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What a weird fight for this guy, exactly the scheme killed.
Liquid.
Yepsen's managed to get tree down.
It's just going to be an explosion of death with the hands of the Nallis fuel.
That was impressive.
I can't get the touch, here comes the wave cycle with three!
Oh, buddy.
There's the cat there, leaving the tag off with the pick up close out.
Oh, the cat!
After you got to the rescue.
Twisted minds looking to close out the series here and take over the trophy.
Force has done it so many times before and they'll do it again!
Hero WCF 2025!
World finals!
here. Twisted minds looking to close out the series here and take over the trophy.
Force has done it so many times before and they're doing it again here on WCF 2025.
World finals champion.
Welcome back to the OWCS. This is day one of our regional playoffs. We will be covering
both the NBA and NN8. Of course I'm not using the Royal Wii. No, I am in fact
And Jake to break it all down here in our EMEA region.
Guys, how are we feeling today?
I mean, I feel great. I'm excited for these games.
EMEA has been a ton of fun to cover with Jake here throughout Stage 1.
Seems like we do have some teams that are pretty strong at the top,
but hey, there's a fair chance for everybody.
Fair chance for everybody.
Yeah, I...
Look, it doesn't seem like many teams have much of a chance against Tristed Minds.
I mean, we'll talk more about that as the show goes on.
15-0 in maps in the regular stage.
No one in the NBA could even take a map from them.
Now we're in playoffs when this team tends to look even stronger.
So definitely a scary team at the top.
VP also not too far behind them,
but that's really your goal as a team in the NBA.
Can you get that second slot?
It is indeed.
Now we, of course, had three weeks of our sixth team round
Robin to be played.
Now we're down to four teams for the playoffs.
Twisted Minds ended up on top, as we already said, with Virtus.Pro firmly in second, though there is a
tier gap between Twisted Minds and literally everyone else, and then GK and Katzia, they ended up in the third and the fourth seats, and respectively.
Jake, what is your main takeaway other than Twisted Minds just continuing to be so dominant?
I mean, I think Twisted Minds incredible dominance almost obscures the fact that this region is really strong, top to bottom.
Like a lot of these teams are really impressive and maybe in the past could have top regions have qualified to international lands
I think this is one of the hardest regions to qualify out of right now like
GM and VP are setting such an incredible standard
But he can't see a look like good teams like they are bringing the heat in some of these matches
Even anyone's lesson in team peps are serious opponents like this is a crazy stack region
It's gonna be an interesting playoff because teams really have to think about how the heck they're gonna try to qualify with competition like this in the region
That's right that we're looking at that bracket, of course with the minds coming out on top in the standings
That means that they don't pick their opponent. They went with Katzia who feeds Virtus Pro with Geek K
Any surprises there pick wise? I mean, I guess map it doesn't really matter for Twisted War
I mean, yeah, it doesn't necessarily matter, right?
I mean, but they do get to pick the, you know,
what they do, it's like the weaker opponent, right?
So they force, you know, GK to go play up against VP there.
Maybe, you know, something wild happens in that game
and they get Katya in round number one.
But with the way that Twisted Minds has looked,
like it kind of doesn't matter who they play.
Like, yeah, I love how you said that, you know,
VP kind of like solidified second.
It's like, yeah, they're definitely in that match.
not really contender with Twisted Minds just yet. They've been unreal.
Yeah, chances of them meeting in the finals is pretty high then Jake, right?
Yeah, you got to expect that rematches coming surely at some point in the playoff. I mean,
those two teams, it's hard to see them dropping to other opponents. And for VP, I think, you know,
as much as, yeah, you still look pretty good compared to the other opponents, you kind of
need to be putting up a stronger fight against him. If Tamer just can 3-0 you every time
time you meet, it puts a pretty hard ceiling on what your potential is in an international
competition.
And for Twisted Minds, they are very much putting their stamp right now on EMEA Overwatch and
saying that they're still the team to beat, probably still the team to beat in the world.
Remember, this is still the world champion squad.
They have to sort of be looking at this EMEA competition as just a warm-up, just
an appetizer because they are looking to claim more international trophies.
They want to stay on top as the number one team in the world.
Jaewoo unleashed on this world champ squad is crazy.
Like that is another level of power and something that like,
they've done exactly the right amount of change
to continue to grow as a world champion team,
which is kind of a hard, you know, like hard place to be.
Like, do you change a lot and try to really progress?
Do you just, you know,
maybe make a little tweak here and there?
I really think they made a great move
bringing Jaewoo to this team.
Which is crazy because they've already been
such a dominant roster and then they just replaced
an incredible player with an even more incredible player.
So, yeah, a wealth of riches over for Twisted Minds.
Now, of course, they are on cruise control,
heading into the finals and the playoffs.
We expect them to make it through.
The top two teams will be making it through
and will be heading to the champions clash.
That means we're almost more than halfway through
our stage one schedule, right?
With all the qualifiers done, regular season run,
Robin Dunn, three weeks of play there.
And now we have one action packed weekend
the top two teams will then be
headed to face up against
international competition in
Tokyo, Japan. I mean, that's
going to be an awesome time. I
mean, you kind of see, uh,
crazy raccoon, right? They
kind of win last year. Uh,
you know, the watch has
changed a lot since this
event. I know back last year
in Hongjo, right? You know,
you went back to this one.
You would have never have
Alcat was there, but they weren't playing XIA, they were playing TRED at the time.
This was like when VP was like the best team in EMEA, and a much different roster.
Everything's kind of flipped on its head.
Now, if we're looking at the playoff dates here, we're kicking things off in EMEA and NA,
and then it's several weeks for the EMEA and NA qualifiers to just kick back, relax, watch the competition.
Is that an advantage for them? Does it matter at all? What do you feel like Jayce?
I think they're going to just stay grinding on it. I mean this is a you know a group where once you
sort of set that elite top teams apart in terms of the qualifiers we've seen. I've been hearing
that a lot of AMI and NA teams are actually screaming each other despite the ping difference
so to really try to push both regions to be at their peak. So I don't know that it's an
advantage or a disadvantage. I think every team around the world is going to be putting
and maximum effort, like interest in Overwatch is kind of at a recent all-time high, and the
game is at a really exciting place, so I think for all these teams, they're going to be very
motivated to have a big show in here at the Champions League.
And Matt, you have some things to say to them about the up-and-coming region that
is Korea.
Yeah, obviously, they're kind of shaking their boots, watching all our teams here
in EMEA, and maybe if they're bored, they watch a little bit of NA, but yeah,
I mean, look, those playoffs are gonna go on for ages.
I mean, what they have a new hero, Sierra,
that got announced yesterday,
like the, you know, a bunch of balance changes
kind of coming down the line,
and those playoffs will be quite interesting.
Maybe some odd results come out of it.
Yeah, everything's possible in the world of Overwatch.
But we do get ahead of ourselves, right?
Let's take a look at today's schedule
and what awaits us with picking up day one
of our EMEA playoffs.
We're starting with Crystal Binds against Katia
and then we're moving on to Berthesburg,
We'll be facing us against GKE sports after that of course North America
How does that line up right after EDA with that was fuel versus lunax and space station gaming versus team
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I don't even know how he fizzed your doorways.
He's like the size of Lifeweaver and Liyang combined, sideways.
The life of a giant. The life of a giant.
It's, uh, it's not relatable for the likes of you and I.
Johnny has those problems, yeah.
Yeah, Johnny definitely has the problems.
Twisted Minds, also the giants of the region
that probably struggle with doorways as well.
Let's talk about that and about their dominance
because they've not dropped a single map so far
against any of the teams in the MEA,
which is crazy.
In fact, they haven't even dropped a series
since last year's World Finals
and they're currently holding a 42-5 map record
over what is a 13-match win streak.
I mean, for them to even drop a map
but Mac would almost be shocking, which is a crazy thing to say.
I mean, they're just they feel like they're just going to kind of like run
through this playoff, right? I mean, if you were out there and like trying to make
the take that they could like, you know, potentially not even make it to Jamid's
flash, which is an absurd thing to even do, you would have to be banking on
them losing more maps in the next few days and they've lost in like months,
which is just not going to happen.
You have to start with the first map.
Yeah, that's the one.
So it's just like a crazy team you're depending against.
You know, this is a team that, their mind is going to be on that trophy of champions.
It's not just about qualifying.
It's about being world champions, about holding on to that title.
And the firepower to do it, this roster is just absolutely unreal.
I mean, we talk a lot about the deep gas line, but the support line for my
money best in the world, you know, funny Astro on the main
sport role, simple on the flex support, both have the incredible flexibility
like anything that they could want in this hero ban era.
This is a very much a team of the moment
and they've only gotten stronger
from their previous international showings.
So I think they're the odds-on favorite
to stay world champions and win champions class over.
This EMEA playoffs should be a walkover for them.
Yeah, I mean, it's been pretty obvious
the last three weeks of play
that we can't target that a single individual on this roster.
They've been very, very flexible.
They've already been flexible last year.
to kind of can play everything on such a high level that you just kind of have to catch him
of guard, right? That could see you. Obviously, Dominant Force last year, heading into 2026,
they're coming into the season with Bradley Roster. They made it to the playoffs though with
wins over anyone, legend as well as team peps, but they were stomped 3-0 by Twisted Miles,
literally just a week ago, which might still be, you know, sitting in the bones.
I mean I think this is a really difficult like task for any team against Twisted Minds
I also think it's like specifically really tough
For Alcatya because this is a team that we've talked about like it looked like they obviously have a lot of potential
These players have played at a you know incredibly high level for a while
But it's a team that's kind of it feels like just gonna throw together from players from all you know all different teams and regions
And they were gonna need some time to gel so like having them have to play against you know TM here at the beginning of the play
Yeah, it's not ideal.
Yeah, definitely not a spot that any team
wants to find themselves playing this match off the rip.
However, I've been impressed by some of the components
of this team.
I think Maiden, Tejong on the DPS lineup
had shown big moments.
It's great to see SurmaJed back in the mix competing.
People forget that he, as historically,
had really great career results,
was riding the bench for a while on Falcons.
And it was sort of a meme for a while.
But the guy can hang.
He's a strong player.
bring Vesola in, with a lot of trust on this lineup
in a meta that is good for them.
Like we've been saying, it's really the opponent
they're up against that makes us feel
that this is such a difficult task.
But the individual players, I just want to see
big moments in them, I want to see players popping off
and really it's about going deeper into playoffs.
If you can win a map here, right, that is a stinker
to other teams that maybe you are improving,
you are gelling just in time.
And it's a double elimination bracket, right?
So even if you are losing this match,
which pretty much is expected to be going up against
Twisted Minds.
You do have the opportunity to run through the lower bracket,
face them in the finals,
and that also means you're in the top two.
And therefore you will be qualifying
for the champions clash.
Now, if we're looking at Preps, I keep this simple.
I don't think we need to explain that.
It's Twisted Minds all the way for me.
Like, I don't even see them winning a map here
over them.
Yeah, I mean, I win with Twisted Minds.
Well, the only thing that makes me sad
is that their series are so fast
and it makes it difficult to get the drop.
So that's the only bad part about Twisted Minds.
Yeah, yeah, come on. This one should be pretty obvious from the way we've been talking about it
This is easy TM 3.0, you know for for their opponents. It's gonna be about
Scrapping anything back showing resilience
You know, I this would be a generational fumble if TM were to lose this
7% of our audience does believe in consumer. So we do love the support
I will just I wish my channel points the gamble they they're like, you know what?
But, okay.
That's a value bet though.
They're gonna cash in if this one is gonna come out
the way they predict.
Alas, we here on the desk do not think so.
Bad proofs in the pudding.
Let the teams play.
Let's see what happens.
So for us guys, please take it away.
Thank you so much Zoe.
And you know, as we're gonna get into this one,
it would be epic considering the scope of the dominance
that team have shown.
I mean, 3-0 over every other team.
And now with only six teams in OWS in each region,
there are no bad teams in real.
Any of these teams would crush a lot of the opponents
in another division.
It's not like last year where, oh, yeah, some of these teams
are kind of, they're not maybe as invested,
they're not practicing as hard.
Every team is grinding at this level.
And for a team to sort of bat them all aside with ease,
it sets the stage for more championship
performances from this squad.
Yeah, I mean, they're just unreal, right?
Lee Zhang tower, the start here for twisted minds, it also looks like actually team gave
the band over to Alcat.
So it looks like they pick Lee Zhang, they give the first band away, Katia gets rid of
Diva and it looks like the Alaria band is targeting that support line.
For Katia that we've talked about, right, a lot of, you know, the kind of strengths
of that is potentially playing the double flex.
You wouldn't necessarily play it here on Lee Zhang tower, but you know, for
For TM, just taking that potential off the table is worth it there in map number one, right?
If they probably don't really feel like there's something that specifically they need to target.
I actually really like this.
I mean, we saw this from Dallas Fuel in North America and I think it would have been a really
smart move for Alcott to bring like a greedy double flex comp, you know, maybe a night
market that on AR, it can be a really effective strat.
And I think for TM, they're like, let's play a rush mirror, you'd like to play
a rush mirror.
Hard to blame them for that. I think this is this is if they play in their comfort zone
I don't think they really care what I've got see a throw at them
Jake do you know how fast you would go broke going to Vegas the seven percent of people that put their channel points on?
Alcatres honestly, I might have to go
And to make the value of those people way too. Yeah, they gotta be a fun group that's making those those channel point
Yeah, right here's there. Oh, so can see that actually comes out here with the moga
So we've seen a little bit more moga as of late, so it'll be a moga far
with an M-Rank in the mix. So really trying to maybe like poke down some of the players on the opposing side of Tm.
As Tm is just going out with this, you know, all aggression set up, right?
With J.U.V. being able to get the bubbles and go on in.
A lot of poking, this cut CS squad still.
Kills are traded already. Vistola tries to stay healthy on the point.
T.Jun, he makes a nice spam down and TNT drops low.
Eventually, it's boxed out by eight. Ooh, quartz.
My name is K.U.V.T.
They're just right on the cover there.
So, really nice opening play.
Yeah, I mean, J.Woo's in the corner there, just trying to, like, hold on for a little bit,
but just getting poked out with rockets. That's a really actually good start.
Four Katya, they come out with this comp, just kind of poking them down at range,
you know, some of the splash damage from Tejong,
putting down damage into J.Woo was on Vendetta,
and now we're gonna go over to the tracer.
He didn't really kind of find any targets on Vendetta to go after.
He funds over, Matt, and J.Woo on the tracer.
This is gonna be a really punishing pick.
It opens up onto A and TDNT steps up forcing the pressure on point.
Estola's gonna have to hold onto this because of half-bunch of four bindings,
he's gonna send it down mid instead.
And with that shout, he's staying healthy, but all-time clean.
He's firing up against me, and TDNT hiding his time, playing his health cool.
And it's all clean up in the pink here for TDNT.
I think it's a perfect tracer swap from J.Woo.
Oh, I mean, totally agree.
If anything, you go over to the tracer here,
you can put a little bit more pressure on the Fara.
J.Jung, I wouldn't be surprised.
Yeah, you're gonna see a swap here over to the Vendettus.
They actually now want to play the Vendetta's Arya on Kat's side, so maybe they can get an axe.
At least they have a window of an opportunity here in this next fight coming up where they have an advantage,
but a lot of the slots there from Twisted Minds, they look a point on back.
Here comes Quartz, Override Protocol in. He's trying to kite out of this one,
because that's not good enough. Now, into the spawn,
and all that does get the trade out of Quartz is a helpful damage,
on the page on that late kill onto the Vendetta.
I mean, ATM are going to be back at full strength to hold this point.
hold this point. I do think Kassiya are going to be able to break this initial choke for free though.
TM probably going to wait for that mid scan to take a fight.
Yes, Tato now going to go over Tracer as well. So it's going to be like a Tracer match up here,
is J.Boo already just going to put some pressure onto the Tracer from Katya.
I got back some on out. It's going to be an extremely twisted mind game to the orbital
raid that Gala's going to have, but it's going to be a sound barrier for Bunny Asher trying
to protect everybody from his much low-right protocol. It's going to be a nice shot for
for me though taking out Astro in the sky.
Yeah, there's something that you fought for but in the end you got a high energy sorry
in TBNT, Vestola already dropped to the pressure of that crab so the late tank swap has a cost
associated with it.
TM now holding onto the point at 70% in Quartz.
These late kills are really going to bite given the minimal cost they're up at CR working.
Yeah, you see T-Tron trying to put some pressure on the Quartz but you know J-woo here,
Bunny Astro as well, the Tracer, they're going to go so carefully.
Yeah, they're going to wrap around to the spawn here trying to catch them on guard.
Yeah, great pressure. J-Mu follows up on Quartz's damage call there on Gala and Katsuya.
They're forced to come touch the point. TM, beautiful strategic play here.
They get a quick pick off in the Lucio.
Yes, you probably give the point, but now while you're in a 3v5, you can't see a divine, and it's already over.
I mean, well, they had to go and contest the point, right? Nothing they could really do there.
To kind of keep this one rolling and potentially kind of get into OT, but yeah, you're not setting yourself up for a great last fight.
Gala trying to wall right get there. Maybe gonna contest he gets taken out of Estola falls as well
This should be twisted minds putting way the first round
Great strategic dominance from TM there that aggro push into spawn
Putting Alcatya between a rock and a hard place, right? You got to come touch that point
It's over time. You have no choice in the matter
But that ends up leaving players behind and TM get clean up kills on the rotate. So textbook control round
from Twisted Minds. All it took was one Tracer swap and they really resolved the counter comp that Katsya threw at them.
So Katsya definitely trying to be cheeky, right? And I think that's the right approach. I really don't think you want to play the heads-up mirror.
But will it be enough? I mean, Twisted Minds, nothing has really thrown them for a loop so far this stage, I mean, and much less in that first round.
Yes, I mean look I think it was pretty interesting from the start
From Katia right coming out with like this Moga for a base comp
But it seems like twisted minds just knew exactly kind of like what to do against it. So
TM's not gonna try them and dead off the rip here
They're gonna try the far of their own
So that stole back over to the Moga so they really want to try and make this Moga work with you know
The Juno Kiri
The one thing that they got it kind of got stuck on last round shake was like
Gala ended up having to stay on the dream over so long. He had the wrong little ray like felt like an music music
But like you didn't have that sound barrier at the end like in the speed from putting after was just so impactful
Full out from the stolen great hold on the rocket there fades the blink out
Finds the connect on the page on course finishes it off and now they're mid air here from J-Woo
This point is easily in the hands of TM J-Woo
Just immaculate play on the far understanding the matchups perfectly
Frosty's page on the analog.
Yeah, now for Katz, it's like, what do you do, right?
I mean, if the solo is going to go over and play Vizaria, you're going to play Vizaria with the Gino in theory as well.
So still trying to maybe play around that horrible array.
So, he's going to be able to get a point, so maybe he'll just kind of like drag some players off.
But you see how much he's taking.
Whether it be from the far or the emerald, he's going to get poked out and being forced away from the point.
the points can be 30% already for 2-side mines.
Yeah, the walkup is painful and look at the aggression from Quartz and Funny Astro here,
just taking any opportunity they can to put pressure here on to see if they're able to
now stuff up onto the point with the Polkarei protocol so they can't do no result or
miss Stola and he's just out of gas for a second.
Really can't just step on the point, but I think we'll be able to survive.
What the hell is this big-ass boost?
Gorming and Kurly's good trade-out.
I expect to see a full clean-up here, yes, it comes.
really putting the screws to Upcut C. I mean every opportunity with this Emra he is just absolutely in there in the thick of the fight
We sort of think of this guy as a as a backline hits game player
But yeah, he's showing that he's more than willing to dance a close range quite aggressive on the Emra
You know there it was a really difficult thing for this solar
He sets up on the point bubble use thing
It's kind of moved around the corner into the override protocol to be continued Russia from both sides here
That Jhin will end up using this barrage. Clean down some damage, but still a dangerously low that I'll call a low as well.
Easy overlight protocol. Not able to keep their Zarya alive though, Jhin.
Feels like this is gone from bad to worse here for Katzia.
Yeah, this round pretty much looks over. I mean, maybe Tejahn can touch the point, but TVNZ has grabbed.
He could go for a cheeky overtime deny. I don't think he is probably going to look to take any risk because the way this team is going,
You've got beaten grab it's hard to see Katsya out fighting that the bubble though does get tagering a solid touch on the point
But it grab on the bestola big problem. Sorry. I already think we're back
Send it with the beat. Yeah, it's gonna be the orbital ray on the point here kind of last-ditch effort for Katya
But being sound barrier plus grab this little I never really to get anything rolling on this area for Katya and twisted
Minds dominant is ever here in our first map
I mean, they gave no quarter to their opponent and they're not they're not thinking of the
fans drops.
I promise you that man.
They they are thinking about lifting a trophy in that coming tournament and this is the
type of performance that'll get you there.
Quartz almost 10k damage in a very short period of time.
Yeah.
The early round on Misheng Tower, that one was kind of like,
you know, back in 4th, right, you know what I mean?
They were going to kill 16th on both sides.
Round number two, though, was like, that was quite ugly.
As we take a look at some of the highlights here,
a lot of them going to be twisted mines,
just kind of pushing Katia back to the spawn.
And I just think Jake, like, even
went some nice adjustments from Katia.
Like, twisted mines always had the answer.
I'm not going to lie about it.
You won the first fight on control with the cheese comp and you didn't win another fight.
Like, that's like, I mean, for TM it's like that first fight, it was like, okay, I go Tracer.
And we win.
And, I mean, even the Pharah will look even better from J.Woo, and Pharah is actually
a hero that I think has a real place in the meta, like, I don't know that she's
going to be played all the time everywhere, but I think having a Pharah as good as
J.Woo is a massive asset, I'm also going to hand it to Symbol, finding these
crucial headshot kunai on so many important kills like I'm really curious
if we get like a damage per minute check on all the curies I think J.Woo or
rather I think a simple is top of the line there like he finds so many of these
crucial headshots setting up the DPS and the tank for success. Yeah I mean the
back line from Twisted Minds just so good and you look at them like you
potentially like best in the world type because they're so flexible and I think
I think it's obviously you know the skill of simple on all those different heroes that we've known in play.
I know we've seen him play like some of the Zen last year if you remember like they would be a million.
I would love to see him play back on the Zen.
That was some crack stuff from him and I will say as well like Funny Ash really has like grown so much as a player over the last like few years
draping able to play some of these other heroes outside of Lucio at a really high level which is important for this team.
Yeah, it's, I mean, in this era of Overwatch, right, you can't be a one-trick, it's just not viable anymore, you get attacked by a band, so it's definitely an asset for the team.
It feels like there's no comp they can't play, but when they get to play the Lucio carry, yeah, you don't feel good about that.
It's like, the band of those heroes isn't going to really destroy this team, but it feels like you almost need to, just to have a, just to be able to play the game, right, from a macro sense.
Yeah, and I mean, obviously here in the NBA playoffs a lot of working towards and then I know NA a little bit later in the day
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So he showed like there's like you know four or five other regions doing playoffs after this
You have these seven champions flash a lot of awesome overwatch e-sports stuff coming on the horizon
Yeah, it's gonna be sick and with the game, you know changing as fast as it has been recently
It feels like there's always something new
Competition yeah, like I like was the I think they have like a blog that went up a little bit earlier today
Like while we were doing the rehearsal. I was like, well, wait, that's a lot coming in
And then you kind of see the day. It's like hey, that's next week. It's like wait
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That's okay. Uh, it is we'll go to Atlas here for the next map. Jake doesn't close anything
So follow him just me. Oh, come on man. You're gonna throw me out of the bus like that
I'm trying to set up the next map. Hold on a sec. Okay
Atlas
What do you think about this decision here like this you can play some like Mog on this map
Like maybe we see them train fan like a they want to try and get rid of the Zarya
Maybe and try and play some of them August setup. Yeah, I
Feel like you got a band Lucio, maybe if you're gonna go to Flashpoint, you know
If you I mean to be honest Matt, I'm not seeing the band that does it for them like, you know like I
Against some teams. I'm like, oh, yeah, like they really this is their style
Maybe the lucive Curious is sort of the band direction you look at here
Maybe you want to save a Curie band for another map, like, you know, think about like a hybrid or an escort where you can pull out something like the Ilariana that, like, double-flex style is, like, I think probably the best chaotic move you could throw at TM.
Um, but here on Atlas, you know, it's awkward because you ban Lucio Curie and Kusumai just go Juno Grig and basically run the exact same style at you with a twist.
And it's not like it really changes anything about their power level.
I guess you'd rather have simple and funny Astro and Juno Frig where they can't carry as hard.
And they agree with that.
They're gonna, yeah.
Yeah, they're gonna face Lucio.
Yeah, but then on the other side of things, right, that Tien gets rid of the Maga.
So that was like, maybe that would have been, if you get rid of Lucio, right, they could have continued to play the Juno Kiri that we saw them do in map number one with the Maga.
But now it's gonna have to be without the Maga as Tien, that's a fairly easy read.
They get rid of it.
Yeah, we'll see if taking funding Astral to Lucio is enough to slow Twisted Mind down at
all.
I can't see it.
I mean, at this point, it's about finding a flashpoint, right?
Well, like a map win, like let's cross that bridge when we get there.
It's about, you know, kill by kill, fight by fight.
From map win, dude, we're trying to see like three fights.
Like, let's start.
Let's get two, three fights.
It's actually tragic that we're talking about fight wins.
We're talking about like, what are we talking about here?
Yeah, that'll be the next thing that we go to.
Like the Twisted Mind stats will start to get so absurd.
Probably the fight with T-Bytes.
They lost in the last 30 games.
How many kills did you get against T-M in the last game?
They're like, oh, you have five, great work.
Yeah, no, we celebrate that.
Italy Twisted Minds here, they'll probably
have J-Woo switch here to, OK,
I was going to say Tracer or Vendetta.
Interesting, I can't see it here.
They're going to play the Vendetta with the Tracer.
I like this, actually.
This is a good way to like, change things up a little bit.
You really push the pace.
That being said, if people died before the fight to spam,
it's not looking good.
Two players have hit the deck.
In fact, it is crumbling here on us.
One of you, so obviously,
that you are a professional player at some point,
you can maybe find those videos on the internet
if you look hard enough.
No.
What were like, what was like the feeling
like playing against some of those teams
that you guys knew going in,
you were gonna like it was gonna be a rough one like what are the vibes like
like what are what is even kind of going through like a team like Hetzi is mine
right now I'm not gonna lie this is about as bad as I've ever seen in terms of
like there's it's there's no hope we want to inject hope so badly into some of
these moments but that first point is like well I'll cut see it this in
mind that's been away here on that list a little bit of aggression here
here we go gotta find something right you gotta be willing to push the
The Twisted Minds are so good at adapting, they're willing to play slow when it's the right move.
In Quartz, all the space in the world to take these aim duels with good damage from Aide into that duel,
that's the kind of pipe that puts them wind in your sales team.
Down to the 4 on 5, but it's traded right back.
Twisted Minds are not out of this one yet.
Yeah, I mean, you end up getting the trade there for Twisted Minds,
but Tejang actually takes up any answers, so maybe you're actually able to make something out of this here for Katzias.
Katzias does a nice job. They were really low, Jake,
The twisted mind's controlling the high ground, but can see is on a nice shot and a healing everybody up and then they'll end up flipping the point
So a nice job there from Katya starts off with gonna a taking out sports at range
And then the healers I think they're gonna nice job kind of keeping best all alive down there in the low ground
Yeah, it's it's a didn't a drunk right finding the kills in that fight
You know so the DPS stepping up somebody has to write somebody has to find that first pig
Give the team a little bit of hope get people to start believing the stola with an energy lead here
So let's see how team approach the retake a lot of ultimates ready to be deployed
And I think both teams would really commit on this first level
Yeah, it's gonna be a consuming rush here from both sides
It's yeah, they do end up with their grab first
So it's a nice one there from the full it connects with three is TVT throws his driving towards the end
This court since I'm using the high-five protocol is I mean that is good stuff there from courts
Everybody bundled up together
He gets three Jeyu with two that should be the first point to twist in mines
Man, and it really comes down to like a tiny percentage gap the right TD and T just barely gets to grab off in time
But it's enough right it locks down those players and even with those early kills for Kassiya in the end
Override protocol from quartz all this is it doesn't matter his online
So a diva swap here for TM and then that'll actually have
Sir Majid going over to D.va here, so I know I actually out of the break so it's gonna be a Brig Juno here backline
Fort Hatsia. Wim is already a pretty good and effective against the D.va.
I do like the D.va though because if this over at protocol it's really hard to get that damage off.
He was burning up Sir Majid. It is traded on the fort.
See him? I think I'm kind of happy to trade down that Brig. Got being said, Vistola
Uninsured on the field right now
Maybe that's the kind of tank advantage you need for Kitsiya, right, to get down into a traded-down fight with a high-energy Zarya and Tm.
I like the concept, maybe, to deal with some of that ult trades for the D.Va, but TVNT can't quite get the fight win.
He's gonna go back to the mirror. Now, Surgeant, I think this break actually can be a bit of a liability, right?
You know, simple is gonna be relatively unchecked on the flanks on Kiri.
Yeah, I mean, Surgeant's gonna switch back to the Kiri, so maybe that was just a sloth there from TVNT, but like that, a right part of all.
I knew we had it, didn't have grab, maybe there's a way they kind of wouldn't have flight.
I'm gonna leave it even to make Spade, Vesola, and Gala all take a pretty sizable amount of damage here early on.
It's a nice damage there on the simple, also working with a Hulestorm here on the outside.
Yeah, Tejans putting a lot of pressure now, comes into the ticket to fight Vesola out of gas.
Hulestorm's a piece of good, Gala finds a build with those Hulsar Torpedoes.
Of course, they're still fighting into this one.
Simple and sportly, need some kind of a counter-kill to get this one over with.
Jermajed trying to clean up here.
Tej on it.
It's a done and maybe then for more of it, you've got to be careful, man.
Hortz is an absolute shooter here on the Emmerit.
I mean, this is much better from Katzia, right?
Tej on doing some really nice work on the Tracer.
Being able to find that support line, takes out Symbol,
and then also kind of works with the rest of the team, gets her to Core.
It's going to be a top tier to send in the OT from J.Woo.
Players coming off the spawn here.
Hortz with Sylvines, but this looks really good for Katzia.
Nice aggression from Katya, then fighting off the points, making these overtime players have to touch the point, right?
But they're not really in the fight because of it, so Katya, really great execution here on this second Flashpoint,
and they're able to put up a dominant win.
That's how it goes, right?
You need some hope in a match like this, and the DPS start to deliver.
J-Woo, though, ensures that any confidence is a little bit short-lived.
Tejong dropping before the point fights, not backbreaking, he'll be back for the fight,
but this does mean that Twisted Minds are gonna have some advantage taking early position.
Yeah, I don't think they're gonna really be able to capitalize though at the moment, right?
I used to see J.Woo there in our overhead. He's gonna, you know, stuck in a really odd spot there
between Tejung and A. So, I think J.Woo's gonna make it back to the rest of the team.
He's gonna be over at Perkball here from Quartz, and A to open things up.
Yeah, both. Sulin looking for that. Damage on the back line.
Boots connects from A onto Astro. Take the Jull out of the fight early. Grab his in.
It's actually just Stola who drops, T-man sustaining really well this fight because he's so simple.
With that Katsune Raj out-dueling in Katsuya, not fighting opportunity to get their own support ults off,
they're going to lose first control because of it.
Dude, doesn't it feel like Katya could have won that fight? I mean, they start off that, take down the funny Astro.
The Katsune Raj comes in from simple and they're able to get rid of Astola and that's kind of where things start to turn a little bit.
In the backline, just kind of goes really deep there on the M-Rays.
He's using the override protocol and kind of like ends up on the high ground.
He's not able to find a second pick, but it feels like that started off the exact way they wanted it, just not able to close it out.
Yeah, not even able to win the fight with their grab is a tough one, because now you have double-sportle,
but swooping up on those portals into grab, couldn't be painful.
Here's the grab coming in, locking down players, J-Boards, and pulls onto Dave.
Simple finds another, and the Katsune rush gets absolutely nothing done here
From at sea even a little bit of a delay on vestola who wisely drops himself
But he's gonna miss the spawn wave and at 80% I mean TM are gonna have where you deep into the spawn here and for cut sea
Hatching is gonna be difficult much less finding the fight. Yeah, I'm gonna be the one that tries to get a touch
Believe recall already used so not gonna really be able to get there and because that early recall
I think you just kind of yeah, you give it up. So that's gonna be TM going to match point here on this flash point
I mean, there's one more to be able to take this map is we take a look at the rotation.
It looks like I know you have both teams I was going to say no, no, he's going to kind
of fight here from the middle.
It's going to be both teams kind of taking a stance on their side of the map.
Yeah, slightly earlier position here taken from Kitsia, winning the rotation.
See how team elect to respond to this both teams with that orbital ray.
Opportunity for A-Bones has some space to work with needs to find some sort of
a kill on the entry.
Oh, Rage comes out from both squads.
The damage looks to be better for work.
That being said, Pager on climbing that hill.
He's striking from behind.
Pazia won this fight.
The Rage was used really early there by CMJ.
Like they just kind of used it to like walk out the maybe like
take some of that space back on the high ground.
But the later Rage and some of the damage up top,
you can't see it was so, so much more effective, right?
Think you mentioned that they kind of win the rotation.
They get to that high ground first.
They can take that, you know,
top kind of like the plant spot there
they're able to kind of oversee the entire point and their TN, they're kind of forced to use that
Orbital Rate and just kind of get out of, you know, that Tristrank creates some space, but
Katya plays it quite well with that later Rai. Yeah, really nice backstab from Tej on Keiwu.
Very aware of the Tracer now, hard barking in the Stool, even forces a bubble onto Tej on
Mount H. Open up and go over our protocol, but this one looks pretty early,
find the back out from this. Have to just get away with their lives and engage with
ultimate advantage because they're coming up on a huge banger. Quartz opens up with his own
override protocol over the top, threatening the point here. GVNT steps up to start pressuring that path
and for Kassia, if you back out now, you'll be getting a misclip so they're trying to force
the fight here and now. Simple with the rush though, it's going to make that doubly difficult
and ultimately the point does flip and adding insult to injury, Quartz finds an exit kill here.
Kassia just trying to get out with the rest of their team's lives.
And I think if you were twisted mines there, what you're trying to do is use that override
protocol and if you put down some damage on this solar find another pick you can then you have the luxury of
Potentially saving the kids uni rush, but when they don't find anything they end up using the rush there
That jay has to be careful use a recall but actually find a job
I mean that's a huge pick that may actually buy them some more time in the point. He's doing enough, right?
He's forcing two players to respond and without the Kiriko
And so it isn't going to be able to walk up there
So the pressure being put on to aid court finds a quick headshot first here exists a funny astro
And Jay was not done, man. He was looking for a ball with the bubble, constant pressure here.
I mean, they're down on the clock, but you don't feel it on the map
because Twisted Minds are battling back into this last one.
They want to end this map here and now, and Kassia just getting routed right there.
They look completely shook here.
Yeah, Twisted Minds has to know, though, that they have a grab available with a continued rush.
So it couldn't be the rush here early on.
It's going to allow this hole to move on up.
Then this hole is going to come to grab towards the back line.
So he gets a funny Astral, but it won't cost, right?
He gets grabbed and then we kind of lose both. You know, they lose gala here and so much
It's gonna fall as well
So you kind of push up use the grab into the back line
But that allows TV and he to kind of walk on past use his grab
Into yours and you just don't get the same value and that's gonna allow twisted minds and take map number two
So sick from TM man, and they just smother you with aggression right when they get an opportunity to have control that
Flashpoint you're not just battling for the flashpoint. You're battling out of your spawn permanent pressure
Like as soon as J.Woo comes, forces your carry TP to the back line, the front line is now crashing in on you.
You have your opportunity to step up with Rush and Grav, and Twisted Minds are like fully dealt this play.
You use Rush and Grav to kill a Juno.
Like that's essentially how they open that fight.
The rest of TM are just split, hitting you from all sides.
And it's not a surprise that they're able to clutch the fight out from there.
Like such an expensive kill on the Astro that you really don't have the resources to win the fight from there.
So it's it's nice to be able to put up a flash play Rind win, right?
But honestly you kind of look at that and you say, okay big moments from the DPS
Yes, like Aiden Tejong finding some of those key kills that they really need to to make this
series possibly competitive
But when it when you really feel like the full team of twisted minds coming together
That's where this feels like an overwhelming matchup, right when they're hitting you all that ones in perfect synchronicity
Just feels unwinnable. Yeah, I mean it's it just looks different
Like I think that's kind of a one of the harder things like explained, but like when you see these teams in a watches history, right?
You think of like
CR Falcons you think about some of those Dallas fuel teams, right? Like it just seems like
Same blag is just he is going for the crazy bullpums. He's been hitting too many false bombs
He is getting he's upping the difficulty for himself. Yeah, I mean, but like this is like one of the
I mean it's literally the only EMEA team in like recent times that you kind of had that feeling about where like
Every fight they just play it perfectly every single time
Everybody's kind of like playing their hero to the absolute limit and even these fights
Like do not seem winnable or shouldn't really be winnable when you're kind of taking a look at like the ultimate economy on both sides
Like probably that last fight CM just knows the exact way they're gonna end up playing and everybody's on the same page
And that's when you get these teams that are just you know juggernauts impossible to just kind of get on by
Jake we do have some neutrons. I don't know if you thought well
I gotta make your being an account people
Yeah, you gotta like your being an account and then I know we got to get these games last longer
You know me looks like let's leave the screen up for you know 45 minutes here with these twisted minds games coming up
But no, I mean you got a lot of battle pass rewards here. Yo, we're going double loot box here a little
a little fire in it, a little double, not the Winton skin, those Winton OWCS skins,
that goes kind of wild and crazy, like the full orange, in memory of all the Winston players.
Winston will be back here, right? He's biting his time, he's cooking it up in the shadows. Winston
will not be gone for long, that is my prediction about the competitive Overwatch.
His bubble will need to be made out of like concrete, like indestructible.
Imagine he drops the bubble on your head and it just crushes you.
That would be wild.
I think Winston would get some play if he could jump into the air and drop his bubble and it would just insta-kill people on the smash.
You would probably see a lot of Winston play.
RuneSoppy is the pick here for Katzia.
This is another one where you're like, you know, Manga was obviously targeted and banned by TM in the last map.
Last map, this is what you could play it if you wanted to bring it out here
I
Mean Tim they really feel like it feels like they have the download on the Maga calm though like they you know with
Maga it feels like you need to have this big hit with the Maga storm
You know catch supports or maybe like a wayward hit scan player
Tim it's like they are so good at putting pressure on their opponents
It's scary to play like you're all without great defensive utility against them right like like you know
We have those moments where players are just getting picked off left right in center. You're being hit from all sides
We're even on the cast and we can't even really capture like all the angles twisted minds is attacking you from I think with the Marga comp
That is like doubly a problem. You don't really have tools to defend your allies
Maybe you can seize the reins and get aggressive, but the players on TM the individuals are just so good
It's it's hard to imagine that catching them off making mistakes is gonna be a good strategy for the win here
That's just how I feel, but you're not going to catch, you know, as we take a look at the
band, Securi and Vendetta will be the targets.
If there's one region that's not going to get caught off guard or knows how to deal
with Moga, it's EMEA, right?
Like this is the region where like the EMEA, I know Moga Rush was kind of our lives
for almost a year.
