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07-04-2026 · 8h 16m
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I love you
I sing high-pitched songs
I'm not gonna do it, don't you go
I'm not gonna let you go, don't you fall
I don't even know
What to do
I don't know
What to do
I'm not gonna let you go, don't you fall
I don't even know
Now that I feel
When I wake up
I'm growing up for a long time
My heart is like a flower that blooms in the night
I can't even open my eyes
I can't even open my eyes
The more I try to find you
The more I can hide
I'm going crazy, I'm going crazy
I'm going crazy, oh yeah
I can hear the sound of the dream
When you look at me from the wall
The light is shining on me
Let's start, let's go
I'm a little nervous
I'm grateful for the change
I'm going to be a little more secretive
Wait a little longer
Don't be there
Don't fall, just get up
Yeah, yeah
Where are you going?
I can't come to know where you're at
Come on, come on
Sing a high-pitched song
Do not come to me, don't you come
Just follow me, don't you come
I'll follow you, follow me
And I'm down for my bike ride
Fly to us, wake me up
If you run to us and make it through
Until the day the darkness falls
If you make it through
The time, the place we used to fight
When sun and moon and time wonder
If ever there was a tenderness, we were friends
Like a starlit shadow swimming in the necks
Like a husband for me to figure out
We are standing up for a last reunion
Breakfast is time to wake up with me
Do you remember who you really are?
Show me that you are still the only one for me
I'll be waiting for you
Blinking in
I'll make a joke
Frost breathing
Your sense flashed in through time
Holds
For the rift
My first time yet
The end that was in the end
While we fell
And then we're gone
My whole life to your powers
Now I can't stop us
We arrive to the end of time
We will clash
We're out of air
We will fight
Pushing across the endless space
And space is what you were made to be made to be
You see the dawn, the flame burning brightly
Chaining one nose from the reason he is
Across the time I see you turning left sides
And do you see now? I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I can't still fight
I couldn't just fight, but I don't know why
Then now it's the only time you're all I need is mine
My cast falling, darkness will die
As we wait for our destiny and day
New day's running for the first and future
Shrinkles shins like the light, light's with me
And when you wake up, I'm at your cross
Raising up your distance, smashing through the sky
And from the risk we turn to death
The other side will still be in the lie
Then I'll have to use your mind
To watch it grow, it's better than someone's
Then your back will stop getting
Until the end of time
I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know
Show me that you were the only one that matters to me
I'll be playing it for you
Wait, I'll break your hands, hold my mind
Do you heart move inside you?
Can you feel it, it's my key?
Wait, I'll let you see it
I think that a perfect surprise reason
Is since flashin' through time walls
For the real, this magic is yet to end
We are rivals to the end and I said
Perfection might hold onto your powers
But all I've said so far
We are rivals to the end of time
Yeah, let's go
I don't know, I'm in a mood
I'm just a little bit nervous
I'm going to melt away like this
Wait a little longer
I won't be there
Don't fall, just get up
I don't know where I'm going
I'm just here for you
I'm going to sing higher
I don't know who I am, don't you know?
Just call me the head, don't you know what I'm talking about?
I don't need no night, baby
I don't know who I'm talking about
I'm running to you, baby
I don't need no night, baby
Wow, I don't know what I'm gonna do
I'm gonna go down to the top
I'm gonna melt like this
I'm gonna wait a little longer
I'll be there
Don't fall, don't fall, get up
I'm gonna hurry and get to where I am
I'm gonna be there for you
Sing a high-pitched song
That's a custom for me to take you out
We are second world as reunion
Brave, this is fine to wear, come with me
Do you remember who you really are?
I mean it, you are still the only one for me
I'll be waiting for you
We'll begin, our friendship's cross-raising
The same slash in the sun holds
The fall, the risk, the throes, and the head
We are never to the end, why then?
I've been drawn my tolls until the power is now
And so once we arrive to the end, it's not a lie
We will rush right away, and we'll fight
Wishing across the island, spend as much as you would
But it doesn't matter
You can see the dawn, the flames burning right behind you.
When those families and ex, across the time, I see you turning left sides.
And do you see now, a time of time we can still fight back the winds and floods?
But I know I can now, it's the only time you're how I need mine.
The flight has fallen, darkness broken
Yes, we have a goal, our destiny and fate
New days running for the past, the future
Spray the seas, make the way, fight with me
And when you wake up, open your eyes
Raising up your distance, smashing through soil
The world will miss, but it's first time again
The other world still believes in lies
That's not a lie, that's not mine
Don't take your powers down, get some of us
We can ride for so long until the end of time
Show me that you're still the only one that matters for me
I'll be waiting for ya
Wait, I gotta look up and your hands holding on
Do you have no gifts for you?
Any feeling that smacks in you?
Hey, no, I'm letting you shatter
Hey, yeah, what are you prize-raising?
Distance-flashing through time slots
With a rich concentration
We all wrestle to the end and rise up
Oh yeah, oh yeah
Feel it right on my back
I'm gonna keep you safe
If you want to be alone
I'm gonna be a magic
I'm gonna be a good person
Come here, come here
If you look at me
I'm gonna be cool
Let's go
I'm gonna be cool
I'm gonna be a good person
I'm gonna be a good person
I'm gonna be a good person
If you fly to us, why are you laughing?
I don't even know why, why are you laughing?
If you wake me up,
Look at me, I've been waiting for a long time
Like a star in the dark night
The day we first met
Wait for me
Don't be there
Don't fall down
Get up
I don't know where you are
I'm here for you
Sing a high-pitched song
I'm afraid of you
I'm afraid of you
I'm afraid of you
I'm afraid of you
I'm afraid of you
I'm afraid
If you come to us and wake us up
I have to keep all the moments in my eyes
If you like me, I'll meet you again
I'll be with you, the way of the world
The world is in our hands
Don't worry, don't worry, don't you go
Take a look at the head, take a look at the front
I don't need the night, where I'm at
Head up down, come with my look at the front
We're waiting for you, baby, give me a hug
I don't need the night, where I'm at
Has come to me to sink you out
We are set now for a last reunion
Break this shit's mind away
Come with me
Do you remember
Who you really are
Show me that you are still the only one for me
I'll be waiting for you
Play it again
I'm just gonna squeeze you out
With a sense machine from far off
You're full of rich, but turned against
We are both in the end
We are rising, I made our minds hold on to the powers now
Our fans are about, we are back to the end of time
We are crushed, we are out of air, we will fight
Missing across time, space, what?
Get in your way, there's an eternity
You see the dawn, the flame, burning brightly, shining one nose, and the way is any X.
Of course, no time is too huge, turning red sides.
And you see now, a time, a time, we can still fight, like the winds in the front.
But there's no more, then now is the only time your power is mine.
The flight has fallen, darkness broke, and as you break your own destiny,
I've been to this planet for the first time in the future
Trails, machines, lead the way, fight the game
Come on, you're waiting
Yeah, but why don't you rise, crazy?
Your reasons flash in the sun
You're so cold, we're on the risk, but search again
See our rivals in the beatings
You're the light, you're the light
You're my tool, not your focus
God, that's how it works
Miracles of the end
Until the end of time
Wait and I'll pick your hands Hold the note
Do you part? Look inside you
Feel it, it smacks you out
And it's a hundred shares
Hey, yeah, I make you cross-raises
You're just smashing through a tunnel
You put the rims when you're dead
Yeah, we are rivals to the end
And I'm poison
I think you might as well hold onto your powers
No, I can't stop once
any fall over now that you're standing.
I'm going to fall five steps right from top.
I'm being used in what you're holding on to.
Thank you.
Ultimate Tohubu, call it!
I'm selecting this crap time!
I'm short!
Not just to get me laid off.
Right on.
Used early.
Actually, it's a big time.
I have a chance to boost and try to go into the judges.
Not really that much time to run with.
I'm gonna go back to the
Hello arrivals. Happy 4th of
July. If you're looking for
fireworks, you came to the
right place. My name is CB,
and I'm joined today by that
one Dan, and we will be your
substitute teachers for this
evening. As the specter of
at the table and we already know of two.
By the end of the day, we will know the entire field.
And it's the final C left to be filled today.
Welcome everyone to day three of stage one playoffs
here in the Americas region.
And oh my God, we have a show ahead.
Some bangers matches, just banger after banger,
all day today and what better way to do it
than here right on the 4th of July.
We're looking at the schedule, right? Topping the schedule right now. We've got that super hyped matchup, right?
Liquid, so to know, up against Swamp Gaming, but don't let that distract you from the lower bracket,
because we have yet to see who gets that last spot to the mid-season finals.
Yeah, there's going to be a whole lot of motion happening down in that lower bracket.
I got a feeling that some of those teams won't be sticking around for much longer,
as it's going to be a elimination station down there.
and we'll see who survives because there's two two partner teams left that have yet to qualify and only one spot.
So one of them is going to have to go home potentially both of them.
Imagine if yeah, we lost or stick drift end up claiming that third spot at midseason finals.
What would that do to the calculus?
But let's run through the show today, Dan.
Let's have a look at how we are going to get there because we're starting things off with that Giga banger up in the upper bracket.
The winners finals team liquid Citadel versus swamp gaming.
I'd ask you what your match of the day is going to be, but I think that's a rhetorical question.
Yeah, I feel like everyone and their mother are going to say, yeah, I'm here to, uh, maybe, uh,
put the 4th and July celebrations on hold because we need to see Liquid Citadel up against Swamp Gaming.
Both of these teams coming in pretty much undefeated, right? Like, Liquid Citadel and the group stage
only lost to a single domination round. Swamp Gaming in a similar spot, and soon enough, these two
teams will collide in a few short minutes, but you've also got 100 days and fly and then
why WL up against Dick Drift to at least narrow the field in terms of who gets that final
spot.
And then we're going to decide who gets that final spot in that final game.
But you know, there's a lot of talent across the board.
Oh, yeah.
There are so many, there are so many players that it would be a shame to not see in that
midseason finals matchup or, you know, to not see at the land at all.
and you know, these are some
of the ones that we have left.
Some of the best of the best,
some of the MVPs.
We've counted them all up to see
who actually has stacked up the
most MVPs.
Melophobia and Tuzi, each with
four, Redis as well.
And then energy and Valentina,
each with six MVPs, a pop.
There's like, like, what do you
even say about that?
It's like consistency in every
single matchup.
These are the players who are
performing and taking their
teams to the next level.
And I'm so, so proud to see
Valentina amongst those.
Like, I've been a Glazer for a
for a long time, Valentina,
and it warms my heart to see her
literally, like, amongst the best of the best right now.
I mean, she's been proving herself
time and time again, right?
Even during pre-season, she was cooking
on the White Fox before the White Fox
even got the hotfix above this,
and she's been performing very, very well
on things like the Loki, the Gambit
that's been enabling Swamp to do whatever the heck they want,
because that's allowing Melophobia
to do whatever, but also
on the side of Team Wilk & Citadel as well. Energy!
energy. My God, the amount of times he gets the reset after reset with the Bucky old is just.
It's something else, right? I mean, he's been performing at the highest level all the way
back when he was on fly quest back in the grand finals. And here again is stage one
that winter soldier yet to leave a mark once more. And we'll see if that'll perform here
up against swamp. Yeah, he's definitely leveled up over year
you can see that he's got a
lot of stuff to do. He's got
a lot of stuff to do over
year like last year again, like
you said, he was going on
fly quest and he has now been
something to behold. But
luckily we've got a couple
other things for you to be
hold specifically some
Twitter drops chat. Are you
ready? Are you like you want
some Toronto tokens because we
got them. Do you want a
Wolverine skin that is
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got it. And all you got to do
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All you got to do is stick around and tune in.
I can promise you if you haven't already gotten it by now, you don't want to miss out and you know
What else we got still in the shop for you guys?
We've got partner bundles with Deadpool wearing all the jerseys of your favorite partner teams here in ignite
Make sure you grab those because I hear a stage one all of these
Bundles will be up for grabs and you can also contribute and help out these partner teams as well
But CB, we are from the Pacific region, right?
We are the Pacific Caster.
So we're a little bit biased towards the Gen.G
and the Reject Bundles a little bit.
Yeah, we've been kind of imported back here to the Americas
for the time being.
Well, you know, just get a little bit more worldly.
But you know, we do still remember our roots, Gen.G,
and Reject.
Of course, you know, I'm going to be rocking that Gen.G
Deadpool bundle or the Maidpool bundle.
Like, it kind of goes either way for me to be completely honest.
You just said it on random, right?
It's a great problem to have when there's just too much drip.
There's too many gigabanger skins.
like do I want to do I want to rock the main pool or do I want to, you know, rep my set over with Gen. G.
But, you know, I think I think around this time, especially knowing that Gen. G.
has qualified, I think I got to fly that particular flag.
I mean, speaking of Giga bangers, right? Every single match.
All of them are banger after banger after banger.
And I'm I'm just beyond excited.
I can't wait that we are given the opportunity to at the very least cover
what is the best of the Americas at the very least.
I know that you're excited Dan and I'm looking over at chat and I can tell they're very excited.
They've been waiting very patiently for our interview.
Someone must have leaked that it was happening, but we've got an interview ready to go for
you.
We've got space joining us here on the broadcast today.
We're going to bring him on in here and talk all about all things Ignite space.
Welcome to the show.
How are you feeling?
I'm good.
Thank you guys for having me.
Doing great.
All right.
All right.
All right, so your eyes, I mean, you've been co-streaming so much of Ignite pretty much since the jump you have seen all things Ignite
You're about as in the know as anyone out there. So with your very well-informed take I gotta ask TLC versus swamp gaming who you got?
Honestly, I think that game is gonna be really close. It's like the finest in NA
You know a lot of people say with swamp gaming
They have some of the best players in the world debatably probably the best tanks in the world
I'd say and and
One of the best
Star Wars in the world on the bench. You know what I mean and on on a TOC
They have a cap one trick. I think Polly pretty sure that guy can only play cap
So I think if they ban cap that might work in their favor, but yeah, I'm looking forward to that game
I think it'll be a really good one and we'll get to find out who the best in NA is
Rose league in the strat just banned cap it's been that simple. How was no one thought of this yet?
How are they still undefeated? I mean we'll touch up on the swamp a little bit, right?
Swamp have done a little, did a little bit of a silly move, right?
They pulled out the blade against 100 thieves yesterday in the likes of days,
and they stuck with it the entire game.
What are your thoughts on that?
Is Fox actually cooking, putting blade and A tier on that tier list on Twitter?
Uh, it might be propaganda, but honestly, we did see in the EMEA someone busted out the blade as well.
But I heard like rumors that apparently against 100 thieves, you could probably just play anything.
and win, so I'm not really confident on that one, but maybe we'll get to see it again today.
I'm not going to repeat what Dave's called them, but I can very much so tell that you
are resisting the urge to do so as well, yes? Exactly. I don't think Hunter Thieves is going
to be your answer, assuming they do make it to mid-season finals. I want to look ahead a little
bit, because again, you're as well informed as anybody else out there, so who would you say is
your dark horse pick to win the whole thing now that we know almost all of the uh the participants
here for midseason finals. So my fan favorite like my heart is telling me probably why WL you
know that that would be an amazing team to have that land but I do have to cheer for 100 thieves
because I remixed their head coach my Puerto Rican brother is actually my housemate and you know I
told them like we made a decision here that if they don't qualify we're actually going to change
the locks. So this one is a really big day for them. I am going to be cheering for them
a lot. But yeah, those are probably my picks, I'd say.
Bro said you better qualify, bro. You got to pay rents. That's the only way we're changing
the locks if you don't qualify. That's beast mode, honestly.
I mean, that's a lot on the line. But like going back to you being able to watch party
every single region, but all like America's, EMEA and Pacific.
First of all, shout out to you for co-streaming the Pacific region.
That was absolutely huge.
But knowing that you've been watching every single region,
what has been like the biggest difference, right?
Who do you think has like that slight edge?
Do you feel in like the respective regions?
I definitely say right now, Navi is probably the most dominant team in the world.
I've seen like they've been playing really well and making a lot of teams look super weak.
I'm not sure who is going to be able to take them on. That's why it's so much fun to watch every region because I also think that Pacific is coming.
I think a lot of people are sleeping on Gen G. I think they'll probably be a dark horse at the land. I think they're going to do really well.
And that's why it was nice to kind of study up, get a look at every single region. And I had a great time. Thank you guys for having me on that watch party.
the
Genji you're making some friends here with the genji shouts out alright me and Dan like we say we're riding or dying for our
Like like we know it's a long shot, but we don't care. We're still
XO xO one hype I'm just saying
I hate to break it to you we didn't get XO xO one to learn so close man so close
So close alright well for all the ignite that you guys that you've been watching space
You were telling me a little bit you know in the green room about a certain feature that you would like to see added to
that you think that would make the viewing experience just a little bit better.
You want to talk a little bit about that?
Yes, so me and my stream, I've been talking about it for a while.
We really feel like some listeners would do ignite really well.
I think either post-game or live listeners,
if wherever they could fit them in for production,
I just think like the winning moments of games,
especially when it's an OT, like those super hypecoms are a lot of fun to watch.
And it's what makes the game so exciting.
know if production, you know, if you guys see this or hear this, listening either live
or post game would be amazing.
Our production team, they are wizards, they manage to make magic and I think all they
need is a little bit of a little bit of inspiration every now and then.
So, you know, I agree getting some of those winning moments and getting to go back and
like listen into the jubilation, the elation in all of the team's voice when they finally
get that one decisive moment.
But let's pretend that it's you for a second.
All right, Johnny Sports, right?
He's going to give you $5 million to come out of retirement.
And you get to build your own team.
And he'll even double it if you manage to win the whole thing.
And you get to pick all of the members of your team.
Who are you taking with you?
All right, so I had some thoughts
about this one in the green room.
So for my tank duo, I'm definitely
taking Silky on Strange because we need those TPs back.
He's always really consistent on that.
I'm going to have DPS.
I'm probably going to get worn for the squirrel girl because that's a really OP pick
For for my second DPS. I'm gonna go remix on bokeh. He's gonna need that remix on bokeh
He's a star on that and then Thanos on rocket on support, you know the goat
I'm gonna get him back on that and then for my second sport. I'll play do
Moxie if he doesn't fall asleep in a cereal bowl. I need him on the Loki
Yeah, that would probably be my my star roster right there. I think we can make a good run. I'm not gonna lie
Yeah, this sounds like there's a lot of potential there. I would maybe get a support sub just in case the the cereal bowl incident
kind of happens. I was gonna say that 5v6 situation while bros drowning in his fruit loops like come on
I mean final question before we let you go right?
It's not really more of a question, but do you have anything you really want to say out into the world?
Any shout-outs that you want to put out there at while you're here on the America's broadcast?
Thank you guys for tuning in to all the watch parties and big shout out to Ignite for letting
me be a part of this community.
It's an amazing experience.
I enjoyed it a lot and also shout out to the Hellfire Beach.
If I'm not watching Ignite, I'm chilling in there getting my credits with Finzi and others.
So make sure you guys go do that, claim those credits, those limited time credits and get
in the beach with me.
I'll see you guys there.
join space in the beach there you go. Yeah go chill out with the pros thank you so much for
joining us space and uh what a wonderful what a wonderful interview we're gonna go and send you
off and uh you know maybe after the show we'll come join you over there at the beach.
Thank you guys for having me.
Ah yes the watch party extraordinaire coming on to the America's broadcast to give his thoughts
on what we are about to witness here in day three.
And again, CB, so much excitement coming in,
not just from you and me, but I feel like for everyone
that is tuned in here today.
Yeah, and you're going to want to stay locked
because we're just going to get right into it, right?
The match of the night, the game that everybody
is here to see, Team Liquid Citadel versus Swamp Gaming.
The Kings return to defend their crown once more.
It's TLC.
And I can tell you, there's no scrubs on this team.
I mean, it just feels like they've collected the Infinity Stones with Marvel Rivals.
How in the world did Team Liquid Cityl get away with Pauly and Vesla on the exact same team?
Like, who let them here?
Like, what even happened for Vesla to end up in this situation where any other team could have picked them up?
But it was Team Liquid Cityl of all teams and it just put them at a whole different level it just feels like, right?
Holly on the die Vanguard, especially his signature Captain America.
But also the fact that he is able to learn all of these vanguards so, so well.
And that just enables energy to go absolutely ballistic, nuclear sometimes,
on the Winter Soldier because Bro is just a walking highlight reel at this point.
Yeah, I remember, you know, there was a conversation amongst some of us
when we saw that, you know, that Terra had gone across the pond to join Naviego dominate EMEA.
We were like, all right, who's gonna fill the shoes of the new top duelist here over in America as an energy has been making a strong case ever since and I wouldn't even argue that there's very few others in the conversation bro like you said is a walking highlight reel and he continues to deliver these big moments whether it's on the
the team is going to have to
deal with the Bucky whether
it's on the Cyclops doesn't
matter which whatever you put
this guy on. He's going to be
a threat, but there is a threat
staring him in the face right
now, and it's a threat that has
bested him and the rest of the
TLC gang was before it is swamp
gaming. The runners up from the
preseason, one of the best teams
in the world and potentially
the biggest threat to the
everyone on this roster. Just so much of it, like the synergy is so locked down, right?
Days doing so well on things like the Wolverine, the Daredevil,
Melophobia being that hitscan demon that everyone is glazing.
But you also have to talk about Valentina Eve, right?
CB, I know you're a huge, huge fan of Valentina Eve and she has been doing a lot of work in the
background, sometimes even taking the spotlight at times.
I would definitely argue that she has been taking the spotlight. She definitely grabs my
it's just the way that I
know my attention whenever
she's playing and you know her
and for key have been a
phenomenal strategist lineup.
Yeah there's there's the blade.
You know enjoy it. Well it's
here. Don't know if we'll see
it again. Maybe maybe we will
but I again I want to talk
about Valentina and for key
right because I think it was
Melophobia in an interview
back in preseason saying that
they would rather have for key
and Valentina than anybody else
in the world more than Cooper
more than site pay. And you
your back line like just so elite. Your front line is going to feel like they're they can do anything.
Yeah, it goes to show that sticking together as a team will pay off in the long run as we get to see
the history, the rivalry between both of these teams, Liquid Ciddle and Swamp, have gone all the
way every single time they have faced against each other in the playoffs back in the preseason.
and I'm sure tonight we might see it happen a third time where both these teams will put
them put each other at the absolute limit. One of them is going to be at their limit
run out of lives and be sent down to that lower bracket where the tournament lives will
be on the line. There's no real pressure in terms of land qualifications. Both teams
have qualified but you and I I think we're both very curious. Do we see that same story
the game. We're going to see
the game again. Do we see
getting the better but then
falling one map short in grand
finals, both those outings with
the distance couldn't have been
any closer. And what I think is
even more interesting as well
as ever since then, both of
these teams have been ruling
dominant over their respective
groups back in group stage going
completely flawless, not dropping
a single mapping groups or in
bracket. Until yesterday when
going to have them frankly upset
or do you think that that's going to be like a weakness
or you know, you think it's going to be like new found resolve?
How do you think they're going to be feeling after, you know,
being the first one to drop a map between the two?
I mean, it gives Team Liquid Citadel a chance
to maybe identify a weakness on the Swamp Camp.
Maybe that gives them over the edge.
Maybe we won't see a map by scenario.
Maybe Team Liquid Citadel win out in four maps,
considering that they know what other teams have been doing
to try to take down Swamp Gaming,
whether it be finding this weakness within their team
composition, whether it be realizing that swamp gaming,
if you put them in a situation where they will make mistakes,
you can try to exploit that.
And swamp gaming on the flip side,
they're going to try to patch it up.
Stop the bleeding before they'll expose them even more.
We do love putting our teams in situations
where mistakes can be exposed.
And we're going to put them in a situation right now
as we have a look at our first map.
It is going to be domination, of course.
And we're kicking things off on Hell's Heaven.
and then how you feeling about this one, you know, it is, it is random map picks for these, uh, for these opening matchups and it's going to be losers pick from here on out, but how do you feel like the luck of the draw for hells heaven? Which way do you think the winds blowing?
It really depends on what kind of some that we end up on, right? The situations on every single subnet, at least on hells heaven is just so dynamic, right? There's a lot of different things you have to deal with. If it's super soldier factory, you have to worry about the environment of the chaos.
You have to worry about the high ground if it's the frozen airfield you got to worry about the map and moving around at certain percentage points and
We have yet to see how both of these teams are going to navigate on the map here on Hell's Heaven
Because sometimes maybe the some maps do play a part in the band draft
But so far from what we've been seeing in terms of like the trends that we've been seeing in the band draft
I'm sure the first half will stay relatively the same
Maybe the Wolverine might get thrown into the mix a little bit
maybe Paulie's captain America could also get thrown out of there. We have yet to see.
Yeah, I did. You know, space gave it away. You just got to ban Paulie's cap and it's that easy,
you know, so hopefully Fox was listening and he's going to be whispering those secrets into
his team's ears. But you can see Krasmang right there locked in Fox running this this gaming
house like the Navy right now bro. This arms folded just walking up being like, Hey, you're
the game. You know, you're
you know, you're going to be
going to your desk. It better
be all neat and tidy. But like
I'm glad you call back to the
Wolverine, though, because I
do think that, you know, as we
saw earlier in EMEA, I think a
lot of the top teams have a
strong Wolverine player and
swamp gaming have one of the
best, but that does also kind
of paint a target when we get
to the back half of this this
pick and ban phase. We know
how we're going to start it
off, though, and this is an
And then a rocket protect you thought we all thought this was going to be so simple so easy
We've seen it a thousand times, but yeah immediately they're changing the calculus
It feels like we're watching stage one group stage all over again both sides taking away the gambit which means the mantis that has been
Put to the wayside in terms of being banned first and foremost has now been saved by liquid Citadel
It's a question of do swamp want to match it
They have to take away the old Trump because liquid Citadel are able to secure the mantis
So you don't want double damage amplification being running rampant on the liquid citadel camp as swamp gaming
You might want to think about taking away the Loki as well because Mantis also enables the Vivern Vitality team up
But for now just gonna forego it liquid citadel use their ban on the Wolverine to deny days and swamp will take away that daredevil
Yeah, I will liquid citadel taking the daredevil away as well. So they are hard targeting days as hero pool and oh
I don't know this might this might force out the day's walker
We might see the blade have to come out and we're also going to potentially see that
That whole fiber vitality team up like you mentioned you know having the low key there and you know
I will say swamp gaming despite going straight for that rocket haven't banded out yet instead
They are going to target Polly like you said so I guess both teams just throw it haymakers at the hero pools for the carries
I mean it feels like swamp gaming are in a pin situation
situation like a quote-unquote check slash checkmate situation where swamp you either take away Paulie's captain America
Well, you take away Paulie's Groot and they go for the former
So that means like with still will have access to what arguably is the strongest front to back composition
with the Mantis the Loki plus a third strategies and then the group providing that extra sustain with the flower wall thanks to the
the team. And that's the
most important part of the
environment. Vitality team of
and a little bit of insult
injury like with Citadel will
also make it one sided. Yeah,
but that's one of those things
right like there was plenty of
opportunities for swamp gaming
to get the band on the mantis
like that that ultra on that
dare double that cap. All of
those could have been the
mantis band. They knew that
they chose not to reach for
that instead. They wanted to
target out the hero pools for
team liquid Citadel. This I
think is the most interesting
teams we're going to come out with is I think this is going to be the most
interesting opening map of any series that we've seen in a night, especially for
stage one. I mean this is the most interesting bandwagon that we've seen
right off the rip. Both of these teams, they're not expecting a sprint, I'm
sure about that. They're expecting a whole marathon. There's a world that
this series will go to distance a third time in a row and both these teams
already making a little bit of those adaptations, right? We talked to some of
these teams are at least we've heard from some of these teams right right the bandra has been tailored to specific teams and it feels like both Citadel and swamp gaming have done just that as we're
soon enough opening the gates here and it's going to be on Super Soldier Factory so a lot of those environmental payos could come into the mix here as well so I'm also rolling out on the
Angela will mean that they will want to look for those environmental illuminations
Yeah, that's gonna be something to keep an eye on and then there's game
Yeah, but but then there's days and that was the thing that I think everybody's eyes have been drawn to the day's Walker is out and about
And I'm still not sure if I'm a blade believer, but this does kind of feel like a situation where it could get some pretty good value
There's a lot of BP targets
Sneaking to stick to like glue and he is making Polly feel every bit of that thousand-folded Damascus steel blade there
And it'll force him away with the time being a swamp game and look at the try and contest for the high ground here
It's like with Citadel. They've already burned the region domain
So one of their best defensive utilities already expended and SG will claim the high ground as TLC
Look to claim first cap on the point. Yeah, let's just immediately jump in as soon as the missionary opened up
They all stack right onto the mission area base goes down
but we'll be brought right back so the BRB will be put out of the commission and so will Forky Dog.
Yeah, it's gonna be no reses for the raccoon here and that's gonna mean TLC. No, it is go time.
They're gonna go in and take this fight and evict the swamp gaming from the ground that they have claims.
There's the regen domain force out from both sides.
Let's consider it. Don't even feel like they have to engage all that much.
It's easy for energy with a nice little tap there will evict days here and SG forced to take the reset.
Yeah, good picks coming in so much damage and coming best swamp gaming just could not find a way to handle it
Team look with Citadel you can see their composition right front to back play with the vibraphy tallity team up because
There's just too much to stay for a swamp gaming to handle and team will sit out also having access to the cyclos means that they have a
damage to deal with and energy just goes in with the Ruby Rage
But only gonna split the swamp game you see for a little bit
CYA now gonna come up from 40 dogs, but Daze is not gonna be there to make anything out of that damage
They'll be able to take down Polly and no BRB is gonna be coming up inside a TLC
So swamp gaming do at least even the score for the time being but they need to get themselves on the board
So they can actually start taking up their score
Alphabeal holding on to the apex predator gonna get caught by the strangling prism
But what a save from Scatter, Genji, an incredible pick and Malachobia is gonna return the favor
Hopsicap directly into Vech will get snucked and woken up and lower trucks.
All you are going to wish you did not wake mellow off is they'll take down Shvidery,
and this should be slump gaming, finding a slip.
Yeah, it's a nice silver service for being used.
Hooper even investing to God of Mischief as well.
And that's a lot of those defensive ultimates on Team Liquid said they'll out the window.
There is a world where days could find that angle set up with the Heavens Retribution,
Big is narrow is also getting ready to use the invisible boundary, but with a scatter being able to lock people into a circle
That's just possibly easy pickings for days
And I think you know maybe you go for the heavens retrofusion early on force out the invisible boundary
He's surely swamp gaming know that that is coming and that is when days could potentially strike with this crack
It's actually already feels the pressure and it's going to force out early
So all days has to do is wait a second wait by this time and pop it once it's gone
There's not a lot of utility left, Holly trying to make something happen.
This is the office, but Gaze simply takes to the sky with a crack and impact.
Doesn't find a debuff onto any members of TLC, so we'll be finding the resets.
It can have to rely on raw damage.
The gun slinger that he is, but Valentina has been filled.
We'll be res back up, but that means no res for Crasmang.
And without a frontline, SG don't have the tools needed to hold.
Border play has to come in here.
Final five territory is inbound.
As Team Liquid said it all, they do have the Ruby Rage.
So is swamp gaming if they do go for the portal play
Or at the very least even touch for overtime
Krasnag just dives right on into at the very least trigger it so they still hold on to the portal
So there is a chance of some people have one more fight
Ruby rage gonna come out from energy trying to a big one game before they can get anything going
They will eviscerate the CYA the amplifier from 40 don't didn't amplify a whole lot in retrospect Polly again
and then taking down Valentina and Scatter Genji will be brought right back down to Earth.
The one winged Angel has fallen once more and Krasmang will be the next to do so.
Frozen Airfield, sorry, Super Soldier Factory goes the way of TLC.
Frozen Airfield is next up on the docket, but what an opening salvo from TLC.
Swamp Gaming just could not fight away to break through the front of that team with Visible.
Every time Team Visible got down to like one, two HB, they had all of the sustained, right?
That's what with the flower wall Cooper with the regeneration domain also providing extra damage amplification by the way and the speedery also there to provide the damage
Amplification and the movements be buffed so that if anyone on TLC are low, they'll be brought right back and easily stabilize where a swamp gaming it felt like they were just trying to find something to work with get a pick and then start to
to get some sort of momentum off of it.
Melophobia, even trying to take advantage
of the environmental chaos with the Apex Predator,
did deny Speedery from the Silver Surge,
but he's gonna have to find more of those
coming into frozen airfield.
No more environmental chaos in play,
so it's all up to Melophobia.
He's able to, at the very least,
control these lanes with that Apex Predator.
I think he also has a great tool to be able to do that,
so as they start to narrow a little bit more,
see if Melo comes online once again.
I'm also looking for days to come online.
You know, this is another place where that Bucky pick could pay off,
especially with the Loki on either side.
You get all the free resets.
You just have to strike pager.
We just haven't seen days come online as the band phase is still haunting him.
With all of his hero pool taken off the chopping block, forced to adapt.
The swap gaming will now seek to adapt to the player to farm them.
It's gonna be a strangling prison that comes out as trooper.
It creates a soul resurgence in DLC.
You want to keep their foot firmly on the gas, but a CYA coming out now from Valentina.
We'll give SG a little bit of breathing room, but there's the second Silver Zerg, he's in the Glory Shrocks.
Melophobia, bring the threat to him, but unfortunately, that is not where you wanted it to be.
His energy is going to take down Transmeg, and once again, TLC fired the first shot.
It's just so desync on the side of the swamp gaming.
They want to try to get both the Kraken Impact and the Strangling Prison online at the same time,
but they just can't get it done, right? Swamp gaming.
They had to resort to Valentina Eve copying the CYA thanks to Quirky Dog
to try to just brute force their way through with the 40% damage amplification.
But it's not enough, he would consider though, again, the sustain is just too much for Swap's handle.
And we'll see coming into this next engagement, because Nero still has that invisible boundary.
Sorry, TLC, like they even have that buffer right like they installed this timer out even longer,
build up more percentage, you put SG in a no-win situation, RubyRange comes down,
ForkyDog is just popped, caught the front of that, and no CYA this time around.
PCTheAvis is forced out from Polly and is going to get caught with a carbon crush, potentially a save coming out from Scatterbot No, it's just not enough.
Bess, Shfeetary, the whole gang getting in there and SG again will be felled as TLC still holds strong.
You have very cheap, like, when only investing in energies, Ruby Rage and Polly's PCTheAvis.
Polly was just there to try to spell out Swamp Gaming and just draw the attention onto him as Swamp Gaming adjustments have to be made.
and it's gonna be days switching to the moon nights.
Maybe try to sync up with Krasbeng,
who's prepping that strangling prison,
but with Scatter also as well with the Silent Stuction,
there will be at least ways for Swank to make space.
There's no walls to stop Vest from getting caught out of the region.
Dorain will be forced out there.
He's just gonna boundary the strangling prison inside of it, the CYA,
doing all it can to keep Forty Dog alive and it's working.
Hold on.
Krasbeng is able to find three in that fight in SG.
Look at it try and find the flip.
As they've managed to nearly wipe TLC,
In a Libby Nero, the last one to fall, and a single low-key clone from Cooper, but that clone can't contest in swamp gaming, finally they can!
Huge CYA placement from Porky Dog, putting it behind Team Liquid Citadel so that if Team Liquid Citadel want to break it, they have to look away from swamp gaming.
And the 40% damage gap?
It's just too much for Team Liquid Citadel, right? It's just not enough by... OH MY PELOPHOBIA!
I am Benjelophobia with a Ruby Rage in the hand of Konshu, a 1-2 punch in TLC.
Never saw it coming, but now they don't have to worry about next fight because they're gonna have a wealth of ultimates coming into it
Two strategists ultimates online. So all those is staying they could ever want Valentina's god of mischief is gonna have the weight of the world
That it's gonna have to carry she's been clutching the low key so many times before let's see if she's got one more enter as TLC
Look to encroach on this point once again try and flip it back in their favor energy with the movie rage
It's gonna be a sex swap gaming and both of the vanguards will fall no more frontline. No more days
It's a triple KO for energy with the CYA coming out from Valentina
It is gonna be not a not a whole lot of sustained left. I'm afraid as TLC
Well again find the flip and now we're in one fight territory
Krasmang has to make the swap over onto the Doctor Strange to try and go for a port of play
It's gonna be in time and be able to get feet on the points for the time being has to go a little bit
Over time percentage though can't quite get in there comfortably the walls from vests making it hard to find a way in
They just have to go and do with the hokey pokey left foot in left foot out
But as they now come in on the iron fist TLC are gonna be shaking all about a region domain already forced out solar
Surgeons as well Valentina and Krasma both fall and vests with the strangling prison will strangle the life out of swap gaming on Hell's Heaven
And TLC decisively take map one
He probably has his hands in his eyes. He's just like, okay, we got through map one swamp gaming
Definitely put up more of a fight there in that second round
There was some moments where swamp gaming they had the coordination using that CYA by forky dog to at the very least
Get the burst damage through narrow's invisible boundary meant that they were able to get some
Control, but then once they tried to retain it
Liquid Citadel kind of just hit and just beat them to a pulp at that point and now
Liquid Citadel up one map take hells heaven and now the question becomes where does swamp gaming take us here for map number two?
Well, we have got the answer to that question and so much more as that is only map number one
And we've got number two on the other side of this break. Don't go anywhere. We'll be right back
I'll find you when I'm full of energy
The wind blows gently
I'm a magical fairy
One person becomes a fairy
If you find me before you die
I'll shine on you
Let's start, let's go
I'm blinded by the darkness
I close my eyes with my warm eyes
I'll become someone who's like a secret
I outnumber you.
Your powers are mine!
Tides will rise and fall. Be the unwavering force that refuses to wash away. Coast undefeated
as Loki's seaside siren, White Fox's coastal kumihou and Captain America's seaside-sensinal
skins and I hear that last one comes with its own flotation device and I don't mean
the duck.
No, no, no. There may have been a little bit of a nerf this morning, but we'll stray away from that for a little bit, right?
Don't talk about these skins coming in. Remember, this is only wave one. We still have more on the way.
We have yet to see what they might be. But for now, what could be map two for Swamp Gaming?
Because they have the map choice here. And historically, we have been taken to Hala Jalya.
that has been swamp gaming's comfort map, right? Historically, every time swamp gaming have picked
Hologelia, they have won every single time, 3 and 0. We'll see if swamp decide to pull it out here,
but they do have other maps in their arsenal as well. Yeah, but I do also kind of like the
Hologelia shout if that is where they decide to go because I do think, you know, it does kind of
enable the hero pool that they like to play, but the problem I think on that previous matchup though,
that previous map is that they didn't really get to play their game at all. Daze was hard,
the team. The team is going to
be targeted by the pick and
ban phase daredevil gone
Wolverine gone and for the rest
of the picks and bands, it
doesn't matter. TLC just have
no fear for anything else that
swamp gaming wants to play. So
the question goes. All right,
like what do you do? How do you
adapt to this? It can't just be
the map pick. I do think you
are going to have to try and get
one of those heroes through the
ban phase, but speaking of heroes,
let's have a look at the hero
the world, but energy 23 and
two, I believe with 12 final
hits in that last matchup and
21 K damage. And that's a lot
considering how short the map
was. Yeah, that was a quick two
zero within that map. Number
one energy. We talked about him
being the walking highlight
real and he just. Farmed
another clip onto the social
media pages of what maybe
Twitter. As he will look at
you're facing up against what arguably is your hardest opponent on paper and you can see all of what's in it all.
They knew what had to be done, making sure that everyone is sustained, everyone is playing that front-to-back very well,
because quite frankly, they were giving them over that vibrant mentality team up in its full entirety.
So maybe you could criticize Swap Gaming's band draft a little bit, because I feel like giving that away might have been an oversight.
It might have been like I do also kind of think I agree the Mansys band probably should have come through
You know again in that kind of like middle of the pack area
I think they were so bent on getting that one-sided rocket raccoon for themselves that they forgot to try and plan for
Oh, what are we actually amplifying with this CYA like they played for the rocket and the low key
I do think that's a sound strategy CYA is a phenomenal old
But you got a parent with something especially you're going to be able to burst through the raw staying power of that fiber vitality team up
and you know a good thing for that might be days on the Wolverine but how are you going to achieve that if
TLC are just going to simply ban it away? Yeah that's a good show right? They feel like Swamp Gaming
could have thought hey maybe the CYA is enough to break through that front to back composition
and Yigdrasil path very interesting by Swamp Gaming for going college of Jalya for now and they go
towards Yggdrasil path. A very interesting pick for Swamp Gaming. We'll see if that's going to play
a part in terms of what kind of composition they want to go for, and we have yet to see what side
they also pick up. So Yggdrasil is a bit of an oddity. We don't see a whole lot of it. We saw
a couple of Yggdrasil path picks at EMEA earlier today, but it was once a staple of at night.
You would see it like five times a day, but it's kind of falling to the wayside as maps like Midtown
the game. And that's where I
think the midtown and Museum of
contemplation have usurped it,
but I think swamp gaming are
anticipating a longer series
here and they're saving those
picks for later on down the
line because this one while not
one for one the same as midtown
does kind of play itself quite
well into that kind of front
to back play style, and that's
where I think you know, having
that that that crutch pick of
the blade could potentially pay
You say usually as if it happens
Usually the usual the usual two three times we have seen blade it was always on midtown
But I mean the game usually when a fish rides a bicycle
Whatever
Whenever that happens, it's usually in certain conditions, but it felt like swamp gaming kind of just
Went out of it off the rip on Hell's Heaven, but usually midtown is where we see the blade
I mean we saw it over in EMEA shout out to Tanuki for trying to rock the blade
but now are officially knocked out from the midseason finals a little bit unfortunate.
Ooh, swap gaming!
Alright, we're pulling a playbook out of Brad's book.
We're just gonna first save the Wolverine for days.
Which I do like, but that does kind of become a Faustian bargain.
Sure, you can wish for the Wolverine, but what are you giving up in return?
You can't protect the rocket.
The Mantis is going to be banned, so you won't be able to protect that as well.
And now TLC, they can just go for a one-sided Mantis,
should their heart desire it.
And in fact, it does and they will.
I mean, Swamp Gaming now have to take away 5-1 Vitality.
You can't give away things like the Loki, the Groot.
Ultron also a very, very good shot.
We saw Swamp do it back in map number one.
Take away the Ultron.
We get rid of that double damage amplification.
But now, Swamp Gaming, yeah, they're like,
yeah, maybe we done goofed.
Maybe we should not have let the Loki through.
So they're gonna take it away this time.
Yeah, that's a step in the right direction.
But again, you know, trying to go for that Wolverine save,
I think it's cost them because they're not going to have access to the rocket. So their backline is going to be in a rough spot, especially with one more band from TLC that could just go to another strategist in this Luna really doesn't matter. Swamp probably going to have to use a protect on something like that.
They can't protect the gambit. They can't protect the mantis rockets gone
Maybe it's the low key, but what do you pair the low key up with?
You can go for one sided Wolverine so at the very least they don't have to deal with
Speedy and or energy matching that one, but the Cyclops protect is going to ensure that energy can play his game and
I mean, he's gonna be in his lane, right? He's gonna be moisturized thriving
I feel like the rocket raccoon man, but what's that?
It's kind of like that double whammy, right? You also deny the BRB. You also deny CLA, but you also deny
Wolverine Airlines, right? The super jump pack that's also on the BRB as liquid Citadel will get rid of
At least one part of the fastball
Yeah, no, so I do kind of like that because you know swamp gaming of course
They're thinking alright
We have to get days on a hero that he can frag out with so we protect the Wolverine and team like with Citadel
They just kind of, you know, let them buy their time, let them go through the rest of the band draft and then snipe that Hulk at the last second.
And yeah, that takes away another key pick. You know, Krasmang has been phenomenal when it comes to this Hulk.
And the fact that she could pair that up with the fastball special has been one of the greatest goons for a swamp gaming.
But Team Liquid Citadel, they saw that one coming a mile away and they sniped it with a 50 cal.
And now slump gaming. They have chosen the attacking side. How did they want to roll out your scatters?
Thinking about the robe without the gambit team up. We'll see if that'll actually lock things in.
Krasmeng still really wants to use the fastball. So no, not surprised that he's gonna go over to the thing to try to enable days.
Maybe he just throws him out there as like a roll out and then Krasmeng switches to something else.
I wouldn't be surprised if that's the case as well, but with Citadel not going for that triple triple setup that we see a lot of defenders do
Going for that triple strategist still but with a little bit more of that extra damage
But I think they're not gonna go for that because they know swap gaming has to play that front to back
Crasming and he used the fastball and then swap over onto the group
So like you don't really have to worry about days getting another free entry into your backline
potentially getting a big kidnap that would be the threat had you know you stuck on the thing and
Of course, Crasmic is not going to stay on the thing. The thing is, pretty far down in the tier list these days, pretty much just a fast-fall merchant is...
Energy continues to throw some death down range, making down Metalphobia with another beam shot in days, already having the Healing Factor forced and forced to retreat as TLC is now getting active here, pressing their advantage while they have it before Mello comes back out the spawn.
And we are back at Akiven's pudding and Scatter trying to push the Alliance from its floor, but TLC refused to budge.
Are there any ultimate funnels coming in right now?
Valentina E very, very close to that God of Mischief.
But Nero is hot on her tail.
Energy is able to find that Cyclops 1v1 win against Melophobia,
so swamp gaming, and have to reset for a little bit longer.
Maybe that guy's time for at least swamp gaming
to build up some of those ultimate on their end.
Let's listen to the little bit of these same,
but both sides committing their invisible battery.
So that's just an easy target for Vesla.
Yeah, it's so telegraphed, right?
