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The story ends, and up to you
And up to you
I'll take a step back
So I can move on
Been on the wrong track
You're not the one
I'll take a step back
So I can move on
Been on the wrong track
You're not the one
You're not the one
I've been lying to you
For too long
Now we got no friends to go to
You got me real close
Put your hands up
Can't wake up to say some goodnight
We got to get real close
Time to run
I'm broken hearted now
I'm moving on
I'm broken hearted now
I'm broken hearted now
I'm broken hearted now
I
I
I've been wondering these places, trying to find where I belong.
I
I don't know if you can't live in here or not
No, we ain't no one
When I'm with you, I'm stuck
When I'm with you, I'm trying
I just want your hand, it's on the wall
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
You've got me waiting
I'm lucky when you're on my side
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
When I say it, I'm not dying
Every time we touch
Every time we touch
You feel like
I
I
I
I just be real so that I can laugh at it
I'm chasing go chasing go
Wherever I'm going, I'll take it slow
This is the life I said I'd live
Never let a man lie again
No man, I'm great just fine
I
I'm gonna get perfect, I'll just be real, someone I can love, oh yeah
I'm gonna get perfect, I'll just be real, someone I can love, oh yeah
I
And they get the touch, here comes the wave cycle with three!
Oh!
Quality.
There's a tag there, a little bit of tag off with the pickup, and it's out of the carry.
Empty top through the rescue.
Twisted minds looking to close out the series, Heter, and take over the trophy.
Of course, they've done it so many times before, and they'll do it again!
Here are OWCF 2025 World Finals Champions!
Welcome back everyone to the OWCS.
I'm Ash and I'll be hosting today alongside Matt and Johnny.
I missed it on the first week, but Matt, Johnny, how are you guys feeling heading into week
two?
Good.
I mean, last week was crazy.
You definitely missed out on like a while week.
People are going crazy in the chat.
You know, the drops were flowing, but this week, you know, a lot of like make-or-break
games routine dashes, we're kind of coming up on that midway mark.
Yeah, it's a very nervous racking feeling just watching the show.
like it's just very tense because the season is three weeks long and so every match matters
more than it has arguably ever mattered in the World Series sports history.
And so yeah, with that comes a lot of tense moments, tense matches.
It's going to be a really fun.
Yeah, it's pretty crazy for anyone at home who doesn't realize it, we did cut the
teams down from last year into this year, eight to six, but having a conversation about
what happened in the week one twisted mind.
We talked about the upgrades last week, Matt and having J.Woo coming into this roster.
They're looking better than ever.
I mean, they were the world champs and they got better, I mean, it's like not super fair,
right?
But you had J.Woo to this roster and like, I know he kind of, he gets like a lot of
the roster, right?
They kind of open up that spot for J.Woo and like, you just unlock so much for
this team, right?
You see, you just kind of let him go on the vendetta or like the tracer and just
let him just kind of carry games.
I think he doesn't even allow you to like worry about anybody else in the team.
Tiem is pretty sick right now.
Yeah, I said I was to go on and save Warriors, I think I'm going to drown.
And I'll say it again, because it's so apt.
Like really, this team that won the World Finals picked up one of the most mechanically skilled players in the entire world in J-Woo.
And so they're looking fantastically really good in the week one so far.
But for this pro, there are no slouches either, Ash.
No, they definitely aren't.
they had a convincing 3-1 up against Ted Tia, and then Psycho and Landon are also fitting
really nicely into this roster here, Matt. I'm really liking how this team is starting
to go.
Yeah, the meta is broken really good for a player like Psycho, who Tracer, Echo, we
saw last week, some Barov and DeadEye, I think like he's going to be a really
impactful player for VP, and you see they're kind of like holding, you know, court
there at the top with twisted minds, and we haven't seen those two teams play
make the little bit of gap between those two teams, but until we see that match, we don't really know, right, as VP looking really strong with the addition to Psycho and Landon.
When it comes down to how the standings are looking here, Johnny, is this what you expected heading into Stage 1 of 2026?
Yeah, it kind of was what I expected, Twisted Mindsverse Pro being the top teams, but then the other four.
I mean, really, it's anyone's game. I can see they got the upper hand against Peps last week, which we think was a really crucial match
for the outcome of who's going to be the bottom two teams because the top four, they advance to the
stage playoffs. They get a chance to battle out for two tickets to the major tournament. The bottom
two teams, they get sent to promotion relegation. And so for the other four teams, so R2s, the
mindset for the pro, it's really important that you win those crucial matches to avoid
promotion relegation. I mean, the big question, Matt, is who's going to make it to playoffs
with a more condensed regular season? It's pretty insane to think that by the end of today,
We're already halfway through regular season of save one.
I mean there are some games today that are like if you were to die for some of these teams right,
Ash? I mean you gotta look at it and say yeah it's mathematically possible but like it's not the
spot you want to be in. I mean Twisted Nines looks like they're in a fantastic spot right?
You know same with VP, you know obviously getting well to two and no both.
But the rest of the spots seem pretty open for at least that four team playoff.
Yeah you're talking about some of these teams who aren't necessarily in the spot that they
They want to be in and one of those is team peps when we're talking about a team peps here Johnny that has a really solid
roster they weren't finding the results in
You know what to be fair was a tough schedule to start things off with so when you're down owing to just in week one
Again, you only have five matches to play. They've got to start winning now
Yeah, it feels like they haven't really found their group
They were very reliant on the hazard composition last week and just talking to a couple players in the region
And they're like, yeah, peps, peps, we've kind of figured them out.
It's like, they really want to play the hazard compositions.
Depp is going to play the tracer or the vendetta.
And if they can't play hazard, well, it's going to be on the diva.
And that's pretty much what peps do.
And they were up to a pretty rough start.
0-2, obviously, one of those losses was against Twisted Mines.
You don't read too much into that.
But losing that crucial map five against Katzia,
I think that's really going to come back to haunt this team peps roster.
Which I think we expected to survive throughout this stage.
and not be one of the teams to settle down
to promotion litigation.
And Ash, this is a good roster, right?
Like we saw them obviously qualify
for the World Finals last year,
but you did have a offseason to kind of
show up some of the holes that Johnny mentioned
that we kind of even saw last year, right?
We saw, you know, obviously, you know,
Willy's like loves to go towards that hazard,
you know, the diva kind of the backup,
but they may lack some of the other kind of things
in their wheelhouse.
And they decided to just bring back the same roster.
I mean, you had a lot of players available
in the NBA that potentially,
you could have brought in the import slots, right?
That peps could have maybe potentially utilized.
So like this roster,
and maybe you just wanted to see how it kind of favored
running it back here at the beginning of this season
and then make some adjustments.
But you would have hoped that like in the off season,
you try and like better yourselves, right?
Cause Johnny was mentioning a lot of the teams in EMEA
probably have a great idea what they were doing.
And it's not much different than what they were doing
at the end of last year.
Certainly. Well, it's through or die now for them.
They've got to lock in.
There's no more time to do that problem solving
playing later on and so they've got a win to stay in, but we're going to talk about anyone's legend.
This is a squad that came in through the qualifier here, Johnny, and they've only played one match
thus far. It was a 0-3 up against Virtus.pro, but we've got some pretty stacked players on this team.
Yeah, I like this team. I think it's a fun mix of players from various different teams
of last year, tons of experience in this roster as well. Mymoan obviously coming back to EMEA
after his stint in North America on GK when they were a North American squad.
And in general, I think they're a bit of an underdog team.
I think you can look at this roster and most people will say like,
oh, this team doesn't stack up against some of the other teams in the region here.
But I think they're an outside shot of actually surviving
and making the top four in this region.
It's a tough start for them because they have to play
Twisted Minds and Virtus Pro off the bat.
But if they could just build on this experience
from the first couple of matches and perform later on in the stage,
I really do think that they can be teams like Pips, for example.
And then you just need to get one more win against GK or Kassiya.
So I think they're another team here in the same team.
Matt, do you have a player on this team
that you've got your eyes on to be that different speaker?
I really like Tama last year.
I bought, I know, coming on to the scene a little bit later.
I know really towards like our world final stage,
Tama performed quite well.
So, you know, seeing him with a little bit more experience around him,
I'm excited to see how that can kind of work out.
OK, well, we're going to have to wait a little bit
to check that out. Let's take a look at today's schedule to see what matches are going to be
starting us off today. Katya vs GKE Sports. That one should be a banger to kick off EMEA.
Of course, we have two matches of NA later on in the day here as well. But Johnny, which
one are you the most excited? Oh, it's got to be a match one. I mean, this truly is
a 50-50 between Katya and GKE. And so far, the eight minutes we've been on, we've
been hammering about the importance of winning these matches, right? Against quite similar
opposition. And this is definitely one of those. Can see how they got a win last week against Peps.
A win here against GK could essentially secure them top four in the region, right?
And for GK as well, this is a must win for them if they want to make the top four. And so
lots on the line here in the very first match of the day.
Well, it's going to be a lot that we've got to keep our eyes out on for today,
but I also want to give a little bit of a callback to last weekend because our opening
I think we kind of OWCS 2026 was one for the record books.
Wanted to say a big thank you to everybody in the audience.
Your viewership and support was incredible to see.
So we want to give you guys a bit more of that in-game swag.
Make sure that you go and log on to your Battle.net accounts
and log in to Overwatch to be able to claim
those eSports loot boxes.
I know I'm definitely going to be doing that later.
I got mine, I got mine.
Okay, you already got yours, Johnny.
Matt was already bragging about how he has
like too many eSports.
Right, but I'm still going to claim it.
I like the whole animation though.
The next game I go, whoo, yeah, yeah, why not?
I did not have mine.
Why not?
I did not have mine.
I got a London Spitfire Jonka Fleece skin.
Didn't help that one.
Now it's locked down.
Okay, there we go.
We're adding more.
We're adding more to the repertoire of skins here,
but let's lock in for our first matchup today
at Katia versus DK.
Johnny was already talking about how excited he was
for this matchup, Matt.
How do you feel about Katia's form?
They went one-in-one during the first week,
But did they look convincing enough up against Team Passive as close?
Both these teams are complete wildcards to me.
Let me take a look at some of the highlights from Katya.
Like, I think their back line, it's so interesting because a lot of teams are starting, you know,
they build around like a Lucio player back there or somebody who can play like Lucio.
It's like, I'll insert my jade, but I'd love to just kind of play, I know, more of these like, you know, flex support lineups.
But, you know, the talent across this roster, right, you know, so many veteran players,
I know Tejang has looked really good on the Vanguetta.
I think this is like a sleeper team in the region.
I think they've looked like pretty strong.
And I think Azsir, Majed, and Gala get more like real like world experience
playing with each other in some of these games.
I think some of those support issues will go away.
So I'm pretty bullish on Katya moving forward.
I've now realized that we're essentially calling most teams
in the region sleeper teams.
But that's kind of like some stuff I would feel about these teams.
Oh, and five of them are one and one.
Yeah, I mean, you guys, like, there it is.
You look at this team and you're like, what is this team?
Like we have so many years of Overwatch Esports
and I look at this roster and I'm like,
what is Gala and SurmaJed doing in a backline together?
Why is this team brought in imported a Korean damage line?
And I'm like, what is this team?
I don't know, but they're really fun to watch
because like Matt said,
they're not your standard Lucio carry team.
They're just gonna, we're gonna play some BapuLori.
Like why not?
And then Vistola, we just sit on the table with Theresa.
And so I think they're the puzzle teams.
like you gotta figure this team out
and it's actually quite difficult.
You can't just play this push and pull game
with the Lucio carry.
They're actually gonna throw some stuff at you.
Well, let's talk about our next team
who's gotta solve that jigsaw puzzle in GKE sports.
They lost 0 and 3 in their opener
to the world final champions within Twisted Minds
after making it in through the qualifiers.
Where do we think they're kind of stacking up
right now, Matt?
I, if you told me the support line was gonna click
and they are gonna play well, Ash.
I think they stack out with like the top.
Like that's how much I love Alphie, Ladin, Ziad.
And you know, Haku and Finn,
we've obviously seen play at the professional level
before I think it's gonna take a little bit of time
for them to kind of like still, you know,
synergize with each other.
And maybe it's just because they played
against Twisted Minds last week, right?
Like that could literally be it.
Is that like, okay, the speed in place
that which DM play ad,
they kind of took advantage of that backline.
And maybe they're not as, you know,
Acceptable of being dove and kind of killed early on in these fights. I see I made it seem but I am I am cautious until I see it again
I think this team is the opposite of Katya. They're the most figured out team of all time
It's like we know what we're getting from this roster
It's like yeah, Haku wants to be on the Lucio bring out those protect bands boys
Because we want to make sure we play this hero and the same goes for siad obviously hyped up siad big time last year
Just burst onto the scene a very young player tons of potential
but prefers to play the D.Va for most of it.
And so I think we're going to see some bands to protect the Lucio,
but also to make sure that Ciara can play this D.Va.
And then, you know, AlphaE, play the Ventracer, Labda, play the Soldier and Emery.
I don't think this team is too complicated,
but they have a lot of individual skill on this roster.
So even though you know what kind of is coming up against you,
you still have to play really well to beat them, because they are very talented.
Ooh, okay, okay, so it's gonna be really interesting.
Johnny's saying that this is the most figured out team point, but I guess it looks puzzling to me.
There's no puzzling.
You know I'm getting it.
I'm using your own words here, Johnny, but let's talk about our predictions.
For me, personally, I actually put my money on GK for this one.
I really like this roster.
I do think Matt brings up a really good point, though, when it comes down to that backline.
But, personally, I just can't vote against Lavde here.
Matt, what were you thinking?
I wanted to ride with you Ash, but I just could not, I cast that TM game last week, and I just couldn't get those images out of my mind.
So, I went with Katia. This series is for me like a point flip. I think you go either way.
I just feel maybe a tad bit better about Katia at the moment.
Yeah, I gotta go with Katia here as well for this one. I agree with you that it's a coin flip. It's 50-50.
It's like, it's really, what is that unstoppable force against the, uh...
It moved a lot of it.
I really do feel like that is one of those scenarios, and I'm like,
I don't know who's gonna come out on top of this one,
but I'm going with Katzia, because they're weirder.
It's like, I think it's more of a challenge to figure that out
than it is for GK to kind of, yeah, to deal with GK,
who you know what you're getting at.
Well, I think this matchup is gonna go up
be a scrap no matter which way you frame it. I'm excited to get into Katya versus UK Esports
you guys. Take us into those map pick bands and let's see which heroes get banned out.
Yeah thanks so much Ash as we'll get into the series here as it'll be a Lee Chang Tower
pick for GK early on. I am, Johnny I gotta ask you though, you said that you think that
GK is like a team that's kind of like, I figured out and like maybe there's like
a puzzle in the Katya side. I almost think they're both, I think they're both in
the same wheelhouse in that like
I know I think they're both trying to I am not going with your puzzles and no
immovable objects and David Goliath I'm just I'm just talking you know just just
like a normal person here I think they are they have the same issues I think they
have the same issues in terms of like trying to figure out their support
lines and I kind of like like the rest of the rosters around them so we'll
see a diva and emory band early on we didn't see a lot of emory bands last
week but I imagine without like really strong he was in the meta we're
to see it coming out. So it was actually one team that banned Emory last week and it was
Cancia and they brought out the Pharah on Ruinasapi against Peps, remember? And so I'm seeing a D.Va
ban and an Emory ban and we're going to Garden and I'm like, wait, this is actually like
prime scenario to bring out the Pharah. Because the hitscans are probably going to play the
Soldier, which obviously projectile primary fire takes a while to build up those railguns.
and then the tanks are going to play like Zarya or Hasser or something like that, right?
And so I can see Afarra coming out there.
Yeah, we've seen Afarra on Lijiang Tower, especially when the other team wants to go like Vendetta.
We've seen a decent Afarra in the mix, as you guys saw there for just a brief moment.
It looks like Haku got disconnected, so I'll let him kind of get back into the lobby before
we kick things off. But yeah, I think you're going to see a lot of Zarya in this matchup,
right? With the D.Va band, I think the D.Va band definitely hurts Ziyad, right?
I don't mean Diablo loves to play that D.Va.
Having it gone here, map number one is going to be rough.
Yeah, 100%.
That is what GK is all about.
And I thought about it in the pre-show.
It's like they want Diablo to play the D.Va
because that's his best hero.
And so Katziah, they get the first ban,
and they just choose to get rid of that immediately, right?
And it really affects the map, like Legion Tower as well.
Because now that it's going to lean into Vistola's
hero pool, it's like you can play more of the Sauria,
perhaps.
and maybe even like Sigma, I don't think we'll see Sigma.
But I think that C.I. is going to be the more...
Yeah, Domina actually, yeah,
because Vestola plays some of the Domina, right?
And so like on a control center,
I think Vestola is going to be the more
comfortable tank player in this matchup.
Yeah, I think it definitely trends
a little bit more towards Vestola.
We'll see kind of, yeah, if the Vendetta comes
into the mix as well, because Vendetta was,
it feels like everywhere in EMEA last week,
kind of like the talk of or the go-to hero
With EmRing, I think in combination, both those were really kind of, you know, lock in for the entire weekend.
Yeah, I think we're going to see more Vendetta throughout the series as well, potentially from Katziah here,
because we talked about it a little bit like this past week, I thought with some players, some teams,
and they're like, yeah, Vendetta's actually really good at dealing with comps like Sumetra,
and obviously dealing with heroes like D.Va.
And so I think there are a lot of tools to actually deal with the D.Va.
You don't only have to ban the hero itself to remove it from the game in this first map.
You can actually throw out something like a bandetta later on in the series and just keep
chugging the CR down with that mic, right?
And deal with the CR's comfortability that way.
And we've seen teams try and counter the bandetta with like an echo or a, you know,
Pharah.
Really like Virtus Pro did it.
And then we, I mean, not many other teams have been successfully able to stop the
bandetta as we'll get back in the game here in just a second.
Yeah, very strong hero.
And it also starts to feel like once she starts to build stacks and like snowballs gets like stronger as fights continue, which is a nasty combination for a hero and Overwatch.
Yeah, like if the Vendetta gets the stacks and it's in your backline, it's kind of over. It's like you just gotta trade out at that point. It's like the Lucio Boop is not gonna help you too much there.
Don't even go back and try and peel for them. Just let them.
I think that's what Pep's did last week.
Yeah
Yeah, yeah
We got
Katya looking to roll out here with a vestola on the Zarya and I know a goal
It'd be ended up picking up the lucy here is that kind of like how you mentioned far as on both sides?
I mean, this is a mirror matchup
I did not expect going into today the Zarya faras from both teams here and obviously great for affairs of either side here as
Well, so we'll see how it gets the edge here when it comes to the poke damage and if the follow-up is there
Yeah, I mean, Ladder though, it was really tremendous on the Sojourn,
as you see A8 actually get hit with a shot there,
just gonna, it moves up, they stole a dangerously low as well.
DK looking to just regroup here for a second before maybe collapsing on Katzia,
but it's gonna be A taking out Ziad, so you lose your Zarya.
I mean, that is absolutely brutal to try and get any point control.
You lose Alphie as he makes his way towards the point,
and this is most certainly gonna be a Katzia point take early on.
Yeah, there's so much importance on the damaged players here,
Because they were listening to what is the story I'm going to do about these damage compositions, right?
Like you don't really have any mobility with you, and so it's Alphie?
Okay, that's one way to get things going here, man.
Yeah, I mean they get rid of Vestola, so two fights in a row, both tanks on either side go out early.
As I mean now, I can't see it, they get an opportunity there, Johnny, to run it up in terms of percentage.
I mean, just a nice boob off the side there from Alphie on the Vestola just completely changes that.
Yeah, so we'll see what direction the team's gonna go. Another pick here from Seattle. We haven't had a team fight yet
Is it no no these are just random pick-offs
It's a surrogate just trying to keep a soul up
Have to be so careful though right with the conches. Oh, man
I mean a takes a direct is Alphys really starting to connect with these rockets now is okay
Gotta stay on the map those are maybe gonna be able to work here Johnny with a big barrage
Yeah, yeah
That's a nice fight win from GK
There's gonna be a couple picks from Tetsuya there, but that's our watch itself. It's just too much now. Oh
I mean take on actually it goes with a barrage towards the end of that there is happening
You know it just kind of uses it on London spawn as they trade
But you're actually gonna have a few members here of Katya Johnny make it back to the point a little bit sooner
Is GK everybody basically dies outside of hot food get on the point with a bubble there
Just to get a contest as it's gonna be, the Kitsune rush from both sides, A is just trying to find anything here on the point, it's been buying Surma Jet.
Yeah, Lava has all the sidelines from this outer area with this overclock. The damage is overwhelming.
GK, I'm gonna get two members here as Katsuya decides to disengage. 70% there for GK, and they still have the Sun barrier and the Graviton surge.
You get to kind of pick your position here, where you want to go aggressive with these ultimates.
And because Kassia have to get their point here, rather,
you know, this could be a nice little spot here where you can catch them off guard.
Yeah, and you do have a lot to work with though, if you're Kassia, right?
You have this overclock for me that can kind of move through some of the beat here that comes on down.
So it's going to be a grab from both sides.
Haku sound barrier, going to last them 10 bit longer here, but everybody pretty healthy on both teams.
I'm just trading damage for now. Gala's going to go down here, Ziyad as well, gets traded out, and it's just a fact in 4th year, man.
Yeah, as Alphie just trying, he can just kind of cut you away from Bestola there. He's so charged up, as they do not have Ziyad again to stand, toe-to-toe and fight with Bestola, but Alphie gets onto the point, nice little flank there, puts some damage down on him.
Cats can really find the kills here, Jami. They will end up getting the flip. I think that kill there on the lab though is huge, right?
I know that big one-shot potential off the table here for DK is they're gonna have to back up for a beat
Yeah, you really need the soldier and to finish off some of this poke damage coming through right because it's so difficult to chase
The folk damage comes out from the far as as you can see I with a nice pick there
They're not in control of the point and once again. We're looking towards the Kitsuna rushes here. See odd
poking here towards the bridge scary area to cross here
Well, I'm looking at Alfie. He's kind of going on a little bit of a flank there
You're gonna see his outline. He's got this barrage, right?
We know how kind of sneaky was the last time. It's gonna be server kid with the Kitsune rush nice
Con that goes in it's gonna be a later Kitsune rush here from bin
Salpy just maybe trying to find an angle to land this barrage
But with the kills going in favor of Katia not going to use it just here
That's gonna be like the second fight in a row that Katia win is they're trying to battle back into it
Yeah, it's so difficult to cross like there's so much damage coming away with the railguns or the far damage of course
So I crossing that bridge seems like a pretty tough idea there. I'll be trying to set up the flank
Of course, but seventy three five percent encounter here. Haku has a way
It's gonna be really tough to fight through this Haku sound barrier
It's gonna be the overclock. Yeah, you do get it out. They're gonna try and just kite it
But I mean the aggressive play here from DK just too much for Katya
They're just not able to back out. It was a valiant effort there from Katya
Right using that speed boost trying to back up all the way out to their bridge around the corner
They just were not able to do a nice body block there towards the end not allowing Tejana to get to the point
So that'll be GK taking our first one here on Li Zheng Tao
Yeah, so toss what to be in if you were cut here because you kind of have to get that son of a
Out and they actually did get it out before
GK were able to cross the bridge
But like you said nice follow-up there from Alfie
He just used all the abilities to try and get as deep as possible and get value from that barrage, right?
And it was enough you get those two first picks and that was enough to secure the round. It's like I think I look at the stats here
I'll be 13 and three
Great work on the far so far. Yeah, I mean a huge difference, right?
I know in terms of the far damage output
I think also like with DK being in control of a point more right being able to kind of like a
They're just kind of poke at the players moving in for cats
Yeah, a little bit easier as like the kind of that point control far as opposed to the other side as
Take a look, no changes here in terms of comms coming into this next round.
Yeah, no changes whatsoever. I mean, these two teams, they're playing their comfort heroes.
Like, see Albusdola, you wouldn't see them fix over to something like a Winston Light, and so both teams are pretty much...
He's taking so much damage here, look at this.
They are taking so much damage, yeah, they gotta back off here.
Yeah, it looks like they've just kind of been bullied back into this corner here for a bit, as Katya is taking kind of control on the point.
A lot of damage coming out here from Tejong off the start.
Let's start so now it's gonna be keeping moving on the point
They will get a touch is the odds gonna be dangerously low here
Those are the bubbles gone the solar has to stay on the map, which he does making sure they're glaring underneath that seed is
See, I mean now it's gonna allow this although to step back up onto the point right takes a shot there
It's gonna be Haku taking out gone the backside of the point is
He came in and cats you just kind of trading kills at the moment both tanks still open as I say that best
So what does fall is now it's gonna be really difficult to get the odd off the point
I mean this is one of the most unique maps of a war
We see like he's just alternating colors in the kill feed as they're just trading back and forth on these sojourn fara comes
But can't see you here for they've got to quit a lot of resources
You can see the sorry bubbles coming out early here like all of these horses are really important as you try to get this
space of the person point
But she came to get a nice flank on here
Ziyad is in the backline, Loves off right near on as well.
Alffy pumping in the damage of Katzia, they're going to get the point tap here.
But I think GK...
Yeah, they have to give it up.
They've put a lot of damage on towards Katzia here, and I wouldn't be surprised to see GK...
Yeah, they had to back up there GK because Ziyad ended up using all of his bubbles and just kind of gets him pushed off of the point,
can't go back and recontest, but he kind of takes all that energy and then they kind of steamroll them right around the other side.
So it is 13% you know given back to Katya there could have been like in favor of GK
But GK looking really dominant right now Johnny
They're gonna have both support ulterior to work with you know about even in terms of the grabs
They're not gonna be impactful in this fight
Maybe if I know how you can get a huge barrage off and that's going to consume us early from Finn
It's gonna be a later sound barrier here from Haku's this should be pretty good for GK as the fight continues
Tejong tries to go with a close quarter barrage does not work out as you see how healthy DK is with that later sound barrier
Yeah, I'll see as well going to drop the barrage kills himself, but he got the surma dead. That's
Quite a decent question mark question mark. I don't know what's going on there cut sea out
They're actually going to get another fragment to Lobdow and they see this as an opportunity
To rotate towards the point and Tejong as well aerial control on the far us or GK
Interesting play from Alphie. I don't know if that's worth it.
That is one that it feels like Johnny, like they were in complete control, right?
They end up using the beat, the beat's a little bit later.
And now, Katya, they have full control here with their own Consune rush that they're going to be able to use here.
It's going to keep the solo line for now as both overclock's used here.
Just kind of looking over the point.
The odd dangerously low as the solo's going to finish off Hoppy.
So, both support's gone for GKZ odd.
Yod gonna have to either either he's gonna have to back out Chinese goes for the health pack is now the point will flip back to Katzia
Yeah, no supports on the battlefield EK and have to chill for a while, but they can still continue to poke here
Hey John not in the fight quite just yet and that gives you opportunity to get a lot of back here
I'm pushing see a knight recently without the boards
Well, I mean, I think he's just trying to actually just kind of get back to the point get some kind of presence in
But both bubbles just kind of gone right away and there's no support there to kind of help
That's so loud. No way you're gonna be able to keep him alive through that as he came out
Just needs one more flight wind to take the map
And yeah, no ultimates on the board quite just yet
But yes, you have to get towards that point who's going to be the person can anyone
Yes, I can't see I will end up taking
I'm thinking, that's actually Geeky, who takes the first map here, takes Lijiang Tower as Yad and Co are playing at the Chokey.
You can see through the outline there that Vestola is kind of working his way towards the point,
but Haku playing in the window, Alpy putting down some damage there.
They don't allow him to get back and get a touch, and that'll be Geeky taking that first map.
I don't know what to do.
That was one of the more interesting maps of Overwatch we've seen in Overwatch eSports.
These comps are not your average compositions.
Not like your average compositions, and I think just a really weird game as we take
a look at some of the stats, some of the things that kind of jump out to me here,
Johnny, is like the support line here for GK playing quite well, right?
Haku pretty comfortable on that Lucio.
You see like the 2400 damage plus almost like 8k healing if you look at the other side, right?
You know Gala does a little bit more damage, right?
But the healing numbers are like a big drastic difference, especially, you know, Finn a little bit more than 3k healing.
Then Sermajed on the other side as we take a look at a lot of the highlights and you know round one was a lot of like,
you know, maybe there were like two teamfights in round number one.
A lot of it was just people getting picked off coming back to the point.
Yeah, there weren't a lot of teamfights going on in this one.
I'm not gonna give a shout out to Alphie there as well
I think he played really well as he just died on the screen when I said that
But you know getting the pocket with these sorrow bubbles going for these aggressive barrage is right because if the enemy team is going to
Popa kitsuna rush and you can get in there with the barrage and just trade out
I get two picks in the middle of their kitsuna rush like that's worth it
You'll take that right as I think the coordination on the side of GK there to set up Alphie for some of these great barrage
just securing some of these fakes. I think great play for GK, adapting to the circumstances
because as I said, you don't typically see these, you know, sorry Afara soldier in compositions.
So you need some meditation on the fly and I think GK did a great job there.
Yeah, and I think we'll see if they can continue to do it throughout the series. I think of
your GK as well, right? That's the Diva ban kind of used early on. Zod now can
kind of get back to that like comfort hero. Maybe not as wonky with like Emory back
in the game, maybe we see some vendetta, so curious where Katzia decides to take us in
terms of like maps, a map that feels like it would be good for their type of playstyle
which we saw last week would be like a realto potentially, but early on it just a really,
I don't even know if you can take much from that first map as we go towards the rest
of the series because I imagine the comps are going to be just way different.
Right, I agree with you. I think that Katia here they want to move towards you know double flex support lineup
If you want to get out the Lucio ban here towards Haku that kind of like protects for yourself
But it also removes one of the strongest heroes for GK
You know, I think a map like Havana for example, I think could be really interesting here to enable I can see here
Rialto obviously last week. That was actually team peps Mavic
They wanted to play that against Katia. Katia were like we're good. Like yeah, sure
We'll play somebody else though. We're happy with that.
Yeah, they looked pretty good there and guys remember we still have drops rolling so you weren't here last week
I don't know what you were doing. I mean you should have been here. I mean check these out. Hey, oh, hold up as a
I really like these. I mean the colors really pop off on you know the the icons and the sprays in the banner and then
That that eSports loot box there at the end Johnny
I mean that is a that is one we're sticking around for there's always some goodies in there
You don't know what you're gonna get. There are so many of what esports games right like there's like an infinite amount
There are hundreds of them you could get like 2018 New York Excelsior Moira
We could get like I don't know that the Reinhardt skin from the Pacific showdown. It's like there's anything could happen
Yeah, you never know that's why you gotta you know, it's that real carrot on the end of the stick
You don't know what you're gonna get you kind of you have to hang out to see what's in that easy
You have to hang out because if you don't open that box, you will never know what was in there for you potentially
That cat's yeah, they will take us here to Havana. So we're talking Havana or Yelto to pretty good maps
In the escort pool for their type of play style curious when you think of the bands here potentially
So this is an interesting spot because if you think long term you gotta win three maps to win the series
Using both of them on a pick.
Okay, well, dude, can you just let me do my job, Matt?
Why do you gotta do this to me?
Because we're friends.
Using people don't people don't know that, but you know,
I mean, I don't know how they wouldn't know that, right?
We've worked together.
This is deep friendship right there.
We have to get to yourself like that.
We just need to rush all the time.
And then think about this, think about this chat
that Johnny trusted me enough to speak at his wedding.
That's how much he trusted me,
which I didn't really even trust myself
we were doing it but no I could tell but that's a good job got a good job thank
you I'm really great friendship yeah but the point I was going to make for my
friend interrupted me was that you maybe don't want to use the Lucio ban and the
Havana pick at the same time on like if you can win this Havana without using
the target Lucio ban that's actually great for GK for the rest of the
series and so we might just see the Lucio pop on screen like we did and
I
Agreed with you. Hey your point even though, you know
It took a while to get there and then and then production ruined your entire point with that one graphic swap
You did both
I
Agree with you though. I think like Havana you can
skirt around the Lucio enough that I don't know if you would have needed to ban it per se, right?
But I guess also on the flip side of that, right, if we look at, you know, I mean, maybe
you would have wanted to ban it on like an Imbani if we go there or Blizzard World or
like, I don't really think teams either side of like the Lucio kind of question, love banning
it on push or flashpoint just because of the nature of the game mode.
So maybe you kind of did feel like this was your best option.
I did agree with you for most of your point though.
Thank you.
That means the World Team.
Tracer Band on the other side.
I don't know how, are you thinking this is like a Vendetta map now?
I mean dude, it's Vendetta, Vendetta is good everywhere.
So yeah, I do think that forcing this Vendetta matchup is going to do some good here for GK.
I still think that they're gonna have a...
Like the Vendetta is really powerful, I guess either tanks here, right?
And so I think if you can just use that to your advantage here,
to smash the front line of the enemy team.
I think that's like a win condition in and of itself, like you don't have to deal with this, you know,
we're gonna have to mark this tracer and make sure we hold the angles and like stuff like that.
So GK, they shy away from that here.
Which is quite interesting because they have Alphi on the team who is a very capable tracer.
Yeah, but I mean...
Okay, I trust them.
Right. Yeah, you kind of have to like trust the other process here a little bit.
With Katzia, this feels like it's a must-win map, Johnny, like I know, to go down O2 to GK in a really difficult spot, making that reverse sweep is coming into this series, I actually kind of trusted Katzia a little bit more.
This is a really tough match.
Yeah, we both predicted them.
Yeah, but I think it might be, you know, we'll look at this series and like the result.
And it speaks more to the gap between twisted minds and DK than kind of how DK performed
I think that like that would kind of be the takeaway for me like if DK is able to kind of keep this strong play going throughout the series
Right, but I also saw them pick Juno on up against J was tracer and I'm like that wasn't very smart
But you can make the better back on there
And so that just seeded a little bit of doubts in my brain and I was like hmm. I respect this GK roster
I think they're fantastic players
But can they figure out? Can see you here?
Do they have do they have the brain cells required and so I was like I actually like it's yes roster as well
I think they got really good damage players the stola, you know a great historic hand
Main tank here in the egg. So I'm not a main tank actually. It's just a tank these days
Um, we're all just tanks. Yeah, we're all just tanks
But I so yeah, I just was I just respect that their roster here is when I got the team names fit here as well
Yeah
Yeah, it'll be a geeking on defense. So
You'll have a carry with a Juno here in the back line and then yeah, Emory with vendetta
This is kind of what we saw a lot last week
Geek I will be catching obviously on offense with some time to potentially
make some changes so I think you'll it seems like both teams kind of want to
play this area throughout the switch honestly Zarya we've been dead it with
the bubbles extremely strong so we'll see if that is what DK decides to do is
actually a chance here on offense so we'll get that one switched in just a
second as a Gala will go back to the spawn okay so we're gonna get a mirror
Yeah, and maybe they just feel like they're really comfortable playing this Zarya, the
Dettah.
Obviously, you can get away from this really backline with the Juno-Kiriki, it's pretty
vulnerable.
As you can see, a couple of picks half in there, probably get go, just going to delay
that CS push here quite early on.
But yeah, maybe you just feel very comfortable playing it towards this Zarya, the Dettah,
for the most part.
As we actually see GK trading back, dude, what are these teams doing here?
This is just crazy, oh boy.
Well, I mean, DK pushes deep from the defensive side, kind of like, into the Katzia spawn,
they get two, but then like, kind of linger around for a little bit too long and they
lose some players and then they're going to have to back on up.
So, you don't linger in the enemy spawn on Havana when you're playing in defense.
I could just, sometimes you do.
So, you see the bubbles there used from Ziad on the Althea on the defensive side
of things.
Uh, GK gonna have to back up here on the, uh, Vistola and Kou for Katya kinda, like, rounding around this corner, trying to get them to use those bottles.
You see the bottles used on the Vendetta?
So Alphie dives into the back line, and he is so low on Naisusu there, from Fin, gonna be able to keep him up, and then he gets a Katsune rush.
Yeah, great play by Fin there, and it's going to set up the rest of the team as they chase down Vistola, which is really low.
It's going to be aided dropping as well.
Taitan finds a pick, but this is all, uh, GK here.
I suppose.
I can't, you know, Alfie asked the backup, no fight is ever really done in this series
with the way things have kind of panned out as Ziad here on defense, I know 4G can't be
mad at such a fast rush there from Finn, phenomenal job with the Suzu as well, able
to keep Alfie alive, it'll be Teijun getting the recipients of a bubble, and Teijun with
a bubble just actually gets right on top of Latin and takes him out, I mean that
huge the orbital ray is enough there to keep Katya moving here is they look
like they're gonna get that first checkpoint yeah I'm getting that first
pick as well it means you only have to commit the orbital ray and so now you get
to push up here on second point but you still have that graph on surge you
still have the Kitsuna rush in hand that's going to help you as you try
to contest this high ground here on that second point so great pick by
And I wonder if Tatsuya here, Johnny, can get a little bit faster, right?
Maybe they realize they have a slight edge in terms of ultimates here.
And move on in.
They'll be the override protocol here.
Some lab does kind of find an angle around the corner here.
I think this is just at least Stax's Curse.
Yeah, it just backs them up.
Oh yeah, they actually kind of catch Alphie out.
So they decided to just use that grab to just catch Alphie, not let him get
back to the team.
It's just one player with the grab, but that is definitely one that is most
Certainly worth it is that Skull is starting to cook here on this area.
Yeah, and again, getting another pick on Topaku here.
K-Jong follows it up.
Still haven't used that Kitsunorosh, and now GK, they have to push this point
against, you know, the ultimate from Emre here.
So this is going to be really good.
You have double support ultimate if you are GK,
but you're going to have to push through one of these very narrow doorways.
It's going to be a tough go for GK.
Yeah I mean you do have the orbital rate in rush to play in though so even with
like some of these big ultimates as you see that's gonna be getting into the sky
putting down some damage here all the boosts off the yacht with a heavy shot there
put a nice heavy shot into the window almost takes a lap to end Finn you see
kind of that overwrite protocol going huge year from me just needs to kind of
finish off Finn is actually talking dancing there up in the sky they're
gonna use the rush here is you're gonna have to switch over to the
ball trying to get back in the fight. His lab that takes up this door. This one's
definitely not over as GK trying to hold here on D. Yeah, but it was a great
consumer which actually from Finn is going to be just enough there to secure
this defense from GK. They held onto those ultimates and then flipped kind of
mid-fight using those support ultimates. As we see some more trades back in
four hairs. Finn goes down to page on again. So this allows Katzia to get
back into this fight. They have the next orbital ray coming up here. So
That pick alone could actually set up Katsuya here for a second point pick.
Well, you also have Ziad on ball here, right? Not exactly what you would want to have here in the moment.
Me, you go back to the stage, but actually he takes out...
Okay, hold on, he takes out Gala here. Gala was building up towards his rey.
It's a nice damage down here on Bestola working here with Alphie.
They're going to be able to finish him off.
So, no wrecking ball, obviously, not the go-to whatsoever right here,
but Ziad may get worked with the time being.
I mean he's stuck on this pick now. He's gonna have to play this hero.
You can see they're coming up on the Graviton search, they have an Orbital Ray here.
GK has no ultimates, so I mean you kind of just have to find another pick here.
Can you Wrecking Ball combine with the Vendetta somehow and just get a pick before the fight kind of kicks off?
Yeah, they have to use a bubble there. On to A to be able to kind of stay alive is...
Yeah, but the ball is so slippery, right?
So maybe it'll be difficult for them to really kind of collapse
when somebody take him out as A now up into the sky.
That's going to be a take on the win.
Two take on the win.
Three off-camera eyes.
I mean, that is out the no way you're
going to live through that ultimate.
Just Ziad alive here for GK.
I will say, even though this very much looks
like a Katya point take, which it will be,
that was a really nice time wasted by GK.
They went a few fights there to drain some clock.
Yeah, if you get a win or a fight on the breaking ball, like, that is a dub, like you say.
You drain so much time off the clock there, and so now, only two minutes remaining for Katzia.
They're gonna have quite the ultimate back, as they approach this first corner here.
But, you know, you've got to secure two fights on this point, so if you get here, you're going to pop the Override Protocol,
push Katzia back here for the time being, regain some of this space outside.
Can't say it's the most valuable Override Protocol, but hey, you bought some space and time for the rest of your team.
But if you can get some of these ultimates out from Katia, you could make a final stomp here.
I mean, Helada is a map here, especially the hand where, you know, having that space sometimes is so important.
He's out there in a really dangerous spot.
That's going to be the rush from Cervigid, but if you play her dangerously low here for Katia,
as you end up losing Bestola here,
it's a GK, doesn't have to use either of their support ults, Johnny.
And that is a huge fight right now.
We're going to get below, like, a minute on the clock.
You're going to have both support ults available here for GK.
As that override protocol got them some space, maybe push them out of, uh, no position a little bit there.
Did Katzia allowed, uh, GK to capitalize?
Yeah, it's going to be an interesting spot here because the solo has this grab, so it's very isolated target through this world map.
It's gonna be the grab here that comes on down to everybody. They're trying to stay alive here, uh, with the orbital ray and the Kitsune rush going.
Two kills happen in the grab, but there's no answer for Ziad, Alfie, and Labda.
As Alphie holds on that Sundering Blade, potentially for this final fight, is Sermijet not close to the rush you've already used your grab here.
A really rough spot for Katya on offense.
Yeah, they're a really good spot.
And like how do you not combine the Gareth on search there with the Sundering Blade?
It's tough going for Bestowal and Tej on your GT now, with a great opportunity. 30 seconds on the timer.
Tej on goes on off the map!
Oh no!
Everybody trying to run for Katya, but DK they are on the hunt
They know they get some of these kills there's not gonna be a real great chance to get back towards the objective as
See this solo here kind of gets solo grab
Stuttering boy it comes on down enough damage to finish off some players as Alfie just in front of a spawn door of
Katya or take John makes a beacon taken out by Lada up in the sky with the override protocol
And that is where the cart will stop for Katya's offense
What happened there bro?
How, how...
Hey John, buddy.
Let's talk about it.
Let's talk about it.
Someone going to be caregiver.
I mean, I think that's a pretty disappointing third point for Katzia there.
Given the ultimates they had, they had a really good opportunity to push that payload even forward.
And now just no fight, we know that third point.
It's actually GK that just taken a huge advantage in this series now.
This is Katzia's map pick.
Well, I think I think DK does a really good job there Johnny of like
Like pushing the pace when they know like right at the end right when Tejani
You know jump like kind of gets knocked off the side where it happens
They do a great job of kind of continuing to move forward keeping the pace up and then they realize like okay
Yeah, this stolen dollar kind of like split off to the side like let's use this grab get rid of them
There's no way they can really make it back to the point
Yeah, I mean what was his 15 seconds left on a timer
She's like all positioning is off. It's just like push our opponent
Make it difficult for them to touch the payload and so it's great heads up play there to get that graviton surge like you say
And then if you're in a five versus four and they have no tank in the mix and they got a touch the point
Like it's all over from there. I think
That third point it really just falls apart with that graviton surge fight and then Pajong
Falling off the map which doesn't even give you a fight to begin with right
So now, a lot of pressure on Katia here on this defense.
