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I'm broken hearted and I'm moving on
I'm broken hearted and I'm moving on
I'm broken hearted and I'm moving on
No we never choose
I
time to come true, what can you do?
Well, baby, no, look at you.
Look at you.
Let's go.
Look at you.
It's gonna be, it's gonna be, it's gonna be, all right
It's gonna be all right Energy, energy, energy for all
It's gonna be all right
It's gonna be all right, it's gonna be, it's gonna be, it's gonna be all right
I
I'll be taking you to my imagination
Get into my head and talk tomorrow then
Tomorrow then
Tomorrow then
I won't wake up from the dream I had since I was just a kid
Cause when I'm old and I won't look back
At what I've lost, just what I thought
Just what I got
Let me take you to my fantasy Let me show you every scene I see
I'll be taking you to my imagination Get into my head and talk to my own man
I've been wondering these places, trying to find where I know I belong.
and I've seen too many faces, now I know it was him all along
So don't try to deny it, you know we ain't living here all alone
When I'm with you, I'm fine, I just want you to hear it
So that I know, don't get scared, don't be afraid
I'm lucky when you're by my side
Let me stay and I'm alive, yeah
Every time we touch, every time we touch it feels like
Every time we touch, every time we touch it feels like
Every time we touch, every time we touch it feels like
I've been wondering these places, trying to find where I belong, and I've seen too many
I
I just want to hit it so no more, yeah, yeah, yeah
Got me feeling, got me feeling
I'm lucky when you're by my side
I'm lucky when I say it, I'm not like it
Every time we touch, every time we touch it feels like
Every time we touch, every time we touch it feels like
Every time we touch, every time we feel like
I'm only perfect.
I'm only perfect.
I'm only perfect.
I'm only perfect.
I just need breath so I can laugh with.
I'm feeling a little chiseled.
I'm feeling a little chiseled.
Wherever I'm going, I'm going to guess it all.
This is the life I set.
I feel every little thing.
I don't think I'll give no man a scratch if I just find it
And I find it on my side
I don't mean perfect
I just mean real so I can let it go
I don't mean it, I'm just a lie
I don't stand by the way
I don't mean anything at all
I don't mean perfect
Just don't hide, I'll say I can't
Every little thing I can't
I don't care to know about those friends
Just find me, and I'll find you
At all costs, I'll get it
I don't need a word of advice
I'll just be friends with someone I can love
All I need is a chance to decide
I'm gonna just say I'm gonna get it
I'm gonna get it, I'm gonna get it now
And they get the touch, here comes the game, Psycho with the Rift!
Oh, buddy!
There's the Cavalier, looking for the track off the pickup post!
Oh, there he is!
Empty got through the rescue.
Twisted mines, looking to close out the series here, and take over the Joviant course!
I've said it so many times before, and he'll do it again!
Your OWCF 2025 World Finals Champion!
of the game. Welcome back to
the auto WCS stage one of
playoffs. This is our third
and final day. Our teams in M. A
and DMA are fighting for the
regional crowd. And of course
the last spots to our first
LAN event in Japan. I am
Zoe joining me are my good
friends, Jake and Matt. Oh
I know VP they're trying to get camped to a land event in the worst way trying to prevent landed from missing one after
I just kind of makes it to everyone but geeking it's proven to be a little bit better than people expected
Yeah, let's take a trip out memory lane Jake yesterday what transpired yes with the pines they
Sweat the opposition but geeking push back like that was a quality loss if I've ever seen one
Yeah, I mean I'm honestly though. We are grasping at straws. They got
Like, you know what, they had some competitive fights,
like individually the players could hang.
But as a team, they weren't that close to winning a map.
Like it was pretty close at points.
But in the end, Twisted Minds is number one with the bullet.
And, you know, it's a really decisive moment
throughout the course of the series to prove that.
And for Geekay, you know, they're just taking their turn,
taking a tough L to Twisted Minds.
But it's not a place you should really judge a team.
Comes down to the matches like here today
against Virtus.Pro, a rematch.
EK won it last time, but it was about as close as they come there in that upper semi-final number two.
That's right. And of course, absolutely no one's surprised. Twisted minds are finding themselves at the grand finals.
They already got their tickets punched to our first LAN event of the year, which will take place in Tokyo, Japan.
The Champions clash. How will our reigning world champions fare against international competition?
In particular, of course, I'm looking at the Korean teams. Matt, how do you feel like they're stacking up in current form?
I think they're going to be totally fine.
I mean, I think you'd have to look at them as, you know, the favorite or one of the top favorites.
Like, I think finishing inside of the, like, they're not finishing inside of the top three,
I think would be a little bit surprising.
I know as we head over towards Champions clash, but Medica obviously changed balance patches,
new hero, right?
So a lot can change between now and then, but this team is going to be fine.
Come Champions clash.
expect them to try and go back to back. Yeah let's talk about the changes that we will see in the game very very soon. This week in fact season two is going to drop
and with that I'm going to see Sierra in action. Potentially a hero that could look dangerous in the right hands. Jake what do you expect to see or who do you expect to see excelling on a hero such as Sierra.
Yeah, from what we've seen so far from her kit, I mean, you've got to think maybe she's a little bit more natural in the hit scan role,
but some of the mobility tools on this kit, you know, I didn't make it possible that we could see some flex DPS players giving her a go and maybe playing on those flanks.
So I think it's going to be a really interesting hero to just see how it fits in with the cast, see what strats the top players can play.
I think people being able to like grapple to this drone is going to have a lot of playmaking potential here for Sierra.
the game, but it's not going to
be a good idea. Yeah, we
truly never know, right until
like these heroes get into the
game and then you know our
pro players get like their
hands on them where there's
sometimes you think a hero will
be extremely strong. They're
not. Sometimes you kind of
think the opposite, right? But
her kid has like a ton of
mobility. It'll also I think
kind of depend on like how
that rifle plays out right
with the, you know,
gaming, uh, no accuracy with
the sustained fire like type
like in the mix, like really just trying to like, you know, assault rifle slashes and G type of style.
So I think that'll definitely impact how she's playing and who she's playing.
I'm definitely very excited that just in this stage, we've seen a lot of utilization from the new
heroes they were added. Five heroes being added, like all at once. We're wondering like how will
they fit, how will the teams fare. And Emery found the way into the meta, right away is like a
must pick and then data is picked a lot. See a cat spotted here and there so you know our
team's definitely not shying away from implementing new heroes as soon as they drop and see they
will be giving them an edge in the competition. Of course we do have still some weeks, some weeks
in fact time before we're heading to Japan so plenty of time for the teams to make things
work. Let's take a look at today's schedule to see what's coming our way on our last day
of the playoffs here we are kicking things off in the lower bracket final. DK and VP this one
is for everything and they're of course trying to get that last ticket to Japan but also they want
to get a shot at becoming our stage one champion in the EMEA that comes with a hefty paycheck and
a coveted title. I think in that stage crown though here, Drake is going to be pretty tough
with Twisted Mind down there, I mean, I think both of these teams are like, they are so
named on this match and then whatever happens in that second one, I know with how good TM has been,
it's just kind of like, they're not really not focusing on that, right? They obviously
want to qualify and then see if they can get that number one seed sealed away from
TM, but TM seems so locked in at the moment. They just look indomitable, man, and you know,
it's like, we do our best to cope and define the hope for some of these teams against
against team but team hasn't been touched at all this year. They have not lost a map and so they
have played these teams before and it hasn't been pretty frankly right we're desperate we're looking
for like team fight wins we're not even considering the possibility you could take a map much less
a series so you know B.o.7 might be a little bit quicker with Presumption. Keep extending the series.
If you make dinner plans, Twisted Minds got your back.
They'll make sure you make those plans.
Now, I think if we're looking at keys to victory going up against a giant is Twisted Minds,
you really just have to come in with aura, you know, come in with good skins,
which is essentially what gives you aura, such as these here.
Elysian, Keeper, Crowdfunding, Mega Bundle.
I mean, it's the dazzling astrological anything.
Yes, please gold always a good look. Yeah, that's that's myself. Well, look, I think yeah
You sold me on the skins and make sure you scan the QR code here for the giveaway
But if we think of these heroes would be played to take down twisted minds, you know
Well, I'd love to do a little check of everybody's glass here because I know that might be some silly juice
I don't think we're gonna see any no we're getting life. We were running hard. I mean
every once in a while, that's true.
Yeah, and leave it up to Kellan to bust out the Rhinelard yesterday.
Did it work? I mean, yeah, for one point.
They did lose the map, but that Rhinelard, so nice. Absolutely loved it.
Would have even looked better with this particular skin.
Now, let's dig into our first match, though.
It is, of course, an elimination match.
They are fighting for the spot in the grand final,
and most importantly, it is a rematch.
So, we did get to see Virtus.pro and KK play in week three.
And that was a very dominant victory for Virtus.pro.
Now, starting in the playoffs on day one though, they played a really close game.
And it was basically just like, sorry, a tracer all the way to the final match.
And then it was VP who, I don't know what happened, but they felt like they need to bust out the Moga Bear.
And they ultimately did lose the series.
Yeah, it felt like a bit of desperation there in a series that was incredibly close.
And so, you know, with the way some of the individuals were popping off,
like Psycho had a crazy game live, you know, you really have to look at VP as,
as, you know, getting a chance to go back into the lab, talk to the coach,
make some adjustments we heard about just that in the interview from yesterday's win.
So for VP, they're going to come back into this revamp and ready for their opponent.
And for DK, it's like, I don't think they're going to throw a curveball.
He is going to be straight up the gut exactly how they've been playing before, right?
How to eat Tracer and just give him the resource.
And that's going to be a tough one to match.
Tycho is going to need to come out strong, especially the supports for British Park.
And I have to be very aware because they are going to be hunted in this game.
Also, I think Aison kind of hinted at it a little bit, you know, in the interview yesterday,
and then you can see it through their gameplay.
They were really aggressive yesterday, right?
Like, you know, never really kind of moving back, always trying to go forward,
take that position that I stole in Psycho. I think they probably thought maybe
they were a little bit too passive at times against DK, not on the same page.
I think they're gonna come out and go like, you know, full-on aggression today
here against DK. Yeah, and I think he really like nailed that, right? Because if
you're going back to that semi-final match, VP's defense looked stellar. It was
always the attack that kind of fell short. So if they can clean that up
and play as they did yesterday, then my found themselves in a much better
That said though, yes, P.K. suffered a 3-0 or rather a 3-beat down yesterday against Twisted Minds,
but, cabinet, it was against Twisted Minds. As much as you can look good when going up against some P.K.,
certainly did that. I hope AlphaE got some like, I know, physical therapy overnight because he tried to carry it out to you.
Like, AlphaE played on another level. Like, you really put the work in yesterday.
I mean, I think that's like for Virtus Pro,
the scariest part about watching, you know,
yesterday's games and then kind of like,
you know, having this match again today,
is that like Alfie was unreal yesterday playing Tracer.
And like, in the first VP game, right?
Like, Psycho was like,
or is like one of the best games I've seen playing.
And they still wasn't enough to get the victory, right?
So if Alfie comes out
and kind of continues that really strong Tracer playing,
the lab has been really strong on the M-Rate.
Like, you're gonna need another crazy type of game
from Psycho and Kev to kind of hang.
And I think that's really where you're probably worried
if you're Virtus Pro and for GK,
how do you deal with that aggression?
If VP's gonna come in and play more aggressive,
it's really on Haku and Finn that kind of keeps the odd alive
through a lot of that aggression
and then kind of battle back.
Jake, backline definitely something
that we're looking at, that GK roster is something that,
I don't wanna say criticize,
but we always put a lot of pressure on them,
saying they're the ones that need to step up.
We know what to expect from the tank, we know expecting from the DPS players, but it is the
supports that ultimately will change the tide for this team.
Yeah, I think, you know, those ultimate temples, right, being able to get those fight wings
when you have this portal to advantage is just crucial, right?
We've seen how easy it is sometimes for these Zarya comps to kind of skate away, you
know, pop a speed boost and just disengage from the fight, you know, get the enemy
to completely waste ultimate.
So it is not an easy task for supports to find the perfect moment to pop their
and get those decisive flight wins,
but it makes the world a difference.
You look at a player like Ziad,
I mean, look at him last year,
we're talking about this guy is the best tank in the world.
He's on Zarya, very high skill expression, Kerry Tank.
And so, you know, for this team,
it's like they gotta enable this guy, right?
They gotta like really set him up for success.
You know, this should be a strong point for GK,
but Aiznab looks like he's got very capable hands as well.
Looks very comfortable this meta.
So definitely a clash of types here,
both teams really are gonna feel like
they deserve this qualification spot,
but only one can win, only one can come to Champions Cloud.
Yeah, if we're looking at predictions for this one,
I felt really good about what I saw from VP
the first day already in the semifinals.
It was a close match, right?
And it just kind of fell short at the last hurdle.
I do think I'm gonna give them the edge in this one.
I expected another five map series though.
I expected anger with VP coming out on top.
Yeah, I hated predicting this one
because I think you can literally,
you could literally say anything here.
any pro triangle team versus triangle team. Either either team any permutation
terms of like map score I I win with DK. I just feel like you know Alfie will show
up again and I've I've been starting to warm up a little bit to this like
support line we've been seeing them start to kind of put it together so I'm
gonna say DK pulls out a really close one yet again. Yeah like you Matt this
is a really tough one to call you know I think this one is about as close
to a 50-50 as you're going to see here in the EMEA playoffs, but I had to go with
Virtus.Pro. I think I just had to give a little bit of faith. Kev is going to
break the streak of missing lands. Landon is going to hold on to that streak of
making every land. I think this team has the right mix of players to really
succeed in the high pressure scenario. As long as they don't over complicate
things, just play that mirror match. You're going to have to take GK head-on,
not try to be too crazy unless maybe the Bans let you kind of find those
edges here and there. But I think VP are going to be a better team despite
losing in the playoffs, I think they're gonna bring this one back and come to Japan Champions Clash.
I'm very excited to see what both of these teams have in store for us in our first match
off the day. The winner moves on to the grand finals and punches their ticks to Japan. Let's see if
it's gonna be Geeky or VP coming out on top guys. Please take it away. Thanks so much,
Sohee. And to get into this, our starting map, Dijang Tower. That's a pound for pound
Zarya, Miramatch, kind of a map. Maybe you could throw some interesting bands in. We have
I've seen some teams willing to take P meta heroes out of the lineup on me, Jenny.
Yeah, I mean, maybe there's an opportunity here to give her the Vindetta if you're, let's say, DK, right?
That's something that we saw Psycho go towards yesterday a little bit more when they kind of underdubbed the aggression.
I also think Jake, like, playing into a little bit of my predictions, like, when we talked with Quartz yesterday,
he was like, I'm not surprised that DK's was able to win against VP, right?
You talking about how DK's looks like slightly better, maybe, in scrims as a blade.
So, this is one of the scenarios where VP will select map 1 and then actually, oh, it said that the GK map picks, so maybe the first asset was wrong.
Yeah, maybe because they come down from the winners, maybe that makes sense, right?
Yeah, they actually make sense.
Yeah, because they lost their twisted minds instead of a weaker opponent.
They made it further through the winners, right?
Exactly.
They already beat them, so it would be weird if VP was in the higher seed.
Yeah, so they get rid of the- so it's their map pick, they pick this map, and then they also get rid of the Juno,
and then the Pharah ban on the other side, that probably tells you that VP wants to probably play some of the Psycho Vendetta.
Yeah, I think, you know, Vendetta and Chaser, both interesting options.
Alphie has pretty much stayed away from the Vendetta, it's really hard to argue with his individualism on Chaser though,
so, you know, I don't think you could criticize it.
I do think we saw in the Twisted Minds match though, it's like, J.Woo on the Vendetta,
It wasn't like so individually flashy and dominant
But when they have those big moments when they pop a carry rush when they dive in having them and data alongside that rush
It's just explosive right? It's not solo kills. It's that team follow-up damage that really adds up
So curious to see what psychos eventual choice is gonna be
Whether he wants to take that mirror. I mean leaving alpha. He a little bit unchecked on the server is also quite scary
Definitely pressure on Landon's Kiriko to be able to chew away that tracer
We know Alfie loves to take those bubbles loves to blink anus a little pause to start thinking. Yeah, I'm not saying anything today
yesterday, I was like, yeah
This is the only one and we were here for a bit
But it looks like just gonna pause off the rip where yeah
I think you do worry right where like if you go vendetta if your VP and you're kind of like playing around this hero
And you're not able to kind of like make that aggression pay off and healthy use just running unchecked on tracer
with how he looked, I mean he was crazy yesterday against TM, I mean in a loss, but like you
can not let that happen, it feels like if you're Virtus.pro, I have to like honestly, you got
to watch Landon's Caricol, I think he's really the player to watch when it comes to the tracer
matchup, especially if Psycho isn't on tracer and isn't going to be taking those on us.
Honestly, even when you both play tracer, it feels like at this meta, you're both
trying to get on the enemy backline, enemy hit scan, even pressuring the enemy Zarya
at times, you know, marking the other tracer, it's kind of a losing battle.
players that are gonna roll out it's gonna be a key mirror masses game so this
is what we got a lot when we had this series the first time right it was
basically these comps locked in the entire time regardless of the band says
I know for DK they ended up taking that last series in a map 5 of banger we'll
see if they can do it again today and remind you guys this is a spot in
Japan on the wine right top two in the region the winner of this goes on
to play Twisted Minds. It's a high snow that's gonna be a follow-all used
It's gonna get to the point, but he is quite low and the bubble down needs the clan super low and has to play this one a little bit slower
He came trying to press your eyes on those steps back into the plate trade is in on the lab to the seod now
Has some free reign on point hurt his pro board players alive
They might still be able to find some pickups into this one
I'll go and try and be resilient trying to hold on to the point and since it they'll be able to do that for now
First split goes to geek a but to close one and he'd be stay on the map
Yeah, but I think in that close quarter scenario though, like you're probably fine losing your M-Ray to get rid of the other teams' Zarya, right?
Especially when Ziad is so charged up as everybody will now be back at full strength.
You see, VP moves into the point here, Jake. They gotta be worried though that Laptop and Alphie are on the flank.
Graids coming in, once we're down on both spots. Fixer though, just lovers of HP, falls as well.
And now, man, keeping people top-dubbed, first poke, and he gets desperate now without any support to sustain them.
He can't hold on to the point, even gonna stall out these kills just a little bit, so getting every extra second off the clock that they can,
strong start to a crucial game for both of these teams.
Virtus Pro, they gotta wake up real soon.
Well, VV decides to go in, right? They kinda get back there a little bit earlier,
and I think the, you know, unlucky part for them, right, is Labd is a little bit slower coming off the spawn there on him,
right? Doesn't have the speed, and he actually ends up coming in behind them just able to push out so much damage there.
With Alfie is now I still trying to work through the choke is the odd pretty charged up Alfie with a pulse bomb
He was so good with this the other day. It's gonna be VP. They're gonna rotate to the point
Now he's tennis in the back line trying to force of these key defensive tools out of plenses out
Oh, honey's good
Rated on
They're staying healthy the later better grab
And another clean up now, DK all over this series, Virtus Pro.
Looked to be dropping out of this first round, and quickly, I mean, not much left to say about this round.
You're coming in with like a low ulti fight, but this retake can be very difficult and still energize.
And I mean, Lambda now gonna have this overlaid protocol.
Kev hasn't even been able to build up towards one, right?
He hasn't been able to put down a significant chunk of damage as he gets to the high ground.
He's gonna get Alphi break the space.
So look at this Haku there as well. Just trying to put some pressure down.
On the Emory, from VP, it's all a silly lab that he's gonna be able to go in with his overriding proto-fall.
Now, a little bit of a duel in the sky. Nice job from Ken, though, maybe trying to turn the tides.
Yeah, he needs to find at least one more into this one.
Cyclin' Picks are gonna have a lot of work to do to stall.
Alfie, ult bump does go wide, but Ziad just standing tall on the point.
He's gotta come touch in on the OT.
Alfie, he's leaning, Alfie. I mean, this is pretty much a beatdown for Alfie here on control point one.
I thump back on the wrecking balls and stall things out for now, but it doesn't seem to be really any hope in this round
Zarya at 100 energy pull it to be on point. Good luck. Yeah
I mean this is a little bit though like when I was talking about my prediction like
Kind of what I was worried about if I was vertus pro is that Althea was so good yesterday
If you bring that into today like psycho, you know
If you want to watch like a just an unreal game psycho in the loss against DK was unreal
and like you need him to kind of recreate that magic again today Alphie 13 and all in the first round
3600 damage on tracer. I mean that is crazy right the tracer out damaging the M-Ray
I mean that is something we do not see very often
So tremendous first round there from Alphie and then also Finn being able to stay alive on the Curie
No, that's that is that is a recipe for a lot of success for GK
Yeah, the early pickups from Alphie
You know set them up for advantages in these teamfights and when the ult trade comes in all it has to be is clean for geeky
They already have the edge
Now he takes these bubbles and then he is so threatening in the back line
You don't want to be shooting those bubbles on the crazy
You kind of want to just stall them out when Alphie keeps fighting kills. I mean the first seconds of the team fight
I mean, what are you gonna do? Look at this head?
Now the team sport comes in the rest of the day following in behind the tracer
Kill was so quick just now the point opens and should be an easy flip for DK to start the map.
It also kind of like has doubt like Alfie getting into the backline like that with the bubbles and stuff
has downstream impacts on the rest of VP right because like Iso has to use bubbles on like the
you know whether it be Kev or the supports right so then doesn't have him for himself
doesn't have him psycho to go as aggressive and just not having that huge Zarya bubble to
kind of go up onto the tracer is really impactful as you see psycho here trying to put some
Pressure down onto Labdas, Kemp does fine things, so that is a great opening thing.
It's huge that he can put that pressure on him the 2v1 because the rest of the team
low on resources and they can't stand tall, so Psycho's turn now to kind of take over on the
Tracer. He really doesn't get that kill quick. I mean, keeping both Aluccio and the Emra engaged,
nearly killing the Emrae is more than good enough to ensure the win for the team in the
main fight there. So VP, get a quick read flip, and that's a massive one because EK
Don't really have the ultimate for how fast we pick up their home.
It also just feels like we're like, you know, confident, momentum, right?
Like they needed a fight this deathly.
I mean, round one was as dominant as you get from DK as the now maybe it'll be VP kind of settling in.
It's like a line talking.
And just a little bit quicker than Alphie, now turning around, marking his opposition.
Pressure on Alphie, he's going to be low here, needs some support.
Oh, the bubble comes in, but it's too late.
Out of blink, takes us, breaks the bubble and finishes him off.
So, Virtus Pro, they talked about this right, they need to be aggressive, to take the tempo away.
If you're just defending from Altea all game long, it doesn't seem like a recipe for success.
Psycho, though, takes charge in that last fight.
Yeah, this is exactly what Virtus Pro needed.
And now VP set up in a great spot, right?
Gonna have basically all five open ins going into this next fight.
It's gonna be Dean opening these up with a good unit rush.
Landon is going to answer Grav.
Yeah, Voltrush is traded because her dies in the chaos.
Grav comes up and picks us out of this one already.
Haku forced the beat, the whole trade, still stable for beat beat.
And then you're gonna get cleaned up post haste in this teamfight.
Ziad posted his own grab, fixed it with the beat, that's still a solid flip for TK.
That's a trade though, you'd want to take, right?
Like if you're DK, right, you get the flip there, you end up having to use your beat.
But now with Ziad having to grab, they can force like fix the sound barrier out
and then you can actually just kind of use this overwrite protocol,
just kind of pump damage into it, remove some of that shield.
Yeah, and honestly even with sound barrier right that override protocol damage you can do with grab it doesn't feel great
Here comes over a protocol from capture beat comes out
I'm just a little bit of help. However kept your cycle finding kills of their own player advantage now
Now the three on two fix a needs to be a difference maker in these tools kept her looking for that clean kill
We got to see that pulse again, I mean that is an insane pulse mob from Alphie onto Kev.
That looked like DP was going to be able to flip that Jake and then that pulse bomb maybe
enough.
I mean dude it's what, just Alphie and Labda and I think maybe Fin alive at that time?
I mean that is a hero play there from Alphie.
Urge throw though.
Not deterred, I can try and push the pace in on this one.
Although you're giving Alphie a little bit of time to work.
under a lot of pressure, big knee from Kev, and Ziak just drops, the support isn't there.
Nature and Kester create too much space, and I still find two on the fight.
And Psycho, getting the cleanups, another quick replay.
And I'm feeling, I'm feeling it in my bones now.
This could be another very close series.
Like the way that he's battling right now, it's anybody's game.
It's down to these like tiny individual moments that make all the difference.
And Psycho, with the pulse bomb in his hands, has everything to do.
I mean, it's gonna be basically one fight for even team, right?
That's a Alphie. Faster rush though for me here.
That is true. BP could open up things up with a rush.
Landon gets a dangerously low. That's going to be the Suzer use as well.
Makes a trend to mark Alphie. He doesn't want to stick around too long for this process.
Any opportunity you want to get aggressive? Here comes the rush.
DK back out trying to rotate away. Alphie touches for the OT. Beautiful rotation aways.
Y'all don't force me to back into his own spawn.
Is this enough of a play?
Oh, what a read from Geeky. I mean, that was a nasty read. They knew that Rush was coming up first, and when Landon swings that corner, it's just a ghost town in main.
Nobody is there.
Yeah, he puts the pressure on, he makes that call,
and the team reads it, and man, that
is not an easy fight to play.
Like, they were tied into their own spawn.
Alfie holding on for the OT.
Like, when a team is playing like that, man,
these old fights are going to be so hard for Virtus.
Yeah, and it's a just, I mean,
GK played, you couldn't have played that any better there.
At the end, we take a look at some of the stats here,
is, you know, Psycho ended up kind of winning
in terms of the damage battle there on the tracers
towards the end but I know what it's labbed with a little bit more than 2k damage over
kev they are able to target kev at decent amount of time 7 deaths there on the mray and then
9 deaths for ice them on the Zarya but ek continuing to get off to a pretty strong start
here and for me it just kind of starts with Alphie here at this round 1 I mean 13-0
he was just untouchable.
They came out of the gate so hot on round 1 and that's certainly going to set the
tone for the series as they take map 1.
For Virtus.pro, I do feel they started to come alive and honestly, in the end, you have a sick rotate on that last fight to clutch out, like a fight you were not supposed to win.
However, for Virtus.pro, from an ultimate perspective, they're in a winning position as we come to the final fight of the round.
EK have to do a crazy outplay to be able to win it, which is big, but the fact that Virtus.pro can find themselves in that position means this one, there's a lot more to battle for, like far from a decided series here at MF1.
Yes, I see ice on there. He actually does get the benefits of the beef, but just kind of getting pummeled there by the overwrite protocol. I mean that it pulls fun from Alfie.
I mean, that allows him to kind of stay in that map, right? I know, or that round specifically, right? You know, if they don't say that doesn't happen there, it's probably, you know, a world in which VP just kind of like walks away with that round.
to Alphie still continuing to go crazy here.
In our EMEA playoffs says, that's kind of the formula,
right, though, for GK.
If you can kind of play some of these fights well,
and then you can basically have Alphie and Labdell
like outperform, that's kind of where you need to be, right,
as a team.
So can they continue those strong performances?
It'll be a VP map selection.
Where do you want to see them go?
It's a tough one, Matt.
I mean, there's a possibility of taking us
to some of the more odd ball maps in the pool.
But you might also think that's a little bit of a weak pick.
Like you kind of want to be able to win this mirror, frankly.
If you're going to win the series, it feels crucial.
So I'd almost rather see them go and stick with that.
Yeah, that's true.
I mean, that's a really good call.
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Yeah, that's the big one.
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I hope you got a head start on it.
It's gonna be, that's gonna be a big one.
A lot of A-games along.
Yeah, you better hope for like the 8th mapper grand finals over in NA.
I don't know that Twisted Minds are gonna oblige you so easily, so get it linked up now, guys.
Start earning those drops, no time to wait, and VP are gonna take us to Rune of Soppy,
so talk about confidence in very much another map, where this Zarya and Retracer mirror
likely to continue, and I think the bans are gonna really say a lot here.
Virtus.pro try and throw a ban at one of the meta heroes, and they do.
Okay, so if VP yields the ban over, it is a life weaver ban, so maybe that's trying to protect like a support, maybe it's just kind of a throwaway.
And then VP gets rid of Tracer here. So this is going to force Alphie, we were talking about, doesn't exactly, I mean can play the Vendetta obviously, but it hasn't been something that GK has really kind of gone towards.
So that's like what they're trying to maybe force here for VP. I would say Alphie though, there's definitely potential here to come out and play some Pharah, right?
Yeah, you could consider it absolutely. I do think this tracer band does inject quite a bit of chaos into what we'll expect to see on Runisaphi because there's even a possibility of seeing this in Korea and North America of some people playing Ilyari on this map and still sort of playing the Zarya for and running a similar style but with more poke and with tracers out of the mix like punishing those really greedy comps is less consistent, right? It's kind of more of an issue of getting poked down.
It's a risky move, we've just seen it in other regions, I don't know that EMEA is going to do it, they might just take the mirror on Pharah or Vendetta.
And honestly if it's a Pharah matchup for GK, I think that's going to be very comfortable for them.
Like for Virtus Pro, the risk of banning this Tracer now is like, what are you going to do about Alphys Pharah?
You're almost forced I think to consider pulling out some oddball comps.
I don't know that Psycho is going to walk the Pharah one of you, maybe he'll just take it, but lots to see.
I mean it's also like really like because VP is look pretty strong with tracer as well
I imagine you would have loved like a tracer fallback option right we're like
No, let's say you're you're all in on this vendetta and it doesn't exactly work
It kind it looks a little silly
I mean psycho probably goes over the far and tries to force them off of uh, you know the vendetta as well
But this is a big moment for VP down all one here to DK winner goes to Tokyo to the champions clash
It'll be a mere match up here with both teams with the Tracer gone going over to Vindetta.
I will say though, I think the Tracer is more central to the GK style than it is for Virtus.pro.
I mean, they do so much for Halphi in these fights. He does so much individualism.
Now he comes in here again over the top trying to put that damage down.
Labda here around the mid looking for opportunities, but Virtus.pro aren't giving him anything here.
Just playing on that bot, blocking off these angles.
And he gets some early control for them.
GK are gonna find themselves a little bit on the back foot here, so I like the positioning from Virtus Pro.
GK, Karp is rolling again. I need to somehow find the opportunity to challenge a contest.
Kevser now under pressure, flanked by Alphie.
It looks pretty comfortable with him, and then Dada, maybe getting burned down here.
Good defensive peel though, keeps Alphie alive and into the fight.
Yeah, I mean, that's actually a part of energy that's the odd games there,
and then Finn does a nice job keeping Alphie alive there.
I know with the Suzu, and that's gonna allow them to clap back as
It'll be GK winning this first fight, a little bit of percentage gain there by VP, but it's gonna be GK taking the lead.
Yeah, you know, it really comes down to that kill on Alpha E, right?
If you're able to find that kill, it drops below 50 health.
I think that fight swings for VP, but when you save him, as you mentioned, it gives a huge energy boom to Zyad.
The resources on Ice Nom are just a little bit lower because you're putting that focus elsewhere.
And so, good fight win. Still a very competitive opener though.
Things are slowing down quite a bit with this Vendetta style relative to the Tracer.
Once again, no climb sports out early, Alphie under pressure, Psycho hunts him down looking a little bit less comfortable on this Vendetta.
DK is gonna have to fall back up to play. Finn lives long enough to get that teleport full down out.
I mean, they definitely don't look as clean as DK, at least early on with that Vendetta, right?
I mean, Alphie just kind of has to go in, doesn't have that crazy Tracer mobility being able to recall, gain the HP back,
play it just perfectly here as it'll be DK giving the lead over to VP as they
go ahead by 3 leaders or so here is now. It's gonna be a confusing rush here,
we're on to DK and a little bit earlier it's gonna be a later rush here from
Virtus.Pro. If you finally come onto Psycho, so now under pressure Virtus.Pro they need to
find some counter kills of their own, stepping forward with their own rush, trying to
isolate some targets with Sionna, helping you holding down the frontline, demanding to be addressed as
Curtis Bro just doesn't have the resources to do so, EK low across the board playing it finds a couple of exits
That's all he's gonna get and with double support Zarya alive. EK gonna be pretty confident to step up and push this bot
Aim though still in the edge of a knife. Don't think this is gonna be an easy checkpoint for EK to spite their ultimates
It'll be Fin who moves up here and Fin's gonna try and yep
He'll just push it across to take the lead and then I imagine yep gonna TP back over to Ziad
It's gonna get another fight back towards more mid map guys
Yeah, massive ult trade comes out, but Virtus Pro find the better of it, Alfie not getting
up too deep.
The pop is Sundering Blade in that teamfight.
It's always a risky choice for the embers, right, when they fly up into the sky with
the Mutual Override Protocol because if you shoot at the other Emperor, if you're able to hit those air shots and drop them,
it's a huge food to your team, but if you can't quite finish the kill and the other Emperor is just pumping damage into the low ground,
and that team absolutely is going to have the edge of the main fight now,
so you're going towards the path, DK needs to step up, they're going to bubble Alphimedia, then he's already getting absolutely beaten down.
The pressure immense, Virtus.Pro absolutely ready for this one, Aizond cleans up another,
and when those Psycho dies, the distraction seems to have been more than worth it.
Point to be taken and they are lead to be established here for vertus pro and rotis opi
Yeah, I don't know how they expected to keep out the alive there. I mean that was crazy
It just kind of goes on a boss and this is what they do with the tracer like they just said
Yeah, but it's a little different of the tracer right, you know, when you can just recall loud stabilize from there
I must think it's like a set of the recall perk especially when it's online and you're pretty strong right after
Rush available though, 4-lan and 30% faster here than Finn.
EK just trying to kite out of this Sundering Blade,
PoppaL needs trying to hold an off angle,
put some pressure on it, can't quite get the connection.
VP wisely hide away, but Rush expended without a dominant fight win.
It's actually going to feel pretty good for the defenders.
They are losing a lot of pressure.
VP now continuing to push this pace and tempo.
The lesson they've learned for some of their past matches,
they're just going to keep sending it.
They do not have the ultimates to win this fight straight up.
And so they're instead going to try and just box it out,
get these kills early on.
But see, I live on a quicker block to the relatively passive position, but the energy advantage is
that this is quite good for GK close to their own spawn.
Grav comes over my thumb, he's trying to clutch, and with two supports behind him, you might be able to do just that, man.
Yeah, I mean, he ends up using the Grav, he's got landed and Fixa there,
and even where it looked like it was going to be pretty good for GK, they're going to be able to turn it.
Those are huge kills there from Ice Noam, they're going to keep that forward spawn,
and they're going to kind of continue some pressure onto the bot as GK ends up using their Katsune rush back in their spawn.
They'll have a sound barrier here to use but damage is done. I mean vertus pro goes up by 70 meters
Leaning house now vertus pro out of this one
That was nice out he comes up
Crit's headster, they make him drop to the floor and then it's just an easy follow-up shot by Lavna
So really six play from the GK DPS to take out cap. Yeah, you do have though fix it with this sound barrier
Then you have a massive advantage in terms of rush shell. I wouldn't exactly worry just yet if on vertus pro
You can kind of come back into this next fight
Pretty healthy advantage. I'll be up into the sky already getting pushed back there taking a lot of damage
And another rush right there been pushing that tempo, but the pick started to come in
I saw him takes down one in the front line is low need support desperately this way has to survive here. It's a crucial moment
Psycho though with the benefit of this consumer rush he's quite strong spotters. No good to be coming back in soon for DK
Absolute chaos in the end. It's a pretty rough. I do find that lineup. Yeah
I didn't know it's the split focus right DK's aggression this time of length this time
It's landed losing the fight despite his own consumer rush. Yeah, I mean they end up using the rush there
Uh, Landon actually tries to TP over to Vixxah who's taking a lot of damage and then sues him, but I'm not able to keep him alive
And then they lose out the damage on the front line
This allows DK to come back with a rush of their own here, Jake, which could be quite devastating around this corner
Potentially gonna allow them to get checkpoint. Yeah, Graviton searchers Yogg needs to be big here
You've got a beat to respond from Vixxah
So it won't be easy necessarily to follow up on those skills.
So guys, I'm parking myself in the corner here, holding the car.
B comes out early from Vixx.
I have to pop it just to deal with the continued rush.
Grab it from Surge.
I slid, I slid on the way for the teammate to walk up on the car.
Cannot get that support that he needs.
With this Arya down, something to do.
Spine some exit kills.
Psycho, Kevster.
Find a couple of their own.
Just now, Bansion holding the car to the dust settles.
That will be enough to roll things forward,
but with spawners coming in, getting the checkpoint
is not all you're going to find here for GK.
Yet more work to do if they want to retake the lead
on this map.
Oh, hold on, I can check my beautiful timing, that's a big deal Matt, it's a tiny bit of push,
but it changes the game, no forward spawn for DK, if they lose this next fight, they're gonna lose a ton more progress.
Yeah, that was really smart play there from Psycho, gets a bubble and gets right on top of the bot.
It's like basically what, it's like less than a meter, maybe a half a meter away from getting the checkpoint.
Just denies that from DK, so that could be quite huge.
who just got through getting up towards a sound barrier here with the Alphie with this
Sundering Blade. They're most likely kind of denied the follow-up on the grab using that
ultimate.
Take aggression coming in. This is the lesson Brutus Pro has learned. Take it to the opposition.
He came just a percentage away, I think, from the sound barrier there. VP rewarded,
willing to take a risk, willing to push in. And that seems to change the tempo
of this match quite drastically alongside this, uh, the ban of the Tracer, right?
Alphie, I mean, he's had big moments, but it's not the same impact that he
It's not the Tracer.
Yeah.
And I think Psycho is clearly getting the better of this matchup.
So it's really, I think, vindicating the ban strat here for VP.
Without a doubt.
It's just that I know if you would do a little bit later, it's going to be Kevin using the override protocol here.
Lampa using his as well as Ciot.
He's going to land a lot of damage.
Ciot dangerously low.
He will end up falling.
So, it's going to be the sound barrier users towards the end from VP.
They desperately want to try and fight this.
Yeah, they're going to all admit he should be enough.
But we're using the back down they're gonna die here on the payload
They say that I stop maybe trying to retreat a little bit
Don't think you can get out of this one DK run him down
Forward spawns might be coming up for eyes. Don't let it's a little bit of a late death for them
It's actually a big deal if they get this spawn. Oh, and it looks like they don't so
Could actually be close. I mean, that's really gonna be a free checkpoint
But it's where it's power not gonna be in strong position here on the corner
Yeah, it's gonna just take a second bear to get around I wonder if they just gonna take a beat
Yup, it'll be the checkpoint there.
Gotten for DK. DK will back up just a little bit. It'll be rushes from both sides.
We'll see if Fixus actually able to get this beat though. That could be huge in deciding this.
It takes a lot of damage and backs on up. It's Yad now in a lot of trouble.
Rush is traded. Have no advantage. I think 4VP nice poop back from Haku, but kind of forced off the angle.
Aiznop takes charge of the fight. Psycho cleans up Abda.
Now into the roge. I just think this is going to be too much for Yad to do.
They win it, not just winning the fight, but winning it clean.
Everybody alive, big ultimates of tempo out, and we are coming into a final fight scenario.
Do they want to push the bot here?
It's sort of a, they could, like, not to be...
You're like, get off of it completely, right?
Yeah, but I think this is a smarter play.
Grab the forward spawn is going to make a big difference when it comes to a follow-up overtime.
Reconfest, and hey, you can just win this fight here and now.
Yeah, as any of this is a brutal fight here for DK.
Yeah, grab, no, no beat on the other side.
Yeah, the sound barrier there, Psycho finishes two with the Sundering Blade is.
GK, not really an opportunity there in that fight.
VP looked awesome here playing the Vendetta. They even it up at one map apiece.
All right, you know, looking prepared and for GK, there may be some over-reliance.
An Alphie's Tracer gets punished with a map loss here, one that looks pretty strong for VP.
And like you said, an opportunity, I think, to maybe reset the mental in this series.
Obviously, now Tracer probably gonna come out for the rest of the series.
and you're gonna have to be able to answer it.
But I don't think that's necessarily a death now for VP.
Like, Psycho can absolutely hang in that battle.
And I think they really found their confidence on this map, right?
Like, some of those spots where, yeah, like, there maybe is an opportunity
for you to play slow and defensive and kind of hold those corners.
And VP say, no, we are gonna push the pace, we're pushing the tempo,
we are ready to go, and we will send it.
And I think more often than not,
DK get kind of rolled over when VP are willing to take those risks.
So I think that's gonna be a really important point for the rest of the series
Right your ability to keep taking risks and then pushing the pace
Yeah, and it just uh, you know, I think where psycho really shines here and specifically on this map like that
There's the difference. I think now Alfie obviously plays extremely aggressive on the tracer
You see getting the benefits of those blanks like you're talking about the recall per comes online
Becomes even stronger to take out
you're not able to do that as well here with the vendetta and I think just the
way that I snowman psycho kind of play this like vendetta Zarya back and forth
they think they really have it down but this doesn't give an opportunity though
for DK right you can get rid of the vendetta on some of these maps right you
can go back to playing the tracer there's gonna be no worry that the
tracer is going to be gone so does open some opportunities here for DK
moving forward absolutely arguably that's one of the really key heroes to
band you could also look into the support line as well but you know I think
for Virtus Pro you got to be careful right when you when you start to be the
team that like man in the tracer is one thing because really put the vendetta in
this style and it's still a very well-practiced a proven strategy you
know absolutely so it's definitely gonna be interesting to see how those
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So taking us to where the last series ended
They were able to get the win here I think bird is pro though
There's kind of an opportunity to rewrite history, right if you can win this map
You know, there's just one of the key. When the opponent wins the first map, you have to win a map pick of theirs at some point in the series.
