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Everyone, I'm Nick or Vodable and I'm here to bring you through all you need to know
about Stage 1 for Ignite 2026.
Pre-season started out with a bang, we had some great champions that we crowned across
the regions, Team Liquid Scylla in America's, Navi or Nazvin Seer in EMEA. We also had Reject in
Pacific for Asia over in the OCE side of things. We had Gen G take the win there in a pretty
dominant performance. And in China, we actually had an upset OUG didn't get the victory. It was
the Connix who were the ones who came out on top. But now let's shift gears. Let's talk about stage
one. That's what you are all interested to learn more about. And let's get into the schedule first
and foremost. Looking at our match calendar here for Marvel Rivals of the Night Stage 1,
the group stages will take place on May 21st June 7th and then the second phase of the competition
will be the playoffs from June 25th to July 5th. I'm wondering why is this happening? Well,
if we look at this map rotation and graphic it tells you all you need to know. Lower Manhattan's
getting added to the map pool but also we will have season 8 be the patch that the group stages
are played on and season 8.5 is going to be the one that the playoffs will be played on. So you'll
have devil dinosaur chomping up the competition and the group stages and cyclops blasting people away
in the playoffs. It's going to be a great one. Let's talk about format and seating.
Seating was already determined from placements in pre-season and if you're watching this video you
probably already know exactly where those teams have met it out in their specific groups. Starting
starting with the America's Stage 1 format. You can see it as the exact same as it was
for preseason. Two groups of six teams will play through a round robin style bracket,
which means they play at each other once, and the top four teams from each of those
groups will move on to the playoffs. During the playoffs, there will all be best of five
matches, and that will be starting from July 2nd to the 4th, and the finals, of course,
will be at the 5th with the best of seven. The exact same is going to be happening for
in the A stage one will be a round robin best of three group stage with two groups of six the top
four from each of those and moving on into the playoffs where they'll be playing a best of five
double elimination bracket best of seven final now to talk a little bit about the pacific format
i brought in a expert from the region leiger take it away thank you vaudeville how's going
everybody to leiger here i'm here to tell you the structure for ignite pacific now we're going to
start off with OCE. We've got a group stage double elimination running from the 21st to
the 24th of May. Then Asia will be taking place with a group stage of their own, but
round-rubbin format from the 29th of May to the 7th of June. Now how's this going to
work is we're going to get the top two from OCE and then the top six from Asia going into
a combined, that's right, it's merging everybody into a Pacific playoff.
These teams are competing for a lot, not just spots in mid-season final, but it's also
So, a prize of $650,000 in total is up for grabs and it is split $200,000 each for EMEA
and America's $120,000 for Pacific and $100,000 for China.
Stage 1 serves as the only qualification path into the mid-season finals.
Now you might be wondering how many teams from each region make it in.
It's 3 from America, 3 from EMEA, 2 from Pacific which can be both OCE teams and OCE
Asia team or two Asia teams, depending on how their playoffs go, and two teams from China for a 10 team total bracket.
With limited spots available, this means every single series carries direct implications for the mid-season final qualifications.
Now here's one thing to note that if you saw some of the patches that were post on social media you might be questioning,
where are the drops? What are the drops? What can we expect for that when we're tuning in to the action?
Well, I'm here to tell you at least a little bit and give you a preview of some of those.
It's not to talk about the Stage 1 twitch drops.
So if you remember way back when that sentinels and energy shock were playing against each other in the playoffs
on symbiotic surface and Crimzo opened up a portal, Dongmin jumped in and he got kidnapped by stinkers on energy.
Well, that entire moment is immortalized in a spray by one of the lovely community artists out there.
And you can get that just for watching Marvel Rivals of the Night Stage 1 during the group stages for just four hours total.
That's just like a couple matches, it'll be two best of threes that go the distance.
Maybe just watch a game throughout each day and you'll easily be able to get that spray.
Alongside a hundred Chrono tokens, the Galactica Layer Mood, and the Wolverine Will of Galacta
Nameplate. This is of course alongside the current Rogue Drops that are going to be running in tandem
for Season 8. And that's the big thing to know, these end before Season 8 or 5 before the playoff,
which means in the rest of stage one there will be more drops to stay tuned for so definitely
keep an eye out for those as you do not want to miss them and keep up with the action.
I've been asked to power rank teams give my analysis about you know who to predict to
potentially get those three spots from EMEA in america's two from pacific and two from china
i'm not going to make it easy on you guys there's other content for that later on but
I do have some experts to tell you who they are personally rooting for to win stage one in their respective region.
So, it's here from a good old friend here in Americas.
Hey everybody, my name is Shabee. I'm a Marvel Rivals caster and content creator,
and my good friend Vodbal has asked me who I am cheering for in stage one.
So, for Americas, I am a YWL Glaser. I love the way Jitward and the gang play Marvel Rivals.
They don't follow the conventional rules, and a lot of their roles are very fluid,
Which just makes them very exciting to watch and for EMEA I am the OG Navi Glazer
So I'm very happy that they won in the preseason and I anticipate that they are gonna carry that momentum going into stage one
Well should be you might not want to speak too soon on that one
I have someone else who has some other opinions on who should probably win EMEA. What's up guys?
It's me Borenation and for season one of ignite I am rooting for a team Virtus Pro
Even though they might have been absolutely obliterated last time that was a flu
It was bad luck for me and this time they got locked in I don't know
I'm starting to think these predictions are very bold saying that vertus pro will lock in we need some more grounding here from another
Pro or coach in the scene in the M.E.A.
I am live for coach for team heretics
Which is your new favorite Marble's team that you should be rooting for not only because during this precision
We finished up to in EMEA only losing to Navi which was a world finalist
But also because we have the best bundle in the game, which is the only one that you can have to be playing for the Vibes
Okay, it's up to finalists
We saw during the preseason not too bad of a reason to vote for them the vibes are really good at hair ticks
I get that let's talk about America's a little bit more here and actually
Here for one of the players that have a little bit more insight on to why you should root for their team
Hey, this is my chief I play for team liquid Citadel and you should root for us because as you saw our preseason
every other team is just clueless about what they want to do and they'll just be miserable
if you don't.
Okay, okay.
That's a low blow spark chief.
I think he's talking about our predictions.
I think like no one got it perfect for America's.
I got really lucky with OCE 100% all seeing Oracle at night 2026.
Thank you very much.
Speaking of OCE, we do have a pro from that scene who does have some words for you.
Hey, I'm Skittles.
I play shadow just for Genji Esports.
If you want to watch a creative team that throws the meta out the window every season
and has fun while doing it. Make sure to show us your support in Pacific Stage 1 Asia.
You can also wrap our bundle in gear. You get a pretty cool Deadpool skin, so thank
you to those that have bought it so far. But yeah, thank you guys as always for being
with me, I'll let you down. Bye-bye.
Thank you Skittles for giving us your opinions and we'll definitely be picking up that bundle.
I already have, but I recommend picking up any of the partner bundles that are available
for the teams that you're rooting for. But we do have one final guest here who does have
some opinions and it's not my cat we'll hear from them about their team that they think is going to
win stage one. Yo surprise you're probably blinded right now and if you can't tell from the hairline
or lack of hairline I am J3 and I am rooting for swamp gaming since I well live in Florida and I
live in the swamp and I think you guys should be cheering them on too because they are going to be
winning stage one. Okay you know we got some insight from the community members thank you all for
for being a part of this video,
but the big things that you need to know for each region.
Number one for Americas is Team Liquid Citadel
right after Swamp Gaming,
and then it's just a graveyard after that.
It could be YWL, it could be Sentinels,
it could be 100 Thieves, it could be Energy Shot,
it could be anyone in Americas right after those two.
So those are your safe bets for people
to make it into the mid-season files.
Let's toss up from there on out.
In EMEA, it's a little bit more kind of top heavy,
you could say as well.
you do have Navi who did really well for themselves with the first team to beat
first pro in a number of months in an entire series and actually since we saw
way back when during stage one and now we got to see it happen again here in
the preseason then grad beat them as well so I think they're gonna have a bit of
a comeback I think it's gonna be Navi then VP then probably heretics and then
Rad and Shigigami somewhere in there. Pulsar has some potential based on the
players that they picked up I'll let you take a look at their roster and see what
your thoughts are there as well.
Other side of things in Pacific, specifically,
there's the two Barats, right?
It's Gen G, it's Reject.
Those are the two teams that should
make the mid-season finals.
Everyone else is kind of a toss-up.
You could have Z10, you could have Chiefs,
you could have some unknown rosters
that get brought in here as well
throughout the off-season into the fold.
So we don't really know who else
is gonna be contending with those top two teams.
On the other side of things, for China,
it's been more parody than ever, right?
OUG fell earlier on.
We saw Connix get the victory.
Fiat Lux doing really well for themselves.
Those are the big three
and they're gonna be fighting too for now
to see who comes out on top
and makes it to those mid-season finals.
So if you have three in your mind,
those would be the three to look at.
Wouldn't be too surprised if OUG bounced us back.
Connix maybe falls down a little bit.
We saw some big pickups in the off-season for Fiat Lux.
So I could see them actually making it.
So that's everything you need to know
for stage one of Ignite.
Go enjoy the matches and we'll see you later.
Hello my friends and welcome to day 3 of Marvel Rivals Ignite Stage 1.
Day 2!
A little bit of everything, their turn of a hundred thieves if you missed it, stick
drift proving they're much more than just an MRC dream and energy shock.
Look reloaded and ready to go and one of those teams will be going through the gauntlet
once again today that is stage 1.
I'm cozy. No going on today, but I'm joined by Vicky and Shib. And I think it's safe to say that production put together the loudest trio. They legally could.
I'm called man. I got to say it. Shib. Let's start with you, buddy. Who needs to have a big day today? Yeah, man. I'm stoked. I'm stoked to be finally joining y'all after all the craziness.
But yeah, for me, I think it's got to be sent. Sent obviously going against swamp. It was tough to really get a judge on how they look right now. What about you, Vicky? What do you think?
I'm on the same boat. Actually,
shit, you had to take my team.
I gotta say set nose.
Definitely being one of those
team. I mean, you know what?
To match that, you know,
talking about that for a series,
I've got to say nightmare too,
right? Did they learn from
yesterday's matches against
NRD shot? Well, I think we're
going to find out a lot about
kind of what this these teams
are going to bring this far in
now as we're going into this
day number three. But first,
let's go and talk about
Twitch drops. You guys know as
you're watching, you can do
some multitasking that finally
pays off in the best of Marvel
rivals getting rewards along the way, including this brand new Rogue skin. Rogue is again usually
one stealing the powers, but today you can steal the look and that is not all as well. We'll
have galactic Rogue skin, but we've also got one of the most iconic moments, at least from
this year in the preseason. Now captured as an in game spray that you can earn right alongside
that road just for watching and picking up maybe some new tricks from somebody you main
from the top players within the game.
But Season 8, if you've not logged in, it's here,
and it's got itself a brand new vanguard.
It's a devil, it's a dinosaur,
and it's already stopping its way through meta conversation
with massive frontline presence, disruptive pressure,
and the ability to turn a fight into absolute chaos.
It gives teams a completely new weapon to build around.
The victory ship today, all eyes are back on
the big red beast as teams continue testing
just how far his impact can go.
Now, I want to start with you, Vic.
Devil Dino, day two looked a lot stronger than day one
with players like TTK back on the Jurassic Park.
Do we expect him to make more of an impact today?
I think so, Cozy.
I mean, literally this Apex Predator,
there's a reason why these dinosaurs have gone extinct.
Is it the TTK Saurus Rex?
Really gonna show up again.
I'm expecting it.
Madara also put on a performance with the Devil Dino.
We're seeing more Devil Dino showcase why this hero has been a problem, honestly.
The amount of damage that this hero could soak up, the damage output together with the bleed.
I mean, Shib, I'm so happy to have you here.
I actually wanted to talk to you so much about your opinion on Devil Dino, what we've seen transcend so far.
Yeah, I mean, Dino has definitely been a problem.
I think it's kind of weird statistically, right, when you look, whether it's banning the Dino or banning the Gambit.
It seems like when you leave Dino and you kind of just lose.
But I don't think that's a product of Dino.
I think that's just the product of how good Gambit is.
But yet, watching the Dino play obviously as a Vanguard,
love it, absolutely love it.
I think you kind of go back to those traditional
front to back styles.
You can peel well with Dino.
He can really do a ton.
And I think teams are trying their best
to just not even look at him in some of these fights
and think about him later on.
But no matter what, he is absolutely having an impact.
Yeah, he's for sure across low rank,
high rank, competitive play.
That's changed the meta, right?
And we're starting to see these teams figure it out
because I think we're still at that stage
about being honest. What do you ban? What do you pick? And what are some comfort picks
to try to net yourself the win? And obviously, we know a bit more of the sauce on what are
some key anchor positional picks. We also have some big losers this season.
Ones that maybe fell short in with whether it's balance or rest in peace to people like
Angela who the wings are just decorative at this point. I mean, absolutely on the ground,
more than the air. The Flyers having a tough time. Adam Warlock as well, Vic. I mean, we
I saw plenty of the old low key Adam seasons ago domination that was something but not anymore.
It's been 50 years cozy and fallen heroes more likely fallen angels too right.
It's just so unfortunate and I think that goes hand in hand with what the new meta has
been right.
You also add devil dino to the mix and together with how big that grab box is once you've
applied that bleed it could be a little scary when you try to fly low to get some kills
from your strategist and to try to make some plays happen then you add that together with
Phoenix when it was the L. She'll show just in the preseason ship and it's been pretty insane to see how a lot of these changes
I'm influenced some more of our legends that are now falling. Yeah, I mean, there's just a lot of solutions
I think I know you know just in particular when we're talking about Angela
There's just a lot more
immovable targets right that are strong in the meta including Emma's diamond you think thing you think dino and not only does
Dino have a way of taking her out of the sky with the laser
But can also apply bleed with laser and then jump up and shop anytime. She's trying to escape
There's just a lot of difficulty holding on it's here knocking KO when you are playing that hero
And it's similar story with the human torsor as well
And that's mentioned in low-rig play right you get the one vanguard typically and the hand-jumps often multiple rivals
You can't find her anywhere. It's like come on. We need some frontline presence
But let's talk about group standings if you missed the last couple of days
I've been here all three you walk you right through it as we take a look at group A and B
We've got obviously the top three teams there in group A, TLC, Stickdrift, who you're going
to see today, and Space Station.
So two of these teams can be put to the test.
And then over there in group B, getting the top of the leaderboard being 100th, these
NRG Shock and Swamp Gaming.
Now some of these competition lineups have not exactly been, I would say even in terms
of skill level.
So I'm wanting to see some of these teams that we saw on the bubble.
We have clear picture that Team Liquid, Citadel, and Swamp Gaming are really good.
I want to see the middle of the pack and how they do not only against the top of them, but also against each other.
And we're going to see that a bit more today. Obviously, that matchup with 100thies Energy Shock.
Really good one that we have lined up for you today.
Speaking of today, we have the matches ready to rock and roll.
And again, we will be starting with two teams with a lot to prove.
Sentinels went up against Swamp Gaming.
It's a tough look, as you guys mentioned earlier, right?
Like, this is your get right game.
And you could not say more for Nightmare being in the same position.
You just have this team that came out hungry one zone one looking good on Tom and fell flat after that
You know I went over and some of the player streams and it was like what went wrong
They said everything right so they're gonna look to try to get things going again ship hundred thieves energy though
That's the here. Yeah, I mean, I honestly I'm like with you on the sudden I'm here
I think that could be a heater too as I think send you know our nightmare wants to prove it
It's similar story, but yeah hundred thieves energy. This has been a big conversation
I think this is much more as we heard even yesterday from self in a hundred thieves meta
This is just they feel confident. I do think controller vanguards are kind of back in play here with dino being so strong
Who plays very strong on controllers similar similar to Emma and our G in the same vein that they love running that dino as well
There comes a moddera
So should be an absolute battle of the Titans and I'm so stoked you my eyes on it begging already to not get the triple strat
Let my amazing free from the shackles, please
Gaming in SSG will be ending our day. So Ricky, let's go ahead and bring attention though to that matchup, right?
We've got Sentinels. We have nightmare Sentinels obviously year one so much to say about this team. How well they've done
The roster is different. I mean the team you have amazing you have Crimson
It's different at this point the one thing that remains the same is a lot of the strategy that they bring in they were kind of
Forcing the dino they trying to get Donglin to do his thing who has played well
I want to see some fixed changes from them. I agree. I mean you talked about it already cozy
Can we get right amazing out of the triple strap merchant jail, please?
like we want. We know what
Ryme is capable of, and we just
need to see it out in display.
Are we going to keep seeing
Sentinels rely on the triple
strategist lineup that they
usually like to lean on for
comfortability? That's the
question, right? Especially when
you have a player like Usher
who could pull up the Phoenix
that we've seen so strong so far
with those buffs that we've had
going into season eight cozy.
No, for sure. And you guys
know the lineup, but I'll get
vision being on the bench is
somebody that is a I would say
one of the top mechanical players
in this game. And so we'll see
you should doing a good job at
at that role and Red Mesa plays a different role.
So it's gonna be interesting if they ever do slot that in,
even for a change up if needed.
But best of three, kind of tough to do that,
we'll get more on this roster in a moment.
Let's go and take a look at team two in,
what they're going up against, right?
We got Nightmare on the other side of them.
And listen, Nightmare, they changed up,
they lost that bench player in vision.
And that's not just a minor downgrade, it's a tough one.
SJW though has definitely stepped up, I would say,
really well. We saw that yesterday, but we continue to say this. The teams that are struggling
is the one B duelist, the Daredevil's that dive, getting that pressure coordinated with
the Vanguard's. That's their problem at the moment.
Yeah. And then you also have Fidel two coming in, right? Both from SSG. And you know, there's
a ton of challenges to getting new players. It's changes up the communication structure.
It changes up maybe how you want to lead comes, whether it's fight planning, all tracking
stuff like that all comes into the works. And I would say that gives an advantage to
who have been together for a very long time. Obviously it was one recent change, but outside of that saying very consistent nightmare though, they just need to find their footing.
They're a strong team, but it seems like they're constantly playing from behind or they're finding themselves in difficult positions and they're just trying to ego their way through it.
I know this team has the talent. I'm looking forward to see what they look like as they move through the tournament.
They got to get the monkey out there back. I know that's one of the bigger things, right? Some mental almost at this point.
Yeah, look at this matchup
I would say the Vanguard one is the one I want to highlight because you've got what I saw was a lot of either
Captain America play if your impunity versus Crimzo and then there wasn't the follow-up with it all the time
And you have more this stationary tank
They actually both play very similar in the way that these tanks are gonna do it together
Mace obviously was much more of a magneto player does have Emma in the pocket
But then teams try to ban that and we just see struggle there
My biggest thing is is set no is gonna let gambit through the pig band phase kind of show that quote-unquote
quote disrespect and say, hey, go into play game, but we still think we can beat you. And
if they do, they have to be able to win with that lineup. Someone like Rogue and they can
pair that in.
Dungman though, more than the devil dinosaur. Try it twice. We'll see if they continue to
go that route or Crimson team were able to cook something else up. Again, you kind of
say it. We say it all the time. Thank you. It's like talent. They've got it. They just
got to put the pieces together. A lot of these teams working with that new roster.
Right. And this is day number three for a week one. And it is best of three. We know
how difficult it is in a
room or of error and then
game on domination. We re
happened when sentinels l
one against swamp gaming w
was pretty tight, honest
went over to round three,
where sentinels wanted to
into. Also, you know, did
that end goal. So now loo
that day between of what
it kind of goes back to w
It starts in this picking band phase and things need to change up here, right?
If you're going to have to maybe rely on Invis being that safety pick, why, right?
Why won't you glean into your strength instead?
It's trying to actually see what you could do differently here,
especially if you don't have to run out with the triple strategy.
Yeah, that's a great point because we have about 40 seconds of game time picking bands and listenership.
These teams both had one thing in common, as we just said, it was the pick band phase.
It was what we saw, just kind of unconventional picks as, you know, Vicky just said the Invis,
someone we don't see saved a lot right now, but that's because they want to go with the triple
strat. So if they can abandon that, or at least have a flexible out, then they don't have to
worry about that and waste the save there. But then on the other side, it's like, okay,
you have the gambit which then forces a Loki ban and then kind of it just ends up kind of tripping
over itself. Yeah, you kind of find yourself just, oh, we let gambit through. What do we do to make
sure that cup isn't just an absolute raid comp? Like that just walks right through us. So you get
rid of the Loki to try to save yourself. Maybe it's the Star Lord for the combination. You just
just don't want to find yourself just, you know, thinking back to, oh, how do we fix our mistake off the rip?
I think you just got to get rid of that gambit. And then maybe we change up a strategy here.
We don't run that triple backline, which they, you know, sometimes trouble with.
No, for sure. And we find ourselves the first map.
It's the Vicky special at this point.
It's going to be where we take it.
And out of the three, you know, we don't see a lot of a condo.
I think social husk always is finding its way into rotation one way or another.
But yeah, you know, a lot of great points made here.
I do think that both these teams showing more flexibility is something I want to see and
just nailing down more of those comms and that old tracking is things ready.
I think nightmare what they're going to bring to the table is continue the strategy span.
That's what they like to do.
It's what they're comfortable with.
So we can expect that and that might actually be decent against a team here like the Sentinels.
Maybe they start with an Invis if they want to go that path, Vicki.
Maybe if that's how they're going to try to play into what they feel is more comfortable.
obviously maybe trying something different against a team like nightmare.
You mentioned it cozy and it's about finding where the teams are in the
middle of the pack really gets a lean into with the season eight changes.
Right.
Especially since we're seeing the inclusion more of devil dinosaur.
Absolutely.
So as we find where they're going with it again, both these teams more or less
weren't going too much of that gambit ban route.
Definitely that may try to do the best they can there.
And this is the get right game as we've continued to say down below,
we get to see it and right off the bat, gambit bans both of them.
Lessons learned homework done ship as they go into the dino protects. Yeah, immediately seeing the protect from dino
I honestly I like this so far. This is what we were hoping to see from both teams
They both have a lot of flexibility in the rosters both of which can run the more divey stuff
Although we haven't seen a ton of that from sentinels, but yeah
I think dino can fit into a bunch of different compositions. You can build completely around them or just kind of let him do his thing
I'm looking forward to seeing what both teams try to do here
Yeah, thank you
They're gonna go with the Phoenix band early instead of someone like Luna which allowed them to ban and then save Luna
I think that's actually huge for them shutting down crimson. What do you think the last save is?
It's gonna be the Phoenix down to say, you know, you know, we always have to get ahead of you out here
But it's gonna be the Phoenix saving and that's actually something that you were talking about cozy in the green room
What that unorthodox save or that last band is gonna be looking like whether it be the Phoenix
Maybe the black cat to something we've also seen a lot of teams that are very good at running the dive composition
Really roll out with which is obviously something that seminal, you know
Not really having to think about but they also show the respect of the other side with the captain America band
that we saw from a community just yesterday. Yeah, I mean, hey, shit. They have both the
cap players really obviously Paulie, but you have community and Crimson both not having
access. But the big difference is Phoenix. What got rid of the dinosaurs? It was like
a meteor fire. Yeah. Hey, that is a great way to get more things igniting off a devil
dinosaur. I expect that to be kind of a safety pick for them. But again, we know how well
these doors can play. And I need to see what light can do alongside this Phoenix that they're
saving for sure. I also really like the Luna lock in there over from San. I think Luna's
And really strong in the meta. We've seen a lot of locks of Luna in ignite so far in stage one
Maybe something that I wouldn't have expected as much obviously
I know how strong she can truly be a just a very large skill ceiling obviously hit scan
Totted damage actually more than hella outside of Phoenix one of the best hits can to play if you want to play even more aggressive in a triple
Cop it totally works that way just so much in that kid to be aggro so liking that as well, but oh man
I'm back and I'm ready. I'm stoked for this first matchup
All right, y'all will take it away. We have set those nightmare both teams cannot afford another loss buckle in
We've got a great day three for you Vicki ship take it away
All right, my friend here we go Vicki stoke to be cast and alongside you dino
They'll be showing up and I'm sure we'll see something alongside of that strange being in play potentially from both sides
We begin our first match of the day
Welcome back my friend, it's been great action and we are already starting things off with a portal play to prioritise our positioning onto the other side of the point.
Look at friends are rolling out on the battle to match out with Infinity, already trying to be a throw to the side.
That Phoenix literally was shot as FKW does get killed up back to full health but it's a beautiful fight for the high ground.
Yeah, I like this map a ton for the side of Venom.
When you stand from that middle segment, pull down that E early on and cool down.
So, Waze is able to find one out of Mace.
And that's gonna be a start, but immediately the BRB, excuse me, from Pain,
brings Mace back, numbers even doubt, if you continue this first fight.
I mean, he was gonna be right back, you know, real quick here,
and it looks like we're still gonna be lying on that triple strategist
with Waze being able to get that first pick that we saw just a little bit ago.
Mace taking a lot of that damage with Rai Mazing taking to the Spies,
and as you mentioned Chip, Venom really good in trying to take control over that middle console,
but you know what? That beautiful height too, for my amazing, as he is going to offer that old console.
And here we go again as Usher finds one onto the down. Goodbye SJW, it's two P's. Make it three here, Usher.
Seeing that extended mag, that extra 10 bullets is more than enough to clean up now.
He's going to spin to win with that blast of barrage over backline.
Buying more time in space, but pays for it as Light finds one right back and this will give Nightmare a chance.
Let's get head back towards that point.
And on one, as you saw, Light makes some quick adjustments.
The Star Lord starting up a lot earlier than what we had seen from Nightmare when Dan started off on Celestial.
That's just yesterday. Gotta be careful with the back cap, though, as the elected legend comes in,
so immediately mark down Rai Amazing. Big first bake-off here, Flamaze gonna be the next one to go.
That's gonna be another big one. Beautiful follow-up and communication from Nightmare as a community.
He's able to follow that up to prevent the ultimate from the strategy, so he's flowing from seven.
And 47 and climbing still here for Sentinels.
Out goes the Feece, now to stall for a bit longer.
And that's the goal of the Venom.
And that'll be enough.
Gordo comes through, but it's not quick enough here.
And it's out of right amazing.
And instead, they will lose that point as Nightmare
and get some percentage going.
Look at the Alts across the board here, folks.
Five available for Nightmare.
Here goes that Commitment, matching right back
to the Galactic Legend.