Like you go for that God of Mischief on for the invisible boundary
Investors just like all right bet you're all gonna be playing right here proofed up
I'm gonna throw my strangling prison down catch on to everybody and it does cost Nero
He has invisible boundary as well
But you'll take that because now you've already bled nearly two minutes off the time bank and let's talk about some of these picks
That energy is getting there's really nobody on the side of swamp gaming that can contest that high ground angle as long as he
Choosed to stay up there. He's gonna be merciful and play low ground, but as he's got the Ruby rage
He's definitely just looking for angle. Oh
Oh, what a last game from Dave's bro came in, like an air to ground missile, he's gonna be able to find two, and he's going to Helicopter Mode as well in the backline.
Swamp Gaming finally seemingly have found something to help them burst on through, but they need to find a couple more KO's.
The first one's gonna lay out the dance floor to stop that from happening, Strangely Pursuit coming out now from Prasmagin's Scatter, is getting in there, is gonna take down energy.
The rage of energy will be quelled, it will not be ruby today, it'll be a nice cool blue, as it's gonna be all red in the KO feed and Swamp Gaming will cruise on through.
Good fight win for swamp gaming, which was kick started by days with a three-man knockup with the last day
I was able to pin down two and that just starts the swamp gaming momentum
However, there's a chance that this momentum might get cut short because of speedery still holding on to the solar surges
That's gonna allow liquids into the entry their way back in
We'll see how swamp gaming decide to utilize
Scatter on the meteor and definitely will you try to use it defensively to try to keep the rest of his team alive?
But no phobia also there with the zoning with the ruby rage. He's gonna let it rip
But it's not gonna find the mark figure I'm now from scatter and he's looking for his mark
He wants to get speedery and he's gonna try and go for the fake out
He can't quite land it now the strangling person coming up from best
He's building these things up so fast and it's so oppressive for swamp gaming to try and burst on through knowing
They could be locked down at a moment's notice as men will fall days
It's just not gonna be enough nero falls with Valentina is traded out in swamp gaming
They just don't have the staying power anymore, so they cannot stay.
They must go and try and plan for this one last fight, as we're now under a minute.
Again, too much of staying coming in from Liquid Citadel, biting back against Swamp Gaming.
Adjustments need to be made fast. 40 seconds left now.
We're going into final fight territory, looking at the ult economy on the side of Swamp Gaming.
It's not looking so hot. Working dog with the invisible boundary.
But Liquid Citadel do have a lot more of that advantage coming in.
And Forty's gone.
Yeah, the Ruby Rage comes through, and even though the Dark Teleportation comes from Valentina,
it's just not enough to absorb all the damage and TLC, just pressing the advantage and forcing Swamp Gaming one way or another back into that spawn room.
The old skin becoming alive for Swamp Gaming, but only 12 seconds left and someone has to try and get a touch.
Krasmang scurrying around like a rodent on the wall, trying to find an angle to get in for the touch.
It is being peppered away by energy.
He's gonna go in for the dive, does touch the trigger OT, days is there as well,
and they need to try and find something, and this little boundary is gonna give them a safe harbor
with which to try and play it, but they can't seem to find any elims yet,
and they've yet another strength of prison from Vess, a ruby range from Melopovia to try and cut through the-
the Jaff!
He's gonna be able to help take down Shvidery, and it's gonna have to be enough for now,
but Cooper wants to lay down another dance floor, a feast of the Abyss now coming up from Polly,
it's damage Jaff, and he takes down Forky Dog, Scatter Genji falls as well,
and swamp gaming are bleeding out bodies in TLC have stemmed their own bleeding and they will continue to hold here as energy
We're gonna try and take the shots under Valentina another dark teleportation
She'll live to see another day, but swamp on this attack. They might not there's a foreplay coming through two members coming through region
Domain from 40 dogs trying to get swamp gaming
There's a little bit of leverage the craze
Oh, he could really use that but it's so far away and he was pinned so far from salvation
speedery now the solar surgeons and swamp gaming are running out of options the
portal has closed the window of opportunity may have done the very same
scatter now on the Wolverine cannot make anything happen DLC will emphatically
hold first how in the world did Polly get so many elimination during that yeah
you did have Cooper popping the fit of both worlds allowing a little a little
window of damage amplification to let Polly get some of those eliminations but
Man, he was just ripping apart the backline. It just felt like swamp gaming had no opportunity to breathe and now
Because days you have to Wolverine on swamp
But it's not just working out because liquid Citadel are handling it so so well right marking where this Wolverine is at all
Time making sure that the vanguards that will be the main focus point for swamp gaming is
Perfectly positioned so that they're not gonna get down Dan. Look at Vess's damage on the group
He's keeping pace with energy on the group every time.
That's insane.
Yeah, yeah, like your Vanguard lineup, like sure, they're going to have a fair bit of
damage, but they shouldn't be outpacing your Star Duelist.
Like, he's literally, you know, only a couple hundred shy of what energy has been putting
up and that's what I'm saying.
Like, it feels like every time Swamp Gaming walk up, Vest has another strangling prison
and, I mean, SG, they just can't play the game.
They're locked down every time.
They have to invest a huge strategist utility, whether it's an ultimate or regen domain.
that they're relying on to try and when the fight has to be invested just to participate in the
fight. And it feels like it all comes down to the Mantis, right? The damage amplification. You
have that slight damage advantage over swamp gaming, which means that translates into a faster
all cycle. There's a chance that is the biggest reason why Vesla is just able to cycle the
strangling prison. Almost every single fight, and now going on to the attacking side, they're going
to roll out on the exact same composition. Swamp gaming, looking to do these saves, scatter
Honestly, Emma Frost too, at the very least maybe tried to just watch some of the poke damage coming out of the team.
But listen to that, Polly's going to get stunned up for a little bit, but he should be fine with the Sting Violet's effects.
Yeah, so we have a few millions forced.
Dayz's healing factor has also been forced in that fight.
He tried to go for a kidnap and nearly got caught out, so he's going to have to play a little bit slow.
But he doesn't know the very definition of slow.
Goes in and Cooper will take him down with a light and dark ice.
It's traded out for Vest.
So TLC at the very least can't put more walls up and press this advantage, but they don't want to slow down just yet
They know their play with house money right now, but as Cooper gets felled there by scatter
They'll have to back off for now solid recovery from slump gaming despite losing days early in that fight
They were able to find two picks on their own and but narrow needs to do
Do all the work that he needs to right use the force that's to keep the days in check
That's the biggest reason why days has been so contained. We haven't seen him make all those highlight moments
There's only except when he pops the last stand at times, but the fall-up just not fair in time as Pras-Mang
There's that strangling prison
Oh look at that! Look at this wall! What a wall!
What a wall from Bethesda, the strangling prison of his own!
Locking SG up in the air and it is literally like shooting Clay Pigeon's energy again
We'll get the better of Melophobia, a latent visual boundary now from Forky dog Valentina
Has the investors as well and as they fall, Forky will feel the full force of energy's ruby rage
And it's gonna have to be a TP play coming up from Melophobia if SG want to try and hold this till 2.20 on the clock
Swamp have absolutely nothing there ultimate economies in the absolute gutter
They go for the high ground and then jump down very interesting portal play coming in from swamp gaming
But look what's in it all with the feces of the abyss and Cooper with a bit of both worlds
This quite might be over before he starts. There's that feces of the abyss, but it's only as I healing the clone
There's that fate of both worlds Cooper wants to dance his way to victory
But Holly is getting caught out in days we're gonna take him for a ride
And I'm afraid this one is one way but TLC meanwhile the other side they are crews are over to victory days
Has to give up the pursuit of Polly and he'll live to take down for key dogs
The last stand goes out
It's the last hand for swamp gaming's defense and he tries to die back in to make the save
But it's just not enough TLC
They go up to to zero and they are looking at one two three steps ahead of swamp gaming
It looks like Polly wasn't overextending a tiny bit right going in so so deep
But it's worth it in the end. There were members of Swamp Gaming that had to draw their attention on to
Polly on the Vandom and that light-aside manipulation meant that the rest of Liquid Citadel could just rip apart the rest of Swamp Gaming
that aren't looking at Polly and that split between looking at Polly, looking at the rest of Liquid Citadel.
There was a divide between Swamp Gaming. None of them were on the same page and just Swamp Gaming just rip apart from the inside out.
Well, the ban phase again did not favor swamp gaming.
They're gonna have one more crack at it potentially as Liquid Citadel are on match point and will
have map number three on the other side of this break.
There were no words to tell you, we were friends
Like a falling shadow, snowman and its
That's a constant for me to see you out
We are standing up for our last reunion
Break this chain, find your way, come with me
Do you remember who you really are?
Show me that you are still here, here and for me
I'll be waiting for you
Let me get out of my truck, rise
We need to get focused and smashed
In this dark world
Before the winds turn against
We are rebels and we have
Right hand and right on mind
Welcome to power's land
In some battles
We are back to the end
Time
We are pushed
Waterware who will fight
Gristning across the land
Spare your swords
You are the light
It's like your heart is mine
Like hearts falling, darkness broken
Yes, it's like all our destiny has made
You did it, smiling for the first time in the future
Shrugging your strings like you're playing, playing with me
And when you wake up, both eyes are frozen
I think we're since crashing through the silence
Before the rest of us are dead
The other world's in the air
Oh, I'm a pervert.
Show me that you can watch the real me when there's nothing for me.
I'll be waiting for you.
Later, I'll make your hands warm and light.
Deep up, I'll look inside you.
Can you feel it?
This vaccine.
I'm in a combination breaker.
I'll make you rise red, yeah.
Since smashing through the tunnels
With our rich mentors yet again
We are rivals to the end
And the highs and lows
And your minds hold onto your power score
Since our bonds
We are rivals to the end of time
to be able to do that. Welcome
back rivals. Happy 4th of July.
Once again, we don't even know
the definition of a kilometer
around these parts, and it seems
like Team Liquid Citadel. They
don't know the definition of
losing. In fact, they seem
incapable of doing so as they
are on the precipice of sweeping
their greatest nemesis three
carry on to map number three because swamp gaming
What is going on? It feels like they haven't woken up just yet. It feels like
From what we've seen throughout the entirety of playoffs from swamp. This has been like
This is a different swamp and I'm not liking the direction that this is going because right now swamp really need to lock things in
Especially I feel like maybe take a look at that band draft
Maybe you start taking or taking a look at banning the Mantis first because it just felt like every time they gave it away
a liquid con just
Ran them right over. Well, like you say Dan, I do kind of agree
I think that swamp gaming do need to wake up a chat if you are just now waking up
You missed a clinic by Vess on the group 21 and 2 with 21k damage
And that sounds a lot like energy stat line from our previous MVP and if that does sound familiar
it's because it was and also because he was keeping pace with his duelist on the vanguard and every single fight
Was a strangling prison that closed it out and all swamp gaming could hope to do was react
And I mean there was a couple of decent reactions
But they were able to stay alive, but they were not able to thrive under the iron rule of Veswa
I mean speaking of reactions Ves also
we think blocked that strangling prison coming in from Krasmang and
And that had to have been like the final nail in the conference, but it kind of felt like they were just mental boomed at that point as we look at the stats on Yigchisil path.
I mean, we see the numbers now, right? Look at the numbers coming in from Best One. 21.6 thousand, and you said it, right?
It looks like Energy did all that damage, but Energy was there with 22k, so it's just too much damage coming in onto Swamp Gaming, and they just found no solution to try to combat it.
that's what I'm talking about.
And that's even in the face of
a Wolverine like they gave days
his greatest tool and said what
else you got like just completely
no selling the Wolverine pick
and you know days over there
with six and four like it just
kind of feels like he's not
getting the job done and the
way that we have known and
gotten to love some of the
highly performances that he's
put on. They're just kind of
going. Going unseen today like
we're just not seeing that same
and the triple strategist looks and the group like it just kind of feels like liquid Citadel look a little bit too strong in this particular composition
And swamp gaming have yet to be able to find a way to muscle their way past it. I mean now
You had a game right where swamp gaming you got the Wolverine you even committed it one-sided and that was your bread and butter
That has been your win condition time and time again when you're on swamp
But now liquid kind of just got the read right they got narrow on the invisible woman to at the very least keep that Wolverine and check
And it's been doing wonders for liquid Citadel because days quite literally cannot find an angle to get those key fairleafs onto those vanguards
Well, also, it's narrowed keeping that Wolverine and check
It's also shout out to the vanguards of liquid Citadel both Vess and Polly doing so well in terms of positioning
To make sure that they're not put in those unfavorable positions. Thanks to the fairleaf
Well, let's leap on over to our next map and Dan
You were telling me a little bit before the previous map like you were predicting that you that Ignis still path map was going to be hollow the Jalia
You you you were correct. Just not correct in time. Yeah
Better late than never I feel like I mean to recap what I talked about before we went into Yager cell path
Hall of the Jalia is swamps comfort pick every time swamp were in a position to pick a map and they pick Hall of the Jalia
They have gone three and zero
maybe Liquid Citadel, you're kind of expecting that Swamp Gaming would want to go on to Hologelya and
for Swamp being the fact that this is their playground, is this the start of a reverse sweep?
Is this the start of a comeback of
something that we have not seen just yet here in America?
It's gonna have to be. It's gonna have to be a reverse sweep. Otherwise Swamp Gaming will go down to the lower bracket.
the game. And then, you know,
both teams qualified for land.
So it's not like their lives
around the line, but their
ticket to the grand finals of
the playoffs here certainly is
and there is a fat stack of
cash waiting for them at the
other side of that one. So, you
know, both these teams are
still going to be giving it
there all while also trying
not to I guess I guess you
don't want to overheat. You
know, before that because
there's a high chance of a
reunion later on down the line,
but you still want to assert
your dominance early on here
win in their sales. It's got to be this one. And I think it's not just going to change
up the band phase. I think it's going to change up the style that swamp gaming have played
with because the front to back right now, it just ain't cutting it.
Yeah. And swamp gaming, you tried something to disrupt the front to back, get some extra
damage and with the rocket raccoon back in that number one, it did not work out. Math
number two, you got access to the one side Wolverine and you tried to disrupt all of
the facility that way. That didn't work. But swamp gaming, they're just going to let
it right. Get the first save onto the Wolverine and maybe this time, something, some kind of
adjustment could have been made as, like we said, no surprises there. Take away the Rocket
Raccoon, deny the Super Jump and the BRB and the CYA extra damage on the side of Swamp,
but we'll get the Mantis, which in return will force Swamp to take away Loki.
I do think, you know, going for that first protect on the Wolverine, like, that's the
the whole thing. You know,
it's like, you know, it's like
it's a lifeline and like it's
do or die when it comes to that
particular pick and having to
give up the rocket record. I
think hurts so bad, especially
when you don't have access to
the gambit or the rocket like.
Those outside of the mantis are
easily best in slot when it
comes to strategists and.
Speaking of slots, there's
going to be that third band
slot this time bumping it up in
the prior. We're seeing the
Hulk band come through again.
Oh great fan onto the invisible woman that was that has been the biggest reason why days just could not
Find any moments to breathe right and not even make any huge clutch moments happen because of that force physics pulling him back
When he does catch someone with the barrel weep that in that force physics will put them right out of it
And with that invisible woman band what was it? I'm sure they've been expecting it there
Well, they will find ways to try to
the team will be able to. Make
sure that this Wolverine works
and step one will be enabling
the mantis, which will force
teamwork with Citadel to. Bend
away the Loki so Noah
devastating by vitality team
up that we saw all the way back
in map number one, so no team
will just have the better front
to back, but you still get the
mantis, though, like because the
you've left this on the table, of course, we're going to use it.
We're our backs are up against the wall.
We're on the verge of falling to the lower bracket here.
We're going to use everything at our disposal,
so we'll reach for the biggest gun and it's going to be at Mantis.
Swamp gaming are going to be first up on the attack on their map pick,
their final map pick of the series.
It's Haldijalia and they are going to be coming out, like you said,
with that Mantis in the back pocket should they need it.
But of course, days, he only knows one gear,
and that is Wolverine full throttle all the way.
Well, unfortunately, Daze won't have access
to the rocket super jump because the band came through
onto the rocket right from by.
So, though, I'm liking the vibes for Melophobia right now.
I'm liking the vibes.
I was gonna say, I was like,
there's no way he rolls out on that, right?
Liquid Citadel, however, aren't gonna go
for the triple, triple again.
Instead, we'll go for the Luna Snow White Box team up
to keep the dive from swamp gaming in check,
whether it be Cresme on the Venom or Daze on the Wolverine as Melo's walking out with the Mantis David.
Okay, no, Swap him back.
Oh, never mind, okay, okay, okay, he got us excited for a little bit.
He was looking to see if there was anybody trolling, but unfortunately, you know, TLC, like, they're not playing around, right?
Like, they're not going to play with their food, they're not going to get too cocky, they're going to force Swap Gaming to play their very best game
if they want to best TLC, but if Meta's going to get a good kid down there on the Poly and Melocopia is going to put him down,
So that's gonna be a good early kidnap from days and Swamp Gaming able to claim this high ground opposite TLC
They can keep this momentum going but Energy and Cooper will stop that momentum in its tracks
Scatter and Valentina both will be sent to the wayside
Cheetorik traded out, but I don't know if that's gonna be enough to break through this defense
I mean Swamp Gaming are running were running that first fight on a two strategist line up with a Mantis on Valentina Eve
So it was just Luna's note and
Mantis being the two strategies on swamp gaming. That's not enough healing to sustain from the sheer amount of damage
Liquid Citadel are pumping out. It's just not like swamp gaming their plan was simple
Go fast get a quick elimination with the amount of damage that you have on your lineup and try to just run over it
Liquid Citadel that way, but that falls flat. So Valentina will go back to the invisible woman as the portal will be in play
For led-less attacks coming out from swamp gaming again in early poor play
They'll have access to another one
It's still early enough in the round that they don't have to worry about an overtime and not having that cool out there
Disposal but they need to dispose of some of these defenders and probably looks to be personally chopping block again
Fatal both worlds in fast and early on from GorkyDark to try and give swamp gaming a little bit of a safe haven
And now Cooper is gonna get the later better made of both worlds another striking in prison coming out from
And it's again, just a pure evisceration.
Swamp gaming, they get locked in prison
and they just can't seem to break free.
Swamp just had no response.
Every single time that Strangling Prison came out,
it always tagged off two or three members.
Like Vess over here in the Americas
is looking like Zeitha over on XXL1.
These two players are just nailing Strangling Prison
after Strangling Prison
and it's just devastating all of Swamp gaming.
Oh, he's got two!
He's gonna be able to confirm.
Mello is there to help take down Nero, and that's gonna be a strategy that will outline for TLC.
So they're not gonna have an opportunity to try and defend.
Move your rage from energy and try and make up for Valentina.
Has got the good healing with the invisible boundary.
Polly's got the anti-healing though, with that feast to the abyss.
But Bro is getting good on Ozenpik right now because he is not feasting.
Mello though is though.
He's managed to find two in this fight.
There's a nice little ricochet force onto Shbedari.
And Swamp Gaming have finally kicked the door wide open.
wide open, and it claimed two ticks.
Or it'll probably come again from Liquid Citadel.
You have access of safe passage with the soul
resurgence of Speedery.
We'll use it immediately.
Melavobia went for the Ruby Rage,
but he got exploded himself.
Crap, it's so far away.
It's too big KO's.
There's the Kumiho now unleashed from Nero,
but he's so far away from the point.
He's got a circle back.
Polly has managed to take down the backline of Swamp Gaming,
though, so all that's left, they don't feel like they
have the staying power anymore, and Scatter
is going to be wondering where those skills were.
You really needed them, but they're just not there.
and Daze is going to fly away in a helicopter mode back to the rest of his team.
45 seconds left and Swamp Gaming only have one play left to make.
Yeah, Speedery coming in with the Solar Resurgence meant that Swamp Gaming just didn't have a solid response to try to keep themselves sustained.
And exploding Melophobia off the rip was absolutely huge.
Melophobia could have had a huge influence in terms of where Wiccadel could play from because the line of sight was just too much.
Because Melophobia literally could have just looked at one central point.
Speeder is gonna get tagged up and speared, but he's still gonna be fine
Good defense from scatter keep in the back line safe
You're gonna need both of them with their ultimates coming online to be able to brute force your way through TLC's defenses as they are
Stanced up ready to accept this attack coming forward from swamp gaming. Speeder gets kidnapped there in Melopovia
They're with a finishing shot. It's gonna be fated with worlds coming up Melo snipes energy from downtown
Six minutes away, and he's able to find it and now with a full-out stand coming out from days breaking those claws across TLC
trying to find something through that fate of the world's
crass man with a belly flop is going to flop right on top of Cooper,
shutting that last ultimate down as it expires.
Paulie goes in with a piece to the abyss, but it's just not enough.
And again, yeah, like you say, Dan, there is no heels.
And there's going to be nothing left to stop Swamp Gaming from claiming this first point.
Huge focus from Swamp to target down the strategists of Liquid Scythe.
There is signs of life for Swamp Gaming, ladies and gentlemen.
We might see a series here,
The fun swamp gaming, the work is not done.
The job is far from finished.
As they have to look for the second checkpoint,
we'll get the ultimate economy scatter.
Switches over to Dr. Strange.
Was very close to the heaviest retribution,
but decides to forego it and will go towards
the Dr. Strange to team up with the invisible woman here.
Good shout, Taz Meng.
Gonna go in with an early diving strike there.
It is forced away for the time being,
but now the pinch is set up.
A ruby range from energy.
She's gonna find days,
That is going to be an early pick that swamp gaming they just can't afford especially if they were trying to set up that pinch from frasmag
But it's do or die now and they are going to buy their time
Back away and live to fight another day
Yeah, late stagger onto $40 which means swamp gaming have to spend a few more seconds to reset
Precious time taken away from the plot 90 seconds and counting for swamp gaming. They need to find an angle
They need to find a way to at the very least draw out narrows
Kumiho and Leesh and find a way to intercept Vess was strangling prison.
Sand. Strangling prison comes out. Vess just gets burned down. Forky down with the light and
dark eyes. Cut the headshot there and there's not going to be any strangling person coming out
so Nero with the Kumiho and Leesh trying to keep the pressure going but Scatter thrives under pressure.
It makes diamonds and the Maelstrom of Madness makes a mess of TLC. As Swap Gaming win the fight
they need to win but there's still one more potentially even a stagger fight on this defensive
and only less than a minute left.
Out of their safe haven and scatter again comes up clutch taking down speedery
It's traded up for 40
So it's not gonna be a whole lot of healing and Valentina is doing her best to try and stay alive and keep the frontline the very same
Scatter again strikes gold taking down Nero and a force physics is gonna pull Pauly right back into the frying pan and
Swamp gaming look at it get this second cap and there ain't a whole lot left to see you can do about it
A port of play will come through one of the point three meters away
Energy's gonna take down Crasmang but trade it out for speedery, a Ruby Rage from Energy
through the portal!
I have on the photo and again Scatter!
Coming up Clutch that's three times in a row now and it might be enough to take Swamp Gaming
over the line but they need Crasmang there and with Scatter holding up the front line
there's not gonna be a portal to get in there in time.
Akumiyo now being unleashed from Nero.
Melophobia gets low, has to back away, has to get a little bit of healing but that gives TLC
too much breathing room and with a smart advantage you can't let them breathe.
You can't let them be any air in their lungs, so Dave looks to take it all out of them with the last stand.
They'll fight too!
Staggering engine's gonna fall though.
Everything that Swamp Game you're fighting for is being traded out, one for another.
They need to complete this cap though.
Best comes back on the Angela, taking down Daze and now it's just my phobia with the damage.
Coming up on the Ruby Rage, but he won't get it!
Nero with one orb will deny it.
Porty Dog though, fade of both worlds, giving Swamp Gaming one last shot, one last chance at completing this cap.
A portal play is gonna come through from Scatterganger. Can we get him on the front lines?
To be the hero, Swamp needs one last time.
Forky Dog will fall, but it's just enough time for the portal to open.
But it may be only their demise on the other side.
If this will boundary from Valentina, but one by one Swamp getting in, they fall.
Another Ruby Rage coming through from Energy.
Metalphobia tries to mirror it, but Energy looks through!
Off the ricochet force!
And TLC will deny Swamp gaming that second point.
That was a long and arduous overtime fight.
Look at, look at Lucas' coach behind Polly's camera, his hands are on his head.
That was insanely tense for both sides.
It just felt like as soon as one team had the advantage,
there was a counter play coming in to at the very least even out the playing field.
Both teams just spacing out their ultimate so, so well, but in the end, swamp gaming,
they had their final moment with the invisible boundary to try to force some sort of comeback
but liquid citadel with energy on the ruby rage kind of just exploded valentino gives tlc the
hole that they need and now put themselves in a pretty favorable position to give swamp gaming a
fat doughnut here it's just too much damage right coming out from energy in the focus fire like
look at melafobia versus uh versus energy right now mellow is getting the better in the pure damage
number 25 K versus only 20 K, but it's the focus fire every time energy marks a target.
It's like everybody from liquid Citadel get their eyes on that same target and they burst
them down. So even through these strategy is ultimately like it doesn't matter if the
timing on Valentina's ultimate is pixel perfect. If she gets bursted down because all eyes
are on her and all eyes right now, I think are on team liquid Citadel as it has been
foretold that human torch is back in the rotation. And if anybody was going to put it on display
here in America's it was gonna be speedery. I mean speedery was the king of the skies when all
those fliers were so so met a human torch, Ultron, a little bit of storm as well last year
in 2025 but now coming in looking to utilize it once more now getting so much of that extra help
right with the snow with the snowflake and then the damage boost coming in from the mantis speedery
could just control so much of the map with the pyro prison. Melophobia is the only person who could
You could try to stop it and Shvedry scouted that out, saw Mello was low and went in for the hot drop and Mello couldn't do a thing about it.
Daze is going to be able to take down Polly, but that's only one elam going away from swamp gaming, it's been all TLC in the KO feed.
One tick coming away, the second as well.
There's going to be a portal that comes out, but it's not on the point and there's a wall blocking them.
They have to try and come through the choke now, but the Shvedry taking down Daze again, they're just walking into this kill box set up by Liquid Citadel.
More damage are being pumped out by Shbedr and Swampgaming. It doesn't really feel like they're in this fight, Dan.
I mean, the portal has to be used very defensively, where else you're walking into a pyro prison.
And with what's in it all, off the back of that, we'll just secure themselves the first point and apply even more pressure with the flaming meteor.
They're not content to just take the first point. They want to take the job, they want to take even the Rio, and it is within their sights right now.
with a stagger onto Valentina in days.
Not gonna be kept as a pet.
Mercifully will be put down and set back
to the rest of his team.
And now Swamp Gaming are gonna have to rely
on that spawn hold to be able to get themselves
back into this one as TLC don't have a lot of ultimates,
but if we know Vest, he'll have one before long.
Yeah, and hopefully Swamp will have Valentina Eve
with the eternal thong coming in.
The last ditch effort for Swamp Gaming,
we may be going into final fight territory.
If the fight goes as long as that fight
We saw over and over time right before second checkpoint as what was said about they have the combo ready strangling prison
Maybe into the PC abyss to and to heal all of swamp gaming
We'll see if that's able to be executed here
So low someone he'll scatter G is getting a little finally as the actual body comes out
Melanthobia gets caught up by the feast the abyss swallowed hole in the belly of the beast and now
Coming out it crashes onto every single member of swamp gaming and Valentina's doing all she can
to try and heal at the front line as ForkyDunk got filled in that exchange with Liquid Citadel.
Can't quite close this one out just yet.
Deis is letting the Devil out, but he'll be put back in his place by Vess.
Again, ruling over this map with an Iron Fist, and now Swamp Gaming on the back foot,
on the precipice of extinction here, as the cart inches closer, and Speedery pops the Supernova over a spawn hold,
and there's nothing Swamp Gaming can do as they're swept to the wayside by Team Liquid Citadel.
you want back. We expected a
full distance best of five, but
we instead got a quick day in
the office for liquid Citadel.
They punched their ticket to the
grand finals here in stage one
Americas and my word, I'm not
sure if we all expected this kind
of result because swamp gaming
is just feeling they were on the
back foot every step of the way.
the. I mean, the way it's
the way liquid Citadel were the
one setting the tone setting
the pace of this match and
considering that you had access
to the mantis time and time
again. That tempo just gets put
up to around. What 110% It's so
hard. Like again, like we go
back to the picks in the band
phase like everything from
swamp gaming was defensive.
They never got to mountain
offensive because of that
tempo again. It comes with that
you know, you can't go aggressive
with the CYA if there is no CYA
to be had. And if your best bet
is an Invis and Cloak and Dagger
backline, I think your chances
have already gone up in smoke
and you're like, it's so rough.
Like it breaks my heart to see
to see this, you know, as a
as a certified swamp gaming
Glaser, but TLC are a
game of the sort. You know,
you can't go aggressive with the
laser but TLC are every bit as dominant as advertised and if not swamp gaming then who?
Oh it's Cooper taking away the MVP here in map number three the final nail in the coffin for
swamp gaming as they get sent to the depths of the lower bracket. I mean we we haven't talked
about Cooper a whole lot in this series but he has been quietly cooking in the backline making
sure everyone on liquid citadel are well sustained and also when they look for those target selections
to contribute with a little bit of damage. He's been in the conversation for one of the best
strategies in the game pretty much since the jump. It's been nonstop consistency from this guy in the
back line, you know, even back to the old fly quest days and some of the synergy that he has with
some of those ex fly quest players. He was still putting up numbers like that even way back then
and it just goes to show like how good you are, how how hard you work to stay at the top and all
that work paying off in spades and now it has set them apart from the rest of the playing field.
They have managed to go flawless against everybody who has stepped their way. Even the very best
in North America couldn't even take a map off of Liquid Citadel in stage one.
Yep and now Liquid Citadel are getting closer and closer to that golden run. Still have not dropped
a single map and now going into the grand finals only a festa seven separates them and a golden
road to the midseason finals and uh I mean what can you say about liquids that they'll bring
invest right before stage one had to have been like the final piece to the team liquids to the
bell puzzle and uh you know if I can tie it back to our uh our top of the show right where we
showed up all the MVPs and how energy stacked up six of them coming into this one each of these
three maps had a different MVP. It was energy, then it was Vess, and then it was Cooper. And that
just kind of goes to show how strong each and every piece of this team is. They're all in
conversation for best in slot when it comes to their role. And if, you know, if they're on the
conversation, then they just are. Yeah. And what could you say about liquid Citadel? It was either
liquid Citadel playing out of their minds or it was just swamp gaming kind of just not awake in
time. Maybe it was a mix of both, but swamp gaming, you got to talk about them a little bit, right?
Like you arguably fumbled the band draft back in map number one, and then you go into map number two
with a little bit of adjustment, put a little more emphasis on the Wolverine, that falls flat.
So now going into map number three on Hall of the Jelya, your comfort pick, you stick with your guns.
You try to enable days, even committing bans onto the invisible woman to make sure days have some
breathing room. It's just not
enough. People who said it off
of rock coordination and
mechanics just overpowered
swamp and swamp kind of just
ran out of options. Yeah, I
mean, like, let's also talk a
little bit about Polly. You
know, I was wondering if he
might end up getting the MVP
because I was seeing him making
some clutch plays. He was on
forky dog and Valentina like
either the peeling isn't there or they're playing a little bit scared or something just isn't clicking for swamp gaming right now and you know I hate to put all of the blame on days and his hero pool so you know there's plenty of other things that it could be but I think that's another pain point that you need to address is going up against a guy vanguard the likes of Pauly how do you keep your backline alive so that you can live to fight another day but unfortunately for swamp gaming.
The day is done, it belongs to Team Liquid Citadel, and I mean, there really wasn't much contest.
I mean, you gotta give a shout out to Polly as well, right? Being able to pick up these heroes so, so quickly.
He used to be one of those Captain America 1 tricks, but now he's been picking up other heroes, like the Groot and the Venom most notably,
and his Venom has looked so clean throughout this entire series. I believe he was on it for the most, for most of all of these series.
Yeah, he was on the Venom and he looked so good, he was spitting the very same and we got him on the interview to talk a little bit about his hero pool.
Let's bring Polly in. Let's get this interview. Go and Polly, congrats on the win and I mean, you don't look too perturbed by that one.
It looks like it was easy for you. Pretty cool as a cucumber there.
Yeah, another day in the office.
It was abrupt.
Yeah, it was just another day at the office.
Alright, well, let's talk a little bit about how this day at the office went, because again,
it's just kind of easy for you, being one of the best vanguards out here.
We had an interview earlier on today with Space, and he was saying that you were a cap one trick.
You got anything you want to say about that?
No, I look you got nothing to say I mean I think I I agree I'm a cap one trick
but I haven't played him yet. What could I say? I haven't played him yet, I didn't explain.
I think you got at least two tricks because that Venom looked pretty good. Like the Venom
was also pretty good. Not to glaze too hard but I feel like that's at least two.
I mean, I also got to ask about the band draft, right?
Was this something that you had planned going up against Swamp Gaming, right?
You had an idea of what Swamp Gaming wanted to do.
Was this like a premeditated band draft?
Were you kind of expecting what Swamp Gaming were going to do,
like, before you guys even loaded into the game?
Low key, I don't even look at the draft. That's my coach's job, not who I am.
No, I'm joking, I'm joking, I'm joking.
Yeah, I don't know, somehow they gave us matches every single game, and then matches were just broken, so yeah.
They did some move stuff, tried first prodding him, stuff like that didn't go too well, I don't know.
I don't want I like I don't want to you know pride too much on that one just in case you want to you know
Don't want to leak the band draft stats in case you do see them again
But at this rate like do you think you will see swamp gaming again in grand finals?
Or do you think you know someone might usurp them down in the lower bracket?
Most probably yeah, but
You gotta you gotta be aware of the stick trip guys those guys are definitely good
I do think they're also gonna be 100 trash so
I
Like that you and Swamper at least on the same way for one thing
Yeah, and it's sipping on the hundred thieves hater. I I kind of admire it
So I take it you don't think the hundred thieves is gonna be is gonna be taken that third slot, right?
Probably not I could lie
Oh boy
I mean
What else what else is there right you got a ticket into the grand finals?
Do you think you'll meet swamp again in that message seven grand final or do you think it'll be someone else?
That's gonna be swamp
70% swamp 30%
Maybe stature. Let's see. I'm looking forward to it. I
Okay. I'd like to see the stick drift one. Alright, we got one last question before we have to bid you adieu, and that is, if you see Swamp again in that best of seven, do you think they're going to take a map off of you, or is it going to be just another sweep?
Because this was pretty dominant today.
Maybe if they somehow get Hulk and Wolverine through the draft, then maybe they take a map of us. Maybe. That's insane.
I think whoever I think whoever is in charge of your your band phase is gonna have to be asleep at the wheel to let both of those
Through like you can have one my friend, but not the other but you can have the glory all day long Polly
Thank you so much. Any other shout outs you want to give before we send you off
By the liquid
Shadow space of the space
Alright, thank you so much for joining us, Polly, with your unparalleled amounts of swagger
there.
The sunglasses indoors, I admire it.
I admire the chill factor there.
Thank you, thank you.
That's just higher, about this high.
Thank you, Polly, for joining us.
We'll see you around, maybe next time.
Bye.
It's like, like I said, another day at the office, it's easy, it feels so easy.
I wish the best nonchalant as Polly over there, after what might have been, what could have
been your toughest opponent and they kind of just brushed him aside.
You're right, could have been the toughest opponent and again, I'll say if not swamp gaming,
then who.
If not, if they can't even take a map, right, like what hope does anyone else have, like
with Citadel standing ahead and shoulders over the competition and not even the best
of the best could best them on this day, but the day is not done. We have got so much more
Marvel rivals to play today and don't go anywhere because we've got the rest of it on the other
side of this break. We'll see you in just a bit.
And lies and remains, don't mind, hold on to your powers now
I can't sell our minds, we have rights till the end of time
We are flesh, but I don't care, I won't fight
We're singing cross-sign, it's the biggest one you will ever make
There's an end to the end
I've got no more, then now it's the only time your heart is mine.
Light has fallen, darkness grown up
Yes, it's way more honest than me and me
Today's my day, but I'm not as good as you should
But if you change me, you'll make it right with me
And when you wake up, I'll find your prize
Raise me up, you'll get sense, my shivers fall
But from the risks, I turn to death
We are rivals in the end
Love is the end, I break your mind
To all those who focus love on themselves
We are rivals again, until the end of time
Show me that you're still the only one that matters
Want me? I'll be playing for you
Wait up, I'll be your hands holding on
Do you heart look inside you?
Can you feel it? The sparks in you
And it's a combination
Wake up, how can I surprise you?
Is this the distance smashing through time?
What the rest of my tears yet again?
We are rivals living yet
one. Next stop is elimination station. Unfortunately, that means that some of our teams are going
to be disembarking. But whose stop is it going to be? There's only one way to find out and
that's by getting into the action. But one thing I know for sure is that it's going to
be a partner team that we say goodbye to today. Yep. Both of these teams are in fact partnered
here in the Americas region. Hunter thieves up against a flight quest. You could argue
like flight flight quest, definitely having the biggest glow up in terms of I feel like
All of the partner teams right overhauling that entire roster trying to build around Melio and Tuzi has done wonders so far
Whereas hundred thieves
Definitely riding on that playoff buff. I feel like every time hundred thieves are in the playoffs
They get some sort of supercharged buff and just go on an absolute tear in the playoffs
But I me personally I feel like this is where the buff starts to dry up
Yeah, and let's make it. Let's be perfectly clear the T stands for thieves not anything else
It is a hundred themes. We don't we don't you know, we're not we're not here to disparage any of the teams
And how can you disparage teams when there's this much talent right like you have some in
Incredible crazy talented people the Lana on the hitscan has been a sight to behold
Self-stare devil has been stellar and then you have TTK who you're regardless of how well hundred thieves has been doing in playoffs and group stage
and he's always in the
conversation for one of the
best Vanguard players in the
world. And you know, I think
that's just a testament to his
talent is like, Alright, Yeah,
it doesn't really matter how the
rest of the team is doing because
I know I'm popping off. Yeah,
and the entire team 100 days
they need to make something
happen here in the playoffs to
at the very least give
themselves another lifeline to
get into that midseason finals.
Keep in mind there is only one
spot left. Every other team that
that is going to miss season
finals are already locked and
loaded. And now right now the
Americas. This is where we see
that final chair being filled in
in the table of the missing
final. And like what a world it
would be if it wasn't a
partner team. You know if it
wasn't if it wasn't 100 thieves
if it wasn't fly quest or if
yeah we lost or stick drift end
up taking that throne and we're
of this one, and that is going to be an interesting one. But we will see who that ends up being.
Is there will only be one team left yet to qualify and only one partner team left to potentially claim
that spot after this matchup. Let's talk a little bit about the other side. Let's talk a little bit
about FlyQuest and you want to talk about glowups. FlyQuest have absolutely had one of the most
impressive glowups from preseason up until now. And a big part of that comes from this new Vanguard
line-up. Kart and Techie have given a new identity to this team. I mean Kart coming in from Yeah,
we lost being that staple whole player on YWL now being brought over to FlyQuest and Kart was
given the opportunity to work on that hero pool and he has done just that. He has looked very solid
on the Captain America, the Angela and the Venom as well. Whereas Techie, the fact that he went
unsigned in Ignite Pre-Season is an absolute crime. Absolute crime. But Bro is actually might be
one of the best vanguards, maybe even the entire region, like maybe right below Holly and Bess,
and he has performed so, so well and allowing the rest of the team, right? Tuzi going absolutely
ballistic on things like the Elsa Bloodstone. Sometimes it's been to Starboard and the
flight quest happened just riding that high ever since they made it into playoffs.
Yeah, like Tuzi is definitely going to be a major player to watch, especially on that
that aforementioned Elsa bloodstone because he was one of the best at it back when she
was meta and now that she's starting to come back into the fold, Tuzi at the helm has been
putting on show after show every single time he picks up that hero and it's like, alright
you want to ban out the Cyclops, take away the most busted hitscan in the game?
I got something even more busted that you forgot about.
Let me remind you how the taste of this elephant gun feels.
a fly quest. Can they get it done? We get a head-to-head between the hard carry of 100
thieves up against the hard carry of a fly quest. I mean, you can see how much more Tuzi
has been doing in the KCA department, right? 97 eliminations, only 37 casualties, but 15
assists? Not too bad, but the final hits is where the impact is.
Yeah, but speaking of impact, you can't just discount that 28.6k damage on the Hello, right?
Like if the Cyclops get spanned out, we started to see, and Delana's been at the forefront
of this movement as well, we started to see some of the hits game players gravitate towards
the Hela rather than the Phoenix and Delana's damage numbers when it comes to the Hela man.
They are next level and even though the sample size hasn't been as big as some of his performances
on things like the Star Lord or the Bucky or some of these other heroes, in the small
amount of time that he has played Hela, he has made his presence felt and you can see
like right now he's on TikTok right now.
He's just a little tired. Yeah, he's a you know, he looks chill. He's like he's just chillin
He's not like he's not overthinking it. He's calm and collected. He's ready to go in
He was a serious done and dusted but like you still have one more
It's best up five ahead of you
You still have to play against fly quest and then you have to play against the winner between yeah
We lost and stick drift later down the line as
fly quest
Is this the moment do they go for the golden lower bracket run to get that final ticket into playoffs?
That's gonna be the big question coming in here
I feel like this matchup could be very very even I
Suspected that it will be I do hope that you know for Delana's sake that this had to head with Tuzi wakes them up because yeah
You're right. It might be a long series and if they win it
They got another one on the other side of it later on tonight
So it's gonna be a long day for whichever of these two teams ends up coming up with the dub
I'm looking forward to it, right, like I have been I have been watching this fly quest team pretty closely ever since you know stage one when they made those adjustments coming out of the preseason they got off on the wrong foot in the preseason but started the course correct later on they lose
and then they lose vest and then they lose jolly and then they bring in these two new vanguards in cart and tacky and like I said they give him a new identity a new lease on life and honestly even behind the scenes some pretty like they bring some intangible things to the roster that you just won't see anywhere else but there is no
that this story could begin than on Celestial Husk on Domination.
Dan, who do you think takes the first shot here?
Oh, I mean, FlyQuest looks so, so solid on these Domination maps.
I gotta give it to them, right?
They've been performing very, very well.
I feel like if I remember correctly, when they played up against Quick with Citadel,
FlyQuest actually put up a very solid fight against Quick with Citadel on Domination.
And if FlyQuest can replicate it against the best team in the Americas,
I'm sure there'll be no problem against 100 days. Wake up samurai. You've got a city to burn. All right
It's time. It's not no more yawning. We got to get it
We got to get this guy a red bull
He has got a date with Tuzi and you don't want to be late because he will run right over you with that Elsa that gets through and
You know again
It comes at the behest of the Cyclops bands that we didn't really see a whole lot of in the last series
But we have seen a lot of across all the region Cyclops is a very strong hero
Energy showed us exactly why in that previous series and Vinny. No, not you two. Oh
There's like a thing right where yawns are like contagious and all that I feel like the entire hundred teams combine
They're just gonna start yawning, but maybe this is the moment that
That both teams are gonna have to wake up here in the bandraff as both sides not gonna take any chance on the mantis unlike Swamp gaming
Yeah, they are they are woke to the techie stop that okay. I thought that was a yawn as well
been like you said it's
contagious. It was like
biological warfare. We made the
other team and yawn. Is that
the is that the strategy here?
I sure hope not. As we go on
through, there's a Cyclops band
coming through for 100 thieves
and again protect coming out.
So we are going to be seeing
some royal flushes on either
side and I anticipate fly
quest. It may be a rogue band
or maybe the Cyclops and they
are going to go for the ladder.
So right out the gate, I think
the bucky or the hella for Delana will have to see, but these secondary hits can picks are going
to come out to play. Another question is, do you start looking at the Rocket Raccoon, or do you
start looking at the Star Ward as 100 thieves will take away the Gambit Rogue team up at the
very least? FlyQuest will be looking at the Rocket Raccoon. Now Star Ward is available to take 400
thieves. Do you go for the Star Ward save? I mean, that would give you guys a huge opportunity to go
for those key eliminations through Stratus Ultimates. Supercharged galactic legend with
the rage royal flush is absolutely devastating, but 100 thieves, they're going to go for a
more strategic approach by locking in the Luna.
What's interesting, Dan, is on a lot of the past outings for 100 thieves, they have protected
the Daredevil and FlyQuest caught onto that as well, and with no protect coming out, they're
going to go ahead and ban that one out, and now that kind of begs the question, what does
self-play and I'm it's kind of a rhetorical question right because surely 100 thieves if they're not going to go for the protect
They've already thought about that question and they've got a plan in the back pocket
We're just waiting to see it
But fly quest their band lines are usually very strategist favorite
They do go for this little protect quite often especially on domination. So if it ain't broke, don't fix it
Yeah, no fly quest
Definitely gonna expect 100 thieves to maybe play like the wolf ring
I mean Daredevil is still available in play
Well Daredevil is gone on 100 thieves, sorry
But Wolverine
Definitely is available. We could see maybe some sort of fastball
But I feel like fly quest would also want to run it putting cart on the Hulk
Which is available to him as the captain America is going to be the final band coming in for a hundred thieves
So fly quest I feel like have a decent amount of options a decent amount of flexibility to work with whereas
the game, and the game is
going to be a little bit
different. It's going to be
a little bit different. It's
100 thieves. Definitely going
to rely on that gambit and
Star Lord Wombo combo. I think
you know the Hulk for cart. Like
it's not only available. It's
encouraged. He's hovering the
venom right now, but we'll see
if that fastball special does
end up coming out, because like
you said, Wolverine is
available for both sides. But
right now the hovers are a
little bit more. What we've
been expecting the one sided
Tuzi on the Elsa is one thing that I knew was going to be coming out and if he changes I will be legit
I will be legitimately shocked if that Elsa swaps. Yeah
They're still figuring out which composition to roll on maybe get the better read of what the other team is doing because we've been seeing
Teams do that in the other matches, right?
Try to get a read on what kind of composition the other teams gonna try to roll out on and if you win out in that role
You just straight up win out in that first fight and that gives you all of the momentum in theory to just take over the round
as both teams rolling out, but TTK gonna channel the portal to either kidnap someone from FlyQuest,
either split the team or just go for the backline jump.