To make a stand, this is their map pick.
They used the Lucio ban as well, which we talked about.
Such a crucial ban for this team.
If you can't get a map win here, you're in a very dire situation for the rest of the
series.
Well, I would say for DK specifically, like, I think Haku's had a good series, and
we've seen some awesome stuff out of Finn today.
Being able to, like, really deploy those rushes at the perfect time, Suzu's
at range, able to keep Alfie and co-op.
I think the DK supports definitely looking much better this week than they did last week
Yeah, I agree with you there's
See, I know combines and actually finds a pick on to Tejong here as well. It's just all falling apart for Godzilla
Yes, it doesn't look like they actually have a bubble for Tejong at that point
So I know way to kind of keep him up
Zia doing a nice job cycling those bubbles constantly on to Alfie
his Alfie starts to kind of build up towards those stacks as
So it looks like it'll be DK rounding this first corner. We'll see how Katya decides to go about trying to get a touch is
You see some of those vendettes using some of the roofs to kind of like to come down from up highs
I'd say don't get dangerously low. They have to be able to keep him up
You lose page on that most certainly a fight loss here for Katya is dangerously low yet again
He just kind of bullies them right on down
He got two bubbles and a suzu and he still died
That's how much pressure they put on the enemy Vendetta and when Tejong goes down, like he's done now, like three fights in a row if you include at the events,
like the entire team fight just breaks down, right? So it feels like they've kind of figured out Kat'sia here and where to apply the pressure to make things difficult for them.
Well, you also see how important they view those kills onto Tejong, right? I mean, the odd is like, you know, doesn't have a lot of shielding left,
Left is already used bubbles.
The sides are just kind of like ignore this solo, turn the corner and try and even though
Tejong is blocking on the vendetta, the sides like kind of has to push in to try and take
him out, that is a trade worth going for as it'll be the overwrite protocol from both
teams here.
He's just trying to live, you know, has Alphie right in his base, but solo finds
Finn.
He's wind up having a losing gala here, so does Haku decide to use the orbital
range?
Potentially, they'll have an opportunity to use it here, but it looks like he's
actually split so far out yet.
So, Hawking's actually pushed all the way out into the choke there, doesn't really have a great sight line to kind of keep Ziad alive.
Decides, you know, let's just save this orbital ray, come back to that next fight.
Not we're trying to pull that one out there.
Yeah, but I kind of like that he's holding on to it here.
Like, thinks better up and says, yeah, we can just go ahead and win the next fight.
We got four minutes on the timer.
Like, there's no need to drop ultimates in desperation and try to trade this out, right?
Now instead, you go into this next fight, you both have a gravite on search,
but maybe that orbital ray can help you in this kind of situation.
so much as though, coming up on that Kitsudo also.
Jeweling support ultimate for either team here.
Gonna come down to the individual play.
That's a lob down to a nice little play there by Katya.
Tejon combining with A.
Yeah, Tejon comes in with a big swing of the sword there over the top,
and then A. just kind of finishes them off.
And no bubble is gonna be able to keep the lab doll alive at that time.
As you did mention, you're now allowing them to kind of like build up for the rush, right?
If you're straining more clock here, is that a take on Luigi?
He's so careful, get to follow there on the exit.
That was a huge grab!
Up to the high ground, yeah!
Yes, great grab from the other.
Catches a few people.
And that is going to be the opening play for GK.
So you get some momentum here on that second point.
And that was the Kitsunorosh deployed from Surma Jet as well,
which could have been so critical for getting out of that doorway.
Now it's GK.
They still have that orbit away from Haku.
I'll be as well with this Sunder, Sundering Blade
in these narrow choice points.
And again, like there's no real push on the third point here, Matt.
So this second point, this is kind of because he has the best chance to hold.
Well, I was gonna say, if you challenge here and you lose, you're in a brutal spot as
looks like a Sundering Blade here from both, Mendez, but it does not matter.
The Orbal Array comes down, the Labda takes out to Labda with a third in the feed.
So that is all GK is.
I agree with you.
With look at how much like progress you have to get on the bottom of the payload here
Like there's not a ton here for cat like cats. He's gonna have to just kind of get out there
You know pretty kind of late
It's gonna allow geeky to kind of like get this bot around that corner make it very difficult
Can't see it maybe like a one fight here an
Opportunity to get there and Sermon tits gonna go to the Alarys. Oh, yeah, just looking for a little bit of extra
Damn, it's a little bit of extra poke here potentially into this final fight
Yeah, it's gonna rely a lot of individual skill here. That's love that
The overwrite protocol is just so much damage.
Are they managed to keep the solo alive?
You know the Susu?
Nolin, Plater, and Ser Margeris over on that deload,
but a lot of fucking, a lot of healing,
with health and sustain is A,
going to put the overwrite protocol himself,
a lot of damage on the battlefield,
but Kitsugurash drops from GK,
and that is going to be enough
on cleaning up the payload here,
and this looks like it's going to be GK
closing out the map in quite dominant fashion.
Yeah, they were able to keep the solo alive
that first time, right?
But so much ground to cover
as they get pushed back through the show,
Kiki gets back to the point taken out by ziyad and everything else falls apart
therefore Katz Yad is another GK map win as that is a fast to a lead Johnny you
know we might have been wrong can we still change the play there is a no no I
will I will not do what you do and throw my bread away and say look I got
the right bread after I did it no I will stand by my incorrect prediction
sorry you know I predicted peps against Katz Yad against GK and now
Well, they're in a world of hurt.
No, DK looks awesome right now.
I know Finn and Haku really kind of stepping up
to the plate here in this match specifically.
It looked a little bit rough against Twisted Minds,
but here against Katya,
they are putting together a really good game
as we take a look at some of the highlights.
I thought the MRA, obviously,
we didn't see a map number one, it's banned.
You saw the impactfulness of that ultimate here
in this second map.
Yeah, I mean, it buys you so much space,
like you're so much down
have to play around it right? I just got a quick glance at the scoreboard so I hope I'm correct in
this one but you pointed out Finn you know did a great job there on the game though. I think I saw 14,000
healing compared to Sir Marjad's 9,000 so you know if someone wants to double double check that
rewind real quick and look at the scoreboard but I think that was the case I mean that's
obviously going to help you out if you have 5,000 more healing. Yeah yeah yeah. Well I think that was
It was kind of like the first map, I think,
if you combine both supports on both sides,
it was like a 4K advantage.
4GK, so like those are pretty significant advantages
in terms of support HPS,
just kind of raw numbers keeping everybody alive.
And I'm actually just taking it, yeah, you're right,
you're right, 14,143 to 9K.
And also about like 1,400 extra damage from Finn as well.
So Finn having a really good game.
Yeah, Finn is doing great.
And I mean, this is GK, you know, playing their best.
And I think this is the best version of GK.
It's like, we talked about it in the pre-show.
It's like so much mechanical skill in this roster, like tons of talent.
But it's a weird squad.
It's like, yeah, Haku and Finn.
I mean...
It's like a backline that you wouldn't have predicted going into 2026.
And then like Alfie coming to EMEA, you know, he had a skin-pain support
for Settledition last year.
here like oh yeah no I'm gonna be walking around with the bandetta and the tracer
but this is GK playing their best it's like there's tons of individuals
killing this lineup they're combining alpha is finding picks in the front line
see y'all with some crucial graviton searches there and so this is what we
wanted to see from GK after pretty disappointing week one I think they're
looking really good here against us yeah is this GK at their best or is it
just GK not against twisted mines because yeah I mean it looks it seems like
Like, uh, you know, Twisted Mind is going to shred through a lot of teams in the EMEA
where, like, uh, you know, if you saw this match before they played Twisted Mind, you
would be like, hey, GK can kind of hang with them, right?
They look pretty awesome.
Uh, it'll be a bas-map selection here for Katya.
They'll take us at Atlas, so, uh, they've already banned the, uh, the Lucio, they
banned the D.Va.
Those feel like pretty impactful bans, John.
I mean, do you ban, are they banning Vendetta here?
Like, what are you trying to do?
I don't think you can ban the Vendetta here because even though I think Tejong had a pretty disappointing Havana,
you kind of want the Vendetta to deal with Siyad's D.Va if it's going to come out of this map, right?
Like, so far, I mean, I guess we've seen a lot of Sorya so far, and like, maybe Siyad doesn't want to play the D.Va into a matchup like that.
D.Va still is such a powerful hero, right, that I think you could kind of rocket even against something like Sorya,
but it's going to be difficult against Vistola, you know, when he's on a hero like that, and then there's a Vendetta in the mix.
There's just so much pressure, right?
So maybe you're better off not playing it.
I think this is a really interesting map pick
because I would have kind of maybe predicted them
to go towards a hybrid map.
You know, I think hybrid and Escort kind of lends itself
to get to see what they're trying to do, right?
But I think you're seeing them down to 0 in this series
and they're just throwing everything out, right?
They're just like, all right, we got to find something
that works here because after that result on Havana,
maybe we don't trust them enough
in the double-packs.
a bit more. A Pharah ban, which is interesting. We talked about Pharah a lot as like a, not
exactly some kind of like hard counter to Vendetta, but here they definitely give Vendetta
some trouble. And then the Domina ban that comes out from DK, where we haven't seen the
Stola kind of go to it, went towards it in week one, but maybe they feel like there's
something or they see something in scrims that potentially leads you to believe they
would pull it out here yeah I think I mean forum at least would have been
interesting to say the least I feel like more it's actually a protect band for
them and better if anything because I think they would have been thrilled just
like hey we can get them better out of the game you know that makes the odds
life a little bit easier and so I think the forum might just be more about
protect them there but then enable street kids to get rid of this dog
and I will solve this over on last week that are really good job and like
close quarters on a map like at least like you can probably get quite a
a bit of value from the Repulsors.
I mean, sure, you protect the Vendetta, I think, for Katzia,
but I would say that, like,
the Zarya Vendetta was played at, like, a way higher level by GK in the last map than Katzia, right?
So, like, if you're gonna, like, buy into that mirror matchup,
right away, right? I mean, they didn't even take much time to, like, even decide, like, what map we were going.
There's, like, an insta-select, right?
Uh, I don't know, I so would... I would just favor GK here on map-point.
Like, I mean, being able to, if Ziad just kind of continues to play the Lizaria in this type of fashion, right?
And being able to kind of like, keep everybody alive who's diving in the back line with these bubbles.
Like, it feels like you're going to be able to pilot that much better than what we've seen from Cassia so far in the series.
Yeah, but I don't think you can kind of like, throw everything out because you didn't succeed in it.
It's just like, I think going into this matchup, they're saying that like, hey, we have to like, figure out the way to win on this composition.
So even though, yes, you lose on map 2, playing a composition like that,
I don't think you can abandon the fact that you're just going to be like,
well, we're going to try to force the Debye into what they're playing here.
I think you're kind of stuck in this series, having to throw out these bans
and play some of these compositions here.
I think that's your best chance of winning.
Yes, we'll get a chance here, see the teams kind of in spawn,
spawn maybe give us an idea of what they're looking at now well that idea
would be basically just kind of what we ended up seeing pretty much is obviously
Finn kind of having some fun where I thought Ziad and Alfie worked really
well together being able to kind of combine you know with those dives and
bubbles and I think for Katya if you're gonna win this you're going to
have to get like better kind of synergy out of Vistula and Tejong and then
also probably a little bit of extra help in the support line to be able to
to keep the Tejung alive as we've kind of highlighted the supports coming into this.
And Haku and Finn have showed up in a big way as it will be both team switching over
to the Kiri, just getting that Lajuno speed boost here off the rip, and we'll get another
newer matchup.
Yeah, I think all eyes on Tejung here.
I think that Havana was pretty disappointing.
You know, died early, several fights there.
And so now knowing this pressure is not coming your way, like how do you survive,
it's going to be so much jet actually, looking.
So you put it twice and you go off.
And Katzia does like, if you just kind of like take a look at the health bars at the top of the screen,
I mean, GK had like three players dangerously low, and then to lose Sermajet and Bestola,
even in a situation where you probably had an advantage in terms of like, you know,
pushing back GK to the door, it's a brutal way to lose it.
It feels like Katzia gets so close, and they get advantages in these fights,
and maybe it's the strength of GK able to kind of like, you know, back up, play that,
kind of like on a tightrope like we saw Ziyad do last year but it also feels like a little
bit that Taxi has given some of these away.
Yeah, GK are just looking way more comfortable on this kind of composition right now and
can see that they have to figure out something and figure it out fast.
There's a bubble that comes out to Tejom and he drops low immediately.
Like it's a miracle this guy is not dead already, the way he just went in there and he's
being hunted down.
He's going to survive but it's not in the fight, I tell you that.
They're actually winning this one.
They end up winning it, which I mean, look, Labda goes on the hunt, kind of chases Tejong there and never able to find him, takes all the M-Ray damage out of the fight, and that kind of made the distraction open things up.
I would have to say, dude, Johnny, if they kind of just play that straight up, you can't win that.
I mean, Haku, already, almost like a sound barrier, you know, 20 or so percent ahead of Gala, and then same with Finn on Sturma Jet, they would be in a great spot.
I mean 60% you're close to winning this point already and then kind of snowballing with your ultimate so a huge fight when they're for Katsia
Yeah, they have a slight dent here when it comes to the support of the most of eight asset override protocol
And he's going to pop it now a lot of pressure though with this Vendetta in your face
You get the sorry about this on public in here and here comes the support elements from GK using that sound bear to push the momentum
We're going to trade out the sorry out here. It does look like GK gonna come out on couple that one the sound bear just too much
And you're not even though they do end up getting that first pick. It's that overwrite protocol for me
They use it they are end up being able to find one on the DK side of things just having that sound barrier
Just kind of just all out aggression. Just push back
Katya Katya just kind of like there's no HP. Yeah, they're just gonna keep going
It's an override protocol here from lab does I think they're trying to secure the point right?
They know where these players of Katya are coming from it's gonna be the Kitsune rush here from Katya as well
They want to try and fight this as somebody does end up getting a touch. They do get Ziad so far away
From the point here as it was Tejang who gets a touch
He ends up falling there at the hands of Alphie, but it looks like more players can testing here for Katya
Now it's gonna be fin dropping the Kitsune rush sound barrier here draw from Katya
So both teams just dumping all support ultimates into this fight and GK not at full strength there when they end up using
That rush don't get a lot of value out of it
Yeah, I can't believe that Katya got put a point fast enough and then it's actually a great Zander from Gallivare.
Great patience holding on to that for a crucial few seconds.
And that's going to be enough to run down the Emre.
And now 95% here, the Graviton search on either side as Alphie gets the touch.
Oh, yeah, and he gets blown up there.
You get rid of Alphie.
The Grav comes in, but Vestola ends up falling.
Bowsari has ended up trading out.
Does not look good for GK though, right?
GK though, right? Bo supports, aim just the M-Ray alive, nobody able to get a touch.
Johnny, that is a huge comeback on that point for Katia.
Yeah, they can finally breathe a sigh of relief there.
Because already down 2-0 in this series, they have to find something that works for them.
And they just scratch their way to a round window, essentially,
on the opening round here on Atlas.
But a lot of ultimates used in that fight,
Pedro and Aid are going to be the only ones with an ultimate available here
Alfie gets closer to that Sirenblade himself.
We'll pop that over right for the call.
Yes, I know.
Lot of you are getting to the point here first.
Just really good sight lines.
Gonna back up DK.
There will be point control to Katzy here first.
I guess DK though can take some of that damage on me
and use it to farm off those support ultis.
Yet again, you see how aggressive Alfie is gonna go on in there.
Trying to put some pressure on A.
Sirenblade, okay, don't come to see us.
And that should be enough to clean things up here once again.
I mean, Alffy gets so many resources there, right?
But he used all his mobility cooldowns.
And once again he does it, but this time without the Sauria Bubbles.
But it's like, if you use both mobility cooldowns on the Vendetta,
and then you get the Sauria Bubbles, like,
at that point you don't really have anything as the push program
that goes in the favor of Katia.
Now, GK, a lot of ultimates on the board here.
Kada?
Yeah.
Kill the right protocol.
Overwrite protocol to the top and both support all to be used if you can just back them up with this
I mean that is huge right nobody wants to fight
Into the overwrite protocol, but maybe if you're catching you you kind of bounce back in this with your cutune rush
And it's exactly they decided to cutune rush from both teams here off the rip Haku's trying to hold on
To that beat but they end up losing lab there
So you end up losing lab that not able to keep your mre alive now
You're not gonna even get a use of your bead here for DK. So I sure you're gonna get it out
Well, they're close to 40% on the point.
Could have maybe been a little bit more as Alphie not able to get out.
As Tejang's starting to heat up here on the vendetta.
Yeah, I can see her are looking great.
When in that fight, would the Kitsuna rush drop Haku folds onto this Sunbarrier.
Didn't really see an opportunity to drop it.
Although I think it would have been really potent.
92% here.
Both Lucius have the Sunbarrier.
Haku drops it early.
Yeah, I mean, they have to use it.
They're just trying to get to the point here.
Sundering Blade is going to be used by Alphie.
That does cut down Tejron, but at a price, right? You end up losing out the unit.
The later sound barrier here from Gala, plus the override protocol from Aide.
It might be enough Aide with two.
Looking for Hakan, and he will find three, four with the ult there from Aide.
And that is going to be another point from Katya. That was a nasty Emeril.
That tells you everything you need to know about Emeril.
I mean, that override protocol is so scary if you can find the targets
Scurrying around on towards the point. That is why everybody hides away from it. So here's a nice
kill streak there to clean up that fight. Those Aiden now can see a 2-0 so far here at this.
They really found something going for them.
It's really interesting, Johnny, because these are the same comps we just saw on Havana that.
Like it looked like Katya wasn't really able to kind of
you know pilot at the same level as DK, but this map is completely
flip things is that we do see Alphie going over the top there bubble from Ziad in the mix so maybe
this is where geeking kind of turn it around right it looks like they're gonna get control of
the point first they stall it dangerously whoa is uh he is going to be helped out there by
Sermajit and Gali get back out into the fight you do lose Alphie I wonder if the cats yet
they kind of come back pretty fast here yeah they could indeed a Sermajit builds towards
this consumer rush Graviton search drops are actually gets a couple here Su-Sense our
I mean this push pull is just not working for GK.
I feel like in several fights here, Alpha Yi, he commits these mobility cooldowns, you know, goes in with the Sauron Bubbles,
but then he's forced to disengage and can see how he's just quite happily like sitting it out.
Just like, alright, well, Alpha Yi do your thing, skin around.
And then they just sit there and re-engage after Alpha Yi has gone for that initial engage.
Now, 60% of them are becoming us on a couple of big ultimates here.
Yeah, it's gonna be live then, they're gonna be using the Override Protocol just to try and...
But look at the disengage!
So yeah, they spread out a little bit does Katzia, but they do a great job disengaging
They're gonna get all the way back to the rest of their team sound buyers for both sides
Gonna be a using that override protocol sound buyer comes in here for DK a little bit of a later response to the beat here for Katzia
They're gonna actually kind of like take out the remaining members here of DK and Johnny. This might be it
You're already at 99 we go into OT
It's just gonna be Alfie alive here and as soon as he falls that is it is Katya here dominating on Atlas
Aide cooked with that one. I mean what an ember at performance there the engages come in from GK
They push towards a point
But aid is just wailing in the wings and then flips those fights on his head
You know finding a lot of damage on towards Alfie which forces to disengage the override protocol there and the point earlier as well I
Going into this series, I didn't expect these Lucio-Kiriko compositions to favor GK, but
so far, or sorry, to favor Katsuya rather, but they looked really comfortable here on
Atlas, which is essentially just like a pretty basic push-pull map here, playing the Lucio
comps.
Yeah, they looked much more coordinated than they did on Havana, for instance.
I think obviously looking forward, it makes it really interesting what GK decided to
do in terms of like their map selection as they'll have map pick here all on out but for me uh the
story here on this map was eight I mean the the ability to use these m-rails I mean right here I mean
this this 4k was sick yeah just cleaning things up but look at this damage before you even get
a bubble right yeah the fight is just over like he probably got maybe you got a bubble prior there
but still it's like you deal with that sorry bubble and then it's just a lot of focused
hitscan damage to worse than that up and they're clearly identified that Alfie he goes for us like
our seven gauges I think even going back to Havana right like you would see Alfie just like in there
like he just go like he would be in the back line of GK but things look a lot better for GK there
on that atlas and I hope that maybe like changes up the idea of like what you're in store for
the rest of the series it's hard right because our last two maps you can pick types are what
hybrid and push we have left. Push would leave itself more towards like a vendetta type of game
which is what we've seen basically outside of map number one.
You are a DK. You could ban, I don't believe they've used a ban on Azaria yet and go like
Blizzard World and play a lot of D.va, right? That would be one that kind of fits into
something that Ziad would really want to do.
Yeah, this is going to be a, I think they have a lot of choice here.
Like I would have say like gone towards like a push, right?
Like I would have been like, oh, that just suits kind of what they're trying to do.
But then I saw the result here on Atlas and now I'm like hesitating.
I'm like, do we really want to like try to redo of what just happened on
Atlas, but do it on like an Esperanza.
It's like, maybe we don't want to do that hybrid.
I feel like it's the more strategically interesting map.
If you have something like a target band towards GK, and I feel like you have something up your sleeve
But it's going to be the runasappi. And so I think this kind of
Going into the series. I would have been like, okay
Well, they want to play the flashpoint. They want to play the push maps and I think in the very first pick here
They get the Peter runasappi. I think that's quite telling of what they're wanting to do
They want to play these loser come still
Yeah, it seems like they kind of want to like force that on in I mean depending on what we see from the bands, right from GK is
still a lot available. I gotta say to Johnny like dude if you're GK you looked awesome the
first two maps to get like a reverse swept here would be an absolutely brutal scenario
stop stop against the team that you most likely do too early I'm just too early no no it's
never too early when you see a team when a map like that like Katya just did that's
It's not momentum swing
That's true. That's true. Yeah, they beat up at the same way. Peps flirted with the river but
But I would say that it was a with the peps series
Atlas is like a pretty good hazard map that like it kind of went more towards like
Fitting their playstyle as opposed to like them playing the same
Like head-to-head comps over a certain map then just starting to like turn the corner on it
Yeah, that's fair. I mean, that was a grueling comeback from peps because like you say you
have this comfortable style and you're not really allowed to play it everywhere. And then
especially like, you know, Katya, they had all the cards as went to map five and they
really made peps comfortable in that one. Are you saying that Katya, they have a better
chance here because the way they won an athlete just now playing like, I think like if
you're, yeah, if you're going to keep like, you know, playing that mirror matchup,
I think maybe it just takes them a little bit to kind of like get that like coordination down
I thought Tatum was like much better on that map as well
So it's about T-Span
Here from DK that would lead me to believe this is more of a support protect right yeah
And then a sojourn ban on the other side. So
That is like locking in like basically Emory. I wonder if the
Do you think the map ban is that like a curie protect or something along those lines? All right?
I'm gonna cook, I'm gonna cook here, okay?
Okay, all right.
The Baptiste is a protect band for the Kyrgyz.
Because obviously the Lucio band was already deployed, but the Baptiste it actually forces the Lucio Kyrgyz still because you don't really want to play.
You know, if the Kyrgyz gets banned, you still really can't force the Lucio.
There's no way to support you there.
The Sojourn is banned.
So now the Stola can play the Domina.
You don't have that disruptor shot to build the shield.
They play Domina in week one.
Can't see it or cooking here with the soldier man.
Okay, that's the cook because the first part of the cook, I was like...
Or Moga, that's how it is too.
Yeah, they're a little appetizer with the Baptista.
I was like, I literally just said that, so maybe you're not listening.
But that second part, though, that would be kind of spicy if we see like some Domina...
Or just some Moga out into the universe.
I mean, that's what I just said, so I guess we're just saying what...
I mean...
Dude, are you listening to me?
I don't wanna see...
I don't wanna see Moga.
I mean...
Okay, but now it's like a rarity. It's like you bring out the mauga and it's like a flashback.
Yeah, it's like a...
Oh, do you remember 2023? It's like good times.
Surprise, surprise dish. Here's some mauga.
Um, I mean, I think there's a higher chance for the Domina.
I also think like they just continue to play Zarya and we basically get just like
another run back of this comp, right? With the Kiri, the Kiri Lucio with Vendetta Amrae.
Like nothing like materially changes here. So that would be a good bet because that's what they played the entire series
So well outside of the first map, which is quite interesting, right? Because
Then there was available Zarya was available. They just didn't do it. They just decided to play like far off instead
Which like that is like quite interesting because like you easily could have just played these comms minus the m3 plus like I don't
Soge, right?
You know in response
Neither team decided to do that, but then since then they've just kind of been all about Vendetta, Emery, Zarya, Kiri, Lucio.
So like, maybe, you know, I think we do kind of like have a chance with some variety with these bands, but I think there's also a high likelihood we should get a mirror again.
The interesting question here is going to be to see how they're going to pick the diva.
Because I think now would be kind of an opportunity where you could bring it out.
But this is Zarya, Vendetta just better, right?
It probably is, but I'm talking more about Syod's comfort here.
Yeah, I know Zarya Vendetta is really strong, it's kind of the meta.
I think more and more teams are just saying as well, this is probably going to be the meta.
We're probably just going to see Zarya Vendetta force the end of the stage until we get a balance patch.
So yeah, maybe the device is just out of the question.
But earlier on this year, it was definitely Syod playing more D.Va, but yeah, with the Zarya, with the Medetta, it's just not happening.
There's just too much to counter D.Va, so I'm like, why would we...
It's just a nightmare. It doesn't matter that D.Va is strong, there's like too many characters to deal with D.Va, yeah.
Well, I also think D.Va is like, strong, but I think it's more that like, if one Vendetta on a team has the, you know, advantage of having those Zarya bubbles and the other doesn't, like, it's just way harder, right?
They had to kind of play that matchup, so we're gonna get another mirror here.
DK kind of played this really strong.
Here goes Alphie.
On Havana, yeah, as Alphie just goes on in the last map though, it was definitely
all Katya.
The other way is, DK dangerously low here, Johnny.
Ziyad, Haku, and Finn all taking major damage.
So Katya, they are able to finish off one.
They do end up getting Ziyad.
Now Tejunk in the mix is, this looks like a completely different matchup
on the head to head now, so we do give a lot of love to the Vendettas, but aid really starting to
heat up on the Emory. Yeah, but that was kind of the same thing we saw on Atlas. It's like AlphaE went
for the earlier engage with the Vendetta, forced to withdraw, didn't really get any value,
and when AlphaE withdraws, like, I see they get all the angles, they get the positioning,
and Tejong pushes in with the Sauravobbles and gets tons of value with the Vendetta.
You see Tejong actually getting to the sky there and like you know just goes right back to his team
Maybe just trying to fake DK in a little bit and then kind of capitalizing on you know Alfie
Just playing a little bit too aggressive here is
Sermajed just trying to keep Tejong alive nice Zarya bubble there from this stole
I'm gonna you know farm some energy off of that but Sermajed doing a great job here Johnny look at this
We're gonna have that Kitsune rush. Yes so fast
Great ultimate here for rounding the corner, but he drops it quite early though.
Are you going to get the benefits without it? Tejou goes down, did this engage?
Is it going to be good enough for GK here? They could really turn things around.
Yeah, and with the angle that it was dropped you actually like kind of don't lay it around the corner
so it's gonna be really good to get some value out of it.
You do do enough damage down onto Zyatenko to back them up though to get that checkpoint.
That first checkpoint there. White massive here for Katzia as now members here of GK
get to the objective, they'll get control of it, they're gonna get it back towards the mid-map.
Now GK has the advantage here, Johnny. Double support all to work with.
Yeah, realistically, they just want to go to Kitsune Rush, but A drops the overwrite protocol.
There's so much damage and the Graviton search layered here on top.
Not even the Sunbear as well, from Haku, as GK, they just want to secure the fight
win here and they definitely are nice shots from Lab that they're asked well.
And they use a lot of ultimates, but I guess the results they wanted.
Overwrite protocol used by both teams. It's just the grab that comes in from Vestola, not good enough to really kind of turn the tides in that when DK will end up with a grab of their own here, Sundering Blade, but this is where Gala's going to have that advantage in terms of the B race, support-alt advantage here for Katya, even with SummerJet kind of maybe building up to this.
And look at this thing, actually kind of like wrap around. The Sombraer are going to come down in time to give Vestola up.
Yeah, the Sombra is going to be crucial here as DK. Don't really have the health to stay alive.
They're running away with the bot.
Yes, and Kassia gets the bot here as well, so this is a terrible fight for DK. They essentially have to rotate around here.
Kassia, I would be on the hunt here. I'd see, I guess there's an opening. Can we find an additional pick here to just keep the momentum going?
Yes, DK has to wrap all the way around. This is a really odd spot for the fight to kick off.
Sundering Blade here used by Tejong. Going to get Haku and Finn dangerously low.
Both supports are trying to keep each other up for DK. They're not able to do so at the moment
Another fight win here from Katya the wraparound to get towards the objective there and then they use the sound barrier
They've kind of parlayed that into even more progress here of the bot
Yeah, this is a terrible start ask my dog absolutely loses it
The crowd goes crazy
Surma Jed getting up towards that kids Suney rush and maybe make sure series are any all up all of a little bit of steering
And he go in our lives
A here with the override protocol
Potentially they're trying to like bait them into the corner right they're gonna get like some better sight lines here
Take a look. It'll be this Suney rush here used by surma Jed lab that ends up falling nice job
Getting the best over right in those positions here is Z-Hod going to fall as well
They use that Katsune Rush there you get those bubbles you push right on in you have a similar obviously the
Energy that you form off of the vendetta and now you're just kind of cycling these support ults right geeky
They're gonna have both support ults available here, but marching towards the spawn is Katsuya the sound barrier of their own
It's override protocol available here for aid
See if they decided to play it in this fight
Maybe you use it as the Katsune Rush comes down which they do it's gonna be really difficult to push up into this here
If you are DK, so I don't even think you're really gonna get much value out of this rush is sundering blade comes in here for Alfie
Misses around that corner lab to not able to find anything really that is a right pro call is now that allows golly
I end up with a sound barrier here to match Haku. This is so good for Katya an opportunity
End up winning it here
They get the odds stuck in the grass the sound barrier gonna be able to keep him alive a little bit later sound barrier here
From DK gonna keep them a little bit healthier
Now the payload of the box is going to be moving back towards mid-math.
The damage is done in Katzia with such a huge lead here by 112 meters or so.
Now, if you look on the GK side of things, how do they come back into this is...
Getting back towards mid-math, you'll end up with a grab here, potentially, for Ziad.
And then on the other side of things, it's just the Sundering Blade. It's not really like a big fight-winning ultimate, but okay, Vestola takes out Ziad.
I mean, that is massive. You cannot allow that to happen here. If you are GK, as Vestola finds to, you end up losing Ziad, pushing up towards the middle of the map.
Yeah, I can see 138 meters to go here. I mean, how do you get back into this map if you're GK?
You essentially have to like, make a grandstand here, maybe try to get the Sundering Blade out from Phaedon and the Kitsune Rush, survive with those Ultimates.
To get the ultimate back, going yourself as Yad.
So coming up on this Graviton search here...
Yeah, but you're gonna have a, I mean, consumer Sundering Blade, right? Maybe kind of like the Touring Players from going in with that Palos.
They end up using the Gravier. This should be enough to get rid of Esola as soon as you're there from Surmajet trying to keep him alive.
I'm not able to kind of perfectly put that long here, considering Blade will come down from Teijon
and not really much damage there either, but it doesn't feel like EK here, Johnny feels like they're
healthy enough to kind of push up on into this, so
couldn't allow it to buy some time for me solely to get back into the fight with that closest spawn.
Yeah, I think I'd see here no pressure really to try to take force of fight here at any time.
Kind of want to draw out these ultimates, right? You want to make it really difficult for EK
to get the upper hand here, Slava is going to go up early over my particular, and Aves well actually.
A lot of opponents being traded.
So you do find Fin though, so one of those supports off the table,
Sermigid still alive here for Katia, but you end up losing your tank.
It's kind of a GG and that type of scenario.
So DK will get the bot continuing to go in the Katia direction.
They have still not gotten that first checkpoint, which is huge, right?
It's obviously an eluxus forward spawns.
It allows you to kind of progress further throughout the map
without stopping here at this moment.
Gala has the beat. I wonder if you decide to beat early
and maybe even deny checkpoint again.
Kind of buys you a little bit more time down the road
if they get here again.
Yeah, I mean, GK, they're waiting for the Sunbearer themselves here
to round this corner.
I kind of want Gala to just use the better beat.
It's like no pressure. Like, why force the issue here?
We can just hold this position.
Haku's going to be forced to sander around the corner here.
Selfie pops the Sunbearer. Sweetly low.
A nice grab here as well from Vestola connects with 3, 8 able to find 2 in the grab.
Tejong and Ko cleaning up the rest.
Both beats used but a nice grab there from Vestola that seals the deal and Johnny.
With this lead now below 2 minutes, it feels like Katz is well on their way to force the
5th map.
Yeah and I think this is the veteran experience showing, it's like why force the issue.
We're going to react to our opponent and then just fight knowing we have a dominant lead
so far.
Dear owner of Alphys, Alphys walks over to the far right, spend the counter for Vendetta
so far.
It's going to be a bit of a slower approach.
Really crucial that the Emre follow-ups on Alphys' rockets here, you can find that
crucial poke damage.
It's a wild concession though because Yi-Key looked like the better Vendetta team early
on in the series.
Even this exact head-to-head matchup, then something for Katia is just kind of
Clicked about halfway through the set as
Katya decides they don't really need to kind of go around and wildly challenges at the moment a nice damage down here
From Tejong gonna end up using the sundering blade here as well
But the odd finds to that's the grab that comes down from Geeky Zarya
But hold on stacks still build up here for Tejong is not gonna be able to get rid of the vendetta that easily
easily, still more progress here for Katya. Just two players pushing it as far as they
can. SermonJed is going to get it this instant. TP on out. Wait for another fight as Katya
is still going to have that close spawn. Going to get another advantageous fight here. You
see they're going to push right up to this corner, Johnny. This next fight is like
must win for Geekate with 30 seconds on the clock.
Yeah, this is enough right here.
Lambda tries to make a play here with the open-line protocol,
but it's too much of some serious material.
It's going to help Conceal out here.
It's just an all-out brawl.
Both Emery is trading frags here.
He's doing the getting rid of Haku,
who's getting closer towards that beat.
Is Yacht going to get dangerously low?
It'll be best soloist that's hanging it out.
Both tanks traded as you're going to have just kind of
But we're working last by territory here is the hold on they're gonna be like a touch here as some nice shots from a try to make it
Interesting it'll be some the players of the closest one here though Johnny for cats
We're gonna get back yet. Tejong here is gonna be both supports alive for DK. They need to kind of keep this one rolling
Yes, it'd be really difficult when you're just a Lucio carry
But if you can just buy enough time for the team to get back
They don't want to move it too much.
They don't want to move it too much.
They don't want to kind of like push so far ahead
that their teammates aren't able to catch up.
They do have the sound barrier here for this fight.
As Cassia looks, it's just going to be poking,
maybe building up towards a grab in a sound barrier of their own.
He's on his well, getting very close.
Do the Sundering Blade.
Haku needs to be able to live here.
He drops the sound barrier just in time there.
Of course, team to survive on aid finds the crucial pick.
As well, Thin trades it out though.
Thunder and Graves come in from Tej on K. He finds a pick.
He can't behind the walls. They're hiding.
Slavla just trying to find any kind of pick here,
but the ball, it needs to be contested,
and Zola drops the Graves on Serge.
And that's going to be Katya.
Tying up the series map.
Whoa!
The eight and Tej on are really starting to heat up these last two maps.
The support play has kind of flipped on its head
in terms of the positive things we're now seeing from the Katya backline.
And we are going to get a Game 5 in our first series of the week.
This one looked like it was going to be a blowout early on and Katz has turned it on
the last two naps.
Dude, 8 is just going to pop it off going crazy.
31 and 5 there, almost 14k damage on this nap.
And then obviously the support is picking it up a little bit.
You still see the supports in favor like UK.
It just feels like the damage has really kind of swung the ups away.
Yeah, I think a lot of pressure here on to GK to just kind of like figure this out in the middle of the series.
He's like, what is what is going wrong here?
It's like, we were dominant in map one.
And obviously, like I would say map one, it was a bit of a unique case because you're playing those sojourn for our compositions.
But like you said, Havana, it was all GK.
And now they've kind of lost the favor here and Atlas and Runa Safi.
It's like something is not quite clicking here.
We've been pointing out Alfie.
He has been struggling on this Vendetta with these early Engages, right?
And meanwhile, GK, they've just adapted phenomenally here
and Aide is putting on a showcase on the Emmerit.
Well, you can't have to throw map number one out a little bit
because the comps are so different.
And then Havanna though, that GK is able to win.
Like, they looked really good there.
It's just these last two maps.
I mean, you see Katzia just able to play with like a certain pace.
It's really kind of bothering.
You know, GK and Tejong looking much better.
And I also think it's definitely bothering geeking because you see them go over to the far right like I kind of can see like okay
We're trying to get them off the vendetta. Maybe play some far a little bit here
With this just mentally right going out there far as mentally you're like admitting it's like this is not working
Yeah, you're admitting it's an L right. Yeah. Yeah, ah
Yeah with with only
Five games per team in this stage a reverse suite means way more than it has in the past
I mean for GK the kind of story is like would be totally flipped right it's like you looked awesome against
You know obviously
Katya for the first two maps and then you kind of fall apart
You got the re owed by twisted minds like where can this team go to and then if you're Katya
But they're one and one right so this would take them the two and one
I mean that would be a huge swing in terms of their chances to make top four
Or is that midtown fast selection here for GK?
What's your thoughts?
Well, I am a little bit worried here
because I do think that this is going to be a map
that Katia are quite comfortable on.
We've seen them play two times already against Virtus.Pro.
We saw them play it against Peps.
And so GK, I mean, look, hybrid is a tough map pool
because Blizzard world, obviously, like, you know,
there's so many long sidelines here.
maybe that doesn't favor GK style too much.
Numbani, I could have seen Numbani being the pick here
because you can kind of like get away playing the Lucio here
but mid time, I think it's going to be quite a difficult pick.
There's no great off to GK style.
And doesn't this allow like surmijating God
to just play like double flex if they wanted?
Yeah, if they wanted to, yeah for sure.
I mean, they lost Havana doing that
but at the same time, like, you know,
just one map result,
doesn't mean we can throw everything out the window,
Like I still think this is a more comfortable map we can see.
I think the Stola is probably thrilled that we're going to something like a midtown, right?
Because even going back to when the Stola was on Virtus.pro, they would pick midtown.
They had like the Ellori strategies that were really tough to deal with on Virtus.pro.
And so I think that's you are really happy that we're going to a map like midtown
and that we're going to wrap things up here.
Yeah, like sneaky Domina potential here from Katia.
They did play it, yeah.
Last week.
Sneaky, yeah, they did play last week, right?
like there is kind of that into the mix. I'm like merely more fascinated like what Katia decides to
do in terms of like the bands. Like would you ban, uh, with your EK, would you ban the Vendetta here
like early on? Like if you're, you're feeling you're getting kind of outplayed with it.
Well this is the downfall of the roster, you gotta protect them. Like you gotta protect
them to carry. Or else you're gonna be forced into Katia's comfortable support zone of like
like paint double fix and stuff like that, right?
I, this is, so you can see the wooing out,
come on, they got to protect.
Man, that is brutal.
We saw last year, right,
Gen G kind of fall to having to protect so many bands
where it kind of just, really kind of just put,
hampers the rest of your team,
puts you at a massive disadvantage,
where GK feels the need to do that here,
at least in this series,
and Katzi on the other side of things,
they'll get rid of Tracer.
Yeah, which I mean they're just gonna keep playing the Vendetta, right? Like they're like, hey, we're good now, we're good. We're good
We're gonna keep playing the Vendetta compositions and so getting a tracer ban out there removes all optionality for
I'll feel to bring that out and you know historically alpha he's been a fantastic tracer player
Of course and so if GK were like we want to shy away from the sariah, Vendetta
Katziya with this tracer ban gives them no such option
It definitely puts Geekies backs against the wall here is trying to stave off the reverse
sweep of with Katya kind of like making the charge as I was talking about right with only
five games per team in this stage.
To lose one in this fashion is just even more of a gut punch than it would be in the
past because it's all for Geekies.
You put yourself at 0-2, right?
Oh man.
You still have Virtus Pro ahead of you. You still have Peps.
You know, just anyone's legend, I believe, still on their schedule would be the remaining three.
So like really tough games there from then on out.
You're going to have to win some that you may not predict them in.
Katz, yeah, this would be a massive win for their chances to finish top four.
I'll also count the lead that we're treated to map five in both this series and Katz, I guess, Peps as well.
We've been typing up how important these matches are, and then it's coming down to the wire in this type of fashion, and we don't know who to pick.
Like, going through this mid-town, I have no idea what to expect.
Like, I don't have a favorite team for you.
Like, it really could be an animal's game here.
So, this is quite peak, quite peak overwatch.
I think you would have to favor Katia with how well they've looked over the last two maps.
Probably, yeah.
I mean they get up by like a hundred plus meters on push
shutout on Atlas
It's really just been flawless since I know that second game on Havana, so
Like all of the momentum would lead you to believe
It is Katya's for the taking here as midtown will be the final map in the set
The Wu young band like you mentioned most likely used to protect you know having that
Kyrie Lucio backline for GK and the tracer could be very impactful here but
that is gone. Nobody able to use a tracer here to get around these blanks.
What is going to be interesting to see here is what kind of backline could
see a go for because Lucio Kyrico is available. I'd say usually a midtown
you could get away you know sitting back and playing more of a double-fetched
line up here but Lucio carry it's such a strong composition and with that speed it allows you to
set up these flanks allows you to set up these angles and coordinate these dives right to get on
top of those greedy compositions and so we're sitting here because see uh the rolling out with
this Juno carry and I guess what I'm asking is does GK with this speed from the Lucio is that
going to give them an opportunity to kind of get on top of this greed these greedy backlines
and break down the defense.
Yeah, might, but they haven't really been so good at executing though for GK.
Like the idea is obviously there, they're gonna know what to do, but in terms of like
comboing with the Zarya and following up with the bubbles and damage, it's just been so much better.
From Katya, the last two maps is GK reeling a little bit.
They will be on offense here to kick things off.
The main difference is obviously that Juno on the defensive side of things for Katzia
You see how they decide to take space here. You see the Vandallas, they're just creating a little bit of aggression
Sorry Bubbles, he's gonna charge. Oh, sorry. Alpha Yi commits quite deeply here. Not in line of sight whatsoever. He has to survive
I mean he does end up kind of like dancing around getting back towards the main choke with the rest of his team
Well played.