Immediately against you, that boundary.
And out again goes the Devil Beast Rampage.
They try to keep them on and get this moving.
And from the Wombo Combo, the extra damage done together with the end song in Forno
Infinity following up the BRB having a lot of impact to bring back the Devil with the
Itch Jeff.
From Oasis, it's a big buffet all you can eat.
As Oasis finds the Invis and the Devil Dino, talk about quite an appetite, but he's got
to put a scurry away and still isolate two of those members from Nightmare.
And if you look at SJW2, it was literally one shot, unfortunately isolating Fidel from
being able to help SJW out.
Yeah, I'm not sure what the plan was there.
You can't off-air either of them with a jump and with the immutability, but after that
a huge eye comes in to cry as Flamé and Crimson wait up to the rest of his bat from Mace
Still on the battlefield now cannot be dropped as that one punity finds Flamay and that is still going to be a back and forth
Looking up for that light takes out oasis and nightmare still holding on to this point. Wow textbook
Like getting the quad though the quick little 4k light waking up has been grinding out that rank and is ready to showcase
What he's got with the rest of nightmare they're nearing 80% now should and if you look on the side of sentinels
Crimso is nearing the face of the abyss from the other side, but it's going to be a bit of a delight for him to recontest.
And if you notice the space being taken after capping point here folks, take this into ladder with yourselves.
You move forward, try to get them to use cooldown before they even get towards the point,
so you have an advantage if you need to drop backwards.
You can see them making that move backwards now, and a little more on their heels. 97% inclining here.
There goes that commitment as they get the touch, but so much was burned there from Crimso to hold on.
And everybody's focusing that direction more damage comes out from Sjw who does have that ensong inferno available
He's the abyss is available here for Crimzo and you sure can match back
As long as in Crimzo fight to not having to commit too much he stows out and that will be a retake here now
for Sentinels
Perfect case scenario for Sentinels to shit because now you look at the old economy that's coming in in the stall potential
Four Sentinels. Yes, SAW and Pain could make a big move happen here with the Sia.
You combine that and the damage output from Mace and having that rampage, it could be deadly.
But it's all eyes on how Plame gets to stay alive as well as Usur together with the Galactic Legend.
You can see space being owned again. Similar conversation as before.
The composition has shifted.
You now have the Ultron up and Usur gonna commit happy now with the Galactic Legend looking for Mace.
And does find that pick is the BRB available.
It might just be, yes, it is.
Numbers evened out.
And that's a fine trade in this moment,
as Usher's trying to find a second pick.
They're all stacked on the high ground.
And we'll be close to a 99-99 situation.
Oasis looking for a need here.
The D-Mastive, the C-A, available.
The combination with that end song for Nightmare once more
is on the table.
I should be prepping for that right now.
And there's that C, a little bit of bird land.
Yes, it does bang.
And it does blind a flame on the backline.
Nightmare is going to be up a number, but down an ultimates, that's why Mazing tries to get one with a rage.
And that wasn't the Luda that had the fate of both worlds,
Crimson follows up the fun fatality, even that out, as you mentioned,
and Light is about to have the Galactic Legend, but with nobody on the point,
it looked like the Venom was right there on the outskirts,
but it's all for Nightmare to take that first round.
It was quite unfortunate too, because it looked like two members of Sentinel
were just a pixel away from getting onto the point.
And we can see here folks as we start up, I believe Sen locked in there the last moment
you see the feed here six finals from Usher so far up at the top matching light very similar
scores light has not gone down a single time plan a little more passively building that
all quickly flame and oasis with alts available should be a huge start here for sentinels as
they keep this moving forward.
Looking at the stats here alone, the fact that Light has not gone down a single timeshift.
Crazy.
And I said from the other side, looking at the colors that were flipped, Sentinel's taking
that first round and now going into the second round here, Chib.
You have Flame, that still has that ultimate after Flame got targeted with the combo of
the Sia and the N-Song in kernel.
So at least they'll have the advantage going into the second round to maintain that.
Yeah, this is a dicey position here for Nightmare Down and All Charge.
And remember folks, you want to get this point early in domination, setting up right now once again, Crimzo.
On the Venom, I think Venom is a very strong stay alongside Captain America in his current meta with that dive potential.
And it's really enabled by that jet from Oasis, you can play very aggro with your dive and it's together.
Dang, Crimzo goes down on the back line looking at the Fox, who just nearly escapes, but pulling out that telebore coolbound is a big one to call out.
He's to be missed on the back line once again, so you hear more as the dance floor gets launched.
It's launched, Crimzo just can restlessly on that backline
but the peel comes out from Mace.
And so we're going to keep everyone healthy
and nobody's gone down just yet.
Wait a minute.
Crimzo said, don't worry, I'll hold that real quick
with Mace being the first cavity.
Imputity may follow though.
It's going to be the reset as well as a piece of the abyss
on the extra damage together after it releases.
I've used the itch jet before.
Imputity has been one shot for so long
and that's going to be like going down for the first time
for staying alive for so long.
And we were taking a look at that scoreboard already, Shib,
with Rymaezing, who had made that top-tier
beginning of the second round, into the Black Hat.
I like the different fans that already
Sentinel's is rolling out with, and Usher popping off.
Usher finding one again.
Percentage, incense favor, looking
to take this first map quickly, playing
able to find one once more onto Nightmare.
And again, folks, just a raw damage potential
from Luna right now.
See, Usher trying to get that pick out of light.
He's made the switch away from the Star-Lord,
and is now on that daredevil.
be very aggressive onto that backline trying to find flame.
You're looking for that Luna.
There's a ton of answers in terms of cooldowns
to keep yourself healthy when there's dive.
Really only gonna do that snowball
without the fox on the field.
Crimson holding this height and bang!
Right on the backline, he goes once more.
Commitment goes out from the cat of Rhymesia
to take that pick through.
And now letting the devil up from light
as Dogma is trying to back away,
still getting it back up to health.
Thanks to Oasis being right there too
to help pressure them out together with Ushur,
who's just been the silent assassin in the back.
S.A.W. does shut down my Maze-In, but guess what?
S.A.W. looks behind him and guess what?
And Ucher has had his way with the rest of the team
followed up by Dogman, a great performer right now
from Sentinels.
Yeah, and this is something we were talking about
early on that I really do, I'm happy to see it
from Sentinels' side at least, where they're
committing with that dive.
Crimson's engaging, and then you have Ryan Maze-In,
who's not on that triple strat instead.
It's gonna be on Black Cat and just hard commit together,
Enabled by the jet dive, and it is too much to handle here at the current moment,
90% amongst any planning.
Mesa able to find one with Ultimate Committed.
That's right, Mesa and Trace.
That's right back on the light.
Numbers, they're gonna be roughly evened out for the moment.
There is no BRB on the field, but so much is out as out goes the boundary,
the dance floor, and the Devil Beast as SJW gets the next pick.
I hope your GPU stays alive out here with all the colors on the screen.
SJW, right amazing.
Getting these resets, the eye-frame, Fidel's the next victim,
Crypto comes in, a nice ante together with a boost to the Abyss,
and now you have the match for In-Funity,
but they had lost out with Fidel a lot earlier on,
and Nightmare are up in numbers.
Galactic Legend from Usur, as he's really stepped it up.
This round we're about, but Mace has charmed him
back to the Spawn Room gates,
and Nightmare are coming alive right at 99% in favor of Sentos.
Yeah, really, really clean play there from Nightmare.
Obviously off the sky, it's difficult to hold on and your team goes down in the face of the dinosaur.
SJW able to find Crimson to clean that up and 99% here folks with Sentinels.
The idea now is to get alts together, do not overcommit in any of these fights and then press Q virtually in one fight as a unit end this game.
That is the thought process. The question is, can they do it as Nightmare wants to hold on and pushes to map 3?
Look at what they have to work with, you shit.
You didn't still keep constantly harassing races back in the way just now.
The knight stood on the dock, and before Light tries to get away, forcing out more of these cooldowns,
but it's a 1v1, he was hugging the health pack.
He has the advantage, but it's a reset in the neutral before Light tries to find the next victim.
And the space has been taken back here from Send Mills, and we're dropping back beautifully into that frame.
C-Lite trying to find something, just creating back-to-forth very low in HP, right?
Amazing.
Making some aggro plays, Crimson are doing the same.
The portal through Wild against that backline is disgusting.
Crimson instead gonna dive towards the left side, not allowing them to patty-kick around that corner,
but they're doing a great job in positioning.
And then backline there, Nightmare looking clean with Pain and Fidel.
Alco is the commitment now from Mace, but again, Sen doesn't matter.
They don't care too much, as they just wanna press Q at the same time.
Of course, that was as much as possible.
SJW able to find Crimson.
That's gonna put them up a number once more to coming home on lead from Nightmare.
There's a lot of commitment, but wow, Dom in presses Q!
Flames able to find one! Is this gonna be the time they turn it? Are they pressing Q now?
Flames still holding onto the dance floor. It looks like that might have been a little bit premature.
With him holding onto it though and looking at what light he's gonna let the devil out,
if the devil's gonna match that with the invisible boundary,
but Sentinel's have everything here with Y-Mazing.
Nearing having that blackout ultimate too, Usur with a galactic legend,
Then that's gonna be all green light for Usher to go crazy because there is no counter-strikes to hold them back.
Nightmare now with them finding a way to stop the Usher show, finding the entire backlight.
Because guess what? No one is there to stop him.
Usher's on a quadra right now. Will we see a Penta here, folks?
The commitment comes out to let the Devil out. Can they battle this back?
80 HP and a dream here from Usher. Can he get the cleanup on Light who's found Dongmin?
Mace goes down, numbers goes down as the portal gets committed and Usher takes it.
out of light and overtime it has been switched. Where the 99-99 situation can send, keep this
bound, it looks like they came not as the touch comes in. Will this be another fight or is it end
here shortly? Desperate attempts, no airship with light making the desperate trough over to the
Spider-Man, SJW finds Zogmanate to trade up on both ends. No strat ultimate from either side
to keep these fights going, but Yusor has been on a terror to open up this series, has been popping
4 minutes after 4 minutes, he may find him, he's in the next, no piece of the abyss online.
Light is swinging around on his own web scare, and even in Mace, who had slumped over to the
hull, it's the stall potential, and Crimzo, who was once on Pops the Armor by his SJW,
and Usher together with the rest of the Sentinels to clear the point.
Yeah, that was a huge clutch moment there from Usher, and honestly, it was a really strong
team play, folks.
You notice the portal came through from flaying in that moment, amazing, switching over to
the strat and they just continue playing like it's nothing.
Flames able to find some finals.
Ry keeps the healing up.
Just some really solid team play across the board
to send us to take the first map.
That was huge here too, Ship, because then you look
at the adjustments made in two round number two
and the way that Ry Maze rolled out on that black hat,
a lot of changes coming together for this series, Ship.
Yeah, that was so much fun to watch.
And that was exactly what they were looking to do, right?
We talked about trying to force out as many alters as possible.
And I will say, Niver did a great job not over committing.
I think they used a couple, maybe a little bit too early,
but they still had three before that final alt-fight
just was not quite enough as Light almost made it work.
Yeah, it's gonna be fantastic.
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We've got map number two among us.
Don't go anywhere.
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We did get sentinels to get that win and I think we saw a little bit more of the same
I would say with the flow shib and Vicky how nightmare plays they could get the point
It just seems like getting that second maybe fourth fight going through that entire map
It's really start to falter and for me it goes to that pick ban phase because they went all in on the Phoenix band
They try to shut down you sure they said okay
We're gonna take that away from you right shib
They picked up the call you sure fine on the Star Lord there and they all committed perfectly
Yeah, they just essentially allowed usher to play his own game on Star Lord.
You know, there's no commit with the Gambit for Ultimate and instead commit with Dive.
And that's something I've wanted from Sentals. I think you and I have set in the green room together.
Let's just put Ryan some sort of dive, let Crimson play the cap or the Venom,
and you enable with the Oasis. Chef, that is a match made in heaven.
It just makes sense. And finally, we get to see it.
Yeah, for sure. I mean, obviously our MVP, we're going to go and get the Usher who's adjusted so well
and obviously had some big pop-off plays quadruple, you know, a lens at one point.
31 and four. Look at the staffs across the board. Want to say this too, like with that
Phoenix, you know, you're then able to get the protect for the Luna and the band over
to your side on that. You had white Fox don't have that team up. So kind of snowballed from
there as well. And yes, ship and Vicky, we said the commitment to the dive is what we
needed to see better from this team. And they did just that with the Jeff in there, having
sent out a shenanigans. I thought the way to fit the role really well as indeed to
Vic. Yeah, together with that, with the team up that you have with the Venom, like you
mentioned already and then the way that they were able to make those quick adjustments something that I believe ship had said to you with
Well may making that quick change over to the doctor strange so that way they could portal in and then you saw the swap of two from
My amazing it's kind of like those micro adjustments in those last second flights that make a huge difference here that allowed sent
Those to take that first map cozy. Yeah, for sure
We take a look at the stats ship and you know, it's a team match
right every one is to blame if you take the yell and looking across the board obviously the survivability of the
backline force that knows being a little bit more in the healthy side especially on Oasis is in but yeah
You know just looking at it
This team has got to adjust because it felt like set those also took a little bit of a page of what was going on with a hundred
Thieves you had a right amazing now in that cell for all where they have the Ultron coming out. Okay, that didn't work
Let's go black hat. Let's go back into that duelist and that's what I want to see
I'm fine with the right amazing playing triple sup, right?
But have that quick flex in for a surprise and shock factor
And you see Flammé too, right? Like 12k damage, five finals. That's the power of the Luna, right?
We said Luna is so aggressive right now, can be very scary, and that is one of those ban protects that we saw from the side of Sentinels.
That was more unique, and it clearly worked out. You can see five finals there too,
and you look over at Fidel and Payne, who's not able to find as much value in terms of getting those finals for the team.
So really, really strong change in bans there from Sentinels.
No, that's a great point. That's why Luna in kind of that middle of the draft is almost always going to be there as either that ban or
Most importantly that protect and I think we're starting to see more and more unless it's like a specialist, right?
Using duelist bands is not always the case Vic. I mean obviously black cat you'll have that you have a fair amount of daredevil
But when you go like something like Phoenix, which definitely warrants a band
It is a good band
But you do have to have a kind of a different game plan on the beginning of your draft if you're gonna go that route because
because someone like you sure is going to go to Star Lord who is feeling pretty good in this meta.
And we see that throughout so many different regions, right?
Cozy, it's kind of like, I feel like I'm being brought all the way back when we had to prior the ban on to Luna.
We're seeing it happen all over again as we take a look at what our second map is, and it's going to be Museum of Contemplation.
Yeah, it's Museum, and this is always, and this is where it feels like so many different teams like to take it.
And it's kind of funny because this is a dare dive.
Having a map, obviously light loves to play dive
on that dare devil, but this really rewards communication
and being synced together and synergy there.
And right now that was on the side of Sentinels.
But again, it starts here, ship.
It's going to be this pick band in the draft.
Let's start it out.
Let's see how they open.
If they're going to go with the devil,
Dino, we're out again.
It looks like it.
Yeah, this is a brawly, snowbally type of map.
You might see Emma get in the mix here,
whether banned or protected as well.
Really try to shut some of that down.
looks like instead it's going to be the Mantis Gambit, which has been consistent from both
sides so far.
So they're going again with the Phoenix now there is a bit more front to back on this
map so I understand that on the side of Usher right and I think there's going to be a bit
more strengths there but it did allow what we just said Vic and you get the Luna Band
and Perke.
Yep and the fact that Sentos get to have it on their side that's going to actually work
into their favorite really nicely too because we know that they could run out with the
YFox as well if you want to get the team up with the Emma that's been so strong together
with the new you know not only being able to have that extension on having that ice wall
But now we have to protect on to the Phoenix for nightmares
So that's going to be something that they're going to prioritize
But also we are probably going to still see that Starler coming out
There's a lot more of that verticality the captain America band by the way from both sides again
Yeah, so this is the same picking bands and so it's like lessons not learned maybe here and now just that's a rely on
Communication and trying to coordinate it all together
Definitely going over to the side of Sentinels on that bit and guess what dude ship, you know it
This is a great Jeff map, right?
So always just fees quite literally and you were talking about it
Talk as we bring in this match why Jeff is such a good pick against something like devil. Yeah, I mean Jeff
You really want to play Jeff kind of in their back line and healing through them into your team
So it enables dive it enables the chaos, but Jeff also has a lot of good answers, right?
So you can use your eat your ultimate the it's Jeff if you will to take out devil as soon as he alts very similar to how
counter to Hulk who's very vulnerable and ultimate. If you launch her out as soon as you see it,
it's almost a guaranteed eat. And there's not a lot of solution unless the team is looking at you
during that chaos. So immediately you respond, you off map Dino in that moment. And although you
can't throw and get right to that edge, and it's pretty much a guaranteed situation of where you
can just shut that thing down, especially at this level of play. Well, NOMA 6 can be made, y'all,
as it's best of three. Niners got to lock in now to try to tie the series. Gates are about to open
Vicky, Shib, let's get going.
Alright, my friend, and here we go again.
Game two, first one was a banger, though.
Let's see what happens here.
Not a lot of changes in the picked end.
See who gets off hot as we start right now.
I love how we get to see the replication.
You know, if it doesn't work, we just go again, it seems like,
and that's gonna be the game plan for Nightmare Remake,
holding out on the Devil Dino.
Dong is still relying on the Devil Dino himself.
You sure?
After popping off and getting multiple 4Ks,
it's gonna be impunity who's looking to get some revenge,
And going out with Groot, you're on the attack.
I want to get your thoughts on this too,
because you have that together with trying to block up
the line of sight of Flume and Oasis.
And that's what we try to get the game plan in.
But with Usur getting another 2k, making it a 3k,
can Usur get nerfed?
He's trying right now, specifically light,
to isolate the backline.
But then Usur's like, don't worry, the body guard
for the rest of Sentinels is here.
Yeah, I mean, you want to run that Groot to cut LOS,
use those walls to shut off the dino, went overextending,
and put them in difficult spots.
You got to be dicey, make sure you don't do that for your team,
and shut off your own dino.
It could be dangerous in that aspect.
But instead, they're kind of relying on the fact
that there's not a lot of damage being run.
And Flamay's going to have to play a little more of a wall
break on that Luna than anything else
to keep the team in a safe spot, at least Dongman,
in that matchup back and forth.
But it doesn't matter when you see Usher get a three-piece off
rip like that.
Great flank, and they go, and notice the Jett folks.
Like we talked about healing through the enemy's backline
into your own as the spin to win begins from Usher.
Light's able to find one impunity out of Flamado,
and Nightmare's now off to a hot start to a,
in his second fight.
Usure forced to look at the graveyard before their eyes,
but together with Rai-Mazing, does get the teleport,
doesn't have it anymore,
it's gonna get all clear to them before back and away,
but it has the bodyguard, that is Usure.
And also, splitting the attention of impunity,
who is very close to that strangling prison,
but now you have to get back with the task,
and get this payload over to that next checkpoint,
also splitting the attention of Nightmare,
before they have to look behind them,
and now it's a galactic legend from Usher.
And right now Nightmare, aside from the bell
who doesn't have the invocal boundary,
gets it right on time.
A good patience there.
We may have the last possible moment.
I'm almost able to turn that around on Usher.
And there's that struggling prison.
Does that find value?
It does, and Qtity able to find two,
make that three as SJW takes out Crimzo.
And Nightmare are off to a hot start.
The vengeance has begun.
Can they keep this moving?
It's just a matter of time.
Will they be able to stall for the portal?
There's something might actually now
with a commitment from Flames on point, the dance floor,
keeping the team healthy, the dinosaur,
is still staying alive as now the portal goes through.
Is it enough light with the tackles able to find one?
But is that gonna be enough to push them off?
No, not quite yet.
I did see this light still right there
as always as you see it's chef as a safety measure,
but now you have the crack and impact.
You have the reset potential after HJW does find Frindle
again and again, and he find the last one that is usur.
He gets to the health pack, it wears down, and he is safe inside.
He keeps seeing this 1v1, and it's Usher versus the Duelist at his nightmare, but this is still a lot of attention as STW does.
Come on, on top, they still have not been able to get this first checkpoint.
Yeah, what a retake. It's just a matter of time now, as he has to, looks like the first point will be capped, but still a ton of time, Bob, there.
You don't always need to just fully sweep a team every time you come back with a portal.
It's all about just buying time. That's really the goal here on defense, no matter what.
So well played there by Sen, but even better from Nightmare to stay consistently on that and force them off getting point one relatively quickly.
It can be difficult too on Museum of Consimplation.
We see so many teams especially get held right before the thingy to get to that second checkpoint.
Light making the swap over to the gear double though.
Oasis already looking to reposition two with Rai-Mazing also making the swap.
I like these changes going into the second checkpoint.
We have a lot more flanking angles here for them to rely on and community.
I'm gonna be careful before backing away and looking for the next target that is Isolation Flame.
Yeah, Payne's able to find one on a low waist.
He's gonna tear off a number again.
Looks like more commitment in the abilities.
Rhyme A's able to take out Payne to make that even for the current moment.
They're back and forth from Rhyme Light once more.
Who comes out on top is gonna be like this time,
but Flayne's able to take out another in that backline
with the Luna consistently time and time again.
So much value there.
And the Luna Snow, not only in the dance,
but that neutral is obscene.
SHW on Bucky Barnes showing showcase
and that absolute is still available in this meta,
Especially when Dive is being committed from the opposition, more Dive now from Light.
Off the back of Impunity's space will that be another pick, but either way, it's spot a free movement here on this part.
The old economy, though, for Nightmare is on fire, but the invisible boundary as the Galactic Legend comes out
from Yushar, which looks like it was actually stunned, so it goes back to 50%,
and it's SJW who grappled it and pulled it in right at the very start, all the Galactic Legend.
Now you have the Feast of the Abyss, you have the Kraken Impact, as F.J.W. is waking up together with Pain, who has the Cuneo Unleashed.
Together you match that as well, with Macy goes on a rampage in the Hitch Jeff to try to counter that.
Delay the inevitable, you let them devil out if you are alive, but the stun as D.C.R. comes back, or races, having of all favor back in a way, but it's a piercing feeling that you were mentioning before,
that allows the races to get more value off of you, Jeff, until the Cunei dies off to off you, Zed.
Oh, that was a little bit of a miscommunication there, I think, from San.
Oasis with a big E, but instead of kind of forcing them away from play,
just kind of sat them there through them, back towards the team,
and they just completely turned that fight around.
I don't know. I mean, I did like that E.
I'm just not sure it was capitalized well from the team,
whether it's a communication issue or what.
I'm not sure exactly what happened there,
but punch comes through, the peel's still there, the portals now committed.
Everybody back on point, and Usher trying to do what Usher does.
Out goes that galactic legend, where we see some value in not quite yet
Great commitment from the team to dive back to that corner to stay healthy.
Disgusting communication there from Nightmare as they retake once more down and ultimate
from the side of Sentinels. Crimson is available with a feast. It goes in now under the backline,
hit with cleanup one, and so May comes back on the strange. And what do you know, gets another
final on SJW there. Oh, Hikano Sardine is stuck in the corner. I mean, what else can you do when
you don't have a Strader's ultimate to try to counteract that galactic legend? Here comes Crimson
So diving down the charm, doing good chunk of that damage, he does get hit with a B2,
and he's gonna be able to stall and get healed up, basically, because they have Oasis on
that, Jeff.
He's stuck on that pillar, and Nightmare Drop is free of ultimacy from that, and it's
together with Rai-Mazing, who also made that drop over to the white box.
I really do think of those, sometimes we go after Sand for saying that they're really
roll-swapping a ton.
I think it's an advantage when you do use those strange portals, if your team's so
strong on these different rolls, and Peter and me committing heavy with a huge feast,
able to find back line doesn't get the pick though. Dongmin playing soft safe drives backwards now
towards a lacing side while the motto goes out the combination goes through but flames able to
find one on the mason instead. That crack and impact does not. SHW still gets picked on Thimzo.
You should trade that back to light and Settenles are up a number still as Usher is able to get
a two piece make that three folks looks back towards the point and it gets held before point two
Sentinels, what a defense!
No, the invisible boundary that had been used up right before the
Galactic Legend knew that they could just hit the green light on that
ultimate ship. No defensive ults to deal with Usher, who once again, stepping up
with the rest of Sentinels also got to give a shout out to Rai-Mazey making
this off of Black Cat, especially when you're dealing with a Deer Devil on the
other side, that is light, was getting constantly marked down by Usher together.
Look at this 10 final hits going down only three times.
You look on the other side like Mace is staying alive,
but it's difficult here to have more extension
of if your duelists are not getting enabled.
Yeah, this is crazy.
I'm loving this so far.
I think both teams had moments of greatness.
Obviously, Usher very much stepping up
as that really consistent soul duelist.
As we'd see some ideas of what's being floated here
for the next round.
I don't think this is gonna be the case necessarily.
Likely, we're just gonna see Rocket out there
to give the team packs and readied up from both sides,
but it looks like instead,
Payne's gonna stay on that rocket,
get the VRB available,
light's gonna be on the black hat,
diving with the Peter Lee Maze,
gonna essentially play his own game on the defense
with a dyno.
And we'll see what's,
that goes all exodus, excuse me.
Cat's got your tongue out here, shit, it was a lie.
Listen, let me tell you something,
black cat's addition to the game
has been a nightmare if you're a strategist,
but it's also just been so exciting to see at top level play.
And the way that we're seeing Black Hat also get countered,
when you have Daredevil also marking on that Black Hat,
it's, it could be the club, but then you get Usher,
all that Star-Lord, no game unnecessarily,
when you've got the triple strategists here
with them flopping sides,
and set those still approaching
the same similar composition on the attack.
And now the games begin here, folks.
Like a dive in, there's that commitment on the back line,
now heading towards the team.
Some of those cool ounces stay up at the moment.
Just dancing and some pretty decent positioning here.
They've been team healthy, but the space has been created for sure.
Sentinels are still walking right now.
It's been a win above.
The blast of the launch may go down to nothing.
Good tie, right?
Amazing.
I'm going to find one here, Usher.
Does it clean that up?
And that triple compass being run here by Sentinels,
and they do tend to really love it.
Not success without it.
But always going back home can feel good if you
want to keep your confidence up.
So it's nice when you get to roll out with that momentum, too.
Going into this next round as well.
Ushur is just going to be able to rack up more of that damage, building a second-like legend.