There's just no way around it.
And Sryvasa, I think, is honestly, could be a really powerful place for Virtus.Qar to do just that.
I really hope to see maybe them not play the Moga. If they do play Moga, they need to like ban Sorya,
or they need to do some like, kind of really all-in commit in terms of going for a very different meta play.
But they're not going to do that.
Instead they're gonna ban away the so I mean the end of the sojourn is like it scares me it makes you think you are gonna play
You're gonna play Maga yeah, but surely you've learned your lesson right surely you've learned your lesson like so when they did play the
Maga though they ended up going Juno Brick right
To deal with like Alphie Stracer, and then I believe the odd was not sure if he was playing the Zarya or the Diva
I believe it was actually the Zarya that he's kind of playing but like maybe
An opportunity to play some Diva with that guy
Yeah, the soldiers like they seem to go sojourn with the mog out right. You're just able to kind of farm those railgun shots
It's just kind of like burning down
It's weird because you don't need the soldier to play against one. You can just play emmer. I think it's an absolutely fine matchup. So
It's sort of a it scares me, but it could also be a bit of a feat
You can also look at these bands and think the relevant bands Lucio carries are ever tracer run it and then I think that's
We geek a look at these bands. I think that's exactly what they're thinking running. We know it
This is our style Alphie back on face for the rest of the series. We got this 3-1
Do you run in the mall?
If they ran the mall here, I mean, maybe it looks different in the last time
I didn't feel like that map was like a blowout, right?
It was close. Psycho had to do some devious things to make it close though. So I don't know that
Like him having these crazy that crazy pop-off on the fountain point. It was like, okay
You get with a point, but you know, I just think I just feel like the manga has sort of been figured out by
teams in terms of how they respond to the playstyle they just put too much
damage into him the Zarya bubbles are protecting people who you're trying to
get that stomp and catch on for me I no longer a believer even like things like
the tracer melee perk getting you the reload is like I was watching this is
kind of a big deal on the Moga match yeah tracer you're just sitting in
Moga's back like there's no like you do a lot more DPS to heroes like yeah
I mean there there's nothing that the moggah can even do. I
I kind of don't want to see it come out like I think especially only VP look there
Okay, here's a different one
Would you play the vendetta into the tracer like of your VP like you obviously were so good on in the last round
That could be a really interesting point like it might allow you to hold on and I do I do not mind a vendetta at all on this
map that being says also kind of a fantastic tracer map so I don't know enough to say like how the matchup really plays out
I would just be, I'd be a little worried about having a potentially unchecked tracer. It's like
In the end, I think teams have strayed away from the vendetta for the most part feeling like the tracer is just a little bit better in the all-around
Two was the one of an over style. Twisted mind's won the match of yesterday
But that could also just be a giant bait because it's just a mind play whatever. Yeah, you can probably play whatever
Yeah, I'm you know, I kind of almost throw out what they can do
Don't look at their match results, they will not tell you anything.
Alright, so this is back to what we saw in map number one, right?
We're gonna see the Tracer v. Tracer matchup.
Psycho had a crazed game on this map in their first series in the game five.
Not good enough to get the victory though.
You see they're there, so worried about Alphie at the moment.
Just putting on that little harassment pressure, pulling that attention to himself.
As Damage is not going into Zod in the frontline.
Happy fighting this time maybe waiting for an opportunity to get aggressive when the team is ready
That's what's made them so good right be able to follow up on that team play crash
And now cycles turn to come in step up onto the back line Kevser
As well as they say you're trying to just clean up big damage a lot of the odd cleanse comes out on to him
I don't drop him low himself Kevser trying to push for this kill trying to finish off the Zarya pinching into the odd
And I still cut him down with eyes on now stabilizing on the health bar
Should be a clean fight win for British pros great patients from them
just fending off Alphie the backline alone.
Raps two of this, I don't think these are gonna matter,
but still a little bit of something to write on the bow.
Yeah, he gets two towards the end,
but I think it's just great, like,
push and pull there from Virtus Pro.
They realize that Ziad is dangerously low,
they realize that Suzu's out, that bubble breaks,
and as soon as that happens,
it's like all steam ahead from Virtus Pro.
That's I feel like what they were talking about
a little bit with their aggression, right?
Hey, realizing we have the advantage in this fight,
not just to play passively and just kind of like,
Let's keep getting it back anyway, let's take that advantage and use something with it.
And because the cleanup is slow, Matt, we're already at 65% coming into the start of this next fight.
DK, you need to find some answers. Alphie, really getting fatted away on the fight.
He's got a lot of awareness from Virtus.pro about this tracer position.
Kind of liking their odds, and hey, willing to run the clock down, Landon has a slightly faster consume than Roshan.
Ice on the low. He's still high, getting a little bit low pulse bomb.
Luckily, 4 Virtus.pro goes by this time.
Now, with just a few seconds remaining, the rush is gonna come out first.
A deep dive from Psycho, going past the choke.
Surrounded Ziad, trying to hit this backline, trying to blade a rush from Finn.
Could be big, trades now, coming in, Ison with the crowd.
Gloops up players, the pulse bomb is in, it's Gloop for two, they break the Zarya bubbles
and get the kill, just Ziad and Maki though.
Ziad, still healthy, Ison, putting out what damage he can.
Psycho, Clutch here would be massive, it would secure you this first checkpoint.
And Ziad could kinda struggle to get on top of this Lucio and Tracer.
They're living for now, great vehicle from Psycho, and I think he's done just enough.
Yeah, the damage comes in.
Clutch fight here for furtive for Alphie is back in the 1v2 not a favorable position
He has to stay on point fix is able to reset his HP and
Spawn is coming back here as well
Yeah, I don't think this is gonna be enough. Yeah
In the end right just staying alive with the Lucio a world of difference there for fixa
I'm able to you know regroup the teammates and bring that numbers advantage man. It comes down to the wire
But in it he 100 zero flash point
EK sent reeling on that one
Yeah, and then now you're gonna have a opportunity for VP they get to the point first right it opens up some of these flanking grats
You see through the map
for psycho
It looked like putting some pressure on the lab that they're off of the rich trying to farm up towards that pole spawn getting close yet again
Alfie will touch point there for just a second get close
You can be hipstered they're opening things up here
Oh big shot!
Yeah, and a master shot on the lab
That's big they're gonna go aggro with the beat as well a defensive bubble on the cure go a beat has to come out as well
I don't know does get overwhelmed with the front line the crap was enough to secure that but this is turning scrappy
Potentially winnable here for birdish probe and maybe not was yodd
fapping the point turning around looking for some of these clean up bills
Gonna be a bit of a reset for birdish probe
But they're in the wrong side of town like they're trying to get out now on supports and then eventually gonna be run down
Only fix is gonna live until the tail
Feeling scary for DK, but get over the line
Yeah, and the beat there from fixed actually doesn't connect with ice note
So they're not able to keep that Zarya alive, which is a
pretty rough
Scenario is Altea with a pulse bomb there psycho ends up using his in the previous fight huge advantage though in terms of that katsune
Brosh, so maybe this is an opportunity for land and Dakota just kind of flip the point back rather quickly
But DK are ready up to 60% and counting
Rush here comes out from British father really gonna push the base. Yeah
trying to just speed out of there, trying to stay alive and he's not going to let him get away so
easy. You're from Cycle with the backflip as well ensuring these escaping players take maximum
punishment. That's the kind of dominant fight when you need off an advantage. Kitsune rush,
right? One and done, quick flip the point, send the team back into spawn. That's also kind of
the difference between VP, you know, the other day and then, you know, in this series, then
today, right? Like, they would have used that rush, maybe got around the corner and then,
you know, they're fine just getting Ziad off at the point, right? Not just hitting and
chasing those kills today they just go all in aggressive keep the rest of the
members of DK out of this just yet right I mean 73% on the point they're
gonna have a rush of their own in the next fight and they may end up getting
their beef here to kind of combat this grab that's gonna come down so he came
not in the worst spot
Gonna come out very soon here, Finn opens it up, Icon does not have to grab on the choke
Doesn't grab the Lucio into this, gets the bubble, gets a lot of attacks to be killed
But the damage is just enough to overwhelm Fixa
The eyes on the off angle, eyes on the turn of the battle, the boss is just providing too much value at the front line
Ziad, overwhelmed, the help of Alphie used
Looking for some exits here, Landon's Deft would love to get out but they cannot man, Alphie
You're not escaping Alphie
Yeah, I mean not escaping him there is
That allows you to win that fight with the rush, right?
Now you end up having, you know, your Grapple,
who will spawn your Emeril.
Yeah, I think you probably just give it up if you're VP.
Like, Psycho's pressured as well.
Yeah, Psycho's...
Yeeeeh!
Yeah, he's just getting out of there.
You know, there's not really much point going for it.
DK might try to push the pace here.
The next checkpoint, very close to this.
I don't want to get caught in a fight early.
Fixed 95 to the B, really needs to get that sound barrier up.
DK, bearing down on it with a full head of steam.
Like, I'll shut him right here.
Big deal if he can hold it, but actually does get forced in. Oh, great!
Ooh, Nidia's fan on Lambda! Reads the recall and Psycho! Not having the benefits of that health pack after the recall, unfortunate for him there.
Well, it's like the, uh, the first early shot from Bim that kind of forces him into the corner, then the Nade comes in from the Lambda.
That forces the recall, and then they do a nice job just knowing exactly where he's going to be.
Lambda with the second grenade finishes him off, can be over. I've heard a call from Kev there, just kind of nading himself up in the sky.
I'm trying to get a good sideline.
Focus on the damage on the Ziad, front line's taking, massive pressure, beats come out, exchange from both sides,
he'll work protocol a little later from Ravna, Ziad is in Ravno, could be a different kind of,
only Alliance Kessler actually is going to be good enough for Curtis Bro to continue to push the pace in this fight.
Aiznop, Energize standing to on point, no enemies are here to contest him, he is just taking all covers.
Poppy is getting a little bit of that extra Stalpin delaying as she can as well.
I think so, he's still going to go down in the fight now, he always gets his one.
Yeah, he's always able to come up with one and I feel like do that's a that's a fight that key came to the one right
And they end up using the grab that the beats both come out like early, right?
They don't even not enough grab. Yeah, they don't even have to beat for the grab
It's just the grab is like a solo m-ray, which is just not a lot of value
It looks like maybe some players gonna turn the corner on the point and maybe thought he's gonna catch them in there
But it's not come up with anything with that grab is now we're on with Alphie with a pulse bomb. He is so dangerous
I said in a high ground here. What do you mean? It's got a grab to work with they're trying to be an old south
The first pro are just holding the line. Here comes the rush now exchange
From both teams with the grab in the choke. It's just gonna be over. Well, not even close
You try to step up in the rush. I feel like they didn't expect eyes on to have grabbed that fast
the way they stacked up in the choke. So EK looks like a bit of a mystery there on the
economy and they get wiped off the face of the earth.
20% to go. I think there will be enough time for a recon task.
You'll get a touch. Yeah, you'll get a touch and you'll get the OTA thing.
Look at the aggression though. BV are going to fight off point.
They're going to get it. I mean, Aisdom is so deeper where the team is kind of not with him
is a little awkward. They need to deny this touch from Alphagee, but oh, just can't quite
make it in time. Big risk to be taken from Aisdom, but it does pay off. So Virtus Pro
grab the point cap but and that was actually kind of scary like if I was done
guys you get the OT touch there and that's kind of like a free retake for DK but
Curtis Pro exactly on the limit there well I think Alfie didn't want to burn
recall right so like wanted to actually get the touch then use the recall and
he was just so weak heading towards the point right if he recalls then he
gives it the point anyway so you've got a gamble there no matter what
Psycho though takes the bubble into the back line his turn is going to burn down Haku
He's a lot of support, it's a full type here, DK beating a hasty retreat, and Virtus.pro
hot on their tails, DK though can have a moment of respite, unless Virtus.pro continues to step
up overrides protocol, going past the pain now, looking for more and over the top, Pepsper
here has the complete vision on the high, public managers in front lines, yacht down
the target, just trying to get out of the disengaged from the fat-leaved eyes
dump, free reign for him, yacht even steps back up into this one, it's cleaned up.
fight for VP essentially just the override protocol and that's that trademark aggression what they've been pulling out the change that they've made in this series and its benefits are being felt here man
Well, I mean that is the type of gameplay you expect to see from Virtus.pro right with how aggressive they can be is can get something to the sky
It puts down some crazy damage there with the override protocol
But I think it just starts off with Psycho putting that damage down on a Haku it forces Fameda TP it forces the
Suzu out as well as
There's no way that they're able to recover from that.
DK, DK will get on the point, there'll actually be an early rush here from Finn as he's the first one with it.
Psycho stalling really well, he invites him to the lab to, despite the beat coming out, it's a little bit too late.
Massive pulse from Alphito, finds two and beat, David's on the ice on him, and that's going to be enough to steal the deal.
That's like, not a little bit scary, like, you committed a rush and grabbed, and there was almost a chance for Psycho to snatch that one back with the kill.
Like, yes, they win that one in the end, but way too close for a fight where you have an unresponded grab and rush.
If you're, uh...
If you're DK, you almost kinda wanna try and take a fight here early, right?
Because, like, there's a little bit of a grab.
I mean, grab and rush rush. I mean, it's gonna be that lab that's going up into the sky there with the overwrite protocol.
Yeah, that's huge. That's gonna be the grab and rush use there.
It's gonna be the grab that connects with two. They're gonna get both supports.
Is it this? Oh, they're going to be enough though, so they're doing the flipping of points, so it is in favor of VP right now.
Honestly, I think that's favoring VP until the big game comes in, from Labs and kill off Psycho, and then battles away from Landon.
Honestly, with two supports and Tracer, he can have no supports. I think they'd lose that fight without Psycho getting popped by Lab to there, so huge fight now from the hitscan.
From GK, new lease on life for them, but still just one more retake necessary. The ultimates are essentially dry, Kevster, very close to his own override protocol.
Looks like a scary fight for GK. Snatching the tempo wave won't be easy right now.
I mean, the last fight was pretty scary for GK as well, right? Rush plus grab, and they're still able to come out on top.
This landing gets dangerously low. That's going to be the soonest one for Alphie, getting close to a full storm.
Okay, final find value, 2 and d4. Capture up in the sky now. The point is split, GK.
Gonna have to get tested into this one, but Capture's gonna bring the fight to them.
Eyes on. Pineshaw could run the trade. And now, waiting for the OT touch.
Surely, Alphie is gonna be here. Woo-hoo!
Count the billus tickets there, but ultimately he's just out of gas, he's earned out, cannot hold the clock.
And DK are gonna get wiped out here.
Fronster of Assa, a statement map win.
From Bernice Pro, on the map of their opponent choosing, on the style of their opponent's choosing.
This is the must win map of the series. VP get it done. One more.
Book your ticket to Japan. DK on their last leg.
Yeah, and VP looked awesome all throughout that map. That's the type of aggression you wanna see.
to see from Virtus Pro, they really kind of just handled business there on the final point.
I think it's also a huge win for VP in terms of like, you know, Psycho, I thought was awesome
on the Tracer. You're able to kind of win that Tracer Zarya head to head. You take a
look at some of the sets of Labda with 11 deaths. They were really targeting him a
lot here on Seravasa. I mean, both Kepster and Aiznom, about 20% more damage than
their counterpart. Yeah. Yeah, a lot of it comes from the deaths and maybe some
better teamfights, but you think back to some of these fast grabs from Eisenhower, like this
faster grab, it's the first point, you know, some of these kills on Ziad, like I feel like
Ziad is feeling the heat. And honestly, think about it strategically, I think this is a
really good way to punish DK's style. He can give crazy resources to Alphie, like he
gets bubbled sometimes twice in the fight. That is crazy on Tracer. But that means
there's less resources for Ziad to just bubble himself and fight in the frontline.
It's like this are going to hurt though, I mean, taking that rush trade down mid, like
if you knew, I'm not going to grab, I don't think you would ever be in that position.
So certainly it looks like a misread on the ultimate track that's going to cost them that
point, but in the NA it's 3-1 on a flashpoint, solid win for Virtus.
That's the GK map pick that should have been, in theory, their strongest in the
series.
Yeah.
What they can do next.
Yeah, I mean, you kind of look great.
We have what, escort and hybrid left in the pool.
you do think that maybe that was one where DK probably felt the strongest, right? They
beat them on it the other day, they kind of go back to it here again, VP does not play
the Mogo, I know what they did the other day and ends up working out for them this time,
right? That Zarya Tracer looking really good after playing some Vendetta and upping
the pace right now, kind of bringing over that with the Tracer, they look great.
That's the style you have to be able to win. I feel like Psycho really came to
to play on Saravasa.
I mean, we saw it from him as well in the earlier match,
the start of playoffs.
And he just kept on delivering there.
Continual pressure on the back line,
like really matching Alphi, right?
Which is, I mean, the way Alphi is playing
is not an easy statement to make.
Havana is gonna be the pick for GK,
probably the most standard of the Escort maps, right?
Like, Rialto and Gibraltar are like oddball maps.
You know, when you pick those maps,
like the game is pretty different.
I'm not so sure the Zarya comp is actually the meta, especially at your Brawl Threat,
in some sense. Definitely not the meta.
And so, for Geeky, this makes a lot of sense that you would go to Escort first,
because you block out the weirder maps to the pool.
Honestly, Blizzard Brawl Midtown and the Bonnie, I'm pretty sure all three of them,
you can just play the Zarya comp on it if you want to.
So, Geeky kind of ensure that if they can win this map,
the rest of the series can still be in their comfort zone.
VP could still throw some bans at the meta heroes,
but they even liked it not too thus far in the series, right?
Other than the Tracer Band, they have been allowing this to go to the Zarya Club, and winning the Mirror on Suravasa is certainly going to be a feather in their cap.
Yeah, we'll see what happens with the bands here on Havana.
I'll be the DKMap selection.
It looks like they're also taking first band is some Moira.
So they're just trying to maybe like...
This is more Roadhog, alright so.
Alright, both like neither team felt like there was too much of anything they wanted to get rid of there so the Moira man's good job.
For me, if you're going to be at more Roadhog, somebody banjunked Graf.
Just in and out.
You know I got confirmation, you know when we cast the Dallas Fuel match Matt, I got confirmation that they banjunked Graf for me.
That was good people of the Dallas Fuel.
But I know Mitch and me get confused a lot.
You guys are like the same person in my mind.
Yeah, I think I have my own accent.
And I know everything.
Everything.
You really just look the same.
The only thing they say is different.
I'm just much better looking.
I don't have as big of a forehead as Mitch.
Yeah, that's what they say.
Yep.
They heard that one.
More energy.
More energy.
That's when I get quite often that I have more energy
than Mitch.
He's going to be so angry with you all.
These redogs are myavored.
I love to see these bands.
I love to see these bands.
This is like, this is like the standard,
this is the bands in Implat, right?
This is like the Metaband.
This is like, this is like the one AM,
the one AM, Plat-ranked bands
that are coming through here in the OWCS.
This is Moira Roadhog.
Nothing really take away in terms of like
how that will impact the meta here for this one.
We do see teams kind of like, you know,
play the Vendetta like towards the second part
of the map, but honestly,
but to me, these Tracers are playing,
I would just keep running it back.
That's the thing, like, Twisted Minds won
with the Vendetta, but I'm a little scared about that.
I don't know how to match up plays on this map in particular.
I think it really comes down to these small differences.
Like Vendetta has a better team fight ult, right?
Being able to like Sundering Blade to grab is a huge deal.
It's really hard to live through a grab.
When Sundering Blade can like take your beat off
can break your Zarya bubbles, break your shield.
Really, you know the Sundering Blade
when the other team is rushing
to just kind of like the turret players
without moving forward is like kind of worth.
Like it's not like it's, you know
This Undering Blade comes down and everybody runs, right?
But still, just to deter them a little bit.
I think what people have been starting to realize though is that
so many of these fights come down to like low numbers engagements, like both teams trade kills.
Rarely do we see a really clean fight.
And I think Tracer, yeah, Tracer just thrives, right?
Like, there's no better hero than Tracer when it comes down to that, like, Lucio plus one is still alive.
Tracer is the best in the game, right?
Like, one of the most efficient health pool heroes in the entire...
Probably the end without about the most efficient health using hero in the game
Tracer is just like the pinnacle of hero design right like regardless of what they do with the rest of the cast and the meta and everything else like tracers
Just always like
Always somewhat viable somewhat playable
Link is the best skill in the entire game man three charges of blink I will trade any character skill in the whole game for that
Yeah, I mean it is, I mean yes, it is kind of wild, the deal is just kind of like teleporting.
Teleporting?
Yeah, like the recharges of teleport, basically.
They should give Gary recharges of teleport now, do nothing about it.
Matt?
You're bad, no one.
Okay, Kessir, ooh, big native in Alphie.
Maybe he wasn't expecting that kind of a quick burn.
Virtus.Pro want to take everything they can get out of this kill.
They had a holding an off angle with late TP out, but he's going to be caught
in a tough spot as they swing the corner and land and take the set off.
Over to the widow is gonna maybe look for a cheeky little pick off on the exit. You can't quite find it
Where's the shot though and after map number one and even in that number one?
I think you can just maybe come like
Pretty like huge place kind of went their way. I mean so impressed with how vertus pro is like, okay
We get the we get the advantage like it is just speed forward
Finishing these fights off right now allowing you to kind of like linger within these fights and maybe able to turn it
Alfie boxes out Psycho, he's going to have a bit more room to work with, and I'm feeling
the pressure as the back off the corner, now it's Alfie's turn to continue to get aggressive
Psycho, goes past it though, into the back line, now Alfie is trying to be caught looking
on the defensive.
Can't quite punish Psycho for that move, but both teams really boxing it, playing for
that cooldown, Ziad playing nice and slow, you're saving the bubble, here comes Alfie
once again into the back line on the Lucio, a good movement from Fixa, and sure as
he doesn't really take much damage at all from that.
Opportunity for the counter punch from VP, both teams trading blows, but Ziad
That's playing at a nice safe distance, really.
Slowing this one down, playing to that ultimate economy.
Yeah, and he had, well, Kev, though,
with the over-ice protocol here,
I think they were just kinda like playing around,
maybe getting those bubbles ready for Alphie,
and Alphie not even finding it, and he goes in.
No, not able to keep Ziad alive,
there's some sick dash coming down from Kev.
Nice fade away there, the shot on Ahaku,
as he gets into the spawn.
Said this has been all Virtus Pro on defense,
thus far.
Kev, absolutely rewarded, absolutely rewarded, rather,
for the aggression, right? Just with the override protocol, and without even really much to go off of, right, he just sends it.
Alphie has established a backline position.
Actually, it's quite valuable on Tracer here, right? It's a hard spot to get.
Kept her though, he seems to be aware of that.
Off the ping, Alphie comes in and Alphie looks into the backline.
Hold on to Siphon Blaster, but really being marked well by her, so they are not giving him any room to work with.
He even picks up, takes the fight to him into Plank Forces, that recall.
It's uncharacteristically slow play from DK, they hop the rush now, the graph gone into the backline.
No game fall upon that, but it's gonna zone players away.
A better beat, much better from Vixxia as now.
Eyes on the turn, taking aggressive into the background.
Psycho points one out, he goes, trades it right back,
grabbing over the top with the override protocols,
just to remove him.
Way too much!
Finds more on the fight, Psycho, battling in the 1v2.
Way too much to do here.
Just gonna stay alive, can he get a touch?
I think he will be able to get a touch here.
But it won't be that clean.
VP need to get there very quick.
They need to support this Tracer.
Looks like they are gonna be able to swing the corner
and do just that.
Yeah, you're gonna be able to get the touch here
It's like going a lot of players around the corner. It's gonna be geeking.
It's gonna be Sia, going in the crowd.
How'd I get that crowd?
Ice no job.
Oh yeah, no Suzu there. I believe it was thrown in, but they're able to just kind of burn on the roof.
So that might be enough there.
4GK takes his checkpoint.
Oh, I thought it wasn't gonna be a good enough grab with Izan on the even position behind the cart.
I thought there just wouldn't be enough damage probably on him,
but they overwhelmingly swarm around that one.
I think Landon might have even had to step into the grab himself just to try and get those heels down on Izan on.
So the end GK they get it down with the ultimate advantage, but I'm from the eye test Matt
Am I crazy or are they like they've been really rocked from that last map loss?
They are pretty big slower than we've seen them play in the past. Yeah, I wonder if it's like, okay
We're like, you know, they're they're relying on Alphie, right?
And like the odd is just kind of like not using the bubbles on himself to be able to like kind of take some of that space
Right, it looks like very like passive. We're gonna, you know bubble Alphie see what happens
You're gonna allow it against Menky. We're gonna work a little bit slower
than maybe Murtis-Pro is, but yeah, I believe you can probably a little bit, you know, rattle
after the two map losses in a row here at 40 DK, so Alphie gets over to that pole squam
and they're just kind of like, back out to the choke, you know, like, they're going to
rotate on the high ground?
Yeah.
Yeah, this is like, kind of a must go.
Once you move the cart a little bit forward, you come in down from this lower angle,
keep things rolling.
Ziad steps up to the high ground, so pretty clinical, but these bootpounds are
fixed at, like, this costs you in the time bank.
Yeah, it's just gonna put himself you're stepping up to the car Alphie
Struggling to get towards the background in this fight
We're really getting marked when he goes for his aggressive moves still walking the car up little by little
But it's an expensive play on the time make so you can wake up to the high ground
That doesn't want to commit for this time a little risky to be going for that in the battle
You take some damage there from Kevin has to just kind of back down
I don't want to end up using the recall channel VP. They want to push they want to use his override protocol
They want to see if they push them all the way back see if they can maybe get a pick off there
Not able to find anything
Yeah, oh like it makes it all worth it, right? Yeah
You know if you the full tide out from DK, but they leave out the island great awareness from psycho and fix it a hunt that one down
I know there's a tracer missing and that and in the end
It's like one all it's not like a decisive dominant high win
But they 30 seconds off the clock that's a deal you make every time on defense and with the other four ultimate
Coming online, Virtus.Pro bridging the gap. Ziad with no grab in this one.
One minute, this is a scary spot to be. GK need to get more out of this often.
It feels like they've been so passive.
Like, they've been higher around.
Oh, grab on the ceiling.
Here picks up the Zarya. It catches Ziad.
I don't think it's gonna be enough to finish him off, but Ziad's a rush.
You have sound barrier available here for GK.
They end up holding onto it, potentially, for another fight.
fight so maybe with finned down and then zion getting dangerously low you don't
feel you can fight out of this especially the ice on the line we ended up holding on
to this beat but not a lot of time left ice on dangerously low bubble
broken I thought the native around the corner he's gonna be able to live there
about 150 HP and then regen yeah so this corner is like his castle man he
just plays this position over at protocol from after those swings wide
gonna go straight to that backline the defensive bubble
The high ground is not attracting this, but with the help of Kester, they cut down the override protocol, beats exchange, Landon does drop in that, and as I thought, it's cornered now, beyond, takes the fight to him.
The left portrays a hop move before he falls, Scythe with the pulse bomb is going to keep this one in contest, and maybe even looking for more, but he can kill the Zarya and break the back now, HuffPK.
And without the players to come touch the cart, the push is going to end here, man.
Man, VP hitting another level here today.
I, you know, that one, I mean, GK, they end up using their Sember.
I don't think they expect to fix it, have it, on the other side of things.
And they do get ice known, but everybody dangerously low on GK.
And Psycho just kind of runs on passive and now Psycho starting to get the better of this Tracer battle.
14 and 1 there from Psycho.
Just a tremendous first half there on defense.
and look I mean these tracers are going head to head in our you know last series right between these two teams and psycho was
You know really digging into geeky. It was just you know Alfie and the rest of geeky that clutches up
But you know without a lot of those clutches that we saw the other day finish six deaths there in that first half
And you're seeing you know how dominant psycho can be and making it really difficult for geeky to get anything going
Man I gotta tell you man just just watching this game though
This is felt like a game from a different day right then the last matches we've watched like a vertus pro
It's only accelerating like they're going aggro on a no margin. I mean, they're like we have an override protocol
Well, it's like I don't care where you are
We will come for you and they traded the aggression between them like you know what I mean like yeah, but
Doesn't feel good for DK looks like it looks weak
You're just like waiting for Alphie to make plays the odd not getting into the mix like yes
Those fights can go wrong, but for DK it feels like you want to scrap you want to get down to those low numbers engagement
Well, cheeky opener on Bastion here to put some damage. Oh, what?
All right, I will say I don't think this kill matters. It's a fun
It's because he takes the bubble to spawn
to get like melee and farm a little bit of pulse bomb and energy, but the Bastion breaks the bubble so fast that the
Cassidy flash actually does get the tracer. So it's a sick play
It's a weird interaction.
The corner fight, it's not a big deal.
Yeah, I mean, look at how far back DK has to go.
Like, they have to play so passive here.
Now he's back with the bubble, putting some damage out on the backline.
Fallout could be there.
See that they've dealt with him well.
Second bubble in the fight.
Now the pressure comes in on the Aizanon.
Kind of struggling here in the front line.
It gets around the corner.
It's going to be a difficult place to chase.
Kevlar punishes Alphie out of gas in the fight.
Went through just a little bit too much.
And now with the Scythe and Claster out,
I saw him getting real low, I saw him hold on, maybe he's doing a little bit too much there,
Sleezing quarter, before he's healed and he came.
Really, the stand call cut him down despite the current disadvantage.
Psycho grabs one back, I would see odd stabilizing into this one.
It was a good opportunity for VP to take, I think they overheated.
Yeah, I thought VP was going to be able to take that and they were going to steamroll through the first checkpoint,
and now it's BVF, a little bit of a GG moment, but...
That was like your ticket to Japan.
Yeah, and I mean, hey, still more to play for, it's not, you know, it's just one fight.
Still, the loudest DK to at least kind of have some signs of life going into this one, right, is, uh, Alfie, you put some pressure down there.
On to Kev's yacht, it has to back up, as you see God using all of his bubbles basically on Alfie, it has to play so perfect on Zarya, right?
It's like with a pump pump, you could find something a little bit of a faster rush, or significant speed faster.
Four DK and the D-Test are kind of up early eyes on this stuff. Full run out of their P to H, C retreat.
Just to know the override protocol makes it just a little bit too scary to really push the pace
and honestly that's an ult trade you take every day of the week.
Landon and Fixxx are 82 their own ults.
They have an interesting spot to be, very different ults available for both sides on this attack of the event.
He gets up to the high ground with a pole spawn, gets one bubble as Landon gets close to a rush.
It's going to be, oh the soundbearer, early here.
Ford became the end of using the soundbearer and decided to go, it's going to be the rush here that comes in.
From Landon and VP, they get two kills, they're trading out.
Xeon's going to end up using the grab.
I don't think there's going to be any type of follow-up, though.
As Isom uses his grab as well, Alphie, maybe they thought
the follow-up would be with the pulse bomb there.
Onto the grab, he's not able to get anywhere close.
That is a great fight for Virtus Pro that most certainly
will give them the checkpoint.
Yeah, I mean, when the grabs are traded,
it's just a DPS check.
And one Zarya is inside a Kitsune rush.
It's not super hard to figure out who's
gonna come out on top of that trade and VP now to get to Japan here
waiting for them at the end of Havana second point three minutes 40 on the
clock this would be heroic from GK I mean this is like a 10% to win situation
extremely favored for VP to finish this map here they need to find some kind of
pick off the play right this is not gonna come down to fundamentals if
If GK can win it here.
And he basically just needs to flash.
See how that's your GK?
Right?
One fight and then maybe at the end they're just kind of like, you know, flooding out,
trying to get a touch here.
Is Yacht getting dangerously low.
There's gonna be an old spawn there though.
From Alopee, it's always good.
It feels like from Alopee is...
But also, the override protocol is gonna try and push them all the way back,
gain some control over the choke yet again.
So, a fight win there.
For GK.
I think if you're GK, you try and at least get this, like, you know, to a minute and thirty and then if you lose the fight there, at least it gives you a chance, like an OT trying to hold.
Yeah, you need to run this clock down. Finn's gonna pop the rush. Tudor's Faunces with BP and they're gonna try and just kite out of here. Just gonna get back, beat Acer, retreat, Aizan gets one kill before he drops.
The rest of BP is gonna stay alive onto this one. He's gonna be taxing, he's already back in fight. Lucius often closes that corner.
DK those days do not want to throw this position away.
See how he's gonna have to play a little bit carefully from here.
It's a good fight.
Might win off the rush, but after that rush, there is no ult coming your way for quite some
time.
This is the chance for Virtus.
Pro and a pause comes in.
Oh my God.
Tactical, tactical, tactical.
Now it's not a tactical pause.
They don't have a tactical pause.
Yeah, I mean, so if your DK is the logic here, like, okay, let's use some ult
play as close as possible, let's burn some clock,
maybe force them to end up using two or three ultimates
in a fight, and then coming back a little bit even
as like a fight on the cart towards the end.
Is that kind of the math of like reasoning
that they're trying to get here?
I mean, Matt, to be honest,
when it comes out to like reasoning and ult trades,
this is like generally an attacker favorite point,
I think, or it's a lot easier to attack
than like for instance, first or third.
And the ultimate advantage right now is in VP's hand.
So VP, this fight, I mean,
If somehow like miracle hero play, you can win this fight on Geekay, you're kind of like right back into it
You really do even things up
Realistically VP should roll them over this fight. VP just need to do it without over committing right because like you said
There's still beat and grab coming down the pipe for not this great fight
But the one to follow it if you can get there on Geekay a huge grab from Ziad like maybe maybe that's enough
The beat could save you maybe that turns it around
But what's most important is that is that for furthest pro that they can close this fight out with like it just over
protocol and plus bomb they're gonna feel very good about it. Yeah and I mean we'll
have to see where Ice Noem, I think Ice Noem's like 55% to a grab there so like
there is also a world in which VP wins the fight, maybe Ice Noem gets closer to
grab and then is able to kind of like you know get up towards like they push
out towards like the door where they're kind of coming out and you're
able to get that advantage. Yeah here comes the fight, expect things to come
thick and fast here from Virtus Bro, Kepster looking for his opportunity to
step up with the living weapon takes the high ground it's very passive decay
they're scared of this threat playing in the corners gonna have to fully back out
disengaged on the Zarya you'll see how the gout should have some bubbles should
be just fine to escape from this one but you're gonna give the entire map away
for that map no one dies but you basically won the fight anyway and
you're gonna be retaking glenn is it nine to the Katsune rush you have to
somehow overwhelm a Katsune rush this is not a good spot to be
vertus pro even stepping off the cart they know this is all about the
team fight. Virtus Pro, lot to play for in this moment, that shot on the fixer. You can't let those
picks come in, but Rush is bailing out. Are you trying to desperately gain B here if you're Haku?
Is that kind of what you're playing here for here? It's a dangerously low. I need to get a Suzu.
Oh he gets it off, but he dies just after. Albee, you know what, Finn? Find some kills with
the balls, the beat comes in from Haku, and that whole day for now. It's expensive,
right? Two ults for one to defeat the Rush. Once again, right, a minute 20 on the clock,
But VP you got beaten grab here like yeah, you can't have I mean they have essentially nothing
Pulse bomb Zyot has to go do you actually like this? Yeah, frankly you need to eat grab however
It is so extremely that is so tough like I thumb doesn't have to grab
He can just walk up with these and just kill people already getting a little bit of energy expected to be a lot of self-hubbles
Here is he trades up on the jokes. Yeah, it's maybe a nice boot bump down the Zarya gonna kind of slow her roll
As Isom steps up close to the cart now, this is a fight your force have taken as the audience
Everything he can to be annoying to slow things down, Finn 80 to a rush of his own
You can bridge that gap actually guys, they're getting very close to an over-right protocol
Here comes the beat, they're trying to chase in, good escape from Splash with the crowd
Inclusively onto the TPS now of DK, threats eliminated
Just a few stragglers trying to hold on and Virtus Pro are booking their ticket to Japan
to Chiepion's Clash already starting to celebrate
because GK are knocked out of this one it was a passive win earlier in the
semi-finals but today the Virtus Pro reign supreme the adjustments are good
enough the aggression from VP absolutely immaculate today I mean they stole the
fire here from GK. Nice I mean VP looked awesome in this series just the amount
of aggression just a huge difference from the other day. Absolutely I mean GK
was up to good start there right dominant victory on control they hope we
did see like the game plan there. It was the same as what we saw from them yesterday,
which made some moments, some fights against Twisted Minds closed. It's pooling all your
resources into Alpha Yi. That strat has been exposed. And then VP just kicked into another
gear, into another level. They came in so aggressive and it really felt like they took
the fire out of DK. There was a weird trade going on there. And now VP finding themselves
and the grand final. I think if we're looking like just overall predictions heading into the playoffs
we didn't expect to see Virtus.pro and Twisted Minds making it all the way through.
But it was great that DK managed to like surprise everyone in their first semi-final match.
They played phenomenal Overwatch here and I'm very excited to see them again in stage two.
I mean, much different series, right? I think you can definitely see where,
you know, IceFoam was talking about like how they had to make adjustments.
Map 1 looked really good for DK, right?
But I think in the second round of Map 1,
like that most likely, like, you know,
you replay that round a few times,
it probably goes to VP.
And then after that, it kind of was all Virtus.pro, right?
I mean, I think Seravasa was quite the backranger.
Like, all right, so, Riddosappi is one thing.
This is just a well-coached play
to go to the vendetta, over reliance on Tracer,
really exposed here on Riddosappi.
But like, that can happen.
That's a, you know, well-stratted play.
When you win here on Suravasa, straight pound for pound,
and I feel like there's just an incredible awareness
from the entirety of VP of Alphie.
Like when you're on Alphie's POV,
he is getting hunted by like Emery, Lucio,
you know, everybody is ready for the backflank.
So I think they sort of see it coming.
And then man, just watching on here on Havana,
I was just like, wait, what is this team, right?
Like Alphie's in here in the backline,
but there's like, where's the commitment?
Where's the aggression?
Where's the followup?
That's what's made P.K. look so good.
It's not just Alpi in the backline, you know, doing big work.
It's the rest of the team pounding down your door
at exactly that same moment.
I think we just didn't see that on Havana.
I really felt, you know, this team kind of was hollowed out
by the loss on Sarawasa and VP only got stronger from there.
Yeah, they definitely seemed rattled after going down there.
They made it to the lower finals,
but this is where their play of the journey stops.
Now VP in the grand final going up against Twisted Fines
Number one and number two seed of the EMA region after the regular season, but as good as VP looked against any of the team
They did not manage to make it close against Twisted Minds when they met in the regular season either
No, I mean no, we've been able to make it close against Twisted Minds, right?
So I don't even think you kind of like I think of your Virtus Pro
It is a big sigh of relief that we get past GK and you qualify
I know kind of cab gets the monkey off his back right and it kind of makes it to another land land and kind of continues that streak
And then now look you put your best effort in here against twisted minds even until the number one spot
I mean it would be a massive upset right because it's first of four, so you have to be
TM in one series basically more
You have to take as many maps as they've lost basically since worlds in one like the last year and a half
Yeah, they've lost more maps probably. This is like realistic. I think it's like five, right? They talked about it since worlds where it's like, yeah
Yeah, okay now basically do that but just in the next hour
Yeah, easy
Why not? I mean again like I think VP came into this knowing that like the main goal is make it to Japan make it to the champions
Flash you'll figure out the rest as you go along and now speaking of that line event
and London's Landstreak is alive and kicking.
We'll see him alive in the flesh in 4K in Japan
and now at a Moose Boosh, if you will,
as he will be joining us for a quick interview.
Landon, congratulations.
You guys punched your tickets to Tokyo.
How are you feeling now that that kind of pressure
is off of your backs?
I mean, I'm feeling great.
That kind of match is always
the most intense match you ever play, you know?
I think the first stage for a team really sets the theme for the rest of the year.
And so for us, making Japan was like a really, really big, important milestone.
And having accomplished it feels awesome.
Yeah, Landon, today it looked like you guys were way more aggressive than you were in the series against GK the other day.
Was that kind of like a little bit of a game plan?
I know Iceland kind of alluded to maybe some changes, but you guys looked really full-on aggressive all the time.
Yeah, I think there were a lot of opportunities in our first DK match where opportunities presented itself, but we were just a little bit unsure, should we chase this, should we really just ult face early, or chase these kills.
And then we realized that if you just play that aggressively, for every time it doesn't work and you get punished, it'll work like three or four more times.
And that was kind of the mindset going into this match was just turn up the aggression and we'll win for free.
Yeah, I felt like you guys really got rewarded from that. You're really you know like looking very coordinated as a team
You know from just watching the match casting
I really felt like after you guys got that that map win on Suravasa
Man Havana it felt like DK were really like slowed down. It felt like they got kind of got rocked by that
I'm kind of curious if you if you had that sense in Havana as well
Or what you felt like I guess coming into the final map when of course that ticket for to Japan is on the line
They're really really good at Havana
I think it's by far the best map, it's a map that we're not particularly like,
I think we've lost, lost them twice on it now.
