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We've been lying there for too long
Now we've got no place for good
And we've gone, you've got me real close
Time to run, time to run
My broken heart and I
We're moving on, going on
We're moving on, going on
We're moving on, going on
We're moving on, going on
We're moving on, going on
We're moving on, going on
I'll take the step up so I can move on
Then I'm the wrong track, you're not the one
I'll take the step up so I can move on
Then I'm the wrong track, you're not the one
I'm the wrong track, you're not the one
We've been running for too long
Now we got no strength for good
And we don't, you got me real close
It's so good that you're gone
You're gone, you've been close
Got to run
I'm broken, all in all
Moving on, moving on
Moving on
Moving on
Moving on
I'm broken, all in all
Moving on
Moving on
Moving on
Moving on
I
Don't be scared, don't be weak
I'm not giving up on my sorrow
Let me say it, I'm not lying
Every time we touch, every time we touch it feels like
It's a dream, it's a dream, it's a dream
Every time we touch, every time we touch it feels like
Every time we touch, every time we touch it feels like
I've been wandering these places trying to find where I know I belong
I
I just want you here to solo, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Got me singing, got me breathing.
I'm lucky when you're bomb inside of me.
When I say it, I'm not dying.
Every time we touch, every time we touch it feels like.
Every time we touch, every time it's like.
Every time we touch, every time it's like.
I
I'm waiting out to choose
I'm always wishing for something to come true
Why can't it do?
Well, baby, no, look at you
Look at you
Look at you
love by you
love by you
love by you
I don't need perfect, I don't need perfect
I don't need perfect, I just be around someone I can love with
I am ill, I'm chasing go, I'm chasing go
But I'm moving from go, I'm thinking so
This is the love I set, I think
Every little thing I get
I'll set the place
Don't need more to feel it now
Tills that I'm already well
I don't need perfect
I just need real
So when I can let go of you
Try and feel I'm chasing you
I'm chasing you
Wherever the world
No more thinking alone
There's just a light
I set my view
It's gonna be all right It's gonna be, it's gonna be, it's gonna be all right
It's gonna be, It's gonna be, It's gonna be all gone
I
and my head is caught tomorrow's end
tomorrow's end
tomorrow's end
What a weird fight before this guys
That will get a team kill.
Liquid!
Kephs is managed to get tree down.
No!
It's just gonna be an explosion of death in the hands of the Dallas ULT.
That was implicit.
And to get the touch, here comes the engage cycle with three!
Oh!
Bounty!
Welcome back everyone to the Overwatch Champions series.
Of course, we are starting things off at the EMEA and then we'll have ENA later on today.
And it's kind of crazy, like, we're two weeks of past now, we're in the last week of the regular season.
I'm Ash, joined here by Jaws and Moxie. How are you guys feeling for this last weekend?
Good. I can't believe it's in Minnesota and Playoffs is right around the corner.
It still feels weird that there's only three weeks of play now. Like, yeah, very condensed schedule.
Um, but yeah, it's good. It's good. There's been some bangers in the MEA, which reminds me of what's going on here, normally in North America.
I mean, I'm back home, is the thing. I'm back with the MEA. It's been what free is.
Since I've got to see a lot of these teams come through from contenders, getting to see Twisted Mines be the kings of that scene, and now become the kings of Overwatch as a whole.
So wonderful to be back on the old stomping grinds.
I love it. I love it. It's good for you and your time zone there as well.
I think we got a really good taste moxie of how you know the tier break has looked here in the EMEA region. A lot of sweeps aside from the 3-2 game there for DK and all that.
Yeah, Twisted Mimes undefeated would be unsurprised if they're able to complete the golden stage without dropping a map.
And then, like you said, Virtus.Pro, probably the team closest to that level, and then after that, there is a clear divide between everyone else.
Yeah, large tear break. Number one, number two, tear break. Number three and four, tear break. Number five and six.
It actually couldn't be more simple than two, two and two.
like I think with the EMEA I can't I think a lot of people expected this we
knew VP was gonna be good we know Twisted Minds are gonna be top of the
region and between the two teams they've already dropped a single map and that
is VP dropping one so yeah in insane top-heavy region right now yeah really
crazy like you're just talking about taking a look at these standings we
have two teams with interested minds in VP who are undefeated and then for
anyone's legends and team peps, they have yet to find a win.
But this also doesn't totally paint the full picture
because with the matches remaining,
we also have some of those tie breakers
that we have to keep in mind here as well.
I think that GK has, you know,
they have their fate in their own hands here.
And really guys, everyone at home who's watching,
these round robin tie breakers,
typically we don't really move past that number two like head to head map differential between these
tight teams. So, Waxie, this is very important to keep in mind thinking about the permutations for
this weekend. Yeah, especially when we have a look at that, uh, peps versus anyone's legend
match that's going to be coming up today, because like those two teams, they played their own
matters. Some would say to an almost detrimental levels. One's been trying to hard force
the Winston and the others been trying to hard force the hazard with next results and I'll leave
it at that. And we've got three confirmed teams here for playoffs Jack VP Twisted Minds and Katzia
have qualified. Katzia qualification might confuse some of you guys at home but thanks to their
favorable macro differential up against GK and anyone's legend combined they have secured
that third slot. The last one though is still open and you got to keep in mind too here
that the first seed gets to pick their opponent.
Yeah, I'm the twisted mind.
I'm going to be picking whoever came in fourth place.
Like that is just the rule unless they really
want a big dog VP or something.
But doubtful that's actually going to happen.
Well, we'll have a look how those teams match up tomorrow.
But realistically, this one spot, it's tough.
Anyone's legend, they do need to win here today
against Pebs.
Neither team, like you said, have actually won a series.
But anyone's legend have not won a map.
So yeah, they need to find three today
to actually win, so yeah, we'll see.
I mean, they could, that series could go the distance, right?
Because like we said, peps have been trying to run the hazard.
Anyone's legend have been trying to run the Winston,
but the Winston's not had all that much success
into things like the D.Va, the M-Ray,
and the Pharah, where it sometimes feels like
that Winston bubble is quite literally a real-life bubble
with how quickly it pops into all of that poke.
we're talking about how you know for some of these teams you've got the tiebreakers for DK though
they've got their fate in their own hands here when lost to me they need to win either against
Virtus Pro or anyone's legend how confident are you feeling at their chances of making it into
that top 4 for playoffs? Less confident about them winning into Virtus Pro but that other match
it's definitely likely that they're going to be able to take it because like the one loss
that they suffered was unexpected 0-3 against Twisted Minds, right? And as we said, Twisted
Minds, every team that they've matched up thus far has been a 3-0 win on the side of
TM.
Yeah, they're not going to win against VP. That's just not going to happen. I'm sorry.
High-to-break to you, GK fans out there. It's just not going to happen against anyone's
legend. You're expecting them to just come out with a win there. I don't think. Unless
anyone's legend have prepared some insane, like, week three strats where, like, actually
we're just going to blow up
everybody up and we're actually
more than likely GK win that
one. So they're going to go one
and one and we're going to have
to see how things do pan out.
Maybe they play a little bit of
spoiler, but for the side of
anyone's legend, they have the
hardest remaining path to play
us right now. They have to
win both of their matches this
weekend, Moxie. But not only
that, they also rely on GK
losing to Virtus Pro and even
even at the end of the day,
like even if they beat team
pads, it still might not
necessarily be in their hands.
Yeah, it's not the greatest feeling, right?
Being a team understanding,
even if you do everything
correctly on your side,
you're still having to have someone
else decide your destiny.
Like Virtus. Pro as we said,
they're the favorites to win against
GK, but it's also been a whole week.
GK might have been in the kitchen,
cooking up a new composition
and catching Virtus. Pro by surprise.
Well, you guys have the
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Talking next about our matchup
though, Katia versus
Twisted Minds to start off our
day. Katia, they're definitely the
underdogs here, Jack.
And I think for Twisted Minds, they
want to make sure that their regular
season run is squeaky clean.
I think Tia
are just going to lock in and
just go to their classic nine five routine. I just don't see them straying from that path.
They're just grinders, they're hard workers, and they're just going to come in, clock
in, dust their hands at the end of the day and just walk away to the three oh, if I
had to give it a scoreline, and you'll find out where I pred in just a moment, but
surprise, surprise, it's going to just define like I think this, the team is just
too good.
Genuinely, I think they got the best backline in, in the air right now. What about
backlines? Even in the world, you could argue too, right? Considering like last
So, yeah, I mean, team unstoppable and they've lost a single match.
So, that's your own.
Katsya, though, this is the squad that had dominant wins over anyone's legends and Kets.
They've already guaranteed their playoff spot as well.
But I think that Masi, last weekend, the desk with Matt and Johnny were predicting
that Katsya was actually going to take that match up up against EK.
What do you want to see coming out from them as improvements heading into this
third week?
I think maybe less of the Domina, or if we do see the Domina having to make sure that you ban things like the Pharah, unfortunately for Katia, you want to get one opportunity to ban the Pharah, so it is going to have to count.
We know that so many adders likely at some point going through running that Ellari as well, as they floated the stall over between the Orisa, sometimes from the Baptiste with the Ellari on maps like Rialto as well.
But I just really want Kassi to understand what identity of a team that they're going for, because it feels like they have so many different compositions that is the sort of jack of all trades master of none.
You're having to split your time, screaming all of those different compositions instead of focusing on just honing and improving the one.
Well, we'll have to see if they made that adjustment going into week three here, Jack.
But they're going to be facing up against the twisted minds that you're already talking a little bit about, you know, these...
This is the world's best team in OWCS right now, they are uncontested, and I think that
even the gap between them and the Korean teams was seen during last year's world finals,
and it seems like they've only continued to level up, especially with J-woo being at
it.
Yeah, I mean J-woo is an absolute powerhouse man, these guys are freak, and having like
a simple, funny Astro should be a really fun one actually.
I just, J-woo, like you said, this pickup for this team came through in January, has looked
really, really clean, just slotting instantly in.
And something that was actually really interesting, I caught up with Cointree, Swiss's main manager
a little bit earlier in the week, and he told me that they picked up J-woo off of
Yubi's advice.
He saw how well they did on Votersport last year, and Yubi actually went out on
a limb and said, no, this guy is the real deal.
should pick him up and you can absolutely see that Yubi was bang on the money. J-woo has looked
insane both on the Tracer, the Vendetta and also the Pharah which I'm sure especially if we go to a
control map like Li Zhang we're going to be seeing that Pharah come into play almost instantly.
We've known how good J-woo is as a DPS player and I think that even more impressive how seamlessly
he slotted into the system that Twisted Mind has built as well. So I feel like we're only
to see their ceiling grow. But
now let's talk a little bit about
our predictions. I think it's no
surprise. I feel like we're all
going to be in agreement here. I
had to go with twisted minds.
This team has looked untouchable
so far. They're clean. And I
think when we're talking about
it in the green room earlier to
like jaws of saying, blocking
in nine to five. Yeah,
clock in clock cow just a
regular day at the office. I
think the team is very flexible
to I think the DPS line to
like you mentioned in Quartz is still one of the best hit scanners. Sojourn player,
Emra, it doesn't really match. Roche just got it all. I think last year, especially,
really proved how much she can even terrify some of the World Star Korean DPS, like, which
is insane. Even players like Proper and some, even Lib, like, at this place, like, actually
kind of freaking it. So, yeah, I went with Twisted Minds, obviously. I think if
I had to give a scoreline, it would be a 3-0. Maybe Cadd sneaked one away, but
Yeah, I doubt it.
Yeah, same page.
Same page for me, like absolutely.
Twisted Minds, free-oh, in my opinion,
still the best team in the world.
They have such a good read of the current meta as well,
which massively favors them, right?
Vendetta, Tracer, Pharah, Emre, Sojin, and Zarya as well.
And we've even actually got to see KSA sometimes come through
from the team and play things like the Rematra
to be able to mix it up, although I do believe
that TVNT is going to be starting for them today.
I'm excited to get into this
one. I think talking to
Astro last week, he said that
he did not think this match
was going to be close. So
let's see if twisted minds can
continue to keep their squeaky
clean record here for the
regular season. Yes. Thank
you very much, Ash. Here we go.
Week three day number one
match one twisted minds and
our cadds here are cadds here.
Now now look, Astro, no liar,
no liar known to troll a
little bit when asked
And uh, not surprised by that. That does mean though that Kassia will be able to secure the first initial ban
and Swisted Minds will have to react around it and speaking about that we actually get to see Kassia's first ban.
Yeah, I was going to say wait, George you're upset about Amalgamite?
No, I'm not upset about that. I'm not upset about the Alari ban, man. Come on.
Oh, okay. You're denying the Alari.
Yeah, the Maga is getting taken out. I mean, we got to see a little bit of Virtus Pro running the Maga on this very map actually last week against Pebs, but this also now protects your tank line, right?
The Twisted Minds can't try and focus things like the Zarya or the D. The Down, as the Twisted Minds will be removing the Alari from play.
But the good news for you Jaws is that that's the Alari ban out of the way. If we go somewhere like midtown, the Alari gets through.
So true. Actually didn't think
about that one. But thank goodness.
Lee's young tower, like you
mentioned, giving the first one.
Yeah, no shock. He's generally
just picked first. Probably the
best control map we have in the
pool right now to be fair. Um, a
lot of teams of. I mean, we've
been playing this map since what
like not figured out, but especially in this matter. It's going to be a lot of far. A lot of hits
can and a lot of twisted mind. You're expecting walking away with a win here. We see what tanks
end up getting pulled out because both best owner TV and T world class. Um, when it comes to these
off, thanks. Yeah, I mean, that's all that has been flirting with the domino from time to time
on this map. They were very quickly gets just like literally steam rolled over by that far. And
since far was not a talk to ban, I would not imagine that we're going to be seeing cats who
to try to stick with this. Emre mirrors for both Aide and Quartz, and J-Woo as expected
going to be on that Pharah instead of the Vendetta. So does Tejong actually decide to
stick on the Sim? No, he goes for the Pharah too, and we have a straight mirror matchup,
which just means it's going to come exactly down to a blow-for-blow.
Yes, sir. Build J-Woo versus Tejong Pharah. No matter if I do on this Saturday morning.
J-Woo though, unfortunately, filling the wrath of Tejong already. Good little swing
on to the point though, Cassie a little bit quicker actually stepping up which is really beneficial for the fire.
The other enemy one obviously has time over extend there to try and find some purchase.
This Mastola and TVNC go at each other just in the dojo.
Cassie has already got presence on that point so they should be able to find this first.
Jeyu at least does come back into the fight but TvNC lost course and that's a lot of consistent damage now gone.
Yeah, should be a fairly easy clean-up, TDNT alone, or aggressive TK from Symbol, Saw the vision though, that will be, yeah, Katia taking that first point.
This is gonna be rough now as well for Jeyu and Quartz to get some space back, right?
Like the M-Ray very good when you're actually sitting in those angles that have already been developed, when you're having to fight into that constant poke coming on through from both Azari, the Thara and the other M-Ray,
Quartz is going to be a little bit more in dangerous. We can see the help up continues to fluctuate and the ultra just so far behind in comparison to eight
Such difficult did it gonna have here crossing this
Rather treacherous straight. I mean we'll see how a J. We went a bunch against edge. I'm in a couple of moments
But a so close the upright protocol already to five percent away
Jay, who spots the enemy far, a little boot comes out by his aid, rips the ult, and everybody
can twisted mines, scaring like rats in the kitchen.
That's gonna give them at least 10% of this point.
Twisted mines at least didn't lose anyone on the disengage, so it could potentially come
on through with first cast of the Kitsune Rush, but so much end will happen in the mirror,
and again, twisted mines have to cross the bridge.
Ah, a classic bridge fight.
Quartz, though, with a good underhand throw there to the killing aid, if actually
a double for Quartz.
I mean, you're still sitting at wall like 70%. Very classic Legion Tower gardens and moments.
Switch to mines are getting at the flip, but it will be a retreat from Katzia without blowing that grab.
Yeah, I was still holding on to it, but funny after all, we have Siren Barrier and we don't have Vendetta in play.
So Siren Barrier in the Graviton won't just get stripped away by something like that Sundering Blade.
Plus, you don't have the Vendetta to bubble and buy all of the space back.
Twisted Minds, they can just go aggressive with something like this overripe protocol even into the face of Gull of Sambarra.
It should still be able to find kills.
Twisted Minds managed to only get that done with a rush though, so yeah, a lot of ults include that Sambarra like mentioned.
Twisted Minds will play TPS ult, however the fighting has to go down.
No beat!
TPS 3 grab, and well overripe protocol to be popped here.
Grapped on such on the other side of things, TVNT throws onto the bridge over a protocol, kills off aid in the end.
the game. And he's got to be
back in the back of the front
by now. It's going to hold
twisted mind in the back enough
after blowing towards enough
fight. Funny extra going down
that early, not a good side to
TM. I mean, the solar at least
holds grab. So funny after we'll
have somewhere to place the
sign bar is TV and he is actually
going to swap off of the
Zarya onto the Diva wanting to
get into the faces of both
the Zarya and that far to
have defense matrix of taking
just looking straight at the solo who's very, well, okay, I wasn't saying high charge, but actually
told that man. Well, Graviton Solo just hit him in the ground, but he actually ate investola's own
death as J.Boo's grabbed inside of the point and then shoots Vesla on the face of Rockabridge.
So yeah, just in mind, they're doing a cap and despite TVNT, playing the TV, yeah, but
Twisted Minds is still two more fights at least before they're home free from this run. So
If you're Katz here, you can decide to try and go for the push now with the Mirror Rush win,
having that barrage to be able to overcome the health bars.
Or you can go slow for Swizz, who might have to invest the Rush,
and then use your ultimate in the fight that comes after.
Yeah, Rush was surmised, and ends up getting booted in, but it's got a decent rush parking
here, straight across the middle of the map. Swizz to mind the same thing,
he's actually on the opposite end of that corner.
Tejong pressuring the point, coaxing almost J.Woo to actually come and fight him,
but he's got Barrage in his back pocket, and J.Woo definitely knows it.
Gala falls first, now Korg pays attention to Tejong, but that barrage gets unleashed, but only a sprinkling of damage on the back of TBNT's mech as Vestola falls off the map, which divides now in final fight.
Override protocol is going to be available as an open to Katya, but I mean, TBNT with the mech, Tejong's falling down early as well in this fight. Override protocol's got to be used now from Katya just to try and get through.
I mean, it's not gonna happen.
There's no damage there.
Where's the touch like boot from
funny Astro? Who else to do it
better? Tm and the player in
that first round. I mean, not
exactly 100 like a 99%
100% flip there, but close
enough like Katia. What had
like 70 plus percent went
to get found that first one.
So yeah, insane comeback. I
mean TV and T swapping off
of the diva to like at
be able to contest onto the point, but then you get signed by, you're able to keep the
mech up even in the face of a stall fully charged. You don't defence matrix the grav,
but at least you have a little bit more defensive coverage, and then when Cassia tries to open
up with that override protocol, desperation play coming through from A to find eliminations
and try and get onto the point to activate that overtime, it all gets defence matrix
away so no value, but we go to Night Market and both of the Divas are back onto the
default of that Sauror instead.
Even Quartz going super low, eh? With a nice kill.
Zed's already in insane positioning right now, and not even Chet.
Not a member of TM is actually paying attention to this Pharah.
This is wild. Like, that Pharah got away with literal murder.
Right now, won't be able to pick up Simple due to the teleport out,
but I mean, that's the first position for Capsia.
We've already talked about how hard it is for these Pharah's to have to claim to these retake positions,
especially on Night Market where you funnel through these chokes as we can see the Tejong
It's just scouting out to see if Twisted Minds try to send J.Woo coastal side to be able to get past and
Split the attention while the rest of the players have to get through those chokes
Yeah, like the mega health back control knowing to Mr. Minds already want to clear that first
They're doing a fair bit of damage here, but it's gonna be a split effort just three players from Twisted Minds
Actually cap underneath Katsy's nose like straight up and now the composition really nicely is simple
Just gonna burn this all online, which will in a couple of seconds there it is, into Suzy, into the instant rush.
And now that he's trying to chase out Bestola, as soon as he leaves, both Bobbles bobbed as well by Vasari, and now he is in trouble.
A little bit more so though, he's Gala, who just gets melted by TVNT.
As the rest of Katya end up backing off here, but TVNT isn't done just yet.
Jaewoo over the top, a couple of rockets, and Vasari is alive.
And they're getting chased all the way back to that spawn ship.
Everyone's passing the stealth check. Not 20.
First sight for Tejong, and then for Twisted Minds, or with that, just push the point.
Find the flip and force them to have to brawl into the one-sided Kitsune Rush.
Flips like the Kaxia, they are going to have one-sided Rush this time around, but twist of mind,
they've got the point control, they can simply disengage it while still playing for those top-shots.
Nice rush though, but they've already lost the player.
Hope Rite Protocol should help sustain some damage here, although this point is kinda-
OOOH! What?!
I think simple, like, frame perfect TP into a Rikely from aid.
Uh, unlucky, simple, unfortunate stuff, but you know what?
It's all good. You got 50% override protocol, despite losing Tejong early, still gets the work done.
Yeah, so many ults, like you said.
J-Woo though can play spoiler here over a critical pop at a good beat from Astro and look at this
The grabs around the corner so no chance for Kasi to kind of jump on this
But J-Woo, I mean Tejong sorry with that speed boost ends up just propelling himself forward with the beat in hand as well
Nice follow up with the grab as just a my they definitely wanted to come back into that fight and kind of springboard off the back of
Surviving as a simple doesn't again taken down quartz pushed off the edge of the map and Kasi
What's again by themselves in final fight true
But twisted minds the last time they were able to find the flip in the fight when it was off the back of one sided
Kitsune Rush and simple actually being able to hit those last part in Kunai onto Katya's team
Actually means he's able to generate the ultimate so yet again
Rotation from coast side find the flip use the rush and plus Katya
Exactly the same thing happening here
Suzu, Rush, and now the Teeva.
Then he kind of melted by the Zarya, but as soon as Veselos's bubbles die, you best believe he's following suit.
And he also ends up falling down as Twisted Minds. They're going to clean up once again as Katia breaks familiar situation compared to Garden's 99% Twisted Minds taking control.
Yeah, they knew that it was going to be a fast push too.
Like Tejong got picked on the exit rate of the fight before on the far, doesn't have enough time to set up back, comes back on the tracer instead.
Tracer instead. Now he's on the Tracer, he can actually try and apply some of this pressure onto the backline and the point itself.
He's tracking the backcab, so his attention is going to be split, which means that it could potentially come through with an overwrite protocol.
It goes shooting out in that corridor, there's no one there. Straight into the D-Veig, though, go the rest of the shots.
J-Woo does end up going down as Quizz Katzia managed to find that random flip, although look at it right now.
Twisted by, already three players on the point, ready to find the reflip.
Rosh ends up coming through for Sermajed on the point.
Port's already down now.
Sermajed can basically move forward with impunity as Veselola finds a cheeky little flank.
A flip again for Katya, a very scrappy brawl on the point,
but this should bring up Katya to 1-1 on Lee Juntala as they just chased Jaewo down.
Tejong with a final blood as Katya, they tie us up as we head on to control centre.
Just as I mentioned, Sermajed's way too far close to Katya's spawnship.
Like, they just have Teijun go onto the tracer sit on the point, no one on Twisted Mind's
composition is babysitting that position. Everyone else is just aggressively trying to
push into Katya's faces, force them to have to burn out the override protocol just to
be able to get through the choke, and it means that they're all split, they're all separated,
and Katya starts picking away at the composition, finding those trades,
and coming up trumps as we now get to head to Control Center. This is where we're expecting
the Vendetta, right? J-Woo's already going to be swapping off of that Pharah onto the
to be able to match it. And it
all becomes by creating that
space. The engagement is going
to be the vendetta getting
bubbled, trying to find a hit
onto the team. Okay. This was
all of the I just I'm just
excited to see the the J Wu
Tejong match up and also the
quarter match ideas. Kind of
even footing right now with
J Wu and Tejong. So we'll
see how they end up doing it
on the vendetta. I ground
control there. Bubbles in
in a way to get out of danger.
And of course, his positioning too is going to be very hard to actually dislodge it.
And he can get some free poke damage too.
He's got the Lucio to speed him around.
I mean, personal chauffeur, funny astro.
Half suit and tie are ready to go to ferry quarts around.
I mean, this is just quarts to a tee, right?
Gets the really good position, develops the angle,
forces them to have to hide behind line of sight,
and then aggressively walks that position
that they're hiding, cowering from.
And he's got the accuracy.
He's got the shots.
He's able to get on top of some of the jet.
So they lose one of those legs of sustain, and Twisted Minds pick up the point first.
Katz, you're now going to have to be walking right down the barrel,
funneled into both the line of sight of the M-ray set up on the high ground,
but also J-Ru is going to be waiting behind the corner with that Vendetta.
Give a solo, testing the mental error at TBNT, they've taken server at the very least.
This, said Jon, goes for it again.
They could have a wrap around to try and dislodge course on this high ground,
but yet has to go back to point, and TBNT is waiting for them.
This positioning from Twisted Minds is honestly sublime. Quartz on the high ground, they push forward initially to try and get spare kills.
They pull back, set Quartz up, and Tejong has to go in to try and disrupt the MRA and then just can't do anything because he's just getting permanently bubbled and taxi by Astro.
Yeah, and because Kassi had one of their players constantly out of line outside of Sermajed, both of the Kirikos have kept pace with each other when it comes to the ultimate, so we've got to rush MRA yet again.
Going in again, Russell on the point for Sermich,
Hedzib was going to use his from the high ground by the looks of things,
and Tejum were already really low.
Sambaya comes through from Gala,
and because Katia have been on the losing end of a lot of these fights,
they managed to get that all in line first,
but Twisted Minds have managed to hit the perfect grab!
Astro throws in the Sambaya for good measure,
as Twisted Minds survive against a beat rush from Katia,
throw the ult, and now Katia on the back foot.
They've only got one ult for this preceding fight.
Yeah, Cort's got to play outside coastside with overwrite protocol and Katya had no way of being able to shut it down.
So it didn't matter.
You're going in?
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They're still trying to get there just in time. Looks like no one's gonna be around.
Another phenomenal boot from your boy Astro.
Daniel Hathaway does it again.
Twisted Minds come out on top of a 2-1.
Very close affair, but TM still yet to lose a map.
I mean, it was close until we went to Control Center,
and then it was just Twisted Minds determining the full tempo.
The moment that they got that outside coastal position,
and I love as well the way that they set up,
not just Quartz, but also both of the supports next to him.
that you have to be able to
keep your position. So that
you have to be critical that you
understood that the Vendetta with
that Zarya bubble would be
looking to hit those squishies.
So you have the key to put it
up with the Suzu to make sure
that no overhead strike does
not match to hit its shop. You
don't start tanking all of
your health and you have enough
players that they'd be able to
keep courts in the agri position
until you can find an opening
and take more space.
you know, it's a pretty good
prediction on cancer. You know
what? Matter of spec only 11% of
you out there. You can rep that
little number two badge of pride.
I think still having a very close
first map despite it going to M's
where you can still have a little
bit of confidence, and it's a
one to 8.8 return. I'm saying
so, yeah, pretty damn good value
prediction there. Yeah,
I mean, I hope we get to see more of this right because I mean I say that I have a filling vessel is going to be trying to play things like the orisa and the dominant but against twisted minds I just don't know how well it's going to be able to
to see the Mauga being propping well propping up any teams as we go into the next match like
be a man.
I mean do you go for the Mauga? I feel like maybe if you go for the Mauga it has value
in that it forces the Emery onto the Sojourn just because Sojourn gets way more value
into the Mauga by being able to farm up those rail gun shots and like Quartz's Emery
is already one of if not the best in the world like he is just one of the best
hitscan in the world so trying to force him off of that character and onto the
So it might be a play that they decide to do, but I mean, I doubt it
It's like you're choosing between what would you rather get impaled with a giant steer or like a halberd like okay great
We've banned the MRO away from quartz Rose got the sojourn in his back pocket. He's more than chilling
He's he's a player that's not only very valuable to the team because how good he is but also very hard to ban him out as well
Targeting anything he plays it's fine because there's a lot more to actually pick up
is going to be the next map.
We're going to push. Oh,
interesting coming on through
from a cat. So I would imagine
potentially we're getting a
band then. Coming on through
or maybe they're okay with going
for the mirror yet again.
Because like I said, we got to
see that mirror coming into
play potentially. Banak the
Lucio so the teams can't just
the amp, but if they want to go for the Sojin, Rinnosappi could be a play in, I mean, there
it is, the first band coming through on the Lucio, TM though, they're going to respond
by banning out the Zarya. So that's going to force the Diva potentially as a tank, which
means that things like the Vendetta, even without the Lucio, like the Lucio not being
there to give the amp and disengage out of the Vendetta's engagement, do you
to play the Vendetta when you
don't have the Zari bubbles to
be able to enable it. It seems
a little bit more risky. Yeah,
definitely. Can't get matrix,
but you know, you can't matrix
everything, sadly. Um, I have to
wait and see as well, because
Astro, you know, Juno definitely
in the back pocket there
completely a lari to if you
want quite a little bit more
slowcom. Um, I'm always
excited to see rune SAPI. I
think definitely out of the two
I should do my first bronze.
I think rune SAPI definitely
has a lot more tug of war
potential. We've seen it
something staining like
Right, if you're going for the Juno to be able to have the speed still, but she's just going to get one clipped by a tracer
Especially if you don't have the break to be able to peel it
So I'm really interested to see how the DPS lines are going to look in particular like what's Taizong and J-Woo going to play
Do you go for the Vendetta so that you don't have to worry about defense matrix because it's a sword
It does not get matrix. It goes right through the Diva max
I would love to see the bandana.
Yeah, like you said, big sword
equal very good against mecca
of diva. And at the end of the
day, though, I think either
Tejong J. Woo like they're going
to be happy playing tracer
like J. Woo, especially look at
his trace the last year.
J. Woo's trace that was
ridiculous. So one of the best
players to come into the
that was ridiculous. So one of
the best players to come into
EMEA is like an import player
and one of the hottest prospects
as well. I think Abra was
talking about him for a long
time, even before his kind of
debut in on VP. So yeah, not too
shocked to see that Tejong on
Genji. Little risky. We are
seeing vessel of hover the
If it actually is the Mauga, then it's going to be a scout come through from Quartz and
the moment they lose a fight, it's going to be a swap onto the Sojourn.
Surely, as we're getting the Juno, but as expected, even though the Juno is there, so
we're just actually going to lock the Brigitte to be able to play counter to J-Boost Tracer,
which means that Juno is going to have a much harder time finding value in the
backland in Tejong, who's going up against the Kirikou.
Yeah those packs do so much for the tracer, they're getting chased out right now, I mean TVNT taking the kind of off angle.
They're still looking pretty low, getting peppered, both tracers not kind of ignoring each other right now, just taking opposite lines of approach.
Good engagement though eh?
How about you use that pistol to run away as fast as possible?
Good healing though and the backline like you mentioned, TM, very sustainable.
I'm sorry, uh, Kads here. Sorry, uh, we'll get the names flipped over in a second. TM is on the, uh, the other side.
Left hand side. Kads here on the right.
J-booth's down. That's- that's huge for backline survival. I mean, it's traded. Quartz is able to pick out AID, but Vestolo on that Mauga.
It's going to be unstoppable at the moment for Twisted Minds' backlines to have to deal with.
Me when I shoot Matrix for five minutes, is I, uh, pot the- the Adrenaline Hush.
Alright, well, uh, Vesola ends up running away and eventually now,
Tejong does end up falling to simple of all people.
I mean, realistically here, Katia just needs to be able to sustain.
They cannot let a support player go down here.
Good little stop there for Professor Dola, just to make sure that Ser Maget gets away.
And it's almost got the rally as well.
Look how fast Ser Maget's been there.
I mean, the moment they get that too,
you have to feel like they're going to be going very aggressive,
since simple is too far away from the Kitsune rush,
which means that, I mean, it's gonna be up to Gael.
Let's try to use the orbital right to prevent the results of system mines having one side of the rush with one side to carry
All right, well post lines are coming out sticking straight to court carry now down rally's gonna get from Calty
It's trying to secure this fight and late rush from simple. Oh dear
I'm not sure about that one TV NT's gonna have to come up some magic here just trying to secure this fight
But yeah, it's just not to be it's only plays down a self-destruct being thrown in from TV NT as well
doesn't killing Adol with squishes to join in the remake but it's a diva versus three and that is
just not happening no matter how good you are. Also silver lining for the very late rush coming
on for it from simple. Gala used orbital ray in response to it so capsea don't have a support
ultimate. Twisted mines will have theirs and since they also have one sided override protocol
you can imagine that they're going to be winning this first fight. Our port pops the
like just a force cut to your back like this is an insane early old gets a lot of
splash damage though I say that with the last shot on to gala and aid now the lead
has been taken there's no force into an odd spot just so low down cardiac over
drive I guess used and then make tricks I would imagine and that's gonna mean
checkpoint to TM I'm not really a part of the way the twist minds use that
over a protocol because it meant that the soul wasn't in an engagement
angle and got just taken down both by the Emory but also by TVNT with the chase and potential of those boosters.
Now Twisted Minds have much more control of the space. They can split their composition, so a precious few of the team get caught out by Vestola's cage.
And they'll use the ult to try to survive the other light protocol, but the Malaga cage locks them into it.
Yeah, nice little lock down there from Vestola.
Fruity on fight, and you'd imagine it would be with those two large ults.
Astro, though, unfortunately, can't use that Ray.
I like the idea, right? It's like, okay, if you use that to counter out the under a critical, but...
Yeah, unfortunately, Mauga, moment.
I can't, you cannot run, and, uh, yeah, your Ray is moving away from you.
Yeah, and now you don't have Ray to be able to interfere with some of Jed's momentum off of this rally.
As well, right, from Katya, you also have to worry about Tejong.
You lost the fight, so you have no idea where the tracer is, so you have to scout out because she has a pulse bomb,
which you absolutely can't lose one of your players early too.
Well, Tejong suddenly wants to do it again. He's being checked by Javer right now on the sidelines.
Yeah, nice little check. Oh, just didn't even try to stick the back of the mech. No surprise there.
Quartz takes down A. The rally's being popped from Sermazhev.
But again, they need to find kills. They need something.
Tejong's got that overheld. Sure, but they've already lost Gala in A.
Tejong now trying to look for a funny Astro base high in the sky.
A little bit too out of reach for the young Tracer.
as that summer jet also falls as Katya they end up blowing that all and they
don't even take that checkpoint. I mean Katya will have orbital ray to react to
Quartz's overwrite protocol but Twisted Minds they don't have a mage cage to be able to lock Katya's position in and yeah
that's a very late death that's not gonna read well for Katya's regroup
potential. You revealed yourself now forced the Suzu sure but you're
forced to recall and now the Orbs to Rans are coming in over a protocol from
Portage trying to sustain through this. He's very low, went down to like a sub 8 HP by the looks of
things. Getting shot out from the side every which way at once, set on fire,
burning in the sky. Okay they managed to strip the map here but they're all so low.
Katsuneer rush to try and go over the re-engages, Tejong now finds the flank,
spots the Kerakoba, can't do too much as the Stola falls into the pavement.
Once again just flattened by TVNT, pulse is good from Tejong but the bot
has been reset into mid. Like this is just all falling apart from Katia right now, Moxanne.
I mean, Chirro play has to go, it's a simple by the way. Swift has to quartz when he's 50 HP
to be able to pocket the Emory through his ultimate. Does mean that they lose quartz a little
bit late to this fight, but Swift might still in full control of the space. J-woo
with the Pulse Bomb too, and no Kuriko on the other side, so it's up to Surma-Jett
on the break to be able to peel the tracer before it can stick.
Oh, and there's the recall. Where's the kill? It's gonna get packed a couple of times there.
Post moments of going out here in the wall, not even a single hit marker there for Jeyu, sadly.
Great deploy for a funny Astro, Bestola dead again. Bro cannot stay out of the spawn room.
And it also falls down to 2, it's a 3, a V4 now, a twisted mines in there.
The hell with TVNT, just pushing on forward. It's gonna be a hard fight to win here for Katia
As Twisted Minds, just extend their lead even further.
The TVNT can be much more aggressive as well with the self-destruct.
Aids actually gonna swap off of the Emory onto the Sojin to have that pick potential with the Railgun Snipe,
even without a DPS Ultimate to rely on.
They got Cage, they got Rally, they got Pulse, I say that and tear Jon.
Ooh, winds are going down. We need to replay that one.
I think Jayme probably ended up blinking into it.
Cage ends up coming through.
TVNT dies, rally comes out, self-destruct launched in, can he actually get the remake?
No.
Good bash by Sturmyshets, starting that baby D, even making sure there's no chance for that one.
But by the way, Katya, the bot still moving!
You gotta touch it at some point!
Please! A hundred meters and counting as Twisted Minds are sneaking this one away!
Heads up play from simple, what's that, extra like 15 meters or something?
Silly, maybe even 20?
Snuck away from Katya mid-fight?
It wasn't even the Tracer, it was the Kieran, Katia was doing all of that damage, getting all of the eliminations, and it was just funny Astra healing the team.
The whole term simple is sneaking the bot away, and it means that they have so much of a lead in terms of distance.
Katia also used almost all of their ultimates in that fight, like you're relying on Orbit away to Orbit away, but it's simple to have the one-sided rush, and TM to control the temple off of that along.
every time they know that cats you have a DPS plus manga composition so that they can't go for the old combos like we're gonna see it yet again
I'm sure a house here over clock. That's all of those stuff my page
Oh, they're so there's a booping funny astro for people off of the Mac with the charge
Okay, little spicy with it. I didn't have using this over clock as well
I still shot the simple there, but again, you still need
66 meters so
Yeah, times are ticking.
Katzia, by the way, an even 40, that looks pretty nice in the clock, I'll say.
Yeah, how do you stretch your ultimates?
That's the question for Katzia, right?
You'll have Raleigh, that's cast to go up against simple's Kitsune Rush.
The solo's got Cage, but Twisted Mind's there, so swap on to the Sojin that we were talking about.
That's gonna go fast!
Yep, yes they are.
Simple is it going down, like little bash of Starmashed,
and you get taken down low by TVNT, a decent trade.
With all things considered, his TVNT continues his rampage.
And like you had mentioned before as well,
Quartz switching over to the Sojins,
only just happened really here, but against this Marguerite,
it's just free real estate.
It's going to be so tough for the Stolas to stay alive.
We're approaching final fight.
There's a cage, there's a Polk's Bomb,
but they've got an auto-rate for Twisted Minds coming up,
50% way ahead of Carla.
I mean, there's also Defense Matrix and Suzy
that can both interfere with Tejong's Polk's Bomb.
It's really all up to Vestola,
But again, it's about to be an attempt, which might have to leave in terms of distance.
The hand won't be forced.
Ideally, the Maga Cage only catches the D.Va when she's playing the objective.
We'll see where the Cajuns are getting deployed.
Jero with a pulse, throws out, hits the wall, Maged dodging out of the lane.
Nice little fancy footwork there.
Cage coming in from Vistala, he's pretty low by the late.
Oh, the stick ended up hitting the wall.
Oh good, make sure a simple pedal backstrains across there as a tej on.
Might just find the double on the support, and he does.
but TVNT training extremely well.
Self destruct killed Sir Michelle,
and TVNT is absolutely dominating right now.
15 player kills straight,
bot stolen in the middle of the map,
but Katz here, they have no support,
they have no backup here for this low tracer.
And it's about to be overtime as well.
Like TVNT still there on the D.Va with the neck,
which means that Tejong just has to no power
and play for the team to regroup.
I mean, I feel like TVNT can do it all at this point.
Sheff, pilot, firefighter, broken plate, Debra and I's level, like he's absolutely destroying.
A little charge there from Vestola, aid ribs the overclock and twisted mines head all back,
not a moment too soon though, they end up using that ray to push themselves forward.
And now A, a preffler of targets, but unfortunately there was one straight behind here,
simple with the kunai, twisted mines by the team-wide, OT gone, and Katia fall, twisted mines with a 2-0.
I mean, it was literally the moment we got to the last three minutes remaining was just
the swaps of the sojourn and starts farming off of that Mauga health and on the flipside,
like you've got the diva mech just absorbing so much of the damage coming through from
the Mauga denying the opportunity for that self heal to be able to come on through looking
at the stats. I'm imagining that quartz is massively ahead in terms of damage output,
Yeah, he's literally just
getting to battery off of the
static target that was that
Mugger. Yeah I'd actually
really like to see like a
damage taken graph from best
Oh, look is. Yeah, like you
said, it causes issues. You
just sat there firing and TV and
T as well. TV and see, by
the way. 23 and three on the
diva crazy looking such like
It's been a player on people's radars for a little while, but guys turned up over the last couple of years to be the best off-tank in
EMEA or at least contending for that number one spot. He is an absolute monster
It's good to see him against someone like that solo who has the history behind him as well with overwatch league and a whole
Yeah, like a long list of historical kind of placements in even contenders back in EMEA
back when contenders was the
thing. And yeah, it's like new
generation in TV and TV versus
Vestola a little bit of an old
head in the EU scene and going
at each other like this. Didn't
really feel like a fair match
up in this regard because yeah,
it is a diva versus a Malcolm
which, you know, twisted buys.
They probably rubbed their
hands together and we're pretty
happy about that seeing it roll
going to be doing a lot of
damage and taking a lot of
damage, but no one's really
going to be going down early.
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Let's get back into the series
though. 204 TM again yet to lose a map in the regular season. Havana is going to be the pick
for Katia. Okay, now I really want to see the band line come out because like, are you going to try
and put Vestola on a more static tank? Or are you going to continue to try to run things like the
Cesario or potentially the Diva that we saw a little bit earlier on Li Jiang Tao because there's
you're running now. Go on
Havana, right? It's going to
potentially be stigma. Maybe
elements of Domino for the
first push, at least on your
attack and then swap over to
something with a little bit
more mobility and a little bit
of an easy time challenging
that high ground. My dream.
Right now. Would you see a
little winner maker? You know,
really not that not the
I mean, I'm not going to say
okay. We all know that, but I
would love. Please just a little
widow. Just a sprinkling. It
feels like so long. We've not
seen like a proper widow head
dead. And I think this would be
a very fun map and a very fun
series as well to do it in
considering the prowess that
it scans, especially, uh,
quarter course. Yeah, we'll
see what Havana has in store
for us. Would you expect the
bands are going to come
through here for cats. Yeah,
they get again their choice
I don't think you can really go for a DPS because of just like the flexibility potential
And speaking about like Havana you're going to have to worry about so many things but then data the tracer the fire potentially on third
Looks like uh, we're actually going to be seeing Katzia go for the Kirica
Taken away and that also means that uh tm can't target out the supports
So speaking about Havana Katzia the last time we got to see this played did play the orisa composition with the baptiste lari
to the finish line. And then
the second one to go. So they
might be wanting to try to
forth T. M. into having to go
up against that composition
again, as we're going to get
the vendetta band on the side
of T. M. Which means Tracer.
Yeah, They're exactly that
Kyroco ban. Okay. Okay No
mind these bands at all. I
think. Ven data, especially
being able to control high
ground here, especially on
first point. It's really
nice, especially if you're
on the attack, right? Very
the game. I think it's going
to be a good way to move on.
Straight on the corner with
that mega health. Okay, so
yeah, pretty easy to control
the space. If you're the
vendetta there, I like the
Kiriko Bantu. I mean, that's
fine. Again, I think with how
well the support matchups.
Four team have been going and
not really going to care that
much if you're going to get
around here. No, I think like
for cats. It was more a case
of protecting both your
Baptiste and your lorry. Yes
as a pick since you're the
initial ban, which then
you're going to be running the
Baptiste. Laurie, you want to
make sure that the Kirika was
removed so that you don't lose
out when TN get one side of
kids in a rush to just steam
roll walk forward into a whole
composition, especially if it's
something like your amplification
matrix fight where they just hit
the Kirika ultimate don't care
about the Baptiste and overpower
you. It always feels like there's
one team at the very least,
especially in EMEA, that although
to be fair, it's happening in
in North America as well. That
just go without losing a single
map and it feels like twisted
minds are on the same trajectory.
It feels like they're not going
to lose a single map in this
stage. You'd expect that though
to be fair from a world
championship winning roster like
winning worlds last year was
really a precedent setting or
like a history making as well
taking off a normally dominant
Korean team, which was insane.
Was it the hands of a lot of
Symmetra play a little bit
Magus, Franklin did. Yeah,
of course, but I think with
I think with how well twisted
minds have been able to improve
and also not make any drastic
roster changes as well. It's
only propelled the team forward
month on month on month stage on
stage season on season. So it's
been nice to see how well twisted
minds of almost stick to their
entire core and, uh, yeah, do
see success with it. All right.
Let's jump into the bat, though.
Havana is mat number three. Be
a bit come back here if you're
that you get for that Ellari one versus one. And I mean, maybe we see a little bit of Widowmaker
from the attacker side that opening five seconds of trying to oust something like an Emory
pushed up on the Rafters could be the play or potentially even from the attacker side if they
make it all the way to Fert if the defense is a little bit too close up as we can have a look
and see the Fert cam as it's going to be Katzia starting on the defense. Now,
I'm just so I actually stick to the segment. It's out of spawn. She has been known to play the sick me
He was one of the best in the world at it and we do indeed get that a lorry coming for on the side of so much at two
Don't mind it at all. I love the vessel of stigma
Like you said was one of the best in the world on it exceptional off-tank player
I mean look at his games on like circuit Royale when Sigma was like
Oh, by that the guys are menace. He's a freak
Like the shield staggers as well, but I mean twisted minds they might actually have read this out
They're actually literally going to be able to see through the window pane to scout the composition and you're getting your wish
Hands-o-sonics and the courts knows where to shoot that could have been absolutely devastating for Katz here
I
Got my wish for five seconds a fleeting dream. They call that no more would it make it and it's gonna be simple and
Mastro, no Alari here sadly.
So it's the break to deal with the Tracer.
It's a beautiful cop.
Like with this Genji as well,
taking this high ground with CVNZ
and then forcing Vestola to play
on a very like defensive angle.
Just gonna get shot from the high ground permanently
by CVNZ and J-WiG.
Yeah, I mean that shield can only be in one place as well
and then you have the armor packs
coming on through onto J-WiG too
so he can be much more aggressive.
You're just gonna roll over the Sigmund trying
to hit backline.
Oh nice stuff though, already taking down Quartz.
Being able to disengage from this high ground as well.
Very easy for Twisted Minds sure, but retaking it does take time.
They have to again run into Vesola who's just permanently spamming.
They have to run into Tejong who's getting permanently healed too.
And if the pylons hit a nice little spot as well,
no one needs to pay attention to their jump.
They just heal up with the pylons.
I mean yeah, Tejong's getting real close to the pulse bomb
and Jero hasn't been able to find the end just yet.
All the creation goes wide and that's the sign
to start off the go. It is
hedge on now knows that's an
opportunity for him to maybe get
busy in the backline, but
already Carlos for it. In fact,
all cooldowns from best earlier
used not really near the rest of
the scene right now. They're
trades one for one. I mean,
simple is down, but a swing
out of this the post bomb and
no recall and three players
chasing and make that two and
backs surely doesn't get the
kill on the Genji. No,
who's got the better event to
be one not exactly a fair
fight, but fight twisted
you get that Tracer, you don't have to worry about your Juno, your Genji gets way more
space to be able to go harassed cats he is backline. They'll have a captive Sun, but
2VNT with that DVM, that can just matrix all of it.
That's your Sun pops! Oh, and get nothing, Sam, even Sermajet falls down towards you.
Almost instantly! And yeah, there you go, exactly how you called it there, Moxie,
straight into the ray, and everybody is dead. Twist of mind, that was the first
point, Cap. Not too bad of a time, Banko, for what minute is going into seconds
they're gonna take forward space.
Majed's off of the Alari.
I mean, yeah, you got the break.
You got the break.
You can try and have a little bit more
peel for your Juno against both the D.Va and Dagenju.
But I mean, I just want to see J.Woof with this blade.
Is it actually going to find value,
or is it just going to get instantly obliterated?
Oh, good, son.
So, Majed asked to back up.
Overwrite protocol used by Quartz.
Slide damage is going to get healed up
with that ray just firing a lot of Vestola right now.
Self-destruct for the remake.
Lock the damage, Vestelo. Basically just sacrificing his shield there, so...
Let's play a little bit more careful, but with the A-news in his soul, should be fairly trivial, and...
Moxxi, the answer to your question? No. J-Woo gets absolutely...
Ah, 20-26. I mean, at least we got it more frequently than the Widow.
Uh, does J-Woo swap off, or do they continue going with this Genji?