Eyes above, they are gonna drop in directly up of FlyQuest, but I think FlyQuest realized it was
danger close and backed out, but a good shield to break Techie off from the rest of his team,
and Vinny is gonna be there for the cleanup, a good section off there that comes out from 100
Thieves and with that they've got advantage in this first fight fly quest posturing themselves to try and contest this point
Nevertheless, even though they are down a man, but techie swapping over to the doctor strange
He wants to be there for this first fight
He wants to make his presence known
He'll teleport himself right back in straight back into the fray back in a full 66 and hundred thieves coalescing down on one side fly
Quest on the other cart dives in to try and break the stalemate
But is it gonna be enough is now Tuesday trying to get active with those uppercuts self on a sliver of a key
And he will be taking that last bit and that's three quick KO's now coming up for fly quest as they will embatically fire the first shot
Yeah, big fight win for fly plus zealous was ever so slightly behind on the region royal flush compared to winnie
Who's at 66 percent zealous only at 43 now that gives time for zealous to at the very least and match the tempo coming in from winnie
But I feel like velocity might be the one to pull the trigger first
Because one's winnie is there with the region royal flush combined it with the lineup on the blacked legend
Velocity should be able to time this mid-fielder properly to, at the very least, nullify that combo.
Velocity is going to have to be careful, because he's going to swap over onto the Captain America.
There's the Glartras coming up from Tuzi, and the Maelstrom is able to pop the laner so that there's going to be an early frag,
and that's going to slow out that galactic legend, Ult charge, like you were calling out, then.
He's at 90%, but he's going to need to wait at least one more fight to do it, and that's going to be a fly-quip.
We're going to get up to 50% before that comes out to play.
Even more time for Zell is to charge up his ultimate.
now is going to be able to match maybe what Winnie is about to throw at them but now Velocity is going
to be the one to at the very least be in charge of containing this eclectic flush from being in
play as the rest of Blackpuss looking to find an angle to get the counterpush down. It's always
on zealous to get the royal flush. Yep, I mean the combo from 100 thieves just doesn't amount to
anything and Melio is going to put the laner down and beast of the abyss coming out like you say but
but it's just not gonna be enough.
Benny is gonna take down Tuzi,
trading up those KO's up and now Melyo in the sky.
He's got a galactic flash of his own
and Techie with another maelstrom
and all of his thieves are running in fear,
scurrying away from the wrath of Melyo.
The fighter double in that fight
and another fight win for FlyQuest
with potentially only one more opportunity for 100 thieves.
Well, I'm not sure if the quarter was available
just yet for 100 thieves.
This fight has not,
or this round has been going so, so fast.
100 thieves, gonna have to make that scramble.
We're going to find out if I tarry,
Thankfully, Vinny does have the Freedom Charge. TPK could try to set up self with the Dance of the Butterfly with the Heaven's Retribution.
We'll see how they decide to approach this. Techie's gonna try to cut them off.
I have Agamotto, but I think it was foreseen by 100 Thieves, so they're able to dodge.
And now they don't have any ultimates. Heaven's Retribution is here from TPK, and they did that Dance of the Butterfly,
but it's not fighting much of anything. It's FlyQuest. They're able to stay the course of time being Freedom Charge to keep 100 Thieves in this fight before FlyQuest.
They're trying to rubber band back into it, but they just can't. Their health bars are so low
And they're not gonna get topped up as Vinny with a nice little right hand is gonna take down velocity
And he's got another in the tank for Zellos and 100 thieves are on the board
Oh
Cart was so close to winning out that round for fly quest the piece of the abyss got
Millenia down to critical HP was forced to use the fate of both worlds so so early and then velocity coming in at the
Three to real flesh actually it might have been Zellos to try to rush down the rest of hundred thieves
but 100 thieves were able to complete their retake by the skin of their teeth and now with Winnie getting closer to that
it's gonna be the rage of royal plush, but no combo with Delana, it's gonna be used early before Delana even gets it
If it's easy case, they're able to make the most of the damage, win that aerial duel against Techie, so
no Angela for the side of FlyQuest and that means that this backline is gonna have to play with their heads on a sliver
but they still look to try and approach this point as 100 thieves still ticking up the percentage
Even though they don't have a whole lot of ultimate stand, they do have the galactic legend.
Delana is going to let that one rip up on high, force out a resource from FlyQuest.
The Royal Flush comes out, but Delana can't burst down any of those targets.
The Flush was giving too much healing, and Tuzi is going to take him down.
Grounded is he, and now Melio is taking down TK.
Self locked in a battle of bliss with Kart.
But Kart is going to win this one out right now, Vinny, looking to try and stall as FlyQuest.
They've identified this man lurking in the back line and they're not gonna let him find the flip.
No sneaky back caps today. FlyQuest will take the first point.
Oh the portal not coming in time despite the heroic stall coming in from Vinny.
He tried his best but unfortunately it was not meant to be. FlyQuest end up controlling that first checkpoint.
It's just that early momentum that FlyQuest were able to secure for themselves getting those picks
in the neutral before getting, getting secure of that first checkpoint meant that Black West
had all of that momentum, right? Even winning that fight is so, so important to make sure that you
have resources to at the very least counter 100thies one of the throws in that retake.
I'm sorry, I'm sorry, does that say 14 and 0 with 7 final hits for Melio? That's disgusting.
That's literally half of the Elims. Bro is doing single-handedly and it's working out like a,
no one from 100 thieves has been able to scout out this Star Lord pick coming
coming up from FlyQuest.
Yeah, and it just feels like Melio is just doing so much work dancing around the map
terrain, right?
Going off angle, tickle them a little bit, go to a different off angle, tickle them a
little bit more.
And it just feels like Hunter Thieves, like you said a little bit earlier, right?
Their heads are on a slope trying to track them down.
What is the tickle monster?
He is in fact the tickle monster.
But then the tickle starts to hurt a little bit when it's supercharged with the Galactic
Legend plus Grazing Fogel Flesh as Melio is going to try to kick things off with the
Galactic legend, but Milena should be there to neutralize
Not gonna be any flush to augment this galactic legend
So maybe Melio will often hold on to the left of C. They're gonna try and control this choke with a high ground
Oh, no, you see video in D but he's taking down techie and
Milena wants to put on a show and Melio didn't buy tickets
So he is gonna back off and give the first cap over to 100
Now as he goes back through the cap isn't there Melio
But this elastic legend trying to follow 100 themes into this narrow choke point where the damage to potentially come through from the rest of
his team, setting Tuzi up to try and find the elune.
He's under so much pressure, TTK pokes him down.
And now the dance to butterfly coming out from himself
with large truck stop from Tuzi is going to return fire.
He simply says, no you to TTK, puts him down,
training out for Melio.
The first cap goes the way a fly quest.
Harnthief stepped off the point, then he's still
investing the freedom charge.
They got to find something with this.
Self will find cart, but is that going to be enough?
Is now techie that the cloak of levitation
looks to try and fly to safety.
But there is no safe haven with 100 thieves
on the prowl. And now Black West down to definitely going to have to look to reset.
They do get up to 15%, but now the flip is good. 400 thieves. I mean, the 2Z did, or
at least tried to do so much of that work, but unfortunately just was not able to win
out in that fight. Great Apex Predator just shut down TTK during that fight as well, but
now coming into this, both teams will have access to the Raging Royal Flush, Delena off
of the Star Wars onto the Winter Soldier to maybe team up with TTK with the happens right
There's those flushes, Velocity first, then Winnie gets the better one, Zellos is not
going to be there to build up to any healing for FlyQuest, so they can't really engage
wholeheartedly, Techie will take down Self, but that is going to be a pure victory at
that, as now Hunter Thief is still pulling on.
There's so many valuable tools that Heaven's Retribution and the Kraken Impact both could
come online, but they don't need to as FlyQuest will tuck tail between their legs and play
for the next fight.
Hunter Thiefs hold on to that combo, Heaven's Retribution into the Kraken Impact, right
Bianca coming in from Delano to grab this rubbed cart when he does swing to himself to safety itself
Also marking out part so cart needs to do a little bit of a reset used to symbiote defense try to get himself reset
But nope, he is not stabilized and speaking of reset
Delano got one of the take and he is gonna let it loose taken down cello doesn't actually get the KO finish him off
Zello's gonna stir you away and the debuff will expire
So Delayna is gonna have to be happy with just that one elune on the cart and fly quest coming back to full strength
Looking to try and contest here, but 70% for 100 feet
It's gonna be one fight territory if like what's can't get the job here the heavens were tributions
The heavens may fall but justice will still be done for 100 feet as they'll fight two in the fight
Cart fell again, and now 80% it's dire straights for fly quest. Yeah final fight territory is in down to fly quest decide to invest in the portal portal
techie still on the Angela maybe to try to touch to at the very least trigger
overtime whereas the rest of fly plus definitely are going to be a step or two
behind cards gonna use the piece of the abyss to at the very least keep himself
sustained so that he's able to jump down to the point trigger overtime and then
blacklist try to win out this fight from here but we've already won down it's
gonna be the fight over there there is no fight TTK won the fight for it even
began but he is not done square enough it's gonna poke velocity down make a
it's going to be 100 Thieves
evening up the score and we got
to talk about TTK on the Angelo
and if we don't talk about it, FlyQuest needs
to start talking about it because it's a problem.
Yeah, great pick on Tizelos
who was holding onto the invisible boundary.
That was FlyQuest's best chance
of making that fight a little bit competitive
despite being down one member
and TTK was able to identify
it perfectly. Shut him down before he's
able to cast the invisible boundary
and 100 thieves knowing that they have to
advantage is to completely wipe out fly quests who didn't really want to use this ultimate because they were just down too many members
They're gonna have the galactic flush for this next one and zealots making the swap over onto the rocket
So even if you use the galactic legend and the royal flush doesn't find anything
You know, you do still have access to that secondary damage. Yeah, I think that's a good shout or fly quest
It's one of the tools that they have that hundred thieves simply don't and I do like that adaptation
I wish it would have came in a little bit sooner on that last map
but it's here now and it's here to stay so we'll see if fly quest and get themselves back in the driver seat for map one and the fact
That fly quest can sync up the galactic legend even more reliably
You don't have to always rely on that being in sync with your own region royal flies
You can also try to sync it up with zealots on the rock of raccoon to try to sync up the CYA
No, I'm still gonna use this galactic legend dry
Oh, what a read from FlyQuest, they knew that when Melio presses that Q button, Melania
will do the exact same, and they did just that.
Tuzi knocks the vanguard down into the abyss.
Velocity even holds on to the Rage of Royal Flush
because he knows if he pops it with the collective legend,
it's gonna be so much more difficult
to find those eliminations.
Although it is possible, it is very, very difficult.
When he's gonna fire the first shot in velocity,
he's gonna mirror that Royal Flush.
Now, your team's trying to combo,
but now the Heavens' retribution coming up.
Velocity just got snapped out of existence
and the Lena and Selv getting active in that KOB,
taking down FlyQuest, systematically dissecting them,
one by one, and at 34% maybe, oh, a nice little head log there to give them a 34% fly quest,
we'll find the flip.
Great retake coming in from 100 thieves, making sure that they are able to execute on the
collective legend into the region where you'll try to get those key eliminations that feels
like as TTK and the rest of 100 thieves need to, at the very least, push away fly quests,
right?
They're stopping them from getting access to the point.
Kart switches over to the Hulk now, as Zellos now has the CYA available.
Once upon a time, Kart was the whole guy, and they call him that for a reason.
They called it the Hulk, and he is calling Hunter Thieves.
Cream Charge now coming up from Vinny.
He's gonna give Hunter Thieves a little bit of breathing room in this fight.
The CYA though is making it so difficult for them to breathe.
The Lana isn't there, has the Kraken Impact, and Tuzi, with the Apex Predator,
just tosses Melania into a wall so even if the Lana gets there with the ultimate, the party's over!
And 100 thieves can't just get the hold now,
likewise they invested quite a bit there.
Tuzi on the Apex Preventors, Zellos with the CLA using it in 10 with each other.
Now they have to find more time to at the very least get
techie and melee of Hope, their ultimate online.
Kart is also available with the Worldbreaker Hope to try to stall out a little bit,
But right now, all eyes are on Hunter Deves, they're able to complete the retake with Self and Delena with Ulti to set the ready.
Black is legend, but it's not gonna be a flush coming out, but it doesn't matter, he's still able to single out Tuzi, and now Kart with that whole going in deep trying to section up Hunter Deves, but they simply ignored it.
Their Kelsa's choice was go to another game, and they're gonna go and find the flip, and de-hulk Kart and FlyQuest, but let's take a reset.
Yep, great picks by Hunter Deves, like you said, ignoring...
They're staggering Kart, they're staggering Kart out.
My yeah, they're just letting cart get reset and the late stagger means that the BRV also going to be burned out
Although the stagger was a devastating life was at the very least they're able to bring them right back for the problem is you don't have that for this fight
Like this legend out from Melio all of a hundred these looking to try and take shelter from the school
I'm using those rocks as an umbrella and it will shelter them for now
But that was the raging will flush gonna come out the lander wants to try and make something happen with the crack and impact pecky
Looking to try and pin him down, but can't quite hunt him down goes the assassin's charge
But like a bullfighter the Lanna just gets out of dodge
He's able to take down self, but it's returned immediately
He has to give his life to make it happen and he may be running out of lives is 90% now for 100 thieves and fly quest
Part of the game stuff eat behind enemy lines. He's just bleeding out time
That's a very least velocity was the only elimination coming in from Delana good climb from velocity as well to get great
the recent for Delana. Over five meter comes up online as CTK also has the Heavens retribution.
Velocity goes in with the vision for a flush, but Melania is there to respond.
Heavens retribution for CTK, locking FlyQuest down, and they are completely on lockdown right now.
Zell also going to rescue Zee back up at the party again.
Seemingly over as the 100 Thieves are going to be celebrating this victory.
Self-pop it off to close things off, and 100 Thieves will take map number one.
This bumps all around for a hundred thieves. They get the job done, although it was a little bit tense.
Three rounds is all it takes for a hundred thieves to take map number one here on Celestial Husk.
And it feels like both teams definitely are making more heads up plays.
It feels like both teams, they get the initiative down. They're able to get things done.
But then when the retake happens, when the counter punches come in, it felt like flyquests kind of just didn't really have that response.
Well, they will still have one response on the other side of this break.
We'll see what that response is going to be right after this.
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I know a deep blue sky
Oh, yeah
Oh, yeah
I'll take you when you're on the road
I hope it's a single wind
It's a magic that's being pushed away
To make a clear sound
I'm here, I'm here, I'm here
I'm looking for you
The light is shining on me
Let's start, let's go
I'm going up high
I'm going up high
I'm going up high
I'm gonna be late for this
I'm gonna wait a little longer
Don't be there
I have to get up as soon as I fall
Wherever I go, I'm gonna be there
I'm gonna be there for you
Sing a high-pitched song
I'm going down to the top
I'm gonna dance, I'm gonna dance
Tides will rise and fall, be the unwavering force that refuses to wash away, and the
Coast undefeated is Captain America's seaside sentinel Loki's seaside siren and white fox's coastal kumihou costumes
Available right now and even though that seaside sentinel skins hitbox may have caused small nerf this morning
I don't think if you told Vinny that that he would agree. I think he's still feeling pretty strong
Yeah, I mean his captain America is always solid on the battlefield, but keep in mind
This is only wave one of the summer costumes
You still got another wave and who knows who's gonna get the swimsuit skins this time around but what we know now is
Hunter thieves on
The forefront here up against black West they take away
Celestial husk and I know I said fly quest have looked very solid on
Domination maps they have looked pretty solid up against hunter thieves both teams definitely making that initiative right going for those heads up place
trying to get those eliminations as soon as possible. But when it came to, at the very least,
retaining the mission area, it just became where FlyQuest definitely fell off a little bit.
Yeah, the heads-up plays might have been on point, but I think for FlyQuest, you might also
want to keep your heads down because the skies aren't exactly friendly when TTK is flying them.
He is going to be your MVP for that first map on the Angela, and we were talking about how many
times, right? Like this kid sure is top tier and on the Angela, he looked every bit of it, you know,
Tuesday having to use Glartrox's just to get him off of him for a second. But even through that,
one stat not shown here is 14 final hits for an Angela. 14 members of FlyQuest skewered. Bro is
making skewers for the 4th of July. If you don't want to play the Wolverine, just play the bigger
and tank your Wolverine, right? TTK literally does the same concept of a Wolverine, right? Kidnap
someone, try to put them in an isolated position, and then go for the Illumination that way. And
TTK literally does just that on the Angela as we take a look at all of these stats. There you go,
TTK confirmed 14 final hits on the Angela. And if you're on the FlyQuest camp, we talked about a
little bit in the green room, right? Where does FlyQuest want to go in map number two? And it's
likely going to be hard of heaven. So maybe you start to look at that one winged Angel.
Zero healing though for Techie. Like Bro is selfish, but sometimes you just got to give
LeBron the ball and let him dunk it. And that just kind of feels like what Techie was doing.
Two Techie dunking on him, winning out some of those one winged Angel 1v1s. And you know,
every time the fly quest has gone down a map, their first map pick has been hard of heaven.
And I do believe they have won. They won against Sentinels. They didn't win it against Team Liquid
the game. We're going to be
going to the game with Citadel,
but that is a map that I think
where the Angela thrives. So
again, to your point, I think
that if you want to go to heart
of heaven, you may need to ban
the Angela either that or tech
he needs to come alive on that
hero pick. We'll see what the
map pick ends up being here
very shortly. As fly quest have
chosen to take us to rum roll
please as we go to our assumptions
have been correct. We can look
very, very smug. We could look
But we might look smart, but Prod made me feel dumb for a second, really making me wait for that one.
I was like, all this talk about Heart of Heaven, they're gonna like make us wait.
Psych, it's Shin Shibuya. No, it's yeah, it's Heart of Heaven.
Yeah, I gotta go back to that Angela. Do FlyQuest feel like they're not gonna get the better of that duel?
Do they have to ban it out? Or are they looking to try and go in a different direction?
Yeah, because the thing is, if you do invest bans onto the Angela, you open up the door when you're on 100 thieves to other options, right?
T.T.K. doesn't always have to play the Angel. He's not an Angel on one trick, he's still got a Magneto, he's still got a Doctor Strange, he's still got the Emma Frost as well.
All of them very, very solid picks in the current meta. And I'm sure T.T.K. if he doesn't get access to Angel, it's just going to be a tad bit more difficult to get those high ground control that he probably would want to go for.
And like I said earlier, you know, it doesn't really matter how good or how bad hundred thieves is doing at any given moment because this guy is always in conversation for one of the best Vanguard players, not just in America's but in the world.
People in EMEA back in the day were still saying, yeah, that TTK guy, you gotta respect him when it comes to any of those Vanguard picks and you just listed off like his entire hero pool and I feel like that's only just scratching the surface.
But chat we're only just scratching the surface of this match up here map number two and fly quest are gonna kick it off
The same as we did before a man to span and a gamut protect
Cyclops will be the go-to option
Apart from the road from what we've been seeing row is bullers and I guess he just came back
He's still trying to try to get his vision and check
Either way hundred thieves will secure the one-sided
Cyclops here
Some energy drinks are thieves are waking up and that is a dangerous thing. They won that first map in their sleep
And hello to the one-sided Cyclops
And I think that that is gonna put a lot of pressure onto to see cuz the Lana like we highlighted his hero pool and I will swap over
To the Bucky or the hello and the Cyclops is banned
But hard thieves being able to go straight for the protect on to that one is going to again likely force that Elsa pick from doozy
It's great when it comes to that. But yeah, there it is. All right. Yeah, we got to shift gears. We got to talk about that
Angela it did in fact come through
It really had to yeah, we talked about it right Angela is very very strong on the heart of heaven making sure that you're able to
Control the high run also the side rooms as well making sure that those are in check and
With how well DTK played that Angela on Celestial Husk if you go into a map where
Angela is one of those power picks on the heart of heaven. Yeah, you got to take that away
Daredevil is going to be taken away next by FlyQuest, so again, trying to tighten the screws on Self's hero pool just a little bit, but I mean, Self looked just fine when it came to the Star-Lord and you can't ban the Star-Lord out anymore.
You can only maybe protect it and try to get it one-sided or rely on some galactic flushes.
I do think, you know, Melio did look to be a little bit better when it came to that Star-Lord duel, but it's going to be the Luna that ends up being protected.
And again, FlyQuest still sticking to this very strategist-focused protect line.
Do 100 thieves pull the trigger here? Do they take away the Star Ward?
Because you don't have access to the Angelo anymore, which means it's going to be a little bit more difficult to, at the very least, try to shut it down.
At least 100 thieves, if they really do want to go that route, they could go for the Magneto, right?
You still have that team up with the Gambit and the Magneto, so the Magneto will have a little bit more of that damage,
as 100 thieves will invest that final ban to, uh,
limit Kart's hero pool just a tiny little bit.
I think that's a good thing.
But again, like a card is likely
going to come out on the venom.
You know, we've seen a lot of
of that venom or you know,
again, the Hulk, we can see the
Colt come out to play, but I
want to talk a little bit about
this about cart because he's not
just the whole guy. His bag of
tricks is so much deeper like
his captain America does warrant
a band. It's that good. His
venom. I think also could warrant
a band if you know, Venom were
a little bit more priored in the
every eSports team under the sun always has some hard times when things get a little bit heated.
You start to feel a little bit of pressure and scrims or in matches.
Kart, I've listened, like, I've sat in with this team on scrims. I've listened to their comps.
And Kart will be the guy that cuts the tension, brings the team back down and keeps the vibes positive.
And that's the kind of thing that you don't really see on a scoreboard or on a KO feed,
but it means the world of difference in situations like this.
Yeah, just like here, right? You're already down one map.
map cart. Like you said, has been the glue guy. Keep everyone's mental in check in this side of
FlyQuest as they have chosen to go towards the attacking side here as the gates will open up.
There's no way Melio rolls out in the Iron Man, right? Yeah, surely not. Yeah, he's gonna roll out on.
There we go. You know, still going for some aerodynamics, but one that we're a little bit
more familiar with is, you know, gonna play again for those galactic flushes. So FlyQuest,
more or less playing exactly what they did on Celestial Hust, but with a different pick and
band phase we'll see if it amounts to a victory for them is they look to try and
control this high ground itself trying to use that spin move that helicopter
mode to take techie down from on high. Regent don't reinforce that early on as
Karn has dove in deep and put a little bit of pressure on the backline but he'll
be repelled as his health bar gets low. The first blood is already been found now
in Tuzi. We'll strike it to Leia. And we'll see if my class are able to keep that
momentum going, or if 100 thieves are able to stall out enough time to bring the one
up back into this fight, then he gets so, so well, but great peel coming in from 100
thieves to keep him stabilized.
So now the stall is complete, and now 100 thieves should be back to 6 man strong very,
very soon.
Techie does burn the VRV, and now FlyQuest and 100 thieves now add an even 6 versus 6.
And Techie just pushing the frontline off of the point, guaranteeing that second take
for FlyQuest and also forcing out the regen domain from 100 thieves.
As they come back out of that choke, they're gonna force a copy as well, and FlyQuest, they simply leave.
Wait, they found Delano! Where was Bro?
I don't know how Delano went down towards the tail, and Winnie is still holding on to the Rainy Warrior.
Plus, uses it at the very last second before the copyware is off.
So, at the very least, Hunter Thieves won't fizzle out the God of Mists ships.
So, at the very least, they'll try to at the very least zone away FlyQuest, but, again, great disengage coming in from FlyQuest.
They immediately recognize, hey, we already got two tapes. Let's just get the hell out of here.
And they got two ticks and they got a major ult out and a little bit of discord between the front and back lines of 100 feeds
They're gonna be kicking themselves for that one to fly quest are gonna be doing some kicking for them Rachel no main force down again
To see well not a pack turner looking for opportunity to use it
They'll be put on lock down good good purify like you said coming through keeping to see alive
Even him out of the throws at that strangling prison, but a self-conflict back Wolverine with a gun now
Don't know where he got that someone take it away from him
Herb will be first to down another BRV, but there's a Glartrass down a narrow hallway,
and soon as he catches on to everybody from 100 DMs in FlyQuest, we'll catch this first point.
Yeah, can we talk about that KOF for a second? What in the world was that?
Someone needs to clip that, someone needs to screenshot that, because I've never seen that before.
Self Wolverine with a gun icon on the KOF feed?
Uh, that was a little strange.
It was a punisher rifle. There's a punisher in play. I don't know where he got that.
What, does an adamantium gun exist?
I mean, if you're fly quest you're gonna hope that it doesn't, but 100 thieves
are gonna come on through with that adamantium resolve.
A nice little portal with techie is gonna skewer itself in midair.
It's traded out for velocity, but if you're fly quest you're okay with these trades
because your sponge ore is right there.
100 thieves are just hoping to try and bleed out some time,
but they may be bleeding out the members of melee, say about it.
A teleport back out to safety, give a little bit more ground to 100 thieves,
but fly quest, one by one they will be followed,
and it's gonna be a pause coming out as Hunter Thieves,
I think, are still trying to wonder,
what the heck happened between the start of this map
and now?
I mean, like, FlyQuest have looked to be waking up a lot here.
They've locked things in,
addressing that TTK is just way too strong on the Angela
and taking it away here on Heart of Heaven,
is proving to do so much of that work, right?
And FlyQuest, you gotta talk about that fight as well, right?
Disengaging completely
from that offensive move that 100 D's were trying to do with the region royal flush meant that when flycrest went for the clap back
They just didn't have to worry about the region royal flush
Yeah, it's it's just so easy like it's so easy to read a play like that coming out a big mistake coming out from flycrest or from
From 100 D's rather and fly quest are able to seize the opportunity and again
I don't know where delana was that he wasn't able to at the very least get the healing from that region royal flush
maybe keep him alive, but
You know, FlyQuest snipped him out like a truffle pig and they were able to just take him down so quickly and so easily and
Hunter thieves can't even make the most of that distraction
So FlyQuest just parlay that into a burst point cap and a little bit more cart progress as millennia
Will be the last to fall and this car's gonna start rolling
Yeah, they're gonna have to get out of this little low ground as soon as possible
Right self and Dallana could be absolutely devastating with their ultimate if everyone apply putter stacked up in this
lower choke point, and they will just barely get that convoy right out of the
low ground before 100 things even have an angle.
They're gonna have a lot of ults, and girls get out the spot on their side, Ruby Rage, and Carter's on a sliver of HP, and they clean dump at Red's back.
Now, Winnie again with a Rage and Royal Flush, and this time my quest is ready for it again.
Is Melio in the sky with that Galactic Legend, freshering 100 things back.
They don't want to show face up against that, or risk losing another one.
Melania is under a ton of pressure and the back line up from that veil of smoke, FlyQuest are lurking.
They'll deal with Techie, a good ground coming out there from Vinny.
And that is going to be an easy KO, and HunterT is getting themselves back in control.
TK is holding onto that Meteor M in case something goes awry, whether it be a...
Well, it was possibly Techie on the Heaven's Retribution, but switch is over to the Elsa 1-7-2-Z,
because they're going with the Apex Predator, and that's them two frags.
Again, 100 thieves are just so split like half the team was looking for Melio in the background
They can't even confirm that elam and Tuzi capitalized on it now 100 thieves forced to collect themselves again coming into this next fight with the
Apple mentioned meteor M and a raging royal flush to boot but a CYA from zealots could potentially best both of them and if that fails
There's gonna be another royal flush this time on velocity side to keep this one going for flag quest
The CYA is one of the open salvo here.
VRM to absorb the bulk of the damage, but it pops like a bulldozer.
They don't get anything from it.
Too much damage coming out, and now the Royal Flush.
They have to try and invest in this one,
but Velocity is happy to call their bluff.
Goes in with it.
TTK taking down Karr, the early frag, going 100 Thieves' way.
But they need a little bit more to save off FlyQuest at the time being.
Techies' health bar is super low, but Vinny's is gone, too.
They took it away.
Yet, Techie, they'll be taken away as well.
Melana cleaning them up, and 100 Thieves getting their feet beneath them.
We had just before the second checkpoint, they were able to bring things together, but Karr looks to change that great jump onto Melania when he's able to get the coffee steal onto Velocity.
Melania already went down, which means he has to be forced to use it onto the enemy Gambit, and the 100 thieves are able to pull up the defense.
The Ruby Rage from the lane, finding a hit, strikes gold, and 100 thieves are able to get themselves in the driver's seat here, and this is where Heart of Heaven gets real spooky.
If you only have a minute left in the time bank, the spawns for both sides are so close that it's an even fight
It's a war of attrition to try and get through but Melio
He was bred for war a galactic legend
He's gonna force out the region domain heartbreaker and response from Vinny
But techie is trying to lock him down with the sign of seduction
But nobody from 100 thieves is feeling all that seduce as a matter of fact the claw truck gets canceled
Self with the last stand tasted for a ride and will take cart to boot
And that is an easy two-piece that our thieves will still hold control
another huge fight 400 thieves now we're going into final fight territory 30
seconds left on the timer for five less that they want to make something
happen zealots has to find ways to initiate with the CYA the timing has to
be right now but TTK with the meteor could easily use it as a defense
mechanism for hundred thieves part is lurking the unforeseen threat has now
been seen in Delano take no juicy again he'll be res backed up but techie won't
get the rest this time so your front line is gonna be less lacking a medium
Hanging above the head like a guillotine again doesn't find what it's looking for but TTK doesn't need no ult
He'll take down Tuesday good old fashioned way and there's no more ults on the side of fly quest same for that royal flush
But he's not gonna be anybody around to use it as zealous falls a foreplay now coming out from techie to try and get some
Presence in this front line and continue to pressure
Well flush now coming out, but it's gonna be reciprocated by millennia is the damage gonna be there
No techie gets bursted down and hundred thieves laying siege to this cart and not letting fly quest
Have that last crucial inch on point B. They're still alive, still pressuring, so trying to make something happen, but the lane looks to snatch it away from them.
Another Ruby RAID took large track, the Doocy finally comes out and catches onto one, but it's not going to be cleaned up.
Velocity, taking down Vinny and Carter with a handmaker, taking down Self and hold on a second.
FlyQuest are not under the fight yet. Another Royal Flush coming out from Vinny and a fastball from Carter says catch, and did he catch onto anybody?
Covertime on deck, but he has to get out!
3% left to go! Another res, with the cart inching one by one, step by step closer towards that next checkpoint.
FlyQuest don't want to get this up. Covertime comes out, then he with another foreplay.
A self with another last stand taken two away! And that might be it for FlyQuest!
They might not be able to get this cap, but they're not giving up. A CYA coming out.
Self rips it to ribbons, has to pay for it with his life, so Velocity saw that one coming a mile away.
and FlyQuest is still not out of it.
Oh my, this fight is going longer and longer.
Does the power up the spawn room in favor of Hunter Thieves
is so close to that second checkpoint.
CTK is looking to take advantage of it.
Heart's gonna go down.
Overtime, Ila's sliver, and both teams are not giving up.
FlyQuest can't get off of this card for even a second,
but Melio wants to claim it for his own in the last stab,
and it drops right in to the region domain,
and this domain belongs to Hunter Thieves.
A Ruby Rage from Delayna, and an Elamon to Tuzi,
and one by one, FlyQuest will be felled and a hundred thieves will stand their ground on
the heart of heaven.
The power of being held at second on the heart of heaven, FlyQuest, unfortunately, just could
not find the winning move, theirself had to come up huge with that last stand onto two
and with those two quick eliminations in quick succession just meant that just FlyQuest just
ran out of gas there, could not find a way to recover because a hundred thieves, it just
felt like at least in the first half of that entire overtime fight, they were always at a man disadvantage.
They always were down one, maybe two members.
But because of how close that spawn room was to that second checkpoint,
100 thieves had a world of advantage in terms of getting that retake down.
And 100 thieves, props to them for being able to stall time and time again
to make sure that once they are regrouped at six, they go for the finishing blow.
And what a rebound, right, for 100 thieves, for how disastrous that first point defense was
be able to stand your ground and deny the second point cap. That is everything because it does set
yourself up for another map win here. And Hunter Thieves like, you know, yeah, like you said it,
like being able to stand your ground there with the spawn advantage is everything. That does mean
that FlyQuest are going to have to do the very same but better in order to get themselves on the
board for their map pick. And Hunter Thieves like, they're rolling right now. They're going to be
field themselves after rebound like that. They got their mojo back. And now where does FlyQuest
So just they're gonna try they thought about utilizing the hell in the more team up
But no, it's just gonna be a no-yo on the hell up
The more favored hits can option over things like what maybe the Elsa bloodstone that Susie to the brand
He's gonna go from Star Wars is that could have also been the Phoenix
But that has fallen out of favor towards the late stages of stage one here as the portal points to the initial
Move here 400 D's takes the high ground away from fly quest and forces them to scatter and now
Melio doesn't have the angle that he wants in fact
He stared down the barrel of disaster, but techie will bring him back from the break for the kidnap there onto self
It's straight up a cork though, and we res back up with the BRB
So fly quest able to stand tall for now and they can keep this defense going lead up this time bank
Maybe they stand a chance of taking this map back
We got that, now we have to find that hitscan on the venue.
We'll confirm that elimination and FlyQuest so far winning out in that first fight, making sure that they're able to stall out the aggression coming in from 100th deep with the portal play up into the high ground right in front of that first shut point.
As the rest of FlyQuest just building up the ultimates and trying to find that opening opportunity but with FlyQuest being positioned so high up it's so hard for 100th deep to take him down.
Yeah, no portal so they can't reclaim that high ground and you can see TTK just swinging hands saying please come down here
Please like me like
Yeah, like a dog barking at a cat up a tree
But fly quest eventually will have to come down and face that particular hound
They will have the tools to be able to do so before long region domain already forced out from Winnie
But cart gets caught out and once again burns the BRB
So still a full 66 and hundred thieves stuck in this little cubby
Winnie wants to get no way out and that's going to be that Raiden Royal Flesh that comes out and the damage is just so good.
But Melio puts Winnie down with a thorn to the dome and another for Delana!
And that is going to be that fight!
Put, put some, put some bed so easily with just two simple clicks!
Well, at the very least, Melania will come back in the next fight with another rotation of the Raiden Royal Flesh.
The issue is Velocity and Celest could easily shut it down.
Tuzi also prepping that collected legend is going to try to team up with either the CYA or the royal flush
We will see how fly quest decide to approaches because they know
Millenia is going to want to trigger this range of royal flush for a hundred thieves at the very least maybe try to get another
Tick of this checkpoint. Oh, no cart was outside the range of the BRB that time around here that or it wasn't off cool
Down, but nevertheless that casualty is going to be prominent now
And you will be there for this royal flush coming out
That was an insane pincer move. Melio on the left, on the right side, in FlyQuest's POV,
And then Tuzi on the left just meant that 100 thieves.
If you left that Shry you were completely wiped out.
There was no option for 100 thieves to be forced to stack together, try to take refuge
in the regen domain out of Winnie, but once those greens are gone you guys are also going
to be gone as they have to look for the reset once again again.
Great positioning, great placement of these ultimates coming in from Clive plus.
Vinny is going to be able to put Techie down for the time being again
It's rest back up but Vinny has been fighting so hard to try and dislodge velocity and 2z from this high ground
And hasn't been able to do it Techie has been a thorn in his side and often one in his chest
Quite often every single time and now Techie with the Heaven's Retribution going in we're gonna put those axes of effort to work
He's gonna have to put up the shield
But it's enough to give Melio a clean shot onto Winnie and potentially fly quest the Queen to a clean shot at this final fight
front of my territory is the portal is ready to be used it should be off pull
down by now for 100 days but they do have to rage and royal flushes at the
ready the first one will be used at the very least try to get entry on to the
mission area can't fly plus hold it off early well flush they know it's coming
so what the last day every miss is he whips it's a loud brick and techie is in
a car ptk down and who's he doing the very same to the Atlanta up in the sky
with the galactic flush. Sorry, it was the CYA plus the royal flush and Melio
feeling the full pressure of self with that royal flush coming out the other way.
Melania taking down Techie. Melio will be res back up, but Winnie fell by
cart and it feels like FlyQuest are getting a better of this one as Melio
takes disguise with the goddess of death. It's a poor play from T.T.K. to try and keep
100 thieves in this life. But Melio with another taking down Self and it feels
like it's all over with the cry and 100 thieves doing their best to try and wipe
their tears away and keep themselves in the fight, but another 4-play now this time from
Techie to keep FlyQuest at full strength for the rest of this fight and there's a Royal
Flush on deck in Velocity, wants to let it rip and he'll do just that, the damage, maybe
too much to bear.
With the Ruby Rage coming out from Delana, is he able to find anything?
No Techie is going to find Ritty and Tuzi onto Delana and FlyQuest will tie up the score
one to one.
A wake up call has been initialized on FlyQuest.
They make this a series.
We're tied up one to one off of a full hold from FlyQuest.
Heal Rowan's coming in, especially onto the duelist of FlyQuest, but also a shout out
to Techie, doing so much work on the Angela.
We talked about how strong the Angela is on the heart of heaven, and he has shown why
it is so damn strong.
To at the very least enable both Belio and Tuzi, just give them so much of that room.
Yeah, I mean the Angela pick from techie looks just so much better when it's un-mirrored and
100 thieves are gonna have to take a good hard long look at the mirror and see what their next move is going to be because remember
It's elimination station for both these teams their termite lives hanging in the balance and we've got map number three right after this
All the moments, I'm sorry
If you like me
We meet again
I'm sure we'll meet again
The way you look in my eyes
Is it now or never?
Throw it away in the dark
Throw it away in the dark
Dance with me
I'm gonna be done now
When I'm ready
A beautiful dream, a bright comeback
I fly to the sky, if you wake me up
I'll come with you, my baby, hurry up
If you wake me up
Do you remember the time, the place we used to fight?
Let the sun and moon and time wander?
The prevalent words that tend to be words grand.
I have fallen in shadows, woman and years.
That's a husband for me, a secure house.
Yours and overlapped with union.
Broke the chains, run to where he comes with me.
Do you remember who you really are?
Show me that you are still the only one for me.
What do you want?
Desperate to be in love!
Do you see the dawn, the flame burning brightly?
Shining on North and the Wings, rally ups!
Across all time, I see you turning red sides!
And do you see now?
That's fine, I'm sorry, we can still fight!
After one day's fun, we're back on the war
And now it's the only time your heart is mine
Light has fallen, darkness broke down
Yes, we fight for our destiny and fate
New day's smiling for the past, the future
Break the chain, leave the light, fight for me
And when you wave, gotta act, I'll find you
Trust me, see how you listen, smash in the sun
Hold, before the wind turns against
The other side was easy and easy
I said I'm wrapping your mind
So I'm gonna be focused now
On this other side
The other side was again
I said we end the time
You're a devil, but the real thing's yet to end.
We are rivals to the end, and the lies and the fake.
Our minds hold onto your powers, though.
We're fans of us, we are rivals to the end.
Extract!
I mean, it was off of some incredible coordination from the entirety of the fight, but we were
talking about in the green room, right? It was very, very good. It was true MVP. I felt
like at the very least, it was at least both Tuzi and Elio going off on the dualist, especially
in one of those fights where they just went for that pincer move, right? Got us a death
on the right side, galactic legend on the left, and we call that the illusion of choice.
Well, there was no, there was a clear choice when we chose our MVP for that matchup, and
was going to be to see, you know, one of those threats lurking above that a hundred thieves,
they had to pick their boys. And like you say, the illusion of choice, which way Western
team? Well, this way was the wrong way as to see flies high 32 and six with 30 K damage
and 51.1% accuracy. I know a lot of that is going to be with the Elsa, but it's still
impressive to pull up a hero like the Star Lord and still managed to have that level
of precision.
I, yeah, like, I don't know, like, some of these fights, though, it feels so close, and
it feels so back and forth that they really start to break down, and it gets kind of hard
to call, but then you do have situations where, like you say, Tuzi is free to just kind of
do whatever he wants, because, you know, while there's this, like, cartoon cloud happening
down below, he's just above observing, able to go wherever he would like, you know, fly
high, pick his target, take the duel, win the duel, put them down, and he was able to
to put 100 thieves down and fly quest, take that first win.
And we also got a shout out Melio as well.
27 and four, like bro was clicking some of those heads.
There was a couple of fights where it felt like
100 thieves had a shot and then Melio just hits
a couple quick head shots and it's all done.
It's all gone.
Like your opportunity to try and make magic,
just taken away from you with a couple of
swift little head shots.
And I think that's the power of the Hela.
And why we've seen Delena as well
reach for that particular weapon in the past.
But as we go forward, 100 thieves are going to be looking to try and get themselves back
in the driver's seat.
It's going to be their map pick, and I'm wondering which map they're going to take it to.
Dan, you and I have a theory based on some recent history.
Yeah, if the pattern goes according to plan, 100 thieves should be thinking about the Museum
of Contemplation.
And that makes sense, right?
We've already played on domination, we've already played on convergence, and now we
go into congloy.
the only game mode left and 100 days really love to pick that museum of contemplation here in the playoffs.
And it's the map that they, uh, I believe that's the map they beat swamp gaming on where they made, you know,
who we thought was one of the best teams in the region and still very well might be, but,
you know, not able to contest with DLC the same way as they once could, but
the map pick is coming on through and once again, they're gonna make us wait for it, Dan.
It's surely gotta be museum and indeed it is, we called it.
And then it's been the comfort pick, not just for 100 games, but it feels like for almost every single team here in the America.
There's a lot of teams that have picked Museum of Contemplation.
I feel like you and MuseeV, we've experienced it first, right?
Where MuseeV was just everywhere when we casted it in the Pacific region, at least during the pre-season.
And it looks like that infection has spread all the way over to EMEA and the Americas.
It didn't take long for that contagion to break in, and then for everybody to reach Museum of Contemplation as their crutch map pick,
to play in a very wide range
of positions and I think that's
going to be very interesting
because it's one of those maps
where you can kind of play
anything. You want to play an
Adam Warlock Double Res comp
go for it. You want to play a
dive composition. Go for it.
Doesn't matter. You can make it
work. If it's in your toolbox,
then it may very well be the
right tool for this particular
job. But I think those are the
kind of situations that 100
thieves thrive under. They do
like to reach for that Adam
Warlock composition from time
time. And you know, I do kind
of anticipate that's what
and may try to adapt on the fly here.
It all comes down here into Bandra.
Maybe the Angela becomes addressed one more time.
Angela is still a very strong map here on the Museum of Contribution.
If you're able to get the Assassin's Charge and then put him in a corner where it's out of the line of sight of the strategist,
it can be absolutely devastating in terms of either going for a good hold or going for a proactive offensive move.
But, FlyQuest, taking away some of those offensive options from HunterD's
by getting rid of the Rocket very early and then securing the Gambit.
I do, again, like the Rocket Band.
I think, you know, FlyQuest have been using the Rocket quite well as of late.
And HunterD's will have an opportunity to band it out with the second band slot here
as they lock in that one-sided Cyclops again, trying to give Delana his favorite tool.
But, you know, as we've discussed, you know, even when you fall back to some of these secondary hits,
Scam looks Tuesday has still looked stellar whether it's on the Elsa whether it's on the Star Lord whether it's on anything else
And you know you call it out. There's a rocket protect coming out from fly quest, but the Angela ban as well
Yeah, the exact same spot as map number two is where fly plus
Denied TTK from that Angela. I mean we it's good. There's a good reason why right?
He's been so so strong on that hero and especially on hard of heaven if he does hands all that there was a world where
100 thieves could be running away with this series, but 100 thieves, however, get a good look, right?
They know that FlyQuest has the gambit and the Rocket Raccoon.
So you take away one of those picks that is really, really strong in terms of synergizing with either of those strategies, ultimate, and just compete Star Wars.
I think FlyQuest have the opportunities to mirror that Star Lord ban now is, you know, you were kind of forced into a situation where you have to ban,
or you have to protect the gambit in that last slot or risk giving it up one side.
one side fly quest instead going to ban the low key.
So, you know, how are these able to sneakily get a one-sided
Star Lord here?
And I do think that that might favor them
on the attacking side a fair bit is,
now you're going to be wondering, all right,
so Tuzzi can play the, like he can't,
we can't play the Star Lord.
It's probably going to play the Elsa or, you know,
something, something a little bit more hits candy.
What exactly does Melio play now that Star Lord's not an
option?
and we see him put on the, uh,
hella in map number two.
With the, uh, chance that he whips it out one more time,
FlyQuest on the defensive side from now as Hundred Thieves.
This is their map choice.
This is their comfort pick as we head into the round.
On the Thieves, we'll start out on the attacking side first and foremost.
Where's FlyQuest looking to be on the defensive side?
And the CB, I gotta point this out, right?
We haven't been seeing a whole lot of that triple, triple coming out here today.
We're getting an interesting triple triple look from from fly and now actually we're not that's not a triple triple
I lied so I think they've got a duelist and of course it was Tuesday on the Elsa
You know it's crazy as I said that as I was staring right at that Elsa like oh, yeah
She's a vanguard now totally no wheel like we haven't seen all our triple triple here a couple of teams have run it here and there
But I anticipate like if that comes out
It's likely gonna be a hundred themes on their defensive side
But as they go first up to bat on the attacking side
They are going for something a little bit further back a little bit brawl heavy
But still making some space for Delana on that Cyclops fly quest not with a triple triple
But still an interesting triple strategist lineup Melio on that Ultron is gonna give Tuzi a fair bit of damage boost
And also a fair bit of pocket and heart is also gonna be on off end
You can see Vinny already trying to scout out looking behind trying to see where that venom may be lurking where it's striking
Psych it's right in front of you a nice wall to stop any follow-up damage from coming through his heart
Stuppers back away with the rest of his team and Scree's right back up to his old stomping grounds.
And Vinny though already halfway towards that Raging Royal flush.
It almost seems like Hunter Tees are actually following all the heels for Vinny to get his Raging Royal flush before any ultimate is available on the side of Flypuss.
