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Marvel Rivals Ignite Mid-Season Finals Main Stage [NAVI vs TEAM LIQUID CITADEL] Day 4
08-01-2026 · 7h 03m
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Hello and welcome everybody to
day four. Our final day at land
here live in L. A and day three.
If you missed it, it started off
with civil war between the
regions. I opened the show by
saying everybody thinks of the
best region. Gaskin dogman, but
they had to kind of prove it to
you handled the business of what was Na'Vi versus VP.
That was a rematch of the Grand Finals from last year.
Yeah, speaking about the business,
Na'Vi looked like the CEOs of a top corporation.
VP on the other hand got smoked,
but we have, it was sort of a really good matchup
when you look back at the series between Na'Vi and VP.
They put up a good fight,
but VP on the other hand didn't look like the same form
that they were back in the Grand Finals.
Na'Vi reclaiming again that top three spot
with the win today and make themselves
another top team yet again.
I really think VP struggled in the
band phase as well.
They gave that one to Navi for me.
They really didn't find their footing at all.
Gave far too much one-sided affairs on their side.
So I think looking into it, dropping down to the lower bracket,
I was expecting a lot more after that fact.
And Navi took for the band.
Yeah, it was a story of revenge, right?
For one team, but they haven't really looked back.
Navi, after losing that grand finals,
because this year has been their year against VP, right?
So they sent them on down and we thought that matchup with Rad
was going to be going a lot of a different way, right?
the game. The game is going to
be a great matchup. Yeah, it's
a destiny as a name and her
name is rad. Obviously we'll be
talking about that through
today. Rad versus VP gas. You
want to throw it to you because
that matchup in particular, I
think kind of told us the rest
of what we were going to see
today and just how rad plays
with the pizzazz as Ryan put.
I mean, I remember people were
saying right the start this
tournament during playing us
rather the team to watch. They
are the giant killers. They are
the underdogs at the dark
the team that took down a VP
that sadly I think they just
felt a bit flustered after
dropping down into that lower
bracket. Brad took full
advantage of it. Crazy Kitty is
the promised land and I cannot
wait to see more of Brad. I mean
dogman if you look here as we do
say goodbye to VP what sets up
today. Well let's go to the other
side real quick and look at swamp
gaming versus TLC. This was
another more the same. You know
we saw the story written before
it took place in that game was
lightning quick dogman. We
thought maybe we would see a
you can see a different side of Swamp Gaming. TLC looked all business.
Yeah, absolutely. TLC, all business, like you said.
And that's the problem with Swamp Gaming that we've always seen in Stage 1.
Gaskin, you were there for that.
I mean, Swamp Gaming's still a little brother to TLC.
They are, and I do feel like TLC have that number a little bit,
but Swamp Gaming just fell victim to the same old story where they tried
to overcomplicate the looking band phase a little bit.
And even though I understood why they went that direction,
always TLC have an answer, time and time again for them.
Yeah, and it just feels like, I mean, TLC and Nabi,
We've again talked about it all year back and forth and here we are of course
You know we expected the
Expection I guess of what is going to be for day four and that is going to be our upper bracket two teams just absolutely
Great in the most high talent that we have in this entire game
But wait
There's the under bracket there of rad that one of them are going to have to play against now
Of course when swap it rad went up against one another. I was not expecting at all a 3-0. I wasn't I know
I had so much faith in swamp. I thought they're okay. Yeah, they lose to TLC. We've seen this before
We know what that page looks like but now we turn over a new page
What can they do here against an EMEA team that have yes, they've been on a run, but potentially underdogs
Swamp gaming they looked flat. They look disappointing on the back line at times
There's a few mistakes being made and that's to be expected because there's a lot of like new land players here
A lot of these kids haven't played before but that's on both sides both teams hadn't had this experience
and sadly it was brought who came out firing.
You said you said flat flat like a chicken wing from Wingstop.
They really just did not have what it takes versus the top EMEA teams.
They just happened to keep getting top three every single land,
at least the Grand Finals last year.
It was all in VP and Navi, kind of a similar boat, except with new faces on the block.
It's who shows up because we can't forget the story and the amazing players of Gen G.
And Swamp looked all the part against them.
Gen G played a very good turn out through this entire thing.
we say goodbye to them today as well. But when you it's any given day in this game again with
rad in 100 fees that was completely different rad you can forget that team it's new here today
and that's exactly who's going to be in the lower bracket awaiting the matchup of Navi and TLC. I
know it's bright and early wake up grab coffee whatever you need to do because it's going to be
an absolute banger and look out for it it's all starting right here right now take a seat get
Cheers, Rick.
Never the dusk, the lights would be tightening
Tracking all those fighting souls, buddy
Yeah, across the world, I see you standing in my way
And remember the time of place we used to
Like the sun and moon and a thunder
It never was time to be your friend
As for shadows, no one I guess
The time has come for me to see you get around
We are set up for our last reunion
When the chains bind your way, come fight me
Do you remember who you really had?
Show me that you are still the only one for me
I'll be waiting for you
We can get out of here, goodbye, spring
Come with us and smash it all in the time holds
We'll lose the tears again
You are mine soon, and I'll be there
Come and come, I'll be there
on the flames burning bright
shining on those memories and yeah
I sometimes see you turning the tide
and do you see now?
I turn, I turn, can't stop
like a minute fire
I wonder no more
but now do we turn your heart is mine
I hurt fun, I want this frozen
yes we think for our best city and faith
you take it smiling for the past and future
The future is ready to change, find your way, don't fight me
And when you wake up, open your eyes, wait
This endless passion, no time holds
For the rest of the days, again, you'll find the strength
Find the balance, don't mind more, don't take your powers
Now, all the cats are lost, we'll rise again
But in the end, we'll find
I'll be waiting for you
Show me that innocent woman gonna matter for me
I'll be waiting for you
Play it up, open your hands, hold it up
Do your heart look inside you?
Can you feel it?
Sparking new, fading to light
It should all wake up
Under your eyes, fingers of the pieces
Mesh and two-time balls
The quarter-match, one-two's yet again
We've got rivals to the end, and we rise up
And I've got no mind for the stupid powers
No one can stop us
We're on to the end of time
Oh my Los Angeles, let me hear it one more time for incredible musical talents to open up today's show.
My goodness, did they understand the assignment? Thank you all so much. I'm so hyped. I remember
back in December for the opening theme to this day for that to come to the live stage. It's just so
damn exciting if I'm being honest. We have an awesome day for you whether you joined us
on day one, all the way to day four, bronze right to one above all, casual, I don't even care if
you're just walking around Times Square and Cracow Beach. There's going to be some surprises,
big time talent on the biggest stage for rivals. Welcome to the mid-season finals last day. Let's
hear it, LA! Well, folks, I'm your host, Cosy, and let's go ahead and get this thing started, yeah?
It's time, Los Angeles, California, where stars are born and the impossible becomes possible.
Ladies and gentlemen, here we go!
First up, let me just hear a couple of the teams
that we have remaining today.
Let me hear it if you're going for Team Novi.
Okay, we're in America, someone expected.
How about Team Liquid Citadel?
Yeah, that's what I'm talking about.
All right, all right.
How about Team Radar Underdarts in the lower bracket?
Let's go, y'all.
Listen, this is our third one of these incredible lands,
It just feels like each one gets more exciting, more chaotic,
and we're just getting on the birth of something beautiful.
Now, if you don't know, you should know,
we have an incredible person at Marvel Games,
who is the executive producer himself,
creative Luna Snow, and wrote that song.
You just heard, please welcome to the stage,
Mr. Debbie Krupp.
I'm so surprised, you Luna had to tell, I'm so surprised.
Come show me over here, Danny.
Danny.
Good morning, Los Angeles.
Yeah.
Danny, how I have to add, first of all,
can we just talk about that performance for a second?
What were your thoughts immediately?
It is fantastic.
We have grown so much in terms of stage presence.
And today is just the start of the stage present.
And we're going to introduce more music
and inject this into the life of all the fans.
Oh, more music injected into the life of the fans.
Love to hear it.
Let me ask this.
I mean, for myself, when you look at eSports in general,
I think Marvel is so perfect for it,
because anyone can jump in and know exactly who Spider-Man is,
even though you only see him for a couple of seconds here,
if I'm being honest.
But I know Spider-Man.
But that's what's beautiful about it.
Is that something that you saw early on for Marvel
and the potential that it had for Marvel Rivals?
Yeah, we saw this potential with the Netties Games team.
That's why we make this game.
And we appreciate the community support on this
and all your feedback or all your passion that what makes this happen, right?
So if you continue on letting us know this is this is what you want,
we'll make this happen more often for all you guys together, together, hang out and be a community and be part of this esports.
Beautifully said. I've got to ask with that. Thank you.
People love you. People love me here. I'm here for that in a team of jokes.
Hey, listen, let me ask this.
I mean, we've done now a few events in person together from Comic-Con to LA.
I mean, we've been all over.
It never gets old for me just having people that love this game
and Marvel for that matter in one room.
Comic-Con being one of the craziest of all of that.
For you, I mean, it's just a beautiful celebration of everything
that Marvel Games and NetEase has put together.
Does it ever get old?
How are the feelings for yourself?
Well, it never gets old.
As you say, we meet new fans that come online
and it approaches letting us know how much they love this game and which we appreciate it.
We have people to come out and say stop giving Luna Stone many many costumes
but yeah she's getting five more legendaries just for that.
Five more. Can we make it six? Let's make it six. Listen okay they want to they want to ask okay
because I hear all the time are you responsible for all the all the buffs that Luna gets from time
No man, that's Big Z, don't block me on that.
Oh, okay, she's young!
You get called out, she's young!
Don't block me on things, not me, bro.
Listen, I just want to ask you,
anything else you want to say to all the amazing people,
the viewers at home, the watch parties across the board?
First off, for viewers at home,
we wish you're here with this incredible energy from the crowd.
And for the crowd here, welcome to Los Angeles.
This is the first Ignite in Los Angeles.
You know, maybe you'll do more here in Los Angeles
where you can meet a lot of people.
Alrighty, and when does Thanos talk to Doom come into the game?
Just kidding, thank you so much, Danny.
Alright, thank you.
I see you guys everywhere here.
Appreciate y'all.
Well, y'all, you have heard them all week.
You have heard the Ultimates in the game,
the powerful taunting of enemies, slaying their foes,
the incredible talent behind the amazing heroes that we have.
Ladies and gentlemen, put your hands together,
viewers, for the voice actors of Marvel, Rivals!
I cannot tell you enough, these people are like family to me at this point,
and my goodness, the amount of iconic voice lines.
This game has transcended just being a game at this point from the meads and on.
I'm first going to come over here to the amazing, actually, I won't even introduce you.
How about you introduce yourself here? How are you?
Hi, I'm Brittany Cox, the voice of Angela, and come on!
Full!
Beautiful, I never get so... I do that as my ringtone, I'm telling you.
Hi, how are you?
Hi, I'm Erica Lindbeck, and I do the voice of Black Cat.
Ooh, good boy, Peaty!
I changed my mind.
Actually, what that is, my ringtone, that's a little bit better.
A little bit. How you doing today?
Hey, man. Hi, Jordan Reynolds, the voice of Adam Warlock.
And you all need a res?
Born again!
James Mathis, the third voice of Black Panther.
Trim movie for best!
I saw two strategists just leave the building funny enough.
Oh man, I just cut viewership by half.
Okay, how are you?
Hi, I'm Bill Millsap.
I'm the voice of the Punisher.
I'm sure you guys have heard this lately.
Judge, jury, executioner!
Oh, there's a lot of love and hate.
All right, there's a lot.
Before I begin, those that love Jeff, make some noise.
Yeah!
Okay, on the other side, those that, you know,
Maybe not a big... Okay, who hates Jeff here? Just let's just be really...
It's very polarizing. How you do today?
John, the Jeff the Land Shark Bailey. And you know what? I haven't had breakfast this morning. The enemy team looks pretty good.
Yabby yabby! How's that sound?
Good sir. It's not often I look up. I just have to say this is awesome. How are you?
Very good. Hello everybody. I'm Eli Montjoy, the voice of the Winter Soldier.
Orange and dangerous! Again!
Hello everyone! My name is Alpha Takahashi. I voice SILOCK and this is Churo Mayokuri.
Churo Mayokuri!
She young both SILOCK again. Well, yeah, I play her. Alright, thank you.
Hey everybody, I am Daniel Moran, the voice of Namor.
Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
IMPERIOUS RECKS!!!
Ladies and gentlemen, give it up for amazing voice actors.
Again, we'll be hearing more from them today.
That's just a little bit of a tease.
And again, all day they'll be out there signing incredible awesome stuff.
And if you're here in LA, it's one of the best parts about it.
Go see them.
They're amazing people.
They don't bite.
I think John maybe bites a little bit.
But other than that, they don't bite.
We've got an awesome day!
What do we have in store?
From experience, John definitely bites.
Oh, Desk, hello, different.
Desk, hello.
I heard Desk, but it is going to be us at least temporarily.
You saw a little bit of a sneak preview of our cast
as we'll be jumping on for that first setup.
We have so many good games today,
but we have had so many good games so far, Vodable.
Yeah, I mean, it's been one of the best
and most competitive events we've had so far
so far in Marble rivals, eSports history,
and taking a look at the playoff bracket,
there's no match that I have not had a fun time experiencing.
I mean, every single one, banger after banger after banger,
but I think the big one for me from that first day
here, Shib, got to be that Genji versus Verz Pro.
Yeah, that was the sign of fun.
I mean, and now we're going into the best of fives, too.
I think a lot of the teams are talking about those best of threes,
being a little dicey.
Now it's going to get into more studying the team
that you're going against as we see
Navi and Team Liquid Citadel up first.
That is quite a match, Dutch.
that is going to be a superb match.
That is our upper bracket finals winner.
Moves on to the grand finals.
For Navi, it would be essentially their third grand final
in a row where they were under the org of rad
mid-season finals last year,
where they went and took the whole thing.
They were then under the org of Navi
for the grand finals last year,
where they came to second place to Virtus.Pro,
who are out.
Your postbearer has been eliminated.
Keebik would sit it out though.
That is a mix of so many teams
come so close to the pass. We'll be breaking that down more a little bit as time goes on because
obviously that will be our first match. But waiting in the lower part of the bracket from MRC
all the way through to the lower bracket final ship, it's rad. The real David Viscoli at this team
coming all the way from the MRC pushing all the way to the lower bracket finals here in their first
It's actually nuts. This team may have the same org behind them, but none of them have been here before
Shit, Bob. This has been such an incredible series
Their match versus swap was so close at times and yet rad
It was swamps first time on the stage as well
But it comes to this event in total, but it's rad are the ones who came on through and they have a pretty big history in terms of
Navi and liquid Citadel from earlier on in that tournament
This is our schedule for today.
Navi Citadel, as we've already mentioned, we're so excited.
Yeah, best of fags across the board, best of seven to close things out.
No advantage. You've got to go straight in and showcase your skill
and see if you can get the lion's share of that prize pool a bit later on.
But, I mean, there's so much pride before these teams compete for it, right?
Navi trying to run it back as it used to be the RAD EU roster,
about $160,000 for the first place finishers.
That's a big chunk of change.
That's a very big chunk of change.
Another way you can see the difference between that and that second place second place
It's nothing to sniff out in terms of actual like you know pride
But doubling the price bullshit when you get to that first place everyone wants that who wouldn't
I'll tell you that much but also I mean I was talking to some of the players the money means a ton
But it's a title the title cause everything to these teams
They just want to get that under their belt and then they'll move on from there
but the money definitely doesn't hurt, Bob.
Yeah, no, I think that's a lot of questions
that we've had going into this event.
What's going to be the big focus for these teams,
especially with season nine, the new team ups,
everything coming in, all the preparation
that they have been leading to at this moment.
Now we're down into these final three teams.
Navi, I think for Terra specifically,
he got denied his win before when he was on 100 thieves
by Navi before.
So joined the enemy side and now is looking
for his first land victory.
Team Liquid Citadel, on their side of things,
They have N-View veterans from that team from mid-season last time and then FlyQuest from Grand Finals.
They're looking for their first win in RAD, of course.
The new kids on the block here looking to make their name known, the Dark Horses in this competition.
It's also the series of what-call-it-gentle traitoric coming up here,
as it's the match where we've had two players who've swapped regions.
Holly, who played on Berber-Patterpym, the original Citadel roster that came to LAN
and had so many good performances, but was never able to take it home.
And a similar story, uh, ship, Terra.
We talked about it. You talked about how the title is most important to some of these players.
Yes.
Terra literally said on stage, I'm just here to win LAN.
Just wants to win. Nothing else will do.
Yeah, I respect that. I mean, there's so many comparisons between these teams.
Energy, and we were talking about Terra.
Energy's also in that conversation with one of the best duelists.
They both have run a lot of Bucky too in this tournament.
Maybe we'll see the mismatch back and forth,
or the match back and forth, Vess and Raj, Energy, Terra, Fate, Nero, Cooper, Level 1, Crook,
Jerky, Speedery, Terra, Energy, there's just so many comparisons between these two teams.
I'm just looking to see, I think this is going to set the tone for the day, because there is a
chance, I'm not going to say a good chance, maybe a good chance, this is what we see in the Grand Finals.
We'll break a little bit into some, a little bit of pregame analysis before we have our teams
coming to the stages. So we'll start off with your ship here, you just listed off,
Essentially, most people's fantasy team is between like two teams, but widely considered a lot of people coming into this tournament
We're considering this like you said to be the grand finals
And that's because these two teams have some of the best players in the world if not the best players in the world
Yeah, I mean that is true, right?
Okay, there's comparisons being made across the where the stat lines from both of them are top-notch across all of the roles
There's really yeah, we talk about sometimes there's a weakness between teams
It's very difficult to find weaknesses in these teams, but I think the big thing that we need to focus on for this matchup
though the battle of the duelist energy versus Tara who is going to be the best in this matchup and in the world potentially know
We've seen some great looks from smashness in the lower bracket from rad as well with crazy kitty them as a duo
I think it has overwhelmed a lot of teams but individual duelists
It's gotta be Tara versus energy. So if I had you on a show
I do on YouTube recently where I asked you to basically talk when you heard like someone who could be an MVP
to the entirety of this stage.
You said Polly, our co-worker got Moxie.
She basically weighed all the way to the end
and then yelled at me because I did it out of the players
that I had just randomly grabbed.
I didn't have croquette on the tee.
That is because Navi's back line is just legendary.
I mean, that same argument can be made
over team Liquid set it up.
But yes, Navi's back line is legendary.
We saw fate yesterday get caught in the back line
of the opposition, just hid there.
That's an atom.
The next fight as Adam, I was like,
I saw him in the hotel and I shouted that out.
He's like, I don't know why they didn't chase me.
I'll just take them all out.
I was like, that's the energy that you need to move this deep
into the tournament.
The energy is what you need, whether it's the player
or the feeling, just to be able to get this far,
especially if you are in that lower bracket.
Some of the toughest matches you can go through here
are fighting through that upper bracket, losing,
and then having to fight for the lower bracket
and then the grand finals.
You can conceivably play three series today
down from that upper bracket vote.
Yeah, I mean, it's going to be an endurance run
for whoever does fall from this upper bracket.
We saw in the grand finals, FlyQuest,
and members from FlyQuest are now on that Team Liquid
Citadel team having to do just that,
but couldn't pull it off.
So hopefully Team Liquid Citadel, if they do go down
against Navi, they will be able to do the same this go around.
We have set the stage in terms of our stakes,
but it's time to set it in terms of a literal stage.
It's time to meet our team.
So let's head down to Cozy to introduce our legends.
Thank you, Tetscher.
Your history, if you think about it, is pretty ruthless, right?
It doesn't remember who almost won.
It doesn't remember the strongest team, per se.
Fan favorites is great, but come on.
There's only one thing that is submitted,
and that is the one team that lifts the trophy.
Second place, no.
Third place, no.
it's one. Are you already LA to crown a champion today? Let's go! Now for the moment you have
all been waiting for, this is the matchup. Your top seed from the EMEA, the Kings of Europe,
versus the number one seed of America in the Titans that we know. Let's welcome in our
starting from inhaling from the EMEA, it's Navi!
your land historic final boss best in slot across the board the kings have
arrived in cowboy fashion
it's nobby from trust me to rise level one
churchy and terror like the fit today before we get to them though of course
America, can I hear some noise? LA, make some noise for a team, Liquid, Centadel!
Every great tournament that has one team everyone expects to see on Championship Saturday.
This was that team, the dream team, the USA Avengers, Nero, Krupper, Energy, Speedy, Mess, and Hulk.
All right, Navi, TLC, Pauly, Tara, come with me, step up here.
We've got ourselves, can we hear some noise by the way, right now for these two great
teams?
Now if you don't know, Navi has Tara coming on over from America last year.
Pauly, over from the EMEA.
I'm going to go to you, Pauly, first.
Look at that Tara over here.
All you've heard about Navi.
Bobby, let me give you the floor as you look at this man in the eyes.
Hello, hello Tara.
How you doing?
He hit him with nervous, Tara said.
Tara?
What's up, Bolly?
You betrayed your country first?
I had to betray mine.
Bolly!
Is all this over-hyped?
Is all this just fluff?
Is America the best region in the world?
Don't put too much heat behind that, all right?
The people can't take it behind.
Terror, America, one team region.
We've heard it all.
The path goes to Grimmy.
Is this all true?
Is this why you left?
I mean, 2E8, I mean, EU teams won LAN.
So why'd you go to NA?
I mean, to help, of course, but it's going to happen.
I'm going to lift that trophy.
Last words, Tara. TLC is OTPs. OTPs. For those at home, one-trick ponies.
Okay, but not enough.
Okay, but not. Listen. Listen. We're gonna get this happening.
Come on. Give me, give me, give me.
What you got?
What, for Navi?
whatever you want to say. I mean I just said that's okay but it's unfortunately
not enough. Okay let's hype it up crowd let's go we'll let the game play do the
talking shake hands. Hey some things he voted he altered just that. Alright folks
give it up for the two number one C's right now that moment's happening take
it away up in the booth leg day and Ryan to bring in the heat. Thank you so much
Cozy. Team Liquid Citadel may have had one trick thus far, Ryan, but that trick has been winning.
It's been winning for a while. It's been 105 days since Team Liquid Citadel lost a series
in the upper bracket of pre-season, but it's been 120 days since we saw Navi losing Territicks
in the pre-season groups. These teams, four heroes have come out in that time since these guys have
lost, and one of them has to lose in the upper bracket today in his best of five.
This matchup is part of reason why we all came to land, to be honest.
Everyone has the pinnial, EMEA versus the Americas.
And honestly, I cannot wait to see who is going to come out of this on top.
It's going to be an exciting one,
but to really prep this domination map that we're starting off with,
let's throw it to the desk to really set the scene.
As they said beautifully there on the caster desk,
domination is how we have described both of these teams so far.
And that is the way it is.
I love Polly's statement here.
He wants to try and do what Terra never could.
Ironically, bring a trophy to an American team.
But in order to start that, as always,
we're in our best of fires.
We start on Domination,
and we've got some pretty solid stats to start here, Chip.
Yeah, you mentioned Domination for these teams,
but how about this, that 26 Domination maps in a row here
for Team Liquid Citadel?
This is just their mode.
It showed some weakness on a sub-map over the last series,
but despite that, so coming out on top bot.
What's interesting too for Domination here as well for Navi
is that's kind of what's the struggle against team heretics, right?
We saw them be the first team to really take it to task against them
with this kind of crazy composition of just speed and dominance
using Jeff and diving into the back line with Captain America and Venom
and they just didn't know what to do against it.
That was on Hell's Heaven, but every other map, they have also been just as dominant.
Well, let's talk about the sub map that we're actually starting over here.
We can see a little bit of tournament stats so far.
It's going to be Krakowa, where we will be bringing this to Beavod.
Yeah, I mean, talking about Krakowa specifically,
all until this event, Navi, 7 and L with 2-0 finishes on the map,
didn't drop a single sub-map until Virtus.pro took one against them yesterday.
But we saw the Krakowa map that time, and they looked pretty good on it.
Yeah, showed some weakness again.
I think, Domination, there are times where you just simply will lose a map,
whether it's the alt-fight coming through first, I think it can take point first.
typically lends your team to have a better chance of winning that sub map, but that being said,
there still is some huge potential for you to come back, maybe a portal play, or just some
overconfidence, some good neutral fighting to come back and take the map, but despite that,
yes, both teams have lost a sub map recently. The strategy on this map, he talks about losing
sub maps. Domination is one of the most interesting game modes we have, which is why it is, well,
not why it is, it's just the best mode to start us off here with, but it's so interesting because
it's the only game mode where ultimate charge carries over between rounds, which like you said,
sometimes it's worth losing that middle point or even a first point if time is necessary in order to make sure that you get a
Better advantage as time goes on on the point after. What's so interesting about this map as well toucher yesterday fate did not go
Down a single all but on the rocker raccoon. So if I am team Lickensen L
I'm gonna be targeting that
We're gonna be
We're preparing to head on in to that first map very shortly
I am so excited. This is what we've been waiting for. We expect this to be the Grand Finals. We get it in that upper bracket finals.
This is a terrifying ship. Yeah, I mean, let's talk about some costs we can expect to see, right?
Yeah, both of these teams are willing to run the penny stuff with Ultron.
I think Speedy is arguably one of the best Ultrons in the game. Is that going to be a priority target?
Are they worrying about the mag one-sided or worried about the gambit one-sided? What do you think?
I think we're going to see gambit saves for the most part.
Gambit and mag saves going back and forth, depending on what the prioritization is there as well.
So, Gambit's really good for that penny composition, but I also think for the side of Navi, they're
going to focus on triple damage boost.
Cosmicar and Amplifier from Rocket Raccoon, that's his ultimate for those who don't know.
The invisible woman flame shield, which is basically makes her shield have 20% damage
boost with the team up from Torch that was introduced this season, and also having the
storm, just ray of damage boost that's around them, or the circle around her, so that's
so much damage to deal with Punisher as well.
We saw the Punisher voice actor earlier.
We saw Terra doing a pretty good job on that as well.
Yeah, meaning they could also win the Adam too, right?
With the team of Pustoron.
We've seen that sometimes coming to play, where you do get another damage boost source
that way.
Let's beat those two.
Yeah, that is also on the table there.
Okay.
We've been seeing some incredible Adams.
We've been seeing some incredible Punishers.
We've been seeing Storm coming on in, as we've already mentioned.
We've also been seeing the rise of the Master of Magnetism in the front line.
All the way from Duet on Gen G, to Raja Ravan Navi, to basically everyone who has been playing
in this tournament, the mastermind system has been so impactful.
Yeah, multiple people even on TLC.
We've seen best, yeah, we've seen energy on the MAG at 1.2.
I think they've just kind of floated into who effort.
I can't feel that role for the moment on Triple Vanguard.
Yeah, a lot of people, you know, saying best, the best MAG of the game.
Definitely the best in Americas, but the best in EMEA is Rajarou.
We saw them have it first saved every single map.
People we've had to play for because they have not dropped the single one so far.
I want to get your takes on this.
Raj, obviously discussing this, obviously discussing on MAG.
But do you think Mag, in my personal opinion, I believe Mag is a new prior target of Bans.
Do you think Mag, over one side of Gambit, is the way, because it has been back and forth this entire tournament?
I think so.
I think Mag is the way to victory, to salvation for the Mutants and for Na'Vi and Team Liquid Citadel.
Hopefully they have picked up that as well.
But with the Magneto, it was right, and I am not too far off of that.
Because, like you said, the Magneto has been so strong, it works well with the Gambit,
which we've also seen a couple of teams go for maybe first protect some,
but it feels like the Magneto is giving a bit more value.
The extra shieldings, the double ups, the extra protection for your team.
And of course, Meteor M being used so aggressively this tournament.
We also got to talk about the team up though.
The Chaos Greatsword that comes from Scarlet Witch.
The base version, those who don't know, there's a base and enhanced version.
If you have one of the members from your team up on your team,
gives you a little bit of extra effects.
You don't really need that though with this team up.
You can just basically target the back line every time
with this huge hitbox of the swinging sword.
And I know as a Vanguard main yourself,
you probably use it a lot.
Yeah, you're throwing walls at him.
It's kind of nice.
No, I think that's incredibly strong.
But we've been seeing a lot of rise of Adam too.
It's so tricky, because I really don't
know what the solution is for the bandface.
I think teams are struggling with that.
And the crazy thing is, we like to say,
when we get to midseason, that the Metas
are starting to be figured out.
But I think due to having 102 new team ups coming in, plus,
it really is so difficult to fine
to what the right selection is for your team,
and that ultimately makes bands very hard.
No, it's very interesting.
We saw Danny Koo with his whole Luna Snow get up.
Luna Snow's actually had support in terms of bands
and saves, especially when you're trying to play
that Daredevil, give them the Snowflake,
and they can be unleashed.
They're doing so much work.
The Fade to Both Worlds has been since season zero,
since the game's released.
One of the most impactful ultimates in the game,
and Luna has been so effective.
She does pretty reasonable damage,
which was buffed several many seasons ago at this point,
means that they're able to do some pretty good work when the team doesn't get healing.
The idle Orric is so much healing to their team even when they're not directly in front of them.
And of course, has Eiscoll asked for a hit scan ability to make sure they can even do a little bit of anti-air or some quick slice of DP and get piercing.
Healing, Luna has been so impactful and this patch in particular with the Fox team up at last has been huge.
Yeah, I think team ups, I typically like to say that Vanguard's give the most impactful team ups, in my opinion of course,
But I do think there are certain strategists including the Gambit team up with Magneto, which I think is very good at isolating targets
Also is essentially like a cloak bubble for your team, but then outside of that the cleanse from Luna
You mentioned how Luna has been more of a prio
I guarantee you and I promise you that is why no longer worried about things like Groot even Angela
You find yourself out of those unescapable situations
Yeah
You can just get out of dodge as quickly as possible and save yourself and your team even and a lot of
You know, you're set up plays that we've seen from people like Ducky trying to use the group alt to take out a single target
They've been cleansed every time by the Luna snow players
So we're gonna see some really high-level strategist gameplay from both these teams
I think that's something to look out for right fate versus Nero in specifics to that Adam Warlock
You were talking about but I'm very interested in level one crook versus Cooper as am I this has been pretty high up
There are a lot of people who is the best strategist in the world.
These are considerations.
Fates also in that conversation as well.
Nero's been up there quite high as well.
But let's be honest,
Cooper did so much at the grand final shift
that that's what put them in that contestion here
and then had an almost flawless stage one for the Americas.
Yeah, I think there's some real value in doing a strategy
that can play low-key well.
I think that really defines the quote-unquote best strategy
because he's such a very different hero
and just has so much nuance in decision-making
to when to pop those crystals.
One thing to note here, the one map that we did see drop
by Team Liquid set it out.
Cooper was getting hard targeted by Rad.
And if we see Navi watching those vans, as they probably are,
they have their new coach in shoe.
And locking in with the backroom staff
as they were shouting out from the interviews earlier on,
I think this is going to be something that they focus on.
Even Rosarro playing that Magneto using the Chaos
Great Sword to target Cooper, he's
going to have to make sure he stays alive as long
we have covered strategists.
We've covered Vanguard. It's
time to talk about dualists in
terms of both team ups and some
of these players. We have seen
a sweet all expected Elsa to be
really good at this event, but
Elsa has sort of opened the
door thanks to the team up to
the rise of the winter soldier
in so many of these games that
essence team up. See the
because you're constantly getting over health to just trade it so well so a very very strong pick as we head into the
Bandface to but outside the final thing I want to mention of Duelist front how about black widow. Yes
But also, you know, we got to give a big shout to the fans who are here too
You see people in the crowd came here bright and early in the Los Angeles to get into two of these matchups
The best one of the day before that grand final. I'd say
We're also going to talk about the Punisher
We've been seeing so much hype at the start of this tournament around the penny out front Adam team up and then
suddenly punish the storm. You talked about it in the little pre-show we did there. Comes
on in with the rocket team up for the extra attack speed. Then the upgraded rocket team
up for the infinite ammo has been a spawn hold breaker. It's even been used on some aggressive
defense as one character who literally has not ceased to play.
Mantis just will not be let through.
I forgot about Mantis because she's always been.
There's no reason to let Mantis through in this meta. Triple Stragus, which is like three
of strategist back line is very strong. That's why you see the first safer team
looking to sit out worked really well for speedery and we haven't even talked
about the flex duelist for the team. Jerky versus speedery is going to be a
matchup to look out for.
Turkey coming in as originally as a sort of, he was doing a little bit of
streaming, he was doing some sort of DPS Jeff way back in the day, picked up by an
ignite team and started moving over to the silo. And he caught himself at one
point a silo, one trick and really had some top stats at those grand finals, but
It has massively wide and that hammer pull, you know,
it's a move up to that flex to this role.
You see TLC here talking about that penny count.
That is their prio.
They're going to keep the Ultron in penny,
making sure that does not get banned out.
Navi, however, aren't sure and they don't have that res.
Goodbye there to Adam Warlock.
Like, they got to probably save a storm pick from Navi,
I would assume.
I think that makes sense because that's what they've been running.
I think that that's exactly what they do.
Jerky's just so good.
But we also see on the other side,
Team Liquid still because the storm was saved,
the rocket is going to get banned.
The BRB beacon is so good.
I mean, the survival we saw from fate could not be unmatched.
There's also the fact that Rocket would buff that Punisher if they went for the Storm Punisher together to just get the maximum damage output.
One word on the ship, who do you have?
TLC.
American bias for sure, or is all blood, do you agree?
I'm going Navi.
Ah, a traitor!
Definitely biased, let's head over to our casters who will definitely not be biased, or but will be based. It's Lake Day and Ryan Central.
Thanks, Tetra.
I mean bias like where the Europeans would do that but we both live and reside in the US so I think Fensit is in a good position and as a neutral no matter where you are in the world if this wasn't the matchup that you wanted to see at an international event when this year started you haven't been paying attention these are the perfect two teams to go into the upper bracket right like they these are the
avatars of EMEA and the Americas. We stand close to the summit Ryan but each step
upwards will be hard fought for by these teams. Los Angeles is raring to go to see
who will be making it to the grand finals first out of EMEA and the
Americas. Chip said it on desk 26 and 0 Team Liquid Citadel don't lose on
domination now they want to break a few of the streaks themselves going up
against that all-trump penny composition. A lot of teams are being afraid to even play themselves.
Now they need to find an answer and they're gone with the storm.
Yeah, Terra. Not going for the usual punisher duo for the storm here instead.
Opting in for the Elsa bloodstone with that trap to make sure that any
pharrase into the back line are going to be slowed down by the big trap.
Already Liquid Cinebel making forward moves. They've forced that level 1
crush regeneration. The veins are happily overextended. It would be able to
Liquid Cinebel still have plenty of resources as both teams break from the high ground and make
like a mad dash towards the objective.
Polly could be isolated here.
Everyone looking towards that vanguard
who managed to pick up the early frag.
And now Team Liquid sort of don't have to play from behind.
Yeah, it's just that one player with the setup speedily
is just trying to see if he can keep his team going.
And alive, but Jerky finds that pick up to Cooper,
so that's another strat that's down into the fray.
Liquid looking to back up and give this one up eventually.
So now they take the point first.
Now they said, I want Betrayta's head first,
and the rest will come with time.
Now playing from his defensive area.
Juggies are going to be able to keep so much poke on the entry.
I mean, one of the big weaknesses with Triple Strategist is just making sure that your
dualist energy on his own in this case is able to do as much damage as possible to get eliminations,
but Emma Frost has really started to shine in this meta too, in the hands of Vesua,
and Pauli obviously Penny with that teamwork with White Panther is able to just outcharge a lot of
damage and make sure that the Ultron setup enhanced.
Now, Fates could be one of our first Ultronosses, it's going to be available in this fight here.
Group is ready, they've been taken down by the great Saurjorn by Rijaro.
Oh, the Master of Vanguardsism was brought up by the desk, and this reign of Terra only keeps getting more brutal.
It's the fact that Ultimates had just started to trickle online and liquid Citadel are staggering themselves.
They can't fully reset because Na'Vi are just not allowing them to.
Terra, good to be escorted down here by the Vanguards, almost as the Apex Pro is good to go, but energy's been matching pace when it comes to generating this.
It's also with Na'Vi, with the Triple Stardust, you know that you don't have a daredevil or a black cat dive in the backline,
So Crook and Fate's life has been fairly easy so far, both having their ultimates, the strategists are set up in play,
Liquid's hit still needs to make the first move.
60% already gained, Rage of Ultron begins, but now Paulie gonna be eating so much damage!
Fate pulls them in and pushes them out! The invisible boundary was that Roy Bear by Navi survived the initial on-sword,
but now two Liquid sit down and make a decision. Who have only five players are gonna try and commit to this fight?
It would appear that Cooper says, yes, Serk has already been taken down, and he grabbed that one with the trap.
But I've wandered for a second, the reinforcing invisible boundary, out goes the glass drop to isolates Rajalra but there's plenty of feeling for him on the other side
and trust me he's willing to get rid of the pressure. An exchange here, beside on it, attempts at charming
and as terror is found and looks towards the pretty lady, Polly's return to the fray, the reinforcement's here, but so too is the American mega-horror came
it moves through the back lines of Liquid Citadel but Cooper stands tall against the weather
Finally the elimination is coming through. It seems that Liquid Citadel are going to be able to flip the point.
Is that 99% for now? Are they willing to sort of give it up? They're not going to go for like a portal play yet.
They have that window and chance to build up Ultimates and go for this fight again afterwards.
Lots of Ultimates expended though, from the side of Liquid Citadel. Only Spineid at time remains.
It's not the most impactful of Ultimeid.
I mean, it's four Ultimates that got used there. Sonic Seduction, Apex Predator and the Strategist Ultimates.
He wanted to go and it will play it down
Well, he's found himself like the first elimination against Team Liquid Citadel consistently and even though Penny is pretty mobile
It's nothing when you have Navi just charging you down with a speed boost of a jerky on storm
Oh, and she's already been taken out by Terra and this is gonna be a huge opening carbon crush
It's just gonna get fully out of the way for now
You're trying to play it safe in the back alongside Cooper all of the strategies
Huddled for warmth and safety in the spider time will make me all the more idea in the face of danger
That's gonna be one crap with a carpet crash for Peeling!
Unbelievable stuff coming through from the vanguard of Liquid Citadel, but unfortunately, they've already started running out of time.
Energies have to return, utilizing the Doctor Strange pentagram, the Ferala, but Navi back in control and overtime is in their favor.
If I have to go for like triple vanguards, it's an energy that has to switch, but they're not even given an opportunity to try to fight this.
One after the other, Team Liquid Citadel just dropping like flies, and Navi strikes first blood.
Now, V, they're making their way around this penny-parker composition with E's, Ryan.
If a question is now for Team Liquid Citadel, do they pivot?
It just felt like so much of that they were just struggling to get an honest fight in
the end.
Players were just taken off one at a time, and in those cases, Team Liquid Citadel are
experiencing a, okay, we lost the play, we need to disengage, and now V's like, you're
not going anywhere, sunshine.
Like, we're just going to follow and hunt you down.
That pressure is just endless, and speedily has just not been given that space in the
sky the other one.
the whole composition. You've gone for the protect on the Ultron first and then the penny.
Moving away from that feels like you're just moving away from the draft, the game plan,
so it has to be something in the server when it comes to the position. That's the most
open part of the map to be fair. Now it gets a little bit more enclosed with stuff like
the cradle you've got underground that you can play around, but so far there's going
to be many changes in the composition over the energy going over towards Bucky.
Graver at level 1, 11k, healing already.
Was our mid-season finals MVP last year for their low key play, and low teams back in the league.
As a reminder, Liquid Citadel have spent the whole year dominating on domination.
Looking incredibly strong when it comes to the meta adjustments, but Na'Vi had the heartbreak of grand finals.
Second place, they don't want to lose here, they have a title to hold on to for mid-season.
So if you can't even at the EMEA, they're hoping to expand for Rage of Ultron's to be a great opening here, but look at this, Rajro has their bubble burst.
Unbelievable amounts of damage pouring out of speedily, and it would appear that Rajro was unprepared for how quickly that needs to run would be overwhelmed by Ultron's power.
This hasn't really amounted so much, you might want to use it entirely with something else, but invisible boundaries could be from level 1 croak, trying to get control of the point, but Turkey's shot out from the sky from Polly.
They got too aggressive, couldn't get inside of the invisible boundary, and Coppinau sees the opening to bring everyone forward.
Ragey, Oil, Flirt, and the Knockbacks here, they are going to be tempted to be shut down by Trusty,
but the damage is too great, and seem like they'll use their resources perfectly.
Take control of the point first, on the second point of Cradle.
Vanavi was just really the dedication of the invisible boundary, the mischief managed, I suppose, for Loki,
as the copy came through, but everything else just trying to build up as much as they possibly could.
Liquid's sitting down now at his composition, having a better time to maybe hold onto the objective and staggering out jerky means he have a bit more time to work with.
Yeah, jerky's getting continuously grounded by Bistain's involved to do his energy sitting at full instinct as well, meaning that it barely has a cooldown.
A good parry Varnacut coming in from Rujara to at least not feed over more frags.
You've already built a divisible boundary, but getting Kupa to another Royal Flush as quick as possible would be nice.
You don't want to get too close though in the end with some of these engagements, and make a hurricane is on the horizon and the forecast for the first time in a while I guess for LA could be stormy.
They're unnoticed, cooking, oh and if he escapes, utilizing the crack and impact of trying to get out of there
and Terrors are ready to be taken down, Veswa got them in a corner, fate doesn't want to invest here
with the invisible boundary that still is going to try and use the shut down Veswa's role
it's going to be match to your fine heroes, a plenty of feeling for both of our teams
but it's far away from the objective and as this happens, Team Liquid Suddler are accruing Percentage
Look at Polly, he's sort of on his own, little fight there trying to go in for the flanks
but it's still a stall out, trust me it's taken out with all of the ultimates traded in the end
and it was good holds from Team Liquid City.
They'll certainly distract us.
The Radiables from in-hand, so big they need it.
They're pushing Navi all the way back to their spawns.
They're having so much trouble here going up against the Winter Soldier.
Great counter for those flyers,
and now they're gonna have to try and find a way to get married with a roommaker Hurricane.
I mean, it was the...
I think it was the Simon seduction that came out, trust me, first,
but it was a good invisible boundary for Nero,
just caught on exactly where he had the crossbars
that people pulled into it and were gonna survive with Radiables from now dedicating.
Now, Radiables from already used.
It's not going to be able to be used to get rid of all of jerky's over health, but jerky's just going to disengage, move towards the portal.
He's flipping off the map here from Nami.
Ben is already lying awake and jerky once again, this was there with the follow-up Spygotime declared!
And it's been like a good time right now for Liquid Citadel.
Nami trying to pile in to be invisible boundary, but Teraduck can be able to make it level 1, so he's already falling incredibly low.
Jerky only just started respawning.
And now, for the last, is it time for TP back or do you give this one up and go over to the last map of Trocowa?
as the frag feed begins to fill with red,
but blood starts pumping in the audience.
Los Angeles' hometown heroes have come back.
Navi, give it up. Don't try enough report.
There wasn't really a good opportunity in order to do it.
But the fact that team were good since they'll win that,
and they have a royal flush just in the back pocket,
ready to go for Cooper is a really good sign for them.
Clearly, it shows how much prevalence
goes into these first engagements
and taking the point first.
And with Triple Strike, just getting any eliminations
where people can get set up in position.
and certainly Paulie, I think he was eliminated once we did actually see Team Liquid's Citadel taking Cradle.
It's just hard for Navi to find the picks and jerkeys.
The storm looked a little bit more subtle, I suppose.
It was a light sleet on the roads, I suppose, but no changes for composition so far at the very least.
So, I think we've been on the worst map for Penny and the best map for Penny on Krakowa and now the mid-map for Penny.
The question is, will Polly be able to once again make Nishinanigin's work?
You can see they've selected the Black Panther team up here as well, which gives them a lot of fracking power
on those off angles and survivability off of the Vibranium shield.
I mean, when it comes to Polly, you sort of know who is Captain America, but the McCalloch character incredibly set.
It's where these first engagements are going to exactly come from in the end.
It seems that the plan for the team would consider Delis to flank all the way around to the objective, take this little high ground,
basically set up stall with as much of the penny utility as you can.
Yeah, just creating a safety net for your backline as well to force their cyberwebs to
steal and speed boost any of your allies who find themselves on top of them.
And Cooper, that's the raging Royal Flush here which could be everything that TLC need
for their first fight.
And they've already sort of pulled it off a lot of space, actually set up a very aggressive
hold.
