if the van pool
might have been a better go, but try to ban out.
But you know, what do I know?
Because these teams clearly have their strategy in mind.
As we see the lock of vanpool from, yeah, we lost.
That's going to maybe head towards Jitward's way.
What this team has known for doing in the past
is running the strap pool or the dual pool,
and then switching around.
Essentially, you just want to get those levels early on.
But mask off for it will be at least floating for now,
that vanpool.
And it's funny, because a lot of the preseason,
the week 1-2, you did not see Jitward play
deadpool in domination.
Mask has kind of tried to pick up that role
and pick up the deadpool mask, if you will.
But yesterday, we finally saw
that flexibility option come into play.
Cart ready to go.
The Hulk still online and active as well,
showing that liquid does not fear,
but might come from the player that does so much.
But yeah, on the other side,
there it is, the Doctor Strange Band.
And I've been loving this more and more,
Chip, right, because it just,
it says, hey, you're gonna play perfect.
And if you don't, you're gonna lose.
Yeah, not only is that the case,
but it also just stops Kendrick
for being a raid boss on Trencher.
They want to change things up, which is really locked in on that hero.
Just some big ultimates.
But yeah, I'm with you.
I also, like you're saying, in domination, you can't touch again.
It gives you so much peace of mind and you can over commit a little bit in those final
fights because you know the retouch is likely not going to come through and that is always
a smart play.
We're seeing more and more of that as the preseason develops.
You get to get out of jail free cards.
It's the Jet Bolt and it's the Doctor Strange Portal.
So they got rid of one of those for them as they banned Jeff and they're hoping
that that is going to give them the upper hand.
If I'm being honest with this being the first map,
yeah, we lost can take this with the jet.
Very favorable and probably the one they want to play
the most out of the three, if I'm being honest.
So interesting opening.
Zatek's going to be on that side lock,
which is a comfort play and watch out for speedery.
He likes to hunt the skies and get rid of that early,
but Zatek's already getting some heat.
Yeah, Sparchi taking it out of the space.
The outside, Jitward almost caught out,
but good movement there to dodge that in that moment.
Sparchi playing behind now, sees the chase,
tries to get on that.
Look at all this dive potential coming in immediately
from Yewey lost to Xantho gets that first pick and wow making it a two-piece now as Zatex
finds a third energy gets one but it won't matter that's going to be point early on here
for Yewey lost.
Rookies from the tier two seed they do not care about the meta they don't care about
expectations non-stop aggression that's how they want they thrive in the chaos and
this is what I love SHIB they're going to bring all of it right here right now.
I said yesterday guys any day any team can win I know what we've seen in the past
but do not doubt it.
They can get this domination winship that would give them so much momentum to push forward
and try to steal an upset energy though has always flexed over to this with the soldier
against this team to stop the aggression and the dive.
Yeah, as far chief good play there finds one make it to Cooper now onto jitward and trying
to play off that backline but won't last long goodbye as mask falls there. Xantho as well
in the immediate retake from team liquid Citadel is a testament to why there's such a strong
team. Yeah they're showing exactly what they did last domination this is actually
where they opened up last time with that spark chief on the cap because we were
all talking about how Paul is the cap the spark chiefs there played a great
job as well and it same result as last time yeah we lost took the point first
but it's how fast the liquid citadel can adjust under pressure that is
something other teams don't have especially when playing these young
guns that are so aggressive energy obviously being the big leader of it
the voltage comes out and again is ready to fire off as I crack an
impact. He knows he's thirsty to start getting that Olympics firing off. That's
one of those answers we've seen from Liquid Citadel. Against Yeah We Lost,
Nero finds one on a Xantho, Jitward trades that onto Cooper, strapped for a
strap. But why not? Morris Mask is able to take out speedery, energy, starts up
with that crack and impact. There goes one. Do we see more? No, we don't.
CART with a huge shutdown here from Yeah We Lost is going to put them back
in advantage with a point is still being held by Liquid Citadel. The
The freedom charge to buy more time.
Polly is dancing with the cap as the portal gets committed now.
Little shock that Zatex did not get any eliminations
with that dance to the butterflies.
And what an early portal that just shows how much respect
they have for this team they're going up against.
Cannot give it to them that early.
That Spark Chief Oat really saved it for them.
Yeah, we lost.
Could not finish the deal.
And they stagger here.
Their job rotating out, not over committing.
They get together all as one mass.
So dangerously low throws on the Van Hammer.
There's gonna be no follow up with that ship.
I don't know if I like that.
Zatek's falling, that's gonna be a wipe.
Yeah, I love that early portal.
As long as you're using some sort of straddle to stall
against your team gets there.
Shpedery able to find Kendrick now,
make it a two piece.
Shpedery's on the chase.
You know how he can play whatever as well.
Energy trying to find a pull on the,
ooh, goodbye chip, we're just deleted there.
And the side of energy wants more.
Cart on the back line,
which is pretty much home form at this point.
Zatek's now finds Cooper.
Yeah, we lost up numbers, but not for long again.
Energy with the answer on the cart.
95% in climbing here for TLC.
Fanship, we've talked about it so much.
How many teams can keep calm during the storm?
And it only takes one in its energy.
I mean, this Bucky's the perfect hero to be that anchor
and just, hey, get rid of all the chaos.
Hey, Jitward, what's up?
Here's the hook, and you're dead and gone
as Matt's now pushing in.
They do get a throw off the map of Spark,
which is a big pick, even though Jitward does go down.
He'll be back spiky fast,
but it's taken down the cap, which is important.
But energy, oh my God, is he ready to
He's going to be a safe punch now looking towards Jitward who's at literally like 30 HP and a dream here. The retouch has got to come in. Can you get the health pack first? No, cannot. TLC get map one.
here. The retouch has got to come in. Can you get the health pack first? No. Cannot. TLC get map one.
First of all, what was that go-go gadget punch from one? How did he get that from across the map, man?
Yeah, you know, Chip Word obviously was going to go down there if he touched it. Would have quite literally been a
spider getting stepped on. You know, Ant's boot from Nick Fury, you know, kind of quote, but at least
we didn't trigger the overtime and giving them a shot. But you know what? Actually, if you look at the
old economy, maybe at least it gives them more to go with, because we don't know what they would have
and the strat line wise, Kendrick, Xantho have stuff.
They just weren't able to get anything going
after that stagger and it was the portal.
You know what we call it?
It was the portal with the energy picks
that was the main issue.
100% right.
Yeah, well the idea there was, all right.
They had Paulie and Spark Chief up.
They had about 75% HP.
Spark Chief pops out and I'm sure in comps
says commit portal, trust me.
Paulie's there dancing with Spark Chief
making sure they play around that over health.
They avoid the butterfly because of it,
the cutter fly if you will.
Stay on, everyone's back on point
And at that point they own it.
And that's why stall and cap are so strong in this meta
where yet we lost our really as committed to the stall
because a lot of the commitment is on that dive instead.
Yeah, that's a great point there
on the different matchups and metas you can have folks.
I know there's been so much rivals four days in,
but this is gonna be it on the top scene for month.
Plus, so walk in zone number two, ready to go.
Watch out for this Xantho ult
and we'll see if they can combine that
with the cart fees,
but it's gonna go on chaos right away.
There is going to be the dance of the butterflies.
Look at all four Qs pressed.
If they don't come out with the win here,
it is all but lost.
Lots thrown at them, Shib.
Oh man, that was a lot of commitment,
but it looks like they are going to be able to get the points.
And how long can they hold on to it
with what they had to use?
And you see Jitward on that dual pool now,
leveled up a little bit here.
You're right.
They did commit a ton, getting point,
but now the idea is just stall for as long as possible.
We'll get this switch here from speedery,
able to find one off the back of some place from Nero,
making it a two piece as a team so far.
this is the first time we've
seen a lot of people who
haven't seen a lot of people
using this energy. Using this
pick to just shut down a lot of
this brawl dive. This snowball
comp that is being run by yet
we lost it clearly has been
working shout out energy,
making that pick work in this
meta because we really don't
see a lot of it. Paulie with
the pick there on a jit word
and once again, this retake
less than 30% a second time
in a row.
Bro, I always laugh because
people like Marvel rivals is
just a game of ultimate. If
you watch liquid Citadel
and swamp, they show what
they do with neutral play.
on the flashy colors to get jobs done. I think that's what is so lethal about them as those two picks
came instantly man. I mean you traded four ults for 27% and Liquid Citadel just you know bad in eyes.
Yeah a hundred percent the neutral in this game right now is significantly more impactful even
than ever since those changes. Pauly going to commit with the Van Hammer there but what do you
know down goes it's Jeff. Commitment again but this time from Mask trying to make something
happen with the freedom charge Kendrick's on top of being able to make what something that's
That's a first pick here from the side of Yewie Loss.
But again, three Alts are out.
Energy gets one out of Kendrick.
Is there going to be an again with this cracking impact
up in the sky?
Bang comes down.
Will there be the pick, though?
Mast able to drop away.
About 30% HP avoiding it.
High about 15 energy.
Somebody stop him.
Is finding three now.
And will keep control of the point.
Zatex is doing a great job ship
of getting those back line hits.
And it just feels like there's no follow up after.
And Energy was like, you can have one,
But I'll survive the five.
Schmeader does have the devil to let out here.
And if you look at what they had to stop it, not much.
If you liquid, in fact, those holes
that go aggressive right now, I think
he's going to let the devil out any moment.
Here comes Hell in Hell's Heaven.
But Zaytek's trying to get that backline
was caught, discovered.
Pat, spark chief, took him down.
Good work there, Schmeader.
He's able to take out Santho on the high side,
looking for another pick on a jibward.
I do not believe his ult available, no, does not.
And that's going to be to pick bang
as Schmeader, he finds a second.
Look how dominant on that DD see it once more, not match the moment, but is available.
Cooper finds Kendrick and wow, I mean, this whole from Team Liquid Citadel, they're just
unbreakable, an actual Citadel, just, you know, taking it to him at this point is Paul,
it finds one more.
Yeah, reading like a court case, this is flashback to just a day ago.
I mean, first of all, you got the recipe of how, you know, yeah, we lost plays in
these domination matches and TLC, you don't like them when they're angry and getting
down here in the lower they are angry. There's a sliver of time left on the
overtime clock. Both go down in shib. That was a speed run master class liquid
Citadel taking map one fortress tested in the fortress has been proven. This
Citadel looks unstoppable. They lose point early on and every time come
back around 30% and never give it up. That is just a textbook set of plays
because the ideas they want to force out some of those alts, you know,
especially on map two there, let them use whatever given the point. You
know what we can do. We just won't commit anything. We'll come
that. I mean, it's a great
experience. I mean, it's a
great experience. I mean,
if you come back and win
fight to and never give it up
after that, then it was just
an absolute masterclass. And
you see the stats now. Yeah
just to overreact the point
being taken right like there's
all the stats whoever gets
point for 70% they don't
care that you know what it's
like, let him have it and
then we'll match that
opposition. Obviously energy
popping off final 13 16 K to
boot and ZX again was the
highlight that really impressed
me from that team. I'm
There's definitely some ice that definitely needs to fall off, so we'll see which, yeah, we lost response.
I can promise you it'll be at the Museum of Contemplation. There's no doubt about it, folks.
We're gonna take a quick break, and then we will be back to the action.
Welcome back everyone so we're here joined by Kosey and I run ship and to absolutely
no one's surprise liquid citadel is up one zero what's the cabinet that you know
like this is yeah we lost worst map type so we can we can take that as like a
piece of hope sliver of light anything cozy I didn't convince you I'm not gonna
you know I'm trying yeah we lost ourselves low I do know that and listen
you know we ship and I we casted a J3 community class shout out to that
there was a Spider-Man that was going crazy.
Even as unorthodox as a Spider-Man would be to ban,
you have to stop the thing that is absolutely
wrecking your strategy.
And right now, Chip, it's got to be the Bucky for energy,
because yeah, all that CC, all that stuff
is quite literally putting a wall,
the Citadel Fortress on their momentum.
Yeah, I think it's a shout out to Marvel Robles
as a whole, right?
Because some teams get afraid, as you see,
good call there, music with contemplation.
Had no doubt about that.
But teams are scared to run things
that maybe aren't quote unquote as meta.
Bucky has taken a seat back in the meta,
but the idea of having raw damage,
a ground on punch, which affects things like card
on the Holt and or Venom, having to pull
and just having the raw damage and CC
and a huge ultimate at all times,
just a brawl with your team.
It just fits so well into countering
exactly what you have we lost wants to do.
Teams have been struggling because they're like,
you know what, that character's not meta.
Maybe we shouldn't run it.
And I don't want to lose with that.
But when it comes to the team,
like Team Liquid Citadel, they're not afraid of that.
And they pull it out and they look dominant doing it.
Yeah, and this is pretty much the pick that through, yeah, we lost off their game already the last time they met in the semifinals, right?
It was energy on that bucket coming at where we're like, well, okay, we did not expect that.
Well, night did it, yeah, we lost, and energy wrecked havoc on that particular hero.
I do love that we just have, like, individual heroes that make a comeback just in this playoff because they can.
So, yeah, it's great to see that, but it adds another level of, like,
Oh, no, now we have another hero that we should be banning out like that's that's rough. That's rough
Now cozy you could call it museum of contemplation is where we headed here. We do have that's a convoy map
That's the best map type for yeah, we lost a ikter's ill could also have been a great choice
I think they played it three times want it three times as well
But museum it is what do you expect to see from them there? This is their home, right?
This is this is your home
This is their home because they always picked to come in for the way that the corridors are and how it leans
to die the one time liquid Citadel looks weak was point one and then guess what that was the start of
the funky that came out if they banned that what do you do so what do you do indeed we'll find out
but yeah we lost we'll do going up against liquid citadel on this second map all right welcome
welcome in folks as we are going to see right now the first ban of the elsa is going to be
that. You know, it's not
going to be a good game. You
know, it's not going to be
something that you all
Psycho I lied. See this is the
change up that I wanted to see
from you. We also say it's
something that we expected. Good
change up. Oh man, the
speedery bands let them begin
because swamp gaming they
discovered the whole to allow
the flood to come in. That
was the swamp. But yeah, we
lost is going to get rid of
that. Comfortability. And
then they are going to go and
right here. Now is gamble gonna
be banned followed by the
mantis. The more orthodox
things you'll see from liquid
Citadel. But yeah, she have
changing it up is good because
they haven't shown that a ton
to they always kind of stick
in grit their teeth and go
through it. Oh yeah, man. I
think you know, this is the
kind of stuff that I want to
see from yet we lost. Just
keep shaking up the mental. This
is how you gotta go after a
team like Team Liquid Citadel,
especially after struggling
against them in the past.
The locking of Elsa here for
yet we lost is also something
the ball can look dominant on
and that's going to open up some
windows here. I'll allow you to
play a little more different
than just kind of committing
fully to that divey snowball
composition, but there will be a
little bit of an answer from TLC
on that gambit. Now they have
some movement and some self
peel. Yeah, so now it's like,
okay, you need to ban the road
because bar chief loves to play
that. Now it's like, okay, you
can even ban the Bucky. I
think it's fine to go with
that. You also have to
worry about those. You can't
let energy have that. So now
they have three problems
ship that can only solve
two. So the Bucky bands
I think it's going to happen
just with what's available, right?
For the kind of chess match that's happening
here at the high level.
So it looks like this last and if I
already guess is probably going to go to
that Elsa if it's a buck yet.
I'm all for it.
But man, either or energy is going to
be. Yeah, it's funny because I
is the same story that happened last
time they were able to pan Elsa
super late and she doesn't even care
at this point.
It seems like, you know, go ahead.
I'll play whatever.
But yeah, they're floating the low
key because the mantis is in play.
This is the man this and play
enables so many different kinds of
the game. We're going to have
a lot of good players. We're
going to have a lot of good
players. We're going to play
enable so many different
compositions and really can be
threatening. I have no doubt a
triple comp will be on the
table here for TLC who can run
that incredibly well,
probably the best in the
America's region. But you
know, who knows? Well, I
guess the best in America's
region decided at least so far
today. But the final lock in
here. This could be that
vanpool again. Yeah, you
know what I said that three
issues to worry about. Yeah,
forgot about the team up
Loki with the double the
double gambit old. That's
to save us the last strange.
I was going to say, save the strange here.
It's such a great strange map with the portal,
especially on point one to an even career timeship,
but we're going to continue to see that against them.
I will say it is a great, you know,
maybe land shark map as well,
especially they're getting towards the end of both point
one and two.
There's some good opportunities there to close the deal.
Yeah, you call it.
You can also have a pretty decent like saving
opportunity to if they land a big ultimate buddy,
you know, strange of the table changes things up
because Jeff can also be defensive with the alt.
But yeah, again, and a point one,
like you're saying it could be huge.
But the major call that you made was the strange,
save the strange, dude, I agree.
I don't think that's a bad play.
They think you're strange is a problem for them.
Why not potentially consider that as a save
as your second save to try to shake up,
you know, what they've been practicing.
They, because at this point, they assume
that strange is gonna be off the table
because they're gonna bail every time.
For sure, right?
And you talked about it on the last map.
It's like two for one value.
So it's not like you're just like saving the portal
but kids are so comfortable with it.
I think that would just change up
what they wanna do with cart and mask as well, right?
because then it's like if he's going strange,
I mean triple Vanguard could work just fine.
It doesn't exactly play to their play style
and strange usually comes out more
than chaotic moments if you will.
But either way, that's shit we're showing him.
I don't think that's what we're gonna see out the game.
We've got the offense up ready.
Energy can be on the bucket even with Elsa available.
That shows how powerful this with your soldier is
against the nonstop aggression, because yeah, we lost.
And let the games begin, folks.
You can see the damage boost being spread far and wide
even on the Jeff from Nero, you know, Nero is not afraid to play aggressively.
You won't be seeing that too much because the center would be touching
Spondor if he tried to flank right now, but they're going to play a little more
front to back for the current moments.
They tax is able to find one early except the tone goodbye,
Speedy on that Mantis.
This was the, what they found out last time against swamp.
You banned what Speedy likes to play and they typically would pick him
first and that's just what happened now.
And this is exact repeat of map one against these two teams in the
museum and why they liked it so much.
like if there was a win percentage on this first point,
I think, yeah, we lost have the best in the whole tournament.
They do so well up to this moment
and Jintward is gonna get picks as well,
have not seen them on the Phoenix,
typically not on these poke heroes,
but there's so much of this hallway
they can work with, love to pick in the decision now.
And if you look closely, couple of wolves coming up,
close ship, gonna be a big impact,
Nero, Xantho, both of those, gonna be huge,
but Cooper gonna let the cards out.
Oh yeah, we're gonna see a big Q-fest in a moment here.
Cooper gonna enable the team
to get those halts even faster.
and with that speed was committing heavy now.
As the feast lands, is there a combo on a speedery?
He's holding up for a moment.
Good movement there as Energy gets the first pick
on the jit work.
That's going to put numbers up for the moment on to Citadel
as Nero goes under for the HGF Zaytex.
Even in that out now, onto Cooper
and that's big value goodbye to the gambits.
Zaytex falls from Polly.
Well, on that van pull is just an absolute savage car.
Wow.
Again trades it back on the speedery.
Really good rotation, right, Chip?
The fact that they survived the cars
got the pick on the coop after it was so massive for them love to swap up from
energy as well get the bucket on the next point either way they've got all
the cues ready I think they open up a kindred and then straight into xanto but
there comes the water talking cars can be caught in it begging for life and a
chance to breathe right back to the spawn but you know what not the worst
pick if the rest can survive this madness especially when spark chief
goes down yeah both vetems out of the fight right now and song bang able to
find a few as jip work gets a two-piece Kendrick able to find the
third, and this is going to put them in a dicey spot.
Portal needs to come in here from Spark Sheep.
It will, but it makes it a difficult fight for your team,
especially if they're staggering a little bit.
If a touch comes through, Portal gets committed.
Can they get there? They are.
Glartrux goes out from Zatex.
That's going to be what?
Make it three now, Zatex!
So hold on tight and push this thing through.
Wow, with the quick, hard bite of the Glartrux
filling up the stomach.
You know what, hey, we said we wanted to see something
of a surprise factor like they did on set nose.
It was Jitward on the Phoenix.
I mean, talk about being able to get the combo set up, ready to go.
I'm in love with it now.
Is Energy going to stay with these?
I'll take your eyes on him.
Speedy, this is kind of what happened.
Lexi, go into these different picks, right?
Playing a little mystery hero, figuring out what works,
and that's how they solved it if you're swamp gaming against them,
opening up a playbook on how to beat TLC.
Yeah, I mean, if you're going into triple like this,
you want big ultimates,
and that's what they're trying to run right now.
Energy, able to find Zaytex.
But again, look at this space already being owned on point.
You just got to try to take it around that pillar on the bottom side.
It gives you an advantage on defense because you can play around that natural cover.
So that's what they're doing energy planning jitward.
And again, I like that pick like he called out buddy.
Good call there as the whole team drops back and resets as a unit.
All righty, so this is where they struggled last time with ease and they were able
to get it down this ramp whatsoever.
Xantho has been online for quite a while.
They can pair that up.
We'll see if the feast comes with it.
Remember, the shamiotic shenanigans are still at large because this is before
that patch hit.
She had that team of still goaded car going to go ahead and survive just barely
the cars full believe in the heart of them is going to be liquid sitting there
find that pig and now at this point don't over commit the zanthos still going
with the Jeff looking for food is trying to get through this but wow sparking to
shut back and all down really smart play by Cooper there cuz the idea is you
don't want to all too close to the door they're just gonna drop back and
retake but half the team was on the left side there's no way to get to
the spawn door from there as everyone falls is speedery speedery's gonna
find make it a third here yes everybody falls once more sitting out
are angry now Bruce Banner is the Hulk and they get this chase on his anthill
And this is very good honestly for
Liquids in the dough to figure out the speed of your stuff now too, right?
You know if you believe you're gonna win this thing get the grand finals going and locked in on the silo get into some
Training while you're at it, but yes energy now has a large opportunity to get rid of this bug on the wall
But jitward so fast so lethal. Oh, how did he escape that?
Just
There's value in that though as they do find a trade that's pretty funny is a tax is able to take out speedery
But yeah, dude, a little dosey double bear still finds that pick, but it's match right back
We're gonna see Alts committed band hammer goes out a huge car dropped here, and that's gonna be one
Do I see two? I do not yet the movement from Paulie's kind of crazy
What still holding on for now insane shmovement there by Paulie to hold on as energy gets that pick
And now as I say it cast a curse goodbye Paulie
That van hammer saved the red because he had to be careful with those shots and Zatek didn't want to commit too much
But it's just enough to win. Oh car going down as well as Zatek
But it did use the car trucks and as you fell can't you're getting a big pig in the back line
That's what you want to see from this ever-growing scene of these rookies
And now they're able to get through the hard part of this push obviously spawn still so close gonna get no overtime
Surely all back half from sparky
I think it's great there making sure that point does not move a muscle
That needs to be in your bag folks watching if you are getting pushed by a
team go steal that cart from them if you can. Mask able to find energy early on
with the band hammer making a two-piece now mask looking clean on this band.
Paulie who as Nero trades it back on to Kendrick saying white fox who I
guess as we see that trade but ultimate advantage going to be up here for
Liquid Citadel but they are very close to getting point two here and they
make it work. It's always a tough part to close out because how close that spawn is and doesn't help when you
chew down the duelists not in this thing but cart getting energy okay you know they're gonna be back at the same
timeship so not really a huge trade in terms of value everybody gonna get back together and reset for this thing
an agreement and looking at what they can do. Cart is just absolutely in it it's he now it's the fall of it they're
gonna fall it's gonna be now the Fox Knights house coming up from Nero looking for more as the team pushes up to W
He's far too cheap trades with Jitward getting polly as well.
Two for two, Jitward can fall though with a quick web back.
They're dropping back down, but the space has been retaken.
Oh, almost committing something there.
As you see, energy duking it out on the front line.
And that is going to be just a moot point for now.
Jitward heavily committing.
Does that have up, but finds a two piece on a huge punch.
And that's going to be three Spider-Man mains rise up
right now.
Jitward looking incredibly strong.
And that's going to be a quadra.
And that'll drive that point through.
So, McQuire just fell to his knees somewhere on the streets.
He can feel it.
Absolute heat coming from the friendly neighborhood hero.
Now, get very close.
You know, close it in on Olt as well.
After you look at what they do have,
you can see a lot of just heavy, neutral, big lane poke
fight here.
See if anything changes, because speedery on the silo
has got to get that value towards the back.
So hard when you've got jet and Fox to deal with.
Yeah, great.
It's just a lot of pressure, a lot of communication.
But energy cuts right through that noise,
says goodbye, Jitward, out of the sky.
A little bit of vengeance from that movement before.
Cooper taking out Xantho.
Two numbers, make it three here.
Schpeter, he finds a piece of that pie,
drives them up towards the spawn.
This is where you want to take this first fight
on this map because you want to ensure
you have the best chance at winning this.
We have seen teams push through here on OT.
And we've seen teams struggle here,
maybe even put a portal inside of the point here.
Everybody makes mistakes.
You see energy look for more.
The seventh member has always been a ducky float
for one of these teams, typically.
Yeah, if you look at it, man,
I mean, if you lose this fight in the new show,
also gives the other teams so much old charge.
And now pretty much you're gonna be able to tell the tale
that's about to happen here
in the second point of the map.
Either way, so hard to give this point three.
It's gonna be a quick hit of the spider,
but getting out of there quickly.
Jipward, oh my, trying to,
energy, are you kidding me?
into that nuisance as Zephyr goes down with the HGF.
Shpedery takes that pick quickly.
You see the commitment is everybody's going down here.
Alt advantage roughly even,
but yet we lost losing bodies before those all get committed.
There's mass trying to find something.
Jitward takes out Shpedery,
but Sparchief and Energy trade it back.
OT ticking down, but also still available.
Now it's about value.
They're playing a little safe here.
Liquid Citadel does have Alt advantage for the moment,
but it won't last too long.
There's that commitment now.
As we see Pauly trying to own
and push them in with the backline on top
of the push that's being driven by Spark Sheep.
Now dropping backwards as a unit.
Is everybody stacked again?
He's with the Abyss comes through, closing in,
but not able to get it done.
Trying to get the Spark Chief from it.
There comes the first bit of Jeff
to find something as near as he's escaping with a few.
As the Glacier X comes out into, oh my, say, Tech!
Wow!
He flies through the monster hunter, the Apex Predator!
Are you kidding me?
The cleanup, they will not be stopped here,
riding the duck through the tunnel ship.
Are you joking?
Yeah, I kind of called it there with the OT, I guess,
as these are stepping up now.
The Mountain Hunter pairing up with a spider
with a huge combined ultimate sweep,
and then finding some picks right after the fact here.
Masks setting up a jitward.
Owning this space is going to put everybody in a tough spot.
They weren't expecting this engagement.
And that's the idea of setting up prior to the fight.
You see Kendrick doing the same thing.
Ready to engage on that back line.
Ultimate's going to be completely gone here.
Neutral fight as Pauli finds one onto jitward.
Now looking back towards the back line to keep them healthy for a moment, but it doesn't matter.
Now looking forward, Energy finds one, but Kendrick's on a two-piece and trying to find three,
and will find the third here.
And wow, yeah, we lost.
Might be able to keep this moving for the moment, as numbers are in their favor.
Highlight players were the strat lines, and it is Kendrick going off in jibberwood,
pulling off the Spider-Man that he's not found success with in this preseason.
Are you joking? He found deep hiding seek there in the plant bushes.
Are you joking, Xanthan?
Now close with the It's Jeff.
Goes down, Jit, we're probably flying here.
And here comes the cards.
Believing in it is Liquid Citadel to hold this line,
Jit, It's Jeff ready.
The edge right there to throw off the foo.
But it's Liquid Citadel putting it in quick.
Oh, and he's stuck up in this topside.
From that ultimate escape, put himself in a tough spot,
and gets locked away in that moment.
Trying to use it to take away from point,
because the scary part is that the team's stacking on point,
and you eat your team.
You could lose it immediately right there.
to take it to a different
position, but catches himself
between a literal rock in a
hard place, buddy. Okay, a
couple things. First, I think
yeah, we lost is 25. That
right as a great push on that
map as a tough map to finish
off and obviously got so much
value out of that overtime
going from the start to the
finish. What ask you for this
ship for those that watch
tank pool, right? You've got
the band hammer. You could
follow up that in tough
situations, but even with
dogman at times yesterday,
we saw the pop quiz from
the table to survive and
just like be that constant
nuisance there like when do
you decide that because
with five people looking at you,
you would think that would be the shot.
Never really so massive that opportunity.
Yeah, it really is a school that you pretty much
exclusively used for stall.
I don't think it's a bad idea there at all, buddy.
I think that's a great call out,
but it kind of also depends on,
and at that point in the match,
I would assume he's pretty much fully upgraded.
Maybe he didn't have something upgraded
that kind of threw it off for you or the decision,
or you thought the pick would be more valuable
because you can guarantee a pick pretty much
on a back line, depending on the situation
of cooldowns with that band hammer.
But yeah, didn't elect to use the stall,
didn't buy more time with it
and also at this level of play folks
are missing so they can burst through
some of that focus damage.
No, for sure.
Kendrick was just lightning heat
following up on all those ban hammers.
He was the one that kept closing in
and that's what you need done.