So if there's a region knows how to deal with it, knows like kind of like the push
motion poll of the comp and knows when to go and when to play a little bit more passive
against it.
It is EMEA teams, and Pooced in mind in particular, I was very good at those comps, so I don't
think they're going to get caught out guard here by Katzia, but these bans, what does
this tell you?
I mean, I think the Kira ban, it signals to me, once again, you feel like you don't
want to play against Lucio Kirae, that's way too good for TNM, I think they're
probably the best team in the world at that rush style.
That's what they won the World Championship playing.
So I understand taking it away.
I think it also says that you could go for one of those Dallas
Fuel-esque on Ellari styles, which I kind of like.
Not because I think it gives you a great chance,
but it makes the game chaotic.
And it lets individual players on Alcatya
kind of step into the limelight.
It's a very individualistic style.
And you can see players finding their own picks.
Like let SurmaJet cook on the ARE.
Let him find some damage.
Let Aiden Tejong.
I mean, they've been showing us that they can hang, right,
in some of these last maps when it comes to individual 1v1s.
And if you make that game a chaotic 1v1 battle,
I think your odds are better than when you're
in those proper team fights where
T.M. they just don't give you any mistakes.
I think her already at match point in this series.
Twist in minds.
You can't see, I think, that number two was much better,
right?
Yeah, I knew that number one was a bit of a blah.
I mean, then map one, Matt.
But like not, like, not Katya.
Then map 1, yes, yes.
In comparison to map 1, they did look much better.
I think, obviously, to make some significant noise
in this series, it's going to have
to be ramped up to another level.
It'll be Katya coming out.
Oh, the T's, huh?
Yeah, so map Lucio here for TM with the Zari in the mix.
It'll be Pharah with the Moga.
And I think that Katya looks like with the backline.
Probably expected to give up tension.
Yeah, I think they're going to be maybe a little bit surprised out of this one.
The far agree though is absolutely blocked.
Damn, they don't come out on a support that can't shoot up, right?
So you have a lot of damage going to be pumped in here on the walkup.
Tejong though, big direct rocket force to recall onto J.
It's a little bit of pressure now.
And see how healthy they're starting to put a bit of an attack in here.
And he has to be so careful with Tejong, right?
You have the M-Rate, you have the Baptiste.
It's going to be a immortality kill there used by Simple.
It's trying to keep the entire team alive.
So actually, that Stola goes on in, and actually the Immortality Kill goes down.
If that's all not able to make it out, you see Quartz here just trying to get some splash damage there on it.
Ate his Quartz, finishes him off as he goes on the cross.
And clean kill from Quartz. And Katia is caught in a weird spot here.
They're gonna just try and virtually retreat, regroup.
But TristanMinds just did the great job. They're constantly rotating away from the Obsession.
They get even Bot Control as well.
And Bestola at some point has to go, right, has to find this opportunity to send it in on an Alchemist.
Look at that pressure. Bestola down to 100 HP, repeating for one second.
Like, this team just puts the hurt on Mordor.
Nice bubble.
Yeah, they more valid to kill their youth as well. Bestola's in another really real spot.
And like, I think that's like the big issue here is like, you know, it's going to be the amateurs being bi-simple as well.
Like, Jay was big up there.
Vestola has to be aggressive, right?
Like, if Phaedra puts down some damage,
they're gonna just stagger out of here.
It's brutal.
Yeah, that's gonna be a checkpoint.
But when Vestola sees that there's a considerable amount
of damage done, he needs to kind of go in.
But it's almost like bait, right?
Because Symbil just drops the mortality field
and then you got the regen burst kind of
brings everybody back to a reasonable amount of HP.
And then Vestola's in the middle of them
with nowhere to go and nothing to do.
So really rough situation to be in.
more cats, yeah, they'll actually have an Alari come out here as well, you know, in their back line is we do get a little bit of a pause.
So we'll figure out what's going on there.
I mean, that's, that's what mongo wants to do in this comp, right?
Finding the stomp on the Batiste, putting him in the corner is, is the dream scenario.
But TVNT is just too clutched, like finds the perfect bubble at the perfect moment has held the resources to that point.
And, you know, the mongo comp, if you don't find like that strong initiation on your stomp, you're in a rough spot, right?
frankly, like maybe the damage you come in from Elcerone.
Again, you know, Tejong like finds the direct,
takes the enemy override protocol out of the sky,
on the Pharah, like they are showing motion, right?
They are looking good as individuals,
but it's just overwhelming that the pressure
that TM has on you here.
It's like, you're not just having a couple big plays,
it's not gonna win you to fight.
You need to do everything right.
Like that's the standard this team sets.
Now an acro beat right off the pause here,
TM sending it in.
Wouldn't they, though?
Stay close to the back, like TNT was very deep, but ends up getting punished for it.
Yes.
Translating back to Rage.
He tries to go past the Rage there in TNT.
It doesn't exactly work out, but hold on.
Twisted Mind's not out of it just yet.
TNT's gonna come off of spawn.
You still have Symbol here alive, but the rest of the team's gonna die down.
Oh, nice. That's a nice stop.
You actually knocked players out of that immortality build,
but the Stola taking so much damage from J.Woo and the rest of the team.
As Jake, I don't even think that Katsy is going to be able to get control of the bot here.
I think it's still going to remain in the hands of Twisted Minds,
and you're going to get players back off of Svon.
And J.W. is playing a lot of attention here, and remember, this is the Katsy as Svon.
They do not want to be chasing a tracer at this part of the map.
But Stola putting some pressure on him, and knows he's not going to be able to find this kill.
And this is exactly where J.W. wants to find himself in this matchup, ready to harass the backline, ready to put some pressure down.
Draw some attention away from this f***ing frontline.
Big grab here finds the Juno instant double kill on the fight and Katia are they
gonna go for this? Tanigami does find the kill on the simple.
He's about being stolen away here man.
Yeah I mean, Tanigami's so low that Stola he will end up falling, I believe the
four are still alive so they're not able to deal with him just yet.
Yeah he should, he's gotta be going off the map.
This is a terrible, oh no, the food for funny Astro, yeah it's, I will say he's
probably gonna swap.
You're gonna swap a pretty rough here. He probably really wants to go out against racer in this matchup
So maybe you know why not take it take a chance at the barrage put some chaos into the match
Yeah, I mean I'm gonna slow things down. Yeah, if you're gonna swap you use the barrage there
Maybe you get lucky take the astral button
Yeah
Now you end up losing a this is Rob
It's gonna be the old protocol used here is that some really nice angles that court is able to find
He's just putting a work in big damage even on the tracer Tejong
That's just run for the hills take that to be backline and now simple with this and matrix
They're gonna peek I go into the spawn here the walk up. This is one of the reasons vlog
I can't really do much about this kind of a play a drop
Like a sack of rocks and then probably gonna be the only kill they find off the wall
But the card is just full rolling this whole time
Well, you also have just be right so like no now
You know, Vestal is gonna fall to a pole spawn, you're gonna lose Gala as they think Pyro's just kinda like, you know, staggering and just kind of
Running out of the spawn here for Katzia, just trying to gain. Cause like, you're just gonna get Bully back to this point and like, what?
You know, Astro's gonna beat, you're gonna basically, I mean, while you have Captain Sun and Cagelight to meet, there's a chance here, but still, you're getting pushed all the way back to the spawn door.
Could be hard to find beat value in these particular ult spawn, Astro's gonna go for it, and TNT caught the cage to not have the benefit of that sundry.
a bit into this, but ultimately, Bestola wins the day in the front line.
Thermajed finding some clean up here, but Funny Astro does take him down.
They'll both GPS and Funny Astro alive in the back line.
It is not a safe place to be, Aide.
Tetsuya might have won, in terms of the bot control, but Distant Minds is constantly
battling here with the two DPS and the support, and like, what is that kill for?
Yeah, I mean, it's a really difficult situation because, like, you know, Bestola
He just kind of needs to create space between the bot and the spawn door, but the rest of the team was just kind of getting cut off from that position.
So now, the solo back with the rest of the squad, and you're still going to have another fight.
The basically approaching to Katya's spawn is, you know, we are below four minutes. We're getting below four minutes here.
So about half of the game is gone. The solo dangerously low, has to back on up. Doesn't want to burn my Karate for a drive just yet.
Adrien comes out but they're all caught in the Graviton Surge here.
Majed dies before the Plochum can even stick to a Batidian Tee.
Under the pressure of that 4-bill ray does drop Zarya without much of a escape from him in this spot.
Horde's right vertical over the top, trying to find some kind of an exit though.
Getting out of this life might be the best it can do, but Adrien does find that cleanup.
Still, it's not a clean one.
J. Moon's funny astral combined to ensure Katsuya, they might win the fight,
but they're not going to get a lick of objective progress off of the event.
Well, they can never really see me get like a clean fight, right?
Like, okay, they'll win, you know, they'll get three players down on TM,
and they'll end up losing like three or four players towards the end,
like, you know, J. Wu and Astro, and like, you know, just kind of like...
This one kills me a little bit earlier, so they're never really able to kind of get in progress,
because this mind still holds these forward spawns.
They've been holding them basically the entire game.
They're having big damage coming in, though.
Well, attention onto the stole of the aggression.
Simple does drop, that seems to be the only casualty for now.
Devianty on relatively low HP on Zarya, but Katya without really players to continue contesting into this slot.
Gala delaying himself here on the side, but the bot is far away.
It's snowballing through the checkpoint, forward spawns, relocked in for gifted mines.
They're playing with the house cards, they've gotten the bot deep into the enemy spawn.
And it's up to Katya, like you said, to win a clean fight.
I think for the first time in a long time, they're able to re-approach me.
Look at this. Oh, this is gonna devastate them.
Sick backflank from TM. It does get scouted though. Good read by Tejong.
Yeah, they do kind of call it out, so...
Having an opportunity here, it's gonna be a cell barrier from Bunny Ashrow actually connect to...
4 out of the 5 members of Twisted Mind Quartz does not get the benefit of it, but Quartz is just...
Because he's on a deep flank, he's gonna come up with 3, so...
It looks like J.U. actually, once he gets spotted with Quartz on the flank,
he actually goes back to the rest of the team, gets benefits of the B,
and like kind of fights from the front and then Quartz actually just re-wraps
uh and ends up coming up with three in the fight.
Yeah, Quartz taking that position is like absolutely illegal.
He's like in your defender high ground.
And once again, Katia on enemy balltast, they gotta step up to the plate here
and find some kind of an entry.
TM, fully drained in the opening, so you gotta watch out for something like a cage fight.
Solo cage fight though does catch TD&T.
Ideal if you can drop this early, the drone.
Keeps him up simple.
Doing pots when it's TD&T in it.
Ultimately, pressure of the rally is just too much.
You can see how, finally, have found a clean fight, Gala on, I think, less than 5 HP there,
because he's blinded, but you will take whatever you can get, as I can see, as, hopefully, they can finally make some progress,
but, do you have to get a full forward spawn here, Matt?
They needed to use absolutely everything there, right?
K-Trike connects with TvNT, they don't really have anything to, like, kind of, you know, keep him alive through that.
The immortality field gets burned down pretty quick, and then when TvNT is trying to, like, back out with the rest of the team,
he actually gets stunned, uh, with the rally bash, so, that's how they end up kind of winning that fight.
He's got a force with the override protocol here, put down some serious interest, soul is in a rough spot here, Jay.
Tejango, pulse bomb, double kill on supports, actually makes this fight somewhat minimal.
Gala might need to be ready to do it though, and isn't really committed to this fight.
Doesn't see the vision here, the supports, J.Boo and T.D.D. still firing at full strength.
The burn? Oh my, it was kinda close.
He does live.
But you also see how long Quartz is actually able to keep going with the pistol with the direct hits.
It feels like he had the pistol out there.
Actually, it is brutal for Mago once you have that upgraded pistol like it's almost impossible to kill a membrane
Who's like jumping around over your head?
Snape is your best life stealing you it is a rough spot to be in
Gala gotta be careful here with this orbital ray. They need a defensive tool to deal with the graph I
End up getting here as well for twisted minds is that let's take a stowa goes on and can be any more
how the build ends up used there. Oh looks like they're actually trying to catch Gala up in the sky with the orbital right there
with the grab, not able to catch him, but they do Yamruta's Peijong, so
uh, looks like though it'll be a Katya fight win here, Jake.
This is gonna be very difficult to run it all the way down. You have a sound barrier waiting on the other side.
It's just crazy Dejavu, right? You just can't get those clean fight wins for Katya.
are going to be back at full strength over and over again, and I love this Eva Swap because really
in overtime in this kind of position, all you need to do is find trades. You don't really need to win
the fight for TM, but a beat rush Deva here is going to be scary. TMT already in the backline,
already sending a hook for Kha'Zix here. I'll tell you where I'm going to go, although that
vertical mobility is going to put a good flat. Kha'Zix as well, blind-stuff on the exit,
so maybe an over-cook here with Quartz, takes down Summer Jett, with the Briggs Falls,
A lot of room here for J.Boo and TD&T to work.
Hey John, low HP, they got to stay healthy on this part.
Gala gonna be public enemy number one here, the pulse bomb.
I think it was me called out there, but Orcs does find enough of a damage to fight this kill.
And yeah, the trades come in, but like we were saying in overtime, it's just not good enough.
Twist in mind, should be closing this one out in style, only Vistola holding out on the car here.
Yeah, I mean, Vistola, it's been a rough one, right?
He's done some nice job putting down some damage on the back line.
just not a lot of follow-throughs, twisted minds, no surprise here Jake, they take care of business
against Katzio 3-0. I mean they just look unbeatable here in E&EA regardless of what Katzio is throwing
at them. It's rare to see like a level difference like this in competitive Overwatch, right? Like
you think about of all the teams in the last couple years, who has been able to dominate their
opponents quite like this right like there's been teams who we've thought of
as number one in the region where we know okay like they're probably gonna win
their favorite in all these matches but it's rare that we're for that like
anything other than a 3-0 would be a shock right like for this team like
winning a map against them would be a shock it's not only that no one has done
it no one has really gotten close I mean at no point in really any of these
maps are TM worried about the possibility of genuinely dropping a
map in the series. I mean it's it's like uh it's interesting right because typically uh
where we would have the best team in the world in like a region per se like you know a lot of the
times at least in like Overwatch's recent history the second best team in the world is in that
region as well right uh where this it's like you know the best team in the world at the
moment is here in EMEA like where does the second team in EMEA rank like
globally like I don't know and I mean you can probably kind of like you know
pick a number out of it in there but it seems like there's never really been a
gap between like okay this region is the best in the world but then kind of
like everybody else so yeah I'm struggling to cope but I need your
help tm just absolutely ran away with this one i think what else is there to say but i i cannot
provide any support or help whatsoever it has positions dominance like i mean looking at all
the way back all the way back feels like five minutes ago uh map number one right could see
it coming with a plan they were running at marga and fara but it took like what feels like split
seconds for twisted minds to like make the necessary adjustments and then they just roll
They just roll into this and give Katsuya absolutely nothing to play with.
Let's talk to Funny Astro, who will be joining us for a quick chat of the
Dysdominant Performance. Funny Astro, welcome back.
It's always great to see you.
I don't even want to really talk about the match.
It was over in a blink of an eye anyway.
I'm wondering, with that very clear, what do we call that?
It's a tear break between Twisted Minds and Literally Everyone Else.
Is there any value for Twisted Minds to even scrim against teams in EMEA and NNA?
Do you feel like you're getting value out of that?
We're getting some sort of value. I think we generally play a little worse in scrims and
maybe some of these teams are a bit better in scrims, but on matchday we always show up and
we just stomp them. The scrims are definitely a lot closer than this and we, of course,
need to prepare for Japan if we qualify.
Yeah, obviously I know working towards Japan and qualifying for that, I have a feeling you
you guys will be there.
When you look forward towards that event, right?
No, obviously we have like a new season coming balance patch.
Are there any heroes that you think,
like we've seen some mall guys of late
that you think potentially could be on the rise
that you guys are gonna have to work on moving forward?
I don't think there's anything
that we really think is OP that might need working on.
Maybe there's like some glimpse of hope for hazard.
I think he looks slightly better
than people are giving him credit for,
but other than that,
I don't think there's any sort of hidden heroes.
Maybe the macro is a bit overrated right now.
Yeah, so for you guys, obviously you haven't yet qualified,
but given the 15-0 map record in this stage,
it's gotta be top of mind for you guys
thinking about going to Japan,
competing against some of the other regions.
I'm thinking globally, are there any teams
you're looking at?
I mean, obviously the Korean teams look quite different
this year, there's been a lot of changes there
in NA as well.
I'm curious if you're watching any of the global matches
and if there's any teams that maybe you guys
are looking at as someone interesting, maybe with strategies that you think have potential,
or just a team that you think could maybe surprise people in Japan?
I think Zeta, obviously, that team is like, they're so flexible and they're so creative
with their strats that they're going to be really interesting to play against, super
looking forward to that matchup, but there's basically, there's no NA team that I really
want to play other than Disguise, but unfortunately they didn't make it, so there's not much
else that I'm looking forward to.
I saw the snark on his face when Jake said,
and I couldn't find it.
It's not looking good.
It's not looking good.
Oh, well, but hey, funny answer.
I mean, it's great to see a team just in peak performance every single match day.
I hope we can see you guys continuing that trajectory and all the way over to Japan.
I'm going to let you go and rest up and best of luck in your next match.
Not that you guys need it.
Thank you very much.
Oh, it's great to hear from Funny Astra with that dominant performance that find themselves
in the upper final.
Now a way to their opponent will be VP or GK that's our second upper semi-final, hopefully
a bit closer.
I think it will be.
You know?
Yeah, I think it will be.
It definitely will be.
I mean, if it, like, it really doesn't get less close, so it could either be the
the same gap or it could be a smaller gap, which I suspect VP have still a very strong
team, but it wasn't a 15-0 stage, right? It wasn't like the untouchable level that Twisted
might find themselves on right now. And, you know, there's a reason that team don't
select DK, right? They had Ops select here. So this is probably, it should be on the
cards here, a much closer match. VP, that being said, they are far one. They did
beat DK in that regular season round, Robin. So you'd still call them the odds
on favorite. And in the end, right, you don't think it's chaotic when you go to Japan, right?
You're those top two Cs in the region. Of course, you'd rather be number one, but even number two
can make some waves with how strong EMEA is. Wouldn't be shocked to see maybe both the teams
qualifying out of EMEA, making a deeper run in Japan. So a lot of stakes on this. Absolutely.
And some slight meadow shifts or just discoveries from other regions as well,
that could really like come in handy or, you know, be a bit of a surprise for all of us.
Now, towards the mind being dominant, that's not a surprise for any of us. They will
continue in that fashion and if you give you or want to be on the receiving end
yourself how about you give it a try to face it Lee yeah is that a good sell
so we don't want to play twisted mind you want to play against beat down
by Jake and I come on you can play against teams of your level you don't
have to play twisted minds I'm just saying you're not you know this you're
not a bottom feeder when you're coming through the face of League okay
Make a GK roster made it all the way from the open qualifiers from the facet league into
stage 1 and now they find themselves in our EMEA playoffs.
This could be you fan maybe.
So make sure to join the facet league season 9.
Is it season 9 already?
I think it is.
That's actually crazy.
You see the link on your screens right now.
Get your friends together or your enemies.
I don't know who you like to play with.
And give it a go.
Jake, she's like.
Get your enemies together to play with them.
It's a story line, yeah. I'm here for it.
It wouldn't be the first team that doesn't get an R, I'm just saying,
but it gives us good content. So there's that. I'm always here for that.
Speaking of good content, we of course have a second semi-final coming up.
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Entry 1.
With Null Sector gone, the team has been sitting around Gibraltar without much to do.
I'd say I'm in the same boat, but to be honest, I've had my hands full.
Ever since I found this cute little stowaway, my mind has been racing with ideas.
For some reason, when I rescued this pretty kitty from in between some rocket parts in the main
landing bay, I thought back to some projects I never got off the ground. Literally. I was so young
when I drafted 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 cameo bull.
There was a funny moment earlier today. I was so stuck on the schematics for the thrusters,
But Fika took 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 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 will Fika's 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 startup.
And for the healing projectiles...
Actually, should they be PER projectiles?
Oh, I bet Fika would love that.
I should really add a grapple to the frame.
She'll need it whenever Reinhardt charges off without us.
I put out different paint options, and Fika knocked everything over except Blue, of course.
Honest Sven's good to close bets on that.
And that's that!
Blueprints for Project Jetpack Cap 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.
It's gonna be all right.
It's gonna be all right.
It's gonna be all right.
It's gonna be all right.
It's gonna be all right.
Welcome back to the OCCS Stage 1 playoffs.
This is day one and our second semi-final
in the EMEA region is upon us.
Virtus.Pro will be facing off against GK.
First series was a blur.
It went quick.
Twisted Minds came out on top.
channel points have been collected. Now this next series might be a little closer. Let's talk about
where we see those two teams stand. Starting this word as pro, I think throughout the group
stage, you have established themselves as the second best team in the region. In fact, it really
was only twist of minds that was able to like win against them, right? Their opponent,
Holman, DK, is the only other team that managed to steal a map away from them.
So you're saying there's a chance? I'm saying there is hope.
That's what we're saying. There is hope.
I am leading heavily into it.
I'll say this as well. I think DK has actually gotten better as the Sages have gone on.
But we look at VP, and I think they have cemented themselves since that number two.
Right, they had land in. You obviously have Psycho in the mix now,
then I assume kind of leading the tank for a full time.
They performed as expected, right?
I think we all thought that this team would be the number two in EMEA.
We thought maybe they would be a little bit closer to TN, but I think it's just more TMS kind of, you know, risen to another level
You look at the back line of the squad. I think they've this is a top two back line in the NBA
Obviously the top one is a little bit scary, but landed in Fixa. I'm really impressed by these guys
They have again very strong flexibility
Landed and absolutely top off on the flex board role the trust they give into Aizam
I think is huge for this one right like we saw great things from him
but it was really more in that flashes of brilliance vein where the team is citing what tank do they really want to go with
I think the proof is in the pudding
No eyes on is really solid with full confidence in the tank role in kevster and psycho these guys are just oh geez
Yes, well, I think if they can get the opportunity to play some double-flex styles and really push tempo like it looks great for them
But that's from them. I'm not gonna complain
No, no that Europe literally made for kevster psycho their newest addition for in 2026
being snatched away from twisted minds of course. Also a great great player to
pick up. Also all of these players are now in a starting position right? They don't
have to write a bench at all. Like Eithnum doesn't have to trade places.
Cycle as well as Kevser do not have to do any switcheroo's so I think for
them to be able to just like be in the starter throughout an entire season
or rather stage. I think that really helped that team out a lot. They were
off to a great start last year already. It was kind of the meta that broke their backs
as they had to make switches and they didn't know what to do with that Symmetra meta, but
different times now and they're looking good.
Yeah, Ice Noem doesn't have to play Symmetra on the circuit royal. I mean that's something
we saw at times last year. So I think this team obviously feels way more comfortable than
they did.
Ice Noem was good on the stand, all right? I'm gonna say that. He was not bad on
the stand, man. It's just that, when you're doing that, you are so desperate,
Right like yeah, it's a sign of deep issues when you're gonna swap your tank to never the tanker support moves like you know
You'd be up like the the Ryu J Con we've had that the time who wins to me
I you know you don't want to although it's never a good sign. I hear that but I'm by the Cassidy
How about that? That's a counter. I was kind of lit
Everyone's in the water works out for the teams
Mostly if it's not though I think of things that work out or didn't work out a key cake
that they get 3-1, is that a word, is that a sentence?
Yeah, sure.
They lost 3-1 to Murders Pro, just literally a week ago.
We did see some like, right spots, some hope.
Havana, for example, looked really, really good for GK.
What do we want to see from them today?
From my perspective, Matt, it's really, it's going to be on the support line.
You know, for Haku and Finn, I think for them to have a huge game,
a huge series is going to be crucial. I really think Labda, Alphie, Ziad, you look at that.
That's a crazy lineup. This team can go to land. This team can show up in an international tournament
and these guys can hang. There's going to be massive pressure, though, on the back line to show that
they're in that next. There have been questions about Finn, about his success, honestly, at the
highest level. I don't think he really had that great moment to really prove people,
prove to people, rather, that he is one of those top tier supports.
and some more story for Haku like some good moments here and there but they need to have like a solid solid game in the backline
Clean all these great tracking no mistakes if they want to win this well again if we
Expect things to kind of go as they have gone, right?
You would probably need to beat this team again whoever wins this year, right?
Like most likely you think you would probably favor either of these teams over, you know, Katia
and then obviously whoever wins this has a chance to get to his mind's but most likely it kind of goes the way that
Things have gone with the teams go against with some eyes as a blight so like this is a match that we may see again for
Qualification right so like important here to maybe kind of get the better of the team get a download on how they want to play and then
Really come back to that second match
Yeah, I mean again just a reminder to everyone better chances against twist of mind than the final
Not a single team in this region has even taken a map
So, yeah, don't take that from what it is, but yeah, we do expect a hopefully closer season
or a season series this time around between those two teams. Again, maps were taken,
there were definitely a lot of moments within the other maps where they were,
GK had the right idea, just didn't come out on top. So if we're looking at predictions for
that one though. Are we going with recency bias? I'm personally a very big fan of recency bias
so yeah I'm giving this one to VP. I do feel though it's going to be a close match and I'm smelling
like a 3-2. Ooh okay. I think it's going to be VP. I think it's like a 303-1. I've had concerns
about the GK backline. But for GK, obviously, you know, maybe you get this match up again
and you only got to beat him once, right? So I think VP takes this.
Yeah, I gotta give this one to VP. I think this one's pretty straightforward. I think the support
lineup is going to be the big advantage that does this for VP. But a lot comes down to these
matchday moments from what the funny answer was saying, right? That's a huge factor. You can
look like a good team in scrims. You can have the right strats. But if your players can't
show up on matchday and you know take it to 11. You're not a team that's going to have great
success on an international level. You know you might not even qualify to get there. So for VP
this is the moment when push comes to shove. Yes you look very good in the regular season
how do you do with real stakes on the line here in playoffs? Indeed it is a double elimination
bracket so each team will be having a second live as well. The audience as I just looked
over at my other monitor monitor yeah clearly in favor of vertus pro 84% are going with vertus
pro and 16% are seeing a little upset here with dk and the winner of course will be facing off
against with the mines in the upper bracket final let's see who's going to come out on top guys
please take it away i mean it's 16 that that's not a crazy bet like i i kind of put those
I would say that like that's fairly like, you know, the DK's got a 25 20% chance to like win the series
I think that's like fair to say. You know, I think DK has a roster that we talked about the tank
You know, obviously Zod and then the damage dealer line like very strong very proven
I think it's really just kind of the supports
But like we've seen Haku and Finn come up with some sick games
So they really just need to click on one of those against a team like this, and they're in a great spot.
I mean, I think part of the problem though is you look at the VP back line, and when I see Fixa in line, I just think of stability, right?
I think this is going to be one of the hardest to kill back lines in the game.
They're maybe not going to be as aggressive as something like we see at a Twisted Minds,
but man, you just do not want to be in a spot where you're trying to gank and punish those supports.
those supports like fixing land in are going to be a brick wall in the back line. VP and
the Kyrko to open things up, but you can respond with the Moga. Remember VP was kind of the
team to bring Moga to the forefront in the first place. So if there's anybody who could
bring it into the meta, it'll probably be them. DK don't want to deal with it here
on control. Yeah, VP doing a lot of, uh, no Moga
action where it seems like a funny extra, not exactly as sold on the Moga potentially
I know as some other teams are but I also think it's easy for Tia to kind of just deal with just about everything, right?
So carry Maga Van here early on it'll be the map pick of VP. It'll be Oasis
So with DK banning rid of the Maga, right? Like do we get a nice gnome?
Maybe it's you know, whether it be D.Va or Zarya this on the mocks like Ziyan to play like the D.Va potentially here
So this one could be one that DK could potentially be able to steal
Yeah, I expect to see Zarya look really good here, you know, especially with the Caricoban,
because now the Brigg Juno feels like a natural backline to pick.
It's going to make things even harder for D.Va.
It's not going to be easy to, you know, punish, especially that Brigg.
Vixen, though, has not only has looked great on Alusio, but the Brigg is where I really
think Vixen shines.
So for VP, there's a reason they ban the carry.
I think this is going to be a really comfortable setup for them.
That being said, it's going to come down to who can perform on matchday.
Kevster vs. Labda, could be a bit of an explosive matchup here on the Emperor.
I think if that's going to be a point of success, it needs to come from the hitscand tool.
Yeah, I think for Labda, this turned into one of the better hitscans.
All of the VMEA, really the world, is going to be, by VK, getting up to the high ground,
and looking at just bully VP off of it.
It's been going to be, it's going to be a rig, you know, on both sides.
things to kick things off here but that's a great start for DK. Yeah, they just get boxed out
great early damage there coming out from Labda, sets up for some finishing kills.
Strong opener to this match, right? And confidence can be everything in the Zarya comp, right?
Sending him a tracer for bubble recall, getting a little bit of energy towards the odd, but
they're tuning out for VP to step up. So, Kev trying to take a side room here. Oh nice!
like there and then just walks directly on Alphie's head.
Six shots there from Kempster. That is so difficult to do.
Tracking that Tracer.
Ooh, Ziad gets right in the mix.
It's going to be the, or, no, the speed there of Juno
to get him right into Kempster's face.
No mobility there on the Emory to get away.
That's massive. They can't strike back.
Ziad getting away with murder there.
Kills continuing to be traded.
He does play on the river.
It doesn't seem to be for long, right?
In the end, DK, overwhelming.
I'm caught in the corner.
Great pundit from Ziad.
I mean, on Kempster's POV,
I just did not think that was gonna work. I think he thought the same like I have enough distance
I'll just beat this kind of push and hide away with the pistol
But team tracking from siad gets the counterkill and keeps gk here in hold of the point VP
You need to find some answers and quick job
Maybe grab ties on spit. Oh, look at that as well. I in terms of cat on the ember data
I know that the very close to the right protocol as well. Oh nice pulse bomb there from psycho
So, it takes out Lab to that huge right, he probably would have had the override protocol
this fight.
Yeah.
And without the hitscan, opportunity to push aggressively here, Zyaga the Gravitron search
here on 95% would be a difference maker in this fight.
If you want to go for it, it looks like they do, but IZON claps down to him, caught
in an awkward angle here on the point.
We'd like to just go for the retake.
Virtus.pro though, with a bit of room to work with, and although you can have
the first ultimate, the fact that it comes in this delay between fights and VP likely
gonna be able to bridge those gaps. So it looks like DK though here, Jake. They'll have every
ultimate to work with. You can kind of conserve these for a next fight, right? You can get in
this here and it's gonna be the Orbital Array for both of them, landing and falling. The hands
are hard through there, so you have to use Orbital Array and your Orbital Array protocol here from
DK. But that's gonna be enough to flip it. You flip it quite quickly and that's gonna allow
you to have the rally, the grab, the grab pole spam here for the next fight. GK in a very good spot
potentially take this first round. That's huge that you get that done with a minimal investment.
Oh god, going to go very aggro. Eyes on here, clears the corners, going to clear the second
corner as well. So Siege to play. Very deep grab. He does the right against the catcher.
Fighting this mostly spot is a risky bet though. Four GK, good. Caught, Zun, low.
The rally battle won by a mix of the ultimate. The trades continue to come. GK
getting up numbers in the fight.
It dues the point flip to the chaos,
so it could lose my Psycho to kind of staunch the bleeding,
and I think he will be able to get an overtime touch here.
Ice Tom, over to the hazard, feels like he's got to push the pace.
Yes, Psycho actually goes around and goes to actually flip the point.
Alfie was there just kind of tracking him,
and then decided to go in and finish some players off,
and then double back. It'll be OT here.
Hole Spawn for Alfie, that could go crazy.
Gastic here, would be backbreaking.
Zarya bubbles to play with. You gotta just dodge this on your own turns because Yaw's already down,
he doesn't find the timing to get in, throws a push bomb, but goes wide.
And Aiznom, signature hazard here. You know, for a lot of players, I think you would go to this
take and not feel so great about it. But for Aiznom, I think this is exactly where he wants
to find himself. And GK, the entire bank is dry. They're gonna be looking for a retake,
and 50% of your worth of control time to work with, but whether you get another ultimate
in this round, this is not a sure bet here. I was going to say that I think that's kind of the benefit
here for VP as when you look at like kind of the ultimate economy of GK, there's a real chance that
they don't get anything coming up for the rest of the round. They're in a really rough spot. So
this next fight, I believe Psycho does have a pulse bomb. So if you're able to win it off
of that, you know, they're really not going to be able to build up towards any more ultimates
for the rest of the game. So you'd be in a great spot if you're VP to close out a very
competitive back in fourth round one. Yeah, and you know, for, for, you know, for, for both of these
teams, though, I think it's a bit of a wake-up call for VP. Like you might have put up a three-one
dominant scoreline, but, you know, Labda and Alpha Yee have found some very strong aggressive fights
into this. Even Ziyad showing like, you give them an opportunity, they will absolutely run you
over. So, when it comes to that frontline battle, I feel like I'm leaning GK right now.
I mean, obviously way too early in the series to make any kind of a resolution or a call, but
certainly gonna, you know, make you think as Virtus.pro, right? You know, you might have, you might have thought we'd put up such a good show in the regular season.
This one should be just a repeat of that history.
We're going to have to earn it here to close out our first round of control.
Yes, we jump right back into game. It'll be Zod, who can now go over to the Dota feel a little bit more free on this pick.
Now that it is hazard on the other side is Psycho, Lurking with that pulse.
Aww, I mean, Finn right there.
He needs to be able to stay alive and not have anybody fall for Coltsbomb here of Zyko.
Oh, Coltsbomb on the shield. Great block there.
Bye, Finn. Keeps the team in the fight.
They're gonna get tired. They're gonna play this one slow instead.
They're gonna play for that single fight.
Kha'Fu's 70% to that ray.
Colts team's now looking for a mistake. Looking for an opponent to poke out and take that trade against.
Aizn on Kha'Zun's corner here is making a lot of pressure.
Has to back out a big nasal crumchester.
It's gonna mitigate some of that aggressive potential.
We'll write protocol here from both teams.
It's gonna be coming up, Jake as well.
Land and stand!
Yon!
Find the first pick of the fight, GK.
Staying alive, support protecting one another and laptop.
The first override protocol.
Keep that gotcha, John.
Protect your own.
There's lots in time.
Without supports, this one feels almost impossible here.
Four VP.
It's gonna be some desperation to reach such as here to keep this contest rolling.
You're playing a couple with the Hazardolls, but ultimately without supports.
There's Jeff, just not much of a fight he had.
Yeah, the downpour connects with two, but Ziad just kind of getting into the back line, causing issues.
Finds Landon, and that is really what turns the tide.
I mean, Landon was going to be close at Orbital Ray there as well, says Ziad, going over to the D.Va that we, you know, we know is his best tank, unable to take that first round.
Looks like maybe another pause here as we get into this second round, but great start from GK.
OK, I mean, you put up a round win.
I do think, though, this port 10 is a very close series, right?
This one, about as close as it gets,
you know, it's really nice that you find that pick on the Landon.
But like two or three more seconds,
and you've got support alts coming into this one.
And I think it's going to become a lot more chaotic than that.
So Labda, though, absolutely earning his keep on this team.
I mean, I think that is going to be a key point for the series.
Labda almost needs to hit skin gap.
Like, we kind of need to see that be a dominant point for the squad.
I remember even hearing from some of the team players,
like Labnit was, you know, like right in the bench
of this team, it was like still looking insane,
and they were like, go to another team.
You need to play.
Like this talent should not be hidden.
Yeah.
Okay. Well, there you go.
Butch, you're gonna decide it.
It's over.
I'm kidding.
I'm kidding.
I'm kidding, guys.
I'm kidding.
We're gonna get another round.
We're getting another round.
It's, no, I was like, yeah, that's Jake.
He's actually just deciding.
DK, yeah, call it there.
Hey, what about me?
Yeah, they doubled down.
They take that first, uh, no, they don't take the first round, but we still have a lot of rounds to play here.
They've got to earn it in the map, so they've got to one more round to do it. Two chances on the play.
I wonder if comps don't go more in that dive direction with these next two points, right?
When you think about what all the points we're looking at.
Yes, it does feel like if Ice plays the hazard, and that just opens up Ziad to play the D.Va that is like probably pretty awesome for GK.
like they would love to have Ziad play the diva and then like you know if Ziad's on diva and then
Labd is winning that hitscan battle like pretty consistently that's like a recipe for bad news for VP
yeah it's gonna be uh it's gonna be interesting i mean i also think there's there's the opportunity
to pull out some more of a rush style um for vp but um you know let's see like what where they
end up going i feel like oasis is an interesting control pick i feel like when you take it to
to Oasis, you kind of want comfort diversity.
If you just wanted to play a Rushmare,
you'd probably take us to Li Jiang Tower
and feel pretty good about yourself.
But I think for VP, they almost want to play that game
of beating on the swap tempo.
Although with Qiri and Manga Band,
it's a little bit harder to do that.
But it's not hard to do though,
isn't like you're beating that guys.
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just to get themselves set up with some audio and ping issues in that last round.
So hopefully we can dip all that in the bud here and set ourselves up for a good clean series.
Lot to play for in this one, man.
I mean, you don't I mean, although the prize for winning is you get to play just fine.
So it is true.
Yeah, you are so awesome in this game.
you get to go, you know, run into a buzz saw, um, you know,
with, with simple minds, but, uh, sounds like we are getting a, uh,
back into game. I was going to say the chat is going crazy over the girls today.
Your girls are on point. I mean, they're like, they're flowing out the sides.
I mean, yep. I don't know. What is that? Does that mean, what does that mean?
You're too old, bro.
I'm too old, bro. Yeah.
No, you're young at heart, Matt. You're young at heart. I am young at heart.
I am young and hard that's wow, but I am old in terms of physical being
All right, Haku deathless in that last round Alfie and Phantom. I'm not gonna look at those stats
They're sleeping on that one great
Seems like okay our issues are kind of resolved out there with potentially been now for me so
Get back in the game.
Dude, I think these comps are kind of good for GK, it feels like for me.
Being able to come in here, the Alari Juno, a little bit different, right?
They're going to give up that high ground and kind of play from the low with this Zarya,
but I still have to be so careful kind of playing into Ziad, making sure he doesn't
kind of just run his mech into that Zarya view.
I will say that GK comp is very little mobility.
You need to find some sort of a pick-off because if it becomes a mobility battle where this pro has you gaffed it too
in the way, you're just gonna put some pressure down the right, that off maple is gonna be vulnerable to D.Va and Tracer who look for attacks
If it was vulnerable, actually the D.Va already dropped out of the suit. As I speak, the fight's basically over.
You still have 5 players online, but without that D.Va make it's gonna be tough. D.Va ends up dropping as well.
Kepster finds a kill back onto Finn, he's wrapping into this one because he's starting to get energized
It's starting to clean house here continue to put pressure here on the checkpoint
Of all the support to stabilize things for the moment, and that's all the time they need
I've not earned out of that soup so quick
It's as hard to like stand there and do with the Zarya really feel like any tank almost right?