Just a bit of a fortress now for Nabi to break the Royal Flush.
He's gonna send them right into the backline of Nabi.
It was just go time and Angie's inclined to agree but that's the situation!
Get yourself down by jerking!
Revenge is found onto a primary counter, Garage Roy can't get anything off the back of the meter and now may be a little bit touch too far forward.
Team Liquid Citadel are cut into if Eswar can't receive any healing, so Navi once again have bashing down the hatches and found their opening.
And that was Liquid taking the point first, right? They only got to single digits, so 8% is going to be matched now.
But Liquid Citadel, you got the Royal Flush, you got Energy bringing up the Brekkins impact as the regeneration domain is using those Loki clones to go off.
to the fact that Jurriky was able to get that pick was key to making sure that Nabi could turn that fight.
Not up for the ultimate, just off on the best Wix players in the world.
His flexibility has been such a key to Nabi's success recently.
That's what wants to open.
Speed is going to make sure that anyone who's grabbed by this ultimate is going to be blasted down
to sweet by the rage of Ultron, that fate answers both of those with a singular.
And Pauli's found on Lee, off angle again.
This is the same problem that they had on the quiet council zone,
but traded out for Rajra, whoever extended the touch, it was pulled in by Nero.
Great flex play around the outside.
And then she's looking for her opening.
Spots, Terra might be calling up, and Apex Brodericoe come in from the other side.
Still everyone corrupt, feels depression.
No, so it's time to use the invisible boundary, but Team Liquid Zedale aren't really committed to this.
Yeah, they just have to hold on to the point.
So the copies come over, Naby now have a window where no strategy tools are going to be able to keep people going.
But if they need to place the bow, the Omega Hurricane's going to be the thing to blow on through.
Try and wait for an arrow here.
All the focus fire into the wall and down for trade!
Trust me and Jerky combined to get rid of the strategist's ultimates,
but still Team Liquid's Sotadel have plenty of talent on the field as level 1 creep pulls on down
and Terra begins to work around the margins.
Navi you're in control, for Team Liquid Sotadel, the threatening of Flip me,
you've got to get on top of energy, get rid of the primary threat,
trust me, he's already been taken down, rogestone on one side,
and amongst the piercer on the other,
Strictflip away there from Terra,
he could get healed up inside of a spawn room as well as the reinforcement,
came through from Jerky,
and you can see that Penny is stuck up on the outside of that portal,
making it so perilous to try and disembark.
Liquid have been winning this fight for the last 30 seconds,
but Navi have just had a toe on the objective.
Now, more ultimates have to be dedicated
in order to try to flip it, but it's just at 95%.
It means that Navi don't have the portal
for a potential final fight,
but finally Team Liquid sit to the edge
to get off the point.
The right focus is as well,
the dive that went in on to level one crook,
but it's the button Navi go,
okay, we're losing this fight,
we need to spread out, isolate one step at a time,
just keep the score going,
but now they need to find an opening.
Energy needs to be the hero, for the America's here.
Has the most impactful ultimate, a crack at impact to try and keep Navi at bay on the other side.
Rajarov ready to take to the skies with the Metsure M.
Polly, Spider Sweepers would be a great way to just make it hard for Navi to set up with these ultimates to go in for the fight.
It's going to be the sign of seduction from Best War to start. Metsure M to counter.
Spider Sweepers begins, Rajarov takes to the sky once Polly will fight Polly!
The coopers take him down on the other side, and if you think it's winnable, one reset into the next level and progress another clone set up into a doppelgangers will provide more for energy, but all they can do is flee away into the loving arms of speedily.
They need the healing, they need the drone, now they flip the point in their favor, that's what Shrike is best to give a contestant, but Terra is right there going up against his former region, saying now they are left behind reason.
season, Terra brings them in with the apex, but it's a near and invisible boundary, and
we'll have to stand there by themselves, but Fates just sit down, and Nardi take the map
off Liquid Citadel.
The domination runs in 26 and 1 for the top team from America's. Now, they're sweating
a little bit in some of those areas, but it was the fact that Polly went for the portal
play. Immediately stepped out, Glowtrox, sweeped him straight past off of the objective, and
the first time he's been
in the first time. He's been
MVP from the Magneto the one
sided Magneto that now we wanted
to put that pressure on with
Rizaro and he was an under eight
performance of grand finals,
obviously the MVP going over to
spark a way to win there. But
showing that that frontline is
ready and waiting to take the
crown and keep the crown for
midseason finals.
to dive into Nero's invisible boundary in the midst of those fights as well.
Using the Carbon Crush, using the Omega Hurricane, kicked them into the wall,
too much burst damage to sustain through a singular strategy stall.
It was a fantastic target focus and shows just why Na'Vi are probably the favorite team here.
Especially with that kind of performance, Team Liquid sits down going for...
What a lot of people are talking about like scrims, it's pretty much prevalent,
it has been talked about now, it's the majority of kids who are scrimming,
Exactly audience so this has been their lives when it comes to like trying to make this proposition work
See that there's any counters to it and the answer for storm is a pretty good one when it comes to some of the cool
Voying convergence maps that we have to go to now
There hasn't been many instances that you liquid citadel have been on the back foot and had a map to choose from but now
They can't go to domination it is best to five will have to see that a little bit later on potentially
But you're looking at the likes of central park
You're looking at potential Yicca sale like they picked up against rad or spider islands like they've done against swamp
You have to go for something a little bit different, but Navi is very clearly studied on their opponent in this one
Yeah, Idriso definitely seems like it might be the pick here as it is for a specialist map of Team Liquid
So there was a stopgap. Of course, this is going to be a longer series of S to 5 line and so there's plenty of time to work
Your specialties and try and find your edges of the primary opponent
I think you have to sort of look at the draft as well
I see with the highlights just what kind of characters were banned out in the end. The team liquid since they all didn't have access to the
Magneto, it's been a common protector. Even in that case, like it was a one-sided gambit in favor of Team Liquid Citadel.
Na'Vi were sort of forced away to manage to get the low key to stop the rocket.
They just tried to take it as much potency out of the triple strategist and even with the likes of Invis and Gambit alongside an Ultron,
it just didn't feel like it was enough. Na'Vi were finding all the eliminations they needed.
Even when Team Liquid Citadel had controlled the objective itself. Those moments, it's really hard to find a pick and Na'Vi were doing it.
Look at our stats page there. It was a very low casualty game. All of our players playing fair disengages very well, but often that meant the point where C didn't convoi
Idrisal path, as predicted, is going to be a stopgap measure here for Team Liquid so they'll have to try and put themselves back in.
It's a 4 win, 0 losses, so even though the game mode, I suppose, of convoy, there's been a couple of drops for Team Liquid.
None have really come in recently, right?
You're looking at like pre-season, it was Jallied,
they lost against Rad for the mid-season finals,
like first preliminary game,
but everything else is just a little bit like in fact,
looking at it pretty much is convoys,
fairly good at them.
Only drop in like Spider-Own is to Swamp Place,
but in the last three attempts at Swamp,
we've tried to pick that map against them,
it's gone liquids way.
Usually how many times do liquids a little drop
to domination?
I'm pretty sure there were like 24 and a half.
26 and 0, there's 26 and 1 now.
Oh, you have to like, you know, honeymoon periods can last quite a while, but it's always about like, okay, they have to lose a domination at some point soon, right, right, right.
It feels like one of those kind of moments. But I think it's just that like for Navi, they've got so much like drive, even if you were looking at like Navi during the playoffs, they were playing on bootcamp.
And you've got one of the minds that leads this team of trust me one of the main vanguards in between maps where you know fates on his phone
Playing with like a koala plushie or whatever the hell it was
Trust me he's like in aim trainers and he's coming up with like tools on
Making sure that he knows the cool down of a lot of abilities and certainly with all of the team ups
He's the most like studied but he's making sure that his mechanics are up to speed usually sort of known for the Deadpool vanguard
Right, but there hasn't been many opportunities for that
You have to imagine we also saw him be one of the first to really bring out the penny before the team up changes came in
Stage one playoffs
There were little bits of it and certainly going on to like convoy maps like this
I would imagine that now they have to put a bit more stock in the penny themselves in comparison to what we saw in domination
Yeah, domination can be a very movement intensive game mode
Which can force penny to struggle a little bit
We saw what part of his often caught while trying to find those off angles for the penny to elucidate that pressure from
but on convoy where your defense is going to be a lot more static you can get a lot more value out of that and you've got to wonder how legit
the coach or one of the coaches of team look at Citadel is going to modulate the draft heading into mat number two to try and get rid of some of the
Big forces that were powerful on the side of nothing. Yeah legit. I'll see I'm gay
I think I've been with the team from the very beginning, but the black
suited player
Coach even shoe
He only just joined for stage one. He's a newbie. And like yeah, he was at TSM which didn't go well
So he came back into the region
For EMEA and sort of looking at it now
It's like he is more the mediator as one of the main complaints as far as the Navi was like the internal struggle certainly with Terra coming on
Everybody had an opinion on the team and how to play it
He shares job is to basically mediator make sure that everybody comes onto the same page and that's exactly what Navi been able to do on
domination there's the plan there and
And going off the draft, Team Liquid Citadel still going for the Ultron First Protect.
The worry I suppose is if you go for the Penny Protect, you sort of lock in that composition.
And we saw Speedly playing amazingly on the likes of Storm Against Drag.
He won't have that freedom to actually play that sort of flexed, dualist role if he's stuck
on Ultron Jail.
That's true.
And Ultron Jail definitely does seem to be beckoning Mantis and Loki, seeded away to
both teams.
Question is, do Na'Vi want to make a play for one-sided Magneto here as well?
They've already protected it to make sure that Wajro has the chaos greatsword in his bank pocket
But they can also try and ban away that penny
Admittedly with how many times fully went down far more than any of the rest of the team
Maybe penny is something that they kind of want to beckon liquid Citadel into playing
The storm protect is a good one
Rockets been banned now, you know triple strategists again
Adam goes up higher in the rankings as does Loki when you have these game modes
With a penny protect so this is like the game plan for Team Liquid Citadel
Maybe across the whole series, maybe across the rest of today.
The Penny protect means that something else needs to be banned out.
So is the one sided Magneto again, pretty much looking exactly the same
as the last draft, just the order, a little bit different.
Team Liquid Citadel sticking to their guns.
I mean, it's a great ban against Team Liquid Citadel.
Like we've been talking to the America's talent, like Cozy's,
like, oh, this is the best man in the world.
And it's a bit late. Maybe he is.
We just don't get to see it.
which is also like the handy part of it.
Like, Vess were unfairly made this team
that could sit the L team better.
We were talking about it yesterday,
just like they were pretty dominant during pre-season
and then they suddenly add in another player
and it's just like fair trade routes
that seem to come in like this,
this should not be allowed to building up on this.
Navi gonna be defending first,
defending with the Dantruz is certainly an interesting layout.
We often see the triple-triple here
with three surges and three vanguards,
but I haven't really seen much defensive storm thus far.
I mean, it's probably expecting a composition to come out some hero switch ups for liquid
Citadel's speedily is going to be on the black cat's begin with, but mostly probably
just perch on top of the window to see exactly what's going to be out on the defense. But
I would imagine he'd see the storm ago. Okay, we need to go for something else. Energy actually
switch another from the punish. He's going to actually like go over towards the bookie
hoping to catch some pigeons out of the sky as you've probably seen the storm on the other
side now but speedily back on the Ultron. Yeah back on the Ultron, has good
answer where combat the Encephaloid right is hit-stand and can deliver some
serious damage. Already a lot of respect sort of given up in the end but
the composition almost looking pretty much identical but they have an access to
the gambit this time. Trust me is the first to go down and might want to switch over
towards the strange to of course that wall fights this early because right now
it's some contest with this first checkpoint which can almost hold for
like two minutes in itself that first corner, gone. But if you ever trust me it's called
the disengager so they don't want to move over to the strange just yet and
instead we'll just manually re-contest with the remainder of the team. But even if we
consider doing a good job here of just controlling all the space in this, that's
Polly gets set up too. That's the problem right with the penny. It's like okay you
want to give us this space now retaking it it's gonna be a lot harder certainly
to settle you on when there's no ult. Yeah getting through here with no ult it's
gonna be so difficult both the vanguards just being kicked into the wall
continuously and it's so hard to deliver the healing. In fact it has to be the
invisible bandit of Rajoy. Still goes down through all of that and our vehicle
after trying to do the Sun Demand with feet already falling low, stunned on the outside.
Speedly's there with the finisher, and Team Liquid Citadel looked like they are absolutely back.
They weren't defeated on the first map. They were simply enraged.
Are they gonna go for the portal to try to contest this, or is it similar to Radley?
They might be able to just get there in the end because Navi yet again managed to stall off for a good amount of time,
even looking to win the fight. Turkey found Koopa.
Koopa was found, and Rajiro's coming back as well, has the Gamma team up.
He isn't the last away Ves one. You know what? Team Liquid Citadel also in for a penny, in for a pound on this one.
Energy looking to TP back, but Microsoft's just give it away, and this could be a generational fumble.
I mean, it was also just a good read from Na'Vi, so many teams in my panic to go for the straight ultimate now.
Glaratrox is going to be used to get anybody else's white positions that would dedicate for the straight spot themselves.
Chosey Clems comes on for his abilities, doing so much damage right now, and Polly's activated their team up.
What can Rajarov do against all of these assembled old Schwange-Rones?
Empowered by Koopa.
Na'Vi, finally taken off the bully.
Fantastic read for Liquid Citadel, Navi sort of played the timings perfectly, we've been able to stall it with the strange.
But seeing exactly how Navi want to adjust as we have the Razer listening to see how this defense is going to hold on second.
Bigger stages like this, but now they try to go in for the aggressive walk as we heard with the royal flush and in the Omega
Hurricane but liquid sits it out disengaged go in for the fight yourselves instead of poised nicely with a crack in impact on the
Way for energy and it's just going fishing with anything this time the sonic he just
Draught it up by trust me to block that one out with a big pull in they want energy so bad
They know where the carry is and you see what Roger just doing their best to avoid the carbon crushed in liquid
So though I've got a bit pending to the corner here
They've got plenty of cover to work with, but we don't have as control of the objective.
And Meteor M could certainly fall into that hallway and find quite a lot in the end.
As Terras fighting up against his old region, Xenophic find a connection to find himself right in the middle of an invisible boundary.
Rasha O looking to try and get the dunk once, Polly finds Polly!
And then draws out the greatsword.
The disengaged from Liquid Citadel is going to be rather fast here as they know that they've lost position on this point.
They're going to have to try and cut this engagement again.
It's the same idea, they're slick with it, they'll pull them back, stretch out now, these defence, they go in for the aggressive play, rage of ult, run royal flush to combo, it forces out Krump, quick invisible boundary, so just hold on to this corner.
First legs on the other side, energy to your dare, try and commit to this one, unfortunately not really able to get any crash and impact debuffs, and so it won't be finding any resets, even though terror fell down on the other side of the board, Krump also going to be equally unlucky, up comes the sonic grab, and so too does Vespa, rise above Rajaro.
So much folks and went in on to stop in energy so much damage
That's why he paused with that crackings impact to the use such as we put a perfect little shield down for Emma frost to stop
Those deep offs going in to stop any resets coming through the liquid Citadel having enough about them push to the second checkpoint
We're three and a half minutes left to get to third last twice now
The liquid to the dinosaur bait and switch with the gambit boosted ultra on
Ultimate now fate gonna try and find some space here for now the eventually team with put to bill have a really committed to this
And so, all Navi are gonna get off the back of their demo, this space.
This is what Liquid's at the moment, so good at though.
Every time Navi's some aggressive and they just ward back,
and then they come in with a counter-attack.
This time, aside its seduction, it forces out the Omega Hurricane,
it's trying to pull apart Team Liquid's itself.
But this is front to back, forward some backwards from this attacking side.
Omega Hurricane can't get that much.
Potential stuns coming through, but trust me, it's mostly avoided.
And then Mr. Carbon Crush from Vesswa,
means they're gonna have to play a little bit more coward for now.
Hold on in very deep by the invisible woman.
That's what just gets blown up! Spinning kick into a wall that burst is too much to comprehend
and Na'Vi will be able to continue holding the doorway.
The jerky with a team up from 4 means that it's pretty much hit scan shots from the jerky and Terra.
And now it's just slim pickings. There's no ultimates to build on the side of Terra.
Apex credits is more about the positioning, but the Quitsits and L4s all the way back.
Composition staying roughly the same, but you have to sort of find some way to actually push from this.
A minute wasted, but the 3.5 it was given to Liquid since Dell unfurred.
Jerky playing, pretty reserved right now as you said, the hits can't shot through me, but they do have to get very close.
Here comes speedly, moving in first with the Rage Valkyrie to be answered by the Blancroak.
There's gonna be heroes going up a slightly later ultimate inside of these cylinders.
Navier gonna be at disadvantage and Polly's gonna make sure that the space is very much in their favor by using the Spider Sweeper.
Out comes the Gladrocks, goodbye to Cooper!
The energy still believes it to be winnable.
Came up with a cracking impact, Terror's falling low, trying to hide away for now.
Stop yourselves from getting reset upon the ball.
Energy will find their man.
They will not find their reset.
And it was off the back of Liquid City
still dedicating that Spiders we could poise the last to go down
just with that extra little bit of sustain
whilst he goes for the ult.
But immediately, it was just Polly uses the ultimate.
Trust me, this runs over and Carbon crushes him.
CC's a net from that point on to Liquid City.
Looking very split on this attack.
And Nuba, and then it wasted 90 seconds left to go.
Raging Royal Flash, good to go.
It seemed Liquid City, they'll certainly aren't ready to rage.
80 rush hour has gone on down, Fator tried to rescue them from a blindy grave.
A team liquidated off, finding everything they want here.
They goes in deep, fine, I'll do it myself.
And while Polly may well fall, the rest of that gnarly have been victimized by Liquid Citadel.
Finally get stuff moving, you're not stuck pretty much just shy of your own spawn.
Push and third can be really hard here,
Energy wants to try to close up and push to distance.
Exactly half way to having the ultimate with the team up with Elsa,
has you instinct to bring down some of the cooldowns and a drone for measure.
I'm like a hurricane, good to go, I know who can convince you, prowess to work with, but that's a huge pull on the terror follow-ups, not there.
I'm like a hurricane, threatens to make landfall, you can't believe this engagement they've done through to a gambit,
tomb up, but all of the focus fire gets rid of jerky.
One for one, the trades are uneven thus far, but it seems like Navi have all the ground and power that they need right now to keep this one going.
Down the narrow corridor, it's easy control, but trust me, and so if you look good to the devil,
are forced to give up for space and go back to a drawing board.
You can look at the jar again over on the Magneto, the ball walks just really enhancing
that team up for fate on the gambit, the liquid citadel forcing themselves forward with the
Sionic seduction, Rage of Ultron in hand as overtime is about to loom and one at a time
Na'Vi has started to drop, one final fight.
They're always beating so perfectly, so we're just going to wish that maybe they got rid
of those two escaping members of Na'Vi.
I'm seeing if there's a chance here Rage of Ultron might just be stuck on the door,
how do you even get out of your Na'Vi, you're just pretty much locked in house arrest.
Oh yeah, this is not fucking very easy, level one.
Kurt instantly gets evaporated, disintegrated,
disappear, they scream, then Liquid Citadel said,
you're right, actually, and we're very keen to see that happen.
Raj Rokha make it to the cart,
and Team Liquid Citadel stake their claim on Idrisil Path.
Consistently pushing themselves forward,
zero seconds remaining, but a push all the way to the end.
You're certainly gonna take that
if your team Liquid Citadel,
and now you might be able to actually
find something more with the triple strategist. You're losing out some of the bigger elements
with stuff like, you know, the rocket. Loki was banned out early. It's consistently taken
out there in these positions. Makes you a little bit hopeful, I suppose, if your team
were considered to just find the gaps in order to make this triple strategist hold. But no
beer at back, no camera revivals, means that you don't really have many errors allowed
to keep those flights going on first.
In TLC, it seems like most of their success have been off the back of some very, very smart disengagement baits.
And then having a means to damage boost to try and term the tides on an overextending player who really wants to find those staggers.
Whether it be speedily using the Ultron drones on everybody, using their team up with the Penny and then turning that into a big damage boost for everybody who remains on the field or a Gambit's ultimate from Co-Purta.
Make sure that you could outspeed anyone who tries to flee in reverse.
The Bates have been so strong and now they have fallen for them multiple times.
On the subject of Liquid Citadel's defense, the last three games that they've played on it,
and it's 4-0 for them, the last three wins, were full holds.
So it's one of these areas where like this first defense is usually where Team Liquid Citadel looked the strongest,
but they have less of the tools to make it happen.
Well, for Storm, maybe a little bit stronger on the offense here where you can continually take your turn
with the Lightning aura being amplified, but where the control is going to be a very important thing
to look out here and enjoy a bunch of damage but it would appear that Vespa has been able
to dodge away.
Being one of the few Vespa 5 series with like the least arrow switches, everybody's pretty
much been playing the same coffee and paste template.
The Liquid sits down, this was their whole game plan, they have to try and make it work
on one of the strongest maps to make it work.
Obviously, by the minute, Ness just makes it so hard to try and live here, Jerk is going
to be doing more damage through the inflamed guardian shield given over by Johnny Storm
but without Terra and Avi, there'll be two of us on the attack right now.
and see how much pressure has been created from Liquid Citadel.
Polly finds himself a nice pick on to fate.
We've even heard from the listening, like the call-outs for the team-up,
and that's going to be the one, the main one for Polly over on the penny.
Basically, it does full-hit scan, cleans people up, has it in hand,
but not quite needing to use it just yet as right now Liquid are holding.
Nasty collection of binds you can see on your screen right there.
If anyone steps too far in, they are sure to be blown to smithereens, Ryan.
So, Navi's trying to turn up those ultimates a lot faster, and with Triple Strike, it's been on the defense.
It does mean that that healing is sort of spreading out the ultimate, but it has a lot of people to go for the world.
Watch first.
To replace the off angle, could get the anti-heal as well.
We're just gonna have to put Plains onto ourselves, if you see Gage inside of another one, put Plains here.
And now, Fates gonna find the rope and he's 30% away.
It's not gonna be with Terror, though.
Navi have already lost so much.
They cannot commit to this squad.
Team Liquid said that they'll have aggression in their hearts, and they refuse to yield.
It's just the two stridest ultimates, the third one's just built up and that's the beauty of the ultron.
The raid of Ultron Ultimate is you could just pepper it pretty much on NFC to give yourself an advantage.
It was the invisible boundary used in the end for level 1 crook to keep that flight going.
And it's a bit weird seeing level 1 crook over on the infiz and then fate on the gambit.
Usually it's your way around but these are the two most flexible players in the world.
They're flexible and Na'Vi now have all the tools they need to try and stop this one.
The question is what can team Liquid to the delving to kite out this gambit ultimate.
Here we go, Omega Hurricane boosted up and also going to be going into the invisible boundary.
The damage from Cherokee could be overwhelming, but Nero's more than having to try and deal with this one.
Trust me, he's already falling on down. I'll give you his orders.
All of their resources and yet they find nothing but pain and suffering at the hands of Liquid Citadel.
Tera can't even get out of dodge and no, but can his teammates.
Navi are stumped.
And the pristine composition working as intended for Team Liquid Citadel could find in himself
the first blood in that fight and he's one of the strategists with the most
final hits for 10 minutes he is just absolutely scrappy not afraid to get
involved in these engagements and energy wants to try to add to his numbers.
No graph, I'm right there, the Glartrot's in return, it's going to try and control energy
but there's no follow-up and so there's an easy disengage. Veswa activates the bait,
moves around the outside of the vanguard, so Novich's right gone back and Cooper has been slain!
Speedlo's down as well, all the healing's going to have to come from Nero, but he's just one man,
He's trying to keep everybody up, the disengagement, just move over to a car to keep it stored.
An energy, because everybody's going down, they can get the right words.
Player over on the strange to go for the portal play.
Don't think anybody's going to really have the chance to go and sort of close it down,
but they're going to scout it out, and now the pretty much final fight potentially on this objective.
Energy jumping in, ready to set the team up for another hole.
They have the time, they have the space, but Raja is already closing down the gaps.
me isolated here over extended the healing couldn't come their way and now
how do you get these vanguards away from the objective trust me is not there to
strike fear into their hearts and jerky seems to just be lunch buffet but in
liquid Citadel speedily still gonna hang out with the rage of ultron ready to go
so many have to actually swap to be able to try to touch because now there's 15
seconds left and this distance and liquid Citadel up in the sky speedily
can actually see everybody knows exactly when it's coming in the rage of ultrons
coming down. And now forcing out that invisible boundary away from the card
through Peno's but it's just a moment of time that the Team Liquid Citadel needs.
Terra's already been taken down and no one's there to touch! Even with the
Lazy Royal Flush which is a celebratory flash of the cards. Team Liquid
Citadel even us up. Whilst domination streak has ended for Team Liquid
Citadel, it's 5-0 in Yggdrasil. It really is their home ground. Might want to rely
on it a little bit later on if they can get either into the grand finals of
Or in the losers bracket if they lose here, but tying us up in this best of five
It shows that team liquid still have hands in these cases and now V not quite having the answers this time when it comes to the draft to
Stop that penny ultra on composition absolutely blow them out on the defense. Yeah now
We've got a wonder like is it time to put her put a band towards that penny
They felt like now V they had an answer
They had the answer on domination, but domination is not Penny's greatest type
It's too mobile when you're in this static first point hold on a dressel path
The weapon he can just stay still be in her fortress be in the citadel
I suppose she's a strongest it does mean as well that the likes of now they have
Convergence to choose a map from so there's a couple of options
But I want to hear what the desk have to think of not only of what we've seen so far
But what we're about to see for map 3
the one in
26 and
one and yet we have more ones as our series sits all tied up. A very interesting point brought up
by our cast as Hairship. We're seeing a little bit of some interesting protections of fans,
but what I'll ask you first here, we're seeing the Penny being prioritized a lot by Poly, but also
the Storm is making an appearance here. What's so interesting about that Penny that you mentioned
here, Tetscher, is that Team Look at Scylla weren't hiding their strategy about that. They played
against YWL on stream for Vesla and they were still able to showcase how strong it was.
So now seeing it here on land from Pauli and they've been unleashed the second save from
it very effective.
Yeah, I think Pauli, you know, he was funny.
He was mentioning I want to work on this hero.
I'll tell you what, Pauli gets it now on Penny.
Even by Penny out of attack commanding space.
You and I were talking, but you just see Pauli taking own essentially like reverse spawn
switching with that on the attack and constantly allowing his team to play way up in space.
well done. Holly has been a player who has basically
legendarily become that almost target to ban character. Whether it was Captain
American now or Penny Parker appearing here, do you
both think it is time to maybe see Penny Parker taken away from it?
I think it needs to be because of how effective it is, but we also got to talk
about the rest of the team here, right? Energy, MVP so far, popping off every
single map, 12 finals in that last one, and 12 in the first one too.
We're going to talk about the characters that are already enabling that ship.
We're seeing Elsa, Widow, Bucky as like the huge priorities and energy is kind of go-to on all of that.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. And so is Tara, I would argue, but no, it's really cool to see.
I mean, the question I've been curious about is when does Widow come into play?
And what I'm noticing now is I think it has to be map specific.
And outside of that, the Bucky and Elsa have just been the priority,
but we got to see some very strong Bucky Elsa play here.
That means that Cherokee, though, on the storm, I think TLC is sort of a pretty decent job managing that.
Yeah, what do you think about? Yeah, I mean jerky on map one was the most slays that we saw out of any player. It was 10 finals compared to terrace seven. We actually had nine from energy on that map. But actually the band line changed a little bit towards the end for this convoy map. Adam was more prioritization for the band instead of the game. They let that through for fate because I know how lethal he is on it.
Adam has been a very instrumental character throughout a lot of the series, in particular
on convoy maps where we did also see it a little bit on domination, but when you are
trying to stop your opponents from pushing on, you need to make sure that there's someone
on the objective. And if you have no one alive, no one's on the objective. Adam fixes that
problem. Looking at some of these statistics, FATE, we already mentioned it, staying very
safe in the back line only went down six times but look at Koopa and Nero only
went down four times and Nero only went down one time on the back line that game
and the major callout too if you're talking about Koopa seven finals on the
gambit there you know one of the strongest back line players in the game
but then going in and playing aggro those four only get KO four times while
still being that aggressive is a testament to some high skill this is the
first map this entire event the Na'vi have dropped so we saw you know some
struggles before from Team Liquid Citadel against RAD on the Hall of DiGiole, a convergence map,
but this is the first time Navi have fled, and now they're gonna get angry. Rage out like the
Hall of Conceal they could do from here. What can they do from here? We of course know that they
have to go to Convergence next, and they've already played Convoy, they've already played Domination.
Ooh, you'll be having to sip, sip, boo, yeah, sip, sip, boo, yeah, what you got for me? Oh, it's a very,
you know what, in this map particularly, I think we're gonna see some very bunkered up confidence.
The weird thing is, Triple Triple's fine here, and I also, so I think this is alright for TLC.
I'm not saying this is necessarily a strength for them, but this is the map pick you're from Navi, obviously.
But I don't think it is a major advantage in their book.
Yeah, I think they've been figuring out a strat to use here, right?
I think this is the first time we've seen Shin Shibuya all events, at least from Navi as well.
This is also their first counter pick too, because as we mentioned before, they haven't dropped the map.
So nobody really knows what their game plan is going to be when it comes to a loss and bouncing back from that.
So I'm assuming we're going to see you some daredevil in some capacity, especially because of how strong dive is on this map as well.
Luna Snow might be a priority too, or that snowflake.
It's a map that was brought back in in 2026.
It was a very stressful map to push.
It has a huge choke point on that first objective, which a lot of teams will literally open up with Portal to wrap around,
making it strange, massively jumps up in priority, but with the bands already this choked up, it's very hard to deal with.
We also see high priorities on Punisher for defense back at season zero and even flyers can sometimes control the air around that first choke point.
Speaking of flyers, we've had the battle of the flyers so far right in the first bands and also for our flex duelists.
We have the ultra-intensively going one side of team Liquid Citadel and then on the other end it has been the storm coming through.
But the Magneto, I don't know if it's been as effective as it typically has been the first time.
Yeah, I'm noticing that as well.
I mean, it's crazy here, because Team Liquid
said they were getting the exact same layout they got last time.
Yeah.
Curious if Navi just feels more comfortable on this map.
Granted, you know, Ayrton Still is just such a TLC map.
So this now going in Navi's favor could change the tone.
Guys, we gave them the penny again.
What are we doing?
I mean, Polly is so good on it, especially at the first point
here, you could set up some good traps as well.
But I feel like maybe with the more open areas,
you could teleport in towards the back area as well.
That might be a game plan for Navi.
Pretty good amount, yeah.
They will not have the full triple setup though with that Adam Warlock, Ultron and Penny.
They only have two of those key Infinity Stones for that Hyper Defensive comp here,
but it is going to be two that team up very well, of course,
Ultron getting that team up from Penny, allowing him to drone the entire team.
I think the rocket save here is crucial, right?
It's been banned every time before now as well, and I feel like that was a huge comfort pick for fate.
Didn't go down a single time on Cripple against BP, and the storm banned because it's not saved.
They might have a different composition in line here.
line here. I want to get your takes. Who do you think wins the bad face here? I got to go TLC.
I think it's kind of 50-50 a little bit but I'm headed towards TLC as well. I think Storm has been
so instrumental for breaking his head. He comes taking away, could be key. So I think it might be
TLC. Let's see what our casters think as we're going to head back over to take us. It's a map number
three. Thank you guys. We've never seen Na'Vi play Shin Shibuya. So of course they want to bring it
out now. A little bit of the change I suppose as Gambit only in a handful of times has been completely
amiss from the draft phase probably one of the strongest elements in the meta. I think the crown
goes to Mantis at this point really banning her out this much but it allows fate to also be on the
rocket. They wanted to protect that which means that the storm wasn't protected which means that
that option that Navi wanted to go for against like the Ultron Penny composition not on the field.
It's a secret weapon or two potentially here from Na'Vi.
One of the underrated aspects of this Ultron Penny composition as well is that, well, just going back to your regular rank matches.
Penny doesn't make it very difficult for any of those melee duelists to exist for a long time.
They get the black cow over their devil and that saves so much from the band phase that you'd usually have to consider about Junkie.
Get to see our first little bit of black widow for the day at the very least as Tara's looking to be going out open on it.
Now they're sticking to this like 222 triple strategist to continue in as the competition between a good citizen looking almost like that.
It's got the house looked so far today.
America's love triple strategy issue now how it is.
Terra at this range is going to be able to put down a cute amount of damage.
But remember the poll is also going to be supporting passive healing onto Vesemore here as well by those spiderwebs.
Now our case of just holding onto this objective, seeing the oldest two maps in the game played one after the other.
just a little chinchabee, they're not gonna see the royal palace at all, this is not in the circuit.
But right now I'll look at Citadel just trying to adjust to where Navi's coming in through the
brook and the terrain to make sure that this choke doesn't get too hessious. But they're sort
of in and out trying to get into position because they're taking a lot of this poke damage in the
neutral. Oh that's a big pull in but Jerky gets it, Raston goes in for a trooper's twist of his
own, Malvesse we're gonna try and run him down indeed. The extra bounce back from Cooper's team
was absolutely imperative there, but this is what you get when fate has the rock in the battle where you can return Shirky to a frame.
I mean when the drafts and the compositions look as similar, you have to look at the macro bit more,
and the positioning of these fan guards on both sides are going to be key best work in the perfect position to just keep trust being Rajarro.
Pretty much on the back foot, even with the one-sided mag, there's only so much stamina to take a take.
Alright, everyone focus put off the gambit, Ultimate's going to drive all of the barbie,
They've already found their energy, they're going to win out against their counter-matt and Vest was falling as well.
Team Liquid Citadel already contemplating the re-engage of the back of a strange.
Yeah, but it's going to be a little bit late in the day, perhaps, as M&T's do one sort of switch over.
Somebody needs to try and pull in and touch, and it's sort of forced out from Polly.
He gets eliminated, there's now just every single player that can get on as the portal is going to allow a re-engage,
but everybody else is dropping.
Eyes on Cooper though, 86% of the way towards a raging Royal Flash, trust me, goes down,
He goes down, but is instantly bought back yet again by the battle recalls.
He can go in one up to the other, pulling his back already.
And the tenacity of Doctor Strange is not enough to try and make this one work.
Now Cooper sees an opening, dragging everybody forward.
Terra wants to be the primary target here, and Cooper's giving themselves a damage boost.
Turkey gonna be the next one to fall.
Vespa sets up the shield and begins to charm all those who dare show themselves to the White Queen.
Rajarov is sent to fight a pretty lady of the same here for Terra,
who picked a touch too long, stared into the sun,
And have their eyes burned out by Veswa!
Clever boy Veswa using a jump pad to make the Sonic Seduction be a siren song from the skies.
Pulls the Vanguard in and Navi forced to reset.
The Port of Play was looking a little bit dicey, but these kind of moments liquid Citadel are living for on stage.
Navi now have their Engager though.
They still have because we got an Amplifier and save the money on to the server roll.
They just don't have the Royal Flush so you're gonna take those trades in the end,
but you could also have to take the hard route to actually get through onto the point.
This forward hold with a minute left on the block
means it's a goal for now, V, to even touch the point.
Never mind taking it.
Jack is doing well from open AM.
The Barma Cook is one of the primary win conditions here for Nali,
but Squibble is gonna be getting aggressive once fate re-embarged,
and then she's ready to finish it.
Oh, what a body block there from Polly.
But the invisible boundary has to be raised number less,
as trust me, is also joined in on this one.
A couple of charms, ever on the outside is cropped so many,
But it would appear that Glotrop's been slain by those who remain uncontrolled, stuck on the outside.
Spider's repereactivated, so much extra damage coming through, but the extra health that Polly's gained allows him to survive.
And Team Liquid's in a delt. They are all about the defense.
And Jerky was just trying to get that final hit in onto Polly, but when he is a drone on him, and all of the other strategies turned to face him.
Energy now is looking to see if he can get the tag in and set the Glotrop up to scoop up all of Navi with little time remaining.
I gave a quick 3D peek, he's been known!
Oh, all your secrets are belong to Terra!
And now Rajarou can roll on forward.
Like Team Liquid set it off, back off.
They're gonna wait for as long as possible to get energy back as easily as they can.
Big moves moving through from Jerky Mast, the resets!
Even more on the dock if they want to go up the fence!
We're looking for a cleanse, but we can find this Polly and Navi
have finally broken down these hallowed walls.
I know we're in the City of Angels,
but we're seeing a lot of characters take to the sky
that don't usually first it was the Emma Foster the jump pad and then Chura keep
just Parkour in his way across the streets of Shin Shibuya now now be
actually able to at least get off at this first point on the attacking side
it's not gonna be a full-haul for him that could sit down but this is the
common area where things end on this defense it's not often you see a team
that pushes them beyond this maybe some gaming or yeah we lost it cases but
that's been about it. Everyone talking paper now drawn even when it comes to
the raging Royal Flush that's why it's gonna be isolated on the bottom it's
taking a bunch of damage, you can see the team up choose to try and force Veswa out of that.
But Koopa's gonna be active as well, energies fall numb down, went too far,
Reinanti heal from Koopa, getting active, actually fleeing away.
Abaiu's bash is the fear of Navi, is struck into a heart of liquids,
and they'll let skill at keeping this point contested.
Veswa and Voli sacrifice their life force for it, and Koopa's forced to do the same,
a twirl of a baton, but it's far from a party.
It was just that split, it felt like they went in on the Royal Flowship,
it was traded, watching it over from Koopa's perspective.
you see everybody else just drop onto the low ground, Na'Vi is a full-recon force, take the split-fights.
Seeing if they can sort of take as much space up on this high ground,
be able to back-set up behind this corner, and because there's no Daredevil, there's no Black Cat,
it means a pretty good perch position.
It has to be poly to actually have to play for space.
...Mashra doesn't have to meet your end in time to try and deal with Speedly's damage,
a perfect timing from the flexed dualist.
The terror's brought on back by the Resurrection, Vespa was over-extended.
Extra damage from fate.
What is energy?!
Oh, I think, bro, what is my PC?!
Sub-in-Prene energy right now, because they in Liquid Citadel need a hero, and they don't have any ultimates!
Nero is the closest, and has gone down to early Terragates!
Polly off the back of their own glass shots, and Enigir has to try and get involved himself!
It's skit-shooting for Terra, and now they turn our time towards the backline of Team Liquid Citadel,
who have been swept through on second.
This is the fight that clearly Team Liquid Citadel don't want to take, but energy switching over towards the Bucky...
Maybe got a bit too clever, I think, with the Apex Predator.
Yep, you're coming around this corner.
No, no, you're not.
We'll see you on the main point,
and Nabi will see them in the second area,
the second checkpoint of Shin Shibuya.
A full bush would be crazy considering this is one of the hard maps
to finish in the end,
but having the ultimates that they have in hand
means that Liquid Citadel might have more to deal with.
Citadel built from the ground up,
brick by boring brick to be absolute masters of defense.
The Buildings, seemingly in favour of Team Liquid to the doubt right now is Rajra,
who finds many of their swordbashes taken to the wrong side.
The Heels of Vesua, they were eaten away.
Rajra looks for a victim, is gonna set up the two!
Cooper and Energy are down and Polly's gonna be the next to join them.
All Nero can do is move over onto a point and Speedly's there as well,
but Narvi get never more distance.
They're gonna push, they're gonna be confident and they can rely on Kruk having in his back pocket
a grand old card of that royal flush to maybe set this one to bed on the attacking side of Navi.
Liquid Citadel pretty much pushed onto the back foot, hoping to get a royal flush on early for Cooper,
but right now they just need to find some space and open it up because Navi have the bottlenecks.
I'm in here for Navi, we've got a side advance, really comes to a ready where a flush can be found.
An early opening where Energy's not going to be receiving Cooper's buffs,
and level 1 drugs really involved himself as well.
Only a single frag towards the back as Jerky wants to play it safe as we're taking so much damage.
Mature is there on the side, Holly can't move forward, needs to set up a defensive
bastion instead, but right now it's all hands on deck for Team Liquid Citadel.
They do not have the biomass to make this one work, the range of ult's gone so much healing,
but they just don't have the strength, they just don't have the weight,
and they just don't have the players, Navi bring it home!
It's the first time we've seen Navi on this map all year.
First time I've obviously picked it, and immediately they're pushing on one of the oldest and hardest maps.
We took a bit of a rest out of the main pool of maps that we've seen in Ignite.
We came back earlier this year.
Nabi choose a perfect opportunity to bring it out.
And seeing the final hits that are coming in, Teres now starting to shot massively.
But trust me, every time there's like a key pick, it's always him that's involved.
He's leading the team from the front and everybody's on the same wavelength.
You've got to stay for jerky as well.
looking to go for the Ultron himself as it isn't going to be one-sided, and now, well,
it's just going to be even the chance to go for the Penny themselves, so if Navi actually
want to go for that composition, it is free and open to them.
It's just, you sort of expect them to just have an answer to it, but no.
They're going, you've got a nice idea there, so we're going to sort of put our EMEA spin
on it.
Yeah, it's a nice idea.
It would be a shame if somebody took it.
It's also for jerks, like the first time we've seen him sort of play the strategist, being
sort of called a triple strategist merchant, right?
He is a play to player, but he went through a lot of playing Mantis.
Not only has he been able to sort of show off on the due list,
but he's had performances that have rivaled what Terra's been able to put out.
Jerky's always been the linchpin of this team.
While it has been Terra who's exploding, trust me, doing the leading,
everyone else just being reliably skilled in their defined roles.
Jerky's always been the one that it's fell upon.
We're gonna play Mantis.
We're gonna play Mantis, we're gonna play Mantis.
Oh!
Ha ha ha ha ha!
Ah!
Oh, Visigium did not like that one.
and look at trust me space, not even a smile as he gets a 2k with the penny set up
but if there's anybody that wants to go for these early plays, it's gonna be damn liquid siftel
they already take the player down, but let's listen to how they want to try to poise for this attack
he's gonna damage up the map, he's gonna try to take this path
yeah, we need to take top also
I'm gonna kill him, I'm gonna kill him
come back, come back
Come back! Come back!
Come back!
I'm rolling my glove!
By the way, I'm on that left floor.
I'm breaking lines.
Lines are gone.
Take the turn. Take the turn.
Ready, ready, ready, ready.
One, two, one.
How's the raise live? Listen in.
Those breaking lines might be breaking ankles now, as Navier put under the pressure on the objective.
Turn taken, but it might be time to turn back here.
Two liquid civil as Navier going to take their back of Rajlo's drawn greatsword.
Still would appear, but two liquid civil have been able to own themselves some space here,
taking down the mines, but he has to be cautious of the ground and the volcano
to make sure they aren't flanked upon too easily.
A lot of damage taken here by the Henny Park.
And you can see the anti-cures put over there onto Rajra.
It seems like there's gonna be enough pressure taking away
that was terrifying to do in the neutral.
Had to back out again.
Liquid might be sort of getting a taste of their own medicine here
as Vesra is taking out on the exit.
There's still two minutes left, plenty of time,
and it seems calm in the cons from the Razer listening
that we just have for Team Liquid's Citadel.
But Navi, know that this composition's very good.
We get to see them try out themselves and so far it's working.
Cool, Carmen collected for Liquid Citadel, and so we're going to go for a new approach, going for an early teleport.
With two minutes on the clock here, it doesn't mean we're not going to have an emergency one towards the end, Ryan.
This was the OG map to go for the early bottle plays. It's a little bit later in the day, but it's not right at the end.
So, somewhere in the middle ground, Liquid Citadel needs to be careful as it's not going to be available in OT, if you get full health here on Shinshu Duya.
But we snagged Ultimus, a bunch of our teams, weirdly making moves towards the back line, but the invisible boundary is drawn up to try and stop it still and over like here from Nabi.
Could be a brutal mistake, a restful group from the other side was extra healing to go on through,
a fate trying to be taken down and so compelling out their own ultimate later.
Despite the sweeper starts the begin, but Trunksmeade just be taken away from the point
by the constant knockback of the Gambit team up, and Kup is still alive and kicking,
throwing out the cards where they're needed the most.
Narvi are gonna start the sweep beyond back, Fates giving up for charge,
the water raging while flushed to allow for yet another defense.
Energy looming above with the glass drops in the back pocket, later sinned out that avatar.
A face the one switching over to the strength of being the jerk he has to neatly switch on over is going to gamble.
Oh, terrible to begin much.