Look at Vinny, already at 75, no one is close to that ultimate to match what Vinny's about to throw at them.
I'm sure like Flyquester scouted this out, like I know they've done a lot of damage and you'll be coming online.
Clutch tries to find the elemental Winnie, Tuzi does take down Vinny and it will slow down the Razorail Flush
for the very least it'll make Winnie think twice before popping it as Techie finds two with the tail end of that fight
that gets FlyQuest a little bit of breathing room.
That is very clutch for FlyQuest. Now it gives FlyQuest some room to build up those characters
but Techie is going to be the main man to task at sustaining the 100th push that Winnie is about to provide for them.
Tuesday though, it's gonna try to get the jump with the Glantrax around the corner,
Windy will pop the collect,
but not the collect.
Dude, plus there's no Rage of War on Flush, and now, as Techie
is still gonna want to use the final special, but no, isn't able to have it in time,
but at the very least, Flypuss aren't able to stabilize.
Extermination event incoming, is the Rage of War on Flush coming out from Melodyo.
With other thieves, they really wish they would have gotten something with that Rage of War on Flush,
but it's just not coming, so Flyquest, pressure them back once again,
and Karte just seemingly has not been repelled.
He keeps going to that same angle, that same pinch,
waiting for 100 feet to step into his domain.
Fly quest out with the Sonic seduction.
Nice little wall in his face to try and stop the charms
from coming through the fly quest.
We'll still find those charms and now Karte going in.
They're gonna take a bite out of crime,
but with the initial battery,
they're gonna make it quite difficult
and of course they could pull him right back into the fire.
The Ruby rage, but Milano couldn't see
what he was shooting at,
so he's not gonna find anything with that one.
And now TTK has to try and make it happen
with that Sonic seduction, but Kart so far away,
looking at that backline,
this will batter you up from FlyQuest
as they stand their ground.
They do not allow Hunter Thieves
to take even an inch in this fight.
A great job from Kart.
They like to isolate the tragedies on Hunter Thieves.
So if Hunter Thieves wanted to go for those offensive moves,
it gets so much more difficult
because you have to deal with Kart.
One way or another,
Alasley is able to get the coffee
on the zealous to receive this whole boundary,
and now FlyQuest looking to try to stabilize
because they did lose Tuzi quite early in that engagement.
But they were able to trade that one out for self later on,
so FlyQuest are doing a good job of making it hurt every time they take a punch.
So they're not going down too easily here, but another Royal Flush may be a punch that they cannot repel.
There's no Stratas on the line, and Techie is going to be feeling full force with that.
And Self, identifying as some TAC helicopters are going to go back in and carve the backline to Viscose.
And again, to try and take down Karr, can hit the fair relief.
Karr's still going to be lurking back there, but there's another Predator in the front line.
It's the ATK fighter from Tuzi, and he finds two!
Vinny and DTK taken off to the Shadow Realm,
and the Rage of Ultron from Melio will repel out of Thieves,
and with 40 seconds left, only one more crack at it.
Yeah, 100 Thieves need to get a move on.
We are closing in on Final Fight territory.
Self and Melania need to come up huge with either the last stand or the invisible boundary,
because right now this might be their best opportunity.
LifeLest don't have any ultimates coming up online anytime soon.
It's only good to be eyes on part and techie if they're able to get their ultimate online ready to go self
Is able to isolate part for a little bit, but he's able to sweet himself to safety
But I've get it like that need to come up huge with this and kill or the CC
But part already going down is already bad news. Oh velocity getting caught out region domain already forced out Delano
What's every bit of this dual and I still teleport out? Hello?
Like what's that just stop the hundred thieves? They're all gone Delano. He is furious the Ruby rage will take down velocity
They finally winning that duel but FlyQuest have seemingly won the war as they will floor hold 100 thieves
100 thieves at the old advantage. Where was the trigger?
felt like somewhere
They never pulled it!
Somewhere it got jammed it feels like everyone 100 thieves kind of just went down without pressing the Q button and
FlyQuest kind of just picked them apart felt like every single duel that FlyQuest went for they just wanted out in the end
It was like the little skirmishes here and there
But then fly quest out of nowhere are just able to pull a miracle out of a hat despite being so behind in that ultimate economy
And we're just able to fight it out in the neutral
And they pulled a couple of miracles out of the hat like let's be honest like even the fight before that fly quest didn't really have a good utility
To deal with that region real flush
So fly question's bait hundred thieves in and to see pulls the trigger on that large rocks and sends the front line
and creating off a cliff, and that's a,
like that's one way to win a fight.
I can tell you for sure, like that'll do it.
It might be the winning move here,
because Tuzi already going ballistic, 10.6k damage.
Only four final hits, but they were all pretty much impact
KO's it feels like.
Yeah, very high impact and bailing flyquests out of fights
where they really had no business winning
and they might get a whole map win off the back of it.
And for 100 thieves, no triple triple, no Adam Warlock.
Of course, you know, without the low key,
they definitely can't go for that.
So they have to go for a split dive with DTK as the anchor.
We get to have all eyes on the thighs once again, DTK on that Emma.
See if he's able to influence at, or at least,
the lane control that is on the museum contribution.
It feels like museum is just very similar to Midtown, right?
These pits that are so, so strong at controlling those lanes,
like the Emma Frosting, like the Ultron, that Melio played on the defensive side.
Just provides so much of that pressure in the main area,
and it feels like 5-1s were just able to handle it time to time again.
He also shouts a 2-Z on the other one, because that car truck also controls the whole lane.
Speaking of controlling lanes, Karr doesn't matter whether it's attack or defense,
this one back here is where he wants to control himself.
He doesn't want that smoke, and he knows where there's smoke there is fire,
and you can't seem to put out the fire inside of Karr right now.
Melio they're gonna try and get a kid now, but it's just not gonna come through and 100 fees are able to stand tall for the time being but
Like you mentioned Dan that large rocks for Tuesday
It's gonna be a ticking time bomb because it's gonna fight win every time and any thing into the snare nearly fell there
Carvin crotch and Tuesday will put him down
You know the difference between birdshot and buckshot Vinny can tell you the difference and maybe self
I'll have a thing or two to say about it as well
Oh, Zealous will be pierced by the ice arts from the land and hold on a second hundred thieves are returning fire here
and there's no one to heal up this front line, so FlyQuest, they will be stuck!
Huge take, Zellos was about to crack the CYA, but it immediately got taken out,
and because, like I said, no one heals on FlyQuest means they have to go for the soft reset
like another day, but that gives Hunger Games more time to stack up all of this on their end.
T2K will have access to the Serenade Seduction,
but they're barely suppressed, the offense will move coming in from FlyQuest.
And he needs it, he's going to oppress them, but it's not forcing out any resources.
The Raging Royal Flush, now the GTK is out of position and he has the Carbon Crush and the Kit just to get back.
Ruby Rage from Delana to try and catch out FlyQuest on the engage, but they know their limits and they are testing them.
A Glark Truss is there, pushing their thieves to their limit, and now Tuzi, left all alone in this angle.
Delana trying to take the duel, but Kurt is there, Techie is there, and Delana, he just can't seem to find his friends.
Where have they all gone?
My honest deduction now from Techie, gonna lock Delana down and stop anybody from flight or from the Hunter Thieves.
From coming out to contests, it's gonna force out the dance floor for Melania, but now Karr going in with the Feast of the Abyss,
he's gonna chop at your backline, Melania bursted nearly down into oblivion,
but Vinny, with a Feast of his own, is able to take down Melio, with the Karr rolling seemingly through the portal,
all through to another map win for FlyQuest.
Such an awkward portal.
T.T.K. just barely got that down too.
As soon as he popped the portal, he got crowd controlled by something.
Not entirely sure what it was, but DTK just barely got that portal down, and it might have been a little bit of a panic, right?
Putting that portal in such an awkward situation because of the amount of pressure coming in from FlyQuest,
meant that FlyQuest forced an error out of 100 thieves and are able to, one, get the full hold against 100 thieves and then push to the finish line.
Well, 100 thieves need to try and pull this one back from the blink of oblivion.
they are one map away from elimination we may very well have that map as map number four on the other side of this break
I'm not going down, I go
Check out the night, it's been 20 seconds
You're going to be down, my day, my day
You're not going down, my good-bye, good-bye
You fly to us, when the sun rises
You're going to be down, my day, my day
I don't know what I'm gonna do
I don't know what I'm gonna do, I don't know
I'm gonna put my hands up and put my hands down
I'm gonna wait a little longer
Don't be there
Don't fall, don't fall, get up
I don't know where I'm going
I'm only gonna stay with you
I'm gonna sing a song that's high-pitched
Don't know what I'm doing, don't you go
Tell me how you feel, I'm gonna hit you
I'm gonna get down, baby, I did
Tell me how you feel, I'm gonna bite you
Tell me how you feel, I'm gonna get down
Every day, every night, every moment
I'm gonna protect you, if you like me
We meet every night, you're perfect
Welcome back arrivals to map number four.
It's 100 Thieves versus FlyQuest and FlyQuest are one map away from putting the Thieves
to justice, taking them out of this tournament and buying themselves another life in this
bracket. It's going to be a hundred thieves map pick yet again, and you and I in the break
were kind of deliberating over where it is that they are going to take us. You know,
could it be a domination map? Could it be another convoy map now that the map is going
to open back up? Before we get to that, we got to talk about who had this one on lockdown.
Who does this map belong to? It's none other than Techie.
and Tekki is doing so much work as a...
Uh, uh...
That's Tuzi.
Anyway, Tekki's the MVP.
Dude, dude, dude, don't let your eyes deceive you.
It is Tekki that is coming out here with the MVP,
10 and 1, only going down a single time.
And he's been doing a lot of work with the MLF cross, right?
Controlling the lane with the savis induction,
making sure that 100 pips do go for those offense moves.
There's Tekki, that's Tekki.
There he is, there we go.
But either way, he's been doing so much work.
the rest of his team, all the
room that they need more to be
enabled, right? Every time every
team is for those offensive
moves, techie was there to clap
that. Let's talk a little bit
more about techie as well. He's
got to be feeling good after
that one. You know, this is guy
who, you know, before preseason
was playing as a sub for that
Lunex squad that would go on to
become Sentinels and then to come
in yesterday and best that
here against the hundred thieves, putting down another nemesis from his past. I'm looking forward to seeing if he's able to close it out.
But on Museum of Contemplation, he definitely did some heavy lifting up against the hundred thieves.
It kind of felt like hundred thieves, like they were a little bit lost in that fight, and those who were found only found themselves in the
thrall of that psionic seduction courtesy of Techie, serving mother.
I mean, there's just also the amount of time when thieves are split apart, right?
Hart doing a great job as well as dividing all 100 thieves.
And you got to call back to that one fight where FlyQuest were just so behind in that open economy,
and they still won out because they were able to find those key eliminations just in time
before 100 thieves were even able to make moves of their own.
And once FlyQuest started to at the very least set the pace of these fights,
100 thieves literally just had no reaction.
that. And I guess you know, we
can use that that portrait miss
Q to our advantage is you know,
I do want to give an honorable
mention to Tuesday as well
because there's large rocks is
where the tool that bailed them
out of some of those fights where
they had the oldest advantage.
It was just the right tool at
the right moment, and that's the
mark of a great team. You know,
being able to make the most out
of a bad situation and even come
out ahead as we have a look at
the man himself, and this guy
has just given a new look. He's
being flown out to play for this FlyQuest roster. He's given them like just the kick in the pants
that they need. I mean it feels like when he was on ping he had like leg braces on like weights on
his arms and legs and once he took them off they were all like. And he was still walking them back
into the lake. Yeah they were all like plunipals each if he was cooking that well on ping imagine
what he does on the no latency and that's exactly what we're getting. Tuzi now the weights are off
He is free to do whatever he desires, and he has been ripped apart lobby after lobby after lobby as 100 thieves.
Now the ball is in their court. What theme of a lobby do we go to this time?
One more lobby to be ripped apart, and it is up to 100 thieves to take us where they want to go.
I theorized that it was going to be midtown. You did say that when the map pool kind of opens up,
they have a tendency to also take us back to Domination. It could realistically go either way.
I'm here like they're making us wait again. It's Midtown. All right. W for CB and L for Dan.
Oh, I mean, back, I feel like before stage one, like when the map does reset, it feels like all
the teams really wanted to pick a Domination map because it makes sense, right? You want to win
that first fight and then you get that control and then you just try to run away with the game.
And with that momentum alone, maybe you could even squeak out a whole map win, but lately it has been trending away from that domination, right?
Little more emphasis on those convergent slash convoy maps.
And this is another comfort pick of Hunter Thieves, right?
The Midtown has been very, very popular in terms of where Hunter Thieves want to go when they do have the map choice.
And again, like the Museum of Contemplation, this is another map that is full of those lanes where things like the Ultron and the Emo
I think it lends itself very
well to 100 Thieves play style.
I want to give a quick shout out
to production because we were
talking a little bit about in
the pre show about like, you
know, what do we want to say
about this match up? What kind
of what kind of things do we
want to say? And one observation
that they made was that fly
quest. They have a tendency to
win these matches super quick.
They their average time spent
in a match is somewhere around
the 12 minute mark where 100
Thieves trading a little bit
more towards 15. They're fastest
map win only about 15 minutes
this map when only about 10 minutes in length. 100 thieves like to be a lot more slow, a lot
more methodical, and a lot more, you know, biding their time, waiting for the right moment
for someone like self or Delana to go in and find the cleanup.
And you can see the polar difference, right? You talked about it. 100 thieves would like
to play more methodical, more reserved, more defensive. It's probably the best way to put
how other thieves have been utilizing their play style in these official matches, whereas
Like West they're the polar opposite. They want to get into your face
They want to end these maps fast and now and it ain't no team with car on it gonna play slow
Like that's just not a like it's not a good idea. Well cards from YWL
He's used to playing fast and like West so far looking very very good in terms of matching the tempo
Speaking of I mean if like West win this one there is also a chance. We do get cart versus YWL later on down here
like that could be the one to close out the show tonight, depending on how match three goes. But
you know, we're getting ahead of ourselves. We've got to focus on what is in front of us and
FlyQuest have to do the very same. They can't look past the team like 100 Thieves because, like we
said, if 100 Thieves are able to slow the pace down and play a little bit more methodically and
set their duelists up to knock them down, FlyQuest could find themselves in a map five situation
and victory may well have eluded them under those circumstances.
and drafting a lot of different things to think about here.
Do we still see an emphasis on the Angelo?
The Angelo isn't the greatest pick on BitTel.
I'm concerned that there's a lot of small rooms
that you have to deal with as a card's doing
a bit of explaining to his team.
I mean, you talked about it, right?
He's the glue guy after all.
Yeah.
Definitely finding ways to hype up the team.
Not sure about those hand motions.
Not sure how that contributes to the team morale,
but you know, we'll see if it comes.
He's locked in.
All right, he's explaining the whole theory.
He's explaining the peripheral vision.
You know, he's just telling the
team, you know, here's, here's
how it all works. Here has how
we break it down. And here's
how we break down and dissect
on her thieves is you can see,
you know, they're all they're
kind of feeling the pressure,
right? Like they know. Yeah,
you can feel the tension in that
room through when he's can. He's
cracking his knuckles trying to
like. Loosen up a little bit,
but look behind. Look at like
the Lena behind him. Like, bro
is blocked in the middle of
behind him like bro is locked in yeah and it looks like Vinnie over there right behind when
he's had doing a lot of talking to the team making sure hey we need to lock in we need to
figure out this banjo we need to figure out how to shut down fly quest because like we talked about
why players love to play fast hunter thieves like to play slow and so far it does look like
The hair is beating the tortoise.
Well, I mean, it was the tortoise's pace to get through onto this band draft,
but now let's pick up the pace and let's get through it because enough stalling,
enough waiting to see how this all shakes out.
Let's get right into it.
Mantis bans across the board once again,
and this is the last stand here for 100 thieves.
Their tournament lives may very well depend on this band draft,
so I can understand wanting to take your time with it,
but we can't wait forever, Dan.
Soon enough, we'll find the first adjustment.
And right there it is thieves get the first pick the first save on to the rocket raccoon
So hundred thieves
Maybe they look to accelerate a little more maybe get a little more aggressive play a little faster
Try to match the tempo that life was a throwing at them
I
Feel like you have to and I do love that more teams are prioritizing the rocket raccoon even over the gambit these days
You know gambit once upon a time was infallible. He was the first man all the time
that's interesting dad way earlier too yeah like right up the gates and on a map
like midtown I don't know if that's necessary I think the skybox opens up
a little bit more on points B and C but on a there's just so many buildings and
so many like just so many obstructions that you really can't get a lot of value
out of the Angela fly quest of playing the long game yeah we'll see if like us
do get value out of it I mean there could have been a band onto maybe the
Wolverine, maybe the Emma Frost instead, but Angela is still a very comfortable big 400 thieves, especially in the hands of TTK
Who has been cooking on that one-winged angel, but now won't have access to it
But what seems like to be the remainder of this series even if this goes to a map number five
I feel like TTK might still not be able to play the Angela and 100 thieves will look to shut down the BRB on
FlyQuest aside by taking that rocking racoon one-sided.
I think that's likely to force that protect for fly quest to be something like the Luna snow because you know
Make sure that you have the best backline available for 100 thieves are gonna be coming out the gate with and a one-sided rocket is very
Threatening I think you know
We've seen how many fights can be one or turn based on a CYA
A Loki band is gonna come out as well and I do also kind of like that
Remember back when Loki rocket used to be like a meme backline like you know duplicating a CYA was like something unheard of that
That would be like a profoundly dumb play, but now it's kind of the map you need to do.
Don't talk about that incident.
Don't do it at the same time at least, you know, if you can stagger it out it works,
but a one-sided Loki now for FlyQuest, and that does mean that they'll have the double
flush.
Yep, double flush online for FlyQuest, 100 beefs.
How would you respond to this?
Because already FlyQuest are coming in, gun blazing with two decks of cards ready to just
Paper cut you down to death, it feels like.
Whereas Hundred Thieves, where do you go from here
as the Gambit will be the final save?
So both sides seemingly will have access to Starward
unless FlyQuest do wanna shut it down,
which I think would be the best option here.
I mean, they took away one of the best tools
for this Gambit Loki.
It's not really a team up,
but it might as well be in the ways
that we've seen it in Slade.
There's a Starward Band coming out,
so no Galactic Flush, no Cosmic Yarn Amplifier
to boost it up or you're still gonna have to see why I rather but you're not
gonna have the galactic legend to make use of that CYA it's still gonna be
quite threatening on its own but I don't know it's a little bit rough to call
like who like who do you think won that pick and ban phase it feels like both
teams identifying what kind of team identity they want to go for and then
they just doubled down on it right it feels like like us really want to
emphasize the win condition of the Gambit and the Loki, whereas Under Thieves, they're trying to rely on things elsewhere, right?
They get the Gambit, they get the Rafi Raccoon, two very aggressive strategies that want to use their strategies once again, aggressively, right?
You want to make sure you get the first cast, make sure to try to eliminate the rest of the opposing team before they even have a chance to react, and Under Thieves,
you can see that they're trying to adjust, right?
go away from the more defensive approach and then go something more higher tempo
They're gonna have to turn up the tempo here. I mean fly quest like
Ultron and Phoenix no Hela coming out from Tuesday and no Elsa either
I mean if Phoenix still quite strong especially in the hands of Tuesday
This is an interesting defensive lineup coming out here for fly quest for her hundred thieves
Amongst all 100 of them. There's only one life left
So they're gonna have to make the most out of this one. We'll see what they're able to cook up here is
You know, like we said, we got to turn up the tempo here one way or another to see who comes out ahead
Let's get a crazy read from Wildquest. That was already on the invisible woman
Identifying that, hey, Hunterbeast could easily roll out on the Wolverine and with a free-manusated pick coming in from Wildquest
Honestly, the invisible woman has self, but tries to go up the Wolverine. Otherwise, there's the power of the invisible woman
Use the force physics to get himself out of that barrel leap to make Chord. That cart stays alive.
That cart is still alive. He's still thriving and 100 thieves. Not able to get what they were looking for in that first exchange, so...
40 seconds already bled out nearly a minute through, and now cart getting all up into Lannis' face.
He's trying to ignore him, but he has a problem that just seemingly won't go away.
He's forcing the attention and taking the high ground away, and even forcing him all the way back to try and get some heals.
The part is relentless going in again. You saw him diving across your screen.
Like something out of Scooby-Doo, but when you unmask the Lada, you're not going to like what lies beneath.
There is a demon beneath that facade.
Using that with the end song in front of taking to the skies, and other thieves are just going to back up and let that one go.
That means an uncontested CYA for Malania.
Not sure what's the trigger there. Yep, Malania's going to immediately take advantage of it.
FlyQuest not able to burn it down in time, but overall still a one-for-one trade overall as the rest of FlyQuest need to find a way to
actively hold on Tuzi going down means that Techie's gonna force the use of the portal and Tuzi already switching back to the
also plus zone that has been so so good for FlyQuest.
And Dire straight so you got to bring out your best tool so
Let's see it's now it's gonna be all tools on deck Tuzi with a nice little dash to safety there
And you can see hundred thieves in that portal comes out
They just sort of scatter to try and lock down cart again. Delana wants to try and pressure about symbiotic resilience already
Foolishly. Cart is gonna have to get into a good position for the healing
But you're gonna need so much more than healing as the razor-move flush is coming online alongside the sound as the Dutch
Invasion is the fine two velocity with the invisible boundary
But it's a day late and a dollar short as fly quest just don't have the numbers right now
100 thieves
Continuing to march this cart forward as Vinny goes in trying to take down one more self
With a nice little two piece off the back of that piece of the Abyss and 100 thieves are eating this attack alive, and they will claim point A
Righteous cross crucifies to and the first checkpoint already unlocked
400 thieves and you can see the tempo already accelerated from 100 thieves no longer are they playing more reserved more defensive?
And now they're starting to make more aggressive moves right TTK with the sound seduction using it
aggressively rather than reactively to try to team it up with Winnie on the
the Royal Flush to enable T2K with all the moves to eat all of the damage boosts to not always
crowd control the rest of the quest but also try to take them down
Graveholdron is going to be on deck for fly quest and not a whole lot else
So that's going to have to be opening salvo to try and force a hundred feeds back
But the laner is up on an angle and is pressuring him down from the side
Melio doesn't feel all too comfortable trying to go in to confirm that elim choosing will be able to do so though
So, he can't get any res right back up. Good kidnap there onto Vinny and there's not gonna be a BRB this time around.
So, Vinny is gone and yeah, what a tackle that ends up coming out from Heart and gonna be 100 thieves repelled for the time being.
Stabilization for Fly Plus gave themselves a little bit of that net space to work with.
Zellos is being bought time to stack up that region royal flush. Millenia is threatening that CYA though.
Where does 100 thieves place this amplifier? How would you use it aggressively?
Because right now it might be an opportunity as Tuzi is looking for an opportunity himself.
I mean, I think it was C, it was Tuzi getting taken for a ride,
and TtK is there to clean him up, good play coming out from self,
and Hunter Fiend's walking around this corner, getting this cart rolling,
and in fact trying to roll over cart as well as Selena again, has him in his sights,
and has managed to build a Ruby Rage on all the damage that he has amassed,
and it's going to be waiting for an opportunity to do it,
and it's not a whole lot that FlyQuest can do once that does inevitably come out.
They got to be on the lookout.
Cart though taking down the Lanna with a nice little tackle that has to get out, forced to pop the bubble and T.T.K.
Now going to lock him down with the Sonic seduction, catches Techie in deep as well and now Zelo stays in all by himself.
He's going to be first down there by T.T.K. and this looks to be the cap coming down for 100 Thieves.
His flyquests are running out of members to contest.
Melio will take down the Lanna and Cart is on the Cart, but as he gets carried away, the Cart comes through.
He's going to get staggered for very, very long, and Melio also going down as well, so...
Second checkpoint.
Quick as you like it.
Tuzi's able to find the next trade onto Winnie, so if 100 thieves want to go for a close hold,
they need to be a little bit more extra careful because it's only going to be Melania sustaining
the rest of 100 thieves, but FlyQuest's going to have to go for the reset one more time.
Melio does have another cycle of the range of Ultron to give FlyQuest some of that room
to entry through the space that Hunter D's already have themselves. And if things go
alright, Blastley is also there as an extra backup mechanism.
It's the benefit of the Ultron. That Rage Ultron does charge up so fast you can use
it to bait out resources of Hunter D's but they're not taking the bait, they just simply
back up and let him throw his little temper tantrum up in the sky. And Arc is going to
be quite angry as well. He's going to go for that Worldbreaker Holt but his World is being
shattered elsewhere as Hunter D's have managed to find four members and it's just going
to be him and Melio against the world right now and with the weight of the world overcoming
them 100 thieves will keep this cart rolling.
PCV of this velocity amplifier just does so much damage on the velocity.
He had no chance to pop the bid of both worlds.
Even if he wanted to, it just felt like even if he did use it preemptively he was still
going to get exploded because of that 40% damage amplification coming in from Marlena.
And now we're closing in already.
Look how close the convoy is to that third checkpoint and with everyone on other thieves
going so so aggressive, FlyQuest needs to find a way to defend this.
He managed to take down Vinny, he ran right back up, so every time FlyQuest finds something
it's taken away from them velocity with the dance floor, Melio didn't get the memo though,
got caught in the corner all by himself and that'll be another loss for FlyQuest.
They have to back up, the dance floor expires, the Razorail Flush coming out potentially,
the death blow, the Meteor Ember from Techie, it just doesn't work, self-discarves right
through it and now Cart is going to be trying to stall this one out as long as he pot-
possibly can give FlyQuest anything to cling to, but 100 Thieves are relentless. They're
laying siege to this final point here and they will have it if they can just get rid
of these last couple members of FlyQuest. Zelo skins them a lifeline with the Razor
Mero flush and 100 Thieves are going to give it respect. Back up as Tuzi cleans up self.
100 Thieves going to wait for their moment. Yeah, 100 Thieves, they do have the CYA.
They're not going to pull the trigger just yet. Maybe just to pump up their ultimate
economy just a little bit way for TTK to get his online binny on the feast as well.
One minute left on the fog so Hunter Deve still have a bit of time to work with but
the problem is if this fight goes long, it's going to be effectively final fight territory.
Science seduction is going to force out the action on us to the death and all our velocity
got caught out by the science seduction all alone just you and mother and mother always
knows best.
TTK gonna help shut down Tuzi, Kurt again shrines to stall out his namesake but he's
kick to the side, kick to the curb, and 100 thieves will complete the cap here on Midtown.
Great adjustment from 100 thieves, instead playing defensively, they go offense, offense,
and even more offense. And that's exactly what 100 thieves did. You can call all the way back in
the bandra, right? Getting to save onto the Rocky Raccoons and the Gambit means that they
really want to keep this tempo up and make sure that 100 thieves have this the tone setting to
to make sure that they are the ones to start these fights.
And so far, it has done just that.
FlyQuest just felt like every single fight
just were in the back foot,
and it just felt like FlyQuest,
they needed to rely on things like Tuzi or Melio
to come up huge in these clutches.
But with how fast our days are going,
there was just no opportunity.
Yeah, I wouldn't call it slow.
It was definitely fast, but it was still methodical.
And just so many picks coming through
and so many of these fights,
such as Snowball out of control and FlyQuest,
like they really didn't have much of a defense on point B, right?
Like they had that little high ground hold for a while,
but once they got this loss,
like they never got their feet back beneath them,
and a hundred thieves able to just bully them
all the way back to a full cap.
So for FlyQuest, the gauntlet has been thrown out.
Can you match that progress?
Can you get the full cap and take this to extra endings?
Otherwise, you better be ready for a long night,
my friends, because map five now looms overhead.
See how both of these teams ignite the battle.
you can spam ad in his chat right now. As of both teams looking to duke it out one more round here on midtown at the very least. Maybe we go to overtime. Maybe not, but it's all up to five wasn't they're able to match 100 thieves did. 100 thieves with a interesting defensive look here playing for the Adam Warlock delay on this Adam Warlock has got them some wins before and you can see Vinny lurking overhead trying to pick his spot.
You see though, does catch out TTK, good hook and good trooper space for the Cloak of Evitation
is going to get TTK back to the rest of his team.
Melio on the Punisher is going to look to just try and burst the front line down
and TTK couldn't get to save Barbara and now the shotgun shots bringing out 100 thieves
on the back foot.
Regen no main forced out, the cocoon from the lineup potentially forced out as well
if he should so choose to come back into this life.
But that might be a fool's errand as it seems like FlyQuest getting the better of this one.
TK shuts down Melio, but that's all that they can hang their hat on is Mike West will get this cart rolling
Yeah, the win condition was clear for 100 days
Try to get the Lena online and ready to go with the karma for rival but with how fast black was we're doing
They were able to make the correct move right the way you shut down this Adam Warlock win condition is by going to fast as
heck and like was have been doing just that with a sheer amount of
of front line, front to back damage,
Tuzi and Melio doing a lot of work,
also publisher N, the Bucky, and Hunter Thieves
that they want to go for any sort of engagement.
They're gonna have to barely tap to survive the arrest
of Melio and Tuzi.
CYA is going to help them with this engagement
as they just wipe FlyQuest,
three, four members all falling immediately
once when he pulls the trigger on that one.
And that's gonna be a great way to get Hunter Thieves
back in the driver's seat.
But curiously, Delana swapped off of the Atom Warlock
and over onto the Cyclops.
so no resurrections and now no portals.
Well, at the very least it's more off-dump damage in favor of Hunter D.
At the very least, he's actually like,
why is he throwing at them?
But the thing is, lifelies have six ultimates.
And they are about to let him rip.
Velocity already with the God of Mestship folding for his moment
to let this rage and royal flush rip.
And now is go time.
And this is what boundaries for Melania to try to endure the damage,
but he's going to be caught inside a cracking impact
on top of a strangling prison.
And Tuzi is the warden of this prison,
and he has judged you harshly, three in the fight,
and a triple assist for the quad, looking for the penta.
He's got Vinny and he cites, he's gonna pull him in,
symbiotic resilience, but how resilient can you really be
under the oppressive regime of Tuzi?
And he's gonna find the exo, a 6K of full team life for Tuzi.
It got so, so close, 100 days,
and they should find a way to plon themselves
back into that fight.
And Tuzi, looks for another reason,
isn't able to find it onto the lineup,
but he's still able to find it.
That's an unofficial 7 and 8k for Tuzi!
Somebody stop this man!
Ain't nobody stopping him with a rage and royal flush.
He's feeling himself.
Melio's gonna be good for two more in that fight
and Hunter Thieves just keep throwing themselves
into the grinder, but FlyQuest
come out with that first point cap
and now we're on with the point B.
And I mean, FlyQuest have full control
over the real estate here, Dad.
Oh my goodness.
Tuzi, I'll just make sure that no one on Hunter Thieves
had any room to breathe.
just stams them all out.
Some of them stamp them out again,
as Tuzi does so much work in that fight,
making sure they get the first checkpoint,
and also allowing both Karr and Melia
to hold onto their ults,
because they know that Tuzi will be enough
to shut down 100 thieves because of that combo.
With the strangling prison,
into the crack and impact,
the Wombo combo from Techie and Tuzi,
providing to pay dividends for Fly-Clust,
and now 100 thieves looking to try to find a way
to plot back for their ultimate,
and they can't be exhausted.
The final judgement is going to force Hunter Thieves to turn tail and run.
They'll be able to dodge the lion's share of the damage, but now they're forced into
a locker room, literally stuck into a locker, bullied, and Techie wants to keep the bullion
going.
A bandhammer onto the back, trying to get a strike into the Kraken Impact, but Self is
able to return fire, taking dead out of Melania, will fell Techie, and that means that Hunter
Thieves are going to be able to win this fight, and lay claim to the card, get themselves
back in control.
Great placement of the Razor Royal Flush from Winnie.
A lot of Hunter D.Va's are crushing on Blythblyz.
Huge investment as well from Blythblyz, utilizing Crete,
like, to try to, at the very least, keep it a little more competitive
to match the Razor Royal Flush.
But unfortunately, because of how uncontested that gambit ultimate was,
Blythblyz kind of just ran out of gas.
They're gonna have to reset one more time,
because now the ball is in Hunter D.Va's court.
They have a chance to make a three-point shot.
Part over onto the Angela. You saw him briefly going over the other side of your screen, but you got to focus on what's in front of you right now and itself with that left to devil out.
FlyQuest are able to withstand. I think Karr was going for a TK little backcap there, and it does force Hunter Thieves back, and he was able to seize the moment and take down himself there.
A nice assassin charge coming out of Velocity with that Rager and what a flush. TK wants to absorb the damage with the Meteor Reb, and this time it does not pop.
It's Melio that find themselves pop in courtesy of GTK popping off on the magneto and keeping hundred thieves in the driver's seat
Under thieves though now that they have invested a whole bunch all three ultimates maybe four
Yeah, four ultimates invested in that fight alone now five less
It's their turn to be in the driver's seat. Tell us these two
time this Raging Royal Flush as well as Hunter Thieves, there's no better time in the present
when Winnie doesn't have his, you want to try and find some Elans and choose the game.
Like after Winnie, Techie there as well to ensure that KO comes through.
He'll be res backed up so there is an opportunity for a Royal Flush here, but no one is going
to be here to receive those cards.
As Kart and FlyQuest, they keep this Kart rolling and Hunter Thieves, one more chance on the
defense.
Zellos even invests the Raging Royal Flush, but now Winnie, it's his turn with it.
Delana's gonna charge up the portal, try to contest right before the second checkpoint.
It will come in time, and the Raging Royal Flush is active.
Clocktruck's from Tuesday to try and pop a U-turn, takes the 100 Thieves away.
Heaven's got confusion from Kart, try and catch them out.
But Vinnie, taking down Velocity and 100 Thieves, they clap back heavy.
Zelloph is gonna be thrown by Zellos, but it's just not enough.
He'll be res right back up, and every loss that 100 Thieves got, it comes right back.
In FlyQuest, they have to make a play here.
Techie swapping over onto the Doctor Strange.
Trying to go for a port of play.
There's only 12 seconds left.
And FlyQuest are relying on Melio to come up clutch
with this left the devil out.
No Stratus ultimates for 100 thieves,
but they've got the spawn advantage.
They've got a portal coming through
that they gotta deal with.
And now Techie coming through, poking his head out,
but you can see the dive from Vinny
trying to split FlyQuest off.
It's FlyQuest, it's now or never.
You gotta seize your destiny, my friends.
You wanna go to the next round,
you wanna eliminate 100 thieves.
It's here, it's now.
Melio will let the devil out and he is battering Melania with those Billy clubs and the Royal Flush coming through as well from Velocity
And he'll be able to find the Elim on the Delayna, Vinny falling as well, and the 100 Thieves will be evicted from this point
FlyQuest will have point B. It's onward and upward to point number three, but can they complete the full cap?
That's the big question. I got a little worried for Melio
I wasn't sure if he was able to receive the gamut ultimate. He was able to towards the tail end of the devil out
But it was enough damage to wipe out the backline of 100 thieves and then you report the front line because there is no more sustain
And fly plus doing a great job at taking full advantage of the reason for a flush
Shout out to techie as well
Providing extra pressure on the vanguard deadpool making sure that he has to ban hammer onto the backline
Remember a hundred thieves as they're gonna have to try to make an aggressive move here with the CYA
Do I have to barely zone away fly plus?
Our cart is going to be a whole lot more than zoned away alright his head got zoned for his shoulders there courtesy of a couple of
Cards coming down rage amplified by Winnie and
Like West have to give up control of the cart now hundreds of you can hold this choke point and they can choke this time bank down from
36 seconds all the way to zero and force fly quest utilize this time bank just to get out the front door
There's a band hammer that goes in deep at the peeling is going to be good heart these though
They have to give space order to make that happen keep self in the fight
He's holding on to let the devil out so with the band hammer on him
They had to make sure that he was in this fight and now fly quest in a little bit of breathing room
They get an opportunity to make a play
But what's it gonna be zealots holding on that rage and will flush to easy with the ball shots
But it was he's not able to find what he's looking for the royal flush coming through from dough
So nothing about the combo with me around dangling over a head from DTK
He strikes down with the righteous vengeance and he pummels to see and honor thieves letting the devil out self
going in deep Vinny, these are the abyss,
then feeling themselves, and they're feeling like we got one more map in us today,
as Hunter Thieves stand their ground on Midtown,
and FlyQuest are now behind the 8-Ball.
We'll see if the stalls are in, but there is no portal.
I think it was on cooldown, we'll see, but Hunter Thieves give us a 5-mapper.
We're going all the way, Tournament Life on the line for both of these partner teams,
and despite the odds, 100 thieves make the perfect adjustment,
going with a more aggressive,
and that has paid dividends here on Midtown.
Well, both teams now on life alert,
one last life left to give,
one last map to decide the fate of these two partner teams.
Only one can carry on in this tournament,
and there's only one spot left in midseason finals.
You know both of these teams want it,
and they are gonna go down, swing it,
if they go down at all.
one of them is going down. Map number five is going down. On the other side of this break, Dan,
don't go anywhere. We will be right back.
Oh
Oh, don't be there
Don't fall, you have to wake up
I can't tell where you're going
I just want to be with you
I sing high-pitched songs
I'm not coming down, don't you go
I'm going to the nature, I'm going to dance
I don't need love, I'm going to the sky
I'm not going to fall, I'm going to fall
If you run to us, if you make me laugh
I don't need that, that, that, that
If you make me laugh
I've been waiting for a long time
I'm running like a light in the dark night
I can't leave without you
Wait
I'll be there
Don't fall down, don't fall down
Get up, yeah
No matter where you are
I'll always be there for you
One
Sing a high-pitched song
Turn up, don't go in, don't take off
You're doing well, don't look
You're going to be down
Don't look at me
Don't look at me
When you come to us,
I have to keep all the moments in my heart
When I get better, I meet you again
In my dream, I see you again
Both the worlds is in our hands
I'm not telling you anything else
I just wanna go ahead, dance for me
Underneath the night, baby, I'll see
The beautiful dream, my good friend
Fly to us, baby, give me a hug
Underneath the night, baby, I'll see
we need to. Now we're in an effective that's the one scenario both teams their
health bars are blinking red permanent life on the line for both of the
partner teams here and now where do we go for map number five because you and
ICB we've been talking about in the green room we've been pretty much spot-on in
terms of where these teams are gonna go but before we start talking about a little
more we're gonna talk about the MVP from that big-town game and I don't think
I think anybody is going to be
surprised to hear that the MVP
is once again a TTK. I mean,
whether it's the Magneto,
whether it's the Angela, you
can't target ban this guy
because it doesn't matter what
he plays. He's just one of the
best at every Vanguard in the
game, and that's becoming a
fast problem for fly quest.
Sure you want to ban Angela so
techy can get the better of
that exchange. Well, now you've
got to win the ground war and
bro is a general when it comes
with that particular war 32
29k damage like row is the definition of an Avengers level threat
Out of the way it gives more room to things that he is more comfortable on like the Angelo like the Magneto
So two pigs already becoming more and more meta here in stage one at least in the Americas region as TTKS
with just trying with these meteors right time and time again it felt like on the heart of heaven
that meteor just immediately got popped because fly plus haven't gone for the more aggressive
option of trying to pop that meteor before tk even has a chance to slam it down and that's the
place that will fly plus right you want to play as aggro as possible but it looks like 100 thieves
here on midtown definitely matched it and you can see it on the scoreboard right a lot more final
hits a lot more damage done because 100 thieves are starting to get a little more proactive
you can make a case for
Delana's MVP with 14 final
hits, but you could also argue
that you know with how agro
fly quest like to play, he
might not have been able to
get those final hits for that
much damage without his
frontline being clear and T
TK made sure that nobody was
pressuring at my head scan. He
has got a shooting gallery and
he is going to use it. But
over on the other side like
want to look at the scoreboard
look at Tuesday with 21 final
hits and still coming up with
like that might be a sticking point going into this next map Dan because it's like it's fly quest map pick and
Tuesday just put up LeBron numbers and just wasn't enough
Someone save to see right now because the supporting cast needs to lock things in I mean Tuesday always is
Consistently outperforming within the entire lobby. I feel like he's usually like first maybe second best player in the lobby in every
Single one of these maps and he's gonna have to come up clutch one more time. I can see it in his glasses
He's doing a little work on the daredevil. Or are we so easy? Yeah, maybe it does look like it's daredevil
No, are we is that is that where our analysis has gone now, Dan?
We're looking at reflections and the players glasses to see what it is that you're going to play. I
Mean, okay. Well, listen. All right. Maybe that's a maybe teams gonna stop for a stop wearing glasses
We can't lick the strats, especially when the stakes are this high
You can feel the tension being ratcheted up once more as it is all up to this one map
the ball is in the right
corner of the map. Fly
quest to their tournament
lives, hang in the balance,
but so to do 100 themes, but
the ball is in fly quest
court, and I was predicting that
that court would be would be
like Shin Shibuya, but you are
also talking maybe domination
or maybe a lower Manhattan.
Before they before they give
it away. Quick 321. Call it
lower Manhattan. Final answer.
All right. You're all in on
lower Manhattan. Final answer.
That's it. That's just my guess because I know how FlyQuest like to play fast. They'd like to play dive. I think Cart is going to. Yeah, that's right. I'm on the ball when it comes to these map predictions.
I think you actually might be four for four. Yeah, like, you know what? I'm goaded. I'm just goaded. I'm just different like that. And you know who else is? It's Cart. Whether it's the Venom, whether it's the Hulk, it doesn't matter.
those are both two very popular picks here.
But here's something that's interesting
is we've also seen a lot of players
try and go for a counter dive sort of strategy.
So I'm wondering if one team or the other
might try and pull out the Penny Parker
as like a secret weapon.
And just a little fun fact, right?
This is the third time Shinjiwara has been played
in the entirety of Stage 1 Americas.
This is a very unpopular map for these professional teams
And the wild card has been played for FlyQuest.
We're going to a very unpopular map.
They just try to throw 100 thieves a little off guard
in terms of being a little bit more unfamiliar
with the map as a whole,
because Chichaboya, again, just not the more popular map.
100 thieves are forced onto the defensive side,
like less looking to set the tone here.
And Remix looking to make sure that these ban phases
for 100 thieves are on point
because the members' lives are getting changed.
blocks are getting changed like other thieves got a quality wise space is gonna lock him out and was like all right well
I guess I'll hit up Craigslist try and find some new roommates. Do people still use Craigslist?
Is that still a thing like there's other other platforms for that kind of use case I feel like I like discord
I think like that's probably a good place to find. Oh, yes
Well, yes, this court, but either way well back to the band phase and not a whole lot has changed up in this map 5
situation is I don't think either team really wants to take any big risks you
know when everything is on the line right now. Harder Thieves gonna once again
reach for that one-sided rocket and that did win them the day on Midtown. The
fly quest with the ban on to the Angel and I think this is a better look for a
map like this rather than Midtown. I mean there's a lot of verticality on
Shinship. We have Ttk would have gotten so much freedom in that open space and
fly quest I mean we like predicted right as soon as Ttk popped off on the
the game. The game is going to
be the first time the angel in
map number one. He is not going
to get access to it as one sided
Rocky Raccoon for 100 keys and
the Cyclops and the gambit will
be confirmed one every every
other time by quest has let the
gambit go by until the very end
and 100 thieves have used their
protect on it. If they still
have access to it this time,
they don't the lock themselves
into that one sided Cyclops.
Just to tighten the screws a little bit more take away self's greatest weapon
Yeah, you're effectively giving away the team up for a hundred thieves you would now have access to the
Wolverine combo and now that there's open space on Shinji believe the Wolverine is gonna have a little bit more freedom, right?
The one weakness for Wolverine is not being able to play very well in open space
And now with the team up that really fixes that one weakness
Speaking of weaknesses
There's not a whole lot of them for fly quest the rogue gambit team up any desperation
Loki band that has to come out for a hundred thieves just to try and mitigate some of the damage that they know is coming their way
I hope your counter dive is good hundred thieves because you're gonna need every bit of it as fly quest are gonna be up first on
The attacking side. It's all or nothing Dan
It's all come down to this only one of our two partner teams will live to see another day in this tournament
We'll see who that is once those spawn doors open
You can take a look at how hundred years decide to go out here because they're gonna be leading the spawn room first
We're gonna have a more better idea of what hundred days want to roll out on I can assure you
It's not gonna be triple triple that we've been seeing other teams decide to roll out on as both teams
Definitely did not want to go
towards that approach. I mean, on midtown, the 100 thieves did try to go for it, putting
Delena on the Atom Morlock, but because he got exploded so damn quickly, there was just no chance
for a combo provide one play. Our thieves, their chances again, as we said earlier,
are going to rely mostly on Delena being able to make the most of the Cyclops pick,
so he's going to be up on the high ground and FlyQuest already have that scouted. They know
that that's exactly where he's going to be playing, so Cart is going to open up on the Dr. Strange,
and they're gonna teleport straight on in to that high ground and deny Delana the angle that he wants.
In fact, even gonna go and try and sneak in the back door.
And Karts gonna immediately swap over to a higher mobility vanguard.
It's gonna be the Angela, the option, as Techie will be on the road,
will team up alongside Velocity with the Gambit,
see if that's able to provide the extra verticality that they need.
Because Fly Pless, remember, they like to play fast, they like to play aggro.
So, can Cart find that opening pick?
He has found a Leta in a narrow corridor and will force him in there.
Techie is able to take down Self-Chain.
Looking to try and contest the point, but Tuzi with the damage coming out from that
Scionic Crossbow is going to force out the symbionic resilience and force this swing
out.
That should be the first tick coming to for Fly Quest.
Indeed it is.
100 Thieves now stuck in this narrow corridor.
Can't quite break out of it just yet.