Especially the diva select the high ground control for VP early on
They're not really able to find anything in terms of like, you know pick with a hit scan or something along those lines
That kind of forces ice noem
Kind of like move up a little bit maybe try and pressure out some of the supports game control the point in that that point
You have to kind of battle the odd and not able to stand fair to toe with
Now VP looking on the retake here and finned over to the break like this comp choice
Gives you a lot more that defensive point holding power
But he's a pressure on the point with the diva though might force the other drop
He's resisting that for now it keeps holding the high ground creating a really powerful position for lap that a play from here in
the early part of the fight
DK just refusing to drop off this Hydra, leaving Alphie alone on the point, holding it down for now
that Psycho eventually finds the Punish on to lap, the pulse bomb, no connection from that,
Alphie actually dies going for the drop. Yacht maybe stuck around on the Hydra just a little bit too
long, right? Punishing kills from Psycho who does end up dropping, and actually the two
supports in Azaria, oh the in-grab smashed away, Aiznath saves the day on that one, and
honestly with two supports and if that Azaria grab was big, like they could stall that one
for the response. I see why Ziad goes for it, but sick read from Aiznam and that's going to put some
hurt on GK on this retake. Five volts for the defenders. Yeah, I'm thought for a second like
maybe there was an opportunity like, you know, Ziad's going to use it and then like switch over
to D.va here and like a mirror, but they're going to kind of stay on the Zarya. It feels like
maybe you can like work this advantage in terms of the tank battle. This is going to be a
brutal fight though. I mean, five ult and a tear for VP. Nothing really to work with for GK.
I think if you're DK looking to try and get a quick fight, get some of these ults out.
You're not gonna be able to make this D.Va turn around the corner.
If that looks impossible, you've got to somehow step up, playing the low-down, forcing point.
I don't see you ever being able to break.
This whole Alchemist Override protocol could be able to do just that.
You can find some damage to your core lab, and he's opening this one up over a raid.
He adds yet more DPS to that frontline.
He's able to kill Capstress. He falls to the ground.
Counter-Override from land, and he'll be P-down one.
But not this way, because he's continuing to take the pressure in this fight.
Fix it with the rally.
Rally trade now here on the point. They're trying to, for all proof, mix up him.
Overwhelmed with the help of Alphakie's Tracer.
And as the dust settles, GK would take the flip, getting back control.
This is huge, whatever it is.
The retake into the D.Va should be your most difficult moment for the Zarya comm,
and they kind of make it look easy.
I can do that as a sick fight for GK.
Being able to win that there, and not give up a lead,
where now VP there in a really brutal spot.
It was a nice rally there from Fin being able to kind of like,
You can also give over some health and packs over to Ziad, that's kind of where VP, they were like all in on trying to get rid of the Zarya, but Ziad with a bubble and then some health, able to stay alive.
See, I still aren't ready, I mean almost like out of the armor, it does have a self-destruct to work with, so going to have a second map, and get back into it.
So, the dire situation, this could be the first map going over to DK.
Alpy holding on to this point now, doing a lot of work on the objective for the team, opportunity for Jige, but they've got to be able to find the damage while Tracer makes all of this distraction possible.
some big damage onto the brig, eventually the shield breaks, the odd collapses onto that backline.
And Virtus Pro, they're trying for the hill, but it's 99% you cannot back out of this fight.
Sick tracking, not me.
You'll find that kill in a second support, and this one, he's all over with the cry in map 1.
Okay.
Two GK.
The Prophecy map is fulfilled.
Okay.
I mean dude, GK does that.
If you look up and down the roster, is this sign for real GK does take map number one?
If you look up and down the roster, you're like, hey, I mean, it's kind of like what I, like, I mean, it feels like I talked about it with everyone in their game.
If you get this level of play from, like, Haku and Finn, like, you're gonna get, like, Alfie, Labda, and Ziad, like, as just a, you know, just strictly looking at, like, a DPS and tank, like, ranked so high in the region, right?
Like, you know, if you, like, deleted Twisted Minds, you'd be like,
okay, that's like the strongest, you know, tank and VPS combination
that you could make in the EMEA.
Like, there's an argument for that.
So, like, when you get great support play, I mean, with it,
this is the type of results that are going to happen.
And, obviously, VP, they come out with a losing set here.
I thought they had a pretty good map as well.
But you just see how strong you could potentially be.
Just sick grabby here from Aiznan, but it kind of comes to nothing.
I mean kills like this right onto kevster. I feel like lab that made a huge difference as well in this in this map overall
Right, I think more often than not found those wins in the hitscan battle
If if Kev can't win the hitscan battle against lab that it's gonna be very difficult
I think for VP to win the series right like just full stop even if everything else is
You know even or you know even kind of trends even a little bit slightly over towards
BP like everybody is so strong right now and can pump out so much damage that like if lab is gonna win that consistently by
You know 3k, you know 4k damage a map that can make up for you know some support, you know issues or you know
I'll you know difference in terms of support lines. So like it's a huge
It's a huge story in this series
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VP Matt pick is they probably didn't expect to find themselves down. Oh one. Yeah in the series
No, not yet. So I mean a little bit of a surprise probably for Virtus Pro
They don't get to pick many maps really just kind of like when they're playing against the TM
So taking us to runosoppy here for map number two, I'll be curious to see what they decide to do in terms of their fans.
I will say so the Maga Band has been extended, right? Which for this team I think is a big deal, right?
They want to play Maga. They want to play that kind of like pace-pushing style
I wonder if there's something like maybe a vendetta band or or you know to limit some of the aggressive potential of that style
I mean for GK
They have to be ready for VP like VP have shown a more unique style over through the through the whole stage
And so in a way they might be more vulnerable to some of these hero bands putting a crimp in their style
But I think the manga is the most powerful band of the series and GK they get the map went off of it
So, you know zero issues for them so far
But there is clearly a road back in strategically for VP. It's like hey so Juno ban
Okay, so it looks like actually they gave up the ban. So we saw this in Trist and Vine series as well
I gave up first ban so VP gave it up to UK
And they get rid of Juno. What do you think?
Hmm would they go to the tank pool?
You more often want to play like the Juno break with Maga because it
It's it like just better direct healing for manga who really and like something like orbital ray plus the cage fight
One of the you know massive power combos and VP are gonna responsibly ban the far which I like
I think this sets them up for success with something like vendetta
You know like far has been sort of seen as something of the counter pick to that hero
Able to put some pressure on her from range and also even for manga like you don't love playing against far
The barrage can just pop you even when you're trying to commit at full strength
You just died to the barrage like in your own cage. It's it comes a weird matchup when the faras in place
So without the farra, there's gonna be a lot more like grounded and she rolls potentially vulnerable to that stop
Yeah, I think the farra band is pretty strong if you're trying to like even when mago is at his strongest
We would see teams kind of go to the farra, right?
potentially, you know, just kind of like put some serious damage down on to the Maga.
So without that gone, maybe that opens things up here for Ice, Nomen, Combe to
go and bring that out in this map number two, which
this feels like a huge map for VP. I mean a lot of, you know, you lose two maps straight to DK.
It's a lot of like confidence and momentum kind of down the drain.
So it feels like a map that you'd be looking at as most certainly a must win DK.
Hovering over this comp, this is something most certainly they could do, right?
This is kind of, I know what you would expect from them at the moment.
I think VP obviously, you know, a decent amount of flexibility here at their disposal.
Looks like they're not gonna throw anything too crazy at it. Just want to take the mirror.
Maybe they kind of agree. Maybe the Maga has lost some bluster.
As TNM have said, maybe it just doesn't work that well.
VP gonna bring the full mirror here.
Relayn didn't fix it though, this is the moment to kind of show some of that impact, show why this backline has looked at it as such a threat here in the MAA for GK.
Hakun finned for a great game one, they just need to continue that level of presence here in the series.
Yes, Psycho is taking some big damage off the star, I think it was actually some of the needs that comes in from Ladda.
Gravel had chunked him down a considerable amount his
Position here off the star that's gonna be psycho getting rid of fit now that is a great pick there from the tracer on BP
That's the dream kill on tracer right with carry down to be cgk full aggro
It's gonna all deep send in the back like great bubble
He's fixed up way longer than he has any right to live in that fight now
It's eyes on filling up the feed here alongside psycho
And I open a carry pick it I mean it doesn't it doesn't get better than that
Start the fight psycho kind of wins that one right away there for VP really
He ends up like three in the fight, but getting rid of Finn right off the rip
I mean that is such an impactful pick right no suzu just the healing output there from the Curie as well
And you notice them notice right like Landon is giving some a nice gap in front of Kitsune rush here against Finn
Double recall used by Alfie
Okay, still yet early in the map
Same trade from Psycho, neither really finds anything.
A little cheeky play fight, recall advantage here for Alpha E, but climbing up here he does not want to stick around and risk a headshot.
A little bit of pause watch here so far, Matt.
Yeah, just a tad bit as it looks like the bot is going to be contested.
We'll figure out what's kind of going on there at the moment, but really it's just that one thing.
It's a fight win there for Virtus Pro.
behind those three kills from Psycho, and it looks like we had another fight.
Kind of getting ready to kick off there before maybe VP is able to take checkpoint.
Yeah, I will say that the good thing for GK is that they don't really give much progress
while the fight is being cleaned up, and so they're able to cut their losses there.
You get a little bit of progress to start that fight out, but if you get one clap-back fight from GK,
I mean, the game is right back to dead even, right?
So, you know, for me, this is still about as tight as it gets.
I do think though, Psycho and the Tracer are in a comp where Tracer can have a little bit more carry potential.
That's definitely going to be a key match up him versus AlphaGee here on map 2.
Yeah, it sounds like just a player deal with some pink issues. We'll get that resorted resolved as soon as possible and then just kind of get back into the game.
But, yeah, I mean, this Psycho can really start to take over that Tracer battle.
That alleviates some of maybe the pressure on the Kev that we were talking about where like Vlad kind of really, I know, played well in terms of the hit scan.
Head-to-head, you know really outperformed Kevin back number one where you're looking at that trending that way for the rest of the series
You're really worried if your VP, but if psycho can kind of start to dominate
The tracer battle and really take advantage of maybe a little bit of a weaker DK back line that can definitely turn this whole series
Right back into the action here you'd be holding on to this corner, but they're not too desperate really to control this position
I think this one is probably going to be a nice slow play for Emi to your point.
I mean, didn't die early in that fight means he's going to be far behind under Rush Landon,
starts to step up to the plate here, they're looking to swing this corner with a powerful
RodGK.
Should expect this kind of an open advantage, Command Zod holds.
Nice clans, wow that keeps Kester alive with a beautiful stick from Alphi.
Great play by Landon.
Nice slide, this is the team.
But GK, yeah they all survived out of this one and the card gets solved for quite
some time and Alphi you live so.
Oh, that's a late kill, Psycho finds Haku with the absolute last moment of the push.
And for GK, without Lucio, it feels like you don't really want to battle back into this one.
Checkpoint, Curtis Pro.
Well, you don't have to speed the battle back in.
That was actually like, like, GK almost played it as good as you could, right?
Alfie was on the bot just contesting it, not really allowing it to move even when the rush was going down
and then they used the speed to back on Alak.
Because Psycho finds a late kill there on Haku, it's going to be both of them.
I'm ready to use the ultimates here and at the moment, there's that thing getting dangerously low and he's gonna get finished off.
Yeah, it's just as hard as here it goes. So avoid that.
Oh, Hitzcans dueling in the air.
Oh, Tracer's cleaning the clean-ups on the weekend opposition.
Ziad, though, energize. He's gonna try and clutch this one out, but...
Counter-kill by Alphie. He's not fighting Psycho, actually.
All alone there, but despite Lucio and Zarya being right by his side, so Alphie...
How to do it God's work and with that kill the spawners being closer to you can't hold and they're gonna kind of push back for good map
Yes, that is
Let me alpha use having a really good map as far as really looking like it's gonna be the sound barrier
They're just gonna try to keep the other line nice cleanses. Well that comes through there from the whole stuff does connect
It's gonna be a later grab here from the odd. It's gonna be the sound barrier from fixer trying to keep everybody up. Oh
Oh, beautiful stick there. Alfie gets the punish on Bixxon who's kind of doing it with the last seconds of the beat.
Still, Curtis Pro, the other four, healthy, finding the kills elsewhere in the fight.
Alfie just can't do enough into this one, but ultimately it's going to be a clean up.
I just know I think that when I saw that grab, I think he was looking for Alfie blinking across the lane,
was trying to get that tracer additionally in the grab, but ended up only with the one man there.
It was enough to, you know, save Yod through it, but somehow VP just out brawled in that fight.
It's VP looking for a shutout here.
On Rinosopi is, uh, DK trying to get back over towards the, you know, bot trying to prevent even more of this progress,
but because of like those early kills from Psycho onto Finn, it's kind of like resulted in this really weird mismatching
in terms of the Kitsune rushes, right, because Lame is going to have another one here to put around the corner.
Yeah, and it's gonna give him this power play.
I still able to win that last fight is huge.
Another rush comes in here from Landon, and GK had to hard kite this one.
Trying to get away, but the rush goes pretty deep, putting a lot of damage on Ziad.
You might live into this one, but the card is really pressing through crucial territory.
Alfie stalls for a moment, but really can't stick around in that kind of a kill zone.
Created by Bernice, bro. VP, no. The counter rush is coming in.
They're gonna be looking for a kite of their own.
But GK has dead, Paul the block, they're pushing without the rush, now the rush comes in, AP after Run-Run, but I's not caught in the corner.
No way to retreat from that one, so great timing, jumped in there, kind of delayed rush, yeah, ends up getting a good punish on the VP who are almost preemptively kiting them.
Yeah, it's like they sped in GK and then didn't use the rush and then kind of like once VP started back out, they end up using the rush.
We got a pause here, we're un-pausing, we're going to pause him and we're coming back to
Jake and I probably is 117 to zeros where it will sit.
I still much further ahead in terms of another grad as well is something I was going to point
out.
Xeon not able to get much damage down in that previous fight.
Yeah, I'm taking a look at some of the stats here and it's definitely been a strong
map so far for VP, right?
We sort of saw this in the last series where when you were able to get these counter fight wins against TN
It was never clean this one was clean right like a GK they read
Oh, yeah, like you're gonna try to kite our rush. You are playing so scared right now
We're just gonna box you out kind of without committing and then when we do rush
You're just out of resources. You can't escape anymore and that means you get the clean fight win
You get back towards mid map with all players alive
It requires you to win one more fight to make that really count
But you're set up for success in that regard
You actually have the tools to do so and yes, Graviton coming up for Aizon on here momentarily,
but a lot of ultimates nearly there, especially if you have something like Labda pop in the
Override Protocol.
And we've seen like it's hard for Kyrgos to survive that, right?
The TP around, I mean, you just have like that incredible Overwatch position up in the
skybox.
It kind of feels like you can dominate the server from there.
So definitely Aizon Labda, he's been clean with the Override Protocol so far.
Yeah landing you can see kind of the difference between him and Finn right if you look at just one death, right?
But that one death and the amount of healing that Landon's able to kind of get off with kind of keeping his life alive for that long
Definitely a huge difference maker here
Still five minutes to go on RuneSoppy. This RuneSoppy is looking to potentially be longer than our entire first series of the day
Is it inaccurate?
No, no, I don't think it is that's a it's a cursed prediction, but it's it's way too real as
Take a look at where we are in the set. So yeah, obviously if you're just doing in geeky takes map number one
A little bit of a surprise. We think I know obviously VP second best team in the region by geeky is kind of
Maybe a little bit closer than we had originally at thought
So, uh, Geekate will finally get the bot across the mid map.
They'll start to gain some progress here.
VP are gonna be right into this, though.
I'm already coming inside of the pulse bomb!
Psycho shoves down the override protocol before it can even get rolling.
Green starts the fight.
Everyone's gonna try and win this one without even popping the Graviton surge,
and I think I'll be able to do just that.
Already too big in the fight.
A deep push by Thin Haku and Ziad, but it's too predictable.
It's too desperate.
Red like a bedtime story by Virtus Pro, cycle what they pulse bomb, this cycles any hope for GK.
He's been sick on this map specifically, really kind of, really with the pulse bombs, right?
And you know that early kill on a fin, really it's going to turn the tide.
And this map is, that'll be VP now getting the bot deeper in towards GK's spot.
It'll be sound barrier grab opportunities for both teams.
You'll be the odd end of using the grab here.
They do catch a run inside on high speed there.
Yeah, and the later be here from Aku though, yeah.
Yeah, the late pulse is perfect on the capture.
He kills them just as he has with all those defensive tools.
Expiring.
That'd be enough for GK to overwhelm.
And with only a pulse bomb thrown in, I mean other than both teams trading, of course, grab and beat,
you invest one more pulse bomb, you get the flight win.
That's gonna feel good for GK once again.
Back to mid map, at full strength.
They're gonna catch the full forward spawn and to see another fight and this is one that GK really need to win
That's with the override protocol though. You kind of like smother him in the trunk. He's already out
He's already putting down damage making the backline respond has to play a little bit careful
Lava getting that bubble and firing back up into the sky
Watch available for later though if they want to continue this aggression GK kind of reeling position not looking good for them
Need to bubble and just hide out of this one. I
Was gonna say I know Haku was just kind of like in the middle of the street
and he was getting some serious damage there from Icelon.
They used a bubble on him, but still not able to make it out with his life as the VP able to hold on
to this Kitsune rush for this kind of like last burn.
Fortunately for DK, Finn does a nice duck at least 30% of his ultimate there in that fight.
So they're going to have the Kitsune to match it.
Rush is traded. No one dropping just yet.
Icelon, though, is too low and it's cleaned up.
DK with the strong Kitsune here, fighting the high ground.
Three kills on the fight. Looks like a clean win for them. Just Psycho now going to sack on the bot, catch the spawn wave.
And surely this is the moment where GK makes some weird progress in enemy territory.
I mean, they haven't been able to like win two or three fights in a row.
They're able to kind of, you know, clutch up back to their spawn, but like these are the ones that are going to have to win.
This map is going to be like the New York protocol.
Maybe they're going to be like some players all here and you think you're going to be able to hit one.
They're coming.
Now this quick is in some more positive momentum.
Oh, Traits can come in.
Yacht does go down.
Ice Dom, that's crucial tool to be able to win.
He'll clean up the coming in.
Ice Dom with no support behind him seems like he's eventually going to go down.
They're trying to exact more kills out of this cycle.
Ice Dom side by side backs against the wall and they get yet more out of it.
I don't remember GK, they have the long spawn.
So you know, for VP, they could get back in this one.
In the end though, GK, they get the fight win.
They don't expand crucial alts and the bot is rolling forward.
Yeah, and I think we can get to this nice, but
If you can get to this corner, you still feel pretty good.
If you're GK, you see Psycho now kind of starting to move the bot, kind of create some separation.
But with Haku dying, you're going to get everybody back here in the fight.
Ask for a beat for Haku.
Could be a difference maker here after you try to get an aggressive and more some kind of a response out.
With both Graviton surges available, it's going to be scary for either team to push through the chokes.
But of course GK, if they have no choice in the matter, they've got to go here.
here. They got to find some kind of reshps. Yeah, an opal to the early grab is completely
wins. Juke by VP, the backline stays alive, Psycho finds the kill in the hotroom. There's
not going to be a VP in this fight. Vixen though also does drop, but I feel like Brutastro
has just done enough beautiful tidying there. And that one is going to hurt for GK. It
felt like that was their moment. They have the ultimate advantage, but the grab is
Juke and Kevster lapping all the way to the bank. Great movement there. Emmer
and Lucio slipping away from that.
And that was like a view maybe think about if you're GK and W using the
the beat to try and actually like kind of win that type of thing, puts yourself in almost unwinnable situation
in the fight that you desperately need to win.
Getting checkpoint.
Big damage recycle on the back line, nothing dissuaded.
Aggression followed up by the override protocol, carry out of gas, Kevster gets that cleanup.
GK routed with only 15 seconds left, Virtus Pro pressuring toward a potential full cap here.
here like GK need to rally this is gonna be brutal not just been pulled here but
you even think about you know coming back in this map feels almost impossible
the grab opens up here he comes in defensive from GK is gonna keep them in
the fight out the using the great effect on one of the backline landed what's
that pressure away a better beat though coming in from BP makes us needs to
find kills with me though because inside the rush it does get a little bit
difficult out the get the pulse former to capture takes away one of
those key damage here is 11 doesn't seem like he wants to give it the rush
into this fight, it doesn't look good for them so far, because it does find a trade kill, but
Virtus.Pro I think lies to not gamble this close to the GK spawn. You know, you have to hold on
to that rush. No reason to just kind of throw it away. I mean, you end up using a rush there,
it doesn't work out, you are in a miserable scenario for VP. So you have this kid's
username rush, you also do have the pulse bomb and Psycho has been really good on this map,
specifically nailing those. What I am worried about though for VP though, Jake, rush and then
You can just have lab that kind of use that overwrite protocol and just put down lots of damage into it
In overtime
Kev despite losing eyes on them they're winning the fight on the planks and the rush is just enough to get the job done
Well fought by Gkev, I mean that fight looked almost possible that they make it interesting
But in the end VP they get to clean up as expected
Put a map away 1-1 in the series. Yes, that is a really
It's a really tough fight for VP towards the end where GK had played that quite well, but I know Kev
It looked like out there with fix a
In psycho just kind of like wrap towards the side and they there end up they able to take it
Here you're gonna see some of the stats
I know Kevin lab the lab they getting a little bit better in terms of the damage output
But Kevin in terms of it, you know limb contributions and then also now keeping those deaths low so important for VP
This cleanse crazy like max vertical height cleanse to be able to save Kevser from that pulse
actually a crucial moment where they really open up a gap early in the series.
Caps are a little bit of a sky-tooling here. Definitely crucial
your ability to win these ember battles. This pulse though feels like this kind of
That was with the overwrite protocol as well. As soon as you need to pop in the ult to get in the sky.
That pulse from Alphie though, perfect, like absolutely perfect timing.
He goes early there, just gets blocked by cleanser bubble.
Alphie was putting up numbers in this one, but felt like a team play difference here.
Like you know some of these early fights like the support old usage from Landon when he had the advantage was really nice
This grab though is like mmm. Oh, that's stings, right?
Yeah, if he like actually kind of connects with somebody there, maybe there's a world in which they win that fight, but
Looked like just at the moments that VP needed to clutch out
They they showed up every single time right and all those key fights
I think psycho had a really good map on the tracer a little bow tracer should really good
but just some of the moments that Psycho had,
I think right off the Rit, getting rid of Finn,
that pulse thom we see there,
there were a few other kind of like key kills
during the fights in early on.
So I thought Psycho probably had a pretty standout
performance there.
Yeah, absolutely, right?
Some of those key difference maker kills
and just constantly being a thorn
in the enemy backline, right?
When you play that Lucio carry,
you know, that's a powerful support line
at fighting off tracers,
but the tracer players who can stay on toe to toe
and put up some of those kills, you know,
put up a lot of that pressure without dying.
They make a huge impact on the team.
It's like that time the Curie's dueling the Tracer
is time she's not healing the frontline, right?
It's time that, you know, you're starting to lose
position in the brawl.
And so it's definitely impact felt by the Tracer
so far in the series.
And as we go towards this third map,
I'm really curious to see where GK decided to take us.
Right now, they're in some control here.
They get to take us to their strong point of a map.
Kind of curious to see what that is.
They have to have been thinking about this is their strongest moment to really throw a haymaker at VP
And the map one win does put them in the driver's seat in theory for the series
What would you go to here? You know if we get maybe bring up the map will that would be awesome
But just to kind of like they think what we have Atlas and Sir Vasa
I don't think you would go to maybe Sir Vasa. You could kind of consider
Okay, they go to Blizzard role
This is like a pretty good map, like if you want to play D.Va, right?
You kind of control some of those high grounds.
Yeah, I think Blizzard World, I would say, is one of the weirder maps in the pool,
in that it opens up possible to play D.I.D.E.
He's even playing N.A.
We see people playing Sigma on this map.
So I really think this is a map where when you pick this map,
you have a very like prepared strategy for GK.
So I actually love to see this in a playoffs moment where
if you come in with something cheeky, something prepared,
some of the opponent may or may not be able to match and certainly they're gonna have to react to so
I like throwing the hybrid and I think teams do a little bit too much you know picking if they
they play like control, flashpoint and push and they're just like more roughly the same like high
tempo you know fast play style but if you're a strong team in the attack defend look can be an
asset at all the they throw they don't gk give the band over the vp is the band that
A lot of people kind of conceiving this ban.
Which is interesting, I think there is something with like,
giving away the first ban and then kind of having the other team,
you know, pick the hero first kind of conceives maybe a little bit like what they're worried about or like what they're trying to deter you from playing,
which kind of frees you up for the second ban.
So it'll be in a lorry ban there from VP to kick things off.
I think he can't just get rid of casting
I mean, I like the alarm and I think if like a lot of the you know sort of a weirder
Reedy strats on this map involve her right like her ability to you know hold down an off angle better than most DPS
Can like you can't clear that pile on you look ever doing with your lorry
You know and when you try to dive her as a five man
She can kind of jump away right using that that boot burst right so so I think banning the lorry actually
actually does kind of mitigate a lot of the biggest issues or threats you might be thinking
about from these weirder, greedy poke styles.
So I don't agree with giving the band away.
I would have rather seen the support band from GK because I think in a way those are
some of the most crucial heroes to some of these more oddball styles.
That being said, you could absolutely still play like on a rig and still play whether
it's a co-incendive comp or something like that.
Sigma and you know it doesn't take it out of the question.
The way the Cassidy though in theory suggests me you want to play like I mean in my mind
I'm thinking wrecking ball, but like is that something this team really plays
Yeah, I mean it is very interesting, right that you're kind of like in this predicament
Then we're seeing board teams kind of give up this first band
Really, it's like a few times already today
I think like twice in this series and then once in the last one. We've already seen it happen
So potentially kind of turning into a little bit of something to look at and kind of consider as we move forward
You know with the process, but yeah
It feels like he gave me give up a little bit of control over the actual kind of a meta and what we see here by giving way that first
Fan and maybe not getting rid of like I know one of those supports you talked about
Lot to see I mean this is certainly GK
Knowing that they want to play something wild and wonky here and this is our opportunity to show us what it is
I think attack side on this map can be pretty difficult honestly like defenders I feel they look they can look really solid here
And nope gk our goal full stock standard. I
Interesting choice. I mean, I guess why maybe taking us here
Maybe they're worried about like locking out some of the other hybrid picks right they don't want to deal with something wild and crazy on midtown
In fairness like some of the other hybrid picks do have an opportunity for some cheesy poke comps
But this is still the defense like on attack. There's still a possibility of showing something different
It's VP who are hovering some wild heroes. I mean, I think they're gonna do some scouting
I think they have the same reason I do. Yeah, there's gonna be some weird comp on defense
I think they'll be surprised when they come out right. Yeah, it's sorry ever like it's it's exactly what we've been playing against all day long
No, they're just gonna you know, just back cat up the widow here
And you know actually, looks like they used the cap with the ball there for a second, and yeah, they're just gonna switch here and they'll, they're a mirror.
So this is a, this is actually not what I expected at all here on this map.
And maybe it changes as we go towards like the second point, but at least off the start, the clean old mirror matchup.
Yeah, GK, I like to just hold by the point here, playing for that high ground setup.
Interesting to see how Capture approaches us on the Ember, what angle is he going to try to take?
Alphie has found the early Recon on the Psycho, doesn't want to overplay his hand though, doesn't want to step past that corner.
Damage though, good ice yacht, drops Vixx on the walkup.
Likely with some assist from the back line there.
Until the damage trade is continuing, I mean Virtus.Pro, they're not backing down.
Alphie and Numbarev are there, they're continuing to look for kills, continuing to look for a test in this fight.
But Ziad is fully energized, high HP's going to start to step up.
They need to fight his cleanup and soon about the skin to do just that so far only cavity is haku who's gonna be back into the fight post
Hey, I'm not a big kill to find
Beautiful hold so far from GK just text one. Yeah, and I mean look that get a decent amount of time off the clock
There is no you know, they try to put some pressure on the point, but nothing
Not able to kind of gain anything so I could start on defense here from GK is a little bit
The long-range headshot there on the keb so that's gonna stop anything before it starts
So this is gonna burn one another maybe like 30 seconds off of the clock. They're off that pickoff from Finn
So this is a fantastic start from DK. Yeah, those types of kills are they really take the tempo away from you as a team
I'm still gonna step up and get some trades going to he's kind of starting to fight early
Getting energized knows that you know the defenders probably don't intend to really go past the corner onto it as aria
So the cost is going to be minimized, Virtus.pro navigating this one well.
Early rush though for the Fenders, they might look to record and go early here.
Stepping up is going to be a rush trade here on the quarter of the point.
I think this is good for VP so far in the fight.
Bin and Aqua both low, GK need to find some kills into this one.
VP are healthy, they're going to step up Alphie trying to find targets in the chaos.
But I thought staying up, staying healthy, the tank ball continues.
Yacht drops to his own energy mortar.
With the overrides protocol over the top, it's going to be clean up for VP.
Yeah, and I mean, maybe you were able to survive a little bit longer, right?
Sound barrier plus your own graph there for Geeky, but pretty clean fight there, you know, with the Kitsune Rush, plus your right protocol there from BP.
So they'll get the cart unlocked there, they'll get that first checkpoint, but Geeky now going to try and control some of this high ground.
Yeah, then you just play this one nice and slow taking some poke trade see
Oh, they intend to approach second-point right honestly
We don't see this matchup all that often on blizzard world. Yeah, it's like do you really want to step past the siege tank?
Often you see teams play things a little sort of alpha yee whoa takes the bubble
It's just one flips landed that had to have been up your solo killed like I don't see how anyone else could put damage down
No, it looks like an entire solo kill, and it's just like what, he just gets the benefits
of like, there's a bubble and just like a double blink in and then finishes him off.
I mean that's crazy work there from Alphie.
Yeah, he's been putting on numbers man with these bubble blink in, I see where they're
going for him.
Putting on some real pressure, VP though, and then, the card keeps rolling forward, so
the actual objective cost of that kill isn't high.
Next fight though, gonna be crucial.
recall from Alphys, please take this trade, but laptop with the override protocol ensures
no support can come in, like goes on an island, but he's staying alive for now, bleeding out
some of these crucial ultimates step by step here for the Virtus Pro attack.
Man, this is so odd, you see the Zarya's there, just kind of like, because it's not
even like a, hey, now Ziyad drops, and he's kind of like down tomorrow, it's really
just Alphys on the cart, checking Ice-Know, making sure he can push it, then Ziyad
on the high ground to try to deter the rest of the players from VP to make it
through the show, guys. It'll be the grab here, they're gonna connect with Haku-Haku
against the beat-off. Almost a forced grab by items, has to do something, it's just
dying to spam out the open and in the end the grab, not gonna change anything,
the beat is good from Haku, stabilizes and counterpunch brutal here from the
defenders. This is an awkward map to play this Zarya on attack, like coming up
and pushing that cart in the wide open space is kind of the worst-case
scenario for Zarya so I in a way GK by playing something more standard to the
meta have honestly thrown a little bit of cat off the G they don't see him if he
pulses they're just gonna cleanse it though oh careful top order the way
hot to let this load so I don't want to pulse but I was trying to trade crazy burst
of him to fix it yeah I mean maybe not the target he wanted I think he actually
wanted fix right because fix has got the bees but you do end up with cat
Those are the Override Protocols. The pretty impactful one is going to be...
...consuming Rosh and Soundbar are used up on the high ground. It's going to be just a two-player beat.
God, trying to stay healthy, trying to fight it on the high ground. Fix it, move down, away from the low bounce.
Give Sia a bit of a tempo advantage.
Good old GK keeping up the vision. They step up aggro, but Kepster is here with the Override Protocols.
God, have not accounted for that.
And it's all Kepster in the beat so far.
Trishpro, looking to do this one clean, keeping the sports alive, great defensive play.
from Landon and Fixa because now five players alive they can take full map control.
DK on the retake. DK can probably come back here and try and make a play for this though, right?
You have the bubbles here for Labda. Labda's gonna have the override protocol.
And you might end up getting over toward the beat. Like it's really, you know,
awesome if you get that. It's gonna be a bubble there. On the Labda,
use the override protocol. It gets high in the sky.
Virtus.pro backing up for now, staying alive.
GK without really any tools to catch escaping players, so you need to use that over a protocol just to get space on the map
But now gonna have to win a fight heads up Haku close to that beat would be important
I'll be holding on to that cart well ensuring that no cheeky progress no C9s come in
Cycles in the back one of the plus one though
We've seen him do some damage from this position before but a beat comes in ice on dropping low gets overwhelmed GK
Swarming forward on top of the attackers ensuring that they do not have the opportunity to build up those key ultimates
You can see on that that top right bank man. They were close to a crowd
Who was able to get back row with it?
GK, great job catching the tempo on the map might just be over. Psycho is dead late. Ten seconds on the clock
Yeah, I mean look it caused the VP a lot to get to this point and then now in a difficult spot
It looks like fix actually gets a bubble there trying to contest and he's not gonna be able to make it neither will land in so
That will be where VP's push ends pretty good defense there from GK
Yeah, really well done.
I think they just do how to play the Zarya comp on Blizzard World, which I think a lot
of teams might actually not be super experienced with.
So really cool pick from GK.
They're looking very much playoffs ready.
That being said, I said the map might be over, misspoke.
It's just the round.
BP absolutely with a wincon, right?
Pushing it near to the end of second point is absolutely good enough for a real shot
at this.
I mean, capping first point is not a foreground conclusion on Blizzard World.
No, not at all.
So I mean we'll see if GK can actually make some progress on offense here, but at least
right now put together a pretty good defense and opportunity to steal this map, I know taking
that 2-1 lead for GK would be huge, right?
Because maybe you'd obviously have some map selections there towards the end of the
series that would definitely pay off.
Absolutely, they look well-prepared into this one.
Ah, Ku has been nice with the Beads, but I feel like you really have to think about Alpha
Yi for a key difference maker, right? Some of those, the kills he's able to find,
the chaos he's able to inject, have been massive.
VPM been caught flat-footed more than once in this area by
what GK are able to pull out with this kind of aggression. We'll see if there's anything off of the stock
standard to open up here with. I assume Finn is just baiting. Don't expect to see
We can come out here
Check the comp here consider their options, but yeah in the end they pick this map they want to play them
Yeah, I don't think there's really a reason to swap. It's a little bit odd, right?
Like you know, typically we see teams go to blizzard world to play something more like a diva, but just the head-to-head Zarya action here on
this map as
VP just kind of playing a little bit further back than we did see key K play it gonna play from more of this high ground is
I'm just gonna land in camp just gonna train shots up there.
Both tracers attacking each other's back lines, trying to put some pressure on them
so I can come back for the peel.
And then Louty comes back to defend, but, well they had a point, so this point is getting
awkward though.
Ziad caught in a weird corner, and VP made a chase into enemy territory, GK, really
forcing that one.
On Ziad, that's not been a really on spot, I don't know that I've seen attackers
come to that position, and it doesn't feel well for them.
Yeah, and not ideal, I would say, for UK and I mean
Typically, right, you know VP's gonna play a little bit further back like hold that high ground
Maybe you want to get Alfie like wrapping all the way around right putting some pressure on to those players and then kind of like
Then you have no Alfie on one side and then some long-range hits came from another like forcing those players off the high ground
That is not really what we saw there. Everybody, you know the supports in Kevin able to sit up on that high ground be pretty safe
I have to cross the angle. Starts to put some pressure down on the point.
Pre-catastrophic strikes first, finds Haku without the Lucio, hard to get aggressive.
Look at GK though, they want to take this off angle with Zarya.
Guys, I'm just holding it down on point. Now, looking to step up, looking to go for a clean up here.
Look at Risky without many more player kills, but after Psycho finds the clean up, we're out of them.
Should be enough. Whoa, the flash! Okay, they're committing. They're all on this one.
I mean there was no chance they were winning that right
Rush also from Finn comes out after land it so it's like
Me somewhere if it long line he thinks that later rush like you're gonna be able to kind of
Yes, Matt, that's I'm not even sure why I my lady rest
I guess both maybe they saw some load maybe the enemy Zarya is low
They think, oh, we can just overwhelm, we can, if you kill the Zarya, like, in fairness, even if the fight goes bad,
you probably can still get back in and cap with the closer spawn.
But trading down rushes takes a lot of the chaos out of the fight.
You can get, they're gonna be pretty comfortable with this one. Sitting defensively with the grab is a very good spot to be.
It's hard to push into.
See, Aizan is looking for those opportunities. Doesn't want to take the solo on this job, though.
At least knock around the corner. Needs to consider his hits at an angle.
Yes, Alphie, that's gonna be the recall used right away.
And I've laughed up falls as he's working toward that override protocol from psycho. So
Everybody backs out for geekage Jake. This is it's been a pretty ugly offense
I mean you you have what probably one good attempt at this here for geeking coming up with a minute blow on the clock
It sounds looks like Alfie. He's still behind. I think they have an idea that he's here though
Yeah, they do they're gonna try and route him out before the fight begins
Oh, it's kind of a nice timing to get him but Alfie slips away to that mini-pack
I don't think you're gonna want to really chase that
main fight moves to this one. He comes out on the way to the front, later he comes off
the way to the drop. He plays a wide move to grab from Serves with Cyclistbound Fins.
Yacht, fighting that killed Aethem though, gives them a chance into this fight, so the
trades keep coming in. VP, split around the map here with DPS and support, and Yacht
chasing his kill does find Kester on the exit. It's a nice late kill. I mean,
the hitscan not being there at the start of the fight will help these attackers
get in but it'll be enough 15 seconds on the clock you got to go fast the out
actually comes to the Diva wants to really push tempo but Landon has a
faster rush and the Zarya into Diva inside the rush yeah and everybody's
gonna be back at full strength right so it's not like you get some kind of
spawn advantage here for DK is we had to go to rush down to the point you know
you have to get this into this in the back line also gonna be exposed to
that that post-com not connecting from out the first row looking to stifle
their opponents here with the full hold.
Heisdorf spines one kill, a second and a third in the feed, sealing the deal.
GK tried to get Cheeky, bringing us to a map that they thought VP might not be fully
prepared for.
And VP, despite a tough hold on second point, they put down a dominant defense there.
No progress on point.
GK sent back.
Yes, that is on a GK map selection, right?
You thought maybe they would try and use that?
Kind of move the meta a little bit further in their favor, but they just kind of go for another mirror matchup in
Psycho one death? Goodness. That's pretty impressive. This is a comp where Tracer can get bursted quick
Like it's not a comp where you really expect her to have very low death counts
But she's in the fight more often than not. Yeah, I mean we look on the other side right for Alphi right six deaths
a little bit of higher damage than Psycho, but Psycho just
He's doing a great job playing his life, staying alive, Haku got a rough time staying alive in this one, 8 deaths from the Lucio on GK, but really for me it was just GK's offense, like their defense is totally fine, preventing VP from taking that second checkpoint, their offense was just a mass here on first point.
Yeah, some of these hidden boss bomb plays were pretty nice from Alphie, man, you know,
this is a high-pressure scenario, and he's often able to find value into these moments,
which is definitely going to be great to see for the rest of the series, but felt like
he just had too much work to do on that attack.
The whole whole second is nice, but not going to be good enough, like we said, right?
Like, you know, capping, those are all, for a point, is not easy.
The defenders have a really strong position, especially in these rush mirrors.
This is often why we see more of a dive comp play here.
Yeah, I mean, the one opportunity, right?
Like, you know, they ended up using their rush, right?
We were talking about, they ended up using that rush
like in a really weird time.
Maybe you could hold onto that.
