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Please, please, I ain't got a dead star
I can't believe I didn't see
Well, now I'm making nothing but a memory
I can't be stuck by it, so I can move on
Then on the wrong track, you're not the one I know
I can't be stuck by it, so I can move on
Then on the wrong track, you're not the one, not the one
We've been blinded for too long Now we've got no strength to do it
And we've all used up our miracles Got you right, my broken heart and I
Stop by so I can move on
Then on the wrong track
You're not the one, you're not the one
I'll take the step back
So I can move on
Then on the wrong track
You're not the one, not the one
I've been lying in there for too long
Now we got no friends to call
And we've all, you've got me real close
It's so good that you can't be falling down
We got you in the clothes, got to run
Run!
I'm broken on and on
We're movin' on, movin' on
We're movin' on, movin' on
I'm broken on and on
We're movin' on, movin' on
I'm broken on and on
We're movin' on
I don't need perfect
I don't need perfect
I don't need perfect
I just need real someone I can laugh with
I don't need fair and I'm chasing go
I don't need fair and I'm chasing go
Wherever I'm going, I'll take it slow
This is the life I set I feel
Every little thing I got
I'll give you no man, a scratch, just find him
And I'll finally live on my side
I'm only perfect, I just need real someone to love me
I'm just a fly, I'm just a man
I'm just a fly, I'm just a man
Oh, I'm only perfect
When you're the grace of the joyous and the place
Don't need more to fail
So that I'm already new
I don't be perfect, I just be real
So I can live with
I'm a fair, I'm a chasing goal
I'm chasing the law
Wherever I'm going, I'm gonna take it slow
This is a lie, I say I know every little thing
The heart of it, no doubt, no scratch, just by think
When I find a little on my side
I don't mean for the better, but I just mean real
Someone else can let me run and run
I'm chasing the world, I wanna chase it back
That's huge.
Twisted Minds, looking to close out the series here
and take over with Joviah.
Of course, I've done it so many times before
and I'm doing it again here at OWCF 2025,
World Finals Champion.
Welcome back to the OWCS.
I am Joviah and joining me are Jake and Matt Touhatt.
I guess the perfect day at work yesterday.
You had one short match, an absolute beatdown.
And then, one of the most bizarre, reverse, sweet upsets,
this is tough, actually, follow, guys.
Only an upset if you didn't predict GK to win.
Just gonna say that.
Say that for us.
Okay.
Now, how did you feel after the first two games
with that prediction?
Not great, not great, but they brought it back in the end,
which is what counts.
They're up in the upper final slot book.
Yeah, I mean.
I mean, yes.
Yes.
Yes, but it was a no on the other side of things. Sorry, right?
VP just absolutely ran through cats. Yeah, I mean we've obviously seen some good things out of cats
You didn't even in that series, right? It's just I think VP just showing how far ahead they potentially are here in EMEA. Oh
Yeah, no yesterday
They look completely untouchable and quite frankly in that TM GK matchup TM in the first two maps looked
like that as well. And then somehow Gike had the mental fortitude of bringing it back and it all started with Alpha U switching over to that Reaper and suddenly Tim, which is like, in disarray. It was, it was weird. It was a bizarre series.
It felt like twisted minds didn't really know they were like losing it towards the end. And then it like, and then we just ended it and they were kind of like, wait, what? That's it?
That's it, like, uh, because they looked awesome the first two maps, right?
Like, they looked like we were headed, there's a pretty convincing 3-0 sweep.
We were probably going to have some discussions about, like, oh, it's TM back, and then all of a sudden,
Geekage blew the doors off into three straight maps, so, uh, really odd series.
Yeah, that made UB really, really uncomfortable on that sim, and obviously,
Twisted Mind's did build this new look around UB being back in the mix on that Symmetra,
So I'm interested to see what they're going to pull out of the bag today if they make any changes that is now
Verlustro as you already said they came in as the first seed into our playoffs
They got to choose their opponent they went with a cut sea which I thought was a ball the movie
No, like they picking the one and only team that even managed to take any maps off of them in group stage and
They came in the vengeance against like they absolutely dominated them
This was one of the least close matches that I've seen all year.
It doesn't get more dominant than this.
I mean, they absolutely rolled and smoked the opposition here.
Virtus.Pro are going to be our first team in the EMEA,
qualifying two pairs to the mid-season championship.
And Kassia didn't really put up much of a fight, honestly.
It just felt like a level difference between these two teams in this first match.
Did we even really even learn anything about Kat's CDS tray, though?
Like they're coming into today.
Like obviously everybody's looking at TM.
It's obviously the favorite, I think so as well,
but like Katya's played pretty well against other teams.
It's just that they got ran through by VP.
Yeah, I said that yesterday, right?
I feel like if Katya will play on the same level
they played against VP yesterday,
they will look good against literally every other team
we do half year.
They are ready to show it obviously in our first match
for all the marbles.
VP and GK will be playing our second match today
because, yes, we're starting in the lower bracket, so blood is in the water.
Now, first, as though before we're digging into our first match, I do want to talk about
the maps, not to jump the gun, but I was asked to do so.
So here goes it.
Neon Junction was picked twice yesterday, which makes it the most selected map so far in the
EMEA playoffs, tied with Circuit Royale, but me saying that actually kills my point here.
So Neon Junction, is this the New King's Road?
In a way, yes, I mean, I think it's a map that looks really good for teams who want to play rush and want to bring like fast paced looks.
And I think that's always going to be an attractive option, especially in the EMEA where a lot of teams have that pretty confidently in the back pocket.
I mean, Twisted Minds pull up the line here and drop the nasty full hold on Geek K.
I mean, obviously they go on to lose the series, but that's a real threat that they could bring up later today and something that is potentially a little bit scary to deal with,
to deal with because there's just not that much prep time on this mount. So being a team that has come with an innovative strategy that can execute it with confidence, this is a great way to notch up some match wins here in these key series.
Did you expect it to be picked up already, Matt?
I mean, there's always a chance. I think teams like, you know, it probably scrimmed it a little bit. And then like you see some strats, right? Like that high ground when Jake and I were talking about, like it was like, I wasn't even sure how you access to at the times, right?
like, uh, and like what you need, like,
Sim or like a widow, somebody like,
there's no real like access point
that just kind of walk up there.
So, uh, really interesting stuff
from some of the teams, I think,
and that's probably why you see it.
Also, when you kind of look at it,
like a lot of EME 8 doesn't like to play like Hollywood,
right?
And then it's, say, if you're kind of bored of King's Row
and you need somewhere to go,
I mean, that's the obvious option.
You're kind of bored of King's Row
and you need somewhere to go.
Like, you should work in a travel agency, honestly.
You're still going to need.
How about you can tell us on Paris how about that because this is what the teams are playing for right our first match today
We'll be determining the third and final team representing
EMEA at the mid-season championship and already qualified are also from other regions Falcons
Crazy raccoon a barrel team liquids base station gaming and nine Z from South America that team featuring
You know known faces such as Hydra and clear and we of course have more teams to come
We're going to have a stacked lineup going at it at the mid-season championship in Paris.
Go sell me, Matt.
I mean, do Paris.
It's a pretty awesome time.
I mean, skin the QR code, get 15% off, you're going to come.
But I mean, Paris, we've had some lands in Europe in the past, they've always been fun.
And Paris, I mean, great food, right?
So, I mean, it's a good time.
There's a lot of stuff to see.
But they, you know, come earlier and see and do all that stuff.
So you have all the time in the world again to just sit there and watch over watch for a few days
That's right. That's right. The location is pretty like central considering its impairs as well
So you actually are fairly close to some really interesting sightseeing things
So yeah, make sure to head on over there meet us there as well
We're always excited to see the fans the French fans show up and you hopefully along with them now
We got a determine which is the third and final team from EMEA showing up
And I'm gonna do so in a E&A classical, couldn't have scripted it any better, this one's for all the marbles, Twisted Binds and Cutsea.
They went a distance in week 3 of the group stage and now let's talk about Twisted Binds first, a team that obviously came into this year, high expectations,
kind of dropped the spaghetti, struggled finding their footing in this meta, had to make changes, then they suddenly looked good,
yesterday they initially looked good and then they just did not. Spaghetti was dropped, the bowl was dropped, the kitchen counter was on the 4-2,
I don't know how they managed that, but like, what is your takeaway from this series yesterday?
I look at this team and, you know, I think they look more beatable than they just about ever have.
I mean, this cat-bashing look has been one of the key strategies that's brought them, you know,
as far as they have come already in the NBA, but definitely the blueprint was shown yesterday about
there are ways to outplay this, you know, and TVNT takes a diva van.
The team doesn't seem on such an even keel anymore.
They are caught kind of flat-footed in some of these compositional matchups.
So it's definitely winnable for Katzia, given some of the individuals they have.
I mean, I think how effective Ziad Sigma was yesterday.
I mean, Vestola also incredibly competent on the hero.
So this is about as winnable as it's ever been for Katzia.
But twisted minds, you know, they just have that clutch gene.
And it's almost too much to imagine for them to not make the missing championship.
I mean, they're one match away from that.
Yeah, I mean, both teams are, right?
Now, mentally, I know that most of these players are veterans, they're not that affected by previous loss, but mentally, I have to ask you, Matt,
would you rather be into a divine shoes coming off of being reverse swept in a fight, maffisaro series, or in concierge shoes, which, well, were basically being stomped yesterday in their first playoff match?
I mean, Katzia probably goes in, they're not expecting that result, right?
They obviously want to win, but like not entirely surprised.
I think Twisted Mind's just with the way that series went, where they go up.
And then they're just kind of, just kind of fumble it.
I mean, they're probably a little bit in shock.
And, you know, what I think will be interesting here today, right?
Is you be in for Twisted Mind's going to want to play a decent amount of the sim.
We've seen Katzia do a decent job against compositions like that, right?
I know we've seen them play as you see here, right?
The Shion with the vendetta against Simtype comps and looked pretty good.
So I wouldn't be surprised if we see some of that today.
I think Vistol is going to be called upon in a huge way today.
You know, I think, you know, TVNT and the tank preference that he has,
the strategies that Twisted Minds have been running,
They leave the door open to some really strong tank play,
especially from an extremely competent Sigma player.
I think the Moga Rush, as good as it can be at times,
I think that's a matchup that Twisted Minds understands really well,
how to evade using the teleporter,
stay away from that Moga and outlast him into the fight,
especially with Quartz on the Sojourn.
Feels like a big vulnerability,
but a nice solid stable shield take in the front,
a really good hitscan performance behind,
and this starts to feel winnable
if you're able to kind of keep that cam fashion in check.
Yeah, I mean, in yesterday's match really,
it's so hard to take anything away
from what we've seen from Katzia,
because they were just always at the disadvantage,
always a player down, Kevster found picks
where there shouldn't even be any,
like they were just always kind of caught,
off guard, off position.
So I'm sure it's not going to look the same way today.
Aid has been phenomenal for this team.
He's coming here to shoot today.
So yeah, honestly, I can see this match going either way
the performance that we've seen from both of these teams thus far. That said, still going
to give it to Twisted Minds. They're not going to go down like this. I'd be shocked. I was
shocked yesterday. I guess I'm ready to be shocked again. But yeah, if they rock up the
same way they did on map one and map two yesterday, they got this in the back.
I had to go the same way. I mean, for me, this is just an obvious favorite in Twisted
I mean, there's a chance for the upset, though,
maybe more so than at any other time
in Twisted Mind's history.
They're an underdog team right now,
you know, compared to some of the rest of the region.
I still give them the favorite,
still give them the look in this match,
but I'm not all that confident in the prediction,
which, you know, given the history of these two teams,
I feel like I should be, but I really feel like
there's a way in for Concia.
I don't think the series is gonna be a three-zero either way.
I think Concia can definitely make this close
and you can get down the stretch with some good bands.
You could absolutely steal this one away.
I mean, Twisted Mind says that at 3-0 in ages.
I went with Twisted Minds,
because I kind of believe that we will see the Twisted Minds
of the first two maps yesterday, today.
But if they were to lose map number one,
I think like the tilt and the doubt
starts to creep in a little bit.
So I think it'll be a very fun series,
but I gotta go with Twisted Minds here.
Yeah, everything on the line, right?
The winner will punch their tickets to powers,
and of course, they get to continue their lower bracket play
of run and potentially grab that crown. Although the PD got their eyes firmly locked on it.
For the loser, they're out.
Yes, stage three stakes are high. So to hold our hands during this difficult time,
of course, Jake and Matt on the mic. So please guys take it away.
I'm scared, Matt. Hold my hand.
Well, we're holding everybody's hand. We're just gonna, but I mean,
look, Nepal, map number one, the selection here, four twists in mind.
I I start to get worried where like if you do lose this map, right?
And then though, there's obviously you be going to play a sim band in the works. Okay, so it is the vendetta band
So this is kind of what I was alluding to when I was talking about Katia is like they played the vendetta
She on it, which has been really strong
Against like sim comps that they've gone up again
So TM gets rid of the vendetta early on it'll be a cat band for Katia trying to take that jetpack that fashion out of the
Yeah, so there'll be a more conventional sim strap more than likely for twisted minds.
I think this is a map where they're very comfortable executing it.
We have seen Shion though look pretty solid as a way to deal with at times this Metro right
throwing that bike in on the teleporter, putting a lot of pressure down on the opposition.
So simple and funny Astro going to be called upon in a big way to deal with whatever has
been cooked up against them.
You have to expect that this Vendetta band, you know, it's not a huge shot coming in here.
So if you could see, I hope to see something really well prepared.
Very curious to see Vistola's tank choice, because I feel like that was kind of the
linchpin in this map one that Twisted Minds played yesterday against GK, where, okay,
the Malga looked good at times overrunning, and then the soldier comes out and Quartz
just starts taking over the game.
So Vistola, it feels like you maybe don't want to go towards that Malga, the threat
of the soldier, and so real from Quartz that he could just soul carry the game.
Yeah, he was on real yesterday early on in the series
It's also interesting that twisted mind right there. They're going over to UV and UV is like a fantastic player
To me it feels more going to him because they need his kind of like presence in in the game
Like being able to kind of like shot call different like adjustment strategies rather than like sim is really strong right now
Right like it feels like there's a lot of different teams that are playing
Things that don't really include the sim at all and seeing success obviously so
It feels like that you know his shotcalling kind of really is that much
Impactful that they feel like they kind of need to play him because we saw yesterday
They went to like the May a little bit right? I think we saw him play like Reaper for me to like a few
spawns but not not like a huge hero pool here for you
Yeah, you know tracer really as felik has always been kind of the second best in the pool the one that he's gone to
But it just doesn't feel like a tracer meta right now.
I mean, there's not all that much being played.
People were seeing more like Shion Cassidy, if anything,
than a tracer.
I think you played a Shion, right?
Yeah, it's interesting.
Although, you know, Shion is such an interesting hero.
It's very hard to work in.
I think to this TM style, for me,
it just doesn't quite feel like a TM hero.
You know, like with Quartz being so solid on the core,
like playing in the main group kind of a hit scan.
And Shion, it feels like, wants to do a lot more than that.
He'll be a lot more versatile positionally.
Katsuya though, I like this look.
They're going to rock up with the Mizuki Sigmund.
I think this is a strat that could give Twisted Minds real trouble.
I mean, the chain, unless...
I wonder if it'll actually be the Juno on.
Yeah, it'll be curious.
I did like that Mizuki though,
because like TV and T wants to play Diva as much as possible, right?
And we talked about how obviously the chain,
I know not being interrupted by the defense patricks just makes Mizuki so nasty against D-Buzz, so
It'll be not they're gonna go with that Moga. So it'll be Moga here with the Juno Kiri is that backline
Simshion
Quartz already opening up with the soldier and expected maybe this Moga to come in a little bit of hope trade early TP down from
Ubi just to get a nice little off angle aid
Of course, he's on an early bike, but it's Quartz, the star of the show here, and he has a full rail and a comfortable position.
This is feeling kind of scary, because I can see he's got to do something eventually.
Yeah, I mean, it's a TP up from the high ground, and they actually stop right on top of him, so that's a great way to deal with Quartz.
What a fine Tej on beautifully positioned a teleporter, and the Stola follows up instantly.
Fogger, getting some revenge on the Soldier, and you sometimes thought of Azak counterpig,
you'd be doing as much as you can with the remainder of Twisted Mind's support, but
losing the Soldier in that early death knell for the team comp.
It's like a play that Twisted Minds would typically make, right?
I know Quartz uses the slide to get to the high ground.
They realize he doesn't have that available, they TP right up there with the Mog already
kind of like it.
That Stomp going through the TP, and I don't know how they're able to keep Quartz alive.
right up in the choke. It can swing wide though, wisely reading that. They're about to get ganked up
on the high ground. Quartz still makes use of the teleporter, but A's got to mark this angle,
making it difficult for Sojourn to get that comfortable position, and Estola has a nice
little position on the back of the point here. Can just hide out, fight his time. Someone's
got to find an opener, Quartz. He's been so sharp with those. Estola's so low, he's over-riding just
for the resist, just to stay alive. The rush needs to come out really defensively here.
He's thought of doing kind by Zimbal in a big brawl on the point, and NT drops low, but with the Zimbal coming down, it feels like too much to fight through.
Quartz, inevitable, finds his man on the other side, and socks to, without the Juno, no chance for a sustained long fight, and Vistola just has to back off, take the full reset.
Can't even really stick around in this engagement, as Aide in the spot, oh he is, but running down Shion is almost impossible.
I mean, he's got a lot of room to maneuver with the bike.
With it with a bike the dash it's very difficult to kind of track down she on is you see here
I know on the mini map where he would potentially be coming from so on a bit of a flank
Being a little bit cautious here at the moment. It definitely is a little bit awkward here for TM
Yeah, you don't want to send too many resources over to the she on
TP in Zimwall blocks under the progress for the big shot
Oh, it's good for the follow-up ports with the OC out one more chance
Can you get an additional kill in the fight? Maybe not even needed.
Can see a hit to the point with the sin wall.
Maybe they do need to end this one.
Craig Zox has the orbital ray if he wants to commit to this fight
and I sense that they might.
The stone goes in, drops the cage.
I need some support that was taking so low, but a TP out.
Takes the main team out of the fire.
Funny Astros beat a little bit later, but hey, hold on.
Finds both supports and now suddenly the fight called into question.
This whole time, capture has been running out.
TDNT, we got to pop the self-destruct.
Continue the contest.
Whoa, that was good!
And actually the damage is crucial, Gala swings in, cleans up that diva,
and that will end the fight in favor of Kassia. What a clutch from there.
I mean, you are playing that one on a nice edge, though, with your aid.
Your turn in the corner trying to get the bike into the diva before the self-destruct goes off.
But Katya set up in a great spot here, though, Jake.
They're gonna have this Katsune rush 90% on the point already.
Simple, probably trying to farm that up as fast as possible on his own carry,
but it'll be a hair behind the gala at the moment.
