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What a clean fight before the skies, is that what we've seen kill?
Jeffson's managed to get tree down.
That was impressive.
Hello and welcome to the OWCS Zoey here joined by Jake and Moxie to close out a very exciting
EMEA stage 2 round robbing group stage that, quite frankly, had us all on the edge of our
seats.
It's been such a fun journey, Moxie.
Yeah, it's been a very fun journey.
We've had total shufflings of the power rankings for all of our teams here in EMEA, with Virtus.Pro
very much establishing themselves as the crop of the, oh, cream of the crop, as we
get to see them play the ball of the ball, apparently, as well.
Exactly.
Then VP had been so incredibly impressive, twisted minds, I think having a little bit
of a resurgence in their match yesterday, I'm definitely excited to see how playoff shakes
up because honestly all four of the top EMEA teams are very solid.
I think all four could do well internationally, but of course only three can actually progress
to the midseason championship and those slots will be hotly contested.
Yeah, let's talk about this, right?
If we're looking at the standings afterwards with the VP's win over 1-2-3-4, which quite
frankly was an absolute beatdown if you want to experience pain for a few minutes and trust me
it will only take a few minutes of your day. I don't really watch that one because man 1, 2,
3, 4 fell flat against VP which is not what we've seen from them in their previous matches
where they really impressed us. Now yeah as I said VP winning over 1, 2, 3, 4 means that all
playoff spots are officially set in EMEA but the seeding is still in question. Also to clarify
since you do see that 1-2-3-4 are now officially eliminated. That's because
Katzia win the head-to-head map differential in a three-way tie with 1-2-3-4, Katzia and
GK and GK beat 1-2-3-4 in their series head-to-head. So as good as 1-2-3-4 looked and as much as they
were able to push the other teams in the MEA, unfortunately they will find themselves in
promotion and relegation at the end of this groove stage. But they will be playing again today,
they will be facing up against TELUSY, so both of our bottom teams, which will be in promotion
and relegation, have one last opportunity to, you know, end it on a high note and show what they got.
I mean, I think if you're 1-2-3-4, you're not worried about promo relegation, right? If you can
really take the teams here in the OWCS all the way to the distance of the five map series,
you don't really have to worry that much, especially with the wrecking ball composition.
Like that thing, I feel bad for the teams from a relegation who will have to go up against that Golden Pantraken ball because it's not a fun composition to have to play into.
I hope everyone just goes the ice gnome route and just matches the ball.
Just matches the ball.
The VP might have made it look easy, but it is not, right?
It's their experience that allows them to be able to tap into that style.
You know, I think this has been an incredible stage in EMEA.
I mean, both 1, 2, 3, 4, and TELUSY have been impressive teams
that have competed with some of the top squads here at EMEA.
It feels like it's sometimes there's teams coming out of pro-pro-relegation.
You're like, are they really on the same level?
But at this stage, I really think these are the top six teams in the EMEA.
I don't think there could be any question about it.
You guys are right to say, hey,
promotion relegation is not going to be a free promotion for teams
coming out of facing Master League, competing against these two squads.
No, it really isn't.
If we're looking at today's schedule, we are in for some more treats, of course,
we're starting things off with 1-3-4, and Telusie making one last stand here,
even though they're already out of playoffs contention.
Then, we have Twisted Minds and Katzia.
This is going to be a good one.
The winner will receive the second seed and Dutch Virtus Pro in the first round,
which really means that they are substantially increasing their chances of making it
to the mid-season championship.
And Adele also, of course, had the momentum after winning the last match of the stage,
heading into next week's playoffs, because there's not much time in between now and the
playoffs.
Based on what we've seen from these teams the last two weeks, let's just say this week
actually, this would be fair to just the minds for the anxious this week.
Do you feel like there is a clear favorite, or can we expect an old school cut-see-out
with the pines moment where they just take us the distance?
Five maps.
I think it goes five maps.
it went five maps yesterday for TM vs GK and Katzi have been doing a lot of what GK have as well, so things like that.
Vendetta composition for sure will be getting to see really like try to work against TVNT on that diva,
but I think for Twistmines bringing in Yubi, bringing back the Symmetra strategies has worked out really well for them as they've been sort of meshing two strategies.
2026 compositions with some of the old ones which gave them a lot of value when they were able to pull their titles.
Yeah, it's been some good fusion cuisine coming out of them.
So we have been eating and looking at what they pulled out of the bag there.
And of course, it's not just for our approval and entertainment.
No, it is in order to make the midseason championship, which is going to take place at EWC in Paris.
16 of your favorite Overwatch teams in the world will be competing there across different regions,
so get your tickets for the mid-season championship in Paris, France, stand the QR code you're seeing
on your screen in just a second, and then you can join us as well with this QR code you will be
getting 15% off, so I make sure to use that opportunity. It's gonna be very warm at that time
of the year in Paris but yeah we're in a venue so we don't know we don't know the
weather nothing happens to us so just pack sunscreen and some summer clothes
and you should be okay yeah but things are heating up in the arena as well man
those teams are gonna be it's gonna be fire it's gonna be explosion the French
fans always show up I'm super super excited to have another event over in
Paris it's been a hot minute yeah I think everyone's excited to be there and
And no one more than our teams now who are fighting for this key spot in the tournament
that for many is one of their biggest opportunities of the year to show what they can do on the
international stage.
For EMEA, the chance to maybe try to retake the title as what's become an incredibly competitive
region.
But of course, those Korean super teams always a massive threat, always typically are going
to be your favorites to win.
And I think that kind of clash has been especially fun to watch this last year or so.
Yeah, it really has been.
I just love that the script has been flipped over the last couple of years, right?
It's always been so obvious.
It's going to be crazy raccoon or f**k and like taking that trophy.
But no more.
MIA has been looking like a strong contender.
And we're still waiting for that rise of NA.
We're not there, but perhaps maybe.
Jake is like the least believer in this group, which is funny, since he's the only NA person.
So that's all right.
That's all right.
For now, let's focus on the MIA and let's focus on our first match of the day.
Tell us see going up against one two three four now one two three four while they're out of contention
They had a very good stage like I I cannot stress enough how impressive it's been how far they were able to take their
I mean, I know one tricking per se
But they kind of are heavily relying obviously on the ball and it tripped our best teams up like they really struggled to find an answer
Up until VP happened yesterday, but we don't talk about that
yeah but I mean for me for like one two three four they absolutely deserve to be
here I just want to see like even if it's just one more here in Golden
Pants hero pool so that you don't have to come in and you're not just stuck on
Winston because that that's it's always been the turn from them right if the
ball gets banned out and Golden Pants is in it's always been the Winston and
Winston just has so many issues in the current meta if you want to play him
and then you're sort of wanting to play the Ana for the nano boost as well,
which means then that your back lane gets jumped, your tank is dead,
and you have no space to get anything done.
Yeah, but the 1, 2, 3, 4, they played our top teams all the way to those map 5 series,
they really, really took it to them and made them sweat,
and they got a win in the back too, so it's almost shocking to see them at the bottom here.
I tell you, see another team in the bottom?
However, I really feel like if you're looking at their journey the last three weeks,
Most evident in their match yesterday, they have leveled up.
Yeah, I mean, this is a team that has not gone to the route of being totally different,
having some crazy, wild, unique style and trying to surprise the teams.
They've been playing straight up, battling some of the best teams in this region.
And we, I mean, these are globally lead teams.
These are teams that will likely go on to have strong international showings.
First of all, for Tel Aviv to be bringing those series to the limit,
taking them to competitive matches, competitive maps and winning in many cases.
For me is a is a massive statement for them as a new team with a lot of players that we haven't seen on this level of play
I think there's a lot of players you want to keep your eyes on right who have a lot of potential to grow
Into that next generation of talent
So I think this is a team that it's always a blast to watch and I am super curious to see how they try to match up against this unique
one two three four stop
Well find out in just a second two teams already out of the running
So they were play with nothing to lose which is a great opportunity to just pull everything out of the back
and do you give out that we're gonna see them no doubt again in state three after a successful run in promotion relegation like I'm literally
Observed that it's about it. So let's get into this moxie Jake
Thank you so much. So Ian to get into this match
Picks are gonna be crucial. It's gonna be back to Ili else one two three four not traumatized by yesterday
But also perhaps not expecting jealousy to take a ball mirror against them, which I think is a bit as a piece
I don't think you do as we can have a look at our bands yet. One two three put getting the first band
So they'll go for the dealer which in turn saves golden pants wrecking ball and
Tell us he actually take a bite out of she on so we won't have things like this you on Reaper composition or the she on
tracer
Yeah, I think much of the forest playing a little bit of the she on plus Cassidy on this ball style and
you know, actually using she on truly as like somewhat of a flanker role, I guess, and you know, that kind of a top of your literary looking to be just a little bit greedy on the DPS role and, you know, both DPS kind of make their own solo kills, but it is a reasonable thing to ban.
I think especially on Ilios where the fights can get pretty frenetic on point. For Telsy though, they came into this match. They have to know what they're up against. We have to see what they prepare.
do I go for the jetpack cap? Because we did see a little bit from them with the cat yesterday,
but it looks like they're just going for this really hard CEC lockdown composition.
They know, like the issue is golden pants. It's not just about what the wrecking ball can do in terms of physical value,
but more about creating that space for Kai and Maimone to have the freedom to do what they want.
So if you take out the wrecking ball from that equation, it weakens those DPS players and tell us the look like
like they just want Golden Pants to try to disrupt them, and they'll be able to look for those stuns.
Flashbang from iCurve and Jono, which actually going to be coming out on that Mizuki with the chain.
A lot of poke damage for this 123-4 comp.
Although Maimona actually going back to spawn once his team scouts this matchup, is going to come swamp it out.
And it'll be far this time, feels like he needs a little bit of that extra damage.
I mean, the matchup against Mizuki can be a little bit scary, but the spam threat is very real.
Real Telsy may struggle to cap this point and I like the Golden Pants flanks one nice and slow letting the DPS
It puts more pressure on Ike outright as well if he's having to look at the ball
He's not really able to look at the farra and vice versa
Johnowich super low access J though steps out and picks up canal finding the curious huge takes out the
Sustainability from this one two three four style tie deep in the back line here on Cassidy brought there by Krispy's Jeff
But there's maybe a clean up by I mean there's some players behind any lines
And they may be able to just stay alive back there, which would be nice for what you can for us
Tell us he just looks to continue to hold down this objective
Yeah, tell us he just starting off with a rotation to bunker up on cage send as a state to be more mobile
Well roaming at that map that Kai just takes Axel's head off
God, that's does get changed but the Susan means that the wrecking ball will be able to survive pressure
And one two three four should be able to find the flip after they've been able to finally invade into tells me fortress
I love the way they're they're using Cassidy as a flanker with the help of the jetpack cat
You know especially on on this particular map of Ilios putting your Cassidy on this other's enemy enemy side high ground
It's a position that typically Cassie would never be able to take on his own
But he can get there at the start of the fight with the help of the cat with the cat
Yeah, I will continue right with the cast because Kai this fight will have the dead eye to drop through onto jealousy
which not having that Sanctuary bolt up to be able to absorb it, the moment that Lars uses those hands,
it will be an absolute green light for the cast to use that all.
Yeah, here he comes over the top, getting a bit of channel time, Mizuki.
Well, if we're to wait for now, everyone has to hide. There's a lot of channel on this data,
but he can't quite get into position to deal with it.
Crispy has to come back and just hold the objective.
So the formation, though, still split from Telsie and Golden Hansel, keep the profit off of that.
Minefield ready. See how he wants to deploy this?
be on this choke point forcing Cassidy into the fight. Texal though, takes a little step
too far into the minefield. A costume is life-changing in front of the dead eye. Maybe an opportunity
for a finished kill, but Golden Mids is just too healthy. No chance for the dead eye to
fire and although Telsy gets the flip, it's going to be short-lived, aren't you?
Yeah, later rush as well from Canale. So Golden Panthers able to totally disrupt Telsy's
momentum and then Canale can use his later rush to win out the fight firmly in their
favor. Maimon does have that barrage. Chelsea not really working with a lot and not working
with SXJ to be able to go threaten that back cap to give his players a little bit more
breathing room from the sheer amount of pressure that this Pharah and Cassidy is throwing at
them. Every time they try to walk for a main, like look at how long they have to spend waiting
for the wrecking ball trying to duel the Pharah low enough to force Maimon back, that's a
lot of point percent. Chelsea not able to do anything except wait.
Yeah, and Goldenpans just harassing him every step of the way.
We're coming down to what could be a final fight in my moment with the barrage.
End this here and now.
And just finds Lars off the rift.
Jadovic not ready to take, has to work on the rest of his team.
And it looks like a complete collapse here.
Tell us, falling to pieces.
1, 2, 3, 4, eating them alive on the walk up.
And this first round of Ilios has been rough.
I mean, 1, 2, 3, 4 giving as good as they got from Curtis Bro yesterday.
Yeah, Jono was likely looking for Goldenpans to lock him down with the chain.
and then Maimon like he said takes full advantage of the fact that Mizuki is not there with
Sigma to use the sanctuary to absorb that barrage and it's it's done. The moment that
Telsy lose their tank like they have so little opportunity to walk on to the point themselves.
It was a good first fight like I really liked the rotation from Telsy using cage trying to take
away a lot of the mobility that the wrecking ball has stacking up so no one gets split apart.
But what they do is they box themselves into a corner and then Kai just plays the off angle and they have very little space to be able to duel the cats back.
Yeah, I think people underestimate how difficult it is to play these slow styles into a team that really understands wrecking ball, especially when, once you're before getting away without playing a tracer, right?
They're playing two pretty greedy DPS and they're actually both getting value, which is just intolerable.
Even with this greedy Sigma comp that's pretty nice and defensive, if you let a Cassidy flank you and blink down your supports from behind them,
behind them. You are not leading the fight. You are not actually poking better. Those are
going to be repeating that. Speaking about poke, double poke. 1, 2, 3, 4, continuing. No
far this time from Mymone, but Sojourn instead, Icav is not going to have a fun time. He has
to look at three different targets. If he looks at one, the other two get so much more freedom
to be able to move to such a shot. From Mymone, trying to shut down SHJ's movement, trying to
force out some of the tracer utility so he can push the tracer back and not have to worry about
his backline canail vulnerable potentially being hit by a one-click. Mymon just always threatening
for the one-shot but the point pressure is starting to get to 153.4 they haven't found
pickups just yet and the clean positioning pays off for Telsy. Jonovitch punishes golden pants
with the chain and a bar step forward for the cleanup so this fight goes quite a bit better
so you're not able to connect on a rail I think a couple chances they're created by golden pants
but my Mone feels it as well.
The Sigma Shield a little too oppressive is going to go for the Pharah,
planks it off angles, but this map is a lot more linear than well.
It'll be a little bit harder to get into the backline,
but maybe for Kai with the jet back cap and the dead eye,
still has got something to play for.
I mean, 1-2-3-4 will just go for poke pressure, right?
Now you just have the Pharah rocket spam.
Kai does have dead eye looking for the swing
to buy the space for 1-2-3-4 into the backline directly on top of iCav.
And that should be 1-2-3-4 starting to get more oppressive.
golden pants being chased out as as they stay actually on the trace of
treachery. My moan has to use the recall still alive gets the kill and tell
us see this trade's coming through from both of these teams but unfortunately
they've already lost both of our support players so there is very little back
into that fight for the team they will at least have rushed to try and barute
force forward this space yet again when one two three four make it really hurt
just walking back on to that point the way they did them well.
Hard to use some of these ultimates.
I mean, you've got them all for jealousy,
but the challenge in this matchup is actually just deploying them where they're relevant
and not just being kited out.
The spam, relentless, here comes the cleanse out.
That's the signal for Golden Tanks to slam in with the minefield.
The cast is so low and it's going to get burned down.
The support can't quite be there in time.
And now Golden Tanks free to play, free to roll through these attackers
in a contested position from which they cannot safely retreat.
However, bunkering in this hall room, maybe they're gonna be able to stay alive for Cassidy on the retreat, but it seems tenuous here.
Flux is out, not gonna connect. Kai able to slip away into the mega-remexes. J-Dome may be able to punish that out.
Pulse, little wide, and Crispy finds Jonowich not able to get out the sanctuary there.
Texall throws the rush in, and 1, 2, 3, 4, creating some of their signature chaos.
Doing incredibly well in this fight. Lars is battling on the point with the rush, but he's kind of all alone here.
Icav finds that kill on the canal after the rush is deployed, suggesting that there is still a fight in this jealousy squad.
Yeah, but there's still a barrage in the pocket for my moan.
Jono, which is back, does have the sanctuary, could potentially absorb it,
but you have to walk on to the point and to do that you have to get kills. Icav picks out Crispy.
Canal the only support for 1-2-3 for available and it looks like they've just decided to give the fight.
Disengage, back out, try to reset, hold ultimates for the next one as
Yet again, Kai can open up the way with this Cat Swing Deadeye that Telsie would have to use potentially something like Sanctuary in response to, which then frees up the flora ultimate.
If they're on Deadeye defensively, which I think actually can be pretty nice in this kind of a scenario, we'll see if Kai gets the opportunity to go first.
He does, but Deadeye the slam is in as well, forces the Sanctuary out, and now the Cat needs perfect positioning, but he can't quite read.
I kept moving well enough with the minefield defending the sanctuary. It's a little bit awkward for I kept to walk up
And once he clears these mines, it's gonna be open season one two three four
Staggering out into this one. It's gotta be a reset, but I don't know that there's time here
Golden pants has to work overtime here because we are coming up to the end of this round
I mean does my mom give up the barra should go trace it. I don't think
Anyone I sort of golden pants will be able to touch. There's the wrecking ball hitting for the OT
that's not the thing that will
let you live this fight and I
kept takes the cat down. One of
those nine lives are ripped away
and tell us they find a knife
life of their own. We go the
distance we go to White House.
Really well executed by tell us
he here on ruins. They're able
to play things a little bit
more defensively and even with
the overwhelming pressure from
wrecking ball on them and a
couple of successful early
dives. Donovitch finds the
opportunity here to get big
value up the back of this
sanctuary mitigating everything
sanctuary mitigating everything that 1234 can bring to bear against him but we
are going to lighthouse and this is a map that I think is quite good for the
wrecking ball right and now it's like yeah is there really a possibility of
playing this slower Sigma style tell us he seemed to think yes but I am worried
for them on this map especially with my mode considering the far out there's a
lot of different angles to pressure from I mean if tell us he tried to do what
they did previously on well, which is just bunker up. On point, golden pants can still
threaten to push someone off and create space for my mom to send the rockets and through
the side of that point, and he will be staying on that bar. Lars actually trying to take
the high position to dual-eye both the wrecking ball and the DPS, crispy waiting to just grab,
I'm guessing, Kai into a better position. At least with the perks, Lars does have more
verticality in comparison to what Sigma does start with finally getting to feel
like a master in the gravity but what Chelsea have to do right now is master
the CC onto the ball that Suzu already forced but all of the attention to its
golden pants freed up Mino to get the kill on the asset straight. And Mino
working away on this far Kai on the off angle staying alive in a protected by
the sports Lars left alone on point. Jonovic does find crispy with Fyze Lars
just a little bit of time a new lease on life maybe if it sports to come in and
assist and as Ikev shuts down Kai, Lars has done enough staying alive deep into the fight
on this point.
It will be rewarded by continuing to control the capture and what a nasty little accretion
to finish the fight.
Lovely rock there from Lars anticipating my own flight path.
Kai with the Deadeye will be again what 1, 2, 3, 4 look to create this base.
No sanctuary from Jonowich this time so it would be Deadeye versus Deadeye from Ikev
to try and hold this position for Tellacy's team, as we do have to see what Golden Pants
can get done on this retake when Ikev is looking directly for him. Every time the wrecking
ball shows up, so many players from Tellacy turn, but now you have to turn for the dead
eye and as Ikev who actually uses first, Kai holds onto his, Crispy lets go of the lifeline
so his cast is going to be protected and now they're looking for their own drive fight.
And they bait out the defensive noon, now Kai comes Kai, got a bit of channel a little
A little bit out of position though, got pulled up in the air, but Mymone strikes anyway,
shutting down Jonovitch, Texall trying to stay alive with the rush on point.
Doesn't have a second support behind him, and this mind-field is going to be devastating.
So challenging to touch in the overtime fight, Icath does grab a kill back, but Golden Hans feels green to play.
Mymone somehow off the map on Farah in the chaos, just ran out of gas.
Lars though still fighting, and it's actually something to play for.
Kai with two though, is going to shut it down, finishing even a third in the fight.
So Kai called upon clutch that one out and he responds
Swapping sick potentially like using flux that late when so many of your players
Until Kai started picking up all those kills, right?
You don't know in this next part because like now you don't have the signal flux to interfere with canals rush
Right, you're looking for Jono which with the sanctuary
But then you have to use the sign sheets with the pressure from rush and the pressure from power
so one two three four can just use one to bait the first and then the second to be the actual fight went
I'm on looking for playing angles
I have super ready for the sanctuary comes out in my moan
Baited into that one the counter-dive is very clean can tell us the only one ultimate in the fight
But it may be enough Lars pulled off the edge of the map doesn't have enough
Boyancy in the air there to be able to slip back up top Kai though staying alive through the fight
And that late kill on Lars means golden pants that's something to work with we are coming to what could be the final fight of the round
of the map Kai once again, a hero in the team's moment of need. I can have him with the dead
eye but not being given any targets, any opportunity with this ultimate. And once you
3-4 hold.
Yeah, flip it back, give some an opportunity to get Knailed back in the fight who was picked
up by SXJ when we had that barrage into Sanctuary earlier. So 1-3-4 still having rush advantage,
still having point control which does mean it tells you to be very careful how they get
these players back onto point. At least with SXJ you have the trace of links so you don't
You don't have to worry as much about getting booped off.
Can help being so fresh right now by Telosy.
As that threatening the flip, Crispy will try and go to deal with it,
so you can keep Kai and Mimone looking at these other players from Telosy,
and they still get stuck in choke.
I mean, honestly, with Ikev out of the fight, it's pretty much just done that early.
Mimone huge impact kill from him.
Now it allows Kai to get wildly aggressive over the top,
and then I finished the last sliver of HP on Tek-Saw.
Now he's just playing over the top.
They're going pretty hard finish in this round.
does go down with the cat able to taxi back he should be in that final fight
tell us he with just enough time to eat out one more context but contest
rather than excess J with a pulse bomb is called upon for a lot here even the
overtime is not gonna be easy to find and the slow sigma composition shows
its weakness in this kind of negation tell us they have one more fight about
also going to have to keep that point and play as they get to the blink hits the
pulse bomb but does not hit a player and you lose I have on your rotation to my
the game, but the game is
not going to be a good one.
It's not going to be a good
time on rush mirror from both
of these teams. No other
advantage until just getting
those landing shots. I take
stand the kind of zoo key
golden pants rose up textile,
and this was the worry when you
have to take a fight about
a lot more composition, but
Lars with the flux tries to
get back onto the map. It's
not enough, though. He's not
actually on the point itself
to Texel there in that fight from Golden Pants.
Just one of the issues of Lighthouse
when the Snowbetten fight,
you have to panic and just run on to that point,
which means that the wrecking ball gets fully unleashed.
Yeah, I mean, Golden Pants,
you know, he just lives for those moments, right?
Ready for the forced overtime to touch,
where you really have to just send it onto the point
and he is just ready to punish
some tight wrecking ball angles, minefield,
Tsunay Raj, but I think a lot of this math,
you got accredited to Maimon and Kai,
Coming up with crucial kills in moments of me,
I mean that first round Kai was on an absolute heater,
flanking on the Cassidy, flying around the Jetpack Cat.
This is a style that, you know,
they've taken to pretty quickly considering,
I sort of seem like they weren't wanting to play
this kind of a wrecking ball look against VP
until VP showed it to them and they say,
hey, maybe we can use that Jetpack Cat ourselves.
Maybe we can hit some of these Wild Planks
and to let Kai get away with the Cassidy
into this matchup is really nice.
Like that's not something you would think
is going to be easy to play with a wrecking ball style,
but the cat makes it possible.
What's the retake potential to, right, with the dead eye,
where it just, like, it costs out so much space
to have to respect the kill potential of that combination,
as opposed to before, when Golden Pass was having
to play the retake, like, a lot of the teams
would just be able to mark the wrecking ball
and still look at the rest of the players
while they didn't have a tank creating space for them.
This rocker is absolute you from Lars.
he was a standout yesterday in
Tellercy's fights, especially on
Realtor, his signal was looking
really, really good, but you can
tell the moment the one two
three four just ran away with
the momentum. It's when they're
able to just harass Tellercy as
they're trying to find that
regroup after losing iCAP early
and it buys them back like 25%
of the point that they were
otherwise missing and it put
Tellercy into that last ditch
desperate situation where we
saw like you have no choice,
you have to run forward. You
might have used Tuzu, you might
of yous tp but you have no choice if you don't get that touch the round ends if you do try to go
for that touch you're probably going off the side of the map though so sort of like a damned if you
do damned if you don't situation off of time bank alone yeah it's uh you know comes down to inches
though honestly on ileos right some of those rounds really come down to the wire comes down to
you know those individual dps moments so tell us yeah i think they do show that there is a chance
with this wrecking ball look but one two three four they seem so much more comfortable in this kind
of a matchup where they're able to dictate the pace of the game.
Telsy though are going to bring us to Circuit Royale and I mean this is where I think things
get really interesting for teams against 1, 2, 3, 4 is you can bend the wrecking ball
but you're also going to circuit you might think maybe we don't need to.
Maybe we don't have to.
You only get it once for the series so you know that there's a genuine consideration
here of different ways to approach the bad phase.
I don't think there's a right answer for Telsy.
It's going to be up to their interpretation of how the wrecking ball plays on this map
Which frankly I have almost never seen it. I have a feeling Golden Pants would play it if it were allowed though
Well, the last time that we saw one two three four play circuit
They did sub AMD PN and he played Ryan and Malgo
So we'll see if there is a substitute from one two three four side or if they will
Was kind of nice though I was here for the Ryan
I'm a Ryan believer in this current meta. Well all Ryan believers, okay, or at least maybe not believers
That's crazy to say. Nobody is a right believer.
No, well wishes. We hope. We hope. We look up at a star and we wish we wish that Ryan was more valuable.
I think I wish I might just get it because AMD is coming in.
AMD is coming through, but will it be Honest Overwatch Reinhardt or will it be dishonest Maga Watch? We will.
We'll have to see. There's both. Probably both.
I am not here for this Maga Erasure. I tell the C-Pandamole.
I swear, I'm not coping. Ryan is legitimately good. Ryan, I think is one of the best tags you can play against the Sigma-Zuki, like, Ryan, Sim, Mei. I think that kind of owns Sigma-Zuki. You just run them over, and you can't really do anything like Ryan.
Also, like, were you ready to deal with the Reinhardt? If you're jealousy, you know that you're dueling out 1, 2, 3, 4, so you're likely going to put a lot of your time in trying to play against WC compositions,
which means that maybe there's less time to be able to face into that Reinhardt.
And you can only ban Reinhardt when AMDP's in, too. Like, you would not be banning Reinhardt if Goldenfans were still playing, so I think this is actually a good opportunity for jealousy to be able to use a ban that does affect AMDP,
forces him onto that Mauga, and that means that potentially we get like the Mauga match,
or potentially we see some more of the counter play up against the Mauga, D.va being able
to use the Matrix, either way a lot of the damage he can do, so he doesn't have that
insane stability of converting damage all the way back to his own health, and being
able to deal quite nicely with the cage as well, since if you get locked in, you don't
have your supports having to jump into their own depths to prevent yours, you just yourself
destruct and get your neck back.
options here. I have a feeling Sigma is going to be pretty prevalent here on circuit with
the ride band, even with the far band as well. It's going to be a little bit difficult potentially
to deal with these classic Sigma cons. And I think that's exactly what Tosie of Juanita
Engineer here. They are actually really solid on the Sigma. We saw from, you know, Lars is
kind of dominating on Sigma at moments, like finding a lot of these impact kills. And ultimately,
it's kind of your role as Sigma, right, is to kind of carry like fine kills, do big damage.
You see that from Eisenhower on Virtus Pro, I mean, topping the server in damage pretty much
every time he touches Sigma so that's exactly what Tennessee wants out of Lars in this game for
iCab 2 a map where hitscan can be crucial I mean almost always is crucial right with these open
sight lines the consideration though of the hitscan pick I think is a pretty interesting one I mean
we've seen all sorts of options haven't seen so much widow you know this year but exactly we've
seen freighter we've seen soldier we've seen honzo like there are there are options Kai for now is
on the cast. Not so much M. Ray now, but M. Ray when he released and had monstrous 80%
lifesteal on that pistol as well as the ult is doing so much damage. No lari for 1, 2, 3, 4.
It will be crispy on the Juno as opposed to the Wooyang as well, so plenty of speed opportunities
to get AMBP both into close proximity to be able to use that nemesis bomb but also out of
situations right if you have to kite things like the Kitsune rush which means
that Knail won't be forced to mirror when Texor uses his and 1, 2, 3, 4 can
potentially play for second on those retakes. Hospitality looks like we're
getting the full Sigma May Mzuki composition really trying to put a lot
of pressure onto AMDP. If he was on the Sigma he would be losing a lot of
defensive capabilities off of the shift but also if he's on the ramp he can just
wall him up in the supports. Nice Maywa here making the push very awkward
XSJ is super comfortable on this May, this is a match that he understands intimately well.
And once you're free for it, off the back of that sort of half-hearted push forward,
half-to-just back off, yield this opening streak and play the corner.
Ikev really wants to get that cut around corner two, because then his angle opens up on that
sojourn, so once you're free for losing a lot of ground, as they lack that snipe kill potential
that is available in DP, careful not to get walled off, because my man actually teleports,
take an off angle and then rejoin his team, forcing Telsy a little bit more back.
Spam though, coming in from large now opportunity to continue this push,
they all back off, XSJ swings wide, puts a lot of pressure on AMP DP but the shield is right now
giving him a great position from which to brawl XSJ caught the nice block in a tough spot and
AMP DP runs him down, Kai immediately swings high ground down and takes this angle and evict these
attackers from the opening street. I don't think anyone's gonna get out of this one alive.
Yeah, and K'nil has rush as well, so when Telsy try to walk to them, they don't have the Lucio, they don't have the Juno, they have to spend time building up Texals' rush to be able to match or use something like SXJ's implicit defensively to prevent 1, 2, 3, 4 from just collapsing at them, full pelt with K'nil's ult as the fight kicks off.
We'll be a little bit of poke farmed up, Tela C trying to find some kills, but also allow Texor to hit that Kirika ultimate.
Once you've proved what I like I said, they have the option. They can meet it or they can kite it.
Tenile fight, here comes the blocks immediately, Alba Glars picks up all these players,
but Kai still finds value off the dead, I drop Texas J4, anything can get about him.
Actually he passed Blizzard in that moment, tried to cast it in the crucial second and that hurts.
And that hurts. Such a valuable ult in the AMTP.
Profiting. Off of the rapidest war techs now.
Swarming forward over on top. Lars.
Techsolves. All dropping.
And one, two, three, four.
A beautiful fight from them.
They get rush out. They get flux out.
They even get the Blizzard.
And they live to tell the tale.
Not giving up really a more than a meter of cart
in that fight this corner, so far untouchable.
It's uptime.
Kai now off of the cast.
Seeing the Malga goes for the Sojin
to be able to farm rel shots.
but I mean for Tellercy, how do you win this fight?
You open with OC, Maimon walls.
You try to use Sanctuary,
AMDP just runs in with annihilation.
Once your group was stopped first,
Crispy with the race, sending his team forward,
Icav Trains just mutter up the pressure
with the overclock,
Chonowich wanted to try to keep his team alive
with the Sanctuary,
and once your group are more than happy to play that close,
just absolutely bold Tellercy over
with AMDP's Rematra,
and we're really starting to see
the value of subbing AMDP in. It was not for his Malga, it was not for his Reign. The
Rammus proving to be so problematic to this Musuki to deal with.
My moan also doing great work on the sim here, good decisions from him. The Ultimate Bank
is running a little dry, but Telsey have thrown so much into these last couple of times they
don't really have anything to speak of either. And now at 45 seconds you really have to consider
your options. AMDP, the annihilation could be devastating, so Lars has to be so cautious
with an aggressive overrun and the poke just dominates and Lars being so low has to pop
to shout just to stay alive but we're rushed coming in over the top.
This Malva not longs in this world.
Telzee, feeding a hasty retreat here.
27 seconds on the clock, there's 1, 2, 3, 4.
Sweep forward, they want to clean all of these kills off the map.
End this push here and now and that would be back breaking.
Telzee, have to get some more progress.
Have to get out of the spawn but even that, not given ADP.
Considering the forward hold, I don't mind it here.
The opportunity to attack, to deny and over time touch.
Telzee don't really have a great hero to get in for that last second touch.
She will be XSJ, actually, who slips in over the top, potentially unscouted.
One, two, three, four, they need to end this fight quick, and hold on.
Kai has gone down, and Telsy find themselves actually in a very winnable fight.
Gars dropping though, not gonna hurt.
XSJ finds a kill on my mode, can show them that a clutch is still possible,
and they be recognized, cannot get back to the objective, just goes for the kill trade instead,
and a little bit of hubris from one, two, three, four, thinking that they wouldn't be able to touch.
XSJ slips through and makes the play.
Oh, Krispy dies here. 1-2-3-4 denied that Juno Ray for the contest, but I mean, no one will be able to contest in time, and we do go second.
SXJ, with the tap, was more than enough to split 1-2-3-4's attention. Now we get the Malga match as well, but Lars already has that cage in flight.
Wymon, with the same, can TP the team out, so Telsy can't open up with it, unless they want to watch all of 1-2-3-4 slip out of their clutches.
What can XSJ find on this Echo has a lot of uncontested space in this guy,
and he's getting kind of low now, the opportunity to swing forward,
Icav off the back of the pressure, drops my moment of stone,
now swings wide, takes another skull, and now AMVP, considering his options,
not any left, not any good ones at any rate,
chooses to just sack his life away on cart, do what he can by way of damage,
but a great read from Icav, sensing weakness here in the defense, and he pounces.
Yeah, tell us now, approaching that Juno-ray, having to worry about Knaile's rush on retake, especially with Mimeon having that sin water, split a lot of the angles that I have controls, but at the moment, tell us to just control all of the space.
Juno's speed ranked to get the touch, Lars waiting for that slam, sees the Suzu gets the cage right on top of the objective, so once you've heard what they want to contest, they have to go into it.
that cage is broken off of the damage from that rush. As trades have come through, Lars
catches on to Kai, which means that 1, 2, 3, 4, missing a lot of that damage, but Maimur
more than makes up for it with that sim being fully charged up off of Lars' health.
Needs to get more on sim and asked to do yet more in this teamfight, but Lars, just unstoppable,
too much health on the card. Crispy going down early in that fight spells disaster here
for the defenders and Telsy really getting deep now here on Circuit Royale, on to third
point and with a few key ultimates by Mone goes over to the reaper, 1-2-3-4, 1-2-3-4,
puts the pace now, puts some pressure on, try to get some cheeky fights here in this
low ground of third point.
I mean, Mime will be great value if you can play on top of Lars, but until then, you have
to be very careful not to get scouted and hit by something like that Echo.
So if the backline is looking for the Juno, finds the Kiriko as well and then just wait for him.
Alright, you're taking a lot of the momentum from Tellacy by forcing them to have to turn and look for that backline.
That could now, indeed, maybe force you to a copy.
Big damage out of AMDP, Icap pops the OZ, but under huge pressure, doesn't have the HP for this.
AMDP just guns him down.
Little bit of an operating gauge from Tellacy, here comes the copy, Kanka.
AMDP though 1v2 in the Moga battle, still staying alive and double super behind it,
But two magas, trying to get in the overrun though, just in time to escape from the cage.
Sports working overtime, and somehow, AMDP, while he's lived a little bit longer, Lars is going to get that run down in the end,
all the way to the spawn, though he had to go for the kill, but he finds it the end of the day,
and now my moan on an island, being run down by the DPS and Telsie, should be an easy pick up and XSJ will have it.
Yeah, but not home free. One, two, three, four, do have to contest.
Malga cage from both Malgas, but Krispy Knael by to hit both support ults if they can lift it up a tail
jealousy catch Krispy instantly now it's all Knael rush comes out
AMGP so long but in the face of that rush has more than enough damage to keep himself intact
The rush does so much value and you be trying to try to drop through large
But as the shout ends the orbital ray begins our responsive ray from Krispy
My mom able to do a
I found Reaper in this moment bar, can't stay close to the point of death while some, not too finding too much of anything, but I capped, zoned away, cleaned up by Kai, and now my moaned 3 to work, 3 to hunt down some of these kills.
Turns now, gets a lot of lifesteal on large, that should be the hold, 1, 2, 3, 4, going down to the absolute limit. Kai comes up with a couple crucial kills.
AMVP and Crispy stay alive deep into the fight, and now tell us, not much time to speak of here as they come to the final contest.
Yeah, it's such a late kill on Janna, which as well, so that you don't have that Juno speed
ring to set up Telsys players quickly going for this overtime contest.
Also, if you're looking for the point, you're not looking for my moan, as if you will just
try and still like Telsys, yeah, as they actually go, if that's too early, gets punished for
it by Crispy, and Telsys now forced into having to walk directly into that mage, okay, so
she'll entirely cut off heals, it's all up to Ica, put the flank angle, trying to get
behind, take the sports down, but the shots go wide and tell us he will not be able to
complete the full push.
One, two, three, four, hold them off at the pass.
Yeah, overtime contesting into a cage fight.
I don't recommend it.
I don't recommend it.
I guess you don't, you know, you don't shoot a rock in a hard place.
You really don't have anything in the option space there.
Tough for XSJ to go a little early.
I think he actually goes early enough that he realizes all action.
If I recall now, I actually don't trigger DOT.
But it's before three seconds. I think it might have time to recall this. It was a little bit close
We can maybe see
But in the end, I don't think that push was was a very realistic one in any case
And what you do for they do set a win con
I mean some solid holds first second third all running the clock down pretty decently and now they can win this map
Right, they can do it with no OT round, but the offense is a difficult task, right?
It's one thing to hold those corners with rematcha
It's another to try to break a defensive setup that is always going to be always going to feel at least so
Advantage tells you don't still gonna play this echo interesting choice
Xsj really feeling he can get a lot of value here
I mean if you're jealousy, it's still winnable for you, right?
It would be so much harder
It would feel like literally having to climb a mountain if it had been a full hold
But because they were able to off of sxj with that back cap
go all the way into third there is potential for this team to be able to
hold off one two three four as we'll have a look and see what exactly one two
three four decide to come out with kite not going to be sticking on this
widow canal on that Zen I think this is just like literally having damage
capabilities to try to get someone yeah this is spawn peak get a disco to have
the Mercy damage boost and swap to what you're actually going to be running
which will be, ooh, Vendetta from Mymo.
Really interesting, especially in the Echo.
I didn't like Dettopick, and now that I see Vendetta,
I feel a lot better about Echo's chances,
but 1, 2, 3, 4, able to do some crazy aggression
off the back of Mymo, and let's see what he's able to get
on this Vendetta, combing with AMDP,
and I also respect that they're not even peeking too aggressively
on this first trope.
They know the threat that this Moga Vendetta composes.
Yeah, it tells me you have to be very careful
not to stay too close to that Moga and Vendetta
of being able to slam onto one of their players to XL catch his Kaido and one two three four without
that sojourn having to try to disengage very quickly. Telsy wanting to fish for more using
that Juno speedering totally forcing AMDP to one right back to first corner and all the space that
was picked up before off of the threat from that Vendetta engagement it's all been erased.
Heals coming through massively, AMDP barely taking any damage from that overwhelming span that
and the Telsy are trying to bring to bear.
And now, my moan finds herself in the corner,
ready to get aggressive.
1, 2, 3, 4, cleared the first hurdle,
larges over the top, looking to threaten,
disrupt the shot, backs off my moan for the minute.
But here comes 1, 2, 3, 4, charging forward,
trying to connect from this back.
My Telsy tried to slip back in a wave.
Kai, too clean on the solo, cleans up his opposite number,
finds a second off the play.
Rushed, not even needed here.
Four canales.
Kai just sweeps forward, uncontested,
with both enemy DPS down.
My moan also, thinking about looking for these last players
and treating back Silo, Reef is just available for Telosy if this tank stays alive, and he manages to do that to Lars.
Considering his options, I'd love to just play as if you'd already have to strike into the back line.
The crit strike, a little bit away, but just too much pressure, overwhelming onto Lars with double support ultimate.
Just cannot respond to that.
Telosy even throw their own rush in, that doesn't mean much.
One, two, three, four, coming out.
Yeah, I mean, my most positioning as well, it's behind the objective, right?
So if Telosy tried to allocate players to look the vendetta's way,
They lose resources in keeping Lars through annihilation alive and players contesting that point.
As my mind will be sticking with the Vendetta for now, I've been looking at really well sundering
about to come online. As Jonowich does have that Rey, 1-2-3 on the match 4 and big stomp onto AMTP.
So that's up to Pickle. Malga forces 1-2-3 all the way back, so no ultimates required.
Fatality just really good setup from Lars, then to be able to hold these ultimates and that will
That will be crucial off of how fast they lost first.
They need to be able to cycle these and take time off second.
Yeah, I'd be able to find yet more kills.
They're still at Juno forward in this angle,
but with DPS respawning, Ultimates online.
Tells you to choose not to take the risk hunting down
that additional support.
Crispy stays alive, able to keep the team mobilized,
active into the fight.
XSJ with the copy despite call upon an inclusive thing.
Zyka immediately opens with the OC,
responding to by Kai, dual of the soldiers.
Now no shit will be played.
Full opportunity as I say that,
Cage comes out, denying a crucial angle here for Ike.
He still finds the opportunity to lay some damage downrange,
but my mode, just moving a little too quickly,
and the Cage fight ends this battle before it's even begun.
Good punish for 1, 2, 3, 4, but it is expensive, right?
They used some key teamfight ultimates.
Atulzee still have another group regroup and another refight.
Not too many ultimates to work with to finish this camp.
Yeah, and the Rai from Jonowich, right?
So like, SXJ can go for the Duke onto something like the Magus,
so you have more sustain and a second cage.
You have to watch for Maimon, though.
He does have that sundering.
And tell us, walking back into this fight,
with very little information for us having to check
where exactly everyone,
who's in 1, 2, 3, 4, is playing from.
There's the race.
Maimon trying to take away the pressure
with the sundering blade to help C4's back
and they're able to capitalize,
but now we get lost cage.
Comboed up with all of that incoming damage
from ICAD with the coal rail charge.
Hasn't been able to find all that many kills
onto the DPS, but he has totally cut the legs of support
one two three fours composition and it's all of I just a him see he's staying alive and letting client my mom continue to work in this fight
Exes change is not able to get enough done on the copy. He's just going a little bit too slow the pace of this vendetta
Dang divinance now and he has to back up to the moment largest back into the fight
The delay has been enough with this rush should be disastrous text all still 5% away from his and the touch has to come in
It just cannot though the resources are not there tell us he delivered the fight another day
but that day maybe quite a path to continue on in this game.
You're a beautiful friend of Andy G. Bison, just in time to get that next shout-off.
Lars was so close to fighting that kill on his opposite number,
but can't come away with anything.
And 1, 2, 3, 4, not only cap second,
but sweep away the defenders denying a key forward position.
Yeah, I mean, crucial pick on the ICAP, right?
Tell us he losing that sojourn.
Texel's thinking, is it worth investing my rush when we're dying that key player?
Or do I have to hold it for the retake?
and in that moment, 1-2-3-4 just get more kills, which forces more space.
Tec from that will have one-sided rush, but 1-2-3-4 can just try and match with something like the OC.
ICAP has the OC inside the rush though, and that gives them the edge.
Kai down AMD, if he wiped off the face of the Earth, you would not tell that he is playing the most sustainable tank in this game.
Tell us he instantly answered back and forced 1-2-3-4 right back to spawn.
Big shot from ICAP, wins the overclock duel, slows down the momentum, and it was sorely needed right there.
Four-tell is he something to right the ship here with 2 minutes 30 on the clock once your G4.
Their incredible aggression that we've seen in the Wreck-and-Bull comp now showcased with Andy B on the Moga, and they don't seem to have lost a step.
Andy B with the cage fight wants to force some kind of an engagement, Lars pops his purse, but Dennis steps up inside, trying to assist.
They double down, committing on the Moga, even without Christie.
They manage to come away with the trade, ICAP comes in as well.
But the rest of the team has already fallen around his ears.
Canale does go down in the last second pick-off from Ikevich.