Did not get much value out of the
feast almost ever, but at least it was
able to create some opening in space
pressure as needed again guys.
Venom at this level made job.
Get those cool downs out.
The key ones from the enemy
and get back safely.
Don't fold spark chief.
Now on the group things are
changing. Oh my delete button.
Instantly go back to spawn.
Have a good one speedery who just
always seems to have a tough time.
If not on the two heroes,
he loves most and old Sean Daredevil.
You know what?
If they broke, don't fix it.
That's the exact spot that the
pick came through from Zaytex.
But Sparchief found that location
and traded it right back at him.
And now they will have this space.
Archie going to be playing this group
to own these positions.
This is going to force some wall break.
And this is going to be difficult
for the side of yet we lost.
They have none of that really
in their composition besides Zaytex.
Mask is typically going to be
flanking with that band pools.
It's going to be tough and energy able to find Kendrick in the back line once again.
Put them up in numbers and that is a large stagger right off the spawn after that first
pick.
Yeah, and they kept doing this the other day.
It was energy finding that back line pick over and over and when Swamp took over TLC
was the same done to Vin, but Cooper gonna make quick work and now you're down to
strategies, staggered back.
This is an absolute chaotic mess at the moment.
Yeah, we lost.
Take a breather, reset, reload.
reload all they're gonna go ahead and do that exact pop quiz showing some
sustain here now trying to get the best of it speedery trading as well so this
is gonna be a point one cap no doctor's change available then you can notice the
setup here and spark chief sometimes you want to put walls in a little bit
strange location so they're not worth breaking so they come up and just have
value later on what a pick there from say Tex again on the speedery and like
he called out seems to be a target here and every single one of these
fights Nero and spark chief and energy say all right we see your pick
Let's quiet it real quick and they try to take this point two meters and a dream. Yes, they will be able to 5.1
Yeah, play graph paper scissors out here and sit it up pulls up the gun right?
I mean it's like there's nothing you can do about it and here's a quick little selfie to celebrate with that jersey
All he's showing his new hero known as the cat this time the tank pull alright smart chief looking for a trap setting up these walls early
early. He's got that grudel. We did not see a lot of great grudel from him yesterday,
Shib. So I want to see this cleaned up because they're going to need to get these unlocked,
especially playing higher opponent.
Yeah, there is some potential. Sometimes you actually might even want to use it on some
of that dive commitment from the vanguards, but just to kind of answer and save your
backline. But you see Shbedery here. Find Kendrick again through this raging royal
flush. We all know how valuable this could be. Cooper going to be able to take
out Karp through the chaos. Shbedery again on that Mantis as another pick comes
through, but Zatek's not going down without a fight.
Fine speedery, which at this point, buddy,
he's got his number.
He's looking for him in every single fight.
And you know, 100%.
And what, you know, if you're Xantho,
I guess maybe he's swapping to Invis,
but it's like, why old there when you're down two on that,
going into the hero play with what edge, you know what I mean?
It just felt like probably not the best time to do so.
But if you're swapping over, it just made,
I guess, some sense, even though you could,
you know, kind of save some of that for the next one.
Here comes the go on shots on one, Zatek,
trying to get that hero moment for him.
the energy quickly puts that
multiversal clash into the
grave and then right now it is
just all hero on hero Elson
Elsa Fox on Fox everyone's
going down in the side of Yeah
We Lost. I love that drop back
as a unit there to play near
Nero allowing those AoE healing
affection like abilities there to
keep everyone healthy and just
avoid some of that damage from
the end song and wow Nero turns
that right back into Jitward on
Now the commitment comes out from Kendrick becoming unleashed, but it gets eaten immediately and again will be healthy at the end of that
But now falls from Nero on the chase and look at the point the whole time
Sparky just owning it putting up walls that are not being broken because their comp just quite ain't made for it
Another pick on a Z-tex and now it's just a battle of a 1v5. I don't see this lasting long here
We'll make it a 2v and the retouch comes through what an invisible boundary install incredible play there
that's where I would have liked to see the pop quiz to be massed but right now
doesn't matter energy Cooper go down how do they flip this back and that's the
point of having jitward and cart they've done this to so many opponents they've
been able to get back into the action because how quickly those heroes swing
into it quite literally are you joking now looking at it just 4.5 meters plus
to go so she does have the old Cooper to follow so they've got all the big
cues right how much to commit doesn't matter all too much got two
minutes on the board as well so look for them to really throw the
Kitsch and seek at him. Yeah, this is then a good back and forth here, but we
know what's happening soon with that raging royal flush. There's that
commitment. Everybody gonna dive forward now. Polly bounds. It's a shot that
was disgusting on the Kendrick in the back line playing off these
strategists. This is gonna divert focused. You were running for his life.
Goodbye to Peter. It's KOed. The smart chief has the strangling
prison available looking for. Yeah, doesn't you don't need much? One is
plenty as we see that pick. Zenfoe finds one mask another, but
and the energy answers back on the cart and everybody focusing on the cart now as
far chief goes low and falls and another goes down. So is popping up here with
some really good positioning on that in this store, making both Rita and
able to blush. Man, getting a couple of those. And we've highlighted just the
lethality of Xantho, one of my highlight players through this whole
thing as I've seen him play any hero that's called to them was early on the
Jeff flex the in this a perfect place swap. Now looking at it Nero
ready for the Fox. Kendrick can match though. Need to see
Carl get some connection in the fall to go. That's what they're
going to lead with Kendrick. They're waiting on that but no
it's an apex out first from Zatex. Anything coming from it
no coming up empty and hungry ship is not diving immediately.
This dive of aggression is perfect. If you're looking at
the old track, love what they're doing but energy as
always answers the call. Yeah, Xanthol finds another pick
though. Numbers up for Liquid Citadel. It's about this
final flight situation here for them. They did make some
switches in composition. You can see Sparky now off
that crew energy. Come on. Now that was a split millisecond beautiful combination
there. Now looking towards Kendrick who gets a pick in goodbye Kendrick in the
same vein, but is getting chased down. The Clark trucks goes out with that
land. Whoa, speedery fighting to coming back hot with a vengeance. Spectacular
spin is out. Is that getting value with us? Not pulls out cooldowns,
though, as we see Pauli get a pick there on a Xantho. And we know how
strong that is as anthos been playing lights out the battle on point. The
coming on leash won't last long.
Goodbye to Kendrick as we see
jipwood fall and down goes cart.
And that should be this point
for the side of liquid Citadel.
You have got to measure if you can win it here
or stall and save for this next
because they did a great job ship.
They were able to get this thing down to zero again, right?
Which gave them an overtime.
This is going to be an overtime going into it.
How much do you save resource wise
for this next fight, right?
Because you're going to get one big Q.
Xantho can at least lead that,
but obviously slightly, I would say TLC
has a couple more win cons up their sleeve.
to push up in this case, though with a time available ship, just trying to push this thing
as fast as possible into the float and into the action. Now, just like that ship, things
open up. Cooper gonna get the heart of the cards ready to go right now. Racing royal
plus teams up everybody in a quick deletion of yeah, we lost back to the spawn.
There's a lot of commitment there though. Three Alts go down in that first fight.
So we lost not a bad job there pulling some stuff as we see Xantho has that invisible
and we will see what they like to do,
but this is where the clutch she needs to come into play.
I mean, at most of fight and a retouch on portal.
Jitward going on over to I love the triple van guard here, man.
I mean, this is like perfect for the situation at hand, right?
So taking a look at the apex, save everything, man.
Big overtime play.
That's what you need to do.
The straight portal will come into action.
A speeder is going to find Zatex through it,
and that's going to go ahead and delay some of that charge.
They're really pushing this thing quickly.
Now get a little bit of push.
There goes speedery down now.
little bit of push there goes speedery down not a big pick at that you'll be back soon getward though
deleted once again as energy has this number each and every time but what they're doing shit right
now is perfect just keep this duck float staying still energy is just so disgusting that was massive
finding that pick as well and yeah i mean their target priority has been very smart constantly
solo halting zatex two in a row now smart chief dropping back on his anthill but that's
it's large trucks i don't even think that was intentional from zatex or maybe that was just
just some insane understanding of play.
Polly gonna anchor point for the moment.
Portal gets committed once more.
They've got to stay on as OT ticks down.
These two b-bits goes under.
Kendrick gonna be there, but not for long.
Goodbye to Kendrick, speedery.
Gonna pop that even the dark magic
to make that pick come through.
Liquid sit it out up a number once more.
Polly does have up available outside of that.
Cooper and Spark Chief gonna be next in tow.
Mass gonna start with the ult for, yeah, we lost.
Every single hero moment is pressed at this second.
As Mass gonna go up and drill up the first division,
Everybody freedom charge behind Kendrick so close to the night has got to stay in as well
But on the other side it's the biggest all in the game never folding never showing
Cracks in the foundation is sitting down here comes the night house. It's a big face
Spark is gonna get this tail down as you find history, but oh good trade there man
It's couple Kendrick takes down the fox be fox. This could be it. Yeah, we lost might take this
Would now get to the last hit on speedery as that portal play
Yeah, bull strategy just down there is so much value like you called out buddy
It's all about seeing if it can maintain pressure on point.
They don't have portal goodbye to energy.
Yeah, we lost her heavily up here as they press forward once again.
Jitward, gonna find the next pick.
Do I see two here, Jitward?
We do, and OT goes down.
It's a 1-1 series, folks.
It's the Museum of the Lost at this point.
Go ahead and wrap it.
Change it in the game on the servers.
This is their hometown, folks.
What I said yesterday, if you were with me at 4 AM,
I said this will not go as easy as you think.
any given day here in arrivals, any given Sunday especially with the top three teams in America.
Yeah, we lost.
Tied up.
Yeah, this has just been a heater so far.
Well done.
Yeah, we lost looking refreshed there.
That team comp were great for him.
I mean, honestly, it was off the back of just an insane OT push on point three.
And I think that absolutely won it for him.
It's so difficult to push there all the way on this map.
And they've got it right to the very end looking at stats.
I think it's a text 23 finals there.
Yep, you know what we do?
We highlight so many players on this team.
One we don't talk about a lot outside of the interview
and the Thor is mask.
I feel like mask had some of the biggest moments there.
A surviving kind of always there,
keeping that point and getting the call to action.
But those picks ship, how did they,
with energy getting that huge trade
and then there was an instant flash.
It was Kendrick mass trading more
and it was incredible finish from both of them.
I mean, absolute entertainment,
23 across the board energy did all they could with 65 finals disgusting don't go anywhere y'all we're recovering
Getting ready for match number three. It's tied up here in the lower finals. We're gonna take a quick break
Welcome back everyone! There we have it. Yeah, we lost. It's tying up the series against
the most one one a piece in
this best of five. How did I
get it done? It seems to me
like someone may or may not
have been looking at the
blueprint that swamp gaming
has offered just yesterday,
cozy. Yeah, Hey, you know, at
the beginning of the show, you
said what is going to be the
key or players to look at?
I was like speedery in the
bands because for two weeks
everybody was trying different
bands on TLC. Nothing was
sticking. They have six
talented players. Who do you
get rid of? Hey, how about
the best players in the game.
We have Gambit Elsa.
That's the meta band.
Forget about that.
Get rid of speederys top two picks because then it grows off the flex order that they can
do as a team and call spade a spade.
You look at Swamp into this every single time it has been speedery target bands.
The opposition has found the upper hand and also got to say the overtime is just so
chaotic and that's exactly where I think yeah we lost for right as we look at Central
Park.
Yeah, I mean this is just just to kind of follow up on that I mean too like they also just it's that's no matter to them
This team is so committed. I mean cart only getting three finals
You might be saying how do they win this his whole job is to be on that cart, you know
It's just to stall by time the team can in all they want
They could just buy more time have a thousand fights and lose a billion of those finals if you look over they have
So many finals on the side of TLC. It just doesn't matter. It's all about objective. They play it so so well
Yeah, I loved the confidence that yeah
that we lost brought to this past map.
Let's see if they can repeat their performance
on the map pick up liquid Citadel central part
for a map number three.
Yeah, should be said that perfectly, my guy.
I mean, it's been that every single team they've gone against.
Car is just glued to that payload.
They had three minutes on point two
and they just could not continue to swap the box.
Because guess what?
Then it's car and you just back and forth dealing with it.
That's why mass not pressing the pop quiz doesn't need to
We open things up yet again. They're going to definitely go with the old Tron ban
Gambit ban gambit saved, but if they showed anything obviously that map leans a lot to their comforts
I would say though central part
Ship is somewhat of a map that they could take advantage of
Yeah, it enables some of that weird stuff. They like to run off a good place
But it's also really good, you know, I was gonna say all Tron map as you can see
That's why that first pan is how goodbye to that immediately
And it's you talk about just targeting speedery a bit and it's funny because even at the midseason worlds last year
That was advice that teams were saying against old Envy. They were like, you know what?
We just have to get rid of speedery zero points
It's too threatening to us and it worked for them. So they're trying to do it again now bringing it back
It's just it's a good strategy such a strong player as we see the removal here of Mantis in the lock-in of Elsa
Besides yeah, we lost once more and they've looked so good Zatex locked in on that hero
that. Yeah, I think Zaytex
having else is just such a
good. We're keep coming up.
These like get out of jail
cards like obviously the apex
can be that, but it's a neutral
with that guy. His one hit
combos on strategist are
discussed. The amount of
mantis that you can't even
react to in the air. The
elephant gun is going to be
absolutely ending your life.
Their devil's being off the
map, which is obviously a
crazy hero for this because
of the vision, man, the
4k that you could see with
the team is going to have to
play the game. They're going to
have to play the game. They're
going to have to play the
game. They're going to have to
have to make a making point on
cap and diverting focus, so
maybe that'll come into play
here. I'm curious what their
attack strategy is going to be
because they could also run
that group stuff they like, so
looking forward to seeing their
option. Repeating the exact
same as last time, folks. If
this is your first time of
jumping in and seeing the
eSport, you've come.
For a good one. This is a
team coming from the MRC
from couch to pro now putting
and early elimination, shocking upset.
The pre-season of America, teams locking in,
Jitroy likes to flex the Black Panther,
not, well, you know what?
We did see a once in week one shift,
but I do not think on the biggest stage,
we'll see a little conaction.
Yeah, I am not sure either, but it would be funny,
at least floating it right.
You know what?
Did it last time for a single time getting Kale?
Wait, we did it one time,
so I think that's going to be the case again,
and it worked.
About a two-piece early fell,
and then just switched,
it went like spider or something,
immediately after to get back to point.
That's the kind of situation that works great.
If you have a spider in the bag
on a map that allows for some off map potential,
you can absolutely make some crazy unique plays.
And Jitward's setting up for it once again,
like we saw a few maps back.
And it's class, first of all,
we keep talking about the, you know, ACEs,
the pocket ACEs, they keep doing that, right?
Bringing something different.
But yeah, hey, it's like your ranked games out there folks.
With the Black Panther swapping,
it's never going to be, you know, the meta thing.
It's back to Spider-Man, Iron Fist and Friends.
But here we go, Gates are opening here in New York
As we get this underway, Nero and friends lead the back line.
I love the Panther here.
Look out for the King of Wakanda.
He's hungry because he has not been played in ages
on this top level.
And they're ready to engage.
They're catching it early though.
They saw it coming.
Kendra trying to make and enable that play.
Energy, juicing for a moment.
70 HP though.
Almost goes down.
Good movement there to get back to the back line.
And that's just textbook.
As we see Shpeteri on that star load.
That's another very strong pick in this meta.
Seen a lot as the solo duelist when you're trying
to run something like a triple back line
the front line.
The sparch chief says,
all right, get out of here.
Goodbye to the king real quick.
And now going to walk down
Xantho and Xantho is going to be
the top spot, bringing a lot of
cool downs.
The chase comes through and goodbye
to Invis.
Yeah, a lot of falls early,
but do you know,
Doctor Strange is available this
time around.
They had to answer more than the
troll band to get rid of that
portal so they were able to get
back.
We're going to be able to open up
some magic but energy.
Hungry again.
They like the hook.
You won't like them when they're angry.
They're in the lowers.
They are pissed and it is now
one to one as the portal opens up, Jitward leads the charge.
Again, what did we say, shit?
It's all about the sustain.
Taking time off that point.
Try to get caught, and wow, caught with the wrap-up combo.
Are you kidding me?
The perfect time of the pop two of the Symbians.
Yeah, they're going to find absolutely everything there.
Going strategists first.
That's just top level focus is going to make sure
that you win the fight.
You may trade a few KOs back and forth there,
but if you get strategists as priority,
you win these sustains.
So the idea from that on is you
You can play as long as you want in the stall.
You can you can duke it out for, you know,
three minutes or whatever hour of a long it takes
before they get back here.
Obviously, you know, 20 seconds,
but still it's it's very important.
Great target prio there from Yewey loss on the retake.
Oh, say text with a quick combo as always.
And Jim were dressed up as the occasion
in that hellfire gala where I love it too.
Because you can swap to that strange.
Doesn't really matter to lose that all on the panther.
But gone again.
Is this now going to be the quick last scene of that
King?
Potentially yes, it's going to the spider ship.
We're back in history repeating itself.
Apex Predator to look up in the
left in the sky.
Spitter now trying out different
options because it's been tough on
them as they figure it out.
Xantho throws it up, keeps the team
alive through the boundary now.
Perfect survivability, barely alive
and while they commit a lot,
but down goes the strats.
Yeah, they want this point now.
That's going to be three and make it four here.
As masks go down, Card Trouser trade again
with energy, getting some value.
They try to stall here where the
feast does get one.
Will there be more?
You can get out for a moment.
100 HP escapes and cannot touch in time.
That will be point take from TLC.
It was going to die anyway, you know, but man, it's feels awful when you try to get that quick dive at the end to try to keep that thing going.
But it just shows that's a perfect highlight of like what they like to do over and over again.
Now down three minutes, 50 seconds is a world of time.
This is where it makes it's a make or break it moment on Central Park.
You cannot let this point to push all the way.
Momentum usually lends a hand.
Look at up the top right.
We don't have daredevil, but we can see through the walls.
You've got the dive coming on both sides.
It's going to be up in the victim in the back and there's a text going for combos.
Fox up and ready to be matched in the opposition.
Nero matches, there's the dinner time,
and shit, but the pull-off unsuccessful and a big one.
And Nero gonna commit now.
Make sure everybody is healthy and moving forward.
Polly finds that pick on the jit word,
and there is the ban hammer out.
It's committed from both sides now.
As, oh, wow, good focus there on the Zatex.
Good bye, Polly with two now.
Cooper drops back with the ban hammer
on face, still gets value.
You know what?
If you don't miss, you don't take as much damage,
and there was no missing there.
as three fall make it four as cart goes down.
And here comes a huge off map from Jitward
to try to trade just a little bit.
If you missed that first one on the old,
he's like, I still got to get it back.
You know, I got to make sure I still have it.
Finds the Nero quick pick and that is again what Jitward.
So we've been wowed with the combos and the schmovement.
Once again, gets that health back and moves in.
You got cart ready for more.
So I got to continue to stall this thing.
The Hulk has not been seen yet
and that's because of what Venom can do with Spider.
Now here's the legend in the sky.
Speedery has been elected for so many teams.
Now here in the form of Liquid Citadel,
can't find much in good rotation
into protection of the castle
that it isn't Citadel's but Dracula's Castle in New York.
That was great capitalization
on forcing someone into a tough spot.
Speedery able to clean up Jip
where there is Paulie finds Kendrick and wow.
Right back at TLC have locked in
and they might take this point incredibly quickly.
Almost four minutes for point three is plenty of time.
Yeah, we lost though.
This is a defensible position.
You have some off map potential and you know who's great at those kind of spots is in this and spidey
Yeah, a bit brutal because they did have like so many things to keep that going in the spawns right there
Like that wouldn't the perfect situation for them to get a bit more of that win con of what they need on the time
Wasting how they want last map either way though look out and keep your eyes peeled. We've got two
Glortrocks is going head-to-head
Like a monster battle in your pocket looking as far chief trying to find most on that back on again
get those important cooldowns out and ready.
And here comes the trigger of the Alton Bam,
just like that, eating, munching, not gonna find success.
Don't love that Alton.
There you're gonna pay for it, Zatek's Cartrade.
Yeah, they come right back in and do find a few here.
Good attack so far.
Or attack on the defense, I should say,
as they sweep everybody.
Send them back to the spawn door.
Not a lot of commitment on Alts there.
Xantho and Zatek.
Zatek's already back at 21%, Jitward 35.
We're gonna see Pauli energy Nero in this next fight.
probably already starts it off. Yeah, that's why there's a bit of a bummer they
couldn't hold that second point because they have so much here but they've given
a great job either way. Point is pushing us slowly but surely. Mask ready for the
Van Hammer. Got to follow in. There's Tindred to go in with it. They're gonna go all in
but no, right now the Galartrox slowing things up. Another pump in finish and
perfection. What he's doing is timing that old quickly there with that
That right click makes it impossible to dodge ships.
Yeah, and that is another start from the year we lost.
That has looked clean.
And notice the commitment from Liquid Citadel there,
using a ton.
But the main problem is going to be Cooper and Speedyry
in this next fight.
Cooper gonna build that arrow quickly.
Wow, okay.
Or how about the problem is Energy,
who just hits the delete button on Jitward,
and now numbers are up.
Spark Chief on that cap now,
gonna look to take the height
and try to apply some pressure,
not allowing them to describe them home
as Cooper is very close to all.
forces out one on himself and Spark Sheep gets a trade on a math. Zaytex always finding one, but does actually not pay for it. Not yet.
Now he does as Cooper gets two in energy. One more. Wow. Clean play.
What are you waving out? Waving at is the mirror in the spawn as Vicky said yesterday. But looking at Zaytex and what they have.
I mean, shit, I like the approach. Minute 24, right? And talk about the way this is going to rotate in because it can get a little bit of time there with Zampos.
car is going to be able to
lap around.
It will be back in a flash.
We know that.
But wow, with the car opening
hip, that's going to slow down
what they can do in that
sustained build in the winning
hand.
Indeed.
Perfect.
Come sit it out.
If they got the space back in
their side right now, TLC
admitted on very close to
point here.
This is going to be tough to
hold, but you do have the
invisible boundary.
The question is, can you get
there to launch it properly?
Can you commit within this
inside of all because it's
going to be tricky and very
hard to get on top of the
point.
Z-Tex with Glartrox
available as well. Not a lot of answers yet here for TLC though. This is their fight to win. Good engagement and they do get there, which means the boundary will be committed, but
Guardrox available here for Zatex as well. Off that potential, off that left side could be in place. Zatex with one on the energy. Nero trades it back on a
Jipward and there's that bad hammer, but a huge Guardrox comes in from Zatex and well likely, oh wow, insane protection there. That was disgusting by the side of Nero to get
They're protecting team how in the world they have the entire team in the mouth and unable to finish with it Nero
Continues to jump now with the nine tails one at a time. The lights still activating with it
Wow at this point just trying to get this time down to zero liquid city. I'm beating down
Lost in Dracula's castle now quickly love to pick on Zanto going over to the quick res now
Just trying to get this thing for three all three seconds left as it's gonna be gap to three
I mean that was just heads up play from the back line shout out to TLC with an
insane answer after being down one trades it back quickly on a jit word a
massive guardrax gets committed and it's followed up by a disgusting teleport
from Nero to get on block the damage switch to all form CC a moon your team
and move them back the point to take it over that was just beautiful to look
at yeah it's just the mechanics and the in the game awareness is just so
level, especially from these back lines. But I want to continue to highlight though, just it's
impressed me so much because we've gone in here forever now knowing Nero and knowing Cooper,
right? We've said forever. This is the back line of the entire scene. The fact that Kendrick
and Xantho going, you know, really blow for blow in terms of both survivability and team
impact is beyond impressive for me in the way that they're trading. But yeah, man. I mean,
oftentimes when Liberty calls Nero answers and the team found freedom to get the three
and done now on the offense approach obviously it's going to lead to this team
a bit more on this map you know and you can definitely get this point very
quickly when you come at all angles look for cart jitward in the back see
how they like to move we're gonna see the setup now folks again this is you
lose I would argue is more of an offensive team it typically y'all though
on their defense the last point look really clean dive style always works
well on attack as you can kind of force your engagements when you want
to rather than being retroactive or responsive to what you're seeing on the map.
We're gonna see the attack now from the start of Yeah, we lost liquid Citadel running that
comp that they ended with found success with it. Why? Why not change it? Or yeah, why would
you? It is rather you see Paulie owning the height. Yeah. Okay. A lot of responsibility
is going to go on math to protect and kill for that backline, but the spark sheet
is going to be absolutely in their business shield thrown and all. And there's cart
once again, right on cue. Speedy knows his task at hand. Get a farm up that
as well as Carter just gonna do his best to survive gonna be forced to pop that shield. How does he find it?
That's disgusting every 10-year-old hit dude
That was dirty right to the dome. Goodbye puts him up two numbers now as liquid Citadel still has to be able to earn
They don't yeah, there are teleporting back here speeder. He making that work right now
I was gonna say still had no take on point for the side again
We lost not even a one tick in Zaytex finds Cooper energy trades that would get word and Zaytex goes down to Nero
What a retake here. I look with Citadel, but I would say that's a win here for you.
We lost forcing that portal out so early. Yeah, portal out. First point, Cap, does that,
you know, our first little I like that, if you will, definitely going to give them some of a chance.
The champs can be ready and set up energy 70% end up ship. Look at what they have.
Alt wise, I mean, I guess it was anthill just pushing full aggressive.
Yeah, you can. You absolutely can. He does have that answer in its work. You can be
aggro with it because again if you dump that in viz on top of the enemy team it
slows them and it gives your team an advantage and we see teams using that
very aggro as we see the pick come in from Cooper though on a jitward and
that's just what you can see here from Gambit he just handles his own against
dive like that and Cooper has always been strong on those backline heroes
Nero in the same vein Xantho though finds energy still holding on to that
boundary for the moment now commits as Zatex gets the second pick on
Napoli goodbye to a third here potentially no there's the commitment
again from the side of Cooper.
Glaratrox goes out.
Actually does go over that structure.
They're not able to make that work there.
Hoping somebody would land on center point
was the idea, but it didn't work out.
Yeah, that was one you don't want to highlight.
And honestly, if you notice how
Lickman said it, they'll explain.
Have you noticed they've avoided that crack in the middle
because you don't want to get the spider pull off as well?
It's just the positioning and all that communication
that they're trying to get every bit of an advantage
that they can.
Here comes the Glaratrox, and he's
going to make it look much cleaner
as it uses all of it on Z-Tex and friends.
Kendrick goes down as well in a minute and 42 is less and they've used a lot on that initial dive
Folks if you're learning anything from this gameplay note that one pick is value out of an ultimate
You don't need a five-piece be more aggro with it use it
Offensively in a moment that you think you can get one
It doesn't always need to be a team wipe because value is value
You're just looking for time off the clock a minute 24
Available here for yeah, we lost also gonna be roughly even here three to four in this fight out goes the coming
on leash from Kendrick. The spectacular spin lands to Pauly, trades it with Zatek so as
Clark finds energy and that's going to be a big duelist down here for TLC, but it's
matched right back with another coming home out again. Goes to freedom charge but
Clark deletes Cooper from the fight. Noel is applauding these timings of the
Abyssal of Symbiote is crazy. Clark's able to get those pops so quickly but it
does not matter even with that pick. It's going to be now Spark G finding two
with all that points so close to yet another mark would have given them that much more time.
Speedy now trying to find the stagger as they continue force to reset 42 and up.
They still do have the strange they can go into last but not least mask to swap over.
Jit we're now taking the role of the Merc. He's got a lot to say here with 33 seconds left.
As Ento will be able to stall a bit here Zatex needs a lot of big ultimate to make
something work here there's they're not even halfway through the cap but on point once more
is part trying to divert focus everybody going to drop back now off the back of speedery
heading backwards but we see cooper and nero just constantly at each other side a smart
chief looks for that pick does five one soon to be two clean play from sparky
and they were able to get the second cap to car was able to get that kind of behind the scenes
very quickly now and that's going to at least give them a little bit less of the fight to
have is now time ticking two seconds left will they go down yet another map zanta ready loaded
and that's going to go down at the huge pit early,
but can get back to the action speedery.
Wow.
Helping the cause as Indigee finds Xantho in the ult,
goodbye, released the loss as now Liquid Citadel holds strong,
deletes their best player in front of their eyes.
Yeah, they lost.
Oh, that was really clean.
I mean, they knew that the ult was available there for Xantho.
And the idea was they were using Polly immediately
banned Hammer full focus on top of Xantho.
good bye and at that point when your team is relying on a huge barrier of
essentially immortality you don't have it anymore it's going to mess with your
plans and they fumble it right there well played by team liquid Citadel who
are looking back in old form. Nero you are discussing 41-41 both of the
strategist just look at I mean just look at that a little buddy. Look at the stats 11
and 9 from Kendrick Appalach a 41-41 on the other side everybody getting a
of the pie ship. I want to ask you know we're headed to break but I want to ask
what was the difference there between those two maps right both dive heavy
things were favorable but what do you think they fix liquid Citadel wise to
kind of clean up and make sure they get the win. Honestly I think the Starlord was
huge for one. I think the Starlord allows Speedery to chase and kind of you
know have a capability and then you can combo it consistently with that
gambit when it's in the play so it was a smart pick. Sparky found that cap
looked really strong as well not going down a single time but everybody like
You're saying got a piece of the pile.