Nope, there we go. Wait. No way. Widow?
No, surely it's spawnpeek, is that pushing on?
Yeah, yeah, okay. No panic.
It's Tracer time. It's Tracer time, but I mean it is going to be into the break now, so it's going to be a little bit harder for J-Witch to close up the distance and try to go for the one clip against Gala, I will say.
But it's still going to make a lot of space for the rest of Twitch's team to make a play.
Trying to work the stairs? Oh, what a stick!
Tetrong is just smooth with that on the Tracer. You can see why I was excited to see J-Witch's uh, Nezha.
Yeah, we see our children kind of clip up here.
Like quarks going down as well means the cats who don't have to worry about their
stigma just losing all of that health in the neutral.
And it's like TVNT is trying to split the attention, hitting that backline to let the
team walk them in.
So much better point for the stigma as well, I have to be said, like being able
to defend against Sigma here when there's a lot less kind of open space, you can
kind of find this high ground is great.
I say that and he instantly dies.
my bad Verstola
Unfortunately, Twisted Bytes just end up walking forward and walking through you rather get popped to service yet here trying to quarterize the wound
That is best over going down
But unfortunately with an investment of the raid from funding astra made the flight trivial
Yeah, I think Twisted Bytes hit the quarter rise and took that a little bit literally dropping the orbital ray
Right on top of Katya's team after that rally was about to end and now it's the true test for Verstola, right?
It's easier to hold on to second when you're already starting the fight in control now
You have to get the sigma back into a position and just still losing all of the angles
They're just doing this one as well
Already lined up a sucky of me in the back line. However, it actually just needs to earn the thing first
Forces J. Woo's recall a good fox though does end up connecting with quartz into being trying the skies
Still with a man advantage. Yeah, cats here in good stage can throw the pulse ball in if they need to as well
Definitely more of a throw away out than a will you wanting to save it?
Tejong ends up getting packed, it's the recall again, but sorry, I mean J-Woo is Tejong, he's just kind of dominated J-Woo in the 1v1.
Funny Astro falls as time's ticking out for DM, they've not managed to make anything stick, they've got the payload fairly far, but they're wasting ults on TBNT.
Yeah.
Like you're not going to want to take the fight down Funny Astro, now you're not going to want to take the fight down your divas, so we're forced to J-Woo to just find a miracle in this backline,
She's being cleared out in just the two versus one both aid and Tejong
Collaborating to take the tracer right no worry about a pulse form and the twisted lines are down to a minute remaining
And Tejong might just be able to get away with another
Another killer with a pulse if I'm honest already in the high ground you can see the extra
Simple simple is looking for you keep splitting to see if the tracer's left
Over right protocol to quartz getting shot in the sidelines
It's good, hot, the increase.
Okay, slips back in, but not the most favorable angle of all time, shooting through a very
narrow passageway, a shield.
Aid on the high ground, they had a trade in those, a bit of damage exchange, but it's
not too much, so it can't be healed up.
Now Tejong looking for another stick, ends up swinging a miss, not even a hit marker,
as now he turns his way towards J-Woo, who lands a better one that Tejong did there.
Sermaj head down, Aid finish off, J-Woo's time to shine.
I mean great pistol pull coming on through from quartz honestly using the
elevated jump to be able to create more distance away from that pulse bombs AOE
radius and Twisted Minds finally in control of the space that they were
looking for going to be holding a little bit closer up to catch to your side
making sure that they can hit this point in overtime and Gala can't just
use one-sided orbital ray to brute force through the team and we go for it but
I mean historically Havana for it is very hard to be able to push through
you have less than two minutes.
One minute 20 for twisted minds
to be able to find an opening
and already cats you just by
winning one fight are going to
be in such a good position to
support us up in castle.
Classic classic Havana Gaming.
Well, guys got that Ray using
that speed ring first kind of
threatening a aggressive push.
You can play fairly forward
far forward here with a
Stola burn up with a Ray
both sides are going to get
the back line, but TV and he's
actually the first one to take
a casualty here and a flux from
this scholar. Not only scores
funny Astro, but grab simple as
well. High value flux 40 seconds
to go here twisted minds as their
cleanups are going to come
through. This is not looking
good. But again, very classic
Kavana as they play up to the
school and then course will
be coming up to override
protocol that Calcio will have
first simple rally is about to
able to shield bash the M-Ray out of that ultimate, so you're going to be relying on someone like J-Wing TV and Tita to stall the point in OT.
Hejong has got a perfect avenue into the backline here, simple use of bash forward as Scarla ends up going down. Return running here for Sermoshed is A23 HP.
Still though, taking a decent angle, shot out of the skies by J-Woo, but I think unfortunately for J-Woo, Tejong and Sermoshed have already done the damage required.
quiet. Piney is going to get touched by Quartz, oh no, C9 not today, but there's so much to
actually do for Quartz here to keep this game in Twisted Mind's favour. Best Stola dodging
around with the shield and other touch-hands are coming through, but Diva returns to the
point over a protocol, snipes out Sermosh, A from the high ground, swapping to the
last-minute widow, takes care of Quartz as the time ticks down, TVNT cannot move
from his post, has to stay on this point as his teammates fall around him.
Yeah, there's nothing you can do. Like you literally just rely on J-Woo hugging the pilot!
They're going to fall into a headshot! And you know what? You got your wish!
More than five seconds of Widowmaker and it's the closer as well to Kat's DSD fans.
Personally, I'm a big fan of the Sickness Whop-Up. Coming on through from Vesola,
it leans perfectly into his hero pool. But not just that, being able to use the shield
to position it into the pop of the override protocol, coming on through from the Embray.
a very long time. It's been
a while, but I've been
fighting with a very like
multiple times and second we
saw Twisted Minds try to gain
space with court using that
overripe protocol and catch
you just love the signature
right in his face so they can
hold their ground and forced
twisted minds to burn more
ultimate more time. Very
key snipe there from aid of
the very end. I want to
mention how close TV and T
was to retouching that. I
mean, if he's a fraction
of a second earlier, maybe it
I've been quartz, but snuffing J. Woo beautiful stuff from had here, but again, it's have on it like how much stock do you put into how far the payload got I mean, I mean all the chat can relate to this one can relate Havana pushing third quite literally a lot of people's nightmares.
Twisted Minds, they're going for the Sigma composition, by the way.
TVNT is mirroring.
They've got the symbol on the Alari, so if Summoner did actually commit to this,
you're getting your Alari 1 versus 1, as Tejong's going to be on that Widowmaker,
but again, it's just going to be for that opening shot I just spawned before you swap
onto what you actually want to play.
As Katz, you're likely going to be trying to prioritise mobility
to get around the position that the Sigma tries to hold.
I mean the solo with Azaria though, can Bobble the Genji while also putting Fresh on to TvNT
who can't ship the beam. Oh, yeah. Unlucky, some would say that. Ports in TVNT going down.
That is a very fast first fight, but can't do it. It's... it's ballsy. I'll give them
that to Twisted Minds trying to play Sikmar into Vestola, because he understands perfectly
the weaknesses and strengths of the Sikmar, and one of them is things that you just
cannot matrix with that shift. So, TVNT off of the Sikmar onto the Magger instead.
Twisted Minds are going to try to just create some mistakes. Does this nice signal aid swapping up onto the soldier?
Ah, we're back. Now the moment. I just shoot bestola and he melts because he has no bubbles
It's like, yeah, great. You could bubble Tejong in but now you have to deal with a tdnt who
It's not gonna care that your full charge is gonna hold down right and left link at the same time and melt
Yeah, good re-engaging twisted minds as they get a team kill
8 does have overripe protocol though and Twisted Minds don't have a support ultimate to be able to heal through it so
We're going to be seeing some sort of Tajon off of again
Jun goes on to the Tracer so that you can go for pressure on to funny astro on that Juno is so far
There's no break but Twisted Minds they've got their own overripe protocol
It's literally gonna be a one versus one emerald who gets more value
I hope Tracer's hitting the recall, Jay, where they're not quite seeing Tejo on the
air and has to back out. Over a protocol, couple of hit markets. There's A, actually,
it's 9-20 Astra from around the corner now looking for Quartz in disguise. Already
lands one shot, needs a couple of more BR shots to get it. And there it is, a double
for A, Vestela kills TVNT, and that is first point cap.
Interested minds now. Do they actually swap off of this composition? Do they
to keep TV and tea on this mauga a minute more.
You're going for the D.Va?
Okay, this is wild against that Zarya,
especially since the soul is gonna be fully charged up.
Does this not mean that Cassie, well,
this is where the Vendetta ban is gonna come
in absolutely clutch from Twisted Minds, right?
The Zarya is in play, but the Vendetta can't be.
So D.Va can peel, can play the verticality,
and can create space for Quartz and Jay
with to find something to do.
I'm surprised that got through CBNT's defense matrix, but perfectly timed from Miss Stola.
That kill on just simple is going to be golden for Katzia.
Mystic binds very much on the back foot.
They're looking at one more fight here to defend against second.
Yes, the mid-jeds off of the Alari too. You're not going for the one versus one Ego match.
You're going for the break, which is putting even more pressure on both TVNT and J-Woo on this Tracer.
They've got a pulse bomb, but can't you match to get past the full peel that's going to be available as-
Oh, stick up there, and you can't just go one and the-
The 1.5. We've got that 1.5 here.
Got the pylon as well. It was basically another healer and now Tejong can continue to rampage. I mean
This point is done. The Zarya is on the point. I mean Quartz has got to kill Shaw
But Destola is very high energy right now and Tejong is absolutely tearing you limp from limp
There's no chance you defend this. Nice healthy time back for Katzia. They're looking great
What's this? What four minutes on the dot? Like oh my
I'm not a fan of the D.Va. I'll say it right now. Into both Verstola and Sima, yet this
D.Va has just been getting popped out of the mech. A2 on that M-Ray, but T-Venti is so
close to self-destruction, going to keep that tank in play, especially to have the defense
matrix against the M-Ray. As of course, can find more value. That's the turn.
Nice to make sure Verstola there, ends up backhandling. Use a bubble to make sure
gets out of line. Scullar unfortunately not quite so lucky but I think I actually just
try and hold this like straight up forward because I think right here might be really
good I mean burning as much time as possible is required.
Yeah I mean if you can force aid as well to have to use either the override protocol
or some aged the rally just to get Katya's foot back through the jolly part.
Where did Vestola go?
He stepped out for half a second.
Oh they're just splitting the team too like they've understood that Katya when
When they have the Zarya to be able to set up with the bubbles, they look insanely strong,
but if Twisted Mouses take the tempo and win the fight before the Zarius pullage charged
up to be able to threaten TVNT, they're just going to be able to win it all.
Captive Sun available. There's a rally to capture.
And there's the Captive Sun. Simple, no connection.
Jeweling out with Gala who's in the sky off the map.
Warts takes out Aida with sky high with the ult, just beating him out.
it felt like it was a long be one there. It's possible that he had another kill. So, time bank boxy swiftly burning away.
I mean, it's the classic of honor, isn't it? Come in with four minutes on your attack, lose three minutes and a half on thirds.
Like, we're going to see the widow come through from aid with high close twisted winds are holding, but you're only going to see defense matrix.
So, swaps back up to the Emory instead.
Well, the Graviton search here from Vestolo. We'll see if TBNC can get a biggie.
Already simple downloads of Tejong, so a good start here for Kha'Zia, however, J.Woo is going to return the favor.
Pulse bomb onto Q, straight to the spawn though. It's all Tracer's all-day. Tejong and J.Woo trying to outdo each other now.
A stick from Tejong is absolutely insane too. Might just get 5 kills this fight. Absolute beast on the Tracer,
and that's going to make sure Kha'Zia break the spawn hole.
Yeah, perfect anticipation.
Understands Twisted Minds when they use it over the wave.
They're going to want to clamp inside and yell like you said.
They've got to go. They get one chance.
If not, they're losing and dropping a map for the first time in the series.
Quartz is going to be the opener with the Override Protocol,
but can he find the elimination?
It's the Graviton! Mid-air!
Big whiff. Hit the wall. All good.
We'll ignore that one vestola.
Orbital Ray is going to do a lot of work.
Go on the point right now as TVNT gets focused down.
Tejong eventually slain.
The demon is gone. However, they still need to deal with the rest of the carries
Made is gonna work be up here making sure those as much as possible
But right now is forced away same with bestola. He's hiding around the corner right now
I said don't switch to the winnage try and get a couple of nice time to ask for the not to be
I'm in it to go bestola chase down
They managed to find aid and sniff out his position eventually taken down by J. Woo
They've held on for now, but they're still a minute in a time ban for Katzia. Oh
Oh, Tris is mine stabilizing.
Yet again, we see Katia try to go for the widow with the overextension,
but Portage Junk swaps over all to the Symmetra.
Yeah, wherever I take it, overtime, and with how close the objective is,
TVNT is going to be forced to stick to that payload,
which means Beam, from the stand, fully charged with Bizarre, is going to pop that net.
Oh! Wait, the Captain Sun from Symbol is massive in the small room?
There's just no way we survive that. The alt is too good there.
A TP into the small room according to reset required 20 seconds to go.
Oh, they don't have captives on this time though.
Cassie though, they're off the sedimentation, he's actually going to go over to the tracer.
More touches to be able to keep this point in play.
One-sided rally as well into the overwrite protocol, it's all up to TVNT with the defense
matrix to be able to stop AID.
J-Woo is going to do it to him, he's going to do it to him again, stick, oh straight
up the back!
Good rally and good bubble though, but AID's so low in the air, ripping the alts.
Orbit's Raze going to come down to the Astro now as we try and fight on this
point.
had come through in the sim tp fight and TV and T had been forced to hold his ground into fully charged Zarya fully charged
Symbium if they probably lose that first map and we actually see the series go an extra
But it's a hero play from simple on a pick that honestly I'm surprised they actually decided to stick with
And there it is
There's the real one and switch to violence here with it with a 30 at the end of that honestly moxie
it was the tracers simple in that big captive son of that small room after the sim tp one of that fight
but the previous fight to that tejong and jewu going nuclear on the tracers tejong gets what like
four kills in that fight jewu ends up getting what two or three and then at the very end jewu
landing the stick the best stick imaginable forcing bubbles forcing the rally and then it's like
the game. Okay, a dies because
there's no support. And then
funny Astros got the easiest
order rate of his life of his
career just pops on the corner
and they just all fight in it.
Insane stuff. Honestly, and
very close, I'd say, can see
it put up an insane performance
against the team that he's
undefeated against. Braining
World champions. This one too
as well. The override
protocol between both of the
you've only got funny Astro to
be able to commit into this
fight. And here this moment,
the double stake of the pulse
bomb into the center of the
orbital ray. Oh, that I first
captured some moment as well
coming through from simple. Like
there was so many pop off
moments from both of these teams.
Really at certain points on
Havana, especially on those
fights on forward, it could
have gone to either team. It
really could have. It is kind
of crazy how close Havana
was. And I think that we
really got a taste of how
how Katya have been growing as the team, as this intense regular season has gone on.
But Twisted Minds, it feels like despite how close Havana was though, Moxie,
they still have those moments where they're able to pull it all together.
It was just a couple of meters that were the difference between Katya taking
that last map of this series.
And it's kind of insane how Twisted Minds are capable of just turning up
on the day right when they need to.
Yeah, four minute hold on Havana.
They did a really good job as well of like not overextending into the widow swaps coming on fruit from cats
Who were looking to punish if someone was out of position and then not only that there were multiple times where
Tejong had a pulse bomb that got lame checked before he was able to use it on the back line
So really good turnaround coming through from twist mines understanding. They had to shut the tracer down
Yeah, I I did message us so initially pull this game like you know, how how you feeling coming in
And he's like, well, you know,
at the end of the day, I'm defeated
and the confidence is still pretty high.
I was, I told him my prediction.
I was like, I'm thinking of three,
oh, and he said, you know, the same kind of trying
to be in a humble, a bad it.
But I think out here, I need to get
respect about how you say, like, look,
they are a good team.
And I think had it kind of proven that
even even on control.
It went to three rounds.
There were some very nice heroics from
from caddy as a squad.
And I think that shows a whole lot of promise
to be able to use it. And
it's really important that
players are focused for them
going into the playoffs. I
mean multiple times on
control, especially they
really understood how
Twisted minds would want to
play and punish them for it.
They were able to anticipate
that over regression and use
it to just rotate onto point
and find the flip and
managed to win out the
fight that happened
afterwards with just better
player traits. It is
pretty wild. I think
we got to still continue to look out for and to see how they're able to grow heading into that
playoffs bracket. But now talking about twisted minds and this when we bought Astro back onto
an interview with us, Astro, congratulations. You guys maintain your, you know, no maps lost here
in OWCS for the first stage. And I kind of want to hear about like how the team was feeling
heading into today's matchup. I know that last week when we talked to you, you were saying
you're really confident. Yeah, I mean, I think we still have that confidence. Obviously, we threw
today, it looks a little bit closer than we'd like it to look. But yeah, we're feeling good.
Yeah, I'm kind of not surprised to say that they kind of ran you around a little bit on one of
those control rounds. And it was fairly close at the very end. I want to know what you think of
BP them and they've only lost a single map. Give me some smack to go into that series because
that is going to be an absolute barrier. We're going to rule them. I think they'll be
easier than Alcat to be honest. Alcat today played really well and I don't think VP is going to be that good.
Were you surprised by the Malgo pick coming on through from the side of the Capsia on RuneSapietto?
I think we expected a lot more Malgo. He's kind of been doing the rounds in Europe,
you know, we love a little bit of Malgo in this region. So a lot of teams have been playing him
and trying it out in scrims because they think it's stronger. I think it's like,
it's a pretty good hero but we're choosing not to play it at the moment.
I think we've found a few ways to counter it.
Makes sense.
I'm kind of curious too because you know,
heading into playoffs and knowing that the first seed gets to select who they're going to be playing up against.
If you feel comfortable, who would you guys pick?
Do you think as far as which team you would want to play in a round one?
We'll see how bad VP are in our match tomorrow and then maybe we'll get to pick them.
Oh, I'm not sure other than that, I think we don't really have any thoughts on who we want to pick all these teams like we'll see when we get there.
Yeah, we'll see. I'm excited for that match tomorrow, obviously. I do want to get your thoughts on the international competition as well. And a region for autism or like how you guys feeling
And it's just trash that they're not really worth watching to be honest, but Korea looks pretty strong
They've got some like they've got some solid teams this stage, especially Zeta like they're getting really creative for their strats
And we love to see that so that would be that'd be really fun to play against. I
Mean while you have you here, we've got three teams already locked for the EMEA region
Who do you think is the fourth team that's gonna be able to qualify?
It's probably going to be, I don't know which ones are looked for, it's probably going to be us VP, Alcatan, GK, would be my guess, as the top 4 player in Twitter.
Okay, the last spot, so it would be anyone's legend or GK that are looking to like take that last spot and it gets a little bit funky with the peer mutations. I can't speak right now.
But I really appreciate you doing this interview with us Astro and good luck in tomorrow's matchup against VP.
Thank you very much. Enjoy the dog flight in the next series. Thank you. It'll be a fun next
series that is for certain and it's always great to chat with Astro. We're taking a look at these
standings. Twisted mind still yet to drop a map here, Jack. And they're doing it in style. I think
very happy with their results heading into playoff so far. Yeah, absolutely. I knew it was
is going to be confident at the end of the day. I think with how like just the history of the team
and you know coming off a world's win like they are the team to beat right now going into an
international competition. Love the disrespect to North America. It's funny. It's funny here in both
regions kind of talk about each other historically because it's like any like you are cringe you
know playing simple but whatever right and then you know like wait they're also kind of bad so
it's nice to see that so I think international competition again is where they'll state their
I mean, I'm not sure if they're
claiming, but yeah, twisted
minds that they just look so
clean. It's hard to really put
anything against it. Yeah, but
I mean, we're hearing Malga
Malgas. Malgas coming back. Your
favorite, Jack. The moment
after I said that in the
interview, my eyes instantly
flicked up to catch your face
reaction where I was like,
Malga, you don't say. I love
double cage men are double
a lot of the regions. Not
going to be promoting Malga. So
having kind of a lot of
diversity there is really nice.
It's nice to see a little bit
of Malga played every now and
then. And I think with how even
like Astro was saying, some of
the Korean teams, they're
division. They're playing a
little kind of off the wall
kind of stuff right now. So
yeah, international competition
is going to be a little
wild. I'm yeah, man, I'm
looking forward to that.
We're not going to play
off.
just get playoffs.
Just go international.
Just got all the way there.
Well, unfortunately, we can't do that.
We still got to lock in what teams are going to be getting to that international
and to be able to do that, we have to run through playoffs.
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I don't know about you.
Me personally, I am not good enough to register,
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got off the ground. Literally. I was so young when I drafted them up, and that lazy old
mitzy wasn't much help either. But something about this stray got me 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, since she looks like a big candy elbule.
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 clued 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
Our frame would be nice and lightweight, but aluminum 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 would Fikas fur be enough?
Big problem.
How to make a joystick that doesn't require opposable thumbs.
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, should they be PER 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 up different paint options,
and Fika knocked everything over except blue, of course.
Honest Vems give the Klungsbetzerna.
And that's that!
Blueprints for Project Jetpack Cat are finally complete.
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 Fika 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.
Welcome back everyone to OWCS EMEA we've got what Funny Astro is calling a dog fight coming
up for our next matchup it's anyone's legends versus team pets and anyone's legends moxie
they still have an opportunity to make it into playoffs to qualify and it's got to come
down to they got to beat this first team here of team pets they got to win their
matchup up against EK tomorrow as well and it also rides on EK losing to VP. From what we've seen over
the past couple of weeks, do you think that they have what it takes? I mean, I think both of these
teams have potential, right? Peps have had some good maps where they were able to pull out the
hazard, especially against Capsule. They had a really good atlas, but anyone's legends as well
have been playing some words of meta stuff like trying to force out that Winston coming on through
on the side of Tama, which just
hasn't really got a place in the current meta.
I feel like it's out tempered by both the diva,
but also the Zarya.
Yeah, it does feel like that.
And they have not taken a single map.
There's 0-9 right now, unfortunately.
So, yeah, it's definitely going to be a little bit of a dogfight.
But I do agree with Astra.
I think Twisted Mind's VP, Alcat, and GK are going to be the top four.
Because anyone's legend, yeah, they win here,
but they still need to win another like a GKS sitting at two and one out of plus one so it's tough
it didn't have time.
Tama's substituted. They're running AMDP. Oh man. I mean that means that they're gonna be playing
things like the Zarya right? We got to see Tama was running the Winston, they were losing the
Winston. There came a moment where they put Tama onto the subbench and brought out AMDP to
to be able to play the Zarya. So that says to me that that's sort of moving away from
the identity of trying to play the Winston and they're more conforming to what the rest
of the lobby is playing. Because when we look at the supports in the DPS, they've been playing
the same as everyone else, right? Kiriko, Lucio, Emre, Vendetta, Tracer for both
Maimune and Kai. So it makes a lot of sense that AMDP would be playing instead.
Yeah, that is for a certain, especially with how important that Zarya-Vendetta
combination is, to make sure that you have the bubble, to have that sustain there
for the Venn when she's looking to dive.
And overall, I think that, again,
this is, you need to remember how important this matchup is
for anyone's legends to take home.
But that means that Team Peps, Jack,
they get to play a little bit of that spoiler.
They're playing for morale at this point as well.
Another team that has not win
won a single matchup thus far.
And they've got to play in relegation on top of that.
And they could also be the ones to, you know,
dash anyone's legends chances at playoffs.
you're going to be so hard to
tell. I'm going to be honest.
I think this match is going to
be a little bit more for free
drop than anything, but yeah,
we'll see. We're definitely
going to be seeing the hazard
band at some point come through
on the side of anyone's legend
into team perhaps, but you can
only get one of those. You
can only get one of those
teams. You can only get one
of those teams. You can only
but you can only get one of those so they're going to have to pick that correct moment.
As an FTGOT on the looser, he's also been like impressing a lot of the environmental boops that
he's been able to find on maps like Li Zhang in particular has been really really strong on that
one so definitely keep an eye out on maps that don't have those railings. When it comes down
to this roster here as well Jaws, who do you think is the player that you're really looking
out for? I know that Moxham was just talking about FTGOT, I think Dip has had some really
really great performances as
well that have kept peps in the
game for some of their matchups
like with that be him that you've
got your eyes out for like really
keen to make a difference in
today's game or somebody else.
I mean, dibs or like kind of
good players like they've been
around the scene and WCS for a
considerable at a time at this
point got a lot of experience
under their belts. But being
this far down and being
like, it's tough and that was
like, okay, actually, considering
how cats are played just now against
was defined, maybe you put a lot of
stock into peps for that specific
region, but they're still not one of
single series. So yeah, it's tough.
Hey, do you hear neither has
anyone's like, but we got to get
into these predictions. I'm not
going to lie. I was having a little
bit of a tough time with this one.
Part of me did actually want to
like, you know, I think that
you know, I actually want to
vote heads going into this
matchup because I was like,
yo, they could actually do one
of the funniest things ever,
but at the same time, I had
to go with anyone's like I had
to keep the dream alive for
this team. I think you look at
players like my mom and you're
expecting, you know, great
things from them and from a
squad that they're going to
be surrounded by. Jaws. Are
you with me on this? Yeah,
I went with anyone's legend
I mean, I'm going to anyone's
legend, but I don't think it's
going to be a free. Oh, I
think peps pull at least one
map. Like maybe they lose
control. They decide to take
us to Flashpoint. Go back over
to Atlas, but they have such a
dominant performance against
Alcatraz. You're not just one
person, but you're not just
they had such a dominant performance against Alcatraz. You're not just one of those Rines going
100 to 0, but all three of them that they were able to pull. So I think anyone's legend takes it,
but Pep's not going to be going down without a fight. I definitely gotta agree with you there,
Moxie, but I think that actually despite our desk prediction, Chas completely out.
Yeah, the Chas. There's a lot of French flags flying in Chas right now.
always have that fans.
Yeah, they've got a lot of friends for 15 times.
It's like, what, 70 to 30, I think, right now for Kev?
So a lot of faith in that squad.
I think for me, still gonna vote to try and keep the dream alive here for anyone's legend.
Overall though, again, a reminder to all of you guys at home,
anyone's legend, they need to win this.
And even if they win it, it still doesn't guarantee their playoff spot,
but it will continue to keep their dream alive.
So let's see if anyone's legend is going to be able to pull it off or if team peps will crush their dreams
Yes, thank you very much Ash who is fun to root for the underdog here
Well when there's two underdogs they both scrapping out and like Ashro said a little bit of dogfight
But it's gonna be a good game regardless. I think a lot of players
From both sides of things have a lot of experience under their belts
This is the top rung of competition in EMEA
No one said it was gonna be easy and it's gonna be a Li Zheng tower as our first map once again
Yeah, this puts a lot more context as well and the reason of why we're seeing AMDP come
into play starter for anyone's legend because like you can't play Winston on control center.
That is just the meta heaven point of Zarya Vendetta.
So not going to have to play the Winston, potentially still being able to play things
like the Zarya, the diva on all three rounds is I think going to be a strength to anyone's
legend right now as we're going to get the first band coming on through and it
will be on the side of peps. They take the m-ray away, which means that we're going to be single sojourn.
Anyone's legend though, coming out with a ban onto the Lucio. So potentially forcing that Juno
Kiriko instead, which means Tracer over the Vendetta potentially.
And maybe so. Have to wait and see what they want to rock with. Just give it a whole lot of
I think throughout this whole series,
street that, um, yeah, peps and
anyone's legends still yet to claim
a series. Anyone's legends still
yet to claim a map. The chat
against us on the desk 70 to 30
of the chat predictions as of
this very moment in time. So,
you know, we'll see what they end
up rocking out with.
I mean, I have no Rian for
for my predictions coming on out.
I still feel like especially
like especially with the MTPs starting.
Really you think we're going five?
Yeah, yeah. I think it's going all the way. I believe.
I mean if it's Malga or Intamauga,
we're about to see some very long lasting fights and
Zoro and that Sojin is going to be finding
a whole lot of value being able to
form those railgun shots off of the MTP.
Yes. Afraia sighting is well from Kai.
Sojourn here, anyone's legend rocking the Echo 2, very classically into the Mauga as you can copy, get another cage.
It's very easy target to shoot into as well as Willys, just got destroyed there, perhaps just fell over.
Yeah, I mean Echo went to the Farra as well as not going to be a fun time for Dip to have to deal with.
So we're going to be seeing actually the swap tracing us much better into the Echo, so it'll be up to Dip to try to keep on top of Maymo's position.
position but easier said than done now that you lost that first fight and you have to decide do
you go around bridge or do you send your tracer all the way around right side to go back cap and
pull the attention for the team to walk. Yeah just trying to find the avenue of attack here but
with that you know speed range turn people are going to be a lot harder to lock down Kai goes low.
Yeah did force a re already so yeah team perhaps not with the greatest kind of momentum as
as they try and push in. Although saying that AMTP doesn't go fairly low, Cardiac Overdrive
is going to get popped and Serion and FD got full. As for anyone's legend, they've lost
a crispy here, but a good bowl of some pie. That shuts down Serion. She's got a really
nice movement right now. The flip ends are coming in for Team Pepps. If anyone's legend
they're going to clean that up, quit sharp.
Yeah, I mean it's just clean up and then the flip's immediately going to come
back on the side of anyone's legend. As Team Pepps don't really have an ultimate
to be able to break through, dips close to a pole spawn but you're up against a
Brigiter and we can already see Canal changing his position, playing much
closer to the point, anticipation of dips presence in the moment.
Yeah, kind of looking towards the white room right now, they know the Tracer's
around, they're still close to this rally too.
He's just going to have this pole spawn, hopefully connecting it with Canal
beforehand, but we'll see if that dual ends up coming out and Tracer's
Oh, the cage! Oh, it is a big whiff on the cage, unfortunately, AMDP. Not a pretty one, unfortunately.
A good count of him there to come in through. However, the duplication is still pretty scary.
Free cage coming in for my moment. It's quickly destroyed and shut down Zorro in Terrior.
Coming up in a big way between Pex as they find a team kill.
Yeah, but anyone's Legend do have both support ultimates to be able to walk bridge next time around after you got might falter with only the rally to be able to stand up and that will not be up too far to deal with Krispy's orbital ray on top.
Very swiftly over the bridge. Nice, uh, contester at all.
5 ADP's all aimed to get already in by the way.
While there's the cage, bonus available.
Connects with the mage, Willys destroyed.
FD got in D.I.B. coming up with kills.
Kai pretty much free firing right now inside the house,
but he's going to get sniffed out real quick by D.I.B.
Team Pex, another team kill, back to back.
Expensive five for anyone in session two.
Four ult, shit.
I'm in Zorabolt, almost 80% of overclock,
and that fight alone tier.
Kai is off of the fray of the experiment and has failed.
It was great while you were holding space,
Now you have to play into retake and the potential one-shot threat of Zora's railgun as well.
You have to be able to match the sojourn as they're gonna go all the way around the white room and try to walk on point instead.
Chipped damage from Zora there, and he just won the ult.
Oh, what a shot on my mode as well. Nice, it'll flicker the wrist.
Counter-charge two on AMDP. Is he bald? Got reset quickly here.
Can't afford to stay around too long.
Oh, there you go.
Such a cheap fight one as well coming over from the side of tune pepsis just clocking the traces flank then coming on through with all of that pressure when anyone's legend are stuck in one choke
Against an overrun from Willis setting up a Zorro to clean the house, which means I know it's like from top of the walls
Yeah, and they're walking straight into Zorro to
Using this overclock to pin people down. You got actually kill Kai though. It's the problem. There you go
Okay, post-op torpedoes also looking on to Kai
I
Amp is no support no nothing team camps they're gonna come up around one
Yeah, this this round is done anyone's legend have literally no one left alive to be able to contest and
Team peps looking really clean with it
I think in part thanks to Zoro starting off on the sojourn so that once they were able to find that flip fight
So Joradi had all of the space to be able to play and could just capitalize each time
anyone's legend tried to rotate on through but now we're going to get control center and is this
the point that we're going to be seeing that vendetta come through instead?
I didn't even die there either 15 0 and 0. Damn, I didn't notice that in the midst of that chaos.
Looking good. Looking home at it.
I think they're keeping them out of it. It's still going to be my engagements and there's
no cure code to be able to suzuki the other one too. So like when the mage gets into the
backline that stun is connecting as all we're getting two different schools of thought dips
going for the fire for the range. Mammons going for the wall potential up close with
the Reaper. It's such a good off angle for sorrow. You can't let sorrow free farm
from here at all. Although they decided to take the fight then good heads up play
I mean the rape is useless now right by the time that you walk into the fight
your idea going to be on critical HP and yeah off of the repeat he goes on to the tracer instead
Trying to just taken off angle so that team perhaps don't hold one lane with both the surgeon and that far
It's up to the tracer to open up the space for the team
Yeah, no shot you're landing a one-clit there my mode
So we're just going pretty low saying to be said for amdp a nice counterpin again
Both are doing a good job at counter hitting each other.
Oh yeah, I mean, the spam damage from Dip and Zorro is just so immense versus that cry in my mode.
It's just, how do you survive against them obviously?
I mean, how do you counter it too?
Cause like Dip's going around corners, so you can get the AoE splash damage to kill instead.
So you don't even get to see the Fara to be able to shoot back and try to take it down.
Dips playing in rooms with low hanging ceilings, but there's no way you can get on top of them
As the stop
mdp
Most still pretty high HP cage gets unleashed and then Zoro just gets the basically shoot fish in a barrel
Well, actually
Check that it's rockets in a barrel miss a barrage straight on top of them as
Anyone's legends right now. Unfortunately some legends are meant to just be big months of our imaginations and right now
That's what it's been on like.
It's last fight too. Like they have to just go
Into all of this poke pressure at least it doesn't have a barrage, but you're still going up against overclock
Kai has to open up team facts they can just look to disengage
Oh and Kai is dominated by Zoro too
K-drae oh with so back in magameta everybody fighting in like a 4x4 grid on the point
and that Riley's gonna do good work here for FD God.
Cannell just gets destroyed by Diff.
This is Team Paps taking this first map.
A little too old to start off the series.
The cleanup comes in.
Yeah, Team Pets on top.
Chat looking good.
French flags are flying high.
They've moved away from what was not working
in both week one and week two.
And like that was something that I wanted to talk about
with Team Paps,
because they try playing some off meta stuff
and then they try playing some meta stuff too.
So it's nice to see that they're sort of moving away
from trying to force things like the hazard
and going with that Mauga
instead of being able to play the soldier.
And yeah, dip on fire, it did not die.
And then Zoro at 30 and two,
how do you not die on two stages of control?
Especially when one's control center, like gardens,
we can give it a pass because there's so much just
terrain for the fire to be able to play around
the point itself is literally just one big shield for a fire player. When you go to control center though, it becomes much easier to be able to pin that forest position down, but they did such a good job of the crossfire between both dip and Zorro.
And I mean, let's be honest, after the first fight, anyone's legend had no one's space to be able to work with to try to take one of the DPS down.
the game. So, I think it's
looking good so far. Our
predictions looking a little
rough. There's a at least a
couple more maps to come up.
Yeah, very much. You get pips
to and I did perhaps one. So
you know what it could still
be a turnaround coming through
from the side of anyone's
legend, but like this is
going to be rough for anyone's
legend, right? If you're
to lose to peps here. It's not
even waiting to see what happens
with the GK VP game. That's it.
Yeah, that last place literally
could just be decided right
here. Yeah, that's a big thing
to think about. And I'm sure
it's weighing on the minds of
anyone's decisions currently.
They still have to win here
and win the next game to
secure that spot in the
playoffs. There's only four.
It's a quick season. We
spoke about it for the last
couple of weeks. It's a
very snappy turnaround.
team peps winning out that one
means anyone's listening to
their chance to pick a map and
ban first. Do we're going to
see a maga ban at any point in
this series? Far up. I think
it would be more impactful to
be honest, depending on what
map they decide to go to, and
it's actually going to be
Havana that they're going to
be picking up. So do you know
what? Maybe we do get a
maga ban coming on for his
He's always there, on the edges, peeking in, since he does so much, he has engagement with the overrun,
he's got sustainability with the amount of self-heal that he has,
and like Cage as an ultimate is a very, very strong setup to just box people into a space where they're not wanting to take a fight.
It feels like the John Cena gatorade is through the scenery in the back.
Are you sure about that? That's Malga.
didn't die, Zoro sitting at 30 and 2, like, it's not looking good for anyone's dungeon right now.
Yeah, I'm a little bit worried too, because like Havana, historically very very good for DPS crossfires rather.
And that's what we saw on Control Center in spades. The fact that it's going to be you have an attack side,
you have a defense side, like no matter what composition, at some point you're going to have to try and attack in two peps
when they've already been able to establish their positions of that DPS as the map starts, not only that, but like far becomes an issue potentially on third.
When you're in the Attacker spawn, having to walk into those long distance poke compositions coming on through, like maybe we see a couple of different bands and oh, wow, okay, peps telegraphing, absolutely, that we're going to be seeing some far at some points.
That's a ban on to Echo.
Yeah, I wasn't expecting to see
that one today. That's not the
bingo card, but that way. Yeah,
more far. I would have to agree.
Anyone says you've had the carry
though. What do you make of
that? I mean, does that mean
that we're going to be seeing
what you can still play Lucio,
but would it be potentially
Juno break? Would you still
things like the rushes was the flank potential of how aggressive Kirikos can be at the start
of those fights. I'm still a little bit concerned because one, Maga wasn't banned, which means
if you want to try and play something like the Zarya, that's going to get absolutely
melted down the way that we saw in the last series. And two, you don't really have
anything to deal with the Pharah.
map like they've got to pull
out something special here. We
lost in any swaps either. So
it's going to be a M. D. P.
Still in the lineup. No
Thomas. Right, you know, that's
what the Kiroko ban is going to
force the break. Juno comes on
for so far. No far. But as we
said, we're not really
expecting it now. It's much
more going to brewers had
right in comparison to any one's legends and the maps that they won they did so
dominantly so there is potential for this team no shot you're sticking on the
ball right I mean come on but no it's gonna be magamera a boy can dream a
boy can dream a little wreckball action wouldn't go miss like you can't win
You can't sorry into Mauga like you can't even really diva as well to be honest
It just has to be the magamere
It's kind of crazy that it's like okay if they're playing maga you're kind of forced into it because yeah like you just said
Good like playing any other tank right now, although I
Realistic I think if you're a better team if you're like a tool is to mind or a better team, right?
I think you're fine with them playing the mauga, but
And they're not, they just don't mind playing a demon, playing whatever against them, but
if you're currently where you're at right now, like you're magey or relying on more comfort
here than just kind of what's permanent at.
Yeah, we've got a little bit of a difference as well coming on for, in terms of how peps
are playing, it's defense, very positive, sort of waiting for anyone's legend to
overplay their hand, because Deputy Mammoth has taken full advantage of that, and no
likeline control.
All right, my mind just ended up getting out.
Okay.
Almost got the two clip onto Zarya, trading those distants, and then it's the Karned Kovatrides.
This both mad with shooting each other, and they hope one of them runs out of there as
quicker.
It looks like a flood damage coming through from Zoro on this high ground is sifting
on all of these kills.
Their little position of levante is there, team peps end up winning that fight.
Yes, it's defense, right?
And Zoro just gets to play out of the way of the actual fight, sitting in the
scope has all of the range to keep up all of the pressure onto anyone's legend and lead
kind in terms of all charges well at a good 20% maybe we see the mage cage combo with the
right protocol well maybe perhaps just want to rip it now before anyone's legend get a
support ultimate up to go.
Alright post bomb my moment what you got for us.
It's going to be Zora ripping the ult first.
Straight into mage's rather broad body.
easy target to connect with with the right clicks but it's just going to be a retreat
at least for now. I mean that's a Led Zaryon though to match over the range crispy so anyone's
legend when they try and walk this next fight they don't have one side of Juno.
Well speaking of which, Juno's cross the side. What a post! FDGOR tries to bash into the
backline with the post attachment body. Well, and then they're up with FDGOR going down.
Canal traded though both Tracers at least picking up a couple is FDPEPS and then we
up to fight again. Winners just popped K-sound and that was it. It was all over.
Yeah. I mean you can use Kage as well there for two and perhaps if you're anyone's legend,
now you have Kage advantage but like look at how split peps are playing. They know AMD
Pista has the ult, they know that Kai can combo with the U of R protocol too and that
rally won't be enough to heal first. So play splits, no one else is caught.
Marga gamey, Marga gamey, two Bricks, nice little bash there onto FD God.
Straight down to the ground is, oh they've lost one. Winners getting
Booped around, do you think Malgrave the ability there with the amount he's getting booped?
White plates and bashes and stuns and everything else thrown at him?
Honestly, just uh, it looks like anyone's legends are going to be able to win this fight at least, but
Teampeps without Lucio, might be a little tough to come back into this.
They're going to have a chance to touch, but Dip ends up spawning last if Teampeps.
Yeah, and they're also walking into the cage because anyone's legend knew that
Peps would be starting off the fight split, so held on from out of the cage,
and used the rally and the override instead, so now Peps actually have to go into the one side of Magorot.
Yeah, they've got to force this cave, though. I think that's gonna be the goal here for C-Pen,
just force this cave. There it is. Malchor gaining, looking at each other, shooting at each other.
One of them will fall. Don't worry. Looks like Willis is gonna be able to get out of there,
as the pulse bomb does connect with the floor, unfortunately.
Dip here for Relo, but there's a Brigitte right next to Kai to keep him alive.
Dip, though. Goop with a move from him, and she doesn't get away from Canal,
as the fight continues on the point. Willis ends up exploding into a multitude of pieces.
My mom connects the pulse bomb to him, but Zara saves the day with a shot onto Canal.
stops the payload from getting chalked in as anyone's legend with 10 seconds to go now.
Kai falls, AMDP ends up running away, but unfortunately, who is there to touch? There is one player,
it's my mode on the side, but it is a Tracer versus 5. There is the recall, the blink comes in,
the charge from AMDP, but there it is. Team Pep's are going to be able to hold on
as anyone's legend still yes end up finding end up finding success here in stage one
it's gonna be a tough defense for that all that recall was brutal it was right
into fd god they knew it was the tracer alone so they pushed fd got on the
brakes position up understanding that the tracer had to burn all of the
blinks and then the recall instantly to have overtime and survive and was just
left without the resources and then, yeah, Malgo has to use the overrun. Just throw himself literally onto point, but he's going to be so vulnerable and Pets complete the full hold.
Dip. Feeding. One death. This is so sad. This is so sad. One death over two maps currently. 14-1 though, you're still smiling. Zoro 2-13-1 looking clean from the DPS of 13 Pets.
I think. Sometimes it's fun to
route for the underdog. Sometimes
they don't pack the weaponry
the firepower to get the job
done. We'll see if anyone's
legend can hold. Um it's kind of
Havana is definitely one of
those maps right where you
kids. Gibraltar esque Gibraltar
adjacent. I think Moxie where
like a lot of the action
happens on first and then
last second, sometimes a little
bit more of an afterthought.
has picked for centre right. Canale on the Alari can find these eliminations, but by going
for the Alari instead of the Brigitte, that means Dip has advantage in the Tracer 1 vs
1, because he's going to be getting the armor packs. So if you remove all of the other
players and you focus purely on the objective itself, Dip vs Mamon, Dip can keep that
payload moving and force anyone's legends into a last fight situation.
Mary Stratt here as well. Cannell on the Alari, Crispy on the Juno. So let's support here
Sally for my mown, although the ground that you're going to have to cover is the Tracer
here, it's not going to be too crazy.
But I feel peps like you don't really even need to take a fight. You just literally
push the objective and force anyone's legend into having to give up the high ground
and send your D.VaRan to take that position away.
Alright, well, we're already forcing the NDP back and what this means too is like,
you're in a position where you put yourself in one fight, like you're not fighting forward here, Moxie.
No Alts as well, anyone's Legend haven't been taking damage or doing damage,
so they have no Alts to walk peps back.
Now, what magic can you show us on the Lari?
A little double tap on the back line perhaps?
At least taking it to Zoro, the very least.
I think you're going to get checked real quick if you're just a Lari.
So now, you're playing on a knife's edge basically.
Is this the amount of dive potential from Team Pets?
Defense Matrix, too.
As well, like someone goes low, Willis uses that defense matrix.
Stops can help from finding the elimination
They come to die
Well, this is gonna get some fun or good. No stun and
Deep heat surviving luckily that I'm surprised with some stick around
Catch of some connects with one FD God in a little bit of trouble same with Willis
But it's gonna get healed up
You really need some additional firepower there if you can now to you know guarantee and confirm those kills
It's sick though from my mode
Yeah, he gives his life a furrow, but perhaps something that's winnable. Orbital Ray and Bunk support ult.
Yep, and where's Kaigen high? He just run away. I mean this ult here is just not looking clean at all, because you cannot peek against this Orbital Ray.
Payload's still moving as well. Cage coming up, but here it is. Now Zora can unleash his Override Protocol around the corner.
And you just gotta kill an MVP at this point, Moxie. That's all you gotta do.
Yeah, as soon as that cage gets online, maybe this assemble is a chance. They end up running down the back line
But I think the job's already done. Luckily though reverse ray is coming in for anyone's end, but there's no supports to be found
Major the tracer is good here for NTP and at least the payload isn't going to go in. This team peps now only ever been in 20
Yeah, 120
Anyone's legend actually punished the overextension coming up through from peps like after you got pops the rally trying to walk
the team forward. They don't match to find the eliminations, they get moaned down by the
Mago and the Amory, and we go now to potential final fight territory where Peps not having
the ultimates, like Dip is close to a boss bomb, might be able to crack this fight wide
open if he finds the connection.
Yes, they have 45 seconds in most years. They end up backing up resetting this area on pick
I mean such a good job closing up against it as well canal off of that a lorry onto the ring
They're getting more aggressive to
Yeah, they might chase more the way to spawn 30 seconds ago. Anyone's legend. Hang on
To defend that the building a pulse right Kai is ahead of Zora in terms of that override protocol
And honestly, it's not arms race to the Emory ultimate in overtime
these post bombs these will decide here can dip can my moon actually go for a
connection they're gonna spot each other Brigitte there that canal is hiding up
top left if can't challenge right now the very least speed ring to help amdp
maneuver in the fight post bomb stuck oh my goodness my mom sorrow ends up
going down can dip recreate the same success here Kai with the override
protocol post bomb goes out for dip doesn't find too much willis very low
So on the point AMGP, same could be said for him. Rally, bash, SD God down, anyone's legend
have only gone and done it. A fuller hold on Havana as they find their first map win in
stage 1.
Oh, huge take from W.Mamon. Like honestly, the fact that he managed to find that connection
on Tuzoro, he was 5% off overwrite protocol when that round ends. Insane turnaround
from anyone's legend. I mean, I was worried about the Alarid the moment they swapped to
the Brigitte, we get to see the Tracer lane fight, it's Tracer break versus Tracer break
and that starts going in favor of anyone's legend since they're starting off on the defense.
They don't have to use all of their mobility, all of the things like the Tracer blinks
just to be able to close up the distance onto their opponent.
the defensive team, who are
going to be playing so far away
from dips on position. All
right, this service. Fates still
in their hands. Anyone's legend
needs to come out with the win
and they need the win of the
next match to see themselves in
the playoffs. Astros prophecy
come through here. Will it be
GK joining the rest of the top
three teams? It was legends
with a pence mappic. Altaristic.
Oh, so good, so good.
He's, he's coming with it.
Davi Maymone's always been one of those
standard DPS players. It's, it's great to see him
continuing at this level. And I mean, we got
the Echo Band. We didn't really get to see
the Pharah because literally it didn't
go past first point. So, that is the
Echo Band though. Now removed from play
as is the Lucio Band. Now removed too
on the side of anyone's legend.
Yeah, lefty God's gonna get his
preferred pick. That's for sure.
On the Lucio. Don't forget as well
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that now. Um let's get back into
the series. What a piece between
peps and absolute legend and
Havana being taken in a fuller
hold fashion. That's gotta hit
that's gotta be a little bit of
a confidence booster as a
given how well Lijiang Tower went down, but like Ruinosapi, potentially we see the Maga
come back, we'll probably get to see a whole lot of Emery, but then again if Maga's coming back
into contention, like do you go for the Sojin over the Emery, since Emery does really really well
into the Diva, just by the consistency that you can pop her out of the mech,
but as we've already seen, Sojin, the numbers that you can put out pumping through that
the game. So we're going to
have to take that. Malga
health. It's so good at being
able to build up those over
clocks ahead of things like
the Lucid sound barrier, but
also having the rail gun one
shot snipe potentials on a map
like Verona SAPI where when
you're not playing around
corner cover, you're forced
into having to take fights
around very long open line of
sites. We're going to just
sit with Malgo watch. I think
coming in the experimentation
of Tom or Winston is just not
unless Peps decides to go like a hazard which I could potentially have seen if we went to
someone like Blizzard World but less so on RuneSappi.