High Impact gets him on a later spawn wave, denies a little bit of the follow-up.
The cart rolls forward nonetheless.
Hellasy, no ultimates to speak of, this could be the final fight.
And then 1, 2, 3, 4 won't be able to fully keep this cart rolling.
You don't have your supports waiting for that regra,
but you are getting a two final fight territory.
They've got Ray, they've got Rush.
Darcy will have Ray, but they don't have Rush.
So 1, 2, 3, 4 could be a mess here.
There's the rush, but you lose Kaio on the entrance!
This was still winnable for Telsy, they just have to be able to get through the peak of damage opportunities of that double support ultimate, and they don't have anything to withstand in the way of it.
Sadly, either with Kaio missing, there's just too much incoming damage up of that combo.
Myman with the Sundering takes Telsy's last players down, and that will be push.
My moan, insane chase down there onto iCab. We've been such a threat by iCab finding that open and kill on the guy.
I mean that is the dream, in that kind of a fight. You have nothing to your name, nothing to speak of, and you find an initial opening kill on the sojourn,
but it's not enough that, you know, the triple down from 1, 2, 3, 4, they give no respect and they just go for the 4v5,
knowing that they have a massive bank of ultimates to deploy. My moan comes up with the goods off the back of the kill,
the double support assisting AMDP and just dominating anyone who dares come close to the objective.
Really well executed by 1, 2, 3, 4, and for them to win a map on this style speaks volumes for their skill,
their strength as a team for AMDP to come in and look like a consistent solid member of this team.
I mean, this modern comp did not feel ill-practiced, it did not feel slow or second-guest.
This is a team that looks really good in this style, which is pretty interesting considering,
I think this is the first time we've seen it, at least this exact variation from them,
from this stage, they can handle the Mauga Russian and look pretty good doing so.
Yeah, they look really good doing so, and I mean, that sort of goes back to what we were
really wanting to see from GoldenPants.
Right, if the team's already accustomed to playing with Mauga, if he just picks up Mauga,
you can still be that Wrecking Ball team, but you can have something to turn to if your
opponent's banning out and you want to keep GoldenPants in play, or if the Wrecking Ball
does start getting countered.
very good stuff from 1, 2, 3, 4, looking incredibly strong and honestly it's a
worthwhile investment. Doubling down on all of those ults despite lacking your
surgeon, there's a risk if you half ask that fight right where you go in and
you're worried about Texel hitting second rush, Jono which uses Rey to be able to
sustain the team, you lose one fight on circuit, on attack, you're losing someone
potentially on rotations, you're being pressured early on by Mauga at the door, which means
that you then have to worry about burning out Suzu early to be able to stabilize past
it.
Things can go wrong very, very quickly for attacking teams.
You can be coming into that map, part of the map with 4 minutes plus, and you can see
it slip away after fight, after fight, after fight goes the wrong way.
So, timely investment from 1, 2, 3, 4 showing their experience.
Yeah, not an easy place to finish, but my moan rocks all of them and dead.
I mean, I think his performance in this map is really what makes the difference, right?
Be able to, you know, in really every key moment of the game, staying alive deep into the fight,
finding value more than just the initial explosive engaged that we expect from Indeta,
but able to kind of work his way in in the death match, you know, be decisive, find those moments
to strike and come up with the goods. Speaking of the goods, guys, we've got the goods coming up
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I don't know about the waffles though. Like, JT, do you have an answer for why we have waffles?
The next question is they look delicious.
I mean, it almost has to be
right at this point, you know,
it feels like you don't have
much of a choice. Um, but, uh,
you know, okay, we do have
golden pants coming back in. So
I feel like you got to ban the
ball now, right? Or else you
have to. It's an
anonymous. Maybe it's
it feels like you don't have much of a choice.
But, you know, okay,
we do have golden pants coming back in.
So I feel like you gotta ban the ball now, right?
Or else you just, it's an agnominus,
maybe it's an agnominus three, zero defeat.
Everyone's gonna say, why didn't you ban wrecking ball here?
However, you also have to win two more maps after this.
So, I mean, the actual high still play is this the most
impactful place to ban wrecking ball.
You have to live as Telsy, you have to live in the world of
we are making the reverse sweep.
We're not only gonna win here,
but we're gonna win the next two maps.
However, if you do that in fairness,
they could protect the Ranking Ball from here on out.
So any now, I think it almost has to be done
until I see a gree, once you get rid of the Bastion,
mitigating some of the catch and anagans
that could possibly come out.
And also, I mean, this is like sort of a way
to protect Winston.
I think the Bastion is the number one problem
for Winston in this meta.
I mean, the issue is that there's like four other problems
that are quite close behind Bastion,
but the Bastion is the real reason,
I think that no one really plays Winston this time.
This is like a very legitimate hitscan pick right now and it just evaporates Winston.
Winston has never been really playable against, against Bastion since the days of like, you had a diva next to you, you know?
That's, that's what it would take is another tank to basically protect you.
I think Zarya, yeah, double bubble Zarya Winston, oh yeah, the true traditional back, we're talking Bastion with the shield, man.
We're talking, that's like, that is, that is a 10-year-old.
of old so dusty that when you pick up the book there's literally like just dust you
gotta have a you gotta have a dust mask because it is that is ancient we are
going back to the well for that one and I have a feeling for golden pants I mean
he's been pretty consistent but ball his band he has played Winston and made it
work reasonably well but there has been other moments where the bluff has just
been called and like the hard wins the counter comes out and we saw this a
little bit yesterday against VP I think twisted mind if I'm not mistaken played
that match I believe it was on Kings Row and just obliterated the Winston on
every contest so for tell us it's a bit of a skill check right you really feel
like you are supposed to win this one and pretty decisively yes I mean especially
because that means that likely one two three first backline will consist of
Anna right and we saw Anna work yesterday for TN but that was also when
They have three people playing protect the Anna and make sure that she hits the anti-nades on things like the Malga
Now that we're going to like run a sapid there's a lot of flank potentials open for things like tracer
She on to be able to find a lot of that external pressure onto the Anna
Which takes away from your winces taking damage to put up Nanoboost and then your Winston goes in with Nanoboost
Like everything until that is all just soft dive. I'm not truly looking to commit to fights
Watch, I admire your hope for Ana. I don't think it was playing Ana.
It's Kariko. I think it's Kariko.
I think it's Lucio and Kariko Winston.
I think Ana is, I mean, not as problematic as Winston in the meta,
but it's just not really playable against the kind of pace that teams are bringing right now,
especially with Kariko in the mix. You hit a big mid, it's gone, turns out you're dead on Ana.
They played the Ana on King's Row and on Dorado.
I feel as well like there's layers to Telosy going for the Wrecking Ball Band now, because it does mean, ooooh!
I'm so here for the Zarya effect, that would be fantastic here.
I'm here for the Zarya as well, I think that would be like a brilliant answer.
Especially if Telosy are like, okay it'll be Winston.
Yeah.
And Golden Pants rocks up on Zarya instead, because like, Telosy with the Mauga, with the Cassidy,
Winston's not really doing a lot into that.
But now, you can actually put Maimon, you can keep him on that Vendetta, you can go for the Bubble Engagements,
which will in turn build Golden Pants to charge to be able to threaten out Lars in that role.
There's a lot of potential with Golden Pants flexing to Bizarre now.
Yeah, Zarya can do a lot of work in these pumps.
Not always the easiest matchup into Maga, but these DPS for 1-3-4 can absolutely lead the way.
Maimon comes in, grabs a bit of energy, a little bit of poke pressure.
the bike moves in behind and now forced to go clip it, and Lars goes deep.
Canale gets dangerously low off the stop, he barely stays alive, Golden Pan's self holds his nerve,
holds the bubble, and XSJ lay out in front of the team, just cut down, now desperation from Lars,
he swings forward, tries to dive into the backline, Golden Pan's considering his options,
not super comfortable on the sorry, but still working the pitch, working the kills,
finds the time to strike into this backline, punishes the desperation of his opponents.
Pretty big unforced error though from XSJ to go down in that manner on Tracer.
feels odd, right? He's out way in front of the team, and Lars goes over to the Zarya.
Fancy's his chances in the mirror. I do quite like the aggression from Vendetta,
and Shion though, in this mix. I mean, I count a lot of work cut out for him considering the
bubbles coming in on these EPS. I mean, Essex J has a lot of work as well,
trying to guard lane versus two flanks. As Kai, my mom, won't be going aggressive just yet.
One punch for holding the objective, not allowing Chelsea to push it back for free.
So baiting them into an engagement as well because Knair will hit rush first, Texel going down earlier in that fight
means that 1-2 people will have the rush advantage to potentially secure those forward spawn checkpoints
So Ikev has to hold his nerve, hold that dead eye
So he has to use it defensively to stop 1-2-3-4 from just monopolizing this space and there we go
Castle's invested, Maimon shut down despite the rush for 1-2-3-4
Frades are still going at Telosy's way and now Texl gets to use his own contestant rush in this next fight.
Canale though, Lyon's XSJ throughout a wild pulse bomb got cut down in the animation it would seem.
And now 1, 2, 3, 4, player advantage can be able to come back into this fight.
Telosy, it's not going to be easy to get more than a few meters of progress here once people are biding their time for now,
but Goldencaster turns to the fight, here comes my mode, instantly in with the aggression, deep into the backline, the beat is coming as well.
Just barely keeping Mime on alive, perfectly timed, by Crispy, but the rush from Petzol just overwhelming now.
He's just starting to run thin, Kai can't quite swing back around the corner.
I can't find Crispy, and Golden Pants falls in turn.
Trust in the rush here from Talosine, it pays dividends.
1-2-3-4, do you have to worry about Janna, which is sound barrier, in retaliation to Golden Pants' grab,
but Mime won't be able to answer that disundering blade exactly to shred off all of the extra armor,
and then that gives Pi free of way to go out with that spree.
If you want to free-fall though, you're worried about the grab from Wallace.
You have no sound barrier to be able to answer it back.
Yeah, this one's going to be explosive.
Neither team with really the ideal defensive tool for one man grab onto the Lucio,
but that might be all that you need.
Golden Pants, though, dropped so early,
the sound barrier paying dividends elsewhere in the fight, and Lars,
the last Zarya on the field, Staining's all keeping his push going.
Kai goes and sets a Riku spree, but cannot find anything.
an eyecap cleaning up the mess here. Tell us he's splitting well. No pass force into a one-man
grab for minimal value. Yeah, I mean, Jonowich is the only person who gets grabbed, so he's the
only one who gets hit by the Sundering Blade. Sam Barrett does not save the Luzio, but it saves
the chances of the rest of the team as, oh, SXJ. Working the back line. Get scouted, it has to
instantly back off that angle, and that means that Knail and Maimon will both be looking for the
the Tracer's head. I kept taking thorns to prevent the Nazaria split from the backline
though, uses that dead eye, and we get the posthum from Essex's head on to it. Wow, that's
not something that you see everyday. The Pharah? How long was I playing?
Yeah, and the cracks beginning to show here. 1, 2, 3, 4, not seeming nearly as comfortable
here on the Nazaria comp. We like the look of the style, but Tellacy playing straight
up the way they have all stage long, and Lars is running through them on Nazaria right now.
I mean, he is getting so much more value in this battle.
Ikev on the Cassidy, too, able to put down so much damage threat.
Once people are gone to a much greedier, slower backline,
but if anything, that only puts more pressure on Golden Pants.
He's delivering his goods up front.
The rush, oh, a little bit awkward in the angle
that just barely gets around the corner.
Golden Pants dropping so low, Kai.
He does like, he needs to deliver some kind of a kill
from this fight.
But as I see that, the kill comes in, okay, Ikev.
Takes him, spams from the far,
steps into the disruptor spot, and gets cut down.
Golden Pants has stayed in line in the frontline,
starting to roll low on the HP, gets the cleanse, gets the sustain, and maybe has lived long enough to see the other side of this team fight.
He's going to drop Jonovitch and actually finding the Lucio here, it actually brings the dinner bell, the opportunity to come in and cut down all of these stragglers without speed to get them out.
Yep, no way of disengaging, and that means that 1, 2, 3, 4 will start buying back crucial space.
Laws will have the grab, first be the sign bar to be able to beat it.
really we're going to be looking to see what clay can get done with this overclock though
because if Goldenpants gets that grab on mine and forces Johnowich into using the
sojourn will be so juicy in comparison to that one tap potential of eyecaps just
having to hold the space he's on one two three four back.
Oh, right for God.
Now that's Investor Early catching the cast and Lars actually uses the grab defensively.
Still forces beat from Crispy.
Goldenpants holding his own.
Tell us the losing players despite big investments of Alts.
Bars tried to get value off the grab, got something but it wasn't enough.
My moaned Golden Pants, the dynamic duo here in this rush look, sweep the table, and Golden
Pants carries Grab into the next teamfight.
You do have sound barrier to be able to tank through it, but the cap comes in anyway.
And Telsi, they've got a significant lead in this map, but won't be easy to defend it
if they lose another teamfight here.
Deadeye from iCAP got to be crucial to be able to maybe be a little bit aggressive, but
it feels like Kai with the OC has a lot of freedom in this moment.
I mean, SXJ is behind as well. You can see him down on the split.
Deli from Icav used early just to force 1, 2, 3, 4 back.
Tends to be finding someone out of cover, but no one peeks early.
Kai with that OC, Jono which holding B.
Telosy trying to kite back before using Ness.
They don't lose the armor because it was all a bait for the grab.
And Kai not able to connect the kills though. Icav picks up 2.
Telosy, they read the bait and they're able to shut down 1, 2, 3, 4, strap.
Yeah, great beat held for just a couple seconds by Jonovic. Long enough for 1-2-3-4 to extend out into the angle with that OC.
And when the counter push comes, even the Golden Pants buying in the grab, it's not really in the ideal position for follow-up from the DPS.
And so they can't kill through, has to come out a little bit too quickly. Really well executed by Telsy, understanding they need to get that 1 for 2 value and they accomplish it.
Now Texall with the rush, canale has it in kind. Lars that jump up, Perk takes a little bit of threat on the high ground, but making the stoker will not be easy.
He's a difference to Lars responding to my text. I'll teleport again. Kai finds a crucial opener, but Lars responds dropping the Kirikou to sustain for this comp now, called into dangerous question in 1, 2, 3, 4.
If you find a kill on T'Jonimich, that pulse-bomb he is going to hurt. No bubbles left for Golden Pant, and XSJ, able to get these clean-up kills, steal potentially the bot away for some more progress, focuses down Kai first, wants to play this one nice and safe, but Lars still, still alive, still charging up that next Graviton surge, getting a lot done on this Zarya.
Yeah, but Crispy's building up to the sign barrier.
For 1, 2, 3, 4, 2 be able to survive it.
Telsy didn't lose players as well.
Clive comes up with so many kills in that rush exchange
that Telsy just don't have the players to hold confidently forward.
Have to give a little bit of space while he's not wanting to go down early
being very careful bubble management-wise as Crispy's waiting for the sign barrier.
Only connects onto the side, but that does still force Crispy's hand into using the feet.
1-2-3 for 1-2 is the extra life, aggressively trying to get as much as possible,
splitting Lars from the rest of his team,
a kill from the short one to the tank,
and Telsi will have to look to retreat.
Nice conservative peeks from my moan,
but still finding the damage in the front line.
Gold pants is very low, has to be cautious,
list this push forward, so too does my moan, Ikev.
Putzuma on notice, slows him down here.
Lars is going to be back off the forward spawn,
and this counter threat from the DPS,
kind of slowed the push down,
has gotten Telsi back to another fight here at mid map.
They will lose the forward spawn if they just choose to fight it,
it seems like they'd rather play the next corner. Goldenpants though, fully energized,
Graviton surge coming up, there's still a chance here for 1234, they're building into a very nice moment the economy was.
I mean, Jonowich does not have beat yet. Right, so if you're Goldenpants, you want to get as many connections as possible to build the Zarya Graf ahead of that Lucio.
Cospone thrown out, no connection. Graf has been bolted up, Jonowich no sandbar, so it's up to Icaf with the deadite to hold the space defensively.
Slow though from 1, 2, 3, 4, they're down, they need to push in, they need to force some kind of a fight, they're giving a lot of time here to Telsy to build up those ultimates.
Maybe a mistrack leading to that and Krispy goes down to the dead ice while riding a little bit too much out in the open, the OC from Kai feels very desperate in this moment and even with the graph out, Jonovic just respects it, holds the beat, holds his nerve and may have actually held the map with that play because Telsy now doubles support ultimate coming into the last minute of regulation play.
That's so weird that 1, 2, 3, 4 go that slow. Like you said, it must have been a mistrack and the looser is old.
Goldengang's thinking that speed was held.
Texel and Jonovich are both at, you know, what, 80% at the start of the fight?
You know, it's pretty plausible to think that they do have the Ultis, but still, it's a mistake for 1, 2, 3, 4.
Missed opportunity, one that they'll be sure to catch in review.
Won't count for much though. Tell us he wants to get this map degree to stay alive in the series.
1, 2, 3, 4, up, 2, 0, and hold on. Kai instantly opens on the Lars.
Despite the rush coming out, Texall not able to get to sustain through Axis J, Graves still back.
I'm gonna go to keep this one interesting, but Goldenpans running rampant now no one left
to mark his dominance here in the front line. Lucio lays the inevitable stalls the cart for
just a couple second before Axis J with a lot of an exit kill, but Kai will deny it.
And that early kill onto Lars actually keeps 1-2-3-4 in the game, but only just.
Yeah, I mean, Crispy dies with beat, but like you said Lars not in the fight,
So no Grav to punish the lack of sound as last night back,
Crispy will be there with the team, early barrage from Maimon,
putting the pressure onto Lars goes down to Icav, peeks the corner,
a little bit too far forward, Grav falls to the side,
but it's not in time to save Kai, and Telsy, taking away the DPS from 1-2-3-4
should just be able to clean up Tank Falls, now you look at supports,
and that should be them taking their first map in the series.
Really well executed by Telsy, Lars, very comfortable in the front line.
We're going to look at the stats here on our side.
I mean, there's a pretty big tank difference here.
Bars, five deaths, Golden Pants, eight.
And in the Zarya comp, that death step,
I think it really tells a big story, right?
Like, if you're able to stay alive between fights,
hold onto that energy, charge up those grabs,
it makes a world of difference.
And you can definitely, you can see from 1-2-3-4,
they're not experienced on this comp, right?
It does feel a little bit rocky at moments.
You know, opportunities like this with the rush advantage.
Go by the wayside, no one's marking ICAB at this moment.
feels like a pretty big error there and Lars able to get so much done every time he's able to win this frontline battle
just devastating through the rest of his grabs.
The grabs too, right? Lars' grabs were much more impactful than Goldenfans like even here where you're looking at
grab head with Sundering Blade which should have shredded down the sand barrier.
So you use grab, you first elucidate, and then you get to totally disregard that old with the vendettas
but it just felt like they were so ready
and anticipating that textbook play,
Jono, which being able to hold Zambara
for certain fights, stretching it,
one ult to gain the value of countering two
is absolutely wild stuff, as it did not feel
like once you three-pointer knew how to use the Graviton
to put Telsian into a position where they could be punished.
Still a team full of very threatening individual players
who can always find those individual plays
that keep the game alive.
I mean, Kai getting quite a few of those on the Sojourn,
my mode as well on the Pharah, and the Mandetta as well.
So to even show a solid fight back
and make this a reasonably competitive map,
I think it's respectable for one, two, three, four.
But in the end, they always kind of probably knew
this one was gonna be a bit of a throwaway,
given the wrecking ball band.
It's out now.
And what the nice thing about getting the wrecking ball band
out is you don't even have to protect wrecking ball now.
So you can start throwing DPS bands.
You could be, you know, basically protecting
your preferred combination heroes with the wrecking ball.
That does give a little bit of a strategic edge now to 1-24 as they look for just one of the next two maps to win the series.
Yeah, I mean, you can go potentially for things like the cast who directly counters the ball or what I would really love to see.
It's just more respect to Crispy on that Wu Yang. It feels so many times that we go to Suravasa.
They don't go for the save on a support role and Crispy's Wu Yang is always the victim of the band drop.
So we'll see if one two three four do decide to save the we young here as they take us to sort of also and this was
inevitable this was the risk that tells you right if you don't ban the ball and run as happy you're running into the wrecking ball
But now that you do ban the wrecking ball. It's available for flash point
Yeah, we'll take a look at the bands once they come through serve also though almost no matter what you play in terms of
How you surround the wrecking ball?
It's kind of feel like a good wrecking ball map like a lot of options and once you people are go with the cat ban
I think just blocking out the cat bastion is their number one priority as a matchup that they feel introduces too much chaos
Into this battle
Yeah, tell salesman
Which I mean my mode has been great on the far up
But I do feel this is a map where you know kind of your classic tracer wrecking ball look is gonna feel so good
I mean flashpoint. I think tracer just thrives in the chaos and in the multiple angles
unique teamfights showing up between these points and my mode is fantastic when
piling that individualistic hero. It's been great in the far too in fairness.
Yeah I will say like it feels as like a cast, fairer to take a fight versus a
tracer than a far. A lot of the time especially if the farers team is the one
in control of the space because she can just play in angles above where the
cast can see and Sylvester has so many of those positions where you can just
extend rockets through doorways and there's very little that the cast can do to answer back plus it
plays so much pressure like the tracer can look at one person the far can look at multiple if you're
trying to stack up to make it harder for the wrecking ball to disrupt your players and isolate
far as damage is going to be sky high and tracer will be a lot more sort of like looking at very
specific targets looking at the back line potentially looking to go dual out the dps and go for the
objective control as well. So I feel like you can contain a tracer in the way of the
wrecking ball composition more easily than what the farra is able to get away with when
so many players have to look at the ball and it frees the farra up totally.
I don't think this is necessarily even straight forward for for jealousy. I mean,
they've had a couple maps now to try to match up against this wrecking ball and to show,
you know, the looks that they think are going to work. They tried on Ilios in the thing is,
it was quite competitive. So there's a good argument for just running it back on a sigma
Mizuki, feeling like, hey, it comes down to a couple of those moments where, you know,
ViCab's able to find a kill on my moan instead of vice versa.
We see a different result in that opener.
Maybe also, on Sir Vasa, I mean, the Sigma, I think, actually can work here.
However, I'm a little scared for teams that historically playing slow against 1-2-3-4,
just they're so good at finding the opportunities to punish you for it, that it sets them up
really well for this map.
you go for an aggressive rush, I mean, it is not easy to match up against this Wrecking Ball style.
Tell us, see, tasked with a very difficult pass here.
Does he think with this map, this series is very much a contention?
I think 1, 2, 3, 4 are kind of gambling.
They want to just end it right here.
Serve Asa for me is the best map for them to pick with some of the strongest bands they can threaten.
Will it be enough though?
Okay, we do get the Crispy Woo Young, which also means that now you have to worry about title blast.
blast. Paired up with that wrecking ball. Not a fun combination. That and like the sheer amount
of poke damage that Crispy will be able to do. If you can hit your perks very quickly and you get
that triple orb shot, Telsie's backline will be absolutely spread thin off of the pressure from
like the ball but also that incoming constant damage from the Wu Yang. Shipping away at what
exactly the Kiriko is forced to look at and leaving someone else without those same resources,
as Lars will rely on the Mauga, but 1-2-3-4 will keep my moan far as banned out. It's time for
that vendetta to come into play yet again, which means Ikev has to be able to shut this down and
fast. Ikev, a lot of work to do in this one. We're just gonna get some good enabling from that Lucio
Kiriko. Crispy though, we talked about this spam pressure. I mean, this is what we picked the
the Buoyang Fort forces the enemy team to come respond to you, and already even Lars
blow on the Manga.
My Moon Forcing did a little bit of mobility though, the DPS taking a little bit of pressure
here on the sides for once you three-quart some eyecaps handiwork, and now, bully back
off the point, a little bit of an opportunity here, but Lars uses the shot now, steal a
little bit low, this one is not going to be easy for Manga now as the repush comes in,
early damage on the shi on the Lars, but at least Goldberg has a way from the fight, and
already the point nearly caps, feels like something you do not want to give up, and
These kind of long invading with Golden Pants
struggling to get in ICAP with a lot of space to work with Kai.
Now, dueling a tracer on the flank
is not going to be the most comfortable spot for him.
He looks to hunt down and execute here.
Tell us, you know, standing really strong as a unit,
ICAP stays alive deep into the fight,
does get traded out, actually,
if there is still a brawl to be played without the Cassidy now.
DPS free to play Kai needs to find some sort of a clean-up.
XSJ with a pulse bomb could change that.
Yeah, my one coming back on the trace
to be able to directly dual-eyed SXJ.
Crispy does have the title blasted, 1-2 people want to make a play for this, but Kai going down,
they should really just be looking to disengage before they lose more of these players,
and a lie tells us he'd start running away with this point percentage.
It ramps up so quickly on Flashpoint, Maimon has to be able to keep a hold of SXJ though.
So does Tracer, I think, gonna be a lot more dynamic here.
Okay, we're perhaps expecting the Sigma.
Receive the Moga instead, the DPS picks will come in quickly in response.
But that title blast could be a big difference maker, Kai, he's very scared of the threat of the rush, doesn't even want to really hard peak that angle, but he's going to need you, he's going to need to take some risks, going to need to threaten some rail shots, Lars, Keith, I tried to trap GoldenPants, he's a little too sharp for that,
Russia has now exchanged on point lars, free tanky, but not finding targets to life steal on, and the Pope starting to bite.
GoldenPants staying away from the straight up 1v1, XSJ falls on the flank, a speed boost, onto this dead eye, tries to get some kind of connection, a little bit of damage onto Kai, but it's not enough for the kill.
Jonovic, no chance to deploy the beat in this fight, and they're gonna have to reset and take another chance. 1, 2, 3, 4, looking very solid.
Yeah, golem pants will be so much more disruptive as well to tell us these
team like the spam walking into that Wu Yang having to clear out the tracer and
not lose someone early to the search and that will take time so tells me do you
have 99% one fight favor and they will be able to take that first point but it
can very quickly slip away so long rotation all the way around back a
point that will be scattered out by Krispy's connections with those water
also so counter rotation from 1, 2, 3, 4 to be able to cut Telsy off before they can make a play.
This is salvaging that Maverick on point. Hammond Mines invested in,
Jono which actually using the barrier which does not find SXJ but does keep Telsy's players up
but now you don't have beat for OC.
got into range of ICAP and with that sun connection, I think this first point may be done in Dusted XJ.
XJ stays alive on the flank, but he is going to get run down on this tracer.
My mode, Golden Pants 2B1ing. Not much hope for XJ here.
If he could just live, that would be fantastic, but the wrecking ball with a huge advantage in this kind of a run down,
and the point does go the way of 1, 2, 3, 4. Here it goes. Off to spawn.
He's going to be able to save XJ, living to fight another day, and turns out this is the next flash.
You know that Kai has the overclock and Telsie's still lacking the Sime barrier.
To be able to fend 1, 2, 3, 4 off from it, Varsalhold is positioned.
On the objective Telsie is trying to anchor, get that first cap.
Good flashbang connects onto Goldenpants, but nowhere near the follow up damage to truly
take the wrecking ball down, especially with Canael accompanying.
So far, no teams picking it up, and 1, 2, 3, 4 just waiting, biding that time.
Rush OC.
Tools could be able to totally shred through this Malgo.
Dead Eye is out, but so too is the OC. I kept not really getting much channel on us. They are threatening quite really nicely Kai.
Fighting his time. Here comes the rush here from the attackers. One, two, three, four, wanna push forward, bully this Manga back off the point.
They will succeed if they have a textile. With the counter on Builder, we engage this beautiful hole on the point by XSJ the Boop.
So, keep Manga with him just long enough that he can't come into the fight. Minefield's a boy trying to desperately get Golden Pants out of this cage.
The damage from the mines is enough to break that cage by keeping the fight rolling.
and golden pants doing his best to keep the stall running but it's up to my
bone now to continue that and I have cucked him down ready with the hinder
XSJ free to play now no counter-tracer to mark his movements he's starting to
bully these supports off of the play Camille can't really get into the
engagement can't really bring those kunai to bear and it's well played by
XSJ because it secures a flip for his team his side angle not gonna be
comfortable with only the Wu Yang healing and kais is coming down by Lars
disrespecting some of the threat but here comes title blast onto golden pants
Chasing in Lucio a little bit too quick with the wall right slips away and Exhaust J finds another crucial kill in the fight
Dropping the Kirko, he has been a hero gear for Telsa
Yeah, I want you to perform missing Canale as well
Can't try to make a push off of that Wu Yang ultimate so Telsa will be able to hold
Jonowich back to the sound barrier and SHA with that pulse bomb
Wanting to ideally find a stick on to that backline
Takes a little bit of damage does get scouted
fully forced actually into burning out that recall which means that Kai is able to take him out with
but if you trade crispy on that Wu Yang by iCab which means that 1,2,3,4,9 fully relying on the
Kiriko, this has lost my territory for them. If they don't manage to disengage and lose some of these
players late, that is point. It's good very well with the round but with Reckybond play anything's
possible late into these pipes protects all points can nail and that might be the kill to seal the
deal now without the Kira go your playmaking in this fight is scrappy fs
johnnych throws the beat and i think that is not needed in this fight so
a bit of a wasted ultimate here for telsy they do close out the point and
they do have a fantastic economy position so i don't want to criticize it too
hard as 154 still find themselves in a pretty rough spot
yeah so now you'll be relying on just like icab with the dead eye shutting
down kai with that overclock yet again which means that we go just back to
that same exchange of ultimates that we have in Polis.
Yeah, OC, into Deadeye, into Rush, into Second Rush for both of these teams.
Kai though doesn't get the opportunity to get that cheeky side angle.
I can't find a long range headshot.
Ardeknaio followed up on XSJ's damage and cooldown force on the front.
Now Kai, looking with the OC, but starting to feel desperate, here comes the repush.
XSJ will shut down any hope for Kai to drag a kill back in that light.
Rush also came out from Texall. Once again, a little skeptical about the necessity of those key support ultimates in Atelicy.
They do get the cap, but 2-0 support ultimate advantage for 1, 2, 3, 4 is they look to make a quick retake.
I mean, trying to hold up 1, 2, 3, 4, pushing in with Canales Rush with that dead eye from I-CAP is going to be a huge ask of this cast,
especially with Golden Fence, making it so problematic for the cast to be in position off of having to get pulled away to deal with the ball.
Ozz's cage already broken, Russia invested from 1,2,3,4 looking to secure the flip off of the back of it
and they will be able to find it.
Crispy holding on to the type of blast potentially put onto Goldenpants, maybe Mimone
so he has the survivability but he just wins out the duel against the Cassidy.
Icared falls, no pressure for Deadeye, no pressure of Flass Bang
to trade out Mimone at the tail end of his fight.
1,2,3,4 get hungry and mid.
Oh then that late kill on the Texol coming off the spawn.
Didn't expect this level of aggression. 1, 2, 3, 4 are not going to give up any space for free Golden Pants.
Setting up an early slam, they want to fight deep off the point, play for some of these respawned games,
that the wrecking ball is so well known for.
I tried it already, soloed, took some poke, some crispy and high, finished off in one by the slam.
Mimone also in the backline gets the shout out of Lars.
This Magikomp from really being tested on this more open flashpoint.
This is like SSJ in the back line is gonna force retreat the point to hold the back cap
Fies his team an opportunity to step up to the plate. I have dead. I Johnovic with the B
You think these would be key ultimates in this fight, but once you keep what they're once you before this mobility will make that hard to let
I mean Kai just uses overclock instantly force at the time Barry which connects on to everyone except sxj
I can finally get cq's that dead. I but once you prefer still have tools to be able to fight in two textiles rush title blast
calls from invested in and jealousy they find the flip-off of the rush but they're not finding the
kills totally shut down one two three four from pushing once the rush has ended Mars trying to run
back kill his team take golden pants down that means that no one's actually contesting the objective
they've at least been able to stack up to live but you lose the mauga and now you're forcing to
just play for positioning one on point while the rest get ready to tag on through this is treading
Oh, oh, oh, oh, he's styling on him.
He's the triple boop on the tracer, not like this.
X's chain out, running for his life,
being detached by one of the best ball players we have
in OWSC right now.
It's gonna be cleaned up with the assist from Canale.
Little bit of style points from GP.
I mean, he's honestly just mind controlling them
on Wrecking Ball in that last fight.
He is, like, they're all looking at him
and the point is going against them.
Once you keep four, staying calm in the clutches,
they look to close out this series,
lock up another win here in OWSC.
Tell us he's fighting for their first of the state.
I mean, one two three four will be first to the point.
SXJ going down late means he's not in position.
We'll just have to look for a flank onto one two three four's
backline. Good flashbang that Goldencrantz has to self shield.
Canale the rush.
Once Tell us he had two deep investors on to that point to disengage it.
I kept relying on defensive dead ice stopping one two three four
from collapsing instead that Castle is now done.
Cage from Lars traps Goldencrantz.
In position, actually, Anti-Dies before Crispy can aid with the title blast.
Title blast goes to nothing here.
WJD4 desperately fighting only a few players alive,
opportunity for some plays to be made with Lars,
slowly stripping those chances away.
Great cage to shut down Golden Pants.
Feels like the one thing in this game that can really slow his roll.
WJD4, neither support ultimate really getting much value there.
I mean, canaled not bad with the rush,
but Crispy, of course, losing that Wuyang ultimate really hurts.
Now, Tennessee, sitting on the double support ultimate, it's their turn to confidently hold down this point.
Kai with the OC, though, could start to change that, even with something like the barrier,
it's not necessarily an easy fight to play.
Exigite just pulled on no joy from him.
Kai, looking for more.
The minefield is enough to pull the beat out of Janna, which has been holding them so well in this series.
And they're not even going to turn that into a counter kill, just weathering the storm for now in Tex-Aul.
Still holding onto the rush.
1, 2, 3, 4.
Half the battle, this without a single ultimate.
Yeah, no ult, you're looking for Kai on my mount to clutch out with a kill here.
Bonnpats trying to give Sun's base.
Kai drives in, draws so many plays to look at him, but they just bunker up in small rooms
so there's no follow-up roll. Flashbang forces the soft shield.
Kai's wrapped all the way around, but this is when Tex will use this rush.
The pressure from the Sojourn forces his hand, 92%.
There'll be opportunity for 1-2-3-4 to touch in OT.
Once the rush has ended, but they still have no ult to be able to supply it,
you're holding on and hoping that you can clutch out until you hit those support ups.
I'm on, working overtime, keeping this point in contest, but XSJ finds weakness in the backline.
I tap with the Deadeye connection onto Knael should be enough to seal the deal in this fight
Golden Panthers without those resources to continue the engagement and tell us he
make another hold sending us to a final flashpoint one, two, three, four.
And this is their best map they really want to win here and now.
Yes, they have one more map to threaten in the series, but you almost don't want to go there.
You almost don't want to be pushed to the limit by a squad like Telsy and Telsy fighting tooth and nail
I mean they have played so many strong teams close in this stage
They want a win they need a win if only to just have something to signal their immense progress in this stage
154 looking to deny it here. It all comes down to this final flash point
And without shahanimic the mobility from iKabin Lars completely neutered iKab still finds one back
But player advantage for 154 feels insurmountable for this monger
Yeah, I mean if you tell us that you won't be able to really hold through that stall fight.
I say that a lot while she tries to use Cage defensively within it so that you can get the
kill into Golden Pants when he starts to try to give the flip.
There's an opportunity, Crispy, yet again losing that title blast to SXJ who just collapses
onto the backline without the wrecking bolt to peel.
And Telsy, despite losing players early, not able to come through with the first cap.
solid I think with the beat timings in this map has really made great decisions with them and now
holds it for an incoming aggression from Kai that feels doomed almost before it's even begun.
Yeah I mean you use Simebar to match the Sojourn's ult and then Ikev gets to use this dead ice,
ice flanking all the way around. Oh! The eject! Oh Jono which was doing so well but that
flank from Kai just totally catches the Lucio before the beat can connect. That's fight done.
Like doesn't even try to use the dead eye you can't even blame God for that
It's like he beats instantly on the voice line
In a that was you cast a cursing Jake you was saying oh Jono, which has been so good
He truly does it into the universe and guy just finds the perfect angle to get the kill onto the Lucia before the alt can be found
That's just Kai being an absolute hero coming back in order to see us this age and really showing that he hasn't lost a step
He finds the crucial play, maybe the only way through that teamfight.
Connection Jayce is not out of this one yet, backs off really cleanly,
but the teleporter is just there in time.
Keeps Knail up, Icav though is cleaning up the fight now, finds two in the back line,
and both supports out for 154.
They're desperate now, they're hunting, they need to find some prior to the counter kill,
but Icav is running rampant, the pulse bomb from my moan.
A parting gift before an early grave, it will sit down in this Cassidy,
but so much his ass and overtime can test.
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Doing it again, the critical kill in this moment that the team needed in most.
Crispy now playing back in Golden Pants, in his comfortable spot here, stalling this point
out, running the OT with the clock.
The win, runs ever thinner.
Texalt trying to get towards that rush, knows how powerful to be on the point.
Crispy layering in that damage onto the bars and just can't quite get him sustained to
stay alive.
Just some huge hero plays.
My moments pulse bomb pie with a rail to keep 1-2-3-4 in this final flashpoint and now
with another lease on life.
something tells you to find the hero play.
One more fight. Lars does have Cage,
Texel, Rush to be able to use before Canel,
but crispy with that tidal blast.
Onto Golden Pants, I feel Lars will save the Cage,
try to shut the wrecking ball down yet again.
He just drew behind, they didn't realize this.
He gets behind, looks for the cap,
pulls Mimone away, that's recall forced.
Link's back to his team, but you still tap for the OT,
you fade to the wrecking ball's position.
rush from Texel, paired with Lazarus Cage, looking to trap onto 1,2,3 first players and
Crispy has fallen. There's all coming down to Kai yet again, Mimol with a clutch pick
onto Jono, which for Kai has the OC, can now invest the rush but a solution to buy maximum
amounts of value. Golden patch with the Mimefield taking all of the spaces to point Fatality
to get up the hold safe. And 1,2,3,4 might just have done it.
You have to ask so much here of iCab, but he has nowhere to run, nowhere to hide, the
mind's covering this point, denying any opportunity in 1, 2, 3, 4, seal the deal with the signature
wrecking ball, Telsy battled and strapped and brawled, but it was not enough. 1, 2, 3, 4,
really it felt like the DPS came alive in this final flashpoint. I mean, Kai, that Ajax on the
Jonovich was unreal, but he had exactly one chance and no backup. If he doesn't find that,
this map he's done. We are going to map 5, and he has to do it again and again, actually.
That one kill is not enough. Needs to find clutch kills in fight after fight. Same can be said for my mode, but they deliver these DPS for 1, 2, 3, 4, earning their worth and then some here.
And TelaCy, how incredibly hard they fought, we've got to love this team, even showing incredible promise on so many levels this stage, but not enough to get a win.
That's just the level in the EMEA right now. There are no free wins, even for a team this good.
Yeah, it's the most competitive, I think, that we've seen the EMEA region be for a very long time.
Yeah, I can't even read more.
Oh, when you think about, like, one of these teams will be going to relegation, it's wild when you look at how well TELUSY and 1-2-3-4 were able to battle for it.
Yeah, it's gonna be an uphill battle for anyone joining them in promotion and
relegation. I, as I said, heading into this match, right? I fully expect both of
these teams to join us again for stage three, just based on not just how
competitive this match looks like, but also what they were able to bring to the
table against our top teams here in EMEA. And like, we already seen the
progression of these teams and the learnings in just the last three weeks,
or just one night, really, because I think one, two, three, four definitely address
the concerns that we had, right, with the Europe pool of Golden Pans, the pivoted over to AMDP,
on Serpent Royale, they worked out for them, I liked to see what they had with the Manga
comp and then yeah, while obviously the Zarya and Luna Zafiou is not it, like clearly like they
are making adjustments and they're working pretty hard to address any gaps that have been explored
or exposed the past three weeks. Yeah, I mean so many bright spots for both teams, I think that
if they can continue to work on and improve.
And I mean, these are teams that they have taken a lot of
maps of some of the really strong squads,
off squads that are going to go off now and play in the
midseason championship in Paris against some of the best
teams in the world of Overwatch.
And so for EMEA, man, it is just a beautiful region right
now. I mean, incredible teams coming out.
I really got to tip my hat to both Telsin and 1, 2, 3, 4.
It's been such a fun stage to watch them.
They have delivered such incredible fights and such
incredible competition against some of the best teams
in the world. Remember, this EMEA region is incredibly stacked.
I think all three teams from EMEA are going to make a deep run at the mid-season championship.
So I really want to see more from 1, 2, 3, 4, from TELUSY both.
I mean, they, for very different reasons, I think they've both been incredible contenders
to watch this stage.
Right, Future. I think it's fair to say, like, the potential for both of these teams,
when we see them, and we will, I think, like, we're all on the desk positive
that they'll be able to make it for a promo relegation.
we've all seen them come back for stage 3. I can't wait to see the improvements that they've been able to make because it's not just about what they were starting to play at the start of the stage, it's also the changes that they made along the way, being able to adapt that quickly.
That's one of the main expectations that you have as a professional player, being able to adapt very quickly when patch changes or a new hero comes through, you have to be able to adapt. And both of these teams have shown that they can't do that.
Yeah, absolutely. And then of course, also for one, two, three, four, right, like they
did make changes to the roster heading into this. So they also had to work in a new tank
with golden pants. And so it's been definitely a learning journey for everyone involved.
And we're very excited to see what they can do. And hopefully stage three, we do have
my mom joining us for a quick chat after this last dub of the season. My mom, welcome to show.
and also of course congratulations on the dub. It's probably like a 50-50 right? Like you're happy
about the win but also you know you are finding yourself in promotion and relegation so it's a
bit bit of sweet I can imagine. Walk me through your thoughts and your emotions really looking back
at the last three weeks and how you and the team performed. Yeah I mean I think what you said sums
up pretty well. Obviously it's really nice to win this game but it's also very tragic about
We didn't make it through to playoffs.
I think yeah, first week we played Alcad and we were confident going into that and we put up a really good showing.
We won and yeah, the emotions were like, you know, we're really happy, really promising going into the next weeks.
And then yeah, week two, we play against GKTM, really hard week.
We make it so close against both teams.
both teams. So thoroughly like not win either of those games. It's like it's really gutting
to be honest. And then obviously this week against VP, I think we didn't really showed
our best, but I think they're also the strongest team in the region. So we're too sad about
that, especially but then GK, they lost to the TMS who are really sad. Overall, yeah,
just disappointing, but also really proud of how like how we showed and how much we improved
from Sinatra.
Yeah, it's clear you guys have really developed as a team.
I think it's great to see even AMPDB coming in, you guys looking pretty solid with those
other styles.
I think for you guys, it's clear that you can be an international contender, I think.
One or two maps go differently.
You guys are maybe not even just going to playoffs, maybe you're one of the higher
seats in playoffs, right?
For you guys, how do you think about the future for one, two, three, four as a team?
Obviously, it's clear that your goals are to compete internationally, make it to those playoff spots.
But how do you look now at the rest of the year? Where do you go from here?
Obviously, I imagine you take some kind of a break, but to come back in Stage 3, we were talking about,
we want to see you guys, you know, not just in Pro-Wrestling, but beyond, and like coming back and to really show what's possible in Stage 3.
But are you thinking ahead about that at all, or for now, is it just a moment to kind of regroup?
I think a bit of both, yeah, definitely will want to be taking a break, but...
I think we are really sure that we can compete against all these teams in this region and
I don't think it's a hot take to say EU is very good right now.
I would say internationally again that EWC is going to do really well and I hope they
do well.
Yeah, I mean going into next stage I think at least for me personally I'm still super
motivated to compete and I really want to hopefully make it to the LAN, I think it's
China, I think, for the last one. So yeah, I really hope to be and we keep improving. I mean,
if we keep improving the way we do, I really do think we can make it. But that being said, it's
also like, without without having an org, it is just make things harder, you know, like the amount
of resources that we have is as much as other teams as any of the orgs who want to pick up a team,
you know, you know where to look. But yeah.
Well, I mean, looking away from 1234 and then looking at yourself individually as a player,
what's next for you? Because like, obviously, a lot of our players are having to split time
between competing in the OWCS circuit, and also getting ready to compete for that countries.
So what exactly is the WMIMO schedule looking like for the coming months?
I think, yeah, I'm really excited for World Cup. I think before the Busan tournament,
UK is having like a bootcamp, which will be great, I think. So really excited for that. Yeah,
definitely going to focus a lot on World Cup. I think we definitely have the pieces to perform
really well at the World Cup. We didn't maybe show the best against Germany, but I know for
we have the pieces to do really well so yeah gonna be focusing on that and stage there.