Look at the finals across the board.
Everybody on this team has playmaking potential
and everyone in this map did just that.
Yeah, they got the damage,
but they could not get the final hits
and that obviously will lead to the loss.
Yeah, we lost down one to two against Liquid Citadel.
This is the lower bracket finals.
Don't go anywhere.
This could be it.
We'll be back after this break.
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Welcome back. Well, looks like Yael Wheelos has poked the bear and Liquid Citadel are
trying to make a stand here to show us why they truly deserve to be in their grand final
and that our ranked warlords will not get in their way. That said though, they just
They really cleaned it up right like they went back to like really focusing that back line up. Yeah, we lost who just
Didn't manage to really get anything going. It was it was a bit of a grind there for them
Yeah, I mean hey listen
There's a lot of ways they can still win this and this is a team that we saw after a couple losses came in the mental
Kind of crash what a long way they've gone even in two days, right?
I'm just having a quick switch up from what playing widow out the gates and iron fist and friends, right?
absolutely at least it's getting really close and competitive at that for me the question looking at the maps, right?
What do you take it you could go to dawn?
But I don't know TLC's flawless there. So you don't want to do that. Yeah, so they went to hard ahead
I know haven't that wasn't exactly the best thing
Yeah, that gives me memories of the mystery heroes stuff that was going on hard of heaven
But yeah, I don't know. I'm not sure. I think interest was probably gonna be the play
It does enable a lot of that like snow ball E comp stuff or you do have long lines
you know streets phases essentially like that we like to call it or you can just engage heavy on the back line
And that's what they want to do. So I would assume they're gonna select there
But again, we haven't seen a lot of things like a racco
I think if you can find these weird maps that maybe your team excels on that you have that kind of type potential that could be good
But who knows?
They might want to take it to something a little out there, right?
Something out of the left field because it's the team that likes the element of surprise to begin with and there is a lot of
of tape on them on Yggdrasil. So we kind of know what to expect from them heading
into Death Map. They played it three times this far. They won it three times as well but
yeah they're definitely a bit more of an open book in that regard. Let's talk about what we want to
see from the bandface here then. Like is there anything you feel like yeah we'd ask kind of drop
the ball on on this last map or are they still on the right trajectory technically and then it's
just coming down to the execution? I think they're going to keep it honestly. I think they're
I think they're going to stay
the same mostly. There's a few
things also by the way, I
think midtown that my guess is
midtown because with how they
did against it now. They really
played well and that happened.
It has the same advantages of
the eggs. You're selling some
ways with the poke lane, so
that's my guess. You have to
dive at first that into the
phone. I don't know. We'll
have to see where they go
with it. But yeah, as far
as how they clean up the end
of the band, it's funny. You
saw the very in, I believe
it was the gambit save. They
had the Loki band available
as well. And they typically
cards. So I think they stay with that ship. You can't stop it all and they've at least shown
that, yeah, they're losing to some of this, but it's not like constantly, you know, the cards that
are winning there with the game at all. For sure. I mean, the team up was obviously a problem,
we should be to read, but it's not like he had 30 eliminations or anything like that, right?
So you have the Star Lord option there, but yeah, I'm not sure. Yeah, they could definitely
choose midtown. They did it against Lunax, but Lunax stacked heavy with Brawl on point two
and dominated them. So I'm not sure if that changes their mental, but it's definitely
something they've done in the past so they feel comfortable there so I'm with you that could definitely
be an option as well. I'm not sure what the answer is in terms of the band face it seems like with
Yehwi loss it's just if they're feeling confident in the map if they just if they start the ball
rolling they play well but if they're struggling they just continue to struggle. How can they
stop all the pressure that is being put on that back line because Xantho was taken out of
the equation Xantho was like one of the big like not playmakers but like he made a difference
right in the moments where they won fights were in the moments where they were able to like
Make something happen for themselves. How can they add more sustainability to their strat line?
So what's interesting about this team is because of how aggressive they play with cart, right?
Then that leads. Okay. What do you have mask as the
Deadpool in the back? So there's so that they rely on mobile, you know
The strategist being mobile for the most part because the peel is just tougher to have
Sometimes you have mass flux to that and they've been saving the tank pool
maybe they changed that up, you know, do they allow Zaytex not to have LSA, even though that would be crazy with the SPPs going on, you know,
even when they do lose, do they continue up? Hey, are you joking?
Hey, what?
A flawless record from TLC in domination, and yet we lost, say, we want all of it here in Krakow.
I hate this.
I like...
No, why?
Yeah, I love it. That's the
best response. Yeah, that's a
good identity through the man.
Maybe that could change though.
You know, you there's a lot of
there's a lot of open air there,
but I didn't see that one coming.
We take it. Yeah, we pranked
you. But yeah, no, it's, uh,
I don't know if there's a lot
of open air. There's there's
some decent, uh, you know,
triple backlight compositions
that I think plays well for TLC
here. But hey, you know,
who knows they like the
open ended died potential and
like, you know, you know,
you can do that with cab Venom
and you know, even Spider-Man
and some of that stuff so I
can see that work, but I
don't I don't agree with it,
but I'll see anything can
happen in Dom, too. Like
that's the other thing. Yeah,
like TLC's place perfect in
those matches, but like, hey,
way to in things here and
like a team death match,
right? Like just go chaotic.
We're trying to pop off,
make it as messy as possible.
We're going to see you
probably the Deadpool
Duelist. That's kind of
been the last resort in
some way shape or form.
Yeah, ship. One asks you
real quick on that
backline protection, right?
When you have car, you
the team. I mean, I think
it's a good idea to have a
team that's going to be
able to walk or rhythm
obviously gone great. At that
point. I just feel like the
things that mass fluxes into
isn't exactly perfect for that
protection or having more of
that frontline. You're saying
the protection from TLC or
you're saying for them having
against the die to going back
against, you know, example
and friends. I don't think
it's a bad idea for them to
ban out what they might be
diving into like I think we
used to, you know, think
healthy. Nowadays that's kind of looking more like Fox Gambit because they can just kind of
play on their own. Invis is kind of there, but even Dog and I were saying yesterday,
Invis is pretty diveable now. You can know what cooldowns you have to see. You see the
shield, you can melee through it. So I think, yeah, if you start attacking more of that
self-survival stuff, even if you do get rid of Fox, it could throw them for a loop
and give your team an advantage on that dive. So yeah, that's a good call.
Yeah, I'm very excited to see what they have planned to take us to Cracowa. That
was a choice. Let's see if it was a good one and if they can tie up this series. Guys take it away.
Alrighty folks, Krikowa is the destination for what could be the last map and hoping call from
yeah, we lost your MRC champions of season six. Now here in season seven showing out and showing
up as pros expectations blown away and now they are absolutely have everything to play for it.
Well, starting out, we're gonna go up and yet again, Chip.
Yeah, it's looking similar.
They just don't want, you know,
Speedery's backline.
You talked about targeting Speedery's hero pool a bit,
but there's a lot of, you know, it's an ocean a bit.
So it's tricky to find what you want to target first.
But that does remove some of that strong triple backline stuff.
And obviously coming in to the next season here,
that's going to be even more threatening folks.
Again, this is playing on the last patch.
It will not have Black Hat or any of those changes
that you've seen.
You're playing currently right now as we see the removal of DD
and a lock in of Gambit.
that just makes them have that
self-peel potential that I don't
think that you know we we lost
wants. So I don't know I struggle
with that. Yeah, but you pulled it
out. Right? It's Fox and then you
were talking about in this but Jeff
in the other right so if you have
Jeff Fox, they're alive now that
answers that dude. We're going to
see full till aggression. I mean
this is going to be absolutely
They're just going to play their
hearts out and only commit to
that's going to happen. It's
going to be a tough one.
It's going to be a tough one
because that protect going to
the Jeff early. Yeah, I mean,
honestly, I would do that if
you are TLC because they text
comfortability on that. It's
going to happen. Once you get
shut down with rogue. Doing
more of the same. And kind of
get good for Zatex onto
something, you know, maybe
like the sides of the Phoenix
that we've seen, and
that's a little more
attackable. It's so difficult
to go against an Elsa in
this meta as they are going
to have that one sided
Elsa advantage. It is a
good is kind of just
kind of crazy. This is
going to look crazy and start to snowball walk walking or moving or they're just going to get
absolutely rolled here based on the comp that I'm seeing for TLC. No, for sure. I think we'll
probably see Z-Tex on site. I think Sylocke is probably going to be the choice they go with,
depending on how they play. I like the, okay, so love this pick to get Nero, not having the
Fox, probably going to swap over and do more of the Jeff action. We've seen Nero on plenty
of things. Again, this is what's so great about this team is they're able to flex into so many
And it's not like you're
going to get any comfortable
picks ship and just looking at
Nero in particular. I mean,
this guy's got to go and
invoke in vis everything. Yeah,
I'm with you. Dude, that's kind
of what we were talking about
before. That's just one of
those answers to the comp
that teams have seen. You
know, we saw teams like
Lunax running thing on certain
maps. I don't think thing
works as well in domination
works better and like more
profitee. You know, when
you're running midtown
stuff like that, you can
find some success. So instead
they're going to get rid of
some of that self peel
option like we talked about.
And I think that is a good
idea. You know, it's a
different bandface. So I
So I personally like it, they're shaking things up and we're going to see what it looks like as the comp from the side of TLC looks exactly the same as White Fox in the last map.
And folks, this is just to figure out who's playing in the grand finals of it all.
It feels like a finals in itself with the stakes that these teams have trying to show Org's what they are made of, especially in the MRC Kings now, taking a look at what they've got locked in.
Yeah, we lost them discussing it again.
I'm telling you, man, they're going to stay true to form, right?
That change up anything too crazy here and look at the mobility of this team
The row coming out at the very end is what we saw get set those dude. I love the bill
Yeah, absolutely
This is gonna be a fun one to watch folks as we can see the cops are being built
But you know things can change I like the rogue like you're saying I think it's definitely
It can be unique, but they're not gonna have the gambit team up and I think rogue it's better
I mean, it's a little tricky.
We haven't really seen that run by anyone else.
But that's what yeah, we lost us.
It is going to be run.
They play yesterday was set in those, but it was with the gambit, right?
So obviously when you lose that team up, I mean, that just takes away a
ton from that kid.
But either way, this team is ready to roll.
We're going to be on the Vanguard as well.
So you've got three tanks you'll have to deal with.
And I said, Sylox, because they text, I had a feeling because this guy
is going to be on the Vanguard as well.
So you've got three tanks you'll have to deal with.
And I said, Sylox, because they text, I had a feeling because this guy
is going to be on the Vanguard as well.
because this guy is lethal constantly doing his own game and always does his job.
But wow, just like that,
I'm going to go ahead and take this corridor to the right like the approach.
Energy sniffing that out immediately.
Yeah, energy with a nice start there on to Zatek setting the tone a little bit up in the sky.
Is that rogue trying to apply some pressure to the back line?
But Cooper is going to docy-dose stay healthy and a huge spin able to find Kendrick.
And yikes, it's looking tough here for yeah, we lost off Rip.
That's TLC are going to get that point quickly.
full house full white there from Cooper on the gambit energy to boot I'm gonna go
ahead and reset don't get staggered too late have fun goodbye card as well
honestly gonna let him live even a little longer but either way gonna go
ahead now and wait for their next attempt yeah we lost this is it they face
elimination this was for third and moving forward energy 75% already
absolutely disgusting shit when you're looking on it yeah we lost what they
even have a close to. Yeah, I this is a good start here for
Chelsea. This is pretty much the comp they wanted to run minus
the Fox and Nero's great on that Jeff. So Jitward goes down
here. Energy with some great tracking from downtown and sane
aim looking for a second when we see that chase comes through
and yes, as we see Paulie find one on the mask and look for
more. You have right now. I mean, this is just
absolutely taking one down at a time with ease all with
the dash and the whip. The web
did not matter now as Peter
Parker continues to find the
grave and now everything ready.
Cues are up. They're just farming
the neutral and this is man. This
is looking tough. You said that
of the big band face ship. What
would this would look like? Fire
and heat from. Yeah, we lost
or back to cold. Yeah, I kind
of had a feeling this conference
looks so good for liquid
a second pick there on Zaytex and that could be more.
Yes, it, ooh, nice movement for the moment.
Speedy not able to get that chase on the Xanto
with the escape.
Alt advantage still up for TLC here though.
80% in climbing and that is a big time stagger force
in the fight to guarantee it's gonna be a 99% touch.
Likely, if they commit too early,
it's just gonna put them even down more in option.
TLC, if they want to guarantee the W here,
they do not over commit these alts.
They play with Pauly early,
use Nero as an answer,
and Spark Chief probably last if they're panicking
but energy is going to have free reign.
Yeah, call just like that.
And there it is.
It's going to be Paulie to the Nero,
Shib nailing exactly the play down.
And that is going to be a tough one to swallow.
Not the Jeff and Zatek's missing the old there.
But hey, Nero coming up empty, gives him a bit of life
and hope a spark.
She throws a punch to the shield.
The least there goes that box.
Nick of time, 99 up and over.
Cooper looking low and great peel from Spark.
She's aware of that attack on that strategist.
And just like that, Golarchex comes out.
This is a huge one is energy find success
and both go down.
I mean, you know what? We kind
of saw the writing on the wall.
I mean, honest, I didn't love
the phase. It seemed like in
picking down. I don't know. I'm
not 100% sure about it, but hey,
it is what they're comfortable
on, and it is what it is. The
team looked great over there
on things like those convoy
maps, but electing to not do
that now and they're paying
for it. You gotta risk it to
get the biscuit man and they
did. I mean every bit of risk
you could possibly play here.
I mean, this is just what
just what they like to have high risk high reward set the players they are as one team one unit again
expectations beat but they want more to continue to show who they are part now i mean if you just
look at what they have i think the biggest problem shape is they had no answer to the
old story it's like you got the shark and the fox it's a runaway was the only answer they could
do for most of those and they didn't even need them for the most part his energy really was
was just popping off the route and speedy picking up the pieces.
And this is perfect practice.
Hey, you want to keep banning speedy like swamp did?
Well, TLC is moments of way to fight that rematch.
And they're able to just fix those holes.
Yeah, great.
It's like a warm up, right?
And being able to pull out the Star Lord there.
And it was always a clean on the pass,
but just another option that a team might have to focus on
if they do want to ban out a target, especially if Gambit
gets through like we're seeing here with Cooper on that hero.
The commitment now, Karr got to make a play fast on this hole
if they want to find some success.
They need to change the tone here, because the momentum is just so much favored on the side of Team Liquid Citadel.
And here goes that commitment. Nice shot there, nice play, excuse me.
As we see, Karp with two now, not even needed to commit to the solve.
And there we go, as the momentum is changing here for yet we lost.
It took this many matches to get that Hulk out and ready to go, throwing those damn punches.
And the quick in, swiftly, the legend.
And the score was disgusting! It was Karp! Karp with the stasis!
That was a sleep from downtown, but Cart doing it all here for the team absolutely cracked player Kendrick now
Has that strange we've seen come out at crazy times monster Hulk ready world breaker is coming out
They're targeting hero in that back line find speedy up in the air knows that 50% is still up on the board for speedy
He has frozen but not out
Yeah, the commitment on all might have been a little bit too much
But that was a disgusting exile as we see mask and xantho able to find the next to 14% in climbing
But we've seen in the past here from TLC is they don't care about losing 30%
they'll retake in the next fight.
But look over at the answers from the other loss that Xantho and mask available.
Energy, speedery and Cooper will be what they're going to start with.
Likely waiting for speedery here for Cooper.
Thank you.
Call that now mass Xantho just waiting patiently here as 32% going their
way and have plenty to stay with this build as well.
Can portal back and keep this thing going.
But when I rotate out too bad, there it is.
hard of the cars and Citadel moves in quickly forcing now the old prism
Xantho Cooper fine for the delete and oh you can't get this point back and they
do just that they hang on tight even with three down how long can you live to
be onslaught of six it's not gonna be long as the answer yeah they do take
this but 50% is nothing to joke about not bad there for yet we lost but you
look at that all-charge notice did not need to commit anything speeder he
said you know I don't think we need to do this let's just use that charge
and find our value. Energy Polly as well are available.
Spark Chief right in tow, so heavy advantage here,
but yeah, we lost their goal now.
He's used to try to pull out some of those cooldowns,
pull out some of those alts, retake, and start again.
Polly finding Xantho, making it a two
as energy cleans up Jitward once again.
Polly trying to find backline.
Goodbye, Zatex, the millisecond
before that sleep comes through.
360 no scope sleep was unable to keep them alive.
No chip, this is kind of what I feel like.
the game and the server admins
and we kind of see him pay the
price because all you need
sometimes is that gambit all and
you don't have to commit any other
queue and now look at liquid
Citadel. They've got everything
else. They don't need any other
answer. So tough to deal with.
And Cooper's like laughing all
party at 53% speedery now
committing in the sky and it
start applying some of the
damage forces out the solar
surgeons from Zaytex and the
focus is on Zaytex to get
back to the game. And then
we're going to have to
get back to the game. And
we're going to have to get
back to the game. And then
we're going to have to
get back to the game. And
then we're going to have
on Zatex who does do a good job moving but pays for it from speedery one
number up here team liquid Citadel spark chief dancing inside of that team up
there with Jeff and the point retake is going to come through here in a moment
and we lost up at 55% 56 energy finds one more Kendrick goes down Zantho
takes out Nero numbers even for the current moment we'll see what happens
with this Clark rocks but point take is almost here for the side of TLC yeah
I mean just see that point back was nice but not for long as energy
continues to farm the highlight
plays that will be on display
here after this. Looks like
warm up now in Cracoa.
A great job of efficiency from them.
We'll see now because there's just not
a lot available. Clearly
if cart wants to go into hero mode now is the
only time in the perfect time right but
dude when you got the full infinity
war coming up in momentarily
I don't know what can stop it.
I'm here loud goodbye to Zaytek
to Sparge G5 1
Cooper everyone fighting a little bit of value Cooper again under Kendrick 90% and climbing here
That's going to be a must portal play if they can even get there
I'm not sure 10% roughly what you're looking for so now Kendrick's gonna get there
It's about the touch coming through here from Carter whoever can touch there's car on the touch using all the stall for a moment
It's Jeff going to counter that instantaneously
Great all there good read from Nero seen that coming a mile away. Goodbye. Oh
Oh, what? It just clips the edge!
That might be enough for them to retake as Card gets one.
Kendrick on a Cooper polyfines two.
But I do think that might have been the swan.
No, Paulie with another pick on the mask.
Still holding on on point.
He is going to be a problem in the sky.
Shpedery cleans up the rest.
That should be a W here for TLC.
Man, that was a little anticlimactic, but also crazy.
Yeah. Hey, listen, Cartman, you are him. That is the end of what, yeah, we lost. Can show in the pre season again, folks, blowing away expectation.
Top three. I think a lot of people are happy to see them there. I know they're not happy with the results, but the ranked demons will be back.
You can be sure of it. And that means exactly what we expected. The rematch, the clash of the Titans. It's the one versus the one.
will the revenge tail come true as victory comes to liquid Citadel?
I'm excited for this one, buddy.
We got to witness it yesterday and it was chaos and it was so much fun
looking forward to seeing it once more.
Looking at these stats here, though, energy, 16 finals
and you know what, I could have predicted it when I saw that Elsa on the table.
Really solid play, 32 and 2 and Smart Chief doesn't go down again.
I think that's back to back one time.
I think last map only falling once and now zero times.
just heads up play constantly applying pressure, but never over committing.
No, for sure. And I mean a couple of things I like obviously domination we already said that right, but also when you look at it, man, what Zatek's can do with Elsa when you get rid of that, it's just, I mean, hey, 4-11, 5-11, I'm not an expert, but that is not a recipe for success to get anything rolling for him.
never falling from grace and locked in to the fullest.
They took care of his ship as this team,
going in as the top team in the undefeated domination
champs at the least.
Gotta say though, man, it's always
giving a little bit of a buff, low bracket buff, right?
You get the loss, you get warmed up, and, hey man,
that's what gaming match, it came down to the wire.
This is the tail is all this time.
Does it give you the advantage
because you're warmed up, or does the team
download what you're thinking?
And they're watching you play.
Zoe, what did you think of this matchup?
We just got the win.
Yeah, I mean, frankly, that last map went pretty much exactly
like we all expected.
We are not like, you know, in the back room.
We don't know why they took us to the SuperCo.
Well, we expected to see a dominant performance
from Liquid Citadel, and that's exactly what we got.
On the upside, at least Karte can go out of this form
with his head high.
Like, did not get thrown over the edge.
dodged it somehow, punched back, so there's that. Overall, I do want to say though, as
we're moving into the grand final, that's obviously the end of the journey from, yeah, we lost.
I'm very impressed with what we saw from them. I think they really took it to the best teams
we have. Yeah, sometimes it looked very one-sided, but there were a lot of times where they
made them work for it. There were a lot of times where they had them second guess,
that made them even uncomfortable. And I think that just should make everyone really excited
for what's to come for you. We lost. Yeah, I love this team. I actually have them coming in
third in my prediction, so I'm pumped to see that way exactly where I thought. You know, I just,
I believed in them. And I think because they believe in themselves so much as courteous, it
sounds, but they've got now a month to just get right. And potentially, in my opinion,
hey, sign this team or you're looking for a team to sign. It's right here.
Writing is on the wall obviously. Do they want to be signed? Like, I don't know, would they have a really fair narrative?
Yeah, yeah, right, I know. They don't want this, they want to be free to roam.
Yeah, they want to be free. They're playing free, it's their thing.
Yeah, we're free. Now they look super good. I mean, again, I don't know how I feel about the last
match selection, I don't want to beat that over the head too much, but you know mistakes happen.
The team, they said they struggled to find scrims and all that kind of learning stuff,
if they're able to figure that out over this next month,
which I don't think they're going to have a problem anymore because I think
teams are going to want to try to scrim against a team that's more chaotic
like this because this could be a different side of the meta coming into
especially this next season as things change so might see more that they
might learn more as a unit come up with strategies that work for them on
specific maps and if they can do what they did amusing a contemplation on
other maps that they've learned as their strengths this could have been
a different story so you know shout out to them I agree sign this order
maybe don't have been on it but I think they probably do yeah on the
other side though for liquid citadel like this was the dominant
performance that we wanted to see, which is probably good because they didn't have to,
first of all, break a sweat before heading into a best of seven in the grand final against
Swamp Gaming, which already took them all the way when they met in the upper bracket final.
And also they didn't have to show their hands, which I think is very, very important
right now, as both of these teams have been screaming each other so much.
So they already are so familiar with each other, and yesterday's match between them
has forced them to already like dig a little deeper and like show some of the things they
have up their sleeves.
Yeah, talk with Liquid Citadel before today and man, I gotta say, I talked to them this
morning and they're cooking, they've done things already in prepped up.
But again, yesterday we looked at it and the gasp is like, hey, you know, what happened
there, Cozy, in the matchup between them?
And it was really like, it wasn't a lot to get on.
It was like, oh man, players play bad.
This happened.
It was a few plays.
Like that is how two great teams play.
It's not this massive mistake.
small ones in the most important moments in ship. We've continued to see the great teams
consistently make those and that's the edge Swamp has. They're the perfect team in the biggest
and brightest lights. Yeah, it's about showing up at the moment and I think we've seen that a lot
and again shout out America's region because it's just been so fun to be a part of it's been so
crazy always going game five final moment like 99% domination always it's just I don't know how
you write this stuff but yeah it's about showing up in the moment a lot of teams are doing that
right now but swamp clearly at this you know current moment is the best of the
best at showing up when they need to and it's about can TLC do the same.
Indeed it is. Now speaking of the best of the best we do have Polly joining us for a
quick chat after this dominant performance in the lower bracket. Polly congratulations.
Welcome to the show. First of all of course how do you feel now you're back
in the upper bracket you're back in the finals and you're going up against
an opponent that you just faced off against and lost against yesterday?
Oh, I'm not gonna lie, I'm just excited to play them again. I feel like it's rematch
now, it's just... I just want to play against them after yesterday or after yesterday.
Okay, I hear motivation, that's good. Refueled by the revenge, right? Do you feel like,
if you're looking at the yesterday's match and also today's match, do you feel
I like those targeted speedery bands from Swamp Gaming yesterday, can I expose you to an extent, especially now that yeah, we'll also kind of use that playbook to sneak them up from you.
We did kind of predict it, but we find a way to like make it good again, because they do, with that band they do like eventually let us have characters open, pick better characters open like Gambit.
bit so we just play around that and it's just good.
You guys are so versatile, it's hard to ban you out to begin with so I'm surprised it worked in the first place.
Yep.
What's up Paulie, how's it going buddy? Good to have you on, I know, jobs are close to finished man, you're just ready to get on and ready
but I have to ask you, you know, I look at Captain America, the leader of the Avengers, I look at you the same a bit, you know,
you know, pros pro man and you have been a part of some great teams, but your whole team
has come from other teams that had like big expectations and that obviously makes things
you know, always harder at times. But tell me, I saw your tweet, you said, won't happen
again man. Got to ask with that, the motivation behind that and how your team locks in.
What was it like after that loss because that's a new territory, right? Like how
was the room, how was the feeling and like what was the focus after?
I think we immediately knew why we lost, but we still like bothered with a lot after that.
I think we just lost to ourselves. I think we just gave them way too much respect.
It's important that we just play our own game, and that's how we win.
Hey, it's fun to have you in the American senior. They stole Terra. We're glad to have you over here, buddy,
because you are just such a great player to watch and witness going from captain to take home and appreciate what you do.
Thank you. Yeah, I was going to follow up on a similar question.
Dude, I can just see the fire in your eyes, which I think is he kind of need that going into the finals.
Definitely amped up here.
My question was going to be around what you what you attribute yesterday to the reason you struggle,
but you kind of I don't want to, you know, have you give up too much?
You've already touched on that.
So follow up question would be, you know, potentially the cap goat in the world,
I would argue, is the cap goat the world now looking like the vanguard or vanpool goat of potentially the world.
see as that gets developed throughout this year but when do you decide between the two as a team
because sometimes it's easy to throw spark over on that cap as well uh i mean it's kind of because
i'm already playing panko like this much um and i already know spark is like already pretty good
through on on cap so i just trust him to do his job and um and it's kind of like having me
He has like the main tank right?
Sure.
He has a tank full base like similar to Mag and like shield tank.
He's basically just like an anchor tank and you can dive sometimes.
Yeah.
Oh yeah.
Beautiful.
I really like Spartan cap but I think it's really good.
He's like super versatile.
This was the army knife.
I have tanks at this point.
I've seen him play everything.
So awesome man.
I appreciate the insight.
I got one more for you here.
Just talking about expectations.
I think it's almost unfair
of the expectations everyone had of y'all,
the super team, the all-starred team,
as we like to call it, you know,
because of the members there.
But you've been on teams,
they've set it up before with the expectations, right?
And some of those fell short.
And so how do you,
when you have everybody having so much expecting from you,
not let that kind of affect y'all's mental, right?
Or let it get to y'all in any shape or form.
I've asked this before from one of y'all,
but I want to hear from you kind of like,
looking at those expectations
and looking at how people view at you.
how do you settle that but in the room I mean I don't care I'm just playing here
I just want to prove everyone that I'm willing to try my hardest to win and I
have the dog in me and just fighting yeah it's pokey then with you guys too
And not currently
I'll currently right now like we're at but currently in you washing us
Cheering you on no dad Polly. Yeah, we see the dog. We hear the park
We saw the bite as well, and we hope to see more of that in the grand final
We're gonna let you go and get ready for that. Thank you so much for joining us and best of luck
Thank you very much
We are most welcome great to get that insight from Polly about their last
match against them and also of course against the squad from yeah we lost
it just went down the third place though nothing to scuff at I think that is
very very impressive considering that it is an MRC team right so people
initially didn't really have them that high although it was the one team
And the people were like, they could surprise us and they did.
So yeah, we're going to get a rematch in the grand final.
I love to hear how excited Pauli is for that one though.
It's a revenge.
It's a grudge match.
It's a revenge match for sure for both of these teams and I'm going to dig into
it and set the stage after a short break so don't go anywhere.
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Hey guys, my name is Ryan Central and what's the matter, eventually we will get to a point
where you guys in the chat are responding what's the matter with you but we've got the whole Ignite season to go through.
We've finally seen all four major regions play now in Pacific Asia, China, EMEA and America's all at least debuting in their pre-season.
The meta-wise, what has changed?
So we have to start with the Glockrocks in the room which is Elsa who actually fell down a bit in popularity to the point that Gambit is the first time actually overtaking her to be the most powerful, most impactful character in the game.
And a lot of people ask me like how do you gauge this? How do I know all of this stuff?
Well I have a system that I use with all of the drafts that we've seen across all 225 games.
I use this system called threat level which goes from 1 to 100. 100 being an Avengers level threat.
Hotly contested, a very influential character when it comes to the draft and compositions of the meta so far.
And out of the score up to 100, Elsa's score was 99 after the first week.
It could not have gone better for her but since then it has dropped down to 93
and Gambit's for Context is 95, which is sort of stabilised in that point.
So this doesn't mean that Elsa was involved in 93% of drafts and 7% of the time she wasn't used.