You have an opportunity to come back
and like, you know, have a little bit more
of even footing in the next fight,
but they were never really able to get back to that point.
So now VP find themselves on a series point here.
For DK, while we have Flashpoint and then also Escort available, we'll see where they
decide to go.
You know, if they want to keep playing the Zarya type stuff, they could just play, like,
you know, whether it be Atlas or Suravasa.
I mean, certainly, but there's got to be some question marks in your mind now, right?
When you go to Blizzard World, you play the Zarya comp, you obviously prepare to
play it on this map.
It's your map pick.
You kind of want it to do exactly that.
had in theory every advantage on the comp, right? Does that kind of put a hit on your
confidence about your ability to win that mirror if you go to a flash point? I hope not. I think
they do need to stay believing in it. But for now, they're going to go to Havana. I do like
an escort pick here because realistically, if we're seeing Atlas and Cervosa, you know,
there's something, but it's really not going to be radically changing in terms of the style
you play. Havana Realto at one point, though, presents some very different choices. And
you know I kind of agree with this I kind of don't want to go to a map five where
DP has map pick even if you win that four right and they get to take us to one of the s4 maps like
I kind of agree with UK like you kind of need to pick Havana here just to ensure that at least
a potential map five is like uneven footing. Yeah I think so that that does make some sense then
with Havana we'll see uh if UK actually decides to use that first hand and they do they get
get rid of Briggs. So maybe this is a sign that they want to play some D.va here. Uh,
getting the break out of the mix, but we'll see an opportunity here for VP. Uh, their
bands, so what they've banned the far, the carry, and, uh, they've also been the Alari
only have been dead a band here from Virtus. Pro. Interesting choice. Banning the van.
You know, I think the break band to me says, I guess that you want to play D.va
or, or even the Sigma. Sometimes we see the break have a good match up there
being able to like run over Sigma with rallies and make his life really difficult on the El
Tempo fights.
Sizzavanna, after all, I mean, we've seen quite the range of picks, though, for me.
We've seen them just play full rush on Avanna and just like do not care.
And we've seen teams that go for like a wild poke commit style, you know, the Alari
is available into this one.
Jericho though is two, so it won't be necessarily easy to get away with those greedy styles.
Yeah, it's much harder to just kind of use that kind of greedy type of play style then now that we did see a good amount of in bed
They actually played here on Havana, you know in the past right?
We see teams a lot like through the second phase of the map play a lot of event
But actually today in the NBA at least here in those our first two games
We haven't seen much of them dead at all. It's been a lot of tracing
No, she definitely seems to have been maybe falling off a little bit
Maybe Team's starting to figure her out, playing around for cooldown tempo a little bit better.
Jayz's play has been phenomenal though, it's hard to argue with players like Psycho and Alphie the way they can stick a pulse bomb.
So we'll get a chance to see what both teams are gonna play as a...
Yeah, I mean, nothing surprising. This has been a weird series.
Like, it feels like there's been a lot of opportunity here for both teams to make swaps and...
Get into like a position to potentially kind of create the a little bit of an advantage at times and both teams just opting to just kind of play this Zarya
with the tracer and the M-Ray and the
Lucio carry I think that kind of favors VP right in the fact that
Like if you're gay K, you would love to like no costs like maybe you know get the the support line on something of
VP on a little bit different or maybe trying to get into a diva action, but
It looks like both teams just kind of resigned that this is the meta at the moment.
Yeah, they're gonna live or die by it.
Hard to disagree too much.
I mean, the way TM is dominating this region, it's like they aren't reinventing the will
either.
You know, they're more or less running it down with this styled, with little beatdowns
they're delivering out of their teams.
It's clear that you don't necessarily need to do anything wild and wacky to get these
wins.
It's down to execution.
It's down to the player you're able to pull off.
Both Tracers taking some sorry bubbles, getting into the back line.
Now he is great in that spot before, but this time maybe over does it.
Little too many blinks committed, a little too many resources deployed, and it punished the tracer.
GK, have to just reach you back to the spot.
It's about to say as well before that, I was like, man, GK feels like they need to get up to a good start here, right?
Like, after how the last map went and then Psycho feels like every single time he's getting those bubbles and going into the backline,
he's gonna come up with one.
I mean, he's been so impactful throughout this series.
Then one death in the last map as well.
Yeah, typically it's such a low percentage play,
but he's been certainly overperforming that kind of value.
And ooh, the cleanse comes in, a caressing,
he odds them to go to the plate,
ice on just out of gas there.
Split away maybe on the angle from the supports and GK.
This is the hot start we were looking for.
Yeah, so one fight goes in favor of VP,
and then right after that GK,
able to get around the corner and put together a good fight.
They're gonna get close to taking this checkpoint,
but I believe you're gonna get another fight here out of VP, especially with the ability for the Tracer to contest.
Yeah, so, gonna be one more that DK's gonna have to win to be able to really take the point.
Very comfortable refight. Another bubble deploy. And the Tracer, Alfie, getting a lot of resources in this match.
You can see why he's been playing, but...
Caster and Fix are working together to outplay him on the flank.
Bat Drop takes some of the resources though. A wave of IZAR ends up dropping with a frontline.
See, this is the fourth of VP. Are they able to touch down the post-program cycle?
He's certainly gonna help Azaria. Azaria energized on the point.
Could become a bit of a problem. Two supports in Tracer though. Hard targets for her to connect and stick on.
Here it goes behind until it seems to be a bit of a dead-hot rush to win it now.
From Vinny says, you've got to come to test this mark into my Zarya's yacht.
95 to Grav and Kepster finds that kill on the Vinny's. Traded right back.
The right protocol over the top goes just too much for Zyad.
Losing that support to the carry means the rush ends up thrown in for nothing.
It does get the counter rush out of land in though, so it's not a worst-case scenario.
Yes, and I mean what I guess you're gonna have the overwrite protocol advantage here for DK and you're gonna have
They're gonna have beat and grab on the other side. Well, maybe not if you kind of go fast, but
Feels like you know VP knew how important that defense was here
And then now you're just trying to win some of these fights
Maybe add a little bit of a disadvantage right for ultimate fellow. It's gonna be lack of
These a bubble on right away. He was dangerously low
Oh, he's only on two here, kind of awkward for G.A.
I don't know the benefits of it.
Yeah, and yet it might still be enough, right?
Ziad's, you know, full HP on the fight,
but wait, Psycho fights that kill on the bin.
Ooh, boom, hey, that is a nasty burst from Ziad, actually.
Probably gonna steal the deal on its own.
But it ends up being probably more expensive
than you would like, right?
You would have much preferred.
Like, that was no ultimates for the defense, right?
And they can hold it with like,
just an override protocol, you feel pretty good.
but throwing the beat in is not gonna feel amazing.
And some of these support ultimates from Geekak
got me worried, right, Finn with the last one.
I know last map with that rush
doesn't really do much of anything.
And then, I think the beat actually was used there.
They used the bubble on the lamp,
then he was taking damage and you still used the override.
I think that was Hop to open the high ground,
try to actually connect with him with the beat.
But still, it only connects with two.
It's gonna be the grab that comes in,
and they're getting rid of Ziad.
That was scary, man.
Fixed, I should almost looped it away from the grab,
with the perfectly wrong moment, but it does still connect.
They do still drop the Zarya,
able to retake a really dominant defensive engineer
with the cart, essentially no meaningful progress
in the second point.
So, GK now, it's gonna be their turn with the grab,
but pretty tough spot to be using the grab, right?
You know, you have perfect position
for the defenders to split.
And what if you grab Aizanon with like bubbles
and a peek behind him, he is not gonna go down.
He'd be with the perfect pulse bomb,
but it's actually a pretty hard spot for GK
to find these ults.
I mean, Ziad's really gonna be looking
bigger graph just saw it.
Yes, uh...
Well, hey, well, it's gonna actually...
Yeah, he actually gets fixed, but it's gonna...
Oh, actually, it's landed, but there's gonna be the bead there from Fixa off on the high ground.
But still, it's not enough.
Uh, no, nice bead there from Fixa.
Boltzbong comes in?
Hold on, Psycho finds pin!
I'll be just connected to Psycho also finds...
Alphie, yeah, that's a...
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.
He's tied to help. He's doing it.
Oh, no. Oh, this is not good, man.
Yeah, that looks like Mitch playing at 3am after a nice night out, but yeah, that's a rough one there.
Maybe Alphie could have obviously been a force in that fight.
They don't get the benefits of them there though, so that looks like another VP fight
win.
Yeah, that's a rough one because that late pulse bomb kill onto Lannan who does get
caught in the graph is actually exactly what Alphie needs to find in that fight, right?
Like once again, perfect timing, perfect positioning on the pulse bomb.
It goes down to a low number of scrapfest, but Alphie at the DC at that moment means
I mean-
I'll say you go to it already, you can't participate.
I'll say you go to it already on two as well, like I mean, obviously not an ideal
situation, really for either team, right?
Yeah, I know we've obviously had some pauses in this series, you know, there's some
players playing on high ping rate this this will happen and don't fix it you know
for VP you think about I know some of the members of EK rough time for that to
happen there for Althea and Co. It's my bad. That's like you on Tracer out there.
Oh, you can't be saying that. You can't be throwing that at me.
How about you play Tracer? You play Tracer. My Tracer is pretty good.
It's up here like you're like you're like you're like just like a little like it's like close, right?
It's like you want a great day, you know
Alfie with a blindfold on you know
It's like kind of like the same vibe people said on the Alfie of New York. That's been that they're like Alfie a plot
Yeah, yeah, yeah, basically. I think I might be diamond now. So hold up. They may be I may be doing myself a disservice
See you see where we kind of are in this series
He's, uh, GK, uh, look, we honestly, he has been really, uh, I would say map, map two and three, they didn't look, uh, well, map three's defense, they look pretty good, uh, map one, obviously they were awesome, map two, I think was just a VP dominating performance, uh, off the rip here, they're just trying to keep themselves alive in this series.
That's tough, right? I mean, these fights are super scrappy, though, like, it feels like both teams are always taking casualties.
The Virtus.pro just having that little bit extra to give on the match day, right?
Clutching out some of the low-numbers fights, and the rewards for some of those fight wins are massive,
because now VP, reasserting themselves, holding on to this corner, and all these hard corners on second point,
really difficult to spot for attackers.
Yeah, I mean, in here, they're gonna be working up towards this rush.
They need to get Valley out of the hole.
I mean, a few times we've seen it, especially in this situation,
minute 20 on the clock.
Decent progress here,
using the second part of the map.
This is going to be the overwrite protocol.
And it's going to be kept to 3-5.
It's going to be the doorway,
as they get to kind of walk on through.
No way I saw mid-staff on one HP.
Are you kidding me?
The defenders will strongly throw a rush out
and same work for the supports.
Keep him up.
And Alfie does find the kill on the cycle,
but damage has been done, Matt.
Obscene that he can continue to hold that corner doesn't even drop off the high ground full of trust in the background to keep him up
And I mean I think GK just thought that kill was was a foreground inclusion
I think they all need to get that one on the
It's also really difficult
So you use the kids getting fresh here up on the high ground because you want to like try and fight for this
What happens?
It's just a doorway that he's able to just fire the silver eye protocol in from
He's badly using his it's a very
difficult angle to fire from, doesn't want to pull out though because like he's a very easy target
and no real skybox here as Vixen takes out Alfie, this has been rough here for GK now, Jake
we're below 30 seconds, they're gonna have to back out, just sound barrier with their pulse bone to work with
Cyco could end this one before it really begins, although that being said, with bubbles and cleanse
it's not likely to do much, but you know, popping it too early into the fight
that being said, when the initiation comes Cyco has pole position, going for his choice of targets
It's forced to be a low ground push, which is not ideal here for GK, I's not comfortable
to deploy the grab anytime he wants, gonna be looking for other targets of course, can
that from my tank, but ultimately still gonna take most of the out of Baku, it's a holding
onto his counter, he'd land to the fine stand and then the trade and that is a dream moment
here for GK getting those skills, it's a, I mean, holding the beat there I think
is a very natural play, but ends up getting pretty hard punished GK while finding those
dual wins in the chaos. I think they're holding the beat because they know that the grab is on the other side, right?
So we'll see if
they end up getting value out of that sound barrier. The other
you get a look at it and maybe like, hey, if you use the beat there, you can actually just kind of win
in that, in that scenario. Stop the DK push. We'll have to be psycho. We'll probably get the punch here.
Yep, coming out of the other door on the low ground is that's gonna be the grab. It's gonna be the set, uh, the beat.
He's got his own fix-up, fix-up actually, thanks to everybody.
The touch does come in, though, so I go get some job done.
Hold on, someone's gonna touch again, hold on over time!
Aizadom just doesn't have the AFB to do it, drops into the rush,
and it's just a neat grinder here on the cart.
God, Alphie with that attack, bonus, and Escort can be deceptive,
map type, right, like both of these offenses, first and second point,
have looked really difficult, but you do get the job done.
That being said, the strong defense from VP means there is basically
Zero margin for error on Havanna third point one of the most brutal positions to attack into
Yeah, I think well our progress makes a world of difference here if you get stifled at the spawn
It's gonna feel rough and that is a live possibility right now
Yeah, I think that's kind of what we've been for right below a minute. You can use rush here. You can get quite aggressive
But this is a nice over a curveball. There's a lot of area to kind of fire and stem into
None of the teammates that we're gonna finish off any of the kills with some of the damage that goes on down
But yeah, like you mentioned right this is an ideal scenario here for VP you win that fight now
You have your override protocol pole spawn if you can like lock them at the door here. It's gonna be very difficult
If VP on their offense makes it to this point for the DK to play like any significant defense
I shot by Alphie he's punishing psycho for trying to hold that off angle before the fight psycho
He's back to the team now and I have to play in the brawl
Absolutely with an overripe protocol. Could be a scary threat. Haku, the beat is really your ultimate here, but it's so hard to beat Agro in this spot.
Gonna go for it anyway, they're gonna turn over on my Aizan who's very close to a grab-to-uncertain.
He's only need to kill this Aria before it comes out with a support.
Keeping Aizan alive. Massive grab on four, and the damage is in.
Cyclopines three. Crazy cleanup from Virtus Pro, and they are gonna get this decisive spawnhold on third point.
a risky play from GK to beat into that Zarya and support just too good.
I kill Ice Dom off before you can grab.
I don't hate it from GK how they played that, to be honest.
I don't think they were playing to necessarily complete the map per se.
They just were trying to fight out of that position.
It's just great support play though, I think that happens from Virtus Pro to keep Ice Nom alive
through all that damage to let him get the grab.
If they're able to get the kill onto Ice Nom, that looks way different, right?
They're able to probably make it around that first corner.
Their push probably ends there on that bridge, right?
But still, they're in a much better position
to potentially win the map.
As we take a look at some of the stats,
Kev having a really good game there
on the Emory in the first half.
Tough map to attack on this style.
Although the way the series has gone,
I'd be surprised if VP did anything,
but kind of keep running it down in the mirror.
Both teams, I think, really believing
that the series is gonna be won or lost on this comp.
And GK, although the third point push
leaves a lot to be desired first and second are absolutely realistic win
conditions for them is they get their turn to put up a solid defense it's
gonna need to be just that though because VP have looked very good right in
moments in these comps and some of the economy usage the ability to win out on
low numbers fights like psychos having I think one of the bigger games we've
seen from him and this is not like a player for whom that's a surprise but
Even for him, he is really putting up numbers in this.
Yeah, as you see now, on offense for VP.
Probably going to be running the same exact stuff.
Psycho, come out, take one shot, and you'll get back on Tracer.
Yup, probably gonna...
Two shots, wait, three?
Three?
Okay!
Tracer four?
Honestly, I don't mind a little bit over here.
I think he's going to swap eventually, but I don't mind, you know,
putting some damage down, putting some threat on the opponent.
It's not like you're going to do anything on Tracer here on attack for the first 10 seconds.
Yeah, yeah, I mean, I know just making them worry, right, uh, go kind of push them around the corner.
Alpy gets a lot of damage there, and you see, like, almost 50% of what the whole spawn is.
Now, all of that, Alpy dangerously low-loading and staying alive is, uh, VP slowly working their way around this corner.
The cart's rolling up, now it's Cycles turn to get aggressive into the backline.
Wishback for now, but can't let the cart roll much further than this, or we're gonna need a one-fight scenario.
Kepster hops up to the high ground here with that siphon blaster
Overwhelming push go on to Aiznon, break counter push and Sian
Cleans out this high ground
So a beautiful counter punch from GK but play things slow to start it
But when they hit back, they hit back hard, they hit back as a full team
So it's exactly how you want to be playing this style
Really clinging on to the series, remember this is their series life on the line
They need to make a strong hold here, at least run the clock down on first point
Yeah, I was worried a little bit Jake that they were giving up too much space on their corner
Right because it looked like VP was like, you know methodically kind of like working up
I still was getting pretty charged up on this area, but like you mentioned it
They kind of bounce back there from DK the pushback was really strong
I'll be up on the high ground. He could be such a difference maker here
In this year and get us to a game five. Yeah, it's a lot of blanks. Those have the recall
But obviously not gonna go in just yet
Yeah, triple like out is really defensive
It's gonna make a little bit more car progress to GK willing to play this one slow
as opposed to a rush of their own, but Kepster takes them out for you before it can happen.
Over at protocol, creating a lot of space inside your pool,
and then on the shot, you're almost dropped, slammed in.
But in the end, it's actually going to let the supports charge their ultimates up.
So, a sliver of HP makes a world of difference.
And now, it's VP currently in control of the car.
GK, I think they're wise not to fight this one.
Jesse, it's going to be one fight here on first point.
I mean, not just kills of the land, and that, you know, is heavy shot from live though.
They're like, right there, they're all really low.
It's going to be a continued rush to see from both sides
to open things up. Overwrite protocol for all these chancers. He takes some serious damage, but Ken does not get the benefit of the beast, so that is huge in their lab that just turns the corner, able to finish him off.
Also, Malfi-Yan dies down. Binds of timing, Zarya's out of bubbles. Great read there in the midst of the chaos in the Katsune rush, and...
Well done by GK.
Well, I mean, he's a high-facel.
Yet, Kev is so high up in the sky, right?
In so far away, like, you know, near the Skybox,
that he doesn't get the benefits of that sound barrier.
And I think Labda and Kaleed realize that naturally,
Labda freely just swings the corner.
Notice he probably needs just one more burst
into Kev to finish him off.
No defensive tools, though.
Graviton surges online.
Zarya's with everything to play for here.
One minute on the clock.
GK, this is a crucial hold if they
want to stay alive in the series.
I'll tell you, of course, that crucial game five.
That's Psycho.
You look at the scales here, grabs out,
Bones Aria's point-like range,
dueling, supports,
end up doing just a little bit more,
but ultimately Bones Aria's off the field,
and he turned down to a scrap GK though.
They're already low HP,
they gotta kind of fall back on the play.
VP, foot off the gas,
firmly pressing now,
trying to close this one out.
Eisenham gonna be back on the dune this year.
Ziyan chooses the wall.
Deep kill though,
without Psycho despite quick and awkward,
overwrite protocol, also a little slander.
You might try to hold on to this about 10,000
to be greedy here,
I think a wise decision and a risky fight.
This one's getting chaotic, he's falling back from the house and he lands on the exit and actually...
Oh, Tricic is on the comp, they need a clean reset!
No, I mean, you end up using it over a protocol. I mean, Ziad gets back into the fight on the ball,
you had Isom coming back on the doom, and she's gonna have to go over to the diva here.
One more opportunity to touch and get this going for Virtus Pro.
It's that DK, it's gonna get Hoppy back to the spawn, get Ziad over to the diva as well.
Big advantage, you're being very close to the Kitsune rush.
It'll be Saiko who touches, triggers OT.
That perfect OT touch there. Not a moment too soon from Virtus Pro.
Playing this one slow and steady, but that weight burns down quick.
They are really playing with no margin to your finger.
With the rush, playing the response in kind.
It's up to the VPS. Now, Icon already out of the suit.
Alphie, welcome available. Can he get the stick? Yes, he can!
And that's gonna extinguish the flame here for Virtus Pro.
Falling on Havana, evening up the series 2-2.
How are we going to a Game 5?
A Game 5 between VP and GK.
I think, uh, Zoe said she thought it would be a five, uh, a five mapper.
I thought there was a chance, right?
I mean, uh, it did all just kind of depend on which GK showed up on the day,
but they show, they have shown up in a big way here in this series.
Very difficult situation for Virtus.Pro to play in as we take a look at some of the stats.
I know it's interesting we talked about how, uh, Kev had like a basically a 1K advantage.
1k advantage, I think it was like 10-9 over Labda, going into the second half, then look
at those sets flip, right?
I mean, you know, basically a 3k, 3-4k damage swing in favor of Labda in that second half,
so really clutching up on the Emory.
Yeah, so I'm going to be talking about, since the start of the series really, right?
How important the hitscan would be for VK, and this one, man, Labda lights it up on
the defense, right?
position to hold and Alfie as well front lining so aggressively often on this
tracer. Psycho is giving it right back though and honestly I think this one's
going to be a very high game five especially the way the tracers are
playing. We're going to flash point Matt like this is a map type where those
flankers have particular influence on the outcomes of the game. Oh it with
doubted out I mean you see here at the end right mode Tracer is kind of
pulling a huge factor and I know Alfie right we talked about Psycho on
on RutaSoppy, specifically like he was really popping off.
Alfie in the second half here, right?
See, you know, the touch, the multiple pulse bombs,
really, I mean, even the star, right?
He gets like two bubbles, he gets up to 50% hole
right off the rip.
And Alfie really clicking there towards the end.
So this has been an awesome series.
Yeah, this one has been pretty exciting.
And as we go to game five,
this is impossible to call it.
Like these teams, it looks like an absolute coin flip.
We're going to Flashpoint,
And this is where the pick really comes in for GK because, yeah, VP gets the pick of Suravasa and Atlas.
It's not something that's like an S-Qorder hybrid pick, though.
Riddle me this, though, Matt. Has the Zarya ban been used?
I don't believe it.
You could inject Chaos here, and honestly...
Well, then again, both players have gone to the G-Band, so it's really confident.
Yeah.
So, in a way, it would be like a weak play to ban the Zarya.
it would be almost like showing vulnerability or fear but also there's
opportunity to ban I think a lot of like of the meta heroes that have played
all series long if you ban those like things are gonna get weird on flash
yes okay so sir Vasa is gonna be the map selection I would be shocked if we
see like a diva ban I mean that would be sorry I'm sorry that would be crazy
because he like a tracer band and kind of throw this one into a into a
vendetta mirror which I believe we have not seen that all we have not seen
vendetta in the EMEA yet today no we've really been all tracer we saw
far was it last a week like it's like a vendetta like is this not a really big
recent development like teams have just almost abandoned her what a what
What could you do here for VP if you wanted to really kind of like a, do you try and,
you wouldn't ban, neither team's going to ban like a Lucio or anything, right?
I mean, that's the thing is, right now there's been no daylight between these two teams pretty
much through the series, like more or less, right?
They pretty much played the same stuff.
They pretty much mirror matched throughout.
And so this is the moment where you can either just ban something that you think
is like relevant, throw away your ban and just keep running it down and like
full confidence.
You know what?
we're just a better team, we're just going to execute.
And in a way, I almost like that kind of confidence.
But at the same time, if there is something cooked up,
like this is where the coaches can really earn their key.
And actually, it looks like relatively throwaway bans.
Both teams want that smoke.
They want to continue this honor duel.
And I can see why either team would be confident,
because the last couple maps have been sort of odd ones,
particularly for the ZaraCom, playing those attack defense
style maps of the ZaraCom, isn't exactly what the style wants
to be doing, although it obviously does work. Obviously here on Flashpoint, that dynamic
play you think back to what we saw from TM is like, you can fight every single spot on
the map. Where you actually take the engagement is not proscribed when you're in the Zarya
map.
And I think GK's ban on the Vendetta is just basically to confirm we're getting
Tracer head to head. It's like, okay, let's take even the possibility of a Vendetta
a swap off of the table. So did you if would you have expected this series coming in to be so much
mirror of like you Zarya tracer like I I don't know if I would have said this series would be
something that would result in this much of mirror matchups all throughout even on Blizzard
world like Blizzard world I was like okay this is like both these teams have no intention of
making any changes. It's so well helped me because you look at like some of the other
regions and it has not been like this right like the last month of Overwatch across the world has been
tons of crazy strats teams like finding their unique style suits their players and it's like
tripling down quadrupling down on it this map it's like this is like reminds me of when I was a
pro player it's like everybody's playing the same thing there's no swapping lock in
band would it well at that time there were no bands right uh so that was like okay there's
nothing you could do in theory bands destabilize this kind of a meta like if you want it I mean
I mean, this is only because both teams still believe they are the better team on this exact mirror match, right?
Like, you had the opportunity to ban Zarya here.
I believe those of the unspent bans, I think maybe VP could have banned Kiri.
Like, there were a lot of meta-breaking bans available to either team here.
They both decided against it.
Is there a world in which VP pulls out the mauga here at the end?
Maybe. They popularized the style.
They're hovering it.
It's a possibility none of the kind of core heroes that would be
Essential for that kind of play style are gone. So I don't mind it on Sir Vasa. I don't mind it at all
Could it be something that turns the tides for VP in game five
GK we know what they're doing Zarya tracer em rake Lucio carry no changes there
It will be VP though. They're gonna change the back line and they're also gonna play the maga
From a mental perspective though, rather be GK, right? They're the team that's refusing to change anything.
We are still the better squad. We are going to get this win in the same way we've been playing the entire series.
Virtus.pro have to adapt. They have to change the way they're playing the game.
You might be on some of the same heroes on DPS, but it is going to be different without the Zarya bubble.
Sometimes that adaptation, I mean, is for veteran players, but it can be a little bit awkward when you're on map 5 under maximum pressure.
I also think I mean just massive respect for Alphie right the the fact that we're
gonna see like you know the break come out here obviously a great combination
with the maw gotta be able to fight into you right but you see I some has to go
in extremely deep they're not able to find what that lab that finds to you
still have Alphie live here on the point I'm glad that with the rain in
the fight at least here early on it looks like it'll be VP that should
get control of the point there's still some stragglers here Psycho
still around takes out bin couldn't most likely try and get there to contest but
he will have to back out is uh see I spent getting back in the fight rather
quickly though here Jake this one just might keep extending. Ziad has a very
long spot on this area right he did die in that last fight trying to put some
pressure on the point Alphie holding strong bin though comes up with a hero
kill off to Kevser to take the wind out of the sails here for VP Psycho
looking for something I'm forced to get back on it he is just gonna get
box out of this one. No joy from the Pulse Bomb. Alfie's turned to strike back, but you
not even be able to hold onto this ultimate for the next fight. You get to flip though
in the chaos, so the losses have been mitigated for VP, but they're stuck in the Pulse Bomb
going against them. I don't know that you're getting out here. Okay, I guess they can,
but Alfie, should they take the parting gift in that Pulse Undercatch? They can continue
to play this. I mean, it feels like it gives Alfie some easier targets with the Juno
And the Brigid, right?
Yeah, there's no more bubbles fapping you then.
Like, more or less every good stick is a kill here.
I guess IZMOM can tank it.
Well, no one else really can.
And then Psycho, Psycho can't really go in as aggressively right without the bubbles, right?
Like, it's a huge aspect that allowing that Tracer to win is just, you know, unlocks the potential.
It'll be the Orbital Ray here.
With the rush team you find Finn, it's going to be a lot of damage here,
from Lambda though.
Oh, look at this, he's fixing a really rough spot.
He had the rally, he's going to fall.
I love this look from VP early on here, Jay.
I will say this first checkpoint is a lot more open than the other four on the map, so I won't count VP out yet strategically.
You can't have to work for this one. I'm not going to go back, I'm going to look for work, find that stomping connection job.
I wasn't happy to brawl in this base, and they do get the feed out.
Alpha, F3's overriding flow is all ensuring that it's not going to be a free fight.
So, ult-wise, actually, VP are not in a terrible position, even though they lose the first flashpoint.
I don't want to write this comp off yet, because typically, you know, this map is a little deceptive.
The first point is the most unique, the other four are a lot closer range with harder corners
and better positions for a tank like Malgo to play on point.
That is true.
I just think that, like, Alphie and Psycho have been so important to this series and
like they've just given a little bit of a, not like a huge advantage over to Alphie,
right?
By Alphie you can kind of, you know, ease your targets to pick off in the back
line.
You see now it's a nice cage fight though from Icena.
You can see it's dangerously low.
They're not going to use the rally just yet.
So they actually hold onto a rally because Kepster finds two veteran hands here from Fixx.
That's a very close fight.
You do need to clean it up though, and Fixx has to use the rally end.
Should be enough to clean up this fight.
I mean, it's just no HP really left.
Fixx really pushing into the limit.
Actually, hold on. Does died his yacht.
In the end though, you do get the job done.
I like that Fixx is still being greedy though.
That's a confident hold, right?
A lot of players would have just ripped the rally in there, field desperate, like we gotta win this fight, we need to step five.
That kind of a feeling can for sure override your better instincts.
And then they get the point flipped. I'll think both, oh and it's good, the Kevster should be a quick retake down for GK, Virtus Pro.
Without the hitscan, I don't think they have much to say into this one.
And it looks like they'll just kind of move up onto the point here.
A nice dunk comes in, a nice little bit.
Oh, the party act overdrive, he just had a whole lot of it for a little bit longer, maybe he didn't expect that big burst of damage coming around the corner there.
From Ziad and Alphie, it's just like that, you just run them over.
One of the challenges in this map, that matchup, is right, you're relying on that light steal from the party act overdrive, but when you're up against Cherico and Zarya,
sometimes you think you've been putting in damage, but it's just all being blocked by a bubble that you do, and you don't get the light steal value.
So it's the risk you take for DK to go for the Magna kill, gambling,
that you actually will be able to overwhelm him.
But sometimes to chase the melee, right?
It's just enough to put it over the edge.
Yeah, as I used to know, it'll look like you pop that cardiac over there.
Soon as he'll make it like a second or two right before he ends up falling.
If you're just tuning in a game five between DK and VP in our second semifinals,
our first one was not a close one like this.
you didn't mention much there.
It's a TM who ends up kind of dominating Katzia.
But this is the one is most certainly.
We got to throw up.
Next time TM plays, we need like the speed run clock,
like it's in the bottom.
Probably to give them up for the play bar.
People should earn like when twisted minds plays,
like we should like double drop time.
Yeah, like the time of,
is there games only 20 minutes long?
So it's like, you know,
really kind of build it up towards much there.
But this one has been a fun one.
Latazaria, Tracer all throughout.
It's really kind of been the story of the series.
And then here, right at the very final moment,
we're finally seeing Virtus.pro go over
to a little bit of a Moga look.
So it looks like we'll take a look at some of the stats
early on as dude, Lada, behind a farm in here.
Jake, 13-1, almost 7k damage.
We're going to get back in the game here shortly.
But that Moga proving to be a very nice target for Emre.
Yeah, Ziad as well, doing the most here.
On Zarya, really big pressure being put on in the front line here.
So we're gonna be able to get back into this.
A lot of time on the retake, right?
GK, they do take control, they have a few ultimates to work with,
but VP, I think they're finding themselves in a decent spot.
Big question though is how you crack these holes online,
or how do you find out how to get aggressive.
Over the lake, comes down,
it's gonna make it a little awkward,
look tight back, while GK, they're playing from range still.
Now, boosted damage, Kester firing up into the sky,
challenging lab that's kind of pushing him back into the corner. This rush though is gonna be pretty
pretty devastating, right? Finn's gonna be able to use it. You're gonna have Haku Ute's sound barrier
if needed as well. I'm just poking well here. Oh, I'll have to back out now. The rush to us! What a pulse!
Oh, the Psycho! He's out of the as well! Unfeel stick! At the moment of greatest strength from
GK, that hero arises, unbelievable.
Psycho does it single-handedly in that fight.
Oh, he connects onto Haku, Haku rides right into Finn.
And then Psycho also finds another,
that is brutal there for GK.
You win that, Jake.
You're up 2-0 in this Flashpoint.
You are sitting pretty here,
potentially winning this series.
That play from Psycho, we may remember that
some of that kind of saved Virtus Pro.
Not out of the woods yet, man.
GK still with huge ultimate tempo to play for it.
Despite the hero play, it's not enough just yet they need more.
Coming up to the final fight of this flash,
but a little bit of tank trading on point.
See, I'm looking for an opportunity to find a big Graviton surge.
Aizon, pretty hard target for it.
Extra now, mobs you over at vertical, up into the sky,
grab on to the mound, the beat comes in.
Overwhelming Aizon, you just don't have the resources.
He's sustained through this 100 energy job.
From all of you on the point.
Or this bro still alive with cycle falling
Hope starts to fade. Ziad wait hold on maybe over 50 mark here. It's a rally comes out
They're gonna try clutching out Blitz on the 2, then dropping low, FIXA dominating them on the point. What a hold from VP
I mean that is a that is a throw there from GK
I think Ziad maybe thought that he can just kind of push on forward and get rid of FIXA
FIXA pops the rally comes back in he gets three
I mean just becomes a raid boss on the point and Jake that is a huge
Huge momentum swing a point that he came most certainly should have won gone up to oh here on this final map
And now we sit up what tied 1-1 that is a massive swing there for VP
All right
Well cycle has a pulse bomb so do you think you could win the next fight obviously the cycle pulse bomb
It's not an adequate way based on you know some of this
Oh, yeah.
You can see he's getting this match.
Let's see what he can do here.
Set up the opportunity for the snake.
Lada, way over the top of the sky box.
They're all seeing ducks now.
For the falls.
Alphie though, somehow finds Figs up.
Oh, nice swing stop.
He might be able to find more, but this is the raid.
Landed Kaisa, meaning indeed, Kepster's in the mix too.
And despite an early pick from GK,
what looks like a nice start to the fight
ends up tilting against them.
It's not easy, but they do get their job done.
Alphie though, hold on, finds Kepster off the exit.
Players coming back in Alphie.
I think he's running along blank.
gonna get that queen yeah I got a little scary there towards the end but another
I went back to back okay so you have some players here talking about the spawner looks
like yeah I mean it looks like Akku's here with Ziad and you also have
feeling gear as well so that's gonna be in force for the clients there yeah that's
yeah he's gonna be weak they tried to get a cheeky flip there but that was
really good for big side. They're absolutely gonna go over the top. It's hard to get value out of this rush.
Aizan deep through the backline working for these trade kills.
Hunts comes out, Aizam runs out of gas here.
Nefster just can't quite find the powerful connection.
GK played that one nice and patiently.
They're gonna get the flip.
Psycho.
Oh, okay, they hold the Haku.
Did you hear him?
I think so.
I mean, in this case, he just stuck on the lab, but Haku came out of nowhere, probably
trying to assist the fight against the Tracer.
And instead of walking into a pulse bomb, this 1v1 is extremely consequential.
The fact that Psycho wins that recall trade means he's gonna be able to stay
alive in the back line.
Power position for the next team fight.
but you can have a dominant position like this should be a really difficult
read date for verse yeah I mean what pulse bomb grab beat here available
trying to put down some damage on the beyond trying to burn through his bubble
he gets in the back line that's gonna be the sound barrier here for DK Institute
isanome is that a rough one I mean they are just kind of barreling him down on
the Moga whenever they see him caught out and that will be at least though
The the beat in barrier used to buy the case so maybe an opportunity for VP to come back
Without any of those big old from its bail
That's a way too expensive of a fight to win right at this post in the box when grabbed in
He had to come out lab that wants to end this one before it begins
I'll be cleaning up that damage onto land it
And force it to point towards the split the formation
GK bouncing on a vulnerable Virtus Pro before those ones come up psycho though
Finds one in the fight, buys them a new piece of life
The most powerful Alphie should have things here and now.
We got a finishing kill on the IZON.
Shoot, there's not enough gas left in the tank.
Psycho!
He's found another man!
What?
Yes, one man wrecking crew, but one man is not enough.
DK, hold on, up to one.
Game point, series point here on Cervos.
Yeah, I mean, very well.
It could have been a 3-0 for DK as they have a tough time, I think, keeping IZON
alive.
And then also, Alphie there at the end, doing a nice job.
They put down some damage with the overwrite protocol right onto landing on the corner on the Juno
And they know there's really no way that the Juno can kind of keep herself alive
It turns the corner and able to just kind of track landed up in the sky rather easily is
Psycho's taking some damage from Finn coming on in so she's gonna play off these packs just a little bit the recall are to you
So first you go to find your bus comes out with the rally boss and flares away from its yacht
In deep into the backline
Doesn't apply any one kill but Brig has him pinned up against the wall here in the corner and Haga ends up overwhelming
Since they're huge advantage for VP.
Right, and because of those expensive fights at the end of the last flashpoint, now Virtus.pro take a hold in the point that they have no intention of giving up.
I mean, they have nothing in the tank. They have quite a ways to build, they even get some of these ultimates online.
You've got Polespawn coming up soon. It's not the end of the way. Hold on, fix it.
Holding on spot. Bring along resources. Shield broken. Juno has to come in and bail him out of trouble, but that one's looking a little bit scary.
Yeah, the pole fall there would have been huge if he had it
Absolutely would have been back breaking VP though, they're running the clock down
They're not really feeling under much pressure to do really anything here
See about these poles could change that narrative here in the back line taking bit of pressure does not want to drop here
Jake Joe's a pokerizer though poking here for keeping just gonna allow
Like VP to kind of hold on to these ultimates
Maybe only you have to use like not all of them here to end up speaking this point
There's the override protocol from Kib. He doesn't find anybody. Everybody backs up on DK.
But you haven't gotten them to use, like, you know, the K-Trait of the Orbital Ray early on,
you're so walking in there.
Oh, big, big K-Trait there basically blocks all the grab value. Here comes that Orbital Ray.
It's not enough to save Izan, but it might be enough to win the fight. Overwhelming
brawl for Holly. He's going to commit the beat.
Four on four, tanks off the board faster.
Has no grab protocol. Still wants to battle on Kibaku.
Finding Kester.
Who would have been doing just enough
that they will be able to get the re-flip on the point?
Psycho Vicks have to beat a hasty retreat back to spawn.
You win the fight, but you still have to come back on this Flashpoint.
It's a long road home, and Aiznop is going to step over to the hazard here.
Yeah, I did not expect them to be able to kind of turn that and win that.
DK, that is some heroics here, giving themselves a chance on this Flashpoint.
This, you will have this Consune Rush here available.
As I assume kind of crosses the point here just trying to gain some position is kept dangerously low
One HP there to stay alive good spike wall here from eyes on that kind of provides a cover here from the bus
So from GK this pulse goes wide out. He is found one and should be a quick retreat here for VP
We have the opportunity to come back into this surely the 30% left of the flash way
They can find that touch but he gave the opportunity to dive the spawn here split the formation VP need not only an overtime touch
They need to be able to sustain and actually heat players alive and win the fight. Yeah
I wouldn't be surprised to see you can't play quite impressive here
Yeah, you see they're going directly at land and land is going to target of theirs
It's gonna be fix it ending up using the rally. Can you get some of these members out?
Psycho Gallo touch! He's having a touch!
Oh Alpha G wins the 1-2-1 in the end to lock up the series
Red that play knew that Psycho had to do everything in this map and denied him at the final hurdle
beautiful hold from GK, but man, Psycho came alive in this game, made me a believer that.