Then you look on the other side, as Light gets the follow-up together with him.
QTD takes the 2v1 to shut down Ushur.
Here's the die-down from Prince O'od of that backline.
Everybody in a dangerous spot here.
That's going to be one good follow-up there.
Melee weaving between those attacks.
And you're doing that pain-gonna-res, SJW, with that BRB.
Prince O'od still applying that pressure.
Almost has the piece.
Waiting a second here.
Potentially just going to try to kite that cooldown.
post-kiting is essentially looking away, walking away,
turning back and doing some damage,
and proceeding to move away while you turn back.
Very similar to how a kite goes away from you, comes back,
goes farther away, comes back.
Very strong play in Sentinels to not commit anything
into that sea.
There's SJW committing and people are doing the same.
Forza got a lot of ultimates here
without pushing anything of their own.
This is very much in Sentinels' favor here on this attack,
as this next fight statistically should be theirs.
Yeah, I'm not a big fan of the trickling in of ultimate,
but at least the piece of the abyss, you have the ante and you get the follow-ups and sendals as you already mentioned,
you have the advantage just in terms of ultimate because then you mismatch the scene together with SAW
who wanted to combo that together with the end song Infernal and you try to go on a rampage, get shut down,
you share with the Batelings fit to win and you activate the Black Cat ultimate to match that
as it's gonna first for me to have the dance off.
Now you have the Ace Jeff, you share looking up and community gets swapped out from the wall
Oh, and SADWW does get the change up here.
As two members do go out for Nightmare,
it's going to stagger them just a bit
in trying to hold them back on the next show.
Yeah, I'm with you.
I think the trickling there of ultimate
just was not the play.
I think they committed this to you.
The team kited away successfully
and then you threw two more while they were gone.
I'm not sure how I feel about it.
I think the idea was we need to find something
we should have committed harder.
But that comp came in maybe a little bit too late.
Yeah, and then right off the back of that sandals comes in,
presses Q a few times, walks right through
It was good communication, a nice freeze onto Light too, but it forced the strategist of
nightmare to kind of huddle up together in that top balcony room. You see Froome's already getting
into position before getting to dive down and he's doing the same thing in the Venom Playbook.
SNW does have the N-Song in Fertile Core Reset too and if you look on the side of Sentinels,
just sneering, getting more of each other a bit to ultimate online. Together with Future,
who had gotten shut down with that galactic legend before. Now, if you need to ask a facility of
this, try to chase down the shark and get him on a hook as light follows up the pineapple main.
a great follow-up there from light and that's a coordination that okay ready
three two one dive type stuff they're very hard to react to that off the feast
immediately gets deleted now fighting some time here gonna wait till they're
six stacked up and re-engage and now they are folks ultimately about to be all
over the place here sentinels making a change is why amazing Bellamy all trying
you can see impunity on height here as jw and Fidel have answers Crimson ready
for that feast now like we try to pull one of those out get that moving bang
onto the back line will it work great escape he said doesn't need to commit
anything when he goes down once more from the light with a nice trade and buying a ton of time here with 2 minutes and 20 on
This is strat nightmare here when you see the two Venoms prowling about on the same wall
Cleaning on for gear life before diving in for their next victims and you take a look at the old economy to your ship
By amazing
Making the swap over to the Ultron. I do like this
You want to get a little bit more damage on the board swap that together with the white fox as oasis gets off the jet
And now you have the Kumi no Unleash, I couldn't get first from Nightmare, but he can match that here.
He's got the extermination, just to start off with an opening, together with Crimson as you sure fight him again.
The point has been recapped here.
Two sentinels, all the advantage is going to be in their favor, because they'll have 5 almost 6 available for this next fight.
And here's a Rage of Ultron from Riot, Rage out immediately, one ultimate, goodbye.
Nice.
He's not going to be able to get too much value, oh my goodness!
The chop, the pull out there was massive from Dongmin,
pulling out of that invisible boundary as Ry cleans that up.
Disgusting play now, as Sentos are keeping this walking Dongmin
on top of the Dinos.
They're gonna find another pick here, cleaning that up shortly.
That's, wow, what a stall, trying to hold on
when the answer mate does fall eventually,
and that could be it here, as the portal needs to be committed.
The portal's out now.
Dongmin trying to stop that a bit with the buddy shield.
Wait and jump into that to eat that Phoenix all in the sky.
Dongmin finds another one up and down,
And, oh my goodness, the swap comes through.
How close those creams just all more time to dance for is there, but it's gone now.
Crimso, with the Feast of the Abyss, will that be another answer now?
The coming home leash goes out and settles.
Crimso trying to find back line, nightmare, committing everything they can here as life starts up now with Black Hat.
And nobody is going down just yet!
Not yet, and Crimso's were harassing the strategists.
They're playing Ring Around the Rosie behind the Abyss shield.
But eventually, with an ante and a Feast of the Abyss, there's only so much to help pack and do.
Crimzo doing his job forcing them back and allowing the rest of Sentinels to walk the dog on the payload and get to that checkpoint
Well, that was awesome to watch what a final fight there down to the wire ton of commitment and
Ultimates there at the end as it should be the stall came in from the portal just was not quite enough great job by Crimzo as you called out
They're masterfully Vicky forcing the strats into that back angle. I
I just can't, I'm just thinking about the fact that the way that Krypto had them contested over the left side.
Kozi, I know you have front row seats to watch all the action play out, but there are so many layers to the Onion Kozi.
Because even at the very end, let's say the invisible boundary wasn't forced out because of the extermination guys, because of the Ultron.
Now, there was no defensive strategy as ultimate to deal with the Galactic Legend.
You would have had to rely on kiting away, but even then they still the galactic legend to harass them when they were forced to open up the portal
Yeah, for me. It was just communication from tobacco like you could just tell I mean just in that one play of dog and grabbing the
Invistor longer out getting that extermination in there
It's like those are the things that we were missing on day one obviously with the gambit band like let's be clear about that
But going into it just the team play was that much tighter across the board
I thought I got to give flowers to dogmen to like that
The flexibility on this guy is pretty crazy.
Like going back to last year's like more of a Mac player, right?
We saw plenty of that.
Now going into even straddle a little bit there for a quick pepper and ship.
That's what's impressed me about the team.
Yeah, they really do a good job of kind of just rotating positions.
I think, you know, we talk about sometimes them kind of maybe forcing
something we don't always agree with or, you know, a lot of the time,
it's kind of just confirmation bias where if it doesn't work for them,
you like to think, oh, you know, I called it, that wasn't going to work,
which is kind of just like the classic viewer experience.
But they really do have a ton of flexibility and it helps a lot with those portal plays for sure
And it felt like nightmare was able to get some of those backline picks a good amount
Like light was getting some of that value in the back
But it just ended up where they would be able to flip the script that much faster and it's a lot to do with the
Star Lord and
Getting the job done they're playing very well into the comp in general and that's you know what you want to see
I think even on a map type I probably would have liked something more like midtown for this team of nightmare in general
I think that's what they're
going to see. But either way.
Was good to see sent those kind
of lock back in. I would say
this. It's kind of weird for
sent those because you had
swamp gaming that's towards the
top of the you know, nation
here in terms of talent.
Nightmare. Yeah, if we're going
to keep it a buck here, not as
much up there, so it's like
where do they land and how can
they keep this consistency
going? I think that's what
them in the fan base wants to
see there. Yeah, I agree. And
I think a big part of that, too,
were able to take out a lot out of their book and kind of really play out of left field which is
something that Shave was talking about before where you could try to play mystery heroes but
when you're able to make those quick adjustments and now you're wasting time and forcing the
opposition to try to play counter picks it takes more time away from you and if you are able to
get ahead of the curve and you start things off on defense and you fully hold them back it puts
even more pressure on this team to try to adjust faster. No that's a good point for Sharon. I think
a lot of what we kind of echoed even on the first map, we were talking shit like, hey,
want to see these, you know, a lot of the Luna team up there with Wifoth came into play a bit
more here, right? You're able to have that quick swap with the Grimeys and Giffelnaire,
a little bit more of that firepower, if you will. That charm is disgusting as a team up.
And it just forced the everything to kind of go together a bit more smooth as well as having
that anti dive adjustment that is ultron. You can see here some of these stats too. I mean,
15 finals again from usher. It seems like this team is just running a let's just enable usher run our triple backline
Should we need to be more flexible with Rai amazing and I you know what?
It's absolutely working at least in this matchup right here against nightmare
And then you look over in the opposition light with seven ten from SJW saw some really clean play there on that Phoenix
I think Phoenix is really strong in the meta
But just not maybe as much in the carry position
Especially in the solo carry position as something like star loader has a lot more flexibility with that blast of Raj with a very consistent
ultimate. And now with the magazine that can one to have virtually anybody in the backline.
Yeah. Well, we've got ourselves our interview ready to go. And it is going to be the backline
that you just mentioned in full May. So welcome in, who may congratulations, my friend, as we take
a look at Sentinels. You all played swamp gaming going in towards the top of one of the better
teams here in America down to now nightmare. And what I know for you guys, I mean, is it
The Gambit BAM was not the big adjustment, it was just coordination back on lock.
Talk me through the last couple of days as you guys for a team.
Yeah, so I'm gaming. That happened. But I think overall we did a bot review,
a couple of hours of bot review and we talked about it and we really lost ourselves. I believe
that and we all believed we could have done better and we could probably get a minute closer.
And overall, I think we learned from our mistakes and we're going to go up from here.
Oh, yeah.
Beautiful.
Good to see you, buddy.
Shout out to you, Switching to Strange and getting finals there back to back.
You know, I got to say, your team's doing a great job of making those portals work out.
I'm curious as statistically, you guys might be the most successful when those come into
play.
But I got to ask quickly for you.
You guys clearly love the triple backline.
I think it works well for Dino.
Can you give us a breakdown for those who are watching?
Can you think that that triple backline works most for your team, or just for teams in general?
Or is that too much information?
Obviously, yeah, I mean that's kind of a lot of information, but I think it depends obviously on like if you're against Dive or if you're against like Run-Line or like Brawl, significantly.
Like if we're running Jeff, like if Brawl is in a factor, we just go, you know, backline Jeff, it just really depends on what the enemy team is running.
2-2-2 works, 2-1-3 works, anything works, just depending on the team.
Beautiful.
I like your input on that, and especially coming in from like the main strategist here and keeping everybody up here, Flamay, congratulations once again,
but can you talk to us a little bit about how the comms flow for the rest of Sentinels when you guys made that decision
to either have Rai-Maze and get back onto triple support, or whether you feel like maybe if he's going to roll out with something different like as we've seen now with the Glacat,
If it doesn't work, how are the vibes here for this team? How do you guys come to that decision?
Um, well, if Riot complains too much, we're like, swap. But no, no, no, it's like, if Riot really
doesn't feel the character, it's like, sometimes like, you know, sometimes it just doesn't work out,
we just say swap, swap. If something's not working, we have like a small 10 second conversation about,
you know, oh, this isn't working, let's swap and swap. So, uh, everyone has like their own input
on what we want to run, but everyone is pretty flexible in the team, so we just swap to what
we can and what we know could be better.
Well, listen, I'll end on this because I gotta ask, I know in my own comp games, it
would be so tough having such a powerful team up and then that person swaps and he loses.
So as a Loona player, it's like, right, basically goes white box, like, hell yeah, I've got
the charm and then it's gone like, are there times where you're like, oh, I lost the charm.
Damn, like, is it like, does that happen often with a team that is this flexible?
I've happened to be once I think this match. I think it was second point of
museum. I lost and I was so confused. I was like where's my team up? I hate when that happens but
I always just walked to white fox later so I forgot I had it. Well hey listen you
guys put on a show today. It was fun to see you guys get back into form a bit.
We're excited to see you against the rest of the group right? You've played
Swamp and now down in the nightmare want to see what everything in the middle of
back looks like so good luck prep up. We're excited to see you guys as we head into next week.
Thank you so much. Have a great one. Thank you. That is for me that back line and fun to hear. You
know, I love to kind of highlight some more of these strategist players and cool to see sentinels
kind of get their vibe back. Right. We saw that yesterday all with 100 thieves and give us a lot
to kind of chew on as they've got a whole week now to prep for the next, you know, a couple of
days and man, I got to tell you one one and one ship a bit different than that. You know,
oh, and two. Yeah, I think a lot of teams are just working on getting that confidence
back. And I think although we have the preseason teams have vastly shifted since then. So it's
just, it's just another retake and starting for these teams. They just want to feel good
together moving forward. So that's definitely a confidence was reform. Well, yo, we've got
another matchup today again, three heading your way with the first one done. We're going
to our second. We're going to take a quick break. Allow the players to lock in. We'll
We'll be back on the other side of it.
and get this penny Parker, the
freshman costume ready to wreak
having there with the spider
nest. You got to check it out.
They've done awesome
customizations this time around.
Every single effect, the nest,
even down to the shots have
different sound effects and
looks all together. Hitty Parker always running a wild there, especially in some of those lower
elo games. Just, you know, go for the nest, y'all go for the nest, but either way, we've got our
matchup and probably the one that I'm, I would say most excited about today, right? We've got
two teams that were the definition of that middle of the pack, right? This is the two teams I want
to see Sentinels go up against because you've got NRG, you have 100 thieves, both did not have the
playoffs in the preseason in the way even close that they wanted and both now showing their
re-established a bit. Sheva, go to you first with a hundred thieves, right? They came back
in the form. They look very confident. What do you want to see from them today?
Yeah, I think this is just much more of their meta. And they mentioned that yesterday. I think,
you know, TTK is really strong in controller enabled metas. I think full dive metas is rare.
It's like the very few times I don't think controllers have a really big place. I think
you need a lot of quick movements. But now that Emma's back in the fold, Dino's in the fold,
Groot's in the fold. There's just a lot more slow paced options that play really well on
controller and ttk obviously just an absolute demon on the sticks vinnies group i think plays well
in dino medas as well if your team is more focused on isolating self can fill roles in the backline
i'm liking what i'm seeing from the team the question is can they keep it up and finally in
a similar vein what i like from them is when they commit to that dive if any goes on to something
like you know any diving with cap for example venom and then self goes in there with db that's a
force as well so they have a lot of options the question is can they stick to it and what do
they choose in the given moment? Yeah. So the best flexibility we saw on Vinnie Antoni
is just another Thanos going with more, more stones when going to the group, trying to
pair that up with the T Rex can be tough. They do it well on the other opposition, the
side NRG. Now NRG went against nightmare, right? So this matchup here is going to be
a bigger test. You've got yourself a ton of talent here, Vicky. Obviously, I think Chyman
stinkers aren't talking about enough. Stinkers, a very good Wolverine, one of the better ones
right up there with what we've seen it with days and friends, but gotta talk about it.
It's that new back line, right? You get velocity going to fly quest, bringing in hoodie and
Aztec coming over there from the OCE region. Yeah, and I think the fact that they're able
to pick up this Korean back line playing on ping, by the way, and still finding the communication
that they need to help heal for them, even when, well, what did we see? Because just
yesterday it was a target target band on that back line and they still were able to make
the adjustments that they needed. I think this showcases that this back line has been able
it's a flow really well with the rest of shock. Yeah, for sure. And I think these teams play
very similar. You know, window has just impressed me with the flexibility that he can bring
as a vanguard. He always looks like he's picking up somebody new in moderate has been that
staple anchor for no matter the team he's on. So excited to see them, you know, try
to get it rolling. Last time these teams met though in the preseason ship, it was Chai
versus Dallana, right? It was the Glartrox versus the Glartrox. That's not going to happen
as much this time around. So now you have more of that front to back hit stand moments.
I think that's going to open up a lot of these team wins is then you have stinkers and self trying to get that little dot going.
Yeah. I think there's a ton of talent in the thing is as we look here at the recap of the preseason obviously going energy's way teams are very different now especially energy shock.
And you guys mentioned the back line. I just want to reiterate that Aztec looks so good hoodie. And this whole team just has a ton of talent. But that back line did not go down like at all over these last few days.
You know, I was one of the people saying,
playing on ping like that might be incredibly difficult.
I think it might be a weak point for the team,
but I ate my words.
No, for sure.
And listen, if taking you back here,
I remember that Cracow was so close, Vicky.
And then you had a hundred things take you back,
but that first appearance of Shin Shibuya
and having velocity as low key
and that bit of the defense there
and the wall and the shock factor, I think,
is ultimately what maybe took a hundred things down.
And then it kind of spiraled from there.
We saw a hundred things barely get into the playoffs
from that, right?
do you want their revenge? How do they get it? What do they need to do? What's the key
to success in your opinion?
Well, at least the fact that they don't have to worry about velocity, right? Because velocity
went over to BlackQuest, right? So like, they're having those low key close to deal with, I'm
just, you know, but at least now being able to look at the way that 100 Thieves brought
out different compositions just yesterday and in the way that we were able to talk to
self in the interview, brought me to know that they are playing with confidence. We're
going on to Hell's Heaven first for our first domination map. And I think if we keep seeing
the way that if you talk about
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How scared are they of the dive that is NRG?
I think we'll see that if that's what they want to try to roll with.
I don't expect it though.
Yeah, I mean, there is some dive potential.
I think window does a good job playing the Venom.
And obviously there's a ton of flexibility across the board.
But yeah, it looks like Gambit and Dino off rip here for both sides.
Yes, you can have the Dino ban on energy side.
And man, I know right now, was it a small gaming set?
It's fake news, right?
Got to get the Gambit ban.
To give Gambit over to 100 Thieves is something for sure, Vic,
because now the next ban comes in being Luna.
That also shows the respect that we saw from TTK,
like the body damage that TTK not only soaked up
but did off the Devil Dino.
I like that band, but now you get the Luna band next too
to follow up while NRG gets to protect the Dino on their side.
And you mentioned a ready cozy motor also showcasing
what that Devil Dino can do with the Mantis
being the next band for 100 Thieves.
Should mean you talked about it.
We think this 100 Thieves back line is just disrespected.
And I think that might be a little bit of showing right here,
like Melania, show what you can do right
if you're gonna go on over.
I believe that they'll be playing the gambit over Winnie
way to guess here, but to answer the call back, I think that Luna band is necessary.
Have to go that route. Emma in response to doing a lot of Vanguard target focus.
Yeah, looks like they're going after TTK here. You know, trying to force potentially
an angel angle. There's some off map potential here. So Dino, that's the value. That's what
they're thinking. I think we are looking at energy shock. Not sure it's absolutely going
to work here. Seeing the lock in. Yeah, they want to go more dive heavy. That's what it
looks like they're going to play on.
So do they go ultra on them with the band and save like that's what they were doing
in response. But I think it's kind of throwing them off a bit. I don't know what they're
going to go with that route because you had the black hat for sure does give it could be bait by
the way that does happen here. Love the cap in I think at least that does shut down a little bit
of what NRG wants to do. Last save Vic, hundred thieves. I enable self in some ways when I would
guess. Yeah because then you think about the fact like self knows how to be able to swap over to the
daredevil if you want to try to match that but then obviously like the Ultron protect that you were
talking about before if you want to lean into at least running the triple strat if that's how you
You want to roll out on domination and it's going to be dead which is really good actually
Can we talk about Deadpool tries to work into the devil dinosaur composition to if they're gonna have to try to match that
Yes, I was talking to you about this. I think earlier this morning, right?
I was saying hey
You've got to have the tank pull against the dino if they're gonna be banning other things out
You can get that XP up pretty quickly and in domination you're gonna keep that on over, right?
So it's actually a really good pick from them like it a lot. I've seen the dual pool here, but yeah
It also does enable it was I'm not sure if that's just a visual area. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah
But either way, it doesn't enable the Jeff to write a Jeff is good. This is very strong Jeff map without a doubt
Especially if they're gonna be running dino. We talked about those answers quickly using ultimate
That's on the table still but getting that Jeff team up is a problem. It helps peel your back line
It's aggro gets you all quicker. There's a lot of solutions for that Jeff team up which I think is slept on a ladder
Hey, listen, I hope we see I don't think we've seen a hundred things at all
And I think it would be self play the dual pool who's definitely climbed up
Obviously jitward was the one that's been playing that the most right now
I would expect air devil especially against the black cap, but we're about to find out folks
We got a hundred these versus energy the middle of this pack conversation
What's team has shown that the off time has gone the distance of practice has been put to perfection shib Mickey enjoy this one
It's gonna be fun
Looking forward to it. My friend is be going prepare for some off-map stuff
I know gonna be one-sided so odds are they're looking to just essentially throw off as many vanguards off map as they can
And just kind of play off a snowball composition for the side of energy shot. Yeah, I was really surprised
I mean now you get to protect the Deadpool and TTK is gonna roll out with it
It is going to be the tank full coming in for a hundred thieves. I like what I'm seeing self leading in
To the devil himself. It's time. I'm gonna be with the dare devil, but already coming out of the gates
I know cozy adventure seekers being on the Wolverine and we're gonna start things off with the portal plate from windows
All right, and yes, we will be seeing a potential switch here from window after the fact
Mata are going in with that dinosaur as predicted, you can see T.T.K. on that vanpool, so yes, it was probably just a visual error there folks.
And T.T.K. is going to try to enable, but instead of running the jet, he's just more so to stay healthy in that front line.
That's the idea of what vanpool can do while still providing a common distraction and annoyance to that alternate on the back line with a vanhammer.
And if it starts up now, both teams kind of feeling each other out, seeing what composition they are running and preparing for this fight.
The tackle comes out quickly out of T.T.K. and the rest is forced out as Mata cleans that up. T.T.K. back in the fight.
back in the fight. Self-fall to Chime. It is Chime time right now as NRG are looking to take this
point right back and it looks like they just might up numbers at this current fight.
And you hear the sound of the bill ringing here in our ears. Chime already stepping up to the plate
on this game, especially here on L's every where everybody's trying to group up together to contest
down mid. And now you have winning over to the left side too. Trus trying to get able to get
a more big extension off of these BRBs. You did see one earlier, but Chime so close to N-Song
and furrow together with Azsak that they want to combo and to see ya.
And the next fight begins.
Getting point early is huge for the side of NRG.
We want to stay as a unit using those BRDs from Azsak.
If the people came up, Azsak's done a great job of finding the rocket.
Over these last few days, there's Azsak, where the fight comes in.
As MOTORA finds self immediately on Peel Duty,
Jelena trades it though, with the front line of Windo.
And out goes the see ya.
See if anyone gets any more value.
It looks like the point is kind of just in his tail right now.
They're doing a good job of slowing things up.
How are we going to be in a dicey spot when I'm at Vinnies?
Stankers coming in too from left field to follow up together with Chime to take out Vinnie
Who is on that cap?
Delena does have the galactic legend, but it's gonna be met with Hoodie who's holding on to the invisible boundary for now
But the hundredthies in those win conditions here, Shiv, is gonna be relying on that rage and royal flush
Self-toon making that top of overtime really utilize the black guy
Well, it's gonna be in favor of energy in this fight, Chime, in the answer to the invisible boundary from Hoodie
Both teams only in the high nudge trying to find that off-angle play from the cat that is Vinny, map change, and you can see now composition change from 100 thieves.
They're initially running that gambit team up, or excuse me, the reason why the watch is available in there is that commitment to come BIND ALL PIT in the sky with the galactic legend is that-
OH WHAT A-
OH WHAT A-
The team is not able to clean that up, good movement there from Zalana to stay healthy, nobody's fallen just yet.
That was such a good answer from Chime, the delay on the Van Hammer that you saw from T.T.K.
just waiting in the end song in front of poor diving down and also still calling out where
the BRB was placed after they retracted it to wait out the end of the end song inferno.
From Winnie's side, they finally flipped it but energy still had 92% on this point and
shipped.
that have their ultimate to the next upcoming fight together with the CN modern on the rampage.
available here for Vinny. You know what the goal is here, stick on that back line, charge up those
ultimates and keep going.
Shavanoko's he's sitting on the edge of the seat right now. He asked self when are we going to see the Black Cat?
Are you not entertained right now? Vinny having the freedom charged and let it close to the Galactic Legend, but it's gonna be Moddera who also has that rampage.
Windo 2 on the Hulk is gonna let it rip, scare, go, Berserk over onto the back line too, but is he being keep marked?
You see that BRB that's right behind them and they immediately terrorize window who's going right back to the spawner gates
And now you have the freedom charger from Vinny to delay the inevitable because it's a hundred keys are nearing 80%
It tries to set up a blank there and I think it was outside of the range of the BRB
So that is just gonna be more time here under thieves divide, you know
Just this percentage game already at 85% and climbing TTK was off available to Lena as well
The only answer here for NRG, it's going to be you who's trying to stall.
TKK now on the back line, starts up with the commitment, out goes a bunch of cooldowns
including the shield, from the front line of moderate, the commitment goes out on the
TKK.
TKK with a ton of movement on this hero, and over health is not stressed about it yet.
Down with 300 HP, out goes the freedom charge, excuse me, the rage or royal flush, and the
invisible boundary to answer it right back.
Is that going to be enough of an answer to let up, up in the sky, try to find one cannot.
Nobody has gone down yet.
the res comes through, and it's a 6v6 in a neutral fight as Delena finds the first pick.
Easy moderate, still chomping around while Chime has the N-Song's Inferno,
moderate finds the next victim, onto 2-2-3-0, Vinci partly low,
even the N-Song Inferno harassing that backline, but Lenya is still up self to follow up the Finastic,
and that's gonna be the strategist strongly for NRG before 100thies,
eventually put this point back in their favor.
See now the res comes in on the Delena anyone's flight as the portal now gets
committed goodbye there to the front line of window making the shift portal
gonna be another answer just cut off some of that LLS forcing a weird position
where the portal play itself is able to find one chime turns that on the self
though with some great shots under the dome of the cat and millennia is able to
find what Vinny now takes out a second and that's three and this could be it
here's a hundred things are trying to close the first map it looks like they
What a battle back and forth here!
What a way for them to go back into after making the swap of the portal plays and isolating the invis if you're the strategist from NRG.
You have been constantly harassed even when you're trying to find the safe arms of your Phoenix to help heal for you.
And we can see here the stats across the board. It's pretty universal.
You can see Winnie and Millenia able to find some finals on the back line where you know
Window obviously made the change there was actually not running back line
So tough look there just not able to find a ton of success on the Hulk and tries to switch up a few times as tech
Falling three times hoodie with two, but wow, I will say a hundred thieves
Did a great job in that point after the fact bouncing back and holding on keeping it virtually actually a hundred percent sweep
So that's like some really consistent comms and forcing out ultimate to positions that you maybe are not in an advantageous position
Just not letting themselves off that point too in the way that they were able to reengage in a lot of these fights
Was chef's kiss and the way that they were also able to isolate these strategies to coming out of the gates though now
Sheb in round number two Aztec does have the sea and stealth does have that blackout ultimate too
And they don't really have that sustain, but Melania will have the rage of a flush for that way condition
Give me the luck. Give me the...