Freya back, Freya is very close. Freya and Aburigite back here on RuneSappi.
I mean Freya I feel like given that Peps are actually the one playing the Freya
This is more a case of like you're wanting to protect your DPS lineup because it means that anyone's legend can't now ban out things like the Tracer, the Pharah, as well as that Vendetta.
And as anyone's legend, they're actually going to remove that Brigitte, which means that that backline is going to be vulnerable, but then again, Curie Lucio is still in full play.
So like, do you really want to go for the Juna when you have the Premier support line still there?
They played the Pharah and Li Zhang tower and were absolutely devastating with it.
Like, you can't ban on the Echo since you already did that on the previous map.
And Freya has been a problem for Pharah players in the past.
Alright, let's rock and roll.
Map number three.
Peps versus Absolute Legend.
Who have just taken that?
Or anyone's legends, right?
There are absolute legends right now in our books.
the team. Um who have just
taken their first map as well.
Moxie like yeah, an insane
feet. It feels like they just
not had an opportunity. I mean
their first match to be fair
against BP. Um very, very tough
T then TM is like they had the
roughest kind of opening starts
for anyone in EMEA, but anyone's
peps uh taking the single map here i did say maybe it goes to five maps and if last map
was anything to go by hey maybe we will make it there both of us could potentially be right
well we'll see if uh peps pull this map then you're potentially still correct but i would be
wrong as uh it will just continue to be magar at least for teen peps aside
amdp though currently on the diva as kai is on the expected soldier and so they're looking to
really take advantage of teampeps running this Mauga, but Zaro on the Emory is going
to take advantage of AMDP on that mech, like he can play from range, he can get through
the defense matrix and force the baby D to come a lot more frequently.
Yeah, we see how anyone's actually actually pitted here as well with AMDP, maybe you
can just go for kind of this flying hand, because realistically, we're against the
mech, you're not like, probably one of those, you're not standing still, you're
not like, uh, flying in a neutral. They're looking for space, and they're looking
for an opportunity to pick up or even force CDs out of Xerion and her D-guards.
And you can't let Team Peps well control the tempo, which Moxie is exactly what they're
doing already.
They've lost their...
Yeah.
I mean, we talked about it, right?
AMDP is going to be much more out of the mech than in it.
Team Peps have their way both with the Malga and the M-Rae, and I imagine that
Deva might be swapping off in this next life to match the Mauga.
You say that, I mean...
Well, they're sticking.
Sticking on the Deva.
It's not been working great though,
because like it's forcing Knail too.
Knail goes incredibly low and then Willis,
knowing that the Kiriko isn't there,
goes and puts pressure on the mech,
so that he just doesn't get the heals and loses it.
Yeah.
I mean, it's literally just M1 gaming for the Mauga.
Good shot from Kai though, ends up killing Dip, and the bot has been solo'd at least for a brief moment in time.
So Suzu being forced there too, there are no cooldowns left, Swift stepped at the same time.
You can see in the background, Minemone trying to find an avenue of attack.
Now they end up killing Willis! Okay, here we go!
Anyone's legend at least winning this fight, but a very decent progress after their first push, teampeps, not gonna scoff.
I mean, for anyone's legend, like the win factor is literally the DPS.
If Kai can come on through with a railgunsnipe onto someone off of farming from the mage or
Maemone comes through with a pick on the pulse bomb, they don't have to worry about
brawling the diva into the mage.
If not, they're probably going to lose the long-term fight.
You gotta be scared of Kai, although with this railgun here, team peps are just
gonna play on the corner you'd think, because as soon as they try and make a push in,
Kai's just gonna rip off.
And then he just sits on this high ground and then what can you really do?
The gap closer being FD gots to help the team speed moves forward even like a charge as well from Willis.
It's great, but Kai's gonna be able to just get away from everybody using that slide and it's exactly what's happening.
Willis ends up going down, there is a soundbar, but it's too late to save the tank.
Oh, Knail sniped mid rush.
Xerion's gonna respawn with the rush to the road.
As it looks like Team Peps fall control of this by moan with their hail nairy pulse,
nup. Found nothing as the bop is resaken by Peps.
Sambarra too late to save was absolutely still on time to have Zorro have all of that extra health
with the override protocol and I should take crispy down before anyone's legend could
use one sided Sambarra. Deb's gonna swap now actually off of the tracer onto the vendetta
to put more pressure on the diva mech. It's it's just paying I think right now for AMDB.
He's got self destruct at least but it's like okay now we run into a cage on the corner as well.
Yeah exactly! Crispy has to jump in, hits the beat, and look at the focus fire on the mech here!
Nice little bit of damage coming through from dibs. Self destruct finds nothing but at least
Orin's are going down. That self destruct actually did end up zoning a lot of players
coming through from Pepso. Will is falling, Kai picking up the scraps. No checkpoints secured here
for Team Pepso, as Kai likes to kill Feedbloom. Yeah, Kai just plays outside of the reach of
Mago Cage because they know it's going to be on corner. All of the attention goes on to the D.Va
and the Lucio there within, and Kai is parried to farm off of the cages confines and blast through
the individual players on Pepso's end. Namer's got a pulse bomb as well. Pepso are going to
have to watch out for that one, and Dipso is not able to close up the distance and put the
the pressure on either the diva or the social cage fight is not exactly what
team peps were looking for at all you're expecting people a team to win that
cage is just such a powerful hole and you're pinning in the diva but it was
heroic of Kai kind of picking people off as soon as that cage was destroyed I
mean you also didn't matter making that loss permanent because it's all
destructive I come through the clock and perhaps have nothing they just have
to run yeah they do and they need to be taken here as well by anyone
legends. Willis charging away gets held by Saren in the end, but Moxie, that's check point.
Yeah, that's close spawns. I mean, perhaps at least they're going to be coming into this
next fight with a lot of wing conditions they've got here by protocol. They're going to use
the rush into the mirror. They have to. They just got to, they got to find someone here
to try and swing the pendulum in their favor. And he got to even use the soundbar
strong in this fight. Yep, alright, double support ult required to win. Anyone's
Let's let you know support all advantage for this next fight crispy three percent away team kill comes in and that's important
Not losing anybody in that fight for team peps everybody's pretty quick though to be fair sort of in a quick regroup
Yeah, being a full fighting force here for this checkpoints would be good
Here's the far as well coming through from Mamon which is gonna be able to put the pressure broke onto the Margot
But also that bandetta who's not gonna be able to close up the distance and though crispy has cyber advantage
dip will have sundering blade which can strip away the over half or Zorro can just not detonate
through with override protocol. Yeah, no any jacks times. Okay, there we go. Very safe
beat. Will is getting booted in there for a moment, but would you look at that dip? Yeah,
dominated. Unfortunately, the Vendetta has to close that gap, but Kai is going to make sure
they stay at range. Will is also falls a good fight wins. Soundbar advantage.
It's really simple math. Get Suzu as well coming up from Canale so that they don't lose
guy and that's so Jen is going to be able to continue I put in pressure that's
will be coming in with a potential cage sundering blade combo but once again
like AMD P can just bait the cages position everyone else from anyone's
legend can play outside of there and then you can get your neck back with
self-destruct just basically what you just put out as a repeat fight
if the same thing can happen again they just need to get this cage online
first 10% away and I'm gonna let that lead to escape them though. 65 meters only a 10% difference.
A and B piece, man, it's gonna go down. No cage required and actually falls too. It would...
What? What? What? What? Is there a real? Is there a real? Oh well, that's unfortunate.
It's no time for Kai. Those Aurans are going down. Willis with a charge! Oh that is such
a sad Malgo. Sundering Blade goes wide and unfortunately Kai to the rescue yet
again on the Sojourn and here's anyone's legend taking more lead.
That was such a weird investment of Sundering Blade 2 because like you could have used it
to combine with Cage or potentially put more pressure on Kinele's rush so that
you win out the mirror match but like I actually swapped the vendetta on to the
tracer which explains the Hail Mirror of the Ultimate just trying to find an exit trade.
See if that should win this next fight it's just a question of how much they have to commit
to be able to confirm it.
see if my man can find some magic with the barrage. Rush, cage, oh the barrage is gonna
be deadly. Using the mech to body block as well, FD got with a perfect time Sarabaria
so they can survive through that initial wave of damage, but a return rush. Team pet once
again, we've got to a point where they need to win this fight because Crispy has not
the beat, he's not gonna use it, team's already dead, Wily's staying alive through
that cage fight is actually gonna come out in their favor this time around.
Oh, can they stagger crispy as well? I mean, surely the Lucio goes down super late, which
is gonna be brilliant in terms of timing. You don't have to worry about that
soundbar like anyone's legend cannot take this fight until they have the Lucio
back. All right, well it's not a repeat of that fight with the
self-destructing cage this time, but let's actually survive. See what Zoro can do
on this fight. I mean, it's gonna be kind of a counter play here for Crispy here laying
down this beat for the override protocol. Yeah, AMD feels love for Diva defense matrix
might be able to take away a huge chunk of that damage coming off rookie Emory.
I'm barry out, okay. Yeah, Crispy using it. Etsy got already down my Monezek disguise.
Now the focus now on Willis. He's just can't do anything man. He's just kind of
running around, stomping around just trying to find an out of you escape. Nice little
play though from did I'll play my money ran out of that yet for us to fuel whoops
busy well probably didn't want the POV of that post one for death at all good
which shall it team petro still without the lead as anyone's legend steal the
bot back and you can still got that self-destructs on hand to can help the
kids in a rush as well like the moment they get the regroup they're just
gonna first off I mean it's MDV just getting absolutely rolling smoke there no
matrix self-destruct comes in there's the charge away guess the
free resuits. They've got to fight on this rush though. They've got to kill Willis. It's
the big problem here. Kite and Kogatrive's going to help us survive this fight as Kael
ends up going down to dip of all people. Kai has to be the savior once more for anyone's
legend. But he's already turning tail and running, getting the high ground Vards of
Cheers going to be good, but he needs kills.
And then the problem is, Wurth survives, but you're literally just fodder for Kai
to build OC back up. He has it this fight and after you guard, he's got a standing
bar at least but team peps will have to make an aggressive play with the user they've got
checkpoint as well has to be perfect from here on out 25 seconds to go moxie they could win
this like they have both rush and signed bar they could just steamroll for uki with the
oc it's just too simple to listen to peps though they rush crispy counter beats it
And then FD God.
Kai looking for an off angle.
Pop in the railgun, Sam Barrier comes in.
Crispy, just laddies in time.
D-Mect already, here's AMDP.
And without this mech, they can't really stop this Marvel from free shooting.
Oh, the stick from Dip.
So crispy as well.
Pips.
Final lifeline given.
Oatsie ticking down.
Mime-owned last one alive.
He's got the pulse, but can he actually touch?
Like team peps are just creating a wall on bodies in front of the trusses.
Oh, it can't get to him.
Team peps with a nice little turnaround.
Take the win.
Match point as well for the French squad.
Anyone's legend.
They had the lead.
They slipped away through their fingers.
That sound bar from crispy needed to be a couple of seconds earlier.
Or maybe even just a couple of frames, Moxie, to save the diva.
As soon as the diva goes down against the Malga, Willis is so free to heal back up with that cardiac overdrive.
Very close map though, has to be said. Brunis Appi goes the way of Team Peps.
I mean, I could see this go five maps. I could usually see this go five maps because like,
honestly, there was so many moments in that push map where it was just a seesaw.
A continuous pendulum of power, swinging between these two teams.
The five of Peps were coming into that last fight as well with double support advantage.
just gave them such an upper hand because even though you had to worry about the overclock,
like you've got both rush and sound barrier mirror. So you can literally just like force
the sound barrier coming up through from crispy with your own and then overhauled the kitsune rush
to have to clean up the fight or just pop the diva out of mech instantly and have that maga win
the brawl because like it's overtime. We talked about it right when the diva is forced into
face tanking the mauga for a sustained long lengthy fight it's going to go in favor of
they need to win. They need to win the series desperately, so require two more maps to keep
themselves in the chance for playoffs. Maybe Malga ban. Like maybe now either with the
Malga ban because like you went to run a sappy, you prioritized the diva over the Malga,
Malga was open, you could have gone for the mirror. So the fact that we're seeing
peps run the Malga one-sidedly now, it would make sense to go for a Malga ban.
Yeah, I'd 100% agree. I just pull that lever now and just get it out the way
Having your choice of maps gonna be a benefit to them too. It looks like it's gonna be Blizzard world. Oh
Are they gonna try and bait Peps into going hazard?
Yeah, I mean
Bandamow got forced Peps to Hazard
Cuz like Peps got got full health
it was, it was not nice. And
then like they got full walked
as well when they were having to
to defend with the hazard
composition against voters pro
two. So like maybe that's the
play. I think if your pepsin
you get initial ban, take a tank
away so that anyone's legend
can't remove your hazard.
You know what? I'm here for
it. I'm here for it. If it
was going to be, especially after that first round it felt like it was going to be a little
bit of Malgo watch. Looks like a Juno band though actually, from anyone's legends.
Okay, that means the tanks are free. So like now Malgo gets through, Hazard gets through,
Diva is going to be taken away from the side of the peps in terms of that band. So
So like, yeah, there's a lot of verticality.
Diva's really, really good at being able to make place
for both the high ground, the low ground,
hit your back line, hit your front line,
all in the same fight with the activity of those boosters.
Especially when you don't have the Juno
to be able to use things like the orbital ray
to just walk those high ground fights.
All right.
Yeah, I really was expecting the Malgo ban, to be honest with
you, that was in the forefront of my mind,
but hey, here we are.
This is the world, it's the map.
Juno and a Diva ban.
anyone's legend need two maps
here. They need to finish the
series in a map five. Or they
are done so for this stage. They
are out and the seating is
almost decided. At least the top
four is decided moxie. I mean,
yeah, anyone's legend not going
for an initial ban on the tank
as well means that perhaps
literally you're just like, Oh,
cool. We can take your Diva
away. You try to play Diva
against us. I'm going to
the map. So like I feel like
this is forcing anyone's
legend into literally just
having to mirror the Malga,
especially when you head into
second and third on this map.
All right. Anyone's ledging
after crush their fears now. To
take us to a map number five
with a win here on Blizzard
World team pets on the other
hand, still looking for their
first win in this stage. Both
that big confidence booster you got to be said is definitely going to play a major factor in the
mental coming in to this one defensive start for team peps as malice is on the Malga there we go
Malga mirror I mean I feel like yeah if you're anyone's legend you have to know you don't even
need to grapple up on this with or discard what that defense composition is going to be it's
going to be the Malga you have to roll out on the Malga as well it's just a question of do
do they go for the soldier instead of this M-Ray and try and prioritise those railgun
snipes or like do you go for the M-Ray to be able to deal with the same damage I put
and for it that Zoro is going to be able to have.
Alright Kai give us a quick grapple shot.
No jetpack, Kat, come on.
No even lifelie of a tier, but this is the phase here.
No mercy and damage boost.
Man you guys don't want to support Kai like that, come on.
All right, so it's time.
Yeah, again, kind of no shocker.
You just want to shoot into the mage, and farm Nails, right?
Yeah, but I mean, Team Paps can also just
play more defensively around cover as well
so that Kai gets less opportunity.
I mean, look at Zara.
Even if he doesn't see someone with the nade,
he can still find hits.
And here we go.
Two mages shooting at each other on the point
while the rest of the teams do everything else.
Looks like they're like my gameplay.
Yeah, V is...
They're basically...
I feel like Magus sometimes is like Balloon's Tower Defense where he's just kind of sitting there shooting people as they go past.
That's what it feels like.
I mean, anyone loves them though.
They've got two ticks already.
OHHHHHH! Okay, Magus down.
Finally.
Real Overwatch can commence.
Zorro, the nice couple of kills Kai falls as a...
While Team Peps, they end up actually giving anyone's legend two ticks, 89% at that.
Yeah, which means that now you can't allow anyone's legend, but well, they'll just win.
They'll just win and Peps won't even get an opportunity to re-contest,
which means that they can make a play for the high ground.
Kineal's going to have early Kitsune Rush as well, something that Peps have to be very aware of,
since Xerion's too far away from his.
So now you're relying on just taking some damage from the soldier,
So there's Aaron gets the battery up the ultimate to match and that's exactly what's happening
Honestly surprised anyone's legend actually tried to stop damaging
Yeah, they can even sadly they didn't make it back in time
Fortunate Zoro couldn't kind of finish the fight or even just hold on long enough team pepsid got rush
They got some barrier and they've got a big go button. They just but where did it go go?
Well either I think we're trying to surf the tank there and can now just sitar out sky with a kunai over my protocol
Oh, cannail! Oh, rest in pieces.
Got sniped by the override protocol.
That rush leaves a lot to be desired.
I mean, that's buying time as well,
if the FD got to be able to rejoin the team
with that sound barrier.
We've got the Tracer 1 versus 1
to try and determine who's going to be able to have access
to the full lanks and backline of both of these teams,
but perhaps have the upper hand
since Cannell used rush in the last fight.
Good job. There's the cage.
There's the rush to help sustain fluids.
Soundbarrier comes in after you go to play with Black Soundbarrier as well. No one's gonna load you. Yeah, they haven't called for it
No, don't need it either
That's a rather cage. It's a leased fairly quickly
There's team peps luckily saved on their own beat
Yeah, saved on their own beat to have into Kai's overclock
Which means look at how aggressive they can actually be
All the way up on this to anyone legends form because if they use the overclock to just pause the team back
After you got sign barriers and they all run on top of Kai
Now they're giving a little bit more space. They're wanting anyone's legend to work hard with the OC
But they're just gonna pile on to them the moment that they will move around that corner
Yep, telegraph slam there soundbarons are coming in
Pretty much a nothing fight here for both teams. They're really going to the scapes, but
Crispy and canal now able to build up these alts fairly fast. Look at their gap
They've gotten zero in an FD. God
And without a tank, Paps is just gonna full send it.
Yes they are, they're just gonna run them down, or on the wrong side of that!
So they're attacking first still.
I mean, anyone's legend, they've got the rush, but like, because they didn't get the opportunity to take that fight until AMDP comes back, Zola is going to have a right protocol to stop it.
Oh, pause one footed, doesn't want to mess with Kylie, it's not just yet.
I think my moans actually end up connecting there, but they don't actually get a kill.
Zoro testing his limits there, close to the tank, playing with that health bar like a resource pool.
Looks like they are going to move the payload away from the choke at this point,
but now again we come up to a point where Willis can just jump back down and get healed up
as my moan actually solos out Zoro on the high ground.
That's a huge pex here because like team peps, they were getting ready to go with Zaren's kits in a rush.
Anyone's legend, they might lose those next fights on one side of the rush, but at least they're getting more distance on the point.
Oh, MDP.
Ooh, that might have been another one, but I'm only gonna dip.
Peps's defense is just falling over and on top of that, there is a cage here from MDP, so like realistically, peps, even if they did try and touch there,
They're going to get caged and isolated and killed so they just decided to back off, make the executive decision just to teleport back to their new spawn point now in their third base.
Oh, they would have won that fight too if they'd just been able to commit to it, but there was so split and anyone's legend started finding those early kills.
MDP's holding close. How's that case? Like you said, use this the over one to int a bit with the other maga charge.
Yeah, oh the person from this goes right to
It comes in the guys already done enough and up killing them and soundbite from the FD
God to make sure they were in the fight
Wow, wow, wow. All right straight to the corner game. We go. I don't know how necessary that sound barrier was though
It's like it was yeah now you don't have feet the cage or OC
And I think I know I said didn't know that because like that just going on to point to force team pets
to have to brawl into them. One pet of zero ultimates to work with. Wait, what? What's that
T-God doing?
What is that? F-T-God's in the back!
F-T-God's in the back!
Wait, Lucio players, of course we're flanking to try and get some boot kills while my other
support dies.
Xerion down, F-T-God the last third support player, left 14 pecs, he's getting chased
down, burning on live as well to boot. Every trade-in is the DPS left for Team
Pecs, F-T-God finally shut down as my moan is able to pick up the stragglers.
but no ults. Anyone's legend got the kills but didn't commit ults. And because team
peps were playing so split, Xerion got picked off first as well, you're not closer to rush
or sound barrier.
Oh, that's a good fourth way, actually. And yeah, it's also simple now, Moxie. Just
a cage in the spawn, and then you focus down Willis. Oh, the ults seem to be quite
as well. Good damage, although Willis comes up with a kill, but there's anyone who's
interested in so many ults here. I mean, Willis can come back in, but this overall
critical from Zoro is just gonna have to go absolutely nuclear, but Kai shuts him down.
It's fun. Anyone's legend with a completion, with time on the bank, and it's over a minute,
they got 125 as peps all over on their third.
Can we like, get a sat-nav check on a team peps, please? Make a hue turn when possible on third?
because what like anyone's legends don't use ultimates literally get to find the
kills teampeps have one overwrite protocol but that gets focused on because
the rest of the team are dead there's no resources to go into the M-ray so they
can't even take advantage of getting your eliminations having closer
respawns and like you said it's so simple for anyone's legend it's
literally one plus one ultimates equals full push of Blizzard world
My bow is zero deaths crispy sitting at the singular
Like what I'm saying, I mean this is the energy that the needs come in as well
Right moxie like yeah, that's not five we need
As a team have to push on to a mat five to put us in a position where we can go to playoffs
Yeah, I mean we talked about it right is leave a map differential like it's literally the win
It doesn't matter if it goes five maps, you have to get the win to be able to continue in this side of the tournament as now sides will flip.
Anyone's legend once again starting to climb off on the Sojourn. That's been like the big difference as well.
Between them and Team Peps, we've had the Mauga, we've had the Kiriko Lucio, we've had the Tracer.
It's literally just the school of Emery versus the Sojourn and that Sojourn being able to go with the verticality, with the disruptor shots to shut down some of those lane control angles,
of the game. It's a good
game. The overclock, but also
just the sometimes out of
nowhere pulled out of the
magician's hat Snipes with the
rail gun shot to blow the fight
wide open. Hey, it's looking
good. It's looking a kind of
focused game here on the
soldier, and it would have
better kind of game to whip
the sojourn out to against
the Malga three rail gun
shots. He's getting a lot
of value. I mean, it was I
felt like especially on that
you know, that's all I'm
saying. I'm just over eventually
the rest is going to follow. I
mean, FD got going for that
flank. Zerion was alone. FD
God trying to get like someone
to boob into their front lines.
Okay. If I found a boob, then
maybe we can isolate a DPS
maybe isolate support or at
least for some cool down
right. But then. Realistically
anyone's legends. They're
just fighting front to back.
They're just fighting forward.
Like they're not looking for
anything crazy. They're just
it's it's that simple. We are in a brief pause. Obviously, you just saw a second ago. We should be getting into the game in just a moment. Not sure what the issue is, but yeah, it should be too much longer. Just a player lagging right now, Powney. So yeah, it might be too much longer.
Yeah, I mean, that's the thing. The fact that they didn't break the ultimate back right is the thing that just allows anyone's legend to go from that one fight win into snowballing the whole rest of the round because they had all of the
peps had literally none until Zara comes on for with that override protocol but now we'll have to see
can peps complete the full push will we go to overtime rounds on Blizzard world or do anyone's
legend manage to defend as Zara is off of the emre he's matching Kai on the soldier yeah i mean
it feels right now against the marga is the better thing it's when is this one HP yeah
And Kais, 17% to overclock. These two events are totally related.
Who knew shooting a Marble was good for the soldier players? Who to thought, huh?
It was just a giant slab of meat and a free shooting of the DPS.
Well, there's an aggressive slab in from AMDT.
Well, it's kind of holding down the statue here, so it will be anyone's
actually kind of backing off. I actually did pressuring the payload a little
Pressure on the point I should say.
To spot them actually, the space to be able to move through from Chook, which now allows Zora a lot more freedom to try to put the pressure onto AMDP.
Yeah, they actually create a lot of space for themselves.
But that Suzie coming in, I think, yeah, so they're doing this legend. They're trying to go for the front line, but no, Kariya Koro drives.
I'm going to get popped by both Margot. Mymo finding a nice little small side door there to...
Fresh's area ended up teleporting away as well after you got it getting chased but my mode 4 3 will start by Kai
It's good for one Kai on the high ground
Drops off Zoro super low Kai with a left hook straight to Dips jaw
As anyone's legend holding up to the test of peps there they're gonna hold on without giving a single tick
I mean they're gonna hold closer to this choke
They've got both support ultimates in comparison to after you got he's gonna have to wait for that soundbar to come online
online. And that means that Kai gets an opportunity to potentially go with the overclock but no,
peps are going to slow things down. They're going to wait for FD gods ultimate to be up
and Jaws, we're about to see every ultimate for all of these teams popped in one go.
Yep, I can't help but agree. It's just going to be an ult first on the point. Here
we go. Oh, every solo onto the peps mode. They have to kind of retreat a little
bit here. Okay, Sambar from FD is going to be good. Where's Crispy? My mode's
It's already dead though. Zoro on the high ground in a good spot. There's Crispy Solz.
Lady of Soundfire is going to be nice, but a late rush here from Zerion and now Kai setting
the team up for success with this OC. Dip first of all, anyone's legend now under a
little bit of pressure as Kai ends up having to back up. MDP is on a flankable of things.
And now onto the high ground. This is managed to flip the map on them once again.
Page available. FD got down. Get stomped into the dirt, but then once again anyone's legend
Oh, winning these fights. Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa, okay. Didn't quite jump himself into the river there to cool off, but, uh, yeah, Team Pep's.
They get 61%, meaning only a single tick on the board. There's maybe only 1.5 fights remain.
I mean, it's going to be cage-into-cage fight, and Zoro is actually off of the soldier and going on to the Emory.
As Diep goes to the forest, so Pep's, they're going to just try and have distance pressure.
Like, they understand that the Magus are going to cage each other, and they want to make sure that both the Emory and the Fara are far enough away from it that it doesn't concern them,
And crucially, Maimone doesn't get the opportunity to hit a Pulse Bomb onto one of them too.
Alright, they've sifted out Maimone, they know where the tracer is lurking with that pulse.
They've got to check him at some point, yeah, the forest job is ready to do that.
KG has popped out, return, what in fact?
Now you have to solve this match puzzle, which side of the case you jump into?
Pulse Bomb, swing, miss, AMDP dead, to the good spot, it's FD, got to clean it up,
Now is a good kill my moan chasing away Willis
But having them out for a live here without your own is going to be a tough fight to win if you're anyone's legend
So they're going to give up this point
Yeah, I mean it looks like they're going to try and prioritize it better position to hold down second especially with being so close
That could soon a rush but like now we get more distance
That's going to benefit both the emory and the far especially because peps can already get them in position before
Kai can try to put the pressure onto the flyer and the emory
But anyone's legend wait a minute. They've wrapped all the way around the back
That's gonna pull Sandler B. They're just wrapping, okay? Yeah, they got that Sandvara. I mean Chris has got hits as well
I'm already dead. He comes in. Chris is so low. Chris, Ajaxing now with that beat. I think we've already done it. They called it
They called it. Yeah, like the moment that you lost in your own rush and Canel goes down
There is no point in using Sandvara
Especially when you know that Zara is holding on to overwrite protocol and that Zarian still has Kitsune Rush
And high ground control here as well, which is really nice
Zara can make a lean work of this
This all so they have to be scared of Kai guys been on fire
He's got the overclock like you said he doesn't have to barrier and yet again anyone's left to try to go for the map flip
They're trying to go for this off angle here. They're kind of root. They're eventually going
to get rewrapped on as Kai's slide all the way back, but this is not a desirable angle
at all for the Soja. Zoro in a much better spot to rain health from above. Again, Boat...
In fact, that was just a nothing burger of two DPS-Ots. Two of some of the best DPS-Ots
in the game. Sambari comes in, and he got already dead. Stereo pops that rush as
Mimo looks for an entrance into the back. There's a Polkspark in his hands now looking to force Sorrow to back up
But it's all anyone's legends fight to win. There's a Willis ends up going down and with a minute in time bank for Peps
This is looking a little worse for wear
I mean do you keep the Pharah as well now that you have to play fully into the retake?
I mean, I don't want his legend. They're running the Sgt.
Like they don't have something like a cast of you or an Ekko.
And Trash is not the greatest of being able to mark out a forest position because she's not going to be in distance to get checked by it.
And so it looks like they're going to stick with it and try and just go for this constant spam pressure.
A stamp headshot there or stomp headshot, sorry.
Zerion down.
My own pressure.
But this is not a good look for Pets.
They've got 30 seconds and anyone's legend have pushed up their spawn.
Halo's regressing at this point, Moxie.
This is looking like it's going to be a map 5.
Like, Dip's going to have to go into the tracer because Rybide's going to overtime.
You can't risk getting TP just caging everybody in place.
You have to get someone past the whole team and onto the point itself.
Yeah. There's 3 ults. There's no way. Surely not.
The map just doesn't check out at all.
Okay, hi ult. Whoops, ult ult.
Spoken to soon. Uh-oh, get the shoe ready.
Mods, get the shoe ready.
Alright, Cannell. Oh, okay, so I already didn't expect that one.
Two seconds to go now. At least there's a touch.
Willis and Serion are on the point. The rush is going to come through though, as Willis with the cage is going to be the last bash, going to poke here 14 pips.
Cage popped on the point, but he's going to get quickly deleted, and it returns soft. All good.
Put the shoe down.
Sam Barrens is coming in for FDGop, but only hits two. A five man beef for anyone's legends, and that will be that.
They not only saved themselves going to a map five, but they saved me as well from meeting his shoe. Thank goodness.
the first map winner of the
season. Just this very series
and they've only managed to pick
up a second one as well. We're
going all the way to map five.
It's time to ban the soldier.
It's time to ban the soldier.
Kai's getting so much more value
on the sojourn in comparison to
to Zara Zara shown as well
that he's more comfortable
wanting to play that Emory.
If you want to go to Magamera,
you can't leave the sojourn open
for Kai.
the damage is all 14 K for Kai in that match. Less than Zorro mind you, but I think the impact
in terms of kills and the overclocks with that they existed. It was a little insane how many
29 o'lams in comparison to Zorro 70. Right. I mean, some of these clips and sometimes
the whole story and I think it's the perfect kind of explanation of that. The kills he was
getting. Yeah, Kyla's really unstoppable so far. We're going to math 5 though.
It's the whole like meaningless damage, meaningful damage, right? Emery as we said, very consistent
pressure that lacks the burst damage unless he's in his ultimate. Sojourn, really good
burst damage in the railgun type. So you literally have the ability to just don't
someone from 100 to 0, which Kyle is doing multiple times. So like, in my opinion, the
only way that pets are going to be able to walk away over when is if they ban out the
Sojourn. I think like if you're anyone's legend and you get the opportunity for initial ban,
take out a DPS. Even if it's not DPS that you're not going to play, just take out
a DPS that you protect the Sojourn.
They just have to, if we get into this next map and they don't ban Sojourn, I think
I think I might lose my mind we are going to flash point. I believe yeah, that's the only mode. We've not played yet
so
couple of choices here obviously but
So jump out so jump out you have first-band as well right like it's not even you're on the back
Oh, we have second-band like you have the band like I think at this point
You've got to do it to him because yeah, Kyloop
Ridiculous on the pic there it is atlases Sir Vasa the pics but it is good or the choice is sorry
But it is going to be the sura bossa
Okay, Pebble just moved entirely away from the hazard look. I was like, okay, if they go Atlas, maybe we get the hazard. That was the one where they absolutely dominated Katsuya on earlier in the season.
But like, they've moved up a bit entirely and I'm so happy that that experiment has just been packaged away and put on the shelf.
But like now we have to see, do they cook with the band draft or do they get cooked with the band draft? Please, please, please.
I'm going to do it to him. Please
please. If I don't see a
solution pop up. You're not the
only one who's losing the
mind. We'll be checking in
together. They've got to do it
to him. Come on. Whenever
you're ready. There's a big
their bands right now. I
think. Probably like this. This
has to be the easiest
decision of a band draft in
the history of WCS. Here we
I'm really scared of Azaria, huh?
Uh-huh.
It's kind of insane.
Like, Azaria doesn't have bubble for things like the Vendetta.
Vendetta hasn't been their problem.
Sojourn's been their problem.
They can play in the Malga as well, perma.
Yeah.
Malga eats Azaria alive.
Yeah, especially some, like, control-esque game modes, right?
Surabasa, Flashpoint, control-type beats.
Yeah.
Vendetta Band.
a band comes on through from the side of anyone's legend so like maybe you're gonna be going for
something like a diva but like you might just go for the mauga and block it given how much value
it's been getting but like honestly my eye are on the dps like suravasa especially first point
there's so many flanks and angles for a sojourn to be able to take to just instantly farm rail
off of the tank and then shoot someone who's unsuspecting in a wrong position to deal with
I mean, maybe when we get into game, they will become a little bit more apparent why they went down that right. Maybe it's movement away from the Maga, but like the Sojin has been a problem continues to be a problem.
Maybe they want to play the Sojin themselves over that M-Ray, so they wanted to deliver and in both teams I have the opportunity of Railgun just instantly eliminating someone even without the ultimate economy to your advantage.
like that's really the only explanation I can currently think of for the way it wasn't a sojampan.
Tank protects maybe as well. You kind of ban Misari if you're a team pet and then it's like, okay,
so you can't ban the paladar for example. Yeah, so I do know there is a few merits. Maybe we're
not just not giving it enough credit here in kind of protecting a tank kit that you want to play.
I'm not sure if you want the
hazard you would go Atlas.
Like it's surely and then like
if you go to the rest of as well
far as going to be problematic
too. So like it's a strange one.
It is a strange one.
We will see. Let's go over kind
of what the cons are gonna
like, it's just going to be
that throughout the map again.
Far it is very powerful on this
map. The low ceilings here do
kind of suck, but when you get
to some of the other points where
you could hover around a high
ground and basically span for
free as they kind of encroach
on choke points is very, very
good.
So look, though, map five
anyone's legend need this. They
against GK to secure a spot in the playoffs. It doesn't matter how many maps they've got to do it in, as long as they get the Ws.
Jack, it's a Malga mirror, and I'm seeing Emory versus Sojin.
That is facts.
It wasn't to leave the Sojin open, just so that they could mirror it.
who changes to see what's in for my mode.
I'll be just quick TP out.
TP's, are we sticking?
No, straight to the tracer.
So, almost Miracomps, when I say that,
it's only the tracer now that that up is similar.
Slow, much slower backlight for anyone's legend though.
FD God not opting for Zalucio,
they're just gonna rely on speed ring from Xerion to get around.
Yeah, I mean that break being able to peel off Mamon,
but also have an extra element of cover against Kai
with the break shield.
Juni though it is.
doesn't mean you can survive one railgun smite.
Yeah, I guess that's something you might have about my game chase.
Oh, nice name!
Ah, that was a one from downtown, from Zora.
And there you go, FD God ended up killing off the Mauga, so it's Team Pep, it's already on the back foot.
They had more burst healing as well with this Juno to be able to just pump out the heals onto Willis too.
So half the battle against the soldier is winning the first fight so that she can't just sit in a defensive position
Farm rail off of your mago and then shoot as you try to get your foot through the door
So Zora can already create distance in terms of trying to do like kite
All right stop really early usage there, but a good one nicely placed on what is
focused by was
stupendous from team peps
Again, it's kind of a Malva situation where if the enemy Malva dies, it's like almost a guaranteed fight win, right?
Yeah, I'm in great melee as well onto Dips, so those anyone's legends lose that stall,
peps find the flip and they're just gonna continue chasing down anyone's legends
so they can get as much point percentage as possible before their opponent can regroup and try to push with that all
little ray coming through from Xerion.
Yeah, it's gonna be this rush rush to the right the race so good at first people know that's the big thing all stick
A little wide there from my mode. It comes the right though is team peps absolutely slaughter anyone's legend
They hold so close to they instantly come through of the kills
So anyone's legend they lose the players and they lose the confidence of committing the orbital rape
Versus canals ultimate like this is lost fire for the point anyone's legend are coming in with ultimate advantage
But like peps might not even let them get past. They've got my cage
They've got some barrier they can potentially survive the override protocol engagement coming through from Zoros and
Times are ticking 15 percent to go
It's gonna be a touch. She worry about a C9 or anything
They're going to go early though.
Cage in the choke, there's two Malgus using the cardiac overdrive, but Zaren's going to use that ray.
Disengaged is nice from Team Pex.
Now Dip looking for a pulse bomb connection has to battle through this sound barrier, unfortunately.
Kaia ripping the overclock, FD God falls over, no chance to escape.
Willis has got the cage, Bersera from the high ground, and Dip with three!
The pulse bomb connects with someone in the cage and they just all explode together.
Anyone's legend, have a hand to Dip.
I bet it's to secure the point and get one on the ball for themselves.
I think that pulse one connected onto Kai.
Because initially that cage was onto Kai with the overclock, who was chasing down anyone's
legend when they didn't have both the over the rate and the rally to stop him, but yeah,
that's the turn.
Now the tracer moves over to the far as we talked about more open space, more verticality,
more pressure onto Kai too.
They're very, uh, frontwards fight here.
Oh, what a stick on these traces!
FDGone succumbs to the pulse bomb of my mom, still though, they're trading upwards.
My mom's gonna at least need one more kill to stay in this, but yeah, doesn't look like
it.
Team Peps aren't gonna be able to win this fight.
They're gonna take priority position on the point now, too, a very early cap.
Yeah, but I mean, if you're Peps, you're just waiting for Rush to come online, and
then you use that to flip.
anyone's legend it's a case of can you disengage the rush and come back in with
your whole team surviving yeah very easy point to use this rush on two she's
very straight break enclosed so no chance ready for them to fight
they're already got one person down yeah rush on the point stomp gonna come in
goes wide nice bit of a movement from Willis ends up getting off of the
points, but everyone's actually goes down. Kai again. These off angles with the Sojourn,
they're hurting Team Pep's in a big way. That was the worry, right? Because like if you're Pep's,
you bait up the rush, you try to disengage, you try to come back in by making a play with
Orbital Ray, but you lose the Juno to the Sojourn and your plan gets literally derailed.
Taking control again.
She comes off with a good lead for now.
That dip ends up going super low.
A nice little counter pin there.
Willis doesn't have going pretty low.
Uprights himself pretty quickly.
Pulse wall on the ground.
FDGoblok starts out with a shield.
Now they can fight in the rain.
Dip one tapping Crispy.
There's not really a chance they can win.
Not in that short of an engagement,
but Kai's still with the cover.
That would do somehow.
God, yeah.
Banding distortion would have been great, honestly.
They're getting full threats.
Doesn't have fallen though.
Willis ends up coming out of kills.
any one's legends now are gonna be able to get at least 89 but team peps with a cap
Yeah, but like how much are they gonna be able to keep the cap because like if you're anyone's legend
You need one fight to be able to win this round and you're just gonna go through with sound barrier overclock
Like that's your winning condition. So if a team peps like they have to play aggro
I mean surely
Oh no! He's so far inside the Malga cage!
With a barrage right on top of his head.
With a barrage right on top of his head.
Okay, well that's the gift that Team Peps were looking for.
That means that anyone's legend will lose the opportunity of Sambara overclock
and lose the opportunity of pulling that second point.
And Peps now need one more.
They've got overwrite protocol rally to be able to win this first fight.
And they'll be opening a series.
This one is falling apart.
Yeah.
Anyone's legend.
They got two ults, maybe three, but like you said, a good rally from Pebs.
They got nice positioning on the high ground, or at least they're going to try and take
it.
Oh, me, my lord.
Oh, neary me.
Yeah, yeah.
I mean, he's on the angle for sure, but there is a brig, which is kind of sad.
Well, there's the case.
Oh, that's one down barge.
Surely.
Hogsbomb from Bullis.
Straight on the ground.
Okay, well, it doesn't end up killing, but it's all good, because my moan's
not the case.
It's our fangirl working wonders for anyone's legends.
Good kill. It's my moan killing what? Three or four?
Yeah.
Team kill, and there's the cap.
For the rally too.
But that's the huge thing.
Peps don't have rally to be able to walk into anyone's legends
and try and contest the rush coming on for when the next one to commit to this engagement.
But like, you've still got the overwrite protocol.
You don't have to worry about crispy with the sign barrier.
If you get out of the rush and the overclock, you can still turn the fight.
I think. Yeah, I think. If
if is the. It's a word there. I
think I'm going to go for us.
Half health on the junior. Where's
the support? Where's the back
up nowhere to be found? If you
God was too deep in that fight
made to save very on this
fights down in town here,
Moxie. Yeah, I mean, if the
see teams if pre-kits banned go for the react span onto the tracer so that exact
snore does not happen and anyone's legend they're going to hold up close
they're going to pull Sauron to use in your protocol and they're just going to run.
Yep they're just going to run down, Krispy ends up going down, no same with
amdp. I mean you're happy taking early fights there you're happy forcing them to use ult.
Yeah because you've got rush right? Like you're flying with teampeps having to
use over a protocol because that's the thing that would have been able to
kill you, even through both your rush and your sound barrier, your one fight away from
being able to take this round, you'll literally just need one fight win to be able to take
this point. The question is, now that the fire is set up, can you find that one fight
win?
Yeah, they can. The orbital ray is going to be a thorn in their side. Crispy needs
this sound barrier. It kind of needs it bad. Maybe they just play for the one fight
here. Get Crispy ult first.
Look like they want to go though.
There's an ADP center on the point already.
There's the rush, there's the ray.
NTP already down, there's a team just playing in this.
It's just so hard playing against Isfara.
Team Temps find the flip on top of that.
As well, anyone's not flipped.
Sorry, they already have control of the point,
but they're going to continue to build up their percent.
Crispy has got this beat.
Like this is the time to use it.
If there's an A-jax, it is all over.
The cage.
The cage can can break line of sight of the beef and it's waiting with the barrage
Yeah hiding in the bookshelf wait if the briars no, okay, so I'm gonna pull it to Ellie. They're all the cage. Oh, it's a tragedy
Amtp ran out of the cage completely point almost gets flipped though
Anyone's led you were pressuring it that whole time by the way moxie
There's gonna be at least a touch here over time for stiff looking for a point now to use the barrage straight on top of their
headstone, but a nice kite away, kite slide, sitting with a rail gun and AMDB will follow
up with a kill. Time to tick it now, OT burning down, FD got fours, Team Pepsa, out of this
one has anyone's legend kept alive. Anyone's legend remain in the series. They still have
to win two more points though, and this can still go down to the wire. You've got
the overclock, Rally is not going to be able to do anything on the side of Team
peps into that one if Kai's able to come on through with the distance climb but team peps are also going to be having to walk into an already established anyone's legend on the point which is going to put even more pressure on Zora and dip finding any space to work with.
Good angle for Kai here. They managed to isolate this Brigitte and Xerion into going down and
the air team thought it was going to fall as well. Good shot from Kai. That was an emergency
rally for Metheagod. Maybe even a panicked one, Moxie there, to try and save Xerion.
I mean, they got AMDP and Will is still up in this fight, goes down now, but this
This is going to be the first cap coming on the side of anyone's legend, and Knaile's
been able to build up Kitsune's rush as well, so the team peps, it's all going to be about
what overwrite protocol can get for them.
Can Zoro find the eliminations even through Knaile's ult?
They have the point though, like look, at the end of the day, anyone's legend, they
need some early percent, they need to come out on top, they need to make these fights
kind of cheap to cage or just a rush. It just doesn't matter. They've got to make them cheap.
I mean, cheap is what you'll get from Kai in the very least. Look at that.
Did already dead. We just sort of generic rail gun.
Double kill for Kai already determined to keep the team in this fight.
Willis off the map and Sorrow burns the alt.
I mean, it's risky for Pepsike. Do you make a play to try and take this
point? Or do you build up ultimates to try to smuggle the next knowing that you're one
Yeah, they're pushing just because they don't want to have to let any ultimate through.
Real nice proactive play there from anyone's legend. I mean, now Team Pev's have to walk through them to get the point, to get the touch.
They're going to try and go to mid, post them on the ground, goes wide, but yeah, I think you're right.
I don't think there's any way they escape with this one. They're just too split.
What a perfect play. What a nice call from anyone's legend.
Someone's on the point, sure, but the fight's done, Broly. Two supports are dead.
I mean Zora goes down late, the flip is bad, but this just means that Willys is potentially
going to get staggered.
I have to use the overrun just to get back to the safety of his team.
Two and two.
Anyone's legend are coming back into this one.
There's 30 seconds of the point elox.
It's the final one.
Team Pep's could play upset.
Anyone's legend need to win this point, need to win this series and the next ones
to see themselves in the spot of the blouse. Hearts are racing. That's for sure.
Peps are just going to hold close. Points behind them too, like they've got the orbital raid.
They're happy letting anyone's legend walk into them.
They're back off retreat slowly. They take positioning on this fire ground first, but like you said,
they've got a lot of holes to work with. Kai's going to open this one up.
It's a case for us right on top. It's a good suzu, but not enough to save Canale.
Dip with a double, as Team Peps are running over anyone's legend.
Nice triple from the Farah and there's the cap.
That's the benefit, right? Peps understood they'd lost the previous point.
Don't use ultimates. Bank them all up to splurge when the next one unlocks
and find yourself with that early capture and really good positions for both Sauron on the soldier now
and dip from the Farahs.
Maybe I was creeping. They have to make some space.
Split the attention so the rest of the team can actually get an opportunity to use the beat and walk.
They have a The Cage. Ooh, wait, didn't have to go down, nice little flank.
Cage, rally, bash, but look at Kai again!
Just unbelievable heroics from Kai, finding these kills.
He's got another one on Willis as well.
Anyone's legend.
He's a freak!
He might just be one of the best to ever do it.
There's no way, like if pets lose this round to Kai on Soldier and they're going
to be kicking themselves for that pan draft.
like they've got 66% of the point and the point is closer to Pepsi's own spawn too, orbital ray plus overclock
versus Kitsune Rush and Paul's bomb so like ideally you're looking for hero moment from Maymon
if you can get the stick onto either Zoro or Zaron, fight's done
kind of agree with you to be honest oh they got deleted oh my goodness rally
ray gone like was the rate was that where'd the rate go like even exist for
like half a second there was a flush in the literal pattern I mean that's huge
for anyone's legend like Kai's going to have overclock team was it fast no
with how fast that fight went
Yeah, it was Ajax but like with how fast the last fight went fd god doesn't have beat this is lost by territory
You want to go go and OC with nothing?
They gotta go live on to the post one was well as we already found this avenue into the back line looking at it currently
It's go time for Kai as well the savior of anyone's legend shutting down team pets
It's OT my mom falls Kai
Definitely the person you want to look at right now, FDGod lands the smackdown on him, but so does AMDP, ends up trading the kills now, it's a 3 on 4 on the point.
Cage available from anyone's legends, they end up popping it, same with Willis, there's two Malgus looking at each other.
Hey little Susie is going to help Willis stay alive there, but a late one might just be what gets it done.
Somp onto the back, AMDP at the very end of it all is going to shut down FDGod and anyone's legend writing history here.
here as they take the win they secure it a three to two win and a three to two on
flashpoint as well their playoffs hopes and dreams are still alive as they
crush team pecs in that last fight should have been so Jim Kai literally with
the mic drop like yeah the stats that we're about to see are about to be sky
high like the amount of that he got not necessarily with the ultimate the
of the clocks like they were good they want anything to write home about it was the shots in between
right it was being able to pick up those eliminations in the new of being able to delay the momentum
52 and 9 52 and 9 I know it's five points and you're expecting higher limbs but that is like
one of the highest limbs I think I've ever seen yeah I mean when you compare that to the other
that's how it's going to go.
And then the side to Zoro
cracks 28. They don't even get
past 30. That's how
instrumental that sojourn was
coming on through. And I mean,
like I said, when we went into
the band draft, we were like,
they have to ban search. They
have to ban search. They did
not ban search. They lost by
the search. I'm going to
rename themselves to everyone's
legend after that. A way to
game. They're not going to
win one more match, though.
They're not out of this, but
this is a not only a first map
win for them in the stage, but
it's also a first series win
on top of that against peps who
were fighting to play upset.
They're my off streams already
gone coming into this series.
They were here to upset the
hopes and chances of anyone's
Ray Jax, there was a Jax from crispy. There was a Ray's like oh man. You can't ask so much more than that
I'm gonna be real with ya. It felt like we saw all of the overwatch things happening in this last matchup
Like the Ajax is coming in how close the series was and I heard the crashing out in Moxie's voice
And the sewage being let through Kai looks unstoppable
the last map of Surabasa. It
was the entirety of this series.