With the Glarotrox with a river, and he didn't get anything either,
but both the Glarotrox is not getting too much of the way of value,
and Rajra also can't buy too much with the Meteor M.
And no bridge then, Jamer, trust me, as they were pulled in by a temptation of a frag to turn this one around.
And the Anci-Sri-Charge just turns Dr. Strange into Roadkill, a slaughter, a splatter of what was once a visit.
Liquid Citadel gets things moving but they have to finish the map.
They want to keep themselves in this choice of Na'Vi.
So far, like, played up the strategy, they're going to keep trust me over on the penny.
And Jeriki's switching on to various different characters now onto a 2-2-2 setup.
Again, never mind, there goes the penny.
Cam is back in the hands of level 1 crook.
And that old default composition, I suppose, for Na'Vi, is back in their hands.
And Liquid Citadel still on what they've been on so far at this best of five.
Wouldn't be surprised if Vespa will switch here after their next felling.
Going against this many guns on the thing is not a fun experience.
For the 7th floor bring time, trying to open up the next fight, Polly.
Cast to stay away from that window. Can't afford to get ground by Jerky.
Would appear they aren't even going to go for Varmichook there,
knowing that Team Liquid's a little too disciplined for 4th to call those ultricks.
There goes Vespa, trying to go in and go push past.
The clubring time is only going to hit for Xaro and then somehow he's still alive.
The sustain is there, it's built up level 1, Crocker Royal's flush and RV hold.
And our team looks to the doubt, they're gonna do their old bait and switch, disengaged as fast as they can.
Polly's gonna be the primary target.
Does Jerky want to go even further with this? Is the question with Polly going down?
It might not be the best economic moment to make it work, and Terra can't find the exit.
Polly's impact in hand, and so calm down a little bit more in the end.
But Vesra after using Cobra in time, has had a good opportunity to go and reset over to the M of Frost.
Means that a lot more damage is going through, but for now, B, they're not really gonna bang them, build up any more ultimates.
Really, on a never-worn plush, if you can help me for right now, everybody else is pretty much fucked up.
Speedy can make the move, with the rage of Ultron.
We know how quickly he finds those off-angles off the back of his ship, and the damage was done himself as well.
Here we go, Speedy looks for the angle, but it sounds about as if he's on Amplifier under back,
and as he was looking for some of the glass, we find this terror!
And they find themselves a little else, a dearth in the midst of all of this.
Navi counter-strike because we've gone Amplifier was enough, and Team Liquid's sitting there putting so many resources for nothing.
It's energy going again, but it's like flank play with the apex predator, but the whole building fell down on top of him.
The terrain was not in his favor, and the pressure might be falling onto Liquid Citadel a little bit more as Navi
One minute left to try to defend at the perfect position to be set up. Your strategy is documents for now, but some big ones used up in Liquid Citadel. They don't have them up.
Rajara, not enough to answer the rage of Ultron now, with Amidst your ramble like this.
The very aggressive usage of the invisible boundary, can you try and shut down Nera who hides away for now?
And is she just gonna be the Black Retire?
Rajara stayed inside of the invisible boundary for too long, they could not have the fuels delivered.
And this is the opening that Citadel were waiting for.
It's who Blight's first there.
Rajara wanted to try to use the invisible boundary to disguise where Amidst your ramble was coming in on,
but it just makes him an easy target to speed into, actively blowing straight up the skies.
And this map choice is looking good, Vesla has to go in for the portal play so that clobbering time is not going to be much use here, but now it's just a case of being able to try to do it.
You've at least lost all the time, but narrowly you've lost energy in the process.
It's a high cost of pay, but there's one that had to be paid.
Best one moving forward.
Now he's so good on the Doctor Strange, but will it be enough here?
Going up against the Crackin' Impact,
taking low looking for a reason to focus by a solid,
and now jerking, lighting weight, and slams down to the ground,
and avenging a curious fight for Terraferma,
and fights for a grand finals.
Then nearly at the match point,
they're in liquid, sitting there, they're crumbling away,
and now they go up to match point two-one.
They saved one of the best maps to last for them.
Really giving Team Liquid Citadel a taste of how
Shin Shibuya works for EMEA.
We saw a good amount of it in pre-season,
but for stage one for literally everybody,
nobody wanted to touch it.
Nobody wanted to fight for it.
And it's another top performance from the vanguard.
Every win that we've seen from Navi
has either been trust me or Regiro.
This time, pretty sure it's the team captain himself
that gets this one.
Team Captain, standing tall, leading well,
and it would appear that they managed to work a counter-strike
in towards how often we saw Team Liquid to do their winfights
off the back of Masterful Baiting
as they disengaged from the Gambit Ultimates.
This time it would appear that, now we're a little bit more counter,
a little bit more subdued with how they were chasing after those wonfights
to make sure that it couldn't be turned against them,
even in a 4 vs 6 scenario.
And it was just the coordination of, like,
okay, we're making this penalty ultron work ourselves,
it was available. It's something that Liquid Citadel was so focused on what we need that
they weren't looking too much outside of the obvious culprits of who you're taking out.
It does mean that like Na'Vi had the chance to mirror exactly what Team Liquid Citadel was
setting up for the most part. The main difference I think being is like a one-sided magneto versus
like the rocket as well that was protected. Fate was able to do quite a lot on it in the end.
Vero Bax means that any few eliminations that came in against Na'Vi would quickly put in.
But as a set up like match point so far one more map in favor of Navi and they found themselves in another grand finals of an international event
Making it free for free
But it also means that the map will opens up again
domination
Convergence and convoy all available to choose for team a consider del you'd imagine domination to be an open one right because it's been good for
Them up until that series against now V
But you've got the likes of spider islands which is look good for them
saw them play it against Swamp, Swamp picked it, didn't quite work in the end.
Even like Central Park is a potential option.
The thing that worries me though is that for Cobb was the choice of two Likerts into that
when they had domination open again, and they can't go for that. We've already seen it.
We already saw how rough it went for the top team at the Americas.
26 and 1 is an astonishing record, Ryan.
But when the 1 is the most recent, it does start to shed doubt on where to go.
When Everteam Liquid Citadel are a phenomenal team that likely have a bunch of maps they've been playing in streams,
maybe I'll go to like an old classic of Penny Parker, seems to Penny Parker is,
their chosen strategy for this tournament, and that means maybe like a central parkour, Spider-Iron and Sassie who said,
those are both great Penny maps. Symbolic surface could also be on the docket as well.
Pretty much everything that we haven't seen so far is available and open.
Other than feeps, yeah, we're not getting out of the earth, yeah, that would be crazy to see in a game like this.
But I think one thing to sort of realistically know is it was the change if you go to domination
You did bounce storm right to the end there
It was protected for the second map and it was left open which was probably one of the things that made team liquid citadel's life a lot harder on
Domination maybe that becomes a little bit more prevalent
But now the feeling like the draft has been essentially the same they have an idea and a plan they're sticking to him so far
It's working a liquid citadel. It's just those minor adjustments coming in like I mentioned trust me get any MVP
If that one Rishara was going to be able to get it in the first map,
the best way, it's been all the vanguards,
which is sort of what is expected when you have four of the best frontliners in the world.
And I'm saying that because freedom are from Europe.
Well, I think we can all just soak in these stats.
Look how much damage level 1 Cook is doing, by the way, on the gambit.
Like, Cooper and Gambit, both incredibly aggressive,
or rather Cooper and Crook are both incredibly aggressive on the gambit,
and that's what allows Cooper to build up these raging oil flushes,
essentially with parity with level 1 croak, even while having the healing resources that you could turn into ultimate sapped away by having an ultron.
Ah, Midtown. It's a good map, like we're seeing a lot of this.
And it's one of the maps that we see a little bit more of the chaos happen, but it always tends to give cinema, I suppose, in like long series with Midtown's front in the middle of it.
We've seen the likes of Blade, Iron Fist used in previous tournaments, even for likes of Swamp Gaming for Deus, who's unfortunately sort of sapped in their afters with the VHB area just watching to see
you know, it's a lot of
different things. It's a lot
of different things. Exactly
how these two teams are actually
going to face online. Like
there's been a lot of like
screaming across the Atlantic
not trying to give too much in
your own region away, and you
have to imagine it now being
Tim Likert Citadel. Up until
they saw that they were going
to potentially face each of
them midseason finals. We're
probably soft trading secrets
training scrims seeing exactly
what the answers are going to
be. But here I'd imagine that
the onus is a little bit more
on team liquid Citadel to
There has to be an adjustment somewhere that might find the opening.
Spurts are high in the middle of the camp, but where else could we go?
But Midtown Rhyne, after all, for a big marvel event,
what would it be without a few gratifying shots of New York things, I suppose?
It'd be nice to see a little bit of Jeff as we have the voice actor here.
Oh, true. This is a terrible Jeff Mat, though.
Yeah, well, when we had the team up with Storm.
Oh, that's true.
Jeff Nato, but I think, I also thought Frostmount got a touch.
He's one of the main Storm players.
like the stomps are using them on chemo using the form one. You have to hold it
still I can't read that. I think I said show them some TLCs sorry Ryan's got glasses.
I love in care and I have tender loving cataracts as well so it's even harder to
read but like you know because he said it on I think we're sort of waiting to
just get the teams in place a couple of navi plays disappearing probably just need
the little boys room potentially just because this is looking to be a long
day for them. I hope everyone has fun you know what me too based sign ten out of ten
No, no, it's speaking of Jeff to bring it back to the most part. I would say like cause you there like you have a love
I hate Jeff right 50-50. I think most people love Jeff as a character Jeff players. However, they can go play traffic on the floor
It's these kind of moments again like all of the voice actors a good portion of them are very much here
I'm the dangerous is gonna be heard again and again and again
You also gonna hear that again again for me of a room. He is here. Yeah
I think there's even going to be some desk appearances as well from some of the voice actors, which is terrifying.
I like the silent voice actors. Hello, nice to be here. Voice like...
Ah! It made me jump.
Well, you've got to intimidate Simone, you know. Like, it's a very important part of having a fierceness within them.
And yeah, we're very thankful to Marble, to all of our voice actors, to the venue staff here.
It's been incredibly accommodating for venues. It's absolutely fantastic.
Thank you to you, our audience here in Los Angeles, California to come in out and seeing the best the Marvel rival sense to offer in terms of players.
I mean, that's the main one. Like we had the event midseason finals in China last year. We had grand finals at DreamHack Atlanta, sort of like amongst that event.
Here it's our own separate thing. And I kind of like that, right? Like we have our own little space that it's just for like the eSports scene, but there's also a collection of celebration of the game with the performance earlier.
I believe there's another one later on as well.
So really pretty much all of the flags and banners
are out for Marvel rivals.
To celebrate what's just been like 18 months,
not really the best anniversary sort of thing to go off of,
but more stuff to come in the future.
Even with a winner of this,
you've got the hood joining the game next week.
So straight back to the drawing board.
Probably the next character after that
by the time the stage two happens,
if I read a calendar, which I'm pretty sure I can.
Yeah, like the hood seems like probably
gonna be like a gun based vanguard and for last time we got one of those vanguard
diplomats shifted up the meta considerably and we got to remember that
he's also gonna anchor a team up with Jubilee as well which might drag
Jubilee into the meta with constant access to our hits can healing and
magic only of Kingsman on a team that's actually qualified for state you as a
sub no name drop today aren't you I mean we can go from there who else have we
not meant I've been spoke about J3 yeah what about J3 he's handsome I mean
usually it's the ball telepathy that something you should just told you whichever of the distances pretty much I have him on mute for
the most time like he comes but like it's common but like lots of people watch fighting even swear the other talent
that isn't here as well like Pacific you know that is having a meltdown for watching the Gen G games but is it also that
just these moments I suppose of like the whole region whether you're like involved in e-sports you know what whether
you're just sort of one of the main content creators this is the day to be watching if you're new to the e-sports scene
This is the day to pick on Urban as a reminder the champions of pre-season and stage one for EMEA be Navi
And the like over the Atlantic for America's is team liquid Citadel who are currently a map down in his best of five
One more and they end up in the losers bracket against a very hungry rad that want to slay some more Giants
I mean rad have just been on such a tear down there. I would not want to be in that losers bracket
It looks absolutely terrifying to go up against as we're about to get settled into our draft.
What could be the last map of our winners finals, Ryan?
And it's been almost four months since either of these teams have lost a series.
And like I said, in that amount of time, we have had Black Cat.
We have had the likes of Devil Dinosaur, Cyclops, Jubilee being added.
And in that time, Navi and Team Liquid Citadel have dropped a couple of rounds,
a couple of maps, but never a complete series. There's sort of looking exactly the same so far,
but now they have put a little bit more pressure over on getting the Adam out early with the one
sided mag potentially still being open, but maybe a little bit later on. Okay, mirror draft coming
through. Question is here, a team liquid citadel once again going to protect Polly's mini.
One of the things to highlight too so far is like the map choices that come in,
both teams on their map choices have finished the map. Oh, that's a ban.
the game. It's really good on
this map. It sort of takes away
some of the triple Vanguard
setups that you can have
certainly on the defense is to
look at the dollar attacking
first. They want to make sure
that they don't get full held
on what could be the saving
grace. They're also going to
actually be able to get a hold
of the Magneto, which means
that now these final buying
you'd have to imagine would be
Penny Parker. They might get
rid of the gambit here to try
and nerf Cooper, maybe a storm
that's been hovers here and
storm going on. This is
interesting. Admittedly, it's
probably one of the best
going on. Storm going on. This
is interesting. Admittedly,
this is probably one of the
better maps to have. Emma be
taken away from you because
trust me is likely going to
move everyone to the group,
which has been a main say of
midtown since its inception.
Looking at this again. No
mantis available for either
of the sides. And when you get
onto these certain game modes,
low key and Adam become a
little bit more of a prevalent
focus to just stop copies to
stop. Be right back to being a
plenty, but that is still
available and still protected
the same drafts over that small change just to make sure that some of that
frontline power certainly that was coming from trust me or a shower was
both were able to play in the frost not gonna have it in hand for those of you
uninitiated to the deep lore of e-sports Navi Natus Fincheri Latin it
means born to win and they are currently one map from doing so Los Angeles do
Do you think the Liquid Citadel can defy being born to win?
I'll take it, I'll take it, thanks mate.
I'm trying to work out like, does that mean you think that now we're gonna win?
Yeah, I think that means that they think that Team Liquid Citadel are gonna go to a fifth map.
That wasn't the best instructor sense they sort of made, but...
I think that's more me being stupid, but certainly one thing to say is that these two teams are smart and well-versed in what each other want to try to play up in the end.
But it's the triple strategist again, the team that could sit to dealt on the attack with the early ult, and trust me, has taken energy out again instantly.
The oldest trick in the book, baby. Still works, that one's going on Reddit.
The break way to start, trust me, has tried to pull out as much as possible in the early days.
Little did you know how much of a prevalent focus of the meta it is going to be, but it means that Magneto's available in Veswa, so a bit more balanced to try to fight this as they try to push on the attack.
Trust me, I'm gonna hold strong here, and the first point of Midtown is always the most contentious, and Rajarov going down already off the back of an excellent force physics from Nero, this is the kind of agency you want to see from a top tier strategist who needs to find an opening on the other side.
He's playing aggressively because they know about Rajarov and needs to be some kind of retribution given, trust me he's already fallen down as well, and so Navi should have to feed on to the car.
They can't.
And as he finds himself free, things start to turn on forward.
So Navi do have a little bit of a window to not have to go for potpick this early.
So I'll sprint in.
Check up as much as they possibly can with this setup.
But immediately that distance is closed down.
Team look at Citybell.
A wide cyberweb snare, shuts down energy midway through their bomb.
A cook and Navi are happy to just slowly walk back here
rather than to turn their portal early.
Speedily just taking pot shots of the as much as possible.
still not built up that range of Ultron, which in early patches we might exceed two of them by now,
but it's a little bit slower, later in the day, visible boundary is going to be in first for Nero.
Nero gets a grasp, Evan trust me, he's fallen down, level 1 crook and plate is still so far away
from their own Ultimus, they can't rescue trust me and Large Robe, and this could be ruined.
This is Taro's trust in this one, and the Glacier Scrabble, and Jerky's got two final blows,
but level 1 crook's fallen down, and not only with the healing of the Ultron,
Surely it's going to be untenable fate.
Oh no!
Stun Saloon in the arm, Ros-Rose too late.
Instantly gets out of a portal and moves away.
Jarvis jumping in like, ha ha, I'm here, ha ha, I'm leaving.
I'm going, get out here, try and reset.
It's the first point and the portal used up in the end.
Yeah, Jerky showing that even on a strat against,
he could still play it as a dualist in areas,
but Liquid Citadel choosing this map.
It's basically be trading out like on these maps.
If you have a game plan, whoever's picking it has the real advantage
Liquid Sintedale finishing on Yickelisil, all the way, want to do the same thing on Midtown.
Alright, I can see easy second points after that. First point has been taken against the three-to-three compositions,
but with Terabing, that fact-stop maybe it's open to most generally moves out from their cover,
looking to try and finish this one off!
Rejaro gets it! Then again, baby!
Speedly in energy, both crushed under the might of a master of magnetism.
And Speedly thought he was being coy, sitting around the corner, waiting for the invisible boundary,
and just get in the end of what was the Royal Flush from Koopa.
But Rajarro only has one thing to do with that Meteor M,
and it's to slam down the Ultron into the ground,
mix him with the Shrapnel,
and now Navi holding the map, the payload in a strong position.
It's hard to retake from here, but Liquid sits down,
having to push through with two Bangalows.
Now it's Vespa's turn. Finally has the Mag in,
and they told me he was the best Mag in the world.
He's never been doing it without energy,
and now Vespa's isolated.
Down to only 100 HP,
He tries to turn around with a meteorite, grabbing level one quick, it's a masterful manoeuvre from Neswa!
As he turns up the next one of a man can inspiring on all cylinders!
Welcome back master of magnitude once again!
So much focus goes on Neswa, he's been one of the best Magneto's in the world, he hasn't had the chance to really play it so far, but Navi left it open.
It was protected in the end, more of that focus coming through and more of the push goes on as Jerky is last to be taken out as Navi didn't want to take the fight.
He's just disgusting and I'm moving through this doorway into all of these mines and all of the pain.
Great play from Na'Vi if I can move around the right hand side instead to avoid Bolly's setup.
Alright, he's been spotted though, if that predator wants to find a line up at the safe I'll take these grab a few from the territory but if there's no boundary force down.
Yeah but he knows if there's no boundary force too far back, Bolly dragged out of it now, but Na'Vi have to play inside the confines that never has set up.
It's almost done and Bolly's returned by the battle we call Beacon, a self shield to try and save themselves from energy.
You can't find anything off the biomec hook.
Looking towards the high ground, Jerky's just hovering up there,
waiting to bring out the next damage boost.
The speed limit is major, but everyone on their team is absolutely off the chart with extra damage here.
Terran's been revived, but energy's taken down fate on the other side of Rajro.
Just need to try and hold the line now as Vespa begins to chip at the old block.
The sword has been drawn that sinks into the flesh of Nabi.
Liquid Citadel continue their roll.
Paulie, the Spider Sweeper was just chipping away the damage,
chipping away whatever resources Navi had available to fight in that one.
The Liquid Scythe are then making so much use out of the Rocket,
the battle recall beat, and for both sides has kept those fights going in the end.
But it means that Liquid Scythe, though, if they're pushed,
they're in a play at disadvantage 5 versus 6.
They're still not afraid to go for some of the big ultimate dedications,
knowing that a play is going to be back very soon.
And with these compositions, nobody's playing the fights to try to clear it up.
Energy Blank smart, just getting extra push on the car already having on, not willing to.
Fever Shroud just ult speeder, he's getting active once again, extra damage boosted, once a level 1 critical.
With any peel here for the invisible woman, Terror just gets it done in midair.
A nice bounce of a big bullet, no best was turned to try and turn this one around.
Jerky might be the primary victim indeed, he will be! So much damage has been done!
And Energy has said, don't you dare forget about me mate, because I'm still here, I'm still kicking!
It's just the trade of speederies using these rage of ultrons.
It's forcing out the meteor M for Rejaro, but because it's not matched with americompositions now
It means that Vesla has a bit more freedom to go for eliminations to go for picks to force this back and now
They pretty much sent all the way back to these spawn doors very little to work with ultimates jerky very close to practice
In fact, but trust me now struggle prisons from
Throw now it's meant to catch a few but not enough
Three in there trust me though doesn't have the backup to make it work
Miro just plays on the outside, brings up the invisible boundary and plays it safe.
Jerky's been returned, yes, but trust me, can't even make it to the card.
They're so close to the goal, because we aren't able to find the last chance.
Jerky might be the one to make it work!
He had another reset, he had another raise.
Miro can't go anywhere.
Their role is thrown on the other side, but Jerky just has to settle for Zoni,
instead moves over onto Vesva, getting rid of the Magneto,
walled away from the remainder of the team.
Clever from nothing.
You've got the Strangler, the President, Cracket Impact combination
potentially to come in but having the group uses ultimate first, it forces the invisible boundary
on the other side which means the jerky has a bit more freedom to just go for the picks
and even with three strategists it's not enough to keep those members of Team Liquid
Citadel alive. Terra's now the one sat with an apex predator, seeing if he could sort of sneak
around but with many traps making sure that Team Liquid Citadel can't take any of this high ground
to put his pressure and make these off angles a little bit more troublesome on the defense.
Really thinks it's going to be everything.
Fake goes down to a mine from Polly.
Unbelievable stuff that must have been a crazy flank for Terra, someone as well.
Nice for the lockup, but there's a hole.
Downspeed leads on the other side as well.
Permas load is Polly.
Who all they can do is spy the sweep away from the action.
Energy of this were discovered for a quick reset in Polly.
To Shryze, the rescue neighbor, who has brutally been staggered.
He was so close to finding the pick up to Krug
that his force used that invisible boundary.
Fake getting eliminated that he's not able to use his own beer at back.
So he was gonna be out for a good portion of time and I'm watching it from Polly's perspective
It's like I must go when people need me and anime runs his way back to his team
We're getting kicked off late in the day 30 seconds left for team like the sense still to try and finish midtown
Who are his people Rajro looks for a victim he's gonna settle for a little bit extra damage on Polly
I'm just gonna be converging support on what is that a solo optimal to NRG and the pocket isn't quite there
but the resurrection will be on the other side.
LeBronkirk's been found in the back too,
with Britsigeli using absolutely everything.
It's now or never, it's all or nothing!
It's a beautiful shield from Raja and Stuckness
were from fighting their man,
but Eniggy's getting reset after reset.
You can't believe me,
because I just turned him out with a fat of no reverse!
Yet another through Eniggy,
yet another brick for the Citadel!
Rockin' a hard place,
and Navi found himself between it,
had the wrong package in back,
and Tair's going to bleed!
...trying to get away, coming in with the blade, extra staying power off the back of the soul,
siphoning up the bloodline awakening, no reset here, because we got that little fire once again,
is taking down Invec, your timing side of the invisible boundary here is giving out so much HP,
and Rajro just can't help but deal with it.
Jerky looks on from afar, and Team Liquid's a little sweep it through, unbelievable offense.
No tongue left, but I think you're still gonna take it every time we've seen these maps coming
from Team Liquid Citadel, they pushed it all the distance.
And that was Navi making the first move, right?
The Strangler present to try to isolate energy.
And this is why Magneto has become such a prevalent,
like, first or second protector,
the case of Team Liquid Citadel.
Those ball walks, those shields,
saving from death sentences,
it feels like either from the Strangler
present it went on against Energy or Vesqua,
trying to get the slam dunk on with Rijaro saying,
no, not this time.
Now here though, this is where the last ban is concerning, they got rid of that storm, which would have been most useful in breaking the spawn all the people that could see it didn't even need it.
They broke that first hold, so quickly right, and that means that now you can have the camber in so many of these competitions as well, if you want on Team Liquid Synodem.
The elimination is very much leading towards Liquid Synodem, final hits for Energy 16, but I want to highlight Nero, 22 and 1.
In that Yggdrasil map that they did win earlier, Nero only died once, and it's looking the same here, like he's just incredibly good at staying alive and making sure that that main strategist is able to output that healing, gives a little bit more freedom for Cooper to get aggressive if the gambit's available, which it is.
He wants to go for the rocket, obviously, on the defense to just make sure that you have the recall beacon, and now he knows the kind of compositions that are coming into place.
In jerky, having the storm wasn't available for Liquid Sysdell on their attack, it's been working against the Penny Ultron.
Yeah, that's been very useful against the Penny Ultron, usually used in tandem with the Punisher, we're not saying it this time.
Just gonna be terror actually, see if we can get a little bit more involved.
Already some big cooldowns used in the end, the damage piece is gonna put everybody on Navi in a poised position to force back Liquid Sysdell.
But Bulwark's used up from Rajara just from all of this trash damage that's thrown their way on the defense.
Now a couple of mines take out fake, but he's very good with placing those and Navi are already back to the drawing board.
And it's also like fake, right? It's rocky. He's got really good mobility to get out of those situations, but it's fake going down twice.
Like we sort of mentioned, it's the same sort of role for Nero.
He can't be losing out on one of those players, but at the very least it means that Riko Beacon's not going to be used upon the attack, but the attack hasn't really gone anywhere.
And she has so much staying power as well, using that solid team up from the end.
The Klamon go away until you destroy him, Olly.
Placed themselves in front of this point.
Harris got such a safe position.
Juggies moved over onto a Wolverine.
This was ground-thrilled in a perfect force physics.
Nero, it just being absolutely sublime.
The champion that America's needed on The Invisible Woman.
It's just having the extra little bit of peel to work
when we saw so much Wolverine in play yesterday,
seen FMC.
I'll play it a little bit today.
It's an obviously crazy kitty.
Just to find picks, because with these compositions,
eliminations are hard to come by.
Okay, Camber never falls, declares quick.
The speed lead is going to be thinking in the other direction.
Polly goes down, but Polly comes back.
It's a side cool that's continued to roll,
but Team Liquid's sitting it out.
Well, Nero finally gets fouled,
and Terra says, I am done here!
I will clear the pub by hook or by level one crook.
I'm actually able to get things going,
but Ultimate's dedicated pretty hard there,
rolling fun to crack its impact.
Energy actually going for a very early portal play, so we might not have that much time to wait for now V
They want to try and clear up that distance, but might need to run right back to the point
Then if he's taking this fight.
Fast stand ready to go already, jerky has used their team up and now we're gonna try and run the down poly
Extra means to try and follow them through as they move over to watch the site!
Poly's down and next up's gonna be the big old wizard!
You can see the key that came on through the triage, good from Team Liquid so that it comes so clean
But Vespa's in the middle of all these players.
Can you possibly try and escape?
Energy looks above it, as Guajra crushes down onto Cooper.
Pest control has arrived, and he's a finish-mounted.
And it all starts with like Jerky there,
the portal play-up on the high ground,
immediately coming out as Vespa with a side seduction
to just dive onto their opponents.
And Jerky, he just dives back to wait and see
if he can get a little bit of that extra help and setup.
But Vespa now leaping in on Angel and see if he can stall.
Oh, my goodness, so much HP has already gone,
but Polly's managed to make it over on to the point that's why it gets resurrected.
Polly is so deep as usual, so I just hope for the additional HP,
but Jerky just says, oh, that's going to be more damage for me, bro.
Navi just played with slow.
The Wolverine has absolutely earned it.
Top dollar here for Navi.
Vera back means a rush hour,
oh, gives the early elimination against her,
but he's going to be back to the very, very quickly.
He's looking to sit down and sustain himself.
That's why Grabs great counter-pull coming through from the side of Vera,
going down to bring out the Axis of Eiko,
Level 1 Crux is now or never until it's time to raise the royal state.
Time to raise the royal flush.
You'll look towards the Angela.
The speedlies fall down on the other side.
Level 1 Crux, the shades of Thanos.
I ain't no do it myself!
And Terra's gonna be the last one to come on through.
The triple KO.
The casualties mount.
The stagger is brutal.
And Navi goes to second.
Every time we highlight Terra being in these winning moments for Navi,
there's always a little bit of a flush with the way that he plays.
the highlight reel just keeps adding on to our import from the Americas to EMEA.
But that was also the Royal Flush dedicated from Crook,
and there was no answer for Team Liquid City at this point, the fight is still going on.
and Terran's ready to punish them. Not gonna get reset upon year after energy bought in their own crack in impact and Vesua is skating though.
The cart's in the way, so do the rest of Navey. The body box is strong, but so too is the contest.
The cart won't be moving, but the body's piled up.
And with all of the stuff happening in that fight, the chaos, Croc is 80% of having another Royal Flush.
He's just so involved in these engagements.
engagement. Yarn Amplifier as well to just add a bit more damage, cruise to Jerky, poised,
speedily is gonna move over to the Black Cat, see if he can shut down stuff and dive backline.
Last stand from Jerky. It's Dabble, Bumble, great stuff from Veswa, quick grab, that's
gonna be the regenerative feeling, fancy knees to get back to because with Yarn Amplifier,
extra damage Veswa, bleeding through a victim, it's gonna settle for the sea, but the rest
of Nabi is still on in here, Rajarokos himself, trying to follow up the strategies he wants
Krupp is so bad he gets him too!
Thess was gone down and that was just down to the drakes to try and make something work
but they don't have the hope and they don't have the prowess.
Nathie moves to last.
And Liquid Citadel were trying to just set up in that fight speedily on the Black Cat.
Went for the flank and Krupp was like,
hello son, I am sending you back to spawn.
I'll see you again in about 30 seconds time.
Energy's gone for another port, we'll play force in the fight
since I watch it swim, gaming all over again.
Well, in these narrow corridors, that's where Team Liquid Citadel want to be
with their double shields.
The first grab goes awy, Jerky still goes on end, does the extra damage.
Yes, Isolator temporarily grabbed on the other side,
there's no way to go, what beautiful control of the Wolverine.
They tugged on the leash, and indeed they dragged him down.
Rajro with the self-bubble looks towards Coop,
pause to find that backliner, and trust me, he's gonna start to cook.
It would appear that Terri's willing to join them,
there's too many cooks in the kitchen, but each of them has a Michelin star
when it comes to cooking the Americas.
One after the other, these ultimates being swung in from Na'Vi.
The haymakers are slapping Team Liquid around, but somehow Liquid sit down.
The spawns have flipped their plane towards the attacking side.
A Coupe against Core, out from Terra.
That is just pot Rook with these grabs.
It's a good stall of time though.
And they've forced so many resources out from Na'Vi.
Three ultimates expanded in that fight alone.
You got last stands, like Rook has it built up.
The Royal push in the same pace that he was able to before.
But trust me, moving away from the strange group
even wanted to go up against Tim Lueckensitzfeld and they didn't have the
cleanse in there from the gambit now going on to the thing to really make
this a battle in the streets of New York. This is the final defensive bashing
for the Citadel. Every brick blessed by the plug of Martyrs, hard earned and hard fought for jerky.
Looking for a victim, all they can find is the CC immune emma, boss right now,
as they slash away and fate tries to rescue them with the Cosmic Yarn
amplifier. The extra damage from this one means that they moved the Rikosmic Yarn rather quickly
But can the healing be delivered with a pier at the near-o'-cooper and speedily can combine to make that work?
But now an isolation once again the vessel with doubles down
They didn't have the second bit of pocketing
Terror is starting to make a move and tracking impact slows down terror
And energy's in on the chase with a lot of stern
Ducking into a corner, picking up a health pack
There will be no resets this day
And they've run out of energy
It's the dead guy here taking a bit of believe and he can't
Unbelievable stuff from Roger O
Feedly is just being in the back pocket of Magneto,
Richarrow, but it goes on.
Pluggering time comes through, but trust me, but it's interrupted.
He's not able to get too much BTRM.
He's not going to match for Vespa, but he's on the point to try and stall.
There's 20 seconds left for Liquid,
so what's this going on?
Prepare for the guard shots.
The Apex Predator is on the field to be used,
and it was born raised to Prince.
A taste for Bloods, and he's going to be eating well.
This is going to be an additional round.
Surely, as Nero's going to be the last trade of defense.
and see Liquid Citadel have to do this one again!
Liquid Citadel having to go first.
It's only a seven-second difference,
but it means that we've seen it plenty of times.
No matter what region you're from,
Midtown Overtimes can bring cinematic masterpieces.
And now the Navi defending first again.
Rejaro has been obscene, but trust me, having 27 final hits.
Even in the moments of jerky, he's been absolutely feasting and farming on the likes of Wolverine.
Terra wants to be the winner, the leader, the MVP, the poster child of Marvel Rivals Esports,
and he's doing it against the best team from his own region.
Long told of him, the tale was right of Terra being the best player in the world,
but never did he have a proper crown.
A missed mid-season,
missed championship with hundreds of years as well.
They couldn't find the accolades they deserved,
but now they're right on the edge of it.
And on the other side, you've got Polly
that was brought in from Citadel's rebuild from the EMEA team
to a American superstar with the help of Liquid
and a couple of players from the old Envy and Flyquest.
He's been pretty much stuck in the same character.
It's been the whole game time for Team Liquid Citadel.
It doesn't quite work here.
They've got another best of five and potentially another best of seven
to follow to see if they can work it out.
Anyone was going to stop Nardi.
It was always going to be this team, Team Liquid Citadel.
Number one in the Americas.
Do they know about Turkey's approach to quick grab and poly?
All they can do is watch as they have so little control.
Nardi are reading it so well.
They know all of the tricks of the trade.
Rijara just plants himself firmly onto the point itself.
It means that pretty much half of the time that was allocated is going to be used up from Liquid Citadel.
They need to find ways to work.
If there's any push for him, Paulie moving away from the penny for the first time onto the thing.
Speedly, that means that no more ultran can't get the team up, not worth playing.
Instead moves over onto a Wolverine.
He's going to take Madison to his own hands.
Agency at plenty for the Wolverine jerker.
He's just going to patrol along the high ground.
Speedly's been seen on the approach.
They've already popped their team up.
Misses the lead though.
Raja with the parry on the self level.
The window of time, deep breaths, the Liquid sits down, a spot by Metes is not going to be enough,
an energy going down, the beer back leaves it's going to be used up early.
Ultimates about to come online as Jerky's trying to get involved and trying to get a pick.
Ferris almost got the apex predator already, just doing so much damage in all of these battles,
but trust me, it's going to be the first one there with the strangling prison.
Looking towards the back, they want Nero real bad, but for now, Team Liquid's a little holding strong,
but they've lost Nero in the back! Rajro's going to get done! It's always Rajro!
No man, trust me, there's a way to win, the clobbering time is real
Two doors put on the floor as Polly says, never mind, my adopted region
I'll keep you safe, I'll keep you here, I'll keep the dream alive
But fate puts it into his own hands, if it's little, we're cool and they're good
Knocks out the monster that is Ben Grimm, speedily's next on up, takes one away
Vest was arrived on the dead end, but fate's brought up because we go on amplifying
Rajro's already teleported back, and it's even next to go, nearer brought up to play!
But there's nothing to be done. They're not on the car, Ryan.
45 metres, pretty much a 20-minute trip in New York,
if you're sort of taxiing around.
Might not be enough in the end for Na'Vi.
The line was drawn for them,
and it's just a little bit extra.
A push through, and you find yourself in that Grand Finals,
the best of seven later, and Team Liquid Citadel
sent through the absolute gauntlet that is going to be rad,
rather is hungry for a revenge matchup in a full-blossomed BO5 and then potentially a
matchup against these guys again later on. Terra is 60 and 9, which is more than double the
eliminations of anybody like the main player being energy on the other side. He is involved
so to raise the walls, draw up the drawbridge, they're called Citadel for a reason. Odysseus
and that GMM non-stand at the gates of Troy. The Citadel must stand.
And for Navi, it's a very similar call of just push on through, break their ranks as
Liquid Citadel are going to be screaming, hold, one minute and seven seconds, it's doable,
but there has to be some big moments. Rajaro's been involved in there and of all of the main
notes of this midtown. Let's see if there's going to be any Broadway performances from
Liquid.
Well, there will be a funeral dirge for America's last hope. Looking towards the sky, Rajarov
is down on the ground, Vanity Gretty always stuck in, where he's supposed to be. Polly's
just taking so much poke to begin with, but she's going to build up her strategy stones.
Going round the back, the Wolverines ready to play, but Polly is solid and they would
appear in a Team Liquid Citadel. They're just going to be able to deal with this one as trust
me is over extended.
8 meters already, that's gonna be the difference. This is fine margins of 55 seconds to hold.
Navi have got the bodies onto the objective and Liquid Citadel, reserved, patient play.
Terra almost taken down by the arrayed fire of Team Liquid Citadel, but they can't disengage.
They have no more Mulligans, they have no more Meisters to give.
Polly's been taken down by Terra, instantly revived by the BRB. The battle recall beacons, the battle keeps on going.
Out comes the extra damage reduction from jerky, but the vulnerability that Polly gave is too much to try and bear right now.
A wrap around the outside, now they try and control the map.
Holding on as overtime is about to hit, but energy's found that first pick up to jerky that's been consistently involved and near us built up an invisible boundary.
Rolling for your foot to be used.
Everything on the table right now, trust me, you're sure to recover, but energy's parried it with the self-bubble right now.
That's what getting involved. VapxRetta's around the outside.
All the heels have basically gone for the team Liquid Citadel.
And I ask you, Americans, are these your kicks? Are these your guards?
Because Nathus and Cherie are born to win.
And they remember who they are.
The Superteam takes a loss in an upperclocking final again,
but on the biggest stage against the biggest squad.
Like we mentioned, Terra, the Panache at the end, always in these moments,
but MVPs are plenty jericky, finally unleashed as the real flex,
with the X-Factor right at the end of it,
but the front line of Ajaro, and trust me, standing tall against the Citadel.
What an unbelievable story for Navi.
Twice in a row, perhaps this team could claim the mid-season championship.
But for the first time through the upper bracket itself,
They used to doing it when it was rather the mid-season finals
It was through the Royal road that rather taking in the losers bracket
And it was down there when they were knocked down by Virtus.pro at the grand finals
But here they have a window
They have a chance and a bit of time to hold on here and see exactly if it's going to be an EMEA matchup
Or whether that rematch that we just saw here is going to be a full best of seven against Team Liquid
The grand finals are waiting. The trophy is
is awaiting. And now for Team Liquid Citadel, if they want to be the ones to hoist that
trophy at the end of the day, they need to play three series in a row. They need to go
and defeat Rad, come back and have revenge against Nabi in a best of seven run.
Five maps and then seven. And I mean, there's been a lot of these like long days, but Rad
have been pretty much at the center of all of them. So they're going to be a little bit
cold in comparison to some of the games that we've seen being set up watching these games
that just sort of let in the vibes, take them in the server because even like Dennis, their coach was saying,
they've been playing above and beyond what he's ever seen from these guys even when they were unsigned.
You've got the unsigned players that finally got a roster of Rad coming up against this super team of
team Liquid Citadel that had an idea on how to play this, didn't quite work, but I really want to see
what Navi have to say as we go over to the stage to hear what they want to go through.
Ladies and gentlemen, for the third time in the quarter team, making it to the grand finals,
Give it up for Navi and Tara for the first Grand Finals of his career.
Tara, I've been watching you now for a very long time,
all the way back into the early days.
How does it feel, first of all, making your first Grand Finals?
I mean, this is phenomenal.
I think I'm one of the players that put in the most work,
and I put in way more work,
because originally when I came to Navi,
I said I wasn't going to take the responsibility that I had on thieves,
which was due most of the stuff,
but now the whole team has put their trust into me.
and the band phase and I'm back to how I was before into actually max passion into the game.
Like Thanos inevitable. I mean it's gonna happen either way and tell me because I'm watching and
it looks like you are about to drop the map on y'all's push and then you just lock in and I've
seen this I've watched this I've casted this over and over it's Terra the terrifying what is going
through your head in these emotions at doing this time to just lock in and be Terra. I mean
You have to kind of read the situation.
We talked about swaps and stuff like that, but it didn't happen.
So we can't when we're going down with 10 seconds on the clock,
you kind of have to make a hero play and see what the win con is.
And that was they're going to have a rocket all coming up.
So you just I just continue to mark the rocket and I sold to them.
Not just one us the whole game because that's what we needed.
Awesome. And I got asked, listen, there's a lot of personality on your team.
This is a new team for you.
Obviously, we've seen some great up and down stories through it.
Walk me through the team, the journey you going over there.
I know the crowd wants to hear it.
I mean, it was a it was a rocky journey. It's been a rocky journey the whole time
We always every team this team especially especially goes through ups and downs hard ships and fellowships
But every time we know what all we want to do is win all we want to do is we lift that trophy
And beautifully said again, viewers of the world here in LA, give it up for Terra and
Navi.
We'll be seeing them again.
They will return for the Grand Finals.
Big congratulations, Desk.
Break it down.
Wow, congrats.
Third in a row for Navi, but first in a row for Terra, a lot of firsts today.
We have the one in 26 and one and now the first grand finals for Tara and boy howdy do
they deserve it.
Yeah, I mean I'm trying to think through what brought them there so I was looking at the
bands and locks but to be honest you've just got to say Tara with 33 finals might be the
most I have actually ever seen here in the pro scene of Marvel Rivals Ignite has been.
was just disgusting Terra and he's 66 and 9 for everyone to understand yeah so my
personal opinion they love the Mac they love the rocket let's try to maybe ban
that if I was TLC maybe that would help you get another map I mean it's so
interesting to talk about that too right first map seven finals second map four
finals from Terra and it felt like they were just struggling to find the
momentum for this team but as he talks about the lock-in was huge from them but
Rhajaro also doing a great job trust me the flexibility as a vanguard going
from the Grute to even the Penny Mirror that we saw on Shin Shibuya, and then eventually
locking in on Emma initially for that first domination and map win. I just love the look
of this team, but I gotta give a big shout out of course to Jerky, the flex god Wolverine,
that's the best Wolby senior entire event. Where's the spin? There's an argument, Crazy
Kitty will be yelling at you from the audience. Jerky's at the grand final, and Crazy Kitty
is it yet, but
Dobby that Roth chip it almost feels like it's completely figured out. Yeah, it's it's so consistent
I mean, it's mag low key Adam Mantis and then the one-time storm
But I'll still a flyer on that outside of that it is mag low key Adam Mantis
Nothing else ever and then they lock storm naggin rocket. It is the same exact story every time I
Think you might have to disrupt it whereas CLC they got had Mantis gambit all-time rocket low key Adam storm
They were trying to figure out the solution. They didn't need to change a thing on the side of Na'Vi.
But, whereas on the side of TLC, they're not out yet.
Team Lippincenzo go down to that lower bracket.
And we can talk about that after a little bit as well, but we did see Polly off that
Pettie later on in those drafts, in those games.
Yeah, just kind of realizing that the Penny wasn't getting as much value as they'd like,
as you could even see the highlights here with Jerky just marking them the entire time.
I felt like that was the answer that was missing for Na'Vi, someone to deal with Polly.
The storm was the answer against Verde's pro, who had been practiced with more of a passive penny player, well, Polly's anything but passive.
There is still a journey for both these teams, the grand finals. It is now time for Narvik to sit down and have a little break, or they said they're working hard as they might just go straight back to grinding, straight back to screaming at this point just to try and make sure that they are warmed up.
up Team Liquid Sip-Stell, they now have to go for a rematch. Rad waits for them in that lower bracket,
but the fact is Team Liquid Sip-Stell, they just had such a good series versus Navi. Are you a little worried for Rad shit?
Yeah, I think TLC looked really good under Rad, so I'm, you know, I would expect to see that again, but then again, the way this tradition is going,
who knows, Rad is just on a generational run, just a storied aura at this point.
Yeah, I mean, Rad, we've seen the highs and lows from them as well, right?
Did really good in the pre-season, had some struggles during stage one,
especially with Dive not being as prevalent in those playoffs,
and a lower performance than they would like at the start,
and then they're able to go through that lower bracket.
It seems the lower bracket is their domain.
Just the old grads in general, not even just the Dive.
Yeah, that's not true.
We'll tell it once again.
We've told the story multiple times.
last year in the season finals, this NAVI roster was under the RAD organization with a couple changes to the roster in terms of the
Jaws pool, but they came through the lower bracket and the play-ins in order to make it to the lower bracket finals and the Grand Finals and MRC in order to qualify for the Grand Finals and then won those Grand Finals.