So the second tick comes through as well and the clock is not on 100 Thieves' side,
self with the strange portal is so they can now mount a defense once more as the
layer puts down velocity and Tuesday gets caught out other thieves able to
stand tall for now. Alright full neutral means that the portal
recontest will be good self even jumping back into his own spawn room to
switch back to the Wolverine very smart play as I feel like the 200 IQ coming
in from self was too much and the lobby kind of just EMPed itself as we
head into a pause. I'm wondering if that you know might have been a might have been a fly quest pause
you know maybe given given 100 thieves a taste of their own medicine from way back in preseason
we might still be a little bit salty about the Dallas R fiasco but you know we got already up
here sooner or later because two ticks already coming through for fly quest 100 thieves able to
deny the third and win the fight but you know this next fight when it comes through is going to hurt
yeah there's a lot of different ultimates already ready to go and I'm sure both teams are going to
try to let it rip as soon as they're given the opportunity to do so as both 100 thieves
and flyquests just to restate it one more time. Both teams are very, very tense right
now because of, you know, we're in map five, do or die scenario. You win, you move on to
the next best of five series and then get a chance to go into the midseason finals because
if you win the series, you're not clear for midseason finals. You still have one more
best of five, and either way, whichever team goes out on top, you're going to be gasped
before the next series.
Yeah, that's the scary thing is like you're trying to save at least a little bit in the
tag for later series because you've got more elimination matches, even another one later
on tonight.
This is not the last that we have seen of at least one of these two teams, but it may
be the last gasp that we see from both of them is they have no choice but to lay it
all out on the liner.
They won't even make it to those next elimination matches and you can see the tension painted
on everybody's face. Like, Cart, you can tell, like, he's usually the guy who cuts the tension,
but he can feel the pressure right now. You saw Vinny, you saw TTK. All of them look so
calculated right now. Like, they're looking at every angle, peering into every reality,
and trying to find the ones where they come out on top, and it's a coin flip anyway you look at it.
We're going to have to see if that map five scenario, right, do or die, affects any of the
play style from both of these teams, right? Because you're in a do or die scenario, is
there going to be moments where teams are going to be a little more hesitant to make
those risky plays, right? If the play falls flat, you might be the reason that you lose
out on this match as a whole, and it's just going to be haunting you throughout all of
that offseason, right? The break between now and into stage two, you're going to be replaying
those moments over and over and over again. And maybe both teams don't want to be in that situation as the one is like who didn't
who in the world just left? They've both been in that situation before. I think the miasma of defeat is a scent that both of these teams are
quite familiar with. You know, everybody has felt that familiar sting and they don't want to feel it again. Dan, they want to go out with
the performance that they can be proud of. In fact, they don't want to go out at all. There's still that one land spot up for grabs and either of
these two partner teams could be the ones to reach out and take it. But in the way is
their opposition. And like you can tell everybody it's painter on their face. Delana, he's not
yawning anymore. Eyes wide open, locked in remix is back. When to go, when to go hydrate
once go check the locks. I think make sure that space and already get ahead of himself.
A little bit of a hydration break. It looks like remiss came back with a cup either it's
for himself or for one of the thieves players as a Winnie. Definitely feeling the pressure,
these, uh, showing off the good
vibes and make sure that
everyone is calm because, uh,
Matt, number five, you win, you
move on, you lose, you're done.
No midseason finals for you as,
uh, soon enough, we'll get back
into this match here on
Shinjubuya, which again has been
a very unpopular map here in
Stage One Americas. I think it's
going to be very unpopular for
the fans of whatever team comes
up on the losing side here. I
I kind of want to talk about, you know, as we're, you know, looking at the player camps to start difference between the background for Delana and the background for Tuzi.
Tuzi doesn't have a whole team house. He's not there with the rest of the gang.
And you kind of see that vibe shift, right? Once Remix walked back in, someone on the 100th side cracked the joke and then it was all smiles.
They're not feeling the same tension and they might be ready for whatever comes on the other side of this pause. Whereas, you know, Tuzi, Kahrt, Melio, they're all in these different places, different locations.
just relying on the discord call and hoping that someone can do the very same. It's an
advantage that, you know, sometimes goes acknowledged. You don't always see it on the battlefield,
but now that we get to peer into their reality for a brief moment via some keeping Tom's
through their camps, you know, we get to take note.
Yeah, we get a lot of different ideas to talk about, right? 100D is being in the same room
together. You got all of these people around you making sure that the vibes are well in
check, whereas FlyQuest, you talked about Kart a little bit, right? Being that glue guy to make sure
that the team is in a good mental state before these maps and speaking of maps, we are back here
on Shin Shibuya. Now both teams are looking to stack up their ultimates, try to let it rip as soon
as they come online. Hunter Thieves, looking to get the hold down, but already look at the timer
on FlyQuest's side. Already half of it being expired. They managed to get two takes and they only
only need to find one more hundred things we're able to be poised under pressure
self with that clutch TP play bought them another lifeline and a kidnap as well
is gonna buy them techies life and they now claim the ownership of it and
flight quest are gonna be hesitant to try and push in without their rogue at the
tip of the spear cart is still there on a flank and look at it try instead of a
page to see goes in dance the bottom line is gonna be less red so much
damage coming through but the CYA from Winnie is gonna distort the lion share of it
and someone from the vermelio to burst it down but it doesn't matter Tuzi didn't
the bailout and 100 thieves have one another fight and now we're sub two minutes. That was a body
block from self making sure that he was able to intercept the Enzo Inferno that keeps Winnie's CYA
copy alive and well. So now 100 thieves were able to stall out that push. Fly plus this is
now their opportunity. They have access to the Razor Royal Flush, they will have access to the
Fatal Boat World as well. Melania needs to come up huge with the timing of this CYA to at the very least
I know if I like what's the squash I mean when he was pushed with it before but the God of mischief as well and
Now with that one down like you say it is gonna be all to millennia to time this one perfectly
But like what's don't have the ultimate yet
So are these can go aggressive with it to lay a shrine to chase down his prey in to see techie will be filled again
It's gonna be another pause and this is starting to get a little bit worrisome as a fly quest again
They fall apart they crumble in that fight that leading into a pause that tells me something's wrong
And this is not a good time that that is not a good sign. You could you can see the shock into one of his face
He was also locked in and then as soon as the pause came he was like wait what?
Yeah, it was like the entire vibe just gets iced
Yeah, it like
And the vibes of our honor thieves right like they're feeling themselves like they know it too
Like they know that this pause coming out from a hundred from from fly quest means that yeah fly quest either
They do have legitimate reason to be pausing like they are
They're experiencing some technical difficulties and that's going to shake the mental or the mental is already shaken and fly quest are just trying to buy their time to lay the inevitable and you know as we have another look at the player cams we can see techie again.
It doesn't look like the vibes are too high in the fly quest house right now.
Yeah, it's looking very very quiet everyone just waiting to get back into this lobby
Keep themselves, you know warmed up, you know, because the pause is gonna be
Time to think about your next move all 12 of these players definitely in their heads trying to figure out
Hey, what do we want to do? What is our next?
strategic approach here because
Techie, I mean we talked about how good he is as a player and him going onside in preseason now coming into stage one trying to redeem himself and
And with this blacklist roster going on that huge glow up
This run doesn't end here. I think he's been a major part of that glow up
And I think he's made a name for himself
And I do think he'll continue to do so but you know for a player for a competitor for someone of this caliber
It's not enough to just be good enough
You want to you know go out with a performance that'll have people talking about you going into stage two
And in fact you want to go into midseason finals and again
That's still an opportunity for both of these two teams
But for one or the other it is you can kind of feel it slipping away and fly quest still
Grasping at it still trying to find that that winning formula Dan
And I feel like you know you talk about like what's your next move trying to calculate what your next move is
I think a hundred thieves are they're doing that
But they're also trying to calculate what fly quest next move is how far away from that next move
They are and trying to strike first like we saw in that last fight with the CYA
I mean, I love the adjustment coming in from 100 Thieves just in this entire series, right?
Being a little more proactive, being a little more aggressive is proving to work out for 100 Thieves because remember their average map win time was like, what, 10 minutes?
And that's pretty long for a map in Marvel Rival's FlyQuest, effectively win maps in half the time.
And with the tempo that 100 Thieves are throwing at them, FlyQuest gonna have to reset one more time here.
This is going to be very very important 47 seconds left on the clock. We said fly quest if they want to use this region royal flush
They have to use it and they will need
Significant value at this rate 100 these they might not need 10 minutes
They may only need four as we are down to 35 seconds and it's got to be now or never
Royal flush gonna come out from zealots and techie looking to get access to the back
Have just eviscerated the front line of fly quest and there's no one Mulligan's to be had
CTK is going to be raised back up. Techie goes in with a heartbreaker, but his heart is going to be the only one broken as he's carried away by self.
Off so far away from his prey, they just won't be able to get back there in time. Melio on a sliver of HP, Velocity, going to top him back up with a dance floor.
The last thing for a fly quest to depend on, it's going to have to be good enough and they're going to have to try and find some healers to feed.
Park got cancelled, Broga put on an ozepic, he's still able to take himself, that's one pick going the way of FlyQuest, but it will be returned, Park can't stick around to make the most out of it, and so I'm going to try and burst down the CYA, but it gets cancelled again, Melio can't find it, and we're not able to get this third tick, so much progress for FlyQuest, but it might be all that they could possibly ask for, and it's 100 thies, they stand tall, they stand proud, they stand stalwart, and deny FlyQuest the opportunity, and now it's going to be cancelled.
have to be an even more perfect defense or it's farewell fly quest. An immense amount of pressure
released from 100 thieves shoulders. You can see in the player cam shot at the production for being
able to provide us with that extra little bit of content because my word 100 thieves everyone just
came up huge. Not entirely sure what cancelled cart with the feces abyss but that was a huge
amount of stall potential being taken out of the window from fly quest and also self as well on
on the Wolverine, isolating Techie's heartbreaker,
just playing it way, way out in what,
what was like the path towards the second checkpoint?
And just because of how separated five quests were,
100 teams were on the same page,
but either way, it felt like five quests
were effectively cooked,
because they didn't have any strategies,
ultimates to rely on in order to shut down
what 100 teams have been doing,
which was the CYA,
Belio even tried to use that end-solving freedom
to try to shut one of those amplifiers down,
But because he got burned away, that damage does not come through.
And because of that play in general,
meant that Melania, even if things went wrong,
he was there to at the very least be the final nail in the coffin in this round.
FlyQuest, I don't know if they're necessarily cooked just yet,
because they do have 90.33% to their name,
and that's going to have to be good enough.
So while they may not be cooked,
they can definitely feel the temperature rising,
and they have to smelt a stalwart defense.
It's going to have to be ironclad.
It's gonna have to be adamantium. It's gonna have to be vibranium whatever the strongest metals in the MCU are
Flyquests are gonna have to amass every single one of them and then some
We're gonna stop the onslaught of a hundred thieves as they can see victory in their sights
And in fact the lane I can see the back line of a hundred of flyquests in his sights
He's gonna take to the skies with that leaping trying to take down to see himself cleans them up and it's a disaster now for flyquests
There's no rocket so there's no res and to see is not going to be there with the damage self is going in with the blast of
Garage you'll teleport out the damage already done and hundred thieves just waiting
Picking their one tick is there like West back portal gonna be coming out from to see so full 66 nearly two ticks
But like West will deny the second but can they claim a life can they find an elam from the side of a hundred thieves to stop it?
It's a bit of us
They all made
Both teams looking to find the first move with their ultimates, but we're still a long way there
Melio is able to thankfully find a pick on himself, but he's gonna get brought right back this overtime or not
No, it's gonna be what this second fight already in the second round
Hunter feels like overtime. It's not quite overtime yet. It's already effectively finalized by territory
Black was have no portal anymore
So if they go down this is already disaster black was in the emergency button
Karna's gone, Cyanus and Dungeon, and the CYA, 100 Thieves want to press the advantage while they have it.
Zellos with the invisible boundary, trying to get FlyQuest, they save Harbour, and they're using every inch of it,
but it wasn't safe enough for Tuzi, the Rage and Royal Flush, now coming out from Velocity,
but is it gonna be enough to take down Self, that's a good opening salvo, but the later may have to close in one.
Ruby Rage, it goes wide, doesn't finally is looking for, but what about 2nd CYA, coming out now from Winnie Melio,
is gonna be felled in the hands of Vinny, and TTK is good for 1, he's good for 2,
There is no Tooth Fairy, there is no Easter Bunny, and there's no Fairy Tail Ending for FlyQuest!
Oh my god, look how hype Iremix is. His locks will still be the same when he returns home to space.
Huge wave for Hunter Thieves. They have been in this situation before. They have been in that
map 5 scenario when they played against Stickdrift way back yesterday, and now coming in here,
the game. They're going to
play off. My word under thieves.
The playoff buff is alive. The
playoff buff as well, and they
will keep themselves afloat for
one more series. It feels like
100 these times like they have
plot armor like it just kind of
feels like you can't put this
team down in fights where you
feel like you should win. They
come up clutch. They come up
aces and it felt like this time
around like we call out some of
the star players from this one,
when he had some clutch moments as well, you know, coming through on that royal flush that came through from flyquests on the defensive side.
100 Thieves, they hold strong when he's able to somehow find a KO through that, get a CYA of his own, keep the team alive.
Everybody from 100 Thieves getting in there and they will go on to live another day, one more match to be played for them at least today to continue on in this lower bracket.
They're going to be a threat for anybody who dares cross their path.
I mean, you got to give a shout out your flowers over the flag was as well. They have played out of their minds
I mean to Zee putting up what almost felt like a 1d11 performance at times and
Unfortunately, just was not enough. I mean shots the entire flakless roster has been one heck of a run for them here in stage one
Yeah, it was a it was a hell of a rebound right like from from preseason and how low they fell to how high they were able to rise
unfortunately, this is where their ceiling is. This is where they must disembark and this is where
they will be leaving us today as our MVP. It's going to be Delana, 21-0, a fat doughnut in the
casualty column there. And I mean, like, I don't even remember, like, how many final blows did he
have? He had 10 on just the defensive side and I think maybe even was able to net a few more
100 thieves won on the attack and Bro was clicking heads left and right, whether it was TTK setting
him up, whether it was Vinny finding an Elam, or bursting someone low into lane of finding
that finishing shot, like, this is your guy, right? This is your star player. This is your
hitscan extraordinaire. And this is the guy leading this team on to the next round, one
round deeper in this lower bracket.
Oh, and now they either go up against, yeah, we lost, or stick drift. That matchup will
be up on deck, but still on the topic of this series in particular. It just felt like 100
also as well just pulled off so many different micro plays right studying out
Cart from the feast the abyss also shutting down Melio and smelly sense on inferno to make sure that that CYA still stays alive
It's just that these tiny little
Plays that everyone on hundred thieves had to do in order to coordinate a win here
Especially in shutting down that and saw inferno because that's now 500 HP is very very difficult to at the very least burn it up to make sure
but the amplifier is still intact.
This could be 13 final hits for Delana at the end there,
and he's the only one in double digits.
In fact, the only one with more than four in the entire lobby,
like literally tripling the next best over there in Vinny,
and still with one extra final hit to spare.
I hate to say that it feels like the pause
has kind of snuffed out all the fly quest momentum,
but 100 thieves were able to collect themselves
even through those pauses.
Whatever the issues were,
They're going to be haunting fly quests for quite a while, as will this budding rivalry between these two teams, but for 100 Thieves, for now it's in the rear view, it's onward and upward.
Yep, and 100 Thieves, I mean, we talked about it, right, the playoff buff. It just feels like 100 Thieves, every time they're in a playoff situation, whether it's do or die, or something along those lines, 100 Thieves just pull it out, and every single time in playoffs, 100 Thieves just look to be next level.
I'm not sure what kind of a voodoo magic that they decide to do, but it's working for them and they very barely admit
what avoided elimination here in the lower bracket and
100 thieves again like the adjustment has been so so perfect not just in band draft
But also in terms of the play style right going away from defensive going more offense
And that has surely been the winning formula here
Let me paint you an interesting picture as well Dan because you know 100 thieves
They also went to map five against stick drift in the upper bracket. They're the reason stick drift has found themselves in this situation
We might see a reunion of them and that one might go the distance again
And that was another one where it felt like again a hundred thieves just had plot armor stick drift
Just kind of choked at the last hurdle there
And they'll have an opportunity to right that wrong if they can get through yeah
We lost but for a hundred thieves like you got to be feeling good, right?
Like one of your biggest opposite team that you've already beaten and the only other option is yeah
that we lost to. No doubt you
have been prepping for it because
they are a hard skill check when
it comes to this lower bracket.
There's just a matter of can they
carry it right? 100 days are now
confirmed one series away from the
midseason finals and what one team.
Is only in the way whether it be
we have we lost or stick drift.
No matter how that series goes,
100 thieves are definitely waiting.
They need to rest up as much as
they can because so far in playoffs
the game. They have played. Oh
what like 14 total maps and
playoffs alone. Yeah, they're
they're they're stamina is
definitely being tested as much
as their mechanics and as much
as their mental game. It's so
rough to have to play that many
games and you know, escaped by
the skin of your teeth so many
times, but hey, doesn't matter.
All right. Again in the rear
view, you look at what's in
front of you. Hey, if it's got
to be another five mapper, so
be it. But let's look at what's
Delana, congratulations on escaping disaster from another map 5 situation.
Does that feel like a weight off of your chest?
Uh, I mean, yeah, kind of.
I don't even know.
You know how we won?
I feel like that Jeff in the background, like that's got to be how you guys feel right
now, right?
Like with the helmet, like y'all are getting the war flashbacks from before.
It was war on that museum map, it was just bad from us.
So I guess let's talk a little bit about that
and you don't gotta leak the strats
or leak the weight, this is too much,
but what do you think went wrong on that museum map?
We just had two different play styles we wanted to play
and it was like clashing in the game, in the comms
and we were just looking lost on that attack.
And that was pretty much it.
As soon as we locked in, it was my work, let's get sucked.
I want to target the band draft a little bit on your end, right?
Were you guys kind of expecting that FlyQuest was going to target TTK on the Angela?
Were you guys ready to play around that?
Yeah, we knew they were going to ban it, but we didn't think we were going to get it first map.
That was crazy from them.
Oh
Speak of the devil
Yeah, I mean yeah, we knew going in that they were gonna ban Angela. There's like nothing we could do about it
I mean it kind of feels like you know once you you guys had that Angela band coming through you
Just kind of took it on the chin because you can't really ban against TTK like it kind of feels like his hero pool is
Any vanguard under the Sun and you think like you know
Let's say your life depended on it and there was like a vanguard that you felt he was the weakest on like what would you say it is
How do we even know it's okay to say nothing it's okay. It's okay to just say he's the goat because
Can't bet against that
And then now you're gonna be waiting
Either to play either against YWL or stick drift
Who do you want to play against? Which one do you think will come out on top to play against you guys for that mid-season final spot?
I really want to play Yeah We Lost. We're kind of like one of the only teams that scrimmage them.
It's always fun playing them and scrimmage them, so I just want to play them in a match, see how it is.
Everyone always says Yeah We Lost is just different in match, so hope we get to play them.
the
That's kind of what I've heard, but you know if you've been screaming them then you probably feel like you know them pretty well
But the other option is stick drift and again you had a five mapper against them
So you have plenty of footage on them as well
So, you know, which of those two do you feel like you have the better chances against if it comes down to it?
Probably like
Stake drift I think
Just yeah, yeah, we lost like there's just always the chance they just
spawn hold you for four minutes and there's nothing you can do about it so
I'd rather just play like the default game against stickdrift
and I guess I guess one more thing right do you have any any any words to say
to either stickdrift or YWL because inevitably you guys you are gonna
of the clash heads with one team or another.
One of you guys 3-0 someone so we can play, I'm not trying to weigh all day.
That's it.
Bro's been waiting long enough.
He wants a quick night.
These days have been long here in the Americas lately in playoffs.
I cannot lie.
Alright, well thank you so much Delano.
We're gonna send you off.
We're gonna let you get a rest.
Hopefully, oh, go for it.
Floor is yours.
Make sure to buy the 100 Thieves Deadpool Bundle.
We need it.
That's all.
Of course, we got to get the plug in there.
Buy the 100 Thieves Bundle.
And if they haven't earned it after a performance like that,
I don't know what else they got to do.
But we'll be seeing more of them later on tonight.
We'll send you off for a nice little rest, hopefully.
Not a very long one.
And yeah, pal on the shield.
Pal on the shield.
I will over rematch.
We're going to beat you all. We're coming to the top 100 people top.
And we'll see more of you guys later on tonight. Thank you so much to Lena and I remixed as
well. Well, what a way to end that interview with a bag.
What is it left to say that remix didn't just say for us right there and hey bro does
the locks ain't gettin' changed.
She's still got a place to sleep tonight,
so looking forward to it.
Shout out again to Space and shout out to Hundred Thieves
as they continue on in this lower bracket.
And Dan, I mean, we're only halfway through tonight.
I mean, this has been an absolute pleasure
of an America's debut for you and me, Stevie.
I wouldn't have it any other way,
although we did get a sweep between Citadel and Swab.
We got the cinematic five mapper
the first half of the evening
was cinema. I'm afraid we are
only in act two act three has
has quite a bit to follow, but
we are going to be passing it
over to two other very pair
very capable pairs of hands
in Vodable and diatonic to close
out the show show you those
last couple of days. We're
going to be passing it over to
two other very very capable
pairs of hands in Vodable and
show you those last two games. We have got so much more Marvel rivals ignite on the other side.
We're gonna throw it to a quick break and we will see you on the other side.
I remember the dice, the lights gripping tightly, chopping all those lighting souls, but yeah, across the world I see you standing in my way, I remember the time, the place we used to fight, place one in moon and time one dirt,
But whether it was a tender, greedy work, or a crime
Like a spawning of shadows moving in years
That's impossible for me to seek you out
We are starting over, last reunion
Break the chains, run into it, come fight me
Do you remember who you really are?
Show me that you are still the only one for me
Only playing for you
We can get that, I'm not your cry
I was raising up with a sense that you've come so close
But for the risks I've tried to get
The old animals didn't even rise
And the night gone by
I told them that the power's gone
And so fast, we're bound to steal the end of time
We were forced to fight our way
We were fight, we see the crossroads
There is no end, you are mine
Definitely to the end
Do you see the dawn, the flame burning rightly
Shining on those memories, and yes
Across our time I see you turning left sides
And do you see now, our time, our time we can still fight
Like the winds in fire and wind on the moor
Then noise beyond the time your heart is mine
Light has fallen, darkness grows out
As you fight for your destiny and fate
New day is running for the past and future
Break the chains, link the way, fight with me
And when you wake, come back to your right ways
And all your mistakes smash in the sun
The full moon has been turned to dust
The other one's still the end
I've been waiting for months
When I was a broken star
I've been so far
We arrived close to the end
Until the end of time
You know what I'm talking about.
I know what I'm talking about.
I know what I'm talking about.
I know what I'm talking about.
Show me that you've watched the real me.
Was that not a story?
I'll be waiting for you.
Wait up.
Open your hands. Hold on.
To your heart. Look inside you.
Can you feel it?
It's watching you.
I'm watching you.
I'm watching you.
The distance flashing through the tunnel
The weather and the smudges you had to clear
We are rivals in the end and the horizon
The range of minds holds onto your power
Still, it stems out of us
We are rivals in the end and the sky
Welcome back everyone to the final half, where we determine who our finalist is going to
be to make it all the way to the land, the mid-season final on the line, YWL, Stickdrift,
and 100 Thieves, the only ones remaining in the lower bracket.
I'm Vottable, intercepting the stream waves here from EMEA, and we also got Diatonic,
course, joining me from Pacific shout to a CD and Dan earlier on. We had to give the
Americas castors a little bit of a holidays July 4th into the U.S. So it makes sense they're
going to be celebrating with fireworks in the background while watching these matches on
at their phones and following along like all of you at home. But we've had some very intense
matchups, pretty much the exact same results from EMEA here diatonic.
Yeah, very interesting parallel between the two regions so far. So yeah, we kind of got
our eyes on seeing if if we're gonna see that time stream continue here and match with EMEA, but yeah, you know
If you're looking for fireworks, you know, obviously outside your window if you're in the US great place to start
But you're in the right place here as well because we have some bangers on deck for the back half here
It's YWL and stick drift going head to head and I am definitely
Interested to see how this matchup plays out maybe going five, but at least gonna see one extra map here potentially
Yeah, if we're following along with the script from EMEA, it'd be a 3-0 sweep for one of these teams.
But hopefully that's not the case, especially based on the performance and grudge match that this is.
Thoroughly, Lunex, Stickdrift, but yeah, we lost as the team to look at, right?
Mass specifically, we've seen Rockout on at the Thor, the Angelo, White Fox even sometimes, Rogue, Captain America.
I mean, what can't these players play?
If it's on the roster, you'll probably see it in some capacity.
We haven't seen Blade yet though, and I'm a little bit disappointed by that diatonic.
Yeah, I mean, if you're looking for a team that's gonna break out the blade and use it, yeah, we lost definitely one to keep an eye out for, but yeah, you never truly know what you're going to be up against when you're facing down YWL.
So, you know, immediately adapting to what they do is going to be critical here because you are absolutely right vulnerable. They will find a way to make just about anything work, of course, kind of put themselves on the map with some big hold plays.
that was cart that played with them now on another team here no longer with YWL.
But the team still putting in some serious work here and on track to at least rival the performance in the preseason here in the Americas.
But of course, one more team standing in their way right now and that is going to be stick drift.
But yeah, YWL definitely a team that can be pretty tough to get some answers to more so than a lot of other teams here.
Lucas been a pretty decent replace when I would say so far and that's the big like question that we've had in our minds
I was hoping to see it decided potentially in that qualifying match
But fly quest now fallen by the wayside the question is did cart make the right decision jumping ship over to the partner team?
And yeah
We lost with Luca now and tell trying to see if they can make their way forward and have a repeat performance of the pre season
Playoffs, but stick drift specifically
They made some roster changes as I mentioned before, formally under Lunax, but now flying solo and flying as high as they can.
I mean, they swept YWL in the group stages.
They're looking to do the exact same thing here in the playoffs.
And I think a lot of it has to do with this strategist line-up that we see from Silent Blaze and Logan,
really supporting the rest of their team to do whatever they need to out there on the battlefield.
Yeah, the back line definitely putting a lot of the weight of battle on their backs here.
But like you already kind of alluded to Vodable, of course, Stickdrift doing some tweaks coming into stage one here
And Regis has been a big player for this team that has helped them make it as far as they have now
Plenty of highlights for him all stage one long
But yeah, you know, it's kind of a question for both of these teams
They had some adjustments coming in here
You know these teams have a lot of history between one another not their first rodeo between ignite and if some past MRC history
Yeah, as well for these teams
So we're gonna see which MRC team comes out on top and you know, I think of time and time again
We've seen YWL have the edge
But you're in stage one sticker to YWL back in the group stage went head-to-head and it was a 2-0 for stick drift
So the question I have for them coming into this matchup is was that a one and done or did they finally have the answers to take down a
Team like that we lost because otherwise why did yell has had their number historically?
I mean twice in MRC did really well in preseason against them as well
And as I was talking about with these strategist forces that are a little unseen in terms of like MVPs and things of the sort
Xanthos specifically has been popping off so far on that lunis snow on the same end though silent play
Specifically on the gambit is the one to look out for this team
And we saw something similar in
EMEA with rad right where teams were actually banning out the gambit first to make sure that they could target the players
who are really good at that here.
So that might be something that YWL could be doing
against Stickdrift here specifically,
but the problem is if you try to ban them,
you have so much more to worry about.
I mean, Redis, we've seen do some great work,
specifically on the Cyclops.
We've also seen Zatex do the same thing,
but I feel like Zatex has also been popping off
with the Elsa, and Elsa's had a bit of a resurgence
after the most recent buffs.
Yeah, it does kind of feel like people forgot
just how powerful she was, and you're right,
with the most recent tweaks.
definitely come into some big prevalence here. Gambit as well, another one who, you know,
maybe not Public Enemy number one anymore. We're kind of in a new era of Ryus here in Season 8.5.
But you know, a player like Silent plays with Gambit being on the table and available for so
many teams in so many matchups. He has taken that ability to play Gambit and run with it.
Found so much value here in a Stage 1. No doubt that's not going to be changing
too much here in this matchup, but we are almost ready to kick off this series. Going to Hell's
Heaven, first, I almost want to say maybe this leans a little bit towards YWL, perhaps?
It could, it could. They do have footage on Stickdrift here, specifically, mainly because
they played it earlier on in the competition against the Hundred Thieves. They did pretty
decent on it, right? We saw Iphia play the Angela, Tones play the Captain America, so doomed with the
Star Lord and, you know, the typical affair of the Gambit and Rocket. So a couple of different
prioritizations we could see for them. Also, read us some Bucky Bucky also. I got to give a shout
to that hero has been doing some lethal work with the cracking impacts that we saw me we saw
in the last series specifically a hexa as well so i'm expecting some highlight plays from both of
these teams domination seems to be the wheelhouse of these squads so we really don't know what exactly
do expect from the band draft because one of the most unorthodox band team and as hundred these was
alluding to and specifically in the interview that we saw from dolena is like they're one of the few
teams that actually scrims them a lot of teams have like blacklisted them or
refused to do it and maybe for good reason but who knows so the big thing
here is like what are the strategies that YWL yeah we lost is gonna be taking
out against stick drift and is that gonna be enough to take its first map and be
two steps away from that land qualifying matchup in top three yeah I mean
Carva Karma moves in a pretty wide arc so that's kind of the question is not
screaming, YWL, we're thinking the end or are they going to take you by surprise?
I was going to say we got the gambit then straight away from YWL. Definitely a target
man. You know, we're psychics out here. We peered the time stream and we're able to determine that
yes, I don't plays not going to be able to hop on the gambit. Smart shouts from YWL to start things
off. They will save the Daredevil for themselves too. And you know, I feel like we talk a lot about
sleeper hits characters that people thought would be, you know, buried here in season 8.5. I feel
I feel like Daredevil fits that double too.
Still a lot of teams finding ways to make him work
and make him deadly.
I mean, they know that they have to say
that Daredevil here specifically for Jetward.
They've had some success.
We saw a little bit of the black cats
and Spider-Man here and there,
but Daredevil is their MVP, maybe OTP, who knows,
but still doing really well on that hero,
even with those nerves, as you mentioned.
Of course, as we've seen in the band drafts before,
with any teams that are going to be allowing that Manchester,
you do have to ban the Loki,
but by vitality, you don't want to have to worry
about that damage boost from the Regeneration Dill Main.
The Double Lunar Snow also, to your part way, shut down,
you know, the Captain America, if you see that with the Snowflake,
a lot of teams are running that as well,
but also the team up between the White Fox and Lunar Snow.
A lot of teams have been using their second save
for White Fox specifically to try and shut down YWL,
but the Ultron save here is interesting.
The Double Damage Boost, that means we need some sort
of a duelist fan out of YWL.
Yeah, huge damage amplification on the table for Stickdrift.
I was just about to say, when you get Mantis on the table,
you know there's going to be some damage
amp staring you down from the other side of the battlefield.
And I was just about to point out,
it would be crazy if they saved the Ultron here as well.
Why are we all going to take out the Hulk, though?
Definitely an interesting choice.
Not what I would have expected.
They saved the White Fox to round out their draft line.
It's all going to be up to Stickerick, one more band,
and then we're ready to get into this one.
I feel like the Ultron Mantis saves are pretty big wins,
but I like YWL's odds, at least just looking at the band wrap.
We need something one-sided here, is what I would say,
for Stictriff for their last ban as a prioritization.
Dr. Strange is what they're going to do,
and we've actually seen that have relative success
against YWL, right?
Usually Kendrick, the one to use that to very well efficiency
against a lot of these teams too,
not having the portal one-sided,
that's been a struggle for YWL,
part of the reason why they ended up
in at the lower bracket as well.
So going in it to this map, I mean,
again, the ban draft that we saw come out,
specifically targeting the strong suits
these teams no fastball unless you do use the things specifically for stick drift and then of course as we saw
Kendrick targeted there so a lot of target fans coming out across the board
Yeah, definitely shows that these teams have done their homework and this far into the draft
No big shocker there for both of them to have read watch the tape read of the notes and know what they need to take care of
Coming into this one. So it is a domination on tap here on hell's heaven to start things off pretty interesting draft phase and
Yeah, I like the Dr. Strange band.
I think that's pretty nasty, especially on Dom.
You know that point is not moving, right?
It is stationary, the entire matchup.
You know that portal coming handy,
at least with something like convoy or convergence.
There are times when that convoy might be
right outside your front door.
So I do think it is extra pain on top of already
YWLs struggling in the past
when they don't have access to the Strange.
So yeah, some pretty interesting direct shots
being taken by both teams.
But again, you know, a lot on the line here.
They are facing elimination here.
Turning the lives on the line, and it is Hell's Heaven to start it off.
Interesting heroes being played here as well.
Tones rocking with the penny.
We've seen it before to very decent success.
So I'm excited to see, you know, the bunkering potential from them as well,
but also the double damage boost onto the Reedus, Elsa,
and see if that'll be enough for the monster piercing to chunk down YWO.
Yeah, very, very interesting comp on hand for Stickthrift.
I have to imagine that will give him some advantage.
And Luca stuck in the corner already in trouble.
He's not back down to Bruce Banner right away here.
Big pick and no mercy for Luka as Redis will finish him off on a V-Elsa here.
One body advantage for Stickdrift built very early here and they're going to try to capitalize on it.
Redis on the move on the Elsa exactly what you expected here and Luka has to walk it back for now.
But they're at least locking Antlers here to start.
I'm liking Tones as well on this penny as I'm mentioning because of the ability to shut down
Jitwell whenever they try to go through the skies and as we see that,
Any mind, takes him out specifically as he tries to go for a flight.
Yeah, on the back foot already, Luka in the fight and now already back down to Bruce Banner,
sitting all the way back at 4 versus 2. They will find Duke, though that's masked.
Well, and the Angela Rita's going to fly her right back and make sure
Stickdrift can keep that advantage here. No one able to make the capture as Zatek's an empty
kid in the KO feed as well here. Finally starts to turn a little bit blue,
but Stickdrift still just don't have the advantage, don't have the pressure to clear this point.
Would you like to swap here from Lucas specifically to the Captain America,
making sure that they have at least some extra support for their team even if they don't have a
snowflake for extra support. There they are gonna have to dip the butterfly though and it's gonna
just be met with some enemy mines and eventually go down it right afterwards. Got massive counter
fly for his ATKs, able to get some big value, even 100 duress from the enemy mines like you said.
Now Stickdrift all offline here. At this point is YWL to try to grab. If he holding off a dear
life on the venom, Symmonic Resilience runs out, he goes down and YWL make the first flip a long
more of attrition and that's just point number one. This is the problem with any
team that faces off against Yahweh last year. Backline gets decimated even with
the triple strategies trying to stay high and dry with the Ultron. Get targeted
especially with Zatex using those shurikens to extra effect but Kentrick
actually on the white box doing some great work just to support their team
with the teleports but also getting in the brawl when they need to. Yeah making
himself a threat for sure. You read this game out so early, it makes for a better...
We're gonna be walking it back there, and why don't we all get lucky?
Oh, it's Rift, who made all that leash?
And we're gonna let the Devil out, and it will pay off dividends here!
Jyn, we're gonna double KO on that daredevil, and Stickdrift lights going out one by one for them.
If be the last one standing, that is some big free real estate here for YWL.
A good investment of ultimates from YWL.
Stickdrift, the problem is that they just haven't found the right strategy to crack YWLs.
Just overwhelming pressure from the duelist line of price.
line-up price. Zatek's great flanks, has the invisibility to support them, and then they can get
filled in with the Westbox, but now we do have the Freedom Charge coming through to support them
on the spawn hole that Andri, these were eluded to. Yeah, gonna have to try to break their way out
of the front door here. Dune does find the Angel to start things off, where Stickdrift, the knock-a-lock
of capitalization, and Zatek's silent plays in the KLP trading chaos. Left and right,
Silent Play's gonna go down, holding that in his ult as well, and one by one again,
Siktra taking down Jitward and Kendrick leading the charge here for YWL in this fight as they will just shove right up against that spawn door and keep them there.
We'll back off for now, but yeah, YWL so hard to pin down because they're on the move in terms of composition too, already a lot of slots.
15-1 from Jitward, that's why you see them go for the daredevil first save and it's working to extra effect.
Yeah, big stuff here and now we are looking at potential final fight territory and so early on here, the white box for Siktra taking down.
If you know at least in the race here 95% and counting for YWL as they will circle the point like sharks here
Literally, or is ando on of the Jeff silent lays in some trouble. That's one strategist off line
Here's the overtime goes into play why do we all got some board pressure here and created that personal space bubble around the point
And there is no way stick drift can even put boots on the point point number one going to YWL
That's such a rough spot to be in for stick drift, right?
It felt like they had the right ingredients to take a bite of the competition. That is yeah
We lost but maybe they need to change their names after that first point because they seemed lost every time they went for a team
flight scattered and
Decimated we saw the dives coming in coordinated perfectly from Jitward and
Kendrick specifically going in there even mass swapping to the captain America made it so that it can keep that overwhelming pressure going and
And Luka now actually could be on the group.
I like this because there's potential for them to just lock down Stickdrift when they try to escape.
Yeah, and we've already, they've already proven that Stickdrift can be held in the spawn.
So they are going to put all their chips on the table here.
But yeah, YWL keeping things very fluid with the team comp.
You love to see it. And yeah, great shout on the team fights as well.
I mean, they're finding very early picks to basically make it to where Stickdrift are already on the back with before the real engagement even starts.
And from there, it's just cleanup duty for YWL.
So point one, going to them now,
Stink Drift, they'll have to find a way
to get themselves in the fight here.
Otherwise, YWL gonna take a real early lead in the series.
Here's the Bucky that I was talking about too,
the link valley that can happen from this.
And this being a bit more of an open points
and you know, some potential for bunkers
makes it even more difficult for teams to escape them.
But Rita's doing a great job getting that first foot pick
as the devil is unleashed.
Yeah, being here from Stink Drift,
a lot more aggressive than they will.
They tried the value out of it, DOOMED in the Redis as well.
And that KOV YWO wiped out here.
Strictrip will make the first take.
And they're pulled onto a lot of resources.
So got to imagine they're going to be looking to give YWO
a little bit of a taste of that spawn hole too.
That was a good fight win.
Only used one ultimate with the last stand from DOOMED
and have a lot in the bank too.
Bounce back from afterwards.
But they got to be careful, especially
about Xampho with the force physics.
Try to get a pick on Redis early.
Yeah, you cannot let yourself get caught out here,
Even with the resource advantage, they're back all the way up to the point.
Now they're gonna have to turtle up and play a defense here.
Wolverine on the move, doomed with a kidnap.
Revisal to finish off.
Masked a one of Frontline or four while those girls take it out.
That's a miracle down here from Xandall.
They do a stun now.
Rockstick drift there.
Cooper in time.
They can't follow up on the KOs, but able to buy themselves some time here.
And Kumiho and Leesh from both sides of the board here.
Silent Blaze will make the break through.
Finding one on the YWL.
Jitward sent back the spawn here, and that is all the resources from both
of these teams, and it's looking like another win here
for Stature at the big bounce back on point two.
Felt like a panic button was pushed by YWL,
and the invisible boundary came through
that we saw the Stregly prison,
and yeah, maybe there was a bit of miscommunication,
some connection issues that could be happening here
as the pause does come through.
I'm assuming that's on YWL then,
because that was very interesting way
to take that team fight to say the least.
A lot of ultimates kind of wasted in that one,
and they wanna make sure, you know,
have the best connection that everything is all hunky-dory going into this next team fight because it's been stick drift all the way as the
Map has been drifting in their favor. No pun intended on that one
It just feels like stick drift have a better read with this comp compared to where we saw them on the first sub map and now that they've locked in
You know, they have the fastball special readers has been able to stay up and alive a little bit longer
They had six casualties into that previous sub map and that was the most out of anyone on their team
You can tell that they knew they had to target the carry.
I hate to say it on the duelist lineup for Stick Drift.
And YWL had their target acquisition to another level.
It's just now that maybe they're having some issues here.
It's a different story.
So hopefully we see some fixes, at least
from YWL in terms of communication
and the coordination of their ultimates.
It's just those last two team fights were not it.
Yeah, it did kind of surprise me because that clobbering time
from if he hit basically the entirety of YWL.
They sustained right on through,
and I was expecting, all right,
pendulum swing, YWL gonna wipe the floor here
and take the point, but no such luck for him.
So yeah, it looks like we're almost ready
to just jump right back in,
but definitely something interesting going on
the side of YWL, but you're 100% right.
Stick drift looking a lot more comfortable
in this composition, able to accomplish a lot more,
and that feels like a taking control of the pacing here.
Now it's up to YWL to try to find a way to rest attack.
We got Mask on the Rogue, Luka on the Hulk, maybe the Bubbles will be able to shield their team a little bit more
once some of these ultimates come through, especially that clobbering time to protect them and see if that'll be the difference.
Fassball does miss and it's not going to be a strike this time.
Dune is at least able to make the kidnap here, but the Y-Fox 4 Sticker taken down already.
We're in some trouble on the side of YWO and Dune will find Kendrick there.
So one more taken down, four. Yeah, we lost 85% now for Sticker, so they are very quickly approaching final fight territory
And the timing's starting to line up. Here's the stars, a line for them.
If they can take this fight, they might be able to take this point number three.
Last stand for Doomdead as Sticker is gonna try to make one last stand.
They will get Luca back down to Banner Form, and that's Jiggler as well offline.
So, big, big body advantage for Sticker here as overtime goes into effect.
Redis trying to take it out the side hallway on the lookbook lane.
They'll find a double-on to Zaytas, so the siren out of the equation here.
Gotta watch out, though. There are some sharks in at this water.
Jeffle from Xantho, not a deep play here for YWL though, they're gonna try to take in their
heartbreaker from the mask to try to bite himself sometime as Jitward lets that devil out.
He will try to one-on-to-tongue right away so Captain America out to fight here.
Another clobbering time for me, and it's big as two, three of stuns on the YWL.
Not a lot of conversion here though, they will find Jitward yet again over half the overtime.
Dawn here, Stick-Drip-Hole, all the cards though, they've got the alt advantage, they've got the
Only one more remaining in mask, and they will get deleted from the objective.
2 is taking in a momentum swing that will be talking about for quite some time sent to the Eldridge Monument we go and
This is still anybody's first map and both teams know momentum-wise how important this one is right
We saw in the previous season series
Excuse me hundred thieves took that first map in the reverse week
And that eventually was just enough for them to get the edge in the final hour and take the win in map 5
This could be the one that ultimately is the start of the
dominos between these two teams on which will make it to that land qualification match and you know looking at the stats that we
Have here as well
I mean a big turnaround from Reedus had six casualties to their name in it that first sub map on a super soldier factory only
Two in the frozen airfield. So a lot better
Positioning I would say from them they knew when to back off and give more space to their team to move forward
I feel like if he was a great
they've been only going down twice, the least casualties in the entire lobby in the clobbering times, the six-band, the three-man at the end, that was the difference maker for this team.
Yeah, I mean, just over and over again, those thing all's absolutely massive for Stickdrift, and yeah, a big momentum shift their direction, but already signs of life from YWL there at the end of that second point.
So this map is far from over here one at last showdown on point number three
And this is just the map number one of this series so buckle in here
Bring them charge from toes now gonna leave the charge for a speaker hit to battle here
There's a pretty good radius on the board as well releasing the guard drops to start things off of evil super at the hands of
Mask on to that road. Come here at least from Kendrick, but I've been stunned there from a dude and now Stickdrift gonna follow up two of her two here
But they are trying to even things out. They take a little bit of a lot of the advantage
But it's three on each side and nobody's got the capture point yet
Like those swaps that we're seeing here too is a text
Moving on
I mean I get it trying to stall for your team and see that would be enough for you to take the first point
It does create enough space and we're distracted in time and the charm comes around as a test
So a tough goal if one of the other they still keep a contested
Yeah, still have not been able to finish off this capture.
Stick Drift just an inch away here, so they can get these last couple bodies.
It looks like Luka and Kendrick from YWO off the point.
They'll make you a flip here, but it's an ass that takes down Sion, plays on as a Jeff.
The start thing's off.
That forces up a Kumiho and Leesh, but not in time to save Rita, so he's back in spawn
as well here as YWO.
Gonna let everything rip one by one.
Stick Drift fall in YWO.
Looking like they will be able to get the first captor on point number three, but it
is under duress.
and that is no exaggeration here.
Both teams absolutely sweating here, just on map number one.
The Ruby Rage used to perfect effect
because it chunks the health with the second salvo of damage
that comes through with the percentage health that it does.
So a good counter, I would say, to the Kumihou and the Lichens.
Logan was doing really great work with that ultimate,
enabling their team.
So shutting that down with the counterswap is great here.
Wadaviel, this might be the comp they need to use to win.
Now it's up the sticker to find another answer,
But none come here in this next fight. Zedix and Mask already picking up some KO's, Dune and Infi below half, and some serious trouble here.
And that Mutant Resilience not enough to save the Wolverine. Infi as well suffers the same fate here, and YWL gonna look to lock in that forward pressure here.
Again, Jitward already pushing up. Gonna buy Dory. This is the one throughout the quarter on the Elsa, and Will's suffer here.
Now it's YWL holding the cards. They've got the ult advantage, and they are staring down the spawn door for safety reasons.
Since how it's thought to be in for Sticker, they felt like they had full control of that second map,
but Sonic Blaze, the ultimate tap has been working as well as they have liked,
not really getting the captures and keeps that they need here.
Also, we do see the Devil being unleashed with the Kumi El form.
This is a lethal combo that YWL has perfected.
Yeah, very clearly Jitward's so comfortable on that,
they're able to kind of evolve their strategy around it,
and that has led us here 65% for YWL to close out the map.
the map, Stickdrift still have not captured this point.
Tones got that free in charge, ready to go.
Yeah, I did hit an inch.
Jeff coming out from the Xantho now.
Gonna look for some victims in the water here.
