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I'll take a step back, so I can move on
Then I'm a wrong guy, you're nothing but a bone
I'll take a step back, so I can move on
Then I'm a wrong guy, you're not the one, not the one
We've been blinded for too long
Now we got no space for good
And we gone, you got me real close
There's no more to try and put it through
How this story ends ain't up to you
I'll take a step back so I can move on
Then I'm going to run and try
You're not the one, you're not the one
I'll take a step back so I can move on
Then I'm going to run and try
You're not the one, you're not the one
We got nothing for too long
Now we got those things for good
And we gone, you've got me free to come
Time to run up
We're broken hearted now
We're moving on, moving on
Oh
you
you
you
you
you
you
you
you
you
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I've been wandering these places, trying to find where I know I belong, and I've seen too many faces, now I know it wasn't all alone.
It's only perfect
I just ain't real
So what I can laugh at is
I am fit
I'm chasing the world
I'm chasing the world
Wherever I go
I'll say yes or no
This just a lie
I said I feel
Every little thing
I'll get
No man
My spirit
Just fine
In a family
I don't want my sight
I don't be perished
I just be a bruised
I'm a looking loud
I'm a man
I take it slow
I just stand by
I'm a man
I take it slow
I don't be perished
I'm a man
I take it slow
I'm a man
I take it slow
to the rescue.
Twisted minds looking to close out the series here
and take over the trophy.
Of course, that's done it so many times before
and they'll do it again.
Here on WCF 2025,
World Finals Champion.
Hello and welcome to the OWCS.
I'm Zoe and joining me are Jake and Amoxie for the final week.
The round robbing group stage here in EMEA.
me a friend. Let's chat about last week. I just got done before the show catching up
and all the action looks like we're just for security first seat. Absolutely no surprise
there. Twisted mind still live it on the struggle bus, you know, they had a five map series
against one, two, three, four, and the EMEA standings are now wide open. I really mean
it like wide open. Yeah, twist of minds continues to just look uncomfortable. That's still
very little shion as well
courts only really played
shion alongside j-roo's tracer
to get back to point faster as
opposed to playing it in a full
composition. So going to be
having a look to see how
exactly TM has adapted since
Fonniatra did say after the
winning interview that they'd
be looking slightly different.
Headed into this week as for
one two three four. It's all
about the wrecking ball
golden pants has been an
absolute stand out, but the
It's all about the wrecking ball.
Goldenpans has been an absolute standout,
but the problem for them is can they win the rest of the maps?
Yeah, they don't have a true identity,
which is always fun to see, Jake.
Yeah, it's been incredibly competitive, you know,
and there's been teams, I think,
with really different looks.
I will say, for trust in mine,
I think they're gonna be quite happy
about what we have seen of Sheehan in the meta.
I think it was, yes, Kaseya,
who were actually playing this really fast style
with Maga with Sheehan with Reaper,
just like absolutely running it down and last week was of course like just after
teams get their hands on she on so you know a lot of you know teams I just
know that they'd prepared to use her this week now they've had a little bit more
practice time a little bit more preparation and I think the
mentorship could be just with a doctor order for a team like twisted minds that's
kind of struggling to find their identity this day. Yeah I mean if you're looking
at the standings here right the cutoff is five and six with one two three four
and Tennessee currently in the bottom but that can still change each and
every single one of these teams can still make it into our regional play-offs based on the results from them this very
Week which is kind of crazy
I want to zoom in on the head to head map differential here because this would make the difference if
Katia 1 2 3 4 and DK tied a two wins
Where Katia with an advance on the tiebreaker and then the tiebreaker rules would reset and DK would actually advance on
on their head to head with one, two, three, four.
That's what makes the week one so exciting, right?
Because of those upsets.
Now, Gike, they could beat Twisted Minds today.
That's totally possible, given what we've seen
from Twisted Minds thus far in the last two weeks.
The winner of that match will advance.
So really, everything is coming down
to the last two days of play,
which is just, that's what we want to see, guys.
Yeah, like you said, other than Virtus.Pro,
who, Virtus.Pro, they actually had a few issues,
like they dropped two maps to Katia,
to, as Jay put saying, like a very explosive Xion composition that we started to see more and more
in Asia, actually. Xion Vendetta Mauga. Telsi tried to copy it, tried to replicate the exact
composition, Virtus Pro dealt with it, but when we caught up with Smash afterwards,
he did say that it was just because Telsi was a weaker team that they had an easier time
of dealing with it, and that there's still the hurdle of that composition for Virtus Pro
to be able to jump over before they feel fully comfortable. So even though Virtus Pro
to secure their position, they still can't slack off just yet too.
Yeah, no absolutely, they mean they lost a map on their most comfortable composition as
well right, so that should definitely spur them on a little bit.
If we're looking at the Hero ban leaderboard, Bastion's still in the lead there as the
most banned hero, so yeah, even though there were changes, Bastion's still a massive
threat alongside that Chepacat.
Yeah, I do think these stats could be a little misleading because you know after
this change I think teams are gonna be playing faster and maybe you know down at
the bottom of the band list judo and lucio I think some of these speed sources
could be looked at as actually key bands if people are really gonna push a
faster pace meta player on the mauga and the she on you know I think there
would be a significant shift here so come playoffs as you said no one spot is
really secured right you might be able to make it into playoffs but to
actually get that top three to get to the eSports World Cup in the midseason
championship I mean that's I think what these teams are really vying for at
the end of the day and they're going to need to be able to adapt to the new meta to do so.
Yeah, speaking of the new meta, of course we did have a little nerf in between last weekend this
week so that once again could flip things on its head with Xion getting that little nerf. Let's see
how that will affect her. Looking at today's schedule though, now we've got a slate of great
matches coming your way. Starting with Kutzia, going up against Telsi afterwards. It's going
gonna be VP and 1, 2, 3, 4 followed by Twisted Minds and DK to round it out here in the EMEA
and then of course we still have two NA matches to be played with SSG and Team Liquid and then
to close out today we're gonna have Dallas Fuel going up against this guy. So lots of action
coming your way and so much on the line for many of these teams who are not just fighting
for the regional crown right? Like they want to best the international competition at the
second major life event of the year. Of course I'm talking about the mid-season championship.
Top three, FOFIA, MEA and NA will be making it out to that life event where 16 of the
best Overwatch teams in the world will be competing. And you, my dear friends watching,
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Have you secured your ticket yet, Jake?
Oh, come on.
You've got to be there.
We're in Paris.
That's right.
To play the World Cup, to have the mid-season championship.
I mean, come on.
This is an East Britsman you don't want to miss.
We're able to get out there to Paris.
Get that ticket discount code, of course, to get yourself in a little bit cheaper.
Of course, it'd be an overwatch, but I mean, it's going to be amazing.
It's going to be on.
The French crowd has been insane the last time I was there.
It's incredible.
So I have very high expectations for this event.
I love France.
I lived in Paris for some time myself and the French crowd, they show up so I'm so excited
that we get to celebrate alongside of them and hopefully many of you in Paris.
Hopefully by then the heat wave is over as well.
We won't be sweating as much.
Only our teams will be sweating in order to perform well.
Let's talk about our first match here.
I could see her versus Telsi because I mean, I could see I really want to win this
match just saying contention and technically the both, that applies to both teams,
right?
have a shot to make it so everything is on the line and let's talk about the
CF first here because they only had one week last match and they lost it they
are however that said the first team that actually is able to play it close
against VP that we did the juggernaut of the region yeah I think EMEA like we
do still have the divide between the top teams but it's a lot closer than
it was in the past especially since the meta is just like so explosive and
changing by a week-to-week basis they're still living his best life getting to play
things like the Sigma and the Diva as frequently as he has been but Gala and
Zox as well adapting very quickly to the new support line we're seeing a lot of
the Jetpack Cat from Zox we're also seeing a lot of the Mizuki as well so
Ketu very much staying up to date with a lot of compositions and moving
forward very quickly after they opened up with a brilliant win versus GK on that
first week of play here in the second stage. Is he frankly restored in them
after they lost to 1, 2, 3, 4 in week 1 Jake? You know I think 1, 2, 3, 4 is a very
good team actually and I think it's you know the fact that they're doing
something that's completely unique in the region only makes them a tougher foe
so really you know now looking back with the benefit behind so you see
that one you see 1, 2, 3, 4, going to map 5 against TM, you know, so that just looks like
it's the next factor kind of a team in this one, but for Akatsia I do think that they looked
really solid bringing incredible pace, they almost were able to even upset VP doing that,
so I kind of like this team's odds. Tejon was pretty great on the Sheehan, so I think if this
ends up being the way the meta goes, I think Katsia positioned well for playoffs.
right on. Now their opponent. Tell us, still winless? But in theory, they could still qualify
for the playoffs with two wins this last weekend. And of course, some good head-to-head records,
but it's really do our guy for them today. But once again, of course, we have to shout out
individuals. Lars, SXJ, ICAP, like, they played a good series in week one. They played a good
series last week as well. Like, they had their moments. Yeah, they've had their moments,
but it feels like they still have to find their identity because when we've seen them play,
they've been copying compositions that other teams have been trying to do. Like I said,
they try to copy what Katzia did to sort of oust Virtus Bro from their comfortable position,
and you could tell that there wasn't as much understanding about how to play things like
that Vendetta off of how frequently the Vendetta was dead by the time they engaged.
Yeah, let's see if they're going to try to pull that out of the bag when you go off
against Katzia, we showed it first here at last. We, Katzia vs. Telsi, everything on the line for both
of these teams. Let's see who's going to come out on top, guys. Please take it away. Thank you,
Sohi, and as we get into this one, I mean, Telsi, it's a touchbop to them to beat, of course,
0-3 in this stage. Still a couple more matches left to play, but Katzia, they really want
this win too. They want it bad. I mean, this really, you know, a necessity really to get
them into a decent position for playoffs. And the opening, man, it's going to be
the Antarctic Peninsula would you make these vans? Well I mean I feel like we're
going to be seeing Bastion Cat if we're taking out Mizuki. That or the Kyroko
Lucio since both the May and the Mizuki who pair so well around that sigma has
been removed. Marga's obviously on the field, verticality means that there'll
be a lot of fever, Azaria potentially as well. But taking out that Mizuki does
mean that there's less pressure on things like the Shion, the Tracer or
Or if you want to feel towards it, the vendetta to play a much more brawl, fast-paced style.
I'm just really curious to see how these teams kind of approach the game now that they've
had the benefit of a week of preparation and practice now.
And teams already started to use Sheehan, started to develop some strategies.
This is going to be kind of our first look at teams with a little bit more prep time.
And DoubleMalga queued up.
I mean, obviously in the sponsor control you'd be remiss to be too committed on
believing.
But I kind of believe it.
I think the smiley pop looks pretty good.
insane with the Xi'an? Yeah I believe it, especially if your Xi'an is going to be
trying to do like a lot of flanking you're always going to be one person
down. It does benefit things like the Sodorant will just be able to farm rail
off of the tank, the Reaper as well potentially for Tellacy that they were
just teasing being brought in over that tracer so you can put a lot more
pressure on the tank as opposed to trying to go and hit one of those off
angles as yeah compositions will stick for both teams the only
differences that we have a Juno over the Lucio.
too hard to come back. Yeah, losing your mage just means that you have no way of
holding that respect that space and catch you just get to do what they want.
Sweeping out the sojourn and I cap is getting close that OC farming off of
that mage. You're expecting it to come online. But here's the problem for jealousy.
How do you walk in when catch you decide to get aggressive?
Redstone dodge this time. The Lars is just out of the prime band into the fire.
Focus fire that is from Alcatrazia as they just clean out the fine evaporates
and that takes over before it even really begins.
Yeah, Katya have more burst healing.
From Gala and Zox, the Juno and the Kiriko
able to much greater sustain Vestola as opposed to
Lars who has the Kiriko for the Suzu of the Slam
but then that Suzu gone and you're relying on the slow tip of the Lucio
as opposed to that Blaster from the Juno.
And it's very apparent.
Nice shot from Icah, on to A, but he just drives on by with the bike.
That wasn't though.
Into the back line from XSJMind's one,
doesn't look to be enough though.
was once again, Fizia, crushing this clean up and doing so really comfortably, still holding
onto all of their ultimates. I mean, next fight, of course, is going to be a big ulti dump,
but I mean, they do look like such a strong team in this kind of a rush mirror.
Oh, Texl gets out just by the skin of his teeth, which is huge fatality, but unfortunately
they used ultimates trying to secure exit rates in that fight, and they're not going
to be able to stop Katia from just holding down that choke.
Timebar is so quiet in comparison to something like that, right?
Jon Zorks, but so is he with the cage con, though loud enough to take Tellacy totally down
before Jono even gets the chance to use the beat to save the team.
Yeah, I mean, inside the cage fight, so difficult to connect that beat.
Katsiya just playing like clockwork here so far, rushes out for Tellacy.
It feels like Ica has to be a hero right now.
He does have the beat behind him and the cage fight coming soon from Lars,
but already 90% of the fight has already gone straight into the spawn.
Double Ultimate in response, Sox does end up getting cut down by Icab.
The Ray though, maybe has done its damage is not going to be enough.
Tell us, if they move toward the point winning this teamfight, it's huge that they're able to clutch up there.
Yeah, Capsi actually not having any ultimates to play for this next fight.
Lake Hill on Tetejong, and now we have to really like see the benefit of having the soldier in for the distance.
The ability to just snipe someone out is going to force Katsuhi to be very careful around how they position and how they rotate onto the point.
But they have so much percentage, Jake.
They don't have to commit into this next one.
Tellusie will be forced to burn these ultimates to guarantee they win these fights before Trace comes first.
Yeah, we've been in the backline. Nice stomp from Lars.
It's a cage fight, but it gives Vistola a nice little comfortable corner to hide in.
It's going to be difficult to re-engage into this Reaper incredibly low.
Let's see, I've got to be careful, Telsy. Maybe try to step on the catapult. Big stop in the stola, though.
Can't find the finish. The support is good.
Reapers traded off the field, and it seems that Telsy have just done enough here in the front line.
I still have a playmaking.
Hex is getting more healing.
As well now, he's massively ahead of Gala.
But Telsy now, they have their choices.
The fact that cats you have to walk into them means that SXA potentially can post up close.
Cats you're not clearing their corners could run directly into the death blossom.
But that's why Tejong went for that guaranteed kill onto the Reaper, so they don't have to clear those positions,
knowing that they can just walk to that point and go for the Womba Conver that won them the fight previously.
Cage and Deathmoss and Conver, as Jono, which does not have the Tejong though.
Spotsite as Xayah forces him back, but that's a huge rail-snip from Icah.
Rush is out, now it's just a quick retreat for Concia. They want to try and get out of this fight.
Chelsea can't let Confauna let them escape, they're going to commit the Cage fight though,
and that brings Lars in a little bit deeper than he intended.
Realer of Death Blossom does provide one kill, but it doesn't seem that the trait can come in,
because so much is trying to stay alive now as the clocks are on low.
This one is under extreme pressure.
Yeah, I mean Tejon was dead, smacked out by I-Curve, so there was no Death Blossom to follow up on the cage,
which means the cats who don't get a clear fight win what they can play for though, Jake, is rush.
And tell us the, it's about to be overtime, they can't disengage up.
Well, support's like a big hit, but they just barely stay alive.
Gala of the rush is going to be crucial in this high jungle into the early beat,
Trying to catch the opponent's coughs of oppression with that blossom inside of the frost provides so much value
A and also just dancing over the point
It's up to Icahap to maybe find something that has to do so much
The raw value on this Kassia comp is just overwhelming on the point. It's still Zox with an orbital rate in reserve
It's gonna come out now to stabilize the position
Jonowich going for a desperation stall on the Lucio but it's asking just too much
I think of these flankers and they cannot stay on the point so Kassia
I mean they had to really work for this one but it comes down to the economy game in that final fight.
Yeah it's that harsh reality right when you get it to 99 percent.
All you have to do in the over 10 fight is have rush and then sink all of your health in
death blossom, spree, everything and the kitchen sink was for our own fatality to have to deal with
and unfortunately iKad will getting sunpicks with the ot is just not able to be the clutch
fact that he was previously when he had the sound barrier to be far more confident and swing deeper
with that soldier and all. But we're seeing life in Talosie, right? We said this is a team that's had
potential. They've pulled maps off of very notable teams as opportunity for them to grow. But yet
again, they'll be starting off with the same composition. And until they had ultimates,
they weren't really able to win out these 5v5 fights. It always went past his way.
So much healing in the neutral game the Lucio that mobility is what needs to pay dividends
But they can't make any kind of aggressive playable not as I say that they come in deep
It's all though responds nicely keeping the front line comfortable and strong
And you can't say the same about Lars who's false flat
Aggression completely received you can see what it's the palace liking of the she on two right?
She's powerful at the start but now it has both perks and so many people have talked about how strong those perks are
Faces of death, getting every DPS roll process is wild, especially when you parry alongside things like that Kitsune and Rush.
Tell us he took the least of the rotations, but she just has the mobility on her own.
Yeah, big damage out, Reaper, Rain, Poverty, Force, SXJ in a really weak spot in this fight, and the Stolest wants to end this right now with the cleanse,
but actually, Pajang is the one who goes down high cap on the soldier.
And Telsy found the flip before Katzya had 99%. So Katzya can't do what they did previously, which is bank up ultimates and throw them at Telsy when they're out of options.
Texo actually will have Rush to be able to match Gala, and there's nothing really to give advantage to the other team, so it will just be burst for burst!
And on rotation, Ikev rules the roost.
Sojourn snipes our aid. Lacking one of their DPS, Katzi cannot commit. They have to disengage, which means there's more opportunity,
fertility to walk away with one more kill, especially on desks.
Ikev has so much space to work with. This time it's his turn, right, to sit defensively on the point, hold down a position,
But Katya is instantly going to rush out of the point, force him to commit a responsive rush, and OC out of the right path.
He kills Katatum, just getting the K-Tight even further. Stabilized this fight, Jono is in the beat though, he's just going to over well.
Katya, without their kick, can keep on fighting the Rey, ending up these DPS on point.
Texal, though, a huge kill on the Gala, could make the difference if this one is large.
K-Tight up his own. I'm sure there will be no good gear for our Katya.
I mean, that was a huge investment from Katya, which just does not work out.
the fight goes so long that Talosie and I are sitting at 63% of the point.
You've got Deathblossom, you have Spray, but those are two DPS ultimates that if you tell us that you can read out
and now the Lucio will actually start really working in our favor, you can just disengage before Katya can pops on top of you.
So I want to see Katya walk point, so at least even if they don't get the kills, they get the flip of the damage along.
They've got to find something with these ultimates.
It's a regression coming into the back line here, but Stola gets in, Tejang pops, the death puzzle is already down,
and Sensoriko screams, no joint from A.
Hopefully Zock tries to kill in this fight, and Holdon A comes back into the nether, Gala finds a third.
And that'll be enough to bring the teamfight back.
That one was way too close for comfort, right?
If Gala doesn't find those intermediary kills, maybe that fight goes against you.
Chelsea though, they did pop every single ultimate in the previous fight, so they're a ways away,
but they will get their entire bank up before the end of this round box.
Yeah, but if you're in neutral, that benefits the sojourn, right?
The Faber, you can literally just drop someone instantly off of a full rail job.
So, Katya having to be very cautious about how they peek, not wanting to fuel Icav's kill potential.
As we get the Malgus dueling, Icav trying to find that off angle.
Ooh, she's a tuner out in the open, potentially finding Zox here.
As Katya just farming all of this damage onto their tank to build up their support ultimates,
because there's about to be an ult dump fight to control this choke.
Texal's gonna have him first rush, it's a big opportunity here for Chelsea, they could snowfall into the rest of this round
Malcolm can see it too, they have to back up in the rush, running away, everybody trying to split
and just get out of this engagement, giving up the flip would be well worth it if they could just stay alive here
because Gala's gonna be able to come back in with his own rush, 5% oh you've got it, he's gonna keep rolling
Gala's rush he does come up, OC kind of scolds the line, but do they have to damage the rush?
Yeah, they defensively use Lars ult because they don't have Sion bar for when Katzia re-engage
with their own second rush. So you're trying to give Icav that opportunity of sitting there
with the overclock and getting those kills, but they just can't find the picks. Icav now swaps
onto the Cassidy as you're looking to use the flashbang trying to shut down the She-On and the
Reaper, but yet again, same situation. Four cents of overtime, four to walk into Ultimate when
you have no resources to live.
Hey, if you're gonna fight back to the point, Icav, though, has found a kill. You've got
to be able to end this one quick if you can see it. You're down to support. And actually,
the trades coming in look good for Telsy.
I kept holding up like they're really nice against the shield.
I'm getting the early pressure. Here comes Tej on with the death boss and it feels a little desperate.
Just a few players left with double support, still alive for Telsy to keep this fight rolling.
Reaper gets a lot of support on the other side, still a fight to be played.
And yes, the rush. Good to call that one out, but it can't fight coming to play, gala.
Just gets dropped before he gets the opportunity and Texall overwams with his.
That was a huge final fight from Telsy. They came into that.
No ultimates to speak of, they had to battle their way through, and you can see it, despite having a couple of de-gassles that just couldn't find the way in, iCab, a little bit too solid on the hitscans to let anything through the fight.
I mean, he doesn't let Zoxford at all. He totally shuts out that Juno in the last fight, which means that Gala then is pressured. Kiriko would be only heals for his entire team.
Texas able to border rush up first and that fight was an arms race, whichever Kiriko hits the ultimate gains possession of the point because
No one else has alts. No one else has the confidence to be able to hold their space
So Tellexie hit Tellexie hit gold when Texas alts comes through and Katzia
Just don't have the bodies to be able to hold on long enough and we go the distance back and forth between both of these teams
Sojourn the double slide right her mobility feels like she's a really difficult hero to catch now
into this final round of control. Of course, Perkz also coming online for the rest of Pizzia as well.
See what they can find in terms of this computational value.
I have such a threat in the open space.
Pizzia just want to hit him hard. One immediate shot.
You can see how safe he's playing, how responsive.
The aggressive run-in from the stole of a Willis actually worked.
He's comfortably guided by Telosy with their speed,
although Lars getting a little bit split on the formation.
XSJ does as well.
And Pizzia with just some early pressure actually finally fell off the trade.
that they should go to Snowbottom some more here.
It's gonna be absolutely running over the back line.
A nice little AD strafing from Icav,
but in the end, the weight of,
can see a sheer number's advantage.
It's too much, they're gonna get this first hit.
Yeah, there's so much just like burst damage,
and then Lucio obviously, the aura's healing everybody.
But Texel's hands are totally tied.
You're looking at trying to keep your Sojin up,
which means that your Reaper gets left a little bit
with those less resources, much more vulnerable,
and Kastia very quickly jumped on that opportunity,
as well as hinging onto that point for this extra position and now you can play around what iCab can do,
moving around the defuctor shot which at least forces them off of the high ground so Telsy have
been able to move closer to point but not fully onto it as Gala will have first rush and Telsy
have to respect that. Telsy, you don't want to play slow here, the point is flipped against
them because you're happy to play this one comfortable. It's really iCab who feels like
the one to create opportunities in this kind of a trade for the soldiers,
Yeah, I mean no death blossom required as well, right? You get the stun off of the maga slam and then Tejong just follows up with shotgun, so you're still holding on to the death blossom to pair it alongside Vestal's ult, which now puts even more damage on you.
more pressure on the dot and a Jonowich to find the perfect angle of getting
timevary to connects around that magus line of sidebreak.
Beautiful performance on the soldier deals with both incoming DPSs.
Love the target focus as well.
He starts just like farming bestola, knows that he won't be able to drop the maga,
uses the rail-chart to drop a squishy instead.
So, Telsy yet again relying off of one-sided Kitsune or Rush from Texel,
but that does mean that Katsuya H9% can just farm off Gala's,
and then Telsy will be forced into fighting it with very little.
So if you're Telsy right now, you need to close out this fight fast
before Gala builds up his ultimate.
So ideally, you're looking at iGaV just dropping someone to force Katya to totally back away.
Or SXJ gets into a good position to use that blossom, but getting Rook's approach is not the easiest that's been done.
And it works like with that low time, Jay, Gala is 8% away from Rush and Katya have full cost to go for.
Yeah, getting a lot of stats, but Rush should be deployed on pointiers holding the line.
Now, he puts some point brush on, but here comes Lars charging in.
That's going to be a mistake. I think he'll live deeper threat.
The rain form not enough to get him out of XSJ.
Desperation blossom, but no real chance in this fight.
I mean, the rush is just indomitable
in this kind of a mirror match.
And everybody on Chelsea gets the deck.
Maybe there's a Lucio touch here.
It looks very desperate, Marcy.
I mean, Katya are also just flooding
Chelsea's side of the map to make it even harder
for them to be able to.
Lars does get the ball on to the point in time.
They're trying to hold onto your double support ults
to come out for Chelsea to overwhelm this fight,
It's just going to be body after body and soul band.
Here comes the beat from Johnowitz, the one man, but into the orbital ray.
I mean, there's no real chance in this fight.
And Alcatrazia, they win it.
Tell us he's making them work, though, taking them to a third round.
But it does feel like these all out aggressive moments for Alcatrazia
are just overwhelming, even as good as Icab is on the soldier.
Like, you really can't criticize his play this map.
Like, he is finding a ton of picks, doing exactly what he's supposed to on the soldier,
like generating that that consistent value in contested fights, but in the end when the Alts come through it feels like the duo of Aiden, Pajong, double up in the back line.
It's paying so many dividends. It's finding so many impact kills even when they go down. It feels like it sets the team up for success.
Yeah, and also like in that last fight, right? Everyone's looking that I have to do something. So everyone from Kat's here just basically sacrifice Maga's health up so that they can just generate Alt charge.
for their supports. It's a race between getting that rush online and they don't poke back to what's
Tellacy. You can read in the difference of alt charges between Texo and Gala. There's very little
damage actually going the way of Tellacy when everyone's trying to build up their support
ultimates and unfortunately for the Sgt like you're forced to just farm your ult off of the
Mauga, try to have some form of railgun tonight but you're not going to be able to
instantly drop him and it feels like Katz you just totally play Tellacy in terms of the
composition they were running in that last round.
Yeah, I mean historically, right, the Sojourn has felt like always the best choice when it comes to a rush mirror, where yeah, you could go for the double divers, but for the most part, it's felt more responsible, more safe, more consistent to have a, you know,
somebody in the back line like a Sojourn, she can get in the rush, but ultimately you're having that sniper effect where you can get those, you know, one shot picks, put some pressure on your opponent.
This Reaper's Shion is not the same comp, right? It very much is all-out aggression, both DPS going to the backline.
If that kind of a push fails or falls flat, you know, I feel like your comp will not be able to keep up with the Sojourn,
but when I've been seeing these last few weeks, it feels like this all-out aggression is working,
like teams are not really able to survive the Shion and the Reaper together with the Mauga in the backline.
Well, it's almost sort of like dive tempo, right?
the thing about dive which makes it so hard to play into is that you're not ready for when the
hits come through because it happens as you're going through your con cycle. Like fight finishes,
you're wanting to do your alt-track, you're wanting to do your fight plan, you're wanting to
allocate what everyone will be doing and then suddenly there's a wrecking ball hitting you
or there's a tracer in your backline and all of those resources that you want sent to the
front you have to divert, you have to peel away. Sheon, Reaper, they take so much attention
on their own that it totally cuts the team apart and leaves someone very isolated and
takes away from what that sojourn should be having put towards her instead. As well head to Rialto is
Telsie's pick. So Bastion Cat still going to be a very strong option potentially we get to see some
SXJ Pharah as well on this map but I really want to see if Telsie have an answer to things like
this Sheon head alongside something like a Tracer or a Reaper outside of just let's try
and have as many poke fights as possible so we can kill them before they collapse on top of us.
Yeah right I mean I do think the map choice alone is going to present some some puzzles for Alcatzia.
I mean do you really want to play like the all-in Reaper rush on a map with this much high ground?
It could be possible uh band-wise though actually let me tell us who you take out the bash and
they don't want to deal with the shenanigans they want something a little bit more straightforward
but Conceal with the carry band that opens all sorts of interesting doors I mean you could
even think about some really greedy poke styles. You can bring out something like the Aari.
Historically, this looked pretty annoying at times on this map, especially that first point
defense. Can be pretty awkward to break. You can see they've been playing a ton of this rush
lately, but they're not a limited team in terms of the compositions they can feel.
Yeah, and I think they also identified that every fight that Telsy won was for the most part
off of rush or overclock. So taking out that Kiriko because obviously you can't target Bastion.
I think, like, Telsie taking out the Bastion both saves the Sojourn and removes the prospect of running into the Jetpack app with that Bastion.
And Katya will go for the next best thing that Telsie were relying on.
Rush, because they were winning fights outside of just one-sided rushes.
So I think if you remove one of those crutches that Telsie has been relying on, you push them out of the comfort spot, especially when it comes to playing retake.
Yeah, I mean, to be honest, the carry is interesting. Both teams were using it.
So, you know, to me, this signals a little bit of a style shift from Katzia, you know,
and it makes sense in a map like Rialto, that they would bring something potentially a little slower
than probably one of the fastest comps that you could possibly play in the game right now.
So, pretty much anything else they play is going to be slower than what we saw on that first map.
But without the Kiriko, to be sure that does change things band-wise, strategy-wise.
I do like the Mago from Bastolo, though.
I mean, he's finding so many of these crit stomps, so many of these instant kills, and really, I think,
controlling the engagement super nicely Lars doesn't seem quite as comfortable in the mirror match
No, and it's meaning that he's going down very early on as well
So you're hurting your supports all charge and you're hurting the space that is created for your DPS
Real to though I would be surprised if we see a total absence of things like the sigma or the diva
Especially because those are two very much comfort heroes that vestilla has enjoyed relying on in the past maga is great
but without things like the Symmetra, lacks a lot of the upwards verticality to be able to
move from the high ground to the low ground as easily as something like the D.V.L with the
boosters and defense matrix as well as just such a good cooldown to be able to keep in check so many
ultimates. Tell us a lot to consider here. Could see it feels like they're barreling
towards victory. They have felt like a team that has really picked up momentum on the back
of this new Maga style coming in alongside Xion.
However, Telsi, I mean, this is their tournament life, right?
They lose here, they're out of contention for playoffs.
It's back to promotion relegation, where I don't think it'll be
from if there's anything we've learned from EMEA,
it's that there's nothing free about those re-qualifications.
And you really don't want to find yourself,
especially in that second seed spot, going back down and having to fight for your chance.
I feel like they have shown us a lot as individuals.
Like, the ICAV has been, I mean, honestly, in the entire team,
Everyone has had these plays where
you're just a little bit too close to dipping those toes in the water.
I've seen a few teams experimenting with just running the cat as opposed to the bastion
and playing the high mobility of the cat.
The capacity of the high mobility is incredibly powerful with cat.
The next synergy alone is pretty awesome.
Oh yeah, the higher noon is insane, but also look at Zoxan's survivability being
being able to play around these rooftops and being positioned
because it's really hard for iCab to be able to stay on top.
Of course, you're totally scouting out
where Talos sees composition.
We'll be playing for him to go for a dive with Tejong
on the tracer, which actually means that you catch techs off.
And this is hard for Farrar to deal with.
Jonovic still finds aid and taking down this defensive hits game
is huge.
Now it's just Gala who really has to deal with XSJ on the far,
but won't be easy now.
Opportunity for Talos to have the back of that pick,
see if they can snowball this power flight.
Maybe it's going to be coming back quickly,
and I kind of find a second.
OK, the Cassidy coming alive here for Tellacy.
And it looks like a bit of a retake angle for Katsea.
Not able to really hold on for much time at all.
They do get a nice comfortable reset here
for this final fight on first flight.
But if I can just keep shooting like this,
I mean, the defenders could be in trouble.
Yeah, I mean, losing Tejong means
that you lose your payload contest, which
means it tells you like you said,
territory and playing retake into Farah's band is a lot easier said than done as the fox on the cat is taking the Skychill against SXJ which means that Cassie actually gets a window to stabilize.
Without the Farah's oppressive rockets fowling down Choke, Gala's been able to heal the whole team and build up bounds to chase Telsi out.
Farah's just trying to poke through. Here comes the amplification matrix from Gala. He's got so much resource on the point in Bars.
He just doesn't have the gas to stand up to it, AID swings wide, it's going to drop to far, and it should just be clean up here.
Tell us, AID, heading back to the spawn, and this is a painful fight to lose. You've done so well so far on the first point, but when you lose the finished path on Rialto's first point, it is a long walk.
AID, it feels like you're just coming back out of spawn for the first time.
Okay, high and noon. Cat-cast Conver, available for Zox and AID.
I would not want to be XSJ right now. I would just not want to be XSJ.
Yeah, for sure, because like Jonah, which will be able to defend against it with the sign tree, right?
But your farm will be outside of the Mizuki ultimate unless you purposefully ground yourself
He just flies over the top. What can XSJ do about that doing the cast in the sky? It's not a fight you want. Here comes the dead eye
Being pressured to try to just hold on to some of these possible elements, but Tex-O is not gonna be so lucky.
Even deployed to rush this fight is
Really depressing from Teleski, I mean it goes about as fast as you can.
There's no ray in the darkness for Teleski in that fight.
Like you lose your Juno, all off of pressure, to Deadeye, and then you still lose your Juno afterwards.
Plus, Tejong on this race is just absolutely farm to Tex also.
He'll swap onto the Baptiste, which means you also get a mortality build.
Try and cheese the Stola's drop of gravity atop your heads in this next fight.
But one minute left S6J has to win I can trace a 1v1 and like he said Katnaps just waiting in the lanes
He's so hungry for this all he wants somebody so bad
I mean knows it if he goes in I think too much alone
It will be trouble Tijong is gonna put some blanking pressure on the stole of course
You also have that watch to think about here. Here comes I cap with the dead
I though big damage threat from him the drone of a high gun protects everybody and now they get a little bit of car control
Now let's continue up to scramble coming back into this fight so many edges of the map here though
Hold on a lift comes in someone else has to talk it'll be a jump for the moment
So I have often that deal with that cast be threat potentially once it brought with the cap comes through no one can
Oh that moment and tell see although they get routed off the map they get the job done
They stay alive on realto another tough fight to win though because although you do cap and get extra time
Yeah, that's he have full map control big will spawn camp. It's later time for I cap
But you'll only find the sigma shield so back onto widow
as Telosy like you said try to move forward but they have so little space to work with
and all of the ultimates available for Cassia that you would require to hold this close
Tejong the pulse bomb the moment that Telosy loses that sigma hands someone's getting hit
by the tracer oh speaking of getting hit here is the fight it will tell you feel forced
melee in to just follow up revolve the damage from 8 6 shoot a tased textile damage but you
He treads your caster at least and trades Warfall and Telesie's favor.
They do have the closest to them, which seems like CART should be starting to move.
Yeah, it's dirty, but it gets the job done.
XSJ in that fight with a pulse bomb on a Tejon, so alright, XSJ.
He's had a little bit of a message, but we can see that they can kind of throw that fight away.
Coming back into this next one with a full stack of ultimates, and it's really just Texalt with this hand matrix
to try to change something about the way this game has been going so far.
It's the time for as well for Telesie, right?
you have to do so much to just win the first fight on second and have you lose the second on second.
You find yourself stuck in that same spot as Tejong manages to get the post from one to Tej,
so gets the back before the lamp comes out and tells you to have to pull off the push. They
don't have the amp to force Katya to respect the space, which means that Katya will get hungry
looking for more such an aggressive immortality kill from Gala to allow Aide to swing and
and take down more players and just totally cement Katsya's hold on bridge where Telosie yet again, like all of the space to breathe.
I mean, Aide has been so fantastic in this stage, and now he's over the top holding onto a dead eye in this bridge of all places.
I don't think they know Jake. They all want lost.
Okay, here comes the Mizuki ult.
He's just gonna try and swing out of that one for one, but you'll take that trade and get the drone out as well.
Yeah.
Hell's you're going to go, oh no, not the cat.
All the cat naps.
I mean, they're just, he makes a par, boxy.
From all sides, they're going to try to snowball into this push, just keep rolling.
Donovan does find one kill back, so I'm done.
I don't have a stoll up, but we keep trying to find that kill on the second support.
Just a matter of time now.
Tell us, even though no sustain in this engagement, they are rolling the payload,
which somebody's going to have to deal with, but eventually can see, I mean,
the supportive damage is just too much to deal with.
Oh no.
The lay kills though.
The really lay kills.
kills like Lars is going down so late unless Tertull can get him out this
trip like you said the over flux invested to lift them above the impact of
Amp does get hit by the rock but you've already done its job right you guarantee
the Tertull see when it was leverage that back up to get a kill so staying
that trades and SXJ swapping to the tracer means that you should be able
to get point on to before the overton can hit and catch the other one
scrambling to try to recover it's gonna be a quick respawn from the
The skull to come out. Tracer is the on-carb, getting a very nice start to the fight and
Aide with Bat-Kill may have stabilized things. Getting enough for Kassiyah to finish this
on the second point. I mean, two times, Telsy with incredible clutch gene for the final
fight, but in this case, on second point, it's just not enough. Kassiyah generating
too much advantage. I mean, there's these moments of hope for Telsy, but Kassiyah,
it feels like they find a style here that is so incredibly challenging to respond
I mean the cast of these over the top making plays of the dead eye the jetpack cat is getting something on his own
I mean moments like this like taking your bath down with amatrix before the fight even begins
It's so good. I mean it was the overlapping of resources as well from jealousy in response to the dead
I like you use lamp and sanctuary at the same time
Katia by the way, Vesola swaps to Mauga
There's new role lights that you can do with jetpack cat where you actually
lifeline the mauga which means that you then break lifeline with the stomp so you can get so much faster back onto the
objective and instantly slam onto someone who's trying to push it through which is exactly what the solar does and
Tell us he just have no ultimates not enough players to be able to steamroll through that mauga's sustainability
Adorable job though. It's very hard to regain any form of momentum if you lose these fights on realto second
especially like you said into a composition which is just designed to hound you at every possible
turn. You think you're across bridge? Surprise there's a cat cast behind you looking for the
alt. Now you have to yet wait yet more time sacrifice yet more space and then walk into
Katya who've been able to counter rotate and cut you off before you can move.
This first point defense for Telsie is so crucial. It feels like this is a very
very much a full holdable map here.
And Telsa have a rock solid composition
about teased on top of the Mizuki.
So they are really emphasizing their ability
to respond to this jetpack hat defensively
and just stay alive.
That would be enough on this first point.
Tej on, can I actually mirror the Mei?
Yeah, see with this different Mizuki,
yeah, can Mei kill because,
you know, guard is gonna roll quite a bit,
especially with Mei able to wall off
his high ground socks,
putting on some annoying planking for him.
Oh look at that, he just puts the cast off!
Love it, I mean that's in the impact play, it's gonna kind of force that open ground engagement here, and now...
Which means that Katya can go high ground, like you lifeline Vestola up, and now the positions are totally reversed, and Ikev just has no opportunity to get into cover, totally taken down.
Tell us, he will try to bunker, close enough to contest the point.
This is a winnable fight now.
And this is yet like you said winnable until a decides to get involved
And that's the only clothes that kill late pick on the text. So you can't see I keep it rolling
Nice rock from Lars and they do get enough points all there
Where I think the retake is quite realistic unless eight has something to say about it poking up aggressively on the bridge
It's gonna meet Lars in that spot
So not much to be found but the bay battle is gonna be crucial here when it comes to happening this first point a
He's taking out a lot of spam pressure early, just barely stays up due to the work of Zox in this one.
Oh, that's why I'm being damaged. The fight is already over. What happened?
I can see it just eliminating two players instantly before the HP gates, we can progress back all.
Now, Kassia short-handed, trying to make this hold worth.
But, AID, as the hands come down, the tools defensively start to run dry here.
It's a little bit clean up, and for Kassia, this sets them up with a very achievable win condition.
five minutes and tell us you have to be absolutely perfect on this second point.
Oh, Katya have so many things to force Telsy into reacting as well. Like, Zox has the catnap
that for sure will be looking at Texel's way. As Telsy just don't have high ground positions
at the moment here, trying to deprive Katya of time as they cross up into bridge. I
kept having to check to make sure that Katya aren't sending aid all the way on the
back. Blizzard from page on totally catches jealousy. That's a mortality field, which is
for out and actually tries to defend with the blizzard of his own. But unfortunately for
jealousy, this is just so like, as you have to die caught, you've already lost first part.
It's actually close from XSJ. He gets one kill set up by that Blizzard and had a couple
more players frozen. The damage is not quite there for XSJ. It does slow the game
down, but he's now able to come over the top. You do have some tools to respond
to this higher high noon but for X's turn the bar of man it's gonna be a scary one.
Amp matrix is open, powerful position now poking down on the low ground, hells each
bunkering holding these ultimates they know there's bigger threats to come here it
comes, then I hope my top's gonna bring it inside but I can't ready to defend the
fox. Lift player's out of the top of the damage, isn't playing here to clean them up in the sky and it is fight.