So going into it, we were like full ready, we had all of our counter strats ready.
I mean you guys, you guys saw the attack first fight, right?
We've already set Tracer's link in the spot.
So we had full prep for it.
And yeah, it did feel like they kind of slowed down a little bit.
Now Londoner of course going to let you go in just a second to get ready for the grand final
to where you will be facing off against Twisted Minds.
How do you guys approach a match against a team that has not shown any cracks in their armor, thus far, all regular season long?
I mean, the first year are a good team. I gotta be crazy to sit here and tell them they're not a good team.
But I also don't think they're unbeatable, you know?
I think especially in this Zarya, Kiri, Lucia, and Tracer comp, I think it's a matchday comp.
Whichever team rolls up to the match and plays it better, we'll just win.
We'll just win. You saw the GK twisted match, even though it was 3-0. That was a close game, to be honest.
There were a lot of opportunities for GK to win that.
Absolutely. And you guys are coming off of a great victory here. So I hope you can write that momentum into the Grand Finals.
Once again, congratulations and thank you so much for joining us. Best of luck in the Grand Finals.
Thank you.
We're going to see Landon on the server in just a little bit as he and the rest of the
players are getting ready to take on the giant that is EMEA.
But as he said, we discussed over the last two days, it all just depends on how you're
showing up on match day, right?
Anything is possible in the current meta.
You can throw a lot of wrenches into the ears.
I was trying to wait too hard here, it's too early for this, she said at 11am.
Twist of Minds MVP are coming up next so that is going to be our grand final as expected
but VP definitely has shown us that they can,
you know, just step it up to another level.
I don't know if that's what we're gonna see
in the grand finals.
You know what else I wanna see?
What?
Our viewers, the action in the facet league.
That's right.
If you're watching and you feel like I could do that,
I can play like those guys.
Why don't you give it a try?
Why don't you sign up with your team to the facet league
and grind your way all the way up to the top
where you might make it through promotional mitigation
and we might see you in stage two or stage three
of the OWSDS.
Jake tried.
Uh, GK, uh, everybody starts to see it.
Yeah, yeah, Jake.
Jake has tried.
He can make it.
Yeah.
How much opportunity do you guys play?
I want to see Jake play again.
What's your face of division?
I want to see Jake play again.
Well, I know we tried qualifying
through the face of League last time.
We lasted one game.
famously ended after that one game actually they're even two games I don't
remember we made them two and then it ended but it was not a skill issue though
per se I think it was just the team imploded so that's true yeah we are
a character we're a real American team we just exploded after one game it's
all about team cohesion right so you know those those band of friends always
make for great teams to go all the way and up into tier one. Let's see what
actually finalists have in store for us. We're heading into a quick break giving
them some time to get ready for all the action. Gonna be at first two four I
believe, so best of seven. Does that make any sense? I know numbers, I know math, I
know work, not much more of all of that after show break so don't go
anywhere. We should be right back.
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The project log, Jetpack Cat. 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'd come that I can finally turn all those dreams into reality.
And Fika has been a surprising help.
Oh, I named her Fika, by the way, since she looks like a big candy in a boule.
There was a funny moment earlier today. I was so stuck on the schematics for the
thrusters, but thickened 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
They beat perjectiles?
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 up different paint options, and Fika knocked everything over except Blue, of
course.
Honest Svens give the clue, Spetsna.
And that's that.
Blue prints for Project Jetpack Cup 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 and 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.
So don't try to deny, don't you try to deny
You ain't even here alone
Oh yeah, no, no
When I'm with you, I'm crying
I'm with you, I'm flying
I just want to share this
So no, no, yeah, yeah
Got me feeling, got me feeling
I'm lucky when you're by my side
When I'm staying on my side
Hello and welcome back as we hear each other Matt and Jake and we're about to set this
stage for our EMEA Grand Finals between Twisted Minds and Virtus Pro. Two teams with a dominant
regular season record. Alas, there is a clear favorite here. Of course I'm talking about
Twisted Minds. I mean, the last team to take a map off of Twisted Minds. A map, not a series.
A map. It was crazy raccoon, but that was a bootcamp earlier this year, so I don't really feel like we can
count that as an official, but the last team to take a series of Twisted Minds was over four
months ago. A tournament that Twisted Minds ended up winning. That was Katsia who managed to
to do that. So really, you know, they've just been dominant. We've been talking about them
as the team that can play it all like front, center to the back. They're just the best
at everything. Yeah, I mean, really, there's not a lot more like we can say about how
good this team has been as of late, you know, kind of after Worlds during the event
and then kind of now changing that success
and kind of moving it forward.
I will say like sometimes it can be tough
where the other team already like has a form up, right?
And like, you know, they're kind of like flicking VP
towards the end and maybe you can kind of catch
TN a little off guard at the beginning of the series.
But you know, how consistent Jey Lu and Quartz are
like in those roles and then seeing
with the support line, right?
Like it rarely feels like they ever have bad days.
This team is gonna be difficult to beat.
Yeah, I think, you know, for Virtus.pro, you really can't be thinking about this as like,
oh, these are the Titans, right?
Like these guys, can we take a map, right?
You just have to play this, you know, fight by fight, moment by moment, because I will
say for teams that have this kind of record of dominance, it would be, you know, like
if they do win a map against them, right, it's not something they've experienced
in quite some time, right?
So for TM, you know, if they are for this ball, or they need to adapt and
change, that's going to be the question mark for this series.
Probably the hardest map to win is going to be that first one for Rudefro, right?
Breaking the reign of terror, you know, honestly, coming out on map 1 even,
and Twisted Minds, like, just put down a complete beatdown,
I feel like VP is crucial that they come into the series relatively hot,
that they don't lose momentum, like, yes, they just won their ticket to Japan.
You know, you could easily kind of, like, lose your tension as a team
because of a big, you know, meaningful result like that to the squad.
But if you come into this Twisted Minds match thinking,
Ah, well, we already did it, you know, it's all good, let's just do our best, like you're gonna get destroyed, you're gonna get melted on the server, so you need to really have that heat, so big testing for VP and their ability to maintain that.
I mean, we saw Curtis Pro really rattling the confidence of GK, that's just not really something we see any team do to Twisted Minds, because even yesterday when GK kind of made them work for it, you know, they made them sweat.
Twizzlemind still felt so confident and so good about their game plan that they also just busted out like completely different comps, you know, like poke comps coming out on Havana, like they're not scared of trying something new.
VP, they locked in today on what they know they're the best at, you know, like it is at Zario comp.
You see Saiko and Tracer and Emre, I love that look much more than when they're implementing the vendetta.
I think if they're just playing to their strength, that's probably their best chance.
I think a lot of it comes down to like what Jake was talking about.
He's like, okay, you know, I'm sure you've been a part of Team Stake where it's like,
all right, yeah, sure, we qualified, everybody's celebrating the team house and you have another game.
It's like, oh, okay, let's just go back and play it.
Like, or if, you know, the break in between means it's like, okay, what strategies do we have planned for TM?
We really want the number one seed, we want that extra cash.
Like how much weight they put on this game as opposed to just getting in two champions clash
I think you'll have a good idea or sense of that pretty early on
Yes, I'm naming definitely some cash to play for here and being that that that title holder
But you know, it's just I think the nature of this challenge is even more extreme because not only have you
Secure to get to land but now you're playing the team that was untouchable in the regular season
And so it's like, well, what's going to change now?
You know, TM is a very much a matchday team,
like from what they've been saying,
like they go even harder in matchdays.
They were feeling like, hey, maybe if you
weren't playing that well in scrims,
so massive wall stacked up against here, you know,
as Virtus Pro.
But I think for them, you know,
you kind of have to throw caution to the win.
I think you're going to have to push the pace,
push the aggression, and just be willing to go down
to scrappy, chaotic fights.
I think if you want to play a clean game against TM
and play things slow, I just don't think
you're gonna be able to keep up. I think you just need to be as aggressive rather as
humanly possible here to try to sneak a map off the chains.
They're gonna take those wrists here, whatever possible, land in the chair. That's something
that they initially weren't confident in doing so. So heading into today's match, they just,
they did go for that ult. They did go for those push. They did go trying to get a
flank, a sneaky kill in. So that's kind of what you need to do to get an advantage
against Twisted Mind. It's gonna be an uphill battle regardless going up against the greats that are
Twisted Minds. Look at their predictions. I think it'd be crazy to go VP. Like, yeah, I mean,
it's no key. I'd have to report you for that. Like, it's Twisted Minds. They got this. Even
in a longer series, I might give VP a map here, but that's about it.
I don't even know if I'd go that far. I'm gonna say TM like they've been so good so consistent
I think there's a map. Maybe it's like early map one or two right where
VP's coming in pretty hot off the last series a lot of confidence. Maybe they kind of come in and kind of ride that
Feels like once team though kind of settles down. It'll be tough
Yeah, I agree
I think the longer series, you know further favors a team that's as good as twisted minds especially because VP
You know, this is a challenge coming out of the lower bracket. It's a long day to stay stay focused to stay on point
This is a very high-paced comp in the meta right now
So a lot to do from the individuals on verse pro had to go for TM in this sort of an obvious pred
I'm with you guys though. I think it's I think it'd be a big deal at first broken make them bleed like I mean a foro beatdown
Like it sets the stage for champions clash that VP are gonna be kind of capped on what they can accomplish on an international land
I mean, maybe they could still do well if if like TM is still the best team
But yeah, if you're getting destroyed 4-0 by anyone in the world, you know
It's kind of a bad taste in your mouth going on to an international land
Like if your team that believes you can be a champion feels like you can't be going down 4-0
It just feels like it's sort of incongruous with the possibility of contending for you know, the world title here in Japan
Yeah, you never want to get rolled in a grand finals
No matter if it's a stage grand final or like the championship grand final just does not feel good
It's also unfair to the people who need some extra time in order to get their drops
And that's why I want to once again remind everyone to
Connect your best friend account to your twitch account and start collecting right now. I'm almost through
I'm almost at like that the 15 hour loop box is I can taste it
It's right there. We're so close. We're even here
Yeah, I've been here for three days, but it's almost there
So, you know VP if you can be a homie get a mapper to or dead people do it for the people
That'd be great. That'd be swell.
So, yeah.
Hold the line, Virtus.pro.
Hold the line, Virtus.pro.
Drop in an extra pause.
Did I just jinx it?
Oh, why did you jinx it?
It's on Saturday.
It's on Saturday.
All right.
Wow, take one.
I never jinxed anyone.
So this is the first, you know, seven years.
We'll see.
It had to happen eventually.
But let's see. Let's see.
We'll take up in stuff first.
It's grand finals time here in Stage 1.
stage one, EMEA, it's Virtus.Pro going up against Twisted Minds.
Twisted Minds, absolute Goliath here in EMEA.
I mean, so far untouched, haven't dropped a map.
The 5-0 doesn't even do it justice.
Like, the 5-0, right, without good they've been.
I mean, these are 5-0, all blowouts, running through people.
Now, Landon, I think, kind of saw a little bit
what we saw was that EK definitely made them
like lead a little bit at times the other day,
but still it was not good enough
you can get close to like a win.
Right, Geeky had chances,
but it's not like, you know,
TM, they clutched those chances.
They took those chances away.
It was like, oh, you had an opportunity.
You failed.
I'm better, you know?
Like, so it's like, yes.
It's, you gotta create those opportunities
by having really strong team play.
And you need to actually capitalize on them
by being able to take it down to the 1v1s.
You know, I think for Vertus Pro, it looks like Tm are going to yield the first ban, VP are going to ban the Juno and Tracer kind of surprisingly taken away for Tm.
But Tm with J-Woo, they showed a lot of willingness to play Vendetta on Lijiang Tower with Tracer banned.
It's sort of an interesting one.
I think VP are actually a team that doesn't really like playing the farm compared to some other squads.
But yeah, you might feel like you would need to to kind of, I mean, is this Lijiang Tower like this is a very, very good map for Pharah.
at least on gardens of all points right like I kind of would hope to see them play far here
Yeah, I mean we have seen them play a little bit of the farra
And I think you're probably with you know the vanguetta gonna be coming out from like J
Right, you're probably gonna one either one either match the vendetta right trying to go head to head against it or
Get them to go something else like maybe with that far in the mix. So we've seen the teams like
Now you'll see the Pharah come out, then maybe we see like an Echo right when Tracer's not in the mix to kind of get them off of that.
Pharah and we see some weird comps, take a look at the bracket.
I'll show you guys how we got here.
TM3O3O will see what happens in this series as VP, they lose that round, won against DK, and then they battle back through Lowers to secure their spot at Champion Slash.
In a wild bracket here, I think we're definitely going to see them come back with a vengeance
next stage.
They have shown such incredible threats on the lineup that you put them in a dive meta
and just let Alphie cook.
They're getting so much done on Tracer in a rushed meta where it is not easy to show
that kind of dominance.
So definitely going to be a team to watch the rest of season.
Of course, their journey for this stage ends here.
VP and TM battling now, not just for drag rights,
to be the number one seed at the champ in the NBA,
but also quite a bit more cash on the line here.
For TM though, it's like, they've almost got to be thinking
this is a four count conclusion.
When you have the run that they've had this stage,
you believe you almost can't lose.
You know, it starts to just, it's inevitable.
Like, when you haven't lost in this long,
you start to forget what it's like.
And so I think for VP, it all starts with one.
It's got to be that like first to trickle then a flood kind of a moment to make this series winable
And like you said, I don't think I don't like their odds if we don't really deep in the series
I think it's like you need to come out of the gates absolutely swinging
You need to catch twisted minds a little overconfident a little bit sleepy momentum you have exactly exactly maintain
The Tracer band
Definitely gonna complicate things on the drink hour
I actually kind of like it from TM because I think psycho for me has not looked as good on the far like he's been serviceable
But for J. Woo, I think it's an extremely comfortable pick and if gardens for our first map to
If you have any desire to play the far right like this is where you bring it out
Actually, it's a big deal to roll this map first with the tracer van
Yes, we'll see maybe both teams end up playing a little bit of far
But we believe twisted mind will end up doing so where yeah, I think of your verse pro
So we, I mean, so we, I, I jinxed it the other day and then I, I, I purposely didn't say it today.
You guys are crazy.
And then so I'm scared of the first one.
Hey, you're here.
So you're, you're complicit as well.
It's not like you can just walk away.
Me?
I'm complicit.
I'm like, I think we're getting a full PC restart here eventually.
So, I think we're getting like, what are they gonna do?
They're gonna do a disc cleanup,
making sure you have scan and repair on Overwatch.
We're gonna get like a whole PC sweep here.
Stop, stop, stop, stop.
We don't know anything.
We don't know anything.
We're just getting sorted.
Yeah.
Just start the match off.
We're getting a hard drive is being reformatted here
just to have Overwatch on it.
All right, they're building a fire
to get the steam engine rolling
to generate power for their house.
And once we get enough coal in the furnace, we should be able to get this one moving.
I can't believe we're here.
We're training a team of hamsters, running the wheel to power the PC, the monitor.
So I mean, rolling that map first, like you mentioned, Garmadon is pretty huge, right?
This is like the best bar map on the Lijian Tower, right?
So getting this on the first go, really good.
Four twisted minds obviously they want to come out potentially play some far there with J.Woo
Take a look at the twisted mind roster is
J.Woo's been playing basically every game
I imagine Yubi will kind of like be there when the sim comes into the mix and maybe some other stuff right but for now
I mean they look too good at this lineup. Yeah, you know I mean I think
The way J.Woo's playing the guy is looks like a star in the making and not even in the making
He's already here. He has come onto the scene. Such a huge splash.
I felt like we saw sort of the glimpses of it last year.
But, you know, it just wasn't a successful enough team around him
to really unleash the full potential, which we're seeing now.
And for TM, it's like crazy huge shoes to fill
to come into a World Championship team,
crazy pressure on a young player.
And when in that environment,
somebody comes out as hot as Javelin has,
it really just dispels any doubt you could have had
about his future as a player.
Like this guy is gonna be on top of the world and maybe already is there just a matter of climbing that stage lifting that trophy
The people out there jakers telling a
TM take their time getting back into this one. They want to farm for drops, right?
Maybe build a instead of restarting your PC to build a whole new one now while we while we wait
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Listed Minds, as expected hovering that far and like you're saying, if you're rolling this map first, you're gonna play far here anyway.
But you might be able to take far into other rounds with the perks unlocked which makes sure a lot more viable I think on some of the maps that maybe aren't as favorable.
That is true. Let's see what Psycho decides to do. So he will match the Pharah, so
hey, I think you're predicting the Pharah on the other side of things, right? With Wyss in mind.
Oh, wait, hold on. I'll psych-
Funk there. Psycho with a double. That is a great start for Virtus.Pro.
You'll take it, right? It's essentially a pre-team fight win.
You know, it happens because J.Woof doesn't.
TP tries to get there a little bit early on the Pharah.
And the TP out from Virtus.Pro means they're across the bridge before the Boop can really be a threat to them.
You can see over the beauty. Just seeing choices is giving me a lot of pressure on him here.
He didn't get done with my full aggression now, taking it to Psycho, trying to attack it,
but IZone is going to have a lot of random play, but simple, just big cycles that off of it.
And even into the backline, it's looking scary, fixing low.
First pro, still to fight for this one, because IZone is just getting swaps around
it from all sides. He does drop the Boosio, but Iva in the backline.
It's not such a feels bad for her to throw though.
Yeah.
I mean, you get the double conch, right?
They swap D.Va, and then they get right over to the point.
They didn't get the single just with a-
No, a symbol of the Kuna.
It just, you know, takes our second right away.
Okay, what do you think about this?
The Vendetta now.
So Vendetta, obviously there's no way you can block any of this damage from the D.Va's perspective, right?
So it's gonna be very difficult to play into.
Just kind of a constant splash damage from J.U.T.
I like it though.
I don't want you to play slow against Quartz.
That, I know for sure.
What's like if you do getting into the backline definitely get into some aggression this type of VP
But then made and the spam just drops kevster before the fight that can begin a boop off of TV and teeth and funny
Asco combining
Psycho find one and a second
No way you're gonna be able to brawl that one out and
Man, yeah, it's not looking good Matt override override protocol for court in a
barrage available
Interesting enough, TBNT starts off on the Zarya, gets knocked off, comes back on the VIVA,
just, you know, they're still kind of sitting above in terms of the old charge here.
He's gonna have to self-destruct already.
He's a barrage.
Suzu, the lacing for now.
Gonna find the counter kill though, on Ryu.
I signed by Shizuha, they're fighting really strong inside of these rooms.
Because they might not really get any opportunity to pop their ults, they're still gonna send it with the self-destruct just to remake.
But, that does create an opportunity for Virtus.pro to grab the flip.
A 4-repeat for VIXA.
Okay, Quartz does have the Override Protocol over the top, and you can respect that right
now.
You see that sentiment there?
That gives a lot of space to meet the end-point control.
Border Play 4 in this round is now, and Kevser is trying to open things up.
Big spam on the bridge, very hard to cross, even with that Consune and Roshan.
Big old crump, twisted mind, but he's getting essentially no value, and Kevser over
the top just dominates all comers.
Yeah, that was fantastic there from Kev, right?
I think the TM feels like they can fight that there with that Consune and Roshan
You can get over the bridge, maybe from the defense matrix there, from TDNT, you'll go back to Zarya here.
So, you're gonna look to play a little bit closer to the mirror outside of playing that Vendetta.
You still want to have J.Woo up in the sky on that bar, just trying to make Psycho pay for the aggression on the Vendetta.
It looks like that's the point, yeah.
It was J.Woo here for just a second, so trying to draw some players back.
It's that VP starting to battle back into this.
During blade, Pop from Psycho, just zoning players away for now. Hard to give value out of that too much in this fight.
Trying to cross the bridge though into Aizam's grab, TBT trying to bait it on himself. Aizam patient though, looking for an opportunity to find more.
It is yielding a bit of position to Twisted Minds who have kind of crossed into a safer position on the map.
The rush comes out from landed now, Twisted Minds slip. How are we gonna play this? Trying to bunker off in the room.
Aizam sending it in deep grab. On to the Amizariya. Beat comes in, but the damage might be good enough.
Psycho trying to later than Fixus is the one who finds the finishing kill onto his opposite number.
Simple though, trading us a Psycho into this one is just a mind-spite the low HP they're still battling,
but think Icedom kept her just too healthy to do this one.
And Twisted Minds, I mean, some big pick-offs to open up the map, but Virtus.Pro have come rowing back here on Lee Jain Tower.
Oh, and I mean now Virtus.Pro, you're in the great spot to take this round, right?
I mean, Fixus got beef here, and they're not gonna have a grab built up.
It'll be probably just a jay. We'll try and get a touch. What's actually gonna be
Yeah, we get the touch. It's gonna be cool already following it up there with the overwrite protocol as
You're gonna hold on to this beat that's gonna allow him to get back into it. Yeah
Retake does feel a little bit scary, you know retaking this point in the barrage is rough right far to play inside that point
He's so deadly. You've got a rush and very soon to grab as well
So, Psycho, I like going back to the far here.
I keep the Vendetta.
We essentially just die to grab into the Rage, and we wouldn't really be able to play the
game into the Rage.
So, maybe with this beat, there's an opportunity, but Twisted Mind's in clear pole position
to take the round.
Kevster can open up with the Override Protocol, though, and, in fact, he's trying to change
this tempo.
It's hard to just try to get aggressive.
They pop the rush themselves.
Kevster, he's being down in the sky by force, and the beat comes in over the top.
Big grab for Rage, though.
He eats them all up, and J-Bo is pretty good.
He seals the field.
Twisted Minds. They take this round one, just landed the caps, they're strapping for their lives.
In the end, Combo has old as time. A little bit scary for Twisted Minds.
They're definitely too close for comfort, but in the end, this is their first map of the day, and they still get that opening round done.
Yeah, it's a close one, right? But still, they are able to pull it out in the end.
I did like a lot what we saw from Virtus Pro, though, making it pretty tough.
tough is, take a look at some of the stats, 14 and 3 there from Quartz, 7700 damage there
so a pretty good start for the MRA of Twisted Minds. I mean dude, like it's even silly to
be like, oh yeah like what if like Quartz and Jeyu have a bad game? They're so consistent.
Like, like, Quartz specifically, I can't really, like I cast so much EMEA last year.
I can't really think of like a time where it's like,
Quartz actually had a rough game.
Like, I always typically play pretty strong in the hitscan role.
Bro does not have rough games.
I mean, we're looking at the best hitscan in the world right now,
and I don't even think that's a wild call to make.
No, I don't think it is.
See what you can find.
Kepster's opportunity up.
It's a pressure in Jaewoo.
Take some heat.
That's kind of boost away.
Kepster on a cheeky little wide angle here.
It's going to have to go back to main though,
and that's an opportunity.
Big playing from Quartz is actually scouted out
by Kepster's aware of this.
Now, Quartzrides is trying to defend it.
I's not gonna get the point, but just in my eyes,
trying to go for a gamble flank.
They lose the point because of it.
Cycle fighting that spam kill on the simple
is really gonna hurt now for TM
as they look to just back out of regroup.
Yeah, TM take a lot of damage early on.
Just kind of take like mid map
and then VP's able to get over towards that point.
And then, you know, we know Simple's so aggressive.
They're probably trying to hunt the kill on the cycle there.
And Cycle with some rockets just kind of
finishes him off.
So, I'm saying Ashrow and Quartz working on a little bit of a side angle there,
put some serious damage in his side, so it's an 8-tier from Quartz going into the backline.
TDNC's stepping up on the point, putting some cat pressure on, you gotta respawn to this side,
he's gonna step up and take the trade, here comes Virtus Pro, following him behind that Zarya.
He's spanned damage from both sides, a lot of point pressure, though, being cut up by TDN,
they grab the flip for free.
Nice solo, dude.
Yeah, he just can't stop it, the spam is just too good here,
he's not even really able to recover his health bar.
He has to swing around, trap the mega pack, he's gonna hit a big backline,
but customized Wasteo tries to continue to push the aggression, taking out Kevster.
Might just have to be a regroup here.
Orphor to Proler, hot for the spot, times the landing, does that take you out of second bubble?
He needs everything to live there on the carry.
It is going to be a fast reset at the end of the day, but these teams are just really dancing on the edge, right?
No one wants to be caught making mistakes, both teams looking for those cheeky free picks.
No, I mean, but he's going to allow VP to land in living here.
He's going to farm off this Katsune Reshloff.
Both sides can work for the big advantage though, in terms of the overwrite protocol, right?
Going to have that kind of spam into this rush is, okay, it'll be Cortex again, taking it out by cycle, which is huge, right?
You actually don't have that overwrite protocol available, it's going to be a sound barrier here.
From Virtus Bro, funny Ashur does not have his off at the moment, there's just a few more members here of TM, we will fall.
So VP end up using double support out there to get it flipped back in their favor.
It's honestly a risky play from Vix to defeat that one, because hey, if that goes wrong, you know, you can't get kills early, the grab comes in, you can easily lose the fight there, but that's the kind of risk that Virtus.pro has to be willing to take.
They paid off with him last series, now they have grabbed Barrage, I don't fucking feel like I'm the court.
Certainly gonna be assisted by other damaged players there, but those spam kills on the walk-up are really gonna take a bite out of the clock now.
Just in my eyes, I think they have their ultimates, like they would have loved to be able to send it there.
That was an opportunity for Landon and Fix to kind of work on the catch up, try to get one more ult cycle before the end of the round.
Yeah, I mean it's a massive pick off there from Ice, he's gonna get ports coming through the show.
He says his overwrite protocol for like two fights in an hour will actually allow him to get one of the maximum damage he can grab.
He's gonna grab, he's gonna beat Soundbarry here from Twisted Minds, then J.U. with the extra damage up at the top.
It's one that you can't really battle into if you're vertus pro, right?
I mean they've grabbed in beat you end up using your own grab your overwrite protocol
And they should they use their barrage as well and that's what's on his overwrite protocol
So maybe should have been a little bit closer than that even that fight with all the old minstons in but the sound barrier
Just really affected from funny asterisk. Yeah, I feel like you had to go first there
But twisted minds they took the tempo away j-woo playing from I'm what big person
on a TVNT though, caught in no man's hand?
Okay, now Gortz is gonna try and fight this one back
with an overriding protocol,
T-Boo's gonna fix about a major stabilizing factor.
Gortz is good, but man,
Psycho big aerial directs, Kevser cleans it up.
T-Boo's back on the D.Va for a fast final fight.
And Virtus Bro, in position to take control,
that early pick on a TVNT came out of nowhere,
a rare mistake from T-M in the front line.
Yes, I mean, having no hunting for kills here,
you have to be so careful if you're just in mind
not end up losing anybody. It's gonna be simple here using the Kitsune here
so the front line ice is taking a lot of damage. Dangerously low.
No Suzu D. He's going to fall so it looks like here though it'll be VP
they'll get it to 99 and then it'll flip. So this in mind has to be perfect
from here on out. VP though Jake gonna come back with a Kitsune rush
all but their own. So it's gonna be ice on this whale going over to D.
He's just trying to get a touch. Oh no, it's gonna touch now. It's got to be ice on
to do it maybe with the rush might be able to get through but they're taking so much damage in the
way and incredible aggression from them. They know that desperation doesn't have to come in.
I'm already in the suit you have the rush but it's really just manning here to stand tall.
Hester finds one in the fight but needs more than that. Hold on. Some are living quite some time
and eventually J.Witch cleans it up on point. The barrage will seal the deal. What a boob off
from J-Woo. Oh man. Are you kidding me? That is tough there. If you're a psycho, I mean a sick
boob there from J-Woo. Nothing he can really do about it, right? You know, he kind of goes for that,
you know, flank there on the vendetta. You've got to get around that corner and get over towards
the point. And J-Woo just kind of reads it, goes exactly what's about to go down.
There's a very good map number one between these two teams, but unfortunately, it is the same result as usual.
It's Twisted Mines taking map number one.
Yeah, I feel like J.Wool on the far, I was a huge difference maker sometimes, right?
Finding the key pick offs, like opening up a lot of fights.
Kind of nice big move to start this game off.
But even from that, Twisted Mines can recover.
Signs of life, and I will say in fairness, like, this is what happens when T.M. finds a way to get an edge on the draft, right?
so often they're more or less ignored by hero bands and not really looking for the edge, but here I think
Jeyu definitely had the edge like the clean follow-ups on the grab barrage more often than not. I mean
Twisted Mines definitely looked really drilled with the style. Yeah I mean Twisted Mines I mean
even some of these fights that you know looked like VP had an advantage Jeyu with a nice barrage
there into the grab still able to kind of pull out. So we did see a little bit of
I noticed some diva action from TV and TV and the final moments. I thought the evil is pretty good
It is time. Okay, so the call over the top in it
Yeah, the con comes in before he actually gets around the corner to start making the play because I don't think
After they fix some of the bugs in the dead, I don't think you can make it around the corner to the point
I think it's like way too far
You used to be able to I think with like some of the weird like repeated overhead slash bugs
But I don't think you could do that anymore. I think he just has to walk cleanly like that
I think that's I think you can do like the the spin with the perk to get the extra one and then the leap over
Yeah, maybe you know sometimes you do the leap where you can
You can kind of like be hobbit and then kind of go I think you can make it
We've seen teams do it because I know I know it's earlier when the character
Maybe like you could like change the overhead slash over and over and over again by like canceling it and you could go really
Really far in the air, but I don't think you could I think that's been fixed
I've been playing it up and down to tell you we've we've seen it any M.E.A.
Like you know unless it's been fixed in the last like two weeks
Maybe maybe it doesn't work maybe with you right with that slash purse with the whirlwind perk to get around the corner
But regardless, I think that's what you're trying to do
He was like trying to whirlwind like and get over towards that side and I think he actually got conked
I think it's really do it. It has to be like perfect perfect really clean plays and yeah
I mean J-woo just sees it coming a mile away man. That's a rare place to see a concoct on farra like great read
That I mean hey great start for twisted minds
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It'll be Atlas, the map pick here for Virtus.Pro.
VP had a pretty good map number one, right?
All things considered, obviously it doesn't result in a map win.
She feel like it's a lot of what we say in a lot of these series.
Okay, so Azaria banned from Virtus.Pro. Maybe they want to play some Maga. Maybe they want to play some Hazard
And it'll be an Emory ban here
14m. I mean we really don't see Emory banned that often because it's a hero that a lot of teams want to play.
Does VP
Is VP
Seeding their ban to do this? Like it's interesting. Yeah, I guess see him ban Emory first, which is kind of an interesting opener
I will say for a player like Quartz
Actually, again though, like once again for TM, I think this is actually, you know, for
the team not having coached is a well-coached band, right?
Like I think that the Taser Band on map 1...
The Taser Band not having a coach.
I mean, you know, honestly, it's a really smart band, like, because I think band in
the Taser Map 1, clearly Jay would be more comfortable on the Farra, and I think for
Kevster, I think he's going to be much more comfortable on the Emory, like, for
Quartz, he's going, oh no, I got to play Socher, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
He's going to play Socher in a Cassidy?
What a disaster.
What a disaster!
Not that he's bad on those heroes, but I think Emory as a tracking hit scan is going to be a little bit more comfortable for him a little bit of a stronger option that like in the hard like, you know, aim, doler single point of click hit scan that is course bread and butter right that's where courts really made his name as a hit scan player.
So again, I think it's a really smart band that gives TM an edge that they might not need but just goes to show there's so many layers to this team.
team they're coming in not overconfident I think to have bands like this they
clearly thought about this really deeply yes and with the Zarya band potentially
some Boga from VP potentially you also could get some hazard I think for TM
right you're gonna see probably like D.va right we see like Tracer D.va I
know with like maybe like a Soge type of action here as we go to Atlas which
which TM already up 1-0 in the series, we're going to keep that map streak alive.
I mean, a 4-0 here in the final would be impressive.
Is this a Moga?
I mean, when you baned, I kind of feel like,
this is minds are going to feel like they can beat the Moga with D.Va as well.
But I do think the matchup is at least more winnable for Moga
because now you can't see people from the stomps as D.Va, right?
Whereas Zarya, that seems to kind of dominated the matchup.
You just bubble up somebody that they're going to get stomped.
Maga's kind of overextended and he's not getting the kill that he thought he was gonna be able to find so
Chaotic, I mean these both teams down throwing real wrenches in the works in terms of like what are the meta bands and picks on the map
I mean you kind of see what?
VP to CPC double flex
Kevster tracer
Tracer tracer been data here with the diva so okay really aggressive here
I love this from Virtus Pro. Don't match up against Quartz on the hard-hit scan. Take the pace to them
Bring your style bring your unique look
Let's see what works out though Matt
I mean you could even ambition like it twisted lines like this. It could be like a Quartz Cassie slot potentially
The aggression comes in too big. Yeah
Bring in that damage just in lines holding back for now staying alive trying to weather the storm here
This first brush of the first procedure got the edge
Vendetta sticking in on TDNT's D.Va and the kills not coming in for force not enough space for him to work with. Simple does take down Vanded
But the two already off the field here. Looks like Twisted Minds might just find themselves on a quick reset
And the Kessler Tracer back again
Just like all the time. Yeah, it's a no the Susie's used pretty early there from Twisted Minds
They don't have it to be able to kind of heal TDNT up
but it gives you a little bit of an extra moment of life there.
That's going to need to slide out from Quartz already, so starting off pretty strong here for VP.
I like the way VP are playing this. You're playing all lower. They're really dangerous to them.
Like, you can sit up here all day and go, ooh, eventually Quartz is going to find this opportunity.
He takes over here, he takes a big pick at the base, but I'm not going to see it for now.
He's dealing with the player banners, they need the cap light, they need to clean out Vertistro.
They're going to look kind of desperate as they step into the plate.
I'm not like a positive for the pressure. Nice damage from Capstone to Quartz, but eventually player advantage is just gonna be too much.
Just advise, find it and clean up. Just takes one kill to give it the edge.
I mean, do Quartz, like, when we're on his POV, he is just on the run all the time, right?
I mean, he is like, the vendetta's in his face, then it's the diva.
He's like sliding away, constantly moving. Still, I will put down some serious damage, but I think if like VP keeps committing and like going that hard act Quartz raid and PM's able to keep him alive,
If you only get a matter of time before TVNT and J.Woo are gonna start finding some picks.
Definitely need to be successful with these dives right without the hit scan.
You're gonna really lack in the frontline pressure department.
But pressuring the point yields results. Fixa, an uncharacteristic killer, J.Woo.
He must have died without recall there. He's got bursted down so early to fight a rare mistake here.
From the young fiend on J.Woo and it's gonna give the flip over for free.
Twisted mines don't mind committing others into this fight without their tracer.
I didn't think it would have had like no Suzu or something like that.
It's gonna be a sound barrier with Katsune Rush used from both teams here.
Absolutely getting very close here to taking the point.
But this should be a good time for my fight for this pro, right?
They love that kind of chaos, all that AoE damage being pumped in ports.
OC, it takes Kevser's head off and he gets run over in exchange.
Fix that nice Nami.
finishing the plate now, and J.Woo, back into this one, but it's just him and TD and T.
Not even a self-destructive he committed. Yeah, TD and T correctly raids. They are done with this first last point.
And okay, VP, showing real signs of life with an innovative comp.
In theory, we've been talking about this for the team. Like, you haven't shown it really yet.
This team could be insane in a double flex meta.
With the Emra Band, I actually think that really helps VP to bring this style out.
I can, what can Twisted Minds do, J.Q., to adjust, right?
I mean, uh, quartz obviously under pressure the entire time you see right there, it just
ice them getting directly in his face, he's gonna slide out, and that's gonna give D.P.
a little bit of an image over here by the point, yes, I go, he's gonna be nice to do
there on the psycho, allowing him to stay on in.
I think you gotta see a slot here at a T.M., I mean, they're getting bullied.
Oh, as you say that, though, the dual's getting a little bit messy, it's abstract
available for both Divas.
Epsthronized ones first time, I'm nice I'm rather first ones to touch the point, the twisted
mind's a little bit healthier, I'm gonna be forced to back out here.
Will the flit come in for Tm, it would be massive to be able to find early, recall out from
J.Lew.
Trying to pressure this point but you don't want to get this over from Green, Epsthron's
right back into the mix, so I go soon to follow here, all of the data over the
top, with the southern blade, scaring away these Tm players.
Opportunity for the full cap, as the blade comes down we might see yet another touch
come in, Tm.
Fighting for every single inch now.
TDNT does have some trouble.
I don't think that's course.
I actually find scores, yeah.
And the first sub-destruct already pulled out of TDNT,
Murtis-Pro, such mobility on this top,
there's like no one for you to go on.
Feels like he just doesn't have a target.
And this strat is paying off big time now for VP Quartz,
has uncharacteristically been quiet on this one.
We said this guy never has a bad game,
but what is he supposed to shoot at in this one?
Well, no, I mean, he's gonna get just bullied back, right?
as J.Woo's gonna go over to the Vendetta, so maybe they feel like this is the swap they need.
It's not Kev kind of lurking with the whole spawn here, but they have really neutralized Quartz.
There's no options here. There's so much burst, it might be a little scary to play Tracer,
and Vendetta could get a lot down in the frontline, but still gotta be scared of this.
I mean, it's hard for Quartz to really get an angle. This is quite a close-off flashpoint.
Once again, though, they're trying to step up off the gun. So looking capture,
now right into the backline, beating down the Suzu Akilia would be huge over the fight,
He does get the Suzu out, Rush is now traded from Simple Unlanded, but a much better fight for Virtus Pro.
They bring the beat down as well.
They get the team like, you're on Twisted Minds. Just simple, try to get that teleport back to spawn,
but can't quite find the timing for the cooldown on Virtus Pro.
They're gonna spawn camp here. I don't think there's any reason to back off.
I mean, we have not seen Twisted Minds bullied like this in a very long time.
The Virtus Pro, as a look, phenomenal here. That's gonna be the summary there for Twisted Minds.
Basically in their spawn trying to find out of it there. I still don't even know if that's gonna be some of two
I mean yeah, I saw a two and the point oh the point actually gets flipped somebody here at J. Woo actually ends up flipping the point here
You get this bunch of you gonna give a it's gonna give Tiana a little bit of signs of life
That's a great play from VP. You know somebody has to come touch it over time
So you take the fight at the spawn to TN battle well enough where it's still in contention
You be those take the point put right back high some has the self-destruct and dive in deep into the backline
running over simple here this year though
I'm gonna try and fight for with the baby
even the pistol is out, OC, port ports,
this time you're on the server
with that kill on the cycle, the flip coming in,
another one back up back on the landing
we may have done just enough to get on the soldier
just get as many, we've dropped game port so far
but there's an incredible level of pressure
on him to perform right now.
That seems like the game plan for Virtus.Pro, right?
Just as much pressure as possible
that we put on the ports
and dude I mean VP losing this flashpoint though
Like in in particular would be brutal right now you get up in you get up into their base
You force their beat basically in spawn and then jaywoo just gets behind you and ends up flipping it
You end up losing the point off it
I mean that would be brutal as jaywoo's gonna have that thundering blade here coming up self-destruct as well for CD&T
So gonna be able to solve a point down for a very long time
Jericho under pressure simple is gonna be public enemy number one right now
He's trying to hold on to these skills trying to hold on to these CDs for a later day
But instead he gets dropped, capture with a melee, takes him out of the fight, the swarm, strong for VP, but Psycho runs out of gas now.
He's up the high ground to find the cleanup, and cleanup he does, quarts with the slide, a second slide as well, might be able to get him out of trouble, but won't keep him in the fight and see B&T.
Once again, he's gonna have to give up a point, doesn't get in the self-destruct, doesn't see the road to victory.
Virtus.pro find themselves up to on a flashpoint and on the verge map of doing something no one else has done this year, showing that twisted minds can bleed.
It's been so impressive on Virtus Pro. I mean absolutely dominant here on Atlas.
Being able to use this tracer bandana comp and just all-out aggression. The
M-Ray ban there from TM and then I think probably the biggest one is Aurea
being gone right on lock. I'm kind of like the diva with this all-out aggression.
It'll be Twisted Minds getting to the clean first here.
TVNT still holding on that. It's also just like he talked about didn't want to invest in that fight.
nice overhead swing there from Psycho next on the one on the game one on the TVNT
here comes the aggression diving in sundry late over the top hard to get away
from this to cleanse actually delayed by the drop down actually
Bealu does end up losing his head to that one court
he needs to find more in this fight with the initial gush out of the way
murders pro struggling out to stay alive symbols gush on the point land
it's gonna responding kind of risk his hand to put this one out
why is that kill the symbols that ship out from Isdham
he even forced the funny Astros a twisted line which the absolute ranks
We need to recommit to finish this fight. The boys still not in control of ports now. Once again, under pressure.
We need all the four of them. They're looking for more. They need to finish some kills. They need to finish their play.
But twisted mind, I think they're holding the line here. That one's going to absolutely wire a crazy Scrap.
The TM coming for air with the point.
Yeah, the beat from Fixer there connects with him and Kevin does not actually get Ice Nome, so not able to keep the tank alive there for VP.
and that is very twisted by it's can breathe a little bit of a sigh of relief as they finally get
control over a point first is okay there's some pressure down a nice shot there from course not
enough to finish him off but from COC but he's under massive pressure he's dropping low supports
though doing everything to keep ports alive the ports delivers for the squad who kills so
far in the fight you'll see dominating now it's his turn to go in aggro he's up after now on the
the run. He was looking for that punish, but he's just a little bit too slippery.