Barely avoids Doom.
He does find most of his team.
Spits them onto the point.
Another gobbler in time for Ippie.
And it will land onto the duelist line of YWL.
Jinnorn will go down into the lake of that one.
Zaychex injured as well here.
Baskin's in serious trouble.
So Luca trying to battle back and will give them some pressure
onto Stickdrift 90% and counting here not the time for Stickdrift to be going down one by one as they are looking at finishing off this map right here right now.
It is a battle between the pain brothers, Luka and if we go head to head on the big guys here, it is YWL getting into overtime.
Nobody from Stickdrift on the point and it slowly takes away here overtime.
It is over and YWL will have it. They just barely missed boots on the point.
So close yet so far 100% to zero domination is the game mode and exactly what we witnessed here from YDBL in points one and two specifically.
Not so much at the frozen airfield but just felt like the composition wasn't quite there for them.
But they locked in, they were able to fix their sights on exactly which heroes were going to be the ones to counter what we were seeing from Stickdrift.
and it felt like the Ruby rage was the difference maker at the end there from Zavtex.
But even then, I mean, Xantho sticking on the Jeff, doing a great job healing their team up from long range,
staying up as long as they could.
And I was talking about, you know, how well we saw Iffy doing in that capacity, staying alive to support their team.
The problem was that Logan was getting sold out, targeted every single time in these team fights,
and they were down a strategist like 99% of that 0.3,
So couldn't really stay alive to sustain their advances or team fights and there was no hope for them after that
Got battle plans unfortunately falling through for a stick drift here
Yeah, we lost after map number one gonna have to change their name to yeah
We won because they dominate here on domination
L7 belongs to them, but the question is can they keep the ball rolling?
We've got map number two for you on the other side of this very short break
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to zeroed in point three on the Algerian monument for YWL on Hell's Heaven. It seemed
like, at least for the first and last one, they had full control of everything. All of
the stones that they needed for the Infinity Gauntlet were collected and they got the victory
at the end of it. And unfortunately, this was Infinity War, not Endgame for Stick Drifts.
And looking ahead here, Diatonic, it felt like the swaps were too hot on the side of
by WL and there just wasn't an answer in time.
It's like, why WL?
The compositions are the form of an onion.
You keep peeling back the layers
and there's more and more and you just start crying.
Yeah, I mean, that's so typical for YWL.
As soon as a team starts to figure out the game plan,
starts to figure out a way to play around
what they brought to the table,
it's like they smack the puzzle out of your hands
and hand you a brand new one.
And every single time,
Stick Drift just not enough time on the clock
to try and find that final answer.
It's like a Rubik's Cube that's one or two squares away
from being perfect.
It's all painful to see, but they can get there.
So close yet so far, but we have our MVP here.
It did give it to Xantho.
We do have some of our thoughts on this one.
Xantho did a great job, 32,000 healing,
but we personally felt that the swap here from Zatex
at the end was very important to highlight.
Again, they went from not having too much presence.
It felt like in that second sub map,
we got to see from Zatex only five finals
that at the end of it was able to end off with 12, the second most on their team next to Mask.
And I feel like the swaps was the difference to make here, but the Cyclops specifically,
the Ruby Rage, shutting it down, the White Fox even more so that they weren't even feeling
confident with the ultimates of the Kumihou unleashed.
And there wasn't too much that Logan could do, unfortunately, there.
They were really enabling their team before then once they got shut down, there was no
strategist to just keep them alive into those teamfights.
And that's why I went 100 to 0 at the end of it.
You can see the stats here. Even if he did such a good job for the team 11 final hits tied with Reedus and that's a vanguard on their team
You know a lot of solo vanguards out there know that feeling but it wasn't a solo performance because yeah
We lost did everything possible to shut down the rest of the team
Yeah, I mean I enjoyed the swap for if the over onto the thing and he hits them seriously big clobbering times of four and a
Three stun two out of the three eight times
I think he was able to activate the alt after the swap
but YWL, that backline, able to just sustain through it.
And, you know, we kind of talked about it right at the beginning of the series,
Xantho being a big key for YWL in this bracket.
And again, they deliver on the healing front, able to just sustain right on through.
I think when they were on point number two,
if we hit a four stun off of a clobbering time,
and I just saw YWL's health bars full the entire time.
And, you know, it's very surprising to see,
but they are just playing right on through it.
So you can tell that Stickdrift have some game plans.
They have ideas of how they want to approach these engagements,
but YWO are able to just turn the tide at the last second
and again deliver them another brand new puzzle to solve.
Well, speaking of puzzles, we got to figure out exactly which map we are going to go to here.
There's been a couple of different options for Stick Drift in terms of counter picks.
We've only seen them have to do it once into the playoffs,
so maybe a central park that they could go to or midtown.
That's what we've seen so far.
I'm hoping for a Rocco at some point.
We haven't seen that map.
Where is it? It's still in the map pool and nobody's playing it.
Come on.
Oh, yeah, we're gonna need a milk carton. Have you seen this lost map?
Have you seen a Rocco because I haven't seen it in a while and I can tell you coming from the Pacific region XOXO
One a team that very commonly used to pick a Rocco one of their signatures
Know a dice this stage unfortunately over in Pacific so yeah, definitely been on the hunt for it
But I think I'm on the same page with you vaudeville. I'm expecting a New York map
No, they're gonna pull one out of left field hall of Dushalia
I feel like there's a lot of good options in terms of composition that can counter what
YWL is good at here, right?
It is a lot of open lanes that you can defend. We've seen, you know, some decent performances from like low keys in the past on this map
specifically. Some teams even like to go for like the Angela play and we've seen that in the past from Iffy
and they were feeling really good, you know, with the clobbering time in the past with the
things specifically, but I would not be surprised if that's the angle that they're going for. Also Penny,
I mean they tried to play the penny before with tones and it didn't quite work out on domination
But it's a decent setup that you can go for on at this first point
Yeah, especially against the team like now we lost
I fully expect to see penny Parker roll out here because yeah, you're right
They were kind of chomping at the bit to get her out and get her rolling
I don't think she's a bad choice on hell's heaven either
But there are definitely some nasty spots here for her to do her work
So we are ready map number two a bandraff coming in and yeah
We lost gonna stick to that gambit band again. Stick drift. I'm not too surprised by that
No, and we're of course gonna see the Mantis save come through stick
You're still trying to see if they can make that work
They actually ended up swapping off of it towards the end just because they are getting just dove too much and the triple
Stragist was not working especially in that first sub map that we saw from Super Soldier factory
Of course the Loki bands are always gonna follow because like I mentioned before in the last band draft
If you do not want that vibrant Vitalik team up with the damage boost that you typically
see it from the regeneration domains, that also with a rocket using their Cosmic Darn
Amplifier is a deadly combo.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I mean, it's very similar to, you know, when Gambit was the first band for every single
team.
If somehow he made it through the draft phase, there's kind of a laundry list of heroes you
have to take away to compete here.
Yeah, you know, it piles up and it basically commits your entire draft to taking care of
it.
amped to get rid of Gambit every single time.
But now things have changed here.
And the Mantis one-sided for Stickdrift.
We pointed this out in the draft the last time around.
Stickdrift got the Mantis.
They got the Ultron.
They banned away the Star-Lord from Yeah, We Lost.
And we thought that really stacked the deck against them.
But Yeah, We Lost played right on through.
They did not seem to miss Steven Strange there on Hell's
Heaven.
And it's open here, too.
They could try to take their way.
Oh, yeah.
I was going to say, I got to see an Angela Band here.
Yeah, this is a great map for Angela.
wanting one side of Angela as well and see if that's going to be the difference maker for them,
walking the Ultron again. So very similar band draft and instead of banning the Doctor Strange
though, focusing on that Angela just because the Aerial Superiority and the ability to dive with
the rest of your team, right, using the ultimate to heat them clustered up in one spot and you can
focus them down very well with the Daredevil. You can also use the Assassin's Charge just to
bring them back to your team and take them down afterwards and actually the Hulk band coming again
from YWL. So the exact same bandwrap that we see from YWL, but a little bit of a
change from Stick Drift, and you've got to make some changes after you drop a map.
Yeah, I was going to say, it's definitely a case of if it ain't broke, don't fix it, and that's
pretty much what YWL is going to run in here. But yeah, I'm curious to see if that Ultron
Pit kind of pays dividends for them this time around, because you have to imagine
that kind of pressure out of the air can mount so quickly and build against you. But YWL,
very cool, under pressure there on Hell's Heaven. It was not totally clean. We got to see all three
points and both teams really had to work for every bit of capture progress they did, but now the tides
are turning. We are onto some convergence action here. Sticker's gonna take the attack first and
they're kind of lining up trying to figure out exactly what they're gonna roll out on here. You
can't really trust them until those doors open up. YWO though got a way better look at what they're
gonna run here because uh yeah it's gonna be some Star Lord and CYA combinations potentially here.
I do like the change-ups here. I know Jeff's like pretty decent on certain portions of this map,
but actually rocking the Rocket Raccoon here for the
B-O-B at beacon just so that you have that one extra life essentially, but also the damage boost and extra health as well
Zatek's actually going to be on the Star Lord. This is a great Star Lord map
And I'm actually more surprised that Stickdrift aren't rocking with it
But they are going to be using the Cyclops this go around it felt like the Elsa was not the answer against this composition of YWL
And this might be the difference maker
Yeah, there was definitely some work by Orinas on that Elsa
But of course, Stickdrift gotta keep knocking on the door here to try and find a way through that way into this series.
Math number two underway. No delay here from these teams.
Mask leading the charge on the Rogue Xanthum.
Gonna pick up a clean and double on the inches there before physics come through.
And now Stickdrift on the back foot right out the gate getting dumped off the ledge here.
And Zatex, we caught up at Star Lord already.
A double KO under their belt here.
YWL, no mercy to start this off.
Yeah I mean this is the way you want to see a team playing on defense for this
map. This overwhelming duelist pressure that we see from them but it's not just
the duelist side of things too. I mean Xantho has a strategist getting a double
is not something you see every day unless it's a luna snow. Well seeing them use the
ledge in perfect effect. Zatex also with some great flanks and I just feel like
stickdrifts are a bit lost in these team fights. Again they are just not having a
a single answer to any of these 1v1s or team fights
that we've seen at least in the first minute or two.
Oh, and right now the biggest defender is Zatek,
so you're a triple KO now,
on the Star Ward and leaving Stygdrift really here
as they try to figure out how to steer the map pick
in their direction.
But yeah, you're right, I like that kind of aggression,
that forward pressure from, yeah, we lost,
because look how far up they are.
If they do get picked off,
if they do have a body disadvantage,
they have time to walk it back
because now Stygdrift's got a mile to run,
to get to the point here, but no such luck for Stickdrift YWL,
staring at the spawn doors again, and they will find KO after a KO here.
It's like Stickdrift just can't get up off the map.
I was saying it before, it's like we've just been mirroring the results from EVA today.
I was like, there's no way we get another 3-0 sweep right after we saw a five-game series.
Well, it's leading that way, and tone-swapping to the Rogue is trying to make a bit of a difference,
but going against Masked, one of the best in the business,
on to that hero is going to be a difficult task.
Yeah, Rogue obviously coming into a lot of prevalence here at 8.5, and she's showing a lot here, but it is Zaytex right now,
leading the way for YWL on map 2. That'll be a BRB res for Logan to get back up and in the fight here,
but they're gonna need more of an answer than that. They do manage to find Jhin with a Logan back up and hits the ground,
running their Kendrick in trouble as well for YWL, but they've got plenty of firepower on the board.
They've got Galactic Legion, Bustra, by that CYA from Kendrick here.
Zajak's finding one right out of the gate and Xandral takes down Iffy as well,
making a double KO for that Galactic Legend.
He hits back to the ground and YWL a little bit shaky there,
but they very quickly were getting control.
I feel like Stickdrift lost any semblance of control that they had at the start of this.
This was their map pick, the counter pick that they haven't gone to so far,
and maybe it wasn't the best option for them.
YWL, well, a practice it seems on this map was the perfect composition.
They haven't had to make a single change.
We finally are seeing ultimates available for Stickdrift,
and that has to be the difference maker here.
Yeah, I mean, that really gives you an idea of how this game is going for YWL.
They have not made swaps yet.
There will be some cables coming in for Stickdrift here.
Duke will buy this.
Anthoregas goes down the hands of YWL,
but they will both use VRVs to get back up and in the fight here.
Stickdrift at least able to capture one tit there
and looking for the second one.
Having such a vision from if he buys himself a bomb at a time here.
They do get the herd on,
and Tones will take out Xanthos. So in his back to spawn and Xanthos, we're going to
swap back over to the jet that served him so well on Hell's Heaven with stickers.
At least going to get that second take here, but Jynward's on the move with DoubleKale on the daredevil,
and he is going to try to hunt down Tones on that rogue as well, if he in trouble.
Going to be shot down by Zajac, so that is one Angel heading back to Earth here.
Tones as well going to follow him back to the spawn room, and with just 10 seconds left,
I don't know, Redis is on the strange, but will the portal show up in time? There it is,
And YWL off the point here, they got to rotate back quick, but STD trying to at least bring one more fight to this one.
Overtime in effect in their half-way through that third and final ticker, so one more push.
Oh, that's the coming-on leash, and Logan's gonna unleash that right now here, putting down some damage on the YWL.
Xanto in some serious trouble there, about to get boiled is that land shark.
But Jintward as well, taking the hurt here, Tones and Giver gonna trade back and forth here one for one.
And it's another brutal overtime, and finally the breakthrough here!
For YWL they managed to get the body advantage and there's one more galactic legend to the road that was thinking so low and with no strategy outside there is absolutely nothing they can do to stop that satellite overhead that is Z-Tex and YWL will hold them shy of checkpoint number one.
87.5% of full hold that is probably going to go down in the record books against
stick drift that they don't want to remember in their dreams because that
was a nightmare brewing from the get-go. It took them such a long time to finally
get some eliminations, finally get some ult charge. Four minutes is how long it
took for them to get their first ultimates because they were staying
down so much after just throwing darts at a wall and hoping something would
sticking the right combination to get to the points necessary to charge their
ultimates and unfortunately for them yes they used them to push on the objective
but it was not enough to recontest the swaps over to the venom that we saw
happened from Luca. I love the change up from Xantho after getting targeted by
Iffy's Angela swapping it to the jet that worked out so well so they could
quickly get to the points with the bubbles using the speed boost from Matt
and also the long-range heals that just seem to be a difference maker every time
with this team, some of Alex Shenanigans to keep them involved too.
And I think a big difference here as well for Sixer is the Vankard's going down so quick
and the Heels aren't being there to supply them because they're also getting delved
and there just hasn't been an answer. This could be it though. We do see the Hellenymore.
This is a great map for it. I'm just a little bit more surprised that they haven't swapped
things up with the way that they were just not finding a single answer on attack.
Yeah, I like this change up as well, but my fear is just too little, too late here.
It's just 87% is all of the room that stickdrift have to try and hold down this map here and get on the board
Looks like Kendrick gonna open things up with a strange portal right away have to imagine
They're gonna try to take that high ground right behind the point on me
Take it right down to the ground thinking about it
They might go to very high ground here formal does open up light up you all on through here and onto the ground
I'm gonna take the fight home and it's pretty much one fight territory almost for the stickdrift here
so they gotta find a way to dig in the heels and stop YWL from taking this space.
They're pretty much home on the point here.
Jigward getting blue here and trouble with the heels from YWL coming up big,
but Nass taking down Viadum to swap it over to the Namor.
So already paid off some dividends 30 seconds away.
Portal not quite as successful as I think YWL hoped,
but they were at least able to put a dent in things here.
Yeah, Kendrick back to the drawing board, so is the rest of the teams.
They have plenty of time to work with, right?
Halfway to the Ultron Ultimate, and at Luca's World Breaker Hulk, so those could be the pieces of the pie that they need to complete their victory lap on this map, but Stickdrift not going down without a fight, especially with tongues swapping to the penny, I think that's been a big difference made from this game.
Yeah, the temperature of the water has kind of changed here for Stickdrift, changing up so much of the composition, and now YW all trying to adjust to it, and Rita's will take down Jitward, and early looks here against YW.
Well, it does look like they didn't get that first tick, so they've at least got someone to anchor onto, but Mask taken out for Guietta again.
No, they did not get that first tick there, so it's stopping already.
Stickdrift, they're able to kind of right-click the ship here, and they've already shaved a minute 30 off of YWL's clock.
The long-range distance on the lanes to this first objective are very much benefiting this composition from Stickdrift.
Riddis is now unleashed that they've been locked up like we saw on the attacking side.
It just was not working for them.
Unfortunately, the Star Lord was getting found out every time they tried to go for a flank
and they couldn't even use it, and the combos were used to steam because the gambit has been banned one-sidedly every time.
And guess they didn't need it this go-around for Wile's BL because they have so many different compositions that can play,
and now if you feel that it's available, it's only a matter of time that they take a tip.
Yeah, a matter of time, indeed. Less than two minutes to go.
YWL taking this damage right away, Redis!
And Doom, the DPS line coming up, being here.
YWL sent really all the way back to spawn.
Jim, we're gonna follow the rest of the team.
It's a double for the Namor and Steak Drift, with just 87%.
They have stopped YWL a minute 30 left to go,
and they haven't made any progress yet.
Yeah, we lost that teamfight is what they're thinking after that too.
And Zatek swapping back onto the Cyclops.
I like this change up for them too. It worked out very well for them on house ebbin to close things out on the
Outrage Monument and having a bit more long-range damage and confirm possibilities with Cyclops kit is a good option for them
But it's not good to tell with almost six ultimates from Stickdrift. They happen to bank in only a minute remaining
Got that bank account looking very full here for Stickdrift. The ult's gonna come out right away
ebbin's retribution from Stickdrift and an invisible battery from YWL
Well, it's going to be a big diagram here for Xantho and Logan.
Both of these ults are on the board here to try and keep these teams alive.
But why don't you all, that's all they've got.
And now, Stickdrift has plenty left in the tank here.
They've got plenty left.
Indeed, as that Spider Sweeper comes out from the tones,
if you'll find a Xantho, put them on the shish kebab here,
as they look to maybe try and close this one out.
It's been a final fight for Stickdrift on defense this whole time.
That was 30 seconds left to go.
It's going to be a final fight for either side of the board here.
And Rhaedus fighting Jitward early on is not going to help them here.
The target acquisition has just been at only a different level from stick-trip compared to when they were on the tack.
In 24 seconds on a single tick, this would be a perfect look for them.
And why this map is so annoying for a lot of teams, it's very easy to get full health if you don't have the right strategy
and it feels like YWL have lost the plot as well.
Yeah, I mean, there's just nobody in sight here.
YWL got one last Hail Mary here trying to keep things going.
Keep things going, Nass taking up a finny Nass here to start things off.
Rida's going overhead for the Hela over here, trying to unreach Hell from the sky.
Stickdrift on the ground, they're going to unreach that.
Kumiho, it is one fight for YWL here, and the BRP is off line for Stickdrift.
Early on here, Rida's going to come back down to Earth, and Chibwin will find Loken.
This is not looking good here for Stickdrift.
That's the last second, the 11th hour.
YWL able to make one tick, but they cannot afford to lose this fight.
Stickdrift though, half the team is sitting offline.
If they're going to follow them all the way back, it's just fun here. They got to stay on that point.
And if they will, that's the eleventh hour of the bell tolls.
But it tolls for Stinkdrift as, yeah, we lost. We'll take map number two.
Mask MVP. 100%. They would not have won that without the flank from the Rogue.
Able to just tank the damage and build up their attacking power with their kit.
And the new buffs that we saw for Rogue, right?
able to do a little bit more damage after absorbing even more than was possible before the 8.5 it changes.
And you don't need Gambit for Rogue to be effective. Proving it there by a mask, I said, one of the best in the business on Rogue for a reason.
And really just enable the team to take down them from within. But a great victory there by YWL.
One away from making it to our land qualifying matchup. We'll see if they can continue this fury forward after this.
I'll protect you when you need me
If you want me to be alone, I'm afraid of being pushed away
If you look for me by the side of the road
I'm going to start the day with you, let's go
I'm gonna cry in the dark, I'm gonna go with a warm smile
I'm gonna show you who I really am
We're waiting for you, baby, give me a hug
Until the night comes
Baby, give me a hug
I've been waiting for a long time
I'm shining like a star in the night
You know everybody want the night
Grab a black box, black stuff
I'll protect you all night
The more I look at you
Don't don't be so good
I'll stop, don't talk no more
Yeah
I'll run to you
If you look at me from here
Come and see me
Let's start, let's go
I don't know
I'm thankful to you
I don't want to hide
I'm going to melt
Just wait a little longer
I'll be there
Don't fall, don't fall, just stand up
Wherever you are, I'll be there
I'll be there for you
I'll sing a high-pitched song
I'm going to do it, I'm going to go
I'm going to do it, I'm going to do it
I'm going to do it again
It's the Gambit first fan. The new strategy here. It's worked two times in a row. What's not a third here for YWL against Stickdrift?
Revenge that served up
Cold I guess against the other team because it was a different story in the group stages here diatonic stick drift
Got the victory there
But every other iteration of these rosters have battled out before even through MRC and it was the other way around
Why do we all taking the victory there as we're seeing it this time?
So I don't know. Maybe it's the band draft. Maybe it's just then
Probably wanting to prioritize banning out jitward the dare double being saved first every time makes it difficult there on that end too
But I think another thing is just the flexibility here, right? Zaytex specifically swapping to the Cyclops yet again
Getting rid of the squids from long range with a concussive blast. It just was nothing they could do to counter it
Yeah, I mean still no big answer here for stick drift
And yeah, of course Zaytex gonna stay in that MVP slot because again the same strat laid out here
The Cyclops swap for YWL comes in big and when things were looking rough for them back on Hall of Dejalia going into overtime
They text was one of the heroes that helped them keep things together
Of course mask on the rogue as well big plays in the clutch for them
And you know YWO that their team that can play in that clutch
They are so comfortable there and you know we talked about the grit of this team right there one that will never give up
They got held by stick for four minutes
And it was all but done and they made some swaps at the last minute and said no
We'll just win this team fight and take the whole map ourselves ignore the Rita spider-man. They were playing hello towards the
There specifically and yeah, the hell no more seemed to be the difference maker for them
But I think the biggest problem was they weren't able to capture that first point
Right could have been a different story if they got through it and they were held for basically four minutes themselves before they got to
the
80 some odd percent that they had and the problem was it took them so long to build up their
Ultimates that they just didn't have any answers and team fights that they were finding themselves in even santo getting involved with the force
This is at the start for the double KO against the other team.
It just felt like dire straits for them.
They finally figured it out.
And then, oh, here comes the mask from the flank, from behind.
Takes out the spider spawner.
Takes out the petty Parker using the defensive stance
into the backlash.
And there's nothing that they could do about it.
So I don't know.
It's just this team is so lethal.
I think it's the best way to describe YWL.
And if you do not have any, like, contingencies,
an A plan, B plan, C plan, and D plan,
There's just nothing you can do when YWL set their sights on one objective and they will take it like we see in these last two maps.
Yeah, I mean, yeah, we lost a team that's so comfortable flying by the seat of their pants.
They will change things up anytime for any reason.
And if you can't keep up, then you see what happens here.
You fall to a maps behind just like Stickdrift are now.
And yeah, you call it out right at the beginning here.
You know, these teams have tangled multiple times, whether it's the MRC when Stickdrift were known as Lunex Gaming.
and even now against YWL yet again here.
And the question I had coming into this match was,
is that group stage encounter between these two teams,
Stickdrift finding an answer,
or is it them finding a temporary breakthrough?
And so far, it seems like YWL have righted the ship
against them and are now just one map away
from keeping the tournament dreams alive.
The question is, where are Stickdrift
gonna send us off to next?
We called out the Midtown, the Central Park,
obviously Convergence off the table here,
so I'm thinking maybe we're gonna get a little Midtown
New York actually. Yeah a lot of teams you know have been doing pretty well in
that one we've seen some triple triple strategies we've even seen the latest
we were talking about before from swamp gaming and some of the teams even in
EMEA earlier on today and yep there's the mid sound we were talking about
there's a great penny Parker map specifically 4.1 I think they're gonna
opt for defense to try and full hold them here instead of the attacking side
and that might be a difference maker for stick drift to try and turn around this
series but for now the car is full throttle full speed ahead for YWO with
a sweep in. It's all up to Stickdrift to see if they can turn things around, actually get one
under the saddle for themselves and at least have a fighting chance for that lower semi-final
and trying to make it to that mid-season final as well. Yeah, I mean the task at hand here for
Stickdrift is to play spoiler to this momentum that YWL have built up for themselves and I
thought we were seeing that play out through most of their defensive run on map number two.
It seemed like they'd finally pumped the brakes on this whole series and said,
Hey, we're going to try to make this a little more methodical,
maybe get some extra maps in here.
But now they are staring down the abyss here.
One map away is Stickdrift from being eliminated
from the tournament and YWL going on to potentially play
for a spot in the mid-season finals.
So a lot on the line for both of these teams.
And, you know, YWL, they're looking comfortable.
They're looking confident in here.
Stickdrift, you know, it's, again, it's just the puzzle
of playing against a team like YWL.
They've had so many encounters in the past.
They did find those answers, like we said, in the group stage.
But now they are left here.
Yet again, is down at the final exam.
And the answers are all blank for them so far here.
Andraft in effect now going to run down very similarly
on the first mix here.
Gambit taken away for stick drift.
That has paid dividends for him.
And they're going to make sure Jitward's got Daredevil ready
to go as well.
And you can't have Midtown New York without Matt Murdock.
No, you can't.
and we've seen it be so effective for Jitward and, you know, people saying Dive was dead going into the playoffs.
Well, it's more alive than ever, especially with Yawie Lost.
If they make it all the way to the land, then they might be able to rally behind.
It helps Jion get some buffs for Black Cat in the future, who knows?
But the Lunasnow save is the biggest change here for Stickdrift.
They're done with the Mantis because they haven't been playing.
It's been a wasted save for them because the triple strategist is not the answer to Yawie Lost.
And I think this might be a good look for them.
still going to be taking out the Loki because the regeneration domain with the greens is just too powerful whenever a dive is coming through
Just to sustain your team and bounce back afterwards
So they don't want to have to worry about that also just in case there is still a save from the mantis as well
But the one side of Luna snow could be that difference maker
Yeah, of course can't let him walk away just with rocket raccoon without some kind of answer here
So rocket off the table for a stick drift as well. I like the change up here
I mean the backs are against the wall and yeah, they are really focused on that back line
So they're gonna box combo to the table here on map number three
And you know, they're just trying to change things up trying to take a page out of YWL's book and try to find some way to
Morph this team into one that can start taking maps in this series. Ooh, the group against stick drift
I really like that on midtown. That's nice
This is just to get rid of the entire vibrant vitality team up which is so effective on midtown in general and just from what we've seen as a
team up that's out there so nobody's getting the rocket raccoon which means no second chance is no
sya's of any sort but i don't think yeah we lost is worrying too much i feel like this is still a
very solid band draft for them yes you have the blessing of the kumiho team up we've seen a couple
teams try to rock that either way against yeah we lost and they still have found ways to counter it
out so it's all going to come down to the timing the expertise of the strategist line of stick drift
if they can go toe-to-toe with the dive prowess of yeah we lost one last chance here for stick
to stay in the competition and they're running up for the midseason finals.
Otherwise, YWL have their sights set on their first ever series against 100
thieves as an organization. Yeah, I mean, you have to imagine stick
to it. Hearing the toll of the bells here. One life left for them here.
This map could send them home with nothing and send YWL, like you said,
onto that first time flash against 100 thieves.
But yeah, there's some interesting stuff on the table here,
but I'm looking maybe at maybe some Beyblade Wolverine action here.
Got to watch out for that one for sure because yeah, he's been pretty nasty,
but his mask really going to walk out on this story here.
I've never really seen this.
I think it's pretty solid, especially with the chance to like disable any of the escape options
for the Wolverine once they go for the kidnaps here and have kidnaps of your own to shut them down.
So if that's a target acquisition I like to talk about, is it there?
Then why they'd be able to look pretty solid here?
A little bit better than the penny in my mind, just for this team specifically.
Well, definitely gonna be a lot of kidnapping from both sides of the board here and Stinkdrift can look to steal this one away and
Despite mask on that Thor indeed is hit the streets of Midtown and if he already in some serious trouble here
Stinkdrift by thinking of finding themselves in a world of pain right off the bat
Why don't you know that's what we're completely planted on the gas here
No subnites of slowing down Ritas and Jit were gonna trade back and forth to him in some trouble here as well
Luca found on the hall and he's back down to banner form and have to turtle up with the rest of the team
But not a fad opening south over right up the other
Waking room working pretty solid there for mass just to feel some massive damage from your brain and still their team
Also, Luca even after the puny banner form still able to recover in time
That's just due to the great backup from YWL strategist Kendrick and Xanto
But as I say that Zaytex getting targeted by if the ideal like the venom option here could be the difference
Yeah, definitely a good clap back here by Sticker, able to put the brakes on that car telling her to stop that fantastic car because they've got some KO's, Silo plays, Oats, Reed is all in the KO feed here, better looks at the outset of Midtown here against YWL, already a minute, 15 other time away and they are able to find some big plays here.
It's doomed on that Wolverine that is making himself a threat for sure, but yeah, YWL I imagine maybe are gonna try to make some kind of swap here soon.
Kamehameha claws very effective slicing dicing spinning to win for their team and having to use their passive as well and
Getting targeted fully by YWL. They know that that's the winning conditions. Can you get rid of the Wolverine?
They'll have a lot more free reign in these battles
Yeah, focus heavy on that one so far against stick drift here YWL about half their time gone and still looking to try and get this
He's parked down the road here.
Oh, it's coming out from left and right.
Toad doesn't have the spider sweeper down.
There's Kumiho's being unleashed here.
And it's YWO unleashing some big picks onto the ball of the stick
drift, as well as Regus taking him down.
And that's both strategists for stick drift now, offline,
and a clear wide open battle ahead.
Zatek's been on a quadruple on the side props,
and he is still holding that Ruby Rage.
No ult necessary for him.
Stomp them.
Well, that's a highlight play for sure on about one.
And again, Z-Tex, the Cyclops, is the difference maker
for this team.
I do not know why we have not banded out against YWL.
Yes, Rocket's great, but in Z-Tex's hand,
when you have one of the best duelers in the game,
you might want to have to be a factor in your bandwraps.
There's some stuns come through, and while Mass gets taken out
by Dune with the last stand in the background.
Got big stuff here for Stickdrift.
They have made it back to the cart.
A minute 15 left to go.
So defense here is in their sights.
They could look for a full hold against YWL, who
been a little slower to start here but yeah starting to tune up the band is YWL
they've got Ruby Rage on both sides of the board ready to go Zatek's playing it
very close who is just here as a stick drift of course able to make the cart and
also put some more pressure on here too so now YWL got to get through this wall
that stick drift to put up here gonna take a little bit of high ground try and
shoot down on the stick drift and now some holes coming through here Luke I'm gonna
the place of worlds on the whole whole head.
The devil being led out here by Kimmer as well.
Double KO for the daredevil.
He will finally be shut down right up there.
Aided by Rihanna, but now Luca on a tear here as well.
And Stinkdrift, he and tossed around like toys
on the streets of Midtown.
Triple KO for that Hulk.
And Stinkdrift, gonna be walking it all the way back here,
or at least taking a portal back.
Pernice of tunnels.
What a breakthrough.
It's got some mercy later, and they'll
be sent back to the Spawn Room for now,
trying to recuperate with their team and lead them to victory in this next game five.
Yeah, not looking good here for that Stikler.
D-Friends, especially with Reedus offline by Zajec's already,
and Zajec still has that activated at Cyclops.
Oh, so maybe you're gonna see that one come out here,
but he doesn't even need it.
A double KO now.
Both duals being taken offline for Stiklers,
and why do we know those health bars looking very, very full here
as they're gonna try to get this time refresh?
Zajec's runs right over Ibni on the dem,
and they will have it.
230 back on the clock and this offensive run resurrected here as they are going to drive the
dozer over the rest of Stickdrift strategist taking out here. Now they got a nice scagger going for
themselves. The stealth carry for YLVL once again as we talked about the beginning of this series,
Santos. Swapping to the Cloak and Dagger using the Terricade perfectly so that it can get some
confirms and eliminations and also just closing them to stay alive and a lot of these ultimates
that were coming through from Stickdrift and even still saving the Ruby rage for
the perfect moment. I feel like this second checkpoint right in at this
corridor is the perfect spot for it because you can hit the ceiling, you can hit the side walls,
and you can hit everyone necessary for a potential teamfight win.
Yeah, unfortunately for Xanthe, he's not gonna hit anything for a few more seconds here. He is
taking out right away and why did we all fall in the corner here over half way? The checkpoint
number two, that KOV turning blue for the Stick Drift here as they make a big play,
and we'll slow down that momentum yet again, but yeah, we're going to be seeing a little bit of
pain from Stickdrift in those pain brothers as they're trying to make some swaps too.
I do like this change up from them, more flexibility able to dive in with the rest of your team and
DOOM 2s needed a little bit more help on these fights and side plays there as well to get into
the brawl. So see if they can kidnap so Cyclops didn't get the Faro Leaf connection that they want
instead will be pushed back and have to go for another pass. Seeking Logan Missile unfortunately
It does not make it hard to hear a big God of Thunder coming down from a mask as they will call down the Elements here!
YWL gonna make the breakthrough Duke in some trouble!
Those with a slice and dice mask will clean him up to stick-drift-shut down here!
Toans does go for that world breaker here and a screen shaker for Z-Tex and Luca!
They're both shut down by the Hulk here as they're able to at least show some signs of life,
but it is YWL getting that mission vehicle on the Moog here again as Toans tries to fight it out!
Thor adds a banner and finally, Unibanners hit all the way back.
See what Stickdrift can do on this one.
Just to hold things to the final 30 seconds.
The double beam unleashed by Jitward is just trying to decimate the ranks of Stickdrift.
That is a perfect fate of both worlds for the Littlest Now coming through just to try and counteract it.
Got huge block by Logen here, able to keep the team on live support while IWL throw down all the ults.
And there is that eternal one we were looking for for the xantho here
They get pretty messy in obvious basement to fight it out ahead of checkpoint number two and why the hell fight a little bit of a breakthrough here
Kendrick and mask will both find some chaos trying to take down the moon and finally they will have her here about
Luca on the chasing in silent blaze here
We'll give it up regroup back with the team but there is a portal coming in from readus here
They're gonna try like the last second stop one point seven three meters as we are going over time and a checkpoint you've been already
The Lightning Realm just to shut down any escape options too from Stickdrift there as
well and I feel like the swaps that we have seen from that team have been a
decent look to try and counteract RwL's explosiveness that we've seen from Zatek's
and Jitward as well but I feel like the fastball specials haven't really been
connecting. The Feral Leaps haven't really been there even with the kinetic
claws trying to see penalty enough to get them in position, still waiting for it to
have the perfect inaction of it for them to get the Kaos.
Now I mean just not the impact I think I was looking for out of the Wolverine here.
Tom Sticker, 100% right, and now 45 seconds, halfway.
Checkpoint number three, YWL gonna have to potentially clear this one out in overtime,
and it's an absolute mess here in the buildings on the side streets of Midtown here.
Ronnie going down for YWL, that is Jitward Mask, and Kedricka falling all the way to the grave as well here.
Just 30 seconds left to go, and a big win here for Sticker.
There's no strategist on the point, and YWL gonna turn tail and run for now.
Good hold for now, 20 seconds remaining for YWL and Ztex has a Ruby Rage available and needs to use it perfectly to set up their team.
I feel like they're going to try and use that with the Worldbreaker Hulk to set themselves in a perfect spot to maybe flank around, take out a strategist and that will be the time to win this next teamfight.
Now it is all going to come down to this one here, would you like to stand last stand from Stickdrift here?
We'll go through!
They turn a lot, but it is far too late.
There's Anthem to save most of the team here.
They are just short of the finish line.
Zaytex goes down as well here.
Xantham able to make an escape, they'll survive.
The carnage here, just short of exploit number three.
YWL going to try to rush it back as Jibber and able to let them demo out one more time here.
And they're reaching the coming home from a YWL.
Last stand at the end there too, just to take them off the objective and secure the hold
at the end right before check point three.
A valiant effort, I would say, from YWL
to get to that third objective.
But Stickdrift, they put all of their cards on the table
and went all in and worked out decently,
but they still have yet to see the results of the fruit
that they have planted earlier on with the blessing
of the Kumiho team up, the team ups that we also,
I feel like this is just a team up team,
based on what we've seen, right?
We saw the Connecticut Clause,
we saw the blessing of the Kumiho,
we saw the Pain Brothers as well,
And I like the swap from Tom's the penny at the end there, especially with the bunker options for that last doorway that they were holding
before the final corner was turned by the cart and YWL.
I mean, speaking of cart, it doesn't seem like they're missing them too much.
But the flexibility from them might have been a different answer in this matchup.
Luka has been rocking with the Hulk, but it's been getting countered very heavily, especially in their ultimates.
Yeah, they've definitely had some focus on the Hulk for sure and yeah, you know definitely took some rotation there
But the square piece will fit in the square hole at the last second for a stick drift
They're able to stop YWL from clearing the map
So the door is open here
Potentially try and finish things off as we are gonna switch sides and hit the streets of Midtown
One more time here again stick trips tournament like paying the balance here if YWL and hold them short
then they will eliminate them from the tournament and they'll go on to face 100 Thieves into the next round so a lot on the line here
but Stagets over onto that out of Warlock this time around
Triple Strat coming through might be the answer for why did we ever try and go for the whole hold option?
This is the map to do it also just has the flight available now and the soul bond to try and just
Tank through any of the damage that's being dealt. That's exactly what they're doing
It's actually enabling Luka a lot more because we saw how much of leaf Alvia there was from Stickdrift's duelist lineup.
And this is a great answer to it that took them some time to figure out, but hey, this is the time to do it.
They've already wasted a minute and some change off the clock, and this is a good look for them so far.
Yeah, I mean, it's another move by YWL bringing a different comp to the table here, bringing me Adam Warlock.
And now questioning, can you find a way around the golden agat here 60 seconds away and YWL looking healthy here?
They are all ready to keep holding down this point and Sticker don't have a way through yet
Reedus in some trouble and he's gonna get some healing from the back line here
They're just looking to play out this neutral
But it's gonna be doomed there over onto the daredevil of big swap for a double KO
The Kendrick will put it into that and Zaytex gonna get himself back up off of the cocoon res
So definitely Adam Warlock and some demons for Logan is gonna get in there as well
Finding one on that Luna Snow sniper rifle there and it's Reedus finding Zaytex for good in his time as a YWO
Definitely gonna have to give them some space here.
I feel like they pushed up a little bit too far, especially after Kendrick got snagged by the charm from Logan.
They weren't able to build up the ultimates fast enough, and that's the difficulty with just going with the straight up triple strategies, but not triple Vanguard.
That's why we've seen a lot of teams going for the triple-triple on midtown recently in the playoffs.
It's had a bit of a resurgence for a good reason because of that ult charge generation nerf still being adorning the side of a lot of these compositions.
That does lose your time on a shaky foundation here.
Gonna be an all-fight between these two teams.
Jitra gonna let the devil out.
Jitra gonna unleash the Kumi-O and STD.
Killing everything.
Fly in a big quadrant time from Towsanto.
Able to get the invisible boundary up just in time.
I can't save Jitra, so it is down.
You just stay tight, hand Santo.
But that golden god ready to go here
some carbon revival for YWL.
They are gonna revive this defensive run for themselves
as Sticktrip able to make the KO.
They could not put them down.
for the count here. Doomgill is a devil out, but he's done for just a moment there.
He has an exile from the Luke up there to bind themselves from time in the middle of that dead
up hold, and now he's ready to do some smash in here alongside Mask who's looking to break some hearts,
and they will break the hearts of STD here one by one. Silent Blade is able to let that
Pummy Ho out, but not enough to save the rest of the team, and YW all able to pump the brakes yet
again here. Pump the brakes for now, but it's still going to be progressing towards that first
I like the swaps from dooms if he and tones tones back on the penny Parker though to see if they can play it a little bit
More aggressive and shut them down as the dive still target the back line of stick drift and we do get a pause here again
Seems like there might have been a disconnection between the players and this is the perfect time to do it because you're about to reset on the next fight
Why WL if they can't get this hold I feel like the momentum will be heavily favored for stick drifting
They want to get the 3-0 sweep.
They want their sweep revenge from the group stages,
and they do not want no for an answer when it comes to getting
this map victory after all of the work they put in.
Yeah, trying to punch the time card
and head on out of the office, especially
because they have another match waiting in the wings for them
here right after this, a true double header.
So you don't want this one to go too long.
Can I go into that match tired?
Because it is against 100 thieves,
no matter who wins this match right here.
But just before the pause, we saw a classic YWL changing things up.
We saw them dropping the Adam Warlock's Atex over onto the Strange to get him portal back.
We saw a quick Loki swap as well.
So as the time ticks away, now YWL going to shuffle the cards yet again and hand over the deck back to Stickdrift to see if they can solve this one.
But they are just quickly running out of time.
Lethal flexibility.
That's the full phrase that we have to describe YWL.
It finally clicks here as well because again so many different heroes that they have in their back pocket that can pull out on a dime when they need to
The clutch things up for their team
But will this be the correct combination to be at the password for this computer that they've been trying to hack into to give them the
3-0 victory and
Fortunately, it hasn't found the right answer just yet
It's been denying them so far and they've had to reset the password a couple of times for another chance
But the problem here for stick drift, I would say, is that I feel like they're swapping their vanguards
Maybe a little bit too much. We see tones continuing to go back to the Benny Barker where I feel like there's a couple different
Options that are a bit of a better answer
I mean the clovering time that we saw from them before we saw the thing look really good too
Just to shut down the dive ability of YWL, but now we got the portal through and we'll see if they can hold
Yeah, I can definitely appreciate that stick drift trying to stay fluid with it
right out of the gate here back to action. Jitward gonna find Infy with just 45 seconds left on the
clock here tournament live starting to flash before Stickdrift's eyes here as YWO gonna stay in
the fight. Oritas not ready to give this up just yet 30 seconds away. Stickdrift just gotta win
one more fight here to get that time refresh and keep things rolling here the door to victory is
open they stopped YWO before they could clear the map and they walk through it's gonna be a Jeff
all from Xantho now he will find just one there finds the venom and that's all
Jeff gonna get no big McNugget meal here for him. A whole bunch of ult's here, it's a lot of damage and it's big for Rhaedas the Ruby Rage comes in and now that Stickdrift gonna play clean up.
Hendrick the only one spared the carnage here but Stickdrift will get that time refresh at the last second. No strange portal can make it there in time.
And a tough spot for YWL, already used the strange portals, so they will have to fully reset here.
Luka on the Hulk, seeing if that'll be the big difference maker for their team.
Zatex, you talked about the Adam Warlock play that we saw before, but now back on the Cyclops.
And I felt like they were getting more success out of that.
The triple strat just doesn't really benefit YWL's comp as much as they would like it to.
And I'm loving this dive though, from if you just swap on over to the venom, it seems to be a big difference maker.
Yeah, definitely helping carry them this far.
Two minutes on the clock now and a couple members of Sticker shut down very early here Zatek's gonna back it on up
We're gonna try and take down if he's got that
Semitic resilience ready to go to keep him in the fight
Online for stick drifting now
We get in some trouble too on the side of life WL
But that is a KO onto the white box from a Zatek's
Strategist offline for a sticker tier one by one this team will fall and YWL again finding a way to hold them
minute 30 left to go and they are stuck here in Grand Central Station.
The Cloak and Dagger I think is great too in this instance just because they can use their kit specifically to protect their team
when a lot of insults come through. We saw it last time which a fade and again we might come to bear in the 16-5.
Yeah against Zanth open kind of the site unseen here for YWL.
Helping bring this team potentially to a victory here and now.
Naskin Zaytex in the KOF. Logan able to stop that fitable worlds in the last second.
They can't save half of the team here. It's just the pain brothers that are still offline as,
again, changing up that frontline. New vanguard into the mix here by Lukas onto the World Breaker
here looking to smash. Stake drift yet again as they are under a minute left onto the clock.
And YWL still got more of that came from Kuniho Unleashed. But a good response here from Stikus
shutting us down early. Now eternal bond. All of the strategies are all from YWL. Slowly draining
away here but Stickdrift are on the back foot again both of their band guards in some serious
trouble hanging on by the skin of their teeth they'll survive but YWL just shaving even more time
away under 30 seconds and now Ruby Rage from Meritas gets some damage in and he will finish off
Mass on the road that's about all they're gonna get here. A lot of time wasted a great push from YWL
and a great answer again back from Stickdrift if they can get some of these eliminations that confirms
or what are missing from this team and because they're targeting the duelist lineup of Stickdrift,
yeah, if the infillons are a threat to be reckoned with, but you got some bubbles,
you got some utility from YWL and they've been able to survive for the most part,
but eventually the cart will move forward and maybe one more team fight before the second objective.
Yeah, it will be moving forward now for sure. Big kick on to Xantho,
Foken Dagger taking out the equation here. Now Stickdrift able to kind of calm the waters a little
bit that's in control in this match but it is one fight for them here to stay alive in the tunnel.
Big time on the match to kidnap all you fucking stragglers, they people flip through so much.
Iron skin here but finally cut to ribbons by a dude on that Wolverine.
Jim Rennett will let that devil out one more time here.
There they are all coming in at a roomie range from Zatex but no KO's coming through.