Looks solid for the defense it's an expensive one they have to blow a lot
of ultimates to make that hold but they do make it Foxy and now they're
opportunity to poke forward here on this bridge could see it not just really
easy for them to walk up and close this game out even if three minutes on the
clock. Oh, Teijong's going full counter-foro. Echo! Trying to get on
self of SXJ's position with their focusing beam. I think he's thought to play Echo as well, but yeah, very tough spot to try to play Echo, and you can see like Talsy always is looking around. They're going to actually send Icap with the lifeline, no dead eye, just to go for pressure onto Katia, so
Tejong and Zox can't get behind with that catnap and grab Tex-Holt for free since
tell him to lose the back that fight is lost.
Tejong poking and prodding trying to find his way in would love to be able to
charge up a copy. Have a second signal it's actually Lars with the flux.
Gonna let first great catch on the back but he's instantly stunned out of it.
Oh that's painful your flux looks so solid.
I'm kind of the winning this fight straight up in the deathmatch.
The poke is good though.
and made the standard bear or cut see a dropping wonder if they even want to continue on in this fight there
They're poking and prod and considering the possibility of that continuous, but it doesn't look good for them in the end
It will be a retreat from his attackers. Tell us he's gonna push off the train some of these kills doesn't seem to go
Get that the clock running lower and lower box. Yeah, the catchy don't fully retreat
Which means that tells you don't get to strangle them a bridge and gala keeping the solar light the whole time batteries up
Tell us the text will have to get this online you're aligned yet again on iCAP failing the team out giving them the time to stabilize the back alternate with the dead
I flown in by the cast of cats here. Just hold up. That being said for stola is out of immortality field
I can't hold any angles now trying to swing forward for more eight does find a kill in this with all too much game
Which comes in great shots from iCAP dominate that enemy echo that fight that kill rather basically deal on this fight because
Cassidy just getting flown out of there. Gala won't be so lucky as to take his fate.
And this offense now is looking pretty sketchy. Tell us he's on the road to getting this hold
and locking up a map win in this must win series.
We do have to see how viable Aids ult is though, since Tex-O, not going to be on
that Mazuki, so no sanctuary to absorb the dead eye ultimate, which means that
really really well piloted from Talos. I mean this is the kind of fight that a
less experienced team would throw away. Maybe trying to go forward there causing
the open, but they are ready for that cat over the top and they don't even have
to deploy open that's to make the whole. Now it really looks dangerous for
Aukkansea. I mean this Echo has to do massive work to help see a lot of leads.
Oh hi Nern, from my cap. Oh what a dodge!
Pajon uses the duplication to survive the Deadeye connection and now you
can push for space with that copied ultimate
falling up by the flux doesn't find the pick though because no one was marking
SXJ two of the ultimate one afterwards
Telsie looking whether they'll be able to hold. Massive plays here coming out from
Telsie and in the clutch
Epigopi does slow things down to Stola with a little tech to get that kill
onto tech solve but the dust settles Telsie make the hold on second point
I mean, securing themselves a chance, at least in this series,
that's definitely on notice.
I mean, they thought, you know, maybe some of those times
give a little bit cheeky with this Cassidy over the top,
maybe overemphasizing what it could bring to them
over committing into those rooms and being responded to beautifully.
I really give Lars a lot of credit in this map.
I mean, really holding the line under overwhelming pressure at times.
Yeah, the shields to understand as well
that the cast would look for the flank to side
door as opposed to just going main.
Telsy had some really good positioning when it came to holding down second.
The fact that the cock moved so far per second, but yeah, that pick onto SXJ and then the per
boop onto iCaL as well was just so problematic for this team to have to deal with, but they
totally tightened up.
When they won that first fight on second you could really see how problematic it was
to have to play retake into just the sheer oppression of things like the pharah and
Cassidy and honestly, I think banning at the hieracore hurt both teams in the long run because we saw the retakes have trades and
When we go that far into the second point of realto
Those trades the fact that you have the cat as well to bring these players back very very quickly
Start to benefit the defense and you lose those opportunities as an attack to push for more space
Yeah, the cat definitely changes the game in drastic ways
is you know, I think teams even after a few months now of this character, right, are still kind of innovating finding the
Wies to bring cat in and that's a comp where it really felt like it's really more of what what jetpack cat is as an individual hero, right?
We talked about cat action so much, right?
It's like, this is what you do.
This is, but you know, Zax is able to kind of get in there and make plays even without necessarily carrying a DPS into the
Backline, right?
Booping people to low ground finding those little cheeky pick offs, pokes, diving alongside the tracer in moments.
So definitely something interesting there, but gotta give credit to tells the adapting on the flying of that map going to their own cat strategy
I don't think that was prepared, right? I think they came in trying to like we're gonna play bazookie. This is our this is our strat
You know the bashings out of this one. We're not gonna worry about cat turn out
They should have but they make the adjustments which for me is almost more impressive than coming in with the right strategy that
Coming in with the wrong strat having to adapt and still winning the map
It's what they need to do to stay alive here. We are going to Hollywood for the next pick
This one kind of surprises me for Katsya because they have a team that really wants to play these rush styles and
Well Hollywood's not bad for it. It doesn't strike me as a must pick for this style
I mean, I'm also concerned because if they struggle to play retake on real time
We've seen so many Hollywood maps where the defense just totally tightens up all of the angles for a spite second
And the attack team is just forced one by one to walk in lose a player
I'll have to wait for a respawn, walk in again, lose a player again, wait for the regroup,
walk in again, rinse, and repeat as we get the mizuki ban and the sigma ban.
Okay so we're not going to be seeing sigma, we could be seeing things like the rematcher still,
maybe if you want to just run directly in and play very burst heavy aggression,
You could go for something like the Mauga here to be able to just instantly take those engagement stomps
or side things like the Kyureko Suzu. As Kyureko has had her band, she will be back and play for both of these teams. I think it's fair to say.
Yeah, yeah, I expect to see Mauga coming out here. You know, if not, maybe there's no way to play sort of like a diva poke,
but it feels like you're grasping at straws. I mean, two of the best poke heroes in the current patch,
both banned out of this one, and two heroes with great defensive tools
to work up against something like a mago so you take those heroes off the board and
that that Reaper mago rush starts to look pretty compelling to me in this one
it's Hollywood though which I think is going to be an interesting one of course
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You're like, you're not gonna buy a skin?
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I already have.
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so that I can get all of the flourishes when they're released.
I mean, the flourishes is just pretty stylish, so you get a custom weapon.
We've seen the Cassidy, the Hanzo weapon all the time.
Yeah, the Hanzo.
I don't play Hanzo, but having the Dragon,
which I know so many people have requested,
I really hope though when we have April Fool's patch that the dragon on the flourish of the mythic ball also gets the googly eyes
Oh, it feels like every day. They are so diligent on the April Fool's patches
I think you are in good stead hoping that anything something will have googly eyes the April Fool's patch
That being said though in this match no April Fool's here. This is your tournament like one tell us he rather
This is a squad that came in that has had impressive fights like them winning a map doesn't shock us
Despite the fact that they haven't won a series so far in this stage, it's always been clear
that they're on the cusp of it.
And Katzia, not as tough of a customer as anybody when it comes to locking up this one.
They also need this win.
If they want to secure playoffs, they want to go to the mid-season championship.
And the way they've been playing, you absolutely have to believe that that's the standard
for this Katzia team.
And a Katbashian being considered here, just considering the options, maybe the
Cassidy feels a little bit more stable here.
It's so weird though that if you want to play Cabastion, Nambani was in the pool, and
you veered totally away from it, so I think the cast has had much more impact, especially
because it means that you can try and shut down things like iCav as well while still
retaining value from the cat of having that dead eye being able to catch onto these players
when they can't rotate.
Well, see if Talosy retains the Lucio, as it does seem like they've wanted to
continue running that strategy and with the Mizuki band, it feels like it will
be.
that they will be locking alongside that Kiriko, so big different fare and SXJ on the Reaper as well to have more damage capabilities.
First thing players down, trying to clap some top of Gala when he's isolated, since he's actually playing a little bit closer to Aide.
The unmatched Reaper could get a lot done, but Aide on his Cassidy could be a huge problem for some of these damage,
so there's always a threat of just getting dropped by that Cask.
Tells you make him move forward, taking a little bit of stairs control, threatening a dive into the backline.
See what? Exes, Jake, you can get done. Teleport here.
Off, cool, then they step up. Big damage on the bars.
You just barely heal through with the shot.
You can actually stabilize them nicely,
but pull a slow fight, maybe not what you want with AID on the high ground.
Just blinking away. He is too clean with it.
No shots missed in that opening key.
That's enough for a double kill on the back of the Cassidy.
That is exactly the kind of fight you wanted to open the map with.
Jake, look at the ult charge. That's 90% of dead I built in 1v5.
Cassidy?
That's a nice 1v5. That's crazy.
That's the beast mode and it wasn't just interlocked yet. Katzi just positioned perfectly. They see the Reaper, they see the Sojourn,
half of their team goes behind the corner and then use lifeline to get aid onto the high ground. There's no effort tells me to be able to hide.
It gets to the point actually that Aikav gives up the Sojourn since Katzi just won't be playing into the sidelines of control and you go cast instead.
Early rush is huge, big damage to the arm of the Reaper and some pressure into the backline aid,
Fighting his time waiting out over the top in Wilcos Gala and his life though with Cat and Gage in this way.
Then I'm getting a lot of channelies. He's gonna take the kill onto iCab.
Lars though just continuing to put some pressure on Dreadnest Caps Reaper starting to run over the backline.
Able some good movement but not quite good enough.
Vistola does clean that one up with the attackers starting to overwhelm here.
The spawn just a little bit too close to Vistola.
Yeah.
Out of resources and losing the carry so early in that fight.
Wilcos gets here this first point.
I mean it stops the fight completely for Katzia, right? Because you're banking on
dead-eye buying the space back that you sacrificed and giving up the point for
rush with and then you play back in to take it all away from Chelsea with second rush
but Gullad dies in the opening so you don't have the rush to be able to bully
Chelsea back for it and now you don't have that forward hold to take all of
the space away from SXJ and ICAP so the Reaper will be unleashed as for Katzia
It's all about potentially just alt-dumping into this fight to totally take away anything that
Telsie can do in these next engagements.
Keijung, on that Xiong tries to be a fangirl, but I can't bind the space with the dead eye,
forcing Katya to be much more passive than they want.
Yeah, but dropping down into the room, it's going to be able to survive that initial engagement.
How do they contest the cart here? It comes to Sola, something drops up, being kicked by the bars.
There's a spondy kind of bush trying to overcome Gala, but it's not quite enough,
but it's a Rico Freebo who leads everybody still caught inside that cage.
And Lars was a nice counter engage from him.
It does force a lot of ultimates out of Alcatzia, but he stabilised in the end.
A little bit of biking, celebratory cycling here for Cajun.
It's the new Beyblade.
He even has the Beyblade Arena, where you spend the top end with the Maoka Cage.
As Talos here, not having a lot of ultimates I have just a Death Blossom and Katnab, but I'll go to point, I'll try to push Katnab to walk directly into it.
Katnab's more than happy to play the long games. It's about to hit the dead, I could tell she'd have to react here. Katnab from Jono, which I don't think I've found as target, but we do have the Death Blossom from SXH.
I totally saw Katnab from trying to walk after that tank.
DPS in support is still alive, ain't gonna go big jam all the bars, I just know where to run with the cat
and the cat's gonna be chasing him down
and the Stola drops early, but the DPS in support could see it, clutch this fight out, stay alive deep into it, and...
not too much impact from the cat after Reaper, I thought would be really strong in this comp, but it is starting to struggle
versus the innate mobility of the opposition, you know, it's always flying around on cat, it really doesn't feel good playing Reaper
I mean, tell us if they do have rush, so they can potentially brute force this fight on the objective itself, or they can try to make a play for the high ground.
Good boof, lift will come back into effect though, so, Mazur takes the high, and there's the rush to take control of Catwalk, just trying to walk directly at that backline, fully force go out of this fight.
He does burn down, just barely enough to get that kill, and that's a huge one, carry out of the fight. It's actually winnable here for the attackers, but see ya.
Looking their route down the path, they're struggling with Tejon from the back line.
He'll put something to the next century, because how does he have his ultimate again?
Actually doesn't get much off of it though, just actually dies to Lars and Tex-O.
Cleans up Zox, allowing these attackers to continue to stream forward.
Like a decent fight back from the defense.
A trying to hold onto this hydra and a little bit longering.
Tuskling Jonovitch with two well-played shots.
That is a massive one because he's coming out with his own dead eye.
And it feels like Telsie just has to back off.
They're getting a little bit of extra card pushers actually.
Continue me to fight this. Hold on.
Bestola's getting low.
This one's way scarier than has any right to be.
Axis J's going to take that pressure, turn it into a kill,
then hide over the top, all over the beautiful cage
to park the shot onto his cat.
Bestola tries to come in and assist,
but the stun is good.
Janna which mitigates a lot of that follow-up damage.
Bestola flying the rush is not an easy target
to bring down by any stretch of the imagination.
Finds two kills.
He's going to be able to dash away
and keep this might roll into big damage
as well from Tejang off the spot,
This hold might actually be two off off of that double kill from Vestola.
Oh, but Zox and Vestola are down.
Which means no Malga Cage, aid, very little help.
Just Gala trying to keep him up a cute little fall.
Death Blossom and Vesset in jail from SXJ to guarantee that you get Hageong and aid out of this fight.
So you can try and get this full push through.
The four cats that can get that regroup with the closer respawns, and that should be the ticket.
Yeah, too close for comfort there. Needed some playmaking out of XSJA to close that one out, but they do get it over to third point.
You have no potential.
Gala is rushed to try to clutch the fight back out for Katzia, which means that Tela Z-Texel will hit rush far sooner than Gala does.
than Gala does, I do like the fact that Zox goes onto the Juno, good kite potential with the speed ring, but also far more healing.
So be able to try and upkeep first all rotation and aid when Telsy gets aggressive with his Reaper and Cassidy.
It'll be hard to get that Cassidy cat value here, you can close based on third point.
Already a connection with the cage, locking a couple of players in, the damage is good enough to break that cage and separate out the players now.
Tell us a control of the rush in the cage of their own here comes the rush out of pexall defenders gonna try and just play the
Corner trying to survive this as long as they can large of a big stop into the backline on Estola
Stabilizing for now, but I have finding so much profit off the back of that destabilized defense and they get the job done with only the rush
Really well played by this offense. It's a late speedering from Zox
He used it earlier to try to give Estola that extra edge jumping onto tell us he before they're ready with the cage
but Keech gets bonkers. Rush comes out, you don't have the tuner speed ring to disengage it,
you're just trying to hold on for Gala to get his rush online to cause Telosy back.
There's the Kiriko ultimate, and there's all of the kills,
flooding in favour of Katya. Telosy have to back away. 40 seconds left, there's one chance
out of Riga, but Katya are not going to make it easy for Telosy to walk back to point.
Am I trying to attack early? I mean, the rush versus the whirl turns out rush just wins.
Let's get Zia with one ultimate, making that hold.
This is a third point.
They do not want to allow any further progress into.
But the attackers, they do have that dead eye.
Can Kat get IKAB into position?
It's a really awkward spot.
Maybe you can swing through the high ground,
but it will not be easy.
You can see it with two incredibly aggressive DPS
openings, they can do the bear here.
No connection.
Just yet, just barely gets on the court.
A beautiful position from Paige on her awareness.
On that reaper, but no one's touching the pale.
Someone's got to get here.
Tatsumiki's free though is gonna get the job done.
Eight times off the back,
and that's the key point from the Stolock.
Great over the top, not even needed.
The defense hold.
Chelsea though get to third point,
and this looks very winnable for them.
Hollywood, too close to call it the half.
Yeah, that is very doable,
for Chelsea with how little we actually get
to see of Hollywood normally.
When teams tried to play this map,
this cage was so good to defend against that.
I really good response from Lars, Edward the fly by, this is the cat's perspective from it,
and it totally stops those kills from going out onto iCav, which means that Telsie then have
the players and the ult to be able to clutch up that fight even into the face of Katzi's rush.
That's one of those fights where Katzi uses one side rush and don't win it out.
One of the very few outliers of the Kiriko one side ult win or loss stat.
Yeah, I just, you know, in this Magamir, I feel like the rush is such an incredible high utility
tool, right? Like cooldown reduction on Maga is insane, getting your shot back up, and just the
raw DPS increase for the attack fire rate, rather, on a character like Maga, so relying on the
lifesteal, massive. And yet, when you are able to make that difference, right, and somehow play
your way through, even if it costs you like a ton of other ultimates, and you win against the
rush, it really puts you in a fantastic position to close out. This attack is not
easy even for Katzia I am actually worried for them like I don't see people getting to the end of
Hollywood third point all that often though it is of course possible. I mean I feel Talisman could
actually start on the soldier as well right because now Katzia doesn't have that luxury that
they did before where you're on the defense you can position most of your team away from
actually walking to the objective and out of line outside of what that soldier can influence
Now for jealousy they know that Katya have to walk at them if they don't if these fights take
long amounts of time to actually kick off because of those rotations or Katya are
sort of reluctant to commit to a position. That only benefits the defense but I do like
having that reaper just for far more pressure because SXJ being able to get into the backline,
burst Festola down as well if you're brawling directly in that Kitsune rush,
keeping up with the damage that Tejong can do has been a difference maker and it looks like they'll
keep the Cassidy as well because they want to be able to try and shut down aid and Tejong and you
obviously have that synergy with the cat for those ultimate connections which force cats to
end up having to be very careful in terms of positioning into that high noon. Very much a new
school style here from Telsy, a little bit of hybrid between the rush and the cat Cassidy,
so two different styles kind of being played in one but the synergy feels very real there
They're just going to keep sending it with this Reaper Shion. It feels like ICAP has so much work to do defending the backline.
On board with page hangouts, you can get done. I expect this to be an extremely active fight for them on the Reaper.
First, just a little bit of high guard control taken.
Yeah, high guard control taken. Take away space for Patellis-E to move, potentially force them off of the point.
So they don't lose one of their squishies early, which means that Katya and I close up the distance one during the speedrun through on top of Patellis-E.
All big stomp as well, the executions come in and just overwhelmed by the Pulsar torpedoes, both EPS on the field, Taxal, drags one back, I think that's all they're gonna find now, it's only Lars holding for just a moment longer.
But that, that's just complex, right? I mean, we see, I think we see some of the weakness of the cat-cassity, which is, if you aren't making plays over the top, if you aren't putting a lot of pressure on your opponent, your frontline just gets run through in this match.
in this map. Yeah and I mean the Juno speedering benefits everyone from the team so Age, Tejong,
Bestolo, all of them collapse on Telosy as opposed to the cat who can only lifeline one player at a
time. Thankfully please do not make multi-lifeline. Just carry the whole team.
Telosy will try to salvage a hold with choke pressure to keep an eye on where exactly
Aide is ending up having that high ground spot, but Telsy without a tracer to try and contest the cut will eventually have to drop
Giving up that ground and getting a great opening pick on Tatejon. Yeah, finding the Reaper early is nice. Zox also gonna
Turn out here XSJ getting that kill as well. It's really nice now
It's up to the attackers just go a little bit desperate find some kind of a trade kill
Telsy don't want to allow that want to just have a nice stable win
He's gonna grab a little bit of extra card time, but they pay for it with his life
trying to get something down with the execute,
Johnowich, stalling that out way too close for comfort.
He's quite sharp with those tiffles.
That's a big fight for Telsy too,
because Katz said they were so close to Rush.
Since Telsy got overwhelmed so quickly,
there was so little healing ultimate charge for Texl.
Getting those kills, winning that fight,
Telsy now have Rush match when they drop onto that point
and they have more ults, instantly ready to go.
So if Katz is trying to force that position,
it will be in the favor of Telsy.
This is all about the kite p-cast here.
Here comes the rush over the top of the high ground.
The high cap is floating away with the dead high.
We cannot deal with that.
The channel 2 threatening gates.
And I'll find the cat. It is traded.
It's reached out of the fight.
It's only going to come into his own cage.
I tried to triple down here, but it's right into the death boss from XSJ.
That is overwhelming.
Some clean headshots from Galapies.
Kunai are hitting their mark into this fight.
Zox alive, but maybe not for long.
Although, if you go supporting him, you can see us stay alive.
I can show my high ground, starting to roll the cart.
This fight is so chaotic, but it seems that with that kill on T'Zox, the defenders may have just barely done enough, but this fight is still going on.
I mean, Telsy just used the ult to overwhelm Kat'sia, having the cage, having the death blossom to combo with it.
Kat'sia do get overwhelmed, and now we don't have Kyureka rushes to play the retake.
At least so. It can go any way. Vox lived that all the way.
Jono, which denied the opportunity to use Katnap onto one of these Katia players.
And Tejano was posing at the distance being a very large threat for Telosy to have to think about without that blossom.
And then this high ground has been dealt with now. Katia in a comfortable spot here.
Playing the house, pushing the cart forward, B to response from Telosy.
It'll be large. Drop into the payload, taking that run for battle with Vistola.
Now both Nogla's trading, but Tijon fights XJ in that trade.
Now the rate over the top makes it so threatening even for someone like Lars to peek down from over the top
She's gonna be biding his time trying to get his reaper back into this. You know how that dead eye
Over the high ground, but can see I have the house to play. They're gonna be comfortable in here
Do dare go in I mean so many casualties have died with this kind of move. I can't I think wisely is not gonna go for it
But can see with the opportunity to resend they have first right here
They want to deploy that on the point A moves into the fight
It's a ton of fire, it's going to be difficult for the skirmishers to get into the fight and you won't be getting it for long.
The game tried to depth awesome, the rush over the top as well, and there is just no chance for defense.
Kassiya, both their tickets are third point, they don't have difficult.
This final fight of second can be, they blow everything to get it done, which is their economy in a rough spot, but they have almost four minutes now, Mobsy.
Just a couple of minutes.
They have so much time, so if you're jealousy, you have to win these fights cheaply, which means normal capacity, it's soldier time.
When out of fight, stall it out by one pick.
You do that multiple times.
Plant back, great spot.
You don't have to rely as heavily on the cure for rush advantage
because like you said, Katya has so much time to pilot.
They can just force Telsie to use rush in this engagement.
Katya and I would be doing a speed ring
and still Katya, I can put the trochitos.
That cannot happen.
XSJ though, grabs her right back, keeps this fighting contention.
It feels like a must win engagement for these defenders,
but with Jono it's dropping.
That's all shortly behind him. It's up to XSJ to just go full desperate right now
Get what traits he can if he just teed you out of live that would be a message
There's no healer's
He's gonna be run down and kill us darling. Hold on maybe the stolen going a little bit too deep
I can't back up off the respawn
But look they've got halo distance the fact that they picked out both supports means that Telsy had to pull back
So catch you slowly moving this cart closer and closer to that checkpoint
And Tellacy denied an opportunity of getting S.H.A. into a close enough position to use this Death Blossom.
Valiantly, look at what Tash on-staring to, Jake. He's wrapped all the way on the high ground.
He's looking to drop down. His 5-way S.H.A. is playing for him.
If he can stop that Death Blossom, that could be huge.
Try and just get one fight here, trying to just roll this one through the reaper.
Big shots on the Lars Maga, forces him fully out of the fight.
D-dent the positioning now from Tellacy. They cannot give up any more engagements.
It's do or die now. They're very close to that over-the-way.
and the overall replay.
Existing incredibly low,
has to perform out of the engagement.
Barz goes in at the same time.
A bit of awkward synergy here.
From the defenders in the solo respawn,
the K-Tight, adding on the pressure.
If the Death Blossom comes in,
sweeps into the cage,
and Jono with the overall replay.
He's just not in nob still.
If this went out,
who loves players on the opposition,
but they can't quite finish any kills.
Katziah, finish Hollywood in style here.
A 5-0 teamfight wipe.
To close out this map,
I thought Hollywood attack was pretty rough.
Turns out, in this meta, maybe not.
It's that sort of slow burn approach as well that cats get take to third where you get enough crucial picks on the defense on those key players like both supports.
They just have no confidence to contest the point and cats you get more and more distance.
Not for free at the tail end of those fights so that you only have to play for things like your Malga cage and your death blossom because it comes down to the wire.
So close to Jono which is over the rate which would have allowed the stabilization from the defense, but those two ultimates from Katya's side come far faster than they're able to build up that Juno ultima and Katya just win at the crucial moment of the momentum that they've been able to threaten alone.
Really textbook stuff just utilizing the threat of what exactly those fights can happen.
This Shion Reaper, it just feels overwhelming, right, with Aide in the backline, alongside Reaper.
The Shion really does feel like maybe the only hero in the cast that can keep up with Reaper
when it comes to just going super aggro, I mean, in the past it would have been Genji,
but Shion with some really solid sustained damage in these fights,
Aide is able to get so much done, and even when the trades come in,
even when they are chaotic fights, which let's be honest, they almost always are,
in this kind of a matchup, still, they get the job done, right?
They're able to win those clutch trades and you feel it. I mean, I have on this third point
He's so defensively postured on the sojourn and he's just locked out of the fight right with the cage high down
He really can't come into that engagement. And so I think cut see I with a great read on this meta the Reaper she
I really like this look from them. They're very good at executing it
And I think this might be one of those top mech comps in the moment today. I
Mean for jealousy
I would really like to see the makers banning the Juno because I think like Katya actually clocked on to something really smart
Which was that okay if tells you you're running the cat with a Cassidy
They're not going to have those Juno speed rings to get out of those engagements as safely as Katya being able to totally heat up
The aggression and claps on top of them as well as kite I tell us these wing conditions
So that that one-sided kitsune rush is nowhere near as problematic as it was within those control points
The fact that like cats you are relying on things like the dead eye to be able to match into the rush as opposed to using one of their own
Guarantees then that they're able to control the tempo in the fight that occurs after it
So I think for jealousy
I would have liked to have seen the turn onto the Juno slightly sooner
So they would have had that up the right in that really like last crucial fight
Or I would like to see if they're not going to play the Juno themselves them to ban it because if these bands are mirrored
and the support role is not protected.
I think taking out the Juno would be the most impactful
that you can do with the band that we have left.
I like that call.
I think the Juno is becoming a huge problem for them.
I also think the execution here, I think Kat Sia,
you know, they look very comfortable
when they play the Kat Cassidy, right?
It feels like their team really is aware
of their weakness in the front line.
They're very careful to not get caught out
by an aggressive rush.
And the Cassidy is able to find some quick kills.
And the other side wave, okay, this is,
something's wrong.
It is Lucio and Shion of the fans. Interesting. So, can you see your band, Shion? That is surprising to me.
And even the Lucio band also surprised me. I agree with you. I think the...
But it's reversed.
I see. Okay. This makes more sense to me. It's been Tellacy who's been the team who want to play the Lucio,
and that makes sense when you want to play a more committed hit scan, like the Sojourner of the Cassidy,
where that constant aura speed is going to be really valuable.
valuable. Um, and was she on taken away? It feels like you were setting up to maybe play a more straightforward, you know, rush, but like, let's chill a little bit and let our hits can't play the game.
They can see our like, they have no chance. They are sending it for the Reaper. She on every single fight and they're not interested in letting your soldier have time to work.
Yeah.
She on out with Lucio out. I do like this band in the end for Telsie. I think, you know, they could just go to Juno and still play a more classic hits can.
She on, I'm not sure she has a replacement at her power level in the meta right now.
Yeah, and it feels like Katya are more comfortable playing that Shion, right?
Because it's not just about like the impact of what Aida's doing that we can see,
it's also about the pressure that it puts Telsi under.
And Telsi in comparison to Katya, a relatively fresher team,
which does mean that there's likely going to be some gaps and issues with the coordination
when put under that sheer immense strain that the Shion and Reaper is putting them through.
So I do like taking that away.
I would really like to see if the series continues.
A targeted Juno at some point from Tela C's end,
as I think the only other potential turn
that they could go if they want to look at DPS lockouts
would be something like that Reaper
so that they don't have to match up
with Tejong on that angle.
But do we think with the Shion removed,
will it be Tracer instead of Reaper
to be able to play more of the faster,
Objective-based compositions and punish the fact that these backlines will be on Juno
Like if you can get the tracer into the backline unchecked that one clip. It's so tasty
Historically, I feel tracer has just been weak in the Magikarp because cage just dominates you so completely on tracer
You just like it's the die in the cage and you really have no impact in that particular fight where Reaper
You know has a little bit more of the team fight threat and seems like both teams feel that way
It's gonna be a mirror match here on new junk city aid back to the sojourn and for the first time this series
We'll see how he can handle I have who's been playing it all day long
In theory this should be comfortable for tells you but can see us such an experience seemed
I don't necessarily rely on the she on to be effective as this trade has already begun
Oh, it's coming through so much pressure slam from right on top of Katzia as I kept totally
untouchable. In this position, Anzox is down, which means no Juno speed ring. For the disengagement,
Katzia, the slam completes on Zagala, and this is all jealousy. This is just exit trades that
Katzia are looking for at this point, and I have totally denies her.
Double crit stop from Lars. I love that Lars taking the aggression there in this kind of a
matchup. Such a really well played fight from him. Good early DPS trade that sends it into
the backline, and then goes again the second time. Double crit stop, I believe on Phajong
and gala and the fight is just over from there so immaculate fight from talus he is now it's
their turn to be in control of the point he won around the clock up here a do or die map now
this is their their entire owcs life here from playoff riding on his map a must win for them
is now susie yeah forced out early doesn't feel great here from his lords once again into the
backline put some pressure on but this time it feels a little bit more comfortable for the
The attack or still, ICAP, drags another kill out of this fight in the chaos.
Nostola, having to retreat here, goes back in actually, grabs a cleanse,
help him do an extra state also, a little bit slow in this fight,
but the trades eventually start to over route without the Reaper,
the frontline crumbles, and the jealousy.
Looking to pretty much 100-0 this first point,
the touch seems a little desperate here, but can see if they want to go for it.
I mean, even if they do, you just get one side rushed.
Like, the fight down Nostola went,
Yeah, you would bait the rush at least and then have Gala's own to play for the next one, but it looks like they're already just setting up to position for the next.
Yeah, there's just no time.
Yeah, and I like the fact that they do that because now you take a little bit of poke. If Talty tries to open up with one side rush, Katya can kite with the Juno Spear Dragon, come back with a rush of their own.
So it's not as one-sided a fight as it would have been if Katya tried to go for that contest.
With OC on the field, anything can happen.
Aid called upon here in this fight to deliver some key kills.
With a better point position, look comfortable if we could see how to tell if he want to open this one up.
Of course, we talked so much about the rushes in these fights.
They're going to open with OC, both he's training, takes all this, this is out of the fight immediately, the raid comes through.
So too does the cage, but it's just no match.
You can see that getting the rush out themselves and Aid does exactly what he is called upon to do in that fight.
Finds the connection on the text all finishes that kill and a nice little additional stagger on to John which further slowing things down for tell us
He
And they throw a lot into that fight. I see I mean yes
You know I don't know the side but for three ultimates. It doesn't feel so bad for cutscene
Yeah, like cat is rush cage and OC
They do still have way to try to overwhelm textiles rush
But tell us they are lacking the overclock to make that rush as lethal as it potentially could be a special
Now the Spokes slamming into each other,
Fasion using the ultimate, but directly into Telsy's rush,
the Kills just doesn't come out.
Telsy, it's totally winnable, especially with Icah,
getting the picks onto both Vestola and Zox at the same time.
And yet again, Jake, Kitsune rush one-sided,
proves to be the winning ticket for both of these teams.
And in the death boss' trade,
orbital ray should be really good.
So Telsy, it's actually a really nice focus fire
from that, to bring the Reaper down
through the Orbital Ray, through the Light Steel of the Death Blossom, not necessarily an easy kill
in those choke points. Really controlling that engagement nicely here.
Now it'll be their turn to hold the point, and now, essentially no ultimate speed of point.
Icap gonna be first up, or 20% away. I don't know that he's gonna be able to get that online as this fight begins.
Trades so important, so early, Lars does drop the backline. Low for Conceal. They've got to regroup just a little bit.
But taking that Laga off the field means that Stola is free to play now,
warming forward, testing to go point XSJ without assistance in the front line. He's not long for this world,
and Ace is going to make sure that this teamfight goes all the way. I'll cut see a great
execution from them and for Lars to drop so early in that ultimate fight, a rough spot for Maga.
I mean it's a rough spot for Texo now as well because Casio will have Rush, they'll have Cage,
they'll have OC. They can use any of those three ultimates early. First to tell us,
as Aids looking for the peek, builds up OC, up a point, and such a kickback.
And yeah, how does SXJ go down that early?
Like, there's no way that Telsy will be able to actually get a touch to contest,
and we go to the next point.
I guess SXJ was tasked with going to touch point with the teleport,
and Kass is just going to perfectly...
Probably just doesn't have the cool-downs, you know,
desperation-touching point, and Tejong is more than ready to punish.
Now, Kassia, once again, with the powerful bank bolt, which we talked so much about the rushes,
Do they want to play this fight early?
They're gonna just TP in, open up the OC,
try to just get away with this fight
without heavily committing.
And ICAP, hold on, is gonna really punish them.
He's already found one, the Pizzocene.
The trade is gonna be good for Abe.
He's got his one last shot to the quad, ICAP.
He's gonna come back and punish him
from Conceita trying to hold the rush.
So far, it just barely paid off, actually.
They're able to win this fight
without committing a rush.
I think it is a massive win for them
as scary and contested as that last fight was.
How do you give them another chance here to hold the point?
It does cost them too much though, because they use Cage defensively against the OC.
Which means that Tejong's Deathlossum will likely be paired with Gala's rush to try and shut down Texels.
Tells him that they've got combos.
Cage and Rey, Tejong tries to live with the Deathlossum for a bit.
Tells he just has so much sustained, so much damage potential.
Cassia totally shut down and that rush that they worked so hard to hold
Totally blown by the wayside
Telsie gets a hold Texas ult too to set up Icav and that next fight is looking juicy for a Telsie one
Yeah, they're in a great spot now
See if they can hold the point a little bit better with their rush, you can see it would love some kind of a hero pick right now
But it's not easy to find with Icav hunting, pecking, looking for any kind of opportunity to punish these attackers as they step up to the plate
OC gonna be online for him very shortly does take a five-shot rail which maybe the open
company and socks opens up with a raid but just immediately annihilated by iCAP and this
kind of rain challenging the overclock he is in a wrong position.
Ex-Aul throws the rush into this one though which actually I think is gonna feel like
a bit of a win because now it's a clean slate coming into the next team.
Just don't lose someone early if your cat's here.
Straight up don't lose someone early.
You still get one more fight, you'll be able to build up AIDS OC, and outside of Lars just using Malca Cage defensively,
Tellosy won't have a great response to it, other than just hiding, so Casio will force the issue that will take point-first to contest,
but also give a formal space to be able to work with, and Icav tries to step up to be the hero.
Soldier 1 vs 1, this could well determine who's able to walk with the fight when.
You just can't find the kill, the peel's so good from Casio's team!
Both characters working overtime, but it's Aid who's forced into a tough spot, jumping in front of ours.
Aid fighting from the solo responded to in-kind, the resource gap here just cleared.
Tell us, are you holding on incredibly well into this fight?
Should be able to get the win close out here, and I mean both characters working overtime in that sojourn 2v2
to be able to keep their players alive, and Aid actually forced back in that fight,
and now it's Kassia who have to fight for their map life here.
two flash points to one. Tell us in good position, but with how many Ultimates to speak of, is opening fight does look good for Alcatrazia.
I mean, Tell us, it looks like they want to take a fight in mid at the moment, so that Katia can't just use one side of Rush on the objective itself.
This gives Tex all the opportunity to block a rush. Katia, sensing the hesitation, opening with the Kirikur Ultima instantly.
Laws, no chance of living. Fight win for Katia. First point, objective control will be gained, but Tell us, they will have that rush when they regroup.
So for Katya, it's so important how much value
aid with this overclock will be able to achieve.
Can you shut down Icaf as he opens with the Kiriko ultimate
with an overclock of his own?
Yeah, Tex-O, it's all about getting
the rush into the right position.
Ideally, you want to be able to place that all the way
on to the point, but it won't be easy with Katsiya
holding close to these chokes.
They want to force the fight in these awkward congested
angles, and that disruptor shot really is going to hurt.
Icaf is forced to swing through it.
Here comes the OC opening this up on the attack
He has a big trail onto the aid who's gonna struggle to maybe fight back to the Zono C. Maybe the point.
Wouldn't it be given over here?
I can get another chance.
Orc is like, I'm trying to get a big damage because here comes the counter push.
Tejahn gets into the back line.
TP's in. Overwhelmed.
Nexus J responds in time.
And massive damage here.
Tom Tellacy forces out the rush here to get the retake in the end.
But I can see I had to work for that one.
I mean, Azirx J gets the better Reaper ultimate.
Alliance genre which to hold on to this race you pair up with Lars Cage
63% for Katya since it took so long for Chelsea to get that flip covering up the space of O.C.
Getting the actual flip itself off of the rush
His locks will have right and match John which is but you're lacking that mage cage to pin everyone from Chelsea directly into the damage
Each fight available soon raise now traded on point Lars opens up with the cage
And now Lara starts to sweep forward off the back that Sojourn 1v1 win by Icav.
Pajong left out on an island, supports from Kassia, just running back, trying to get a nice clean reset off the spawn.
Tells me, considering denying that, but double support Mag is pretty challenging to push into, so they likely want to just place one slow, hold the point.
Pajong has to go to Tracer to try and get this overtime touch and manage Kassia here.
Yeah, but advantage Kassia for the next fight.
Gala with that Kiriko rush, if Telsy can't force it out early by getting picks, before their own point, should be the map, but they do clean the map.
Aid goes down early and Cassia have to hope that this rush is enough to force Telsy totally back and set up the swap into the cage for a while.
It might just be enough, but all Lars finds Pager and it's going to be huge and solo kill.
XSJ's Reaper, I mean, everything's necessary at this point because Melisir's so close to being able to finish off this map.
High-cap and position at the point. A mushroom, duo for A. Just a chance to bring this one back.
High-cap again, wisely plays it a little bit slow here. Lars steps up, shouts, traded on-point, both magas dropping low,
but it seems that Lars is the one with the last teamfight support. Although, hold on, the killer spot comes in.
The Kyrgyz stabilizes and the better rush comes out from Tex-Aljano, which desperately tries to stay alive.
A finds that kill, making this fight just wiggle around.
Despite the rush on the point of stalling and poking to try to wait out this ultimate and as it expires long
it's been called into the clutching omelette and I have a guilty test.
I need something, needs to bring this back, grabs one of the page I'm going to need more than that now.
Swings wide, a big head shot into the stall to find a second to finish this one.
Bites still in play but as Zox finds that kill it will bring Hetsia over the line
securing another chance on this final flash point.
insane fight from Telsy. They worked so hard to try to beat Katya for that one, but if I
goes long, Carl is able to generate rush off of the back of it, Zoxu with the Ray, so Telsy
won't have just the Ray and the Death Walls and try to overwhelm Katya's players. They
could, though, force Katya into double support ulting and then using that advantage later
down the line, as really, you're wanting to try and stall like this Kat as much
As much as you possibly can, Tejon with the pulse bomb into Akirako.
You do have to wait for that Suzu to be available, but it whiffs.
Still forces the Suzu, right, bud?
And that's an opportunity to take that cut down.
You mentioned with the tracer, starting to pay dividends now.
Tejon, getting a feel for it, starting to like the way it approaches this matchup.
That's a big team fight win.
Gull, of course, does expend the rush,
so maybe it's expected from Katsuya.
Tell us, they need to respond.
They need to win, even at this fight, but at least the next.
They've got to build up some of these ultimates, maybe more crucially than anything.
And Tejon's just bleeding out their skills from the backline, right?
He's pulling so much attention.
Look at Barra, Tejon's starting to drop supports, looking like many defendants.
Here comes the raised, traded ball.
Out of the pressure, eight drops instantly into this fight.
Nostola, the track is good enough to get one kill.
Tejon finds another somehow, some way, despite losing the social first.
Can't see a fight back into this one.
Now Tejon, free to run, ramp it.
Juno, trying to play her life, trying to get out this fight.
I don't know if anyone is going to be so much, even Lars.
Gotta be running down here.
They've been stolen for this kill. Absolutely.
If you get this kill, you stop Texel from building rush.
Like you lose so much time having to wait for your Mauga,
the pulse bomb from last stop's in low, but not dead.
So Texel actually generates all of the rush charge
off of the damage that Lars is able to endure.
Last fight territory, though, no trace of fatality.
So we have to hold onto this touch.
And if they're looking at that point,
they're not looking at the tracer behind them.
Oh, that Rush was way too close to being stopped by Miss Ola, but it does come out 8-5's ex-escape.
Icap now forced into OC, needs to secure this fight, but remember, the Rush is behind him on the point,
but wouldn't actually be valid if Icap strongly to connect the moves to C from Zox,
and here comes Ade back into the fight with his own OC.
Posing up attention to himself, the Katzia are gonna dominantly win this fight,
and tell us see, it has been such a fun stage to watch this team.
They have come so close against so many strong teams,
But Katia finished them off here with a devastating victory, securing Katia not necessarily into playoffs, but keeping their hopes alive, a must win for both teams.
And Katia come away with it a little bit better, I think, in these chaotic fights in the rush style.
I mean, it's the anticipation, right, of that last fight. You know that they're walking to point with rush.
So when they actually invest it, you see the attempt at the cancel of the Malgus land.
But everyone else on the team know our insight, making sure that they don't get punished, that they don't die during the rush.
And then you can play the second retake brush, and there's no opportunity to disengage it because it's 99%.