She has been involved in every single game of Ignite so far,
other than one, where Rejects and RVLE in Asia Pacific just didn't decide to touch her in draft
at all. That's one game out of 225, might I add. A drop in Scott doesn't mean that she's
just not popular or she's not strong. It just means that she's not as contested
as much in the start of drafts which is really where those threatening characters tend to stay.
Because Elsa is good in every type of composition, removing her is just a good way to influence
the draft more. Anybody can play around Elsa whether you're playing Dive, Triple Strategist,
Convergence, Convoy, Domination, any type of map Elsa is just good on it with the amount of
stuff that she can do. To remove that you can of course other teams to be a little bit more
uncomfortable on other types of compositions and if the other team decide to try and protect
gambit instead. That's fine because we'll remove the likes of starlord because the combination of
ultimates between starlord and gambit which I was going to call royal legend. You guys can decide
between that and galactic flush but I know which one I'm picking. It's you can get rid of the
starlord if a gambit is protected or even the likes of rogue that go up so much when it comes
to her strength because of that combination with gambit. You just remove the characters
around gambit if he is protected and a lot of teams tend to start to struggle.
So, Elsa is being protected less and banned out a little bit more, and whilst she is being
banned out first in a lot of games still, she is still very strong, 93 out of 100 score
is still S+, so yeah, she's still strong, but other teams are still very much committed
to getting rid of Gambit, but if Elsa is not being protected anymore, who is?
Who's contestant there?
Well, Gambit for one, but also Mantis has gone up massively in popularity, notably
is a protect option because Mantis is amazing team-ups with the likes of Loki and Gru who
are still pretty good with that combination, but because the likes of Mantis' damage boost,
she synergizes with everybody, Sol resurgence is a really good offensive and defensive ultimate
and most importantly she is one of the staple characters when it comes to triple strategies.
She can pair with whoever if the other team decide to ban out Loki, Invisible Woman.
The Mantis can make other characters around her work pretty well and she has a lot
of offensive capabilities, which means running triple strategists doesn't feel like you don't
have that threatening firepower, I guess. But if I had to show you guys a graphic of
what this would look like, it would look like the following. Granted, graphic design
isn't really my passion here, and it's not a perfect system to gauge strength because
it's a hero shooter. We're just talking about the draft, which character's been
banned out and protected. The hero shooter, you can switch characters at any given point.
The two things I want to note, almost half of the top 20 heroes in this list
are deemed as threatening, it's Stragists. 9 out of 20, there's 5 duelists and 6 vanguards,
but 9 Stragists. And I don't think there's that many Stragists missing from this list
at this point to be honest, either. Even White Fox has been banned out a bit.
But also, I wanted to note, the big drop off between Elsa Gambit, there's a big drop
off between them and their Mantis Temple vanguards, and then another big drop off before
we get to the likes of Invisible Woman, Loki, Ultron, etc. I'm very curious to
see what some of the regions can do, to be creative and see what other characters
that might not be on this list might be starting to climb when people realize how good they are.
But until then, thanks for watching and I'll see you next time.
Welcome back, one and all. It's time for the America's pre-season grand finals. It's been a
long road and exciting one and that, but in the end they were swamp gaming and liquid citadel
coming out on top. Pretty much as we all expected, the rest of our brackets, we can forget about that, that went up in claims.
But like the end, the end part of it, I think we got it right. Correct, guys?
Yeah, I think Nettys is going to have to boost up the rewards, I think, on these predictions, because they're going to be important.
100% should be like, I don't even know, a season passes for the year, because it's so impossible to predict in the scene of both EMEA and here.
Yeah, 100% gives you a character in the game or something like that.
Yeah, this has been nutty, but I mean, the amount of upsets has been great, but I think it has bowled well for the future of this scene.
I don't know at any given match who is going to show up, and that's the beauty, and especially these two teams.
Exactly. Now, they did play in the upper bracket final, and it went all the way, right?
It was a five-max series, swamp gaming, as you can see on your screen. This squad came out on top.
top how did they get it done like is there an actual formula or was it just like map to map like just a grind
Yeah, yeah, I think a bit of both right we obviously saw what they did in the big band with speedery and guys
I'm gonna spoil it right now
There's they're gonna be the same three you most likely will see each time gambit mantis ultra get rid of those and then
Have a splash of spice there for the last one and that's kind of how they figure things out from there
But yeah, I mean we've talked about this so much shit
But they have subs that they use unlike any other team in the scene
I think what is gonna be kind of a growing thing in the e-sport where you have players
I can do different things at different moments on different heroes and that is one of the things that make them so great
Yeah, so it's just the hero roster develops. You're gonna you can't specialize in them all
It's just so difficult the more time that you're able to consistently play on a specific hero
More dominant you're gonna be like seeing days at some of these like Wolverine just is a huge problem
That's a specialty there alongside DD, but looking over at Liquid Citadel.
It's a similar story.
They've got, you know, some really strong strengths and they do have some diversity.
But yeah, it could be, it could be exciting to see if they add another
someone to the roster or if they change up, you know, essentially have some more
hero strengths.
But this team right now is looking incredibly strong, especially against
the LAWs. What do you think, Zoe? Oh, yeah, no, absolutely.
I mean, you can sing praises for each and every single individual.
Like the backline as a whole has been so very impressive.
Nero and Cooper like absolute standouts for me, but then also of course right the front that the spark chief and Polly
It's just this is such an electric squad
And they're they're hard to counter like yeah, we feel like speederys heroes got banned out and that kind of gave an in but
Over under like speeder is still incredibly good at anything else
And now that they know that these kind of bands can come in like they're gonna be prepared for that
That's what we heard in the interview just now there as well, right?
But Polly said like, they expected you, we lost, do the same thing.
And like, they definitely went back.
They screamed the box.
They have identified why they lost and didn't share whether or not that came
back to those taken band phases.
But they have identified identified it and he sounded like they're
ready to run it back and come out on top this time around.
A chance to reset the narrative, right?
Remind everybody why they were the favorites.
I think this is all about a game of adjustments.
We keep talking about this and you know, you always have to be one step ahead of your opponent.
So it's like, okay, if they went after speedery, do they try to adjust that or is that exactly what Swamp Gaming is expecting?
It's kind of going back and forth there. The battle of the Mentals helped with the coach before and he's sad to say
he's just happy it's these two teams. You know, that was what he had to say. Like, these are the teams he wanted.
This is the matchup that I think the people wanted as well to continue to settle the score here in America as the next best and greatest and Wakanda,
The iconic more of a location Zoe is going to be where they do get out
It was great to get the inside chip yesterday from Fox right into how they came out on top and also just generally the mindset of swamp gaming when they go up against this very
Well-known foe to them
Yeah, and I think it's gonna be really important if they can get a domination with that would be
massive this this team has struggled against them specifically in Dom what
losing both dominations last time and that was the W's that came on top of TLC
so they find one early here that is a tone-setter because when it comes to like
convoy convergence dude they're not even letting them have a single point they
lost one point in all three convoys and convergence that is insane to say
against a team like TLC yeah they it was a beat down in the first map of
domination like don't even let that decide anything or what is gonna come
of a BO7 because just like how going from best of three to five changes so much even more
so like what would have happened if yeah we lost still had another check like there's
so much that you can do there and I think between these two teams we saw every single
map matter and it came down to the last millisecond of those adjustments in play and so that's
the seven ship and I'm calling now man I think we might go to distance like your distance
distance.
It sure helps out.
Well if ship and I are in the broadcast period happening so far a sample size pretty
big you know so yeah I'm I'm in it I'm strapped in I'm ready for the action they
delivered in the upper bracket final there was absolutely no reason to believe
that they're not gonna run that one back again and for the grand final to
determine who will be the champion in Americas for our preseason and with
that also of course get very good seating heading into stage one so let's
Let's get the show started guys.
Please take it away.
Well, ship, it's the grand finals here.
We are at last to kick off year two and what is going to be an awesome binder year of eSports
for this game. And first of all, let's see immediately do they adjust and get speederies
picks protected and how will Swamp Gaming respond to that gambits off the board.
Cooper Valentina top of the scene in America.
How can we play Amanda never folds.
that. Yeah, and then that is
likely for both sides, but
to do something a little
Swamp really want this dom
so good and convoy and c
find something now, it'll
up in a best of seven wha
to kind of figure out ea
those strengths and like
to the Mantis and lock in
with the gambit Mantis O
because that is what you
here in the side of swung gaming. They did every single time with the splash and
the change up Loki gonna go first up looking at that they did that on map
two and five against them last time so they did ban the Loki once before but
oftentimes gonna try to shut down days. Days is an absolute animal in every
sense of the word and they're not gonna let him get the devil but we'll have
hands on that Wolverine. There's the old Tronca Mantis protected.
Oh
That was it for me.
Let's go.
Oh, shit.
Not once yesterday.
Yeah.
And I think that is a really cool idea, I think.
You know, it kind of messes with the flow.
And again, it's just, at this point, it becomes a habit, right?
To have that portal play.
Even on D, you know, when you're holding point, you expect it to come through.
Removing that tool is a big problem, especially at this level play, folks.
What you'll see is these early portals, like we saw actually in our last matchup,
if the team has some sort of strat line ultimate they can commit or they have cap.
And they use that all to stall point.
You portal in your team's bad guys thing, you know
It's like nothing ever changed and all they also they used to wipe you off point how now been
Have now been used for nothing. So it's just it's just a massive tool to remove
There's a lot of things you could prep for it. I think that was not on the sheet
I will say I think so I'm gaming was expecting them most likely to protect their devil, right?
And then you know what's gonna follow from there because if you ban the tank pool
You already know only is gonna be taking the cap from spark chief and when that happened last time spark chiefs
suffered a little bit, especially early on in Dom,
then they locked in and got it done.
So we're going to go and commit to the full dive.
That's exactly what you're seeing here, Shib.
Everything going to be aggressive.
They're kind of taking on that, yeah, we lost hat here
when they played this composition.
And be looking at Spark.
I think that's going to be the difference maker
if they want to change the result from yesterday.
Oh, buddy, I'm excited.
Shrapin, everyone, as we will be beginning our best
of seven between two of the top teams,
the leading side bracket for both A and B.
exactly what was expected, but man have they looked incredible.
Last time was a battle with Swamp coming out on top.
Will it be the same story or will TLC bounce back?
Let's find out together.
Well, Shib on both times,
Deadpool was banned for Swamp Gaming in domination.
Both those maps say one,
Scatter is an absolute madman when it comes to the tank pool.
And so with that available,
could have really opened up a lot of plays in push.
Valentina gonna be boosting herself and the team
that confidence is surrounding her
and the play of Swamp Gaming.
Welcome to the Swamp they say as Liquid City looks to set up the fortress early on the point, but Swamp is showing a nice angle here at first.
I like the positioning.
It was great to see her interview yesterday as we begin now.
Speedery.
Very aggro on the back line.
Speaking of Valentino, goodbye.
Well done there.
Speedery finds one off rip, setting the tonus poly.
It's a second.
Melophobia though, from downtown.
There's a ton of damage in great focus, but energy says I could do it too.
With a two piece make it three.
Why don't you try to match right back?
Now we'll be point early on here from TLC.
I can see one teams warmed up on one side
and you can already flip and dip in
with those quick mouse pulls.
And yeah, absolutely crazy.
You can see a lot of trades like this happen, folks.
It's not going to be these six wipes constantly.
You'll see one go back and forth
and it's slight push of momentum either side.
But when speedery is free, you've
seen success from this team.
And they did that in the protect phase now,
setting up Pauli.
Going to be on the man of freedom.
The first division leads the way,
backs up into the team, rotates nice.
Spark Chief can set up on top of the early dive.
here a low though, have to go ahead and focus on that as Cooper is also looking
endangered.
Napoleon cap like peanut butter and jelly. You can see just the influence of
owning that space and constantly applying pressure trying to get that all
quickly. See all the damage here and be just slightly in favor of team liquid
Citadel. Lofobia fighting the first pick though, but it is matched. The
speedery takes out for key. That is going to be huge as speedery again
finds another of the back line. Goodbye to the strats. Really clean
start once more in this second fight energy on the days and that's
It's just a matter of time.
You're still gonna be holding this point for quite a while.
Well, talk about adjusting to the speedery bands
and doing just that absolute verdict.
Guilty speedery is guilty as charged going off now
as Pauli finds a big hit there on Kras
and that's gonna shut down everything of momentum.
They said Blanchox, it's a fat one.
They might be able to get some lunch here
but nothing gonna come from it.
It's gonna be the response.
It's a Pokemon battleship, 1v1 there.
Energy, nothing from it.
The monsters come up empty.
And you can see it still all to vintage up for TLC in this fight.
They will have four, almost five available.
But you'll see almost four that won this fight for Swamp.
There's the commitment now with the range of Ultron.
Smart Chief matches it back, Pauly does the same, days goes down.
Nero, turning into the Fox.
What does the Fox say?
It says it wants a pick as down goes one from Swamp.
But it's matched back from Melophobia
with a nice shot there onto Nero.
So holding on to this point, though, 93% in climbing.
Melo in his off angles is how this team won yesterday
on the quick picks, especially on energy.
There's another as Cooper goes quickly to the grave.
Valentina Solar Surgeons kept them through that fight.
Committing a lot to get this point back.
Scattered gets two with the pistols.
Farms at XP takes a photo to celebrate.
And now, 4% up and recharging.
Shape obviously, Liquid Citadel has plenty there,
with Speeder getting two picks often.
That devil letting out should give them a lot of momentum.
But you're going to see Swamp push in heavy.
Yeah, there's going to be a double freedom charge
available here, which not only applies a lot of that
over-health to your team, but does give all charge
advantage.
It gives you that 20% increase in all charge,
Which is very important, but when it's matched back and forth, it evens out.
Who gets the first pick here?
Speeder recommitting, left the devil out, that's a very good lawyer there.
But not able to get any value just yet, dropping back the point?
To buy more time as the retake is coming through.
The side of Swamp knows it's not a big threat to let them have it,
should they need to, they don't need to panic.
As long as they touch an overtime, energy dropping away,
getting that first pick again on Valentina.
But Craze and Daze able to find two.
Speeder, he though, matches it back once more,
and this is back and forth here, folks.
Absolutely trade for trade as energy now gets the air cleared from the skies of Ultron.
Absolutely disgusting.
As Daredevil just read them like a court case, Paulie.
It's another and the time takes down overtime.
Done set match.
So one, going on over to Liquid Citadel.
Sit down ladies and gentlemen, this is obviously where we started yesterday, ship.
With the dominating performance on domination.
Yeah, the Citadel's walls are firm in the swamp.
I'll tell you that much on a map one here stellar spaceport very clean by team liquid Citadel
You can see the focus is just very much on Valentina
Yeah
I was gonna say some curious if the switch comes through Valentina debating a couple of other strats to run where you know
You don't just have that sleep as a cool down to answer some of this dive because
TLC is just all over that backline right now with a full dive commitment and again folks Elsa can really play into that dive
She can feel she can pose she does it all so it doesn't matter if you're fitting into the comp because the comp fits into her always
I'm sure Valentino played a lot of Loki Luna cloak against him yesterday.
It was the main kind of swap offs that we would see between them and in honestly a lot of the weak points
If you were to find one with this team is how much for key relies on in this once that's banned and was ban a couple times
The swap went to Luna every now and then but is always very comfortable there on the hero as the rocket going back to the shark
Though so that's a new look for the team at least in the fight here today
day, a day's man. When he's on the X-Men, one of the most fearful out there and he's going to go
ahead and try to put on show against the lawyer. Yeah, as a vanguard I see that pick, especially
with the name gays under and I wince a little bit. That is terrifying as you see the entirety of
Liquid Citadel sweep the right side, a full flank commitment here from their team and that's
what they can stack on those Jeff bubbles and get that movement speed boost as a unit
all through one bubble. Commitment comes through, energy holding that bar trucks, craze
or Kraus excuse me pops immediately that shield that gets answered and that should be oh my goodness
Dog's gonna say it wouldn't escape, but no three fall as energy cleans that up
Whoo. Yeah, that was very good. I thought you had me. No, they did. They definitely had
All of them right there and now god, I love that star lord voice lines
Fetery gonna get days out of there as well close the quick sun
And get 11% and climbing for this team so much value there in the pressure into the punish once again
and the Kraus gonna jump off the floor.
Make sure that there's no long in between for the reset.
Yeah, there he is, Kraus.
He's played great so far across this tournament,
this pre-season, before to see more of that whole play.
Just gonna peel a little bit, use those bubbles
to help the backline through the dive.
Brawl does a very good job into dive folks,
much like Poke, beats a lot of that Brawl.
That's kind of the triangle you see in these games.
There goes the commitment now from Sparchief,
under looking for a combination, does find one,
But a great fade there from Kloak-Schpeter.
He's still able to get the first pick once again.
Make it two, Schpeter-y.
Somebody, try to, this lawyer at this point
needs to be hired by everyone.
Absolutely dominant performance.
Energy and Polly again with another two traded once,
but they're not letting the foot off the gas, buddy.
Legally dismantling them.
I literally bit by bit as Polly charged up, ready to go.
If the 8%, the Q's all around,
doesn't even need a meal near for this fight
against the villains of the swamp.
now looking for what is kind of just an awkward time of waiting.
You usually want to push up to one point.
They always take this right angle, Swamp does.
And they want that because of melophobia set up
to the apex predator.
But Sparks going to take the battle right to the end.
There goes the Glartrocks.
He's caught right in the mouth, but he's
going to escape good bursting of the monster now
as the victory is painted in the path with Liberty Rush
push forward.
One, two, falls down.
They are unstoppable in the form of domination.
The walls are unshakable.
Yeah, Paulie leading the charge consistently.
You saw that the Glartrocks pulled back
but it was still bursted before it gets value and that's why it's very difficult to land those alts
when the team has focus and understanding of when it's going to be committed.
Melophobia is still finding one, but on a spark, she's a good start here for Swamp,
who needs something now, but are going to lose crass in the trade from Speedery.
And has been seen so much in that feed. Oh, this could be huge, but no fate is available.
Yep. The idea there was a prep for that. Good idea. Well done by Valentina.
Pauli trades that back on today. Valentina with that trade has discussed energy.
looking for one here does take out two and that will be game one.
Team Liquid Citadel.
Another highlight reel from the mount of the Glartrucks.
Yeah, I mean, hey, what did I say going to this ship?
Don't overreact, Frank, because this is exactly where yesterday set up.
But great adjustments.
I can see, you know, I like the cloak switched later on
and obviously showed a little bit of what they were trying to get from it.
But the adjustments, I'm telling you, all night,
it could not stop thinking about it.
Who wants it more, Shib?
That's just going to come away in this best of seven
as we take a look at the stats.
And how fitting, buddy.
You saw it in his eyes, the feast of anger.
Yeah, exactly.
I was just going to say that.
You're in my head, man.
And we've been doing this too long together.
I love it.
It just, you saw the readiness of that first matchup.
And it does go MVP to Pauli.
19-1-9 final.
Speterian energy, both getting 12-11.
Over double the max of Melophobia on the side of Swamp.
really quick clean play there by Team Liquid Citadel but again folks this is
what they've been doing on Domination. It is by no means the swan song here for
Swamp who have been absolutely turning it around on them on convoy and
convergence but we'll see if that continues to be the tale right after
this break.
I remember the dust, the lights gripping tightly
Chopping all those tiny souls, but yet
Across the world I see you standing in my way
I remember the time, the place we used to fight
The sun and the moon and I wonder
If I could have worse, it's time to be more grand
And have only a shadow of warm and envious
That's what's gonna make it seem too loud
We are set now for a luxury union
Broly fish is not in your way, come for me
Do you remember who you really are?
Show me that you are still the only one for me
I'll be waiting for you
When we get an apple, then you're gonna cry
The cry is freezing up with a sense of smash
You've never fought before
But for no reason, there's only fear
The other world's empty and bright
And I've got my own hold on to your voice now
And so far, we've arrived to the end of time
We are flashed, we're right where
We're white, fishing across the heavens
This world's you and me
This is pretty much exactly how this one went down last time around cozy
You talked about it already at the end of the cast, but it was swamp gaming who turned it around also of course swamp gaming
They're coming into this cold right we saw liquid Citadel just getting a decent warm-up game against yeah
We lost whereas it's from gaming that we're just waiting for their turn
And that might sound like a cop out that might sound like an excuse
But there's something to be said about having hot hands and going into a very important match
No, for sure. I mean, I know I'm a bit of a fever dream right now because I'm casting
technically today, but is history repeating itself? Yes, it is because they took it to
Wukong at this exact map after the DOM that happened, and that was over on Hell's Heaven.
So it's funny how things just rotate the way they do. They like the way they won on
this map. They did pretty well with it. And I agree. Energy warmed up. He doesn't
need no aim trader ready to go. He had that on. Yeah, we lost.
And this is that map too that they pushed the entire way swamp and then held them
7.1 and that's like, not to say disrespectful, but that's like a big play and that gets in the mental there of TLC
It clearly worked last time and the question is will it happen again?
Because this is exactly like history repeating itself with the 2-0 on Dom like you're saying and then going in the next match
You got to hope things switch up here if you are a fan of swamp
Did you get the sense that swamp was ready for what liquid citadel rolled out with?
Yeah, absolutely, and we'll dive into that in the pig band phase as they adjust for it
Uh, Zoe, but for me, it feels like even though you might know what your opponent is going to play,
it's not always easy to get the counter up.
That is so true. Well, Swamp Gaming got to give their A-game here on there. A map pick-up haul
of Jala that's exactly what we went last time and they came out on top. Can they do it again?
Let's find out.
Well, ship match two. Once again, we're back here. Two Wakanda maps, back to back. And
and yeah, did speak with them a bit,
and they did expect them to protect speedery,
but you can't stop, you can't stop, right?
I mean, that devil was gonna be let out one way or another
again across the board,
like we're gonna go up with the Gambit Loki back to back
as we look at what they continue to do
because it was only 24 hours ago,
they banned the Loki to the Daredevil,
to the Mantis and Gambit last time they played on this.
Yeah, and it worked.
It really did work,
you see the lock out there from the swamp of that all tron.
There's that DD band that'll be matched on both sides.
They don't want days to get a hand.
Hands on that either.
Yeah, that could be a urge.
Yeah, I was going to say, or vanpool,
which is not bad at all because we just
talked actually to Paul, he says,
vanpool's on the table.
I'm running and feeling like a very confident vanpool
who can apply pressure to that back line
without over committing too much,
can kind of play that main line,
can fit into like a brawl, dive poke,
and do virtually everything.
So you can stay in the front and just pepper back
line through, which is always good too,
you know, the fully commit to that.com for sure. And it just changes up completely how
those vanguards play. Right? It's funny with that. That is being available for like the
first time ever after they banned back to back was expecting potential. That's a happen
because you got to get the daredevil first out or the save happens as they just did
and they saw what happens when speed gets their way. Now the speedery bands are in
effect and they did not win one when that was the case. So definitely. I love
I'm not going to get into the
question. I'm not going to
love it. Perfect. Great. Like
there's going to be no. There's
a lot of times yesterday where
like they lost the fight
because of a portal pushed
through in the resilience
from it. Yeah, Point two. I
remember that exactly. That's
a great call. And then if
they're just like, all right,
let's if they were able to
clutch through a portal play
like that, let's not allow
that to happen. And I mean
shout out again. I mean,
days is also discussing
on strange and literally
Kendrick. So it's it's two
birds, one stone. As we can
see now, it seems like the
worried about it and then we'll just ban everything else that seems to be a
problem for us in our cop and it's it's working on game one this is gonna be the
real testament though yeah just continue to have eyes in the sky like
they can they have answered the bell to shut down the robot that is that is
Ultron you know I'm just gonna say what I'd like to see Daisy on the wall
instead so I'm actually much more comfortable there fastball special
coming right at you I've been hot okay now gonna go ahead and load the
team up with the jump in the kidnap and this is what won them a lot yesterday.
Shib days in the kidnap he would get often times kind of gave them the out
maybe sometimes they would lose a strategist or so but gays always found
that opening kick off the map or into the team for the feast. Yeah he's a
problem on this hero he's up in the composition for one of the best and
same with DD too but you know going against another fellow dominant DD
player so that is up in the air right now you'd see jump pack available
there for days so you know how scary that tackle can be frontline staying as
Kras is going to be on that Hulk, Mellow obviously as well on that Elsa.
So Elsa matched once more energy coming out on top last time.
Can it happen again?
Already now looking to go up the main street.
They typically took that upper ground where Kras is right now.
We're going to go jump right into it.
There's that kidnap in the spark.
She immediately deleted is the symbiote back to spawn.
Great job.
And the kidnap done and dusted energy.
They're going to try to settle the score does just that scatter.
goodbye that's gonna also stop all that XP which really helps enable the team on
the defensive front look at that once again the kid that he wants more they
find Cooper he's stolen sushi cut up and gone hmm and he's in the passive pop
there on the Wolverine from days and there's the re-engage from spark from
downtown gonna be right out the spawn door through the left side you can
actually retake point if you're able to use that swing properly right
outside the spawn door clean play to get back there fast and that happened
With a huge dunk, but the pressure being owned here by Swap Gaming have point priority, halfway through this cap right now.
TLC walking back at him heavily though, now goes the boundary, matched at the moment by Nero.
Fox is unleashed, does it get value for the moment? Not quite yet, but the Glartrucks gets launched and it is going to be an answer for Nero.
Goodbye to the Fox as it is launched back at him. Not sure it's as valuable though.
Oh, up in the skies, the legend himself mixed tape in and guns out,
speeder trying to find more, and there it is.
Nothing but the Koma Hall gonna go down,
and that's the value of that second life.
This is the exact same thing as yesterday,
that value from the Apex Predator.
Valentina picks up Spark Chief, and at this point,
as we get the level upgrade mid-madness,
Scatter gonna go ahead and get those golden guns ready,
call it 007.
All trying to hold, but downtown with a huge tackle,
days able to take out energy after energy,
finds the first pick, 4K, onto Cooper,
and that will be a first point cap there for the side of Swamp.
And what I like to see from Valentina,
it's waiting for that E to be popped from Venom
and using that trance to pull Venom in
and make it more vulnerable, making the switch now to Luna
as it's more of a street space front to back.
What are we doing pressing Q up there?
Prevent him on Sparky.
I don't know why that one came out.
Maybe just trying to get a quick pick,
but either way, it wasn't going
to be much of a difference maker
and didn't change up the hero either.
So I'm going to misplay, but not too much.
I kept talking about days, man, just opening up the lane
with those kidnaps. He did that ticket that point one and energy though finds that
backline once again, continuing to hunt and static with the finish in the flush.
Perfection. All of them now pushing back not allowing any space even with the
spawn doors inches away. Yeah, I mean energy use gore truck seconds ago and
already at 93% which is absolutely insane. I mean, Mellifulby doing the
same but just slightly actually in front of energy there so you can just
notice how much damage was dealt in that moment. Teams elect to try to
hold here inside of this garage as the new early spike essentially point
hold for the streets phase and try to buy as much time as possible, but they did get some free space prior. No portal committed to get
there quick. They needed as more of an answer, but Valentina gonna find the first pick on a Polly.
We all know how valuable that is on someone that is discussing on that hero. Energy with Gortrack does get launched,
finds two. Oh, but gets exiled to make sure it cannot be followed up on. Stills able to take out one, but what an exile there from Kras.
Looking for more. The freeze frame, whether Predator is on the loose, he could have scripted any better.
Now Statter finds the spark chief in both and guards down now Paulie back with the team as the legends are up
Gonna force the pop of the boundary and go to rotate over that's enough value in itself ship often times Valentino though
Ready for the show as well to follow the Kumaho will leave the charge into what spark chief does
That's what they'd like to do Cooper though has continued to find value yesterday two eats were not enough to get the job
That will it be today Van Hammer is on the sharp
But doesn't matter waiting patiently and there it is going to go to get his own teammate unfortunately nothing
Nothing for me.
Yeah, just trying to use it to avoid that all in the moment.
It's not a horrendous idea, but I do think there was some other answers.
Just looking for something, but they all kited backwards. Good movement by Swamp.
Was coming in with the dance floor. No fear here.
Everybody, when you're moving like this, can play aggro.
Forky finds Cooper, and that's going to be one-up energy.
Traits that back into Alaphobia.
So that's going to be an advantage in the Elsa advantage.
Chaco comes in under Nero.
Again, if the box goes down, it doesn't really matter,
because you're back informed, teleports away,
And that's kind of valued there from Nero in the end of the day as it was a lot of commitment
Spark Chief going in with a feast lands heavy on the backline
Can they clean it up energy takes one make it to QIC three I do energy now stepping up to find a three piece
And push them back to the door. Yeah, not ground hard day yet because they that was the big difference from yesterday's ship
They've had all the damage it was to finish in the flush and they could not get that from those constant feasts of the abyss
So great job getting them out of there down in that one minute 45 now
Now, the large rocks are ready and loaded and right now if you swamp, we've now just got to play kind of clean in this neutral.
It's going to be back to back on early play.
These teams love though, to get the job done right there without the cues basketball special ready.
Get ready to see this man fly the accident up in this area.
There comes a large rock first and energy going to come up empty.
But frozen in the trap of Diablo is the whole game.
Got punching, thirsty for more shit, but nothing from it.
Here goes a new engage now.