Here in Gala shuts down Ubi Abe looking in on the bike nowhere left to run nowhere left to hide simple goes down as well
And it's just TV and T waiting on the outskirts trying to get that overtime touch
Quartz with the OC
Maybe the hero in his team's moment of need but in case I find this symbol it feels like it's already over
Abe shuts down Astro once again coming into this OT with the symbol to play on even Quartz
Just cannot match up Ubi finds one on the play
but but stole up still healthy and that'll be katsuya
Taking the first round
Fearlessly picking the maga into the soldier and matchup and out playing it feels like it all started off the back of that first fight tp
Stomp shut down quartz and you know put the superstar on his heels
It does feel like they're doing a much better job
Uh, then in the series we saw yesterday where like
He just kind of like marking quartz at moments, right?
You know pulling she on a little bit more aggressively right kind of like getting up and like trying to deny high ground and other things like that
Quartz still I mean he has almost
Yeah, you know 6500 damage there in round number one
I gotta say the mbaga mbaga with Juno right like cage plus that orbital ray
I mean Vistula was so low, but once cardiac overdrive hits and the ray comes in. I mean, there's no way you're killing him, right?
You're able to just kind of live forever. So it'll be another
It may match up here with this Maga with the Kiri Juno into the D.Va sim set up of Twisted Minds.
They want to get really impressive.
They're trying to change the tenor of the series, and Tejong moved up the map.
Bunny Astra, what a find from him. This fight already over before it's even begun.
And a little pace change from Twisted Minds.
Being fine from Astra, I mean, knocking the sim off just changes everything there.
Yeah, way more aggressive not letting Katya kind of like dictate how the fight is going to happen. It's
Kristen mines just got
Running down as I don't follow with like maybe just an attempt at a sleep there and then kind of backs on up
So we'll see you now with twisted mines in position and control off the point real gunshot almost takes out Pijang gets healed up right away
Horts still very sharp today
Comes another aggressive push forward
Estola, this time he's more ready for it though, goes for the fight,
Bulsar Torpedoes put a lot of damage down and aid,
cleans it up and he's deep in the backline,
three-piece for the Shion, TVNT.
Has to go off the map and Twisted Minds try to just
run it back on fight one, pushing it down mid,
but a more prepared Conceal of Resplawn.
I mean, this is where Shion becomes so difficult to deal with
when you get both perks online, right?
When you get all of the DPS passives plus the Execute bonus damage,
It's just really difficult, especially when A is just kind of constantly in the backline.
You see there on the screen, it chases Shion down, they finally do track down A,
and basically flip the map to do so.
Quartz already with a kill on the Zock, so you're just playing with Gala here in terms of support,
and not able to keep the point contested, so it's going to be a blip rather quickly here to Twisted Mind.
Shion gets punished this time for trying to play that cheeky off angle.
That's a textbook Twisted Mind's play, right?
TP and die for Vistula being considered but such a hard target swinging that corner on a maga especially with ultimates soon to come online
Twisted mines chooses to play their bank on the point can see a so close to so many ultimates
But they aren't quite ready at twisted mines. They might try to catch their opponents on awareness
But for now they're playing more consciously
Lined up there looking for aid is gala takes some damage
You're gonna
Yeah, he's a good one. It's a really nice symbol actually provides a really great position for the story to play the point that you otherwise wouldn't be able to
Every hope though Johnno Alibaba
Yeah, yeah, you went for the the beat there, but I think it's just the she on coming in with that spray
Plus maybe a little bit of the damage amp from the orbital ray. Geez just a leads funny astro
So that's huge. I mean, you know, that sound barrier could have been massive there.
Nega cage by Kier for Katsya, no bead on the other side.
The OC is pretty good to kind of break that cage, but still not an ideal scenario at all.
And they're back with a bike! It's a big action from Fasola!
What a follow-up from Abe's perspective there.
And this is a little bit of that signature aggression turned around.
TD&T has to reset off the map.
But Quartz, OC comes in. There's the OC.
He goes Widow, okay, I like that he's taking a little chance there, but keeping Katsuya honest.
I mean, that looks a lot like the play that we saw yesterday from Kev that we ran in the highlights.
He throws the mic and connects with 3 and then goes right in with the ult that time, didn't even need it.
TP passed, okay, the overrun dodged. Ubi's gonna immediately take position on point, Symmetra.
Could be pretty strong here, gotta go in for the retouch here, Vistola just barely gets there in time, swings deep onto the corner.
but TVNZ has already found the opposing Sin.
Vistola cannot continue the fight without that key-standard bearer in the front line,
and, you can see a fallout of this one pretty quick, just not quite ready for Twisted Mind's
fast move off the rotate.
And now, Ultimate's off the field, TVNZ's self-destruct could be crucial, let's him
go wildly aggressive at this moment, and they're gonna go deep through the spawn here.
Maybe trying to catch their opponents on the wares, and a big connection from Quartz, TP'd
up, into an aggressive high ground, shuts down Zox, picks out the sustained backbone,
8, he's huge kills to clutch this one up, the ports will end his streak at 1
and can see it now, even a retouch at all is not guaranteed.
Yeah, you can just see that like, Twisted Minds obviously, and they know exactly how to play around this
and Gala gets the point and gets a clutch there, but just the uses of the TP just seems so clean
from Twisted Minds in this round, I mean you'd be just kind of getting everybody into great positions
and being able to flip the point at times
and that is what allows TN to tie it up
at one round apiece.
Man, the pace of like this match of these two comps
can't each other is ridiculous.
It's breakneck.
I mean, there's no downtime whatsoever.
It's just swarming over each other and brawling
every single fight.
Nepal really does feel like an iconic map for Twisted Minds
but it also feels in a way like a must win.
Like this is, you know, this kind of a match.
This is Twisted Minds' wheelhouse, right?
This is what they've played 100 times, you know, really high pace, the D.Va getting some good value into the Maga,
Quartz with some space to find connections from the Sojourn.
But as we go to Village, I feel like this mid-fight is going to be so important, right?
The retake on this map a little bit more difficult than Sanctum.
So you can get out first, get to those better positions.
It also feels like they're with... Quartz is down!
A just the lead courts right off the rip
It does feel like if the the vendetta was available
You would definitely see Cassia be playing it
But I mean dude eight on the she on this may be a band that has to come through at some point for twisted minds
Because they don't really played at all and we're sure absolutely on fire today to kick things off
And in courts tried to get that he did that scene move yesterday
Swing out wide to take a powerful high ground angle on the sojourn and eight is just ready for him
He's already just straight marking that position.
To cap the point, Katsuya have to yield the high ground, which gets put to the front through the choke.
Aid playing an off angle as he is want to do here on the shea on T-Ventsy over the top has a nice angle of initiation.
As they start to pressure the point here on Twisted Minds still, the opponent's healthy.
Yubi stunned even gets low, needs a lot of save, Zox also in trouble though, and T-Ventsy is gonna finish that kill.
Yubi and Astro combined for more, but kills start flowing in and it'll be simple with a headshot onto Gala.
We'll end the hoax here if we can see it. Keep control of this checkpoint and twisted mice. We see no time
Really fast flip, right? Yeah
You may they give up the high ground because they have to take the point obviously then
You know, maybe you would have liked to see them like TV back up to the high ground kind of like bite from that position
But I'm just saying probably feel like I with the Amaga and like genome carry
They probably feel like they have a pretty good chance kind of taking that bite on the point. That's just
They're never able to kind of chase down a course
Juno is definitely a liability in this competition as compared to the Lucio. Here comes the Rush.
Do they have the mobility to get out of this? They're not going to back down. They don't really have that option.
And once again, the Juno hunted down first. Such an easy target for D.Va, especially with the Katsune Rush deployed.
And that's a quick one-and-done twist in mind. I mean, it costs you the Rush, sure, but does he fight that decisive,
in which you kind of build up the rest of your ultimates has to feel very subtle.
Yes, Ox is going to play the Lucio now. I was even wondering if you could even kind of try and play maybe Mizuki into this, right?
Because I know how good he is against EVA. It's going to be crushing on us again.
Yeah, really early again. Trying to push this tempo, playing the Simwad so valuable for it's able to get a position here in the thick of the fight,
but still safe behind that protective barrier aid now. You're thinking of running him down, probably no worries.
He's just fine. He's got the bite. Yeah, I don't think you can catch him.
I mean, they might catch him, but they're gonna get a point for this, I think.
Or maybe, I mean, surely, you could see a half the charge right now and take the fight on point.
They are gonna do so. They're stepping up.
Systemized is gonna be coming back in for a bit of a retake, but it is without the Shion, which has to feel pretty decent.
Simba, the void as well, because if I can need to win now, TVNT drops the self-circuit, being stunned from the soil, into the backline.
fight, shrivels down, now on this engagement, there's a quartz drop, and Yuvi has to teleport out of the cage.
Funny, Astro on just one HP, some of us stays alive, Ammo's onto the beat, and there's a chance for a clutch,
if Astro wants to commit. Could be a final fight, but it's a risky one, and Abe finds Yuvi,
Tejong with a nice ranged charge shot, and we'll finish Astro.
And the deep dive to chase the Sion, it's punished. Good read from Katzia, right, knowing,
Hey, you go back to the ends of the earth to hunt down my Shiana. I'll take your point
We also talked about you know, obviously she had like very difficult to get it tracked down, right?
But eight is gonna in the back lines of TM
But also can get back into the fight very quickly, right with the bike, so
It's back in the fight rather quickly. This sound barrier is gonna be huge. I mean, somebody lost Katoone rush of the animal
Yeah, everything deployed already if I stole it over round the rush is just too much matrix go running low
and Aide is able to tear them apart. Aide finds the damage, only one kill just yet, but now
swings need for more on top of the sin, who's connection from Tejar here into the enemy backline
who are running for the hills, trying to just survive and sustain after that Cessarriku spree from Aide,
not massive in terms of final blows there, but I mean he tore them apart, that was a huge
kill of damage. I mean that's rush plus a beat that you're able to just kind of use your beat there
to be able to kind of counteract this Katzian now with a chance, probably just one more
fight to determine this very first map in this series, but an extremely important one
at that.
Missile finds a big stop and pushes eight off the map with a boop, he's still in here
with the fight, wanted to find an excuse, the sim would be a prime target, it costs
Zox's life though to accomplish, Missile is getting so low, has to shout out to Hew
Love, playing the sim wall well, you'd be of course not alive to be able to pop it.
The sim launch fires a beautiful boop from Lucio, sends Tejon right into the path of
that self-proc and that should be potentially the round you have to solo so low struggling now.
But Alon moves back into this a rush coming soon. There's still just a chance for the Quartz OC.
Maybe not much of one. The rush now in full desperation from Gala. It will be found out.
Astra what a boop to find there. On to the enemy's sand. That pretty much seals the deal.
Quartz attacking into the spawn is going to go down but no chance for a retouch.
twisted minds win the Paul but only just Matt. This is looking to be a very close series if
map 1 is any indication. I mean that is down to the wire there. I mean that is a fantastic
boot there by Funny Astro. Probably is what allows him to kind of get over the line as we take a
look at some of the stats. You know ports 42 and 11 with 18k damage there just pumping everything
in here to keep him alive. On the other side though, I mean, he didn't page on both of the
pretty good games. This is obviously that goes down with the wire, but I think if you're Katzia,
you saw a lot of things there that you can definitely, I mean, what, you can ban a Sojourn,
right? You feel like you can win a map with that gone, right? So you have to feel pretty good if
you're Katzia at the moment, even in the loss. Yeah, I like that shout out. I think some small
changes here or there could change the results. Still, it's a map when Fort twisted mines and
style that very much is their comfort zone like I feel like whatever the specific heroes you pick in this kind of a matchup
This is the kind of series this twisted mind is hoping for I would say
You know, I think it's when things slow down
We saw yesterday where like the Sigma giving real problems to the jetpack cat that I think is where you really don't want to go here
So we'll have to see if cut see a stick to their guns
You know keep this rush mashup
Which it's hard to argue with when aid is playing this well right to try to bring that pace and assist the she on
Great symbol here from Ubi by the way, just so beautiful, giftsports, this insane position,
everyone just running into the meat grinder against him. He does deliver a stunner of a
performance here on Sojourn. I mean, took a couple of deaths to aid, who was, you know,
tunneling him down, like, feel like every fight. But in the end, he still puts up a ridiculous
stat line on the Sojourn, still playing Sojourn to the mauga with a ton of assistance from the squad,
and another classic map win near 14. It does feel like Katya though, right? I mean, what? You can,
You can get rid of the sojourn on one map, right?
You can get rid of the sim and the Bastion.
You probably wanna, you see, there's probably a world
in which those are three bands,
if potentially you have, right?
You get rid of the cats
so they can't play cat Bastion early on.
And then you kind of move on and can kind of really target
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I know that they put in so Newjung City, the selection here for Katia.
This is one you can actually what you can pan the soldier and we saw them trying to play cat fashion on yesterday
And we were not the biggest of fans. I would say right. I mean it did almost work in the in defense of
It was close
Like even on some of the points that I was thinking it should just be really hard
Okay, dear man, I do think that diva fan is incredibly strong in MCDM
I think this is maybe even more so. I mean the sim it's like maybe their eyes rely on sim
but I think they're very reliant on D.Va because they love to play these, you know, extremely high-paced strats where the Sim teleports in
the D.Va and now she gets in on the back line.
That's why Zox switches off the Juno on
Nepal Village and goes over to the Lucio to just have some ability to fight back against the D.Va.
Now you feel like, hey, maybe we get away with the Juno pretty comfortably and that's a lot of heals to get through.
We saw that the power of something like, you know, the Setsurikus spree combined with the Orbital Ray pretty devastating,
especially with no D.Va to Matrix that away.
So I do like this band. I mean, you're not gonna have the chi on of course to work with here for eight as you mentioned
So that's a band that comes through pretty quick. Yeah, given his performance in that one
Do you think that?
TM matches the Moga here or do they try and play like a ram or something along those lines?
Like I know they've obviously gone to the rematch or a decent amount, but it's
It's an interesting call. I don't like the Ram into to Moga theoretically
I think yeah, I got a good match up there because once you drop that shield down on on the mantra
Now Maga has like open season to just hard commit on you, pop the shout and just you know
life steal up and ram and you're just kind of caught between a rock and a hard place in that
kind of a fight. So for Team Unity, maybe the Zarya, we've seen some teams play that match up here
into Maga's, try to bring the Zarya. You know, Sojourn's still available, so I wouldn't mind
like a Zarya, Sojourn, kind of a strategy to come out here from team.
I don't know why, I think I recall, we did see Katia try and play like a vendetta reaper
from what I remember in the past during the regular season on a game like this.
That would be lost.
That would be lost.
Maybe it was pre-Sion, right?
But I mean that is just kind of, yeah, I don't know if you can get away with that now.
I mean, he's potentially like Sojourner Cassie, right?
I know he's here, so we'll see what Katya decides to do is the diva band obviously really targeted at TVNT because he's so good at getting into that backline and staying alive.
TVNT thinking about a Sigma, but this isn't been a hero that twisted minds have really not gravitated towards, you know, in this stage, right?
They had KSA in for a bit, trying to play the Sigma.
They didn't really work at the start of the stage.
They brought TVNC back.
But I don't mind the pick in theory.
I think it's actually a smart choice.
But do you really want to commit to a style
that hasn't been comfortable for you?
It will be simcacity behind, though.
So speaking of comfort picks, it just
might not be too short of them.
Can see it, though, are going to bring the pace.
MogaVendetta on the cards.
Yes, Vendetta sneaking in a little bit.
Really only for EMEA when we see Kat'sia play as Tejong loves to go over to this hero in combination with Amaga.
So that is a dead already.
That's fine over.
That is as brutal as it gets.
Wait, not enough.
How do you think, Yubi?
So maybe you're now going to take a pace here and then get Vesola all healed up.
We get Ape back in the fight rather quickly here as well.
That's a really uncharacteristic mistake from Yubi.
We rarely see him caught out of position like that on the Symmetra.
You can see them back into a fight in which they really had no business in.
Vestola takes a rock, but he's still healthy.
Gala finds another, the Kyroko here, for Kaseya.
Basically Solo carrying this first fight and feeding them in position on Nujang City.
To be on Tito, wasting no time and to keep this pace up.
Trying to just aggro into Vestola who's still a beautiful cleanse, dodge his big creation,
Gala.
Working overtime, this man wants to go to Paris.
Yeah, y'all is on fire, I mean, they kind of split off ports down onto the point before
They're able to get the kill after he finds
Pejong is and now gonna be twisted mines just kind of rotating around here
They do end up building up towards their rush
So it'll be TV and TV taking first from the point here is it's gonna be best over just charging on in on the Moga
Hey now with some space to work with but the Katsune rush is just overwhelming the Stola doesn't last long
Against UV and port under the effect of that ultimate support ultimate. It's just a little bit slower for Katsuya
But hey, you get the rush out. You don't feel too bad about that considering the comfort could see
I think they're happy to come in for a rush retake TV and he needs to find a huge flux this fight just to
Slow down the pace that could see are gonna break
And then look how pushed up they are, you know, I like to get Sierra running in there not taking the main path
This is a smart move like this main path would be pretty brutal poking wise
And so they're gonna take the long angle here get closer to the point before the fight begins
See what TV and T can do about this
And their concealing rush is so impactful here, is Katia is trying to build up a rail here.
CP maybe just starts to fight with a kick, that would be massive as, actually since he
drunk there on the point to compact, it's gonna be a slide away there from the TP that
comes on through.
Oh, big value from the rush, love this positioning from Gala, keeping a lot of high ground available
and there's no looking, you know, as soon as you come down to the point, you're just
swung.
Vendetta, one of the best heroes in that kind of an option, just dashing into the Sigma,
be running in mom point forcing some kind of response and GM they can't find the
quill from courts you by the way drop the dead eye in that fight I didn't even
see it maybe you just use it to read up yeah they want to get across it they
have the ray here they want to try and play around it's gonna be the TP that's
used straight away here a pump to see is they're trying to take this first
flash point does get a shot on courts and that's finished off Tayshawn finds
out when the flux good enough for some damage but losing eight is not gonna be
up with Astro out of the fight, the orbital ray as well, this is all Pizzia, gonna be taking home
this first Flashpoint you beat. It's one counter kill, the turrets are up and stalling things,
but it really is just delaying the inevitable. I gotta hand it to Gala, I think without his
individual performance on this Flashpoint, this is not even close, I think just might as well
run away with it. A sick point one from Gala, yeah it's a great point, I mean the positioning,
being able to come up with some kills early on, right, finds that kill on a course which I'll ask
So to take at a flashpoint early. Here's an interesting combo a sundering blade plus cage available here
Top for Astro to be here
Simtiki is gonna be crucial and just evading these ultimates could see you know
They've only just want to run so they're gonna try and wait for the point to open for their committed aggression
It's all a folk you can out here comes a speed amp TP out a lot of the mobility tools now expended from twisted mind
Here comes the stola charging through just baiting some skills out and the beat comes through immediately sundered on
But the rush comes in, they're going to play inside the cage trying to just overwhelm.
TP already broken, you can see us staying alive for now, but Teijun goes down Gala to
follow.
Still, players low on both sides, definitely down to the deathmatch here.
AVE can find a clutch kill, but no.
Snipe Bluebite was in the crucial moment for Stola, without the HP to really keep this
point in contest.