And now the second round has the opportunity to do it for starting it their way on the team that have done it before
Navi sit of the Grand Finals to consider the lower bracket for the last hope for the America's chip
I mean looking at these stat lines here. We talked about 66 and 9 there for Terra 33
Finals and one of the things I thought was interesting that you brought up energy went down 20 times and had 19
So actually fell more than the 19 finals. There was some very good in precise targeting from Terra will be the MVP of this match
So much of that is due to like you said Terra while energy had some incredible trades
We even sort of get the best off Terra so many times. We're gonna mention it
35 at four some of those final hits they were 33 and 9 at one point. It's just
Darn the number what I've noticed too throughout this event is it feels like it's not just a solo duelist that
It has to be relied upon for the wins. It has to be both the flex duelist and the main duelist as well
Tara had to rely on jerky a couple of times when we saw him on the Elsa and jerky on the Bucky
Then we saw the swaps happen for the Wolverine
He locked in the Bucky himself and that synergy from this duo seemed to be a little bit stronger than what we saw from team liquid
Siddle where speedery was kind of just stuck in that triple strategies roll
But now they have to see if they adjusted ship you mentioned you might want to see TLC
and maybe white without those rafting sides.
Do you think that's going to be instrumental against Rad?
Yeah, I think so.
I think we're going to see more of that dive
sub coming against Rad.
And I think it's matched back.
Well, the funny thing is it was matched back prior
by Speedery, who was running the cap back.
And then eventually, it actually led to them
banning out the cap because they didn't think
they were going to win that back and forth.
So curious to see if they've learned from that
and just going to skip right past that part, back
to where they're finding success.
But I do want to see some variance in their builds.
It seems like they're just running this Ultron
So consistently and maybe it works against this company if you're gonna make it to that grand final you need to find something else
I think a big problem that we saw even with furthest pro is they tried to push the penny composition to our and we saw that again here
With team liquid Citadel focusing so much on that triple strat is playing a penny every single map and
When it gets down to the wires
You've got to be flexible enough to adapt and we didn't quite see that unfortunately for team liquid Citadel
So it was a tough goal of it for them
But hey, they can still bounce back in the lowers and Rad would be a perfect warm-up if they do get that win to move on against Navi
But here's the important question. We talk we're talking as if it's coming down to that lower bracket
We're talking about how much they can really do against each other
But can either of them oh man gets this Darby's alone question
I feel like it's it's tough because like Rad historically has struggled against this Navi roster
They've done decent on some of the domination maps, but as we've seen throughout stage one
They've only dropped a team heretics and vertus pro rat has not gotten a win against now be so I think maybe with the momentum
There's potential, but if any team has the best chance to think it's team liquid Citadel
Yeah, I mean I fully agree with that, but I do think it's any given day with these teams
Yeah, I think it's all about who shows up in that moment
You'll see look pretty good there
They struggled obviously towards the end and I feel like they just lost momentum
But that being said, it's just still a rock-paper-scissors. I feel like yeah with these teams
What about you said that Rad have never taken a series versus Narvee, but they also have never been on a land stage before
They've never made it out of a land play in stage before
They've never made it all the way to a lower bracket finals on land before
This is an event of verse for so many of these teams
And it could be that redemption on the Rad, but Liquid Sevadal really are sitting in their way
and it's high tension, it's high stress, it's high pressure.
I am a little worried for all of these teams with Navi sitting just looming over them, preparing,
and now they get to study the survival match for these teams.
So what we're going to do is we're going to head to a break.
And when we come back, it will be one survival, and two ascension.
Who will meet Navi in the grand finals? Will it be Rad or will it be Liquid Citadel?
We will find out after this.
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Welcome back to the mid-season finals, and we are one series away from finding out our
second team to join us in the grand finals.
There is one more America's team left, one more home ground here.
left one more home ground hero, but they still have another team to fight through.
There is too much pressure and there are two teams ready to fight for that grand final spot.
So let's waste no time and start by introducing Hailing from EMEA, from MRC to the final stage
It's their journey, but they just have to win one more.
Welcome, Rad!
Leading the charge and standing tall on vanguards,
Ducky and Lugia Goats.
Causing chaos and finding chaos on Jules' crazy,
kitty and smash n'ez.
and the ones keeping the team together and breaking enemies apart on strategists.
It's Bernigo and Marsh here at Farad!
And the last standing bastion of the Americas,
the American champions looking to get the rubback versus Darby.
Give it up for Team Liquid Citadel!
Breaking lines and pushing dives on the back guards, it's Polly and Vesla.
With laser focus and devastating efficiency of the duelists, it's energy and speedery.
And in the back line, always ready and poised to strike both offense and defense on the
the strategist, Nero and Cooper.
Let's get Polly and let's get Ducky over to the centre of the stage four, be pleased to say hi.
Come on forward, hello.
A familiar sight for the two of you. I'm going to start off with Ducky.
duckie. You were knocked down to the lower bracket by Team Liquid Cetadel, but you also
were knocked down to the lower bracket in the planes by 100 Thieves, and they're gone
at your hands. Is this going to be the same?
I think it'll be the same.
Things it'll be the same. Harley, you've been sent down to the lower bracket. You found
yourself in similar situations before, and now you're playing against someone you played
forgets for almost the entirety of last year. Are you prepared to send Brad home?
Yeah, of course, whatever.
It's whatever he says, Ducky. This is your first time getting this far or even
two an international land for Marvel rivals. I'm gonna ask you a similar
question. Are you truly ready to send Team Liquid Citadel home in front of a
home crowd and we should have you should have beat them before and this time I
feel really confident we're gonna beat them Holly I'm gonna ask you this
question finish the sentence for me rad are not gonna not I'm gonna widen it out
a little bit for you here, Duckie. America as a region is.
Fake.
We're going to have some fighting talk here.
Starting with you, Polly.
What words do you have for Rad before we head into this series?
We like having fun.
And what words do you have for TLC?
That's a lot to all of you.
We started with some fighting talk, but we had nice.
We love to hear it. We'll let you go. Get set up as we head over to our casters for this series. It's going to be cozy and gaskin
Thank you so much. That's a duck. Yeah, I'm standing right here fake
I mean gaskin what is going on here? I mean, I can tell you one thing
I'm so excited for this rematch excited to bring it in with you today because it was an electrifying match that we saw yesterday with
Them you expect more of the same? I think Rad would have learned a lot watching that series as well
You think about the preparation they would have been able to have walks. They were offstage
I think they're gonna come in hot here right they are the giant killers at the moment
They've been able to take down VP they take down swamp gaming
Maybe see I'll see to be next that's the Cinderella story versus that ticking clock
That is what we think DLC trying to go to that grand finals, but to break it all down
We're gonna be heading on over to the desk to see what's in store
Thank you so much cozy. We have a new faces here with leg day and Ryan
It's an all EMEA crew but we all live in America
So I think it's kind of apt that we're the ones to break this all down Ryan
I mean we saw and you guys saw first hand how things went with Team Liquid sale
But rad they have been the underdogs before and they're here yet again
They're really enjoying slaying some giants
I think this event and I think when it comes to Team Liquid sit still two massive organizations
Burgeon together that is pretty much the biggest giant the biggest bounty that you could claim it and it's a half a million dollar prize
the game. They're going to
have to play the game. They're
going to have to play the
baseball 300 K of it is today,
so it is like making sure that
you get the main share of that
rides feel good about this
overall. They're not even
really screaming at the moment.
They're just sort of letting
the vibes take them on the
stage. Well, looking ahead to
this matchup team liquid
Citadel. It's rough because
they're going to have to play
the majority of the matches
today. If they move it through
here like day three in a row,
Well, they just have to show how much they want it.
Well, that's the only thing they can do.
They are looking at a potential 16 map date.
They are already getting four out of a way.
This could go to five, and then the finals could go to seven.
But if they want to walk away with a lion share of half a million dollars,
they have to want it that much.
They need absolutely no inch of tiredness to take over.
Well, we talked about the match that we saw before
between RAD and Team Liquid Citadel in the earlier bracket stages.
And now seeing it again, Domination, they were 26-0 before we saw Navi take them down on this very map.
What can RAD learn from that matchup we just saw and make sure that they come out strong at this time, Ryan?
RAD can learn to win on this map because it hasn't been a good one for them.
It's pretty much been free losses in the road to VP and Team Liquid Citadel earlier this event,
but even VP in the playoffs when they were down blue gear.
Sure, like we have just seen Na'Vi be able to beat Team Liquid
since they're on this very map only a couple of hours ago,
but it was a different style.
I think the biggest thing for me is if Riot wants to solve copy,
the idea is that Na'Vi will run in to try and beat Ultron Penny,
whether they'd even let it go through draft kind of thing,
or realistically whether they feel good enough to actually take it on head on.
And the question is like, are they going to look at what Na'Vi didn't think,
oh, it's been solved, we can copy that composition,
Or are they thinking, okay, maybe Navi didn't solve it,
maybe Navi were just mechanically better
and able to outplay on the day.
So for here, there's gonna be a lot of onus on Coach Dennis
to not only have his own plan,
but to have really factored in the information
that's been garnered from Navi's previous victory.
And that's the big thing, right?
Preparation is key.
And we saw how well it worked against Swap Gaming,
another America's team in the lower bracket.
Last time for Rad, who had all the preparation
that they needed.
Going into this one, we need a bit of a replication for that.
Who are the keys to victory here, Ryan, from this Red Roster?
MASH, for sure.
Like, I think his ability on Gambit has looked solid.
Sure, there's a couple of mushy MASH ultimates, I think,
for some of the Royal Flushes.
But I think the way that he's able to build it up,
how aggressive he is, him going toe-to-toe with Cooper,
if there is that kind of Gambit head-to-head,
is want to watch because both of them can throw hands
as and when they need to.
They're not just your typical, like, backline strategists.
I'm going to heal everybody. I don't...
I'm a pacifist. I don't like fighting.
Well, for these guys, we'll start fighting on stage if you ask them to.
I swear, like, clogging time for both of them.
But it's like, whether Rad can match up head to head,
and honestly, I think the team that could sit there,
I don't know if you'd, like, agree like they, it's just like,
how phased are you actually after you've lost this series?
Were you so expected, dude,
you have the temperament to be able to bounce back straight away?
Losing's a new thing for this team.
That's true. I'm not sure how good they are at taking the enshrine.
I mean, we've seen them lose in an upper bracket final before against Swamp Gaming,
and they were able to come back and win in the pre-season.
So Team Liquid Citadel, it's been a while.
They'll have to brush off the history books
and figure out exactly how they came back that time.
But the big thing here for me is just locking in, right?
You can't look too far back into the past
about that series.
It's not that you've got to focus on the one
that you have here and now.
And going right back to you, like, on this one,
I mean, who do we really need to step up big
for this Team Liquid Citadel team
to get those spirits back up?
Well, like, energy's had a great series for us far,
but they get a touch out completed by Jerky and Terra.
But honestly, what I want to see is Vespa giving the tools
to be the hyper carry that is supposed to be on this team.
We saw the switch over towards the Magneto Protect
coming through from Liquid Citadel.
But do we need to put that earlier in their draft
or else it's going to be threatened by Rad and...
What? Oh, boy.
Yeah, people, for those viewers at home,
you are currently seeing Rad actually first banner Ultron
So the Mantis, for the first time in this event, is open to play if Team Liquid's Citadel want to protect it.
Dennis is cooking so hard. Dennis is cooking so hard. What is this?
He's cooking without the pan. The stove's not even on.
He's just got a raw pasta on the stove.
Using the Los Angeles Heat probably to cut some eggs or something of that sort.
But yeah, there's going to be the Mantis that first protect for the first time ever in the mid-season finals.
And this is uncharted territory, but for Team Liquid's Citadel here like day, this is a win-con for them.
They love triple strap. I mean, yeah, they are they are triple strap merchants. We found out during the last series and
Mantis can exist in that triple strap and you've got the Adam as well
So you look at it potentially a lot of resurrection power too
But honestly when's the last time that liquid Citadel would have scrimmed with a mantis proudly forever
That's the key one right because it's been so much of the game public team liquid Citadel
Even though it wasn't necessarily working we go to the mantis and the Adam
So if you were sort of seeing the limits put onto Team Liquid Citadel's triple strategies competition
They're wide open with both Mantis and Adam available Loki had to be banned out early and with black cat also been banned out crazy
Kid is being hit they want to try and protect their devil
So they have something to work with the Luna snow bands that they don't have the snowflake for the daredevil there as well before
We head to the casters here and either quick prediction one word for me to you. Sorry with leg day
the team, but it's not a
team. It's not a team. It's
a. Rad. Bozy. Team liquid to
tell Don't usually lose on
domination, but you never know.
It could be two for two. And it
be second time the charm here
for Rad e sports. The lower
bracket helpfuls Oral America's
last hope. Take it forward to
victory into the Grand Files.
Take it away, casters. Thank
you so much. I mean, what 25
and one in domination. It is the
MRC team versus the dream team.
I mean, the loss like this gas
skin. It would be in comparison
And what is even more insane is we're gonna first mantis. It is David versus Goliath
But they've already taken down two giants and yes, let's address the elephant in the room
We're gonna see mantis in pro play here in LA for the first time all tournament and I said this on day one
Someone should just give it to another team and see what they do with it
They're gonna be under practice. It's underutilized
Are they gonna be able to take full effect of what seems to be the best hero in the game right now?
because it's been banned out completely all tournament long.
And with ulti on dodge, Peter's gonna have to rise up to the call again.
Huge matchup, speedery versus kit.
We have group versus mash, smash versus energy.
Look out, here we go.
One of these teams finding their way and it all starts here at the Hellfire Galvan.
As we see the top end of the map.
We could look back at RAD just being an absolute genius
when it comes to this lock and ban phase.
Or we could be laughing in our boots, depending on what happens here.
Absolutely love the smash pick here on Widow right away to go ahead
and try to get a little bit more of that punchback poke game.
Energy's gonna have a big assignment there either way the damage boost is gonna clip up for everything he needs and hero finds the first hit
Then he can tell the claim aimer crazy kitty the first up. It's getting always a good person to take out
It just protects your backline and now it's gonna be a six versus five in this next engagement
And they should and will take control of this first point as right just back away
But energy find smash and that is always the best pick as well. They're gonna look like in staggers, right?
I mean you have such great ult charge as well doing that fire
I mean, look at this, Roddy, halfway through these ults of 12% his climbing energy is going to be on that hunt constantly to rise up to the call.
Speedy looked for him to be close to fuel up all that damage.
I'm curious to see how TLC reacts to drop into the lower bracket here and energy in particular.
He was unbelievable in that upper final and now a chance to try and prove himself once more and regain that chance to go back into it in the grand fund.
We can best use it in these walls to help the team climb up to the top, get that Hydra that's so important.
As we know, Mast can go in and get the Q down, and give the evil Mids of 2 Rags, and they take use of it.
Now it's crazy getting dead trying to dive, for the lawyer, even though Blight is lethal, but Speedyry can be the first to find the left on duck.
And his matches doesn't look so bad so far.
Smash though has been such an important part.
On that window, Magneto will pop the METRM.
Smash gets the follow up as well, and now TLC, they drop off, but they have got a trade.
Yeah, great trade there. Cooper using that ult to keep him alive as much as possible.
Crazy Kitty is going to be that in-factor, Luria getting a piece in the future as well,
but Nero with the Katoom comes back, finds Lugia, and just like that,
it's looking like TLC is holding strong, going to go ahead and throw up the invisible boundary
up in the air, going for the 3-pointer, slams down!
Fights Crazy Kitty!
Crazy Kitty done, eliminated off the server temporarily.
Nero has carving revival as well, bear in mind they are not going to need to use it so far.
70% now for TLC.
Remember, these two teams did play here on Krakowa to start a series in the upper bracket.
It was TLC who won this one quite comfortably against Ratt.
Why did a dream team? We've only seen them really lose twice, right?
So what do they play like when they lose? Well, we'll get a little bit of a picture here for sure.
A lot of ulting Qs are going to be ready. Look out to the group.
Hog from Ves, and if you also have that Glarjot.
There's Senefra's success on the offense.
Here are going to have the defense of the board again.
There's the Glarjot.
Does it come out? It's trying to find, but it's blind.
It comes up empty.
Comes out empty. Doesn't find anything, but it is still zoning.
You can have to see something from the window here.
Maybe you can pull off something special.
Go for the No Scope! Somehow, some way!
Get the KO onto Energy, but elsewhere,
Citadel are still finding KO's in their face.
Absolutely disgusting.
We've seen Smash really evolve in the play on the window.
Ducky critical by 2, that's giving 3 for Crazy Kitty.
99% is on the ticker, but it's going to be Rad.
But it's looking to turn the point their way.
Rad will just be able to turn this, you would think.
Unless there's some insane stall and a portal,
but I think Liquid Citadel will be happy to walk this one in.
They've got all the time in the world.
It's 99 to 0 finally rad take control, but it required a lot of effort to do so a lot of ultimates
We use as well and it took a big gamble there on the mantis and right now it's not looking like it's paying off either way
We're gonna see how much the liquid have to use to try to get this point back and make it there as we see plenty of 99%
Flits there will be another here as rad coming up into outside of mash here for Q department
Energy is dangerous enough
You give them a damage boost and suddenly you're going up against essentially two players on that elsa and now liquid
now are going to have that Karmic revival going into this next engagement as well.
Rather building up this Raging Royal Flush though, they wouldn't be aggressive if they could.
I'm sure they're well aware of that Karmic revival being in their hands.
So we often talk about Rapping, very aggressive but also patient at the same time,
not using anything that is not required to win the fight.
38% this thing is climbing quickly as best as can you guys.
The frontline there is a brutal, gonna try to get the connection,
finds one but Duncan get the trade on best, trade on trade, violence is boldly.
What's trading as well, board again coming up, this could be a tough fight for Rathawin
Azir is bringing the ball back to the Marvel Zombie.
That's the thing, so much was used there by Ryan.
Comet Revival now is going to bring back everyone from TLC.
They should comfortably regain this point,
and we're looking over towards Smash.
Get that portal down, but hopefully,
you can take a full 66 flight here.
You've got to be careful.
Yeah, but when you lose Smash, you lose a big part of that DPS, right?
So with that, it's going to be Smash getting the pick early on Nero.
That's a massive one at that.
Polly, once again, this is the big sign.
The first on the team to sign on the Dream Team.
Candy killer, big.
Goes into the waterfall.
How old Smash with the Speedy.
Smash taking out Speedery, Energy replies, but Koopa's gone down as well,
and Ranna somehow keeping this in their favor, but Liquid are throwing everything at them to try and contest it.
The Glotchogs comes out from Energy, and he just is a one-man army right now.
Everybody wants a piece of the pie, Energy now hunting out without the Q,
gonna find Luka in the back, time is ticking down, slowly that overtime is dwindling.
Behold, once again, is fading for Rad to get this Perso.
Ducky the last hope, time's gone, it's going to Liquid Citadel.
So our first glimpse of a Mantis, didn't look so bad, if I'm completely honest.
They looked very comfortable having the Mantis on their side and as I said,
it just gave them such an advantage with that damage boost on speed,
both speedy of course, playing the Mantis, but over towards Energy, who looked different class.
Never mind like a Grand Master Ranker, a tier 2 team, when you give Mantis.
Energy, one of the best players in the world in the duelist department in accuracy.
That is definitely a decision that was made, but either way,
have to go ahead and make the bed with it. Eight finals for Energy. Six for Polly. I need to see Polly
have the game of his life again. First sign of this team to get it together. This is where the
anchor is. And Polly has just often been that hero player that everyone tries to target time and
time again, but now playing something a little bit more kind of there in the meta. You're playing
on Magneto. You're not playing on Cap. It's a very different playstyle, but Polly has really found
his own in this tournament. For Energy, he does pick up eight final hits in the end. And if it
It wasn't for Terra being a part of this tournament, by the way.
Energy for me would be the best player hands down that we've seen so far,
but Terra, we saw what we just saw in the upper bracket final.
Who's back and forth, right?
I feel like that match was played five more times.
Could have had different results.
Either way, those three final hits for Nero are massive ones at that.
Able to either hit and start off the fight 65 or cleaned up some of the finish.
Now, as the dates are opening,
what do you see here in the old department that's going to tell the story early?
I only want to kick us off, of course, on the side of Liquid City now,
But Crazy Kitty is building up that leather devil out to start us off as well.
And even though Kitty went down early in that initial phase,
all we need to see is an early pick from Crazy Kitty and it will change things so much in that phase.
Crazy Kitty is that snowball, if you will.
Smash is the one that pushes it down the hill.
Smash is able to go ahead and give the room for Crazy Kitty to work.
That's when Rafa becomes dangerous.
But this front line has gotten them to this point as well.
You need to see them lock in as energy taking a little bit of the off angle.
We're going to come back to the team and ask these teams to clash shortly.
I've seen who's patient, crazy kiddie way.
It's so long, I forgot what Manson's doing.
Sounds like at this point, we'll have to get the voice actor in the room.
And as now, Rad, are gonna be able to push up with Crazy Gizzy and let the devil out.
But are you able to connect with anything here?
Shbedary's the one who gets the opener on to smash.
That is what we expect to see once again, the two DPS duo is getting done.
And Shbedary, find you to open it up again.
Domination 25-81, the only one coming from the team that just beat him and sent them down here.
They're playing angry.
They look angry, they look like they want to get that chance once more in the upper bracket and take them down in the Grand Finals.
But now they have the point. Rad need a way to try and break through here. They do have the rage of their flush.
Yeah, Nash really has pressed Q. If you're ult track, it's time to go, but we're going to see how they choose to take this front.
Again, happy high ground is the advantage for this point in often times.
Ol' Gideon is playing with fire there.
Look it out of here. As Best goes down, and there's the gambit ult, he's 5 more.
Sometimes you feel a little bit slow as if you're a cat getting into the invisible boundary, but energy is still there.
That's the important factor here for TLC.
They're trying to late to see if anyone could rejoin them.
But CrazyKidgy and Lugia will talk to you here
to get two on their side,
and they should be able to gain this point.
What a great response for Inreturn 2 going down quickly,
and it's Lugia gonna get two in return
to make sure they get the last left RAD,
stopping at 39% in great fight.
Great fight indeed.
I do think the vessel was a little bit out of position.
Sometimes that happens though, as a group,
because you're trying to isolate someone else,
and India was just a little bit too far away
from that invisible boundary.
I mean, I'll start to look at all these ults here for RAD.
They are building them up.
They have everything you could want defensively here
with whatever TLC throw it.
I was going to say, they made great use of that national, right?
Really, in return, they only had Xpence Cooper,
so Liquid City though has plenty into their armory as well.
We're going to wait for this Q shortly,
because they're going to find value in its best.
Once again, getting picked up early.
Now, Falle could have struggled,
meaning only on the front line,
we're going to go and get two once again to open up this fight.
It's a legendary you could say.
Kamehrabi will just come out though, but Speedery,
he'll also get brought back.
So Liquid City though have their second chance,
trying to regain this point, but rather holding strong at the moment, the damage output insane
and smash is one of the key reasons.
Oh my god, trying to bring that backpaw going up once again, has hit one,
where he hit another slam dunk, and he's fighting it all by through it all!
It's math, the connection, Speedy finds another as well,
this is going to give TLC that advantage on the moment.
BTRF versus BTRF, they both connect, which is good to see, we've had some wandering ones,
but now you will see the strangling prison just eliminate any possibility of escaping.
Vest will converse, that's a crazy kitty at TLC, now bullying Ravak away from this point.
Got to let the Vest out, we have to see what this man can do, we've seen him on this stage and in this position before, back at FlyQuest last year, he's hungry, he wants it, finds that critical and more energy.
Gonna go ahead and get the GLaR trucks out, off it is MASH and more.
And it's 73% though, pretty good sustained effort if you're Rav.
Yeah, TLC were noticing those too much percentage going up, even though they were winning the fight so they did kind of throw everything at them there.
at them there, the Glartrucks came out just as a finisher here to ensure they were able
to capture that point and start putting percentage on their side.
And now we're basically in the neutral position again, aside from Shbedari having Mantis.
And the two ults that Rad used to win the first point, right, Nash and Krazy Kitty coming
up in the moment here.
Now they will have to solve Surgeant's kill, almost forgot the name of that ult, because
he made it to the forever vertigo, fighting Pauli early.
And one of his frontlines each time, falling down as Devil's let out, Krazy Kitty is the
Devil himself on the hero trying to find that Valium and Pig.
Get out of there before you find anything. It's blind hit.
The Baton's a twirl and nothing out of it.
Nothing out of it, just yet.
Shpedery's able to hold on. Smash has fallen.
And again, it is Shpedery finding these KO's.
Time and time again, fallen. Vespa is going to convert one as well.
And Rana going to have to just back away a little bit.
Resist the urge to push up on it,
because they need all six of them here.
Otherwise, they're losing this match.
That is wide, man. This is so dangerous,
especially in the hands of Vespa's jeweless Mini.
No, Mini love.
Porta gonna come out early here for Ducky 95% time has evaporated team jumping in for desperation at this point where the body
Block coming though. They do find success looking forward for the go in the invisible boundary up in early crazy kitty gets the pick
forward again rings up through Kakoa as all the team coming back to three and more
That's a good coming revival. I mean CLC. They are not behind of this fight anymore
Even though we saw big chaos can Lugia maybe get out of the stuff that it doesn't matter cuz elsewhere smashed in the job
And Lugia converts as well, and Ratt will keep us going here. They regain the point.
That Glorotrox got a full belly and jumped right off the rip of the map there.
Beautifully done. I mean, with it, obviously, you'd like to save that meteor in.
Either way, able to get it 85%. Polly on the strange.
Polly on the strange is gonna have to now try and re-engage here with the portal.
Vespa is gonna have Strangling Prison as well, and there's nothing on the side of Ratt,
so they really have to be careful not to budge up too much.
Last time these two met on this map, it was 2-0. Will they change?
98, 99 is up and we have hit over time.
Both hold on and buckle your seatbelt.
Stucky trying to find souls.
How is he surviving a great play by the backlight there?
A Brad now getting close to his fast set to five.
Keep your eyes on it.
We've got Brisbane, Paulie.
Both vanguard's ready to get the job done
from Liquid Citadel.
Are you the best frontline?
Show it here as Paulie finds look at it.
It shows just that.
Energy can't be stopped.
He wants that energy on stage.
Four, four, TLC.
And TLC will just be able to watch this time take away.
Kitty won't even be there to get his claws involved as they will take map one in a very
commanding fashion.
And maybe that's why we don't give Mantis the team that quits into them.
The same result of the 2-0 and you choose your own adventure, but once again we're seeing
that Citadel get fixed up in the cracks that came from the upper bracket.
I have to say right away, impressive to lock in.
I talked to TLC this morning, they said, that first game had so much at stake, you have
to play for the rest of the day, right?
And play perfect at that.
And that was damn near close.
I will say, I have a lot of
respect for Rad for trying
something different for giving
the mantis and saying, let's
see what you could do with it.
But at the end of the day,
there's a reason why she has
been banned for this event, and
I'm sure they will go back to
that ban to start. Yeah,
look at it there. I mean, if
you look at the triple
strats, 17 14 cage, 20
something K as well on top of
all those openings that speedery
made for the team. You can't
give the life of a bazooka. It
doesn't work, right? Or maybe
you break another slingshot if
expected somewhat result in something like Domination.
Rad did answer well. We'll have to see how they adjust.
He did. Last time they took them to Hall of Jalya
and they won it 4-3 as we went into overtime.
So perhaps they'll be going for something a little bit similar.
That being said, if you do take it to somewhere you've already played this team,
the studying could have been there.
The research could have happened.
The VOD review has had time to be in effect here.
So maybe there'll be a different strategy on the start of RAD.
Yeah, but we always talk about a team needing a map.
Like the hit factor, where do you go?
Now, in best of three, typically you do that right away after a loss, right?
Sometimes in B05, you save that for later.
Either way, even in that map, it was TLC that did look dominant,
but kind of let it slip through the fingers.
I remember being ready for the mic for the interview.
Nope, don't. Just like that.
Brad made it a 1-1 affair.
But will we see once again that same result for you?
Who was the it-factor in this game?
I mean, the energy was quite clearly the damage dealer
and the player of the game for me,
but you also have to give it for speedery.
that responsibility of being on the mantis, especially after not being able to play as much of it this tournament.
You're always going to have eyes on him and he did the job.
That's a shout out, I want to say, because we talk about Dammit.
We used to talk about it all the time, that players weren't ready for it because they have not had access to it.
Speedery is always ready.
And guess what, folks?
He's been in the shoes before at the Grand Finals, last mid-season finals in this exact role.
Once the different results go ahead and punch the ticket there as we look at the stats.
Yeah, 31 assists in the end for Speedery, just making sure everyone has some leaves to work with.
the game. And even Polly, when
the switch over to the strange
was effective in the end as
well. Everyone played their part
in TLC. And I think the most
important factor here is cozy.
They don't look dejected after
their loss in that upper bracket
against Navi. They look hungry to
try and get back into those
grand finals as it looks like
we're heading over to spider
Island. So what were spider
Island that I thought we were
going to see here in LA. But you
know what's beautiful about TLC
is that they write a perfect
sentence and energy needs to be
that exclamation point. If you
that was missing a couple of
times because of that matchup
with terror. Energy though we
know the clutch factor is
there. Spider Island interesting
choice for them, but Dennis has
something cooked up as you look
at the coach. When you give
energy, that kind of freedom. No
team is really going to have a
good fun time going up against
him, especially with the
damage boost as well. So I am
expecting a very different
approach to this lock and ban
phase from the side of Rad. They've
had their experimentation. You do
have time in the best of five.
Again, I do respect them for
trying it, but I do think perhaps
they should try and go back to
back to something a little bit
more normal now and get rid of
Mantis right away. Yeah, the
crowded reacted to that Mantis
non ban too. Oh, okay. Hey, you
know what? It works, uh, doesn't
work the first time doing again
and try to make it work dangerous,
but I will say new game mode can
be different opportunities,
playing maps and angles. But
again, now what are we giving
Goliath another two? Apparently
it would seem so. We're just
giving such an advantage to
the team. You know, you know,
you're not the only team. You
know, you're not the only
team up going into this one. We
know what you see could do with
ultra on plus penny right,
especially on a map like
But again, the man says is
going to do a very similar
problem. You're just going to
be looking at energy blasting
your back line the entire game.
If you have a hole in the ship,
it's not fixing that whole.
You're just creating another
one and you know, putting some
duct tape on it either way,
though, and that's what you have
to see here. You don't want to
play scared, right? You want to
play aggressive. You went
I think that is such an integral part of this locking band phase. We know what crazy kitty can do on the black cat
And even though the daredevil still looks scary
It's not quite the same as the black cat he's able to pilot and again
It's gonna be another protect onto the Adam wall lock
It is another win for me on the side of TLC with this locking band phase that being said rad did choose this map
So perhaps they've got something cooking here
Yeah, it's you know much less of that distraction factor if you will for the black cat there
But for this last hit here
Do they want to go ahead and make it a one-sided atom of fair and that's gonna go ahead and eliminate the cheese and really allow
You to do what this whole comp wants to do best. We see just that yeah, good cool
No born again that no comment revival on the side of rad
So they just have to make sure they do not throw any of these fights away easily
I will say when you have the other ball on your team sometimes you're a little bit freer in your movement
You're like I can just get brought back a little bit later. Absolutely viewers at home put the emotes in the chat LA
Let's get loud we got our next matchup coming between these two teams
and the final. The final
teams. Right and TLC. See us
even look at a try and make a
statement here in the lower
bracket so they can come back
all guns blazing into that grand
final, but do not count out. Rad
just yet. Rad have been counted
out too many times this
tournament before the tournament
and they still keep going. They
still find a way and they've
already found top three
basically from M R C to this
point. Can they go that one
attacking first, DLC will be defending here. So expect to see DLC or not Penny
prepared to hold. Listen, there's so many universes in Marvel. We know there's
another Wolverine here in jerky that kind of answered the call on Pauly on
Penny, right? If we can see the same from Crazy Kitty who was really the only other
Wolf player that we did see in this German to great success, well they could
answer what is a big problem in the Pauly and the Ness. Now opening up the gates,
It's going to be rad.
CFDLC chooses the defensive side.
Lovely dressing right after that.
Keep keen eye on the precision thing on Polly as well.
If you want to learn how to play Penny,
you've got to make sure you're both aggressive,
but also safe at the same time.
And MASH sadly takes the bind to the face.
And already, rather than have to go right back into Spawn
and rethink this approach.
Now, let me tell you, energy also
has to be one of the best barriers.
I'm just saying, some of what you can do in the neutral,
so lethal, and it gives you that value.
Oftentimes, when you get the triple band,
You want to get rid of that back to add so much of that extra babysitter, if you will.
I think it's one of the best people listed in the game right now.
Let's make it completely honest.
But there you go. There's the grab. You have to make it count here.
You've got to take Polly down, and you will.
But there is, of course, going to be the revive available.
You can fly. You can fly.
Is Peter Pan here? I don't see him at the moment.
Either way, Lugia is going to try to find the Will in a way as the Mag on their team.
Big answer to call here, but Nero...
It's once again the opening pick.
So for straightens, well, you get the opening pick, you take down Polly, then the BRB just puts you right back to square one here if you are rad.
You can see they are changing over and over again to try and find something new here.
Well, let's go ahead and listen in to Rading and out by Razor to see exactly how they choose to answer this problem.
It's not often times that you hear, uh, nice after something there.
The opening pick from MASH, but yeah, just like that.
They have everything as well.
Look at the Qs.
I mean, great neutral play there.
This is going to be a three-fight point, going to get the portal out right away.
In there, just off the rip, it's going to be energy, looking hungry with that meteor
It did take quite some time to get there though.
In Liquid Sentinel, they've got plenty to work with themselves.
Carpet Revive was going to be the FB TRF, and of course, the ZEA,
which is going to be responded to within a visible boundary.
But Ducky's the first one to find that ZEA.
Take down the Rocket, and now Energy has to apply.
Yeah, and they can play aggressive because they have the point again, right?
We typically see that from teams when they're able to have the Adam,
and there it is, ringing out through.
Spider Island finds two up and ready to fight again.
Crazy Kitty on the storm, the X-Men looking for more.
Fellow on the X-Men, and there is the Goddess of Cloud to open up.
open up what category to her to get today folks as the tornado falls that we have one looking for more
Great ball as well that came out just to protect kitty there after being so vulnerable off the back of the mega hurricane and still finding damage and still finding value
TLC will have to back off TLC may even give up this point at this rate
I was going to say there's a great way to win the fight and timing of it
This might not even be for your three fights best
We're going to try to make his way back to the point as quick as possible
that's that quick venom swap you're also gonna use the passive so they're committing here's another fight
It's another fight and they do manage to just school this one a little bit near
I actually find the opener onto smash as well
And now we've got the switch over to black widow from energy and I'll tell you that's not gonna be pretty for anyone
Speedery on the dead devil as well as Rad will lose this engagement and there was only 18 seconds left here cozy
They have got to be quick with their portal. Yeah time has evaporated and the portal is coming out for more now
Now look at what they have, they have once again what has been the X factor in the X-Men of MASH.
If the cards out ready to go, you are the best gambit, they say.
Let's see it here as the bubble comes out for protection.
Instantly get that team up above protection as well in anticipation.
GASP!
Rage of Royal Flush does allow a little bit of extra damage, and actually the opening picks should give Rad the lead here.
It should convert to a point in that we see anything miraculous from Speedery.
It looks like it's just gonna be a little bit of a consolation at this point as all six will fall.
and Rad will gain that first point.
That miraculous and a little bit of venture oomph in it
because we've seen it time and time again from Speeder.
You're able to get just crazy play after play.
Now, Rad did have to use the Mastle.
Vertical getting close as well, though,
so with the eternal bond after ready,
we're going to choose to play aggressive once again
with the energy would be the one that I want to watch here
if we're able to see because this part of the point, especially,
is going to lend to that bucket.
The amount of damage we're going to see from energy here,
of course, having that ultimate to try and pick off some of that backline
or even just joined in, or taking the front line in those vanguards, they take so much damage as well,
but CrazyKitty trying to go and look for his prey and maybe take someone down,
but that's what is going to deflect him back to his own back line.
And just on the call there, Black Widow looking for one,
Critical going down, the adventure is trying to find and make up time for not being in the game for years
as best energy and more, it's everyone getting it done.
Drag it and go ahead and stay still, Critical 97 and Up has given them time now to go ahead and get that old.
TLC just need to ensure they don't allow RAD to get to this second point for me.
I hope that Liquid will be able to break the first.
Getting all the way to three can often be very difficult here on Spider Island,
but RAD, they are there and prepared for this one.
So I'll next up choose the video, and you can use what your advantage is in the triple strat with you.
Right now, I have to do everything at once as Smash finds Cooper.
That was actually one of the biggest picks out of the other two strategists at 64%.
Looking to have that in boy.
It opens the door for Ducky as well to get the Groot all out without the cleanse.
So Woodward as Adam, Nero rising the team off the mat.
Vessel taking a big kick there as Energy fights two, three and more.
TLC looks dumb.
And they look so good.
TLC and they're able to hold some of these initial engagements.
Let's start with Rath with the first ultimate, may I add.
But now with TLC having the lead, they're ahead in the ult economy.
They can be patient.
They can wait.
They can use these ults to respond to whatever Rath have to offer.
And now Rath, they are running out of time here in the second quarter.
And Cooper, Eden, Ziad, Smash was able to get the first pick on him.
It first comes back there with quick ice, as you will, the light ice.
Now either way, if you're looking at the cars on the ground,
Fanta Polly is celebrating that's exactly how he likes to play in a token to him.
Speedy, I like the space here given we have sword surgeons and more GLC and 3-money.
Right, starting to wind this one up now.
This is their last big hurrah as it were.
Here's what's fighting around.
But you instantly get ripped off the map by energy
and TLC will deny right of this push and say,
how about you get 18 more seconds off sport?
The elimination feed is just coded in red, coming from that red rifle itself with energy.
Getting it done, the team to follow, made it both worlds, the group all up ready, but doesn't even need it, wants to go on the offensive, it's the door, it's Luna.
Get T-Hast, they hit the hurricane, at this point just to try and touch.
The bottom of payload, he's able to get on it at this point, overtime takes over.
TLC have found one, they found two, they found three, and Ranna not gonna get this second point.
They'll throw everything at it, but sadly it's just not gonna be enough.
They'll get bullied here.
Even in tornadoes, it is clear skies for this defense, and TLC holds strong in that fortress,
repaired nearly to the top.
TLC now do not need to do particularly much here.
I think if they can get this first point, if they can get out of this first hold, I am confident
they will be able to take this second map, because we know what they're like in that second push.
There's so much room for angles, and if you give those kind of angles to Energy, he's going to delete the backline.
So rather than have to work very hard here in this initial hold, they cannot allow them to get the first.
Because even in the Avengers movies, there's always one, you know, the Thor is what I go to in the Infinity War
that stands out to really make the battle one-sided and it is energy right now answering the call.
17 finals, just getting every single answer.
And we wanted to see more of that Widow, especially from him.
And we've seen it right now, it's working pretty well.
The Widow has been on and off through this tournament, right?
We've seen it bounce back and forth, you've got your Bucky, you've got your Elsu as well.
it doesn't matter what hero
energy is playing. Just
constantly finding those final
hits and being the difference
maker. I will give credit as
well to best work. Pauli, but
the amount of damage they're
outputting on those vanguards,
they are giving energy that
freedom. Yeah, and we're you
know, if you look back to 100
these versus Rad, we're rad did
struggle a little bit. It was
the matchup of Delina versus
smashed on the winner, right?
And it was just tough to match
that clutch value that you
have either way. Smash has been
doing this a long time. If you
want to make it to the biggest
walk-in rad fans. It's time as the gates open up Spider Island. This is going to be the chance a whole shot.
Well, Spider Island is not going to be any spiders on the side of Rad in their defense.
There's not going to be any penny that they're going to try and be a little bit cheesy against TLC.
Instead, it's more strategic. It's more of what we're used to seeing,
but already Spedery is letting loose here on this approach and Rad have to be careful.
Yeah, but I suddenly saw Spedery on Storm on this point was able to absolutely just rain havoc
and make it another Storms all over now looking for Smash, bringing back Ducky already through it,
but this usually is a much stronger hold out than Gage, unable to hold strong.
There was a reason Navi backed with Storm against TLC because they know how good they can be on these breaks.
And Ducky gets caught off guard, Speedery shuts him down, and now with the extra player
rather having to force back Liquid are just walking them down.
It's Stormy's skies on the new heroes from picked up from Tesla and Speedery finally going down up high,
But Cooper fights too, showing that Luna, getting it done.
Denikku losing his mind as we find TLC pushing through the ramp.
That's another skin added up to seven legendaries coming now.
In the next season, as Liquid sit down,
have been able to do that far quicker than Rad.
They're almost like two minutes faster.
And sadly for Rad, they have to hold once more on this corner.
Yeah, once again, going to take that high ground,
come to the portal, and Pollyboach immediately
is going to get rid of all the presence
that they are looking for,
definitely going up high and looking at what they have.
There's just no ults to the name.
The mask needs to make that difference, but the whole team's falling.
What can you do against six?
They've been far too staggered here, sadly.
Rather, just gonna have to look at this one, give it up,
and try every group to go to next.
And as I mentioned previously, once Liquid get to this first point,
their point one to point two progression here on Spider Island
is like nothing I'd seen in Americas.
It's the way they manipulate the map in their favor,
watch the angles the energy is gonna be taking alongside
speeder's control here on Storm.
That glass slipper is starting to fade.
That clock is getting closer to midnight.
If you look at it, though, what has Brad done in this tournament?
They always fight back.
We need to see at the most important time
of these young folks' career.
Energy, Vesla, Speedy ready for the cue on the opposition.
Rad will be throwing it on him.
Energy, looking to crack it in back to make the impact.
Rebecca Horrigan is going to start us off
alongside the Simonic seduction here.
So that is a one blow combo.
And you get the fate of both worlds.
Liquid is in our state.
Let's just throw it all.
Let's win it right here, right now.
All the energy, fine two, only four remain.
The gloar chart's ready to pull.
Ducky trying to find out, but he falls as well.
Cooper, energy, fine more, 2.9.
Desperation at play, but it is team.
Liquid, Citadel, that finds another map.
Rad tried to do something to allow it different,
tried to take TLC to maybe somewhere they felt
they were going to be uncomfortable,
but they let everything but TLC
were more than prepared here at Spider-Eye.
And listen, I mean, we saw the result of the map, it's open.
It's just a tough thing to go back to, and we were both surprised.
You don't try once, see how it goes.
It wasn't that fair to say the least.
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice.
Shame on me, and maybe shame on Rad.
Are they going to go for the hat trick and try and commit to it?
Or will they change things up going into map three?
Because now it has to be a reverse sweep from Rad here
if they're going to find themselves in that grand final.
I know that they have been on one heck of a run.
They have taken down giants on their way,
but perhaps TLC maybe is just one task too high.
Yeah, we often say they've been here more than the hotel.
I mean, they've started and ended most days
just to show the grit that they continue to have.
And it's been such a fun story from couch to pro,
but right now they're going against the pro pros.
They are, and I think that when you're going up,
get someone like Energy, by the way,
who just seems to be a one-man army at times.
It's very deflating.
It's difficult to try and bring yourself back up,
but they do still have mass.
Yeah, listen now, you got a point to the sign.
Say you believe we've seen 16 seeds against someone, they've come back for more,
but this is going to be a tall task to gask him.
Because at this point, where do you take, I mean, this is where I guess we're going to go to Wakanda.
They've had success there, and it's just tough, right?
Because you're losing that momentum as things continue.
I think you have to take it to a full of jolly here.
You've been able to beat them once, maybe you can beat them again.
Absolutely. Well, to break it all down, what we just saw in the 2-0 so far is the desk.
What do you have over there, Teth?
Well, I took Tetris Seats, so I'm here for now, but he'll be back a bit later on.
Either way, thank you, Kozi. But looking at that matchup, I think the craziest thing we got to talk about a little bit here is the Mantis situation.
I mean, Legday looking at that. This is the first time we've ever seen it actually available to be played in this event,
and it felt like Team Liquid Citadel is the perfect team to play this composition.
I mean, they've got Speedloo, he's a fantastic Mantis player, but also they've got such a, like, versatile backline that can run the Mantis in that 2-2-2.
And because they're still committing to a stall, it means that you're dealing with a double damage boosted energy all the time.
How do you deal with a double damage boosted energy? I'll give you a clue, you don't.
Too much of a struggle, isn't it?
Like, I think just for, like, RAD in particular, you don't really want to try to, first of all, go in for what, Na'Vi, Dave?
Like, sure, it's like you could sort of just copy the answer, but you've gone in with a game plan today, an idea on how you want to approach it.
But it's also just like for Rad in particular, you want to just have the gambit, you've been able to get it, you've even been able to get it one-sided in some of these cases, but it just hasn't been enough.