I come down to one final fight here on the flash white. This is mine, but they're pushed
against the wall. That seems to be when they're the most threatening cornered animal, man.
You do not want to take it easy when it comes to finishing the fight.
Now, no real ultimates coming in for this one, right?
I know TN a little bit further ahead in terms of support ultimates, but not going
to be impactful in this fight. You do have TVNT with this self-destruct skill,
So, could play quite aggressive, maybe make a play for the backline, but I'm really looking
at a course.
Any farm up, like a rail gun shot, maybe take somebody out, we'll put a fight in and kick
it off.
It was doing a great job blocking Isom's progress, the sports just basically played
the point.
Now, Funny Astro kind of dueling in the backline, it's course though, refined for fly.
Bout Kepster, and if he tries to finish this one off, Ertus pro now, and I feel
like they've got to get aggressive, TNT takes this opportunity to respond in kind,
punish an enemy support to BV, and he's gonna be bleeding out of this one.
Flashpoint was a little bit more open space and sports all he needs is a little bit of
Rube to work.
Let him cook.
He's not out of this one yet.
And Matt, there's some wide open flashpoints remaining on this map.
Like, you look at those first two and you think, oh, that went so great for this double
flex style.
It's not getting any easier for them, right?
You might be up 2-0, but you can't swap off of it, though.
You can't swap off of it.
No, you're all EP.
You have to, yeah, you have to be all in on this.
time I was talking about like okay they'll open it on both sides you know maybe
courts can find a pecky find Kev with the rail gun shot I think that's what you
would be worried about if he didn't consistently do that fix the dangerously
law when he's gonna get finished off by TVNZ.
Run that is good but Aiznom has found two of his own a third in the fight Aiznom!
The tank superstar Virtus Bro doing everything in this one.
It says we can clean up and I need to find the whole feed here.
TVNZ gonna die late the first flip for Virtus Bro I think that this is
their best chance flashpoint. This is the one with enough hard corners where it's
gonna be offered for Quartz to work. If Quartz gets the open space on that last
like flashpoint by the coast, I think you are in a dire straight, but Virtus
Pro all winning that fight puts them in pole position to close out flashpoint.
Yeah without a doubt, I mean now Quartz being able to sit high ground and
never look the point, not even with an overclock, but just real good shots,
he's so devastating. It's gonna be the overclock here used by Quartz. It's gonna be soundbite for both times.
The sundering of the World of Chords down.
Oh, that's huge.
That is Chords with the OC falling in the fight,
that Psycho and Cab looking for more.
Oh, big crits from Psycho.
He finds more.
I thought does drop.
Well, out of the suit, but I mean,
the rest of the team from Virtus.Pro not deterred.
Without their tank, still willing to chase,
still willing to look for more kills.
Fix up, trying to hunt down Jay Booba.
Dude, great move, but he slipped away from this one
and does stay alive to fight another day.
Twisted mines.
Gonna need their final fight to get a retake.
Let's do or die here on Atlas.
They step up to the plate, J-Wil with his own Sundering Blade.
Not much to work with here for Virtus Pro, but they're going to send it anyway.
That tree-hunger Thresh, we've been talking about today, but the Sundering Blade finds big damage.
I was already taking down Zippel, though.
And the sustain in the long fight now called into question.
Force was defined.
Caster takes down the Lucio. You've got to work with the health bar you have left.
The full-spawning from TvND, though, should seal the deal.
As Caster only going to delay the inevitable.
Just headed back to the spawn for a reset.
Gen, I mean, even with some nice ulti's like that one gets scary for TM, the support's struggling to stay alive.
Yeah, just see the amount of pressure that VP is putting on the Twisted Minds.
They're just kind of constantly, constantly, offing the pace, just seeing if they can cause any type of issues in the support line or where core is.
And here we go again, I mean these fights are just coming as fast as possible.
You see Quartz trying to slide away.
Warp's playing range. He needs to find an opportunity to get a shot in, but the pace is just oppressive from Virtus.pro.
They take a moment to slow down. Now looking in, trying to close that gap once again.
Twisted mind's 82 a beat. Funny Astro desperately looking to get that ultimate to close out this point, to stay alive here on Atlas.
Virtus.pro, though. He's willing to play things a little bit slower, willing to wait for a better opportunity.
All that time is, it's time for Quartz to work. It's time for Quartz to find these shots.
A versus A, but we'll get the connection. It does hit Psycho, but he blocks most damage from that.
I'm working here playing for Rush here.
Absolutely big, so he's gonna get a hold.
Now it's gonna come down to an absolute banger of an ult trade,
but that could be good for Virtus.Pro Landon.
Open for Rush now.
Heal's coming in, deep connection into the back side of the beat.
And then he goes on after him, with his low-thin-thousand-fixer,
though with a much better beat and response.
Both of them is good from Capitur.
Shots down!
Wards, and now Virtus.Pro still more to fight for
into this one, twisted mind.
They're four, but they're still fighting strong.
GD and T-Trona cycle keeps them alive,
simple on no HP at all,
and some of them are still alive into this one.
Eistam finally finishes him off into the self-destruct but the baby just cleans up
and with TB and T holding onto the self-destruct, Quartz coming back with Yossi.
Surely it's enough and thus landed.
Can baby bring this back? It's only a support snap from Furnace for holding onto this point
but they cannot back down. They cannot get off the OT contest and Twisted Minds.
Live another day. The pulse from Pesder made me a believer about Twisted Minds hold on.
I mean, Justin, the ability to clutch up there for TM is insane.
And then this is the point that we were worried about the Jake right lots of high ground open area
Quartz getting over there with an OC. He's got the OCD open too. Yeah, he's got a OCD open and TV
He's a Gretchen. He's a Virtus Pro. They're gonna pound on to this
They're gonna pass they're going in even before the point opens here comes Virtus Pro
Try to swarm it over the top Quartz no room to breathe
But he finds a moment to slip off to the side
He invades the rush for now trying to get that open
He's trying to get that angle to pop the OCD already instant head shot on the side who has to dash away
It's gonna be hard to get aggressive now Virtus Pro
Looking to slow things down, but will you be able to survive in a long slow fight?
Another slide back from Quartz will fix up.
Ends up being the odd man out, Einstein starting to drop low, Quartz finds another
disgusting kill on the land of this time.
Oh, she's just too much.
We're supposed to grab the cheeky little flit to open this fight,
as well as a late kill from Kepster on the simple.
Kepster can live here, it'll be quite nice.
Yeah, that rail misses from Quartz.
Maybe Kepster can dance out of this one.
Yeah, Kep does end up getting out with this slide, but just huge.
So it looks like they're actually gonna come back here rather quickly here, but fantastic start for twisted minds
I mean courts and just the supports being if I keep them alive extremely impressive
Castro's a huge advantage here in terms of a beat all that cycle going for the sundering blade. It's taking out
I just gets dropped and I stay alive TV and T pressuring the front line
Just in mind starting to hit their stride ports gonna comfort zone slides forward really to get aggressive
trying to clean up, trying to turn the tables on a Virtus Pro that has been upsparked
and really moving to change the dynamic in this series with twisted minds now with the firm hold in the series
winning back to back flash points 64% to the thirst
and I'm either gonna have double support all here or TM is gonna be landing opening things up here
with the Katsune rush over the point it's gonna be sound barrier used here behind Bunny Astro
CBNC will get up at the next back here gonna use the self-destruct just to get one back here
The consuming rush available here for Symbol is Lester.
They do take out Funny Astro though.
Hero and a Crucial Moment of the Rush might still be too much J-Boo for all the insiders.
They need to find more on Virtus.pro. They need to win the Staphylocite for that.
Or to start taking out Vixen J-Boo without enough HP to play with Isenom.
He needs to clutch this one out but might be able to do just that.
Landed has lived very well in this fight on a sliver of HP.
Way too close for Comfort but in the end,
I mean that's double support all committed for Tristamines and they can't close out the fight.
Big win for Burtis Pro.
Yeah, I mean, massive from Burtis Pro, right?
You're gonna have to fix up with his beat.
Needs to just kind of stay alive, right?
Quartz with this OC is so dangerous.
Burtis has beat 95.
Needs to bridge the gap. Does not want to lose his head to this one.
Super scary to beat for these last two percent points.
He's gonna go in anyway.
Aggression from Aizon.
And a beat from Burtis from Bixx.
And a double down.
Quartz, the headshot tries to peel him off for the moment.
But Bixxel with the help of the sound barrier,
you're fearless.
Parched into the backline.
Land and dropped into chaos.
Bixx defines another.
Lucio outstretched brawling this one out the last support alive for the team and twisted mines do it
They're trying to punish they're trying to find that counter kill as this fight starts to stagger up as we get down to the final
Moments of the mouth though
Virtus Pro on the verge of doing what no one else has done so far this year twisted mines quartz to the tracer
Desperation now as they look to hold on keep the streak alive
Virtus Pro smell blood in the water pushing forward attacking these spawners before they can touch any recall
They don't even get there. Yeah game Virtus Pro
ending the streak of one one
They poke the bear, Matt. They have poked the bear, but they can't believe what a unique map from Virtus.pro.
I would dare say no other team in the world could have played this map the way they did.
Oh, I mean that was unbelievable play from Virtus.pro. And even with that unbelievable play, it goes absolutely down to the wire to get a map win here against Twisted Minds.
I mean Duke have with only five deaths there. I mean 15k damage on the tracer
Looks phenomenal. You see no simple actually
I mean they did a great job just targeting the supports rain simple and funny ashro 1413 deaths
That is usually not where you see add to this back line
And it's just because you're playing this tracer then data diva just all out pressure on to simple and funny
Astro all game long that we take a look at some of the highlights a really great comp that comes out here from BP
Catcher also put that work in you got to remember it this guy's great at chaser
But he probably has not played chaser in a screaming fight sometimes like I mean that he's a hitscan for the TV
I you know that that psychos roll, but they just see the opportunity like without Emory Emory is a
Fantastic hitscan and like invading these kind of aggressive dives
Sojourn is good, but the slide is sort of a predictable cool-down.
When the slide comes out, she's committed, like, kind of know where she's going.
And if you have some double-down mobility, you can hunter down.
You kind of saw that this game.
Like, of course, still an absolute demon.
Like, it took at times, I mean, Dixit with this beat, right?
Hero.
Hero, like, he needs to get in, get this perfect loop on the course,
finish the kill, finding another finish onto Funny Astro as well.
Like, ooh, man, this one may be too close for Copper for Virtus Troll,
But for them it's gonna be a massive win to boost the spirits
Anything's possible to recreate it. Can you recreate it on another like MRA will be back to Zarya will be back
It'll be tough to replicate it through what I do think you see that like okay
Like if we play this all out and I think even with Landon's interview, right?
They talked about like hey like like double down like you know
So, there's a better chance, even if we lose a fight,
by maybe over-extending, using an ultimate here,
more times than not, it's gonna work out in their favor.
Even Soft Fixer trying to save, I think, ice
with the sound barrier at one point doesn't actually hit him.
It doesn't actually bother them that much
in the long run, right?
You're able to still battle back from it.
So, tremendous stuff from VP.
A rare, twisted mind map selection, right?
Usually only get this like pleasing tower. We're gonna give them an opportunity here now on the losing end
Yeah, the only map they pick so far this year. I think it's Lee shangtara
Realto that
This is a little map. This is a widow map. Watch yourself. You have anchored ports
I think this is a little map. Although playing widow opens you up to even on map like Realtos the potential for double flex is a punishing counter big
And I think VP actually correctly read, they don't want to deal with the poke comp, they're
going to ban the Zarya, but you can still force this, like absolutely for TN, they can
still force this.
And banning the D.B.A. for me is a sign that they absolutely want to play Widow.
Widow just on a long, long sightline map, basically counters Zarya, I mean it's not
that it's unplayable, but against Quartz, believe me, you do not want to play Zarya,
like he is just going to pop you with headshots, you're not really getting energized, you're
trying to cross an infinite sightline.
I think this is going to be a real test for Virtus.pro, like just some minds are going to keep the hits coming in this series
Yes, they lost the map, but like look for this team
It's not going to rattle them, you know, you're not going to win on that kind of a victory
You need to keep on the pressure here. Virtus.pro, they've got to continue to find the map win
But the series is going to be chaotic. We're going to Rialto
You know, I don't think it's going to be more of the same mirror match meta
If anything that kind of chaos has to be a boon for a team like VP, right?
I don't think you want to take the straight up like a Zarya. Yeah, I think
VP would rather live in that chaotic
type of game right then like as you just saw with the level of aggression that they use on Atlas to be able to get a win
They get rid of the Alari the diva ban comes on through here. So like
Yeah, like you talked about are we gonna get some widow here from courts potentially on the defensive side of the
start poke for sure that's my guess I mean I don't think you would even pick this map
if you didn't want to throw some chaos into it okay so VP is going to be on defense they'll
end up coming out with a Zarya and a no tracer no Vendetta they're going to start out with
the far here to open things up okay maybe I'm maybe I'm just crazy I will say it's
not like we don't want to attack is pretty brutal I don't know that you can force it
just in mind I think the defense is going to be where I'm really interested to see
if they don't pull out some wild and wacky cheeseming, that's how they approach Havana, right?
They play the attack, stock standard, they play the mirror match,
but then on defense they sort of cheese you on first point,
make you deal with something that you may not be prepared for from skips, grims, and something, you know, those widow poke cobs.
It's just, it's such a scary thing to play against in a high stakes match.
It's like you feel like you can't peek, but you've got to be willing to take those risks.
J.Boo gonna open with the widow of his own, maybe try for like a cheeky, punished kill.
Doesn't even want to shoot this area here, no point in that.
does want to potentially give some energy over, so, uh...
Okay, Pharah, Pharah, Pharah!
I'm gonna potentially get Z Tracer here.
Yeah, I mean, I guess with D.Va and the Lari Band, it's kinda like...
There's like no counters for Pharah.
However, yeah, Tracer historically has looked good.
And in the end, it's kind of a bad Tracer map.
There's like a lot of vertical mobility, and a lot of like super, super open sightlines
where you don't have enough cover really to work.
So, I actually don't hate the Pharah at all.
Thacker's trying to get in.
Nice little conk from J.Wu's gonna move Ice on down to the low ground.
This is a potentially hard corner to break, Attachers don't really have much going for them here as they try to take this smart line peek.
Aizanon, quick hop up through the hydra, he's going to put the pressure on the floor, takes a lot of damage, he's constantly booting as well.
The combo boots from Twisted Mind.
Koba looks like a respectable peek into a massive overextension.
Great little peek.
Yeah, they punished everyone here.
It's going to happen right when you want to play that aggressive as Ice tries to just really like hold that high ground control.
It doesn't want to give that up. Two Twisted Minds, Tiger on control there, opens things up to the MRA, opens stuff to the Barra, and they end up losing ice core now.
It's a brutal scenario. It will be ice who gets to touch the skill level, so he is running out of HP, nice upper land, picks up and heals him up.
But in TVNT, just turning all of that damage into offense, and that is a pretty fast TM, first point take.
Yeah, it really just textbooked from Tm, right? Incredible spam on the walk up, Izan is just out of resources, has the bubble just a touch, so he doesn't get booped off, TV and T buy just time, garbs quick heal, and then swings the quarter with full energy, and there's just nothing left to keep Izan alive.
I mean, there's really no way for Virtus.pro to be able to play that one better, so Tm, great execution, clears first point with ease, looking really solid here. On a map pick, many teams probably aren't going to be fully ready for this.
No, I mean, this is a you wouldn't say real to the fan favorite man here at the pro level
It's gonna be force going over the top
With a no right protocols. No, they're in the camp. I've been major there. I mean first those kind of back off
You know, look how far how much car fun? I think it's true
This is proper. So you're not too worried about the big rush though and eyes on content to the absolute middle of it
We worried about it now
I am more worried about it. I mean, we're not simple having a bastard rush, but Twisted Mind's just doubling down on the pace in the temple.
They didn't go for a rush of his own, refusing to give up this checkpoint easy, but TVNT might just force his will here.
And even the beats come out in their state. I'm just gonna be coming back into this, because if you can find a kill here, beautiful tracking on the Emery ult,
the overhead protocol brings the damage, and hold on, TVNT runs out of gas, Ketzer, the last man standing.
What a hole. I thought Virtus Pro had no business in that fight. Crazy pain.
And that's I mean, I thought they were basically just gonna get rolled through the whole second part of the map
Right, I mean it looked like then twisted minds is gonna use just like the rush
They ended up using the override protocolic up himself so much space and
TVT uses the grab there towards the end they use the beat as well
So you got grab garage too, but you're good now. This is turning this corner
I mean TVT is in a rough spot like you pretty much need to go die to grab garage
Yeah, I don't know what else you're supposed to do this team is basically asking him to sacrifice himself here
He's uh, I mean, okay, I like the pressure from J. Woo on the off angle
He has a broad of his own if you could maybe get in something cheeky here
Maybe pressure some players and cars rolling is looking like a turtle's landing under pressure first ultimate comes out
Little awkward. It's like nobody's in that they're coming in the last second
And somehow I grab Ross company. It is way too dirty to feel confident about but in the end I was gonna hold this one down
Now when it gets a little bit too close to comfort I imagine for a Virtus Pro, right?
As the grab gets thrown in from ice on the hit like you're talking about.
Look like going in.
There's nobody.
I'm crazy.
There's nobody.
It looks like they kind of like almost stepped into it or maybe they got conked into it.
I wonder if Fixer then boops somebody in and then there's like suddenly two and
the cycle is there with the brage.
Oh recovered but.
Oh.
Rosh is here.
Oh that is massive dude.
That's massive to win that duel because now you'll be able to step up really and put some pressure on on these attackers as they walk
Carl's original spawn. This is not a fun walk-up, you kind of have to cross in this bridge
Meepie are gonna play cautious though. They don't want to risk it
And I guess TNT already having this off angle position makes it a little bit harder to play forward
I was not no getting some clean energy before the fight. Yeah
Yeah, the rocket's gonna come in from J. Woo through the windows
The overwrite protocol here for Quartz to maybe get like a bubble up in the sky and then maybe
back out that again and ultimate out. They're actually gonna open things up here though with
a simple skitsune rush, just force the fight to cycle up in the sky. No way you're gonna be able to keep
Aisna alive. I think you hold on to like, yeah, you know, for a second there maybe land and if
Aisna was a little bit healthier you're able to kind of turn that but they hold on to those
ultimates. That's gonna be two checkpoints there. Four twisted mines. The Bob three minutes
It blows out Rialto. Still a very difficult map to close out.
Yeah, VP have definitely bought themselves a chance on this map with that clutch hold on second point,
but they really need to fight for it here and now.
You do not want to give up a full map completion. You got a lot to fight for.
Here comes the living weapon over the top. Kepster getting the bubble as well,
but Mr. Bride's kind of nowhere to be seen.
Forts kind of responding kind of with his own.
Skydiver the aircourts.
Everything Kepster trying to thawed out my shot, but he doesn't coming in.
The cleanse as well blocks the heavy posture shot, but the Aster will boop off the map inside Landon's rush
Oh no, it's all coming down, the aggressive TP's bad in a side
Funny Aster with the boop on the high-energy Zarya
Twisted mines win a fight that they had no business in against the rush
And they're coming into this with grab barrage B, I just don't see the way, Virtus.pro
They need a hero right now
I mean, do the healing from Landon and you're gonna keep Kepser off as long as he possibly did
with the overrides protocol there which I was telling you, of course, is crazy.
It does have sound barrier, yep.
Does just get the draft time.
Yeah, it's just gonna be good enough.
I mean, you don't really need anything special in the air.
Two minutes on the clock, twisted minds.
I mean, not only do they show that incredible trademark aggression, like closing out second
point with 10% faster rush, and there's just no fight, right, to be had.
I mean, there's already his dead before, you know, you can close that 10% gap
on land.
It's really, I don't think there's anything else he could have done.
a little bit behind on the ulti and you get boxed out from that.
Then on last you get your chance in a rush,
FUNNY ASSHOLE boops you off the map, it's a brutal one.
I mean, I'm also happy to see that Virtus.pro doesn't stop their aggression, right?
Like, you know, TM is playing at this like much faster pace here on this map.
I usually course really just kind of have a crazy one,
AK damage in the first half, but like,
it could be really easy for a team like Twisted,
Virtus.pro to start to play a little bit more passive in that scenario.
Even with TM's aggression they do not they still play fast
Which I think is a good sign to see they've heard us pro keep in that conference knowing kind of how they won atlas right is gonna
Be kind of how they replicate the rest of the series right make these fights like crazy
Make them fast try and force mistakes out of the side of twisted minds
All right, I thought just in mines would go for like a cheeky, you know poke-cop here
But there's also the possibility that you don't there's no reason to take a risk like that when you have this kind of a
Strong completion right if you find yourself taking like some panic swaps losing tempo
You could really get by yourself in like a you know, basically a coin flip over time
But by playing he has stock standard here on the defense
It's really pressure on Virtus. Pro to kind of change the narrative here psycho
Considering maybe playing some tracer here on the attack. You know, we mentioned this would be a possibility
after looking for a widow pig but
Speculative puts a little damage in you know start that old farm towards the override protocols a little something I
Mean look the the tracer we talked a little bit about it. I would have liked to see it
You know from TM, I think they know anytime you want to you see J-woo on
Trace you'd love to see that come come into fruition, but
You can still play it here. Maybe gonna like being able to kind of get some of this high ground here
Right, maybe you're able to make TV and T a little bit scare force them out
And then I think kind of bringing somebody supports back on the client because you see the double bubble comes in there
It's gonna get suzu out. Yeah forces the cleanse out a little bit of space to work with but J-woo run to turk
And then you want to lay your pressure down from the high ground holding this position TVNT forced to drop low to push the car
Now an opportunity for VP if they want to swing wide to J-Woo she's put so much pressure on the far cycle forced to recall once again
Nice swing from Kev though taking this off angle putting the pressure on J-Woo feels like he's got a deal with that starting to get pinched here on the far
And now TVNT as well called into question caught in a rough position does trade his life away, but funny astrofinding 2 on the back of that
Yeah.
Could be enough.
Still eyes on.
Gonna keep crawling this one.
Won't do the position chest.
Yeah, he got landed by a side.
Psycho.
Planting this in space in the off-anglin.
The parts rolling through all of this.
Yeah.
And Icern was very healthy, right?
So it's gonna be pretty difficult to step up onto the car and test him.
Nice rockets there from J.L.U. though.
Put some damage on the supports and now they're trying to force Icerno out.
And now they start some of the progress.
It's very difficult.
They're gonna move through that chokeway with the phara up in the sky.
Landon's going to build up a really nice amount here towards that Katsune rush, but we might actually get simple at the beginning of this fight, right?
So he's going to have, when coming in, an old spawn from Psycho goes wide, it's going to be a Katsune rush, and it's simple, it opens things up.
Oh, Landon responding, kind of, he's a little too late, already isn't the deck, he's the mind.
It's like with the major player damage, it looks like a clean up for them.
Psycho does fight one, simple playing for his life as well, but TDNT just precludes any possibility of a real defeat here.
Creating the ultimates down and being able to win that fight on defense is a massive boon.
Because the clock is starting to run low and you know you sort of think about the win
condition on this map and it's feeling very far away right now.
TDNT 85 to that grab, Barrage waiting in the wings, Murtis Pro got to show us something
and soon.
Over a protocol from both M-rays here, so potentially going to see that like, you
know, in-air duel between the two as, yeah you see they're going to get a bubble
over the cab.
He's going to use his ult a little bit later, so let's just train a fire on the supports.
Neither of them really targeting each other.
Oh, the A-Ware Quartz actually hits a heavy shot there on the Kempster, and then faces him off.
Aw, that's a backbreaker right now.
Aiznop rushing into a draft, getting a trade on the beat, comes out actually.
Hold on, trying to push here, but J-Boot with the beat, draft, rod, way too much.
I think the B though are going to feel pretty okay training the bank like that.
Like, honestly, for Aiznop, I like that heads-up play.
It's a risky move, but now you start to look at this next offense, Psycho has the pulse bomb,
Simple does have a bastard rush, which kind of puts a clock on you, you know, that's pretty scary,
but you can find an open north to pulse bomb anything's possible.
Yeah, I mean, Quartz comes down from that override protocol, and he's kind of like in the middle of
Virtus.Pro, and then that's when the graph comes in from Icelum, just trying to get rid of the M-Ray,
and then maybe work from there. Two players here to the outside, it's gonna be Cap,
working with Fixa, maybe seem to get some high ground.
An angle to open things up, trying to get TVNT off of this high ground control as Bunnyastro gets a generously low nice pulse from there.
Not enough to finish off TVNT.
Put some pressure on Lucio, getting run over Figside, I believe with the 1v1 gap there on Bunnyastro.
Not an easy fight now for TM, they get some kills but they're very low, the cleanup could be coming through eyes of unslivered of HP.
The bubble has popped the TVNT.
Comes in over the top, it's a little bit too much health to finish off, Jemo stays alive through it all.
And it's counter and overtime touch so I go can get this clock rolling, but you gotta win the fight somehow
Yeah, TV and he also has the benefits of playing inside of that kitsune rush that comes in right before simple dies
This doesn't touch rigoros, so this is that's all my psycho in the last moments
Casper finds jaywoo and that opens up everything now vertus bro with play advantage O.T. spawns
He's got mines, then he swept out of first point need to find counter kills
There's only three of them left alive quartz with a desperation blank, but the O.T. spawns coming in
Yeah, this is gonna be a first-point take so vertus pro or to say on Havana
Listen, mine's kind of got caught in no man. So I think they almost I like me weren't sure if cycle was gonna be able to get that next time
Well, I think fortune for VP as well, right Ted comes up with those two huge kills
Yeah, you don't have to use your senior rush anymore
You give yourself an opportunity to make up some time here towards the second part of the map
Maybe you can catch this in mines off guard here up on the high ground and if you like using your rush pulling them back
they decide to play this is Tm trying to push up here they do not want to allow them to get over the
bridge for free and kind of deny some of this base in this first corner. Quartz under constant
pressure there the the energy mortars from Eisner are really just raining down through the low ground
cycle finds the kill on the bunch, has some great pressure, bubble comes in on the Kevlar taking
that Skydome, needs to find the connection, drops Quartz to the floor. Now J.Woo has to go for
the hills. Just a heavy shot really well they might be able to escape because of it but
but no, Kev's are just too clean on the tracking.
And a fight win with a one for one override protocol trade.
Virtus.Pro are absolutely in the driver's seat now,
twisted minds, no support ults on the retake.
They're close to grab barrage,
but how are you gonna deal with this rush?
I think, I mean, this is so good for Virtus.Pro.
The second part of the map could not have gone any better.
It's gonna be TvT tries to step up.
It's gonna be the grab that comes on down
with the rush there from a land in
and that will secure the second checkpoint.
So now it's my chance to finish with about the same time here for Virtus Pro
because they're gonna have this sound barrier coming up.
Look, I'm gonna be honest, they're not finishing this map before overtime.
First and last of all, big bank ultimates, but yeah, I just looked.
It's you got to grab barrage plus double support ult.
It's that is brutal.
GM need to beat these out though.
I mean, it's over.
Here comes the damage on the Zarya because I just got to beat it even better.
And hold on.
J-woo down.
I know.
Kevster is fighting through it!
Murders throw without the Zarya, but they're still crushing this run out.
They could mine now.
Just trying to get those desperation stall picks.
We'd love to be able to find one more on the exit, but Kevster will deny it.
Quick trick back to spawn for Fixa is going to bring Aiznab in, and that is a crazy fight to overcome.
Just in mind still holding onto the double support ult so they absolutely still have the edge.
But with two minutes on the clock, Murders throw have room to work.
Yeah, I mean that is the biggest thing, right?
I mean that's a huge fight win there for VP.
continues to get that cart going around the corner, but TMA will hold on to the double support all
here. Psycho has to go huge here with a pulse bomb. Recall, gonna probably wait for some Zarya
bubbles, but the war he ends up going back on in. Here comes the rush, living weapon over the top
from Kevster makes it a little bit awkward to bring that damage in your heart. It's hard to get
aggressive. Your pulse bomb on Psycho is good, doesn't seem to have done much other than some
tank damage onto TDNT, just in mind. With the rogue rush kind of embattled in this
Funniestro, holding onto the beat, is going to be forced open up with an over-act protocol, perfect cleanse, the plan is to get him alive and he's starting to run out of steam.
However, he has to recognize them of exacted high price for it. Here comes the beat from Funniestro necessary to hold on to this point in this fight.
Tilson, players alive trying to keep this one going.
Psycho recalls to an awkward spot, but Twisted Minds
embattled here.
I mean, having to overspend to hold on.
And now Virtus Pro, with the major temple lead,
TM setting up for an aggro bush.
They can't win this fight.
Straight up on its merits.
They have to find a cheeky pickoff.
If VP can deny it, they should be able to force an OT round.
Kepster though can't get cut out high enough.
Big grab though there from my snowm.
Keeping them up.
Kepster with that Siphon Blaster.
Find J-Woo.
And TDNT's caught in an awkward spot.
Someone's gonna step on his own, pushing the cart, you gotta stop this, it's overtime simple!
CDNT, they're nowhere to be found!
Great play from Virtus Pro, throughout the back half of this map.
Unbelievable, stick-to-itiveness.
They are proving that they deserve this spot in Japan.
They are bringing it to the world champs right now.
I mean, dude, the whole second checkpoint really kind of dominated there by Virtus Pro,
and then to be able to complete the map
With some of the advantages that Twisted Minds has in terms of ultimates was really impressive from VP is
take a look at some of the stats, Kevin himself pretty good game here, 16k damage to, you know, Quartz is 17,700 and Quartz just doing Quartz stuff where
at least VP gives themselves an opportunity, right? One minute on the clock, they'll start on offense here.
You know, an early pick off here from like Quartz or Psycho, could allow them to get that first checkpoint.
I think if you can get like first checkpoint here, if you're VP and maybe get it like around that first corner, like under the bridge,
you're pretty happy with how that kind of goes, right?
I don't know if you can really ask for that.
You got at least I think get first checkpoint here though with 230 on the clock.
It's a lot of time for TM.
Yeah, I mean, this map's a funky one.
Even if you can get it to the end of the first point, it is absolutely incredible from there.
So honestly, to get to an overtime round has taken a map that should have been a dominant
closeout for T.M. The one where Virtus.Pro have showed they can hang.
And Psycho unmatched on the Tracer, bringing the tempo, bringing the fight to Twisted
Minds.
They've been caught sleeping at times, landing also is going to open up on the Batiste.
Thinking about it.
But this could be nice against the Farrer, I mean it's an interesting pick.
I don't think this is one that they practice. I think this is one that he's just feeling
Let's see what he can find. I mean, I'm maybe an opportunity to get aggressive with Tracer making some space
I kind of see the vision here, but without a Katsune rush
Definitely gonna put a bit of a clock on the game. You need to find these kills
You need to bring that heat on Batiste. I mean, it is also a little bit of extra damage, right?
Potentially that goes out towards that bar and then the immortality field right you see right here
just can't be able to keep himself, yeah, and fix it alive, but that is, you know, the drone is dead
instantly via the rockets from J.Lu, and the support line there for VP gets wiped out. Hold on, if Aizan
lives here, here he's going to come back into this. Symbol's going to be just a little bit
late to the fight. Yeah, I don't know that you're going to be able to hold onto the corner.
It's not a great fight, but it might just be a little, hold on, big spam of the Aizan,
really makes him think, force needs that bubble to survive, great pressure from beating on the
The hitscan of Twisted Minds. Now Aizond though, getting very low.
CVNT senses an opportunity, steps through the plate, takes down Kepster,
J.B.U.C. for more over the top of the fara.
Aizond out of gas now, getting just a little bit more cart push though.
He's gonna be in place. Small win for VP, but that's the only win they're gonna be able to find.
That's gonna be the totality of their progress.
It's down to a first corner hold or nothing here on Rialto.
Twisted Minds riding the ship here in OT.
Yes, I thought that Baptiste said the star was interesting, right?
Just a chunk of damage that comes in from Quartz and J. Woo, the drone gone instantly.
Then everybody crumbles after that.
So you did get a little bit of a push.
We'll see now.
So as we go into TM's offense, if they can hold on, I mean, do simple 42 assists.
What?
It's like a crazy sell line.
You know, 20k healing is a, this has been a long game of Rialto.
So you're going to see some wild stat lines come out.
See if VP decides, do you play the tracer on defense?
Okay, they're gonna go back to the Pharah. So they're gonna play the Pharah here on defense that only like the tracer really on the offensive side
So they'll match the Pharah for Pharah here. You gotta remember right in these overtime rounds
You do just start with all of your perks available, which I think is quite a big deal for Pharah
In particular, I mean Emra as well like a lot of these girls have some very potent abilities from their perks
But with 230 on the clock
Virtus Pro, they're gonna need to not only find some of these initial fight wins off the back of some some clean picks
But they're gonna need to be able to take it to TM in the ultimate economy game
Which in fairness they kind of did on third point attack last round so
VP lot to play for here if you could go up to one on the world champs, right?
Like what a statement that would be first of minds though very clear win condition for them and a very achievable one and that
I can do with these cars though and the abilities like just kind of get picked off and put down some
potential.
Ice on Kong there, Ice is in a lot of trouble.
Clense comes in, saves him for now.
Got to watch out though and Eicol still low.
He might still be able to pounce on this Tm.
Slowing things down for just a minute not sensing that they can really collapse there
but definitely going to be a clencher.
Four Eisnoms tried to hold on to this corner, Cyko over the top is going to
be crucial.
His influence on the far to be able to hold this corner.
he's starting to swing wide. You need to bring some pressure down on this, or you need to attack TM
on the walk-up. You cannot allow eyes on the losing position. Leiko doing just that though,
making sure to mark all attackers as they peek these various doors.
Or so if I tell him to peek, is all TM needs to take. Yeah, like any mistake here is gonna be
enough. But neither team wants to make that mistake first. TM taking a bit of damage to
their own side, go with the direct in the air. It's gonna be enough to shut down Jayhoy.
TM they're not gonna want to take that risk, but maybe they should have because now
The cleanup could be coming at a beautiful calm. He said quartz also
Zinatum spot cannot escape that fight
I saw him comes into the next fight. We'll be capped out on energy
Most of the ultimates across the board is slightly advantage for VP. Yes
Landon a little bit of an advantage towards that Katsuneirash, right?
Conk there knocks TV and T into the line a second right back around that corner, but
That is about a minute off of the clock. We're in war minute 30 off the clock there
4TM, so great start there, Psycho finding Jewoo, that's what allows him to get that first fight win.
The unbelievable showing from both of these teams, so much on the line here at the grand finals of the NBA,
landed here to play for it, going to land, playing with the house cash, but wants to win this one too,
has the rush available, but does not want to get aggressive in the twisted mines,
and he's turning this corner, incredibly difficult for either team, it's going to come down to an old trade,
But the pick isn't on the fixer. Can you stabilize without your Lucio?
Virtus.pro with their rushes now.
Advantage though, just too much towards the blind 3 more in the fight.
Okay, this one is all done, it's a good throw and fight back from Virtus.pro to keep this map in contention.
But in the end, TM are just that good. They find one pick off and that is more than they needed.
Close out here, Unrealta.
Yes, TM, that is an all-time around, Unrealta.
that. What a fantastic game is
twisted minds. They get the win
in the end. Do we run with
Landon? You can tell fix. It
was like trying to hide behind
that pillar dangerously low
comes out from around it. I
think actually get kind of
get to put like a made and then
finished off there. And then as
soon as TM to seize that it
is like to rush around the
corner and matched, you know,
We got a very close realto bonkers stat line reports, by the way, almost 23,000, like, what?
Excuse me.
I got a hand it though to Virtus Pro, like, they're, you know, they're opening round
right the third point attack.
That you got to study that as a lot of these pro teams, like that is immaculate play.
They come into that spot in a terrible ultimate economy situation, like it's a hard point
to attack.
You really have no business winning these fights, and they just eke out.
They don't win the first couple fights, but they eke out a way better ult trade than they
have any business getting because of just the individual plays from the squad.
And that allows them to force an OT round.
So when we talk to our teams showing competitiveness against Twisted Minds, Virtus Pro, this is
night and day from the regular season matchup between these two teams, which frankly was
sort of one of the same beatdowns that we've seen from TM time and time again.
But I think Kainal landed mentioned in that interview with the way that the
meta is going in some of these comps.
It's like, yeah, like a lot of it is on the day.
Virtus.Pro already plays a game today, right?
They obviously get that win against Geeky.
They're feeling pretty good.
And I think mostly like you're seeing them playing
at a pace, you know, a level of aggression
that we didn't really see from them early on.
Very decisive from VP, even in the loss here.
And I think that we were talking like,
oh, he lose 4-0 here.
How does that mean for Champions Clash?
I think VP's gonna be tough
for everybody at Champions Clash.
Now really taking it to our World Champs,
that's the kill right there.
It makes it was dangerously low.
We were on board with Landon at that time.
You can see around the corner,
but as soon as Quartz finds that nade
and then he opens things up with the override protocol,
it is GG, map selection already in here,
coming in fast from Virtus Pro.
It'll be midtown.
Okay, taking us to midtown.
It's, you know, what it's interesting map,
it's one where I guess the way the series has gone so far,
maybe I don't want to oversell it.
Like it's probably just another, you know,
different field on which to play,
know more or less the same style. It's another canvas for Zarya, Tracer, or Komp. Well, hold
on. Doubleplex backline potentially here, like an Ellari, like maybe Bethe's, like
no shot. You see that, right? I mean, you can go for some of those strats on the defense.
I'm a little scared. I mean, I think this Lucio, Tracer, or Komp is really good at
punishing some of those greedier choices. So I think it's sort of, you know, maybe
It's possible. I think possible, but we would definitely be a blink from VP if they go for that.
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Speaking of good things, man, I just like to go to Japan.
Like, that is gonna be epic.
The Japanese fans have been really like
lighting things up in Overwatch recently.
You're going to have to show me around.
Me? I've never been to Japan for that long.
Why would I show you around?
Why not?
I mean, we'll find somebody.
Somebody on Twitter or somebody hit me and Jacob.
I will say Japan.
I've had one experience in Japan.
Let's take a look at these bands.
Probably things that no one's going to play.
Probably get any more Zarya.
But my one experience in Japan.
I was flying to Korea.
Transferred through an airport in Tokyo.
Had like an impossible transfer.
Had my flight was delayed. I wasn't gonna make it. You know, I was gonna miss the transfer
I had accepted it in my heart. I was okay with it
Yeah, but the guy meets me at the gate in the Tokyo Airport and runs with me for 10 minutes
Like the airport employee guy ran
Show me the way I would never have made it for it. I'm just giving up
That's okay. I would never have made it without this guy. So that was my experience and I was like, all right
I gotta come back. I mean, that's all right
Anyway, you can give us not that experience in Japan hit us up
Trying to run through the airport. I'm trying to hang
Once I heard running through the airport I was like, oh the guy say that he led me through the airport
He ran with he didn't even have a bite to catch
I eat it
You know he could have been like yeah go left and right and you'll find it and I wouldn't have made it
He only because this guy ran with me did I catch my flight?
I mean like that's awesome
I'm not trying to run when we're there understood understood Matt. We'll keep you off of and away from any possible treadmills
Yeah, my legs are
Are precious there that they can't they can't be used for running. Okay. We're gonna get TM
VP here it's gonna be okay. So they're gonna go back to the trees are interesting and I'm that twisted minds
We saw playing at least amount of trees are gonna go back to the vingetta
So, uh, no double-flex, right? The hazard gun, the William gun, these are just basically, you know, throwaways, because I think a lot of DCs will want a mirror.
Like, I don't think they want to kind of do anything that different.
Really nice nades coming in from Quartz and the defense, really putting the pressure onto Kepster.
So, I go though, I establish a position in the back, and I get to pull some attention from Funny Astro, making a bit of space from his presence here.
Aiznath also finds the opportunity to swing a little bit wide onto point.
Tristan's going to need to find the opportunity to get impressive with this Vendetta.
But Aiznath is actually keeping the pressure on them as they start to threaten this cap.
Psycho continuing to attack TDIT who's out of bubbles.
One get comes in.
TM, we need to find their chance to get into this.
Maburo's Pro is just refusing to yield an inch here.
Kepter takes a wide swing.
This is going to be a crucial moment.
What can he find here on December?
Fattling into force, big damage on the Aiznath.
He's barely cleared the fire truck to stay alive.
The peek comes in from the course of the bubble.
squandered from I's not already the overriding protocol somehow
is all my support is just laying it out here on this defense
lines come through the lacing for a moment but in the end that
override protocol supports came up way faster than the key we're
expecting it's going to send them back to squandered a lot of
presents for VP a lot of aggression 65% here for VP is
behind enemy lines here is he has been such a nuisance to
this backline. All but simple and funny asherow is a few shots here. So I don't
really think team could get any to join with it in dead early on right there.
They're trying to use the close balls and being in the same line. That's gonna be
consuming rushes you ever bow to you, but you end up losing Psycho to the
Nades. Quartz really just kind of pop it off here at the start of big town is
this should be a fast fight. Emit twisted mines favor. And he give this
guy just a little bit of room to work with and he comes up with a heater
of a defense. Two minutes up the clock already, of course showing no signs of slowing.