I thought that they were going to maybe pull it out, dude, but like, they are at the end
just relying on Psycho to be able to get a touch, when Alfie was just playing out of
his mind 34-3 there on our final map, and then we also kind of highlighted the hit
scan, maybe I know a gap between these two could be something that would be difficult
for VP to overcome. And right there in the final map left 4k damage difference where you
see the potential from this DK squad. When Alphie and Lab they're kind of hitting like
they do. I mean, I thought Haku and Bin had a really good last map, right? Some weird
plays from Haku, like they are, where he just kind of gets you with a full spawn.
But in terms of their ult usage, nothing kind of crazy. And I think that's really
all you kind of need to see out of that support line because the rest of these
players on the team are so talented. Yeah, ultimately, I think
for this pro, they just they blinked first, right? DK were
like, no, we are tripling down. We are the better Zarya team.
And Virtus. But it almost felt like they kind of accepted that
like it was like, okay, maybe we need to go to the manga. We
hadn't played it all series long. So desperate. This fight
though, critical for the game. It's like we probably has
recall there. But if he presses recall, he instantly loses
the game. So he has to gamble alpha you though, great
read, great awareness. When you get that recap, you
You get the clutch fight, they just take the fight
to the spawn door and too difficult to make that touch
and actually have a hope of winning the fight.
So it'll be GK going on, the face up against twisted minds,
certainly another end people prize for a victory,
but it's a hard-fought victory of that.
It really was, it really was.
I mean, Katia now facing off against VP
in the lower semi-finals,
that one's for all the marbles in order to stay alive
and start their lower bracket run.
They have played, but that's been such a long time ago.
That was literally day one of the regular season.
It was VP coming out on top, I believe.
Could see it did win a map there as well.
But yeah, I guess this year is gonna quite go
as most people would have expected.
I got the score right, not the winning team.
So I'll give myself like some points here.
No, that's really not how that works.
Yeah, it's really not, yeah, I know, yeah.
I would love, for once,
I would love to hear from the loser here as well, right?
I would have known we'll prompt it at Margo Switch.
When they played it so close in Azaria,
it was like it really was a game of chicken
and it was repeating, being like,
ah, we gotta switch something up here at the end
and then might have come back to bite them.
We do have Finn joining us via voice now
for a quick chat after this victory.
Finn, are you with us?
Can you hear us?
Oh, no.
Hello.
Yay!
Yes, yes, the answer.
Hey, Finn.
Great to be here for you.
Congratulations on the victory.
I think a lot of people bet it against you.
Walk me through your game plan for this one,
because you faced off against them very recently.
Were there any takeaways from that last series
just a week ago that you were able to adjust your game plan
for this?
Oh, actually, when you match before,
We so many do mistake and not same page, but today we a little bit, but we have more focus.
And then today, you know, we, our internet, like, not hyping, just boom, you know?
So, really, really like, weird, weird match.
Yeah, a little bit of a weird one, right?
The Internet going boom, never ideal for either team.
Fid, I got to ask, in the game five, were you surprised that they never switched off the
Mauga and just kept running it because you guys were having some pretty decent success
against it?
Oh, actually, they both play just every time they play Mauga, but we can win the Jarya
So, yeah, I think it doesn't matter, so we know that, already know that.
Yeah, I'm curious for you guys, for the team, you know, to get this win and to do so, like
with the internet boom and like the high ping, like, you know, for you guys, how was map
five?
Like, how was the communication?
How are people feeling?
Did you feel confident going to map five, like easy win or, you know, were you a
little worried with how difficult the series was?
Oh, yeah.
we just watch the map. Second map, Ronsapi, me and Alphai using like UK practice room.
Like before, the same as TwistMind here, so TwistMind boom too, so they say be careful but
yeah we internet boom so much and like first point is okay. First map is okay but like Ronsapi
Like literally, boom, like can't move and then, but like we can be, yeah, so they, everyone
say, oh, let's try our best and then focus our game and yeah, be confident.
Yeah, I'm fine.
Exactly.
You came in confident and you went toe-to-toe and you edged this one out, came ahead.
That means that you're now in the upper finals against Twisted Minds.
How do you feel you stack up against this giant of the region?
Oh, I think, to be honest, TwizzMind is a very strong team, but if we play good, I think
we can beat it.
So, maybe tomorrow we have a match, right?
I believe so, yes.
So, yeah, I hope everyone good condition and good play.
We gonna beat Twizzmine.
That's right, hope the internet doesn't go boom this time.
Finn, thank you so much for joining us from QuickChat
and best of luck in your upcoming match.
Thank you so much.
Great to hear from Finn.
Yeah, without victory, they are now
in the upper semifinals.
Oh, wait, this is Slander.
Man, it was man five.
I think they really unlocked another level though. I think it was Haku and Finn right that we felt like they need to like switch into a different gear play on a different level and they did that today so let's hope for a repeat performance in the much tougher match even tomorrow.
We are done with EMEA day one, but we still of course have more action to come in NA
Any of these matches that you're particularly excited about now?
Why I think SSG vs TL be kind of interesting there towards the end of the day
I don't know if it'll be as interesting as like our map that we just had here, but I think in a that's what I'm looking at
Yeah, I think playoffs go ahead
No, no, please you go ahead. I think NA playoffs are gonna get interesting
I think Team Liquid have been improving through the stage as you might expect for a team that had to make a late-in-the-game roster
Spop, but yet is full of strong players, right? They've found the adaptations that have worked for them
EMEA though has turned away from the Maga, so I'm really curious to see how Liquid and the looking stacking up in that matchup
SSG are pretty much on fire this meta only one loss in the stage and arguably one that very easily could have gone the other way against Fuel
Yeah, I mean we did we also didn't see Vendetta
you guys mentioned that during the cast which is a bit of a surprise because it was Vendetta and
Emra like so dominantly throughout the last three weeks now kind of the shift away from that Vendetta
only popping up in those bands interesting let's see what the teams in and A have in store for us
now it is time to say goodbye to Matt and Jake thank you guys so much for calling the action
it's gonna pleasure listening to both of you waffle as per usual we are heading into a short
break but don't turn off the stream just yet because you have more action to come also a quick
reminder that you should finish your season one battle pass or get started on season two with four
battle pass tier skips yeah that's in store for you if you're connecting your twitch account to
your bath medicant and start collecting the drops also of course that would obviously has wind toned
skin favorite cosmetic is always going to be a one too and the e-sports loot box yes it's a new
thing for those 111 for the last few weeks. So yeah, two total loot boxes will go all out for you
in this round of drops. Now that is it for EMEA. We're heading into all things NA for the Stage 1
playoffs in just a few minutes. Don't go anywhere. We'll be right back with Dallas Fuel against Lumix.
Oh, the thing is, oh, this is the life I've been, I've been
Every little thing I've got, I've been
No map, no scratch, just fine
And I finally hold my time
I don't miss a little bit
I just need to wriggle so I can let it go
I don't need to be, I just need to try
Energy, energy, energy, oh
It's gonna be alright
Don't give up, cause you're coming a little closer
Lift me up and I'll take this feeling higher
Hold my hand and we'll make it dancing together
It's gonna be all night, guys, night
It's gonna be, it's gonna be, it's gonna be all night
It's gonna be all night.
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Hello and or welcome back to the OWCS stage one playoffs we just wrapped day one over
in EMEA and we'll now be moving to all things NA here to Waffeland, Frolic are my friends
Jack and Johnny how are we doing?
Yeah I'm ready to Waffle, I'm ready, it was weeks, it was Friday, no I'm also
wanting, it was Swedish Waffle Day this past week, Swedish Waffle Day, now I got
to Google my first five seconds of March, no it was March 25th, okay well thanks
I can do more.
Okay, let's dive in and watch the play as we're summarizing.
In stage one, let's do a quick recap here because it was three weeks of regular season
play for our NA teams in order to figure out which four teams are going to come out
on top and make it to our playoffs. Oh yeah, so Dallas Fuel, no surprise, 5-0. Honestly
expected, I think if they lost a single series, I think everybody would be pretty disappointed,
but you know, 15 and 5 as well is kind of nasty. Not as like one sided to be honest
as EMEA, but we're expecting Dallas Fuel to be here and we talked about it even last
week, like look, they should be in the finals too. I think they're going to have
of a decently easy time going through playoffs.
They're basically the twisted minds of NA, right?
Dallas Fuel coming out on top,
and now they're dropping a single map.
Space station gaming, very close behind them.
In fact, their only loss was a reverse sweep
against Dallas Fuel, or at the hands of Dallas Fuel.
Meanwhile, of course, Team Liquid,
they came back from a slower start, let's say,
to make it to the playoffs
while the next season ended with a two, three,
but a very competitive match against the top seed Dallas Fuel,
so they can definitely hang with the top dogs.
What was your main takeaway from stage one, Johnny?
Okay, well, I kind of like SSG in their theories.
I don't know if it was only me.
I know they lost that.
Sonja went crazy with the pulse bombs.
I know Chronika had like the most insane
so-called incredible time,
but like, I still kind of like SSG in that matchup.
So, you know, I respect the individual's skill displayed,
but I think NA is up for grabs here.
I don't want to read into it too much.
It's definitely not as top heavy as what we're seeing over in EMEA where we know like this
is one and two and everything else.
Yeah, many, many tier brackets below that.
Let's talk about the top dog, right?
The team to beat, the one with the target on the back after this regular season, Alice
Fuel.
They're coming back as a franchise into OWCS, so obviously we were super hyped and
so excited, but there were doubters.
There were doubters in chat about this very roster and how far they can actually
take it.
like with the performance thus
far, those doubters have been
silenced. Yeah, come on. They're
5015 and five map record. I
feel down in like where you get
in these where you get in these
points from that aren't like
reddit.com like come on. Surely
you're expecting Dallas feel to
with this bracket to should be
fairly close against SSG again,
but I don't know. I don't
really have too much fear
apart from Kellen. I think
I think the hero pool for Kallen does exactly line up perfectly with the current meta, it's
a little rough out there, but to be honest, four other like go to play roster, not too
bad.
It's worth.
I think they've proven that like we should respect them at this point like they, obviously
I've been going into this stage like two, three weeks, I'd say like Team Liquid as
you were the favorites by far, but then Team Liquid they went through a couple things
and now I think Dallas Fuel are like seeking to top dog here.
So Caleb, they cannot navigate that really well, especially with some of the backline
picks.
I love that you said it went through a few things.
Like they just didn't play the curve better.
Is that what you're talking about?
Is that the things that went through it?
They're about to make some adaptations.
You know, Juno Brick came out last week and so maybe we'll see more of that this
week.
Kind of DBA from the Lucio carry.
So yeah, it's been a tough stage for them.
For SSG and Dallas though, a pretty smooth ride.
you guys feel like they're ahead of the curve enough to be a done deal for the
players like is that just what we expect to see in the finals? I don't think
they're ahead of them. I don't think anybody's really like ahead of the
meta. I don't know Johnny if you disagree with that but it feels like Dallas
Fuel they're not playing the D. They're not playing off tanks. They're
doing their own kind of thing there because of Kellen Ciro Paul but it
doesn't really feel like anybody's one step ahead of the game at this point
I feel like yeah, we do get the NBA and you're like, okay, three to some eyes gonna make it
Now we just haven't seen an upset there where GK the download is pro. I feel like and it's more open
Where?
Yes, I'm probably the most confident in Dallas fuel making it in the end
But then I'm like and you know good SSG choke. I'm at five like there's a possibility there. Yeah, totally
so I feel like this reading is a little more open for grabs and then the NBA but I
Don't know. I think any of these four teams could make it lunax really big outside show
like very low chance but I could see it. Yeah I mean listen we're here on the last stretch of our
stage one schedule right we are finding ourselves in day one of the playoffs the open qualifiers
and regular season are done. Now we are fighting for those two spots to head to Japan for the
champions clash. The top two teams will be able to do so we're playing in a double elimination
bracket right first to three is still the format up until the grand finals and last year the
champions clash delivered. It
was crazy racoon and team
Falcons that were just so ahead
of the curve and just dominant
all year long. Um they kicked
things off with that kind of
dominance in the champions
clash. How do you see the
regions, uh stacking up against
one another this time around? Oh
man. I don't know. I think it's
some bias coming out of my
mouth right now. Some step
I really just think Korea be like that again. I think they're gonna be number one again
I think I know I can't be a hundred percent positive because twisted minds is kind of this X factor and they won worlds
But like oh my god, how couldn't you bet against Korea after so many years?
There is just no way I'm ready to be proven wrong for sure and I'm ready to Japan teams to show up as well
I'm actually so ready, but I just got a good feeling. So I don't know
I can't
There might be a slight bias
Alas, you know it is twisted minds were the champions they won the championship at the end of last year
So perhaps they can do that again
They're definitely the top dog in their region and they will make Korea put up a good fight now
We finished up EMEA for the day
Of course, so we're gonna stop talking about twisted minds and now we're starting with all things NA Dallas fuel
will be going up against a lunax and then we're going to move to the SSG and liquid match later on.
And also of course as we're doing all of that I want to remind everyone that you can support
all the goodness for the champions clash with the elixir keeper crowdfunding mega bundle.
Look at these skins, the name card, the icons. I mean what's not to love.
Look good.
Johnny, Rhineskin, right at 10 right now.
Okay, well, there's a lot of great Rhineskins, so I think, I've said this before, I think
the purple and gold is like a solid default, 8 out of 10.
So I'm putting it up there, but yeah, it can go into my top 5.
Yeah, I think so.
Top 5.
I just don't understand why he's wearing that much when LifeLever and Wu Yang are
exposing themselves.
We do have, I mean, you want to get some options Zoe, if you want to go that early.
Maybe the back is open, and you know how you find out by scanning the QR code and entry the giveaway
and you could be calling these skins your own, then you get to see them from every angle.
We don't know, maybe an uncle is first, maybe a miss A.
What if the back is everything she's saying?
I don't know.
We don't know, unless you have the skin, you just don't know.
You just go in the office, you have to just sort of know.
That's why they pay me the big bucks.
big bucks anyway let's talk about our teams shall we for our first semi-finals in NA it's
gonna be Dallas Fuel going up against Lunax we forgot that for a second let's talk about
of course our favorite to win it all Dallas Fuel a stack roster front center to the back
what have you learned have we seen any tracks in their armor this far?
Best DPS lineup in North America, Sonjun, Chronic, oh my goodness can't wear on the
I was like that was a hot take but then I'm like I'm not a hot okay yeah good okay
well who else would be your number one if you're thinking about it was just like
my first reaction to you saying that was like no we can't say that yeah you're
actually cooking yeah they've been lights out in stage one now you're
totally right I mean this team is also very exciting because they have and
been playing to lose your character as much you know they've been showing
the flexibility in the backline and they're also like bragging about it on Twitter.
They're like we're not we're not paying to secure we can play all the other stuff.
Yeah if it's on Twitter it's real. Now what is also real is of course that they have been playing
against one another in week two. It was a close series. That was a three two victory for Dallas
Field so they've definitely been able to fight back here. Yeah I mean I think they've
We've shocked a few people, to be honest.
Two, three, scraping in, of course.
But I feel like it's almost about time, X10,
making a playoffs, Zombo, making a playoffs.
In fact, in the entire lineup.
I'm curious how far they're gonna go,
because realistically, Dallas Fuel,
probably gonna win here.
I had to score, probably 3-0.
But Lunex can be the surprise,
is whether they actually,
if they come out with a map,
like I'm giving them some,
if they come out with a map,
might go crazy in the lower bracket. Again, that's exactly what I was about to say. There's still the lower
bracket, so there is a second life. So even if they're not taking down Dallas, they might be able to
like face them again in the finals. And at that point, they have secured their spot already for
the champions clash. So there is still a lot to win here, even if you go down against the Dallas
Fuel. And lastly, let's not call it before it happens. I hear the teams are ready and so
are we so guys please take it away. Yes thank you very much sorry Dallas Fuel versus
Lunex Mr. Johnny Mr. Johnny reinforced um now what would your prediction be uh coming into this
give me a score don't just give me the team name. No I think I think you'd probably say 3-0
I think that's a very reasonable prediction given what we've seen from Dallas Fuel so far
here's what I'd say about Lunex though okay what would be the course of Overwatch history
Don't underrate a team with like a special team that like specialized on a comp
Because we've seen time and time again that if you're really good at a comp
That's can be good enough for an upset and that's you immediately with your reset band
Targeting said bright. So they know what's coming their way, but it's still scary
You're like, we're probably still gonna have to play your reset some point and reckon with it
But off to a start here on map one without your reason
probably one of the better
places to ban the orisa as well
being control um a lari ban
for lunax. Okay. Yeah, we've
seen a little bit of the
lari here. Orisa has been
specialty for flights in time
and jumping on to Busan by the
way is going to Li Zhang
Tower for the last how many
weeks or three weeks or
something silly Johnny so
bit of a change of scenery
is always nice. Yeah. Yeah,
I mean especially like on
trying you know you can
really go for some of these
and I pull out the Alarvan and that's Dallas Fuel's preference.
Then I think an Alarvan is quite reasonable.
It's going to be interesting to see how this series play out because in the past we've seen
Lunix, they obviously want to get the Flashpoint, they want to get to push those kind of maps, right?
And so you kind of have to prepare for Luka Minion and CJ to go these more
damaged heavy flex lineups, right, on those kind of escort and hybrid maps.
And so the Alarvan dispensed here in the very first control map.
That's obviously you know something I'll try to utilize and get a map in here
But maybe that's a band that they want to go back and use later on in the series as well
So I would say there
It's a decent our predictors in the chat vote for Linux right now
15% vote for the next 85 for the fuel I
Extend on the Reaper guy of all things and Kellen no surprise no off-tank here only use me ball
I actually saw the Reaper last week from this team, the Excellency shied away from the
hitscan composition.
They just said we're gonna go aggressive, we're gonna dive here, so interesting to
see how they use these sweep ability to their advantage to get onto the cycle.
Well there's the TP straight across the bridge trying to close the gap on the backline,
Chronic Lugmino CJ backing up.
Yeah, just having double support at your side of your chronic is just so nice though, Johnny.
And like, how'd you dive back to the Reaper and your lunics?
I feel like you just have to go as five.
Right, you kind of have to use the objective to your advantage and, you know, try to force
Dallas to go into you because they're quickly going to be disengaging as soon as possible
a lot of mobility onto that composition, so you're right, next time.
Maybe not the perfect round to bring out this Reaper Pig, but she's sticking with
it for now.
Kalaan, Slam. Surely they knew. But it doesn't matter.
Realistically, it's only a little bit of damage.
And then Chronic sitting all the way at the back.
Kalaan, by the way, 95 on mines.
So that's going to be the first ult ripped in this one.
Don't die, Zee.
Luckily, saved themselves.
Little Zuzu, but they're just taking so much poke damage.
90 from Kalaan here, but from Chronic.
They've even got a pulse bomb as well.
Lunix, Johnny, they are struggling to move us fine.
They're not trading their DPS sure but still they have to actually win this fight.
Suncheon pretty low, Tidal Blast on to Kellan.
A good Seussie from Z is going to stop that from getting any knockdowns.
So the sound baron comes out from Lunix.J4.
A 1v1 versus Z and CJ right now.
The quick teleport away from CJ should be good for now.
Point being thrashed here by Lunix but Kellan laying the mines down on the point.
He's going to be able to stop them from capping straight away.
But Lunix coming up on some more ults.
X10 goes down, straight back to the point and she goes after only just three appearing into the fight for maybe half a second.
And how did they not have point caps so far? They're actually going to go down in this fight.
They didn't want to use another ultimate to secure the point, but it might have backfired in that Dallas Fuel were able to get back, contest the point.
Didn't give up a single tick there. I mean, that's brutal for Lunex because you wanted to win that fight while preserving ultimates.
Now you don't even get to win the fight at all.
I just asked it, honestly.
They used 3 else, they did the Dallas Fuel.
Lunex only using that Sambari.
They've got 4 Oaks, I mean, grabbing someone here is going to be tough too, and they actually
get off to grabbing Kellen.
Honestly, mad respect.
The guys got away a room for too long at this point.
But they actually just need to cap low.
But Dallas Fuel's just going to back off.
They've got 99% on the board already.
A postman comes out, nearly a hit marker, a small graze on the Neocrony.
Bobbens are coming through 2 once at the point, thinking that they can win this
fight maybe, even with Sonja down. Slam from Kelim as he gets back into the fight but Lunix finally gets a cap.
Yeah maybe they thought that they could go for the recon test there, CJ had to consume Rush but
they thought better of it. No need to rush me, there won't be a good wind around right now so
I think there's time there and a lot of better opportunities. All he's got to hill is furiously
right now, is he sending things off of it towards Desire. Rush is going to get placed down
down from both teams, one going to the point, one more defensive as X-10 rips the ult.
Kills off Chronic and Dallas Stuel, whimpering now, backing off.
Galunis really trying to secure this fight, but...
Sonja, menacing the backline here.
There's a sound barrier here from then, why? It's pretty much the only ultimate, so...
try to interest to see if they're going to use it aggressively here and try to start picking through some of my Chronic.
Galunis looking in at the back, just teasing the point.
Oh, Lucramillo!
Was that a bubble jacks?
I think it actually might have been.
Sambarra's coming out from NY, does any end up hitting two,
but I think the fight's already done with you, to be honest.
I mean, that is a rare one from Lucramillo.
Coverback is the cat of all things.
It's the counter slam ends up coming in.
They kill Nenwai.
Lucramillo's securing the kill with fluffy little paws.
Oh my goodness, they're actually just trying to cat.
Wait a second.
I mean, they have a team that could run it before,
But yeah, it's a little bit unconventional on this specific point. 70% as well, like Lunis could steal this round, if Dallas was on the careful.
Uh, we have two creatures, two marvelous creatures on the field.
The cat's getting chased right now, but it's X-10 that should be paying attention to Sun-Jun lands another fantastic post, Scronic traded, now hounding down the back line.
Post bubble voided there by Sun-Jun, hitting the recall on the half HP.
Bubble, Suzu, everything deployed to try and save Zee with Dallas' dual underneath their noses, Johnny, and they're getting a cap away from them.
Can I get closer to these mines as well? It's going to be difficult.
It's all about the race to the ultimates.
Could Lunex get to this Graviton search early enough?
No, I mean, surely, right? 6% to go, but there, Lunex 10, they're going pretty low.
X10, quite literally at 1 HP.
Lunex 2 end up finding the cap again as the cat does end up healing up the tracer,
and the mines on the point will stop Lunex from engaging straight away.
Russians are coming through, ZJ down, Graviton surging, E-Tip.
Can get to Leap straight on a Chronic 2.
What an unbelievable play from Zep.
Somewhere it comes in, hits five, Lunex is good.
Lukimino tried to heal up the Bob at Zep,
but it didn't matter, Bob ended up saying,
you know what, more of a pacifist round this one.
No kills for the Bob, and no kills for Chronic,
because he is still down.
Lunex find a cap again as OT is in session.
Well, there's an ultimate from X-10,
so realistically, to tell a few fighting on point,
it's going to be a rough fight at the very least.
Well, the reason I at least find a pick here,
Lunex, was something, because I lost a few,
However, pretty easy time just juggling this point until they can build the Katsunarashi.
X10's low, used the right thought.
Luke Kaminez even got the O as well, ended up slamming down straight on top of the Reaper,
but X10 received a bubble, and then Akronik received a whole lot of damage.
The Flibbings are coming through to Dallas, fueling the 3D4 as they sneak it away.
Oh my word, again they snuck it away from Lunex underneath their noses.
Lunex were fighting under mid.
Dallas fuel with a round on the board.
But that couldn't have been closer.
What an unbelievable round to kick us off.
I mean massive props to Dallas Field for keeping the juggling going on to the point and making sure that
they had enough time to build that Kitsuna wash pot.
Extremely painful for Lunix, which seemed like they were gonna get away with stealing that point after starting off 99-0.
If that's indicative of the rest of the series, we're in for a good one, Jaws.
That's the most like stolen objectives of all time. It feels like they're like was that two flips three flips like
Insane all right Kellen back on the Winston. Yeah extend running
The Reaper again no shock
But we're gonna see chronic actually
So did it set
So I think this is the bad news for lunic serious here
Actually, that was a really important round to win on this map because now
You know, we have to try and navigate with this backlight from Dallas Crew on the map like this, like Ten is doing a little bit of confessing on the Reaper right now.
Oh, look at that! Oh, here though! Oh, there's no rape!
Okay, the trade loop can be there. Actually, not a bad trade whatsoever on the grand scheme of things.
Zev takes Amkronic as well to boot. Actually, an insane trade.
There's gonna be a point cap as well.
I mean Dallas people have to set up here, they have the tracer, they have the soldier,
they have to set up these angles to really take advantage of the heroes they are playing
right now.
I think that's it.
There's going to be a lot of time wasted just to set up here to be in with them.
They're CJs and they can't get to the high ground anymore either.
They snuck the point away again.
I'm not sure they should be at the cap this. Yeah, okay
They left the coming in doesn't score anybody
Once more my word
Dallas should have set up the angles and chronic fights away go over things up
The amount of soul objective time is absurd
Except going down low, not a good look for Lunex
as X-Ten tries to land a passing blow there on one member of Dallas Fuel
but it will be Fuel, Capin, and they're fighting almost a team kill.
Yeah, it's pretty scary to leave the point if you're playing Lunes' composition
because you know that Soongen on the Tracer is going to be in the back
just tearing you apart, giving you a tough time
so you can't really engage on anyone either, you're just going to have to sit pretty on the point
and try to get some of these ultimates online.
We'll do a bit of a push down this right-hand side.
A bit of rotation, nice fight for T.J.
Oh!
Such a lay suzu there, savvy from Z.
Yeah, okay, easy fight.
Still a headshot perk as well from T.J.
So extra damage for the honor.
It's not gonna get any easier here through these draws.
Yeah.
These weak ults aren't going to be really difficult.
At least they're coming up on a couple of ultimates here,
but that'll us feel if someone did wrong.
It's gonna be a little bit nightmarish
Okay, well like said did you have tp's and our cannon's just in the opposite high ground so
Ha he's disturbed and Johnny like you said with all these ults is gonna be so tough
I mean CJ can just put the nano on Kallum right and have him sent in well
They're gonna try and punish Kallum or at least tickle him
No, but get sniped again by Kallum
An extremely aggressive push there from the repo on the floor and it gets shut down
Overclock into the nano CJ falls, but they're just too scared
They've also managed to flip the map as well
So they're in no man's land in enemy territory is the Dallas
We're able to basically
Unix is the line of fire
As he said it's pushing up here. Do I have to get closer or the back line getting back to them?
This kid sooner or she's going to be devastating to us
It's gonna be awful to play into steps of the graph from such all back
You can make sure where people is gonna get and be very tough. Can I just get okay?
It's Krakow has seen it! I say it's going to be difficult to connect and then Zepx scores three people with the grab!
Yeah, that should have been...
That was fuel fight to win, really. They had that Dipsion Rush in hand, but Zep finds a way back into this map with that Grabbed On Search, and at least it enables Lunex.
They have a fighting chance.
You can control this point now. It's going to be difficult for that as fuel to set up.
The composition was four.
They're going to touch the objective here, which is going to enable CJ to get some composition.
But you can see Lunix, like, they want to keep the points on Pistons, but not immediately the backline can move forward.
Oh, Lukimino.
Surely, uh, Lukimino's CP was on CD there, right? Surely.
Surely.
So rough, but...
A quick reset for the Dallas Fuel, not gonna mean too much here.
You lose, like, 0.5 of a fight, cause you weren't in it for too long.
CJ needs this Nanoboost, though. They've already pinned out where the X-10 is, but Zomber gets post-bored!
by Sonju. Okay, hang on. I need a replay of that one eventually.
Err, Primal comes out from Kellen as well. Squishy C, I mean this is still falling apart
right now for Ludex. That trade was horrible. Dallas Fuel, they might just lose that Winston
here, but CJ still got the Lannibos. Now he's just gonna get destroyed and mildly
now the point can be pressured by the Dallas Fuel. Serb of Bubbles off, Hopps of Bubbles
on himself, but NY4 takes 10 with no Wraith form. He's gonna get chased down by
Sonju, but Axe is securing the kill, why'd he buy Tuft? But there's no Bubbles
So it's the easy kill on the reaper somba slept and everything thrown at the trace that I keep alive and
Lunex now diving onto the point to try and extend this but just a fraction of a second longer
But that pulse bomb from Sunjin put a nail in that coffin Dallas dual a to oh, but a close one on Busan
Oh my god
What a map on which we did to you that that push them was so huge so
like to get that stick and kill the enemy tracer. That essentially saves the
round for Dallas Fuel because Lunix they were coming up on the Kitsune Rush
they were coming up on the Sunfire and they just fell a little bit short of
the timing. If Sombra was still alive after getting that initial pick on
Sunderd, that might have been the recipe for a success and Lunix able to
steal a round away but they're not able to because of Sunderd's crossbow.
I want to see that pulse. I do need to see that out. That's insane. One death
for the big man, Kellen, 23 and 1 on the Winston, leading the server in damage to 18.5k on the dot.
That's crazy. He's got the most damage in the lobby playing Winston.
I'm so happy that Kellen keeps the Winston spirit alive. I love this game.
If it was like the only guy right now holding on to the Winston, I mean to be fair, it's D.Va's number one asset.
every time it's so true so true.
I suppose. Yeah, surely it's in the highlight reel. I mean, look, if that isn't a trade there,
that fight is so different with Zomber being alive on the tracer. It's just so different. It's
not an enviable spot. I kind of want to feel good about looting. So the fact I made it so
close on both of those rounds because like it felt like that was fuel we're dominating
throughout the entire map, but both of them went to 99% of each, so I guess you can say
that that's a good sign for Loonex for the rest of the series, the fact that we're able
to take it so close to Dallas Fuel, even though it's something you lost 2-0, but you bought
it close.
Yeah, look, hey, we were saying a 3-0 for Dallas Fuel, but go in 99, both stages like
you said, and the first stage being so like flip floppy as well, like kind of crazy.
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True, true, true.
Yeah, shut up.
Yeah.
As we go into map number two, Johnny.
can't be banned out surely right surely Zeb can't be banned out this time. Orisa has been
taken off for Busan already so hey ho I go to Orisa man. Yeah I was struggling because
I could just see Zeb blocking the Orisa for the rest of the series now. I'm free! I can
play the Orisa. Good. The problem would be- Most players would say the opposite, well
you don't have to play the Orisa, you go I'm free. Because you're not in Orisa
jail. It honestly depends on how I wake up on any given day. Like some days I'm
like oh all I'm gonna do today's
which I know it's pretty cursed but
the orisa means I'll forget it and then
other days I'm like oh I don't want
I can't we can't start a reason I think
I'll slash the rich remains and not
watching for you don't make it alright
subscribers those orisa means ready
to find out how big is that community
okay let me get six okay I was gonna
say I was gonna say like no I was
gonna say like maybe 20k I think
it's lower risk of whether it's as
That's 4.7k for recent games.
Oh, there's not many.
But they're powerful. They're powerful.
They're powerful in mass. It's all good.
Zeb's one of them, probably, you'd imagine.
Zeb probably tries insane coaching fees for their recent games.
For the recent games? Yeah, probably.
That's recent in NA currently.
The only player that's really picking it up right now.
RudiSuppi's the next man.
Yeah, and this makes sense from Dunex.
He's directly so far this stage.
They like picking flashpoint first.
They want to get to those maps
And then they want to expand for their backline make sure we can play the Lucille carry and you know
There's no reason to protect and tank at this point because your recent and it's already outright
So you see the adjuno band come out perfects to Lucille carry. Although the tracer band here from Dallas
Quite limiting here, that's worst of a data matter
They're definitely limiting for somba whose best hero is the tracer
So it's not as limited on the
Dallas field. DPS line. Very
targeted bands Dallas feel
coming in. So yeah, we'll see.
I'm just working out that's
feel on the right hand side of
the mix on the left. We're
going to swap over in a moment.
Think chronic especially after
like the Freya. I was going to
say Freya year. It wasn't a
year worth of Freya, but it
really was and like I was about to say it really built chronic up to behave this
guys are free like he is incredible on the fray was the best frayer in NA like
other people we were kind of talking about like wow they're gonna be so good
for it was actually chronic that dominated that entire stage where
frayer was but now you know on the Dallas fuel with Sonjan they're
looking like the best DPS duo and Johnny this is why they've been
tracer here the Dallas fuel so Sonjan can play far yeah we've seen this
Zero a couple of times here really throw a wrench and things and especially if you're expecting the vendetta, right?
I thought you know that the forest are really good pick to try and counter the zero and
Tell us you they like playing this way. They like sitting back
They like playing the neutral and they reacted to their opponent. So now the pressure is on somebody here
What can you do on this and that up to try it with some pressure on the enemy by now?
I feel about the Everest
Right now
Yeah, it's going to be extra. Hoping off to start off things off here, opening things up with a pick on the Suncheon.
I mean, this is a dirty off angle as well. Like you're waiting for people to kind of walk into you. I'm surprised.
I'm maybe thinking Suncheon's gonna be able to get the solo kill onto X-10, but she ends up just hitting Suncheon in the face with a rail.
Yeah, that's brilliant. And to get back to your previous question, you know, Kellan is gonna try to absorb a little of this Orisa pressure with the Remarker right.
I think we'll see less aggressive kind of like Nemesis former to land some punch and get some frags, right?
It's really just about making sure it's said has more difficult time with this Orisa to get aggressive with his cooldowns because
One of the things that Lulix does so well with this Orisa, it's just so synchronized behind the shot calling, right?
They synchronize your Orisa a lot of abilities with the rest of the team, so there's Ramothra now
You'll be able to absorb a little bit of that pressure just buying up time for some doing part
Alright well, Kallen's dev is doing a lot of absorbing, most of that damage right now.
Ooh, he's Seb actually, you know.
I'll chase the name of that sentence.
Don't go back and edit that one for me.
Now Kallen could just aggressively push in, yeah, with bad nemesis form.
Really nice pick as well from Sonjin.
I mean, Sombra, obviously many a treasure there, Johnny.
My struggle here on the Fendetic, not being able to tag people like Sonjin and
having to close the gap is tough now, sorry about that.
Yeah, and it's not like Seb wants to swap over to something like a D.Va either, right?
Like Seb wants to play this Risa, like, this is my hero!
Because this is the map we're supposed to dominate, so...
Really tough, though. Some try to force a different hero here, like an Echo or something.
It's just not really the matter right now, but...
This flip is crazy. According to the crazyest flip of all time.
I mean, they're lucky that the payload wasn't past the choke point there.
Roche is gonna come out, Barrage and Sanji from around the corner, but first I think I'm in a better position right now.
But good, it was Therum's, Calibur's still in there, then it was Xforb's, they were soaking up a lot of damage.
with his arms crossed and now chronic could just lay waste to the back line.
Then we're with the beats, a non-factor now.
Well that rail goes a little bit wide but all they need to do is move that bot and Zev has to touch.
Golden form already used to use this ultimate as well to try and sustain it a little bit longer
but the Dallas field are going to be able to hold on.
Sonjit could pull the emergency drip cord in the ult to which is needed.
And if I just go now, that's exactly what they're going to do.
A beat isn't coming through to actually survive but it's a little bit too late.
Zed already goes down to that, oh, that mirage is so much damage from the corner, baiting out the space came straight into a Mirage.
Beings there's no defensive countermeasure there for Lunex unless Nemwai is thinking three steps ahead of the Pharah and drops to be early, which doesn't happen.
Yeah, it's brutal. Nemwai's sound barrier only getting four there, not enough time to save Zed and enable Stalos' heal now to get this cap as well.
I thought for a moment that Kellan was going to pop that annihilation and try to secure the fight that way but instead get value from the Barraur's feet and sell them due these days.
Dallas Guild is quite happy with this cap and I'm going to just engage from this next one, produce it up for the next neutral.
This is going to be an interesting fight though, X-10. She has this overclocked ready and available and you open up this fight with benefits.
Well they're gonna try. Once she misses a couple of shots, sadly, but he's kind of
scuttering right now, like skittering away. There's an annihilation coming, he needs help.
Taking a fair bit of damage in the volley. If it doesn't take 1-0, it's at 2.
Zombo ends up using his Lunex with 2 support ult. No, sorry, 2 TPS ult's
thrown into the mana. Might just be a good fight though, they've been moving
the spot this whole time and Johnny is short, but it's a clean fight most
importantly here not losing anybody yeah this should be the checkpoint here for
lunax the stylus will try to be good but the house will no ultimates on the
board right now they are gonna close to that kid sooner rush but lunax has the
option out of here how they want to deploy their only kids sooner rush and
especially within a reset like holding a corner like this with our search
available as well this can get quite tricky for the last few to defend
this one
Well here comes the rush. My lunis just thought my economy right now is looking good. I'm like our own standard.
Oh the Dallas Fuel are going to respond to the rush of their own from around the corner.
Looks like Unix happy to go for a reset here, similarly to Dallas Fuel, as they've taken the lead.
Very patient play from Lunis. They're building up to the sound barrier.
Zed, keep an eye on him as he passes her search able to deploy as well.
There's a pivotal fight in the round here. Both teams already unlocked the checkpoint.
They're so lucky.
Sambarri an aggressive one too.
They're rushing right in.
But Chronic's now on the high ground but already,
Lucanino and Sojin have fallen before Chronic can even get a second shot off.
Lunix were in that fight and straight out of it,
not giving it a chance for Dallas Fuel to kind of settle the score.
That is a huge fight with the Lunix as they extend their lead.
Huge, but also so risky, right?
The fact that he went aggressive with that Sambarri.
So, as a respect for pulling it off, that could go on terribly wrong.
So I'm going to barrage, use the barrage here actually to try and secure a pick up to S.E.V. but it doesn't get it, then now Lunex.
They're in the lead and they're in a really good position here.
Come on guys, you just messed around here really well.
Terraser's thrown in S.E.V.
Two seconds into the golden cungs up once again.
This 4-5 is going to get to get out, but of course, this upgrade cannot help him.
He's up coming down, Sambaya comes through from Dallas Steel.
Now it's Lukmino, Group C, back into the fight.
Forced into Teleport, and that should be the fight to win for the Dallas Steel.
Lunix is now just dying on point, not wasting anything else.
Running some nice shots.
Team kill, almost.
Well, actually, I think Go is secure.
As Dallas Fuel reset the bot to mid.
Did they get forward spawns?
No, they don't.
I still think you take that if you're Lunix though.
The fact you're able to get out the sound barrier for the overclock.
This is still a pretty good position for Lunix to be in here.
Obviously, the cap already being completed by Dallas Fuel.
This could get out of hand quickly,
But with a kid sooner or less available here or lunatics
CJ needs the counter rush
3% I'm waiting for it. There it is. Okay instantly. Then why it doesn't have going down eventually here Johnny with some
But jumping into the front line of flying as Susie to stay alive
But it is all Kellen here. They're fighting over the points of the bottle to get away from them
But the annihilation is just
Destroying them in the front line. They're so sustained either. No speed to get out of the fight because then white guy first
Dallas fuel they take the lead
Just brutal now for Linux
That was a great opportunity to really get ahead of this map
But now giving up the lead instead the Dallas fuel who can play so patiently this whole
Don't mind it Johnny don't mind it one bit
Just taking this lead and extending it even more by only using the OC. Honestly, fairly, it's not the cheapest diet of all time.
It's not a post-bomb by any stretch of the imagination, but not as impactful as like a beat or a rush, so getting all this space there, I really like even forcing Zep to use the Terrasurge here would be golden.