Like, man, this shown exactly why she's been such a first man for every other series other than this one.
Well, looking ahead for this as well, Ryan, I mean, potentials for maps that we could see from these two teams.
So how did the Jallia before work so well for the RAD team against Team Liquid
So that was the one map they were able to take and one that Team Liquid
So dropped before the non-v-series. Do we go there again or is there a different option?
I mean it feels like that's what they're gonna be leaning towards and at least
That's what we're seeing like hovered over when it comes to the choice because it has to be
Convergence and out of everything else that we sort of seen. Yeah, it's free wins in a row for
RAD over on Jallia
But they have been able to get wins on Central Park it to be other servers
In fact, it's been a really good, like, just map type for them overall, only dropping a Jalea against a hundred thieves,
which was right at the start of the tournament in Plains, and honestly, they fixed every issue that they had on that map in particular, so it's a great way to go.
Well, look at that team looking Citadel. They've been calm, cool, and collected, and I feel like that has to be because they are competing today from the Razor,
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Uh, Energy is that guy.
Like, whether it's regular Energy or green Energy,
he's just him.
And energy needed to get their mojo back after the last series where going up against both jerky and terror was a pretty terrifying experience, honestly.
A few liquids that had helped being 2-0 up at this point is a great blessing, because they are hoping for a very quick series here given the feats of stamina it will have to be.
If they want to run it back against Navi in our grand final, it's going to be a best of seven, and this first second series of today, this is going to be their seventh map.
Well, we go back to Hall of T'Jalia. Again, we saw how effective, I guess, it was for Rad,
because they had to give it their all in a one final last-ditch effort hold against this team
before. And I think looking at this one, Ryan, I mean, what's the potential answer from Team Liquid
Citadel to lock in this time and not drop this map? I think it's like knowing how those first
point defense holds, because no doubt when it comes to choosing a map like this, you tend to
to attack first as well. So the team that could sit down, they lost the first point
at even the second checkpoint very quickly against right last time. And Rad has been
blistering against a lot to include in like world champions of DP with just attacking
quick and attacking fast. And I think it's for team liquid Citadel. It's like making
that triple strategist work. It seems that you pretty much in a crux. If you're right
either going up against the mantis or the ultra and it's one or the other, but about
the energies being able to sort of perform consistently now, just as that solo duelist,
23 final hits, the entirety of RAD in that final map of 25. Like, he is able to just find the
actual openings and picks, which he was completely iced out of when he was playing in that series
against Na'Vi earlier on. So, Legday, looking at RAD, it feels like their double duelist setup's
been relatively silent since we saw them yesterday. They were feeling, you know, on top of the world
they've played out their minds, but how do they step up to the big stage and make sure they can at least take this one home and
Get it to a longer series. We've got to shake the nerves off. It would seem that rather
While we may not have seen liquid Citadel screaming much with Mantis perhaps rad have not been screaming much against Mantis on account of it being often the first ban
So maybe having this time off while we've been analyzing has been enough time to try and figure out how they want to
modulate their approaches when going up against that potential triple heal a
setup of the three strategists well it's now the fateful hour to see if they ban
the Mansons that's exactly what they are going to focus on here Ryan I feel
like this is the best option for Rad here yeah it feels so but that's also a
very typical rad thing to do from what we saw in EMEA is just not really like
troll the draft but just try something it doesn't work there's something to get
back to it it feels that now is a good chance to work but like looking at like
the first protects it has been a little bit more leaning towards getting the one
inside of Magneto. They're going to go for the gamut, even protecting Black Cat in some
of these cases because Team Liquid Citadel have really not let Crazy Kitty actually
go for the plays that he wants to go on on these melee characters.
They haven't really been too worried about the Daredevil or any of the dive that we've
seen from Crazy Kitty, relatively sad on that end. And of course, you know, the Ultron
first-be-le is going to get saved here as well.
Yep, Ultron being there might actually attempt to have Penny ban here from RAD at some point
because Penny has been instrumental in a lot of Hohler-Jallier defenses.
Admittedly, Radh having been offensively a powerhouse here before on Hohler-Jallier,
maybe trying to beat that kind of interaction out.
Ooh, but instead it's going back to the scene that we kind of saw against Navi-Ryan.
This is a very similar band line, especially with the Rocket one coming out from Team Liquid Citadel.
Yeah, it's going to be opened up. If you're Team Liquid Citadel, you know very much so that Radh
do not want to play up against this composition, so your drafts can be fairly straightforward.
and certainly for like speed, he's able to actually use the verticality of the map
for the first and second point, and I think it's for Riot.
It's like if we can force him onto this composition and so play our own game,
able to get the one-sided gambit for MASH, you might be able to provide some opening,
but I imagine like a final ban here for Team Liquid City, though, could be something like the Black Cat.
Well, we'll see more one-sided affairs between these two.
One-sided ultron, one-sided gambit. Which do you think's better here, Legde?
I'd have to say the gambit, but holistically the ultralight bring more value to the table.
Okay, and Ryan, final thoughts from you before we head things forward.
Do you think Team Liquid Scythe are gonna close out here or now?
I think so, but Rod, if there's a time to dig deep, now would be a good chance to bring us a show.
Well, let's head back to the caster booth and get into the action one more time.
A full reverse sweep needs to happen for Rod Esports, and Team Liquid Scythe,
the hometown crowd is there with them. We'll see if they can close it out.
Thank you so much, Vodable, and yeah, just that.
I mean, listen, a lot of these people on DLC, some of these players were on FlyQuest.
They were unable to get to the Grand Finals last year when knocked down.
They can change their history, but Rad Destiny has a name.
We've continued to say it feels like it's been a Rad, but there is a lot here to come back from.
At least they finally banned the Mantis, right?
They've done one thing right in this locking band, but that does give Liquid Citadel the composition they've been wanting to play.
They want the Ultron, they want the Penny, and we go to Hall of Jarlia.
But, RAD have beaten Liquid Citadel here this tournament, so perhaps they still have a chance.
I mean, Hydra says it best, right? If you cut off one and two more shall take its place.
And in this case, you cut off one, you get the pinny, the ultron.
There's the two. We find ourselves in RAD's best map.
Will the hometown pick be able to make it happen?
It is worth noting it did go to overtime last time between these two teams.
Both got the full three, but then RAD were able to just one up Liquid Citadel during that OT phase.
Can we see a better hold this time from Liquid Citadel?
Because it does feel like sometimes you're on hold of Galia.
You either hold at this first point or you give up three.
It can be very different depending on how this one goes.
Yeah, the one side of the damper is going to be what the strength means to rely on here.
As Bollie is having just absolutely great this movement, this movement if you will, able to get those nests up.
Speedery up again, just picking up where they left off on the mantis now.
Finding that opening pick and it is so far, Liquid Citadel, able to stand strong.
Yeah, Blinken, you're missing. That was a very quick one from Liquid Citadel.
again just able to get that opening pick and as soon as liquid have that extra player they are relentless with their aggression
They do not allow you to escape and they have noticed that is perhaps some players behind here
And they're saying all right you go for a little bit of distraction
But maybe we can just push the floor on the other side
Yeah, absolutely just always keeping their eyes on what's needed and best being on that mag is that if after I wanted to see
When they went up against Navi go back to last year
He was Magneto himself fear best war best war as they like to say now
I'm going to go ahead and try to keep it early. It's lucky. It's best one-on-one Magneto
So you're going to go over but it's crazy kid in the back. He finds a sword energy was there and waiting for Luger as well
I'm sure those tracks were down on the side of Elsa and sadly that's not the only thing going down a ranch hopes here on this push
Have also fallen and now the stagger is going to be insane here. Yes, smash find follow to energy
But it is not going to match the monster hunting hunter is haunting if you look at a smash getting a pink at least gonna give them a
Little bit of life and out there find a good position
They're gonna choose now as we see the reset until see what's get on that high ground looking at next place
They absolute disgusting. I know a lot of people right now going into the rink. They're gonna write that one down
Yeah, make sure you take notes. I think don't take notes of it
I want to go up there. Yeah, I would rather not maybe I need more of a teammates to start banning the penny as well in ranked
as so many do. It's not Polly. Look at the aggression. This is what happens when you have the path to team up.
That shield gives you the ability to take these out.
That is how the team ups have changed the game completely. They're going to fight a Gortjoss on Vertigo,
but not going to come up with anything able to go on defensive as with the Finney
and then go off this with the Black Panther team up is what equips it so much.
Equips it as a speedery with a quick.
It's Ultima as well. The range of Ultron now comes through.
Smash does find one onto Polly, but with the trade coming out, it's going to be a straight 5v5.
Polly is not going to be back in this fight.
Yeah, you know, this is, like, Paulie's decision.
You want to go strange or not?
Right now, TLC, they feel pretty confident
at how things are going, Nero in more with the invisible boundaries.
The strats get it done for the fact.
It's how they got here.
This backline won the fear.
So it's good communication.
You have to know whether you need that portal or not.
Meteorim slams onto MASH.
Happy birthday, some may say.
But sadly, it is not the present he was looking for.
It's now right.
Again, they're going to have to fall back here
and reassess their option.
Ah, the rim's shaking from one,
but the other bounces off.
It goes to the other team now forced to go hand and right back to spawn. They are chasing them in their home town
You want to say by the way happy birthday to mash I genuinely made out. Have you have a wonderful day?
Maybe you can go back into this game here as Polly now will find ultimate available as well
Those spider mines are going to be deadly depending on where you start to admit them before rad
It is our very much eyes on smash now. What can you do on the bucket?
Yeah, certainly a present in D, but now with the gandalf charging up ready to go, they've just been unable to get these ults ready to go.
Smash now with the Kraken Impact. Will there be that impact from this player that once it dreams it would talk to him on stage and more as Pauli has already only won on TLC's side?
And they are just forced back. They cannot find anything to put.
22 seconds left as well. You've got to get an instant portal here.
Luka is going to move over to the straight. Masha's gone down. It looks like all six of them may fall.
But are you even going to be able to get the pull to look at the aggression here from TLC?
The clock is striking midnight folks here in LA.
Energy gloar jocks ready, Pauli going to push the aggression on.
Lugia going back as a simbit to get the distraction.
It's the strategy to back energy as well.
Great field job. Cooper finds them.
And just like that, falling, it is going to be TLC holding strong.
Crazy kitty has been that difference maker, but this is too big for this tight decline.
One mountain too high to climb, Liquid Citadel, one of the biggest in the game.
They are one step away from regaining their spot in that Grand Final.
Another shot at trying to take down the EMEA giants of Na'Vi.
Unless we now see the best hold you've ever seen in this darn game from Ratt.
I mean, listen, you know, I'm no expert over here, but three of the DLC players not being eliminated, it is just tough, right?
I mean, there's really not much we even saw that they could do to get through and it was just constant aggression
That is what we kind of expected TLC to do against what we saw in the match in Navi
But we've seen it all here with red. I will say I've got good credit for Rad for
Assessing the situation there switching over to strange noticing they weren't gonna get the chance at a portal at least trying something else
Right getting the Venom out making sure you pop the rage and royal flush to give the speed boost to crazy kitty as well to try and attempt
and OT, but in the NTLC, they were all over them.
I mean, listen, expectations could just create disappointment.
At the MRC going to this stage, I'm sure they'd
be thrilled to come in third.
But no, when you're here, right here,
able to grasp those grand finals,
their expectations is to make it until a new story.
Ducky and France taking the high ground once again,
as we're going to see what could be the final hold.
Brad had a huge moment yesterday when they took down Swamp Gaming
to find themselves here in the lower bracket final.
but now they may be tasting exactly the same meal as Swamp did previously.
And that is defeat, unless we are able to see the hold of all holds here
and Liquid City Tower unable to get to that first notch.
You can see that's all they have to achieve here,
and it looks like they're going to go for something a little bit different off this stuff.
And they're going right for it.
And if you first in, absolutely hungry for it, the monster hunter trying to find the value to the backrooms there,
it seems they're able to get a high ground approach on them.
This good rotation for Radz could be Vanguard on Vanguard best though.
Gonna skip that fight, go right to the backline with a pop for the A.O.E.
So far, finding nothing on it. Just gonna get that aggression up.
Is snuck in the trap.
Not a cat-wise.
That's what you have to do though, is to shield Vanguard, get in the face as Polly takes down Vertigo.
Energy's been brought back by the BRB, so it is numbers advantage now for TLC.
And Rad are on the ropes.
Absolute smash, getting Polly down though at this point.
It is taking closer to that meter, Speedery.
Knows with the rotation, finds Crazy Kitty, it's the flex on flex, showing who's on top, and smash.
Gonna get that one-factor, ice in the face, it's the Elsa, it's getting it done.
Energy again and again as Lugia goes down.
Just like that, it's one after the other, revenge is going to be sweet.
It is best tasting in the grand finals, TLC makes it.
TLC with one more shot at Glory here.
A chance to try and show that Americas can hang with EMEA.
They have taken down, or have been the giant killers from the EMEA region, but sadly it was one step too far here for Rad, but we have to give our credit to them.
Third place is quite new to you.
I mean, listen, TLC didn't even look shaken after what was a pretty nail-biting upper bracket.
Most of those games come in 2-th of wire.
I mean, and if you're Rad again, you just said it best.
Expectations create disappointment.
I always say to the players, low lows, you need them to get high highs, and I think they're okay with one of their lows being
the first time in their first
ever. I've got to tell you this
miracle is gone thus far and
sometimes. You know, that's it.
He's not even enough. I'm sure
they'll look back at the lock
and ban phase and giving them
answers away twice. I think one
was fine, right? You try
something different. But the
second one I feel like the
series was probably lost there
at that point. You don't give
that to TLC, and I'm sure
Navi were looking at it saying
Yeah, I don't think we fancy
giving that to them in the
Grand Final either. Yeah, fair
it up. I mean views at home.
Those have been watching the
in the stadium in L.A. Expected, the expected here. I mean, this is what we thought we were
going to see. The one seed, the one seed there in the grand finals with TLC versus Navi.
And it's the best of seven in that grand final as well. Yes, we did see Navi take the lead
in that best of five. The best of seven, that does throw a spanner in the works a little
bit. Yeah, for sure. I mean, Dr. String said the Avengers needed what, five million to
get the one win on Thanos. If you played that over and over again, I think it's just going
to be a different result. And for me, it was going to be the eyeball test. How did they
perform right there against Rad? A team that they felt like they should be and beat they
did. It was a bounce back. Right? There's been so many times in the history of eSports
where you see a team drop from the upper bracket final, go into that lower bracket and get demolished
by a team that's on fire and waiting, biting your heels. Sadly, Rad weren't really able
to capitalize on any sort of dejection. Yeah, again, coming from the EMEA is Pauli to this
team, the dream team, and take it all away, Tetscher, you're with Pauli, what does Pauli have to say?
I'd love to find out, I'm gonna start off, give it up for Pauli everybody!
We're gonna start off, I asked you about Rad during that pre-game interview, and we did have
some heated talk there, but it's their first LAN, your first Grand Finals, now that you've had that
whole series, what do you think of Rad? Uh, I mean shout out Rad for the warm-up.
We love to see it, but now we talked about warm-up you were sent down here by Narvin.
That's a tough matchup. What have you learned from that first series?
There are just like some minor mistakes. I don't think we played bad, but you know,
we need that warm-up. So I think we're a bit more in the zone now after that.
You've been gunning for this Grand Finals position for so long now, you've been to every single
land we've had so far, was it worth the America move to make it here today?
I mean, I think so.
Crowd loves it, it's your first Grand Finals, are you nervous?
No, no.
Cool, calm and collective, so I'm just going to open up to you one more time, the home
crowd supporting TLC here potentially. What do you have to say to any who might be on the fence
or the people who are just out here supporting you? Thank you to the fans, thank you to the team,
thank you to the staff, thank you for my family, shout out to RealPoly, my mom.
We love to hear it, we'll let you get set up for those grand finals. Give it up for Poly
and TLC everybody as we send it back over to the desk to break around that game.
Thank you so much, Tetra, and thank you, Team Liquid Citadel, for showing us a fight.
Finally, a team other than one from EMEA is able to make it to the grand final
since the last time we saw it at the mid-season finals here at.
I mean, some of the players were on that envy squad as well, so it's a little bit of revenge at the mid-season finals.
So not quite the same matchup for the grand finals this time around, but there are at least some different organizations representing.
And I mean like Paulie said it's like the warm-up that they needed certainly look at the people like energy
Looked a little bit stunted up against Navi
We're allowed to fully blossom and show what this triple strategist has been cooking through scrims and officials all throughout this week
Looking at this one leg day the biggest question marks
We were talking about right was that triple strategist going into this matchup for rad
They tried something different with the Mantis letting that through for the first time didn't quite work
Did you feel like it felt it was kind of unachievable for them after they met this
Strategies didn't work out for them in this first few maps. It might be too much for me to lost
but at the beginning of a series I said that to turn this around team liquid citadel had to play like they can and
They played like they want this more than
nothing else in the world
Absolutely passionate gameplay energy was just going absolutely crazy the entire series and team liquid citadel
So they needed this one to be quick, otherwise it was going to be so much more of a stamina
check when you get into our best of seven against Na'Vi and they're going to be coming
in warm.
I think they've actually got a much better chance in our grand finals than being in Na'Vi.
Yeah, Polly said it best.
Thanks for the warm-up, Brad.
I mean, that's what we kind of saw here as well, but I mean, Ryan, we've been wanting
to see this version of Team Liquid Citadel this entire event, right?
Them dropping in that one map to Rad earlier on in the upper bracket, now actually showing
a dominant performance.
Is this the best looking at Team Liquid Citadel we can have going to those finals?
it's certainly like looking a lot more solid. It's just like a bit more hot off the presses really and you're sort of used to the what goes up comes down.
It feels like what goes down comes straight back up slingshot it straight through RAD who looked a little bit sort of cold to get onto the server.
They're sort of used to sort of playing early and playing throughout the day with interim breaks in between with these long best of three, best of five days that we've been having.
But because they were on for the second game and Team Liquid got a good chance to play against Navi, it just sort of felt like the one team was ready on the server, Nibble and Mosey.
It was very similar to what we saw happen in the preseason when a team liquid
Citadel did a drop against swamp gaming much closer best of five in that one
But we're eventually able to bounce back and get the victory
So history could repeat itself just on land instead of an online
Environment and one thing to talk about here leg day is that this team for team liquid Citadel
Formed of members who have been taken down by Navi in the last two online tournaments
Now they're in the grand finals again for a couple of them
or the first time for those players from the old FlyQuest roster, what does this mean to them?
I mean, Revenge is one heck of a motivator, but I think one of the most telling things about
this team so far has been that all of these players have been lauded at being the top of
their role. They have been lauded as the best in the world, but none of them have won anything
international yet. They don't have that trophy to prove that they are the best that everyone
hypes them up to be, and getting that title might mean everything. Well, we've had a lot of voice
and we have a lot of great
players here. We have a lot of
great players here. We have a
lot of great voice actors here
signing some memorabilia for the
fans in the crowd. But we do
want to give a big thank you to
those who could not make it out
Ray Chase, the voice of
Cyclops Alejandro Saad, the
voice of Deadpool, Santhe
Hewan, the dagger voice actor
Courtney Lynn Jubilee's voice
actor Cassandra Lee Morris
Galactus, a voice actor and
Crystal Lee Jean Gray slash
Phoenix voice actor shout out
and I think it's been a great
opportunity for us to be a
part of this family out there.
So big. Thank you to everyone
who has been a part of the
Marvel Rivals community,
showing up big for this land
itself and showing up huge for
the fans out there too, right?
I mean, it's been great for our
first like individual land that
we've had aside from, you know,
China last year for fans to be
involved with the action. We
saw the music performances
earlier. We saw the voice
actors here. It's just a great
and I think that's what Danny Koo was talking about right at the start of the show and the general thing is like just feedback if people want more like stand alone.
Whether it's eSports related or not like Marvel Rivals event, like put it in the chat, put it on social media because it would be nice to see like this event sort of build more eSports obviously growing but just seeing more of the talent.
Especially Aliandra Sabi, he's the goat for me, and what he's done for like Deadpool in this game in particular has been amazing.
Apologies if I messed up any of those names, but you know one thing to talk about with this upcoming matchup, right?
It is the grand finals. These teams have been giving it their all throughout the entire event
But they have been the most dominant forces in their region Navi versus team liquid Citadel
I mean how you feeling going into this one leg day? Who's got the better chance?
It's kind of obvious who you might think but I gotta ask you anyway
I don't know like this was the finals we all wanted right on one hand
we've got Light Team Liquid Siddle coming in warm, but on the other hand, they had to
like adjust how things went wrong in the upper bracket finals very quickly for RAND, and
now they might have to try and angle themselves over again for a team that can deal more effectively
with the penny ultron duo.
Looking at the bracket that started things off, we had the Plains going into this playoff
bracket, Navi only dropped the one map against Team Liquid Siddle. Is that enough of like
a warm up to make it all the way to these grand finals or have they not been tested
yet Ryan?
It's like the Hillary Clinton free nail meme when it comes to best of fives, right?
It's usually for best of sevens for one, right? Yeah
There's maybe a map like we saw now these sort of take the
Like map of the name to chalor. I think it was in the grand finals
So there's been some closeness, but we haven't seen like a for free best of seven outside of like swamp TLC from like preseason
I think it was but international stage
This is the like perfect grand final if you were to predict two teams to be the top two in this international event
it would be these two.
So I do want to see it go to distance
because that's what we deserve, I think.
Quick question for you, Legday,
before you head to a break here as well.
Energy versus Terra, who's looking better on the day?
Well, I mean, Terra just has that swagger right now.
Terra has all the cajonas that you need to be an MVP
and the best in the world.
So unfortunately, I'm going to have to stay biased and say Terra.
OK, well, we got to get everything set up
for our grand finals.
It's going to be Nozman's Terra facing off against Team Liquid
Scyll, only one will rise to the challenge
to be crowned our new Mid-Season finals champions.
Tune out next to figure out who it's gonna be.
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Its virus connection is so fast,
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so that I can focus on what matters most.
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you but the battlefield belongs to you
Just the night where you stood
Like the sun and moon and a wonder
If never there was a time that we were friends
There was a time that we used to
Like the sun and moon and a wonder
If never there was a time that we were friends
And as for shadows and moon
My time has come for me to seek you out
We are sent up for my last reunion
It's time to wake up like me
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If you're gonna say the same thing, you're gonna die fast
For the rest of my time, yeah
We are rivals in a deep-dive
I'll make your mind full
To the powers no one can stop us
We're on the skin of the human eye
I'm a flash, no matter where
But we'll fight to forget past my name straight
Because you are my destiny day
The day, the night, the use, the fun, but the same way that you used to are
I just want to see you turning the times
And do you see now?
I turn, I turn again, still, I feel we may fight
We're no more
And we'll still return your heart
It's mine
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Time has frozen
It's before our destiny
And fate is new days
Smiling for the past and future
Faith that she finds her way
Comes by sea
And when you wake up
I think your eyes breathe
And I feel like there's passion
Time holds
For the rest of the turns again
Your love will soon be
Right now, I'm in your heart
For what's in the time which no one dares to watch
In your eyes, I'm so clear
I see you in the sky
I'll be waiting for you
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Can you feel it?
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Your thoughts are too big to handle
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We'll walk up to the covers now
We'll dance so much
We'll rock, we'll sing, we'll sing
And you'll stop
Ladies and gentlemen, Los Angeles wants to give it up for Shota on the guitar and Carolyn
on the vocals!
Man, this is so cool being here live in LA.
The moment is here.
How we feeling today?
Now listen, we've got the revenge story set and what I would like to do is go to some
some of you all in the crowd right now would ask exactly who you think is going to win this whole thing.
And let's go.
You know what? You're kind of obvious over here with the go liquid.
Can't you hold that high? Can I see the sign? Yeah, go liquid city.
I think I know who you're going for over here.
You as well. Another other player. Pretty obvious. Definitely not Navi. No.
Any words you want to say to Navi?
TLC's got this
Let's give it up. That's bestest moment. How about yourself come on come over here. Yeah, of course
Let's go today. What's your name? David David. Who do you think's gonna take this whole thing home?
Navi
Are you you've been a fan of the EMEA?
What have you been a fan of the EMEA?
He's a Navi fan sit down you can tell a true passion of a Navi player. What region is that? Thank you so much for coming
Let's go on over here. Oh, yes, please. We need to highlight this. We have an invisible woman here today and
Lovely sign say J3 is
bald J3 is bald a wonderful sign J J3 and factual. Yes. What's your name?
my name is hails gaming and
What is your thoughts of just land and what is going on best part? Oh, it's absolutely incredible
This is the first land I've been to, and I'm having so much fun.
Where are you from?
Uh, like 30 minutes away, Long Beach.
Very easy, very easy to come. Who is going to be taking home the championship?
Oh, that's a tough one. Both teams are really, really good, but I'm going to go with TLC.
Love it. TLC, we have some from Navi. Thank you so much.
And once again, folks, we are just getting prepped for our final match.
It has been four days of pure chaos as Scarlet Witch would say it best to break down the hype that's about to happen.
Desk, take it away, what do we've got?
I'm gonna take it, and I'm gonna enjoy it, and we won't be giving it back in a bit.
But for now, we have a grand finals coming up for us here.
I am joined on the desk by Vodable and Navi's number one hater, Gaskin.
Hey, look, Navi, they played their upper bracket final. They looked okay, right?
They were able to get into the ground, but no, for real, Navi, they have impressed me.
Their first true test and they dominated. Terra looked unbelievable and they are the favorites now going into this grand final.
Let's be completely honest here.
Dominated, domination as well, right?
But it was a very favorable map for them on Cracow and will depend on how they do on this next one.
But I think the big thing is they've been waiting for a while and we talked to you, you know,
You know, Fox from Swamp Gaming yesterday after, you know, the loss in the lower bracket to Rad,
saying that, you know, if you have time to wait, you have the preparation you can plan ahead.
But I feel like there's not too much you can take from that last series, if you're not going into this next one.
You mentioned waiting a while, and while some of these players have been waiting even longer than this mid-season finals,
even longer than the beginning of stage one, even longer than the large chunk of 20-25 mid-season finals last year,
Yeah, there are a couple players from Team Liquid Citadel that find the spot familiar, Vod.
Yeah, Nero and Speedery from Envy, way back when, was able to make it all the way to those finals but lost to Rad E, which is now known as Na'Vi.
They didn't have Terra at the time, but now they do looking for their first victory.
And on the other hand, we saw a lot of players coming in from that old Flightfest roster.
This is their first Grand Finals ever.
So a lot of new faces potentially going to be making their names for themselves here.
I have one bit of advice here for Navi, all right?
Just don't let Mantis get through, and we learned that lesson in the previous,
for the first time Mantis gets through.
TLC demonstrate why we don't let Mantis get through,
and I'm fairly certain she's not going to get through again.
I think you are probably correct, unless we start getting the most analysis.
I think this is the most severe Mantis meta we have seen,
even with triple Mantis, triple Stratus was a thing.
She can even go into double healer right now, so taking her away
seems to be the go-to and we saw exactly why. It's scary, it's a tough, it's a problem, but there
have been so many other characters for Terra, for Fate, for Crook, for Polly, all these characters
that are creeping into being bandwurvy, Vod. I think we are now in the age of Ultron for a good
reason. Ultron for Saves is the name of the game here for Team Liquid Zedal, especially for Speedery,
the way that they were playing that so far and the triple strategies. A lot of people seeing the new
after the hot fix. It was a
little relatively dead at the
start. Then we saw the buffs
back for the ultra generation
through healing. And well,
Ultron has been able to infect
the scene again with this virus
and that team up with Penny
Parker is able to basically be
like a pseudo game adult
movement boost damage boost and
all the healing output that you
need on a 20 second cooldown is
pretty crazy. And when I heard
that it was going to be an
ultra method, I was like, Oh,
yeah, but look, you've got the
ability of all these incredible
that's what I'm talking about.
Energy and the likes of terror
are actually protecting their
Ultrons by going one v one.
They're dueling each other.
They're taking out everyone
else and suddenly the Ultron is
just having a hell of a day just
up in the sky doing whatever
they want. It has been
enjoyable to watch a slightly
different matter. But I will
say I think that it's becoming
a problem having that Ultron
survived so long. So I think
those jewelers are going to
start to focus a little bit
more. Interesting. Ultron
related thing where it turned
complete their machinations. That sounds like a movie I would watch. But speaking of a game
I would watch, this Grand Finals is hype. But we've got to address the elephant in the room.
Team of Percepticell was sent down to the lower bracket by Narvee. And it was a close series,
but they did win. I asked Bonnie on stage, what changed? What have you learned? And he said it was
just a warm up gasket. Well,
I mean, it's exactly that. Not
only did they get the best of
five, they stay warm with what
was it felt like a show match
going into that lower bracket
final. It was so quick. I cast
it and in a blink it was done.
Now they get to go in hot here
against Nabi and it is a best
of seven. Yes, they couldn't
get it done in a best of five,
but now you've got those extra
matches potential for more
domination as well, which is
exciting for me. And even though
they have lost TLC proof there
in that lower bracket final,
They have not lost their mentors and they will come back in all guns blazing here.
Bonaman stats on the board as the numbers have been rising.
Even though we're in averages and a lot of that is due to the fact that these teams are taking each other to the limits.
We're taking longer fights, we're taking longer maps, especially on the over times.
In some case, we already talked about that incredible terror map where Hilda with 33 final hits,
just from being able to just chase down energy multiple times.
Yeah, midtown that we saw at the end there
seemed to be the biggest difference maker
in terms of motivation and potential
that we've seen from Terra the entire day, right?
It started off slow.
We saw seven finals, four finals,
middling performances jerky,
actually stepping up really big
to fill some of those shoes there.
But once Terra is unleashed, no one can stop them.
But we could say the same about energy.
Really, an MVP solo duelist performance
for quite some time.
I think one of the things we can be excited for as well,
we may see maps we haven't seen all tournament longer.
It's true.
With the best of seven, there is a lot more room if we go the distance.
There is definitely a possibility we could see a 4-0 here.
I don't want to jinx it.
We know TLC could easily beat Na'Vi, but no, I'm joking.
Na'Vi are the favourites here, and I'm very excited to see how this one goes down.
Well, you don't have to be excited for much longer
because we're just going to get into it very shortly.
We're going to head down to the stage where Cozy is waiting to bring in our soon-to-be immortal heroes.
Thank you so much, and LA makes some noise from 10 to 8 to 6 to 1 trophy.
$500,000 on the line, every region, thinking they are the best and we are down to 2.
It's America, the home turf versus the EMEA that has had the road required through it.
The last two lands.
Mid-season finals is going to end right here, right now.
we will find our crown and our winners.
Let's get this thing going and meet our two teams.
Starting once again, time zone reeling back.
It is from Navi, the kings of the EMEA.
Give it up, once again, Navi, coming through.
Terror to terror, find him that cowboy hat,
looking for more gunslinging.
Trust me in the leadership,
will not be denied that dream.
Once again, Crook on the back line with Fink.
Sherp, Gideon, Raj ready to give it their all.
Once again, short words this time in just a moment.
But again, of course, let me just ask this
before we have the other team out.
Will it be the same result, Tara?
They're OTPs, 100%.
OTPs, one trick.
Pony's how appropriate for the cowboy hat.
Now on the other side, in this best of seven,
Ladies and gentlemen, earning their way right back
for the matchup.
It's from America, the top team, the super team.
Give it up for TLC.
Nero clutch on the back line with Cooper, Tastic, Pauli,
and more.
Best energy of the Spittery.
Do they have what it takes to get this sweet revenge?
We'll find out in just a moment, and you're going right to it.
We have Pauli.
Now, Nero, let me ask you, how will this result change?
I mean, that was just a warm up.
Just the warm up.
Love to see it now.
Clutch factor, I've got to go over here to energy.
Energy, you ready to get the belt?
Of course.
Of course, done.
Did he get done?
One more, jerky, all the way here at the end.
Jerky, you've tasted greatness.
They'll just short at the Grand Finals.
Different result today?
Yeah, definitely.
I'm not happy that they ended their win streak though.
Not happy they ended the win streak there, folks.
Domination in-streak ended at that in-streak.
We've got one winner coming up to trophy, ready to go.
Let's get this thing going.
LA makes some noise.
Viewers, get hyped.
This is it.
This is the Grand Finals, mid-season finals, 2026.
this tournament. Let's
absolutely go. Let's go. He
said it's the grand finals of
the mid season finals. We have
a potential for a repeat.
After he's a little bit for a
repeat performance coming in
from Navi formerly of rad
ironically as they had an
incredible run of this
you're in the US. You're in
the US. You're in the US. You're
ever American winner of an
international event for Marvel
rivals gaskin. You are in the
weird position of being from the
UK living in America and
covering the Americas. What about
you're in the web position of
being from Canada living in the
Americas and covering the M. E
is you're both sort of in the
fence. I feel like we could not
have a more. Bias but also
going to be hell's heaven to start us off it.
Yeah, if it was going to be any other map for Na'Vi,
I would have been like, OK, maybe not 2-0, 2-1,
that they could take this.
But this is their crux.
It feels like it's been a struggle for them
against some of the other teams, notably Team Heretics
and Virtus.
Pro, one of the only domination maps
they have dropped the entire season.
So there's definitely some footage on them
on what's worked, but that's been multiple patches ago
in the preseason.
So looking ahead here, it might just
be a sore spot for them that they got to make sure that they focus in for.
Yeah, that is worth noting that even though we have all these stats,
we will try and make sure that Terra returns because all he has Terra been good at.
Now, but genuinely, right, since the start of this tournament,
I've been saying I think TLC can win and you guys at EMEA have been watching
Navi all this time and you've been saying, no, it's going to be easy for Navi
or we think Navi are the better team.
You have now seen TLC vulnerable, right?
You've seen the player at the very best.
Do you think that TLC have a chance here in this grand final?
I'm sorry to ask questions and stuff,
but I would just like to know from your point of view,
after seeing so much of it.
I mean, I'd have to be under some sort of spell
or silence deduction to say that they don't have a chance,
but I think they do have a chance here.
If any team was going to have that opportunity
to take down Navi in this meta, in this tournament,
and in this moment, it would be Team Liquid Sidel,
and I think they can do it.
So we converted one, there we go.
We're all TLC fans now.
It's as easy as that.
We've got it boys. But yeah, this is going to be a very important lock of bad facing insanity that I as the host have to take a stand and say that this has got to be Navi. They just have to show it one more time. We're heading into this bad phase. And we're going to be starting off mantis taken away mag taking away. We have some very important characters.
What are some characters going to play a key role in this draw?
I mean the big thing here, this is the exact same start as we saw before with the Magneto save every time for Navi
and now also the Ultron save for Team Liquid Citadel.
But I got to figure out if we're going to go Storm or if we're going to go Rock of the Storm.
Wasn't quite working in the domination at the start too well against their opponents,
but we'll see if that's going to be the focus here.
the one in twenty six and one
where Navi beating Team Liquid
Citadel on domination in their
previous encounter. This could
make it a one in, I believe
twenty seven and two is what it
would be. So here too. I can't
count. There's a rocket protect
for Navi coming in here and now
Liquid Citadel with their final
ban on the ball. But they did
I think it's a good one. Fox told
me there wasn't going to be any
rocket bombs or locks. Fox I know
you're listening, buddy, and I
don't often glow. But here I
will. Anyway, this is a very
good bound phase. I think from
TLC. I like the one sided old
trying to point something on
here. Let's go for this very
quickly. You've talked about
that you'll be one over a little
bit by the teams, but that's
talk about the draft. Gas can
one word. Who have you got this
TLC? One word. Now the. Let's
It's the best to start our grand finals, guys.
Take it away, and bring us home.
Thank you so much, Tetra.
This is it.
We've all been waiting for all year, folks.
This is the grand finals.
Hi, it was a joy by Shiv.
We're going to do all some along.
It's so good to be back together, bud.
I'm so excited to be here, ladies and gentlemen.
Make some noise for the grand finals.
First match started up right now.
Navi, D, Liquid, Syndale will history repeat itself both in the win before and in land similar results
We find ourselves in domination and they put so well, I mean TLC is pretty much flawless
But the one fall was novel. That's it. They got it downloaded them
I mean there wasn't a bunch of changes in the band phase and I think that's something that we will see as we get deeper into the series
This top-down look as we start off our first match. Now listen again if they played five times
I think the outcome is different every time and so they're not going to see a lot of changes outright with what was banned protected and more all the
Stunts every superstar starts right now. It's all about who shows up question is who shows up today
Highside Turkey looking for an early major dropping back into tackle out of speedery. He's gonna be the first big in a yes
Goodbye now goes one of the side of TLC
And we've only seen one over in so far get a lot of success and that is Turkey looking for the beat out there
gonna do the same as the gun in the monster hunter in Elsa trying to find that opening pick.
Humber's evened up right here with the BRB, another attack with somebody stopping just
running through them as Jerky fights Paulie wants more.
You cannot stop the slice that dies, he's haunting, he wants more.
Jerky stopped before the grand finals last year looking to get that exclamation point.
Sarah building that ultimate now, 50% already in climbing crook at 70, don't know how that's
possible. Energy at best goes down as TLC is driven back to the spawn door. The point is capped by
So far, same result. Rage is painting blue there for the elimination.
See the point going to him first if you look at what we have.
Cook being close to the visual boundary. Honestly, TLC's still a mile away from in here.
And I'm just kind of playing. It's like they're going right back to where they left off.
TLC's got to find some confidence here and move forward.
See the composition on screen. Probably trying to take that space thing.
It's been a massive problem in this tournament. Definitely something to keep around.
We're seeing one Xman get a lot of success here.
Yes, you're going to go on to that storm to open up the clouds and get the thunderstorms rolling for them.
Close, Terra with the Glortroc. That was the X-bacter last time to get them to win.
The invisible boundary is up, the folding is out, and here we go, Nero, Chris, the Q to get Liquid Citadel trying to build the fortress.
The Glortroc lands on a few, but does get bursted quickly. Well done if the Royal Flush was committed.
Nobody has gone down. The Sea of Combination, trust me, going in with the Psionic.
It's going to find the fewest Terra is cleaning house after that 33KL game from before.
Now right now he's just picking up right where they left off and that is just absolute domination here in domination.
Shortly using most, Raj has the Q meter in, has slammed every single hero the last time these teams met up.
See you ready and more, DLC after his bomb. I can't use too much here.
We got Raj available from the side of Navi, many of alts here for Team Liquid City. I'll speedery on that storm.
But it doesn't matter what Terra is just finding these picks in the neutral. Good bye to Vess.
It's holding on to that Meteor end.
I mean, just pushing all the way into the spot.
It's crazy.
I mean, we just saw Liquid City that looked so dominant.
And now, once again, up against the EMEA Giants and Navi,
can't play scared, share the Liquid City now,
has the Qs.
We've got to get this thing rolling.
Now, they can't keep having this happen.
They're falling every single time in the neutral.
Prior to any engagement, now, they're also
going to be even.
Shbedari goes in with a hurricane.
The sea is there.
But there's the Meteor.
Comes down heavy looking towards backline.
Good movement in great E by Vess to slow the pace.
but 94% here already for Navi.
Now Solid Absorb and they committed.
TLC used what they had and they're going even more.
You've got Best of the Stars,
looking for the slams out,
top-down, finds the connection on the back of that violence.
Jerky trades it into speedery as level of Crook finds best.
The rest comes through out of Raj.
And again, the numbers for Navi are here.
Overtime is ticking down, Crook's finding energy,
and wow, TLC is just dwindling through
as Overtime ticks down.
Now Loose is the front line, but Bin does not break.
It's Navi looking clean in our first zone in domination in this best of seven shift.
Yeah, I mean, that was tough.
TLC never had it in those moments.
There's multiple times when they were waiting, got pushed in right to the spawn door,
and then instead of trying to bounce back with an alt-flight,
just getting found in the neutral time and time again, you cannot allow that to happen.
I mean, listen, without that meteor aim,
Raj was the only one to take the casualty.
Everybody else looking clean zeros across the board.
That's not where you want it.
You have to reset, obviously, long marathon here
if you're TLC having to play now through this whole day forward,
but it's time now to play your best.
You got to shake off those nerves right now.
Now they are playing like a team that belong on this stage in TLC.
And like a team that's got a little bit, you know,
nervous right now, buddy.
Yeah, listen, I mean, if you see what Navi's doing, right,
it's just massive neutral picks before the fight even begins.
You saw it there on trust me,
who's just continued to take that leadership role.
We know when this team came together
and always on the battlefield as well.
That's what I mean you talk about all the time,
that if you pick one Vanguard to have on your side at a LAN,
It's gonna be trust me.
Absolutely.
So passionate about the game, and that's where Navi really drives forward.
Tara mentioning the passion of this team, and it drives them to take this tournament.
They don't care about the money.
They want the title to begin our next fight.
Map 2, Navi up 1-0 into TLC.
Two big paths going up against one another.
This is the matchup I have my eyes on all day.
Monster Hunter V, Monster Hunter Jerky though.
There it is, the kidnap looking for more hits, the ceiling trying to find the connection.
Slices, dices, looking for it.
It's going to come up empty.
Not applying pressure for the invisible boundary of level 1 crook.
Again, this farms out all like no other.
We're trying to get a pick here.
The story of energy versus Terra is very much prevalent,
but Terra is winning that conversation right now without a doubt.
Sonic's induction, able to find one, and that's going to pull Vess.
Cooper trades it into Terra though, with the res come through onto Terra,
and Raj finds energy trickling down again.
Navi is deleting Team Liquid.
Yeah, that's why that rocket protects so huge, right?
I mean, Faye just constantly underrated.
Might not be the flashiest hero ship,
but just time and time again having that clutch factor
available.
And listen, they did well, surviving the first onslaught.
But the rest of the come, Terri still has a large rock
straight.
Yeah, they're really prioritizing the rocket.
Faye has done a great job on that hero,
and consistently farming that seed quickly.
But again, they're actually locking Rocket.
I don't know why the ban is a comfort for TLC,
but I guess they don't prioritize it.
They're just, believe it could be a solution.
I mean, how many times do I have to take time and time again?
Best is seven.
A lot of game to go, right?
Can't throw it all out at once as Cooper gonna fight Terra.
That's the fate to open up.
It's just the respawn on respawn.
Back from the elimination is going to be Terra
and they clean up just like that.
The momentum is so in Nabi's favor right now.
Liquid Citadel's got to drop back and reset.
Re-engage here with Polly trying to force out something.
There's no answer yet from Nabi.
Besides Rodger, she'll be there in a moment.
Oh, this could be big by Jerky,
trying to engage quickly, but no.
So holding onto that pass.
Yeah, they're getting these opening picks,
but then the rest is blue after.
I mean, slow down, take a deep breath.
They've got to come up with a battle plan here early in Hell's Heaven.
You can tell this team's definitely been studying this last matchup.
It took a little break, locked into what they need to do,
and tell you what, they are not faltering at all.
Yeah, folks, this is why it's crazy as the Glock Jax comes out,
trying to find that connection once again, time and time again.
We see that for energy, but once again coming up empty.
It's going to be the Neopessor's drum up off, up calmly,
all connection on, the slice, the dice, the dance of the butterfly,
finds two and finally some life here for TLC.
They have canceled their butterfly, and it hasn't had that much success in this tournament.
Schmeidery able to make something work there, but again, Navi, this is a fight they're allowed to lose.
Trust me, turns it back though.
Holly, she finds Raj and Nero into Trust me to try to even the numbers.
They will finally get this point with 85% here for Navi.
Their entirety of their team just got to lock in, lose a couple of fights, come back with Alts, and this match is theirs.
Such is all that for a drop of blood. We love to say it against Titans, right, and Thanos themselves.
That has been Navi against his team. It's crazy. We've watched TLC so many times.
Looks so dominant in domination.
Now it's off the story, Tara.
With an opening pick, has Orish feeder.
Being that pester in the backline, squashes the bug.
And now he's just suffocating them right now.
TLC's got to try to minimize the amount of usage
of these ultimate scars.
With an off-bap opportunity, it looks like it gets Polly.
Goodbye.
That's going to be the first pick of this fight.
I'm going to scour the psionic now, looking
for the raging royal flush.
Meteor rep to try to be an answer.
Does this land from bass?
It could be big instead.
And a trade into that sea.
The dance floor comes out now as they're
holding on here for Cooper.
I mean, we know Hell's Heaven is going for the off-maps who up there up top,
and the top rope is something we don't see often.
Houston, Terra, Cooper, once you try to find that trait on the DPS,
fighting on the point already, Portal from Pauli,
trying to keep this thing alive.
50% in climbing, but it's Rosh.
It's Magneto shutting that door.