As it happens Labda actually finds Gala where they're trying to get up into the subway car
They're not able to make it so very nicely played there by Alphie
Yeah, but he's forced it back away here a little bit.
It's not going to be a one-star game.
All right.
Well, Vesola gets booped. He has no bubbles there and he gets just knocked back.
I mean it's tough, you kind of like need the Vendetta to go in there with the Saurbubble.
Like get that touch like the lucio is not gonna survive the sorry is so slow to get there as we saw
And we kind of saw it happen last week as well Pepsi does the similar kind of mistake, right?
And so you just got to be a bit more heads up the way utilized in the data the mobility to get those point touches
But now it's going to be GK. You're gonna keep rolling on this office
Yeah, they get control of the high ground here
So I'm gonna have to see Katya be the more aggressive senior trying to play back from that nice angle here from Finn able to
going to keep Zion top off as, I was like, oh maybe one of the M-rays can kind of come
up big here, get a pick as Labda off of the pick off of Gala in that first point does
have that over right protocol here coming up here shortly.
GK pushing very aggressive here, they want to secure these picks and they get it.
Gala with Stola goes down and this payload is pushing all of them meanwhile so a simple
get soon rush it's enough for GK to keep this train rolling and Katya we talked
about all that momentum I haven't found anything so far this evening's no they're
getting bulldozed right now so they're gonna have to get back over here try and
push this as soon as possible but the other right protocol for both teams you
do have a grab here from the odd if you seize the rest of the members of
I can't see a step up would you decide to use it yeah but pushing out of that
doorway I guess an override protocol is so scary obviously you got to touch
the point there. GK are just going to keep this going. Great Graviton search there from
Seahawd and he's going to catch that M-Ray. And now GK 530 getting onto the third point.
You still have the soundbearer in the hand here.
World record pace right now from GK here in game five where they were on the verge
eventually get reverse swept, not looking like it right now, it's Katz you're gonna
have to put together a ton of fights here on defense on the final point to be
able to kind of come back out on top. It's got a lot of the beats so you'll have
that in case I know any of these big ultimates come down from DK, it's gonna
be the grab here that gets dropped, it's gonna be the beat from Haku that
comes in, doesn't even save Finn, as you use a bubble there on the taekwondo,
dangerously you know indeed the bubble is gonna get bursted as he was so
Oh, whoa. You do trade that out.
I kind of like that there for Katya, Johnny. Not going to lie.
Yeah, just ready to grab it on search for the soundbearer.
That's a great ultimate trade.
It's actually going to put a stop to this push from DK, who,
I don't know, it doesn't have any ultimates.
I'll be building up to that sundry plate.
But it gives an opportunity for Katya to stabilize here.
Because he still have the soundbearer in hand if things become dire.
Yeah, they're trying to get Tejong back out.
It's going to be the soundbearer here from Gala.
No answer for DK was used in the previous fight as Katyaa gonna use the extra health to just push on forward and get some map control back as
That is a much better beat than what we saw from the opposite side of things Katyaa gets immense value from that. All right four minutes
I've seen this happen in ranked. Surely they can do it at the pro level as well
You've seen this happen
What side were you when this happened in ranked?
on mid now, third, it's all that it was, okay?
At least they have a few ultimates to go here, the Kitsuna rush
and the...
The right protocol, it's going to be great around this corner.
Yeah, protocol used here by Alpey, but with the short ceilings, actually,
Teyton's putting some pressure down on one of his.
Lada takes out eight around the corner,
and will actually get a Kitsuna rush here used by Sirmajet,
not good enough to be able to get Bestall alive.
Sundering Blade up top, gonna come right on top of Lada,
as the cart will continue to move here for GK,
but you're gonna get people coming off the spawn here for Katya
that most certainly will be able to get a touch.
All right, all on aid, buddy.
Come on, we got a grav at the search screen built here,
but it's all about the override protocol for Maid.
Yeah, it's gonna be take on getting to the point,
trying to get a touch.
Nice angle there from 8.
Oh, Alfie with a big sundering blade comes out on top.
That's a huge pick off, though.
Gamer to bin.
Top is gonna have to stay alive trying to build up
towards that beat that stole the grab into the corner.
No damage there though, to be able to get rid of Alfie sound barrier from Haku to make sure everybody is tucked up as they get the cart the distance they complete the map to 46 in the time bank.
Oh man.
Wow, what an amazing offense there by GK. They just get the ball rolling there because Katia doesn't get the touch on the first point because he has nothing going on the second point and 530 entering the third point.
GK, for being in a lot of doubt, the last couple of maps, they came out in dominant fashion
here on the fifth map, and now in a really good position to close out this series after
struggling on map 3 and 4, 16 and 1 from Alfie really stepped up.
I mean that's like the, you know, him and Ziad just look so disconnected in maps 3
and 4, right?
They were like, you know, he was going in, not having bubbles, dying early, not
able to get much value. They've definitely worked things out here in game five. And I
think if you're cat, see you start to sweat a little bit here, Johnny, if you don't actually
get this first point quick, considering how fast DK was through the second part of the
map. Yeah, and I don't even think GK did anything too surprising either. As you got
this, I don't know what, what are you doing buddy? I think he's trying to no trying
a grind on the rail yeah look at him he's he's he's he's he's doing he's
on the rail over there yeah yeah I wonder if you actually with the geometry
there if you actually know surely he doesn't see the enemy team no that
would actually be just game break yeah I can't say I've ever used that emote in
that position and experience being through the wall so only Finn knows
within those look at that one in post yeah we're not that much there some
damage here as a trying to get the odd end of using his bubbles I think both
balls are gone so yeah I might be a little bit of trouble here's the second
one there is they're trying to collapse on the tank of GK which they do two for
two trade the bad part here for katsya all of your support are dead and
that is gonna be a recipe for falling back towards the spawn is not best
Vistola with a right click takes a minute range and then now you just have Haku here like you're gonna be able to get a Gallivac in the fight
I mean this is a
Brutal way to lose the first point here
More story of the series. It's just weird trades that lend itself to one of these teams and now can see you on this point
Bubbles gonna be coming up to Althea here as he tries to contest this point
But that's both sorry bubbles used here and now can see how they can turn things around
And I mean the later Zarya bubbles that come out from Vistola, right?
kind of almost waiting for Alphie and Geekate to kind of commit then end up using
Nazaria bubbles once they're in using all that damage kind of going back after
them and that is a very fast point take here from Katya they are not out of it
just yet yeah these these first five trades on the first point I mean it's
so difficult to deal with the recon test if you're on the defense right
now Katya they're going to push off the big difference maker though is
they don't really have these ultimates right to carry on this
momentum and so on this defense GK if they could just stabilize here for a
second not over extend not get picked off they have a much better chance of
holding the second point than what happened the previous day it has been so
good though with these MRAELs that maybe you're able to get one here right no
support ultimate on the other side of things for you able to kind of catch one
coming on in uses over a protocol as you see actually some damage out on nice
Nice grab there that comes down from the stall, it catches two on the corner.
Gonna be able to find one heavy shot there, gonna finish off Alpy towards the end of that
Emery ult, so you're gonna continue to get the cart moving here under the underpass.
And Johnny, you're gonna have the double support ult for both sides here, coming into this
next fight.
This one could very well, like, you know, this side, Gatsy is up into fate.
That's gonna be interesting to see if they deploy it early here.
Try to hold them in the choke point as both Kitsun rushes come out here.
They want to press pressure early, but it's going to be GK with the re-engage, Alti finds the pick up to 8 here.
Can he keep the momentum going? Pago? Find Slavdok, 4 vs 4 situation.
Sundering Blade does put some damage out onto the back line though.
Finn will end up falling Hakku trying to make it out with his life here,
but the fight will go in favor of Katsya.
So it looks like maybe one player can test in there for a brief moment in time for GK.
It actually is the odd. He ends up using a grab there.
they are. Yeah and they don't end up coming out on getting really anything with that grab.
Now you're in a lot of trouble with your Geekate, right? I mean the supports stay alive a little
bit longer for Katia. They build up towards that next round of ultimates and then also
you end up using the grab there. So the soul has got a massive lead.
Yeah, this really opened things up for Katia to utilize that Graviton search advantage
to maybe close things out as they're already set up on the high ground here is Tejong.
AID fights another pick on the Lada. AID has just got out of his mind these last few maps.
Are they gonna beat their time? I mean that's absurd here.
I mean there's no defense being played here. At the moment as Alphie comes in over the top,
gets the benefits of a Zarya bubble, does end up having the Sundering Blade here potentially.
Katia playing this one a little bit slower here. They're working towards that override
Protocol working. I mean they're really kind of building up towards everything here Johnny
Maybe just kind of farm up they're gonna farm up these support ults here
And look they still have a decent amount of time to finish you know ahead of
DK so as good as DK's offense was can't see on base to beat it
Over a critical gets bought by all of them early pick onto Alfie again
You can see a growing things wide open gravity on search committed here as well
The camps will open it though and the lab is going to trade out the crucial Fujika here
to try to hold on on this even.
I mean that is huge.
The solo ends up capturing Ziad inside of the grab and I don't think there's much left
of the override protocol from Yi to be able to kind of finish him off.
That allows Ziad to live that solo pushes up a little bit too far, going for that
kill, hunting for it and he gets finished off.
So that may be something to look at there a little bit later which could have decided
the series.
Yeah, it looked like that was going to be cut CS go time to cap out the third point
But great pay by labda
Finds the counter picks to hold on to this defense and now in a situation where double support ultimate available for either team
I'll be close in all that was nice group there actually keeps it in the battlefield. Yes, it is engaged going though
Yeah, you have this beat though
That's gonna come down from gala if need be is Alphie just trying to find players in the backline
And now that Sound Barrier is off the table, right Gala? Completely gone.
Deleted by this spin there from Alphie, so two fights in a row.
Great defensive stand here from Geekay.
Yeah, and time is winding down.
Like we pointed out earlier, you can see I had an opportunity there to have an even better offense, but now.
Two minutes 20, and you don't have that Graviton Surge, you don't have that Kitsunosh available to you.
It's a bit of a trickier situation here.
Try and cap out this now. Sound barrier available on either side. It's going to be pivotal here.
Early ground assert from Ziad.
Ziad also gets the benefits here of the sound barrier that comes down from Haku a little bit later than Gala's,
and that is going to be the difference maker in that fight.
So three fights in a row, an impressive defensive stand now.
Now, for DK, if you can't see Johnny, you're in a rough spot.
No support open, it's maybe you build up toward the grab here, maybe it's AD yet again for
this Override Protocol.
He also made a play.
They're running out of time.
Yeah, I mean, you're kind of really relying on AD to go huge here.
I mean, GK has just executed beautifully on this third point defense.
And again, Alfie goes down.
That's going to be go time for both M-Rays here actually.
As the Overhyde protocol is poked, but you don't really want to push through this choke
And so both Emerson's trading out some damage for the time being
So Stole like it's quite close to this grab. Keeps you in the rush though.
Who's DJing if they want it, but they don't need to because they find a pick up to Gala
Yeah, you lose Gala yet again as now Alpha Yi is starting to find these pick offs earlier
You know really the last two maps
It's been the story of the Katzia supports being able to keep each other alive and to gain the effects of Alpha Yi
On the vendetta, but this map especially here towards the end here of Katya's offensive side
It has been all the key
You're not going to be able to build up towards another overwrite protocol
You feel like you need that one shot potentially actually catch the odd out here use the graph consumer share used by both sides as well
so
Potentially something positive here for Katya. They're just so far away right from the payload as it looks like all is gonna
get there he will start to get a push here remaining members gonna be following
up in the rear one more fight here DK so close to getting their first win here
of the stage Haku would be massive advantage oh yeah they're really going
all all against Alphie here who's gonna get a touch so the sound barrier here
comes in from Haku nobody healthy enough to get a touch here for Katya
And that is gonna be it so GK use that sound barrier pushes on up
This cat's yet not even able to get a touch and GK takes the series in the end
Yeah, I mean, what in the world was this series mad we talked about the five minute 30 defense and it happened on the other side
This cat's yeah, yeah
Unlocked I mean GK just executed beautifully on the defense like they just held that corner firm
You got plenty of ultimate value
That's a really impressive defense there.
Yeah, it was really that fight that I kind of highlighted where they end up using that
grab, trying to get rid of Ziad and the overwrite protocol of Aide kind of like runs out and
you don't have that damage to finish him off and then as Ziad able to live and then
keep Noalfi up with some of those bubbles, so if you take a look at some of the stats
I mean, do Fin with almost 20k healing here in our fifth game as Fin had himself
a fantastic series start to finish.
Yeah, I think they put on a great showcase here of what they're capable of with this skill on their roster.
This is what we wanted to see from them, but still...
You know, a little worrying the way they lost map 3, lost map 4, this was just...
We're one map into the day. We got five matches today.
And for this first one, I'm just exhausted. Like, what did we just witness?
I mean this one was back and forth just all series of long as the override protocols were definitely impactful here as I know
I thought a to really kind of stood out. I know work. Yeah, just yeah, just not enough in the end is
Just a brutal way to lose that would if you're catching you bring it all the way back
But it almost feels like for geek a that wouldn't kind of keeps this stage alive that potential for that top four right?
you lose this year. I know your map differential obviously takes a hit on top of your record.
You are going to be in a really rough spot. So they probably felt that pressure knew they
needed to clutch up to keep their, you know, kind of, you know, first stage alive.
We could very easily be in a situation where these middle of the pack teams can only just
trade victories against each other. And then we're going by map differential.
Man, that was such a heater of a matchup to kick off EMEA for OWCS today. And I'm feeling
pretty good about the fact that i got my predictions right i don't know about you guys
all right it's not the first thing you're gonna say all right
it is it is i have to i have to take my wins when i get them i don't get them very often here um
on the Overwatch broadcast but i think that when it came down to like the ult cycling in that last
map that we saw it was just so well measured by geeky in that tail end when they're defending
that final point and for katsuya it's it's definitely tough to see like the fake comeback
happening there. What do you think really went wrong towards the end there, Donny?
I think they kind of lost so much momentum there to Stark, right? Like we saw both these offenses,
it's just like if you lose that first fight without the real convincing team fight,
then you don't really have any ultimates once you try to make your second point stand. And
it just becomes like a really weird ultimate cycling. And both teams kind of like fell
towards the third point. That's where things actually got going for both things. Just like,
Okay, we can finally start deploying some of these ultimates and we don't have to rely on like the individual skill
You know our vendetta like finding these opening frags or these emberies finding opening frags
So I think it was kind of just like a weird back and forth on that third point
Really, and I think more so than a failed offense. I think there was a really good executed defense because
It is really pivotal when you have these emory ults like you don't pop them too early
You actually try to secure some value same goes for the Kitsuna rush like if you drop the Kitsuna rush too early
It's going to be easy to sink the edge from.
So in this kind of meta in particular,
I just think you need really good ultimate timing,
because so much of it is just pulling this push-pull game,
right?
And I think you saw it towards the end there,
that third point defense.
It was really beautifully played by GK, actually,
to make sure that they could cycle those ultimates just
in time to get the value required.
Yeah, I think it was a really impressive series
from both of these teams that is for certain.
And Matt, when we're talking about the series overall,
We didn't touch on it too much in the pre-show,
but it was also really important for GK to find this win today.
It's only their second matchup within this round.
Robin's stage and with how few matches there are
during the regular season,
they wanted to get that win
so they could be in that one-in-one position.
Oh, for sure, especially because GK, right?
They have like Virtus Pro in front of the peps,
like no kind of like easy dubs, right?
I mean, you lose this here in Euro and two,
you have some of those like really tough matchups
in front of you, there's not a lot of time here to turn it around in the EMEA.
So most certainly needed this win against another team that most likely will be on the bubble as well, right?
A series like this and kind of the results here could be the determination between playing in the playoffs or playing in relegation, right?
Which is just like a brutal scenario for either of these squads.
So I'm sure, you know, DK really felt it as the series started to slip like, okay, like the importance of it.
We cannot let this one get away.
I feel like usually we have a pretty good idea of how the teams are ranked
and like who are the bottom teams or the top teams like this region is just like a mess
Like it's just a mess between GK, Katia, Peps their 0 and 2
But they lost on map 5 against Katia who then lost on map 5 against GK
I mean that tells you everything you need to know
These teams are so evenly matched that on any given match day
I think they could just beat each other, right? And they're all desperate to avoid the bottom two slots
This region is very entertaining.
Yeah, it is quite crazy, but we actually have an interview on the line with Finn here for GKE sports
I'm very excited to chat with him. Congratulations on your win Finn.
Hello.
Hi, how are you doing? Congrats on your win.
I actually wanted to ask you a little bit about what it's been like transitioning from competing in Korea
into the EMEA region and what made you want to compete with the GKE sports roster?
Oh wait, can you say one more?
Yeah, I can say it again.
How are you finding the difference between competing in Korea versus coming to EMEA now?
Actually, Korea usually using dive comp and using Ana or Kiri and Monkey
But EMEA play like Ramatra, Jaria, like underground characters, so maybe that is different.
That's different, yeah.
Yeah, I mean, definitely a different meta and style in EMEA.
Ben, I got to ask, what really kind of like went wrong in maps 3 and 4 to allow Katzi to get back into it?
Oh this, so I can explain, so easy.
Oh, Ziad's so excited, so he's so high, and he can't back, so he dies a lot of, so...
Yeah, this is...
That makes sense.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's it.
Yeah, you can't be too excited.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
I'm gonna say maybe five, just chill.
and just normal fire easy win and we can win I love it I love it that that kind
of tells you like how these vendetta metas are playing I want to ask you
Finn obviously it's a very tough region because Virtus. Pro are really good
twisted minds are really good do you think you can take down those two
top things probably yes but we need more practice I think okay that's
fair just a little bit more practice and time together and I think that kind of
brings me to my last question I was wondering actually what made you what
drew you to the GKE sports roster what made you want to play with this team
actually we like offer team to me like we have GRLBB and I keep like doing
doing with me so I'm okay I'm gonna go okay so I don't know I don't know how to
gonna come but yeah I think very kind when I keep blame him but he keep like
kind boy so a good person every every good person that's nice that's really
nice some good chemistry on the team thank you for so much for joining us
for this interview, then I really appreciate it and have fun.
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Twisted Minds to map 5. It's like, no, come on bro. Like this team, they're just not going to
be able to hold it up against Twisted Minds. But, I do agree with you that this is a team
that could surprise people and make top 4 in the region. This is a team that is looking towards
team like GK and Kassia that we just saw. Team Peps, that's what they need to find the wins.
And so, you get to compete against the best team in the region in Twisted Minds.
That's still a great practice.
It's a great opportunity for them to get some reps in.
But you can't realistically ask me to sit here
and just hype up this team going up against the top dog in Twisted Mind.
Like, I'm sorry.
I'm just not going to do that.
Hey, I will say though, Ash,
with how close some of these teams
and more of that middle section of EMEAR,
like getting maps here would even be impactful for anyone's legend.
Right? Like, you know, Tm is kind of like 3-0 just about anybody.
Like, being able to kind of take maps
and kind of make up some ground against some other teams
should also be an impactful result.
Hey, I certainly got to agree with you on that one.
I think I appreciate Donnie's honesty.
Nobody was asking you to unnecessarily hype anybody up,
but we do like to set the stakes when we expect
to use teams for those at home who maybe not
have been keeping up to date with the loss of the roster
mania that's been happening in these teams that we're
seeing in this new season of OWCS.
And heading into our predictions,
I don't think it's any surprise that I voted Twisted Minds.
So what about you guys?
Yeah, I mean, like 27-3 over there last 30.
You can't imagine.
I would say their favorites in this one.
I think Twisted Minds, they got this one.
Yeah, it's all Twisted Minds for all of us.
Yeah, it's going to be a sweet.
I mean, this is the world champions.
They're the best team in the world.
And they added J-Woo.
And they're going up against AnimalsVegent who came in through here through the open qualifiers, right?
So, very tough spot to be in here, but like Matt said, like, to be honest, I'll say this, like if they bring the upset, I would be so pleased.
I would be delighted if they can actually be...
But you think it's a lie, right?
Yeah, why would you be like that?
That would be amazing! That would be one of the greatest upsets that we've seen in Overwatch Esports.
So like, of course you gotta root for it, like, that would be so entertaining.
Prison life will be fine. I don't think they care if you lose this match, but for anyone's legend that would be like a huge feat
I'm getting some hot and cold vibes from Johnny right now. I'm gonna gloss over that one
Okay, they're both true statements
I'm not even gonna I'm not even gonna acknowledge that I'm just gonna send you guys
Into this matchup. Let's check out what's gonna be going on in the server. Yeah, I'll deal with it
I'm sorry. Ash your subject that you basically just hedged right there. You're like, oh, yeah, you know I
I would never pick anyone's legend, but if they did win I'd be pretty stoked about it. Like it's uh, you know, hey
It's a Johnny's there's nothing wrong with that. No, I know I'm Swedish and English is not my first language
but I don't think there was anything wrong grammatically or
Whatever
The structure of your sentence was perfect grammatically
I believe I don't really remember it that well
But I'm sure somebody will correct us if it was wrong so leasing tower map selection here for
They also, last week, one thing that was interesting was they did play KSA last week.
The typically we've seen TV and T a lot over the, let's say call it, like Windstreak and
kind of hot streak of this team.
But it'll be a Zarya ban early on and then it'll be a Pharah ban as well here for
anyone's election.
So Johnny, this feels like it sets up for like D.Va and Dead Up potentially?
Yeah, I think that was a great call.
I was going to be a decent effective counter towards that when that time with no sorry to make sure it's Viva
So I completely agree with you there now
still going to be a pretty tough match up here because I think anyone's legend
Like with Tama they probably want to play that sorry, all right
And so I think it's a pretty smart band from twisted minds to can like force their comfort and force animals legends discomfort here going into this
opening
map here and so I think yeah you get the far ban out and like maybe you know that helps you play some more
Vendetta and stuff like that, you know to deal with the counter comps
But it's still going to be a pretty tough tank matchup here for Tom Toma now because of the sorry about coming out to some mines
Yeah, it'll be TV and team the lineup here
For twisted mines Toma also we remember last year. We saw a lot of Winston from Toma
So maybe trying to force that here for anyone's legend. It would be quite tough. It feels like Winston
It's kind of fallen by the wayside a little bit right with how good Zarya is and then obviously diva in kind of the same
I know wheel houses Winston just a little bit better in terms of like that one-on-one potential so
The gates will open it'll be
Quartz on the M-Rain J-Woo on the Vendetta here for TM. We'll see if they kind of stick with this back
They'll be a note carry Lucio for both sides
The only difference is like I know no M-Rain here for anyone's legend. They'll actually play the sewage in combination with the Winston
Yeah, this is going to be very tough for Tama.
I mean, everyone can relate to a Winston situation like this.
You're playing Winston against a D.va, and you're up against Winston Mines.
If Tama puts one foot wrong here, if he like leaps in just slightly wrong, he's going to
get punished for it.
So anyone's a legend.
Yeah.
They're playing a really tough composition.
It's all about the execution.
Well, especially playing it into Twisted Mines, right, as it feels like they have
Great idea how to play against this Winston. It looks like Canale getting dangerously low here.
Is Tama can't really hold that position like you mentioned, right?
Especially with the D.Va just kind of barreling down with the missiles and just kind of getting in his face.
Has to kind of back on up there, allows T.M. to take the point.
Yeah, and you kind of want to set something up here with Victor and Dada as Kai.
Purchase in here, has to railgun, but nice matrix from T.V.T.
Gets out this rupture shop, but Tama has already disengaged here.
Well, Maimone gets spooked off the map, so like these dice are just not working with Winston.
Yeah, and I think they're tough to coordinate, especially Winston's place in the meta right
now, even harder against the world champs, right?
What's your take on, like, I feel like Soge has been passed up by, like, Emery's damage
output is so strong, like, consistently, it feels like that leaves for me kind of outweighs
like any kind of burst potential that Soge can put down.
Is it like maybe to just try and make Kai a little bit more mobile against like a
Vangetta, what's your thoughts on this one?
I think they need someone to make a play to open up these fights, and I think the Railgun is a better tool for that.
The M-Ray is very consistent, it punishes wrong positioning with the damage output,
but I think if you want a proactive play, I think Sodran is the better bet here.
That's definitely what they're gonna need, because the Winston dive alone is going to be so hard to get to value against some of these characters from Twisted Minds.
Well, look at how they're playing there, kind of like all in the corner there for Tia and as J-Mu finds my moan,
as it's almost like trying to like bait Tama in for a dive into the backline,
and then you're just gonna kind of have everybody there just blowing him up
and then the D.Va getting the kill on the exit, so...
But then it like forces you in a weird position if you're anyone's legend, right?
Because they just end up kind of like having Tama just kind of like in no-man's land there against the D.Va,
which isn't exactly the matchup you want.
This round going by so fast, no ultimates really used at all throughout it.
It's just been, they're just kills and team fights going for twisted mines and their favorite will be a continuing rush here for both sides.
He only keeping TBNT alive.
The TBNT finds Canale right before the beat goes down.
Crispy's beat only gets himself and Tama.
So a brutal beat there that comes through from anyone's legend.
They do end up flipping the point, but this one's not going to be extended for long.
Yeah, and also I didn't have to get the talk, so the team very split up.
Well, twisted mines are more coordinated.
Now, this is quite the time for everyone to get back here.
Kai has an Overcook here, so if you can make some space with his Winston for your soldier, that'd be huge.
But he can't get the touch again!
Uh, yeah, it looks like Tama actually gets knocked back, and then Mimo and a little bit behind in terms of flying through the window.
And that is gonna be it, uh, Twisted Minds.
The dominant round number one here against anyone's legend, and I feel for Tama trying to play this Winston.
It is a brutal one to play into.
We take a look at the stats a lot on the side of her twisted minds and a little on the side for anyone's alleging this
Get this off the screen. We don't need to see this.
A lot of it's comp, like the comp, right? I mean it's really difficult to play that Winston there.
Yeah, it's incredibly difficult and you look, Tama, it's not a D.va player, right?
He's not going to match T.V.T. in the D.va matchup and so they're trying to play their comfort.
sadly it's not the meta right now and so I think a swap over to the Orisa here
very stable pick you know can hold this phone line best you can juggling these
abilities right now look at the Orisa no armor ready I mean just chung down right
away it feels like the Emory does a really nice job against the Orisa and
right there I mean Tom on no way to be able to stay alive is a I don't
does win the 1v1 versus J. Woo so they get on the board here is Kai
I'm gonna get chased down by a funny ashore. Although he does get TVNP be mech. So
Yeah, let's do it. Let's that check
They got their one
Yep, as a my moon can now shout into the mic. I got mine is
Figures out how to get them back is
Yeah, TVNP he's gonna get here a little bit late, right? Cuz I has to go back and get a mech
So maybe a slight window of opportunity or anyone's legend can gain some to the map control
Now Tom actually finds a crucial pick on the funny astro
That is going to be great stuff for animals legend here
They could just keep Tom alive in this country and all the damage right now, but just stabilize keep all five members alive
We should just keep looking at us. How much does go down eventually? There's just so much focus fire going out
Yes, I kind of find you you're gonna have funny astro back in the fight
So both supports here with the diva and emre in the fight as ports finds to is
Make it three for courts in the feed
Is uh anyone's legend even with a little bit of uh, you know upward map pressure not able to kind of flip the point there
Well, I think this just showcases with their minds, right? Like they're so they know what's up against them
They're not going to contest the orisa. They're going to play around the orisa wherever the orisa is
We're going to pick the opposite angle to get the pump damage out and now quartz
pop-steal right for the call.
Worst than anyone that can be disengaged here.
They know the supports are split now.
I think Quartz has seen them, so it looks like they're actually going to just
double-nade that corner move on forward.
Mimone might be able to get a point flip here.
It looks like it actually gets contested.
That's going to be a DMACC here.
So they do get rid of TDNT even with the Consuné rush down from Twisted Minds.
So now it'll be anyone's legend who move up here on to the point they should be able to flip this and get their first control
Yeah, the fight kind of got away from twisted mindset a little bit
And anyone's legend really happy to fight in those covers in the white room
Load damage being put forth here
But the nice use to keep everyone up on the side of anyone's legend, but they have to make a bit of a grand stand here
Keep this map one going. Kai has the overclock here, but can he navigate the D.Va in the process?
Yeah, is that a TNT does get quite low has the self-destruct get another mech back for me
It's keeping Tom alive
He's gotten so low in a lot of these oh nice rail gun shot there from Kai looking to see if he can hunt funny
Astro not going to commit to rounding that corner
I think though the damage is done right it just backs up everybody nice from TM and then he finds quartz huge
Overcloth there from Kai
Yeah, that's why it's enough time right we're gonna start building this kid sooner rush now
That's exactly what I talked about right like a sojourn can make a player like that
whereas an override protocol for an M-Ray like you probably wouldn't have been able to disengage from that quite cleanly.
But Kai finds the opening pick. Now you have double support ultimate here, Twisted Minds.
They're starting to build towards five of their own.
Kai, another pick here man.
Yes, a barrier from Buddy Actors. They wouldn't want to commit to this.
It's gonna be Quartz using the override protocol from the flank.
Said J. Lu also uses the Sundering Blade, but they do find Quartz in the process.
It looks like anyone's legends are in a combo. Some of these fights together, but a few of them just dangerously low.
Tama is going to fall. It's so difficult for them to keep him alive as soon as the armor wears off.
In the long game, it is TM who's going to be able to get a flip. And anyone's legend, Johnny,
they have fought their way back into this one. They have a Terrasurge in combination with a Kitsune rush here for a last chance effort.
Yeah, they should get a touch here.
Mimos hops over to the tracer and should have the blade to get the touch.
And then you have a Kitsunos as well to trade out.
So Animos Regen, they're still in this.
And I'm on over to the Tracer putting in some damage to the TVNT.
Canale gets dangerously low as he drops the Katsune Rush.
A little bit of a later Rush here from Simple.
The Terrasurge comes down from Tomla. Doesn't really find anything.
Suzu there for everybody to kind of walk on out of it.
And the later Rush is going to pay off as J.Wu's still getting some of the benefits up there towards the end.
As Twisted Minds takes Lee Zhang Tower to...
Yeah, kind of as expected but you still saw the vision a little bit there from
anyone's legend the way they were trying to make place there with Kai and they
opened up a couple of fights on control center there so we know this is going to
be an uphill matchup for anyone's legend we just want to see some good
moments from them starting out really rough when Tama was over on that
Winston but I think there's still something to take away the fact that Kai
goes possibly this matchup 7 and 6 on the soldier yeah and so yeah maybe
Maybe you can squeak this week out the mouth here.
Every mouth matters, Matt.
But still, it's a bounce back in the second round from Kai.
You're totally right.
But you're still more than 3,000 damage behind the M-Ray,
like the M-Ray with the nades and the ultimate,
like just feels like it's just so much pressure
constantly coming down on your team.
I think you can all feel for Tom in that situation,
right, trying to play the Winston and the Orisa,
not exactly the meta at the moment,
two heroes he feels comfortable on very difficult against TM. Yeah it's a very
tough game plan but I think they're just trying to make the most of it. I mean
coping so hard Matt. I don't know if you know this but I am like I'm coping so
hard for Anonymous Legend here. I mean it was obviously a super one-sided map
here but like let's just say how it is like Anonymous Legend they're not
favored in this one but I still think that they came in with a game plan here
around the Orisa and the Soldier, and they made some plays for themselves.
I still think that's a good sign.
Yeah, I thought Mimone actually had a pretty good round number two on the Vendetta.
And I mean, we've seen this group of players from anyone's legend all on different teams,
but have some success.
It's just now obviously all coming together here in the first tournament of the year.
You have some teams in the EMEA that have been well-established, right, that
that have been playing together for a really long time
or at least their course.
So anyone's legend trying to kind of pick it up,
I wouldn't exactly say that Metta's doing the many favors,
right?
At the moment, so we'll do this, yeah.
Yeah, we'll see what they decide to do in this second map.
I don't think, at least in my opinion,
there's no way you can like force Winston or Risa
any type of blows.
Like, you know what?
Tomo would want to play like Winston or Risa, ball, right?
Like those types of-
One point in this series to get a diva van to like kind of force like a Winston mashup of some kind
I thought one bit we hope anyone's legend can keep continuing the series so you guys can continue to farm these drops new ones here
for this week of
WCS I know I'm a sucker for the gradient Johnny any of the gradient color stuff and the battle pass is always
No, as we're getting closer to the end of the season always impactful and we talk about that 15 hour
that loot box there at the end you can't just let that loot box sit there on your
screen and just question what could be in there for you I open one last week
yes what do you get I got a break skin which nice yeah I mean you know just
talking away in the closet they can't can't really say I'm gonna use that much
you know cuz I know I know you try and play break break in ranked in like it's
You know, people are not as coordinated in rank as I would take this level.
But Rigg is actually fun to play in rank, okay?
Sophisticated players, they play Brigg in rank.
Are you saying that I'm an unsophisticated player?
Yes.
That would be accurate.
I would say that would be accurate, yeah.
The only hero I trust you on is like, Sojourn.
Dude, yeah, my hit hand's kind of with it, you know?
Okay, TM, second band here.
So we'll talk about anyone's legend.
This is like a tank protect, right?
Like trying to protect some of Thomas heroes.
And then a TM decides actually,
you should get rid of the Vendetta.
Yeah, this one is interesting.
I mean, Batting, Hazard, what is the thinker,
aka backbone?
What is he thinking about this one?
Because I would have expected like,
the D-Rack will come out,
but you're probably like,
oh, maybe we can save that towards like a push map.
and then we can dish that out.
So you're right, maybe we can get a protect band going here
because it is our first map pick
and you wanna stagger out the map and hero bands
to give yourself a good chance later on in the series.
But the hazard band, I mean,
the only thing we've really seen play hazard is peps, right?
So it is an interesting band.
Hazardly protection.
Yeah, that's true.
Yeah, I mean, it feels like it's more of a protect,
like you would have had what,
You could have maybe they would have banned like the research something forced them on to like a winston the entire time like lose some of that
optionality so
Maybe feel the need to protect that and TM they feel strong enough that hey, we get rid of the vendetta
We could play a J. Woo on like a farra tracer whatever here and we can win it
How's it is good against him?
So I'm like are they gonna come out and play Symmetra here? Like it's my mom gonna bust out to Symmetra.
Oh for anyone's likes it that would be.
Yeah and Twisted Minds are like, oh we would have, I think his story is a master.
Twisted Minds would have liked to play the Hasterd into the Sim.
So maybe, maybe they're clicking with this one. I don't know.
Hmm that's a little spicy. That's a little spicy maybe we see some Sim.
I mean EMEA was like the Sim region last year right which kind of like dictated it.
We haven't seen it as much. I think Bendetta is actually pretty decent against Sim.
and like the kind of comps that Sim would want to play, right?
Being able to just kind of like...
Right.
But Vendetta's not in the map either now, so...
Yeah, but they banned Vendetta, so yeah, maybe we do get a little bit of a Sim gameplay from anyone's legend
that is definitely a worthy shout here, potentially, Unreal though.
Yeah, I mean, they're coached by Backbone.
They have the experience, they have the knowledge to work on it, to get it out there,
but like, I had this conversation with him this past week, actually.
Yeah.
It's like, it just doesn't happen overnight.
Like, you don't just scrim Symmetra a couple times and you're like,
ah, I get to get out. I know what I'm doing on this hero.
It's like, no, it actually, it's a bit of a process.
It's a lot of blood reviewing.
You have to get really smart about your Symmetra teleporters.
So it's not something you just bust out for the sake of it against
Twisted Minds here on a matchup.
We'll have to see if it's practiced and if you're comfortable enough on it.
But my moan, you know, he's a pretty cerebral player.
He's a very smart player. I liked what he did on GK last year.
Combining with Kafa, for example.
The place on Winston, something like that.
I think he has the smarts to bring out the thinker's hero in Symmetra.
It's not as simple though as like some, I think people started out figuring that out last year, right?
When like Alcat and Twisted Minds were using Sim and like playing it at such a high level
that I think people just thought, okay, well, you just placed Sim and TP around
and it'll work out for us as well.
And it could not have been any more wrong in that regard.
And, you know, there was a lot of thinking going on, Johnny.
And it looks like we're just going to get Winston, so it's tracer with a Lucio carry backline
You can go
Skateboarding
He doesn't have tricks like Finn though Finn was trying to like grind on that rail or you know get it was
Actually, I'm trash trash bags. How did we not ask Finn? What he was doing?
Yeah, I know that was shooting our first question. He's doing like a port on the railing steak from us. Oh, man
All right, well, this is going to be one of the reality defenses of all time Winston tracer. Let's go
We're gonna get like a
Okay, he was gonna swap
Okay, I'm right here
From quartz. Let's see
Yeah
This comp it feels like it would favor TM fairly heavily, right?
Like it's a support line that they're like basically kind of known for playing at this point
I feel like it's the stronger hit scan option and then
really difficult to play this Winston into the D.va.
I mean, you can talk about the tank matchup all you want, but
my mode. Gonna have to hold this over against J.Wool and the Tracer.
They have quite a few challenges here for the most legend.
Yes, Thomas just trying to control some of this high ground area has to be so careful, but once the bubble's gone
he's gonna play around these corners and be so careful as
just trying to deny this space doing a nice job thus far, although the
payload has made it around this corner here as defense matrix from TVNP trying to open things up that forces the
Yeah, that force the carry TP and then also I just knocked Tama
directly into the teeth of twisted minds and
They didn't kind of chew right through that Winston HP pool
I mean, it's really didn't look like Tama have those intentions whatsoever
He just got moved by the diva ass who was trying to get the lead to go
Yeah, and that's going to be the first point
I mean, Tama could jump in here, but there's no Kiriko available for him. So what's the point really?
That's going to be the first point cleaned up. Okay, he gets a good touch, but yeah, I'll just do it.
Oh, there's nobody hits a touch after though.
Are you gonna lose them on the... Okay, they don't lose them on the exits. I guess that's a positive, but Tien looks like they want to hunt.
They want to chase here as they're gonna push on forward as...
I know, Forts just trying to find some shots there on the Kai, back him on up.
It's gonna be... but getting over the bridge is huge already for Tien.
Yeah, trading Kitsuna rushes, ports, pops the overwrite protocol here, but it's a nice
disengage from anyone's legend, so you trade it out to those Kitsuna rushes.
This one's going to get some space back here, but as long as you don't die, it's actually
a decent trade for anyone's legend.
Yeah, Kanyel was so low, they do a nice job kind of keeping Kanyel alive.
Anyone's legend going to get that sound barrier first, so maybe we'll see this
drop from Crispy just needs to stay alive with players up on that high ground now.
She's kind of going on the hunt. A lot of progress here though. Four twisted mines.
Anyone's legend desperately needs to fight winners. This is going to allow Puni Astra actually, Johnny, to build up towards the beat of the zone.
Yeah, but I think Kai wants to go aggressive with this overclock. Just you need a sound barrier.
So it's a nice engage at first, actually. Delayed sound barrier by Krispy, and now Lucius is dropping it.
See, Trader's aggression from either side here.
Thomas trying to peel with this Winston bubble, but it's not enough as Kai will talk to himself.
Yeah, so that's gonna be the primal rage you're used by Tama as well just needs to be able to kind of stay alive down below 500 HP
You know moving a little half of this health already
You see I'm not able to find anything not able to make it back to the rest of the team great job by team as well to keep TV and T
In mech has to sell the structure can play quite aggressive, but this is gonna be that second checkpoint
Yeah, the Winston is just
No, it's working out for anyone's legend. We know it. They probably know it as well
But don't feel like they have a better option up their sleeve right now, and they're just gonna keep it going for the time being
As my mom goes down to TV and tea
I just spelled struggle in four minute 30 because the mines already got a pick here on third point
It's could be a this could be like a goat's time
It doesn't feel like though for anyone's legend to kind of hit like the next level as a team Johnny
They gotta get Tama on some of these like you know preferred tanks in the meta
We'll talk about in a second. Both Kitsune rushes you. This is gonna be the first two kills going in favor of
Anyone's legend that's gonna back twisted minds up so they get plenty astro
In ports and they feel like that is enough is okay. Hold on. Oh nice shot there from Canale a little bit of flick taken out
Jay Woohoo
It does feel like though Johnny like you sure you're gonna win fights like this
But no for anyone's legend to really kind of play with some of these other teams in the region
They're gonna have to have Tama evolve as a tank.
Yeah, I think this is just a really tough situation for them to be in.
This matter, like we talked about in the historical,
it's just not the best circumstances right now.
I think once again, tries to feel Quartz
put the overwrite protocol here.
And so they're just trying to dodge this one,
as they re-engage, comes in with crispy dropping the sound barrier here.
But what else can you secure with this crucial open net?
Does it look like anything for the time being?
No, nobody's helped far really dropping it all for twisted minds,
and then Quartz finds Kai.
So you end up using that beat, just to stay alive.
Fade away, pulse bomb from Jayloo.
And then the slap to the side of the skull of my moan.
Canale doing a nice job, just kind of dancing around,
trying to stay alive.
Not able to do so for much longer.
But Lee Toma going over to the Doomfist here,
just trying to get a touch.
And that'll be a recall there, as Toma does get onto the point
with the final moments.
But Soundbar, you're coming in here.
Warp on the Asheron crew, and that is a 251 in the time bank with a map completion there for Twisted Minds.
Wow, they just did not slow down throughout that entire attack.
It's so tough for Tama to play that Winston because I think he wants to do more of what we saw on the third point, right?
Where he dives almost like overly aggressive, and then he can kite towards the extreme of his bubble.
It's almost like he dives onto the support and then he walks through the support so that when the D.Va peels
He's not taking all that damage from the D.Va and that opens up enough space for the rest of his team, right?
It's just on a map like Rialto, he just didn't have that space required
And so time and time again Thomas forced like jump backwards just forfeit space and that actually opens up the rest of the map
For example, like Quors and Jaewoo. He just capitalized the fact on anyone's legend. They just don't have any positioning whatsoever
I mean I get I I understand that's how you kind of want to play it but it feels
like even if you play that perfectly you might be at a disadvantage I mean it's
it's a really it's really difficult yeah it's really difficult that anyone's
legend the meta not kind of breaking their way at the moment twisted minds
feels like the meta is always in their favor at the moment they'll play the
far with an MRA here on defense so they'll ditch a tracer completely and
we'll see what anyone's legend decides to do obviously some time as a timer will
switch over to the Wynton. Kai I assume will go over to Soch so that'll be kind
of what we'll get here from anyone's legend on the offensive side. Yeah it's
going to be really tricky to deal with this far amount because you know
Tom is not going to swap over to that diva
Call me a soldier as well
Okay, yeah, the echo is actually like a really solid choice here if you would you want to stick on to the winsome here
So I respect my month bringing this here a lot of actually trying to find some way to deal with J. Woo
Because I was going to say like the soldier and either like if you know build up a rail
And then try to hit a rail onto the farra like it's just really tricky to get that flag going right
So the echo is going to help you massive
Tommy to rocket to the face there
Yeah, it jumps on in as if the u-player is dangerously low, as Ports finishes off
my zone, and Ports here on a little bit of a mission on the side, it's not over, it's on to the gondola!