Wow, energy on a daze.
and that pass is being gone was very valuable.
I'm sure that communication was made to the team
to allow that initiation to happen.
There is more drop-back.
Scatter able to find Nero to trade it once again,
and that just seems to be the case.
If somebody goes down, it always is answered.
The positioning was maybe overextended
for a proper reason.
Polly gonna dive and gets tackled out of the sky though.
That was huge to push away,
and the whole team believes they have the pressure
from that freedom charge, but they don't.
What an answer, Valentina takes out Speedyry again.
Crass, huge moment there, as Melophobia able to clean up Spark Sheep.
Yeah, we are gods, but we've got a hole, correct?
That's the famous line that we continue to see, and no different here.
Marvel Rivals, the point can be capped out.
Glaratrox for it, Aura as well as the pick and the finish midair up is there.
2.73 left, they want to take and continue this hold.
Down goes the 1, Melophobia going to find that spawn room.
Instant value now as the show goes on.
Coachella's here live.
Valentina keeping the team alive.
live grass man getting one kind of by time on point here using that feast
driving backline the communicator is made to get on point one meter left and
available to be difficult here for smart to hold on but doing so somehow great
healing in the back line there is a big ultimate there the last stand comes
through and the pressure alone was all that was needed as scatter takes out
poly and point two have been taken by the swamp
do those disgusting juggling I mean from grass at the end and then just
absolute perfect pressure and push didn't have to use much outside of that and that
is going to be tough though because going into what is such a last point to take they don't have much
forky at least we'll have a bit of a defensive effort but they have every answer to that right
and by the time that laps around speeder is going to be close as well with how fast he can get
that going for the kid nap flying in the sky peter pan comes up empty does find out to wow
wow does he get it that is consistent well that is being down an ultimate charge there
there. Scatter now committing towards backline. 100 HP and almost going down,
but able to drop back. Great focus by the backline of swamp as they do also find
value through it. Polly goes down once again. Four keys. Got Polly's numbers.
Same with Valentina as they are still keeping this pressure. They had a minute
and 11 to push this forward. They still have 36 seconds and they've got this
thing moving quickly. They want a full three piece cap like they did
yesterday.
Well said, my friend. Now, Scatter pushing for the aggression set to
Maximum Cooper hungry for more and it's gonna go ahead and leave
But it's going to be a bit of a slow slow soft approach
Now day slicing dicing the rage is maximum to go rotate back make sure snowflake keeps them up and healthy passive still intact
Petery with the click and the finish dash. Goodbye, Yokai as now comes the kuma hole gonna go ahead and wash on that
Now the guard trucks out and ready
Melophobia fighting Paulie in this
Wow, that was a massive guard trucks
not only gets rid of the coming on leash but also able to take out Polly who had
alt available and we know I would have been massive in this park able to trade
after days and crass do the same energy takes out scatter speedery on the days
it's not over yet here TLC does not want to lose this as they're holding on tight
Valentina with a dance floor shortly out goes a huge slice with the cutterfly
melophobia gonna be in a tough spot trying to make that chase happen and
melophobia is joking for the moment and wow that was disgusting moving back
to the dance floor to stay healthy perfect positioning and now here comes
the dinner predator is activated in prey is surviving it doesn't even need to get
the finish and the meal they hold them the two liquid Citadel now on the
offense folks that is a good push as you gotta consider yesterday swamp held
liquid Citadel on point one before they could even cap and get that thing
moving so this is going to be a decent push for them but it is absolutely
winnable here for team liquid Citadel or I'm sure having that in their
mindset. No, absolutely, man. And I mean, listen, there's a lot of things done well, obviously, man,
that speedery rotation and saying to stay up through it all. I mean, I feel like they did a lot of the
same game plan ship. What stood up to you, though, where they were able to hold so strong? Obviously,
tough point to take. Like that is not an easy one. Anything else though? Yeah, I think the switch
at the end there for I actually really like the switch for speed to go towards that side,
because they were essentially diving together with Nero. And you can see that set up a few
times on cam there with a plane with each other hard committing on to the
backline and finding one and that's really all you need but you know obviously
was answered after that fight there by mellifobia with a disgusting all but
either way that pressure and trying to pick off Luna who could deal so much
healing and so much damage is very valuable so that's which was a crucial
switch for them takes me back to the white queen team up days of sight
lock did disgusting echoes where you would just see speedy swipe on in and
click a couple buttons goodbye gone but can still do that to such success
with like such little time to react, right? We've seen that with the Yellowstone, but that's what it's like
Sylocke's specialty in a lot of ways is the burst quick combo. And on heroes like Luna you've got to
get the job done extremely fast. Valentina can be on Cloak and Zagger. Now as they set up for
the defense, I think Daze has to play a bit more safe when it comes to the kidnaps though,
and that's the difference of being more on that defensive angle. Oh really taking a lot
of damage there for to be able to drop back Daze in a tough spot, but still has that passive
and play more aggro. Scatter trying to build all quickly energy doing the same,
applying so much pressure on a melafobia and is able to find that pick.
And that is a huge elsa trade, days trade with Polly, but that attention
was the whole goal. That movement was insane in the sky there from days. That's a high sense right there.
Dude, I tell you there's abilities that Daze has on Wolfe that I know. What team up is he
is the flying one because I got to continue to find it. I just know it comes from Torch,
But either way, waving at you is scatter, which pushes the team back with good job to answer.
Just like that, scatter going to go ahead back in those upgrades reset. As you all know in this game,
most slicing, dicing, dicing, dicing finds more in low though.
Parak, I believe, is the passive. They're taking the whole fight back to it.
Going to go ahead and see spark chief down a bit of danger, popping his cooldowns and
energy finds a big one. Craft's going down forcing out Valentina. He used the sustain and
this is exactly what they want with the point close to take.
And there are some answers for that. You can try to use Cooper stinking Jeff, but that will be faded as there
Yeah, oh one less is a surprise
Like might have found a few there tries to land large rocks and anyone that tries to juke in that moment
But the combo was a good idea just to no avail some great responses from swap on the defense for key committing the boundary
speedery trades one but days on a spark sheet as there goes the galactic legend up in the sky for key
going to pat a cake with backline.
Last stand goes out for Daze,
who does not seem to find any Psychi lie down, goes Nero,
as Kras cleans that up.
Shmeeter, he tried to escape 9 HP and a dream, does that.
Wow, clean movement there.
I mean, just WDC, the forky dog there,
and the perspective of him as the Legendary
goes into the sky,
because he absolutely gets inside at the perfect moment,
and then they've got the pseudo ult and the cloak bubble
that just keeps everybody up through the madness.
Metaphobia has the Predator ready.
Look for them to use this so aggressively
as they always do to farm up the next one and press go.
Here comes Monster Hulk, though.
It's going to be crass in that backline,
causing chaos jumping out because immediately 1,500
held the leadership.
I'm trying to find Solis and pump up
that old charge for the strats.
Yeah, it's a great hold so far.
I'll just see how it's here in a minute.
As we have a fly by, we have.
These are the abyss diving in.
They're going to be entered shortly in a melophobia
with the big large trucks opportunity poly.
Going to start off with a freedom charge.
We've seen, oh, getting eggs up right at the door.
Everybody's collapsing in heavy,
and it's working out for them.
Just a full snowball comp bringing us back to,
yeah, we lost and it does work as they take this point.
Liquid Citadel are not done yet
and they've already pushed farther than they have yesterday.
Yeah, Sports Chief get a lot of value
from this venom compared to yesterday,
at least in a lot of these matchups.
Daze was able to be the complete server admin,
Game Shark activated on this map in particular
and they even though have had to deal with them
doing a much better job in terms of communication shift,
it's what you'd like to see if you're a fan of the TLC.
Now Cooper, only one with Holt, and he should be close behind as he always is.
See how metaphorically he chooses the off angle, always trying to find a pick.
Yeah, I just think that was going to do a good job of making that, you know, kind of a move point, this Jeff Holt.
But it does force, there's a commitment right now, I was going to say, it does force you into staying in cloak form,
which, you know, if you don't have Holt down, it's going to be a tough look, Polly.
He's going to escape off from the right side angle, try to drive some attention in that direction,
And that's what cap does gonna reengage from the least expected everybody healed up now and resetting as the next fight commences
It's a good call man because that phase form oftentimes when you're not playing but teams that are always aware of you
You've got to pop it whatever venom pressures you here
They know just to hang on to a craze mellow get to three make it complete wipe. They'll be clean in the neutral
Okie dog also has that in this they did use the scatter all but other than that and that was just a fight win on always around
Get that vehicle moving again!
Cooper with ult available. Energy, Nero in the same vanishing speedery.
Look over for key dog, Melaphobia soon to be days for Swamp as answers.
Ult advantage in the favor of liquid Citadel, but Swamp has a fight they can lose in terms of positioning,
but the boundary gets committed now.
Day is almost in a tough spot.
So holding onto that passive, Melaphobia.
The Glartrocks available as well is gonna land something huge here.
You see it coming with a two-piece.
Collides into that side.
The itch Jeff comes through, but the bubble is an answer well done there.
as the cleanup comes as Cooper falls now,
Melifobia with one more commitment as the Clark
truck is his answer, but that one does not land
days on to Nero again, swapper up after a ton of
commitment from liquid Citadel.
Yeah, Jeff and Diablo both hungry,
only one coming up with the full belly and man,
I just got to say it just I'm not crazy about
Cooper on Jeff right now, especially with that
answer on the other side that they can do with
Valentina, but we'll see if they adjust from here.
You got obviously the team up.
That's always going to get that healing so
much for that team and ready to shift. Time is evaporating just like that.
The chances to take map after map again follows.
Craftsman has the old monster Hulk ready to roll.
Sparky has been nailing these pieces of the abyss.
Let's see what he goes with.
Oh, under now that is a huge land.
Everybody's ante to that moment, but the answer comes through from
Valentina really well played once again.
Just farming these all so fast and leading them right back to the door.
And they cannot handle it.
They do not have an answer right now.
Maybe that guard trucks to pull off if they're available.
It's very difficult to make that happen on the timing because a lot of the best of these C&Ds are staying there in that cloak form
So that they can immediately fade should they need to upon ending that ultimate because if you are in that form
You will end in that form after using the ult. Yeah, that's starting once more with the throw
I gotta say shit at the bubble it's got to get you know
Pulled out before Balencina can use it there to protect from that Venom ult right because you're trying to go for
The pop and the perfect cooldown with the ult and every time it's feeling right whenever that cooldown pops
so you're not able to get the secure on the strategies.
It's the only way you can on Venom,
and they're answering every time.
Really patient play from Valentina.
Love what I'm seeing.
Scatter gets Paulie out of here,
throws the middle finger now towards what
is going to be a Jeff running through their life as well.
And the pop the elephant gun sends Venom to the grave.
Jeff to follow.
20 seconds left, just like that.
Glaratrox is the only thing to the name.
And shit, they can't even get out the gates.
Yeah, Swap have stepped right back up.
And folks, we assume this could be the case.
and they're looking clean doing it right now.
TLC's got a lot of space to take here,
a lot of yardage to move forward,
but I don't know if we'll do that just yet.
Committed the big tackle coming in from days once more.
The combo right here with this Hulk on a crass.
It's been just such a problem.
Melophobia driving them a mile away with a tackle,
able to find one on the energy.
And that is just clean play once again.
Oh my gosh, with the Viziker raised at three,
stunned just like that.
Hero going down to zero very quickly.
Sparchi trying to find something with speedery getting a click and that's gonna at least give them a little bit of space towards the damage
Forky follows so it looks like oh my ballah
days oh my days
It'd pop the portal though to try to keep this thing entertaining energy now coming in but balancing a pops into a path to get the purple path of
Victory in their clutches now swap gaming gets to and swap gaming takes map to
Yeah, that was textbook there by swamp bounce back heavy. They are coming back with the vengeance and they are going to tie things up one to one. That was unbelievably clean right there that second point defense. It didn't move at all.
Dude, this is what we highlighted yesterday, just, there was nothing of big old play there.
The Venom not successful.
All the Glartrops came up empty, right?
Like, there was an answer in a position for every situation.
They were playing the spawn, like it was theirs, my man, and that was confidence oozing
and why they took it to this map.
Yeah, they just had answers for Pauli too.
They did a great job marking him, as you can see in the stat line.
Not a lot of finals across the board here besides energy, which is to be expected
up at the top.
We are heading to game three one to one time. We'll be back right after this break
Now I'll protect you
With a single blow, I'll be the magic of getting longer
I'll make a sound once I'm here
If you find me here, I'll be the light of the night
I'll start, let's go
When it's dark, I'll close my eyes with my warm eyes
I'll be the one to push you down
Wait a little longer
Don't be there
Don't fall, but you have to get up
Wherever you are, I'll take you
I'll be there for you
Sing a high-pitched song
I'm going to throw you away
I'll take you away, dance with me
I'm going to leave you
I'm going to throw you away
If you wait for us, baby, give me a hug
I don't need that night, night, body
Baby, give me a hug
I've been waiting for a long time, your heart
It's like a star in the night
And it turns out history does repeat itself, uh, yeah, this is a few different heroes, of course,
So it's like the different looks but the same map could this have been an email like are we just watching the same series again?
Is that what's gonna happen here?
Yeah, I don't think we go to spider island this time around is what happened yesterday
But honestly you could just tell we're looking at the best two teams in America
The way they play the synergy in between them is to an all-time maximum and then the strategy plays your fan of the role
You were watching the goats at it
your cell path is going to be our destination as guard ship is
where we find ourselves for match three. If you're looking at
liquid, it just felt like the big plays really never came out.
I want to see spark chief kind of bait out some bigger
cooldowns earlier and Cooper being on the jet for too long.
Those are the things I didn't love about yourself.
Yeah, I mean, in terms of things that I thought were
disgusting was the peel wolf alongside that hole. That hole
bubble was so valuable. Like you said, stopping the Jeff I
didn't love the Jeff play just because there were so many
Valentina had no issue elping ever. Never felt pressured, always had huge
ultimates. 52k healing over 12k over the opposition 14k I believe. I mean
it's obscene. It seems like they had no pressure back there.
No they really didn't. Like Storm Gaming clearly had the answers to what was
coming out of the gates for a liquid Citadel. Can they do it again? Last time
around they went up into series on map number three. Of course different map
this time around, so let's see who's going to come out on top.
All righty, ship.
I mean, Ignisopath always feels built
for the iconic moments of the game,
Sevens being you've been able to do some great ones with them.
And I love this map.
Now, last time, map three, they banned the wolf
after that, right?
Because you had to stop it.
And then they kind of stopped banning the wolf from there.
So I'm curious if history there repeats itself.
Because, again, days, especially on this map as well,
this is going to be a scary one.
You would know that well as a vanguard, man.
Oh, yeah.
I think I think Wolf plays great here. There's a lot of corner angles
You can tackle around that allows your team to just kind of get free value on every single pull
I mean, I don't know man. I'm surprised because it crashes looking so good on this hook, too
You know stats don't really show well for Hulk the value really isn't that exile those bubbles and you know
41k damage blocked up there with them or some of the most even alongside of that venom right of the 43k from spark
So big value there
But I'm with you
I don't know if the Wolverine bands a play because it can still just go over to that as you see daredevil
and I think we're going to
see a lot of people. We're
just getting banned out now,
and there's just so many
answers for both sides. It's
so crazy. The man. The meta is
in chaos shambles and I love
it, right? Like everything I
think I saw everything feels
good. Everything feels bad.
There's so many answers for
just incredible amounts of tough
situations. You got this
strange band, which I think
we're going to be seen for
the rest of this night, but
the wall saved coming in.
them. A few angles again, Deadpool is probably, yeah, that's what I was expecting to see to
continue the Pauli show. Yeah, I mean, the vanpools are really good into wolf and you
expect the wolf coming. Honestly, I think that you mentioned, what do I think I wish
I saw they saved Vanpool, I believe last time, if I'm remembering correctly, and never
played it. The random cap and obviously Pauli on a cap is a problem, but struggled heavy
because Wolverine is constantly peeling, playing the peel game. And you know, cap has,
you know, some escape ability, but Vanpool, you can pop that damage reduction next thing
You know you can turn it on them and you have plenty of time a ton of escape a ton of movement cool downs
You have an ultimate that'll keep you healthy you have solutions to the Wolverine and that is something you need right now
Yeah, one thing, you know, I said yesterday I'm gonna say again today
This is I don't want to say must win but it's close to it for liquid Citadel
They cannot allow two to fall we've talked about the mental ship of these teams and swamp and getting a loss early
We saw they handle adversity and they respond greatly
yesterday, the mental hit heavy there for Liquid City Day.
Holly, Ate's losing, we can tell it, and it just happened.
Just got that loss.
So now we're going to go ahead and head to Asgard.
Do you like to watch the golden part?
We're not going to see the team up,
but we have seen little flashes of it, Shiv.
Have you even seen that team up in your ring matches
once, my guy?
Never, never have I seen the far cloud.
I'm going to be honest.
It's funny to see, and it could get some value.
Obviously getting a change here in the recent season.
a little more getting those heels back quicker as you land shots but
now haven't seen it in you know at all i think he's been taken a heavy step
back since he lost that fifteen percent of his human
i was just gonna ask of the break do you think they pull up the thing
uh... phrase it goes but you think this happens because the spark sheet
being able to be such a heavy counter for that wolverine and obviously one
that they can hear an answer to a lot of the time
just stop what it's just been this pick off
of pick offs on the vanguard
but here we go man this could be an answer and i like the play
Yeah, you can see, wow, what a big player by Scatter onto Cooper.
You can see they're really putting a lot of stock into this Wolverine.
Fearing the Wolverine, I'm surprised that Vimpool maybe isn't getting the play that we might have thought as Down goes Pauly.
And another pick for the side of Scatter is we can clean off the rip here on this smart play.
Honestly, across the board here from Swamp.
Yeah, Sue Stomps, man.
I can't believe that he got that kidnap of all heroes that Invisible Woman, such a hardy hero to grasp with that escape ability.
But we go now seeing the lines of pose.
This is a bit of an awkward thing.
Sometimes we like teams to push up here.
Other ones want to hold the line.
Wow, what a LeBron!
With the right click and the baseball,
right in the energy, the freeze now.
And this is just shutting down the doors.
Liquid's going to have to adjust fast,
because SparkT is about to take a quick trip as well.
We're going to rotate back.
This is a tough vanguard line to go into group with.
You can charge off walls, but if the team doesn't
have focus on those walls, you
will struggle.
huge ultimate there with the strangling prison. Can they combine off it? They can't! Forky got to
find three! Melophobia with one disgusting out there by Kraus. They use the wall to propel
himself upward and then find it, you know, over top of some of those shield answers from Polly,
a huge strangling prison. Disgusting play, Kraus. The big man gets big plays with a whole
Groot. Doesn't matter. That gets done. Cap, absolute crazy flexibility in keeping the
the top level performance in clutch.
Neera now throwing the balls up top there to see.
Anybody who's gonna be lurking from behind
from the hole is gonna go at least here shortly,
but the source search is what pushes them forward.
Again, they target the speedery.
How do they answer?
The clutch box comes out, thing is down.
Now with the quick pop and a slam!
Scatter!
Goodbye!
James from three able to find one there,
making two Valentina on to Polly.
Energy falls through with Melophobia.
And that is just, again, another sweep.
But Wolf in Liquid Citadel, a ton of ult available.
I mean, you can still feel the rim shaking
from that slam dunk.
And it's just one ult at a time, right?
Man, it's all they need to just keep on stopping
what has been this push.
Liquid has everything.
Like, they're not committing at least,
but it's time to, minute 28 seconds.
Everything on the line.
This is feeling like a must win situation.
Spartan Chief does have his clover time up and ready
to go, and the show is on.
As Valentina throws down the K-pop song.
as you can rotate back needs some health and help but now it's going to be
Paulie all eyes on him not a lot of Elsa from them but going to play it now
in the phobia they'll find speeder in the back and there goes one the rest
are looking to fall have to rotate back once again. There's just so much
fear this Wolverine that I think it's leading itself into being a very
tough cop to get around this corner with right now and there's going to be
Alts gaining quickly here for swamp who should have advantage in this
next fight once again folks only 52 seconds available on this attack and
It seems like TLC is crumbling in the same headspace as yesterday when they went down.
It just feels like Cooper is playing a bit off as well, man.
Like, this is just not the team of perfection that we're used to seeing in these certain moments.
But either way, this pier is activated.
Forky Dog keeps them up and healthy clobbering time.
Slammed down, save the line.
He does, but nothing comes from it as dinnertime comes out and the feast is abound,
but nothing gonna come from it.
Good punches with it.
Group gonna go ahead and just get the spark chief.
Nero finds days it says good night and just like that they finally get a bit of a push but ship they don't have strength
So you win this fight the 65 win the point
Yeah, and at this point they're just trying to keep them in this choke here
Speedy are you gonna be on that wall now and has the last in available this could be a disgusting play it is
Come on now speedery able to find one energy on the craze and now folks
We have ourselves a game as point one will be taken as there is no portal play back
That was a disgusting idea well played by the side of team liquid Citadel
Yeah, honestly, I love the wolf here
I think the wolf is definitely going to be the play moving forward when speedery does not have access to those heroes
We saw in a bit yesterday, but not enough from the iconic duelist that we seem in the scene now
You're one to year two energy throwing trap above no flinks happening from the back end
Keep eyes peeled everybody now pushing forward only one on the point after get this pick
It's a left right left solution of Valentina
That's the only thing they need at this point ship can move forward with ease for key dog
Does have the inverse going to try to save the boundary if I want to guess here
I'm gonna waste it too early with plenty of time to go
Yeah, they're finding more answers through more traditional means as Polly is gonna be on that Magneto
I'll angle sky is here from scatter of a melophobia able to find energy and that's a big trade is once again
Elsa mismatch now out with the boundary from Cooper though on TLC.
Meteor and is off trying to eat some of this damage looking for somebody looking
downtown over what a shield there from the side of I believe for key dog is
Polly cleans up craze in that fight that misses a three-point if it gets a two
right after with the left right and there's Milifogat these off angle
ship I keep watching this because fighter island yesterday same fact he
just finds an angle to get the hit and the pressure and again there it is
Cooper is not going to be able to escape, but he does.
Perfect backup, it still finds himself the hunt.
Spark Chief goes down.
One minute, 10 seconds left here in Asgard.
It's all about these big ultimates now.
Gaze holding onto that last hand.
Kras, the similar situation could be a big strangling prison.
And they go back to back here.
Nero and Spark with ult available.
There is that Preserver Rage.
The last hand comes through.
They put up speedery from the chaos to start there.
But again, that isn't all it's out for days time still on the clock of 45 seconds trying to walk them to the door
Not allowing a portal play should it be needed, but it's all too early for that to be considered just yet
Holding down the W trap set in a ready Diablo hungry and same as the swamp setting up the messy conditions to take down the
Fortress of Citadel now with the quick kidnap once again the group old to try to sit down the backline of these
Structures or seeing the cool a whole thing throws down the clover in time now as the large rocks comes for more
That's a lot of cues, but nothing up for swamp now is the slam down the fist and the entire liquid Citadel
Collapsed into this swamp and lay that foundation
Oh, it's Peter
He tries to hard engage there try to get that all quickly look for the back line
But they do escape and not able to make it through that tight corridor
But this could be a big last-an opportunity off advantage here for the side of TLC
This is their fight to lose energy with the guard trucks through this corridor
Mashed back with invisible boundary scatter gonna have meteor and potentially in this fight for two with another answer
Valentina it's all about can they make this happen now try to get Valentina before she can all then bang down goes Valentina
The last day is available for them to tackle outside
And they are gonna consider it and make it happen well played by team liquid citadel once again
Swap gaming now playing other heels the animal is on the loose and the show has canceled Valentina now
Stuck to the point and gonna have to go on tour at leadership
This is what they couldn't do yesterday
They could not finish on the clutch moments doing it twice now point after point. It's nighttime now heading into the tree. Oh
Wow, this is just beautiful mobile rivals so much fun to witness these level this level of play has there's a lot of commitment and great
Communication again, you can just see what they're thinking prior to these fights
They're understanding what's going to be committed using that Glartrox by last day to keep them out of that boundary was game winning
Or at least point winning there as we're gonna see what swamp could do here on point three
Can they hold them? Scatter has also available. Valentina as well. Up in the sky is that Meteor M now.
At any time in waiting, try not to allow much value. Goodbye to Paulie, who's stuck under that Meteor M in that moment.
Yeah, Paulie with Ulta as well. Gonna go ahead and look. That's 46 seconds. Nothing left on the clock with all these overtime clutches either way.
They are not going to back up relentless now. Hunting for more like the animal play.
Predator he is takes down spark chief and now 34 seconds look at what can be had
We have the show ready glory trucks the boot and the Groot on the other side
We'll see how Paulie responds to this defensively. What do you want to try to do with this maggle here ship?
Yeah, if you're Paulie right now
You're hovering the cue button waiting for seeing craze play a little bit too aggressive when you think that all's gonna be committed
You try to stop it
But instead get a launch a little early and do feed it right into the shield of the opposition's Magneto
really smart play heads-up play by Swamp who now launched out with a combination
guard trucks but it gets stopped by their own wall from Kras right there not
able to make that one work out excuse me actually that was energy so even smarter
play by this side of Swamp I apologize melophobia finds one forky scatter again
and that could be the hold here on point three it's clobber and dead
nothing Swamp gaming hold two points in set up the mess to try to get the
Victory now on the offensive side ship. That was a really well done job at the end. And wow
I mean perfect mechanics to stop everything pushed towards them
Yeah, I mean the idea there that I think was super smart that I kind of miss called it first
But then corrected is crass throwing out the wall inside of the boundary right before being eaten
By the large rocks that came out from energy actually saved potentially two lives and potentially the point there
So really big play and I just heads up play across the board
especially the eat there from scatter on that meteor and both
vanguards in the front making clutch plays at the very end.
I like to swap up Nero's been playing a really great Fox
but I feel like with the comp they're going against ship.
It just doesn't feel like Fox might be the answer.
At least here and now I like the Luna switch up hoping they stay to it.
It was going to point out there on map 0.3
and obviously has been a good comfort pick.
Valentino obviously repping Luna on their side
and it's been so fun. These teams put together
For what has been a show in the making, buddy, we've got ourselves two to push.
This can't be a tough map.
That point you're so hard to take, man, with that spawn right there.
I'd put it up in the top three out of our maps.
And so at least you've got that if you're a fan of Citadel.
Absolutely.
And you can see here, Liquid Citadel is going to try to run that triple,
triple, comp, bringing us back a season here.
So they're going to likely try to hold right up at the door.
We'll see if they elect to do that, which will foreswap into a spawn break comp.
And that's how you're going to see that storm coming out,
which I think was an idea even prior, but it does work well into a comp like this.
are going to try to play right on top of the cart and buy as much time portal back then
right onto that ramp to ensure a second fight and then walk in for the third fight.
So that is their idea here for the defensive side of Liquid Citadel.
Here's the hole from Sparchief.
They start up early and just run away nice and slow and steady.
Yeah, Storm is brewing in Asgard.
They did this in Spider Island as well.
Melophobia on the storm often.
Days though on the Moon night was not there yesterday and obviously such a perfect
classic play from Tier or stage two and one last year.
Forky Dog gets a trade, but Cooper with the other
and that is where the old call back
to the Animal Crossing rocket gets the res.
Continue on the defensive effort and can allow that pick.
We saw energy back in the triple Vanguard days
play a little Mag ship.
Yeah, yeah, it looked great on the Mag too.
A lot of duelists are able to play that Mag
and just understanding it's all about aim
and patience, crass.
You're able to find spark there,
very difficult to play that thing
into a group like this, puts that wall behind
and follows up, crass, still holding this point,
trying to find another pick at the moment,
days now on that moon night,
you potentially see the switch here on the strange.
If they can't make anything happen,
days finds one under energy.
It's matched back once more as the commitment comes through
from Valentina on the eternal bond.
Yeah, I like that bond to give them a little bit of safe room
to push forward days in, go get more.
And wow, they did that without even
contrued lending a hand.
So get ready, because the portal will be available,
but you know what's gonna be toughest
when you've got the moon falling 1,000 miles an hour
as they exit.
Look at this setup.
Are you joking me?
A big brain plays ahead.
They would never expect the moon from above.
He's going to jump back in out.
And there comes the hands falling from the Egyptian god.
No landing from it, though.
Good rotation scatter.
Finds one.
That's a big one at that, as now the rocket's down,
and the BRB with it.
Fear Magneto is up, slammed down.
His energy, no connection ship.
Missing the cues all around.
I mean, that was textbook re-engage,
but even cleaner by the side of swamp,
to be able to even through some of those misses
still come out on top.
I can't believe that.
really, really well played there.
Not finding any value with the combination
of the strangling prison into the Moon Knight
and instead just gonna get picks in the neutral
through that invisible boundary.
So smart, but the retake as we're discussing
comes through with the dance floor from Nero.
On that Luna, you mentioned Luna being very valuable
in a comp like this, I do agree.
I'll break some of those walls
and help poke that back line a little bit.
What a weird battle that was.
I mean, you had storms out,
conch throughout the crude hole,
but nothing came from it.
And then the show and the neutral
to keep up the momentum.
Man, the crash has just been lethal
with these fastball specials
Not on Wolverine, but on Groot now.