You give up that point, you give up the series.
Tejong was doing crazy work in that map, by the way. I mean, the Reaper was pretty fantastic from him, but then the Tracer was in and everything changed, right?
He became such a more individual hero and pulling so much attention to himself.
Typically, the Reaper was very good in this style. The fact that he wasn't able to get much done really speaks volumes about Tejong's skill.
I think generally with this victory obviously that means that we do have to say goodbye to TELUSY, but they held their own, you know?
Like I think Katsia definitely has a lot of what reviewing to do after this one.
They should not have been this close a match.
As much credit as I want to give TELUSY here of course.
They match him on the marva. It looked really good for them.
I have no doubt that we will see them again obviously they're out of a playoffs contention.
of contention but these individuals really came together. I think this guy really suits them. I
feel like the meta actually really is suiting them for Katia. This may have been a little too close
for Comfort. They really struggled to deal with the individuals that we've got to see here from
Telosie. So I suspect a few questions. Yeah I think they looked more comfortable once they
started working the Juno into their compositions. I think the difference between those two teams
is that both of them started thinking like rush is our wing condition we win our fights
when we have rush and then Katzia were able to evolve past that thinking they were able to find
things like the Juno so they're able to survive the one-sided rush from jealousy but then they
also get to use that Juno for things like speed rings to set up vestola running rampant we see
the tracer after they realize that the reapers not having that same level of value that they're
looking for because now you can start targeting the back line so that all of those resources that
are being pumped into keeping that matter alive suddenly disappear because you're constantly having
to have your head on a swivel not knowing where Tasia will pop up from. Yeah nice moves I will say
from Telsy you know as much as I you know Katsira are a strong team I'm actually not
surprised but the fact that Telsy can play them close like Telsy are legit you know there's
There's been teams coming out of promotion relegation that
currently haven't been able to hold the candle to some of the top
spots, you know, WCS.
I don't think you could say that about Telsy.
I absolutely expect them to come out of promotion relegation
unscathed and still a competitor.
And honestly, I want to see more from these players.
We saw so many exciting individuals.
You know, it's clear that for ICAB and XSJ,
you get them on the right heroes.
These guys can really shine the rest of the team,
Lars as well, showing great versatility,
the support line, amazing work from them.
But the level in the EMEA is so high.
You can be a pretty solid team and you still come out just battered from this stage
Yeah, no, I couldn't agree more
I especially want to shout out FG Pellis's support line because we obviously
Highlighted that DPS2 was so much and what they can do in Lars also as the
Central part of that team as the tank, but I think the supports especially today really really stepped it up for this team
So no doubt we'll see more of them, but unfortunately this is it for the journey here in stage two
For all the other teams left everything is still on the line, right?
Like things can just move a lot between twist of minds could see a geek a 1 2 3 4
Like there's still a lot of movement possible today and tomorrow with the matches that we have left to play
Which it makes this whole stage is so very very very competitive. Maxie. Yeah, we have two maps
The most dreaded aspect of being a caster
We have to do maths and try and work out where all of those moving pieces will end up, unless
GKBTM, which as we've said when we go to that series
Anything is possible off of how good GK have been looking recently and how rough I think Twisted Minds have had of being able to
adapt into this current meta
But no, we still have no clue like who exactly will be able to advance forward, which means it's very exciting
exciting times. Everyone will be looking at Virtus.Pro to see what exactly they do, if they
want to reveal strategies or if they want to play their cards a little bit closer to that
chest. Yeah, that's the great spot they're in, right? Because they're already locked at
number one seed, they get the pick of their opponents for the player, so they can chill,
they can just figure out the meta, use this opportunity today as just another rep
to get in. They don't have to show their cards at all. I do think VP are a team
though that got put kind of unnoticed by Cutsea last week, right? Like that you can you getting
run over by this Moga style is a very real threat and VB have cut their teeth on I think a slower,
steadier style of play around Aizenom Sigma in many cases and Kepster's Cassidy. But I think
we've seen this week that that style is not necessarily easy. The Shion Reaper Moga,
I think is here to stay. I think it was like a very serious threat in this meta. And I
think if I were Twisted Minds and I see a Moga comp rising back into popularity,
I would not have many questions about the strategy that I would want to deploy in this coming week.
So I think Tm are actually going to get a new lease on life from this meta.
I think they're actually quite lucky to have a log amount of come in at this moment where they're
searching for identity. It's just how we know they can do it. Absolutely. Couldn't agree more.
I love how many like just within three weeks time there are just so many switches in terms
of figuring out the meta and what it was and what it is like coming off of a LAN party
where we felt like it's pretty straightforward what has to be played.
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fun with it. Now let's chat about our two teams here at Jagemox here to call the action
and make it make sense for us. VP. Obviously proving to be top dog here in EMEA. The clinch
to first seed, they get to pick. I wouldn't want to face in the semi-finals. So this match
for them really just an opportunity to get more reps in, play spoiler or clean up
whatever made last week's match so close. Yeah, but this is not the VP roster. Well,
they got the coach right true true smash smash coming in smash coming in hot
just cut the whole team after a poro stage fully replaced it but we the
successor VP has been immense this stage right you get it Kepster and Psycho in
the DPS line they have been an absolute sight to behold these two have been
piloting whatever the meta throws at them and I think they're incredibly
well-prepared for a meta switch the question is are they willing to kind
have changed with the times with Maga and Shion looking so strong right now or do they
try to stick to their guns? What's been delivering them a 4-0 stage so far? It's not an easy question
to answer.
I mean, the question is, how do they play it to the Wrecking Ball? Because, like, all
of the teams that we've talked to, they've been correct. It's very hard to set up
scrims versus teams that play Wrecking Ball because so few teams do. But when
you look at what they've been playing already, like, Fixer moving onto the Nizuki,
Ice playing a lot of chromatric kevsta. Like we said, he's back. He is just back on the Cassidy
So those three heroes hard shut down the wrecking ball and this is their opportunity
To sort of get to feel how playing into the wrecking ball is before they go up against the likes of chum then
Yeah, this is the best one you could get in the NBA
Yeah, I mean it's the warm-up here
They know what to expect they know what's gonna come out of a one two three fours camp
So they should be coming in prepared especially since they did they only have one match last week am I tripping?
I think they only have one so they have plenty of time to prepare
I'm just gonna make that statement as confident as I can without looking up at the schedule
I don't have to talk about it the opposition year one two three four
You're already talked about it right like they're the ball team and they do be balling and it is looking good
Right, they've also the way very competitive also Winston, which is basically just a few feet ball
But yeah, they played out of like the maximum matches, like 15 maps, I think, that is regulated.
That's crazy.
Like they think every team the distance.
I think part of it is just down to the fact that their bands sometimes are a little lacking.
Like if you look last week, we talk about the Wrecking Ball doing so much work for this team.
It's not just that, it's also crispy with the Wu Yang.
and they've failed to really save things like the Wu Yang when they went up against Cassidy as well.
They weren't really banning Cassidy, something that I'm not expecting.
Like they absolutely have to ban Cassidy at some point into verse pro.
But one of the adjustments I really do want to see is them putting a lot of respect into what Crispy is able to do for this team
in terms of just poke pressure.
On that Wu Yang multiple times we were seeing him actually keep pace with the DPS in the lobby when he's playing that support
Definitely have high hopes of course for the back line of one two three four
I feel like this is a team that not just plays wrecking ball as an individual. I mean golden pants has been so fun to watch
I'm sure has earned a ton of fans already from his incredible performances in one two three four
I mean they've brought teams to the limit
They might be one and two so far but even I guess a team like VP
I feel like you cannot count them out simply because of that X factor and the
Individuals on this team have been rising to the occasion.
We talked about support, and the DPS, MIMO, and Kai have both been looking great for two players
and longer careers to really be showing some real threat at this moment.
Now WCS is crucial for the squad, but you are up against Virtus.Pro,
very hard to bet against a team that is 4-0 with a bullet right now.
Yeah, no, I couldn't agree more.
I mean, but 1, 2, 3, 4 are coming in hungry.
Like, in order for them to guarantee themselves a spot,
They do need to beat Votus Pro today and then tomorrow they also need the victory over TELUSY.
If they don't manage the VP dub then they're not out yet, but their faith is out of their hands,
which is not a position you want to find yourself in.
So I'm sure they came well prepared.
I'm very excited to see what both of these teams have in store for us today.
And with that, I'm going to hand it over to you guys.
Thank you so much, Zoe.
And as you get into this one, it's interesting because you could look at VP as maybe
taking things a little bit lighter coming into this series.
But I would say actually, I think they have a lot of motivation
to deliver a really resounding 5-0 stage.
Not only to just, you know, show up momentum
and you may be playing as one truly important playoffs.
You want to really see how your best style
performs against Wrecking Ball.
But also looking at, I mean, the VP is a team
that has to be thinking now about the midseason championship
and you know they're going to be other teams that threaten
to play this Wrecking Ball style.
Wrecking Ball, yeah.
And you don't get a lot of opportunities.
as, okay, first-band Mercy, that's the same for a support.
That's the same for a support, so 1, 2, 3, 4,
can't ban the cap, will ban the Bastion,
also means that they can't ban things like the Muzuki as well.
But it's interesting that Virtus.pro, despite picking Ilias,
also don't take away the Wrecking Ball.
Yeah, this is, they're calling them out.
This is aggressive.
First-band Mercy.
This is something like, this is one of your best maps
is wrecking ball and you first
and mercy. This is
disrespectful actually for
hers, bro. I'm sorry, but
this is we got to come up
for this. They're going to
take it to Elios and let
go of the fancy wrecking
ball. Don't say we didn't
warn you. Don't say we didn't
work. That GP is him on the
wrecking ball. He is the E
and the version of Jim. Then
he is answer to wrecking
ball and you know what? I've
been playing this week. I've
suddenly noticed a spike in
wrecking ball players in my
Reckyball is not bad right now. If you can really pilot this hero, it does work. Pulls a lot of attention and oh, this would be so spicy.
I actually am so here for it. I think it's a smart move from VP. Because this is a way to like, hey, you should play the Reckyball Mirror this series, get some experience.
I assume it's not bad on the Reckyball either. He can pilot it. If you can look good on this, that is another major feather in your cap.
and you get to play it in a, in a,
1-2-3-4 need this win, right?
They're gonna fight tooth and nail.
They're gonna show you everything in the toolbox
when it comes to this ball mirror.
And I just can't wait to see how it shakes out.
Yeah, I like Virtus.Pro as well.
Like going for heroes, I have a lot of mobility.
So it becomes very hard for golden pants
to actually disrupt people because Virtus.Pro
would just be playing so very split
and coordinating their positions off
of just diving multiple angles.
And as we do have Crispy on that Wu Yang
that we talked about being a little bit more vulnerable
as opposed to Fixer who on that cat is pretty untouchable for the right people to get on top of.
But you do have much more poke damage on 1, 2, 3, plus back 1.
Yeah, see if Krispy can get into play, there's a lot of aggression, he's playing very safe on the Wu Yang.
Wisely so, because this ranking ball is always going to be hunting for that kill.
Aizanum is a little bit low as to pop the shield for pretty minimal utility, so a good trade.
So far, I want to be sort of at the point, isn't that chaos just goes the way of B&B and now, it's a stall game.
It's up for 154 they've got to be able to win this fight out actually pretty decisively here
But always the threat comes in and here comes that dive onto crispy the Wu Yang so much poke-strap from him
But this five ability is just not there and eyes now. Let's put the ball down on a golden pants, okay?
Statement received crispy not long for the Wu Yang at all
So I'll put some to the loser to be part of the Virtus. Pro to pin down
I mean Virtus. Pro winning that first fight
one two three four not really having a lot of flip potential I sort of just
getting kills. God and Prince likely just wanting to go to the point for us
Virtus.Pro to look at the wrecking ball so that they have a little bit more
freedom breathing space to push their players for a main, but Virtus.Pro just
reads it out as a total fake out. Ice hits the backline on one two three four
and you're looking at mainland pause bomb to be the thing that opens the
space for this team to look forward. Yeah I think so much in the
Also on this comp, there's so much mobility on the other side of my mode.
That's believable. Mostly about this frontline trade here.
Can they move the needle?
Crispy comes up on the Lucio, needs to get into this fight for Kai.
Goes down, rolled through, cleaned up by Landon.
Canale, soon to follow him into early grave.
Landon drops the rush and it's gonna be enough to stabilize this fight.
Virtus.pro still like just deathless in this one.
I mean, they're battling.
One, two, three, four.
They've been the unique ball team playing against other matchups, you know,
all-stage long now they find themselves in the mirror and VP showing real fight I
love the cat into this one over the top of the slam over the top to lay their
sensory constraint into the back line Lucio out of this fight 67 to beat not
even close for Chris the after the swap my turn golden hands make this retreat
back to point a little bit awkward lambing super low so is fixable this
large for Virtus Pro stable as ever it's gonna be a bit of a desperation
delay here from holding hands rolling around on the point taking a ton of
damage came out of the rush but no one's even really able to use it here that's
what I want you to do for they need some kills back into this baby my motor guy
which is you can find something but they're just isolated by the mind
field came to get into the fight hurt as well
clamp down one two three four in this first round man I was not close did
anyone from Virtus Pro actually died I think that is a deathless yeah they're
being totally 100% serious here production we do need you to pull
It is a deathless. I'm looking at the stats.
That's deathless?
That was not a close round.
If you're 1, 2, 3, 4, were you expecting them?
Thank you, Proud. By the way, it was totally deathless.
That's the confirmation.
If you're 1, 2, 3, 4, you're not expecting Virtus.Pro to match you on Wrecking Ball.
We've talked about the fact that Kevstar's on the Cassidy.
Fixer swapped onto the Mizuki pretty much in standard default for him on the support role.
You're thinking Virtus. Pro are likely going to be looking to count a ball not play it
So once you're free for that whole game plan would just have been do what they always do play the wrecking ball composition
Relying golden pants disruption to create space for the rest of the team
But what happens when there's nothing for the wrecking ball to disrupt things just fall apart
I think this cat carry is so good. Krispy is a very
Realistic kill target on the loose your but the cat it just doesn't feel like I possibly can so literally has nine
The Golden Pants is getting run down in the spawn right now, although he just rolled away and buys a lot of space for his team, still a little bit of low HP on that Ranking Ball.
Virtus.Pro want to re-engage relatively quick into this one. They're very aware of everything Golden Pants goes for.
I mean, you can't let 1-2 critical cap, because then it just becomes a soul game for 1-2-4.
Well, this is more than a cap. This is going to be pretty rough. Losing a carry early, you need to get some kind of counter-kill in this fight.
You actually do find the opposing carry, so still a fight can be played to kept her trades high out for it.
Now it's up to Goldencance in my mode to drag something back, some big damage onto Aizan on Mega,
secured by GP, feeling comfortable here, rolling around on this ball, but the rest of the team
not able to really keep up so far in this trade.
Herd's growth is so strong in the deathmatch, they're gonna win this one.
Oh, that's the cap as well.
Goldenpant not contesting on point, Virtus.Pro take advantage
and gain it. And now if you're Virtus.Pro, like, you can get aggressive,
you can look for kills or you can just play to survive.
as Saiko has the pulse bomb could potentially get the target of Crispy.
Easier to land onto the Lucio in comparison to trying to get that tracer ult onto the jetpack cat
as Gordon Pan's tracer open up the space yet again but we've seen Virtus.Pro like that's so good at ignoring the wrecking here.
Lucio now into the back line trying to assist trying to put some damage down. Kai does find Kepster
but Lucio dies for it has to go in deep in these fights and Aizan
Trace is out, takes the stage alive, flying up into the skybox, making the difference here on the cat.
And losing everyone's tracer in the boomerang system, he's just done with just the Kirigal behind him and now he's pulled out of the map.
Could be able to recover this, not quite in time.
With that ray on a little, was that a T-Bag? I feel like, he was in the air, but I'm just gonna call that.
This is the 2026 version of the T-Bag.
The slight aerial drift down.
It's it is actually it's aggressive of the jetpack that he'd be now over the top super aggressive holding this choke point
One two three four coming back in my mode pressures the cap
His team not doing well though under the withering attention of these defending flankers
Now once people are finally get a chance to step into the point but a big slam from eyes on it
I'm going to lighten the angle of approach that one two people were looking to go for my mom
It's a big mind to the face
I think it's something for the earlier sets to lead to spree from Kevster. It's the job done
Chris we dies as well doesn't get the beat up in this one full desperation down with a remake one two three four
One more chance in this map. Yeah, I mean that spree from Kevster just totally nullifies
Any threat of that rush and Landon now holds his own so even with sound barrier the extra health will be shredded down
So quickly golden pants dies before you can get the touch and the boop
I mean, I think it's a good
thing. No one from team 1234
is able to hit for O. T. To
activate. I think Vixit took
the the charge of her. Yeah to
like boop the ball right.
Honestly, cat feels so at home
in this style, which is so
funny because really no one
feels quite at home in the
wrecking ball style, right?
Like no one can really keep
up the bases. And we see the
stats here. They kind of
board this group off was when you started the worry as a 1 2 3 4 man you were like I don't like that I don't like that
That's what golden pants does to everybody else
And now eyes on turn to run man, but I think the fact that the cat can stay alive and he's crazy
Engages where there's no safe position fix it just flies in the skybox places on angle places on life in a way that Lucio
Just can't calm. I'm really on calm as well
That's nice to fix it
he doesn't drop the wrecking ball off the map,
which would allow ball to grapple.
He just slowly dunks him into the pit.
It's like a biscuit into a mug of tea.
So do you know what?
Crouch makes sense, just saying.
That's true, he had the best crouch to go down.
As a Brit, I can appreciate the fact that you are
correctly dunking your biscuits into tea.
Just like a tea and a biscuit.
I mean, you know, it's as easy as that.
It's as easy as a little cup of tea
for Virtus.Pro here. They annihilate the competition.
I thought, you know, 1-2-4 would be able to throw
Monkey Ranch into the works,
but it's actually Virtus.Pro
who kind of completely turned the tables.
Cause 1-2-3-4, I doubt they've played the ball mirror,
maybe all-stages.
They have been playing against Sigma and Maga.
They're adept at taking all the map control,
poking from all sides,
dealing with these sort of slow,
failing style compositions.
The mirror matches an entirely different game
on Wrecking Ball.
It's all about pace.
It's all about deathmatch.
It's all about individuals fighting for their own lives.
and the Virtus Pro are nothing if not incredibly confident on an individual level.
I mean, it gives context as well to why VP banned the Mercy, right?
Because it protected the cap.
So I am strongly expecting when 1234 take us to Dorado, a cap ban to keep following up.
And I think you need it, but the problem for 1234 now is that you can only do that once.
Yeah, now they're the team who's scared in the band phase, right?
I think the other thing is VP eventually can just ban wrecking ball. I mean they played it on ilio if they want to
But I think like honestly you want to let the wrecking ball throw so that you get as much opportunity to experience it
Yeah, that's possible because you've just shown that you can play the wrecking ball and you can gap to the point that it was two rounds of
100 to 0 a whole deftless one on well
the game. And I think that's
really cool. Which is insane to
think about when you think about
all of the environmental
houses like that is probably
just so on top of playing the
record because what it
basically does is you know that
one two three four will be
relying off of the strategies
that come with the record
composition. I say that they
will ban it now because one
two three four go for the
jetpack cat. I think this is
the small time to use your
I'm just curious what golden pants like what would golden pants play if you play like Reaper Bastion he always plays Winston
That's my point is like Reaper Bastion Maga surely he won't play Winston right surely
There's a limit at which point he will go D.va, but I don't know
I mean I haven't seen it yet. He's been playing Winston in some tough spots previously
Dorado though Winston's theoretically okay on this map, but
Realistically in this patch it doesn't feel that good. It feels like
You know, Diva in particular, it kind of dominates you with how good, you know, some of the supports are in this current meta at just staying alive.
It's not easy to make the Winston work here.
Yeah, there's also just like a lot of damage, right, for Winston to have to deal with.
Diva has things like defense matrix, so he was able to mitigate a fair bit of that pressure, also self-destruct,
giving you that second lease of life, as opposed to poor Winston who, by the time that you jump and hit the ground,
a lot of the time your health bar is already at half so you're forced to just instantly drop bubble,
wipe through your jump cooldown to be back and then loop away dejectedly as your dive is totally
denied. But we'll see what going past your opponent has been. I like the hopeful spin that you get
to walk out of that situation on Winston. I think the reality is you teleport back to spawn.
Ambulance Bacteria spawn is probably the more apt bubble up if that situation does occur.
Don't do them like this now. Don't do them like this
No, the Torbion!
The Torbcast? I mean this comp is nasty.
Okay, it could be worse. Psycho could be using the Summer Skin.
So at least you're not going to have to fight the true VM Torbion.
Summer Skin Torb is iconic. That is one of the greatest skins that this game has ever released, I mean.
The inflates of the squeaky noises when you use the hammer.
That's icon status. There's no replicating that.
It's the small details.
We can all get percentages of the Torbjorn summer scan in terms of quality.
There's no ability to be at that same level again.
That is, of course, a masterwork of Overwatch.
VP gonna see if they can make this Torbjorn hiding for now.
They kind of want to maybe bait an early Winston dive.
1, 2, 3, 4, going with Wwise. Work for them in the past.
Sheen is a odd choice for me though.
I could be awkward.
Maybe get into the back line and map like Dorado.
Let's see what Kai can do.
I mean, you do have a lot of map control.
And you want to take as much attention as possible because Golden Pass will be playing that Winston
So why don't you creep off classic five timings? Try and just farm up to nanoboost to have your first engagement
As with the tracer you can potentially go for pressure on that point
But the bird is probably just holding their whole team up on our high ramping very difficult for one two three four
The moment that this car moves into square
They just have no space and it has to be a nanoboost engagement for Golden Pass to have the confidence
to try to move forward, but I think he gets hit by flashbang off of Kevser and then goes down to cycle afterwards.
And as this is the unfortunate reality of playing Winston in 2026, you are very, very squishy until you have the damage reduction off of that nano.
Canale's got some problems with playing on into this. He's not usually able to even walk up and play the game.
Here comes a chain, locking him down, Kevser finishes with a headshot.
He's so sharp here on this Cassidy, Golden Man's nose where his bread is buttered without the nano alive.
He's just straight back to the spawn in this fight and I mean the stagger starting to get painful VP
Raging the gap to some of their key ultimates another chain kill. Kepster is close to a death for him actually, but
Okay, what you pray for? I'm hitting the panic cat for your comp
We've got Shion. We have Vendetta. They're like, if Verna Sparrow lost to it before they can lose to it now
I mean, this is a Frankenstein. This is such a Frankenstein
But this is like he's had such a weird meshing of two composition styles
And Virtus.Pro have two zoning ultimates to stop 1, 2, 3, 4 having follow-up on the nano engagement.
Dead Eye and Amp.
Yeah, this is the rough one. The nano has to be so big for the canale because it needs a nade maybe to actually follow it up.
Do you always want to wait for Crispy's ult to be ready to right? Can that survive the ability to the Winston?
Amp made their stabilizer for now. My moan into the backline does get one big knockdown on the floor
but the defense is just so solid and landed and has that image of sound.
Here comes the blood, he lifts up, I believe, okay,
canale in the back line gets super low on Ana, but not quite enough for the kill.
But, aw, I mean, eventually, you know, the deaths come due.
And it's causing so much frontline damage,
they just walk forward here and sweep up the remaining life of 1, 2, 3, 4.
It's such a cost for 1, 2, 3, 4 who used 1, 2, 3 ultimates in that engagement,
both the nanoboost on the Winston but then like you also get the title blast onto
Malone so that he can try and take an off angle from the attention that the Winston is distracting
as the furthest problem is just two ultimates to be able to lock that one down so you have all
of the means of just holding your space and one two three four lacking the nanoboost going to
have to rely on Primal but Primal would just push players out of Kais' ult. These two ults that
they have do not meld well. The pressure is so immense, won't you people have the support
Struggling to even play the game, Isom has already picked up a quick kill on the Krispy
Primal. He's out, he's a big shot from the dead eye, and this is a jump over the wall,
go grab a mega, but really it's just another reset. For 1, 2, 3, 4, I mean they have been
brutalized by this poke defense, and this is one of those threats from VP to Lee.
Lee was a realistic option. Kai does stay alive in the back line, which I think is
a little mystery from Kepster that he could get around through that wall,
gets another flank, but already the frontline just crumples once again while Kai is out of
the fight. Kepster swings in. This is gonna make it into his own team's sanctuary and I mean they
have just been split apart at the seams. There's been barely anything you can call a dive so far in
this map from 1, 2, 3, 4. It's the fall from Grace I think. It is the true dive from 1, 2, 3,
4 at this point. Like, Sanctuary from Fixed is with all of the healing from Canale.
Desperation's up to the Chirico. You've got the spray at least from Kai and Sanctuary was
used earlier, so Virtus.Pro don't have the means of mitigating it. Kai could be the answer
to 1, 2, 3, 4's prayers, as could Maimon's Sundering Blade, but they are not out of the
woods just yet.
If Aiznam gets a big flutch, this one is just done, and Dusk said Crispy trying to charge
up that ultimate so close. I mean, I could deploy so many skills just to stay alive,
just to keep this party tested in the overtime. Sundering Blade is online, leave the bubble,
just to stay alive, and slam to the 4-day hands for Maimon's love. And Aiznam now
attacked me in the backline section, weak to free desperation from Kai. Can he find
something one is good, but it's not quite enough. Tedster shuts him down with a second
and landed, picks up a third. That finishes the deal here. Cart stopped in the choke,
not even a glimmer of hope for one, two, three, four in this one, and they just get
hit with El Classico on this defense. Yeah, Winston, 20-26. I asked if there was anything
that would cause him to stop playing Winston, and I think the answer is no. I mean
into Mizuki, into Torb, into Kass, into Sigma.
Like that's just the ninth circle of hell
for Winston mains to have to play into.
The support just couldn't play the game here.
I mean, Aizan was just running them down on Sigma.
You're dumping heels just to keep Golden Pants
like reasonably healthy on the payload.
And I mean, he can't.
He can't even put like he's-
It's just drowned as well, the resources
that could go to the rest of the team.
Yeah, that's a hopeless match up, honestly.
I mean, I guess, I would say at that point, go Genji.
Go with Anoblade, YOLO.
Like, I just don't see the way through.
I mean, Virtus.4 is such a good team when it comes to you
putting on overwhelming pressure.
Like, you could look at that comp and consider,
oh, defensively, it's so nice.
And it can hold those spots so safely.
But Virtus.4 are taking it, taking that one step further,
right?
They're defensive when they need to be.
But every time they get the chance
to get good damage on your backline, they push,
they swing, Kevser takes risks, finds opportunities.
So they're not passive. They're not static just because they're playing such a defensively minded composition and now 1, 2, 3, 4
full desperation for them. My mode is going to be over to the venture here. We don't see much of it, but I mean they honestly need it.
They need some way to just stall the payload.
Okay, opening that shop from Golden Fans will just channel into your battery charge for all psycho.
Sonic absorbed by Krispy's cranium and this was my favorite for 1, 2, 3, 4, right?
for right? Hila did not move that far so now you have to have like your Winston go
Contest Point and Virtus.Pro can just punish the fact that 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 are
tight. Like GoldenPants is dead, Crispy is dead, Canale has very little to be
able to heal to bought a Picatinny Rush to keep Virtus.Pro at bay. The Roadhogs
hook as well onto Mamon before he can disengage. 1, 2, 3, 4 are down. All of
these players actually stole the objective. I think Jake, this map is essentially done.
There is no stall. It will just be a Winston trying to deathly touch. Killed into place by Mizuki and
Round done. That was a speed run from versus pro.
I'm doing the Men in Black flash on your camera right now. You have amnesia. You didn't see that
Nothing just happened. It's it's all
We're headed to Mach 2 after the short break guys.
Don't worry you missed absolutely nothing
What it what it you know in the famous words of Zara? Nothing happened. I mean that is that is pain that is pain
This is VP flexing their muscle, you know really readying themselves for a playoff and for one two three four
Who've had so many promising matches this stage?
They saved the best here for the last week and and Virtus Pro a different beast to the rest of the teams in EMA
Although some teams have been able to play them close, you know this dive style VP her team with veteran LAN experience
They are not a team that is like super accustomed only to the EMEA style
They have shown real ability to battle against some of the best five teams in the world
And maybe it shouldn't be a surprise the way this match looks given that pedigree that experience across the board in this roster
Yeah, and I think it's the adaptation as well
Right one thing that I think a lot of teams learned from Japan was how fast you have to be able to adapt to
Curfals thrown your way because like teams they'll sit on strategies
They'll only use what is required to win. They will not go past that if they know that something like playoffs, finals, more important closer matches will be coming later than line.
So you have to be ready when you see something to adapt to it very, very quickly.
And I think one of the drawbacks of 1, 2, 3, 4, the reason why all of their matches have gone so long is that they've lost them rounds where they can't play things like that wrecking ball.
So, Virtus Pro, they knew what 1-2-3 people would be coming in with, and they could just spend a whole week practicing versus things like that.
Now, Virtus Pro, I mean, in this series, you better... I hope you had your drops linked, because they are hitting a speed run, they are not giving you any time to farm.
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I mean, this is really one of the biggest eSports events of the year and for Overwatch
This is a huge opportunity now especially with it really feeling like the world title is up for grabs like Korea and EMEA
They have never been closer.
NA, you know what?
It could happen.
You never know.
That's all I can say.
That's the best endorsement I can give.
Wow, EMEA Korea is so close.
NA, it's a possibility.
Even I don't have the Gopio for NA right now.
I've been casting EMEA for a hot second.
Where's your national pride, Jake?
It's in the gutter.
I'm hopeful for the Overwatch World Cup for Team USA.
We can do decent, you know, in that kind of competition. Maybe there's a chance, but yeah
It's looking looking a little rough. No to be CS right now. Maybe I'll be proven wrong
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Of course in this series, I mean it is the night is darkest before the dog
But it is it is real dark right now. I'm not gonna lie
The Sun is not coming up. I
Mean the Sun's up here. I have all of the Sun. That's that's what's happening. Jake
I'm just slowly drawing it away like a supervillain, but what I'm very worried about is the fact that Virtus.Pro just drew away the Wu Yang
This was the exact same issue that 1, 2, 3, 4 had last week where it was such a close series all the way up until Bruno Sappy
And then they just absolutely folded they lost fight after fight after fight after fight after fight
It was an absolute speed run to be able to touch that spawn because even though they had the first ban
They did not protect Krispy as we own and that's exactly what Virtus Pro punish again here
Okay, really interesting actually that VP they actually want to take the Sigma match up
So I think your theory of them practicing is very real here
They've shown that they are immaculate on the wrecking ball that they can absolutely dominate in that kind of a high-paced mirror
Now they're gonna try and slow the game down see if they can deal with the onslaughted
What did you for I found themselves on a weird comp? I think maybe expecting the mirror all
Yeah find themselves. I think not
Fixes get back at the way that bird is pro tried to play their support to be totally undyable
But first what they want one two three four to dive right if golden pants kids bird is pro
He gets hit by chain rock hinder. There's so little that this wrecking ball can actually do
Mizuki so aggressive here fixer making a lot of space for himself here
Not afraid to poke these pressure to payload once you can for kind of grasping a straws trying to find something
Because lucky timing, honestly, if you could dodge that chain, that would have almost been certain death here for Golden Clans.
Flanking in over the top, canale though, drop psycho, that's a miracle kill. One that you really needed because the cart rolling so brutally against you here.
They need to get in and finish this fight, but it won't be easy. Golden Man is even going for a dive, plus one.
Not enough for an easy secured kill, but Limone gets in there with the bike.
And although the cart has rolled a very significant distance, it feels like it should have eventually go the way here of 1, 2, 3.
Yeah, those clutch kills, canal beating psycho, has to happen multiple times.
Right as we're seeing, Goldenpants is being flanked by Krzysi and Mimone every single time
that he's able to force these responses from Virtus.Pro.
All of those resources towards Wrecking Ball not in place to stop the follow-up from the
Wrecking Ball's players.
And that is some of the value that the Wrecking Ball brings.
It's not just about what Goldenpants individually is able to do, it's about the resources
that are forced to deal with him that are then not there for the follow-up of the teammates.
Kevser though has Deadeye which one two three four do not have answer to. So if Canile uses Rush
Virtus.Pro can simply live it. And then that opening kill hurts so badly they're going to go
with the rush from the ball team on the payload. Deadeye though in his own player's way it's
going to be hard to actually leverage this rush and although it's on the ground you just
don't feel the impact of it. Virtus.Pro continuing to steal the bot away. Landon opens up a matrix
now further mitigating ability once before to just keep this card in contest they have stayed alive
though later into the fight they do a few of their own ultimates coming into play so vp can have to
be ready for the storm it is certainly coming here as golden pants is nine million miles
where's crispy if we find where the cat is we'll probably find where kai is as there's the dead
eye but saiko just caught through golden pants sanctuary absorbs dead eye but that means
it's not that stop my moon spree at one two three four despite losing out on the wrecking ball
stop rolling away with the kills. I'm really impressed by Kai in his name. This is not an easy
comp to play Cassidy into. Even with the cat assisting you, like, Sigma is a real problem for
this hero, but Kai has been lights out. I mean, one unfortunate early death to Capster, but the
rest of these teamfights, he's been managed to get the damage in, find the way to get impact
into the comp, and Vixia fills the pressure. He's going to go over to the Juno, just a
speed ring. Okay, now he is going to stick on the Lucia. Okay, never mind, he's just doing
double speed up and they'll back to the Mizuki just a little spawn optimization here but at least
he beat his key soon to be taken here especially with minefield available yeah i don't think you can
hold this lead beat the end to come back in with the flux i mean you have to if you're vertus
farl and go for that really midnight for a life because you're trying to stop one two three
fours getting those forward spawns ice does have the flux could grab onto one two three fours
players but a well placed suzer should mitigate any of the coming damage cycle i believe is
is dealing her canal at the moment as we do have fixes teleporting force lines over the top
nothing to come off of the back of it until now ice trying to stall i want to keep a forward push
with the flux that means he's not able to peel land in that calls in the back one thanks to
good pressure from 244 as it took a while but they will be able to secure those forward
phones and vertus pro this is the first time that they're really starting to stumble into
this wrecking ball composition, swaps will come out, ice is onto the diva, so you can
have things take different matrix, especially to absorb Klai's ultimate in this next fight.
Yeah, they're gonna need the individual playmaking, so they can make this adjustment work in their
style. GoldenHands finally snipped out, but how much can you really do about it? He
just kinda rolls away, baits you in now, and this has been the trouble we have so
many teams trying to play these slow styles against 1, 2, 3, 4, they're really nice.
And taking all this map control on mymo and finding yourself in the backline, I
I think this is unscouted.
Onus don't seem to be aware he's gonna be able to
initiate with a fight into the back line,
although I can't quite get the value off the end.
With Kai's dead eye being deployed,
Matrix is good for Maizan to absorb that shot.
Psycho left all out of his own so he eats a flash
and goes down.
Rush now is deployed by Knail on the point
and Kai's able to, but massive work in with it.
Continuing to roll this spot,
Psycho coming back though in the bunker
so far stable for Virtus.
1-2-3-4 trying to keep Canale up,
Virtus.Pro really wanting to exit trade back here ago.
They'll have to rush pretty soon from Landon,
so catnap all the way into the back line,
but Crispy bites off a little bit more than he can chew,
died forming close enough to the Cassie to take him down.
And 1-2-3-4, tail between their legs,
lift to disengage,
Virtus.Pro in a good position to snuggle
up with all of the ultimates that they have up and running.
But we've seen Golden Pants and Maimon
be very devastating when things like the minefield is able to split VP's team and that should
totally shut down Fixer's Able with the Sanctuary.
Aiznab's probably as aggressive as he possibly can, the Sanctuary looks like it's just one.
It's the nine, oh it's Aiznab, yeah.
Maybe the team's done enough, they've got the Rust deploy, Sanctuary just free getting
not much of anything thanks to the Matrix from Aiznab, great awareness from him.
Shutting down my mode with an ultimate that has been very impactful, more often
than not.
Now GoldenHand's trying to delay things out alongside Chris, you may barely be able to slip out of this, actually.
It's kind of a tough kill for Cycle to finish, and he will just recall out back to the payload,
but Virtus.Pro have shown real fight back now, once you play 4.
Have to answer some tough questions, and my mode is going to go over to defend dead,
and maybe have a better answer for this deal.
Yep, can't defend Matrix Sword, but you can't stop Virtus.Pro from securing forward spawns.
Here's the flyby.
defense matrix still in hand, Maimon actually going for the overhead swing
trying to stun up Aisnon, but Kevster is able to hold the space for Varus
Proland, actually catches Krispy, 1, 2, 3, 4, peeking into the fight a little bit
too early, caught with their hand in the cookie jar and punished for it.
Best answer to a dead eye seems to be another dead eye at this point.
Slam comes in, but oh, the kill is just broken and immediately he's hindered.
The DPS burst, they are great from VP to be able to deny that slam.
Yeah, exactly, they only get to the lead.
They might be able to stall the point, which means that VP take the lead in distance.
They might be able to do more than that here, Max.
I think they're going to be able to take a very aggressive fight.
They have self-suffrict available, so Aizanum could really double down into the backline.
Kai though, huge kill on the psycho.
It really mitigates a lot of the pressure on the team.
You'd think they'd be able to get this fight win done without many opens to put,
but my mode goes a little bit too deep, a little bit too early.
Kai, of course on the Cassidy, can't quite follow up right at that pace.
And a little bit of off synergy play here from 1, 2, 3, 4 takes what was a player advantage and squanders it.
Now Virtus.pro still continue to fight. A rush comes out defensively and this one looks to be kited out if Kevster can slip off the corner.
He's just fine and he does so.
Oh, that means that VP hold dead eye and rush.
1, 2, 3, 4 will be relying on Kai's ult to slow things down, but it's not better stop Kevster.
But Kai can shut down Kevster himself, apparently.
Still, Virtus.pro in control of the tempo,
once you're free for half to fight into land and thrust,
or they can just have Kai hit the shots
and go them fans follow up when the carry's low enough.
Once you're free for all to secure the fight win,
but they have to fight so many more
before they can secure that distance lead yet again.
It's been a long time since we've seen Kai versus Kevster
dueling on the server this time in the Hitscan Mirror.
And Kai, so far in this map,
I feel like he's been getting the better of the Hitscan duel,
which is an impressive spot to be considering
Kepster's recent success on the hero.
Here comes Golden Panes, not to keep that pressure on.
Try to leap on this lead, a bird is blow.
All the way through the choke,
flips the map to the dead eye over the top.
That was so scary.
Everyone's got a bunker in the rooms,
and maybe they'll do just that.
The shot comes in, but Aizhan is more than ready for it.
Now Kai buys himself to rock in a hard place.
Kepster shuts him down, he assists from Aizhan.
He's super well in this one,
as my mode being brought into this fight.
Kenji actually bring the damage.
He's like, it's actually the support from 1, 2, 3, 4.
Making value with that distraction,
and dropping my enemy headstrong, this looks like all 1, 2, 3, 4 coming back into this one.
Wait, self-destruct catches Golden Pants, which means Ice gets the mech back,
then we're trades, and that is probably just clutch it.
Ice keeps the mech, gets one more core kill to stop the wrecking ball.
He must have gone all in for the baby D. McHale to try and maybe deny it there,
but going down on wrecking ball to the self-destruct is not what I expected here.
And 1, 2, 3, 4...
Then it lies B.P. to recover as well.
Even behind in this game, they need to battle back and they need to do it efficiently from the alternate economy perspective.
Fix a barreling towards that sound barrier, Canale.
The rush is such a powerful tool here, but how you deploy it, it's been kited out so many times by this highly mobile Lucio style.
The beat loses value into Blade from Mymo.
If VP use beat, Vandetta all totally shuts it down, so for the greatest part, they have two ults to kite properly.
Trying to get an assist item from the off angle, Psycho finds Canale, there's not going to be a rush.
Into this fight, immediate beat out of picks of my own.
Sundry blade just deletes Landon, and we have a little overconfident with that soundbear protecting him.
Wasn't obviously effective against that Vendetta Ultimate.
Cycle's gonna continue running this point back though.
Isom, no one left to really respond to him in the back line with Vendetta off of the field.
He's gonna be able to stay alive, keep that suit.
Virtus Pro stabilizing, getting a little bit of extra push, but now in overtime,
1-2-3-4, zero margin for error here.
They need to bring this one back, and it needs to be cleaned.
And Kepster with the Deadeye makes it so difficult, just the leads, Krispy, no where for him to play, no where for him to hide.
Kepster not even taking high ground controls. The rush, bides time for now, but a trade from the Cassities there.
The rare one at that, it's gonna be enough for Virtus.pro to get this series over the line.
Goldencance, he has the mind field, can be a little bit annoying here, stalling with the boots, but surely even the GOAT of EMEBA, Red Bull, isn't gonna be able to 1v5.
I mean, VirtusPro just hedged their bets right by forcing 1,2,3,4 into burning that rush early.
You have so much distance lead, you can just, if it comes to a play for land and rush,
to overwhelm in OT. But there we go, it took a few changes. VirtusPro were forced off of the Mizuki sick composition
that they originally wanted to play, but they were able to deal with the wrecking ball head on
and look really strong.