It's a no-game, it ends up being back on to the map!
That got a little scary there.
Yeah, don't see too many gondola fights here in the OWCS, but hey,
so they don't always, uh, always a nice occurrence.
It's the game, like, on Twisted Mind's side here.
The one moment they boop him off and there's like gondola just on the river to keep him alive.
Yeah, that's crazy.
I mean, Tommy gets up to the high ground here, but what is he going to do?
I mean, the far rocket's coming on in, Maid's from the M-Ray.
The Winston bubble only able to last so long as it'll be a flank here from Mima.
I can think they know he's around here though.
Oh, no.
He's in a lot of trouble here.
Seat 4th, they're kind of looking around.
Mima's doing a nice job hiding.
Oh, wow, we're going to find the right one here.
He's alive! He's dead!
The override protocol, though. Where is it?
Of course, going. I thought he was going to go challenge Limone,
but he actually goes on a bit of a flank here.
So, Jaylu ends up falling here with Astro,
and look at this. They kind of like flimped here,
right where Tien is playing from the offensive side.
Yeah, now disengaged.
Like, the consumer just dropped, so that's going to hold the card for the time being.
But then it was ready. It looked quite comfortable.
Limone goes down, though.
Tama pops the Primal Rage here.
Once more, this time, he finally moves Quartz up to the map.
No gondola there.
No gondola there indeed, but can you keep up this momentum?
Just in my eyes, it seems like they regrouped here.
And then I'm certain they don't get really anything going from that fight
where it felt like they had the upper hand at the start.
I mean, this is a must win, right?
A minute and 30, both support ulti, most likely not getting them again
and you also have a duke, right?
So this is where you need to come out on top.
You see, Kai actually slide into the Winston bubble there,
but it's a nice boot back from Funny Ash.
going to just dislodge Taublin and Kai off of their objective, this will be a dupe here
from my moan here, going to get a dupe onto the Divas, Kai finds three, Kai really popping
off here, not even without no overclock needed, those are some huge kills from Kai that are
nice finish off the fourth, and they allow them to get the first checkpoint off of this.
Really great to see Kai continue to pop off in 2026, you know, veteran, it's
around for so long now six seven years trying to hit scan at the highest level and he's still
got it that's twisted mines they try to come back here but tvnt they literally have the mech
required to go for a recon test here so anyone's legend they pop the over overclock make it difficult
for twisted mines to cross the bridge and get that touch in and now they get the chance to get
the payload rolling here on the second point yes i chi i mean goes pretty massive there oh he
actually catches one i think that's jaywoo behind you actually see chi spots his outline
around the corner when he kind of turns so they know that at least one is directly behind them.
Thomas bubble actually goes to low ground they're not actually gonna keep him alive
and that is a late beat from Krispy. So that is not a great sequence there from anyone's legend
as uh Thomas tries to use that bubble up on the high ground but I believe as he's jumping up
gets knocked off course by funny astros so the bubble's not on the high ground he's not
even playing it and then everything falls apart after that. Oh we've all been there
You're trying to drop the bubble and it just doesn't go where you want to.
I guess Winston, and dropping the Sombra, I mean, this just sets them back so much.
Like, how do you close the bridge with this Winston composition now?
Well, Winston can't really be able to protect anybody else, right?
There's no matrix, no like big static shield, like a sigma you can kind of use,
kind of move in behind.
Just letting Hortz kind of free fire on these players coming across this bridge
and then the extra damage with the nades, it's gonna be tough.
I mean, look at Tom on half HP before he gets around the corner.
This will be the override protocol here that's gonna force out the dash there from Canale.
He's not gonna be able to make it back out.
You know, I mean, Tom are pretty split here.
He will get knocked off the side, Nymone here with him, but the support's just stuck in the other side.
You see one of the shots from Quartz goes into Canale, the TP, he goes back to Crispy,
but J.U. is waiting right there to take them out.
Look how aggressive TM is at the moment.
Yeah, that was not the fight to win for anyone's legend.
And Thamma tried to make the most of it,
trying to get into some space for his team.
Now, though, Twisted Mice, they're holding this bridge.
They have double support, ultimately.
This advantage is positioning.
Can they make it really difficult for anyone's legend
to cross with their own spoiler?
Gonna be Thamma using the primal here.
Trying to get across the bridge disrupts some of the members up twisted minds
Tm ends up using their Katsune Russians gonna be a later one here from canal and anyone's legend
So you think maybe they get the benefits of it, but CV and T and Che Wu just a little munching up
Anyone's legend is so impossible for them to get across this bridge Johnny
I have to ask because it was the authoring me
when you were talking about Kai's playing career and you said six or seven years
was that intentional okay okay okay you think okay I'm I'm 30 years old
Matt sorry yeah and I and I'm way older I thought that that's what you're
going for as I that one goes wide right
Tomah into the drink as this one is as soon as they got sucked from this
bridge it has been impossible for them to get near crossing it as now it's 12
seconds left on the clock. Desperation mode here, Tomah is less than a post. I'm
right to the base of Tomah. The beat comes through but it is sad as
Krispy will get near. He will trigger OT but I can't imagine it lasts for long.
That's brutal.
How much is getting forwarded here on the Winston?
Let the Winston live, damn it.
Yeah, well we'll have to see if the Winston can live a different time.
This time it is Twisted Fines taking out Tama over and over again, really making it really
difficult to play that Winston and dominating here on Rialto.
I'm sorry Matt, you've actually just booed me with that comment.
I got one, I'm not even gonna play.
Let's move on here.
Twisted Minds.
That was one of the most one-sided realities of all time.
It's tough going for another game.
It's a rough series, it's a rough series.
Because Twisted Minds is so good at playing this style,
it's clearly the meta at the moment,
but it is not really, I think,
what anyone's legend finds to be comfortable
or work for them, right?
So I couldn't have those two forces working against each other and one of them also happens to be like the world champs
Right, so I think it's always gonna kind of amplify things a little bit where
Maybe anyone's legend sailor make this work against some other teams, but
Against TM not going to happen. I mean that just one of the chances that that boat is directly underneath it
We need rounds that corner, but
The perfect hiding there from course
Yeah, I think the Winston composition, it looks really bad, but it's also because they're playing against Twisted Minds, right?
So it's like what you said, I think if they play this Winston against a team like Pep's, this series looks like way different
and we're sitting here and we're saying like, oh, maybe, you know, Winston is playable in this meta, maybe you can force the Winston if that's your comfort, right?
It just so happens that anyone's legend, they've started the stage by playing against Virtus.pro and Twisted Minds.
So it's easy for us to sit here and judge to Winston and be like, why are they not swapping away from Winston?
But if they actually want to make top four here in stage one, they think that they can beat the other teams playing this Winston composition.
And that's what it's about. It's not about beating Twisted Minds on this composition or Virtus.pro for that matter.
It's about beating the other teams on this Winston comp. So it looks really difficult,
but this could be their best bet dealing with the other teams.
Do you feel like they're learning anything, though?
Like, if you are anyone's legend, like, are you?
What's the point of not going to swap Sigma
and just like, oh, we're learning Sigma now?
No, I don't know.
You might as well just play the Winston.
It's like, yeah, it's really difficult,
but we're playing the best team in the region with our preferred style.
And this is the best practice, you know, this is going to be for us.
Yeah, that's true.
I guess if you also feel like with the condensed seasonal split
here in stage one if there's not a lot of time to pivot from this and there's
really no opportunity to it I guess you're gonna have to ride it out right no
no no they can't just swap style you know based on these two losses to where
the sport is mine so that doesn't make any sense whatsoever it's like you gotta stick
to your guns and they clearly feel like even going into stage one they've
had the scrims they've had the practice they figured out our best
composition is to Winston and this is how we're going to make top four not
So I'm going to make top four in ODBCS.
And so you just got to stick with the guns for him.
Yeah, seems like the goal is top four here for anyone's legend.
I may not kind of get there with a win here today off the twist in minds.
But I will say anyone's legend decides to take a suit atlas.
So maybe you want to, can we see them maybe pivot and play some hazard here potentially?
Or I mean, I say that and I just, I kind of know deep down there.
Yeah, they're probably gonna run the Winston again.
Yeah, but is this the time you can dish out the diva ban?
Maybe?
Ah!
Maybe make things a little bit easier for yourself?
Yeah!
I mean, it'd be devastating if Twisted Minds were like,
okay, we'll pay Mauga or something like that.
Yeah, they could.
We're like, I wouldn't say Winston into Zarya
is like an easy matchup, right?
Preferable. It's not easy, but it's preferable.
You'd rather do that, right?
Yeah, you'd rather do that than play it into the D.Va, I guess.
You don't have to play it into a D.Va with a mech with shotguns.
You can play against Osaria with a B.Va instead.
The team could play Ramatra too.
Like, you know, we've seen them play Ramatra.
I believe last week they played a little bit of Ramatra with KSA.
So, I mean, it doesn't really feel like there's a great answer for any mouse legend here.
So, we'll see what they decide to ban.
Maybe that'll kind of tell us what they want to try and do
I
Would love to see them play a little more emory. They're playing a lot of sojourn. It feels like the emory. It's like really good right now
Maybe they just feel like the sojourn is in a bit better spot
With the Winston and they won't be playing the sojourn this one because it is a band from Twisted Minds
Anyone's pledging bands the Wu Yang here
Do you think that's just a protector? What do you think here?
Well, I think it's a little bit of both, right? It's just like okay
We're going to play Lucio carry because that is what crispy and probably can nailed us best, right?
But also we've seen twisted minds the way they specialized in will you and compositions last year like funny astro one of the best
will you and clears in the world, right? And so
Yeah, you maybe could have banned the diva and maybe that gives you a leg up
But you know you probably get your backline banned or something like that
So you're saying like hey, we just we just want to play the Lucio carry and then we'll figure out the tank thing later
It's a twisted mind looks like we'll be getting it the Zarya vendetta is up this would be interesting
yeah you're probably thinking right that like on a map like at least you're probably thinking
that the Zarya vendetta is going to be able to deal with a diva so why this should be about I
think the most tilting thing would be watching anyone's watching Windows map playing the Zarya
Vendetics.
You can do this, oh you can do this more.
It's not going to bust you.
Maybe this is an opportunity for them to kind of like practice it a little bit more.
Maybe that's kind of what they're looking at this.
TVNT dangerously low here.
Anyone's legend doing a nice job here.
Getting some control in the choke is
a nice report and then just the headshots there.
Just two bursts right into Crispy as everybody on TM gets healed up
and now pushes on forward.
Because I gotta say Johnny well from the from what we've seen in this series
I'd actually really like my bones vendetta. It's actually been really good. Yeah. No, I really rate my mom
I think he's a really good player and it's going to be one of the go-to players for anyone's legend as they try to get back
Into this series or try to get some kind of momentum right so maybe the Vendetta is that but quartz
Is the one who can't kick things off here with the Emre?
It is so potent in situations like that like the lucio is a little bit out of place and course just capitalizes this time again on my mode
I let it bit ahead of himself ahead of the team and doesn't get to support the party
so far as we say I like as anyone's legend did a nice job down to getting
control of the choke early and now that they've given it up is I mean Quartz
just he's so sick on the hitscan as the rest of just the minds push on up
dude this team is so nasty because like you have a J-woo who's like obviously
this tremendous player and he's putting down all this pressure and it's like
you're trying to do with Jeyu, but then Quartz doesn't miss on the other end, right?
Uh, it was kind of like pick your poison, so to speak, of like how you're gonna end up going out.
Can you see that rush for both teams here? Uh, potential here for anyone flushing to kind of
flip this. I would uh, also kind of uh, be cautious because there is the grab here from
TBNT up in the high ground. Yeah, my month post-detecture is sorry about this all already
Dispose and they're just engaging no space right on us legendary twisted mines look very comfortable as Tama drops here
Yeah solo grab on the talent not allowing him to get up and touch the point and that'll be TM
taking our first point on Atlas so
Just the continued rushes exchange there Tama now. We'll get a
advantage in terms of gravel we see coming off the spawn it's gonna be
Astro going back to kind of chaperone J Wu towards the point so anyone's
legend gonna have a brief moment here we're gonna have a full team by the point
but now everybody's back for twisted mines so battle at full strength here
yes you're coming up on that ground on search it might be you can isolate one
player to try to get an opening pick here I think it's going to be on
quartz actually and funny Astro to peel this initial dive coming in from
my moment for the time being and you're seeing Kai. Hope this overrides protocol, can't even find the
picks required, thus yet. I'm just waiting to find him.
Of course not able to find anything with his either. So, uh, you know, they kind of trade them one for one.
I think if you're Kai, you're maybe hoping you can actually get Astro to kind of commit the
beat there, but not able to do so as T.M. will get control of the point.
Tom ends up using the grab. That's going to be the sound barrier that comes out from
from Funny Ashro, not enough to be able to kind of save ports in that, but you end up losing Kai as well.
So both M-rays off the field here at the moment.
That Tama starting to cook a little bit on Lizaria does find simple.
But Funny Ashro is so difficult to track down. Nice help there from J.Woo, Mimone actually, but a lot of them jump into Ashro.
Not able to live long enough to finish off that kill, so J.Woo's doing a nice job keeping his Lucio up and that's going to allow TM to keep control of the point.
Yeah and I think they play positionally so well there because they can keep the
point contested but they're forcing anyone's legend to push up right and
that is why Tama finds himself in a world of priorities having to round these
corners and try to contest this position from Twisted Minds but they're
sitting back they're being patient being very relaxed with this point in
control as Mimo once again goes in here but like look how far back Twisted
Minds are. Katsuna was comes in here they're gonna contest no doubt but
J.Wood Ducks actually go down, there's going to be a change of plan for Twisted Minds.
But again, you're seeing Twisted Minds here, like they're playing so far back, so patient.
And I think it usually makes things very difficult for anyone's legend,
because they're forced to push up so far.
Yeah, I think if you're Twisted Minds, you're kind of fine conceiving that fight
versus trying to like, battle it out and like, you know, ult-dump yourself into it.
Because now you can come back with a grab of your own.
A Kitsune rush, if need.
But like, TV and T so good, just kind of like catching one player out
and just kind of grabbing him everybody burning him down and just getting that player advantage
or you can open things up with the rush and maybe try and save the grab some optionality now for tf
yeah it looks quite easier to consume rush so we get the space back here as the grab it comes out
combining here my mom trying to scare her so she's actually autismized yeah the suzu there timing
from simple is perfect they are able to keep tv and t up as that'll be a second checkpoint there
4TM is man, you see when this team is clicking some sick plays, it kind of reminds you of those teams
way back in the day where the championship Dallas Fuel and teams like that where it's like
they look so out of these fights and they just kind of battle back for these improbable situations
time and time again, it's a twisted mindset, it looked like for a second they were going to get caught off guard on the rotation
but not at all.
They take out a player from anyone's legend,
anyone's legend now can't exactly contest the point here
off the open.
So the original percentage will go over here.
2PM is actually all on.
They've gotten here closer towards the point
as Kai's gonna pop that override protocol.
So 2PM is gonna try and back up out of this.
Funny, Astro's gonna beat,
it's gonna connect with everybody.
Now they're gonna go.
Sound barrier.
That's going to be the turn that enables
customized to push back off the courts.
Just finishing off member by member, Kai, Tama, Augusta and J-Woo thinks up on the point as well.
And I mean, that's just the timing from Twisted Minds.
That is what he talked about. It's just like, okay, well, we're going to quickly disengage.
We fully know that Kai is going to try and push this space with the override.
And then, you know, we're really loud. We turn with the Sun Barrier.
We have our old override and just beautifully executed fight by Twisted Minds.
Great understanding of what the opponent is going to do, and then they turn things around.
This most certainly should be a situation that anyone's legend can find some success, right?
Double support ult, grab.
With just the Kitsune rush on the other side of things,
Sundering Blade available, Toma getting dangerously low as he pushes up.
That's going to be the rush and grab.
The grab doesn't find anything though, and Jay Moon finds Kai.
So you do have a one for one trade.
Toma is still very healthy though.
Should be able to kind of keep this going for anyone's legend.
So this will be a point flip, but that did not exactly start his plan
No, it's not what time I wanted to see but they dropped so many ultimates there
In the end of the day, it's going to be a fight wing for them here as they will find themselves in a little bit of trouble
Funny Astro tries to help out, but not going to go a twisted mines way here 89% though
Like they're they're cool comic collected
They can just wait out for like a perfect fight to close things out on this map
And meanwhile a lot of pressure on anyone's legend here
You can't die early to open up a fire versus force situation.
Mimone is probably going to be a little bit trigger happy with this Sundering Blade,
feeling like they have to make a play against this Sundering Blade for Funny Ashrow.
Yeah, maybe you can be a little bit aggressive here with the mines, like with the beef,
like how you want to end up deciding to use it as Ashrow getting so low,
then the decides perfectly around the corner.
Mimone actually will find Funny Ashrow though with the Sundering Blade,
So I do get him out of the way, but without Kama and Crispy,
there's not really much you're gonna be able to do.
As anyone's legend does get up to 85% on the point,
you see Kai, he's just gonna like throwing his body out,
they're gonna have to try and touch.
And it looks like it's just gonna be Kama coming back
on the ball, nobody else here to really kind of help out.
Just kind of finishing him off,
maybe one more player here,
it's Crispy trying to get back, not able to do so.
And that is Twisted Mind taking care of business here, Johnny, against anyone's legend closing it out 3-0.
It's exactly what we expected from the world champions, Twisted Minds with 3-0, anyone's a legend here.
And they look so comfortable and they're rotating their tanks as well.
You're making sure everyone gets playtime this week and a little bit last week.
It's TD&T in the mix here, and KSA is also in playtime as well.
This team they just look incredibly polished right now. They just look unbelievable and like we talked about they get better with J-Woo here as well
So I think they're just kind of breezing through this regular season letting their tanks get a little bit of play time
Depending on the matchup and they're looking forward to the stage playoffs. We're
Yeah, it definitely looks like all steam ahead towards the playoffs, right that puts TM at 3 and 0
Just getting dominant in a lot of their matches. So
So they have to feel great about their prospects, obviously moving forward, seem to have a great
sense of where the meta is at.
And for anyone's legend, I think a little bit of like a learning opportunity, right?
Trying to get a little bit better at some of these Winston comps that seem to be comfortable
for them.
Trying some Zarya Vendetta here at the end didn't look that bad.
Maybe it's something they should go towards in other series.
But dude, I mean, Twisted Minds that that's about as clean of a 3-0 as you
can do.
Yeah, that's incredibly dominant throughout, didn't really drop a beat.
So very impressive performance by Twisted Minds as they continue in 2-0 in Stage 1 support.
And like you said earlier, this is just about what we expected.
I think we saw some glimmers from anyone's legend, that is for certain when you think
about I think how close some of those points did get in our last map that we just saw
on Atlas.
And then even on Realto, in that second half, it felt like, okay, they had a little bit of
bite back into them, but I think Johnny, when it came down to it, Twisted Mind did a really
good job of stalling it out on that bridge.
Yeah, they did a tremendous job of stalling that bridge out.
I mean, if you lose that many, like, ultimates that are kind of crucial to getting across
an area like that, like, it's just really tough, right, to be put in a situation
like that.
You don't get a lot of opportunities if you're anyone's legend and so every opportunity you
do have with Ultimates in hand.
You just gotta make the afterwards most of it.
It is what it is.
We talked about how it was a learning opportunity there for anyone's legend in today's matchup.
But we have a little treat for you guys.
We got another interview with Funny Astro.
After this win, congratulations, Funny Astro, for capping this, capping today off with
your third win throughout the regular season.
I'm kind of curious how you're feeling about your upcoming matches being up against the likes of Kadzia and then also up against VP because it feels like those last two matches are the ones that are going to be a little bit closer in competition.
I don't think that's going to be close.
But yeah, VP is the real competition in this region for us.
I think we're just looking forward to that match and trying to win that one.
Ashro over your last 31 games, 28 and 3. What kind of like magic is kind of formed with this team around that run, right?
You gotta have the meta break, right? You have to have some crazy scenarios. What is the ride been like?
It's just good vibes to be honest, like we're not going to be crazy, we're not going to
be like more out of order reviews, we don't think we have some insane read on the
matter of strats, we're just having a good time, playing some good Overwatch.
What do you practice?
Like when you go into a screen and you're like, oh, we're going to practice this.
Is there anything that you feel like we should probably like polish up on this or
like remember like, let's go through with this or are you just loading into the server
and you're just like, yeah, we'll just do our thing.
Just stay informed most of our scrims. We're definitely more of a matchday team
Our scrims are mostly just playing against VP. That's the only scrim
The rest of the scrims. We just practice spawn camping, you know, we have a music port on our disco and we listen to some music
We do try hard, you know, we take it really seriously in the VP scrims and that's what we learn most of all
Who's the one all tabbing to submit requests to the music vault?
Who's the DJ?
I'm not going to name names.
No, it's a secret.
I'm not spelling the secrets.
Okay, okay.
Well, I think we know that you're very confident in how the rest of the season is going to
pan out for you when it comes down to stage one Astro.
And I think we also talked about last week, so we were asking you about how it was
having J.Woo slotting into the team and whatnot.
Now that we're a little bit, I say like deeper into the competition, but really it's like
such a short regular season.
You're talking about how good the vibes are.
Who are the main vibes merchants on the team?
I got to give it to Tune and Quartz.
I already like Tune as well.
He's having a good time.
He's really enjoying it, I think, which is really cool.
Yeah, and I mean, when you look forward, obviously you have to get through the playoffs
to get to internationals.
Are there any other teams across the globe that you're looking at and they're like excited
to play or seeing anything different with the meta that I know you think you'll have
to kind of pick up later on?
Zeta, Zeta and Falcons I think are really interesting teams to play against.
They both have like strong roster and very like clear defined styles.
I think Falcons is going to try and replicate all sorts of style of Overwatch where it's
way more team based and then Zeta is just going to be like this crazy mechanically
skilled team.
So it's going to be interesting to play both those teams.
Well, it'll definitely be fun once we do get to that international stage.
I want to say thank you again, Astro, for doing this interview with us.
And good luck with your rest of your matches.
Thank you.
It's always fun to chat with Astro, getting a little bit of the vibe check for the team.
We find out about the music bot.
That's so disrespectful.
If you had a music bot in our broadcast discord, what are you queuing up next?
Oh, what I would be queuing up next.
I mean, I don't know.
I would probably go to some Johnny, you know, Johnny's got some favorites in
old school rap songs that he's a big fan of.
So I would go, I would go to some of them, literally, the exact opposite.
I gotta say, twist of mind, I think they got down like the formula.
Like when I used to coaching called duty, it was like really not about
like just sitting there and watching like 900 hours of VODs.
It was like, okay, let's get a few good hours of scrims in,
like kind of hang out and have fun.
And gamers always play better when they're like happy and like the
vibes are high. John, you played professionally. You don't want to sit there and watch like
three hours of odds. Like you didn't care for half of that time probably, right?
Well, it makes me better. I want to do it, but these guys, they're like, what's the
point? Like they don't have anything to improve. I think, yeah, like they are afforded the
music boats because they're like the most dominant team in the region and they don't
really have to play any good competition until, you know, come international events,
right? And so, yeah, they can kind of coast for the time being, but I think
the lock-in properly once you know come the international events. That's for
certain. Quisted Minds are definitely on another level when it comes down to the
region of EMEA but speaking of those international events that Astro is
talking about being so excited to play up against some of the other teams in
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Which would be the perfect opportunity to do so and coming up next. We've got
Vertis pro who are gonna be facing off against team peps. We're looking to take their first series of this stage
It's so important for team peps to start winning out now with how quickly the regular season is starting
to roll out, Candice Van Fever challenge a team of Titans.
After gone, the team has been sitting around Gibraltar without much to do. I'd say I'm
in the same boat, but to be honest, I've had my hands full. Ever since I found this
cute little stowaway, my mind has been racing with ideas. For some reason, when I rescued
this pretty kitty from in between some rocket parts in the main landing bay?
I thought back to some projects I never got off the ground.
Literally.
I was so young when I drafted the mum, and that lazy old Metsy wasn't much help either.
But something about this strage I'll be thinking again.
Maybe there's a way to make this work after all.
Looking at my old sketches, I can tell I had a lot of hopes for this build.
Guess it goes to show how far I've come that I can finally turn all those dreams into reality.
And Fika has been a surprising help.
Oh, I named her Fika, by the way.
Said she looks like a big cameo in Bule.
There was a funny moment earlier today.
I was so stuck on the schematics for the thrusters,
but Fika not one of my old blueprints off the shelf.
And it actually fluid me into the answer
I was looking for.
I can't help but think there's something
special about this kitty.
I'm thinking over what material suits the jetpack best.
A carbon fiber frame would be nice and lightweight, but alumina would be more resilient.
The weight distribution on a cat is pretty different from a human, not to mention the tail.
So for the stabilizers, I'm thinking...
Does the harness need shock absorbers, or will Ficus Furby not?
A big problem. How to make a joystick that doesn't require a post-op performance?
I have a few ideas for the motor, but I'll need to be careful.
I'm worried Fika might lose one of her nine lives if it's too loud on start-up.
And for the healing projectiles?
Actually, did they beat her projectiles?
Oh, I bet Fika will love that.
I should really add a grapple to the frame.
She'll need it whenever Reinhardt charges off without us.
I put out different paint options, and Fika looked everything over except blue, of course.
Only Svens give the clues, Bensana.
And that's that!
Blueprints for Project Jetpack Cup are finally complete!
Ugh! I wish my younger self could see just how well this turned out.
To be honest though, I'm not sure I'll ever get the chance to build this for real.
I know Finkia would be a great help, but a cat in a jetpack seems crazy, even by our team standards.
But who knows? We keep saying the world could always use more heroes,
And I think she might be just the hero the world needs right now
That's how you do it the story continues in overwatch
Are you okay
that's not ideal
yeah
I'm gonna finish the nine right now.
Welcome back to ACS EMEA.
We've got Virtus Pro versus Team Kep's coming up next.
And these are two very different storylines, Johnny,
to kick off this matchup because Virtus Pro, after last weekend,
they're comfortable at that 2-0.
Meanwhile, for Team Kep, they're down 0-2.
And it's so important for them to be able to get that win today
because I think talking a little bit more about VP to start things off,
They were good at looking good during E1.
Yeah, I mean, they actually dominated Animals Legend.
They looked really solid in that matchup.
I'd say the Kassiya matchup map was a little bit closer.
This is the Virtus.pro team that is still trying to figure things out,
I think, implementing Lantern into the lineup, and Psycho as well, of course.
I think two people who like to communicate and provide some leadership to this team.
And so this is the Virtus.pro team that, yes,
we're hailing them as the second best team in the region,
potential but they are still figuring things out so maybe peps is an opportunity here for them also
yeah ash but like you hear the way that like ashrow talks about vp and i think that clearly
kind of tells you like where they're at in the region right like if ashrow like you know the
main competition is vp and he's like i'm not really that sure about anybody else like
and we've seen success from vp thus far i think he kind of have to take that as something
they're going to keep watching and, look, Virtus Pro has been pretty good, right?
They just dropped that one map to Katia and, I know, looking at like their trio against
anyone's legend, they made it look pretty, pretty easy and I like adding the leadership
of Psycho and Landon to really great players who have a great knack for calling and being
able to kind of like monitor the game and this team already has some like synergy with
each other.
this roster may not have like the
explosiveness is like a twisted mind
per se, but I think they're very strong
in the region.
Yeah, for sure. And also still some of
that time to grow together as well,
like off of that core.
And then I think those interviews that
we had with Landon last weekend,
him just really talking about how VP
looks overall and what drew him to
this team when it came down to their
goals and their strengths here.
Johnny, it feels like what Matt just said about Landon being such like a vocal part of this team,
he's going to be such an instrumental part of that growth that's going to happen when they seem so
goalie-worthy right now. Yeah and I think it's really helpful because it enables someone like
Kevster to kind of just do his thing and like pop off and use his talent as advantage but also
Iceland is like 20 years old, young tank on the scene as well who you know is going to
continue to improve and get better right but having someone like Landon is going to
for many years, with multiple rosters and hailed as my great communicator to kind of structure the comps
and provide that leadership. I think Landon in and of itself is like a really good player,
but on this team especially I think he enables other greatness from Kevser for myself.
And I think as they combine that's why we hailed them as like a top dog for
on the international stage even. This is a team that could take it to the other regions,
right? Because they just have all the ingredients necessary to combine for a really well-known team.
And we just talked about how much of a boon it was for that squad, to have that core that stuck together.
But heading into this conversation now with Team Pets, even more so Matt.
This is a team that did not make any changes heading into stage 1 of the 2026 season.
And they've had a slower start as well.
Being 0-2 granted, they were also facing up against Twisted Minds and a Kadsia that took them the distance.
That is for certain, but it is today that they need to get a win
It feels like almost the same issue as anyone's legends in terms of like the meta and wanting to play some different stuff
It's just not as
Amplified right like they really want to play these hazard base comps like they obviously you know depends on what can play
Emory no and vendetta it just you know in terms of the tank really stills way more comfortable playing something
Like a hazard Benazauria or even a diva per se
And but this team also shouldn't have any issues like coordinating right like this is the same roster at the end of last year
They've been together for a very long time now like for me
It's just like more about like the meta, but they desperately need a win right oh and two going to oh and three
Like you don't want to you don't want to start that off, right?
I know the way this season would go kind of going into that break delegation
potentially no finding yourself in that bottom or
You'd hope that this is the win, right?
Like this would be huge right now many teams probably you see
What even if it's not a win here, you got to keep it close
Yeah, I think for for Pepsi I got I gotta say as well
I just think that despite the fact that the O2 and we talked about hazard not being the meta composition right now
I think they still look like really good when they get it going and they have they look good on the diva composition as well
Some of these other teams we're talking about that are struggling to get out of promotion regression in the A
But like what is this team? What is your style? What are they trying to do?
I think peps on the other hand they know what they are and now it's just about executing and making the most of it
They talked about they were uncomfortable against your visa last week
They haven't really played against you reset as much in scrims this time around. They're coming a little bit more prepared
Virtus.pro really tough task, but I feel like it's a peps team that is really well structured and they know what they are
Hey, you never know it can also always come down to like the magic bands like what and they're going through in today's series
That could give pets a little bit of that advantage of mid of an edge that they need today
But to talk about where we think this series is going to be going once it all does wrap up
I got to start off the predictions by saying that I know that I'm probably gonna have at minimum
One if not both of you disagreeing with me, but I'm actually gonna say that team pets might surprise us and take us
Wait
You're not calling a peps win, right?
No, I'm calling a peps win.
Yeah, you're off at the tables right now.
You got that GK one earlier on on us.
You got one to play with here.
So if you, I take a flyer on peps,
I would love to see peps win
because the French fans are awesome.
I don't want to see them, you know,
flooding the chat and relegation, cheering them on.
I want to see them in the playoffs.
But I don't know if this is the one that they win.
I have you, Pierre.
Ash, that looks so smug.
I feel like Johnny is really disappointed about me.
I'm disappointed. It's VP. Come on.
Come on. What are we doing here?
You are...
That is so much... It's Hopium Overdose.
Like, I'm sorry.
This will be unbelievable.
I am happily eating my words,
but my goodness, what a pick from you.
I love to cheer for the underdog.
I also have history of going for the French team,
like I can't lie.
I just eat some French as well.
So like I'm just like adding layers. I'm adding layers here. I'm not gonna pull it out on broadcast
You have a deep-rooted French history that I do. Yeah, I do defend here with team peps
Exactly exactly. I have to go with my fellow Frenchman. I'm not even actually
But overall I am excited to see how this matchup is going to go
I do agree with what you guys are saying. I think that they're definitely the underdog in this series
But I think I definitely be sick to see peps pull out a win here. Let's see how things go you guys take it away
Yeah, I mean Johnny
I would I would be ecstatic if Pepsi will pull out a win here. I mean that would be awesome
I would tie it back to you know, I took French and I think sixth grade
That's like you know a billion years ago at this point
But I don't want to see this team out of the top four like their fans that showed up in Sweden
They're always doing watch parties like you know, the French scene and overwatches cared so much since like really the inception of overwatch
I don't want to see that kind of you know
Falter here in the region after such a great end to last year
But not getting off to the best of starts
They're very honest team, you know, they're just like yeah, we did good last year
We're gonna keep the good vibes rolling. We have four Frenchies and two Swedes
We're actually, I mean, I got my numbers wrong, but like it is like an honest team like just peps
Yeah, they are synonymous with EMEA. It's just like one of the fan favorites
The partner team in EMEA is like everyone loves them. They're good vibes
But it's going to be very tough for them to beat the team like Virtus Pro
So all good vibes aside, it's just like can you perform on matchday to get the win?
like that's, that's, that's, yeah, but, you know,
if there was a time for them to kind of go crazy
and like punch up, it would, it would definitely be this match,
right?
Like you win this one, like you're in such a interesting
spot moving forward, like you could even be in contention
for like that second spot, right?
With like how things would kind of shake out,
maybe the rest of the way for you.
It's just the big mountain of climb, right?
As it'll be VP getting rid of the Kiri here early on
and then a Pharah ban from Peps.
Does that tell you, what does that tell you
we're gonna see here?
Well, I think Peps, they're obviously going to be
very comfortable playing something like the Lucio carry.
And that's quite a necessity
if you're going to play the hazard composition, right?
And so the Kiriko ban kind of like disables
that composition without needing the Lucio ban
to come out.
So you can save the Lucio ban for later on in the series
while still getting rid of that composition.
I mean, that's going to force peps into like, they've been experimenting with the Wu Yang like going back to last year, they're like Wu Yang Greg last week as well.
But I think all of that is just going to favor Virtus.pro. They're just like, oh, if we can play you in the neutral and play poke compositions, like, I don't mean poke compositions per se,
but like more of the Pharah and like, trying to fight for positioning more than the back and forth with delicious feedboos.
I think that's going to favor Virtus.pro any day of the week.
Yeah, and with the map being Li Zhang Tower, we'll see how that kind of comes into play
as we get into game where, I mean, looking at like the Curie gone right, like, yeah,
you're looking at like maybe Pepstice, Woo Young Brigg, like, do they go like a Juno,
a Juno Brigg, comp like that.
Hold up, hold up!
We haven't seen much, we haven't seen much of the Jetpack yet.
It has gone unbanned, it has gone unplayed.
Outside of times where teams will use it to just kind of like rush back towards the objective.
Picata's gone!
That has been the only time.
Okay, hold on, let's see what VP decides to do.
Is that Willy's right now hovering over the Zarya, so maybe TeamPab's done a lot of scrim in the last few days.
Kind of getting up to speed on this type of comp and it'll be VP playing a Maga here.
So they won't be playing the Vendetta, they'll be playing a Maga here with the Juno Break backline in combination with Tracer, an interesting look.
Yeah, no, Peps is gonna be really scared about this because they have to absorb all the pressure that the Maga can come in with in this overrun, right?
It's not like FD God is gonna be so scared about this overrun coming in, probably gonna save some of these bubbles right here as well.
So because they have to save those resources, Virtus Pro are taking so much space towards the point here to see Peps.
They're like scared of this dive coming in.
Kordiac overdrive early though, from Ice Nome. That could be a turn for Peps here any moment.
Yes, we'll see, you know, with the Kordiac overdrive, Ice Nome actually has to kind of back up a little bit,
so you get making it a little bit scary to kind of come in, play from this position so you do get ice.
So that's an early pick up. I mean, he actually finishes Landon, so this is really good here early on for Peps.
Yeah, that Kordiak overdrive very early from Ice Noem, he forced him back and Pep's capitalized on that momentum to fight back, dip, finish himself, a couple of kills with the Vendetta as well.
So Virtus Pro playing this in Maug as you know, break, but it's pretty uncommitted. They didn't really push outside there, they're scared of what Pep's gone on the outskirts at this point.
You see how Ice Noem utilized his resources and ran. He chased that Kordiak overdrive this time.
Yeah, I guess in the corner just going on see if you can do anything with a stop
It doesn't find one but they do end up finding Zoro though
So the MRA all team peps off the table stop right on top of Willie's head
That's I'm much better play out of the manga here
You know now kind of burning through that cardiac overdrive really early on
Yeah, just just how you gotta play right to play a manga
You gotta go fast and make things difficult for the opponent and peps there like when the mug is on top of you
like what do they do? It's really hard to disengage with a composition like the
Juno break there and so everything just falls apart. Now a lot of ultimates on
either side here as peps are going to try to find a way to get out of here but
I doubt where this probe will left them. They're gonna play pretty aggressive as
Pulse Bomb of the Sora already when we push peps back a little bit. Yeah you're
not gonna be able to kind of push in without your MRA especially getting
close towards that overwrite protocol as I know you talked a little bit
Earlier in the day, maybe we end up seeing some Maga and this type of composition, the Maga actually looks pretty good
Especially with the carry out of the mix and now the Maga being able to play inside of the Orbital Ray
I mean that is a devastating combo, what we've seen kind of take over the meta in the past
Orbital Ray for both teams here
And the Orbital Ray comes out maybe a little bit late from land and not able to get by some inside of it
But we can actually using the override protocol there just get to one
but there's gonna be peps open it back.
Yeah, as you said the open array a little bit slow there
I think they would have been quite happy to trade the orbital rays because
Syrians would obviously move the way from the rest of team peps, but found just enough value before the one came out from
Landon and that's going to be enough to secure the fight when there are four peps
They're gonna shoot them out with the gravity on search to build on that momentum
Make a confining that the Sun would make from sorrow here, but already Will is committing a few resources with the bubbles
I know he wants to do take this moment to push
Yeah, it's gonna be the ice. I'm actually using the cage right there connects with willis
And then you also have a rally going inside of it
So although Zoro use the override protocol and then you have the sundry ladies there
Just so much healing and damage coming out
From VP. There's just no way you're cutting on through that
So now a vertus pro will set up right outside of the choke of team peps the team peps looking much better here early on
With willies going over and playing this are you which we didn't see much last week a lot of them trying to force that hazard
But now they've made the spot
You know, see how we're just pro play this one
No big ultimate on the board
Recognize they probably have to make an individual play with this mago or this tracer so looking for a postpone first
And then oh nice with another great postbomb great play to enable at this pro that I'm sure you get to win this fight
Yeah, it's gonna be to grab there from Willys, but just kind of throwing out as he's about to die
So it doesn't really get a great use of it
Looks like as well still there in the middle of the map is dip will get on can test for just a little bit
You also have D. God here now going over the Lucio FD. God off the side. It's gonna be dip now
We'll get on get a touch Willys on to the ball
Really be able to get there and touchy will it'll gonna cross over the point
So extending it now for peps, but just a matter of time is Willis does fall that VP takes that first round
But very competitive back and forth Johnny
Yeah, it was very competitive and team peps maybe abandoning some of that
hazard composition obviously where this pro Kerakoban it influences things
But still will is playing this soil
Maybe a little bit of a shift in philosophy here where this pro though look incredibly comfortable and cycle
17 and 1 on the tracer. Definitely the difference maker there and we kind of
talked about it last week as well man that when you're playing tracer against
some of these vendetta compositions the vendetta can't really contest the angles
or the flanks right and so you see an opportunity like that where Saiko has two
pool bombs he's pretty free to pick a spot when he wanted to deploy it. No
one is there to mark him right because you don't really play the lucio either.
Yeah it's true. Saiko he's having a field day in a composition like this.
And what do you think about now? Hebs actually mirroring the Maga. Now really the only difference is that Tracer vs Vendetta.
Sending. I mean, I don't think Wizz wants to play Zarya, so why not do it to the Maga duel?
Yeah, I'm like, okay, I guess it was like, why not? I mean, the Zarya, you definitely are empowering Diff a little bit more.
I think it may be a little bit easier to play on this point, but if you feel like that ice on the Maga is just being way too impactful
too impactful and just kind of empowering some other stuff with the rest of the team, why
not try and mirror it as a see if they can make this Maga Vendetta comp work for Peps
as it's going to be VP getting control of the point first relatively easily.
Yeah, it's a really tough spot to be in if you're Peps because it feels like they're
figuring stuff out in the moment where this pro knows what they're doing right.
Psycho actually gets caught there. So maybe opportunity for some
So we leave here for
This piece of word is cool. They can keep on this in this life
Yes, gonna be the karyak over drive here gonna wear off from ice. He's gonna do a little charge in
Dip goes into the back line here. Just definitely trying to make a play for kev but nice peel there
From the rest of the lineup on vp
So dip goes all in trying to make a play for kev sir
and does not work out, and that's going to give another fight win here for Virtus.Pro.
Yeah, it's a really tough job, like you mentioned, right?
There's no sorry on the battlefield, and so not big.
Yes, no matrix, yes, no sorry balls.
It is very all-in, right?
You kind of have to just rely on the big packs to sustain you throughout the fight
or combine with Willis' cardiac overdrive.
But this is going to be another very tough fight.
Kevster asked the override protocol, but it's caused all the positioning.
You almost needed to win a fight like that, so I went on early.
Yes, I mean, it really like a great opportunity to win it right now.
It feels like you're just going to be playing into these big old minutes.
It's going to be very on any of using the orbital ray.
It's going to be a cage right here from ice.
No, will he's going to drop his cage as well as kept just trying to get
advantage move over the top of the cage with the override protocol.
He ends up finding two there.
The rally here from that D. God, it's just going to kind of match fixes.
Just trying and desperation to keep players alive.
And then it's just a blood bath in the favor of Virtus Pro. They run down FD God here towards the end
I'm not sure anybody's gonna be able to get a touch here Johnny
That might be it for Virtus Pro and it most certainly is a 2-0 map win here to kick things off. Oh
That was still meant that was even more disgusting than the anyone's legend matchup. We just saw what this was. You really?
It's felt like it that just that second round was like disgusting
I mean
That's it. Maybe you've just deleted that part of your memory so fast. It is even I would say yeah, sure
I'll give you that it's about even
Kev, I mean
Over 10k damage here. I know Zoro on the other side. I think 5700 right so a huge gap in terms of
The emory play as I know there was a lot of people saying, you know, okay, this Kevin's over Kevin's falling off
I think that may not be exactly true.
Okay, let's go to the Fiender through the Fiend, Matt.
Yeah, I know.
There's only a few of them.
Yeah, those people are still here.
There's also no serious people.
Any team would be desperate for a player like Kepster.
As you see here, his overwrite protocol was pretty sick towards the end.
Is that the fantastic start for VP?
Yeah, I mean, when the Korean teams were dominating in 2024, you know, when we
We had Falcons and Chris Raccoon in every single final.
And they were like, yeah, I want to coach Kevster.
It's just like, you know, everything you need to know.
It's like, they handpicked that guy.
I was like, oh, that guy would be fun to coach, right?
So that tells you everything you need to know about Kevster.
I mean, like I said, during that map,
it's just like Virtus.Pro,
they're probably coming into that map
and they got a great plan about what they're going to do.