Rushes are out. A little bit of ultimate damage though for VP and the faster
grab could make all the difference. Funny after that defensive beat can slow things down,
but with Override Protocol on Pulse Bomb, I don't even know the beat is gonna be enough.
Here comes Kepster over the top, Override Protocol, starting to put that damage down.
Beat forced a little bit early to grab. He's already out for my though to get it.
He's the one down, but the grab, where was it? I only see the grab there really all.
I mean it's fortunate that J.Woo actually doesn't get the benefits of the soundbires. He's quite low when it comes on end
It'll be a grab here from TB and T at the end much better than the one that I threw out
That will be another T and a hole here
So it's kind of getting scary here Jake blow a minute coming up as psycho's gonna go away from Trisha gonna play the
Vendetta here
Sundering blade available for J.Woo and with the way that quartz is farming up
these override protocols. I imagine you're gonna get another way in this fight.
Yeah, almost certainly. A little bit of a trade in the flank here, Psycho.
Battling with Jay-Lu here for control of this off-angle position. He's gonna win it for now,
there's a lot of pressure coming in on the main group. Here comes Jay-Lu with the
Sundry Glade in, trying to get aggressive. After Psycho, both on slivers of HP,
but Aizond is actually fine, simple. He's got everyone being low across for his pro there.
Finding kills in this fight, Tristan and I is continuing to push, feeling that they've
got the force things to end here and now, but Landon is just pumping these
But Aizanam Zarya, maybe his out value here, Aizanam still stands tall quartz, gets that flanking punish though on to Psycho,
TVNT skits out with his life. Despite some good rotation from VP in the end, it's gonna be the drags coming back into this final push.
I mean that's crazy, TVNT is able to live there right? You do not see many times the defending Zarya pushes into the choke,
goes off the opposing team's staircase behind it, the subway that makes it out with their life.
their life is landed and we'll have this kid see a rush a little bit earlier than
simple you're gonna have to get a talk just gonna be psycho over the top of
Cesarean but let's see what he can get done over on the call from Quartz though
just bearing down on you from above everybody trying to run and hide the
formation is split and J.Loog is profiting from it already found two in
the fight and that should be more than enough beautiful position before it
even lands in the high ground just textbook stuff VP all they're gonna get
is that 64% on this first checkpoint twisted minds looking to put away this
grand final with extreme prejudice. They go up 3-1 here, Matt. Starting to feel like a
4-0 conclusion. Yeah, I mean it's already difficult to battle back into it, but to go down 3-1
to the world champs is very difficult. You take a look at some of the stats. Not a lot
of positive here for VP in the first half. You see what, 6400 to 3500 in terms of damage,
in terms of the M-Race. I think it's a little bit hard because I kept working
through that choke, it's like so difficult, especially when you have like a Vendetta kind
of constantly in your face and players kind of hiding around that corner.
I thought actually VB probably looked their best there, Jake, on offense, and they were
playing that tracer and Psycho was able to kind of get behind and constantly pressure
the supports.
And they went over to the Vendetta and they never really seemed like they were able
to get anything going.
I actually think just amongst, probably happy to see that change.
Yeah, you know, in the end, they think J.Boo just got so much done on the Vendetta,
Maybe they felt like they have to match in mirror because Jay was able to start the fights in that right side room
And you come in you cross the choke
You know you start to feel good and then the vendetta is like hitting you from behind right as the aggression comes in
To your point about that, you know that the the hits can gap there is like yes
Defender position is so much stronger, but that is a statement map from ports
I mean the defenders advantage is real, but it's not like two to one
I mean so the way he's just laying it down
I mean a couple big big fights were override protocol essentially wins it on its own picks. He's finding a crucial moments
This reminds looking to get cheeky here go for like a you know a quick pick
But they're just gonna run it down with the stock standard Bendetta mirror
And maybe have no proof of mistakes here on it. No, I mean the one clean team fight is enough for the 65 percent, right?
The bird is pro really got that in a bite that you know twisted minds just split around the fire truck
They weren't able to get on it and pass and then just kind of like waited it out kind of concede that point over
VP base please be perfect here
J Wu gets in benefits of bubbles with down to down to ice. No means a quite low
But has a great high ground advantage boards. Oh
Maybe a crack here cycle caught in the top corner forced to go where he does not want to I don't know
Extracts a price for it for the beautiful beam though on to fix it
We've got into the sky might have done enough as ice down starts to run out of gas TM
Even without their tank, still fighting this one strong after trying to do what he can with the Scythe Blaster, but just not much.
In the end, the support's overwhelming.
TVNT even over to the Wrecking Ball.
I just don't see the touch coming in for VP.
You do have two players around the corner, looks like it looks like you do have Psycho here.
You're going to get booped off by Wrecking Ball though if you try to touch here.
Man, they even quite make it.
I love that read from TVNT.
Like Zarya and Vangena both really hate being booped off the client when they're trying to touch.
Not so much we can really do about it.
The TM, some heads up play, great execution, and that's a midtown that's really a callback
to this whole year for just a five right.
That's the way they've made almost every opponent look like.
They just don't have business being in the serve.
Yeah, I mean, court's just dominant, 17 and 1 there, same, they're J-15 and 1.
Very strong performances across the board there, 4 TM.
Also at the end, you know, when TVN team's on the ball, right?
Oh, that J-woo actually goes around the corner and actually sees, like, Psycho, and I believe it was also Landon there.
Kind of playing from that position, and, you know, Landon goes from the far side, and then TDNT gets the call probably from J-woo, that, you know, Psycho's coming from the other way and comes back.
I guess there's the grab on the high ground there, maybe, but the beat is just way too good.
Yeah, but there's no way.
You just don't have any real angle to follow up on that grab, and when the beat comes in, it's like, okay, it's just kind of hopeless, right?
You're like throwing damage and it's just not even close to enough and of course keep finding kills like that. There's just
There's everything sacked against you right?
Yeah, I mean buddy when when they find psycho there at the start
It's a pretty brutal loss from VP to lose psycho
There's there's like a brief moment though where they get rid of TV and TV
You're like, okay, hold on I assume can actually get into this close quarter and be able to fight this
But with court still alive putting down that type of damage. I believe he takes a fixa during that as well
Well, not much you can do there if you're a Virtus.Pro, so Virtus.Pro, one more, you know,
what I mean by that, basically, a closer Virtus.Suite, they got to pull off here.
So we'll see another map selection for VP to see if they can extend the series.
In the loss, I would still say this is a pretty positive series from VP, right?
They qualify for champions clash, right?
So we'll see them in Tokyo and making our World Champs bleed more than we've
any other team kind of bring it through the massive plate.
Yeah, I think some of those fights on Rialto are certainly a showcase that VP deserves to hang at the highest level.
They do lose the map, but being able to clutch in really hard, disadvantaged scenarios against the World Champ squad
is way beyond expectations here.
And VP taking a map as well with a signature style that kind of only they can pull out.
Like, yeah, probably not going to be able to replicate it.
I mean, they could ban Emery and try to run it back,
but it might have just been the perfect storm
with both Zarya and Emery ban,
where you have the opportunity to send in.
Like you said before, man, it's kind of a perfect storm
that may not happen again.
As we go to RuneSoppy,
expect to see more of that pound for pound battling
and VP, see if they still have more fight left in them,
or if TM are just gonna be overwhelming,
closing the series out for one
and securing that top slot as well as the prize money
for being our EMEA champs.
and we'll see what Virtus Pro decides to do in terms of fans.
It'll be, well, an Ana and a Widow fan here.
So both these kind of look like throwaways to me, Jake.
Maybe if you're VP, you wanted to protect a support, right?
Maybe you thought there was a danger of a support fan,
but otherwise this looks like both teams want to play Zarya
with whether it be Farah, Vendetta, Tracer,
kind of whoever in that flex role,
play very close to Amir. Yeah, I'm really curious to watch some of J.Boo's POV if we can grab that on
the observing. If he plays Vendetta in particular in the next match, because I feel like Tiav have
kind of been bringing the Vendetta back, where like a lot of other teams have gone full of Tracer.
As good as J.Boo is a Tracer for Tiav's shoes, Vendetta is a real expression of, you know,
they believe it can be stronger. And we see J.Boo making these big plays with a Sundering
blade and I love the way sometimes J-Wit will go for like a minimum charge sundering blade.
Just like pop it as fast as possible to like break shield, break a sound barrier,
and then just follow up with regular skills for the damage kills. So definitely some impressive
stuff. I'm curious to see how team play it. They're obviously a team that a lot of other
squads look to for inspiration with, you know, the level they're playing on in the world
stage right now.
As I want more map for twisted minds to be the EMEA champion security number one seed
from EMEA even to a champion's clashes VP a long road ahead to get back into this series
right but it would start here on runesabi so we'll see there anything different anything
surprising in terms of comps. Nope, does not look like it at the moment. Potentially most
surprising thing would be VP like matching the Vendetta. But yeah, like it does seem like twisted
minds, right? It's kind of wild as well. The thing about it where J.Woo is such a good tracer,
right? We see what Alphie does on the tracer. Like Alphie is devastating. He is J.Woo kind of
like maybe even it's here above. And they're still opting for the Vendetta.
I think what really sets J.Woo apart right now is how good he is on every hero in the
We have good vendettas, we have good tracers, we have good faras, and we could rate the various players on different levels and all of them.
But J.Boo I think is one of the only ones to really be on top of every raking on all of the relevant veticurals.
Which gives Chris's mind incredible amount of flexibility. Here he comes into the backline, just slightly misses the crit.
As I say that, under a lot of pressure, he needs to cleanse in another bubble to just get out with his life.
So the initial aggression batted away.
out of the way. The positioning from BP to the night. Psycho looking to play maybe more
responsive, but this time he goes in for a crit attempt of his own.
Put some damage onto Simple. J-Woodle over the top. Ooh, finds a big damage on the landing
now. Falls it up with a big scan. But with both carries traded out, still more to play
for. Crit misses from J-Woodle. Can he find the finish?
Gets to running circles around him, and Aislam has done it enough.
Psycho falls off the map in exchange for the kills he finds there, but...
You guys might not be able to close this one out, he may see the other playing it, I mean, I'm almost gonna go push cart here instead of trying to chase the sorry outs.
He goes all in here, sends an opportunity to maybe find a counter kill, but in the end it will be VP standing tall. Better play in the main group there.
J-Wiz, we were absolutely tuning his horn, kinda startled to get some of those crits connected on the dead end that fight.
Well, I mean, dude, he ended up getting the kill onto Landon, but the one that he really needed was the one on the cap, right?
Not able to finish off that kill on the Kepster Kepster able to use that Scythe and bluster stay alive
On the M-ray as it looks like it'll just be fixed at here. Tim are really trying to battle through that high ground
Yeah, like no one's here. They're getting the main. They're getting cut off though
I think I think they may have actually been a little bit surprised that we actually
Right, you know, they face any resistance. I like that. They're like, no
You gonna fight the corner you you're not gonna be able to take this back flank from us
Good awareness and TM, see what they can do from this position.
Override protocol first for Kevster, here he comes over the top, able to layer big damage down.
You're looking up for the crit, but Kevster wisely backs off from it.
Still no real kills have come in, and a better rush of the outcourt instantly deans down, cut out of the sky.
That should be enough, just Emnicide port really begins.
You do get out of the rush out, which is, you know, certainly a more valuable ultimate than the Override protocol,
but I think TM are willing to make that trade to get back in control here on Runesop.
Yeah, and it was a really smart play by Kev, right?
He gets your right protocol, goes through the sky.
And then he actually kind of, I think, probably just sees a sliver of J.Woo around the corner, right?
Because if you get him with that overhead slash, he'll get kind of yunged down out of the skybox there.
And, obviously, he does not want to get that.
So puts down some damage in the bunny ashram, Ko, and then just kind of fax it around the corner.
But, really good rush there.
From Simbola is outcored, just getting a really nice angle.
Put down some damage. See, ice up changes really low.
Probably the second bubble. Doesn't want to see that one go away in the open.
so he backs up around the corner.
VP still with the lead here at the moment.
Serious damage.
He's the light back front.
Can't get the overwrite protocol, he's going to come in.
RG is the rush, but over it, protocol's bearing down.
And he's grabbing some firsts coming in.
I still just can't quite get sustained.
He dropped, or the beat comes out landed.
Passed through this one himself, needs to find more.
But the first kill on a J-Boob,
he's still an opportunity to fight this TB and T.
Highly energized on Carto in this Zarya.
Has yet unanswered in the fight, just in mind.
Pushing with confidence here.
Tank advantage makes a world of difference there.
Finding Aizan before the beat comes down, that kind of a mistake, you cannot allow it to happen against a team like Tm, they're gonna grab checkpointed.
Maybe some additional progress, although it seems to be repetitive, but that kill! No! Awesome landing!
Restarts the clock, really, because now without landing you're not really gonna be able to stay into this.
If you ever gonna be able to charge forward, maybe clean you up completely off the map and VP have to beat a hasty retreat.
This one's going from bad to worse, man.
Well, it's like brutal, right? Because you lose a land in and he's kind of like playing up on the high ground
and some of the members already dropped down to the low and then now those players are kind of stuck in no man's land, right?
There's no healing coming in from the carry at that time and that pick off, I mean, look at this.
People already here with another Katsune Rush is going to be sundering Blade here from Psycho.
Some serious damage takes out Jeyu, but Kevin will end up falling.
You do get some blood as massive, right? Had that Katsune Rush to be able to work with.
TB&T though is still extremely healthy here Jake working this bot up the map.
Yeah the trade's just still rolling. Getting a little bit of extra part-card progress is gonna be nice
but with Virtus.pro in the closer spawn, those two minds are gonna back out and fight another day
looking clinical as they come to close out this grand finals. It's a spot they found themselves in time and time again.
Here comes the aggression for force, the override protocol. They've been right back in this phase but nice moves fall back from that aggression.
I'm sure they could just stay alive and this would be great for guys not to come to the rock and the hard place to lax on simple with the rush as well.
I'm sure there's not much fight to be had after though to hold on big day to get there.
There actually might be something to fight for as Hester runs over the top of the Scythe Blaster.
Double support behind him means this one is turned very very scrappy.
A B even comes out with the old landing guys just to support him.
Come out, Fixa. Gets it down on the simple though doing what it takes to keep this one in contest with this Scythe Blaster out.
Hester might just get this clutch.
I mean that is such a dirty fight. I mean
That finally VP able to hold but it is not pretty what did I mean you end up having to use the beat there
It's just for two players. It's not even a hole on a landing my worry is here now
You're gonna have twisted minds coming back with a grab of their own sound barrier to deal with your grab here
It's gonna be very difficult to fight from
Maybe can't you kind of get up towards that override protocol here a little bit later in the fight
but damage going down from the ports into the open, players rounding that corner getting hit by the nades as
Tm has built up a pretty nice lead.
Really hard to use this rush aggressively when there's a grab on the other side.
You do not want to stack up in the choke points and Tm or they don't have to do anything.
They're playing with the lead, here comes the cycle into the backline, grab, get the entire backline
beautifully connected from Tb and T, and even the Zarya Suno stays alive.
Beautiful rotation through the house, Aizam is gonna get one, and then all they're gonna find in this fight.
Tm are gonna expand the Spanish continue to make more progress without simple here
It's gonna be hard to really get too much deeper into the map, but as the clock runs down
It's only gonna favor Tm with their lead
Somehow they really keep TV in T alive
I mean takes a ton of damage simple actually TPs to him uses the suzu heals them up and then breaks the gyps up
It's like keep Zarya in the mix and they do have to wait for simply back in the next like so important
There'll be all the right protocols from both teams.
It's just trying to put some damage down on the TVNB
before some of those cooldowns out.
Two shots find here for Quartz.
I'm off in no man's line.
Pepser puts some big damage on it,
but the heals are good enough to stabilize for now.
It's a jam.
8-2 out from Virtus.pro.
It's needed by FunnyAster, but the pulse buff, oh.
Not fucking any of you's running.
The slam comes in.
See if it's able to, enough to finish them off.
But the beat from Vixx, is it just gonna overwhelm Tm?
They're kiting back.
Well, they're staying alive.
And the support ultimate stabilizes you,
but you're not ever finding the kind of fight when you need.
Yeah, it is a nice sound barrier there from Fixed a Video.
I keep everybody alive, but the disengaged from Twisted Minds is good,
and then now Twisted Minds on a fight coming on back,
they find two right away, both DPS dead here for VP.
They're gonna have to just kind of throw themselves at the bot
and they will fall.
So we are below three minutes here, Jake.
So Twisted Minds looking for a full map completion.
It'll be J.Woo here with that Sundering Blade and maybe you see the brush come out the Sundering Blade in response
She's trying to just break people up from running on through that
Finish line before cable all the way there to go
I should be with the Sundering Blade right around the border
This is what Tristin Minds just does man they continue to push the pace Sundering Blade is good enough Psycho
Minds went back to the zone but eventually J.Woo continues on to get yet more connection to Psycho though keeping it even
Ensuring that this one doesn't get completely cataclysm for her to throw
Good wall life to fix actually keeps him alive for a long time
VP may just be able to clean this one up, it's far from pretty though,
TNT charges into the back line, gets one last kill onto Landon and
starting to feel like although Virtus.pro are clinging onto this,
they're holding onto their dignity in the match and in the series.
Twisted Mice could taste victory here.
It feels like it's just been a long time since Virtus.pro has even seen the other side of the map.
Yeah, I mean even getting close towards mid-map, right?
They just can bully towards their side of the spawn.
Landon trying to keep himself alive of the Suzu there with the Thunder to play the game
for J.U. but J.U. just kind of held on a little bit longer.
It's going to be a consumer rush here from Landon.
He has to use the Suzu to keep Kev up.
Everybody on Twisted Minds backs out.
You're going to be the override protocol over the top.
From Cors get to hit there, buy Psycho, drag down to the ground, then finish up.
Well played by Psycho.
It's costing his life, though, to find that play.
Nerdist Pro feels like they've got to gamble this, but the rush from Twisted Minds
is going to put an end to any kind of questions you might have about this team fight.
Some of them have been living quite long into this, but eventually, TVNTLAB's number and
Ice Nom is just gonna try and farm up what graph he can before he falls, has to come
to the cart.
Yeah, threatening to make yet more progress here and ultimate advantage still favors the
champs.
They want to close out here, they maybe want to get some extra progress, why not?
Further widen the gap here on Runisopi, this graph from Ice Nom just hasn't, they
probably picked, they probably want to map completion here, Tristan Mines.
Little bit of a a statement made here at the end of the series is that psycho putting down some pressure on of course
It's gonna be the graph here from both as arias
It's a sound barrier from twisted minds gonna keep everybody alive. You lost both DPS here for Bernice pro
I some just trying to keep VP in it knows aria bubble just getting beat down there by J. Wu and TV and T
And it is our most a map completion here
This is Deja vu map for you and me here where they won the world finals championship last year
They closed it out in style with a map completion
TDMT finds the first land and bubble up desperately delaying, but they cannot hold twisted minds
Do it again another championship title for this squad the top seed in EMEA as if there was any doubt
Brutus bro, they showed a lot of fight
They showed a lot of heat in this series and really made me believe at times
But as we got deeper down the stretch, it just started to feel like a foregone conclusion twisted minds on top of EMEA and potentially on top of the world right now.
Yeah, I mean, they are just so talented twisted minds. I mean, our world champs from last year come in, they take care of business. They are the EMEA champions here in stage one.
one. There are indeed four one is the scoreline but don't let it fool you VP
definitely have brought it to them today. Map 2 and 3 were very close obviously
map 2 went in favor of VP and them being able to tie up the series also means
that Twisted Mind's map win streak has ended while they of course did walk away
with the title. That would might annoy them a little bit. Just a minor
I mean, maybe I think they're more worried about her focus on like trying to win back back
internationals like I think I think they had to have known how much the gap there was between
them the rest of me a you do lose them after the VP so a little bit uh you know probably
uh a little bit underwhelming not gonna kind of complete a sweet throughout everything
but still you know you're a TM your focus is on you know but you just say to division
teams across the world, right? You want to kind of
withstand your mark as still the best team in the world.
Yeah, it's definitely, I think, on them to just kind of hold on to that title,
going into Champions Flash. And I will say, you know, this is a team that just continued
to get better throughout the day. J-Woo on the far is going to be a real threat, you know,
on any kind of meta. I just want to see what else this guy can play. He feels like every
every hero he touches, he finds a top performance on.
And then Quartz, it's just absurd to have a hitscan this good on your team.
Like, you almost could do nothing and you'll probably will just win playing long fights
because you have Quartz on your team. And yet, they don't rest on those laurels, right?
They are constantly bringing it to you with everybody else.
There's so many weapons on the team. You can look at players like Simple and Funny Astro
punching way above their weight class when it comes to what supports are supposed to be able to accomplish.
absolutely they mean yeah the team is just stacked can be and that's why they
have been so dominant there's not really been a meta there's not really been a
composition they seem unable to play they're able to pivot they're able to
adjust whenever they're forced to and yes to drop them up but that was maybe
also just the perfect storm in terms of fans that went in VP's favors there
let's hear from funny astro a good friend basically part of the broadcast
That's right. Nice to hear you. How are you doing? How's the family? What's the weather like?
It's lovely here in England. We're having a great time.
That's wonderful. I'm sure even a greater time now that that championship title is in
the bag. You already were qualified for Japan, so that was already sorted before
heading into the grand final. Walk us through what made this one a little closer, though,
is usually you just make,
you make the other teams look like this is the first time
on the server, this time around,
they actually kind of made you sweat for it,
even dropped the map, shocker.
What went through the voice comes there
and how did you assort it for the upcoming maps?
Honestly, like the last time we played VP,
I think they just underperformed.
That's why it was such a big stomp.
They've been a way better team in scrims
and today's performance from them is like way more,
what we expect to see from them, to be honest.
Um, yeah, the map plus is pretty rough, but we kind of suck at Atlas and that trace of endepthicomp is really annoying on that map.
So they did a good job finding that because that was basically the only comp we were scared of throughout the series.
But yeah, I mean, I don't play that on every map.
Yeah, no, I mean it, it definitely looked annoying to play with just the amount of aggression that VP brought out there.
So now what is the plan for you guys until champions clash, right?
a little bit of a break.
Are you guys gonna like, you know,
who do you think scrim in EMEA,
you thinking about maybe going out there
a little bit early to boot camp,
or are you just kind of haven't even thought about that yet?
And we're just gonna chill, take some time off.
I think we like to have a nice work-life balance
and twisted mind.
So we're gonna have a couple of weeks break,
relax up, you stress a little bit.
And then we're gonna play in the Saudi championship.
And then I think we're gonna have a little bit
of a boot camp before Japan, I hope.
Yeah, so I'm kind of curious, you know, I was especially watching on on Rialto man
and I felt like you guys were in prime position to close out on that third point defense in
verse pro just found like that last gasp to do some crazy fights to keep it in and take
me through that moment for you guys where they're on the, you know, started to look
like possible for them to go up to one in the series.
You know, what does it look like in twisted minds when you're sort of in that spot
back against the wall and you really need to perform.
I was so confident in those spots.
I think the pressure is all on them when it goes to double overtime.
You can see they're stressing out Landon's swapping to bat for absolutely no reason.
And you see like in those overtime moments, we're just running in like we have no fair.
We don't care if we've just lost the last four fights.
We're just going to keep taking the aggression to them.
And again, in those moments, we've proved time and time again,
but that's what we're the best at.
But no one's even put us in those opportunities in a long time.
We do love to see that confidence on the server and also hear about it
outside of the server.
before I let you go and celebrate and rest of course a well-deserved rest after the regular season
sprint that we had and the playoffs here give us some predictions for NA as we're about to head
into the final day over there as well who you think is going to take the crown? Who's playing?
Just asking a bad question there. Dallas School is playing amongst them?
I gotta give it to Space Station. They're gonna take it all. They're winning it all.
Go on Chris.
All right, the lower bracket run from space, why not, find out.
We love a good story there.
Hasmo will be tweeting at you for that one though, so rest assured.
I'm just going to have to stay for NA as well.
He's always here, why don't you just stay for the whole NA?
Yeah, you take it by side, you're ready for the next guest.
I'll be sitting at the desk now, it's fine.
Yeah, we're about to pay him a talent salary considering that he's literally joining
us for every single interview and they keep on winning, so we keep on having him
on them.
But it's always a pleasure to hear from you.
Thank you so much for joining us once again, and of course once more a big congratulations to you and the entire squad
Thanks for having me
Always a pleasure. Oh, he's rocking one of the most comfortable merchandise that we have in over
It's outdated now overwatch 2 is gone, so he
What is overbought, truly?
What are you talking about? It should never happen.
What is overbought? It should never happen.
You know what? Is the fever dream though?
Twisted by the VP coming out on top,
punching their tickets to the champions clash
and as Fannyastra said,
they do get to rest quite a bit now.
As we do have to wait for L.A.,
China, the Pacific region as a whole,
all of them still have to qualify.
So there's weeks of play yet to be played
in order to determine which teams are making it,
which can.
making it to Japan.
Yes, I mean, well and break, right, Jay?
Yeah, I was going to say certainly some super strong contenders out of VMA.
I mean, you know, especially, I was a little bit worried, okay, like VP,
if you roll over in this grand finals, what does that say about your chances,
you know, in an international end, like, yes, team are that good,
but you need to be at least close enough to them if you want to have,
like, a top three finish, you got to be able to really take that fight to them.
I feel like VP found their spots for it,
and also wasn't an ideal spot to have to come out of the lowers
on fighting in a super long day.
I think if they won on Rialto and really started to take an edge, really started to build confidence,
I think that series could have had a different trajectory, could have at least been a 7 mapper,
so for VP, definitely possibility, TM though, they're still on top of the world, they're
still the best team in the world until somebody else proves us otherwise, they're
going to hold on to that crown in my mind.
It was great to get that insight from the scrims that VP usually played them a lot closer.
So while it looked shocking for us, the Twisted Minds is losing map there.
It wasn't so much for our fun yet, even though it did hurt you.
Yeah, I mean, look, I think we all knew TM would make it to LAN, right, Champions
Clash.
I think it's awesome to see VP in this form, right?
I know.
Cat is a fan favorite, right?
Everybody wants to see him back at LAN, right?
and Psycho had like career years last year right so they're gonna take like
everything they've learned from you know their teams last year now bring it over
to VP I think I think they're gonna be serious at Champions Flash right I
think like you know maybe maybe we'll get there we'll find out that like
just in mind actually like my father best team in the world and then like VP
playing them close like can can really punch into that top four it's gonna
be exciting I'm so excited to see the international competition clash but
first let's find out who will be joining Twisted Minds and VP in Japan. Don't go anywhere because
we're just heading into a quick break. And afterwards we will be covering our last day here in NA,
which also means that gives you plenty more opportunity to farm your drops. That's right.
That's right. Connect your battle net account. Even if you're just starting right now,
you might still get a few goodies here and there. So it's not too late. It's not too...
it's not over yet.
No, I mean, I'm checking, I'm close to that.
Yeah, I'm like 85% away to that eSports loop box
at 15 hour mark.
I'm hanging around a little bit.
And I think the NA games are gonna be close, Matt.
Like, I think, you know, people who are might be,
you know, not sure if you're gonna make that next drop.
I suspect that both of these series in NA
could come down to the wire,
even that Dallas Fuel with a seven mapper
going super deep into the strap book.
I don't know, I mean, we're gonna have to see,
I think today is gonna be a spicy one in North America. Yeah, what was the set Zoe and Dallas
You'll keep their 9,000 day playoff streak alive
Sure, sure the active street
9,000 days is like
No one will function we are good gentlemen. Thank you both so much for calling the action EMEA
We will hear from you again in some weeks from now
So I guess I won't chat to you before that since that's that's how we roll with our friendship
But yeah, it's been an absolute pleasure everyone watching we're not done yet. We're just done with Matt and Jake
That's right
We've got a new a fresh a minted set of castles on the other side of a break
And of course all things and a lower bracket final between space station gaming and team liquid heading into a grand final
Where Dallas fuel is waiting
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Ahem. The Singania family's connections to Viskar are...
Ugh! Connections?
Once I say connections, I've lost them.
They'll think only of the Singania name on the plaque outside.
And my grandfather's legacy.
Viskar isn't a dynasty.
Well, right. Suppose it is.
But it's not as though I was handed to this position.
I've trained years.
Proven my worth. I...
Ugh, what utter drivel!
They truly expect me to spend three minutes extolling our architects, prattling on about
their expertise, about how this company would be nothing without their hard work and dedication.
Enough.
I am the one in charge here.
My fortune bankrolls their academies.
My contracts secure their assignments.
I've already dedicated an entire evening to their success.
I hardly think they deserve more of my praise.
Oh, this speech is useless.
I will speak for myself.
Again, Farrah, in your own words, from the beginning.
It is my duty as an executive for the Vishkha cooperation
to project the same likeness of being that we manufacture
and provide to our partners across the globe.
As an architect and an entrepreneur, I have found a wealth of success.
Some have called me too generous for sharing my victories with the company, but
a rising tide elevates every ship, as they say.
And under my oversight, no single group has risen higher than Viskas' talented architects.
To those present in the room tonight,
Know that talent alone may only take you so far.
It was my drive that carried me through my schooling
and earned me the position I now hold.
Proud as I am to bear the Singanya family name,
I don't solely attribute my success to my upbringing.
Their support was always rather specific in its focus,
as critical as the public can be.
One's own kin can sometimes be far cooler.
Though my family may not have brought into my initial forays into heart-like manipulation,
the care and resources I subsequently put toward mastering the craft taught me more than any academy could.
I learned not to tolerate anyone who would question the merit of my work,
or insinuate that I have not earned my position.
Certainly, there's value in the artistry of hard-light manipulation.
But what about the art of negotiation? Of presentation?
Shaping oneself to be perfect!
Crafting not just a reputation, but an image.
Something untouchable. Something worthy.
That is the true test of talent. The real...
No! What are you saying, Vera?
Even if it were the truth, no one would respect you, let alone believe you if you shared your
own perspective. No, just give them what they want. Deliver the speech, hand out the award.
Smile. You're Vera Singania, heiress to the Viscard dynasty, keeper of the family fortune,
Inheritor of innovation. You will be the one to lead Vishkar into a better, brighter future.
They want you to be perfect, Vera. It's a good thing you are.
Now that's perfection at work. The story continues in Overwatch.
What a clean fight for this guys. Is that what the team killed?
Liquid!
Jeffsen's managed to get Trinidad.
It's just gonna be an explosion of death with the hands of the Dallas Fuel.
was impressive.
the world finals champion.
That's the last time we'll be hearing that show for a while.
Welcome back everyone to Ottawa CS and this is the last and final day of stage one.
Players here to cover all things NA.
Is the Euro tower squad?
Jack, Johnny and I to ensure the most unbiased commentary imaginable.
How are we feeling guys?
NA, I will say it's been more fun.
I will say it.
Look, Twisted Mind stomping everybody.
That's great and all, but these games have been
a whole lot closer, so yeah, it's been more fun.
Yeah, I agree with you, I feel best.
I'm so fortunate to be here, covering North America,
because Twisted Minds, we can all celebrate them,
come the Major, they're gonna have a lot of content
for the title, you know, Remy World Champs, all of that.
I'm just here for some good of a watch today,
and I'm gonna treat it to some North American of them.
You know, Johnny, I expected you to come into this,
show open, beaming, like beaming.
I am so excited, Zoe!
The history today is going to be insane!
Kevster made it! He's gonna be online!
Oh, that's right!
You'll see him again!
Kevster online!
Yeah!
Finally!
All the Kevster doubters can shut up!
Just stop posting on Reddit!
It's over!
Stop doubting Kevster!
The Swedish go-to!
That's right!
That's right!
Stop posting on Reddit!
Now, let's focus on what went down in the fun region,
the NA region,
yesterday, Dallas, of course,
qualified already for Japan.
waiting comfortably cozy in the grand final and they are awaiting their opponent. It might be a
rematch with SSG or it could be Team Liquid. They did play each other in the semifinals
already on day one and it was a close close series that SSG somehow managed to come back into.
Yeah it's going to be a repeat I hope not by yes please it was sick I think that series was
I'm so happy for the last few
because obviously CJ said
yesterday that you know, it
felt slighted going into the
preseason like the third
fourth best team in the
region and to come out on top
um, it's been a fun scene team
liquid improved to Dallas fuel
a losing a map versus yesterday
we've got an insane draw as
well like this top three is a
code crazy. It feels like you
could maybe call it early,
but you know what today it
They come out on top, leading the first team that qualified for the Major.
It just has to be such a relief and feels so good for these players who arguably had a pretty tough off-season, you know, putting this team together.
And so it all came into fruition, they worked really hard, really motivated, really passionate, and they didn't qualify for the Major, so really having to follow these players.
That's right, so just like a fairly smart person said about 30 seconds ago, stop posting on Reddit, that is true, did it.
It proves to be wrong
We already made a war with the Aristomane subreddit bro, I mean
Yeah, you you made the domino subreddit angry
We're just adding one by one
That adds to your ships. So you guys are doing
We're here for it your ship is popping up right now go over watch also
Go as a she and team liquid the rematch coming up first here for all the marbles
The winner will be punching the ticket to Japan.
Loser is out with a teeny tiny bit of pocket money,
and a lot of disappointment heading into Stage 2.
Now Dallas, of course, is the favorite to win it.
All they had a really, really great stage, regular season.
So yeah, they're the team to beat for now.
For now, until we reach international competition, we'll see.
I think it's really exciting to see these top three teams.
And I don't know about you, Johnny, but coming into the season, into the stage, like, did you see this?
Did you, you know, did you peer into your Wizard Orb and see this kind of outcome here?
Valos, Fiora, SSG and T.I.T.C.
Johnny DeWyze?
I don't know why Johnny DeWyze lost to my Orbs.
They're just not, they're not the best ones around.
Like, they're, sometimes they're correct, sometimes I can prophesize the future, but not always.
So, like, yeah, they were kind of like, yeah, SSG, really good team, they're probably going to make the major,
but you never know, like, the Orbs don't have to be correct.
So I wouldn't trust my orbs Jaws. I will say this. I'm like nervous on behalf of the players
It's kind of like the pink elephant in your mind. She's like none of nervous
What do you mean? Like I just another game of Overwatch like you know, I played a watch maps like
Thousands of times and it's just another series of those right? So what's to be nervous about?
It's like you can't calm yourself down for a series like this because you're playing each other like two really good teams
and a major ticket is on the line.
There's no way to calm yourself down.
And so, I'm nervous on behalf of the players for this one.
Those are veteran players.
Also, I feel like because they played such close matches
where they found themselves on the back foot,
like they were down 1-2 against Team Liquid in the semifinals, right?
And they somehow brought it back.
And they keep on, like, losing maps.
They shouldn't be losing, but they somehow find the tenacity, the grit,
the composure to bring themselves back into the game.
And I think that should make people actually really, really confident
and looking at the SSG roster heading into today's match.
Yeah, I think with how their series versus Dallas fuel went,
it feels like if we do see this in the finals,
it's gonna be a whole lot closer
because that series, especially going to maps like Atlas,
SSG have to kind of read on Dallas
in a lot of these situations.
So I think their band's gonna be a lot more targeted,
a lot tighter as well going into that series.
So overcoming Liquid's gonna be the biggest
first hurdle, obviously, but yeah, SSG,
They look pretty certain to themselves.
They're going to overanalyze everything, like the matches, right?
And just like, oh, we're going to overanalyze.
Like, oh, what do we do?
Like, they picked this hero for like 15 seconds.
Like, how do we prepare?
So I don't want to overanalyze myself going into this one.
It's just like, these teams, they know each other so well
from scrims, and now they've played each other so many different times.
It's like, you know, they're in like the seventh circle of the Mind
Temple. It's just like so deep right now.
They're so familiar with each other that, honestly, I can't quite predict
what compositions and heroes we're going to see in this one because they obviously have
a read on what the opponent is going to do so like maybe they will all respond with like
a surprise pick here and there to try to just get the slightest of counter watch upper hand
in this one and so it's just going to be a roller coaster. I'm not going to over analyze
this one. I'm just going to enjoy it.
Just sit back, enjoy and see what the teams have been so far. Neither team is shying
away from making adjustments and adaptations within the game rolling out with some more
unusual compositions either right so I'm excited to see what they got for us but for Team Liquid
what is Cinderella story this will be? They started the season off slow they had the odds
stacked up against them having to implement a new player into the back line replacing one of their
most important pieces in their roster right yeah and it's someone who plays on pink and plays
off road. Escanor held their role, the team came together, they found their identity throughout
the last three weeks. They had to find what works for them in the meta. And I mean, you
know, players like infected, they also like to just play to their comfort zone, whether
or not it is meta. So I think this team already should be very, very proud of where they
are ended up, given where they started. And we expect a very close series. Honestly,
it could be a 50-50 here. I got to give this one to SSG. I think they're going
come out on top they probably over analyzed their initial series against them and came in with such
a clean game plan that they're gonna take it today. Yeah I I'd have to agree if we're doing
prets like SSG for me for sure I think Team Liquid yeah they could look a lot better they have to
kind of sit with Kaluj coming in as well um it's been away from the game a little bit
still a very very good player but having infected and yeah playing with them all
companies. It's been working out super well for them. It'll be a very interesting final
actually. Team Licken ended up winning here, but I just give SSG the W. I think the way
they performed against RGS today was good. It was my loss.
Yeah. So do I. I'm going with this G in this one. And I know we went to five maps last
time around. It felt like Team Liquid really had to fight with, you know, tooth and nail
to get to those five maps to begin with winning the Gibraltar, clutching out on
Blizzard World. And so I'm going with this G in this one. I think they're
favorites. If Team Liquid win today, they would have to put up a heroic performance unlike any
other we've seen from these players in their careers. And so that'd be really impressive,
but I got S3 for this one. Yeah, a lot was on the back on Zero and Tree, the damage duo. In
general, this is going to be a high octane damage duo off between those two teams. It's going to
be a good one for sure. So let's drop in for our first match of the day in NA, guys. Please
take it away. Yeah, thank you very much, Zoe. Yeah, I can't wait. Really quick intro,
So just get into the game.
Just what I like to see.
Busan, the choice.
So Lee Jung-tao with so back, Johnny.
We're so back.
Wrecking ball back.
Literally, we're so back.
It's a replica.
We saw the last time these teams played on Friday.
And then Lucio, Bamsia.
And of course, Juno Brick.
Yeah.
So I think the reason that this G are picking Busan here
is because they want to shy away from all the fora stuff
you could see from Sierra on a map like Lee Jung-tao,
right?
Because this G, they want to play to the strengths
I'm hoping for a little bit of scrappiness, Johnny. I'm going to be honest. Just get down
Yeah, for sure man. It's gonna look like the streets of LA bumpy very bumpy for the
part. The asphalt. Yeah. Yeah. It's uh
There's not like a bunch of speedhumps. They're like everywhere.
I will be complaining. I try every day. All right. In fact, we're running on the
Diva. I like this man. I think with Hawk though, I would put Hawk Steve over
in fact, just right now. If we're making a tier list like straight up, I
definitely put Hawks up there. But in fact, as you know, it's going to be
practicing on these off things knowing how important it is especially for a map like control
yeah we have to use a Pareto to infect that he brought out to D.Va on Gibraltar in the last series
on Friday they did a good job that time combining with zero on the different data zero this time
on the tracer as Escanor gets pitched out of the sky and this is what's going to happen Jaws
tracer and D.Va combining trying to get to these backlines yeah i mean tracer and then
big spacer basically, kind of comboing up. And this is the thing with Hulk, Steve II, he's
very aggressive. And compared to Infected, you're expecting a tank that kind of mains off tanks,
Steve, etc., to be way more out there in terms of just thrusting back into the backline,
and then Infected, who is, of course, brings on main tanks to be a little bit more passive,
and I think we just saw it there. Yeah, but it's also not about utilizing resources before
these fights take off right. And so you see Infected, you know, using the boosters to
trying to get some of these bases as hawk is setting up for another dive here with sugarfree recall force though
we'll buy some time for liquid air hawk is so good at saving all of these abilities and saving
those boosters for matrix before these mines oh god i've already got this no good wits although
coming from vega sugarfree waits in the wings doesn't find uh an avenue of being wrecked sadly
into that one for hawk again just good diva players they are not leaving their thrusters on cooldown
for more than a second. Like every single time that someone put off cooldowns or on off
cooldown, yeah off cooldown, they're going in.
Uh, whole closing in on the self-destruct as well. Space station, Johnny, they're 55%
already. Liquid have not managed to find a good pick. There's one, eventually there,
as Espinall takes down Liquid. But Ryze is going to get popped. In fact, double rally,
as Abrams got the back of the point. Not a place you want to be against a team
that's got a lot of boots. A post bomb from Sugarfree is going to send the scores.
See Liquid lose both their DPS and their tank as Space Station Gaming, looking to finish this 100-Zero.
Yeah, Space Station in control right now, they're just trading back and forth.
You know, one pair goes down, they pop the rally and they're trading ultimates back and forth, so 80% right now.
And they're still going to have that orbital ray.
Letho will have this override as well, and all of this space in the sky to upgrade with this Liquid.
Try to move around the corner to get some space, Zero. Have to get this point-touched job.
Oh, it's already in.
Oh, oh, oh, over our protocol.
Oh, no thrusters to the east of these shops.
Oh, it's all good!