When we look for the international competition,
the club are able to keep up with main staple EMEA compositions,
but also get ready to deal with the dive
that we do know is a firm favorite of teams in Asia,
and also start to be picked up by American teams as well,
more and more, looking in a very solid position to earn a podium finish.
Yeah, this is going to be a painful one,
because with this loss, one, two, three, four,
contention. They can't quite recover map differential, the head-to-head's just too
painful against the other teams here in playoff. So it's been such a fun stage to
watch this team. I can't wait to see them back for more. I very much expect them to
come back out of that promotion relegation. But some of those map 5s, you know,
going into TM, we distance nearly being able to get that win. And now it's
gonna haunt them, right? Because that win would have changed everything. And with
lost to VP. That's their season. That's their stage. Yeah, Pernie, we didn't do the map correctly,
setting this one up. We did think that even if they lose against VP, there's still a chance for
them to come in. But no, some bigger brains than us did run the numbers and they would lose the
head to head to GK. And that means they're officially out, which honestly is wild. You just
touched on that, Jake, right? Like they made every other team sweat. They went the distance.
in week one they did go map 5 against Katia and won that bout. They went into map 5 against
GK against Twisted Minds. Like they pushed everyone. And what we've seen today, it looked
like such a skill gap, but that was not at all the case for any other match they played so far
in this stage. So this one does not tell the story, wipe it from your memory, like this is not,
this isn't real, this is just them going up against VP who just honestly look like world
right now in this region anyway.
Yeah, I think it doesn't speak to 1, 2, 3, 4,
weakness outside of maybe if we examine
Becky Roepel, right?
Because the composition it has been all around this
Racking Ball, it's worked against other teams,
it's not worked against Virtus.Pro, but I think
it's just showing a statement of how strong
Virtus.Pro is. Obviously, Virtus.Pro went away,
decided that they would learn how to play
the Racking Ball composition themselves, would learn
had to play countable compositions as well. So they had so many different solutions to the same
issue as opposed to one, two, three, four, who had one solution and too many problems.
Tester, lighting it up here. I mean, Kai battled back in this final map, but it felt like
this was the one map with even a chance for one, two, three, four, where they were able to
kind of get into some of those comfortable deathmatching scenarios. But Ilios was a
a backbreaker. I mean, when you get dominated in the mirror match on wrecking ball, as the team
who's played ball all stage, I mean, that is a major blow to the confidence. And then the Winston on
Dorado just was not it. Just was not it. That is those first two maps were tough.
Yeah, I mean, they were, I feel like that's what we feed it to most teams though, because if
we're real about their matches, right, it was only Katsuya that managed to make him sweat
whatsoever, and in today's showing, Virtus.Pro more than just a little redeemed themselves,
like they go undefeated at this stage, great map differential, they're still looking like
a team to beat, and today was an opportunity for them to just like flex their muscles a little bit,
try some things out, it just kind of looked like we're watching and that's going to sound much
meaner than I mean it to sound like, but it did look like we're watching a scrim.
I mean, I think that's fair, like they were being experimental into this one, you know,
They really, for Virtus.Pro, obviously they're thinking about playoffs, right?
Thinking about the mid-season championship, they're thinking about playoffs and how they can go deeper into this stage.
And preparing for interesting new styles, I think is a really smart look, especially as the meta is shifting.
No one really knows where it's going to land.
Like, yes, the rush comps look good, but the Wrecking Ball, how does it match up into that?
I don't think anybody knows the answer yet.
Well, maybe one of those, the person who played it today,
IceNorm will be joining us once again for an interview.
Ice, hello, welcome to the show. Are you staying cool? Are you doing okay over there in Europe?
Oh yeah, I mean I'm chilling here. I'm actually quite happy I'm not at home right now because
at home there's no AC. In here we have an AC, you know, so I'm chilling.
Okay, that's good to know. Also you didn't seem to break a sweat in the game.
I mean this one looked fairly one-sided unfortunately.
We did expect to see a little more, given how Clows1234 played it against other teams.
How did you approach this one?
Because you're going up against a very unique opponent that managed to trip up a lot of other
top teams.
Obviously, we talked about what we wanted to do before the match here, like what kind
of maps would we want to pick, what kind of fans, etc.
But you obviously can't scrim against them in the week, you know.
So we sort of just looked at some scrims we played against them before,
like what did we do before, what worked, what didn't work,
and kind of figured it out from there, I think.
Yeah, it came together really nicely for you guys.
I mean, I think coming out on the wrecking ball mirror on Ilios,
I feel like that caught them completely off guard.
I don't think they were ready for that at all.
And you guys look actually pretty well drilled on it.
So is that a comp that you guys have been workshopping at all,
or did you just kind of throw that out for the match?
Like, what was the preparation like to come into Ilios?
and really surprised not only us, but clearly the opposition.
It's not a comp we really practiced much at all.
We kind of went into like,
oh, it would be maybe it would be funny if we went
for a ball around that one in Delio's, you know?
So we played it a couple of times in scrims.
And yeah, I mean, I'm happy it worked.
You know, it was quite fun map.
Yeah, it was just like a comp that we're probably
not gonna play again.
people are going to play it again. Who knows, but we'll see.
So catching up with smash last week, he said that you guys had
a fair bit of homework to do in terms of dealing with things
like the she on Vendetta Mauga composition, neither a week has
passed and there's been a little bit more time for the
meta to settle. Do you feel like you're fully equipped to
deal with all of the potential compositions that these teams
could play because it's looking like a very diverse
matter where you have to play so many different things.
Yeah, I think right now I'm really confident in all of our comps and any match-up.
I feel like we're fine against literally any comp and with both comps as well.
I feel like we're super flexible right now and able to kind of just make an optimal
match-up for us and make it work.
So I'm really happy with our – and obviously no one is watching Solar Scrims this week,
but it's been going pretty well with learning new comps and adapting to some comps we
struggled against last week.
So, confident heading into the playoffs.
Well, our expectations are high for you guys
because of the bar that you set in this stage.
We hope to see you guys continue on that trajectory.
Stay cool.
Thank you so much for joining us for a quick chat.
And we're gonna see you again very soon.
Thank you, bye bye.
Always a pleasure hearing from Aisler.
I'm also to have a whiteboard in the back
so you know we're serious about this.
I'm not interested in the AC.
I might have to just like find a way to go and join the VP team, I just show up in the back of one of those interviews
Just be like, hi, you guys have actual good heating temperature
To say hello, I just happened to be in the area
Honestly give it a try why not at this point
I don't even know how you function right now because it is hot over there
My brother has been lighting the upside you know, it's 40 degrees Celsius here, and I'm like, excuse me. What now?
Then it is outside because all of our buildings all of the windows double glazed
They're meant to contain heat as opposed to it's let it escape
So you just sort of like trap yourself in a door. Yeah of paint a little different and you know, what's worse
things are heating up even more because we're gonna show you some unbolting bundles
that's right Moxie sorry got to do it to you here it is we're bringing back some
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Welcome Black 1 and all for our last match here in EMEA.
Zoe here joined by Moxie and Jake.
Twisted Minds will be going up against GK,
two teams that so far at this stage had some ups and downs.
We had some questions,
both of them trying to redeem their maybe shaky start
and finish strong in order to make those playoffs.
Let's chat about our two teams starting with GK,
which by the way, if you all missed
Finn's post-match interview from last week, day one,
You have to go back and watch it.
He called Kellogg's grandfather.
Shotgun!
But it was really good.
Well, I think he tried to talk about his, you know, experience as he is a little bit
of an...
It's respectful.
It's a term of endearment.
Oh!
It's like old master who I have learned from.
Yeah.
I think he wanted to know that more.
Yeah, that's the thing where he wanted to take it, but the words in his mouth.
But yeah, he talked about what Kellex brought to the team and just also how they're turning
things around because obviously they struggled early on, they all yelled at each other and
now they change things up and they look better last week, Jake.
Yeah, like, UK, they had a lot that I think people questioned them on, given that they
lost to Katzia in a series that a lot of people had them as their favourite for.
We have been seeing them embrace more of this new meta, Kellex has been playing
a lot of them the zoo to and I would imagine that will be seeing a fair bit of she on as well. So
honestly, going up against twisted minds, it must be very reluctant to field anything dropped in 2026.
This could go any way and I would not be surprised if this is a five map series.
See them have looked beatable. I think we have to say it, you know, they've they've struggled
against teams that historically, they would have just, you know, defeated with no question,
They would have been super comfortable against the meta for a while was pretty rough for their style
They found some success in champions clash going back to the sim
But anyway as I say that back to the same UV is in the lineup
So maybe they will go with this look and honestly this kind of makes sense if manga's coming back into the meta
Maybe there's a place for sim in this style if there was a team to be able to find that thank you be twisted minds
I mean, I was like I was controlled first. So everything is misleading. I don't trust it
They played Yuvi in Japan and arguably it was the most comfortable they've looked so far since we had that scene and Katja.
Yuvi is just a land party sub in, he's just the guy that brings out in person, which is kind of funny honestly.
Do you think Twisted Mind's headquarters has a button hidden behind glass and every time they're about to start looking beatable someone just goes and presses it.
It's like the bat button that you have to be old school 60s batman
Whatever it is, man, whatever it takes if you stop you being it works for you then it works for you
You guys did talk to a funny astralisks weekend. He did say like
Expect to see something different from us in week three because no
It's no secret that they drop bats that drop matches and it shouldn't have been that way and they had to figure things out
So it's been an uphill battle for them
This is the first time we see them struggling quite a long time, but they came out on top last week
I'm sure they're gonna do it again
I'm gonna give this one to twist of minus because while they struggle to find their footing in this meta
Individually they're just still on such a high level like I'd be very surprised if they got to go down against DK
Yeah, I went team as well
I think this the shift into maybe a faster-paced Maga style is gonna be fantastic for them
I think it's gonna put them right back on track to have a really strong playoff
I went TM and now that we know that UB is starting, I feel much more solid in that prediction because it's not just about like the heroes that you can play, it's about the coaching that he brings to that team as well.
Yeah, emergency UB engaged. Let's see what he can do in their match today. You know to clean shot playoff spot guys, please take it away.
And for Twisted Minds, you know, these Rush Styles are, I mean, this is how they won the
World Championship last year, you know, this is how they have rolled over so many opponents.
And picking a Wasis says to me that they really want to push the tempo.
I mean, I think this is, I would argue, the most Rush-centric of the three points,
or of the three rather control maps available to you.
Deferment of the band, it's going to mean GK, get rid of the MAGA, or the passion,
and just mine's gonna deal with the Mizuki.
The other team, both teams kind of banning out
some shenanigans.
This to me starts to look like a Maga mirror,
some, you know, at least some sort of a Rush mirror,
which very curious if UB does bring out the Sim,
that has been fantastic for him in the past.
He could play the Tracer as well.
Like I could honestly say TM doing really well
with Tracer, Shion, in their DPS line.
You could play the Sim, the Reaper, the Mei,
the Shion, those are sort of like all of the staples that we have in obviously like Quartz,
Potential Shion, Sojin, Cassidy, Emery, a lot of those hitscan. Very interesting, when Astro said
that there'll be a different look to this team, is it a 2026 new hero look or is it a we have
something new by going back to the old which did work out for them before in Japan, like they
did get second at Champions Clash and it was off of bringing UB back and playing two compositions
that were both from previous matters.
Just admins, not afraid to forge their own path, of course they had to do a lot of that
in Japan, being the kind of one team to bring back the same and they could actually look
pretty effective.
TVNC had to go right at one point in the grand finals and that was an incredibly close
series.
For Geek K, they want to strike here.
I mean, this is your best chance,
maybe ever to beat Twisted Minds, right?
Maybe the best one you're going to get at.
For Geek K, this is a win that changes everything, right?
When it comes to playoffs, when it comes to qualifying
and your seeding calculus,
that second seed is very much still up for grabs.
I mean, Virtus.Pro, of course, number one with the bullet,
but nobody else has three or more map wins.
You get this here.
You put yourself in pole position,
Twisted Minds, they want to stop that here and now.
I don't know how long this diva for TV and T will exist in the composition that TM are currently teasing Jake because
Geeking they have a composition that is totally tailor-made to take out TV and T's diva like Alpha Yi on that Vendetta
Lapt on this she on a lot of aggression a lot of pressure
You do matrix out all of the sustained that can go towards mango boat be a bit up on the Kiriko as well
any damage that ZF can do for the self-heal and a big boot from Killix onto Yubi.
It does mean that GK, despite being down that tank, do get the first cap of this point.
The boops. Big dividends. Boop-boop the day, maybe.
On to Ziad on the Yubi.
Two players taking a long launch up a short pier.
GK back up to the choke and maybe right into the back line.
Ziad was wasting no time getting aggressive, but Fin is cut down.
I mean, thinking you can cast Twisted Minds off-card proves to be hubris as they just received that rush looking an awful lot like a feed here in this fight.
Yeah, Quartz on that Sojourn as well will be looking really lethal, like GK, no sim, no sim will to answer the overclock.
It's going to be a hope that Killix gets sound barrier online in time, and with the speed that Quartz is building that Sojourn Ultimate,
ultimate, I highly doubt that GK will do anything except fight out the damage that Quartz can deal.
This is why I'm still holding that point, forcing GK to walk into them with things like that Maldor
and Vendetta, and they'll just teleport away. All of that time spent on the rotation, no connection.
Yeah, nice little evasion there with the simtp. Playing right around the rosy GK.
Opportunity now to get aggressive. Simtp is not available. Big Stomp comes in. Beautiful
cleanse from simple to stabilize through the dive. Ubi's trying to hold his own,
but Alphie just swarms over him, GK.
Player in banished them, and they close with the fight
still the other four for Twisted Minds, fighting hard.
GDNT in desperate patience could almost paint down
the Lava Labda, but not quite enough.
Hort does find one in the chaos of the trade with GK.
Maybe half of you would be able to finish the fight
in style, Alphie finds another on-the-funny Astro,
and no one escapes with their life here for Twisted Minds.
Yeah, GK have the opportunity here to go fast with Rush,
but if you go fast with Rush,
The start of these fights, Yubi just can teleport. Simple has no requirement to match.
Asher will be very careful in how you invest this.
He has been seen the teleporter.
Once he's caught, twist the line for Manson.
Yubi's similar, makes it so hard for GK to find kills per lit.
And Tien gets the better of the vendetta. Asher's either safe.
Beat out of killix.
But there's only Finn benefiting from its yacht. Couldn't quite get it, and even if he had,
I don't know if it would have made much of a difference.
They just stall the point a few seconds longer. Twisted mines.
Repel that advance comfortably and still hold on to some key ultimates now.
Alfie does have that sundry blade though, which will give Funhaster some pause in terms of deploying the Sandbarrier.
Yeah, especially if you try to use the Sandbarrier versus Lapda.
With that story, we've seen so many Ajaxes offer the burst damage that the Shion's ult provides.
Thinking about burst though, Quartz holds all the cards at the moment, Geeky having to be very careful
not to lose someone on those rotations, no Sim Teleport.
Dodged away from Quartz's line of sight instead of reliance on Laptop cutting them off. There's yet again Twisted Minds.
See them as coming, Teleport away. Cage and Vestikon Zephyr, he's so low and there's so little follow-up until now.
Spree attempted the TVNT with the mech, defense matrix into Quartz with the OC and Geekay totally shot down.
And Twisted Minds look really solid in this style and for all the success that Manga Vendetta has had versus a lot of teams,
You get a lot of space to ports to play the soldier and you be with the sim
Proves to be so elusive like you can't even connect into the back line and these long fights look better and better for TM
Last chance here for GK to come back into this are desperately trying to finish farming that rush
Finn still a few percentage away and the clock is unforgiving in this moment
You get that online but as you said the match is available to the end of the back line
All that ISO from Zyada is so incredibly low in support for everything.
Just trying to keep this Moga up and so far, they have succeeded.
TBNT now out of the suit trying to get trade.
Plaza finds one Kellogg's with another, and it will be a clean up DK.
Passed the test there.
Incredible work on the supports.
They just keep Zyada up.
I mean, TBNT went all in with that matrix thought they could maybe overwhelm the Moga,
but that's a mistake many have made before.
Yeah, the sound barrier match for both of these teams.
TM have so much more kill potential.
Off of course and you'd be fully charged like that. They have to get something early
Jumping on the back line and that's exactly what he does
Sandbarra comes up, but not in time to save simple and Twisted Minds invested pig in that fight
Quartz might denied the B to have the extra health to use this over for progressive
Here comes the OC from Quartz, past the Cypillus, but it's him who gets overrun, Xeon
Dominating impression here on this manga and the TM once world champion team now
Looking in trouble here in this first round of control
You be cut down out of the just making makes me to all the attackers on this point
And that will be around GKE sports pretty surprising for me that you're able to beat TM straight up in the same rush mirror
I mean that is their absolute comfort style
I mean it's also the fact that you can just one first one twisted mind for rotating
Like we see Twisted Minds go back to what worked for them with that sim being able to
kite out things like that mage engagement, you kite out the mage engagement, a lot of
the composition loses the damage capabilities since you don't have that slam to set up
the follow up of things like Grifty on oil vandetta but overwhelming TN as they were
trying to get through that choke forcing the sound barrier and getting the pick onto
simple before I could save the Kiriko was absolutely crucial for GK. You get the panic,
you take away your resource which would have set quads up to clutch a situation in OT with OCB
and you stop TM from having.
Simul, crucial in that most recent fight. GK now, stepping up to the high ground,
once again not going to waste any time. Straight in the back, he has already found
simple and DM just eviscerated in the opening seconds of this game. The control point is not even open
and they are team-wiped. We I think Moxie are fixing some internet struggles. We'll see if we can get
her back in sooner rather than later but speaking of getting back in sooner rather than later
twisted minds need a new lease on life in this series because it has been all gk with their
trademark aggression here a big storm connects to the tv and she actually knocks it out of
of the flight out of here will punish funny astro and twisted rides pop flat
footed in this one you'd be getting signature sandpourts on the soldier and
it is not working I mean the trades come in but you have the favorite DK in
this cleanup fight I mean both Ken and Kellogg still alive double support
behind the lab that he's gonna have no idea
Go on to R.
Seems like it'll be just me for the moment on this castle if I can keep pace with all
the action for all the folks watching at home.
Get Monty back into this.
But GK, I mean they've got a whole bank of ultimates now.
This is brutal for Twisted Minds to be on a re-take with a sim as well that kind of
wants to play things a little slower and the slow play has felt impossible.
I mean GK and Nether are far to die deep into the background once again.
Right, good enough to make him a force.
Yubi though, steps up to the plate, tries to assist his battle brother,
but in these Ks, DK are all over them, the five-man overwhelm,
and they still hold on to Rush for the next fight.
Oh, they're holding close to as well, so that TM, if they want to get past,
is going to be desperation touch from TVNT on the wrecking ball.
Can he manage to, characters in position to boot?
Jeff Bell makes it in time.
Rush into the point, makes things awkward,
The Corks will keep me outside with the OC, as quickly as he needs kills.
Does shut down Ciel, and I'll have to UB with Alphie.
Deon already finding damage in the fight.
Corks needs to do more.
So much is being asked of him in this moment.
He does drop Kellix, getting a little bit of assist from the wrecking ball with the health.
Starting to drop, there's no supports behind him.
Alphie senses that weakness, chases him down.
And this is a heck of an open map.
He's set the tone for the series against a team that is scrambling,
fastening for straw, bringing out the Symmetra.
And it falls completely flat.
This is the, you know, if, if emergency break glass, and I mean, this is looking like an emergency, Marcy.
This is looking like a little bit of an emergency as I feel like,
Tian, like, they run through so many different options to try to work out what to do.
The diva was working to a point, being able to matrix away a lot of the mauga damage
so that you're not able to self-sustain, but then we saw the swap to the orisa on the second round
And that had very little value in comparison to what exactly everyone from DK's comp was succeeding with.
It's less struggle into the Vendetta, but it does take away a lot of the strain that the Mauga was finding himself under in the round before.
I had the wrong read on this. I mean, I really thought Twisted Minds would come in loving to play this Mauga style, right?
And wanted to bring an incredible level of pace to their team.
But they instead decided to try and slow things down, do what has in fairness,
worked with them so many times before, which is set courts up for success,
lie in space, teleport them around by in time.
You know, those ult fights get really scary with how well Yubi can pilot the sim,
how much value he can get on that hero.
And it's just a furious aggression from Ziad and Alphie, Labda as well in tow.
They're just devastating. Their formation can never really get set.
They can't get into these long fights because these are over in seconds.
I mean, Alphie and Lambda get into the fight and it feels like the kills come in before you could possibly react.
I mean, that's a really good strategy.
Yeah, I mean, shit, right?
The cage with this free combo, like you said, there's very little that you can do to react.
And it's not like you can just suzu the entire duration of that shion ult.
It's free whole bursts.
So if you use the suzu, that gives you one second to be able to react and try to take that shion down.
and it's just not enough and I think like the issue prevails for Twisted Minds.
We're seeing them try to play something quote-unquote new by returning to the past,
as opposed to Geeky who are playing something wholly new.
And Twisted Minds are being like totally power crept out, it feels, in terms of all of these options.
Shion's such a strong opportunity. If TvNT tries to cover his staple pick of Diva
into the Mauga, Vendetta totally eats the mecha live, so there are now all of these new solutions
to things that in the past Twisted Minds were able to get around. Yeah, I think Shian has a
very good match with the Sim from what I've seen so far, right? Two mobility tools to be able to get
away from those potentially scary moments where Sim gets high energy, and a lot of close-range
burst to really attack the Sim, punish her, you know, whatever, on TP's around, they're
They're really vulnerable to your skills like the Setsurikus free, cutting you apart.
You're all stacked up on the teleporter.
We saw some moments where TVNT's D.Va could mitigate it, but there's so much ass of the
entirety of TM in terms of evading that kind of aggression.
They just couldn't sustain deep into those rushes because the first hit comes from
Zyad, but the rest of the team just keeps piling on, keeps overwhelming.
You never get a chance to reset, and it feels like Hortz almost has to get a
kill in the first, second of the fight.
he can but I mean no one can do that reliably. Okay I'm not surprised by that
Vendetta band that was one of the largest issues that TVNT was amazing.
For both Sim and Andima. Yeah for both the Sim and the Diva as that blade it's
so problematic and it was also one of the things that was allowing Kiki to
collapse onto TM so quickly with that Vendetta's forward movement. The
Ryan band though that's very interesting are they anticipating TM
trying to play the good old E and the A tradition of the same Ryan
shenanigans. I will say they'd be crazy about crew and playing
Ryan on on Kings or I think that I think Ryan is maybe even a
little underpicked right now with with at least when Sigma
Mizuki is dominant. Although no one's like playing that much
Sigma Zuki anymore. So maybe the line is also going to go by
the wayside. But I will say the fire strike buffs have
our strike buffs are good. I think Ryan is a very good
I think Mizuki doesn't have any boops, no ability to really control the ride when he's just, you know, marching you down with the shield, shatters a huge problem for Mizuki.
Yeah, free ult is all for sanctuary. If this is like, oh, everyone wants to play inside the Mizuki ultimate, you can just see the dollar signs, or I guess, like, new ride signs in Rines eyes.
like, I can pin, I can shatter, I can have an absolute free time. So yeah, heads of play
from GK, banning out one possibility on the side of what exactly TM could flex to. I just
want to see how much impact taking out that vendetta has. Like, what part of TM are going
to be able to still get around things like that she on by removing that vendetta?
Interesting, Gike, it's going to be a 180 from them.
They're actually going to go over to the Sigma Mizuki,
which I think this is why you've been in the ring,
because you want to play this comp.
Twisted Mind's going to be showing something very interesting.
A little simbassion maga?
I mean, it's a wild and wacky one, funny answer, even hovering the cat.
But Gike going to go with, I think what has been pretty tried and tested,
and the sim on their own side means they'll be able to match at least some of the mobility
that Twisted Mind is such a signature at executing.
If you win the sim mirror surely that just breaks the mental of this twisted mind squad and they can't afford to go down
Oh, too in this series. I mean that would be devastating
Devastating especially bringing you be back in and feeling like you can rely on his comms again
TM will be attacking with that bashing cat
So all focus on lapda and being able to have big hits can prowess and shut that down
I mean, this is a quite a composition from Quisted Minds, but I wonder is it not over-cooked?
I mean, DK have this nice little hotel room to play inside of, Labda, sharp on the hits
game today.
I mean, the Maggill is just getting very little healing as well, since Ashworth's only
playing with Quas.
Oh, boy, yo-yo-yo.
nice little hotel room to play inside of, labbed up, sharp on the hitscans today.
I think the Malgrosh is getting very little healing as well, since Asher is always playing with course.
And now that labbed up doesn't have to worry about just falling the Malgrosh,
you can sit back and play hitscans up against the Bastion.
So Tian denied yet again the opportunity to walk forward.
Let's see this rocket.
DK will just push for more and channel this into building Finns.
The vertical rock there, always a fun one to throw from Ziad if he's styling on him a little bit.
Quartz, getting close to that artillery that could be an ultimate, starts to change things,
but man, without it, he feels like he wants to turn for him. He's gotta play a little bit scared
of Labda, how consistent he's been on the Cassidy so far in this map. And simple, very,
very close to that Katsune rush. Likely, that's going to be their go-side artillery from
Quartz, and maybe soften up these defenders' positions. Unless they maybe bait some
movement reactions from these first few shots. Is it really much of anything out of it now?
Rush is exchanged on point, but Sigmund is going to be very adept at battling through that.
Here comes the big flux here from the defenders slamming absolutely everybody to the ground.
Zion backstabs throughout the defense to reap clean up kills on the flight of the Sigma,
the hero of the day there for DK on the defense. Twisted minds they'll find themselves
maybe in a little bit more of a comfortable poke mirror, but I mean they are still playing
cat bastion so it is anything but normal. I mean anything can happen TVNT with
this flux should be guarded against by Kellix with that sanctuary as a alpha
unit with that symbol can allow GK to hold that position in this bastion a
little bit more forward. Flux from TVNT forces out the sanctuary which eats up all of the damage
force to possibly do and GK totally live TMs engage and walk back with
something of their own alpha units wall forcing TMs to disengage give
up more time that they're about to start running out off.
Separating the map into quadrants, stabilizing things for the defenders.
Now the attackers maybe with their best chance yet a couple ultimates coming up their way
in the tempo game. Artillery fire going in but a quick TTP to flip the map from Alphagee.
Shades of twisted mines themselves is now allowed to secure on the high ground.
Pushes UB away for the moment.
Will end up getting cut down by simple though, but the trades continue to come in.
The defenders maybe making this hole.
There's now a funny aster on the cat called upon to find some kind of a kill and cannot get anything.
GK, back off the respawn Alphys, be a little bit late for this next fight, but this is going to be, I think, the final fight, Moxie.
Yeah, this could well be the final fight.
Simply at least we'll have this Kitsune rush, but GK have two points to sacrifice.
If TN open with Rush, they can just use the signal flux to try and stop it, or they can kite and play for second after, and it seems like they want to go for the kite into the flux.
Nice rock as well.
TvNT breaks the flux of Ziad, which is really their only chance to maybe come back into this fight now, Geekay.
They do just barely get the forward spawn from Kellix, so they will be able to potentially hold the choke.
Twisted Minds though, always threatening. And my train looked to take this challenge, although it seems like this will just be a
long drawn-out poke trade in the choke point, which, as some questions may have kept bashing, like, how can they really
get value on this company? It's going to be all the way through around the back line.
I mean it looks like as close as it goes to the upwind though, GK.
He kind of boxed out of this one already, bashing from the high ground.
Now he TP'd up on the entire squad and GK swings up and just marks that flank dominantly.
And now they're going to promote, they want to clean up some of these kills.
Okay, the TP is still available for Ubiash, just keeping it safely back to the spawn.
But DK, I mean, this is a big fight to win by stabilizing in this choke point.
They have shown so much willingness to be aggressive, punishing the cat fashion every
time they want to look for a play.
The main group is absolutely assaulted.
Now it's TDMT's turn to find a big flood.
The Sanctuary sure ensures that the ball-up isn't going to be very easy to get through.
Even with a rock on that dead-eye, loopy as well with a sound barrier, everything
is going on on this veil of both chaos for the beautiful symbol from Alphany.
There is no chance for the attackers to step up and cross that threshold.
Yeah, but that is rush fight, so GK, one opportunity to build rush before TM, get this check point, so they'll have to win out these fights very quickly.
Or try to just get kills on the defense to delay the actual regroup contest that comes out.
There's already the cat-bashing problem too, just waiting.
You can see Quartzna has much more freedom of space to be able to play around positions that Lafta can fire back from.
Now it's opportunity for the defenders. They've got to be able to walk out, make some space, Quartz over the top.
No real value from this tank form signaling an opportunity for DK to step up to the plate.
Astro could be looking for some kind of a catnap, although it's not necessarily easy to find in this comp, very, very easy to be punished on at Fin.
Holding this rush wants to really stall the clock out because as we get down below one minute, I mean this could be the final fight.
I don't think you go for the catnap, you want the cat to be positioned in Quartz.
Oh, beat shots for Quartz!
So you can take the kill on down off the Yve. Good luck, so that means Rok's not allowed to stop TV and T-Vol.
All the flux into the artillery fire, not even needed,
TVNT, since he's been onto the Sigma,
there's like a tenor of this match has shifted quite dramatically
and maybe in a comfortable way, for TMS,
they're able to play more straight forward in the poke game courts.
The tank form really hurting onto AlphaE and Labda.
I mean, they're struggling when, when he's over the top
without those tank shells, like, it is really rough
to be playing the defending VPS.
Yeah, TVNT benefiting as well from UV on the Sim,
able to move up onto that high ground position,
really take away the angles that LAPDA can play into as a simple take-turn.
I'll be you, GK, missing that sniper teleport to walk them away from TM to try and box them in with Killix's ult,
but it just does not work. And TM, P, GK, despite...
TM got the date. They look so much more comfortable here in this map.
Obviously, having some internet troubles here, so we're doing our best, but TM,
They have everything they have everything they could possibly ask for when it comes to finishing off this point
And he can have fully desperate completely locked out of the teamfight by a beautiful sin wall from Yubi
Ports over the top and pull position to dominate these defenders. Where could they possibly go?
Let me ask you, he even sets wards up for success, not that he needs it from this high ground position
Did you get the cart just under one minute timer? Which is pretty meaningful here
But in the end twisted minds get things over the line in a poke style that is a little bit different from the norm
playing the Cap Bastion, but you'll be still able to show a lot of comfort on the sim and
TVNT Sigma has been lights up.
Alright, this is also what we wanted to see from TM, right?
You said that they like to do their own thing, and this feels like a very twisted line to
take on the Cap Bastion.
You still play the Cap Bastion, but you still play things like the Symmetra and the Sigma,
which has worked for TM before in the past.
So the meshing of the two strategies is working out for them, you get the benefits
of both.
Simple, finding a lot of cheeky picks, but really it's Quartz able to take this Bastion tank form, some of the really the perk we didn't see taken, right, when the Cap Bastion meta was so dominant because those aerial duels were so important.
But here against the low ground Sim and the Cassidy, that tank form hurts, man. It feels like they're just getting free picks from that. They're just playing the cooldown cycle and DK didn't really have much of a response.
I mean, Lab that was able to shut it down on first point, but second and third were a different story.
Now, Twisted Minds, I'm gonna go with a little bit more of an aggressive look on this defense.
They don't want to give the attackers any room to set up, but will they regret it?
I mean, the Cap Bastion works so well for them on attack.
Now they're going back to a little bit more of a tried and true conventional style.
But one in which the Calyx's Mizuki, I think, could be quite impactful in responding
to.
So UV and TVNT, it's gonna be more of that signature aggression, but on this first
point defense, it feels like you just can't make any mistakes or you cannot give
any players the attacker spawn is still close and DK we're going to put the
pressure on them here a lot of poke to be filled up with this comp and the TP
from Alphageed to provide additional mobility as I see that though Quartz will
just have him in one second here charge rail so threatening puts in the hands of
Quartz disruptor shot further mitigating these attackers it's a nice
little opening salvo here from the defenders who the widow comes out from
Alphageed actually just almost enough here to drop Quartz and they're
Gonna go over for Geek K, back to the Moga, back to the signature aggression that works so well, this time with the Fahra behind.
Alphie set up for success, there's no one really adept at dealing with Fahra in this matchup.
Keeping the high guard instantly conked, fully disrupting the fight, beautiful from Alphie now,
looking to punish the attackers, desperate from just advising me to somehow change the narrative of this fight.
And Alphie is just letting the fight come to him, nice little conk onto the ports out of the air.
The support is good from Finn and Kalex to keep Alphie fighting.
And as the dust settles, it will be Geeky opening up first.
Just totally overwhelming twist of minds, with that oppressive damage of both the Sojourn and the Pharah.
I mean, does Quartz swap to the Cassidy at some point?
Simple, I've rushed at least, that is the benefit of all of that incoming spam, right?
You build up rush so much faster in comparison to Finn, but now that the Pharah's done his job of opening up the space first,
within the first fight, Geeky off the Pharah, and don't listen to Geeky.
I'm surprised that they go back to the Sim and the Mizuki here. They want to play a straightforward mirror
Maybe they feel like this
Yeah, he swaps to the diva to deal with the power and now you're stuck on diva in the two of your heart of campus
That's true
Vestoration now simple versus a defensive rush and they have to just send it in
Impressively, but he gave ready to receive Holy Kite back from this bull chase and TV and T going a little too far in my view
Maybe they made a little space for ports to work
but same can be said for lab to on this sojourn in the rush no kills from it
opportunity for DK
they look at changes there on the attack force doubles down with overlocked my
thought trying to just end this fight before it begins with a cage fight ensures
that he's just gonna be on the outside looking anti-nt popped out of the suit
trying to get a rematch up but is only gonna find a quick trip back to the
spawn and although not many kills came out of this fight it is a
static we think favor of DK he's got. Yeah and the next one will be as well
Right? You'd be with the symbol at least should God against Labda's OC that
Kellix with the Sanctuary able to absorb all of the kill pressure from Twisted Minds
looking at Foneastro at least with the Sambar advantage. Does that close up to both of
something that Twisted Minds have to watch?
Foneastro holding onto this beat, time enhancer him, of course that's a huge kill on the Kellix, make sure the Sanctuary can't come out.
Labda just retreating here with the OC and of course has been such a hero with the
individual kills really just kind of have more from here so you can't even ask for this much
it is not fair yet somehow Quartz is deliberate feels like they need more though i mean that's
that's a scary thought for Twisted Mind when Quartz is playing at his best that it's not enough
right like that's how i'm starting to feel at least in this game's realm it buys you time at least
simple close to rough tell us could absorb it with sound barrier pressure live as GK trying to
to find a way to navigate around these chokes.
With that sim to be wonderful, so low does die.
On to that sim turret from Yubi,
and GK Lufferpap, the sojourn,
are now stuck on an island on second point of control.
So this group of four, no pushovers, right?
They could definitely fight this one,
and just in mind, it's gonna get to that respect as well.
It's playing that open against Yoggotsy,
incredibly low, similar comes out.
So too does the sanctuary,
teeny and tee, just gets overwhelmed
past the south for just to stay alive.
He's like, what?
It was past the sim wall, that's the thing, TM wait for Alphina to set up the sim wall and then Yubi perfectly sets in the sim tp just as TVNT's mech is about to explode.
Even Tivo, stuck on the diva still, into both the Mizuki and the Symmetra.
It's working versus the Malga, yet again, it cubes the Zed sustainability somewhat contain.
But now you're looking at courts with this OC to keep things wash keeping.
TP instantly broken, but this time DK get through it without trouble.
Ports with the OC trying to get some kind of a punish, but there's no one in the angle.
Still, Carter's quite far back, so you really have to step up.
Twisted Mind's now in a fully mapped position, and it's simple this time.
Define the kill on the counter, they keep finding these openers and the individuals on TM.
Stepping up when the team needs them most, laughter though keeps this fight going with the kill on Corkz.
Still reasonably healthy, but Yubi wants to fix that in short order, but no, the support is too good here.
Awareness in assisting this now getting even a nice little additional stagger on to Yubi.
Just in mind, they're going to be fast on the retake, they should get another chance into this.
And they've already got the symbol and the sign barrier ready to go.
So you have two tools to answer the aggression from GK both the OC and the Malga cage
There's a women's
He's just caging them out of the fight. They may not have the TP to be able to touch it. It's beautiful. I love it from zion
Oh, and he's
Okay, there's no
Oh my god, he's he's like that is just saying that is disgusting
It's because he knew he used the TP to roll out as is
And you don't have S1mple TP to escape from the game.
Exactly, there's nothing getting out of the cage.
That's such a heads-up play from Ziad.
I don't think they win that fight. He has to try that.
They used the S1mple too, Jake.
They used the S1mple and the S1mbar, so now a lot of it gets pretty overclocked.
That's really, really well done. Now, GK.
Remember, they're still going to pull up against them, so they're a long way from a King's Row win.
Getting the rush up on S1mple though is quite the start.
I mean, OZ for rush is definitely a trade you will take here as GK is useful.
Especially, you've got S1mple from Alpy.
So like, towards the mines, they will be able to secure some map space, but that can all be taken away.
Quartz, with the overclock, DK not having the symbol of death yet, not to fully cut it out.
Try to hide now, when the symbol is up, that Quartz is already on an angle to punish before they can TP out.
Just the mines are so insanely good at the poke game, this time the self-destructs won't find kills,
but the frontline has been indomitable.
From DK's, where they will be able to take all this pressure and still be able to capture points.
Checkpoints quartz though really stepping up to the plate now on the soldier and making all the value in the world
Charging up a lot of those rails TV and he just stalling things out slowing the game down by inch and inch slowly
He came roll things for us. You might not be able to pick these heads up
The game is in here comes in with the brush beat come down as well
That's funny. Ask her has to come inside of the cage
But there's not much hope for him or TV and he just overwhelmed by the sheer weight of the key cave wrong
Oh, it was the cage.
Asher has to use B to save TVNT because he doesn't have self-destruct, so B only connects to 2.
And off in the back of that, DK should be able to push.
TVNT will desperately try to swap to the wrecking ball, but he's moved away.
He's able to get the ball and the touch for stall out.
But I don't think anyone else is close enough, and yet, there we go.
Full push from both teams.
The difference? 4 seconds.
So it comes to this, an overtime round, clocks virtually tied here, GK with just a few seconds
more time.
I mean this rush cage is like, the beat is, the beat lasts all of one second, I mean you're
just annihilated into this one, Ziad I think has been-
It catches two and then you have to contest with rush on top of the cage as well from
GK.
This is not happening, it's not happening.
I don't think South barrier really means much of anything into that kind of a you know
Especially with Sim behind me the DPS is devastating even on someone as tanky as Diva
But now with all the perks online and no opportunity for mistakes
I think both teams are put to a really serious test here in the OT round, which will decide this map
Yeah, but I think for TM, especially when you look at how fast GK were able to cap fast
You have to get at least Sunway for a second. Okay
Like if I mean what is it really? No, this is a bit surely this is the one to play the far
I I mean I will say with the full perks online
I feel like you could open Bastion right and use that that tank form perk from the get-go
Which actually I think you be
Of course, I mean the tank for Bastion
There has dominated yeah for quite a few times have to go bastard cat like even if you don't get a kill
You still force GK to have to respect the space of the Bastion Cat and the damage they can do which means that TM get from Choke
by losing the player early.
I have to call the pawn on this high ground to maybe get some kind of a defense, but Nosey can't really hold the line with Cap Bastion in the sky.
When he asked her, for now a slow position, pretty defensive,
weathering the storm this turret form it as it ends. Tempo to GK, they need to swing out first.
Capture point already grabbed here. First checkpoint rather, Ford.
the attackers here and DK scrammer to get some kind of a counter kill when they have this moment of strength reports
Gonna be coming back in with the next tank bomb here. It comes lab to shooting back up those guys
I'm very good damage actually the trade made this barely come in but after all past the full ports out of the fight
And even that is not enough to keep the bashing alive. So they give a tick setting a win con
Fortress didn't mind but for now I mean they can get a touch, but it is gonna be one heck of a scrappy one here
Recky bomb, maybe you can get it down to the side.
You just annihilated even the tracer.
Even like Recall isn't quite enough.
You'd be just, I think, an inch shy on that Recall
to get the overtime rolling.
Oh, Kalex.
I mean, well done by Labda to be able to stand there
and just duel up into the sky,
putting so much damage down on the Quartz
that funding Aster has to actually pull him out
of the fight on the Cap Bastion.
It takes away from TV and T as well.
That's the thing. Like, so much pressure goes out
onto Quartz. All of the healing has to be focused
has to be focused on the Bastion and TVNT is just left out to dry.
Yeah. I mean, Sim and Sigma running you over is, uh, it's not a good time to be without
support, right? You really need a lot of assist on Sigma in that moment. However, I feel like
TM have done enough. I mean, getting the OT, like getting a take on first is very winnable.
Like, this just comes down to one single fight.
Here's the issue though. Like, if you're Twisted Minds, you lost first so quickly
to Pharah Sojourn. So I feel like Quartz has to roll out on the Cassidy, which
Which means that GK can literally just go scout the fact that Quartz is on the cast
and punish that he's not on the soldier.
I will say though, I don't think there is any like very significant punish.
I mean, just in my comp, there is no like hard counter.