Valencina gonna find another,
and this is going to put a lot of pressure on them.
The invisible boundary is up,
but right now, great job and set it on 0.1.
This is an easy point and a lot of ways to get,
but Spark Chief finding days
is gonna cause the reset of damage, most likely.
Okay, gonna keep Pressure up, and there it is.
Scatter played a lot in the last year.
The invisible boundary, 4K dog activating that team
to safety, they gotta get the win here, ship.
Yeah, it's looking like they will as a few picks come through.
Valentina takes out Pauly now trying to stay on spark in those moments.
Really good movement here by melephobia up in the sky to on that storm.
And that is going to be a pick. Well done by Valentina.
It was a good focus on the energy. You can't escape that. Get juke.
That right there is for key and crass find another and there will not be
another touch here. Pauly will not even get a like to try as they did by
some time, but it's three minutes.
Going to be enough girl. You nasty. That is crazy.
Valentina is just so fun to watch and you can come back in-game client and watch the perspective of play ship
What are my favorite parts about that in game?
I might go back watch a valentina play because there's so many clutch moments and small things
I was talking about that in the green room in the break
There's the iconic spray from Paulie the man hates losing you can see in his eyes now in the cam
So you can go ahead and move on in
Try to set up this defensive friend. This is where they've got a win ship if it gets point three
It's gonna be all but over
Yeah, Bunker indeed busted there as Melophobia takes out spark chief and that's going to be answer to spark
She comes right back into the fight with that BRB the value of the BRB being evermore present on this point as they try to hold tight
Polly and spark chief making this which one more dive oriented composition
But Valentina with this bond and another pick here onto the back line doing so well with this cloak
She's playing so smart and so clean like he called out there and look at all this space that they have immediately from this group
I just there's nowhere to run nowhere to hide
I've been used after the damage amplification, but just quickly there on the finish in the flush there goes Valentino with the internal
Bond now setting them up as near oh my goodness. Oh my holy predator out and prey caught. Are you joking?
Folks, I want you to realize energy right there launch to go our trucks on the right side on top of the eternal bond
Jump to the left side of point to pull them off bond and claimed three of them with the team
That is
Disgusting and probably something you maybe didn't even notice happened. What a clean play again answering burning an ultimate and getting value
That is what they needed to change this pace a little bit
But you know what days on this wolf scatter with the meteor and melophobia with another car trucks are some decent answers as the commitment comes through
Yeah, you can't see stash it right and good push there on the invasions make speeder now
Slightly off angle giving melophobia plenty of
Hoverage there to go ahead and just say just that cheers mate moving forward
absolutely perfect play there and great push there at the end from forking out
Avengers are going to be assembled at the helm of cap himself up goes scatter
slams down the meter and I'm gonna go and get a quick dash and finish energy
staying alive through it all the man is Paulie punching throwing dashing you can
do this all day as far as you find Valentina both strategist gone shit this
is an easy opportunity now for liquid to clean it up yeah you mentioned you
wanted to see them pulling out some of those strategies cool downs and having
cap and venom do that is exactly what they needed they are gonna have
speedery there as well. So a lot more pressure on that backline that seems
uncontested in these matchups so far. Very smart change in composition here for
Team Liquid Citadel, Swamp Gaming. Not able to make those ultimate, well, ultimate's
work is a tough look, but Krazz does have the thing switch very close to
having that ultimate in days on the last day and we know how strong that
can be. Now when you have been him with a little bit of a damage boost, you
can do so much more, they might be waiting on nearer for that, but either
way just look for that slow with the delay pop of damage that they try to
to do so often with the Feast B Abyss.
He's been doing it solo a lot lately,
but it's going to go in as well to use it as a tool
for survival this time around.
That's the other way you can use it,
but quickly burnt down 200, cannot get away,
begging for the CC change in shift, but not in this path.
12 seconds on here, folks.
Swamp Gaming needs to clutch this,
or we will be heading into another map
where Liquid Citadel will be up.
They've done a great job defending this point here,
and this is going to be their choice
to tackle comes through now.
Cooper trying to deal some damage on to that last thing that does not get value
and that's another W in terms of a team fight here for the side of Liquid Citadel.
The clobbering time's out and it could be big.
Energy trying to find an answer, shuts down 4k, quickly make it 2 here.
Do I see a third I do and that should do it here folks.
The W goes to Liquid Citadel.
No monster needed when your monster yourself, energy, seals the exclamation point on the win that felt needed.
It changed history once again, winning now the third match to one is up should this is such a great deal seven in the making.
Are you kidding me for America's best team to move forward for at least a month heading into stage one.
If you look here at the stats, Melophobia with 14 finals by far the most even showing some storm play there getting point one.
But, you know, it's not about stats, folks.
That's why you can't stat watch.
You can look here, the value of just the pressure
of just staying on that point
and winning these teamfights only with Shirley.
Team Liquid said it, I'll come it out on top, folks.
It is a two-one situation.
We are heading to our fourth game right after this break.
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Welcome one and all, Zoey here, jumped by Cozy and I around ship and we are in the midst
of the grand finals here in the pre-season Americas and wow, what a match that was.
What an important win for Liquid Citadel in order to gain the confidence again, right?
But they played it so well.
There was so much point pressure and so much just presence from them on the point and then
also of course a lot of damage being dished out even though a lot of their individuals
were focused heavily.
Look at you, Sparksheave.
Oh wow, this is going to a domination celestial husk.
That is why that game was so big for Liquid to win because now folks, they are undefeated
Perfect in the America region and this is going to be essentially
There's for the taking to go up 3-1 if history has continued to show what it is. Yeah shit
But I feel like they didn't so well there
There's a lot of things to point out but the way they constantly just kind of pressured that backline
They're not always getting the value but distracting key players mellow you know
Melio had to go back take care speeder
And then it's like the point kind of got lost and sustained and stop time was out
And then it was just one teamfight win from there
I agree. I think they struggled there on hauled to Jolia when they couldn't commit to the dive and the
back line was uncontested the entire time. I mean, you saw what Forky and Valentina were able to do.
No one was pressured. It felt like it now. Once they make that switch on point two because
they struggled on point one, they fully committed. They had not only the silock in the venom,
but they also had to dive a van pull then into cap. And at that point, there was some serious
pressure pulling out cooldowns that actually get value when you call them out and then collapsing from there.
Yeah, great changes. We saw that from Liquid Citadel in the midst of that series and also like having speedery as well as
Sorry
And spark chief kind of being the sacrificial lambs in order to like, you know make them look any which way it worked out for them
Can they go again and get that third map? They have to win four in order to get the crowns. Let's find out
out. All right, ship. Here we
go. We knew it was going to go
at least a lot of the distance.
Will it go the full amount now?
I'm thinking for the vibes at
top for God showing that animated
black widow gambling ban on both
sides. Elsa said last time ship
when they did play another Dom
is a cap ban deadpool Vanguard
Magneto and Gambit. Yeah, and
we are going to see the lock
in here and this is the
change up. They said, All
right, which we struggled a
bit with the Wolverine there.
Let's try to find some value with the DD,
which is going to be mismatched.
And I believe it worked for him in the past.
Why not do it again?
But the mismatch change now is instead of having that,
oh, this is crazy.
The Elsa and DD mismatch, we're
going to see which gets more value right now on domination.
They're just putting a lot of trust in you.
You just said it.
One of the best in days, right?
So days towards the end of that matchup yesterday
was not getting the full follow up.
Energy kept finding them.
and it was the exact thing we're running into right here.
I would say that was on Krakowa though.
This is gonna be on social husk,
which I would give a little bit more room for,
you know, sneaking about and finding those opportunities
for Daredevil.
That's gonna be the thing to watch as energy
has got to keep his eyes forward
but also protect that important back line.
And looking at the band,
Dr. Strange has been the call of the day
and I'm all about this higher and higher
as the stakes get there.
But man, a little bit of a speedery ban once again.
Yeah, that's just been the story right now.
And it didn't necessarily work.
Because I think the new solution that we're
seeing from Team Liquid Citadel is if they're really
struggling on a duelist front, he'll just run Star Lord
and get valued that way.
The vanpool mismatch is coming through as well with the Mantis
mismatch.
This is going to be, there's a lot here
that I'm curious about how it lands when it's on the line.
When you have that DD damage boost,
when you don't have the L-Stoe on the other side,
is that enough to combat that problem?
that we're going to find out
together because this is very
different strategies from both
teams. I like to see it. I do
not know which is going to be
better, but domination has
typically been and Team
Liquid Cityals favor. Will they
continue to make that the case?
Yeah, now this really highlights
what Fox does well, you know,
versus the dive and so that
also is going to lend to the
strength of Nero as that
strategy. So do like that.
They're able to go into that.
In fact, Fox, I believe was
one of the bands against
Liquid last time in this
In this domination map number four because of that very reason they did the dd save and they tried it all did not come together
Like Paulie in that first Avenger as he should it's been spark chief a lot on domination as cat
But this time I mean buddy. I've been playing a lot of venom
So so Husk is a joy ride for the symbiote going around the pillar and Necker sword diving down stalling
You could do so much on this
Yeah, there's a lot of point stall potential on this map and that's where you're gonna see the cap as well
I mean in terms of Skull comp, obviously Team Liquid Citadel has it in the pack
But that is not necessarily always case. Oh, it's gonna be matchback now. It's gotta make some change
I'm sure it wasn't gonna be Angie, but it wasn't sure who's gonna land on and looks like it is going to be pretty much
Almost an even match besides that duelist line. We're gonna bet Elsa versus DD
We're gonna see if the strategies come out the door as is they would likely change that could just be a bubble play by
Forky and switch off but no looks like forky's gonna stay on that Jeff
So this should be a battle here buddy. Yeah dive was calling and energy always
answered every single time yesterday you know didn't come out with the win did in
domination flawless folks this could be their first loss in one of the most
important matches in swamp gaming's young history here in year two that's
far chief starting off going after the shark right away doesn't want any of
those shenanigans are gonna go rotate over throw the shield down to connect
with mello goodbye yeah folks you could do you do a great job peeling and
tracking some of those invisible heroes when you do have your your saw ready as
cap you throw it out the ground it will you know showcase where they're at if
they're nearby Paulie able to take advantage of that and finds to
immediately again Paulie's conversation in the conversation for the best cap in
the world if not you know guaranteed at that position just based on what we
saw last year an advantage of it off the rip here all right now with two
Through those top tier heroes ban, Howard Mellophobia ended up playing, I think it's a really good pick.
It was going to show a little bit on the side lock, but obviously quick into that.
Spark Chief looking for the hunger of the Jeff diving in early.
Great just survivability tactics from Forky Dog off that Invis for now.
Only going to go ahead and keep up that pressure.
This is going to be a tough point to take, from Liquid.
They've got two vanguards that can keep this thing alive forever.
They've got to get Spark Chief out and not to come back in it.
and that's hard when Nero's taking care of that dive and answering.
You can see there pulling up that melee form whenever they need to self-peal.
Polly finds another sparky for the two-piece for one. Two for one is energy.
And Speedery clean up a few more.
And this is a clean textbook start once again on domination for Team Liquid Citadel.
That's what's so cool about pro play, right?
Because typically you only can do that with the venom whenever you're doing the ult.
But when everybody dives in with the OK go, right?
You're able to get that last second damage that's not always accounted for.
down and pop both of them dead Cooper has the show to move forward now continue
on this show that liquid Citadel has on the defensive side
Telephobia in song inferno close but nothing really to highlight in terms of
cues for now but the point getting close that 99 share event wow lethal again
speedery out there's the pick they needed and you're gonna see the Phoenix
switch here from L.A. phobia again does an easy job in peeling with that
stun but also has the reset in terms of that alternate the end song inferno
Damage was coming in from the dance floor, maybe combined, except the actually second
alive, that was from Cooper, as that's just an answer.
Spark Sheep finding four keys, another start here for Team Liquid Citadel, who are even
in numbers now, now ahead.
Energy cleans up days, and there is going to be some commitment from Crass, finding
Cooper now another back line, five of this time for Swamp, and they need to keep this
moving now as there goes that freedom charge.
Spark Sheep, again with a pick on the Melophobia, is finding so much value on
this Venom speedery on the Valentina, and I do not know that Swamp could bounce
back from this.
Citadel has us in the back for map one.
I'm telling you, man, this is the Symbiotes home court.
It's just so much room to play in.
Fees is venom hitting everything perfectly.
Here comes the Q in the bite.
Trying to stay alive.
Going to get that up from the teammates now.
And Munch is on Scatter.
Nothing but survival and sustain is what he was going for there
as he dives the backline.
A good peel from the team now.
Scatter takes on Sparpish.
Peter, he slices, dices.
Days to trade, but that is going to give enough time now
for Spark to swing back.
But the point is still there.
days, oh my days, gets another, but this is what I'm talking about, shit, the defense
is too strong for the Helms deep that is Citadel.
Oh, we tried to get back there for the portal commitment.
Oh, I thought it was going to be coming in from Liquid Citadel, but they got to 99.
That was the entire goal there.
They're going to reset as a unit and take this fight.
Folks, we've seen the comeback before, and honestly, there was an old advantage there
for Team Liquid Citadel and numbers advantage, but a huge help from 4K to keep them healthy,
allow the team to retake comfortably, and they do win that fight.
So, they did come back with a nice disadvantage flight win that could be enough momentum to
keep this moving forward.
Look at that answer immediately.
You've got the Vitamin Days up top.
They're ready to go.
They know exactly who they want.
They're going straight for the Mantis.
But then, boom, gone, or I'm sorry, Cooper, boom, gone, delivered, they were able to
take care of days just like that.
Now, Melophobia is going to switch.
Once again, the Phoenix was not the answer.
The White Room sheet goes as now Star Lord looking forward.
It's just so disgusting doing everything that Captain America want to do in the MCU right here in Marvel Rivals
I'm gonna beat down on these heroes
Yeah, uses that cover to eye frame the alt comes back and uses the shield to clean up the Jeff from Valentina
That's textbook play there as speedery gets another pick on the days and swamp are trying to hold on for dear life
But they are being dragged down as the Citadel holds strong here on domination
that it's just the way these players prep for the known dive right like it's
no secret when they're coming out to spawn that they're gonna come from some
angle and how to prepare for that how to be ready especially in the back line
shape they make it look easy on how quickly they react to what's when
they're going for that's the only unaccountable thing right who they're
gonna try to dive and get out of there so quickly Nero pretty much in part it
very tough you know to get rid of white fox in that situation so
typically the play will be Cooper but the freeze the finish with ease it's
It's crazy because these two top teams are so evenly matched, but in domination
Liquid Siddale, they're on another level
Absolutely my friend as you can see alt advantage going to be in favor of liquid Siddale once again on the rip of this fight
We'll have energy with the Glartrox Nero soon to be right behind in Cooper's another answer
And that is a ton of response today's crass and mellow which will be the first three on the side of swamp
theoretically to get all so there's a lot here swamp can definitely bounce back
but they need to make some big plays right now in the early openings of these
this battle well they've got to recover to for protecting the DD yesterday the
daredevil didn't work in domination and then you take away all those off angles
and big play moments from the phobia that he can get on Elsa now and you
can tell he's uncomfortable just kind of swimming with a switcher between these
heroes and you're not gonna get anything like that as the large house
takes the first Avenger right off the map goodbye and the flesh and the
finish again from Energy. This was one a lot in the band phase in my opinion man
and I did not like the protect on the Daredevil personally. Yeah I think the
also mismatch is definitely it been important. I think it's a good call out.
I think the like you said the Daredevil is you know Daredevil is incredibly
strong, pairs well with a good consistent dive but the whole team's kind of
scattered right now. The focus is all over the place because they're just
all over you as a unit. They're so coordinated right now and I'm dumb. You
just can see the level of their comms, how fluid they are because they do
They're so pointed and directed and they keep getting value in these neutrals.
Here they go.
Okay, so the Spark Chiefs are going to set up the dive, but they are forced to rotate out because of that back quick cap.
Nice job there.
Okay, it does get every single shot in Cooper now.
Luna is going to go back to spawn Nero.
It does trade with Deis.
She's having a tough time in this domination.
Legends are in the sky and on the screen now.
Nero, I'm safe.
But Melopopia now with two is Star Lord the answer for this team as the mixtape goes in and the pistols go out.
out. Paulie though just together with defense here on the line. Keep this thing alive. Cooper
back now on the action show ready. Oh what a freeze there by Cooper. Goodbye crass. That
was disgusting. Eww as daze is in a tough spot here. The chase from Schmittery is going
to be a problem. Yes it is. As Sparky takes out 4-key and TLC again out on top in these
fights but a big altered vintage by coming for Swamp. Man that freeze was, you said
that you grew up in my mouth a little man crazy.
Yeah, listen, speedery has the dance ready to go.
They know this, they've tracked this.
They want to use it all of them on kind of tricky heroes
to hit with that though.
And they oftentimes have orky dog just use that push,
save it for this moment that cooled down when ready.
Park chief knows that going to try to bait that out
if he can your speeders angle days has not done value yet
going up against just like that.
I get deleted God before the reaction could happen.
Health pack picked up in all shape.
Are you kidding?
Yeah, I mean they need to make something happen and they need to make something happen now, but no even down all having out in hand
Not able to make the commitment. Oh my goodness
Downtown to shovel pass in one instead of the right side. Goodbye with a nice freeze KO and they're just falling there
They're letting it happen here. O.T. comes through and they cannot portal in because of the strange
Yeah, and that is why that third half was so important for what for them to take swamp gaming because domination was gonna look
just like this Peter slices dice his days has not seen any part of celestial husk just the spawn room now as the
Glartrux comes out finds Valentina in it and with that Citadel has not only been building this foundation on the swamp
They damn near removed it
And finish the elephant gun. Are you kidding me? Shib? They are just farming now the highlight reels who wants to top five plays?
Energy's doing trick shots at this point get deleted star Lord Peter quill it just got his head taken off there. That was
I mean, buddy, we thought that might be the case on Dom and that's why last map was so important.
But I didn't think it was going to look like that. The band phase, you cannot allow that Elsa mismatch.
I don't think Deedee's worth it on Dom.
I mean, outside of a complete reverse sweep, outside of Swamp, taking this all the way to 7.
Domination, flawless, no matter the result here.
here. In the case of TLC, they have not lost one. Even the zones looking clean as we look at the stats across. And again, just tough
footing, right? 6-9, 3 eliminations. The dualists were kind of a non-factor there. And for a lot of their plan was too, right? And they liked what they
had up front. But man, as we said, it's those vanguards to watch in the pre-show. Those are the ones they keep your eyes on and
Cooper back into form on the MVP.
Yeah, it's a really solid Luna play, a lot of value.
I mean, seven finals and having 17K, the most healing.
You can't ask for more than that, folks.
Keep it locked right here, three to one.
Team Liquid set it out up.
Ken Swap bounce back.
We'll see you in a minute.
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Welcome back everyone! This is going to be match point for Liquid Citadel
and another dominant performance on Domination which I mean that's what we're expecting from
that team right? Let's talk about how they got it done though because I feel and you pointed
that out here, Cosy. The banning they might have overcooked here for swamp gaming, like
having damage focused on protecting the DG and not getting that Elsa, that seemed to
really hurt him because Mello was struggling. He went over from Star Lord, he kept on switching
but nothing seemed to work for them in order to get the damage output they need.
You don't know what you got till it's gone and man, the Elsa was felt in every single
you know, shape and form. I feel like, you know, it just shows how much of a wincon
Elaphobia can be on the S tier hero in the monster hunter herself because it keeps energy in check as well
because of the off angles and often times the first pick off, it's kind of a battle of trade ship between them two
and then they go on from there and carry the damage.
But then you give energy to that as well. It's just the game plan going in.
Definitely something that I did not like and it was tough to solve.
Yeah, it kind of diverts focus, right, because you need to be looking for the other Elsa because you need to, you know, fight power with power.
You need to make sure you're covering that at all times, but when you're enabled, when you can kind of peel, when you know DD's in the game, you can look forward a little bit until your backline calls for it.
It enables you to make more plays. Energy only going down one time. In 10 finals, 26 eliminations. I mean, 16k damage, most in the lobby by far. It's just, it's too strong.
It is too strong indeed. The game plan needs to change as we're heading into what could be the last map of our grand finals.
Well folks, Shib, this would be a new territory for us. We're used to going into the game 7s here. This could be a quick potential day now.
Yeah, I mean, I'm with you buddy. I would like to see the bounce back here from swamp
honestly is did not love the band phase in the last go around and we will see that change
up here now gambit removed on both sides and the lock in from Elsa for the Elsa excuse
me from both sides. So again, now they will have the back and forth and I think Melofobia
is up there in the conversation for one of the best. So why not enable it in
these in this team come absolutely my entire computer just imploded by the fact
that we're here. There's so much on the line. And I'm here back ready to go. And yeah, seen
the adjustments that are made. Love it right away now as the Elsa is ready for mellow in
the action ship. Both their devils out of this thing. Don't think it matters all too
much as we've seen both flex with ease. Ben ready in the save for Nero. Wow, I love
that. I think that's definitely going to help them because they know the approach
they want to go. Do they shut down the first Avenger is looking like it.
Yeah, that is definitely on the table. That's obviously targeted to Polly. It
seemed like they had the solution there and hauled it to Jolia, but have
struggled to find that footing again. And I do think that wasn't necessarily due to
not only was Swamp playing a great backline, obviously they look great back
there, but there wasn't a lot of pressure from the side of Liquid City
enabling the value of the cap. Like the cap's distraction got no value. They
weren't able to get on the backline either. So it was in part a bit to
them. So now that they figured it out and gone with more of a dive
consistently as a unit, it's been more threatening. The lock-in of Fox
the game. It's been working.
Yeah man, and I love it. They're
like, you know what? If this is
it for everything. Let days go
out in style. Good that style
now fastball special will be
here for dog. Obviously just
going to go enable the
super jetpack jump. And man
with the defensive edge that
you get here, we're going to
see a lot of the tail of the
tape very early on liquid
Citadel will be able to
will be able to change the narrative again,
and prove that they are the team to beat,
heading into stage number one.
Shib, Shin Shibuya could be it for Swamp Gaming
and the story they've created.
Swamp Gaming backs against the wall, folks.
Pre-season title on the line, the bragging rights,
and the bread all available here.
We have seen this exact map last time go around.
And Team Liquid City have got held before point two,
Swamp was able to push it through that point. Will that be the tail again or have they learned?
They said they bought reviewed they've done the studying but can they put it into practice?
Yeah, man. I mean this is where it comes to show it's you don't win matches on game days when I
told Coach Fox yesterday you win them in the practice room right in how your view and prep and
get ready to begin coming off the heater from the lower bracket run. It was liquid citadel
Melophobia gonna be first out the gates my friend as they move forward
See how they choose to attack this first point
Usually like to break this wall and go under fastball special to throw him up there and he can fly my man
Paul and Peter Pan as we like to be look at this man. It's like a full new ability. Does he get the kid out? Nothing there?
Yeah, dude those two together have been dominant
I'm happy to see crafts back on that a whole because this fastball special is getting infinite value
They're gonna reset and try to do it again in a moment once it comes off cool down in three seconds
I like this attack here from swamp gonna essentially play off the left side like they are defending get the height
And then go from there try to attack energy the tackle comes through good escape in the moment
Potentially using the push there or something to escape and I'm not sure exactly a spark got away, but did
Yeah, a lot of pressure here, and we've got to see how they play with the lights are the brightest right because now it's
New or territory for swamp. They've lost the game down
They've been there done that but they've never been in this position, especially with the stakes so high my friend
They want it so bad it's his team to dream and has come together Paulie ready to activate that band hammer
Kras jumping in for the hero moment once again in mellow with quick pop and showing why you protect the Elsa for this man
Disgusting. I knew you're gonna say because it's so true. I mean that was just so clean. Melophobia
Like auto aim right there playing cloak and dagger on Elsa as energy
He's gonna be able to find one here on the Kras to trade that a little bit
But notice the back of her notice their positioning their back here completely switching spot and playing in the arcade
And that's not a bad plan scatter. Oh, what a trap location there
I'm gonna try to find the back line
But he can't even figure out where they're at because the both teams are just go see going circling around the map
Yeah, if the map a favorite defense going to take it over right that's our fortress now
The Citadel trying to set up a stutter now popping that quick shots of the golden gun and going dash on over
Love that shield there to continue to cover in the block of the heel
another phobia dashing on in and over look at this rotation. The scene keeps doing shit
Gotta keep highlighting that the way that using the environment to their advantage is now the predator comes out
I'm Tina pays the path nothing from that
spark-sheaf energy though clean up the rest that guard rocks could have finished
Fackle comes in out of the sky good place there a speedery takes out days scatter trades it back kind of poly all
It's advantage up for the side of swamp
But it doesn't matter the numbers go down the rest comes in out of poly and speedery gets a pick too
It's a two-hero swing and they are sent back to the additional push
They were able to get the point up to three right and still have plenty
But man if they cannot make hold goodbye if they cannot make use of this Galartrox, buddy
I fear for swamp and what they can do because this could be
Everything on the line coming up to these two old some the advantage they get it goes the obelisk energy
He has it ready, set, go, speedery, pull up the Katana, any moment, the X-Men look up high and the box is...
This attack will come in now, all his days takes out Sparchief and they need some momentum now to see his command.
And what an attack will he have here with the last hand able to find a three piece?
What a play there by Daze, now heading towards the point and it looks like they might be able to cap this quickly.
Sharpening his claws after that beautiful, at least four piece from the X-Men now.
Get the point, make this interesting.
Three minutes, 20 seconds on the line, folks.
Swamp gaming.
Gonna get this messy once again.
Cress, ready to jump.
Mossum mode, activated shortly.
Spirit, you're still hanging onto this ult.
Trying to find that opportunity,
like the patient's respected.
Now both teams showing that patience.
You don't always need to go in guns of blazing sheer,
but try to find that time and that value
and be good scatter on his moment.
Scatter, holding up on the height now.
And again, point is beginning to move.
Three minutes on the clock here,
all to vanish for the side of Swamp.
These are looking good for them in the current moment.
Energy should have all soon.
Cooper with the dance floor,
try to get them moving folks.
And again, Swamp almost has five here.
So we've got to see if they can keep this momentum
moving as the tackle and the fastball come in
out of the sky.
Goodbye to Spark Chief.
What a tackle there.
Yeah, but the rest though,
just back that is so much complete sustain
in Forky Dog ready to press the Q as well.
The show is on with Cooper.
The Gloveshock is going to come with it.
The Predator is out in the phrase in the mouth.
They go ahead and survive that, though,
as they come back to the comfort.
Cooper pushing forward, continually sustaining this push.
But wow, good job.
From Swap Gaming staying alive and in it.
And once again, get two.
Cooper out of this thing as the show ends early.
Now Freeze Frame is going to be Paulie.
He's going to visit the rest of the team.
Good push.
Yeah, really clean play again.
Swap, Stale holding on to all the advantage.
Spark going to be close behind.
It's probably committed their energies well.
Craz, Valentina and Daze are those to be looking out for,
but the initiation of Craz fastball,
Daze behind to turn around and off them
is very much on the table.
Pauly is not going to be able to escape,
not even able to get that eb off there.
So another two-piece pick here.
Swamper stepping up, folks,
and this might be a ball game here.
Minute 34 seconds on the line to prove their push
and Melophobia puts that pressure forward
as far as she falls again.
internal bond co-op time. Showing the unity of this team as they dive in.
Holy committed now. Scatter gonna find Paulie in this. Unable to get up on the
dang jump pass is Valentino. Looks like those auto daggers are gonna go in and get
the job done by Energy. Has found a prey. Doesn't need the monster to get it done.
It's the elephant gun that puts a quick grave into Valentino.
Yeah, but they got point two and that's all that matters. You know what I mean?
Screw all the rest when your team can walk it like this heading to point
three. This is putting swamp in an insanely strong position. Not being
being able to hold point two like that for very long is a tough look shout out
swamp who still have three alts available folks they didn't need to commit
like anything there. I love the way they aggressively push and then it caused
them to peel and swap on over and took eyes off the price is now they can
push in and two minutes man is a it's a world more of time trying to get
through that sticky point in Shin Shibuya again this map coming back
for the first time since the last year now is here to throw up the
damage amp and the shields and go ahead and cause swamp gaming just a reposition
you cannot fight that until it's taken down and the rockets know where to place
it to have a tough time in the angle and this is gonna be a stagger he's just
waiting there it is play with this food really smart play there by speedery who's
now heading towards the back line does have a dance the cutter fly able to
look for one to combine the alternates still not able to get any
value insane utilization of backline cool down from 4 key but all my
goodness it doesn't matter as the
guard shocks brings them right out of
it speeder you're going to clean up the
rest but wow that was a good hold at
first countering two altimates there by
Valentina and 4k but then energy says
all right enough of this pulls them
right out of it grabbed and gone the
fruit chain man updating in real time
as now just putting on the full
aggression and try to burn this
minute and 13 seconds continually
hauling meteor in ready to dunk but
everything else ready for swamp now as
the meteor goes up in the sky trying
hit the two point slams down and I think the environment blocked it there on the top that's a bummer
like this has been holding this off for too long but is waiting for this as an answer potentially and
we'll try to make something happen with it here in a moment want to play there by crass he's gonna
find two here likely yes will that was dirt absolutely dirty but does fall energy and
to clean that up likely unless yeah it is gone it's theory that little body slam against the
wall man was discussing the juggling from grass has been near perfect he chooses
to play the Hulk now going in as you said this old has been ready and charging
up until rivals to to come around to pop it down and go ahead and get ready to
find his angle fastball special ready to climb up going for Nero is what I
thought but no gonna circle background he keeps on finding spark with this
which is good value but it's not using it yeah he's playing the peel game in
And there's the range there, the last hand comes through.