We're going to play them out.
Yeah, Juno Brigg puts like on the tracer
and then Pep's the entire map.
They just spend thinking about what are we going to do?
How do we deal with this and try to figure it out?
And they just was never able to get on the same page.
What is the path forward for Peps?
Here, they don't play a kind of like a Zarya kind of,
Vendetta comp for VP.
They kind of play something that maybe you could kind of
catch them off guard on a little bit, right?
Something you wouldn't really consider the meta
and you end up kind of getting rolled there.
What is the path forward for Peps in this series thing?
Well, we talked about the two styles they have available, the first one being, of course, that they play the Hazard, which looked great on Atlas last week.
When they just have a ton of a mental and tempo, they love setting up a killbox with Hazard and then super nice together to find the base required, right?
But then, if the Hazard isn't available, I still think that their D.Va Tracer is quite good.
Or even D.Va them better, you know, if you don't want to play the Tracer, right?
because I think Willis has pretty good instincts on the D.Va.
Like he goes and sets up for the Flanks and can combine with Dip.
He does a great job setting up on the D.Va.
So those are the two styles that Pep's has going for themselves.
It's just a question of like, what back line do you want to play with that?
Because we saw on Rialto last week, the second pick or the first map
pick rather was Rialto. Yeah. I guess you can see that.
They lost that one.
They didn't look good at all playing without the Lucio.
At least they did look good. At least they looked awesome.
But you kind of want the Lucio if you're Pep, right?
Let's see what they did. Oh, RuneSapi, Johnny. What do you think about this?
Well, you know, if you wanted to play the Lucio, then I think Flashpoint and Push are going to be your two best maps, right?
And so, shy away from the Escort, shy away from the Hybrid, RuneSapi is going to be one of those maps that enables you to play a pre-tempo composition, right?
So, even though they lost RuneSapi last week, I still think there's a better adjustment for them, don't you think?
Yeah, I would say so. I mean depending on the bands, right? I mean who knows and we're gonna see from the bands
from peps
Do you have to are you trying to ban tanks to protect like Willy's hero pool?
Are you trying to like think you have to lose your Lucio? Yeah, you just have to I think
Yes, maybe that's kind of a play, but if you I
Mean, I guess would you rather have the Lucio for sure on here like an Atlas? I
I mean, that's an interesting question, but I think for sure you want the Lucio actually
I'd rather win like to win runosapi outright like whatever it costs, you know, if we can
just protect them for the Lucio here and we'll figure the rest out.
Yeah, I do win like an escort or a hybrid without the Lucio fine, you know, we'll take that.
Yeah, my fear would be is that like, okay, so that it's VP actually gets rid of hazard
here.
I was gonna say my fear would be is that they kind of like, you know, you go
to Atlas and you protect that Lúcio and they ban the Hazard and then you're in a really weird spot so
man it's a really uh it's a really weird situation for Peps to be in they get rid of the Sim which uh
is that more of a damage protect potentially because we haven't really seen you know
Sim would get much play at all in EMEA so far yeah especially about his pro like I don't think
that they've been too keen to play the the Symmetra either I think there's something they could
pick up down the road but like they're pretty happy just putting texture on the hip scan
and cycle doing his thing texting around right so uh it probably tells you more about what
peps want to force when it comes to their own damage composition right like let's make sure that
you know we can have this vendetta being played um because vendetta is one of the strongest hero
in the game right now and if they practice a lot probably when i keep that going right and i'm
up like we're not so it feels like a a map that peps needs desperately to kind of
keep the vibes high and going forward in this series although they'd be staring
down the barrel of a 3-0 as we'll get the team name split at the top of the
screen it'll be VP will be the blue team and peps will be orange here as a
at least right now for what VP was hovering, like this is pretty standard, right?
We'll see if Peps decides to kind of mirror, which would be a little bit of a shock considering how they wanted to play last week.
So they will actually mirror, Johnny, so maybe they've done some, you know, played a little bit more,
scrimmed a little bit more, feel a bit better on this comp.
Yeah, even if you say that we don't really feel like we can beat VP, that's not our goal right now.
They are also playing against DK tomorrow, right?
So maybe they're making a slightly adjustment for that dip.
It's an early pick up to land on here, like 20 seconds into the round.
And so they're trying to push this tempo map like we talked about,
which was so good for them last week.
Yeah, look, when they played fast on the hazard, they looked good last week.
Just subbed the hazard out for the Zarian,
kind of continue to play that strong like over all of the maps.
Like this is a comp that is really effective in the meta at the moment.
So, off some early kills from Dip that'll allow Peps to get control over the push bot.
First, allow them to kind of get closer to that first corner where they could fight for checkpoint.
Yeah, and you can see Peps here, they're kind of like sitting back as well.
They don't want to be the ones to push around this corner.
I think they very much recognize that what they want to set up Dip here,
they have a good team and a gauge.
So, building some Soryo, Energy 4 now.
But they want to lure Virtus.pro into this narrow choke box.
That's going to be their best bet to get off of this backline and some of those damage pairs.
Yeah, they give up a little bit more space here.
It looks like they're just trying to back up maybe a tad bit more here.
Farm up towards this Katsune rush and then also give Gip a nice angle.
That is a world-finding cycle.
I mean, that is a huge pick off there.
You get the other team's vendetta.
You can maybe now start to let Dip run Rambit on the backline
as he's just trying to find an angle.
Okay, he's like right about in an iso and an iso's not prepared for it. The Kitsune Rush comes down from the other side
This is a great for peps
Yeah, I think where this pro should have a little bit more heads up there
Obviously the Kitsune Rush is available at team peps disposal and they got a free kind of cap here very quickly
No comps from Virtus Pro whatsoever forced to disengage after getting picked off like that
So Virtus Pro is a pretty shaky start here on runasapi
Obviously very much capable of bringing it back as a Kevster.
Upsteal right protocol 4 now.
And Kev, tries to disengage.
Will he survive?
Kev cannot.
Yeah, and I don't know if Willy's going to be able to survive either.
His supports get split off in the worst way.
And then Kevin Ko over the top, come in and finish it off, but hey, 61 meters is nothing
to scoff at there.
14 peps, because that's a great start.
The issue now here, Johnny, I fear is, though, is like double support ult with
the grab here for VP you might be able to match that percentage and then some
yeah the double support ultimate is really scary but that is you know when
someone like Sorrel comes in with your right protocol just try to have so much
damage output you know it's gonna be pretty safe around this corner right
here but again if you peps no need to rush things here I think just play
this corner try to build up this grab on search as well it's the only way to
pro to try to make a move here. Yeah, it's gonna be the override protocol here.
As Psycho dives on in, it's gonna be the sound barrier here for both sides. Nice
sound barrier from Fixa. Gonna be able to keep Psycho up, but the advantage here
is the Kitsune rush that land and drops, and you see how impactful it is. They use
that rush, player perfectly over where kind of like the objective is over the
checkpoint, and push right on through into the pep spawn ice gnome, finishing
a few players off here as that will be the lead now here for Virtus Pro.
Yeah, that's what we talked about the leadership going into this one.
They're playing it pretty patient knowing they have double support ultimate.
If you layer those out pretty perfectly, it's a lot of time going in your favor.
So yeah, dropping them at pretty good times there is going to make sure that they win
the fight eventually as you grab the search.
It's Pop-Turn to Ice-Dome, Psycho though.
Looking for a sundry blade.
Whoa!
It's pretty big as well.
That does a lot of damage to Willys as well, hold up!
They're able to keep Ice Noem alive and they're able to get Willys!
I mean, that is huge there for VP!
I mean, that's an Ice Grabber, and Willys kind of gets Ice Noem out on his own,
but no follow up because of that sundering blade that comes through from Psycho right around the corner.
And now, VP, there's a potential for a map completion here.
Yeah, it's going to be very tough. They don't really have any ultimates to do it with.
Kevister has to sober ride, but...
Okay, he's going to go for the push!
I mean there's nobody that they have no big support open to keep these players alive. There's gonna be FD guy
They have to use a Kitsune rush, but that Kitsune rush now basically goes for nothing gift there with the sundering blade takes out
Kev
And VP get anything more out of this ice them getting very close to a grab of his own
They're just kind of playing this corner here. Oh
They lose land and that's a huge kill there from FD
God then they have stopped them from actually just gonna bring it all the way home into the base
Alright, but I still feel like you kind of take that right like hey
We're gonna pressure them with an overwrite protocol. You know gotta get get sooner wash out in the sundering blade, right?
So this is now Virtus Pro
confidently comfortable in this lead and they can just kind of force the issue from peps forced them to use these
Ultimates when they are on the back foot here rabbit on surge available
And I don't know why some people have to go out. Oh Landon of the sorrow as well
Yes, I mean Landon ends up getting taken out by dip, but
But, don't think it matters.
Damage done.
This is also Johnny though, a spot where now the bot's going to go in the other direction.
You're going to have these close spawns here for VP in just a second.
You're going to have Katsune Rush probably plus B tier going into their spawn.
You potentially could win it here for VP.
This would be the time.
And that would be brutal, right?
Because Pips gets 61 meters off their initial push and then what, two fights, two pushes.
You want 10 tier for Virtus Pro and then you do a map completion.
Uh, FD got needs to stay alive, needs to get a good sound barrier here.
Yeah.
That could be the difference.
Oh, aggressive sound barrier!
Oh, okay.
Can he catch anyone though?
No one there, no one there.
No, they're gonna rush!
Yeah, they're gonna rush, and just kinda push them right back.
That is really not what you wanna see from an extra.
Oh, I feel so charged too.
Yeah, that's such a big ultimate, like you needed to get a pick from that, but
unable to, and now where does pro?
They can just score it!
Yeah, I mean there's nothing that team pets can do about this right no support ultimate to deal with this
I you don't have like an override protocol to potentially chunk through some of this
Oh, man, right up to the spawn door
So you do have a sundering blade here from psycho
But maybe just start that chunk players HP pools out of the spawn you see he goes
What are we doing?
They went for it just doesn't end up resulting in anything a few players here on Pepsi and dangerously low
He's going to be Xerion. He's got that Kitsune Rush.
He decides not to use it right away, but then they end up losing Willys.
Now he decides to pop it. They do get rid of Ice Noob, but that's going to be the override protocol from Kev.
Kev pops it. Not a lot of teammates here are left alive.
This man, Xerion, going to the wire there with that one.
They end up losing Willys. If Ice Noob is able to live, I mean that is definitely a completion there for VP.
They're so fortunate they got that kill.
Yeah, Serian really wanted to hold on to that Kitsune Rush because realistically, the way you get back into Runaan's Api when the opponent has 144 is you need to squeak out just every little bit of ultimate value you can get.
And so using a Kitsune Rush in your own base, that's really bad news for you.
As a Virtus Pro, 2 minutes 30 here on the timer.
Pepsir, at such a disadvantage here, you need to get a clean fight, maybe even an opening pick.
They barely got close to mid-map, right? Since then it's just been all constant fighting on their side of the map.
You would hate to have to use the grab on the corner to get this one moving because it's two minutes.
Not a ton of time to work with here. You also don't have a lot of time here, perhaps just poke and play for a position around this corner.
You'll see you have to kind of go.
Yeah, that's what you're going to do. Go grab critical from Sorrow here.
Where's Karlox taking it? That's what...
Ice Noem counters with the Graviton Surge.
Probably, well it's going to be caught there, but
can't really follow up on it.
There's a few peps.
Probably gonna come out with a win here.
Yeah, once they get Ice Noem, it is all peps, right?
So, they get Ice Noem after he ends up using the Grav, the Grav used by Willys as well.
You will get that bot moving.
You're already past checkpoint here, so not gonna be slowing down.
Four peps.
you do have a considerable amount of meterage though to make up as we'll see
where VP looks like they want to kind of like this one in the street not gonna
opt to kind of give up some of that high ground here potentially all right well
they have they have one good opportunity here you know they can win this fight
with the sound barrier that'd be massive
yeah because today rush in response to the sound barrier dip is gonna use that
sundry blade scenic even wanted anything up doesn't come down with
any kills at the moment.
It's fixed like getting close to a sound barrier here to use in response to Xerion's Kitsune rushes.
Looks like Pepsi just backed up around the corner here.
Now it's gonna be the sound barrier here in response.
Xerion doesn't have that Kitsune rush just yet.
So they're not gonna be able to use it in this fight.
It's gonna be all kills in favor of VP in the feed here.
And now man, if Xerion was able to get that baby, you're able to stand there and fight that for Virtus Pro,
but not able to get that big support ultimate.
And now the bot's gonna get back close towards mid-map and Team Pat's gonna have to go on a major run
Yeah, and once again, if you get too nervous going to be dropped here by Serion, that's good news for Virtus.pro
Hefster, nice pick on 2FT, god
All right, this is just a map, 15 seconds left, man
Yes
That is a lot of blue in the feed and not what Paps wanted to see
Everybody from VP just gets off that bot and that's time expires
They will go up to all in the series that map started off pretty good for peps but fell apart pretty quick
Yeah, it's devastating push from bird is pro
I I feel it's a bit of a shame though because peps
You know if they had won that one of those last couple of fights there when FD got had the sound barrier and you know
the pad is under him played. It's just like they would have gotten over a hundred meters. Like they
would have been contesting the base of Virtus Pro, right? So it feels incredibly one-sided,
especially as you look at the scoreboard here. But realistically, Peps was like
one and a half fights away from actually making that really close towards the end. I just
pretty disappointed by the sound barrier value from this team. After God unable to convert,
It's a crucial ultimate there, of course.
But Virtus.pro, they're gonna go up 2-0 in the series,
and I think they're gonna look too uncomfortable for any of these two maps there.
Yeah, I mean, it begs the question, like, how does
peps find themselves back in this series, right?
I don't think they want to play the hazard.
I think they probably have a good idea how that goes.
Your alternative here is doing this mirror,
but you're kind of seeing how that's playing out, right?
not exactly the two closest results we've ever seen for the first two maps here just kind
of puts you in a little bit of a bind here going in to your last map selection, you're
based off of what we saw last week. That was a nice shot from the very on, although, although
psycho, I mean,
you've been talking about themselves.
Yeah, they made target himself up there blowing the sky. Based off last week's performance,
it would lead you to believe we're going to see Atlas here.
Yeah, exactly. Right.
But I don't know. I mean it's such an easy read to ban hazard potentially there
That you've got to like protect it like it feels like such a waste
Well, at least the hazard van is gone now, so you don't have to protect for it, right? So
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World is the pep selection here. Johnny, I'm curious, you know, they were dominant on Atlas
last week, not to go back to it. I'm a bit curious.
Well, maybe they're feeling us a bit of a toss up, you know, between Surabasa and
Atlas. It's just like, we'll figure that out later. Like both of those maps, you
know, we don't care too much about which of the two we play perhaps. And so it is
maybe a more influential choice like Blizzard world and you know we've
actually seen some Wu Yang from this team right and you think in Blizzard world
opportunity to maybe slow things down a little bit and force some of that Wu Yang
play. Taking a look at the bans here, Virtus.pro they're going to ban out to Lucio
but I think Peps fully recognized that that was something that could have
happened and they're fine with it. Yeah I'm just fascinated by what we're
gonna end up with here are we gonna get with like some more Juno base comps we
get it like are we going Zarya like is it hazard what what what would your
guess be I mean I think Curtis pro are very happy
continuing to play something like that right I think it's more a team peps to
kind of like figure out you know how are they going to make these non Lucio
compositions work because if you're a team going into OWS stage one and you
like playing Lucio you're like okay well at some point Lucio is going
to get banned against you. You need a backup composition of your sleeve and
taking a look so far. I like this. Your spawn is going to really break, do you know?
You want to see the Maga? Yeah, I want to see
Jetpack at Maga and just turn him into like a chopper gunner from
Mauerfare but we're not going to get to see that the aerial
display of the Maga. Maybe in some of our other games
VP feel pretty confident they'll do it. Not this one though.
I think I saw a clip of Fanny Ashru doing it.
They rolled out with just that cat down on control first and just sent him.
Alright this is the new Lifeweaver grab of the new tech.
It doesn't exactly work so very similar to the old tech but just with
different heroes. We get just a bit of a shot there.
Feels like a, nobody like a, they like, you know, shoot a gun this guy at the top of a race.
It feels like the Widowmaker shots at the start of like, our hybrid maps.
Like, okay, we can officially start.
Hey, ultimate charge, ultimate charge.
You don't need to get picked.
Ultimate charge.
No, no hazard. Zarya.
They're gonna play this Zarya training into the Magus.
This is a lot like what we saw on Leaging Tower.
And Soros walks over to the Sodorn as well.
He's being really efficient at building these railgun shots of Amaga.
and farm the Moga. Yeah. But this is going to be quite interesting though because you
obviously with this backline and the Sauria Vendetta like kind of like need to get some
space for them so they can dive deep. At the same time Sauria here wants to play far
away and build up these way to jump. Get this in there. As Ice though I mean see if
you can find anything here to get some top of two players is a looks like Xerion if
you got having a really tough time you do not want to fight Moga in that close
the quarters there is a cat finishes off one to give just swinging for the vences
here is a nice help from the rest of EP as that'll be a whole tier in our first
fight so this is what worries me and we talked about it earlier it's it's the
tracer and the bandetta right and if you push up the left hand side like team
that's just there it just opens up the the flank for Cycle and Kevster to deal
tons of damage to your back line just wrapping around the point right
if you're playing a composition like this you always need to go around the
right-hand side to get closer to your opponent because you know that that's going to come with the tracer.
An FD got is pretty susceptible right on the Juno. I know especially like we saw when you
you were just pointing out they go to the left-hand side right it's just like the mug of getting in
that room just kind of collapsing right on top of the Juno that is like the worst spot to possibly be
in as Pat's having his huff time kind of rounding this corner and making some headway
towards the point is you know all those Oros finding some damage build up towards these
rails like where are the targets who is he even kind of connecting with your
I mean bird is colder hang very far less than a drop the orbital weight will is
just can't stand up against it he just disappears I mean this can be a stomp on
his hip right they're gonna be able to finish him off as the mogad definitely
seems like a pretty nasty look good I know I know I don't want we've done
this already let's not let's not do this but against like the vendetta and
that they are making it look quite good right yeah I mean you get some of those
sorry bubbles out and then you overrun in use that cardiac overdrive to your
advantage to flip the momentum of somebody's wife you know team perhaps
they have to edge themselves forward they have to get pretty close with the
sorry up and then help them and better for these guys now they're
contesting the side angle but like it's no issue for the tracer whatsoever
We're below a minute.
Yeah, and I mean the Mauga can just kind of chase Div as like I know they try and run away
as that's actually Zoro with the overclock there gets hit with a pulse bomb
As a psycho finds to cap with one in the feed as this has been filthy work here
Out of VP is Johnny. They still have this rally to work with they saw the cage fight
This is like there's gonna be like no percentage on this. It's a way it's kind of currently standing here for peps
it's like
I know a 3-0 would be obviously worst-case scenario to just lose a game
But the losing that fashion especially with like, you know, he's going to buy for top 4. Yeah
I mean, he's got the cage fight. Why not? He gets right on in there
That's gonna be the grab that comes in a little bit later
So you're gonna be able to finish off some of these players
Fixa does have the rally going but not anybody to keep alive there with that rally so if we'll get on he'll get a touch
You still have Kev and fixa alive
around the corner for VP
Your VP I'm not sure you're even you're really gonna deal with yeah
You can't triple being cares a tracer and maybe juggle the point and get back up
No, it looks like fixa actually gets on gets a touch from the opposite doorway
They're so focused on Kev that fixa actually steps up onto the point gets there with that mage
They end up losing the brig, but is it enough though with the rest of the squad there?
Landon getting so close here to the orbital ray
So they finally finish off ice gnome and that is crucial there for peps. I know chances of you know extending the series
I'm almost glad they closed out that point cap
You just sat here in silence for a bit just
It's two minutes, not a lot of time here though, John.
I mean, you know, if you're VP, right, you fight for high ground here, maybe you use
the M-Ray ult, kind of like, get control over this choke again, and then you've got
the Orbleray to play with, but at that time, you know, you win those two fights.
You know, there's zero time on the clock.
Uh-oh, Willis.
Very troubling.
Oh.
Oh, Sorrow's also troubling.
Yeah.
I mean, they realistically don't have any ultimates when you left the fight.
The ultimate for memory is so filthy.
It allows you to get like up into the skybox, which creates like insane angles.
It does like splash damage.
You know, the heavy round shots of like a big kind of like AoE.
You can pump out the light shots like really fast, just kind of like spamming.
There's really nothing else like it in the game.
It's a very, very devastating ult kind of deal with.
Yeah, I mean, I think I think at the bootcamp at the start of the year,
people are kind of figuring out how to use it.
But I think now like if we can force enemy movement and just
on Leesha burn walls and damage to fight. It's actually incredibly powerful at the right time.
This fight though, traded support ultimates from either side here.
Willys is going to give the current strike onto Laban actually, so Peps here.
They're going to get some momentum on the back of this Serion to Tsunarush.
Keep on rolling on the second fight.
Yeah, you ended up trading your ray for their rush.
Willys does end up holding onto the graph here.
So that is obviously something to kind of keep an eye on.
And then you have that overclock.
uh
What you're gonna? Yeah, you don't really anything to work with here. I mean
Yeah, but this is a good overclock opportunity though. Yeah, I think they got the high ground here
They got the overclock you can branch on search early like don't forfeit this base now
No, I mean this should be team peps like in control here is that Zoro goes in deep with the Ozone
Everyone by naming needs a Susan here just to try and keep him alive
They're not able to keep Zoro alive. It's a pole spam though from dip that is huge gets rid of isenome and fix
in that fight Landon just kind of dancing there for a little bit but behind
Dips pole spam that's another checkpoint yeah that's team peps taking
advantage of the situation and Virtus Pro not really having good opportunity to
fight that properly with their composition and the ultimate after this
go-soul so good I switch by peps forced the third point here and they still
have an orbital ray advantage over Landon cage fight it's going to be
quite difficult to deal with here if you are a team peps but still though
They got some momentum over here with a minute left in the timer.
Yeah, they definitely started to make some progress here towards the end of this map.
Yeah, yeah, it's a rally inside it.
Maybe they were trying to catch one player off guard a little bit.
Looks like a serious game, yeah.
Yeah, they're not able to get Xerion, so maybe they were looking to rally stun, bash, knock them down, and then finish them off, but we're not able to do so at that moment in time, so...
That is a rally that kind of goes for nothing, so VP's starting to throw some of these ultimates away at a crucial time.
Okay, well, this is a pretty nasty combo if they can combine the cage fight and the override.
It's going to be a lot of damage in a very tiny area.
If just I something catch a couple of targets here, I don't even think the orbital ray is
going to be enough to keep pips alive at that point.
They're thinking better of it.
They don't think for this inside route.
Recognizing that maybe going the outdoors is not the way.
They're trying to like catch them off guard.
It gives them opportunity though for VP to kind of kite this though a little
bit.
You see VP, they kind of turn sides, just getting some pressure there from Psycho on the opposite angle.
As Cam up in the sky here using the override protocol, doesn't find anything.
FDGOT ends up using that Orb Array right on the edge there, just trying to stay alive.
FDGOT putting in some work here, but I assume he's still alive on the Maga.
Just needs to make his way back towards FIXA, as you do still have Psycho alive on the Tracer,
contesting the point. Psycho is causing a lot of trouble for the backlight.
here comes Maga, gets rid of Xerion. You also do have Dip still here. Dip's gonna get a recall,
get back towards the cart. It looks like Ice and Team feel like they can't exactly fight this
right now. Gonna back up just a little bit. Yeah and they actually saved the Kordiac Overdourg as
well. That extra health is gonna be crucial to contest the payload here. Looks like a big
stomp there from Ice goes down onto the objective. Zoro gets quite low. They have to kind of
keep that MRA up. Gonna have the override protocol ringing right now. Gonna decide to
I'd use a willy's dangerously low, trying to put some shots down in the ice,
but in the close quarters, now where you want to be with that ultimate,
and that is where the payload will stop.
So, two checkpoints, and then a little bit of, you know,
some progress there towards the third for Team Peps.
Tough situation to be in, in that overtime.
They did the most of it, and dare I say that, dare I whisper the words?
Winnable.
I mean, yeah, it is.
It is.
I would say it's, uh, it's winnable here.
14 peps, it can be pretty difficult to gain some progress towards the later part of the map here, but
feels like peps is gonna have to put together a pretty good first point defense, right? As you take a
look at some of the stats. Kev yet again standing out in a big way, same with landing in the support role.
I think of your peps you have to put together a really good first point defense. I think you
can not allow VP to start to get rolling.
Yeah, 100%.
And I think this is a first point defense that enables you to play quite aggressive if you
want to.
Because the attack, you know, they're going to be forced to either go through these narrow
hallways in this building and wrap around, or they're going to be forced to push either
side of the point.
And I think if you're playing a Vendetta composition like this, that could be a good
opportunity to set up a kill box, you know, get a good dive going.
And so I think this first point defense kind of lends itself to what Team Peps
are trying to accomplish with a composition like this.
The big question is going to be for Virtus.pro, we've shown some flexibility from them already.
How are they going to adapt fully knowing well what team thefts are going to bring out
to the defense?
Yeah, we'll get a chance to see what VP wants to do here in just a second.
So, we're going to get a MAGA again, yeah, so it seems like the answer that they
have here is going to play that MAGA, so really kind of committing to this
throughout the series.
So look, we haven't seen from many other teams, but we've seen really nice stuff with VP with this cop.
Yeah, I'm actually quite surprised to see so much Mauga in her dirty throat, done.
Heaps of preparation for this one.
Return of the Mauga, Juno, Grig.
So I assume it goes quite deep here actually, and I wonder if this might be an opportunity for Team Peps, but they're just taking so much damage,
but there's no real window here for Team Peps to go on the aggression regardless.
No, and I mean, Xerion has to worry about Psycho here in the back line, so...
I think it's really... that's just used already. I mean, really, it's dangerously low.
It feels like eventually you're just gonna start to crumble here or so low.
Yeah, four peps as Landon does take out FB God is...
Everybody here from peps is trying to hide, maybe getting a little bit of extra HP,
but that's gonna allow one take on the point for VP.
Yeah, team peps are poking and prodding here, but...
but we're gonna have to abandon this one.
Last ditch died here from this with the Sarababa.
Yeah, double knockdown though.
He gets taken out really quick as a...
He's raided, he's raided.
Yeah, Xerion does get psychos,
so maybe you have to back up just a little bit.
Yes.
Teampeps, they're building towards this Consumersion as well,
so they could just survive for a little bit longer here,
but Willis, it's a lot of damage.
Just highstone, Cardiac Overdrive.
Just in the middle of the backline right here
and Willis goes down, no tank on the side of Peps there,
and Virtus.Pro are going to...
Yeah, that is fast.
I mean, I think that team Peps here
just a little bit hesitant.
Like you're playing this in the data composition, right?
Like you're playing with the Zarya,
but they're not willing to go for it,
despite the fact that Virtus.Pro are playing
this Juno break backline.
I know it's a very scary prospect,
but I'm not sure you're going to win out the neutral.
Yeah, I mean, that is really fast as well.
I mean, yeah, I don't think you're winning
that kind of like how you mentioned the neutral, right?
Like even just like Xerion force having that suzu force out so early
I mean that is just eventually you're just gonna kind of crumble over verse pro as they just kind of surround you
This next fight Johnny could end up deciding a lot of things right how these old ones go is that's gonna be the suzu
You see there. I able to keep the left. He got a lot of nice job there by Xerion
So
fight when they're from peps like to fuck it up to 2 and 2 and then
Sorrow pulls it up to kill them.
Well they do get actually all done so they get one on the exit there.
They end up losing ice but kev is gonna find one psycho with another so maybe
they feel like after that cage fight they kind of catch them off guard
pushing on the end. This is actually gonna be a fight win for VP that is
crazy that that turns that way. Just I don't know where I don't think
anyone expected that in team peps now they still have four ultimates on the
board here so they're not too much trouble yet obviously this is a must-find fight here to keep the second point going but yeah I
kind of surprised to lose that fight probably. Yeah it's going to be the Katsune Rush here used.
Ipap's gonna be the grab as well from Nili's uh looks like they actually connect with
Isnip it's gonna be the rally though that comes in here later tries to keep players up give them a nice
hold spawn though takes out Figsaw while the rally is going so although it keeps Isilai for a
little bit it's gonna be an L at the end of the day right you don't get the full
benefits of that rally because it's a sick pulse bomb there from Dip. Yeah and I
think Dip is really happy in this tracer matchup now. Obviously he's been playing a
lot of M'Dev that has a really strong character right now but last year it
was all about Dip on that tracer combining with the rest of the team
so a lot of highlights from Cycle so far in the tracer but maybe Team Peps
they can make a stand here on this second point defense with Dip on the
A bit more of a space bomb.
Yeah, it feels like they need another, you know, few fight wins here.
So another pole spawn comes in from Psycho.
It's like that one just goes a little bit wide to one side.
As Kev just trying to find an angle on the Emory trying to get some of this high ground is...
Johnny, this is an odd spot to pet straight because you have this like high ground control now.
Four VP just kind of surrounding them.
You know, right where the objective is.
It's a really odd spot to be in.
It looks like Zoro actually gave him some of that high ground back.
Cardiac overdrive rolling here.
Or Ice Noem as he charges on in.
Yeah, he got to keep the point contested throughout as well.
Biff is doing a great job on that.
The lifted tracer, now Willis drops down.
Zoro, what can he do with Yonatoc?
To save his team, he cannot hurt his probe.
Just too much positioning.
Great angles.
And Kevster and Kou are going to clean up as you hear that second point.
Very close to finishing off this series.
Yeah, they just kind of box them in to this point where like,
Now they get high ground control they kind of force them into like that courtyard and that's not exactly where peps wants to fight
Just kind of like a no man's land in the courtyard is
They're like peps what one more fight here Johnny like I know you have to be able to kind of like you get one more chance the whole bus if
VP comes out on top of this fight is most certainly going to get that golden box victory
You see it's already marching dangerously close
Both teams trying to build a support open here, Tracer is battling in the meantime.
But keep an eye on Landon building this hold at the lake quite early and maybe dropping
it to initiate.
Yeah, it's not.
That's Chris Welle.
It's going to be nice.
Yeah, speed there.
It's going to be the orbital ray as well as the wheelies.
Doesn't exactly want to jump onto the point.
It's going to be the cage fight that captures a few players inside of there and it's
going to be the override protocol.
So nasty to deal with.
Already, it's very difficult, but then they're all trapped inside the cage fight and it is GG, that is a VP 3-0.
Yeah, I heard this pro showing, why we think of them as the second best team in the region and the way Twisted Minds is the only team...
I heard this pro is the only team that Twisted Minds swims without a musical on their Discord channel.
Dominant 3 over there, 4 versus pro, I guess the team likes Team Peps as well.
And Green at the Mauga, I think was a really interesting kind of adaptation.
because especially like this is Steve that likes playing Sorya, you know, I used to play
a lot of Sorya last year, so they're just feeling like they have the upper hand hanging
around that cardiac overdrive, a bit of push and pull with that instead, they got to get
the stacks, you want to play Kevster, 30 and 2, so comfortable throughout the series
under very little pressure.
The entire series, right, I mean he was just dominant, there's nothing you can
really do, like they weren't putting any pressure on him, so he's able to just
gonna play at a distance the entire time and just farm and Kev is that good on
hits and have you allowed him to do that I mean you almost have no chance against
his type of teams unless kind of that everybody else falls apart I saw there
were some nice stuff from peps in this series I liked how they didn't play
the hazard their non-hazard comps look fine their non-hazard comps probably
beat some of the other teams we've seen and you know just they have not
gone to it but it seems like at least today VP was a team who had an answer for some of these Zarya
comms that I think they expected people to be able to play. Yeah I mean look Peps have to win two
matches now and they have two matches left so they gotta win out against GK tomorrow and then next
week they're playing anyone's legend so very tough 0-3 defeat today but it's against Otis Pro which
I was going to say no one predicted team Peps here but Ash what you did predict Peps here
Did you like what you saw at least yo yo yo, okay? He really had to that's how you're going to introduce you back
It's cool. It's cool though. I did predict peps. I'm not gonna take that. I'm sorry. I do I do
You know things panned out despite my prediction as we expected in this matchup, right?
But like you guys are saying I do think team peps did have a little bit more of that bite back to them having this
are your compositions coming in here Matt looked a little bit more comfortable given the current meta
that we're in and I think that I really in that last map that we just saw when it came down to
Blizzard world there was a world where I was like wait maybe they don't necessarily win this series
but do they squeak us to a map number four yeah I mean there was a chance I thought that that
could happen uh I think these magekomsash were like really interesting from Verda's probe
So like, I think you saw adjustments today from Peps from their previous games, right?
They were playing a lot of these like hazard comps that weren't exactly working out.
It felt like, okay, like let's kind of play more of the meta.
They just ran into a team that seemed to have some different types of looks and answers
for that particular meta.
So for me, it's like, you know, VP just showing how, how good they are.
And also showing us a look that like maybe they can use moving forward against some
of the other top teams and give them a run for their money.
Yeah, I do. Sorry, I was just gonna say, I wanted to give Dip like a lot of credit though.
Like even though Zara was the one mainly pumping out a lot of the numbers, I feel like Dip did have a lot of impact on that.
Tracer there, 14 pet and could be part of the recipe for their success later on in the season.
Yeah, I mean, I think they'd love to if you would weren't playing to that actually, and they could continue playing some of the Tracer based composition actually, because I think that suits Dip.
So, yeah, it's a really tough match for them.
I feel like it's pretty bad for Pepz here because they're just constantly on the back foot, right?
Like last week, they played against an Orisa composition, they didn't really feel comfortable
against that.
They hadn't practiced against Orisa that much.
And now this week, just like, hey, figure out an answer to Mauga.
Good luck, boys.
And look, it's no, Mauga break Juno is no stranger to us.
We've had that meta before, but it certainly was not something that Pepz expected,
I think.
No, it is unfortunate that they are going to be down 0-3, but they still do have
two matches left to go. However, on the other side of things, VP maintain their second place
standing. Now, 3-0 here, and we've got an interview with Ice-Nom actually coming up
here as well. Congratulations, Ice, on today's win. I actually wanted to ask, you previously
were actually a player on Team PEP, so you have experience playing with FD God and
Zerion. Did any of that previous experience playing with them on a team last year play
into I guess like reading into how they like to play in today's matchup or is
that something that you didn't even really consider and just focus on playing
your own game?
I think everyone kind of knows this but they're kind of like best on Keri
Lucio comps right so that's like obviously their strength so we kind of
targeted that a little bit in our bands and got like a Lucio band in the
Keri band in because that would make them a lot weaker and I think it's
one of our strengths as well, so I guess it kind of played into it, but in the game not
really.
Ice, I got to ask you, you guys played a lot of Mauga today, do you see that kind of creeping
up into the meta again?
What's your take on that?
I mean, I think Mauga is pretty strong, especially with some of the comps we like to play,
so we might see, at least from us, a little bit more from it, I'm not sure if other
teams will pick it up, but at least we're playing it a little bit.
I'm curious what it's like playing on this year's version of Virtus.pro.
You brought in Psycho, you brought in Landon into the mix here.
What is the difference they make in the communication, but also in-game?
What does bringing these two players in change for Virtus.pro?
I think they're a lot more talkative than players we had before.
And it's really fun playing with them since they're both really good players
and they bring some new ideas as well from their old teams.
You know, they were both previously on Alcat and Twisted Minds,
respectively, so they have like some really great ideas
that we can like integrate into our team as well,
kind of gets like a good mix of some of the styles
and strategies or something that the best teams use.
Nice.
We also got to hear a bit from Psycho and Landon last week,
and we found out that you guys are like playing within
like your team host and whatnot.
And kind of curious, like now that a little bit more
time has passed by,
How are all of the dynamics fleshing out now in the team house?
I think we all have a really good relationship with each other.
I think we're casual friendship with each other
and we're able to criticize each other
when we think people are doing some wrong things
and we're glazing each other when people are doing good things.
So I think it's a chill dynamic
where we also have some space to criticize and stuff.
So I think it's pretty good for our team.
And for you guys right now obviously you know Twisted Minds playing tremendous in the region
How do you feel like you guys are stacking up to potentially to them?
And then like what do you think you need to like work on to potentially take that team out in the future?
I mean Twisted Minds are the best team in the world right how to argue against that world champions won the preseason bootcamp
So I think beating them in a match is always gonna be really tough
But we're gonna keep working on like getting our basics straight
you know getting the fundamentals right and then just like building upon that
over time. So that's gonna be what we're gonna work on and just try our best to
take down the Titans. Well wishing you the best of luck with that and your
matches next weekend. Thank you so much for taking the time to do this
interview with us Ice and take care. Thanks for having me. Bye bye. Bye. It's so
great to be able to always chat with our players but now taking a look at
how today has panned out Matt. I think that when it comes down to the results of today and how it's
shaped up the standings within OWCS EMEA for the most part it went just about as expected aside
from you know you guys getting the first days the first match of today wrong yeah yeah well
you have that one well you have that one uh yeah there's a lot of uh negatives in the map uh
differential column ash, you know, obviously tm and vp sitting pretty comfortably on top
That was a brutal loss for team peps, but I think for peps and anyone's legend
It's not like anybody's running away with that three and four slot right, uh, you know one and one one and two
You know, you're you're still kind of like in the ball game
So to speak here
And you know, I mentioned a few times say but like those teams could all finish with very similar records
where it comes down to like a head-to-head or a map differential, right? So, a series, you know,
for peps, you know, like this, like sure it's a brutal loss, they just need to be like, you know,
one or two of those teams ahead of them to give themselves a shot, right?
Yeah, and tomorrow's games are going to be crucial for just that. Tomorrow we've got peps
against GK and cut C against anyone's legend. So that is those bottom two teams, like,
or bottom four teams, like battling it out against each other. If peps or anyone's
the bottom two tomorrow is the
day where you need to get it
though. It definitely is before I
send you guys off though. I also
want to hear a little bit about
what you're expecting coming out
from NA because we've got two
matches in our other region
just coming up it'll be Team
Liquid versus Dallas feel and the
disguise versus extinction. Matt,
how do you think things are going to shape up later on?
The NNA is all over the place.
I mean, I want to see like
to see like, I know, do you see, get on the board, this, this next match coming up though,
like the Dallas Fuel obviously it's had a little bit of like, I know resurgence has been nice for
them to like, get back in the mix, right? I think people want to see them kind of ascend to the
previous teams kind of like historical successes. So I'm curious to see if they're able to kind
of get that and make that fan base. Okay, that fan base is still really strong, but
that fan base still thinks it's, you know, some of those teams are fearless on it. I think
I think they gotta kinda calm down.
Yeah, some optimal start for Team Liquid.
I got Dallas for you in the next one.
Hey, okay, fair enough.
Well, I appreciate you guys joining us for EMEA.
Matt, Johnny, thank you so much
for all of your hard work today.
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while we're gonna head to a quick break.
But shortly we will be back with more OWCSNA.
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Welcome back everyone to OWCS NA and I cannot wait to get through their second region of the weekend. I've got
Avril and Jaws joining me on the desk which big surprise Avril how does it feel to be back?
Amazing I mean I think the last time I was on the show I was on NA anyway it was me and Jaws so
yeah back at it again. That's the moment Jack.
I think we did both stage finals and then a couple of weeks in between as well, like yeah
it was good.
I think it was sick.
Yeah, those seven after stage one and three finals.
Okay, well we'll see if today's matches are just as tight before we get into that though.
So let's talk a little bit about how week one came out.
Last week it felt like we had more questions than answers when it came down to some
of the results. But one thing that was first certain is that this SSG roster is continuing
to look so good overall. They're off on quite the rip to start things off. And then taking
a look at how Dallas Fuel also looked in last week as well here at Jaws. I feel like we've
got kind of results that we were maybe expecting considering the rosters at hand.
Yeah, it didn't really feel like there were any big surprises apart from like how well
I think SSG looks so good.
In my mind right now, our number
one and number two, it's going to
be a tough match when they do face
each other, which I will check.
I'm checking. I'm checking.
I'm checking.
That's going to be the last week.
So week three on the Saturday,
that's April 4th, that's going to
be a heaps of game.
It's today's first game, TL
versus Dallas, and then next
week's game, SSG, Dallas, which
will be kind of the deciding
for the top three, I think.
Yeah, and when you take a look
at these standing tier overall,
I know Jaws is just saying that this is about what we kind of expected for the most part
But I think there's also a little bit of a surprise with how close that team liquid versus extinction rush of one last week
And and not a good luck and fortune for team liquid as we know the roster woe has got to them last minute
They're still trying to figure that one out. This rise of a way
I was also playing on pink from Saudi Arabia, so that doesn't help
I have some questions about some of the flexibility on that side as well
So liquid they have a lot of questions answered a short amount of time
It's a short season for them less games sort of work things through and I still think they're good enough team to make the top
Call for playoffs but the question mark now is are they gonna be able to break into top two in time and as Jack is saying
It's looking like fuel and space station seems to be in the region, which means what would like to be miss out on top
Yeah, and that's why today's matches are so important again by the end of today
We're gonna be half way through the regular season with how things have gone so condensed for this year of
of OWCS. And now talking a little bit about one of our first teams that we are going to be seeing
when it came down to how disguised we're looking in week one draws, they're one of the first teams
to start O&2. They need today's matchup because if you fall down to that O&3,
he gets really squeaky at the bottom, dude. Yeah, GLHF. Like that, if you're 0-3, there is
the team. So what we're going to
do is a chance of percentage
chance, but the likelihood is
you are not making out. It
requires like so many other
like small things to go well,
and it's just not in your hands.
So you need to win. In fact,
both the teams need to win. So
it's very much a decider
whether they actually say in
the competition. Well, we're
going to definitely have to
see. I mean, Kev, I think
you also thinking about that
going all five maps? I think the skies are due you know they're looking like a
team that are kind of breaking their way through into a potential definitely
top four. I mean they're due for a top four breakthrough but I think even with
the potential to break a little bit higher than that Liquid are still looking
pretty weak and if they don't have a big turnaround this week the skies can
stick ahead of them as well. Looking at the rest of the schedule for
disguise I think they definitely had a more front-loaded schedule compared to
the other teams so this is the opportunity now for disguise for
the remaining two weeks to catch up and get the rest of the wins here
they can squeeze in three wins I think there should be a shoe in for playoffs and maybe beyond.
Well we talked about the standings like to take a look at the actual schedule for the matches that
we're going to be seeing today. So we've already teased a lot of this right? Team Liquid versus
Dallas Fuel to start things off here for OWCS NA for week two and then Disguise versus Extinction.
How are you feeling about what the head to head is generally looking like here at?