Now, I mean, there's some traits here from Energy and Bass,
but it doesn't matter.
Portal's been committed.
90% in climbing.
Point captured here by Navi.
They are not letting up.
Foot on the gas, and they are driving right through the Citadel.
So, will they now get him caught?
They're hunting at this moment, trust me, trusting himself.
Hunting more, terrifies one.
And all of Liquid's sitting down, falling one by one.
Shit, this isn't looking close.
Yeah, there's got to be a major change here.
We're going to see Energy finding one at least.
The next fight numbers are there.
They're stalling the point, but not for long as best falls.
Now the Vanguard line is bewindling.
No also available.
OZ ticking down, and this could be it, the touch,
but not for long.
Goodbye.
That's going to be map one, Novi.
Novi makes clean work there in domination once again,
And then it's going to sin is a 27 and 2 here for Team Liquid Citadel.
It makes it look like light work, can't believe it.
Yeah, I mean, it's like fire and water, 26 straight dominations,
and then losing two back to back to the team that's
up against them in the grand finals.
For you, Shav, what do you feel like just
needs to have immediate change, right?
Obviously, picking ban goes a long way.
That's the first place to fix it.
Is it mental?
I mean, we just saw what they were able to do down there to rad.
But it's a different story.
Yeah, it gets tricky.
I think they're really prioritizing from the side of Navi.
the Magneto and now the Rockets so if you try to find a way through that but
the trick you know the trouble is they really locked that mag second ban every
time when you're forced to ban out Mantis they're going to get that pig.
Yeah when Raj has the mag it's dangerous territory. I mean listen it's a team
sport right all the team here really needing to step up as one as we've
continued to see on the stat line. For me though the it factor we know when we've
talked about energy I've got to see more of those openings and then creating the
rest of the opportunity for what is DLC. So is that conversation between energy
and Terra, and we got to see Terra get walked down at midtown.
And you saw the anger on screen.
And then right after that, just walks through, gets the third point,
takes it to OT, and ends with a 66 in nine round.
That's the kind of momentum energy needs to turn around for his team.
Yeah, and the passion of what did he say?
He said, you did not bring a trophy to America.
So I guess I will, even if it's for EMEA's side of things.
And we saw it so many times back in the past,
about 100 fees and more.
Terra just clicking the on switch when things looked down.
But guess what?
They're not to be close to that.
And now he's able to just play and ride
with that momentum, which goes such a long way here at rivals.
Yeah, I also want to shout out Jerky,
as we see Jerky making some plays here on the Wolverine.
Not a ton of value out of Wolverine plays throughout
this whole tournament, but Jerky has been consistently
making things happen on these off angles,
finding the Vanguard early in these picks,
forcing them to lose one of the neutral reset,
and that's just time on point.
Yeah, I mean, look, if you look back at this team
that was able to win the Innocence last year, right,
they had two big additions, both in Tara,
but Jerky as well, and we could both say
it was the Syloc OTP, right?
and just able to change it on a dime
and really be as flexible as anyone in the game.
Yeah, look at these stats here.
Just pretty even across the board from trust me all the way
down to fade.
Everyone getting some involvement.
The jerky was 7.
Tarot with 9.
Raj, and trust me, up there was 7 and 9 as well.
This team, everybody gets commit.
Everyone gets picks in the neutral.
They just kind of sit up there after spawning them.
Yeah, listen, and we would talk about it all the time
when you have a best of 7.
Don't want to throw everything out right away.
All the tricks up the sleeve.
Where they did look dominant was 8-0.
Funny enough, we always talk about 8-0.
It is a dominant map and they're gonna take it right there. I'd like this play right sometimes
They say best map for later. You cannot allow this thing to get away from you to oh and it's all another story
Yeah, you need to try to change momentum in your favorite right now
It is very much not so let's see if they can get a win here and move forward make this a 1-1 series
Head into map 3 as guard a hell of a location in Marvel and here in LA a great location for a beautiful day four
In this thing to crown our champion players locked back in you can just tell the confidence there on
on Na'Vi vibing.
I mean, we saw earlier when they did look down a bit
previously in the series, terror over there,
yelling at trust me, trust me, calming everything down, right?
This Na'Vi, though, is very hard to beat at this stage.
Yeah, emotions, that was a bad thing, though.
It's passion, right?
We talked about how this team really just wants this.
It's about the title, not necessarily the money,
although the money is nothing to joke about without $160k.
Yeah, no, absolutely here.
For TLC, they are obviously getting here.
Coach Gator, what can they cook up to continue the success?
And what we saw in it just the last time was energy being him, right?
The triple fan guard, maybe have him on the mag.
We saw that for time and time again.
That is a huge ticket to victory.
Do you want the rocket band there?
Yeah, it's not a bad idea.
I mean, Adam now comes into fruition.
These triple-triple comps are now going to be a big problem.
Pauli could be playing the penny, which
is we've seen a lot of today.
I think they've spent some success there,
maybe a little too much commitment into that composition.
But we'll see what they elect to do.
And if they change it up, because you know for a fact
that Navi's done their homework.
Yeah, listen, there's a lot of flexibility here
with the top players, definitely none from Mr. Fantastic here in the top stage.
But the big thing, if you do look at someone like Team Liquid Citadel,
they have a lot of comfortability in things like Captain America, we're not seeing that one, right?
Vest obviously having to pick up some new roles as well.
So it's not about being flexible, but also just adapting so quickly on the fly.
Billy and you team up to the game as well. How can you use it to your advantage?
Yeah, it's team synergy. It's tricky because Vest is so strong on Magneto, for an example.
And when you have to pull that away to pull it towards maybe somebody like Energy or Polly,
Vest now has to run on something maybe not necessarily not as comfortable,
but not something they can carry the game with,
whereas Nabi, I truly believe they do not have a composition
they cannot run.
No, without quote, I mean, listen, should three finals.
I mean, they've been to every single one.
That is absolutely just unprecedented,
even the early of this Esports.
It's disgusting.
They're always finding a will in a way.
And what is even more scary than that?
Someone like, trust me, having that dream taken away last year.
Yeah, the hunger is all the way there.
I bet you he's reminding himself of that moment.
100%.
You used that to fuel you, like, was there in that moment,
seeing the sadness, the devastation of losing against VP.
And they vowed to take home the next one.
And I'll tell you what, right now they
are looking like they're going to.
Yeah, listen, I said earlier against Radyo,
it takes those low lows to get to the high highs.
I remember the two's on the stage, right?
Those are those lows.
And now trying to find that high is going to be Na'Vi.
And again, it's crazy when you look at region-V region, right?
Sure.
Teams within.
It's always been the story of the Titans here.
But right now, Na'Vi just feels comfortable.
It's not even about skill level at the moment.
the comfortability here at Landor at the home turf.
Yeah, we're smiling, you know.
Now we're here smiling in this match.
I feel comfortable.
Well, hey, maybe not a rush.
No, absolutely.
Yeah, we're always looking for interviews after Navi wins.
And not Ross will move forward on from here.
And maybe it's just Mac players.
I know Dwepp was the same there.
He ran away from me at one point.
But either way, we have this team, TLC,
and what makes them special and the story of how they got here.
A lot of it ran through the back line.
I'm going to focus on that.
We always talk about the flashy dash.
Listen, Cooper, it's this trust me mechanics.
He's got of just that leadership,
the knowledge, the want factor from Cooper, right?
And on the other side, talk about Nero,
because this is a player, right,
that continues to just have clutch in the base.
Yeah, I've always said Nero's one of those strategies
that plays aggressive when White Fox's Meta
was always next to Pauli on the dive
and committed, ready to teleport out.
That's something you don't always see
in a strategist player.
Nero is very aggro, also can run the Ultron,
but again, their team just has a little bit of overlap.
So instead of electing a half speeder, you run that.
for sure. I mean, it's all about a game of matchups, right?
You look at any sport.
That's how they break it down into practice room.
Game day is one thing.
The results are shown on practice, on scrims.
We talk about this all the time.
Navi going into the Grand Finals last year.
Not the best scrim records, right?
And obviously, it did show a little bit.
But that's the time and place to try that out,
especially when there's Marvel rivals, too, going on with only
FEMA.
Yeah, yeah.
They're still trying to figure out the meta.
I think teams found meta here when they started going into scrims.
They said, all right, this coffee is a little cheesy.
Maybe we should match this.
We will be getting into the band phase, and what are the chances of that?
Man, it's been bad first.
Yep, you know, we're only gonna get two, I thought maybe one, but no.
We're gonna get two band displays and two bands to follow the Ultron protect,
coming right out the rip there to get speedery on that flex position.
That's what got them to success last time at Interstellar Path.
Expect to see more of it.
Yeah, you know, I could have guessed this.
We're gonna see the Ultron save here from Team Liquid Citadel.
Outside of that, it could be the Penny, potentially the Mag.
They were able to do that before but so consistently every time storm mag rocket there for Navi. It's gotta
So there's the difference right they're gonna ban that rocket. Yeah, go ahead and get down
That's a big change because how many times did it get the opening pick and then right back through the respawn was Navi
And then they finished the job and actually won this exact map banning the rocket
I've mapped to so this is something that I said, you know, this is not necessarily a win condition
But it's not not a wicked issue. Yeah, no without question
I think a good man here from the Adam Warlock up top obviously don't want to allow that sure especially on interest
There's definitely maps that kind of lean themselves.
Triple support, very good, obviously, whether you're at rank
or here, live on the pros.
But this is one to get the ban in.
And fate is obviously a very strong warlock.
We got to see some of those plays in museum.
Up in the double digits, finals, was sneaking into the back line.
What does team with down and still got two on his own
before the team came back in?
That's the kind of level of talent that fate has.
You need the confidence to be able to make that happen.
That's good job bringing up the talent.
Oh, my god, you know, I'm not too shabby at this game.
And then I see some of these plays made.
Oh, I'm cheap.
Oh wait, I am the bottom of the barrel, but no, I've been way looking at what they're trying to bring here on the stage.
LA get loud, viewers in the chat, let's get the emotes going.
We got Liquid sitting out versus Na'Vi. Match number two as the teams lock in.
Make your seal, Pat. The strange, unique compositions. The spawn break.
Be ready to see if there's any changes, but we know what we've seen in the past. A lot more punisher nowadays.
And we talk about it all the time why we love this map first of all
It kind of lends itself to all play styles right if you knew what watching rivals or like something's worse
So like what's going on front to back is huge here, but you can also play died depending on the point and the pressure
I think that's why I love people like it kind of play similar to something like Clint are you know
It's funny over these last few days
There has been some dive on the teams usually DD to try to distract backline
But now teams are elected to run double gun essentially not necessarily it's getting absolutely bucky being up there with projectile
But it's finding success
So we'll see if they like to do that here.
And I think that's a great point because one of the only teams that had been able to pull off that double-hand scan has been Navi, right?
Because you lose the pressure and all the aggression of the dive, that ship, that doesn't matter when everybody's just fallen from the guns here as we get Navi.
TLC, the tree of Destiny, ready to roll. Three, two, and one, doors open.
This composition will be locked here between Liquid Citadel.
Bucky going to be the one that is played Cooper has his tradition at this point running the gambit
Nero on the rocket best on the bag and speedery on that storm a lot of damage coming out of this composition
Can they walk through this front taking the first corner spawner being held on the David on the right side a very good position
In their first matchup
I did not see them enable best forward to do what he does best the magnet already the catch sword
Trying to find the slice the dice trust me get the freebie on the minds on as Paulie falls early
There is the one-sided rocket that'll come into that advantage.
Exactly. Numbers are evened out.
It's a huge cool-down burn here inside of Knobby.
That's all they're looking for. That's a win in their book.
I like the jump, the rocket jump on the side of Vest, but either way,
it's not able to get that spawner down.
Now Cooper already have 50% issues.
If you look at the opposition's side, they obviously able at 22.
That's going to give them plenty of that momentum to carry on.
Jerky up in the sky looking down.
The age of Knobby falls to the other flyer in the speeder.
They're taking one down, that's a Strat pick too, very valuable.
Again, they're gonna try to take this case back, the spawner's gone, good position here by Faye,
but it doesn't matter as Trusky goes down best.
Still pressing that space in as Energy drops Terra,
looking exactly like last time, another pick here with a double from Energy.
Make it a triple, why don't you, Energy, as they push through to 0.1.
That is the opening you're looking for and getting that snowball roll over here.
The crowd getting excited as they get these goats headed towards the doors,
but the portal opens up, making it one more fight through the front lines.
And just trust me, they got the triple banger here, ship.
Speaking of cooldowns now, there's good utilization there from Cooper.
Using that back-hater team up to keep him away from the portal on that side.
Energy now diving in towards the back line on Krogan.
Krogan gets to lead it, Nero now with the Blinky on the tarot, making two, three, four.
And this will be 0.1, team with the Citadel.
Point to the captain to see on the chest to get it done.
What did I say?
We're going to see that in-back in the straightery.
LA likes it.
There's that hometown buff that we hear as Energy and Co. push forward.
Gotta keep this aggression going.
Even through all that chaos, Cruc, is that 95%
to ultimate base gonna be right behind?
Sia's gonna be the only answer from now on to Nero.
The idea from Speeder, he's gonna be using that hurricane
early, trying to force out a backline, and he's from there.
That's a great point here, level one Cruc online,
as you said, backline, right?
We're gonna see maybe if we can get this rolling
as the clouds open up once again here in LA in Asgard.
Tornado rains down, Tadagoy won to find.
Nothing so far, it's gonna be like clear skies.
Oh!
Wow, just like that! Energy is never tired, Speidery to follow!
That is a huge combination of the Sia from Nero,
and they will dunk and run right through them off the back of that Omega Hurricane well-dunned Speidery.
And just like that, Cooper able to be at 50% to lap on over to Fade shortly.
Let's listen in and hear this offensive attack from Navi to try to hold down the gates.
lift lift lift
what are they going to have guys?
i can swing the red with whatever i want
i think i can use it
and then to
pick it up pick it up
you like to help me up
help me help me help me
You're gonna die, I hope I'm not gonna die.
Trap me, trap me here!
We can take a turn soon, if you don't want me to stay for now.
Trap, trap me.
Hey, walking, walking, walking, walking.
I anti-emma.
Don't trap Trap, trap Trap, trap Trap.
Keep walking, keep walking, keep walking.
Keep walking, keep walking, keep walking.
And you heard, take our turn soon.
That means we force out the cooldowns, let's use ours, as they try to press back in.
Forced out of view.
Sionic's at Dutch, he's there, trust me.
And now the side of Team Liquid, Citadel taking their turn.
Best drops jerky, Speedery with a two-piece now,
and the momentum immediately back in their favor.
Speedery is short-wise, Hilary bad,
because if you look at those comms, what I love about it
is everything that a friend was great at.
Countdown, quick comms, help me,
and trust this ship still laughing at the Hilary.
And you see their energy using the slow walk.
He may be saying, oh, he's Orofarming.
No, it's actually silence.
There's a little bit of tech to that movement now.
He's putting this right side, looking to pull in the back line
and get a pick here.
Not AFK, just trying to keep those footsteps quiet, tear with the opening pick once again,
taking down that biggest threat in the skies, but nearer, the one-sided rocket brings it back to the action.
Will we see the first commitment here shortly? Omega Hurricane looking open up,
Crypto on a candy-visual boundary.
And jerky. She's making that change, that Wolverine could be a problem.
A lot of ultsabilder here from Navi, boundary goes out by Crook,
who just farms his ult at this point immediately, the hurricane comes down, the Glartrox.
Oh, it's like a sleep paralysis game, and as it finds a few,
And they will retake this space.
Terra up the terrify as they call it the best once more.
Does 5-2 in the trade and a bit of a hard stacker here from TLC.
But the big thing is the commitment wasn't all the way there.
Still have a couple of things to work with Cooper and more.
But fate as old barrage as well.
This is looking dangerous.
You have three minutes down, a minute and a half.
This can evaporate fast.
They're really good defense here by Navi.
And they did not over commit on those alters.
It's just committing Terra.
And number one crook with Citadel trying to build alts quickly.
They will have four for this next fight
to match back the three from Navi.
And we heard, what does everyone have, right?
They're talking about the ultimates.
Now, I want to see how they choose to use it.
Because if you don't think they have something to match with,
at this case, they're certainly now they hear Raj.
Getting the opening pick once at Galeage-Bittery,
that respawn doesn't look to be their shape in time from Nero.
So at this point, another quick win for Navi.
This is going to be at most two fights here.
TLC is going to have to use these ults soon.
We've got a fun success in the Navi.
They're going to be doing a great job playing patiently.
Just trying to stall and force fights slowly.
What a pull there.
but even better bubbles and rocks.
It takes all hands on deck to rise to sales.
And right now, it's one at a time,
but Energy is going to find himself
at first pick on Trust in the Frontline.
Cooper finds another just like that.
No, he's tired.
It's Energy.
What's he gonna face down?
Lance down, Shav.
It's a third.
That's gonna be three of the reset again and again.
Looking into the sky on a tarot.
You can see how far we go.
Energy is looking through them with a pick-top.
And point two is looking to happen.
Cracking it back down.
Lance, let's hear that land impact.
it looks like TLC, going through, portal opens, it's gonna be trust me, jumping in.
The whole team coming through Portland now with the advantage in the favor of TLC.
Raj lands another meteor, what else is new at this point?
Energy would trust me, Vest finds one, the rest comes back on a speeder,
and that's gonna be the point.
Very hard point to take, I don't want to undermine at all.
This used to be the hardest point to take when you look at the maps that weren't available,
because there's such a close spawn push, it's so hard to get everything dialed in perfect.
Once again, those traps are everywhere for Polly, trying to find some souls,
but pushing in and keeping the aggression going.
Another very defensible position.
Obviously the squad being incredibly close here
but not being too happy.
Potential huge tackle with the last hand from Jerky Terra.
And with the wrong hook.
Contrary to the playership, 1 and B here.
12, 12 right here to show why they are the best.
Pulling all eyes on him to leave the charge.
Everybody a mile away from the old energy doesn't need it.
Just pops, it gets the opposition in there
and shut down that terrifying duelist.
That would be physical boundary up.
This is a great pop early.
Turkey using his their points of interest, but they're not finding anything.
Yeah, really well done. Great kiting by Team Liquid Citadel. The Hurricanes available.
There is no combination just yet. Terra, none of that large rocks.
That's going to be all they have for an answer. Will it matter?
Heading towards the back line on a fade who goes down. That's going to be one kicker.
Schmeidery has the point still continues forward. Good drop back there by Nabi,
who turns it into Schmeidery. Nero now on to Raj. The numbers are back and forth.
Red and blue on this KO feed. Here's a wrap of TLC 93 and climbing.
I mean, we have two of the goats there, Bess and Energy ready to pop the Q on the other side.
Terra can match. Can you get that clutch back there once again?
That got them and sent TLC to the lower.
Energy finds Terra. Back to the spawn, you go.
Shorten trip. As time is ticking, the distance is going.
We're almost at overtime.
We're going to see now the retake is there.
Four seconds up, they need to touch and they do as overtime starts up.
Sia goes out here, the Cossack yarn amplifier, now it's gonna be one on a Raj.
Do we see a second pick on the back right corner?
No, not quite yet.
Teams are even out dropping back now.
Jerky and Energy find one apiece and the numbers are still four to four.
No, Razzle Dazzle's just the old neutral once again with the Razzle Dazzle.
Oh, that's far! It's painted red!
TLC get three!
The full push with no time on guaranteeing at least an overtime looking at the stats
on the board now energy, but we were talking about 16 finals.
No absolutely crazy and listen speeder right back on top there with 11.
I would say this one thing they did pretty well.
three finals from Ross. We're all on speedy to try to keep that in check but
someone always answered the call. What are we seeing right now ship? It's the
rocket respawn every time now coming in that clutch factor. You get one pick it
doesn't matter and then just push all the way back just battling the Rams. You
know you're gonna be staying at home why don't they just find that the BRB I'll
tell you what when you have this strong of damage on a team that does not miss
you you are not trying to find an off angle. It's very difficult unless you're
going something like black cat to get back there. Listen it's rare we can see
teams go after each other like this quickly right so you just went through a
It wasn't on one side of the fair at all up there in the uppers and so they take quick notes, right?
Obviously the advantage is for Navi. They were able to perfect the things that didn't go right
Whereas if you were in TLC, you have to worry about grab get through here, but right now they're showing that they're fixing the mistakes
Call this locking down the Citadel here
Team Liquid Citadel who is trying to hold a light at the spawn door and Holly back on that story Penny
That's the team rivals at its peak. I mean it's so cool to be here to see just heroes
We love players as well the gates open and Navi is hungry
You won't like to win their anger yourself in terror once again and before
Doesn't matter though shuts and slams the door. We're talking about energy going on that Magneto
Well that's kind of filled the role and that's exactly what's happening here speedering on that ultron Pauly
On the penny. This is a great spawnhold so far Navi have gone out of other doors to try to get away with
This, uh, mines, excuse me, it's worked out, but break the bones, man.
Yeah, to our previous point, energy there on the map, right?
This really helps that triple van Gogh, but Rashel in the one mag,
knows all, Vera Roschito here as hero is gonna rise up, Paulie once again coming in clutch,
and there it is, we continue to see the same tail.
Yeah, Cooper and Envy fighting two more, Cooper doing a great job finding those finals on Aluna.
Very much a damaging presence in that backline, and now with that cleanse has been a priority locked target to stay in the van phase.
No, without question, new shit as we try to slow things down.
Look at what's available, right?
On the other side, right now, Navi, just like the first point push on the other side,
don't have anything available in the Q department.
There's ultimate so important, you're going to have that Sia ready to enable the thing.
Push it through strong, shit.
This left the client fast.
She's really looking at the fate.
Again, just kind of stalling.
Feeling the team out, trying to build towards those ultimates.
That is simply Navi's strategy, but Nero finds the first one to Sia.
Trying to get one more wipe against this team as they head back to the door, and they do.
Raj goes down, numbers up for TLC who wins this fight.
Kassal and Kadyn, they're going back to spawn right at that point,
but still even getting the Raj back is just able to completely stagger
and allow even more of that precious clock every second matters.
As you know, the clouds open up on Jerky's side.
What will he find on Storm?
Looking for more.
It's whirling, it's whirling.
Storm is going to come up empty.
It is absolutely sunny days right now in LA.
Peter is doing a great job.
He's in the rage of all trying to counter right back into that hurricane,
deleting it instantly here.
And again, they are forced back to the door, doing a great job using one-for-one in trading
and not over-committing here as Cooper and Energy are going to be best and falling off of it.
This is what makes Tribal's credit, right?
One on the doll, pushing into his spawn, now it's going to be the other side,
and there it is, the Trout favorite, the Meteor Em.
Get in and she finds his connection, slams down the rim.
Coming off, not getting no points.
Trust me, now walking forward with the Sionic, this could be big and a Polly,
but no, it doesn't land at the very end there.
More commitment with the Meteor Em from Raj, who just does not miss these.
That by Jake's did, looking for the sky, and oh!
That would have been dirty, but no,
does not get the clean up there.
Ross will fall, I believe, in this position.
Who needs to put Slink Dungeon to get a layup as energy, right?
Who needs to be here when you're able to get the neutral?
It's a problem I brought in to get this team changed.
Best war, pick it up, best war, energy finds more.
I don't even know what the solution is here.
Navi trying to make compositional changes now,
just to get out of this door.
How is TLC still at the spawn door?
This thing hasn't moved.
Jerky said, I didn't like our win record getting tainted.
Well, guess what?
This is looking like at worst we've seen Na'Vi.
This is very uncomfortable ground for them.
TLC is looking strong, building that fortress
back after the cannonball.
That was domination.
These of the Citadel have been thrown away.
They still have those doors locked and are not moving.
Very low now in the front side of the Vaz,
who launched at the clobbering time.
He doesn't seem to land here.
Lord Drach goes out.
It's good for Terrell.
He was able to find Vaz, but he's trading back on the Raj.
Well, Vanguard's down.
Vaz comes back with a BRB, and there is that value
We're talking about it continues to find a will in a way 42 seconds
We're gonna have to see some type of Trojan horsey if they want to get through the fortress of the Citadel once again
But they have looked unshaken that see is ready to go energy continues to swash all those elimination
But one crook in jerky with ultimate here against the sea of Nero
Is that going to be enough? Here goes that hurricane energy able to find crook once more numbers off the sea
is committing from Nero to try to stop that hurricane.
Can they clean up the pit?
Yes, they can.
Jerky goes down, fate falls, and Cooper finds trust me.
That is another team wipe with six seconds on.
Fuel through the daughter of Magneto,
Scarlet Woods giving that sword, getting more energy.
Who needs the tallest roll when you've got Mag
as you've got the champion rolling from fate?
This is her last chance to decide their fate on Hager's Sail.
Up goes the meteor ship.
And bang, down it goes.
It does not land here, Cooper.
Fighting level one crook, fate trades it back into energy.
Now, like Navi has a chance, still down in numbers.
Can they make this work?
But energy's back from that ERP.
Playing around the point here.
Cooper holding onto the dance floor for an answer,
if it's needed.
Bill has also benefited.
They need to make something happen here quick.
And Navi, on the other hand, just needs
to stall as long as possible to try to build these alchs.
And they've moved only in Ant-Man's size
and this is up to you.
There's an eyes in way as you look on the show.
It's on.
22, Spiral Angus, Luna's putting on.
That sustained effort.
Kessler, got the clock in time.
large trot sound, everything rolling in this affinity war as we look closer to one to one.
Wow, it's big here as Lance on the frontline.
Energy able to clean up one, make it two here as it's got to be enough to shut down the overtime,
trading exactly back into them in a dominant map performance.
It looks like here, Team Liquid's sitting out.
We'll be able to shut this down, but they can't take down.
Trust me.
Overtime, 50 to the exact slim as extermination from the skies.
It's the age of spazier and old trot.
Looking for more in the sustained effort, even at spawn.
Trust me, Township, we got the Spider-Man and Peter Parker!
Somebody just saw the new movie here.
There's more commitment to the side of Polly,
but this might put him in a nice spot.
I gotta show some love to Na'Vi, who are playing lights out
around this, still stalling.
And they've regrouped on the point.
They do not give up.
Lights out, but it's like 2 points to 100 right now.
I mean, you gotta get more of these to push it forward.
Polly's trying to find something interesting.
Just nice, right off the bat.
Peter Parker, oh no!
Shout out to Navi, who are going to be able to get this thing moving.
There's going to be a portal play on the ramp here for the retake.
Someone said it's a brand new day for Malavi to push on through this point,
up the ramp, hardest point of this point to take as the portal opens from strange.
The threat is finally...
Right on the ramp here to ensure a third fight should things get dicey.
The goal here is to try to force out Alusman.
It's not much else he need to do.
The last stand from Turkey on the Pauli is what they were looking for,
but their big value, Terra, drops energy now too, and Navi are still showing up.
Oh, committing a strangling prison.
I'm not sure if they needed that.
Yeah, but there's a will.
There is a way.
Nobby knows that they can still get this done.
All they have to do is get to that gate.
Now we're going to have one more fight in the minimum
to get there.
But great point.
Rosh using that old, pretty tough.
Obviously, we've got fate and more.
Time is still a sliver.
Can't leave those goats.
Keep your eyes on.
Trust me, in fate for this initiation,
Energy needs a big rock here to shut down something best.
It's going to be the next closest.
And then the dance floor from Cooper, we'll see if that's enough on this retake to make it work.
Set up already is Raj, clearly the Shadyaka is working.
And it gets to this point, Polly now, engages, gets on, drops the spawner, protects up with a shield.
Idiar M is up here, bang, Atlanta, no, into a wall.
Dance floor from Cooper.
Navi are not giving up, chasing the gloar truck for the dance floor.
Let's get that thing moving now, as fate goes down.
The strategy falls from Navi.
Aya Vagabotto from best doesn't land.
We don't see the eyes yet, and it looks like they have retaken position in Nero now.
on a level one crook, the point is getting cleared energy
on the Terra, trust me, at two HP in the dream,
but that dream is a nightmare as they retake the point.
Mooks, buckle your seatbelts, L.A. and viewers at home.
This is gonna be a long flight in our best of seven,
the Grand Finals, the best of the best.
What a performance there, but shout out to Navi.
What a retake to get that thing moving,
just maybe a little bit of overcommitment
on that second fight on the ramp.
Outside of that, that could have been there.
They shout out to Na'Vi.
I'm saying, oh, shout out.
I'm giving it right now.
And at TLC, the lock's strong, right?
Obviously, we did say this is their map of comfort.
They wanted to use it right away.
You know, you always have the pocket aces.
They played them both, obviously, right here and now.
But it's so important to not let momentum slip.
We've seen these grand finals before.
Just go away in an instant when you are down 2-0.
Yeah, I mean, like you're saying, it's all about momentum,
right?
They got destroyed in Na'Vi.
And it looked like the polar opposite here.
When it came to Iker seal, obviously, the attack was rough.
but holding a 0.1 down to overtime without the thing moving an inch is insane.
We have not. We've seen a lot of games together that close on interest
with the talent of these two teams in the caliber.
Again, Pauli on Spider-Man.
I mean, what the ad was at Mystery Heroes out there, my friend.
I mean, we have so many great games to go.
I know you're not going anywhere.
We're going to take it to the desk to break down the heat.
The heat is exactly how we can describe that.
What a series so far between these teams and Team Liquid City, Dogaskin, already starting to bring it back.
The doubters may be silent.
Yeah, doubters. How about that? I'm not going to get too ahead of myself.
We've already been here at 1-1. However, it is quite evident TLC are far better with structure.
If they could take the first point on domination, I do think we'll see a different TLC if they get the chance to set up just as they did in that previous.
I mean, looking at that map before as well, Hell7 and I talked about it before,
it wasn't really the strong suit for Na'Vi, but they have practiced it since then
to make it sure it was a strength instead of a weakness.
But the big thing I want to talk about is we're seeing parallels to the last years, mid-season finals.
Envy vs. Rad EU, Yggdrasil path was the map to tie things up that Envy took against them.
This old Na'Vi roster, plus some changes, of course.
It's a bit of a flashback for them.
time seems to be a flat circle as once again midseason finals comes down to an
EMEA at an American team with several players shared between them but that
all timing a circle means this stuff comes round again and we just saw
cracking impacts does seem to come again and again the witness holders still
continuing to dominate these drafts and it was energy you have the chance to
dominate as well 31 finals in that previous game I think it is going to be
the energy versus terror matchup over and over again here in this series to try and find out who could be the best
dualist in the world really and let's be honest whoever lifts the trophy
How that has the last laugh we may have seen terror take him down to start with but now it's ground finals
It's all reset and energy looks like he's not falsely any types of
Generally they've held so aggressively on this point. They held them at six meters
Until essentially over time for that's no easy thing
No easy feat, but when you have a hero like Spider-Man on your side, you're able to show up big.
And as Hikosei said, it's like it was Navi's brand new day, but unfortunately it wasn't their day at this go-around.
I'm getting so scared, I still haven't seen it yet, and the more people start talking about it, the more there we've been.
There's more spoilers that could start to creep out. I'm like, please, everyone, just stay quiet. I've heard it's brilliant, though.
But yeah, it's amazing to see more heroes just coming into the action.
You kind of need that. You need people to have that depth of their hero pool, just in case you have to go for something dramatic.
the team's team. The team's
team's team is. TLC not
having it to mirror that
spider bad sacrifice there to
make sure they can make it back
through the portal to rejoin
this final defense. What's an
incredible hold coming in here
and the teams. There's such an
important emphasis on two
communications here, and you
can see on the stage that the
players are wearing some raise
headsets that are tuned
specifically for tournaments
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That's like pro-level reaction times for dodging Magneto OZ.
That's what we need to be seeing in here, so they can make sure that what they hear
lines up exactly with what's happening on screen available now.
What about these stats?
Yeah, I mean, talking about that too, I feel like the communication between Team Look and Citadel has been that much better than it was last time.
Cooper and Nero really synced up on the back line and able to duck dodge and dive everything from Team Na'Vi and looking on the other end.
Fate and Crook, 9 casualties, 12 casualties. They were getting hard targeted by Energy and best in everyone on the team.
But we actually were talking a little bit in the break while we were watching the games here.
It was completely different story in map number one. They barely went down a toll vault.
Yeah, that shows the difference between, you know, a comfort pick map and one that you just have to play on against the best of the best.
So the signature path seems to be the domain of dread that we see here for Team Liquid Citadel.
But my curiosity is, what potential maps could we go to and maybe haul the Jolly again?
Yeah, maybe something they've been able to play recently that it's all going to come down to the coaches and the strategy they want to employ here and how much research they've done to try and find those weaknesses.
And when do you want to gamble on them as well?
True.
This is the best of seven. We could in theory go all the way here.
Do you want to try and burn them early? Do you want to leave them a little bit later when perhaps fatigue comes into play as well?
When you mention domains of dread, I start to get worried that vampires might be coming in here,
but something appears to be going on down at the stage.
Yeah. I have a bone to pick with all you pro players.
Why do you keep banning Adam?
Can you not handle perfection?
Oh, they got noise cancelling headphones on, they don't know what I'm saying.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!
You, sir.
Why do we keep banning Adam?
Uh, it's OP.
That's right.
Don't you want to play OP?
Don't we want to see perfection?
All you have to do is press the F key.
That's for fly.
Don't we want?
Don't we want more Adams?
Come on.
Who's gonna pick Adam?
Don't ban Adam.
Adam, no more nerfing Adam. Second chance is over. Peace.
I mean, a huge shit fan of the voice actors too, yes.
Keep banning him. It's sad to me. We've seen enough comic revivals for our liking. Adam
Warlock, such a strong hero at the moment. Must be so fun by the way, for these voice
actors to come in and get to see their characters banned or play for course.
structure right for Team Liquid
Citadel. It does provide the
with said structure. I think
the Navi are one of the best
teams they're adapting and
thinking on the fly, which is
why they're so good at
domination. But here,
Convergence, Shin Shibuya will
get that option for Team
Liquid Citadel to set up and
just deny an entry point here.
I wonder if we see the
Penny Mirror again on defense
where we saw Polly trying to
play it very aggressively,
but trust me, it was shutting
them down, got a couple of
nominations, using the mind
within the webs. That was a
It's a highlight spot for me in the last time.
It certainly has been a highlight so far with the webs,
with the ultra combos, with the atoms for the revise.
We've also seen a very high attention being paid,
as we've talked about in previous games,
but it's bringing back here
when you have those big bunker comps.
Storm starts to appear more.
We've talked about the NAVI protect to get a few times here,
and Storm plus Punisher or Winter Soldier or Elsa,
just something to try and use that damage
was to break the line.
We saw the storm actually band last by it.
Yeah, I'll see previously, but I feel like the big focus is on that rocker raccoon for fate fate has been very effective on it before
We saw it banned this last time and it worked very well
Gaskin was heading on into this map
We know just how deadly this choke point can be and how much it can shut down
When we start to get ready to head into this draft which heroes we already talked about the rocket potentially
We talked about maybe Adam. What are you looking at as the potential for the bands as we head right on in?
I do think that obviously Ultron and the Penny become focus points for both of these teams,
but this is where you start to play mind games in a grand final as well.
Do you start to leave something open?
Do you start to see what they will do with a certain hero?
There's still a little bit of time, but yeah,
we are going to see the Ultron protect coming in there from Team Liquid Citadel.
And even though this is Navi's map and even though they have already found success here against Team Liquid Citadel,
yes, it's a quick turnaround for TLC, but it will still be fresh in their brains, right?
There's going to be things that they know went wrong.
I think the big change will be a mag save over a penny save.
I don't think they're worried about it getting banned out here as well.
And that's kind of what I've been expecting from them.
So we do see the mag save and the rocket ban
instead of the Adam Warlock ban.
Jordan Reynolds is right.
The revives could be coming in here in a different form
as Rocket is taken off the board.
Navi preventing Team Liquid's stealth
from getting their own Adam with that Ultron team up.
Gambit, I'm just sneak all the way to the end.
So we do have the option for Gambit and Magneto
on both sides of the board here.
and into our final ban.
It's Adam!
The Rewards are taken away.
Get back on the stage just to shout at him one more time.
But yeah, I think that was inevitable.
We've seen so much value from Adam Warlock so far.
This tournament doesn't surprise me.
When you're just that perfect,
sometimes you have to be taken away.
It's just too much.
Team Liquid Statedale, their chance to have been born again.
Evening up the score.
Let's find out who can take the lead
as we head back over to Iron Shib and Kozy.
Thank you so much, Catcher.
I've got to say, after hearing that,
I want to have lines coming, voice lines,
where we look at Span, like, can we hear it in game?
Like, who makes the noise for some fan lines happening?
If like, Adam gets Span, yelling at it,
but awesome stuff here and just seeing people
that made the game, the talent behind the voices,
everybody coming together, fans, players, casters, families,
we're here on match number three.
And again, that's just how it has to be.
But seeing right now, to look at Citadel,
able to get the Gambit Mag through
without even protecting the Gambit,
might be one of the first times we've ever seen that.
Yes, that is an understatement.
It's been at least one.
It came out around December, so we have not seen it really
since then.
By the way, we do have, once again, what
works so well at Ipricel.
And that's going to be that triple Vanguard hole.
That's it.
Start up now.
You can see the compositions.
This is one of those maps that is selected by Navi.
That is more unique, a map they feel incredibly comfortable on.
Teams maybe don't scrim all the time.
Big advantage in being able to do that.
It's what we just saw from Microsoft.
But the setup already from the penny that is folly makes it a little more dicey.
Yeah, I'll say, I mean, listen, Shin Shibuya used to be a meme map where it wasn't even the rotation.
And now we're here on the biggest stage as what is going to be a confident pick once again from Navi.
A little bit closer last time as well as Yuro trying to find it, opening it in angle.
Terra already getting low. They continue to hunt down the hunter when it comes to this great player.
Yeah, well done. They're just full eyes away for the moment.
Cooper now able to find trust me throughout this chaos.
taking the fight around the building, the structure of just destroying this thing to reset the map as
energy finds a pick on a crook. Raj goes down, energy with three, come on now with the sword
from his daughter there. Go on. Yeah, it's just such a great hold. Thus far, if you're looking at it,
just building up slowly, I will say one thing, a bit better there on the, it just allows the
pace keep up on the old charge, right? Now, I feel like that was a one-sided affair,
and it just kind of goes and snowballs from there. I know it's a good early pick on a crook.
Typically leads all charge
There be down at 37%
Speedering quality on the site that team up has been dominant here
Across the board some 17 seconds cooldown from another reset and notice puts a drone on everybody
It's a little more aggro as they go again
I have health. Yeah, absolutely. I mean listen time is ticking already. We're at two minutes 35 seconds
Great just awareness here from Cooper 80% and looking for more just like that the cars ready to fall
Looking to get near advantage, don't think they'll press it, probably match it when it comes to the game.
Walking in slowly, Navi doing exactly what they've done prior.
Will it work better this time?
Because the map gets destroyed.
I think back into the arcade, looking for Terra.
That pick come through in a moment we don't see just yet.
Pauli trying to distract that backline up on height, which has been a big advantage for them,
but they pay for it now as Pauli falls.
And trust me, a nice diamond form.
Commitment comes out here from speedery.
Rage of Ultron towards that backline.
And down goes one, do we see a second on the terror on the height?
The commitment continues, but this time, from the side of Cooper, who takes out Terra, what a play there.
Cooper is showing why he is here and how they got here, folks.
95% on vessel, looks like a clobber at time.
It's ticking slowly, trust me, going down as well.
DLC, look at all the part here on the hometown pick up.
Wow.
A retake here for Team Liquid, sit it down.
You can just see the momentum, but what we've noticed throughout this tournament,
his teams that hold a very close down to like a 20 second mark.
Some reason .2 just gets walked through.
We'll see if that gets broken, if that curse gets broken on this map.
That's happening now.
Time for time again.
It's like, well, Minsemish is the full swing.
They can see the sword coming out, trying to find territory.
Good kiting is going to go right back into the action.
It's not going to be timid very long.
Not in his name and nothing in the DNA now,
as we're going to have trusty go up with Yemma.
Trying to get all eyes of distraction, jumping in.
Going to be jerky now with a crack in the back.
Trying to make his impact.
to push this thing to two, energy goes up, and it's looking for the slam down and all the audience, the audience!
As another pit comes out from Cooper and Pauly, Nero gonna clean up the rest, and now it's gonna be a reset once more.
Some decent commitment there from Liquid Citadel, though with Pauly and Energy and Nero.
Well, Navi would be able to take advantage of that, but they committed jerky and LL Crook can, trust me.
If you go back to the domination and how Navi and what we know of Navi, just one of the best backlines in the business, right?
We're seeing the two just trade back and forth.
Right now, Cooper and Nero has just gotten so much value, right?
Healing one thing, but Fika able to open the door for the rest of the team.
Huge energy finding fate now.
Walking the team forward fast.
Mary aggro, looking right at that front line.
Meteor of his force down.
Is this going to land here?
Raj has been clean with these, and that's going to be a pick out of Shpeteres.
That enough to get the team moving forward.
13 seconds left here for Nabi.
Got a touch within seven.
Can they get there?
Where's Peter in?
He's always looking like he's made out of metal.
To the Magneto, and there's the claw.
Clomber in time, best one, what's the best war?
It's Clomber in time for this fantastic 4-2
as Rajiro trades the odds.
Turkey finds Cooper though, backlights have fallen,
energy on Etruspe, Raj finds another,
he's clutching off, is it enough here?
And that's gonna be a pick but this time
from energy on Jaraj, the OT ticks down,
the portals coming in from fate and it lands.
No days of future pass here, right now DLC is looking strong,
no matter how many accidents show up to the fight
in the battle, up in the air, Schmitere looking for the age,
InterG with the hit, and the puck from 0.
Kimballine is going to take down trustee, both portals out.
Magic, desperation at play.
What a haul from Team Liquid Citadel
on the back of an ice portal play.
Really consistent defense and a map that was not chosen by them.
That is some solid work.
Absolutely.
Listen, how many times have we said before in the upper finals
that this is going to go back and forth, folks,
to the talent level here?
It's a game of adjustments, we like to say, all the time,
as these great coaches and players
They're going to look to break it down further, but yes.
I mean, yeah, shoot.
Taking it somewhere like Shin Shibuya
and being able to put up a defense like that, are you joking?
Really clean, as you see.
Not a lot of finals.
Honestly, a lot of those finals on the final fight
from Raj, who took out three to try to get on that point
and make the touch happen.
But Vess has not gone down.
Energy has not gone down Nero and Cooper only once
alongside Speedery.
That is good commitment on that triple backline.
Rad fans, get loud.
You know what your duelists can do in the hands of Cherokee
Inter, the best in the biz in the clutch department as we're gonna have to find a will in a way to be able to continue this thing on
from going to two in TOC's favor. Now take a look and compromise. Looking pretty similar.
We don't often ever see Ter as there on the Ultron. Maybe back in the day it feeds a little, but hasn't been any time recently.
Yeah, I honestly don't remember the last time I tried to think through it. Yeah, I don't know.
That happened a lot.
Yeah, so they're clearly in desperation mode, which is, you know, what Liquid Citadel is trying to do here.
See, I think they're going to go for an early portal one.
And the big thing about that is Tener as talented as we know he is.
It does limit some of that big play potential, right?
Whenever you do have to have the flex, go to that.
And that's just saying, hey Jerky, we know what you could do on the mag.
Match energy, Tener going to keep the skies healthy and also hit him with the pop of the beam.
Going to the portal is going to be TLC, looking through an aggressive point.
Yeah, very smart decision to use portal here, knowing Penny's going to be set up.
That way you can just focus minesmotors early and you pretty much have a character down.
But Pauly is the first to go down onto the mines of trust me, well done by Navi.
Should be, potentially, a retake through portal.
It was fast enough here by Pauly.
Let's see if that works out in a moment.
Yeah, three minutes on the clock, they have a long time to work with.
Want to see patience here as well as the precision as Speedery in the sky.
Be well aware of what angle the whole team wants to take as one.
Cooper 30% and climbing, but it's Nero once again.
Reborn is out time and time, finds that pick to make them be able to get that opening.
So they're owning this domain on a high, best goes low, but it's not for long.
Google's some good focus there, Speedyri taking out of the sky, spawner is low,
isn't deleted, not quite yet.
And now the team just tried to force out as many cool-downs as possible.
Energy and Miro though, find one and two on the terrain.
Trust me, that's gonna force out a portal, and this portal
will get here in time as the cap will begin.