Maybe the cap action is the best you could do, but I don't-
Sochna, at least, is not going to kill someone off of just a one shot potential
before we have the chance to go down.
Which is one of the advantages of a defensive soldier in these overtime ranks.
Yeah, yeah.
You actually don't have to worry about those sniper threat.
DK though, they're gonna take the mirror, liking their odds decent enough.
It's funny after the Mizuki's Yubi following him behind and Yubi does stand tall the fight though is so incredibly quick
They needed the latest one of the Mizuki which is actually massive
But still 25 seconds of I think there's still a chance for a regroup and another engagement
Lab is going sojourn as
Well, so now team have to be very careful about that snipe potential
Someone dies because they're forced into contesting like course can hold space at least 50m with dead
But if Lava gets an open kill and full support, it's so hard for TM to recover from.
Sin Turret's cooking away from Newly Quartz, finds Lab at Tilburn, up to the high ground.
Big Dead Eye Channel drops Kellix, big shreds onto the other and twists his mind.
Hold the line on King's Row. It goes absolutely through the wire.
Put some clutch plays in the defense.
Yubi stands tall there after losing his Sigma.
To hold the first fight, Quartz opens up with a quick kill on the Lab that should just ice out any possibility of the opponent's taking the map.
I mean, the DME caused the series one to one.
I have a feeling you're gonna be right, monster.
This one might just go the distance.
That is the Vendetta Vandetta.
And I think that actually really influenced
a lot of what TVNT was able to accomplish on the TV.
Wait, quartz?
But then quartz did almost 30k.
Let it deadlift has a new face.
That is disgusting.
I mean, I will say this cat Bastion,
I mean, the damage you deal with this kind of style
is heinous, I mean.
Yeah, we do have to go back and check to see like exactly what portion of that damage Quartz did was on the Bastion and what was on things like the Serge and the Cassidy.
I mean he was doing work on everything he touched. Like that's the thing Quartz is as good as he's ever been. I really feel like you watch him play. There's no question about his individual level right now.
It's the overall, just in my scene, that maybe isn't quite so far ahead of the competition as they once were. Here we can see this TP bomb play. Look at that timing.
TP bomb perfectly through the sem-wool.
I think they actually been on the far side,
but I think maybe they were trying to split the sem-wool.
Maybe they exhaled the TP and,
I mean, that was down to the limit.
Getting two kills off that, though, is, that's a lot.
I mean, it feels like you'd be a little bit more defensive,
a little bit of disrespect, of course, from the defense.
They could get away with a more aggro peak.
But in the end, twisted minds,
they stabilized through a map win.
I mean, calling that a stable map win,
though, it doesn't feel right, right?
that done is as close as it gets on King's Wrap.
Yeah, I mean full push for both teams.
One minute, one minute, four seconds.
Like I said, that's the Vendetta.
Like Ban now done.
I really want to see Twisted Minds
have those same consistencies of clutches
with things like the Diva versus the Malga
when Vendetta is still in play.
I think that's probably going to be
one of the strongest like issues
that favor on King's Rally.
I think you can play this Diva into the Vendetta.
I don't think you can play Diva into the Vendetta.
I feel like they want to because of how uncomfortable it makes the Maga feel.
DK are going to take us to Runosapi and honestly, you know, I think this is this kind of dynamic map type is
is exactly what you want when you want to go all out aggression with the vendetta with the Maga.
You know, this is the kind of a map type push and flash point and control that you really want.
I think the interesting thing will be Escort, which I suspect will lead the way Chris and
minds want to take the series to kind of slow things down by space and time for
course to work we know he can absolutely deliver game-winning kills and
honestly just does every single team fight it's kind of disgusting how
consistent he is but needs to do a lot here on runesompy where one pick may not
be enough when it comes to an all-out rush engagement. I mean that's one of
the concerns I think that a lot of teams have currently how possible is
it to actually carry as a solo in this current meta because it feels like it's a much more
team orientated meta right as we get the first ban coming out of the side of GK. They will
be removing simple's Kiriko, which also now safeguards your other supports as well as
Sigma will be banned out. Interesting that TM don't try to take the Mauga out so maybe
Maybe Jake you're right, maybe they do decide to bend the knee, move away from the diva, and mirror.
I mean, banning the Curious is a really odd one actually for me because I honestly don't understand why you don't ban Malaga anymore
because when you're banning Curious you don't really intend to play Malaga. If you were going to play Malaga, you would want Curie, like universally.
I think the synergy between these two heroes is disgusting. Gauge fight rush is, I think, one of the most unbeatable combos in the game right now.
And yet, banning the Curie away yourselves, I guess it attacks at the cat set up in a way because Curie's really been the one support who feels like she can actually play the game when cat is like off on a mission with Bastion.
Like, at least you have some survivability on Curie and some healing throughput for the tank. Not that it's easy to pilot.
But, I mean, this is going to throw all sorts of chaos now. We're going to see something completely new because both of these heroes have been mainstays so far in the series.
Yeah, no, Susie as well
Susie's like such an important cool down. Is it like the most?
Viable cool down base cool down that is in the whole game. Maybe you think though this long of and data
All right, I feel like the most I'll buy on this hill tracer blanket. That's not even close
That's like you most heroes would give up Cassidy would give up both roll and flashbang to have three tracer
every hero in the game every DTS hero.
And she just releases with one
that gives her additional armor.
Literally Tracer, Roger Reaper with Tracer
that's the best hero in the game
any hero with Tracer plays.
Can you imagine if they released Cas
in 2026 like all of his kit
what it would come with?
He'd probably have a horse, do you know
she'd be a cowboy who actually gets to ride a horse.
They should give him a horse, that should be a perk
that should be a perk.
That would go crazy hard, you know
like oh Cassidy has a heart like I'm down I'm down bring the silly embrace the
silly speaking of the silly decay interesting look for them a little bit
of hybrid between poke and rush really curious to see how this plays up against
cap this feels very teched to deal with cat bastard I like the fact as well
that Tia not taking advantage of the lack of cure code because it will be
Malga in Malga but one Malga has to face anti-naid from simple with no
carry the cleanser. Honest thing alive in this comp, I'm scared. Okay, initial sleep
connected, and Maid on to Maga. Big trades to open this fight, and Quartz is over the
top, bringing down the damage from above. Okay, no one's even able to look at Simple,
and so the Ana able to get a tremendous value in this fight. Clean engagement. You've
got the 70p as well, right? So if they get close enough to Simple, Yubi just teleports
them out. True, true, can utilize some additional mobility. Yeah, instantly, off
of Maga, on to D.Va. Matrix to eat the Maids, and the Sleeps, notice it's
impossible to play the Mauga. The moment you get hit by that purple, forces Finn to have to use a
Matati build, takes away all the resources from the team.
Still, Simple is going to be in a scary game right now with with a speed to teleport D.Va, able to
threaten him, able to menace him at times. Now it's going to be actually going to kind of box
out on the payload, but Finn taking a lot of pressure in the backline of being made from
Simple, good enough, backing Kel'It's off for the trade. But as the low numbers engagement
kind of comes out, it feels like D.Va able to profit your Kel'It's also staying alive without
Maybe that's all they need to develop this fight well
I mean despite a great early engagement the back of the honor there did not be able to close that one out I
Think that was two kills off of the ad in baby
Maybe do you miss baby? There's a shooter all right like the Glock is there a little simple are they able to get that into a
No, no one can follow up with the kill. I'll be eats the nade instead get down mr. President moment
to get back into it which is very much required because if TM could just push
with Marga with no D.Va to eat all of that self-sustaining, TM just won the fight.
That's right. A lot of players have been saying on a unplayable right now you
cannot make it work so just gonna try here in a crucial map in the series.
Little teleport through the courts is more than ready. Oh my goodness that
took you to the wrong neighborhood. The bastard for twisted minds. Well
school in the ways of Symmetra just deletes them off the BK.
I mean, GK teleported just back into their own spawn.
Super fast.
It's the new Sim perk.
Super far teleport.
That's bringing back the old Sim TP, the respawn TP, from, you know, five years ago
or whatever.
Or, I mean, Cap Ashen has always been so good on Runisabi.
GK, if you like to kind of cop flatfooted by at this comp in TM, while the Raki
He actually has worked so hard towards instantly gets a kill onto Finn and matrix out
It's not really able to develop too much without the heal system coming through from that
But the symbol from Alphie may be doing enough UV throws his into the mix as well
But these have already gone too bad to burst here a cat naps done
If it'd be good enough to take down Alphie and Ziad eventually we'll just run out of research to make the hole
So it's bloody, but what's it mine should be able to capture first one
Yeah, forward spawns will be secured
GK at least don't have a reason of holding this sound barrier as we actually get Alphie
Yu moving onto the tracer so likely wanting to put more pressure on Senpo on this armor.
Twisted mind is like they've had Zia try to put pressure on him, Yuvi has just turned
and melted the D.Va net for Matrix.
Now we have to see if Alphie Yu can get the punishment on Senpo's positioning.
TM show up their resources and hold us upon the line
They're running the other chance of remanding is huge for Kellex's beat fully stabilizes the rest of TM
So desperate to follow up on that simple rising TP back to a safe angle and force actually is gonna overwhelm
finding free in the fight
So many resources had to come out just because of that biotic grenade from simple and he may actually live okay
Just barely goes down, but the cart is still gonna roll forward getting without the auto support
So I mean that day from simple getting the beat out of Kellex was
I tell you what, GK, they're kicking themselves at the moment.
They banned Kiriko! They let all of this happen!
You ever see what I say? None of this happens.
You have no issue with these nades,
as GK having to really claw every inch
to win some of these fights.
Lava to at least put Deadeye,
but no cat to get him in a fifth position to use it.
Bashing puts a lot of damage down on Ziad.
That form is out though,
so maybe there's an opportunity for the Deadeye
to zone some players away,
The funny thing is, most players back into holding powder, the stomping that comes in ends the dead eye prematurely, and TVNT, still healthy.
Creating a lot of space for Simples on it.
GK stepping up now, they need to find some kind of a punish, but they're already bruised, they're already battered.
Simple cruising for that Nano boost.
Here comes Amatrix, desperate here from Finn.
He's going to keep this fight rolling.
The shot is out from TVNT, it stabilizes him, but there's a Nano tank in the backline.
No one ready to deal with Quartz in the biz.
And Finn, long way from his Amatrix here, it is in the all twisted minds of the feed.
one counter kill for Kalex, but the cart continues to roll inexorably forward and getting back to this
mid map position is starting to feel Herculean. I mean, now Gukage as well. If you're TM,
you can go for combo of Tank Strike as we have a disconnect from Simple. Oh, that hurts. Actually.
And yeah, like you said, that does hurt because TM, like, they'll be poised up. They'll be without
that Ana to be able to fight into this next engagement quickly. There's an opportunity
for GK here, there is a window that they can take advantage of, fully open it before TM can slam it in their face.
I mean, GK have also gone over to an Ana of their own, which I actually quite like in this moment, right,
with the Gary band, with the opponent playing Maga, it's like, simple or...
Yeah, purple. That's all you have to do.
He's been doing so much and...
Maga's unplayable.
Exactly, exactly. And the sleep also really hurts on Maga, like getting isolated,
stopping your DPS when you pop your shot, right? It's a really rough handle, can her do so.
That Ana, I think, can potentially really change the game.
Simple has already been doing massive work on the hero.
And see how the retreat really comes out for TM here,
is getting back into the game.
Hopefully, Charlotte would take a look at the scoreboard.
We can see so far, I mean, Quartz has been, like, 21 and 1.
He's already got the Max perk on Basjian.
I mean, look at Simple's assist, though. 16.
Yeah, Beast Mode from both supports, right?
They're both really involved in a ton of these fights.
And Simple, of course, is gonna take some deaths on the Ana.
I think that's
Like that is not bad
We were saying that the animite struggle staying alive here
But the thing about Twisted mind is like they're so good at understanding what is winning them these fights, right?
They do it so often with quads where they just pump all of these resources in so he gets the space to be able to go and get those kills
And they understand that the crux of this composition that they're playing into the Malga is keeping simple alive
So so many of these players are perfectly peeling for this Anna so that simple does not die because geek a
Understand they want now gonna work Anna has to be dead and TM
Literally beat the now go to the point that Zed swaps off of it and Finn is now going to try and use TM strategy against them
They have the back lines on a TV and TV still help me just gonna pop the cage fight in response
They stabilize on point and the artillery fire. She's over well God
No way out of that situation, DVNZ though, takes way too much damage to stabilize him.
It's up to Quartz to keep this fight rolling, but he's over the top, just beating him down from above.
The name is a decent start to the fight, but with cage-by-frame to respond.
You can swap Moga here.
No, for DVNT, like, you've done your job.
You forced them off of the Moga.
They're now on the Ana, so you want to be able to go DV to eat the Nades as well.
And it looks like Geek here just happened that they forced Moga swap.
Now that the maga is gone Finn who actually died in that fight is able to swap on the back
They just have major cat fashion issues in this game like quartz is just running over get quartz finds another kill
Is that a beat on the one from Kellex that is a key out the
grabs a kill onto simple keeps this fight somehow remotely playable
But as the dust settles you'd be still healthy fully energized on car fighting the sim is not something you want to do in that
kind of a moment and Finn is a couple behind him. It's like he is able to get out and I
think they're obliged to at this point. I mean, voice has just dominated him. If this
has not been a competitive map.
But look at the distance. It's like so much distance picked up for Tien. It feels a little
too late for GK because like here's the thing, simple saking on that Ana, now means
that Quartz will get Nano Boost. So he'll beat out Lacto in the future.
Well, Quartz already took the tank form part, so that actually has, I think, an
advantage of the Sky Dole with the typical turret form. And now he disconnects on a simple
over the top lap to assist with the finish. The board's trying to just beam down out of
the air and he'll be able to do enough damage. Yaw though finds Ubi and re-insures it this
fight will not be an easy clean up as TNT courts both dropping loads of Yaw. Stands the
test of time, a little bit of HP left on this D.Va but it seems to be all that
he needs. He really wants to keep this unit alive. If he could do that it would
be a big win for DK. There you go. He moved back towards mid map. Feels like the first
time in a generation on Ruzavi.
Fins up of the map again, we're sort of playing musical heroes for GK's backline at this point,
but like I said, simple will have that nanoboost to give quotes, maybe Ziad with the self-destruct
can find something, Tiam not having that symbol, even if it's just carving space for
GK to get to work around some of these corners, pick up those forward spawns, but if you're
You don't have to go further than this right you can just set and wait for your Nana boost to come online
So get the other ones I have to force the issue fly by from both with the assist of Zed actually coming with
For the matrix to a drop some of the prepping ports
Zod out of the suit it just completely popped from the sky box ports layering in a tank shell there
So far this tank armor really hasn't been hurting for these people to keep this dual going in the sky
with just a typical meekon bastion and now a great grenade on the retreat of fan and honor
knocked out of this one and you I mean you called it too late I think it certainly feels that way
twisted minds with a full bank of ultimates nearly to work with and ek kind of grasping its
draws they do not look as comfortable in this style reactively yeah I mean Alfie has to get
one heck of a clutch pot until simple before this nanoboost comes out if ek want a chance at
winning this one out there Jake and you can see he's already being hard marked.
Look at that little...
They've set up their 7 TPs and that when the Tracer closes up the distance with Pulse,
he just zips away.
Yeah this is the threat though of the typical Bastion form.
It's way better at dueling up in the sky.
You'd be using that TP to create effect to stay alive deep into the fight but
GK holding the line when you shut down the enemy Bastion,
it should just be an instant fight win and it looks to be so in this case.
Very clutch kills from GK and also holding it to Ultimates too.
cheap fight wins because they have a lot of distance to be able to win these fights back to back with and
Tian have all of their alts available plus it's about to be over time which means that you don't get the opportunity of
Disengaging of cliting of using your second you have to get these kills and you have to win out these fights outright
No time left over in fair here comes a nano-bassion on the attack lab that absolute pole position simply getting a ton of support here
But it's not even close to enough catnap attempt it out of the sky but funny as though
This heads to an early grave and yeah that manobatch it doesn't seem to be response to it's young
It's gonna manage to go down and think of reset just before overtime pops
We feel good because they able to get this over to respond, but still
Right because like the time bank and the distance lead that he already had force key K to have to use
ult early. Tm were not forced to use ult themselves. So Raptor will use the artillery strikes just trying to
put pressure onto Tm but Kors gets the nanoburst and Thin is gone, wipes off of the face of Runisapi
and GK likely following suit, only being able to align the cat.
Catnap, full desperation, way too fire in the sky, Tnt is nowhere to be found on that one.
Quartz barreling forward over the enemy bastion, free reign for him now on the map.
Into the tank farm wants to be able to pop this babybeast but he will be able to do
So costume is like, but well worth it didn't I that overtime stall
similar
Beautiful nap fight from UV and TM gonna go up to one in the series with the comp that it feels like only they could play
Well, they've done this before is the really funny thing all the way back in stage one
TM first, I believe I was very strong on what point you brought her and
And there was a ban on Kyariko.
And then they wanted to, they knew that VP wanted to play Hazard.
So they just got to play Ana and totally shut it down.
So like, I feel like for Verdi, they're the one team that you don't want to ban Kyariko
into, because they will just take the opportunity and run simple on the Ana, and it will literally
run you out of that lobby.
I mean, the thing about Kyariko, right, is how good the minimum value is on Kyariko.
You know, player like simple, he's just so solid on character.
We don't really question it.
You know, he gets a lot of kills from the kunai,
but we was able to play a hero like Ana
with no one able to deny that value.
It's a different story.
I mean, you really feel his impact on the match.
Alphie, one of the best traces in the game,
really could never quite get on top of this Ana.
And I mean, that is, I think, as big of a statement
as anything in this kind of a match.
Yeah, I mean, again, there goes back to the fact
that TM understood that the Ana was winning
them those fights, that there would be a lot of pressure
the game. And it's not
becoming simple way. This is
not as simple ironically enough
as that is as going into your
average games trying to run
Anna up against all of the
potential that GK have and
expecting that your team will
be able to keep you up. This
is the coordination that
you expect at this high
level. And the fact that
twisted minds like it's not
just the fact that they've
been playing together so
long. It's also the fact
that you be is in right
core concept of we have to keep simple up if simple dice we lose these fights it's
the perfect mixture for twisted minds to be able to walk away with a dominant
runes happy performance it's a big win for them and in a stage that is a little
bit in question for twisted minds I mean this is an important one to write
the ship if they can win this series 3-1 or even heck if it goes to 5 it goes
to 5 but you need to come away with a win here as twisted minds but so to
geeky I mean for neither team is this an easy one to give up and as we go
to circuit really interested in this choice from DK because I look at this I
think I mean the sim is dominating maybe you banned the sim I mean this this could
be the moment to deploy it maybe your last chance to do so in the series because
of course if we go to map 5 just the mines could protect well at least we're
back to Kiriko I mean all we actually pulling back to Kiriko though because
the circuit around like you can play things like papalari here
especially on the defense like
she's so good at greeting for
poke while still having to heal
her team so you don't get
punished for trying to juggle
both. Again we see very much
not wanting to turn and
embrace a lot of the stuff
that was dropped in 2026 and
just banning it outright so
she on removed. That was
definitely something that GK
As Jetpack Cap will be the first band, so no Cap Bastion,
the team now started looking slightly more comfortable on.
This is quite a statement from GK.
They're more threatened by the Cap Bastion than by the UB Sim.
And then historically, it was just a question of when teams
were going to ban Sim against UB.
I mean, that was really the only meaningful question
in the band phase, sometimes in Twisted Minds matches.
But now, I think it's fair that the Cap Bastion became,
they had not had really an answer consistently to deal
with the course.
last map it was mostly just ports over the top bashing getting a free kill to
start the fight and it's like yeah honest doing a lot in the backline but the
bashing is like we're not even playing the game the cat bashing is just it's just
you know camping us from the skybox you got to get that out on circuit royale
to have a little bit more of a straightforward match but it doesn't
mean he's very comfortable on the sim in this matchup I'm a little scared for
Geek and this defense maybe the far from out but you could change the
story here but won't be easy I mean I find it surprising as well
because like you're going to be playing Sigma.
So letting that same fur...
You could play Malga Rush on this map, it is not bad actually.
You could play Malga, there have been a fair few teams that have turned
to Malga which speaks the ship level of survivability that that tank has.
Like just shrugging off all of the poke damage, shouldering his way into those fights.
It's like as good as Celari poke is.
If you go too greedy with the poke backline, you'd get annihilated by just full inting from, you know, speed ring,
Maga, and Dettah into the backline, and Maga might die, but you were all coming down with him if you get, you know, too cheeky with the picks.
So just in my eyes, go with a pretty staid and comfortable rush comp for them, one that's very much in the middle of the road,
and Geekay, like, can be able to see this and respond with picks of their own.
I don't feel you considering them and Dettah, although in a much slower style, it's not as obvious how to make that work.
Yeah, I do like that TVNT is sort of hedging his bets in terms of what GK plays from Atra
very solid into things like the Sigma but also having the Vortex to shut down movement
from things like that Vendetta if GK want to lean on it, as it doesn't look like they
will be circuit the long line of size just a little too problematic with Vendetta's
ease of access, but it will be the Sometra alongside that Bastion to have that mobility
I mean Alpha E goes down dropping the TP, but the TP has all the impact he needs in the fight, getting that Sigma into a backflank position, and see, ah, it just runs through them.
All of the extra old charge farm off the sim turrets and TVNT goes over to the maga.
They recognize that playing slow against this Sigma comp is pretty much not an option.
But will you actually be able to overrun him? Labda, I love this, gets off the Bastion, not a good match to the maga.
Goes over to the star which we all played that range.
Both of these teams of this encounter can play the range from rail off of maga. TVNT melts on the spot.
He's in trouble. No shout. And no, he just goes back.
Without Quartz in the fight, you don't have much hope.
Four twisted minds, it's always the case.
This is the issue of running Malgo on Serger, right? You have no shield.
Yeah, it's like...
You have no shield, so into that soldier, and Labder will just be able to find these players without that cover
and melt them down. TVNT won't be sticking on this, I reckon. Well, this is purely to touch.
So that TN gets an opportunity to try to play simple rush into bends, but yet again, Labder finds the pick.
I mean, Labrador can do so much here with that space and the IME is just poking away at the back line, not too distracted.
Five TBNTs wrecking ball, great focus fire from him.
Looking for the kills that will actually move the needle in this teamfight, he finds them.
I mean, this is a comp that I don't think is easy to just overrun, literally, for Maga, right?
For, you know, DK, they have this MTP to kind of pull players away from the Maga.
The cage fights hard to get value out of.
I think DK have found themselves a really good matchup comp here.
It's really just a soldier who can buy something, but even he is pressurized, so to speak.
You can feel the team are feeling the pressure as well, right, TVNT?
Different tank, again, D.Va.
Which means that all of Ziad does not have to worry about any cancels through the plots
you've just had to invest that same wall, simple, with a kitchen and a rush.
Mashing fins and quartz is doing what quartz does best.
Killing the whole enemy team without using the ult.
It looked hopeful in the poke trade, but a 3v5, it's just too much of a burden to get through TVNT now.
BNT now, cleans up the back line. That fight looked scarily winnable, 4GK even down 1, but
ultimately they throw the Sim wall in just as they lose that second pick and it kills
their chances in this teamfight. Now just in mind, new lease on life, a little bit of
comfort in this setup and now they can really get, I think, more aggressive in this out.
Here comes the OC straight to the spawn door. What a shot on top of that, that
is disgusting. The beat thrown in over the top, putting Astro, pop that as soon as
He heard Labda pop the OC, but that OC did not last long, Maxi.
Yeah, and Labda's all is not combo'd with Calyx's.
Like, Iggy, Kay, they'll have a little later and break free from that spawn.
They probably want to do that.
Yeah, they probably want to do it, but Quartz using it early forced Labda to have to match.
Quartz just deleted him in like half a second.
Like, I didn't even hear the voice of the enemy soldier.
It was just over that quick, but now it just flies out of ultimates.
They want to keep playing this aggressive, but they're posturing super aggro in the frontline.
a big rock to the face of you, but Sporty's good actually.
Y'all made it, he got faded in to try to chase that one down.
It isn't trade one-for-one in the fight with the Rage,
maybe doing enough to stabilize this TDNT,
trying to get that self-difference connected.
TP is awkward, what's the bomb not just about to do damage,
but you're not either able to save TDNT,
now Alphie dancing around with UB,
with one of the best to do it here on this metro,
but so far Alphie's a little comfortable.
I mean, if you're a TM though, you're okay with trades.
Like, you're baiting GK into having to use ults,
Which means that now they have nothing to stand up to Simple's rush.
Which means that you play whole of the space back like the moment Simple gets this, you use the Buzzi and get Flux.
Flux is scary though. I mean, 10% away is not much time, but of course Simple's gonna try and push every instance of advantage that he has.
Optimus not quite yet online for the response, but DK, teleporting out of that, really nicely, they stay alive.
The rush doesn't really get much value at all, Ziakul, taking a little early into this one, it means that HP back up high.
TP into the high ground with the Flux, oh it was pretty good, they need the fall damage in the air and they'll get a big connection on to aft reports, finished off as well by some well placed hyperspears in the yard.
Finally a better team fight for the attackers, but hold on, there's still a fight to be played, Ubi battles back a kill into that one and keeps it interesting.
Yeah, GK going to have to deal with crates, but should be able to dispatch TM Spires.
But that fight going that long does mean that TM will get an opportunity to play into this next one.
And if you're GK, you're worried because that next one involves B and over the clock.
So GK is killed close now on face the bear.
They have to be testing the SimWall. It's not easy to even finish the sound barrier.
This procedure out here is devastating. Funny answer.
Desperately dealing, trying to charge out like a TP through to the back line,
get some players at least a position for which to fight, but DK just instantly flipped the map once again.
Here comes the beat out of Astro. Good trade, so far for DK, but Labnett needs to finish it off,
and Cork has already found blood in the fight. TNT, perhaps another. Labnett can't get much of
anything into this. Maybe that kill on the mech is enough, but with the sub-strike
getting TNT back into the suit, although he might make it there.
Those keep the fight rolling, but now it's just Ziad, rudely staggered out of this
harmony he's gonna get. I mean, they actually kill him very quick there. I think that's
lucky for zea they could have probably let that guy go what's held the oc that's so massive
hands of steel honestly on this guy like who holds the oc in that spot that is actually crazy
yeah which means that now you get combo of oc rush and gk they've got ray but they don't have oc
from lab to play off of it like zea at least is self-destruct so you have full potential
the team have kill potential and that's far greater yeah the rush is going to be a huge
question asked him, Kellix with the Ray, maybe this damage amp. Finding an instant kill, feels like
Lab just called upon in this fight to show us something really impressive. Here comes the
Ray over the top, hiding away from the problem with the device. We engage in here with the OC,
with the rush. Bringing that damage to Matrix, blocking for now, and self-destruction. So there's
a wave at Seat, grabbed out of it's hands, though. Falls two, but the symbol from UD is
going to do so much in court. Just keep delivering. This guy does not stop on the
So he's had a few kills in the fight.
He's looking for more.
It'll be back to the spot with DK Esports.
Ziad, desperation, wrecking ball.
So he's kind of caught in the flank.
OK, Labrador's grabbed that kill back,
but Ted Ziad even made it for the touch.
Funny how they're going to be camping this one with the boob.
And the touch will not come in.
That'll be all the cart progress
that DK Esports find into this one.
And Twisted Knight, back with the vengeance on the Sim
comp.
It is hotly contested in this matchup,
but Ubi's TP's, it feels like they
are making the difference.
Quartz as well, just like holding Oc
to have in that last fight, right? Yeah, I mean, that fight was-
Insane stuff from him to have it with the rush. Like, sniping there is the end.
That's- Like, if you don't get that kill, I can do the fight.
Maybe form after pro-net, the self-destruct. Yeah, because he just gets back into the
mech. Yeah, the resuit would have been really
hard to deal with, so, I mean, Quartz, he's just too dang good. Like, when Twisted
Minds- What's crazy is he's not just good when Twisted Minds are good. He's
good when Twisted Minds are slowing down, they don't feel as good as they once
were. He's still delivering on just that same level. I also got a hand at the
only three deaths in that map, very clean performance on the Kiriko, makes the difference in a lot of these key fights.
Yeah, TM now will be on the attack. This could potentially be where we get to see that Rematra.
From TV and T, run into players. I think like Kikei, they're anticipating this very fast washdown style.
They want to use the Mizuki to try to slow it down alongside that signal,
give Lapda the space to be able to work with, try and shut Quartz down before he's able to get these kills onto the defense.
that we have to see a shot down of TN's DPS because that's where they've been able to come alive this series so far.
I mean it's such a tough spot when you feel like you got to match Quartz on Hitscan and actually still deliver.
Well Matt has been doing it though, like these two players they've been matched up against each other for a very long time.
I mean Quartz is dominating it in this series, I mean he's been decimating it on Hitscan.
Oh yeah, Quartz has been winning this series for sure.
It's like, well that's solid but Quartz is just, he's like maybe the number one in the world and that's the level you're gonna have to challenge up against
if you want to get a win off Tm. Nice little set of skills from TDNT, great opening to the
trade and TDNT collects his first scull of the fight and I have a feeling that they're gonna be
more courts in a beautiful position on this high ground just raining down fire and fury from above.
Now Ravda outside of the fight looking in trying to find some kind of counter kill,
but they will get nothing. Twisted, mind's just battered the opposition.
I mean TDNT is setting courts up so well as well, Vortex on to GK to slow their rotation,
which means that Quartz is able to take their high ground position totally uncontested
and catch on to those players when they're not able to strafe the Sojin shots
and it all happens so fast like that's the thing about Sojin
you die to Sojin so fast you don't get the opportunity to heal
so Finn Kellex not ahead of simple in terms of rush charge
and stay alive. This is a moment of opportunity for GK to grab a kill back and relab it to get something, but you know, for it being presented and as he said, Rush is coming, beautiful clock so it's going to mitigate that possibility.
And although Simple is going to find his way to the rush, it'll be even too late for this person.
I mean, that's clutch from Ziad.
We cannot stay enough for how well that prepares.
GK into this next fight.
Now you have watched much simple
and you have sanctuary from Kellex
to be able to absorb the overclock pressure from Quartz.
I do worry though that TVNT will just use annihilation
on top of what Kellex is alternate.
It's a really rough way from the Zuki teams
to have to deal with.
They have a lot of damage to bring to bear on TVNT.
It's gonna be hard for them to just stay alive.
the amount of spam pressure up against him. I think you're right to call it that ultimate as key,
even with the earlier sim wall could also be a different figure, but the spam pressure immense
here. Shield comes out from DDT just to get them out into the fight. The rock is good. Slow some
players down and early rush out from the defenders. A little bit of a better one for the
attackers. It's already found out that he's sanctuary needs to come up with a beautiful rock
from downtown pinfalls up the Kunai. Hold on, there's still a fight to play without
ports on the field between DDT and ravaging the backline. Now back to clean up this
subjective payload and hold on to it does come to an end it's a nice hiding into the room
hey somehow some way they split apart deny value from the rematch ultimate and hold on to this
first checkpoint incredible stuff I'm in lab to OC clutch I'll be your symbol so that even
though you're down some of your players down some of your support you still have that sustainability
and you have the dance potential to get kills on to TM and that was TM's big play
Use all of that ultimate to pick up check point, hold up more, play into second.
Now you're down to one minute and you're looking for clutch points from Quartz and Yubi.
Clutch kills, which they had come very quickly shut down with that flux.
Structurist out, zone sports away for now.
See how the flux has been so clean that he's going to find that Symmetra.
Is the damage going to be there?
Yubi's so incredibly low, but he stays alive.
It's TDNT without the support of Symbol in that moment who does drop.
Who's that?
Good split focus bar from KK Esports in the moment everyone had to protect the Sim.
It's actually the frontline or 2DNT who goes down and Alphorn will be available.
Oh, Teal is a poking! Jake, Teal must still poking Zed! Finn's taking all the charge out of Golden Rush!
I mean, they're probably both gonna have Rush in this deepbite, but the first one is available for Finn and will you be able to weather the storm simple 10% away?
It feels so close, but sometimes that could feel like a mile when the Rush comes out.
Looks like both teams are gonna be able to get it online.
Kellex could be the difference maker with the Sanctuary.
someone called upon for just a nice to be a hero but so far this first point has
been anything but heroic to cleanse comes out they try to make the first
washout of course guys carry this horse do a powerful team from the counter rush
but the sanctuary ensures the GK do not get the back down they refuse to fall
off of this play hold on the map foot coming in from Yubi but the punish is
really simple goes down Zod getting incredibly low on this payload you
need the symbol of Pconsypher funny astro and TDNT Yubi standing side by side as
they've done so many times before and somehow they find a way to
an incredibly difficult overtime fight to keep this map in play.
I mean, Yubi's sim TP just lets Tien flip map position.
And suddenly, GK are scrambling because that defensive advantage
all goes up in smoke if they let the car hit checkpoint
and Tien get more time. Like we said this series, it's been court stepping up,
it's been Yubi stepping up. This is classic Tien using those sim
strategies and beating their opponents off of
brain and skill. As a geek, I do have a lot of ultimates to be able to work with.
Lapta with that OC must be very threatening for Twisted Mind.
You do not want to lose all that space to work so hard to get to Sojin's ultimate.
The odd poking and prodding wants to get some ultimates online.
It's a lot of space for Twisted to work with though because if he always finds something
he can use ultimates from TNT, the Lapta is put his leg down from under
and his Lapta and Lucio speed behind this ultimates.
TNT can kind of box the wave with the addition of the Sim wall layer that
The ultimate is still rolling, but it doesn't feel like for long, if he can speed forward over this tank position, a secondary form provides you another chance at a kill, but he won't get anything out of it.
DK, stabilize the position, get the good poke down, and this time it's lab to define the opener one that I think was sorely needed.
Yeah, and this is going to be really hard for T.M. to try to move back into. Right, Finn will have rush, quartz, not having them overclock.
If you try to use the OC, Kellix just absorbs the pressure with Sancry.
So, T.M. can do this on his own.
Yeah, Laptic can do this on his own.
That means if you lose this next fight, and then you're stuck in spawn.
There's the flux early from Ziad, which serves up Laptice's site onto Simple.
Kiriko, Porsche, use all of her resources to get away from the Sigma, has no tricks left up her sleeve, steal the surge.
And GK just blocks T.M. right back into spawn.
I mean, GK wanna be really aggressive here.
They're using up with key ultimates. They have their support tools, so they want to try and fight early with them.
The threat of the kite though is too much, so it's going to back off to the high ground, use the synth TP, and play these long slow engagements.
But now, TM, they have room to work with for them.
Ports opportunity because you'll see.
So much faster than here. Sanctuary is available.
Pelix, Diamond Ants hold onto the ultimate.
It thinks that the rush is going to be death enough, disrespecting Ports.
And it proves to pay off.
The experience showed from Pelix here. I mean, not many main supports.
would have had the tenor and the integrity to be able to hold on to a crucial ultimate in that fight
but because he does so, they have a very powerful tool to close this one out.
Just reminds them with their rush, with the beat coming up soon,
it feels like they can get this one to go wrong, they should be able to win it.
The door being held and hold on, maybe it's a fix to come through in the last moment.
Simple, out with the rush already.
It's kind of though, GK don't have to fight into this, it's over time.
TM had to sacrifice rush to get back onto point.
Now you don't have to contest Grosh. You just hit them fast, with Sanctuary and Simwalt.
He can be big here. Here comes the Sanctuary. Simwalt divides. The point though makes it maybe a little bit difficult to follow up here from the beat, but a better Simwalt.
From out being able to out value to the ball and fight and see how much the puck picks up so many in this fight.
Crucially taking down UB, the source of so much damage, so much consternation in his overtime battles with DK.
Hold the nerve, win the day, and they're gonna stay alive in this series.
we are going to map five it feels for your game.
I did say that there's not the possibility to go to five maps
and we are going the distance. This has been such a standard series and I think it speaks as well
to like GK stepping up. They've been able to keep pace with Lapdell like Kellex having the
confidence, the trust in his team to hold on to that sanctuary was a huge boom for GK in
that overtime fight having that survivability not having to keep as much of a lock on Quartz's
position in the overtime knowing that the Mizuki would be able to keep you safe.
So huge. It also puts a lot of pressure on to Tien's positioning, right? Playing into Sanctuary?
If that tank is totally isolated by the Mizuki ultimate, they're not going to be able to
use things at the curcohill to keep him up so it forces them to be much more forward.
this moment. This rock actually pulls TDNT around the corner as he stunned enough that his
ult expires and the save can come in from the support. Ziad plays so well on Sigma in this map. I mean
flux after flux, he's just laying in the damage. It feels like he was the expected from me. Like,
you know, a lot of individual plays from Yubi. I think without these fluxes, almost every
time delivering value, this one could very easily have gotten over the line for TM. And
The series could just be done, so as we go to that fight...
Without that first flux from Ziad on defense, buying time for you to have rush match, honestly
I think TM doesn't get checkpoint off a first fight, don't have to burn their ultimates
on just snowball for a second.
So I agree, I think there was some really clutch plays where Ziad was able to just
give his team that time for the fight win so that when TM come in with ults, they
they have all too far back with.
And now I think this is an interesting one
because this is a spot that just minds
have found themselves in.
Honestly, many times before, right?
In map five, the sim ban has yet to be deployed,
but Alphie has been playing the sims so well.
I wonder, do GK even want the ban?
Like, are they actually just feeling good
about the sim mirror?
And I think there's a reason to think so.
I mean, Alphie piloting it super comfortably.
And, you know, Ubi for a while
was like kind of one of the only people
really playing the sim,
really pushing the limit on his level.
But the Alphie looks to have been in the lab on this hero because he has also seen comfortable.
Suravasa is going to be the pick.
Fortress admires me to be a more comfortable locale for them, a little bit of those longer sight lines for Quartz's preferred hitscans.
I mean, I think if you're geek here, there's a lot of reasons for keeping this, and not only have you looked really comfortable with Alphie on it,
it's also somewhat shutting down her seat.
Yeah.
But it's so often TM's win condition is literally just Quartz O'Cigo kill,
and the fact that you don't have to burn a support ultimate, you're just using Senwal.
Into Quartz O'Zall is huge for long-term ult economy.
The GK to be able to plan around what they want to use more aggressively,
as opposed to being forced into using it offensively.
Yeah, the Sigma has also been a real nightmare for them.
But it's actually GK who banned it at the Sigma? Okay.
I think it's mostly a sim protect from their perspective.
There's always a chance, right?
I think it wouldn't be crazy for DK to ban it now.
And of course they all come to play the Sgt. as well, I think.
Yeah, exactly, exactly.
I think he wants to play it, especially with the sim, and especially because the Maga Shion
Reaper is back on the menu, or with the Vendetta, there's various versions of it.
But this sort of all-out, crazy rush could absolutely come back into play, and this
is Flashpoint after all.
Still, I wonder though, to Kikei, do they want to get off Sim because it feels like they like the mirror.
It feels like they maybe need to win it, although without the Sigma, that has been the strongest version of it for Kikei.
Is it Maga?
It's always Maga.
Yeah, it's always Maga, unless it's Paul.
Unless it's Paul, unless it's Eva.
I mean, I think there's an argument. With Sim in the mix, it honestly gets very complicated.
I think there's definitely an argument for D.Va.
I think for me I think manga is the strongest choice here especially because of the threat of the vendetta, right? If you go D.Va and they're up against vendetta.
Yeah, if you go D.Va and they're alive vendetta.
There's been a lot of counterpicking too. There has been a lot of counterpicking.
You got to be handy with the swaps right now. I mean the game is very complex.
Like even if you stay on one comp too long and you lose one of these fights with House Snowboly, these points on Suravasa.
You can very quickly find yourself just stuck on the wrong composition for a fight too long, losing the point off of that indecision, off of the hesitation to actually go for something different, so...
Expecting to see different compositions at the end point than what we start with.
Cat Bastion's returned. I forgot about Cat Bastion.
Yeah, GP have run out of bands for Cat and the Bastion, which means the TM will be rolling that one out.
I mean, Quartz has been rocking their world, frankly, from this Bastion in the sky, and maybe
the all-out aggression of the Maga comp could like get kills faster, the Bastion can really activate,
but I'm a little skeptical of that. It feels like Bastion can always take the temple with the cat,
you know, and feel like you can kind of always be in the fight. There's no real way to isolate,
because he can just be in and out so incredibly quickly with the mobility of that JetPad cat
deployed. I'd like TM's odds here. I honestly don't think he could have had an answer to
to Kat Bastion so far in this series. Like when it's come out, it's basically just one
every time and the mirror match did not look comfortable. It doesn't seem like something
that Kiki was ready to do.
Yeah, I mean, what is the answer? Like killing the Kat Bastion when they're isolated or getting
the kill on the other support because they don't have a second support to help them?
But the fact that TM with that Kat Bastion always seemed to find the first swing and
the first kill off of the back of it just depletes so much manpower from Kiki's
squad that very rarely do we actually see a follow-up kill onto TM's backline for those
trades to come through or so much damage has been done by the Cap Bastion that by the time
it takes for GK to find that trade kill, the Bastion has sentry come right back and just
shred for someone yet again. We'll see what exactly GK tried to get around with,
will Kellogg's be staying on this Lucio to pair with the Kirikou since Mizuki is available
and you do have the sim so it's not a requirement to have the sound or the speed
to be able to work around the mobility as it seems like both of these teams just
a little bit taking that time wanting to make sure that everything is perfectly okay because
there's a lot on the line right for both of these teams if you're the other teams watching
Like if you're a Katsya right now, you're looking at this match and you're feeling a little bit scared about how close
GK and Twisted Minds truly are because if GK win this, that's them through.