I mean this is a great matchup for this guys we sort of look at this as a DSG
extension must win both teams extension have a much more difficult schedule
ahead of them the team liquid and Dallas more about seeing if Dallas can
maintain their front position to see if maybe team liquid have done a bit of
catch up here since last we saw them as this is also a team that we do
expect still in that top four despite the support situation for them but how
much further they're gonna slip in the rankings because they came into this
one from last year number one in North America and now if they get fourth in
North America maybe third it's probably a good result for them. Yeah well we'll
hopefully see who is going to be able to you know break out of that like bottom
rank find their first win there in that matchup and well I say hopefully but we
certainly will. To call into next though I want to talk about what we've got
for you guys when it comes down to those loot boxes and we want to say a
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I know that I was talking about it earlier already during yin and yang. I have to go and
get mine after the broadcast today so you guys definitely do that at the moment. I think
Overall though now it's not that we've talked a little bit about what we can give to you guys the audience
I know that you guys are really waiting for us to get into these matches
And we've talked a bit about it over the schedule that we just saw here Jaws and talking about the form that team liquid is in
Yes, they have as Kanora coming in as the substitute a little bit last minute as that support player
Making things like I think a little bit more dodgy on that back line for a team that overall is very well-rounded
the game. I mean, I mean, I
mean, look, my guys playing on
paying out there as well. It
sucks. It really does. It's
kind of something that we
discussed in week one, and
there's the weeks going. It's
like, well, that's just the
situation they're in, so we're
not going to kind of harp on
it a lot here. They just need
to kind of show up and prove
that, you know, as a team,
they've had a little bit more
time to practice in this week
that they've had in between
their games surely is going to
be enough to kind of get in
the groove a little bit more.
you know, it just sucks. But
that's just how the cookie
grumbles. That's just how the
dice is enrolled at the end of
the day. Um they did end up
winning obviously against
station in a three to and that
was meant. That was a heater.
Definitely a game of all time.
Um after I'm sure you ended up
watching a little bit, but we
saw kind of how team liquid
or at least like individuals
like tree like zero. They are
still insane like trees.
Hanzo is still super scary and
that is not going to change.
So yeah, I'm excited to see
with some more and give us a little bit more as well. This match should be again a close one.
In Liquid right now the big question marks for me is obviously Espinado. I was very surprised
by some of the lack of flexibility even coming through from the main stage on this team because
Infected in my mind is by far the most flexible tank in North America except we
didn't see any D.Va or Zarya out of him last week at all. I went back, checked through the
games. I'll obviously watch this one because it's five maps or as well but yeah I would
I would have expected effectively to play a lot more of what is currently meta.
Team Livered to me are really the off meta team right now.
I don't know if Kaluzion is just stepping in to play some of those off tanks.
I expected effectively should be able to play the even member.
I know last year he mentioned himself in interviews that Zarya was maybe the one here and he wasn't like comfortable.
Which I won't hold against him because if you can play the rest of the roster, you're lacking one here.
It's whatever.
But now Zarya is very good in the meta.
He is a very good in the meta.
We need to see that.
And for Espinall, look at that one here on the screen for him right now.
It's just here we go.
you go back to last week, the only play Kiriko. What happens when Kiriko gets banned? What is
this channel going to play? Is he didn't play anything else?
Yeah, more of a DPS play by the looks of it, especially on this on the Wikipedia. So, like,
I think Kiriko, yeah, if it doesn't end up getting banned, I'm going to be honest at this
stage of watch competition as well. Like, especially if you're a DPS player, I'm expecting
you to be able to play support as well to a high level, because I know people
I know people are like complaining about it, especially DPS players, but supports do a lot of damage as well.
And supports can carry their own in the damage department as well.
Like we know, everybody knows, and they'll see what's there.
Yeah, MF7 is the same right now. Look, they do damage, okay?
And he is going to be able to pop off, I think, regardless of the hero that they're playing.
They've had some decent, like, tier 2 experience as well. Like,
I wouldn't worry about too much about the hero pool.
It's whether they can actually, if they've had enough time. That's my big question in all honesty.
Yeah, both of these teams currently one match in Dallas field also netted a win last week up against this guy
Something that we were talking about a little bit earlier when we're doing our last weekend recap here Avril and overall
I think this squad it just looks so strong especially when you also have you know weeks in that coaching slot here as well
I'm always a big fan of the support line
Yeah, I think the support line it has to be one of the biggest strengths right now
They are so so so flexible compared to where
Team Liquid and Sonjin is my personal standard on this team. I know Chronic had that 4k but
Sonjin is the guy that will really be the carry on this team immediately.
Well, let's get straight into the predictions because we've talked a lot about these teams
already and I think the conversation that we have to have here is for me at least,
I actually went towards the side of Team Liquid even though I was just typing up
How good Dallas fuel look to me. I know that that might be a little bit of a controversial one considering some of the last minute changes
I had for this roster
But I'm just such a big fan. I think of their DPS line there as well
Like I cannot be voting up against is there a entry. What do you guys think in come on?
Jaws after all that's mad no mad respect for that mad respect
I do think there's a lot of there's a lot of hope for the team
I think this will be a five map series and I kind of hope it is as well
But I had to side with Dallas fuel. I just think their whole team on paper is just so good
And yes, it's just him like he's not gonna be proper level at least not just yet
But I really do think he's gonna be one of the very best in the next couple years. I'm back in blue here
I think team look at sort too many issues to figure out in a short amount of time, you know, I trust it
Yeah
to win or team like that can
take us by a little bit by
surprise, I guess it's still a
really close matchup
regardless though and I'm
excited to hopefully see this
one go all the way you guys.
Let's get straight into it. Yes
Thank you very much. Ash Dallas
fuel, not be pep's not quite
is Dallas fuel versus a team
liquid. They had their problems
sure I believe personally in my
head, but I'm not sure
their problems sure I believe personally in my heart that team liquid had enough time I hear
Avril but the guys you'll come in like where'd you rank them tier list wise like we put it number
one we put them at number two like how did you feel like you mean originally yeah yeah like
well now stage one we haven't seen week one yeah I'll cheat a little bit because post bootcamp
obviously I you know me Connor and Seth we're doing a little bit bootcamp a little bit in the
And I was impressed even on just the outset of where Dallas feel were me was okay
This team is cooking a little bit
You know on payphone or the fans were a little bit down like I really you know Matt kind of said it's like maybe some of the Dallas fans
It's all thinking where's fearless guys. You so isn't this a deal?
Looking at this team, yeah, I actually think after boot camp I felt a lot better about Dallas
I would have had them pop through somewhere
But this is obviously before the team look at roster problems
So it would have been Team Liquid SSG into Dallas Fuel.
But now that Liquid are still figuring out their roster
worries, plus in my opinion, some of these flexibility problems
that they're now discovering in week one,
I have Dallas Fuel.
It's a little bit high and we'll have to see how it goes.
And our first match here, Jack.
Yeah, imagine just waking up.
You've been in a coma since 2022 Grand Finals
because Edison railgunned your face with a soldier
and going, well, where's Phyllis guys?
Hey, is Sparkle still around?
like where is where is my guy? Well, what is this? Yeah, he's been around. Yeah, a very
different team. Yeah. Thankfully he's still around. Yeah, the gates unlocked. Just fuel
and it's liquid, but with Kalu stepping in. Yeah, no infected in it. It might be time
for Kalu to step in. He just recently came back from his little, you know, little vacation
away elsewhere and elsewhere. He's he's he's back and gaining. I want to see where
I love the alaria on this map especially extremely good at poking someone down like a tree so we see if lucabino can do a lot of damage
Nice little boot will be in that outburst from Lukimino to keep him on the map
What's your dangerous place for fires on it's a good map before you have to consider the divas into the mix here
There's not on Ray though the vagabond taken out early down to almost five versus four
So they go already dead chronic with a nice slide away
But yeah close is going to be a little bit trouble here not much of that matrix left unfortunately and there is the D mech
See look at me. Oh die not great liquid do end up capping despite collusion losing with the neck
Well those should be a fairly easy clean up Sonjin on the case
Sonjin now look at this clean up team look at my did it originally what's that first cap? Wait?
How how are you de-mech in there? Okay kalooche dodges the pulse but kalooche might be the best to ever do it stays live with a baby
either and kills the tracer
There's a captive son by a vaguer double tag not quite so low on the bridges chronic and there it is
Damage exploding onto CJ nice all from vaguer and liquid. Yeah, that first caps turning into paper
I was gonna say is this colluge on or off a cut, but he seems to be staying away from salad so far and
Superb be happy to hear about that one team liquid they may pain control of their first kept
They lost their first play onto bacon by the way was a lot further in the loop meaner remains that way for now
So if you just try to catch up on that kept the Sun
But that onto the cast trying to see if you put down some more stable damage on the tree
Though still by the way, the beat is gonna make things interesting here with those glues
particularly against Kralus and Kelen, Kralus is shut down tree with Kralus
Alright, can't you just eliminate that by Vega?
Unfortunate
How's that happening to the Auri, man?
Kralus is just gonna lose to Mackie M
He's got self-destruct, don't panic just yet
Rush on the point for those sides
That's why I actually laid directly on top of each other
Tree taking an orderment amount of damage
However, done enough damage to eject Kelen
And there's not even gonna be a self-destruct use here
for Dallas Field that you're gonna reset
That was 1% by the way, Kralus
I thought he died on 99, it said 99, but the game gave him the ultimate just in the nick of time, saved the day for Team Liquid.
No remake that could have been a problematic situation, Dallas would definitely take advantage of that.
Team Liquid, off towards, what's gonna be the final fight here, Liquid is about to use his first ult, and so will Kellenby.
Contours that as well. And this next fight, watch for Tree as well.
Voice opportunity barrage as soon as Kellen's not watching.
Captain Sun
I'm gonna get a eastern nice straight over the bridge. Oh doesn't get eaten connects the back line with the follow-up damage
Well, I say that doesn't look great. Yeah, actually did maybe a little bit. Why yeah, no connects
Barrage available for three years trying to find the Kerakko whether instant Susan TP Wow
That was quick hot off the rip there from CJ quick bridge control is required here from team liquid
But no chronic shots three down good shot shooting
Individual picks coming on through that's the spike the miss on the captain side as well
Wasted about 99% on the map, 4-loop mid to throw it in there.
I think it was so far away that it just gave the supports on the side of the liquid the opportunity to sidestep it away and
not care too much, Susie obviously could be affected there as well.
I think liquid, okay.
First fight lost so far on the certainly control, but
Treet still in position to play Vega.
Not getting his second captain's on so far around.
Inclusion's being held up by a little pile on there.
Little shift, straight into the ult.
My noon's gonna get popped. Actually it ends up getting thrown in. No eats, but it's usually good enough to cleanse that effect off of them.
Illumina just end up going down.
Chronic though, rolling in the front line. Both the lari's dead.
Vega in the sky almost gets chunked out by Chronic there, but eventually stays up.
Although getting the mech is gonna be decent enough, as Chronic just continues on a rampage on this custody.
It's been unstoppable so far, protected by Kelly. You can see how much pocketing is there specifically.
Specifically, I want to say when Vega throws in the captain son is both of mine supports Luke and Vega moving away from the Larry
Brick for Vega on towards the Juno for Luke me know here is off does fuel set themselves up for
Very nice contest here eventually defending with the continue rush against Escanol
It's just gonna be a point rush fight I would imagine
That's not use nez and then instantly kind of CJ responding tree still trying to get the spourage off
By the way, it's out of a hot minute at this point
It's like the rushers are going to get popped in the end
Yeah, you're expecting that there you go both lay on top of each other as well
But he was kind of dodging around there's the barrage tree though instantly goes down trade for chronic though
That's a good trade in my books, especially with how well a chronic has been doing now is there on the chase
Should be out together. Do you know anyway? Yeah, goodbye. We know let's get the kill credit
It doesn't matter didn't have damage anyway OT now for team liquid self-suffer on the point of collusion
We look a bit of time that ladies was only going to see Jay coming back in just a moment for the heels
Sondre now trying to retreat to get those heels off of the scent his way now another time to the point by the tracer
The back of the cat now is with me. No, he's just playing mystery here is a little bit for Dallas field
But wanted to get that quickly make use back another player as well
So I'm just still staying alive after me that pulse from a little bit earlier
Yeah, just about here was coming out as well nice little sick from Sarah kills the baby
Do they instantly there to Dallas fuel running out of lives here look me no down Kellen to follow
Oh, he's still ticker for team liquid as kalush fights another kill chronic carry down
but Songin is still alive. Killed the backline, alone now on the point. Team, I possibly cannot do anymore.
Team Liquid ended up taking the round. Songin with some rowings to the end, but could not come out on top.
There was like four or five kills in a row there for Songin. Just trying as that to resist.
Cannot do more is exactly the sentence I would use to describe that last fight because as soon as Songin dies,
the point is gone and Dallas can do no more. Songin was the factor there in that final fight.
final fight. It started with a kill into the pulse bomb and it didn't stop until Zera decided
to put his attention onto that opposing tracer shutting them down and finally allowing Team Liquid
a bit of a step forward here as you'll do also remember that Liquid had the original 99%,
they had the original first fight neutral win and that first cap as well. This fight losing
Vega quite early and also with Vega dying early still maintain a healthy lead on ult charge
over Lukmino and that captive sunrace which Lukmino should be shying away from now. Start
a lot of who young instead Vega back to the Larry yeah like now honestly although
a Larry on this mat you really need control of the point right first but
Dallas feel the poke game is going to be kind of crazy here we're looking at on
the weekend possibly going to be a situation where you want to play the
angles obviously indoors you have a lot of that high ground walls put that
healing pile on outside as well you're very useful to treat a plan out
just very very steady healing for treat every time he goes towards the
back to the map should be a pilot they're waiting for.
Yeah, just exceptional, uh,
Vert's Karthi here, if it's really like you mentioned,
really nice, uh, to get able to buy that pilot.
Is there any personal pocket, right?
It's kind of like it's all been away,
you have to kind of be around the pilot, but
it's free kills.
Chronic, playing a lot of success last night
on the castle, started again once on that.
Damage dealing was definitely Chronic was
the early part of the game before it
went into Sunshin's hand to try and clutch.
Dallas, they're not going to be in that top spot because they get the first cap.
Sneak it away, under the liquid, and they get a kill.
So hard to do the backline as well with the Tracer.
I mean, look at what Sunder was trying to do there.
Trying to kill Vega, but that pile-on-gearing up is like so hard,
and then Esme was right next to them.
Dallas, they're still coming out on the top regardless.
And so looking towards first ultimate here, very quickly for CJ.
Esme's going to be the one that's falling behind now.
Kind of getting better colons in the rest of them.
And again, most importantly, this is about Dallas fuel sneaking in that early first cat.
People are fighting up hill a little bit and a real good entry way for them as well.
It's going to come down to some of this poke damage from tree.
Zera can get to the back line, but they're still waiting on the clean ultimates.
They've got a good ultimates to get them in.
They got very close to this hole as well.
Got the backup of Zera right next to him, too.
You can just kind of walk out on, put the pylon up and then sit in shoot for free.
There it is.
Captive Sun, hoping to get eaten here if you're Kellan, but looking straight at Vega right now.
I mean, come on, getting it past this.
Oh, still manages to connect, but of course, Suzu exists. Don't forget that.
There is the explosion onto Kellan. There's no damage at all, as Zeran has tries to find his way into the backline.
Pulse bomb and a couple of percentage points, but Sony's actually get it online.
Nice ult from Lukamina. Pops it on Chronic. Sacrifices himself though, but it might be worth it.
a roll away from the cast is everybody from Team Liquid trying to descend on top of the player but unfortunately does end up going down in the end.
Team Liquid are gonna win that fight.
That's collusion of support trying to get something done here. Team Liquid, the TPS is the large, you're just gonna get killed trying to take down Chronic.
With Chronic down, it opens up the rest of the team to get something in and escort all you'll know as well.
Was very patient on that continued rush, waited for the right moment, Vega buying time, forcing resources, forcing cooldowns out of the Dallas field.
Once that was all gone, CJ already used his own rush.
Escona gets to lay out the red carpet for free.
14 liquid to eventually get their fight win.
Someone's just sneaking around.
Aw, gets headshot.
That's a little unfortunate, but two players in hot pursuit right now of Vega.
It's extremely low, yes. It's gonna go down.
Nice little pick actually from the Dallas Fuel.
Can hopefully like transition this into something,
but looks like we're Luke and Meena dead.
Settler's already been scored.
Score has already been sailed!
It was the other round, after all, in the end.
Uh, Tree doesn't have the barrage still in hand, but 92% with Dallas Fuel.
They might be able to get the cap here, but some nice kills from Tree in the end.
Shoot!
Put this to an end!
So no kill and taken out Tree yet.
There it is.
Dallas Fuel triggering OT now.
Dallas Fuel can still win this one, actually.
Because, uh, we've fallen apart a little bit from the perspective of the numbers between the Liquid.
They do actually put this one over to buy time, but Dallas Fuel have the numbers to play through.
Tree coming back on, particularly the Symmetra now.
They're like holding down strong for Dallas Fuel.
Sons of Scots survived, I think he just did a recall there too.
Got that pulse bomb.
Nice OD, Mech, ideally you're not using any ults here if you're at Dallas Fuel.
Just hoping that they can pick him off with the stragglers now.
He's gonna be around, you'd think.
Sons of Steel with a pulse.
He's dashing back.
He's only got a deal with Zeru, he's very low.
Goes here, 3 HP, has to hit that recall.
He's gonna actually kill the Tracer at the end.
Wins to 1v1.
And that'll be Dallas Fuel running on the rush now
and now just ult, bump, and there's nothing Liquid can do about it.
And as Kaluz goes down to the pulse, and that will be round three coming up.
Dallas Field keeping cool.
Chronic is well receiving so much of the pressure, but doing it well, I mean he's getting the damage done.
Team Liquid having to throw so much at Chronic, and even when Chronic goes down, it's not easy at all for Team Liquid.
Kaluz, by the way, in that fight that we saw where, you know, I believe it was maybe Luke Meno being hunted down and spawned.
But also on the map, Kaluz loses, make forces, they're self-destructed in the final fight.
No self-destruct available for that remake of Dallas Field.
Enchained their way through, re-flipping the point.
And with a lack of members alive, Zero also just stuck on his own.
In a duel versus Sorens June, playing for that health pack on the side,
over towards the open part of the map.
Once he goes down, nothing left really for the side of Team Liquid
to be able to buy them into the fight. We're going to third round now, Zero.
Finally going to come through on the Vendetta.
I was going to ask when Vendetta was going to be seen as...
I thought Zero's Vendetta was one of the better ones from bootcamp,
camp but the fact is just not really willing to play the Zarya. Kalooch? He has
willing to play the Zarya. Oh yeah, 10 times out of 10. That's kind of a gap that
Kalooch is filling, right? You kind of picked it up earlier. What in fact it's
saying last year like Luke Zarya is probably one of my weaker tanks so
Kalooch's adding to the roster. Great, yeah, like I said a little vacation for
the boy but we're so back. Triggering out by the way also on the
cast, you know I probably did a lot on that and finally that's not as soon as you wait.
into the sewage castle actually be a pretty decent choice here for a crime
consistent damage in the flu jazariah assistant damage with soju in that
moment again it's way on the tree I mean soju is ruining free nice little
finish up there by lukemena hey soju is soup bugger it's kind of crazy how
ridiculous he is I mean a player that never saw a showbush league either
Yeah, he did. He filled in for like one month on Soldier I see or on profit.
Profit had a mental vacation on soul and he filled in for one month.
Me when I spread false information?
I was on APAC, I noticed. I was there for five seconds.
I saw every single move that happened there, don't worry about it.
I saw Bozmo in the corner.
Got with a blade and then a bubble too comes out a lot of free energy clues. That's great
But you still need to push in through this choke
So can lays down calendar this point to a sonjin still a menace to the back line like a little mosquito running around
But packs a little bit more punch the small promise that mosquito has of course
Those are ends are falling over sonjin still alive
Dipping bag Vega shield already gone with a mega health back to retreat to but it's already got a little bit over
Health in fact we 40% guitars to in this on your going in now
And now you don't want to be anywhere near it. Nice little knockdown straight onto the tuner, but no!
3 with a 180. Good headshot from the cast. And that shuts Soji down finally.
It's 3, it's a nice DL and Chronic too.
I mean the biggest kill was Orange's kill and that forced the hand off the Dallas field, title blast.
Under Soji to try and turn the game around and finally ask the question as well.
What is Desperado play when he's actually not playing the Kerikot?
And the answer, at least for this matchup, is going to be Juno.
Bray Juno taking us all the way back to 2024 a little bit, just minus the Malga.
Blue's wasn't there for the Malga, so maybe he doesn't know about the Malg.
But it's been a tough run so far.
For this Zarya, then get a duo.
And Zarya's had a tough run.
He's been up again. Get those kills.
It's probably the moment for Malg.
Rally high noon.
Okay, well, tree's definitely not gonna die, man.
I don't think you should be able to get out.
And don't say those Blastens words again, Apple, please.
The Malg word.
Not in my North American Overwatch.
So you get Vega and end up trading there, Rey end up coming out from Espen or if they try and move forward with Espen or Witsu in fact it's
Chronic a solo ground, what a fight from Team Liquid, an expensive one but they made it work.
Just gonna go for the double kills there, showing some of the DPS prowess inside of his support plate.
They've seen Liquid all get the cleanup.
Dallas Field, questions to be asked out, how much does Chronic want to stay on the Soja?
Not really seeing too much value, 100px so far.
of last ones again coming online for me as the open again nothing else to really
speak of unless you can find a back line up with that pulse what could be a
suzu protect the bubble from collage going to end up being the weapon of
choice speaking all which now that liquid have control of the point because
you see this bubble combo on the zero being the open play for liquid a lot
more so I'm just still right ready to kind of dice with death there in front
of treat do you think manga would actually end up coming out here
overall because realistically it might not actually be a bad pick, most of the time the
blasts onto Sunjin straight to the back, but 3 shots him down instantly. Blown off, play
Smithereens in fact. There's the flip, it doesn't up coming in, but 3 again with another
kill on an off angle as well, perma if it was like.
So much more consistent on this control center than a Soja's offering as well. I
do want to note everyone for the audience here how quickly Jack just crumbled and folded
in the mouth of the thing there.
That's in one face.
No, no, no!
Yeah, I'm done.
Please.
EMEA in Korea have played it so far.
I don't want to see it, but I've just taken it.
Yeah, I know.
I don't want to see either, to be honest with you.
But there we go.
That's why we're in North America right now.
No mage to be seen until maybe the next map,
but hopefully not.
Self-destruct for the remake of Kellen.
Still though, Team Liquid fighting off the points.
Why don't we get that cat regardless, though?
They get Estimal down however.
The best it looks is the Dallas Fuel.
90% of building is Team Liquid.
have to get back and they have to go over this touch too and it's all over. Dallas, you'll take
down Vega and Escanor to end this fight and then the map. They're going to go up one over in the
series. I only took that one fight towards the end there Dallas feel. I mean it was getting a little
bit spicy in the middle of the point. I think Liquid were putting up more than a fight.
Tree popping off on that cast. Escanor even shot up at the kill feed a couple times in
the Juno. But eventually it just seems like Dallas feel with the more, I didn't even
You don't even want to say stable comp because you look at the comp team, look at it on paper, it looks good.
Maybe the only thing that's a bit weird is the fact that we are playing this early on, a Brig Juno.
That being said, Lucio was banned, so I guess what do you sort of do?
It's the Zarya-Vendetta combo that I wanted to see more out on.
Typically, when you're seeing the Vendetta out to play, that is your primary character.
It is having the highest threat on the entire map. It is putting the most pressure on the enemy team.
We didn't really see that out of Vin out of zealot's vendetta with collude supporting. I mean, that's the strongest
Yeah position you're gonna get for vendetta arguably this might not even be one of the best that
Control in general should be a very very very strong map of the data vendetta is strong enough in the meta
You can actually just play her
Basically everywhere, so I think we need to see my point as well
how this vendetta from there because that wasn't it he did a lot better boot camp and
This is where the wins count now and can you look at down on that?
to be as well. I want this to
go to about five. I really do.
Have to wait and see how it ends
up panning out here. But man,
tree on the Cassidy. My word
for was not Mr. Single show. I
feel like just keeps getting
better and better every stage
to is someone else. So even in
the short time you've seen him
in stage one, it's like he's
just improved over last year.
last year as well.
Yeah, I mean, you have the stable factor of tree and zero
on the team.
But at this point as well, you have
to really be able to get the most out of some of these picks.
And the fire was actually good for the poke damage early on.
I think it just caused a bit of a threat.
And then tree continued that on the cast a little bit later
on.
I have to see what kind of did.
Again, I think I'm a little surprised
that Craig didn't stay on the cast for that final round.
But they eventually squeezed one out
for in terms of the victory at the end.
We talk about team liquid though in terms of the roster
and as happy as I am to see them change things up after, I think, just a lack of the Deverins are your fun
Invicted last week is a bit concerning
The fact that we are now moving on to collage
There's like another
Additional question for the team because collusion has been away for a little bit and now changing things up more
So now you have Escanal here obviously no RuPaul anymore on the team
Then you've added another separate new member on the team who wasn't part of the call team last year
So, you know, it's just more on top of more for team Liquid and turn the change up on the roster
So if we look at the map pool and where we can go, Team Liquid's choice, of course, they
did lose and they can ban first as well.
Looks like it's going to be Atlas as our flashpoint pick.
I wonder if this might come through with, it depends on what Liquid really want to
play here.
Do they want to try the vendetta again?
I think we should see a lot more in terms of what Xera can bring to the table.
Playing on Cronk could be an interesting one, getting rid of that cast, because that was
a bit of a problem on Lee Jung Tao despite him not playing it on Control Center.
Definitely protecting some of Kaluj's hero pool will be important here.
I was going to say coming into the series, infected in Kallen, both being predominantly
historically speaking main tank players, by the time you get to something like a
Watchpoint of Revolta, you may end up seeing, or even on a Serovarsal Alice, you may
end up seeing either a Winsomer or a Balmer with Kaluj in play, that's probably not
going to be the thing anymore. But it does open up with looking for the bands, the capability
of doing some of these bands where you are targeting the tank pool for the opposite team
where Kellen wants to probably lean away from some of the off tanks on particular maps like
Drobolta as we saw from him last week, and then enabling Kaluzh by letting him play
the D.Va on those maps or putting us into a Zarya match where maybe Kellen is not
going to be as good on the Zarya as Kaluzh. So that could be an interesting choice.
Looking for a team look at a target that you're a pool.
Oh, there's a Kiriban, something that you spoke about already.
Yeah.
And where does Escanol kind of pivot to?
Remarktrap Band, for Team Liquid.
The other thing is, Lucio's open again, which means Vega.
You're going to have to see him play the Lucio.
Typically, I mean, even lastly, we were seeing Vega play around Escanol's hero pool
a little bit.
And last week, that was just 100% gameplay on Kiriko.
And Vega was the one flexing around that.
Now you're playing a map like this.
I think Lucio is going to be required.
Particularly, look for his Flashpoint, Jake.
Jack with like Lucio I think is basically required to get set to we're gonna lead into
like a Lucio Brig type of look or is it gonna be Juno Brig again we're just gonna forget
about that pretend Lucio doesn't exist when the other team is gonna have a Lucio I think
um Brig Juno if that ends up being the choice full team liquid could be a little bit awkward
here and it might be Malgen time if there's no Ram no Ram Spiderman Ram has been an interesting
choice for North America because you don't see that in Korea Korea would normally
go Rissa in the same spot give the ramp but where Naegam includes herapal here
by going for tank bang you're protecting collusion here for he's gonna go
back to Azaria enabling the Zarya been did a combination as I said for last
map you can see a lot more out of zero this time okay it looks like we're
pretty chill all good no one hovering the mage right now as you remember
that was the first day of Korea I woke up to a message from you and it
No, no text just a screenshot of the two comps the green team for running and it was just malgrin each side and I was
I was so bad. We're so bad
No text. No text. Wait. Is that actually a Ryan? Oh my Kellen. Okay. Hang on
This is the one who's just rolling in the spawn. It's a read from Dallas who'll say, okay
They got a plate potentially sorry here. They want to run back. Sorry. I've been did a composition in my
Oh, it goes straight into the line just to play in desire
Classic counter in desire. So yeah, it's just a brilliant read from Dallas who
in 2026 we are seeing rectangle man holy actually in insane from the dust field
and a good pickup as well from Sanjan early tree into the extrusion yeah on a
better point for the right as well where you can sort of play these angles a
little bit more play for the LOS I mean the high ground low ground is a little
bit concerning but it is concerning for both Zarya and the lines you're
sort of equal in that position and you get a better support compost on you
playing Lucio Bat and to Lucio Juno so it's just all command you give it
this double Mace, what was it, Juno? It's a little bit weird for Team Liquid.
Well, have fun running around.
Kalooja, so what are you gonna be doing?
Zera already down, Kellen walks forward, shields the entire team,
and then Sonjun tries to find an alternate angle,
which everybody's backed up into a corner.
I mean, this is a real rough one here.
Team Liquid, they can't even find like any space on this high ground either.
I think it gets better for Liquid after the first point,
but at that situation, you look at all that,
It's like you're gonna have to give up point A, this opening point, to then say, you know what, we just can't play into the line right now.
Because we're not gonna see, it doesn't look like we're gonna see a swap just yet from D and Liquid, and Kalo's happy to walk forward.
There goes Kaloosh. There goes the point as well, you think? I mean, Kaloosh has been home shielded this entire time.
I mean, now he's really swinging. Go on, Kaloosh. Bust out off-tank players when they bust out a line.
you're gonna get you might get embarrassed I can like I'm live but okay
there's the swap he's gonna go even instead there's not much left to this
point back lines for what Pa zero has gone again like I said you need to see
more others here in this matchup to be fair playing into Reincast the looser
bad back line as Vendetta here with now you're not gonna have bubble
sport either from the tank is gonna be a rough one I wouldn't really be
surprised as there was potentially look for the swap as well and there it
is straight away on towards the trace to give it up on the Vendetta you're
not playing as I am anymore might as well now you have a more off-angling
opportunity maybe tree can be the one popping off he's 74% towards the ultimate
we're on a more open point I can't wait for this shadow I'm gonna be honest oh
who you gonna shout it nothing to block the shadow yeah you say that but
there's so many people with mobility honestly single person shadows fine
It's all right required for you, Callum.
Chronic kills Zera already, Sam Barrison both sides,
plus the Orbiter, Rage, and Esthan Orbiter.
Callum's still looking!
There's the kill on to Tree as well.
He was just swinging behind Tree.
My word, he's just back stabbing him
with that giant Rhine Hammer.
What?
The Rhine's working, Avril.
That's to be for certain.
There's no option, no.
He's not gonna think about this.
Okay, this is tragic.
You've got the Shadow available,
So you're gonna hold on to the Shadow for quite some time, King looking after the play against Shadow for pages,
so we're just gonna bag a bag, collude to say welcome back to Overwatch, buddy.
Tank gameplay do be a little bit different here, you're gonna have to step it up versus the Rectangleman and Kallin in the Dallas Fuel.
So King liquid, this is rough man, it was looking more 50-50 on that one, but on Atlas, it's all Dallas or Fuel.
Honestly, 11 over a second of it.
Come on, Kallin.
Big Shatter
Well that pulse one went wide or good little tickling the damage down tree
I'm still waiting Kellen
I ran control here for three rips the overclock straight to the back
Although I think the backline really just came to them to be honest here. Hi new behind the shield as well shield gone
Tree low and there is the shots connected with chronic although sons
You know on the other side of the map ends up killing Escanor so big supportive French will now
Well he missed
No, buddy team liquids they've covered the point here CJ dead no sports left to help Cal and stay alive at 93 you'll take it I
Saw the vision I saw the vision
Tree and the tree just jumped the way in the last half a second
It's like all of my all of all of the enemy can just be airborne and a single mother's nose
Apart from Sarah I suppose on the treasure
I mean eventually the thinking is eventually someone has to contest a point
They're gonna be there and then arrange you you got to go for a shower hit somebody right but
Just even having it really forces Liquid to play around you and now that he doesn't have it, he's still going to stand around by the way, Liquid can at least be happy that they're going to have to deal with that one.
It's got to be more difficult for Dallas to make this round work out than not playing into the Zarya, but you know, that's a cheapy window in the back, man, we'll get them to control the point.
Oh wait, kill him, pin killed the collusbeck and then just won't get me killed and left
way too late there unfortunately for us to not, should be again a very easy fight here
for Gar's Fuel and yeah, I mean, you're kind of spitting a minute ago, this is not close
really. I mean Team Liquid are at least getting some percentage on this point but that's
2-0.
Sondage is ripping through into that last fight as well. This is looking really really
roughly a team liquid Escanol gonna move actually here has already been on
towards this map for some time now working over towards the window so we're
really exploring the depth of it what he can bring in offer to the flex support
role and also coming from a DPS back where Escanol this is imagine at least
we're shooting perspective on the better here is he good choose this window gets
played or an aura following post bomb they didn't hit anybody but it's not a
message when it looks in a couple of seconds sound barriers for both sides as
Well, window could be a good opener here for Team Liquid on the point. That's exactly what they're going to do.
Punish the shield here of Kellen, although, unfortunately for them, they've got to deal with a sound barrier now.
A dash out of the way, and Kellen is going in, and he's just so winged away at Eskidor.
Has to deploy the lab. Good shot from Chronic, and there it is. There's the kill.
I was looking for a kill feed. Kellen killing Eskidor.
Kaluz eventually kills Chronic in the end, but guess who's got another Shatter?
And guess who's going to get another Zero Man? It's Kellen.
What unlocks him is Cap of Veracrup for the Dallas Fuel just trading back lines
there, Kallin going deep, Kallin trying to trade against the Dallas Fuel backline
both of them reasonably successful as well. We're gonna end here with liquid on
the back for this. Kallin just goes deep again onto the neck of Kallin, putting him
straight down in terms of the HP bar. Good land. Yeah really good land from
Estin all that early on the lap this time around. Oh here comes the Rao God. Oh Kallin's looking for it!
Gendry's backing all the way up between a window and a giant man with a rectangle.
Ooh, Sonshawn though.
Railgun to the body, instantly killing the Tracer.
Dallas still still alive and well though.
They got a high noon for some space creation and that Shatter as well.
They need a high noon first, but turned into a better position.
Sonshawn's just gonna spawn here, but Chronic still shooting there, still trying to find kills.
Getting past this Reinhardt's gonna be a little bit harder though than one would anticipate in the year 2026.
But it does look like her now just dying on the point.
Just again, there's enough percentage of the happy win.
What, 80 plus? You're happy with that.
That's one fight territory for the Dallas Fuel, and they're looking like they'll probably
3-0 this one in terms of the map itself. And look, if they win this map, they're
going to 3-0 the entire series. This Shadow this time, I'm feeling I can tell that this
is going to be the Shadow that we're actually way through for. He missed the last one, of
course. He can't be on the other side. Still has enough mobility to get out of the way.
Just the fact that he has it again forces Team Liquid to be wearing the Camillo also.
Oh, there it is! Oh, I got two!
He got two!
Vega, Kaluz and Vega are going down as well.
Beats and the pin!
Oh, Kellen!
Yeah, no longer in feed mode, he is carrying right now on this ride.
Cannot wait for YouTube thoughts, man.
It's gonna pop off on YouTube, I swear.
Trying hard, played in 2026, OWCS.
5% to go here, $4 fuel, so one person to touch, it is Zera.
Escanol's got a window, but it's actually about getting back in time to save the day.
Kaluz taking a large couple of swings there from Kaluz, he's just running him down, but the point is still ticking.
OT time is burning, his team Liquid at least ended up coming up with a kill.
Stengpower here is nice for both teams, both Kaluz and Kaluz can play around this central column.
Maybe figure out where this window is going to be placed, because they're going to get this counter control liquid.
Oh, counter window, so it's on his way back.
Yeah, that counter window is going to be good there from the point, but right now he's going to get on it, making use of it.
Soundbar into going to come in, investing a lot into this fight, trying to keep them alive, and they're going to need to.
$19 for Dallas Fuel. Soundbar for Liquid to win the fight.
Team Liquid, man, that one was just trying to see the pants a little bit.
They had a one-play advantage. It seemed like they weren't really able to capitalize on for the longest time.
It's three that opens that kill up with him.
Vega eventually finding the beat, but you'll notice that Kaluga's still out of mech as the beat comes down.
When Kaluga's caught, he got D-mech, and he doesn't have a mech.
He's on nowhere to run, nowhere to hide.
And that actually could cost Team Liquid now, this entire point, the flip's already there.
Michael Luce, Zeradade, OT ticking down, well there's the upclock from 3,
but he's gonna have to do a little bit more than a single kill there,
and unfortunately, Kaelin shuts him down with the fire strike,
and Dallas Fuel taking us all the way back to 2019 with that comp.
Reinhardt winning on the Flashpoint.
And just, he sticks to it and plays it for all three rounds as well.
I mean, what a lad, you would have thought, okay, opening round makes sense,
You know you're going into Azaria, you're fantastically from Dallas and Gellin to make that heads-up play. It works beautifully.
He's like, yeah, I've still got a shadow. Let me just keep playing this one for a little bit longer.
I just build up another shadow, keeps it going, venturing lands a two-man shadow and just causes enough problems as a bit of a wild card pick for the Dallas
FuelHit, but Team Liquid, who again, like I said, maybe some flexibility is still sorting up their lineup and figuring out how they're going to play the game.
Too sure what this is going to do, aim towards this
Kevin Ryan, and despite some pretty good plays in there,
it felt like Liquid were kind of finding their mark again
towards the end, but a very tragic final engagement
where the beat doesn't end up sending Kaluj.
Vega, in my opinion, held onto it
just a couple of seconds too long.
Kaluj never died in that final fight, by the way,
so he retained his life as the baby Diva.
You're now looking from Dallas Realist,
you'll be like, hang on a second, Kaluj never remade.
He's still a baby Diva, by the way.
Rush him down, tell him that's baby Diva.
Now you've just got a free 1-0 style
final fight with and you need one cap on one fight that's a W. A W Kalan honestly playing
that Rhyme. Damn we can see that again probably not right. Infected hey nice your time come
in play main tank there'll be a Rhyne heart get Kaluj back on the bench like dude that
would go crazy. I mean if you're in a position where you know that Kaluj is stuck on Zarya
I think there's an opportunity for the Rhyme to come out I am on all four however
As we move forward, Jericho now going to be available for the rest of the series, but the rest of the series, I mean, how long is it going to be?
Is it going to be the one map left or what?
This is now where I think you need to start moving into the potential of looking at a Gibraltar with a...
Trying to remember, has D.Va been banned yet? I don't think it has, right?
I don't think so. No.
So yeah, I mean, we can ban it either.
Don't forget as well, drops are available currently on Twitch.
And that leaves you too as well. So make sure you connect your account as the link there
I'm sure most of you have connected by now, but there are the rewards just in case you forgot at that 15 hour mark, too
I've watched eSports
Like an actual loot box brand it it looks pretty cool
And also I wasn't aware of this until last week until someone corrected me
But you can't get the old overwatch leak skins like just the colorway ones and you can get the Chengdu hundreds ones by the way
Because I unboxed the Chengdu hunters
Who was it far and I think
I got a legendary it was the Atlanta rain Rockland Zarian. Yes, you can unbox a whole bunch of things. I have a lot of the skins anyway, so I'm glad I'm kind of filling out these little gaps that I'm missing, especially in the Overwatch League ones.
So yes, make sure you go check that out as well as a free one available to the moment. So yeah, log in and make sure you connect your account. But Abril, let's get back in to this one.
I missed out on the 15 hour loot box last week
I thought I had it in time
But I didn't so don't be like me and make sure you get it this week
Like I said, I think it's time for Gibraltar with the diva ban
Which I'm assuming Kluge is in this is what's gonna happen
So another diva ban a Winston ban to enable the diva because you want Kluge to play the diva
You want to make sure that Kellen cannot play the Winston. That's probably what he was gonna do last week
I think if you leave the diva ban open and
The ban goes over to Dallas and they have the opportunity to get rid of the diva and Kluge gets a diva
banned, you are in trouble. So, men and men, you are protecting the D.Va. Even if you're
not targeting the Winston necessarily, you've got to protect the D.Va if you are liquid in
my opinion. Good news is, Tiroko back on line for Eskenal, so putting Eskenal back on
his comfort choice of what he played last week is going to be very important. You are
already back against the wall. Reverse sweet now required, and if Atlas was anything
We saw from, you know, just moments ago, that's anything to read into liquid, uh, not looking great in this matchup so far.
Winston ban for Team Liquid, Dallas Fuel ban Hanzo. Okay, no shock. Trees Hanzo still beast mode. We saw it last week as well, just insane stuff.
So Winston ban for Team Liquid. How do you expect Dallas Fuel to kind of respond here in the same measure?
Yeah, Dallas will just play D.Va as well.
So I think Kellan has been far more okay with flexing his tank pool.
He's really, you know, since we saw him on SSG last year as well, he's been surprisingly
flexible, somewhat safe, even bringing out the Sigma at times.
She's pretty viable actually on some of these points.
Of course, that's actually his collusion with Sigma.
So if at any stage, Liquid can push us into a Sigma matchup collusion on paper, should
really enjoy that one.
But for now, he'll give the D.Va's into play, let's come on towards Kiri as expected.
Hanzo for tree means he's gonna default onto the search
That was sad to see there Hanzo there's plenty of other opportunities though, don't worry
The defense yeah, no shock again as soon as we see the Kiriko
Being unbanned Escan all gonna rock it and then they go back on the Lucio
So yeah, Kaloosh and team liquid
I can't imagine they're expecting anything too crazy like you mentioned that Dallas fuel
We see where a chronic and Sonja want to play so I'm sure right now on Genji
We're pretty not bad for a lot of all-in potential on this opening.
There's the capability of really controlling low-ground and high-ground, unlike what a tracer
would be able to, but you just don't have the same capability to sneak the payload,
so that will probably be the one issue for Dallasville, even that.
But we're hiding the Winni-Maker of, like, for now, because I don't think the liquid
are aware of this just yet.
They will be up with first shot.
Yeah, 15 seconds to the wild quick tab, and they'll know.
They'll grapple to the high ground.
Oh!
Wrong place, wrong time, unfortunately.
Yes, Gnore doesn't know.
He doesn't know.
The Chronic Widow.
Yep, and everybody from Team Liquid backing up.
Get Hydra and Strav from Chronic here.
And the smallest pixel angle of all time.
He's playing a tax shooter at this point.
Yes, Gnore, maybe show a little bit of...
...unfortunate lack of experience.
Perhaps in the role.
Treat him to Senn, one straight back with Sunder.
That'll leave you.
Much needed pressure, Team Liquid.
If we get back in the driver's seat now,
They're just it's highly back up. Yeah, they're gonna give up all the space
Yeah, no happy kind of push in I mean you you're not really gonna expect a lot of support here from the woodermaker
So kind of make sense, right? You want something to be back in the mix for you guys for anything crazy. Oh
Don't give chronic the chance. Come on. We know better than that
Sounds a lot less threatening with that skin
It does, yeah!
I was just looking at that!
It's like sparkly noises running like boom!