Yeah, now you can hold this corner as well. Instead of trying to work the flank here, oh, in fact, Zep gets caught here, that would be brutal, but it doesn't look like the protection from Zep is going to be good enough.
Yeah, getting out is important for Dallas Fuel, they're gonna be able to do so.
Sonjin, 3% away. Oh, I say that. X10.
Easy little bit too far forward. Look at those assists for Dallas Fuel too.
Sonjin, Kellen coming up big with some assists there. Now, Nemiah in a precarious spot where you're thinking
at this point, you're gonna need to use this heat to counter this barrage.
Barrage comes in, but Sombra instantly deleted, not giving Nemiah a chance.
And now Dallas Fuel, metal to the metal going in.
Oh, Savapri!
NY only hits three and seven.
The front line, the overhook's already gone.
It's all falling apart for Lunex now.
There's a small pop by Kellan,
and Zeb has to use this old stair-live.
NYC down to Sunjin.
Lukavino dies, but it's a sacrifice
they're willing to make.
The Dallas Fuel with a four-man push
onto this last point.
Lunex X10 only personalised to try and touch,
but it is Dallas Fuel that finds the full cap.
full cap. Sundin just styling on the Pharah. Where's the last few minutes on that map?
Just dominating the kill feed. This is what Dallas Fuel does best Jaws. They just tear
you apart from all the angles. They pay the neutral perfectly. You think you're gonna
pressure the Pharah for a little bit? Well, you're gonna lose the fight in the frontline.
And as well, Dallas Fuel showing what they're made of here on Runa SAPI, 22 and 1 from
kill him again. Like I said, I'm falling that pressure but chronic 21 kill in the fall and
22 and one to death over two maps. That is what you just want to see from your tank player.
I mean, talk about knowing your limits, right? It's just like, you know your job,
you know what you have to do. Yeah, I'm gonna try to contest your objective. I'm gonna try to
create space for my damaged players and it's really setting up chronic and Sunday just
amazingly as well. Like that doesn't have to go for the highlight. We also have to go for
for the big annihilations just like yeah my my my damage pairs are gonna come in
clutch that's the name and that is the most like selfless tank line I've
ever heard from a tank player. I'll let my DPS to the top actually.
Well okay you know we can have a long form conversation about five to five
in a race but you know at the end of the day damage players we need you to
step up get some of those frags and doesn't tell us what we're doing.
He's speaking to a solo key teammates for that one.
Bro, I was like, oh, you got to carry.
It's like, you got to show people.
You do the damage.
It's in your name, bro.
What do you think people are playing in Lorry?
Yes.
Pretty good.
It's pretty good.
I'm actually becoming a Lorry player myself.
He's crazy.
Oh, he's crazy.
I like him.
I picked up after.
You know, there was a time like a few months ago,
it's like three Lorry players in the world
that you chose him in Violet.
No, I'm one of them.
Me?
Yeah, I'm definitely on that list, bro.
I've definitely all that live. But don't forget as well, you can earn some drops coming through for this stage.
Not only these ones that are on your stream right now, but I believe they're also battle pass, skips as, oh no, connected for each other, on Switch at the moment as well.
So make sure you connect your battle net account to your Twitch account and yeah, go from there. Overwatch is also involved to the very end.
And some Winston skins. I'm not saying no to that.
This weekend is all about Overwatch.
That put on the Overwatch Esports broadcast and one monitor
completed the drive in the other one.
Gotta get that signature.
Oh yeah, drive to the side, that's true.
Yeah?
Yeah, I sort of look at it again.
There you go.
It's difficult, you know, you gotta get the game in early.
Yeah, you do.
You gotta win, man.
Hey look, new Ruby weapon came out as well recently, right?
I think CJ was rocking the Ruby on the armor, looks pretty nice.
We've had, it's surely it's Sapphire next.
I'm just predicting.
the game. I mean, it's like
it's like a. It's a year away.
Dude. I'm just saying. I'm just
we've had an emerald one. There's
a green one, a red one. Surely
they do the RGB. So surely they
got the blue at the end. I
mean, surely unless we mind
for unless it's like diamond
or something. I don't know.
At this is going to be the
map picked from Lunix here.
Third map and honestly judging
their support backline makes a ton of sense and I didn't expect the Reaper to come out here.
Maybe make things a little bit easier for Dallas Fuel to anticipate, you know,
hitscan character being played instead and try to navigate that rather than like the kind of all-in
Reaper Lucio carry style that we saw from Lunix on map one here.
I mean, for the rest of the series, this is a brutal spot to be in because now Lunix,
we're going to have to reverse-weep. Doesn't need to be said. Everyone understands that.
But to win or not only flash point to give these off, but then you have to go back hybrid escort
Against the McDonald's fuel, which that is hardly their strength. This is a terrible spot to be
Yep, yes it is no sugarcoating it Johnny. That's for sure. Uh, look, I like to say
It's still lower bracket. Yes, we just people be like, I'm just gonna say how it is just all the time
Respect you for that Johnny
You know what? That's a life
quote broke. That's how you're
on your arming. Don't lie.
Oh, don't know. Okay. Let's
not go there. Let's not go
Dallas Dallas steel. Yeah.
Coming out of the regular
I'm not gonna lose one here either, unless Lulis can come out with someic out of the bag.
Now look, Zed can still play the Risa, and it's a very good pick on Atlas, and a very
good pick in general on Flashpoint, so we'll see if Zed can be the difference maker here.
Or can Valosul just walk away.
And it's both Chronic, Chronic and Kellen, this whole series, yeah, it's just been
great.
I mean, I know we're expecting the Risa here, but I kinda like what the funny
Astros had in the EMEA interview.
is like oh you know hazard it's sneaky you may want to come up like channel some
pepsir come up playing the hazard elizio carry just full send it I don't know
I'm just just listening things hey I'm just putting stuff at look you don't have
to take the advice you don't have to take the suggestion but hazard hazard
gaming do you think kellen rocks the hazard at any point now it doesn't it's
not really divide now I mean I don't think no for killing I don't see me
telling me can I do whatever you like you know you don't pay their mother on
tell you what you want to play the wrecking ball I think the pressure is
a lunax right now and it needs to be said it's only elimination match right
you know you lose here you're playing the lower bracket tomorrow but
I think it's going to be a
little bit of a challenge.
Maybe you want to explain
some different strategies.
Just in case.
Zombo with the furlies. I too
know like the first six
courts. Let's have a little
look. Oh, no. Okay. I will
say this is very scary.
Actually chronic on Cassidy.
We've seen what Cassidy has
been doing over the last
couple of weeks. Only really
kind of rearing its head
after Emre was thought to be
like the only kind of must
kind of go to now
from
yeah i mean look people are gonna go to flame i mean already told but taking
a half hp and ever since going down i mean this flank is just
it's not worked out at all oh okay well hang on a second
never spend too soon although we did tank alive give me a percent chance of winning
it's gonna be close to ac but
without you tanked up this could be uh yeah quite a difficult one
here for Linux. That looks good, let's try to put the footer. Like, Linux they're in a
decent position here. Let me show you that don't get pushed and die here, we can just
create some angles here. I'll set the edge back to where the point. I hope I can take
it slow here for now. Sam, take it easy buddy. Take it easy. Take it easy. Oh my goodness,
yeah, it went super low. I think I have to put gold there as well. I don't want to
buy a company clutch. You can obviously see what's popping out, it's probably going to
to go down in the limited form. We're hit! Whoops! That went straight between like four
people. All good though. And they're spitting the fight anyway so I'm just going down to
see if all people in the Zombo were there. Nice flag on Lukamino. Dallas still, they're
still our players. Dallas is going to be able to jump onto the floor, but it's already
a limited form and getting pushed into the corner. And very dead now as Exxon also
falls for Dallas with 80%. Yeah I'm very happy with that 81% them coming up on those
Ultimates as well
Opportunity to deploy their opponents as they'd like
We want to try to match lunix here if they drop like it's in order do we want to wait?
Here do a lot of pressure on this
Oh, that was going to say as soon John classically just close up
He's too clean with it seriously
Sonja is
Just a demon. Then why is what HP just taking out my lucramino? It's a random flail
Oh boy, yeah Dallas Fuel looking to secure this first point
I mean Zed is kind of hanging around on the side, but there's zero support, zero help
And you need a whole lot of it, and Sondjit's gonna shut the door in their face now
There's gonna be a touch from Sombra here, Johnny
But it is OT
Can't we keep it going?
I don't know why I think there's nothing here
I'm just looking for clutch
I'm just gonna rush past them
I'm just gonna quick disengage
Hold the bash, oh he's gonna run
They might end up going down though support edge, support B5, but the rally is just getting insane value from Luka Mino too
The rally was the life of the entirety of it giving everybody armor, not enough to help chronic survive
However, they're nemesis form into an annihilation, doable for Kellen still, but a ray ends up coming out from CJ
Not required, but to secure Dallas Fuel will take it, and that is one on the board
I was talking about Dallas Fuel, they were so patient right, the considerate's just gonna come out, lyrics
Secure the point cap to see how a bit of a skirmish here before the next point
unlocks but then they just turn things around it's like yeah we're gonna pop
the rally and then they just wait a tremendous amount of time pop the
orbital ray and suddenly they flip that fight around after lunix has already
used some of their heavy abilities right so Dallas will paint really well right
now even in a different composition like this Juno break which isn't
necessarily you know akin to some of their more flashier damage oriented
backlands.
Sonjin's got pulse again, Johnny.
And, uh, pull me there.
Pull me correct.
Okay, they only feed from
Sambara there. Zeb gets into the
bar, so an easy push in here from the
Orisa. Sambara's going to be good from
maybe a kill on to the Brigitte.
Yep, he's going down. Holds on thrown out.
Sonjin this time. A rare win from the
Tracer. But here comes the
Kanylation, Johnny. Holding his arms
on the point. Zeb is going to be
Not quite so lucky though. Dallas Fuel used that time to get the point.
As Lunix is struggling to find a complete team wipe, Nemwai goes down but Kellen still surviving.
He's like, bare grills bro on this point. How is this guy's life after so long?
Lunix lost both supports, Kellen gets stunned, again, just walks but it doesn't matter!
He's still alive! Someone kill Kellen!
This is so remarkable, just being able to stay alive for eternity.
As Sonjuim just finds another bait, just find enough time bro, just find enough time.
Or damage boost, you gotta figure it out.
way. Another opportunity for them. Take it slow here and just react to whatever
Lunix is going to do here. Lunix, they're in a tricky spot here because they only
really have this orbit buff to open things up. That's a try to get some kind of
positioning up towards the point here. I mean with the time this is taking, this could
have gone like the last fight. Oh, I can't do that. Oh, I'm dying. There it is.
I'm gonna kill counter. Orbital ray, bomb, throw and see and then just flanking.
As it's heresurge, a high noon, a beautiful spear usage by Sedan, a little hot skipper, the higher ban, secure.
Dallas Steel or the 80s lose, get the flip. Still, the low ground is set though, as the rest of the fuel just try and die quick.
A quick reset here, at least guarantees they make full, full fight with 5.
Yeah, Loom makes the kill. Let's back into this round now. Getting that opening pick, we're pretty free there of the kill on.
5 vs 4 scenario is always going to favor the team with 5
See how they deploy some of these damage ultimates though x10
I've heard step up with this overclock
My time's ticking but again they get one full fight here, right?
Kellen touches triggers OT and now here comes the damage somber with a pulse kill however
Oh weak, he's stuck away. Well, Kelly just got pushed all the way off
I think Zed must have speared then space spun on him to uh to stop that Sonja with a nice
What kind of two clip onto X 10 she falls while using OC but wow, Lunax ended up getting a point
Yeah, a little non characteristic of Dallas Q, but also really well played by Lunax there
to 75s another thing of the kill on kill on kill
Hey, he's 7 on 3 now
Yeah
He's 8-bop
He's so so good
Yes, he is
They still look good. They look good.
And bad everybody in the lobby right now looking good to be honest with you.
Very close to skill.
Oh yeah, not dying on the transition to the next one is important here.
Oh, I see that! What a jinx!
What a jinx!
Alright, C-Steps, don't forget the one-clips, because of course you don't.
Alright, Kellen, pops the Nemesis form and X-10 dies as well.
Okay, ZX-10 dying.
Lunex, yeah, they can't catch the point.
Dallas Steel gets one for free.
nice little early fight yeah I can't help us feel like lunax here some by an
extent has to do so much to compete with the likes of sundryland's one because
the fight is not going to be won by seven in the frontline right so you
really need your damage first here to come up close with some big individual
plates what feels like for the most part it's all about you so far
four ults but for lunax sand feels unloosable realistically with double
I don't know why it goes down to Sonja. Dude, he's like an assassin right now.
No ex-motion to justice assassin, of course.
Alright, Kallen gets three with an emesis and, yeah, wow, that was a fight.
Lunix still have four hunks. They didn't get a chance to use theirs as Lukameena goes first.
Yeah, it's tough. You get fried by the tracer and you're like,
oh, do we want to deploy ultimates in a four-business five scenario?
Most of the time you don't.
Stalusfield, they look for a bit of a forward hold here.
But they look for every opportunity they get. If they can get picked early in some of these flights, they're not letting Lunex walk it completely at all.
What do you mean they're just battling a tracer?
They go first again, Charlie. They're repeatedly trying to catch Lunex on the rotation.
A rally is going to make sure that rotation is fairly easy.
They get onto the point with a hold on a stacking over health there, extended the only one that's actually surviving onto.
Uh, well, Xem is also got the ult, so realistically again, they're being able to walk forward here with this Rage good, but it's not so good if you just keel over like that.
Lunix used both support ultiwits in that fight, and almost making no use to the Rage, because they're already so low.
The Dallas Fuel with a cap, and that point felt easy. Getting into the next point now, and Johnny, it's so favorable for them, it's next door.
I don't know what else you can say, besides the fact that this is an amazing showing by Sundar and Chronic.
It's like what are they doing for their team here to make these fights so easy?
They're not even making unix to get into a position to use their ultimates.
And so we're not even seeing two teams that are battling in an even fame field.
Look how low they are. Look how low they are if they walk in.
You see the critical health like indicator through like the x-ray through the wall like
half of them were sub 50 hp before they made it through choke
and then chronic finishes everybody off with an OC.
See they're chilling.
Dude, maximum chill.
That's really difficult for them to make this combat a patient mid-game as well.
How do we try to make it a strategic choice?
You're just going to have to start winning some of these tracer duels instead.
Leafs greedy Tracer player there taking three health back for help back from the enemy Tracer
All right, look at me doing a little bit of problem here. I'm just having a headshot. I've got teleport to
Like kind of an insane off angle if I'm gonna be honest
10% away from the Camino that's an already dead
Then why do I mean this is
This is Dallas you're walking away with this one Johnny this
This is final map. It looks like Lunix have run out of steam, run out of rocket fuel here.
Yeah, I think they're looking for answers. And they don't have them. 70% of the Dallas fuel. Forward hold once more.
I would not be surprised to just see them drop tickets sooner or later.
They're running with the annihilation wheel early here. They're running the left Lunix, but I'm not going to do it.
They're looking at them set up right now. Helen Bobb's themesis.
Is there any good spots here? They can wake up on the clock, baby, but there's the rush.
whole spot was well connected from Sontian. There's nothing this guy can't do with this point and that's just about it Johnny.
It's all over. Dallas Fuel beats them to the choke, beat them down. They got the cap at the very least but it is only Sombra now on an island
and he's only got a small bow with 15 holes on it and only a single oar to paddle away from the island with.
them with as Lunex are gonna go down is Dallas fuel three to one on this map three oh in the series
as they win the upper 70s and make their way towards finals. I think Dallas fuel here they're
making a case for a tier gap. Joss I think you know we're looking at some of these top teams in
the region SSG Dallas Fuel one map five like pretty competitive with each other but I think
this is fans so dominant about Dallas fuel and they're showing where they're the number one
the game. They're just on
different levels. Yeah, they
are like to be fair with you.
Lunax, I think showed kind of
maracas play against the fuel
of the first couple of maps,
but that last one was kind of
anything, but it was Dallas
fuel that room control 95% of
the time Dallas fuel kind of
moving on. I mean, how are
you feeling about this? Lunax
look if you want them to qualify here you don't have to be a team like Dallas
you have a way better chance against the teams like Liquid or SSG right and so
you kind of just have to put this matchup behind you right this this can
be a team that you're expecting to win against there's no team you're required
to win against to make the major in Japan so I think this is one you quickly
put behind you now you only have less than 24 hours to prepare for your next
game right it's still a very difficult challenge but they know what
they're comfortable with they know their play style there's no need to
really changed anything up here on the side of Lunex.
You just have to mentally reset, come back tomorrow,
knowing that you maybe have a better chance
to beat some of these other teams.
Yeah, just making it to the grand final,
like so eloquently put it on the desk,
like look, they're top two, too good, too golden
to go to Japan.
Upper bracket finals for the Dallas field,
either facing Space Station or Team Liquid,
which is up next, of course.
I think they're still... I think Loonix is still in a good spot. I think even if they don't make it to the major event, the land, Johnny, I think there's good things for them on the horizon at the very least in Stage 2.
They're down in the lower semis. Only one lifeline left. We bring Stoibach in for Planar Series.
Well thank you so much gentlemen, yeah they do still have one life but historically, historically
being the last three weeks, they have not won against either of the teams that are left
in the tournament and while I think it was very impressive how they once again managed
to punch up to Dallas Fuel just like the last time they faced off against them, they
did in the end a fall short, I want to give a special shout out though to the
I think it's the best out of the out of the mix. I honestly was so happy to see extend on that Reaper like she on Reaper was a highlight last season for me and for her to pull that out of the back again and like
like, I mean, you probably think
a little band of their love to
see that. We do love to see
that. That was feel like the
bands in order. That's for sure.
Like you've got to ban the threats.
They ban Zebs Rizzo. They ban
X 10 Reaper guy like, Hey, it's
it's tough out here. If you're
Linux getting targeted about that
much, but yeah, I think X 10
has been fantastic on a lot
of hits and standing up to
chronic snow easy feet. So yeah,
Sister, I said we didn't get to see much.
We still have a little bit more to see here.
Yeah.
I feel like it's those kind of pocket picks
for teams like Lunex that allow them to manage to edge out
the victory, get a map here, get a map there, even
against teams that are favorite in the match up.
So now let's bring in Lukimino for a quick chat
after this victory.
So Dallas Fuel find themselves in the upper finals.
Lukimino, thank you so much for joining us.
Walk me through your game plan, going up against Lunex, because you guys faced off against them in Week 2.
It was also a very close affair, 3-2.
Did you expect them to play close against today, and after you went down to them very early on in the series?
Did you expect them to fight back so aggressively?
I wasn't expecting some fight, but I feel like last time it was close because we had a mental block versus team.
after watching every other team three of them. That's gone. We're just we're good for it now. So
well, they did make it close to the very start at least. But yeah, that last map was just like,
okay, Dallas feel this is, you know, who they are and what they're what they hear about. And
you kind of swept them under the rug there. I did want to talk about your team going into
the land. You've not made it yet. But I think the kind of presumption is you guys are going
to make land at this point. How do you feel about the other regions? Because I said it in the
in the pre-show, like I think Korea still kind of pounds. I think they might come out on top.
I think some of the EMEA people are saying NA's washed, like how do you guys, how do you feel
in your team? I think we have the potential to do very well. I mean, it's hard to say without
playing other regions at all because I feel like we make a lot of mistakes, but I'm not sure if
other regions are like so perfectly there. So I kind of want to play against them and see
how it feels, at least.
Talk to me some more about the playstyle that we're seeing from Dallas Fuel.
It's really fun to see a team kind of reject the Lucio carry stuff like that.
Have you made it a point?
We're just like, yeah, we don't, just out of principle,
like we want to play less of those heroes and just lead into what we do best.
Yeah, it's definitely better for us to play other heroes,
but I think we barely have a problem with Lucio carry either.
It's just the more different backlines we can play,
the more the enemy team has to stay on there because to be able to keep up I feel like.
How do you generally feel about the meta and how it's developing? I mean we saw earlier today in
the MEA that people are very much going away from the vendetta, we saw a lot more tracer,
I want to get back in the mix and then also of course they're mostly focusing on that Zarya,
we've seen some divas there, Moga slipping in. Where do you see the NA region comparing
to all the other regions right? I think at least our team has a pretty different meta
compared to the other regions. I don't think Moga is that strong. I think Dima is still pretty strong,
but she's not like a better tank. It's just if your team plays well, you can kind of win on
pretty much any comp right now. And I think Tracer is definitely back in the meta. That's
my opinion. It seems about right. I think with North America shaping up the way it is,
Who in your mind is kind of apart of yourself?
So is it is making it to the land?
It's probably just going to be else in SSG.
I can't see any of the team making it the ballast.
No surprise upsets, no nothing like that.
Nope.
No.
No.
That's good.
That's the confidence we need to hear.
Look at me.
No, thank you so much for joining us.
Best of luck in your upcoming match tomorrow.
Thank you.
You are most welcome.
Look at me note from Dallas Fuel, I was there taking a 3-0 victory over Lunex who did fight back, don't like the score, fool you.
I mean, control was pretty as close as he gets, hitting the 99-99 off rounds being played very, very close.
But in the end it is Dallas Fuel remaining victorious.
Now SSG and Team Liquid will be our next semi-final match here in the NA region.
So we still have one more to go before we're saying goodbye of the day one.
We have three days of action though, so keep that in mind.
Yeah, we're not fine.
Exactly, not fine.
That was very dramatic, wasn't it?
Speaking of drama, do you need something in your life?
Have you considered joining the facet league and trying to make it big with your team
or fall flat, either way works out, because you learn a lot along the way, right?
Have you guys played FACET LEAGUE? I think you did, right?
We tried, we started. We shouldn't have talked about that.
And you too, can do as they did, and make your way, I think FACET LEAGUE Season 9 is already up,
so make sure to register with your team and see how far you can take it.
You will be facing off against some of those teams in promotion and renegation potentially,
if you make it all the way to the top as we're already seen four of our teams here in NAND and EMEA
dropping down to promotion relegation. I love promotion relegation by the way.
It's the best. It's bloodthirsty. It might just be the most bloodthirsty sport that we've invented
like Bar the Gladiator is back in my run time so yeah.
For our very amusement, isn't that great?
It's great. It's a bit intense, but okay.
Jay! Jay, he's fine, what am I doing?
That's true. Yeah, we're too soft with the double elimination bracket, so we gotta get the bloodthirst in wherever we can, right?
Now, coming up next, we do have our second semi-final, space station gaming, taking on Team Liquid.
That's gonna be a good one for sure, so don't go anywhere. We will be right back after this.
it's going to be all right
energy, energy
energy, power
it's going to be all right
it's going to be all right
And I'll take this feeling higher
Hold my hand and make it dance together
It's gonna be hard for me
It's gonna be hard for me
It's gonna be hard for me
It's gonna be all right It's gonna be all right
Welcome back, everyone. This is
day one of stage one of the
OWCS playoffs, and we're about
to set the stage for the last
match of the day. Jack and
Johnny calling the action to
close us off and Team Liquid
will be facing off against
Space Station. They just
literally played a week ago
and I dare say Space Station
players are very happy to be
playing them again after their
I don't think I've ever seen sugar-free,
unconfident, like, I don't know, down in himself,
of anything, like, I don't know, most confident man alive,
perhaps, not sure. I mean, look, see,
Spaceship vs Liquid, it feels like it's just going to be a repeat.
I don't know if you can even argue to say,
I don't know if you can even argue to say,
I don't know if you can even argue to say,
I don't know if you can even argue to say,
I can't even argue to say argue any different issues. I feel like the vibe of space stations is so good right now and the men is just phenomenal for them like everybody every play in the team like it fits this matter like so well
Admiral gets to play Lucio all the way gets flaky Rico Hall plays off tank just any of them but then Diva and then sugar free kind of reflect beast anyway so it doesn't matter like this team is just so set up right now
Yeah, I think I'm gonna look at this roster. I'm just very excited to see if they ultimately
advance from this series, you know, if they can overcome Dallas Fuel last time, because
I think they played them so close, if we like came down to the wire in that reverse sweep
from Dallas Fuel, that I think it could make the case here that like space station Dallas
Fuel, they're, you know, on par with each other, like they're essentially as good
as each other, right?
Dallas Fuel, I think we consider them number one right now, after that win,
but SSG, what they're capable of with that roster like this, you know, they
They can definitely bring it to even something international.
Absolutely. Now they do go up against Team Liquid, but they had a slower start, I guess,
with a season which, again, keep in mind they did have last minute changes in their roster,
bringing in a different sub-player, so the odds were stacked against them.
And then they also, I feel like, just didn't have quite the right read on the meta as well very early on.
They did make quite a few changes though over just the last week.
They're starting to look better and better. It started to click.
Yeah, I think it's been a slow kind of build-up for Team Liquid, but now is the kind of thing where you need to...
Are you okay?
Yeah, I mean, what?
God, I was commenting on what we're seeing.
Oh, right! I'm going to have me!
I mean, yeah, I mean, was that... Did I just not make any sense at all?
No, no, no, no. It's a very good out-of-body experience that I'll go back to.
You know what they might need to have an outbound experience. Sorry to win this game. There you go. Easy transition.
Um, because I think this has been a sort of build up for this team with this roster shuffle.
I'm like, okay, we talked about it a bunch. Like, okay, it happened, whatever.
But like, now's the time to really sink your teeth in and do well.
There's only two spots. An SSG have looked incredible, like I mentioned, and it doesn't like the Dallas Fuel that are going to drop a single series throughout even clubs as well.
I don't know if that's the time, if this is the time, keep it quick. They're gonna have a chance of getting down to lowest and I do believe they're gonna do that because I think SSG are gonna win this today but I don't know, that liquid, they filled up, they need to come to a crescendo now.
Yeah, it's going to be interesting to see what they bring out this week because obviously they start out the stage playing a lot of losing theory and then it was Juno Brigg and so they're making some last minute adaptations.
Going into the final week, the playoffs week, I don't love changing stuff around again and just picking up a bunch of different heroes and like changing your play style.
At this point for Liquid, it's like, alright, we knew it was going to be a really difficult stage, we're calling into the playoffs, like we just gotta send it with what we've essentially practiced all season long, right?
We can't be making it like last minute adjustments, we practice, we gotta trust our practice and go in and just play our play style, don't overthink things.
I think that is the biggest kind of risk for lincoln players you over start overthinking as a player
What can I do better a lot of what should I do if you start overthinking the game's already over?
You just got to go in and there you
But there might be an ssg's head right like switching things up for last week
So my ssg is like maybe on the wrong trail. You know what I mean? So maybe maybe I like
I might even get them one map, but I think that's all I will be getting them
If we're looking at predictions here, I'm gonna give this one to ssg
more. Yeah, I I too I'm going with this G no surprises here. I do
want to see sugar free here if you know sugar free is going to
play more but data or more tracer feel like a time so far
this stage sugar free is you know really lent himself to
playing more than data with the sariah of hawk here but
actually I'm like all right just woke up with the tracer
instead like what's wrong with just playing comfort like
playing your best hero not a statement about the data
skill of sugar free but I'm just saying like let the let
I mean, today I've shown that we don't need no vendetta at all, you can just play tracer again, never actually left the mid up just tracer things right now we're ready for our last series of the day so gentlemen please take it away.
I'm going to give you a chance
to win this round. Yes. Thank
you very much. So, Johnny, if
you had to give team liquid
kind of an out here, give them
a sprinkling of hope against
SS. Wow. That made it sound
like there's like a 0% chance
they couldn't win. But like
definitely had to give them a
breadcrumbs trail to lead to
the giant chocolate cake of the
Vive, check me here Jaws. I kind of feel like Team Liquid's chance is almost to play more like Dallas Kuhl stuff.
Do you see what I'm saying? It's like, yeah, maybe we can put Syrah on the spot sometimes.
But you know, maybe Syrah has to pop off on the tracer and then infected, you know, you can play the Winston here and there.
You can play the Romatra, and then we have to trust our backline to get some kind of value.
And obviously really tough spot for Escanor to be in.
But I feel like that's kind of like how I'm envisioning a potential really good game plan from Team Liquid.
Like we trust our damage, line up to do great work, and then we're really confident in Vegas ability to swap over to some more flex support oriented picks, right?
And try to get value that way. Am I wrong in that assessment? I could see it.
Yeah, I mean, I don't mind it, to be honest.
honest. It's whether it also comes down to like how long if you've really realistically had to kind
of go with that wave like two right? Do you kind of want to build on something that you've already
done or do you want to maybe throw something in there to see if it kind of works? Team Liquid
obviously in SSG here, winner goes on to face the Valorant Steel in the upper finals. Remember
you only need to make it to the grand finals, going into wins, actually go to Japan so there
Every two spots off the ground for North America.
Luzer here goes down to face Lunex, and that's tomorrow.
They just need to win two matches.
Two matches, it's not too much to ask.
So when you put it like that,
you're like, yeah, Lunex, they're in the lower bracket
right now, but they just have to win two matches
against really tough opponents
that they're not going to be favored against.
But they just have to win two.
Dude, he's, dude, he's, like.
I am coping out of my mind.
That's great.
Yeah, he does inside,
it sounds like the opposite, bro.
It sounds like you're being a boomer, man.
It's like, yeah, just do it, just do it, bro.
I'm just saying like if you're SSG and you win this one then you're like oh we're one match away from qualifying for a lot already so.
Sure yeah like for the for the mental game yeah I can yeah I can see that.
You have to set up yourself mentally that's right Joss.
Facts, every time you load into ranks set yourself up mentally mute everybody don't join my PC.
No, no the opposite.
I'm sorry, but that is never
going to happen because as soon
as you say it like that and I'm
not okay. No offense, honey. You
saying that makes it sound so
sarcastic, man. It's the
Swedish in you know, it's not
going to happen, but you know,
I just want us to like. I'm
going to be like, Oh, I'm
going to be like, Oh, I'm
going to be like, Oh, I'm
going to be like, Oh, I'm
going to be like, Oh, I'm
going to be like, Oh, I'm
honest to like utilize teamwork we all have a better chance to get rank points
all right we all want to rank up so let's utilize some teamwork i know it's
not true it's just hope that emong is on your
theme and he can be the beacon positive that's what i'm saying
we need more emongs always happy we do need more emongs that's true
all right the gates are gonna open why and uh infected rocking the magus
straight up okay buisand we go mecha base is the stage
Malga vs. Malaga.
Yeah, and a little bit of what we saw from Team Liquid last week, playing this June of
League with the Malga.
So this is going to be really tough here for the infected, because you only have this
Koryak Overdrive.
You can use that one time, and then you're going to punish the Malga after that.
So this window is crucial for the infected, when to deploy the Koryak Overdrive.
Wow, sugar-free.
Nice tracking on Eskidor.
This might just be a kill-on to 3-2.
Their backline was so slow and Hawk playing the dive tank that is a Risser diving with the Tracer player. Perfect, perfect stuff.
Alright, now should be the first fight. Handedly taken 33 left and that'll be the point.
I think Hawk probably feels pretty comfortable here getting this Uriza as Infector actually makes a swap over himself into Uriza.
So yeah, little Uriza here in 2026, alright. I'm here for it.
I think Infected is pretty happy with this swap too because historically going back to last year Infected has shown
The gun never fails to win it off
Sounds like you're shooting bubble
You're just shooting bubbles and doesn't feel like it's doing any damage today from people there wow and then yeah
Hawke can just run on in, separate the team, forcing the infected to use a CD, a cooldown CD at that, and now they can just re-engage.
The Emeril is just so devastating to the frontline, Vega trapped, no TP, couldn't get away.
That's another fight win for SSG, and they feel getting out alive.
Yeah, SSG, building percentage now. Looking real comfortable as Ultima is getting closed to this orbital ray.
So tough here for Liquid because you need one of the damage pairs to like really step up here.
You're asking a lot from Syrah to take it to someone like Shagafrey.
Yeah, and Hulk can just ult choke, right?
And he's got the ult, and ult provided.
He's also got Ray, like, it's really tough.
Mrate broke the top note.
Three makes his way into the fight, but already sub-200HP, so has to play a little bit careful at the very least,
Once again, Orc dives into the back line as Eskidor and Vega, they just get destroyed, they just get rolled.
And actually Liquid have to make a decision. Do they try and keep themselves in this fight?
Or do they back off and reset? And it's going to be the latter there.
The Space Station Gaming win another one, and with 85% on board, Team Liquid only now coming up to support.
guess you're doing great job of just scouting out the different sections of
team liquid as team liquid now they're not trying to get for a touch that'll be
Sarah's job here how do you set yourself up to utilize both of these support
openness another push from SSG yeah I love it man just goes too fast bro
force into using support ult early as well S can all use the ray and both the risks
trying to take off but unfortunately if they infected he's then losing that
I'm not sure if that's all TP from Vega right behind him, but that is that Johnny, that is a round and a half, well point or capped, all good, Abrol's there.
He's on level, what's that, 6th of the drive to, my guy's been grinding. 100 to 9% of Team Liquid who just didn't really have a word in that fight whatsoever, they didn't even get a plus, a joke Johnny it felt like.
Yeah, and I love seeing Hulk play this component as well right being able to go for those pushes to begin with which is like
Yeah, I'm just gonna push through the narrow corridors
Want to go aggressive into the team of Team Liquid here. They're showing that
It's not that they don't respect Team Liquid. It's more so that they really trust their ability to go for these pushes
These engages and finds it's necessary to win some of these fights
The 66 and dude that title never fails to make me laugh when I see Hulk walking down
All right. There's, uh, I need two deaths right now for SSG, one on Hawk, one on lethal. Same kind of comp here, four Team Liquid, however,
space isn't gaming, you're actually going to have Hawk on D.Va. This is such a good D.Va map as well, so Team Liquid rolling out with the Orisa, they're going to have to basically fight for the point first.
If they get point-capped, Johnny, they're going to be in good stead, but if they don't, it's going to be a hard-fought effort to actually get back into it.
Yeah, I think Team Liquid are going to be at the tough spot here with their backline because it's G.
I thought they're setting up these angles.
But they want to build these long sightlines and really get the most out of a composition like Kiriko and Juno here.
Like this is going to be the first tank on to the point here with your resustain power.
Dangerous of course, Zero.
They're good.
Let's teleport from here, Pink.
High ground control there from Hawke. Well, the smallest high ground of all time on top of the truck.
They're being bullied off at this point too.
Nice little wraparound to triple three fours to re-fall those that bring us behind him, Admiral falls first. However, we didn't fake to die.
Might be a little bit bad, but honestly, actually, your space station getting used both supports.
Trianon insane off-angle, especially Chalcoo and D-Mec as well.
It's exactly what we're looking for here from seeing Liquid the other is really stepping up.
Alright, there's cap. Yeah, and look at this Emeril, Johnny. 20% away. Both TPS and Ozone seem like we're coming up.
You know, obviously, when they decide to kind of engage her as well, this first fight, obviously, you're going to want to build up your support opening straight away.
So, I don't think it's a good idea to rush things here, necessarily, either.
It'll take you time to go for some of these rotations.
We don't want to try and catch someone on these flank, right? Because all here is going to go for the cost, but the scariest part of it.
The initial shot there by Tree.
Matrix trying to hit a lot of those shots, Arthur.
Tree undeterred.
He's going to put a couple of shots down range, but no immediate impact, no immediate kills.
Now it's Lethal's time to take the skies.
Pretty tough map to use this on though, Jolly.
There's a lot of corners for people to hide behind, but if you're Tree there, and you're
popping your little head out, you're going to get it sliced off.
Lethal with an easy kill?
There's a rally from Vega as he pushes himself back onto the point.
trying to stall for as long as possible.
Even Eskimo will go for the lobby on the sleeping post-array.
Knees him in the face, gets the kill.
Return of the hold by a certain rush here.
And no one's right from the apple,
just trying to keep them in this fight.
Now in fact, they're under the rest.
But they already popped the gold, used the space.
Finn's got a spear in a couple of moments.
Malin, Sugarfree's trying to find the support players
from Liquid who are sneaking around the edge.
Weaves the post from past the shield.
There's a DMC on the support, as he's infected.
Standing up tall over the veteran tank player on SSG.
As liquid now, extend their lead to 75%.
It's just an incredible trading of ultimates back and forth,
because it looks like Space Station had the advantage with Orbital Wave,
but then a great Terra Surge from Infected, I feel like, turned that one around.
And now Space Station, making a couple of adjustments ultraviolet,
back on his signature woolyang that we saw so much of last year.
Hey, next to Adderall's Jericho.
What an interesting hero lineup here from SG.
Yeah, I do like the weekend though, poking down and facing from quite effective, but yeah at least we're just gonna chase. Look at how low he was for so long as well.
Team Liquid here almost taking a lead by less as she's looking for how aggressive they're being on these choke points.
Overtime taking through, another big touch and they're coming in.
Cork4 sees us now, shrugged over the top, ooooh Sarah! Hits the recall just in time, but baby dear friends are getting taken down.
A team liquid with a hundred to zero. Take us to a third round.
Yeah, it's really impressive stuff to get that jump done with Juno Brig there.
There's a lot of respect there. Trusting in fact that you get the job done on the Orisa.
I think we saw this from them last week as well. It's just like, yeah, we're gonna play Orisa into compositions like Sorry and stuff.
like we don't care we trust Orisa to really get the job done and so they're
aware of kind of where infected falls short maybe asset Orisa player and they
work well around it let's look at the stats here three nine and three popping
off really helping his team out here it's like we're trying to claw
themselves back into this Busan
have any confidence builder what's Horton to play here it's it kind of
those obvious at this point as well right we're like you're going to be
playing D.Va most stages. They're talking about Infected Terrible as well. It's almost
like Kallen. I'm going to be extremely good at the Winston. Good on the Dytanks, right?
Aris is definitely in the back pocket there too, but when they come to sit D.Va, definitely
not something Infected is a known player.
Yeah, and like I said earlier, I think Infected is quite happy to get through Arisa
Mirror and Hawke's getting to me to Infect over to D.Va. And as I say that,
I said early pick into Esken or just for free essentially man Hawke and Lenny are
just so good at diving these backlines yeah Esken all got raked limbs from
limb there unfortunately
hey Lucy V but really matters I should be the first cap but I was going to say
that maybe that's quite difficult because you're facing a backline or
something like Juno Brigg right that is where Hawke should be they just prove
How good they are being able to secure picks like that pretty early scouting out the opportunities
Get that crucial timing on pretty an experienced junior player like Escanor has upset
Yeah, you've got a feel for Escanor in some way as well I'm on ping mind you
It's gonna be really tough pink from like
What a Saudi
It's another map, much higher.
Oh, it's from Netherlands now.
Minus, like, a lot better than...
Still higher ping.
Still higher ping, yeah.
Sugarfree with the Polsdorm, they go pretty low.
SSG now, just looking to kind of pick them apart.
They try and make their way through the choke.
Just feel like they're disconnected in any way here,
but they're trying to, like, gather this space,
but it's just not really happening.
The space there's some gaming on this comp.
Again, it feels kind of perfect.
It's perfectly built for this moment in time. This meta, perfectly built.
In fact, it doesn't go down and SSG continues to hold.
If you're team liquid, you can't really make any big changes here as well because
as much as we're talking about space station playing comfort, like so are team liquid here.
Essentially, this is about as comfortable as it can get with this kind of composition,
so really tough for them to gain any kind of ground because they have to go for these
Big push SS tree time to pick up the sugar free. Just as I say that
How do you kill Apple from that range there?