You can see now how it goes, the vision.
He's had to see through walls, placing them in funky spots.
I'm sure the laser doesn't give up position too much, but as I say that,
we'll be seeing that great utilization of the ground.
Now I'm going to make a huge commitment once more,
but it's caught on the map!
50 HP is able to move away.
Huge shots there from Chyne.
We've made up stuff.
It's disgusting, even, as Chyne just tracks through all of that chaos.
When he looked upward, trying to break a really well-placed tier,
See it, but I think the map might have nested up a bit as it lifted a little bit too high,
and somebody's catching that angle.
Vinny finds one on the hoodie, and there is a big ultimate available.
It looks like the point will be capped likely by 100 D-Tour off in numbers,
but can they get this thing turned around?
They can, and RG, you're going to have to drop back down in alt,
window going to be close to it, same with Chime, Hoodie, and Modera.
So rather expensive too, though, and they kind of de-synced when it came to the Raging
Road flush, combined that together with the Galactic Legend,
but they'll have the galactic legend next and hoods will be ready for the invisible boundary.
TTK, marking down where Stinkers is as they try to match self on the Black Cat pick.
We do have that ultimate still being held in the pocket of self before trying to find an isolation pick.
You see the Phoenix is trying to mark down where self is and then you act quick to open up the follow up here with the calling card.
They get their invite in the mail, goes invisible temporarily, but this is big.
They force up the Ennico Boundary, which means that they don't really have any sustain.
Once the invisible boundary goes down, and the Galactic Dungeon is unleashing Delena.
Well, that was a disgusting ultimate here from Delena on the low side angle,
knowing he has to stay low to look towards that backline in.
The defensive position forces out an ultimate as well.
The Chai is still able to get value through it!
It's a huge turnaround as Chai finds self-bear numbers even out for the current moment.
Oh, well, it will be an advantage of the host on the point.
A hundredthies still holding on with a forty-two percent climb.
Oh, psychologizing.
Chai, Chai, right now,
The way you just did that point play with the end song inferno to then clean up one other member of a hundred
Bees a CS forced out but energy as you saw here saved we're able to control that point for now
They're forced to back away because they don't have anything
Defensive to deal with the damage output and at least they have the VRV which is gonna be on the next cool now
Yeah, and that's why it's okay to use the point percentage as a resource sometimes if you're gonna lose the fight
And you want to just ensure you don't lose as much time drop back as the unit. That's exactly what happened here
from the side of 100 thieves and then actually NRG doing the same thing on the retake, but
22% was given up there 100 thieves at 61 and climbing, Vinny's starting up with a freedom charge,
trying to keep that backline charged up and their ultimate, Millennia gonna have a huge
royal flush available, Winnie tried to gain as well and there goes that commitment across the
board as the C.E.A. launches out from Aztec, there goes that commitment now for himself onto the
backline trying to stop a great movement, but it won't last long as Vinny cleans up Putty,
CTK on a chime on the front line itself, still trying to get that flick on the Aztec, who's just running for his life.
The window got whiplashed there, saw the situation, said nope, and just tried to jump right out of there, before unfortunately turning into the small Bruce Banner.
They hear the photo, by the way, Vinny is looking to dive back in together. Can they stop this? They do get to pull it off, they're gonna be able to get right back onto the point.
It's going to be Modder who made up that swap up, and then CTK with at the first pick too.
He's going to be able to hold onto it till right now, over time taking away in favor for 100,
he's going to play out of the line right now.
No individual boundary just yet for Hoodie, but Chime is able to help sustain the backline and find self.
Their self gets pressed right back up for the moment.
Numbers evened out.
Saker's trying to get this pick here on a bitty.
He's using that schmooge to hold on, but I don't think it'll last too long.
He does get all the way, as Mata is able to find Millennium.
Huge kick there from NRG, who will look at a recap,
as Stinkers takes out Vinny finally on that battle.
But yeah, this is just very much another instance of NRG
has altered advantage now.
While defending, can they make this work
and do exactly what 100 Thieves has done on map one?
He just scripted a little bit here,
Shib too, because you've already mentioned
you have these ultimates online.
You're very close to that CA.
You could combo that together with the N-Song
inferno from time, but it's gonna be Delena who's gonna want some more of
these strategist ultimates forced out, hoodie specifically who has the invisible
boundary coming up for this next fight together with Winnie who will have their
own Sia to add in the extra bit of damage.
Yeah now if you are defending for NRG you just don't want to commit too much, you want to use these to
guarantee the answers and you don't want to double stack ultimates and you don't need to because it's a tough spot to be in, but 60% in climbing
his chime now goes up in the sky, tries to break the Sia, does just that great idea, but
Self's able to find one prior and no one goes down off the back of that ultimate. It looks like that was just not gonna be worth it
But a good idea 70% now and moving forward a tdk trunks off of the van hammer towards the back line
So I'm trying to go off the back of that looking right at the strategist now
And it looks like wow puts him in a dicey spot by a huge sea from Aztec once more just
Consistently holding on with that rocket window able to find one hoodie gets a pick out of the Lena and NRG now
Now, look at like 100 thieves in the last map!
As Secrets cleans up self, this is just an absolute battle,
as Energy Steel holds on to three ultimates.
I love the way that they are rotating through their ults here.
The fact that they still have three, they have the Eye of Agamotto
with 100 thieves with Delana making the swap up.
They let them devil out.
It's a two little two right here.
They go in with the portal plate, great positioning
until Delana gets to work around it as well as some extra makes her cover.
But Delana gets called out.
The BRB will bring back the strange and Vinny delaying the inevitable of freedom's part
as he gets me to be, it's taking out that huge pig you won't have to sustain from that freedom charge
and millennials that took me some time to get that rage roll flush.
Well, as Modder is able to find another and make it another, here's Window cleans up a third
and everybody finds a piece of the pie as NRG pushes this to map three, folks.
Giga Banger round number three, this is the way that you open things up, Shiv.
The fact that also Maudra did not have to burn the Eye of Agamotto if you decide to stay on there,
that's something else to consider when you go into this first fight.
And again, we have to highlight the way that energy was able to rotate through those ultimates,
and also the way that they were able to learn so quickly off of that first round alone,
so that way they don't trickle down and utilize the ultimates that won't have those follow-ups.
Yeah, there's so much to call it here right chime obviously played lights out there
But a huge thing to mention is window was really struggling
Window was struggling and to find a pick that worked against this composition could not find the red solution
It's actually oh in six and then the switch comes through
I believe from a moderate who goes over the strange for the quarter play switches over to dyno
And just gets nonstop success ever since as moderate is so strong on that doctor strange
So they've locked in ever since that switch came through and they took this thing virtually a hundred percent there on map 2
So this might be the cop they need to move this forward and get themselves a W here on domination
And they don't want to waste any time they're gonna go for the portal play try to cut them off here while they're at it
And try to get a kidnap if they could find the gambit to also getting information on where that recall is for the
Saur Lord from the swap that we see from Delena
They come up right behind them and with millennia also having the rage of royal flush
That's gonna be the main target priority from NRG
Both teams now I'm sure feel the adrenaline heartbeat going crazy thinkers and gauges on the back line
But right out goes the raging royal flush and have to be saved right back as when he's able to find one
Delana on the Aztecs self-fights hoodie everybody gonna get something here
I'm letting doing a good job keeping the back line healthy and that should be point cap early on here from 100
These but folks we've seen it time and time again usually in domination getting point early pretty much guarantees that you're gonna be
a good spot for the win, but both teams have bounced back from that exact situation, so
it's truly anyone's game.
So way that Milenia was able to react so quickly to getting jumped into the rage of Royal Flush,
and then you have Rocky Raccoon fighting back from Winnie to get that next KO.
Chime and Madara could get these follow-ups here, but look at Vinny's positioning together
with Self.
They're on the prowl here, Shib, before jumping down from the balcony.
Yeah, it's a good call there, Chime.
Moddera available to take the ultimate, Delena's self going to be right on board.
You can see it from the way as Outgoes back to Niven immediately ban hammering that backline.
Horse out now, good heal from the Dino. Moddera is able to find one hoodie, able to find a second.
T.T.K. trades it here with fingers as Outgoes with a combination.
Trying to break the sky. Heal his play there.
Now they're going to collide with the centerpiece to force out that sea of break.
What good focus from Delena, but even better, peel and just destination in terms of positioning
From the side of NRG, if no one goes down through that chaos.
I felt the gift that Phoenix wants to be met with when it's the holidays here,
and Self can let the Devil out too, as NRG do flip the point into their favor with the Sea of,
but it's gonna be on the thesis back and away for now.
Before Re-Contest, his gear chime up on the high ground, and Hoodie does have the invisible boundary.
The Galactic Legend was already used up, so it's gonna be up to Self to get some fall potential with letting the Devil out.
You can see now, hoodie with the invisible boundary, self holding on to ultimative as well with the left of devil out, not too much, going to be growing there besides window stinkers and you should see Vinny within this next fight if it's all long enough.
Stinkers able to find self once more, giving NRG in a good spot, roughly 60% there for 100 thieves, 30 and climbing here for NRG and they are also in a good spot.
There goes the level out from the takers right here at the backline, goodbye.
Winnie with an insanely quick TTK, but forced out and doesn't matter though,
because the BRB's gonna bring him right back.
Good timing on that BRB by the way.
He took from both sides, even with Winnie going down on the top 100 feet side,
but it's Millenia who stays up close to that rage or water flush, we match that.
With NRG still planting their feet on this point, they're nearing 50% now.
And Winnie is still holding onto that invisible boundary window as he mentioned,
after making that fucking over to the Devil Dino,
has had a lot more success, nice little stun too.
Huxed VTK is the lead and the BRV is going to bring TK right back,
as Vinny had used it up just a bit earlier.
Maudra is looking for the opportunity here.
It's the Rage and Royal Flush out of open up to Devil,
getting lead out from self.
Kennedy countered here from the other side,
as Aztec is in the first to follow.
And Wendo, dealing just enough of that pressure,
has nobody left from NRG to help follow,
because Vinny has wiped the floor with the rest of the team.
Yeah, 100thies needed a victory out of that,
Using the Raging Royal Flush, if you don't find Valor, you are pretty much cooked, especially in the given situation where Madara, Chyne, Aztec will have alts available for this next fight.
So you're gonna have Delena and Vinny. You do have an answer. Vinny gonna be close too, so likely we'll see Delena and Vinny combined once more to try to burn potentially Chyne out of the sky with that end song inferno to Phoenix as she lands.
Portal, I believe. I thought I heard a guess. I didn't.
The LNL, looking for that DRV, looking for that backline, we'll be able to one-click.
No, Alcoh's the SIA. Immediately, Deleta portals out,
so the 4,000 quads will regroup with the team as Vinny uses that freedom charge to keep the team healthy.
It's again just more of a neutral as no one gets to pick it yet, but down goes Deleta, huge pimp!
Chine, able to find Winnie! Alcoh's that SIA, and it gets deleted instantly here from Chine.
He's trying to get a pick on Deleta, turns out around instead, sneakers on a millennia,
it's anyone's flight with sneakers, able to find three now as Vinny and Self go down!
And the portal needs to be committed, but they're looking for potentially an off-map answer to counter it.
The fact that Motaurus is trying to get cheeky with it right now, though,
they know timing's up, the essence-seeker's getting a huge stagger onto Deletta.
That is with NRG, who did have a win condition against the Galactic Legends,
as he's trying to find the perfect opportunity to place us and block them out, nearing 95% now.
He blocks one side, forces them to trickle in from one direction here, and he's got the Eyebog motor ready.
You know, really smart play by 100 Thieves to keep things confusing.
Walking in all different directions, understanding that that portal was likely heard by the team,
to ensure they don't fall into a trap right now.
They didn't commit the portal.
It's over time right now, folks.
It's anyone's game.
We are in the final map here.
A domination.
Who comes out on top?
Immediately, 100 Thieves take control of Point.
They're gonna use that to their advantage.
There's millennia trying to build this ultimate.
60% in climbing.
Modera holding onto the eye.
The point immediately almost gets recapped right back by NRG.
And as the only ult available, Salp able to find the first one out of the back line is a huge start!
Giamma, but Modo goes home and does not find Purgis!
Can't the latter trade this on his sneakers as a letter to the lab goes out, and yes, it's matched back as moderate sneakers get too!
Chai following up gets the stun with sneakers going in and cleaning up the rest of the team!
Time is up the essence, overtime taken away, and the numbers are in favor for NRG, but the fight's not done just yet!
We saw that 1v1 and now 100thies have lost out their strategies.
They lost out on TCK to let them make some slump over to the Doctor Strange,
but the stall mumps through and the portal as they jump back and forth, no more stall.
NRG, the fact that they were able to reclaim that point when they were at Old Disadvantaged,
did not have a strategy ultimate to deal with the Galactic Legend.
It was a daredevil ship.
NRG's shock come out on top and the duelists really stepping up for this team.
Oh, wow, this was absolutely insane folks as we see the bounce back there from energy shock.
What an absolute pleasure looking forward to more of this folks, but after this break.
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Hello and welcome back my friends, we just saw one of the closest matchups that we have
had thus far in stage one, NRG got the win just by a pixel in the portal against 100
E's. And there's so much to break down against these two teams that have a lot of fans,
great players, and really story history. And we've got to kind of start with some of the
decision making. Now, right away, you know, we've talked about this. If you look at Black Hat,
let's start there. You have to save a Black Hat to give stinkers that option. But self really,
right up there with Tanuki, I think Jerick, you did some great Black Hats out there. Obviously
speedery was getting the best of them and it took a while to get to stinkers on daredevil
a great natural counter but ship i want to start there window then swapping on over to the dino
which they kind of based a lot of those picked bands with all your thoughts yeah there's a
lot to address right it was crazy that was an absolute banger series to watch but speaking
of window yeah like we talked about a bit in the cast i mean window started off at one point
was playing venom it was really struggling into that compositions really could not get on top
anyone gave it as a ton of self-peal a lot of good neutral could not find any value so
over to Hulk, kept getting picked off and trying to set up for some sort of dive brawl play.
And then eventually what happened was Modder was forced to portal at one point, forcing
the switch to Dino over there from Window and they just locked in after that, man. They looked so
much better as a unit. Yeah, just ended up working. And I know this is kind of counter to what a lot
of what we say. It is sometimes team, you know, specific. And Vicky, I do think this is a team
that you can let Gannet on the table. I think 100 Thieves is one of their weak points. They're
not much of a gambit team. I mean, Melania playing well, sure. I do like the Rocket Pick.
There's plenty of great things about having that ultimate, but then you don't go gambit
Loki. And in just general, the way their playstyle is, it just doesn't really suit them as a team.
And so I love the pick bands and energy shock. It doesn't exude confidence, right? When you have
the gambit, you usually have the ready set go green and wind button. When you have the
rage and roll flush combined that together with a, you know, galactic legend that we usually get
to see but I'm not seeing enough aunties too right we went from window who was
what like oh and six after that first round to then making that swap up that
you guys mentioned to now look at the stats right he went 13 and 8 and he was
able to terrorize the front line here being on that devil dino not really
caring about the gambit and the rage of royal flush and it was still able to
harass a hundred thieves then you combine that together with stinkers being on the
daredevil finding these 1v1s it just felt like an aura farm between stinkers
in the 1v1 with self and then Chime also grouping everybody up together and marking them was just an onslaught of damage
Yeah, history definitely repeating itself with the last time they met up in Kokoba
It was this close as well this matchup between the two and what's great about this if you're in our G
You look at your pick and bands you use one save on the blackout right get rid of that
Obviously daredevil is going to be what stinkers is just such a great player at and naturally has that counter
So I think they can even go that direction if they want to I do want to say ship a lot of the attention of the bands
or to TTK and I will say tip of the cap I think TTK kind of impressed me there with the way that
they did play tank pool because clearly adjusted fine losing out on his two favorites. Yeah I think
vanpool's struggles a little more after the recent changes. You know I think it's tough he does play
his own game well and I think that's the advantage of vanpool has a ton of movement a ton of over
health and has a great ultimate still even though a lot of the damage was taken down from just the
guns in general but one thing that I think is worth addressing you talked in the green room buddy
Loki was on the table. I think teams have gotten so accustomed to not being able to play Gambit in these scrims that they forget that
Loki Gambit is absolutely insane
And if you can't run it as a team that is a major weak point for your team and you address
I think it's absolutely worth calling you out there, but you killed it
I mean, I don't know why that's not something you have on the docket because I think if you were able to run that composition
You might have won that and when you can play Loki just fine. I think it's funny
Who was it? We were talking to an interview. They said
Gambit and people that typically get banned out and just competitive play like the only time you get to play them are in scrims
Right, so like it's almost tough to play these meta heroes because they're never available when you're doing the regular grind
You know on the ladder and whatnot one thing that is kind of interesting Vicky that I want to point out
Okay, you got to know the rules behind ignite of it, but I believe loser gets picked map
But more importantly gets a pick server. I believe is how it's going to work now
If you're a hundred thieves what you technically could do because I believe this was in Dallas
You could go as far away from that backline as possible, right?
I know right now they're playing from overseas you can go ahead and like when you want to go
I think it'd be organ right that you would try to make it even more difficult for this team to sink in
How long is it gonna take for a hundred these to send us to where we got to go?
You know what? That's why we get to fix everything, you know going for the preseason to this season
You already know cozy we were on for that gas, but yeah, you're absolutely right
and you know if you want to be able to force this backline to play out a more disadvantaged one day also
We're struggling to find that momentum at the very beginning. Sure. You want to capitalize off of it
Let's see where a hundred years is going to take us eventually
But I feel like just looking at the bigger picture too guys. I feel like Vinny too was struggling a lot
Yeah, and funny because Vinny was playing really well yesterday
I think and just in general there was some of the way that the communications was going like we were talking about
You know committing to the dive well ship and I feel like
They were kind of all over the place. It felt like when things were starting to unravel now
They do take it to the Museum of Contemplation nothing too shocking about this. I expect them to go this direction
But hey now do you warrant a change in the bands you now try to say okay?
We're gonna give some more respect to someone like stinkers because if he was not under devil there ship
I think they were gonna run away with it. Yeah, I mean I'm with you
I think that's definitely a good band potential
I think also potentially moving to Phoenix if you are gonna go back to that rocket and it forces you to kind of play very defensive
always be mindful of what that ultimate can do. If you ever want to be reactive with Vesilla,
it's just so dangerous because, you know, there's always an answer that can shut that
ultimate down quickly and maybe even still get value of a pick through it, right? So yeah,
I think there's a lot of different things that they can elect to do. But the question is,
will they do it? Because I do think this team is working on the bad phase,
but it always hasn't been their strong suit. Well, both teams can clean it up. Even NRG
with some of what they want to try to change up with that black hat save into what they want to
go into. So will they target TTK? I think if I might NRG, I would take away, hey,
still play pretty well there so maybe we try to swap a couple of these up and so I do expect the
gambit to be left open again go ahead and give it to 100 things right because gonna play a bit
different on this map but there it is the same exact thing we're seeing on both sides and we're
going to see the same saves there Vicky. Yeah it's going to be the focus onto TDK's lineup honestly
because that was the biggest thing that NRG had rolled out with while 100 thieves they get the
gambit and cozy I agree with you again just some the same thing that she was saying to you like
If this is not a composition that 100 Thieves looks like they could capitalize off of, just let them have it here.
It's a big weakness to have, Chip, because then you allow it to change the entire draft, right?
You give the gamut, then it could just shape the way you do things differently. Obviously, last time going for that TTK ban,
we knew the devil dino was going to be banned there. Now, to swap things up on their side, what's the first thing you address, Chip, if you're 100 Thieves?
Ah, it's dicey. I mean, that's how I'll say, maybe the Phoenix. As you get to the later bans, that's where we're going to see more of the unique stuff,
This stuff is more of a problem that maybe isn't as meta right?
I think right now it's so traditional we were moving the mantis and the stuff that seems very strong in the meta
But I do think you potentially move the Phoenix DD's on the table cat
I mean, I do think DD's really strong at this map in particular and does a good job answering cats
So if you want to run cat, that's a removal point. You want to get rid of the sea of break
You get rid of the Phoenix. It's up to those two I would say
I said you go DD the last band because then they can also ban cat from there
That's kind of what I'm thinking if I'm on their side
the Luna bands just a very staple great one to have right now in this meta. I agree. Still
attacking TTK, right? So getting rid of Dino, getting rid of Emma, maybe challenging even
more. But the only problem with that is Windows going to be in my guess on that devil dinosaur
right off the rip. They're not going to waste any time with the cop. There it is. There's
the save. That's what you want to see. They had the changeup we predicted there, Vicky,
with the devil getting the save instead of luck it and leaving to the very end to you,
right? And now it forces 100 thieves to linger. Okay. So what is going to be this next band
that lines up. It's going to be the Phoenix. The respect that we see right there too when we saw time really popping off is not going to be enough on a map like this. Yes, you have open sightlines, but especially when you get to that second checkpoint, guys, you have so many different flanking angles to just tear apart the attention of the strategy
just backline as now they want to prioritize the Phoenix for their side for 100 beans.
Like we know what we're talking about, the last three bands and the way they unfolded,
it was kind of a loose, loose ship though because if you don't fan Luna, they're going
to just save that Luna, right? So like, yeah, you could have gone Daredevil there. We kind
of said that's where you would have had to push it, but now ultimately give me left on
the table. So kind of the same of what they had. I think Vicky made a great point with
the front to back though. Phoenix being a lock is going to help the Luna.
Yeah, looks like they're going to remove the group. This is just a Vanguard slaughterhouse
right now. And I think it works. I think this is an Emma group map, truthfully. I think
This is a great map for both of them. They've had success across all of Ignite here
Taking that away from the frontline forcing them into a more divey kind of play their own game style is exactly what worked for him last
Time Fidane broke don't fix it. I'm calling it now. We're gonna have TTK maybe on the strange
Invis you might go back to the tank pool yet again
But I think they might lean that way because when you look at what's available now
You're getting very low and options Captain America's where Vinny's gonna likely go maybe with the venom depending on what TTK
What's the preference but you're gonna lose out on a lot of that frontline here we go guys
We've got a hundred these versus in our G. It was raised or thin moments go in domination
We find ourselves now at the museum of contemplation
Oh, man, that was a panger of a first match between these two teams
I'm hoping it stays true as we head into match two Vicky
I'm excited here
I like the way that we were able to change things up a hundred things still being able to have Phoenix on their end wall
NRG do not have that same luxury.
You see Chime already being on that buggy.
I'll remember this as they were giving a start
on the defensive side of things.
Aztec also still sticking to the rocket
with Hoodie being on that Invis.
But it's a different look.
I like the way that the pick and ban phase
has rolled up for NRG.
It's kind of been tearing apart the Vanguard line
of Elba-Hunter thieves to force them
to be able to not really protect that backline
just as much.
Yeah, I like what you're calling out there.
Good comms as we start this next first fight
of map 2, PKK, a map van to what you see here.
I'm going to get some of that experience moving forward.
Opposition's going to be up on the screen right now.
Pretty consistent to what we saw last go around.
This time, NRG is going to be denied the usage of that ensign in front of us.
Shutdown to see it.
Chime able to find one of the latter early on,
setting the tone to space.
Being driven here, the cart is moving,
and Self is going to be able to head back toward the team
after forcing Eyes backwards.
Already showcasing the success here with Self being
but having information being on the Daredevil themselves.
also calling out where Steve is in position. Before diving in, Chime has been on fire though,
now trickling into the second map ship. TDK already has that ultimate online too, going into
this next fight. And if you look on the other side, just a quick stop for when Windo dives in,
but TDK harasses them before sending him away on the center.
Yeah, forcing out cooldown is going to retreat. You'll see that a lot against
Evis, just forcing Diamond because that is so much value in and of itself. It's not always
worth feeding a KO. It's all about cooldown and management and understanding that you
have just burned from the opposition to call out for your team so they can set up something else.
Shime looking backwards, trying to peel a bit from Vinny.
He's just driving eyes backwards when exactly what Cap always does.
You can see the cars are in different significantly.
Window able to find Vinny there early on for NRG.
He's paying a very strong spot on this defense.
And out goes the Van Hammer there from TCK.
Window able to find Vinny once again.
Now numbers are heavily down, driving everyone backwards.
Huge defense of Fonkin NRG.
You would think at this point if you're 100 thieves, right?
And you see the venom that is from window and stinkers as well trying to go in for these diving opportunities
Will we ever see the swap from winning to the low key very you have those lamps available if you don't get beat it out
And you actually allow Vinny to go back into the safety of your lamps
And you also try to prevent the dive from finding its success here and you get double range of old books
They'll still stick you with the seal if they're gonna get eventually very close to that with stinkers 2 on the prowl
See them setting up now using that counter
most PD able to find invisibility at all times.
It's a very difficult setup to play well on Black Hat self still trying to make that work though.
As you can see, the escape comes out, forcing out cooldowns, retreating, not even worrying about using the feasts.
You don't need to burn everything if it's not advantageous for your team.
And now likely in the next fight, you'll see that feasts go through.
The Rage of the World plus comes out quickly though, folks.
That's going to be a trade and a huge ult comes out.
Goodbye to three, make it the entirety of the team.
What a combination there for 100 thieves in the attack.
Huge follow-up here too from Delena and they still have that Sia available shibs, Vinnie
close to that freedom charge getting all on top of the cart to get to that first checkpoint
moddera making this follow-up to get the portal plate just to go in for the contest and Stakers
let the devil out from the other side of the portal and it's met from Sia on both angles,
window comes in, the anti-heels follows up and finds Millenia, that's a big pick-off
only leaving Winnie to sustain the rest of 100 thieves, freedom charge too to help them
Ow, but Chime too was also trying to go in with the Kraken Impact.
Cause look at the reasons that they were looking for, and now they have to worry about self being on the Black Hat Activating the Ultimate.
CTTK's able to find out on the bottom.
Crystal wants more for 100thiefs, wanna get this thing pushed.
And it looks like they just might be... Oh, it's Trader right back, it self falls from Snickers again, that counter.
Coming through with the win so far.