Yeah, I can have that trust get the strangers too on too loud
They're gonna get the magic rolling to try to give not be a shot ship. It's getting close
They won't be all back in the fight just yet and they aren't even able to touch what a play here by team liquid
Zinni doll at the back of an early portal. Holy shit. Shaboya. Here we are folks in the grand finals now with a different change in chapter
From what we saw just hours before it is now TLC up two to one
TLC was just waiting for Navi to blink,
and they have taken advantage of that moment
two back-to-back incredible displays
to take home the next two maps, up to one in the Navi.
Yeah, it's crazy.
If you look at the two times that they've
been here in the past, though, right,
if you look at how Navi plays last time down, right,
having to really come out, this time at least being
on even footing, and it kind of matches somewhat
of what we saw in the mid-season finals a year ago.
Either way, again, these two teams
are far from out.
I didn't tell you that as it's going to continue
to be a war of attrition.
I mean, she had the ban, the picks.
I mean, what do you feel like?
To me, I think Mag's got to go on the side of TLC.
Yeah, I mean, for TLC to be able to get Mag and Gambit
without Gambit being locked at all,
then they also get their Ultron, it seems like a mishap.
Something went wrong, or maybe they
felt comfortable in a scrim that went down.
But you know, scrim felt mean everything, man.
No, exactly.
I mean, listen, that is why it is given,
Any given in this case Saturday, who can win and who can find a way.
We saw it with Rad as they continued to climb out through that lower.
But this time, Destiny has something in store for one of these two great teams.
And now that dream of trust me to come back to the grand finals,
slowly slipping to a nightmare.
But if anyone can flip the script, it's them.
Yeah, Satina, we talked about passion.
See if they can hold onto that passion in a dicey situation.
Saw some panic picks coming in there from the side of Navi on that defense.
He's talked about the Ultron from Terra, not a very comfortable pick.
And switches at the end on the portal.
They just really never had it in their grasp.
Yeah, listen, it's a team game.
We know that hero shooter.
But one thing I love is if you just break down each player,
then each have a different reason
to have that one will and way to win this thing and to dig deep.
You look on the side of TLC, many of them just
denied time and time again to lift that trophy.
On the other side, Na'Vi, once again,
being able to put together this team and be flawless,
want this time to raise the trophy,
to remind the world why they are the title,
the final boss of Marvel Rivals.
Our energy and best still didn't go down a single time.
Energy with 12 finals and I believe it was 31
in the match prior.
That is a ton of work.
As you see Tara on the opposition
who looked incredible in previous matchups
without finding a single one.
Yeah, I mean, not going down is absolutely crazy.
And what do we highlight?
Listen, obviously we continue to say it takes all six,
but it does take the one.
And that's why Teron the ultron wasn't crazy, right?
It's like whenever you have your best player,
you have to go Dr. Strange to get back for that overtime push.
If it's your duelist, you lose out on that chance
that clutched the ice to three-pointer at the buzzer.
Yeah, we're going to be heading to Araco.
Last time a team took Navi here, they tried to spawn door them.
Just hold them tight.
And they went out the left side door
and just kept walking, never stopping on that point.
Can Team Liquid Citadel change the tune a little bit
and hold on?
Now, Araco and Moore, it's just an interesting map, right?
because you have so much high ground advantage
and it makes the defensive side of things
to fuel somewhat awkward at the off map potential though.
We've seen plenty of that from both teams.
Literally, I'd like this as a reset point.
Not one that I thought we were going to see
if I mean I was this early in.
Just tell me this, you know, you have a team
that when you have meta strong, you think best of the best,
these maps that are kind of these interesting choices, right,
is what we wouldn't expect to see.
You know what, with the seven to go,
maybe get some of these more interesting picks out of the way.
I mean, this is you're trying to change the momentum here.
You need to win if you're on the side of Navi.
It's getting a little dicey here as Liquid City Nails now up one.
They went another one.
They're at game point.
So changing and finding a map that they maybe
don't scrim on or practice on as much.
Get in their heads a little bit.
Next thing you know, very similar to what we saw on Interseal.
They're able to make that momentum go back in their favor.
They went two in a row.
Try back in, you know, their hands.
Honestly, we can say we've guessed a good majority
of the games and all the American casters would also
say we didn't see a rock.
I think we saw a rock out once.
Yeah.
AP in the American reach.
I mean, it feels like just nothing was ever played there.
No battles, no big time moments were decided.
Obviously none bigger than this.
And so to bring that to them, I agree.
It's not exactly letting something like Mantis through.
You don't want to do something too crazy, but do mix it up.
Yeah, I'm looking forward to seeing the strategies.
Shout out, man.
Tag me in.
You're up, buddy.
Get up there.
No, don't do that, please.
Then the Stompton now.
I see a couple of signs.
We got that buff rogue.
This is the time to tell Double G what you want.
What's up G young as well taking notes as we continue to see the best do it in this game folks to one
If you're just now coming in and if you missed earlier Navi
Able to put down team liquid Citadel to that lower making their way back up to get their revenge tail
Yeah, there's always been some back and forth about having to play so many different matches
If it's a to your detriment or if you know when you are you know
You stay warm that way or the other side of that coin. It's when I'm off
I get to watch what they're running.
I can prepare the band phase a little better
as they're in a dicey spot.
But the thing is they kind of went right through rad.
So that, in my opinion, they didn't really show a lot.
They didn't really show anything.
That Navi didn't already expect.
That's a great point, because oftentimes we typically
give that advantage to the team that gets to sit and wait.
But it's so hard to say, because keep your hands strong.
I mean, if you're out there continuing to play,
we see another sports.
Esports being somewhat the same.
But then, to your point, then beating in 3-0 fashion
that quickly, not only allow them not to lose all that mentality and
endurance and confidence, everything together, but yeah, not take no time.
Heading into the band phase in just a moment, folks.
Strap in is up two to one, Team Liquid Citadel.
Will they be able to keep this thing moving or will Navi change the tune?
For those spectating above, I got to say the scene in LA here is absolutely wild
and what you want to see from Marvel arrivals at the top two play, two to one.
the band face so important this time around.
We'll see how the coaches decided to change the favor
and these players locking in Freightmore.
Speaking of that locked in band,
this is always sponsored by, man.
You got to see Tara there, a little anger on the face.
Last time I saw that, he went back and found 33 finals.
So, see if that's going to be the same story.
Magneto, the removal of Loki here for Team Liquid City.
You think this is a Maxi too?
Like they don't want to give that up around at the rim?
No, can it go over?
I like it.
Peter, keep on, keep it on, right?
I mean, it's been working so well thus far.
If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
The old saying now with the band going the other way,
we're going to try to get rid of cheesy cheese, in my opinion.
Yeah, the Atom removal for those triple compositions.
And there's a removal of Mag.
I mean, when they got Mag through,
it's been working out for them.
We'll see if team will consider it.
They don't feel like they don't need it.
Maybe it's map specific, because they
want to try to play tight corners.
Yeah, but you do take away a lot of that.
I feel like just firepower and force
that they impose their will.
But with Rocky going out, that's a big play too, right?
Making it about a one-sided bill.
Very smart Nabi here.
Yeah, I'm liking what Nabi's doing.
They're matching back.
They're keeping it more traditional.
They just don't want the res comp.
They don't want to constantly feel
like their up in numbers, wanting to find out
that they've overextended because they're not up in numbers.
And that's typically how these teams find value.
As they set up the final lock-in,
I believe it's going to be Adam for the side of Nabi.
We'll see in just a moment, as it is.
And that is going to be one side on the defense,
at least for Nabi.
That's quick.
It's pretty, I was going to say,
I'm going to give the W here to Nabi on the fan phase,
especially because Oroco has so many corridors and opportunities for the
Adam not only to hide and get the board again win again but also just hide from
what is the onslaught while still getting that value that you need to have at
top two play to keep things in check and build up that old every morning.
Now it's all about communication within teams leadership
and you get your team's mental back on track can you keep them positive
to move forward in this tournament starting up here on Oroco I am stoked
to see this map, my friend, as we don't get a ton of looks at this.
Absolutely, man. It's been a long minute since I've had the pleasure of coming over here to Ultron.
Again, right now, two-week game, got the game mode for Age of Ultron.
Ultron's on the stage.
I mean, if you go back a year ago and you think you'd see pennies, widows, it's crazy to see
how this game is just constantly evolving and changing, and these players have to do the exact same.
We find ourselves match number four, and you know we wanted more of this best of seven ship.
15 seconds. Here we go.
Last map, Citadel, actually the last two, they were able to lock that Citadel down, hold them 0.1, that is a statement, does Navi finally have the keys?
Alrighty now, setting up early, it's gonna be their TLC on the defensive side, you've seen Pauli really set up beautifully, I mean these traps, the positioning, it's all about angles and surprise from Pauli, and Kenny Parker to try to get those easy hits up the mines.
Terra out the gates, this is Citadel of the Midtown, playing mad and angry, best of what deleted, gone!
Coming out here. I'd like to see this on the M on Tara focusing the spotter great decision to send to the seventh player on the team
They focus now the team could walk forward looking at speeder. You have to go away
But is he in that moment trying to get the first pick on the energy with the drone?
That will come through off the back of a nice wall Tara is coming out angry fighting too early
Yeah, I've seen this movie before my friend Tara the terrifying the sequel now and the full trilogy is a scary thing
Locked in cowboy hat off looking to get through this first turn now
Now this first point does have a lot of opportunities.
It's usually can't be a three point fight.
If you're looking at it, Dr. Strange, energy ready to go.
Max off, Matt Bazaar.
There is a great retake here.
You get Navia window, and they make that thing a door.
And they keep this moving as they start up the next fight.
Bait at 73%, trust me, close.
The strangling prison is in big value.
Often that potential here too, but a lot of potential
needs to make that work out.
Yeah, and if right now you're a Navian fan,
you want Bates to get ready to go.
I mean, once you have that aggro,
they're not going to be able to match your back.
Your old track is in the right way.
Get the comps, hold the W, and push them through this thing
right now, and tear up the captain, leading the way.
The cars seal the fate of Pauli going down fast.
As the cars are going to go and fold now, as they push forward,
let's get this aggression on.
And they're going to make that reset come through,
is actually the kick game through first.
They've forced out a lot of ults here,
and actually, this is actually a positive fight here
for Liquid Citadel.
They try to force a view.
They got rid of fate and tear up.
And somehow, tear is already at 34%.
Now, Team Liquid City that will come back with all six,
can they make sure they don't overcommit?
They did a great job of that in the past.
Navi owning the space well right now
with plenty of time and the clock.
Yeah, that's what won the mid-time, I feel like.
They would just be able to continue that neutral.
A lot of it rolled through Terra,
and now they've got the Omega Huracan ready to go indoors here
as the stormy weather is going to try to find its fate
and seal it with the despair up in the ready.
The Visual Boundary keeping alive and healthy.
Cooper to match the same.
Nothing coming from it.
Great job, though, at least getting that Visual Boundary out.
Yeah, the Storm name out there right now is going to be stoked to see Jherky on Storm,
who's actually been so strong on an hero, forcing a ban at one point.
Terra trying to clean up Polly, which will happen. Good focus there.
I have all the motor from Energy, but it doesn't seem to land. Matchback.
Hero pulls out the boundary. Meteor Emmergero, downtown, does not make that
corporate trustee. Bins up Energy, despite it.
Sandbrook, Hero moments on display.
It's through the triple strength to come in handy to try to find something from it.
But right now, no one's falling. All G's being pressed.
It's a color's explosion, but right now the Olympian stays silent.
Back and forth they go, the retake clean here.
Clobbering time off on the best.
I don't think that's gonna convert into a KO.
Pauly, same thing with Kenny now.
They look into the stalling.
Rajarro, gonna be the first pick here for the side of Navi.
Here's the pick you want.
Wide left, the mag band was used on the one-sided up there.
Now it's here, gonna go up, slam up, slam down.
Not able to snowball off as the threshold not hit.
There's a little, that's gonna be found if they can make Able of it.
Trust me, trust in him and his team to get the wipe.
Huge strangling prison and it found all of them as they sweep through and get point one
Absolutely, I mean this is exactly what you need as a response for Navi tough point point two
Definitely, this is all defensive favorite, right?
You have the high ground the entire time and we've seen that slice time and time again
This is where Navi got a lot of great attack here though by Navi
They're immediately owning that height they convert this into their advantage forcing team into tight jokes
Right back out of Liquid Citadel, going to take that right side from this POV to try to find those double openings because it's still very difficult, forcing Nabi off at high, really good patience from both sides.
No, honestly just a huge call there because you try to make them on the low ground, but honestly just good aggression matching that from the TLC side, wouldn't be aggression right back to them.
And there it is, once again, Fate is throwing the fate of Nabi in their hands as they try to find more of Patriarchy, first of all.
Energy, Terra matches that back. The Buckeys are gonna be the one to find value going in now.
The Rage of the World flushed with terraces. How about I find another here?
Everyone's out to boundary as an answer. Speedery, trying to get a pick with the Rage of Ultron, but...
...spite it, nobody finds any chaos just yet.
Two minutes on the clock, as Nero has the cards ready.
Now, Jerky with the Omega Hurricane could have forced that over.
Gero's got the meteor in him to follow. It's gonna be the tragedy of the pack.
He gets low! He gets out! Energy!
That's just blow for blow, the Winner's Soldier down and out fights two!
He's never tired, ship.
That's going to be a three pieces poly.
Gets two there, switching up the cough a little bit, getting energy off that hero.
And on to Bucky, and that seems to be the solution so far.
About two minutes here for Navi.
Hitting him a ton into that fight, trust me and Raj.
Maybe their next best bet is the attack once more.
Yeah, once they use their team, they decide to go with Terra to try to get through that damper.
that damp and old. It's a great way to get it out, but unable to seal the deal.
They quickly put eyes on Terran and Terran's vine. Who finds one? Equals a
train to get up this ramp. Minutes 30 remaining spawn. Closer for them. This is tough to force to
remember. So much advantage towards the defense. Both of these cops are trying to find the
flyer first. And right there, Nobby and Zell make that work. They should give them a huge advantage
walking forward now with the Scionic. Trust me, it's gonna, yeah, it's gonna have a value as
Best Falls. Polly trades it in a crook, which is the backline. But Terran finds Polly and Cooper.
Yeah, there's a whole back line that remains for TLC.
Unfortunately, even though they did shrink Kirk out of there,
they're going to have just a small distance to cover.
Ooh, Fordle coming out now.
One minute to get them into this thing once again,
but really all have to be done in the neutral.
It's all about Raj.
The rock, this one, land, they'll put them up a number.
There's no answer right now.
The team would sit at L.
They're trying to switch up top for this fight.
Trust the master of magnetism as he goes up through the air.
Shit, the purple ball.
Looking for more. Slams down, lands down.
No connection.
And it still calls in that fight, so did you close in, Tara?
Gonna find a second.
This should be Navi on point two.
Doing a great job staying patient.
Trust me, finds Polly, crook now on the energy,
and Navi are walking this thing through
and have completed point two.
And we called in the Hydra early, right?
You cut one down, two shall take its place,
and that's what makes these great teams so solid across the board.
Because they have something to answer,
no matter if the top captain falls, the back line, you name it,
they saw it.
Navi pushing point three.
That's a big point to take.
The next fight begins.
Fate starts off with a royal flush.
Terra coming in with a cracking impact.
Bangalands on a few, and there's going to be some play.
And the reset comes in.
Raj finds one.
Trust me on a two.
Terra looking for the reset once more,
but it does not work out.
And that will be another quick fight win here for Nabi.
And you see the momentum visibly in their favor.
Yeah, taking the path.
Blue man, I mean, if you look at it now,
they have another Omega Herb change.
Get out.
Troopers ult, they want to go with that path.
Last time, unable to connect after that, right?
Really don't need to.
If you look at what clock is remaining,
things are favoring right now.
Navi, in the terms of the ult and how they can use it
to win that fight.
Like a hurricane start up.
Rupert copying up.
Oil flush, going to be committed to boundary.
Instead, is out on the field.
Energy now, drops crook through that chaos.
Jerky heads backwards, but Vass is
able to find two.
Pauli on a Rage.
And that's a retake here, with a side of liquid.
Citadel will hold around this final corner.
Oh, shit, there was a big fight to win.
I mean, yeah, they used Coupe.
If you look inside a knob, you may use both of those strategies
also now, not a lot to deal with.
The Glar Trunks energy is the clutch factor.
And last year, what's not?
Will he find that answer now?
Really consistent focus there.
Find through the invisible boundary.
Here comes the hurricane now from speedery back on the storm.
Trying to match back into jerky.
And does his best by its terror, a huge pick.
And this fight betrays right back.
Energy now onto jerky.
He says, no, we're going to stay up on these numbers,
and they're still holding on tight.
And still hanging on to those two holes as well, right?
I mean, you are a mile away from Navi.
Not going to come up in this fight, really.
Maybe Faye can survive for more.
GLaRnTrux ready to get C-Bone with this one.
They're looking for Pauli, going to start the fight
at first, shit.
It's all about if Faye can get this all to it.
GLaRnTrux tries to make the meteor work, takes the space
with it, still gets to pick on the best.
GLaRnTrux out here for energy, and still holding up.
It doesn't find any food.
Trust me, takes out Pauli, and Navi are up numbers now.
Now, Raj only hoops his own shot, and with that, trust me, pushing forward, it's the front line doing exactly what they do best,
making space and pressure, and putting on the pressure to make diamonds from Emma Frost to get this point to three.
Looking incredibly clean as overtime is up.
There's the Royal Flush from Nero, Shbedery, drops Terra, numbers up now for Liquid Cynadel.
Can they keep this thing? Yes, they do! Energy on the crook! More numbers fall, and all of them go down!
Team Liquid Cynadel will be able to hold this point three.
Getting everybody together for that group photo on the stop and the finish and that is much bigger than you think to stop them and give yourself that chance to push it all the way.
We'll have to see what the spawn door to hold looks like to the side of Navi. Liquid set it out. That is a huge push still from Navi. They tried to hold for a minute, but at first point, which is taken a little bit too quickly. Too much commitment onto that comp.
I mean, listen, Terra is pointing to that C on that chest, right?
Like, he is getting his part done on it, but it feels like that rotation, that back and forth.
It's the dance, if you will, of pro-rivals play, of being able to have an answer in a way.
And it's perfectly like any sport. There's the offense, there's the defense.
They've had a lot of answers on the offensive side to open things up,
but they're unable to keep up what has been the onslaught.
And it's tough, shit, because it's been a lot through the neutral.
Yeah, I mean, and you can just see it. The story's kind of on the staff board here.
The back on a fade, it'll take six finals.
It just shows the momentum that they have
when they're using that rage and moral flush.
Bait feels comfortable enough to go forward, get picks,
whereas playing a little bit on their heels,
Nero with zero Cooper in the same story.
Absolutely.
But what makes great teams amazing
is being in this position and never having out in the name,
having that back support to come out swinging
is what you want to see for the team that you believe in.
Navi trying to hold strong here to tie this thing up.
I think it's easier to use Gambit on offense.
So you kind of set the tone where on defense,
you want to try to use World of Flush second,
so you have more time on.
But at that point, if somebody goes down,
it's already in their favor.
Yeah, I mean, hey, listen, we had Terra on the Ultron,
now Terra on the Atom.
Let's listen in and see what the game plan is here
for what we see.
Look at that, look at that, look at that, look at that.
Look at that, look at that, look at that.
Hold on, hold on, hold on.
Wait for them to touch.
Wait for them to touch.
Yeah.
Turn it off, turn it off.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
That's a problem.
You've got to love to hear Cleanington's size comms like that.
A lot of cooks in the kitchen, but when they keep it short, just good focus.
He should push off Rip, but even better defense by Navi to give up that space, height backwards
and retake immediately.
They're right back on that first corner.
Yeah, listen, the things are so chaotic.
How quickly can you address the problem?
But think, think, think, we'll be just rigging through the years here the rest of the day.
Point of view to Gambit folding and wow with a quick ball on the side of Cooper.
Now going to match the cards, Nero still has his up in the bank to go.
Cooper finds one, energy to match two right now, it's looking for Citadel.
Just absolutely slicing, it's dicing to the stop he did.
Beautiful, talked about the Royal Flush on offense, he keep the momentum, starts off quickly.
Bates not even there yet and they find three Cooper immediately.
Gets two of those finals that we were talking about, they could not find on defense.
Yeah, got to find the clutch, the ice in the veins now, can't afford to go down by two
So as we see these setups of the wall, right, as your group player just setting up that attack, not a pinnymine, but they're in their place.
Like when Appi had the keys there to the Citadel, he changed the lock.
Speedery going in with the Omega Hurricane. Energy finds the first best now.
On the Turkey, Eisha trade back out. Are they still healthy? I don't know. Raj falls now.
Speedery gets that pick going down to like 20 HP. It doesn't matter. 0.1. Team with Citadel.
with Citadel. Yeah, I mean, listen, if you give an inch, they'll take a mile. I mean, right now,
TLC is not giving a silly, silly, man. I mean, they're not giving any space whatsoever for Naby
to work with. Jerky now going on over to Felicia, right, looking to try to get that distraction,
maybe get that backline uncomfortable. That's been looking strong. Talking about the flex pick
that is jerky like Kat. Got him a mainstay of this tournament. I've seen a ton of this pick
from these two teams. Definitely strong. Nice pull there. Front line, best, best. Still somehow,
Now it stays in the fight, dropping iron one.
Absolutely.
Bam, 20 in their tank here for TLC to push forward
to the track and impact on the other side.
Terra, energy.
That's what you came here for, folks.
The best at the best of the duelist department.
That's what we're going to set up the T-ball for this slam dunk.
That can't be it.
But it's the energy ball.
Take it down quick.
Up in the sky, going to be speedery falling.
Now with their three minutes, 30 seconds,
going to get that high ground.
The next set up by either eyes on the strangling prison.
Roger's going to try to match that if possible.
able to use Meteor MBE to strengthen his prison would be just a immense value.
That's the idea here. Now Cooper starts off the fight.
Instead they're gonna hold on to that.
Oh, Kraken impact from Energy up in the sky.
Matchback by Raj trying to dunk onto Energy.
Is that able to make that work from downtown?
Instead, trade to the clone. Nobody's fallen to shit.
Now both those Kraken impacts having zero impact in this.
It's gonna be, you know, full-suit and safe
for the moment of both these Winter Soldiers.
Now we have the group already the patient's in for vest.
Oh, there's the fumble!
X1 jumps to save himself as Nero now going to fire the cars
and the aggression to the fizzle woven up with the batter.
Stracting no impact.
Strangely, Brissett goes down here,
and it clens, but now fate finds speedery energy onto Terra.
It's going to be off.
Ooh, Church trades back into Cooper.
Both strategists fall here.
Continue to consider Delnavi doing a great job on this defense
on point two.
A bit of fast answer back.
I mean, that was looking like he was going towards the favor
there of the uphill.
And this is a great place to take the point.
There's so many instances in each map where if you take a point on a certain location so hard
Then they fight back on the offensive side looking at it
We have Paulie with all and more and trust me to match
Listen the two minutes 20 second shift both teams equally just getting it done taking it slow build up
The one you need final fights just yet try to feel ready to win that
Music the man's team up there goes the engage now
Now, Synex seduction on that front line, getting a few trance crystals, gets popped into the
mega hurricane, heading towards backline, Shpeteri has to drop back towards the 15, Pauli.
Now we're trying to match that, but still, nobody falls.
See if this rage and royal flash works out, it does work out.
You decide of Navi, armed and dangerous again, and soon to be again.
Terra, keeping it going with the triple, do we see a Quadro, we too, and that is some
terrifying gameplay.
I'd say he'd be terrified now with a quick finish and looking at what they have else.
I mean now this is going to give them plenty of time both on level 1 and Crook to be able to have that answer of what will be an onslaught shortly.
Energy, the Glar Chalk's ready. Cooper to match. There's plenty of time to push up the hill.
But right now the only single standing strong is this defense that is Navi on their pick of Herako.
Crook finding one. That's a stretch. Just opening that we wanted to see.
Group over the copy up. There's gonna be two rage and royal flushes which would
Citadel's final chance to make something big happen. If they don't get value out of
these plays it will be in favor of Navi without a doubt to keep your eyes on
those. You only match back for the moment. It will be a boundary if it gets there but
should get there and Raj the meteorite. Again we talked about this point too. It's so hard to push through as now up in the air goes the purple meat barge
the same dust ship slam down land down to be absorbed quickly as the Gloratrush
It's just well off, he's fighting nothing but Raj, let's find one.
There's another Royal Flush, we talked about both commitments, Meteor having the boundary, both are gone now, Cooper finding Krupp best, on to Terra is that enough?
Raj takes point, incredible decision making here to stall for the moment as both are playing behind, they're still healthy, but now they go down, as a portal play should be enough, and it should come in to guarantee at least one more fight.
One more fight to be able to rely and trust on the leader of Trust Me Now as the portal is going to be gone!
Please put pushback into spawn from the gamut team up!
Are you joking me?
That was genius play. You can't teach that incredible work here as they had to 0.3.
That was just disgusting. It's always like, how did the portal get interrupted by the time something brought to the game?
Just a couple of weeks ago, folks, as now we quickly have to get ready as they pushed through 0.3 on the clock and on the ready.
Strak is still trying to find a will in a way he can't close to try to push this thing back.
Trainway prison available, but you gotta know the cleanse is going to be there.
There is the scienic seduction now from Trusky.
Gonna take this case, but energy still gets picked.
Terra now evens those odds into Polly.
And it's a two quarter back, shooting back and forth, right Terra?
Energy, captain, captain, best, best.
Here we go, asbestos, looking for that brutal, not gonna find air against the connection,
and that follow up, the only loop from energy.
Blackout in the background, a new chance, but it doesn't matter what you delete her,
Her energy makes the switch here, and is no longer going to be on that bucking set.
Also getting some play.
Polly finds, trust me, look at the all-charge here from Navi.
This is going to be an absolute Q-fest who comes out on top, final fight territory here.
Yeah, I mean, honestly, you said it best, right?
Everything available.
There's no excuses for both these teams.
It's going to come down to one final fight in push, right?
But Nero, going to open up the aggression.
Payback is jerking to follow.
Shit, this is happening quicker than I thought.
You ready now, as Energy finds the first pick,
peeling that backline on the black cat of Jerky.
Point getting ever closer, trust me,
out of poly to trade that.
Navi now making switches as Wolverine comes out.
Energy with the claw drops out of the backline.
Doesn't get value, it dies, fate goes down now.
As we see Spearie and Gopar get picks,
will they take this map back?
That's them!
After almost losing point two,
Spearie goes out with a let the devil out,
but the point has yet to move.
Every final boss ship has a weakness
Right now it's looking like TLC finds a will and a way to steer the energy of TLC and
the duelist to follow.
Best, the best, throwing it out of the force.
He finds one, gets two, 1.4 out the clock.
Raja Roll also takes Cooper.
Crop comes back on energy.
Chmeetery on the famous, doesn't matter.
What a retake by Nabi, who are trying to shut this down.
Chmeetery falls, and that's gonna be Nabi with a map win.
Are you joking me?
Are you not entertained?
It's used too much, but that was absolute cinemaw.
We are tied, two for two.
What am I looking at?
Yeah, I said you can't teach that,
but how about the patience
in being able to stall for your team on the retake
in a situation that looked like it was guaranteed
to be a win for Team Liquid Citadel?
Yeah, we said it was just gonna be one final fight,
but the spawn giving a little bit of a favor,
obviously that way, clearly.
They started that fight so quickly,
that's what shocked me,
because at that point, right, you come back,
I can't believe the absolute grit, the opportunity to show that you're the best.
And trust me, once again with the team to follow, Navi makes this thing.
Dude, I knew this would be the best thing I've ever done.
It's a slugfest, yeah. It's an absolute slugfest going almost all the way to our point three.
Excuse me. Wow. What an entertaining match.
Listen, I've been around a lot in the Rivals World of Cast and Host and Ship with you along the way.
We have lost our minds a lot. I can't remember the last time
That there's just nothing but knots it's coming out because that was not since that we just saw I'll tell you what if I was in
Right, I would have thought we had that for sure. I
Would be devastated, but it's all about momentum. This is what not he was looking for and listen
You said it best right because here's the thing when you do lose like that all of a sudden, right?
You just let a little bit of doubt creep in and anything can happen at this moment
You can't have it go down three to one, you know why it happens last year
You give someone like VP the crown now if you're trying to turn that tail take this thing all the way
Two to two as the map choice now will be in liquid Citadel's favor
Where do they go? Are they able to get this win and find out in just a moment. We're eating good as rival fans
You're eating good. That's taking away break it down. What what just happened?
Help! We need a doctor, we need an adult, we need a doctor, we need anyone, anyone with
survival's knowledge because luckily we have some. I am safe.
Thank you.
Everything.
What a series. The last chance of the Americans versus the attempt at the repeat for EMEA
and Liquid Sister looked like they were about to go to match Point, but Gaskin, now he just
won't let them do it.
I need a moment, I think.
I was sitting here so smug.
How's it going, Ed?
So, you guys, look at the TLC boys.
But I think equally, that is going
to be a very deflating loss for TLC.
They were right there.
They thought they had it.
But Terra does Terra things, and I just turned it around.
It feels like throughout the competition,
the counter map picks have not worked out
for the majority of teams.
But finally, we have two strong squads at the end
of the road proving that they have the strategies
to back up the talk that they've had against each other.
Gaskin, we were talking in the game, Bob,
we were watching it about how momentum to be so important.
We were talking during our cast how momentum to be so important,
how important it is for the coach, in some cases,
to be reassuring for their team.
But in this case, we were talking about it in the context
that Navi might lose, and losing that many games in a row
could be devastating for your morale.
And now it might be completely coin flipped there.
I was worried they were running out of steam,
But they have shown they are everything but running out of steam and they still have so much in the chamber here
That TLC are going to be completely scared going into the next remember
We've got domination that is going to be available again and with the way now
We've been playing on dumb. I start to worry for TLC again. Yeah, it could be domination
We could go to convergence as well as a couple of different options. I mean way down the road
I don't even think we'd want to go back to midtown based on how things went last time between that liquid Citadel and now
We descend them to the lower bracket, but you know it feels like there's a certain gene
It's not the X gene that these teams have it's the clutch gene
The clutch gene that seems to be in a very wide supply when it comes to both these teams
But Navi's is the one that's playing up at the moment. Let's talk about these drafts portable
We are seeing a lot of changes a lot of similarities and a lot of rising and falling here
You know, maybe Jordan Reynolds was right save Adam Warlock and you'll win very good hero
And we got to see that there as well so shout out to them
But you know some great performances across the board from both teams in the band draft
I think the main focus for me is the liquid still has not let fate have the rocket because they feel he's a little weaker
I guess on the gambit plays small heroes like we saw Jeff in the midseason finals last time
But he's really locked in on the backland on the gambit
the irony of me saying this considering several of the MCU movies, but fate can sometimes be considered squirrelly.
It comes between the dove and just being able to escape in some of the most virtuous ways.
But Gaskin, we were talking about this as if this was like the Navi show.
Team Liquid's still looking in control of that.
They did, and I think that does bode well for the rest of the series, right?
That this is still, I mean, at 2-2 we know it's going to be competitive,
but we may well go to the fourth 7 at this point,
point and boy, so I hope we do as I'm sure all the viewers do as well as we take a quick look at the stats Wow
One key moment
I do want to quickly point out before we address them the gambit bubble to deny the poor so I know they didn't
Not the back of it
But just those niche things those small moments are why these guys are the best players in the world
the game of team up is
Heavily underrated by a lot of people in more rivals right now
I mean people are still trying to figure out exactly what the best team ups are after the basically
the overhaul of the team up system, team ups 2.0 and now seeing how effective that has been in shutting down and healing your team and holding choke points and pushing people off the spawn for a couple extra seconds.
Which as we saw there was the difference maker for them to be off the objective just long enough for the OT to tick down.
But we're going to hold the Jaliyah here and I'm actually kind of surprised on this one.
Yeah, me too. The fact that they lost all of Jaliyah to Rad earlier on in this tournament, but of course they did go on to play it once more.
perhaps it is just fresh in their mind a little bit and they could be looking a
little bit further and looking at their opponents and saying perhaps there is a
weakness here for Navi on Hall of Jalya and what I've been talking about about
TLC it's all about structure I do think on some of these maps where they have
kind of an isolated fight in front of them they can play the lane they can
play their front to back they are able to break through against Navi but we have
such an amazing ground final. We are so lucky with this matchup.
It is so close. We sit at 2-2. Both these teams need to literally double their score in order to win, and at this point, they've already been taken to the limit multiple times.
Hall of Chalier, a very infamous map in EMEA. It's where we first saw Virtus.pro way back in 2025, lose their first series, lose their first map against a team called Rad.
It is where Navey have taken multiple maps versus teams in the past where we've had some of their most important matches.
Team Liquid Sipsdale, more than enough times they have been taken to this and have been able to bring home the bacon as we head into the draft.
And wow, big surprise, Manchester going to be taken away, Gaston.
Who'd have thought it would be? It's going to be an old Trump protector.
I would imagine it comes out afterwards from Team Liquid Sipsdale.
I think that Ford is completely right. Adam Warlock seems to be such a key part for both of these team strategies
So I would like to see it bound the way on both sides if the opportunity arises.
100%
I think that was an issue a lot of teams ran into throughout the competition here in the mid-season finals.
Not many Adam Warlock focusing too much on the invisible woman instead because the damage boost,
lack widow we saw as a prioritization, she's been relatively silent in that these grand finals so far.
So it seems they've got a full grasp of the meta and the grasp for Team Lugansillo never let they have that rocket raccoon.
the game. It's going to be a
one sided mag, though, which we
often knows how that can end up
and the gambit gets protected
as well for Navi. Now, for
liquid to develop a decision to
make, but it's been saying I've
been saying it. I think we all
want to see the Adam Warlock
ban if we want to see TLC
progressive. It's not just the
Adam Warlock band, but also the
rocket protect. So they said
you've got the one sided mag
will take one sided rocket.
Thank you very much.
potential for us to see a one-sided gambit. They might try to play the planting
composition again on Hall of the Jolly this time, whereas before they have not
been able to have the full hand. The Rocker Raccoon is very good for that and a
lot of damage available, but M01 sided here for Naveed to end it off.
The Emma has been very impactful. We've seen it especially from Rad earlier on, where it was a game changer.
Being able to shut down his backline ultimates if they aren't shielded.
Gaskin, who is about to take the lead in this series?
DLC, baby, all day.
What about who is taking the lead in this series?
I'm not confident that I'm going to RV.
I am confident in RV.
Let's send it back over to Kozy and Ironship to take us.
It's map number five.
Two to two, my friends.
Could you ask for anything more in the grand finals here
at the mid-season finals?
I'm Kozy.
Enjoyed by Shib.
And we are still, I feel like, just get
started in this madness.
Yeah, I mean, I don't know what the momentum is anymore
at this point.
That was an absolute heater of a map.
And now, I guess we're going to find out in a moment what it looks like.
I mean, here's the thing that's scary, right?
Because if you are a fan of TLC, they have been nothing but flawless, right?
In some of these maps and modes.
But right now, how would they do here?
And what is such an important win for each of these teams, right?
In Wakanda, if you're able to lock down, get to three,
then it's just playing with full confidence, man.
This has been nervous either way.
This map has been one of the ones here in the MSF.
Jet win.
A lot of early takes on this point.
And a couple in the past who are early quarter player,
like what I'm seeing here, if a team could sit in Elbray
and does back in those early seasons,
keeping it safe on the back side, allowing
Pauli to set up, going to base for the team.
Absolutely.
We did see TLC play against Rad here.
Felt pretty confident, did really well in this first point.
Now looking at it, going to get that high ground into stabship.
It's my ground now as the energy looks for more.
I'm going to go ahead and take this a little bit slower.
But man, I love right now just the attack here coming from TLC.
Ooh, energy, getting done by Terra.
What a flick there out of the sky.
PRB gonna make it even in numbers,
but the momentum moving forward is in favor of Navi.
You're trying to find a second pick.
Energy though, turns that into Cherokee.
And now the attack up a number.
Goodbye to the squadron.
Yeah, listen, we've seen this point.
One used to be really hard to take.
And now more and more of these teachers
have pure confidence and nothing but confidence
from the side of the liquids.
And now Terra, the two top king, can now be stopped.
And let's explain a little furry raccoon.
Trinity's going to get there with a portal too.
This action might be a clean retake.
Well done by Terra to find a couple picks and also
Rajarro owning that space.
That was necessary as the fight should be theirs.
Yeah, all your opinions get first down, right?
Like, continue to get more of the things going your way.
As Terra finds another, last three coming from T.
Now as he's hunting for more, he wants more.
He calls in.
My goodness, Raj going to finish off the best.
Only one tick out of that fight win.
shows again how calm, cool, and collected Navi has been in the series.
Brother, after that last hole, there's no moment to dig for Navi, right?
I mean, we could both say it was seconds of three to one, now just showing all the calm as
Roj gonna leave that front, hit him with the neutral, and look for that
little p-kick that he's been known for so much throughout this series.
They're taking the height on the offside angle.
We can start building the most cool downslope.
Back quickly, walls go out here, switch from best, over to the group.
Ironwood to try to walk in the front line, so they're trying to get Rijaro.
But great break there from the back line of Navi, Bates-Stars with a raging Royal flush.
Is that going to turn back into the favorite? No, Pauli finds the first pick.
Trust me, into Speedery, down goes the Shrek.
I love the old Shrek in here, but there's the Red as the rocket break.
Back to Ultron, but it's Jerky!
Whip it and dip it and find an Ultron and up in the air, slaps down, no connection shift.
Booper taking out Jerky in that fight, too, as Trusty drops.
Holly it is just back and forth right now energy getting seduced by Emma Emma gonna drop back towards the team as energy now
Clutch is the claw truck, Spikes front line for the walls out, what a break there
My best doesn't matter still able to escape the clutches of those draws
Good job, Elan, the bubble, but Bess is gonna go with the only route
Wow
Now this crook in there, minutes on the clock left, great deepest from Navi either way as extermination comes from above
Fine score, now TLC looking strong to take this and push this to two
A clutch hit there from Vess on that strangling prison will give them this first point.
No portal to come back.
We'll ensure there is not another fight here.
Well done by Team Liquid Citadel.
A shout out Navi on that first retake.
Yeah, no, absolutely.
Being able to come back and that is why it's so important that even if the rest of your
team goes down, try to do what you can on the way out and tear it, set up that team down
to take out another couple of minutes.
But Shep, we keep saying it, we've seen this point too get pushed so quickly now if the
The issue is going to repeat itself.
It's continued to be, again, days of future pass.
Fight up in just a moment.
The next fight starts off.
We see the point getting stalled right outside of the garage,
probably holding on to Aldman.
There'll be two threatening instead.
Just going to try to play this one.
Maybe see the switch to the widow.
Tara on the widow, definitely a threat.
And she'll be behind the first pick.
That's the second time that Jirka was able to find
so much value and Nero at that is the biggest one to grab.
That was probably going to be the odds
with the quick hit there and get the front line down is him.
Now, Terran is 62, but he gets that red room rifle.
This is the favorite point for Black Widow.
This is where you get so much space at 40-meter distance
you're looking for on that door.
Yeah, typically, you see Widow come out on these long-lane,
street-space-type situations to the map,
where you can just find this super-high angle
and start peppering them right off the spawn door.
There, taking an offside angle.
Widow can be a huge threat if we do that.
You can just peppering down the vanguard.
That's what we're seeing a lot.
Now, bait and Cooper gonna be matched one through one.
Paulie, gonna get tear it down one now.
It's Cooper Cooper.
Will they be aggressive or continue to believe?
Fate now, gonna press two.
Cooper to match, folks.
This fight so important.
Spinner though, puts it quick into it
before it even gets started.
Sure, he can find himself back.
Paulie does it again, again, 0.1 to two on cruise mode.
Yeah, it's the exact same situation.
It's like unbelievable at this point.
This is gotta buy a lottery ticket.
It's like as soon as they can help her while on 0.1,
They just walk right through 0.2, 3 minutes and 19 seconds on 3 here for Liquid Citadel.
Will they be able to push it enough?
Navi, actually not with the ulted Vantage right now, it's pretty evened out.
A couple missing pages in the story that is this Grand Finals.
We know some of it worked out, but of course the most important moment is being filled in and etched into history.
As these teams try to do the same, Cribs got the invisible boundary vessel though.
To the T-Ball, Energy wants to snack up with the Glortrarch on ship.
Getting no cleanse.
There it is, cards being utilized, Algos assignments a dodge hit, shield gets...
Oh, pated out with the res now, falls through as Jyrtty gets picked on an energy vest.
Starts with the commitment of the Strangly Prison, Shbedery doing the same with the Ultron's rage, but nobody falls.
Yeah, what did we say? We said they needed to have a defense into what was the onslaught.
Perfect answer to energy and even more of a finish there as they're sitting that back to spawn.
Best we're trying to get that early, all the youth that we saw again to get at least one straddle this time coming up empty.
Oh, here it is, come on.
That's one on another.
Boy, they were already up numbers here.
Actually another even down, so not a bad play.
Schmeeter, he drops a jerky now to keep the numbers simple.
But he starts to this push.
Two minutes and 17 seconds on.
The team looked for a simul.
And here, getting close to zero, able to come up and find
Justice quickly as C is ready to roll to get this team more
of that push.
Pedal to the metal is that Panther here in Wakanda.
Paulie trying to find the angle as well.
C up and ready, fueling the fighters of energy and more.
They're positioning down the Raccoon, Raccoon presses Q, walking forward as Energy tries to get this kick on a trust-based, jump-percent-based damage, but they don't have a lot of value there, just space, Terra on the outside angle, can they get that pick? No, they want to drop back towards the spot, or would it tackle by jerky and can fight Apolly?
All the big heroes trying to get the big play, terrifying swan, and with the slice in the dice,
that's what trying to find Solis is going to push up though. Great, wow.
Can you even get out of that? What it looks like going to be a complete finish there,
from Navi at least in the white department. Cooper cannot find Solis, it's a claw machine.
Ooh, the claw. Yeah.
Zara, we've all been available. The raging royal flush committed early on here by Cooper,
trying to walk this back and get momentum. The first kick though does not come at least not
And yet, bang, now it does!
As LeCharro finds energy.
Now put that monster right back where it came from,
under the band, and right now, Enixie
unable to find any value from those old styles.
Three times in a row.
Up and down is the last stand as Jerky makes their stand.
Here on the defense, Enixie out.
Yet again, from the respawn, last try to get his difference.
Yeah, I don't mind that decision-making there.
He's a strangling prison for a kick,
but now that it's matched back a second time up in numbers,
you're going to have to go backwards.
All the advantage staying in Navi's favor,
trust me, going to likely initiate next fight
is that they're tracking.
They know that only the C-Dub will be coming up at the end of this next fight.
Listen man, this is one of the harder points.
This is one to push all the way through.
They could be happy with getting through at least the corridor,
but right now to have that comfort and that solidity to get through the point,
this is just 30 seconds to do so, unable to answer the call before last year.
Here's the chance.
Zero to zero.
Will it happen?
C-Up in the ready, following the cue as well.
Crazy that every fight is available, but it's getting first in.
Nice answer there by trust me.
Trying to ensure they don't get value out of the cosmic yarn amplifier.
The Rosjaro win two cannot be stopped on this Magneto.
Trust me, fine Shpedery.
This is now going to be a forced portal play.
And Ross just shuts down anything before it begins.
Nine seconds up, Shaman.
Right now, this is going to be an uphill two-skate, Devon.
Not an up-and-up touch.
Love to see it.
The touch comes in for the portal.
One second over time.
Wow, the touch was there.
We'll see if that portal is enough.
No ult available, just yet Tara going to be close.
And we know how many times we've heard again from this player.
Yeah, right now, no one's really close enough
Making the difference outside of one difference.
And that is Terra slamming down, letting down.
Kind of finding the rest.
Finds another one.
Chip Cooper, energy no chance.
What happened?
Shutting it down quickly.
Terra falls.
Speedery, very close.
And moving forward to all energy with a cracking impact.
Is this going to be the play they need?
The exact opposite of what we saw on a Raccoon.
And right now, they're just kind of filling each other out.
There's the commitment.
Energy in their front line.
Yeah, Cooper now at 91%.
This is everything you want as a TLC fan.
as they push in, his destiny is running the name slowly.
Here in Wakanda, 98-99, Cooper up and ready,
cards fold, it's Rajarra up to the sky.
He's hit him before, and he hit it again.
Oh!
The heroes ain't needed in the moment,
but Polly says we're not done yet.
Taking out B, energy, drops trust me.
Oh my goodness, they aren't pushing this thing
with meters left, team of Liquid, sit it out.
No, applauding at the sky, they get it done,
as three points to theirs.