Spark Sheep falls, no one else does,
but it might have been held a little bit too long,
but still it doesn't matter if you're able to push this
the whole way, that's all they're looking forward to here.
But the trade comes in, Cooper finds one on a Melophobia.
The Sia gets launched.
Wow, Val able to hold on just barely in that moment.
Great fade energy, trades with 4K,
if they could buy time here, the hole could come in
as Scatter trying to get this trade on energy does.
Out goes the dance of the butterfly,
to hold us still there from Spark Sheep.
Over time, ticking down, there is no strange portal
available. This is the top look for a swamp here, but a great push so far and
everyone will fall as Pauli cleans up the rest. OT ticks down and that should do it
folks, but what a push. The shield is down, but Magneto is up. Pauli doesn't
even need it with the left light right left in the finish ship. I mean,
insane because they survived so much right. The Glartrucks had no room to
move in there. That was finished and flushed, but it was the vanguard
spark chief Pauli found four in that coming up just short. We'll say
the game, but they're not
going to be able to play
well. They're not going to
play well. Maybe they should.
It's tough to finish the job
there right on that map, so
they got far enough and
further. In fact, then they,
you know, we're looking at
first. Yeah, it comes down
to this. How well can they
play on defense? Right like
I'm with you, buddy. Like
it's that's about as good as
it gets. I mean, it's so
hard to push through that
point. The spawn is
literally feet behind the
location, and that's why
it's such a defensible
location, but you know,
point two teams typically
throughout here in the
preseason, despite which
team have held for a
from the side of swamp gaming.
If they can buy time at point two,
this could very much go their way
and they could push us another map.
Man, did you see those like sniper exiles
that Krazz is doing as he jumps?
I mean, it's disgusting.
Dirty.
The amount of skill that these players have.
Oh, we're looking at the top two teams in America.
The players absolutely ready to be the next big thing
in the scene as year two commences.
This is just the pre-season.
Buckle up.
It's going to be a bumpy ride now
as the defense sets up swamp gaming,
the most important hold of their professional gaming life.
It's going to be a big deal here, folks.
Notice the height, expecting a similar attack style
to what they just did.
They're going to play around it and rotate for a while,
but the portal is going to be the decision,
and that's the advantage to having the strange.
Instead of walking through it
and risking it in biting time,
they're just going to send it immediately.
The smart chief going to make this switch here
event him to be able to get to that team and that is a crazy start here.
I like this attack by Liquid Citadel a ton.
Yeah, for sure. They play what 65 for all of a few seconds before
smart shift can get back immediately. And then he also gets that pressure in the back, right?
Because they all commit to the back line, but then got to go to the point as well.
They do find Pauli. So now numbers down massively.
We're going to see how they choose to rotate this, right? When you lose Pauli in that foundation
of the front line, kind of in a sticky situation here, how fitting on Shin Shibuya going to go ahead
head and swipe on up and ho-ho-ho! Just like that, delete, don, jump off the edge, find justice
before they find you.
Great communication by Swamp there, you can just see it, beautiful way to take that fight,
even being in a kind of a weird location, something you don't swim against all the
time in the back corner there, around completely the arcade poly though, able to find days
is a good return, oh my goodness can Polly get more. Nice teleport there, looking
up towards scattered, but it's not going to be enough as the engagement comes in.
There's that banner hammer now onto the back line from Scatter.
Does it get value?
Cooper goes low, but not quite enough, playing around that shield to stay healthy.
Energy, trying to look for something in the back line, speedery, farming up that ultimate.
But so far, everyone just kind of playing a little more passive, trying to build those
alts.
Absolutely.
Now as the defense is still strong, she missed 30 seconds, both in viz, going to
go ahead and brock and there goes the quick apex for Melphobia.
Wow.
Walking down with the downtown hit on Cooper.
Are you joking now?
go ahead move around look at the off angle melophobia no for it so well kind of hunt energy
almost found him does connect good bye the fellow Elsa falls to their knees
as this is exactly why you give him the elephant gun
yeah nice bounce back again by swamp on this defense biding and buying a ton of time days of
the tackle able to clean that up goodbye poly basketball special for days here from the side
of swamp gaming it has been lights out and it's consistently a problem
So this is what we highlighted at the break, right?
We said because of those off angles, you get energy out first.
It's the only way to counter what they try to do.
And then you remove so much of that DPS at that point, right?
Like that one duel is down.
It's such a foundation of what that team's trying to do.
Speeder is still there, but not obviously.
We have that same impact and things freeze quite literally
as days there, just kind of hanging out at the top,
frozen in time, waiting for his Kodak moment.
So we'll go ahead and rotate back.
Exile going to land and look at that timing of the clap. Everything's done precise and surgical
There goes Kras
Does have that all available. There's that fastball tries to get spark with a nice escape taking the height
Then there is the last stand Kras able to clean up speedery
Honestly, I think it visibly across the sky where the res comes through here comes that engage now
What an exile again trying to get this cleaned and does not seem to melt
Psycholite energy goes down and looking for more here crass come on now able to find two off the back of scatter
Onto the back line of Nero and once more swap are stepping up with only 52 seconds on the clock. The Sun is not getting low buddy
I mean absolute throwing the gamma fist and this is the crown on the line for swap gaming holding strong and proving
They can make a fortress themselves out of the swamp to shut down Citadel with only now 35 seconds left
Citadel having both now the big-time one boat combo the venom and the DPS boost look for days
Can he get this pick?
This would be everything ship if you get the kid that he finds it
He does freeze a little bit with the pullback knows a good pull now there from Cooper
And there it is folks the res comes through energy able to find one on the Valentina
Will this be enough to push them forward for key committing metaphobia doing the same does that get what a tackle days?
Come on now. Oh my days once again out of the sky
finds another. Numbers up for swap on the retake and there's only four seconds.
This is going to be a panic point grab here and folks it's in overtime now. Can
they keep this moving? A ton of all it's committed out goes to the bottom fly.
Spittery finds one. Is that going to be enough on a melophobia? The exile goes
through but it doesn't seem to land as Crass tries to hold on. They have some
time to give that point of energy. Takes out Scatter. The portal comes in
from Polly and oh wow! Now Liquid's sitting out heavily up in numbers
through the portal taking this point onto the third tick here and it
looks like they will get it. What a clutch play.
Oh, with the championship in their grasp, they get 2 minutes and 25 seconds ship to still
make this thing last. And they are loaded now going into the next point. Cooper, energy
ready to play aggressive. If you're ult tracking, you push in heavily here. Well, they've got
his days of course with this ult yet again ready to lock and load. I mean, dude, they
They had nothing there, Shib, and created an absolute mountain from it.
I can't believe it either.
Little by little.
Dude, they were heavily down numbers there.
I can't believe that.
That's just, that is just, that is just clutch.
You can't, you know what I mean?
Like, that's the stuff that you just need as a team, that you can't really practice.
As there's a nice pick there from energy on to days, and now they have the momentum,
folks, and there's only a minute 45 here.
This is advantageous for Swamp, as they just need to buy time, get to this point,
ensure a few fights, make it go to an overtime situation
and try to win it.
So a lot of these games have been going down too.
If you've found a swap, take a big, deep breath here.
Reset, don't go too aggressive now as the shield's
going to pop up.
Cooper tried to pull in that moment for the pick,
but not going to happen this time.
Going to rotate back to the safety.
Forky dog now ready.
Locked up and loaded, protect their team themselves.
Watch out for the Apex Predator now as Monster Hulk
is in the back, as well as the Band Ham.
There's a lot going on here as the Colorfest
continues.
Finds the best from it. Are you joking now with the red? Wow for is a melophobia dashes?
What is it dodge duck dip dive and dodge the path?
You know the hand special
You didn't know you nailed it the first first try but yeah, dude, honestly
This is just a textbook back and forth both these teams are just playing lights out out of their mind
It's any given fight back and forth all to advantage here for swamp
Scatter has priority on point poly trying to gain some pressure here helping peel the back line, but they are deleted
Goodbye Nero on that rocket who had to see available 40 seconds in a dream here for liquid Citadel energy finds one Valentina another
Scatter to energy now days on a speedery heavily up in numbers now is the side of swamp and
Liquid Citadel may not even have portal available just yet
Yeah, they don't and man
You can just feel the want to continue this thing from swamp gaming locking in all together as one both teams
in person ready like a land now as Nero spark she ready to pop the cues or
speedy that might be what they need but swamp gaming they're going to try to
pass the whole this steep and strong and a group of together taking all the
slices and dice is there from the sidewalk for key dog again crowd on the
line hold strong here and you continue this thing shift can they do it
folks this is just absolute entertainment and I'm having a blast
being here as we see more commitment over time begins we've seen the clutch
moment for Glartrox finds one. Does it clean up the KO though? As Daisy's trying to hold on to the
point, the exile on a poly there from Crass. The boundary is out now. Is there going to be a last
stand from the Wolverine to pull them out of it? No, not quite yet. Crass falls on the top side.
There's a nice tackle from Daisy and the escape goes out from Polly. And that's why you use
that Vandball. The Glartrox goes back. Spark Sheep trades with Crass. Goodbye to Bruce.
Holding on to the point. No ult's going to be available yet. Spark Sheep going to be the
first one to gain. But Daisy's right there too. It's going to be the feast versus
to stand who gets more value will find out shortly folks crass back on point
again with that Hulk but it's anyone's fight here
days as the monster that he is Elsa the huntry looking for it as the yokai trying
to slay from Speedy now with the dodge days with the dip and the ult slams down
shuts down the DPS the energy is taken out of the room now as they're trying
to hold on liquid citadel looking for point two cover hole trying to find
Some soulless days slicing and dicing and stalking they drag them in the mud and come out on top
This is insanity folks. We are heading forward again to another game
Wow, what an absolute battle and the swamp is not give up team liquid Citadel looking so good
But it doesn't matter when you go against the most clutch team in these moments swamp gaming bouncy back scatter Genki
on top there. Outfitting the one coming out with the WNB DLC jersey from Statter,
the Deadpool man, absolutely crazy performance and just you said it man you
can't teach it. Clutch in the absolute veins my friends and we knew it was
gonna come down to everything these players and teams have. Don't go
anywhere we're gonna reset or reload it's match number six in this best of
Seven championship!
And we're going to another liquid citadel, kind of reliving every millennials childhood
trauma, entering the swamp of sorrows here, there is just so many clutch moments from
liquid citadel, which makes it so hard if you then end up losing a match, right, like
you're losing a map where you clutched up like time and time again in order to keep yourself alive.
Man, how are you doing, buddy? I feel like we're speaking. This is just so fun, dude, to be fun.
I don't know how this is happening. What's going on with mobile rivals eSports? Every single game
is so heated, dude. It's insanity. Just as a man, cast is sure, but as a fan. It's so fun
like the heart man that these
players got because again, we
just heard like Paulie said
they don't like to lose, but
you can just feel them all in
one room together like through
the screen on how well they're
able to hold down like you can't
teach the things that they're
doing in the clubs that they
have. It's so funny and so
fitting because Melophobia said
last year that the lights were
too bright. They kept saying
that that was why did man.
It's like they've gotten rid
of that. You know, debuff
the debuff. It's so real
high stakes moment a lot of players which are not as experienced they crumble it's
just it's just too much I mean it helps that they don't have to play like live
in front of an audience that adds like another layer but even in this scenario
where they're either in a team house or in the comfort of their own home it's a
lot and especially if it's a rematch and especially if people have such high
expectation of you and your team for both of these two teams that brings
true because these are the top two teams in America and perhaps even beyond.
Oh man, I mean we've seen the repeat right?
Coads you can walk us through this but right they got help point one here for TLC so this
is just another another opportunity for that to happen or change the fate I guess.
Yeah so it's funny one thing with that the best of sevens outside of office in the
back and forth is you start to kind of run out of map options right like you know
what you love as a team well they picked spider island to get right yesterday and
It could not have been further from the truth.
Now looking at what happened to Pick Band, I think it was what grew Ultron Loki Gambit was banned against Liquid last time.
And so we'll see if they continue with that faith.
But either way, man, it's past that at this point.
It's not the heart in the finish and who wants to come out on top?
Yeah, let's see if Liquid Citadel wanted more.
It is much point for them.
So all the pressure on swamp gaming.
OK, ship. Here we go.
we call them. I don't think we've done man ever anything that isn't a match seven when
we have the grand finals together so much fun man. And we get to do it. It looks like
potentially again, Swampgagan would sit it out. Here we go.
Oh man. Oh man. Folks, we see the removal of gambit. Goodbye to the DD and the lock
in once more of the Elsa matchup. And folks at this point, it is absolutely anyone's
game. It is game set match here for liquid Citadel. If they win this swamp gaming need
to keep this alive to move forward to the final game. Can they make that happen? Folks, whatever
team you're rooting for, you better get allowed in the comments for them. Now they need it
cause this is pure insanity.
Bro, they're going on like hour number like 14 in the last like 24 hours of casting rivals.
I barely had time to sleep or eat, but I don't give a damn. I'm so excited without
fun that this has been now Loki dare devil going to be banned on the other side. They're
sticking with their formula from the last time. The strange protect is just I mean would
you have ever expected this going into the preseason man that at everything on the line
that doctor strange of all vanguards is going to be protected after banned every time. But
with that comes the Wolverine band. Absolutely not what I have said that but you know what
I don't hate it and oh, but that lends them to have the ability to play that triple they like with Ultron
You and spider islands has the a lot of verticality to dance around with Ultron it plays well for that kind of cop
So see what that looks like was they're gonna try to run that probably on the attack off a rip
We'll see who they combine it with for the triple back my man. This is on the table as well, dude
So they can go try to true here if they want to
Spider Island is such a unique map in the way it plays funny we're going back to back spider in Shin
I think it's the frog on the loading screen means you're on defense man. That's all I've come to because sometimes I'm worried a little weird here
But either way on the attack of defenses itself. We could see on the top my friends a spear you're gonna lock in the ultron and they're gonna go with
Interesting pick here now what a team ship as you know what to go with the triple vanguard on the defensive front
See what they do here doesn't look like they're gonna fall asleep
look like they're gonna fall asleep. Now just running, oh actually not. Oh yeah
they're running that triple backline from the side of swamp and so scatter is
gonna be on that stranger Leon. Use the team up with 4K and folks you know
when you're playing strange at the top level you're really playing strange kind
of in melee range and when you have that pull on your release of the dark
magic it allows you to combo better and that's why the top strain is
finding a lot of success in ignite with that team up but still the
reason sometimes they don't want to run strange is because they want the
ability to portal whenever they need to, but that being said Citadel gonna be
running a cop that is going to be bunker buster should they need it but they're
gonna find out shortly that they're not running a triple triple. Yeah and so up
gaming is surely gonna go storm moon night they did that last time and that's
kind of how they address what the Citadel likes to do on the defensive
front as well. Statter gonna be on the strange has not had access to the
surging yet but let me tell you you will serve some medicine in form of
augum Otis has hit some absolute fat ones here on the biggest stage. Now
Now going to go ahead and install some nice pressure in space.
Going to be able to have the comfort of the Ultron drone
to keep them nice and healthy as well.
Remember that shield, not what it once was,
a little bit down on the overall health,
but still plenty to make that pressure.
There's the movement now.
I'm all phobia going to retake in a moment on point
but the space is being taken here by Liquid Citadel.
The dive comes through from Pauly now.
Feeling that backline from Kras is on that venom.
It's access into this comp before.
So we could sit down.
There's the commitment now from Pauly.
As we see Nero now, just trying to self-peel out of Kraus who will go down, good shot there, and they're still moving forward.
Yeah, that was an absolutely huge hit because you're just able to now move the point with ease one on it, you know.
So many times you want to get all three, get that thing moving, but it's all about putting that pressure and focus aggressiveness on the other.
Forcing them back in, they rotate well as they always do. Statter now down, holy picking them off.
the biggest advantages of this Merc with the mouth speedery throwing in the age
of Ultron this is before that buff as well and you see fighting once again that
symbiote and Cras is a non-factor here early in point one. Yeah they are just
playing around this point they're doing exactly what they want to do and
that's play on the group use that to take space and then just play as a stack
on point and roll together peel each other and have good comms and it's
been pretty dang clean so far as the initiation comes through from days the
range of ultron netting not much value commitment of portal as well there's a
lot of answers here from swamp but a similar story for the side of liquid
citadel spark sheet with a big ultimate excuse me gets answered but a wall
comes out and I think that might have been from the side of grass I'm not a
hundred percent sure yeah okay so in the glory truck said every single
person in it but hits the wall at the last second the automotive slams down
just not get much but founds Nero and Paulie which is what they finish up
clean that was the first portal that we've seen from swamp gaming and boys did
they make it messy and ended up holding yeah really good fight there from the
side of swamp they you know liquids are no committed everything and did not work
out for him crass should have all available here and it's gonna be
uncontested so like we're gonna try to find a flank angle to make that work
the shield well there'll be no shield really to stuff it so it's kind of
free reign and there's that all on the back line can they combine throwing
The bubble shield to try to protect but goodbye to everyone off the back of a huge ultimate from Kras and pays for it though
To mellow used two different guns of the Olympiad and was able to get them back after back like in between
Cooldowns in the swap of the fitness that was just as sexy it man if I be honest
67% they're farming up old
By the millisecond looking like moon night out here scattered ready for another Agamotto first one did hit
Triple strat available means liquid usually gets so much advantage
But right now, it's all in the puzzle.
All right, folks.
And again, look, we're sitting down now with all the advantage.
The rage of Ultron comes out, Melifobia with the Glartrux
to try to answer if any of this stuff,
the Schmubman goes out there for the top side of Speedery.
Scatter able to take out energy on the Wolverine
is a good start.
And there goes some heavy commitment.
The Glartrux is out from Melifobia.
Scatter takes out Sparchief.
And they are walking it back once again, folks.
30 seconds on here.
Swap gaming, looking like they're exactly like they did
yesterday on this exact same map.
Reality bending in their favor, doing exactly what was called for them to take this thing
the distance now.
We've got Elsa with the AI bot ready of Ultron and there comes the Ultron ult pushing them
back and now dangerously low as Spark Chief and time is ticking, seven seconds left.
What did they even have available Cooper going to be able to have that ult in the show
is going to continue on now.
Push forward and hold on with the pick at the end.
They don't have space or time!
They can't touch!
Are you kidding me?
The Ultron Snipe?
Uh, I'm just picking my job off the floor.
Uh, I think Polly couldn't decide, or...
You know, not necessarily not as far, but couldn't say,
Hey, I don't know if I can touch here.
There's too much pressure.
There's Alts out in the sky.
Tried to make it happen,
burning every cooldown to get there
and paid for it instantly, falling,
not allowing the three-second touch force.
You gotta touch within three seconds for the OT to tick.
It didn't do it.
Just couldn't get there centimeters away.
Wow, what a defense.
That was cinematic.
Like the end of the pop of the primary
as he was coming towards it too,
like it was within the exact frame
to stop that from pushing into OT.
And they had the show putt
and they were close to the apex as well,
which, you know, who knows what could have happened there.
A man liquid Citadel on their map choice.
Once again, the Fortress crumbled quickly
after building it up on the last map.
But ship, why this is crazy?
Any game mode is up for grabs for map seven.
If it does push to that, which I'm,
listen, I'm not Dr. Strange,
but I've seen the future probably dominate that.
Yeah, yeah.
Someone's gotta throw a rope to Citadel here
because the swamp is pulling them down.
Domination might just be the one to make that rope
come into play, but folks, swamp right now,
holding before point one back to back on this map
is absolutely obscene against the team
as storied as Team Liquid Citadel
on a composition they love to run.
It's just disgusting play.
Oh my.
Oh my gays.
Here's the moon night.
As we predicted, the storm not gonna be at play, and the iron fist.
Okay, the credit gate coming ready for the home now, throwing down.
It's gonna be the quick pressing dart stall.
Look at that farm up quickly.
Crashing is gonna go down early.
Have them go ahead, base punch in air.
Gonna go and swap that out quickly.
That was a fast swap.
Unsure of what the plan was.
Maybe just seeing what they might have come with.
Triple, maybe.
Yeah, the gates. Yeah. Okay. So days now going back on over to the front. Yeah,
there's no wolves. So one of the percent based damage should they run that
triple triple that they're running or that they, you know, thought they could
run, but then they're elected to run that two to two across the board here.
Actually, no, it's it is a two one three, my fault. A speedery takes out days
poly on a Valentina speedery again on the scatter trying to set the tone.
But there's so much time on the clock, folks. They've been at the
heat, this momentum in their favor. If they want to shut this tournament
down and take the preseason home.
Remember they need to win here,
but swamp if they win,
which is pushes the game seven map
choice in liquid Citadel's favor.
Man, they push this thing on blast
with the storm last time.
So president go with that with
the moon night out the gate,
but instead to go ahead and try
something different now with what
they're rolling with.
It can be tough to push the point
right with the triple strat.
Not easy on the offensive side,
but they're trying to do the
impossible as they've done with
the defensive pole just shown.
Spirit are going to keep their
vangers nice and healthy,
Pushed up to the Foley is gonna be the imprisonment group photo ready to go
And that thing is gonna be taken as far as the picture of the a limb camera. There comes the bar truck
Wow, we have since out the monster to keep them going forward
Yeah, the millifobia is large rocks is like juice or something
It just always seems to eat a ton of people and always seems to give you value
So shout out there great angles great patience and great understanding of cooldown utilization knowing when it is available
And again getting value is the side of swamp gaming with two minutes on
They only have to push your point one
Man, this is just everything you would hope for you've been a fan of this e-sport for so long now
Days up on the top looking across the roofs of spider island as
Extermination and ready to go and the power of the Ultrons behind him
But watch out for okay, they're gonna go with the crashing will first
I was gonna be scattered but no days get to finish again the pop on Cooper
It's a huge elimination and the, oh something comes out and the clean up happens, shit this
is a speed run.
Yeah this is quick, they're gonna need a portal play here, they should be able to get it off
if they made the changes, but it's funny because if you wall off that zone you actually
have to take the portal through the high side, sometimes folks will miss that, no Cooper
was prepped for that.
As we begin once more folks, trying to get on the point they will do that, the
walls are also blocked from behind, Cooper keeping the damage out, he's gonna be on
that strange, locked in for the moment, looking for the back line now, E gets committed,
But no one goes down good movement by both sides to stay healthy Nero
I'm that cloak for the time being and the switch comes in a speedery now on that rocket
Already folks minute last 60 seconds stand between swap gaming and game seven of the crown going to liquid Citadel
That'll probably though
Another here comes the glory coming up if you know instantly what here comes now the firepower from a rocket and cold liquid
Citadel trying to flip the script but cannot do it smart
She finds one but will it be enough the rogue is out the Southern BA trying to find some 38 and
Climbing it's swapping gaming that finish the job. You know, we're here chat
Rock your mania in America's come down to game seven. Oh
My goodness, are you joking me that?
Absolute insanity and dude again, I actually think crowd stuff the large rocks there with a wall
trying to use it to block LOS the same time it happened again, but they didn't even need it.
Pelicogio coming out with the MVP. Come on now, folks. This is just absurd. We are going to game seven.
Seven games, man. Two teams. Now only one gets to move on. This is it. It's all come down.
Months in the making, the resets of orgs, players, teams met us. Everything has been put together
together for this preseason to set what has been the standard for the America scene.
I mean just perfect play into the skill gap.
It's like man I gotta say these two stand out so far right now from what we've witnessed
above the rest in the play, the patience and the clutch.
Folks get ready game seven around the corner.
We're gonna reset reload.
We'll be back.
Welcome back everyone, of course we're going to distance, where else will we be heading?
And I have to put that into perspective.
I'm going to age myself.
I have been doing this job for 18 years now, across the globe, across every AAA title.
This is the first time in my life that I am partaking in this many series that go distant.
This is insane!
And how fitting for the sun to set in Krakowa here.
Because, yeah, shit, we were just saying in the great room, we've all been stretched to the max.
I mean, I've had game five on day one, two game fives yesterday, taking me into today till 2am.
Now we're here at game seven, shit, but it all comes down to Krakowa?
I did you can't make it up. It's so funny. I love it. I mean the craziest story for this game 7 is
TLC has not lost a single domination if swamp were to reverse turn this around these last three maps
Not only would they be the first domination, but they would take home the preseason. It's just so it's so cinematic, dude
It's so Marvel. I love it so much. This has been insane
It really has been and those teams just keep on showing us that they have more and more layers to them
right just in that last map we see the strange protect coming out for swamp
gaming the first ultra and protect coming out from Elsie they're keeping
like flipping pages in their playbooks to try and come out on top therefore I
cannot wait to see what they have in store for us for our last and final map
here in the grand final. Oh my Devon Feige could have scripted better
himself I know Tuesday's around the corner but come on if you're here
you're here washing the next biggies for develop game seven to swap has
drag this series deep. Can they finish it in the mud or will the fortress Citadel stand
strong ship? Krakowa, liquid Citadel, perfection on domination. Can they finish perfect and
win the whole thing?
Oh, talk about battle world, huh? I mean, this is battle world right now, duking it
out all the way down to the very end here, the removal. This is going to be the same
band phase from last time. I don't think there's going to be a change much here
from the side of swamp because it worked. And yeah, we're going to say goodbye to
the DD lock into the Elsa and match it up once more.
All right, folks. Now as the next band commences from swamp,
looks like they're going to get rid of speedery in that devil.
Once again, of course, now you'll never see the Elsa not locked on both sides.
Like buddy, with the talent of melophobia and energy on each side,
like who comes up more clutch every angle shot.
Both is going to matter here.
Dr. Strange goodbye before you can even save it once again,
shuts that door down.
What quite literally helped them several times.
Cap saved in the biggest moment.
She had the first Avenger ready to pick up the shield.
Yeah, that's going to be right for Polly.
As Polly gets so much value there,
but they do have the option also for smart you to run that
if they do want to run the van pool,
which is on the table for them.
The lock and a mantis now the bottom side
of swamp gaming work for them.
Last map, can they do it again?
Folks, everything on the line for this preseason
bragging rights, seeding looks good, the bread.
Everything is available to them
and nobody wants to lose it like this.
It's even more painful when you push it to the final game,
but it's been a pleasure to watch.
Yeah, man, it's been an honor to cast this whole thing
through because next up is stage one.
And there's so many questions going into this season,
this year, meaning you would talk all the time on the phone
like what's going to happen, terror leaving,
the scene changes, Paulie coming over,
all the roster, many of the orgs announced
in the eSports packages to partner teams
have led to the playoffs here at the big stage and now the locking of these
heroes to get an infinity war underway. This is the end game now ship. Here we go.
All right, folks, as we can see the idea of cops being run, you're going to see
Miro on that Fox energy. Elsa Cooper showing the Luna Polly van pool and
spark chief on the caps. There's that switch Peter on the side lock and
over at swamp thinking about having Val on that Mantis crass on the cap was
great on the cap as well.
Elephobia on that Elsa.
Forky showing rock hip of the could just be for packs days
on the Ultron.
Scatter on the van pole.
So those are the ideas of cups for the moment.
It is going to be a heater.
Some very strong compositions for domination.
And I'll tell you what with Venom Band, right?
That forces spark on Captain America.
Last year on the stage in tears to this moment
used as highlight marketing reels for the Liquid
Citadel in their announcement.
Well, the biggest stage is here and are ready, but Swamp Gaming has been the team rising up from the deaths that they've become.
Here we go.
We've got Valentina, 4K Dog, Daze, Triple Strat, Locked and Loaded, Scatter, in a Minus, on the Merc of the Mouth, Throw an L of G's.
As the point opens up in 14.
Alright, and now I think we're gonna see a little bit of patience and just nerves coming into play here.
As the setup actually, the Spark Chief looks clean. It's matched right back by Krazz on the backside left.
Not sure they actually see that as Fox pulls out port early on to the side of Nero
That's a good cool down to burn his cap saying healthy from crass good positioning by energy now both teams
You feel for how this will look as Paulie's just trying to get that experience peeling back line trying to look for the cap
We'll get one but it's matched on both sides as Paulie falls
So we'll crass from speedery. Oh, it's all about this next big
Oh point almost being owned here by swap is not a phobia gets a pick on a Nero
And that is going to be a start up here point likely for the side of swamp
Yes, park needs to stay on there early gonna fall right away now liquid Citadel have not
Lost the point first often as we've seen in these dominations again pure perfection from then every zone
Especially against the swamp now ready to lock and load look behind the scene speeder gonna try to find that pick once again
again, open up the pathway to get this thing right back.
You gotta treat this like any other day,
Shib, a scrim.
These teams have fought each other now
near 100 times, traded back and forth.
But the biggest game lands right now,
27 seconds, Hellfire Galak, firing up.
Now, Energy, looking for something, playing very patient.
Yeah, but it's tough to play patient
when they are building that charge on point, folks.
You do wanna try to get that back,
especially before it gets to that 70.
Oh my goodness, Speedery, that was dirty.