We'll take a parting kill stomping onto Astro, I don't think saw that one coming.
Solo it feels like is always alive. It feels like of the mug. I just live in forever is a yeah
He kind of gets a stomp there on the aster on the way out
But some really nice shots there from quartz is it can be really dangerous right with a cage playing against the vendetta
And that kind of close quarters is a T-junks does flying one early in the fight
But that is it you know quartz kind of hits them with the hinder takes them out rather quickly
Consuming rush orbital right here available for Katya. So they play their cards right Jake
they should be able to flip this and hold on to one of those ults.
Flux is so scary though, Maga could be absolutely through to Lifi.
That ultimate, and Quartz just swims deep, two taps aid, drops him out of the fight.
The high noon comes out, the Flux as well.
The rush, speculated Matt Vesper could see it.
They're slammed to the floor, finished off by Quartz, and the dregs of this team are just delaying the inevitable.
Still very comfortable by the team.
Some big shots though come in against Quartz.
He actually does almost go down, but almost not good enough, man.
That'll be the second flash. Yeah, this going to twisted mines. I don't think you can see I have a meaningful touch here
No, there's no way I think you just fight for another day as that point really kind of dominated by courts
Is no nice flux there from TBNT catches Tejunk in best a lot just drags the both of them to the sky
Enough damage with the dead. I to finish one off and then I know courts
Just being able to kind of take over here on the Cassidy a little bit is that they definitely having some trouble
I think Cassie I kind of tracking him down
The nice uses of the TP still here from Twisted Minds is TV and T for to take some high ground here on the Sigma.
Hitsiya with the smog of a dead and they have to go aggressive, but Twisted Minds have such sick defensive tools right now.
Both the Simul and the B. Hitsiya struggling to find a way in here, they know that their ult's can just be countered out if they go first.
Here comes A, he will pop it, he comes out in response from Astro.
Players looking for some value, but it's poor to find Zox just as the raid comes down Galva though, once again, hero kill.
Onto Ubi, that means this frontline is going to be a lot more sustainable, but the Stola still being taxed here, the HP just dropping too low.
And with Zox out of the fight, the sustain just won't be there.
Twisted Minds feels like they've really started to find their footing with this style.
Can see the all-out aggression hasn't really worked for them since that first very enclosed Flashpoint.
And it's, I think it's really difficult for Kat'sia right now because they're trying not to use their movement to the left,
they just kind of collapse on a quartz, because it'll just get TP'd out or like, you know, sped away.
But then they're kind of playing in no man's land with this vendetta mauga, which is like the worst spot for them to play from, right?
So it's like, you know, I have, you're talking about how they want to like hard to commit, like that's how you should probably play this comp,
which is really difficult for them to figure out when they can't, right?
They're almost trying to see if TN will be aggressive first to their TP before they decide to go.
Dead Eye, bit of channel here from Cork, looking for a finished kill and will get Aved, not ready.
I think for a little bit of extra speed coming from Astro to swing deeper on the corner, Zox dead to right as well.
I'll have the rest of the team, why not?
Tejrong at the Sunder and Glade finds TNT, but I just don't see the hope in this teamfight.
Asola trying to do what he can to fight back, and Tejrong goes down.
I'd love to see a sim swap here out of Tejrong.
was that yeah yeah Tage run going over this spin makes a lot of sense here
it's gonna stick with it doesn't yeah it just does not seem like they're able to
close that gap okay now they're gonna decide to play this game I think this
is gonna be no much easier for them to kind of decide right it gives them that
extra mobility that they don't have with the vendetta yeah I feel like TV and T
Sigma is actually paying dividends I you know I think twisted mind staying away
from this girl for so long maybe it wasn't comfortable for them but it's
Certainly providing a ton of value in this matchup.
You can see a kind of...
There's like they don't know exactly what to do.
Quartz is getting away with some crazy flanks, fight after fight.
It's a real challenge to mark that.
Wildly and regal-typically from Pajon.
What? He is just dead in stuff.
We're still looking at the back line with the shout,
but he's gonna run out of gas sooner rather than later.
Quartz, of course, making use of that to Tuneiraj,
develops another kill, but Sola grabs one before he goes down,
but can't imagine the rest of the team will be far behind him.
They even gala gonna be finished off on the wrong side of the tracks here 20
streak for quartz I mean that that tells the entire story here like yeah just
running the table could see a don't know what to do against this frankly they're
being hot out here and Tristan mines hasn't in the in the mine palace dude
they're just teleporting around untouchable then why not ban the sim right
I mean the stolen may need to go a shield take like a signal here but yeah
there's so many oaths now this this just feels there's almost over man I mean
Desperation time TP in once again for aid UV finds Kha'Zhan again
Punished on the cross course finds another the beat comes in almost unnecessary here from funny astro
But why not you got so many open it might as well secure the team fight win here in the schools
You mean you get staggered just a little bit. It's gonna come down to brutal one final team fight now
aid goes over to the vendetta, so they're gonna try and
Just be mega aggro and maybe try to change things
But I twisted minds have them downloaded like we they have played I see I have not want to fight in like
Oh, I mean, they just don't look coordinated right now. Katia like with the tee piece and Tejong like he's just in like nobody else is even there
Then they try and follow up to try and keep them alive
Dies everybody else falls as well. It's gonna be the world a little rate open to the
Here yeah, yeah, he's just too tanky and has the symbol to play with brawling at close range using a teleporter
very comfortable. Tejano is starting to get charged up. Aidebind's a kill on the back line.
He can just live a little longer, keep the attention of ports. It will be massive.
He's gonna be able to grab this pack and come back into the fight now from behind.
Oh, the beautiful stun there. TDNT 180s snaps off that Vendetta and snaps off also the
chances we can see on Nudron City. It started so hopefully here on the first
flashpoint, but the last three have been over in just, it feels like seconds. I
I mean, they haven't won a fight in the last three flashpoints map.
It's, that's, that's brutal.
It's, it's the hinder there that comes in there from quarts that kind of like
delays potentially a huge swing there, uh, from aid.
But I mean, after that first flashpoint, it is just all dominance there from twisted minds.
TV and T had a great game.
Like you talked about on the segment, right?
They ban his diva.
It doesn't really matter at all.
Uh, and nobody really able to get anything going before Katia.
Yeah, this is textbook twisted minds right like they they have the cop that wins the slow fight
So they're they're always comfortable. They're never rushed or anxious and that means so many opportunities
For this dynamic duo of course and you'd be to work right there like he uses these TPs so comfortably
Zox getting absolutely exposed on the Juno by these Cassie likes that Juno was just dead first way too often
But it's a brutal matchup to play against.
Just imagine, I think it's fair to say they're the best team in the world at exactly this style, like utilizing the TP, the Lucio carry.
It's basically like, hey, if you had the best hitscan in the world and you gave him every resource that it was possible to give a player in Overwatch, what would happen?
And it turns out, of course, he does pretty well.
Turns out it has actually produced a lot of positive results for that team.
But we were in this scenario yesterday, right?
Twisted Minds Up 2-0 and then we kind of saw what happened. Katia showed some signs of life within this series
It is going to be a huge amount in the climb though, right? I mean so now
You're you're basically if you wanted to if you're TM, right? Even if you lose this map you can protect
Sim Kat that should pretty much the rest of the way, right?
You'll feel pretty good about it. So
We'll see where Katya decides to take us in terms of maps.
Potentially like a neon junction, we've seen a lot of teams go over to that because the
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And maybe we'll also see Twisted Minds because they are dangerously close now, Matt, to booking their ticket.
I mean, yes, they did give a first rep yesterday, so it's possible.
But I feel like the adaptations have already come in from TM.
Like, this Sigma look alone was something that they had straight away from for so long,
and I didn't really understand why, because even he looks pretty good on the Sigma,
and it's a way to give them, steal the very same comfortable style that they always play,
play just with a slightly different flavor when the diva is banned. Do you think they end up maybe
Cat's the Eye? I was just thinking here like do they have to ban a Sigma or a tank to protect like
they want to play the Moga that much that they want to protect the Moga? I really don't like the
Moga especially when the Sigma comes out. Okay, they just TM to ban the SIG because they want to
play Cat Bastion. I see. So with the sim banned out it's time to go Cat Bastion and TM. I think
I think their read on what happened yesterday on this map was that look the Sigma just presents too many problems in the front line and so we can't get away with the cap action because our front line is just getting boxed out 24-7 by Sigma.
If you take Sigma off the field now, there's a lot more room for TVNT to like play Adiva, push the pace, you know, create the kind of distractions that are needed for Quartz and Astro to really start to get into that backline and make use of all the angles that are available here on New Queen Street.
And like is he to gonna play like you know the soldier and obviously was not near
The level is like the she on was and map number one right are you gonna try and play?
She on I think it has to be Cassidy because you need you need to deal with the cap action here
I mean, I think for me this although they lost so painfully with the cap action yesterday on this man
I do think banning the sick changes everything actually
I think cap action is seems actually to me to be quite good if you ban sick because now
Now, who's going to be able to hold your front line at bay, right?
If the Cat Bastion are going to be able to get behind,
but they need someone in the front to make that kind of distraction for them,
SIG essentially prevents that.
That's like on the field, I feel a lot better about their chances with this style.
And I mean, I hope for Kassiya's sake that they're well prepared.
They had every opportunity to get prepared.
I mean, this is no secret from TM.
They play this Cat Bastion comp overly often, I would say,
given the last few weeks of results.
And I mean, you know, this story can play like D.Va, right?
If need be, obviously, I know really strong with that hero,
and not, I think, as strong against like Capash,
it's like sick, potentially, is, right?
You know, or if you're going to try and play like maybe Mizuki as well, right?
I know, sick Mizuki, right?
But like the Cassie is kind of like what we saw teams kind of go to against it,
really kind of punish that D.Va.
So, obviously, some time before we get into this one,
a team in a spot to potentially clinch their spot in the mid-season championship in Paris,
which a lot of people didn't expect them to be the third team potentially to lock in their spot.
But look, it's been a rough stage, I think. It's interesting because like coming off of Tokyo,
it didn't feel like it was going to get rough for Twisted Minds because the meta was brutal for them
Tokyo basically admitted that they didn't really love it or you had to play it and they still finished second
Then they probably they could have won that series, right?
I mean we talked about it during it like
We ever gonna see like wrecking ball gone and they just kind of never happened up, but
Did you see them coming in and kind of not playing up to par was a bit surprising here in stage two
Yeah, you know, it's tough for a team like that that's been on top for so long
It's like inevitably, you know things come around the rest of the competitive community is still incredibly strong
There's so many great players out there. You know just to rest on your laurels never really works
So Twisted Minds they've kind of been forced back into the lab this stage and they've come up with some innovative solutions
Staying ahead of the pack at times, but also being answered at times
I mean that match yesterday we really felt that like their strats had just been dealt with GK
We're ready for him could see it though. This has been a real
This is about as painful as it gets as a series because the first two maps started so well, right?
Yeah, you come out to an early advantage on map one can't close it out same story on flash point
And it's it's like the the swing back is brutal
You do really well to win the first, you know flash point the first round on control and then just get obliterated
That's the map it like that new drug city to me was felt hopeless at times for conceal like they didn't know what to do
They're desperate comp swapping
This is their last chance and oh no Matt. I would you say though the first two months like this
I mean we've seen Katzia run this before but in the Katbassion. I don't think this is gonna go well
I think it's cat like they have nothing for Katbassion. It does feel like Katzia though
They've been like really good at the start of maps and they just can never figure out like what adjustments to make or they just happen
Way too slow. It feels like a little bit what we seem we're gonna see soldier 76. Well
Hell, Soldier is crazy, but Yubi can always swap, right?
And this is a nice little pick on the big fight, because it puts a lot of extra pressure on you.
It's just another hero that plays on his own, plays off angles, needs to be run down.
You've got to deal with him and punish him.
And you're already so worried about the Kat Batchman at all times.
The threat of that, of course, very real.
Point though, being just pressured by Vistola, playing things slow and steady.
Quartz is starting to work at the extremities.
You can see that damage pouring in on the Vistola.
Yubi with a nice little off angle on Soldier.
I mean, can't see it just gonna cut the ribbons they have no they have no counter damage despite
She has doesn't have the range for these kind of trades
You know it's a incredible they're even like still standing right everybody got the
Okay, here's a lot damage being thrown at them. You just can't go this fashion is server. Yeah, okay
Wait the solar runs down you beat that is a good find the soldier definitely the most vulnerable target in this pop up like
Maybe decent but gala solo does eventually get run down by TDNT and that's both supports out of the fight still
2DPS in a tank fighting, but TB&T so happy on the D.B.O. to clean up a low numbers engagement.
D.B.O. of course, one of the better heroes in Overlock, running down these stragglers one by one, and Gala and Zox,
I mean, they're gonna be on notice this game on support, like you are gonna get hunted.
And I mean, I guess like what we've seen, sometimes like the Fendetta being able to use the overhead swing to like knock the Bastion with the cat out of the sky, but...
You're asking a lot for that, don't you?
That's, that's a lot of trick shots at that point, uh, to get on through, so.
Rush needed just to keep TD&T fighting with a Bastion.
Hortz cleaves through Vestola, swings deep onto Zox, he gets finished off by TD&T, and, uh,
we've been here before, he's with us in mind, so they were on the other side of the server.
I mean, I don't think you can win with this comp.
I could see our getting obliterated, like the Bastion and Soldier 76 is owning.
You know you're not a serious problem.
When Soldier 76, they could fly the visor.
Like, what do you do about that? You don't have range hero.
I don't know. I mean, now, you see, you've switched off the Manga, but you're still with the Shion Vendetta.
Like, I don't think Vendetta is that strong that you can play her into this.
There's this VD artillery here.
It's aegida, you know, they're gonna get out the window.
But, you see, it's half-action here in turn mode on that flank.
Doesn't look like...
I mean that's your birth right now is getting completely run over and caught for the autonomy
team.
I feel like it's funny that the character with the tracer or anything is so good.
The permanent police sprint is the one you can just get to.
Oh damn it's so easy.
Yeah, those burst mobility skills.
You'd be like trying to get the visor up, you know.
Oh, oh, oh, he's ganked.
But like how much of these skills matter?
It doesn't matter, and then you solo kill him because the team is dead on the other side.
Like, you're getting the soldier kill, but he's almost doing his job here, he's like
holding the distraction, the solo also going to get run down over while by TD&T.
And I mean, Quartz's Bastion is, I mean, I don't think I'm going to do that, I did go
down one time, I believe this game, but it was almost like in a fight that you already
knew you were winning, you're kind of taking some risks.
I really want to see a flying visor though, like I'm actually desperate.
Yeah, two TAC visors.
They're over in 26.
But with the cat?
No, like that could be crazy.
Crazy that could be crazy aim-botting from the sky box you don't get a visor
Three year use might be definitely fine anything
It's away from that TV and see what assist here comes the visor matrix. Okay, oh my it's a good damage on socks though
And the front lines are just starting to crumble TV and see finishes off Tayshaun
who can't get any assist with the solo being forced to mark that Soldier 76.
The Wraith is down, but he's Kat Sia falling out of this fight.
Zala looking down for the kill.
Simple picks up a nice little 3-piece.
I mean, he just recorded Pragman.
It's like, this is, I feel like Kat Sia, this is so hopeless for them, man.
Like, this is, I hate to say this, but you can't win this matchup.
The Bastion is just pre-firing.
Like, what about playing like, I mean, well, the SIG is gone, right?
I mean, I think they should go either Bastion themselves or maybe Cassidy.
Have Baxian cast the Eye, I was like, can you do anything to stop TvNT?
Whether it be like a Pizookia or something, but it doesn't really play well with like a TvNT, right?
You would want like a SIG in the mix.
I mean the cart rolling forward, you got real problems here.
Have Asher running down in the back line, TvNT, takes up an additional kill.
Not even gonna need to puff the self-destruct to stay in the suit.
He's got the rush behind him, another melee kill, another finish for the D.Va.
And Kat Sia.
You know they came close at moments of stage they had good opportunities
But I mean this is feeling like a twisted mind is that it has been enraged from yesterday's before with Tejong on tracer
Cat Bastion response. Okay, the mirror finally comes out out of pure desperation now, but I mean maybe get worse
It gets worse that before it gets better
The soldiers 76 workers wait through the flame
Yeah, oh my god
two. Gala's got to get rush. Oh, and Aida's down the dash and crucially out of this fight.
Here comes the rush here, defensively from Gala, holding on for the moment. Artillery
fire comes out, TDNT finds another, somehow the cat connected on, and TDNT is running,
ramping. You see why the UVA band needs to come out against this guy. He's one of the
best in the world. Bestola also dropped Post-PoM onto UVA. He's just a glutton for punishment
at the place over 76, but I mean, it doesn't even matter. Like, he's got 10 deaths.
It's like it's just because they have gears, right?
So, here we go in here.
I think they thought that maybe there was one player out of spawn.
Now we're back to the Moga here, but
I mean this is last in Jeffers here.
Four cats, he has Christian Mice.
Awesome on this map.
TvNG trying to overwhelm A.
Drops a self-destruct deep in the back line.
It's an awkward position around open air.
It's awkward.
Oh no, that's not a kill you can be giving up.
So even with TvNG dropping without the cat,
it's hard to really re-aggress.
You'd be on the soldier keeping
pressure on these angles but it's really quartz over the top I mean he's the one
you need to worry about. AID has to find some crushing victories in these sky
duels if he wants a chance back in this map. Still a few minutes on the clock so
there's there's time to work but I mean you have such a big task ahead.
It's gonna be extremely difficult from what we see.
Nice fight! Yeah it's stainless steel wall it's a nice plate thrown into the back but nobody
be able to follow that up.
Soldier beaming down 8 though.
Overwhelms his opposite number.
Little flank from Tejon.
Putting a bit of presence on here coming from Faja.
He's shooting at Maga.
He's shooting at Kirito.
He's up all the way.
The Bastion maybe actually goes down 8.
He'll just sit on the ground.
That's the sight of all here.
Soldier 76 near 2026.
It's not only a great movie despite the rush.
Seemingly enough, just overwhelmed here.
Gala feels flustered though.
He throws out the cleanse.
Just for nothing.
It's not only a great movie despite the rush, seemingly enough to just overwhelm here.
Y'all that feels flustered though, he throws out the cleanse, just for nothing here, really.
Just feeling the pressure of the moment, and seeing them maybe getting a good look at this fight for it.
It's traded out for a kill, but this kind of a scrappy, you know, trading team fight,
just doesn't quite feel good enough.
Although, hold on, the answer's getting meamed down, you gotta be careful on the cat, okay.
Just fine, but I don't even know if you're making real progress here,
With this kind of a chaotic trading fight, forward spawn available here, and Miss Ollish has to run out.
I mean, 123 meters to go, that, like, I don't know.
You can't, like, kind of constantly trade like this and come out on top of your Katzi, and it's going to be the spree inside of the cage fight.
There's not really much of anything you do end up moving UVF again, is TVNT.
I'll set the self-destruct, lose your own bash and help for a second there, I'm going to, uh, we're going to see, take a little run right into self-destruct damage, but,
reports, just with those tank shells, just beaming down Vestola, nothing he can really do except to run it back to the spawn, so,
below two minutes, both support ults available here for TM.