Yeah I know that all of us will be cheering you guys on also honestly like I fully expect to
see you come back on top of promotional relegation to give it another shot in stage three like you
guys performed so well it's been such a pleasure watching you play because you had your own style
you you had your own flag and we love teams like that who bring their own flavor so thank you so
much for all the entertainment provided and we hope to see you again in stage 3.
Thanks so much, thanks for having me.
Of course an absolute pleasure, also I haven't seen anyone having movie poster up on their
wall in like I don't even know when and it was a good one too, so shout out to my mom.
He's got taste, he's got taste and he's got skills and he will be representing the UK
I believe alongside Goldenpans, Kai and Crispy, so you can cheer on a big portion of this
1, 2, 3, 4, or how many numbers? 1, 2, 3, 4, Squads, and of course also, as he said himself,
they are up for grabs. If anyone is looking to, you know, pick up a team, this is a good
one to pick up. I think, I think that's definitely one to keep in mind. Now, we are heading into
a very important second match here because it's going to be all for the second seed EMEA
region. Katia going up against Twisted Mines which is a classic here in EMEA and speaking
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Welcome back, we're in the last match of the EMEA round, Robin, Katia and Twisted Minds.
Face off for the second seed for the playoffs.
Now of course the winner who will be coming in second means that they avoid VP being able
to pick them.
and therefore increasing their chances of making top 3 and going to the mid-season championship.
So really, there's a lot on the line in just the seeding.
Let's talk about these two teams and what we've seen twist the minds.
The Rock to Rocky start, but they did promise us adjustments heading into this week, and they did!
They did it over.
UB got sucked in, we're back to playing Sim, but with a twist, something old, something new,
they're basically halfway there to become a happy Victorian era bride.
We are just missing something blue. But do you know what? Maybe the blue is their opponent's tears.
And when they see that Tiam is back cooking up these compositions.
Yeah, that's sort of like Frankenstein melding 2026 heroes with what they played previously.
We're yet to properly see them embrace things like the Shion.
The Cat Bastion, that's very much now being incorporated into Tiam's compositions.
I will say their opponents though, are not going to go down easy.
Twisted Minds needed to really pull out all the stops here.
The Cat Bastion has looked like a really good look for them.
Quartz has been piling that Bastion I think really nicely.
You also got to give a lot of credit to Astro being in the right position.
I feel like we've seen a lot of Jetpack cats just not white being quick enough to get their
Bastion in the optimal spot, to finish a kill, to stay alive.
Not an easy read to make considering you sort of don't have exactly the Bastion's information
as you make your decision.
So very communication heavy style to play, but twisted minds, they've been known as that
team that communicates in those dangerous situations, right?
That has the comps to make the adjustments, to make these wild strategies work and work
they did yesterday.
Still, the very different team now facing off against them.
Al-Qa'dziyah have been on a heck of a stage, some really good results from them.
Yeah, I mean, you gotta remember one of the losses they took the once before is like, you
know, it's, you can put an asterisk on it because it's such a different kind of thing.
day too so I think everyone was still trying to figure out so it might just be them getting
tripped up there like other than that very much like I think they've just been really great great
aggression their rush looks overwhelming their ult economy has always looked like just superior of
that of their opponents moxie yeah they tripped up VP as well right VP even admitted that they
really struggled into the Vendetta Shion comp. But Katia ran into them and were able to pull
two maps away with. And the fact that we saw GK yesterday versus TN play the Vendetta and
really be problematic for TN to have to deal with to the point that they went into the next map
and banned the Vendetta makes me think that this could be a very close series between these two
teams because Katia we know like they have that potential to be the second seed in EMEA.
the TN, it's a case of, okay, you've lost the first seed, can you manage to pull back the second
off of the changes that you've made this week? Yeah, I mean, I hope for a close match here,
but I somehow, some ways still feel like I read it on the TV, the Twisted Minds is just going to
run away with this. I think they're locked in now. I think they're activated. I think they found
what worked for them yesterday. It was a really, really good showing and while Kutzia didn't have
have any bad showings. They had teams like Talos, you play close to them, which should
not be the case for a team on the highest level. So, yeah, I'm going to give this one
to Twisted Minds.
Yeah, I have a slight favorite here for TM. I think because of their pedigree as a team,
I got to give it to them. But for Kutzia, there's never been a better chance to take
a shot at the king here. And, you know, for Twisted Minds, maybe not exactly the kings
anymore, but still the team with the best international record over the last couple
of years here in EMEA. So this is a high stakes match for Alcatrazia. You really want to get this
win. But TM, I mean, they're kind of the goats for a reason. Yeah, I give TM as well. I agree. I
think it will be a close put series for sure. Katz, you pull one map. I'm saying it now. It won't be
a free or if they run that vendetta composition, if TVMT does try to play the diva, I think we will
be seeing Katz, you pull a map. But we're going to be seeing a lot of counterswapping between
team. So that's something
that we've seen yesterday and
falls so much counterswapping
from both cats here and TM as
they force the opponent onto
something and then play
something upon a shirt.
Afterwards. Yeah, I'm sure both
of these teams came in doing
their homework. They are ready
for what the opponent might
potentially throw at them. It's
an EMA classic in our final
match of the EMA round. Robin
So Jake Moxie. Take it away.
Thank you so much, So Ian. Yes,
we get into this one even as I
the team. They're not going to
play. They're not going to
play. This match is about as
close to a coin flip as they
come. You know, I think for
cut. See a like they cut their
teeth playing this cap.
Bastion that twisted minds
used to great effect yesterday.
So how well will it land on
this could see esteem that is
I think better understands its
strengths and weaknesses may
even elect to take the mirror
here as we go to oasis for the
first. Yeah, like usually we
would talk about the
difficulty of taking a player
a week's downtime, but that week is actually way more time than TM had putting Yubi back into the
action in Tokyo and it got them second place. As there is the expected vendetta ban from Twisted
Minds in answer, Katya will take out the Diva. Vendetta is the strongest Diva counter and they
don't want to have TVNT getting to pilot that Diva mech, potentially putting pressure on the
and Malga composition, eating away all of the sustainability,
being able to play into the Malga,
even through things like the Kitsunet rush.
Because of that defense matrix, you want that one removed.
But that does now mean that both of those two options
will be available for all of the rest of the maps.
Yeah, you can see the clash of the D.Va versus Vendetta.
TVNT, of course, been piloting this D.Va so effectively
this last year or so.
I think it's been one of the better D.Vas in the world.
It's quietly kind of climbed up those standings.
And it's definitely the style that, I think,
in mind, feel most at home with, of course, they're going to have to show us something different on
Oasis, whether it be the Maga, whether it be maybe even the Ramatra, Lizaria, could be options that
TM can look to. Both teams are going to have to cast something interesting here.
Cap Bastion, though, to me, looks to be very much on the menu here on Oasis. I'm
at with a lot of these open sight lines, a lot of these wide open sky boxes, and I think that
duel between Zoxanade, like, Zoxanade have been one of the more impressive Cap Bastion combos
in EMEA at this stage, but now, when he asks her on court,
it's certainly going to rise to the challenge.
We will see.
Yeah, taking away that Vendetta does
mean that it weakens the Xion composition as well,
at least in the way that Katya have been preferring to play her.
There's other DPS that you can play the Xion alongside,
but it's risky running something like a Xion Reaper.
DPS lying into a Kat Bastion.
So we'll see what Katya feel their opponent will be
running out on as well. This would be actually very different from TM if they decide to come
through with this Mizuki. It's very rare that we've seen that Mizuki from them.
They have made it this complex.
Yeah, they've avoided it. They really do not like playing it. Have they been forced into it,
or will they just be sticking with Juno-Kiri?
Yeah, a lot of decisions still opportunity to make some last second swaps after boosting
your teammates out of spawn. Katsuya, they're going to be the team that goes right over to the
cap bastion at first, twisted mines with a bit of a classic setup for them just
swapping in the Sigma for their signature diva. A lot of runes on this point, right?
So a lot of opportunity to maybe outplay the cap bastion, but Quartz and Ubi
gonna have to work overtime to find some value to break this hold on the point.
Some big damage from the bastion, aid drops is a little bit low. Now the point
test comes in, so it's still pretty healthy opportunity to repush here. Ubi places its
teleporter high ground, it's not gonna be available, but the Stola isolated now deep
of the enemy backflying and you just burns him down, you can see a little off-sink on that push
and that is not going to be good enough to deal with personal problems. Yeah, no high ground pressure
from Quartz as well, right? So Age gets split from Zox when the cast looks to swing out. Quartz
picks up 50% of his ult within the first fight and Pistols just off of the Mauga. On the 2, the sick
Mike, he will go to Mirror, having that shield potential, being able to change it to the angles
that course is challenging, you lose to Zhang on your disengagement so you give up even more
point percentage and as a TM player for some point, absorbing some of that damage, translating it
towards simple's all-charge on the Kiriko to have that rush and Katya decides to walk on to this point.
Tristed mines holding strong, showing some signature aggression to punish those
respawners. They've engineered a massive ultimate advantage for themselves.
You can see it trying to get something out.
Aide with the tank form, but Mord's playing so comfortably inside of this room.
FunnyAster comes to assist TVNT though, getting potentially overrun,
but Mubi will have his back and the rush assists as well.
Still a 4 on board despite the rush out on the point.
And with Aide in this back position, he could spell trouble, but Mord's
FunnyAster will respond with the marked ports between both members of the combo.
And that will clean up this teamfight, so simple's rush in the end.
Just too much value to give.
Yeah, they almost got that pick onto TVNT.
like three people turned to look at the cab bastion swing which is when Simple realizes
wait it's my tank that Katya are truly looking to get the kill onto uses the Kiriko ultimate
everyone from TM advantages the high ground so A doesn't have anyone to shoot at and just collapse
onto Katya's frontline when that rush is still active. Darla does have his here now but Quartz or
TVNT can just hold that position totally down when Katya get aggressive off of it TVNT investing
that flugs course using the opportunity everyone lifted skywards for the
Cassities that I to be able to connect on to here it's trying to buy some space
because it's you just disengage recover keep some of these players alike maybe
go for a clutch that is final fight though I mean don't lose his life and
yeah it's final fight like up of these girls from TM coming for a late
Catzian will not get a clean touch I mean TM set a blistering piece here and
And we were setting this one up to be very, very competitive, but
Tristan Nines go off the cat bashing to a comp that feels eerily familiar for them.
I mean, right? Like just to play this Lucio carry, Sim Cassidy shell, throw a sigma in there.
Why not? TVNT pilots it really nicely and, A, just can't quite get the angles on cat bashing in that opening map.
Maybe now a more open flashpoint will yield better results for them, but you always have to be on notice
with the way Tristan Nines play this comp.
they can get so aggressive whether they have the sigma or something a little bit faster they will run you over
It's very quiet from Tejong as well
as team just not really giving the she on an opportunity to hit those flanks the bastion always gets turned on to and then they
Always close up their ranks around the tank before any damage can be made. Oh
Anoram okay from Tejong, okay very new
I work from Cassia, but TN already on the high ground.
First dollar jumping in, but Cortes is already taking down Zock.
TVNT dispatches aid, and that first flight is done.
Been singing Zock's praises, and he just swings a little bit too high.
I think not ready for the speed of the rollback from Twisted Minds.
I mean, they're up on that high ground, so damn quick.
Up the back of the Lucio, Sim Strat puts Hortes in a very aggressive position
and he delivers as he seems to almost always do.
But now, hold on, the fire, being fanned against TVNT,
Tejon dives through them, lights a night's everybody,
which means massive opportunity for AID and Vistola
to get these cleanup kills.
Quartz, though, holds one back,
keeps this game into contestion,
but Vistola with a big stomp on the TVNT
will finish the Sigma,
now it's to Quartz to deliver a kill.
And quickly, the shout is out in Quartz,
not long for this world.
Just a little bit of extra delay.
They come in from simple to be back to Astro
and meet those respawners,
but some real fight back being shunned by it from Katzi.
I mean, this is, I think, the vision of the comp.
ignite everybody with onron dive in on maga follow up with those instant crits
you've got high ground control too so tm won't just be able to directly tp force into a good
position to pressure out the cap bastion send each of us them to rotate low sides onto the map
there's the maga slam get out from course but you've already lost tp and tp the same tp does
set up the pick on tp on the follow up just off of base damage alone onto vestola and wall
and look dicey at the start losing the sick.
Tiamm still have to damage the clutch out of the kills.
I mean, Yubi is just quietly doing so much in these fights, right?
Even losing the tank early to a really well-coordinated,
aggressive movement from Katsea.
But the TP is perfect for Yubi, puts Quartz in a prime position
to cut down Tejong, follow up on the bestola,
and from there, a healthy Quartz can absolutely clutch out
of team fight.
Katsea now.
Don't want to be on this retake, but that's
where they find themselves.
the rush could be powerful at this point but sometimes it can be hard to deploy with the
cap ashen right? Yeah at least you're not fighting into the diva on the side of T.M.
So Vassola will have a lot of sustainability in that kid sooner rush. Simple does happen
match and I'm looking to ignite some of those players washed open from Gala but Vassola
totally slammed onto. Soon wall 8 even using that turret right trying to take space away
from T.M.'s place because so much of Katzi's focus is on the fight itself, trying to face
up into simple thrush. They get the Kerakow, but everyone else from T.M. still fighting
fit and healthy, taking down the Anaran and potentially taking us to a lot of coordinated
fight before we go into the scramble for our T.
I mean this could be rough. Quartz with a high dude, could go early. It's a very open
spawn point, aid. It's up over the top, so it looks like Quartz is going to choose to
scratch it this time. Played things a little bit slower. Katziah, that means they get an
opportunity in this teamfight.
Tejon can of course pop that rebirth if he goes down in this fight so really
allowed to open up with some wild aggression on this on-ron does feel
like Aiden Zox though called upon maybe for an individual pick especially onto
someone is threatening his court. You see the phalanx built around the Cassidy,
the teleport, the Lucio carry all delivered to enabling this hitscan
player. Big damage comes into the clan's piece for fighting bit.
Hey the Deda is baited out by Aiden. Still a fight to be had to Stola.
The cage is on the point, but Aida's just cut down from range.
That silver bullet, paying dividends,
sports is low, but under the protection of the sound barrier,
he would be just fine.
And Sobel Twisted Minds is, I mean,
they clean up this map without much of a fight.
I see a showing some threat at times,
but this is a comfortable win, Twisted Minds.
Yeah, the 70p.
Like you can tell that Tian is so practiced
on playing off of the 70p positioning.
and the fight is ramping up and also a half way through it's like you lose your tank you're perfectly fine
court comes away 22 eliminations 8.9k damage but look at the deaths on the back line
i think is the true like power to tm's compensation when that sin is being used tvnt died early in so
many of those fights which should mean that you lose a lot of that help that your back line can
rely on but no all of the support's down once. I mean they're really making Cap Bastion look like
a bad couple. Like it doesn't seem like it can work which is a pretty wild thing to appear because-
There were no flybys of a tank form from the aid. Like you had no safety of space and it was set up
from the same TP on the high ground. You pick up Zox as well early before you get the Bastion
you take away that mobility so it becomes a lot easier to kite off of just blue serious creepers
response to his goal?
I mean, of course, it's just too dang good in the Cassidy.
He is too sharp.
He keeps cutting this cat out of the air,
and that really changes the nature of the battle.
If Cat Bastion are playing scared and taking safe angles,
why are you even playing this comp, right?
It feels like you're obliged to get deep in the back line,
pull a ton of attention to yourself.
But the nerfs, you know, to Cat Bastion,
they're starting to bite, right?
It feels that a really skilled Cassidy,
with a lot of support from the low ground,
can battle back and can punish the Bastion and the cat
if they get a little bit too big for their britches.
Of course, it's also a comp very available
to Twisted Minds themselves,
but this one is gonna put, you know,
Alcatzia on their heels, right?
To get kinda just blown out on control, never feels good.
And now you're going into the next map, you know,
it's like almost what happened, right?
You just been flashbanged out of that first map.
I think for Catzia though,
that's probably the composition
that I would expect them to play the Fervist
from TM's skill level,
because they've moved away from the Cap Aston.
They've been loving this Mauga, Vendetta,
Xiong composition,
which they were totally denied from.
Now that that Vendetta's been taken away ban-wise,
you do still have to worry about things like Xiong,
the Mauga,
you can at least try to go for a save onto that Mauga
if you want to sort of like the Vendetta in play.
And obviously, TM would then likely turn
and target out that Xiong.
But for me, like this next map,
Having the Diva and Detta having the Diva will be the true test for how close Katya is to T.M's level.
Yeah, as you know more of these core elements of each team's favorite style become unlocked
and unmanable deeper into the series. We go to Hollywood which strikes me as actually a pretty
good map for both teams but Katya will open with the Simban taking the legs out from under Yubi.
Yubi though has shown that he is no wonder. I mean this guy pulled off the tracer and he can
and Tango with the best of them has a great lead of the game.
But with Kiriko, banned in response, both teams,
and a bit of a one-legged race here,
losing some key elements of their preferred style.
Yeah, I mean, T and they're very opportunistic
when it comes to Kiriko bands.
They're like, OK, if Kiriko's band, if Suze, is gone,
we can play simple on the Ana.
He is just that good, but you also
have to think about things like Laurie, Baptiste,
Wooyang Juno really like poke heavy backline compositions that can just greed for a lot of damage
But I do want to see like how you be now plays into this team with that sim gone because like obviously
When the sim is removed he would be on things like the may the tracer the Reaper would be the traditional pivot
For him, but for TM like you have to have been expecting a symmetrical at some point in this series
to be prepared for something.
Yubi's an old hand at it, right?
Like, he's been experienced in Symmetra Band
for years and years at this point.
He's definitely got backup picks in the pocket.
And I think a lot of people underestimate
just how good he is at them.
Because, you know, most of the time he's going to play Sim.
That's what makes the team so good.
But it's not about Yubi's individual skill.
It's really, I think, about the team, you know,
identity that makes the Sim so effective,
their understanding of how to use that utility.
But you put him on the tracer,
you ask a little bit more of an individualistic performance
from him. And historically, he has delivered
and even in incredibly pressured moments
against some of the best international competition
that Overwatch has to offer.
So you might get rid of the sim for now,
but this does not mean a free win.
Does though, it makes things quite interesting
when it comes to considering the Jetpack Cat now,
because without sim in the mix,
it feels like that was something Quartz was able to use
quite often with those TVs that punish the Bastion
out of the sky to regress into him when the cat was down.
Now, maybe there's more room for it to work.
This is Hollywood though,
so could be a little bit awkward
get inside some of those rooms around check point. Yeah Bastion Cat will potentially you
forego that entirely because like we said the Shion and Venteta and Maga composition
will be available for Katya to try to collapse them very quickly with things like the Juno
speedering. So Tiam could potentially want to go for something that totally slows it down. I think
that goes back again to Katya banning at the sim. That's one way that you would be able to see the
Maga coming. That's actually how Tiam dealt with that composition from Geekay yesterday on Waces,
right every single time the Magal looked for that engagement to pair with the Venteta,
Tm would just sit in TP away, kite out the cooldowns and then come back in again
once those were away with kills coming off of like Quartz or Yuvi. So I think this is a good
opportunity for Katya to truly match up into Tm, neither they can play their own style,
while really taking quite a large chunk out of Tm's identity that they've returned to.
And you go to Hollywood, this will be a bit of a bellwether moment in the series, Kempetsia,
they've got them on Unlocked, it'll be without the Kiriko, but maybe still playable.
No Symmetra for Yubi to get those cheeky movement antics, at least you'll be able to get on
top of Quartz.
What you can do from there, potentially another story of course, Twisted Minds, layers to
their ability.
And they will look for pretty defensive Sigma style, simple, considering the Ariane with
Kira go out of the mix I quite like it. I mean this is a very greedy look but one
that can pay dividends. I mean no simple individual skill is on the highest of
levels here for the flex support role. I mean I really think he's one of the best
if not genuine conversation for being the best flex support right now despite
being such a young player. I mean the Ellari is gonna be a perspective to
watch in this one. Yeah I mean there's a lot of clutch potential to right play
making off of captive Sun or just base damage picks. From that Ellari can be
absolutely crucial to winning new teamfights. Yubi will be on the May, and as we said, TM do not
like these Mizuki compositions, so they will play the Sigma, they'll play the May, but they won't
play the backline for it. Quartz trying to slow things down on that. Cassidy as we get the expected
Shion from aid, but without the Kiriko and the Mauga, no vendetta for Tejong to play, so May
match to have those walls and also block a lot of these angles that TM will already start with.
You can't poke and take Cassie as play as Dan early if there's an icebox sitting directly in front of your space.
I mean, mazes are going to be so important in this kind of a matchup. Very low mobility comps across the board.
And so there's an opportunity here for either Mei to open things up and take advantage,
cage on control of this high ground, kind of dictate how he wants his engagement to take place,
considering the walk forward steps up, immediate paywall, he tries to isolate Sigma onto the corner point,
big damage, but it's split across all the members of Twisted Mind, sharing this pressure admirably well.
and somehow nobody goes down in Magnulate teamwork from the backline of TN.
They stay alive for this first point, hold on, hold on.
Clutch kills coming back into this Kassiya.
Not giving up just yet, Teijang has worked his way into a cheeky-the-law thingal.
And if he comes up with this 1v1, that would be devastating.
Stays alive. The support from range is good.
And somehow, some way after losing two first picks, Kassiya will win this fight. What a clutch.
Oof, snowball potential as well for Kassiya available here.
it's so crucial that they don't lose some of these fights early on second into this really
poke heavy backline that TM will be running from so invasion up onto that high ground for eight
followed by the rest of his team. It's Katzia wanting to put a lot of pressure onto TM,
no one's running Tracer, there's no easy heroes to be able to go contest that cut as it moves,
It's all about this flux, DVNT tries to go for the lock cancel, can't find it, that's all it dodges.
So flux connects, but Yubi's the one who makes the wave of the pick.
The main wall rotation was just a little bit too late in being able to keep Vassal up in that poke.
Vassal a little overconfident with the flux, right, feeling that it gives him this license
to get super aggressive. Ate is super deep on the flank by the way, but pulling a bit of attention to
himself, genuinely valuable in this kind of a matchup, deep in the backline, doing something that
The weather hits came really good. Just admise now in an awkward position, you've got a flanker to worry about, but continuing to keep this fight going on cart with a blizzard is good.
TB&T, no safe form in this comp. A blizzard is a death sentence here.
Ubi stalling a little bit longer, stays alive, actually slips away, and now, the Wario is coming out to the trade's forces deep in the thick of the fight.
Gala tried to get a henshin on the simple, but couldn't find it in the air, and now simple, starting to run them down, using this flight to great effect in the backline, but the cart rolls forward.
can see us. Bunkering well, they don't have high ground control, but they are
continuing to roll the ejection. Yeah, TN without that tank, we've got that stability
to try to hold that position in the front line, instead taking angles on the
high ground, looking to get around the solo shield and take players down.
Quartz breaks Pylon, takes to the high ground, has the eye looks for shots on
Zox, he's just so far out in the open. Nice little re-aggression from Quartz,
retakes the high ground and aid the outside looking in, not much hope for
him in this fight TD&T and clear out this mate from the high ground.
T-Joy's doing well but just delaying the inevitable here.
It's a big fight win.
Four twisted minds.
Port's now holding onto the high noon and Aide recognizes Shion's not going to get the
job done with the level of verticality here from Hollywood's at the point.
There's a winner.
Just looking for shots to see if Tm are a little bit too far forward and maybe is.
Yeah, TM, total disregard for what age can get done.
I mean, he's going to get his chances.
Ooh, he's so brutal.
Cassi just threw the choke up at the back of the widow pressure
and the pick up onto Yubi.
I mean, no may is really hard to stifle
the advance of the attackers.
I think it's a great widow selection from A.
He has tons of free space to work.
And you see it, interested minds.
Now they're starting to respect the widow,
and it obliges them to pretty much bunker
at the end of second point, which
yielding the high ground control of Yubi, even
who on notice, head shot there, would have been backbreaking.
But Tadron, maybe a little over-extended here.
Zox pops to the orbital ray.
The scolar grabs to fill back.
But the need's a bit of help.
And if you can get it, TVNT wins the first light ray.
And as his ray continues to roll forward,
it doesn't seem to be fighting much.
With Gala and Zox, the support's actually come alive.
Infrasight comes out to further enable a clutch fight.
Simple brings one back, and TVNT plays the corner.
So, A, not really giving the opportunities here.
Profiting on the winner.
I mean, this is the issue with the winner, right?
It works up to this point, where you now
have that added pressure that Quartz has to think about, can't punish Zox for playing
as open as he has in the past, but now that the fight's moved around second-building,
it loses a lot of the power that he held previously, which now bleeds into what exactly Quartz
will be tasked with.
We've still got Angles into jail, but we don't have easy access to take some of these players
down.
It has to be a good flank from Aide, or again, total disregard from T.M.
Oh, high ground worth persuading gold as he engages. Come out both maze, ice block inside one another, blizzards, but it's force and symbol from the flank. Recognizing that frontline is not the place to be. Vistola, a desperate block into the sky, goes wide.
Funny answer, too clean with the movement. And it's the dynamic duo here of force and symbol, those openers winning that team by a nice little additional stagger, making sure Vistola misses the spawn wave.
an aid, as you mentioned, starts to fill the limit here. Back to the Cassidy, recognizes that these slanks are just getting too much value.
Twisted Mind is running a little bit rampant on the server, but the damage has been done.
Monty, the ultimates are in terrible state for the attackers.
When Yubi thought about going tracer to get the punishment onto the Juno, and sees that aid still on the cast, as opposed to the Widow,
shows back to that Mei. Really, for Cassy, they have to find some clot just to be able to break this high ground, but they lose aid early.
Yubid is too accurate. We mentioned he's not just a similar trick, he's devastating on different DPS as well.
Off of the back with that, Katya just don't have time to lose a full teamfight. They have to back off, wait for the rigour, but they lose another.
And this is the issue of playing retake onto Hollywood second. Zero space control and TM is just like shooting fish in a barrel.
Yeah, overwhelming aggression, another late kill to Tejon with just 10 seconds on the clock and a comp this slow.
A touch, feels beyond the pale, even a nice little lip onto Gala, eight onto the widow to drag at least some sort of momentum back.
But even the jetpack cat, I don't think he's going to be able to get this touched out.
And Twisted Minds, full aggression, eight.
I mean, he had his chances on widow, but Twisted Minds were fearless.
They did not give him any respect in a lot of those fights, and it paid off, right?
simple in Quartz, running him down, saying, hey, you might be able to drop one of us.
We will not finish the second.
And you can see winning this flank fight, that high ground control for Quartz and
simple ends up retaking.
I mean, they end up giving up the high ground for every fight and then just
playing to retake it in mid fight, which I think is a genius way to approach a
widow matchup for TM.
Don't challenge her early, but she has a comfortable sightline.
Instead, try to run her over when she starts to look a little desperate, you
know, peak these deep angles for picks.
Yeah, and that's I mean what we can expect from TM's backline, right?
They're so aggressive, sometimes you think that they're playing DPS as TM will now be
on the attack, Katya getting the opportunity to use Hollywood's defensive positioning
against them.
Definitely a win of a clutch.
Yeah, it's very wonderful with how far they got that per second off of a just clearing
out choke for Katya to actually walk into retake with. Very winnable situation for Katya to walk
away with her. I will say for Katya I think they really are motivated here to get some significant
fight wins on first point. I don't think they want to be facing down like a full five minutes trying
to hold second. I think they need to get a little bit more done. I mean in fairness Katya had to hit
a crazy clutch to win this first fight on attack. Just in mind you'll see if they can replicate it.
They're gonna consider the defender picks here and come out with their best counterstrap but I
But I suspect it'll be more of the same here, a comfortable mirror for both teams, a lot of confidence in both squads, in their individual abilities.
Yeah, that does benefit though. You can't see it with the defensive pile on position.
Whereas Tm have to go deep to be able to break it.
So if we're not going directly to that point, waiting for some of these crucial cooldowns to be gone,
Maywell's been out from Tejon, but it's usually who actually gets the pick.
get the trade. The TM now with the high ground pressure going to be trying to chase out the
cast. The Zox is called into peel and tries to keep aid up. The melee, Yubi's looking
for it, gets flashbanged but still is able to complete the elimination. Zox falls shortly
afterwards and TM, you said Jake that you thought Katya would have to win some of these
fights on first. Just fall over. I mean the pick from Yubi early. The pick on the enemy
May is back break even the Cassidy trade is back the other way may just offer so much utility in
in the limited mobility of these styles and ports as insults to injury that is not a pick you can
afford to give up on the defense without your lorry this form position is so tenuous maybe your
best chance to hold this elevator but simple cruising toward that captive son and when that comes
online you gotta be worried about grouping up here for could see as deep and you have free push on
cut as well until Katsy have the confidence to drop and try to contest it, but you're waiting for
your Ellari to come back before you decide to commit to one of these fights, which are
life-simple to hit the captain's son and he uses it instantly. Shield trying to position to Katsy!
Their Stola perfectly placed, no hands required, which means that you still have it to defend against
Yuvi's ult. Oh no, the Blizzard under the Stola, no chance for him to pop the flocks. Yuvi instantly
runs that player down, the cart is still steaming forward, desperation on Katsy, they need a counter
kill to keep this map alive they'll find one onto simple like dare say they need
more than that page on getting into the mix with wards is ready to receive him
and the touch now tenuous I don't know that the soul is gonna make this twisted
minds powering board of towering squad the flux into the high new low is
keeping the fight interesting some damage comes in it's enough for the solar to
finish the kill TV and TV though flux off the point rather fluxing the stola off
the point finishes the job and twisted minds in a poke mirror was there ever
any doubt and see a show some impressive fight at moments but twisted
minds look to be headed shoulders better in this style yeah people have to stop
putting respect on the UB May true like he's not just a certain boy
Hitscan gap in a big way that is that is a painful painful damage gap in the
hitscan roll we cage on going blow-for-blow but for sports to get that
much more I mean I think it's a hit that's that's pretty scary
we've all been there trying to hit a lot of Alari as we have a look at some of
these highlights I mean he just felt totally in control of the situation
even on that defense it sort of felt like Katya had to go through these hero
moment plays of like aid opening upward shots, Pei Zhong being able to find
something, Vestola with good fluxes, but then when we flip sides, Katya always felt on the
back foot, like they were always one person down having to react to when Tien wanted to take the
fight, and then even when we have like the early captive sun foam, simple which is shielded by Vestola,
that does still mean that you have to drop to give up the high ground and you drop directly into
Yubi's closet, so it just sort of feels very much like Tien have a free sage plan and they're just
Slowly going about all of these fights taking off. Okay, we've done this now. We move to this stage
We've done that now we win the fight. Yeah a lot more decisive movements for me
Twisted minds in that series or in that map rather and you know being willing to get aggressive on multiple angles at once for
You know you recognize. Hey look our main group is is facing a lot of pressure from May and Sigma
We're gonna activate quartz simple on the flank and they deliver in spades
Crucial crucial map for them to hold on is now they find themselves
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But we do have to see what teams will be getting there and we also have to work out the power rankings for EMEA because as we said, Stage 2 totally shuffled them up but it looks like TN had landed on their feet as they've just been looking unstoppable in some of these fights against Katzir who do take us to New Junk City.
Now, Kiriko-ban was used, do we see a tank ban from Nujunk City to save the Malga so that they can keep that Kiriko-Malga Vendetta Shion composition in play?
Because if you're going to Nujunk City, if you don't go for that save on the tank, Tien will absolutely take it away.
And yeah, Katya, they had the opportunity to go for the Malgo.
Save, but they instead take away Quartz's Kassidy.
Yeah, there's no easy solutions here.
I think the Kassidy's stem is still a pretty significant problem for them in the matchup.
And the tankman they would go for is maybe the Sigma, but I mean,
I think the D.Va would come out regardless.
And maybe that's a matchup that Katya are a little bit worried about.
I think they could still play a similar sort of style behind the Rematra,
You know something else in the sort of a rush very maybe even the diva themselves
So I don't or the Zarya of course, maybe it's the most straightforward choice here
Especially with a monga off the field for Tristan Mines though in pole position to close up the series
They're up to zero hasn't been particularly close in the last two maps
So could see a as much as they're gonna get a decent kind of an aggressive style that they have like the series so far has been
brutal it has been painful and
They need a major step up in just individual performance if they want to hold a candle to TM in the series
I think if you're close to losing the cast you're so happy just stepping on to Soja
It's like oh no, you made me play Soja
Oh no
Oh this is the girl I want the world championship on?
Oh I guess that's...
Yeah
It's just that's alright
I think like for the cast what it does do is remove the flashbang
Like Soja does not have that same mobility stopping power as the castity so like if you
do want to play something like the vendetta or a tracer it won't be as problematic for
you unless you just feed the rail charge so i would be not surprised if we do see katsu decide
to roll i with this just down the mauga this is literally just that she on vendetta composition
with the zarya instead of the mauga because of that ban but i almost feel like the zarya being in
this actually allows Aiden and Tejong more agency to be able to make plays of their own,
but Quartz on the Bastion, those Zarya Bubbles will not last long. They will be popped.
Yeah, I mean, the Bubbles are nice to have as a DPS here, but playing Zarya into Rematra,
Bastion Sim is brutal. I mean, this is a hard counter-coff for Zarya.
Still maybe winnable with big performances from Tejong, we know he can deliver on them and
dead at an aggressive TP forward, though Yuvi wants to take a fight to be opponent
An early form out of course, not really fighting too much value.
The opportunity to strike presents itself.
Tejon comes in, grabs a bit of an energy spike.
Borb Estola, who wants to get this pressure on,
TD&T is low.
Opportunity now of Vendetta, who scores, formation splits.
Quartz gets a little bit desperate, hunting down a kill.
But Agus, the assistance from the squad,
moves back in to finish that job.
And twisted rides, this time, the same rush,
does not pay off.
And see a hold their nerve, hold the line,
keep the series interesting.
I mean, Katz is just totally split up TN as well, right?
This was the thing that gave VP a lot of issue, this was the thing that gave Tien a lot of issue, Yase versus GK.
There's so many moving pieces that you have to be able to stay aware of as Quartz.
Yes, you have that SIMTP, but once it's gone fast, you have no mobility.
So, it squaps onto the Sergeant and has to make the potential off of the rail, and there we go.
Rail, Snipe onto Tejon, Katzia down Vendetta.
And Vendetta got a little too cheeky, trying to farm over for the fight.
Ubi calls the block, SimTPs chasing down the funny Astro speed, and now I can see Tuna rockin' a heartless and own null.
They'll lose Zox while giving up the point.
And now they're aggressive TPs, you can actually get off the point for that kill.
For a really experienced play though, I don't think Medetine's gonna be able to find under that kind of time pressure.
And they're gonna add more onto this Tejong, not ready for the continued aggression, which shouldn't have expected with his own Juno out of the fight.
More and more kills piling on, and this map is starting to feel like more of the same.
Twisted Minds, he took a swap for them to get here, but now on the Sojourn, I can see
you have struggled to punish him.
I mean, Katsy just lose one person early, so don't have the players up being able to
take away challenge quads by angle, so his team can just pull Hunt down those stragglers
and rely on the Sojourn if required to follow up with those kills.
Oh no.
Eight is just alone, he's trying to get cheeky on the flank, but once again, Twisted Minds
are looking for any kind of mistake, and they are so quick to pounce when they spot
Looking for more, looking to force continued aggression, continued staggers, and Kassia are like, okay, guys, no more staggers, and they are playing very conservatively to ensure that.
Wards the low point, so you're directly on the objective. Of course, Tm had to walk into you with that grab in answer to simple's rush.
Catches so many players, and there we go, Katia, baiting Tm's position into them.
Weathering the storm of the rush, exchanging with the Graviton, and Sondring Blade, it took a fair few ults, took a fair few fights, but Katia were able to put the fight back.
Just in mines though. Great position to potentially close out this flash point.
Quartz with the OC, it may be a little bit difficult to use here on the entry.
We get to see how Fizia actually wants to approach defending this point.
They didn't really get the chance to last time. Looks like they want to hold close.
Tejon looking for the opportunity to swing in aggressively with the bubble.
Goes in first and maybe deep into the back line.
And Aide doesn't want to go quite past the choke.
Just in mines showing a lot of respect, a lot of skills pop in that little pre-engage.
And now Tm's got to go TP through past the choke,
to get them into a position to keep this one contested.
Alongside Divi, Symbal, Quartz, a POC,
and a lot of room for him to work.
The aid is starting to profit.
The bubble just enough to keep him alive,
and the bike to finish off Quartz.
TVNT does get the flip on the point,
but I think the damage is done.
You can see a 4v1, and they will have this first flashpoint.
A big graph of the Stola in the last fight,
and this time it's Aid to really come up
and find big value for the team.
And TM for all the Staggers they got,
they can't close out that first flashpoint,
and that doesn't feel great.
Yeah clutch players from Katzi are also like very crucial that they won that first fight, right?
They had point percentage to be able to play in with, which means that even though they started losing a lot of their players early in the previous fights,
they still get the opportunity for one more fight with the Graviton, and then they can hold TM off at the choke,
forcing them to have to use the Smetra TP to get through the line of Katzi's composition,
as opposed to having it when the pressure then turns against them and you're looking to keep Quartz alive
with the value of that overclock you're relying on the symbol instead, but Kat's here. They don't
care about symbol. Like they're not running something like a sojourn with the overclock,
they're not looking to poke you, they're looking to kill you with just being on top of your exact
position and Quartz is very vulnerable once that simtp and power slide are removed.
Yeah, Quartz definitely trying to farm into that double slide perk as quickly as possible against
DPS with this level of aggression. I think that will be a bit of a turning point for Twisted Minds,
But they got to get here sooner, get there rather sooner rather than later because Kassiya really want to win this map
They want another chance when they're fighting for a real prize in this series
Which is to avoid the chance of facing VP that first round right to be that second seed put yourself in a more comfortable spot
Going into the playoffs and everything is gonna count when it comes to those playoffs because that is a land spot on the line
Four teams will qualify only three will make it nobody wants to be that odd man
especially for an EMEA region where it feels like anybody could go the distance and win some very serious money in Paris
Yeah, so this might be a hot take
But honestly, I think like winning this map here is the best chance that team team have to just close out the series cleanly
Because like that's the vendetta bang on that's the mauga bang on that's the curie bang on if they're having issues with the
She on vendetta Juno curie at the moment when displayed at the Zarya
that will be felt tenfold when Vestola's on Mauga, because you'll have to use so much of your resources trying to put a shut down on the
aggressive nature of the DPS line that you then just don't have the hands to be able to burst through the Mauga's sustainability.
As we have a look at some of the replays, A to A, just playing on those off angles, waiting, aiding out that TP,
giving out a lot of that stall potential, so that Tm are just forced to very quickly panic rotate past Katya's team,
and try to just win out the fight on the point itself, but we are back into game now and TN will establish themselves on the point first
Annihilation sound barrier no ultimates on the side of Kat Sia
But they can very quickly find these kills off of damage from that vendetta alone
But this is what we've seen
The page long ball swings back to the park
It's not gonna be enough on its own. The counter kill from aid means the funny answer has to pop the beat to finish this fight. The Stola though
Well, called into question here, just keep overwhelmed, there's no chance to win against
her Bramatra in that kind of a trade, but that counter kill from AID is nice, it does
get the beat out of Astro, which is a tool that you would have much rather kept into
another fight.
Still, TBNT on this flashpoint, able to really hold down the choke on these ducks and then
play so aggressive, putting a lot of pressure on the choke.
Well, beat risky as well, right?
If you try and hold beat for something like Graviton, Tejung potentially gets laid up
takes it totally out so I think for TM like he can be more aggressive or use defensively to
just peel for Quartz in this position because while you've done yes you use an ultimate you've
secured the distance poke so Quartz can just sit back wait TP pressure our taejung pressure our A
be impossible to lock down nice little TP of Astola getting just cut to smithereens in the choke
point everyone's scared of the tbm t ultimate when it finally comes to play it absolutely annihilates
the attackers you can see it now a little bit of mobility on these dps is the only thing keeping
them alive but actually Ubi just stalling that one out a nice delayed kill on Tejong means this
next retake for Kassia is gonna have to be scrappy ultimate's being built back up by Ubi and
Symple so the teamfight is going to be anything but easy even if you do make it to point Kassia
need to pull a big one out of their hand here. Well they have to bait TP and Ubi will just be
holding that waiting for the Zarya to grab there's the grab zone because the follow up Ubi needs to
go down he does. No follow up until now they get Ubi but Tejong gets traded for it so Kassia
lacking that undead blade. Tent your line with Gala's rush here, but so many kills have gone in the way of TM.
Trader that for Ketchy, Gala's still alive in this engagement.
They won't be able to win it cheaply holding onto that rush for all of the fights that come from next.
So I played to Gala to hold his nerve and the ult.
Father Ketchy are able to walk out of that fight with the win. With I invest in the Curio, will play perfectly into this next one.
Yeah, simple. Also, I thought he might have had an opportunity to drop the rush instead decides to save it for another day trying to generate that ultimate advantage.
but Katsuya now in point control with quite a few ultimates to work with, twisted mines.
The sim gives them a lot of mobility, but I think Quartz is going to be the one called upon
to really deliver the kills. He's been so shockingly consistent with the openers.
Enlis serious, you can find it yet more.
He's under that high ground, the sim wall.
He's a little bit awkward with the defenders, but he's still in attack coming in with Quartz.
The beat is necessary to keep him healthy for the sundry blade.
He cuts that to pieces simple, not expecting to be burned down through the beat.
That's what he's going to have to live with here, Katsuya.
Invading the rails, just tanking the shots, spreading the damage across the field.
These Zarya levels have been amazing from Vestola, but will they be enough?
Maybe even Tej on finding dueling kills in the side lanes.
Vestola getting low, but just enough HP to survive in the frontline.
I can see it.
They're going to go up to a 2-0 flashpoint advantage.
Both times, it has been so scary, so competitive,
but they pull a rabbit out of their hat this time in Twisted Minds.
Field the limit. They're going to swap over to the cabash.
Yep, no rabbits in this hatch, Jake. Cats, apparently, instead. And pulling bastions along with them. And I mean, yeah, you give a bullies to it because it's not working.
Like, Sam Barrier into Sundring Blade is just a no-go situation, as Quartz, getting ready to be pulled along.
This is not a great point, Beau, unless Cassia willingly commands the open space, it makes himself such a huge target.
Instead of playing stacked with his team away from where that Bastion can't reach him.
Comes to nothing though. I mean this looked like a decent engage but the defense was just too good.
Twisted mind's ready for the push in and they're really cutting this attack to pieces for the first time.
Let's see if he'll be pretty impotent with this rush forward even with the graphic look.
Yeah, Katzia losing that first light team in a very good position now to be able to kite away the pressure early on
on before the Zora can walk on top of them. TVNT as well with this annihilation, Katya
not a great answer, sort of just melting the Rematra down off of Gala's rush capabilities.
But TM, that's just going to be able to scare our Katya go early, force them to have to turn
and look, take so much damage, force cooldowns potentially from that Kiriko on the rotation.
This has given them a lot of point percent, but now it allows you to just sky eye Katya's rotation,
keep your high ground control over by burning any hole.
They're trying to come over to the top, trying to overwhelm us from logic, but the shield is beautiful here from TVNT.
Denies the walk forward, now bashing on the side angle.
Getting a little bit of value is going to just instantly pop off of that motorcycle.
Still picked up by the cat, looking to get more aggressive, and TVNT is healthy.
He wants another bite at the apple here.
Some big artillery shells raining down on the Stola's head.
The Mazzaria struggling to stay healthy into this one.
this one, Keijar, looking for a kill he can actually find,
but doesn't get much of anything.
The annihilation's still rolling for TB and T,
and that will be more than enough
if the team has secured this black point.
A ray even out from Zox,
some quiet desperation here,
as it doesn't really provide much of any value.
TM, not even good, like, any additional ults in so far.
The cat-bashing swap has paid off.
It looks fantastic.
Can see that I feel a little scattered.
That's your map.
Yeah, okay.