From the 50 calters, it's like phew!
Yeah!
Actually, yeah.
Dude, they did a new collab idea.
Now that pod is technically in the IP.
Dude, you can have like a bar of 50 cal from like one of the two or something.
It sounds like you're playing honor, actually.
You're dealing with damage or whatever,
and shooting honor dots is what it sounds like.
It's a mind game, it's a mind game.
Pass your head to Sauer, it's just an honor, she and me guys, don't worry.
Hang on a second.
Well, Kaluzha's end up dying in the end to Sauer's field, they're gonna be able to cap.
Lot of time left in the bank as well.
Decent first point, honestly.
I'm just not bad at all.
Over, well, it would have been about 4 minutes 30.
Moving in towards B.
And Chronic's gonna stay on this widow for now as well.
I mean, I think the widow, after you get past this point,
probably still find a decent amount of value on C.
So, the time being, just play into it.
You're very careful about walking in so you sort of mark the position. He's just gonna go in
It's high ground kind of annoying for the widow widow players now. Honestly, my way to change
And there's the nano. There's the blade straight to the back. Sonju gets one two hits the reset straight back to collage
Yeah, D mix and that should be fight over with really
Sonju with an old-school nano blade Dallas fuel rip. They are just bringing it back with their nostalgia posting right now
They're playing Ryan. They're playing Genchi armor nano blading
Oh, Lee playing the water which we haven't seen
For the longest and they're all wearing Dallas fuel skins or most of the time actually Omega base if the Winston wasn't there
I expected y'all to potentially bring out the Winston on this map real cool. Oh
We're gonna be seeing the same time
What year was that when we had to actually like bring like old school?
2017 2018 like
Spark played it in 23 even. Even in 23-3, Spark played the winsome Brigana, they just sort of played it.
They're playing anybody, they have Goose Ray, they have the winsome player, in the way they're playing anything else.
Anyway, regardless, history, car swanjans, part of that now, unfortunately.
The rally from Lukamina is interesting here, it's gonna just serve as kind of a back off to make it sure no one dies.
Zeris said with a pulse bomb, it's gonna get chased down here, nice little stun, nice little whip shot.
Nice little bash there from Lukamina, kills Zeris, forces him back a little bit, but that rally not doing too much there, but progress.
progress. It would have been a lot worse if you didn't get that kill so actually slightly
justifies the rally just getting that one kill tree going in now forcing some problem
coming shut some down. Major just can't save enough people in the team. Unfortunately not,
they're way too deep now. You gotta get some of these kills though with the Luke and me
that fall in over here and see how you're just spawning. Dallas Fuel are gonna have to
hold S and retreat. Deluge still onto this self-destructive long-sight kill in here as well.
payload is actually sneaking forward at this in time
No, we look way looking to see where they can find this open again
It's hard for tree to contest these angles and talk to slightly stuff
He's just waiting to see what he can do
Nice nano though from CJ nanos look at me though
Just on the verge of death there brings back up to full shrugs off that pulse bomb and they get that kill onto tree taboos
D mech onto collage the final chase now to try and kill the Zera tracer
But should be all good payload progress made three and a half minutes to go
Abril they're gonna use the infrasight as well just to lock down the zero potential flanking zero wanting to waste the time
All these DPS plays but the latest year goes down the more of a play-advised exists now
Crazy down time from CJ chronic gets a headshot as well
Baby dealer jetty from the Mac self-destruct D-Mex Kellen
But it's already got another life and there is the completion
Three minutes and three seconds for three points on watch point to brought it on the third map
There's a lot of threes in there, but Dallas fuel heck of a time bank and
honor Brig Hever Genji widow
We might be back Kellen 13 and no as well
Let me add one more three the next Dallas fuel 304 the series is what it looks like right now because team liquid
I just not competitive on this map or against Dallas fuel in general
looks like we saw some good signs of life on the opening map, some real hope with maybe
I mean Kalujan to shake up the hero pools for the team a little bit but as we're starting to really
explore this matchup, Kalujan is looking fantastic on this diva, Kalujan is not really finding the
success in this diva matchup despite the asymmetrical band, the Winston band,
and now Ziera is thinking hard about this vendetta again as something that didn't really
work on any of the maps that we've seen so far to quite a surprise again to people like me who
sort a lot out of that zero vendetta on bootcamp but now far away from bootcamp and it's not
delivering and neither really is the diversity in liquid it seems like tree has been the one
consistent factor for the team and outside of tree it's been a bit quiet for everyone else
curious where infected is too right you can play a little ball here obviously winston bands
You like a prodding of them were off. Thanks, but in fact, it's still play ball
Wouldn't say it's like the best pick on this map specifically, but still really good
All right gates are opens and who's on the window?
It is tree rock in the same skin as well. Holy bass. Let's have a look at
All right, okay, get a sit down chronic sit down
And a CJ on Anna by the way everyone it's gonna sell like this three hand is on the field
The shots just don't sound imposing at all, like intimidating, but it's just crazy.
It's like you're letting off one of those little party poppers.
Oh, no, that's more of a bang as well, I don't know.
I don't know what it sounds like. It sounds like confetti.
I'm not sure, but it sounds silly.
Well, a chronic see-me-back in just a moment.
They spent deader, though.
It's gonna be hard to lock someone down in the back, I knew, Rebel.
And minimal support as well. This is like,
perfect, unless you don't have the Zarya Bubbles.
You can play without the Zarya Bubbles, beyond that.
long range healing coming through from the packs on Vegas bring mostly but
a tree just keeps connecting then zero doesn't have much to do you can just
play below push payload loss like a luge Dallas you'll persistently down one
play because there rather treat just continues his shots yeah widow gaming
right now I sleep on collage but look me there's already deaths you back up
is a long gone CJ I mean your honor play is down unlucky this first point
Although, looking like a CLASSIC watch point to Brawl to first, with a widow player, getting some kills, and then you just cap off of the easy peasy team liquid still in this.
And that's a good time as well, there's actually more time going to be than Dallas Field did in the exact same position, so this is true signs of life now, again, delivered by treat.
The most part is he leaves massively against Criken the Infrasight Law and usually that'll probably not break the two teams have widows on
Grasp, he changed the water drill a lot
We'll love to have to go send each other's leg before the gate to be closest
There goes on
Yeah, I don't online those fuel
Manning Katelyn probably the best use here or any subject
Sight's going to self-destruct.
Yeah, no chance, unfortunately that collusion's going to peak back.
You can hold that angle for as long as you might.
He's not going to do it.
And, well, that rush is definitely going to put an end to things for the Dallas Fuel.
They end up losing Lukamino, and Zera still in the high ground.
It's got the O as well.
I mean, this Sunderer plays going to be nasty.
Nanna boosts onto Sonja, though.
Straight to the back, one tap, three, pretty much.
Kellen there with the finish.
Oh, my, but that is just a disgusting,
illegal amounts of damage there from Sondring.
It's gonna go back in soon. Nice shot from Chronic as well.
Riley is gonna get Pop. Self-destructed in the Mega Health Bank.
Kaelin already dead. Vega hit the rally. Gets the two-piece.
Everybody's just trying to clutch this fight so far.
You think that Dela Thiel's gonna be out of it?
And the nanocroms are through.
By the way, Luke Mena didn't lose the rally immediately after he popped it.
Now over towards the carry coat.
Popped the nana onto Sondring. Takes that one in dry.
Sondring's really just putting it to Team Liquid who responds
With the Vega rally of his own, it gets two kills and Liquid continue pushing threatening the cap now.
As you're lacking in the ult department, it's both teams only on Sundering Blade.
But if you're currently trying to break back into the map, Liquid, you would think that League should have control of the map so far.
Playing a fighting game on the high ground here.
The 1v1 of the century between the two Fendettas.
Like I said, both were Sundering Blade right now.
If I grab control for Sarah, it's going to be nice.
Threatening chronic at the very least.
Lukavino takes an overhead swing as Kalin still fends for his life on the payload. Someone still needs to touch though.
Kalin's gonna be a that guy for them and it's gonna be the Sundering Blade throw over the boxes
Maybe nope straight on top of the head of Kaloo's nice DMG timing there actually on the mech
Now on to the backline. So he's not done that nasty
Time has just gone now King liquid's chance of equalizing a 3 out 3 camp with the finality of the map about dash to late
As this is a rough place for the liquid to leave the payload as well as maximum distance from to get back the payload
Maximum amount of positioning for Dallas who have to play with on that defensive side is all Sonjin prove what he can do
With this Vendetta still can get this easier to pull off the same
Sonjin
I do one of the greats coming up
I'm not sure if he's got a good
kill on Jutri at the very least.
A nice angle. Yeah, it felt like it should have been, but unfortunately, it wasn't.
So no trees here.
Okay, Jutri is good enough.
That might put Kallen in an odd spot.
He's actually retreated back to his supports, making sure they don't get dove next.
The Nanoboose to CJ could be good.
Sleep on to Kaluj.
Doesn't want to prop that Nae in case he gets eaten by the Matrix there.
A quick 180 would have done it.
There's the Nae on the Diva.
Nae on the ground.
Straight on top is Eric Clears.
is running off of their high ground position.
It's Kellen now chasing the brick.
They're very low, but you've got to be able to touch, man.
Team Liquid, sneak that point away as Dallas Fuel
go too deep for the chase.
No one alive, unfortunately.
The back line needed to be the ones
that definitely go over the touch,
because Kellen's going to try and take the nano
into the back line and get a trade if possible.
But you've already really lost your back line.
It's a tough map, especially in that position,
to play the nano as well.
You send in the nano, hope for the best of the bio,
and they can set up the kills for Kellen.
Afterwards you've not got much left to do collude Sierra can run a huge tree from long range taking down scary for CJ
For Dallas fuel they've helped on for a long time
And they've been able to bleed the timer down to make sure that they will have the advantage of the time back
Double sites a hundred percent information
Go on peeking you won't you won't randomly grapple shot into the sky
That was a lot of damage.
Sanger and being able to get away though.
Because that Nade connects with Vega meaning they can't push forward in CJ.
CJ very low, it's true.
Yeah, quite literally 1 HP in the back.
It's hit up by Lukimino in the end.
Rally ends up wearing off.
Escanol colludes equally as low as CJ just a moment ago.
Honestly, I respect the rally just to try and get a punish onto Sanger.
They couldn't quite find that kill.
What they've all found is Escanol onto Sanger.
There's some more DPS damage from Escanol coming through big time.
That's before Sanger has offered as well.
Greedy shot from CJ there. I think it connected as well with the head of a tree
The hedgehog is so good now by the with the honor by the way my goodness
All right. Well nice sleep
Three seconds no Susan for three seconds there
Unfortunately, so I'm coming out though
But the sun room blade is gonna get popped around the corner
So I'm just not finding too much damage as you make chronic enter falling over still though fighting in the front lines
Is a song in fine on the point now inevitable for both teams only four point six seven meters to go
Xerra cleans the Suzu, but here comes the Nano onto the Vendetta.
Straight for the backline, but cannot quite close the distance.
Eventually finds the Slash Dash onto Vega, but Vega would they bash away?
And then Sri with the follow-up, Sri with another.
My goodness, the kill onto CJ was sublime.
Team Liquid ended up finishing a minute and nine seconds in the bank.
Dallas Fuel though, still with more.
I mean, this could have ended so poorly.
14 Liquid, they lost the Mech on a collage very early in that fight.
But thankfully, you know, self-destruct available.
It's three though, that is continually putting in work as chronic, it was completely silent in the back half.
Team Liquid finding their mark went, you really need it particularly, I mean it's going to even, finding himself in the kill feed is worth a lot.
You know, Sondren down, Sondren finding less and less value despite having some massive plays onto B.
On C, just not able to get into the back line, they're not able to find the flank, so I think B is a better point for that Vendetta as 0 and Sondren struggling on that C point.
point of anything done it's the battle of the water makers in the long-range hit
scans and the tree is just winning that one
yeah only a single minute you're looking for the water makers to really hold their
ground here tree's gonna have to come up with something special in the start I
mean killing chronic straight up again would be would be really nice for them
I'm glad they're playing the widow head-to-head as well
It's I mean currently needs to be shut down and some of the best way to shut down and would it make it is shutting down
With your own widow maker right and it's been entirely one side because we haven't seen much out of chronic sense tree
Actually went over towards a little bit would have been I mean we saw that one POV from currently he missed what I thought was
Probably your free beyond the Escanor but then quite hit that one and since then if you any anyone taking a look again
And then that final fight tree, I believe got four.
He opens up in a Sondren, gets a kill in the CJ.
Sondren respawns, dies to treat again, two in a row.
So a tree just put me in unbelievable work for Team Liquid.
And that's on top of them having a lost
making clue forcing the self-destructive team
looking to still able to just brush that off.
Just soloed.
Lost the one we wanted to get to the end of that.
To no one surprised there.
Only 30 seconds to go as well
and you lose in times like this.
Just hang up for a single fight now.
I mean, you see just how much Dallas feel know that tree is the problem.
You would just see a Saundra like that in...
Look at this guy's angle!
Doesn't matter, Saundra needs to be the one taking it down.
20 seconds left.
The assault could be decided by the way.
He can't even get on an offensive angle.
It's Zera trying to clear out Saundra, like...
To try and set tree up and then no one's peeking tree, obviously.
Long-range Suzu there to cleanse that purple from Zera.
Let's hear some CJ from the high ground.
Now let's restall.
Tree though?
Tree though with the kill.
Look at me though, that's gonna be good.
Still though with a good healer though, in honor.
Could be good still.
Oh, what a kill.
Okay, tree down.
Try for an idea.
Kellen does end up getting killed by Zeravul people with zero remake.
Now, Sonjin in hot pursuit gets nanoed as well.
Good luck, have fun if you have this break.
Although decent movement here from Vega, but yeah, unfortunately,
there's a lot of movement from the vendetta.
little bit more than you can really muster a nice little dash straight back on
Scythe's been popped chronic with another there's the D mech as well kill on
to collage needed CJ gets it Sonja just gives collage a parting free kill but
that's where the payload will end but I'm hoping and though for team look at
because when you look at where the finality of their payload is
technically speaking 303 to hold that is doable if the payload was still
stuck in car wash it doesn't even make it into car wash you're
calling this one for Dallas pretty quickly but the fact they got it
car wash means that there is a chance I mean you can start to look towards the
fact that okay an early hold on the high ground maybe doesn't work you can break
off hold towards server room, store out the payload at that position and make a
final stand, team liquid now have some options and if tree continues to hit
shots you're starting to believe in what you're not going to get is on a map
like this and a point like this Songin is not going to be able to just find
a tree off rip like he does on the defensive side now that trees on the
defensive side himself and
Sonja's like attacking side. Sonja just can't
Get around the whole map and find tree like that. He has to be within sight lines. He's gonna get spotted. So tree
You'd imagine as long as they can keep him up and he continues to deliver
The Hopian exists for liquid that only breaks if somehow chronic gets the bitter tree
You know, that's to keep them in this series as well. That's still a 2-0
three minutes in the time bank like I
I mean it to be fair if roles reversed it could just be chronic hitting heads and then it's GG, right?
That's that is just the widow. It's always been a feast of famine character
It's always been like okay the widow either hits the headshots and we win or she doesn't she gets out widowed or she just dies
or something like that
Rip CJ anyone well
Oh my goodness, I am surprised I didn't grab that long.
I didn't get the spell, you didn't kill him.
Oh wait, okay, real good, real good.
The tree is unreal right now, this is what Team Liquid need again though, it's still
favored from Dallas Field because if you all have more time to play with Team Liquid
can't afford to make any mistakes but Team Liquid currently are not making mistakes
in trees, he's so fired everybody on the whole, look at that, 73.
73, yeah.
oh he takes one headshot though that's what I'm saying one headshot is all it
takes oh my goodness chronic lucky to be alive there treat a shot on him for free
by the low tree right now okay gonna need to deal with that at some point
it's hard to because oh no good team up there both three and Sarah turning
around to kill Sonjin two minutes to go and a retreat for the fuel but that's
the thing they Dallas feel are so desperate to shut down trees because he
is just outperforming chronic in this matchup
Sonja's force to go for these solo plays and being spotted recruiting Zera into
the 2v1 and then just peeking down Sonja while by the way liquid is still
holding on to payload and one mistake yet field cap liquid must play
perfectly tree must continue to break we'll say I think information now for
both sides body shot for Vega they still need to just dislodge tree they need to
uproot this guy Dallas fuel have got this rally to online and Luca Mino is
just gonna rip it is it nano booster CJ as well this should be the fight here for
Dallas fuel on the point round now Vega trying to fight for his life instantly
pops the rally the nano intercom it in and Luca Mino is gonna be able to stay
alive for as long as humanly possible now he's gonna pop that shield up
still though the rally is being put under quite a considerable amount of
Pressure we're killing with this free self-destruct supports under a little bit of a little it's a rest there from kaloofa
Kaloos needs to be the one to authorize the point
Susan cleans the anti now as he dives straight back into the fight as the moment that is cleansed
Tree is going to be back in a moment's notice to with chronic trying to find another sight line
30 seconds or so left to play through Dallas fuel the running out time is rock soldier with sundering first during a response
Oh chronic it's a going down to Sarah of all players to is he soon?
Oh Bob in his own sonary plate and team liquid. I've just done this Sarah
It's managed to kill two players this fight chasing Kellen twos are going to have to sub strung together really
Oh, no, they're free kill for Sarah
15 seconds ago team liquid. I've only just gone and done it
That was my only there's no time there. It might be the miracle defense for liquid confirmed now Kellen on towards a ball
They're desperate Dallas feel if it wasn't going to be the fight with tree go down. What fighters are going to be
Look me know next on rally in 10%
They just got to keep Kevin alive
But with a thousand HP that shouldn't be too much of a problem no ultimates like you mentioned a punch
That's not rally, but they're gonna touch they got it three heads of going down though
Unfortunate body shot there on to the brig shield
But still they are fighting a rally to push them forward and a miracle defense fell at the hands of the Dallas fuel
They put the payload in in OT and they find the win at 3-0 finish in the series
Dallas feel like a blue beaver just gnawing away at the trunk of that tree and eventually it will fall
When the fight goes underway, Kellen is basically going all in on tree
Sojourn is going all in on tree. If tree goes, it's winnable. If tree's alive, liquid have a chance
And that one came down to the literal
why will the tree fall or not. If a Dallas feel they got it just before the sunset. My
god that's a crazy crazy finish but like I said Jack it was set up to be a
potential clutch there for Team Liquid. I mean the payload in the perfect spot to
maybe get a win. Tree just performing a high and consistent level of
chronic is falling off on the water make it match up. That tree could carry you
I was hoping I was hoping for a map five, but we only got three, but honestly
Second and third map delivered. We've got some Ryan from Kellen and then we get this insane Gibraltar
Which is a very Gibraltar way to end it as well three minutes and you OT push not even to get to the first point
Just to get out of a car wash for the win like that is insane stuff
And yeah treat almost managed to play out of the bag for them even saying that
And yeah tree almost managed to pull out of the bag for them even Zera on that. What second to last fight got three
kills on the vendetta
Managed to D met Kellen force the self-destruct as well. Like that was just ridiculous
Ridiculous stuff all around. I think liquid regardless of this
I still think they're much improved comparatively to last week. It was a free oh sure those last two maps
This last map felt way closer, but it puts Dallas fuel in such a good spot man. They are got to oh in the round robin
They've only still dropped a single map like they're looking clean. I
mean is it I
Don't even really want to say but this is one of those games where like
It's kind of a close 3.0. Maybe not because Atlas wasn't close at all
But the final map was a close 3.0 at least was definitely getting there
But it's like I sort of said here Jack as well. I think Dallas Fuel are just ahead of liquid right now liquid
I like the collage change up to try and like change up things more, but that also introduce potentially more problems
With bringing somebody who hasn't come in for the game for quite some time
It's gonna be fresh to the team and I think liquid these sort of teaming issues are now two weeks deep
Yeah, I mean I gotta say though when it came down to that last map on the ball there
It was just such a nail biter
That's what I kind of wanted the full series to look like but like you guys had mentioned Dallas
You'll are just a bit ahead of team liquid right now
But I think that we are definitely seeing the heights that team this team liquid team should be hitting when you look at this roster
Overall, I still can't believe that in the last 15 seconds TL
We're not able to take us to that fourth map. It was only I was really believing in here
But regardless jaws this foot series was such a banger to start off ending for today
Yeah, we did really get a bit of everything to be honest with you
Pretty insane Ryan work from Callum bringing us back to like 2018
They you can't really ask much more than that in the no-bots game in the competitive of which game the very least
I think Gibraltar ended the classic way Gibraltar does to and I think um with how the Dallas fuel are performing currently
It looks so good. I'd has it. Well, do I hesitate to put them above space station right now?
I don't think I had to say that much to be honest to you. I think with the amount of looks that they have
They're chilling. I think they're the number one team in NA currently
The only thing that didn't look good was that when I make a matchup once three decided to get on against current
But it's like from now. I think everything else is pretty flawless
So I'm doing in my mind. I don't know if I sort of employ the matches
But to me probably to stand out once again for the side of Dallas
Oh, yeah, I mean I don't give a props to that line that did come through from killing on that through
But largely we talk about the consistency Sonjun delivering three maps out of three on a multitude of different heroes
Understanding what his job is even in losing situations. I go back to Lee Jung and bro is like staying alive for ever delivering kills and
Liquid only get that one of the round when Sonjun goes down
Yeah, it's just unfortunate and liquid now, you know one-on-one minus two like the chance of making plus is still you know pretty high
I don't think they're gonna be in the fifth set, but
But things can happen, but that one win against Extinction is going to be able to hold them
up at least for now.
Well, I think that overall, Adelaide Steel are looking incredible in this server, especially
with some of the comps that we were throwing back to.
But let's throw it into an interview with Luke Amino.
I'm so excited to talk to you about today's matchup.
Congratulations on your win up against Team Liquid, Luke.
I would love to know because I think Avril and Jaws are talking about it a lot on the
cast today.
You guys were pulling out some throwback comps when it came down to the Reinhardt,
bringing out the D.Va and the Genji with the Ana.
Was that kind of the game plan for the identity of this team, or did those come down to
some of the hard reads that Avril was kind of guessing towards?
I definitely still saw the comps.
I feel like people kind of forgot that they're good.
And it's a little bit for fun but a little bit we're trying stuff and I think it worked
out pretty well this match so we'll see if we have to pull it out again.
Oh I mean it works out perfectly with the Ryan you meant 3-0 in Atlas so yeah you're
chilling.
I did ask previously in an interview with the Vals fuel how it felt to be to kind of
represent the team.
I want to ask you the same question obviously XO which is a league player as well like
how does it feel to refuel?
I'm sick.
The work is awesome. It's fun to work with everyone here. It's just been a good time so far
What do you guys see yourself right now?
I mean obviously I think you would always want to back yourself with confidence in terms of your own playing the team's play
But now that you're being liquid really there's only SSG left to go through you guys think you might be the best team in
North America right now like what's left for you guys to do to get there?
I mean it just is between us and SSG
but I feel like every team is pretty solid, so I feel like there might be some upsets this week,
it'll be fun to watch, but we'll definitely be the best team in the region by the time the playoffs
come around, so. I love to hear the confidence and I think something to round it all out is
my question for you, it's going to be when it comes down to some of the other regions that
we're seeing across the board, of course the Metas always develop a little bit differently
from region to region, is there any team in particular that you're really excited
to play when it does come down to those internationals?
Um, I want to play in Zeta.
I feel like they're pretty
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Welcome back everyone to OWCS NA I'm Ash your host and I'm joined here by Averil and Jaws.
We just saw Dallas Fuel take it 3-0 up against Team Liquid but now it's time for our second
match of the day.
It's our survival match here Jaws between disguise and extinction.
these teams currently 0 and 2 within those standings and they got to get their win today
if they want to keep their faith in their own hands. Yeah, extinction, they're a little
worse off as well and so it's a massive burst of disguise. They're seeing a minus four right now
whereas this guy's seeing a minus three. They need to win. Someone needs to win here and someone
will win funnily enough. That's how these games kind of work, but you need to win to
stay alive because going 0-2 and around Robin with only three weeks of play is a good luck.
It's just it's just not good in the end of the day. I think if you were to put a prediction on me
I'm probably going with disguised here will get those in a minute, of course, but they just looked a little better
Plus they taking a map of Dallas fuel. That's no easy feat
I think for disguise, you know
I sort of said this at the top of the show they view for a win because they've been close already
They look like they have a real potential there to certainly be a playoffs team
I look at disguise and I think this should be a team that will break into top four
They just haven't had a win yet. They were very heavily front-loaded in terms of the schedule that had to go up against Dallas and the strength of SSG.
Now they're into games that should be somewhat winnable for them, but also definitely a must-win situation disguised.
A team I expect in the top four for Extinction, it's going to be a bit more of a tougher road because all the games they're remaining are definitely more difficult.
Yeah, I definitely felt prey to the strength and I guess weakness of schedule in their particular case.
Okay, so I think that this roster though, I mean it has consistently impressive key pieces to it
I remember when I joined the OWCS broadcast last year Rocket always took me off guard with his performances
Who would you say is the player to definitely look out for?
Yeah, I think Rocket is probably up there along with PG of course
course, dude, since the time off, we still look so good. I mean, with like five maps versus
the space station as well, like, I don't know. It feels like they just had a tough start.
Like week one, it was not ours, guys, but we took maps of some of the best teams. But
like, yeah, like Abraceta and Riori's rate, they are going to be a playoffs team. It's
just a matter of overcoming this small well here now. I hope you're pushing on board.
And that's why this matchup is so important today. Going up against an extinction where
It's been a little bit of a similar-ish story with how close they brought it to Team Liquid,
but Lunax, they went 0-3 up against them here.
Averil, when it comes down to this roster, I feel like two of the players that consistently stood out to me
have been PDK and Sniper from what I've seen from them previously.
Sniper bringing in a lot of flexibility as well, which is always great for the team.
The loss to Lunex, especially the way it happened, is not great for the campaign for Extinction's current stage, why they think that needed to be a win for them if they want a true hook in that top 4.
It's going to be a lot more difficult for this team not to break into a top 4 class position with that kind of a loss.
So if they can turn around this week, it'd be huge, because to me, Extinction are for sure the underdogs in this matchup.
I'm excited to see if he came
right back in the mix. I think
with rocket and Ryan the head
to head kind of nice, both
heavy tracer players will see
if Brian can actually. Kind of
win those doors, though, because
I think it's a head to head. I
think rocket is better, but I
think pdk is a little bit of
an extract to the team. I think
we're going to be able to
the team. I think when he pops
off, he can really kind of bring
it home. But I think this matchup
matchup is going to come down to DPS
and I really do think both on both
sides of things. And taking a look
at these standings over here as well
as a reminder again, the reason why
this matchup and I mean to be fair
every single matchup but this matchup
in particular is so important is
because both these teams are down
and oh in two and again there were
definitely some heartbreak matches for
of them during week one but overall I gotta remind you that you only have five games that you're
playing throughout that regular season. One of them will be netting a win today and we'll have
to stay tuned to find out who that is going to be. I'm kind of curious do you guys feel like it
maybe goes to all five maps? Let's run our predictions to kick things off. I am gonna be
be putting my money on DSG for this one. I think with like how close they took it up against
the station, it was really impressive. This roster has again, some really good key pieces
to it. Joss, what are you thinking?
Yeah, I think the same. I went to the disguised. I think if I had to match score on it, probably
I wanted to, I'm always, I feel like I'm always a 3-1 Andy, but like I think 3-1
can deliver a couple more maps. Okay, okay. I'm kind of curious before I send you guys over into
this matchup, actually, Avril, what do you think could be a really big win factor here for extinction
to be able to give us their best showing, whether it comes down to like the bands that they might
be pulling out or the maps we might be seeing them pick into? Maybe a sniper ball coming on
through has been a bit of a cheeky pick coming on through from the side, but PDQ, right? I
I think it's a DPS favorite team. So if they can deliver this would be a really strong looking
Yeah, copy paste what I've reset control B. Yeah, I think yeah, I agree. I think it's a DPS focused match up there
Well, let's see what the DPS players are able to bring to the table. Let's get straight into DSG versus extinction
Yes, thank you very much Ash. Here we go. I wrote starting out on these young towers are picked from disguised
Let's see if we can get a cheeky D.Va band to start things out with.
I know Ryan does enjoy his flyers, so get rid of a D.Va straight away, if possible.
Move over towards a fire, so some echo as well from Ryan in the past.
But probably a cut and dry matchup, I suspect that neither team is maybe going to do something
too crazy here.
Both teams are going to look at their styles, very normal, P.G. probably going to play
more on-ray than Sojin.
There is going to be a tank band, but it's going to go over towards Azar.
to prevent any sort of Zarya Vendetta combos. We've also got the Echo ban as well, so DSG nodding
over towards the hero pool of Extinction saying, okay, we know the capability of Flies is definitely
both on the Extinction side but also on the Jungtow. Let's just remove Echo from the mix.
Pharah, we're more okay with because D.Va is an option obviously with Zarya being gone,
D.Va is still there. So if there is a Pharah, DSG happy to play some of that D.Va deal with it.
You know, see what they're rocking with. You're gonna see a Ryne. How good do you think
I think the Rime really is like no joke, kind of off top of your head like, is it stupid?
In a very specific matchup where you know you're coming in against Azari in a matchup and you forgot like the kind of flag round to play with
and you can abuse Azari a little bit maybe, I think we're not going to see a Rime really come through the meta in any strong way but it's just like a good little fun pick
but if you've really banned away the Azari I think it's like not really we could see the Rime because everything else gets a bit weird
bit weird like you've also gotten out by the way banning way the echo also in some cases enables
the fire so if sniper does come through on a rime and rocket notices that you can instantly swap
the fire and now you know force a diva matchup with sniper being forced to swap or you can just
play the fire for free knowing there's no echo on the inside yeah no funny business here sniper
the very last second switching over to the diva no shock nice tail pull out though but pge
I've seen a poster. Wow. Where did Grace go all right?
He's uh, he's he's he's bricked up on wings is to start one out with by the way
Delivery
I wonder I'm not sure but well PG starts off pretty well and at the first emerald is in today
I think PG's play the most emerald everybody I don't see any hit-stand play as much as PG on this specific area
Everyone is kind of more
We're willing to test the water a bit without the pics being so long.
Gleips down to tread off the map.
Usually a solo show of booting players, not getting booted up yourself or whatever.
Yeah, I mean, okay, sure. We'll take that disguise, just cap the point for free.
Come on.
It's alright, you check it off.
I'm good.
So we're just gonna be walking across the bridge for the most part for extension.
One thing to maybe switch things up, we don't have a white room just yet.
The big flanks aren't running away too heavily on the old charges.
DDK actually, despite extinction and losing those fights and a PGG in the first kill, they still do it a lot.
I agree that he's one of the best.
Kind of farm in terms of damage too, look at that 90% already on the air-bribe protocol.
PK now, uh, moving up with the Soge, decent charge as long as Soge needs to be fair.
Well, that's the air-bribe protocol.
And, uh, that's one death ratio, my word, nice accuracy.
Oh, he was great, too.
Ooh-ho-ho-ho, PGE!
Yeah, that's a 4K.
Yeah, he's like, give him the 5k, go on!
Oh, this guy's ruining it.
We'll call it a 5k for the Dark Lord, why not?
PG, no.
I mean, this is not even close, man.
This is, there's one side, there's one side I can get.
He's looked good last weekend, no?
He's looking even better with less capability so far
from extinction to shut him down.
PG has been concretely stored so far in this opening.
And you certainly know what extinction need to do now.
Need to look for a way to shut down PG.
looks like they're finally actually going to go for the flight with pdk from through the other block
their pamphlet sees the death in style but it'll be a rush from the point eventually
150 rail gun charge need a kill though that's the thing pdk you need to get a kill right now
unfortunately that kill is not going to come pdk ends up going down to tread still with a
beat in the back pocket with disguise stick oh i'm not sure where that went but in connect
soundbite from both sides now but still with a player advantage four disguised
Ryan's gonna try and serve himself in the back line here, but this guy's doing a good job of just grouping up
It's like a five-man death ball here. Is that just guys? I try and push back extension. OT's coming in, PGE kills Ryan
There's Graves with the touch, sub the truck comes out PGE of PDK, sorry ends up killing two, but the touch continues for Graves
It's the one of all Sniper onto PGE as well suddenly for extension as long as they touch again
Which just barely within the last moments there continually the overtime tread is gonna pop the sub to Struck
I don't think that was wise, but the Skies want to hold on for as long as they can.
They've held on for their 99s, so extinction.
Eventually she got around some heroics from PtK.
We talked about PtK and Ryan show a little bit for the DPS line of extinction.
They need to be the ones to put the fire underneath the Skies.
They've done that for one fight so far, and now they have to do it for every fight from now on for this round.
I mean, I'm going to be honest, if PtG gets any value with this ult,
I think the round is going to be over.
Already got 4 kills last time.
Just took so much damage.
We're gonna check the stats, obviously, at the end of this map, though.
My word, he's definitely leading the team next, for certain.
Not real opening here until PGE flying his overdrive.
And I'll get the swipe to prevent most of the damage coming through.
PGE's run off, he just got a little bit down.
Oh, good. Quick reset here, yeah.
Just quick reset. Go back.
Move off the map, for sure, whatever. Who cares?
Just get back to spawn, get TD to rip the ult and go fight.
Craig skits his revenge with the Traders off, we're going off the map and now he's sent...
...Tread off the map, that's a lot of ult charge by the way for Lucio.
Scuffed also very far ahead of Syle.
So that would be good for Extinction's ability to hold onto this point.
Likely, these guys won't do a lot until they find some support ultimates, I don't think.
You just want to rip the PGLs.
Yeah, never mind you do, but how long does it take?
Should have made the kill.
I will be ulti instantly.
I'll just raise the backline, go those heavy Rellgun shots, those heavy rounds.
Okay, really didn't find anything there.
Yeah, could have killed him.
Could have killed him, had to do a super far away, and now finally just caught up with the speed of game.
Oh, Sniper!
Oh my goodness, that beat couldn't come in quicker there, for great.
Sniper's staying alive there, the brink of death.
PDK is going down to credible people, like...
And again, it should be fight over with.
Kind of a fumble here, I'm going to be honest from the skies, it feels like...
Kind of talking about a big game a second ago with the team, but if they should now, they're looking for a round win.
around win
and a fumble from the skies as a solo soundbite from lex trying to keep the point alive is just
not what they should be cooking up extinction with the first round that is rough gsg were in such
incredible control post i feel for you man because that's uh that one probably should have been yours
or like gsg they almost slipped through the buttery fingers of their players as it even goes
far as back as Tread using self destruct in a fight they definitely lost, that was a little weird
lost that ultimate, this guy's maybe going a little too early on the pg overdrive before
the team was really able to do too much, you overdrive, extinction pops and falls in response
scuffed ability dropped in consumer right across the bridge, extinction still had map control
you're so far away that your shots on the overdrive are actually really not connecting
and sniper should be there to just absorb the majority of it anyway and then when it all
comes down to it that is 4% off from getting the sound barrier to contest
grapes and then in the final final fight that has to be the one touching dies
and then isn't there a sound barrier as team in the final fight so a bit of a
comedy of Aero assembly my PEG still willing to play the MRA of course
she'd be very good on this map a lot of corners kind of high behind so the
splash damage from the override protocol is pretty pronounced quick
Fight win there at least positional advantage for extinction after disguise. Sorry as they are cap the point
That's where I think if your PG want to play close side should be
For the port here at large. I think this is a good cast map or a strong disobeyment in the previous one is all given
so the close proximity
Ability maybe get some collateral's rocket going down early is not really looking for from post style of things as
Extinction, they lost mech though.
Put flip?
Yeah, I mean they lost mech so...
Extinction, they're not gonna have a tank's kind of a cow behind now, it's P.T.E.
Railground from across the map by P.D.K.
Say that 10 times fast, P.D.K. P.D.
Actually, it doesn't sound that hard.
Rhyme with the pulse will enhance.
As well, Thread is kind of being the doorman right now, just locking everybody out of the point
but Sniper is gonna be able to get back, but the player advantage here from the disguise should be enough.
There's the flip, Sniper pretty low.
There's no self-destruct, no remade capabilities here for Sniper.
Riot fending for his life on this high ground, forced to use that recall pretty early on.
Both Sambaris get laid in place as how the fight continues on the point.
Rush ends up coming through, got a heal tread though.
Doesn't want to use that to ultimate too early here in this fight.
Sniper is also nearing theirs.
Snipe lasting for eternity at this point, waiting for PDK or PDG, PGE to eventually find a kill,
a kill, but neither of them can land a shot here.
I'm really getting much kills, but this famous DSG, because they're capping point currently,
they're getting a local percentage point rocket.
Oh, I just feel a little deep on that one, gives extension finally a one-plus,
in terms of finding a player advantageous disguise.
Strongly defining the response, PGE helps.
Oh, it's way too deep.
Override Predacor is going to get popped here by PGE.
Now, Sniper taking the majority of that damage, both with the matrix hand, just with their body.
See if he can again try and find something, something in place shouldn't be good, that's a whole lot of damage.
Sniper gets ejected from the mech, self-destruct, they need to kill the baby Diva though, but TRED ejected from the mech now with no ult.
I mean, surely this disguise backing up here, this has been like a 100% fight, this is still going by the way.
Remake coming in for TRED, eventually dies as disguise holds on for 80% in a single fight.
Left got a second soundbite. Left by the way was 40% ahead of grapes at the end of that fight.
Just finding an insane alt-judger. This is when we started this fight with all four supports.
Essentially at Parity, everyone had about the same alt-timing across left star, scuffed and grapes.
But we ended this one with left being massively ahead despite being behind on the previous round.
So, it was a show, he and she, just peeking ahead and as I sort of said in the middle of the fight, yes.
They're complete even steaks kind of situation. Just a full stand with the fight.
Oh nice little Tuesday time in there, it's going to save Star Wars Life for a brief moment.
He cannot land his final shot to double tap somebody but, just me and the Skies, they're
going to have to give up a lot of this space.
We got a tempo beat, distinction, they have their support up, it's ready to go.
This goes to distance, so Lepha's going to completely last for 8, Lepha's really
moving towards it.
Oh, good kill.
GAL is rough for DSG.
Yeah, really good kill.
Look at the, look at the bank as well. Oh, and Rocket falls too. And Lep as well.
I mean, these mistakes best left avoided here. Extinction at 85%. This is going to be a rushed touch.
No Tracer. Lep might have to be the one going for it again. There isn't a time to just push on in.
Still 90% for now. Extinction might want to go for it aggressive. It's like,
it just goes straight to the tip. I think they are.
Sambar is coming in. Lep needs to survive. But unfortunately, PTA first to Paul.
It's going to be a touch of disguise at the very least. Rocket ends up getting on that.
How about extinction still with a pair of launchage?
Cannot be over Satan how much let me just be left. He's so low to he's gotta get it
He's gotta put it down. He eventually lays it on the point hits four players
Great guys for remake kill of all things and the Ryan also follows up straight to the grave there for two players
The extinctions they lose the point
genuinely massive from left he is so far ahead in terms of all charge he's an
extra beat ahead of grapes again looking to completely lack grapes and
because this guy's despite being one down held on long enough with left staying
alive by the way if you got him down probably game over let's say the life
because it should be a protocol I look like this so low when he says I so
pretty gay scared to beat now as PTE just lays waste the enemy team in front
a good little dash and aggressive on a bat.
PDK needs to find something though as the rest of his team are going down on the point.
PDG with an unbelievable post as well.
Doesn't even get slammed by Sniper.
They cannot land that hard driver up on the high ground.
And PDG now just playing as like a turret on the high ground.
Sniper dead. PDK to follow.
That should be round for the skies.
We head into round number three.
This is insanely close man.
This is a game that is actually really, really delivering.
Disguise were at various points looking like a pretty rough form on that particular point. However, I think let again was a standout here
Just fully at the end
Basically lapping grapes and ult charge getting that one extra beat super important in the final fight the actual final fight PGE
Not dying off rip staying alive post on the high ground as you sort of mentioned and it's a double support
Loss on the extinction side only for one loss on disguised thing doesn't let that one down so two for one trade
No healing available to keep Sniper's ball alive to continue the touch for extension.
And yeah, it's over from there, but it's double 99s on both sides.
And the never-ending fight.
Basically, it felt like one fight throughout the whole round, to be honest with you.
Alright, Zen Combs, running out.
We'll see if again PGE can kind of take it to PDK.
We said it was a battle of the DPS players, and it's kind of delivering on that front.
You're better than that. Full PGE as well. Far longer sight lines would be...
Just steady and consistent damage, em, right?
to be able to put out that left leg damage.
She's taking a little bit of hurt at the moment.
She'll cost some space and cost trade a little bit of HP here as an extinction.
We'll have map advantage in terms of position to start with.
That is so low.
Yeah, just as easy as heal, I mean sure.
You're not really cleansing anything here, so I think that's a valid use of it.
Most definitely.
Excision cap the point first.
Grave's dead, though.
PG turns against Wine as an extinction now.
Just so low. Have to back off.
This slow but steady kind of taking of the mid fight as well, like you said, PGE with such a giant range of artiches.
Damage to do as well.
Now, the skies, okay, first cat, well actually, 6% got up 20%, but they do get a very quick flip.
Grape's being as far behind on the alt charge once again, it's gonna end up being a problem.
Grape's dying a little early, now Fire Lep getting away with a massive lead on the alt charge.
So when we get into the bulk of the alt change alt exchange rather
Extinction be the ones left out of the mix with a black and sound barrier
It should be the play of honor chair believe me a lot
Little bit revenge there nice engage from extinction riot
My word on the tracer and it's gonna cut the point as well. W trace
They needed that because again fit down on other things in terms of ultimate
so they need to be able to find pecs and flip off the back of that one.
DSU has not all just yet to play with, so extension, Rhyme getting double.
Now DSU are close enough that this is going to be ult forced early if extension can help it.
And kiting DSU back, playing scuffs ult, perhaps on the point, buying greats at a time to find his beat.
Now let's see if Rocket can make any good opener here with this Polar Spot.
I say that and he throws it on the ground.
Whoops, Daisy. All good though. PDK down.
Seeks with a whole heap of volts for
override protocol from the skies.
I mean, it really is just such a
devastating hole in this map as well.
But the amount of open space, it's just kinda crazy.
Quick cap here, you'd imagine.
But, you know, Sniper keeping it alive.
Oh yeah, got a little bit of security on the sideline, too.
Gonna force the TP.
I don't think it's actually really hold on though. PDK's
gonna try and make some heroes, please.
They're completely mocked by Tread's matrix.
They're going to rush in, Sambhire, Graves is 10% away man.
Graves leaves the Sambhire.
Nesperly, dies at 96, that's fight over with.
Well they didn't have the point control though, so credit to Extension for forcing an extra
fight now with PDK ripping through the OC.
Those forced out a couple of support ults from DSG, so despite Graves not being there
to contend as, which is a line that went up super early noticing how far behind Graves
really was, just 4%.