Just in mind, trying to just hold on to this lead if such a big margin of aid gets blasted
out of the air.
TDNT, the star of the show on this map, he is playing death to match here on almost uncontested
fashion.
There's no end to the game.
They're also caught in the back line or charging towards the full cap.
It's got to be a trace on it.
It comes out of the window, but I mean this game is looking to be done sooner rather than
later.
T-Touch, but TD&T accepts all comers.
These beads coming in thick and fast.
No one can stop this front liner and can see a fall out
of the playoffs.
That's, they're not the winner.
Twisted Minds are the players who won that.
But by a small margin that is very close.
Very close for me to start.
Certainly not the winner here.
As I do, Twisted Minds looked awesome.
A lot, I think, of maybe questionable moves
out of Karatecia in this series.
What is that team?
What are they doing?
It's just in mind, qualify to the mid-season championship
and they can still fight for better seeding in this playoff,
which doesn't feel crazy to me.
I mean, they showed new looks today.
They showed the adaptations.
I'd be excited to see them go up against,
whether it's Geekay or Virtus.Pro.
Next, this is a team that still has a lot of fight left in.
They're doing D's and luckily they brought it out today.
When it matters the most that they are officially
after a team qualifying and it was going to be a heartbreaker as well for Katsuya because
the first two maps, they both started out so well for them and then it just started to
slip away. I think you touched on that Matt. The swaps came late if they came at all. They
just started to really like struggle against the Twisted Pine so it's not really pulled
anything ordinary, weird out of the back like the soldier aside. Like I don't, that was
Yeah, but it worked right like they were just running after the soldier like the perfect distraction like that's kind of crazy that
Yeah, I mean I mean to not play anything to deal with the cat-bastion to me is is like
Let's make some changes it's like
That feels like the story of the series up
any time can see I needed to make changes they just haven't way too late and they really didn't kind of find the right adaptations
Yeah, and then like obviously keep on running that Juno in the back line being more of a liability and twisted minds
Jumping at it right like they they saw those openings and they went for it
So yeah overall twisted minds back with the vengeance obviously here to prove themselves that stage two overall
might not have been as smooth as they wanted to, but now they are officially qualified for our second LAN event of the year.
So that pressure is up off their backs. That also means that they now do have a few weeks to practice and find their stride.
I mean, it is difficult for teams and Overwatch or like any esport, quite frankly, to be as good as TM has been for this period of time, right?
Like especially it's a top bird and I cannot relate to this
I mean especially like as a you know metis change and you know we get like a ton of new heroes at once new maps like
And it's kind of interesting. It's like we are probably I'm like TM like they've had a rough one like I mean
They still only lose one game during the regular
Stage they lose basically I know in a game five here and then they get their first three oh in a while
This is still a team that is going to be like if we were to get to Paris and they get second or in their final
I wouldn't be shock really at all with how they've kind of consistently performed at the international level
It's a big win for them
I mean one that they they not just needed to obviously to win this series to qualify but I think it was really important after that
Reverse sweep yesterday that they show a new and improved look not only to the fans
you know, but really to themselves, right?
That, okay, we can make the adjustments,
we can make the adaptations.
I think bringing in TBNT Sigma and being able to keep
the rest of the core on the same style.
Like, you don't go to the Sigma Zuki at a comp
that you never really liked at all.
You stick with the same Core 4, with, you know,
the Cassidy Symmetra, classic little duo,
and the Kiri Lucio, I mean, extreme comfort picks,
poor twisted minds, and then just slotting in the Sigma,
slight adjustment to the play style,
you know, slowing the pace down just a little bit.
It's that kind of subtle shift in a team play,
that I think can be hard for teams to do is,
we saw it for Katsea, it was like,
they wanted to come into this and play all out aggression,
attack courts, attack UB on the Symmetra,
and keep them on their heels.
And when the comp shifted,
such that that wasn't such a good game plan anymore,
Katsea just couldn't keep up.
Yeah, I think that just goes to show like,
how much veterans are on this very team,
that again, doesn't really have a coach, right?
Their player-led UB is taking over a lot of that coaching
for Twisted Minds, so for them to not throw out the entire strapbook out of the window,
but just making those subtle shifts in their approach, just maybe a hero's book here or
there, that's enough to make it work because individually, I mean they're playing on a
different level, but Quartz is an end boss, like he's been popping off win or loss throughout
this stage as well, if you just set Quartz up for success, like you're good for Twisted
Minds.
Yeah, I mean they've used that you obviously have great success on the international stage as well
Right like quartz when we see if there would be the Cassidy or the soldier just looking like
You know great boss, right? We saw it especially. I think I know a net map number one today
Deed and speaking of the devil we do have quartz joining us voice only and
Hopefully is with us ports can hear us
Yeah, I can hear you guys.
Perfect!
Fords hello and congratulations on this very dominant 3-0 victory starting your salty lower bracket run.
Talk to us about the mentality heading into today's match because you're coming off of a reverse sweep from yesterday.
What did the team take away from that series heading into your do or die game today?
Yeah, I mean to be honest it wasn't that easy.
The last yesterday really affected us, but I think our team specifically has really good mental so we just thought that we should just stop thinking about the game, nothing we can change about the past, just think about tomorrow's game, and just go next.
That's what we did today.
Yeah, I mean you guys look refreshed today, you know, even with Katsiya, they brought incredible pace in this match, right?
Like the first two maps, it felt like they started really aggressive, really hot, clearly targeting you, right, with a lot of that aggression.
But you guys were able to really, I think, slow the game down and kind of get comfortable as the series developed.
So tell me about that process for you guys as a team.
I feel like we've always seen you guys to be really, really playing fast, you know, really, really aggressive,
and to, you know, maybe deal with a team that one ups you on that front and still getting the win.
Did you feel any pressure from that kind of, like, overwhelming Manga Vendetta style, or how was it for you on the hit-scan role?
Yeah, I have to say, that comp is really annoying to play against, especially for me.
There is no like any hits that is actually really good against it, it's just have to be a good team play.
At the beginning we were struggling against it, especially in scrims, but after voiding a lot and playing against it a lot,
I think we've managed to have our own playstyle against it, and just as you said, just slow the game down.
Whenever we see them coming, we just TP the other side, keep spamming, I think that's where our comp repels around.
around. Yeah, just give me time and I will eventually get a kid.
And that's the it's worked for a while now. So I expected to
keep on working courts. Tell me a little bit about what you be
and like how important like what he brings to the team and how
important he is because obviously, in some of your biggest
moments, whether it be in Tokyo or they're now coming in here in
stage two, you guys decide to bring him back into the lineup
again.
Yeah, yeah, I mean, playing with you, it might not like you guys
can't see it but for us when we play the game it's really easy for me to play the game
when I have a guy that calls everything in the game. He calls every ultimate what the
enemy team has, what the enemy team will do, so I just shut up and focus on my aim. It
makes me play better. Not that I'm saying that without Ubi we can't play but it sure
does make my game a lot easier, especially with the Sim. It can help the hits kind of
a lot, give me TPO off angles and stuff. So yeah, I think that a team plays much, much
better with Ubi since it leaves so much pressure on us with the IDLing and the alt-tracking
and what to do and when not to do stuff. So yeah, I like playing with you, of course.
I really love seeing you in action as well. Speaking of pressure that is released from you,
you are officially qualified for the midseason championship, so that kind of weight is off
of your backs. How motivated are you to come out on top of stage two here in the playoffs?
Like, are you super eager to take the EMEA crown again, or is that just a bonus at this point?
Of course, of course. Now I still always think about tuning, I know we've qualified and sure it does take a lot of pressure on us, I mean of us.
But I still think we can win, especially with our game yesterday. I think the top three teams are very close in skill, it's just very small details.
At the start of the stage when we played VP we didn't have enough scrim time or any idea what to play and how to do against these comps.
But now with time we've seen a lot of counters to their comp that they play and there's more opportunities to do stuff.
So I'm hopeful that we can play much better. Maybe we can win the stage as well. Yeah.
It's a good storyline to make that lower bracket run. So we're here for it.
Thank you so much for joining us for a quick chat and best of luck in your upcoming match.
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You know what, when VP is on the dock, they are feeding up in my room as well.
That's true.
in fact, with you at this current time. No, but listen, like, Virtus.Pro, obviously, like,
they've just been dominant. Like, no one seemed to be able to take it to them, make them sweat,
make them struggle, except for, like, those two maps they dropped against, could see it,
it was pretty much flawless thus far. So, they're really just looking at international
competition, because mechanically, strategically, they outclass EMEA.
I will just complicate that story a little bit, so because I think everything we've been hearing
about the scrimbox is that these three teams like maybe could see a little bit behind as we saw. I mean,
they just got double 3-0ed out of playoffs could happen, but Virtus.pro, DK and Twisted Minds,
I think they're all quite close in skill. So for VP, this is actually, you know, as good as the
stage has been as dominant as you have as much dominance really as you've shown through this
part of the year. It all comes down to this, you need to get this win right to lock up a number
that would feel like the only fitting finish given their level that we've been talking about.
But I think DK and Twisted Mind are going to put up a very serious fight given how developed meta is now.
Well, you know what? It's interesting, like all three of those teams, right?
Obviously VP in the off-season, they add Landon and Psycho, two really strong like in-game kind of like shop cars.
At the beginning, you're talking about Twisted Minds with J.U., right?
They kind of have to go back to UB because they need that as well.
And then in between stage one and two, GK brings in Kellex who's like really strong in that role as well, right?
So it feels like three teams and have like really kind of developed and try to lean into some more in-game shock ballers that
definitely pay it off in a big way.
I just feel for Bernice Perle, like there were not a lot of flaws of any on this way.
If anything, yesterday's match they looked even more dominant than they did during the group stage.
So like they have found their strike in this meta, especially like Kesse went nuts on Xiong.
like that was that was not pretty anymore. I think it went deathless on control there.
I'm about once it was it was nasty. They look like unfanable in every single role. Like I don't
feel like you can take anything out of the equation which really makes them struggle.
And the individual players just literally all play the best Overwatch they ever have in their
careers. It feels like ice gnome for me for Verna's pro is like really like leveled up.
Like, you know, maybe from last year to this year and like has really kind of obviously
stepped up his game to be, you know, one of the best, uh, no tanks in the world, right?
You know, it's kept can play a lot of different things in terms of like the damage dealers, but
really ice gnome being able to kind of play all these different tanks at an extremely high level
has really unlocked a lot for Verna's pro.
Really good. Now, GK also unlocked something within themselves yesterday because they pulled a reverse
we begin to suppose that mines in this on a day a little shocking because they fell flat on map one or map two
And then as we talked about before right alpha use which you go to that reaper suddenly like things get
Rolling and they start looking dominant like
What what did we take away from that match? Like what could they lean on from what they did yesterday?
When they go up against VP Jake, I'm curious if you kind of had the same
they send a bit about this team that I do.
But like, it feels like all of their players
are like some of the ones that are just like,
you know, hot or cold, right?
Like, you know, we've seen at any time
some of these players gonna turn up
and look like the best in the server.
And sometimes like some days they just like
don't seem to have it as much,
where it seems like that's the kind of team I think
DK is, where I think it could be hard for them to play
in like a regular season, where the playoffs
probably get the best out of them.
I think that could be true, but there's also so much pressure.
And we heard that from Kellex in the post-match interview
yesterday.
They do get through a very sweet, but it's
a matter of getting their fundamentals, just solid,
just playing Overwatch and kind of calming down.
So for Virtus.Pro, I think they're
going to probably come into this with the edge.
It feels like there's been no consistency issues
with that team.
But to your point, if you have a strong day from Labda,
from Alpie, they're able to find those moments
to punish the opposition.
If they can really hold a candle to Kevster
and Psycho, which is a tall order considering the way
that VPS2 is playing this stage.
There is still absolutely the win condition for DK.
And from the Scrimbox, they have been able
to be competitive here.
I see, I don't care about Scrimbox.
It's all about game day.
And that's when VP was showing up,
whereas DK had more inconsistencies there.
Like the individuals show up one day
and they're not on the other.
They all need to show up today at the same time.
I think that's where they issue lies for DK
because half the team sometimes doesn't,
the rest might not. So for me, prediction-wise, VP is the clear favorite here. There's absolutely
no reason to predict against them, like none at all.
Yeah, they haven't really shown us much weakness of any kind. I do think there'll be some
competition here, maybe more than yesterday, but he got to give this to Virtus Pro. It's
been their stage, it's still their stage to lose, and I think I'd be surprised to see
them going home with anything but the one seed here.
I mean vertus pro has been dominant right throughout the stage, so no surprise in terms of my prediction there
Although I do like DK. I think they can make this pretty close VP is just improving way too much so far
Yeah, having the it's gonna be not bad before DK. Let's see if they can get it done here now winner bracket a final guys
Please take it away
Thank you so much, so Ian
It'll be Ilios VP very much a comfortable map type for them a place where their flexibility feels especially valuable
I mean we've seen them play the wrecking ball the diva the sigma they have so many different looks he can say
No bastion
That's sort of surprising to me Lucio as the open we really don't see that especially on Ilios very often
Yeah, interesting. Then the Bastion ban. So I mean, was the Lucio ban a protect maybe
Jepekka? Yeah, I guess so. I guess. I'm still surprised that it's not like another support
that's more relevant, but maybe they're worried about some of these comps that just like run
you over, jump on the point, try to end the fight super quick. But with Juno in the pool,
the Lucio ban just hasn't felt as impactful as it once did.
Yeah, it's because yeah, I mean Juno is definitely a pretty viable right now overall so
Interesting it seems like a you know and then the the Bastion band on the other side
That's kind of what like leads me to believe that like
They're kind of telling that they're trying to play like kept Bastion by banning the Lucio to kind of protect
The cat and then they just get rid of the Bastion on the other side, right?
So one thing we have seen though is is an increase in people just playing the cat without Bastion Felix hovering it now
It's not actually completely crazy
Pretty odd comp from them though. Okay, they're gonna be some my second
I do the cat does like a decent amount of damage. I think like the you know, obviously can hit the combine with the fashion
That's where the annoyance comes from a lot
But also like the cat just kind of getting in your backland just being like such a slippery park at the head
It's a chain. Yeah, we got a poor tracer. I mean kester's gonna be so free here
He's gonna teleport around up to the high ground as to come back and join the main group UK
Staying healthy relatively but they're kind of caught in the corner a lot of
space control right now by Virtus Pro. Playing this high ground position with a
lot of comfort the chain comes in the rock to follows yawn out of the suit
already. Kepster though getting attacked getting assaulted lab that is gonna be
able to find that counter kill so some very mistake I think from the VP
sports not able to keep Kepster out they should still be able to clutch this
without with point control with. Aiznom running relatively rampant on the server but the
pickups keep coming the mobility game being played for faction and Virtus
Profile himself bunkering down in the corner an uncomfortable spot here even with that first-point control
You see Kellix like off to the side putting down some pressure on to I know a few different players ends up taking out fix us
So it will be DK moving up on to the point
I like the swap away from the D.Va like playing the D.Va into the Sigma Zooty
It's like me you saw right there easy odd just kind of barrels and face first is dead within seconds
So love the switch over to the Sigma you see yeah, it looks like a
And Alphie and Kellex kind of playing off on a playing step.
Takes a lot of heal from the AoE right now, though, providing powerful support in this moment.
The frontline just gets bowled over, dealing with the backline threats.
Well, Kellex finds a nice parting kill onto Kevster.
And the Cassidy, I mean, is under assault, frankly, in this composition, but for the GK, a pick-off here and there isn't really enough, right?
Like, that's almost expected.
VP are gonna do so much better damage in the front line with this Symmetra that DK need like a decisive route of the backliners
Maybe Kalex with the Jetpack Cat ult can provide some of that, but Tracer's already recalled out
Maybe a slower play here
And that comes in to me to pull Seagrap out. He's got flight though. He's gonna be fine
Yeah, and he's gonna help the Flux as well. Picks up Ziad, just gonna be slam to the floor
The Kles does block the follow-up damage to rush to play it on the point, but the chain means
Leon can't quite get back around the shield.
Shian Ultimae is out, but it's cleaned up with a nice accretion.
Aizan reads that play well.
Vixen, getting low on the point of playing the shield has that aura fully maxed.
Those heals are insane, especially with land in around.
And DK from the players alive, but they're just ready for the hills trying to stay alive.
And Alfie, oh, he can't go down here.
He's the overtime touch for the squad.
Now Kalex is going to be over to the Mizuki as well, right?
So the kind of fun jetpack cat stuff is over is that he's playing a little bit safer here around the yacht
Is that they've done a nice job of just kind of barreling him over the floor?
Oh, I'll be back in a huge rail shot. Yeah, it was big. It wasn't enough to sanctuary providing so much value
And I mean this this round looks to be over
Copy has to get some kind of a crazy OT touch to the back line now being pressure and Eisenham wants to take the fight to the opposition
Get some kills with the OT in an instant first from fix a great find off the chain
And with a symbol deployed on the point at this one is hopeless now VP
Making mincemeat of the opposition thus far the odd is back on the Doomfist, but you know when they're on Doomfist and OT
You're not long for this world and it's exactly the case here fix it. It's just the easiest with these chains man
He does not seem to miss
Yeah, the the Mizuki chain right it's like obviously we talked about how good it is against Eva
It's like I did the hitbox on like it's like pretty pretty generous
I would say in terms of like where you can hit players and you see fixer there
Just telling every target that came near me was able to hit with a chain
So that's how they're able to kind of free
Isenal from the catnap that comes through from Kellex and I know it's the flux that comes right after so
Essentially, they use the flux to kind of fly the nice accretion there taking out the sheen during the spray is
That this is a bite where I thought it was kind of interesting
The audience up trying to go for the flux there to lift them up, doesn't actually get anything with it.
But I started off with Lab to get a big railgun shot doing some serious damage.
It's just a poor cop selection from GK on that map.
I mean, Sigma has been really dominant there for a long time.
The cat without Bastion just doesn't seem nearly as impactful.
GK, now it's their turn.
Well, now you're going to see it on the other side.
But on this map, I actually think it's the opposite story.
This is a map where the mobility is so much more valuable, it's so hard for Sigma to play a true linear game.
And although as I say that, Aiznum is found.
Maybe chained or caught by an accretion, but whatever's the case,
he's gonna have to get taxied back to spawn, try to get a swap off.
But that should be point control for DK, which is, I think, the hardest thing
with the Sigma Comprite is taking control.
So a big mistake from Aiznum, I think it's fair to say, right?
To lose his team that first fight.
They will all stay alive and keep a bit of point control.
Aiznum on the signature hazard.
This is one we don't get to see opted from him, but he is immaculate on it,
already getting some good connections in the support belt.
White good to keep Ziad healthy.
TP up to the high ground now, puts Lab down in position to get some of these off-angle kills.
He needs to provide something here.
The dive is going to be coming in sooner rather than later for BFs.
After on this, Shion can hit the flight.
Here comes Aizadom up in the front line.
Teleporter trying to get players out of the pick of the fight though.
Accomplished that for now, but it leaves players vulnerable here on the point.