So, Zox uses ray as, like, a Hail Mary
before swapping on to the cab bastion to match with TM though. TM do have advantage in this
first fight for this next point, simple with that keeps him in a rush. Katya have to respect
this, Vestal does not have the grab to throw directly on top of it. Instead it will be
aid with that spree, just trying to get the damage. Might honestly just go directly for
funny Astra and Quartz. As TVNT reads out that the cab bastion swap, it's fair, it has
come through and goes for the diva he'll be back with his team he does have those
boosters and the sim tp but like you said giving up some space to get that swap might be worth it
to be able to catch his whole wing condition and check for his aid with the ult catches on to uv
spree onto the point forward up with the pick onto fony astra and tm not in a good position to
coordinate and shut the shion down massive kill to be found by aid in that fight
Shutting down UB's Sim feels like it takes the legs out from under this composition even with the rush deployed on the point
The value is just not enough
Gary performance here from aid who's been really lights out this whole stage needs to keep delivering more of that though because
Just in mind still breathing down their neck still on the verge of finishing this series at three zero
So can see I have to hold the line just in mind as they since they swap with his fashion comp their fortunes
their fates seemingly have shifted and now you'd be with a nice little early sim wall
playing off the back of that space creation. But for how does good enough for Vassol to
get a kill on December? A real cost of his life though in Twisted Minds, starting to overwhelm
Doobie, still healthy on point. But in Astro, stalling, keeping his fashion healthy, ensuring
there's no counter kill, A3 to drive your motorcycle on point, but not able to do much
more than that.
Yeah, I mean, both teams go for the Kirikou, the difference is that TM get the kill, but
It's all so occupied trying to get the follow-up from his graph that Gala just gets left totally without peel without any of those Zarya bubbles
People have to rush for this fight
Tiamo
Why should I rush with that own?
Nice sorry bubble.
Make sure the top didn't push from the start a little bit.
He's still got that defense matrix which means the cost does not fall
Nice little pick up from Puniaster ensures the artillery shells don't rain down of course
is there, now it's his turn to pop this Bastion ult, get a little bit of damage down to the
less mobile options, but instead just gives away a lot of energy to the Stola.
The rush is out from the simple, but already, Ubi is down,
raining down fire and fury from above this Jetpack Cat Bastion for Katsuya.
For confidence, they cut their teeth on here early in the stage, both Catnaps coming out,
but it's only Zox who finds the target will be port shut down, the self-destruct dodged out indefinitely here
from the Jetpack Cat, and that'll be the last gasp here of twisted minds on this Flashpoint.
You can see it playing Zarya a little bit unconventional in this look, but it has been working and that will get them a win here in this series.
And for Twisted Vines now, I mean, you had some good moments on this Flashpoint, but you started to feel the limit there.
The Cap Ashen, maybe it's just a new Jump City question, but when you can bring out the Mirror and actually win it, it does ask some tough questions of Twisted Vines in terms of what comps they want to play.
Yeah, A8 coming alive with some really open clutch kills, both he and Teh-Zhong.
The she on the vendetta on that first point problematic and then swapping to the cap bastions who'd be able to mirror
Like I said, this could be the first of a few maps that cats who can pull versus TN
Because they're having issue dealing with like the she on under vendetta before they go to the cap bastion swap
Now you bring in the mauga you get to keep playing the vendetta
Potentially we could see a band towards the cap bastions that TN can't clutch it
versus that Xi'an Vendetta?
I mean, there is this interesting dynamic where when Quartz goes the Bastion to deal with the Xi'an Midda,
he's almost obliged to take the Tank perk on Bastion, which becomes a liability when you go back to the mirror now.
And the other Bastion is just turning you down in the sky.
I mean, we've seen from some players it's possible to win those 1v1s, but it's pretty rough.
It's not the perk you want when you're actually finding yourself in the mirror.
But in the end, you're up 2-1 in the series, you still have a lot of room to work with
the Twisted Minds, still have some powerful map picks, potentially back-to-back here,
ban control as well.
So I'd still put them as the pole position favorite to close out this series, I mean,
there is still just the more classic, hey, Sojourn, Cassidy, play straight up, the Cassidy
was banned out in this particular map, so what has worked very well for TM in this series
is still very much available to them.
Of course, the map pick is going to say a lot about what they think is their best way
to close out this series here on map 4. Yeah, because like the cast works better into things
like the Shion and the Vendetta, the surge works better into the Malgo. So there's plenty of options
available for quarts in terms of pivoting to the DPS line. Also, that's the sim ban removed as well.
So Yubi can still play the sim. He'll be able to give a lot of mobility to quarts if he wants to go
back to that Cassidy to have things like the TP comboed with that Jedi as we go to Circuit Royale
is the pivot that TM decided to take us into. And we can still see like the Malcolm composition
working but this does put a lot of strength on things like the Shion and the Vendetta before
the fight starts which does give people like Quartz and Yuvi the opportunity of getting those
to just totally cancel any
confidence of committing to
that push as they'll go for the
ban onto the Mizuki in case it
is that Mizuki Sigma May.
They really do not want to play
that card.
They just really hate this
era. I mean, it's funny because
I'm pretty sure TM are looking
to play, uh, like Sim,
SIG, kind of a poke style here,
you know, kind of what we saw
on Oasis. But them ban the
Mizuki is just a testament that
they do not want to play this
character. You know, I think it
would fit decently well in this
Neur Chosen style. They just get
get rid of that Kassia, eliminate the Bastion, you know, giving rid of some potential shenanigans.
But there's a lot, it's asking a lot to play the Moga Rush on Circle Royale. I mean, it
can be done, but against a team as good as TM, as mobile as they are with the Symmetra,
I press X to doubt on the Moga Comp actually working against a team as well prepared as
Swiss Amant.
Yeah, and I felt like that's one of the reasons why they did take us to Circa, right? Because
those curos they're through the bandra after that's it done so now you have to go to somewhere
where they would be the most uncomfortable potentially to the point that cats you don't even
want to try playing it maybe we do see it for like the first fight on their attack just to be
able to break through that first corner and give themselves a lot of time bank headed into second
before they swap onto it we will have to see because tm are giving themselves the best chance at
killing cats his composition before it's on top of them you still have your mobility you'll still
have your sim tp, but you get so much range to be able to poke katsya down before that fight starts
that there'll be a lot of time that katsya have to take just being able to get that team into these
positions safely playing cover to cover to be able to close up the gap and collapse on to tm and
that means a lot of time for those early kills to come for. Yeah it's also a map where you know
it's like speaking of early kills right, hitscan can often just reign supreme, we've even seen
symbol on the allari, I don't know that that's likely to come out with of course kiri being
unbanned in this map but simple is a huge threat in his own right throwing those
kunai down range on the carry finding some opening kills for himself definitely
give him a lot of credit of being a stalwart defender on a map like circuit
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she is really strong as a support option like over the ray, really good ultimate to be able
to use in pro play.
A lot of the time it gives you the edge especially if you have a sojourn ult and you're playing
with over the ray, you just instantly snipe out that other sojourn and I do feel like because
we're going to circuit, unless Katya decides to go for this engagement composition with
If that's your vendetta, it will be DPS mirrors between the sojourn into the sojourn or potentially
we do get to see courts continue with the Cassidy off of just a high problematic it's been
forgotten to have to deal with.
Yeah, I think eight is certainly going to be called upon here for Concia to deliver a
really solid performance if they want to stay alive in this series, give themselves a chance
here to go the distance to get to map five against a twisted mind's team that is resurgent,
right?
stage week look beatable was beaten right you know shown to not necessarily be
the juggernaut of EMEA any longer I think VP it's fair to say I've kind of
claimed that title from them but yeah twisted minds have come knocking they
want it back I mean the way they're playing right now I think that's gonna
be a hotly contested series in playoffs between twisted minds and VP of course
trying to reclaim that crown before it fully escapes their grasp here but it
all starts here right they got to be able to close out the series ensure
themselves a top two seed, put themselves in good position for playoffs.
And we heard this from you being in the interview yesterday, you know,
Tia had been kind of humbled by this stage.
It forced to go back to the well, back to the lab,
not to play with the confidence of a team who cannot be beaten,
but to approach the game with with with respect
and to really just try to deliver their best possible performances.
Looking at the standings here for just a bit, you can see the stakes can see it
with a win here. They will vault over Tia and take that second spot.
Yeah, it is all to play for like no one wants to go up against Virtus Pro early on
Because as Zoe said like if you don't get that second seed VP highly likely do choose to try and take you on
To make your playoffs run that little bit more problematic
So you will lose as much opportunity to be able to qualify
I think even if GM lose there's they still have aura they still have aura
So I don't know that VP pick GM even if they lose
Honestly, I think GK is the safer pick.
I mean, you say that, but VP or a picked the bull into 1-T free fall.
That's true, but for me that's a different level, right?
That's a different level.
Like Twisted Vise is a team, is like, I think VP are smart enough as a team to know that,
hey look, TM might be down, but they are not out like that.
No one is going to look at the squad as a free win.
Especially given the resurgence they've had, like thinking about Champions Clash, they
look flat against Crazy Raccoon the first time they matched up, and then they just pull
pull out all the stops, pull out a strat that they hadn't played in months, and yet they can just execute on such a level.
You can never take anything for granted against twisted mines.
One loss doesn't mean much in the grand scheme of things, especially if they're able to right the ship now.
And Alcatya, it's gonna be a little bit less of the all-out aggression keeping this Zarya variant.
And I actually don't mind it here on Circuit, right? A little bit more flexibility.
You've gotta slow the game down when needed here on the Zarya, and the bubbles give a lot of agency to players like Tej.
Good pressure as well on to the tank if it's something like a sick or if it's TV and T going for his staple diva because at some point
You know TV and T will be swapping on to that hero is Katya sacrificing a lot of the distance going for a closer hold
So quartz won't be as contested in terms of distance
But because Katya start off on the defense, they do have those corners to the other instant claps on the TM
So UB called in with the TP, get TN past the problem areas before the Vendetta and Tion can tear them apart.
And Corks now in prime position to start chunking down Capsi as players.
TNT sticking with Vadeva, just catching the kite.
Capsi trying to run away from Corks, directly run into TNT, and TN clean up for a fight very quickly.
Yeah, I mean putting Corks on that high ground, Tion tries to deny it, but I mean you saw that Zarya bubble.
his really paltry compared to the full strength of Twisted Minds fighting as a group on top of that TP.
Holding the line for Quartz, and now Quartz takes a wide angle. This is where the Sojourn can really get to work.
Let's see ya.
Mmm.
They have a lot of aggression in this comp, but catching the Sojourn so much easier said than done.
Basola's found a bit of energy in the pre-fight though, so it's actually not looking too bad.
And TP comes out here, puts Quartz on the off angle, but that means his crucial skill
not available if the fight does break apart.
K-Jong forces the slide, but that costs him a ton of resource, and it's just not enough.
Of course, he connects the rail on the exit, and you can see it.
I mean, they've thrown a few punches here, but they have gone wildly awry,
and Missola can't even touch the point.
He's going to lose his life for daring to peek.
Tristan Hines, pushing with a vengeance here.
We looked at this hobby.A, this could be pretty decent, but it has not worked.
It's just the smogal, right?
The moment I can't see a lose control of that frostbite space,
and again, they don't have that space to work with in the first place because you could just
align quotes of free paths. Still keeping with this composition though, so quotes yet again,
uncontested on range, it has to deal with pitch on. You try to jump onto TVNT, pressure at the
diva, but if you're not looking at quotes then you won't be missing those shots. And honestly,
at this point in Fiketsia, I know you're closing up to us, but I would really prefer to see something
like a soldier to try to keep up with what Quartz is getting away with because at the moment it's
literal murder. Yeah I mean how linear this map is there's very few options now Quartz swims deep
into the angle to grab just barely touches him on the absolute edge and get the TP out instant from
Yubi the reaction immaculate dealing with that Zarya in stride and Quartz still then disconnects
a shot off the aid before he exits. Now T-V-T's starting to box out on point. Pristola super low
the corner, gets the body, gets the ray, maybe it's enough to brawl back in as if this might
still help you to get out of the suit, but the symbol ensuring that this fight is not
impossible to the defenders, but that's maybe not enough to stop Abe, who somehow finds two
getting into the backline with the sense of he feels free and clutching that fight out.
He looked so dark for the defenders. I thought he was done and dusted, and Abe just pulls out some
magic to keep them in on this second point. That was a crucial fight to win here for Katsuya.
I mean TVNT was totally absent, right? He was having to remake from self-destruct on point, which means he's not there to absorb
That Xion ultimate, TM now forced back having to deal with poke
From that Xion, but still looking to see how exactly the engagement of Taizong on this vendetta fares
TM could honestly just bait this year the vendetta early, get the kill and then walk five versus four
bubble engagement. TM simply run away, but Kat's here at least by some time with it. Simply using
that rush totally on Naxx and Tejong, just totally dead.
TDNT has lost a suit, but still is still healthy. Tejong down, but this is absolutely winnable now,
but can see it. TDNT's not really going to kill the tribute much of anything in this fight,
and Yubi does grab a kill to keep things going. I like the grab on the BBT, but just blocking up,
making sure that there's no tank kill we have. Yubi fighting on the extremities, doing so much,
It's so little if you're on the Symmetra with spawners coming back in,
Tejon back quick into the fight on the Vendetta and it will be enough to hold.
Well piloted from bestola, burning down TBNT, dominating in that fight,
showing some of the promise of Zarya as difficult as it can be to play against the Symmetra.
I mean, this is the punishment for the D.Va as well, right?
When Tien just have to walk onto that objective, they have to walk directly into the Zarya.
So the fact that Caps here are sort of using this Vendetta engagement as fate
to pull some of those resources and then save where actually counts.
But we do have the OC from Quartz, Katz in no way of fighting this.
No symbol to be able to shove it down. No sandbag to survive it.
Losing Tejong.
Aola has second rush in this fight,
which means that Katz will be able to try and hold this base,
but Tian, it's like getting that kill into Zox.
Do you know what's down there? I think that Gala's rush one-sided.
Disengage and wait to replay into this next fight.
Gala, absolute hero to grab an individual kill in that fight.
sorely need, I mean, it's just keeps finding these openers, but it's not enough now, Yubi's
sin wall.
Boxes can see it into a corner, how do they respond to this?
They're trying to stall things out, give out as much cart time as they can.
A, dancing around with the fight, the sundering blade comes through the wall and actually
puts on big damage on the Yubi, follows it up, can sell, or continues to find kills in
these fights.
That is almost a guarantee, and yet, hold on a second, might be enough to overwhelm, maybe
yet one more, because the bubble is coming in, A dominates, finally, getting into this
fight with Ultimate Unlock, the Horde is pulling out absolute heroics and it is not enough,
you know, rare sight for Twisted Mind, pushed back off this second point, time and time
again.
I mean, TM just don't have the same TP to be able to get into a position past Katia.
The way that they had to break this form position within the first fight, Katia has
so much fighting space, so even if Torch gets one, they can find trades usually, simple
with the rush though, KHTN's go with the stola, with the grab they get eaten by TVNT who boosts
directly into the Zarya's face with Matrix. TM, they commit the sign barrier just to guarantee
that they win that fight and head to third. Big play from TVNT to get that E, Kassia denied
the opportunity to stall out the rush and now have to hold on third, which means yet again,
Problems issues of collapsing on top of the soldier from range before quartz takes down too many to be able to win the fight
Quartz an open sight line with the OC Tejang doing his best to block this up needs a lot of support to do so and maybe has done just enough
They can wait out the OC in the relative comfort of the angle the Stola
Swings forward not afraid the soak one and now he continues to keep pushing on keep snowballing to this couple quartz is claims one
inevitable here on the Soge. Now a D-Vet attack comes in on the back line. Zox needs the bubble from the Soge that is being healthy.
They've earned themselves a bit of a bastion of strength here on the outside of the map, but it's far from the objective in the cart continuing to roll.
Twisted Minds focused on the objective, wanting to win the map here. They can get the cart past the defenders.
It would be very awkward for the Soge, who's trying to peek down from this high ground,
sensing Fijang with a bubble to assist. But Twisted Minds so mobile with this call, they just refuse to be caught.
And that's why cats don't invest rush to build atm off the point because then it would be rush simply disengaged
You wait instead of the team to be too deep
invest too heavily into these fights to use this
Simple building up to rush of his own to more than have to keep fighting taking all of that damage
But a to uncontested on the high ground sets up damage onto you be zotra to follow up torpedoes takes this and down
And Tian, they're running out of time, they're running out of players.
They'll try to disengage this fight because they know they only have one left.
Nice positional play from Tetsuya, keeping that high ground control, always threatening the rush in the enemy backline.
Yubi is just holding this TP so deep into the fight, knows that he needs it when the ultimate starts to come out.
But Tetsuya kind of calling that guap in the last fight, just getting a lot done without really popping on.
So now they come into what will be the final fight with the full bang.
Of course, he needs another hero play, but he's been asked so much of here in this series in this map.
See ya. But the defense here, in advantage. I mean, it's up to just the vines to break this setup.
Tiam trying to push the cart. No high ground can tell Pat the moment he kills a bit.
So, from Yuvi, the kill on to A is good from Kordz. No spray, but Tejong.
Yuvi's using that Thunder and Blade! Takes down Yuvi, takes down Skimple!
From the F, held the B. Had to wait for that Bandetta ult to be done, but Tiam just don't have the players.
He's using self-destruct to try to get it back and it falls yet again onto the shoulders of Quartz, gets the OC pick onto Zox.
He's a back through running out of that ult, aids back up the spree, the Zarya bubble just run him directly up the sojourn,
and Katzia will be able to complete the hold.
They do get a hold here on the third and final points, some incredible fight back on second really to keep this map in contention,
to run that clock down. It's an insane clutch fight. I mean, Quartz was just
fighting pick after pick, like opening with first pick fight after fight. That is not normal. I mean,
it's a possibility for Sojourn, and for Quartz, he feels like an inevitability. But in this fight,
man, just to fight both of them, it's forced into an overtime touch on cart, and the sundering blade
is there waiting for you. Another end of view ball position here for the offensive twisted
minds. Now it's their turn to get the much more comfortable defensive look, but for Concia,
the way they play, it feels like they always want to be on the attack.
Yeah, they're so aggressive at the start of those fights and it sort of feels like they pull back, they wait for Tien to be that far forward that they can't just simply disengage when ults or resources are used off of things like the speed boost from Astro or the simtp from Yubi.
There's a lot of good potential for Katya to be able to break around these corners early as well, but for Tien, like you're wanting to play the linear fight, you're wanting Quartz to be in perfect position to get these kills, one kill onto the attack, force them to have to wait for respawn, burn them out of time before they can take an open fight vs fight and start building up some of those alt resources.
Just admins the signature style. Now Quartz can hold down these angles defensively.
He doesn't have to pop his skills just to get into position, so a little bit more gas.
But one of the best on hitscan to work with.
For Concia though, Aide has been immaculate here.
I mean, Tejax has to take some tough deaths, and he's basically tanking on Vendetta for this squad.
But the front line pressure is very real. TNT is putting into a brutal match, and Artin loses half his health.
with the play again. They're deep into the back line with a TP, but feels half-hearted at best.
Quartz has a nice little cheeky angle on the side of Hedger. Could be big, but not
being presented with any easy opportunities does connect the shot, but not good enough to finish off
Zox. And TM go over to the Ram. TvNT recognizes. This matchup is too hard.
Yeah, like for TM, Quartz on the defense is great, but TvNT having to play contest on that
cart has T.Va into Vendetta Zarya impossible. So, T.Va and T. moves onto the
ramp, has a little bit more agency, will be able to survive longer and give
foot a little bit more space to be able to work with. As the Gala already dines
Zox following no Juno, no Speetering, T.M. will look for even more kills, try to
regain some of the space they would deny having lost that first fight, and
Katzio falls back into spawn yet again. Yeah, an opening kill in the Kirikou,
So about as painful as it gets, Vistula back to the Maga, maybe baited out this matchup,
wanted to see their Amatra come out first, so to see a little bit of back and forth
swapping from our tanks across these heroes.
But for a moment, you can see it, have a real confident advantage, love this forward push
from TM though, they're not yielding up any ground for free.
It would be a little bit scary if the attackers can slip and ask them, but Vistula recognized
he's got to clear out this high ground, order of operations, has to be consistent, has to
be straightforward, but all this time has earned an opportunity here, simple, very close
to a Katsune rush.
No, dude. You can see I have theirs as Twisted Minds are on the retreat here trying to keep this fight in contest
Both Kiri's barreling towards that crucial ultimate
Who will come to fight her?
I have a advantage though with V-R-E-C
Rush from Senkou answered by Gala, you be using the Slammage Tanks, late Kat Sia
Big damage on Steven and Tiva, he's still alive and puts the holding of Sgt. Ult as well
Kat Sia, try to lose the Kirikou ult, being caught off by the disengaged group that's Senn Tp
It's trying to make a big play with the spree, but Quartz shuts down Tejong mid-air.
It's in the backline, but totally taken down.
Quartz, now with the Sgt. Alt, is trying to blitz through Vestal's half-other.
That was a very expensive fight for Tian.
They threw in literally every other they had charged.
I mean, Quartz is a demon. That kill on Tejong was crazy.
Like mid-dash on the vendetta that's coming up to contest him, and he just finds the headshot.
Needs it, I think, in that moment, and maybe he doesn't get that kill.
Taeyong's gonna be all over him. Just in mind though, you mentioned they blew a huge portion of the bank.
As you can see it gets to regroup. This should be an open and shut finish on the first point.
They need some kind of hero play on the defense to hold this one.
Taeyong's such a threat here, the Sundering Blade. It's hard for FUNNYASTER to get that beat value.
Frontline trade already, putting a lot of pressure on TPDT, has to put the block up.
Getting very defensive here, but it's allowing a lot of space for this DPS to rain down damage to TP.
His players out of the cage by his shield, still finding value.
The solo comes through trying to dive on top.
Sundering Blade too threatening and just defeats TDM team.
Sound Theory meets nothing in the face of the Sundering Blade.
Now, Bunny Astral called into question on the payload,
and the orbital ray is just doing devastating work.
Twisted mines, a decent attempt on first point.
They run the clock quite low,
but when the economy comes back there,
it swings with the vengeance.
Wow, TDMT back onto the diva, problematic for their solo.
So, interesting if when he next dies, he swaps back to that Zarya, as Gala, simple, will have to rush matchup, Malga slamming in.
Simple, using that rush instantly to try to melt down the tank and the backline before Gala gets the opportunity to answer back in the TN.
Will be able to totally take away Katsy with momentum.
Just as long as we go for the swap now.
But does he stick with the Malga? No, it's counter-swapping time.
This is just going to be a continuous back and forth between TV and Team Vastola.
So who has advantage on the tank, though?
Yeah, each team is going to get these like one-fight opportunities
to make their tank advantage actually pay.
But just in mind, they aren't scared.
The OC, I'm sorry, can do about that and the shots just rain in Vastola.
Can't connect them.
What is that?
Teijang, how do you play against this?
Insane little Grail connection from Khorzi.
Gives them the confidence to go over aggressive though
and maybe that's actually pulled his team into a dangerous fight. Gala will place Kunai, shuts down Simple,
and that puts you on a massive back row. Without the Kiriko, the game has completely changed.
Swisted Minds running through the hills, just trying to stay alive.
Port does he have the mobility, not quite, to get out of this one, and it's an uncharacteristic staggered death from Twisted Minds.
It's going to be one fight here on this second checkpoint.
You don't have to make this SimWalk count because it's really all they've got.
Yeah I mean it's huge the fact that Katya able to regain momentum while still
holding on to things like the rush and the spree. Early teleport from UV, some
wall. Dali using that rush to hint you're trying to live with the matrix as long as
possible but the solo with the bubble will be able to keep that D.Va mech totally
in check. He's got the softest drugs though. Will drop it now. Aid not taking the
opportunity to use the spree. They go to the same TV bomb Katya making sure that
in position to not get caught by it. A does die, but Tejum's already been in position to come to
UB. Simple with the rush, catching no answer to this. Zox would delay investing everything
that counts. You have to try to win our first fight. That's all it is. He's clutching. He's still
healthy. He's got the right to work with. Funny as proposed down, Zox binding the last answer in
the teamfight after having the beat. Just come through the choke and Vistola stands the test.
Saw that push coming with feet back off the payload for the chase to come in and it turns
into a dangerous overextension.
You can see a fighting for their life in this map,
but they're doing incredibly well, winning that fight,
drains the Converse of Twisted Minds,
and this third point, I mean,
the final attack is gonna be a little hard for Zarya,
but this intermediate stage feels very comfortable
with the Stola, especially with the grab available.
It's like he drops it there, tries to get something,
does get TDNT, kinda slows him down.
Not the most decisive of engagements,
but maybe just good enough from a Stola and Pajon
to continue brawling in the low ground,
But no finish kills come in Twisted mind is gonna be decently happy with that one trying to farm up those ultimate
He's on now get to the front last
Now this TV NT go for the contest here. I'm choosing that moment
TV NT splitting cats use players linecourt's formal space to be able to work with but not able to complete the kill and stage on that time Ryan
I mean that up to news
And then it feels so free and I think he's getting the D-Mack on TV and he's gonna have to be a self-destruct just to get the race to
really nice find from cage on that's an ultimate that TVNT would love to have
especially giving the overwhelming pressure that Zarya puts on there's
really no ground to give at this moment it's up to Quartz baby as it always has
been. One minute left Quartz with the OC Katzia time and up to disengage it.
Rush from Gala could be the answer in play.
TVNT easily able to lose the mech that you don't have the self-destruct there's the
of the clock, Katzia, with the Juno speed ring, looking to disengage, which wins nothing
except allowing TM a little bit more time off of Katzia's bind.
Oh, the rush is going to be backbreaking here, Twisted Mind's nothing in the bank, the rush
comes in, overwhelms TDNT, he's already down, Patreon, deep in the back line, set up for
a sundering blade.
To finish this fight, Twisted Mind's few players still alive, but they're dropping like flies,
Vistola, full HP on Nazaria, a celebratory Babatron surge, and we are going to 5 at Sia.
This striking finish on this map came down to some clutch moments with the minds getting very aggressive at times
But the deathmatch is there. Let's see it on an individual level
Stand tall to compete with some of the greats on the other side of the field as they bring us to map 5
This series is starting to feel like anybody's game monkey
I told you like the later that this series goes and the less bams that he can get to take away
from this bandata composition, the more I think that they will struggle.
Legitably have the sports videos. Like, legit, it doesn't have to be this.
This is a cop where it is so hard to play Soge, there are people running you down 24-7 with sorry bubbles no less.
It's 39-37. I mean, I don't know, people, I think I've played it quite so long.
These are crazy stats to have in a lost map. That is pretty disgusting for them.
Yeah, but I mean for Katzia they're able to work around it, right? Like, yes Quartz is able to find some of those like really big kills, but Katzia are still able to stabilize in the fight, they're able to stay on top of TVNT as well, like really punishing.
I think Tien's comfortilty with both the diva, but also the Lucio.
Yeah, it says a lot that they're coming back.
This Vendetta is such an issue against that Lucio.
Yeah, it says a lot to me that they're coming back in the 4v5s, right?
Like, even when the push goes against them, they don't get scared, they don't slow down.
If anything, they up the pace, they up the pace, they're like, okay, you might have found that kill,
but that means, hey, the rail is extended, somebody's going to soak that shot,
and we're going to keep on coming, keep on pushing for the finished team fight,
and the Zarya comp fights pretty well, even with the DPS down,
their roll-ups are pretty quick, they're coming back into the fight.
This moment, I think, was an opportunity for Teijon to get a big clutch under some
withering focus fire in this particular map, but find the impact here to finish off Circuit Royale.
I mean a lot of bands have been expended. I twist the minds that they're going to get the map pick,
which is something nice for them, but it's hard to think what you really ban at this point to
significantly change the tenor of the game. Has the Sheehan band been used yet?
Sheehan, they haven't banned Sheehan yet. That's like I think the only thing that they can really
look at that or potentially the Juno. Yeah, I wouldn't mind the Juno band. I think there's Juno.
I would quite like the Juno like that last fight. If they did not have the Juno's beatering to safely disengage that overclock
Ports could have clutched it and TM would have been able to like find enough kills
But you at least force Katz here to have to wait to ingust the rush and then you can look for more
You can bleed them from players you can bleed them from time rush will come out
But maybe the team is not alive to be able to capitalize off the back of it
And like TM have not really been playing that much Juno themselves
So I think if you remove the Juno as opposed to removing the Shion
I think there's like, there are two options available.
Xi'an Ban or Juno Ban will have the largest impact
of what they have left available,
because, I mean, let's be honest,
the Vendetta Ban would probably be the most impactful,
and they burned that first.
They did, I mean, it got them a map win, right?
So it did its job, but Taizong now unleashed on the Vendetta,
should he choose to play it for the rest of this series?
It's also the consideration for Twisted Minds of,
do they wanna play a completely different style?
They're gonna take us to Runosopy,
but I don't think that says much about their intentions here
on the final map of the series. I mean, there's still the possibility of Cat Bastion. There's
the possibility of TBNT on a Sigma or even a Maga. Like, TM are not limited in terms of how they
approach this, but it's a difficult puzzle to solve. You know what you should do with TM?
You should ban the Juno so you save the Cat, because Catsy haven't already banned Bastion.
Haven't? I can see about them. Cat, am I crazy? Maybe they haven't yet, so that's a good call.
I'm pretty sure Catsy have banned the Bastion, but they left the Cat available, if memory serves.
Yes, it also protects their Lucio, right? Which is a band which would be another option for Kassia
Maybe if you don't want to ban Lucio, if they want to bring this high-paste, they'll be one of the speed sports
But yeah, this consideration is not easy
Maybe it's a ban. So Kassian still are cat-casts as well
If you want to play for courts to stay on the Kassidy have those fly-by dead eyes
I don't see the ban here honestly.
I don't see the ban here honestly.
What do you ban in this situation?
Yeah, like you can't ban the Lucio, which I think would really have hurt Tien.
You can't ban any of the DPS picks that matter.
Support bans are blocked.
You can't ban that.
Support bans are totally blocked.
I guess it comes down to me.
I mean...
So like you're probably looking at what?
You wouldn't ban the battery this off because you would play that.
So you would, yeah, maybe go for the sick.
Actually, Ramatra actually could be a good ban here because it opens up the Zarya to be played
Realistically without counters because typical of the ram I think comes out as a Zarya counter in some of these moments
Would you want to play the Zarya into cap Aston?
True true. I mean, I think you go for the Mauga
I think you play the Mauga and you take out the six which I think
We may just be in a cap Aston mirror based on how they still have flashpoint win
I think this may have to just be a cap Aston mirror
I think both teams may know this comp is just too difficult to deal with all these picks up the field
There is still the threat of just pay like Cassidy's in this map
I mean, maybe that can straight up change the narrative
We have seen if the tides start to turn in the meta where these top-level Cassidy's actually can threaten the cap
They can threaten the Bastion and as teams get better and better at dealing with these sweeping flank maneuvers from the jetpack cat
The effectiveness has gone down pretty markedly from where we were like a couple months ago
go with just you know really the players getting better a couple nerfs coming in
against the cat and Bastion as well not being quite as efficient in the combo.
Yeah I've been with a cat see like it's a risk if you don't roll out on the cat
Bastion and TM do off of how snowball heavy that push is like if TM win the
first few fights and secure forwards spawn off of having one side of cat Bastion
and only then do cat see a swap they could lose the map lose the whole series
off of the back of going for that miss player.
I do think, I mean I'm really curious to see how this actually plays out because Twisted
Minds, they played this like wild comp with the Cat Bastion and the Symmetra.
I would think that's not good in the mirror.
I would think that's very good against non-Cat Bastion comps where the CTP's mobility really
is valuable.
But if you're just playing an all out dive, mirror Cat Bastion, is Sim really going to
get that much value?
I mean this is the Ubi we were talking about so if there's value in the hat, he'll find
it.
of question whether that's actually gonna be the most effective look if Amir is
what that would could see a gopher but could see it really they started as a
cab Ashton team right that was kind of how they cut their teeth and then they've
really gone away with it and we got away from it rather into a much more
straightforward aggressive rush style that has been massive for them right
they're here in map five against twisted minds on the the cost of potential
cost of winning the series build it and the momentum has also shifted pretty
drastically right winning maps back to back it's been a long time since you
Austin map broadcasts. Yeah, I mean they're gonna play with a lot of confidence here.
Yeah, I think TMS momentum as well sort of came to a screeching hole off of
circuit because like it probably feels like a really weird circuit map where like, okay,
we have player advantage, we can push, we should be able to win this, then you don't win the fight,
and you're sort of like scratching your head trying to work out exactly what went wrong,
why you weren't able to just use that player advantage to totally steamroll the other team.
So I'm sort of like not surprised why there's a little bit of downtime between these two maps
because I feel like for TN it's not just about the composition that you play,
it's also can you coordinate your players after having experienced that really weird circuit
where you probably thought for the longest time that you were on the better composition,
you totally shut down Capsi's comps and you felt like you had the advantage in so many of those
fights and ult engagements I think the main falloff was the fact of like Vendetta ult just put
funny astro sound barrier to a total standstill like that lucio alt might have been muted for how
impactful beat could potentially be when you have to deal with knowing that blade is waiting for you
on the other end so someone even with beat is being sacrificed for the bandetta alt to look at them
and not the rest of the beat. Both teams now so much to play for not quite yet in the position of
having the mid-season championship on the line, but there could very well be a world where we look back on this match as being decisive for that contest to come in playoffs.
Both teams want to set their mark here on this series. This is likely going to be repeated again in playoffs, and with how many of these games in EMPA this stage have gone to five, truly anybody's game, TM going to stake their fortunes on a cat-bashing and could see it respond in kind.
For now UB is gonna be piloting the same page on covering the on run and I wouldn't mind on run in this style
Hmm, especially with the manga
To vendetta at some point though if TV NT plays this diva
That I think would be like the difference maker
This is the thing that we've seen between both of these tanks
We saw it most prominently on circuit like vessel on the magazine TV NT on the diva swaps to counter
And then once TV NT realizes that vessels off with Margaret swaps to counter as well
So this first fight one comp will say whoever loses tank likely going to be changing up
Snowdive by kills just yet
DVMT
Flying by to help port take a down and that's a huge advantage for TM. Yeah big connection
So if I could be happy not much of one DVMT pilots his way over to the mega pack is never pick a quick reset off the edge
if he so chooses
I'm gonna rejoin his team in the fight, but that's a decisive opener.
Quartz and Astro, they have been really solid with the Cap Bastion, finding opportunities to get aggressive.
And D.Va has a much better tank at supporting that hard initial dive into the enemy Bastion.
It can kind of fall off me.
You get more damage in.
It was low right on to 8, so he goes so low.
Oh, he has very good poke in his own right though, so it's actually a pretty interesting matchup to see played.
And Tejhan goes over to the Sin Mirror, so I guess it will be played here in the Cap Bastion.
You be setting the tone here for the stage
That's all stays on the mouth up the problem is like what do you slam on to as your engagement?
Okay, here you go with a 70p away early for an engagement very early for me
It's going down, but quartz is traded might potentially pick up after at the same time
But the cat is flighty very hard to lock down and Katzia so much attention was going down onto the cabastion
That's all it is pulls
Yeah, it's the nature of the battle here.
Gilt comes in, but it's a little bit too late.
Zox trying to just boost out of here.
Funny Astro plays his life, but the cart rolls inexorably forward.
Checkpoint is picked up here.
Can't see it.
I mean, these fights are close, but not quite close enough.
Tristan Minds though, I mean, the checkpoint, not enough to secure this just yet.
They have a lot more to play for here on RutaSophi, and the Bastion Fight is where it all begins.
Zox and Funny Astro feeling each other out, trying to find that opening advantage.
the rushroom simple on the checkpoint. Vestola overwhelmed here to surround the flank, hit from
all sides here. The Cat Bastion had been picked up, pulled into the sky, and aid their artillery form.
An ill-chosen time for it as Quartz just deletes him before the shells can even come down.
Yeah, T.M. just reading. Katia wanting to try to play that retake with the Cat Bastion give Gala
an opportunity to build up rush. Spot Vestola out alone, isolated in a position where Tejong is
not going to be able to safely carry him out. So overwhelm that Mauga. There's Quartz looking for
the Cat Bastion. Now, TM will have to respect Gala's rush, again one-sided. Flyby from Quartz has
plenty of cover to hide behind, but now he gets aggressive. Gala's rush comes for UB with that
symbol not going to be able to guard though against Vistola's slam into the port damage from the
bastions of team dynamics and don't have the TP to safely disengage their players have to continue
fighting. This all slams onto point, uses that cage, hopefully hinders up TVNT's movement. So
course defensively artillery strikes, but TVNT still loses that mech. Crucial fight to win,
it started to feel like Tristic Minds were going to run away with this map and the series
with a win for Alcatzia, but instead they roar, they find an opportunity to keep this one
really in contest twisted minds low in the economy game there's a couple tough
fights ahead for them yeah but you've got that rush right if you're tm and you
have that distance lead to so Katya have to respect what simple can let tm get
away with early fashion engagement from ports as well to cross catch me to turn
respect the bastion give freedom of space for simple's rush but what's falls
Katya losing no one until they lose gole now which means that Zox is the only
The only form of support for Cassia's whole team has to be split away from AID.
Cassia just stole up on the objective with the solos Malga and TN on push and mark.
TP comes in, but the solo strikes straight at the heart, a quick pick up on the Kiriko.
Gonna be dragged so far away from the team out of range, I think, for a TP, yes, and he will go down.
AID and Pajon scrapping on the extremities, everybody low, but Kha'Zia come out with a deathmatch victory
that sorely is needed in this map and they're gonna start to equalize some of the push pressure
start to threaten this first checkpoint and bring the map back into contention.
Aide has the artillery strike to just try and zone TM away buying a little bit more space for Cassie to work with.
Pods onto it for now, Gala goes to half, does not fall.
70P's actually already been expended from Tejong, but still not going to be able to get carried away,
goes down early in this fight yet again a 20 equalize gets the artillery strike kill onto
UB Katna from Astro onto Tejong dragging him away off the map so trades the team getting more and
more kills just trying to stop Katz here from winning at this fight and getting those forward
spawns more than mappy to just brute force brawler. A decent clutch attempt here from Katzia Aide with
a nice artillery strike kill but in the end I mean the soloist charges in and died in the first
moments of the teamfight this comp unforgiving for Maga beat so much incoming damage and not really much in the way of
Sustain now be twisted mind-striving to eye up. He potentially even a deeper push on this map
Worms exchange on cart big trade in the sky but the sim wall makes all the difference boards
No chance for him to go down in that one finishes off both members of the combo
They could see a nothing to say in this fight self-destruct also used by TV at T
Keep him healthy, keep him stable in the mech, but the cart pushes forward and forward closer and closer to this archway and it passes that point.
The map starts to feel truly terrible. Here comes the rush though, from Gala.
Simple's already down, finding a really good opening connection from Bestola.
Is he trading in the front line? Big stop, you're on to court, and a small behind will be the backup that they needed.
Just in mind, throw the rush in, don't get much of anything, rebuffed by Katsy.
Yeah, that Mauga damage from Vestola and the survivability.
When he's playing inside that Kiriko ult, TVNT having been forced into using self destruct
already was not able to get the extra life and now you don't have it as well.
When Vestola looks to cage, if Tian not trying to contest, that's him fly by, no sim while
this time to guard ports, so he drops, Aids able to keep himself alive too, drops to the
the ground, the team pressured by both Astro and Thimple at the moment, but that means there's no
healing for Yubi, so Gala jumps on the opportunity, Kat's not got a lifeline grab from Zox! We'll be
able to keep Aids sky high and in this fight, in fact Zox actually with the melee scratch kill
onto Astro, Kat dip, did someone say? He's thinking of going off the map, but a little bit of indecision
from Zox, and he's kind of alone in this backline, put some pressure in on Quartz, he's some nice damage,
But it's no way he's getting that one done himself
Rolls the car forward a little bit without his better half here in
Bastion something much in fight to be had so you know in the end it's some heroics in the cab fashion
But the balsam of the fight you be a TV and T profit and there's no real pushback when it comes to the objective
Yeah, and you still have to walk into this door is cage
But you be with that same TV should be able to get them all away from it early cage actually from the best
Zox, finding a couple victories here in the cat 1v1, a rare sight here in competitive overwatch.
Just in mind though, if you look at biding their time, I mean they throw an artillery strike in, but you don't really care too much about that ultimate.
Even this first checkpoint won't be had without a proper team fight, but 80 wants to begin that very early.
So nice aggression with the sumo, kind of locks him out of the engagement.
Court strikes to come back and put some counter pressure down there.
Artillery strike later than over the top, he's going to drop that twisted mines bastion.
TBNT though finding yet more kills, these chaotic deathmatch engagements, massive opportunity for Hiba to profit.
Now, some beautiful strafing from Yubi and the support behind him, and the train is cleaning from the Stola, but just not quite enough.
Aid left on his lonesome encart, not long for this world either.
And Twisted Minds is starting to feel inevitable.
Katsiya just struggling every time they get on the offense. It's just stagnant.
It's unable to really turn the tides here on Ruta Sapia.
Map that Twisted Minds have won in crucial scenarios, time and time again, starting to feel preordained.
I mean, it was also that early kill onto Gala, so that Katya had no late rush in the fight from TVNT.
They'll have rush now though, not using it just to access while they're yet again looking for the engagement,
pointing the cage, trying to catch the players, but Gala is dead, so there's very little follow-up.
Despite TM's players being caught by that Mowga ult, they'll be able to find the team kill and push for even more distance.
As Katya have to wait for Gull to come back to use this rush that they've been holding on my for three fights in a row.
It's really painful, Moxie. And I mean, TNT gonna grab some cheeky extra meterage here, gonna back off and play the more comfortable engagement.
Katya, they've got a rush, but not much else to their name. So much as Asport here, Twisted Minds have just been consistently clutching out in the death match.
feels like TD and TN, UB have been the difference makers.
Tejong battling on the Smetra zone, showing genuine fight.
Lot of early pressure on the Vestola, and Tejong in the Respondent to rush, feels defensive,
but TD and T goes down, has to pop out of the suit,
drops himself, strikes a TP board on top of his colleague, cannot escape, but hey,
this time he's the victor of the Cat Bastion battle,
and that will be crucial to keep you alive in the series.
Gala gives his life to Tejong fighting, but seems to be well worth it,
that leads to the cleanup. It is overtime, just a slever of a chance for Katia. I mean, they have to do something they haven't been able to do at all so far in this map, which is to make a deep run in enemy territory in TM, with just about everything they could ask for.
Yeah, the ults are so against Katia, like you have symbols so that Quartz wins the duel against Aide,
then you have symbols Rush on the objective when Katia can't disengage it, the ult on the rush instantly.
Just wanting to go back to Rascal's hit once now, pressure on Vastola, trying to get the kill onto Mauga,
cannot be tempted from Zox on Quartz, but he's able to survive.
And Tian, they haven't been able to kill Mauga just yet, but they have killed the rest of his team.
Yeah, not gonna get too much done on his lonesome, just gonna be ground down.
You didn't see the hold on, he's still in baby Demo form.
Gala reaches out to grab back, you'll be on to the Soldier 76, but I mean the Stagger's are so desperate,
Galscone cannot move off his payload.
He's set on all sides, his shout is gonna be his last hurrah.
Eventually just cut down Soldier back to secure this victory.
And what a match from Twisted Minds could see up course them to the absolute distance.
Even with Forts firing on all cylinders, they get to map 5, but they cannot finish their plate.
Twisted Vines are just too solid in these clutch moments.
Huge plays from the entire team throughout the series.
Kassi has shown themselves to be a genuine contender for playoffs,
but a contender for now is all that they are.
Twisted Vines lock up the second seed, not first where they'd like to be,
but good enough considering the way the stage began.
Yeah, but we can see like that power divide between like our second and third teams.
closer than ever before in EME with how far Katya pushed them. I really do feel like that Juno
band being able to safeguard the cat and also take away a lot of what Katya have been relying
on engaging with that Mauda was huge for TM to be able to totally dismantle Katya's comfort.
Yeah, I mean this really came down so much to the fans, right? I feel like this was really
evidence, both teams making their homework, doing their homework rather, and having to
really ban out the strength, which again just makes it so very exciting, especially when
the series are going longer and more things are back on the table. I feel like both teams
have carved out their own way over the last three weeks. I've found their identity and
something that works for them and something that the other teams now have to deal with.
A lot of the threat in the Cap Bastion comp, something new for Twisted Minds, and it proves
to be crucially valuable, of course, it's an insane tracking at times in this duel,
and coming up with the goods more often than not, but it feels for me, like, even though
it was off-camera for most of the map, considering how much we, you know, the Cap Bastion combo
really is the critical element there, TD&T just kept finding kills in those scrappy deathmatch
fights, like he kept profiting, kept coming up with the goods, and engagements that were
not easy, we're not straightforward. Ubi also showing incredible experience on the sim but
matched pretty impressively by Tejon. So I mean these two teams clearly the gap is quite small
but it's just enough for team to get it over the line. I also just really love the resurgence of
Vendetta. I think a lot of teams have been struggling dealing with just their all-out aggression
and teams like both actually Katsuya and Twisted Minds like they do love playing this aggressive
that you've been playing
for a long time. I mean, I
think it's a good thing. I
think it's a good thing. Yeah,
I mean, I feel like EMEA, even
if you play different heroes,
we do just love playing very
aggressive, very in your face.