Four YWL here, stick drift standing tall underneath that toobie hole at least from
silent place here and now that KOB painted blue again as they will find yet another breakthrough here
potentially going to get themselves to that checkpoint but you see Zatek's oh after strange
now should have plenty of time to get that portal room but the question is what do they do on the
other side of it? Well they got to prevent the exile from coming through in this potential
port I believe they okay they didn't counter it just yet they're going towards it and had to worry
a little bit about that happening mass trying to save the day at the last moment does get taken out
forward and Kendrick will be there just to support the squad on this objective. One final hold before
that second checkpoint. Stick drips so close to me, I'm on hold. YWL in at that portal. Big thighs
from through the last stand and out point. It isn't a last stand here with a second of overtime
to go and two meters. YWL still standing here underneath that eternal one, one by one. Stick
drips gonna go offline here if he shuts down toads about to be sent back down to puny Vandervor.
He's stuck and they'll find the damage and that is all she wrote here.
YWL, Yahweh lost turning to Yahweh 1 and they won 3 here in this series back to back back
and they will stay alive. Stickdrift, stickdrift home out of this one.
A statement made, Stickdrift fans were thinking that this would be walking the park from what we
saw in the group stage. It was a 2-0 victory for them but Yahweh lost changing their name as you
mentioned at the end of it, they have to at this point making it into yet another top
four from preseason into the playoffs, but will it be enough for this victory to carry
that momentum against the 100th these first time again, those two teams will face off
against each other, but a great effort by Stickdrift at the end of the day. It's just
WDBL or that team at this day and time and you can't allow Jitward to have Daredevil.
He might want to burn a first ban in this instance.
Yeah, I mean every single map here in this series was able to run Devil and yeah, you
know, we were thinking maybe there was going to be a different look here in this matchup
stick drift taking the 2-0 against YWL in the group stage.
But YWL here vanquishing that demon and they will take the win back three to nothing now.
And again, they definitely have the upper hand in terms of overall wins against stick drift
where, you know, when they were known as Lunax now stick drift, but again, a big, big win
here.
of the YWO Classic, the continuous hero swaps. Just as soon as you think you got that comp
figured out, they got a brand new one for you to try.
It's tough, right? I did criticize a little bit of Tone's hot swaps that we saw from them
as well, but unfortunately it didn't quite work out as well as they would like to. They
went on over to the Penny Parker a couple of times. We saw them swap to the Hulk at the
end too to try and go for the Pain Brothers team up, and it just felt like nothing was
really working for this fangar lineup to focus down the back end and redis you
know doing a great job on the other end but the MVP this time was Zatex and
we've seen them just be the clutch factor for this team but it wasn't just
them right yet we're doing a great job on the duelist end to go toe-to-toe with
the duelist lineup all but their counterparts in it stick drift and
take them down a peg and we saw 39,000 damage which is a crazy total the the
highest that we see the lobby the closest was redis on the other end also
playing just close to their chest and had a bit more final hits, but it was a full team effort for YWL
which eventually ended up getting them the win and the push at the end for them to close things down and get the three out of
suite.
Yeah, you know from Stickdrift's perspective, we see this with a lot of teams that go up against YWL,
you know, eventually teams figure out you kind of have to play a different Marvel rivals against a team like them.
If you try to force that same comp, even if it works out for you at the start of the map,
the YWL will find a way to overcome it and ask you,
hey, what else do you have in the tank?
And for so many teams that have come up against them
and fallen to their knees,
the answer is nothing else in the tank.
And YWL, again, just following in the footsteps
in the sand is Stickdrift all throughout this series.
And you know, plenty of signs of life
from the other side of the battlefield here.
Stickdrift didn't make them work for it in a lot of instances,
but YWL prevailing and with a clean 3-0 win,
good looks for them as they are gonna, you know,
get a little bit of a breather here
and get back on their feet for another match up here.
But yeah, definitely a good way to start
and come in with a little bit of momentum
here for this next matchup.
It's so interesting, too, just based
on the way that the meta evolves throughout the day, right?
We saw Team Liquid Citadel also opting for the Gambit fans
and focusing on the back line of their opponents
and forcing them to an awkward triple strategist lineup.
And it just wasn't working.
We saw that happen here time and time again,
but also a big thing to note, too.
YWL after the roster changes they made it farther than their former teammate in cart from like less
So now one step away from qualifying from land and make it so all the MRC teams dreams are realized
Just like we saw from ratty sport on the other end in EMEA it could happen
But a hundred thieves a tough partner team with all the resources and all of the energy
Hopefully this time after a quick nap in between series, but not too much time that they had to wait for this one
Yeah, I mean, definitely a big X factor going into that match being the first time these
two have crossed paths in officials. And you know, we talked a little bit about scrims
and you know, you can learn a lot from a scrim. But the question is, are 100 thieves ready
for this matchup because it is a very different game when you're staring down at YWL and
you're tailing the tape here. The numbers do not lie. We talked about Zatek's insane
damage output on that last map, but big numbers across the board here. Luke almost 50 K damage
Yeah, he is a sponge that cannot be quenched
It's a tough spot too. I would say for stick drift, right?
Every other team that we saw earlier on in the playoffs was actually targeting Lucas Hulk with the bands and they actually left that one wide open
They were worried a little bit more about Kendrick, you know targeting the Dr. Strange that we saw before
We also saw some focus on the Angela too in that second map
And then you know the final one here as well in terms of the the bands
They were more focused on kind of the strategy line up on their side.
So it seemed like they just didn't know exactly where to target in terms of yeah,
we lost and that just goes to show how much of a rogue agent of a roster this
YWL team is that you can try and focus on what makes sense, but sometimes it's
more simple than it appears and Luka was definitely a very strong force in the
back line of stick drift every time they tried to make any progress.
Yeah, I mean definitely a loose cannon team here in the Americas region and you know, we talk a lot about it in band draft
You know when you close one door you then one thing you open several more and stick drift trying this combination of closing and opening
Doors all draft long every single map. Yeah, why WL able to just adapt and overcome and that's really what it comes down to in this
Series so a clean big 3-0 in for them
Well, we do have Luca speaking of for the interview ready to talk to us about that victory and the three oh sweet
Welcome into the broadcast. Luca. I mean my question for you is how do you get so good at Hulk?
To be honest, I mean I've put like hundreds and hundreds of hours into that champion on right now
So, you know, I have some former experience with similar characters in different games, but yes, I'm like that
Okay, okay, yeah, I mean definitely. Oh, yeah. Yeah
I mean definitely some big shoes to fill, you know with the roster changes coming in to this split here
You know we talked a lot about it all series long and a lot of people say this about ywl
But you know you guys very fluid with the hero swamps and the comp changes
I'm kind of curious. What are what are the comms like is it hectic to say?
Okay, we need to go to this comp or you know is it kind of calm collected, you know one
You know one really vocal voice just curious what it sounds like for you
I mean
It's like maybe complete chaos is not the right term, but like let's just say everybody has something to say
Okay, okay, keep the energy up there. I kind of want to go back to the second map that we saw
All times a big sense. I want to go back to that second map for you guys specifically
We saw you guys have the full hold right before the checkpoint was activated
Uh from stick drift and then you guys got held all the way to four minutes gone on the clock one minute remaining
See mask go on the flank. I mean what was going through you guys mind?
Was it still that chaos that you were talking about or were you not concerned at all as time was taking?
I would say that we just took the fights a bit poorly.
One of the characters we were playing was a little bit hard into that comp, so we had to swap it up a bit and, you know, we like messed up an old fight.
Some of us weren't connected, but I mean, we locked in and we won at the end, so it doesn't really matter.
That's what matters.
Yeah, the one that counted, you know, getting one back over, get back, I should say, against
Stickdrift after the group stage.
But you know, kind of want to look ahead at the next matchup.
You know, this is a double header.
You guys are kind of going to take a breath, refresh a little bit here, and then you're
up against 100 thieves next.
We haven't gotten to see you guys tangle with them in officials yet.
How is everybody on YW all feeling about the matchup?
I mean, one best of five, and then whoever wins goes to the land.
I think everyone is fully prepared, extremely locked, you know, I mean I'm just excited to play.
Okay, okay. Well, my final question for you before we send you in to that next matchup.
Any words for the doubters out there, the people not wanting to scream your team,
or even the fans that you have that have been watching the broadcast, the floor is yours.
Keep talking from the sidelines.
I think that's a good idea.
Okay Short and sweet. Love to
hear it, Luca. Good luck in
your matchup against 100 Thieves.
We'll be waiting for that one
with much interest. Thank you
for having me. Thank you. Thank
you. Well, you know, just play
a couple 100 hours on Hulk.
That's how you get as good as
Luca. I guess I mean, I feel
like he was kind of down playing
the effort that he's playing.
You know, similar heroes and
other hero shooters out there,
hard to transition those skills to a new game like Marvel Rivals.
And I feel like there's been a lot of people who've tried and
fortunately haven't quite worked out in certain capacities.
But even then, I mean, Luca stuck through the entire time.
They were the through line in terms of composition throughout all three maps.
Hulk, I worry a little bit going into that 100th
these matchup here, Diatonic, if they get target banned.
Yeah, that's definitely going to be a big question on the table in this
matchup. And you know, for Luca, it was very interesting to kind of watch him
come into this team because, you know, I first became aware of YWL because of
cart on the Hulk and, you know, seeing them replace him with another Hulk
player was like, okay, is this going to pay off? Are we going to be seeing, you
know, like a diet Coke version of YWL? But absolutely not the case as has been
proven here because YWL take this one clean three to nothing. And now they are
in the hot seat next against 100 thieves. There is one invite remaining to the
midseason finals land tournament and it's going to come down to 100 thieves
versus yeah, we lost.
We got a very short break to let these teams catch their breath
and get ready so don't go anywhere.
You do not want to miss this last match of the night.
Yeah, let it go
I'm a fool and I know you
I'm just a fool and I know you
So get some freedom and no one will ever know you
Just wait a little longer
Don't be there
Don't fall down, you have to get up
I'm a fool and I know you
I'm a fool and I know you
I'm a fool and I know you
I don't know what I'm doing, don't you go
Just call it a hit, don't you talk about
I don't need no night, baby
I don't know, don't you like it bad
We're getting out of love, baby, give me a
I don't need no night, baby
it all comes down to this one final series one
final spot at the minute season
finals itself location and date to
be announced soon. I'm sure but
these teams don't care about
that. They just care about
booking their tickets in advance
and this is the time to do it a
single best of five between 100
thieves and yeah, we lost and
that actual land itself and both
these teams I think have
different reasons that this
matter so much than diatonic
100 thieves more of a redemption
arc right after a bit of a
rebuild after most of the
organizations took a break
of Marvel Rivals Ignite would look like.
They came back in, said they were returning with Avengers,
Doomsday, but more Ignite in 2026.
And now we see why, yeah, we lost,
coming through the MRC system.
So both born from different angles of Ignite's
and competition for eSports and Marvel Rivals,
now coming to a head MRC versus partner team,
only one can move forward.
Yeah, very much cut from different clots, these two teams.
And, yeah, Hunter D's kind of recovering from, you know,
the loss of Terra after he moves over to EMEA,
play alongside the rest of Navi, but the 100 Thieves, you know, they're kind of one of the original powerhouses here in the Americas region, a foundation of Marvel Rivals Esports itself.
They attended both LAN tournaments, the midseason finals and the grand finals last year and are looking to keep that streak alive here because yeah, the land train is ready to leave station and there is only one seat on that train car left.
So, you know, of course,
self has been stepping into the role here
with the 100 Thieves replacing Tara.
And, you know, this team has fought tooth and nail
through this bracket.
They have had some nail biters,
some barn burners for sure,
but they are here now ready to take one more series away
to move on through the mid-season finals.
But yeah, I think ultimately the kind of the thesis
for this team here in the first half of the Ignite season
has really been, how do they continue on without Tara?
What does it look like with 100 Thieves
re-entering the rival space?
So far it's been a lot of success for this team. Yeah a lot of success
We've seen some great looks from them to TTK locking in of course
I feel like this meta definitely benefits them better than what we saw in preseason the adjustments from the roster too in terms of
You know adaptability learning a bit more heroes as well and speaking of TTK
I mean we saw them be back-to-back MVPs twice in a row
Throughout that map itself for their team and the maps that did win and Delena of course stepping up big
109
KOs and 25 casualties. I mean, that's a crazy stat line for Daletta alone against a fly quest.
And I feel like everyone's been stepping up big for this team, but you also got to give credit to
the strategist lineup, right? Melania doing a great job on the Rocker at Coon. We saw Winnie
doing good work on the Gambit, but I feel like the Gambit's not going to get through based on
the way that YWL was band drafting in that previous series.
No, I mean, I think for YWL, it's going to be a case of we're going to continue to do this until
we find a team that makes us pay for it. So yeah, expect some good old gambit first bands
from this team. But yeah, we lost here playing the double header, a big three oh win for them
over stick drift just in the last match here on the road. Now they got to dust themselves off
for their first official tangle with 100 thieves. I do believe maybe they've screamed in the past,
but we have yet to see them actually duke it out on the ignite stage. And you know, for a team
like that we lost we talk about them kind of being a loose cannon coming out of left field with compositions with hero swaps
The biggest question I have going into this match are
100 for that style of game here
That's the big question. We haven't seen it yet
And this is the time to decide if dive is still alive
Yeah, we lost looking like the team that every ranked player is betting their hopes and dreams on saying that a spider-man
Player can make it into land a daredevil
OTP, as some might say, based on the saves that we have seen every time first save for
DD for Jitward there specifically. But this entire team has the flexibility to boot. I
think that's been a big difference maker throughout this competition where a lot of
teams have struggled to adapt to the meta as things have progressed. Yes, there's been
a bit more than basically a month between stages, but they've looked as strong as ever.
And they've had their tumbles in the group stage, of course, to stick drift. But I feel
like that was just growing paint for them,
getting used to having Luca, the new Hulk on campus
for their roster and they have stepped up
into some pretty big shoes to fill
and they have broken them
as they have unleashed the Monster Hulk.
Yeah, I mean, for YWL, it's a case of becoming battle tested,
like you said, after those roster changes.
And, you know, it seems like they are meshing well
together here, a solid performance
against Stick Drift in that first matchup.
But yeah, you're 100% right.
YWL is truly the every man's team.
that came up through the MRC two time champions in season four and season six, not backed by an
organization. And one of the last teams in the Ignite ecosystem remaining here in stage one,
that can say that. So, you know, there are a lot of those ranked grinders out there that are
leaning their hopes onto this team. And they've made plenty of fans ever since they're out of left
field debut, you know, putting themselves on the map with some Hulk plays and Luca has kind of picked
up that torch and run with it. So, you know, I am definitely ready for this clash. But again,
I asked White WL the same question.
Are you ready for 100 Thieves?
And, volleyball, we are split right down in the middle in this.
No other way.
Xavier and Dan, saying 100 Thieves, we're going to be well.
We're sitting here on the desk.
We just watched what White WL did.
And we've had conversations during the breaks and things.
So maybe it's a recency bias.
But 100 Thieves have definitely stepped up their game
here in the playoff bracket.
That's the big thing, right?
100 Thieves, a lot of teams were calling them out.
I even did in my bracket.
I had to be giving full credit to them,
exceeding my expectations, but YWL just seems to be that team
that always has an answer,
always has something that they can flex to.
And having that momentum from the last series
into this one, being fully warm against professional roster,
like we saw from Stick Drift,
seemed to be the difference maker for Rad,
like we saw in EMEA.
So I saw in my very eyes, an MRC team qualify
over a partner slot.
And there's not many of those in EMEA compared to America.
So one last chance for a second partner team, mind you,
to make it in to ignite midseason finals here from America's where they have seven of them,
by the way, and most of them have fallen by the wayside so far. And of course, YWL, the
last remaining hope for the MRC hopefuls as well. So this is the culmination of everything
that we've been looking through as it's developed from the beginning of the year to now. And
all comes down to this best of five and determine who's going to be the best of the best.
Yeah, I mean, partner teams hope riding on 100 thieves here in the every man team, YWL ready to go toe to toe here, it is going to be some domination for map one and it's burning to Charlotte to start things off.
This one can be pretty tricky. It's a fluid map. Everything changes from point to point and requires a lot of adaptation from these teams when they hit boots on the ground.
the ground. We'll see what they can do on this one specifically. We've seen, you know,
Bernie D'Challa look pretty decent in the past for both of these teams. Again, Swamp
Gaming, as we've talked about before, 100 Thieves took the distance and played fairly
competitively. But again, they still had the gambit available to them. I don't think that's
going to be an option once we get to the band draft, especially based on just the recent
history of the band draft from YWL. And that seemed to also be a thing that threw off Swamp
Gaming in the upper bracket and YWL, I mean, kudos to them for taking that adaptation and
stride.
And what's also interesting too, Hunterty said going into this match when earlier CB
and Dan interviewed Delana, said that they weren't one of the few teams that had been
screaming YWL, but were those screams enough to get some insight into how to counteract
the explosion, is the flexibility, the lethality of this roster, we'll have to see.
Yeah, I mean, it's a question you can really ask both sides is how are you to their chest,
real strategies they're bringing out here because you know it is all on the line here land on the line in this map
So if there is a secret weapon somewhere in these teams playbooks you may very well see it get pulled out here
But yeah, you know obviously these two teams tangling in some scrims have some practice against each other first time
We have seen them go head-to-head here on the broadcast on the big stage under the bright lights and Luca there
I mean, you know realizing the situation they're in just a few maps away from a potential land invite
You know, I'm having the same reaction
But you see on your screen TTK of course a big step-up player in season of ignite has expanded his
So much and has been a major player in this playoff bracket
So you know that hundred these are gonna be leaning on him going into this one as well
So yeah, it's gonna come down a lot to you know when you face a team like YWL, right?
You're more than likely going to get taken by surprise by something. It's not about whether or not you get surprised.
It is how quickly you are able to adapt to the gameplay they bring to the table.
And that is the golden gun 400 thieves here. That is the way that they can get in the fight because it's been a lot of uphill battles for
100 thieves all throughout this bracket and now the latest one is standing in their way is Yeah, we lost three
that's the question here, and
we'll see if they can, you know,
take the win and stride again.
We see the first map V so
consequential.
We've got a lot of pressure
here for both of these teams,
right?
You can see it in their faces.
You can see it in their body
language and huge shouts for us
to be able to get a look at
these players even here on this,
you know, in the last of this
online playoff bracket.
Is the boot camp buff enough
for 100 years?
That's the question here, and
we'll see if they can, you know,
take the win and stride again.
We see the first map V so
consequential.
So consequential later on in these series because it really sets the pace forward and it's not necessarily a gimme for these rosters
But there's the first man. I was waiting to see the daredevil comes out from a hundred thieves
Right off the rip here end of the bat the first ball hit into play and hundred thieves gonna take the daredevil
Away from jitward a challenge issued right away. We just saw that last series jitward
What else you got in the back of tricks there because you're made a man from that
way.
No more.
That's what I'm saying is to let it know how easy it is to play the gamer chair, right?
Lean back, calm, cool, collected, especially after taking out that Daredevil and that Cyclops.
I'm right now.
100 Thieves were 100% watching that last set from start to finish.
Yeah, there wasn't much data to go off of, but they have now downloaded the entire playbook
against them.
was the difference maker, specifically with Ztec swapping every time. We were begging for someone to ban Cyclops against them, and finally someone does adjust that.
Now the question is what the counters will be in terms of the band draft here for YWR.
They're going to go for the typical strategies that they had before get rid of the blessing of the Kumihou, like we see with the team up.
We've seen so many teams use their second save for the White Fox just because they have that charm, even if the team up does get banned out.
and that might be an option for them.
The Lunasail also shuts down the potential
for the Snowflake to be used for Vinny's Captain America,
and that's been a tough ask for a lot of teams
to counteract against.
So the Gambit Band, I mean,
they just don't want to have to worry about Gambit Mantis
because of how overpowered that would be
in a triple strategist lineup.
And I think this does kind of lower the expectations
in terms of what we can see for this band draft, right?
No Gambit on the table,
but the Big is going to be alive and well,
and that worked out pretty well
from what we saw from Iffy.
Yeah, Bing definitely has a place here in ignite and we've seen busted out a couple of times here
Maybe not the brightest spotlight on on our boy Ben here
But he will make an appearance in this match up one band and one save left for YWL
There isn't Ultron on the table. They've already got the Mantis
Don't know if they want to pull invest in that in that damage amplification
They'll take Ultron away from the thieves here and yeah, you know, I just love the shots fired right out of the gate here
map number one we saw you play just now we've screamed you before we know what
you're gonna bring to the table so interesting position for why don't you
all to be caught in here and know they will save the strange for themselves at
the very end maybe had the read on if they're willing to ban Daredevil first
they're very likely willing to ban strange against us now yeah I think you
know they've gotten everything that they've wanted so far in this band draft
Wolverine actually slipping through so they can do the fastball special combo
and it might be an option for them Luna Snow banned out and makes sense I mean
We've seen some relative success from YWL and they don't want to give the team up to them
Especially if they are opting for that fastball Wolverine play
It's a good counter to it invisible woman still has an option though
And the South like may have team up with dr. Strange is very likely to be showcased by YWL on this map
And it's had some relative success in the past from this roster, but we go into Bernadette Jalla
We'll see which of the teams will have had the better draft after point one and I'm just waiting with banded prep
see if the compositions are going to be in. Is that Winnie on AS?
Tragic's dead pull, it might just be.
Haha, yeah.
We said maybe if there's something in the back pocket we haven't seen from these teams yet.
This would be the time to bust it out here.
Now, you know, you can never trust these players until those doors actually open and they're able to roll out.
Yeah, gonna maybe go over to the rocket instead because, yeah, rocket on the table for teams here in this matchup.
But yeah, everything comes down to this.
Obviously, there are still more rivals to be played after this matchup,
but there is one seat at the table left for mid-season finals this year.
Hundred Thieves, yeah, we lost in a dead heat against one another
to try and determine who is going to take that seat.
And yeah, shots definitely fired in the draft phase,
but can you fire the same quality of shots here onto the battlefield?
It's burn into trial of a domination.
Math number one, YWL, Hundred Thieves on the rollout.
I cannot wait to see them go toe-to-toe.
Warrior Falls will be the battleground to decide things first and who takes the initial charge and it seems to already be at YWL.
Jet one on the black cat alive and well.
Yeah, that's the answer here. Daredevil taking out the equation. Jet on the black cat with no damage in sight for YWL.
They break up midair right as they take off here.
Hundred thieves already got the Deadpool off, ready to go here and already have an ace up their sleeve.
it's gonna be first cap for 100 Thieves and it is like a steamroller out here to start things off.
The brawl potential with strategies that pull everyone in your ranked games will say that it's
really good and viable in 2-2-2. Well 100 Thieves might find some more of those players in your lobby
afterwards because they're performing so far in that first team fight.
Yeah and I mean you know we talked about this in the last series with a team like YWL you
got to play their game and 100 Thieves looking to play in here jibbers over onto the Star Lord
A little bit of an identity crisis for him as Daredevil is off the table here, but itself,
they give the Daredevil a double KO there for the lawyer from Hell's Kitchen. Stay tuned,
you're gonna fight back and he will put an end to South's reign of terror here,
but Hunter Thieves still in control of the point. Gidward though boots on the capture circle to try
and take it away, but yeah, it is just a button heads and right now YWO's head against the wall
that Hunter Thieves have put up. Such a tough spot to be in specifically for this Yaweloss roster,
The black hat they've opted for before, but the go-to strategy for them has been reliant on it that Daredevil
the first time they were not expecting, but it was warranted based on the performance we saw at the 3-0 sweep
in that last series consticture. So, 100 thieves did their homework remix, maybe not going to be homeless after this one.
No, definitely not going to get locked out of Space's house at the end of this match up here.
How about the way that thieves are going here, great trajectory, 400 thieves, but they'll live in the trouble.
Malinia taking offline right away, there's Galactic Legend overhead from a jibber to mask on the ground with some extra pressure on the back door.
He is holding on to that guy the Thunder. Not gonna be sure to call upon it here, 100 Thieves stopped at 75% and now YWL first time here on map 1, they are in the driver's seat.
This is what I was waiting for, the adaptation that happens every time from Gowri's loss.
The lightning round just shut down and he escaped from self and Delana is swapping on over to the Cyclops and seeing the gust of force
and themes would be enough, but Flobbering Time, also countering the monster, all could
immediately waste it down.
They will retake 75% and counting time running out here on point number one.
A good look from YWL and the one teamfight that they wanted to immediately swap back
into the favor of 100 thieves.
This is what we were questioning going into this series, if the flexibility would be enough
from them and yes it is.
T2K no longer having to worry about a zero pool, they're locking in.
Yeah, locking in here and looking to lock in point number one.
It is one fight territory for thieves.
Take this one home and that devil being put away here by himself.
YWL still standing tall as overtime goes into effect, it is going to be a head to head brawl.
But YWL coming in hit the advantage here, Zaytex on the Bucky and he has been a lethal weapon, a true sleeper agent in ignite.
Every single time you think Bucky is out of the picture in terms of the meta he is here and he's there to deliver a cracked impact straight to self skill here.
Daredevil taking out and he is ready to keep the rotate going here.
Mask has got a plunder ready as well, but they've been doing good on cleanup here.
Why don't we all be able to make the flip all that there, and be at least 50% here and look and try and push speeds back out?
This is the struggle with this scratch's composition that I've been talking about.
You know, you gotta wait a little bit of time for the upgrades, and it will get better as this matchup goes along right.
You can have the highest damage boost in the game with the Deadpool in your area once you are able to activate it.
and that being used in tandem with the duelist lineup of 100 thieves is a very lethal combo.
But YWL, they've been doing well to target the problem children of 100 thieves, and we'll see what they can do it again.
Yeah, it's gonna be that target priority.
Keeps them in the fight here.
Jibber, fuck, hold my hand one more time for another, the back of the legend.
Masked in disguise as well.
Calling out the fucker onto TTTK and Jibber to finally find Winnie right at the end of the alt here.
YWL, no, no, give me your backcaps, put 100 thieves on a body disadvantage.
They will retake it a YWO, very quick to stay, not on a, this is our point, we gotta win the fight to take this one.
200 IQ play there, I believe it was by Finney on the Venom, going from behind enemy lines and getting it to the 99% of course,
an overtime situation once YWO get to that percentage themselves.
Yeah, they very, very tight battle here, gonna try to make an Amiga TGK on the point there, blue thing, eat off the ground,
It will stop him just short of making the flip.
And now it's double diving and overtime,
but it's Thieves coming up big into this fight.
Vinny and Winny, the combo that has taken out almost all
of YWL.
Delinix getting into the mix as well in that KO feed.
Xanthoth, the one left standing.
He's got a strange portal overtime, barely in effect here.
Just a couple seconds left as the troops
trying to get back through the portal.
With that, it's a big body disadvantage.
One second of overtime left and the Thieves
will hold them in the portal there.
A close, close point number one.
A close warrior falls might be a second guessing my prediction here for a second
Hopefully with a bit of a curse
But I think a lot of it has to do to that research that a hundred thieves did they wasted no time in BT in between rounds
Figured out what made it YWL tick and then went through the archives to see what has worked against them in the past
And this is a great shutdown potential from them
The brawl is doing really good against the dive of YWL for good a reason, but we'll see if the clutch comes in from Jitward
We've been waiting for them to pop off. They had a decent galactic legend once but aside from that relatively son even with the
Five final hits to their name. So really looking for somebody on this team to step up
We've seen some decent hooks from Zatex, but they also haven't had the best answer to winnie on that Strag is Deadpool
I mean, they've been able to bunny hop away and into the sunset with potential victory looming ahead of them
But still need one more sub map point to get that first map
in the three that they need to qualify for LAN for the third time in a row as an organization.
Yeah, I mean, it's a great call out on, you know, YWL. They kind of bank on teams needing a little
bit of time to figure out the game plans to figure out the strategy. They allow themselves to kind
of build an advantage that they ride all the way to the end of every series, but 100 thieves,
not easily fooled by that. Of course, we know, you know, we did talk about they've
scrimmed in the past. So you don't know exactly what strategies that both teams are willing to
share, but clearly 100 thieves, at least doing their homework on the tapes of these official
matches that YWL have been playing in because they came prepared, ready to go for this matchup here.
But it was very close, right? Double 99 overtime, strange portal on the play. I mean, Ops being
pulled out right out of the gate. And you know, I feel like that's kind of the caliber of matchup
we were expecting between these two going in. I'm just really curious about what the answer is
going to be specifically here for YWL, right? We've seen them try to rock the Vibrant Vitality
team up with the Loki and the Mantis potential going into this next sub map, so we could see that
come to bear, but I don't think it's going to be enough to deal with the explosiveness of this
composition that we've seen from 100 thieves specifically. I mean, using the clobbering time
plus the antsy street charge to shut down any advancements that we've seen from YWL on the
the dive, they use self with the DD for the vision to know when it's coming in.
They just have counter after counter after counter without having to use the
classic ones of the charms and freezes and stuns.
They're just dipping them straight up in the neutral.
Yeah.
I mean, there's absolutely no room to kind of rest on your laurels, right?
Because even if, you know, you extend out, do some pushing towards spawn, you
know, Vinny or TT get a lip right on through and go for that backup, because
both of them tried and Vinny did succeed at least flipping it their way for a
second so you know good to kind of split and make them fight two different fronts right fight to get
out of the door of your spawn and then now you're trying to rapid rotate to the point and hold off
a potential flip so you know definitely aggressive from hundred thieves absolutely pedal to the metal
here but out of the YWL they've got some data here that got some idea of what to do and the question
is what do they bring to the table next I do feel like the Daredevil and Cyclops bands have kind of
elect him in this weird identity crisis.
I do like having this Byron's Vitality team of eyes
as mentioning the forward damage boost from the regeneration
domain and also the Snatcher option
that's been alive with the guy that's
coming in behind the thief.
Flavoured guy and also the stuns as well.
This is a tough spot to be in.
Now just on the back foot right away again,
the same thing we saw on Warrior Falls,
their 100th team's absolutely relentless here.
Luca on the whole sky.
I want to knock him out of the way here.
Kanger taken down by Vinny on that venom.
Thieves give a try to circle the point here, but self-ticking down by mask on the floor,
but YW all the life bar is ticking down way too quick for any of their backline to be able to keep up with.
Though they are badly backing in a couple good chaos against 100 Thieves,
overhead no jidward goes for the galactic legend, and TCK sends them all the way to Nancy Street with a big haymaker as well.
So 100 Thieves in control yet again, they make the first cap here 10% and already on the team.
massive fight here for a hundred thieves momentum fully in their favor and
just doesn't seem like YWL has the right answer the right composition to go
against them the Vanguard lineup struggling to go toe-to-toe with them
Jitward on the spider-man though for the first time in quite a while and I feel
like that's when you know it's a bit dire straits for this team hoping that
they can use the pull off the map to get them into a better swing condition
especially if they're down a man
IWL looking for old but gold here from that shit. Where's the Spider-Man looking for the op that almost right away here?
Covered by from Zatek's now on the 100 Bs, but they are healed up and ready to go here. Big stone, GG K, but no power.
Bolivia going for that, Jeff, all but shot by Jitward on that Spider-Man.
Unfortunately, it has a 2 for 1. That's the hands up himself and Winnie.
Then, who all over and over and over again is wrapped in charge on that ultimate here.
and all the while, YWL are making this fight off the point
and they are not winning it either here.
100 forward pressure applied,
so even if YWL managed to win the fight,
they did all that without contesting.
I need to top spot Ian for YWL, right?
You talked about that, won the fight,
or potentially was doing well in the fight
and then unfortunately didn't have a single soul
on the objective and there's not really enough
long range healing.
I do like Xantho now on the Jeff,
that could be the answer what was missing from them
as self-dissolve of the Devil out.
Yeah, Xantho just was pretty big for them, so definitely looking to try and strike some of that gold from that previous matchup.
Two for two here, both teams getting some licks in with 100 beats, very quickly building on capture progress, 86% and counting in all the while to let out on that crack and impact.
Putting down some damage clear in the way, and YWL now scramble through the portal that Zatex is about to lay down here.
They should have enough time to at least contest here, but it is going to be overtime.
One of those up, but they do manage to get a touch here.
Oteen goes into effect and that portal able to open.
Good heads of play from YWL.
Luca will give his life for it,
but it will give him one more chance to fight this out
against 100 thieves.
They will be able to do it under a Kumiho unleash,
but a TTK lands a big clobber in time,
but all of YWL crunched down.
Oh damn, he does.
A long and different set out of Kumiho form.
Now YWL left without a strategy,
just all of them not a lot of healthier.
Delano on the Bucky, yet again here.
And if they can't win the fight here,
And that just goes to show, like, how effective a fully upgraded Stratus deadpool can be, right?
The damage boost I was talking about from the deadpool in your area, just how quickly
they can build up their ultimate from bunny hopping on their allies and use it time and
time again with relatively short cooldown, especially with the nerfs that we didn't see
it to the ult charge generation, but that was a massive first map win.
The one-sided Daredevil that we saw as well, I think led them to having just an information
gap throughout the domination map here on Burned Agile 2.
Self, a lot of people were questioning their flexibility, but you don't need to flex if
you have the Daredevil.
They learned that one from Jitward.
So I feel like they took everything that they could have learned from the previous series
and the ones that we've seen so far in the playoffs, and you know, practicing and screaming
against YWL.
This is just the perfect storm for them to come out on top in this map specifically,
but we have seen YWL drop dominations before and then come back swinging in previous maps
afterwards.
So that'll be the question that remains here as we head to the break and we'll be back
with the next map after this.
And remember, time, the place we used to fight
When sun and moon and I wandered
Life in the woods, it's an empty world, right?
Life has falling shadows, women and youths
That's the best one for me to figure out
We are standing for a last reunion break
This is going to win, it's going to fight me
Do you remember who you really are?
Show me that you are still the only one for me
I'll be waiting for you
Blame it and I will make you cry
It's crazy how this end smash
Can't build my hope
For the risks we've turned to end
We are leveled in the end
Why is that?
I'm back to my toes
My tear flow is gone
Dance out loud
We are back to the end
Time
We will push
You're not a liar, when you fight,
You're just a cross, not a speck,
But you were a rock, just an antennae
You see the dawn, flame, burning brightly,
Shiny one, those are the reason, yes,
Of course, all time I see you turning the silence
And do you see now?
All time, all time I can still fight
Like a wind in fire
And wonder no more
And now it's the only time you're a part in mine
Like a falling darkness broken
Yes, we were born destiny and they
New day's running for the first of future
You seem to be the way you fight with me
And when you make it
Get out of my room and don't fight
Crazy my voice and splash
She burns on us
Before the risk turns again
See our battles till the end
Why is that?
I've been warned to hold on to you from this land
There's no odds
We are rivals on the end
Until the end of time
Show me that you are solely only one that matters for me
I'll be the pain for you
Wait and I'll bend your hands more than water
Do you want me to look inside you
Can you feel it, the sparks in you?
And it's unreachable
Yeah, I've got the truth from crazy
Just been smashing through the tunnels
But the risk won't take you away
We are rival to the end and rise
And I've had your minds hold onto your powers
No more pitfalls
We are rivals to the end and rise
I just want to formally apologize 200 thieves that was not familiar with your game, but
But also I think we kind of cast our cast, yeah, we lost here as well.
You know, shout out to the players on 100 days for walking in, and that's what they've
been doing throughout the competition, especially today, right?
Getting that map five win against FlyQuest and, you know, getting revenge for the group
stage specifically.
I think they lost 2-1 there as well.
So this team has really taken the time between the pre-season into the group stage, into
the playoffs now to go into the hyperbolic time, Jameber, and just train as much as they
can and eventually this will be their arc for success. They're the main characters now, at least
after that first map. But talking about the MVP, the main character of that map, it was definitely
the Stragas Deadpool that we saw from Winnie. And also, you can get the 100 Thieves bundled
the shop, by the way. It's one of the best ones. But Vinnie actually, not Winnie, is the MVP here.
Maybe a bit of a miscalculation. But either way, Vinnie did a really good job too, like we saw on
the Venom with nine final hits for their team, the Dives two coordinated with the rest of their
team that we saw as well with Winnie and Celle. TTK also you know rallying behind them too. I think
everyone has you know a straw in the race or a horse in the race excuse me that they can say
four MVP in this first map. Yeah they've all got some kind of claim to the MVP throne there on
burning to Chala but you know Vinny very cheeky back cap to keep YWL on those and yeah venom all
business the entire time but yeah you know Winnie as well you know the Ryan would do oh here that
strategy is Deadpool coming in so big right out of the gate the first fight Winnie had the Deadpool
all built up and ready to go and it was a stunner in the first five to ten seconds of the match that
YWL I just could not recover from and yeah I mean big numbers for a lot of the members of the thieves
here of course to limit and sell that DPS line putting up some work here. So duelist take
duals home. Like you said, you know, TTK as well. Absolutely the damage sponge there onto the thing
for quite a while. So this team really firing on all cylinders. And yeah, we lost, you know,
putting up a fight, you know, took them to 99 99 double overtime on the first point. But, you know,
there's kind of an issue here or kind of a question mark floating around. YWL is, you know,
100 Thieves, they banned their level, they banned off the Cyclops, two very important duelists for this Yaoi Lost lineup.
You see what happened, they kind of fell apart there on a map one.
So now it is, what do Zatex, what did Jitward bring to the table here to do some damage?
Because yes, they got access to the Mantis after the band draft, but who are you going to amplify with that?
That's the problem, yeah. I think they messed up by saving the Mantis and they tried to run into that Vibrant Vitalia.
I talked about focus on the strategy line up a little bit too much and it was the duelist lineup
That was doing such a good job in the previous series against stick drift and under thieves had that sorority against them
So the one-sided vision from the daredevil with self
Also seeing Winnie just building up the strategist Deadpool ultimates time and time again
and using the bouncing bubble head to sustain their team in these team fights to build up that alt charge even faster than
either using the Poach Pound or also using the Katana Final Exam Ultimate with the jackpot
we heard multiple times throughout that teamfight.
So there's a couple of different options that they can go for in this next band draft.
I'm more worried about what the answer is going to be for Yawilas.
Do we go to Museum?
Because that seems to be the counter pick for Convoy for them and we saw how that went
against FlyQuest.
There's a full hold on Museum of Contemplation.
So if I was YWL, that's where I'd build, but there's also Potential for Shin Shibuya.
It's a big focus for them too.
And yep, we go to museum, of course.
Yes, the Pacific Special, so many times in that region.
Map number two, the first counter pick of the series
often goes to museum of contemplation.
So, you know, 100 Thieves obviously showing,
yeah, we did our homework here.
We were ready to play against this team.
But why are you all saying we did ours too?
We saw what happened with that Flankless series
on this map.
And we wanna see if we can go toe to toe
and hold you just short of that first checkpoint door here.
So, you know, trying to change up the game plan here,
taken thieves by surprise, because the biggest thing coming into this match with YWL is we've seen it play out time and time again.
Teams go up against YWL, they've never played a game of Marvel Rivals like this before,
and they spend one, two, even three maps of the series trying to figure out exactly what that game consists of and how they can play it.
But Hunter Thieves, you know, a team that has scrimmed YWL, one of the few that have scrimmed against them, came prepared for it.
They were ready for this matchup and they were able to take a map one stunner.
and that Winnie, at the beginning of the series,
we saw him before map number one,
looking a little bit distraught,
but now a little bit of a smile there,
a little bit better, you know,
got to be feeling themselves
because map one win against Yawwee Lost
is definitely a good looks
for the rest of this series going forward.
Millennia also just like kind of going
amongst the rest of them,
trying to motivate them,
say we got this two maps away, you know,
from qualifying for LAN,
Winnie feeling pretty confident there.
And I love the camaraderie there.
And I think that's the big difference, right?
We talked about is the bootcamp buff gonna be enough?
So far, it's proving to be pretty effective for 100 thieves compared to what we've seen in previous stages of the 2026 ignite calendar so far, but
Will it be enough to shut down YWO on their comfort zone, their comfort pick in Museum of Contemplation, where so many teams have struggled against them, but a couple of them have been successful in getting a victory on this map.
So if anyone could do it, as you're talking about,
it would be a team who has studied against them
and practiced time and time again,
and very likely played hundreds of hours
at the Museum of Contemplation at this point.
Yeah, I mean, no doubt we're going
to be seeing YWL pushed to their limits in this series,
considering we've already seen 100 teams showing their hand
a little bit, saying, yeah, we know your tricks.
We know your game.
We're here to play it, too.
No big deal there.
But yeah, you know, it is a lot on the line for these teams,
like we talked about, you know, YWL coming
through the MRC system, champions two times there.
A lot of the every man out there, the ranked grinders,
putting their hopes and dreams on this team.
And they're a team that's very adaptable.
They will change with the pressure.
So, you know, the Daredevil, the Psycop's bands
are huge 400 thieves on that first map.
But I do bet it is far from over for YWL.
The bag of tricks runs deep for them.
They just gotta find one that works against 100 thieves.
And you know, maybe museum of contemplation
is the answer. YWL, they kind of favor that map.
They do play well on it.
Under thieves, recency bias aside,
they did have a lot of a struggle against a fly quest on it.
So now YWL thinking maybe this is where
we can find that first foothold
and kind of build this series out for ourselves going forward.
But the big question they've got to answer is the team cop.
They just want to say they really need to play
the rest of the series assuming they're not going to get
Daredevil or Cyclops because they're just confirmed.
Hey, if we take those away,
We definitely have a chance to win against YWO.
What's interesting to note here too, specifically about Yawiloss, is that they've played some, you know,
Rocket Raccoon, which has had a big resurgence in terms of, you know, popularity for the pro scene,
the Cosmary on Amplifier with the damage boost and extra health, but also the Battle Ready beacon
for the res and just the extra heals now that you can deal out with the current buffs and how fast
you can get the ultimate. What happened last time with Flyquests is they got a one-sided against 100
And that seemed to be a big difference maker for them. Of course, they shot down to decay with banning out the Angela Angela
It has some decent
Paths that they could fly around on this map as well
And it seemed like they had a really good read on the comp that they wanted to play against a hundred thieves
And I don't know if necessarily YWL is going to be able to do that quite yet again
We talked to Luke. He said it's kind of chaotic in the comms and they you know lock in when they can but they've had a number of mistakes
So I feel like it might have been a better option to ban out the daredevil again this time
but it's going to be locked in by 100 thieves one-sided once again, but they do are began at this time that could be the difference maker
Yeah, definitely looking for something to change up here to try and help them get over the hill because there were definitely signs of life from
YWL on map one
It was not a complete steamroll from start to finish for the thieves
But yeah, like we were kind of talking about you know that first draft phase leading to the map one win for hundred thieves
Basically confirms. Yes, we are gonna keep locking in this daredevil band because jitward's trying to find a DPS
that he can bring to the table here some duelist that can get them the damage that they're looking for and yeah
You're right. Vottel predicted the future here
They're gonna take that daredevil one-sided because with a guy like self you gotta let him hop on the daredevil
Yeah, similar like we were saying to Jitward if you have someone who is a very strong contender for one the best in the business
I want a certain hero and they are one of your duelist players
You want to lock it in for them?
We've seen that happen with the Wolverine for a crazy kitty on the other end for rad and now we see it happen here
But this is a better read for YWL banning up the thing. We saw how effective TDK was with that
You know the Yancy Street charge making it so that everyone's grounded and can't escape when they try to go in to
Take out the back line
They were doing some great peels for their team and we even saw the haymakers doing great damage
Throughout the rest of the team and I feel like so far so good for yeah
We lost I do like the one-sided gambit too because they have the damage boost the out charge
celebration but a little bit more power if they do opt for the Jitward Star Lord. That seemed to
be what was lacking behind those Galactic Legends. Yeah, like I think they're very close to locking
in something that they can play out a map with and potentially turn a win here. But yeah, it is
all about doing a little bit of tinker in here at the drawing board and a Luna Snow save for 100
thieves now. So Snowflakes on the board. I think both sides banned her out last draft. So maybe
first time she's put boots on the field here for this one. But yeah, I like the changeups here.
Like you talked about on math one valuable. Yeah, we lost they know where the problem children are they have good target prioritization
They know what they need to deal with so I love the thing ban here because yeah TTK absolutely
Relentless onto that thing they are gonna ban out Groot as well
So it makes sense shots at Vinnie potentially here, too. I like that. Yes
You know yeah, we lost a team I could never say does not have the draft IQ because they definitely do
Yeah, they definitely locked in here. They know that you know banning the mantis probably isn't the best option right now
They're likely gonna rock it and force them into a triple strategist
But the rocket record as I was talking about having that available to yeah
We lost this massive, but it's not one-sided is the big difference maker on at this end
So I don't know how effective it's gonna be but we've seen you know the extra damage from the
Starlord having their team up would be massive too
Actually the survivability not the extra damage, but from the cosme on amplifier as well
And that's why they're gonna be banning the star load
I feel like they kind of gave their hand away by saving the rocker raccoon
And making it so that the star lord is banned out this time it makes it difficult because the duelist lineup
You got to be questioning. What are they going to be playing on this map now?
Right it just deepens that question we were asking coming into map two is is what is jitward violet because the answer
Was starting to lean towards star lord, but now that is taken off the table as well
So i've said it once or twice in this series so far
It feels like a little bit of an identity crisis for the duelist line
on the side of Yaoi Lost, so they are gonna have to answer the question, where do we get
our damage from in this series?
Yeah, I do feel like it tips their hand a little bit with that Coon save.
And I kinda wondered about the Loki band too, because, you know, Gambit obviously taken
out of the equation, so no back-to-back royal flushes.
I almost would have wanted to see a Rocket Coon band there, but, you know, there's plenty
of good targets for Loki to copy too, so potentially never a bad idea, but we may be
getting a little bit of jitward black cat here because again he is being pushed to the limit in
terms of hero pool. Yeah it's a great map for it again because of how long the lanes are especially
if you get to that second objective and having that invisibility that you can use is a massive
boon because you can use it even more often than what we've seen in the past with Psylocke as well
and we have a really known jitward for playing that so a bit more of a typical composition I would
say from YWL also having a bit more potential for sniffing out the dive from 100 thieves,
but speaking of 100 thieves, they are going with the triple, triple, Calvin in on museum.
Yeah, the tried and true here definitely gets some licks in on museum up comes in place in here.