And Aizadom, making making of the opposition here.
The Jagged Wall crushing through this Sigma and it's a clean 5-0 sweep by 4-Virtus Pro.
I mean that's really just one long fight now. I mean get a little bit of cap time for GK
But this is why I'm really worried for them that is this retake is really challenging on this map for Sigma
It's so difficult just to get to the point and actually have some semblance of cooldowns to fight with
Right, and you're relying on the sim tp, but even then like the amount of poke damage that's gonna come through
It'll be quite nasty to deal with so the tp comes down. They try and bait it there. They walk up past it
Yeah, Pulse Bomb dropped there, a lot in the TP, so you can't get anything, it doesn't come up with much, but it's going to be really difficult to get behind.
The point does flip, but you end up losing the Cassie, it's a large source of damage, which now feels like Icyone can play as a Gorsuch.
Oh, sick Jagged Wall right on the TP, so they can't properly use it, and even the Rush comes out, so I think those three is going to put a quick end to this.
to this the odd getting a nice little bit of extra stall though alongside the
character to add up a bit of extra cap time so decently profitable engagement
from an economy perspective for DK and they are building towards the sanctuary
the sim long and these are the types of tools that could maybe change the
difficulty of getting to this control point right and being able to actually
just fight on it for this program to maybe prevent some of these walk-ups
from happening yeah it's gonna be tough though right I mean catnap available
here for fix up. Psycho is just giving him so much information here just kind of scouting
in the back line. That's going to be TP from Kiri already. They're going to TP now back
over to the point here with the Sim. That's going to be the sanctuary here. Drops it right
on top of Lada. They're making them giving up the point here. That's a huge catnap. Great
fine. Takes the Sim off the map and the rest of the team is not far behind. Heisman will
go down. Tanks a lot of the aggression in that trade's yacht. Still relatively healthy.
playing the Sumimole, but Kiriko being targeted down first,
getting rid of that sustain.
Now, Sigma to be focused fired,
and this time VP don't give up point control.
Crucial little detail,
but it makes the world of difference.
EK now, it's gonna be a full swap here over to a dive mirror
in desperation trying to get this last retouch.
Alphie already getting marked though.
A cat, D.Va over the top though,
that should be a pretty sick way to touch for OT.
I don't think Cycle's gonna expect that one,
as D.Va should be able to keep this one rolling.
Down to the deathmatch fight.
Cycle with the pulse bomb though,
A stick here more than likely seals the deal on map 1 for VP.
Yeah, probably looking for the D.Va if anything is...
I still don't know if he has one player trying to track down there on the hazard, but...
Kev takes out Kelly, Kelly's just kind of flying in no man's land, they end up losing...
...Alpha E as well as...
This looks like VP just kind of...
...serting their dominance still across E and the A.
It's too easy odd trying to get out of dodge, not able to...
get away from the screen whatsoever, so
Virtus.Pro is dominant as ever there in map number one.
Yeah, I do just way better comp selections from VP.
You know, it's ironic that they play opposite matchups
on the first two control points, but to me
it shouldn't be surprising. I mean, Ruins is a really solid single map.
Like, it has been pretty much this in, like, this
for what, months? People have been playing Ximia here. I don't think you should be surprised by that whatsoever.
The cat on the foot.
Yeah, that's crazy.
Okay, deathless for Lair. I didn't even realize that.
That's pretty insane here on the Kerakoff.
I mean, he sticks around.
I mean, that's really, I think, you know,
this, the calling card of the backline.
And it really speaks to how dangerous this VP squad is
as they have been assembled here today, because
I don't think there's a more stable backline in the world
between both Fixa and Lair.
And I think of them both as players who are incredibly hard to kill,
like who are really sick of playing their lives.
And then you add on to that two incredibly veteran DPS who know how to use those opportunities without ever doing too much.
And then Aizadon is the X Factor, right? The young gun flexing to anything his team needs.
And being, I think, one of the best players in the world at being, like, you can't define this guy right now.
Like, what is his best hero? I don't even know this guy.
I actually, I mean, when you think about, like, okay, so if you're including, like, last year, like, you know, they kind of picked him up, right?
Hazard became meta last year like hazard was really kind of like the go-to for him
But at this point, I mean we rarely see has for that much in play, right?
So it's like it's pretty difficult
almost reminds you of
Someone in the sense that like really good at all the tanks could be like top four top five and all of them
But like you wouldn't necessarily say someone was like the absolute best in the world like one specific tank
At least like I think I think I snowm is like kind of in that territory where like
Really strong at all of them across the board
You know, maybe just like a yeah like not like you know
He doesn't have that one hero that you're like, oh best in the world at X or y so but that's kind of where he's at
But maybe it's the hazard though. Honestly if I were building a team
That's exactly what I would want right is somebody who just keeps all the options in play and that's been I think something that the
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Curious to see what this means.
I mean, GK have had time to prep for this match,
so this is the opportunity to show what you've come out
with and to bring in a map that is fresh into the pool
is a good way to maybe disrupt VP's comfort.
Well, and these teams, they talk about, like, they scrim each
other, right?
So maybe they kind of see something on the Colosseum
where it'll be GK picking the map
and then they'll defer Bans.
So the soldier is the first fan here from Verus Pro
and then on the flip side,
it is a Maga Band that comes out from GK.
So the soldier looked really strong in the hands of Latha.
And I see you can go capture more and more
kind of going over towards the Sheon in the Cassidy now.
So pretty impactful band to give up first here
Your GK.
It is, it is, but I think GK mitigates the worst of it
by banning out the Moga.
I mean, that's what I think when Sojourn's banned,
that's where you would feel really exposed against Moga
because you're like, OK, how do we punish this Moga anymore?
The Moga she on like Sojourn has been the answer
to that question and you take that away.
You could be in real trouble.
So I think they're very smart to target it here.
But oh, I would love a wrecking ball here from British Pro.
May not get it.
It may we may just default.
Actually, now that I say that, it's
just as to become a Signapoke Mirror, which I think is exactly something that VP want,
you know, given their performance as of late on this conflict.
This is what they dominated the entire stage with to go 5-0.
For the most part, it was the Sigma-Zuki.
Capsuture on the Shion able to add some complication, some aggression into that mix,
and Psycho's also been pretty comfortable on the Symmetra.
We'll see if Lavda though, on the Cassidy, has an opportunity to maybe do a little bit of extra damage in the front line.
Shion known for her aggression can sometimes feel awkward though in the pure foe comp
It does feel like though. I mean she on I think we've known that like she's really strong since obviously coming into the game and some
Adjustments recently, but we're kept the kind of put away the Cassidy to play this she on
I think gives you an idea probably how strong it is because Kev was like
Really on fire for the last few weeks playing the Cassidy so
Yeah, I get quite aggressive here behind fixes
He's just gonna play on that off angle, put him down to damage.
He's getting to the back line lab though, what a deep move, almost finds Landon and actually
will get the final shot connected.
Bitsa should be able to clean that one up but the damage is done.
Wonton aggression there from Alpy and Lab then it pays off and really just catches Virtus
for off guard.
I think Landon was just, he just couldn't believe his eyes.
There's a Cassidy solo in my back line.
No, he drops the suit right on himself as soon as it comes on through.
I think he was generally shocked that Labda alone picks the TP all the way on through.
That's a bother, like him or the hinder.
You gotta respect that. That's a wild move, and I love it. I love it.
Not gonna do too much damage in terms of card progress, still the ultimate game in relatively
even contests with enough of the players from Virtus.Pro staying alive to hold this position,
but DK will progress to this next corner.
He's a really fast rush.
He is a fast rush.
Landed far behind on this. Here comes the rush advantage.
Labda catches off Fixa. A big lead potentially developing here if you can get a nice clean up teamfight.
Tp away though keeps Aiznop alive and healthy up on the high ground, but it's not necessarily an easy retreat.
A rock on the Ziyad though. A little bit of counter pressure back the other way.
Still, Tarkas used to roll forward.
Watch this out now. From Ziyad wants to continue this tempo lead.
Watch is gonna slam down on Aiznop. Fin finds Cycle in the meantime.
There's even a dead eye up, making this awkward outfit he is going to tank to a fight for Labd.
I think unintentionally in that moment, double sanctuary, laid on top of one another.
This is turning into an all out brawl, but Jigsaw, finding that late kill on the bin,
makes all the difference in the world.
He's playing so nicely here on this Mizuki.
The piece of porch, 4 Virtus.Pro staying alive so deep into the fight,
he creates the opportunity for Kevser to attempt the cleanup,
but the Shion Ultimate comes to not now land, and it's his turn to take out aggressive nice fight in.
But Ziad's here ready to mark it.
Same story for Psycho, who gets run down in DK, deathmatching well here in the mirror.
Yeah, and I mean, Kellex doing a great job stinging the line that entire time,
but just great use of the kinetic grass there from Ziad to kind of keep labbed up as there was a lot of pressure.
On to him is Kepster gonna move away from the Shea now going over to the Cassidy to get us into a near matchup.
I like the Cassidy here. I think it's just a little bit better.
that are, to mention, a hit scan so valuable in the signature.
Luntar is trying to get his flank,
and he's got a big symbol up the gut,
responding to by Alphie, so that's gonna slow things down,
and I'd love to position me in this wall from Alphie.
Let's the card just march on forwards.
Yad with another bluffs, could try to push this tempo.
Dixie finds a chain kill, go on to Finn,
which makes things so awkward, so scary to commit
into a fight that you would have loved to snowball
through the map, BP finding some purchase.
Now on policy, he's starting to slow the ball with PK.
They want a nice clean, clean up fight,
Not giving any kills back the other way and maybe they'll do just that.
VP stay healthy, build a nice bank of ultimates and again it's Fixxah.
The opening kill on Mizuki.
I mean we think about Mizuki in terms of the defensive utility,
the ability to keep people sustained with that AoE heal,
but Fixxah is making play. He is finding opening picks.
I mean the slight adjustment recently with the TP that gives it a little bit of extra time,
it's just turned into a loopy into like a hot thing to power out.
It's gonna be...
It's gonna be...
It's gonna blow sides.
It's as...
This could be a meatball of slugs.
It's gonna be a...
It's gonna be a one-fix it and end up on the ground.
Just...
Ziyad flies up to the skybox, deals with him.
Ziyad...
Or...
In the fight...
That's a sanctuary and rush used there from VP as well.
And just when VP starts to get some momentum back in the map...
Ziyad denies it and...
I mean, that's painful.
Like, this was a big fight back that should have put you back in the driver's seat here on Coliseo,
or at least in contests.
Ziad is absolutely smoking the opposition.
CFI's done confined as much with the Flux,
which gave them rock too close for comfort.
But defensively, Kaelix with a Sanctuary,
I mean, you're not really worried about this
target you used to march.
Alpha E goes down.
Kevster forks into a desperation flank,
but slowed down by the Sim teleport.
It's awkward.
Labna, on the other hand, is deep in the thick of this fight.
Chain is going to slow Ziad down,
stop him from getting through the shield,
but not enough to stop him or get him off the server here.
Alpha E and Kaelix, two kills apiece
East clean up that one, and this is what I think is scary about this like DK team like
Laptop and LB is like a DPS duo is like
Incredibly talented like it just gonna like if they show up and get hot on the day
Okay, we come to it. I can't win a widow headshot. That's probably the first we've had a widow kill and you know
OWCS this year. It's been a long time
Ain't nobody play widow no more
But how loud though they're still gonna fight this one out they still have some scary open heads and like sit on this corner
I don't know great. I'm trying to push through that
British or gonna be forced in that old a big connection from eyes on the spam around the corner really nice and desperation counterkills coming in
I'll be fine's cab, but see if they can get a second no good shields from eyes done tonight any more follow-ups
But I'm at 125 meters. You've done enough as geeky. You don't throw any bad ultimates into that fight
He's like you can be more than half way through the game, too. Yeah
Yeah, I mean, you know, you've kind of gotten it halfway through the game
You're also in a pretty good cycle with DK in terms of like your support ultimates, right?
Like if VP decides to use some here, you have the sim wall, you have that flux to be able to use,
you'll kind of have an advantage coming into that next fight.
So, you hear some quick fixes, POV, kind of get quite aggressive here on an off angle.
Like, nice sanctuary there that comes in. It's going to be the flux from Ziyad.
Just doesn't put enough damage on to finish anybody off.
Yeah, the sim wall is actually what protects them while they're up in the air.
The sanctuary, of course, not able to have too much effect.
Labda looking from the outside trying to find angles into this fight in finding fix up
Labda finds a second in, oh let's just turn on the eyes of them as well and Matt this is starting to go hopeless
That was a big ult from VP they throw double support flux into the fight
Ziad stands tall, DK still hold on to the economy advantage, and I mean Matt too is certainly looking like an equalizer right now
As I kill him with sanctuary as well
Now, it doesn't feel like he's playing as often to focus as maybe Fixie is, right?
But an opportunity to kind of give themselves another opportunity, you know, a huge lead
here, right?
You know, you use the Sanctuary, you get the payload, you go into the other team's territory,
it's going to be dead-eye here, nice.
Oh, Kev's for the way, it's inside of it!
Yeah, TP inside of the Sanctuary, finds three in the chaos.
DK just weren't ready for that, the early channel from Kev
Shades of Twisted Minds there, dancing on the teleporter from Psycho
And that is the first chance down, Virtus.Pro Ham to put some damage down on the other side of the map
Pelix, oh interesting, okay just speeding out of the spawn
Yeah, yeah, okay
Zyanda with another flux coming out, I mean he, we gotta see the stats of somebody
He is, he's dominating on C
He must have some disgusting damage number right now
Yeah, it's uh, feels like every single fight we kick off, he's got a flux
Fin also has had a really good game here with another Katsune Rush or GK, so those two players have a phenomenal game.
How aggressive, how nice job actually trying to block all the bottom blocks that he can.
Well, that is sick there from Ziad. So clean from Ziad. He's really taking this game over.
I was battling back in the damage duel, but GK just have a vice grip here on Coliseo, and they are not giving up whatsoever.
You see the damage chat.
I mean, he is doubling up his next teammate almost.
It's lab at almost 8k, but more than what?
Spent 50, 60% more damage from Ziad.
I mean, Aiznab has been, I think,
the best statistical signal player so far at this stage,
but Ziad is even gapping him here, just taking over here.
And it's interesting, Sigma has become
something of a calling card for him.
Think about the reverse sweep yesterday.
He's coming into this series with incredible confidence,
incredible individual ability.
Here comes the Fluxes out, but now Ice Dom shuts it down, some Overconfident should see out a little bit.
Two post-range, Kevster finds a kill in the chaos, and with the rush down, the rest of the team soon to follow.
DK, such a strong Colosseum for them, but a moment of weakness, and finally, for what feels like the first time,
Virtus Pro are going to go to enemy territory with an economy advantage.
They have to get something off of these next two fights, right, and maybe have to go on the clock.
Also an interesting note, between the Mizuki's,
Telex going with like the Remedy aura, Earthquake actually fixed it going for the one that actually gives more damage to Chain Target.
So fixed it playing quite aggressive. It's gonna be the Sim wall blocks all the damage from that dead eye.
So that's gonna give them some extra space, EK though, an opportunity for their own Sanctuary and Sim wall here right underneath this objective.
That's it, looks like the Fire Sanctuary is gonna be barely staying alive.
Oh, the Sanctuary just a little bit too late now, Capture. Working in off angle as he's known to do, so looking through that Sim wall,
Binds the headshot to finish off Ziad, now swings deep in the angle, wants to get this clean up fight
and the headshot will deny the counter kill from land, the crucial to stay alive when the snowball is at issue.
And with the ultimates all traded off, we're down to what seems like an overtime push, but they're still so far to go Matt.
It's crazy that they're only half way home with, I mean, what, two minimum overtime fights to go and Finn with rush.
Well, that's why I think you're gonna see like
The odd step up take some damage right you're gonna allow Finn to basically get all this healing off of the tank and
This casuing rush and maybe just wait till I'm here, but can't find Kellex
Oh, but it's traded right back that mitigates at all Finn finds another in Natalie it man
Virtus Pro should just be following out of this one. It's gonna be a nice slow and steady push forward for DK
They know they don't have to rush anything rush to be played right on the payload
No chance to back down from this.
Aizan has to just base take it right up front.
Does put a good lockdown, but timing the S.I.M.
just does too much inside of that Katsune rush.
And Murtis Pro showing some admirable fight back
in the overtime, but it's not enough.
GK developed a monster lead early
and ride it all the way home.
Great individualism from them.
We got to see a little bit of, you know, strategic diversity
even in the mirror match.
But Perkevster, to be forced off of the Sheehan,
certainly feels good for Lapid.
Yes, we take a look at some of the stats, the odd with 15k damage is absolutely farming there on the SIG, and then you look, I mean, you know, some decent damage down from Fist on the other side.
I was talking about that kind of like difference in perks, right, loses out in terms of healing, right, but that like extra, I think it's like 10 or 15%, maybe if you 20% damage on those chain targets, resulting in some little extra damage that comes on through.
but it looked really good, Matt played from Geek K.
And you know, we talked to Smash the other day,
he was talking about how like these teams
really kind of playing all the same stuff at the moment.
Then you can see why some people are pretty high on Geek K
because they are more than able to hang.
Yeah, Eisenhower's the eye going band for band on the Sigma.
I'm like, okay, I'm here for this matchup.
This is truly world-class Sigma performances from both sides.
DPS also finding big moments.
I love it.
Fixed soaks the rock for Capster
who teleports mid high noon and keeps it rolling by 180 during the high noon shots.
That is true expert play here on the Cassidy.
You don't see that every day.
That was a sick TP block there from Ziad.
That was a body block here.
Yeah, sees the TP comes up, walks up,
the creeps hits an Isome within a Cretian
and then just stands right on top of the TP, doesn't let him go on through it.
Really sick stuff.
It's hard to do something to Ziad.
You need to be like past the TP in exactly the right angle.
The hitbox to take the TP is actually pretty significant like it's pretty wide. It's easy to
You know, it's not something how to body like I don't think I've ever seen before actually body
But I'm gonna be off of the teleport so
Levels to this game right now as we see a Sigma mirror, which was the stronghold for Virtus Pro now cracked by
GK even in the series one-to-one and that I haven't feeling we're going to five in this
This definitely seems like it's gonna be a very close series that GK
I just pretty high on them like at the beginning like of the stage and then I think I kind of was like
I just didn't think like this disappointing results. Yeah, it's some really disappointing like not just disappointing results
Like they just looked really poor
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I think VP would be fine with that right but like how we just saw the Sigma head to head that allows circuit to potentially be picked a little bit later in the series so I'll keep an eye on that is it'll be VP deferring the band over to GK here early on.
It'll be VP deferring the band over to GK here early on.
VP has been, I think, one of the biggest teams to go for these deferred bands.
It feels like because they're such a chameleon squad and they're willing to play whatever,
they don't really care what gets banned.
They're just always going to ensure that the responsive band, you know,
blocks any kind of crazy weird Gs from coming out.
And so, with Shion out, they're going to respond by banning the Kiri,
which interesting Kiri ban for this map.
It opens up some unique possibilities on Hollywood.