Lethal just mobs tree in the skybox,
and now to the point where the space station descend,
and thanks to already low self-destruct,
a little knave then chasing that baby diva down,
doesn't matter where she goes.
Orbital Ray on the point, and space station gaining look.
Just too good.
Too easy.
This round, 100 to 0 on board, this is touch.
Sure, one final one at the very end.
A 3 pops out a widow!
Okay, you know what?
Give it to him, son!
No, not quite.
There's some tough sidelines right there, because you get one or two shots off and SSG are like,
okay, we're going to hide.
We will play around the walls and you can't shoot at us anymore.
And I think you saw just what a difference maker this was here.
Hawke and Sugarfield, just amazing on the Deva Tracer.
This is kind of what I expected them to play yesterday against Dallas Fuel, right?
This is SSG at their absolute best. You're showing what they're capable of and Team Liquid just enabled to set up these dives.
Wait a second.
That was a single kill.
That was the only kill? The Escanor kill on Toletho? With Tree with the assist?
I mean I'm so impressed with SSG. The way they just play that. So calm, composed, set up the dives.
It's beautiful. Beautiful overwatch.
Beautiful overwatch.
Alright, give it a look. Okay, this is where you're more comfortable if you're infecting team Liquid.
Gina Brick still, by the time of the versa.
And this is a slight adjustment from Friday's match where Traceration will play Dissoria and the Vendetta instead.
Before it was a nice American treat, we'll actually find the first pick here on Sugarfree.
I'm not sure if I love this Vendetta switch here, Jaws.
I'd say that I cannot try to defeat Tracer as much as possible.
I guess SSG yesterday they struggled on this map against Dallas Fuel, so maybe they might go there.
Apparently it just doesn't matter. The backlight for TL is already dead.
Infected, running for the health packs is the only source of sustain on the Orisa now.
And that's been chased down. Yeah, but I'm super dead. Just a few more dead.
Unfortunately now they are stuck in the slide ground, but it's fairly easy rotation here for SSG who have got the cap already.
I'm sure that was a...
Some post-art torpedoes mixing with sugar-free damage.
Estimal radio as well.
It's just too easy for Lenny.
He gets cleaned up already, but...
The Malga Johnny against Asariya.
I mean...
What are the odds this...
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I mean, what are the odds this succeeds here?
It's just a rough matchup. Bro's just a giant slab of meat and he's just getting perma shot.
It's so tough.
Okay. Yeah, it is tough.
But you kind of have to take it one step at a time here, and I feel like Liquid, they just kind of been in their boots so far.
Like, we had a big brawl on the point there. I think they want to fight for this high ground up here.
Maybe utilize one of their Magakulans here. Recover, wait for a little bit, set up position, and then go again for a point.
They're working on pretty solid stuff.
Can I have a drive pop there to get through the choke?
Manage to cover a little bit of ground but hold just ignores the balcony completely
Oh, no, that's a right-clicking. Get him out of the way.
No, no, you don't. They're gonna try and go for a different play here. Looks like a down lower right, but the graph on surge is good
It's just perfect. Polk spot with the back of Vega as he hits the rally, point's gone, space station don't care
It's all good. Just win the fight, we can't.
Man, this... I'm now just gonna grab this drone.
I'm gonna be getting the Theosaurus out real quick, but I'm gonna look up the word Slaughter and go from there,
because 70 to 10 right now is Space Station.
I'm gonna use the Grabbing, I'm like, Anapolish, sorry.
Yeah, based on how this match has started, we might need to bring out some Symmethings.
Well, we can't keep repeating ourselves, so...
You stay on that.
That's the out-serve, in fact, the SSG skill has double support,
so we're probably going to be pretty happy if we use this one.
Tree, though?
The strategy's around there, we're quickly overriding.
Oh, the Orbital Ray is really good though, the rally too, he's gonna push Tree all the way back and infect it as well using that dash away.
99% fresh kill here, they used the Ray to get out of the choke, but it's gonna be really tough, all the fan damage on it.
It's gonna be really hard to deal with. There it is, there's the Orbital Ray, Hawk eventually slain.
Okay, finally, we've killed him.
And we should be able to clean up too, okay, Point is gonna get Caps in the middle of this fight.
But still, I mean, it's control right? It's a control moment, they have 99%, you're only really starting to burn percentage, and...
They can come back in with a grab maybe, pole spawn, and hopefully hit the backline again.
Yeah, now if you're the team liquid in-game leader, you're like, what do we do here?
How do we make sure we get a fight win here? This is a tough spot to win, Ian.
In fact, it has this cage fight. You can't really build any ultimates here, because you're so far away from this rally even.
You kinda just have to go for a proactive play, and hope it works out.
Oh, that was on the C area. Really scary.
Gary oh, oh, and it's now good time. Goodbye. Oh, okay reset team
It's the best use of that. Oh really?
I mean just trapping this area in after she uses one bubble and then they already have to do with the next one and then you'll you're good
Honestly, that was kind of the scary fight right Jaws because now you're one maybe two away probably two away
But like you're getting to start build some of these ultimates again
And you're building some of that confidence as well at the starting out rough so far this series
And so team liquid let's see how they approach this next one
This big is forcing you to form that rally.
The Embrace here, so you can get some kind of opening pick here.
The tree probably gives a ton of damage to be thrown down, Eric.
Oh, 100%.
Slabbing them, basically.
Oh, the pulse is so good.
That was very close to a double, actually, from Zera.
Luckily, uh, you used that little speed up there, and then jumped out of the way.
I don't think I'm going to be able to do this round.
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should know so they're gonna bring that aggression right and so they're going to go to blizzard world which in fact
They went to blizzard world as your second map choice in Friday series as well. So again, no changes so far
in terms of how this series is being picked, but this Blizzard World on Friday, it was a pretty close one, Jaws.
Remember that Team Liquid, they had to capture the first point in overtime, and then
Seru like, clutched up on the Tracer as well, after Escanola solo grabbed, and so Team Liquid are going back to Blizzard World here.
It's a really close map just a couple of days ago.
Yeah, I love that little Blizzard World. It's been so many insane second point memories on Blizzard World.
A lorry pan for SSGTL coming with the diva pan. Okay. Had enough of a whore
They would like get that man right there
Take a jacket
Get him out. Get him out of here. Get him out. So we actually see a small adjustment for you guys
A tiny adjustment. That's a street banning away lorry with your second ban instead of Juno
Because again, I think as a street they want to get rid of this Juno Brigg
That is the big difference for these backlines team liquid passive late. They favor the Juno break compositions and it's a studio like
Why don't we just play Lucio carry right thing was a bastard world on Friday team liquid?
They brought out the a lorry really good that composition as you said
We're fine with the Juno break just please don't play lorry
Yeah, the a lorry is so annoying especially on them
When you're flying in on to the defense all that's where the crows are they're up in the church Johnny you see that?
They're up on the big church. Well like cathedral, I guess it's not a church
dude mystery solved and
Yeah, they're already so annoying to fight into as the offense because the amount of spam is kind of insane
You're always forced to actually just take the mega and then like go for the rap, right?
In fact, it
Come out on the rest of it. No shock as we see Hawk diva band, which means a Zarya
This is so scary though. Every time I pick Orisa on defense, I'm like, yeah, they're going to run with Zarya.
It's counterwatch time. But if it's like Team Liquid as a reason, they're just like, I can acknowledge that that is a possibility.
And they're like, yeah, we're actually going to play Orisa and Zarya. We're fine with this.
We're going to tactically, you know, shift the way we play positionally, the way we help out infected in the matchup like this.
And so they're just going to take the classically inferior to me, so I just started that job and just play differently around
It's on a good angle here, so we can kind of shoot on the high ground also just kind of shoot infected in the head
Arissa sadly suffering from the giant head hit box
It's not the greatest thing as a tank player, I'll be honest
Paul going super low running wild. They got a clear Zera out at some point
Looks like the Lucian is gonna do that, but a little bit more smooth is the error on the movement and end up getting away
I don't know any more clip lethal. I'm sure they
Got snacks this action trolling is kind of it's ridiculous actually yeah lethal force to recall
I'm sorry. Is there a force to recall there too?
Being in snacks is so tough for effective. You cannot really stand on the point
There's just so many angles, they flip them out completely and Vega is just falling over facing the dirt.
And this is just a disaster for Team Liquid.
They managed to, they pushed me to the bottom, I'm not sure.
But Hawke is still alive at 100 energy, that's the point of this fact too.
Seeing a tad bit of pain, all the poles on the floor!
Wow, that actually kills more, can't believe that.
Team Liquid clutch up, 64%, they almost managed to get two tics in their tracestation.
I mean, I think Zero had...
Bit of a crazy performance on the Tracer leader to kind of secure that fight because like you said it looked like that was a street fight to win.
They rotated, they took the high ground away from them, they got the opening pick on Tobega.
Then Sera on the Tracer came back, got a couple of picks himself.
Team Liquid have been going two minutes from that timer.
Crucial on a map like this.
The defense has dominated that scruces.
Alright, I'll survive it.
Popping rush from the point.
Infected nose is not welcome there anymore.
Many hold on for a certain amount of time though, Johnny. They're trying to really have this hold.
Leave them over the top. Smite's free. Once again, kind of mocking him in the sky.
In the ult duel. In fact, it doesn't end up killing Hawke, but this orbital ray is tough to deal with.
A late ray for Team Liquid is the only give-up. Another tick. You'll take that any day of the week.
There's a really nice defensive hold right now. Are they still going to rush to work with?
Yeah, SSG, they're going to go for a bit of a play. Again, they find the opening.
picks. It kind of felt like that's how they played yesterday right against Dallas Fuel. It's just like
yeah we're going to go for these hard engages. We're going to get some opening picks but you leave
yourself vulnerable to getting traded back and forth in Team Liquid. They're just coming out on
top right now with these trades. That means three minutes is off the timeline here. Hawks
still has to grab it on surge. It can be quite difficult to get value out of this one. There's
no massive defense balls from the dodge only that's going to be the big problem. Well here
Here comes the sound barrier from SSG. Ready, head on to the medal now.
Graviton, search. From Hawk on the high ground.
Hawk and Abra kill one, uh, each.
Infected does end up getting you ultraviolet of course.
And uh, with Infected still alive, you gotta deal with him at some point.
There we go. Okay, Hawk, so I turn the bubbles well.
Keep it lethal alive up on the high ground.
Sarah, I believe, was trying to contest the M-Ray up on height,
but wasn't successful to any stretch of the imagination.
three minutes in the time being for SSG as they cap first.
Yeah, but there's a lot of time drained off this time bank
and going into the second point, which can be so difficult to convert on.
Space Station has left themselves no room here for error.
Going to start poking quite a bit, but Team Liquid will be sweet.
They get the opportunity to set up their defense accordingly.
Now, they wasted a couple of big ultimates there.
Vega, for example, no gets in rush available here.
Escanor still building that orbital ray.
So this is where you need a big time play like shooting for lethal.
Come up with a pick for the office
Yeah, she reads the emphasis on opening that hole
A hawk's gotta be careful! One second till the bubble! Oh my goodness, when someone makes me an out of effect until the run, okay?
That was odd and knife's edge there between the two tanks. If Hawks didn't have a bubble like a second sooner
He would have died. Or a second later. Sorry, he would have died.
Oh, that's a little bit more of a sucer as well
There's a great suzerain to be caught alive there, still don't have any real positioning
on this one, but SG have ultimates to play with her as well, they only need one fight
when they cap off the second point.
Letho, you can come in, mid time clutch here, here I am.
He's out, and he takes by Sera, here comes the rush, he takes, it's taking so much damage,
all this RAZO is going to be good to heal him back up again, ult running out of
Yeah, there's a lot of ultimates on either side though, so Team Liquid obviously, they have the positional advantage here and they, because of that economical fight, they have so many ultimates to play with, but it's just, they're no slouches as well, they have this soundbearer to play with, which is,
side though so team liquid obviously they have the position of advantage here
and they because of that economical fight they have so many optimists to play with
but it's G there are no slouches as well they have this sound bearer to play with
which is one of the most powerful elements in the game here it's going to
aid them as they try to push this high ground surely
to their advantage dress oh wow
Yeah, the sugar thing has been on fire so far.
Yeah, dude, it's the absolute phase.
They did this pretty good all stage, I gotta be honest, but that's not much of a surprise, like it's sugar-free.
I'm not sure there's ever been a moment where he's looked quiet, despite how well his team is doing or how well they're not doing.
40 seconds to go as a space station gaming, they have to deal with Zarathva, he's already been sticked down.
A touch doesn't end up coming in eventually, and here comes Trey, out of the spawn, but shut down!
But shut down three it's not had a successful override
Ever I don't think on this back in the room. It's just getting old
It's been sort of rough
Play for the M-Ray so far the team liquid
Even on the last map do you think it a boost on when women's the last time we saw tree up like a very high impact
Oh, just space station gaming is shutting him down
This is what I talked about pregame draws if I gone Friday a lot of things when team liquid's way
They're able to crunch out some of these fights, but this time it's like space station
They're just one step ahead, they're the ones to open up some of these fires for the first pick.
And then it's just making sure...
...this payload is moving forward.
Two, three...
...a bolt, three!
Yeah, it doesn't want to mess around.
Save the recall though.
Threatening this off-angle too.
Kind of jiggle peeking the corner currently.
On the tracer.
That's a recall though.
Terrasurge? Wow, that was an instant pop!
It paid to kind of no scare to kind of stay around!
the crab again it's just so good for more sacrifices its own life of course but that's fine both
supports go down but see liquid and space station game they're going to save to a windy fight for
sure see up on the high ground the one to get shut down by lethal who's now in a template
and this is like space station are on the way to completing the map here we still have this
override protocol get sooner wash in hand it's going to be a lethal going for it yep over
for the top. And, Team Liquid have to respect this. It's just too much damage in these three
corridors there. These choke points are horrible. Not even quite howl, but like, it's ridiculous.
Rush is going to come through as well. They're already trapped in the spawn as well. He's
just spinning the supports away. Steal his Espinor to the wall. Put his head on a stake.
15 seconds to go is space station gaming. Like you said, Johnny, have a perfect layering
of Alts and look at that they even had a South Byers Wells just in case the
emergency beat not even required for SSG to complete there
what a round what a push on that last one 13 seconds in the time bank
wow look at those stats three eight and five so far
like you said Jaws haven't had the same level of impact that we've seen from
them historically it really feels like it's SSG stay lethal
21 and 4. Sugar-free. 22 and 1. And obviously, you know, the stats are going to look better
even though you got better ultimate use, you got more value from your optimets, you win
some of these fights and offense. So the scoreboard is always going to reflect that,
right? But I still think as we look at some of these fights, it really feels like the
damaged duo on behalf of Stacia is combining well the talk as the Sauria player. And
there are the ones who are difference makers in three series.
call him a sapling right now the way it's playing. I mean it's been really rough.
Alright I got something. I'm going to pick up the e-rolls.
Okay what's up?
We're one and a half mappin' to the series.
Yeah.
There's good championships on there.
Yeah.
And you've already said twice that the M-ray is morging the other M-ray.
That's fine.
He was morging him.
That's fine.
But who is your limit?
That's your daily limit.
I won't say morg.
Okay I won't say the word morg.
Again.
Thank you.
Jesus.
This is a feedback.
This word second me like big broadcast he's word checking me
You know what that's fine
They're gonna deep you out no Symmetra here. Yeah sugar free by the way 22 and one as well after that round
Ridiculous, no, see if infected can come up big on the orissa much better anchoring. No on this corner
Oh my goodness! I'm telling you!
There is some sort of no-pun intended to start in the lobby right now, but there's a Vendetta against...
Oh, he just switched to Vendetta.
Okay, well, there's some sort of, like, kill contract will hit on Tree's head.
With the amount of work he's been doing over the course of the playoffs, that's honestly no surprise!
Tree has been the main carry for Team Liquid over the last couple of days, and space station gaming know it.
You think they're genuinely just like yeah if we kill three with the game
Like obviously these these players are you know so good that they don't necessarily target players like that
But hey, you know if you had a big place carrying like three usually does them might as well put in a little extra bullets in there
Little so close this already
Yeah, you just can't make it up
You just can't make it up. That's called Suga Lobe too.
He's got AoE, like aura healing from Lucio, but I mean, Suga Fri is just hanging around,
pounding down the backline who was preoccupied in trying to save themselves, couldn't hit him back then.
I think that Suga Fri's not the one I reckon.
He's just on one. It's just one of these classic Suga Fri series.
He's just dominating the lobby. Like, this is ridiculous.
This is a match for a spot at the Major in Japan, and Suga Fri is just taking over the lobby.
It's ridiculous.
I think it's worth reiterating those stakes, right?
Winner here goes to Grand Finals in North America Stage 1, but also locks in the ticket to the Japan LAN.
Like it's a ridiculous amount of pressure for Team Liquid to be under right now, being a map down.
And it's honestly struggling, like we've been mentioning.
Rush for Ultravider, they've got double DPS ult, space station gaming.
Looking really clean.
Okay, so both Team Liquid supports, all 5 volts coming up.
Volts coming up that's not just on his Vegas couple of cents points off
So they're gonna have to walk in because he's basically one of our cars looks like lethal straight over top once again
Zero force the TV in here comes the beat away late. There's a damage coming out from lethal pork eventually ends up getting cut down
There's now team liquid in a good spot. The sound barrier is good. They use both support all times
There was only use their override. They're gonna try and rush onto the point if they did
Space fitting, Terra Surge, but the beat is gonna be good.
There's four players on the point right now, high noon pop, there's a poke score on the back of lethal, and a DPS.
Bring it up the rear here for Team Liquid.
This error intrigues, securing the point, and getting the payload going.
That fight would have had to feel good.
Obviously, a lot of work to do yet, with Spacers not finishing the map with 30 seconds in the time bank,
but that would have just been mental boomage.
If you happen to lose a fight like that, you invested all of your ultimates,
You start capturing the objective, and then Space Station had a great opportunity with Double Support Element to come back and contest the point as well.
But Team Liquid, they finished off the first capture point.
That was great news for them here, but they had to use a lot of ultimate, so while we're looking at a three-minute time bank here,
you still need a little bit of something.
You displayed mechanical skill.
Try and open up the same one.
There's no way, folks, to eat this surely. I mean, Chigofrey has got also...
You could go for something quite crazy, but we're scared of the space bin.
However, can eat the crab.
Oh, nice pick.
So you're basically not eating with the full spot?
But I guess you're scared of Escanor Suzu, and so...
Yeah, but my name is too much, and he's cruel and it's like that.
You know, they got control of its tank currently, or just...
Making sure he's not evicted by infected.
They're looking for an opportunity to use the crab, but here comes the real problem.
and actually kind of getting through this choke point here is going to be so difficult these three once again
these couple of right clicks in piece little head out and Alan takes very far away from the team
this is like the Graviton team he runs on Vescedor and there's no beat there's no nothing there and
instantly Susie comes out Johnny but it's not enough to help them survive. Yeah just felt like it was a matter of time right because
obviously Team Liquid they know that Graviton search is coming their way they played really
scared and intimidated. They did get some card push though, so not everything is lost.
Space Station here. Good move here. Spamming in the spawn for Team Liquid, making it really
difficult for them to get off in the first place in a while. Serious going to try to
take this hook, I know, but sugar-free and Abloh, they're aiding each other,
bunch of them. It's just so aggressive. Yeah, they are. I didn't feel like they were such a good spot as well.
They've already got infected with that pose. I mean, it's just clean up. I love the
aggressive play, force them into the mega health by room and then lethal is just shooting the heavy
shots directly at five people. A nice team kill from SSG. And this is the sign of a fantastic team
Jaws. When you're able to take these unorthodox positions here, you're willing to fight in places
that you wouldn't typically, you'd still just trust your players, their skill in Overwatch.
They're just permanently pushing. They drop the beat and the high noon to try and win this fight.
Vega almost ends up going down, but it's you, the N-Leakville that end up falling.
It will be a minute left for Team Liquid, but because they took the fight so close,
Shony, like, they're good for another one. However, there are two players from SSG right now
currently behind Team Liquid.
At a straight position.
For the next one. You've got three angles going into the next one, Jaws.
I think Team Liquid are quite worried here because they've got people to worry about,
you know, behind them, while they have to keep looking forward as well.
Space ish, you need to get this crowd on search here.
Yeah, I mean this rush is gonna help in their endeavours and pushing this point in nice little teleport but here comes some feats.
Graviton Surge up in 1% Terra Surge, there's a lot of damage to Hawk, and he's helped, oh, and he puts the grab to completely with uninfected.
Horns from space I guess, zoning grab I suppose, to be generous to Hawk there.
SSG still control this fight and control the point in a 4v4 and the spawns are good.
But if you can just hold there for a minute, wait for spawners to get back, put a drap or
charm to the high ground here, sugar free, no sucer here, but can you get for a postmortem?
Yes, uh, space being used to go onto the point as well, O.T. is going to be here and Spree
taking the high ground, clicking some heads, but Sugar Free's going to make sure he's
kept in at least a little bit of check, good damage from Spree, someone's going to need
to stop him and that's going to be the call.
Letho and Sugar Free jumping up to the high ground and killing the Cassidy,
Infects deploys the barrier here but it's just all runny through it, ignoring the Eurystha completely.
It's just choosing to finish the videos off.
And now the override protocol rigged from Leakal.
As overtime will take down SSG on match point.
And finally SSG looking like they're just going to close this series out in very quick fashion.
I think they're gonna struggle so far in stage one to be consistent.
They cannot drop these kind of maps right?
But here up 2-0, dominant fashion, sugar-free is falling on all cylinders.
And so far, it's been very one-sided.
Aisha, Aisha's crushing.
38 and 3 at the end of it, looking lethal, 2-37 and 6.
Everybody from SSG.
Just on another level currently.
Shortly it's not a 3-0, Team Liquid have gotta pull someone out of the back here.
It's been a really rough series so far for trees, been shut down.
I mean look at an attack man like twice in a row. He got picked first
Yeah, but like honestly you see that this is G are targeting you so what when he was casting on the high ground there in the final fight
Question maybe maybe a little bit too exposed especially with what is he has done so far with the amount of pressure
They've been put on this is G you kind of want tree to play with the supports. Perhaps just know that that pressure is coming
But still this is like a tactical adaptation that liquid has to do now
like, OK, well, you know, tree is getting first week all the time here.
Some of us there, certainly his fault because there's so many bullets coming his way.
But how can we shift our playstyle?
How can we shift our positioning the way we can carry each other?
We just try to aid or carry his game player.
Are they going to have to come up with the sort of cheeky in the next map?
Get tree a little bit more space, you know what I'm saying?
Just get him out there.
He's been focused.
I would see if Team Liquid couldn't make this another map five that they already
And you know Twitter and you're like I didn't get my drops just to make my account
I'm gonna be so sad yeah, this one shout out to like the two people in charge
Who didn't correct your belt with account connected right now?
You gotta do it listen to Johnny Atlas now for team liquid
Okay, so we're going to a flash for it now
This is quite interesting though, I would have expected them to pick Gibraltar because they beat this is you on Gibraltar
On Friday and the bands are exactly the same so
You know, they're thinking better instead of going towards Atlas here
Maybe maybe you just want like ban the tracer here and try to force something better. I don't have to sorry actually
Okay, ban in Zarya
I think
Yeah, with how Hawk plays on this map with Zarya, I think it's nice to surprise. What do you think SSG ban?
You got a couple of seconds
Fan out, Gino break, and then you can just pay the evild tracer, use your carry, and you're happy.
And then, maybe it's your liquid, they go right off. Right, Jumps.
Clearless? Clearless?
No, that doesn't help you, there's no run mark for that, so.
They're not Kallen, they're not Kallen, buddy. Sorry about that.
I just wanted to say something, hope you.
I mean, there's always a chance. I mean, if we see SSG pick Alice at some point, if Alice comes up, if they win here against the Dallas feel, you know, Collins, when you plan to run again, you know they're going to play the man.
Will they though? If they're an M2, well, yesterday, God, they was like, they looked good for one, the first round, really good run, probably, then they're going to play two, three, the rest of the game.
I mean, it's really not the best pick ever for Ryan sadly or like not the best metaphor Ryan sadly
That's the Gnobana. Yeah, dude breathe
But if I mess this junior y'all am I crazy am I taking crazy pills or is this genome just delighted?
Cool we can play Lucio carry. Yeah, I'm a tracer. That's awesome. Good. Yeah, exactly right. It's like sounds good to us
I mean she'll go for you just gone tracer again and kill him buddy
Yeah, I do wonder, if I got a map like Atlas, maybe Team Liquid or just like, okay, you can have that, you can have those heroes, maybe we'll put Zero on the Vendetta instead.
I think Zero is like a fantastic Vendetta, arguably like the best Vendetta in the region. He's so good at hero-peak it up early, with Spectator in the bootcamp as well.
As a Team Liquid, maybe we're thinking like, okay, we're gonna pick Vendetta here, and just chunk away at all, like the device going down.
That means they're going to surrender the tracer matchup, but on a map like Atlas, maybe a little bit more difficult for Sugarfeet to secure that value.
Alright, here it is. Final chance here. 14 liquid. They need a reverse sweep to see themselves in Japan, Tokyo land coming up.
It's next month, Johnny. It's quite soon. It's pretty close. It's pretty insane how far we've come already.
Stage one kind of disappearing and a blink of an eye. Three weeks of regular season will do that for you, I suppose.
I can't wait dude we need to do an itinerary
we've been there both of us we were there this year already
yeah we know all the places to go and we're also taking air condations
send us a recommendation chat if you know where to go
I'm just saying we go to another car meet baby let's go
yeah it looks like Jaws you went to Japan before me
and I was like where should I go Jaws?
and you were like oh dude this is the guy if you want to go ride in a car
And also if you want to
Car culture goes crazy pan rides them out that he falls yes, sir chas gonna put one by that way
Anyway team liquids okay a Malca gaming for team liquid
Infected playing Malda and hot playing the Tiber pretty unfair matchup if you're there in a sustained fight
But if we do land a good native a backline team liquid are going to be mighty sad
Yeah, in fact, it's just gonna change the way the dynamic of this fight so far here, Joss.
They're just gonna fully send it with the aggression from Sierra on the Vendetta.
Oh, nice, really nice pick on ult provided there by Vega.
And yeah, it does this comp too.
This staying fight is good for the Malga, but if you pop that cardiac overdrive and
then jump on the D.Va, she's got no brushes, you're not living long with your
hog.
Vega does end up getting taken down by Sugarfree, point cap tier by Team Liquid, but look
Look at the health of Team Liquid right now, Serra intrigued, disasterously low, Sugarfree
picks up another, that's true for the Tracer as he eventually gets shut down, but the ball
in the park, the Malga cannot quite scale the high ground as quickly as the Demokane.
Yeah, you're in a bit of a timer here if you're Team Liquid because Sugarfree is
bound to cook, he's bound to come up with those frags necessary to win the team
fight and so Team Liquid really trying to capitalize on the burst from the Cardic
Overdrive off the Marga and zero on this and better, but if they don't find those pigs fast enough, then you know
This cage isn't gonna build up get built up quite quick too quickly either 40% on it already like
Okay, that's great. You are shooting matrix a lot of the time which kind of sucks
So the cage is probably not even gonna be a factor here if this is gonna be final fight
Considering how long it tapes team liquid to engage
How's this rush?
That's not the point.
Over right protocol, bot news already.
Can he stop them from descending on Hawks Mac?
He's pretty low, he's three in the corner.
Vendetta over the top, is there a boost away?
He can't find anything, everybody is just way too quick.
Kills Abro in the end, but now Hawks can come in.
With depending that point the whole time,
the Vendetta doing a lot of damage to Hawks Mac there,
but now 22 HP, snites by Lethal, and now he first.
Point over to SSG with three, well, almost four O's actually to spare, Oach quite a coming up on this rush.
You're feeling rich right now, you have the first point cap and you have four ultimates to go, going into the second one.
We're spoiled with ultimates here.
This team liquid are strilled, struggling to get back into this series and Sero, Sero he's getting a couple picks here and there.
Receiving these things out though, Stasis you can beat from those so far.
Now they just have to play the activity to make it sound right.
Oh, what a fantastic ball! It was unreal!
Okay, the beat from Vega was unbelievably timed there.
That stick from Sugarfree completely tonight, sadly.
But honestly, it's basically as you get me, they've just got a better beat, Johnny.
They can beat later in this fight, and I'll just run Team Liquid down.
He can be able to hold on, their best score is so low.
Forced to teleport already.
He could be dancing out of the way of the Vendetta slashes.
There's three go to the Override protocol, and yeah, just get pressured out by Hawk.
A double kill for the D.Va, if they want it again, just run over Team Liquid!
So tough for Team Liquid now. Nothing is working for you.
You're grasping at straws at this point.
The real soldier, like, Casady's going to be the answer here for Tree.
A hero that he's been so good on so far this stage, but a little bit unorthodox.
Like, it's hard to take over games on this hero, so yeah,
he's going to put some more pressure on the sugar-free, of course.
Try to mitigate that as Seraph tries to focus on the picks in the brunt line.
See if this cast of the Pythagore can change the way.
Let's focus, we should start playing a bit.
A bright particle for Lethal, not much for him to eat, let's see the Johnny.
There is gonna be a cage for Invades, yeah, but I do fear for his life, I'm gonna be honest.
As soon as that cage gets popped down, Lethal might just jump on in with the ult.
Let's make his commands before that one first.
Not a first.
Decent hits there from long range, self-destruct from board, gets the remake.
and Echo Drive Chronicle not finding too much here as he makes it fighting for his life on the point.
My goodness, he's trying his heart out there, Johnny.
But Suga free just ends his life with a pulse bomb.
And I hate to break it, too. The Team Liquid fans out there, that is another point for SSG.
They are one away here from locking their tickets to Japan.
And what a relief that would be for this space-ish squad.
It's really them battling back and forth so far here in Stage 1.
Multiple maps traded back and forth.
They haven't found a consistency but were these players now sugar-free he missed the major last year
Was he felt real salty about that one given his talents?
Now like you say just one control point away and as I say that he gets shot in the head by sir
Oh, well, most weird because there's a blade
Alright Sarah start off the pipe pretty well, okay infected on the orisa
We can do a little bit better than the Malga, me thinks here, but again, you need, you know,
you need either a bus, we, in this map, Johnny, you need a bus, we, in this series, but despite
getting two picks early, Space Station still win the fight and get the cap.
I mean, come on.
I mean, with the way Space Station are playing this series, girls, I'm like, if I'm
that lost fuel, I'm watching this and I'm a little worried.
I'm like, yeah, I know we beat this G yesterday, but they are looking very dominant
so far. Team Liquid hasn't found a single answer right now that has got any kind of momentum
going whatsoever. And space station? This year's should be over before you know it, Jaws.
Yes, sir. Without, uh, quickly these points go through and, well, nothing is yet, exactly
as I was about to say, nothing is going their way whatsoever. They have to reset!
I mean, look, you're looking at one and a half lights maybe, don't get sad, it's
Oh fuck the tree dying last.
Just back. Just show the back. Just like, yeah, I can't fight back. Just...
That's not...
Oh, they're gonna go a bunch again.
They're really making a play for this. Johnny, they're just ending the map here.
They're booking their ticket already.
Space Station Gaming.
They've got to try and push them to their limits and that's exactly what they're doing.
Soundbite from Vega Renta coming out, but Terri is so low.
The Touchington coming through with Team Liquid, Terror Surge connects, Vega gets another,
Tio gets the flip, Hawke's gonna have to get de-mech for them to be in with a chance.
We have a couple of fairly late picks coming in here, so Team Liquid finally on the board.
They're expelled some pretty crucial ultimates here though, and they still only have this Kitsuna rush against Adonis.
Sombarrier?
How can you find a teamfight out of this one?
I just had to hope now with Tree over on this tracer, this very dive heavy composition from Team Liquid.
You just have to go and try and make a play really aggressively.
Because if you get forced back here, if the recall gets forced, you can't find it in Delaprize, it's just over.
Oh my god, but it causes us to see you really early.
But that's all over.
Space Station Gaming flattened Team Liquid and booked their ticket to Japan.
Unreal. Unreal.
What dominance, force of nature from this Space Station Gaming team.
And there's no five maps into making here, Jaws.
It's all dominance of Space Station Gaming secure their ticket to Japan.
Just barely even three. It felt like that was just dominance throughout.
Space Station Gaming top two as they moved to finals.
Yeah, but that ticket to the champions flash with the Dallas field
This was a very different story than what we saw between those two teams going down from day one here in the playoffs
It was a close series where SSG found themselves on the back book lady for a lot of it
And they had to claw their way back in today. It was reversed
They seem to have downloaded everything that team liquid is trying to attempt here
and had an answer for it.
Very, very dominant showing from SSE,
which should make everyone very excited
for the Grand Final, because as a G-Place,
Alice feels really close yesterday already.
So there might be a potential banger
in the making for Grand Finals,
even if it was not the case for the Mallorca Final.
Yeah, I mean, what a crazy performance.
And that really puts that tear break between
number one and number two,
and then kind of everybody else.
It's getting liquid, dude.
the last couple of weeks. Yeah,
you got to look at like the
small things here for Team
Liquid. Obviously they had a
really tough stage ahead of
them. This was the last minute
roster changes, right? And it
did put up some great
performances this weekend. You
know, Friday brought it real
close. One yesterday against
Lunas. So they're the third
best team in the world, and
they're going to have a
great game. They're going to
have a great game. They're
going to have a great
game. They're going to have
a great game. They're
So they are the third best team in North America given really rough circumstances.
But, Space Station Dana was just too much.
Space Station Gaming roster that fired onto all the cylinders were just unbeatable.
Looked unbeatable in a matchup like this.
Some incredibly impressive station versus G and I think they're playing their best of the watch right now.
I think you're making a great point though.
Definitely a lot of respect onto Team Liquid's name and all the players playing for it
because the odds as we said as we were setting up this match were stacked up against them
heading into not just the playoffs but into the regular season.
For them to overcome that and still turn up here and make it all the way to the playoffs and coming in the third best team in the region is still a massive achievement that they can be proud of and we're definitely very excited to see more of them in stage two.
Now Dallas Shield and SSG rematch from what we got to be treated to yesterday in the upper final, this might go to distance, this might be the series.
Yeah, I'm hoping so. Hey, give
us another try. It's first to
four as well. So there's more
chances for that. Um, I'm
looking forward to how maybe
hate maps. I mean, it's possible
and it's possible. Look it.
Lock it in. Look Dallas fuel.
They look really good in the
SSG game. Um, but SSG even just
looking from the upper finals
two against Team Liquid five
maps, then go into three maps
completely destroyed Team
Liquid. So yeah, it should be
closer here. They're gonna
play it. I could imagine
they're probably playing a
little bit angry too.
Yeah, let's get a vibe check from them. Any given day. Indeed. Let's get Christopher in for a little vibe check. He does not look angry. I'm sorry to disappoint you, Jack.
Christopher, are you feeling anger? Let's see what is the range here today.
No. Vibes are immaculate. I believe the kids have been saying this.
Yeah, no, happy, you know. Avoid it getting fired for another season. So, you know, that's always
the choice that's always been going on the job, isn't it, is to avoid being fired.
Ah, we're all living the same life, don't we?
But let's talk about the series though. Obviously, this time around,
much more dominant showing against Team Liquid. Was there anything you were able to take
away from the first series in the semifinals that was able to aid you in the dominant performance
for today? I think 100%. I think with hindsight, our draft in the first game was actually pretty
terrible and I think we were kind of actually banning them off here as we in hindsight wanted
them to play. Like actually we like spent a lot of time prepping for their Juno break comp and then
decided to ban it even though we were winning against it because that was like
like the logic was, oh, they play that so ban it. But then upon hindsight, it's like,
actually, nobody were really happy for them to be on that comp as much as possible. I
think that was, we had like, kind of a moment after we won that map five against them in
that series was like, oh, actually, we really know how to play against this team now.
And then we kind of just watched back the comms from that game this morning and
then like try to download that mindset. And I thought even from warmup, like, we
was so dialed there. Like I think Freya was inevitable actually.
Dude, inevitability. Like you guys just kind of stomped them. I'm
going to be honest, like they didn't really feel close at any,
any point there. I do want to ask about the international
obviously, but your tickets. So who do you want to face? Is
there any particular team you want to play against
internationally?
And VP are number one Riles 50 15 scrims every time. So
excited to see if we can go one level higher in an official.
I would have thought that last few was your number one rival,
especially as you're going to face off now in just a matter
of minutes here.
So we're going to give you some time
to prep for that matchup and everything as well.
But you talk about it on Friday,
over analyzing stuff like that.
You played them yesterday.
Obviously, you're going to make some big changes coming
into the series, I can imagine.
Or is it a matter of like, we don't
want to overthink things this time around,
just like, we play our game.
And we have a bit of momentum now after the series that we've played at, I think.
We need to decide if the comps were the big problem.
Obviously, I think we were really, really, we really need to qualify above all else,
you know, as much as we'd like to win, like, qualification is like the absolute
bare minimum. So we'll see.
We've got a few plan Bs, we've got a few ideas, but I think I watched back
the series this morning and I felt, oh, I just need to play a bit better
will be okay. Let's just play better, I think.
You know, that's some solid coaching strategy advice there. Just just be better.
And with the pain with the big box.
Christopher, I'll let you get to it and lock in for the grand final.
Thank you so much for joining us for a quick chat and best of luck.
Thank you.
Oh, it's great to hear from Christopher.
They came to play today, a very dominant showing in their warmup
much if you will against Team Liquid. And now the big boss, now it's Dallas Fuel again
after they just played to me yesterday.
Yeah, I'm looking forward to this one. I really do hope it's going to go the distance. They've
had the little game versus TL. They can lock in now versus Dallas Fuel. I mean, look,
Dallas Fuel undefeated currently. They were undefeated in regular season and now undefeated
in playoffs. Like this is the big chance for SSG to upset them.
I think SSG are so happy though, that was like the perfect result obviously because of how dominant they were against Team Liquid
and now you almost feel warmed up, now you feel all great about yourselves, you're like oh look at us, we're so great
we're so great at Overwatch, you just go in and pure flow state into this grand finals
and sometimes we see if you are the finalist that are waiting for the enemy team
actually it might be a little bit cold going into this series, you don't really have that same level of energy right?
and so you know I'm going to lean on like the unproven mystical forces here
And maybe SSG, they're feeling a little bit better going into this one.
Exactly. They're just got a right momentum.
Me winning one comp game in gold, picking up on a winning streak.
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of the season. Welcome back,
everyone. It's grand finals
time. We're about to crown a
champion in our any region for
stage one. It's been exciting
three weeks of regular season
run Robin play leading into a
follow suit if yesterday is an indicator it very well might because yes Dallas
you are on top of North America but you know what they've been tested yesterday
right like we saw a draw against SSG on the body we saw a dominant victory from
SSG on Atlas it was a 3-1 victory for Dallas fuel in the end to send them into
the lower bracket but I did have to dig deep and I mean it deep like
Reinhardt may kind of be.
Yeah.
Look, I don't think that's going to happen again, unless you take it to Alice, in which case
I do think it's going to happen, because that match is definitely the weakest currently.
I know.
Trust me.
I want it, but I don't think it's a good thing.
Reinhardt is just what I give it.
It's like the crowd in a coliseum, they're just like,
Reinhardt!
Yeah!
Yeah!
That's facts.
I'm here to change yet.
Well, I wasn't.
And also, they did win the point though.
point though. Well, they lost the map, but they won the point with Ryan, so Ryan is on the field,
I already said that earlier today. The map is mapping.
That's right. Look, I think Kellen can play other things, but if that ram is banned, then yes,
the Atlas Reinhardt is definitely going to come out. Dallas Fuel have played their own kind of
game throughout this regular season. It's been a whole lot of off-tank for sure, but I think
Dallas Fuel, they are on another level currently. Undefeated in playoffs, undefeated
in regular season. Looking to undefeated here too, just a complete sweep through playoffs.
It kind of like circles back to that point you made it all the way.
It's like, yeah, we're talking about the Rhyme, but the strength of Dallas U will have been their flexibility,
like their hero pulls, the fact that they're able to play so many compositions that to rest in North America or in fact, comfortable winters.
So previously, team late player, they're like, yeah, we're not playing Juno Brake.
SSG, they prefer playing Lucio, Kira Ko.
Dallas U are like, hey, TV Luke, do whatever you guys can do.
You want to play somebody.
You know, Kira, Brake, you can do that.
play on up, that's fine. So we can play Lushik here to 1-2-12. This Dallas few roster, they're
so deep when it comes to those hero pools. It's really difficult for people like this to prepare for them.
Yeah, I mean you're bringing up such an interesting point because this initially was what people
were concerned about, right? Oh, there was no natural like main support player on this roster.
They are like locked into like flex, like double flex support. Not, they've still been fine thus far
really. They're continuing in
their winning ways. The SSG, the
team that made them sweat for
sure, and they're rocking up
strong today, right? They're
coming off of a very, very
dominant first match. Great
place to be because they might
be able to write that momentum.
Yeah, big confidence builder in
that game just now. If you
missed it, not surprised. It
was fairly quick, like a
I think coming off of a win
like that on the very day is
going to be really big for the
mental for the team. I think
at the end of the day, if that
was yesterday, you're not still
feeling like yourself. You're not
feeling the game. You're not
feeling like locked in fully. Um
as you've had a little bit of time
off, but no, they're just coming
straight out of one lobby
straight into the next. So I have
high interest this year. I want
of Christopher saying, look, we downloaded TL. It probably went back and downloaded Dallas
Fuel too. So yeah, if we Dallas right now, I'll be a little bit worried. I'll see you
in the last series.