Delena on the golden god, the Adam Gorelock here. So you know they're gonna be looking for some
karmic revival. Vinny though gonna start off this fight first, KO for him, Bask will fight right
back here, but the Lennox, the food res, ready to go here. So Adam Warlock back on the field,
Angela for T.T.K. on this one, and he's got a double KO right out of the gate, self-finding one
as well on the mag, and yeah, the triple triple looking good here as well, almost 60 seconds away,
and YWL not even on the Batzmobile at this moment. Yeah, that's the tough part. When you are facing
off against this 100s roster, right, we did see the Angela banned out for T.T.K., but they decided
the focus on the thing and I feel like in terms of lethality for TTK specifically it would have been
a better option to focus on this Angel for good reason to be right there my gosh. Yeah I mean
already showing that hey you banned on some of our problem children but the TTK Zero pool is deeper
than it has ever been in his history of playing with Hundred Thieves so you cannot stop him. Zaytex
though will deliver some monster piercer shots to Vinny. We're gonna be walking it back and Luka
already taking out as well.
Jit worked on the Black Cat.
Zed back by Selva.
Double KO on the Mag.
Nido and Zaytex now trying to get his team back in the fight
here, but it's a minute 30 away.
And YWL still just at the halfway point by number one.
So YWL may have come into this map looking for a full hold,
but right now, under D is looking to lock in that chokehold.
Duelist, dead pull from Dritward.
I was wondering when this will come out.
We've seen it at least a lot of times in this map
as the rage and royal flush comes through.
I'm gonna try to buff up that dental here and get something going for YWL half of the time away
but underneath Malania's invisible boundary here, he's been a hundred deems on some life support
Delena, full-flying Z-Tex off at the out, and Luca has well a double KO for Delena on the Atom TTK
in some trouble here, but another one onto Jitward now, Delena cooking here on the Atom Warlock
The Golden God indeed has a, that's just a minute, 45,
YWL have left and they cannot control the mission vehicle.
This is a composition that I feel like,
you know, the last struggle against before
is this triple, triple right.
They don't have heroes that they want to fight with
for the dualist strategies to take them down
and he was the God of Thunder coming through.
It's just not enough power behind it.
Kubio unleashed from Kendrick and quickly burst it down
and so are their hopes and dreams
of getting to the first objective.
They're just getting isolated and focused down
and nothing they could do to escape this nightmare
that they have found themselves in.
Nightmare in here, especially the hands of TNT.
This Angelo Vol 5 Xantho sending Gambit back to square,
one here, millennia as well in that KO feed.
Yeah, it is just terror around every corner
from 100 thieves here.
And yeah, you know, YWO, they are in desperate need
of some damage and they just can't find it.
Jitward, several swaps already, but just nothing is a breakthrough for them here.
So now, 45 seconds on the clock, Hunter Thieves, the ultimate damage.
What do we do with your Light W?
Well, the answer is that, duelist, Deadpool, Altair, Maskal Find, TTK.
That is definitely a good start here.
But now, the problem arises.
Delena, armor-providing online and ready to go here.
So Hunter Thieves gonna throw themselves into the heat of battle here,
which is 30 seconds for Light W to find and answer.
Double KO, board jibbered off the Deadpool, but Vinny gonna get right back up and right back into the mix there.
That venom big body is back on the battlefield yet again.
Still holding on to several ults in his 100th Thieves.
Winnie gonna see why he is most. I mean, there's some damage and potential here to close these out.
It's just 10 seconds left to go.
Double strategy ults come out from 100th Thieves.
It is that Cosmic Yarn Amplifier and the Invisible Boundary from Malinia yet again.
And YWL at the worst possible time in the life are going out here.
Xacko's got a rage and world flush, what a last gasp!
4-YWL here to try and turn the tide, but overtime already a couple seconds away.
Now self overhead, Meteor in, ready to go here, can't make the dunk,
but gets the zoning pressure, buys them the time, and that is all about the overtime!
YWL, full health here on their own map day!
I was talking about how this seems to be a nightmare for Yawiloss,
but it's more the multiverse of Madness, a horror movie for this team.
and unfortunately there is no timeline against this 100 thieves roster where they come out on top
based on the performance we have seen so far. At this point it feels like the strategies on
yeah we lost or like William Defoe from the lighthouse just staring up into the skies wondering
when they're going to be done in by the surrounding seagulls around them and it's just such a tough
spot to find themselves in 100 thieves. This is the lock-in we have been waiting for Winnie
without a single casualty to their name and they're looking for a 3-0 perfect sweep against YWL
I'm not giving them a single point.
I mean, it's a rare position to see how we lost in,
to see them on the back, but here with no answers.
Usually they're the ones that say,
we will set the pace here,
we set the rules in this matchup,
but 100 Thieves came in and delivered them
stunner after stunner,
and another one here on Museum of Contemplation.
Half of checkpoint number one
is all 100 Thieves have to do
to take this second map win,
and one of the biggest problem children on 100 Thieves
Again, has been Winnie in this matchup not taking a single KO yet, has been on the point
in every single fight that other teams have taken.
So there is not a lot of ground for YWL to stand on here, heels dangling over the edge
of the cliff.
68 meters is all the space they've got to take.
It's one fight from the dead goer.
Well, that's the funny number, but either way, TTK, back on the Devil's Dinosaur, which
we have not seen in some time, trying to build up the stride result from this a little bit
faster for the team.
passive, reducing it just a little bit but it does it just possess the other teams, especially
Wukka on the whole thing. They know they're going to be the one to worry about, so I do
love these options.
Yeah, you know, we talked about it. If there's any secret weapons in these Team Zero pools,
maybe a thousand times to bring it out. Hunter Team's got a couple interesting things on
the board. T.T.K. on the Devil Dinosaur, and yes, that is Delito off of here, the Daywalker
to his appearance in this matchup and they will fall right over YWL here.
AOB bright blue here for the 100 thieves as in under 45 seconds they clear the way for that batsmobile.
Hendrick over onto the Doctor Strange, there's definitely a formal coming in here but what a play here
for this interesting comp that thieves got going.
Now just kind of having a victory laugh of sorts going into this one but also the survivability
upplayed. We've seen it do quite well on these convoy maps, especially with lanes like Museum of
Conflictation, Midtown, and Ignite. There's been potential for people to pull it out,
but the Iron Fist coming out from Jitward, that's how you know they're pulling from within Zatex
on that Mantis, and they're gone! Yeah, it is identity crisis all over again here. Jitward,
on that Iron Fist, you are right, they will manage a millennia, though, a couple of ults left,
four YWL in the tank. Let me unleash for mass that it is all over. They do find some chaos though.
Kindred taking it down to Lena, who is going to be holding that thousand fold slash when he comes back.
If he stays on the plate here, but yeah, it is one fight, one breakthrough left for other thieves to take this second map in a row here.
But why'd we all get a fight with everything that they've got?
They do have some good forward pressure here.
There's a little bit of distance, but Vinny is going to look to close the gap.
And same thing, poor the day walker here, a thousand fold slash on the board.
From up to Lena, no chaos coming out of it, but always love to see a left field pick now.
100 Thieves, all of that, the backs of Light Up Yo-Yo, your move that backs will be even
over for it, and that is it here! They're gonna go all the way off the line, and 100 Thieves,
two minutes still on the clock, will close it out. Now, one half standing between men and their
third LAN tournament. Zombie Dr. Strange hunted by the Daywalker himself in his Delena, taking
them down a peg, slicing and dicing it to victory. One map away, as you mentioned it for, the third
consecutive land for 100 Thieves as an organization and what a bounce back it has been. Museum of
Contemplation known as the domain for Yeah We Lost but now kind of living up to their name where we
said they might have had to change it to a bit cockily going into this series. Yeah I mean definitely
gave YW a lot to contemplate here coming out of this museum run. On their own turf Yeah We Lost
defeated yet again by 100 Thieves, a team that has you know recovered from losing one of the top
Duelist in the region, Terra going over to Navi now saying we are here and we are ready for our third land trip.
Map number three on deck match point for Hundred Thieves just one map away from going to the mid-season finals yet again.
Don't go anywhere. We'll have that third map right after this short break.
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Turn on the head, back to the bottom
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Got a bang, boom, bang, bang
We're flying to you, baby, if you come to me
I'll follow you, my baby
If you come to me
Time, the place we used to fight
When the sun had gone and I wondered
Seven at once, it's an empty word breath
See, I had falling in shadows, warm in eddies
That's how cars come from me, to take you out
We are set now for a last reunion
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Do you remember who you really are?
Show me that you are still the only one for me
We only wait for you
Blinking in
I think you're frost freezing
With the distance smashed
In the dark circles
Before the wind splinters again
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I've been on my toes until you know it's now
I can't stop us
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We will clash
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I knew you'd see now, a time, a time
We can still fight like the winds in the fire
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New day is smiling, but the future is the future
Break the chains, leave the way, fight with me
And when you wake up, open your eyes, raising your fists and splashing the fire.
When the wind returns again, the arrival's gonna be a joy.
But I don't wanna make your mind too old, wanna keep your powers down,
or get sad or lost.
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Need a hundred shares
And it ain't gonna work
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As I say
Well, it's been a quick second half of the show here, Diatonic.
I mean, we had a 3-0 sweep, and we have potential for another, depending on the band draft and
map that we have, or yeah, we lost as their counterpick, but it seems like it might be
inevitable at this point, and, well, Thanos isn't in the game yet, so they're hoping that's
not the case.
Yeah, I mean, much, much faster than I was anticipating here in these last couple series
as, yeah, a hundred thieves got the momentum going here.
They've been first banning Daredevil in both of the drafts they've had against YW all so far.
And don't imagine that will change any time soon here.
So it's just left in with this weird issue of what duelists do we bring to the table here?
They just don't have the damage and it has been all 100 thieves all a day long.
But I think on that last map, you know, there are definitely a couple of candidates from the side of 100 thieves or the MVP.
But for me, it's it's kind of yourself here, right?
It just has to be at the end of the day.
I mean he's got the one-sided daredevil and he is really kind of kind of conducting this match
But it was really good the Magneto that got my eye on him to start things off on the first round when they brought triple triple to
The table self was on the mag and I said okay great. He's got a shield. He's just gonna soak up some damage
No, I just gets a double kill like right off the bat, you know, right
Yeah eight finals on defense for their team only three needed at the end on attack as well
And again, you know, you saved this hero for them, but they're still able to fall in line with the rest of the team in this strategy,
play the triple-triple and lock in against YWL, who seemed like they were potentially unbeatable on that map for some time.
But they figured out the strategies, they played enough against them, and hey, teams, you can play against these bracket demons and actually learn how to beat them
as long as you scrim YWL. That's what a hundred thieves are telling everyone.
Yeah, we definitely heard that teams don't want to scrim YWI, I feel like just paying
dividends to thieves here that they have practiced against them and, you know, gotta take a look
at these numbers again.
One other player I feel like we wanted to highlight here was Winnie as well.
Was a not KO'd that entire map had the most healing output on the strategist flavor of
the Deadpool.
I mean, what a performance here on map two.
Again, you know that strategist who just paying more and more out in terms of value 400 thieves
And now here we are thieves one map away from their third trip to land in arrivals and light up
You know, I mean, you know, it's not over until it's over
But a big big reverse sweep is on deck and it still just feels like they have not found their footing in this matchup
This is the least amount of finals we have seen in eliminations from now
We lost in quite some time. I would say early days of MRC or even the preseason where we were seeing
You know some teams go toe-to-toe with them and be able to call them similar to like team look at Citadel
But a hundred thieves they have the playbook in hand and they have walked in and are ready to close this chapter
In their story and well
This is one more page to turn before they make it to the land stage for the third time in a row as an
Organization but a little bit of a different look than last year and better than ever at this point in time the
Bootcamp buff is there remix looking really strong in terms of the band draft so far
I mean we have to give the credit where it's due to the entire team
But also to the minds behind it as well and just the support that this team is getting right
I gotta talk about the elephant in the room right certain organizations not flying up players and then you know the support
Differential between the teams that are putting in all the resources that is necessary to get a land spot is shown
We see the teams who do have that performance coming out and have the resources, have the bootcamp, have the practice, have the coaches.
It works. You need to support your team to help them flourish throughout these competitions.
And a hundred thieves are perfect evidence of that.
So hopefully some of the other teams through the different stages in LAN and whatever else
kind of learn from that themselves, internalize and be like, hey, we can do a little bit better.
or we're all out there.
Kept the necessary ingredients, cook up a land performance
and a land qualification as well.
Yeah, I mean, no doubt that Bootcamp buff has come in
such for them because, you know, being able to play together,
make callouts in person has to be big.
And we kind of saw the same effects in the Pacific region
as well, where, you know, Gen G were able to play together
in person.
That helped them tremendously.
But another big buff for this 100 Thieves team
is just how long they have been playing together.
Since the inception of Marvel Rivals, of course, now self-stepping into the shoes for Tara as he jets off to the EMEA region,
but it is a big buff to have that chemistry built up over time, and it's just not something that you can throw together at the last minute.
And yes, why don't we all have played tournaments before, and they've made some roster changes here and there,
but you know, the chemistry between the two of them, you know, 100 teams all the way back when they were known as mutants,
have been working together for so long, and it's really paying off here now for them.
Yeah, looking very strong so far in this competition, looking to close things out, but it's not all for not.
Yawilaw still has a chance depending on which map they end up going to.
We'll see if it is Shin Shibuya here as well, but I mean, what map do you think it'll be on this one, Diatonic?
Yeah, you know, I was keen coming in here to say maybe we're just going to see Shin Shibuya as another one that YWL are comfortable with,
but I have to wonder if they're taking a pause because they also are comfortable on Museum of Contemplation,
And they were full held by 100 thieves there.
So I don't know, you know, they just recently played
a Hall of Dijalia, so maybe go back there.
But I don't know.
I mean, if they want the comfort pick outright,
they want to try to create less expat,
there's less variables.
Maybe it shouldn't should be all over again.
I mean, that's the toss up for me because, again,
recency bias, you know, they won on Hall of Dijalia,
but it did kind of become a nail biter here,
very close down to the line.
But no, they will go for it here.
Map number three on their last lives,
they are going to fall back on that Hall of Dejalia map
pick that helped them win in that last series.
So yeah, I was worried that maybe I was thinking,
surely they don't go for the comfort pick here, right?
Because it just didn't work for them on map two.
So back to Hall of Dejalia we go.
Yeah, Hall of Dejalia.
I mean, we've seen decent success from them in the past,
right?
They were able to full hold stick drift,
look very competitive there, even with the Star Lord play
that we actually were able to witness from them.
So really curious on what the compositions
are going to come back from 100 thieves going into this one.
They could run the comp that almost countered YWL
from Stick Drift, which was the Helen de Moor.
That's an option for them, especially
if they are going to be banning out to them on this time.
So we'll see if that is going to be enough for this roster.
If this map is going to be the difference maker,
turn things around, start the reverse sweep train out
of the station or if it is going to be a hundred thieves domination across the
board, getting the perfect sweep, not giving their opponents a single point, by
the way. They didn't give the one a domination, didn't give the one a convoy,
they don't want to give them one a convergence in full hold and have a
perfect sweep as a statement to any of the doubters out there. And I will say I
was a doubter, I gotta say it. A hundred thieves, of course, you know, I had great
hopes for them in the preseason, but going into, you know, the preseason playoffs
and everything else. It wasn't just the results that we were hoping for from the team, but they have learned through adversity, trials and tribulation,
and now they are here to book their ticket to that land.
Yeah, I mean really both of these squads have walked a long long road, not just in rivals overall,
but especially here in stage one and now for YWL.
They are looking at potentially the end of that road here. They cannot find a way to turn the tides.
I think you know looking at this from the very beginning something big needs to change with the draft for YWL
And they're the team that can kind of turn things on a dime change things up and take everybody by surprise
And that's what they need to do
I feel like you know hunter thieves came right out of the gate played a little bit of YWL's own game
Against them and it's just left them in kind of this tailspin
But now they are gonna look to try and recover it and viable we talked about this up between the maps here
We were wondering if maybe we were going to see a daredevil first man from YWL and it is true a mirrored across the board
No daredevil herself either on that three and a thing first save for a hundred thieves
I mean they know that the dive is going to come out in some capacity from YWL
Unfortunately, you know, they won't have the daredevil available to them
But potential for the gambit right at the bands don't come through it later on but based on the side at that
Yeah, we lost our starting on they have a bit more of an advantage in that capacity
they are able to lock in the Cyclops.
And that's the biggest difference here,
I would say, for Zaytec specifically,
is that they have just felt like they haven't had hands,
unfortunately, without the Cyclops.
It's been the clutch factor for them.
That was the difference maker when they swapped to it.
Every time they were facing off against Stickdrift,
and yes, they didn't need to protect it
or ban it for anything of that sort,
but I think that was a bit of a misread
by their opponents previously.
Hundred Thieves, different caliber,
different resources, different beast.
Yeah, that last series against Stickdrift,
It was two trump cards that yeah, we lost spot to the table and of course one of them was that daredevil and
Unfortunately off the table here, but the other one while you're right was that Cyclops and it was a swap
They went to to change things mid-battle
So interesting to see if they're gonna just roll right on out with the Cyclops or try to play this one out and go to him later
But you know again gotta point out you know mask on the road here was pretty big too
They had some big plays the cop put them over the edge to take the wing here
I don't know if they're going to spin it on the road or not, but, you know, again, the thieves have shown all throughout the series.
They clearly watch the tape of YWL versus Stake Drift.
Yeah, a couple of different options they can go forward, depending on if they want the Rocky Raccoon out of there.
And that was part of the victory win condition for Yahweh Lost.
We saw Kendrick actually being the one to use it pretty effectively, right?
Got some decent healing, had the battle ready beacon and it being one-sided.
could it be the difference maker between winning this series in the three oh sweep or yeah
We lost taking it one back
So one final ban potential from them. They still have Gambit available to them
But they're gonna go for the Star Lord ban instead at this time leaving them the gambit and the rocket available
And I don't know if that's the best option here
Yeah, definitely all up in the air here
And you know we said we wanted to see something different from YWL in the draft here
and they definitely changed some things up as they did on map 2, and it didn't necessarily
play in their favor, so hopefully the map pick will be something that helps keep them
in the fight here because yeah, that train through the mid-season finals is about ready
to leave the station here. Engine revved up, and Hunter Thieves about to step off the
platform and into their seat here, unless YW all can find some way to make a last second
jump through the door, but I don't know, Hunter Thieves, they are a tear here. There's some
serious momentum coming in that has been all but halted for YWL even after that big win over
Sticker. So now it's time to shake out the cobwebs here. Dust yourself off. It's not free,
a fresh slate, but 100 thieves. They just need to finish this one off to get that ticket to the
mid-season finals. Is that going to be the amazing Spider-Man in Jitward coming through to save the
day when New York needed it most? I mean, we'll figure it out. We saw a little bit of it before,
but this could be the time in a strike for them the problem is they're facing off against the immovable object in the devil
Dinosaur from TTK Vinnie also trying to go for the portal play immediately
Interacting with something here from YWO and protection actually from the bubble for TTK swapping on over to the thing afterwards
That is a master class
Yeah, beautiful stuff here 100 thieves raid are often ready to go here as they walk through the portal
They take one tick right away here and Zin YWL for running.
These are going to hold up on the point.
That's two ticks away.
Where is YWL?
They are here on the outsides.
Good hook onto Dolena.
That is cheered.
You're friendly.
They were in Spiderman in this match up.
Pulling Dolena out of the rest of the team.
But they have already secured two ticks here and one to KO.
Onto Mast, Krona, and Angela.
So a solid portal open again for them.
And Winnie got that deadpool all ready to go.
All ready.
It's a two from one there.
Xenophine Winnie, but a dull KO from Dolena.
makes it three, they give four now, as self-daredevil
amount of ammo for him, goes over to the Wolverine,
and 100 thieves have checked point number one with 5.30
on the clock.
Speed ran, the capturing of the first objective.
And that's not the game plan that YWL
were expecting going into this one.
Delena showcasing who is the real Scott Summers in this match.
But unfortunately, Zatek's having to take a bow
after that one.
We do have the fastball special also available to 100 thieves
showing hey if we don't have the daredevil we have something just as legal.
to turn the tides on defense here.
They have old worlds coming out from a Xantho
trying to buy wide of real.
Some time to get these ults charged up.
These are the units ready to go for Lucas all the while.
Under thieves just holding the cards,
waiting for the up.
They have the ults here.
No spectacularness ults left.
Vinny himself gonna get a couple of KO's here.
And the Ruby Rage from Zaytek finds nothing here.
Coming up empty.
The Delina Cyclops sure is not.
100 thieves are going to the lottery, buying a single ticket and then catching the jackpot
every time that they want any chance or gains to happen into this matchup.
That's exactly what we've been seeing from them, especially Winnie on to the strategy
Deadpool.
Winnie also unleashed on at the Halls.
The world of Breaker is here just to keep them contained in a whale from the rest of
their team.
going in with the Havons and retribution does not matter because nobody can escape the rain of
tear that a hundred thieves have been preparing for quite some time against YWL. Yeah, they are
chaining these fight wins together. Like you said, kind of hedging their bets, right? Holding on to
the ults, winning these neutral fights. And then in the next fight, they got all the ults ready to go
and that's the result you're seeing now. YWL wiped out yet again here, less than one meter to go for
for checkpoint two and it's still 3.30 on the clock.
400 thieves there, knock up and the Lennon
puts some damage down onto Mastin.
Not even the Rogue can save him here
as the thieves just wiped the floor with YWL yet again here.
Then going to line for thieves in trouble.
TTK pretty low here, but they are sustaining right on through
and still finding the damage out there.
Now, Clawman time for TTK, not too huge this time around,
but enough pressure.
He put 100 thieves in the fight
We talk about flexibility in terms of this YWL roster, but the biggest issue is that
they don't have a Wolverine player here in Zatex.
Well, they are going to be able to lock in as the Cyclops for the team with a pent-up,
Is this just stemming the bleeding temporarily against a hundred thieves, right?
Jitward able to also get some crucial eliminations
But I feel like a lot that have to do to the resources being used and burned by a hundred thieves
So going to this next team fight is the must win for why they'll be able to stay alive in this competition
Yeah, I mean every fight for jitward is just a huge effort on the spider-man as well
Meanwhile, Selena just flying through YWR resources with those optic blasts here
They're gonna have a Ruby Rage ready to go here in just a moment.
They are gonna trade.
Hey, there's the Winnie on the strap.
Cool, gonna get back up and in the fight here.
But now, why don't we all finding a good stop?
Just shy of checkpoint two.
They had actually pushed that cart back.
The fair bid here with two minutes on the clock.
400 teams.
So just kind of looking for a way to get their foot back in the door here.
But why don't we all able to at least propel him for now
that Millennia, their perfect angle right onto Mask and Winnie as well,
will take out Jitward.
And now the door is wide open here for Delana to work.
Uncontested self as well on the Wolverine to find one more and YWL again just stuck in this tailspin
over and over again and now that part's on the move but I do think you'll have one more fight.
Yeah I mean all the ultimate for 100 thieves right potential for one last fight for YWL and
trying to go in but actually cancelling the Ruby Rage before it's even fully used it's massive.
Yeah huge victory for sure now we're gonna force out that last stand from self and he goes down as
as well, Zaynx on a tear here.
Xantho's gonna paint a little blue,
but that club very quickly comes through a close here.
And now Malinia on the gamut here,
Barney Kendrick and Winnie will take out Jibber as well.
So strategist lying in trouble for YWL.
It's just Xantho on the Luna.
The only one trying to keep this team up here,
and TTK Lee and Lin is still on to that Luna's snow.
Strategist nowhere inside for YWL.
It is a matter of win, not if.
They'll be able to get this second checkpoint here.
Luna slices and dies for himself as well.
Jitward over onto the spot when he's back to LL, and he is gonna let it rip here, fighting for their lives with 45 seconds left to go there, throwing everything they have,
had 100 teams to try and make this stop, making a realistic way for them to win here on this map, but finally it's a breakthrough.
Two minutes on the clock, and one checkpoint left to go.
Still we see the contest coming out from Luka as well, eventually they will fall and tumble down, they will.
A couple of swaps coming in from Wadaville.
It's the first time I've seen Jitward on the Punisher,
and, uh, age a millennia itself, and, uh, okay,
swapping back to it, realizing I'm not that guy.
I'm gonna go back to the Star Lord
to see if that'll be enough for this team,
but it just seems like anything they're throwing
at this 100thies roster is not sticking,
and they need to figure out the answer the way forward,
and Mass Heartbreaker could be it.
Yeah, they are gonna have to rally around something here.
Rogue in some serious trouble, though.
Able to break a little bit of hearts here,
but not the heart of Lydie on that Deadpool.
One more all-kill YWO's way.
Ruby Rage from Zajac gets some damage with the Overheal
for 100 thieves so huge here.
Y-Bars looking clean as ever as Dolenev,
bleeding up here on YWO.
Still a minute left in the time.
They've got 100 thieves making some decent progress here.
YWO just trying to find something
that can sit deep in that stand.
Bramastel here, the thieves are looking to try
and make this one last stand and get this thing
over the finish line.
But YWO, they have at least found ways
slow down the pace. The final exam upgraded for the bonus health so that everyone could be
sustained it through that dive that we saw from Master. And now they're actually pulling out their
own cooperate potential that they want to build up to. They have the hands, might be enough for
them to deal them back to 100 thieves, taking down three, four members, maybe an entire team
wipe. This is their last stand with 30 seconds remaining. Got a triple for Jitward on the Star
Lord here has to be a little bit of a compliments boost and that is huge and I mean we talk about YWL being a team that is not afraid to make hero
Swaps but these are rapid fire non-stop. We're talking about Wiltie, Hey Sutter and they're already ready to swap especially from a Jitward years
So 10 seconds left to go here not a cut hole to the tank for either team, GTK's got a clobbering time and it goes huge here!
We know there's a light up in the back, so we'll move on to the Punisher.
He's holding that down. He's able to get to the overtime and keep the mission vehicle moving here.
The one that will go down adds up.
Shit, we're here onto the Star Lord 200th, dropping one by one here.
So this may be the end of the push, but the YWL have to finish it off here.
They gotta finish the meal if they want to try and make this a realistic hold.
The Lena on the Doctor Strange here portal is going to open up,
but not able to get there in time.
They hold them through the portal and why don't you all at least leave the door open to win of this map right here and now?
But it's two checkpoints 89 meters a solid offensive push for hundred thieves
It's hard to tell at the end there
But I think it might have been an exile on to the doctor strange as they went through the portal and could not touch down at the
Right moment to contest so tough spot didn't get the three points
But went as far as you could for a hundred thieves
So YWL have their work cut out for them.
I mean, looking at the stat line alone, Zatek's carry as much as they can.
And Jitward getting back into the saddle, learning a hero that they barely play at this rate with the Star Lord.
Really need to see the rest of the team come to the table and showcase something that will get them a victory against this 100 Thieves roster,
which just seemed fully in sync and looking at some of the hovers that we have for this defending round.
I kind of worry for YWL.
Yeah, I mean, again, it feels like just a flurry of changes from them, you know, not
letting, you know, not getting enough time for things to settle. But as that dust settles
here, they are able to make the stop. So, YW all have an opportunity here to take this
map and get us to a map for, but it is a long trip through Hala de Jalia to get us there.
And you know, 100 Thieves are ready to close this one out here. Vinny on the Venom. Kendrick,
a second that I thought we were going to see some Adam Warlock coming out here. No dice though,
Lucas on the whole get again, and yeah, it's just going to come down to how quickly can YWL
get over this Iron Curtain defense from 100 Bs. They full held them on Museum of Contemplation,
so they got a right, a different story here on the third map. We'll see what that story is going to be.
Ruby Rage, Last Stand, we've seen the combinations from Delena itself, and they have been deadly,
especially with the kinetic claws that come through, but all eyes on Luka. They haven't got a final yet and they need to step up.
Yeah, definitely looking for that step up here, and it is time YWL.
Dangling over the edge of the cliff, they gotta make something happen here.
Who'd take onto Delina, but it is at the cost of Stage 4.
YWL and TGK still throwing hanghangers left and right and throwing some fastballs here.
That's self-improving, looking for a target. No good there, but we'll get a little bit of a slice and dice on to Luka for now,
as they are just looking to dig heels in and stay on the point here to let it almost back
and ready to keep the fight going for 100 thieves itself. Good kick out there as well.
Can't convert to a KO, but they will manage the takeout. Angela, that's Maspo, that's Fawn,
and Xantho and Satex as well will join them one by one. YWL will fall a minute away and they are
going to revert that little bit of progress. No takes yet for Yali off. Great hold so far for 100
thieves. I like to change up for Vinny to the Venom too, just to dive them and force the attention
way from the rest of their players. It allows Witty to get in, build up their
strategies, ultimates, have that sustained healing when they go in for the dive, and
even if there's a chance for Witty to be able to try counter it with the
Blessing of the Kumiho team up between Kendrick and Xantho, it just hasn't been
as effective as they would like it to be. So the need to find a different answer,
Galactic Legend could be it.
on the thing here. Winnie though has that deathful hold
around every turn. We saw the bunny hop up into play before YWL
leaving him able to walk it back to the point and now able to
let it fly here and make damage coming through now. YWL in some
serious pain here. Zayac's hanging on by a threat as his team falls
around him. Jitward as well will go all the way back to
square number one. Melania finds the white box does go for it.
That's the picnic off the edge. Does not need to make the
sacrifice play and it's a reset yet again for YWL.
great setup to from 100 thieves like Melania specifically on this Jeff
symbiotic shenanigans still available gets that basically a soul bond without
having to play out of Warlock in this composition and TTK clobbering time online
one good hit could be all it takes Zatex Ruby rage hasn't been known to be super
effective as an ultimate in this playoffs that's a great kid now for
Yeah, big opener here, 400 thieves in one.
Could potentially, depending on how long it goes,
be the last fight here.
Xantho very early fade-in both worlds.
Now, the YWO get their foot in the door here
and trouble for 100 thieves.
Now, the Lena and Self-Bowl take it out.
Self-gonna go over to the strange for the portal
because he sees his team.
He knows his health bar is looking pretty low.
So they are gonna need a way to get back on the point here,
but it may be too late.
YWO able to get checkpoint number one.
No strange portal popped here and it's 3.30 on the clock
for them.
run here at offense but of course you know now we have a look ahead there is
still a lot of progress they need to make. Forcing self to swap off the Wolverine
because of the hard counter from the blessing of the Kumihou and that's a
good look for YWL but we've seen how lethal self is especially with the
Cracketed Pack halfway to it Delena with the Ruby Rage might be enough after a
clobbering time just to close out YWL at simply a time.
Yeah, no doubt Winter will be coming for YWL here, but Winter coming for Hunter Thieves
who's dead, so opening up this fight with Ikeo on the Luna Zatex finds itself as well.
TGK able to pick up one here in the middle of all this chaos, but now YWL finding a little
bit of momentum here.
Things picking up for him.
He would stick into the starboard and making a pay here.
Takedown, Bini.
You had headshot there, and that's fighting another one as well.
And Belina forced to try and battle back for the Thieves, but now YWL, who 30 stole
I think the big thing is that they're focusing on the duelist so far for 100thies right targeting Delena and self before they can even use any of their abilities and get some good trades and focus on the squishheeds from YWL.
That's when the difference makes you so far, but can only do so much once TPK and Vinny kind of keep an eye on that and go for a combination of their own clobber sign.
Still available. These are the abysses. Well, and TPK easily gets the KO on the mask.
Yeah, forces out that favorable for what's from Xambo here, and once that goes down there is a big opening here.
400 thieves to put on the herd. Cell holding on to that packet impact here, and they'll find a couple of KO's right out the gate here.
right out the gate here, again trying to hold onto those ults as hard as they can,
and why not go grip on the ults will pay off because they win this one in the neutral here.
Resetting is YWL, a minute 30 left to go, so, I don't know, maybe enough time for a couple fights here,
but 100 thieves, you know they are gonna come strapped and ready.
I'm liking the patience from 100 thieves on these Vanguard ultimates.
They know they could be the difference maker in the next team fight,
the Kumiho Unleashed as they've been ult tracking is available, and that's a lot of sustain to burn through,
So once it goes down might be the time to activate for the crack and impact will also have some legal potential here
Yeah, they're really trying to buy themselves some time to maybe make this the last fight here Ruby Ray from Delana
We'll find jit we're early on and now the crack and impact from self is on a lie here winning and Vinny
We'll fill out a Kov along with TTK no finals for self here
No reset for the crack and impact but no need for it jitward bug back up and out of spawn
but staggered out a little bit in a few precious seconds gonna take away 45 on the clock for YWL to get back to that car
Pwnage pound combo'd as well if the Kraken impact just to keep them up
So they can't get targeted out of the air and get the resets and maximum damage possible in that team fight
Jitward has to have one of the best galactic legends possible here or their journey into the stage will play out will be over
He is not gonna wait to let it fly here overhead jitward on the satellite one more time for YWL
But a big early pick on Desanto onto the Luna Snow Kendrick, able to take out Selfie that is gonna hurt in this fight.
And so is that clobbering time there, fighting Mask and Kendrick on the knockup here.
Ten seconds left to go for YWO and they are dropping like flies.
Jitward in trouble with no strategist on the point here.
Time ticks away and 100 feeds will complete their high steer.
Welcome back to land and welcome to the mid-season finals, 100 feeds.
the game. It's a little bit
distracted by the haymakers
flying through the air of T T K
100 thieves. As you mentioned it
back to back to back land
attendance is sustained 100%
they'll get full marks for it as
they are your victors against
Y W L proving maybe the partner
program. It still has some legs
especially with the support back
to buy their organization. The
bootcamp buff is there and so is
This is the glow up we've been waiting for
and it's been promised to us and now it's been realized.
Yeah, I mean, obviously the biggest story
in the off season for 100 Thieves being, you know,
losing Terra, losing one of the key pieces
that put the team on the map initially
and they would have to answer whether or not
they can still keep pace without the likes of Terra.
And clearly here, they have proven it and done it yet again.
They attended both the mid-season finals
and the grand finals last year
and they are not slowing down here in 2026,
a clean 3-0 over YWL to send them home and send themselves in a seat to the mid-season
finals.
And with that, the whole field has been decided now.
Congratulations to 100 Thieves being our final LAN quali and 5th-6 in the pre-season
now to guaranteed top three.
And pretty much taking the spot from YWL as we saw last go around.
They were the ones to get there instead.
So great performance from them.
They'll be joining the likes from China of Econyx and OUG from Pacific. We have Gen G and also
Reject over there EMEA. We just figured out our final LAN attendees
We had Navi with their dominant performance
Virtus Pro finally making their first mid-season appearance and Rady Sport also the only
MRC qualified team to make it through the entire program to the mid-season finals and now of course to end things off for
we have a team liquid Citadel
swamp gaming guest slot team and
then also 100 these are final
partner slot to get their ticket
there again. I mean that's a
crazy list of teams and talent
that will be going to one of the
most competitive ever midseason
finals so congratulations to 100
these and everyone who has made
their way here. Winnie of course
has to be the overall series MVP
on this one and I don't think
this team is trash as others are
I think they're the garbage men instead.
Yeah 100 trash, no more here because yes,
they have punched their ticket onward and yeah,
winning a major player over the course of
these last three maps and you know,
giving Stratful some big relevance here.
Big healing output across every single map
where he brought it to the table and yeah,
having those back to back to back alts able to
use both the Katanas and the Deagle's in tandem.
You know, really, really great stuff from him
the pitch here and that I'm from 100 Thieves definitely one to be feared here. But really
it's firing on all cylinders all roles here. Every single player had their star moments in
this series. And again, you know, it all goes back to doing their homework. They came prepared
to fight a team or a YWL. Now stay in school, do your homework because Vue 2 might be able to
attend the men's season finals and Marvel Rivals if I are friends here in 100 Thieves. But yeah,
just a clinical performance here on Hall of De Jalia, you know, a couple road bumps along the way,
not able to get to the finish line, but they had more than enough room to hold YWL short.
And, yeah, I mean, just not at all the outcome I was expecting here, but it felt like from the
very beginning, we said this over and over throughout the series, they were just caught on the
back foot and just didn't know what to do next when their opponent was ready for their time.
Yeah, preparation, Trump's all is what we see throughout the series and their journey
through the bracket itself, which we'll take a look at a little bit later on.
But a great performance, none that the last from a hundred thieves.
And it wasn't a perfect sweep, but the only one that they needed to make it in to the
top three, in to the conversation as a top roster, which so many teams were doubting
them before and, you know, middling results in the group stages and people expecting them
to be the top dogs from the preseason based on previous iterations of their roster and
performances and a lot of people doubting, you know, people like self specifically and
even having MVP performances throughout this series, everyone really did their role perfectly
from a hundredthies and that's why they came out on top.
I mean, Kudos to YWL for forcing them to play out of their comfort zone and showcase,
hey, we still have flexibility when people said that we were as rigid as the thing is
sometimes.
Yeah, I mean, it was something I even called out last season with 100 thieves is that you want to see their hero pool grow deeper, especially for a player like TTK.
You know, I constantly was like, I need more vanguards in the back pocket.
And now it feels like he can play the entire roster, a Swiss army knife of vanguards for this 100 thieves team.
And of course, Vinny as well pulling more than his fair share of the weight here.
But yeah, you know, 100 thieves, again, they were kind of one of the OG powerhouses here in the Americas region.
and they reminded everybody of how they got to that position and, you know, some of their classic opponents may be down and out of this tournament, you know, Sentinels, FlyQuest and so on, but they are still here and they are still ready to keep going because, yes, they have made land and truly, you know, kind of the number one mission here in this bracket has been accomplished for them, but the job is not over yet.
They can still play for some more prizes here because obviously down the line, they'll be having a matchup with Swamp.
And if they can take that one, then they will go toe-to-toe with, of course, Team Liquid Citadel.
But, yeah, I mean, great looks from 100 Thieves. Like you said, Vodable, you know, kind of a slower start to the second season of Ignite.
But it really feels like the roster has kind of come into their own now.
It really has. Specifically, you know, some of the newer players, too, on this team, right?
coming in from EMEA on final dance phase, zero tenacity, ecstatic way back in the day.
I mean, this player's been around waiting for their opportunity at the spotlight,
and they performed the best to their ability throughout this game and series and tournament
so far. So I just got to give them their flowers once again, but the entire team of course deserves
it. So does self, who came in with a lot to prove and big shoes to fill as you're talking about
once Tara was no longer on the team. And hey, they might face off against each other,
depending on how the brackets go at the midseason finals that would be set up in itself there versus
the old roster but we know how strong that team has looked based on previous records in EMEA but
again we'll be getting an interview with Vinnie here in just a moment to get their opinions on
the series and congratulate them on the qualification well deserved at that two diatonic I mean
what a performance from the entire roster they had the perfect plays they got the a great read
that the band draft and that was another thing a lot of people myself included
were kind of doubting them on in the past was the band draft but we got to
welcome in Vinnie here for the interview get their thoughts and opinions on how
things went so welcome congratulations Vinnie from Mickey into the land three
appearances now for the competition at the highest level for Marvel Rosignite
how is the team feeling all the teams feeling great we came we I think we all
played insane. All my teammates shout out all my teammates shout out my coach for preparing
us for this last game and the game before that and shout out to my GM Marty is the best.
Yeah I mean you know prep definitely coming in a big here against YWO clearly you guys did your
homework here and we're ready to match up so you know that first game you guys banned the Daredevil
first ban and you see it kind of play out and you take over the series right away you know what
was kind of the feeling after game number one like would you guys just lock in and say yeah we're
We're banning Daredevil first every single lap.
OK, so here's the backstory with all that, right?
So a bunch of these teams, they refuse to scrim YWL
because they think it's bad practice,
because it doesn't really help you against other teams, just
them, right?
So we would always scrim them at least once a week.
We would give them a bunch of scrims.
I know for a fact, STD in the previous game
didn't scrim them a single time, and it showed,
because they were not prepared whatsoever.
Shows, you've got to scrim the competition
if you want to take them down.
That's exactly what you guys do.
I want to talk a little bit about the journey.
Yeah, chattel to them, of course, you know,
put on a great show, but I kind of want to talk about
the journey that you guys have had here, right?
Sit fifth through sixth performance in preseason,
some, you know, struggles in terms of performance
for band drafts or kind of countering meta
from what we've seen in the past,
but this seems to be the most flexible this team has been.
What was the prep like from the group stage
into this playoffs from you guys?
It's just hard work and practice and then playing ranked I don't put people like to meet me and said I don't play ranked and I played deadlock too much or anything like that but no I've just been grinding the game, grinding ranked and that's what all of us are doing.
Just playing more heroes.
Yeah, I mean the grind definitely paying off here in this one and you know vodable kind of asked about the journey here
I kind of want to look at the journey ahead and you know
I heard the last interview heard some comments from about from your coach who's hanging out in the background as well
But now you guys have locked it in here or bracket finals against swamp. How are you guys feeling about that matchup?
How's the prep going?
Well, we're ready for the rematch for sure. We felt like that first series. There was a lot of nerves
But the first game was in our hands and we just let it slip through and every game was very one of all in our eyes.
So we can't wait for the rematch.
So I want to pick your brain here as we are almost towards the end of this meta, this stage itself.
I mean, what do you guys think is the biggest thing that has been separating you and some of the other teams of Maidland from those who haven't?
I mean, it has to just be being flexible such as like this last series when he's playing support pool
Was anybody else playing support pool during the whole entire journey?
No, didn't really seem like it right. He just put on a master slot
He put on a master class on support pool three straight maps
I mean he's been begging and begging he wants to pull it out. He wants to pull it out and we finally let him and look
I'm sure there's gonna be a lot of people copying them in ranked
Imagine to see Stratpool coming up in my games too, but yeah, you know
Yes, you know, obviously next match in this is is remix wants to say something
Yeah, I think it's a lot.
It's the same part.
Yo, what's up?
Yo, listen.
How's it going?
The whole world doubted me.
They doubted me last year.
They doubted me again.
They doubted me now.
What's up?
And we're going to get the rematch against Swap and we're going all the way.
We will be the champions of NA just like last year.
You can doubt me how many times you won, but we'll keep rising up.
and we will push to everything about that.
Come on, let's go!
Love to hear it. Love the energy there from the coach of Rebix.
That's awesome so much.
Wise words, of course.
See you on the land. Love to hear it.
Well, you know, that's all the time we have here.
Vinny, thank you guys so much for the interview.
Go enjoy your victory, your qualification.
And we'll see you in the battlefield tomorrow against swamp gaming for the rematch. I
Appreciate it guys. I appreciate all the hard work you guys do
Thank you
Thanks so much. I mean how how can you not feel inspired when you've got words like that at your back
I mean obviously like we said, you know
Congratulations on the lack of a case of course. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah
I'm way I challenge you make the edit please tag me in it too because I would love to see it
But yeah, I mean obviously jobs not done here 400 these but qualifying for land
Definitely what they set out to do here and I'm glad we're getting this matchup because you know remix has been chomping at the bit
To get that one as well
So obviously looking forward to tomorrow and they go ahead the energy is definitely they're charging ahead against the competition
I mean a great performance and just capped by the team, you know being
I would say for the most part in the interview there, too, from Vinny, they just put the
work in, they scrimmed them, and they were able to learn from that experience.
And that's what you have to do to take down some of the best in the competition there
as well.
But, I mean, what a great performance across the board that we saw throughout it today.
I mean, we had an insane bracket so far.
Yes, we had, you know, a couple of sweeps, but entertaining none the less that we saw
as well.
Here's our final look at the bracket today before our last two series of stage one in total and the playoff swamp gaming
We'll face off against 100 thieves and team liquid Citadel winning the winner of that
But we got to talk about the carnage that went through today that's on it. Oh
Yeah, no doubt about it and almost every prediction I made today
Unfortunately falling through but if you know me at this point, you know, what else is new my bracket is truly cooked from a start to finish
But yeah, three heavy hitter names still standing here in the Americas region
And it's an interesting kind of battle of you know
The first graduating class of marble rivals ignite hundred thieves making a splash in year one and now kind of the
Top here in the Americas region a team of liquid Citadel and swamp gaming still holding on here
But it is gonna be a cage match tomorrow in those lower bracket finals between a swamp and
100 these and that is gonna be the very first match you get and then no matter who wins that one
They are going on to face
TLC who are waiting in the wings to decide who is the stage one America's champion is
Bangers on deck for tomorrow absolutely. No doubt my mind only two series to tune into a little bit later as well
Six p.m. Eastern at times
So make sure you set your alarms your clocks your watch parties and everything else shout to everyone
He's been tuning in space for joining us earlier. Of course got to get the biggest shout out, you know remix
It was definitely feeling it afterwards do and team liquid Citadel
They seem to be undefeatable the Goliaths that David does have to face off against a vanquish and well
If it's either a guest slot team from swamp gaming or a hundred thieves
We've had a bit of a resurgence from not the best performance that they were hoping for in the preseason either way diatonic
It has been a fun filled event so far final thoughts for view before we close things out
Yeah, I mean, you said TLC looking absolutely unbeatable, but one team in the preseason
that sent them down in the upper bracket finals, swamp, vanquished three to nothing.
And now that begs the question, swamp gaming versus 100 thieves in the opener tomorrow.
Whoever wins that match, can they leave a mark on a liquid synod?
Yeah, they are deadlier than they have ever been.
If you can believe it, if you're with us with the preseason.
So time will tell I will be locked in tomorrow in chat with all of you out there because I got to know if somebody can stop liquid citadel
We also have EMEA in the morning, of course, so make sure you tune in to that as well.
I believe there'll be 11 a.m. Eastern time for those on the East Coast here as well.
So make sure you lock in your schedule, get ready to get up a little bit later, sleep in and enjoy the festivities, fireworks and everything else
and celebrate with your friends and family.
We've had some very intense Marvel Rivals, but they're more to crown our champions in EMEA and America.
Thank you for joining us for the broadcast. We'll see you tomorrow.