Well, let's go at least gonna
Take it down, but can lethal actually do one better with your unit is one kill
It makes it now just counting down little box of terror surge killing the folks for violence and we more they rally
You so see liquid earned very good
Yeah, I know it's a meme but the damage player stepping up like that just makes a massive
difference especially for your ultimate economy right because you have your emitter player
stepping up here getting a couple of picks that means you can hold on to a couple of
big ultimates.
Stay stationed, look for this next fight.
Now you have the orbital ray, those S can work.
You have the emery ultimate if you want to deploy it, right?
So this enables you to liquid here now.
To save their ultimates and use them in a more effective way.
American's trolling at the point right now and just making sure back onto the minimally on-stitch.
Admiral trying to collect some space again, box the rally.
There's the gold, Prince Daked, he's a good bastard!
But I know which ray's gonna see them through this fight, you gotta imagine.
Trees gonna just jump over the head of a tracer. Still a lot of ulti for SS. They've got a remake and they've got a post-bomb, but they've got no admiral to fight into this win.
So a 99% is what they're gonna have to suffice with for the time being. Post-bomb on through Infected sends him really low.
Self-destruct from Horfa in the middle of nowhere, but already Team Liquid have descended on Infected to make sure he is kept alive.
A great fight when they're from Team Liquid, they have to invest a lot here to hang on to the sound for another fight here.
Vega coming up on this rally, so if you wanted to make some kind of decisive push here, this would be a good time to do it.
You know that the enemy team is going to come up on this orbital ray, and that is one of those ultimates that you don't want anything to do with,
so you almost need to be a little bit proactive here if you're Team Liquid.
Hello, Zara. Sneaky-Beaky-like.
Yeah, Ultra Violet's got the Ultra Ray now as well,
and that just engages.
Quick-sharp, Johnny, but they've left infected on the point.
He's got all sustain here with his ult too,
but he's getting absolutely destroyed.
Ultra Violet pops down the rate,
and he's just overwhelming amounts of ult and damage.
I mean, there's no chance for Heroics for here, 4-3.
And Sugarfree will end this fight with a double.
That backline disintegrating is Team Liquid
and they're going down, Space Station gaining, claiming the round and the map.
Yeah, it's a shame it ended the way it did there.
Because it's looked like everyone from Team Liquid, they weren't the same page.
Like, yeah, we're going to disengage from these abilities like I talked about.
You don't really want to deal with any of those as you're with the Raccoon South.
We think it gets caught and the fight is over before it even really began.
So Team Liquid not able to give themselves an opportunity to
stay in that busan
but for most of that it really felt like it's g1 control doors
i mean look at the scoreboard it speaks for itself
is there only going one time it's kind of crazy actually 15 and one for zera
that's uh quite ridiculous considering how that went three rounds as well
but like i mentioned before i think with how comfortable ssgr in this meta it's like a
I think it's going to be a
35 year old male gamer and
road like fps is just so
comfortable. You wouldn't get
about it. I want to go like
fps. So we got it. So we
got it. Um and
realistically, I think with
how the series is going to
progress to, I think
infected is going to get
heavily targeted here. Um
banning the original even
like banning something like
that we saw in the last series.
Yeah, it almost feels like a bit of an admitting of defeat, right?
It's like, hey, this Lucio Kyrgyz is not really working for us.
Instead, we think that the June of Great is just a better option,
especially to play around in Ficton's hero pool, right?
But SSG, they've already seen it once.
They've played it once before, and so they know exactly what is coming their way.
What was interesting in the previous series last week is that Team Liquid,
from after, they picked Atlas, but they deferred the first ban,
So they could get the Symmetra ban out actually.
So any kind of deferring ban tactic was already used last week.
So you can't replicate and do the same thing here again this week.
So I feel like it's a bit of a tough spot for Team Liquid to be in
because I think SG are all the wiser after these teams having played last week already.
Yeah, it's like that little extra bit of recent, well, it's not just recent,
it's just we've already played.
So like we can just kind of look back on that and go from there.
I think with how Tree's been performing though, to be fair,
If we do go to a Gibraltar, like that, the Hanzo is also going to get banned, another kind of pocket pick of Team Liquid has been a Hanzo.
We are going to go to Blizzard World instead. Now do we see some of like a Sigma here? We've seen a little bit of Sigma over the last couple of weeks on maps like this.
I think that's an interesting shout because of what we consider Huxer a tool to be, right?
Like, in fact, we wanted to bring that out, and technically that would play pretty well in the park.
The question would of course be what is that she wants to play into a SEMA like that, right?
I think this is an interesting pick from Team Liquid because what I talked about earlier about them having a similar
Team to Dallas Fuel, I don't really want to compare them to Dallas Fuel
But if you look at their backline like yeah, we can have teams with a blue guy here there
We can put some carry and it's kind of what they do when you draw up there
Which favors backlines like that as well, right? So this is where I think it's an interesting pick
Because they're enabling their backline to get a little crazier
Hey, I'm down for it to get a little crazy. I'm going to be honest.
Reject Lucy. Tell me what the bands are. Reject Lucy Kirit. You know that back line is going to be, unless there's like insane nerves to Kirito, or there's like another speed hero like Lucy.
I think it's like permanent speed. That back line is not going anywhere for a long time, I don't think. I'm not having this conversation on the broadcast job.
He's baiting it. He's baiting it.
Yeah, well true.
A diva ban for Team Liquid and a Tudor ban for us to see.
Yeah, so that is actually quite an interesting ban here from Team Liquid.
Where do you think they're kind of like angling their tankling to be here with a diva ban here?
Because that forces Hawke to go over to something like a Sorya.
If need be, right?
I think when it comes to off tanks it's like Colt's pretty chill playing, even like the Ram, right?
And if you can see Ram in off tank at this point, but it goes like a main tank type vibe, but Colt's pretty chill with the Ram, played at a time before.
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You like them more or less than I leave these more. I think they're supposed to be animatronic
I think because it's like a theme park, right? So they look animatronic to me. They're fake birds. They're robot birds
I think they're fake. I think they're fake birds aren't real. I think they're fake
Yeah, she not think they're they don't look real bro. They're also moving like this
Like some birds move like that like I've ever seen like those very
Yeah, like little birds they kind of like a little bit more like sometimes. That's why you get this conspiracy theory to begin with.
I don't think that's true at all. I don't think little birds move like robots.
No, not all birds, but like very tiny specific birds. Someone has to understand what I'm saying here, right?
I know, I kind of get it, but I...
Yeah, I'm just saying it's not a question that those are real birds.
birds don't have to be animatronic i can see where you're getting it from but some birds just move
like that that's a remove set like i said i think that's their moves the birds move set the birds
move set is yeah it's like a starting game he's listening to the move yeah okay well i just
think it's because it was a theme park right i think that's that's why i'm like oh yeah you can
have like fake birds or whatever like animatronic see look animatronic look at the mouth look at
Look at the mouth, look at the mouth.
That is fake.
Okay, that is pretty animatronic.
That's animatronic.
That's opening their mouth like that, yeah.
Yeah, that's animatronic, man.
I'm sorry.
I didn't even know where those birds are on the map,
which is crazy.
I've seen them for like six years,
cause even Overwatch League, they were, thank you.
Thank you, Wops, thank you.
Okay, well, there's Nuxramas in the background
and on Lion's Tower.
Oh, they like them.
So there has to be a tourist point somewhere.
like way far back off of the first point no no no it's it's it's above it's above
Goldshire oh right you might see it with the jet back cat looking for a pic here
we've either got a pic or a side of the birds
alright Vega actually look at this backline from Team Liquid here
Vega on the Alari, Eskimo on Kirin yeah exactly what I wanted to see from Team Liquid
Anyways, I'm leading into their strength here.
It's this back line.
It's going to look to just find picks here as space
and station look for this rotation.
So it's a good rotation for space engineers.
They're going to wrap all the way around
to kind of position themselves onto the high ground
towards the point here.
In liquid, less sight lines available for them here,
considering they're cocoon.
The hangar plays into their backs as well.
There is already behind them.
A lethal hole.
Whoa, what that may come from.
That must have been, it's got backs off the walls.
Oh, let's go down with these kind of flying place like this. They need to be fairly quick, but getting through Hawke is going to be so tough.
Yeah, credit to Team Liquid are actually finding the picks necessary to open up the fight like that.
You kind of just have to win out to the neutral. You have to count on your tracer following up on some of the damage on the Ellori.
And those nades are really big, right?
In situations like that, where Sjeet don't play together.
to see if the student wanted back now on that flank or if they just accept the
feet and they're like hey we're just going to go default they're going to be
quick they call don't instantly die it's really scary yeah there's there was
on the flank so it's gonna have to mark there at some point hits to normally
on sugar-free shoulders or the tracer player shoulders
Look out, Johnny! Like, this is... this pace is...
devilish, please.
Okay, there it is. They're way above the rush.
Both of them pulled at the same time. Stamber is coming in too.
No chance for Zera here to use the pulse more than he's got to get.
Tera Surge is good!
Pulse Bob was almost insane!
Zera doesn't get anybody with that one, unfortunately.
Invaded guy goes down before the Tera Surge even detonated.
Vex is on a nice little off-angle, but, I mean, flight's done, unfortunately.
Invaded's gonna come back on the ball here, Johnny, but lethal going down is a good kill!
Yeah, they got a touch here.
They got a touch here. Tracer gets the initial one and here's the ball.
Okay, they're gonna win this fight 4v5 now, or 4v4 roughly.
Storm is coming back in a moment.
Oh, slow.
Solo though, holy shit.
Yeah, can't use it. Just can't.
It would have grabbed Jax, but he wouldn't have been able to get a successful one off with kills on top.
Well, that's 88% on first SSG.
That's an amazing fight line from Team Liquid.
Now purchasing even more time wasted here for this SSG attack, 1 minute 15 remaining and crucial the talk gets a really good grav it on search here.
Big decision to be made here. Do you solo grab something like infected? That probably feels terrible, but maybe the one pick can be a good enough to get a fight win.
Lethal coming up on the server hook as well.
Big slam. Infected. It's gonna roll away. Down to an HP.
Grabbed. Big a bang. Conlow is sugar-free.
Oh, not white.
And some tagging the bow there, but kills Escanol.
Hawke though, not looking the right way.
Tree ends up sniping it.
I'm not gonna snipe it, he was just kind of facing him, to be honest.
Infected, going pretty low.
Grabbed the mega-elfpack. Of course, he's even trying to hunt it down with this overclock.
150 charge on these rail guns.
Just keep liquid trying, just continuing to touch the point.
Infected, eventually slain here.
As Tree whips out the pistol and finds two.
Mad Dumpson to both, but Sugafree on top!
It's Lenny versus Zera!
Zera doing incredibly low as Sugafree just keeps on going!
A triple kill for the tracer and the point cap for SSG!
Think that a qualf!
Lenny just cleaning things up on the tracer!
It looked real dire, like Team Liquid were gonna close things out with a first point hold.
But instead Sugafree, one of the remaining members of SSG finds the pick required
to secure that first one.
It feels real bad here, Jaws.
I mean, 2 minutes 30.
on this very top second point only but you'll take anything you can get after a fight with him like that
as a sheeran a decent standing as well they've got beat they're gonna have rush liquid a little bit
further behind them there but they know they can play time with their ult especially the salari one
just wait for the beat to come out wait for them to rush hit the ult hit the front line or hit the
massive players of course oh well if you die like that maybe you can't do it well vagrant
getting just welcome from across the map is this high ground from SSG is now
free real estate. It's a crucial mistake.
Yeah I can see you're too good with their investment game.
I'm trying to get a little text here.
Excellent, but yeah this might just be enough.
Good name, good prediction from Tray. I thought maybe Hawk staying alive there
might be good for the whole squad they can kind of move the payload for
free but Abra or UV end up going down.
Yeah they cannot save Vega there from an embarrassing mistake dying on the
a lorry like that and now they once more get a chance to deploy some of these open-ups here.
There's this G. They still hold onto this Sunder and this Gutsumerosh but tough spot to be in. You
kind of want to keep pressuring the cart for now. Maybe you can run over infected if you force
a couple of cooldowns out but they're chilling there. They're really scared of this Captain
Yeah, they really are.
Oh, the speed!
Unbelievable from Hawk.
Vega exploding like a star there.
Straight into a black hole.
I mean, that is just disgusting.
Sound barrier 2. Fairly clean fight.
And it was cheap. Only the beats.
And April's got so much charge already.
SSG, they've got this ultarid next.
This is a rush on rush fight,
but Sugarfree's not going to make this easy.
especially fighting this early as well they're going to force a couple of
cooldowns out of the infected surely it's going to make the top even more difficult
probably what they're doing is to release the wave
the three dead, they can kill two, that's great, that's fantastic
and Terasochial the point is going to manage to kill one
Sugarfree still alive and well though that's my main fear right now
Horde going dangerously low off that Terasochial
the infected, the infected still got cooldowns to the best of it as well
the Sugarfree
I just spiked by infected as Hawke tries to make his escape, but Zera chases it.
15 seconds here.
15 seconds to go, Johnny.
Yeah, you have to get lethal into a good position with this overclock, but I don't think you're
going to get there.
This ends now, baby.
I mean, it might end for FZC for all we know.
Someone's got a touch, by the way.
Sugarfree's just okay, mixing with it a little bit.
Joe's in, back out.
Recall already used.
Hawke on the doom, by the way.
Guess another touch, knees felt the rest of his teeth.
Zera hunting with a pulse bomb, finds the sojourn.
Oh, and the pulse. A little bit wide, but Hawke's dead.
A 4v5 on the point now, Tree closing in on this ult, and Zera looks for another kill.
Tree gets up onto the high ground, and with the tank alive, they should be more than good.
The override's gonna get popped.
Oh, he took a free end of getting a kill here, and in fact, the soundbar from Apple's gonna be good.
At least for now.
Hawke's gonna get back into the play, and Tree cannot lock down a single kill here, as he tries to put this ult.
Yes, he ends up going down to the lead of all people.
Hawk now trying to hold it out, onto the point, it's sugar-free and Hawk have done it again!
O.T. taking through, SSG saw two people on the point, just need to deal with this trace with no recall.
Checked back, Kat and Vega coming out on the Alari.
I'm not sure they've got enough kills, Esmeralda staying alive for how much longer, Vega comes back and hits the ult,
the Sun misses, the Widow, three kills two, and Team Liquid hold on!
Oh my god, I can't believe the hell on to the point like that the stall from the allure and the jetpack cat
Get back on the window just
Unreal stall from deep liquid. He might be the very best clutch play out of all time
Two headshots as well, that's crazy
Dude even series popping off
holy
9,000 damage, 17 and 4 as well for Tree, like, he is 3k damage above basically everybody
else in the lobby, I mean that is ridiculous.
Yeah, massive props for the damage person, Team Liquid stepping up big time, and even
saving a fight like the one earlier, right, where Vega went down early and a 4 vs 5
situation, they buy enough time for the rest of Liquid to get back and get some
like honestly really impressive play by King Liquid to stay alive on some of these fights and then they clutch it out like that as just cherry on top.
I just can't believe three got a double on one of them. That is ridiculous. Does everyone look at the across again? Of course.
I think with the how SSG and how aggressive they love to play sugar free as well, giving them an extra lifeline in the bubble is really nice. In fact, though, on to the
to the Orisa again. Team Liquid are still pretty comfortable
running the Orisa into the Zarya, so this time they're going to go for the Rats around.
They'll get to the high ground themselves in this one. But yeah, we saw them play against
this G when Kalk was playing the Zarya on Atlas last week. They're like, okay, well,
Orisa's going to be under a lot of pressure against the Zarya, but the support defective
will play around it. If some is easier to rotate with the
Arisic comps, oh Johnny. I mean rotating through the show cop into high ground versus
sorry it's so easy and look at that case in point paint picture painted there's
already they're getting time on the point. Wow okay tree coming down is not
great though but it seems like it's a attack here. Bob is just so good from
Bulk as well. Look at the energy he's already gathered and infected.
I'm just gonna left a lot.
If there's a swap to be made here, Joss, I think you kind of like have to make it now, right between the minutes left.
It's like either you run to make a firm decision to run to Lyssa into the Soria, and you saw what happened there with the Streetway.
They paint bar back, you take it real slow, they're fine letting team Liquid get a tick on towards the point, as long as they buy enough time for players like lethal to open things up, right?
So in fact, I'm just going to stay with this for Lyssa, and I think that's quite telling for the rest of this attack.
Was it shrinking out to Nito?
Is the ult gonna be better?
Because Nito's closing in on his already.
Just lobbing nades from all that way.
You just generate so much ult charges.
A little crazy.
All the healing over SSG they've done in this defense.
And they're pushing forward.
I mean, you might as well.
You've got Rosh and you basically almost coaxed Team Niquid
into going for an aggressive play when they don't have Rosh themselves.
There it is.
Actually, he's going for an aggressive kill.
Wow.
Oh wait, what? How did he get the kill on his E?
How's that even allowed to happen if you're a SSE?
He's running out of April veils now, and everybody's already pretty low.
They're going to spring ball back into this one too, walks a lot from the squat.
He's going to be on this midi health side.
Oh, Serra goes to the long-laid cold spot.
And it's actually a beat from Avro off the stairs.
Snacks, Bramus is where Liquid are going to try and hold right now against this old from Liquid.
He's getting pinched on the side though by Serra, that lands gracefully back down to Earth.
Use that ult and it doesn't manage to get any kills, but now Team Liquid can go for ult themselves.
Make Salm Barrier from Vega, but you're going to be around the corner Johnny!
3 years of going down, he didn't get infected either, and now they're going to try and pass on Hawke.
He's used one bubble already, but Vega's too low.
And with a boost kill, ult to the enemy Lucio, he's now Hawke and play around this corner with immunity!
As ultraviolet does, they work for him.
Space station gaming, with a minute and 12 seconds to go, just outlive that Salm Barrier and rush.
Such an expensive fight from Team Liquid that's felt like that had to be the fight
But instead big it couldn't get the sound bearer close to help his teammates stuck in the gravity and search like that
That's how the world graph in
Now there you're grasping a straws here really no big open it's on the board for either team here
Obviously car search from effective but realistically how much value can get out of this?
Like three to find a big one snore
They're looking to drag people down from the high ground and maybe pounce on them from
there but I mean, Leap of Snog and he gives me that up, right?
He's not leaving the opportunity, mate.
What's not happening?
All taking a lot of damage, though.
And they're giving them a little bit of space here, I don't mind this, honestly.
There's a terrorist that's made fun of him but the Susan is good here for both teams.
Keeps Liquid alive for a moment there but in fact, he just gets dominated.
Zero with one, they trade but they've lost their tank.
15 seconds ago now is Zera with a pulse bomb only in the bank here for Team Liquid.
An ultraviolet as well, it's got this rush.
Asuzu into the rush here on the point might be what they need here, Johnny.
Pulse here.
Watch out, there's no Asuzu on the field.
Zera adds a recall already, though.
Ball for Infected, there goes the rush, waiting for the tank to reengage
so they can play right on top of it.
There's only another retight here from Infected in a couple of moments
to keep this one alive through.
Pistol pulled out, pulse full in hand.
Zera needs to land this, he does!
The stick is absolutely insane!
Zero kills two, leads them up, roll down, they trade for vaguerus, infected now with good jumps into sacraments to puttish the backline.
Ultraviolet stays alive, walked the same, but they've lost the point.
Oh my god, Zero looks forward.
Zero just clutched up, getting that insane one-clip that also the post-bomb to follow through.
Just when Team Liquid needed it to stay alive on this blizzard world, Zero comes up clutched.
The damage pair for Team Liquid has really kept them in this series.
They're gonna not live long though against this ult combo from FST.
F-ray, ripping, the override.
Did that one last time?
Yeah, that disengaged. It's crazy.
They were so ready for that, but they give it a lot of space. They can even take the time now.
Yeah, so Team Liquidare, maybe they won't flip here.
But Halo's not really pushed out far enough, doesn't find out.
over the bridge though. Oh no he hit you on it. It goes over the high ground, have a
look there. Alright. Ultimate hit him. You can get in there on UV. That'll do it. Minute
and twenty though Johnny. But look at where that like golden box of victory is. It is
right next to that second point spot and I mean it's gonna be a rough push. Yeah
realistically here Team Liquid they'll get the opportunity to set up on this
high ground and space station. I'm going to take a little bit of time here to contest
for that space. Actually, I think there's not quite here just yet. So, space station's
in a control for now.
That crab is crazy disrespectful.
Hey, look at that skyline, guys.
Hey, let's kill this guy. Let's beat him to death, the Pammers.
45 seconds to go. If you lose anybody here if you're team Liquid, it's going to result
in way more time loss than you're happy with.
Lethal goes down though, so actually decent trade to Liquid, so they're going to be able to push on still.
There's no reason to talk to him, I'm not going to be able to trade!
Oh, trade! It's so good!
This is it, this is the final push!
Abril has to do that, he's here to keep them into fight, but he's just getting hosed by Xerah.
He ends up forcing Xerah to recall short, but at what cost?
What gets back on the point here, that no bubbles, no charts, they're alive.
And Xerah's search on the point brings everybody closer.
a group hug from Team Liquid as they complete the map and tie us up.
That is crazy. That's a fantastic map win from Team Liquid to win an Escort map against a team like SSG.
Just a heroic effort from the damage players of Team Liquid.
And you don't need Escort on the carry go, help your team out.
You gain enough ground on that high ground to put your damage players in a position to succeed.
And three and Sarah they capitalized
Amazing before it's an invisible tie-up the series
And then they killed it right? I mean he shot well like one burst into the dome
For an aid insta kill and then that's it. That's done. You can't really afford to lose anybody
I'm surprised they managed to come back there because Johnny how that fight started was a solo grab on the kill
Like
We got the one over here as well!
Yeah!
Oh my god, man.
Hey, one-on-one, Team Liquid managed to just bring it home.
We're going to a minimum of four maps now.
Yeah, that's an amazing map we're near, like I said, for Team Liquid here.
Just get this one early, and it enables you some flexibility as this series kind of progress.
I mean, this clutch right here.
Just a stall.
Retreat, get back. Get two headshots.
I mean, it was to put it
lightly, Johnny. It was dumb
stupid. It's such an eventful
business world. I feel like
there were so many moments that
I'm like, I just want to go
back and watch what happened.
They're like Vegas. I'm going
to grab Esca. Not being solo
grabbed was like just
insane. This is really
nice. Yeah. Tomathan's
going to a lot of finish to
work through. That's that's
for sure. Oh, they're back.
Um, yeah, we'll be now
So now, third map, SSG, not the most familiar situation for them, to be fair Johnny, actually having to pick a map in the series like this.
Yeah, it's going to be interesting to see where they kind of go here, because where do they think their strength lies in a matchup like this?
SSG, you know, last week, they did kind of like favor, you know, more Watchpoint Gibraltar and stuff like that, so maybe they'll go somewhere like that.
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goes great that color scheme is timeless man it is timeless it looks
clean with it right now don't get off of this never look yeah like a
I don't know why the mythic opener, they want to get that like the tracer one
It's good, I don't know what the answer was but I think that's what it's going to be
Alright, well, do you want to get a bit of a different map now?
Watched, Point, Gibraltar, picked for our escort
And SSG, they banned first, they banned Break and TL banning with that tracer
Yeah, this one's still...
He looked at us at a pretty tough time so far on Gibraltar
But again, I think it's another map where you look at their roster
And I kind of want to make the case that there should be basically a control on a map like this, right?
It allows Vega to, you know, have some flexibility if you want to play it, whether it's in here, for example,
that's going to be still in here, but maybe in fact that it plays on Winston and Wrecking Ball, right?
Well, S3 taking them to it here to get another map going like they did last week in this very specific team matchup.
I mean you still have access to some of that high ground right? I think the big question
if you go for the Vendetta route it's just like yeah Vendetta's really powerful but like
you won't have that same level of chord to pressure right? On a map like Gibraltar having
being a tracer to really move that cart forward is crucial in some aspects to get the defense
off the high ground, right?
You want to force at least one member to rotate from the defense to try to contest that cart,
right?
So it's a little bit more difficult when you're playing it in data, but no denying how prevalent
in data-spending the meta is so far at this stage.
Ooh, lethal on the cast, okay.
So this is a kind of a sugar free classic here too, running this sim.
Kinda tough to deal with if you're a team liquid, I mean, very easy if you're free, less so if you're infected or as terror.
But you know, you can just kill these guys, that's tough to deal with.
Yeah, I guess the benefit of these things is you don't have to get that responsibility for touching the quad, just go kill them.
Okay, we see where Sugarfree wants to rotate with his TP, shake the high ground by the-
Oh no, sorry, he's taking low ground.
Yeah, he's just kinda skipping all the spams.
Tera infected, making this a little bit more difficult though, but the longevity for
Tera here is gonna be cut pretty short.
Okay, there's the teleport, it's just a threatening one though, it's nothing more
than just that.
They tried to use the TP, man. Oh, this payload, man. But it's been locked down.
Luckily, though, the end of Kill'n's Era.
Look at the enemy here. Good name! Oh, my God. Insane name.
Now, so much damage. They can punch by and leave him so low.
Easy turn around. Yeah, that name was massively hit by three people.
Two and a half minutes. Hot kill, Stu.
Shepard against the DnF on Infected Tang on a second.
It's a turn of a turn of a turn, Johnny.
It's SSG actually coming on top here.
Yeah, I don't think that's the worst, though,
because you should be able to get another fight here.
You rack up some of that ultimate charge, you see Team Liquid getting real close to the Kitsuna as well as to Sombraers.
You get another fighting chance here, Zero, a lot of damage to deploy onto the Symmetra and D.Va.
Gotta make sure that it stays alive longer in some of these fights.
Okay, then let him put it in for free.
Neonita and a half or so.
All supports looking at ultimates in a couple of moments here.
Tree's taking a lot of incoming damage.
Good deals don't end up coming in and it's over.
Call is awesome, but unfortunately,
let's just do his back ups.
They're always kind of waiting for Trit to get over on.
Vagrant's a dying sound barricade,
but he's now self-destructs close to the point,
but in effect, he didn't treat.
Kind of putting an end to this fight with their ults.
I mean, that shot on Sugarfree was good,
and then, yeah, Infect is following that up.
18 kill for Team Liquid.
Learning a minute and 40 seconds to go,
this is feeling very Gibraltar.
Yeah, I was worried for a split second there
that they get dying with the Sunbearer was going to be enough for Adrenaline to pull the trigger
and have that advantage, but now instead they go all into the spawn with the Sunbearer!
Beat!
Okay!
Beat!
Well, uh, okay, yeah, you made the reset, that's for sure.
That was a crazy beat from Bayer.
Okay, that's what you do.
They go in again, by the way.
You use the Sunbearer, and now Adrenaline has his own.
So yeah, they could go early again.
The cart is moving back, and so maybe they're trying to buy another attempt here to get back
if they lose a fight, but I think that's what we're trying to do.
There's an old H2 and he's in car wash currently by the way.
There he is, straight up, Sambarra comes in, okay.
Whoa!
What's going on?
What's going on?
What's going on?
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SSG that was ridiculous count how many seconds or how many many seconds that
overhelp was there for from Admiral what support oh wow what an engage I think
that's the shortest sound barrier duration I've ever seen yeah actually TP
straight to payload but you're right for me to pull themselves another fight
war is gonna get deployed but your boy apples already dead decent lasering here
The Sugar Breeze shield does it right now.
Lethal kills in baby Diga with that Nade, however they still need to touch this point.
They're going to be able to take off one by one here, eventually Lethal coming up with a kill on three.
Most important thing alive, bit of an odd precarious position for both Escanor and Vega.
As Horde cleans up the rest, it should be a cat.
I don't think Infection is going to try and re-engage.
Yeah, absolutely not.
A very close affair, Team Liquid bringing them to the edge.
Massive crazy team Liquid were pulling off such a defense to begin with draining all that time bank
And it's all through the aggression of this D.Va composition we're seeing from Team Liquid
In fact they're not known for some of this D.Va play, but they're doing heck of a job so far
Depleting this time bank from Space Station and now really setting themselves up for really good G1
So there's the overrides from three old survivors who are going to kind of respond to that one.
Good little Susie, initially, but can't tweak anything more to be hounded down by Hawke.
Look at that, Mitrix right in his face, like, permanently.
Kind of got smoked, to be honest.
Sir, Lethal now pushing them all the way back to this is good pacing for this second point, Johnny.
Oh, wow, they're going to rate what pace this is, an insanely early old.
Actually, it might be right on time for you, don't you?
I don't think that's going to really strike.
Lethal was just destroying him with this AOE dam.
I mean, Jessica Norvega are really low.
That last shot getting eaten up, uh, eaten up, sorry.
S3 swaps over to venture of all things.
Yeah, maybe we should try and help get a little bit of that touch.
This is an interesting way to make for sure.
They're gonna be engaged.
I mean, we're just forcing them out now.
I'm getting loving this playstyle draws.
All sending in every opportunity it goes like.
I mean, you're playing as a Diva, you're playing as a Symmetra.
And so the composition makes sense, right?
Against what SSG are running.
And then just the playstyle of sending it to boot. Just no hesitation
It's giving them an opportunity here to punish us as G that
Haven't really figured out
How to enable this Symmetra composition. No doubt they're gonna send again
Yeah, I think they're gonna
This is a very different tempo
All good TG though, they all made it through
Well, this is on the high ground, it's Zara, it's got the ult as well
Oh, he's got any movement abilities not just yet.
And it's got the little dash to the high ground,
he's got the old one, he's going to rip it too straight for all of the high ground.
So low that he might just die.
Oh, he ends up surviving, luckily there,
but everything ends just to scurry for cover.
Sambara this time for Admiral, he's a good,
infected loam squad, so he'll be able to take face by Sarah,
straight into the mega health pack room,
he's going to be able to survive too.
Three ends have fallen and now the wall comes out from Sugar Breeze,
splitting the fight, and making sure this fight from SSG
It is an easy win. A minute and 38 seconds in the bank is infected. Here's the reset.
I wonder if that fight would have looked any different because it looked like Sarah slightly
whiffed that ultimate behind the boxes, did it not? And so none of that over health was
depleted from Admiral Sambar. And since GD just take that momentum and run away with
it and secure the second point cap, maybe it seemed like we could have held on to
that one if the Sundering Blade had landed, but now instead a minute 15 here on the
time back you won't get close to the kitchen rush both teams here so allows
team liquid there's a condition for engaging in this next fight
teleport around to the 2nd
nice retreat they're just throwing an A to the TT so no he does damage to it but if they want to go for it they're just going to get home
alright really clean fight from team liquid clean engage
he wanted to go faster than Vendetto and that's what they're done and
oh this is a good slag I think
real nice
the bootcamp tragedy okay well that's boredom at least half a fight that's a
excuse to not process right there go max and Amora second point FID man this
is so sad like look out cautiously they're playing because they know the
the dive is going to come in, right? Vega has to somber if they want to go on all of the rest of the beat.
Just a fear! The intimidation factor that Liquid has built for himself here.
Oh yeah, I'm just saying, they're conditioning basically, SSG, right?
Well, maybe I'd rather go for these. She wants to come out of the stage, Johnny!
Oh, oh, from Xerah, oh, from Trick. They go, why?
Although, there's no apples to let them go down, but that is a big shot from Leakville.
Okay, they've managed to break this spawn hole, Johnny, but it's an OT reset.
And you, unfortunately, can't stagger-infected there, either.
Yeah, I think Team Liquid, they're still quite happy because they've drained the ultimate economy off Space Station, and if they get holed onto that beat, even though it's a pretty even forward-to-sports situation, Team Liquid, they're looking for the better fight here, with the Sambar off Iberon to close out this decrease.
I mean, realistically here, the fights in their favor, right? They got the beat, and they connected to him. Straight to the back line, they go, and after all, no chance, no chance whatsoever.
so ever. And then Cera is getting permanently matrixed. I mean that's disgusting stuff. There's
still going to be a fight at this point though with ultrally still alive. 15% as well towards
that rush. Cera goes low, picks up the mini-basket, back and finds just a moment here as ultrally
needs to be slain. Sugabree rips the ult, doesn't find too much but has managed to lock
himself down and kill onto the Kiriko. Self destruct on the point, UD dead. No
Kiri's available now and Tree popping out the Bastion. And there goes space station
gaining bastion to the rescue once again as Team Liquid managed to hold on.
That was one of the more entertaining defenses we've seen in quite a while here on Gibraltar.
It's not often that we see a team play with that kind of aggression but if the enemy
team is not ready for it, really pace it dividends.
I mean I think if you're playing the Symmetra right you're like oh we're gonna be all
tactical, we're gonna set up the teleporter and then we're gonna win this by the
better rotations but it gets to the point where they're like okay we're not even allowed to get
the teleporter off in the first place. Team Liquid really pushing spaces into the edge there and
forced them to be quite uncomfortable on the attack. 12k damage was there, 10k for a tree.
I think they're gonna change anything up here for their defense that means.
I think it's really tough to make some kind of defensive adjustments here. I think you're just gonna have to roll out what is strongest on the default, right?
Because you can't get yourself into a position where Team Liquid, they have easy pickings with some kind of counter watch, hero composition, all that stuff, right?
And so you're just gonna have to play default for now. And then see, I think the bigger question is can Team Liquid replicate that aggression playing on the offense?
I would argue it's a little bit more difficult because you don't have that same level of positional advantage
And so I'm looking forward to see how team liquid are going to play around
The fact that they're forced into this is better essentially with the treasure
Oh, don't do it to him tree
Yo, okay, well
I was hoping there that would it make you get more than five seconds worth of game time, but
Yeah, it should be a little bit more safe like you mentioned, Johnny.
Especially a complete mirror, so sugar-free nose to metro, especially on the defense.
Let's see how the mirror does.
Well, for now, it's like this view here from a different part, right?
Oh, the captain's right here.
Oh, that's brutal!
What? Yeah.
The vendetta is just so nasty against the Deedah, man.
Just being able to slice through the mech despite matrixes is wild.
I mean, this is a complete resam. Bluebox can try an FTL.
It's going to be tough if I speak to work their selves back into this one
In fact, it is poking early here still have to be careful and respect what this is you can do
You don't want to forfeit all this ground if you have to go but standing to sugar-free some data
Are they just giving them the space to I mean they kind of
Because they have blue box for such a long time as well
I would argue that this is the best team Liquid has looked all stage jaws. It's
It's been a really tough stage for them adapting to a new flexport player coming into the mix, they haven't really found their styling.
As of yet, but now here against SSG.
In a matchup where we all thought SSG were the favorites, Team Liquid are living calm, composed,
and setting up their damage very poor success here.
4 minutes 30 on the time bank here on 2nd floor, in the second floor, in the third floor.
It's been a good start, but it's important.
Alright, straight, up in the off.
By last two days at least though. Ended up finding an off angle but yeah just a deeper moment just flying towards doing damage while you met Dregs.
Sugarfree as well son. That fight off with a kill? Oh this stagger is kind of reset actually.
Yeah, yeah. Oh, infected. There was an argument too soon. Like you could have let me climb. Yeah, fine.
I'm just thinking about the economics of staggering diva.
Right, we actually played for that one.
Who knows?
Wait, where is he going?
It's so sweet.
If the game sheet just gets a nade kill, where is he going?
What?
Well, that's unfortunate.
And now I just need to full disengage.
Yeah, goodbye.
Goodbye, team.
We'll go again.
We'll use the sound barrier to get onto the point.
It's going to be an insane fight, guys.
Eight ultimate in the mix here.
Zero coming up on the ninth.
They're actually in.
Okay, they ended up actually rushing first.
Oh!
Okay, the end of actually rushing first.
Oh!
Oh!
It's going to be...
4x4 to B.
Self-destructo is going to be good.
So, no wait.
Yep.
Sugarfree.
Oh!
Both Vendetta's looking to the past the wall.
Oh!
Straight under the payload.
Goodbye, Sugarfree.
It is Sarah.
Kind of dipping him on the Vendetta right now, Johnny.
I mean, this is the second point.
Oh, sure.
Post on the mag and faces for remake.
Like surely you don't lose this one if you're a team liquid. Yeah, okay. Thank you three top deals this tremendous
He's back. He's got no heels. Oh
Surely you gotta kill him man, you gotta kill him. Okay, okay, three ended up killing lethal there. Oh, by the way
Yeah, came in very late there but
That was the last check. Finally!
God, let the regroup right there.
God, let the regroup. Finally came and got here.
But yeah, you're right. Zero has been looked phenomenal so far in this Vendetta Miracle.
There's been a big difference maker here on this Gibraltar.
This team Liquid looked distinctive and leaned here in this series.
Just needed one and a half fight really to push into the golden box of victory.
Space agent swapping over to the Sawyer.
Trying to find a way back into the series.
series. Tree here. Oh, no,
make sure you're here. Only bubbles.
This only bubble. There's no matrix.
That's an amazing shot to almost
handy to double. Oh, it's like
to get slighted in the sport.
Three minutes and 20 seconds to go.
Tree has the high ground and SSG
need to come out onto the point
before being like half HP.
No bubbles again on this area.
Try to punish them. Thank you.
A beautiful time.
Susie by Eskinoff keeps the
Diva alive. Alright, so that
twice in a time for Admiral to get this sound barrier as well, which is crucial as Vega looked to replicate it and get his as well.
Three minutes here, this would be an insanely stout defense from his speed. A lot to ask here out of them.
They're gonna be here, right?
There's the beat, Admiral needs to hear his team. Oh, perfect.
They're gonna try to hit Admiral's coordinates there, but they got a little bit lost without an accompaniment.
Both sound barriers coming in.
Now, Admiral's trying to hold down this front line, but he's getting focused that way, infected.
You'll need a dangerous gambit for the Diver, but without bubbles, Hawk very vulnerable.
Ultraviolet building up towards this Rush 2, and his team Liquid's choice actually now, to play slow, to build up their own Rush.
Scheduled in economy for now. Take that so be careful though.
Right, if the Rush is ultimized in the match, it goes down 3 once again, opening things up with a kill.
kill. Zera recedes the Sousu to keep himself alive, both Sousu's now down. Hawke with the
Graviton surge but where's the follow-up? Self-destruction, the Gravclubs in, he don't
need follow-up apparently. Tree ends up ending his own life sadly with a nade to his feet
but there's two minutes and there's only two meters remaining. Sundering blade over
the head, not needed. Team Liquid on match point. What a phenomenal game plan by Team
liquid to get themselves over the edge here against SSG and go up 2-1 in the series.
A team liquid that lost to SSG 3-1 last week and now they find themselves in a great position
to arguably upset SSG here. Just love the game plan. Look at the stats here, 3-35-8.
Zero, big impact under the meta, 33-7. 19,000 damage done on the screen.
That's a lot of damage.
That is an insane turnaround.
Like you said, from week to week here, 14 liquids,
we knew this season was gonna be slow starting,
but finally finding their groove against NA's number two seed.
Their own match point.
One more, sends them to that upper finals.
However, to face down the field,
However, SSG have made this look very close.
We're expecting big dreams to come out from tree for the rest of this series.
And honestly, arguably, Johnny, even Sarah.
Sarah who kind of outclassed the three a bit there in that series.
Or in that map, sorry, not the series. That was ridiculous.
That was ridiculous, something very neat.
Yeah, I just love how Team Liquid has come alive in this one.
I keep thinking about this stage.
They lost their in-game leader, obviously,
similar with a lot of communication,
a lot of decisiveness about how they should take some of these fights,
how they should engage, and I think that kind of reflected
in how Team Liquid looked early on in this stage,
where they looked a little bit indecisive,
the fights were just quite poorly taken,
and they just weren't paying up to the level
that they expected of themselves.