Yeah, you know, I think really the value of winning this for TM, if you can lock up second seed,
you at least can't be picked by VP first round.
And I think that's sort of the eye of Sauron that everyone wants to avoid.
Nobody wants to be selected by VP in the first round of playoffs,
Especially when it's only the fourth place team in playoffs that actually doesn't go to the Mitzvah championship.
So really it's a lot of strategizing of just how can I be anything but last place in playoffs?
I will be totally happy with third, at least we get to go to LAN, right?
I think that's the way a lot of players realistically are probably thinking.
So a lot comes into the seating in this one particular, especially with how contested EME has been.
Like it wouldn't shock me that if Tiamh lose this that VP picked them and actually could just knock him out of the tournament
or at least put them to their last life to be able to make it to the mid-season championship,
which would be just insane for TN to talk like there's a possibility that they don't make it.
It's real here, especially if you can't get this win, anything is impossible in playoffs. There are no free wins.
Anything can happen because it would also be up against TN who are using
the strategies that they've won wards titles with, well, outside of the Cap Bastion stuff.
Alright, repression.
These front line from just in mind is incredibly vulnerable to getting run over
This matchup looks very hard for sim. I do not see how sim plays this one
Yeah, especially because like Ike, whoever does like you said see that bashing coming
They all have means of just avoiding the tank bomb damage, right?
Tm at least can use it to threaten for space so they can work their way onto point and look for that flip
Especially since TvNT is able to collapse onto Z at with help of that sim teleport. So that's the flip
That's huge!
They got the flip!
They got the flip! Very winnable now, but just in mind, especially in Point Patrol, some nice shots from that.
Almost dropping Honey Aster, kind of a crazy one.
They didn't even be able to threaten that kill.
But Quartz is on the high ground over the top.
And Desperate has to step up, pop the cleanse.
Malgrash is trading on the point.
Ziad getting a little bit low, needs a little bit extra resource.
The stun connection is good, different TNT.
Sets up for the kill on the Ziad.
And what was at first is the cheeky point flip.
Turns into a massive 2-pipe victory for Twisted Minds.
mind. And great awareness from TDNT doesn't give the flip back.
You can tell that GK are slightly wary of wanting to commit to that fight as GK also
get a cheeky flip with that over. If they really wanted to fight this outright. The instance
that Finn gets Rush, GK would have used if they thought it was truly winnable. They
don't, they hold onto it and Tien will now have Rush to be able to match. Both
Maga's playing through that lab that with that she on all can do so much damage in comparison to TM who will have in the
Cap action a little bit potential. It's not the same level of sustain as I am.
In the cat, if you want a woman's that's a recoup speed. Here comes cage bite, straight on the point.
That's a good killer fire. Lots of players locked down. Cat trying to get in for something we can't quite get much of anything into this.
She on waiting for time, fighting for that opportunity to get through past the sim wall, helping has to go a little bit too early into this one.
This one in Quartz takes all Cunner's Rocks, both DPS back to back, and DK, just a couple
players, looking in on this one, twisted nine, totally comfortable here on the first flash.
What's insane to me is that that was time-variified from DK.
Honestly, did not feel like it was being played.
Well, how quickly the whole team just crumbled, and that was all outside of Deathlossom.
That's the only thing that you have to work with.
The jump can just soothe the connection of that.
As GK tried to get to point first,
TVNT will be able to somewhat beat them to the punch.
And if you're T.M., you're not working with ult,
but you still have the kill potential.
While that cap-astion flipper of E, teleports,
closes up the distance to T.M.,
dares them to contest this flip,
they have to walk into the reaper hole if they do.
Reaper holding this corner so nicely,
but Gorge punishes Labnashiyan left out on the island,
can't play slow in this long fight.
Same form over the top here,
just raining town hell from above and DK have no choice but just run in under the
withering presence here of course in somehow it's two kills off the fight they
get a flip off the back of it as well but I mean twisted mind it feels like
there's no answer to the cap action of this one of DK. Exactly mirroring, you're going to take the mirror.
Exactly. Yeah just read the bluff of the death loss and they're like well if
you'll have your Reaper on point we'll just send a cap action behind
and get your squishies and then yeah you'll get 11% but we'll get more
because we went out to fight fast rush potential here for Finn to make a play from but simple will have to match
Labda and Kellex need to dominate this vertical fight here with the bashing off of the rug
So much to deal with the cage right straight on point team into the Kenkwai get the resource of his team is out
The holding for the moment has stayed alive and has this death ball some if he wants to play it may need it
But the symbol out from you, but still point control DK
They're willing to back off for a moment give a little bit of time funding astral does pull a player off the map
Yes, and get out the beat down to the bit before the TP comes through it also goes down in the chaos
Still a fight to be had those DK in control. They won't give it up easily
Yeah, finds one is just gonna land on very low HP to maintain that on the diva
We'll be able to clean house and re-secure this foot
But that one way too close for comfort for either squad
GK showing real fight of this like they can make these fights as contested as that they can absolutely win
Okay, man max roll out we've a further pull
Juno speed ring. GK wants to play this fast before TM build ults to be able to contest them, but Death Blossom should be matrixed by TVNT's mech.
Maybe hard to hold point here though, now they're just forcing the issues right up the gut in mid-lava.
Steeping in main course though is on the point where he's already found value after he goes down as well.
And once again, for TM, they read the push and they're already prepared for it, already hitting the points where they're weak.
Fort, hold off the map, not quite, it seems.
Kellex doesn't seem nearly as comfortable
with your honorous cat.
Small mistakes like that start to add up here.
TM, up 2-0, want to close out this series in style.
I mean, DK do not seem comfortable in this matchup.
It really feels like they're out of their zone,
out of what they prepared for.
Well, Alfie will go to the Symmetra now
that TVNT is on that diva.
Try to force TM having to send the mech to contest point
without something like a tracer
to give him the opportunity to pop TvNT's mech as quickly as possible, but I mean,
Tm should on paper win this first fight, right?
Atelary strike, self-destruct, one-sided keep-stunner rush.
If you're GK, you just want to close as many ults as possible.
Yeah, just in mind, just want to end this as quickly as possible.
Hold on, Lambda! Swings in over force this time!
It's GK to take the first tempo of the teamfight.
Some big damage comes in, but it's not enough for Labrador to stay alive.
He's in way too deep of a position there in the center of point,
and Yuki just cuts him down from the floor on Symmetra to the rush,
providing more than enough DPS to make up for the fire disadvantage.
Ziad wants to force the issue now, and it's some kind of a team fight up,
does fucking H-Bite, but there's a Zimlal that's landing a lot of support
and able to bot to bear wishes here it go.
And she stays alive, Ziad does not.
The overwhelming from BD's Zimlal is just too much in this fight,
just as mine, hold onto this, and it can really break the sweat you need.
Oh, this is dangerous for GK overall as well.
They invested so much, that fight went long,
They use Cage, they use Rush, Tm still wants, and very cheaply too.
First Rush from Simple, which means he'll have back earlier than Finn, potentially for
the last fight, and then Sim won't, was pretty much all that Tm parted with, so GK now they
lose that bully potential.
The only thing which can really carve open this space is Labda getting a flyby and
mincing someone down, but TV and Tm with that D.Va mech should be able to absorb
a lot of the pressure, Rashing trying to go all the way behind Tm, try to read
and I will present you keep it simple gets more fine
Or it's needs to find something back in quick
But it seems that it's not quick enough this time he can't give you killed in the girl the team needs bringing down simple
I mean shut down the opposing hero go like that. It is the dream to the God right this is the most impactful one
You can find a rarity for somebody like simple. I mean I almost never one fight territory
Jake if you're TM, you can just play for simple brush
Yeah, this is super scary.
Not easy though, I mean, just getting into the fight, they're gonna carry the self-destructing, nope, it goes right into the pit.
Okay, that play kinda failed before it even got going from Funny Astro.
A little bit of an awkward one. Picking up the self-destruction can be awkward.
Kellex though swings in over the back, from behind getting big damage, now Fjord's under big scrutiny trying to shoot back up into the sky, but Labda in full control there now is up for a desperation dive.
Ulia for the Hygrin actually does have the tracking to get that kill.
Kellex couldn't bring the players out of position in time, but funny after Ken Griesjad went into a quick little dip in the pool, not one he would have chosen.
TBNT maybe losing the map but the split is so good to keep him stabilized just
in Kelly's for the moment using this continued rush just to support their
site spawners though are coming back in the stall is good from Kelly's but it
will cost him his life maybe the final mistake the final nail in DK's coffin is
there a down one in the final fight.
Ziac boarding up to that cage potential conglomerate rapper who's still alive on the bathroom but it's O.T.
he can't have to keep players in position and that means that UB starts just micro-waving.
Cleans as good as well from simple to ensure UB stays up and UB is just an old hand in this kind of a position the bastion
Started to cleave him down to be antique great matrix to keep this simple live-in fighting and that was the last best
Asked for DK Esports. They're staggering back into the point one by one
The sport is just too good from TM. They are just too stable and they will close out this series
Ensuring themselves a second seed in this stage and this was about the hardest
They have ever had to fight for that kind of a result
The last bastion pulls on the side of Geekay, but TM closed out the series, but like he said they had to work so hard for it.
And I think like again, that just emphasises that the divide between these teams, it's really shortened, it really has.
Geekay playing into the bastion cap themselves, with that Naga composition able to hold their own against TM for a fair few fights,
but Yubi with that sim just was the difference maker for me on Suravasa.
You can just tell the coordination and trust that the team have in him being able to teleport them into perfect timed positions.
Yeah, I mean, whether or not the meta is starting to move on from that meta, it just seems like Twisted Minds.
This is their bread and butter, right? This is what they have been leaning onto and into for such a long time.
Teams are still struggling, dealing with it.
Now, of course, in combination, having that cat bastion also to a
sebaceous look way better on it than the GK did.
They made them feel uncomfortable.
I have to say that this was a really interesting match.
This in general to go back to and just like study up a little bit on both
of those teams, their strengths and their weaknesses.
There was so much counter swapping happening and really it was a great
display to showcase how much flexibility you need as a player,
as a team in this current meta.
Yes, bandraps, right?
forces you you can't just rely totally on one composition so you have to be flexible if you
don't manage to go for a counter pick that your opponent's wants to you're not going to be able to
take series. I mean I think the Cap Bastion was a real Achilles heel for this EK squad. I mean they
have been a team that I think has wanted to maybe get away from it and play this very fast-paced
rust style and yet I think the Cap Bastion was really the reason they couldn't. The fact
that Funny Astro could pilot that so well I think it was kind of clear to me once we saw
Kellex on the cab bastion. It just wasn't the same right funny aster in courts
We're controlling the temple they're controlling the fights like maybe eight or nine times out of ten
They're getting the better engaged and Kellex couple mistakes from him like kept the bastion too low after getting the enemy bastion
So that you could actually kill his own bastard of the sky
I really shouldn't happen and those mistakes they add up in this series and honestly, I think we're right to look
It's the flexibility
It's the fact that funny aster has the cat in the pocket that enables TM to find this style that actually
Opens up opportunities for the rest of the squad
It's the ban as well. Let's be honest, like when you look at a five map series,
you're looking at one more map that GK required to win. If they hadn't banned Kiriko
on Runosapi and let that simple honor for her, they could have won this match.
This is very true. I think things could have ended right there, right? If you don't get
that win on Runosapi, things get super scary for the rest of the series. And it's simple,
showing the flexibility to bring the honor back out. And the response is too late for GK
They couldn't find the answer. That's really what's at stake now in competitive Overwatch.
You have to make these very quick reactions, quick reads on what you think the meta is going to be,
and the team with the better read with more flexibility will often not take the win.
It's the case for Twisted Minds today as they lock up that second season.
So how are we rating Twisted Minds now? Because it's not like they make
massive changes in terms of the compositions they're running, right?
They didn't go fully back to the drawing board.
Ubi was swapped in for today's match, but will they be able to hold the candle against Rotasparo?
There was no Shion, there was no Mizuki.
I will say, no one else has played what Twisted Minds just played.
Twisted Minds have done something new, I mean, the Cap Bastion is not new.
The Sim Manga isn't new, but to do both at once is actually something I think interesting
and different.
And so, for Tm, they've found a style that I don't think we actually know what VP
can deal with.
It's almost like the Ranking Ball look where this is a different type of comp than
any you've matched up against before.
So for VP and playoffs, that'll be a real test.
Right, we do have Yubi actually joining us for a quick chat here in our winners interview
via voice.
Yubi, can you hear us?
Yeah, I hear you.
Hooray!
Yubi, welcome to the show.
Congratulations on the dub.
We just talked about this new look we got to see from you this week after initial
struggles and finding your footing in the meta.
What are your thoughts on where the header is metting and how this composition
that you guys played today is fitting into it all?
First of all, I want to say hi to, I mean, hi for my friends,
William, Amo and Ben.
Second thing about today, I mean, last week we have really bad week.
I mean, we're losing Givry Scrim.
It's like we have no practice, like everything is bad.
So my team just asked me to play the game.
So I told them, I mean, and at least for me,
when I play, I don't like to Kobe Koreans
because if you Kobe Koreans, you're not going to win against them.
So we just make our own playstyle.
I mean, it's like if you have good heroes, we're going to play it.
It doesn't matter the composition of the play, just about the play style.
So we just find this combo is fit for our play style and it's fit for me more.
Yeah, you guys look really comfortable.
I mean, I don't think anyone has played the Cap Bastion with simultaneously the Sim and the Maga
and feels like a style that is really exactly, as you said, suited to your strength,
suited to your own hero plus out on the cast.
It's something that only you guys could play.
going into this match, did you think that that was going to be really a key strat?
Or, I guess really, what was the preparation like when you guys have a really rough week?
I mean, we're so used to TM. Frankly, you guys just win everything for so long.
What is it like to have that moment of pressure where, oh, things are actually not looking so good
for us as a team? How do you kind of come in and change that?
I mean, we start screaming like other people, like Koby Koreans, Blink Sigma, Mizuki Kirikosil,
and we almost like the screams are closed, but I don't like it. I know the feeling that
we're not going to win. So I told my team, even for better heroes, and these heroes like Sigma,
sometimes we need to be humble and just accept the fact we're not good anymore
and work hard for the future. So we just find a way to win with the new heroes.
Maybe in the future we're going to add new heroes, so maybe we can improve a little.
I'm interested to hear your take on the ban process on Runa SAPI, because did you come in
with a plan wanting to run the Ana or was that something cooked up on the spot when
when you saw the Kirikou gun?
I mean, we have a symbol from our team,
he's Korean, he's really good with honor.
So every time enemy team burning,
it was just one, this guy is really good with honor.
That's fair.
Thank you so much, Yubi, for sharing your thoughts.
Congratulations on locking that playoff spot,
and we can't wait to see what you guys have in store
for us in the next few weeks.
Thank you, thank you.
Thank you so much.
It's always great to hear from you be an absolute beast on the server and such a humble and kind person outside as well.
Great to hear your thoughts there as well, right? I do like that they just want to acknowledge that they're just not cut out for what is currently considered meta
and they will find their own spin, they will find their own take, they will find their comfort zone in order to make it work
and today we really showcase that.
I think, yeah, like, NA has that mentality too, right?
You'll see in the upcoming matches,
NA do their own thing.
They're like, yeah, Koreans can do their stuff.
EMEA can do their stuff.
But if we don't want to play it,
we'll just play our comfort picks.
And I think that's been the story of this stage as a whole.
I mean, Yubi said something to me
that was really important that it kind of highlighted me.
It's the ability to accept.
He said, well, he said, well, we're bad,
and we need to work hard for the future.
I think that's an amazing thing to hear from team,
because really the biggest danger
when you're a team with the recent, you know,
international success of twisted minds
is to think we're too good for this.
We can't lose anything when we lose something's wrong.
Like, why?
And just to be like, hey, maybe we're not good right now.
Maybe we just need to get better.
That's the kind of simplistic approach
that actually is super important
to kind of give people out of their head and say, look,
let's just play the game.
Let's play our girls.
Let's play our strats.
We aren't, wins are not free.
We need to earn them.
And that kind of puts team, I think,
in the right mind state to come into this playoffs
and maybe be the underdog team against somebody like VP.
It's not historically where they've been, but I think they're mentally primed for it now.
Yeah, see that's that's a good spot to be in. It's a good headspace to be in.
Rest on your laurels. The game is involving so fast. Players are coming up, going down.
It's all over the place, so you just got to be on your toes for that and be quick with it as well.
So I'm excited to see more of their new look. I want to say new old look, a little bit of both.
A bit of a fusion situation here. Jake Moxie, I'm about to say bye to the two of you.
as we're heading into all things NA.
What are your final thoughts as this last week
he kicked off here, Moxie?
I mean, I'm just excited to see what Overwatch has
installed for us because we continue
seeing week by week new methods evolving.
So everything's still up in the air.
Anyone can still take that one.
Game's in a great spot right now.
Just exciting to see what all these top teams can cook up
for us and innovate.
The level is at an all-time high for Overwatch's history.
And I'm looking forward to seeing North America as well.
That's right.
to the two of you. Thank you so much for calling the action. We're heading into a quick break
and on the other side of that, I'm going to have a Jack and Johnny for all things NA.
The last two matches of the day here in week three. Don't want to miss it. See you
on the other side.
this.
Oh, all this time, I've been nothing but a pain
There's no more to try and get through
All this story ends, and I'll tell you
I'll tell you
I'll take a step back
So I can move on
Then I'm the wrong pride
You're not the one
You're not the one
I'll take a step back
So I can move on
Then I'm the wrong pride
You're not the one
Oh
I'm moving on and on, I'm moving on, I'm moving on
Don't give up cause you're coming closer
Lift me up and I'll take this feeling higher
Hold my hand and we'll make it there together
It's gonna be all right, it's gonna be all right
you
you
you
you
you
You
I
and I've seen too many faces that why nobody wants him all alone.
So don't try to deny it, you know we ain't leaving here alone.
When I'm with you I'm fine, I just want you here that's all I know.
And got me feeling, got me feeling
I'm lucky when you're by my side
That I'm saying I'm alive and weak
And every time we touch, every time we touch, you feel like
Baby, touch me, baby, touch me, touch me
Baby, touch me, touch me, touch me
Baby, touch me, baby, touch me
I've been wondering these places trying to find where I belong and I've seen too many faces
I
I'm gonna be perfect
I'm gonna be perfect
I just need real someone I can laugh with
I can feel my chasing go on chasing go on
But I will run, go on, take it slow
This is the life I set I've been
Every little bit
What a clear fight for this guys. Does that look like a team kill?
I think we did.
Nephsen's managed to get tree down.
It's just gonna be an explosion of death.
The hands of the Dallas Fuel.
That was impressive.
They get the touch here, comes in game cycle with three!
Ohhhh, buddy.
There's the tab there, leaving the track off with the pick-up comes out of the carrier.
Empty got through the rescue.
Twisted Minds, looking to close out the series here and take over the trophy.
Morse has done it so many times before and he'll do it again!
Here comes obviously the F-2025 World Finals Champion!
The way that Jep back up flies at me somehow makes me uncomfortable.
Welcome back to the good of CS, I'm Zoe, John by John and Johnny for all of the NA action.
Last question, just accept my opinion. Thank you very much.
Let's talk about NA, because I wasn't here last week and for those of us watching who have missed it,
let's fill us in. Let's recap what went down in NA in week two. Guys, what'd you got for me?
I think this is already some week, actually. A lot of Xeon being played and my favorite thing
I think about what she's lost. I'll just say what's the general.
I said I'm Ajax's. I think circle royale is the most eventful map.
So you said Ajax is a crazy Johnny.
It turns out she was really good at killing Lucius as they go for Sambarra, especially when they're non-Age.
And we did see kind of Winston too, so that was just a bright spot for me.
Yeah, there's some mechanical wargods from North America.
So they see a new DBS hero and they're like, yeah, I think that I'll thank you very much.
High tempo. Yeah, love that.
People like Ryan and Somba do stuff like this.
Oh my God.
I mean, it's just disgusting.
It's just disgusting.
But this new hero, it's really revitalized.
Oh, so drifting, so drifting.
It really revitalized some of these teams
and it's made for a really fun, middle-of-the-pack battle here,
space and the gaming.
Still on top, of course, you've been dominant so far this stage.
But you never know when North America's going.
This does right.
You never know.
Like, if you're looking at the standings, SSG and Lunax,
have clinched their spot for the playoffs, but Dallas Fuel and Tim Lick would still have some head-to-heads to soar.
Now, Dallas beating these guys at the end of the day would secure their spot as well.
Unlikely to go past CS head-to-head differential, of course, if there's any ties in the first place.
So, still stuff to play for here in our very last week of group play.
Here, the breakdown in case of what I said made absolutely no sense to you.
You can read it.
There you have it.
But yeah, overall, of course, we did...
You put it in a folder, I put it on post-it, then I hang it next to my monitor.
That's how I remember it.
But yeah, so we do still have some, of course, placements to sort.
That's what I wanted to say in order to figure out who's going to make those playoffs
and also who gets to battle it out first, right?
right? Because obviously the
first seed is coming through
comfortably as repeated over in
EMEA. Let's talk about the
heroes that we saw in NA and
the leaderboard here for the
hero Bounce in this region
looking a little bit different
over in EMEA. Diva here
leading the charge alongside
Sigma and Mizuki is catching
some strays here as well.
No real surprise to see
I mean, Kallen's like the guy, he's like the main tank guy, he's holding it down.
Kallen's our favourite player, is that right?
Yes, he is. I told him that in person in Tokyo. I did say to him.
What did he say?
He was a sigma as well. He was like, thank you. I was like, eh, good stuff.
Good, good stuff.
He's super as well, he's also kind of OP.
I think we're gonna see a little bit more Shion rising through the ranks as the leaks go on.
Let's talk Xi'an and the current meta, like we did see quite a bunch of teams picking her up, obviously there was a mini nerf happening throughout this past week, how much do you expect this to affect the Xi'an pick rate for this one?
Okay, well okay Jaws you're shaking your head. I actually think that it'll impact it at least somewhat look
Still the kit is just super strong. It's like a very interesting character for what she's born
This is high tempo and you can play both of the hit scan and your tracer break also play she own
So it's like a really good hero for what she sports
I do think that the hotfix at least you know tones down the win rate a little bit here of she on
So we'll kind of see how these North American teams settle in
But I definitely think the nerve to be a solution is going to be impactful
Just it is a very strong maybe just a little the amount of clips they death
Okay, all I'm saying is they definitely saw the clips from RWCS last week when it is just the she on a flanking
That's only how it looks like in the hands of all WCS player it ain't looking like that in my rankings
was not necessary. Exactly. It do be like that. Let's take a look at today's schedule
to see what we have in store for us. Day one here in N.A. of course we're gonna kick
things off with a big one. SSG going up against Team Liquid and then we're gonna close our
day a little later with Dallas Fuel and Disguised. Now we wanna put on what this is all about.
Not just by flagging rights, not about coming out on top of the Euro respective region.
No, it's all going to lead to our second planned event of the year, the mid-season championship
taking place in Paris, France, a wonderful city.
French fans are showing up, and we hope you do too, because there are still tickets available.
So make sure to grab yours right now and join us for all the action.
16 of the best Overwatch teams will be buffing it out on the stage at the Esports World
cup and you can be part of it. 15% off currently so make sure to grab that QR code and secure
your spot. Make sure to come say hi to us. I love LAN events. I also feel like there's
always going to be the LAN teams that just perform under those kind of situations. Team
Liquid definitely being one of them in space station gaming obviously also a team with a massive
fanbase around the globe so they will be fueled by the fans in the room as well.
Of course, they never get the light.
So good.
Again, you're asking too many questions.
Yeah, I think you're over thinking.
Okay, it's not that deep.
He was just like posting in front of cameras, guys.
Like, oh, you're the only thing.
At all, we just blame whoever filmed it
because they probably were given directions.
They're just like, I love it.
I love it.
We can make him do that, we can make him do it.
Make him do it.
Let's talk about the team.
So that we get to see an action here.
Obviously we're gonna start things off with a big one.
Liquid going up against SSG, SSG.
I mean, there's some both of these teams really stood out in the week one going undefeated now as she continued in their winning ways and
Won their last two bouts and they've been looking really really good. I think this is quite a turnaround
considering
How rough their goal was at the champs clash right in Tokyo like they get that last it looked really rough
And then they shut up on this stage and this meta seems to fit them like they found their stride really quickly
I think there was a individual competition between the players to who could win the least maps like that's how that's how bad it got
We were heading into the show match like wait a second one SSQ player is gonna win a map on a land
So it playoffs. I mean well stage two. Sorry. It's good that they're showing up
We want them to perform at a land because it was
Ridiculously disappointing. I think SSG
Especially with lethal. They got this
They got, they got, surely, surely. Let's talk about Team Liquid though, also a team that
showed up in week one. Now, they only had one match last week, that was against Alice
Fuel and that was a 3-1 beatdown. They seem to struggle. What did not go right for them?
Okay, okay, okay. But my mantra was last week and I'm carrying it into this week.
Don't freak out. We're not freaking out about Team Liquid. They got two new members.
figuring out their style don't freak out Dallas fuel real tough challenge here for
team liquid now if they lose tomorrow against cafe we're freaking out like
it's over like it's it's actually tomorrow is also the last day of group
stage so I feel like you can freak out a little before the last thing no I'm
hoping I'm hoping I'm gonna apologize I you know hey I don't think that most
me a little box. You know, it's fine. It's fine. I do it for free. That's, that's nice.
I love that. I mean, obviously, like individually, like, we know what those players are bringing
to the table. We know they're a very competent team so far. You should stop really click
for them. Implementing new players is difficult. And then you also deal with like a very much
up in the air meta still. And it's been up in the air for the last few weeks. Like
all of group stage, which is like that no one really has figured anything out. Just
some teams found what's working for them, but there's no universal like solution. So I understand.
I'm joining you as an apologist to some extent. But if we look at the predictions, I'm going to give
this to SSG. They should be considered the clear favorite just based on their performance of the
last two weeks. Oh man. Yeah. I want to give it I want to give it liquid a little bit more
that hope but I won't invest this G as well. The game versus Dallas Fuel they want a map
but the other maps looked pretty horrendous they got a single point out of the three maps they
lost in that series so yeah it's an SSG I think they're on good form they can keep up
they can go to playoffs they make a good run in Paris as well. There are two modes here Jor. So
you can be a team liquid apologists but also say there's going to be a beatdown today
And so I'm going both of those directions, at least it's going to be a beatdown.
SSG have just spent a way better team this stage, they've figured stuff out.
Team Liquid though, getting close to the playoffs here, you got to show us, you know, a little something that you cooked up here, but today is not going to be their day.
It's the penultimate day, what do you mean?
I am a Liquid fan now, it has been decided.
I think I said it.
homework, last minute Zoe, just last day, that's when we haven't figured out, okay?
Like, you know, you don't need to have it figured out the week in advance, just the day off, that's what matters.
It's June and I already have my Christmas presents wrapped up like I'm not putting things up like
No, no, I'm I'm ahead of the game. That's right
And I expect the same from our teams today. Let's see who's gonna show up and get the job guys. Please take it away
Christmas presents already you've got to be serious
So that's crazy. That's I mean
Yeah, six months is a little crazy. I'm a what are you joining your week before kind of guy couple of weeks before a month before you know
I'm a growing man at this point. I used to be a
day off kind of person and
You know, I've been married for three years now
And I've become a better person so now it's like a little bump in a mess
So, you know, it's all about self-improvement. You don't have to define yourself as a day of person
You can't be better than that. So, uh, same goes for team liquidaries. You don't have to be a day of person. You kind of start figuring stuff out already.
Slow, steady improvement for team liquid.
That's what we're talking about.
Chat predictions, Johnny, by the way, 82% for SSG.
So the chat is very much in the SSG camp, not so much in the team liquid here.
And I don't blame anybody, to be honest.
I like the value.
I'm all about the value predictions in the chat, to be honest with you, with the 18% for Team Liquid.
Big fan of that.
As you see in the Band of Lucio, Bastion Band 4 TL.
We've still seen the Cap Bastion.
And we might see it a little bit more.
I'm not sure how much the execution is really going to affect how much she-on is going to be played, Johnny.
Maybe 5% less.
But Cap Bastion is still keeping his head in there.
Yeah, no, I think it mostly impacts, you know, the teams who are really kind of committed to the she-on.
So like cafe they're playing tomorrow right against team liquid and if team liquid lose today
That's going to be a match with a lot of stakes on the line
So, you know, that's a team that I would think kind of impacts the she on a whole piece
Kind of impacts quite a bit here
But if you're a team that's able to play like the sigma Missouki the jet-pack cat bastion like obviously you can work around that
And she only still going to be a very strong hero for you if you decide to go
But since my team liquid is the one where the moment in our atree
uh selecting this error. Oh we're back. Malga gaming no attack by the way um in
four control it's going to be infected to start and we're on the cat's no bastion
dropping tree in i think would be kind of fun a little death from above three
you love to see it but more okay yeah this is probably a better play just
put them out on the high ground so they can shoot a cage
yeah this is going to be a very interesting time actually followed
because we've been apologizing for the team liquid a lot here, but they haven't really showed us a great composition that kind of works for them
They're kind of like patching things together like making simple
Let's see if they can actually do something with this composition if they can get something up
Alright, let's see this nerf, really, really top thing
Hopping on the bike
Yo, stop the backline too. Nice disengage though from Abra, actually lifts lethal up onto the high ground
So he doesn't get immediately killed by the bike and he's slam combo from the Malga
it. She looked on the whole and there's the execution kill. The first one of today lethal
though, taking out three in Vega. All thanks to Abril beings saving him initially and that
be SSG getting first cat.
Yes, brilliant disengaged like you said and if you can protect the castle in a composition
like this, like the shelling is the tracer just give the time and room for lethal to
do work on the castle. That's going to work tremendously for space station. So
a great disengage to get things off.
I was peeping the win rates actually have she on on like in ranked across all peers
55% win rate. That's too high
They definitely needed those nerves speaking away. Wow trees ended the fight already. Okay, but just briefing
Just see on things actually
But I kind of like this though you got some real playmakers on the Sun up here they quit
I mean tree and syrup two of the best damage dealers in the entire region and now you're putting them on very
Mechanically demanding heroes make it work like that. So team liquid here
Obviously have to be aware of this is engages time being gauges pretty well with infected
But if they can execute on that composition like this, this could be the recipe for success that has been missing for team liquid
so far in the stage
High from right in the game
Don't get hit okay
I don't just say it's pretty strong! Nice little dead eye!
The cat noon strikes again, you give us nowhere to go and there you go, SSG!
And this is the big thing about the cat, like I thought there was...
I thought there was a bit of restriction around the cat to be honest with you, like only having to play with the Bastion
but people have gotten so good at like throwing the cast of the in places, like getting your tank out of bad situations as well.
The tether has been like worked on quite a lot so...
No more do you have to play with just the Bastion.
Team Liquid, Cage comes up when you fight with her.
So you'll get some nice first pick as well, on to Sugarflake, and they should be a team fight with fight already.
Pretty cheap as well here.
Yeah, really cheap, nice cage.
You can still Hawke on the suspended from the chains, the chain was in midair.
So Hawke used thrusters to try and get out, and then instantly got trapped.
A good flip from CL.
Very close so far, in fact, this is one of the more back and forth controls we've had in North America so far.
Yeah it really has been. Oh well because of stuff like this as well. Oh lethal finds an opening book of the vague end, like at this point if you're liquid, I don't really want to invest in a fight like this.
I mean the cat really does break the mobility cycle for a lot of heroes as well, just being able to cast a sky with the angle of the rest of the team in the battlefield.
Well, there's the spree coming through for Tree, needs to kill on for Lethal, trapped inside that Mizuki cage, no one to help him out.
Healers I don't think were anywhere close. Bikes can get thrown downtown as well as Team Liquid. They get team killed.
Actually, Edge over Space Station Gaming in a percent.
Yeah, it's a good team fight from Team Liquid, and now both supports are firing as well. Kibbers and Begion.
Okay, you're worth with the ultimate steering gotta be aware of this that I coming in on the flank here lethal is
Here we go
Shot the Cassidy
Nice easy. I should pixel party there by kiss
It's not something going on a little awry on the left hand side there
But actually super free that goes down fans and Sarah first up by trying to get back on the whole with the boot off
the map on to the Sion. Now the self-destruct has to be deployed. It's OT that's faced per Team Liquid,
so the Space Station has to find some purchase on this point, and Hulk is reloaded. A good
chain connection from Vega. This whole Hulk has to get off the point, but Space Mission
still get the flip. They're facing, not touching the point. What's the other? It's the backline
that Team Liquid dissolved. That's a difficult fight with Team Liquid because Space Station,
they already had all their positioning and Team Liquid, to some extent, they're kind of reliant
I'm getting on top of space station but in that specific fight they were already
like herded into their closed-door areas on their side of the map so 90%
accounting air space station could provide a lot of poke on the walk up
here
there's a little touch whoa take peak surprise there it is all that's huge
that was yeah kind of insane lethal's on the high ground though and they're
We're gonna have to pass this horrible angle, dead eye for the sky, Sousa already used the biggest death, there's no cover to be found by Vega, Dexterity is all the way, but maybe thought that Sousa was enough to save it.
Caitlyn brought it on the point, but unfortunately the rest of your team is already history.
And as the space station gave me, I'm gonna wrap this one up, nice little bow on top.
We're gonna take the first round.
Yeah, what a back and forth around though to kind of kick things off for your team liquid
Coming into this one. We talked about it in the pre-show
Haven't really seen anything great from them so far this stage
But I still like the vibe they brought here to kick things off in this series
And maybe they can make things a little bit more competitive with space station than we initially anticipated
I mean so many of these fights for just dead ice as well. It's crazy
Well, I think he was trying to strafe towards the pillar instead there was a really awkward
spot for Vega to be in
13-1. Yeah pretty good. Turns out lethal pretty good. Let's test the Cassidy too.
What? I think Cassidy is Sheon. Okay let me check. You want me to try to check?
Yeah pull it up. Pull it up real quick. I'm pulling up. All tears. Cassidy Wimbray
is definitely lower. Definitely lower than Sheon. Okay, Grandmaster and up.
Grandmaster and up. Grandmaster and up. Grandmaster and champion. 48% so 1% better than the rest of the population.
Okay, so you know, not the most overpowered hero, but lethal in Kempster. They're showing what this hero is capable of.
See, I can make my point.
Look at him. I mean, this is an illegal armor angle.
He's literally hovering.
He's not designed to be there.
You're not even supposed to be up there.
The hitbox to the high ground just breaks
Good sleep to either ends of getting changed but ends up staying alive
They can just have the raid boss kind of walk on forward
In fact, it does get auntied but this is a high ground
That's really important hit the space station gaming the more you can control this and for the longer you can control this if you're
SSG you don't have such free reign on this point if they did this if I just push forward the way
In those thrusters against that high ground real quick, but they go already dead if it requires so much back up on this point
Johnny so many heels reply to pop into the Malga
They just forced to play that close range so despite even if we're taking the point early the space station game
And I should get the flick
surely
unless
Ah, Trin's here, what's he got?
No way, Trin! Triforce of a pick!
Wait, they killed like three people here!
Wow!
How did they turn that around?
That should have been their point!
I mean, Vega and Kivis ended up dying too, but Trin and Zera managed to do like 2v3, 2v4 on the point?
Yeah, Hawkeye and Vekax the stick?
That would have been gross.
Ridiculous.
And they already built percentage as well, so they're already up at 50% there on the back of that clutch.
This is a great start to run for liquid
All the bike
In the big 26 you getting bikes won't you give us down alright?
Okay, surely space station won't randomly all die to Sarah now silver bullet tree is dead
And Halk is infected, there we go, okay, they're gonna get the point, but like you said, 73% already for Liquid, I mean, that's a huge star.
Yeah, and it kind of changes the entire trajectory of this round because I would have said infected playing Mauga against this Ana with high ground, probably have to swap off the Mauga.
Now, you're almost a teamfight away from winning this round and you got a cage fight coming up, these ultimates could really turn things between Liquid.
Well, at this phase, you just find the wrong answer that I
Manu's free, he's trying to get off the point, they're right in the corner, the sanctuary goes to a lot of them, it's actually being negated completely
But as soon as that sanctuary falls, I mean the rest of C liquid, not shortly after, OTT S and CL already down, and Fated knows this fight is pretty much done, just look at the trades at this point
Although Vega killing Shunfreeze had a decent come up, and there should be a fairly trivial experience now for
the space station gaming, cage fight gets deployed there, the cat in the cage, the cat in the cage
and it's getting blown up by Infected and in fact, I made focus too soon yet again,
self destruct on the point, Infected dashes out of there with that charge,
Horde gets the rena in the end, Infected is back on the point again, in fact, Team Liquid
as a whole, four players are capping the point, space station gaming, at least yet it feels like Johnny, a winnable fight.
Yeah, infected saving that cage fight is huge actually and he did so because they used it like to sanctuary early
So similar ultimate trigger finger though, kick on to zero
This is maybe trying to get about there
Really good, made combo into the sleep. Okay infected is down for your presence. Gone. The team liquid. Oh
three. No, no point. No gonna get a kill. I
I mean also Hawks are surviving with the mech there. That's also massive for spaces and coming back into the fight so early
So great play by infected but then Hawks as well surviving making sure that spaces and get a clean fight to begin with here
And now they have a particularly close out the mouth
There if you get his balls roll on you view I'm wrong. I'd be it might be over
I knew then I'm gonna give him a chance but I'm sick of course all the bike
three tries to get away but look quick enough now and sugar free again the X
the X is half the Margaret health half the Margaret health where's the whole
fix that two zeros for SSG they end up winning the Ilios that he was nano
to be fair he was not it yeah he was not oh come on you're doing the
practice range buddy, he's relax practice range base when I shoot the stationary DPS with a full execution in the head.
As I see off to a good start though a little two oh however compared to liquids game last week.
This is a much of an improvement. I mean, they are way more formidable at least in a way says in this last man.
Yeah, I think you can say that Team Liquid were kind of competitive that alieos because their damaged players
Not stopping the end. I mean that alieos run would have looked different if it wasn't for
Cera and tree doing some amazing carry work, of course
It did feel like space station gave me in the end
They were in control for most of this map as we look back on this one as we reflect on it
They didn't really lose a lot of fights
They decided instead to just engage back out and then have a clean execution
So I think it's basically very much in control here, but team liquid at least showing us a little something here with three on this
Yeah, real good. Yeah, that's the clutch back down Sarah and tree both pretty clutching them by the road my all hit the bike
Yeah, I think I was hiding there. Yeah, I don't sure it was asleep. It might just been a nade or something
But yeah, that was, that was absurd.
That's Sanctuary play, by the way.
And Grabby got a replay of that from the Shion's perspective.
Sanctuary outside of the point, but it covered like the corner.
So the two players were standing on like one pixel's worth of cover there in the sanctuary,
which it helped them live and it helped them win the point as well.
Like, Mizuki is still ridiculous.
And you can see why he's been banned so much.
They're kind of cooking here.
They got 2 ultimates that provide like a universal shield so you go with the sanctuary to the point
and then you put the cage fight on the point and you're just shielded off for like 10 seconds.
Genius strategy.
That's one from the rankings.
They were cooking. Kasaurus was cooking with that one.
The Mizuki sanctuary, then the cage, hang on.
Huge young city is the big white seam liquid.
was the one map they did win against the Dallas Fuel. It was 3-2, it was really close, but they won
against the Fuel in that one map series last week in week two.
Yeah, so we saw some more tempo heavy compositions from Team Liquid on Gileos there, but their
preference so far, if you review last week when they did go to New York City and then also to
Hollywood has been more the broad style of compositions. The New York City is the
perfect map to kind of enable that as well. So, Kiriko is going to get banned here by SSG. That will
prevent some of these compositions that Team Liquid are going to play. SigmaBand, by the way,
something they mirrored last week as well. They don't want to engage in these misogycema
compositions. They want to play more of the Rematra style that are infected so good at.
Yeah. Rematra, you can even put a Malgor again. I like SSG banning the Kiri.
actually opens up honor like nothing honor would be a bad pick into the into
the mouth although you're bra but more than likely you're still playing Lucio
on the flashpoint map so we see what the back line looks like without some
here I go yeah I almost think like the honor obviously is viable because
there's no suits on the battlefield but I'm always wondering if in these brawls
style compositions we'll see probably more like Juno Brig. I don't feel like we've seen a lot of
Juno Brig and so we probably won't see that but that's a kind of style of support back
time that I'm envisioning here. Ana might be a bit of a kind of like vulnerable. Let's put it that way.
A lot of people want to get on top of Ana. Well, if they play something of speed with the
speed ring and so forth with Juno, Ana won't have a great time and won't have the sidelines
requires really make it work yeah I mean I I talk about honor like it's still
like what 2020 I'm like yeah they can never play on here definitely guys it
still works man still works me as I insert the cassette into the take that
yeah I'm just a really good guy we're gonna be talking about all that like
20 years. Yeah, exactly. Do you remember toilets on earth? We're so
ripped. The Sandman on Los Angeles Valiant. Do you remember that game in 2019? It's crazy.