I mean, the Ana feels a little too crazy,
but I think May could certainly get a look here.
Yeah, I'm curious what the support line
will end up being, right?
You know, I wouldn't say this is like an Alari map, right?
Like, you know, Circuit obviously is a great map for Alari.
Like, banning the Kiri, are we looking?
I mean, you could play the Ana, right?
Ana, Winston, died.
No, no, no, that's not it.
That's me. Let's be so you're alright. Let's me
I'll take it some liberties
You thought they were gonna play maybe like a maga, right? I mean getting rid of the curian playing Samana is viable, but like
Yeah, it'll be a curious right because landing is so good
It also was an image just like go back and maybe just play like you know, I wonder about
You just want to play like you never played back to end. No Zen is too crazy. I take that back immediately as I say it
the chance man
No, no, no, no, that's too crazy. It's too crazy. I
Don't even I'm completely hating. Okay, maybe this bad. Mizuki. I okay think about this bad. Mizuki is probably
Pretty insane at dealing with chat-cat-cat if I mean British for I doubt this is what they're gonna play
You know, but there's a that's an option to play
You know sort of a cat-bashing look especially on first attack. I think we're cat 76 right now
Yeah
76 has a hundred percent win rate right now man. Just just soak that in just soak that in
76 would have to like turn his gun into like the actual AC 130 from auto warfare
What are they? How do they make 76? I think 76 needs one tracer blink. All right, just one tracer blink
Yeah on a regular tracer blink cool down. Just give them a give them score streaks like black ops, too
Yeah, that's safe.
That's going in RC cars and stuff, it'll be wild.
He's going to get in front of a missile.
It's more streaks for 76, big tap.
So it'll just be like a, yeah, it'll be bat music.
It'll be the back line here with the sick man play.
I kind of like this person.
PK.
I was going to say I like it from VP.
I mean, I think Landon loves bat, though.
Like he is just that bat.
See if he can get his team through this choke line.
It's a difficult choke to break.
A lot of damage coming in, but Landon
able to do a lot of healing as well, but Labda still finds Kevster.
Great, aggressive posture here, but the defenders don't give up any ground whatsoever.
It's yawed the low, hold on, charges a little bit too deep past the sigma shield, and there's
still a fight to be had if Isom can desperately stay alive, but Clank now surrounded by Symmetra,
by Mizuki Land, and the last member alive just eventually cut down.
The code hold from GK is, I mean, Labda finding a counter kill on Kevster, but how Kevster's
been playing so far this year is definitely a statement for Labda, he's at 75%, I mean,
rips up pretty quick, dead isle. The Landon has a very fast window, which could be problematic.
Yeah, I was saying I like this for DK because it's like, it kind of resembles the exact same
playstyle that we just had the last now. Oh, TP map flip. Yeah, nice TP up to the high ground here, some
sim hurts, you know, the turner. DK from pushing right on in as this is now a little bit awkward for
DK on the defensive side. And they waste no time. DK swarming in, putting a little bit of damage
down following up with more through the window now it's yacht runs through
capture might be traded out again but no the supports are there this time they're
gonna keep the Sigma alive and healthy and the punishment from GK I mean
Virtus Pro they've gone for two pretty quick decisive moves and each time it's
been batted down with relative ease right GK get a little bit of damage in
the poke is good and they waste no time they just send it they just swam through
the backline oh they might make a fast move here opportunity to go with the
Maybe the application matrix, putting a lot of pressure on forcing maybe some, I think that's MTP that responses it right again.
Oh here comes another one, the re-peak with the window. I don't think people are ready for it. The instant burst kills come out.
Flux even thrown in from IceDom. I mean he can't be aggression here, he's ridiculous. This Sigma comp, he's a stronghold for them now.
Yeah, I mean, VP have to be starting to sweat.
They have had zero positive opportunities
in two and a half minutes here on Hollywood.
No, I mean, that was their flux as well, right?
If you wanted to, you could play quite aggressive yet again.
You're going to be a TP across.
It's actually hit with the accretion, so it's interrupted.
Like this forward TP, sanctuary,
can also be good with the flux.
Pick players out of it.
So you have to get another head slam.
This time, can't, but doesn't need it.
Still gets the finish on Psycho.
Fin, cool assistant, Dean up, Kat.
I mean, consistently, VP finds like one trade here or there,
but the rest of the team, just forming into such a phalanx,
Fin and Kellix, unkillable, sustaining through this
backline fight.
And for the first time on this map,
there's an ultimate advantage, but it's a dead eye
for the attackers.
Like, is that enough?
I mean, we've seen something before from Kat.
Maybe you can show us it again, especially with these
Sidwalls to buy time for that channel to start to build up.
You're gonna get an amniatrix here for Finn as well, same wall for both teams here too.
Big channel.
He's got a lot of channels.
You cannot repeat this.
You have to just full hide, give him some ticks up.
They're trying to punish players on the road.
High ground angle is nice.
This is a very claustrophobic spot for DK.
Teleporting the point is a Svetro, but she's flying to hit from all sides.
And it'll be Psycho, with a better position here on the back of the point.
playing behind the Sim wall.
Clutch comes in, it's good, but still...
Metacraft available here, lays back to the shield,
including Flux here, and that shouldn't be enough
to seal this offense.
Lather will hold on, the drone's still available.
It's fantastic.
The Lion fighting, diving into the backline,
Eisenhower's desperate for kills.
Flux is gonna slay him up on the high ground,
but Finn can still get the finish.
Psycho cooking away on the point with the echo land is behind.
Tracer now has to hit this clutch, but Finn is so low.
Psycho with three, fully torqued up on the Sim,
but it is a matter of inches,
even multiple players here dropping below 50 HP as Virtus.pro get the clutch.
Way too close for comfort, they will make it to the streets.
Yes, and now it'll be out for you. Going back over to Sim here is, you see IceNoma already,
they want to kind of control this high ground, right? As you get the rest of the team TP'd up here
or VP, it's just Z hot at the moment. Now everybody following up here for DK is,
want to try and fight for this high ground, kind of bully them off of it, which they do here for
at the moment yeah I can be scary yeah I'm gonna drop down start to testing this
point create some complications from her to throw a thing bunker into the low
ground it comes to keep people up to the high ground early dead I channel the
TV right back down lower lambda in a drop and chase as the drone broken by
zion heads up focus bar from the tank player and with that double kill to start
things off surely it's gonna be all DK in the feed here even Kev I see behind
enemy lines where is texture right there is I think they think there is one
player live yeah they're there for cat he may be in the defenders first one I
believe unless I'm completely wrong maybe you just got out okay yeah from the
hallway they were looking for they got now yeah because they were looking like
the in the back they were pinging as well so they're a little confused there
shoes so vertus pronoun dude we're already at a minute I mean this is really
rough like a plank from this low ground position
trying to buy some space is going to be
DK-D0 jumping down with an A-Matrix in the sanctuary of their own
trying to fight them.
What is happening?
Vendigar in Sanctuary.
The Deadeye just hits onto Alphie who has the drone to stay alive.
God, he goes down in the chaos.
Finally, the attacker is getting better purchase on a fight.
Finn finds a helicopter onto Aizadon without the tank.
It won't be easy.
They need to finish this fight cleanly.
Teleporting around is Alphie staying healthy
and farming up another symbol for the next fight.
But eventually VP get the job done.
done and an opportunity now to snowball through second point it's been a really
tough Hollywood so far but I give them the advantage here for this recon test
you can have to come out of some tough jokes you'll have a flux for both sides
as well coming out of here and say like this position that I know was taking
right up on that high ground you have a kind of constantly poke nice accretion
connects on the lives of air but no follow-up is he's kind of have to play
from this low ground, it'll be Symbol, ooh.
Double Symbol, kinda like take the graph there, yeah.
Watch could be deadly, they're all cocking it,
could have Symbol protect them long enough.
The stun though is good, Eisenham saved his team
from a huge watch connected by Ziobin,
making it just won't be enough.
Cycle doing his best to push without being ahead
on the beam charge, leaving through this opposition.
And DK, are gonna make the hole here
at the end of second point.
That was dangerous, the close of Eisenham
hitting that accretion, canceling the plug.
I thought maybe VP would clutch their way through it, but Althea just gets torqued up and
Still a very strong map so far from DK, but Virtus.pro do just enough to where this feels very winnable for them, too
And that was like
Three or four player flux that he would have hit there
I mean that would have been massive as we take a look here from Ice Noem
You know, that is like so difficult with both of those sim walls coming down
He had just used his own flux kind of floating down to the low ground and he's very difficult
for ice to be able to make that play doesn't result in a fight win but still
pretty impressive stuff man that first point defense oh my god I mean he's
tearing through him I mostly eyes on is doing incredible to keep up
statistically when I mean you lost so many team fights there on the offense
like you just got cleaned up more often than not for items is still be keeping
pace on damage is also really impressive I mean this is a clash of I think it's
fair to say the best sigmas in EMEA right now and on the comp where it really
counts right every mechanical moment charging up that flux just a little bit
quicker finding those key accretions I think the Sigma mirror is one of the
more explosive individual mirrors on the tank battle because if you find an
accretion on the enemy Sigma's flux it completely changes the tenor of the
fight even just stunning the Sigma out of the kinetic grasp so he actually goes
down it's like there's so many mind games to be played around those shields
such a difficult resource to manage.
DK, let's see how they approach this offense.
It was brutal for Virtus.pro,
see if they can give as good as they got here.
We'll see.
DK gonna continue to kind of play.
I was like, oh, maybe maybe they try and do something
different in terms of support line,
but they'll continue to kind of play
with the Bat Mizuki, so.
Already kind of giving up some space here in the choke
is VP, but I think that kind of,
when I set up maybe some play here with the Sim,
So, he is thinking around the corner, it'll be a same TP set up there from EK, they decide not to get it, it's gonna be the immortality field, he'll be already used there by Landon.
Right up and cut, big damage down cycle, needs to stay alive, but he drops first!
Smitra out of the fight, it's gonna be a struggle to keep up with the tank battle, IZDON just doesn't have the HP to keep rolling.
Yogg does get low, there's just a hair's chance for a clutch, because Yogg just keeps mining the kills, it's only the double support alive for VP.
They just lack the damage to clean up these kills, Alphie runs ramping and for all the fancy footwork that BT pulled out on their offense,
you can just run it down mid and it works, yeah?
I mean they just kind of pull those to them over and then get them to use that Immortality Field a little bit earlier,
and then Ziad is able to just kind of fight with them inside his and then just kind of continue to beam up with Alphie,
and eventually you're just going to kind of lose a war of attrition there if you're Virtus Pro,
So I couldn't have gone any better for DK on that first up into push is
You know, they just kind of walk in and up taking the point. So
DK at the moment not gonna TP up to the high ground. They're gonna play from low ground here starting off things
Trying to get as much payload progress as possible
Build into some kind of an ultimate. IZOM drops the rest of the team shortly behind him. The rock makes this TP awkward a little bit of
This commitment they are from DK, not together on the bush.
Now he's beaming down massively in this tiny room, but the supports behind are going to protect.
I's not allowed him to potentially clean this fight up. Still a couple stragglers left alive here.
Namely, Kela too, would love to be able to play his way out of this and back to his teammates off the spawn.
Skeptor finds Labda.
He's without the teleport, but the signal is back to just get him into the fight.
And VP, enough trades came down there.
Rades came down there, Rikiki are going to come back in and keep this for rolling, even
with that lab that's a little bit risky though to fight without the Cassidy, the early damage
is coming in.
As Riki's looking for more poke, they don't want to yield the high ground too easily, but
VP, it's a 10 ult fight.
This one, I think is going to be crucially decisive.
VP have to make a nice wall here.
This is going to get wild, it feels like as well, right?
Two sim walls, sanctuaries and matrix.
We'll see how it kind of plays out as VP has control of the high ground, Kempster just
dominates lab there.
So Yacht ends up using the flux. This will be dead eye.
This will amount of damage, but nothing you finish off.
It's going to be the immortality kill keeping people alive through that dead eye.
It's going to be now a flux used up to the high ground here by Ice.
Having not much damage up the back of it, still, Kellix goes down, and it may just be enough.
Psycho drop, Simblon for Althea.
Little bit updated now. Post flux fin on top of the hand matrix though.
Maybe you can find a kill on Zalanna, but he slips away into the back room.
And the Sanctuary from Fixa, a kill from Landon with his own window, it takes every single ultimate here, but Virtus.Pro make the whole.
GK might be alright with this though, they don't keep the ball rolling, but they do make some nice car progress, and they're coming in with a Sanctuary and a High Noon of their own.
VP with a dry bank, let's see how they choose to approach this fight.
I think that's where GK you have to be, you know, obviously we don't want to win that fight, right, but being able to kind of get them to expand all their ultimates, and then you walk away with the Sanctuary and Dead Eye.
can you gain some car progress there?
Just an overall net positive there for TK.
They'll kind of continue to play this low ground.
These hyperspears are a flair.
Dangerously low, yeah.
It actually gets taken out, so no ability to use the sanctuary there to try and keep him off.
Trying to keep you across, it's just too costly in terms of your overall HP.
That'll be another fight that Hortis Pro wins.
Aiznon with the hyperspears there, crushed them.
I mean, they were just decimated.
By the time they took the TK, everyone was down to half.
Zi-Aa was trying to keep the cart rolling, and then he's all isolated.
Aizan is free to just drop into creation, right into his back, get the follow-up from the team,
and that's a crucial fight when VB needed that kind of an individual play.
Now they've bridged the gap to some of their own ultimates.
Kellex, the Sentry isn't feeling as effective when you've got a dead-eye flux on the other side.
I think you can grab some of those players out.
A large amount of damage now, and on to Finn early on.
Well, this is a tough place to go.
Now let's figure out a way, yeah I don't know,
they've not figured out a way to break this high ground setup.
Oh, picked up light out of the sanctuary
and are not really able to get any value off the back of that.
Accretion is good, Labda,
stalled out just a little bit,
no one eyes on him, he's gonna finish that kill.
Veritas Pro, they're starting to get comfortable, Matt.
And you're starting to get more minutes now.
Four minutes off the clock at the moment, so.
We're down to like two fights for GK
and VP now have the big economy advantage.
this defender position is incredibly strong.
There are no free fight wins for Geeky,
especially I mean, Ant Matrix is almost impossible
to use in this situation.
There's just no good angles.
Maybe you can force that drop to cart
and get some big value.
It's gonna need to be a clutch TP out of Alpha Geek.
He goes up to the high ground,
hold on, they're trying to hold around the cycle.
The Kepster with the Deadeye,
the defensive tools just come out a little too late.
The Ant Matrix makes that Deadeye
feel so ridiculously fast.
Land in the Kepster combined to punish,
and when you hear the Deadeye right,
you're so used to there being,
You know, that expected amount of time before the Skull Channel comes in, before he shoots, but when Ammatrix comes out,
that time is halved and the reactions just aren't there for GK.
I kinda wanna see GK trying to take that position again though, right?
They haven't really been successful trying to like fight over here by the elevator and kinda force them back.
I think kinda TPing across to like more of the defensive side high ground is probably the route here, although it doesn't work in that fight.
So, see where they decide to take it.
They're going to bunker up here, but it's going to be the sanctuary used on the other side of things.
Ziad ends up going with a flux here, next to the few.
Simba, beautiful.
Keeps him alive through the flux.
The damage hold can't come in.
The trades though are coming thick and fast, but Finn drops and it's just Ziad now left the standard bear for the team.
Kepster doesn't want to risk a stall here.
Maybe it would have been a nice one.
Ziad does still miss the spawn wave.
Finn has to come up Juno.
Now Lucio is getting the double speed amp.
Maybe another Juno speed ring to send Ziad out just a little bit quicker, but it's so awkward.
You're desperately running back to the cart and into another Flux High Noon Alphie with the Simwall, though
They have just the right tool to keep this one winnable, but only just for DK's support
It's like DK, I mean a five minute time bank here moving into the second part of the map
Last fight territory, Simwall's gonna step up. Yes, Simwall though, does save him
They have to push past it, the cart moving through it. Painful VP knock contestant, he's beautiful here
Flux available for ice, now Cp's able to shove down these players on cart, he's biding his time for now
Now, he's trying his moment to strike, picks up the odds with the shield protected.
The amateurs behind, he shouldn't be okay, but no, they can't get there to be open.
It's the sanctuary at 99, and they don't reach the gap.
VP dig their heels in on Hollywood to go up to series 0.21 for them.
That was a sick map though.
I mean, VP just absolutely dominating on their second point defense there, just dominating
the high ground.
So they give up that first point rather quickly right? I mean five minutes plus in the time-bang for DK and not able to get it across the line as
I know Kevser really kind of taking control at high ground on the casting and then also
Psycho consistently able to kind of beam up on the sim and I some you were talking about the damage if you was put down right?
I mean take a look where you obviously had a great first half, but I some dominates on defense
Yeah, this is something we've seen from Heistam. He has such a good read on Hollywood about when to poke and prod from the high ground getting massive damage on any attackers.
And when he just senses that opportunity, smells just a little bit of weakness.
He dives in on top of you and is not scared to just turn the fight into a brawl, right?
To kind of flip the story of the mash from nice slow defensive poke into incredible aggression.
Lava also had some big moments here, but
Not like overall as a team for this problem. They just looked unbreakable on Hollywood. Yeah, it feels like you could have had 10 minutes
I don't know if you would have made it through
No, I agree. I mean they were that good and it felt like I mean, this is a this is such a tough walk up
You're not in this is you can't make this right. You're just what's up right into the me
I mean, it's like actually just loud as like winnable. So sad
That's just the kinetic grasp right on top you on Cassidy. You're like, I guess I guess I guess I deal with that again
Yeah, it's brutal. Oh
Yeah, close to a sanctuary, but you also would have had psycho at a hundred
You know percent HP there beamed up on sim fighting inside there, right? I don't think you really would have won much so
Hollywood off the table. This has been a very good series though between these two teams. It is back and forth
SKORG, DK what? So we have, I know, SKORG, right, left, you know, I mean, but SKORG,
Flashpoint, yeah.
The Flashpoint would be a huge change in the series. I wonder, I feel like DK probably
do want to keep playing SEGA. I mean, you won Call of C.O.
You play Circuit? Circuit's kind of a classic. Can't go wrong really with it. I mean, this
This is where it gets deep into the mind games though, because I feel like the Sigmir, it's
like, do you really want it?
I mean, it seems like a coin foot to go to the Sigmir.
It feels like both these teams are very, very good on it.
It's going to come down to individual execution.
So Geekay, choose New Junk City instead.
I mean, maybe for them, they maybe want to avoid playing Atlas where you could see some
of the dive come out from VP, like whether it's the ball of the hazard, I think can be
pretty good here.