Not a lot of patients with
things like the reckon ball
compositions. The she on
vendetta that was starting to
see more and more of the
Sebastian as well, which we
have very quickly adopted
after Japan. But I think
when their previous other comfort picks were banned out.
Very much looking forward though to seeing how exactly
Katzia will look when we see them in playoffs,
if more and more teams will start moving towards
that she-on-vendetta composition,
which is proving to be so problematic
because yet again, same composition,
they pull two maps of a VP and two maps off of TM.
It really allows you to punch up and take down
some of these top-level teams.
It is never gone, it is maybe the only way they will go away is if they eventually decide
that if you're being grabbed by lifeline from Kat you can't use any abilities and it's just
purely mobility.
I think he's filled out of like super lightweight, weird material, like it's the future, like
the future.
Kat is just strong, Kat can carry dog, like I've seen enough, you know, like, carry
Reinhardt, Dave Maga.
Yeah, Cat's been hitting the weights, you know.
So it's a waste of minds.
They're back there in their winning ways.
Everything is back to what we're used to.
You know, we're used to seeing those map 5s against Katzi as well.
And you know what else we're used to?
Fanny Astro for post-match interview.
And it never gets bored.
That's the good part of it.
Fanny Astro.
Welcome back.
Are you like the only guy in your team who actually wants to talk to you?
To us?
I think you mean, you can do it yesterday.
Yeah, you can.
You can.
Okay, I'll give you that one.
Funny Astro though.
This was a really, really close one.
Obviously, that's kind of what we always expect when you guys face off against Kotsia.
Walk us through the comms, the mindset, the talk in your voice channels
when you were heading into map number five.
What was the focus on?
I mean, I think in my head I knew we were always going to win the first two maps were really dominant
I think we sort of just like sacked off a bit on map three and four and then we come into map five
And we're really really strong on Cap Bastion. We're super confident in that mirror at the moment
So we know that we're gonna play that come from there's pretty much nothing they can do about it
Yeah, certainly felt that way on map five you guys were just undeniable
You know keeping your opponents ever from really putting the map in contest
I mean, did you think that the series would go this well for you?
I guess in those first two maps you're expecting that to kind of run through or I'm curious as how you guys see your own strength right now
We heard a little bit from you be about you know
Trying to rebuild from a rough start to the stage given your historical success
But how do you see yourselves now going into playoffs second seed, you know, it feels like anything could happen
Do you think you can unseat vertus pro for that top slot?
Definitely
We're improving so much every single day and it's like I feel like it's obvious
When we're playing well on the maps that we're winning we're dominating on the maps that we're losing
It's just like, just little small mistakes there and there, like an Ajax little here and there, things, things happen in game and then you end up losing, but it is what it is.
I'm super confident we're going to come into playoffs and have a lot more stuff prepared to beat VP with.
I think for me, as a support player, what was it like having to play into that category of Vendetta, Xi'an composition?
Like, how does it change how you have to approach things?
like I just saw the widening of the eyes.
Is it fun getting a Lucio playing into Vendetta
knowing that Y'all is essentially
just going to go the wayside?
Yeah, it's just impossible to be honest.
Like they just keep releasing DPS heroes
with 300 health, infinite mobility
that can one shot support.
So it's like, ah, I just play a mini game the whole time
of trying to run away as fast as possible
and see if we can survive every single Vendetta turn.
Yes, it's rough.
I think I want to go back to a Tracer meta.
I feel like it was way more fun.
It's always low-key a Tracer meta though.
Like she's never really gone.
Yeah.
She always makes a meta.
Exactly, Tracer always somehow.
I mean, she's on the logo of the game, right?
You can't ever nerf her too much.
How do you deal with the Vendetta though?
Do you guys have a concrete idea of like how to shut that down
or is that, oh, it's just going to come down to bans
and then off the back to survival?
I think Cap Bastion is pretty good against it. She's got a sword and doesn't have a gun and you can just fly away
And it feels a lot easier than trying to play anything on the ground
It seems like a pretty solid solution for us at the moment, but I think we're gonna find some more solutions going into playoffs
They're super excited to see what you guys have in store for the playoffs
Who do you think is gonna be the three teams making it through onto the mid-season championship if I'd ask you for a prediction there?
Us, VP and GK for sure
I think the top four is about as contested as it's ever been in maybe any region I mean
the NBA right now I feel like any of you you four teams at the top could actually make
a deep run at LAN so fighting for those spots is going to be extremely competitive.
I think GK will sweep it.
Okay.
Sweep it.
Okay.
advice from Funny Astro, tweet at them if he's wrong.
I think Kinsir just one maps against us today because like we played badly more than they were playing well.
I think you can have a better chance.
They're like, they have heroes that they're really confident on and when they get to play those heroes, they're a really, really strong team.
I think they can use that to beat Kinsir.
Well, we'll see. The playoffs are just a week away.
Funny Astro, thank you so much.
And once again, congratulations on the dive.
Thank you.
always a pleasure hearing from a funny Astrone with this victory with the
Binds did secure the second seed in the region that means Virtus.Pro cannot
be choosing them as their first opponent and that puts Twisted Binds
potentially one step closest to making the mid-season championship. That's not
gonna be easy though for any team I mean for VP as good as they've been this
Even for them, it's not a free pass, right?
Like, you know, Katia, GK, Twisted Minds,
they've all shown unique styles that have looked very scary.
And I think things can always break against you.
So for VP, their pick here is going to speak volumes.
Who do they prefer to match up against?
Who do they think is the weaker opponent?
Do they agree with Astro?
Do they want to go up against Katia?
Just rock their world?
Or do they think GK maybe is a more vulnerable player?
I mean, this is one of those spots where being the number one seed,
for me at least, it doesn't feel that amazing
because both the teams you're up against potentially are serious contenders who I think are likely going to go down in at least more than three maps.
I don't think you can expect to sweep anybody here.
Yeah, Moxi, what are your final thoughts? Because I know Jake will be joining us for the playoffs.
I don't think you will give us the summary of the EMEA region for you personally.
I think VP remains at top for me. They've shown a lot of flexibility.
But as Jake said it doesn't feel great seeing them match up against Katzia or GK
Because both of those two teams have played the composition that VP looked pretty rough at so I think for the next week
We know what VP will be doing as well
I think we know what TM will be doing playing a lot of jetpack cat and probably looking at one exact
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Does that look like a team kill?
Good with him.
Nefs is mad to get trained now.
He's going to be an explosion of death.
With the hands of the Dallas Fuel.
That was impressive.
And they get the touch, here comes the engage, Psycho with three!
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The cabinet are late with the frag off, the pick up comes out, over the carry.
Empty got through 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!
OWCF 2025 World Finals Champion.
Welcome back to the OWCS.
I'm Zoe, joining me are Jack and Johnny.
Who's ready for the last day of NA?
Well, I assume both of these since you're here.
Yeah.
I'm all ready.
Yeah, you put on your best.
Your best sweater, cardigan, Johnny.
Jack, cardigan, cardigan.
Cute.
Cute.
myself in my office. Wow, they're in front of you. For the audience? Yeah. You gotta look pretty for all the Twitch viewers out there. Yeah, of course. You gotta put in the work. You can't be like math and wear like hoodies without them. I'm wearing a baggy piece of shit.
That's your brand, t-shirts.
Yeah, and Matt's brand is a hoodie and your brand used to be turnip mix and now you transition
to new carding, so I think it's really a go-well.
Yeah, I know, I'll make the scripts.
So, it's all good.
Yeah, some mistakes were made by a bunch of our teams as well, hence they find themselves
in promotion and relegation.
That was so mean and so necessary.
Uh, I like to have them here.
Let me go on to something positive here.
I guess that's my friend, that's okay.
And hasn't she though?
Looking good!
Looking good!
And that's why they earned themselves the top seed yesterday.
Jack, can any of our M18s take it to them?
No, it doesn't feel like it at this point.
They've only dropped a single map,
and that was against the unlikely cafe.
So, you know what?
I think players are gonna go pretty smooth with them.
There's such a small amount of time
in between this weekend and next weekend.
I think it's about five days. Don't check me on that one. Um, but I don't think teams are going to be able to
Kind of right. Well, since you have put up the table
Yeah, this guys are officially out of playoffs contention while dallas secured the third seed and
Slotted the playoffs and we're going to essentially decide the last slot of a team liquid versus the cafe and johnny
You're a believer in the cafe. Is that correct? I have it on good authority. I was last week against the skies
enough this week.
So am I billy with this week?
You know, okay, I'm not counting them out.
I'm not counting them out.
They have a good opportunity against Team Liquid.
If they, if you know, if we get into all the nitty-gritty, like math differential stuff,
they have a chance here to actually beat out Team Liquid and, you know, I'm not counting
them out.
They look good, doesn't it?
Okay, so you're like a believer adjacent.
We take that.
Yeah, I'm just filling in everybody, you know, I just, I just spread belief everywhere.
positive. Why not? That's cute. I love that. Alright guys, we have a lot of great matches
coming our way today and of course all these teams are fighting in order to come out on
top and make it to the mid-season championship. That will happen in Paris in a month or something.
I don't know. It feels like it's really around the corner at this point. 16 of the best Overwatch
teams in the world that's right will be participating in all those festivities and you can join
us as well. I will, I will, I basically second home I lived in Paris for a few years so or Versailles
so Paris adjacent but yeah I'll be happy to give you a little tour through my old stomping grounds
and you too yours why not you know if you get your tickets on sale right now we might
We'll be hitting 10 together. That's a false promise. Either way though, you used to code 015 for 15% off.
I'm a good server.
Yeah, it should be a fun time. It's actually a month tomorrow. It starts on July 29th.
So, yeah.
You were crunching the numbers.
It's the 28th today. It starts on the 29th of July. Come on guys, it's not possible.
It's got the phone app, like 27th, they used to code.
I'm ready. I was waiting.
Every morning.
You know there's a website.
Well, anyway, doesn't matter.
Let's talk about how much I'm very worried about it.
I'm really, I'm struggling with numbers,
so I need every help I can get.
I also sometimes struggle with Overwatch,
and that's why I just listen to you guys waffle about it,
you know, I'm learning so much,
just listening to our casters and analysts tell me all I need
to know.
So Team Liquid versus the Cafe.
And Liquid, if they win, they're out of the woods
and into the playoffs.
So that's really the spot where they want to be in, but they've been struggling at this stage.
Yeah, they have. I mean, they have started to find their groove a little bit here, I feel like.
This is such an interesting team because they have such a rock-solid identity before they made these player changes.
And now integrating Kivis into the backline here with Vega, and then also rotating in attack as well.
I feel like they're kind of trying to figure out their new identity, which can be a real hard thing to do
there's a new hero being added into the game and there's like meta shifts every single week
and so their task is not easy but recently I feel like the tempo from 3-0 of the tracer,
the she-on, it's been so good for them and Kivison Vega flexing to these like carry Juno
compositions, it's starting I start to feel like they're finding their groove at just the right
time and they should be the favorite against Kivison Vega. Yeah and Kivison Vega they've
definitely had lots of brilliance to stage as well though so there is an opportunity for them
I think it's a chance. I don't
know if I'm as like forward
for this as Johnny is, but
there's a possibility of Ryan
to go on the she on, and I
think what it takes to be good
in this matter right now is
having good she on player
a classic when a new hero comes
out. It's kind of busted and
she on is going to be
antithesis of that. But I
you still got to think that
liquid are going to win.
I think it's going to be a
to win. You've got to think
that liquid are going to win
name value alone. Team value
alone. It's surely surely a
liquid w and they just need to
win. That's the thing. Cafe
needs. What 30 they can they can
make it through. But if it's a
32, it's going to be a bit
awkward. So ideally they don't
go to five if they want to make
it into the playoffs. Yeah, it's
actually going to get ready
If the 3-2 is liquid, where overall map differential will come into place, or our third tiebreaker,
that's the map differential, as you can see on your screen right now,
then it will be tight if that is 3-0 lunax afterwards.
So it's not just on that, it's also about the result from the next match.
We'll have to calculate map score differential, which could get a little messy,
but we will cross that bridge when we get there, hopefully not,
not because again math on stream it's just very scary I don't I don't like it but yeah I mean
there is definitely a world where it could happen it's not impossible I think if the individuals
are popping off look at you Ryan then there is a way here for cafe to do the potential offset against
the still somewhat struggling team liquid we're ready for our first and a match of the day so please
Johnny, Jack, take it away.
Dang, we just jumped right into this one.
Johnny, that's in close games in EMEA.
Hopefully here, Kafe are going to give us the same kind of thing.
Like Zoe said, there's some weird maths that needs to happen, but TLDR, Kafe,
if they 3-0 or 3-1, they're through.
If they 3-2, they require the Dallas Fuel to 3-0 Lunex.
So I'll bring that up if we go to a map number five again, so I'd refresh over this memory, but we'll get under control first.
Sigma man, Team Liquid, it was their map pick as well.
Cafe and Lucio.
Yeah, Team Liquid has really wanted to shy away from the Sigma compositions and instead play their preferred and roll.
Interesting to see how this Lucio man is going to change things up as well.
There's not really necessarily a hero that can play with.
Has been wanting to play as much, even though you see them play a little bit of everything here.
Look, there's just something in the air, Jaws.
You know, sometimes you get this eerie feeling
that an upset is about to happen,
but something big is about to unfold
in the Overwatch Esports scene.
And I kind of, I have a hint of that vibe.
It's just, there's just something in the air.
It's just, do you feel it?
Do you feel it?
Could be on the brink of Team Liquid missing out
on events two times in a row.
No, don't say that, man, there's no way.
It's just out there, it's out there.
I'm just saying, I'm feeling, it's an awkward feeling.
I'm glad that we're seeing Kappa play P, K and Ryan here, look at this Sochan and Shion.
This is pretty, it's going to be tough for Liquid, I think, especially with Infected
on the Maga.
That's been the go-to pick from Pector the Leaf recently.
I think with how Mag is performing, Risen is definitely a good spot for Kafei to run,
or a good hero to run in this situation.
Tree with the nice little Wombie Wombus is trying though to start it off and
that is going to be a nice little Grape's 2 completely out of position.
They tried to end up, they tried to what? Flip? Sight there?
T-T-T-Bag already?
It's map 1, fight 1 and Tree's bagging him.
Yeah, it's going to come down to the damage first a lot here, so...
You want to establish Domins earlier, I suppose, if you're Tree in this one?
Because as much as we can talk about, you know, the backlines have been really interesting so far,
the Maugus, which are coming back to there, it's going to come down to the damage from there.
Xion has been incredibly impactful so far this stage, and this final match of Tree going down to 5th stairs in an open territory,
this is, uh, this one talking about one thing like that, it just changes everything.
You got a return of favor now, all 5 players from Cavani, you see that Tree?
Very, very fast, uh, capture there.
How did 3-ended I'm getting caught? Is he just too far out of the way by a stair or something?
I mean, you're going to the place.
You're trying to push up and trying to secure the place early and leave yourself vulnerable, so...
This is something... I feel like we... we kind of saw that yesterday as well, George.
The Lordy Spikes are just opened up by like a stray pig.
You know, that feels like that is something that happens in this meta quite a bit with the Shion.
Yeah, we got the Pope meta, we got the Pic meta now. That's what we're... we're gonna go with the Shion.
I mean, the right click is just so disgusting regardless of Pop-Fix or not.
It's still gonna one-cap somebody already getting down to half-HP.
Seraph's edge on the point, we'll close two.
Gonna be a rush that they're just playing on now, but focus down, and like I said that.
Now they're very top-decks here this problem, so it's fair.
Stick from Seraph, so good though, Ryan, PDK dead.
Givis managed to stay alive as well, so bruh, just the amount of healing here from Team Liquid is just so prominent as Caffe.
Ended up losing support so early.
3's down, the Sniper's down to about 0.8 feet, still juggling the point though,
Caffé give it up after 50% is secured, and not too far off for another re-engaging.
Yeah, and I liked that Sniper decided to stay alive there, didn't, you know,
commit to the point too much, they can get back into these real quickly here,
infected though, got a cage fight here, didn't he, so look at where it...
And he's screwed up as well, here's the charge, cage fight, inevitable here,
and there it is, straight to the spree from 3, and only grabbing one player grapes.
As I believe the Orisa was fortified, slightly out of range of the cage.
Yeah, fuzzy flights pick up. Cage, spree, easy kills, team kill for Team Liquid.
Okay, the cage is going to need to swap over to the Cassidy here.
It's like they want to take a bit of a slower approach with Sniper,
and move it over on towards D.Va as well.
The Orisa has been a hero that's been kind of difficult for Team Liquid to deal with,
especially yesterday as well, so, can respect some more Orisa throughout the series.
But it's going to be the D.Va for now as Caffe, put the slow things down.
like 90% happens a lot of the time.
I'm just saying, what the value you're getting on facts.
Yeah, that's, that's fact you, but yeah, you know.
Oh, oh, that's actually got caught by the way.
That's more little replay there.
So he was just too far up.
He was just bagging in the spawn.
That was a mistake.
It's about look after the bag.
It is a bad look after the tea bag
and like three or four people
like straight away in the first fight.
And then you immediately get picked,
immediately humbled. I mean, yeah, I go back to that conversation, Johnny, I agree with
me. No, a single person went all in, maybe they did. I like 77,000 channel points from
one top predictor. It's a one to 11 return points.
That's what I'm saying. That's, that's crazy. I know there's some risky people in chat and
they, uh, they spurs to channel points and between these, like this one, it's kind of
like, you know, when peps qualified from World Finals, like no one had there on the bingo
card and then you know a couple of offsets and then some of the peps are world finals you know
but like this is a similar scenario here with team liquid they should be the better team
but the fact of the matter is they haven't really found their true form yet and this has been a good
meta so far for cafe I mean we're seeing Ryan do plenty of work on this shield hasn't quite got
going yet the change up here in the back line for team liquid you know there's a lot of mobility
with Vega onto the cat and Kibis onto the Kiriko here as well. So the pace is just unbelievable
from Liquid. It feels like Cafe haven't quite figured out all of that just yet.
Yeah, it's a little technical issue by the way from one of the players, so should get it so it's
in a moment. Hopefully nothing too crazy. Hopefully no one's motherboard is blown up.
Hopefully. Should we get bigger first? I would be pretty bad actually and then shorting maybe around
and trying that and then you have to pay $20,000 for 16 gigs around would be very sad. Don't forget
no I was going to say talk about the troves but you've finished your account already and it's all
good I think we're going to get into the game in just a moment. Yeah I like that how do you like
the cat in this kind of combo with the Kirika? I think it's I think it's real interesting because
there's no there's no backline there's no liquid really target now because there's so much mobility
right and so there you have to work these angles and you're already seeing me for here.
Oh no!
How's that?
Yep, does that help?
Treat him though.
We're going Ryder, wheelie on the spotty.
Quickly, nice chance.
Pegas extremely low as well.
Ryder is always the free kills.
Not quite.
Scott ends up cleaning it, but Ryder looks so good on the shield right now.
I mean, even Weeds was speaking about it in the interview yesterday, how Riot has been up there with the top-rated North American Cheons.
Team Liquid do lose the fight. Infected is going to get back in and get the touch too, so no immediate flip actually responds to with the rust with their own.
So Kiddis is putting Infected into a good spot, outstrain the backline, get the one shot on PDK after running him over with the bike.
I'm sure it's PDK as well, so that's going to be an expensive medical bill after that.
Yeah, it's going to be overtime, Sniper, D-Magedon, very late into that fight, so Team Liquid, I'm going to take them out.
Yeah, it's an awkward situation for Cafe to be in there, because they need to get the point touch,
and that is just going to benefit Team Liquid in the end. They can wrap around the enemy team, and you saw their freedom, a lot of work with the bike as well.
But I feel like Cafe, slowing things down here, recognizing that if P.D.K. hits a couple of shots on the tree, on the Syrah,
You know the initial kind of dive threat from Team Liquid is gone and then you can slowly gain some positioning across the map here
So I don't mind the diva swap. Maybe just a little bit too late on that initial round is zero. It's 13 and zero right now
That's real nice. I did well actually Johnny
Here's a while they roll out the game. So here's a quick question for you because you already mentioned about a Rissa being this
Hero that team that could kind of throw it against. Do you think she's the best zero in the meta right now?
uh, in terms of tank, or like, where'd you right-
Well, okay, not the best, okay, but where'd you right now, in the meta right now, uh, for...
...for the moment?
You're definitely meta-vival, because you can see here, in fact, they're just running in.
Okay, and on this scenario, actually does survive with the Kodak Overdrive, like, one health.
But that would've been, like, a good opportunity, when I can reach, like, and get, like, stuff to log in as trapped,
just try to survive as much as possible.
What is this, Matthew?
I'll take you for the matrix, and, well, it's going to benefit cap players, a two versus two situation.
I actually think Stikr could contest here.
They've been wary of the spawners, now they've got to go for it.
How did they get survived so long on the cap?
Oh, it's got the cat-strap perk and he's just dominating it with the backline.
But it takes it's already back, despite dying, uh, what, second in that fight?
So, not complaining about that, it's Team Liquid.
Now he's complaining a little bit more, 3 takes off by Ryans.
Wow, Ryans had his number over the last couple of deaths here and faked it.
Yeah, it falls by the wayside again.
The fight kill onto Graves with extremely scrappy affair again with Sniper.
Being the main lynchpin of Cafe's success is gonna keep himself up.
It should be a point cap finally. Close fight.
Anybody gonna touch? Touches? Again! What is this?
What is this extended first fight? They've not allowed Cafe to cap and
size of backs off so that progression's gonna get reversed completely.
Well, they're still contesting here and we're starting to come up with this all
with this consumer rush. Sector from Graves here, maybe.
The cat is in as well.
There's the Sanctuary, Chains are going to get locked up like great to try to lock down and fake it.
They do end up backing out the Sanctuary, so they're able to fight back into this now.
However, they've all used their rush.
Scott needs to get this rush in about 10% or so, but who's that best going to be disaster?
Chased down onto Tree yet again.
Both Sion's already dead.
PDK without a recall.
Ends up picking out the niche health bag trading.
Kill onto Zera here would be perfect for Caffe.
Gibi's going down as well, looks like Team Liquid should eventually lose this fight.
Picked it down, Xeraphore's okay, there it is. Finally, the point is getting a cap.
The longest first point cap I've ever seen on control.
What a joggle back and forth.
Adria speaks to the mobility of some of these heroes as well in these fights.
Both teams doing a good job, not overextending too far.
Giving them self-conpertunity to contest the point once more.
They're gonna get the ultimate so far.
Stuff has to get Xerar. Xerar with the blade, onto Rion.
getting one that's perfect okay you're happy about that maybe even a couple
that's all that is a awkward rush and stuff only three of them alive sniper
decent on the rush of course everyone's gonna be even I don't be thrown in by
three hit the spree onto greats gets the solo like isolated kill on the
Mizuki is team liquid with a flip is sniper lives to tell the tale backs off
gets healed up and you gotta say it's a great dragon blade by syrup identifies a
spot and gets value with it a frag or two is really only what you need there
and as you said you drain the kids to the restaurant's got as well so liquid
a good position here coming up on a good situation
spree from Ryan he wants me to treat and I think to where I would imagine
Kagan's coming out there's spree that's the high ground but in the middle of the
cage. Ryan's gonna have to jump in to do some additional damage.
Hager ends up getting a picked off. A lot of that, uh, and decent spree damage was just
caught up on the cage wall itself. Another late rush this time from Kiddies. The fight
is a long done. There's Ryan. Yeah, there you go.
Okay. Let's see back at the end of the fight.
Ryan's definitely being competitive with three asses. This is lead. I mean, gotta say this
Meta is so high tempo. This is one of the highest tempo Meta's we've seen in a long time with PDK over onto this tracer now
These support players are dropping it to rush expecting the fight to be prolonged and then they just melt outside for her, engaging. PDK, I hope you'll stop.
Sanctuary, bike kill onto Chibis. Now they're just fighting directly inside it. In fact, it's got no way to run at all
There's no hills incoming. He's relying on his Kodak overdrive to keep him healthy
Yeah, I gotta agree though, Johnny. Yeah, it's gotta be one of the fastest Metas ever
If it was like name a faster meta
Yeah, I mean there's so much kill potential so
She is always going to look for an opportunity to get one of these frags
You got a tracer combining on the side of cafe as well
So much first damage
Builder to tear down one of these support here 75% here for cafe. They're building force to get two rushes
And we couldn't go for a contest here
He's going back from Cyber Sector in half of a game
Yeah, it just pops out on the point net
Cyber has to retreat force to
3 pdk dashing onto the point to try and stall out
there's an additional percent scoff gets run over by the maga charge
as lion dips in the back, hits the spree as soon as that deflect lands off
that genji is useless in the face of the vendetta
speaking of which ryan gets the kill on stream it's free too
so this is cafe taking this round there's no one hits touch
they're thriving at the chaos draws it really are thriving at the chaos right
now they look good and Ryan you know does he have the best sprees in North America I feel like
every time Ryan is playing a game it just pops up with a spree and secures a kill it's able to
drain the opponent abilities and when there's no defect available there's no suzu available
that's when Ryan identifies an opportunity to go with this suzu and look right here for example
defect gone ryan finds a pick and then back to the fight with it i'd say he's up there yeah he's
He's got a good mind for how you need to position with the spree.
Obviously, you do get a couple of dashes too, so getting into a spot where you can deal maximum damage
or even isolate someone is really nice.
It's a tough ult to run away from.
Being chased down by that spree, there's no hope, though.
So unless you TP or you have some sort of cleanse or invulnerability or something,
it'd be very easy to get picked off.
Trees sitting at 26 nade, by the way.
Ryan 27 and 9, 3 inching out in terms of damage at the moment, only about at 1,000.
You gotta say it's well Fidikei doing a good job on the tracer,
keeping up with 3 and 0 for time being as the event flight.
Tracer 2 go engage there, both teams poking and prodding, we call Sousus,
at least one of the 30's out, see there, almost got the Misuki,
but us decided to be disengaged. We have another round here Jaws, where both teams are going through the test.
There's Arrow, but Solo won that fight to Team Liquid, forced the Sushi, the CT, and then
her pressure on Grape so he needed heals.
I mean, the three double there is nice on the kill, so he looks pretty, but that was
all that this area felt like, at the very beginning of that fight, forcing out every
cooldown imaginable.
Yeah, and if you get to jump on the enemy team, you force out the Tracer we call, which
is a bash fight, or something like that, that is an opportunity for you to push through
Push that tempo to go engage and use that to your advantage and result Team Liquid did a great job in that opening fight.
So once again, you'll see these damage players poking prod from these different angles to try to drain those resources.
Going off angle again. Alright, checking the tracer.
If you want to overextend though, take a kunai to the side so you have to stay a little bit more cautiously with her.
Under 100 HP or close to.
There's the backline already, nice heat from Cybert.
Double that postbomber Ryne, he's taking pods down that cage, but where's the support?
Where's the backup?
He heals anything!
For his base to their prime stay alive.
The bite from Ryne plus the O'Bell from the dash as well.
not only so mobile, so tanky in the front line.
In fact, it's sitting on, or sorry, Team Liquid is sitting on about 70 plus percent.
Cafe get their first look at this round.
Now, it was Team Liquid that time who thought they had an opportunity to engage,
trying to get their late pick up the zero here.
And they really went for it, especially going with the Mauga there as well.
But Cafe did good to hold on to sanctuary from grapes.
And then Ryan, cleaning things up late in these fights,
these fights, finding a way to stay alive and not get picked early. That's been a big
recipe for success for cafe so far.
Yeah, it has indeed. Now let's see if Ryan can get value with this ult. See how his
sprees rank first with the very best in North America. He became looking for somebody there
because spree already isolating a player in the back line. It was Kibbitz in the end,
sending low enough for Sniper to finish him off, but it looked like Team Liquid. Not
I wouldn't say baiting Ryan in by any stretch of the imagination, but this is a state of really felt there by cafes
They just not able to take out anybody else else
Yeah, online teams going aggressive
They spot an opportunity and they go for it rather
But that time did not work out for cafe 90% here draws and cafe has to touch PDK is gonna be late as well
So Tracer won't be it
Yeah, I'm sure if there's a touch scuffed already forced to teleport as well as this error is gonna go hunting seems the healing off
from afar, so knows exactly where the Kiriko is.
Looks like Infectors can try and open this one up with a stomped dash,
as soon as you're used by Scarf, no CD's left, kind of running for his life right now,
but the team is nice to flip the map almost, but it is 3 and 0 again and again and again,
now finally opening. Team Liquid's a victory cage there on the point, they're gonna find the first map.
And this is what we wanted to see from Team Liquid, we knew when they step off the tempo
and they have the opportunity to play the Malga things are going to be in their favor
That's what I talked about yesterday even if they took a loss it felt like as SSG
they started to grow into their roster they started to find that identity we
saw more of it here. Fantastic play from them taking initiative with the
party of Overdrive. That's going to benefit them as a secure first map.
So look at the board are we looking 3, 37 and 9 versus 33 and 12 from Ryan.
a little more damage. Deserving the CVax is what I'm reading here, Johnny.
I think there's going to be more of that. More of that as the season goes. I don't think we have a 3-0 on our hands, there's just, this is,
it's decided we're going to go 4 or 5. Obviously, cafe, they don't want it to go 5. They want to win this one in 4.
Yeah, 4 or less, ideally. But yeah, it's going to be a minimum of 4 games.
It has to be 4.
We're happy for exactly exactly. He's so right about that. I love how we get the first two clips are
Tree getting kills and then
They know they can play upset there obviously they're fighting for a win a double you here will make sure they head to playoffs
And hopefully to an international team. I mean there's only three spots available
It's been a hard fought for team liquid for a little while now
Yeah, I mean you will have two opportunities in the stage playoffs to qualify for the mid-season
championship as the top three actually do advance into the majors. So if you got four teams,
you know, you take a loss in the upper bracket, you get another opportunity in the lower bracket
to beat out the other loser in that initial round. So if you're, you know, a team at cafe
and you get the opportunity to qualify us, like a fourth team, like that would be massive. You
just have to win one out of two matches to qualify in the end. This is an opportunity that you really
can't miss you have to take advantage of this one yeah and with how the
international competition is stacking up it's gonna look like a bit a different
matter going into Paris as well like it's gonna be unless there's a hot fix
again where they nurse you on more I just don't think that's gonna come so it's
probably gonna be no maybe I think all things balanced
the game. All things balance.
She is all just the one thing
that is balanced. Yeah, the
shift is still probably the
best part of a kit giving her
a bell. I'd say, yeah, maybe
the maybe always the most
balanced part of the kit. Um
but I can't imagine we're
trying too far from what we're
seeing now on our screens in
terms of that, at least from
region to region basis.
It's pretty nice, you know, the meta is really good right now.
You know, we're seeing a lot of meta's that we haven't really seen for quite some time.
It used to be that, yeah, we saw some variation of like, you know,
from Ultra Brawl or like, Neva or like, Winston Dive.
And I feel like now we have a really high tempo composition with like, the Shion Tracer.
But then we also get Jetpack and Bastion, we get Sigma and Suki.
There's like a lot of weird kind of compositions that we're not too familiar with.
And so I'm not really enjoying the meta right now. It's like diverse, but at the same time it's very different from what was on the music.
Escort with attack coming in for infected. This is their escort by the mantra or circuit rail mantra. They always have attack in. So we are going to see a Zarya band from cafe sojourn band from TL. Interesting.
I think the Soju would have been played a lot here.
I think Cafe, you know, not minding the Soju and the Shion front line, but I think Soju
is really going to impact that much.
You know, PBK, on a good day, PBK can rack up the overclock, racks, maybe you want to
show away from that.
Like, I feel like Soju, not of all the hitscans, Soju is like the hero that you kind of like
form test on.
What's the one I'm looking for here? Like if you if you have a good day on Sodorant
You just take over the game and so you don't want to like vibe check the enemy hits down and be like
Are they having a good or bad day? You don't want to give them an opportunity to just take over the game with shotgun shots
Yeah, I yeah, I'd agree with that. Yeah, like a good vibe test a good kind of
I can just join the server, you know, dominate. Yeah, exactly. But how good is your his cam feeling today?
Put one Sodorant and they'll tell you that kills again the feed like
I don't think they're too fast about getting it out super early. There's a lot of bands that you're like, okay, we have to very strategically pick this one on this map or like, we kind of screwed and I don't think so just going to be that one.
There's a lot of bands that you're like, okay, we have to very strategically pick this one on this map
Or like we kind of screwed and I don't think so Jun's gonna be that one
So team liquid gonna have a lot in their back pocket moving on
Through the series, but let's go on to circuit Johnny attack in the mix for team liquid obviously cafe stick with the same five
Yeah, and expect them to slow things down a little bit here or liquid so we saw the end attack
for those slower kind of compositions here. This is one of those interesting maps that
Team Liquid had a great identity on before. I talked about it in the pre-show. You bring
out the double effect support, you know, you can play some Elarion, like really slow things down,
play pretty poke heavy, and now bringing Kivis into the mix here as well. Maybe demand a bit of a
compositional shift here for Team Liquid, and so math they're getting accustomed to. You see how they
Square up and he's tapping on the top.
Go on, Ryan.
Play this for more than five seconds.
Please.
Mmm.
Good night, kid.
Ha!
Clean.
Yeah, not fun too much.
Yeah, he literally didn't leave his board doors.
Oh, can you get on the hunt, though?
I like this.
Okay.
Oh!
What?
Oh, the Susie!
Wait, wait.
Haha, what a guy, what a mega guy!
Wow, this is all falling apart, this may defense with the wall, I mean, good luck, I mean, the attack was over really low.
Oh dear, it is.
It's, uh, even the work I think, in the-
I feel like if you lose this initial fight, it can always be excused, it's like, oh, we stole the card for a little bit here, so, attack's going to die,
Syrup goes, uh, it's like, Johnny, they did not steal the card, by the way.
We stole the card for 35 seconds, bro, 35 seconds, that's what we got.
Yes, they'll be in these ultimates, but, yeah, we stole the card for 30 seconds.
I got an image driving!
Xe'ra, I think Xe'ra just got timings there in a weird way
where he had wall ready to deploy and then like, kind of, whiffed it
and there was like, oh, maybe I've got the Kiri and then the Kiri just db away.
Awkward. Awkward stuff.
So good this is actually pretty bad news for Liquid here.
I mean, just look at the ultimate difference here.
Scuff disabled to build his Gintruder quickly,
pdk can put pretty safe here or something, so...
There's one good engage here for Liquid and deploy this AWOL,
but it doesn't yield fruit!
And now, to help us get back, this cafe can build this rush in peace.
Yeah, I mean, pretty much.
What, 10% away now for scuff?
You just keep hitting the ram, you just keep hitting the D.V.O.
It's taking a lot of hope damage, and you just hit for a 5-man rain gauge.
That's exactly what they're gonna do.
TP forward, rush around the corner.
I mean, Tino could not be ready for this.
Even if they add an ult, it might be pretty tough to fight on this rush.
You're hoping for like an ult for Rageblade.
Shoot in the corner, PD Kado goes down.
Eric, hitting a headshot with a right click from across the map, three repositions with the bike, half HPs, grapes, and then Kivus just finishes him off with a little blaster.
Ah, despite that early rush advantage, getting a headshot randomly like that, yeah not a good start, PDK needs to be alive there.
Well, we can both agree that that should have been a fight wing for Caffe. I mean you get a kid's hit rush against nothing.
That should be cafe securing the first point cap, but maybe dropping it a little bit too early
Giving a pack of jukebox with that lock from the rematch draw and now something liquid
They're five ultimates on the defense that could have been it Jaws
Well these dragons really gonna do it for PDK
I mean putting through the little gift shop area might not be too bad
Well, it's kind of what he's gonna do trying to catch someone off guard take it with a very quick teleport straight into the sanctuary to
And now even more treacherous Brown needs to be crossed. There's gonna be an orbital raid from Kibbit.
They're actually just gonna trade raids and now Serah's focusing down the mech. There it is! Insta-Blizzard!
Self-destruct. Sniper can't even hit the Q button in time to get back in next.
Annihilation, just the cherry on top for Team Liquid. Heavy, old investment. 4cl, but you know, same can be said for cafe.
They only gonna have this rush. They've got a Shion ult, which is to be fair, maybe.
That's the fight winning moment here for them
That kind of surviving here. What is my back line? Yeah
Oh, here comes the screen from three just so many shots gave me up on a diva matrix
But PDK still falls straight to the shield and now here comes the rush
It's gonna be more effective
You've got to imagine here for cafe that wall is proving quite the obstacle for them to move around
that even Zera jumping into block, they managed to survive it thanks to Nemesis form and Mages being so tanky
another fight from downtown is cafe. They are just not finding success whatsoever and that cannot be understated
too many big ults is not finding value
The walls will be really good against liquids composition error
Soldier
Something to open up some of these fights. The Han Solo is not quite doing it with the shield and now 10 seconds to go
cafe needs to find something
I'm writing his front line to hats get to do
Okay
Does it five alive and sniper had mech
Johnny I've been there he says that was this that was a C9
come on you'll know what happened yeah they all cut off bro yeah we know what
happened there five players didn't touch the point yeah it takes one guy to touch
that point yeah one fever with her mech to touch that point yeah I've been
there snipe it's it's not great it does not seem good
Every point in life of the tank player, that's C9.
Johnny, I'm looking at you.
You're talking to Twitch chat right now, you're encouraging bullying in the Twitch chat.
Yeah, because you're the tank player, buddy, that's not fucking the point.
What are you saying?
She's saying emotes now? That's how far we've descended.
Come on, that's what society is doing right now, we're all just saying emotes.
That's true.
It's the slang in Big 26.
in the big 26 it is this time I mean yes just unfortunate there for sniper I
think thrusting back on to the point you could see the D for the very end but
yeah it's just cafe now in a really tough spot and they're going for a
Sigma cop with pure poke PDK and running the May there's everyone with these
with these teleports and with a ram too this is a tough ass for cafe to navigate
around soon as Eric gets on top of your tank it's gonna be it's gonna be pretty
jover yeah it definitely feels like liquid has to be taken to the pond here
whenever with the symmetric teleporter in our cafe always have to be stopped be
wary of these big rotations coming in they're doing a lot of pulling for the
time being but as soon as they drop down as soon as a couple of abilities are
used here liquid are going to go on the back of that and here they go three hops
on the bike throws it in they're now on an off angle too so you're looking if
your cafe what to cycle these mate walls sniper being able to hold on it's going to
require a whole lot of support to just even stay alive this is gonna get deleted
almost instantly thanks for the mantra TP out for Vegas he tries to take an
aggressive off angle whose team liquidate put themselves in a spot where
this is a one of fights an amazing blood to play sniper though oh that's so
quick nice to isolate the kill onto attack
Now they can't lose anybody, with the fear of them trying to fall over and in fact this
sanctuary is going to help them secure a kill on to Scyper that's fully pulled up being
from Zera.
It's just too much damage, orbital rape, it's double in fact, it's a 3v2, Ryan's suit
below, no tanks needed here.
As Kafe now to deal with this wall, Scyper is back, realistically on the dooms giving
a one touch, not quite.
liquid speed run to victory on Cirque Royale.
That was his dominant, as you like.
If you're wondering if Kassowars does any coaching, well, there's your answer.
There's your answer right there.
It's really a very smart Remarch for a May composition
to make sure that you can block all this damage from the Kastunarosh,
you can stay on top of the cart,
and you're kind of forcing the enemy team to open up with these picks and PBK
just wasn't able to on the Huntsville 3 and 2 here in the end.
So I think that Team Liquid, Dave, did we have coaches now that are very smart, like yours?
Yeah, really, really smart.
I really hope we have this one, you say.
It was a tough spot, they were losing the fight, and they felt like,
you see they were all kind of backing off a little bit.
Oh, here it is, okay, so what does Sniper do?
Sniper ends up using their D-Mexor plus back to try and peel for his frontline,
and then, yeah, it just stepped off.
I think Ryan was trying to get to the point too.
Yeah, sometimes you just pergo, yeah, that's right.
You know, it just happens.
You're like, oh, right, I gotta touch.
There's, you know, four seconds remaining.
I need to get one of these touches in.
And it felt like Sniper was too busy with other stuff in a stressful time.
Yeah.
You've got to feel for Sniper in that situation too,
because you're trying to do so much on the Diva.
You are trying to, even like push the enemy tank around,
like matrix your your back line and then also trying to touch the point to in a heavy
against heavy poke like yeah real rough for cafe that johnny i've seen worse than you say
what was that about i think it was johnny i think it was look you said you said you tell me all
the time that c9s aren't fun and aren't like comedy and aren't fun to look at no i just feel
bad. It's just Swedish, Swedish us in me. I just feel bad. I'm like, I feel bad for snipers. So like,
when you say point the laugh, I'm like, I've been laughed at. I'm pointing a laugh at you, buddy.
I'm pointing a laugh at you. I'll be showing up the snipers locker tomorrow and be like,
it's fine. Don't worry about it. Don't worry about it. You'll get it next time. Yeah, unfortunately,
stuff there for cafe, they end up going down zero to seem liquid look like they want to
just run this up real quick. Let's have a look at the new drops as well on the Twitch channel and
the YouTube channel I believe too. Never get to connect your Battle.net account to your Twitch
channel and YouTube and earn these drops on your screen up till July 2nd which is Playoffs Week.
So, yeah, make sure you tune it.
With the pattern.
Let's see the trick.
Yeah, get them all.
Get them all. Get them all. Get all the drops.
New Junk City is the bit here.
We've seen a couple of substitutions come in.
For both teams, in fact, this time around,
we've seen Astro come into Sniper,
a normal replacement as well for Team Cafe.
As we see Astro play more diving tanks more wrecking ball of a secret a little bit to them there
We're also seeing infected back in for attack. So yeah, and apart and parcel what we expect from cafe to
To be swapping in and out and same with team liquid
Yeah, we got a little bit more brawl on the side of cafe here. Let's see what they got in store for this one
Like you can obviously, you know, be pretty stable playing the brawl if you want to bring out the reason
bring up around something like that. We also see a little signal so far in this meta. Obviously,
they're going to shine away from that here by something you've infected, but there's
also a little bit of a change to the way the series has been going so far. I mean, it's brutal
to lose that second map, because now you're in this 3-2 scenario, best things you reverse
repeat, but you're still reliant on Dallas Fuel and Lunix to advance into the stage play
as a team, just not a position you want to be in. Yeah, definitely. And that's the thing we
we talked about at the top of the day as well, how if cafe are in the spot where they go to five maps,
it will require Dallas to win 3-0 versus Lunex. And cafe, that's not a spot that they want to be
whatsoever. It's got to be playing on the mentors for them right now. We've seen Mauga being banned
by cafe team, they're going to ban the Wu Yang. With the Wu Yang ban and how prevalent that's
actually been over the last couple of days I'm more single-day I spoke I'm not
too not too surprised to see that being banned we hangers we have to use very
strong right now yeah yeah I mean team liquid was kind of like point your
shreds by SSG and the great we and play from ultraviolet some of that damage can
really help in getting early picks on these vulnerable targets so team liquid
getting rid of the Wu Yang, you know, it kind of mitigates what they had issues with yesterday.
And then as well for cafe getting the Mauga the way you just reference map one and you
just saw how good team liquid were playing that Mauga. So both both fans here makes sense.
Pretty direct feeling with some of the issues they faced.
Yeah, definitely. I really like honestly quite a lot of them out right now. I think infected
done really well on it. I think Cafe, they have got that source though. I do believe.
I think PDK and Ryan are very good DPS. I think with PDK back on the Sojin as well, Ryan can
go Sheon. I think this is where they can kind of make their statement. And then when you
go onto these non like Crawling maps with the Orisa, I think you sub Sniper straight
back in, play Diva. I think as the series goes on, goes on, it's going to look pretty
This is the cafe so I can play the D4 again
They can stop after anything you to if they want to go to a push late or depending on which push map they go to
See if cafe can bring this to a map number five
And we get the Orisa head to head sturdy front lines for either team here
Going to try and stay alive as the damage nice local work right trying to spot
Here but can't fight back convicted. This is the armor here. It looks quite close
It's kind of like we're forced to sit back here, just recalculate their points of attack to treat my headshot there.
Just looking for any opportunity here to get some burst damage in.