Him and my mom, that dynamic duo.
They were working so well with
each other to get the key picks
and impact moments. I mean,
Mamon had some insane ones
like when we went to the first
bite of Palace and she's able
to find that elimination on
Juneau and then have the
pulse bomb as well. Find the
picks even through the rally.
it was absolutely huge. Those
were the moments that they
needed to be able to clutch
out, but like the solution. It's
the story of the solution. Yeah,
it really is. I mean, we're kind
of questioning it in the in the
pick ban, not banging that and
then coming up with 52 limbs.
You can't. You cannot want to
draw like a draft map ban as
well as you want it there. If
you're anyone's legend and they
weren't even in control of that
match is tomorrow and it's the last match of the regular season two for stage one, right?
It's against GK. They need to come out with a win and if they do a playoffs are in your
sights, it's going to be a tougher match. You've got to agree with me there. GK, there
are no slouches. They're still not currently with a possible link.
If Kai puts up 52 alimps again, it's doable.
It's 100% doable.
Hey, it might be doable, but I don't know if we're necessarily going to see the same
Malga gameplay in tomorrow's matchup either that really enables Kai on that stage.
I think Jaws overall though for anyone pledging to be able to keep this dream alive probably
means it means the world to them.
that opportunity still here for playoffs. And unfortunately for peps since the beginning of today,
we did know that they were not going to be able to qualify. This was really almost like an ego
match for them. Jaws to try and show what they thought. And I do want to give them the credit
of how close they were able to make this series and how good of a look that we did see from
dip at times. I feel like he had some insane moments here too. Yeah, I think dip looked
I mean, it's unfortunate. It's
unfortunate. Like 0 5 the
competition we knew this season.
Not even a season. The whole
whole year is going to be
because of the amount of teams
that are playing right now. Right
at the end of the day. There's
only six teams now. They used
to be a lot more compared to
last year in the year before
that. So like the concentration
of power level is going to be
a whole lot more. So, you
know, pets claiming, I think
it's a really good game. It's
a really good game. It's a
really good game. Rather
unfortunate, but still I think
dip and a lot of peps players
can still be kind of happy
with what they performed at
least in this series, although
it's going to be a big
disappointment for them,
regardless. They're not coming
up with a single series win,
but they'll be back. I mean,
the players have been around
for long enough. This
point. No. Certainly an
opportunity to work on things
But we do have an interview coming up now for anyone's legends.
We're going to be talking to Ann DP.
Congratulations on the team's first win, Ann DP.
I want to know how the team is feeling.
What's the vibe like for you guys?
I think heading into today's match,
knowing how important it was to stay alive
for your potential to qualify to play off still,
and now after getting the win.
To be honest, we're just looking at our next two match,
and we are trying our best on our comps. We didn't feel bad to be honest, we just looked
in the game. I don't think experimental was something issue we got in, so I think it's
good. Yeah, I wanted to kind of get your thoughts on the GK game. It feels like it's going to
be a much harder opponent than Pep's was today, and you went to map five of them,
So how are you, yourself feeling, and how are the team feeling about needing to beat GK for that playoff spot?
I still think we can beat GK. I don't think we can't. They are good, yeah, but I still think we can get them.
They are good, but I think we can beat them in the Mauga middle. I don't think they are good in the Mauga middle.
So, talk to us a little bit about like the Maugamera, is that because of him just being
a really good tank into things like the Zarya, or is there a specific reason why Maugar is
coming back?
Yeah, I think Maugar now is the meta, he can beat every tank in the Overwatch, so I
think it's fine.
Makes sense.
That's definitely not Jack's favorite answer there, he's a hater, what do you
But you definitely made it look good today.
I think I'm also curious to know when it comes down to being in such like an intense position
to try and qualify to playoffs still, do you feel like anyone's legend, your team performs
better under this much pressure?
Yeah, I think it's fine.
I don't think like we got the issue of mental turnstrike.
We're always doing good.
Don't think you're into that issue.
Well, it's good to know it's important to be able to stay solid when it comes down to that mental and I'm glad to hear that anyone's legend has that on lock a congratulations again for your win today and DP and good luck on tomorrow's match versus GK.
Thank you.
to do an interview with anyone pledging to get to also like talk to them really for the
first time this stage and get a little bit of a measure of where their mind is at as
a team. I think that now taking a look at these standings here, moxie right now, they
still got their playoff teams live, but it doesn't just rely on them winning tomorrow
up against GK. It's also, you know, is there a world where you think you can
maybe takes the win up against VP today?
I mean, VP are the favourites, but as we've seen from today,
anything can happen, although I will say if Margot is the better,
Virtus.Pro were ahead because they already played it last week against PAPS.
Yeah, I don't know.
I think VP do win this next series.
I don't see an avenue in for GK.
Maybe I've got too much faith in VP,
But I just think that the caliber of that team is just too high at this point.
I think there really is that tear gap between first, second, and then the rest.
Yeah.
Well, it'll be interesting to see how big or small that tear gap ends up being in our
next matchup.
We're going to throw it away a quick break before we go.
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So don't go anywhere and we'll be back next with the likes of DK versus Verus Pro.
Welcome back everyone to OWCS EMEA and we've got probably the second most anticipated
matchup for this weekend of the EMEA coming in next. You've got Virtus Pro versus GK Esports and
Moxie, VP, they're in the comfortable spot right now. You know, they qualify to playoffs,
they've been undefeated, they've only lost one map, but they still want to make it a very clean
matchup here up against GK to ensure that they can be still in contention up against
Twisted Minds for that first seed into playoffs. I mean, that match tomorrow,
that's the one that I've got my
eye on versus pro versus
twisted minds. How close are
the two teams are going to
speak? So I think the bonus
pro for us to say like how
close they are to twist
points. It has to be a
decisive when coming on through
from them, and they've shown a
lot of flexibility. They've
also already shown ice on that
Mauga last week, too. Yeah,
I don't know how much talk
do I put in now actually
being better? I'm not
right? Sorry not next week but just to remind those to VP that will really be the test because
I think in this game, I think VP are just gonna roll over. I just don't, not roll over as in they'll
lose but like roll over the enemy team. I don't really see this one being close. I think VP are
just that good right now and with the Zarya, Kevstar and Tracer like fix the landing, this team
is stacked head to toe. They really are and Moxie I think when we went into chat with
with Virtus.Pro and in a lot of our interviews.
It's been a lot of conversations about what Seiko and Landon
have been bringing to this team,
not only in general increase in communication,
but the fact that they're also bringing a lot of ideas,
a lot of different systems from different teams
and different styles and helping Virtus.Pro
create this new identity.
And I wanted to get your thoughts on that.
Yeah, I mean, it's super important
for a lot of teams on the back end of things
to have like very go to, uh,
matters and ways that they like to play, right?
You want your team to actually have a backbone to it
so that everything isn't just up in the air.
You show up, you're like, okay, well, what do we play today?
Let's roll the dice. Let's go with this instead.
But having that planning in play,
especially since in this current meta,
it feels like all of these teams have their own identities
of styles that they want to play.
It's so important.
It really is, especially when you're looking to counter
up against certain teams
and looking at this GK squad.
this squad is still fighting for
that opportunity to head into
that playoff qualification spot.
They just need to win either of
theirs matches, though, so it's
either today versus VP or
tomorrow up against anyone's
legends, but the jaws if they
lose to VP today, that also means
that anyone's legend spot.
There's still the opportunity
there for it to be open. Yeah,
for sure. I mean, GK really
I'm excited to cast the team.
Actually, I'm excited to cast
Finn Alfie again.
It's been a while since I've
cast an Alfie.
Both those teams.
Alfie has done it all as well.
It was a Lucia Claire one point.
Of course, famously known for
the DPS, but so I'm glad to see
him back on it.
I think with this how this
team is built to, to import
Finn Alfie, and then you have
a very solid core.
That's a very good pocket
piece.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I mean, this team is built
for success.
I mean, it's been built for
success.
I mean, it's been built for
success.
I mean, it's been built
for success.
I mean, it's been built
for success, but against furthest pro, it's hard to put against VP, so it's tough. It's
coming up in this whole battle for the GK, but there is a possibility that they usually
go out with.
I mean, I could say that I'm pulling maps, to be honest, especially if you want to
go for the Mauga look, Labd has been playing more soju than Emery, especially on those
opening rounds of control. Alphie, very, very good at the Tracer, but also absolutely
lethal on that Pharah as well. So they have a lot of flexibility in terms of what that DPS line
can play Zed's here. You're looking really really strong on both Fadida but also that Zarya as well.
Like I don't think it's gonna be the clean 303 but I think GK will put up a fire.
I gotta agree with you on that one. I mean I'm just a really big fan still of this GK Rost or a
lot of these individual pieces. I think Alpha Yi has been looking really good. Like you guys
were just both talking though, especially at targeting those backfruits. So I think my VP are
definitely going to have to keep in mind heading into today's game, but something else that we
got to talk about are the predictions for today's matchup. Despite everything that I just said about
Loving DK, I still had to go with Virtus Pro on this. It feels like this team is just a little
bit of a step ahead of DK though. I think that this matchup will be a really great litmus test
to see how big or small the gap
is once again between these
different tiers of James and
Amy A. Yeah, I do agree with
you on that front. I did go
with the P as well. I just
hard to go against them at
this point. They've only lost
a single map as well. The
top two in the NBA feel
pretty solid. But if there is
any team in this stage that
isn't just in mind. It's
I don't think it's going to be a
first group. I've got like a
checklist of things. I really
want to see psycho versus alfie
far or one versus one, especially
people like Li Jiang Gardens
first is absolutely up there
in terms of the style
expression. But like I think
for twiz with minds to
they're going to be watching
to see what exactly voters
for do because I think
to see what exactly bird is
for do because we've seen so
many different compositions
come through from this team.
Well, we're going to have to
wait any longer because now for
Virtus Pro. It's their
opportunity to make it look
clean up against the K. E's
for its who are trying to in
this matchup shut down any
hope there for anyone's
legends. Let's see who's
going to be able to take
the dub today. You guys
I mean, that's Kyroka Lucio.
That just locks these teams into
to play in the Kyroka Lucio.
Like the far I think is going
to mean that the vendetta as
well gets a lot more freedom of
space because like vendetta
while she's on top of our with
the overhead strike, she can
just spike the far to the
ground. But when it's actually
that distance before the
vendetta can close up to
the far. I mean, that's
Kyroka Lucio. That just
Vendetta can close up to the far. The far gets the better of that DPS deal. So I feel
like we're going to be seeing a lot of potentially Mray Vendetta, maybe some Sojourn Vendetta if
Magger is in the mix. Like, Lapid has already been showing a lot of preference for that
Sojourn early on in the matches that GK have been playing. So maybe they start them
up on that instead.
Yeah, maybe so. I'm curious how much Magger compared to the last series that we're
actually gonna see like you mentioned before there's been sprinklings here and
there the character but is it really like actually meadow or is it kind of
like the false profit kind of thing is like look at North America they're not
playing honey any man a little bit but it's just started picking it up too
remember I guess yeah the kind of snowball is like okay is Korea playing
now go. Well, if so, wait one week and then the other regions will play now go. So, yeah,
that's that's the universe. Just like the universal law in terms of over which doesn't matter what year
it is. Give it a week. If Korea is playing it will trickle into the rest of the regions,
go into the melting pot of matter and everyone will work out if it's actually here to stay
or if it's just one of those. It has value for being a curveball and people aren't ready.
they haven't screamed against it they're not experienced in understanding how to play against it because
maugatempo plays very differently to something like azaria
let's have a look control center looks like it's going to be the first map here or the first round
don't think well kev on the venture i mean that'd be a nice little treat
and then fit on the cat yeah i mean that'd be sick but
died to the cat there there's no way that you're choosing the cat over the foxes
then we'll swap over to the Kiriko and yeah it's just a dead mirror right the
vendetta's will be the ones going in with the Zarya bubbles trying to create
space getting charged and then the Zarya will walk forward and try to walk on top
of someone
yeah so look how they end up rotating in very fast from VP already look at the
add just like oh there's a whole team behind me and I have no bubbles left
One second. Oh my goodness that cooldown was just perfect. He had a hundred energy, but zero health
Psycho picks up a double killing thing as well. Oh
Psycho though a little bit overextended gets taken down by laughter. I mean gk. That's still in this fight
Oh, I soon kills two though this fight. Yeah pretty over VP win the fight
They say four and they also got the point
That means that Kevsted gets that prime position for the Emory to play from on high ground and back of point with all of the distance and a lot of punishment when Alfie tries to get bubbles and get on top of him.
Yeah, I think this is going to be indicative of how the tank matchups are going to go.
A lot more sorry here, especially with both DPS loving to play the Vengeance, oh, not
Vengeance, sorry, I'm still hoping for it. I meant Vendetta. He gets a Vengeance.
Alright, it's Yad with the first kill on the ice, though. Good start, it's a very
least. Now Lab to combine a nice little off-fangle. Oh, just a fairly clean engage
there from GK first pro little to no kind of response I mean I'll say this about
the vendetta Zarya it's made retakes a little bit easier for teams to have to
walk into because you can literally just rely on bubbling your vendetta in
splitting the attention and having a little bit of a safer passage through
these chokes it's gonna be over right protocol versus over right protocol but
in GK at the moment do you have the lead in terms of support of two
So quite critical from both the M-Race and now it's the F in a hole, he've heard those bubbles, they disappeared almost instantly
But the M-Race now taking to the skies to tool each other but it's lagged at it's on the receiving end of Kevser's Blaster
There's the reflit from VP. Yeah VP will be able to hold this
They've got both rush and Sambara, but Haku is about to have to match too. The difference maker could be Alphie
honestly closer to psycho at the moment to that sundering blade to be able to
take down all of the extra armor but the others pro if they get theirs online
they can combo it with ice's graph
yeah all support ults there available for both sides like you said that grab
coming in ice note he's gonna throw that one out nice little sound barrier into
coming in but I mean the air we damage just insane both Lucio's trade is
I, uh, Ziad now unfortunately no bubbles as I seem to be running it down there to be Zarya.
It was just a nicely timed grab and unfortunately Ziad didn't have one to kind of respond with,
sitting at 92% in this last fight.
Last fight, but like GK they've got a clear path here.
They just need to have Graviton to force fix the signed barrier,
and then Alfie comes on through with the Sundring Blade.
So the Virtus Pro, it's about how you position, making sure that that grab
as an opener doesn't catch your whole team is looking at where Alfie is.
He's already got the high ground. He's looking to put the pressure on the back.
Or he's visible though.
Fixed a bit out of there.
Didn't need too much.
Thundery blade, it's a psycho, same with Alpha Yi.
But it's Alpha Yi that goes down to that.
That makes it super far away.
Soundbarry comes into safe ice.
It was the only one in the ult and then Kedster is just able to clean up.
A very swift response from Virtus Pro.
And honestly, a clean round.
That didn't really feel like anything.
I was like duck off a water's back.
Yeah, I mean like alpha year in the last fight tries to go for the hero play put the pressure on the Lucio remove the front of the soundbar
So the graviton finds more impacts, but the vendetta gets peeled the Lucio gets out
Still has sound barrier up and the other sport have more players on the point itself and just shred apart gk
The moment that the vendetta is down they lose that attention draw for the engagement
I
Say duck off a water's back or war off a duck's back. It's the other way around. It's not
No, it's not duck off a water's back. Yeah, I is the war off a duck's back
That's Joe. It's Joe
So waking up still got coffee, you know early still here in LA. I say that it's it's one. It's a day on night market
But I mean it's always night somewhere in the right. Yeah, exactly. Oh, so true so true
true. Right let's have a look at if Ziad can kind of step up against Ice again. Same comps
running out, it's not going to be too much change. Oh my goodness Psycho, wow, very deep
with no bubbles for backup. Oh and that means that Ice as well is getting
totally pressured with Ziad having much more charge. Off in the back of that one like
GK is just going to be able to cap and hold close to this choke too.
Yeah free cap as well, Haku's just sitting on it, I'm just going to do the same.
Swift retreat don't want to get caught out by Psycho
Covering the skies. Oh wow fix it. Wait, it's fixer. Yeah, I think you did jump through the little window that yeah
That's kills. Wow this and nine percent only
I was fix a kind of just saving the day or maybe saving just fighting the opening pick on to alpha
You's extremely low just good call
Love is all though the hot crosshack coming on for
Kills done with love coming up from the Lucio as a further score like you said
We'll be able to find that very fast flip
Psycho able to just jump over the choke with the soaring slice
But Alfie's gonna do the exact same thing have the threat of the back cap pull us further score back into this fight
But I mean you still have to be wary land and spot to hit the rush first if it goes to a brawl
VP had advantage
Yeah, that I tell you I mean very oh
Oh, it was fixed against the Poop, what are we?
It's environmental this time as well.
Just on the side, just get a free pick and that's the fight one.
Yeah, I mean, at least Finn is going to be having
Kitsuna Rush potentially to match Landon,
but like, no, because the fight finished so quickly,
no one else took damage.
Saiko too is just playing on the off angle,
getting those crescent slashes in at range
to keep up the onslaught.
Yeah, it's actually in fact slightly as Haku
to go down and yeah, goodbye.
No, Sam Barrier, no support,
host GK, no response.
That is a bloodest pro winning
that off the back of a ground.
Yeah, and that means that you can
just like go fast with Kitsune
Rush GK might have to over
commit both the sign barrier and
the rush to be able to win the fight.
But if you have VP, you win
the one that comes afterwards.
Yeah, she's just kind of answer
here for answer for answer.
both rushes, Psycho already in the backline, Psycho is unstoppable right now, there's no
one able to actually kill him, they've capped the point sure but at what cost?
There's the team kill, Flip comes in, VP, they are destroying him.
The cost was Haku, which meant that the cost was signed barrier.
So, GK yet again without that Lucio, no speed boost, no signed barrier, we're down
to loss fight territory and Labda just has to use Override Protocol and Sign Barrier
to let the team prove.
What is that angle from Psycho? How did that kill after that?
Graviton Surge on the point connects the two, Kester Fixer dead but still Psycho is swinging.
Should be eventually put to rest, Alfie gets the better of him, but VP is still in control, mind you,
as I guess he's still alive. It's Ice Landon on the point.
Landon moving around these swings from Alfie as they managed to just two man that entire fight.
That is pro with just a masterclass of that called the Vendetta and Sariah.
That's a two-on, Alicia Tau to start the series.
I mean, Saiko was looking lethal with it, right, getting to play the off-angle every fight,
first kill that he was able to find onto the Lucio.
That's not what you want to have happen.
Haku, six deaths to the Lucio.
We only got to see like one real sound barrier come out as well, but it's literally
just to get through the choke
and give override protocol the
opportunity of getting those
eliminations so you can
potentially win out the fight
that happens after all of the
trades are done with. It was
just for him for control of
both the tempo and the map
space. They're very concise
fights and cheap fights as
well, right? They're not
over exerting themselves. Not
I can bubble Psycho and then Psycho can- Oh, that was the food. That was really nice refixer.
Look at this, though. The soaring slice into guaranteed overhead to Spike Haku when he was so close to having that sound barrier online.
The whirlwind dashes, wow, with the amount of AOE space that covered literally just the full hallway, fully covered by the Vendetta sword.
Like, there's no point of escape for the Lucio.
I think it was just a master
class of VP in run of that
calm. They look good. And if
they're just putting up the
same kind of fight here, then
I wouldn't be surprised if this
is a trio. That's kind of my
prediction in terms of scoreline
here for VP only lost a single
map so far coming into today
that separates them from TM
and match against TM will
definitely be a banger, but
GK winning here again still
secures themselves for
spotting the playoffs. It is
that. I mean, it's a lot on
the line for them. So don't
forget is what I mentioned it
previously. There was a small
giveaway, but there is the
lesion fund coming in. A lesion
keeper giveaway. So yeah, make
sure you go check that out is
the QR code on the screen. You
can also be purchased in the
shop anyway. If you don't end
up with the giveaway and those
purchases do contribute to
the prize pool. So make sure
you go check it out in the
I think coming through from voters per as well. It was a dead giveaway that they wanted to put a lot of stock onto the vendetta with the far ban coming on pretty still. I think if you're GK, especially when you look at how voters pro just had to the advantage in terms of both the Zarya and the vendetta, you can only ban one of them out like once per, but you can still defang something like the vendetta by going for a Zarya ban, even when you burn your vendetta.
is the selection to a lot of
I think it's realto and what's
which of Walter has been more
favored in N. A. I mean
Gibraltar is just like dive
central and then realto is a
case of you get stuck in
courtyards and lose one fight
and have to use all of your
ultimate to be able to push
likely an overtime then you get stuck in one fight losing second and have to use all of
your ultimates and full push in overtime. Havana at least, the second point it's much
easier to be able to snowball for an attacking side. For it, less, less so. For it, Havana
is historically the absolute bane of every attacking team's existence. As we're getting
a diva ban actually come through on the side of the Perthespro which means that GK
will not be able to target out a tank. So that Zarya is going to be able to make it through.
So we're going to get a Brigitte van coming out on the side of GK. So potentially Kyryka
Lucio, potentially Juno as well in the mix. Yeah, it just screams Kyrie Lucio, right? With
the team being banned. Zarya, I mean, you can play so many tanks on this point. I mean,
You know the last couple of series. In fact, how many different things you can play
Can even just play sigma you could just rock that one again as the old
All kind of comps like that. There's only sigma on this map for a long while
Yeah, but Zarya is still in the mix. So like the diva won't be able to take as many angles against the segment
But Zarya doesn't really care about taking angles. She just just bubbles and booms and so more unfortunately cannot keep up
I'm going to make this a 3.0 as we jump on to the second map.
Got the name swapped around again.
Oh, a little pause as well.
Shouldn't be too long, I'd imagine.
Get yourself sorted out.
Oh, good.
Yeah, we can talk if you want.
We probably should that that is indeed what we are paid for. They just fix some sides. No, as we're getting rich like head into Havana
Do we think it's gonna be a classic Havana or do we think it's going to be another full-hold cuz like I'll be honest after that performance
especially on control center
VP did really just shut down
GK with both the Zarya and the Vendetta still in the mix. There is a risk of this being a full-hold stop
They just switch inside by the way
It's not. It's not. It's not
wrong sides. All good. We're
getting it sorted now. So I
had the game noises and we
jumping back in. Yeah, it does.
It's got that vibe to it, right?
I think especially after a
control second round where it
looks that dominant. It's
feeling. It's got the aura of
a full hole on the first
point, which should be fair.
Defendable. Yes. Hard. Yes.
Which is good news for anyone's legend, right? They'll be watching this match
probably more closely than a lot of people working out if there's a chance
for them to be able to continue in this tournament as it, yeah, there we go. It
literally is just going to be more of the same. It will be the Emery, the
Vendetta, the Zarya, the Kiriko, the Lucian for Virtus.pro. They look natural
at this composition. I think it's more into GK to try and force away from
it may be come up with something else as potentially alpha you on that widow again likely just for the first five seconds to find an opening pick. But other than that is probably going to be as well
on to the football mirror. Yeah, likely. I mean, Finn pretty adept at playing at the
back, I would say. X San Francisco Shock player Finn around for a hot minute. Same without
the E to be fair, he's been on a multitude of teams, including Hongjo spark. Yeah, quick
What are we seeing? And no shock. Yeah, that complete mirror mocks in me.
I mean, the Vendetta, at least even with the Diva taken away, can still dive the high
ground with the Soaring Fly Starrya bubble, but like, that is probably, they'll just
play corner.
Sure, yeah, I mean, this is a classic Kavana psycho with a nice off angle, by the game.
Psycho definitely looking like one of the better Vendetta players this stage for
EMEA. So Kevster takes an early kill on the latter one.
That's not good for GK too, because like now Kevster's going to be able to lead in terms
of overall protocol. If he gets that before their backline gets
sold, the Virtus.Pro will just press W and Q.
Yeah, Kevster's 55% already. You might have damages to that, it's just a little
bit absurd. Free energy from both Zaris as they
bubble that then gets us into the engagement.
You see, he has very high energy right now, as another bubble engage comes in.
Should be able to escape Alfie straight up the stairs, but you've got to look behind you.
His Psycho ends up getting booped away. Good response there actually from Haku.
Booping Psycho off kilter, as they do secure a kill for themselves.
Still have to be concerned about Kevser though.
10% off overwrite protocol, and he picked up Alfie!
Yeah, Vertisport is still committed to this fight for short.
almost definitely Alty easy kind of testing the limits but VP we're not
afraid to burn that bubble like you're the enemies are is already a hundred
energy just burn the bubble it literally doesn't matter and then we can kill
bandana yeah Kev so they're just swapping over to the pistol so that he
can get them ability to take that high-grant angle position yet again
Haku will have sound barrier feels like GK are likely going to be waiting for
both their support ultimates to go through before they commit to this fight
Virtus.pro doing the same.
They've got the support ult, fixer a little bit behind Haku right now.
Soundbarrier connects to the ground, O'Brien probably feels gonna be good.
Now, Virtus.pro, how do they respond to this?
A grab is on surge, but look at the damage raining from above from LAPTA.
Unbelievable! Got three kills with the ult.
It was a messy one. Every ult basically invested there.
Unfortunately for Virtus.pro, they just didn't have the soundbarrier.
They didn't have to sustain. 93% for Fixer.
I mean, you're okay as well with the fact that you use both of these support ultimates because like you can snowball second
The fixer will have Simonbar, but Virtus Pro, they know that Graviton is a frenzy edge of bite to approach in this next fight
Like it would be a very aggressive play to use Simonbar and run into GK much more likely you're holding it to play defensively
Yeah, most definitely
But look at the way VP are playing. I love playing this close with these kind of comps with Azaria comp
Because you can bubble this vendetta and they can just kind of dance around the payload get on the high ground
Get to the low ground like super easily and look at the support they're putting into psycho
Looks like he bought up a little bit more than he could chew there
But he was a good from that and the fixer and the bubbles just keep on coming from ice pure team player right now
I just making sure psycho is able to get work done eventually kept shut down
But there's the beat that they were missing in that previous fight grab it on search connects
the game. And then they're
going to be able to get a
nice spot. Sound Barrier hit
for all that Suzu from Landon is
huge through the Sundering
Blade as well as the fixes
sound barrier prevails and
Veritas Pro are able to win
at the fight because like GK
were waiting. The ultimate
lined up. They were waiting
for the graph. They were
waiting for the sundering
blade. They wanted the graph
to post the sound barrier and
use sundering plate
afterwards. And London
shuts it all down. That's
Clicking themselves to death.
I have ult advantage though.
Like if you've got a support, you've got grabbed, you've got sundering, you know GK don't have.
After you use one HP, I'm surprised they managed to survive.
Grab it on Surge as soon as they walk through, they get grabbed, they get shot on the face.
Basically, I'll go for them.
I think GK, they're just gonna wait until they get that time barrow back on one.
Like they won with double...
The grab is huge as well.
Look at that damage covered in.
And the sundering blade on top.
They end up actually getting a couple of kills though, Ziad and Alfie have managed to turn this.
A double expensive, like an expensive old fight for VP, both the Grav and the Sundering Blade
is kind of forted as Ziad gets a couple in return and they keep pushing.
I mean they'll have the Override protocol both teams do, but only one side that being GK has time bar to be able to just
survive through it. Landon has the rush, but his pro do have re-engagement tools, they're just going to try and get behind them.
Over right Predator is going to give a fixer once again, still behind in terms of the beat.
Haku is pushing his team forward, but it's Laptor that goes down, wasn't looking at Kevster.
So that beat advantage kind of non-existent at this point, because Kevster is in such a good spot.
Everybody is in this small room now, right now, the old spawn.
Haku finds two, Kevster shutting the door on the Lucio player though, as everybody else is melted.
Kevster with a hero kill onto Laptor, causing GK's damage in half.
Yeah, I mean great rotation as well from Virtus. Probably to just get behind GK instead of going directly at them so that the MRA get way more space to work with.
As a GK they don't have a great engagement tool, they don't have time barrier, they don't have rush. They're going to be relying on Sundering Blade, but we've already seen like that Vendetta having to go in with the Zarya bubble.
It pains the target on Alfie's back.
back. Now I kind of worried.
It's slightly mismatched. Oh, the
stun. The little knockdown.
Alphie ends up falling over as he
was trying to chase Psycho. If
they get this kill, this area,
this is GK falling apart. Yeah,
they've lost this area. They've
lost all the energy they have
to reengage with only 30 seconds
So before she could get the opportunity to build up their ultimate because if you let them they're going to have rush
They're going to have grabbed they're going to have sundering and you have to make one sound barrier stretch the space to buy kevsta
Overwrite protocol. Yeah, good luck
Good luck with that. Oh look at side. There's another pick though
Strang for something special
I'm sorry, what? Solo grabbing Kevstar in disguise, Ziad looking up to the heavens as now he ascends to them.
Ice known with an ice little keel as VP now, just had this momentum of the grab to finish the fight.
The disrespect grab on Kevster is not paid for with GK trying to shut down the threat.
But just like the Hydra VP, you've got four more of them on that team.
Oh my goodness.
Grabbing the Override Protocol.
I mean like I get it, Override Protocol would have melted your team in overtime.
You would not have been able to disengage it, nor did you have Sirenberry to be able
to survive it.
But I mean to the rest of the team, like you said, free to do whatever they wanted
as a line is now drawn in the sand. And Virtus Pro going to be on the offense. GK,
going to have to reach for this defense, but like, do you go for a different composition,
or you just continue trying to play this Vendetta Zarya?
I don't know, because it feels like you're locked. It feels like the way you're kind of
locked into the comp because of how good it is. Where is the counter
coming from if you're GK here they're not showing anything it's gonna be the
same again but how does that even come from I mean they might commit to it I
know they're on the attack they can still change it but like they played the
mauga into the vendetta's area before and it worked really well and I mean we
already saw how well the Zarya bubble stands up to Mauga pressure it's not
well they pop almost instantly. Nope. Baited. Baited. But like you said the
cancels will change. So look. No ice. Looking like they want to stick on. Sorry.
Yeah I'm not surprised. Like VP they've been looking better at this comp so again it's
really up to GK to pull the coordination forward or swap the comp to be able to
find this win is VP they'll just start slowly while waiting for the vendetta engagement but so to
a vertice pro it seems up there we go psycho onto the high ground. Get some here was quick sharp there
kevlar was going really low yeah high ground is exactly where they want to be although it looks
like psycho has been chased away by alphie who's originally holding this kind of right hand angle
there's the better route though you've got to kill this vendor though
Oh, he got the health pack.
They're calling. They're calling it. They've got to kill him.
Okay, they end up trading, but unfortunately,
as Lanna was dealing with that Vendetta, Ice wasn't receiving any heals.
Yeah, because, I mean, Fixer was the call from Landon to be able to help peel the Vendetta,
which meant that there was literally zero heals onto that Zarya, so Ice just tuffles over,
gets melted by the pressure coming on through from TK.
And Finn, that means as well, he's been healing Ziad more consistently. He's closer to the rush.
Yeah, there's a slight lead but it could be the different shaker.
Nice little boop in, I spent around the corner there, didn't want to be there whatsoever.
No heal with incoming there for Landon, good hook so far from She-K.
Yeah, I mean, you're so close to the rush, you know Virtus Pro are going to be closer
to both support ultimates.
Do you just use the rush when Virtus Pro try to walk?
I don't think you're going to get the opportunity though as Landon and Fxn will
both have their ultimates for Virtus Pro to be able to commit and they should
be able to overpower GK since Haku misses the Sign Barrier.
Yeah, so the other words are good though, right? I mean, anything can change, especially just gonna ult.
Override Protocol. Oh, straight back down to us. That's just so low.
Sling belly safe though. Sign Barrier comes in as that Crapton Surge connects, but it's just too much damage.
The Override Protocol makes it to the grab. It's just, the splash is insane. The directs are ridiculous.
Psycho kills Labda in the end, but it's only one death, and they get a team kill on top of that.
Two minutes to go now.
I mean, yeah, Virtus.Pro, they had to sustain with both support ultimates, but they had no damage.
Like Psycho, Kevster, both not in that fight with their ultimates.
GK used the override protocol on top of Zed's graph and killed for both the rush and the barrier.
And now, Hakku's got beat to enable out the U, and they can survive Kevsters!
There's the sound barrier. Kevster kind of knew that, knew that was coming.
Skipping back behind the field inside, he's not taking any incoming fire.
If you trade the override for the Beats, a lot of shots going down range.
Now Psycho can set up for it.
Sundering Blade, but after he's going to pop his first, aww, straight on top of it.
Yeah, Bubble got deleted.
Good focus fire there onto Psycho.
I mean, yeah, Sundering Blade deleted Sire Bubble.
And Psycho, that was in Sundering Blade State.
So, like, Ice has the grab, but what's the follow-up going to be?
This is not looking good for Virtus Pro.
Just for raw damage. It's what it's going to have to make do.
Alfie very low, used the dash to get away, Graviton surge thrown in,
catch is one, is Vasari at both bubbles used, Suzu as well.
Focus is good, Siyat is one, but they've got to secure the skill.
They have to. Siyat's still 1 HP.
They're trying to chase him, but the boop is good from Haku.
The boop is insane.
100 energy Sari, still running them down as Psycho.
Bit off way more than he could chew.
and the Crucible HP again, add some energy.
Rush comes out from both sides, Vice is gonna get overrun,
if you're so careful, Finthane in the front line here has lagged the falls,
but it's all about the Zarius now, Ziad's standing tall.
Standing way taller than Burst Pro, as he just runs them down.
Sub 50 HP in some of those fights, as a solo beat for Fixes,
all they can muster at the very end,
their disengage was unreal for GK as they take this second map.
The fact that Ziad stayed alive.
He like, if we went to his POV, guaranteed below 50 health.
When he's getting chased, not only do they keep the Zarya alive,
they get the Vandana who's chasing him!
It's insane!
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And data like we can't play it then
Oh, the GK is second, but carry for VP first
Okay, not Kyrgyz Luceo then
Yeah, Gino, Gino Brigg
Gino Brigg, yeah
And then probably Emery, Vendetta
Maybe Zarya, maybe D.Va
depends like what year you want to run. I don't think we'll be seeing the tracer since the
break will likely be in play even though it is very juicy into the Juno being able to hit
that backline. Juno was super vulnerable to the tracer, but at the same time, do you really
want to give up the Fendetta, especially if we're going to be seeing like the Zarya
or the D.va in play?
potential, like VP already played it against Peps, looked very, very strong on it, sounding
up from all of the interviews the players have done too, Maga Matter is on the way,
if it's not already here. So for GK, especially if you have a tank band still open, because
you can't go after support, taking the Maga out in the off chance that VP decided to
roll out on it, or if VP would have wanted to flex onto it if they started getting
and the Zarya off is always a good option.
Alright, there's Rock'n'Roll.
Map number three, we're going to push Runisabi as notice, bro, on a very good defense on
that second point just couldn't complete at the first.
It was literally within 50 HP worth of completion as Zed stays alive and clutches up with the
the rest of the team there the support's able to heal them up all the way back to fall and then VP it over extended to the point where they couldn't retreat themselves.
Yeah.
As we see well Haku Finn land and fix up doing what's expected. They're running Juno bring and here comes the Zara.
There's no way you play the Viking ball. This is going to be the Zara. It's literally just going to be the same thing. Mirror match up instead of the Kirikou Lucio.
It's going to be the Juno Brigitte as Juno getting to play for those orbital rays.
We're getting to play for very aggressive rallies to embolden your positions forward, but like ideally it's all about the vendetta
Opening up space and allowing the emory to sit back and work
And she really comes up with the first kill. Oh, hello both vendetta's kind of trading space
I said I like seeing the vendetta kind of jump over giant wall with the bubble on but being on the receiving end
Yeah, it does turn over watching to somewhat of a horror game if you're a support player having steal of it as we're actually getting to a ceiling
Verus Paul fairly pushed back, fairly honest, literally pushed a lap
Rest in pieces, Landon gets moved by Finn, I'm like surely Landon eventually dies to an environmental
Good fight win though, that's Verus Bro going down to a team kill as GK push
I mean that's great for GAK as well to be able to establish that position. You can already see like
Labder, Alphie already closing up so that the Virtus.Pro don't get to utilize the corner cover to avoid all of the incoming pressure from the DPS
How long can they actually survive before a Psycho
Finds his way into the fight. Looks like both Vendett is gonna be wanting in this small room right now
No overhead swing crit however so no damage to follow up on if you're ice.
Oh sorry about the Zenfins going real low, GK cannot afford to get some break at the Inspire.
It's getting so low, trapped in the corner, one bubble for the Vendetta, one for themselves and yeah, you just get run down.
This is a very, it's like a very small push here when you think about it for GK.
it for GK, they're not around the corner so Virtus.Pro taking position and taking the bottom
decent distance too.
Good ultimate economy as well, coming from Virtus.Pro like, Fixto is actually so far ahead
of Fin in terms of being able to use that rally.
Though GK, but closer to the DPS, there's like labs that will have over a protocol
out the years about to get something played online and you can see like Kev's just waiting
sitting in that scope, kicking the butt is the S-Half.
All right, protocol.
Mixed with the Reys, kind of a war crime, I'm going to be honest.
It's a ridiculous amount of damage.
Now just nice fixer, but Kessler with an aerial onto Haku.
Okay, Gurnus Pro making their stand on this corner.
They're going to get the lead and the checkpoint.
Yeah, I mean, both teams are going for the same ult combos, right?
Juno, Emory, ult Smith, who gets more value, who gets more eliminations,
Ansel will be there just for an all look at ice. He's being cheeky with it
He's got the graviton. He knows even with a rally coming on through from thin
You're least gonna be able to get that first checkpoint
Why is rocking the defiance?
Does he just like use his solar grab on to Alfie as well and then Teda shows up to protect his backline
maybe or you just maybe see how to use a bubble and then just throw it on him
they could have returned right here, oh right from down at town that's a good catch actually
the rally ended coming in but unfortunately Foul for you was past that shield
counter bash although now hot doors they even have to run
luckily survives the ad front lining with the Zarya protection with a bubble too
so now Finn can get in the mix
80 meters is what VP will get here but importantly they have the checkpoint
They have the checkpoint.
Yeah, Finn lives the rally.
Fixer does not.
But like you said, Virtus.Pro got the checkpoint,
will have the closer respawns, and will
be able to get into a position of contesting GK
before they can look to lengthen out
any amount of distance lead.
And they're already starting to get ready to fight.
Like, we're seeing the close contact.
There's the vendetta.
Oh, is there anybody?
Yeah, looking for somebody.
Oh, no one to be found.
No one was home.
They still managed to pick up Ice and Psycho, though, in a very awkward fight, and the bot
being this far on the side of the map as well, Boxing, that's probably a check point as well
for GK.
Yeah, I mean, you would assume so, right?
You can even see LFEE is just using the soaring slice, closing up the distance, making
sure no one from Virtus.Pro is going to be able to tap onto the bot and try and contest
it as we're getting to see Ice and him, actually, like, Psycho has all.
This is something that GK has to be worried about, they'll get the check, but will
they'd be able to get the fight wins since they have so many ultimates coming into this next fight.
it's just perfect. Yeah but I mean GK coming up orbital ray closer again to that rally,
Verbs Pro having orbital ray potentially wanting to use it before Finn gets his online.
Have you seen that? What was? Wow actually went too deep. Orbiter racing both sides as well,
Zad fighting him for as long as he's moving possible here but unfortunately for Verbs Pro
that one's moving is, that one is moving back and Grav is going to connect. I stand for
No way.
The Gravites are coming out.
Ladder! Is he out? No, he's just going to clean up.
That is a mistake.
Yeah. Best left avoided there from IZ.
That was not a good grab at all. That was a waste.
No, there's no reason that you would look for the grab.
You're already down too many players. You're not forcing ultimates on the side of GK.
Like, you're not going to be able to stop them
from getting back onto the bot
and increasing the distance that they're picking up.
And now you don't have Graviton to force GK
back and avoid stacking.
Still four months in the time bank.
She's going to be a clean fight until
fakes that gets this rally.
Might be just VP hold in the bottom
this corner, though, to be fair.
Don't want to overextend in any
meaningful way.
Yeah, I mean, you'll walk with
rally that will empower Kevster
with a very protocol like GK though.
All they lose are for you.
What? They just they lose
Alfie just in the neutral.
the game. It's going to be
a lot of fun. Laptop pops out
of the pistol gets the movement
speed there, but Seattle is just
getting bullied in the corner a
neutral fight win for bird is
pro and fix it. Save the rally
and now the right protocol is
going to be cancer and laughter.
It's going to be the Emory
show again around this like
checkpoint corner that GK are
going to lose. Yeah, it will
be the overall protocol and
for from London as well. It's like if this might go short, versus pro 1, if this might
go long, versus pro 1.
Three minutes ago, over right protocol, okay, Landon just got his butt. Honestly might be
taken down before, dodging out of the way, been or he dead, Bladdon needs to come up
with a good tear. And if he can't, it might just be all over. Ne decent damage onto Kepster,
is the ad about has gone down and they are struggling to find a single pick as well. Moxie this is 95
meters and building for VP and they only use a single. Yep, the snowball potential is huge.
This could be a full push situation like they can open up aggressively with over the way.
Haku does not have to be able to match. Pink can't even use rally to try and slow
this place a question down. It's all up to Alfie.
I mean, Landon could just rip the Ray.
Well, they're going to do Rage first. Okay, I like it.
Push in, see if you can win this clean fight.
Sundering blade, kills Landon in the sky,
so no chance even now for the Ray.
But still, getting over 100 meters,
126 up into this choke point,
you're going to be happy with VP,
even if you lose this fight.
They're going to try and make this fight work,
because he hasn't been going down,
fixer and cycle is going to kill it.
And the grab is golden here,
The Virtus.pro Haku with a desperate use of the Ray, but it's a team kill.
Zed is going to come out on the ball, but they might as well have just won them up here.
Yeah, I mean the ball will at least be able to touch, but like Virtus.pro, they're disengaging,
they've got orbital ray to answer back in on the recon test.
It's right here!
Landed has only just reached on the team, so like they're chilling, they can just walk through now.
Sundry Blade got a bubble on his head, it doesn't hit anything, but it forces the positioning,
and they just complete under their noses, but it's pro steal that one away a desperation right there from haku the very end. I thought it cost him big time, but it's pro now match point. Yeah, I mean like using that right already down to players potentially like, I guess they were thinking
they wouldn't have been able to get the ball onto the point to be able to touch if they didn't have the
Juno extend the life inside the Graviton, but that's a rough one for GK. Virtus.pro now going to be on
match point in the series.
They kept listening at a clean 25 and 5, leading the team in damage.
Lapster pretty close. Look at that damage actually. It's
in the 700 so yeah, 10,500, 10,504.
Either one of the M-Race. Both of them kind of come out with a big ultimates in that map, but VP
despite the early fight wins, despite the early kind of pushes,
it doesn't matter. They, they shrug it off. They go next.
It was like the early picks as well. The fact that when they lost the fights and they were coming back into the recon test,
to the next fight and Alfie,
you get picked way too early,
way too extended. And they win
that fight, too. Yeah, this
snowball here is also kind of
crazy. Lapd it. You could see
kind of. You know, it's not
really that much of a difference
between the two teams, but
it's not really that much of a
difference between the two
teams, but it's not really
that much of a difference
I'm going to go for this. I'm
a little bit behind KFC right
now in terms of all I have to
make something work. If I don't,
um, they're just going to push
into the base even further. Like
100 plus meters. Unlucky
suffer from GK VP. Those kind
of what we expected. Um
they're seeing a match point
right now a little three one
maybe on the horizons, but
there's a chance for a come
back. It's going to be the
for GK, they're trying to be the hero. It feels like they're trying to do more to be
better and ironically that's leaving them in a worse position, which is something that
a lot of teams honestly fall into the trap of doing. So I think they just have to learn
to be satisfied with what they've got and don't try to overextend and that absolutely
has to come into play on Suravasa because we already saw what happens. There are so
many angles open on this map. if someone is in the wrong position at the wrong time and goes out
before the fight can properly kick into high gear, you will lose the fight.
Okay, won't you, won't you kick out of their sleeve? Remember, Malva was banned last map
in Kiriko too, so we're probably going to default back to the Kiri Lucio if I had to,
Yes.
Yeah, I would assume it's going to be the Kyroko Lucio.
Potentially we see a little bit of the Psycho Pharah as well coming on through.
But the Vendetta might be a good ban here, especially since it's like,
Uffy was trying it, but he was overextending on Rune of Saffy,
and they were losing out in terms of the Vendetta versus Vendetta.
He had a really good ult, I will say, on the second to last fight where he used the
Sundering Blade to be able to collapse on top of the Gino who did have all the little
right.
He knew that that was an ult advantage they could not allow Virtus.pro to have, but sadly
it was just a little bit too late as we're actually going to get, okay, not Kirigalusio.
Virtus.pro removed the Lucio after GK banned the M-Rate to force the Soju.
Interesting.
interesting. All right, yes,
probably gonna be played with
you can. And then we can do like
a curie Juno to be fair or just
go back to Juno break. Yeah. I
mean, if you're expecting tracer
as well with like a higher open
and wide server of us who can
deal with this blank potentials
plus tracer just gets value
existing on flashpoint right
being able to get past the
the backline itself. But I
mean, if you go further, Tracer,
the problem is that you then
deprived the Zara of having that
insane levels of charge by
bubbling the vendetta and
everyone shooting the vendetta.
All right, let's rock and roll.
Virtus Pro sitting on a match
point GK hoping to keep
themselves in this because if
they secure this series, well,
just like the pigeons 1000 yards
spot in that fourth place.
Okay, D.U.V.A.T.E.S. Pro actually go with the Maga.
It would also explain why we saw the Lucio BAM because you're not just going to be able to go for the Lucio Speed Amp to get away from the Maga's engagement.
Or maybe Ice is just using the ammo to have fun in spawn before he swaps off to the Zarya or the D.U.V.A.T.E.
We will have to wait until the spawn does open.
But if it is the Maga, Lapta is already on the correct pick into it.
He's on that sojourn and doors open and yet there we go ice commits to that manga
Land in on the Juno with the speed ring to get him into positions
Alpha you lab to far a soge
Ice is gonna have a little bit of a rough one against lab
But can put a decent amount of pressure on Alpha you just being a hit cast though like Kevstar on the cast he put fresh on the
bar. Yeah, oh
Yeah
Basically, the idea here is for VP is just to rotate on them as much as humanly possible,
so Labda and Alfie can't get set up and start spamming.
Psycho too on the Tracer, there's no break on the sort of GK, so he's going to have
three entrants into the backline to depress on Haku.
Yeah, but they've already out-rotated them around the Rosie pretty much.
Like I mentioned, Psycho and Living Ren free in the backline right now.
Haku ends up going down.
Trade for Fixer, sure, but Psycho is still alive.
Like, and this is gonna be the main problem for the C.
Actually taking care of this trace.
Uh, okay, well, there it is.
There's the shot needed.
I'll beat you with a nice little body shot,
but I mean, it's Kevstar on Katz.
Like, he's gonna be ripping face.
That's also Katz, too.
It's so nice.
It's so nice.
Oh, he gets the health pack.
He wins against Ziad.
And that's such a late kill on the baby D.Va, too.
Like, with how long it's going to take
for Ziad to come back,
you're potentially lost by territory
in two fights with first flash point.
Yeah, pretty much.
I mean, what, 60% now they're gonna come in?
VP are basically just gonna rotate on them
over and over again.
Psycho maybe goes for a pause.
They're gonna have to back up.
And yeah, maybe it's gonna be last fight realistically.
Psycho already looking for a pulse bomb.
I mean, like for GK, maybe wait for a Kitsuna rush
to be able to walk onto the point.
But if you do that, you'd have to worry about the tracer.
High noon, slows the tempo down,
Kevstar speed boost forward with the ring.
Now, well, unfortunately, your entire team had to split,
and then Kevstar with some easy pickings.
I mean, he makes it look so easy on the Cassidy.
Three kills, died, don't care, didn't ask VP first point.
I mean, GK, they'll have one-sided rush,
but it's only rush.
Virtus.Pro have both support ultimates up.
They get a late pick onto LPE as well,
And they're already going to be established on the point potentially to cut off GK with the Tuna's featuring.
They're off the far. I think that had to happen with Kevster on the Cassidy.
Like, the Virtus.Pro, they're just going to cage on top of GK when the point caps.
And they're going to be expecting it. They're going to try and play split, I would imagine.