So maybe by picking New Junk City, you can prevent some of that threat and you think,
Wherever we go on on escore potentially as a map 5, you know, we're gonna be able to find some good answers
But there's a couple of diamonds left to the pool and geeky you can tell they're thinking about it
They even ban out the hazard this time VP respond banning them may
Interesting maybe I mean no one is really played there
But maybe may actually feels pretty good in the Sigma comp on this map because there are so many of those tiny choke points
And the blizzard can do so much
Yeah, I don't think you've seen, like, DK get, like, massive value out of, uh, playing the Sim, right, where, uh, the Mei is, uh, a really good response to it, like, playing it with the SIG, right, we see that, I mean, that's, like, the kind of comp that we see on Circuit, right, playing, like, the Mei, uh, with the SIG, and then maybe, like, a hit scan, so, uh, the Mei is off the table, so, probably forces them to end up playing, uh, like, a Sim mirror if they want to.
want to. Yeah, I mean, I think these bands at the end end up being a little
superfluous. I think it's just going to be, you know, more sigma mirror. I think
these teams, maybe they think like both of them, you have to have the confidence
that you can't win this bear with how close it is. You know, in order to win
this series, you need to be able to win straight up in a heads up mirror. It's
not going to be some comp gap shenanigans. And this is what happens when two
teams are so experienced with one another, right? That they know what
each other come to play. And they're, they just believe that they can be the
ones to get it done on match day. For now, it's VP in the lead, but it's 10 U.S.
And as we go to to Newark City, it's not a map that actually we see so much of these slow Sigma style poke comes on
right? Sure.
Your teams go to a faster rush look so could be a little more chaotic
Maybe there's room for one team to flip the script
But it's scary because the moment you back down now and you get off the Sigma comp and then you like lose one or two
Flashpoints in real fashion and then you swap back to it and your ultimate economy is just shambles
So it's really risky to open with anything but that mirror
but if you have the right read and it pays off. Any Reinhardt?
Any Reinhardt? I'm telling you Matt, Reinhardt. Reinhardt.
I'm telling you Matt, Reinhardt. I'm telling you Matt, Reinhardt.
Reinhardt would go crazy here. Maybe that's like, is that crazy? Is that what they've been named? Thoughts on that?
I don't know. I mean we'll get the teams, we'll get the teams split at the top of the screen.
It'll be a VP in blue for you guys.
Obviously these two teams played the regular season. I wanted to go back and check.
This was the second game of the season for DK and DK had a brutal week in week one, they ended up getting three out in both of their games and they ended up playing Lugend City with a 3-0 for Virtus.pro.
So we'll see if DK can kind of change it up a little bit.
Okay, so Shion Reaper here with the Moga for Virtus.pro.
It'll be a hit scan with Labda playing the Sojourn here for DK.
You can see GK want to play this one slow. They're gonna try to kite away, play range, and Lab defines a crucial kill on to land in this huff to shot, following up some other team spam damage.
Now they look to swan board and clean up this fight. Desperation for Aizadom, Vixen, they find a couple counter kills, but first fight is still gonna go decisively the way of GK.
An opening pick on Cary, you just can't come back to that.
Any lab is gonna get to do a quartz impression here.
It is, you know, you're gonna be able to just kind of like farm off on that mage up.
No TP, it kind of like, you know, get any of these heroes in before using movement cooldowns.
See how I'm moving to the choke at the tail of the bike.
It's back on up.
So, we'll see now how VP decides to attack this.
But, can you protect Zeon?
Uh, it's a lab, though.
Can you allow him to kind of get these huge kills?
I mean, I think it's gonna be a lot of difficulty.
The Cardiac Overdrive used really early.
And the Sojourn able to just kind of leave Moga there, crazy, good focus.
I mean, Alpha Yi on the Reaper, he was the hero that started the reverse week yesterday
with a great performance on this map, and now Lin is getting pain-staggered.
That's nasty.
I mean, we're going to come down to just one fight for Virtus Pro to try and get this retaken.
They're going to be behind on the economy game.
They got to come up and can test into Sojourn spam.
It's feeling a little bit dire.
Historically, you know, I feel like the Xi'an has looked good in this matchup,
but I'm just finding opening picks and when he does that it feels like you can't even play the game here with the Virtus Pro DPS
Pretty difficult here for Kevin to find an angle to really attack
This soldier and on is it seems like DK as well here
I think there's they're really like the game is gonna be down the first of your early on as I
Go in besides their rush. Yeah, they decide to kind of change the pace there. They have the Kitsune rush
That's the time to go
So that is a really easy first point win there for DK a couple cheeky picks from labda
Basically wins them this flashpoint the rush doesn't even come out from fin
So VP have a little bit of an economy advantage coming into this next fight. Although there's plenty of other ultimates to work with for DK side
Capster I think especially is going to be called upon to show something impressive here
Labda with the OC is going to be a problem fix up quite a ways away from that feed
Specs soldier to do big things in his fight, but the rush comes out early, some big damage has already come down, Alphie with the beat on, into the back line looking for a blast and target, may not even need it, but fix it down, the mobility, all these questions that's being screened out from Kev, mentioned you just enough to find Labda inside the cage fight from Ziad though it's actually Virtus Pro is coming us off with a quality skill, but the kill is Alphie, finding kills on the other side, it's up the, I thought the clutch this one out, and now the fight just be able to do it, but no Reaper, a little bit too much life steal, carry beside.
an alpha yeet reaper man indomitable so comfortable in this matchup he is a
difference maker we don't often say that a lot of things yeah he's got fin
there with him right inside of the cage and you see fin just kind of focusing
solely on keeping out the ally that's the only chance they have to deal with that
maga that fix it with a beat here though this is a prime opportunity for VP to
be left out as all that is huge and that's oh see that was news as well yeah
The beat overwhelms and in the end it on any wise. It's not it's pretty cool
I'm all right. You know see there's a good matchup for Murtice pro
But cycle finding that instant kill means there's barely any opportunity to trade and the fight is over in a matter of moments
A little bit of stall from Finn, but he's gonna miss the spawn wave for that
I don't have worth that is even carry with the bastard one. Wait fix it on cat
Okay, now we're gonna file now. We're now we're cooking. I don't know what's going on
But this is just this is just a bad area area drop of the death blossom. I mean, all right
Pat go away. I kind of I'm a fan that let's let's fly the death blossom around would that not go crazy
Then with the rush though, that's usually gonna be pretty sick. Yeah
Because of the cat and tell it's caught on the rotation cycle though
He's created more important than lots of always a big risk on refer beyond trading in the rush more than happy to burn down some of the HP of
You did get the flip up, but you stay alive, live to fight another day.
VP with the rush of their own are going to just be engaged back into the high ground.
Alphie already raids out of the fight.
Don't think he's been able to stick around for long here.
Rush, though, is forced to stop connection.
He's good, maybe puts VP back on their heels, but still, the rush provides so much value in this kind of a fight.
Alphie is stalling the point with the raid form.
That's going to expire.
It's Yogg.
Maybe he's going to fall on the support.
He's going to work it over time to keep up.
Over time they keep bumping over the Saceriko on 5! Disgusting damage and crap!
Doesn't get a ton of kills, but the damage is overwhelming.
So we need to now try to regroup back and we just might be able to just barely clean out this Yacht.
He's healing up the OCEA too!
On the back of the shout, Ocin maybe could turn the tide here, it's incredibly close to Ixa!
Trying to death magic through, but...
Ice on this just enough, but I mean Kevster, that first spree charge literally hit 5 players,
everybody went back on their heels, and in that moment of weakness,
Murtis Pro surged forward, claiming this fight and more than likely this next flash point as well.
Insane amount of damage. It's gonna be a TP up there for Melchie. He's gonna get a touch.
Let's have a death blossom to work with. It'll be here to next with what?
What? It's gonna be the death blossom that takes out Vixx up.
Out of the frying pan, into the fire. Big B from Kellogg's finds all four targets.
Murtis Pro just trying to stay alive. Now waiting out this key skill, a nice stomp comes in,
but John, bites out more than he can chew, goes down. Landed still alive with a touch.
Too late, only at 98, so no overtime trigger, a quirk of the overtime mechanics, and it costs VP a flashpoint.
That's a painful one, man.
It's a Fingus 2 here on the exit, then TP's out to Alphys, so he'll hold on to his life as that is a brutal way to lose a flashpoint there if you're a pro.
That is one of the most painful mechanics in Overwatch.
If you have 98% cap, overtime does not trigger with enemy flips. If you have 99, it will.
So they don't get an over time.
It's a different control, like it works.
Yeah, it's the same in control actually.
Yeah, it's the same.
It's just rare, because it only happens if you cap on, you know, 97, 98.
Makes all the difference in the world, and now your one flashpoint away from evening the series,
GK with rush advantage,
Kept through the fine slab, that's huge.
Can he even deploy the rush?
Do you dare?
Finn says, yes, he's gonna go for it, but Tycho has the blossom.
Might want to step up into the frontline.
Shout, he's out, he's out.
Started to be called to question, making him so low.
Eventually he goes down, but finds two before dropping,
That'll be enough to maybe stabilize this fire with an Alchemist's Yard.
Been here without V, so seems like it might be a watchup scenario. Yeah, he can't keep up with it.
I mean, Ziot just kind of has zero fear on the Moga just barreling on in, even though he gives up his life.
Takes out two. Psycho was maybe looking for an angle there to use that death blossom, but he doesn't really find a great opportunity to do so,
So, except still on the cat, opportunity here for some environmental kills to the catnap that's going up soon.
Lobbed it with a shot charge.
Mutual knockdown, but it puts the governor in a rough spot here.
Has struck an intite blossom coming in as well.
Psycho-overwhelmed Tatsurikus free on top.
A little bit of overkill from Curtis Crowe.
A lot of AoE in that fight.
Little circle watch for you.
DK, I mean, they do go down, but they go down almost instantly.
It's a very quick fight.
You're right back into the engagement and you've got tons of tools to flip this one back. They are barreling towards the map 5 you're not I
Mean no way you're keeping anybody alive through cage fight spree and blossom there is
The overclose here used early. I want this. Oh, what a shot. That's fixage is right in front of him. Yeah, really nice shot there
You're gonna be able to take the point you're gonna be able to take the point right I mean
I'll cycle to let you be in some psycho, yeah?
Is that great for me? So close!
I'll have to second away, try to be free there, maybe need it to get something done.
I still don't know, get some of the stone capture, finds another kill, but it's just the dregs here of Virtus Pro.
Trying to get to 20 context, Alphie is strong.
Bixxon finds another trade, but now it's only the cat.
Surely he can't do enough. Yaw tracks him down, nice little beam out of the air.
Cat should be coming back fast, and there's a chance for a retake, but the economy still looks good for GK.
Nah, I was going to say, I mean, I think this is set up really well for DK, right?
You're going to get up to basically even here, and you're going to have Blossom plus both
support ultimates, and obviously just the rush on the other side here for Hurtest Pro
is going to be really difficult with the rush plus sound barrier on the cards for DK.
They also have to dodge any of these railguns that come through, it's going to be 99 here
to get an OT.
No T.
Our shoes matched, big damage down, capture has to bite back into the off angle, cycling
our pre-touch point with a B to overwhelm, breaks the back now, a bird is pro, and the
resource gap unreal, fix up, getting a little bit of stall, but it is too little too late
in this map.
A resounding victory.
4TK Esports equalize the score, take us to a decisive final map on Escort, and it felt
preordained in this series.
Now, I mean these two teams so evenly matched, putting each other to the test, makes that
much up on Hollywood, all the more crucial for her to throw the pair still alive in this series.
And this from the clear number one team in the MDA right now. So DK nipping at the heels of the
GOAT. Well, it also just shows you how much DK has grown as a team. As I mentioned, right,
this was a 3-0 series in week one here of stage two. And this was a VP map that they ended
of winning 3-0 here against Geek K and just completely flipped the script because I thought
Geek K had a great shred and read on this map at times of VP looked like they were in
a battle back right this second flash point I think with the way it ended definitely probably
leaves a little bit of a sour taste in your mouth throughout it.
I will say you know maybe this is you know a big thing to call out for a team as good
as Virtus. Pro who's been as successful as they have this stage but moments in this match
I felt you know in this map in particular I felt them getting a little flustered right like this moment where they jump for
Open it's on this fight. I mean
That felt excessive and it kind of sets them up. Yeah later on
They don't have any holds to go like imagine they had even like satsurikas pretty dumb some old to jump on top of the map
Is it right? It could have been very different and they kind of blow everything into that fight and yeah
I'll be more than happy to clean up. I will say pretty unlucky this I it's really rare
We see that the 98 control cap for no overtime touch to deny them a chance in that second flash bite
But I mean these are pro players. Maybe the audience doesn't know that mechanic
It's pretty niche, but the pro players all certainly do and so it's a good read to punish the flip there by GK
Yeah, I mean the ultimate dump that comes in from VP. That's quite rare from what we've seen from them over the last like four weeks
As well, right? I know so well drilled and a lot of the ways that they play that one
And they would love that back.
I mean, that was cage plus plus some plus three all.
And it wasn't even.
They had the catnap too.
I mean, like that is everything.
And I think they just used cage on the other side.
So it's not like they were kind of like.
It's four for one.
In this level of play, that's a actually,
I think it's fair to say it's a pretty huge error
from Virtus Pro given how well they've played.
We don't see mistakes like this from them.
This is playoffs, man.
So it'll be escort or a final map here.
It'll be circuit. Okay. I like this from VP because this also takes like a moga off the table, right?
Ziad is looks pretty sick on the moga throughout the series
This one feels like we're going back to that sick look. No, it would have been so sick if they played recce monderado though
I was so hoping for it, but that would be I think it would be a good move
It would be a wild move though for sure
They're gonna go to circuit which basically for me unless there's some wild bands here
It's it's gonna be sigma to close things out eyes down
I think he's something very confident in the match up on those the odd is battling with everything he has a
Lot of pressure here on on the hitscans and maybe especially the sub-etra dual where?
You know, I don't even know. I think I'd give out the maybe a slight edge so far in this series
I feel like some of his sim walls have been just really well placed from my perspective
Some of the teepees have been good, but overall as a team
I think VP very much liked this matchup and they could attack maybe
I wonder what if you do ban this thing?
Can you ever?
No, okay, I think it's not playable on this map, Matt.
Like we saw yesterday in the Twisted Mind series,
it's not playable here.
DK crushed it.
Okay, whoa, okay.
SIG Mizzoufi, weird.
Wait, weird.
And VP bans the SIG.
So, okay, you wanna play D.Va, but then the...
I think this means for Matra actually is what comes out.
I could be wrong.
I actually think this is a sick read from Aiznam.
He's been, well, from the team overall, right?
They've been fantastic on the Sigma comp all series long.
The Mizuki has been a huge threat.
Like this has been their bread and butter.
They go to circuit and so you think, okay,
Sigma Zuki more of the same.
Let's see who wins this, you know,
key skill mirror match to close things out.
By banning the SIG, you say, okay,
let's make this a test of flexibility, of adaptability,
which, I mean, between these two teams,
you gotta give it to Aiznam.
Yeah, I mean, double flex support an option, right?
I mean, for Virtus Pro, like, you could play.
I wonder if it's, it must be Curia.
For me, it's like Curia's a must pick on the support line.
Yeah.
Is it Curie Babb?
Is it?
I was going to say Babb, yeah.
Curie Juno, actually, OK, with Ram,
it's probably Curie Juno with Ram, now that I say that.
It's a hard map to flank.
And we've seen Juno be punished at times in the series.
But that's usually because you flank,
you get on top of her in the back line,
and you kill her off first.
Essentially, Juno's biggest vulnerability.
She's not good at defending herself in those moments.
On Circuit, it's very front to back.
You don't often need to do that.
You're pretty much in a comfortable spot most of the time.
With the Mizuki ban from GK, does open the door.
We haven't seen any D.Va, right?
But Ziad, we know how good he is on D.Va.
I mean, I think D.Va's tough on this ramp.
I think it's tough on it.
It's just another map where once you get, like, D.Va
needs to be able to get kills, right?
Maybe you could do like a Sim D.Va.
That's like a twisted mind, kind of a look
where you tip the D.Va into the back line
and allow her to really get aggressive,
but it's scary when this series has been relatively slow paced.
To up the pace like that, to play a hard dive,
I mean, it's a big out of vision in that five.
Yeah, but that's an old kind of idea.
You think of the GK core, right?
With, like, Kellex, Labda, Ziad.
That was, like, a staple of them last year, right?
The sim with the diva TPing on in, on maps like this, right?
I would be too scared.
I would be way too scared to pull out a comp.
Like that kind of is-
You fall by the repairs already, why not?
No, the comp is so finicky.
It's like, you do a bad TP,
your D.Va gets rocked one time by Sigma,
and she's just instantly dead to Symmetra or something.
Or even Stigma's band, of course.
But like, Ramatra is a beast in the frontline.
Like, you might TP your D.Va into the backline,
she's like, I'm having so much fun, guys.
And then you're like, guys, guys,
and there's just a feel of bodies,
because Ramatra has just cleaved a path for your team.
So, you know, this is interesting, man.
Taking out the Sigma Zuki, it means all bets are off.
This is a huge question for the coaches,
for the players to have the right read.
I don't think anybody exactly knows what the answer is.
It's gonna come down to who can make the best call,
can make the best adaptations here on map five.
Yeah, it's also, the thing about some of those comps
that you used to do with that sim diva,
it's also at a point where the sim TP was like longer,
right?
If you're able to turn TP way deeper than your family are.
Of all maps, right?
I think you were really using those match range DPs.
We'll see a final map between these two teams.
It's been a really great series of back and forward.
They're not disappointed today, Matt.
Oh, I mean, I also think like the bands for this last map are quite surprising, right?
In terms of like what we potentially thought.
I love being in play.
I mean, I think VP is like they've been so good on the Sigma,
but to recognize that that's not really your edge.
Your edge is the flexibility. It's the ability to adapt and so to introduce some chaos into the series
It's a risk
But see odd he's starting off on the diva. He has the same really as you matter. It could be strong. I
Still think I think we have to do very well here. This is a playstyle though. They ran so much last year obviously
you know slight differences between the two teams but kind of the
crux and the four of it still there
we'll see if they're able to kind of
use this to success because Ziyad was so good at being able to like stay alive
forever what it felt like on the diva we'll see what the breed is VP what's
the hitscan for kev here I think that's a big decision Cassidy is a
consideration but so is sojourn it's gonna go with the cast me makes sense to
play you know stalwart backliner behind this and play it you know it's really
kind of been she on and Cassie I did like that has not really gone over and
Big shot on Labda. Labda's backed off. Labda's not aggressive on the angle for a moment now.
Ziad has to take a bit of aggression, but he's caught in the cemetery! He's caught in the car wash!
Beautiful setup from Psycho. He was ready for that flank. It's one that many players have used to great effect this stage.
Curtis Pro, see it coming a mile away.
And let's see if DK decides to stay on this, right?
Uh-oh. I hope they don't.
I think they may think this is winnable, but I strongly disagree. I don't...
There, Ramatra is gonna just dominate you. I really don't like this. I think you care in real trouble.
They're in such a, you know, there's so much pressure on them now. Like, D.Va has to get a kill in the first three seconds.
How do you even do that? It's so hard. Your frontline trade is losing against this ram.
Heart being rolled forward, Labda shooting into a shield more often than not.
Ramatra throwing those fists. No one else can take the TP. It's only out of the backline. Labda is down.
Ziad getting completely marked by the rest of the backline from VP.