So we're in the back. We're sorry in the back. It's like, please stop.
We had a big nickname phase for all the players and unfortunately we need nicknames,
the Sandman. That's a good nickname to be fair.
Well there's infected but you are right to no break for it seem liquid
Yeah, indeed still though think that she only independent data talk about engaged heavy composition here and hawk already
Nice job into the kiddies. He's gonna be kicked apart here
But this is a this is one of the compositions of all time here from dude liquid nice engage buddy. I
I I you kind of get the you get you kind of get the idea though from team liquid
Especially if you have the vendetta with infected pop a cardio for a drug like you want to go fast
You want to get to the back line pretty quick have to run an off angle and then vendetta also kind of lurking around off angle
And then just blow the back line up
But there's so much peel for SSG is the problem and it's actually is there a switching to the Genji instead
Yeah, sir is actually proving the past that life's paper skin to alongside the paper smalga
I think they're already taking a lot of damage here, of course, back to me if you want to go right.
Were you with the nice kick here though? What the kill is still?
You know, Hawk again, it's a big loss to Stain, he's probably at every cooldown to live against the Maga.
Loss also hitting, getting hit by the Wave too, so you're receiving even more healing.
Yes, it's a team liquid loss in this fight, much to the point too.
Of course, three. And Zera still kind of coming up to kill somehow.
They killed three? I mean, Hawk kills there in the end and yeah, there's not gotta be a chance to cap.
Still, I mean, fighting kills like that is something that we saw a lot of time.
They are so close. So close to perfection.
But it's not quite happening for Team Liquid here. It's 90% of the time of year.
Gonna have to really get paid off. They don't really have any ultimates to go with this either here.
They've just touched a point which is going to give the advantage.
Batation through the freeway to close one.
Just to get a pick.
Yeah, trees on the off angle as well in front of Agana one shot down, and I'm so low too.
Spree right in the back and they're so close together.
Tree basically herding them in like a sheep dog, and then popping the spree.
Backline down for SSG, but the problem is, the Elf bars are waning as well for Team Liquid.
DPS have been dealt with, Hoyt got flicked by TL, but SSG are gonna get the cap again.
Someone has to touch the TL. Looks like they've got the manpower to do so, in fact, he's on the point already.
Now Team Liquid are going to stall this one out.
Get the point cap back, and I think this now is real good for Team Liquid.
I've done a couple of team fights here, but not needing to pressure the objective or try to engage in splice station,
already having all this position available. You know, this is great for their engages like this.
That's a big Terrasurge!
As he tracks, Zera back in, pops the blade, but you're blading in a Rissa.
Unfortunately, you require a little bit more damage. There it is.
Okay, CL do manage to focus down.
The battlecattle.
Raita, Vega, Bowie is gonna at least help with the kill obviously.
Sorry, if you can leave the way, end up with the kill, onto Vega.
Cage gets popped on the point, but more of a defensive countermeasure here
for Intectives to try and hold on.
Zera eventually healed up, Haze destroyed, Doomfist as well now for Horde to try and get this final turn.
And the Dex can now try and cycle cooldowns. A good punch into the wall.
Horde is just supercharged up right now, but their fight into this raid has to get out of the line of fire.
But Invented mows him down in the end.
And that's a cleanup for Team Liquid. I mean, the orbital rage is so hard to fight into in these post-waters.
Zera might have fallen here, but they assumed Liquid capped in the first.
Alright, I might have gone a little too excited about the punch stones in charge zone, but it
looked real cool when you punched three people into the wall right there.
The orbital ray, like you said, just too much there for Team Liquid, especially, you know,
putting pressure on the point with the Mauga in orbital ray.
That's just going to be too much to handle here for Space Station, who play a pretty
interesting composition we haven't talked about so far, Jaws.
Hop's actually going to swap over to the D.Va here, move away from the Orisa,
but playing this Wu Yang composition as well, we cannot want to fight that way to
but in fact it's leaving them no room here.
Ones right to a tidal blast. I like this pick up from Horto.
It's just so good against them out because he can't heal himself.
Cardiac overdrive pot, matrix the entire thing.
It's not exactly a hard cooldown to spot out of somebody either.
Spacen, if he's a cap there, you got the tidal blast to go
with this if they need as well. Law of pressure on the damaged person to come up big for the
respect of this. Yeah, it's gonna be Law of Sugar Free, no surprise there. Now hunting
for somebody, three already in the back. What a knockdown on to three. Honestly, the
perfect target. If not a support, you want to go for the shield.
I'm gonna come back in this one. Yeah, especially in Aga 2. That's really nice.
They can't get away from us there as well. Yeah.
Rally though for Vega, double DPS ult Johnny as well.
Yeah, they have indeed here.
Let's see if the site doesn't get to go with this over the rate early here.
You don't really want to engage into a mug if he'd be, but can I go over here?
Can I just go right close as well for him if I can?
Oh, the stun is so good.
Little barely got the second dash off of him.
You got his light snuffed out.
Ryze can help put Team Liquid into a better spot to win this fight.
Although, look at the hounding down a grid right now.
They're using every single packet imaginable to keep the brick alive. Three hots on the bike. Two flat tires though.
Puts him in the dirt.
SSG may have lost their fever.
They still have to deal with infected. The solo gauge on the tracer.
Yeah, that's a walk ride.
Let's have a look at a team liquid. You can get back on the point now.
Three players from SSG trying to get the cat. They're gonna sneak it away.
Yeah, they're all going to get this touch here as well.
And they should have the ultimates to make this pretty good fight for them in the end here, Spaceship, they can't sit back here, they don't necessarily need to win this straight off the bat.
Turn a scout out a good opportunity to punish the backline here, perhaps.
Well, the trade is so good though.
Yeah, Kivis hits the headies on Sugarfree. I think I won that pretty much in the orbital ray.
and yeah fight over nice I mean decent right there for SSG title blast onto
the sugar free again and that's a fight when if you get Vegas Kivus or tree yeah
a hundred percent I think space isn't quite happy playing it slow right there
horsemen swap over to this Arisa once again which I think is quite obnoxious
for all of these heroes on team liquid so I don't mind the pick stay
Oh dear. Yeah, Vegas know where the best boss will spot, but three actually trades completely.
Admiral went up going down and has put off the race to rescue his team, but look at that.
The back flight from Team Liquid just rumbled under the pressure.
Test this, G! They go back to your Rissa!
And it's gonna make a whole lot of difference here against him.
Faced it's Amalga. There you go, that says G. They're gonna get this one.
Okay, the stake. Oh, wait!
Oh, he's won actually!
a 1 HP. It should be fine though. Akron and UVR, he and the mob. Okay, fully back off the
armor, all good. Yeah, and there it is. What the attempt though, I feel like for Zarya.
If that Arisa kill goes through, there's a chance. There were backup players coming
in for TL, but it will be SSC, time us up.
Yeah, 100%. They're just going to swap back to the Brig here after a stint on the cat
trying to get back quickly. Both backbites kind of struggling to survive against this
Tracer and Shion, he that speaks to the scale of the damage per is in the server right now here, ask well
What is my iris doing man?
He's like a big tracer
iris was hiding on the off angle
Lethal just is a 6-3 onto 2
All right, well there's 2 kill and there's 10 kill streak as well, 4 lethal on top of it
I mean, do we pause here for a second? Like
These fights are incredibly chaotic. These damage duos of Shion and Tracer are really
changing the game in terms of the tempo we're playing at right now and it feels like neither
the tanks or the backlines can really keep up with it. So we have these really massive
fights here. Team Liquid now, they do have a cage that they can play with together if
they need VV or Spaceship, then it will work well.
This is the way for Admiral, a one fight they're hoping.
Spree's gonna use Light-3, actually props a title blast to be used.
Spree's lays it down the head, so didn't really matter if that title blast popped or not.
But the cage were infected, locks down players in the front line, but I believe they only got four.
Maybe one of the players, it's not the exact time you want to go for it,
so they chase them all the way to spawn doors.
Yeah, Spaceship feels like they've figured out Team Liquid at this point.
They're pretty seamless around this Mauga. That is fairly limited when it comes to the one Kordak overdrive cooldown and the overrun.
Team Liquid are going to flank around to try and get closer to the point to begin with but vision already poking.
And Arisa has such a massive head. Did you see how much damage she took as she went around the corner?
That was her Vega taking a post bomb.
They actually ended up hitting the shield.
Also, I'm attaching the wall there for Zera forced to recall.
Now it's going to be out of the fight for a couple of moments too.
In fact, she was already popping that cardiac overdrivers, ultraviolet tricellar, those trishots.
Wait, is it going to help Porc stay alive or... I believe that it's not hitting.
But now the orbital ray for TL should be what it takes to win the fight.
But again, space station, they're playing a bit of chess here, Josh.
You take a big move, that's fine. We've got a backup move.
Set backup moves, we've got 9% and you use your big ray already.
And we've got Tideblast coming up.
Yeah, they're playing very smart.
On both of these maps so far, they've been so tactically...
Well, with their decision to disengage, when to use their ultimates, and some other case of that,
they can just pick their perfect opportunity to go.
Hey, Vegas got rally.
Pick up some potential for a Tideblast user.
Look at damage though from the poke.
Good amount of shielding though from Vegas.
and stuff all those tri shots and hitting and they go instantly popping their rally batteries already dead to five people on the point
They're going extremely low ultraviolet trying to fight this night. Thank you this course. They get this know what you can do on the break
Now he's a missus the bash on the tracer to my word
I mean sugar free just aced for breakfast lunch and dinner. I'll be SSG. They got 99 already
They let liquid get 81, but ain't get letting them get the point there is two on the board already
And I like that our fellow observers are showing some love to the Wu Yang gameplay as well because that hero is so pivotal so far.
We'll talk about it open things up there with a peek from his Wu Yang skill.
Even with an early engage here.
Oh, I saw the sticks with little stuns, they're getting onto the Dreadstar.
He instigates destroyed, but at least for that game, I think it terrifies a double for more.
Alright, okay.
Like you said, Joey, he fights over pretty quickly and that's a case in point.
I mean those were some big ultimates. If you overrun in there as Amalga, you're in for a world of hurt there.
Both Hawk utilizing the terracers there and that's going to mean space station Damier in control of this third round here.
Team Liquid kind of slowed down. Space Station Damier has figured out this composition now.
Team Liquid are a lot of ultimates here but through space station, there's big flank coming in.
I really like the early engages, especially when you know you're down ult, cage already
clocked, both of you trying to fight, by this side of things, Abra actually thirsts to die,
invaded, probably trapping the Tuno in the cage, you can get a full POV, but sugar-free
and ultra-finer, they're so slippery Johnny, it's really hard to see liquid to lock people
down. The Wu Yang and Tracer combo is just too delectable, even without the tidal
blast. That's the base station taking an early fight and they're up to 55. Yeah, I think
you're seeing here that it's a compositional diff here. Elisa and the Wu Yang has been
so good for space station gaming so far and Team Liquid. Then on the back foot, Vega
over onto this bridge and the Maogao. The best they can do is really group up, play
these corridors together, space station, way to poke around. Look at these wide
angles already poking here. Look at this.
Even further than that, you'd be playing on the plate.
Best who you hang in North America, 2-P said.
Three ends are getting a double for three.
And again, they're kind of a costly fight.
Don't lose the duel against the Juno.
Surely not, surely not.
Abra takes down three.
Although it is only the Juno left, so it will be seen liquid.
Again, fighting in the same situation,
although since that previous point, it's 99 for Space Station.
Again, again.
They don't have to stress things.
I can sit back here now, pick their best teamfight possible, give some time for this setup with Ruyang to kind of work out.
Pick here from Serum, okay?
That's going to push SSG back here a little bit as they wait for lethal to respawn.
Team Liquidare, I'm curious to see when they decide to engage here because they really only have one opportunity with the Moga.
Do you want to go pretty early like we're seeing their posi here?
All the way!
That was very slight. Wait! It's lethal though!
It would just like disappear using that little double-door area for now
Provided so close to the salt to it's gonna go again on and off angle with sugar free pressuring out this back
But Vega you can see having a tough deal of it here
Rally in a couple of moments though. Oh, see approaching the 14 liquid is gonna get popular most instantly type of boss now in the front
Line actually on the arrester and it's a big knockdown as well
Infectors cage instantly deleted, Hawke now body hopping backwards getting away from the breakage rally
As their whipshot pushes him back even further, the stick is good for one though
Vega ends up exploding into a million pieces, but space station despite them come out with kills, don't actually touch the point
Yes a great
Location for Team Liquid to fight there because they're taking the closed corridors
And so Infected almost sacrificing his life there on the Mauga to put Spaceship in place and Team Liquid
They utilized after their advantage. No one from the street can't touch and we're evened up here two to two on new junk city
We're going to distance
Again space nation have made it here fairly early on
There was a post on for Sarah has got recall in the 1v1 not exactly a fair one. That was he's receiving here
Oh way the post
Still gets it. Oh you can't know no like that
not the pulse and dying that's a you can't enter he said the LOL of the
Lamal real quick and then yeah yeah move on yeah you're laughing yep you're
laughing indeed SSG here in control of this fifth and final point ultimates on
the board for them here ask well if they can force out this over the way
early that'd be terrible use for it with it really don't want to use it
I would have gained position first, and that's exactly the kill that is required to gain that position.
Now, Liquid can't go on and off, I think.
Stop in the front line, they're still with the Wraith from Space Station Gaming, Kivis is going to respond.
However, if Liquid got focused down super early, this Wraith from TL, I would argue a little bit too late.
Vega doesn't have any of the Wichita on Sugar Brea Terrasurge from Warch trying to stay alive in the front line,
but that Wraith got away from him as well.
And since she's going to lose this point, there's obviously similar fashion appeals like,
Finally from Vega to make sure they can actually secure this.
Niko's got the spree, but that big flat screen TD from Vega keeps everybody alive.
Zera does end up falling, but it is a messy fight with Team Liquid.
Not even getting the best of positions here.
Does SSG come in with a title blast?
In fact, Chica Free is already on the back line.
A good knockdown and even better stick from Chica Braun,
as Team Liquid now have to rely on Free to get something done,
but the spree easily kites it away by SSG.
Indeed, what impeccable play from Space Station Gaming there, the way they navigate the lane
is Sheehan and Tracer and really just picked Team Liquid apart.
This is the tactical prowess we've been waiting to see from Space Station Gaming.
They go up too low in this series and definitely the top dog in North America at the moment.
Yeah, they look really good.
Although, come on, I will say they look better.
Team Liquid look a lot better.
They look for a vital eyes, although still you're going up against the best team in North America who've only dropped a single map so far worth keeping in mind a single map has been dropped.
Did I just see that correctly? Halt with 45mm as well?
I mean, if you're in Uriza and you're just shooting bullets in the front line like you're going to do a tremendous amount of work and no one really wants to shoot the Uriza as well.
It's kind of like, okay, well, we'll try to work around the Orisa like let's go real here
We're not going to kill the hordes with all those cool downs
but um
Yeah, this has been an improved team liquid and this identity has really worked for them so far with Sarah onto this tracer
I think as soon as Sarah cannot fix over to the tracer that changed the pace of their composition
The Genji was a little bit too restrictive against the Shion and our tracer themselves there
And so this has been an improved team liquid that it's kind of like found their style
If you just have to make top three to make it to the mid-season championship,
well, Tim Rickler is really trending in that direction, and I think that's great for them.
Oh, what a stick.
I'm okay, Johnny.
Pick this up. I'm going to put this down for you.
Alright.
Is she on Tracer, the new Genji Tracer?
Okay, alright.
Look, Genji Tracer, iconic.
Okay?
Yeah.
Obviously, we're in 2026. We're in the big 2026.
Shion Tracer. Yeah, it's it's look it's a better comp than Genji Tracer for sure. But is it like that?
Yeah, I'm not thinking about like how iconic it is, but it's like the shion wants to also be on an off angle
Like it is very dive like you are in you've got a lot of mobility as well
A little bit more consistent than the genji. Yeah, it almost feels like a better version of you know a few years ago
We played tracer sombra
I feel like Xion is just like a better Sombra in this kind of scenario.
Oh yeah.
It's, the tempo is just disgusting.
But hey, we're grateful, we're grateful.
Yeah dude, Xion, one of the funniest heroes to watch currently in OWCS, or just in general.
Just in general.
Like I mentioned the pick rates and you know, it's the highest in the game right now, so come on.
It's a fun hero to play as well.
Don't forget as well, Drops, that's what I was going to say.
Drops, Johnny, are available right now.
the game. I'm going to go
into the next round. June 13th
July the second you can earn
these drops on your screen. I'm
sure a lot of you've got more
ready for a couple of tears
skips in the battle pass. Did
you see the release of Larry
mythic? Your boy was grinning
it's a lot of you know, you
can only mythic prisons and
then by the alarmist skin. I
did it. Insta by and also.
like the color swap. Oh, it is sick. And then with the gold weapon too. Can't forget about
that. Yeah, I do this. I wrote the gilded tracer. And so I show up to trace it. Yeah, very good.
I mean, this diamond probably is black and gold. Just getting absolutely dumbster. It's
not a good look, but I feel fly. You feel pretty fly for a tracer guy. Hey, that's
So, I'm expecting them to be okay.
There is it's on the bottom of the screen.
I was expecting the tact to come in now.
Sigma is probably going to be played or at least some form of kind of poke.
How have you been like an attack for TL?
They haven't obviously performed super well against big teams, but attack known quantity in Korea was kind of.
I wouldn't say punching up in any stretch of the imagination towards your, you know, crazy raccoons or Zetas or anything, but I think it's promise.
crazy racoon to say just already thin, but I think it's promise.
Yeah, I think promise is definitely the word to describe attack.
It's just like a player that's been around for a few years now and we've been
kind of like waiting for, you know, to step up to the big leagues.
It's almost like vigilante on Chris racoon.
Now it's just like we're all just talking about like, oh, this
pair is so good.
They have everything that's necessary, but the top teams, you
know, they have their roster already.
They have their players are committed to already.
And I feel like attack here gets a great opportunity on team
liquid to show what it's made of. I think this is a good look for Team Liquid. I like
when they play these kind of slower styles where attacks here really fits in. The big
issue is you're facing a team back as a G, that's your bread and butter, and so now
you're going up against the very best when it comes to these kind of sigma
compositions and especially with sugar-free playing for Mei, for Symmetra, that's
going to be brilliant for space engagement. So Team Liquid recognizing that
may ban coming through. Yeah, I like that point because I think sugar-free, if you
you think about past sugar
free. It's like a lot of heavy
Tracer like a lot of like I'm
gonna kill your whole backline
like over and over again, like
extremely aggressive heroes, but
he's very good. Even like the
same like the May the kind of
more silly heroes to is almost
the master of all at this
point, like an amazing flex
player and it's been discussed.
Yeah, I feel like Sugarfree deserves a lot of credit for expanding that hero pool because
we're you know it's so easy to sit back and say oh you know I just want to play the Tracer,
I just want to play the Genji, adding a few flex heroes like Echo, like the more mechanic
is still demanding once but it's not necessarily you see a damage player at Sugarfree's potential
really try to round out the hero pool by adding me, adding Sumetra and so I think
Shigafi deserves a lot of credit for really taking the steps and the practice necessary to try and improve on these heroes and it obviously
It's benefiting spaceships massively here as well
The more they develop the more they improve and if they want to become one of those top international teams like these are
Expanded hero pools that is going to give them the edge in some crucial matches down the line
And so I love the work that Shigafi's put in to really become sort of great. So that's right. I'm a player now
And we're so back. Cat Bastion for SSG.
It was, like, exceptionally good versus Lunex on their circuit last week.
It was a pretty close map though. It was 4-3.
That was the final score of Circuit Royale.
But this is what we're expecting.
Um, 13, look at it on the other hand though.
Uh-oh. Oh, wow. All right.
I just freaked you up your entire walkout.
Come on man.
A little bit, Alita is going to die as well.
Come on.
Yeah, okay.
Well, sometimes...
If you gave me 10 more seconds
to glaze about space mission, I would have done it.
I would have been like, yeah,
it clicked for them last week on Circuit Creole.
They looked brilliant, you know, halfway through that map.
And, well,
they got a little bit of card stall.
That first fight.
I got that going for them. No, don't show the scoreboard. No get that out of here. Get that out of here. Come on now
We're not doing that. We're not doing that
No, we're not doing that here. We're 50 seconds in come on up. Oh good. Oh good
They're on the corner now. They got the stick of the top. They're on the corner with the cat bastion
And now this is where the Zarya is going to inevitably struggle open for a speed ring into
getting someone in position, but the bastard is gonna be on the off
Yeah, and there's our guys to a headshot
You got that one Johnny you got the direction. Oh, yeah, I do
Investing in the game
Back in my whole take face
A little big
Yeah, that's
There's four of the best skins in the game.
Anyway, yeah, look, I use it.
I use it.
Team Liquid are finding out that their comp is kind of ancient
with this Genji and Zarya against what they're
facing with the Jetback Cat Bastion here.
Look, let's see what they're cooking up here with this,
fairly engaged, reliant composition here,
putting bubbles on top of the Genji here,
trying to get something going,
but Spazier is a mightily controller.
That was really early.
One final one, that's just free charge for attack, you just absorb that with a bubble.
Warning shots.
I mean yeah, stall out and whoa, hang on a second.
Oh there's the Bastion, ready to go, he's in the trap.
And now, who do you actually get to target is lethal.
You can't, you just have to run away and hope you survive.
A bubble onto Kim is good call, and actually no more to raid.
That's one thing that I would do with the Cat Bastion, that extra damage.
Flux, however, is gonna connect with one player, however, instantly bubbled again.
Attacking very good at planting bubbles so far.
Very defensive up to a high energy point this time of the game as Averil gets out alive,
but not quite enough to get out of arm's reach for the Xera.
Oh, he deployed the SSG, but, yeah, didn't really think of anything off of that.
The team liquids, they just march on, they win the fight, and they should get in checkpoint two.
There's no one to touch.
Yeah, the spree from 3 did so much damage onto the back of the whole space engine gaming, so even though they dropped their ultimates, it almost sounded like it was over by the time 3 had dealt that damage and obviously losing the Bastion early, suboptimal here as well.
Still though, you have a Bastion problem, Team Liquid. How will you deal with this long term here? Because, like you said, they don't really have the greatest heroes to shoot them down.
We're gonna go for a kidnap.
Looks like it's gonna be on the side of Abral.
Abral is so low already.
It looked like Abral just kind of jiggled the Zarya around a little bit and then Attack
got discombobulated and then the rest of Space Station gave him around the corner
and you saw Hawkeye and a couple of kills.
That's a really tough spot for Attack to be in.
Yeah that was pro captain thing.
Kind of like tether the opponent and then you used the objective.
You're gonna like put yourself behind covers you can't get killed by the way like put that on you
Sure, play this guys give us no way anime blade
Yeah, all right say that season two
Yeah, actually or bought the bowie knife to the attack candy 11 kill street ain't ever
Alright, well, if it wasn't for lethal dine at first point it would be very close to the
nuke right now, but that's not going to be going to play instead it's going to be liquid
here with this crucial Graviton Surge.
It's not the greatest walkup composition, you still have to be wary as well, this
Graviton Surge being eaten, so I'm going to occurs to see how they can approach this
one, they always have a plan in place to see it.
Yeah, it's less of a walk-up, more of like a hobble forwards as they just take infinite poke.
And they don't want this grab to get any of their Hawks waiting for it, and Lethal's in the back line again.
It's not a missile perk too, attacks are totally going to die.
There's going to be a Graviton surge on this light round, actually grabs Lethal.
And they actually end up securing kills.
Hey, big grab, grab both the DPS and Zerafinches both them off.
The Graviton surge weaving its way around Hawks, it went for that flux.
You can't use the grasp when you're hitting that.
A good opening for attack actually secured them that just like his death
That is not a thank you. You can't grasp on your fluxing. I can't believe that turned out so well for liquid
It's a great gravity on surge mid flux and then zero cleans up and things just go team liquid way
Spacers and gimme though. They have to go through this show, but they have the ultimate required kind of like poke out there
Yeah, well, unless...
Oh, oh!
That's great. It's so much damage.
I mean, Horde's one shot as well.
What a burst from Team Liquid.
An attack changing gears goes over to T for two.
And that's going to be point.
Very, very quick. Two and a half minutes.
Normally people get staggered on that last bit for such a long time,
considering how close that defender's sword is.
Yeah, I had a little hope actually, but that choke is undefeated.
It's just crazy if you have a superior positioning over the enemy team here.
Alright, so space you gave me here on the back foot a little bit.
Two minutes, you have to defend here on this third point.
Keeps you're going to do some work here on the Cassidy.
Team Liquid though, have a sanctuary in hand.
Might come in useful in this next fight.
Cat!
Oh, over the top!
Where's the Matrix?
We've only choked down to Arbis B and now Sugarfree gets descended upon by Team Liquid.
There's a counter high noon here from Asgera. Sugarfree taking down but they trade for a tank.
That's a good trade by any stretch of the imagination.
Take a stand here, let's get a little bit of a little push here, but we'll get a shut down in the end.
Counter sanctuary too actually, if I take it they pop both those ults to try and stop their high noon from Sugarfree.
And Sugarfree stops over to the Symmetra here as well.
He's going to make things a little easier, you know, he'll put the bastard around, but also dealing with the pack on that D.Va.
Now they can buy themselves a lot of time here, really choose where they want to fight.
Even if they have both your Risa here.
At the same time, can you look at what we're putting out on the mission of this card here?
So we have to pick up that one's Terrasurge.
Oh, the cat. Who did it kidnap? Not a hundred percent sure.
all kids using that terrorist I think I will try to go like a terrorist
cat that problem line about that will happen but well treat it I know that
this is 45 seconds ago reset the team liquid wow but even this self-destruction
war oh I don't know about that yeah I mean it's brutal like you probably
would have lost some crucial second strength to jump off there but that
that's okay you want to swap bro you want to swap bro all good all good
You don't want to pay the deviant to the Sim Bastion anymore.
Yeah, you know what, that's fair enough. Fair enough.
Well, the Bastion has got the ult.
They're gonna try and just bubble in the Shion,
but they're just running into these Taris. They're just getting microwaved right now,
and now they're in trouble.
He's the rush outside of the doors, and attacking.
Give us just four over. They got folded.
Sugarfree gets another one.
And yeah, Sugarfree's hot swap over to the Sim as well.
as well just it's just a nightmare for Team Liquid to deal with a really nice defense on that third point push there versus G.
Yeah Spaceship looking so good now with Hawke over into this and Risa and then the Symmetra as well
kind of just puts Team Liquid to a stop on their attack there as well. Let's take a look at the score again.
This feels like the whole story of the game essentially. It's like Team Liquid doing some good work like combining a couple of ultimates
the damage there is popping off but the better team has obviously been Spaceship Gaming so far
and that's been reflected in every single map and every scoreboard we've seen.
Yeah 24 and 4, 21 and 4 for Hawke and lethal respectively, 9.5k damage.
Yeah Hawke is just shooting, he's just hitting the M1 and not letting go on the reserve.
And on the Sigma too.
Attack is probably gonna make the same thing.
Well, it's it's the rematch over the time being here, but I feel like tactically space
is getting leveled up when you do the same.
I feel like they're just playing way better as a team because look, we were in Stockholm,
we were in Champions Class girls.
And like you covered in the pre-show is like, you know, the players were joking about
like who would actually win a map of land stuff like that.
And obviously they had some issues preparing for that tournament.
You know, on availability as well.
You know, I don't know the world's finals, like their scrims weren't the best and so it just felt like they was like
Kind of like a negative atmosphere surrounding space in gaming
You just feel like they couldn't really get the practice they wanted and the preparation they wanted
This feels like a different vibe now
This feels like a space in gaming that's finally playing their game and things are clicking and this is great news for them
So we're crazy closer to the music
And we go back to what Christopher said last week like look we've retort everything we've got new protocols
like we've basically done everything different and yeah exactly they really
dropped a few mats Johnny I mean they're straight shit
far up for sugar free again mystery man man as many heroes showing get another
one in this series and the battle comes down just so easy shooter a march or
two and then no one is paying attention to a sugar-brown either look at this
the freest damage in his life taking that by bigger in the end but I mean
the fight is done yeah the fight is done yeah that's horrible hey they're not
gonna have to regroup before this like second cause like third corner now like
you can't push on to this if you're team liquid
we're even going to see some swaps come through pretty late here so Sarah on the
Casper being big on the Kirikou, going to make their back fairly quickly here
so he's going to test balling, but like the Bastion's sent this damage here
So hard to stop an attack, he's going to have to push on this car here now
I guess it's him
Casper really likes to use port to
just arm to that stairwell, so kind of baiting in any kind of attackers
or any defenders that kind of walk at it
Lethal's already got a couple of attacks been de-mecked
I mean, Johnny
This is, this is not close man
This is a little bit of a slaughter. I mean, SSG is just walking all over Team Liquid right now.
Yeah, no, it's not looking good at all. And look, this is kind of why I'm an Apologist.
This is a Team Liquid lineup that is now kind of like figuring out, like,
okay, well, Space Queen Gaming, they're dominating us with this Bastion Simcombe with your Risa.
And we need to figure out the answers. This is not a roster of Team Liquid that has kind of played enough together to know what their
hair fools are, their chief abilities are together, and they cannot figure this out in real time.
So this is one of those scenarios where you obviously have this bastard so far in this series, and you're just rambling for answers.
Dammit, the attack is making the heroes swarve, the Bastion from the high ground as well. Look how low they are!
Suzu enter the company to try and save them, but they're fighting now on the rush, and there's no Suzu for attack to try and disengage.
Four minutes in the bank for space station.
Another team kill. Walk hasn't died, like...
It's kind of absurd at this point.
Maybe by super late here comes the barrage from lethal like you can't move up
Stuck behind someone stuck behind them
He is behind them right now, and they've already kept
Then the high noon along things going on around this wall right now
But it is there again drag back in with that terror surge and emergency rush from Vega
But I fear the fights already done free with the spree sugar-free down before
Stands to at least kill the Shion. There's gonna be a reset in this spawn but it's so close and there's five minutes left in the bank.
Yeah, huge five minutes here. And at this point, Team Liquid are allowed to do their best here. Hogs off to the D.Va.
Contrary to the Sigma-Ferlint they're about to head away from the Baron. So they're going to up forward to D.Va here.
Let's see what they can do with this Sniper Teleporter trying to get down here. Already deep into the bank now they are.
Yeah, they're gonna catnap the Sigma and dragging him around that corner who's trying to refuse nice little kill on sugar-free though.
Team Liquid actually making the best of that position that attack was in and actually pushed around the corner to kill the Sith.
There's gonna be a rock going a little bit wide, but looks like they found a little bit of control as they hold this doorway.
Yeah, and playing around this Sigma has proven easier for Team Liquid here.
This is where they can kind of play automatic now like at this point you're playing a pretty slow composition you have the position
Advantage you're just playing over to this point. You're not trying to figure out strategy. You're not trying to figure out tactics
This way you can rely on an individual skill
It's a pretty basic instinct here based on that
You've rushed the fight study his fault there
I believe the Susan's gonna be enough to keep alive and look at the damage on attack fully talked up
Shipperbeast is beaming him and now they're in one fight territory. A boop off under Sarah, a team kill?
Are they gonna be able to get back in time is my question?
Well, even if they do, Spaceship Gaming, they're probably going to push up here and make things real difficult.
As Kivis swaps over to the Misuki here.
I would not be surprised to Spaceship Gaming. They have something special installed with this weapon as well.
Teleports to the high ground. His hack is trying to now touch the point. Make sure it doesn't go in.
Wow!
Three is already dead.
There's a high noon and rush coming up.
Are they actually going to be able to stay alive long enough?
Make is going to get pushed in here by Hork.
The chains are not coming in, but the kill's already gone through.
Self-destruct for Hork.
War deploy took a free pushing on.
Attack already dead.
And Space Station made that attack look easy.
A3 to 2 as Space Station proved.
A2 can walk on water.
A3-0 to keep their streak alive.
And they've already qualified.
still only dropping a single map here in the regular season.
It's a new Spaceman Gaming. They're looking flawless with a dominant 3-0 here.
And it might be comfortable on so many different kinds of composition.
Look out at the scoreboard. Oh 42 and 5.
So much offensive capability in this frontline. We saw it on Utah City.
It went through the trial as well. There's a Spaceman Gaming that is looking like they're in contention for the entire North American stage.
the next match is against
disguise to right now is
thing is zero three bottom of
the board only one two maps so
far in this regular season. So
you're thinking space station
goes are going to be a three
up again they're going to go
almost perfect. Yeah, honestly
given the way they play
today and the general
the stage that is very, very, very much possible. Fair Team Liquid, did they fight back a tiny
little bit here and there on control and whatnot? Yeah, sure, but over, under, like, it just still
hasn't really clicked for that team. It is quite a shame given that it is literally the very end
of our group stage. They do have one more match to go, and things can get a little weird,
like I'm not gonna do the map on air because that's just a recipe for failure. I'm not gonna do that.
But with their match coming up tomorrow and the O3 loss today, I think, don't quote me, I think
there's a chance that it might not make playoffs. Yeah, I think they'll lose, yeah.
I read the rule book this morning so it to make sure and I think if cafe beat him liquid tomorrow, then they have the head to head and both teams are two or three.
So it has to be a three eye.
Well then please, yeah, please, please quote, reinforce on that one.
No, head to head on.
Right.
No, head to head first and not differential, right?
Right.
Alright, well, I don't know. SSG are in.
Sorry.
I love that. We've done it.
I insisted.
SSG have locked their spot, that's for sure.
And they've locked that first seed as well,
guaranteed with this dominant performance today.
I just love what we've seen from them.
I love how they implement the Xion as well.
I love this super fast, aggressive style
that Xion and Tracer lend themselves to.
This is really, it's very agglomerate
and I'm very much here for it.
I think this really suits those individual players
than that team. Yeah, 100% agree. I think this team that just like figured out what compositions
they're going to play, even though the swaps are seamless, just like every hero swaps is
perfect. And compared to Team Liquid, okay, like trying to figure stuff out, like in the
middle of the maps, and like how do we adapt to what the enemy has come in, we just feel
like station gaining on the same page, incredible in the individual skill to back
things up. And I mean, that's as clean as you like, yeah, they lost a few fights
every single map, but like the tactical spray from them, like just engaging and like picking their
spot, like when do we want to invest the ultimates? Do we want to retreat from what the enemy team is
doing? I think it's basically fantastic. That's the thing, right? You say they're losing a few
fights, but even those losses sometimes feel tactical, where they're like, okay, let's just
like get out of here. So yeah, overall they're just, they're just really on it right now.
Now we do have Hawk joining us with a voice only.
So let's bring Hawk in.
Hawk, can you hear us?
Are you with us?
Start like this, start of a scene or something.
Yeah, yeah, he is.
Hi, Hawk is with us.
Congratulations on the dub and congratulations
on just a really smooth stage so far.
What is it that's clicking so well for the team?
Obviously we know the individuals
have a really high-skilled ceiling,
but the meta seems to really suit you as well.
I think after Japan we started leading
more in the cab bastion.
And we also kind of realized that we're like the 20th place
in the world, Liseo Kuri team, like,
and a lot of people are just trying to like replicate
other regions.
So if we can like play more to our strengths
or more stuff that people can prepare against,
it's a little easier for us.
And we do a lot more counter swapping.
We don't just think we're on the right,
or we're on like the twisted minds comp.
So we're just gonna win.
So there's more, we're a more dynamic team, you know?
Well, I mean, playoffs are just around the corner, but I want to talk about mid-season
because it feels like to keep this up and obviously the patch is probably not changing.
You guys are going to be chilling to go to mid-season.
What success for you at mid-season?
Obviously winning would be great, but what is kind of the bare minimum you're expecting?
I just want to be like a team that, you know, and me, these are specs a little,
you know, like we want to get some maps.
Obviously you want to win, but like, start, let's start small at this point because
down with the last couple of times have been really bad, but obviously we want to do well.
And we're doing pretty well on that right now, but we kind of got humbled over this week,
screaming like third or maybe in fourth place EU team. So we kind of need to still keep improving.
Like we're not, even though we think we're like number one on there right now, we still
think that's like a little ways away from like being respectable internationally.
Yeah, I'm curious about the intensity of practice. You know, sometimes we'll have the
teams that are like triple blocking and like going all out is that kind of like the vibe for you guys
right now preparing for an important tournament and feeling like you got something to prove and
like really want to be a better team like what's the practice intensity right like right now and
assuming you qualify like is that something you'd ramp up in boot camp like how much are you
practicing right now? I think we're probably practicing at minimum two times a day but a couple
times um couple days a week we do three blocks if it makes sense um a lot of times during the
the season you have limit practice in the night because you're playing a team so you
can't like this week we couldn't scream liquid at all so it's mostly just the next
Dallas and then any you block we can get and I think we'll probably try even
harder next week in scrims because we got humbled right but that's the right
attitude right like I was looking to improve we are very excited to see what
you guys are gonna bring to the table and the playoffs and then obviously
also with what you might be doing at EWC. Thank you so much for joining us and once again congratulations.
Thank you, Admi. Always a pleasure talking to one of the OGs. He's still got it. He's at the top of
NA, but yeah, I think we talked about it a little bit during the EMEA portion of the day. NA has
a region just currently lacking behind you here there as well from Hawke, like kind of getting
getting humbled there in those grims against the mid-tably and the Ateams, like NA has been
struggling for a while now. They are cooking.
Maybe Ateams are wild and that's just crazy.
But there has been a bit of a regional gap I would say, like if you're just looking at the placements during the last few LAN events, like NA has been lacking behind.
Yeah. Oh, no, I said, yeah, I think it's interesting that that's a nice little insight from what their fourth best team at EMEA kind of humbling the number one seed who has only lost a single map like, man, maybe that speaks to a little something going to to the land. Obviously, three teams are going to make it. There's still a long time between them.
We still got a bait. Well, actually, it's always a month going by the day. So there's still a lot of time to kind of fright
This North America. Yeah, but uh, but it's sweet up
I mean EMA and nothing to be I have to be estimate for my watch out
He did let's take a look at the standings real quick to see where we are after this is of course at the last week
After a group play here in EMA as well as NA an ultimate day of through play and
And space station gaming just locked that number one seed heading into playoffs and that means they get the pick of the litter
They get to choose their opponents now Johnny coach Johnny. Yeah, if you are sg who do you want to beat or play?
You already like absolutely manifesting it
I I think you don't care. I think he honestly don't care who you're playing like obviously
Okay, let's say you know, you know, you wouldn't prefer Dallas field
So this was put it that way. But honestly, if on SSG, like I don't care, like we're in our lane, we're playing real well right now, we can take down either Lunex team, Bigwood cafe, wherever we have to face there.
And if you just win one match in the playoffs, you're qualified for me since the championship already. And so that's, you know, the primary goal is getting qualified for the major to begin with.
Just win a map against any of these teams and you're going to be through. So I wouldn't have too much to worry about if on SSG.
through that. Now we do have one more match to close out the day. It's going to be this
guys who's to get a very bottom going up against Dallas Fuel before we get to that
little PSA. We've got some old favorites making a comeback. So make sure to check
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Welcome back friends, this is OWS Zoey here joined by Jack and Johnny and we're about
to break it all down, smash off to the day here in N.A. It's gonna be Dallas Fuel going
up against this guy. Two teams with different trajectories, so let's chat about them starting
with the Dallas Fuel. Obviously, they had to overcome stuff here as well earlier on in
this stage, but I feel like with their last week performance they pretty much redeemed
themselves. Yeah, they're good. They're on the right path. They're going to make playoffs.
NA is number one, and we're probably seeing Ken on Winston, which is even bigger than
the last. Okay, that's hoping. The disguise game. They're still hoping we saw Ken
win some last week. What do you
mean? Yeah, we will be sick.
This is not, uh, this should
be a walk in the park. Realist
maybe you're right. Realist
maybe you're right. Maybe we'll
listen. I don't believe I don't
believe alongside you. The
thing is like, I don't I don't
think that is fuel is going to
be tested today truly against
disguised. Uh I think that
is fuel should be considered
the heavy favorite in this,
but I feel like you could have
said the same thing about
streak that they're convincing me one against Team Liquid, because Team Liquid is obviously
struggling right now.
So what do we really know against Dallas Fuel when push comes to shove?
Maybe not that much.
So we have yet to find out, but it does give them a bit of a breather, a bit of an opportunity
to prep for the playoffs.
And they're in a very, very good position to make their way into the set playoffs.
Now the opposition disguised.
They're at a tough stage one, right?
almost I think they won one singular match that was against Team Liquid which was a massive surprise and now in this very stage
they're actually running the risk of
Going win this all together. Yeah, I mean straight 0-3. Yeah
I feel like their fate was kind of sealed when you know, they lost to
lunax already
And then they lost to cafe last week
You know that those are tough because those should be the teams that you're kind of competing with them
It's a disguise team that just really hasn't found their footing which I think is a shame because like these players
We know they're really talented, but we're not necessarily seeing them after absolute best
So last week you see you know a player like Ryan who we talked about his tracer gameplay so much just like shining on she
I'm doing so much tremendous work. Okay. Well, why would I sing that out of rocket?