Point just being stalled right now, and it looks like in a tough spot, the Lennon's able to escape, get fully healed up, Aztec.
There's some nice positioning here towards the back line, not pressured at the moment.
It's going to enable infinite frontline pressure, and yes, it's traded out as
Monara comes in as able to find one chime with a two-piece, and now NRG are up and able to take
control of this point. After making the swap up too, as Monara goes over to the Angela to get
right back together with the rest of the team. As the Kassat see a hoodie makes a swap over to the
White Fox, 100 thieves have not gotten to this first checkpoint, forcing Vinny to come in with
with a border play down to the last three seconds.
It's just forming these optimists.
Millennium, D.K., he's on a fine one!
Boom, goes a huge bridge, where the fuck can they find values through this?
As Black Cat is dancing, self-inviting, able to find one.
Is that gonna be enough?
Yes, it looks like the numbers are dwindling here.
For NRG, will the border play come through in time?
Overtime, taking down.
And they are so close to this point,
but it's still being stalled.
It might be enough time here.
Yep, the thing is they had used it up just a little bit ago here,
Shade, into the fact that you weren't able to harass Gambit.
Millenia, too, was just uncontested in the back line.
It was tough.
They were leaning into that cracking impact from time,
and he was shut down at the hands of T.T.K.
It was a good cleanup from 100 thieves,
and they didn't really have to expend everything
with Vinny Lingering.
Do I swap?
Do I utilize his Eye of Agamotto?
They just used that portal not too long ago.
They wanted to clear board of the space,
and even Madara had swapped off the Angela
to go over to the Devil Dino this time.
See, later in the hours,
the speaker's trying to make something work out here.
to let the devil out, walking towards back line,
instead gonna be driven forward just a little bit
from 100 feet or keeping the aggro away
using that coming hoe on the leash
and keep the team moving.
See the drop back here from Valena,
just killing back line with its hunt,
hits and pressure inside of Phoenix.
There's that dive now,
towards rocket tries to escape through portal,
does just that,
it's some really good utilization of portal in your dive.
I'm trying to get a robbery going here as self on the prow Delena having the open sightlines
that we were mentioning before especially when you get to the second checkpoint to the different
flanking angle trying to dive in together with Vinny.
He goes in through the TP right through the other side of the wall safely is able to get
away on that one way TP but it's met with a dear devil from the other side is still
able to go right back around Delena also getting the reset on the end song inferno.
splitting the attention of NRG and they had lost out on ASTEC originally and
Trime does have that crack and impact with their downing numbers and they're
looking to reset.
Blenna's back home right now with this hitscan, fighting two right there in this neutral,
giving them a ton of space but folks there's only 50 seconds on here,
three ultimates of envelope for NRG, only two for answers from Millennia and
Cell but it is the raging royal flush and we all know how valuable that can be
in the right hands. If this thing is committed here, it's a Millennia likely to use it now,
Oh, yes, and there's a commitment.
Dive-genre-right rhythm, but everybody's collapsing there.
There's plenty of the dangerous spot.
It looks like Winnie's able to find the first pick on the chime,
who had all's available, but the rest comes through.
Chime still in the fight.
Self finds Aztec.
Not being absolute from the sea.
I just get something a very dangerous spot to holding on somehow.
How are you so healthy here, Self?
Finally falls the stinkers, but the space is already being generated.
Is this enough now, as Millenia finds Madara T.T.K. on the window?
And wow, that was disgusting as they take point two.
That was so big for himself to distract so many members of NRG back into his Faun Room gates,
putting the attention of the rest of the team and allowing the audience to have a space,
and Delano with these staggers one by one as they fall!
There, the Faun Room gate of Ventus Eustaceus himself came right back around to follow up with Delano.
We are on point three, folks.
Dr. Strange turning into a giant tube.
You gotta stay on top of it. It makes it a little more dicey, more difficult to push this point in OT
when you gotta have a body on the float at all times.
It is definitely hard to find all three points,
but if you do it,
there's you a massive advantage there on defense,
knowing that this point is very defendable,
especially when you're at res, this is so close by.
So Vinny has had that freedom charge available,
looking right towards the back line now,
it's gonna have to be driven off the height.
Continues that pressure with some more dive
as out goes south as well,
but Chime turns that around and dang, goodbye there.
Vinny with a huge crack in impact.
The reset comes through, but it doesn't look like
it will find more.
But still gonna keep that pressure on Chon, tries to get the pick on Islata, who does escape,
window takes out one pick onto Melania, and they will retake this space.
Not expending too much though, even after feeling that pressure, it was really just T.T.K.
That utilized that ultimate, now they're down to less than 30 seconds on the clock.
This is when they were almost held in that first checkpoint.
They just basically walk and stroll the point into that second checkpoint.
Then you just have the Freedom Charge to get it with Delana and the end song infernal,
and Winnie, who has the Camille Unleashed,
it's gonna be crucial.
We think he's letting the Devil out.
Yeah, I think it was a huge play.
They pushed out Dragon,
oh dang, down on a build,
and someone's won a counter,
and this is exactly why this pick came through,
and exactly why they banned out the Phoenix
and the opposition.
Huge plays here from 100 Thieves.
You still have the coming home,
and soon to be the Rage and Royal Flush.
Will this be enough for 100 Thieves to walk through
as there is no answers for NRG
very much in favor of 100 Thieves in this fight?
It's huge here too that they only had use of that Freedom Charge for that Sustainability.
They're gonna have that coming-only leash as you've mentioned, together with the Rager, Warlord, Flush.
Cycling through these two strategies, ultimate now, if we look at energy, they don't really have that sustain.
Hoodie now is still building into that Indigo Boundary, the extra attack after making that swap up.
Here comes the Rager, Warlord, Flush, and the Fault, as Self is on the prowl.
DDK's able to find one numbers up now, once more for 100 thieves.
Nibbid's gonna be locked here, so I'm using that Rager, Warlord, Flush, but Windo's able to take out Winnie, who had Ultimate!
And the LENNA finds WINDOW to trade that back, but is that gonna be enough? The portal gets launched out now, too!
See who gets more?
Let off this portal, still staying on top of point for the current moment, when he's in a tough spot, they're very low, and does fall, their f***ing self cleans that up!
And it's still moving forward, CTK applying pressure, with those guns at range, so once more has ultimate available, like they got a pop in here, and he used that!
I just see all that trying to come in on backline, but 90 HP!
Oh!
wait a minute the crack it in fact they'll reset from the lineup and they
stopped the self from going on a rampage here you find the next victim you
find Winko, Barra, Asak they all come crashing down only two members left on
the points from Energy's defense and it is a hundred thieves looking to get this
payload to the finish line and they did just that full three point sweep there
well played across the board by 100 thieves to figure it out and really this
I was a little scared there, though, Shayne, but at the very end, you know, right before
we saw the black cat use that calling card to get an invitation in the mail, Winnie did
go down with the ultimate in hand, and it was just enough pressure, even after trying
to use that crack and impact, and following that pick there to try to get the reset, and
then it was just self-embracing that back line looking at the stats alone.
Yeah, I mean, disgusting play by Delana.
14 fouls there.
the Fee-Witch and the ban out was just uh it was just the right call i think they knew that rocket
was the solution uh finding out so quickly strong honestly in this meta but the biggest counter
ever is that fiend it's a few from them and you're able to run it uh they're now strategy stuck now
they're forcing to something else they're thinking about what they want to run in that back glass
like now potentially running that cloak and dagger man look at the lineup by the way 26 and 3 14 final
And yeah, like you mentioned going out with the cloak and dagger from modern was not on my bingo card
But you know desperate times call for desperate measures when hoodie was forced to swap order the doctor strange when we saw it
He unfortunately go out first here and that force moderates are trying to build into that eternal bomb
But it's difficult when you're getting harassed into your own spawnery gates together the Delana and self-show though
I like the cover that this duelist lineup provides and now look to see if this is gonna be the same success on the defense
Look at the top right
Oh my
As you can see that low key gives me rowing new when he had an anthem. She thought it was just an idea that they weren't feeling comfortable
Yes, we were wrong and now hundreds are gonna be able to make that work here on this defense and our G
Each are changing this is gonna be taken away instead of cloak and dagger on the field window was considering that been pulled over to which comes through for strange
This is crazy. It's almost like they're listening to us here shib for following up to when just so sticking onto that Venom
finding a lot more than a precious of Delana being on this Phoenix too. Split up
the backline for 20 not getting vetted out still having those lands
available millennia wanted to build each of this regional clutch but which
condition that 100 feet want to rely on to DK already activating that band hammer
first onto stinker still finding that 1v1 against a black cat so he stinkers
first in the world before back in a way and just delaying out on that ultimate for re-engaging.
You can see here now, folks, still mid-ing, so the dive comes in, bang, Vinny on the backline,
looking for one, gonna force out Crystal's likely no good patience, and as the peel's
still there, forced to escape the 300 HP, but does get away, and no holding on to reset
for the team.
He comes to the other side with that end-song inferno too, that's a right around the corner,
will he hold onto it to deal some more of that extra damage, or will he use up as a reset?
Together, maybe with a rage of royal flush to the Aztec that has the Eternal Bond first.
Gonna help with the sustainability, is gonna activate it, paint the core purple,
but it's not gonna be able to sustain them once they let a useless Ents on the Conferno.
Alright folks, and back in once more, you're saying?
Algos some commitment with the Eternal Bond. Aztec able to find Winnie there, is a huge kick.
Millennium, trying to keep the team healthy on the frontline. Vinnie dancing, but it won't last long as moderate takes out Vinnie.
TTK falls to stinkers and they get to why don't you now as stinkers is cleaning up on the daredevil window and monitor with two more
There'll be enough for them to pay take one
Cleaning it up here and RG having a much more successful time getting that first checkpoint in comparison to a hundred thieves here
And now making the changes that they will have because let me tell you that Loki game
It did not last very long ship
When are you going right back over to the invisible woman and they do have that rage and water flush for this next fight?
Yeah, it could be difficult with a ton of movement to be running the Loki, but I do think it's still an incredibly strong composition.
Definitely lends itself to be available for triple comps too if you really want to have two royal flushes.
But yeah, immediately switching off, but it's a tough look. Defense comes through as the rage and royal flush gets committed.
Everybody applying that pressure makes it two. Do I see more coming through? Yes, we do, South.
Somebody stop him, it's Elena. Just cleaning house here on the Phoenix.
Just an absolute hitscan demon. Has been known for it in the past and is back right on a home here on this Phoenix.
And every single time I also see Black I get these follow-ups having the calling card in hand too.
It's like you'll never see them coming.
It looks like they've got the Phantom Thieves themselves to perform a delivery and self is holding on to that for this next fight.
You look on the other side too from NRG and Hoodie doesn't have to come on.
These stinkers can let them devil out, but they're trying to match that together with these strategies.
Ultimate's classic to have that hit to a bottom.
Take a look at Delena marking them on this Phoenix.
And here we go now folks as out goes the entirety of the suite of the charge, Madara starting
up quickly with the double beast rampage, one fucking board match right back from Vinny
with the freedom charge.
He's gonna have to stay in, he's gonna want to shot it from the left, the take out window
in disguise, Vinny, stupid team moving, huge iframe there from self to avoid the DD and
out goes the cracking impact, bang the end song in front of Vinny.
able to find Chine now is gonna put them up a number once again and our G driven back
The autofocus on said Chine this entire map has just been night and day in comparison to what we saw for map number one
Chib I mean you're allowing Chine to get away with what is basically a murder here for that final run
And now it's a completely different look getting whiplash
They not only prioritized him as in the freaking band phase, but now they have been marking down 14 of the swap over to the Namor
Yeah, switching to Neymar here. It's a little bit different. Neymar's, you know, strong in the dive for sure.
Haven't seen a ton of it in this tournament so far. You saw the setup there on the low side of 100 peds.
When it came to self, and then vision through wall, if the team committed together. Out goes to let the devil out.
Hoodie going to clean that off his window. The dive was perfect. It's all three. Come through and find the entirety of the back line.
Self able to trade down with stinkers, but is that enough? Still stalling the point. It's all the goal is here.
If you're going to go down, he might as well go down on top of the point.
But he's trying to get this trade on a penny.
Only one will begin.
Hoodie gonna have to be driven away and almost goes down.
Great movement there to stay healthy as they look 4.2.
But that Force 1v1 also split attention away from Hoodie
and did not allow him to keep Windo up.
He will come back into this fight with the freedom.
Charge! He smarts the Phoenix!
Well, it's shut, but it's okay. Asak is right there.
Also has the Attribon's charged up too.
But it's pressured from Zelenna over on the back end of things.
So he's got the following party.
He's sending an invite to the male, the invisible boundary, to match up with a trope-on that is unleashed from Aztec.
And he's just to delay the inevitable open. Here comes Shide, beautiful.
Terak gave two to follow up to find Dylanna.
Well, they do commit now with the Royal Flush, but I'm not sure it was worth it.
They can't stay there right now. Everybody's following Aztec, finds a second pick on the Vinny,
and looks for even more. The escape through self. Can they get to this point?
It doesn't look like they can, and they will be getting point two.
They are looking so good right now, Chib. NRG are on top. The way that they're trickling in with these ultimates too.
Shutting down 100 thieves. What's a lean-on? No rage or royal flush. They saw that when he got off of Loki.
They know now that they're not getting very confident off of having that gambit say that they used the project on.
And you look at what they have to provide. Delana's been bopping off doing a good amount of that damage, but we need to see more of these follow-ups together.
Yeah, and there is going to be a roughly even spread and ultimate spread now.
In terms of answers, there is no strategy that's ultimately available for 100 feet.
They need to give value here with Vinny in terms of needing an answer.
So they can use that Freedom Charge to drop backwards, get that strategy slung charged up.
P.T.K. is going to start off initially with a Van Hammer, and instead of using that on Chime,
not allowing Chime to simply use any attack for the moment.
But normally we bother him much, still have cooldowns available to answer.
How do you be able to find one on a millennia on this backline?
Once more, from NRG, he's been playing Lights Out.
Vinny finds Aztec.
Stinkers goes down from Winnie.
And now while a hundred thieves are bouncing back with the vengeance,
oh, what a throw there from Vinny to clean up Chime,
disgusting work on the cap.
I still guess a quick little chalk, though,
right before backing away, giving this base over to a hundred thieves,
but time will be able to come right back in,
the warm of the room is here.
While Vinny has that freedom charged,
rallying the troops together,
wanting to get the next set of the Rager Royal flush to follow up.
But they have to be careful with the way that time to control some of this space,
if they want to mark down Millennium.
back and forth again, Millenia trying to build up here almost has that ult available, like
they're going to use this in a moment should they need to.
Space to go being taken as the cart's almost forward.
Helena finding that first pick, smashed right back down to self though and the idea was to
try to save this ultimate to potentially combine with self itself.
It's deleted there folks, that is a huge pick, out goes the whale onto the frontline.
It doesn't look like that one lands for value, the commitment comes through on the window
though and they're still staying up as the freedom charge gets locked once more this
This time from Biddy, pressuring that backline,
the turtle bond gets launched to answer,
TCK's able to find one through the chaos,
and all of these are so up in numbers and all.
Can you see an anti on the other side,
but you're still holding onto two of these cards,
you're just laying the inevitable,
waiting out the turtle bond.
I like this option from a hundred things,
not having to use up any of their ultimates
that they have here.
Four now coming up as TCK just gets his,
raging world flush in the pocket of millennia.
Here comes Zelthos, that's what they like to see legends,
looking to get these follow-ups as TCK's
the first to use that open.
And a hundred thieves are up in numbers. The port of play needs to be committed here as of the time.
We'll be ticking down shortly. Millenia gonna battle back.
But while they're still holding on, that means the portal will come true!
Need some help? I'd pop up the spades by accident here instead of the gaming cards.
Instead, get some threads and find a window. It is a hundred thieves up in numbers.
Can they port of play to contest back up through the point?
As Aztec had made the swap over to the Doctor Strange.
But right through the mouth of the portal, right in the middle of the rubber ducky,
They cannot contest the point and a hundred thieves successfully take us the distance should
What a battle folks you got ourselves a 1-1 series and this is exactly what I'm looking for every time I cast what a banger
So far both teams putting everything on the line
You could just see the passion in these fights and I love every moment of it a hundred thieves gonna bounce back on map
To now we head over to the favor the map choice from the side of energy
This is crazy here just looking at the way that a hundred things was able to hold it down shape
I cannot wait to see what map we're moving on to for game number three
Don't go anywhere because that's coming to you on the other side of this brick
I'll never fall!
So I'll shoot you!
You're the one who has to...
Across the world I see you standing in my way
I remember the time, the place we used to fight
When the sun and moon and I wandered
Whatever it was, it's an empty world, right?
It's like a sunny shadow swimming in an ice
That's a puzzle from me to see you out
We are sent off for electric again
Break this shit's mind, you're way far away
Do you remember who you really are?
Show me that you are still the only one for me
I'll be waiting for you
We can't have angels rise, we can't have the distance left in the circles
Before the risk spreads to the end, we have levels in the end
But I can't have angels rise, we can't have the distance left in the circles
We are rivals till the end
We are bush, you are a win, you are a bite
You're right, let's see your cross-tie
It's been a long time
You were mine
Do you see the dawn, the flames rolling right?
The shining one, those from the breeze
And yes, across the time, I see you
Excerning the skies
And do you see now?
I'm sorry, I'm sorry, we can still fight
Like the wind in my hand
When I don't know what
And now it's the only time
Your heart is mine
Like a smiling darkness
You're left as it was before
Destiny and pain
New days flashed before the past and future
So she's like the light
Like the thing
And when you wake up
I'm your prize
Hello friends and welcome back history finds a way to repeat itself as once get a hundred
thieves takes the middle ground a museum of contemplation just like the preseason forcing
our third map between these two great teams both teams looking to get on the right track
in this middle ground that has been a grouping they continue to find themselves on and just
to say guys and first of all you got the lina doing the classic fano snee oh fine i'll do it myself
right just going crazy on the phoenix what you vintage 100 thieves want to go and talk about
quickly though the vanguard line right you have the full commitment from nrg getting rid of everything
on ttk's in playing you know tank pull to a good success ship and then okay you get rid of the group
i mean viny could not have played cap more perfectly there in the way they committed i think that was
was a huge thing that gave them the upper hand
and really made them falter.
Yeah, I think this Vanguard line
does have a lot of flexibility.
I think sometimes that, you know,
when teams don't have success,
people like to harp on it,
like maybe they didn't have the flexibility.
I think the team has always had flexibility.
And I think in a gambit composition,
when you allow cap through,
especially with something like a play cap,
well, you just charge that gambit even more
and saw Loki for a moment,
that's just gonna be Raging Royale flushes
out to Wazoo at that point,
eventually switching off it.
But still, they, you know,
it didn't allow the duelists to do the thing.
I know you guys are gonna talk about that in a moment.
The duelists were free range all the time
were lights out. Yes, so I mean, I was saying the green himself might be one of the most
important players in this entire journey. The way that he can swap quickly from dive
into that Star Lord pick like if you were to get rid of that group and I'm going to change
it to Star Lord, that whole third point would have looked a whole lot different. Easy to see,
you know, hindsight 2020. But really, for me, I mean, Vicki, it is it's this battle of the
trenches, Chai versus Helena and how well they do against each other. And it is constantly
this stinkers versus self kind of battle. Yeah, it is. And I think the focus on the time I
mentioned it in the broadcast where we saw the the ban onto chimes fiend is showing that respect and then you have the
Bucky coming out and getting focused down to you mess that with delana popping off not only dealing so much of that damage
Output you were saying it cozy perfectly in the green room
I'm just gonna wrap up and do it myself if I have to and that's literally what delana came in and packed the rest of
the map 400 views
Sure, and they continue to kind of I would say if I'm in our G I would probably stick with a lot of the same
You know pig bands that they went with and they're you know slowly cleaning it up
You had the daredevil saving there once I think it's still you know completely fine
You don't want to lose in that direction self going black hat able to shut down like the invisibility
Relic and even somewhat of the TP because you're gonna be able to track that to success there
So we'll see how they kind of clean up the back end of their pig band
I think the front is fine, but take a look at the stats speaks for itself kind of crazy
How well chime was able to work in that name or ship? I know you talked about that
It's like, it was a very unconventional pick,
especially with, you know,
not being a lot of synergy there in that midpoint,
but it worked out to success.
Yeah, I think, you know, the, the idea of a time
behind 100 Thieves after the loss of those Vanguard's,
it was a use the gambit
and then everybody play your own life composition.
You have so much movement in this team, you know,
TKK is going to be on that van pool.
You got Vinny on the cap.
They all have their own solutions for over health
to let him with a reset off of ultimate self with a flight.
And so what they were trying to do is constantly dive.
So a good answer for that, like you're saying,
is chime on that name or the idea of being
to slow things up a little bit make them think make them have to look at squids instead of always
being on that backline so it did work and slow it up a bit but it just wasn't quite enough for sure
and when you ever match that closer right like the razor thin right there's little things I know
one of the cast is like I think we uh the fox went in I think was Aztec right or hoodie against
Vinny and just that quick attention grab ended up having one of the vanguard's fall like it's a small
decision making things that can happen self staying alive right that's going to ultimately you know
dictate some of the way these games go and I think if you are going against that pick of that map that does suit 100
These I think energy you can hold your head high and now you've got the power right
That's the big thing about best of three winning that first map Vicky is having that power on your side now to take it to the home base
That you feel most comfortable in yeah, if anything now
This is gonna be a priority on to what they could deal with when it comes to shutting down Delana
You saw that damage I was like 53k plus in terms of damage output that we saw to and the back line wasn't struggling if you're talking
energy side of things, but we're seeing the weaknesses shine from 100 Thieves' backline.
If you let them just have the gambit again, you saw them swap off the Loki, that is already
an indicator that they may not feel confident in having the double Rage of Royal Flush instead,
relying on having that YF, which by the way is still very great, but it comes to finding
that Kumio Unleash, getting melted in an instant from one of these duelist ultimates too, and we
saw that at one point, right, with the Galactic Legend at one point looking at the Kumio Unleash,
It didn't even last for like two seconds before it was completely reset.
And that's something that goes hand in hand when you have a best of three on our hands
and you're going onto this last map.
Yeah, I think we're so used to like giant heel circle keep everybody alive.
Doesn't work that way with White Fox.
A great ult, right?
But especially that with Gamma, you're kind of leaning into the full offensive, right?
If you will, same with, you know, Loki.
But you do have some key abilities there, ship.
I would say, yeah, I think Winnie was the one there that wanted to see a little bit of cleanup play
and kind of see what way that they are going to adjust that backline because they are going
to get gambit again. I think that is going to be safe. Do you then go towards the Delina
on the back half of that, right? Like they're going to say Phoenix, you have to get the
Phoenix band ahead of time shape. Like how do you attack this pick band that we're going
to go into here?
Yeah. I think depending on the map, you're not going to have to get rid of the Emma as
much. You're not going to have to necessarily get rid of the group. So that does enable
them to go after the duelists a little bit. And I think we might see that as we head into
the band phase shortly, but it's going to be Hall of the Jolly for map three here for
convergence and I want to see what the selection is going to be. Again, I don't think you need to
give it to some of that Vanguard stuff. Interesting pick, right? I knew we weren't going to go back
to Shin Shibuya. I think that was more of a velocity pick back in that preseason, but I do think
you know, I'd like to pick here because you can allow China to kind of own a bit of that high ground
and it's a bit more of a map that you can control. I think this is such an interesting choice. One of
my favorite kind of battleground maps, if you will, to decide a series. I think there's so many
moments of that momentum and change that just gets me hyping is well worth it here between
these teams because this is one of those like must win games. I know it's early. It's day
three. But if we're being honest, like this is not middle of the pack, the game, so you
got to win. We're going to end up with that same situation ship. Here we go. We've got
the first bands. It's more of the same. Yeah. I mean, it's exactly what we would expect.
I think we're going to see the Mantis band crossboard potentially Luna again. But again,
it's just the very end bands. I think that's where things are going to shift. You'd hope
to see maybe the phoenix go away. Delena was an absolute demon on that hero. And then if you
do go to the phoenix, you can run that rocket that you found success with on map one. I think
that's a solution for energy. Yeah. So the mantis is probably going to follow this.
Hunk of Thieves could go back to back. They've been at least doing that here recently, unless
they want to take away a key strat here that the map that energy took them to might lend its hand.
So assuming this is the mantis band, what it is, Vicky, that first save being so important for
them, right? They've been giving that to, you know, sloths, they feel important. What do you
What do you think they're gonna go here?
If anything, maybe do you wanna find your,
I mean, we have to learn that who's so flexible.
Maybe try to focus on your strategies
or maybe even TTK to try to pop off
in something that TTK could provide me.
Even though TTK has been doing amazing, by the way,
on the van pool, it's gonna be them protecting the Gambit again.
And the fact that they're gonna rely on this still
and it's worked out for them, at least in that last map,
but I was still thinking that, I feel like energy
is still gonna focus down on TTK's lineup.
I think even though you could be a bit weaker as a team to have game
You still have to have that protect because it is giving you so much with that old right and so much of that pressure
You can bring and you are gonna still get that save interesting thought though like yeah
They could have maybe like okay
You're gonna use a ban on gamut as well. They would have Luna being banned on that side then opens up the door here
I think this is it one of the more important ones after you get this safe. There's the early Dolina hit. That's what we were talking about
Yeah, yeah, I think that's a necessity now
You know they could get crazy for a hundred fees and give her to the rockin and essentially to get that idea
But I'm not sure that'll be the case here as they have protect next
But yeah, I think that's a huge band against Atlanta who played lights out
I mean so much damage on the last map, so you go save for vanguard here, and then you ban the daredevil
That's that's probably where I would go with a hundred these yeah, okay
So you've got the imba TTK is comfortable
So you've got your kind of baseline anchor fake and then you're gonna be able to go from there
So with this next band going star lord and again self-corrected that group and we were talking about go daredevil here
I think it's perfect, but you get the save going energy and it's on the Phoenix. What just good for the front to back?
And for Chime Chime to remember Chime was a band out on not having a Phoenix in that last map as well
Cozy as we see what this last band is going to be for a hundred keys
But this is going to enable Chime time to and you're gonna have more much more of those open sightlines
Which denying the Phoenix now away from Delano will probably prompt the the die of a composition that we're gonna have
So the daredevil is gonna be the next band and that's big because this could also possibly prompt the black cat
right because we know that Daredevil could mark exactly where the black cat is in invisibility.