As one goes down to buy crass, putting pressure
onto the front line once more off point,
getting some of that charge back on point,
trying to take control.
As Al goes the Ultron's rage,
Melophobia looking for an ultimate opportunity here,
but no, doesn't even need it.
That is a huge leap through the dance floor, folks.
Speedery gonna start off with a huge cutter fly
at the two-piece, but gets Clartrox off map
in that moment, and that's a good answer
as Melophobia and Scatter get to,
and that's gonna be another pick onto Speedery,
And what a response by Swamp as they clean up and 70% is on the domination point right now,
which gives them a heavy percentage chance of taking home this first map.
Are you joking, Melophobia?
You watched two teammates get sliced down from Scylok and throw the monster out to answer the call instantly.
Just like that, that Latina man.
Alright, this is, okay, wash energy here in the way he chooses to get this off angle.
You go ahead and look on the right side.
It's going to go ahead and beat the cap.
Sparks chief trying to get that pressure there for the rotate and here comes energy looking for his moment to send out the beast
The undefeatable comes out so soon just he finds three everybody's gonna follow up to the wall hits and unable to finish
It's gonna be the large rocks now together jumping in you know, come a whole ready shift over time-tip
Yeah, I mean at this point folks swap her up invisible boundaries committed spark chief with the full freedom charge
But melophobia onto energy once more
Melophobia locking in as days takes out Cooper that is to there for days
Melophobia wants more make it a two-piece overtime ticks down not sure the portal can be committed folks. That is gonna be map one
swamp gaming
The first zone taken in domination from them. I believe as well
Parasel could decide the fate of the crown of the championship just like that
It came down to five ship in the BO five yesterday between these two greats to the last second to the last moment
Who's on top the swamp drag them in the mud will citadel stand strong once again?
facing the last zone I
This is can you I cannot believe how perfect swamp play and melophobia by God just tap the MVP on the face
Oh my folks this is just pure Marvel rivals right now so consistent so locked
in and swamp against the wall backs against the wall multiple games now
stepping up consistently clutching they just have it in their veins but can
Liquid Citadel do the same they need to take a map now or their dreams have
taken this preseason will be eliminated folks here we go once again in this
compositional change all right crass ready for the feasts have that opening
and that does give them plenty of advantage at least burn some of the
cooldowns and then put the aggression from there and go ahead and try to take
the fight here right now before the point opens up and there it is the
piece of your base comes on with this Indians gonna pop with it they do
survive damages boosts energy is feeling that pop now as he pushes in
the elephant gun trying to find something that's gonna come from it
Now is dinner time coming out early and that's going to be used all on the groutes.
Goodbye, cut him down, spark to the spawn.
Yeah, they're still trying to maintain presence on point for the moment, but not able to do that.
Days and scatter have all available.
Paulie is going to be on that cap now, so the switch up did come through.
Cooper copying up, but they can't get to point in time.
There's a huge play there to get this presence on.
Rage of Ultron now to try to peel.
They said it's going to be used defensively.
Wow, Paulie almost, oh my goodness.
Paulie with energy, getting that pick in the sky as 10% is on here for swamp.
The Invisible Boundary committed by Nero,
probably close to Ultimate as well.
Spedery, almost there too.
No ult available for Swamp as the retake of Point
comes in from Liquid Citadel,
and now they're looking very clean with this comp change.
Yeah, the points just aside objective,
they're just trying to get Team Wipes both each time
in just perfect precision play.
Now, as Daze and Kog are gonna go ahead
and rotate out the win in the perfect dive,
you set a man, energy, Paulie, locked in
and shut down the Sky Villain in Ultron.
Looking at what they have, man.
Play sustain and Paulie to be able to keep them alive.
Obviously with that swap in the vanguards,
they feel that is best and got to end it with their best.
Looking close, melophobia, energy, monster to monster.
Coming up shortly, watch the angles.
Here goes the commitment now.
Crass holding the high side,
just trying to call out where location is
and make sure they can make a play on that back line.
But the triple back line is gonna be difficult
to dive with solo here for this cap.
Instead just gonna divert focus.
It's the only job there.
As a Clark trucks gets released out of Cooper, I believe that might be the actual target that switching in that very end moment might have been a clone as we see Melophobia that is a first time in a while we've seen a huge miss in all.
They're gonna get the pseudo strategy in Captain America to keep everybody alive and healthy.
Energy gets the Glacier.
I'm trying to get the finish in the flush.
And there it is.
The monster takes it down.
He's gonna go ahead and get the picks needed in SHIB.
Are you kidding me?
Could this go to Zone 3 and Cerebro's location to settle the score?
The maximum distance?
Oh my dude, this is insanity, folks.
As no one will have ult available early on in this next fight besides potentially
Cooper which is very much in Liquid Citadel's cork here in terms of if they can make this work. The
copy will be a problem. There is not going to be an answer yet. Days making this switch, the
composition will change from swamp. As the chests move, answer to what they saw from Liquid Citadel
is all they are hoping for. Trying to burn the passive here now from days in the front line.
They are going to go with that fastball special that's provided so much value, but will
it be enough value this late into Dom? 97 and climbing, 99 going to be the case here now.
Paulie trying to find value in the back line on this cap has looked dominant ever since that switch came through
The yellow bar now up and ready
Shining and shortening now a spark sheet gonna go ahead and try to close down there now
The band hammers thrown down, but everyone kept alive a soul suit soldiers just throw it out by Cooper my gosh
Lost of words as scatter falls time is ticking shortly 99 up Paulie throwing punches shields
He's gonna take this thing to zone three
He will not be stopped as the first of his you're picking up your leader in the perfect time against Thanos
I'm gaming ship. Oh
Oh my goodness
I mean Steve Rogers back on cap coming in looking clean the answer comes in from swamp
But maybe a little bit too late
But now again folks since they've made that switch if they believe it's the ideal comp for the comfort going against now
They won't be down alt advantage that was the problem once you make the switch
You don't have the alts to answer so you can't necessarily judge your comp based on what you've seen because
as he kind of just lose to the fact
that Slaver Surgeons was out there
and he didn't have anything to stop it.
But now you are going to have days
soon to be forky and melophobia as answers
into energy and Nero, soon to be Polly and Spark Chief.
I mean, this is gonna be a heater, folks.
Scrap in, it's anyone's game here.
This is Marvel Rivals, man.
I can't remember a tighter even match
at the stakes high.
Sure, pretty seasoned, but my God,
both teams so equally footed.
Blow for blow looking at the olds though.
If they're tracking in the chaos, in the mud of the swamp,
they've got the advantage here pretty good
with Nero and Energy up to go, Q's ready.
Everybody fueled up, Valentina.
They go ahead and get the jet packs out
and the healthy armor.
The Fox is coming out.
Did not see you play that last time with that matchup.
But here we are, Shib.
Cerebro is for the taking alongside the crown.
16 seconds.
Folks, this could not be any closer.
I, myself have nerves
I don't even care who wins it.
I'm just excited to be here.
Basketball special available.
It's been very dominant.
Got to see a little bit of it.
There's that damage reduction.
Trying to get onto the back line.
Not able to make that work good movement.
But not a big play there yet.
But the final ultimate is available.
Alcozlar trucks coming right back,
trying to keep them healthy.
But I do believe, oh my goodness,
Gaze, using the alt as a counter.
Invisible boundary, lands right on the landing point.
And Sparks, he'd be able to take out Gaze.
That's big value for Liquid Citadel.
And turn that around.
Cap starting up heavy with Polly.
Nero now gonna be on that boundary and we see Polly and Sparky have all the
available speedery as well. Forky brings out the boundary, it's gone. No all
it's available yet for Swap. Valentina close, but Valentina gets deleted by
energy! Make it a two-piece energy and Polly finds the third.
Holy God, I mean there's 15 things to shout out there buddy. Which one do you
want to pick because high energy, it's a dude, Day's trying to do his best
Phoenix impression, going to the white room in the old but cannot find the
Solis and then Melo finds them all but cannot finish as Cooper's throwing down the lanterns. My god, the perfect hold downs coming off the heat folks
14 seconds or 14% now climbing up Holly has yet another old to keep this thing
There's I mean such a big defensive comp if the point is tapped early. It comes down to the last zone
This is it scattered 73
He's running this alt recharge battery comp that can use that grew all to form all fast too
And that's the idea there is it's placed in the back line.
You see now, they just got to, they need to find something and they need to do it soon.
35% looking here towards the side of Polly who's going to launch that ult early on.
Energy though through the chaos takes out Scatter and again they're off in numbers
and this is going to be a force retake.
They're going to have to drop back here just from the pressure of Polly.
And that is value Valentina though.
Launches with an ult and is going to be able to find a two piece,
but no, I can't smash right back once again.
Excuse me, it was a one piece match back again.
CLC assembled now as energy follows the captain into the charge.
It is absolutely Marvel madness here. Looking like the Avengers has won 65 percent. They've been
perfect on domination ship and they are 23 percent. I wish I could count 30 percent to the finish.
We're gonna see now folks. What can happen but it is a must win fight for swap gaming who
do not have portal back. Liquid Citadel locking in here. Cooper and energy also available.
Spark Chief with a strangling prison and soon to be Nero so many queues to be pressed in this
fight. Swamp Gaming cannot over commit but they need to win this as it will be final fight territory
for the side of Liquid Citadel. The commitment comes in the guard trucks goes out it looks for
two and it does not seem to fight two as the boundaries committed. Forky's able to place
He's out ahead in the game since his unmatched intangibles displayed as Crasse days finds more
Would you expect anything less for them to then get this point back charging up that range ready to go is the Wolverine himself
Slices dice is the animal instincts come in as he slices down by energy finds one Crasse with another
They're blowing for blow here as the trace continue energy is the Thanos to stop Polly as well and the point is her taken
Chip what the what the hell
I love it! As we see the re-engage once more here folks, there's an awful craze trying to find backline pressure early and that is a pick but it's matched as Pauley gets one on days that does not land from the side of Spark Chief getting no value blocked by the shield and there goes the portal commitment immediately trying to get point pressure.
As we see energy able to find Melophobia, are they going to be able to get more as Polly takes up Forky two down?
Numbers up off the back of the portal and it's over time ticking down. Poor priority up here for Liquid Citadel. Can they keep this moving?
Just like that the portal not available was strange. Gone and more Polly said he will not lose again on Twitter and finds himself throwing the shield of justice
Justice, one by one, slamming them down!
Melophobia can't do enough!
It's Citadel standing strong, it's finding revenge!
They've officially paved the swamp
and made it a moat for the Citadel that is TLC.
W for Team Liquid Citadel on an amazing retake.
Wow, what a series!
Unbroken man, unmatched, undenied.
The nomination is theirs for the taking.
The distance couldn't have gone further.
Hearts broken, low lows, but even higher highs.
Liquid Citadel are your first chance in this preseason
of an incredible year to achieve.
My God, just blessed to be a part of it.
Paulie made that switch to cap and takes the MVP.
So happy to be here alongside you, buddy.
Wow, this, I mean, more rivals than night preseason.
If this is just any indication
of what we're going to see this year, folks,
And we're not even at a LAN yet.
Imagine this level of play off-line in person.
This is just beautiful.
What an absolute beauty of a series.
Shout out to Swap, who almost made the impossible happen.
But Team Liquid Citadel are undefeated on that dive.
The way that tempo switches so quickly
and the error of margin is so low.
I mean, when you try to look at this as micro and macro,
there's just little mistakes.
I mean it comes down to quite literally small ability adjustments and picks and plays in that hero moment
Holy claimed it won't lose again. Energy's been there at some of the biggest moments at Atlanta fell short
So many of these great players have come together as a team to make sure to get the job done and they do just that
So we're gonna be pointing here I'm curious on your thoughts, but I can't imagine it's any different than ours
just a beauty I mean I can't express it enough what a battle out there huh yeah
I mean that wasn't just a match that wasn't just a battle that we watched a
war of attrition here at this level when your hands are shaking and the fatigue
starts to set and you're playing in the best of seven one of teams just
battling the way through the lower bracket the game is not over really
played like with Madison keyboard or a stick so whatever you played with
like at that point it's played with the heart that sounds so cheesy but it's
So true like that's really coming down to who wants it more like to go to distance all the way to map 7 requires
That requires a level of grip that you simply cannot teach
And to beat down to go down on zone one right for the first fall of a zone and to come back and just hold the
Fork your strong right they breach the front gates
But you don't let them get to the throne man for the crown like it was that you could not
story tell it any better and what that means to ship we talked about this going
into today is like now the scene is like I don't know both beat each other once
it's crazy how close both these teams are yeah that's that's just it I mean now
it's who gets the third right who gets the best two out of three you know going
to game 7-2 they struggled on map one they put Polly on cap the guys just
Thanos on cap it's just different play finding 12 finals a ton of damage it's
just disgusting and it worked so well. I mean honestly the back line that they
ran towards the end the portal play was a must the band right the band of the
strange was cerebral by the coaches shout out to those who made that decision
there's just so much to talk about here it really worked out. There were so
many individual comebacks here too right if you look at the back line
that you just praised Cooper he struggled early on in the series and he
really brought it back later on so so much good turnarounds across the
board really. Yeah the way that they handled everything pushed against them
you know, Coach Fox gets these guys and girl and Validia ready for anything, right?
And just for Liquid City to adjust to what speedery bands were going to come out,
today's popping off as the nightmare and what is the Wolverine.
I felt like when the moments mattered most, and sometimes it's just how the cards fall,
the way that this was able to go to Dama at the end, right?
Like if it was con board convergence, it would probably even crazier.
But I mean, it just fell perfectly for just peak entertainment, that's for sure.
I feel like we got exactly what we needed to get from the pre-season, a rivalry for stage
one.
Because now that's the 1-1 score, right?
Like, yeah, of course, like Liquid Citadel, like, they won it, but they didn't come out
of this unscratched.
Like, it would be a very different story, I think, and a very different kind of vibe
coming off of that pre-season playoffs if it was just Liquid Citadel, like, running
through the upper bracket and no one could stop them.
For us to have a team that can play that close and then also like literally all the
other teams like trading wins off of each other like we got such a competitive region.
We're so blessed.
Yeah, you said it beautifully.
I'm with you.
It's any given day for any given team all the way down to the finals.
We've been saying that every day because it's gone.
I haven't had a single day where there wasn't a game five between matchups, whether it
was the topside bracket or the lower side before getting kicked out of the tournament.
I truly do believe if we run it back, it could be different.
I'm not, it's, you know what I mean?
Cause every team was going all the way to the distance.
It was all about those very final fights
and who had the gusto to just stay in it.
And it's just, it's been awesome.
And I think those teams set the standard
for the rest as well.
You look at that, you're like, okay,
we know what the benchmark is to try and reach.
And yeah, you know,
even looking back towards the middle of the chaos
of the pack, you know, 100 thieves,
they've got talent.
There's a lot of teams in our G out early.
Like a lot of these are going to look to reload
get ready they've got about a month to get there and it's going to be amazing because I mean I'm
telling you we saw year one have its own storyline as the birth of the esport player wise now with
all new teams we're seeing something completely develop here and it's a clinic wish for anything
better for this young esport yeah like the script writers they're on it shout out to the script
writers like they've been doing some some solid work and we we got such a good look and such
interesting look at so many of these teams right over the group stages and
also now I love that we do have a preseason where you know you do get to
like still switch things around it also really helped like that we had a new
meta so in like added another layer of interest here shit yeah I in the exact
that's the beauty of the game it's not easy it can be some teams meta and
then in a few weeks it can not be their meta right like and that's crazy
to think about because it's shifting so frequently we're getting new heroes
and all that stuff all the time too, and it can make some of these teams that may be struggled be dominant.
So it's just so fun to have that kind of be part of the scene because it's really about who can adapt the best.
And I do think these two teams have the ability to adapt,
but I'm looking forward to seeing as the development of this meta changes, the new meta comes into place. Who does it better?
Yeah, and not just like that, right? Because you said it perfectly, like adapting to that, you have, what, old reduction changes.
You have the CC stuff coming now soon. There's a new hero every month.
And so that impacts all the other heroes.
There's team ups involved with it.
Like it's crazy how fast they have to adapt.
And this meta has kind of felt like the messiest
and the best way possible ship.
Like there were so many answers.
And Zoe in the last year, like you kind of knew
what a lot of the team comes and stuff was to be made.
It feels like so many things work.
And that's what makes any game great, in my opinion.
Yeah. And honestly, it's awesome that our first look
is in such a versatile meta, right?
because I think that should give us a good idea of which teams lean more towards being meta-proof,
like which teams do have the depth that is required to be able to deal with the shifts
in our compositions of being played. Is there a team that specifically stood out to you where
you felt like they showed us like the biggest variety, like they have so much depth in their
hero pool? For variety it's tough, I mean because like every they've been able to run
different stuff. I think, well, TLC can run the back line, triple comp well, and other stuff, but
there's almost every team has been doing that. But yeah, I mean, this has just been, it's been
very back and forth. I know we've got an interview coming up right now, I believe, on Zoey.
We do. I, it's with all of them. Hooray. Polly's first team fight.
At nearer, joining us for a quick chat. Guys, I just want to get a penny for your thoughts
down the line what are you thinking right now because you just got to beat the team that knocked
you into the lower bracket so that's got to feel extra special extra good starting with you here Polly
uh i'm just happy i don't know uh that's about it that's about it yeah we're really hard when we
won that match. Yeah, I don't know what to say. I need that. I need time to think about it.
No, that's it. That's what we wanted to hear. We want to hear it. You're feeling happy.
We saw the fire in your eyes, right? When we got to chat with you previously. Spark
Chief, what's going through your head right now? Were you worried at any point? Because
this went a distance once again. I mean, it's not more worried. I think it was
just like upsetting. I guess at least personally when I did something bad or
like we fucked up something or we just like played on like ourselves which
happened a lot this year is like this like maybe that but I mean obviously
preseason we're gonna work on it everyone's gonna get better we're gonna
get even stronger so I think it's fine
it is fine indeed what about you Nero what are you thinking shit was too easy
I respect their players. I respect him a lot, especially Daze. Daze just does everything for them.
That guy is too good. Genuinely, he is too good. He's so oppressive.
Oh yeah, I respect them. GZ is all around.
I mean, you know, so he said
it, Holly, I saw like, it's just
a hunger in your eyes before
the pre interview and then now
the Victoria glad, you know,
the glad and joy now to follow
and, you know, spark. We've
seen you on the big stage
buddy to come here and set
the tone for the preseason
hero as well. I mean, you know,
I mean, you know, I mean,
and set the tone for the preseason hero as well.
Yo, I wanna ask, as you get your revenge
and get the crown for you, right?
Now, what's next for the next month
to adapt to the CC changes?
You have Black Hat into the mix,
more heroes to come.
What do you do to continue to get right?
Cause you just said you won the day,
you won the damn thing and it still isn't enough.
You're mad about some of the small imperfections
and that's what you love about winners.
I mean, yeah.
I mean, to be honest,
like we have some hero pools that we need to fix.
like at least for me right like I need to get back informed like some of my other
characters that haven't played in a long time.
No but I can hear anything.
Oh, there we go.
Can you hear me now?
Hello?
Alright.
That's bad.
Can I hear us?
We can do our best charades.
We can use our best charades here.
is Jarvis is cooking right now and Ultron is winning the war, but we can see the winners
in a view.
Alright, yeah, unfortunately we couldn't quite get through all the questions that we wanted
to, but the vibes were good, the spirits are high, they are very self-critical which
is, I mean that's what champions are made of, you can't rest on your laurels and
it goes to show that it's also it's not about the mistakes you make it's about how you deal
with the mistakes and how the team can deal with the mistakes and they managed to bring
it across the finish line and take the dub in an incredible fashion so yeah just big
shout out to the entire team would have loved to do here more for them but it was great to
at least see them being chill, being casual, being nonchalant as per usual. Yeah but uh you
know it's tough to hear like that but I mean the team again I think those those guys are
just right now kind of just, first off, they're super nonchalant, which is crazy. I would not
be like that at all. But, uh, you know, they, they're definitely laid back locked in. I think
you kind of have to be like that in high pressure situations. So shout out to them to be able to
remain composed. And you know, I also like how smart calls himself out a little bit and said,
like, you know, I was making mistakes. It just made me mad. Like, I just want to be better
and move forward and be more dominant. And then shout out to that. I think that's huge.
Yeah. That's goat mentality, right? Like oftentimes champions, like you'd ask, I remember
like a Brady, Tom Brady interviews and it's like, hey, you won there. And he's like, no, but I threw that one bad pass. It's like what you won the whole thing, but that's how you continue to get better and refine. To me, so it makes sense why these guys scream so much against each other, right? Because the margin is so close as well and an iron sharpens iron, especially at the top of the scene here, right?
were seen that from them. Obviously now I'm sitting over the general manager if
there's any other words the team wants to say. They stood tough as we saw
Spark and Nero but you can tell Polly all right I could promise you if we had a
cams on at the win it wasn't just non-soulant and cool. Those boys they
were celebrating and you know it bud. They're better otherwise I'm just like
mad as a collective on everyone in Gen C because that's apparently their thing
but yeah I know that they're emotional about it and you can see like
you can just see that in how much they care, right?
How much work they put into their craft
and how much they're improving from map to map,
from match to match from day to day.
So they do care a lot.
Absolutely.
Well, I'll tell you what, they're locked in,
they truly care, they are just dominant right now.
They have the title.
They can go ahead and brag about it
and I'm sure they want to take it a little bit
to the socials, right?
But as for now, they are the reigning champions
of Ignite in this preseason.
in a good seating and giving them the you know the mental clarity that they
can do it i think that's important and they're gonna identify what they need
to work on because swamp they do also have a win on them so it is a one one
situation
and keep their heads held high they definitely put up a fight
no joke
and i see here as for the journal manager any words just not we are
winners is what i got back so quite fitting it's getting tough and strong
but yeah
i mean listen you know they are now the team to be nice so you said perfectly
Marvel rivals. It's in the name. You know sentinels hundred thieves, you know that exists
Well, I can promise you now first of all swamp gaming
We'll see if they stay so I'm getting the orgs to come in
I mean, you know, who knows what happens in a month as things get fixed up
But the rival between these two are gonna stand the test for the year. Oh, yeah
Yeah, I love can happen in one month now before we do sign off cozy and ship
But we've seen the upsets the sweeps the photo finishes looking ahead at the start of the regular season
Which team or player do you think like stood out the most here in the preseason who has the biggest target on their back
Other than the obvious top two
Okay, you mean talk to teams so not these two teams yeah, I did not these two teams
There's a lot I could call out I mean I don't think about it for a moment
I mean I could go through every team if we want or
I think Vest and Nectar, those are two to keep your eyes on where they land because those are just insane studs that are going to end up
Visions looking for a team. He's crazy. That's going all the way back to week one too
So there's individuals that didn't get signed on these teams originally and now they showed they showed out
These teams are going to sign them and perfect their rosters
Yeah, I think yeah, we lost as a young team to ship that like they're getting
They're getting better like moment by moment. That's another one that I think you know might look to sharpen up what they have as well
a
Great oh and we are gonna be checking out folks
You know you got a cop this kid shout out to liquid Citadel who took this thing a home Zoe any feedback on the skin yourself?
I mean
That's a that's an easy buy for me friends. Yeah
I've always been a liquid fan like it's just good or
good mask up, good everything, we're here for it, and then back it up with the level of play that you
won. So if you're rocking that in your game, it might drop off on you. I don't know if that's how it
works, but am I? The general manager also said just W team and Liquid for wanting to work with
them as well. I'll give this the chance to shine. You can rock them in game, but they also have
just awesome apparel. Fantastic four jackets you've been seeing out there and sure you're
to get to rock the winning team just like that,
as well as in game liquid Citadel,
raining on top to rep the champs.
But yeah, I mean, listen,
this is, it couldn't ask for a more perfect start again, guys,
for what we got here on what has been the biggest stage
of the year too.
And this keeps me hungry and thirsty for more.
Same here, buddy.
I mean, I just look forward to more of this.
This was just, you know, in draining in the best way,
I were exhausted,
but I'm also could run through a brick wall.
You know what I mean?
That's kind of how I feel right now
that series, of course, going the game seven, but I wouldn't want it any other way. We said
we wanted that to be the case. I think that marks every single day of, uh, you know, moving
towards these playoffs. I have had a game five. I think we've had four game fives and now a game
seven. So that's just a testament to these teams showing up. So you're 17 years. So I want to
ask you, this is rivals for you, right? Like, what is your thoughts on that? Like, you know,
like, what is the rivals coming in here? Just like, what, like, is it, unlike anything
you've seen I just want to hear from you. Yeah I'm obviously very well versed in
hero shooters in general like that genre is like near and dear to my heart I did
not know what to expect and I was more than just a little positively surprised
it was my first stint obviously Marvel rival starting here in the group stage
in the preseason the level of play is considering that this eSports is only
in its second year the level of play that we got to see is like that's
beyond anything like it was so competitive there were no real like I mean
there were sweeps but it wasn't you couldn't really tell who's gonna come
out on top which I absolutely love it was competitive it was fun the casters
also like massive shout out this is such a difficult game to cast I don't
know how your brains are wired that you guys are able to do that so like
massive shout out to all the casters in all the regions covering the
action here for Marvel Rivals. It's a thing to behold. And yeah, as I said, level of play
for the team has been phenomenal. I love that this is such a high octane action packed game.
It just makes every single match. You can't look away, essentially. Usually when I'm
covering broadcasts, like, I get up, I do my thing. I do some push-ups. For this
one, no, this is stuck to the desk. I had to lock it. I didn't want to miss
single second because everything can turn so quickly. Like it's so volatile. Every single map,
like things can turn around even if the first minute or two look like oh this is obviously
gonna be a stop. Nah it might not be. So yeah and with that in mind like that's what makes these
teams like so incredible good. It's it's just very impressive like across the board.
I mean listen I can say better myself and I think what's so great about the American
to see especially is like, you
know, obviously I'm with the
GO! ship over here at the
casting desk and it is it is
something so unique and you
know, shout out, dogwin,
shout out, caskin, and vicki
giddy. Just, you know, all the
talent here of the cast or
ship. It's just fun because
there's so many ways to present
this game. It feels so chaotic
in the best Marvel way
possible. And man, it just
always has to be a hunger
for more. I mean, I can't
remember the last time I
worked, you know, 19 hours
and 24 hours. But man, I
love it.
Now, with you, dude, it's
like the same thing. It's
It's the most I've worked where I still feel like I want to keep it going.
I want another game seven at this point because it draws so much adrenaline out of us.
But it's a testament to us just really loving the game.
I think it's just in a great space and I love how this Eastport has started.
A lot of money in the line here, folks, three million this year.
This is absolutely no joke.
But man, I just got to say I have had so much fun working with you too.
But this has been a pleasure.
But we are going to now look at our black hat again, folks.
Black Cat is now out and released although we haven't had hands-on cause other you've got to play
I haven't got the place we've been casting every day look at board to get in there and see what she can do
She's got to change the meta heavily folks for these probable plays because think about it
We have a portal through walls that you can run through as a team
If you have all this kind of utility that she has an infinite in spades with an insane alt
Imagine what these pro players are going to be able to do folks those who meet the black tabs gaze should beware as
as her almonds never miss their mark.
You said the best man my YouTube shambles have had no time to play it's all a cast and
they heat on here and more heat is available as black at the urban predator spider and peter
parker the photographer has the mask off and already and then of course a blade the starlight
shadow are available in game to rep your favorite heroes across the board black had
definitely be bringing something special ship you said it utility wise and
across the board we already know what spider-man can do and imagine doing it
with a mask off this time to fin hand lot of fun to play these heroes and the
new costumes that keep on coming and delivering the heat speaking of delivering
once again a reminder to connect your mobile rivals account to your twitch
account and earn these gorgeous drops that's right so this one also of course
a massive thanks to all the players and teams that showed up over the last
for days because they went a distance so that you can collect these drops for all those hours
of plays that you've got to watch. Competition was steep, mistakes were high and the entertainment
was truly limitless and you get double rewarded right because you not just get good gameplay,
you also get free goodies such as this daredevil skin but of course it's not just this one,
No, we showed it earlier today. We also have Gambit with the will of Galacta skin
and the emotes to go along with it as well. So definitely make sure to tune back in. This one
is going to be available until May 17th. So if you did not manage to cup it today, as it literally
just got today, you still have an opportunity coming up. So everyone, please from on behalf
from our entire desk. Thank you all so much for watching the action and bringing the energy all
we can long also big shout out to our co-streamers who've been apart taking any final words to see us
off here cozy and ship. Oh man, sun up sun down I never get sick of it and the American scene
is just getting started y'all. I mean this is what makes eSports fun and just one of the
biggest showouts too across the board again yeah shout out to Jay Space all the co-streamers
taking this thing going and blowing up more and more and just just you wait stage one around the corner going to be even crazier ship
I'm just bummed it's over right like I did this was so fun at first we got some time to wait before we start out
But you know season one is going to begin soon preseason out of the way things are just going to get even more dicey
Shout out to you too. So we cozy's been an absolute pleasure to be here with you guys
I've had so much fun and we couldn't have asked for a better grand finals
Thank you all so much for watching and supporting Marvel Rivals, Ignite, the chapter to a production
as well who brought us the action.
Now all of you, of course, we will be back soon in a month's time with stage one.
You don't want to miss it.
We're going to see you there.
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