And also, I don't want to call it Christopher theory because we kind of rude. We need a
name here, Chad. So Chad, you've covered the name to the great here. But if you
go back and look at yesterday's match, there were just a few things that didn't
go SSG's way. And they could have easily been the victor of that series. So yes,
It was a 3-1 scoreline, but we drew on Numbani,
you know, a one-fight here and there
that could have gone into G's way.
Esperanza went down to an absolute wire.
That final map was so close, back and forth, right?
So we look at that scoreline and we say 3-1 Dallas Fuel.
It was really as close as possible it could be, right?
And so I think that SSG
with some slight modifications in this series,
they really could come out past the North American times.
Yeah, they really could.
I'm just so excited to get this one on the road.
Now, I did pick Dallas Fuel.
Be a little crazy to bet against them
after they've just been so dominant in the regular season.
They've not really shown us any obvious signs of weakness.
So I'm going with the old trusted.
I do think SSG is a team that can make it close though.
Yeah, I agree.
I went with Dallas Fuel as well.
I think it's just might be burning blue across the desk.
I'm gonna be honest here.
I don't think there's a world with Dallas Fuel win.
I think SCG are going to make this one close, but I just think Dallas Fuel are on that other level.
They've just looked too good throughout the regular season, too good throughout the playoffs.
Yeah, it's hard to bet against them.
I've poured it.
I predicted SCG yesterday.
You did?
I'm not going to be a fool again.
I'll go with the Dallas Fuel.
You know, Fubi wants shit.
No, I don't even know what the face goes like.
And so you probably don't die there.
And so, you know, we're not even going to go there.
Why?
Why are you going to Australia?
I heard you on the European summit.
You tried to use a phrase, and Jake was like, what is she doing?
Yeah, what is she doing?
Stop it.
I'm almost certainly said it correctly.
I was ready to drop you.
So I wrench into the gears.
That's good.
The other one.
That works, though.
The North America.
What are these Europeans?
I was like, what is that?
I'm not an engineer, but I'm pretty sure it
does make sense.
A wrench lands in some gears.
I'm pretty sure it's bad.
you're the busted that's what I'm saying yeah yeah of course a chat I assume the
chat went in favor of Dallas Fuel here but I do I don't think that SSG's
performance in especially here in the playoffs should instill some confidence
and probably game them a fan or two as well like if they can just unlock another
level and come in with the confidence that we know I mean we know
like looking at that roster like they are confident right just here then talking its confidence like
front to back yeah okay i see Dallas fuel 78 percent of our audience does in fact bet on Dallas fuel
and space station gaming is coming in hot with 22 percent that's not nothing let's see they can
yeah i think that's kind of fair now as you see of course here to prove us all wrong or at
least 78 percent of us wrong let's see if they can get it done once more a reminder of course
that in our grand finals, it's
first to four. So more
opportunities to come out on
top grand finals time here in
an SSG going up against
Dallas. You guys please take
it away. Yes, thank you very
much. So a grand finals of
stage one here in North
America. Dallas fuel and SSG
SSG looking to get some sweet
revenge for the finals game
as they just come off a
hot wind versus TL. Same
the last one. So yeah, pretty
split. Yeah, I know. It's kind
of crazy as you have it. Ended
up working out. It'll be a
Busan pick for Dallas fuel. They
came in through the upper
bracket, so they get the choice
of map first. Yeah, and they're
just going to run things back.
They look dominant on this map
yesterday. It was kind of like
the opposite game for SG
yesterday where they started
out on Busan and they just
looked horrible. Like they
couldn't get anything going
against Dallas fuel and then
here today against Team
and I'm like, wow, SSG, they're on fire. They're just dominating her Amazon. And so
it's going to be interesting to see here, if SSG can turn things around and be slightly
more competitive to take this series off.
Oh, a diva fan. I mean, a diva on this map. We already saw what Hawk was kind of rocking
with there. Depending on what stages you go to, to be honest with you though, but
if they're playing the Zarya, it's way better for Kallim if the Zarya gets picked
by Hawk. Even the Malga is really good for Kallim too. So, yes, have a little
Here we are the grand finals, first of four Dallas Fuel SSG, they've already locked their tickets into the land in Tokyo, Japan, but here it is for all the marbles, the trophy and a little bit of extra Dosh as well at the end of this series.
Let's get this underway.
What a banger match we have ahead of us here, Jaws.
prior teammates with my battles fueled chronic cannon CJ last year part of the
space station gaming organization but this year going to 2026 space station
was a big changes lethal ultraviolet sir players that are very familiar with
each other and now get the opportunity to go head-to-head here in North
American grand finals to kick off 26 cannon on the wrecking full I mean
This is what I said about the stages being kind of beneficial to Dallas fuel here because
Kellan can play ball and you can play dive tanks and a woo-yang for Luca Mino so a greedy
backline for the fuel Johnny.
Yeah and yesterday we actually saw the honor banned from Space Station but obviously they
felt so uncomfortable on Mechabase downtown that they let the honor slide this night
and Dallas Fuel quickly capitalized putting CJ on his signature hero.
That is such a cheeky little angle.
Good move though, that's a good shot.
Coming in from Admiral to stop Kallen's slam for players.
Nade is going to stop the push from leafing on Admiral
for a little bit though.
Ultraviolet is also going equally as low.
Kallen might be able to find a good slam target
straight on top of the drum.
Ultraviolet though, down first.
Good pressure play from Sonjian.
Every kind of looking, it's like classic wrecking ball,
right?
Every looking at the ball and you don't see the traces
sneaking up behind you.
There's no space station, get the first cap,
and then pull on.
Like you probably feel a little bit first here if you're in the street
This staggers. Oh, come on
No, they're staggering a break of all things nice. Okay latest fall family there
Yeah, but what I was going to say is you probably feel a little bit unlucky that you're starting things off here, right?
Because you didn't ban the honor and now you're forced to play against this wrecking ball on a composition
Right off the hook. It's going to flex over to the doonfist
If this doesn't tell you that they're looking for amateurs to navigate this kind of composition, I don't know what that's.
Ah, Sunshine went really low, barely on like a bar of health.
Yeah, Alistair's there looking full. Will they get it though? Not sure.
But generally, like, you know, doing this decenter against the ball in summer space,
we're gonna punch the ball away from the back line and be a little bit more defensive.
The hook needs to be up to go in. Good answer, Ace Roll to pilot though.
kills Tronic straight off Rift.
Oh, the pulse.
No block I suppose.
Sugarfree looking for a way into the fight, but already,
Sunjin pulses one, protects the backline.
No, he's Sugarfree trying to go in.
Please do the headshot to Lucfida, though.
It's ultra-violet from across the map.
Snipe, Sunjin.
What a fight from SSG.
Ultraman, looking in on the honor here saying,
I'm feeling real comfortable on this hero too.
This is one hero that Ultraman played tons of last year,
made a name for himself for Wu Yang really saying,
I can kick off a lot of these fights with some crucial barricades, so picking it up here
himself vs G, as they flexorically student this composition, it's made big impact immediately
against crucial mates.
Alright Canon on the Winston now, a little less annoying for SSG, Ultra Violet with a
good wraparound though, didn't completely take him, the back lines away from the
Dallas field, override protocol, launch, straight at Lee, who actually has nano to
to make sure he can stay alive, and pause his chronic as well to dip into cover.
A decent body shot there on this sugar-free.
It's a little bit of chip damage, at least it gets flattened like a pancake.
Nano Winston, Raleigh, a little boop away, but he's straight back in trying to ring around the rosy,
this Brigitte bit.
He was coming in luckily though, onto the Brigitte, but the problem is here.
That Kellogg's just play around the bubble as Abril was forced to touch,
forced to try and hold onto the point, backline-dip for SSG, and Dallas get the cap.
I think realistically, Kelan is going to be very happy playing this Winston as well.
No huge threats to him here.
Spaceship now over to Alucio and then on a composition.
And Kelan is kind of left to do whatever he wants on this hero for now.
Given what Kelan is capable of on that Winston.
It's going to an absolute fail day, I guess this is G here.
There's one more pulse, another second.
Okay, Letho is spotting him out.
Wow, where did Sugar Free go?
And he must have got slept off of that, surely.
Here comes the dive from Kellan. It's going to stop Lethal being a patch on the point now.
Kellan is going to get popped. Oh, the sick is so good!
The sick is immaculate from Saunton.
Goes in despite the high noon.
That's two players already down.
Meteor Strike from Hawke. And Saunton's not done just yet.
He's going to chase down this Lucio.
Hawke used the Meteor Strike to try and get a kill in the back line.
As Kellan pops the Primal Rage and Dallas fuels nothing out Space Station.
Grounding them 100 to 49 as they take first round
Now this is just a little bit different compared to the liquid one Jaws now you got Sungeon in the lobby
Fragging out on the tracer. It's not giving sugar free an inch
I mean you say it's kind of Sungeon there, but like the back line was giving him way more hassle as well
Like a lucavino CJ just popping him popping him with the
just with the general like right click of honor not right click so the left click of honor right
I mean at the end of the day if the tracer is taking one shot from honor
It's you got to be more careful. You got to go for a health pack. You can't stick around for as much longer
If you put getting poked out that early on it's it's tough to really find
success on the tracer
Yeah, I just you're gonna have to put that one behind them
They knew that honor was going to be a problem loading into the series
So now the guy look forward these next two rounds. He's where the ones that you were going to try and win could begin with
Already should be dropping low
Nice land coming out from ultraviolet there keeping sugar fray alive
But still in dire need of health is killing just kind of donk walks forward with the ram
Shielding off the back line as well. Hawks alone kind of this moment in time kind of isolated now
Sonjins in the mix trying to get a nice little plank angle on the tracer, but the back line standing up too strong there
Space Nation getting some shuddering to get out of the choke point, it's Kallin.
Oh, uh, shuts the door on them.
They're gonna have to get out eventually, but unfortunately here, they're still just taking way too much damage.
Now what happened yesterday? Trouble against Romaco. Kallin here, with nemesis form.
They're combined with Sundyre.
Oh, it's already pretty low. Look at me in the same way as Sundyre.
Oh, Sundyre, normal time, the two click.
And now Hawks and Shubble, he's so low.
And then falling over to Kallin.
Sundyre really is everywhere all at once.
Point gets unlocked, they're going to get a cap and it's going to have a lot of ult, ultra piloting and they can win this game.
Oh, taps the Camino in the head, nice little one burst, but can he keep the rest of the team alive?
Kellen's super low, draws back down to the point, and Salito lands the finishing blow on for Ram.
A good stick from Sonja though, levels the playing field.
Dallas Fuel DPS leveling up right now, a space station gaming do get a cap, but it's not over yet.
Dallas Fuel quickly being up to regroup.
Chronic made it himself in the middle room to get
Bunked to the high ground and kept himself safe
and that's going to mean Dallas Fuel get back quickly
no staggers whatsoever
and they have the open slot
and they get the caps
the Whipster was crazy there
Hawke tried to go in for the charge
on to the point where the Whipster from Lutomino
stopped him from touching
a free catch of Hawke has to get out
Chronic going low already as the B comes in
they want Chronic dead
they want him dead now
the Rage is to come through eventually
in a slain here
but now lethal under a lot of duress
If the Rey is good on the point 4, uh, Dallas Spiel will say now just lay against the four
coaches on top of each other.
They've got the Rey, inch the rally, inch the annihilation, Dallas, Kuhl, run over space
station, an expensive fight, yes, but now they can set up in the choke.
Yeah, SSG has opted into a really aggressive composition here, with Hawks swapping over
to Mauga the right prior here.
And they're just gonna full send it.
This Rematra has been a massive issue here on Metabase, it was yesterday as
well.
the level of tempo that is your thing with now is crazy as lethal.
Finds a pick up the Sunder in here, that's a thrown out of your side.
It's gonna enable them to walk up up here, but chronic.
Swap over to Sodor in here as well, Jor.
More potent against the Maga.
I feel so bad for the Tracer there, just getting randomly naded around the corner.
Ultraviolet's got this window too, 15%.
They're very ready for this though, it's without a steal, but C.J. goes down sugar-free.
What? We sugar-free just kills three?
Alright, sure! She's sick of these things, I guess.
They need him to step up big time.
It's a great fight, Queen. 4SG here.
She's got a nice ultimate wave coming here. It's got a cage fight.
Sombra here, getting closer to that.
Yep, get a late pick on this engineer.
There's a 26% of counter. You're a couple of teamfights away.
Teamfight wins away from winning this round.
Especially if they have the ultimate cycle required to get a good start.
Give themselves a shining chance.
They're trying to split up here, no team sugar-free position, alright, he's gonna get kinda checked,
just poking out a little bit for some smooth movement and to get out of there, pretty easy
rail gun charge here for Chronic but generally okay, eventually dead, goes so deep, and
now Chronic can find us off angle, you gotta run Abril, finally use that beep for yourself
my guy, as space station gaming they've already lost a couple and there's only
Halt left on the point. That'll be a fifth of a steal with Johnny. Find a fight.
I mean, that's not terrible though, Joss. Like really, it felt like we had a really good
opportunity there to win a fight with those ultimates, and instead, Sugarfeet couldn't
replicate his dominance in the backlight. They're gonna go really early. 90% here, Joss.
Yeah, they're gonna try and force Space Nation game to use them, and they use the B-axis
here at the checkpoint. Chronic has got these overcarved, of course, but cannot
he tell them they're gonna be able to get to the point to at least trigger
OT, but Ethel's already down.
Chronic, with his OC from the high ground.
Yeah!
Oh, where are you going?
He's doing a deal with Chronic.
Chronic's already killed two, looking for more.
And I still killed there from Ulcer Violet brings him to the floor,
but annihilation for Kellan just stopped them from getting on the point.
Sugarfree has to touch.
There's going to be a Tidal Blast.
There's going to be a Ray on top of that too.
Dallas Fuel with a Widow Boostered, A2O.
They look so good.
Warm up, they don't need it.
They just got Busan figured out now.
Like those comps are just ridiculous.
No one's playing stuff like that in North America besides Stala's Fuel.
The Ana, of course, to kick things off here and then do a magra composition here just gave S.G. so much trouble that
eventually Sugar Free is, you know, forced to dive in with this and that with Hawk on to the manga.
I mean, Hawk went three and eight.
They're just looking for answers on Busan here against Stala's Fuel.
Look at that pulse
Yeah, it really was yeah
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That's bestie person. Hey, that's we can't do it. It's been a long time coming as well like son
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I mean, just like this guy's next up. I can't even see it. Like I've watched a couple of replays of this guy, like I know it's him.
Actually, like, Jaws, I'll give it to you. But I have no doubt that Avril, you know, he was early on in the sun, and Sonjoon invests as well.
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Now, let's go onto map number two.
Remember, everybody at home, look at the top of your screen.
First of four for our grand finals.
Midtown is the choice for SSG.
We've seen a lot of Blizzard World, a whole lot of it, a decent amount of Nimbani, Fittal?
Okay, a little bit of Rare, map coming in for SSG's pick.
Yeah, this one's interesting because SG picked Gibraltar last time around yesterday,
and they're taking a loss there against Dallas Fuel, so making a bit of an adjustment going into this series as well.
So they're going to pick Midtown, actually instead of Nimbani, I'll point you to...
Obviously in Nimbani we drew one yesterday, I actually think SSG, they look quite good on that map.
We had a hazard come out
With some pretty wonky weird backlines, but it's just you making a bit of an adjustment here instead of picking midtown instead of Numbani
Banning out a lorry here respecting the flexibility of the backline of Dallas fuel and also protecting their own support line a little bit
Yeah, I just really good on this map really good poke hard to destroy pile on put it on fire track if you're in defense and
you can just poke away. And
then if you're the offense
there, you can't teleport or
you know, take the back alley
route towards the mega health
pack. The symmetry is going to
get banned by the fuel second.
So no sugar free sim is what
we're seeing. I'd be fair.
Sugar free on the symmetry
last couple of weeks has been
really good. What are the only
teams in North America that's
rocking the sim and they're
doing it really well. So it's
now hybrid yeah that's kind of why I had a good feeling about this is G
yesterday it sounds like oh they have that symmetric angle if they want to
bring it out and I felt like that was fuel like maybe they'd struggle against
the symmetric a little bit so this fan of symmetric tells you everything you
need to know that was fuel they still respect that hero their respect sugar
freeze capability to bring out that hero and what a great thing that is
for sugar please hero pool by the way you know being able to add a crucial
hero like symmetric to your hero pool you know in this kind of scenario
like yeah you haven't played a symmetry yet but it warrants a ban here and there
and it just gives you an overall better chance and so sugarfree having practiced
the symmetry of the off-season you know getting coached by Christopher who's very
well reversed on that hero as well from his time with one of Spitfire
it's just a great thing that sugarfree has added to the symmetry to his circle and I kind of feel
like eventually we're going to see the symmetry at some point in this series.
Kallans. Okay. Playing the Sigma. I really like this DPS lineup there for the fuel.
Echo for Sonjin. Crike on the M-Ray. Echo in this manner, especially against these
faster comps. Really nice at burning down the D.Va mech, whose sustain is kind of ridiculous.
You get that focusing beam on the D.Va. You're not living long.
Still though, like, very vulnerable to the Tracer, and so you're going to have to feel
They're very comfortable playing inside these rooms using the slight verticality to get to the second floor just to dodge some of these blinks coming from sugar-free.
It's a scary prospect to pay the echo steal here, I feel like.
Like, look at this! There's gonna be a lot of pressure coming your way.
Gonna rotate through the back alley.
Gonna poke from the sidelines. Yeah, Sondred, like, you know, does have to play very safe.
There's some out-of-long range shields, though, coming through. I mean, you can get hacked by Lukamida.
Which is always nice.
Okay, well, walk into divisions now. Okay, ultrify is dead. That is just a sonjin moment,
I think. You've got to leave the diva too. If you leave the diva here, it's actually
disgusting. Okay, no, hope doesn't have died. You can revach spawn to be fair, but there
you go. Space station gaming. Losing fairly early on, just with a pick onto UV.
It's just so hard to attack against this kind of composition because typically you'd wrap
around the left hand side right?
Like try to get some ground with a tracer but wherever you rotate the sigmox is going
to be right on top of you with the shield.
You're going to be feeling very cramped trying to get in the center of your arm.
So as we see this rotation coming through now, well this base is going to be contested
by Dallas View.
No gaming spaces, I mean.
Tung's got Flux already by the way. He's been farming on the Sigma.
It's so much spam though, Jimmy.
Made Echo just in general.
Doesn't get chased down though, okay.
Well Flux is gonna get pulled by Kellen.
Ends up hitting the M-Ray.
Can they actually get the kill? Yes. Cures it.
Okay, they trade DPS and see Chicken Freeing on the point.
They're already forced to recall at extremely low.
No mega health pack for you, Faby.
Just right at the line on the Kiriko Heels,
but it has forced out a steal to back up to the choke.
Kellen steps up first, misses the rock on to Hawk,
But now SSG are split and the crunch can come in from the Dallas Fuel.
Hawke is so low, all the frost is, he couldn't get through the doorway.
Kellan was body blocking me, I think, there.
A post wants a Chica Breeze in his hands, but he's actually gonna be a guaranteed kill.
Susu's straight on Kellan, he survives, and a team kill after SSG only gets it.
Yeah, Hawke got into a really tough position there, especially using gaming to get some ground,
but Kellan kind of like split off the front line from the back line,
And at that point my caulk had nowhere else to go really.
And so, that fight really got away from Spacaging Gaming,
we couldn't really get any good execution going.
This fight though, they have double support, 1 minute 20 to go here Jaws.
You don't want to get first held here, in the second map of the Grand Finals.
Yeah really, speaking of our confidence, but it's messy earlier.
Terrible.
Gonna make the opposite of that.
Opposite.
Go to door.
No right protocol.
Oh, so low. Look at the aerial too.
Sonjin kind of destroyed it, man.
Chronic! He's gonna pay him more better.
Oh, misses the heavy shot. Can he get another one?
Flix it. Hits the light post. Unfortunate.
Sonjin does actually have the duplication here as well, Johnny.
Space takes him a double support ultimate, end up ripping the rocks through the choke,
flying out on top of Kellen.
Hawking the flashlight becomes him.
His sustained cannot be understated now.
Kellen alone, isolated in the train,
And to get taken down by Aphrodite as well, Sunjin's Echo actually!
That Poppy deleted!
Self destruct for the Relay and SSG, they got two ticks!
And it should be a third!
And it was a perfectly timed soundbearer from Admiral.
To actually keep spaces and get me alive in those crucial seconds, and then they turn around, get Kellen!
And at that point there's no front line left for the Dallas Fuel.
Sunjin?
What are we doing here, buddy?
What are you cooking?
You can't get a pick here!
Oh, come on!
Stop it.
Okay.
Okay.
Don't let him get a pick challenge.
Okay.
Very easy.
I have a lead point.
I wanted that to be punished so bad, Jaws.
Oh, I looked at him, bro.
Oh, Lucio's dead.
Bye.
Hello, Kerecone.
No TP.
Yep, alright.
Oh!
Now you have to fight through the choke again against Kelen.
It's gonna be so tough to get through these corridors.
Like, Kallin is holding down this fort, he's going to break up the sigma as well.
Basically, she kind of just have to take all this damage coming their way, build some of these ultimates.
Without an ultimates, this is an image comp, it's kind of like toothless.
Yeah, I can't help but agree.
Flugs for Kallin, they do funnel through the choke, so they can put that backline, or even just look for a DPS lethal to be more precise.
hovers up to the high ground, back down to low, but it's a slow, but sure, and push it into space station.
There's the flux, connects the two, forking trouble, overwrite protocol, unleashed by chronic.
Sugar-free lethal already dead, and space station gave it, forced to reset, once again, one minute and 20 seconds.
Dallas Fuel are pacing out these points funny and burning so much time off.
Are they gonna go for like a forward hold setup here? I just need some extra full damage.
I'm a crazy person. I was like no way get poor old this far up
But they have a katsune Russian so they can afford to take a fight wherever they like if you can force out to support
A lot early from station gaming that'd be the perfect scenario here for that one minute remaining here time is tripping down
Dost
Well, there's the duplication on the sorry
It's gonna be a sound barrier use and a rush on some of the fight ground before CJ already a grab
That's what I'm talking about, like the Sunbeer came out relatively early from Admiral, Spaceship feeling like they have no choice.
There's a quick disengage from Dallas Fuel. They used to continue on the high ground and they're feeling real good about themselves.
Execution from Dallas Fuel so far has been on the point, Spaceship finding no momentum so far. Lethal!
You can feel like you're gonna step up, like you have a big play here with your road right footed over.
I mean no momentum so far lethal. Can I feel like you're gonna step up with have a big play here with your over
They really got to hit something big here
You've got to get this back on you've got to get Luke Amino, but they go rally like
They've got answers to these ults. Paul's got the grab that again very tough to get off as the Zarya in this point
OT they've got the touch so no
Oh, look at me though, just blasted straight in, the Hawks already did!
No time for a ground on search now, you've got to imagine!
Down the shield, lost one shot, but they've got control of this high ground still.
A touch from the point, Lethal goes down to the rock.
Well, look at me though, did end up touching, but now they've got to deal with Kelly.
And unfortunately, for Space Station Gaming, they are very out of position right now.
They got a regroup, Hawks gonna come back, but they just get picked apart, and that's gonna be round.
Space station gaming just get down to the car wash, towards that second, but Dallas fuels defense.
He's looking like the walks of Troy, Johnny.
They just look so comfortable right now.
There's no issue, they're prepared for whatever space station gaming throws their way.
And in a fight like that, Cronk is 8-0, by the way.
Oh, 8-0.
No death alert.
But, like in that last fight, you saw that,
You know, Sunjun was relatively free on the Echo.
Typically you'd say like, oh, you know, like you'd punish the Echo.
You know, we're sugar-free and all that.
He's forced to sit on the cart because we're getting into overtime with the Tracer on the cart.
And there's no one to deal with Sunjun.
Instead, you have the Enbray rotating and you lose a lot of pressure in the front line.
And so Haku's down.
It's a little bit all over the place from SSG because of how well Dallas Fuhrer
are executing with their compositions.
Space Station, so far this entire series, it just looked very uncomfortable
with all of these weird compositions that was for the other players.
Kasha, my back to the start of their defense too, the amount of poke that they had, it was like you said hard for Sugar Free to get space, hard for lethal to get space.
Me, when I run my cavalry into the Greek hoplites and just get speared to death, it's just, it's just tough for the space station to get any kind of space, right?
And then Hawks on the D.Va, and like you mentioned, yeah, we can kind of tax on Jin down as the D.Va versus the Echo, but...
He was just getting a lot of value.
So Hawk here, obviously it does feel
or abusing the fact that Hawk's here for this kind of limited.
Can't use the Winston to try to get it up around him as a signal.
So I ask you, what kind of ancient soldier type
is Hawk in this instance?
Where does he have the mobility?
There's not a mobility.
There'd be some sort of rogue and legionary, actually.
They can have a lot of mobility.
It's kind of walking.
The legionary's going to have to step up, buddy.
Yeah, he really does.
Let's do the formation now.
Run to the point. Don't take any damage.
Sonjin's already found the flank here and they've already pushed him off the point.
This is a massive amount of respect that they're giving to Dallas Steel right now.
They've let them get on the point for free.
Hawks use both bubbles, has to cow behind the fire truck now.
Seuss comes out just for a heal for Dallas Steel.
That's gonna be another tick.
Lukimino doesn't have falling short, but Sonjin's already in there.
He's just carving them apart right now.
Nice little side step from UV, clock Sonjin into the side of the jaw.
But Dallas Steel have another.
Hawk sugar-free downs to the person to touch is probably Avril.
He ends up coming in, going for a little booth there.
You've been trying to heal him.
Arbacron has already put him in the dirt.
Five minutes and 30 seconds.
SSG, is this all you've got?
This series is first to war, but...
feels like this is going to go by very quickly to Alstalla's field.
Five minutes, 20 seconds in the time bank,
and they just have to reach 100 meters here, essentially.
That's the second point of Midtown.
Who could possibly step up here for the side of Spacers and Gaming. Sugarfree on this tracer in a Vendetta matchup.
Kind of want to abuse that mobility to try and secure a couple of picks, but I throw in another fuel side.
Honestly, there goes some damage coming out from a lethal.
Pumping out some headshots there, but taking a very, like, passive angle.
Doesn't want to get jumped on by Sonshin, of course. I'm there to watch. Okay.
An easy destination Dallas Fuel killing those does end up going down looses all that energy
And here's the momentum that SSG need to play off of now
So I only get the one pick there on the back of the Kitsune watch
But the good thing is you already have a lot of ultimate fuel shot
It's in a scenario like that the one pick buys you enough time
And you already don't need the ultimate charge and so everything's okay here Dallas Fuel have a lot of ultimate themselves
of Spacership. They're not out of it just yet. Oh I can hear that tracer. Gonna mess it around in the
back line. Sojourners are going down to override protocol from lethal. I said we'll site one to CJ as well
and Suze has already been used. Oh the Snipe from around the corner. Well should freeze down
but CJ dead so that was fuel. As they can kind of hope for here's a little bit extra push on
the payload. Well that's what they're gonna contend with us. All for now. All for now
Oh, that's a great pick by lethal by the way to hit that final second kill.
Helen's still alive by the way. How's Helen still alive again? No punishes? No punishes?
Rush! Grab! They might just be all over! The meters are coming through!
Soldier! A soldier with the blade sundering right on top of Hawke's head!
Abril ends up going down! A couple of meters to go!
It's Dallas Fuel! Don't step off the payload!
SSG Fall! It's Dallas Fuel! Find the second map!
I forgot about killing me included putting some pressure on the car as you were rushing back to secure that high ground and
sorry I was having a field day on that car Dallas you would like a better beat in that one great sorry about
to block out the full spawn as well from Sugarfee.
29. 22 at 0.
It is ridiculous, especially for both plays, one of what we just saw, right?
In the matchup prior between SSG and Liquid,
and now with Sugarfee, it's like, I'm feeling kind of hopeless right now.
Like it's undone or amazing work
Man
You can't tell me the Dallas fuel is just gonna walk over them in a foro fashion, right?
It's just either gonna have to make up their sleeve. You know, you imagine like at this still on the table as well
by the way, so they could
Back to with Dallas fuel there where the comp the Dallas feel are gonna run. They already know
So yeah, we'll see just couldn't get past this echo either this echo is a thought in their side
I know I know we're just too low and they get this grand finals draws and I'm going to get ahead of myself a little bit here
But last year we spent a lot of time talking about how team liquid with their roster
You know young talented roster that they were and his hope for the future right that they were going to be the North American team
That could eventually compete with some of these international rosters
I feel like this Dallas fuel roster with the flexibility the hero pools were seeing out of them the
the mechanical skill of the likes of
Kwon and Sunjun.
I'm looking at the way they're executing
in some of these matches against
SSG and the opposition here in North
America who, yes, they could be a weaker
region compared to India and Korea,
but I'm really impressed by what
Dallas people are doing.
They could definitely, if they
perform like this, they could
definitely take it to some
international teams.
Oh, taking Zeta maybe?
I mean, Zeta.
Oh, okay, well, okay.
There's more.
There are more international teams.
Come on.
It is like okay well you know if you say like oh we're gonna qualify for the
Champions League you're not like oh can we beat me I'm Madrid you know you don't
go to really come and read like the first example you're like you know there's
plenty of other European teams like maybe we have a chance at. Hey come on man if
they're the best in the region like maybe they could sound like to say they're
looking real good man they're looking real good. You can see the meta rings are changing too of course but yeah I mean look
So they're up to right now that we know for certain. How do SSG fight back in because that
wasn't really that close at the end of the day. I think with how they played on the defense,
they still have a couple of different picks that not necessarily they've been hiding, but
they just not needed to show like the echo from Sanjian on a defense of the midtown
It's going to be a realtor choice actually for SSG as we head to Escorp.
Yeah, I mean, you're really just grasping at straws at this point.
You're trying to find something that could work in your favor.
And the good thing, yes, is that the meta is fairly flexible.
You know, historically speaking, the meta's have been pretty strict
and you have to be really good at one specific composition.
Like, hey, even going back to last year, we had some tournaments just
dictated like who has the best subeckler play, who has the best soldier play.
I feel like this series is a bit more open right?
You have the opportunity to play a lot of different comfort picks and obviously things
haven't worked so far for us G when it comes to the Zarya play, but you know if you were
like to flex your muscles a little bit try a few different things.
If I knew the answer I would have played the big bucks and not Christopher, but you
You really have to try to go for something different so far because the Sorya Lucio carry just hasn't worked.
Well they're going to ban Brig and a Tracer back for the Dallas skill.
I mean that's just brutal.
Sanjoon could play the Echo again as well.
Yeah, could play the Echo.
This is probably going to force Sugarfree over to the Vendetta, which I would say that I think Sugarfree is better on the Tracer than he is on the Vendetta.
Obviously have they played quite a bit of them that are so far the stage and they haven't shut away from things
Sorry about that, but
If I'm trying to come up with a scenario of how I see you get back into the series
It feels more like it should be sugar-free on trace or not sugar-free on the data. Am I wrong?
Why'd take me here Jaws?
I'm picking up we've been down. Yeah, I feel it, bro
I mean
Getting your head back in to it's gonna be a little tough for SSG
coming off such a dominant win there versus Team Liquid.
They've locked their place in Japan,
so at least they've got that, right?
It's not like this is the game as well,
so they can rest assured they are going to land,
but they want to be crowned the North American champions,
right?
You want to be that number one seed.
You want to be the champs here for the first stage.
But does Alice feel perfect season?
Well, OK, they drop maps.
But like, you know, it's perfect.
You can get it.
You haven't lost a series yet.
They still have not lost a series.
and we're the grand finals here.
So, yeah, it's also really looking to make the,
make the most of it.
And their first season back and kind of perfecting everybody.
Yeah, they're looking to continue their,
their run of unbeaten in playoffs.
900 and how many days? 900 and 943, I think something like that.
So I just wanted to say as well that, you know,
while both teams have qualified every single major tournament,
the seeding comes in so important, right?
Because if you are the second seed from a region like this,
you might have to play Twisted Minds,
you might have to play Settled Mission,
and you're like, oh man, it's just,
we're off to a very tough start in the Major.
Just securing the number one seed,
just makes a world of difference
in the level of competition you're going to face
in the very first round of the Major tournament.
And so, well yeah, at the end of the day,
you're short to the Major,
doesn't really matter if you're number one, number two.
getting off to a good start to the major tournament could just make you feel so much better.
I could bring some confidence to you as a team as well, right?
And so you do want to secure the number one seed to avoid some of those world-class teams
just to kick off the major tournament.
Dude, yes, this is the DPS lineup I want to see, man.
The Widow Pharah for Sondring and Chronic.
Okay.
Honor? No, that's not gonna happen.
I mean, surely not.
That's like, that is...
and saying if that was yeah no that would actually be forever I'm wondering in
chat on run not good at the pro level right now yeah I'll say one of the worst
heroes in pro play right now and so while I'm an unrunner enjoyer in ranks
it's not being bought out in pro play. Think of your arm. It's cool. Pretty sweet but it's awesome.
It's going to be the sim though it's coming into play Jaws. Here we go close the gap on the
Widow, TP past these drug points, TP past these sight lines.
I think I can hand-free shot in the head.
They do indeed.
Back through a passive angle for chronic.
But you're fine with this.
I mean, you can snipe longwards here, you can snipe a little far away.
You feeling okay?
Yeah, I mean, this is just going around with the payload for a little bit,
pushing it forward.
Here's the big rotation.
Oh, the TP.
Oh, the Nade!
The Nade from CJ!
Oh my goodness!
They insta-kill lethal.
Oh, but they call CJ!
No! They're down!
How did they manage that?
They killed Chronic too?
How is that impossible? That name was just ridiculous!
Was Kellan's leaf on cooldown?
Like, what happened there?
Asusifromokra by most of that amazing.
That's probably three people like their house.
Who's up?
By Kellan?
I follow up.
Hostage here is gonna be as come back at least, and Chronic's here with a very good sightline now.
Shun it?
No!
It's Shunson!
Shunson!
This is the Grand Final, you can't be doing this you can't be falling off the map
I know you two are up, but come on man
Helen dead points gone. All right reset reset
No, there's no way he was like we're not taking a fight here
Bro slipped on the Winston banana peel and fell in I don't know what happened
It's it's the devious boats of real though
Yeah, it actually might be got trolled by the boats again. I don't know. I don't know. All right. Anyway
TP
Still available here
I'm I'm reset
I'm not freaked out at all
So much damage chronic off the widow the silence is not as good here, of course
It's gonna be a wall here for space station. I imagine they just want to kind of bait Kallen in, force him to use jump baby and then ultralight of Rift with Rush.
Well they're gonna go.
I'm gonna use those thrusters to get away.
I'm gonna surely now use this game, make this a space.
And there's the lead for Kallen.
Rush, use barrage over the top though for Saunjit.
Taking down by Cigar B, but he's already killed Apple, so no sound barrier. They're gonna be great.
Nice poop as well. Hork, very low.
They thought it better of it. They knew Kallon had a potential nano coming his way on Winston,
and they're like, we want none of that, we gotta wait for this Sunder.
There's a great opportunity here for Spaceman to get me though, Joss. They need to capitalize on this fight.
Aw, and they have to deal with the wall. Okay, well, they can try as they might.
Kallon's gonna be able to at least boot people away, but he's already under 500 HP.
Alright, back off.
High noon for Leap of Field.
Using the wall for Maestro's Advantage.
Sambar is coming in, TP's going to the back line right now.
It's going to jump in once again to separate them with the bubble.
Oh, Saffron gets boot into the lake.
Hawke though with two kills, but without wall provided there,
and some killing Chronic and Lukimino.
Kellen very low.
He's getting destroyed by Hawke.
These teleport plays, we fear them,
and one of the reasons why Dallas still banned the sim in the earlier map.
SXG!
Okay, that's got the second point!
Finally, they have found a composition that is work-y for them, and this time it's Dallas Fuel making the hero swap Sungeon.
Over to this Vendetta instead of the Pharah, makes a lot of sense, just because we're going to the third point as well.
It's more difficult to play that Pharah.
Lethal!
Stopped over to the Venture to get back quickly to the fight, but now better over on the Embrake once more here.
So, especially when you're getting here.
Or coming up on a kitsune rush here,
You know, probably that Luka Minus is going to have a Sandbarrier.
I wonder if we can use this Metro Teleporter to get on top of that as soon.
We could be difficult for Luka Minus to get back.
Oh, they used to see if we could push themselves forward.
Crawling forward, he dead.
Yeah, he can get a Sandbarrier, unfortunately.
Ended up pulling the Ultra as well.
Alright, well, they're just going to get rolled over.
Space Station Gaming in very good time here, Johnny.
here Johnny. Three minutes and 30 seconds to push into this last point. This final
quarter has been reached already. And they have this Symmetra barrier as well to make
life so much more difficult for Balaspy, especially if they're over on the Sorya,
the Sodor. The Sodor is not going to be able to put out any damage whatsoever.
He's already in and they've got another wall as well to deal with. CJ's in this
morn half a speed, leggy down to Gronik, but now Kellen's going to be the main
focus. His high energy though receives a Suzu and a heal just in time. From Shuriken Lukumito,
the self-destructs good for one kill, but Kellan is still alive and full energy.
I'll probably get that thing onto the baby debuff that didn't allow off to remake after the bomb.
Crucial detail, a crucial headshot from Kroi. To make life a little bit easier for Dallas
Kules, he tried now to hold on for three minutes and third point off to Rialto here.
space engine gaming they have the sumber advantage to be difficult to get value
out of kellens grab it on search here it could just stop space engine gaming
in their tracks they have to switch to the floor to navigate out of itself
so off on the ramp
I'm quite proud of all the launch is complete the way to the sky
the grab is really good but where to follow on something's already down
that's the majority of your damage going into that graph telling to hunt
But he's just focusing the shield of Hawks, he moves the team forward with it.
It's just a mess around the sidelines, but again, Hawks got no bubble.
I mean, sorry, Kellan's got no bubbles.
He can't stay alive, he can't stay around the plate for too much longer.
He gets pistol wedged by Lethal, who's just mowing down the Dallas field.
There's a desperate Widowmaker pick here coming through from Sonjin.
But SSG finished with a minute and 59 seconds in that time back.
of what our leaf that is for space station gaming there was an awkward fight to
kind of finish things off there because the symmetric teleporter was used early
from sugar free and that was the go time for Kellan thinking that he could drop
the gravity on surge and they could finish up the rest of space in gaming
but the sound barrier was good enough there was some corners to hide behind
forces G and so that was fuel not able to capitalize on that crucial
gravity on surge and that was it also PlayStation gaming capping up the
third point here and that has to feel so good. Like the fact that you're able to get the ball
rolling, you're capping out an escort map here. Something that they haven't really been able to
do here so far this series. Capture a point. Sugar free on the sim man, I mean that was
the special source, that's the secret weapon. Can't play on defense though, it's gonna opt
for the far instead. It would be kind of crazy to bring out this veteran defense.
it would be at least on Widow though. I mean when you're playing Widow, you're really in
if the long haul, right? You're in it to make sure the attacking team has to rotate fairly
aggressively to stop the Widow getting just pop shots through your front line.
Yeah, honestly, I feel like this would be a bit of a test for Dallas Fuel here. Because
Spaceship Gaming, I have a lot of confidence in them making those kind of rotations with
Aw cool, we're in the D.Va right?
Dallas Fuel, they're on this Sauria now.
Oh, nice shot.
This is going to be an uphill battle, Giljaws.
How do we navigate these Widowmaker sidelines?
There's going to be a swap from Kellen here surely.
Is Kellen going to change?
No, no change for Kellen, she has to change to Kellen.
Actually, scratch that.
It's fun to do actually, on the Echo.
Good against the D.Va.
Oh, here's the rotations, like I mentioned. They have to be quick, they have to be fast,
they have to be furious. You can't granny shift, you have to double clutch to make sure
you can get on top of Lethal. Oh, please don't randomly die to the Widowmaker. Okay,
all good. All good. Got Kalin's high in the sky, nice
a headshot on the Winston. And Lethal down to 100 HP, but it forces Kalin all
They're fully charged or even half-charged head source onto the Winston forces him to retreat
Barrier is really
Oh, what a kill!
That's quite a sugar-free though
And now they can rotate aggressively through this high ground
They're gonna be hunting for this widow now. Lethal's gonna be on the run.
Mersonja's running behind him
But Lethal gets a kill onto CJ of all people. Takes the skies, ends up going down to the laze
They're sure, but the CJ dead means Talosq will only have the Lucio to heal
okay so lethal will at least come back here and then you have the cyclines across the bridge
Admiral oh I got a cyclone around me no but ultraviolet goes down
April could not peel for you V this is a very messy fight everybody just taking their ones
Vethel has the cyclines still
Oh, don't test him yet, fly back gracefully down to earth, all good.
Don't peek, wait the 15 seconds, wait for those sights to disappear and then pounce.
Give you a chance to CJ as well to build up the rush.
Peek corner, hit the rush.
That's exactly what they're gonna do.
Insta-Suzu, kill him going low though, needs help.
Core colliding in the corner, sugar-free with a broad.