You know, we've seen such great tracer moments out of rocket these past few years
You know the BCS right so these guys just just really haven't found that composition that clicks for their team either
Yeah, so but then it's really more about ending this last week on a high note as it seems almost inevitable.
I don't know where.
Yeah, that's true. You better write.
At a moment there, it's alright. It's like, just spend it on day for me.
Have a child.
Exactly, it's all good.
Either way, yeah, it seems inevitable that they might be having to fight their way once again
through promotion and relegation given that they are very much on at the bottom of the standings
but they're eager to you know show off that they have what it takes in order to be in order to be
here so let's see how they will fare against Dallas fuel it will be an uphill battle but
don't lose faith altogether right they they got it they got it bring it in guys let's hear it
so it's like yes we're not going to bring it in bring it in because I don't think I don't
I think it would be hard to
predict the skies there. Hey,
they could do it, man, but maybe
it's looking a little unlikely.
They need to face the Darfield
today and then an even bigger
of an op in SSG next week so
that the two hardest games
back to back in week three
like come on. That's you're
not winning early. You're not
winning this late. Um this
just not had the scoreline necessary. I wouldn't even give them that. I'm sorry,
I'm not going to let that happen. I wouldn't even give them that.
You're not the people's jam?
No, I'd say Lunex. Lunex are the people's jam.
Who bet?
You know, they're, yeah, they're coming in here. They're not a 400 team.
They're upsetting people, wasn't right. I'd say Louis or that, but disguised.
Look, they got a big fan base. I'll say that. They got some great players on their roster.
But I feel like maybe sometimes they're over-complicating things a little bit.
They're trying strategies and tactics there
Silly their players aren't shining on enough because we saw last week like PG popped off last week
There's great this game plays what we come to expect from PG and rocket as well
We know what rocket is capable of when it comes to like mechanically demanding heroes
And so I feel like this is a team that just haven't really clicked and now you know
Any other team are like all the dumbest a throwkick, but this guy's don't come on man
We're messing with the domino really try we messing with the domino. Okay. There we go.
Straight to Maga. Oh, I'm straight into a pause. I do. Yeah, that would have been I that would have been a little little sus.
We saw a bring it back like 2021 or reset with like the shield, like I'm a dominant corner just like something
just trying to shoot people but like it's really selfless to know what to shoot
people because your shield camp your like parts of your show can be destroyed
until you just kind of sat there like I'm still getting shot at even though my
shields up yeah it's interesting interesting hero I do you feel like
domino ever be good I mean that I feel like they'd have to really buff like
through the strat sphere for here to be
a decent level
like Pernos
what's that?
Life finds a way
Domino finds a way
Oh, that's on point
Hey, John Cretzman met up
That is facts
Oh, Sunjin changed the straight away
I like this room to skies though
Like you said, Johnny, just keep it a little bit more simple
Cat Bastion
Put Rocket on the Reaper
like see him on the she-on I'm saying now go there live they hurt you Johnny
well I want to see the she later I'll do the Reaper for now I'll do the
Reaper killing the back okay that's super old man Wow like quick yeah
that's not a challenge Helen position we want to be in it's a log out hoping
project overdrive in the middle of the 2030.
I'm going to have to go down fades.
It's uh, it's over.
Ooh, a hazard.
Okay.
Ooh.
I'm picking up, I'm trying to, I'm putting down.
Man.
Conor's going to be happy, that's for sure.
Yeah, that is.
I believe he's doing a little watch party at the moment.
So I'm going to look for what the hazard can do.
I mean, really, seeing the hazards versus the sea,
that's tough matchup, right?
Like, you're not, you're not winning that in the 1v1.
So you're looking to jump on the Wu Yang
in the best case scenario.
So I think the answer just went to Brawl for the time being here.
You see Turret mode kind of combined with the Slash from Passage here, just to show the time and his life.
I think we'll see too much of the neutral poking going down here,
so no matter if I can grind this in the bathroom and have to work,
and the answer is no found.
Oh, Sunja, no luck, CJ, I think I'm out of this guy.
Greg got a Spike wall kill, so it's probably over you on the board for disguise.
Oh, Trigger! Another way to do this.
They're Axis!
Oh, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, pause.
Tell us.
What's that a moat?
Feet and an earning, feet and the, the, the, the engine swinging.
Come on, tell us.
Alright, mental reset, mental reset.
We can't be the master.
We can't be the master.
We're 70 and all, we can't be the master.
It's dead.
Good, we have high ground now.
Rocket's already up there.
It was teleport, forwards, space, gate.
Skull taking heaps of damage, it's gonna get topped up by Kiwi, but they've got the rush.
There's a chance here for them to go real quick.
They need to try to get in there first though, just ignore the Sigma.
Or at least try to.
Well, this fight wall's gonna come out, and this rocket teleports to the back line,
which is their front line, which is their back line.
By Kiwi, they'll end up killing Lukimito, and I death boss him.
Okay, you love some of that.
You saw a spree, Johnny.
It's the old-fashioned spin to win.
Dallas Fuel at 99, but the Skies, they win the fight.
Yep, so in the tactical approach here from these guys, take the high ground and herd Dallas Fuel into that
close corridor area. That's when you drop the ultimates
Good placement by Skyless, while making sure the consumer goes on towards the point. You can all benefit from it
It's a clean fight from these guys now. You just gotta keep it up for the rest of the round here
Dallas Fuel, they have some tools available themselves here
So I'll probably look to contest that area, but I'm afraid
Oh, should we just fight them?
Oh, eat them though. Oh, eat them.
Ah, Sunji's still running in!
Doesn't actually manage to get the knockdown for the high noon!
4th get smashed by the Merti is Kiwi and Rocket!
She's EXPLODED!
My goodness, Dallas Fuel!
They've lost both their DPS!
Tread of PG taking up a couple of kills.
There is gonna be a spree from PG, but immediately shut down, thanks to the help of Callan's shield.
And that'll be the point flip. Someone's got a tide shape in the sky, but they've got the cat that's falling Tread back into the point.
Yeah, how long do you touch though?
And it's a sigma in the end that is so comfortable, like you pointed out.
That's really too worried about what goes on in front line. It's one of the back line that this guy's is trying to bounce on
It's a tough
The miss flux
Okay, we're showing a title bastard
How do you get to there by the way like that there was yeah
So quick
He's got his FOV set to like quake pro levels like 140 so he can see everything around
Oh, dude, I wish I was a fellow like
Yeah, oh, yeah, you don't see anything bro like it's all just you can't everything is so far away at fov above like
I don't know a hundred. It's just so far. How you click them on people. Yeah, there's a reason why it's locked in over
Imagine playing tracer with it one 20 fov
Pg down a route.
Gellin on the wrecking ball now, this is going to be very comfortable for them too, wow okay
quite.
40 pound double, makes a weeded way in, really easy.
Yeah I think I'll hazard swap my, yeah that's there here.
I'm not sure of this pace, suits disguised here.
He's okay against the ball, but I mean you're not really locking the ball in
any place.
the map is way too open and yeah okay yeah cool it perfectly on the maga
of course when in doubt play the maga it works at all levels trust me use it on the force at all levels
it does it really does all right pg back to the initial comp taking the battle to the sky against
safara very good move although from sunshin actually healed up by lucavino halfway through
that he's going to try and get the mega health back for pg with a bounce made into mega
ends up killing the Pharah and this is what Magrador's best, just sit on the point, shoot
anybody that walks towards you and win.
Yeah, it has to be said there, that Talos Fjord, they're playing a pretty vulnerable composition
so they're betting a lot of getting these individual frags there, trying to do some
work here alongside the Kalim, who is barely getting Kiwa here, he's down to one health,
okay, we're going to get the Katara's away, and upstairs, superior to here.
Now this should be Talos Fjord, I'm moving down this guys, remember by memory.
Oh, they're just going to sprint over him as well.
Shut down by Scarlet, nice little Q on my headshot.
There's a P.T. also picks up a kill. In fights, the rest of his guys.
Yeah, they just wait for Dallas Fuel to feed, and he works.
What a strat.
That's brilliant.
Just wait for them to feed, guys. They just dive us in hookah all day.
I wouldn't say that Dallas Fuel's composition is the best for those 10-over engagements right there, one by one.
right there one by one but you know chronic saw something with the screen
couldn't get value out of it and that was just member after member there
let us feel way more happy to play these open spaces and make sure that each
member has an angles rocket
I mean the mobility of shield. Gripo wishes he could be shield without mobility
oh god that was some of you won't teleport. Oh no quite wait PGE with the bootleg
Alright, okay, that's one way to get it done I suppose.
Kellen, mine's deployed on the point.
Few of them stomped on there by Dread.
Plays out a little bit of room for him in that corner.
Both rushes now deployed as well.
Kellen, give me a hard target to lock down.
Focus fire on Dread.
You can see his health bar is dwindling.
Golden that rush.
Skies have to heal up to the Malga pretty easily.
For now, here comes the trouble.
Skyle is also taking a brunt load of damage.
Nessanjin ended up finding a flank kill.
and it's Dallas Fuel. Cap the point with the team kill.
Yeah, they're real clean team fight there from Dallas Fuel, but the skies are still in this one.
71% and counting, four ultimates here on the board for them.
That's all about securing that value with them treads going through a pretty tough time here, finding a good cage pick.
Just wants to curse an initial boom here.
Pg.
Let's put this out so we can get one.
There's a K, a dungeon squad that's had a boss on them, and Scott, the Ops, doesn't actually end up popping it.
Too afraid of the short range scum there from threat casting me all completely, as Rocky gets doubled.
Okay, there's signs of life here from the skies, this comp.
Like you said, Johnny, I don't know how to say it again.
When he's out, go Maga.
When he's out, go Maga. And that's why I infected him with Pyro as well. Here we go.
All right, that was fuelier. Actually a lot of pressure. It's kind of executed with this composition
It's not an easy composition to play when the opponent has map control already
There's some pressure on Kalein to actually keep this point contested and for them to pick fine pick simultaneously
Chronic looking at the skybox permanently trying to spot the cat mash
Biting to the back for Tren
Tren marked all over him in a moment. It's so low.
Pg taken to the ground this time instead. It's chronic. Unleashes the screen and actually makes the
But if I let the entirety of disguise look at the she-on and they should have been looking at the repo a double death boss
Oh my goodness rocket
He tried to pull up with the goods there at the very end, but the Dallas fuel they find a team kill rocket
Cannot be the saver of disguise as they find the map with uncontrol
Okay, but fair play, you know, this guy's, he won a few team fights there, made it fairly competitive here to get things off on the ways this Zadala shield team that, you know, going into this, we would say that they are the favorite skin type that they won in stage one, and they looked relatively clean in Champion's Clash after all.
They took a loss to SG early on in the stage 0-3, but since then, we picked up the pace here and looked pretty flawless
and they're continuing to do so against the Skystar here.
Here's where we'll make it a clean game today, little 3-0.
That's what you've really want at the end of the day, just smooth sailing, going into playoffs.
Or CJ rocking the new skin as well in the character. See that?
Lunex is going to be Dallas, Dallas fuels next opposition to it's going to be the last match of this stage or the regular season stage.
Look forward to that.
Lunex is a really fun team.
See what they can kind of do with this Dallas fuel squad here that if we might be cleaning this one it's such a unique style.
And so if you're a team like this guys, you're like, okay, well, now we have to learn how to play around Kallon's wrecking ball.
You know, all these Voolyang compositions, like, really, Dallas Fuel is one of the only
teams in the region who can pull off a playstyle like that, and so you get pretty limited practice
time against it to begin with, right?
So, yeah, Dallas Fuel, pretty easy to go there, but I still like what this guy has
showed us.
Yeah, you know what?
Like, they made that last round pretty competitive, and going back to Malga, going
back to Kabastion, Havreuk on the Reaper, I mean, there's just a good look, it's
a good look.
You can go to maps where that is very, very good on, uh, new junk scene.
I mean, it's probably the map they're going to choose by hat.
Yes.
It would, that'd be better.
I think you would try and sit in the best map at the pool for that
comp specifically.
Yeah, it's kind of the big, uh, new queen street against the cafe last time,
which, you know, I was like, you have to play against the ball and the
Winston.
So I don't know.
Maybe you just had the ball.
Yeah, that's true.
My mobility.
Yeah.
and maybe don't forget midseason.
We've been talking about it for a little while now,
as you'd imagine,
there's a lot of teams qualified for playoffs already.
There's three spots available for North America.
It's just around the corner.
So you can pick up your tickets now 15% off with that code.
Look at that.
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And you sell it quick though,
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So you get your travel plans booked around that to Paris
to place and actually the last time
I was just thinking, the last time I went to France or Paris, World Cup 2019, I think.
That's right.
It was me, Legday, ZP, Jake, and a few others.
I can't remember.
But yeah, it was good time and a few others.
Yeah, I'll have to get the list.
It was definitely there.
Maybe, I'm not entirely sure.
It was good time.
I've known it.
Yeah, you know who was there?
Nico got hand Nico
I'm pulling up history here, buddy
Giant watches
Old French player. Yep. Yep. They love the GDH at the end of their names love and that one
All Dallas feel with a mouth ban. I love this actually we go in New York City as I predicted and
And kind of predicting this guy's wanna play Maga, just ban it and this guy's in a band that Wu Yang not protecting them, Aga.
Yeah, and it's kind of interesting because obviously they struggled, this guy started to struggle against the Wu Yang on the map prior and last series we also saw some Wu Yang gameplay out of ultraviolet.
So Wu Yang is coming in real handy for a couple of these teams, especially when you're trying to pick a part your opponent like the street that prior and Dallas Fuel are doing now, see how Dallas Fuel designed their composition around the support band.
support ban. CSG tried to get
ball rolling here. They're
damage pairs. They've showed
up times. They think you
really pop off. You know, PG
like last week, kind of like
turned up big time on the
soldier. And what's the big
reason why they got that map
when against Cafe in the
first place? I want to see
some of these damage pairs
come online for disguise
theory.
Gotta get it popping. I'm
locking it. I thought this
would be more DPS line like
disguise build like Oh, we
have PGE so he can play
she on and then rocket tracer or rocket cast wouldn't be too bad either so that was my kind of read on
disguise when we enter this she on letter but we see a treasure stitch on the hazard again you know
kellen's probably going to be playing the sea so we'll see how they end up rolling although it's
to be fair kellen cannot play the record too if they want to go a little bit quicker but
bazuki kiri backline it makes more sense i mean this is a nightmare composition for that
Let's fuel her now. I think the sigma and the missouki
This guys are going to try to pick apart this meta composition on there
So this has her she on and Reaper composition
And I think of this it's going to be an uphill battle a lot of burst potential here to try to go in but well
Oh, well, all right. All right. Yeah, that's
You know
What James hit? That's that's where it was and Fred gets reduced to like asses
instantly dude I do I do my best to like gas up some of these to you guys but
down that was a chain and the guy was dead right yeah just went poof
onto the next one on to the next one Tred says oh he's rocking the Gen G
charm as well he was on Gen G a long time ago at this point all right well
They got QB on Lucio.
Definitely want to kill these best heroes here, so.
Once Sky's to go quick,
Dark Steals is up to you to go and hit the rotation.
Rait form already pops by Rocket.
It's going to be a little bit of trouble.
Spike wall to try and catch someone off,
but Lukabino's hitting the 1v1 against Thread
and Thread too scared, holding off the spike guard.
Against the Mizuki.
You can kind of see this guy's there.
Trying to take some of these spikes.
They're actually doing a decent job
Grabbing like the angles around Dallas Fuel you saw what if they're came in from a different angle compared to tread
Who's now over to the sorry I hear instead?
I'm sorry our Reaper composition but that's fuel given so good rotating around this guy's dear
I mean, this is like an old school comp
The flux didn't miss this time. Look at me. There's holding already dead
But and the reason to die rocket stays alive full HD top build the way up much prefer this look from the skies
having the Reaper
Being able to stay active in the team fights longer with double bubble. Yeah, you're smiling
It's actually been skylands beginning to first fix here with the Kiriko
So that's what goes he going to give you a bit of a boon here as that
I'll see your looks to retake the dogs world and a shot to rock it. Well, that will do it cause
Yeah, now I guess you bubble peachy or just bubble yourself
He's on an off-fangle right now. Sanctuary, and the spree.
He's trying to jiggle this one in and out of the Sanctuary.
The sound barrier is getting popped. Rock has to get away.
I don't think anybody's chased him.
No Kiwi ends up hunting him down.
A quick Zuzu from Skars on the top of the red back up,
but someone needs to touch.
They're going to get changed.
It was a really nice try to play by Luka.
Me now, and our Sanctuins in the back.
It's peed off by Skyline again.
PT on the point.
There's three Teals though.
They saw the Kira goes on this round it feels like, but Jeff Possum kill onto CJ and with Tread being fully charged.
Just Skye, he's ended up winning that fight.
Wow, that was actually a brilliant team fight by this guy.
We can kick things off early on as well.
The layering was perfect with the Kitsune Rush and then also the Sunbear from Kiwi.
And Tread, if I said early pick up to Sondron, this is just Skye's winning here.
This is just right click from Tread.
Sondron should not have gone down there.
Chronic dead and there's no touches.
No touches? Okay, disguise on the board!
Wow, there they say that one. Look, that comes from the back of a brilliant teamfight by them.
The Threads ends up clutching out there as well.
Do you think we carry some of that momentum going forward?
Luka Minos over onto this Ibarri here.
And this is now a look that I would say the Skies would have an easier time walking up against her.
Gotta avoid the full bar to search.
Lean as you like onto Luka Mino.
Now 5 vs 4 scenario, these guys should not be losing this game, sorry.
Sword killer now in position there, shreds, no worries about the grasp, so yeah, grabbing the choke, picks up one, win the team fight, but they do trade, I mean, Skyle dead, only one healer for these guys, it's only the Lucio, so you have to win this fast to win these guys, and yeah, okay, that'll do, you got the point, Dallas full, try and stick around, but I'm able to do so.
They have a disguise, they're playing well now.
They're playing with Pace there as well, 4 vs 5, and they just push around the corner,
mo Kallon down, and they can get their Kerakul back into the mix here.
And so even though you're playing against a Sigma composition with the soldier, with the Alari,
Lux pop there by Kallon, looking for someone, pretty enough though.
They're trying to stand no business, that's such a nice clutch on Kiwi.
He's also gonna pick up Tread.
Grave likes from Kallon, makes up for the one earlier on control.
I'll be the point.
I'll be the point indeed.
It's funny, I kinda clean things up there.
But I hope you're just kinda out of the bottle now.
I'm feeling this vibe from the skies and what they're playing right now.
Obviously the walkup is going to be brutal.
Because you're facing the Allori poke, the potential for railgun shots as well, and the Sigma.
But if you can wrap around like they're doing here now,
force a fight closer to the objective, get the Kitsune rush up and going here.
It could be a surprise pick here with the Sion.
But if you can wrap around like they're doing here now,
force a fight closer to the objective, get the Kitsune rush up and going here.
It could be a surprise pick here with the Sion.
It could just surprise the kill with the see-on.
Yeah, I'll both have to try and create some more.
Oh, what a rock!
Oh my, okay, reset.
Skyle just face-planted the floor.
It's like I tried to do an Ollie for the first time and just, oh, there you go.
He got a graze on his face.
Yeah, I said no to that.
I said no to that.
No, I was skateboarding.
My mom even bought me that.
And I was like, no, I'm not.
There's not anymore.
I'm sorry.
Anyway, every kill at some point, look, has had a skateboard.
sometimes you find out it's not for you
and you're one of those people
yeah
what's up?
oh, Captain Sun, that's real nice
it's a little bit confusing initially
but I think the explosion actually went off
and shrunk Tread out more than he expected
yeah, chronicus 3, that's the Dallas Fuel points
pretty nice early fight, I love it
yeah, well this is a point thing from these guys now
because they didn't even get like a proper fight
like they even have the ultimates
and those last two fights, they weren't even really fights
even really fights it just got picked on the walk up was what I warned about I
told you the soldier named Lori like it's just brutal to walk up but if you
can get a proper fight going with these ultimates they should have the
advantage of you like I think the pejorative word there is should well
you try you try you try all right I mean it points on an off angle but
it's a little bit too far away from the price you're probably snap three
the rest of the team. Rush onto the floats, going to get mashed pretty easily, P.T. pops
the spree. This bottom one player in the back can actually isolate the kill onto Sunjit thanks
to Kiwing. The speed up from the Lucio and the spree, it's kind of a nasty little combo.
Again, a little bit better than the Reaper's ult. And now with that grasp used by Kelen,
I mean, trekking to walk forward. It could throw in the Gravy Gravly Gravly too, but
might not even need it. Chronic gets beamed down, charge. Just so high for trading
these poke wars, the skies are gonna roll over the fuel and cap the point first.
Keep going, keep going, keep getting your specs, get them out of here.
We can fully reset.
Does he get the point cap, like you said, and now they have a grab to play with here as well?
Obviously they have to be worried about the Grasker from Kellen.
What you really don't want here is room for that fuel to open quick, which can really get a push here.
Unbelievable grab, and it's the best fuel from Kellen, he's so good though!
Just beautiful from Kellen.
The Suzu came in as well from CJ to keep him alive, but they've already taken a lot of damage.
They've lost Chronic, Sundance really low. Even with this OC, he can't find anybody.
Eventually they hunt down Thread. No Kiwi in sight to kind of taxi the Saria around.
And despite that, Grappie being pre-players to Sky to lose the point and fight.
Yes, good fight from Dallas Fuel, and we're going to get this objective in the back,
but it's still disguised with 93% on the back of some good proactive play.
And now they're coming up on double support ultimate as well. So here is that
Falka that is so difficult once more captive picked here
Captain son in 4%
You're straight chillin you could force the somebody here super easy if you see what bubble come out
And then already won all the death loss and we're gonna get him to his way
But that's captain son. Seuss has also been caught and he gets an ace from Lukabino at all
He's looking for somebody Kiwi now down Sky went to getting stunned there too into the off of the map
Oh, look at me. I was separating himself from the rest of the team Dallas fuel serve control without any support
Say to skies their time is limited
Can't get picked here. You need your support to get back to use those ultimates
You're gonna take a clean fight here Dallas fuel. Can they find something in the meantime? Well discuss a resetting here
We're going to wait themselves
I think Kellen's ultimate could be the biggest difference.
I get kiwi needs this, sound barrier needs a fad,
T.J. rushing super early on,
kiwi needs this beat, he needs the beat,
he's got him, he's got him, he's got him down anyway.
Chronic focused him so heavily, he was what it's be.
So fear for the Ajax, so he just doesn't end up
using the sound barrier, which also means
Kellen doesn't need to pop hole.
Dallas fueled two points on New Junk City,
Just to the one of this guy.
That's so brutal because they had two brilliant teamfight opportunities to close that fight out.
They just couldn't get the support ultimates going.
Kiwi opting there to shy away from the potential Ajax.
Hold on to it instead, maybe in preparation for the Flux.
That was winnable for this guy, so they let that one go.
Now putting the last one in a position, then goes out this map on this next round.
Yeah, very winnable here for Fuel.
Flocks wow, Luke Camino died super early
Okay, boomerangster. No flank angle kill. Yeah, I'm not entirely sure maybe a little bit of execution damage as well
Point is gonna get count anyway. Wow, Treks wanted to step on that
And here comes the flux
Good one too, Samurai, two late seed rocket was already low
But timing actually got lifted up into the sky
Spray in that high-range corridor there
But it looks like Lucia was a little bit out of range return spree from
Kronix has now killed P.T. by any stress imagination, Frank flings the bike towards him, but they've still got Shred alive.
The most important player in these moments. Trying to get on to the point.
We have three members here, so that's he'll shoot back up, so I'm just going to pop the overclock.
This would be a miracle if he's able to win this one.
Yeah, but look how low Kiwi is already in Shred, so he can immediate headshot as well as some Sonjin.
So without the sky without Kiriko, you're not able to heal that all that damage up
So just at the back of that headshot that was good enough to win the fight
Just like this guy's a one step behind
Permanently this map so far 80% here for Dallas viewers
They look to make things real difficult for this guy some this walk up. They know they have to get to the point Dallas
You won't let them
Yeah, I really like this play they're gonna try and fit the map on them here
Graviton's eye says they're hitting the wall but Shred's already dead.
And it's 2xPG's on the point with Kiwi's, they're going to go flip but the reinforcements are light years away.
Kiwi's already down, PG maybe he can go for another touch if he hops on the bike.
No, actually he gets shut down by chronic, that's all over.
Shred and the Wrecking Ball gets the fighter one but yeah it's done and Dust is here for disguise.
The Dallas feel looking rather bright. Is it too early to in the series?
This Kiwi is the final page. There it is eventually done for. There you go.
Dallas feel. Two hoes.
Let's start the series off.
Yeah, definitely the superior team so far.
Maybe I'm hoping to hope you're a little bit too much, but I did think that these guys they look improved compared to the
performances we've seen from this team. I feel like this team, they've looked lost at times.
Like just like they're not comfortable with the compositions they're playing
and I still think you saw this new junk city here. They had some early momentum in the back of that
first point cap. Obviously looking at the scoreboard is one thing but you know there were a couple
of teamfights away from making this new junk city really competitive. I think that speaks
to the individual skill for these players finding individual picks going into fights like this.
Dallas Fuel though, just a little bit too strong for these guys to beat right now.
Yeah, it's a little bit usual.
It was always going to be a tough game.
I think the skies are putting up a fight though, but it's unfortunately too late in terms of
their positioning in the standings.
Yeah.
Look, the standings can't be salvaged at this point.
I think we're all looking for some good gameplay, right?
And so like, if you get that, if you get that sound barrier down in that fight where Kiwi goes down early, or even in the fight prior, I think Kiwi dies like 90% going into that one.
Maybe you get sound barrier out there, like they should have the team fight win there that should lead to the point cap and suddenly they're up 2-1 on the New York City, right?
So that's one fight that like really flips the entire map and the trajectory of the map.
And similarly, on that last round, I would even say that the last round there, the last point cap rather, they were in a five versus four scenario because Luka mean overextended.
like that's another fight like you really had to clutch up and win it that's a must win team fight if you're in a five versus four scenario
this guy's just uh they're not quite there yet
yeah not quite uh yeah and unfortunately at a stage not looking too great either but that's still in the other hand looking looking good
looking real clean you know what's also really clean and looking good
Johnny drops the unbolted skin not quite we did the drops before it's the unbolted skin uh for the out of e-sports
you
you
you
you
you
over. He's like, yeah. You know, the boat, you know, see the seas over there. I don't want to fly. You
know, respect. Yeah, it's probably a lot nicer than going via air to be fair. You are crammed. I've been
traveling so much recently. I'm like, yeah, just I want to be home. I want to be home. Casted. This is
Exactly one vehicle, so I'm happy.
Alright, it's going to be Kallin on Sigma.
As we rock into this map, we're going to see some aerial warfare, Sonja on the Pharah.
Actually, I think they've not minded too much, Sonja's going to pick up this Pharah a lot more than most.
Alright, Dallas Fuel, playing this composition though, I still think that's something we could predict it here.
And just as I was about to start placing this guy here for playing this high tempo composition and walking ties to a rail gun shop
But I will still echo that sentiment going into the next fight
I am agnostic for this loss of first team fight from this guys
Still very much looking forward to this damn scene of playing this high position
And I think you know here we go it's come to cat
Okay, well they can't bash him, but that's true Cassidy
To be fair as Kellan decides, you know what the payload it pushes me
I just want to wear out the keyboard I think at first half already you got to touch guys
guys guys okay there is wow they actually almost let's try to talk about it to me buddy
yeah he moves to make it is bad news bears the floor just guys he's kind of on the point
right now anchoring down but one fight we're in that one cap is kind of insane early
fight they're all the early push from Dallas field we don't often see that
long as it's at least a couple of fights on the wrong highway
it's on chin it's a wrong vehicle buddy yeah I mean sunshine's wearing the Porsche
suit too by the way so you know you can make some of that you can make some for
that oh that is one that's gonna status people and now this guy's getting
paced still though position game for Dallas for they got 65 minutes so
Checkpoint and then sums
Well disguise taking off and
But it's almost like that as you're there like okay. Yeah, you take the boat, you know we play
Soldier and far up who y'all it's like you can have so much both control however much you like
And then we'll poke you down from a farm
Just rock it after rockets
There you go, okay, let's go from
Kelen any connection style there, but threats already killed both DPS for the Dallas Steel
goes up to Kelen
Try and scramble together something
for this fight
Sticky it's gonna get tidal bastard of all things our range straight towards Kelen any knockdown
So it's not like if a PG is now trapped in the small room dashes out the way that overheld
Assisting him to staying alive self-destruct Kelen in an odd spot. It's gonna get chased down
Now, eventually finished off by Kiwi, and scrapping it there now, Dallas, using the rush as the catnap gets Suzy, the beautiful star from CJ.
Dallas, you'll hang on by a threader as Kelts was over to the wrecking ball here.
This guy's showing some things though, with his tracer and she on composition, Thread can't lose to Mekir, this is so dangerous.
Alright, how many frags does Chronic get with this overclocking thing? Two?
two?
two, two is generous I think
if you get one, you're happy
okay, we're gonna quilt into that again too later
yeah, I mean, I will
you're getting multiple roundgun kills against this comp
crazy mobile comp, I mean, good luck
oh, he's super low
okay, EvoC, hang on
I'm looking for one, a singular
Scream zero!
I think that, oh, boost egg Johnny, nothing!
Alright, well I asked you, you know, I'm not the prophet over here.
I'm not, I'm not providing all the answers.
He's passing the blame now, that's what we're headed for.
It made, it made Chronic a big target for all of the Skies to dive on with the defense mage, Tracer with the Shion.
But I'm loving this pace from the Skies, obviously they worked to a terrible start in this map early.
Just, you know, getting capped against after a single teamfight loss.
loss but they've been you know fighting their way back into this runasabu with this high tempo
oh sonjin almost hit the one shot there on the tracer
rocket has got the pulse bomb of course and there you go with a kill on to sojin it's a good
start but can they pick up for the fact that shred is also gone down kelin on the wrecking ball
is going to turn this high tempo kind of on its head before disguised
flashbang no ends up teleporting away i think skyle got out
What the kids don't hang out here!
I'm not sure from Skyle.
I don't see any disguise though.
He doesn't have the boy either.
They end the train walking by.
I mean, it's not just some spree,
but you're in a decent spot here on the Dallas field.
Uh-oh. Uh-oh. Uh-oh.
And there's a defense matrix.
Oh, see ya!
He's taken away, lifted up into the skies.
Easy pickings there to threat.
I dangled in front of it.
Oh, these Smines are scary though.
Bang, wait for him to go down here.
This guy is still keeping the pressure on though.
He's trying to do a tremendous amount of damage here onto the back line.
This is the mech, self-destruct.
Be careful to the mobs!
Oh, why he was walking?
If that would have been a clip of all time he's walked into that.
He was an inch away.
I'm ready, I'll come around this corner, but the Spree's gonna be next available for him.
Connick's just taking so low.
It's just so much focus fire.
PGE shut down mid-spree by the bike.
Sonjin just shut the door.
Took the keys out of the ignition
for a PG
They're not going around for some time though as Tread went in and out
Stopped with the bugger
PG Ego's over to the castle here so okay
We're deciding now to give up on some of that tempo
slow fighting style here a little bit with the castle instead
Obviously like I said we can pair that with the cat
We get some nice for the cat let's go in for the castle here
but this is Dallas people now
they control the boat they got saturated to go with us
we want to give them two cover
They should be in control right now.
Oh my goodness.
I thought for half a second there that he got moved off.
But it is Tang, and he's got a tank top.
Yeah.
They're still pushing.
Yeah.
They're starting to go right bot.
Oh!
Hell in them.
Smog attack.
Yeah, I didn't know Flashbang from PG managed to connect there.
So it's got all momentum to the bot.
I'm still believing here.
Three minutes to go, this guy.
Still down.
23 meters here. Now let's see what they have this Sanctuary can get through. But the skies have a good crescent snow with this small gap.
That kelan, as you see, is taking all the damages from your under and dying early as well. This is the skies now, potentially capping the ball of the back of this.
Yeah, there's three minutes to go and there's not much metering separating both teams. I mean, you mentioned Sanctuary can be used on the corner.
There's no kind of edge here to tread, so you can't lock someone down, but train can...
every single great disengage
right they are cooking same pig he G
Pat moon that's the cap there it is three seconds
well yeah that's we're gonna workshop that one
with no problem so too old so in the back pocket
only gonna live direct once again
Fred is just so healthy too.
Catnap!
Hi, dude!
Oh, I just got it!
Oh, chronic thought.
Both rushes have been popped up the point as well.
They're so much sustained here from the skies here.
Wondering how long it's going to take to actually kill Kellan.
He's kind of standing tall on the point while I guess standing very spherical.
Nice double-bubble kill on Sondjum.
Leeds, almost nearly getting two.
He's getting the checkpoint first though.
Dude, they're going to take the lead.
There they are.
These guys are going to take the lead.
They have been cooking or doing a sabi so far and now in a position to extend this series.
Dallas Fuel after this ball swap they just really haven't had any momentum going for
them.
Oh my goodness, the PGO suns solo kill onto Lukimino too.
That post bomb not quite delivering as the last.
Spree is in a small room, a good suzu and...
Oh, Sondren narrowly getting that kill.
than an even better one actually onto style execution but now you've got to say Dallas Fuel
have to play perfectly. There's only a minute to go and 20 meters separates them in the victory.
Yeah and they've made a couple of swaps here so tell them still on the wrecking ball but look
at me now please friend on the woo-yang here for quite some time now you can see there's a
lot of damage output from this Dallas Fuel back line now tread here over on towards the
diva trying to utilize this matrix to protect from some of that damage and look they should
should be able to pretty reliably hold off some of these corners now utilizing the
matrix and put DG in a good position.
Can they actually sneak a catnap on Kronik or Saundra is my question. Pg on the
side. It's just kind of lurking around. Tray for Lukavino. Catnap comes in, they've managed to drag Saundra out of position. Or maybe into position. I mean Saundra's gonna get out.
Oh doesn't end up coming up with a kill sadly and they are moving the bot 15 seconds now Johnny slam
Ends of killing style and it's going back to worse mines the Kellan and they are scrambling like eggs right now Johnny
Oh, oh thread. You got to stay alive on the spot buddy. Oh, it's your hope and dreams and secure this map could be over
The mines are gonna be good thread gets these two kids. Oh, no, and Kevin's gonna be out to push this bot
Oh the mines have just thought about and done it PG dives head burst into them and the Dallas
the game. They're going to
take the map. An absolute
heartbreaker. You're crushed,
saying, though. They're not
saying they want to go to the
dance for you. This guy is
getting three. Oh, they're
about to take the map off the
I'd argue the second best
team in North America now.
Dallas fuel end up the series
of three. Oh, look at this
I think it happened. I think it happened, Dallas Fuel.
That's...
Oh, that just, that feels so bad.
They couldn't just hold on to it.
I mean, they were trying to make a play in the end.
You know, they got picked early because the Cassidy was trying to make a play inside
the corridors.
Then ends up dying and gets traded out instead.
And I think from that point on, like it was just Dallas Fuel taking control of
the ball and like making their drops and they're feeling quite happy about that one.
the one failed to play their IPG just sets up, that'll fuel the closing south end of
the zombie in the stand. What a shame after a great show on to the Skyster.
They have the titles to do it to. I'm sorry, sorry, I don't know if you saw all the titles,
Zoe, that rest of the Skyster had, Commander of Hope, tenacious hero, like dude, they
were locked into win today. I know, I've been manifested every way
possible and that's the way to do it. Big fan of the titles, gotta collect them all but
yeah I mean okay listen this wasn't theirs to win right I do think though and that's
something you guys mentioned during the cast I do feel like this guys looked much improved
I do feel like we most likely gonna be seeing them again in stage three they did a really
good job in the last promotion and relegation unfortunately they are most likely gonna
win list this stage. They just
have a really rough last week
going up against two really
high performing teams. Yeah,
they say SSG next. So yeah,
SSG single map, so it's looking
win list for disguise to
sadly, but it is good news for
the fuel fans out there. They
have qualified develop. They
have in deed a clean three oh
We're tested on occasions, there were definitely some good battles we got to see on the side of the skies,
but over under Dallas Fuel, the better team coming out of this one today.
Yeah, I'm really looking forward to the stage 2 playoffs here now,
because Dallas Fuel, they took an 0-3 loss to the stage each other.
You weren't before, but now.
But now, but now, oh boy, I mean, because Dallas Fuel,
they've generated some momentum here, and they took that 0-3 loss to the stage on the opening match,
But they've kept their identity going, and they're just beating down on some of these teams.
And so I can't wait to see the potential rematch between Space and the Dallas View.
How's it going to cook?
Absolutely. Yeah, SSG and the Dallas definitely do seem like they're quite a bit ahead of the curve.
Lunex, the other team that has been performing well and everyone else just kind of bit in struggle time.
So we do have Weeds joining us for a quick chat.
So let's bring in Weeds for a quick post-match interview after a fairly quick series.
Weeds, welcome to the show. What's going on in the background? Where are you?
I just moved into a new house, so I'm down in the basement right now.
Okay, looking cozy. Nice, nice. I hope the move went well and smooth. The game today certainly
did. Weeds, let's talk about your journey this stage, because obviously ramping up towards
the end of the group stage after let's say a more or less shaky start. What's the journey been like
for you and the team? I mean Anna I think if there is like that SSG match was like the first
match we ever lost to an NA team so it wasn't like you know like some like oh the world's burning
down or anything it's just like okay we finally got the loss out of the way and we can go figure
stuff out for playoffs but regular season is not really too stressful for us so.
So I asked SSG the same question that I'm going to ask you now, what does success look like for you on the international stage because the land for North America, it, it didn't look very pretty for SSG, but for yourselves to not crack in the top four over the Korean and in the eighties.
I mean, I think international success for us like our first tournament is like a core team. So I think we had a dog fight series of VP in that like in Japan. So, you know, I mean, that's that's pretty much as good as we go far. I think we did about as good as we were going to do. So I think going into the future international tournaments, we should just do better and better with more time together.
other? How do you with that mindset of wanting to do better at
international tournaments? How do you kind of like shape the
practice and the mentality for the team moving into the midseason
champion, which is coming up in like a month, do you talk a lot
about how do we beat like in the eight teams? How do we beat
Korean teams? Because we just had an interview with Hawk, by
the way, from SSG who mentioned they've been screaming
something in the eight teams. Is that something you're
doing? How do you talk about preparing for the
international competition.
We're getting ahead of ourselves, but I think it's relevant.
It's pretty tough for us because Sanjian is still in Korea.
So we've been unable to get him to NA pretty much.
We can't really scream Europe because of the ping issues.
So we've just been trying to improve with scrimming with NNA,
which I think is a little tougher because we don't, you know,
Europe is a lot stronger right now.
So I think we're going to have to just like focus during boot camps
on focusing on international tournaments.
And right now, just kind of try to do the best we can
within NA.
Why do you think NA is currently starting at North Currently?
Has been struggling for a while now
in international competitions?
I actually think there's like a lot of reasons,
but I think the matter for a while
has been pretty favorable towards like the off-tank teams.
And NA has been a main tank region for like,
since OWCS started pretty much with a lot of main tank players.
So I think like with EVO becoming weaker and weaker,
maybe we can see Europe, like, you know,
get closer to us again, but, you know, we'll see.
This kind of matter with Shion, in your opinion,
obviously your own team doesn't count,
but who's looking the best in North America
right now on the pick?
In North America, I mean, Ryan on Café is looking like probably one of the best.
Lethal's insane at it, you know, I mean, Chronix insane at it too.
I know you said not ours, but like both of my guys are really good at it here.
I think Heroes just has a super fun kit, so all the DPS players want to play it,
like so everyone's going to get really good at it.
Yeah, it's definitely been really fun to see as she and being thrown into the
mix.
are evolving literally every other day. I've actually spent three weeks in the making and
we're still not quite sure what to expect especially heading into the playoffs. We said thank you
so much for joining us for a quick chat and letting us pick your brain and good luck keep
on moving. Yep, thank you. Moving selfsman, I feel for him. Every time someone tells
me that I'm moving I'm like, ah, God, I'm so sorry. Yeah, it's rough, it's rough.
then he's still functioning as a normal person, doing a day job at the same time.
Being sure it's rough, guys, it's rough.
And for some of our teams, it's gonna get rough for still.
As we're closing out, I know, man, it's tough out there.
But we'll be closing out at the group stage tomorrow, obviously, with one last matchday.
And still something on the line for some of those teams here.
Oh yeah, I mean, look, three North American games.
The Dallas Fuel, Lunex game is gonna be a banger.
I got a good feeling.
I've got a high, I've watched what Johnny was saying earlier.
Lunex have been a very impressive team
and a fun team to watch too.
So yeah, we'll see if they can take Dallas Fuel
all the way to five.
We'll pull it back.
Hey, Team Liquid Cafe, it's got steaks.
That's all, it does.
I'm just saying, Team Liquid,
they haven't looked super solid
and we'd said it themselves, you know?
The Ryan's kind of popping off.
So I can't wait for that, I'm not jumping off.
Wait, don't have to wait long for now.
we do say goodbye and a good night. Thank you all so much for watching. We'll be back
for the conclusion of the stage in both EMEA and NA tomorrow. Let's make sure we tune in again for now. Bye bye.
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