But even finding a pick is tough. Luckily, though, Finn, sharp with the Kunai,
kills Kavster instantly as the fight starts. I guess it didn't really even start to be
honest with you. Orbital Wraith and there's the cage. I'll feed you down, but same with
Heist, cage disappears, the Rally is a good sonon to Zed. TK are very low, but it is only
fixed on the point right now, battling against his in the demons, plus four members of TK,
and it's gonna run over him. I mean that's huge as well that Haku's able to save the
over the way, Virtus.Pro do not have ultimates and now that you don't have things like that
farra, the Kessler will be able to keep a good track onto Alphie but against the Sojourn.
Having that real one-gun snipe, putting pressure onto Virtus.Pro's rotation means that GK
will easily be able to scrape together a good 20% of this point and should be able
to win the ultimate economy fight too.
It's always in theory though, it's worth keeping in mind, anything can happen
and I'm gonna be honest, Kev's there just double-kingking someone, like, it's very possible.
Luckily though, they don't give him that opportunity.
A nice orbital ray, but that does mean because they weren't in a position to kind of crunch on them,
VP are like, well, we just disengaged, that's fine by us.
We can re-engage almost instantly, and now Lab is gonna delay some more time.
Kev's are in trouble, a nice boot though, but Lab there still manages to weave that railgun shot
through the mech and hit Kev's as though.
Alright, well, that's a lot of things for you. GK are 85% and they should be able to get this cap.
Yeah, this cap's done. There's no way that Virtus.Pro will try to make a play for us.
They're just going to be looking to split off and get ready to rotate for the next one to unlock,
since Kevser has the dead eye. Granted, Ziad can defend Matrix it.
Inside that Divamec, honestly, Psycho is the thing that GK have to worry about,
because they still don't have this Brigitte, which means that pulse bomb threat, it's so high.
Port on the rotation, shlack in there, and seeing Kevstar on Cassidy is just, oh it's
just hard work, the Mona Lisa incarnate.
Yeah, we need to get this framed in the loove as a Virtus Pro, no ultimates, literally just
Kevstar being able to dome with the headshots, and first point cap will go the way of
Virtus Pro, I'd say that, so you can actually matching together a recon test,
Salfi's able to get onto point to play.
It's in so much fire for Rally.
Nice little high noon, secures the point right.
Rush is gonna get used, Pogs are on the ground, no one steps in it luckily.
Psycho though with a recall at least.
Still though, arched by instif Rush fight of course.
As Ice Snow, well there's self-destructs there for the remake.
But unfortunately, GK cannot capitalize on it at all.
Rally for Fixer, it's good for a kill.
And another one too, Seattle whipped off for the map.
Team kill comes in.
and they've secured point and their percent bank is building.
Yeah, Aisha is perfectly happy fighting into Finzra.
She's got the self-destruct fixer as well with that rally going on for they lose Landon,
but that just means that they'll have all but a ray to just take GK down,
going aggressively first, yet again the way that VP have done so far.
Psycho doesn't want to mention some of the burst there in the front line.
Oh, that traces so low.
I'll be glad to the end of the survive and they hit the recall the heart rate is already dead
Is that strapped by the showbook of the Haku behind?
I mean that's fight over and that's point as well like there's no chance for you to survive there
You lose your Gino it is done the break cannot offer enough healing and that is VP up to map and match point
2 and 1 on Suravada
I mean Finn at least has a swapped off of the Kiriko onto the Brigida to try to keep an eye on what
Psycho is doing and we're actually getting Ziad going over to the Zarya. Okay, GK, they're changing things up
Alpha Yi is going to go into the Vendetta, which is why we have the Zarya coming them through
You're looking for those bubble engagements, but Kadsdor can just shut all of this down with the cast
If he gets the magnate onto the Vendetta, no movement
Zero movement. Yeah, you are a stand-up
Kadsdor looking good on Cassie, who's surprised
behind them. Oh, the stick is beautiful from Psycho. Still goes down, trades one for one,
but takes down Latte who had the overclock. Yeah. Which could have been an ult they'd used
to win the fight. What? Would have been hard to get past the Matrix, but still. Alphie on the point,
high noon pops. Looks like GK now just happy brawling on the point, but unfortunately,
there's a one-man wrecking crew in Kepston here on the Cassidy. Rolls away, Alphie dies
the silver bullet and Verdes pro cap. I mean 100% worth of psycho to trade his life they're taking
down lapdickers now if you're gk you're forced into bubbling the vendetta in which means the kester
can break bubble and then break the vendetta afterwards landon will have the orbital ray it
will match up against hackers the verge pro can just disengage and wait out the overclock to be
be done.
Sure.
Gte with double support ult can get this done.
Hang on a second here, labbed up.
With this overclock.
But Haku's already dead again.
How did Kev's come up with that kill?
Surely labbed against this one.
Kev is getting so much support though.
Double supports at his back.
Ignore the tank.
Ise has got a remake.
It's all chill.
Just heal Kev's stun.
Orbital rate on the point.
Late rally for Finn.
Alfie already dead and Moxie.
This looks about over to me a stun back on Finn Haku with an orbital ray
But where are you at my son? You're no way near the point. I mean JK get one chance of that
You can see it Finn's going onto the jetpack
He's got the orbital rays most complain it but the folks forest is too good
99% someone's got to go for retouch here one the person on it's been it's the cat
But unfortunately he is not for this world both supports down for GK
the sundering blade has to kill five but it kills none. Virtus pro take the series three to one.
Kevster Cassidy we got to see it. Oh and it always comes up absolutely clutch like it dealt with
the Pharah it dealt with the Vendetta and every single time you're looking at the ultimate economy
you're like okay on paper if you go and weigh the ultimates up GK should be able to find a win
and then Kevster just kills two before they can even use the ult because like that's just
sometimes your DPS just find a
pick in neutral and win the
fight and you caught it
perfectly. I had Remak. He had
self destruct available. So all
of the pocket goes onto the
Cassidy. Yeah. 25 and three
looking clean on the cast. These
does the correct thing when you get stuck by a trace impulse bomb stand still so that it doesn't take someone else time but it
Tanks their chances of being able to win that fight right losing out on the overclock
You're not gonna be able to overcome VP. No, you are and it's a VP that still remains
Undefeated for the regular season. They did drop another map here in this best
This first of three series
But overall, this also means that anyone's legends,
they still have a chance to try and qualify to play off
into tomorrow.
And unfortunately, they're for DK Esports.
They weren't able to solidify that spot
as early as they probably would have liked.
But overall, Moxie, I still think that,
despite this being a three to one,
we got a little bit of an idea of how close DK are
at reaching the level of Virtus Pro,
and they looked good in the server today.
And I wanted to get kind of your temperature check
now that we've seen them go head to head.
I mean, they look good on the mirror matchup.
I'll say that, but Virtus.Pro, when we went to Cerevasa,
there was a clear divide in skill level, right?
We were talking about, you know, like Alfie on the far,
get shut down by Capstan on the Cassidy.
We were looking at, okay, that Lucio van coming through
from Virtus.Pro determined what the backline
would have to play, the fact that GK rolled out
on the Kiriko over the Brigida,
meant that psycho got to go absolute ham on the trace up. Yeah, it's pretty crazy. Jack,
I think that like moxie was saying, sir, Vasa, with the statement that we needed to see vertus
pro making as one of the two top two teams within the EMEA region, I think that now
though we get chance to also talk to one of our players on the side of vertus pro.
We've got an interview with fixa. Congratulations fixa on today's win and maintaining verse
pro is a clean streak across the regular season. I wanted to know how you and the team felt heading
into this matchup of against GK Esports and kind of what your expectations were for today's game.
Okay, thank you. First of all, if you didn't make any mistake, you just win three or that's
what we're thinking, but in Havana we didn't play this any Jaya, Jaya comes, so we kind of
struggle about that and yeah, we had miscommunication during the fight. So really, even being at
loss to Matt, but yeah. Well, I expected really going to win easily, but yeah, I'm disappointed
about that too.
I think it's fine. You won 3-1. That's your second Matt loss of the stage. So yeah,
you guys are, you guys are big chilling. I know Smash as well, I'm sure has been
an instrumental part for the team, but how does he feel and how do you feel about Twisted
Minds that game tomorrow?
I mean obviously, the team is the best team in the world, so very top game.
But we have confidence because we dominate in EMA right now in the screen, so everyone
has confidence.
Well, also, team has confidence, but yeah, we will see.
Do you think that meta has fully developed into what it actually is, has it stabilized?
Because we're still seeing so many different teams run so many different compositions.
That's why we're practicing malware.com only.
I think, yeah, we're dominating in screen with malware.com.
So that's why many teams trying to mirror malware, but team would not do that.
So yeah, just, yeah, just quickly come, you know, last stage one.
Yeah, it's been interesting to see the mauga kind of coming back into the meta
but I want to actually go back to asking you about the Twisted Minds matchup
going into tomorrow. I know that Jack kind of already asked you a little bit
about it but when it comes down to tomorrow's game, how are you feeling
about your chances as a team? Do you feel confident that you could take the
series potentially? I think everyone is same, our team, our team-mate. Yeah, we
have confidence so you're going to take them down.
Okay.
I really like to hear the confidence from you guys.
I think tomorrow is the most anticipated match
for the EMEA regular season so far.
Congratulations again on your win today, Fixa.
Good luck in tomorrow's game
and thank you so much for doing this interview with us.
Thank you.
See you tomorrow.
See you tomorrow.
It's so great to be able to hear from Fixa now.
Again, taking a look at these standings here
and I think it's going to be
a great opportunity for us to
be able to secure that top seed
spot in tomorrow's game. Yeah
that one is going to be
interesting like we heard of
that from fixer. They have
confidence going into it. This
points also have confidence
going into it, and they have
a former British pro player on
that roster as well. So it's
a little bit personal, not
just for the ego in terms of
who's the best team in the
even the region I feel it really is I think that the confidence matchup is
gonna be so fun to watch tomorrow's matchup is going to be such a brawl I'm
hoping to see it go all five maps no matter which way it swings but before we
go into a break and cap out the rest of the day here for EMEA I also want to
remind you guys that we do have the Elysian crowdfunding bundle that you
guys can grab to support these teams after playoffs of stage one heading
into champions. So make sure you guys grab yours now today while we had to break. But the other thing
is you also have a giveaway for you guys. So if you're also looking to grab, you know, one of
these skins, name cards, plates, whatever it may be here for Ryan, a life waiver or wooing,
make sure you scan that QR code to make sure you can get your participation in to be able
to get a chance to win out this wonderful bundle that we have supporting our teams here
in the OWCS, heading into land.
Overall, though, I think that it's been a really great day
of Overwatch champion series, PMEA.
Jaws, I want to get kind of your final thoughts here,
packing out day one here on week three.
I mean, look, we had a dog fight in that match too,
and then we had some VP domination, yeah.
It's been a fun day.
I think Twisted Minds and VP, that game tomorrow,
is the best of the stage, theoretically, right?
I mean, VP only dropped two maps,
that's the one. So I guess
your thoughts as well here,
wrapping things up heading
into tomorrow. I mean, I feel
like tomorrow is going to
determine the EMEA matter
at least because we had a
hit from fixer, right? They've
been playing the matter. They've
been dominating in scrims.
That's why a lot of those
teams are swapping to the
mega composition spirit. He
said that twist winds. They
won't do that. So
potentially we get Margaret
tomorrow into a non mauga
mirror. And I think that
We get Mauga tomorrow into a non-mauga mirror
Is there something that is stronger than the Mauga or do we see the Mauga punch through all?
And we're gonna have to see how the Mauga meta, you know draws his favorite tank
Yeah
really. Thank you both Jaws and Moxie for joining me on the desk here today for
EMEA. We've got NA coming up next so we'll see you guys after a short break.
The ceremony will start when you're ready. I'll blot to the latest speech on to your data pad if you'd like.
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Every detail in place is the balance of impact and efficiency.
And they would test my patience now, just moments before I'm set to take the stage.
Well, I suppose I should be well rehearsed.
Let's see what they've written for me now.
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The story continues in Overwatch.
now to get three down. That was impressive.
to close out the series here and take over the trophy.
Cork has done it so many times before and he'll do it again.
Your OWC at 20-25, world finals champion.
Welcome back everyone to OWCS NA.
I'm Ash and three weeks deep into the regular season.
I've got Jake here with me, but we've also got the first Uber shout.
I'm so out of focus. What's going on? You can't see me, bro. Get your eyes checked, Fam. It's you, not me.
I'm blurry right now. I don't know.
I'll get a fix. I'll get a fix.
I'm just gonna be blurry for a little bit, alright? We're gonna have to go with it.
Have you been locked in on NA though? Have you been keeping up to date with what's going on?
I have been. Yeah, absolutely. Obviously it's your season, so the games are, you know, much more concentrated at least each stage.
So, I've been looking great, see Dallas Fuel make their return, of course, my
chronic moments from them. It's also great to see them fight with a lot of the
household names, Node WCS, Team Liquid and SSG. I'd love to see these guys
throwing down. I can't wait for more because this weekend is highly
consequential games.
Yeah, they definitely are with how intense a season you were talking about
had been. It only been three weeks for regular season gameplay, but
maybe with intense moments. Jake, last week and we had the draw situation
happening in that disguise versus team liquid magic we saw the reactions from the community like what were
you thinking when you saw this it's it's you know it's brutal it happens overall i mean a tough map
they're gonna be relic right now i mean and the chaos like this you know those are the moments
that kind of stick with you and stay with you as a player so yeah i think the community
reaction pretty pretty spot on you yeah let's blurry but I still I want to know
how you were feeling oh I feel like Kaloosh definitely thought he was like a
pixel off from that point then yeah I mean again when we're watching the main
feed we don't see the C9 we see a vendetta dive into the back fine right
so there's not a lot of plausible that I built it there because Kaloosh is
jumping on to the point in slow time but for me like I was just kind of
blown away by the DPS performance on that map.
They treated it absolutely insane.
The Emory gameplay was disgusting.
In regulation, it was like 39, 16K damage.
Absolutely dominant, really stepped up
to make that series something much more interesting.
Because if not for that Emory gameplay,
I don't think it would have come down
to an overtime situation.
It is tough, but that matchup now,
it kind of shifts us into where we're looking
at the standings, right?
Because everyone expected that game to be
a bit closer than it actually was.
And we brought two teams that are still in that 3-0 position undefeated for SSG and Dallas
but all four of these teams with one win under their belt are still contenders here for playoffs.
Yeah, it's going to come down to the wire, it's going to be very likely down to things
like map deciders.
So you really have to be dialed, you really have to be able to find just a little bit
more in these series.
For space Asian and Dallas, I think they're just hard charging for that number one seed
There's also something to be said for this matchup being one that you expect to see repeated in the playoffs
And you really want to sign a set the tone for this right for either team to achieve a dominant win here
Yeah, it's gonna give them like the plus one minus one standing
But really I think it's about fighting to prove your dominance to show that you are the top team and to kind of
Rattle your opponent going into playoffs
It certainly is a crazy fight for first seed there in the today's first matchup
And then talk a little bit about Ludex versus Liquid later today Mitch
And for Lunex when they qualify for playoffs, it's no big deal for them.
Well, it's a big deal when it comes down to the matchup,
but they don't have to worry about, you know, tomorrow's results.
But if Liquid win later today, they're still alive,
but there's so many other factors that are going to come into play for them to still have a chance.
Literally a multiverse of possibilities if, uh, yeah, that the game sort of goes that way.
Lunex are exciting to me.
We have seen plenty of them in OWC years in the past,
but it feels like this year they're sort of hitting their stride.
I've got a lot of hope for them a really competitive game against the down or still made me think that they've got what it takes
Liquid really have to turn up kalooge has to get settled right he needs to hit the ground running pretty down quick
And of course there were changes to the back line coming into this season
I get it liquid have to get it together because this stage is short
This is their last weekend to prove that they belong at the games that matter
Yeah, you know the pieces need to come together right like as you're saying yes and changes
But for someone like Kaluj, I think this is going to be kind of his meta, with a lot of the Zarya,
D.va being played, the Sigma as well. This is his wheelhouse, and as good as infected is,
and as strong as Liquid look with that lineup. I don't know that this is really the meta,
where you're going to be able to do that beyond maybe a couple maps here or there.
So for Team Liquid, like you said, Reliance, I think, on players like Tree to have huge
games, he's all reliable in that way, but it's not going to be enough.
Blue necks as a entire team, they're firing on all cylinders.
They're hitting their stride.
I think they're going to smell blood in the water
and really come out of the gates swinging on this one.
It's for a certain team liquid.
It's all about proving that they can still
hang with the best here in OWCS.
We're talking about our first matchups
of today between SSG and Dallas Fuel.
Space Station Gaming Mitch has consistently
been looking like there's a best team in the region
right now with the different tapes
that they have on this meta and how
are adjusting to how these styles of other teams are looking.
Yeah, I think like something Christopher mentioned that was an issue for space station last year
was kind of one dimension, but it really mattered they were only able to play a couple of comps
really well. And something I really liked about space station especially after last week
ended up they picked up the vendetta comps. So Hawke can play desire, they have desire
vendetta diable that really works well and they also are the team that put sugar free
on the sim. Definitely one of the most devastating sim players with the coaching
to really back it up in the macro sense so there's two very distinct different looks here for space
station yeah they're going to go for less main tank player out of 14 which is going to be singing a
match up with Kallin but I think they've got what it takes I think they are the top team in an area
yeah I mean from my perspective ultraviolet admiral I think this is kind of like the
unsung heroes of the squad I think this is one of the most stable back lines in the world
easily in North America admiral I think really underrated as a main sport for a long time
and has now been on like very successful teams historically right has been in those incredibly high pressure moments and delivers you're not going to see him going for like the most flashy place typically but the stability is what you want on a top team like space
it's going to be crucial to
get it over the line against
fuel. It's such an interesting
clash heading up against the
Dallas fuel where we talked to
we've and he chatted about how
we the plan for them was to
just take some of the best
players at their individual
roles, bring them together and
create a very unique identity.
You've got insane players
on side of Dallas fuel, and
I think that the stability of
SSG versus this more unique
take on the meta here for
here for DF is going to be such a fun clash to watch. But now heading into predictions here, Mitch,
I think that for me, I actually had to lean still over to the likes of Dallas Fuel. I think
that the unique take that they have is something that they can really take advantage on earlier
into the season. I think if you asked me about this match, maybe later into playoffs,
I would have lean more for SSG, but I think that for DF, is this still a team that a lot
teams are trying to figure out.
TASP is never going to let me hear the end of this, but I have a couple issues with Dallas
Fuel. I think like in terms of the DTS outfit, like we see a lot of these Farah base comps
from them, something that will last that far. I think it's really exportable. They
try to match like Grunasafi. I don't want to see it anymore. This team also plays very
green backlines. Look, Mino goes and does like the RKZ's DTS as Diary in many of these
games, but that's something that is highly exportable to a team that's going to be
as coordinated as SSG. So sorry, Taz. I'll get you a drink next time and catch up, mate, but my
money is going to be on SSG in a clash. Yeah, I have to agree with you, Mitch. I went the same
way. Still, I think fans might underrate the chances for the fuel. I think as your prediction,
for me, I was like, this one is genuinely harder to call than maybe it would have
looked going in because I think some of these unique takes could end up working. You know,
you put like a rind shield in front of chronic and you can just take the game over, right?
A chronic on some of these hard hit scans. I think that'll be the X factor. That being
said all these antics you're talking about you got a player like sugar-free on the tracer in this
matchup and you know like yeah like a lot of you know cheeky plays can work you put them up against
sugar-free and it starts to look a little bit rockier so definitely I had to go SSG but I do
want to see Dallas Fuel make this one close this could be our top two going to playoffs.
This is the most anticipated game for OWCS NA heading into this weekend for the entirety
of regular season of fight for the top seed here heading into the playoffs bracket and we're going to figure out which team is the best in any.
Thank you very much Ash. I can't wait to jump in and I love this straight off the back from Dallas. They want to ban Lucio in that control map. They want to try and force one of those double flex type backlines or just move the game. Jake away from typical Lucio.
carry slow? I think is my mind here is telling me that this is like a way to play Pharah. I think
by banning the Lucio by forcing some of these slower double flex cons it's more possible for
Pharah to like dive on top of those weaker backlines. It's an interesting one though because I
think Lucio has a huge mainstay on this map so it does throw things into contention. Do you go
with like a Juno to replicate the speed? Do you play things a little bit slower? A lot of
options. Lucio ban on control is always a pretty powerful one and space decision gaming,
putting some respect on chronic here taking away one of the scarier hard
hits cans in the game especially on a dynamic map type light control so chronic
he's hovering the ash for now but it's definitely gonna be a lot harder I think
to make work versus Hawks diva then the soldier absolutely so to just be at a
farm so much that damage on the diva again emmer is obviously a reasonable
option lethal is the kind of player though who's actually been the one
that goes to the ash to the cast the on more occasions than not it's
actually shown us a bit of a different hero pool than just sort of being sojourned go to.
So we're gonna see the Cassidy out of the gates here and Sugarfree will be on this
train so off the night market we go folks it is the Dallas Fuel up against space station gaming
fighting for 4-0 and Kellen on the ball one of the only players in NA that's doing this outside
a Cardi fan I guess meets an ignoble in very early. That's a world record speedrun fastest
death at an OWCS match I just it has to be that's truly one of the most immediate kills on
control. Hella's gonna come back on the Winston but there's a lot of control
crisis. Hella here back on the Winston of all things. So again North America is
showing a very different style of tank selection. We've seen an E-M-A so far but
hey I'm not seeing Magnus, I'm not complaining. SSG obviously still has control of the point.
The Asonjun classically on the Farah is trying to probe around that left-hand side.
Lethal though will be on the watch and what a catch on the Farah.
Lastly done, Kronik has to try and coach down the Hawk backwards and he's under
extreme pressure. We're so tuned out of the game, that's the firepower from Dallas neutralized.
Now, what a play from lethal here. Hit the hard flank and the Cassidy finds two kills,
comp is with Hawk there. You know, the Dahlsviel, their comp, it's a lot of poke damage,
it's a lot of opportunities to find those first kills, but when you face a bit of aggression,
you know, you really don't have much control at all to deal with this diva,
to deal with the Juno break. So, it's a quite on a knight's edge here for Dahlsviel. You
cannot get caught on this backline. A Hawkeet sugar free can be a huge threat.
No dude, it's really backlines and maintain picks for Dallas Fuel. Really feel like it
characterizes this team. Space station with a stable robust backline here are pretty hard to
topple from their perch. Already after 50% now heading into this next fight and yes,
there's going to be a nanobuse available, presumably for Kellan here, but you really
need to be able to manufacture more than just openings. That's ultra vital though going down.
That's without assistance of CJ. So Dallas have managed to find a way in and CJ never had
That's a nano.
That's actually a massive fight.
This is the dream.
This is the theory of why you play this comp is that you're looking for these fight wins
with minimal commitment.
Hawk is going to catch a very late spawn wave so it's going to give Fuel complete time to
take the entire map.
And when you pick this comp you are very ready to defend the point, right?
Like retaking is always going to be hard but holding on to it in theory should be
your strength.
So now, challenge for SSG, how do you break this setup?
Dallas Fuel have all the positions they could want.
I mean, they have captive Sun to play into the choke alongside Bob.
So a ton of tools here for Dalla, certainly not to mention that barrage is in play.
It's going to be early picks for space station gaming or build into this orbital ray and make good use of it.
Already there's some nice pressure up on that high ground.
Chronic's the one that gets nanos here and no one from space station is really looking that far across the map right now.
So that's an option to kind of go by the wayside.
Dalla Sondra wants to have an opportunity to use this barrage and a point-blank gives Flatten to Admiral before the orbital ray can catch up with the brig.
Nice moment, but it's going to take more than that.
Now Hawks going to get his hands dirty.
Lethal does get affected by the captive stun, and Kellan draws drop low, it's not a fight you want to take at length against this fever.
Behind all of this, there's a flip back. Admiral healthy enough, Ultravader in the frame now, and CJ is flattened.
Cronk though still in the position of a pressure on, and Hawk may have to make use of this remake here to keep the contest for the capture going.
That's hell of a fight from Hawk, absolute raid boss, but eventually under the weight of these ults, he does go down, that being said,
At most, back in here with the rally, there could be more fight to play.
Kellen, it's time to really go for the Primal here. Looks like he's gonna...
People in danger yet to learn that Mega-Hellpack apparently not quite close stuff, they need to slow it up.
What we don't see, what's hard to find in that fight is a bot gets used on the point there via Chronic.
It forced a space station to fight out in the open, which then lets Kellen start to play into them with that Primal.
That's every ult, though, out of the tank, therefore, I feel it.
It took everything to hold on to this point, but we're coming in on what could be very well the final fight.
SSG with a couple of DPS ults, but far from reliable for the kills, especially on this
retake CJ, 80 to nano. That's going to be the percent to lot. Lot of damage being made
on SSG already.
They had to group up to play around this Juno Brick setup. That makes them susceptible
to the dynamite. Great catch for Chronic there, and then sugar-free splat and as he
approaches the point now, the balance of power well and truly has shifted. Dallas
hold all the cards and a Bionate at least allows CJ to get one from the grave.
Kellen will collapse so lethal who is unfeelable and our space station are forced into school protocols.
They get a touchy, Sugafree's able to get their Admiral returning on the Jetpack tag, and Quarney does get pulsed,
and then he might have found a way into the space station.
That's a huge kill to find. You do still have Nano coming back in 20% of the retakes,
so Dall's crew are going to lick their ruins, take the quick reset.
You do have Nano Barrage to work with. You might have Nanoing just onto the Winston here.
And with the Jetpack tag, the comp's getting a little bit wonky.
We could have carried High Noon here in the fight if you want to go for it.
Looks like they are.
Bit of a twilight, so here we go!
It looked me, though, snapped up quickly, but it's gonna be an exchange of support straight away.
An ultraviolet won't have that open array in time, most likely.
Still, SSG back to the point care of Admiral Ferring, lethal into the action.
Dallas still has to take a beat you for whatever reason!
And no touch possible!
Kellan returns back, and maybe...
just some wires get crossed there as the field look like they're in a position to contest.
That's gonna be a painful one.
You know fuel did so much work to win that round and I mean if you check the kill score
This one does not look good for SSG, but they they brawl it out
They end up just getting enough controls getting enough point flips up
You look think back to that like first death from Kellin giving some control to SSG kind of comes down to a tiny little mistake like that
That ends up being really decisive and now you get onto a map that's much more close quarters
And what will feel try to go with I don't know that that same kind of style is gonna work
but maybe this Wu Yang and Kiri could be a little bit more flexible.
It's oppressive, I think, when you have point control,
because that long sight line really plays into Wu Yang,
it's in super charge.
He is healing when you've got the correct perk selection.
See if this remains to the case.
Lethal's still in the casting.
It's obviously problematic for Kellan,
if his bang of high mobility tank falls certainly,
falls out of that category.
Luthal's got clapped,
and then Lethal just swung around the corner
and ripped his head clean off,
and that is a false start here for Dallas,
which will let SSG just move up and cap.
map. There's a tough map to be playing, will ya, God. You don't really have any speed tools
and the Juno speed ring, five man running down is gonna be coming for you every single
fight. That said, though, Chronic, find Sugarfree out of nowhere and there's a chance into
this fight, but you still get it, that's the point. It's not easy to even let the
player make it.
Right, credit to the guys. Found some unreal openings over the course of these last
couple of minutes. He played essentially solo out towards the edge of the map and ripped
Sugarfree a new one. He switched over to the Genji, by the way. It's Genji
Cassidy here for SSG. They've been forced off the point, though. In fact, they
already controlled it. Dallas gets first touch illegal, is down early. What are you feeling that sort
of, I don't know, how can mobility come back to bite him somewhat? Chugga-free on the genji, hoping
to remediate that to some degree, but again, won't have anything to really supercharge his blades
with this composition. Yeah, Dallas fuel with a little bit of space to work with, they got to
keep this pressure on constantly. You let SSG find the window to get aggressive and
things could be rough, but if they're constantly on the back foot, the brig
isn't gonna feel very impactful. Dallas will try to put out as much poke as they can for
for the walk up SSG close to a high noon nothing else really coming up on the
cards and you do have that title blast available in just a few moments here so
lethal absolute normative position you gotta walk up through this entire
bandwidth yeah against all this poke and there's a lot of it with between the
ash and his wooyoung this need to buy a little bit of space like this so at least
space station back on the point remember they're fighting a compact
death ball start a composition they need to be together walks over to at least
negate that pulse from there that's on your attempt to throw in lethal
Directly means that I've got a right, you're playing this and you're sorted.
Coddeck knocked into the air, caught out.
Some shielding of course, Barrier headed over here by Kelan.
CJ also still holding on to that Katsune rush for a later date.
Bowskill are going to allow this one to be flipped back, but they will get some extra stall.
And the mines were thrown down to the point in our veil.
Bitch, Sanjiu went off. I think he thought that the fight was over and Luke came up from two.
This actually could be a retake with the mines on point.
I thought the fight was over as well! Luke found massive picks here and now he's having to walk in through main.
Ultrabidic here will try and sit behind Hawken keeping standing, but Space Station is trying to buy time for the rest of the team to come back in.
And Ultrabidic won't be given that breathing room. Now over to Coach Lethal is going to be flattened here as again.
Ignore Hawken roll straight on through Dallas. Have really had to handle the reins before out.
Yeah, the absolute resurgence. It's going to be up to Admiral at the rally to make a big impact in this coming team fight.
Yasuo with nothing left in the tank, they're gonna have to go for something wildly aggressive
if they want a chance to win this, you're gonna need to burst down the brig.
But is that realistic?
It's gonna go for it, but just mostly harassment for now, trying to get some of these ults out of the locker.
Good backline damage though.
Ultramar has switched over towards the iron, hopes that eventually there's a nano to be built here.
It's still that same, same mobility pressure on your backline.
It's gonna be a factor!
Kelen gonna be bashed up, though. Shield bashed by the brig, and held in place long enough at lethal to fight enough damage off that dead eye and finish.
So now SSG, they might actually get to see a nano blade come through. If by the point back here,
the Dallas come in with a tidal blast which is going to add to the disruptive potential
of Kallen or give Sondren a little bit of extra buffer.
I don't know how Ultra Vowels was supposed to survive this. It's going to be really rough.
The tidal blast is going to be devastating on him with really no cool to deal with it.
A loop back to the freight door makes it a little bit awkward. Looks like G-Fo instead is
going to be the one to take the eye. If the blade though, sugar free is going to go for it.
No tiny bit of nano. He says I've got to make the place here and so he does
So I'm gonna look me know we're gonna be dealt with in just around a quarter was chronic
No time to deflect though. Kellen is there. That's the Genji out of the game
But space station still have control the Suzy was gonna help chronic
Protecting rather from a long walk up short ledge and Hawke is gonna be able to get that environmental kill that
Will keep space station in the game and now this nano to potentially go and back Hawker
Daniel could be nice, but I mean mines you've got rush on point blade Bob
This is gonna be a big dump for Dallas for SSG have a tough one big mine early on point
Jones gonna start pushing the split trigger three already fights again G though huge opener in the asphalt as well sick
Susan used early that meant the bio-nade that could come in from ultra by they can't be mitigated
That is massive ultra by disabled a hit look minnow and get the brig out of the game
That is a massive moment sugar free in the previous fight looks to just make the play with the blade unassisted gets two kills
This time he goes in, he gets it early, sues him out and it's just as effective, Jake.
Massive play from Sugarfree to keep the team alive.
Fuel though, they've got more to say about this, coming back in, but Admiral 76 to rally.
He just needs to survive, build that ultimate, and this one's gonna be pretty much done, it does.
And Hark already deep into the back, I'll put some pressure on, but Sargeant might be finding something.
I know there's not a lot to be seen here, yes, he gets rid of Sugarfree,
but then I am playful, lethal, buys him into space.
Will Callow loot me? No, is it another massive biodec?
Ultrovilot comes in from Ultrovilot,
Hawke, healthy enough, has a remake opportunity if he needs it and Sonjin is probing searching for an easy target.
But Ultrovilot is anything but, Sonjin is going to be forced out of the fight and kill and is low.
Doesn't have to pack to get him topped up and Franklin is no way back in for Dallas.
Now we're pod racing baby.
Actual sick couple rounds here but Space Station recover after a slow start on Control Center.
This is just SSG, share of force of will.
I mean the Dallas School strats, you know,
Like you really like these make you want to believe right they keep finding these chances
Finding a win condition in the round and then SSG some pure mechanical skill round two sugar free man taking over
And they just bully their way back in from really rough spots
Like I want to emphasize trying to do these like run up plays is really difficult
The sugar free isn't finding some of those instant burst kills on those teamfights these go very very differently
So despite all the pressure fuel put down in the end they're left with a 2o defeat
So I don't think it's gonna break their mental. They're clearly really competitive in this series so far
But that's gonna be a bitter pillow swallow to open the series. Absolutely not gonna be happy with that
Especially after the slow start frankly that sugar free had on night market
It's not able to get a lot generated as that tracer
And it's kind of a weird end of the map really it just so ends up there's not a real proper opportunity for a contest
This is that we have a jet pack that switch in that last flight
We thought things were gonna go south very quickly, but it stayed interesting. I'll give you the big tip
That's the first pick on Lukmina at the start of this map.
And you can see here just how nasty, like you mentioned,
it is to walk up into this pod cover from Dallas Fuel.
We've seen dead eyes from lethal just to try and make space
to get up onto the point to buy a bit of breathing room.
This is very high-temperal overwatch,
especially when you start getting Genji's involved.
Yeah, the Genji swap, interesting choice here,
but it proves to be exactly what the team needed, right?
Just a little bit more frontline damage to follow up
with the D.Va, you know, get through these break shields,
keep those fights going,
to be able to take the nano with no ulti, you know, I think it's a really key factor
in some of those final moments there in control center. But, you know, I now, I, I, the exciting
thing though is for, to see Dallas feel gets a map picks, I'm not too mad at this, right?
I think they're a team that, you know, when you're, when you've got some cheeky
strats, when you've got a deep book that maybe the other team's not ready for, having
the map pick is a really powerful tool. It lets you kind of take the series exactly
where you've planned to go. So I'm expecting to see things get a little bit closer
as things progress.
We get watchpoint to Brawl to say that they just snap pick this one, I think, uh, against
Linux here just to try to force that like main tank gameplay.
Linux actually had to make a substitution here.
So, uh, that is, uh, would have been nice to see, but Suravasa is actually going to
be the pick instead here from Dallas.
He'll now look, they're no stranger to banning Lucio in control.
A lot of teams do it.
Dallas did it themselves last week.
So I wouldn't be too concerned about, okay, I just talked about how these
backlines line up because if anybody I think can make out Lucio, this
backfliming world, it is the fuel.
So, Revaso though is going to be the kind of map though
where you're thinking much more about Lucian Kirigino,
you want to play with his more compact styles.
This might be where someone like Falk has an opportunity
to try it a little bit more.
Do we get the Zarya Vendetta that we're seeing so much of
over the last couple of weeks?
We did not get a glimpse of it so far in this series.
Yeah, that's going to be an interesting one
because it could be a bellwether comp.
I'd say that's probably the top meta comp right now
is the Zarya the Vendetta played typically
with the Emory, sometimes with another hitscan option,
and then something like a Lucio carry in the back line.
I mean, it's your bread and butter right now in the meta.
It's what you've got to think and expect really easily
on a map like Cervosa, which I think is among the best for it.
So did Dallas want to throw a ban,
throw a wrench into the works,
and maybe take this to a meta
that they're a little bit more prepared for,
or do they just want to go heads up, right?
Like bring us to a Vendetta match,
maybe even ban a TPS to protect the Vendetta
to go that way.
So, it's an interesting question.
I can't imagine you really be excited to face the vendetta,
but I think that's the way we're going with these bands.
I like this. This is super heads up.
Obviously, Sontred is a prolific Pharah player.
In maps where Pharah is banned,
sometimes we see the Echo still being picked up by them.
This is the kind of map where you certainly
can make some of those heroes work
because obviously these sight lines are not that long.
They're quite confined.
You can play around, cover a fair bit.
But if I'm Dallas, it sucks that I'm already mapped out.
But getting the fire band out of the way now feels at least like the back half of the series.
You can try and exploit that at least, you know, try and get him out the map number three,
where she is, you know, really oppressive and maybe you even expect a fire band coming at you here.
Give a band away from Hawkeye.
So that is obviously one of Hawke's best, but I think that SSG will probably happily, Jake,
hopped into the desired company we have seen from these guys already.
Alright, I'm gonna say something and I just, I wanted to keep it up with mine, Mitch.
Okay.
What about a little Ryne?
What about a little bit of Ryne?
Okay.
Honestly, into the Zarya?
Into the threat of Zarya?
I think it's good against Midana.
I think it's good against Zarya.
So I actually, you know, I watched,
I think they played this on Atlas.
They played like a very classic Ryne comp,
like Ryne back Lucio.
You know, I think it was Cassidy Tracer on top.
I think you can get a little bit flexible with the DPS picks,
but you know, you've got a very strong Batiste player.
You really can pump a lot of damage from behind that Rine Shield, and Zarya can struggle in that matchup.
It's just a little bit too much HP to get through on the Shield when a hit scan is just like dumping headshots into you.
But that's a bit of a cook. Maybe they'll just go for the straight-up mirror match here.
Still, I'd like to see Dallas stay with this idea of being a team that wants to go away from the meta,
that wants to set your own pace and be like a challenging team to prepare for.
So I think this could be a way to do it.
They're definitely gonna cook something up here. I just I just don't see them taking the Zarya the like the straight-up Zarya battle mirror
Against SSG. I think that's just way too comfortable for them. Absolutely. Also with one out if we dig its eye in Orion
There's I a major perk energy Lance is actually pretty important in that matchup, especially given how people can group so
You know that can absolutely play a part here
We have even commonly seen Sigma on this map. It's actually not as crazy as it might seem
Sigma still has that potential to play through those jokes and you know have great AOE potential from those hyperspheres
So we are gonna see that now what's crucial in this matchup is the stopping power of accretion kelin must be taken to geology class early and often
Yeah, Sigma so strong on this first point
I kind of doubt he'll keep it for much more the rest of the map
But on the opening point using the TP coordination is solid and see Dallas feel just trying to work their way and trying to find some angles
but they know you, there's some aggression against Lucio's very real.
I like the Symmetra here as well, it gives this slightly more standard composition of space station than extra teams of mobility
and the ability to set up those little quick trick plays or trap plays
with the SSG is certainly going to be there, they've really practiced a lot of that gimmicky
Symmetra approach such that they're the best in this region
and it's something on the echo, so obviously some great 50k targets getting a free Sigma
could be pretty massive when that Gravitic flux is quite a showstopper in terms of its destructive potential
But SSG, on virtue probably of the Sigma composition, do start with priority. They're up to 33%.
Yeah, typically I'd be more worried for a team, but actually I think this is Dallas Fuel's game plan.
Play things slow, farm with the Ultimates. They already find the opener on the Hawk.
That's a massive vine by Chronic, and SSG without the tank front-line, I think this pump really falls apart.
Yeah, I mean, it doesn't do anything.
Uh, the sim needs shield, otherwise you're just getting it to the front line.
Kelen has a pretty effective laser, uh, when it comes to trying to work down those front-liners, they're a little bit squishy.
So SSG now need to on this approach find some great poke damage and it can be tricky to line up guaranteed kills with this
Railgun from lethal unless you're like rock or getting massive bursts of damage
How do they get this cop into an advantageous spot?
Cosim you normally think of keeping forward and trying to brawl and get behind but you know
We have a poke tank with a sojourn here the space station have to find some nice
Potentially CPS take or maybe just get high ground control
I think you need to kite this Winston and the nano Winston is gonna come down like a ton of bricks as you know it
Look on the clock. You see they're walking up. You've got to force something down
So you're working to give you a full free TV for the sugar free to be aggressive. They're gonna go in
I do the high ground control they're looking for in the in space station game
And that sound barriers all but expired
It's given them enough rope to take chronic down kill and flashing
He was caught in the mix and so SHG with a quick thrust they make this seek much
wall composition, walk out for this free take, and now after 80% if there's a stack of hero
on Sonshin there's no chance for Dallas to potentially touch.
Lekil doesn't want to over ascend but I think he's done enough here to make this a tight one.
Yeah, great play. Instead of focusing the Winston, it would have been just unkillable
with that nano. They just go all the way in past the backline,
full commit with the B, and just pick off some of these low mobility supports
before the fight can begin. Lekil potentially on the Kennel,
and no, the support is good, it's going to get him out, but they might brawl
the points here. Yeah, I mean Captain Sun at the ready, look my try and capitalize on this slight
disarray here. Let's pull this down, caught by CJ before we could get out, but it's traded
instantly with the honor that has fallen for the Dallas Fuel. Kellen is low, those cards are
a little bit concerning. This is going to slow things up massively. Yeah, it's going to be
awkward. SSG, ooh, Lethal is found on the rotate, big catch from Chronic again,
who's just been crucial for these Dallas Fuel Pumps, finding his hits can picks,
Making something happen, I'm just gonna go with the blitz here and I've ruined it, it's cute by the way.
I love that, the captain's starting to get a bit of air from Luke and he's actually turned it into some offensive potential.
He dumps it straight on space station gaming and in a very awkward fighting retreat between both teams,
SSG come up second best and can see the point of delos.
The challenge now is just walking up, I mean look how deep Saunjan is, he is like all the
way on the next capture point, although you might get punished for this, but you don't
want to be chasing an Echo down, it's just not what your mom does on SSG, it's giving
Saunjan a lot of space and time, you just work in the image on his back, my cleanse
already is out, so to be vulnerable, you'll have lost a lot of time, you'll have to
kill him with a climb, you'll have to turn this far out.
Right, he's in all in play now as well, so kill him, doesn't have a ton of backup
he wants to go deep, but he can certainly handle himself in a pinch, sort of focusing
being come down as well in the direction of Horky. He's very low but lethal. He's having
a benefit greatly now from the choke that Sojin has caught in, plus of course that symbol in play.
Now there's a bubble on the point though. Kellyn's gonna make a little bit of space here. Hork slept
briefly now as in a bit of an awkward spot. He's on his own in an overclock. Comes up for Sojin.
Just get value off this dupe of the Sojin. And Hork is essentially alone here. That's an
admiral sound barrier committed to the fight and it's a bit of a flop for SSG after only a small
bit of percentage snatched back.
Dad, you saw on that first point how crucial the sound barrier is to this game plan, right?
Against Fuel, it's one of your biggest weaknesses on Ellari, where essentially all you have
is damage, right?
You can just get completely run down by the beat.
Now, SSG are gonna have to kind of do it the honest way, find the way through and
look at that.
And Rascal to the choke point.
Nano Winston as well.
He's even through to the point, but this one does look scary.
Got a respect from Kellen.
He knows he's nanoed and still doesn't overcommit.
There's so much damage available to SSG there, especially with the Cassidy.
that Kitsune rush and I love the kiting here from the fuel. They bait a lot out from space station
with Kellen sent in their lit up like a Christmas tree. Now Dallas can come back in maybe run this
captive son. Luke Minas looking for an angle. Okay nice little catch at least onto two players.
They've been hit by the debuff but Dallas is a little bit lower at the start of this fight.
Space station flip back so there is 68% in counting. There's a grovillian flux
so at risk of walking into if Dallas aren't careful. Big kill by UV under CJ. It's going to
to take out most of the sustain from this dual comp. They need to find a kill
and fast because SSG capping, getting this control up. You will just like to go for
the full back here, they know, anywhere out the honor is incredibly difficult.
Songjin finds lethal though, probably the best skill you can find and instantly goes to the point of the comp.
Very flux. Songjin gonna be prevented from getting too much free ult charge.
Here is this new Sigma. Nice shield thrown in the way.
And that's gonna block Hawks of creation. Off to the side. It's a very pasty off angle for
Chronic to be in and Hawk has to try and just scare him away by rattling the saver.
Good shield dancers here as well, Hawks able to avoid that accretion coming through, but the focusing being is not the sort of thing you can so easily avoid.
Now SSG forced into stall, but they built a sound barrier for this next fight.
Oh, it could be competitive here, and Lethal back on the tracer, he's gonna continue fighting this, we're not gonna have to...
...they'll kill...
...on the loop, you know, it's so close, but the way to the top will probably gonna be just too much.
Oh man, UV, not in a position to ult this, I mean, you don't have much time at all, Jake.
The setup here is already coming in for Luke Mino, Tarot's on the point, but you've got both support ult'ing for SSG, you need a touch.
And the Doomfist gets it done. Soundbarry replied to Ford, it's going to have to be in our spot.
Space Station have to fight off the point.
They can a bit first and then they can push off, but this is clever from Kellan. He keeps contested.
Space Station can't fully leave the point in numbers. Now it gets awkward.
Who goes forward and who stays? That's the question.
Hawks going to be slapped up and there comes the Captain Sam dropped on the head of Sugarfree.
The follow up was certainly there. Chronic finds a key hit here.
Dallas, this is a messy fight. Hawks are going to find a quick double, but there's no touch.
And now we are one apiece in this Flashpoint map.
I had to come back on the Doomfist just to get into the fight, but the comp kind of falls apart right like the tracer or the sim
You know, it just doesn't fit quite as well
Recognizing the need I think to get really aggressive to punish CJ and Luke, you know
I'm getting so much done for Dallas from the back. I was gonna go over the Eressa, double down on these places. I see some very fast fights in the TV.
Okay, so now you've got someone with a little bit more
Displacement and also the ability to mitigate some of these crowd control effects like CJ is doling up on mass
Here we go. Push on to the point now.
We barely knew you.
SIST still exists.
The space station quickly swing with that speed boost from Admiral.
And that's the game style they're going to have to do here to here.
They need to run Dallas over.
And Orisa enables that even more than the Cicle Combat.
I have chronic on the Soldier, man.
You see why SSG had to ban that out in map 1.
It's a massive threat.
Fighting that late kill on the lethal means you can kind of walk up for free here for fuel,
which is really worth its weight in gold,
Sgt. with the copy which will go deep.
Ari has huge damage on the Sgt. McClendon.
Just enough to save him.
Hey, copied horse.
Sgt. trying to send Hawke instead off to the glue factory.
Wants to play around the center of the map here.
Going to get and mitigate some of this damage.
Coming in.
Primal Rage here for Kellan.
Helping it up.
Leafle's sugar free.
Very, very low.
Deathly Hawke trying to disrupt them here.
But Sgt. got a 3-terra surgeon.
Chronic is going to clean them up.
A great start here for the Dallas Fuel.
But it's only a start for them.
The space station are already at 50%.
And what a feed from chronic
Four kills in the fight, but SSG they've done good work so far at the point, right?
They're coming back into this with three major ultimates coming up soon high noon
Actually, I think pretty great in this comp against the Winston who really does struggle sometimes
Dealing with hard committing into that ultimate got a lot of poke
You got the honesty to maybe outplay it but SSG are just threatening always looking for the chance to brawl
Sontra man has been massive in this game so far over 9k damage and a big dupe of the
Orisa that gave a free Terra Surge in the previous fight.
Keep your eyes on him now, he's without ultimobility still looking nasty.
Here's the Katsune Russian space station gaming, Dallas feel wisely disengaged away from it,
leaving a Vyda grenade in their wake.
No need to follow up on it, but it does draw the suju out of ultra-vyda regardless.
Space station are trying to get some value here, they're trying to find someone to catch out,
and yes, they find Kelin up on that high ground.
This will further delay Dallas from coming back,
and Jake with space station already getting to 50 in that first fight.
This sets him up nicely.
What a nasty 2 tap from Leethal. That should just end the point outright.
Dallas Fuel desperate now trying to find some way back into it.
And Leethal just running them down, man. This is on the loose here.
You see why they trust this guy to take over on the Cassidy.
Hi, Nude. Knows there's not really enough to deal with them.
Has a big channel on the feed as well from Admiral.
I think a bit of a mistake to commit that one.
But it's going to get them the second point regardless.
Honestly, I think the Tiltor is to switch is very nice.
From Hawk. I am happy with it.
You mentioned, Jake, that we'd less likely to see Sigma pass that first part of the map here.
Space Station got the value they wanted. Now they're playing the full role comp.
Really run you over type look. And for Dallas, it's been tough.
Kellen cannot linger too long, really in front of any of these people.
You get grenade, you hint it up, you get hit with a javelin.
There's so many things that can make it hard for Kellen to get where he needs to go.
And now, Lethal has started to punish Sonjun as soon as he shows himself.
Early nano on Kellen. This one's going to be tough to get value from.
He's connecting onto the Cassie, but the support is good.
SSG stays alive with, you know, trying to battle back and keep this one going.
And maybe the Winston had taken up just enough resources to do it.
Now, beautifully done.
Captain Sun, of course, followed up on a nicely dares, sugar-free,
is going to be squishy on his very best day.