Here he was too as well!
Fully matrixed by Horde so he couldn't get focused!
Duplication on the D.Va Hawk going low.
No self-destruct for back up here so Sondren makes the better of him.
Tank differential there coming through for Sondren.
Soundbar in that... Oh! It's a solo beat! It's a solo beat!
And we'll watch.
Joe's in the touch. He does.
Vulture Violet goes down.
The duplication was just too good.
Taking to the skies is Sondren.
Forcing the widow off the angle.
The point has been capped by the fuel.
Oh poor Admiral. Oh poor Admiral. A solo beat but he just had to go for the point contest with Hawk out of the mix
That's absolutely brutal. It feels awful. You feel like in the moment
You have to get that stun bar out buy some time for the rest of the team, but in hindsight
Others doubt in your mind should I really have spec forwarded that ultimate?
It's Dallas going to keep pushing the second point now. I'm looking back and looking in on the zones aren't very important
All right, Lukimino, Cassidy, just walking forwards, by the way, just no fear in his
heart, but he's gonna be filled with it now, Primal Rage, straight back into Kellen's
backline.
Doesn't end up getting the kill there, but Lukimino popping the sound barrier to make
sure they win this fight, ultra-vital with a desperate rush to try and cling onto
a hope of victory here, but it's just not gonna happen.
Trace station gaming lose the fight and now Dallas, they can take a fall position with rush in 10%
And with this chronic overclock as well, he's gonna light south so forth this stage
It's a force you don't want to reckon with the colonists and soldiers
So you're just gonna build this conference as well
Is this kind of like just falling apart on the back of their Admiral Sombir
Really felt awkward to pull off
Could it be boosters here early for Hawk actually?
This is go time for crying
It is indeed.
On to Jethro to lethal, double tap, probably.
Hawk is so low, they've got to kill the baby D.Va, they've got to do it!
Hawk hard to afford to get a remake, here he does, he gets the remake!
They're fighting on the rush still here, but that's going to disappear in a moment.
CJ, Hawk, get kills, eats there on the DPS.
Couple of meters to go, but it's Dallas Fuel now, holding S, backing up.
Spaceship gaming, draining some crucial time here from Dallas Fuel.
That was a great spike win for them as well because Admiral wouldn't get back to this beat here.
Still got to be aware here, there's a lot of damage coming Hawks way that it's really awkward to navigate.
You see, Dallas Fuel still have a reasonable time.
They're shooting both of these angles. Oh, shut up! Just shut down!
What a hit just from the restart as well.
Yeah, the name is just so true
All right, okay, like you said five more time here Johnny sugar-free on the echo by the way closing in on this whole closing on unsung
Who's got his
Think that was you left with wait for the support of Mr. Come online here
There's nothing else you can really rely on to try to push forward here
Already
Sound barrier from Space Station.
That's fire. Wow, that fire was fast.
Fireball.
Fireball.
And nothing to fight.
Do people like it? Self-destruct?
Yeah, Sondren.
Purposely, this sign goes into the drink.
But I guess you're kind of fine with that if you're Dallas Fuel.
Because you're thinking, oh, we got rid of the sound barrier, which...
Very powerful ultimate.
And so now, you have a better chance of drowning this corner.
Double support ultimate coming up yourself.
Talent with this final rage.
way to corner them with extra seconds here.
I knew proactive play here by lethal.
Wow, forces the primal raise though, Johnny.
Helen in that small room.
Two pundal Winston again.
Old school dive, D.V.L.L.A. Winston.
Love to see a little bit of that.
Secret free going low already pops the primal.
It's a free one. He's got a thousand HP to play with, of course.
This is right in there.
TPS primal mechanics looking strong, honestly.
Just chasing that Lucio around.
Chronic going down, yet again first here.
Sondra finishes off Shugafree, arms up, primary duplicate ends up going away, but CJ dead, this is again Space Nation coming up, picking this fight.
Johnny, there's 10 seconds to go and does need to touch without support.
Sondra now in the spot right now, Kalaam going to touch this payload.
Valk's looking for people to shoot at though.
It's a nice armor.
Touch will come through.
I believe we're not on the cap.
And Shugafree's on Reaper guy, she has to sit on the point.
I love it.
Hey, Nesbust.
Admiral's getting this easier, DOS.
Yeah, Hulk's completely aggressive to his whole self-destruction force.
Sam Barrick's gonna come into Abro. Now comes the rush here as well.
I mean, they're just gonna roll this backline.
Kellen already down.
Riepen guy way too strong.
Double kill for LeDi.
And there it is.
Space station gaming with one on the board.
They refuse to go down in a 4-0.
So, it's got to feel good, having a good performance with that Symmetra comp and another great proactive
play that Cassidy from Lethal there.
I feel like that just set up the rest of the defense.
There was like a minute left on the time bank.
You go for a proactive that I force out the primal rage and it again just puts Dallas
Fuel on the back foot.
And so, Spaceship Gaming, they figure out the composition that works for them and
they're making proactive plays as well.
Make life a little bit more difficult for Dallas Fuel.
So maybe we got a series of rounds after all.
Yes we do.
Thank goodness it's not a 4-0.
Johnny, I'm kind of wiping my power right now.
Now we have a very tragic way to end that day.
This was supposed to be the one.
Yeah, you were the chosen one.
Me talking about the series.
Perhaps I'm a banger.
Yeah, hopefully.
Yeah, Space Station Gaming finding a much needed win.
After a very dominant series versus TL,
expecting to pop a hack of a fight and a fight they put up. I mean this offense was ridiculous,
not well recorded, saying by any stretch of the imagination, but two minutes in the time bank
is still a ridiculous, ridiculous time. And the Symmetra ban has already been deployed by Dallas
Fuel as well, and so you're going to have your map choice now, but it's just, gee, if I'm
then, I'm kind of thinking like, oh, you know, maybe we can bring out the Symmetra on a couple
maps where we maybe haven't practiced as much. Just for the fact that it obviously makes Dallas
feel uncomfortable. And that's what we saw from them when they played each other last time as well,
right? These teams, they go map five repeatedly. They went to five maps yesterday. They went five
maps the week prior as well in week three of the regular season. And so these are obviously
two teams that are playing each other really close. And this Symmetra could be the difference
it's already been banned out.
So a little crazy here if we go
to another map that sim
favored, but let's talk about
the maps though, Johnny. We've
seen this escort. We've still
got a flashpoint to go. We've
still got a push to go as well.
Not exactly. Well, I guess flashpoint
could be a sim map, but a
lot of teams just so quick on the
flashpoint now they're so ready to
take fights super early. It
only feels like kind of a hybrid
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Yeah, let's talk about the map. Yeah, click with the buttons. Let's talk about the maps again. Push, flashpoint, go to flashpoint, Saravasa picked by the fuel.
Yeah, so you probably want some more space to work with if you're a Dallas fuel. Just so you can try to rotate away from SSG, Atlas would have made things a little bit too close for comfort perhaps.
would have allowed the street to like maybe pull out even better more reliably if they wanted to too
So, yes, we're gonna make sense here for Dallas fuel. I feel like through awesome map
We can't play a lot of different heroes as well, right? There's no
Seth kind of comp on this map, you know, typically you're going to see a speed here and there where it's like
Is your career or something like that, right?
But if that was you wanted to cook something up here, they definitely could
The ball band from the Kellen all like onto Kellen Cassidy band, you know
Honestly, yeah, I don't I don't hate it from the fuel and in that one first. I
Love the wrecking ball coming out here from as a stream as well
It's kind of what we saw from them against team liquid in the bands where they're like
Okay, we can accept a fair amount of silly but not too silly if it gets too silly
It's just out of control and we can't tame it
We can't feel comfortable with that level of craziness of killing with boss out of all so
Get that out of the way
I will make this service. I think a lot easier for a for a space in here
So try to navigate some of the trickery's that does who love help their sleep
Yeah, that's a rock and roll into this woman map number four here first to four in any grand finals between Dallas fuel and SSG
As you see finally claiming that map. They want to go down in a four
I don't think anybody in the audience wants to watch that either both teams already booking their tickets to Japan
But like you've rightfully talked about earlier Johnny you won that first seed
The second seed is a little bit more dangerous when you're going to an international
You don't want to be put in a position where you're facing like the number one see from Korea number one see from anywhere else like
Stuff man imagine fate me when I faced Zeta round one in the international like come on
You don't want to be in so like yeah price money is cool
You booked a ticket to Japan, but like you don't like oh I gotta play proper awesome. That's the way awesome
Fantastic
Watch violet on international and hope he hits a jack. Did you see the map they completed today?
By the way, it's like the fastest we're not talking history. Yes. I did. Yeah, I did see that
Kind of crazy this team that's a little bit. I can't wait to watch a minute man
Yeah, it's gonna be a good time watching the Tokyo. All right
this rock and roll, Lukamino and the Alari here, as Dallas feel with the greedy backline.
Yep, and Space Age of Gaming, they know this was coming their way, they already pointed
the Alari band early in the series. So this is a true test now, Space Age of Gaming,
they figured out the symmetric composition is something they can lean on,
but can you utilize the extra added mobility from that teleporter
to work your way around the Ana Alari composition?
Yeah, the sim was kind of inevitable at some point again. It's really good on this first
point. You have to lock down these flanks even with just the turrets and then burning
Kevin's double and burning King. Oh, the sleep from long range. And then Luke and
Mina following up. That's nice. Real clean. Oh, Kevin's low. Save, Kevin. Oh, that's
a lucky. They can stay alive now. They're so bad. Yep. They've got a D-Mech Hawker
otherwise this fight is done. A lot of damage being struck up by CJ here but from me is he's just getting eaten.
I think this is like a 3v3 right now for Paul.
Trying to tank her in a mission seems so much better at the minute. It's needed though.
I need to be careful. I mean they've got about 52% already involved.
Yeah, Kellen's finally back.
They might be able to get the cap later.
Teleports threatened. There's never getting destroyed here.
And the fact that they captured at that point in the middle of it as well, kind of a fore...
twice them another team fight if spaces are worth to capture at this point again
all uses to make
oh no
oh this time waste
this actually gives them so much extra percentage
bye
yeah that's a hot that's like this is a glass fight now because of that
it's a painful respawn yeah
really painful
he's spawning at 65% 66% like
come on
last fight
you have to go quick too
you got teleport of course here
to get out of the spot a little bit sooner.
That is a really passive Suzu.
Just to make sure Sondra doesn't one-click somebody
and they flip the map on them as well,
and they look at the flash in the choke.
They're gonna force the beat out of Adrel.
They've already killed Lethal.
They have to touch.
They get it, Johnny,
but Kallen's already got something to keep by long enough.
Adrel ends up going down
and then Ronic pops the rush.
Hawk has to retouch by Ju.
Ultra Violet has already used Suzu.
Already used the TP.
This is what's said, and that's the first point to Dallas Fuel.
Azure's like worst case scenario.
For Spacestation Gaming, the way they had to drop that Sombra very early.
That's what happens when you don't play a Tracer, right?
You're not afforded that same level of safe positioning play as you go for the touch there in overtime.
Instead, they get punished on the way as to try to rotate, set themselves up with the teleporter.
Brutal stuff there.
Well paid by Dallas Fuel to put them in back in a position to begin with, right?
Make it really difficult for Spacestation to force out to Sombra.
well played by Dallas Fuel. He's going to be always lurking on this tracer that is relatively
uncompensive now in this map. He's looking for a 2. Oh, it hits the ground. Yeah, no kill there.
He's very close still. Lukimino's got the captive sun soon. He uses that shift,
the outburst to get away from that TP. Override protocol, lethal. Sending shots downtown,
but no one in his NLS. But it does give them enough time to actually go for the cap.
But here's the captive sun. Lukimino trying to find an off angle, but they're all hiding
behind that giant symmetrical wall as well as Hawke is beneath Luke Amino.
So instead of getting tagged, there's going to be a lot of explosion damage on Hawke,
but still playing behind the wall is good enough to get him to get healed.
You just have to wait for the Nanna Booster really.
Zundran dies here.
That's terrible actually.
It felt like Dallas Fuel that we're setting up for another fight there with CJ
getting close to that Nanna while Zundran gets picked off.
That's Dallas Fuel backing all the way off here now.
The spaces and having built some of these ultimates themselves during control of this point,
Looking like they're in a prime position to capture the second telecoin.
Oh, another great pick as well. This is great stuff, this is great.
They're real nice.
Wow, they're getting a nano into this?
Canada's already in, he gets pooped away, teleport, for sugar-free.
Wow, that nano was a whole lot of nothing there from here.
Yeah, now what?
Yeah, now you're giving rocks.
Yeah, you can't. This spider pilot just points in.
They're in a really bad spot, in a really bad way.
There's a touch here for the Fuel, but what's the longevity factor here for them?
I mean, Kellen's already dead, there's no primal rage, Sondjian's low, they're gonna try and get this touch, they do in the end.
But they still have to deal with Hoku's just milling around on the point.
Yeah, this fight's done, that was Fuel.
They're gonna get tied up as SSG take this one.
This kind of demonstrates as well what SSG does best, right?
They're so good when it comes to these death-balling, diva compositions now, playing with the Symmetra as well.
If you're playing the composition that Dallas Keele does, it's very vulnerable, it's very fragile.
They kind of hinges on you coming up with great individual plays where it's like the Winston or the Tracer combining one nonibus up to the Winston.
You don't have a lot of leeway to mess up here, it's Admiral.
You're not to sound very early here.
Yeah, wow. Really aggro-pushed when you're getting fried alive by those turrets for a brief moment.
You shouldn't be able to get anything more if he does this kind of a miracle. They've already lost sugar-free, but very aggressive.
oh no okay okay this is another big ultimate that that'll still use yeah so difficult to win these fights without them
unfortunately that boss bomb was pretty bad lethal pops the ever critical
straight over the top it's so tough to deal with this figure so many places the player in the sky to hide
kelin already down again this captive son at least the troops are just getting thrown away worst
first captain son of all time after leave like that I mean you cannot be thrown
these into the fight Hawks already alive they've got the warlock as well like
this is tough okay lucamino is changing so you know just throwing it out yeah
it was a big swap from the community yeah it's good they think they don't
but they're going over to this brig instead we're just going to make life
a bit more difficult here for Hawks that thing said though the
extra mobility from the teleporter really strong against this
conversation they're looking for, okay.
Alright, Nanoboost for CJ.
Gonna have to pop it on to Kallen.
Kallen already kind of half HP, bubble expended.
Pressure on the point.
Torch still.
Kinda hanging around here, trying to buy some more time.
This Saunchen that goes down again first, like...
The Tracer in the backline is normally just such a pain.
It's being focused down.
Good headshot from CJ.
Shook of he dead.
Nanoboost to follow Ultravider.
Okay, she plays up now.
Kallen gets chased down by more Nallen fuel still with control.
We're at a 3 versus 3 here.
I hope he's doing some poking here.
Good whip shot.
If you secure one frag here, yeah, I hope he's going to disengage from this one.
Just regroup as a team.
This sound barrier would be very effective from Admiral,
especially if you combine it with a teleporter to get on top of the back.
There we go.
The beat!
The beat! Through the TP!
Straight onto the backline!
Oh my!
I love how much they're pushing the tempo here, Johnny.
It's been really stuff to deal with.
Chronicle, the 1v1 vs. Thethon, which is loose, it's straight up.
That is another cap here at the station gaming, now voting up a percent.
Dallas Fuel with only 66%.
And this is where you want to see Spacestion being active, so I'll pressure all of these angles.
It's really difficult for Dallas Fuel to walk up to begin with.
First, you pressure here with main.
You know that Sunjohn is going to navigate on this flank side as well,
and then pop the override once you've built some space for yourself.
Okay, I've got a critical.
Oh, this is very hard to do!
He's so deep into the back line, but CJ's getting hounded down.
Good win shot from Lukamino, the rally gets popped as the point gets flipped.
CJ, Lukamino holding it down, this support superstar back line.
Is able to just hold on and allow Kellan to get the flip on the point.
Oh, this is the point, bro. This is the point.
Everything hinged on that teamfight, 91%.
Maybe they get a touch here, but Dallas can have so many tools now.
Yeah, they get a touch with the Lucio.
Sure the Lucio dies, yeah Apple down.
Horde comes in for another touch on the point, but Johnny, there is no ult.
Like you're not winning this one.
Dallas Fuel, ah okay.
Oh the pause.
There's a pause.
Am I crazy, but like that was like way too aggressive, right?
Like if you make a play, I'll respect you.
If a team goes proactive, I'm all for it.
I love the aggression.
I felt like a bit of an overcooked there from lethal pushing out. Yeah, I know you're getting matrix
But that was a little crazy. No, yeah, you were really deep
And you're five HP to the matrix not gonna help you versus the Tesla cannon from Winston either
Oh boy, how do we get back into the game in just a moment?
But that is gonna be point cap for Dallas fuel there. So it will be two and one on Surabasa
Leith was just getting a couple of ping spikes apparently so hopefully that gets sorted out in a sec
that. Yeah, it's a good time.
It's a good time. It's a good
time. It's a good time. It's a
bad timing in the middle of an
override that essentially hinges.
Um. On a capture point as well.
That's terrible timing. Yeah, I
really liked how Dallas rule, like
you said, played that they were
able to just hold on and lethal
ends up pop. It hits the whip
shot onto Hawk pops rally and
then stun bashes the device.
So like this multiple layers
CJ and Lukimino working in tandem there. Rotation for the fuel now. They're gonna get to the point first and
Shawnee they just have such a massive ult advantage. Yeah, this is looking real rough for Spaceship Gaming now, but Dallas
Field they struggle with ultimate value so far, so they have a lot of ultimates, but they still have to utilize them.
To their best ability. Try to find a pick here if you can. Oh, you see him too. Well, Tannity
and it got stuck to somebody he dropped the floor because the suit is unhocated.
There you go, that's how that little thing went down.
Well, there goes the wall.
Kellan's straight in there, though.
An already crouched found a kill.
Asus' railgun.
This wall is deep, so you can walk on to the point where the problem is,
there's too many awesome Dallas fields to run them down with.
The OC's already been used,
and Ana was loved for Kellan to have some staying power.
It's not just getting blasted, though, by lethal.
Too greedy to pop the Primal Rage,
but Dallas still get capped.
cap. Yeah this is going to allow spaceships to get back here as well. Playing with the
comfortability of the Sambaya in the next dungeon, dice early, no need to drop out on
the way to begin with. So that's a free fight win there for space station essentially on
the back of the Kellan dying late. Yeah I wonder if Kellan pops Primal Johnny and
he actually you know stays alive gets the kill on Salito and that's a bit longer
a cap.
So we have to get back into this one, so I'm going for this up angle here, trying to
set up for the rest of his team.
This is so slow.
Okay, let's go to the left side of the push window.
Okay, so you're actually in the sky.
So bright, practical, hot, and low, primal.
Use map rounds to cure babies.
See, they're going low.
Not quite a freaky.
Okay, excuse me, I'm actually in the sky, so bright prodigal, hot, Ellen low, primal, use, tap rounds, secure baby, you see, they're going low, not quite enough for a killing fact.
Kevin's still in the primal race now looking a horde. It's a self-destructful horde still available here, it's killing, it's 11 HP, dribble jumping away and still manages to get out.
You know Kamino though cannot
It's gonna be final fight here for Dallas fuel on this point. They can't afford to go down late
They need to get out but they should know it they're gonna chase Kellen to the end of the earth
So they actually don't find it become a killer, but they know so just gonna go for the torch
They can be at the get it. That's a lot of ultimate here Jaws
Yeah, double spoil sonja might die. No gets away
Double support also with the Dallas fuel and a post bomb for sonja
They need to keep this going to make sure a soldier has a way into the fight
Susie already used the perfect time to send him to get it popular now. It doesn't sleep as well as a UV
So even if the Susan was up, there was no chance to save them there. I
Mean that is so clutch from Dallas fuel there
They're able to stall long enough for those old miss the common line in space station because they didn't get that pick on
The Kallon because they didn't get that pick on the son John
It just allows us to come back and have a proper engagement
just the thinnest of margins once more between these two teams like the biggest
of difference and Valos fuel now and the verge of closing out here on serve us
and going up 3-1 in the series
oh chronic yeah can't go too low too early they have to fight into this wall
those is a problem there's the cat from SSG, Marnik low, Shiver 3 pops that wall
and Caledys so low already Space Station gaming putting pedal to the
Metal now trying to get to the back line.
Borgs down for a brief moment. Slept up.
There's the beat.
Sojourn railgun.
McKellen again is so low.
The chase down from SSG is just too good.
Two and two on the board.
We're going to the final point of this map.
It couldn't be closer between these two teams.
Space station hold on with this metal composition
that has worked in their favor the last couple of maps here.
And now heading to the fifth round on Tervasa,
giving themselves an opportunity here.
And there's going to be a tricky point here
for Dallas Fuel to navigate.
Sundryun's already going for the big off-angle here to try and get into the backline
Spacers and gaming they will be relatively grouped up here on to the point
But they're going to try and push the tracer away force the recall
Don't allow Dallas fuel to gain any kind of ground
I'll give you the override protocol first
Cgen, Lukimino scurrying for cover as Ronnick manages to slide out of there Lukimino
There's not much you can do in that situation, sadly if you're the brick
Final race for Keller though, he's already found one. Oh, the Nannan has been shot from here as well.
He's going straight in.
Abra and Instrommel managed to skate away, but Keller's primal end up running up.
He still manages to get the kill onto the GPS.
Staying alive in the bubble is Keller, but he has to leap away.
Self destruct from Horky gets another small out of the bank for SSG.
Hork gets the remix, but it's a quick re-engage.
Lukami knows already back in the front line, playing around the bubble.
Ultra-file it down there, so space station not holding onto this point for too long.
Space station gave me respect for the potential rally from Rick and Min as well.
Late stagger on the Hawk here.
Once again, buy some additional time for Dallas Cule, and this is where it gets stricter for Space Station now.
Because Dallas Cule were set up here, and they have access to these flanks,
surgeon, pulse bomb in hand.
Space station going to be forced into an awkward position.
How do they want to deploy this teleporter to avoid this pinching attack from Bell's fuel?
You cannot let this pulse bomb connect me good name good name and ultra buddy gets snipe
They have to go for the reset Johnny. They just gotta get out. Oh
Sonja dice though
Now as patient can actually advance here without being contested by this tracer
This will allow them to get back and have a relatively clean fight
You've hoped so but Kallenge is poking away.
There's an overclock available too and Lukabino's got the rally.
This is going to be such a tough final fight here for SSG.
Rally comes in.
Soundbaric to safe focus.
He's got anti.
And now Soldier can look for his prey.
Opponents fall on the ground.
No damage at all.
Lukabino goes down.
They're rallying.
Dallas Fuel.
They've lost their patch line already.
It's going to be a 98% for Dallas Fuel as SSG get capped.
The Sergeant Triple Blink, Dallas Bonder on the tracer to try and get back in time, but at that point Admiral had already dropped to Sander vs G.
They found enough in momentum in the front line, and now they got to hold on for their lives.
Dallas Fuel, lots of ultimates on the board here. Overclocked, Nano, Primal Rage, won the teamfight winner for Dallas Fuel, and they claim Cervosa.
It's just an overwhelming ultimacy, same could be said for the last fight as well on the third point.
Nade?
That's a good name for fourth one I should say.
There's the cleanse coming in, final race for Kallen already.
War gets popped up here to try and stop this damage,
but Kallen is just swinging his balls around.
The nanoboos gets popped on him as well.
Sycophery is so low, but Lukamino goes down for Horn.
Kallen cannot make these fights sick.
He's sniped for chronic, the overclock is good.
Hawks de-mecked at 97%.
He can't get the remake.
He just can't do it.
Space station gaming again, we're gonna get run over.
To teleport to destroy, Sugarfree trying to hold on is chronic, refuses to go down.
The flip for the fuel is good as Admiral gets the final touch by Dallas Fuel.
They take Sarovasa and get match point in the grand finals.
The pressure from Dallas too was just overwhelming in that fight.
Telon with the primal, then Nono with Sojin coming in to aid his Winston player as well.
I feel like Shugofree stayed alive for ages on this Metra, but all the time being bought, so difficult for SG to capitalize to turn.
They look on towards the point instead with the break fighting, very close to it, the honor just raining down by all the grenades, sleet charts as well.
I'm gonna tell a few, just had a bit of SG there in that very final fight.
still I am so close this is also so close here you can't deviate from the
smethrub because of this map win or maplos rather if you are ssg I still
feel like this is kind of the recipe for success for ssg well we're gonna go
to a push down ssg's pig push sim first bronzer maybe TP past the
checkpoints and such.
He's been watching us so well, like you said.
I mean, EMEA would do it.
EMEA would do it.
They can do it, but why can't we do it?
I still think though, you know, if you're
going towards a push map, you know,
maybe that forces Dallas Fuel away from compositions
like this.
Yes, Peron.
So we saw yesterday was so amazing, by the way.
Because we still saw the opposites of play, SSG.
They preferred playing with Admiral on the Lucio.
And they actually had the upper hand of Dallas Fuel
time but Dallas Fuel they came out on top playing this slower composition on
Esperanza then asked well I'm wondering if you want to run things back on
Esperanza because of how close that map was yesterday maybe it just I feel
like I can see here they're being so close so many times that at some point
you just feel like it has to go your way
yeah I want to mention that they're at the very end of that clip Hulk dying on
I mean, it's a pretty big factor
in the fight. Um, yeah, Dallas
fuel. One map away now from
taking the trophy, taking the
title is your stage one in
North American champions. Um
SSG, on the other hand, need to
win three maps in this first
of four, but it's not
going to be a big deal. It's
not going to be a big deal.
It's not going to be a big deal.
It's not going to be a big deal.
It's not going to be a big deal.
three maps in this first to
be Esperanza for SSG, Johnny.
Yeah, I think it's your best
didn't see the symmetry yesterday,
but maybe it's the time to bring it out.
I think if you review that sort of
also like we think back to lethal,
you know, having a ping spike when
he pops around the corner with
that override protocol.
For the most part, I think that
SSG did a great job of just
managing sojourn on the tracer
in the backline and then also
on the background of Dallas Fuel making life difficult for Leona for the Brigitte to get adequate value.
It was just that final fight where you're fighting like down the stairs and the enemy on is just free-farming you and just lobbing nades in.
And so you have to manage so many things of W at once.
I don't think that was really a prime example of, you know, a G-Playing at their absolute best there.
It felt like for the most producer of us, they actually did really play well around Dallas Fuel Composition.
What if? What if hog raced us with his presence in the server?
What if?
Unfortunately, that if is never going to come.
Well, never say never, but hog very unlikely to show up
in this series.
Esperanza, Dallas Fuel on a match point.
SSG won a round this time out and get a couple more maps
to under their belt.
They won that stage one championship title
Well, they had 2 Japan.
Who's going to shift their dynamic a little bit when it comes to this Esperanza, the fighter in SSG?
This time around, choosing to deploy this Ana ban because yesterday we saw Dallas Fuel, they played with Kiriko and the Ana, remember?
And they did it so well, of course. Kellan was over on the Winston once more.
So, maybe if you're banning the Ana, you also feel like you're getting Kellan off the Winston for a little bit?
We'll see what way they go.
maybe this is Dallas fuel leaning away from dive and maybe a victim went to a brawl style of some kind
Just this on about alone could change the way these compositions look quite a bit
Hey, Kellan in a way, it's like don't mind this map to be honest because we can play dive
We we could emergency rampic obviously, but you can play Winston. You can play ball on this map
Well, I think ball a little less affected here
Um, it's like a couple of flank angles, but not like anything crazy style
Well Dallas feel I mean, I think I gotta go with a greenie backline again. Look for me. No on
Okay, you know like what is going on like don't do this at home
No, don't play Dallas fuels composition at home. This is just this is
It's just not supposed to work
It just so happens that this team is amazing and they're able to pull it off
It just happens look to me. No, it's you get kind of sick and Luke is very good on the Alari just so happens
Yeah, it's incredibly greedy, but in a way it's like you can be greedy now because they're playing Zarya, they're not playing D.Va.
So, the chance of you actually getting on top of your lari is a lot slimmer.
You have the advantage of speed though, for Admiral on the Lusi.
Yeah, you have the advantage of speed on the Poke too much.
But yeah, the Poke is too much. Two very different styles to play, Johnny.
Poke versus the kind of sustained damage in the frontline, and Lukimino, it was sugar-free.
I mean already because you're thinking about
Yeah
What your whole baby, yeah, yeah
Give up 50% ultimate charge because the diva just a better in a matchup like this
So, I don't think they think space is in gaming, we're kind of expecting the composition that Dallas will play because we would have seen this D.Va earlier, that was the case.
Yeah, look at me, it's making very careful now, very quick.
But the poke damage is a ton, and Sonshin, nice little boot rocket making sure the D.Va doesn't slam into it.
Yeah, I mean, we say that the D.Va is like very strong if you like the Winston and the
Fauren and stuff like that. These sidelines are going to be so long for all, and he's
going to get booed. He's not going to have an easy time to deal with the heroes on the
side of Dallas Q here. So, play D.Va all you want. It's going to be an absolute
struggle for you.
Now, they've got to move the bot at some point now. Sugar pretakes a direct hit
Rocket there from Sondre has to back off and now Kelen drops down. This is what their time for matches
with small increments of space.
Seizedore's Lukimini keeps alive and coming on-sword damage here from Space Station.
There's too much for the RRI.
Yeah, the rush through this choke point.
You need to pop ults here if you're at SD and Dallas Fuel almost provoking them to do so.
Seizedore only just earning his.
I mean Dallas Fuel just want to buy time here, right?
They just want to survive for as long as possible.
We kind of bet on the soldier and the pharah, finally these picks necessary.
Gets you to rush from the high ground.
You can force a disengage from Space Station Gaming here.
But this next engagement, this is what we're talking about.
This is where some of the poke cares from Dallas Fuel.
Two to play, Pivotal and Sungeon!
Oh, the barrage! Sungeon!
What a bubble! Two is gonna suffer a lot of that damage coming in!
Lukimino in the 1v1 versus the Tracer for that barrage was...
Yeah, really good.
Good kill from UV again, kind of executing chronic,
but Dallas Fuel now becomes the real test.
A face, space station gaming.
That's true, half the high ground.
They've got the Oats, too.
Yeah, this is masterful play by Yadav's fuel.
Just the way they synchronize together.
They know their win conditions so well as well.
They're happy to disengage, just play their life,
and trust the individual play from each hero here
to utilize their mechanical skill to their advantage.
Space station gaming, they have the Sunbury, but like,
who do you go on?
Yeah, exactly that.
Need to already take the damage.
They're going to try and flip the map and flip the map they do.
There's a Sojourn behind Lethal right now. They've got to pick a way to go.
She's fully secured by the damage deal here.
He's taking a lot of damage.
So we've got Primal Race though, as they're just encapsulating them right now.
This is completely surrounding SFG.
Oh, Karate got a collab!
On to a UV, I think, in Abrol.
I think that was a collab.
I think nasty, whatever it was.
It looked crazy. It looked like it was a Kiri and the make-up at the same time or something.
I think, actually, yeah. I think it was the Kiri and the mech.
I won't be yo no he can't be married
jumpy married 80 meters here Dallas you
the one map away from Bumi the grand finals here Jaws
what can this one it Helen jumps in captive son's gonna get popped as well
lethal's already down
porky sees the neck you gotta eat it yeah he does
he ends up eating that open look at me they're still doing solar reception sky
and Hawkins are going down. Ultra-fighted, he's flying up.
This way, he can actually hear Hawke.
Selfish shot gets Hawke, but 3 of them are here for Hawke,
but they are losing ground, they're losing it fast.
Apple Theron coming up in 2 meters, and there it is.
And we're just gonna see Kitsune-Rosha being traded here as well.
Dallas Fuel, guess what they're gonna do?
They're pretty much gonna trade this for Kitsune-Rosha,
look back, and look for Pigs instead of here.
Yeah, Kitsune-Rosha post-walled.
I mean, surely, space station gaming,
Don't let this cat go in.
Sigraphy with the pulse, looking at the far as Sunjong going low.
Tempered aggression now for the Dallas Fuel as they don't want to overextend.
But Kellen actually turns up another notch, pops the primal.
All that high noon is gonna stop him from going in, but Hawke's already dead.
Metclaw's, baby D.Va like down, and now lethal scurrying for coverers.
Kellen just jumps straight into the spawn doors.
This is okay.
Johnny, this is a full cap.
Dallas Fuel is just gonna do it.
They're just gonna run it in.
Someone's gonna touch, but they can't get there.
They've never looked and never shot as bright as they've done now 900 plus days before they've lost a playoff game.
They can keep that counter going.
The Dallas Fuel are your North American stage one 2026 champions.
I have an incredible dominant showing that is not the same story that was told just yesterday
the upper final, although the score looks reminiscent, it does look a little closer if you're rewatching
that match.
Now, Dallas Fuel, listen, today was just the one side of the fair in NA, reinforce you
said this is the fun region, they locked in today, no fun was had, at least not
when you're on the receiving end of things.
Yeah, I guess the winners had fun with it.
This is such a well deserved victory
without a single right, because they've
been dominant literally all stage long.
Their regular season was convincing.
They barely dropped maps during the regular season.
In fact, I believe it was PlayStation
was the only team that managed to take maps off of them,
right?
They had a 5-0 record in the standings
at the very end, came out on top,
and were expected to make the grand finals
be the representative for this region heading into our first LAN event, how will they stack
up against international competition? That is a real question.
I mean, the compositions they're playing now are just looking so pristine. This is
why earlier Jaws, I said that I could see this team being competitive with the rest
of the international teams because they just pick you apart. They play to their
strengths, tell them the way they survive on this Winston to buy enough time for
you know, look at me, it's a lorry to get picked, CJ on the character, getting picks.
This is, this was a true masterclass being put out here by Dallas Fuel.
They looked fantastic in this grand final here today,
and that's why I'm putting a lot of respect in their name.
Yeah, so, so good.
I mean, look, we thought maybe a steady station had it in,
and especially after this reality game, they looked really clean on this map.
The sim play from Shipper Free was just excellent,
But they just couldn't, they just couldn't get it popping at the very end.
I mean Dallas Fuel, they are just on another level.
And I think this really kind of stamps that home.
Both EMEA apparently and North America have that.
They've got the difference makers.
They've got the tier one, they've got the tier gap
with between number one and number two.
SCC obviously still making Japan of course,
but Dallas Fuel coming out on top.
Yeah, they shouldn't feel too bad about their performance here.
and not just the regular season but also the players that show us that they are one of the
best teams in this region and they can go toe-to-toe with the greats.
Now these are, of course, the teams that have qualified over the course of the last two days
in both of our regions.
Now let's get chronic in for a quick chat after this dominant victory in the grand
final.
Chronic, welcome to the show, huge congratulations.
What's going on right now for you and the team?
Are you relieved?
yesterday they played you quite close today it was very one-sided. Honestly we
were all just super happy like I had a feeling that we knew we were gonna win
but like just seeing that we're actually number one it's like it feels
really good. Yeah you guys bet you look different man right one coming out of
North America this stage I mean I hope you guys don't make any changes I
think every single player on your team right now is probably the best in the
region. If it was like even kind of this off-tank meta looked a bit scary for
Kellen's hero pool, but you guys kind of made it work. Are you scared of anybody?
Or in Tokyo, are you scared of anybody in the international stage?
Uh, honestly, no, I think I wouldn't say I'm scared.
I'm excited to play the teams, the international teams.
I think it will really like test what we can do.
I think chronic what is so impressive to me when I see you play these
kind of compositions. It's just like the trust you need to have in
each other as teammates, that you're going to live for long
enough, you're going to find picks on these kinds of
compositions, playing with the Lord with the Kiriko, you know,
Sonya coming in, CJ is already in the back there as well. I, and
all this trust, I feel like loops back into Weets, which is who
I want to ask you about here, because, you know, CJ
mentioned yesterday, like the vibes of this team and how
you're like, you're really feeling good playing together.
And so Weets has been an absolute legend now keeps, you
you know, bringing teams together,
rosters together to qualify for these kind of tournaments.
Talk to me a little bit like the team environment
and maybe what Weeds is doing to like elevate
this team environment and it enables you
to play at this high level.
Yeah, I mean, the team environment is like,
honestly really awesome.
It's like, we all, all of us together
are blend so well with each other gameplay
and out of game.
And Weeds kind of like solidifies that.
He's kind of like the father figure of the team.
He makes sure that we all are making sure we're together
with each other, not nervous, and it really, really helps.
You guys have a very different look
from a lot of the other teams
with your compositions that you're playing.
You think you can get away with that
on the international stage?
I think so.
I think especially because a lot of teams
don't know how to play against our style
because there's very, very, very little teams
that actually play what we play.
So yeah, it'll definitely be really interesting.
Yeah, I mean, like stage two is coming up.
Do you think you can keep that momentum going as well
after the international?
Yeah, I think we can.
I think we can still be number one.
And I think everybody on our team is absolutely insane.
And we work so well together that we definitely can.
Gronik, I gotta ask you now,
it's been an incredible journey for you as well,
just on a personal level,
because last year, obviously with the release of Freya,
I think a lot of more people, they paid attention to your name and what you're capable of on a hero like Freya, but then you've also like developed so well on these other hitscan heroes, you know, so during last year, but now also popping off on Emory as well.
I just want to ask you now as you look forward to the international stage, so any hitscan player that you have your sights on that you want to take down to maybe, you know, elevate yourself a little bit more and turn into one of the best hitscan players in the world.
And the best one that comes to mind is Quartz and TM in general, because he's like, everyone thinks of him as the number one hits can and he is really, really insane.
And I think it would be really, really fun to play against him again.
Now we're always here for a EMEA versus NA showdown for sure chronic once again congratulations thank you so much for taking the time. Please extend our congratulations to the rest of the team as well and we can't wait to see you in the crew in Japan.
Yeah, thank you guys so much.
of course great to hear from chronic what a showcase of dominance from both of
our finalists or finalists both of our champions in EMA as well as NA today they
came to play it's gonna be a dogfight in Japan it's gonna be great he looks so
good that he got the Ajax on the Lucio tune in that choke and then hit the
like a lot on the carry in the Mac like my God, he looks so clean. I want to see him
face. Yeah, real bad. I kind of agree with him. I want him to run courts a little bit
here because courts, especially last year, it was the best hits game, right? He won
the watch every chips like Dallas field versus TM would be a heck of a game. And then we'll
see what career have to bring to the table to set a division or to start indestructible.
But yeah, yeah, I mean, across the board, it looks insane already. And we don't know
the Chinese people, the Asian season, so yeah.
I'm so excited.
I don't have to wait for a month.
I know.
I know, it's crazy.
But the good news is that you're not just
sitting around like twiddling your thumbs.
Now you have plenty of Overwatch action
that you can still watch because only
EMEA and NA have qualified thus far, right?
We still have to go through all the other qualifiers.
So we have weekend after weekend after weekend
with qualifiers.
Must be nice to be one of the NA or EMEA teams
at this point in time, right?
because they can sit back and kinda just watch
what the potential competition is doing.
Yeah, Japan finals is tomorrow, 13, 14, that's cool.
Advance to the Asia playoffs
and then Pacific's right around the corner too.
There's a whole bunch of robots
before their actual land to consume.
So, you know, you got a lot of watching to do, chef.
Stack calendar.
Stack calendar of Overwatch.
You know, we got world cup stuff coming up as well.
You know, later on in the screen.
So it's just so much Overwatch.
I don't have time for all of that.
How do we make it work?
How do we make it work?
Well, as we're wrapping the NA and the EMEA playoffs,
though, what's the big takeaway for you guys?
Jack, share with us.
Yeah, just how good Dallas Fuel are, honestly.
I thought maybe it was going to be the number one
and number two being really close there.
But, yeah, SSG, despite how dominant they were
against Team Liquid just couldn't put up the same kind
of performance versus Dallas Fuel.
So, yeah, looking forward to this international stage,
I think this year especially, it's going to be a lot closer for every region.
Yeah, I don't know, you know, I had to follow up on you on that.
Like I can't find an alternate kind of big takeaway there, because I think that is the big thing.
Obviously, you know, Nightmare, they had their run last year in this Champions clash, you know,
Serra put up on the Tracer, they took down Cracer, Kuhn won, they earned themselves fourth in that tournament.
But I feel like for quite some time now, EMBA has had the better of North America,
and therefore NAS at a tough time
in these major international competitions.
And so looking at these two teams, Dallas Fuel and SSGE,
I feel like this is the best chance
NAS having quite a while of putting us in great performances
and compete with international teams.
Yeah, competition is gonna be stacked in Tokyo, Japan,
in May, so make sure to follow all the teams
as they qualify over the next couple of weeks.
But that's it from us.
It's been an absolute blast, Johnny,
Y'all are the goats. Thank you so much for guiding us through the night. We can all be good. It's a whole zoo
It's a whole zoo. Okay
Everyone's good. That's right. Now. I do see you to my brothers from other mothers on land sounds like a threat
It's gonna be violent not between us, but what the teams are bringing to the table
I'm sure they're not going to be no Tom Foolery when it's for all the marbles online, right?
Now, we had an absolute blast watching their journey up until now.
Much more to come. Thank you all so much for watching.
Hope all of you are joining us for a Tokyo as well.
Big shout out of course once again to our producers and of service for all the incredible work
they've been putting in. Now, rest up. Have a good night. Thank you so much for watching.
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You feel like
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