Yeah, oh, PDK! Almost opened that up for the early kill, especially scoff that goes down first, so they're going to have to make really quick craze, oh, and why? It's done just that!
An execution kill for Fager then strains the kill onto Sanna. Both of Ricious trading gold forms, but Astro gets the better of the infected, and PDK finishes it off with a railgun.
That's team kill for cafe extremely good start with a point cap in the monks that see
Yeah, team liquid. They did the right thing that we're working the angles
We saw a tree wrapped around but then all of these
Angle holders in Sarah tree they got two spits from their team and cafe ends up punishing a disaster
Holding this front line on the orisa. So liquid already showing early this map. They want to play more of those angles cafe
jump them to your level.
Ryan, PDK, you gotta open this one up.
I like Invoker trying to take in this space though.
Astro, sorts the back up, and there's the HQ skill from Ryan again.
Oh, the TP away.
High noon teleport though from 3.
Kill straight for once again.
The TPS and Cafe are coming up with the decent ones.
Zera kill is good, but infected with a terror surge.
Astro, I think it was 98, 99% before a terror surge of their own.
So there was a chance, maybe, of Cafe staying alive,
but you've already got it tonight, and we've got, what, four already?
despair?
Yeah, they do indeed.
And that Orion point of view that really just showcases the small details,
because if you get that pick on the Kivis,
you know, maybe infected, slow, a little bit in the front line,
and that means that Cafe has a better chance of winning that fight,
but it has to be said, like, zero on this Symmetra.
It's going to be quite bothersome for Astro on the Orisa here.
A lot of ultimates on the board like you mentioned here, Joss, so...
Oh, that's a great-
What?
If they can hold on to some of these ultimates now, that'd be great.
Is there a need for this wall?
I think that is going to be their win condition.
Wall gets deployed, as well as that.
Oh, that's great, yeah, cafe.
They didn't actually end up using anything, so there isn't chance to go for a retouch.
If Invected or Team Liquid can find a pick, though, and that's what they're hunting for,
this might be a little bit more troublesome.
We'll see Grave trying to run away so low.
In fact, they just got it for him!
Here comes the backup though!
For IMPDK, already in hit and she outdamaged a force, Team Liquid backs up, but someone needs to be able to touch.
Team Liquid has to rotate back towards the point now. This wraparound is just too good for the cafe.
Touch, touch, touch.
I'll still be able to get these.
Oh, they can't get there!
Oh no! They can't get there!
That push from Liquid was too good.
It just forced cafe to do the wraparound instead.
Yeah, I mean, that's exactly what you wanted to go for.
use all grapes not even overextending by any stretch of the imagination it was
just well I'm just backing off through the rest of my team and then you get
caught and Team Liquid kind of push you into position when you're using cooldown
to regain space really rough stuff from cafe there they do end up having four
alts available for this first fight so they just need to get right and PD gain
a position where they can get an opening kill again yeah they're really having to
like wait opportunity to use them just yet so now you're kind of like
We need to make something happen. You want to use them too practically, but this could be a liquid has some better chance of responding
precious
Yeah, but first this after warning really long stock needs to pop into the evening
Sanctuary deployed on at the point of high noon from three trace P4 kid is
There will be a terrorist search from Astro though does matter help and enable Ryan to get two kills
Stop has fallen so it's really great gonna be for the healing
Infected and Team Liquid did cap the point virtuous. Three outgunning Astro in that 1v1, but still cafe in control
And you see now cafe with no ultimates like I talked about very trigger happy with those ultimates because they held them for so long and liquid
They got 36% they got a good rotation of ultimates going so liquid quite comfortable here now on the back of that early cap and cafe using all their ultimates
Yeah, unfortunate
end of trying to touch but you're not able to survive for too long so you can't really give up a life because
it just extends the lead so much on flashpoint. I mean this is looking like final 5 team liquid
considering how long it's taking cafe to set up on an off angle. Seeing Ryan and PDK on kind of
opposite ends of their attack here and a wall deployed from there to slow this thing down to
like a snail space almost teleport onto the back a TP away from grapes silver bullets enough to
finish him often. Wow, Cafe. They can't find like an avenue into these fights. It's just
so hard for Sulfur and Team Liquid, Johnny. It's just too good.
Yeah, I think Team Liquid are playing this round really well here. You even go back to
the start when they lost that member early on in that 4 vs 5 fight. Like the response
of just, we're just gonna push in, we're gonna invest the ultimates and they end up reaping
their rewards in Cafe in a 5 vs 4 scenario. They end up holding onto those ultimates.
So Team Liquid's response to how these fights are unfolding is just picture perfect right
now.
This is a Team Liquid, but it's looking much better than they did in the initial few weeks.
Right, PDK and Rhinus, up to them again.
So a heavy weight on their shoulders trying to get an OP pick.
PdK is going to be able to get back.
Spirits spin and gold, it's the, wait, what, the spin hits PDK, but PDK still manages to
get an overclock skill on to infect it.
Team Liquid lose three in the opening scrap of the fight and they only use one ult, so
Caffe actually come out with a big lead here in the very early stages of this point.
Yeah, crucial.
Crucial that they win that fight, the one ult, so PDK does his part in that one and now gives
a Caffe the opportunity on this point to pick and choose when they want to drop the four
ult that's available to them now.
Obviously, they have to be quite responsive to Team Liquid, so if Liquid go for a big engage here with their ultimates,
TAPE, force to respawn.
Nice teleport, it's actually gonna fit in Faker into a good spot.
Now they're gonna use 3 to push on with the high noon, try and gain even more space.
Both rushes on the point, and here's the sanctuary, Faker needs to get out.
It's a perfect deployment from Grape.
Orbital Ray is gonna be tripled with Zou by TAPE.
They are gonna put themselves on the point, both carries are just stopping, pops at the same time.
As for Ryan, takes the back with the spree, can't get the kill, though, shut down by Sera and Kefei.
They can lose control of the point, but they're still long enough to put themselves in a good spot.
88% as they force TLG to use all of them.
It almost felt like Team Liquid, they learned a little bit about the timing from Ryan with that spree.
Because that was another good opportunity for Ryan late in the fight to drop the spree, get into the backline.
But Liquid, they felt ready for it that time, and they had the resources still available to them.
They protect themselves from that screed. So Team Liquid holding on to the point now, but
that'd be perfect from the way he's here on our PK. Huge strike to open things up.
Yeah, almost. They're the perfect fill, almost. You've got to feel.
Everybody's so low on the side of Team Liquid, but Ryne ends up getting burned down by that silver bullet.
Three is on an off angle and gets two. Graves also goes down, but PDK and Astro are making it hurt for TL.
They've lost their front line now, so it's up to three to get another one without meaningful cover.
Astro pushes up onto high ground as Freed just carries on his free or at least twice.
He's now on the point, on his lonesome, the wall gets deployed.
We see Infected come back on the wrecking board to get a final touch.
Teleports, Xerath threatening, the backline is infected, gets the cap.
And Kafei can take it slow now. They can take it slow now.
Builders can see the rush. They have one good opportunity here.
PDK has to be careful of this wrecking ball coming in to look just good.
Gryznyasro has picked the pubic perks as well with that shield.
But 3 again picks up another couple of kills.
BDK can place 4 in a tree with 3.
I mean, what is stopping this man right now?
I don't know, there's 4 kills for 3.
It's almost gonna make him laced here too.
Astro has to back off.
Team Liquid, they're gonna cap the point.
It's Sastro to touch.
There's gonna be a shield deployed to anchor some more.
There's the gold.
Pulldown has to be covered.
Oh, that's Sastro.
But that's not the terrorist urge.
They got ult.
They got bodies on the point.
Rush from scuffed, needs to come in, tough, needs to get back to the point in time, but
Astro is finally taken down and now infected, it's just bowling everybody, pushing people
out of position, Zera does end up bowling two graves for this High Noonie, it's going
to clear the point, do not get off it right now, but Ryan kills three, meets High Noonie,
it's going to end- And they're back, they're back on the point with the Sanctuary! Graves
falls, yes, but Ryan, just bathed in the wonder here of the Sanctuary, he's going to be upstairs
the game. They're going to
play a lot of games. They're
going to play a lot of games
in their lives, but in fact, it
owns the minds and they're
going to earn this game to
Astro the sad looking do this
trying to get another touch
hits the slant to play some of
the mindset point, but team
liquid are going to close it
out is three Oh on the final
point on new junk. And I win
for them to a three Oh in the
series, knocking cafe at
contention for playoffs is
We witnessed there, but in fact they're getting the minds back on the points of who are so good in overtime when you're forced to contest
What a back and forth grapes coming with the same journey look for a second or the cafe add an opportunity to win that fight back
But tree on the Cassidy
Tremendous amount of work here on new junk city
And I mean we've seen a couple of players and all the mess just really stepped up big time on the cast of you like Kevser
Tree a bit of a Kevser impression here in stealth on the cast
That's so good. I cast her impression. Yeah, he's the server admin.
I think this pick is so good. If you guys were like three short, I mean, okay, that kill was gonna cheese.
And I think it's great to teleport in front of him. I mean, tree looks unstoppable. That was...
Yeah, tree server admin is confirmed. It is confirmed.
But yeah, honestly, I'm happy to see Team Liquid in the shape that they rocked up in today.
I feel like that's the most cohesive bit looked a very clear game plan. They have been a really good execution
Yeah, they looked really really nice and they had to like the last few weeks have been kind of disappointing for team liquid
Not even kind of just like straight up disappointed. I think with how
Well, they played here today against cafe who took
SSG to four and gave them their only map loss
I mean that's big boom for cafe and it's gonna be sad
obviously not seeing the playoffs in playoffs, but I guess they just caught Team Liquid at the
perfectly wrong time, unfortunately. Sometimes it just do be like that, but yeah for Team Liquid,
this means that the playoffs are locked and that also gives them another week of trying to like really
iron things out, reinforce in the form you've seen them today. How far can they make it in the
playoffs? Can they? It is top three achievable? Oh yeah, 100%. I think they look much improved
And that's what I said last week, you know, I'm like, I'm freaking out too much about the fact that I lost the Dallas Fuel.
I'm pretty, you know, brutal fashion.
I'm not even taking a loss yesterday to SSG 3-0.
Even, I think it's been night and day with Team Liquid we saw today and the one we saw yesterday.
And obviously there's a difference in strength of opponent playing SSG yesterday and now playing CAFE here today.
But I still feel like Team Liquid, they're much more on the same page.
And the compositions are coming to them now where they know what compositions they're going to play and it makes sense.
sense and they're not finding themselves in the spots where like they're trying to figure stuff out on the fly. It feels like a more refined team liquid. And so I definitely have a lot of confidence in them come the stage playoff.
And here you have it on your screen. This is the top four in NA. These are the four teams that will be making playoffs. And we will have zero joining us for a quick chat after this victory. Zero, welcome to the show. Congratulations.
It's great to see you again.
It's been a while.
Yeah, it has.
Give us your hindsight for stage two,
because you and the team had a bit of an up and down
and a bit of a self-finding mission, if you will.
Ah, honestly, I feel like so far,
the stage has been a lot of, I guess,
getting used to working with each other,
finding out our strengths, our weaknesses.
I feel like this week, now here, we're bootcamping.
And honestly, we had a really good week of scrims.
I think like scrims were going really well for us,
but in our match versus SsG,
we couldn't really translate our play to the match.
And something my, you know, our new coach,
Faze, who obviously has been around for a long time.
He's been in the scene forever.
He brought up an interesting point where with new rosters,
it can be hard to translate results
from scrims to matches at the beginning.
So we're kind of just trying to work through that.
We're working extremely hard.
I'm pretty worn out,
but yeah, we're doing the best we can.
With how you've performed over the last couple of weeks,
is there something that you can specifically point to
that has changed for you guys?
Cause you do look much improved coming into this week.
I think, like when we played our match with Dallas, obviously we were still kind of getting
used to each other, it was our, like, you know, we weren't in person with each other
yet.
I also think we had a pretty bad read of the meta during that match, so going into this
week we kind of continued to refine our basics, we chose comps that were better suited for
us and yeah we just we just kept working hard kept
auto-viewing and I feel like that's been a major impact for
us.
Alright, Sarah, I'm gonna ask a question on behalf of beloved
obsodern who wanted to know what's Symmetra perks on New
Jonesy?
Yeah, I might have misclicked I pretty much was
I was like, oh crap guys, I misclicked and then Boston or
In fact, it was like, no, no, it's fine.
I might even get the shield perk.
We can double shield.
I'm like, no, I'm good.
No, I'm good.
Double shield.
Don't knock it into your tribe, right?
It happens.
It happens to the best of us.
It's honestly reassuring to see it happen to a pro player
as well, not just to me about fairing stuff.
So that made me feel really good about myself.
Thank you for that.
If you're looking at the competition for the playoffs,
how do you feel you stack up in your current form?
Are you confident you're going to make top three?
Yeah, yeah, I'm really confident in this.
I think our team is super talented.
We're continuing to improve every day.
I can feel it.
I think it, like, I would feel bad to our fans
if I said we couldn't reach number one.
I definitely think we can.
It's super realistic.
And I think as time goes on with our new roster,
really investing in the future. So I really do believe it's only up from here for our team.
I think we're working really hard and we have a good system.
That's right. None of it today. It really showed on the server. You guys looked so cohesive. The
game plan was really on point and the execution was as well. So we hope so much to see more of that
in the playoffs. Once again, congratulations and thank you so much for taking the time for a quick
chat. Thank you so much.
Oh, it's a pleasure hearing from zero team liquid. Yeah, I do. I
mean, you said it, right? It's it's difficult if you're
implementing new pieces into the puzzle. Everyone plays a little
different and then embedded as influx as well. And then the
other teams are also like looking at it a little different
than from the previous stage. There's just like a lot of
stuff happening, a lot of moving pieces that you need to
adjust to.
Paul just went again. I knew it. I knew they've come on line just in time and they did. They did.
This is the team that we wanted to see and they obviously have more to improve on here, Jack.
Yeah, 100%. It's kind of disappointing not seeing Caffe kind of bring it a little bit more there.
I think the 3-0, it did feel like it, Johnny, that it could go a little bit,
a little bit more, about a three, like four or five maps at a time.
I have my aura as way off. It's not even close, buddy.
And you really tried, you tried to manifest that one so hard.
So much same, no idea.
Yeah, I imagined him lighting up some sage on the table, just speaking about 5 into existence
a lot, all the sage literally.
Well, maybe you get the wish for a very close second match, although that's a tough ask
because up next we got NA's number one versus number six seed team going at it.
You know what? Hopefully we're in for some chaos, for some creativity and fun because
Nidalee team is under the pressure to win this one, which means that they play free.
We love a free team. And you people watching are free to head on over to our in-game shop
to take a look at our ungold bondu. Nani? I know. I know. I've done the Lord's work.
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Welcome back everyone so here joined by my two besties who are about to set the stage
for Space Station Gaming and Disguise.
Now two teams on the opposite end of the spectrum, Space Station Gaming have been looking crisp,
have been looking clean, are not losing a single match this stage and this guy's more on track
to go win this. So let's talk about space station gaming who truly have not been pushed really at
all this stage. They lost one single map and that was in week two against the cafe. Other than that,
not a lot of practice there are. Yeah, they look really clean. Like, it's not really much to say
about it to be honest like that's it they look really good and I think the biggest hope for
North America and space stations as a whole they can continue through playoffs and then do well at
a LAN event I think that right now is going to be on a recent one. That's right yeah they certainly
are coming into this one wanting to redeem themselves because as you said NA has struggled
in recent times on or rather in a LAN environment. Now their opponent today is Disguised and yeah
Yeah, as I said already, unfortunately, it looks like they will be going winless this
stage.
Also, it's a really tough schedule to have to close it out, right?
For week 3 yesterday, they had to face up against Dallas, which are looking good today.
They're going up against the top dog individually.
Obviously, we know what these players are capable of, like Rocket and PG.
They can shoot.
Trent has been a tank for such a long time, like, grinding it out, so like, yeah, it's
It's kind of tough to see them not coming away with a victory in this stage.
Yeah, I feel like in stage one everyone was kind of meaming about this team,
and everyone was on relegation watch when it came to the skies.
I feel like what we saw from them yesterday, even though they haven't gone on the winds,
they looked better.
It seems like things are starting to click for them.
And so obviously losing to Caffe, that was a bit of a tough upset last week.
But I wouldn't be too concerned about the title,
going to see the disguise back for stage three. I think they look like a really good team.
It's just happened to be very stiff competition in North America and obviously they're not satisfied
with finishing six, finishing in fifth. They want to make the top four. This was not the stage to
do that but I feel like they are at least on the awkward trajectory and so they're hoping for it.
Yeah we definitely expect to see them again in stage three and as I said before we headed
into a break I want these teams to play free. Neither of them is playing for any seating or
any victories. They can just
give it their all have fun with
it even and sometimes teams
perform best under these
circumstances. So that's what
I'm manifesting for our second
series. Jack Johnny, take it
away. Very much so. Yeah, and
that's what we're iterating.
There's no kind of seating
stakes here. S. S. G. F4. Oh,
Johnny disguised 04 very much
the top and the bottom end of
from both sides. Alright I'll ask you this question. What's your hero wish list for this
series? Hero wish list? Probably a little bit of Torb. I think I saw wish list. Yeah
Torb! It's always Torb. Yeah I love Torb. Yeah you do. Yeah I see a little bit of Torb
running around. No but you know I was thinking you know Ilya's we're going to see Hog pull
out the Roadhog and I'm thinking you know maybe we'll see some on-ron come into action
action we saw as a GP on run last week actually yeah that was a series that
sugar free played it felt like every DPS hero at least every single new DPS hero
because the on run was okay wait when have we ever seen that fight properly in
like OWCS like in these football matches never that time and earlier this morning
in EMEA that was the two times oh sure yeah yeah but I feel like it made sense
against a deeper comp they were playing then as well. So I'd like,
on runs beginning a few buffs here Jaws, I just feel like, you know, we're starting,
on runs not going to be a meta hero, you know, because especially with Shion,
but yeah, you know, there's starting to be a small little niche spot for on runs we got up near.
Playtime, just a little bit of playtime. I'm not going to bring up the stats.
I think Shion is still most picked, not most fans, but yeah, let's just, hey,
I'm run will get there eventually like what kind of comp does I'm run really need to
Be messing with to actually be played though like like pure like hard dive
Like maybe you'd even use this area to help bubble the arm run to get value. It's heroes. It's tough
Yeah, it's almost like
I don't think anything you can build a composition. That's good for honor on it's more about what the opponents are playing
So if the opponents are playing like a tracer or like a high tempo character
like it's all just kind of over and you also need to take a tank that you can actually deal a lot of
burn damage onto and so it becomes more about you need the perfect enemy composition to be able
to get away with the value that an ongoing tank provider just that's rarely going to happen so
yeah I will we see it today actually maybe honestly you should agree I wouldn't be too surprised yeah
Yeah, there is no space.
Play three.
A bit of venture, maybe, too.
Which went on Rocket, by the way.
Just to get in the lobby and get ready and sorted to go.
Yeah, a little venture would be kind of fun, too.
I think venture.
I don't think we'll ever see venture in...
Oh!
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I wouldn't say hard and better, but, like, there's been spots where they've shown up.
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It's gonna be in the beautiful Paris front.
We're gonna go on to Elio's first.
How are we going to do this, too?
I'll do it, Elio's after you, what?
Yeah, you left it there.
We have to go to well. We have to go to well. Yeah. No, we don't have to wait. You know,
bring it up now. Or well, okay. We are well. Okay. So, okay, we're good. We're good. Okay,
I mean the whole no no come on Fred though Fred. Okay the honorable hog duel here on
Ilios surely Hawk wouldn't bite down from that
surely come on mate come on do it for the squad do it for the chat for us do it
for us I would even say Sierra you know yeah actually he's playing a research
come on we're playing a research come on okay we're playing chat fashion too
but he actually screwed me yet wait whoa that's no where Hulk's supposed to be
up on the high ground I like that earlier engagement from the cat though
I should put in the eraser up on height. Somebody get her off of our stairs.
Oh!
Oh, my T.
Well, that's the damage that was done for disguised.
Let's reset.
I'm lucky. Yeah, let's reset.
It works, I guess, long. Yeah, you just sport.
Let's first interrupt dinner.
There's no time to wrap this one up as quickly as possible.
I think we can't pass.
Damn, maybe don't.
by the way Johnny just keep you updated all people in chat are not paying attention 89%
all right if you if you predicted 11% of disguise you deserve it that's all I'm saying
and if they end up winning against us a tree here then then you definitely deserve it you deserve
all the reward those faces this will be one mighty upset this guy's going to take down the
I am surprised more people voted for disguise in cafe last night cat the cafe game is set to be out
Set to be a much closer one versus the fuel
More barrage there trade very low just getting he's just gonna run him over. Yep. That's one of them
Maybe on this bike
I think that's a good idea.
Street. They're really taking
you to them as well. Like
lethal is just everywhere all
at once. Maybe this is the
difference that Christopher is
talking about as well and
Hawke too. Like we've changed
everything. You know, we
mentioned it last week. We
mentioned yesterday as well,
but we aren't going to be
How did lethal get away with that? Get away with the shovel!
Cat map? Oh Fred, goodbye.
You know, I'm gonna do that.
Change mount, Joss. We'll change mount.
Good for SSG. Just absolutely establishing their dominance over disguise in this one.
Like you said, it's different SSG and they're just going to step on the gas pedal and really take
Take it to her. I got a couple of them. I've only seen her.
The bike?
It's in here. I bought a scarf. There's a cage in there. Treads are going to leave it.
And there's the catnap. No!
Surely they received it. They're dragged off. Nice little stomp kills. Oh my...
What did?
That was an insane...
Like, that was going to be the longest catnap of all time.
Paul got dragged from the little mini room over to the pit.
Here we go. Get me Balion Decay. Let's see if this guy's picked the pointer. We have
the Forbidden Combo. The cage with the bashing up. Yeah. Yeah, Forbidden Combo Mark II. The
other one is the SIG with the bashing up. Oh, that's also, yeah. There's so many Forbidden
Combo's. Come on, give it to us. I mean, it's not actually that bad. It'll be fair. These
I'm dying to
Okay, this is getting a little bit more whimsical than I thought to be honest these cat bashings that they are truly living
They are truly living the cat bashing experience where it's a 2v2 in the air and then everybody else just
That's 50% for this guy's here
You're saying just 50% this guy's there a lot of fight women a half from winning this first point
11% predictors
uh kind of bumping their fist right now
oh beyond this crazy
oh the one flip
oh not quite
Susie Ford's okay
oh here's the case
the winning combo
it's actually the winner
it's the beauty gets two
the winning combo gets two
Leath and Avril are gonna die
and uh well yeah
just guys on final fight now
78% make that 80
okay
Space station about four oh so Johnny I hate to be the bearer of bad news
It's really good
Oh average does end up dying
Okay, yeah
and they got off the pavillion combo and they lose that is such a sad affair
therefore disguise they got up to 99 as well a very close first-round SSG take
the cake. If Skyler was 10% closer to kicksoon rush then disguise would have
been able to contest for space earlier on in that fight but instead they just had
to collapse all the positioning as they waited for that old political online and
SSG capitalized sugar-free security value with that spree so I mean it got to 99.99 in the end
We'll take that trade
Yeah, we'll take that. I'm so sad. Tread got the kill on to Admiral as
He was being dragged in so he's already in the pit so couldn't even escape
Really unlucky. Susie was like a fraction like a maybe a frame too early from Skyle so
I would have saved red unfortunately not today
Yeah
Bastion again guys taking the magea look for the time being
So if you can I out on the cordial overcribe
Besides for it
A lot of position in his face. You're going to get the point on the back of this pretty much
Yeah, that's it. The tough thing about being the Magger is you just take so much damage
you can just be implicitly. There you are, just the living embodiment of an old battery.
I mean, the no armor really just hurts so much. Oh, likewise, a no armor. He's gone
a little bit, but he hasn't got a recent level so far.
Cat's dead, all good.
Easy as it might be.
Because there would be side-lights on the rooms, right?
The lethal is going to do that. Absolutely, it's field day.
And like you say, the walk up here in the sky is going to be such a terrible news.
You see, it's not going to be Cassidy here instead, it's going to be a little bit more direct damage.
Try to think this cat, I'm at the sky instead.
Okay, Geegie on the cast.
I- I really like the cast in this meta, I really do.
Even against Tabashin, very good. You can shut down the Shion as well with the Nade.
Still does a lot of work. Actually locates the Shion could be quite tough as the Cassie.
And he's backing off a lot of his energy. That was a nice spear.
Oh! How'd I chatted on Skyle there just a little bit?
That wasn't, uh... I like that.
That one, that specific clip?
I don't know. Like, if you're in a Risa player, how much more can I get than this?
Oh, where the helicop's at?
Oh, there's Susie!
Oh, he's so good from style!
Susie saves the day!
Let's all try to see the helicop to play with the cat in tow.
And unfortunately, he does cave her with his life,
but I look at it.
I mean, that was so exciting.
I poked out.
I thought that was going to yield fruit, but it didn't.
And Susie's timing was perfect.
These guys, they ended up getting the point there.
5 ultimates as well.
It's 5 ultimates.
But still, 5 ultimates.
Okay, where's the tele going to go? Do not stand near the edge, challenge.
Actually, for both angles, he's got it as well.
Careful of this two-fist, he's flushed.
Oh, oh!
Hi, new PC.
We need to end up working out.
fight is coming in the bastions right above you though rock it with a good
kill on to ultra violet here comes the mortar barrage and the catnap as well
from kiwi actually ends up getting up a I think that was on sugar free of all
people but maybe on the bashing non tire shield but it definitely kidnap someone
put them put them in a spot where they can be shot very easily moving all the
movement from them so disguise me another fighter after 50%
You know sometimes you do a little stunt
Spots done to the world of differences. I think GG does interupted with the dead-eye by the way
Maybe like a mid-air jabbing or something. I think we didn't quite see it. It's not unfolded
Spaces in here 76% and we still have a couple of ultimates here, but it's really going to come down to the basket
Yeah, I mean that is a good couple of pixel on the other side of things. Dread and rocket get UV and lethal is what they're now just
Pumping clips into the back of Horde right now.
I still play there from Rocket, it's doing a lot.
But unfortunately the Xion, yeah, doing a little bit more.
No recall, no dashes there, so should be easily able to chase down the Tracer.
Besides it's still in a decent spot, they still got the points on him and they're up to 90%.
Alright, Space Station, they're giving him a lot more than I thought they would.
Yeah, Skylark's got the rush coming up as well.
And he got the Deadeye to combine with the cat.
This should be the Skylark's winning this round, dudes.
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh!
They're chasing around the pillar. Get em! Just get em!
Oh, they're so close! Yes! They're in these PGE kills!
Lethal the ring around the road.
He ends up working out a little silver bullet as well onto the cat.
PGE gets to Terra Surge, last to Raj for Hawke.
And it's slammed back down to Earth.
HEACHEEE
That now I knew in a good movement from Kiwi to get him in a spot where he kills the Bastion
Skies even in this up on Ilios
Yeah, you gotta say that the Cassidy's from truck from EG ended up working out the time 25 so far
12,000 damn it's already
Let's remove the Peachee you got from a bit of a loot?
I mean this is yeah, this is Wimzy
26
Pg 20 and 5 12k damage as well
Leasing the server right now. Yes UK above most other players
You just heard the cat's up
Towards the point and well there's a manga on
On top of the top of the point don't want to contest Fred
The time being, I think they're going to look for the wraparound here and say,
Ultra-Holotir, the Snape's, and as you come to become crucial,
it can land on top of the Demi-Algar, so I'm going to be hauled with the first boss.
What?
I love them, they all work.
Just haul the laser at him down?
Not sure.
Taxi from Rocket, that's what they're going to use too, yeah.
Shit, if they play over-extended.
I'm just kind of ignoring the tracer.
Not really where you want to be, because Rocket...
...is a pretty mean one.
Oh, they are picking the UV of course. Yeah, these nades are gonna be very good for dealing with this Maverick.
They're not gonna give him space and Maverick, play on this high ground as well. This is a hard spot to get them all.
Yeah, you see, they're trying to force the point though, with what they're playing with their Lisa right now.
They just want to force the contents from the skies. These guys are not in a position to actually contest the point there,
so they're going to let it go. It's a good job by Steve recognizing the wind condition.
condition. That one now. We're just a native himself, though, valuable resource. Yeah,
I can't throw that downtown. The catch is kind of breaks a lot of laws in Overwatch, like
where the cat can just put the most mobile characters on the most highest of high grounds
on any map is a little crazy for the arms to be up there without like a SIM TV, which
How you used the Alchemy to do it?
I mean, how do you contest it? It's like, use your own cats to kill them all up there.
You'd rather get in front of the owner.
This guy's, by the way, getting back in control of this point, and they have five ultimates up and running.
And since G went with cover them, Jaws, I feel like as G has been slow starters, but they usually find a way to clutch out these maps.
This time, though, he'll be facing quite a big deficit here.
Okay, you know what you could do if you had more hit the catnap on PG and throw him off
the edge.
Looks like they're going to try and go first though with the sign name for this cat name.
No, I just think he's here on the opposite high ground.
There it is.
My new PG.
He's helped.
I'll be so low.
Oh my word.
Yeah, lethal.
Not exactly the range advantage there.
I think folks are doing about the same damage with their weapons, but unfortunately the
The Vastion fires a few more bullets than the dead I can actually charge up, so a little unlucky I'd say for PGE.
I like the idea but unfortunately the execution wasn't able to be there.
Yeah, they got kinda like half way there because Hulk obviously dropped real low on towards the point and he felt like this guy's an opportunity to win that one.
It's going to be a tread with the cage fight this time around Jaws.
And I think Kiwi, okay, you're going to think better of it. You're going to leave the manga to do the regular overrun engage here on towards the point.
He's right here.
Hang on.
Cage right on the high ground to punish the Bastion.
Yeah, not quite.
Like you said, he's just gonna make his way on the pointy self this time.
There's the catnap.
There's the cage.
Oh, wait, a second.
Admiral's below the point, uh, below the, uh,
like the cat...
Like, Provasse?
I don't know, Graveen?
Whatever they are.
Off of the map.
He was almost out of bounds,
what I was trying to say.
to say just held on by the cage luckily and he was able to kind of duck in and
out so he did end up surviving before Kiwi chased him down. This guy's looking to
take a map though potentially they're up to 85 already.
Yeah I mean I don't know, the toucher's here, the hawk is going to be the first spawner.
Probably going to have to overrun all towards the point there should be something to
the tracer as well to get a touch by the skies. They can be patient here as well they
don't need to force the fight wing just yet.
Yeah, they got cut touch but they got catnaply just draghawk over the edge.
I mean this is gonna be a map win surely for the Skies.
Wow.
He's got a couple, Rocky gets his dick on UV.
Oh, the hubris, it's so sweet.
SSG, losing control against Skies.
Jokes on us.
Jokes on us Jaws.
The Skies they find a way to beat out the top dogs on the opening map of Ilios and you got to say they look pretty dominant after that cast me strong from PGE and I'm clutching that one up as it's G.
No, really making this recent composition work.
And if they did go Whimsical to do with the Hog I think I felt that I would have been even more of a beat down as well.
Oh yeah, oh yeah.
Well to be fair, Whimsical.
That's why they didn't go Hog.
Yeah.
Yeah.
This guy's coming today with two map wins under their belt this stage that's their other map wins were against TL and cafe
Crazy stuff taking off taking a map off of the SSG who they voted lost one map
They lost a map to cafe and it wasn't control either. It was a secondary out
Yeah, I mean if we if we've had channel points on
If this guy's was going to win the opening map
I feel like this is kind of goes back to what I talked about in the pre-show and that I feel like this this guy's
was there even though they're you know the bottom of North America right now they still feel like they've improved over time
You know what you know she I'm getting it in the next year a little bit. They all they are leveled up
I really do feel so and I feel like that's reflected in the performance here in my
Yeah taking this seriously is gonna have to be
I'm going to be a lot of happy predictors in the chat though that 11% you know they're
believing, they're believing, crossing every toe, crossing every finger, they're ready
to rock and roll, they're ready for this to be a 3 out of disguise.
Oh you got so much hope in now, if you actually predict them, this guy's to win this one.
There's two left wins away, there's two, there's two.
someone did predict 181,000 channel points on disguise
yep that's a lot of channel points you know quite the max like like max you
can bet what's that 250k so 181k channel point why would you do that I
I mean, that's a crazy person.
Can we get an interview with that person?
Get him on the show.
Get him on the show.
I want to hear why they put somebody
who's channel points on this guy's.
You weren't on the server a million points, man.
If you win that prediction, that's all I'm saying.
Channel points, man.
Yeah, actually.
There are definitely a few in the chat.
I thought I would be one of those people's loss.
And it turns out I'm not.
Yeah, I lost all my channel points a long time ago, and I've not recovered since.
It's rough out there. It's rough out there.
Channel points risk management. What am I?
Q-Pro for SSG.
Wait, do you actually go all in?
Yeah, but like way back, like the stage one.
Oh, way back, okay.
yeah yeah a lot of people lost them on those pet on the pets games so that's
what I won I won on those and then I'm like yeah I'll go to you yeah I'll go
double now turn off the video on this guy's in a very fara King's brother who
is the selection process to me I don't mind if you still want to take out
fashion she owns good to you'll strike chillin my only question is how it won't
Gonna be looking at this series now
Yeah, look, it's going to be King's Row and so and it's just magic here
And so I think going into this one. It's going to be a different this is G
We're seeing compared to what we just saw on
Elios this guy's getting rid of the fora you just want to get rid of these annoying kind of like no conversations that
I feel like the game isn't in your hands. Like when you're playing a pretty standard composition and you're playing like the far-off combined with hit-scam and lethal is just picking a part of the enemy team, it doesn't really give you a good opportunity to get good grips off of the outcome of the match.
The enemy damage players can just like go off and go off and get a frag consistently and expires his force in Orioles and you just feel terrible.
Getting rid of the far there, some extra poke damage.
It kind of like levels the playing field here a little bit, so disguised.
So you're going to have a pretty good chance here, picking it through space as you're gaming.
I really enjoy the honor on this map, especially with the Mizuki, there's a lot of off-angling
you can do with the Mizuki with the double-tubble.
The honor is obviously still really good, even the chance of nanoblades as well.
Rocket is pulling out Genji defense for disguise.
Yeah, that is really interesting.
I mean, we saw Zero play some Genji earlier today as well at that time combining with
the Malga which is really a team liquid special I thought of the Malga Genji. There's honestly
like the only team that consistently do it. But what can you think of the Genji here on
defense? Really not something we see that often.
Oh and lethal on the Hanso. They're going to match actually Horg. Oh no wait, it's going
And then ultra for wow
Here I go
TTP after high ground
Okay, they're just gonna try and write say on them. Oh, no, you're Dr. Lucio
I mean this really is like a five-star kind of composition with the
the
Area healing from the batista area healing from the Lucio
You're a similar to teleport around with the matrix as well, but losing the Lucio
It's a lot of that's the supported research has gone and I'm just gonna find this back into this fight somehow
And they got the emergency cell for hours well
Now how long do you think we've survived in this portal?
Against this enemy Sigma. Let's see to play the lab to what a name
They coming in after the lab land gets destroyed sky
Dominating for disguise. Oh
oh space station up here I mean two and a half minutes to go but I mean that
comes round I mean this is the half of the time they already gone almost yeah
let's go and swap off this Hanzo to a Cassidy areas I feel like this is G
composition you have to be very like proactive with the teleporter and always
like push the weak points of disguised and so you saw that they lost the Lucio
and they're pretty plant onto the high ground it's not true here for them
up, go up, rest over the pentapot or if need be, need a bait. Right, they can't quite
collapse from that again because Horde's on Sigmund out, but they still have
controller high ground and Skyle can have nanoshoes, 20% away. They need that
bait to survive and Horde in trouble, very low, heroes end up coming in, in
fact, shred into it and just falling over to that window. Ultraviolet on the
Statue solo window, solo cubities, only here in the window for yourself as an SSG they finally get the cap.
What's that?
Sky mode, skies, they put the dudes.
Yeah they did, they did and Skyl hit the sleep onto the Cassidy, the seal couldn't really get the valley going there.
And ultimately Spaceship, you're just going to overrun the point with Hawk, they hit the front of attack,
contesting that point, being supported by the Batiste, shooting quite freely here.
here and if this is shooting freely I mean the damage and healing is just
unbelievable in that one so as we had on the second point here Jaws
to be the nonoblade as we pointed out at the store this map a rare sighting of
the nonoblade in 2006.
You gotta run with it. Oh, there's the base on Nano. Blade and 10% doesn't matter.
Got the T-flake kill on Toletho. Has got Blade, but yeah, does not need it.
What a T-flake from Rocket. Just a standard and Nano Genji.
Hoping to bait out some cooldowns or even some old space station don't end up ripping that wall burst.
The only old place you end up having nice moves from Rocket.
Yeah, I mean if you're looking at Space Station's composition here and you're already Genji, you can't kind of get on top of them here, a lamp's going to be an issue for the Dragon Blade.
And obviously you want to be careful about symmetric beam damage until you put her as well.
But this guy's composition here, it matches up pretty well with Space Station.
This is a bit of a wall as this should be done.
Yeah, that blade's going to come out where Rocky kind of swinging in the sanctuary.
He gets focused down to 5-hawk.
Pg wasn't on an off angle for the majority of this fight too, he was trying to get a nice
flank going at the ult.
Didn't end up working out though, it's been amazing.
Nice headjump, he made it.
What do you think about the Shion here from Pg?
I almost feel like this is one of those scenarios where it's actually quite difficult to get
value from the Shion.
Obviously you're trying to combine with Rocket to get pretty deep in these kind of scenarios,
but it's almost like I found it quite hard to die
this composition from Spacen Gaming on.
Now they got Sombra here as well,
it's been on the past, on top tier,
on this guy, Sombra's defense.
Oh, a thousand percent, yeah, it's real tough.
There's no off angle she can take, right?
They're looking all, they're gonna go through,
there's the nades.
Skars 1-8 B, but need to finish off with a single bullet.
Oh, well, PG's gonna go in, gonna try for something,
but yeah, the lab got destroyed,
But that was it.
Nice focus fire from SSG.
Should be in all good swapping moments?
Yeah, there it is, okay.
PG is on the Sojin now.
I think it's tough.
It's a really hard pick to make work here.
So, just a little bit deeper.
As soon as they lost the initial choke on second point,
I think both of the players wanted to swap over
to something like this instead.
So things down, get a little bit more stamina
in that front line,
combining the Seen Up with Maven Spaceship.
They're rolling right now.
Leak open, and you'll find them combined with the Snudrow.
Wow, Thread got destroyed by UV. A TP into the window, the flux connected, but it's got bursted in the head.
Okay, this is the SSG we were expecting to come out. Sound Barrier for SSG as well, just a tempo beat.
They're now a meter away from actually getting this payload in. The Nanomeys got some legs to it though.
Rocket's already got two, Hawks really low. I said they managed to hold on.
NANO MEI on to ROCKY! Okay, that's a team kill for the skies!
Yeah, the skies saw an opportunity and they went for it. The very final second, they're able to get
on top of the Contestine Decor as well. ROCKY couldn't push it in. ROCKY did quite a bit of work there
with that NANO MEI. Two minutes to go here, this is very holdable. On the side of the skies here,
bot space is here. They're not going to slow their roll with the sweater teleporter and the
blocks coming up along side of the guy as well.
Yeah, she had a 3, she didn't have too much of an issue dealing with spreads.
Take off.
Lone up to Kleinu, throws off.
Suzuki keeps you away, and hello.
Doesn't matter if you get the kill, but still takes a large chunk of health off of Kiwi after that headshot.
Stills a bullet, kills Rocket, and that'll be that space-time in the bank at the point.
I love whenever I look at myself with that face.
It's one of the more fun heroes to watch, at the very top level, and Ultramarlet is one of those players that will actually bring it out when possible.
So doing well here to adapt, playing this very brawl-centric composition with the Sigma, and then also using the Amp from the newspaper when Ultramarlet is fishing out the damage.
Very comfortable, look where it's shooting.
Yeah, I'd agree.
Just with BAP's movement, especially after having you get the, not shift, but the jump
perk, so you can like move in the air now and also just watching Brawl aim at this level
is really, really fun to watch.
Yeah, BAP is pretty sick, man.
Long have gone the days when BAP was just, I'm gonna put up window, five players down
behind it and we're gonna shoot down a corridor.
Yeah, no, no.
On those days.
Yeah, the tempo's too high.
five members you cannot I mean so many alternates in you know what she says if
you're gonna just secure like a pick that's that's good news because I care
two picks I mean you've essentially won the team fight right and so even with
back window you're like if you could just teleport over to that high ground and
just secure a kill with the amatrix like we're going to win the fight from there
the old turnip
Tread wrecking ball
Yeah, he'd do before them
Okay, it's a bird deciding the diva instead now this is
An old-fashioned defense here pose like you feel we
April on the weaver as Lendlethal on Ash too so unconventional to say the least
here from SSG. Nice pull to save UB. They traded TPS though. I mean the skies
really going for it as well with the speed ring and the D.Va so they're going to
take it as a speed. Otherwise almost died and this time goes down actually due to
the missiles off the thread so that should be enough from the skies. This dive is not
missing around with the Genji Beaver utilizing the speed rate from the skyline.
And, uh, ultraviolet?
And he's nothing.
He just got ran over by Trent.
He got saved a moment ago by Admiral and then, yeah, the micro-vistals plus just landing that many
headshots in a row with the fusion cannons.
Yeah, good luck.
Not my 10-5.
Trent's gonna swap to...
Not my 10-5.
...not my 10-5.
...not my 10-5.
...not my 10-5.
...not my 10-5.
...not my 10-5.
...not my 10-5.
I'm like, too slow now.
...not my 10-5.
...not my 10-5.
...not my 10-5.
...not my 10-5.
...not my 10-5.
And it's super pretty good!
What?
Is this whimsical or straight up just insane by these guys?
I mean the story I swapped here makes sense, you know, you can bubble into the bandana,
well you gotta wait for Rocket to come back here.
But, I like the innovation. I like the innovation.
Nano Sundering Blade or just like nanoing bandana into the backlight?
What an ANSI!
Wow, Lita got follow-up.
PQ was on an off-angle that entire time too, waiting for an execution kill.
That ability, kind of living up to his namesake.
He gets a double with that impact.
Apple goes down two, SSG.
Unconventional comp from Skye's, but you know,
Space Station were doing the same thing on that first.
So I would say that Skye's are playing free right now.
They're making the hero subs they want to do.
They're looking for plays like this.
Skyless.
No, Kiriko on the field, so the barricade,
real powerful in a situation like this.
Picture in picture, perfect.
Picture in picture.
I need to see the honor pop off here.
Kidnap!
Uh oh, we're gonna grab someone.
Try to take them out, yeah, April!
Ho ho ho, boy!
Yeah, there's nothing you can do there.
There's no sues, dude, because Kiriko has been banned.
Rocket manages to dash in and get away, so just die.
After winning that fight, you keep dying so late and
Hawk only just come enough in a couple of moments.
This is the second point cap for disguise in a rather quick fashion.
Yeah, they're rolling with this pretty high tempo.
She on Vendetta composition can utilize the bar barriers from Sauria
to get pretty deep into the backline and make place here.
Ademons going to swap over to the Lifeweaver.
Try to pull out some of these teammates from this danger.
It's been all disguised so far. Here's another Vendetta.
Yeah, I told you, get the vendetta in there, and get her swinging, all kind of large chunk
of his space taken out of him for him, and Rocket has a found sugar-free, what's up in
the corridor, Sundering Blade, roast the top, maybe he goes for the overhead slash, doesn't
matter if she gets a connection, and how about the DLC heroes for you, lethal, using that
spree to try and create a gap and trying to create an opportunity for her to win this
fight didn't nice to get it so eventually Rocket goes down. Yeah with this life it works off as well
you can't prolong these fights by getting the teammates of yours that are hurt to get them out of
danger and that just means that the initial dive from the skies when that is mitigated they don't
have a lot to fall back on they don't have this good poke in the neutral fight so they really
weren't betting that first good dive opportunity that's first to play. As soon as Space Station
to rise that initial plea from the skies space station along with that fight now
this is a nice one. Very long search for the skies it was good cat that too
very deep around this corner so you have to be careful
there it is and the crap comes out is real good
instant wall those trying defend and a petal platform for Admiral gets them out
of danger Blizzard separate stretch from the rest of the team but it's nice to
link up with this mate, however that's the wrong side, Sugarfreeze is gonna chase you down and now
I'll just die, they're in the split, this is good, they can hold onto this corner with Trepping on
this high ground, they're gonna be able to create space for DPS to get back in.