But that is a lot spent by Dallas Hill.
And they can still find one off the backside.
It's going to be traded.
So won't be a consequence.
But that is the Captain Sun and Nanoboost drawn out.
Dallas Hill, though, still have great
Spacemaking ability in this next fight, Drake. They've got Primal. They've also got the ability to copy the Orisa again.
Yeah, Copy could be big here. That being said, SSG's cop has a very strong ability to get through heavy health parts.
So like, even the Primal, even the copy of the Orisa, you won't necessarily survive easily.
Hey, Kaling gets knocked away straight away. It's gonna be similar to how it's gonna fall.
Chronic, they've come forth with what? Emerald! Absolutely dominated!
Chronic steps up and steps in with this huge overclock and he's found two already.
He still had to navigate this pesky sim wall, but it's almost like it's not bothered him whatsoever.
This will allow Dallas to potentially now have a last fight here to take us to a time break of Flashpoint.
Cronin, man, just taking over the lobby right now, fully parked up on the Sojourn.
Hock, thinking about his swap here if he considers the mahogany,
goes over to the Doomfist, maybe just wants to get on top of the Sojourn,
but the comms definitely gonna get weird here, so I don't really know how's he gonna make this sim work.
Okay, back on the Doomfist for Hawke.
walking in work on the previous point and frankly, it's even worse here, never really got a touch.
That's slightly disruptive here for SSG, not the end of the world.
This bit of a kill and also may not be consequential.
Last time we saw a transition across the map to a flashpoint, those things got a bit weird and they aren't right now.
Half of Space Station here trying to protect one another, but the TPs from Lenny should theoretically get him out of safety.
Some of these late deaths mean that the timer between points is actually going to take pretty quickly,
So if you're gonna have less time to set up than they would like, which is quite the
mood for SSG, that being said, boy, they're going for it.
Oh, that's a little bit wild.
But I guess points don't open yet.
So you might as well take a risk.
Nano is going to be big this fight, though.
The Margaret Trap play was devious.
Space Station, he'd only have the side of that choke there and
we're hoping to kind of pick on Dallas.
But again, the cop is so immobile.
If this backline for Dallas gets stopped, Jake, they're absolutely
cool. It's curtains.
Admiral has a sound barrier.
His last one is perhaps a bit preemptive, a bit wishful.
That's a nice fire, and Avery's gonna be cleansed off instantly by that Suzy. Space Station, what a fight, and they are not taking no for an answer.
Look me in the eye, guess what they're trying to get out of the way, but Hawk and Lethal do not give him the option.
That's an SSJ, double at least. It should be here, as Dallas are really just falling back, trying to negotiate from a position of power.
What? Oh, the client finds the kill, but Lethal trades it right back. It's not gonna be an easy one to finish.
The big buyer, though. Make no mistake, the sim out of the picture is monumental.
The space station still had the firepower to fight back, and now they come to the next fight with that Zimbal available.
CJ down, Admiral is just far too fast for him to handle, and it's a tough job to keep Kellen in this game, especially with Luke Mino.
Has to do it alone right now.
Luke, looking for a kill here.
Any pick would be massive, putting a lot of damage and a force of sugar for his hand here commits.
The Zimbal wants to keep this fight going, and no one can really stand to go to the toe here, with Hark of the Zimbal in tow, so SSG getting close to that 99 cap fuel need to find the way back in and soon.
Getting dangerous before Dallas. This is the map now that hangs in the balance. This copy is going to have to be
something generational.
Here they come. Dallas still have to step up and say, uh,
I'm going to just rock the shop here. The back line is a bit awkward for a space station and an avagame.
But yeah, Sons of the good for the right copier.
I hit the malware after some damage is done.
Ball's going to dash back across the point. He gets the final rage out of Cannibal.
I'm going to be getting knocked down. He's so low already.
Link will go false for the overclocked. Chronic now trying to fend off Avril. But he can't do it!
What a map!
That is insane!
Spacestation gaming through that last fight absolutely throw themselves at Dallas Steel and they edge out of doubt
God these these kids are so close and in the end as it does subtle
You're like oh ssg up to oh that the favorite of the series
You know if you were just checking the score line the box score
You would be completely misled because I still feel like there's so much fight in Dallas fuel
It's just like the raw competency of SSG to find these I mean again look at the stats
You didn't know who won you would guess it. It's the Dallas fuel ultimately
It's just SSG's ability to get these point controls to flip constantly through
Contested fights even when they lose that puts them in position to get the win dude actually six series so far genuinely
And it's close the games have been so competitive look at look me know
Masturating as a third of DPS here for the Dallas fuel
But there comes a cost for this only three deaths on the allows a look at a blame for sort of feeding at all
But it is a backline that's greedy. It is a backline that can be exploited to some degree and when you have Suzu to cleanse off every
Bionate it's hard for CJ to make them impactful
Yeah, I mean it's just you know these these grouped up death balls right played at this level are so hard to beat the style
The fuel is going for is incredibly hard to execute successfully
You essentially need to be making plays to win fights. You have a comp that's set up to make plays
you got more playmakers right to your point about the ERE, but you know, it's just hard to match up against a team like SSG
Finding the windows with the sim just absolutely run you down
You know like a mechanically weaker player than hawk not finding some of these kills in those exchanges
This is just Dallas fuels game and you can say that for pretty much all the players on SSG
They all need to step up find these individual moments to shut down flankers or this game would easily be pulling away against them
But as they said, they're up 2-0 playing with the house cash fuel one more map pick and it from there
It's gonna need to be winning against the SSG picks if they want to make the reverse sweet
Yeah, and I'm wondering what they're supposed to go to here
I think that you probably are trying to choose a battlefield that really suits this Winston style comp and as a reason
It's not meta right now. There are not a lot of maps that cater to that style
I'm gonna invoke the hallowed name of watch point to brought to yet again because you might be looking check for one
those pure dive maps but here's the problem your diva band has been made
yourself so you can see like hawk is still able to play a high mobility front
liner and on a map like Gibraltar she's entirely valid like then you're pitting
yourself against all sorts of stuff out of you know these SSG guys who have
to play live in dead as I you look at either they've been on tracer and sim
for sugarfree so far but there's so many other hit scan based options if we go
to sort of a longer map there's no guarantee Dallas are gonna be
fighting them. Yeah, I mean, you got to start with one, right? You got to find your way back
into the series, get your feet under you. It's been so competitive and they're going
to go to Blizzard World, which I think actually makes a ton of sense for the style they want
to play and expect to see something like the Caricoband here. It's just a very powerful
tool against the Oniari that I think that Valstow will want to continue to run on
a map like Blizzard World. But from there, it's like, I get, I'm getting worried when
I'm starting to think about how you win once SSG has map fits right like they put themselves in such a dominant position to finish the series
Dallas it's gonna take nothing less than just paroics to get through some really challenging maps to come and they do open the queue
Yeah, okay, so this is well. I'm very much looking forward to this
I think that's something that caught me by surprise was watching him play Sigma on this map
It's not something you normally associate in with but it is something that you can play with that limitation
you on defense have the ability to traverse the map a little bit more comfortably feel like you don't always get caught outside the plate
Obviously tell them breaking ball is still going to be entirely relevant here
That's something that you can roll out that carry that obviously is going to neutralize the
Luccio carry potential but there's always a flex into the Juno direction if you want to go that way and if you're Dallas you want
Non-conventional back lines you want non-conventional support pairings because that's where you shine
So continue to disrupt a status quo with the support hero bands
either Velucio or the Kiri, and ideally Proflet.
Yeah, it's a good point about the Sigma, actually.
I think that's going to be a hero
that Fuel will need to have in their toolbox,
because for a lot of these comps you're playing with,
Fuel, like, yes, you're playing a dive tank,
but if you look at the other four heroes,
it really does play like a poke comp.
Ultimately, the Winston is there.
He can be strong with Nano and strong with Primal.
Otherwise, he's mostly there to harass,
mostly there to make space,
create little opportunities, small, minor commitments.
And as a sheer, actually just going to ban it out.
They do not want to deal with the Winston.
I'm a little surprised by this ban.
I would have expected maybe the Wrecking Ball
to be a more likely choice to ban out,
but maybe they know something I don't
as far as what they're actually worried about
in the matchup, or maybe it comes down to the supports
they actually want to run.
And at the same time, with no carry to cleanse,
Nades, like, my own Nade and a Winston dive,
there's a reason, Mitch,
that that was a hard meta for a few years.
Can we get Ana?
Ana, you are here.
I mean, again, we see if that's a cheap,
Sorry, if that is played Wrecking Ball based comps, they play a ton of heroes that are very good at just in-sic-killing people that get knocked up.
So it's like Iliari, it's Sojourn, or it's any of those long-range hitscans you want to try and basically guarantee that a pile-driven target is dead before they hit the ground.
A Chirica van to me is so, it's very telegraphed here.
SSD do need to be ready for that Arna kind of pain.
the side if they still want to opt into like that Lucio based gameplay and want to continue
to try and brawl or have that sort of level of up tempo approach to the game like we saw
on the previous one, which stood them in good stead on Suravasa. Make no mistake, them being
able to play off these swings, off these Lucio speed boosts, I think was pretty
instrumental to them finding success on the map even if it was close.
Yeah, for Dallas, I kind of want to see them play the same thing here. You know,
I think the wrecking ball as dangerous as it can be on a map with such wide sight lines like this
There's also the threat of just as we saw a couple times in the fast, right?
You get caught by the wrong cc chain
Team at this level are so good at punishing you for that one little mistake whoever finds that first little catch on you
Easily at snowballs out of control
So tell it to open with the sigma and I think for the first point defense
I really like this style. I think the rest of the team is gonna be able to play to their strengths
She's got chronic Lucnino and CJ who've all been finding so much on their rolls
Sonja to make a bit of space on the tracer and breaking through the front-line Sigma is
Incredibly difficult when you're just being harassed from all angles like the way this comp does
Obviously, we will get the jetpack cat would I make a one-two punch out of the gates here for SSD?
I do like the evolution of this
From just a widow grappling yourself up to then the widow on the petal now to the jetpack cat combo
This is one aspect of the meta, bitch, that has not changed in 10 years.
People still go for this, and it still works like 1 in 10 or 20 times.
I think 1 in 10 is generous.
Like, truly, it almost never works.
People are so ready for it.
When the opportunity cost is basically zero, it's obvious.
You've got to try it.
I respect it.
Now, let's start our playing, Ana, ERO, backline with the Sigma.
So we basically called that.
Pat in the back for me and Jake.
Thank you.
have access to that diva there once more, leave it on the emerald, definitely something worth looking out for here.
And of course in Lua of Kiriko, they will get an honor alongside Sugar-Free on this Genji, so that's gonna be fun there.
I'm gonna try and push in, I'm just surprised we've seen zero Zyra or Vendetta today from these guys.
They've completely gone off of it after last week saying it was a big part of their revolution and adding that comp to their repertoire.
I think it's smart, I think the fuels comps would just crush some of these like more swarmy brawls styles.
I think the Genji actually is going to be incredibly focused in this matchup, there's really not much to do with him.
Rock only.
Bammeral, sort of playing yourself in the back line, getting cut down still.
It's never too new for Hawk to find a kill.
Yeah, Hawk is always going to find Luke Minow, felt deterministic there at some point and trigger free.
He's found CJ, this is a nice start here from SSG.
Again, it's a bit tough, you've got to find your way in carefully.
There's a lot of poke damage with long sightlines that Dallas can lay you low before you can get close enough and then strike in distance.
The staggered push here is space station Daniel, the stop to heal up is pretty big.
NICE!
OH!
OH!
OH!
OH!
OKAY!
SOMETHING!
WHAT!
SUGARFREE!
Egg on his face!
A pulse bomb on his hind, uh, his hindquarters.
I can't tell you the way he's, uh, OK.
He's different for that one, Miss.
That was an incredible stick from Saun-chan.
Absolutely saves the first point.
And now, it looks like it was just a dominant win for Douseville.
You'd never would have known how close that was to an SSG cap without Genji.
It's going to be tough still.
Nando available, Surge-free, looking for the chance at Redemption, it's kind of the
foul of a storm to weather here for the Dall's storm.
Okay, Surge-free gets a blade, like he did on Lichon Tower, he's looking to try and find success.
Or Lichon's just a Nando, not the blade, rather.
Kelen goes down, Lichon's able to find a Pico on that Sigma.
Surge-free trying to bite his time heal, note that Hawke is just ducked back around that corner
because he's getting pressured by Luku, he has to go for a Captain's Sunthief.
This is naturally a desperation play for Luku, and he is brought down.
Yes, the debuff is active on hope. There's no one else that'll trigger an override protocol. It's purely just an insurance policy
Yeah, I love the way SSG split the focus on these dives, right?
Like they're sending sugar-free deep into the backline with the nano
Responsive nano comes out sugar-free just out of the play and the rest of SSG in that moment was just swarming Kellen
hitting it from all sides and CJ Lukmino
They just can't afford to play up into those moments
So great awareness from SSG making the job very difficult here for the Dallas go-back
Tempo beats? Question mark for this blade to work with? Could be on the menu for
Space Station? Actually resting this high ground control away from Sigma is
priority number one in this font and it is the easiest set been done. You see
Kellan's about to wrap around now with a destructive gravidic flux in his back
pocket. So that's something to keep tabs on. You see Kellan though will find it hard
sometimes to get what the action is. And as the flux that catches onto just
geography, he'll be killed up. He won't put down as he drops. It's looking back
and he picked off by lethal. Maybe just a little bit of an overextension
in position and that's going to open the door for Dallas to get through, rather for
Space Station to get through. Excuse me, Dallas definitely lacking now some of the
damage output. Look for the quick switch here to get the brig and flak.
And the blade is going to go for it, keeping the backlight down, sugar-free.
Thanks for that holding. He's got some full size of rip. It does take a native chronic.
Crucial headshot on the OC. Does find the kill.
How's it going to beat? Kind of falling on down here.
It's all a lot more work to do at this fight. Dallas is still doing a great job
of the pull.
You've really got to force the issue. We just call it for Space Station, don't
With the tempo beat into Blade of Temple, and you hit with the Vatica-
OH! WHAT?! NO WAY!
What is that fucking TUNCION?!
He literally just LOFTS that one into the air onto Lethal!
How is he-
What?!
That is illegal, bitch.
That was one of the nastiest pulses we've seen here on the OWCS, man.
Like, if you just take it away...
Why did he have to do a flick of the wrist fade away, little...
Alley parabolic...
trajectory pulse bomb throw, what?
Hi bruh!
Sgt. Bill different, he's Bill different and I love the Connix out of the window.
Historically this is one of the most dominant positions for Widow in all of Overwatch,
holding second point here at Blizzard World.
It's gonna be really hard for us to keep a gap close.
Connix always is going to get opportunities.
The question is, can he capitalize?
He's not gonna get more than a couple chances against us.
Alright here we go.
Override protocol, start to wrap the cage a little bit here.
Lethal can play in some pretty illegal spots on the map and all of the do so.
of his long way away and is able to be dodged.
Chronic gets taken low there by one of those right clicks,
but Hawke is not able to find the extra damage.
It's a great sleep to shut Space Station down
as they want to pressure this Widow's position.
Chronic is able to fend Lethal off as well,
and there's still some room for Dallas
to come back in and hold this card.
SSG will have to go it again.
That's great peel there by Luke,
keeping players up.
And SSG, I mean, they're forced
into some very hard resets.
I like Lethal going to the counter Widow though.
I think it's really the only option here
to be able to deal with the range the Dallas who are playing but with the
essentially five volts on deck for fuel that this defense shouldn't be locked up
I mean SSG maybe some insane heroics from a nano Genji but this is not an easy
spot to get that value. One minute nine seconds left him around. Lots to hang your
hat on for Dallas in terms of those ults. Use the infrasight now. A bit of extra
information goes a heck of a long way Leap. Proposed by Sergeant yet again the guy is a
Minus out there. CJ brought down. It's gonna be traded out. Space Station have found a couple of juicy morsels there on that low ground to fight
But it's gonna be three for two exchange. It's definitely space station
We're in an awkward spot. Three fuel players up here on the cart to defend. Sondra hard to pin down. Get the damage on sugarfree with his back turns now
Horkus is trying to bully his way through it eventually. Sondra's gonna be brought down. Nice damage there as well from Admiral Lufino
In the mix, Azat Ralli in play record. In the gritty flux of space station gaming. That's gonna stop them in their tracks
Look too low! Does he have a self-destruct opportunity? Yes, he'll be able to win, but time is short.
He's gonna be clambering back in, but where are the rest of the space stations?
Sugarfree just got brought down. Then there's no pressure!
Ah, that's a tough one. You really can't come back, Tracer here. He needs to keep this blade.
But it's such a now-of-force play. Lethal, this is the moment to find a pick.
No ult on the field. SSG can get it done, but it's gonna be that raw force of will here.
It's a very awkward peek. He really doesn't have any other way to go, but maybe the Anakill!
Oh! That's the one chance. Is he gonna get another?
The Tarkid box. He hit the best of times, Jank.
Aprilmoe connection now has a double Sondring yet again.
Absolutely ankles broken, career-ending staff here.
Beautiful staff for Dalla so far. That's the first pick they're looking for now.
Walk. A little bit of a dragon here on the card.
Oh, another stick! I'm sugar-free!
Bruh has magnetism on those pulse bombs.
I've been casting this game for about 10 years now.
And to see Paul so stuck with such consistency only Genji and Emra is insane
I'm gonna be real as soon as he looked at sugar free. I knew he was gonna hit it
It was just like it was meant to be unless sugar free got the deflect like it. He was not surviving that one saunjan
Disgusting hero plays to get that one done chronic as well in the widow. I mean this is a scary spot to be now
For SSG that being said for Douse fuel
So, you know, this map isn't assuredly won, right?
You know, it's essentially they do push through to the end of second point.
That can be a very potent final hold.
And so, especially playing these higher tempo dive comps, a lot easier to do on defense.
On attack, you're, you know, crossing the world to get to that widow.
On defense, you can kind of play these quarters, pop out and be really, really explosive
on the play.
So, I'm very interested to see how Dahlstuhl decide to take this offense, not a foregone
conclusion.
You know get into good spots get into winning positions in maps already in this series and they need to close this one out to stay alive
It's not always comfortable to play the point comp against what space station is trying to run
There's up tempo diva and Genji in your face style
Look the Dallas fuel have Kellan to make the space and to slow them down
Chronic's been holding his own so beautifully, but none this works if Sonjuan is not going 13 and 2 over the course of that first round
It was disgusting. I've legitimately never seen that that is foul
Well, they're gonna be up against it here what I try and put together some nice first holds, but then they're playing a
Defense star contract that really needs to go for the throat is Dallas move up with this more static style I
Think Saunjan has to be the one here on this offense has to kind of scout out a lot of these attack angles
But it's gonna be scary for him right there's gonna be a lot of pressure looking to deal with the tracer denying these
If you look for a way in here, sugar-free, let's give it a whips about and burning that
deflect cooldown.
Here is a little bit scary, getting some healing across the map from ultra-mortar, but all
about lethal.
There's so much for space station supports here to keep their eyes on, their heads need
to be kept on a swivel.
So, lethal is going to give it a bit of space and now, Sundryrd can be harassed from behind
there.
Isn't there going to be a play around?
Sundryrd has one of his own.
It's called Recall.
The tracer has been able to find that kill with the help of CJ.
And our space station are down to 4 for this hold.
Hawke probably feels a little bit out of position there.
UV took some big hits there, but he'll never stay alive long enough, at least, to help Chronic take it out of the game.
Sugar free though, here for the bio. It feels inevitable here at the Dallas field.
Yeah, they pick up the Emory. I mean, without the Emory, there's really no way you're ever gonna get through the Sigma.
But, Sgt, maybe overextending there goes a little bit too deep.
Admobines and Trigilum, they're still a fight we had now.
And we go Hawke low!
Well, it wouldn't have been a fight to be had if NA wasn't terrible at contesting this to a good point.
Hawk Force back couldn't quite touch in time, it happens to the best of them.
Hawk should be considered one of them.
Now, play from the sea, shank and train.
At least make some room for space station to move up in.
They are playing out close and in your face comp.
They need to be on this corner with their brick.
Rare pulse miss from S'Huncheon.
But getting to the first point I think is a massive accomplishment.
Five minutes on the clock now.
Few will have a lot of time and space to work with.
The defensive dives are a lot more awkward here on second point, so it's a big win for the Fuel Saunjan.
Leads the way with that opening pick, and now SSG, they're really gonna be scrambling.
They need to get this cart stopped in here, but they are really just focused on trying to win the team fight.
Space station getting beat up a little bit in the neutral though.
I like that. Oh! My goodness, the L.E.Bio, they don't ultrify this.
That has been comms, but they are normally in position to follow up, so Ultrify has had to bio themselves.
And now Nato has to give it over to Wooshers for free.
We all know that was for the Healy! Let's be honest!
Chugafrey here doesn't see the need to go for the blades. The fight is already won, but they'll be happy enough to stay in the fight, as Dada still have a whopping 4 minutes plus here to fight.
Some big fines there on the comp. SSG's showing their threat, right? They recognize this is the way to win, right? You've got to find some of these cheeky fight wins. If you're always going to be relying on ultimates, eventually Fuel will swing the tempo in their favor.
And continue to push the playmaking and thinking about even going deeper into the spawn. Big need though. Shut it down.
Oh, there it is. Three-player style. I think Luke Minow hit three with a rally shield bash into a gravidic flux.
Oh, CC, then you can choke a donkey with it. That is insane.
Sugarfree brought down. Kelin never stay alive through it all.
And yeah, as we expected with the Kiriban strike, Ana is terrorizing this game.
And finally, Dallas Fuel on, might I say, a very iconic map for them have finally come back into this series.
Now, feels like it's theirs for the taking to get out of Blizzard World with a dub.
Space station trying to get in position and killable thrust forward to disrupt. Here's an overdrive protocol though as lethal really hopes to get his team back in the game
He's the final kill. Luke is isolated. Sergeant on the tracer flank though. And oh great catch
Their SSG grouping. Graves assist in back kill. They're gonna go for it anyway. The OCEAN HANDLE TO CRONIC BIND 2 ALREADY
The fade away is ridiculous for chronic and kicking and screaming
He will demand that Dallas are handed over Blitz as well. No chance for SSG to contest this one now
We finally have ourselves a series Dallas fuel on the board in a game
That's important in terms of seedings and also aura farming
What a win for fuel it gets them on the board, but now this is what we talked about right the long slog
You got to win two more maps against SSG who for the first time in the series full control, right?
they get to decide how are we going to address the rest as we can hit first with bands, we
can kind of approach this. And especially as the bands start to run light, that's where
I think being a team that's a little bit more stock standard on the meta is going to
get stronger and stronger. So for Dallas Fuel, the first, probably the easiest one
to get the next two are going to be yet more difficult. So we're going to need
to see more heroics from chronic, more massive pulse forms from Shonjin, if they want
to stay in this one and maybe still have a chance at that top seed.
It's not even mass.
Well, it is that.
And it's also the fact that so many of those key bands have been exhausted now, right?
The battlefields get tougher, but also the tools to mitigate the strengths of space station
become more limited.
You no longer have the deeper band.
You can't really band loose to a career anymore.
They've already been targeted.
So now, like we are going to be looking at those more standardized setups here, but
we're going to take a moment.
Sanjun showed some unbelievable gameplay and Chronic stepped up in a big way as well,
especially in that last passage of play.
But this is why Dallas get to play their way.
They have the individuals that can carry it.
Kellen can just pull out his pocket Sigma.
Sorry, we never seen from the guy.
And you know, put out 13K damage
and look, Ashley Domen on this map hitting some huge rocks,
shutting down, excuse me, Hawke or Sugarfree,
Ludmino switches off Iliari instead of shooting
five people, every team fighting the face,
he's able to get a triple.
Yeah, shield bash here into this gravidic.
Oh, that's like, that's sick, man.
Really nice from Dallas Fuel.
I was worried this series would be over 3-0,
wouldn't get to see enough of what they're capable of.
I finally found a way.
That shot on the lethal.
I mean, it's faractulous.
Chronic is demon time right now on the hard hit scan.
I was a little worried when they're just
going to go for it after losing the first pick.
But then Chronic just snaps off, too.
And you see why.
This is a team that I think has come to expect
that level of dominance.
And they're willing to take risks.
They're willing to push the limits of what strategically
is possible when the players can execute this well.
And that being said, that's what
is going to take to continue to win in this series, right?
Like, you know, you've got some cheeky strats here.
You've got the Qiri ban through.
You know, you let some of these more wild playmaking
backline supports really, you know,
show their stuff and be effective.
But now Diva Qiri are just free for the rest of the series.
There's nothing you can do to prevent those.
So are you still going to be able to find those picks
through that matrix, you know,
with the threat of the cleanse,
it's going to get more difficult?
Yeah, again, it makes that Arna pick
part of the pull off, right?
I really do think that, you know,
they want to go to the ERE Arna composition
when they possibly can. And it also means that even if you get onto a map like Gibraltar,
for whatever reason, especially if you get to the chance to play there, then it's a completely
different story. You still have to contend with the Suzu. But again, I think this is important for
Dallas because if they want to prove that the way that they played the game is viable
at all levels, then it's not something that can be propped up with bands. They can't be
using the Syro bands as a crutch. And now they neither have those nor any map picks for
the rest of the series. That is what makes it interesting. That, though, certainly represents
Dallas feels back being up against the wall. So, yes, Rialto is going to be our next map picked
up here. And, hey, if you're a fan of that Kevin Sigmund, it's got some legs here, too.
Yeah, I think this is going to be a crucial map to be able to try to fight back on. But,
yeah, the Sigmund could be important. I do think this is a monster diva map, though. In
general, this is going to be an absolute playground for Hawk. Tons of high low,
tons of vertical mobility. Maybe the key maker, the key difference maker here could be Chronic
bringing out the widow once more. I don't want to see more of that because it is an absolutely deadly
option and I don't know that that lethal is going to want to take that mirror, given that SSG
tries to play with a little bit of a faster pace, maybe it'll be forced to, but I think so far
right SSG has been the team that has wanted to play the more high tempo hitscans,
pushed the pace, I have lethal in the thick of the fight and so Rialto was an interesting
choice sort of tends away from that perspective. You made such an interesting point I think through
Blizzard World and we kind of lost over it because we just started on with the game, but
you said you felt like even though SSG had showed us extensive Messiah and Vendetta comps last week,
you feel like Dallas, half the edge intrinsically with their play style over those comps.
Why would we look at the bands here? Has it band-banded out? I'm just mind-melding,
I'm mind-melding with the Rose, man. Every time I'm like, oh, this would be good,
I mean, this is I think gonna be kind of scary now for the fuel because you can still run your honor a re but
Also sg have held on to that band
Which I think could be maybe the final band to come down if they go to a map 5 is to attack the honor directly
Like I don't know that these comps that Dallas is playing I don't know if they work at all without on or that there is a replacement
in terms of the playmaking of Maid, the power of NANO to just, you know,
swing fights and let your DPS take over, it's exactly what Dallas wants to play.
So something sort of to be thinking about, if you even get, though, to the map 5,
I mean, getting past this one, Chronic, this is gonna be a test or maybe the
soldier could continue to come out. I mean, still far from an issue, I think,
for Chronic, but he would have loved to have the widow in these long
silences. Yeah, tough to see that taken away. I wonder if you go giga-poking
and try and find a way to work with only work composition.
You will need a pretty self-sufficient tank
because Wuyong Liari does not have great healing output,
especially at sort of longer ranges.
So you can do that something you've seen with play.
That's an exciting team to watch
because they will mix in these crazy backplains.
So if you're a support enthusiast,
you don't see Lucio Curie as I've dubbed it,
slop every single game, then this is where you can do so.
However, space station, they know where their bread is
And for these guys, it really falls by the side down.
They are going to be on the loose to Kiri and Hall from the D.Va.
This certainly feels like a map, at least in a hero availability that suits them extremely well.
Yeah, you know, I think even though they're down to one in the series, you know, maps wanted to were just absolutely...
It doesn't get closer, right? It really doesn't get closer than those maps, right?
It comes down to tiny moments, final fights over and over and over again.
So for fuel, I think they're gonna be sticking with this Winston Ana or some variation thereof
For more or less the rest of the series
Luke Mino though is gonna stay away from the Ari
Which I think would have been a reasonable option on this defense
Maybe just feels like it gives too much opportunity for Hawk to take over and cut down your back line the way he's been doing frankly this whole series
It's a Sondring Tracer run back map though with sugar free going over towards the Echo, which is an interesting look
Obviously being able to get primals and do them nice and easily is pretty massive
but that's not what they seem to get.
There's an option to give a little bit more ground,
maybe just try and play into a longer sight line.
So it's not too easy for Shulk if we get up close
to the core of Dallas to set up without being taken.
A lot of respect has to be shown to Chronic.
He's absolutely earned it so far in the series.
CJ also with a really nice vantage point
up on this high ground in the corner.
It's going to be difficult to break,
especially if you have to find some way
to kind of change the tempo here.
Maybe they do enough to push Kellen back,
but it's still very scary for Hawk to commit forward here.
Yeah, it's one of the longest sight lines
in this map and honestly any other here.
It's tough to get to CJ.
Sondren has to basically go and solo it,
which is far from guaranteed.
We're gonna try and do it now.
So watch the right side of the map.
That's actually Hawk who's gone up there.
At least try and drive a wedge in, but I love this.
Driving a wedge in between CJ and the rest of his team.
Now, yeah, the state does pretty much guaranteed
in here, but it's what happens after that's important.
Hawk is determined to try and get rid of this Ana
and this level of disruption means
that the healing is not consistent anymore
for the entirety of the Dallas Fuel.
It's a two-for-one trade,
which I think you're happy with considering
how hard it can be to fight into this part of the map, and is this G still have to carry in play?
Immaculate execution here from SSG. They send the D.Va to hunt down the Ana in the backline.
Sugarfree and lethal are just pumping damage into the kill and needs a ton of support to be able to endure that.
And Ultraman just goes into Syshawk and, hey, that's your dive. You don't need a trace.
You don't need a gendry. We've got carry D.Va, man. Like the much bigger threat, especially for somebody like Ana with no mobility in the back.
And Hulk knows he's going to get slept there. It just doesn't really matter, because there's no bandwidth for Dallas to actually
Double back and help CJ out, which picks himself back up and there's the board!
Oh, he gets two for the price of wine and they're both bloody DPS players, of course!
Nuts from Dallas Field, they have saved their bacon's here!
It's Sondren doubling down with a massive pulse and all that hard work,
with a meticulous planning and execution for Space Station,
much of it nullified as Dallas can move back into this defensive spot on first.
And it's doubly brutal, Mitch, because Ultravide committed the rush,
like just at the moment of that double pull-sponsor,
waste one of the most powerful tools in the comp. They still have to beat but beating aggressively
into Primal Katsune Rush. I don't know if you really want to do that, Adro, it's probably
worth the wait for the better opportunities. Alright, let's run it back here again. It's
getting a little bit closer and closer up here on the high ground. It's Dallas are hoping to
dive on SSG's dive, if that makes sense. If you see Kalin popping up here, he's got Primal,
so this is going to be very disruptive getting closer to the canals now.
Sourmery comes down for space station. It's going to be the Katsune Rush choice for Dallas
Steel and Kalin getting past the Primal here. He's a little bit concerned about
taking too much damage and just wants to try and stall especially against his
override protocol but he will caught out by the rail down of chronic who quietly in
some moments loudly and others has been taking his opponents to task beautiful
follow-up there on sugar free and chronic is simply picking up where he
left off on Blizzard world. Ock still has bomb they might actually go for this.
I think they need to try to hold the position now they're staying alive
which is actually still nice right it prevents fuel from really walking up
This first point has proven a tough nut to crack, and CJ, once again, has an end-you-bowl
position very comfortable here with a lot of space to work with on on this one.
I don't know if the D.Va's gonna be able to get to the back line the same way she was
able to do earlier.
As long as Dallas play in CJ's sideline, it should be chill for him.
Sondra almost gets us.
Freaking nasty one of us there.
Yeah, I know.
This guy is insane, bro.
Okay!
Sugar-free down.
Chronic finds the pick, and this is looking pretty good.
Luke's a little bit low, and Sondra needs to find a health pack quickly.
Well, it's a mega that's exactly what the doctor ordered self-destruct here. That means that all three make opportunity is gone
It is taken down outside of it
There's just no safe place for walk to fall back to while the mech is self-destructing
It's so exposed out in the open this space station gaming or running out of steam
Dallas feel like a hold them at the first checkpoint at this rate and Kellen just no signs of wanting to be shifted
Yeah, it's just desperation now scraps for SSG
clamoring back into this one, ulti valley, he's got him rushed, but in a 2v5 surely
it's just not enough, hot, native, defeated. And that one is kind of be rough, right?
Like I really applaud SSG the way they approached the earlier part of the map
sending even to the back line, but once that wasn't an option anymore with CJ
playing across the bridge on that defender high ground, it felt like
their strat fell apart, like they were more or less just standing there
taking the poke trade and against chronic and saunjan, I don't know that
you really want to be hanging out in Maine
and looking for opportunities
because they keep taking them way too quickly.
The some Jordan versus Sugar Run matchup
was a highlight for me.
I'm not gonna lie.
It's been very, very good.
I like that.
I mean, it's all from chat.
Straight up all from chat.
I'm not taking any credit for it,
but I'll tell you what,
both those players can certainly be credited
for their team's performances up until this point,
but man, the pulses were huge.
Some during getting a double pulse here
to sort of bail Dallas out of a really awkward fight.
Space station's game planning is good.
They went and isolated CJ slowly, not all at once,
and eventually choked that Arnor out of position
and still they couldn't win that fight.
It is so frustrating for them, I'm sure.
To be in this position now,
where in order to sort of stave off a map five
at a potential reverse sweep,
they've got a hole here in a legendary location on realtime.
It's a good spot for a hole,
but I think Fuel's Comp is a little bit more suited
to some of these like explosive point takes
Where you need to just burst out of the choke make something happen. I mean, that's what Winston on our that's their bread and butter for SSG
I think they're looking for more of these brawly sustained fights, but on Rialto
It does feel a little bit awkward
I cannot but think fuel are gonna be feeling pretty happy that this map went to Rialto like this feels to me like a
Decent spot for the style they want to play
All right off we go folks Dallas fuel
really just need to get close this first checkpoint real close. They're of course on this Winston
comp so they can try and dive in a similar fashion but it's Lucio's theory as a backline so it's a
little bit harder to isolate, a little bit less telegraph, maybe harder to predict how these fights
are going to go and we'll come from chronic trying to open it up or creating space alongside
Kellen so off we go. High ground control certainly the order of the day right now for
Dallas they don't want to give Hawk that free perch to play from. And Saanjin gonna have a
a lot of space in the tracer, but oh it steps into the wrong neighborhood, Admiral and Sugarfree
holding down this flank. That's going to be trouble for Sgt. How is he going to get through that in
the 1v2? Let's take a different angle, but the pressure is just massive, lethal, dumb
damage in from above, and conics down. Now nice from the space station, considering how
closely Admiral is sort of losing this map, they still know that they've got to fully
commit to these spikes. Every one player is not on board with this, you know, headlong rush
idea that's going for them. Let's get to the flattens last room, takes that tojo out,
And now, you can start to abuse the same sightlines that Dallas and CJ were trying to in that first half.
It's a very early nano for CJ.
As she should expect this, nonetheless, though, it could be deadly.
As she, you know, they have a lot of ults on top, but nothing quite ready to go.
Saundra burns an arrow into the backline.
This is a great opportunity now for her to walk up into the main.
Saundra making his way through the backline.
Hit pretty hard.
It looks like her double tap headshot back came in from the Emra.
Here's the chase!
An early Suzu burp!
Where's lethal supposed to go?
Ah, well, downwind. Six feet, exactly, apparently.
He's cleaned up now, and Kellen still has to help make this space.
He's mindful of course of the off angle that Hawk is playing on, but the rest of SSG are arrayed in front of him so delectably.
He has to take a bite, surely.
Ultramaner needs to get his way towards that Catooni rush, he's close, but no!
Kodak takes him down before he can get the Foxes off and racing.
Self-destruct for Hawk, he's gonna have a chance to ring mech here, and Dallas need to take their foot off the gas, but only for a second.
Override protocol coming for the high ground, and it's gonna be Admiral picked up by Kellen.
Dallas still have the numbers.
They've got the momentum, but CJ is down, they've lost their item, and the backline lethal's going to work with the Siphon Blaster.
It's getting messy! Rally now for Lukmino!
Kela with a prior rate to keep this fight going, and he will knock SSG away!
But Hawke is gonna contest, stays on the card!
Environmental killer in ultra mode though, as he is knocked into the canal!
Sound barrier desperately has to be made use of by Admiral, it's a two player beat for Space Station to try and stay in this.
Kela now starting it a little bit low, but he can throw his bubble down, and there's still the healing perk for it yet, so he needs to rely on his team.
And they are here, you better believe it!
Look, Mino's swinging with the mace now.
Kellen still needs to be careful and has to jump away.
The chronic is close to a overdue clock here.
This could be massive.
Play safe, play with some distance here
and hit some railgun headshots.
Dallas being patient with it, but they've lost Kellen, Jay.
This could fall apart.
Chronix is gonna come forward and find a pick,
but look, Mino will fall as well.
No time for patience, but maybe a little bit of haste here.
From Dallas, fuel some party kills,
but SSG cling on to life,
and maybe just maybe finding the wincon in the series.
Okay, that was a little scary.
I thought that was it, man. I swear to God that was it.
Insane last fight.
Kellen just not getting enough healing throughput.
And only CJ just wasn't in the fight at that point.
Picked off a little bit too early. Luke couldn't keep him standing.
That was crazy.
Trap yourselves in, folks.
There's gonna be another fight that might resemble this one.
Hulse Bomb here for sugar-free.
He needs to land the dunk off his career.
And that would be a game-turner.
CJ here with the Nano, of course, crucial for Kellen.
If he wants to go that step further into the backline of SSG, but he is squishy, he's gonna watch out, he knows Sondren is pushing towards him, so Anano's giving the kill, and I'm straight away, but it's Admiral picked off.
The electric monkey strap pays off, but there's gotta be more where that came from.
On the right, critical leap, a lethal, but ultrafine got flat, and Kellan the kill, and for both supports on his own, surely, that's gotta be enough.
Surely Dallas Fuel have managed to break through in space station, we'll concede, Rialto, who we're headed to a fifth map, like we all know, we deserve.
Oh my, there's no other way it could be, man. Those maps 1 and 2, we just felt robbed, how insanely close they were.
And then SSG were up 2-0, it just felt like they were going to run away with the series, they were going to just snowball from there.
Dallas Fuel, even through some absolute battles here, especially then the final moments on Rialto, they find the way through.
They find the stick-to-to-ness to come back, get back into the fight, and that die from Kellen somehow finding two supports, Banana.
absolutely way beyond the expectations 21 and 1 on the Winston on Rialto a
tour to force here for the Winston. Diva meta? I'm not so sure about that.
He died once? What the hell man? Insane and some of that of course can be
attributed to you know his backline who were pretty instrumental in keeping him
alive but the Winston play chef's kiss they say it's something you get to see
everywhere folks they say it's something you get to see in EMEA. No
it's NA coded as heck and we are here for it great gameplay honestly really a
fan of this is obviously in that first half we saw this you know this sort of
defense setup here from Dallas really find some value they certainly once
Sonjin got them back into the game with a double post on they were able to set
up they were able to put CJ back on that really oppressive angle and space
they shouldn't do the same thing twice man I mean the heroics needed in
in these games.
And Kronik finds his way back over to the Emory,
finds the win.
And now some tough questions have to be
asked for space-age gaming, right?
Where do you really want to take us to close out this series?
Because this is the, you know, when
you're up against the potential reverse sweep,
this is there's no higher pressure moment, right,
in a game of Overwatch, especially one with the stakes
that this one has, right?
Where these teams, we talked about this, right?
Fighting not just to be the number one seed,
but to set the tone as the strongest team
in North America, the standard bearer for the region.
You know, I'd say Dallas Field came into this season with, I would say, relatively lower expectations.
I think people were calling them a bit of a dark horse, and they have proven to be way more than that, right?
Even with the performance they've shown already in this series.
They have, I think, every bit of momentum going into a game five.
Strategy-wise, with bands running low, things are going to get chaotic.
I really do think, I'm glad we get all the way to five here, because without those bands,
your ability to target the opponent's compositions, the war of ideas really gets to shine through.
I think we got to see it on Realtor as well.
We had both teams that were able to play
what I would consider something really emblematic
to their style, right?
There was the Ana Kiri who mixed in their Ferdales.
It was the Kira Lucio, of course,
the space station with Hawke on the diva.
Lethal got to play Emra.
Sugarfree on the tracer.
That was what they were looking for.
And yeah, it still wasn't enough in the end.
We are still seeing the Winston-Ana Brick composition
find success in the end for Dallas Fuel.
I'm all about it.
Sapi is going to be our last map of course in this series and it's one where we've seen Dallas attempt to
Try to fire a try the sort of airborne stuff a songion
I'd like to see them go away from it
I brought up in the pre-show is a little bit of an issue for them in the past
So it's only going to be a great way to finish off this series and I wonder if there's a
Is that what you like to target on this map?
Still with SSG with maptake they could go with the DPS band first if that's what they're worried about
But you're right if the mind games crucial here, this is where the coaches really earn their keep right can they find
The optimal band here to give their team the edge in map 5
I will say with the veterans see on a team like space station gaming
I would kind of counterfeit the the significance of a potential reverse sweep
These are players that have been in those high pressure scenarios time in and sorry the time in time again
And ultimately I think this one is gonna come down to execution
I think this is just gonna lead SSG to lock in even harder
So for fuel they win this one. It's going to be through the fire and the flames man through everything that ssg
Have to offer here in a game plan a rematch a van straight away here from ssg
This really leaves a lot open rematch a definitely valid on this kind of map gives you that really nice center point between
We had a poke down to be a nuisance and also the full commit. I really enable some of those for all stars
There are a lot of other options
I wonder if we see like obviously a wrist as an option here
We've seen come up Hawke has gowled in a little bit over the course of today. You might see that brought in here
You could also opt into a little bit more highly mobile setup
I think that Diva comp can come in do we ever get Zarya in this series?
It seems like it's not the case because like you mentioned on Blizzard world
It doesn't seem really theoretically it doesn't seem strong against Dallas's play style and comp choices
I mean historically Winston was thought of as a pretty decent counter to Zarya right the bubble
She just does not want to break shields.
That's ultimately Zarya's biggest weakness.
She wants to be putting in big damage on grouped up enemies.
But ultimately breaking shields is not her forte.
Even with 100 energy, I guess you can kind of get anything done.
But nonetheless, in theory, that should
be the way the matchup goes.
That being said, I think kind of all bets
are off here on Runisoppy.
Both teams have shown a lot of different comp flexibility
with two clear styles that SSG want to brawl.
Dallas want to play a little bit tricky play
the high mobility style.
And I think with the Cassidy band they're signaling they kind of want to continue that they want to keep looking
For these opportunities and they want to take away one of the biggest threats at the center of the SSG rush
I have to wonder if they
Wants to translate something ridiculous like high mobility wrecking ball parts file potentially
There's a lot of other sort of DPS that are still on the table. The Dallas do not want to try and target
What is Kevin gonna come up with here?
One of the only players in this region playing Winston seeing the wrecking ball from him as well plays very nicely in these longer sightline
That's because that's like we said the targets that you pop up with that power driver are easy to shoot in the head
Especially winning so do something similar classic one to punch this off from these comms
Let's not get too ahead of ourselves here
But again to set the scene both of these teams have qualified
There's no concern about whether or not either these you know are going to be in the important games coming out
They will be in the region of playoff, but that seeding matters a heck of a lot.
If that instant qualification goes to Champions' Clash, they have both secured, but the rest of the world is looking nasty.
And if all we have from Funny Astron, earlier on Jake, has anything to go by,
NA is still a region that is not respected.
Getting a top seed, getting a more cruisey match to ease into competition at Champions' Clash, I think is going to be crucial.
Absolutely, North America in the doldrums, I think these two teams fighting to be the
standard barrier, trying to lead the region out of that dearth of top results.
Will it be the fuel for Surgeon now in this season of OWCS or Space Station gaming?
The steady hands, right, who've been at the top now of NA, or competitive with it
for quite some time, building up, I think, a real expectation for success.
Maybe this is the moment where you say bands are running light. It's getting a little bit awkward
For Dallas fuel and are you really gonna play the honor on this map?
We're just gonna double down with a really fast-paced Vendetta style and
Also, we'll see if they actually do have the tools. This is me. It should be a cop
They're very well prepared against but SSG are a different kind of opponent than anyone else you would practice against
Oh, this cop looks extremely volatile
Getting away from the Vendetta
What you stuck to you can be extremely challenging even for highly mobile compositions, but sugar-free
We heard from Christopher recently past picked up this vendetta. It plays so well with Zyre
Great bubble candidates on gets a lot of charge for that Zyre
Kela needs to set up these spikes here for Dallas
But again this with these walls in the way and with the map sent you dock here in half
It's a little tricky. I like the attempts here at environmental kill. Kela is being disruptive
But it's about setting up opportunities for Stungeon and chronic to finish the job
The other team wants to make the mistake here both taking a big poke trade some nice damage
from Sunchen though does force the cleanse and Kallen wants to find more but just doesn't
quite have the HP to keep going.
They go down, Prolex have a mana pack for their pick on his own and Hawks not looking
Sunchen's gonna tear Strux up him with these pulse Histles.
Come on get away though Sugarfreak comes skinning on through the Vendetta composition
it sticks around like a bad spell it is hard really to break through this hydra
Even with the Perk changes to Vendetta's denying the ability to get that sustain on a minor Perk, she's so tough to deal with.
And once Zarya gets up to that high energy on the ball, she really just can't stick around in her neighborhood for much time at all.
For Dallas Fuel, I think maybe the Winston to Ana, these like Adelari would have been nice against Zarya, but this cop I think does give a lot more room to hawk to be able to really take the game over.
Kellen here drops down to very limited fanfare more booze and jeers given that
is the kind of suit surrounded by. There's gotta be a plane here for Dallas and Rackingball
comp requires a lot to go right. You need that high level of destruction here.
Sugar free mine for the ball might drop on there's some soon with the prescribed pulse bomb.
Again you can almost guarantee you're gonna get it when you need it.
Lethal ultraviolet are down and Hawk will ultimately fall by the wayside.
It's almost like Kellan was just trying to hold the door open for Dallas Fuel to make a play
It's a pretty nice pick to find on Luke Mino though
It's gonna be pretty slow off the respawn as
So she should be able to get back into this fight and Hawk goes over to the diva wants to really get in and punish
Some of these greed support picks. That's that's the Dallas Fuel trademark
They should be ready for this but we've seen Hawk have a lot of success on the diva especially back on the jank tower
I'll tell him once again.
The commanding deal of the situation probably doesn't get the spread of the minefield that
he was looking for there.
A little disruptive on the way through but still, it'll have the intended effect largely.
Base created here around the bot.
Now there needs to be a fight for it.
So the Wu Yang pod coming in constantly.
Here's CJ very, very low.
A tidal blast as well just around the corner.
A devastating combo with that wrecking ball that's looking to draw a bead on his tank
player and it's Kronik again who opens up the account.
He is handing lethal.
a fat bag of L's and to put the start of most of these fights at least tracks off to the neutral
Yeah, see if these rush trades are good enough to keep SSG fighting in the point Dallas feel are gonna be a lot weaker fighting on the rush
That's what she loved the brawl in this spot sugar-free great escape from him pulls a lot of attention from Kellen
And it feels like Dallas feel kind of getting pulled in every direction
But eventually Hawk trying to hold on to the car is gonna lose the suit. He's gonna go for it though
They're on a critical active season.
Ooh, he won't be woned sugar-free, that's massive.
Lethal though is still a problem.
There's not really any way to deal with this Emra at all.
Sanjun is just waiting for Lethal to touch back down.
Nothing to be done there.
And even though Douse won
in few consecutive engagements,
they can't catch up to Space Station's point total.
SSG have speed for their team.
The ability to keep these are rush fights going for longer.
Lethal has to hit those.
Keep Sanjun off his back.
This time he's gonna win the duel without the tracer no pulse bomb no hero here for Dallas feel someone else gonna have to step up some big damage comes in
SSG killing each other very well he stops
Call now back in a way, it's tough for this Dallas feel cop their windows for trying to take these game full fights
I love suffering blade being wound up in my sugar free no connection slightly dodge there by Kelly
Release he survives it gets away. So this is still progress poor SSG
They've got themselves that checkpoint and honestly haven't had to work too hard for over the spice of this last mineral, so
Now the challenge is to step up to the point trying to keep this bike going
Sonja did a bit more room to work with SSG kind of struggling in the wide open spaces, huh?