This will be a full on self class. Like, hey, your starter is gone and it's now on your shoulders.
You're going to have black cat rain and it's definitely going to go towards that direction.
Might be somewhat of a flex of the Ultron in there, but I think that's the way they're going to go
with Emma now being at disposal as well. That's just free rain with the tallies. There's a lot
of cheeky ways that you could place this on this map too because the conventional kind of lanes are
tough year on some options and then you can have that other TPC for later. One of the great things
about one of the newer heroes. Here it is folks, our best of three day three 100 Thieves energy
shot last time shot came away with the win. Can 100 Thieves get revenge? I think this is just a
good fix from bands from both sides and this is the beauty of these teams. I love the adapting. I
don't think this is necessarily something that would have happened in pre-season everything's
teams got to fell in their set in their ways in the band phase. What do you think Vicky?
I 100% agree with you, Shed.
And sometimes it's more that pressure in a best of three, where, you know, like,
okay, well, this is how we're feeling.
Comfortable, maybe we just have to iron out some issues in our micro play.
But instead, changing it up completely, I like this going through a transcendence of
TTK getting enabled on the MS. Sure, you don't have the Luma team up,
but Winnie now is on the low key, and this is also a great low key point too,
when you're starting things off on the defensive side of things.
And now we're going to see the portal play already open up from Windows.
And for us going in to set them up, you can see Dino will be there for Madara on the engage.
Heavy start here, keeping on the low side, not playing safe with it, instead taking the fight right to him.
Forcing them to essentially spawn switch here, so dancing on point, no take so far by being owned by Chime on the right side.
Three movement here by 100 pieces, they come in this craziness.
The sinkers on that Wolverine, we know how strong that could be, into something like Rue, very low, able to stay with that passive somehow going down a 7 HP
as Chime finds self in the back.
Bring it in here as Chime is looking
to find their opposition over,
call to the back and then wrap behind 100 thieves here.
And with Winnie also lingering in the back,
it's controlling more of that space.
You're allowing Binnie to walk away being on this
through trying to control more of the space
with these walls too.
And Asak is right around the corner from having to see ya.
You got it.
100 thieves are doing a good job
from maintaining their presence
and being down and over.
The huge tackle comes through,
holding onto that jump.
He is gonna fall there as Asak cleans that up.
on a TTK and NRG early on like this.
Looks like they will be taking point one.
Oh, the boarders!
No, that's it.
Oh, deleted here from the back end.
No stall potential and no ability for 100 thieves
to come back onto this point.
NRG with a strong start here on the attack.
Speedrunning this payload.
Five minutes in the time bank,
and I like when we're seeing two of these teenagers
already predicting what could have been the grew up
or Vinny now swapped over to the Captain America,
but they were ready for a here ship with the Wolverine.
I think Wolverine is very strong in this meta. There's certain comps where you just really can't run him, but outside of that he can just delete vanduards from the pool.
We just cannot play them. I think Emma's definitely playable, but it's still dicey, so she's going to see that diving pool down, go out.
There goes the Kraken impact. It lands on a few, can they clean that up? As it looks like it said, Modder was able to find one.
The Lena takes out Hoodie, but it doesn't matter. The Lena's been deleted. Bang! Down goes the N-Song infernal.
The fact that they've lost out on Hoodie and no invisible boundary and still held their
ground here, the way that our 100 thieves that are forced to back away and the way that
Chime has been putting in the pressure in these different off angles, enabling Seeker's
troops to look at the next victim.
It's now on the kidnap from the back end, tries to force up a diamond form and together
with a ranger's oil flush, off the copy, the eye of Agamotto, it stuns Winnie, but Winnie
He's alive right through the outside of that pressure.
Hey, search down, we're gonna go in the middle.
There, TT can't get a used-out.
Carmen Khrush, you just slow off the pace of the eye.
Chime, able to find one after the stack.
Don't put energy steal in an aggressive position.
His monitor runs down with that ultimate.
Aztec, gonna answer with a C.
Razor Royale flushes out as well.
Winnie Hovannan has both flushes.
Will it be enough on the defense?
He'll be in driven backwards.
Not enough pressure.
It self-falls as hoodie cleans that up in the back line.
Man at RG, when these strategists are finding value and holding their own, well done to step off into this region.
Monterey going to keep his space, looking at the front line, just going to force him to leave you ready to pull, out goes the freedom charge now.
Everybody going to try to touch that. Delena going to commit as well with the Kraken Impact, and they get a reset. He does not, at least not yet.
The tackle goes out through Stinkerers, 88 to ultimate, it could be huge.
I like to call for Monterey to jump away there, not marked by the Kraken Impact, but then you get pulled in to let him follow us up with the Grapp one, you have nowhere to run.
If you are sneakers, 100 feet, they let you feel the defense and they stop the momentum away from NRG.
Although I do think that the Gambit Loki composition is just really, really good.
I think it's even better on offense where you can kind of time-fights better for your stealth.
I think it's more tricky to run on defense, especially when you have a very mobile frontline like Vinny on that cap and you run on Loki.
Outside of that though, still an absolutely obscene composition that will show some success likely on offense.
But either way, Ultimate's gonna be even now.
Chime himself. Self gonna start off now with the Left of Devil out, heading towards Backline, gonna have a spot of focus, gonna clean up off this, and there's Chime coming in from the sky.
Is any able to find one with Hoodie Chime does not seem to find Perchers, but Window cleans up one Psychon, a lot of Vinny falls now, and the numbers are even.
I just to say there was a huge anti-2 and a beautiful follow-up, they forced out the BRB to be used on some ringing Hoodie backers, while the invisible boundary, Tainus and Duchumel, from 2DK,
Trinna, Mark Stingers, who's taking to the skies as a starboard, and Winnie, calling out WINDOW, who was trying to wrap up from behind them.
100 thieves now, on Trinna hold onto the stove, gets a joke slam, and right through the Isle Boundary, Hoodie is there to save Madera.
Isle Boundary is out, like you are saying. C is available to WINDOW. If the piece could be massive, Stingers can likely use that C to try to deal a ton of damage and get by, since the Lena is one, but the Royal Flush is out from WINDOW, can they get there to stall?
No, there's just too much pressure, there is again some faults with some disgusting aim from stinkers who still maintain this presence.
Still holding on to the point where they get it, that's going to be point two here from NRG on this attack, even through that Royal Flush, actually two of them.
Madara is chomping on a hundred thieves too, this deviled Dino, and you got the rampage to add as you are approaching this third and final point.
It's a reset here for 100 thieves. Delena making a swap with though.
Punisher may be here and we will have the team up until I have the ability to play the Devil Dino,
but you can already see Windo getting information before diving down on the Venom.
Yeah, I think the idea is the same. She removed that Daredevil.
You'll have a little more free reigns to do what you want to do on Black Cat.
So I'm trying to take advantage of that one.
A little bit too late. Delena is going to go in on that Punisher.
She'll provide a ton of damage for the frontline of the Dino that is Madara.
And that's a pretty big countering situation in the job.
It's pretty much a shoot vanguard, which isn't always what you want to do.
Chime able to find one, and Vinny's speaking to shoot the vanguard.
Good bye to the front line.
A hundred fees once more.
No ults available as Windo and Chime both are ready.
And this is looking like NRG to get all three points with time on.
With these ults, you're just a career for that extra space now.
Look at Chime positioning here up on the high ground.
He's taking three steps to from Windo to beat the office.
Combine that with the end song in full.
it's an ultralog damage and the 100 fees are just trying to reposition times. Nobody is looking at him
and they are clearing up 100 fees so much pressure. Mara with the grab, they cannot even get through
this choke as NRG speedrun their way into the finish line a minute and 48 seconds on the clock for that.
Wow, wow, wow. I mean you saw the change in composition that for 100 fees, trying to find a
solution that really, you know, again we talk about the success of the gambit copy, you know,
Composition is great on offense. It's not as much in your pacing on defense. We saw there on point two
They used both royal flushes to no avail just some really good focus by the duelist line of NRG
When it comes to chime in stakers to clean them up chime has not gone down a single time and neither has Aztec
This is actually insane like the way that Chimers was getting enabled to 17 and 0
12,000 damage put on the board even with TTK dealing good chunk of that damage and Delano was 16.9k
It's difficult out here. It's not like a hundred thieves could really lean on to that Phoenix, right?
Maybe changing things up instead, but it's a survivability that we're seeing from NRG.
And this is one of those times where I just want to like reiterate, like we talked about a lot of the strategy
just being really strong, but Aztec is just lights out on Rocket.
I mean both maps of Rocket was available without the Phoenix opposition.
It was just insane play. Most healing by far in the lobby, you know, not a ton of damage,
but you really rarely can unless you're going into a dino company.
They really want that extra damage but outside of that just farming all it's after all using that with your duelist to make sure they're getting the most impact
Off that end song at Bruno and the galactic legend. It's just some clean play looking for a portal off map here folks
We'll see what they elect to do
I was always looking for these cheap people
See if you can let her rip. No, maybe it's a little too late instead of just swapping over to the devil died
I didn't see the opportunity
Did it want to force it and is now gonna make the swap up before going right back together with the rest of the team on defense
Ooh, Delena too on the Elsa.
And we're gonna see now, Delena is making this switch like you're saying.
Under that Elsa, this could be anti-vanguard frontline stuff.
You can use that to try to off-map the dino.
Of course, it's gonna be a weird spot with the Clark trucks.
But this is top stuff.
You go only on the left side of height at the moment,
building up ultimates quickly.
Winnie also on that GF and never answered to that frontline.
We're in the Chinese position too.
We don't really get to see too much also too, after the nerf fight you see Peter's coming in with all these buffs, but it's again what something that 100 pieces cannot utilize after he gets banned against him, a nice anti-antimodra, and they capitalize off of this, allowing the 100 pieces to just have free reign of space, onto this group for energy, try to re-engage.
Yeah, and they do have some good presence right now.
Already 66% on this point, Vinny.
We'll be on that bam to an outflip, press into the backline, able to take out a hoodie.
Use that iframe to buy more time.
Those are looking to peel, but hold last long.
Looks like he might be able to take you sick quickly,
another take here from Vinny,
the dive comes through to try to stall.
Stakers able to take out self,
and Stakers off maps right there.
That's only one quickly from 100 thieves who are out for blood.
He said Stakers taking himself out,
And then I noticed he not only took out self, but literally took himself out of the map.
But it's fine now with NRT taking the ability not to back away in 100 Thieves, now just clearing the rest of the point.
The Elsa Swap actually proving itself and showing that it's working out for 100 Thieves and you have the Glarg Trots in the pocket of Delena.
Yeah, I think the idea is you do percent base damage with the ranged rifle on Elsa, so it's not a bad solution.
And when you don't want to necessarily run Punisher into the Dino, because the idea is you just want as much damage as possible.
He's got an escape with the jump, but it's also his best tool for displacement, so gotta make a decision when you're dealing with a ton of damage.
It's a good decision. I just want to see how it works out.
Yeah, I mean, just like that, goodbye to the front line, self-fights, too.
On the pulse of the backline, Winnie gets a piece of the pie, and everybody's walking forward and 100 thieves are stepping up.
Can they keep this momentum, folks?
When you've got three made outfits on the team of 100 thieves, it's clean up on aisle three, and Delena now showing up with confidence.
You've got the Glarred Dog still waiting to unleash your getting into my position until you find everybody in the Toad's putty
Forcing you to use the invisible founders to get them pulled outside of it
No, and now they're forced to back away just this time
Ringing Stone holding off to the edge Jeff
Now he's going to open up this fight with a regular old flush and she just is there to answer with the gladiflegion
Let him go up the seat, it's also permitted to leave, but TTK in the light, he'll have to find two, and that's a trade back and try him on his self.
Now goes that freedom charge, it's Jeff trying to be an answer here, looking for something, does find the off location there, Winnie.
He'll be able to just keep the team healthy instead and reposition them, evening things out and slowing down the pace for the moment.
But the point pressure is very much still in 100B's favor. As you can see, TTK just peeling that cap.
The cap portal comes through to be a wall from the side of Madara, and now numbers are evened out once more.
You look back into that spot, you can't find a window as huge.
It looks like they're a meter away.
Aztec wrestling window right back.
Vinny trades that and gets a two-piece Vinny and play it off, folks!
And is able to keep that moving through point two.
Vinny has only gotten better every single minute that this series has gone down,
and Vinny on this vamp wall is going crazy as we take a quick pause
before diving into the third portion of this map.
Yeah, I think the idea as we are in this tech pause for the moment folks of this composition
we talked about how when you do allow raging royal flush through I think having it on attack
is just much more, it's just much more valuable taking the time to understand when you want
to commit the ultimate not always using it as an answer it allows you to just be more
aggressive in the right windows and every single time they've used that ultimate on
attack it's found success.
And I also really like how we've been swapping up a lot right like when he was on the jev
came in clutch with the insurance policy and helping out the rest of the team.
Denzelena had popped off at the very end to get right through that choke,
had the Glaratrox ready while self is getting enabled and harassing that back line.
Even dancing around the portal on the other side,
TDK used that portal to his own advantage to block up the line of sight of the supports
to then go around it and find that pick off before clearing out the point to get the second checkpoint.
Yeah, that's funny, right? Because I commend the strategy of the Vanguard ban out that we saw early on from that RG,
But then the duelist popped off so much that they had to switch that up and now the vanguards have some more solutions
They're able to swap around a little bit find success
And they are doing just that looking really good across the board here as we head in to point three folks
Can they get it there four minutes and 18 seconds on the clock?
148 available for NRG
Getting right back into the action to ship and I know seeing the secrets was on the demoralizing ask your opinion on that
But seeing him swap off I definitely agree with this
and now you're going over onto the Ultron, and with Self also Italianing back just as quickly.
You go over to the Punisher and you melt down that Devil Dino.
Yeah, I think Dino struggles with heavy damage.
We saw it before. Now they're running double damage comp here.
Percentage damage and just raw damage output with shotgun available.
BRB is going to bring Mordor right back into the fight.
Numbers are still going to be even for the current moment, but we have Ultimates like Self here.
Final Judgment with the Rage Memorial Flushing can be lights out against a comp like this.
like this I don't know how you're able to hold on there somehow Vinny at TTK finds one millennia
finds two Vinny gotta be able to find a third a force comes in from millennia now will they push
this through with three minutes and 30 off folks it looks like they will wow what a return
can we talk about straight momentum they heard speedrun they were like don't worry hold that
real quick hold that time bank because we got three minutes 22 seconds on the clock knock knock
Elsa's back. She hasn't gone anywhere, at least if your name is Delena.
This is insane. These teams are not quitting, and folks, I love coming back to the scene to cast a
game like this. Just an absolute masterclass in high-level play here. You can see very even
feeds across the board. KO's with nine finals from Delena. You see eight there from Vinny on that
van pool. Final success. TTK doing a good job on the Emma, peeling some of that frontline pressure
that we're seeing chime with seven sinkers with five. It is very much anyone's game still here folks
as we head into OT. Honestly the vanguard is not putting in as much damage output that we have
seen at the hands of like TTK and the stall potential that we've also had right there too from
Vinny who is really popping off by the way on this van pool. Combine that and the adjustments that
100 fees were able to make we swap sides are now on the defensive side of things and I like how
they're not rolling out with the offensive composition that they first had when it came to them trying to force out the dive.
Oh man, this is so crazy, Vicky, I'm stoked. We're here doing this together, buddy.
If we had into just this OT again, 3 minutes 22, 1.48 for energy, they will be attacking here first setting up.
We might see a portal play, but if they do commit to this portal play early, they will not be able to touch last second.
They do not have a time for the cooldown to cycle, and the major advantage from 100 Teaches, they will have that availability
Should they elect to try to go aggro? I was gonna say it might be a safe play on Porto, but instead
I'm gonna stick to exactly what they did last time, keep them on the low side. 100 Thieves as an answer
Read that like a textbook and they're owning the hype to try to shut that down.
I'm a little scared though, Shave. I mean you're down to a minute less than 25 seconds on the clock
And you burn the Porto very early on here, not trying to play the neutral to boost up these ultimates
Instead just take the fight straight to 100 Thieves. It's gonna be worth it with Caporto now on cooldown
They're slowly just trying to force out a piece of play and part of me split up
Especially with sin for seeing all this black cat they've worked on the venom
They're putting in a lot of that pressure as a letter is getting pocketed
And then he just can use some of that self survivability fully leveled up now
Please keep the pressure on off angles and yeah there goes moderate like you said
We'll have that portal back now
They really committed to this first fight a minute available here now and this is gonna be a tough spot all the rest was there
Okay, there was the idea that you play a little more aggro now that that is launched and committed the cooldown is gone
It's a whole new story here
Helena, trying to build towards that ultimate. Imagine a Clarke Tronx in the off-map there, I might have picked into the future. It could be absolutely disgusting.
You're gonna have to see it here, shit. If you have the Crystal Ball, it's gonna be the sea of combined net with Chime and the extra damage output, and it's more than enough. Talk about all the damage coming in from NRG.
That is exactly what they needed to lead into the Swing Pond, and now a hundred thieves, nobody in sight to contest on this point.
Oh, that is massive brain the folks the idea and what I miss in the moment is they're using rocket to guarantee
Alt first rocket gets all incredibly quickly and just armed ultimate there
Oh, do you probably taking a step back allowing some of that healing to go rockets way unless it was a you know
Emergency situation and then they just committed with the sea instantaneously winning that fight and together with that and you have time
Who gets the race on the end song in turn?
Oh, it's again
That's the way that they really want to be into and it worked out for them to at least get the payload out of the garage
And now stinkers comes in follows up with time and this is the momentum that we took on these now flow in favor for
NRG or time taking away means that they could not get off this point
There's more commitment now from window does have that feast available just fighting that space and they didn't elect to fight them out
The garage is a lot of space here for a minute doing a really good job
Out goes the thighs out cries out TTK self dies before
use of ultimate witty does not have the chance to press the kill button as well
and they are still going as NRG is walking numbers are roughly even though
every single wall was committed from NRG the overtime is ticking down the
stall still there from T.T.K. on point the heels of the back line still there
from Aztec trying to hold on to let us percent base energy
two miles over should be ticking down here the core trucks goes out to no avail
O.T. is still there, somehow, folks, as they're holding on,
he holds himself with a mission goodbye to three,
and they will hold it before point two.
Clipping the wings off that Angela that we saw
for not even two seconds on top of that payload
from the motor after making a zestrus swap
to try to completely contest the points,
but talk about Delana.
You finally come back together.
You clear the point.
Sure, let's not take a look at that glortrog.
See, it hurtled itself into that wall,
but you're dealing just enough of that pressure
to allow that punisher to come back around and utilize that ultimate to clear the rest of the bodies of energy.
Wow, I mean huge shouts to just the thought processes of what they were doing.
The early Portal was so sick with the idea of just getting Alts first, winning off that first point.
Due to just the nature of you can farm Alt faster than the team if you build your composition to play that way.
And that's exactly what they did. Huge brain play there.
I'm wondering, you know, if they thought maybe if they were going to like try to portal back
if they had the portal, which I believe it was probably still on cooldown looking at
just the time that they were working with when they first initiated that portal, and
then going for like the hardest college book read and with that large ox in case they did
try to open that up when they thought that maybe they had that portal play, but nonetheless
it's the way that a hundred thieves were able to reclaim that point even after losing out
on Winnie who had that invisible boundary.
Now swapping sides. NRG, they're rolling on the defensive side with Cinkers still on this black cat.
Yeah, this is gonna be an intense one here folks. 3 minutes 22 on this attack. Far more time.
Roughly double what we saw there from the side of NRG. Will they use it to their advantage?
Electing the not early portal like we saw from the strategy of NRG.
NRG is completely switched up composition. You can see, I mean, not a ton of Magneto played in this current meta.
That is going to be the case right now as there was poke damage as a priority into dino
We're not gonna be running that dino anymore at all trying to play a little bit slower to buy more time with the magneto
Itself kind of reading the textbook of what might happen gets off some of that hits can damage and instead goes on to that daredevil
We know he can run it. Well
Kind of harass hoody and ass-side to gets information as well on that daredevil
Calling out where seamtress is as the counter gets a black cap like you're harassing the rocket raccoon instead
Before back in a way the fuel comes in but it also forces the mag bubble to be utilized
The weight is being taken you're almost a third of the way
Get one tick down what a shot there from Delena able to find stinkers the black cat gets the lead as you buy to the cat
Does still have nine lives right back into the fight from Aztec
Oh as moderate goes down now from Delena great focus here
Just like the Reaper at this moment finding anyone available and deleting them off the face of the map now moving forward off the pressure
That is a hundred thieves front line tpk and viny walking them sell gonna be better clean it up and they get this point
Quickly here someone still hoping for the moment with a portal play company does not they get this thing fast for two minutes till for point two
The strap back line just got terrorized by viny on this
Vample to I mean now many places to run to when the rest of your team is getting terrorized here now energy
They don't want to stagger they need to regroup up together to prevent this point from getting to that beautiful blue box in favor for a hundred thieves
Holy moly, this has been an absolute banger of the series, this could be the end here folks, a minute forty, hundred thieves trying to build towards that ultimate, nobody has Q available just yet, as heck it's going to be close.
Winnie and Millenia both could be there, but again folks, the raging, you know, raging run of flush, as on the table here, this could be everything for them, but they don't have a huge combined ultimate.
Here goes that Royal Flush now. Will they get value? Yes, Light is able to find one.
Stakers, here comes that Inferno. Bang, it does land. Good buy to the Sia.
As a counter, Zalina looking for a Glaratrox opportunity.
Some peel, out goes the Beast. It's just gonna be looking for one.
Stead gonna use it to reposition, not try to find any off-nap potential there.
Self takes out Aztec in the chaos. The numbers are evening out.
Now it looks like a hundred days, we're losing a little bit.
Mota is able to find one, and now Chime takes out Self.
And that was a lot of commitment there in that fight. They still have self-MTTK for the next fight, though.
Remember, other thieves did have the larger time bank to work off of on their attack, and now look, they're down to less than a minute on the clock.
You have three ultimates online, and if you're looking at energy, Stinkers wants to lean into this galactic legend.
Does a hundred thieves have what it takes to sustain themselves? Can they kite away?
Because Millenian Winnie, especially having a Jeff, won't be able to have the HF to really help them out here. He just needs it in this previous fight.
to let it with a huge pick on window.
Now eyes are up, great answer there by TTP
to try to psionics and juice.
And a huge all that goes out and wow,
able to compose and stay healthy in the sky like that
is stinkers and a huge backline.
Focus from the hoodie, stinkers.
Think yourself and oh my goodness,
is this possible folks?
10 seconds are on the clock here
and NRK are still holding.
Windows going crazy, you combined that together
time and it's too much damage. Then he's next to fall, overtime taking away, and the number
advantage is in favor for NRG. It forces itself to swap over to Doctor Strange, just so that
way they can contest again with this border play.
Border comes out, it's gonna be a full reset here, Dolan is able to find one now on the
side lock. In the moment up goes the end song, Inferno. This is gonna be a problem, using
us as a distraction right now. There's actually gonna be a four size up bang coming down in
the moment, does not seem to land. With some good focused damage, a huge feast of the Abysscoes!
It's Jeff looking for some value a lie frame there for an answer does not seem to land when he is in a tough spot now
Good back on focus
Excuse me by the strategist who drops that
And now Finn finds a pick on a window numbers up in their favor the rest comes through to even out the odds
The sea is there, but it gets instantly deleted. It is anyone's game here in this battle folks
As it's still back in full
Oh my goodness the counter flick
I can't get picked from window
There's just no way the way that TTK and Daletta just flipped the script on what would have been the
craziest rocket play asset was playing out of their mind the CEO the combo the sustained from the
BRB and it was all for nothing because Daletta and TTK with a hundred days in our best of three
take our second series of the day in a very close and intense final fight.
Oh my goodness, that was insane, folks. I can't believe it. Cozy, what did you think of that match?
Yo, holy shit, shabu-ya. Can we get that again? Can we just run it back? Because that was too
perfection. I mean it was razor thin and just both duelists saying like I've got like
Giver's Delina was just pure cinema. The back line for NRG playing to perfection. Coming
down to the siloed swamp of the old into the years. It was disgusting. I mean listen there
are so many things to point out on both sides there. First of all tip of the cap on entertainment
First up for that matchup on both teams both looking all the part in our G finding new backline and really new success
But hundred these get their revenge
Vicky, I mean let's start with the duelist right because both uncomfortable and really with the liner
Let's go there because the bucky it was not having it. Let's be honest the hit scan though bringing Elsa back into the line
Like my god
Literally said all right the Elsa was not put away in the closet
Dusted you bring the Elsa back into the table and then sure you don't have a phoenix, but the flexibility that Delana has
Can we talk about the swap over to the side lock at the very end get the dance of the cutterfly?
You match it together with the wombo combo if you had that rager
To then be the nail in the coffin to win it together with a hundred keys and a TTK also
getting an important pick at the very end.
Yeah, how fitting was it that the Gambit all ended up getting the win for that team into the Sylocke?
The brains just walk into that ship. I thought was just so brilliant to quickly go into that.
Dude, it's the conversation of is it a panic pick or is it for big brain plays?
And I'll tell you what, Atlanta, that was big brain. That was a massive ultimate,
but just the chaos that must have ensued through that.
The amount of ultimates being committed, the amount of big hit ultimates too.
It's not like they were all misses. There was a couple that were used selfishly to get out of the fight.
For example, we saw Winnie there who still stayed alive through the cast, which was a must in that moment.
But we saw Master Balls from Window, for example, with the feast and the Abyss, and hit everybody.
I thought that was going to be it, but no. The Sylocke coming in with a cut-of-fly at the end of Sweep.
Everyone, dude, I can't believe it. What a series.
How perfect was it to chime up in the air on the end song, Inferno, targeting Dylan?
Like, he knew. He knew that that was the target to get to win.
Shot near done and it was just every call answered by both teams at the right moment
I mean we saw a constant swap between the two
I thought you called it out really great here about the percentage of damage that Elsa does get against the dyno
The whole game plan energy had was that dyno out of there?
I would have liked to maybe have that swap back into towards that over time potential
But you look across the board and these stats speak for the game Vicki. Oh, holy sit-up
I think a huge factor too at the very end if we saw that hoodie it was in the invisible boundary and like that focus on
So hoodie where the invisible boundary went down with them was so that chef's kiss
That is what allowed the dance of the cutter flies to come through like forty two point nine K damage done at the hands of
Delana 21 final hits guys like I mean Vinnie also fire the way like the step up between Vinnie game number one
To this third game is night and day in my opinion guys
I mean hundred these they have returned we have been waiting for and we knew it was coming shortly
And who else do we have in this interview other than Delina who even after that match?