They have a decision. They're actually real comfortable themselves because they can hold this position and if the skies go for it
They can pull back disengage and then turn with the tree
I hope it's so low. I thought it was quite an early tree actually
from April
They can just wait this one out. Would you shoot the tree? Hope he dies
And it will stop the Treads, DG, one-throbbing Sugar-Bread and Tread now just launching himself into the backline creating a nuisance for himself
but Hawke's block hits two people, in skills, PGE, and now they just need to get
Trez, yeah, after that Nanna runs down, Desiree is so vulnerable, that's just she gonna hold.
So nothing has really changed from the start off this round, besides the fight at the space
station, they're doing a better job responding to Nono, like you saw there, they're disengaged
from both of them, and Admiral in a scenario like that, and meanwhile Hawke doing his thing on Sigma,
On top of that car to the skies not finding the opening pigs that they did earlier on PG has an overclock here
This could be the opener
And the overclock versus this the spree from lethal
It's like the
It's gonna be about a century here if you can get off the back line
PG
There's lots of gap between
There's the spree what a sleep
To hold lethal in place what a combo coming through from this guy shutting down lethal zing breath
She could be also dead so
And rocky are we have to clean up these kills?
Well, they're gonna take this if they managed to kill the signal
He's got the grass but can they actually kill the kill looks like it pp the
Heroics as he pushes on there's a minute and a half after disguise to try and compete the map. Oh
Admiral
He rests the signal the Admiral mercy swap to get rain. Oh holy big rain
Don't worry about the
spawn timer
Rocket is getting some quality
Fidy will all the way there as a ultra violet just pops it down
So it's a post-op torpedoes in but that's help just run please the way to get the gill of the hall
Fred's gonna like a hundred percent HP as well 600 health shred gets it in with time to spare
One minute and six seconds in the bank for disguise so close to OT
Indeed so very close
And I cannot wonder if lethal
Maybe overextended with that spree
Trying to dive deep we talked about it over the course of these broadcasts
It's such a difficult ultimate to get value with if you're kind of initiating with it
We're dropping it early in these teamfights and we saw there obviously they have to
utilize the cat ultimates to kind of shut down lethal to begin with but still
should be able to spot you trying to cure those picks and in the end this guy's
going to push in the cart on the back of winning that fight yeah with only six
seconds to spare as well before it's a free attack for SSG that was so close
and the skies they're showing up their last game off the stage and they're
They're showing up against the best team in North America right now.
Yeah, they really are. They're looking good.
The way they're making plays with a composition like this.
Time and time again, I feel like Space Jam Gaming, they've grown into the series
and just got in better as they figure out what the opponents are trying to do.
I think it's quite reasonable to expect with the way these guys are playing,
but it takes you a few fights to be like, okay, this is what they're doing.
This is how they're beating us. They're making these plays.
And you saw that space you gave me
They kind of found a groove towards the end of that defense. So as we head into overtime here
Obviously immediately going to have the great perks for Bastion
I think he's trying to take opportunity
Take that opportunity rather
to do a vantage
I'm assuming there's no like missile plug here for either Bastion's. There are
And I guess
So they're just gonna ignore each other and hope to get kills on the squishies
Speaking of which, shootery. Not exactly a squishy on the May, I'd argue, but still ends up going down anyway.
30 seconds to go now for the skies. They've got one final chance this, one final shot.
They can't quite stagger Skyle, but still, if they get late kill on the Rocket, this might be good.
PT was Widow. Oh, that was... Okay, nice shield placement there by Hawke, and no one goes down.
That would have been the perfect opening pick if PG found someone.
someone. Lucio Juno. Alright, it's going to be Kiwi actually swapping off to the cat.
Makes sense here in the end. But this guy's last attempt here, 10 seconds to go.
Pg's on the bike. Oh, and a four kill style, straight up. Oh, that's not good. That's not good whatsoever.
I know survivors on a left angle know he and required to aim by the looks of things. I think he's fine. Might just be already done.
Yeah, OC, Sugar Free gets to kill him to Kiwi, and that was unfortunately a little bit more of a whimper than this guy's.
was hoping for, no station gaming, they're gonna hold and they got a minute and forty three to get
about thirty three percent. I wonder if, okay, let's see if you're picking up what I'm putting
down here. Okay. I wonder if in overtime here, if you're Bastion, you kind of wait to see what the
defense is playing before you pick your perk. Because if they are playing Bastion, there's no rush to
go ahead and pick the missile perk like right off the bat and if they are playing Bastion, you just
skip it. Yeah, this is also really strong, but it's going to put us in a pain bastion
then, you know, maybe skip it. He's cooking. That's not a bad strat at all. You have, because
it won't take you long to figure out, it would take you maximum 15 seconds, right, before
the hero portraits revealed in tap. So realistically, you don't need to go crazy here, so I don't
hate it. Disguised are also probably going to show early that they're not playing Kat
Bastion because PG is on an axe and he's going to want to poke early, same with Rock on Gengi.
So yeah, I think if you're a space station, take your head out, they haven't got Bastion,
now we're looking at the missile perk.
Yeah, so lethal should immediately look the missile perk as soon as it sees this defense.
If you, you know, maybe you already have, it is a powerful pick tool, the missiles of
course, and that's why people select Bastion. Even before the Kat Bastion meta,
People were playing Bastard in overtime, I remember Tree doing a team pick with Wayback.
Oh yeah.
So we've definitely seen it before here, but...
See if lethal can deal some damage here.
Open things up.
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I mean it makes sense like SG were so good playing the Wii on Composition yesterday right so
Makes sense, you also get some protectors for your backline
I wonder if they want to go over here as well because
I'm sure of also can be a pretty scary map today since Gion
I feel like it has some map where you know Sugar Free plays pretty much free
I'm sure of also to keep saying what Soda is saying about playing free
Sugar Free, I feel like he's quite free on Sura Valsa
This guy's given us a good opportunity here.
They work close angles on New York City, and they get to Wu Yang out, so they can't play their hallmark pro composition.
This guy's being able to play pretty similar compositions here, like leveling the playing field.
They're not forced to adapt to these weird archetypes that is his year of throwing away.
to be right. Creeping up in popularity. It's been bad a fair number of times as well.
I think we're sure the fans that's the other day was on that. It's just pretty good right
now, especially with the prevalence of Tracer still. I think Tracer is never not going to
be meta or at least on the periphery of being meta. We're going to use a very good combo
with it. Getting Hawke away from the Mauga versus Mauga. You can go D.Va here by a Rissa.
Yeah, well, it's his oyster right now. I'd say that. At least two heroes, that's probably
more like one or the other, maybe, so I hope they're all constrained here. I should take
more. I hope a stream really pops off this summer. They get D.Va here in North America
and also taking to the opponents on the international stage because there's like sugar-free,
the servant, you know, there's so much talent there.
Just hasn't been able to showcase it on the international stage for quite some time now.
Yeah, I think the whole of North America is hoping that they do a little bit better on LAN.
I'm not a fan. Ballast Fueled made
the like deepest run. SSG just
didn't do didn't do well at all
in the first one. It takes time
to build up. But I think that
how good she on has been for
this region. Hey, I I've got a
lot of hope. I've got a lot of
hope North American on the
international stage. You say
that and then you see like
proper things like I know
Through through through. Scary.
Ooh, scarier.
Zarya for Tread.
Rocket Tracer, PGE on the she-on.
But Space Station, playing the mage.
So Tread is basically sitting all the way in the back
and just bubbling Tracer and PGE to go in.
That's interesting, kinda more than likely.
Did you get caught by these wolves?
That Zarya is going to die very fast.
And the Rock and yeah the body block too but back smack actually from a rocket will kill Hawke and
PG2 stuff over the bike too so in fact they've managed to make the best out of the kind of
awful situation losing tread first you know disguise they can't
I mean I think this could be disguised best look and we saw a glimpse of it yesterday
He was a little up and down, but I'd still say for the most part they look pretty good playing it.
And this is another opportunity if you can get the ice block out of sugar-free, if you get the sues out of ultraviolet.
That is go time. It's a very engaged heavy composition of this guy.
So just play the angles for now, you can see Rocket lurking in the wings that they allow flying right there.
So if you get this guy's MPG, they're gonna get playing it off their own.
Basically, they're putting pressure towards the point here.
These guys, they'll have to go at some point here.
Yeah, they gotta get a move on.
SSG have already capped beneath their noses. They pushed them all the way back.
And then giving Mei as well any kind of room is just so difficult,
because she's being able to rotate walls to Mei is just so powerful.
RPG is frontlineing right now for the team, but he's got bubbles,
so actually free energy for Tread,
because he's up in the top spot, trying to kill that Lucio Vabral,
chasing down with a help of Horde.
Even a rock skater disguised to quite like fit the tithes on him, you saw the idea there
with the two players message he'd been described by PG, but yeah I didn't look out.
Yeah, I mean at the end of the day, these guys they want to play real explosive here
with their composition, like you probably should have held onto that sooner or sooner.
But especially in gaming, they've done sort of a great job already at just pushing the
different flankers on the sky stairs.
you saw pretty pressure to rocket force him to blink away spend those things you can see
he had already hog pretty pressure on the treads so there's no opening for disguise to engage
all together.
He keeps trying to find a one uh put it there onto the lucio just shut down completely by
lethal yeah the rush into turret form uh lethal just dominated disguise it's gonna be the point
capture as well and space station they only use rush i mean you're so happy with that you got
blizzard your flux like you're so much this next one yeah the rush is just everything that
kind of takes it over top already putting pressure on the tread i mean that's kind of like how you
get off to a good start already so you can see spaces and they're sitting on the points for the
time being but at some point they're going to make a decisive push somewhere to put pressure
up to one or two members from the skies.
As soon as they decide to go on here.
Kiwi's being very pivotal here for the skies.
It's probably just going to be used for this flood.
Kiwi's walk actually wants to use it.
Wow, they're going to go early with it.
Blizzard now thrown out on the point.
Kiwi a lot of over health, but they need kills here
because these ults are going to be shunking everybody down.
Threaddye's brain hits the ground.
It's not a fashion ult.
They're so stationary.
They're not even laying their roles, just one after another, just trying to get them down,
this guy's attack here on this point.
I've already been up 30% or so.
The space station has just cleaned up the last couple of members of this guy.
Getting better beat from Adriel, and space is in gaming they survived the initial dive
from this guy, and quite unbelievably, they got the capture off as well during this guy's
engage speed so none of the guys was pushing the point. So if you push a trade, once you're
getting in trouble and no Lucio's feeding you, drop them off. Yeah, let's run them down now.
They're going to speed, yeah, like you mentioned. Keep me die first, Admiral. Point. Don't worry,
there's no chance for a cap there from Rocket. It's pretty close. What? I tell a lie, my bad.
Rocket just one blink away, Lucio leaves. I blink back in. Ten percent, we'll take it.
It's gonna have to try to do it again.
But they're smithing now.
Chase me down Rocket right now.
He recalled, he just recalled.
He has to go back and retouch for the rest of the scene, he's going to die.
Not nice for Rocket there.
Obviously in a Rocket hard place, unfortunately.
As Trekk, this force of the Susan and the Swiftstep from Ulcer Violet has to play Guardian
on the point now.
Can't move off of it.
Or is it Will of the Space Station?
And then, well, it's gonna be theirs anyway.
Two points on the board now. Disguise.
It's just getting flattened. It doesn't feel close.
The first map felt real close. Second map close as well.
But this one, very much an SSD.
SSG game type.
Yeah, this is one of the fastest New York City.
I've seen quite some time here in the street.
But once again, holding forward here.
Ready to drop the Katsune Rush.
If they spot an opportunity to do so,
They're not going to let this guys take any kind of position here for free
Post one please chunks it down
Destruction shop finish them off pork now hits the grass gets a lot of health for ready for free
But PG is the one that goes down Hawks still alive to
Trump would pressure like back to front pressure from a disguise
I'm able to punish the sigma as ssg cap with a sound barrier as well to their name like
they're looking so clean, so clean we're now part of the room for sure, there is that sound
barrier from that room and they're going to clean things up onto the back of that, alright
TV's like, what to quote, three sound barrier for next one.
I'll let him go, man.
It's just SSGT.
But it's paying so comfortable right now.
They know what their objective is, paying this composition.
Against what these guys are throwing their way.
These guys are going to make a couple of changes though.
Rocket over on two wars, this is a nice drop.
This is though.
Unless it gets blasted and get away with murder,
But I think they're gonna have to let him in, fortunately.
Fred ends up getting the trade.
Space Station still control a good freeze kill on the style.
And the soundbar from Kiwi, only gets two.
Oh, the rock was so nice from Hawk as well.
Kiwi's on XP, yeah, it doesn't make it out alive.
And Space Station.
Johnny, I think that's gonna be mapped.
Yep, Fred doesn't even get the touch.
A 3-0 on Doojunk City.
Good pace, he messes, she has to be said.
And I was just thinking about this before that last fight kicked off.
How much direct in space station is showing here?
I don't think there's going to be any crazy new cops for any maps or anything like that, but
I think they got some make up their sleeve for the playoffs that they don't want displayed.
Yeah, I think they're pretty standard right now.
They're just making smart swaps around what the opponents are doing.
We've seen in this meta that when the opponents have a Sigma player like Hawke, and you can't necessarily match that Sigma player,
it does get quite difficult. Like how many teams have we seen like Triton, Forrest and Mauga, who play some kind of like faster tempo.
But Sigma has been so powerful in this meta so far, that it's going to be a challenge for you to kind of work around these kind of compositions.
And we saw right there
SSG is putting on a show
The way they're applying pressure onto these guys trying to make this hazard work instead
So clean as you like, just pretty pretty standard Overwatch
I think too complicated, maybe like I said save something for Chaos
They're not raw for that
They're left about nice from the start
That's a good word, I've used that one before
I think that's where I picked it up
Yeah. Yeah. Hey, that happens all
the time. You'll be surprised.
You pick up words from me. I
pick up words from you and
then you just ask the game. I
don't know. I don't know where
I was going to. Disguise
still off the map. Hey, this
could be about five but about
before come up in a moment as
space station. Close that one
pretty cleanly. Like I said,
the first two maps have been
pretty close. I mean, disguise
even to map one. You gotta be
If you're a disguise fan still, don't forget in the Overwatch eSports store in the game right now, you can grab some of the classics.
They're bringing them back, Johnny, which I don't want to say anything too crazy, but I hope they've brought back some of the really old ones as well, like the 2021s, you know, those ones.
Maybe the Jonak skin as well. I've had that one for a long time, but I mean, that one is.
Those are some good ones, you know, that's the point.
Did you already have your pee skin?
Go tigs.
My god, one of the best zen skins in the game.
Alright, yeah, my Brunisapi.
This one's open to the public.
Up next.
Yeah, I'm trying to think, is there?
It's got to be.
Oh no, the Takoyaki zen skin is also very good.
He literally has skinning balls of Takoyaki as it's all.
Big time now, I think.
Do you like Takoyaki?
Yeah, I do. I love Takoyaki.
Go ahead.
Do you like the player Takoyaki?
Do you remember that guy?
I do I do vaguely recall
Yeah
Yeah
any tank player from like 2018 2019 and look with Peter's wings then
Reinhardt that's your senior oh yeah Reinhardt. None of this new fangled tanks.
Yes. Hyperflex tanks, Soria, Winston. Yeah. Do you tank play? You look at it
infected. Do you play how many tanks? Do you play main tanks and off tanks? What?
crazy. It's crazy. It's crazy.
more than a single character.
Really? It's crazy. Back in the
day when you're picking up
Widow 1 tricks, you need a
Widow player for that match or
like TracerotPs. I mean, long
I've gone those days. Again,
I only pay projectile the projectile hero pool like I play projectiles see place you hear us
so we tell me yes yeah okay well yeah great do you have a water that was a real Genji
special that's a that's gladius legion in contenders that is a deep cut yeah very deep
Alright, let's get into this one then.
A Sigma fan in a Cassidy van, Presses G.
Oh, we're going back here. Look at this.
A Bastion with the cat, of course, but Sugarfee running up the Reaper into the mountain.
Okay, well, Reaper's kind of been forgotten the last few weeks here.
Obviously, it was a really good pick during Champions Clash,
and around the time we started playing these kind of positions,
so Sugarfee bringing it back here.
that's a big storm that was a big storm and loopless down huge from Fred
all the one clip that CP couldn't have been closer my goodness rocket's calling
that one out like there's no tomorrow I think the disguise they're gonna get the
point the point guys yeah this is the composition that liquid paid earlier
When the player is really high tempo with the Kiriko and the Jetpack Cat.
And again, I think this suits disguised players.
I think this could be one of their better compositions.
Obviously, this is just between the bastard and the self-server.
I like this look from disguised.
Throw in the Margarit.
Stop goes a little wide.
Sugarfee is the teleport onto that high ground so they've added pressure on the flight but it's gonna be just consistently
Tread being thrown to the walls. Those walls wearing astronauts suits right now, it doesn't look like Tread is gonna be able to get out of there.
There's Kiwi Kiyosar, here's a fellow support in Skyl. Here in the wongy wong, it's Sugarfee.
Actually, Horses Sugarfee 2 hit the right form. Not a low health place on the side of the skies but they still managed to focus down more.
more I mean the backline looking real clean right now is skyline Kiwi is
surviving these engagements from SSG yeah with this atomobility you can
navigate space missions composition somewhat when space is in the size of
commit disguised in a good job so far laying around them they're fire
alternate still pushing both this spot forward see if they squatted me
opportunity had to go early but they still prefer to wait for spaces to make
Oh
I don't think that rush whatsoever. Yeah, you actually get the cap off of that. You can't really complain too much
It does suck you're not getting any kills but getting the cap is just such a big deal
The name just around the foot again combo from lethal boat in reversal most using stretch cage to his own advantage
Advantage kills the cage kills Kiwi as an ASSG
They don't win this fight
Very easy now. They just gonna kill the pesky Turakos. Okay, there it is. Skyle down
The rest of these guys look too very group
So rocket pulling the pulse bomb there
We get any value because ultimately drop that su su and I wonder is that very tricky situation?
maybe you could hold on to the pulse bomb just for a little bit longer see if
you can force out that Tsutsu but that was definitely a calculated combo
space you're gaining
there you got their home cage but oh my for
Hawkeye swings clip there but sugar free with a death possible inside the cage
that is a combo of all that feels like at this point Johnny
oh okay rocket admirable attempt there to kill sugar free but he just
funny hopped over every swapping soul jeff what are you doing jake
no jake jake said it could be viable you know i like to listen to jake you know
it's gonna be the first time i'm sorry i thought that saw just no pilot
i'm sorry someone will i'd have to put a stop to someone you're flying on his head
No, the army's so friggin' nice you stop them there.
Sugarphee gets stomped on, but it's got Rayforms to get away.
Oh, not quite so lucky that Sugarphee's waiting right at the hook.
Dress back as soon as he turns his gaze, he will talk.
Is that it? Well, let's have this...
Sugarphee glides too. No chance for a moving combo, sadly, but it is gonna be a spree used.
And now the focus on Sebastian, they managed to get out of the Bastion Bar for a second or so.
The bike is gonna help Rocket kill Lethal eventually.
Still the lead though for Disguise, worth keeping in mind, 73 minutes to 39 is now the bot is on SSG side of the map.
Yeah, they're looking very comfortable playing a composition like this. Now pressure is on SSG, you find a good opportunity to drop this Kitsune Rush.
Disguise will know of this though, they know this Kitsune Rush will come out from Ultra Violet, it's all about timing.
You may be disengaged successfully from that one, or if you feel forced to commit with the cage and particle environment.
They have a combo again.
Reverse Bomb on the CK.
They're threatening it! They're threatening it!
Little, not really that low.
They're trying to heal up quite consistently. Where's the lethal? There it is! Little, pop the ult!
Postball gets thrown in as well.
We've been a convoy they have reverse gets little nothing this time both rushes
We're perfectly layered on top each other there. Let's hold trace down again by Trent
Guys they want a map bar joint. I can feel it in the air
I can feel it in their bones four minutes to go they win that fight they get more lead
It's really working out for them so far
We actually have to deploy quite a few ultimates in that one, but it was also a fight that spaces and invested in
so now
You're in a really good spot here 85 meters. This should be enough to earn you the victory here and they're pushing for more
Yeah, a little aggressive on the storm give a mistake by the Brit
Go
This is a winning spot for like a lot of teams at this point as well four minutes and you've got almost 60 meters like ahead
the other team. No checkpoint either, where's the shield?
Tread, throw this over to the D.va here. All this agents, especially against a combo like the Reaper and the Magan.
But all the armor already, Susu has to come out. This is a poor spot. Now you're giving Spaceship so much time to push this spot forward.
There's no engage on the back of this. Spaceship now with this combo.
Should we look around the core? Squee, though?
Very early.
Very early.
Yes, super early. It's looking at Apple right now, but the Kates is going to get deployed.
He'd be dead. The right click.
Ooh, that was every bullet right towards Lethal's head.
A PG with a long range kill to April 2.
Superstar DPS lineup for Disguise here.
PG and Rocket cleaning SSG up.
That is a ridiculous scene by Winnart.
It's red or isolated.
So early on in that fight, we know armor there.
But this is what we wanted to see from Disguise.
We talked about Rocket's tracer play for so long,
and now you find yourself in a meta where
PGE can play quite a tempo heavy as well, blocking the she on here.
This is disguised looking very comfortable in a composition like this.
They got a kid sooner or later in the hand here as well.
Don't forget how to use it. They're all going to go for it here though.
Can't nap?
I have room.
Take it for summit.
Bolt's already dead.
Leave for gold.
Johnny.
And this is getting over 100 meters.
And this is getting out of hand.
SSG.
Okay.
Man, if this guy...
Rewind back to wheat one, this guy start playing like this.
It could have been a very different look for the team throughout the stage.
That's insane.
This team now looking so much better.
I'm gonna play this competition and halt this over onto the Sawyer here.
Trying to get some B damage off the trend here in the front line,
but I don't even know if this won't be enough.
Playing the Sawyer beaker against this high-tempo damage line.
Off this guy.
guys just get someone back on here oh my god this is the guys made a cap in the
mouth Johnny this is a full cap this might be a full cap no way they're gonna
push on Rocky gets the pulse conquer on TV they've killed Hawk last they've
is this the used rush disguise full cap against the sheet no one had this on
the big finger cards no one absolutely no one 11 they've got a matrix to 11%
did wait they could know this oh the bomb the cat bomb tp double put a double
bubble already use that to keep that one trigger free over a first step on Kiwi the
better stun. Abra puts down the cat and Kiwi goes down it's a 5v4 but in
control of SSG you've got to think they're eventually gonna lose players here
Abra's gonna heal everybody back up what's this 99 meters technically not
Avril theory by the way technically it's 99 it's not a hundred meters
A minute ago this is close enough for the theory that it
Spaces should be the biggest bumble of all time. Yeah, you you you have to win this one if you guys do not
A lot of ultimates for SG here though
Okay, Dredd's back on map, and Rav thrown in. It's hit a lot of people, and when I
hit a lot, I hit a lot. There was like four people in that crowd.
Alright, PG on the bike, they need to look for Dredd's, and that's about it.
Dredd's installed, Dredd's installed. That's the name of the game here for these guys right
now. Dredd's doing a good job there too. This isn't a quick T5 by any interest in imagination.
People die to Kiwi. PG gets another one, maybe Kiwi again? Not quite getting the kill on
ultra-violet. PG gets out alive and he does okay, saves his own life. And our
space station in OT needs to get capped and needs to get 99 meters.
This guy will drop the kick zero. SSG, they're coming up on double support
ultimate. This guy's probably going to build the cage after all. But this is SSG with a
good shot at you. Don't need to die time. Fail. Melted thread. This breed from PG, doing absolutely nothing to the
front line of space station gaming in that rush it's all good all the time
rush as disguised they only have a cage fight coming up yeah that's not good
okay maybe it's to work with her yeah
Okay, Rocket, PG. Just getting a pick here will probably be the map. Tread's gonna go down to the bot. Dodges to fight. Sanctuary available for Abril.
There is the Screeping. He's by Leifle. Doesn't fight too much, but it's a low. The right click from Shigafrey kills PG.
Oh, close threat. Uh-oh, Johnny.
They're gonna all spawn.
Kiwi's gonna go down as well.
OT spawns coming in.
138 minutes to now, 85.
Sanctuary, cage flight.
PG's gonna merge into Bastion.
Okay.
It's winnable, right?
You have a cage flight, but SSG,
they got a sanctuary,
and they're coming up on the guard on search.
The one thing these guys have going for them,
PG's going to have incredible sightlines here
with the Bastion.
If PG's down, it's over.
Okay. He can't die. The Dark Lord cannot die. They trapped the Reaper of all people,
the Double Bubble, Sanctuary, Stop from Tread, Grapple and Surge gets thrown in, and they've
already killed Kiwi. Oh, it's disaster for disguise. Potentially the fumble of the century,
the fumble of the stage here as they get 99 meters over SSG and they still lose the map.
I'm gonna put it down to that Johnny. It wasn't a hundred meters. It wasn't. That was a hard
fought fight from SSG to come back there as disaster hits disguise comes
they were really good for 10 minutes anything above 10 minutes
I think this was a great last showing from this guy, this might be the best they looked
all stage long.
SSG played pretty standard, you know, I don't think SSG was like sandbagging or anything
either, they didn't get cute with it.
In fact, it was a bit mad that they didn't, zero fun zone over there, but yeah, I think
this guy just generally played up through the competition and ended up not having the
same clutch factor.
They did. They did. They looked so much better than I think they did at the start of the stage.
And also I think they looked better than they did in stage 1.
This just looks like a team that is now more comfortable in the meta.
I like this composition they brought out from Masape to give this lead in the first place.
So it's going to be a little bit unfortunate.
You know, reasons and bias. People are only going to think about how the way this map ended.
But yeah, you're right. So if this was a disguise thing that at the end of the day,
they took it quite close to SSG here.
Oh man, we need who do we need call doctor? What do we need doctor strange?
Call somebody to rewind time real quick and put disguise back a week one after plan like this. They looked
Good, they looked really good. Take this the best team in North America. They almost took to map five. So yeah props to them
Yeah, no everyone else really fell flat going up against SSG so for this guy
to be able to push back in such a way given that they are our last seeder team, you know,
like they've got win this now officially in stage two, but this was them punching back and this is
why I have a lot of faith to seed them again in stage three. I do believe that they once again
will be coming out on top of promotion and relegation if they can play like this.
Yeah, 100%. I really do think that's the way they're playing right now, that shouldn't be an issue.
So really like all six teams in North America really are promising and really are good if you're coming from
Facing masters and you're trying to make your way to OBS
Yes, you got a tough cast ahead of you because I really do think all six teams here. They are forces to be reckoned with
Yeah, they could play it like rocket really really good PG really really good like everybody trans style
We're going to see these games again, like a hundred percent.
They just couldn't get it done until the very last match, unfortunately.
I'm looking forward to seeing how they're doing phase three.
I want to see them make a deeper run this time around.
With that, we see a conclusion for both of these teams here of stage two group play round
Robin, space station gaming do officially go undefeated, disguised going win this, um,
we still have some movement that is possible if we're looking at the standings.
That is fuel and lunax will be going at each other after a short break and, uh, technically
lunax could be snatching that second seat if day three, oh, that is fuel, which I give
it that that's a tall order.
Well, you'd want to dodge your space station in that initial matchup.
Do you think Lootix will be their target?
Like, if you are a space station gaming, who do you think you should go up against?
I mean, Lootix will be the only answer, but you know, you did just 3-0 Team Liquid quite dominantly, so...
Yeah.
Yeah.
What? That's so easy.
That was quite a tradition.
No, and that's why we failed the big bucks, right?
Like, the death of analysis is astounding.
Let's bring in one of our winning players,
Lethal will be joining us, hopefully giving a little bit more insight than Jack just did.
Lethal will be joining with voice only.
Can you hear us? Are you with us?
Yeah, hello.
Hello. Welcome to the show.
Walk us through the series.
Obviously, this guy's in this match.
I mean, guys, we're the heavy favorites.
Do you feel like they played up to the competition, or did you guys take it a little easier in today's match?
We were a bit laid back, but they were actually shooting back, which was impressive.
It definitely changed.
And before we could just like walk down and they wouldn't just not fight and we would just like run them over.
But they played good.
Yeah, it was actually a very entertaining game.
You hit there like 99 Avril like theory just on the board line and coming back.
That was one of the funnier maps and one of the better maps.
I think we've seen it all stage.
It was, yeah, it was really entertaining to say the least.
I want to bring it back to being a little bit more serious now though.
Obviously, you guys have been perfect throughout the stage.
You've only dropped a couple of maps,
but going to an international and assuming you make it through playoffs, of course,
for you guys and facing international competition again,
like is any of the jitters or nerves going to play a factor,
considering how well you did it, Jokey?
I don't think there is, but we definitely got to have a wake-up call.
Because last time it wasn't even close.
Our scrims weren't close, and then our results spoke for themselves.
So now we've got to actually take it more serious,
and actually start revamping from a different perspective.
So we at least want to get one win at the next land minimum.
Definitely. That would be nice indeed.
I kind of predict more than that, the way you guys are looking right now.
I want to ask about the way you're adapting in some of these series, because I feel like we've been
commentating you a few times now. And even against a team like Lunex last week, like the
Circuit Real went into overtime in the matchup today against the Skies, you know, obviously they
were quite impressive on Ilios, and they really like fought back, like you said, but I feel like
your adaptations have been so good mid-game, like you're changing your compositions and reacting
to what the opponents are doing. Is that part of like some of the communication changes you've
you've made as well. What is the communication like in the middle of these maps when you're
making these hero swaps to what the opponent are doing?
Our comps are mostly just like we analyze what they're playing. We're just like, okay,
we have a whole selection of heroes and we can play those heroes. So mine is what just
like swap to them, especially since last stage, we were chained up on like Kiri and Lucio
comp. And that was kind of irritating. So now that we're more free, we can actually do
these adaptations without worrying if it was wrong or correct, you know, or more risky.
We'd be so happy. We want to see you free. That's the way to play because that makes
for the most exciting matches. It's definitely been an absolute treat to see you guys dominate
this stage and I hope it continues on that trajectory in the playoffs and then of course
on LAN as well. Thank you so much for taking the time and best of luck in the playoffs.
Thank you guys for having me.
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We definitely did that, yeah.
So we have to get it toward this time.
Last time we got two people out of the woods.
I don't know if they got that, so we'll call it.
Oh, that's unfortunate.
That's okay. Overall good ratio.
Most of them made it back, so that's okay.
For now, though, we're heading into a quick break.
We hope we don't lose any of you there in that time,
and you'll be back for the last match after day
in the last day of our group stage.
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Welcome back everyone, Zoe here, joined by my friends, rather, Johnny and Jack, and we're
about to get ready for our last series of the day, and this one has, as I said, technically
seeding implications. That said, the caveat is that Lumex has to win 3-0 against Dallas
Fuel in order to get that second seed. If they win 3-1, 3-2, no can do. It's got to
be a clean 3-0 and that's a tall order because Dallas Fuel really have been levelling up.
Yes, they came in with a shaky performance in the very first match in week one against
SSG that he lost that one. Oh, three. But ever since then, they've been dominant and they've been looking good in this matter.
Yeah, they look really nice. I it's going to be so tough for Linux to take a map, not not lose a map. Sorry, off of the balance. No, they will be able to take a map. But for them to go perfect, it's going to be so tough.
I think with how flexible Dallas Fuel has been, it's just such an incredible thing in this manner.
And Kellan being able to play a lot of these main tanks too, and then Sonjin's Hero Pool, they're just so deep.
And this DPS lineup is just nasty.
Sonjin Chronic, they're up there with the very best.
Yeah, they really are.
And it's kind of similar to what they said before, it's like, we got the Hero Pool, so let's just play free.
Dallas Fuel does exactly that.
They've been pretty reactive to what
Lunix are bringing out today.
They will indeed.
Now, Lunix, they had moments of great best of stage.
I feel like they've definitely been a team that cannot be
underestimated.
They have won the matches that they need to win
convincingly, which is good.
Then obviously against the top teams,
they didn't get the dubs.
But yeah, they had a whole week to prepare.
So I hope that they came up with a possible solution
of what Dallas Fuel will most likely be playing,
but we already talked about Dallas Fuel
being a flexible team.
So they got to dig deep into the strap book.
I know.
I'm just saying.
The thing is with this team,
and not even just the team, but the players,
they've always been on the cusp of making it to a LAN.
It's just X10 is a good example here.
She's always been fourth place in a way.
And it's like, she's so close on the precipice of making it there.
And I think the team as a whole and just how much work they put in,
they deserve it in a way.
And I think getting to a LAN would just be such an amazing achievement.
But getting past these top three teams has always been such a struggle.
It's always felt like a miniature tip break or a tick app
that Lunex are pushing against like stage after stage, even year after year.
Hey, this could be the stage, I'm just saying, this match was seeding implications, but next weekend, this team has a great opportunity to pull off an upset against the top three in North America.
They actually do qualify for our LAN for the first time, and they met us pretty soon as well as well with Somba over on to Xiong.
I agree, this is very much in their graph, given the fact that we have the top three of each region coming through into our mid-season championship.
I think an opportunity there for sure to finally see them on land, which would be just really phenomenal.
You already talked about the jaws like they've been grinding for such a long time.
Those individuals would have been following for so many years in tier two and now here in Oda Vs.
Yes, so it really would be so great to see them live in the flash in action on this stage.
So we'll see.
It's going to be tall order to go up against Dallas Fuel and get that three ornars to get the second seed.
That's not the only way to make it through so for predictions
Have to go with that as fuel although my heart does say
Go you go next you got this
Yeah, I can appreciate that. Yeah, I think a lot of people
I think almost do next are the people's champions at this point is making it to a land like you said would be such a good
I did go with Dallas feel as well. I've been pretty in Dallas feel every single game
I've costed the Dallas feeling so I'm not gonna break the streak
And I'll probably do the same collapse
Yeah, we don't we don't have said Papa Tasman
Yeah, exactly
I'm going without as well. I also just love watching Dallas you like some of these compositions
play. Not necessarily what we typically see from a lot of different teams, right? The way they beat
down Team Liquid, playing that Winston composition, it's an absolute treat. And so I hope we get to see
some more of that in this series, knowing that Lunex might bring out quite a bit of a reser.
How do we play around that utilizing our strengths as a team? That was cute. I forgot them doing this one.
All right, that was cool across the board, but I do see the chat is cheering heavily for Lunex as
you're going to be able to
get that. We'll find out in
just a second. So Jack Johnny
is taken away. Thank you very
much, So we Yes, Dallas, you
and Luna. Dallas obviously
three and one next to and two.
I think if you're in Lunex
issues in this situation,
you're probably resting easy
in a way like this doesn't
have an implication of us
team. We're going to go to
Ilios. It's our first map.
That's Dallas pick. They're
going to ban the cats and
tracer band balloon. Yeah,
so many of these teams. They're
really shown on Ilios that they
like to bring out the cat and
has so much impact on all three
of these teams. They're going
to have a good shot at making
it through. We're going to go to
Ilios. It's our first map. That's
have so much impact on all three of these stages I feel like. So Dallas Fuel, they instead want to
opt out into some of this regular hill of dive and give Kellen opportunities to have an impact
in this series when you play the cat's passion, tag player doesn't have that same opportunity. So
Dallas Fuel, off the bat here, going to play to their strengths instead and put Lunis on the back
This is why you love watching the Dalasuhara dive tanks okay don't don't get ahead of yourself
don't get ahead oh it is just a classic oh he's rocking the Chengdu hunters record your skin as
Well, would you look at that.
Are his skins this fire?
Here it comes.
Oh, he's actually sticking with it.
I wasn't doubter Jaws!
I doubted!
I doubted the kill on Breaking Ball.
This is a classic. This is El Classica.
Alright.
Ball versus Azaria.
It's on June classically again on the fire.
This has been the look to how Dallas Fuel have been rocking a lot of control points.
And not many other teams are playing far as much as Dallas Fuel right now.
And it's worked a lot of the time.
The far Wrecking Ball combo, you hit the slam, or even hit a rocket, ball goes in.
It's just so tough to deal with.
Softly sustained for it.
Well, Lukavino actually goes down X10, which is much plus blood.
Yeah, so that's quite annoying because obviously you want to utilize the Wrecking Ball
to try and get a lot of points when there's some going.
While the rest of your team generally prefer to play with people who will be out in the far above,
you can either go down early,
or you can just push this Dallas Fuel back CJ here though.
Find some hopefully pick on the Rich then,
and I guess if Dallas Fuel team like this,
you can't get picked like that early,
they're going to capitalize.
Yeah, these comps from Dallas Fuel are so quick to re-engage
because of the Wacking Ball.
Like, yeah, that one pick on to X-10,
and you've lost all your pressure in the frontline against Ball.
It's real tough.
Like, Zombo's gonna be able to do damage, yes, but with Ball.
No, I haven't to worry about the Reaper.
It's just, it's lovely. It's just fantastic.
And now Lunix had to...
Walk up here, and try to get some ground for themselves, playing this Sawyer composition, and you're seeing Dallas Fuel swarming above them, raining down the folk damage.
You've got a little bubble here if you're X-10, but she can't do much with that.
Unless, okay.
Die, Triggas, hang on a second.
And you're the most rarest kill team.
Yeah, acts on the far too, yeah.
TP, high ground, X-Ten low, she gets to bar-ball, though Luka Mido down to Sombra.
Oh, uh, Lunex, uh, I've been taking him, taking him fast right now.
Chronic sends a bite towards C, she dies, but, I mean, X-Ten being alive here is just perfect.
The flip ends up coming in, X-Ten's gonna get some backup, Chronic goes down to the back of the point.
Very back and forth so far, uh, Kellan, not sure he's gonna be staying, he's sticking around too long, but at least not mine.
They're always sneaking around in this competition.
I have some good points. It's going to be great for point pressure here, but Loonex will have to leave with me in the 8th floor.
He has to rush in. Always a free cap there. You can sneak that away if you kill him.
They don't give him the chance. X10 teleports to the top of the pillar, takes down Shumjun.
Reba kills onto the barra.
Is this real life? X10 is taking it to the sky. Yeah, the die triggers are going crazy right now.
They are, and now Lunex 64% they're coming up on the Zomber, the Graviton Surge in a good position here.
If we can get some value from their performance.
They're including Sound Barrier, Saundra, they're already dead, Tidal Blast on to Lukimino,
his Zomber hits a two player spree, wave already used to by Lukimino, and that means X-10 and the rest of Lunex,
they're going to be in a spot to win this round, they shoot at... can I actually catch Chronic?
I don't think so.
They're trying to- actually no, it's not a lie, they're trying to chase, or at least Nemwais.
She ends up getting away though.
C'mon, he's fuckin' out.
As well.
Okay, so Dallas Fuel, they still have to stick Super Rush in hand.
They're still going to give them the advantage covering some of this ground on towards the point.
We're going to go up to Graviton, search into that.
So, Lunax, probably gonna play slow here.
We're trying to force something of the mistake here.
Next time, come on in.
Another guy from the far-
Sonjourn is having a terrible time on this far.
No one's ever said that in Overwatch history, Johnny.
The far player's having trouble dealing with the Reaper.
He's crazy!
Both Lucio's down, OT approaching, touches.
Okay, luckily there, Kellan rolled through the point.
Chronic down to X-10 as she finds another.
Zongin comes back from the far, don't die to the Reaper challenge.
Please, I beg of you, Zongin. Almost I should die to him again.
X-10 manages to get away, gets back to the point,
but now they're gonna have to fight on this rush.
Here comes the barrage from the high ground, Sonshu doing a lot of taboos to himself there in there.
In the beginning of that barrage, a teleport onto the high ground now for X10, looking towards Sonshu once more.
Mines for Kelen on the point, Lukumino down to Menwai.
As there's a lot of timers, lapses now, so this OT basically means, it's out of few after permanently beyond this point.
Menwai takes the kill onto Sonshu and his, these mines are a little more than a hindrance right now for Lunax, almost ignoring the point.
Kelen rolls in, rolls out, Lunix takes that one.
Yeah, I gotta give a lot of props there to Somba next time.
He's doing a lot of work in the front lines and finding the opening pick so many times.
Still, I feel like Sunjin should have adapted a little sooner to the Reaper play that was coming out there from X-Ten
because she did a great job with teleporting up to these high grounds to the pillars
and then getting close with those dire triggers.
But it happened like three times in a round.
At some point, you gotta know that that is coming and Sunjin at the very final time was caught in doors.
That's a mistake that you can't see Sunjun do before.
Like, that's... you gotta be ready for that at the end of the day, so...
I think Sunjun 4 and 5 right now.
I foresee a bit of a comeback here from Sunjun.
See if he's grips together.
And, yeah, the Pharah not pretty.
Gonna go it again? Oh, okay, just forcing it.
A bit harder to get angles as the Reaper on this map against Pharah.
So in theory Johnny
Sonjun's gonna have a new time against the Reaper guy
The Reaper guy the guy with two shotguns killing the farro with a jetpack
The diet triggers makes 10 she's been so happy with them. Oh, it's won't go on to some of it. Yeah
She kills him again
Come on. Okay. I think this is
Okay, I think this pops the softness on
It might not. Just trying to ignore the Reaper. It's not been the best look so far for Sonju, but now Lunex needs Captain Boyce.
Yeah, I think you've got to stay with it. I think you have a lot of options here. Because the Tracer was banned initially, and now Lunex.
Trying to get point control here still though. I'm doing a fantastic job of trying to keep stalling this point. Not allowing Lunex to get back into it.
Oh yeah, they ended up killing Zep 2, which is a big lifeline for X-Men to use with those
bubbles.
The next backline, Nenue and Z, both of them have worked their way up to support real quick,
like 10% away from Raj, 20% away from B. This is a very fast beat time for them, why?
Yeah, it really is.
Now they just need to get value out of it.
This is a tough composition to beat down as of today.
Gonna keep playing those open big skits, they're not dropped here, but just look at the poke damage from way in the aim of couple Lunex as he tried to get through them, and mine's here now too, this is tough.
Mine's killing X10 times again, she wants one!
With Mino using the Tide of Blast on himself, doesn't get a knockdown, and there goes the beat, is he just full though?
Yeah, a good beat, unfortunately, he wouldn't have survived anyway, a little boot off of the map will do.
Barrage the Sonjin as X-10 scurries for cover and Lunax despite them having
What feels like controlling some of these fights have yet to cap down here up to 75%
The rush as well from CJ just to keep the fight going
But X-10 deathboss was straight on top of CJ's head and she finds two
Yeah, like you said, finally Lunax does get the capture of all this point
Oh, then why? Then why? Then why?
Surely not another one.
Ready to Dallas Fuel. Like the way they're stalling out this point,
they're juggling the point back and forth and then finding pigs like this.
Uh, Kella might be going for it again here.
Spawn Camp.
My Trans Spawn Camp now I hear.
They know this repeal, so I don't think it's gonna be the Spawn Camp that they desire.
Look at those.
There he goes, falling off the map.
Spree for Chronic, looking towards the Lucio.
A boop away would have been enough there for NY,
but she gets a little escaped since of getting out of the way anyway.
Chronic's just playing at head high here.
X10 forced to shift. X10 dies to the bike,
but with Kellen's kill on NY, a little bit more even as Sombra executes Chronic.
So, Lunax with control at this point.
And Zep can basically sit here for free, right?
Doesn't really need to do anything too crazy.
Just hold on actually don't get pulled over into the pit
Alright extend again doing a lot of damage to chronic in the front line both DPS players already down OT approaching for the fuel
Extend's looking for another kill on Saunjit. Check this out.
Oh, Lutebino's dead to an XG.
I think it's a proper reset here for the fill. Grabbed from Saunjit and the CJ guy's super late.
A good bowler, so I believe that was from the Frey.
Oh no, Saunjit, sorry, you snapped Raj. Not quite the bowler.
Somebody was just kind of grouped up.
Extend is extremely low right now. They are going to play on this rush, because he gets booted from this guy.
I'm gonna be using the season on herself, but Ludex, they're still in a spot to win this.
Ace 3 to clear out the point.
As Sanjiit needs to find kills, Lukumino's back, try shot into Zomba's face,
and that will be a kill onto the Seon.
Now Sanjiit's trying to find an off angle, away from X-10 on the matches,
but X-10, Jummy hunting once more with that Z-cross,
who's the way narrowly as Sanjiit comes up with the kill.
Xeva pacing kind of, gets the trade, a sound better from them while he hits 3.