Starting to drop low and I think SSG need to back off play some corners, but shirt free can't quite get out so easily
It should be courtesy of Fort and lethal as well. My siphon blaster is a bit of a problem
I would have turned out properly lethal with a sound barrier
They're going to run after Chronic. Love that turn of speed from Adrual.
He sees an opportunity for Space Station to jump on some of these isolated down and skilled players,
and it's what happens when he go up against a double-flexed backline.
That was in Lugmino and CJ, out at sea, and they're going to have to make changes.
It's a brick switch off the Wooyoung now. Chronic over to Emra.
Yeah, a lot more durability, a lot more survivability,
but also giving up some of the explosive damage that they kind of do rely on
to win some of these teamfights, or kind of to find an increase on them.
Soldier, will he be able to do the same on the Emrae?
It's gonna be a little bit more difficult now.
SSG with the brush, gonna open this one up strong and fuel.
Just running for the hill.
My lethal, I mean, talking about a hero that benefits so much from that haste,
it's still he's run over by Kellen.
Lethal would have had grenades for days inside that rush,
but Emrae's picked off.
That is crucial for Dallas.
But they need more than just this.
They need more than just hanging onto the edge of the cliff.
They need to outright win some of these fights.
And SSG, with their mobility,
always seem to be able to back away, to regroup,
and then to push back in on the next wave.
Sanjoon trapped in a pretty epic duel against Sugarfree's here.
Eventually there's going to be some intercession for Pelin, who's just killed his mindfield.
This is what the people want to see, bitch.
Sugarfree versus Sanjoon.
Lethal though, unfortunately going to interrupt that one, takes out chronic.
Traits are coming in thick and fast though, and the Scrappy fight could be a good one for sure.
Yeah, I mean it's the Brig, they're trying to fight the Brig inside the small room here.
Admiral fights off a little bit more than he could chew.
Lethal tries to drop in after an overriding protocol, and
Frankly, doesn't have anywhere to be. It's an awkward position to turn up from,
and that's sugar-free, is trying to just stall the game out.
From this point onward, Dallas cannot afford to take their foot off the gas.
They need one more fight to get checkpoint,
and then at least another one to catch up to SSG.
They must be pretty flawless in this last third of the game.
Lot of support ultimates now, coming up into the fights.
Adler has a much tougher test with this beat than his last one, right up against
both the rally and the rush.
Fuel, they've got some work to do, but they've got the tools to get it done.
Fallen drops in yet again. Space being made.
Sons of the last of his Red Bull gets the chunk down the far to the free.
Absolute knew where he'd be coming from.
Walk a little bit low.
Oh no, the sound error comes in too late for Admiral.
And that is the ember out of the mix.
Lethal, the lion's share of their damage is already gone.
And this is exactly what the Doctor Order, but Dallas are spending for it.
They are digging deep into the pockets for both of their support orders.
But though they know the results in them getting this checkpoint are closer spawn as well.
Could be massive.
This game is very much still afoot.
Fuel, they gotta get a gun quick here. Retaking the lead would just absolutely turn this map on its head.
It's all about the ability to play slow. And for SSG, trying to push the tempo there gets brutally punished.
Now Fuel with both DPS ults and mines, they have a lot of tools. They could continue to push this pace.
And SSG, are they gonna be ready for that?
69% or rather meters and counting.
Everyone probably talking to be massive here. I'm calling for the fucking straight away.
The walk has to chase, but can't mitigate this Ember damage forever.
Has to soak some of it up, but this op is moving all the while.
You can't play inside the house because that splash damage is deadly.
There it is! Dallas Field have got themselves the lead!
And they look like they're going to run roughshot over the space station and the rest of this fight.
This is after Dallas spent both their support ultimates on the previous one to get the checkpoint.
And they still seem to have these tools to give them the edge.
Beautiful minefield from Talon there in the red, right where the backline would want to be to contest the checkpoint.
Now, SSG. Long way to go to get back into this map and Sondren wants to end it all right here.
Smells blood in the water, says an opportunity to end this series with a full cap.
Gonna start for SSG to try and set up. They can't get their ducks in a row.
Sondren, make no mistake, you gotta stick there.
There's Walsh and Lethal in the end.
Speaking of which, the Emerald of First Space Station, he's forced to stave up the Tracer again.
Here comes this Kitsune, Rascal Shorley crying. Doesn't have the mobility to get out of there.
out of there. It doesn't matter what his minor per-quad, he will not be fast enough to run
on out of there. The Dallas now went back away trying to pee too much ult charge and
keep this lead for 90 seconds. Can they do it?
That's what they need to get towards these support ultimates, but they've got a lot of
time to do so. SSG have to be absolutely perfect, right? With just a minute 15 on
the clock, you're going to fight for every inch and Kallin is going to be so annoying
with the wrecking ball in this fight. It can really drain this block and create
opportunity lethal no messing around here the override protocol zones players
away but feel it actually resolving kills it seems it's speculative for that
Sondring is able to get away but only just this is a lot of space given up by
Dalas though and they've got to choose to fight at the time and they can get wrecking
ball in the fight killing house season after barrier so still alive that's
barely soon to use but it's used to the tune of an elimination on chronic NS
this year gonna have to be happy with that big fire reaching spread
minefield comes out switch step gonna be forced for ultraviolet here it's
awkward look at how split space station are and sugar-free a little bit on his
lonesome even with all that mobility he's not able to drag himself away so
let it let it out each and up for Dallas in fact they're gonna have a player
back into the fight a little bit earlier so 5v4 virtually any space
station will have to take their foot off the gas and get Hawke out alive
BOSS! Another one from Saunchen! It's lethal down! That is massive! 20 seconds left in this series and Dallas Field have found the perfect picket again!
They need to break the back of space station gaming right here and right now
They're committing heavily ultimate into this by 10 seconds
So SSG are gonna have one last gasp into this one
They have a sound barrier to do it with and it's really just Luke. You know standing in their way with the rally
Great first kill from Admiral Sgt. Trying to do a little bit too much and it over time now
SSG with the advantage rally though for Luke Mino in play despite of being a player down Dallas
Still have something to keep them in this game
Admiral goes for the beat pretty much straight away Dallas looking pretty healthy though
Hawk a little bit low has to duck out and get himself a health packed bus Dallas disengaged
They simply use the rally in order to get some space and stay in the game
They've got time Jake the space station are going straight for the throat
Sudden blade could be proved perfect rather in this over time rush already comes up for you be
Getting dodging on this first five the feelings good at one. It scared though. Just want to begin to that rock
Try and go to your is override protocol here
Sonja is very low
But it's ever to recall the way good damage to the low ground though lethal is struggling and chronic
able to pick him off off to the siphon blaster now and hope knows he can't get
any closer he'll lose his man get a matter of seconds we're burning blue
we've earned a bride baby Dallas fuel get it done and ascend to the top of NA
what a reverse sweep over that is one of the nastiest wins we have seen in quite
some time fuel with a statement win here making the doubters cry man I
started to believe after two hours like you know these are some cheeky
little strats but SSG are just too good and Fuel just cling on by the skin of
their teeth and get the job done. It took so much to make this remotely
possible on the side of Dallasville. Here's your score sheet at the end of the
game. Sanjin with the pulse bombs at the perfect time. It really feels like
today was meant to be a bit of destiny about this game as the tracer
game plays in something out of this world.
Kellen, deathless for the entirety of this map, showing North America that Dallas' signature style, it's a weird one, it's a weird wonky at times,
but it is the one that allows them to prevail and take this top seed that wouldn't be possible without insane support play from these guys.
I'm blown away by what we've seen. It's so great to see this breadth of fresh air come in and take their own style on the game to the next level.
I mean in this era of Overwatch, right, in the era of Vans, there's that opportunity to be a team that really does things differently
and that, you know, makes the opponents constantly gas and struggle to deal with you.
But to your point, Mitch, none of it works without this execution, right?
You can have the best strats in the world, but if you're not able to find these opportunities to make these plays,
the opportunities given to you, things fall apart.
And SSG was not giving up a single fight for free, right?
right they were scrapping brawling for everything took some absolute heroic from Dallas feel to bring this one back and I
I think we may be seeing the start of a beautiful rivalry
Yeah, and the switch up the bullgunk seems to have gone a long way. Ash you've had some time
You've had the time to sit and enjoy this incredible overwatch. I gotta say thank you for making sure I got the best game possible
possible for my day to see it.
I got you know what I picked it out specially for you Uber, but it was an insane matchup.
Of course I'm happy because I got my prediction right, but Dallas Fuel making that comeback
into this series.
Yeah, I'm sorry.
Come on.
Come on.
You can't be upset after that match, bitch.
No, you can't.
You can't.
It was hard for Uber.
I hedged.
It's fine.
I'm happy to see Dallas win.
I'm mad my credit was wrong.
Now I owe Tasmur a drink though.
I'll go on the road.
I'm going to go on the right.
We broke after one drink after one drink.
We have.
Stop it.
We are working in eSports, but it was an insane match.
I think we had conversations.
We were to start off to start off like this this matchup about how, you know,
Luke was going to be on the Alari, how they were a little bit greedy with the
backline, but the adjustments to come in like the Brig was looking really good.
But we actually get to talk with weeks now just heading straight into this
to this interview. But I can't wait to like get how you're feeling weeks because one congratulations
on this when you guys have now secured that top seed here for NA within the regular season.
And I want, I guess a little bit of a two-in-one question. I want to know how the team was
feeling going into the space station gaming match. And then two, what were the vibes
like when you guys, you know, we're down, oh, and two to start off the series. And
What was the adjustment to try and make that comeback for this first week to happen?
Yeah, coming into the game, we weren't really like, oh, we like super have to win this one
because, you know, we're still have guys on ping and stuff.
So like, if we win this, it's like, awesome, but like, this isn't even as good as we
can be right.
Like, we'll get better when the guys actually get 10 a and then, uh, yeah, when we're
down to you, I was told to like, Hey, guys, like, you know, like, we just got
get one map for you. Who cares? Like, who cares if we lose? Who cares if we win? Like, let's just get a map. And then, you know,
this kept coming. So
you guys obviously probably been asked this question a bit by now, but I think it's especially relevant today. You're
playing a pretty signature style that doesn't you don't opt into Lucio carry. You play some riskier
backlines with less mobility. How do you make that work against a team like SSG who are really
coordinated and do use their Lucio comps like pretty effectively. How are you able to
displace out and get value off that high upside of like a Ana Iliari backline?
Yeah, I think I mean my two supports aren't saying that they're heroes first of all, so they
always know how to get maximum value and like their personal like spacing and like micro stuff,
like they they always get max value other heroes and then my my front lines like
like Sun-John and Kellen are always like,
I think that's what the big change
from the first two maps to the last two was
we were able to like touch point a lot more
and like make the fights longer
so we could get a lot more value out of a chronic CJ and Luke.
So.
Yeah, I just wanna ask, you know, for you guys as a team,
I think, you know, this Dallas Fuel roster,
you guys came together, I think relatively later
than a lot of the teams, some of which have been around
now for a couple of seasons
and built that kind of team chemistry.
So I think probably most of the community
looking at you guys coming into the stage was like, yeah,
you know, maybe a little bit outside the very top,
but still gonna have maybe a decent stage.
I think it's fair to say you guys have already kind of blown
those expectations out of the water with this wind,
you guys locked the one seed.
And so I guess that my question to you is just,
how do you feel to come from being, I guess,
relatively a dark horse in this season
to now having such a resounding victory over
one of the top dogs in SSG?
Yeah, I think people underrated us a lot
based on like last season's like how a lot of my players
played last season.
But I think really all these guys just
needed like a fresh start, I guess,
and then like on a team that's, I guess I'm more of like a chill
coach, I'm not like a lot of other coaches
they play for more like their way of the highway kind of
thing.
So I think the environment we have is really good.
And then everyone tries super hard
and everyone improved a lot over
this the course of the season so far. So yeah. Yeah, the team is
looking really good. I've got one last burning question. We've
already talked about how you guys have now secured the number
one seed spot here for NA and OWCS for this first stage
regular season. But that also means that you get to choose
your opponent for round one of the playoff bracket. I want to
get a little bit of a vibe check like what way are we
leaning? Who do we want to face off against first? I mean,
Outside of SSG, I really think everyone else in the region is pretty much the same.
Like, I think that's why the first two maps were pretty hard is because we didn't get to
scrim SSG this week.
So, you know, adjusting to like a higher level is like pretty tough.
So I think literally anybody, I don't really care who we play in the playoffs, so.
Violent.
Super valid.
We love to hear the confidence heading into playoffs too, but congrats again, weeks
for your win today, and good luck heading into the playoffs bracket.
Thank you.
Thank you so much for the interview, but now taking a look at what this bracket is going
to shape out to be.
Of course, we don't know the last two teams Jake that are going to be meeting us here with
the last two being completely open to the other four teams within the NA region, but
Dallas Fuel and SSG, they solidified, you know, that first and second seating.
How are you feeling overall?
I think this is kind of what we expected, but talk me through how playoffs is maybe
going to go? I mean, I think this is really a vindication to the format this
year, right? With only six teams at the top level, things have been remarkably
competitive. Nobody's winless. I mean, these bottom four, right? Really? I don't
think it's crazy to say that any four of them can make it. I mean, I think
this current standing order, I think, for me is about right, but hey, like,
this guy's able to find a way in, you know, extinction, still a threat.
Lunax, as you were mentioning, I think earlier in the show, Ash, having
some huge breakout performances for players who've been grinding for quite some time.
This one's too close to call.
Like, I think Weets is right.
Like, there's no reason to think about who you're going to play because you have no
idea who's even going to be in playoffs with you.
Yeah, I think that I think Dallas probably want to avoid Linux because if what we saw
from them has been developed upon at all, we're going to find that out later of course.
And I'd be a little nervous to take them on.
They are tough to get a read on and they've got some fantastic details of individuals.
So I'm Dallas.
I'm looking elsewhere.
But like Jake said, there's no safe voices.
this is. It really is. It's
regular season so far, but we
have one more match today.
However, we also want to talk
a little bit about our face it
lead. Um overall, I think that
it's so important to be able to
have, you know, the tier two
scene and for our next match,
it features Escanor who's
coming in for team liquid. He
grinded face at least in 2023
and you guys can build your
And if you wanna do that, make sure to check out the link
that is right on your screens under there
and to ensure that you register,
I think it closes by June 3rd.
So you guys do that during break
if you guys wanna chance to play against the big dogs
in promo rel and potentially get into OWCS as well
and show your stuff.
Overall though, we do have still Ludex up against you
like they're coming up for their fall,
a tender qualification match into playoffs.
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Welcome back everyone to OWCS NA.
We've got a heater of a matchup now within Team Liquid and Lunax.
Mitch, I want to get your thoughts on what you're thinking generally with this hothead.
Oh, it's tough.
I really would like to see how Lunax have developed since last week because last week
they took down us all the way to five maps and they looked very competitive.
I'm really impressed with what we've seen from them so far.
They, many of their players,
they've all been a part of the OWCS for a while now.
It feels like finally they're getting that recognition.
They're finally pushing some top teams to the limit.
Liquid have some options, right?
They've got a revolving door, a tank.
You know, they tried collusion last week.
In fact, it is there if they need it,
but they've not quite found their stride.
It's getting a little late in the day.
It really is.
I think Averil was pointing that out last weekend
as well.
The tank role seems to be a bit of a pain point here
side of Team Liquid. But as we talked about before the break, those last two spots for
Playoffs Contention are wide open right now and this matchup is so important for Team Liquid.
They need to win today to ensure that their fate is fully in their hands. Otherwise, they'll
need Lunex to win tomorrow and to beat Space Station Gaming tomorrow themselves, which if
Liquid do this to Lunex today will be a very tough task. Overall, to be a look at this
roster with Zera, Tree infected Vega and Eskidor. I think Tree has been such a
booming for this team here, for Team Liquid, but you also cannot rely on one
player to be trying to carry them over the line. Heading up against MoonX though,
on the other hand, it's a completely different story. They fully have their
own fate in their own grips. If they beat Liquid today, they can qualify, but
if they lose, as long as they beat Disguise tomorrow, they can still
qualifier as well. This roster has been such a dark force in the competition, very unrated.
It feels like by the community. And like Mitch was just saying, Jake, when it comes down to players
like Zombal, like X, 10, Z, NY, and Z, they've been grinding through OWCS for the past couple of
years, finally getting some of that recognition. When you're looking at this team overall, Jake,
I want to know what player you really got your eyes on to make the difference in today's
To be honest, I'm really looking at Zomba and Zeb. I think Zomba, you know, it's such a it's a funny thing like this is a name
I remember from deep in the like original overwatch days of like they've been you know
He's been in the top 500 in like the top 100 for many many years now
And I realize like he must have been like 10 years old at rank 50
You know when I was playing in the overwatch league
So, you know, it's cool to see that like this team at the very top Zomba and Zeb though
So I think Zab on the Aresa, something they do like to pull out a little bit cheeky, but
the Tracer Aresa, it can be super high tempo, super aggressive this game.
I'm also looking at X10 to have a big game on the hits game, you've got to go up against
Tree this game, right?
And that's an unending people spot for anybody.
It's going to be a real pass for X10.
If she can pass it, this could be a win for them.
It's going to be really exciting to see that head to head, that's first turn.
But what else is exciting?
Our prediction, when I had to put my money on Lunex for this one, I've been really
impressed with their growth as a team.
I think they've been very good when it comes down to their reactivity as well in the server.
What are your thoughts?
It's Team Liquid, but I'm just not confident in it.
I'm already down one drink for the day, so you know, like things are bound to get worse
from here.
Yeah, I back Team Liquid, but I really want to see a stability of style from them, whether
it's infected or colluded.
I need to see something that sticks.
I had to go with Team Liquid as well.
I just have a lot of faith in some of the players on this squad to be able
to, you know, when their back is against the wall, to be able to kind of hit the switch
and to hit that next level, I do think this one is not going to be easy though.
I am predicting a game five here.
This one was honestly too close to call.
I'm kind of liking Ash's Preds, you know, all done.
Now it's good for two, and they are regretting not listening to Ash of the Pred, but you
know what, I got to stick with my guns.
I think TL are going to find their footing.
I think they're going to make playoffs and maybe have a resurgence.
I think Escanor is a strong player and it's just a matter of the team gelling.
you said though it's getting a little bit late in the day for that it's getting
dicey for liquid fans. It definitely is. Chat's pretty split here as well and I'm
constantly wondering between you guys on the desk. I cannot wait to get into the game.
I see some lights bribing you and I would be on your side actually. I was correct not being on your side.
I just stay in my line. I'll be on your side. Let's just get straight into the matchup and see if you guys are going to regret your picks or if maybe I'm wrong this time.
It's not even heavy bribing just a little bit. You know what I mean? Alright here we go. Team Liquid versus Lunix.
I don't want to try and recount the myriad of possibilities that could occur here.
If Team Liquid win, it's locked up and we don't have to do any thinking, which for me is painful,
but the best of times. Right, map number one is Oasis here.
First ban is going to be that Juno actually talking here, especially on maps like City
Center, can certainly be a fact that the Orisa ban comes out in response. Interesting,
because that is a bit of a zeb go-to in times. Yep, surprising, but when we have seen other
other teams play the aresa you know there's been times where zeb was like
the only player willing to pull out the aresa and so it's absolutely a
specialist for them but I mean we think other teams have brought it out we saw
hawk deploy it to great effect in the last series so maybe it's something that
lunax just don't want to match up into and now that I see that I'm wondering
if it was just maybe bands reversed because we got the next year on the
right side banner I think they try I said okay so yeah lunax are on the
right of your screen guys. Team Liquid are on the left. Now, yeah, it'll get
well for you in just a sec. So, ah, okay.
So they did still ban Orisa, so okay.
Yeah, I'm affected they did Orisa, but I kind of like, oh, I guess, do you know
pick you thought would potentially invalidate the Malga comp, but now they're going to
go for anyway, but the Lucio carry, I guess that sort of makes sense as well.
Zarya versus Malga, let's just cut to the chase. Zera on the farie here alongside
Tree's passive.
This is a setup that's pretty challenging to play Zarya into. I mean, Bubbles are
nice but this is an overwhelming amount of damage to be able to sustain through
and so it's gonna be a bit of a challenge now for Zep to be able to find the way
through get energized and close the distance they're only offering infected
up as a target and Malka is not what you want to go on here with this
Lunex.
A very average prospect for a Lunex to consider.
So I think again we'll keep this contestant. Tree will pass by onto the left-hand side and stay safe.
Nice taps. Couple big hits there on X-10. She'll have to have a wits about her if she wants to
Try and make a play for this point and again, it's all about whether it's a good Sniper 5C to pressure down to the next 10 will make short work of the Farah pretty quickly.
Timnick would get a flip straight away, so go back point cap of 3, hello super aggressive and we see why.
Out from over the left shoulder, Vega comes flying through, but in doing this, they would have given up the point.
So now they have to play from the outside, lose some percentage here, 3 also couldn't get back to safety.
That's a great catch from Zafa.
Keeps this fight interesting.
Now Spawner is gonna be coming back in soon
and in fact they're just running out of gas.
Great dives from Lunex there,
taking some trades and finding the lead back into it.
Team Liquid only got just the tiniest little taste of control there,
7% not much to write home about.
It's Lunex who come away with the big prize now,
taking map control with Zed with a bit of energy to save into the next fight.
Now I want to call this back to last year
because it is relevant.
Liquid build this roster around Infected
with that flexibility was something I wanted to make use of and they ended up playing mystery heroes a lot at tank last year.
It's something they don't want to bring into this era, but the amount of conflict seems to be having some issues here against Zaheer at length.
Yeah, I mean, I think a lot of this Emory here, right? The insane damage at range is pretty difficult to tank through that.
Hexten, huge pick from her a second, doubles up now on Team Liquid who are struggling to find their footing, frankly.
It doesn't get any easier.
Exactly, everything is rough, right? With Far-Rides.
It's not easy to get the angles in here, X-10.
Deadly on the M-Rans.
Far-Ride trying to, like, be cheeky around the edges.
But Manganese, a lot of heals.
There's not much resource to really go towards Far-Ride without being sent.
Let's be a concoff.
Had to be concoff, yeah.
Maybe. No, he just fell.
I'm getting nervous.
Yeah, the blue zero will be credited for that.
Oh, not too sure.
Either way, Lunix down a play.
It's 75% though, so that's what we'll hang on for the time being.
time being x10 once she gets that heat sink perk in fact it's gonna melt that is
a factor it is just very easy to ever to blow mouth out of the water so
can you quickly want to try and get as much of this percentage back as all that
happens yeah I will say sorry when you get moved off you could rake like walls
to deny the kill credit deny some old charge so it's still possible it was a
move off but I think Zerah's Kong was on cooldown so I'm really not sure what happened
Check the replay.
Sus, yeah.
Exactly.
We'll get there.
The time being, Linux had to fight their way back in. They're going to grab though, to that effect.
Bar Solver is going to take Zera down. Don't ask me how.
Wingzworth kept though, one way or another.
Graves on so down in response. Nice work for Zed.
A weird dead-eyes in play, despite the veritable cacophony of sounds and sights on the map.
Not just away from that Insta-death potential.
Set up a perfect team fight for Linux, who now, getting to 90%, are looking good.
And again, it's another play to mine. It's about to go down the goal.
I can just feel it!
Gotta believe. Gotta stay believe in here, Team Liquid.
Who's gonna get the touch tree?
Who's the Cassidy?
And just a few percentage left.
Infected with the touch though.
Holding strong with the cage.
It's gonna be hard to re-engage in there.
Lunex pretty low on the ultimate.
Sorry, it has to come in.
And somebody had to do it.
It's a dirty job.
But with the trades coming in,
there still might be had Lunex three on three.
It's affected with both supports behind him
to hold this point down.
Seems like Lunex just don't have the bodies to stay on point.
But they will stay on the map, stay active.
And infected, gonna struggle to continue to hold the position.
I think has to pop that honey. I'm trying for the way
It's not interesting. No, she's gonna go forward here with this over a protocol
And that's gonna give the space for lunax to get a flip back at the no time fight behind this kid sooner rush that liquid
Have to go for
Rush's massive here. There's nothing really to respond to it. Who next choosing to just fall back out of this one a wise choice
Do not want to challenge English it's in a rush
Next and she's been lights out so far on this map
This would be a perfect moment to find another in Vega 75 to be it's a long gap to bridge here for team liquid
And why she's in trouble stumps by the looks of things by infected as he came on in
Still the next stable for now until Z's just absolutely ruined heads are rolling and tree is the instigator
From fantastic shots in from the Cassidy and just when needed team liquid have found their footing now a
Chance also to build into a sandberry here for what could be the last flight of the round
Yeah, I definitely advantage Liquid now.
They've done the difficult thing, right? Getting that retake down.
Is it the Lunex to pull a rabbit out of the hat here?
Find some sort of opportunity, but with Beat High Noon, there's no stuns in this comp for Lunex.
There's no way to actually interrupt the High Noon. You just have to zone away from it,
but it's easier said than done when it's overtime.
Now I can't simply buy Tree.
Looking for a target.
Sombra baits that shot out.
And here come Team Liquid.
Here comes the edge of the map!
Roll tree, what a shot, X-Men!
She didn't have a chance to partake in this final fight.
Vega's gonna get a sound barrier down now,
and Lunex do not have that for an end-wise.
This is Kitsune rushing to work within Sombra's spot.
The map though, farer to make excuses now.
This time, that one was just straight off fall.
Z's picked off by Xerah.
Will be able to play on the point now,
as Lunex is gonna be forced off.
They can certainly keep this one stalled out.
Tree is very low, and this one's likely gonna be getting healing all that rapidly.
Eskenor in doing so, has to put his body on the line,
and all that gets brought down.
There's a lot of charge on Zeb, but man, Team Liquid really managed the high-damage Zyre very effectively in those final moments.
This is a messy one. I mean, that is like, I don't think either team is going to be feeling great about this.
Honestly, especially Team Liquid, I mean, realistically, this round is really rough for them,
and then Tree just opens up and finds, like, what, three fights in a row with first picks that, yeah, okay, like, I guess, I guess you win.
But that's not the way that Team Liquid want to win. This is something we've been talking about.
This is not going to work against the best teams in the region.
There's going to be too many trades back and forth.
X-Ten also found powerful opening pick fights of her own.
So, the Team Liquid, still a bit of rockiness here on round one,
but in the end, you got one on the board.
You get the job done onto the next.
Zera spent much of the round just to max you on Farah,
but switched over to Tracer.
I think they definitely put Team Liquid in good stead,
and they are going to run that back again.
Got to put some respect on X-Ten's name.
She is sharp on the emerald.
So Liquid will take this high ground now, to the next desire obviously we'd like to play
in these more enclosed spaces.
I'm curious to see who's going to dip a toe on the point.
If you saw in the previous round it was infected to step up and present an unenviable target to go for.
Both tracers have to be so cautious, a lot of spam coming their way.
Great position from infected though, gets that inside corner, he's going to be difficult to dislodge there
and Zera wins the tracer trade, forces the recall out of Zongba.
Damage on Infected though is good, this is certainly going to be an issue for Team Liquid.
Need to try and get this Margaret in the game.
Infected though, topped up and pulling on actually handed over, looks like the damage onto Xebel,
the frontline of Lunax was also going to have to force them away from being able to cap.
Now, yes, they're going to go for a Team Liquid charge across the point, and again it is tree.
You mentioned they don't want to really rise and fall on the performance of tree, but they may not have a choice here.
It was kind of the issue for them on Blizzard World, you know, at the Zumba's door as well.
Zumba picked up Vagga though, Lunax.
Finding a retreat here, finding some key kills, but is that wasn't enough to stop them from chasing the point?
Y'all was actually casket?
Okay.
Zama and NEMLY just forced the wheel, they win that fight, they just box out, even after losing a couple early picks,
they somehow find the way to get back into that, Tracer losing just too slippery,
and once Tree falls, there's no one really left to stand and deliver on the point.
That being said, now it's infected, it's starting to put a lot of presence down, taking damage for it, though, not so easy.
Tulsi and Fuzera infected, Low still wants to charge in, that was as soon as he was already drawn out, so Zeeze is an easy target for Zera.
Now, Pulse Bomb, time to connect up, as it was already low with a sound barrier, did not quite reach out to Desire.
That is a tough Pulse Swire for Nenmuei, she couldn't cover the entirety of Lunex in the middle of that fight.
Well, had to be satisfied with the capture percentage of 29, and now they probably don't want to linger too much longer.
And Nenmuei can't get away.
And Zera in the back line on the tracer just deadly huge damage that fight so many reloads off of that minor perk really getting max value
Back to business it's fine without a dead eye
14 liquid
Dead eyes gonna decide that instantly then why caught in the cage
Not instead of one to combo there for team liquid
Basically, I guarantee you, Kassidy, off that cage flight, when Tori can get an easy dead eye in, and this should be another reset.
It's now puts Team Liquid into the lead, and this time they're not too messy as they chase these kills.
Kassidy, once you get this major perk online, I think you really level up as a hero at this level of play.
Like, Van the Hammer, not really that useful, realistically, but the power of some of those one-shots and the bleeds, very significant.
X-Ten goes to the Reaper, so they are going to shrivel down running over infected here.
See if this is going to be enough, but there's a lot of damage in the front line.
They are really investing heavily in dealing with infected.
I wonder if this changes the way that infected has to play?
Grapple's on search, no Vagra caught up inside of it, but Katsunae rushes,
it means that Unix is certainly capitalized on plenty of bodies to throw at the problem.
Xerven now drops down onto the point, still with the seed, he's off there,
Katsunae rushes, inflate it, woooah, Zepsel just disappeared awful quick.
X-Ten now in a bit of an awkward spot, she's caught out in the open.
Doesn't really have that one-on-one with the Malaga that she was looking for, and instead of being brought down,
they extend, feeling that lack of range, come back to it.
I don't mind the concept, but it gives a lot of room for Tree to work, and he's taking every single inch of it.
Now, with a lot more space, no hitscan pressuring this Cassidy.
It's gonna be a challenge for Lunex, they need to win these fights very, very quickly, and up against Rush,
High Noon, this one looks almost impossible, Mitch.
They still like their shut out also game last time no one was combined with the cage fight that made it guaranteed
This one's gonna be awesome for making space the very least
Here's the Katsune rush now was team liquid what a surge for a course behind them
There needs to be a point touch. It's gonna extend going for it zero wise to it
You should chase the Reaper from the outset these is out of the game now
So it's only the loose here if you're killing the lunatics and that is not going to cut on against this deluge of
damage from team liquid
Dubious there of course to that front line extend got a bubble
She dropped down but it looks the things had to TP back up and Zev is gonna be throwing around like a cat toy on the point
Team liquid again rocky at times, but still stick the landing for a map one way
Big game from tree and infected respectively tree there in the final fight does get stuck by Zamas pole farm
Just rolls the damage lives on a sliver of HP and still battles back to get more done in the fight
So really impressive stuff individually from Team Liquid. Zera, I think, really found his footing on the Tracer.
The far round one was a bit awkward, but the Tracer left very little to be desired.
That's exactly the kind of performance you wanted.
Maybe even desperation out of Lunax to go to the Reaper is struggling a bit to deal with that MAGA.
Even at times, you know, getting infected low, but that's sort of Team Liquid specialty, right?
Playing around infected's ability to make space and punishing you when you think you've caught him.
And of course, yeah great game from X10 this switch over towards the reefer kind of obscures the fact that she was on emerald for most of the game and
Looks pretty fantastic in that first round. Obviously playing as this Malga comp requires an adjustment
If you have a Lissio carry look you need to sort of find a way to deal with that
I guess I kind of was the gun cop alright well done by said a little right-click yourselves approach it for the kids at home
You right-click yourself on Zarya as you're falling off the map
You don't give any old charge or kill credit. Yeah, there's a very there's a extremely nice piece of check in it
I'm sure the actual person who got the kill on the kill feed. So it does
I can't resist that types. No, I like that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, sure. I like that
Again as we head over towards the second second map because the trace of play was great
Zero having switched off the farer here
It is tough to play against this Marguer so like a cage fight here into the dead eye
That was nice at one to the guaranteed a kill on them why the otherwise would have been a little bit hard to
Yeah, the cage fight plus data combo it's it's not run you're gonna really enjoy playing against on Lucie. I don't have any
Pimpin's attack to help you in that matter
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in NA, Dallas Fuel, who seemed to have found an edge that no one else has been able to come to,
we want to answer the question. Does this work against other teams internationally,
or are there more developments that can be made on this? We're seeing them out here,
of course, a little bit on their previous map. It's kind of cropped up pretty heavily
in EMEA from AMDP, for example. It's clear to see that that is certainly still a viable way
to play the game. We've seen a lot less of that Xayah and Vendetta in NA that we did
the last week. So things are still evolving rapidly. Let's talk bands here, heading
into our next map of Runosopy because the Brigadier Band out by Lunix, Trace is going
to be targeted by Team Liquid, so Zomba is going to have to be on something else.
Yeah, I mean this is going to be the challenge for Zomba because they're just
unknown to be an incredibly strong Tracer player. However, that's the
extreme comfort hero. Zomba has been one of the best players on this
hero for many, many years now. He's been highlighted before, but how does he do
on something like the Vendetta? And I think it's pretty likely to come out
given these bands and going to Runosopy. Like, I think this could just be
like a straight up brawl. And Zera, he's the type of player who I think you absolutely love having as a Vendetta.
No weakness on the tracer, but he just really suits Zera's style and his ability to play that aggressive flex DPS,
you know, really syncing with the team's aggression to find those big moments.
So while we're targeting the flex DPS position with this tracer ban, there's still the question of what we see Hitscare, right?
Does X-Ten run the Emra back? Maybe, you know, people that are clued in might have been expecting to see her on the Sojourn,
which is obviously still an option. The Cassidy though was made great use of by Tree, who played probably one of the most insane
few minutes of emerald on that
Blizzard world map last week between TL and DSC even though they ended up losing that game
It would not have been possible without Tree. Tree's certainly continuing to be an absolute
I don't know, force of nature. She is in the OWCS NA, number two though, just around the corner
Yeah, Tree is just one of those players. You know, the aim just looks different
You watch him play and it just doesn't seem quite real, the way he's just snapping so many of these targets in the chaos of the fight,
always finding what he needs to be on, you don't want to be on the other side of his peacekeeper.
So for Lunex, man dead, that's the spot they're going to find themselves throughout this series, frankly.
Maybe here on RutoSophi, this could be enough of a map to bring that faster pace.
Maybe, as you said, the Emory of the Sojourn could come out.
Even for Trey, I wonder if he would want to play Cassidy on a map as open as this.
Zera this just felt like a trap on this map of these long sidelines at points at least
Yeah, well to see I mean in theory this character has a great matchup into vendetta that that could help
However, you know getting crit down to the ground is usually gonna be just a death sentence for Zera
So he's gonna have to watch his position be careful of the damage of x-ten can bring to bear
So the question is can you deal with the Maga? This is a little bit scary for Zamba, right?
No, you know, even on my cat, I caught in the Maga cage. It is not a friendly place to be
There it is! Nicely done by Zed.
Quite often that javelin can guarantee you a kill.
And there was a damn hand at the old Orisa.
Good looks here.
How does the Orisa Malga match sort of pan out?
Because obviously the Disruptive that Orisa has available to her
can be really problematic and she can stay off the stop.
Ah, CC of course with her own abilities.
So that Fortify could be pretty crucial.
And I feel for Team Liquid now,
it's scary to lose that first fight.
I still think that Khan has a lot of power, right?
Has a lot of spam that get caught off early, you lose trees,
he shows, you know, how his team could roster chairs
without the hits and spoiler alert, not super well.
Yes.
That was a strike.
So I'm from the corner here,
and there is where Zera has a bit more psyche.
You know, just asking for extended Rippy headoff,
if you could expose yourself for any length of time.
Happy to take the oak trade though, RLU next.
Don't feel in a rush to do this,
There's Farah, it's spanning, but there's not real pressure coming in, I guess anyone but Zep, who doesn't mind farming up some of these support ultimates, see, he's gonna have that first rush, see if they like to go aggressive with it.
Chat, 7-Deli since he's extremely mid. If you don't think it's mid, you need to watch him around the map, sorry.
Here we go, over the top, goes Zumba. And look at how far out Zebra's forced to try and play. Zeb will cross whatever divide required to get to the Farah.
I mean, Zera's almost brought down.
They are alive though, they're gonna have a barrage if they can get healed up and come back into the fight.
No! Round of fuels! Zera!
Finally brought down someone who was on the straight of homeless for the guy. That's brutal.
Regardless, Kara Surge at the ready here for Zed.
52 meters of progress here for Lunex gained.
And Team Liquid now need to get back into the game themselves.
They had great speed kite there from Denmark.
It just makes the perfect call there to fall back.
Even though they have the pick, they need to kite the rush.
Now Zomba reengages, finds Vega, and Team Liquid finds themselves in a rush.
in a rough spot giving up a ton of progress here after so.
And there's that checkpoint gained.
What I was going to play with Barrage is going to be all fine and well.
It's this cage fight execution I think that really,
this fight may start to hinge on.
Exten's got a nice off angle.
Canavi pressured by Zero to this rocket's coming in the left-hand side of the stream.
And here comes an override protocol now.
There's an infected get buffered around the point.
Exten finally has the wings to take the skies alongside Zero.
And the farer points none of that smoke.
A lot of space creative, but where's the follow-up?
Where are these eliminations? It's over!
Spinning straight on Ana Vega!
He's low! Zeb, uncharacteristically, misses the javelin,
but still they've been on a push-off enough and zeroed up.
Well, they find an untimely demise by their own hand.
Team Liquid, but just nothing in this map, right?
A couple opportunities, you know, they'll pick you're in there,
but Ludex just looking so solid on this style.
Team Liquid gonna go over to the Genji,
maybe have a little bit better matchup into this Orisa,
able to get a little bit more off in her face,
but Lunex showing that they're not worried about the manga so far.
114 meters in counting.
This is it, Dominus from Lunex.
Great way to bounce back after a difficult outing on Oasis.
Three's going to come forward here.
I can't really catch too much with it.
Of course, most slow component in the advice shot.
That's less common for tech.
Okay, Sundering Blade.
Going to get the cage fight open at the very least, okay?
Fair enough.
There are the only games he uses.
This is a great look.
Bit of a throwback.
Pressure on 3, forced it back away, so I can blast her at least.
I would have gained them to kill on X-10.
It becomes Team Liquid again.
At some point, surely, I gotta get into this map.
Yeah, I mean, they win the fight, but it's way too expensive, bitch.
Like, you can't be relying on Cage Fight B.
Like, that's... Of course you're gonna win those.
Lunex, I think they're more than happy to throw that one away.
They're still sitting on the rush from Z, and...
When she likes to go with that, you already see that the fear in Team Liquid,
they know the threat that this Orisa comp poses.
On the corner though, they're trying to flank.
Trying to see Zera again as you pop off.
Here's Katsudi rushed in, Zera wants to try and push forward, look at the low ground,
yet they're going to boost on up and try and circumvent them to some degree.
Zera found some damage.
What else has this rush done except get Liquid into a fighting position?
Suzu just having to use it to keep the infected alive.
He's going to come forward and go for a stop, but over the top X10, with his
override protocol, infected is brought down.
Team Liquid now, it's all bark, no bite, they are in full scale retreat and
The moonettes look to add to the already massive total across the map.
And just a textbook kite and re-engage, perfect position rush from Z, swings around the corner
with the cleanse, turns with their own rush, and it just puts Team Liquid right on their
heels.
The pick comes in and now, enemies at the gates, like, what are you gonna do, Liquid?
You gotta find a way back in and put some aggression into this map.
The bans, they're coming in from Sombra around that corner, still Team Liquid able
to hold up under this level of pressure.
Into their credit.
I'm gonna have to use any ultimates to get back into the game, but still,
They keep getting caught with this front spawn of Lunex in there.
I'm readying this to keep taking these fights.
Lunex are gonna be ready to throw down again,
and these beats are approximately matched in fact, support ultimates in general are.
So, that's good sign for Lunex who are so far ahead.
It's a task for our team Liquid now.
Do they have the right ult track?
If they know, Neyvah is 10%, 15% to beat, they might go with the blade,
but likely they're just gonna be too scared of the potential that the beat is already online.
Alright.
Alright, chronicle attempted here for three, this is...
How are we gonna force Lunex away?
It's Demons there, it's about it though.
Zambari is still maintained and Vega will have the time to build up one of his.
Blade here for Zera, should we have to do some unsisted plays from the Jankara in the previous series?
He has to go deep on his own.
Yep, we're gonna do that just the same way.
Zambari gets taken down on Lunex, but the Blade has also expired.
Terror Surge catches Zera up, half his health taken away, but Zombas...
Yeah, it was nice kiting from Lunax, but Liquid ultimately put in their opponents on the backfoot.
Maga finally getting the space to put some damage down while the focus was elsewhere.
We do see why it's so important to suppress this hero.
He's one of the highest DPS tanks in the game.
Once he's able to get up to you at close range and unload on you, Zomba feeling the
full ire of that dual minigun in that fight.
Sealing the low ground effect to try to play a bit of early poke damage on Zera there.
She's ready for Fortuna right now.
She's already having to use it, rush right away, may as well go for this point.
Big stomp though! Massive stomp!
Here comes the cage fight! Zeb, XZ is all caught inside of it.
And Trees ever sit on the outside and just go to town on them.
Some of it goes for a sundering play, but all it does is break a cage that wasn't
and not containing anyone anymore. Now Liquid are back in this game well and truly.
There was a continued rush from Lunax as well. They don't even have support on their advantage to try and
ripe the scale. Still a lot more push for Liquid to get. This is kind of like the last stand now
for Lunax, but they are holding on to the positional advantage here. Liquid, are they going to
try to go aggressive here? Just the override protocols are available from both teams.
Opportunity here for X-Ten to step up against Tree who's been the standard bearer for Team Liquid.
Second, not back, whoa, this cardiac overdrive, ooh, just getting some value for Infected
and they've got it getting healed up very quickly.
And then, frankly, taking attention away from Zero, who's just dealt with treatment for
a override protocol as well, but if the map's successful as X-10, it wasn't really enough.
And somehow Infected, he's like a copyright stealer in this fight, unkillable virtually,
kept alive barely by the cardiac overdrive and now causing headaches for Lunex.
Tree wants to fight on this quarter.
There's clearly some comp and for Liquid, they do not want to give up this forward position,
but with the loss of Vega, they might not have any choice.
I've been holding her on, doesn't feel the need to get aggressive, but now with Zera back into it,
the pistol is going to be just enough to help him mend my speed to get her out and stay alive.
Team Liquid, another lease on life with a couple ultimates coming up, but
Lunax able to play defensive here, they can kind of weather the storm here,
play to have the better later ultimates. It's going to be a tough one for Liquid.
Terrasurge on Zeb, like you mentioned, isn't up here battlefield liquid but it's been the case for most of this round and it hasn't deterred them so far.
If you're in a rush to wading the wings, these two are gonna let Terras go straight away to play. It is good, those Terras are gonna get in there.
Again, having this hay spot is big if you need those deflakes, but Terras is all offence, no defense, trying to run them down.
It's like a 3D movie with these two rushes overlapping each other right now.
But importantly, the damage on Zeb is enough that eventually the horse is dragged on down and there's no escape for these.
You've got to deal with the Vendetta here sure enough, and Xeva's taking a bit of incidental damage from that wildly swung blade.
The team liquid half the numbers, they have the chance to get back into the game, but to get to the 116 meter total, that's a different story.
They might be able to get a little further into the map, but they're going to have to come back with the rest of their full fire and fight again.
Clutch kills from the DPS of Lunax, right? They lose that fight, but they lose it so well. They find those late picks.
Zomba gets two, X-10 finds a third, and there's just no steam left for Team Liquid.
Despite the Maga being alive, he cannot push up on his own.
Now, Lunax, once again, ultimate advantage, able to play this quarter defensively.
Liquid, gotta find something with just 20 seconds on the clock.
That fight here could be good. Catching Zomba, and he went for the Sundering Bite.
There was water trying to bail him out.
It might be an unsettling if Lunix said that even if they lose this fight, they're not going to give up the map, but that's not guaranteed here.
They're trying to drag it out as long as they can and buy some time, but infected, mows them down.
Four kills for the Malga. Liquid have to go for it.
Override Protocol, I've already here four tree, but that's kind of it.
If you and Zama can find into this one, it's going to be tough.
You're close to the support ultimate on both sides, this one might go deep down the stretch.
which spoilers they probably won't unreal comeback liquid kept out of the thumb for most of the map only to pop up at the end and
Snatch victory from the jaws of defeat. No one doesn't like the horses. Oh
Man as in the map so too in the stage so far team liquid with their backs against the wall
Finding the footing doing what needs to be done to control their own destiny
Remember they need this win to still be able to control whether they make it into playoffs at all and
For Team Liquid to even be in that spot, to be in question about whether they make playoffs,
already a gut punch to these guys, so getting them back in with a 2-0 victory, a 3-0 would go a long way
to locking up some advantage map score. Obviously, there's a lot of scenarios when we go down the
stretch, with four teams with only one win, still trying to vibe for those last two slots,
but Team Liquid 3-0 is exactly what the doctor ordered to write the ship here.
And this comp, this Team Liquid comp is so annoying. Infected, he's just...
He's impossible to kill.
Even with an emerald, even with a vendetta, it just seems like this Malga stays alive for far longer than he's remotely reasonable.
And, I think back to that last fight, Tree pops up with an override protocol.
It doesn't matter damn it, there's a random grenade that gets thrown into the backline of Lunex and it catches on to the curriculum.
Oh, I'm kicking myself if I'm z-sare.
If you've used your mobility up already, I guess it's impossible to dodge, but that really had to hurt.
And it felt like Liquid finally started to find their feet, which is kind of something I asked of them at the start of this series.
They said, you really need to get stately, you really need to find a style.
Now, I'm not saying that the Mauga style is the most compelling, I'm not going to read the most fans, it's about one of the games.
The fans come after it.
You guys are Mauga haters, man. Like, why do people hate Mauga? Is he a tracking hero?
You know, he has like an explosive skill shot stun.
Like, I think, is this a hot take that Mauga is actually a high skill hero?
No, you know what? I think it is. Honestly, I think it was from an era where Malga comps were just so prolific and then if it died
And I think people just have this negative stigma about Malga comps and that they were like the neo-goats
Way to play. I'm just saying you got to check your assumptions. You got to check your assumptions. I'm here for the Malga
I think this is a actually an ideal style for Team Liquid. I think they're really good at playing these aggressive brawls
They can do it with other looks too, but in this meta with how good Vendetta is
I think there's a real argument for Muggle with the cage fight being such a strong counter to that here
I mean and some serious clutch moments out of Eskinoa as well these Suzu timings were fantastic
Even though Málaga has a lot of durability
You're going up against like a major perk Siphon Blaster Emra who can like
Format shots into you and basically never stops
So the damage output from the comfort we saw from Linux is immense and you're playing Lucid Curie
So you don't have natural sources of like high burst healing
Sometimes you've got to rely on like Susanly to beat her into like rush and just hope to have the output
So it is a tough job
It is again a really fine margins because if you're maga dies too cheaply too early in the fight
Then you are never gonna get back. The Suravasa gonna be the pick here for Linux. They still want a brawl. I
Frankly, I respect it. They might have to consider targeting this comp that appears to be a liquid spread in the bottom
I mean, I just want to ban the Maga. I mean, it's it's simplistic
But maybe it's enough to at least put Liquid into a bit of an awkward spot in terms of what they want to play
I mean so far they
Literally played 100% haga so far in the series. Yeah, you know what? I think that is probably the case
Was one of those tanks I'm still confused by that Luna expand the Arissa
Maybe they thought that that's the way liquid would want to go
So I think Team Liquid is a team that is probably a little bit more challenging to predict because
they're still trying to find their footing, trying to find their style.
They're probably willing to continue trying new things, I bet they're testing new stuff
and scrims all the time, trying to find what really works for them, where they can have
some success.
And maybe the Moga is the style that they've settled on for now.
Still, Lunex, it's a little bit late into the series to start adapting, but Dallas
real showed us already today, you are not out until you are out.
See if they can muster that same level of confidence to kind of bring this one
back into contention for Team Liquid, this one would be a confidence booster if they
can close it out in three as I'm sure they're drawing it up right now.
War Young's band here on Suravasa, straight out of the gates here from Lunex.