I'm sure it's gonna look calm cool and collected
Wow you guys get your revenge and you find it in the most cinematic and entertaining way possible
I mean the little I have a million questions
I'm sure we all do but at first just to walk me through your emotions because they kind of banned the Phoenix and things that you
like to play and all comes back over to that Elsa.
Yeah, I don't even know.
Like I'm still shaking.
But I mean, when they've been Phoenix or like, I didn't even
know what to play.
Like I walked out on Bucky.
That was an answer.
So I just went back to Elsa and like, just hoping it worked.
The sideline picked two shit.
I mean, I go into the sideline.
I died first in the fight so when you die and else it you lose all your stacks now
So like I just swapped side instantly I could have TP'd by
Just came back on side and then got all in one
Dude you played lights out I mean 21 finals you see this series you just were insane
Obviously they had to get rid of Phoenix for you
It was a problem against the rocket that has been showing up a ton
And you played so many different heroes in balance success in this map alone. You made them switch off dino
Can you walk through the thought process of when you saw the dino? What did your team communicate? How did you find the solution?
We just went characters that like
Ran at the dinosaur and killed him so like you couldn't really play the game at all
So I saw it towards the end of the game like he just wasn't even playing dinosaurs. So it's kind of hard to play it into our comp
Beautiful
I mean I like how you said that you just like threw the dart at the board and you were like
I hope this also works man like you know, it's all or nothing at this point
Especially after they banned up the Phoenix
I mean talk to us a little bit about how the communication for a hundred piece sounds like with i-remix joining into the conversation
Whenever it comes to focusing down on TTK's of you know vanguard pigs right because that's kind of what we saw in the picking band
Is that something that the jersey we obviously saw at TTK at the very end was able to save the Emma
But how do you guys feel when it comes to a lot of these teams trying to focus on one role or the other?
You gotta say that question again, I'm sorry
No worries, alright, so when it comes to some of these teams trying to focus bad target man
One of your players on that specific role
What is it that you guys do when it comes to trying to navigate around that especially like you mentioning for example?
you having to pull out the Elsa and hoping that it worked after they'd be next.
I mean, when someone gets target banned,
it leaves everything else open for the game.
If EricPK gets target banned, we have God Support, God DPS.
It falls on us to win the game after that.
Same with the DPS, but that's how it may work.
Bro, I gotta say, man, listen, this has been so poetic for 100 Thieves.
Like we've seen it all, especially Dylan at like going to China where you're sick and I mean just all the story that like you guys have had as a franchise and then like so much of the limelight spotlight was on terror last year and it's like wait there's
Deleted to now going from like terror being that mascot of the team to like brother. It's you now is a hundred thieves back like are you guys ready to go because I think the whole entire scene has been waiting for this team to click and it looks like you guys have
Yeah, I think we're back.
I think we're going to be first in this group.
Looks like me.
Hey, listen, go celebrate this because clearly this is like, you got the revenge, right?
You guys got the revenge, a very important kind of middle of the pack win.
I know you guys have swamped and still some big, you know, matchups to go.
But congrats, Delina, just following you as a player for a long time.
It's been really cool to see your success and all the hundred thieves stick together stay together self-fitting so well there when you're getting in there and again just want to give you a big congratulations
Thank you. Thank you. Wait I say something
Yeah, yeah
Make sure to buy the hundred thieves deadpool bundle. Please. I need it. It's the best deadpool skin in the game
or W or W right there.
Can you get the Jeff you get the Jeff emo too again the name play right there.
There it is buddy.
Well thank you so much for taking the interview man.
It's always a pleasure to talk with you and it's been a minute so we're excited for 100
days and look forward to more and wow.
Ship pick that might be the most excited I've seen to live up like ship like how like we
We have talked to this guy so many times and it's usually, you know, all of a hundred
these we won.
Yes.
It's no like we got the emotion.
Yeah.
I think he could have sprinted through a brick house.
I you can see the adrenaline just like fading off him at that moment.
I can't imagine what that final round was like, but I love what he said about like picking
up the slack.
Somebody's target band.
Everyone else should be picking up because that means that everything else is open.
I think that's the right call.
Every somebody else's step but shouldn't be on you if all the band is right.
Well, listen, I still think if you do look at that, that a hundred these they do have
stuff to clean up right that gambit low key that that is still things that are
going to be things that they want to try to sharpen up if they're going up
against some of the top elite teams that we know in TLC and swamp gaming but
fans of a hundred thieves you got your win and we still got one more matchup
today I'm sure everybody's gonna reset reload we'll see on the other side of
this break
I remember the dusk, the lights gripping tightly,
dropping all those fighting souls, buddy.
Across the world, I see you standing in my way.
I remember the time, the place we used to fight,
like the sun and moon, and I wonder
if there ever was a time that we were friends.
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costume here going crazy. I'm still going crazy after what was such an insane match again having energy play that well got to hold your head high. A lot of the stage one to go.
But we will somehow try to put the end of that chapter first second as we do have another matchup today. But wow, just so much fun. Love this scene. And this is what it's all about guys.
We now move on. Vicky, we've got Stick Drift versus Space Station Gaming.
And I think both these teams are looking to show more, right?
Space Station Gaming came back from that reverse sweep.
Awesome. But they expected a lot more from themselves at Stick Drift.
They got the win. It was against TSM.
I think they want to try to get things cleaned up as they go against.
Let's just call it as more stiff competition.
Yeah. And if anything, this is a great team to test it up against, right?
Against Space Station, who had a rather, you know, lackluster first day.
still came out on top but obviously wanting to be a lot cleaner in their execution and honestly
maybe the ship good luck charm works out for us in this third series to ship I hope so I'm all
about just pushing the series to the max every time please it's so fun to be a part of yeah I mean
there's also a little bit of stuff on the line right you talk about doom doom just from space
station there maybe it's a little bit uh heat you know maybe more drive to try to win it that's
kind of stuff uh and obviously that's from now on stick drift uh it could be uh it could be a driving
having factor for a tighter game. No, that's a great point. Yeah, no, ship. I remember
you saying that before the grand finals, it was like four, three with TLC and swamp the
full distance. Like of course it was right. Stick drift though. That is going to be a
good story to highlight. I think they got it a great player. We talked about free agency
and some of these teams taking advantage of that. And many did not, but stick drift answered
the call with now read as being such the anchor, really that chime rolled the delay that we
just saw of this team. And you know what? I committed to them last time yesterday that
they stayed together right like this team believes in what they have in the
product and if he intones vicki we've been watching them for a while yeah we
have and I really like this team too and how they've been able to build up
that synergy now it's going into having the devil dyno the pick and ban phase
how a lot of these teams have been able to make those adjustments to if we're
gonna prioritize the camping fans that we keep trying to talk about when it
comes to starting off the pick and ban phase but it's gonna be a good one here
cozy yeah for sure and on the other side it is space station now if you did
missed out on day one. They did lose first and second map going against what was a sub
team. I really sorry. First point there in domination against Lushel Hoskin had a really
good midtown push against them, but we're able to answer a bit more nectar. Of course,
we know what they can do in the duelist position so well and Zangie, which was such a great
pickup there from what is then equinox or equinox gaming. The back lens. Good. I mean,
I think Rinko is a really good addition as well,
ship to this roster.
Yeah, from shock, right?
Yeah, again, a team we just watched last go around.
So I mean, yeah, there's a lot of changes to this team.
And they had a really strong foundation.
Nectar, like you said, one of the best
I think in Ignite, especially in the NA region,
with a lot of flexibility, really good star Lord
who's strong in this meta too.
So yeah, I think the idea is they're just
trying to make this team stronger in their eyes.
And they absolutely have shown that they can.
But the question is, will they show up right now?
Absolutely here as we see a bit of what these teams have had space station on red alert and I agree
I think they really need to have a strong showing here
This is would be the team that if you look on paper should be circle to win it
And so you're gonna have this matchup now that has well the team getting the best of them
I mean having stick drift now going two and oh and three and two
Cuz another side of the story Vic. Yeah, and it's important when we're in our group stages, right?
because every game counts into what could possibly be a tiebreaker at the very end when we're done in our third week.
So that's really important when you come to having a very strong start.
So that way you're not left scrambling at the very end.
No, that's a great point, Chip, because if you look at Group A, right, TLC, let's call it what it is expected to be at the top.
And then you would say, yeah, we lost most likely to take that second spot.
So third and fourth, Space Station, Stick Drift, you have TSM and Equinox Gaming in there.
So this is a really important game for Stick Drift because it could decide the difference of seeding at that 34 spawn.
I would argue for them in the situation they have in Group A, this might be the most important match up for them in Stage 1 Group Stage.
I like that layout. It makes sense to me, buddy. If we head over to our first map, it's going to be Krakowa.
And this is a former to watch personal fan of the music here, but I know we talked about that in the green room before, but I'm with you.
I think it's kind of any given any given game with these teams in particular, but this is a different team than what we saw in the
preseason. So again, it's like we've got to rethink all of our structures because they've restructured their teams.
No, for sure. Just like we with 100 these and energy shock and why that was so important. It's like this middle of the pack seeding or even
trying to get that one seed. If you, you know, have the dream and the believe if you will. Well, let's go and talk about the big band that
we are going to be heading to. Obviously, Rita's being a big factor in someone to kind of target them in the sense of Phoenix has that
to let it roll that you want to focus, Vicky.
I do expect that.
And then on the other side, and we're getting that,
oh my goodness.
Okay, wow, we are through the pig band.
The whole story's done and no, we're just kidding.
We're resetting, never mind.
We still have the pig band ready.
But I wouldn't be surprised to see that Phoenix band
come, share, but to go and attack it.
Vicky, I want to start with you though.
What do you think they're going to address
that protect early on?
I mean, it's the fact that they're already focusing
on being as I mean, I was going to say,
the gambit though, the devil dinosaur prior though,
protect on the stick trip is
going to be interesting because
it's going hand in hand with
what we keep seeing right.
You get the band either on the
gambit or you want to get the
band on the devil dyno into
the having to protect on the
devil dyno. So it's now
reciprocated from space station
who will be able to lean into
having that gambit and we know
that space station has no issue
if they want to be able to run
out with a Loki and they do the
double rage role flush.
Okay, so you've got the Star
Lord getting banned.
Usually we would see something
a bit quicker for that.
I guess we're going to give that
gambit that early.
It's going to change a little
bit and should be pointed that out before. I like it. Look at this is called the nectar
target band. Yeah, give it a lot of the skill that nectar has, but it's it's nectar as a
hero ocean. Right. So like, you know, you can get rid of a hero pool. You can't quite
drain an ocean. So a lot of options still on the table, but dude, I think to call out
again, I don't love the dino prior. I think again, it lost last time even against 100
T, which we thought we're struggling with it. It went in their favor. The answer again,
the gambit band one, especially if you just look at the backline for them, space station
have a good one right month and rinco could definitely play gambit to some good success
that we saw it again nothing gets 100t but i think most teams have that gambit lineup
on lock pretty well because one of the reasons why 100t does is they don't have a good rogue
player really somebody that does dedicate to rogue and so you can also pour that in if you want to
into this we'll see if space station has one or if the homework was done i think maybe you could
have someone like necronize play that jeff being banned on the other side i like that to slow down
this black hat comp but you got dare devil so you're feeling pretty good in space station ship
Who do you think won this in the band? I'm gonna stay with space station. I think I got a stick with my trotting tree off the rip
All right, and Vicky any notes on what you see?
I agree with shit just because you know
This is just my nightmare
Protection to deal with from the remaining side right because then you still have the ability to roll out with like the Loki in the
Radar of flesh from both ends
But then you have the dear devil just a lot way you have information to deal with like the black cat too
So again, it kind of goes into the counterpicks that were mentioning before aside from the information of the dear devil compliance
So we're gonna have to see Santa Blaise Logan. Can they lock into something more comfortable as a lot of those options are banned away?
It's stick to it versus space station gaming probably the most important game between these two in the group on day three taking away Vic and ship
Alright again, these have been awesome matches so far today
Vicki's been a pleasure to cast them with you as we see what they're running right now
The luck charm ship. I mean that was our 30 series literally like the second series that we've had thus far in the last three days now
that has made it into a game 3 situation. Can this be the third that we add to the
shiv list? We're gonna find out now as we roll out of the gates here for our very
first round for our first map of our last series.
You get two of the frags here bud. What do you think? What is your, you know, if you don't get these cops, I'm not going to bans. What cop do you like the most?
I mean, and I feel like the fact that you can't really ban out everything that Nectar rolls out with, like you're seeing this
High lock still coming out, milk boy also has a lot to step up on after the players that we saw in the spacing
It was okay like they did win that series
But I feel like there's a lot of pressure on low parry and being able to use the vanpool against tones
Who is rolling out on the double dyno goes hand in hand to the counter for something you're mentioning and just barring that XP
Yeah, exactly. I think that's the goal. I don't think vanpool is like obscenely dangerous anymore
But feel the farna XP that quickly on dyno
Right off the rip like we're talking about goodbye tones. It's rest right back
Oh, numbers gonna be even but it should give them the space to take this point or we get close to it
It's more commitment on dive nectar on the chase good bye ify now and once again up a number SSG with priority on point
They're guys getting some just temporarily before back and we're taking a huge chunk of that damage before getting healed up
By month and rank oh and you should be able to back away to also getting information being on that daredevil
But it's gonna be milk boy who controlled a lot of that space unlock on a space station
So we're running near 20% on the point here to sit and you're looking for the other side of
Stick trip with Logan Dean able to find that big on the neck right here
Go dancing though trying to harass that back by before backing away and forces out more of those cool bounce to help enable nectar
Decker and Zangie able to find too quickly doing the going down more commitment on the milk boy
But so much movement so much self-heal so much shelf over health. It's very difficult to find that KO
You still maintain presence on this point. That's the idea of playing as Rampool nowadays infinite survivability point halfway captured here from
SCD who cannot quite push through and move it and there goes the Lord of Flush
And it can be now out of the backline. Good pie. Now try back by the sea and there able to find two to the chaos though.
And we're in Rebel Ward, so I'm all trying to counter fake. It's hard when you have such a diverse
First, he was blown a work way, then he got the radio flushed in to the back of a thud of light, but the way that SCP are answering that is Chef's kiss, sure, multi-zones, and nobody stays alive, but that's when he was still able to flip the point.
This is the abyss, it's committed, no follow-up potential for the distance that I'll do earlier, after he was able to use the galactic legend, but the stall is also coming out, from SCP to allow him to get some extra credit on this point.
Yeah, they're still buying time.
They're still maintaining the point.
It's huge, right?
So 30% almost inclining.
And just using some of that ult to just stay there,
the piece of the vision to buy some over health.
A couple more seconds, and the heals come through.
And then your team's back on point.
Really good rotation there by Sticktrip
to stay and maintain.
Now trying to even this out.
Across the Siamic seduction now, looking for Redis
with some good movement.
Wow, that was cool.
Not sure about that re-engaging that moment.
Isn't that right?
It is giving them trance.
Angie climbs to June, getting to take out Milkboy.
the retakes already through he's looking like he's at the circus he's
juggling everybody with these deflects he's just opening up the gates to allow
nectar to shine nowhere to run nowhere to hide as unfortunate for silent place
he bets out but okay well that's something on nectar does not want to
get involved with after seeing the unfortunate dive from the rest of STD
after they get out of the portal 76% in climbing here for SSG Xangi's
As I let it spread here, with the charge and laser from Toad to get that bleed factor in.
Doom, close to the Galactic Legend, over time, taking away, but it's in favor of Space Station and Nectar.
So I'm going to horizon and getting that Dance of the Cutterfly Wrangler to match up together with the Womble Combo
in the Rage of Royal Flush after Nectar is able to fight iffy, though.
That's big! Set of Blaze did come into the sea, and everybody is dropping like flies from a CD-Side.
That's going to be a two-piece there, SSG, closing out the OT,
tracking right now like an Aintrainer, goodbye to Blaze, and that's going to be point one here, SSG.
I mean, going a little back and forth there, but can we talk about the just absolute nightmare
fuel for your AstraZeneca main looking at the duelist lineup that is rolling out from
Space Station?
It's just crazy.
Almost like my sleep paralysis demon coming to haunt me and it's going to be Nectar with
seven finals, 15 and two together with Sanji, who is also able to follow up so nicely.
Yeah, you can see right now most finals going to Nectar, Sanji right there as you had said,
across the board to the side of stick trip. Not quite enough pressure onto that
back line comparatively especially when cats available with not a ton of major
answers and you know you could potentially go down the Loki route if
you want to use crystals to save from nectar with that dance to the butterfly
but I like to not do that. Loki kind of taking a step back I guess in this
current met I even though I think it's very strong and gamut on the table we'll
see what they come out the door that they want to change anything up but right
now it looks like SSG's just kind of got this figured out.
In fact that month hasn't gone down a single time too and then Renko's only gone down like once
I was like that's 12 this is that we saw earlier on coming out of the gates to you see doomed does have that
Elected legend while nectar while the dance of the codified just to combo that together with Renko and the raging royal flush a lot
On the side of space station to cut away from doomed into player on the pillars
He's the best available here Renko
With that, Raging Royal Flush could be massive.
The commitment from Nectar after that is in the situation.
There's that commitment now.
Dang, everybody gonna start off up in the sky.
There goes that dance, the butterfly.
And in the sky, the legend is out,
but gets taken out by Milkboy.
Good focus, goodbye to doomed mid-ultimate Nectar.
Finding Logan, neck-wise, on the silent place.
Milkboy again on the iffy, Rita's trading with one,
but I don't know if that's enough, folks.
SSG, let me take this point.
And let me tell you, Milkboy really waking up.
He came back from the shop and delivered the Milkboy reel
with the rest of space station because he has been popping off this entire game
thus far and in this soon as a second round too. Space station already pushed up
and have nearly 15% on the board. While you look on the other side we see some
problems with doing the hovering over on the Ultron.
See now?
Phone's in the forward, Alt's available. Dino is very terrifying with that rampage.
Can run right out the back line but you know, who battles well would be month on
On that white five, San Ganda was just a ton of self-peel, so very difficult to get value here with the rampage.
Good drop back there from Milk Point holding onto that ultimate.
Gonna use it when need be, but if you're gonna be on a little strategist, then instead just the distraction factor right now, it's huge!
Yeah, he's just milking all the attention, I mean, very accurate, you know, to how that will like, so work around the nectar,
he's gonna be gonna find Junes up into the sky, right into the nectar fall,
beating them both together into the spawn room gates if he's unfortunately by themselves.
They've unleashed the coobie holes for a month and this is another huge takeover in favor of placing such an A bad staggered for SDV.
Shout out to the players on the sticks here. Neck rise on the controller here in the vanguard
front and then silent blaze from stick drift also in the strategist line on controller.
Get a little bit of representation there both of which strong players obviously up at this
level of play. Neck rise with that heartbreaker available could be a huge threat to get on top of
Move to the back line.
Love seeing the representation between tauntle here and having that roller in your hands.
Go ahead and hand with stick to your right and living up to the name, Silent Place.
Closer to the only, but it's going to be Logan with that a little bow and beat.
He's fighting Nectar though, it's going to be a big shutdown.
Taking everything with the heartbreaker, getting the grab going after getting the breeze factor.
Onto Nectarize does not stop Nectarize from harassing the Borsu Storm, who has left love with a beautiful peel.
and attention focus to help keep your Invisalive as well to the double dino lettuce zone.
And you may be saying, why wasn't there other focus on that back line?
Tone did a great job of using that buddy barrier, the shield on the dino to just isolate
the attack from the side of Necrice. Huge play there from Tones.
And you know, it's just one of those plays you don't really get to see until you kind of watch
from a third person perspective, zoom it out and see him that wall off. Huge play there.
Redis owning the space to take but again 99% here from SSG is an incredible start
Alts want to be roughly even as milk boy nectar Renko Zangy and here goes the
Royal Flush from Renko everybody committing Zangy with the left the devil out looking
for something in the backline everybody trying to protect now so much movement
now lose the beat you're gonna also in silent everybody on sick drift is pressing Q
I'm getting whiplash right here in just in terms of visuals right now and following up
The beautiful extermination from Doom keeps everybody alive, but it's not going to be on board for Nektar as he gets a quick 3k.
Talk about the odds of damage once they add Ustup, the only saving grace on keeping everybody alive for that side of this Ultimate.
Shout out Nektar, they just go ahead and find themselves with a quadra in that fight.
OT ticks down Rita's trying to get the portal here. I'm not sure it is enough time, folks.
to take down bang it is not ssg finds himself on map one talk about the way
the ssg also opens up this series in a very dominating fashion shift and we
were talking about a team that was able to hold onto those ultimates wait till
the very last second even if the combo didn't work with the rage of world
flush they were able to come in use up the strategy ultimates just so that way
they could defense and hold their own with the extermination and then have
the dance of the cutter fly fly through to take that first map great series that
we have as it's our final series of the day here in America's Don't Go Anywhere
because we've got map number two right around the corner.
I knew I was the only one that matters for me
I'll be waiting for you
Wait up, I'll bend your hands, hold on
Do you heart look inside you?
Any feeling that's marching you?
Tighten up, I'll push it away
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Now, this is smashing through time
Oh, the real winter's yet again
We are ready for the end
And I can't understand your mind Hold on to your heart, we're still on the edge of the world
We arrive on the edge of the sea
Hello, folks, and welcome back as SSG was able to clean win Cracow from Stickdrift there
and definitely a win that they wanted to have done in that fashion.
Vicki Schibb, you know, we take a look at that grouping in general.
We just talked about that three, four seed.
Heck, they want to get into the conversation.
Yeah, one for, you know, Team Liquid is a tough one to get there, but at least getting
in that second seed conversation is where they find themselves, you know, looking towards
If you are space station you took full advantage of the free agency and you love to see things click like you did for them there
And and you know shit will start with you to not allow that kind of reverse sweep
It really I would say expectations of your own team falling short of it to even plug their mind at all as impressive
Yeah, I'm curious if in scrims they showcase the ability to play roguelike
I think rogue when it in a gambit comp if you have a role play you can't allow gamut through ever like it's just it
Cuz rogue is so strong with the team up really does not excel without the team ups
You don't have to worry too much about it outside of that, but it does kind of lend you to just want to remove that
But yeah, the whole team looked good. Everybody performs a nectar did exactly what we expected nectar to do and the new players
I haven't had eyes on much showed up
Yeah, no for sure. I mean listen, we just said it right like going into that
That's why the hundred thieves like either having somebody pick up rogue on that in because you can punch that much more right mag
Just obviously not in a great spot right now in the meta and a lot of boys
So that team up that is important and then on top of that you have gambit giving the extra juice to nectar of all people
They've just continued to show that they are Thanos. That's what people call him. You know behind the scenes is the Thanos
And we're seeing it right there Vicky 30 and 30 disgusting 15k when you have a duelist playing with fifty three percent on those
On the butterfly shotgun my gosh
Yeah, I mean they literally popped off you combine that together with shanji
Which by the way, Shandy had made a tweet earlier today saying that they had a food poisoning on a game day and guess what?
I don't know if it was like a secret buff
But obviously the way that they were able to play that and I have to give a highlight to you to also milk boy
who was literally milking the ultimate against Tones who was relying on the devil dino so he comes into question which in this big and
Band phase guys where we got to see that gambit out of there as a priority. Yeah for sure
They were all protected against STD
I mean month night following having rinko to just have the continuation of just that back line being alive and well and
You know, it's like you've got to get that game
That's the first starting point find a map that works really well for you and get rid of the gambit
And then you can stick with some of the fundamentals that I think they drew up as a team going into it.
Ship, if you are Stickdrift, how do you reset there? Because that was obviously far from the show and you won't.
Yeah, I mean, you don't go... So here's my thought, right?
One, you remove the gambit.
Two, you don't necessarily target Nectar because it's very difficult.
I think you start shifting things up a little bit.
You try to find weak points that maybe you can ban out, they'll force them into uncomfortable heroes.
But you weren't able to do that with Nectar, so that strategy needs to change.
And now they do have map selection and I'm stoked that it's at Museum.
Yeah, it's at this point map to she just almost always be directed this way because so many teams feel like they've got the advantage
We used to see this in the past you're all with interest out path like people would feel like that's my map
Like that's our teams map, but guess what?
It's also somebody else's right and that could be the same form or fashion against space station gaming
But you know to you know look at what happened you have museum of contemplation not being played for
SSG in the last matchup that they had against equal ops
So at least there's a little bit of change there
I believe there's midtown and some about a surface where things ended up being taken
But yeah, such a great map with a lot of ways to exploit the back of the map there in the dive position
And we do know Reedus loves that that front to back try to get something rolling there for the Phoenix on their side
As we get with the picking bands and you know, you kind of highlighted
There was some good devil dyno play early there from using the shield to have that success and communication
But you ditched that ship and Vic you go somewhere else
Yeah, I mean that's not a bad idea. That makes sense to me. I oh and look at that offer it
What do you know would have called it goodbye to the gambit now?
We're gonna see that probably dino matchup which we haven't really seen like at all today
So I'm excited to see that back and forth as I want to learn from that personally
I think we saw a bit of it in the tournament, but should be fun
Yeah, we had the dino redino yesterday. I believe and it's it's chaos
Let's just start there absolutely because all those little micro decisions you have as the T-Rex
You know matters that much more it's like watching a game of chicken, right?