It sounds like let from round one all the way in the garden.
Extension got 81.
So in some cases, despite that loss,
it's worth to push up percentage wise.
And now they will have a free tip of the soundbar to play it.
And it grapes to the back of the point already.
It's got the back up.
It presses the soundbar.
It's straight to the center of the point.
Nice little boob on left.
Pushing to float gracefully through the air.
It self-destructs.
P.T. dies to a post bomb as well.
I mean, this is going to be map here if these guys can't
I think maybe if Sniper could have held on to self-destruct a little bit that would have been good. Can't remember if there was a case where Sniper just went too low HP.
Rocket's got the only ult available. Can he get a kill? What? Oh, Rocket dies though. Someone's gonna touch, someone's gonna touch.
Oh, eventually they do. Luckily, Lepin tread. We're able to save the day there at the very end.
And I sell free kill though, just even up the score though, Avril.
The sky is extinction and 44 on the point.
Who's still getting chased down, but Scott's already dead.
They trade for LEM, but I'll take my Kirikou being alive.
Any day of the week, Sky with both kills on the backliners of extinction.
Doing absolutely everything they can to stay alive here, but Riot able to stay up for as long as possible.
No recall either.
Postbub on the point, hit the recall, and now the Tracer, no blinks, no recall.
Nothing left in the tank is extinction.
take map one massive map one victory for extinction. They lost double support in that final fight as well.
There are no supports alive, they've been via sheets where at least one for some time going but
pdk and ryan i mean we just see the kills go back and forth it started out with by the way lepkin
and the freebie onto who was up with the pdk was like what what what how does that happen
but instantly traded extinction gets one back and it's a one for one consistently but extinction
holding on in the final fight with no supports and you start to rewind a little bit and the fact
that they win this a lot of it comes down to the fact that they made the call earlier on but they
were lower percentage points for the map itself and decide you know what let's rip the OC onto PDK
we might not win the fight we're going to force a really big ult trade from the other side as
well and then we're going to bleed out the ult mix we're going to push ourselves to be on 80
percent and then they only have realistically one more fight to play through if they can make
that work then they actually do win. So a giant win for extinction here and I think
half way through the opening round of Lee Jung Jack it was like our extinction going to be
even competitive on this map and then they win the map.
Yeah like what was it? It was 99 the first round right? It was close to that the very
least like very very close to just being kind of a stomp like PGE was just dominating
on the Embray. I'm taking a peek at the stats real quick from Li Xiang. I mean, PGE sitting
at what? 25 and 10, 18k damage leading his team. PDK on the flip side of things, honestly
doing equally as well. 21 and 10 hitting almost 19k damage, 18.9, so leading the server overall
for PDK. And even dying in that final fight too, so, you know, it kind of popped off,
to be honest with me. Still, a DPS matchup right now for both sides. Just ridiculous. I expect
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As, it's not to really see where the teams land in terms of a top 4, then potentially a top 2.
And this game was already surprising me a little bit. Maybe it shouldn't because Extinction had a good showing versus Liquid.
I think it was just that loss to Lunex that kind of, you know, sowed the hopes a little bit.
But maybe getting one versus DSG would be huge because DSG in my mind still probably should have won that opening round on Garden.
They let that one through their fingers. It was a very upsetting kind of round one loss considering how far ahead they were.
I just didn't quite have the stability to get through that and they would have probably have been cleaned up the rest of the
John given how the second on a control went control center went but
Extinction office to them got through some tough situations and remember even in that final round of
Night market
How far behind grapes was an extinction so mash the poor through and finally the victory despite that loss on the sound
That was surprisingly the kind of hero for extinction after PG had his run of the opening phase
But left was the one that in my mind I was doing a lot of work
But it wasn't enough so extinction now one up. He is she taking us to realto a
Map where diva is really required. I don't think we had a diva band yet
We had a Zara band before the diva band open. I wonder if a diva band will come through
It feels inevitable at least maybe not on realto, but like on another map, right?
It's got to be it's got to be surely I think as well like this happened
against PGE before but banning the Emre as well wouldn't be such a bad channel. I
Think there's like fine options. I think banning Emre is
Potentially not the best use of the ban just because I expect PGE to go to Soge
He was already quite comfortable in that in fact, he's gonna get even more comfortable and soge
Yeah, they banned soge which forces Emre or potentially puts us on to a winner maker spicy
We're making already got spotted on watch bunch of Bolton our last series is charged comes through again
But I was super high one kid we go gone for the side of extinction. So
Lucy a back odd start to suddenly go up on a map like this
Juno or Briggs start to be considerable options for a map here is all and we still have the opportunity for flyers to
Don't forget real for specifically on a in a little bit on B. I think a decent look for far
So maybe Ryan starts to slip over towards that type of choice
I wouldn't be surprised if we saw a winner on this last week. So
Little woulda play come on give us some more widow. I'm surprised where it's kind of crept back in with how
Much quicker the game feels now. I was talking about this
With a vast actually a minute ago like how quick the game is even comparisons like stage three
Because of characters like Ben bedder the game just was so much quicker
We might even see it, well actually no, I was gonna say we might see some better here, but I don't think so
But yeah, Kyureko ban and a sojourn ban here is to skies take the loss on map one
Now extinction coming up pretty clutching all honesty and this okay now this Avril
I promise you it's gonna be more than three maps like I promise
It feels that way, it feels that way
Something in the leaves something the wind for sure giving me a bit of a funny feeling about this one going at least four
But um, you know might require a little bit of fumbling on either side to get there
To look at the defense first. It's more likely to be the real composition. So no surprises diva
flavor of the month
Or many months but definitely get on this map even if it wasn't fully meta
this would be a diva map for sure and
lack of Kiriko was something to look towards options like we young and Anna
so I would have probably have looked at Anna more for
team comps where you can make better use of the nano boost however I think
throwing it onto the diva by default is never a bad thing. The Wooyoung means
we're just gonna look towards a double flex support and I start to look
towards DSG wondering if they might want to get into a little bit of
Vendetta or something to punish a greedy backline maybe in the
Symmetra scene rocket bring out the Symmetra previously see if this is a
real Widowmaker which is the spawn water looks like a spawn water before
now start to shift towards more like a heavy ball start and this was the backline we saw
at a later part 2024 playoffs in Sweden this backline dominated that minute
I mean it's always gonna if Lucius Bander like any kind of slower comp like Frigg
is always gonna win out especially with the prolific proficiency of flankers in the game
currently like it's just too good, too good. PG Antigo from downtown nice connection for Scott
And they're being cleaned up by Ryan here.
That was a great kind of bullied off of the point.
So little Matrix, that should be a DC too, yeah, there it is.
The Magic should be a slightly tougher game.
Given the amount of Divas on field that Scuffed will be able to squeeze that one in to deliver a kill onto PG2 Swaps.
Quite quickly now, on towards the cast, so interesting because this is a,
I think a map that really leans towards the MRA sightlines, but you have the Cat City combo with RIP now moving over as well.
So waiting for the dead eye opportunity, fly PG into the sky, I mean this is a really cool thing, I don't know, I don't know if this Fumble is still good but maybe this guy's gonna pull it off.
Yeah, maybe. I wasn't really expecting to see a whole lot of Jetpack, maybe just like a sprinkling of this but...
I said we're scouting as well and can't really be checked by the tracer as much considering you're like permanently far. Why?
There's no way for DSG to maybe just break the stroke hold and get onto that double flexible back plant
It's a sleep denial there or the rocket going down again. This is DSG not like finding the opportunity
It's gonna take a while for PGE and let the both
Get a position more so PGE to find his ultimate like this need it
And I think slightly harder for left to get value and until you push a little bit further on the map
You can go for the ult drag somebody off the map into the river
Skyl's up first for Alt, but with the Orbital Ray being pushed through, Extinction have
so much in response that I don't know if this has got to be enough of DSG and the time is
bad.
Like it is this good with the Jetpack Cat, it just doesn't.
They've started on it, but with the amount of time left, they're pulling in all their
chips on this exact play now, did you look for the Ultimate?
Oh, the- Oh, the nanodeva!
Oh! Yeah.
Keeping him alive to be fair.
Oh! Still in there, Peachy!
And lifted to safety!
Holy, got out of here!
That was- That was incredible.
You survived Peachy's Coddle, and you've removed the nanos.
And here we go. It's combo time!
Here we go! Combo time!
Straight over the top!
Gotta make your sense!
Yo, he gets one!
He'll do, though.
So, oh, he got two, sorry.
He actually got the team mech as well.
No, the truck's gonna come in, and there it is.
Right, he's gonna connect with a backhand and really try to without we hang off
Can they actually just continue this?
Okay, they're eventually kind of getting staggered here, but they there is a chance for a regroup and grapes
Okay, not on the cat all the bit and switch back but still almost fight-a-fight
Let's alter this I'm going to do that as well. Not to show when but final fight now with over the rain available
This is perfect. Rocket loses up. It's fine over the way on the actual point is something you had imagined
Oh, he's gonna get outdoor by a cat.
Oh, P.D.K. in the air.
He got punched in the face by left.
No nano, no problem for a cat.
Outdoor by a cat, as I said.
I'm gonna know that one. That's crazy.
Outdoor by a cat.
There were three unique sentences left, to be said.
All right, Tread ends up getting a couple there.
Make that three as a disguise.
They get the first point. It was a struggle, though.
E.N.O.T.
I mean, like I said, they put it all in on that one plate.
That it does work out for them.
does work out for them sniper you saw doing that as well as like I just got a
hold matrix on PG the whole time except you don't have enough matrix for how
long PG can hold the dead I for so it's basically a guaranteed kill and did I and
then sniper force yourself to struck this wall let's just gotta keep going
looks like you know what let's keep the top of the stone for now why not it's
gonna be one of the most ridiculous combos of all time all right well it's
Nanoboos on Sniper.
Hi Rocket.
And...
You let them make it.
Alright, okay, quick reset here for disguise.
You are going to need to exit the fight at some point if you're left, but it should
be good.
What?
Okay, you're so lucky to be alive.
The cam mobility goes hard.
Yeah, it does.
Pg's got ult now.
So the only problem here is you do need some space to play through ideally.
I think if you look towards the right side of the map you want to like carry Pg
over the top right and just sort of go for a big flank on the dead eye really
force attention away with no map control with no map control it's a little rough
and they're gonna go they got the lifeline out on pg he's just hovering
you see how extension all indoors that's the best way for them to be once
that all happens they can sort of block the positioning for pg as well
oh there he is! hi noon! tell me about camp over the top and there's no one there
Yeah, I mean, it's just impossible to just get this off.
And our PGs just gonna get checked.
I mean, you know, unfortunately you're not in the Jetpack Cat trailer,
which it would work, and the Jetpack Cat would get 5k with the help of the casting, right?
Alright, Ryna's up cleaning house, same with Sniper.
They even get the Self-Destruct from Tread. 30 seconds to go is well, I suppose.
This is, again, why I say you need map control.
You can't just rip the combo dry from DSG's POV,
because Extinction do exactly what was mentioned, but also what they did.
hide indoors because you can't quite just fly the dead eye in there.
Even if you do, it's completely marked by the matrix anyway.
So you need to actually have a better situation to rip the combo,
and now BG's like, we don't have time.
Go back to the M-Rate, we have a left ult to try and do something again.
Let's see if Lyft can even find it again.
On the nanoboost.
Oh, the ultimate from left as well goes a little wide.
Doesn't end up helping with the disengage from Sniper,
who's now just 1v5'ing with the nanoboost and has self-destruct.
There is a touch on the point but it's all extinction, all day here, there's not much else you can do.
I love the jetpack cap like combo here but like you said maybe needs to come online a little bit
sooner. Second point it's really tough to make that combo work, they're all in Avril and it's
just not fine enough. Yeah I think outside of the mammary and cheese of the combo from DSG
like yeah the cat city is going to get you past A but outside of that combo
So that wasn't much from DSG. If you look at the rest of the gameplay, you look at the
Neutral's extension, which is winning that one, and no setup for the combo at all on
that second try on B. They actually had decent position before they lost the fight, so good
fight timing from extension. They went to a fight, got a couple of kills. That was
a fight where they let barely go down with his life, just flying away despite being
That fight would have been the fight for Diishi to pull the combo into because they still had some map control
But the second time they needed to fight for map control
They didn't do that
They were running out of time because they fall in on that combo on A. They only have the default 230 to play with on beat
Which is just not enough and I suspect the issue probably based on the time remaining wouldn't have finished the entire map anyway
So this one was always going to end somewhere on B. We'll see
well well well isn't it PG on the widow now okay this is gonna be a big point for
them to contest does extinction have what it takes actually to match PG in the
widow duel is my question I it doesn't feel like it we'll see if a extinction
end up coming out with some special source here I think Ryan's probably
well classic widow might just like hop on this for half a second see if they
can get shot off and switch but we'll see. Mr. Lucio Bat mentioned quite a while ago
now as being an option for you the teams to switch. Good shock skin as well, look at
that. I respect. Oh Florida mayhem, uh, great to see them. Ryan got the... All skins
you can find in it, he sports the blue box. No! Yes, yes. He said it, he said it.
He doesn't get a bonus for that by the way, sadly, but I wish, I wish. Don't get
pay per promotion of these fours of blocks.
I've actually been well, I'll be shielding all the time.
Alright, Skyburn ends up backing up.
I would say on that point, actually,
I'm still glad we can get the Overwatch League skins.
My heart still has a place for the old ones.
Went down a 1HP different PG shots.
Yeah, it's chill though.
Ripping the big boy gun this side with a real oomph behind that shot sound.
I don't know why he's cute on the previous series.
The hard time I was going to say, Ryan not going to be able to challenge PGE was easy to get out of.
Probably different heroes.
Okay maybe Sniper just like that.
That felt personal.
That felt a real personal PGE there.
I mean it's a good rotation for big-sinction, right?
They're not matching the widow.
So they hard rotate up on the high ground and then they find PGE.
It has been stuck, sure, but still they get it out of choke.
Now, Tread made the right call there, the rest of DSG made the right call in terms of
whatever, maybe losing this fight, let's just block up the payload so they can't get
any progress in this fight winning it.
Sniper by the way is just feeding ult charge over to scuffed in grapes, PG sending some
shots into the D.Va that won't really do much but help scuffed in grapes at this
point.
Now, ults other than the infrasight for DSG is very bad considering how close scuffed
in grapes are to getting their support ults.
guys are falling apart here this is very rough now, PGN fortunately not getting
anything done there moving back over to the M-Rate. Ryan showing everyone what's up
as we didn't even by the way get into the scuffed orbital rate which would have
been perfect for that point didn't even need it gets the hold on to it in fact
no support else required from extinction they kind of just won that
one without doing or using too much overall just a self-destruct gone and
you can do this within one push. Extinction at all the time in the
world now, Payla is already at the finishing point, she has to be the
ones over the trigger and going in to you back on the old faithful there and
unfortunately over I protocol might just be there demise some barriers gonna get
popular from disguise to try and stay alive and look at this orbital ray I
mean Peter came making a lot of use for that
walk forwards now try and do it sundering vote over the top straight on
top of the break breaks I've no start living there and this but disguised it's
gonna be the whole for the time being there's three minutes still left in
the time bank but it's such an awkward spot to defend Averil right here it's
just it's not good yeah there's no room for error worst of all defensive teams
want to play indoors just above where the payload is and towards the left but
when you have the payload there somebody has to turn to be contesting it at all
times and the rest of them just gonna try their best to contest the
high ground you see Sniper wanting to make some trace happen there scuff
going down is okay so I'll find it quick reset quick reset don't lose anybody else
back up okay oh oh oh oh that's going to be okay okay they're extending this a
little bit how you really work so we have a couple of fights you really need
to like you said back out why are we not out a staggering of three members of
extension slowly slowly starting their lives out losing time primers the
biggest advantage here but with that kind of three-man staggered it's not
leading away a little. The spread of the defense here is looking pretty good.
Bushy angle is basically covered, it's not going deep, PG ulting. Over-eprotocol, PG.
Everybody just fashing into that building though and there's no chance for
you to pop those heavy rounds down to make doing anything meaningful. I mean
it's great to scout, it's free ult charge for them really. I mean they can
try to re-engage here two minutes ago, post on for Ryan looking for the mech
for Fred first to get it a free one all the nades all right I'm done with it
straight the backline oh post bomb goes a little bit wide with Skyo and let for
disguise do have it having it all to me I mean this is good that's the thing for
them right now sculptor still behind greats are still behind so describe the
put them such a good spot so he's still wanting to show it's challenging a little bit
also sidelanes away it's double-stucked
which is a little early do you see need to win if they don't win stuff
ult and extentional win.
Self destruct for Sniper, they're gonna keep this tempo up.
Scarf's got the solvator rain,
this guy's gonna have to play into it.
Look at how close this payload is.
I mean, it's just, you can't win this fight, I don't think.
I mean, easily Rock ends up going down.
Now, Tread has to stand up here and fight through this.
Healing, damage boost, everything thrown in.
Extinction have the answers,
and on top of that, they got a rally as well.
Self destruct needed to find five,
but of course it won't.
And Extinction take the second map and match point.
Let me do some not all I have to say it style altered first to try and answer into the overdrive in your character challenge the overdrive
PDK he's gonna peak with the overdrive or shoot him back and he's gonna run
That's the game plan that has to be the game plan if let then throws in the extra sound barrier and you don't win which they don't win
Then you go into orbital and you lose you've nothing to challenge orbital
You needed to keep the sound barrier as the tool to challenge the orbital
If you don't do that, then the this sound better when you the whole fight even if you do win the fight an extension reset
They still have the orbital advantage over you
Which is still gonna be a problem because orbital into the final fight on top of the payload and you don't have a response
You're done. So DSG they did a reasonable job trying to hold on but largely jacked to me
Where this was lost was on the attacking side went far too old in on this combat
We see between PG and left it works for a but it costs them all four minutes
it's like, you know, you can
get a lot of space with the
jetpack. It's like, you know,
it's like, you know, you can
get a lot of space and it
doesn't do anything on B and
then don't get enough distance
on Be at all, which gives them
no room for error by the one
there on the defensive side.
Yeah, extremely unfortunate. It's
like some cost fallacy in a way
with the jetpack cat. It
feels like sometimes. Especially
when you're like, Okay, we've
got all coming up, you know,
we've got this high noon.
and they look really good. The entirety of us predicted the skies kind of walking away from this
and I said it was going to be a five maps man but it's feeling like an extension 30 after this.
Where are we going to go to next? This is the one scoreline I would not have predicted. I mean
there's a bunch of different scorelines. You could say like okay maybe it's a either a five
map or it's a close game but if a three don't happen I would have said it was more likely
to get it but I think a three I probably would have been unlikely. This is feeling like a three
you want to me. And now, Extinction have a real chance to 3-0 the series and a lot of
it comes down to the DSG side mistakes. We talked about the fact that they probably should
have won the opening round of Lee Jung on that garden right. That one slipped through
their fingers. That was so strong for them in terms of their lead and they just let
that one go. That was a big funnel. And then Realtor is all there. It's a couple
of good moments where you really saw the best out of them. But then a couple
things that just do not go their way and some very basic mistakes end up costing them.
A gamble on the wood omega for PG who unfortunately was not tree today. Tree show what was possible
on the wood omega and PG just didn't hit those shots so that was a bit of a lacking
position on the defense and I think for extinction playing even just slightly clean
the game taking less risks doing less when I say take risks I mean like they're not
wanting to as much lean into the wood omega which can be 50-50 if you're gonna
be good enough to the shots they're not leaning into cat city combo they're not doing these
sort of cheese type of strategy is they're just playing a standard game and saying if
DSG makes mistakes we'll punish it and then we'll win by default that way.
Yeah, alright, I mean we'll wait and see, map number three, they're not out of the woods
just yet, you know? Hey, there's still a chance, there's still a chance to hit the reverse
sweep or at least take us to another one. It's going to be an atlas choice for this
guys.
I don't even know like what could be a good ban for them anymore because you're
So under look at this series, there's nothing stand out to me.
It seems like you need to obviously get this out of the way because it's been a huge problem.
They banned the Soja already, which ended up not being a huge factor.
Funnily enough, the Emery wasn't even played that much from PGE.
He spent a lot of time on the Cassidy, spent a decent amount of time on the WinnerMaker as well.
So the Soja ban, I feel, wasn't even that impactful towards Ann.
They're going to get rid of the Zarya, which is going to remove the capability to play Zarya
I've been dead, but I don't think that has been much of a factor so far. That might be because Azari has been gone for two maps
Lucio being gone is
Probably fine because I think both teams have been looking towards more of the Brig Juno look anyway
So Brig Juno just might end up being the default here
so for
DSG
Question is still on their side of things. I do suspect
PGE will just play a bunch of em right this time, even though I think there are a couple points
first point pretty good for the Cassidy as well, but no cat from Lent this time for sure, there's definitely not going to be that.
Are you sure? Are you sure on an Atlas? Are you sure we're not going to see the cat?
What does the ult from the cat even do? On maps when you can't throw somebody off the map, what do you do?
I think there's a couple points actually where you are coast side, but if the RNG doesn't roll through, they don't get those points.
I mean, at this point, I'm not
sure. First week required
though from disguise. That's what
I do know. They need three more
maps here in a row to send
themselves to a what one and
one. I mean, sorry, one and two
like. Both of these teams need
to win here. They're both down
No, sorry, one and two.
Like, both of these teams need a win here.
They're both down 0-2 in the round, Robin.
We've got one more week of play next week,
and that's it.
And then into playoffs,
like you need to come up with a W here
to be out of that relegation spot.
That fits it.
It's a rough look for this guys,
if they don't want this one,
because I don't know if they can beat TL,
the way they're looking.
TL not looking strong,
but TL looks stronger than this,
especially when Tree is absolutely firing up,
which he was just a little bit earlier.
Second time I've mentioned that Zarya's been gone
this year, so we're really not wanting
are again but it's gonna be a lot of diva I would have said the potential for
sniper ball is there but if extension wanted to play ball I think they should
have rather a band the Cassie rather than Lucio so I'm not expecting a ball to
come on through anymore now there's actually I hate to say it decent on
this map and rig Juno available with Lucio band I know so you know there's
no Zarya which is the problem so you're playing Ryan into like a diva
probably unless Trader really wants this ram which is not unheard of but in a
thing I think D will just be better for this guy's
yeah your rematch will be too bad I don't think whatsoever
go on snipe and make the pick there it is okay actually hard trolling into
the doors open but it's gonna be a trailer ram no Lucio so that means
Which you knows are gonna have to be played with rocket on the sims they're gonna play for maybe some aggressive 70s in a trend position
Punching his way through
I'm a traditionally the ram is at a pretty reasonable matchup just by punching through matrix to see if it ends up being the faster here or not
I mean they're gonna try and find a big flying kankers from here without being an extinction
But it's gonna be so soft like you said you can just see be away
You also kind of play around these turrets and like flankers can't come and like kimchi
It's it's gonna be really tough another teleport across to try and catch them out and scuff first of all
Playing around the fact that
Relying on these speed rings to get out of the necks and if they're used the skies to paint attention
You find those targets for backline be a very aggressive
And you're not even playing in my mind the most optimal comp again
If you want casting here for PG you'd have to capability just really rush down somebody but as we sort of developed through the
different rounds, Xemaray will pick up in sight lines for now, except she's struggling
to face up against the rotations of these Symmetra teleports, however, except she did
get that opening 22% in the absolute...
Now how do they deal with this kind of defense though from Disguise? I mean, walking into
trade like this, you're gonna need to at least send Tracer to try and pressure point
to send someone from Disguise and then hopefully get a pick, but it's just so tough. I
And Ryan can't really do anything apart from pressure.
Now only can decide to point, there it is.
Certainly impact their backline.
No Lucio, but I think Juno is easier for our Tracer to play into as well.
A brig on the other side.
Suzy could be a problem, but it's like now you're looking good.
Ryan's got ult.
Nice check though, coming through the scar.
I mean, other couple of Qnives thrown towards Ryan, goes pretty low.
They do manage to get the clip to extinction.
I think that's a little sloppy from DG, she kinda thought that that happened when you have the stronger ability to stay on the point and hold it.
Speaking of which as well, being strong in rotation, they want to get that TP into the backline again, extinction.
A little bit smarter this time, not going to allow something just all to the TP.
PG becoming a living weapon now, uh, Override Protocol being unleashed.
It's gonna be so tough to stay alive here, but P- oh, PBK from the corner!
Double-tap's PG, lays into rest as Leve also deleted Orbital Ray used by Disguise as well.
I mean, that is not a good look.
These two large ults, they're gonna be able to get 99 here, but if being 67% for extinction,
if they win this fight clearly, it's gonna be tough for them to come back in.
And we want more fight so the flip from DSG is decent to delay things but extinction now have very strong all right
I'm ready to hold this one. I mean at this point of DSG can just come in and force ultimates and then lose the point
It'd be ideal. I don't expect they'll have enough
Fire powder really wouldn't this fight anymore. There's so much on the extension side. It just doesn't care about rocket shield as well
You're gonna try and see if you're crossing just kind of leave everybody for dead. Oh
Nice shooting there from Scarlet. It's nice VA where you fall short
There's the ability to ray and rocket just gets run over despite the rush. I mean, it's just too much damage.
Cyber de-suited the good bash from Grace!
Insane stun! PG and Scarlet end up going down annihilation from Treadwere's.
Also, that will be an extinction cap at this point. Just needs to deal with the ram, Tread, down, and that's it.
Extinction with one on the board.
I don't know if Tread needed to really help there. If he swaps, that makes sense.
He was just using annihilation before the D.Va swap eventually, but other than that...
than that he is just throwing things against the water seal it works they
didn't have the firepower when that fight as I sort of mentioned it would
have been good for them to maybe throw in just the photon barrier from rocket
force out double support us from extinction play for the opening of
the next point this one actually has a close side so this would have been like
the one point we could throw something up the map not playing a cat but he
gets you they're gonna walk into this one with no old advantage at all
yeah just guys taking a lot of damage here let's start doing a good job on
Just healing everybody back up to fall before this fight does end up surmounting in kills
All right
There's the point that with a really good kill the one TDK at TP across Levy lands a bash kill on the soldier
PGE traded here
But honestly pretty good for them and now a trek and just sell them the point rotate these pulldowns with the shield
With the nemesis form and they should be good to cap
One to one both sides. I mean we have two players falling on both teams
3v3 until our respawns get back in. Ryan comes with a 1A, he gets punished by PGE, now Sniper
potentially losing mech. Yeah they're gonna, oh no they escape, all good, but this guy still
end up capping in first and Lep's got a rally soon. Just a stronger ability to stay poise
on that point with treads on the pit of the ramp. So now all the dust settles, Ryan
not getting the punish he was looking for, doesn't know how to get into the fight.
PDK though, what's the difference between this OC and this WDPG and all of the BG's lose the slide?
Yeah, can't do much from that, unfortunately if your PDG tries to get away but unfortunately PDK is too sharp for the aim, too crispy.
Rally's going to get pulled from Lepid, try and save the day, a teleport straight onto the high ground, maybe to dissuade PDK from taking an aggressive angle on the Sojourn.
The next thing everybody up means, the skies can stay in this fight.
Levin Scubs cannot go down there, they need to pocket each other so Scubb can get this all and rip it.
However, PGE might just end this fight now.
Override protocol from the skies, grapes end up falling, and now PGE is searching for more.
PDK down two for PGE.
Oh, no mistake, that a third two. Should be a fairly trivial clean up here as Scubb falls,
and that's going to be disguised as a point on the board.
Master from DSU be able to hold on to PG putting in the overdrive to make sure that extinction if they start to lose members
There is no contest anymore scuff was about to get on towards this orbital ray
Which likely would have been traded with scars all around the other side
But that was the only out for extinction to remain in the fire never go one-to-one
This things look a lot better for disguise now as I sort of say M. Ray's gonna perform a lot better on these open points
I'm fine. It's a great stick of the lap
Yeah, let's try to kind of put this stick in the ball there
Yeah, it didn't end up working, unfortunately.
Scarlet is still with the Rey, I mean, this is still going to be a good fight for them.
Scarlet has equally got a good Rey, however now they can play behind the wall.
A bit of a mess on the point right now, as you can see in the backline, Ryan trying to do some damage,
but annihilation is going to get ripped, and the bash from Rey is just too aggressive.
It's a popular rally bashing, PG.
The shield can get support, and PG, he coming up with the kills.
3k for the Emirates.
Sniper on the run, PG is free reign to shoot into everybody.
The point going the way of disguised again. It's orbital for orbital.
An extra annihilation and the ability for PG to play around Sniper can get away from the annihilation trend.
Just the skies put themselves in the lead. No more officer speak up so far. PDK.
Ex-define ultimate with the ability for PDK as we saw on that previous point.
As soon as the OC's available, they put it through straight away.
great from the we angle all things now
still a disguise really good spot again kind of relying on PG and let just
getting these these also online they've got rallies soon they've got the other
particles soon I mean they should get to the fight with you see sniper now
just making sure they pass the back line so it's the facts actually if this
guy's a PG with a free kill or pdk with a free kill now PG again taking
down from the sky sniper with good traction there to make sure he's
Making sure there's no shot, no extra shots could be thrown at his teammates, and Sniper cleans up.
Self-trash shot online as well for the D.Va as Extinction, get it at 81 for disguise.
Yeah, they're finally able to buy themselves into the fight. That could have gone very poorly.
PGE, another overdrive that was looking like it was going to find success, and PDK as well.
He had that initial kill opportunity to maybe pull through the OEC and get further, but it was locked down by the teleport.
Part of this we are, so for Grakes as well, is to be able to have a better matchup into the TP.
We almost classically, I think, last year, a lot of teams were playing we are specifically into this meta.
And now, really, Gage can have his time to shine.
Nice initial shot there on to left.
Should be a fairly easy clean up.
These guys need to reset now, otherwise they fear a very delayed mass fight.
And there it is, jumping off the map.
I really respect the Treadsweep over the D.Va, just a deal with the O.C.
If you don't have your ultimate on the annihilation of the ram anymore, you just need one neutral fight when you know one of the key weapons is going to be the OC on PDK, so a raw swap onto the evil and no ultimate is probably going to work out fine for you there.
Now to Skars, one last fight for both these teams, but we've been looking at Alters about to be online there, online earlier for extension though.
Yeah, well, the Skies, I mean, they need this rally to stick so Skar can build up to the
old wall.
But P.T. goes down to Ryan, that's a massive differential there, but Ryan and Sniper end
up coming up with a big kill initially, left with the rally on the point.
Oh, good bash!
Good stun, but push yourself in an odd spot!
Ryan actually gets his revenge!
Wall ends up getting deployed by the Skies as they stick onto treads, make sure
he's de-suited, Ryan lifting the team up here for extinction.
It's already gotten one kill and an impressive decent there onto Tread weeding past that matrix.
Oh god, why?
And Auburn's Raze gonna come out as yet a questionable ult here as Extinction ended up winning the fight.
This guys love throwing in these super late ults. I mean it's kind of swapping, is that why he's doing it?
Because if not, that is just poor.
DSG have like seven coaches but apparently the team hasn't been coaching off to do that.
PGE are moving over towards the Cassidy.
Something that I thought would have been good for the first point.
He's gonna try and now bring it to bare for what could be the final point here for DSG
I mean you can still make the symmetric comp work to the symmetric diva trying to punish a couple plays in the backline
It is viable but extinction of just overall look clean it
I'm gonna try and chase down the blue young here great sense of getting away I
Think having this cast of the on board might be good to stop Ryan getting away with murder in the backline
taking initially a lot of damage though still great poking them from the side
softening up everybody before they actually make it to the point they're
trying to protect the president right now the president will live but not for long
sniper D makes instantly pistol webs PDK now he two kills for extinction now in
a 2 of D4 as extinction cap it's a really really clean win as well this
guy says not a lot to say in that particular fighters extinction look
the team out of the walk away with a 3-0 in the series. It's still early days on
this particular point with some more fresh slots from DSG. They're going to be further
and further behind on their ult charge race and Extinction don't need many fights.
These flash boys disappear in the blink of an eye and given that a Skeptongreft is
so far ahead, it's the portals being the key ultimate that will spend you
fights. Extinction are in the driver's seat. Very much so and it kind of
rings back to Skar using that hole early too and PDK with a nice rail gun
shot onto that Kyroko and now it's final fight I mean disguise has to reset again
but he's a staggered one too any death here is costing the big time lebs down
not in the final fight anymore PG down probably not in the final fight like
they need to go and they need to go now
90% PDK so in a strong position to finish this one up and if that is not
enough scuffed in grapes just so much further ahead touch it's good rocket
gets it in the end now you need another one please thread ends up
getting it for another. Self-destruct available. Nice angle from PDK stopping the ready to start getting in, but spread gets D-Megs, sends out self-destruct, but Insta gets killed as the baby dealer.
Good stick as well from Ryan. A lot of heavy-lifting done by this tracer already, as Extinction are going to be able to finish this one out.
They got the mech up, they got the life, they got the damage, they got everything they need, and they're going to finish this one with a 3-0.
And as I said to you in the middle of this game as well, Jack, a 3-0 from Extinction was the one score on
I wasn't ready for and I wasn't expecting. I mentioned before we got into any of this that B as she would do the skies
Looked like a team that was ready for a win
They had a rough start in terms of match scheduling at the beginning of the stage
But the later on we go the more one of all the games get and this one
Really should have been a win. Just too many mistakes
especially on those first two maps, especially that round one of Lee Jung
that should have been theirs and then won that control center, they would have had
that win on Lee Jung minimum to take us toward map 4 and you know like you
mentioned Jack and also Ash this one had the potential to go to four maybe
five maps for DSG running out of gas way too early on and they peaked so
early on that Lee Jung and they just never brought it for the rest of the
series after that. 30 and
for Ryan as well on the Tracer.
I mean, absolute beast mode.
It's crazy as well. Avril.
Think back to week one.
Disguise take SSG to five maps.
Very close series. They take
a map of the Dallas fuel.
Like that was why I predicted
and then the extinction they to be fair they take liquid to a five map series as well
But then they lost to to lunax 3.0 like
This is very kind of confusing kind of roundabout logic here
But extinction now taking this off of disguise. I mean disguise now
There is zero three in this round Robin
They are very close to being eliminated straight up as extinction
They found the one map when can they now?
Snowball this into next week the next match is tomorrow against SSG. Yeah, I think um
I mean both the teams had some decent potential but you look all the way back to bootcamp, which DSG played in.
You saw some signs there, like the DSG to me have been a team that have had strong potential for a very long time
and this probably should have been a game for them to realize that potential.
But sadly, I think this has been, I hate to say the worst look for DSG so far of the games they played in.
As we progress through the season, you want to look better, not worse,
and this guy's, Pam sadly looked a little worse here.
Extinction on the other hand, Pam looked a lot better and that gives extinction,
maybe some hope of making that top four still. Yeah, I think we all expected a lot more from
the skies in this matchup. Averil, this is something that you're calling out even just earlier on in
the first map that we saw. When it came down to, I think, or sorry, not the first map,
second map, Unreal. So when it came down to some of those Jetpack Cat and Cassidy combos that
were trying to be forced there by the skies, a lot of just like moments like that or decisions
like that by the team where it felt like they're really pigeon-coing themselves in today's matchup.
Yeah, this is just a bit of a Sun-Cost Varsity type beat I felt like April on that second map is
just like it surely is going to work this time. Yeah, I mean I said it during the the game
play as well they just had no setup for the second attempt. First attempt obviously
there's a lot more open for them to get it in but it's those even beyond that I think
re-altern a lot of it came down to what they were trying to do with the J-pad cap
but then to a snap super winnable third map it just seemed like they were
running out of options a little bit here and initially the ram was kind of doing
good and the ram obviously gonna be a lot better on that opening first point
compared to the length of points but Ryan stepped up massively on the snap like
you sort of said Jack and when we banned away the Lucia I think it was
one of the left stronger picks. Parding left here ended up being a pretty
decent target band coming through from extinction and pushing things more
towards a great Juno ended up being a much better look for extension compared to DSG.
Yeah, I think that it's been quite the series. The 3-0 was absolutely wild to see and I think that
not only were the skies making some mistakes but their own. The extension definitely pushed them
to their limit to force some of those mistakes out of them as well in a matchup where this
loss or winning had hurt so much for that regular season but we've got an interview
on the line here with the extension's very own PDK. Congratulations first off with your first
ever win in the OWCS. How does it feel? And on top of that, I think my main question is,
do you feel like your team performed at another level today knowing how important
this match was for your regular season standings? I'm so happy right now. I'm like borderline
fierce. This is my third stage. It's my first ever game win ever. So it means a lot to
to me and then team as a whole, we're so happy to beat DSG.
It's just such a nice feeling.
Like everyone's just like saying, oh, they're improving so much.
And we just want to show we're improving more than they are.
And our improvement from last week to this week has been insane.
And I'm glad we got to show that today.
Uh, man, I'm so happy for you, bro.
I'm so happy.
Like getting your first big win is, yeah, like you said, it's an amazing feeling.
I want to talk about your game against SSG coming up because if you're
saying you're improving week on week, you took a five map series in week one.
Like that was close.
It feels like SSG probably not even that far away.
If it was like a maybe another five-bass series, like how do you feel about going
into that and how the rest of the team feel as well?
We feel super confident.
This one today kind of gave us a lot more confidence going into the game tomorrow.
It's definitely an uphill battle, but you know, if we play like how we did today,
even today, we didn't play the greatest.
So if we just play 5% better, we can definitely win and pull up another,
a major upset. So we're all really excited to see what the game is going to be like tomorrow.
Congrats, Peter Cain. You talked a little bit about the improvement for the team and I want
to dive into that a little bit here because going from last week into this week and two
losses in a row but a very close five map versus TL and over three versus Lunax. If
you could maybe talk to me a little bit about your last week compared to this week
and what you guys have learned and improved between now and then.
Last week going into like the first week of games, we probably only had like five
or six grims and this week we've been double blocking every day and actually
like looking over our codes and listening to each other is kind of a big thing
we've been doing a lot this week is trusting each other with the right
calls and we trust a lot with each other today so kind of just you know
building that team synergy because we are a pretty new team compared to
everyone so just slowly and slowly building up better synergy between us is
kind of I think what pushes over the line today. And I think that kind of
leans into my next question for you PDK. Getting to hear from you about
how the synergy has been building has been really enlightening to hear about extinction.
And I kind of want to know what the style of comms are like for your team. Like,
are you guys a squad where you guys are like super locked in comms are really intense,
or more so the type where you try to keep things like obviously locked, but a little bit more
lighthearted with some more like a lighter energy? Oh, today they're really chaotic,
but all five of us kind of are really good at like bantering and like bringing down like
like how important it seems, you know, so we're not all like just, you know, tunnel vision.
So I think grapes is really good at keeping us all level headed.
And then all five of us contribute a lot to comms and make sure that we're all, you
know, not getting too energy, you know, just kind of really relaxing in between maps.
It's kind of grapes and scuff, kind of keeping us all level, you know, 00 go to
the next map, stuff like that.
So definitely big shout out to those two
because they kept me really sane today.
Yeah, I mean, it sounds like, and you know,
just level heads in the game, you come up with a 3-0.
I mean, now you can go celebrate for a little bit at least.
Don't go crazy tonight, you've got a big game tomorrow.
I do want to ask, what's for yourself
and not including yourself,
who is the biggest threat on your team?
Who do you think really kind of stands out
and has stood up to the test this stage so far?
Ryan for sure. I think he's just he's been keeping everyone in the circles for the past two weeks. So it's it's insane what he does
I see him chiple blink in his one clip someone they're chiple blink in he just hits the daggers with pulse bombs
It's it's a real what he does. He's
How no partner team picked it up is criminal to me
Oh, yeah, I'm not complaining
I love to hear all the accolades that you're giving all of your teammates here at PDK, but
you also had an insane performance yourself today.
So definitely give yourselves some credit here as well.
And a big congratulations to Xtinction for their first win.
We wish you the best of luck with the rest of your matches, and thank you so much for
doing this interview with us.
Thank you guys.
How many wishes do you have?
Thank you.
Bye.
That was such a great interview, getting to hear from PDK, but now if you can look
like, you know, we're not
going to be at our standings
here, Jaws. I think that. Again
it's just so crazy that this
series ended in a three and
Oh, in their favor. We're
expecting it to go like
averaging at least one. Yeah
are they like the number 40
maybe even number three like
lunax still have some big
games to play. They've got
the Dallas field. They got
better like SSG they might need to be a little scared tomorrow.
This one is massive because now extension are really knocking on the door of that top quarter
break into playoffs and having a couple of more good games I mean they have some hard games ahead
but just getting this one win if Lunex can't fight people up either you know some tie breaker
shenanigans might end up pushing extension through and that's what they're looking for now is
a team that has really shown themselves to be capable of you know breaking out of that bottom
on 3%.
You're talking about some difficult games that are coming up next, so let's take a look
at tomorrow's schedule, because there's definitely some stacked things on deck for us, of course.
As always, we kick things off with EMEA for OWCS on Sunday.
Tomorrow, it'll be two matches of EMEA into three matches of NA, so a little bit of
a flip-flop from what we saw today here at VRL, but overall, which matches across
both regions?
Do you have your eyes on the most?
I mean, now that extension of leveled up, I'm keen to see what they can do against SSG.
I would maybe have said DSG versus Liquid, but DSG, I mean, that could still be a very
good game, but DSG need to really level up from what we just saw now in this break between
tonight and tomorrow.
Yeah, I think the game of the day is SSG extension, it's got to be.
I think that is really going to set the stage for what the Top 4 actually looks
like and if extension win or they even go five maps and maybe SSG win that out still
think that's a good look for Extinction so yeah it's gonna be a big decided day
fanning. Okay so now that we've gone all that out of the way I want to get you
guys's final thoughts for wrapping up I feel like Dallas Fuel Avril is looking
better than ever with their 3 and 0 but then we keep talking back to this
Extinction performance that we just saw how much is that shaking up how you're doing the standings
I mean if extinction can level up even more they don't play Dallas feel until the final final day
So there's a world there where the extinction can keep this up. They push up to Dallas feel Matt and end up being a very exciting game that
Prevents Dallas feel from giving a clean 5-0
That's assuming Dallas feel can even beat SSG because they're fighting SSG for that number one Dallas
to me is still the team that looks like the potential for the number one right now. So unless they slip up,
they're still the favorites. Yeah, I agree. I still think God's fuel is too good. I think so too
right now looking at the best DPS in the region. Okay. Okay. A lot of strong and new coming opinions.
I think yeah, no, it's okay. We got you. We got you. But I think that it's crazy how today
has really shaken things up for how we're perceiving the competition here in N.A.
But overall, I want to give a big thank you to you guys, Jaws and Avril for joining me
on the desk today and for the amazing job that you did on the cast.
Shout out to the audience as well for tuning in today and of course for our production
for being able to make this broadcast happen.
Don't forget to tune in tomorrow for our second day of week two for OWCS.
EMEA in the morning and N.A. in the evening.
We'll catch you guys later.
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