Now, it's not that we haven't seen it, but the sightlines don't always, in fact, we,
I think we, yeah, it's a bit of, because I pretty sure Twisted Mind was the, that
was the only map that they didn't play War Young on last year, because Bunny Astra
said the sightlines aren't good enough, so it could be a protect band, straight
here that might make sense but yeah this is like I have no idea honestly but
when did the serve also Mac rework hit was that between the years or was that
later it was during last I've been playing this game way too long I can't
remember when the maps get changed man like when the rework hit but I was like
30 years ago. I was born yet. I can't I can't expect to remember.
It's great to try to master Raiders and Zuma, bro. That's crazy. We all know.
We know your game, bro. Let's jump in. Oh boy. So this is Zaya then, in response from Team Liquid.
It's been a bit of a go-to for Zev. It looks really potent for them on a basis,
even for Linux. It wasn't enough to win them the map, but you know it also might be
Team Liquid respecting the potential for this vendetta that really ruined their day.
issues, combined with desire and a situation that suits that duo.
Yeah, I mean, I think maybe even Tim Lueck would felt like that last map was really, really close, really competitive down to the wire.
Still, you know, the ERISA, I think is probably a bigger factor here if I had to guess in terms of the way Lumex want to match up into the Maga.
And with these bands, they do feel a little odd to me. I'm like, well, maybe this is something they've practiced and where they feel like there's, you know, bigger threats from these characters.
but it's not really the way the series has gone thus far.
And for Liquid, I'm a little surprised to see this already,
because they dealt with it somewhat handily on map one.
I mean, it was a bit scrappy on round one.
Round two was quite confidence-inducing.
Let Tree play a little bit more of the hard-hit scan.
So interesting choices.
We'll have to see sort of the reasoning why
as we get into the game.
Yeah, along with that Cassidy-Malgo,
like hard rush style that looked really effective,
especially like the cute little page flying to,
you know, dead eye setup, it's virtually unavoidable.
Now, okay, so we might get the Extensives here,
potentially, and Arissa Mirror.
This is something that Infected has played a lot of,
but I feel like last year, the conversation,
at least from the mouth of Casares,
was that still getting acclimated on the Arissa,
like still trying to work that in.
Make no mistake, Kim Nikuta's built this way
because Infected has a theoretically full tank hero pool,
like, can play anything.
That's kind of why he's the build-around in this lineup.
So, uh, you know, expecting any of these matchups to look very, very strong,
but Zephyr said, like we mentioned, a bit of an Orisa guy himself.
Yeah, absolutely going to be a comfortable matchup for Lunax.
Team, they're going to go with the Brig Juno backline,
so a little bit more brawling potential, a little less of the pace and the speed.
Lucio, Kiri probably being the more meta choice here.
Kiri's going to see how this one pants out for us.
I'm gonna play Gorn here and, uh, infected actually with Mindful that Zomba is training some flank action.
Right up onto the point there. Javons can use pause to make that space.
You get a perspective of the front shot.
It's never forced to play Javon without, say, fortify up. Something worth putting the cooldown on that.
There is the miss same.
So both these teams, it's a very similar approach to skill.
We've been with a couple of hero differences across their team.
Hoping that the raw output of Juno is going to be enough to get it to keep the effect of fighting.
Hit, but tell you what, the damage from both sides has been pretty immense!
Trio!
Hit by a javelin!
Man, Zed picks a beautiful spot there, and X-10 just lays Waster's error off-screen, okay!
Here come Lunax!
Yeah, great execution from Zed.
Fighting his time, waiting.
Not wasting those spears on, in fact it saves it for when Tree steps up just a little
bit too aggressively.
And I like the Zergos with the Genji though, I think Genji's super powerful
in this Orisa mirror, right? The potential to deflect those spears.
Not gonna be too worried about Orisa's damage.
I think a lot more explosive tank-personing potential here,
if you can get those cooldowns.
So, last fight, one off the back of just really timely picks and lunes.
There's the Ajavelin from Zed that starts it off.
Hey, look at them all the same tools.
Uh, still...
Ajavelin?
Yep.
Okay, and then why is there a follow-up there on that?
It's nicely done.
Team Liquid, they lose their hits again, they like to double down anyway.
Really trying to get another fight out of this, but Zeb, perfect read on this Arissa.
respect for the orbital ray just absolutely stands still in the choke holds it down and
stifles the approach team liquid back to the timeboard point one I think they did not really
get much into that one yeah bro hardly saw liquid involved and it's funny it's another
slow start for them on this map very similar to what we saw on rudasafi lunix gave them
enough space to get into that map will it be the case here team liquid try to step
a little trap play here there being a little bit of a nuisance in the jokes that just
Drop the shot and in fact it's presence.
Make it a half a lunax to move in early.
But again it's gonna be Zomber on the flank.
I think Mega doesn't really want to trifle with the shield bash away from the tracer.
The Zomber will start to tighten the net from this end.
Of course he'll be able to play this.
Tree, override protocol. Is it gonna be enough?
The overclock on line is always a little bit scary to peek into.
Tree, more than half you just kind of get these ults traded down.
Zephz is one of the players with very low HP.
Sure, that's gonna be sustainable pressure against me, but now, I'm gonna move, and...
That's a roll, could have had a blade there, but the Terrasurge is gonna claim the game team.
No one's liquid could extract him.
Now, I'll play it down without that rally, facing down a sound barrier.
It's a little bit spooky, and Liquid know it, so they play March more defensively, looking for it.
Maybe a deep Terrasurge, no infected, was just trying to cross back to safety,
but in doing so, he exposed himself to a lot of poke damage.
And so the point took it back for Lunex, and all these javelins, bro, they are uncanny.
6th start from Zeb.
Yeah, Zeb lappin' all the way to the bank, gettin' in a rest of mirror here against Team Liquid.
Zeb, they got caught on the flank, they could get run downed here, this is a little scary, Zeb.
Tryin' to turn around at X-10, very aware of the counter play, just slides out of there.
Okay, even game here from the second flashpoint, the first of which of course Lulex took it really comfortably.
Now we've got support ultimates available here for Blue-Sci.
Feels like everything is really working out in their favor.
Wouldn't be a terrible time to start a bit of a reverse sweep attempt. I won't lie, it's the only time so consider rush here at the ready
One time it's down barrier rush comes out first lady in next and actually picked off early and there it is
Need to do anything more with a soldier now the game they're gonna respect that rush back on out
Look to come back in after the beat got used and okay
It all destroyed it there perhaps
I didn't want to file in the two support old folks for now
They're wasting some time and Zera kind of fought to get caught here Jake. I think that's just another checkpoint down
Is there a maybe you can get out of this one Zamba gonna look for the chase
But with Briggle in the corner, it's gonna be prove a little scary
There has to get I think another touch here, and it just doesn't seem realistic
Team Liquid the same read back to the Maga. They say, you know, we we've seen enough zeb you win on the Eressa
And the soldier obviously against the Maga pretty effective at blowing up the cage fight with the Odeclaw
You will see that's the right clicks being thrown in constantly and actually clears that cage
Sometimes quick enough that it doesn't get any damage.
Dad, but he's caught out, Zerah.
I would have died with no mercurial.
Once again, Team Liquid tried to set up a track play
as the teams are transitioning between flash points,
but Lunax also happened to fight.
They both commit themselves.
Zerah's deflake doesn't help from behind
and somber with a bit of a nutty pulse bomb
to clean up Vega.
This is gigantic for Lunax.
Liquid were hoping that losing the point
would give them at least a drop
on starting to cap the next one,
but as you can see, that's not the case.
What a fearless clutch from Lunex.
I think a lot of teams wouldn't have been even willing to go for a brisket.
Got a couple players coming in late, but Zamba could go for a cheeky stall.
Zeb is back, so Liquid are going to have to fight for this as long as they want it.
Zamba playing it safe for the time being.
Speed ring active for Liquid.
Liquid just don't want to spend heavy on trying to take this fight.
They are sitting on both their support ults, but they feel like it need to ration them,
because they are going to face down a rush beat combo, as in from Lunex at some point.
OK, overall protocol is active.
This will get an immediate disengage away by Lunex and it's about catching one of his play-ins.
Do you see these, or do you have X-10? That'll do the job.
Team Liquid will fight J without using any support ultimates.
Yeah, winning that up just the override protocol is massive,
but Lunex, they don't have much they can really respond with there, right?
Both NY and Z, 10, 20% away from their respective support ults.
So Team Liquid, finally getting a really good position ult-wise on the point.
X-10 has to go hero mode here with the OC to keep this one in contention.
Tree, fantastic game for him, so fast hit point 2k damage at the top of the server.
And we have the difference maker on this Emra here, we haven't played for Xera.
Last one forced to down barrier and then Xera was sort of awkwardly caught out after the fight.
Alright, we had to rally Panda.
Okay, the orbit rate at the same time can they could actually turn this into a fight win?
It's just a hard disengagering room, it's just delusional or something that they could just not have and cannot force fights with.
The tree over extends into the line of sight of X10, what a nasty shot!
Pings into the wall! Oh, she'll find another one! This is dirty stuff!
And Team Liquid, despite being 99%, get absolutely smoked.
She's just her. You can't even call it over an extension.
Tree just pops up, looks to put some damage down, and gets collapsed.
Huge OC from X-Tan. Absolutely what the Doctor ordered.
I would say any less, I don't know if it would have been enough.
Liquid, they still have cage play, they can still win this, but there's no support ults to back it up.
back it up so there's going to be opportunities here for Zomba and Zeb to end this one here.
It's the charge looking for stomp on Zs potentially. At least getting a swift step out limiting that mobility
neither pays off. Lunex gonna fall back to the point now as Tim and I could look for another way
where they are frobing from the outside. I'm gonna fight like they're good. I'm gonna all
right god this out of nowhere instead of with a terrorist surge! Brings the house down on team
Liquid and now they're just gonna press Q because they're gonna try and salvage some
value from this fight infected stays alive and as X-Ten to make sure that
is not a long-lived affair. X-Ten still a problem she's still
killing as sojourn and X-Ten's got nowhere to go anymore. Another rail gun
another kill for X-Ten Genji out of the game and here come Lunix looks like they're
done playing nice they're gonna fight their way back into the series by hook
or by crook and with tree falling it's uninfected on his single triple pick
to try and extend the length of the game but where the rest of them gonna
to come from. Trees already been picked off and infected, couldn't quite touch. Here comes
Lunex back into the series.
Great opener from Zeb, also well done by Nenwai on the Lucio Stinglight through the fight.
Great boop on the blade to Nizera. The value, which was kind of the only way for Liquid
to come back into it at that moment. So, great execution from Lunex. A well-deserved
win here on RutaSompy.
But it's a series to a 2-1 scoreline and it does, I guess, ask some questions
of Team Liquid. That being said, Liquid, you've got two back-to-back map picks, right?
Like, you're in a great position to close things out. You have every strategic advantage.
You've got one of the strongest, most storied coaching staffs, you know, of all the teams
in North America. Surely you get this one done. And, Mitch, I've given them the best
cast or curse I possibly can. So, next fans, you're welcome.
I respect it, honestly. You have done the most in getting us to a five-matter
again, and I'm here for it. Again, like, let's roll back the clock in this a little
So Zeb, the round starts with like some really timely javelins, that's not even the most exciting one, there's one that I've no where though, I think that's a kill, that's a kill.
I don't know, like Overglades or Whistleplay, but it has been pretty sick to see Zeb be able to pilot this and set these picks up, that's why the Sojourn comes in potentially for these comps for the Railgun Guaranteed kill off a javelin target.
Zombo, fun fact, dies once over the entire map, they are unkillable and they are a constant pressure threat.
I think this has some basic questions about the support lineup from Team Liquid.
You know, the Lucio Cure I think is a better matchup in the Tracer.
God, that kill is crazy for me, I understand.
Absolute snap off there.
From there, she has a bit more room to work with, can find the rest of the cleanup kills.
Look at Nannu, I just constantly, she's in the right position to peel with these boots.
Really impact in the mid fight.
That Terrasurge was so nasty from there, out of absolutely nowhere.
But that is kind of what the Lucio comps allow you to do.
When you go without the Lucio,
you cannot swing off that speed boost nearly as well.
Zeb showing just how mobile four legs can make you
with a sick terra serves that basically wins the map there.
And then that is it.
Great, sir, a vast performance here for Lucio.
You can see why they pick it.
Now you're starting to think, right.
So how do we avoid running into these Arissa comps?
It also makes me wonder, yeah,
that would have been pretty potent potentially
on RuneSarpe as well.
But great to see them step up
from the DPS line here for the next.
I don't think that's going to miss you at all.
Xera struggled in that game, Jake.
You know, the switch over to Genji later on,
you are still trying to play against Kiri Lucio.
So it's not an easy back line to pin down.
You're often running into sound barrier
and you can only sometimes play to force the barrier out
and try and get that alone.
Yeah, right.
It's not the explosive impact
that we sometimes used to seeing from Xera
and showing that in Lunax,
when you try to play up against them
in like these raw brawls,
they look very good.
very competitive in that spot. That being said we're going to two map types that are kind of the
most different map types really of the pool in hybrid and escort so you know those side flipping
a lot of a slower paced map type and Cardi fans coming in for Zeb so okay is this I will say like
it's not doing this oh I don't think he's doing this which would be fun which is kind of what
Cardi fan is very well known for um he got subbed in last week against Kellan and they're playing
or on that map. So we can expect to see highly mobile tank play from KardiFan, but this definitely
tells us now, your subs come before fans. So if you've watched last week and your team liquid,
you have a chance to try and target KardiFan's hero pool. I don't think you sub KardiFan,
even if you think they can actually be targeted by fans, so I'm curious to see
what their response is going to be. My guess is that the theory is that
You can play the same comp with Doom or Baal and whatever gets banned, you just play the
other and you'll still run the strat.
I think you're right though, I think for Team Liquid, you'd almost rather play against the
Doomfist.
I mean, the execution difficulty on Doomfist is so unbelievably high when it comes to
these dive comps.
It's one of those things where you can just be an absolute devastator against a
lot of players and you go up against some of the best players in the world and it
just feels like a struggle to really land your skills and have that impact on Doom,
which ultimately comes down to finding burst headshot kills.
That's really what the character does at the highest level.
And most other top teams have said,
look, it's just not realistic.
It's just not consistently doable against players of this caliber.
As you go to Gibraltar, it can't help but feel
Team Liquid comfort zone, right?
Like play some Winston, and it makes the something.
Also, I wonder, did you play Wrecking Ball on this map?
I mean, after the rework, maybe, but.
Tiny Fan played Wrecking Ball on this map last week.
Why they sub out because it was a Dallas fuel watch point you brought up a map. Um, I
Think ball is unplayable on this map. I mean, like they did it. I'm sorry. I'm just
I don't I mean the ball has been reworked right some some of my knowledge is like a little outdated
It's it's a bit new for this and just say we don't really care about your cheeky tank there
We're just gonna give her the diva
Stock standard and likely for Chinlick could just play a comfort mode. What's it called? Kim liquid don't believe that there's gonna be a ball on this map
I love that it was actually this ban from Linux is interesting because it was look me knows Iari that
Rip them to shreds that Lumina had like 12k damage the next highest DPS on his team
We'll have like 10k so she was a big problem for Linux on this map
So I don't I don't know if it's necessarily targeted anyone in particular
But yes, Iari is not going to be an option. She's great on defense. I mean, you can really get a lot better out of that pile on
So sensory on both sides of the map. Yeah, and the diva ban is like, okay, maybe
Is there a is there a border where?
Question is this Cardi fan play Winston? I
Don't know. So it's it's gonna plays both Winston and ball, right?
But I always find them more known for the wrecking ball play themselves. I
I just, I mean maybe it, my crazy is that I'm not just terrible on this map, like there's
there's, it's the roles are so awkward on this map, like there's so many tight corners
that you can't really speed roll around.
I feel like that's a big problem for wrecking ball, like it just how realistic the hero
is to play.
So I might not know, so it could be just a my understanding of CardiFam's hero pool
because Dallas actually banned D.Va against Lunax last week after they realized CardiFam
was being sucked in.
So that's also something to consider that could be something that in scrims as emerged is like, you know, we've seen a lot from them.
Because this is Dallas, this is liquid following the same sort of blueprint as Dallas did in terms of the map pick, the sub and then the bands that followed it.
So we did get ball.
I'm not saying it was good.
I was saying it was great.
At least we got off the roof anyway.
But yeah, we're going to see it again.
And it was the Freya for X10 as well.
We see her less and less this year right and only in a certain number of matches stopping power
She's still I feel like Freyja the end of last year kind of made Winston look ridiculous and just not good at all
Obviously the ability to space from Winston in a pinch and slow him down Bollastra's really really effective
So we're gonna see that run here again, and yes, you're gonna get your ball potentially. I
Do like the Freyja in this matchup like you said
I think great against the Winston lot of verticality, which is ideal
for watchpoint Gibraltar and also one of the best of like the hitscan to follow up
on these you know burst slam hits from the wrecking ball right you get a couple
charged shots into somebody like they're gonna end up popping from that team
liquid though they're ready and they've got Cassidy, Kiri, Briggs really powerful
defensive backline, Cardi, Phan and Zamba they have their work cut out for them.
Okay, off to the races. It is an infected Winston. Now that explains the bigger
band. Again the Winston comp can be a wall comp if you are diving faster.
However it's back into the frayer which is kind of what Loonix is trying to set up here.
I like this a lot. It's then pretty crucial there in making infected
rendering a state and non-option for the Sinian scientists. So now playing
inside the server room here, obviously you know that your broadcast has some geography
changes as well. Definitely very notable when you get into the second phase of map
on top of the shuttle.
Renovation 5 bomb, I believe is essentially what seems to have happened here on the watch
plane. You look like you're just happy to bunker this one up, they want to play nice
and slow, but that's giving Lunex a lot of space to work with.
Kind of famous to give me how to push this card forward here.
And in fact if it's a drop down a contest, Tree has a pretty decent sideline, see, but
actually wants to take a very, this is a solo sideline for sure.
Put the pressure on the backline maybe, it does feel like a bit of a hero play.
And they're ready for it.
So the Q-Li already being thrown in Tree direction.
Now they've been out of the fight for too long.
It's a massive, Charles the Knife.
I think if the casting play doesn't work out, you'll, you'll, you'll, it's a big gap.
Now that is illegal, that is one of the worst, they are five up and they have not taken a
fight yet.
Team Liquid, if there was ever a way to get the first grab, that's a mental mover man,
they need to lock in, you cannot let stuff like that happen.
But Kaluj wasn't in the game this time, so Vindicant.
Explain that.
Exactly.
You can't see, I don't hear people blading colon for this anymore, it's definitely spread, like the Poker is in your PC box.
So, anyway, back to where we go. Infected on the ball himself, I mean it's just a pan down, it could be that Freya issue, but it is very easy.
Still with this look on your Volta, it's a shut the defending team out the shuttle phase and that part is on the move.
Xera wants to try and step in here, good pressure on Zombo, he's gonna make him think twice about lingering.
He topped up a back reaction in no time.
All clear for Zera.
No infected up on that high ground here on the ball, but Zera needs a little bit of help.
It's been a rush to that effect.
Zera has to step out of the line of sight to Kiriko, to get the healing that they need.
But yes, this fight is now on well and truly.
Both teams to the Kiriko ultimate.
Zera trying to push in, and that's a stick you absolutely need.
Then, while close to a B, she'll not have a chance to deploy that in this fight.
Lunex simply give up the ghost.
Yeah, they gotta just take the reset here.
It's gonna be a pretty hard one.
They're gonna lose all the map control.
not as painful as it once was, Andre Braulter would now plop more ways into the fight here.
A lunax making the sound barrier work with this comp is going to be a little bit difficult,
right? Like it's a powerful tool, but your ability to initiate aggressively is not that
significant. A beat doesn't really move the needle, so I think it's better as a defensive tool,
which means Team Liquid, a lot of power for them to work with here as they can harass
these walk-ups. In fact, it goes for a slam, uses pretty much all his resource,
Tree has to roll a pulse bomb to live and X-Tem buys the ball up.
White gets to mid, White, deep at a timely moment,
keeps Zomber in the fight, keeps him harassing,
hit the pushing past the shield on Vega.
Nothing really left for the break to keep her in the fight.
X-Tem was picked up at the very least.
Now, White filter, what's gonna buy some time?
It's really about it.
If he's the infected here, he's just gonna try and be disruptive.
Sniall, Art, Lunix, inside that corridor,
now has to double back and try and get on out.
But time has once really been bought.
There's a touch here.
No C9 this time.
Just in damage on Zomber there as well.
In fact, it's infected, rolled on in.
Now from the high ground, it's about three.
Front and center has to get some nasty shots.
And KaniFam will be chased away.
Good pressure on the ball.
And with Z's down, they might have found their foothold again.
And the dive was so good from UDX.
But ultimately, the minefield from Infect,
it just wasn't clear quick enough.
The spawns come back in.
And the power of the brig, and these low ulti fights,
and NY feels it.
She's going to switch over and take the mirror as well.
It's hard to disagree, right?
Being able to sustain through these fights,
Lucio just can't quite match up.
Effected on the ball, I mean this was kind of what he made his name on initially.
We first got picked up by the students of the game roster a couple years ago now.
And now he does have the Boston Uprising skin, because that's his first name.
Always in a signature of his.
Look at the fray over on that high ground, a chaser there by Party Fan.
Also drops down.
Ooh, what would he get with a shuttle nowadays?
There it's dying around 2-9.
Not exactly what we could have on the menu here.
New Nex about to make a meal of the ball shot there, catches on to anybody inside their doorway and trees, off to the right!
Got taken down by the blast in the end.
So they step away for Eskinoa, had to be done and it's gonna be tough to contest this now with Zera.
Just going for a touch.
Here comes the wrecking ball, get again, but affected unfortunately, was a little bit too late to stall.
Man, I gotta eat my words.
Like, the wrecking ball absolutely paying dividends on this map, infected for us through the mirror, and then it's sort of looking like the meta.
Maybe with the Alari out of the mix, you can really get that damage done.
I also think X-Ten is doing fantastic so far.
Her follow-ups on a lot of these slams,
you're finding a lot of the openers into this game.
Tree, kind of struggling on this one.
In fairness, it's a tough spot to be tested.
Yeah, it is brutal.
They're outranged by the Freya.
The Wrecking Ball, even though you have something to limit my building
and their hindrance is tough.
Eskin, although, goes upstairs.
Kunai, and X-Ten is handled.
That's the Freya down.
Now, you'd think Tree can play a little bit more impunity now,
but won't be given too much to shoot at.
There's Lunex, the disengaging.
It's gonna be another retake here.
Lunex, a lot of ultimates to work with.
But only two minutes on the clock.
Despite getting to third point,
Team Liquid have been draining the clock throughout the map so far,
other than a unfortunate situation on first point.
Third point's for the spot.
You really need to make a scan.
Getting a full captain would be fantastic.
Don't get caught, you can't.
No one knocks though with the pile drive.
And everyone tries to play ignoring.
The wrecking ball on the side of Lunex.
Team Liquid are surging ahead.
Yeah, you can see just how quickly that peacekeeper fires off inside Kitsuneirush.
Liquid did exactly what the game plan was there. They understood the assignment.
It'd go fast as soon as the regular ball sails over him.
Yeah, Cassidy finding a place to kind of plant his flag and really push the tempo in these fights.
X-10 struggling to take the high ground. I think she's like, very aware of exactly what she wants to do
and constantly oppressing it. CardiFan, though, putting some pressure on the high ground of his own.
The game would be his first dive. Rally comes out from Vega and Escarra finds X-Tan. That should be shut down this push.
I mean, between this Brig and this Cassidy, you really do have the swapping power for the wrecking ball.
At least it deterred Cardic Fan from getting too close. X-Tan got blown up there again.
Again, the Freya, even though she has all this mobility, can still be exploitable.
A lot of people that can draw a target on her back.
And our team Liquid have been playing this corner really nicely.
In fact, it simply will go back up to that high ground and try to punish this push.
push dead-eye flanking. Oh yes! Set up with a power driver!
An X-10 once more is a thing of the past!
Freya off the map once more!
Can Loomis recover? I think they'd rather try and extract themselves from this situation,
but that could be a tough ask. Under a minute left in the game,
are they being chased down to the end of the earth?
Uh, what a classic play from Tree. You know, reads it perfectly,
because Loomis are pushing him with double support ulti there.
It looks like an unwinnable fight, and so Tree goes for the big gamble.
This time it pays off really great read in the situation from the superstar hits game a team like with
Treat you said it was uncomfortable earlier on but now it feel like he's been bought the space
I was able to go for a bit of a play with that par driver
Where does this ball of shot go?
And you slowly make sure I can pull down it's then certainly thinking about it
Adapted Barry on in fact enough for him to be out of all away
Can't expand this fancy any of the action either the minefield is enough to turn Lunex for now
They're gonna be under 10 seconds left in the game X10. I think she's looking for a play of her own
The tree wise to it sends some shots in that direction, and they are wrapping around it yet again
This is weird the teams have changed spots here Jake team liquid have to try and join up with their backline
We don't have the same level of mobility
The next me happy about this though defender position is in panic and Zamba finds infected
It's gonna be one of your key card touchers down Zamba another in the fight
He makes still relatively healthy sports keeping one another up and team liquid
Gonna fall at the last hurdle and give up the full pass here, Tree and Vega just fighting it out from behind
but no chance of touch card in the fight.
Huh!
You can see the idea, I think Liquid are trying to go after X-10 yet again.
But they wrapped around and I do believe they left the Brig of Vega on an island.
Lunex saw that opportunity and I think they got that first pick in the fight which was big
and then from there I had a snowballed it out.
Sometimes, you start to defend on this map.
You've been playing any sort of dive-based defense or when you want to rush people down.
like it carries an element of risk there and unfortunately Team Liquid just, they don't stick to landing.
Yeah, they had some success with with sending Tree in on these flanks, you know, finding some of those devastating pick-offs,
but I think Lunax made some really nice adjustments, right, recognizing, okay, he's gotta keep looking for these plays,
they're gonna hit the flank, and they flip the map, and on Gibraltar last, I mean, this is a very powerful defender position, typically.
So if you can flip the map as attackers and, you know, get into the defender spots,
You're going to be very happy kind of pulling that cart home rather than trying to like push it through these, you know, daunting archways full of flanks.
So I think Lunex going to be pretty happy about that, but it comes from the adaptation.
They read the play from Vega and try to hit that flank.
Not a moment too soon.
There was well liquid able to bleed a good three minutes off the clock.
It seems now they go on defense.
They are also the ones that are going to have to throw caution to the wind more often than not and take three out.
Surely Cassidy is going to be the one with the biggest target on their back take that hit scan thread down
Make it impossible to really get any sort of hindrance
And really fray and just get unlocks. I
Will say I almost like the Cassidy more on offense here because I think it gives you a little bit more opportunity to kind of
Take like those plays a tree wants to go for a swing in the corner with a big by his side
It's just taken names like very realistic here on attacking for extent you can hunt and pack all day long on attack
But on defense, sometimes you gotta stand your ground, and Preya, not necessarily the best at that.
We'll see if they make their style work and find these pickups early.
Huh, Preya skits so good at giving space, creating space, but when you run out of proof,
you didn't know where to go, then I thought he was a little overwhelmed along the time.
But if it's a pressure down on this corner, and again, punishing shots that Preya tries to make his way out,
so the damage to him starts coming in from the capacity, providing them an effect that can actually give a stage you ground,
In and around this cart for them, rolling straight on through the youth, nice moves for them,
I'm just going to be sure to spray her with a high ground.
I'm CardiFan on the flank here.
Alright, really want to get on top of this Cassidy, but it's actually infected with strikes first,
big pile driver, big space. However, Tree gets knocked up, CardiFan wins the day.
She's at some sane angles from the infected. Unfortunately for him,
X-Ten is just not able to be pinned down for long enough until now, I guess, at least
to turn that into a pick opportunity. CardiFan here,
Happy to play pinball up on this high ground.
Power driver pulls up a little bit short and effective.
Does not want to be left out of the action.
Notice that they still need to disrupt this backline very heavily.
So he does.
Before doubling back, this is for time-to-treat to re-spawn
so the Cassie-Grenade factor will certainly be in the mix again.
A zombie getting caught off there.
Big kill by Zera.
Who next?
Opposite some ultimate's been nothing quite available just yet.
X10's under a lot of pressure.
Cards rolling forward.
Party fan has to get this contest,
but it's not gonna be fight when they need to find more into this one because tree's stepping up to the plate.
Full shot misses. Deadline out the tree, it's his turn.
Paul's bomb not quite connecting all it did from Sombra though.
On to the Deadline Cassie. The most vulnerable moment for Tree was exploited by Sombra.
That's massive. There is a minefield on the car for the moment for Team Liquid though.
It doesn't seem like Khanikan mines. They only have eyes for the personnel on the PL side
and they are caught in a compromising position. Both backliners stuck in the server room.
So he's tougher than to extract themselves here.
Vega seems to have done enough, swinging with his mace, and oh, okay, what's going forward?
After X-10, the rally bash gets it done. Stunned on the fray and that drops to the card.
Vega is going to create the stage around for Team Liquid to try and get this checkpoint.
And my god, it's actually worked.
Rally in plain half and then why, but she's barely hanging on and eventually gets dragged down.
Sick moment there for Vega. Seize and opening and completely capitalizes.
Had great punish, X10, gonna go over to the Cassidy, kinda felt it in that moment, right?
Went up for a peek on the Freya and when you get turned on, you just cannot stand toe to toe.
Then again, not much can against a rallying Brig, especially with the rush coming in over the top from Eskidor.
Team Liquid, still a long way to go on the map, but they bought themselves good chances now, taking control of the ship.
Liquid wanna get ahead and get this shuttle push set up nicely.
Obviously, you can walk up the rev now. It's still nice to get sort of entrenched in there early.
KaniFan!
Oh, good Suzu.
Just able to get away, but for how much longer is Aero going to chase down?
They guarantee killing the Wrecking Ball is worth so much value.
He's able to slip away.
And Ten also quite low.
This is the kind of chaos, though, that Liquid want.
They want to keep things in flux.
They want to make it hard for Lunax to actually set up
and ease into this entrenched position on the high ground, Jay.
Aw, Tree sneaks in a headshot from downtown, somehow drops Z.
That's going to be a lot of the key healing resource available, Tree.
spring in the trap now to push that tempo into the room might even look to step up more here
caught in a rock in a hard place x had no way home tree finds another on the fight
I love what they've done here again they just saw him discord crossing chaos with this wrecking
wall magnitude lunax can't set up and so the shuttle phase basically given up entirely this
is kind of more the way it normally goes being liquid the feather in their cap is that they
They were actually able to contest inside the shutoff phase and this part of the map just around the corner for quite some time
They're coming to the last phase with a full time back four minutes to work with now
Lumet have to find a way to gum up the works to slow them down
That's easier said than done grenade catchers on them infected here, but he's not bothered
He's right where he needs to be what a knock off the dead
I don't have quite a use to follow up so X 10 is in an awkward spot
She can't really see him in the priority targets with the wrecking ball filling up her field of view and that's still an issue
She's gonna get clobbered tree another one headshot the finish off the job and this card all the wild Jake has been on the move
Love the positioning from team liquid
They win that fight on second and they take full advantage getting that top stairs position and when the next come to contestant
Everyone is there to support from liquid holding on to that high ground now a lot of ultimates to get a point in this final fight
Who next need to hold on those three of us on the clock
Oh my god that's sense to love it to find a kill off that day
I can see how vagus pulled up on her and tried to go to work with the mace but
Nice rally from men why to protect the cast me that is a monumental field bash, but follow up
That's the question is it going to be there these already used as Susie do so now so it's on for young and old and Vega knows
It's swinging a four defenses swing and don't miss is the plan for the bridge
So I'm gonna take Vegas out of who's on the car look it is infected trying to push this over
Hardicam with a minefield desperation, they are low and affected is going to ride this one home
Three minutes and 40 in the time bank between liquid that is a huge lead heading into extra innings
Yeah, that's an absolute let's Craig here and that gives you a great position because Gibraltar this deep into overtime
The clock could make all the difference in the world that being said over time and overwatch is always a crazy thing
Right, you could be that team with one minute
You get a couple of kills with those long spawns on overtime though, and you know, things can really get out of control.
So Lunex with backs against the wall, they need to find something, they need to get off to a decent start here to have a chance on Watchpoint Gibraltar.
Tree started around with, yeah, like, 10k.
I would get up to 17k damage in a very short round. That is quite terrifying.
Infected. The fire there just in terms of the damage done for the wrecking ball is quite absurd.
Cardiff and comes into someone we consider a bit more specialist when it comes to the wrecking ball been affected
It's kind of the OG at least in this era of overwatch in NA to bring this pick out when I was only like Jun been I think daring to play it back in Dallas
She stepped up and also showed that North America play that stuff. It's good to see that still being mixed in here
Tree on the castie though basically anything tree has been honest been very very important tree has an important role in this team
playing those key hitscans and just has to vomit damage for the entirely of
around. It's really cool to see this comp looking really nice on Gibraltar with
all these new ramps allowing you to take the high ground positions more
effectively across the entire map. Trees able to actually collapse and be part
of these hits which typically for Cassidy is not realistic with a wrecking
ball on your team but it seems like these collapses together and really
making the comp sink so great execution from them in the attack. See how
they approach this defense.
Hang on a line of sight on X-10 as much as infected possibly can.
You find a way to get in and put a punish that...
...inability operate to give up too much space in the end.
Yeah, again, we're very good at falling back as long as you've got someone to fall back to you're in nooooon!
Look at the door about it.
It's a hard corner to peek man. In fact, it's just absolutely styling.
Super aggressive. They don't want to give X-10 any space.
they know if she can just get that angle it could be scary treat tries his luck
gets a nice power shot to the face has to kind of chill out on this one.
Five seconds left though this is good saw from Team Liquid but for Rimmelor it makes it hard for Lunex to get value out of there.
Longer range DPS now playing the low ground at Zombo VZero Zombo needs to hang on needs to hang in there.
X10 finally she's got a decent vantage point to work from I guess she's chasing her as usual it's infected.
Trying to make sure this player is always harassed.
It's never free, but still a beautiful bowler shot inside the server room guarantees a kill
and big damage on Eskido is gonna force that Kirito out of the fight.
X-10 finally she's unleashed, finally with some room to play and she is delivering.
Vega has to watch his back, but Zonba's pulse bomb captures on Eskido and forces
that bridge shield to be turned in that direction.
Vega's down, nothing to be done here.
Every DPS of Lunex gonna hog wild.
Love that from Lunex, using all the time on the clock, playing things slow,
eventually finding their power position.
X-10 gets the job done.
Now with OT spawn, it's not too much, but there's players not even back into the fight just yet.
Still, TL, in theory, they have big bank ultimates, you know, you swing wide with the minefield with the high noon on a cart.
How the heck are Lunex gonna try and stay into this one just to keep the cart contested? It's gonna take a row.
Alright, podriver comes on in. Yeah, they're straight within the mines, they really know where for somebody to go.
Get him, the tracer down is huge, that's how Lunex's gonna contest and stall this in the longer term.
X-10 can't afford to drop, it's on Cardi-fan and yeah, without the tracer.
There's just not enough contingency to keep the round going.
Lunex did very well to get to that first checkpoint,
and that's given them a real shot here, Jake,
but it's a 3-minute and 40-second time bank that they're contending with.
Yeah, with that early hold on second, you more or less have to full hold first.
I think if you give up the first checkpoint with any amount of time,
I think this one is pretty much over-holding like that on second is incredibly difficult to do.
which just came from the fact that it was final fight, Team Liquid had that big old bank advantage,
Xeraphine's two to really lock that one up.
So Team Liquid have set themselves a very achievable wincon if they can break the first point hold,
which is going to be their biggest challenge.
Last time, went pretty easy, see if Lunax have adjustments to maybe throw some more redses into the works.
They'd buy their time a little bit.
I remember, like, X-Tan just firing, you know, bolts at the choke,
as they tried to move our ping too, and it looked like Lunax were able to
Hey, pretty aggressively at least posture so that liquid didn't have much space in both teams are doing to each other in this very part of the map
Trying to deny the enemy hits fan from getting a good line for getting good high ground control
Both these wrecking balls continually disrupting
But all it takes is one misstep for the defenders here and a team is seasoned just team liquid
It's probably gonna take you to the cleaners. They've got to lock in
This is how lunax stay alive in the series give themselves a real crack at playoffs
Starts right now, 3 minutes 40 on the clock for Liquid to get just past that first checkpoint.
Tree just checking if X-10 gets a little overconfident to take a risky peek, but nothing's doing just yet.
This one's going to be slow and steady most likely.
Team Liquid, they just want to roll the cart, get it deep under that car wash position,
down there in the pit where it's harder for the high ground defenders to contest.
And Karda's made it there now.
Into the underpass for next 10, trying to send as many of these bolts in as she can.
Look at Karda's positioning.
Trying to set up a player insta-kill here with some stuck bolts, and oh!
Tree very low, almost got the Cassidy.
The idea was good, but now, Plan B's gonna have to be enacted.
Karda's fan was hindered for a time, and it didn't really seem to slow them down at all.
Team Liquid now coming up from under the underpass here.
Here's the next phase of the plan for the attackers.
They try and risk control this high ground away from Lunex and tree and he keeps hitting these shots. That is going to be easy
At Cassidy with this major perk from the beginning here in overtime
Putting in massive damage, Cardi fans sent packing, but Lunex still holding for now
See even sliver than HP just barely lived. The tree making his way inexorably forward here
It's just an absolute hammer and anvil holding W like a
Terminator
There's nobody going for Lunex that falls to full back further and further, but it can't move it the entire time
Eventually they've got no choice but to go for it. Yep. Nice wrecking ball play different fact
It look at how it gets up inside that high grabber can't overstay his welcome trees
I don't want to go out there
So we're trying to play a little bit safe out the open bowl a shot catching on the dead
I know tree gets just clear of its area of effect and extends caught out by the dead
I should link it a little bit too long out into the open and that could be it
Linux desperately fighting for control of his first point
It's not to be and now team liquid are a stone throw away a stone's roll away from taking the series
Yeah, it's gonna be a really desperate retake. I think this one's just done it, Dustin.
Lunix just off the spawn. CardiFan has to somehow stall for really extended duration of this one.
And if a boop comes in from Brig, yeah, it's just not gonna happen.
There it is. The whip shot to deny CardiFan the opportunity to contest and team Liquid take the dub.
Moving up to 2-2 now allowing themselves to a greater degree to master their destinies as we head into playoffs
And of course, inevitably the champions clash.
Yeah, a really impressive series overall from Team Liquid.
I think it was just like a little bit rocky at the very start,
but as things progressed, right, it just settled and settled.
And, you know, some heroics needed on Runosopy to get the job done.
But, oh, Team Liquid, it's a, I mean, this is a bit of a beatdown,
but I will say great games from Zomba in particular on the Tracer.
You know, even whether it was Gibraltar or the rest of the series,
Had huge impact
But man this one it's gonna sting a little bit liquid felt beatable and Lounex couldn't get it done
I think a tough part is there's like X-10 she has a really good game in terms of damage alpha
But she dies 20 times over the course of Gibraltar. She is targeted heavily by this composition from team liquid and again
I like that Cardiff and get sucked in I like the team that you know that Lounex are
Reaching out for that Gibraltar map to give themselves a shot foot
This is probably not the team that that kind of gambit is gonna work out again
This is a team that is molded in the crucibles of chaos involving wrecking ball compositions
And has a hitscan player that can break out of almost any
compromising position
Team liquid had to fight for this dub. I won't lie. I was a little bit nervous about that making that prediction here
But on Gibraltar everything seemed to come together. I think seeing them be able to play an approximate mirrored composition with the wrecking ball as well
Well, after Infected had to make a pivot off of Winston,
seal it for me that, you know,
they deserve to take the win here.
I also want to credit Vega on the brig,
especially Gibraltar, I feel like his impact was massive,
like a couple clutch saves, massive aggression
with the rallies that ends up being decisive
and a couple key points.
But overall just really nice work
on the main support this game,
like him and Tree together, well, you know,
obviously it's going to be Tree and the Feed
for the most part,
but got to highlight the way the main support
makes a huge difference,
just makes Tree feel unkillable.
Or Cassidy, typically is also relatively vulnerable
to those hard dies.
Just didn't feel that way with Vega by a side.
I think that, overall, it's been an insane series, right?
There was definitely a world where it felt like,
okay, maybe at the beginning,
Lunex still had a chance there on Gibraltar.
But you guys were calling it so well.
The targeted picks on X-10 made it so hard for her
to get back into this matchup for Lunex
to get back into that last map.
But I do think that when you're taking the series
out of a hole here, Mitch,
that matchup between Team Liquid and Lunex
was a lot closer than the score line says.
No, absolutely.
It was a really competitive 3-1.
We've already seen this Lunex show us
a hyper competitive 3-2 against the Dallas Fuel.
The reality is that there just aren't that many spots
in playoffs, right?
And we actually have six quality teams out of six.
So it's a bit of a unique situation
if we find ourselves in as much as I love them.
There's no do-ducks here in this, you know,
IWCS NA bracket.
So like everybody on any given Sunday's in with a shot.
So I still, this hasn't hurt my estimation,
I think at all of Lunex.
They are a really quality team.
And again, it's just a matter of trying to get ahead
week by week.
It definitely is.
And it's not like their playoffs chances are dashed.
Just like Mitch was saying,
they still have an opportunity
to get that qualification spot
as long as they beat Disguise tomorrow.
But let's have a chat with team Liquid.
We haven't really gotten to talk to them yet.
And congratulations, Tree, on your win here today.
I wanted to get a bit of an idea of how Team Liquid was
feeling going in today's matchup,
knowing how important this win was up against Lunax
to really give your guys the best chance possible at qualifying
to play off on top of the fact that I
know that there's a lot of pressure on your team
because of the players that are on it
being under the Team Liquid banner
and how you guys kind of mentally turn things
around heading into this weekend.
Yeah, obviously this was like a very important match because I think if we lost, so like pretty much couldn't make playoffs.
But we found like a strategy we've been copying a lot of like birdish pro comps with like modern stuff.
So shout out to them and that's like a style that we've been good at for years, like even like last year.
And so like once we like got used to playing that and just, you know, continuing to get like more used to each other as a team for Escanor as well.
I think that there was like a huge improvement for us last week compared to like the week before.
Now you guys have stabilized a little bit here going into playoffs. That's probably got to feel pretty good
You're the team like I think I said always kind of has really high expectations on their shoulders
You've got great coaching staff. You've got no names. You're like the team is pretty similar to sort of run out last year
Looking at the rest of these teams in a what do you feel like is the biggest total you've had to cross or to jump into
Getting on that level as well. Is there anything you can pinpoint is like we've either dealt with this or we need to deal with this
And then we're right there. We're in that top cut. We're number one
I think the DSG match, we should win versus them every time.
We just had a horrible match day that time.
I think we're right above them, I'd say, in terms of skill, but I don't know.
The bottom teams right now are so neck and neck.
But I think for the top teams right now, Dallas and SSG, and we play SSG tomorrow,
Dallas are cringe, honestly.
They just feel cringe here and play a bunch of spam.
So I think they're definitely a hard team to play against.
I mean, we just got to keep improving at our style and that's pretty much what that was due to and yeah, just focus on ourselves
Yeah, so I guess I'm just curious for for you know, you guys as a team
You know, you've been on top for a long time with this roster more or less and had a lot of wins
What has it been like to sort of be facing a situation where you're like, okay, we have to adapt
We have to overcome we're struggling like what's that process been like for you guys to you know
You've seen that in international competition, but here at the regional level, how has that
been?
How's the staff been?
Who's been stepping up to be like a leader in that kind of challenging moment for you guys?
I think everyone's been stepping up.
I think this is the hardest we've probably ever worked as a team, like three blocks
a day, like two hour of all of everything.
Like we're all working super hard.
We're still like in it.
And I think shout out to Escanor, honestly, like, I see a lot of hate on him, but
I swear he's like so good for like his experience and he's doing so much for
our team and he's such a good caller.
So yeah.
I really love to hear how the entire team is stepping up and I'm kind of curious to get your measure on
how the rest of these teams look as far as
The last two playoffs spots obviously like being open here alongside yourselves, of course
Which team are you expecting to make that four slot?
I'm not sure exactly like how the matchups go and who's favored but I think it's like a coin toss honestly at this point
like I'm pretty sure
after the games tomorrow, it's like
I don't know the proper saying, but I think, I think Lunex or DSG, I think for sure.
I feel like I slightly edge out DSG, just because I think they're pretty good matchday
team and they definitely had us there, but yeah, I'd say DSG, but I think either team
could also make it.
Really quick, I just want to double back on, you mentioned something about your starting
to work these Virtus Pro comps in the Malgon looks here, really quickly wanting to get
your thoughts on that.
Do you think that's something that like NA needs to pay attention to and pick up
here or do you feel like that's the kind of niche thing that works on some maps and it's just maybe nice to add to a part of your play style how
How do I know this approach be I think there's definitely ways to counter the maga
But I think it's not too hard considering you're only like if they counter pick you you're only like one stop away from being on like a
Still good comp into those counter picks. So honestly, I think it's a pretty strong staple
I don't think it's like just a niche pick on certain maps or anything. I think it's pretty good
All right, I just you know for the fans
Should they nerf Emory? Is Emory balanced? What do you think?
Well, for our fans, probably not. I'm kind of thin as I'm not that good, but, uh...
Maybe the pistol perk, but other than that, no.
Okay, love it. Well, Trey, thank you so much for the interview.
Good luck in your game tomorrow against SSG as well.
You've been absolutely killing it in the server
and can't wait to see what you guys are going to do on Sunday.
Yeah, thank you so much.
Appreciate it.
And now overall, taking a look at these standing tier team liquid.
They edge themselves up into that third spot.
But again, with so many matches to come in tomorrow,
our last day of regular season there, Mitch,
it nothing is guaranteed, right?
Everything could really get shaken up
and I kind of want to see what you're feeling.
How are you feeling after that last week?
It's such a dogfight for this last spot, isn't it?
I'm generally, you know,
tomorrow's games obviously the ones that are a consequence
maybe don't have the top teams in NA,
but I am really excited to see that
because I feel like, like Tree said, the bottom three really netting neck.
We are not, we don't have a lot of these spots left in playoffs here.
You really want to try and lock things up as quickly as possible.
I'm loving Lunex.
I think maybe recently Baez plays into it, but I've got high hopes for them,
you know, for the rest of the stage.
I agree with Tree.
I think this comes down to match day performances.
I think this, you know, these teams are so closely matched
that I don't think you can call this with significant advantage
really one way or the other.
It's going to be about who shows up in a big way on match day,
who can have those pop-off moments.
And ultimately, that's what's going to decide all your results, right?
In your future as a team, can you come to these big stages?
Can you come to a land, play against the best teams in the world,
and still show out for North America to be back on top?
You know, people are going to need to be able to find those answers
under pressure.
So DSG versus Lunex, that's going to be a bang in a moment.
It really is.
And it's kind of crazy, Jake,
to also think about how important all of the matches tomorrow are,
like not just for NA for EMEA as well. You have Twisted Minds versus Virtus.Pro trying to figure
out who is going to take that top seed placement. Like I feel like that is definitely the match that
everyone is the most excited to see. I mean, again, it's sick to have every game be of consequence
and obviously like the possibilities for that last spot are really going to be up in the air
until the dust settles tomorrow. So it's going to keep you on the seat. It's going to keep
you watching until the very end. And that's the Overwatch I love to see. Yeah, definitely
is and a reminder, if Lunex wins tomorrow, they get to make it alongside Liquid. But if
Disguise wins, there are so many possibilities Jake, like we can't even get into all of the
permutations because it comes down to so much like nitty gritty information on top of,
you know, EMEA, anyone's legend still trying to vibe that last spot there too. How are
you feeling head into the last day of regular season?
I'm super stoked for, you know, Virtus Pro versus Twisted Minds because that's
It's not only a battle for the top of EMEA.
There's an argument you made that's a battle for the best team in the world right now with
EMEA being on top in recent international competitions.
And so that one could be a banger.
I think there's a good reason that Team Liquid are looking to a squad like VP to
maybe set the meta and pull out some wild comps because this VP looks about on top of
the world as we've ever seen them.
So really excited.
I think we've got very consequential games all day.
You don't want to miss it.
And you definitely don't, you guys heard it here first.
Every single match tomorrow is going to matter.
And that's what you want to see
for the end of regular season.
I've been Ash, a big thanks to Mitch and to Jake
for joining me on the desk here.
A thanks to production for making this broadcast happen
to you guys at home first.
Keep it, stand along the ride with us.
We'll see you on Sunday.
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