It's like who let the the Jurassic Park gates open up and it looks like the Museum of Contemplation has been like literally that second map that
We've gone through every single series that we've had just for today
Ludo bands on both sides to when you have the devil dino
You know just the influx of healing that could come out that together with having a possible charm or even a freeze to add
When you know that you could probably expect the doctor to come out especially on museum
And fundamentally, I actually like the front to back in the bands here get rid of like the usual suspects
And really don't give them any extra ways to enable their best duelist both teams having just elite talent on those sides
I'm really curious you're gonna go with the phoenix, which I think is a big role because
Nectar does play any hero that you know that you ask of them ship
But now that's gonna have Zangy who doesn't play as much of that his scan have to flex into something a little bit different
Maybe the daredevil
Yeah, you could I mean if it is gonna be a front to back Dino company you go like heavy healing backline and raw damage hit scan
Despite if you're uncomfortable, but you just really lean into that and play front to back you could win the matchup
I do think there's weird changes and things that you don't really think about like Jeff bubbles
I should really good with I don't because you give you the longer run when you have that bubble because you're faster when you eat
So you have a better chance pulling away similar with Mantis that kind of stuff is slept on
Until you play at this level of play and you actually experience it those extra yardage
You potentially net you an off map in an escape before they eat you and the invisible woman save is
definitely something that I did not have prepared or but I thought they would go with that right I do
like the Emma ban and so to answer that into that case and point there goes the Jeff right so
having Jeff on one side versus the other is actually a very big advantage that I think
is going to lend itself to some success there with space station should be anything to close
out this pick band draft. I think Emma one-sided versus Jeff one-sided with a die something we
could see now and I think that's going to answer some questions for us I'm curious to see that
matchup for sure. Alrighty well Vic I mean when you look at it both sides look pretty equal weight
which one do you want to give it to you stick drift space station who do you think we got another
game three maybe. I feel like space station right now are just playing out of their minds and their
micro decision are coming out on top versus stick drift but we're gonna have to find out here cosy
you know I'm all in it when it comes to having some more moral rivals you got shib to bless us out
here so we'll find out if this map choice is going to benefit stick drift. Well stick drift versus
Man, listen to this.
Here we go.
We're heading right in, Vicky.
But yeah, I mean, yeah, SSG, like you said,
playing lights out and just not missing a beat.
Even Netra being target banned, still finding a ton of success.
I'm looking forward to seeing if Emma's more valuable
or if Jeff's more valuable.
Looks like they're going to come out with some different answers
to the dyno, including things like Moon Knight from Xanji.
We haven't seen that actually on Midtown, I believe,
from Xanji on SSG in the past.
So this could be a fun one to witness.
I'm excited. Let's get this going.
I also really, again, like the pick and ban phase,
more so selection from the space station side,
only because we know how strong Jeff could be
on a map like this, especially vertically-wise,
when it comes to reposition, as you've already mentioned,
when it comes to those bubbles, helping out that double dyno,
but coming out of the gauge, this is also a really good map.
When it comes to the Loki with Monk being on,
we're gonna be able to get that copy on,
so Red Bull eventually, before Duke sees the composition
and says, I am out, I'm gonna make a quick swap up here
to try to answer this, because now,
you also have on the other side,
no point being on that group to control more of that space.
And being able to pop Crystal down on a dino
that's essentially defeated and fully reset that HP bar
is detrimental in a dino v dino matchup.
So that's a good call there for month as well.
We'll see if we see success with that.
Goodbye to that pass quickly from the side of Redis.
Instantly deleted Dune with some raw damage too.
Matching it right back from Rosangy,
but so much space being created already.
I mean, getting burned immediately
and now being able to clear more of the space up
with S and G to try to back away.
The Moon Knight comes to haunt you,
puts down the onk right on top of that group wall,
but the isolation from Milkwave,
it's not gonna be on the gamble,
it's gotta be on this group.
The Moon haunts no one it looks like
and the invisible boundary out from Logan.
It's up to Silent Blaze to get that net set
of the strategy of ultimate to keep this fight going.
The plane move out of this comp already 30%.
That's insane.
June got the losses quickly before it gets cycled here
from Zangie, Nectar, ready to use that end song,
should need to be up in the sky,
that could be big, down goes the Aunts,
Tom's able to take out Neck Rise,
goodbye to Milk Boyz, well,
and SSG are gonna be holding out for a moment.
Or excuse me, CD.
Ooh, it's a fact that Doom made that quick swap
of those shit, when you see the Loki from the other end,
well guess what, it could benefit you too,
because you're gonna be able to get Ricochet off
of just having those hits off of the Loki clones,
and you're cleaning up even more of the space
with the contest at the perfect time,
the chopping away though, onto the brood,
One by one as they fall, they've lost out on the Invis and the Groot, and that's pretty big here, as SSD now are just looking to recapitalize off of the Invisaliboundry that month ahead.
Yeah, Logan just comes in hot, finds two, up goes that end song now, trying to use it to get rid of some of this equipment, good buy to all the backline crystals and clones, and now let's match right back from Ranko.
Can they get some picks here to stall this?
Oh, point one, he grabbed quickly, it looks like.
Wow.
Hold on some of those walls neck rise cleans up to and that is a massive retake off the back of that portal
So the roller tanks once again that Christ showcasing the flexibility that they have while now it from the other end
That's easy to have some ultimate to answer
Logan's very close to that invisible boundary neck rise on the other end has the eye of Agamon a rape and nectar with a big
Pick up also doomed nothing is head right out of his shoulders
I think we're on the height here trying to get that all back quickly already 40% in climbing
But this is going to be an alt fest like you said you have those lookies in the backlight
You have the moon night essentially moon night has it all every single fight
Especially you don't have a big shield in the front line from the side of stick drift
It's gonna be farming so now we'll see if neck rise milk boys Angie
Compared to tones iffy and Logan will get more value 60 seconds on the clock here raging
Everyone here, what a hold by Space Station
at the back of a massive strangling prison.
Well, that was the meteor that put the Dino
into extinction for real though.
The rampage is also a Vista,
and the two are just gonna be able to move up,
milk boy to follow up,
but a huge strangling prison and the wobble combo
into the hand of Conchie.
Yeah, that was 30, waiting until if he committed there
with the rampage, then immediately strangling prison,
waiting and ensuring that shield cooldown was not available,
get in a whole team and just swept right through Necrice as the potential here to land something big if he shield was launched.
So we're just gonna try to stop any of these backline ultimates with that seduction and it looks like it's just gonna be a space creator.
Just being able to force some backs out of places, have that copy, got a bishop on the table, just waiting as the invisible boundary comes in right afterwards.
This is going to be a clean lay of Necronize as the Eye of Akamoto comes right over the hand of Kanchu,
but Dupin Tones has had enough, they found Renko and they have the number advantage
and they get the second check point rather than the first check point.
Now as they move on to the second check point, oh no.
Yeah, that is a clean push there after being driven backwards up a huge alt combination,
but Nectar able to find one looking for more now onto that frontline just essentially forcing on backwards.
you nectar somebody stop them as they get a quadra after the point was taken
but still the points moving those picks are valuable but not if nobody's on cart
and that's why both in their climbing ladder cart is of utmost importance that
your team is losing a fight make sure you go down on top of that thing so it
doesn't move while you're falling there is the movement in positioning from
Zangy trying to pressure backline and bump and figure out where to set up some
of these clones for this next fight.
Ladies and gentlemen, with the on-foot mats as you unleash your physical
boundary in the form of the god of mischief now trying to pull everybody
together. As now the rest of Spacestor are going to utilize this opportunity to move up.
Ganty's getting into position two with the hand of Contra.
He's ready together with Nekr.
Talking about all the extra damage for all eyes on Redis, who also has a reset.
The total that is Wolverine together with the team up, since they have the
Phoenix on their side too.
So this setup is, I'm sure we're going to see this last hand coming in in a moment.
Distrangling prison combination.
Lans wants more.
Milkboy ever to find one, but no more through the boundary.
Psyche I live tones goes down doomed able to take out neck rise there is that last
then on to the front lines Angie able to take out just doomed and that goes
against them even after that commitment from Reedus really well played by SSG
and the defense now we're coming back with a vengeance one minute on the clock
and still being able to find that dive and Reiko still staying alive they
really only lost all a neck rise right here too so they'll be able to regroup
together on this defense strongly while now SCD rolled out if he on that venom
just so that way they could try to disrupt and force out more of these
cooldowns from the strategy's backline that is SSG with Redis now also on the black hat.
As there is only 15 seconds left.
No rank or no problem, they'll have the Invisal Boundary in this fight too after Ranko was taken out earlier by Redis.
So they're gonna be able to have that. Stanley Blaze is gonna get the copy.
Now you have the Invisal Boundary at one side and this is gonna be enough time for Space Station to have months to get his own God of Bishop after Ranko uses his Invisal Boundary.
Drops being like flies though, they pull him in and toads cannot even stay alive to get a reset off this rampage.
Now recent year from Dune, well, Nefra's having their way, but as Loki unfortunately is the victim from the other side of the tromps.
OT is beginning, the stall for the moment from if he is going to be there. Driven up point though, you can't leave it unfortunately.
I mean, really was a tough position to even hold in the first place, but that brief moment of getting up point is enough to hold them well before point two, 85 meters in.
Yeah, we usually see like the stall potential come out there just to allow
portal play to come in to re-engage. But you know what, looking at these stats
alone, the survivability here from space age, rank goes down four times, a little
difficult here when Rita's just trying to utilize that black cap a month, has been
able to stay alive and thanks to those lamps, right? We talked about it before
for Logan just trying to match up in the Loki side of things, but it's about being
able to have the pure potential that Milk Boy's also right there with as he is on
the group to set up those walls, it's just a block out and he's exactly that
SV want to go for when they come to them backing away after harassing the backline of SSG
Yeah, this is I like the cop a lot here once more for the side of SSG
I can see the change up here coming from stick drift on the defense. They want to run that all or the atom composition
You know, that's something that we've seen in the past fine success, especially on this map
I'm looking forward to seeing if it works in this current meta. We really haven't seen it be incredibly successful yet
I think Phoenix is a decent counter to Adam when you all much like you would if you know for any of those other
Ultimates to get rid of some of the over health like you would prevent them for example if you land on an atom res
When they're all off it is insane. So we'll see if that works out
The big issue too is the amount of damage output that Sandy's been able to put in in comparison to we had the ditto
Magic on the other end like he had a blood like 27 point 5k damage of that one round alone
And it goes hand in hand with the wobble combo that SSD have been able to utilize now
Now let's see if this Adam Warlock comp is going to be a workout for them, unlimited, born again!
It's like a throwback here for a shit.
Yeah, I remember those map-ups, speaking back to some of those team-ups with Adam Warlock.
Everyone had infinite lives back then, things have changed and that's the beauty of team-ups and removal rivals as a whole.
There's the commitment now, it's Nef, which is peeling, eww, a ton of damage forced out the E.
If he's going to have to wait and try to reset with the team, and again, notice how Phoenix in this level of play, folks,
is doing a great job just sitting on backline protecting them, not always looking forward,
and not always just front to backing, just using that stun and the raw damage of that passive
to help that great stun exhibit A right there to stop that push.
I believe that that venom was gone.
Tomb thing gets a little bit of revenge on the Sandeak here.
We'll be able to come back around with the Hand of Tontra that he built up within,
like what, less than a minute here.
Of course, the beauty of the Moon Knight and Tones cannot even get away to also combine that
together with a bit of a body block and unfortunate for Tones.
He is no longer in sight as he downed that one member while looking and silent plays are still trying to build up these
Ultimate Suicide Embrace having that invisible bounder next.
Offer was that boundary now. Moon Knight commitment through it. Doesn't seem to get any value good movement from the defense to stay away.
Portal now gets committed this time from Tones to get back to that point.
It will not have that for the last second retouch. Nectar, flying inside a pressure to that backline.
Notice the aim not looking at those vanguard at all folks looking directly backwards and an off angle.
That is just exactly what you want to see from Duelist.
There's that boundary, try to get that pickpire.
That shield is just too much to think about.
Try to make a playwork out.
He's going to land on top of the strangling prison,
but no one goes down well done again
by Stickdrift to stay healthy using that eternal bond,
or excuse me, the bond from Redis to keep everyone healthy.
There was also a very big pickoff onto Renko,
who has the invisible boundary.
Even if Month had used a lot of mission to keep them alive,
it just wasn't enough time before Renko,
unfortunately, had to come out of his boundary gates
and now has their invisible boundary ready, but they can combine this together just to stall out the survivability
that I see we currently have now that they have the board again to re-up in the rears.
As you can see now,
turn backwards towards the wall,
Tones and Reedus does have that res available.
Notice the positioning staying far away.
He's going to have the team play for Rez,
should they commit ults.
They're committing ults now.
I have a motor goes out, it does land item.
Can they clean it up?
No, it's actually just a clung.
Nobody goes down from the eye.
You see there, immediately CC you in the dangerous spot, now gets bitten right back towards the point,
but inside of a boundary, the Vend diagram is committed.
Wow, Joomed, how are you still healthy? Nope, you're not, goodbye, Nectar able to find one.
So the Comparative Cadranus just has Nectar and Sanji up on top, finding two,
but Redis does have a passive still available for him, and he's got a born again,
as he activates it from the skies, still alive to bring back Joomed and Toans.
Ooh, and on phase two, Redis, come on, now able to find Sanji,
And the res comes in on it. This res is massive.
This might actually be the cop to take them by surprise.
You'd love to see unique stuff work like this
as they are still holding, but very close
to losing this first point.
What year is it? The goats?
What am I seeing here?
The three vanguard, the three strats.
Now you get to copy the invisible bounty vector.
Find that thing up, though.
It's a toad!
And then you see a sunny place over on the left field.
Does he even miss?
They're going crazy out here.
And it's all strategists that fall here for STD.
Yeah, uh, yeah, I mean, it's kind of stationary for a moment there.
You can't do that against Nectar, who just lined it up with your dome.
Goodbye, is able to find point one.
No portal available after being committed.
Month has up now for SSG and there is no answer for the side of Stick Drift.
If you're going to be close, but we've seen what Nectar can do on that peel.
And you're already getting set up to just to build into that next hand of Contru,
but the Wombo combo is a little DC-ing tier with Genji being very close to having that.
Just to control some space, oh, no, boy, he had a...
He doesn't really have that strategy in prison.
Month does have the God of Mishith, though,
calling out where the Venom's gonna be diving from if he will have a piece of the Abyss right around the corner.
Alright, it folks, you can seize Angie with all of your weapons.
Commit something quickly if you want to try to make something happen with no response.
Look at that movement.
This movement from Nectar's always lights out.
Always understands when to commit that.
It's just consistently top-notch.
Now, looking for an off-angle play from Reedus. Reedus trying to pressure that backline while being invisible,
but the crystals are going to be too much to press through.
As you can see on height, taking the movement now on the top side is Xanji, who committed that moon, and nobody goes down.
Now, instead of just trying to cut off her exit point at this time, and doomed also making a swap on, by the way, 2vL,
so to farm Necrice, who had made the swap right before that first point, to the Devil Vital,
Milk Boy gets a trade off after they lost out on Xanji and Wreck goes so close to having that invisible boundary once it get right through that next slope of a joke.
Oh, the all-pattern potential. You know, you can land on a wall and that is a good answer there from Milk Boy.
But in those walls down knowing you're going to be eaten, or excuse me, I was a friendly fire, excuse me from Milk Boy there.
No, I know it'll work against Doom, but Xanji able to find Logan, Nectar, trades that right back, gets one more Nectarized now, I'm told, and this might be it here folks.
SSG do take this 2-0 against victory gaming.
Oh man, the delay just before the nail in the coffin comes out.
SSG on top and able to make the adaptation that they needed should.
Yeah, honestly I like the defense on point one.
I think the portal might have been committed a little bit too early for the res comp
as they did have a lot of that available and they could have just kind of held on
but either way I'm not sure the portal would have worked at the end there.
at the end there. It's all just kind of a, you know, a hindsight 2020 situation. But either way,
Space Station keeping it traditional, keeping it to what's more meta in this patch and finding
success doing it. What do you think, Cosy? Hey, listen, it's been a fun three days is all I gotta
say. I mean, I've been on the gauntlet myself and really being able to understand these teams to the
full degree. And I feel like that's the game you needed to see from Space Station. Like you had
to have and get right and really show why the free agency managed so much and why Nectar continues
to be like you just saw there with the venom dive in like that movement as you say back in triple
headshot and said what do you do at that point the venom's got to leave so i you know i think what
you know season is it with the group moon knight and the adam loki but either way
kind of unconventional picks but uh like what they went for in the strategy of counter neck
you're getting getting that mvp big yeah there's only so much you could do when it comes to like
Nectar's 0-2, right? Just doing 3,000 damage, 30 and 4, like that's actually insane. Clicking heads
left to right, even in the straight neutral. We saw it so many times where Nectar had no issue
just finding a lot more of these pigs before some of these fights even began. And I have to give
credit to the Nectarize who made the adaptation swapping over to the Devil Dino and started
popping off beyond that first checkpoint. Yeah, and I didn't hate at all, you know, I think you said
said the ship with the defense right going with the triple van I don't know
if Magneto was the pick that I loved in there within the triple van that you're
gonna go with but either way I mean having that at the disposal it seemed
like they were just almost one fight off of making it work but being able to
solve the puzzle is what I think SSG and a lot of these veteran players offer so
well. Yeah if you're gonna run that composition sometimes it's worth not
always looking for the biggest res possible but if you lose one or two
committing and then using Loki copied it maybe res up in another fight and I
I think it was kind of a mismatch when they used Portal early to retake instead of committing some of those ultimates
And you know, I'd have to go back and kind of look at the macro level of things wherever all the ult charge was at the time
But either way, yeah, they did almost make it work man. It was surprising to me
And I think it shows that there can be some unique stuff that might success in this tournament
Yeah, and hey shout out to the back line a month in Rinko again
Rinko coming into this squad and really being this cool puzzle piece that continues to make it shine and lose three options and pick up
the invas Loki with ease Zangy having food poisoning and doing more of the moon night that we saw yesterday
Any moon nights, you know, look lick in your lips whenever you've got Loki on the other side and here's the staff to show
That's when you usually get that 42k damage bomb. Oh my goodness
That is actually insane
But that's what you're gonna feast on when you have all those Loki clones and we were talking about that in actually in the game
Here cozy and being able to seize and utilize that and then go hand-in-hand with milk boy
who not only had the insurance policy of the brute walls, even after Siktra had swapped over to the Elsa,
but Milk Boy was controlling so much space. I feel like Milk Boy really stepped it up today.
Yeah, for sure. Chip, if you just look at one big stat line, month only fallen once compared to the four, you know,
on the other side, like just having that survivability.
It's all, it's just, you know, you can't be spoken on enough.
It's just so big having that
act line, and honestly for being there, if you look at both Loki and Invis, two of the strategists that are quick for that
survivability. Yeah, I think Loki in this current meta is difficult to find
successful or success with especially because Moon Knight is good in Dino, but
if you have a good Loki who really understands utilization of cooldowns,
when to use those crystals and not overutilize them too early, it's great
and we're seeing success that I mean month one going down one time in the
Dino composition against Moon Knight is insane. And that's forget they did hit
Loki with a little bit of that balance right you've got him going a bit more
towards the healing side loss some of the damage and the oh anytime you get the
increase. It always can hurt a bit, but you know, we are excited. I think last time that SSG did win, we were able to talk to
Bacon. We're going to tell us there with some of the chaos on the scenes, but we got nectar, a player that we all know very
well and who has continued to be such a Thanos for their team nectar. It's great to have you on the interview. Glad to be able to see
you do your thing. I got to ask you, right? This is a team that we know is fully loaded,
and it really, you guys are the only thing that can stop yourselves, because easily you can get
up to that second seed, even punch up above that into TLC. How far can this team go and walk me
through the adjustments you made in the offseason? Well, I think I think I agree with you. Like,
our team is very well, or very good on paper. And I think, especially in the offseason, making
taking so many changes, I think we did really well, especially this last week, like locking
in and taking practice really seriously and putting in the hard work.
So I'm really proud of my teammates for giving all that effort.
Beautiful.
It's good to see you again, buddy.
We've been on CAS even together, which is one of the few times I could say that to a
player.
But yeah, a lot of, just following up on what your answer was.
I mean, a lot of new players on your team.
Can you kind of walk me through, bud?
How does that assimilation look?
Like, how does that work when you have like half your roster new to the team?
Yeah, I think when we were trialing, there were lots of good players that we trialed in.
I think as we went on, we kind of narrowed it down, but players that really stood out
to me, especially when the players were picking up.
But I think, especially Milkboy, he really impressed me in trials.
I think all of those heroes are really, really good, and I think I really value them on the
main tank.
most the cast at like a top tier level and Zen just how I feel between me and him probably
just play like every character in the game so yeah for real like you guys literally have
so much flexibility and depending on how the pick and ban phase goes I feel like you guys
look like you have all the answers I mean looking at your next week it's pretty lax for you guys
I believe you guys have like that one series versus a TSM but you know week number three is
were things get heavy and your opponent for that first day for week number three is going to be TLC.
I mean without revealing too much what are your thoughts looking into that match up and looking
at the fact that you have this next upcoming week to really figure out what went wrong what you guys
could do better for this first week. Yeah I think this last week especially you know we've really
come into our dandy as a team but how we want to play and what we're gonna do and I think these
next few weeks is really just up to us to like really hammer it down and make sure we're all just confident the way we want to play it and
Just keep up give them much I'm going
Listen hey next I know your month is super close
So have that you know kind of synergy for the team is awesome and just have to say your old story
I mean there's a lot of talent in ignite, but you as a player
It just seems like wherever you go, you know success does follow and it's been a lot of fun to follow that as well
We wish you guys yeah good luck going into week two and prepping in for that TSM matchup
But really having a couple weeks to really look at your grouping and try to get to that one to see that
I know you guys desire so again congratulations and thanks for coming on. It's always great talking to you
Thank you guys always a pleasure being on the cast you guys. I'll catch you guys again. Hopefully
Yeah, buddy. Absolutely vector Thanos many names. I mean yes, you have it's we
It's just something to say that you know you have a lot of pressure as a player that talented to continue to perform and
I can say out of a lot of the jewels you watch
There's never a time where I feel like ah, you know Nick
You could have played a little bit sharper on that it you know in and that's impressive
That's a great call out. You just made me think I was like when has there been a time where I was like
I never did not step up there
I think they've always been like SVP MVP or you know you that's not always that's not always necessarily tell story
but just consistent always.
I feel like, you know, they highlighted Zangy there.
And in the past, you know, they were with Ramazing, right?
And some of the compliment duelists to Nectar
I think is very important because of that flexibility.
But I think Zangy's hero pool does compliment a ton of having the moon
and of having the Namor to, you know, having Nectar into one minute
of siloing MVP next minute from Tobacco Phoenix.
It literally opens the gates for Nectar to pop off, right?
It's the follow-up potential, and I think Nectar,
they highlighted it perfectly.
You know, when Sanji's right there,
it's kind of like the backup that they need to follow up
and making sure that you can secure these KOs.
And it's nice to be able to see that
ironed out in a much more cleaner way
as the synergy starts building up even more for this team.
Well, friends, I've been saying this about rivals,
eSports in general.
You got to get people to the restaurant
to know how good the food is, and like, the food's great.
You guys can tell from today from the matches that we've had
from these first three days of stage one, I'm addicted to it.
It makes me want to log in like, I'm ready to go.
I'm ready to take what I saw into my own red games,
but we take a look at group A and B in the standing ship.
Walk us through what we're seeing.
You can see they're on group A.
Folks, space station up with two wings so far.
And folks, remember, some of these teams have not played two times yet.
Speaking of Team Liquid Citadel, a team that has been dominant in the preseason.
It took that thing home and ended up winning it all the way.
one one yet we lost in a similar position one to one T assembly had one game in and they've lost in equinox
Our oh in two for group a Vicky. How about B?
I mean looking at group B alone seeing all hundred thieves is still up not dropping a single series or math just yet
They lead the pack swamp getting right behind them as we only saw a swamp play out once this week
But it's okay
That's what all the actions about for week number two looking all the way down and our G do tie it up for themselves
as well as Sentinels coming alive for today versus Nightmare.
We saw them taking in a clean 2-0 fashion,
and now we get to see what FlyQuest and Nightmare
all the way in the bottom side of Group B
are gonna have to do differently
going into week number two, guys.
Well, a big week difference makes a lot here
as it's early in the season,
and we take a look at next week and that first day
because teams now can adjust
what has Devil Dinosaur brought,
and most importantly, how do their matches go?
I think FlyQuest being one of those
that really need to change up
some of their looks, bands, and scene comp,
You have a big game coming back. Everything is a race if you win against swamp gaming, but and it's gonna be a tall task
So you've got that set in those hundred thieves
I don't know right if they were in our G because that's starting to really be
One of highlight games. I think every single time shit. That is the most iconic. I mean heck it made me get the social media
Going to frenzy last time
Yeah, I just this is a story matchup with Santa Hunter thieves right like absolutely story
They've had such a big history together and I think both teams kind of step up to each other's talent level
And every given game that they go against each other, but and we're gonna end there Vicky with TSM TLC
What do you think about that one? Oh man, that's gonna be a good one here, too
I mean if they think good one for TLC to practice
So what they got to do maybe because TSM I feel like I'm just you know
It's difficult to try to come back when you find yourself already at the bottom starting off week one
And it goes hand in year
you know, we're talking about
in terms of group stages,
you want to be able to excel
yourself very early on to your
not love scrambling in the final
weeks, because there's only so
many games you have to play
within your respective pool.
And guys, there's only those top
four slots in each of those
groups that will be able to move
on.
It was very nice of you, Vic.
I was going to say that last
one kind of just down a bit there
maybe, but hey, Dia said you can
get all the criticism away if
you were to win that matchup.
But hey, we've seen things at
times in rivals.
Again, I've been your host
cozy ship, Vicky.
I don't know if they could
I get I don't know if they could illegally put together more hype desk hype matches that we've had for day one to three
It's been a pleasure folks
And we thank you for joining us getting those drops and watching what this e-sport is becoming
I'm so excited for day four five and six will be hitting you next week
So we lock reload going to great games on your own and have some fun and Marvel rivals
We're gonna go ahead and wrap up things here on the desk, but have a great night. We'll see you next week
That you are like the light that's in the air
You see the dawn, the flames running right at me
Shining on those memories and the ends
Of course, all time I see you turn in the dark
And do you see now?
All time, all time we can still fight it
At the Windsor Fund
When you're no more
Then now it's the only time your heart is mine
Light has fallen, darkness broken
Can't be by your own destiny and pain
New day's coming, but if you're in the future
It's right to change my new way
Why do you think me?
And when you play it again
I will find your pride
Free me from your distance
Shilpa's on hold
Before the wind splinters again
The unbearable sins begin
While my face and my fingers are marked
To hold my fear focused on
The tips I have lost
We are rivals again
Until the end of time
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Wait a minute
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Don't mind, hold onto your power still
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And the S.A.P.
You
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Trapping all those fighting souls body and
Across the world I see you standing in my way
I remember the time, the place we used to fight
Waking sun and moon and I wonder
Whatever there was, it turned out we were friends
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Braves, this is one your way, I'm fighting
Do you remember who you really are?
Show me that you are-