Land the comfort they need as now they flip the sides and chip.
I mean, every time that hero moment arises, everyone is answering the call.
It is just going to play three every time here.
I am loving these teams, duking it out so well-matched right now as Tara has 10 finals.
Paulie with 11.
Paulie with 11, are you joking?
I mean, hey, listen, you know, it's crazy.
Both these players are the one that came from the other region to join the team to get the victory.
That's what you want to see out here.
the ghost being that different saying hey you signed me for a reason let me show you why
absolutely you see the finals from speedery with six energy with seven
matchback similar to Raj who has five and jerky with five as well these teams are so well matched it was
anyone's game and it's all about those clutch moments and in this map team liquid Citadel made it there
absolutely so now if you look at it there's a lot that I've loved you the one side of
Aima has been working out pretty well.
If you look at a lot of what TLC has tried to do,
they've been stopped from mother herself, right?
She knows best.
But with that, best is trying to get that follow up.
Hasn't always been there.
I just love the commitment.
You don't need six.
Get the one.
Get one, especially if it's a priority target,
like Terran, which is what's happened twice now.
And actually, the last fight, elected to throw it right
at Jerky, get that pick.
I mean, that's totally fine.
You don't need a six piece.
You just need to ensure you get the kill.
Bro, it's not often in the 1-0 moment
to make the difference.
Terran, he had that crack and impact.
I can't hit you with a neutral hit to stop it.
That's just what these moments are made for as the magic comes out from Jeremy to take that high ground.
The portal is going to be their solution here, very similar to what we saw before.
The entirety of Team Liquid Citadel is holding up on their high ground, ready for it.
It's water available, good movement there by Pauly to set up, but that occurs quickly.
You know this is going a bit distance now as you look towards the top.
See how they choose to approach this.
So far, ooh, I love the impression of the Iron Man wall already, right?
Just trying to be unstoppable as Rook is best.
That's what we're looking for that fight.
You don't always need to use it to wall off Vanguard.
It is a nice tool to just keep you helping, give you some overhead to energy,
trying to match back and mark the all-angle play from Jerky and Tarot.
It's a good column there.
So moving energy is just hunting for more.
It looks like the size is swapped at this moment.
Of course, we're going to get rid of that mind, great awareness of Tarot in the chaos.
Making organization through all of this terror is disgusting.
That was some Glee tracking by Terra.
The res comes through from Nero.
Number still even.
The past, yes, has been popped here from the side of Jerky.
Terra finds another.
So clean right now.
This defense can be hard of Nami on Terra.
Maybe not getting that last point stop,
but hey, he's harder on himself when he's showing it right here.
That's what fuels this king, the best.
Putting it on their side, he finds another.
Pauli to train.
Pauli finds so much value.
Spittery, hold on now.
Just get two, get the portal back for more, now as he's going to be knocked easy to clean up that point.
He's trying to stall the point, so the team is ready, energy now going through with the strains.
Right back in.
Yeah, right out the other side.
Yeah, you can use that. I mean, it's all about just giving that touch for a moment.
You're resetting your teams here, and that's exactly what they did. Really good concept.
Nobody had fallen out of a portal, and that's pretty true for every time.
It's a group run.
It's such a bad group run here.
It's just so perfection, right?
Because he's about to have an ult as well.
There's gonna be early pick, and he goes down, and no one else falls, and they have the group pick.
There's the res even more. The pressure going back.
going back like we said, and he's the car's in a fold.
Really good amapick into this thing,
who Terra finding Vess right off the back of that comment.
Clean work, Nabi out with a bench and speedery
with the rage of Ultraman.
Is that rage enough to get a KO?
It is not.
It's dead.
It's taken out of the sky by the demon that is Terra.
Making two jerky Raj finding another.
And Raj has been a difference maker in every single one
of these maps.
Now listen, there's a quick point tag,
especially in comparison to what happened on the other side.
At least they strap ult her down if you are a fan of TLC on Nobby's side.
Either way, still have the two important offensive ults and you can get the job done.
How crazy nowadays, right, that Raja won't be back, you know?
Not always defensive, right? The aggression is there for the Mags these days.
Yeah, absolutely. You don't necessarily need to answer, although I think you, you know,
you can essentially double the value. If you cancel it all at the same time,
a lot of the time you do have something like Bucky to shut that down fast,
but I'm just planning these things left and right and constantly being in threat.
That guy goes into the gate, up in the sky now.
Here's that meteorite we're talking about, and throw to the side!
I don't know what to click, but no, it does not work out.
That means throw down, slam down.
We've seen a lot of airbolts, if you can say, right?
Been looking at it though.
Can they make a difference and change what we've seen
in the history of this MSF?
And that is 1-2, being capped instantaneously.
We have three minutes, 23 seconds on the floor.
Large rocks are ready.
Strat holes are in favor of Bobby.
And the tough side of this is going to lose to Sid.
New hundred words.
Good idea with the Glar trucks, but it does not work.
Cherokee, finding Pauli.
Cherokee has been really strong on this Wolverine.
And that was the changing tone for the last on the defense.
It held up for a while.
Terras is off from my Glar trucks.
It takes out Cooper.
Energy finding one.
But numbers still up here for Navi on the attack.
Now both the superstars just showing out that one used the monster to the advantage.
That's been in Terras' favor right now.
The neutral and the pop of the god choose.
There it is.
We see who can find more.
It's like that.
Eight level.
You're in the rest of the future.
Yeah, me and a crook actually had to be the worst of top here,
but that's a huge tackle.
Instead of using an offensive and on like that, play slow down,
allow your Wolverine to decide something.
Everyone so well played there by Jerky,
and now you can engage in the next fight with me.
Yeah, you're going to have the time now, though,
to be able to push that 88 with Cooper 94 and more,
but Teres aren't going to allow there to have a door.
Pushin' through in a punchy, Paulie sees it from afar.
Man, this gets off the touch here.
It's going to be the thing.
I mean, today, to get there, but I'm just getting spoke.
and the momentum is out of the view.
Talks about getting in the nation, they'll take a mile.
How about a map as Terra drops best?
Crawley trades it into Terra, though that's a big pick,
and there's the commitment for both.
And the last man, Bang lands, but into a sea of somebody
takes too much damage.
That is not going to be the outfit we're expecting.
Can't throw us up, and unfortunately,
can't throw down now.
It's quickly time.
That two minutes, there it is.
Speedery up in the eyes.
That's best for a Crawford.
Time ready to go.
Energy.
Nades us to close to low.
Large arc's ready again as Raj unable to connect
for what it seems like in Nintendo.
Oh, and a huge clobbering title!
But even Patrick Tackle there by Trusted
and not allowed that to work out.
So much matching back and forth.
Yeah, a game of ultimate's not really.
It's just the old new show right now.
Time to time it did it for these stars.
More and more, being able to dodge,
to dodge, to dodge, to dodge.
That's a large arch, come on, Tara.
Once you change the strip, look at the boy.
The monster comes up empty.
Throwing it over the point like that,
that is some ball knowledge.
As we see Tara commit heavy in an invisible boundary
from level one, Crook.
This is the time they need to pick, and they've got it.
Best balls here.
We're going to see the next answer,
but the rest comes through.
Yeah, right now, what you're trying to do,
you can get this point up if you have to.
Just try to get that bolt back a little bit, right?
We're just going to just drain that clock.
Tick, tick, tick.
As the clock goes down and calling,
what a great way to do it, right?
What we call the old, the worst bolt in the game.
It's a great time-waster.
Yeah, you just want to set up lines
because you know they're coming in soon.
If you're tracking with fate, this Rachel Royal flush,
which is any moment now, or how about right now,
will this work?
Nobby on the attacker.
They need to make this work out in 51 seconds.
No picks yet.
Side guy live.
Best finds.
Pursuit to make fights fast.
Make it two, mate.
And Cherokee drops energy.
They look to make their destiny to push through.
Number three here is 2.97 up and out.
39 seconds down.
We know they only need milliseconds, though,
as if any indication from point in match number four.
We've got two minutes and one second left.
Cooper, have it all.
They definitely have advantage on that side.
The portal, this is good.
I like this a lot, yeah.
I mean, if you don't use Portal on retake,
you need to use it on early.
It's all about stalling.
They're just going to try to play right outside of this Portal
on the edge of the point by time.
I've seen a lot of testing too.
But when you have Terra there, it just deletes you.
It's a different story.
It doesn't stall for long.
How about just milliseconds?
Goodbye to everybody.
But it does force out at all.
Yeah, that just felt like they just
dragged them to the trash.
I mean, just one quick button there of the delete all four.
I mean, looking at it, though, you
don't want to get too much time for Navi, especially
on crook's side, to get up to that defensive measure.
You're still really looking in favor
All that hold is done here.
We're gonna come back in heavy here.
Cooper, knowing that they don't have an answer for tracking properly.
See if that works out, yes, there it is, it is, he is now.
That's what's on the Cloud9's speedery.
All in two weeks, aggressive play, Pauley finding Brooke now.
Liquid's sitting out now with another number of speedery calls with Alton Han.
Comes back and quickly, Bess drops Raj, making two on a trustee.
And right into that front line with a minute left,
the Liquid's sitting out, still holding about halfway.
Bess the best says, say the line, and it's him punching through with the front line.
You have a plan to get punched right in the mouth, ship.
That's doing just that here.
The fantastic six of Liquid Citadel.
Shbediri having that ult ready.
But now, just like that, the scales have been tipped back over
to Nami, put it in their hands.
And after the magnetism are ready to press that Q button,
launch it into a strat.
Energy, though, says, nope, not here,
and make that three falling, disgusting work.
And there was only 32 seconds if they
can keep them at this door.
They may not be able to get out here on portal.
Just relentless as the C is still there for the defensive play.
Terra, this is your moment.
We've seen it time and time again, again, again.
If you're on the win of Sorja, this time, Elsa,
they're ready for more on the glory, Trox.
Now, Raj is welcome to hero play.
Time to take him down.
Here it is.
Trox gets lunch, and that's going to be one as Vest falls.
Meteor Ram does land.
Raj does not miss these things.
Vest, though, trains that back.
Trust me, says goodbye.
Cooper, and now goes to the boundary
to ensure they can hold this point.
Yeah, it's because unfortunately, you had Cooper fall before that, but at least you get the boundary out with it, right?
So at this point, everything being blow-to-blow, equal on equal.
Oh, and now just trying to get out onto the safety net, the numbers are falling like this.
Still, what's every fit of it there falling on the point?
Trust me, taking out the best is another angle for Navi to keep this moving.
They are so clutched in these moments.
Will they be able to make this workout much like we saw in Araco?
Yeah, and they have honestly a ton of the favor here.
Nate is going to go ahead and wait for that perfect time to 3-2-1 on the Q, energy 95, and up and out will see if able to get through, as we saw from the other side.
Oh my goodness, what is happening?
As Thera finds one with a living, breathing bullet, Thera to revive, Thera finds the best, everything clashing here.
Everybody is falling, there's no ultimate to answer, trust me, gets eaten, but not for long.
At now, the Sionic's induction is also available.
Rush with another pick and Naviar clutching up an OT,
almost pushing the entire thing at overtime.
This team is so locked in right now.
Rupert said he made it to the,
he's got you three and up, but there's no time left.
0.195, there's the cards to fold.
Well, it's coming up and down to the last stand.
Slams down from Jerky, it's at three, three shiv overtime.
We are taking this to overtime.
I mean, come on now with these two teams.
There's no way. Kevin Foggy's like,
write this down, write this down.
We need to make a new movie from this thing.
Because that was absolutely crazy.
Once you get looked at, hey, 59, just a casual 59 eliminations on the side of Terra.
47, this is about to be a record match here, at least at the pro play.
Yeah, I thought 33 wasn't going to get beat today.
But Terra's already with 31 finals.
This guy is genuinely just built differently.
No, honestly, I mean, 31.
31 answers to the question of can you get 0.3 and ship I mean they were a
Wakanda my whole away from 0.3 and the fact that they were able to continue to find the clutch pain in them
Noffy always seems to find a will in a way
They just didn't really have an answer to stop the region world clutch
They had clobbering time they had gloar trucks and they had poly on the penny. I mean there's really not much
Ooh, the counter. This could be safe.
Eyes on here, folks. Trap in as this might be a clip-able play as that chat.
Let's make this one happen here as we look at jerky.
Will the meme become a tree right even at the top level, Shave?
We're about to find out if once again, TLC will let victory just slip through the fingers
as the last second remains. Oh, Shave, I am absolutely seated.
And this might be, yeah, probably sad they're elected to not use it.
They're gonna try to find a kidnapped jerky.
Die is mine one! Goodbye, Paulie! Come on, Jerky!
And Swoosh goes the net, absolutely disgusting there!
Jerky with the style points now, as Tara could go and continue the hunt.
Now forced to go ahead and just do the full stoppage.
And that gets heavy, all percentage here for Jerky and the Cooper.
Rain last hand now. Climbing quickly and he's back in the fight with the team.
Big brain play there. Launch moments, clutch players.
Cooper and Speidery both!
Oh!
Speidery is not done!
Rage of Ultron, who needs it?
I am Ultron as he walks through point one.
Relentless, electrified energy.
Speidery, the duelist of DLC.
Get it done in the neutral.
10 seconds to the countdown.
Push in the panther, four.
In the downside, I'm not having portal in that moment.
You can't get back.
I mean, but I don't know, it could have.
Stop points.
You got the farming of the aura.
Who did the ship show for you?
They got that clip.
Oh, what a 0.1 take here is now the defense side of Navi.
He's going to have to regroup.
All advantage actually going to be in favor of TLC on that win.
Yeah.
Listen, it's still kind of a mild winning.
Some of these old scoogers just look for his survivability
now as energy is lowing out.
Tear are going to find that trade.
Rosh do the same.
And now they're going to have to get that portal back
on their side of things.
But can you stall long enough?
Best should be able to do that as Paulie and something like that.
It's all about just trying to stall to get off.
But no, wow.
I mean, Navi is so good in the neutral.
Another pick onto energy.
It doesn't matter if you have the BRB, we're going to delete you all.
Terra is just angry, best falls here too for another pick, and there it is, the double OT ticking down.
I don't think they get here. It's going to be a hopeful 4.2.
They can be able to jump through the portal to get the sliver on the clock, but Jeff, you're going to go ahead and try to finish up Slice, Dice, and the job is done, and they can get up to the ramp.
But folks, being able to cap that point with only, I mean, no time at all, and on top of that, having to wait for that, what was the first fight as Paulie fell through the magic,
Either way, great job because if Navi were to lose another fight, the ult would have been in favor of TLC.
And at that point, we've all been there before in our ranked games, you know what I'm talking about?
Yeah, I mean, Navi did exactly what they needed to do. It's what I'm saying about Clutch.
They came back and in the neutral, the only way they win that, because they're down in all the advantages, getting picks,
Raj finds one, another one comes through, Nex Terragot's two, and then the fight's over.
Granted, it's a full 0.1 push.
And then out the doors, plenty of fight opportunities for the defensible side of Liquid Citadel.
Yeah, I mean, again, I pulled up the dictionary under clutch here, and just as Tara over and over, I mean, listen, man, 66, surely we won't hit the big 70 burger, my friend, but right now, looking close to it, as a minute on the clock, though, it just requires perfect play, right?
Like, what's your energy there?
It cannot be under line, because of how crazy that is to do it.
But if anyone can do it?
Yep, it's not.
Listen, and I know Tara, we know what we're expecting to be able to do it.
This is where we need to see jerky shot, right? They're gonna go with the double-hit scan. That's the gamble
They're willing to make but with fate and more on the back. I like it
Yeah, the double poke here the priorities to look for speedery try to get the fire out the sky
We made a big difference on that attack
The difference of two is they're gonna have portal right so they're gonna portal to at least continue that contest there
Of point number one, but it's gonna be two fights right?
We're gonna mainly have two fights here to decide if we're gonna get ourself that I mean
Honestly, I'm speechless at times about how these have been finishing moving forward now once again Tara, Cherokee
No, it's gonna move. Yeah, I mean there's no other way
It's been an absolute movie between these two teams right now
Tara walking forward farming that all quickly understanding climbing
You're looking to potentially take height noticing that the team set up there and has to reset down there
Yeah, just get awareness and streamers. They know they're on business to trap this one
So it's gonna get a lot of bullets early, but that also fuels up the strat side right now
Wing paper slightly over to the side of Navi, Cherokee needed to answer the call and there it is.
They're gonna bring back Pauly, once again with an entry.
With the pick, it's DLC.
That was the pit all along, the BRB, they walked forward right out of mine!
But Terra is not giving up! Pauly falls now, and the numbers are up in favor of Navi.
Yeah, but there's a will, there's a way, Cripp 62% off, looked out for it as it's relentless as Cherokee,
jerky trying to find more pushing making imposing their will is down before the
EVA the Kings will not be the drone so easily terrified to he's over 70 folks
this is insane the entirety of Team Liquid Citadel I don't believe a portal
this maybe they will but it's all about this next fight they need to ensure they
win this Navi however doing an incredible job have all the advantage
can the neutral side of Liquid Citadel be the same as Navi yeah and let's say
2% 81 right cropped on the 92. That's where you want to look is how they choose to survive and address
And get a look at the space here that they could give this first kick meaning everything
We see the raccoon near of going up in the wall there set up a space for the respalpy
Touching moment that's each you'll quickly boundary goes out that could be massive
That's two three
Polly falls and that's going to be the win I believe here from Na'vi who are so
The final boss continues to remain on the throne, folks.
What minute difference was a 3-1 now to the favor in the odds of their direction?
Unbelievable. It's like you never know with these two teams you cannot predict it 5-4
and look at this guy's stats on the MVP.
on the MVP.
I mean, this is the most disgusting performance
we have seen at this level of play with the stakes so high.
I mean, 76, 40, brother, 40.
We've seen the videos of like one above all for surprise.
It's like those in the set you see there,
but not here with the top two team going at it.
52K damage, 40 finals, 76 and 12.
Terra, are you kidding?
I mean, folks, if you go back, all right, Morocco,
they were able to somehow miraculously stop that
and give it to their favorite.
Everything was against them there.
Here, Wakanda, there was a mile to go,
and they got the point pushed through.
Shib, how do they keep finding those answers?
I mean, obviously, we know he's terrifying,
but for me, it's the rest of that plan going in.
And Cherokee, can we just highlight
that other half the equation stepping up, or an E?
I can't stress it enough.
It's like every time Navi needs to clutch, they do.
TLC put themselves in an incredibly strong position.
They found an early quickie, doesn't matter.
The team just knows how to play around it.
They drop back, retake it, they pick it, even the odds,
and go right back at them.
Navi's so aggressive, they could set it out,
getting caught on their heels.
Again, it was a dream.
It was slowly going to a nightmare.
This team was on a big stage before.
It slipped through their fingers.
How?
Because all the games go in their way,
there was not enough time to fight back.
Here, though, now, flipping their odds,
And guess what, Shib, you look at it.
Domination.
And how fitting is it that with Domination at play
potentially, we got TLC who were the king.
So we've always considered it of that.
But one team has always looked the part.
And it's Navi.
Yeah, it's doing a roll on him here after 26 straight.
I mean, they've got their number.
No doubt.
They need to try to bounce back right now.
But Navi need to clutch this up.
If you're a fan of Navi, you need to lock in.
And hope that they've got this, because I'll tell you what.
They have not stopped their momentum.
It's now going to be the time as Liquid Citadel able to find it
or would they fall to right now in 1,000 and 3,2?
Yeah, right now, I'm just trying to really,
how do you even go back in battle plan
after what just happened, right?
It's like, because what are we doing wrong?
You look at it, you're trying to circle,
it's like really not much, right?
And that's why they call it a game of inches.
There isn't massive miles, yards, mistakes.
It's the smallest micro's decisions.
And now, just the most important pick and ban phase
to try to give your team any slight advantage
in what is the most important matchup of these two teams.
This is game point here.
First of four, best of seven.
We've taken it deep in the tournament so far.
Navi trying to shut it down now before it gets to that number.
See her able to do that.
But I'll tell you what, this team, both teams,
have been playing their hearts out.
No, I agree.
Listen, I mean, it feels like we are quite literally watching.
I know Tuesday's coming out a little bit later here,
but there's some type of The Fingers movie going on.
And I'm not sure which side is which.
It's blow for blow, right?
Whenever you have all the heroes going after each other,
nothing but chaos with it but man right now we are absolutely seated for these
superstars and Marvel rivals giving it all they got again both these just shut
down so close to greatness Paulie coming over here from the EMEA to try to
earn the crown Tara leaving here going and finding a will and a team that wants
that same drive finds it and I'll be and listen I'm pretty sure they they got
what they paid for yeah I mean without a doubt I mean you've got to shout out the
backline who are clearly enabling Terra.
Terra is playing hyper aggro, staying up 24-7 in these fights.
Raj with a bubble, there is a lot of pocket going on.
But if it nets value like that, there
is no reason to change your game plan.
52k damage from Terra is disgusting.
So absolutely here.
Where do you take it, right?
Because you try now to flip the script a couple of times.
Obviously, as close as you could plausibly get to it,
but you're now running out of the maps that
are favorable to your odd ship.
You probably want to try to go to a map that favors flyers and your ultron comp.
So maybe Krikola, I'm not 100% sure what they're going to select.
If that makes sense to me, as a team that loves that composition,
they've been guaranteeing that they get to save that ultron every time.
And it looks like we're going to be heading into this thing quickly.
It is back against the wall time here for Team Liquid Citadel.
Navi have them on the ropes.
Will they get the KO?
Absolutely.
And again, we said it once, this is going to be the most important time
to not only put all the strategy that mental behind,
but the physical will in a way.
And Tara, when I interviewed him up there on stage,
I'm like, how do you do it?
Did you hear the words coming from him?
Like, when everything is going up against you, my friend,
how do you just put it, the seat of the chest,
as you continue to say, and be that guy?
Yeah.
I mean, there's got to be aimbot in that cowboy hat.
You know what I mean?
That's what I'm saying at this point.
This guy is locked in brainbott.
He's just hitting everything, huge ults every time,
and walking down the opposition.
It is like, try to drop the boss before you can move forward,
but with this much pocket, by this much talent,
it's very difficult to do that.
Well, it's great and good.
I mean, this is one of the rivals of the highest play,
just still, again, I say so early in the scene.
We saw last year our opening kickoff year,
right, Fede going off.
Then we had what many call the roster mania
putting together dream teams.
If we saw in America, for a great example,
some of the best players spread across the board,
we could did some for five to three,
couple of these powerful teams to answer back.
Because again, EMEA continues to put up their own Tydall, their own fortress through the trophy to go through it.
Now to break down what we've continued to see on the heat, touch through the desk, what have you seen?
Heat, cozy. Heat we have seen. This is such an incredible series right now.
And what I really want to bring up, Vodable, is how quick some of these attacking rounds have gone.
It's so insane to see, you know, back in the day, we used to have, you know, long first point holds and then the second point where a lot of these convoy maps would end out.
But because of the gambit composition that we are currently in the meta, the speed boost and damage and rage and fury that we've seen from these teams, it's just on another level in this competition.
Yeah, everyone's just got better at knowing who to isolate, who to focus as well in some of these team fights to make it quicker, right?
If you can hit that gambit, oh, you can get the rage and run and flash on the go, you take down the strategist.
you know how much of an advantage you have in that fight.
You just have to press forward and start to walk them down.
And we've got two incredible teams
who know exactly when to hold them and when to fall.
You've also got to bring up, though, just how crazy it is.
It's down to, like you said, that efficiency.
It's down to some of these.
But looking at the meta, if someone showed you a screen
with Adam Ultron Penny being in the meta
and then told you that this meta is quick and deep,
sometimes just get wiped on first point. I'd call you a lunatic and yet it keeps happening.
It does get burst down sometimes. Also, just, it was mentioned of the cast, but we gotta shout it out,
the risk and the bravery of Jerky to use the portal, the one possible re-engage tool on the defense
to catch Polly on that first engage and then Navi, despite not having the port for the re-engage,
still managed to bring it back, that is insane, Votable.
You know why they were able to bring it back here to Eteter?
Terra. Terra is the difference maker.
40 finals throughout that game,
more than both poly and energy combined.
And I think the biggest thing here
is that Terra's been stepping up,
filling in the presence that this team needs on the dual side
and going in those one-to-one's
and winning time after time against energy.
It feels like anything you can do,
I can do better between Terra and energy at the moment.
And now we pass the baton back to energy.
What can you do here in map number six six out of seven will we go all the way as we go into the locking band phase now
It is gonna be a magneto protect on both sides and for good reason
I think we've seen not only just how important the bubbles are but even the meteor ems have been really good in this grand final as
Well, Ultron take it away by Navi if we're going to see Polly keep with that penny
We're at least gonna make sure that they don't have their favorite robot friend following on behind the gambit secured by Navi
You've mentioned it so many times, what about you've been the true champion for this team up because it is so
impactful the zoning and positioning advantage it can offer is just
Unexaggerated was so interesting here, too is that team liquid Citadel are doing basically the same bands we saw last time
The only difference they aren't saving the ultra on there saving the magneto
And I feel like that might be the way that they take this victory against Navi
the last one. The last one
for the team. And it protect
at the very end. We've already
mentioned Adam's been taken
away. The final band coming in
for Navi. The rocket is taken
away on both sides. Revives
only available for the side of
the particular as the Adam is
left available for them and
start with you this time
You took the words from my mouth and for this map as well.
I think Team LeCancinelle are going to give us our first ever map 7 game grand final.
That's good.
No, I'm joking.
We're going to 7.
It was worth a try.
Let's admit back over to our casters.
I run Sheba Cozy for what could be our final map.
Alrighty, buddy.
I mean, here we are.
We have found ourselves now at the hill at Cucumber.
I mean, how appropriate.
Nice, yeah.
the domination once again happening.
And there's, listen, we're casters.
We'd love to analyze the little things.
What can we point out?
What this, there's really like not a lot to say
because the gameplay is doing most of the speaking for us.
Yeah, I mean, the walls of the Citadel
crack in a little bit.
I'll tell you what, Navi sneaking in,
they are looking very strong in moments that they need to.
And that's what it's all about when you have this much
count on both sides.
Right?
It's not like even bursting through the front door.
It's just like slipping and sneaking into the Citadel,
if you will, one at a time to get it done as 22 seconds
and our overview of the decisions and the pathing to take.
With Cherokee on the devil, ready to let out that hell
we have continued to see from these duelists.
Speedery, the side lock, we're starting to see
some big, deeper sleeper kick.
Oh, the Bastion skits deleted instantly, trust me.
Into the front line of the thing,
it is very strong to have Emma,
especially 100 charged up, diamond form, pulling crystal.
You just get deleted, showcased right there
as the point immediately gets taken by Nabi.
I know absolutely here as Terran. Once he finds blood and sniffs it, he hunts for more.
Is it gonna go ahead and tip that time off? Now this is the point that's not the easiest to take.
Can we see this one? You can test it for a good while. Big time fast take here from Na'Vi.
They're dropping backward now. You can see some of that damage used through Invis.
There's different comps here. Polly find it the first pick now. Honda, trust me, gives him up a number, 20% already.
And climbing, Team Liquid Citadel's trying to claim the space.
Yeah, I think we'll at least get one out of there, because you can't get too much of that comfort time to him.
And with Cooper already up to 80%, there's once again the favor of the odds of TLC to put that aggression on.
No impressive cue, right as it's ready. 98, 99 more. Here we go, ship.
It's a tricky little collecting cooldowns right now, like trading cards.
Everything has been committed. Out goes another.
Raging Royal Flush, energy fighting to pick on the current.
The portal has been committed to from trust me, which ruled he had to put the end of the map, but well done on the retake.
I look with Citadel early on at 45%.
And finding those yokais, you can do the portal,
is speedery on the siloq again.
With those big changes, you have to keep that much closer,
eight meters in that siloq to be able to get those quick hits
of the assassin.
Sitting home now prepping for the next fight.
Energy very close to all we've seen.
Energy on Magneto actually being a huge problem.
Stepping into the conversation.
The kids just good on virtually everyone
as they are trying to own that high side,
but already having to give it up.
A lot of the wins and moments have come from Energy being on that, being able to play with
what is the triple Vanguard, Pauli on the EMS Weldon, has that available to tear with
the Gambit cars ready to fuel the King himself of the DPS duelist, Mr. Glarjax.
Oh!
The seventh member of TLC finds it, Stompsons, which is the pillar of Kukoua.
Could have been the force physics or the right click from Energy to push back.
Force, never, Turkey gets two, Energy trades it into Krupp, which is a big pit, Turkey falls
Now somebody stop energy who's out here with a vengeance trust me on to fest speedery
That's a nice clean if dance dance execution with the sword in the blade
Once again single handedly sitting on the point alone as cerebro overlooks the map
this is
Unbelievable this guy is an absolute unit on the battlefield best having to drop back the point is still in liquid Citadel's control
Yeah, that's actually a big call. The fact that they were able to keep that thing alive and healthy now as they find more 65, 66 and up.
If you look at what they have, Cooper getting close to that hole to find more, but Chirky has found those value picks.
Speedery with the dash and the slash and the finish.
Tell you what, Psylocke looking pretty good right about now, trying to apply some pressure.
Roche now into Cooper, goodbye to Paulie too. Make it fast in level one crook.
Where the vengeance on the point finds it some cleanup.
Yeah, I mean listen the fact that was Cooper over Nero was massive because now things slow down as you've got yourself
61 62
This is a disgusting
Absolute disgusting stagger there tell our energy to join his team way late 70%
They've already matched it with a world record stagger that are gonna be
Gaining on that percentage 80% across the board now. We are heading to final flight territory the force board
How do you just bag it just take me down? Please as now Tara is gonna continue to try to do this pocket
It's just disgusting. I mean they have so much cool downs available to continue to fuel it
There's the cars rolling Cooper committing that team to short only a couple there and now I'm gonna go with the aggression not finding anything
Shit, this is a must win battle. That was a great take of that health pack energy walking forward now no longer on that bag
Magneto, said nobody, it's a burn moment, Tarot with the Clark Trunks.
That one does land onto Nero, energy falls to a Navi.
Looking to take this first map, it looks like they just might speedery treading back into jerky,
but I don't think it matters as the rest of Team Liquid sent it outfall.
No portal comes out, it's a matter of time.
It's shit, that's the worst way to fall.
There's so many reasons, but mainly look over there to the back line.
Level 1 crook has already gambit the same.
So now going into this next point is the championship trophy
Standing right there for Navi to grab and hold up
It's not only game
Set point match one more
Dom map win and it is over
Liquid Citadel the definition of not only being backs against the wall, but pushed 20 inches up the wall
Can they clutch into a terrifying terra who's 13 to 0 this full team of team liquid Citadel
the almost the maybes they want to drive the best of the best that America had to offer right now
Even for these Avengers coming up short as now backs are completely against the wall ship
You find yourselves gate open domination kings of the region our side right now
Navi looking in control as fate is looking to paint their destiny by advantage here for Navi as well
It's very difficult to win the next first fight if you have been defending point because typically the attacking team uses
cool downs to get there so since they have committed they will be able to use
that early rage and royal flush to try to get them to point and then crook with
the boundary it's going to be tough for Liquid Citadel to get this thing.
Yeah honestly speedery trying to get this execution to get massive here try to
see what you can kind of flush out there that's the only really hope as crook is
up and able as well 85 percent Nero gonna match so now there's a little bit of a
wheel in the way.
Dropping backwards 90% now very close there is that rage and royal flush
how to kick it back and forth and Nero also forces out the boundary, fate.
Does the same or crook does the same, excuse me, as you see the Venn diagram on point but nobody's gone down just yet.
Now you have speeders to bolt and this is where you're going to find that value down the Yokai Slayer
trying to get the dance and the finish there, see the visibility on the trap, that's why it's so huge!
Tenor catches another superstar!
Yeah, that team up is so strong in the dive this season which has made that far less prevalent,
especially for the hero like this, can do so much for seven days.
Damn it! I held 4 trucks, but immediately gets deleted. Great focus here by Navi, who almost fell instantly.
Just an answer to every single thing that happens out here.
At the bubble of the finished Cooper, they found nothing last hold from the cabinet.
There's the fear of the Eroge. His hit of dodge dipped away.
That's a job there. It's asking for the same. The slice that dies to finish.
Wow!
Who goes down? 4, 30% on the point, but it's gonna go to TLC.
Not a bad percentage retake there, the side of Liquid Citadel, but...
Well done by Navi, as they are building those alts quickly.
Terra, jerky, trust me, I'm going to have all hurling onto this next fight in comparison to Pauli and Ves.
Yeah, it's going to be how does the frontline answer, right?
When you have the entire just lethality of Terra and jerky that continue to just put in a...
The imposter will, on the region, look to do it over here on the side of America.
Pauli and Veswa have eyes on the prize. Terra taking that backflank. Look out.
The onslaught on the Citadel will it hold strong with whom walls remain early on,
scionic seduction on to Vest, healing backwards using some of those cooldowns
to stall the jerky, the pressure on to Speedery who somehow escapes with a nice
clone switch in that moment, pulled over the team off chase as Vest fights Terral
Energy is able to take down trust me and a second pick comes through from Speedery on
this sidewalk. That's the best Speedery they all want a piece of the pie here as
They finish Paul with getting included as well.
They can send it up.
Terra, Cherokee, Pace, it's on the old.
Nero has the match in the finish now.
So look at what they have.
Krupper gonna have time as well to fuel it up.
If anyone's gonna match Raj on the Magneto, it is Vess.
So this switch, they're playing into their strengths.
This jerk, they walk forward.
They're not just or farming, but also trying to find
these women away.
Vessro, look at the positioning of Vessro over here.
And that goes to Devils.
Let that with hell.
Roll!
And down, only one gets sent back down to below.
And there it is, the Rage Royal Flush, the Guard Trox, it's massive from Energy here.
Scythe, I lied right back at him as Terra is able to make that work as Rajarro,
and trust me, get two picks, and this retake will be Navi.
That's massive, Castillo with the invisible boundary, it's gone and finished,
but with that, you still have Coupre-Main, it does fall.
But Terra able to claim the point right back, right? 35% now, no long stagger this time.
Everybody gonna be together as one.
This is your moment, Avengers.
Can you get it to get this port back and make it one to one in our zones of Kikoha?
86% here, Team Liquid Citadel.
50 and climbing for Navi, the answer is there with the invisible boundary in the media round.
The Glartrox and the Rage Moral Flush is what they are looking for.
Realist attack work has begun in the pressure mix time.
The champion ships as well as the Shkudri trying to hunt through the invisibility energy.
trying to find his dinner time, unable to come up with anything in return trap.
Coming out fighting for, it's gonna be the Emma, up goes Raj, getting slammed down to
maybe, he finds the biggest of his career.
That is a huge throw on the Cooper of the back line.
Getting rid of one of those strategies you are no longer able to build off,
it's gonna put them in a very tough spot after committing.
Yeah, right now, speeder invests one.
Pauli, this is it, this is what you have.
Do you want to be champions to continue this thing or a Navi?
Played it for the EVA once again, ship. It's 80 to 80.
Points on the line. Here we go.
It's all about neutral early on.
TLC will have a ton of ults if they're able to stall for just a moment.
No answer yet from Navi.
Besides a sign of seduction.
4% and a dream for Navi.
Can they keep this pressure on?
Overtime has begun.
There is the dance of the cutterfly heading towards the front line here.
Nobody falls. The kiting has begun.
Fate and it's on spot best trying to get the pick on Iterra.
Who got it? Throwing a boss at his feet and gets that KO.
Here's going to be the Meteor Ram, and Trison of the Sky misses that,
but still gets that switch, the portal will be matched right back.
Yeah, we're in the end game now, Shiv.
As the portal comes out, the heroes to follow,
Energy, Cooper, and more, cross the board.
Big thing that we said, Terra on Strange now,
your best player, the clutchbacker, might be missing.
Trise used the team up to push back into point,
2% can they get there?
They do not!
We are going to map 3!
We've got ourselves the banger, and what?
We keep saying this whole tournament,
Expect the expected and of course this thing going to get stretched out that much more how perfect man
Just like you came at the portal cubs they come out the heroes the same that day
We've been calling them use the Avengers forever now
But it is Thanos is on the other side not one but six in this case
I honestly want to shout out speedery on that switch
I think that's a lock surprisingly even in this meta is looking very very strong
I mean even coming up empty on what was the old day right being able to remain calm still get the pick in the finish
But that's right. He signed this man for a reason. They picked him up right within the preseason after you looking at that
They said this is our guy show up big on the biggest stage doing just that of course though
Shining bright on the staff department the one the only oh
My goodness. I mean we said are you not entertained? Are you not entertained? This could not be more back and forth
I genuinely in every moment have no idea who's gonna win the fight you can feel through the screen the want and the desire to win
I mean just everything on the line through both these teams and sacrifices have been made time after time
Tera moving across the water across the bond to join having you know that butt of the head with trust me the leadership
They were able to calm things through and make what was their super team
It's all come down to right here right now for fellowship. I can't and as the boats pass each other Polly
Who's going this way?
As we go to map 3, this is nuts, but you can see the alts on screen right now.
The advantage in Navi's favor will be able to come out on top.
Folks, we've been looking for the full best of 7 through grand finals now, time after time shift.
Will this be that moment? We're as close as you could ever get, but once again,
we look at the ult department, faith definitely well above the rest to be able to use what they do best,
and that is a maximum momentum in aggression.
Yeah, it's gonna be a tough fight to win here for TLC if there's somehow able to
kite this battle or retake quickly and be in their favor. Navi just does not
want to overcommit fate. One of the best of the best in the backline alongside
Crook, trust me. That comms leader, the positive, the mentality, the desire to
win this isn't enough. Are you that guy? Right, I mean that is what these best of
the best are telling themselves, Peter. He's really good. Dash up, look for more,
trying to find jerking. It's gonna be the flex on flex and there it is. All eyes, all
As it's trust me looking and hunting but with that heroes gonna get the bound to up in ready
They in that or gone just like that shift this points could be a long battle to trade there a positive trade for liquid
Senate Elf nobody has gained just yet a lot of commitment now the boundary goes out from level one
There is no answer well done using that offensively. That's the power of invisible boundary
You got the patience here right cards ready has all four activate and go
What do you have push for it? You want to win away?
Gord shrinks out, no off back, coming up to FD once again.
Intersheets can have to do the old fast way with guns.
And the tip, there's a model head up,
both cropped out of here as Tira and Gord don't match the same.
Can't have a point.
And Paulie, we have a point still in their favor here.
TLC are the lights too bright in this moment.
No major play out of a lot of commitment.
Navi, however, playing very smart.
And there should be no flash.
She moves here for quite a while, right?
Both these teams outside of Ross and Paulie
can have to slow down, break the dash,
Figures, they'll close with the Danza, but apply no connection last time, but time is ticking here, ship.
34% can't give them much more space here to give them room to run.
While they're walking forward, time of seduction is available. Might be trying to use it for those cool-downs, but it's...
Hey, what a cancel! No!
That was insane by jerky to read the ultimate and shut that down, and the rest will fall after the fact incredible work by the Wolverine player,
the one of the few that are making work at this moment.
Last dance man, the last stand, are you choking as Terran now on hot mode?
58%, they can smell the championship!
We talked about backs against the wall and it is getting tighter and tighter here for Liquid Citadel.
What a play by Navi.
Yeah, speeder going on over to the Black Cat, Eros kept me visible, Bounty Cooper to follow.
They're gonna have plenty of the offense to answer, but then you've got to be able to stand to test the time to the point, right?
Even if you take it you can't give up too much 80% ship 89 and up for this the big hero moments face to be the first to pull
Here we go Raj in the air ship goes up slams down
Oh
What a shield there I believe it just using that third band and try still able to take down Cooper and that might will be
The detriment here on the side of Team Liquid Synod out 95% and climbing can they get here?
I don't believe they can are you kidding the OT tits down. They're trying to stay on point
They came from Europe with a dream
They leave Los Angeles there's gonna be the portal. It's coming in. No way. Are you joking?
They leave with the trophy born to win
They have fulfilled the prophecy your new world champions, Navi
of
Please celebrate Nabe and lift the trophy you so willingly deserve.
The path once again goes through the EMEA.
You are champions of Marvel Rivals Ignite, mid-season finals, 20-26.
The absolute best match, best game of rivals to will the way.
There was only one Citadel standing strong through it and it came in the hands of Navi.
champions that won't be denied once again, taking crown.
Gotta go right now.
First to Terra, Terra, you crossed the pond.
You believe this team could get it done.
What's going through your mind through all of this?
I mean, after we went down two maps,
we didn't let us get to us.
As I said, their OTPs, they played the same stuff
for the whole series, this whole tournament.
And we beat it.
That was the best card, but we didn't need it!
Escaliah loved the passion.
Jerky.
My goodness, last year, denied at the biggest stage, now here in America, L.A., you shut down what we call the American Avengers.
Y'all were the Thanos. Tell me, what's through your mind?
I mean, it's just happiness, man. Like, we worked for this so hard, you know, we go through hardships, through wins, through losses.
But hey, we're here and Theron said it the best. We're the fucking champions.
We are the depression, baby! You love to see it, I gotta come over here.
the back line after the love but oftentimes you made the destiny for this team you're
here once again going back to China Guangzhou we're now here in LA how do you feel the
anything I can think about is the fact that they got to take some more Europeans if they
want a chance and I felt that hey level one group baby we're back you're right here you
are a champion what is going on through what was the most chaotic matchup where the back
I needed the most in so many of those battles I mean, you know in screams these guys the Rothfielder's, you know
They're super aggressive. They bite hard
Fishers you just read them and they start crumbling real fast and you just win
If the memo, you know the other guys will be a nice little compliment there, but also trust me crook my friend
Listen, I was there
I joined you on stage as you have yourself tears so close to that dream to win that Grand Finals come back here
shortly with a new team to squad. What's going through your mind as this leader
that has been through so much now with this team? I just feel so happy. That's
it. There's not much more. It feels rewarding.
And Raj, I'm mad a few words but those Magneto halts their speaking volumes baby!
What's going on through your head? I mean I finally got to play Mag in a tournament
So I just want to get.
Listen, y'all.
Let's give it up right now.
Give everything you've got.
Emote to the chat.
Here in LA, let's get the applause going.
Once again, it is not me with that crowd.
And of course, welcome to the stage, Danny Koo.
Come up here, because we've got an MVP
through this tournament, through this chaos.
But to find yourself the winner, the dedication of all six that made it possible, Dereku Jinyoung.
Where are you, Dereku Jinyoung?
Give it up right now.
Again, executive producer of Marvel Games.
It's Jinyoung.
Yes.
The man who needs no introduction.
Hi, I'm Jiyoung.
Did everyone have a good time?
All right, now we're going to present the MVP award.
Yeah, hey Danny, I think, you know, people, we might know who this MVP is.
Is it somebody that traveled forward?
Canada! Canada! Canada!
Tara, congrats for being the final MVP.
It's a medal.
Tara is your 20-26 next season final MVP
from the 70 elimination bomb to the 40 final hits
to the dedication to go to this team to believe
Tara, MVP, how do you feel? What is on your mind?
I mean, I feel phenomenal.
phenomenal I'm holding back all the emotions for later tonight because I'm
gonna we win we lose we booze but as I've done here today I've proved to the
world that I can beat land I can beat NA I can beat EU you love to see it I have
to ask you you know he's up there I want to win I want to retire do we still get
more terror what's going on in your mind right now first response I mean
obviously you got to finish this year off and we'll see how that goes because I'm
coming for the Grand Champ too why not make it once when you can make it too
job is not finished folks as we give a big thank you to you huge congrats to
Navi to cross the board let's give it up all rounds of applause for your
winners as we thank everybody involved to make this possible your champions of
the EVA to fight in the finish the TLC the teams that got here big thank you to
of Marvel games that is double G.
Can we hear from Gwagwon who's not here, everybody?
But you know he's clapping.
Thank you so much to the staff,
the incredible production behind the scenes
to make this possible and all of you for coming out
to make this dream of Marvel Rivals Esports alive
and to the reality of how awesome the future is at stake.
And we're just getting started.
It's the mid-season finals.
I got Danny.
We still have the Grand Finals, we are halfway there.
Absolutely amazing moments and even more.
I think we can do one more, Dan.
I think we can do one more applause
as we let's get one more lift to that trophy
and finish this thing strong.
Everybody, come on in.
Your 20-26, mid-season final.
Champions, Norby.
From all of us to you, we want to thank you once again for Covered ALA, wants to online
and support this beautiful thing.
Have a great night, we'll be back for more season 9 and a half starting soon.
It's Danny Koo, Jin Young, your champions, Nabi.