So far, I'd say that it's been a strength of theirs, really,
how they've approached some of these fights,
how they're thinking about win conditions
and how they're shot calling, right?
So it's just incredible to see this level of improvement from Team Liquid in such a short amount of time to get these great engagements, to set themselves up for success.
I think this has been a really impressive series from Team Liquid so far.
Yeah, it's been a sick one too. Like this series is not disappointed. Finally, stretch of the imagination.
Yeah, Team Liquid wins the role time. So second time in a row here, SSG choosing map.
Johnny, what have we got left? We've got Flashpoint, we've got Push. Where do you see we're going?
I mean it's essentially like a coin toss right because I would have said like oh you know what she you know
If they if they win Gibraltar here like that that should have been their way to get to three
Now they have to go through team liquid on maps like fastball or modes like fastpoint and push I
Think you know it's it's going to be a really difficult point for a first year which way to go here
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This is an interesting map pick though, because we saw Atlas come out from Team Liquid last week.
So maybe SSG that were expecting that map pick from Team Liquid, saying okay well, that map clearly caters to some of your strengths.
But saying that, I feel like Team Liquid as well, they always had a composition of their sleeve on this one.
Primarily because of the infected heroes, you know, being able to roll out on the signal and do a very open fight,
can't play the recon ball stuff like that, right?
And so, I get, you know, coming out of this G, I understand the map a cube, but I'm excited to see what the liquid guy up this game is all about.
I feel like it's going to be more of the same, to be honest with you, mate. I mean, right?
Before this next map, I expect...
Okay, well, I was going to say, I expect a ban of the M-Ray, to be honest, message, but a Sigma ban is interesting.
We've seen this on this map before, so be fair, and these teams have played it, so,
fair enough, like, Kiroko banned for TL.
Yeah, I think you're really respecting the Sigma to come out early, because it kind of like caters against hot Seropu, right?
We discussed it, um, pointing to Blizzard World, we actually did, where we said, it was like, hey,
can I roll out on the Sigma, if need be, and have some interesting match-ups against someone like Hot?
And so, because Sigma is pretty useful on this very first point to roll out, we've got to look at the composition.
Maybe SG are saying we just want to get rid of that Sigma and also protect man here for Hawke a little bit make life easier for ourselves
But then it enables the liquid to get the careful that out
Stop to set up potentially a Juno Brigg match
Juno Brigg a lot of rallying race
We I mean tank wise I mean in fact it's either of them Arisa so it's like a maybe sell a D-Verse possible here for Hawke
Yeah, I'm kind of thinking it has to be the Sawyer, right? Like, the university, like, a very strong hero.
The interesting thing to see here now is if someone like Sugarfree decides to bring out to them meta,
or with a tracer band out of the mix here, like, you're unable to take that tracer duel,
I think the Sawyer probably is the best hero you could roll out with here to start things off,
and then, you know, whether you face, like, a Ramatra, that's fine.
We'll navigate that individual matchup. We're comfortable against Narisa, D.va.
So Sariah seems to have the default pick here. I just want to see like how they enable the Sariah through the play.
I was just getting into the map in just a moment. I just went for one more player to join the lobby and they'll be ready to rock and roll.
Yeah, I think Sariah is definitely the safest pick right now it feels like, especially on these maps where even on the first point it's so...
Rather choke point focused if you're on one side of the point, but you can play around a lot of these angles and a lot of the pillars can be played around it for the Sariah player.
We'll see what they end up running out with I think as we get deeper into the series too
It's gonna be so much harder to ban
And I think if we do go to a map 5 Johnny
The enemy band has to come out some point. Okay, get away from tree. I just do
I just think it's so powerful and the hands of trees. Well, I think how many clutches trees had already
It's good. I'm surprised it's not bad to hear
Yeah
But the thing is like you're just up into a different matchup, right?
It's just like, oh, do you want to pay a tree soldier?
It's like, how fun is that?
Good luck, bro.
Yeah, fair enough.
It's like, it's not the most effective band.
So like, I understand.
Like, oh, maybe you want to like shut off the momentum,
that tree over see when I, you know, like embrace.
It's like, there's no great answers.
It's just like, OK, if the tree is on it,
then you'll be feeling his breath.
Yeah.
Maybe facts.
Maybe facts.
All right.
Let's have a look what Team Liquid in space
that she gave me want to roll out with.
See, they're more like real, you know?
They're like, actually real.
But like game real is what I mean.
You just said that a video game goes real close.
I mean, it's real in the game universe, bro.
All right. Yeah.
Yeah, they got unlike the crows, which are definitely machine.
They are very.
Yeah.
Yeah, the bird tendencies.
Oh, my God.
There's so much great.
Dude, they go crazy for land.
Well, you just wait until we go to Japan.
They go crazy for it.
Yeah, we know the crowd is goes wild in Stockholm, but what about Japan?
It's awful man. All right, it's gonna be a Rissa gaming here for infected and pork as they roll out with the unsurprising Juno bring back lines
Okay, so ignore what I said. It's not going to be the sorry at all instead
We some air here the only difference here lethal being of the soldier and treating on the Emory steel here, so
Baby Steal, you're getting what you're saying here, so Tree is just phenomenal on the M right here, so that's what I care for the Zodran just yet.
Alright, Sarah.
Overambitious there, you didn't want to stay around too long anyway, you heard the Brig Bash.
So, Light is going to get cut pretty short.
Did you end up getting hit by that?
I mean, you can't let- you cannot let your Chino die like this.
Ultra Violet is one, okay. Good whip shot, he's going to die.
Ultraman is so low, how does he know that though?
Oh my word!
Xerath's still doing a lot of distracting, but Eskido actually goes down.
He's used sugar-free will, people.
The race to kill the backlines is won by Lenge.
I mean, that's unbelievable.
The Ultraman doesn't die there and then sugar-free.
Instead comes a clutch with the beginning of Esken himself.
And that ends up being the major difference.
Talk about small differences there
in securing a fight win that is going to inevitably set you up better here.
Heading into this second fight.
This goes to show how small the beef cus can be.
Okay.
I'm really just looking at these traces. I think this map, especially, is gonna be just down to Zera and Sugarfree, and how well they can get onto the hook that time.
Both of them closing in on Pulse Bonds.
Sugarfree a little bit further ahead.
Here we go.
I'm telling you!
I'm telling you!
You need to ban this!
You need to ban this Embray. It's ridiculous. His nade accuracy is insane. Okay, well, there's another name and
I rose down to pistol
Ridiculous, you've thrown into a small room. Okay, we're going to get belly from the name
the fights off
This is
Unbelievable the amount of value is occurring from these nades. You got about it. I
Mean we can't get any Embray because of nades. I mean are we at that point? It's ridiculous. What he's doing is ridiculous
If you don't see the last three maps, do you know how?
Do you know how?
Come on.
I'm on the Nile.
I'm having to Nile.
Well, so he's going to rip his ult first.
That's where we can all be shot off.
That's the right body shot they are until he becomes so low.
Oh!
Smarty footwork though.
From the soldier.
And Sugarfree down to full spawn to Vega.
Looks like the fight might be already done though.
Sugarfree yet with another.
55% of the team liquid, Orbital Rave popping.
Sugarfree with three.
And now looking for a fit.
Looking for an ace.
face. This is Vector's view. That spear's been together way
nice little spear into Sugarfree. I need very weak.
Zero and I'm knowing Sugarfree is very low, but Hawke is there to
save the day. Sugarfree and Hawke coming up big as the
support arrives. Okay, now the heal is pretty fucked up.
Wait, this is really good stall though. Because this allows
you to at least disengage here. In fact, it's going to
get back and you're going to get another fight here with
your Elisa back in the mix. That's actually crucial
seconds bought by Zero and Vega. Obviously going to be really tough to re-engage against
these ultimates, but fighting chance deal.
Alas, they're here rallying for me. Terra Surge used lethal, oh, horde. I mean that is just
a almost impossible spot there for Team Liquid. Both the backliners couldn't move through
that Terra Surge, so they end up getting isolated and one dies to it. Team Liquid, they
lose that first point as a space station get one on the board they're gonna have
great advantage though team liquor for the next fight yeah I'll have to see how
spaces and navigates around that obviously the overclock could be really
powerful to kind of chunk through that damage and so far great sign here Jaws to
see sugarfee and lethal start to pop off you know Gibraltar was all about
tree and Sarah but now the spirits are showing that they're working while
there's the orbital ray advantage Escanor so it's a point over to
Sugarfree and Sugarfree gets both supports again.
I'm telling you, it's the battle of the tracers here.
And Xero does him one better.
I mean Xero just got three off the tail end of that.
Sugarfree's got another.
Just put him in a cage, Johnny, and call it WWE.
Like, he's just two, just God tracer players
going at each other.
Liquid come out with a win
despite losing their back line to Sugarfree
and cap the point.
Four of Hammer 101, except it's tracers.
To the side, it's tracers.
You would say no.
Anyway.
Oh my goodness.
Clean liquid air.
In control entry.
Pass this over while actually.
And this could be a very lethal spot to pop this early because of these tight corridors.
There's a lot waiting here.
Be careful there.
Oh, great.
Probably not.
As everybody tries to enter the fight.
And they are swiftly escorted out.
No ID unfortunately.
Goodbye.
Goodbye.
Tree dying.
Doesn't matter.
go down pretty late here you'd imagine. Shouldn't be able to get away. No, there's the kill. Alright,
Team Liquid extending their lead, putting space station on one fight to this point.
Okay, he just wanted to have Vendetta to get a spawn a little bit earlier. I was like,
if you played Tracer Band, you're actually insane. That was going to fill out a font.
But yeah, SSG here, 85%, they're building up towards this orbital ray, but
I'm really worried about them walking up. Lethal finds a good pick though.
Only for free, yeah, they had a trade in, but still Team Liquid, they're finding these
fights early.
The pro activity, to be fair from both teams, doesn't really come up big, they're gonna
pressure point, it is only Sugarfree and Hawke and they've got no support, they're gonna
be able to come back in now, eventually Ultra Violet made his way back for all, they don't
even touch, the orbital rage, yeah, just goes to the winds and that is a wasted
ult, sadly, that's Team Liquid, tie this up.
And that very small ultimate could make a big difference.
It's like this is a team liquid that's up 2-1 in the series.
Just giving them a point like that is going to sting.
Space station have to find a way to clutch up here now without that crucial ultimate.
Sugarfree has this pole spawn though.
So we could just look back into the tracer duel here.
So he's going to pop off first.
the point there is the rally for Vega. This is where you can turn the fight if you're Sugarfree right now.
Both the risks is to win it out on the point there is the rally. Sugarfree knows you're scared.
He knows who to target. Stick to the shield and a nice dodge from Vega. He's not going to pull for that one.
Knew his time was maybe numbered with a pulse bomb from the place of play.
Sorry, SSG doing a cap at the point there, but Eskido just lays down the raid.
They know they've got that at their advantage, considering SSG used it in that final fight on that last point.
Team Liquid are wrapping up this fight, are they getting some last-second kills?
A little bit of extra stall, for that one.
We take those, and Hawke gots out of the Orisa here, swapping over to the Sauria
that I expected early on to start off this run, but I'm saying enough, it's not
I'm expecting him to be infected on the Orisa too much and this should be Hawks more comfort here.
Changes the dynamic of the composition a little bit here.
Infected has to be careful against the high-energy Zarya here, of course.
But I think that this first point actually, a lot of room for the Orisa to operate around to protect themselves.
Looks for picks here. Big tower surge. Oh, the Stiglander in the bubble!
It was a good connection, literally there, but Hawks quicker on the bubble.
Rally for Abril pushes in. No support hold for C.L.
Now, we're gonna have to sustain Brutus's fight. Another nice time bubble there in Ultraman, and he was getting chased down.
Ah, Syggefree again, just comes out big. Two kills for Tracer, I don't know if I must make that a third.
The point flick is gonna come through, that's a C, but Johnny, Seem to be at 95%
May the 96th, they need one fight.
Yeah, and the win condition is pretty slim here because you're obviously on a timer as soon as your resources cool down or gone
That's going to be the ghost signal for space station to push the momentum utilize the strength of psorias beam
Team liquid have to be really careful here. They get has to rally
Oh
from Sugafree, Faker goes down mid rally and he might have just done it again. The override protocol
looking pretty disastrous there from Tree sadly. Just backs himself out of the fight knowing they've
got one more in them now. They've got Orbital Ray but surely they can win this one if they're SSG.
Orbital Ray and the Graviton Surge, I mean come on. They should be the fight. It should be an
These guys are doing what they want to do.
Orbital Ray, Graviton Surge, Orbital Wave, but it catches Begum off the tail end.
Sugafree gets another couple, and okay, they made it work.
You gotta touch all my goodness, I almost freaked out.
99% they got the cap, but it doesn't matter.
Zerikil's lethal, but they got Pine Gisario on the pointy.
I'm just like, hang on a second here, surely Zerikil is in kill five?
Okay, we're all good.
Another point for SSG, that's two and one.
I respected him, I was like, you know, maybe he can do it.
Maybe, maybe, maybe we can cook a little bit.
I think it's really interesting to see if Infected is going to swap over to something like a Ramakra.
Shy away from this Orisa, towards the tail end of this one.
It just finds a cross-map pick on two Ultra Violet.
Probably combining with Trader a little bit.
Uh, what?
That was, I've got a lot of the blue there.
How did UV die?
Was that like a spear and like a nade or something?
Yeah, must have been.
Must have been.
That's the kind of like, the first pick that Team Liquid really needs for the composition like this.
Oh
Oh
Gonna move forward now with this overblock
Waiting now
That almost right from a still a little bit early and safe. I actually help you secure the point quick shot
Lethal now looking for an angle to the 3dm rate for the terror search is gonna drag him back in
3-5, too much, especially this round of being popped by SSG.
Gareth most post one, he's the recall, should re-rate on the other end of it,
should re-get out of there. 97% for a post roll of his owns, they find the split.
SSG now pushing forward, Johnny, to try and fight Straglet.
Yeah, they're still fighting this one, in fact, they have to be careful here.
This doesn't drop too low.
Hit the break.
Find him up for a reason. Liquid.
Could we engage here?
Can I find a pick?
They need to push through the free-dome.
Oh, Pulseball goes wide.
Pops skipping a jump for three straight over the pulse doesn't he take a lick of damage
Yeah, things are settling down here
You really need to go for a full leap
Unless...
Oh, oh, try to go down again! Tree again! Finds a trope in a pick!
It's a rally to Vega, misses the sun, bash on Sugarfree, hasn't got a pulse bomb so killing the Brig is gonna be nine impossible
I push back on point team liquid here at Space Station Gaming, run away with the tail between their legs
Just a little bit of extra stall here, they're really hunting for sugar for you as well.
They're up to pick you up.
He's eating sugar free.
Did you see that?
I mean that was crazy.
Yeah.
Joe, that's good.
They're going to get that very big pick here, 65% very interesting for space engineer.
You could argue that you just have to win this one fight and then push off.
You should be favoring the next one.
So space station essentially in a one fight, shooting at you, map to cheer.
I love the early pushes here, 15-liters, but...
Space Station, that...
Oh, Sugar Free gets directed by Treach!
I mean, Johnny, this is...
Try to fight for this point!
They have to push without your tracer player now!
Grab it on, search and attack, pocket the hall, wait you to space it!
There it is, now you can launch it into Free!
Oh, but Treach's gonna come through, hopefully winning the fight with just that!
Infected, falls over!
A crumpled heap of molten metal on the ground!
And Zera gets stiffed out and one-clipped by Sugarfree.
Yeah, that's about all you could do with your team, Liquid.
Really tough fight to win there.
But 80% here,
Zera's gonna have a late spawn,
he's a case racer, so we'll get back.
But this is where SSG
have an opportunity to go for an aggressive play
with the overclocked anti-government search, off the point.
They're gonna have to touch, right?
98, 99, there we go.
Oh!
Okay, own C.
All good.
Orb for Raze gonna come in,
legal status by the way.
Pops, bombs, good though from Zera.
The Graviton's always thrown down the last second, it leaves a light above and knocks them down!
The Graviton's search setup from Holt Bear was just divine!
SSG, take the map and we're going all the way to a map 5, Johnny!
Oh my god, what a rollercoaster of a series!
Going through a distance with an absolute treat.
For one moment it looked like Team Liquid looked to be closing things out here.
Answer of awesome but space-sessioned, they called themselves back into this one on the back with their damage players.
Doing a tremendous job and that's sorry I swapped.
from hot ended up being the difference maker infected. Couldn't stand up against Asariya doesn't want to match it, of course, but still a strategic decision to hold on to that result rather than look for any kind of alternative.
I'm going to go back to the
last one. I was such a nice
grab like literal parting gift.
An Isle. Not an Isle. The
terrorist's dragged him in. He
bubbled, but he got stuck as the
bubble got deleted because everybody
was focusing it. So the
terrorist damage was going and
then throws out the grab in
front of him. To make sure
that he could use it in this
Mab5 a banger between Team Liquid and SSG.
A newly invigorated Team Liquid as well.
Slow, understandable start for the team,
but they look good here in this series.
And Trey and Zera especially on the DPS really come into form.
Yeah, Team Liquid have looked much better this weekend
after losing 3-1 last weekend.
And, worth remembering, this is not an elimination match.
So if you lose this one, still have an opportunity tomorrow against Lunex to keep your major hopes alive.
And maybe we'll have to see these two teams battling out once more.
Dallas Fuel, I think we are favored to qualify for the major itself, but SSG team Liquid,
I think expected to be number two, number three team in the region here.
I'm really going head to head this final weekend to qualify for the first major in Japan.
Yeah, I mean, look, this top
for right now is so close. It
feels like we see if Lunex can
kind of fight back in the low
up bracket, but at least the
Dallas fuel SSG and TL. This is
shaping up quite a finals quite
a bracket for the weekend. We
got some good over the next
two days, man. It's what I'm
getting at. Yeah, we will do
and I mean, look really top
You're afforded to play a little bit more of a Risa, maybe this kind of meta is more
off your ally and you can have some more pop-up on the tracer, right?
So even though Lunax looked quite rough against Dallas Fuel, maybe tomorrow I guess it seems
like these, they do have a little better chance.
Ooh, Runosophie is the pick, no Esperanza, kind of expected considering what tanks we
have in the pool.
But where do you go if you're team lick with bands wise hey you could protect ban your Emory if you don't ban a DPS
Just saying
Yeah that is a great question where do you go with this one
I feel like the tanks have been kind of the story of it so far
The support bans are generally the root you go if you want to have more impact in the game
And we've kind of noticed two different ways of playing so far
It's been more comfortable playing to LucioCurie
For team lick would they prefer the Juno Break and we've seen them
He's so effective with that kind of so far
I feel like the stuff they don't Gibraltar with that a question like you can't really replicate that on any other map
I was kind of tied to the favorable defense they had on that map
So maybe you don't want to mimic that playstyle
Little bit similar to Surabasa you can essentially just run it back like you did on Surabasa
Okay, yes
You win, Dross. You win. I win. Thank you. Thank you. There is value in respect to banning the Ember from Tree.
It is, man. Like, look at the value, look at the damage, look at the nades. I mean, it's crazy, man.
Sorry about that. I like this too. I really like this. I think Hawke, with how much he's been able to do against,
against infected, has been quite understandable. If you want to play the Ember, if you want to play any kind of front-to-back overwatch,
It's been tough out there for Infected.
Yeah, it really has been.
And especially with Sorry out of the mix too,
you know, they kind of like throws any Sorry on the Vendetta stuff
out of the mix as well.
So maybe we'll see the Tracer players just pay Tracer
and share away from that Vendetta.
It'll be interesting.
This is such a great map if you want to throw out
Gremchen things.
Like how many times have we seen a first fight rollout
in Runaas Aapi with just like one slight adjustment
to the hero, like, and whether it's like a Pharah,
which obviously is not going to see paytime now because I don't think we're going to see the Vendetta being paid here.
But like if Hawk wants to roll out with like an unorthodox tank against infected, this would be the map for it.
Okay, the Pharah does have some weight to it though.
because I think there's error like the the vendetta has been doing numbers for you so I think there's a chance that
she should run on fire. She's sugar-free gonna play Pharah though like out of
everybody was a weird angle. Maybe the zoom. Yeah I feel like even the sim might be a little bit better.
Dude you're so clubby. I'll pack a gaming. New Open Division team name
idea out back again. There's probably already a team called back. No, but this also makes a lot of
sense too with the tracer. Those needed on this map as well. Yeah, and to kind of replicate what
they did so well earlier, right? We praised Hawke and Sugarfree for doing a great job combining
the Hawke and the tracer. Maybe we can run back something like this on this map.
Oh, wait, whoa, wait, is this...
A Genji for Zera is a little out of left field.
Cassidy, Genji, Orisa for TL. Completely different backline too.
I mean, these are completely different comm. Completely different ideas and how they want to play.
Kind of taking the Cassidy for sugar-free, and then so Zera can play a Genji.
Which is kind of insane. And they're going faster too, despite them not having the Lucio.
Yeah, I really want to get on top of the enemy hitscan player.
Obviously you're going to forfeit some of these side angles because Trigger 3 will dominate on the tracer.
It's all about the front line.
Continue to enable your Genji to get on top of the enemy team.
I feel like this can be more like front tobacco watch if they try.
Apart from Xerra, I suppose he's a bit more flank on the Genji.
It's back to the initials for now.
Anything's easier.
There's no need to rush things here.
Or some mistake.
Oh, that's bad.
I did that.
A little bit too far away.
Kind of again, yeah, waiting for that opening pick.
I know a lot of that is going to be on lethal fresh this G-Wide.
Oh.
Treasoner in a little bit of trouble.
And look at the effect of health bar as well.
Just Halt kind of distracting.
They do trade tanks, so still winnable.
Both DPS are available, both support up as well for both teams.
So all on again, Lethal trying to find a nice Railgun shot
and then maybe Shigelfree jumping in to try and get the X.
Oh, ultra pilot goes down there.
And of course, it's three.
Yeah, the Cassidy cannot have favored when the tanks are off the battlefield
because Lethal only has access to that one Railgun shot,
which is going to be difficult to get value off.
Even with the Cassidy, he cannot roam, play cancer-free.
It's a pretty good time being protected by the Juno at the break right now.
They're still going to be tougher spaces, because they kind of have to set up to be on the side angle.
Let's reverse with this overhaul.
Open the look at that!
That is an insanely aggressive push.
And they're going to rally too!
Two person stun, post bomb thrown out, did not connect.
Team Liquid, that was a heck of a fight.
I see Vega as well bashing initially through the disruptive shot to focus lethal down.
And Johnny, that's checkpoint anything.
Yeah, I wonder if they thought that Team Liquid was further pushed ahead
that the sidelines were longer, but leave them instead and just go
pushed and shoved into a locker instead
with that overgrowing. Team Liquid, they have the ultimates here as well
I hope so you can sooner or not be on the other side of the space as you game here, but Team Liquid
could run away with Team Liquid, trees?
Oh! Oh, it is so low!
He couldn't escape because there was just rubbish on people who were looking at him
Good space to ultify, oh god, goodbye!
Well, that's a good buy-ask-an-all plan.
Yeah, but it's still good though Johnny!
You know honestly, you can say these kills, the payback is to spot this,
how Barra comes out, Blade from Sera, okay the Blade gets shot down,
but yeah, I mean that's the Genji in the big 2026.
You pop in the Blade to force the beat.
67 meters though, that was a great push by Team Liquid.
Serah's going to swap over to this tracer now, recognizing that Genji was a bit of a surprise pick there, as I mentioned earlier, to just slightly shift the playstyle of either team.
The team liquid, they have a lead and an orbital wave. I'd say it's still safe, I'm pretty comfortable if I'm team liquid in that situation.
Oh yeah, all the time.
Oh, they're going to turn down Sugarfree on the side.
Looking for X-ray there, but...
Sugarfree again!
Like, he is in and out, disappear like smoke.
Self-destruct to Hawk.
But I mean, they're good, right?
That's already too good for Sugarfree.
Invaded Karr is solo-kill on his own.
Sugarfree looking for yet another one.
Zera goes down to Hawk.
And he saved the day.
This is meet-rish now, Game Pressor's cheat.
I think you can definitively say that sugar free is carrying right now the way securing first picks like that team liquid
They were in a great spot with the orbital ray, but the back line just torn apart
They get dies early on the back of sugar free's amazing tracer play
That's going to allow us this position to get back into this series and now lethal great sightlines for this orbital
It's not you gonna do it some again surely not okay
Good. This stuff is free. Game of Tracer out of there.
So Johnny, they're gonna get a checkpoint here.
Overbought from Lethal to extend this fight.
Terra search from him takes at least one HP.
And Lethal on the high ground, sniped Deskenore.
And it's all falling through their fingers.
Team Liquid, this game is gonna honestly get away from them.
If they're not careful here, there's a beat coming up for April.
There's an ultraviolet rush coming in as well.
And they've only got a rally support hold for this next fight.
But they're reaping the rewards of Sugarfree clutching up in that fight prior.
Of course you were gonna have SK favored with the Overclock like that in an open battle field.
And now you earn your double support ultimate already having taken the lead.
The ripple effects of Sugarfree stepping up on the Tracer is having big results here for the G.
Zera? Oh. Losing the Heat of Rotary Battle 263 right now.
There's the Rocks, there's the Raleigh. And now it's sound barrier on top.
I mean Sugarfree's in such a good spot as well. He's so close to this post.
The rally is good Johnny, but it's good to back out wins.
There's the beat. The stick lands because of what he does.
As Sugarfree just wrecks the limb from limb.
Pay attention to this one. This one's about to get uploaded to OBSO Good.
It's just so good. 15 player kill streak Johnny.
Domination. Almost over 100 meters. They're at 91.
Sir, you had a good time on your ball, buddy.
It's my game now. I'm stepping up thing time on the tracer.
Two of the best tracers going head to head here in North America, but Sugarfree showing who's king.
Alright, Zeratite, 5v4, lethal, Suzu, as they move up.
Hope's caught a self-destruct. Sugarfree's already in the mix.
Scaring Escanor and Vega like it was a horror game.
I mean, infected as well using every CD in the book. This is 127 meters, Johnny.
No charts here for an Apple Thera, but they might not need it.
Overclock for three, looking for something. Oh, it finds lethal!
They don't even see him. There's a couple of frames of a headroom there.
Zera gets straight as, however, Johnny.
The book gets stolen here.
Hold on. I don't think so. Just, okay, your turn's here, gets two, gets three.
Oh, you can't... What?!
Surely not! Surely not!
They're gonna go down as well!
You can't let this happen!
You need to make these fights clean, and you need to not use ults, but...
A space station gaming adoring every single resource I have to deal with.
I mean, that's another individual play that drains an ultimate from the side of Team Liquid.
Do you think Infected wants to deploy the Terra Surge?
In a situation like that, it's just SSG conjure up mechanical plays out of nowhere, out of thin air.
That's when they're searching a great position here on the rune sappy
So provide build up that get sooner rush
And the position on vantage here
Rally popping up in 10%
Killing three regardless they've managed to come out on top
Raze disappeared as well, Johnny, and now they're gonna have to use a rally to sustain them through this fight.
But of course, this is to have an answer.
Sambar connects with the ground and they're in trouble.
Escanol 2 going extremely low as Hork tries to dive on his break.
Escanol down, infected follows the player, kills straight for Hork.
And...
...two minutes to go with the bot in Team Liquid's territory.
And no ultimates on the side of Team Liquid here either.
there's no tactical adjustments to make in this one you're really on the back foot
in this one it's all about individual pace and needing to step on the lethal
it's over trying the first one you need a miracle here from zero and three you
need a miracle inflicted goes down and they can just walk this bot in these
deaths are late in pictures not coming up for another three seconds or so and
it's not gonna get back to the point for another five there's three meters
ago. There's two old press SG. They're trying to get back to the point. Lethal's
ripped the overclock and every call down through takes has already been used.
Porky's going dangerously low but still the back pocket remake in his possession
could just hit the remake straight on top of the point. Infected dodge is the
box but cannot dodge the mice at the hands of Lethal. Space station gaming
walking this one in with a kill on to Tree to finish it all off. Space
station gaming missing accomplished map 5 with the win.
Oh, what a gigabanger. Oh, what a gigabanger we retreated to both teams trading blows map for map
That at the end of the day space station gaming
Once again coming out on top over team liquid that did it last week to do it here again
And what individual plays from the likes of sugar free in that one?
That was kind of space station gaming once these step up today
two words technically one word sugar three two singles I guess 26 on the
tracer lethal 23 and two yes the game the game gets a lot easier when you're
damaged first pop off and make sure that you can use your ultimate a bit
more wisely. That's just what you get, like you win free fights by the Tracer player coming
up clutch. You win free fights by the Soldier player hitting railgun shots. Makes the rest
of the game so much easier. There's a sugar free doing what it does in a series like this.
It's just unbelievable what that, what the effects that has on the rest of the team.
I mean Team Liquid still gotta give them credit for how much they leveled up in this
a series very close to winning
a map five, right? And for a
team that, um, had a rough
regular season going to a map
five versus SSG who looked this
strong. This bracket is going
to be bangers after bangers. I
feel Johnny Dallas fuel and
SSG facing off against each
other in the final once again
that again should go all the
this is a top four. This. It's
just so close this stage. Um
and there's many two spots to
go to Japan and at this point in
time, I can't really tell you
who gets it. I don't know why
the story thoughts. This is
uh, so what do you think? Um
honestly, I feel like the
It's a really tough one to summarize.
I think what I really took away from that is
Liquid's initial approach was just like,
we can grind his out on mechanical skill
versus just the she being like,
I'm gonna be very strategic about it
until that didn't work.
And then they just like threw that playbook
out of the window and I was like,
you know what, we actually can do better mechanically.
So that's where you see like lethal and sugar free.
It's absolutely farming at the end there.
just you know it was it was a really good series though I think what we see
from team liquid if our lunax gaming right now in that lower bracket oh you
not feel super confident about match tomorrow like this is a different team
liquid I feel better about both of them I feel better about both team liquid even
though they lost I was like I was the best of what you place over the stage I
feel great about space gaming just like sugar free just dominated and set up
the rest of the team, of course. Everyone did a great job. So, yeah, we went to map 5,
we drew through a banger, and I feel better about both teams.
That's good. That's good. Overall, very positive takeaways here. I think there's just so
much in this, in this series, which goes to show why both of these teams, they can
be the top in the region, too. You know, like, they do have the pieces that are
required for just that. And even though they have, like, different, not different
reads on the meta, but they definitely have different styles in the way they're playing.
Even if they're forced into a comfortable position, they are then just still capable of just grinding
it out on pure mechanical skill. Yes, it, it does feel that way. Like, just trigger
on a tracer on the last map or just when he's on tracer, just mechanically, um, just coming
up with connections to the cost ones, like mechanically just succeeding over and over and over
just connecting with poles onto Vega, whether he's rallying, whether he's not, like, it takes him doing, it gets good rigs.
It really does. If you're going to get bashed, you're going to get whip shot, you're going to get, like, the show's going to face you.
They can drop the poles, they can drop it in the wall, etc.
He still always manages to get a stick. It is crazy how, like, omnipresent sugar-free is when he's playing Tracer.
And, yeah, SSG look ridiculous.
those two maps that liquid took they were good they were exceptionally good
especially that there's a world that push was insane
the map in general was just so entertaining
it was a really good map
I'm sorry it was all tree that map like he dominated on the M-Rate and when he got banned, hey, that's the G-Wap
yeah let's actually hear from Christopher from SSG who will be joining us
for a quick chat Christopher is in and how low welcome and congratulations
Why is there a teddy bear sitting on the floor?
Oh, that's because he knows the door open.
Is he okay?
No, he knows the door open.
Oh, that's a draw.
Oh, that's a draw.
Love that.
Teamwork makes the dream work.
Okay.
Well, now on to more important things.
Christopher, this was a close match, a very close series where just a week ago, you
guys were rather dominant going up against Team Liquid.
Obviously, Team Liquid is looking much improved within just that short time span.
What was the difficulty in today's match? Why do you think they make you fight so hard for it?
I don't know, like, I saw every game this season, okay? I've come away from it and it's been closed.
And I'm like, well, how is that not a free-out? I actually never quite understand, like, we're losing Stephen Merris on Gibraltar.
Like, how, okay, guys, how do we lose physicality? That's the real question.
Like, surely we fall hold of them, guaranteed, and surely we don't lose on time, but...
I mean, I think one thing that we spoke about when in the Dallas game was like this kind of, you know, how to deal with adversity and a little bit more that so I was really pleased when things again start to go wrong that they recovered the way they did, you know, the players like map five was was the best map of what I've seen this play this season.
So I was like, I was really pleased with that.
Yeah, dude, this is serious is just a straight banger from start to finish.
Honestly, honestly, I feel like SSG always bring us as bangers.
So yeah, I'm happy with that.
I'm hoping the Dallas Fuel one is equally as good.
How do you feel and how do you stack yourselves
and some of the fuel up against North America,
sorry, EMEA competition right now?
Because you know, just to mine, they ended up winning last year
and they're talking a little smack about NA recently.
Yeah, I mean, we've been scrimming a lot of EE.
We've been scrimming VP every day this week.
And the scrims has been back and forth.
It's been pretty much 50-50 the whole time.
So I think we're on par with EME8 at the moment.
Okay, what do you think about Korea?
On par with Korea too?
I mean, they're probably the same,
maybe TM on number one
and then everyone else is somewhere in the middle.
All right.
Christopher, I think it's funny you talked about
how you looked at some of the series you play this stage
and you're like, how did it end that way?
And I kind of felt that way
when I looked at the Dallas Fuel series last week
and like so in June it's hitting
pulse bomb after pulse bomb.
But then, you know, you ended up,
I think it was Rialto and wasted fight with a sound barrier that didn't go your way.
It was just like, okay, well, that feels like a one in a 10 times kind of scenario where things don't go our way there.
So I see what you're talking about.
I do wonder, like, reflecting on a series like this against Team Liquid, you played them last week, you played them now and it's like a five map series.
And I think there's opportunity you can play them again, even like a third time later on this weekend.
How what do you kind of like take from a series like this on a very short turn around potentially obviously we're playing the last few
First you could qualify that way, but how much do you take from a series on a Friday if you have to pay them again?
Maybe on a Saturday or Sunday? I
Think you take a lot actually I think every time you play it an official against the team
You will hyperanalyze the bands and the picks and the strategy and I think like even though the series was closer this week
I think we had a much better understanding of how to play against team liquid today
And I guarantee it's the same for them, you know, I guarantee they went away and they've
reviewed that series for others and then they're like, oh, well, and this like so both teams
like, you know, like their Gibraltar was clearly miles better than it was last week.
Last week it was a free win for us, whereas they've realized it was a free win.
So they've they've kind of evolved that and the same thing will happen if we
end up playing in grand finals or wherever it ends up being, you know, like both
teams will hyperanalyze that there will be starts become like mind games in terms
like map picks and stuff like that.
Yeah, I mean, tomorrow, right, you're going to face up against Dallas Fuel.
That was also a very, very close match you guys played.
If I remember correctly, that was a bit of a reverse sweep.
So, you know, good memory.
Salted that one.
Fun to remember.
How do you feel you're stacking up with the learnings along the way,
facing them tomorrow in the upper final?
Yeah, I mean, I think I think it would be the same thing, you know,
I think. The difference this week is we screamed Alice a lot and they've, well, they've obviously
screamed us a lot because that's how scrims work. So last week when we played them, it was like
elements of, yeah, to kind of predict and stuff, whereas this week we played them in the official
last week, we've screamed them all this week. So I think the prep will probably look slightly
different for both teams. But I also suspect that both teams have kind of had their eye that
that we're going to play each other at this point either way. So I think, yeah, I don't
know, both teams will be prepared for that and convinced.
And on an emotional level, what's the vibe like? Give us a vibe check, because you're
literally just one match away from making it to the first LAN in Japan. That's a big
deal. What's the mood like in the team?
I'm going to go find out once I join the Discord, but I think it's going to be
I mean, it's going to be pretty good actually, I think, you know, if this was, if this happened
to us last week, maybe we would have lost or whatever. And I think that like everything
that we looked to improve from it, from a team mentality point of view, from a communication
point of view, dealing with adversity, losing maps you shouldn't lose. We did it all so much
better today. And so at least my vibe is immaculate, I think is the kids tend to say.
Yeah, I as a kid can confirm that.
Yeah, and I suspect the other players will also be Immaculate. Immaculate, we love to hear that.
Yeah, losing is learning, insert rainbows. Christopher, thank you so much for joining us,
best of luck in your match tomorrow. Thank you. Great to hear from the coach,
getting some insight. Yeah, it is really those close years, right? Because you don't hold
anything back like both teams have to show how much depth they actually have. So there is a lot
to learn about your opponent and also about your own team and your own approach. Now Dallas Fuel
meeting SSG in the upper finals tomorrow but we're going to keep things up in the lower semi-finals.
Everything on the line for those two teams. Man I'm just hoping that it's going to be
map five after map five after map five after what we saw today. Yeah seriously. This might
I'd be one of the closer friends we've had in the regular season of OWCS, right?
It kills that way.
At least now, I hope, I've like fingers crossed, like everything right now,
that it's going to be fairly close, but the Lunex Liquid game will tell a whole lot, I think,
how strong the story is.
Yeah, VP Casilla in the EMEA, of course, also going to be a banger,
then we're going to have a twist of minds.
Can they continue in a dominant fashion of losing a single map thus far,
all-stage we're going up against the Geekay so we have a lot of great matches coming our way of
course we're kicking things off tomorrow with elimination matches in both regions and then
we're going to find out also already tomorrow which teams are making the grand finals before
we're closing it out for our playoffs on Sunday so much more action what's a big takeaway here
for you Johnny after what we've seen oh what's a big takeaway um big takeaway put me on the
I just love so far, okay, yes, I totally, okay, well, I want to make sure it's a good one, okay, I could just throw out like a random statement, but I just love that in 2026.
Now I'm happy to say that we're way bigger of a statement than it actually needs to be, but I just love that we're seeing so many different styles, because I feel like that was something players talked about going into this year.
It's just like if you just play through your own strengths and your own roster that you have at your hands
You can truly win with so many different kinds of compositions and we saw it from Dallas fuel today
And we see him Tim liquid make the necessary adjustments and SG are just like you know humbling with the sugar-free tracer once more
So that's my big takeaway play through your strengths and don't be a meta conformist
Noted. What about you Jack?
That's a really good one. I've got okay
I just for some reason a thought cropped up in my head if Johnny was gray
He can have like a dark gray like little streak there and it would go crazy style look like a evil villain
But an Overwatch related
Takeaway is this top three is yeah is the most competitive. We've seen in a long long while
I hope lunax makes that like a top four if they take team that would extremely close
Yeah, the international competition means that Japan is sick for like the level of competition to
it seemed if just a mind-saving upholtering, it's going to be really tight.
And that's something that makes me so excited, right? Because you're looking at Loonex, you're looking at the players in that particular team,
they've been grinding for such a long time. We've always seen them not quite making those playoffs,
but being somewhere in the middle of the pack, just so close, just like one or two matches away,
Victory is a way from making a playoffs and potentially making it to the international competition
And this is their opportunity so it's great to see that grind paying off and for all the teams to play it this close
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that concludes the first day of our NA stage one playoffs and result wise no
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