Luke Amino tied a boss on himself looking to someone to knock down looks like Zebes come back on the Orisa a little bit
More sustained on the point Dallas Spiels need to cap away as now the Orisa no CDs left and barely any help
Zebes so low but see keeping them alive in the front line
Mines deployed to a boot from NYC Joe the crew right between the eyes
Chills off the Lucio in the end and now X10 is going to be fairly new to this fight too
No more shift means no more safety tool but Zeb keeping this fight going
2v5 going to be Sombra, nice pick up the Sondra here, Kellon still trying to stall for fucking low.
Sombra got owned by the pole there, that was almost a one tap on the high ground player, but it didn't matter.
Lunex with two points under their belt, he climbed that one, Ilios goes that way.
What an impressive showing from Lunex and now with a math win like this alone,
We really can start a discussion about them playing upset to the other teams from stage playoffs next week
That was a really impressive showing from the entire team. Just look at the scoreboard like that's a world of difference
Yes, that was fuel the plane were pic oriented, but I
Mean those eliminations from someone next time is doing all the talking
How are we letting our Pharah die to a Reaper like how is that possible on the first round?
How many times the next 10 kill Sonjin it that and I've had to actually I feel like that was the same play
X10 made over and over again killing Sonjin. Yeah, we saw it up on to the pillar
They're getting bold and killing. I mean come on. This is all
Well, all right, well somebody's a nice little screen here. You're giving me no
You know, finish these things up with CJ here as well.
But yet it damaged you really strong for Lunax here.
Yeah, owned by the pole, unlucky.
Little flagpole there, ribbon.
We set it up in the pre-show as well. They have to be perfect.
They have to 3-0 this to find themselves in the better seeding position.
If Dallas Fuel take a single map here, it will be Dallas Fuel
and putting them in a fourth place so off to a good start already lunax with a
back-to-back round win on ruins and then on wells yeah real nice stuff Dallas
fuel are you at yeah this year so you navigate Ilios all the credit to you
now you're probably gonna have to navigate the road up coming up next
because we know that that is Dallas fuels for a take there you go we're
going to look that in as, you
know, the dived favorite team
going into this one. But even
so, like snatching away that
initial opening map there, this
gives the lunax so much freedom
from the rest of this series.
And so even if that was fuel
to tie things up here, lunax
in a great position. If you're
looking at the long term.
That's called defeat by Dallas
fuel to get to rather because
you best believe lunax if they
have their choice of map,
especially escort, they are picking circuit at all. Like they're or just least at least not Dorado. So
as you're all picking this one earlier, it's kind of there in their secret weapon so far.
You see if Lunex end up, uh, well, we'll see what they end up banning because Dallas fuel, I think,
Johnny, do you ban a tank here if you're fueled? They do. Okay. So it's going to be Zarya protecting
the Winston from Kellan and so Lunex can't ban that. Yeah and that has been Seb's comfort hero
when the research is getting less playtime and so Lunex are going to have to navigate around that
and obviously you know it also does protect like you said for Kellan here onto that as fuel and so
the Saraband just makes a lot of sense you get a lot of I mean both ways to go target banning
I'm a big fan here. So, Lunix, you know, quite a few opens here. They want to do with their own second band. We know what is coming their way, like Dallas, you know, playing this very dive heavy composition. It's going to be the Anna band here from Lunix, quite interestingly. I wonder if this is going to affect the eventual tank pick here from Lunix?
I like the Arnavans, just get that away from fuel, they want to play Arnaw Kingston, especially
in this kind of map, the chat predictions by the way, 87 for fuel, 87% not just 87, 87%
Loonex, only 13% coming in, so this again, I feel like that is, that's a big two dollar
just your favor I fear. Not
not even just being recency bias
after that last map. It's just
even coming into this. I'm like,
okay, well, I would probably give
fuel maybe like 65 maybe 6535
could argue maybe 6040. I think
I'm leaning more of a cat's
dimension. 85 85 15 is a white
time. It's Dallas. You look at
the day. They've only lost to
uh yes it's g otherwise then per year they do phenomenal so i'm siding with chat on this one
all right i'm 65 percent don't fuse what i don't know if they if they put up a showing on the
bottle i mean that would i'm gonna i'm gonna switch sides really something special
i will be flipping my prediction i will i will be no wonder no i sometimes you
can't have honor when you're predicting and there's no stakes for us predicting
unlike for the chat who literally put charlotte's on the line
yeah that's valuable valuable points all right that was fuel with this ana ban
lukemino a lauri cj kiri okay don't hate it so i'm just back on the don't worry sonjan
there's no reaper on the field this time x10 is chosen although this might be even scary
to be fast on the on the shield. So I'm quite curious to see Lunix here. We're going to start
on the on the defense here of course. I think we saw last week that the defense is one thing
trying to go on the attack against Dallas Field here on the road. That is what can really
stop you in your tracks. And so we cannot see how Lunix do here with this composition. I do
like this composition because you have so much tempo that you should realistically be able to
get on top of the back line, try to contest look at the very least and you want you know unlike when
you're playing a brawn composition you won't just get hurt at a round fight that is fuel, dominance here.
Kellen win, very low, maybe this combo get it on to this bit then trade high grounds
wants the tank drops and that's exactly what Kellen's gonna do here so he's got the tactic,
he's got the payload under the hip, kind of a little push through this last way.
Name's Zomber. I'm trying to challenge this high ground, looks like Lunix actually gonna try and
beat him to the punch. What are you chasing Kellen? This is good, they're not sitting back,
they're trying to go for it. Now I guess Picto, that's bad news but this is a good strategy for
for Looney to do here. You want to get into the face of Talos here, but let him set up.
Oh! Sonda! Almost lost the duel to Sunjin. Ghost really low, has to back off that mega pack,
which is a fair distance away. Sona's going to get free time on the payload,
good spear, pins into the tree as he now has to get healed all the way back up before he goes in
again. Oh! That's correct. Figured out here, Looney's still very much in this one. They were
They're like so much on the tracer and she onto a lot of work here and they're still alive,
they're still doing a lot of work and Dallas you're kind of stalled out in this show for
time being.
Oh Sanjun, okay old buddy, in the east, okay there you go.
Hold spot, I think they got Suzy.
I had to guess.
Watch out for this wraparound.
I don't like it because Sanjun's got the rush.
Oh they're pulling out.
Put it out.
See?
Wow, yes, 100 inns are getting picked up like NEN-wired bull people.
A good opening pick from the Tuna.
There's the rushes on both sides.
Now Zombo-
Oh, fuck!
Oh, it's got clapped by Chronic.
Swithed shot, fully charged railgun.
Taking down Zombo.
Zombo barely had two pixels worth of like, hair peeking over that ledge as well.
Still hit the shot.
Catch of sun?
Okay.
Okay, you can buy the Orissos.
He managed to get some tags, but yeah, quickly dispelled, thanks to that shooting, because he still ends up falling over.
So now with Nemwite also trapped, uh, Lunix, their backline, a little worse for where he is, it should be a fairly easy kill on Nemwite,
he actually falls down as a chronic thing, kill and clean up, there's first point.
Who just gave them a run around a little bit though, considering how Dallas Fuel's first point normally goes?
Oh, they 100% did. The big issue was my Dallas Fuel got thrown through that choke point area.
All of Lunex was right in front of them. And that's kind of not the situation you want to be in if you're Lunex.
You want to wrap around some of these angles, poke Dallas Fuel from the side, and actually test the backline.
You see, now Screech is on the next one here.
Well, he comes into the uniform now, but it's pretty hard to fight him actually. That's bad news.
He's going to allow Dallas Fuel to gain some momentum here on the second point.
Oh he's so good with Winston too, look at this, he's already got a couple. Make that a third kill for Kelin on the Winston.
Zed actually on the wrong side of the map, but he'll try to go for a big trade.
Alright, we're in the top spot here Jaws.
We can hype up the orbital wave we want too, but Corny's going overclocked.
Zondja in quite a comfortable position here with the barrage as well which is
going to get questionable value at this point but Lunix now they don't have that
same position if they're on the first one just couldn't get away from them.
It's so easy to disengage from this. One player is still pretty low, X-Ten
extremely low. Zomber eyes to the sky chasing down Zondja with the help of Zed
so Luke Minio jumps onto highs and kills Nemwai so actually a decent
all things considered for the Dallas Steel. And look at me, even winning the 1v1 against the Tracer 2.
Hitting the headshot on the Tracer like that is going to force the recall any day of the week in chronic with a 90 degree flick there onto Zumba.
And that's the payload going. They've got two or three players on it at this point with two minutes to go.
And Zed has to get his Tsunurage up and running to deploy onto the core here, against the ground.
But just look at the position from Dallas Steel. Look at the ult that they have available. They should not be used in this fight.
Yeah, double rush. Good post from Zomba, instantly Suzu, cause of course it is.
There's a terror surge, Bottle World, and Zed puts empty under.
That's chronic with the high ground advantage.
There's no match for this railgun.
Actually gets a double too.
Looking for the tracer, Zomba!
Yeah, okay, dies on point.
And that's the Dallas field we know and love.
It's very hard to come back here if you're not playing a dive tank.
Zed kind of struggling on the rest of the air.
Yeah, and even here now, on this point, where he gets a little bit more close cornered,
It's going to be tough because you want to contest the high ground of course, but Sunjin with the barrage, Luke and Nina with the captain's son
They should be able to utilize this space on the left-hand side because of their aerial mobility
And they're going to be hitting lunics from all sides here, so the defense, no room for respite here
Oh, it's dead. Sunjin, reprobating against the Reaper
Finally, Erosage, right into the barrage
That was almost a free beep for Sunjin
Thank you very much
Dallas Steel get a team kill forced to reset completely captive some primal
rage I mean Dallas feel a cap in this yeah hundred percent you have to push out
here captive son available tell us got a primal rage see killing cook oh my
somber 40 dead captive son the reef is already used for race form as well hits
the ERISA style points for Luke Amino Dallas Steel get three points I mean
only two minutes and ten seconds in the bank that's a nice time bank to thank
you very much father see the flip size now okay they gave him trouble on the
first point but the other two awesome yeah they did and I thought they played
well on that initial point first point to keep things contested but when you get
them to this point here where the defense is trying to be game ground it's just
They're in a world of hurt against the soldier and the Pharah, they can large, there's so much poke coming your way
and then Kela is going to test you in your backline while you're at it as well.
Yeah that score bar is nasty.
Oh, I didn't-
SIRENGEN!
Okay.
C'mon!
Yeah, toward death!
Get with the-
Go to protocol!
Hey man.
He's the tank, he taunted, he's got aggro.
Got four death.
That is...
a lot of this test I thought I thought Ken at least died like once
it's crazy considering how long some of those fights went as well it's a little ridiculous
well it's interesting right because it's not like you're playing full dive even
though you're playing Winston you're not playing like full dive it's more like
you're playing like a bit of a poke and then Kellan is there to kind of like
disrupt the backline you know finish up a couple of picks here and there
But there's no need for the Winston to sacrifice their life deep inside the enemy backlines here, unless, you know, maybe you're doing like a calculated error.
Whether you can't finish someone off nicely, it'll take you up there for the next time, between the Mercy damage boost there as well.
But I think that's what you're seeing, like some of these wrecking ball Winston players, when they play a composition like this, they don't feel a need to sacrifice their life.
They might just stay alive and keep poking and thawing. That's why that was fuel.
I'm just going to have a bit of a tougher time probably going to playing more ground
fire than anything because there's no shots you win that duel.
Oh nice, that's rocked out.
Oh right at the top.
There they come.
They're going to go to Sondjim for now.
Extend, just peppering talent down.
Look how quick that bubble died.
Look what I actually get sniped of all people.
Tornik fully charged Relga.
Something to kind of keep in mind, Johnny.
Fully charging the Relga is really easy for Pornik here.
Shooting Seb that entire time and then just taking pop shots in them way and extending the sky.
Yeah, I think that's a good point.
Because Seb obviously, you know, will have to make a move here and keep that field contested.
You pretty much only had one job or so recently, but yes, you're correct.
It opens up the door for Pornik to charge from these rails.
and realistically does feel they're gonna keep playing the same playstyle
you know, poke and prods, stay alive, try to drag out these fights
and try to hit more of those relic controls once more if they want
and so Jun's just trying to get away from Lurisa now
early rush for Z
straight to the back line goes, Ssangja forces the Suzu though
ends up getting stunned and managed to get out
this is a hell of a while taking out, thankfully, as X-10 looks for her next challenger
And we saw them with the barrage. I mean gold's already been used. There's so much damage on Zev.
It's so hard to keep Zev alive in this comp. They trade for Lucomino.
You've got to think, fuel very much ahead in terms of players here.
Again, see, hell yeah. I mean that was gonna happen sooner rather than later, but it is Zomber that picks up the kill.
I see dead means you next have to go for a soft reset.
Yeah, if you've got a regular hitscan, it's a counter for a...
Cat for Hathion. I've been the ultimate hens since so far up.
Let's see, uh, can we restrike you for the next time?
I don't think that's gonna do too much.
Order that last kill here in the cat.
More of an ultimate kill here as well.
Oh, the double tap on men like to...
Yeah, that's... that's rough for the cat.
That's for sure. He has them also guys, so... quite done.
Oh, that was nasty for the Zomber.
There was Starboy's F at the very side, but unfortunately I don't think it would mean
too much, you see it's also going to perish.
Kill us in spawn with the frontal rage.
Yeah, you know the vibes.
And they still have Barrage to have a captive song here as well.
Just want to talk about playing the attack here against Dallas Fuel.
This is the real difficulty as we see.
The bottom right hander is green, Sombra.
Going for a bit of a flank here dude.
Going to try to combine resources here at least.
Try to put pressure on the legion here.
Sombra could have spawned that post the more or less he wants
but unfortunately it's not available for this fight.
Oh.
Captain Sun over the rooftop.
Oh god if you can direct the cap action here
or bounce it off something,
I will lose my mind.
It didn't hit anybody.
Well, I'm lucky.
It comes again after you get it.
Oh, chronic dies, they end up swinging around, so I'm just gonna try and trade though, I think.
Oh, ends up falling anyway.
Okay, X-10, put in the perfect spot by NEMBLY.
Oh, TPS dead, Dallas Fuel, half the retreat.
Yep, it's gonna be a point gap here, 4-Lunex soon.
At the end of the day, like, they're doing their best to play around this Dallas Fuel composition.
Obviously, we saw some of this huge, massive blank, trying to time...
when X10 and then Y are swinging around these rooftops and activating the turret mode as well.
And all while that is going on, Seb, you know, the job on your wrist is to touch the car there.
So I think Lunis are doing a good job here.
Nice to train with a place on a courting leap.
Another artillery strike here, not doing too much.
You can't tell it's good positioning, but...
Lunis in a trap.
Bastian is in a trap.
Bastian.
And Chronic wins.
Oh, nice tracking from Chronic on the cat kill.
Alright.
He's trying to get cheeky with the widow.
Charlie don't you?
Oh!
No, I'm trying.
Ten the C.J., by the way, 20, not the IJ.
You're tracking?
I'm tracking.
I'm tracking.
No 24 and 0 from your boy, Callum.
Okay, down at your once.
Here we go, the 2v2 and the 3v3, let it commence.
Trying to find the perfect timing to get in on the cat, the cat's going two below.
So X10 drops from the sky, look at this, it's chronic.
This, I mean, killing the cat is just so rough if you're the Bastion,
she just hit, just dropped and then every other player is just jumping on you.
I mean, that was, well, everybody combining resources to try and get in the face of red white.
that was you made it happen that was the term of the entire fight wrapped up here
made to go here for Linux I mean service providing some assistance I can get
damage on to look at me now and chronic here but it's really up to accident then
we're here to open things up playing the catapacitam cells
It seems like that guy goes low, so easy target to chronic.
Easily being invested by X10, and there is the barrage.
Suncheon gets three.
It's every barrage there, well, it doesn't matter.
Suncheon's done the job.
That barrage is very tough to get off on these comps, too.
A bit easier now as Lunex, I'll bang Malved.
30 seconds to go. I mean, where is the answer here for Lunex, Suncheon?
No, it really is.
You need to get on top of Chronic and look at me now
Force them to move away from this choke point right here try to free up some of your people that day
I mean, they're so risky like they're in the back lines. They're not pushing all the way back
X-Ten actually just got dropped to the back lines. You see if she can end up doing anything
Helibot's the final race. He's already dead and yeah, this map is feeling just about over
OT in a couple of moments. They're gonna steal the Bastion away. They almost give X-Ten a touch
By the way, they all dragged the Bastion to their side of the map.
And as predicted, and as foretold, Dallas Fuel, when they died map.
So they do tie things up after losing that initial Lillio's map,
and Kela goes 31-0.
31-0.
With 15k damage on the Winston.
They were Bastions in the sky and Kela has the most damage.
He's a beast.
Okay, Dallas Fuel if they lose a map or lose their first map play they will go to Dorado
They will play dive and they will probably win just Dorado
Say it's one of their best maps. It's not the best map
Yeah, I might even say that
If you look at all the teams in North America
Dallas Fuel are better at Dorado
compared to any other team
like specialize on the other things about you don't do you're picking up when
I'm putting down here it's like there's not a team that has a whole map like
that a school has a home yeah what the team has like a special team map right
now off of Dallas field it used to be like liquid playing the Winston
composition themselves on your broker or like that like that was like I was
It's just a pure joy to see that team play that map all the time and I feel similar to
here with those people when I was delivering this tomorrow like they just looked expertly
on.
Yeah.
And now with Space Station, sorry, now with that win, like I mentioned, Space Station
now get the first choice in the playoffs, who they want to play.
So it will be either Liquid or Lumex.
Obviously, we'll discuss that post the time and probably next Friday.
for now Dorado is completed Valosgiel obviously taking that King's row is going to be next map up the Lunex
I have a feeling I know what Zev is going to play here
it's going to be more of the Orisa yes let's see what they decide to ban out here though because
I mean Dorado is not really aware of Valosgiel rather they're not really going to match that so
So probably play more around that Lunex composition and what we want to play with us.
I don't forget the skins in the Overwatch Esports store have been unbolted, or some of them have.
Hopefully some more to come in the future.
Bring back some of the classic Ember Juno.
Hello, Alice. Hello, hello, Eris Ana.
You know, he's quite up from the beginning.
Oh, four or five years ago.
Errolaris. Errolaris.
Happy Genji and go Neville Echo.
Otherwise, aka the letter MVP.
You did fantastic.
There's so many skins like this one.
Hello, Laris.
We need to do more than four.
There's so many skins to rotate from.
Maybe six first age.
Six first age?
Come on.
Look, man, the newer skin with the skins.
Something.
I do like the Ember Juno actually, the eyes of the Ember Juno.
Hey look, a lari band for Lunex and Dallas Fuel.
Sonjun can play the bar in peace now.
Mad respect to X-10 Reaper.
Come on, that's quite fine.
The Reaper getting banned out, that's quite fine.
They essentially have nearly banned Sonjun.
I had some issues.
It's a farm, it's a farmish, you see, X-Tem was feeling something, you know, who cares.
And I feel like even, yeah, the reaper, the reaper, I don't, you know, Dallas people are having to get, get a bit old at that one.
And similarly, like I said earlier, Lunix getting rid of the Ellori, you know, it just means that who can me know what people can use down for a bar, you know, as he tried to tear down in this position.
because they all want to play more compact in this one
just a matter of what it's that we're going to bring out to try and play in the quarter
Yeah no dive here for Cali... Well I could just play a little wrecking ball maybe
You want to go super crazy?
No no no that's not the right question
Cali, you guys are on the line
In theory these SG maps you know we can play this a little bit more whimsical
So, he's been demanding Wimsy Overwatch.
So, we need it.
We need it.
Hell of a sweep.
Hell of a sweep.
Hell of a sweep.
Without the Reaper counter.
Yeah.
Thank God.
No more die triggers deaths for Sonjin.
Yeah, she did do a marvelous job X10 on that first map.
Nimlion Sieben playing well too.
It is going to be a Sigma composition here from Dallas Field though.
And this is something I'm curious to see just like how good they actually look on this composition
because it's probably something they'll be forced to bring out on stage for us to.
Yeah the Lucramino CJ backline I think especially being able to play this double flex style
is really good in this meta, because I think right now,
just that way from Ron, if you don't have a good Vizucchi player,
I think your team is kind of a disadvantage.
I think having Vizucchi for these kind of maps is just so important.
It's just such an unbelievably good pick on any map that has these chokes.
Yeah, I mean, it's obviously mind-stirring today.
It's like third-ratter shy away from it.
They're even bandit at one point.
They don't want any of that Masuki action,
so that means a meta right here right now, then.
I have to work on some of these nasty wickets coming in when you're trying to get some of the signal you're asked of since already low as well, so you don't have to be point-picking on this one.
So here we are, healing from the Mizuki 2.
I really like it. And you know what, actually? Zomba? This... okay.
Okay, well I was gonna say, I'm happy we're seeing a little bit of Vendetta. That is a little bit of... a little bit of winzy for you.
Not permanent her if she wants to watch.
Yeah, I think Pandetta is a little whimsical.
I mean, she's not...
Because when she was OP,
like, she was permanent.
It was like, okay, cool, yeah, something like that.
It's kind of awesome, yeah, yeah, yeah.
But we're not gonna...
We're not seeing Pandetta properly played,
like, permanently, for a little bit.
Hold on.
Getting better.
I've been saying this.
We need it back.
It was probably the most unhealthy hero for the game.
I'm sure Quake done with this three,
Alright, see, you put up a very early rush. I mean, you've got to rip this short while
a zombie just fell over.
Hey, you know, who's that, actually? We've decided to reset. Forcibly. Quite chronic.
Yep, okay. Chronic killed four people.
I think a lot of these players are all like hit scamp plays and happy to play cast again.
They're just fun.
It's over games like now.
I feel like castling didn't get really used to it.
The way they just hit the chelts and just walk over the enemy team is crazy.
Alright, Lunax.
Clearly setting up here for the considerate.
too much but now it's gil you got five of them bad news
a real bad news well there's the flux and this is gonna be the big things to get
around all the high noon on to zeb to they'll roll away is the big oh what a
shot that was an insane flick by Sonic a headshot onto zombies he's mid air
They're dashing!
I was like how could you hear the wave dash from Smash Bros.
and you saw his head shot like that as well.
You just looked like the crosshair was like perfectly following
Somba there as he dashed out.
Oh wow. Alright, Lunax at least.
They have a sun barrier here, but even like it's a Sanctuary and a Barrage.
I'm not sure if...
I'm just going to go top of the valley out of this one.
They're just going to go for it. Oh, that is impressive.
Yeah, X10 in the backline, unfortunately, and Harold didn't really do too much.
Not on the high ground, I suppose.
And then by the 2-0!
The two-player beat from NY!
Much good though! Hang on.
Sovereign Z has kills.
Surely the two-man sound barrier doesn't end up winning the fight.
Chains into coming out. A really good rock combo there.
They do have Sanctuary 2, so they got back to the Lyon, and yeah, unfortunately, I think Lunex...
with the two player beats aren't gonna live to tell the tale for this one and
it will be a re-engagement
it's sanctuary barrage the same place
sure but the brides is gonna come out first clearly not take some dashed away
somba already dead yes on tune it's crazy what happens when sunshine gets on
farm there's no reaper in the game crazy it's crazy
They're gonna have to touch there's the sanctuary and now it is he's just an impossible fight
Absolutely impossible
Well, it's great players five Prophets couldn't have solved that one. Unfortunately, you were lunax
Yeah, just the sanctuary flux and everything just thrown on top
Not a single point on the board for lunax and not a single tick either
0%
As they need the fuller hole to this point
are we while we indeed I mean I asked and it's not died by the way yeah so of
course not he could go deathless for two maps in a row
same as CJ wait a second
Observer very observant upon it. I'm noticing that four minutes
The AKM graph
Well, no, it's said grab now
Take it yeah, I guess oh
That's a
Didn't we have that with a junk rat one time as well on Kings Row what and they didn't get a tire
You're not able to get a Junkrat tiring four minutes. I okay historian
There was a junk rat play at one point that didn't get a tire or something
I took them like three or four minutes to get fire. I
That memory sticks out to me for some reason, but yeah, it's four minutes. No gravies
Junkrat you're spamming for four minutes and you can't I know that's why it was ridiculous
That's why it was ridiculous. I man. I feel like it was a couple years ago at this point
All right cronics on widow. Oh
Oh, you're not gonna say goodnight, come on.
For the ones of you.
No, that's not happening.
All right, they got lots, they got dinner plans.
Can we get a real live weaver, too?
Yeah, get me a look at me now.
There he is.
Nope, it's going to be somebody, so.
We're gone, but.
He's on a good off angle.
X10 already down on the dead, CPS, and yeah,
they just kind of walked to them
And Lumex just kind of died, well that's unlucky and that's going to be point, holy moly.
Uh 40 seconds, that round, 40 seconds.
At the end of the school, we're a pretty good team here, Joss and Joss.
I think that's fine, he's fit, he's fit.
Look at that Kellen, no death over two maps now.
16, no, C-Chain, 11, no, and Lukamino, 13, and 5.
I said it was 8 and 1, yeah, that's a question of characteristics.
No way.
I mean, that can't happen, Kellen died a bunch on the first map, but...
Yeah, I know, I know, but there's no way that someone is going down.
I cannot feel like there should have been, though.
We got 10 years of Overwatch eSports and we've seen a lot of skunks in all days, like the
Goatsmen was not pretty, on some occasions, or can we all know of it?
Yeah?
Like surely someone is gonna full save us but I'll die, and obviously Kala like you
said can't do it now, but if Kala goes deathless on the next map, there would have been a spreek
of three maps, and like unofficially put a no dive throughout the maps in which they
won in a row.
Surely he's going to die on this next map at least one time, at least one time.
There's nothing that tells you that that has to be the case. The future is uncertain, it's up in the air. Nothing is able to happen.
I will say, if someone does go looking, it has to be tier 1 Overwatch. I wouldn't say, oh would you count tier 2 contenders and high-pives.
I would say, if you're looking for a stat like that, Apex, season 1, 2 and 3.
Overwatch League
OWCS
BlizzCon World Cup
BlizzCon World Cup, yeah, yeah, because there's definitely be
Yeah, like Korea, especially in the early days of World Cup like spawn camping teams
Probably not the greatest indicator of like the fair matchup
No
One for the historians
one for historians. There are those one sided matchups in the past. I'm just saying. Oh yeah. I mean, the best, I think the best way to look at that would be
shortest series of all time. And then go from there probably.
Do you remember it was like a Philadelphia fusion series back in like 2018 or something? We might have a photo name actually there was two of them. And it was like the first time we had seen a match with
No one can believe where it was just a map and it was like the first time that a team had got a limitless.
I think it was Oasis and we were just like losing my mind.
She's like, how did they not get a singular limb?
Well, that would have constituted is our weight.
No, because we're talking about whole series.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
All right.
Brunisapi is the map choice as we kind of waffle and ramble for a little bit here.
Yeah, Liquopedia surely has some kind of page that states that no
No, who keeps track of that no who keeps track what dude there are some historians out there
There are some big brain historians out there keeping it keeping it real
Maybe we asked the person who wrote McRaebus
That's a big part. Yeah, people put a lot of effort in this thing.
It's a good part.
Hey, I'd say my greatest bio on Wikipedia is the best biography we have in the world.
Briefly. I mean, this is...
I've never seen anyone's page look like that.
And, you know, obviously no one is watching the broadcast.
Have any idea what we're talking about?
So they have to, you know...
You guys know who McGregy is.
Yeah, but they'd have to go out to the way to go find it themselves,
which usually you convey stuff with a graphic
We don't have McRaebus biography
We don't have his bio from liquidbedia for the show guys
I'm sorry. I do like the old hard wearing gear settings
2421 days ago, he was playing on this
Last updated 2019 was the gear and setting
Yeah
That's really funny. I mean yeah, his bio is pretty exciting
Sharma gravy legend
You need two thousand divided by three hundred sixty five other
Johnny
2019 we are in 2026
to the math
Okay, but use that days not years
You said 2000 days. I did say days. Yeah, but I'm and then I told you it was last updated in
So that's seven years
Seven years six six and a bit six and a bit. Okay. You set me up
I did not you set yourself up a favor because you can't do math on broadcast because no one could do math on broadcast
I did the math I was asked to do you gave me bad math
what is bro saying I don't okay let's get this come on
booyang fan for lunex orissa fan Dallas fuel and looks like the next
that's the flip to the moment get the name tags flipped over the Dallas fuel on
the right hand side and it's on the left but we're going back cap fast you
Sonjun besides you know what extend your Reaper is pretty good so it's just
meta now like we're just so yeah I mean I guess it's been better for quite some
time now to get past it with the Maga but it was not gonna see you on the internet
well good damage that's no fight that doesn't oh there's the bike is on the
hopped on the bike and just ran it down there just a quick reset and it's in kill
yeah it feels like see this kind of layout setup or layout here I think this
This is close to meta in my mind, cause I still think Mao is in it, an exceptional era right now.
Yeah, I think Alice and Moe are thinking about, like if you substitute the Bastion out for a Tracer,
and you're playing like a Shrine Tracer, like at that point where we've seen so many fiends,
and I'm like, what kind of composition is that?
And I'm like, wow, I don't have to make no really respect for that.
But for the time being, it's going to be the Bastion still here, as the LSE is completely pushed forward.
And, come on, they're coming out.
Come on, go at it this time around, good zuzu.
Yeah, really nice, easy.
I'm alive and actually you sent seven extremely low.
Do next, stay at health bars and not looking at the healthiest.
To put it blunt.
And the checkpoint, very early one.
About a minute and 30 seconds to get that first checkpoint.
And any more kills here, they're resulting in three meters.
So I'm just playing the Reaper this time.
Yeah.
Put it to Dallas, you'll skin.
Yeah, I think so.
Yeah, no noticing.
Like moving the shadow.
So I'm just going to show who the better reaper is in this scenario here as that last few, I mean two minutes in counting and they're about 200 meters away from us.
Yep, and the rush was going to use really early.
No picks, no picks, all paged, missed.
Iconic gets blown out of there.
Nemwai already dead, X-10-2 dead.
I mean, she's alive.
She's got a hole, but not for the longest.
ends up blowing down the Kiriko as it's Alex you'll get a hundred and eighty
meters and counting. Is Kellen going to die in three maps Johnny? I don't think he
will but surely they back off now they are in the sport. Okay Nudix has so many
old guns there's no way that Alex would have this one and that's why there isn't
I don't recommend it to you this time, I don't recommend it to all of you.
Get him out of here.
Alright, here comes the stomp again.
Oh that's a really good stomp, you separate the entire team.
Chronic in the cage, but you don't need to be messing with.
Zeb going really low, Karli, I cover dry pops.
Kelen goes straight back in, Stonjim with a kill, Kelen with another,
ends up getting stomped, is he gonna die?
It's Kelen, action run!
Get out! Get out!
You gotta save the KDA, save the KDA!
Oh
He feeds Helen
Helen feeds he's got death. I was almost almost a deathless third back
He's having a drink point 34 deaths from out
Oh well so well KDA will recover
Um, the lunics get back into this one.
Bones.
Well, AppleTurys are here.
I'm just playing for you.
No, Suzy.
What been they bashing down below just here at the Suzy?
W, Kellen, a vissilate in the front line.
They're gonna try and kidnap somebody.
Lukamina unsuccessful in his endeavor.
So this rush fight has been won by Lunatic.
Oh, they're still in the bash.
Well, I guess as soon as the bash is now forming,
and they can win the fight.
There is the rush, three from somewhere, yeah.
I mean, what it was looking for the play...
I mean, Sombra with an amazing bike kill on to Sunjin too.
What it was looking for Sombra that entire time,
trying to stop him getting where with the kill on the meter,
but still managed to get there.
A beautiful trouble.
He's going to resell in Unix getting more heart progress.
They're kind of rolling at the minute here,
and obviously they're just at 22 meters here,
but, you know, you've got to start somewhere.
They get positioning around this corner now. They still have a couple of ultimates to get the forgetting combo, so it'll still steal here.
And so Lunix, they figured out what to do to initial turret from here.
He prevents them from actually starting to med with their speeders.
Well then, the K, that's really combo to just get.
There it is, X10 now. Brand pops the turret for both. Bastion! Popping turret for the same time.
Kaelin already killed X10 though.
So as chronic comes up with the kill on Sombra, a stomp, and a crit on Zeb, and that will be the scene kill.
Lunex fall over. Both of the combos use the cages into the vassionaults.
Today's Dallas Fuel coming out on top.
Alright, but they still got 40 meters, and they still generated a little bit of momentum.
So you're just gonna have to do that like three times and a little bit.
So you know, don't count them out just yet, Jaws.
Because 5 minutes here.
Bye.
Yeah, I mean SSG got a 99 meter comeback. That's insane, so 130 meters to 39 without a checkpoint.
I can do a bolt! We'll see. Cap Ashton's still in the now. They've outlawed to the turret form though, so it's chronic form.
Yeah, better form. Oh dear, maybe not. Actually, chronic deletes.
Or gets out of the form. This is a delet.
Um, it has to heal himself. X10 now. She's gonna go for another swing around.
I guess Nem-Y is gonna swing X10 around.
It's not really X10 with control of the movement here.
That's gonna be rough.
Gonna actually get kills though. Better rush though, later one here.
Four C.
Solder gets stopped on X10 guys. Two diet triggers.
I mean, that's real comeuppance there. Thanks, Ted
Now it's a good idea by Linux
Better rush in your back pocket, but it's not worked in their favors
Maybe they pulled the triggers a little bit too early now that I was thinking this book over to the side of Linux once more
They still have a right a few ultimates to work with here as well
And so this could be the push we're looking at a full completion here
Yeah, a combo coming up for both the Malga and the Bastions on both sides.
Sombra just needs to make some headwind here and actually get a kick off at the start of
the fight.
That's what's been associated so far.
Teleport away, there's the cage.
Deathboss from Sondra eliminates the cat-bastion combo.
Oh, Sombra's shutting down, but it's just going to be a quick team fight, me think.
Yes, they're dead to the cat as they move on, their final stretch approaching.
Well, there's this the very final stretch indeed said Spawns create later as well
From them lighting
Get dragged straight to the cage from chronic
Kallen pretty low and getting out alive but X-10, not quite so lucky for Lunax, it's like
they managed to at least stabilize somewhat, they're still down there bashing, but they
have got control of the bot.
They do indeed, and on Valos's field, probably look to take this fight with the Gatsunor
she's on a pretty neutral stage up here, on the high ground instead, said she's coming
up on hers, asked well here.
2 minutes to go here, you need to start killing up the other side of Dallas.
Here's the gift suit, that's just rock'n'roll.
Double right, really nice, stop kill.
Yeah, can't Tomber actually stay alive though.
In the face of this Bastion doesn't look like it.
Kronik playing that one perfectly up on that little bar, she's using the bot itself for cover.
Another team kill for the Dallas Fuel, it's just a meter by meter.
I think they're about two away from actually catching up to both having.
Yeah, something like that. Obviously, we're going to have a good attempt at it here, but tell us again, the opening coming is so solid.
It's free here from someone. Can't fly Kennedy, but he really engages these two.
Oh, fuck off. And the catnap. Oh, there's the Baxianum.
We teleport away though for Sondra and actually shred to the high ground. X-10 shuts them down.
The bastard's just flying ahead of the scout.
Scout Bastion. He's got his ODM gear and he's just flying away.
He needs to catch up. He needs to catch up.
I'm just killing an event spot, no? Stomp onto X-10, case deploy.
Kettle on the wrong side of the teamfight. I can't really see what the rest of this background fight is happening.
He's put the wrong side like looking up the hill to actually turn out to be a very good catnap from men why
The 30 seconds to go though Johnny still looking rather worse the way for lunax
So they're gonna come back but there's a chance
Yeah, this kind of has to be the fight right you got the ball over on the side of Dallas
You hear you coming up like you're sooner or sheer as well
And so this needs to be the time where you start getting some out of here
Tell us you'll all, tell us you're charged right back in here, Gives.
The only reason I'm here is that you're just engaged.
Oh, early use, they're actually just gonna hit that rush.
Suzu on the Reaper.
Just to keep him alive.
Kallen ends up going down, Katnap on to...
I believe that with Zed, but it didn't resolve in anything.
Suzu to keep Kronik up, Xen goes down, Lukamino just healing this Bastion up.
This Bastion's fight was so long, eventually the focus fight came through.
Zed takes that chronic, the assist you can tell how much focus they'll play on the chronic there.
Wait, that's absolutely massive with the overtime spots there. Both Damagecruiser is down 4-Lumix here,
and Dallas is going to capitalize on this, just quickly engage.
Yes, Zed's already popped right there, Kerb's driving the location, he's going to come through,
and Cronage just pops ult. As soon as you actually negate a lot of that damage there,
but now the return cage is Kellen locks it down for the Dallas Fuel.
A 3-bond is your final scoreline.
as Dallas finished the stage only dropping a single series to SSG.
Yeah, looking dominant as ever after that initial alios.
And with that, you got a respected and big time come to stage play on a Friday kill
and end up dying three times that map. So I already got death per map and those last three maps,
which doesn't make sense because it was a full map series, but that's kind of the vibe we're
We're getting here at 5 p.m. on a Friday or to Sunday rather. I can't even know what day this is. Friday?
I'm losing it. What's happening here?
I'm fully losing it, buddy. Help me get across the finish line.
I got you. I got you. I got you. Don't worry about it. I'm losing it, too.
Also, at the start of the series, Munex, I see you kind of baiting me. Got my hopes up there after a brilliant performance on control.
I mean, XS Reaper is it. She is her. I'll never not be a fan prompting the Reaper but eventually as well respect where it is
Do you love to see it?
But yeah, I mean nightingale team is out of the playoffs right they both made it with this victory now
Of course, we do have the Dallas fuel locking in the second seed
Which also means that SSG will not be able to pick them
Not sure if they would have done that regardless because I don't think that would be a smart move
So, yeah, for Lunex now, of course, they are a potential target for SSG.
Even SSG could also pick Liquid too, like, with SSG at play. Yeah, like, sure, why not?
We'll just fight you again, like, I wouldn't be too mad about that whatsoever.
And then we'll get a rematch of Dallas versus Lunex too.
I mean, that's actually quite a sick little rematch
from a revenge story here for our first round in play.
I kind of feel the opposite there.
At the same time, I feel like you're watching Team Liquid
the way we played today.
I thought they looked much improved.
So I'd probably pick a Lunex on the team.
Yeah, Liquid definitely had an uphill battle
throughout the stage, like trying to pick your things out.
It was super insightful.
If you missed out on the post-match interview
that we had after their match.
Like make sure to like watch it again.
They tried some good insight
on what was going on for the last three weeks with the team.
Trying to fit in those new players, of course.
Now, Luna, I just think that played really, really well.
And I am excited to see more of them in the playoffs.
We should have CJ, did that earlier?
Yeah, CJ joining us.
Hello, welcome to the show.
And congratulations on the dub.
Give us your thoughts on how the stage went for Dallas Fuel as a team and for you as an individual.
Are you guys happy with the performance or still like looking back at that week one loss against SSG and kind of kicking yourself in the putts?
I mean, it's basically the, uh, we're like the most part.
The rest of the regular season was pretty smooth sailing.
I don't think we really have like that Harvard match yet besides the SSG one.
So I think it's our outlook on it is like fine.
It's just obviously we wish we would have won the SSG game, but yeah, that's, that's fairly it.
I think everything else is going fine
You definitely got your own little taste own little flair in this meta with Kellan
It's hero pool obviously a lot of Winston little Dorado action, which has been really nice to see
Do you guys think how do you think that kind of stacks up against the other comps that people are running?
There's a lot of Orisa a lot of Malga
Do you think that's the better of the comp or do you just think you're just so good at it that you're running people over I
Think we're just so good that we run people over
because it can't really get practice against our comp
because we're the only team in the region that really plays it.
Well, honestly, we're one of the only teams in the world
that play our style with Winston and double flex.
So I think it's just really easy to exploit these other teams.
I don't really have the capabilities of playing D.va,
for example.
But I honestly do think these Moga comps are probably
the best comps, like maps like Dorado.
I'm pretty sure that Winston is into wearing
that I think is better.
How do you feel about the meta? Because obviously we are a new
hero coming like in the middle of the stage, which obviously
costs like some confusion, and you gotta figure everything out.
How do you feel with the stage playoffs coming up here? Do you
feel like things are still a little bit in flux? Obviously,
you have the draw composition can like lead on that. But when it
comes to more of the she on compositions, do you feel like
that's kind of set in stone now? Or do you feel like things are
still changing every single day in screens?
I think things are still changing every day. But I do feel
like the Moga Shion comp, it also does seem to be very strong.
I think there will be some teams that will try to play around it or try to not play it,
such as ASHG with their wooying Juno or wooying Lever, like Seigo or Arista comps, but I think
for the most part on a majority of maps, unless they're banned, it's going to be more Moga,
like Moga Shion Reaper.
For the meta, it's like, all right, a lot of people just get one shot if there's anything
you do about it because Shion has a bike and a one and like a right click that way, you know,
to like, whatever. But yeah, I think this meta is a little just macro based with little skill
expansion expression. Yeah. Now, looking ahead, not just a playoff, so beyond that, because we're
just going to make the assumption that Dallas Fuel is going to make it to the midseason championship
in your current form and in the meta being the state that it's in, how do you see a stack up
against the international competition?
I think it's going to be a little difficult at first,
just because we're a team that doesn't really
play these macro-based compositions.
Like, we play for our individual value,
like winston.coms or ball.coms.
So I think at the start, like when we first start
scrimming other teams, I think it would be a little difficult.
But I think as we start to practice more and like scrim
against better teams, I think either will be fun.
Well, something I was fun to watch, especially
because you give it your own flavor, you have your own flair in your playstyle, and we support
that. CJ, thank you so much for joining us here for Quick Chat, and best of luck in the playoffs.
All right, thank you so much.
Great to hear from CJ from the Dallas Fuel, which locked their spot here in our second seed
in NA, and that concludes our groove stage round Robin portion of stage two,
And we will be heading into the playoffs starting next week with space station gaming Dallas fuel team liquid and loon necks
Who will be battling it out the top three teams will be making it to the midseason championship in parents
Yeah, I think it's been a big blow up for ssg. I think if you looked at the
Standing or like what teams were in this stage. I think you'd be pretty accurate in saying
like Dallas, you know one and then SSG then TL and then Lunax. So it kind of panned out the way we expected, but in a different way because SSG did have this massive kind of turnaround. So yeah, this playoffs going to be nasty.
The rematch, I think, and I hope we get it the SSG Dallas fuel. I really hope that goes to this.
And I love that it's not a first round kind of rematch, right?
SOG, they have the first seed, so they get to pick their opponent first.
They have 24 hours looking at the clock to pick between Liquid and Lunex as their first
opponent.
It is a double elimination bracket, so whoever is going to come out to the bottom of that
one, it's not out just yet.
I think with just four teams, the top three making it, like all you have to do is survive
that first round.
Okay, that's all you got to do
Yeah, okay, that's kind of crazy too because I don't think many teams are hiding things
I really don't but if you are like you just deploy it straight away like Matt one
Okay one bomb. I feel like she was hiding something. It was kind of stuff. I
I'm feeling that they're holding back something. Something's there. But yeah, these are, at least that's the schedule. Everything is TPD.
I will find out who they will be facing up again throughout this week.
And of course, make sure to follow us all over social media to keep up to date on what's gonna go down or kicking things off at the playoffs on Friday next week.
It's got a vehicle one Jack Johnny probably should go hindsight and what's
NA been like for you here in our stage two?
I'm with you Johnny, it's the big summery, it's take away.
I feel like they love a lot. I feel like you know we're pretty disappointed by North America.
I do feel like especially like you all mentioned that there's a few turning things around.
I do think they're legitimate threat to some of the European games.
and I would like to see how they carry the national competition if they do qualify in the end.
You have to add that here, it's been enjoyable to see them pick up Shion because I think that's been a good hero for North America.
Yeah, I agree, yeah, I've got mechanical warlords on my character. I think back to like 2024 when Toronto Defiant were like,
we're like okay the North American hopes you know I think it's almost like
living up to that level of success just hasn't been met by NA again so yeah I'm
hoping come July or end of July that it's gonna be North America setting up a
little bit more of a fight here. We'll find out. For now it is goodbye from us
thank you all so much for watching to all of our EU fans and friends please
Stay hydrated and stay cool over there. I know it's been a rough week or two weeks for all of you
I will be back next week with Jake and Matt for NDA and Jack and Johnny
We'll be back the entirety of the NA playoffs as well
So you don't have to wait to see their lovely faces again for way too long that find out next weekend
Who make the Paris France for the midseason championship? We hope to see you again on Friday. Bye. Bye
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