Big Lucio time in from Kellex it will be enough to drop tebster, but it takes the entire team to accomplish just that
And hurt us bro. I've got the download here on this comp
Yeah, and the amount of I think they just have a great read on MVP and the amount of damage that psychos putting down onto the
Diva where yeah, you're gonna get a swap over to the ram
So a basically outside of the hitscans a mirror matchup now is
Interesting strategy to start from DK as something they've done in the past but
Obviously does not work out into the comps that we're seeing right now from Virtus.Pro. It's a really fast point AP.
Yeah, the big ultimate advantage for VP, disgusting rush timing landings, almost 50% faster, he's gonna send it right up the gut.
DK already low, the fist pummeling now into the back line. The TP out though just barely gets DK away.
Insane kite from them, everybody's so low, but that's just more heals for Finn to gobble up.
They lose a lot of card time, but they get out with their lives, which is the best they can hope for in that spot.
Still, VP, looking to pile on the pressure, they got this annihilation, they're definitely going to keep this fight rolling.
Labbed them, Y does get a good rail shot, Kepster completely ignores the dead eyes, looking at the front line.
Here comes the OC, the beat comes in as long just before the shield comes in.
DK, get the key kills to clean house, but it's their turn to throw in a massive ult, took four huge tools to commit to the finish.
And Fixah has the beat for the next fight.
I mean, if you give up that, and then like, what, five plus minutes for the last part of the map, I mean, you know, just kind of in the series now.
It feels like that was an absolute must win for DK, but now with VP, you're gonna really go off the spot if you're DK, because you're gonna be able to get aggressive behind this sound barrier if you want.
Oh, no, and you lose killings.
And the beat is perfect because there's no Lucio to run away, no opportunities to escape.
Zeon surrounded, beset by attackers on all sides.
GK, they've been one defensive push here on second point, but we're still getting into last with a round five minutes map.
Nightmare scenarios for GK, economy in shambles.
Rerspiro without a ton of ultimates either, but the talent of this Ramkamp is so hard to get an early contest on this round point.
It feels like you kind of have to just let the cart roll.
Maybe Ziad can somehow find his way in with the Annihilation, that's their hope here, but
he's a challenging ult to initiate with when you're the one on the back foot.
Now they're going to take a route around the outside here, I have to be so careful with the
lucios in the mix, is Ziad going to go low, keep him up high here, 4 vs pro, is there going to be
able to get back a little bit, kind of create some space, nice railgun shot there. From the lab
It's not go time yet though for Ziad with that annihilation.
It's gonna be the continued rush that comes in from land,
and now it's gonna be Ziad,
off of that Remontra ultimate,
but it's bad again, opening it up.
And everybody's getting cut down,
and they're gonna even stagger the sim
just a little bit nice, little delay.
Tharm Aizam keeps that card rolling yet further,
and I believe Alphia, he does miss the spawn wave.
Without the sim, it's pretty awkward now.
The card's gonna roll past this first choke point,
essentially for free.
Ultimate's gonna be crucial,
Finn needs to get towards that rush, take some damage on the walk of the spam, his threat thing.
It feels like Virtus.Pro have already gotten through the most dangerous part of the code,
now they're taking some position on this point. Adelaide is available, IZON in,
TP over the backline, Kess is looking at the connection to the shot,
does get some damage on the Lava, Lava slips away, but he's unslimmered,
made to be the symbol now to defend from Alpy, he responded to in kind by Xyko,
who wants to keep this fight rolling despite the rush on the floor from Kess there.
Maybe that's a little too much, rather Finn's rush on the floor is providing so much utility,
And eventually the defenders stake their claim here on this escort. They're even going to get a nice extra stagger onto land in
Way too close for comfort though man. At high noon. If that's just like a quarter second more on the lab
We could be seeing a very different spot here. I
Mean if you're DK and you prevent them from getting a full map completion
I mean you have to feel amazing going in the second half because right now it's been all Virtus Pro is
is getting up, potentially here with a sound barrier,
getting quite aggressive.
We'll have them using the second slide,
trying to get back to the spawn.
He's vulnerable now, they're over the top of his head.
Look at Kevster taking this position,
it looks like they're the ones on defense right now.
So cloistered, so awkward,
KK with attackers right above their head,
already the fast-down of an eight-time icon,
drops to the point, forces the issue, the OC comes out,
the fish is holding the beat, holding the beat,
deeper and deeper into the fight,
and they not even need it whatsoever for the overclock.
Still Kevster just blinking down damage from above,
The assist from Landon who has that rush, Reddy and Waving has a little bit of up-up on the high ground able to utilize Kessler though he's down before the feed!
Huge kill! Alpha G! Saving the team! But Psycho, still here, still feeling damage. Ziad grabs another back the other way, but Eyes down, brawling.
Psycho, fully torped up now on the Sim, and DK may just not have the resources left in.
Keeping these heals coming through though, Stabilized our monster, but not at the table yet.
Stalling for now and maybe they can do this hold even without the rush
What a clutch war from Ziad and Finn and it's all from that initial kill from Alpy on to Kedster at this game is done
After doesn't drop so early into the fight and they're able to hold on they're able to hold on to annihilation and rush there
Both support ults used by Virtus Pro now with a minute and 36
There's a real opportunity for DK to actually get this hold dead. I hear
Look to see it like TP'd on in.
Horsing point.
Immediate force.
Compression with the Simba.
So hard to challenge him with this.
Even with the annihilation, damage coming in, capture, has to keep this channel rolling.
No one can help Ziad.
Everyone's zoned away from the dead.
I can't get the support through.
Even with the rush on point.
It's not enough.
They saved their ultimates.
And for what, Ziad goes down without even popping the annihilation.
Psycho fills up the V.
And VP cap with a minute ten.
Wild scenes here on Circuit Royale.
So many clutch pushes from Virtus Pro and so many insane holds from DK, but that absolute
blitz through first point really feels like it took its toll right now.
I mean, Virtus Pro second and third, you wouldn't see such a ridiculous time bank if they didn't
just speedrun first.
Yeah, and as you mentioned, right, Ziat just trying, I think, I think he thought he was
going to be like, kind of live through that maybe and then pump the amalgamation or-
Yeah, I need some mistake from him.
Needs to pop that.
I mean, not that it makes a difference really, right?
the new zoning everyone away you're fully surrounded so all that block from
rematch it doesn't mean much when there's a fully energized sim eating you
alive you know I go yeah I mean he had the block kind of going he had them
this is warm active and he probably wanted to kind of hold it to like extend
the nemesis form right like once it kind of wears off to kind of get the
annihilation then start blocking again right away it's just they just burned
him down straight through first set, through that first block, so a nice job there by Virtus
Pro is a geeky, are we gonna see maybe a little cheeky Baryshian pick from them?
I don't hate it here actually, and I will say, Cat Passion, as much as I flame the heck
out of it, without Sigma or Mizuki on the field, I wonder if it actually might work
again, right?
Like for me, those are the heroes that gave it real troubles the odd though, it's gonna
be Manga Time, baby.
good mentality here on this offense. Never mind, should beat it.
Simbash, you know, I think still is a sick threat.
I do think that Deadeye is a very powerful ultimate, but that bashing form can be problematic
even for someone as tanky as Remantra. Figgs on the off angle, going for a cheeky boot,
try to pull people out of the formation, makes things a little bit awkward for GK. Big damage
comes in, they might try to look for a cheeky flank, but I stop to barely stay alive, but
yeah, cannot sustain through getting forced around the wrong angle there. Try to reconnect
from beyond the grave we'll get the cleanup onto the fashion it was sim dropping to it's a little bit nice
It means you like the forward aggression isn't going to be so threatening for great VP's walk-up
But that's a heck of a fight for DK to get things wrong
Yeah, I mean the bastion damage is going to be really difficult to kind of contend with right
Especially if you want to get aggressive from vertus pro like you kind of use your sim TP
You go on in and then all of a sudden it's like the the bastion form there
I agree you're just pumped down some damage. We kept still continuing his hot play on Cassidy already at a dead-eye here.
I see an opening headshot. Oh, he's got big channel. Yeah, you got to get out of this.
Fashion was deep on the off angle using that teleporter. It gets right back into a comfortable spot in the formation.
DP thinking about some real aggression here with the form down.
So, Aizan is deep trying to cut players apart, but it's actually DP who's taking the lion's share of the damage in this trade cycle.
went deep for this move, and it doesn't pay off, although hold on, Aizan finds a kill on
a Kiriko, but he goes down, just after they need some fudge kills. Kepster finds one, but
Lab the two-sharp with the tracking to allow another one through. Ziad, with another form,
should be able to stabilize this. There may just be, but there's no support here. Ziad
is still low. Is this winnable for Virtus. Will Kepster think so? He's onto the tracer.
I think if they can just get a touch, it's playable. The touch just barely kept mixing
in time. What a save! Lucian goes down, they need the rush to guarantee it, so it won't
Okay, freehold.
Aizan wants to go for more of it.
He's gonna fight in this one.
Yeah, he's got annihilation though.
He's hard to push through and capture on the tracer.
Making it work.
Hitting the flank from behind.
Labner will bring him down in annihilation.
This time from Zod, find some profit.
But he's running low on support.
Outlasted by Aizan who's keeping this fight in context.
Kellix finds Landon.
Still a brawl to be had.
Labner's so low, but still has the space to deliver the damage from range.
I saw me to live just a few more seconds cancer coming back cannot quite make it by a difference of millisecond
The cap comes through for DK use course
Yeah, it's a nice boot there from Kellex at the end just kind of knocks them up a little bit outside of the box
Now everybody
They get kind of high-tailing it here for VP is are you gonna switch off the are they gonna stay on the tracer here?
I mean, it's actually gonna close to the full stop
But is it that I think it might be good enough like sim does a lot of damage in this combat
I could see an argument for a tracer distraction, you know kind of being worth her weight in cold
That's just let's go to the back with DK waste no time putting a ton of pressure on
Impressively in the front line, but here comes tracer starting to eat players up cycle with the symbol means he ate half the back off
The beat comes in pulse bomb a rare miss from Kev not that it would have made much of difference with this fashion
Beacons he's trying to pull a ton of attention on himself for the most part succeeding
But DK still brawling still putting heavy pressure on the front line and eventually the cracks begin to show now players traded off
But losing the sim means that front line pressure isn't so dominant now from the attack
It's like we're able to get to work with the rush coming down for safety
Chimpy VP able to make this hole. They had to absolutely work for it and VP find themselves playing tracer once again
Kevster just can't quite escape it
He has they they even though they get
You know that early pick-off still got a little bit dicey there is I know now we'll see with Lambda obviously artillery and opportunity
You know you get one kill in the last fight with it. Not that's a huge circle in the world
But can they get this fashion with form into position?
Will you be straight across?
It's so scary.
It's gonna be a Suzu use as well. It's been dangerously low right off the rip
Oh, just barely staying alive on Symmetra crucial saved by Finn only the Lucio goes down
But Kalec should be able to get back into this fight VP.
They have a retouch, but I mean into the annihilation into the artillery.
Well, he's gonna use their buy ice stone too.
Yeah, I think he needed to to try and have some chance against the Katsune rush.
But I mean this tools for the zoning are devastating.
I mean artillery just layered down into the Chubbs yacht.
Still holding doesn't even want to pop this annihilation if he can get away with it.
I think he might be able to do just that a little hold on.
The full sum does connect.
He cleansed just a little bit off, but the cap nonetheless goes through.
DK, hold on, some of their crucial teamfight ultimates in Tester. Despite some strong
conduction on Tracer, it's time to go back to the conventional hit scan. Maybe a
Bastion of their own, I was gonna say. Does he play Bastion? It's looking good.
Yeah, so they'll match it with a Bastion of their own, so... I mean, this is very
dicey for her to throw, right? Sound Valor for DK, you have a Simwalt,
end in annihilation. A large amount of damage to a note drop down and buy lab is made there off the
Rift and that's going to be the sim wall from Alphie. Good enough to keep the cart rolling forward
but Psycho holds onto his wall. Leading and holding on to an ult out is nice. See how they choose
to fight this? They're going to try and pick this corner but that ravenous vortex is eating them up.
They try with the big black thing here. There's a lot of angle here for the attackers to work with
the batch and starting to bring that damage down since they're trying to focus fire at the sim.
they eventually get the job done. One trait is good, but I think Virtus.Pro need yet more.
The cart barreling towards what feels like an inevitable finish. Ziag's annihilation,
eating all colors ready to take their souls. And Virtus.Pro entirely dropping out. They just
have the beat to get a desperate retouch. Cycle onto the Mandetta to late swap, really be able
to be there in time. It swings in deep enough though to find Kellix of the beat that may just
be good enough. Ziag, low on support, Cycle back into this fine two with the quick Mandetta swap,
Stabilizes the game and may have done just enough.
Brutus Pro can sink their teeth into this third point.
We know how hard this hold is to break.
And DK run out of gas here at the final hurdle.
High huge play by Psycho coming out of the spawn,
getting Kill-X and diving in and finding
yet another kill as seeing how DK decides to approach us.
They're going to have a rush of their own.
It'll be Dev use me artillery here,
trying to make it costly on the walk up.
No real damage that comes out of it.
the Annihilation here for Ice, no mobile as well.
It's like DK wants to just hang and take this fight over the point here with the Katsune Rush.
The rush is so powerful right now.
Aizan needs to get some good value out of this Annihilation.
Needs to stay alive, pops it just in time, but the damage overwhelms it.
You know what the support in the rush is?
Just too much to deal with.
Lambda finds another, and Matt, we are going to overtime here on that fight.
DK crashed through the opposition with better strength out mid,
and with a better time bank after a brutal start to this map,
They are right back in it. It is down to the absolute wire as these two teams fight for their chance to be the first team
Locking their spot in the EMEA finals
Is that really nice TP through here setting up Vlad the ice?
Almost able if you see the form just wearing off maybe a second after a
Romantra falls your tiller used there towards the end as
Bastion is definitely swung things here in favor of GK
GK is, take a look at some of the stats, I mean, you know, Finn and Landon both having tremendous games there on the Curies.
It'll be GK here on defense, so although we talked about how good VP was on their offense, it is GK with the faster time.
You know, what a mirror image of a circle royale, right?
It's, you know, Virtus Pro cap first off of a better read on the tank pick, you know, the rematch of paying dividends.
DK do basically the same thing, but just with the Bastion. The better hitscan read once the ram mirror comes out
Now though all shenanigans put away. It's time for the true test. It's down to this just meager time banks for either squad
Me though, man, I'd rather be VP attacking first feels great and over time even with the time bank disadvantage
It's small enough that I'd rather have the chance to at least set a win condition here
Where that win condition is only a minute on the clock
Not a lot of time here.
The grenade shell lands right from the sake of the VP formation.
The heal support is very good though from both sides.
Don't want to make a mistake. Kephs are so low.
Fully charged out, starting to chop through these attackers.
Form, getting very low for Aiznom.
VP bent, but they do not break.
Not giving up any kills to have to swings in wide.
Kephs has nowhere to run.
Neither does Fixa and VP are routing off of the payload.
Cycle the right crucial combat kills in the fight.
It's still rolling, but with double support behind Ziad.
That'll be all she wrote for the push.
for the push. However, 2D Blast kills are huge. It's going to get this cart rolling.
In the end, DK though, they come away with a faster consumer rush, and that's the real
prize now. Because Stin could just end this game with a faster rush. VP are going to need
to weather that storm. Wait, Syco is a sim wall? What did he do in the last team fight?
DK are not going to be ready for damage. DK are not going to expect it from the Russell.
They want to end things right now. Sim wall. Alchemist Syco instantly trying to sustain
them beautifully positioned at the back of the point. Ziad was not ready for it. Comes isolated from the healers.
Just right the rush of the payload. DK fall flat. What a play from Psycho. Ridiculous performance
in the first fight. Keeps his team alive without that sim wall. They are done right here, man.
I mean, no way you could have predicted that he would have had the sim wall after one fight.
That is stuff. See, that is from Psycho. I mean, it's going to be the artillery here from Keth.
They're trying to put some damage down there.
I like it.
After they're responding, that means Lab is not going to be here for the fight.
Ooh, Big Shot on Cycle!
Oh, no!
There's a lot of the cleanses out.
But the rush advantage is now in favor of the attackers.
Such a scary spot for DK.
Do you touch now?
Do you try to stall out for a longer fight?
There are no easy answers.
They're hoping for some kind of a spam kill that will answer that question for them.
Eyes on Bunkering.
Well, damage is good, but Landon holds his nerve,
refusing to give up this rush until the committed failure comes.
Here comes the odd drops into the frontline, that shield's instantly evaporated by the Katsune Iroha, zoned away by the Symbol, though.
You chance to fight on the point that over time, you cannot get off, or even a second.
Aizan, though, holding so strong in the frontline, annihilation's out from both sides, trying to burn down one another's remockers.
Maybe a slightly stronger connection onto the odd, both teams holding the beat.
Comes out first, and the connection is good, landed, he's out of the fight.
V-Beating kills back and fast.
Aizan finds one, but it doesn't seem to be enough, maybe, though.
He can hold this down all of his loads, and he's found three in the fight.
Still has his shield to deploy, bashing in the back with the cure go, but I don't think
you have the damage to get on top of this ram, and now ram's bringing the fight to you,
the cart continues to roll.
Oh, I snubbed with some help there from Fixa able to keep this one rolling here, 4-Virtus-Pro.
Looks like Fixa just dropping down there, maybe trying to give some speed to some other
members of the team, trying to get them back in the fight as the artillery, the elbow here,
4-Lam, they're going to try to make this walk up a little awkward.
BimWall, 5-0 on the time with the rush, still providing a lot of value on the point.
Herbler is probably on the hold of IE's punches, believe through the wall, and maybe, finally, this push,
starting to run out of gas lab to help him, he's behind for kills,
and GKE Sports will lay their mark here on second point.
Finally, stopping this run of progress, but what an unbelievable push from VP,
certainly with a massive advantage now to close things out here.
We'll see now. I mean that's in early wall from Psycho is maybe what ends up saving
Vertice Pro in this series is comes down right. I think it comes down like a second later than
Landon I know ends up falling. I mean if Landon lives there they still end up winning that
fight but could have won it even more handily. I'd love to see a replay of the second fight
right the one where Psycho has seen wall because Ziad he's like running it down into the backline
Which is exactly what you should do with the Katsuneirashi advantage like he's doing exact
But then he doesn't oh, there's a sim wall to come down
It's positioned so that VP can be as far back as possible and still touching the payload still keeping the overtime live
And you just can't come through the sim wall even with the rush
Whoever steps through that sim wall he goes past that point of no return. There's no more heals for you
There's no damage coming through that position. You just can't fight your 1v5 even with the rush. It's not enough
Yeah, there's no way they thought that that sim wall would be in play at that moment also
Also, Finn, we'll take a look at his stats yet again.
At this moment, he's got 57 assists, right?
So obviously getting lots of value out of the rush.
And he's got 25K healing.
I mean, just an crazy game from both teams.
I mean, this has been a wild one.
This has been a great series.
Amazing series so far.
DK need a bit of a miracle to get this one over the line.
So many chances for Virtus.Pro.
This first fight sets the tenor here of the OT.
DK would love to find, even to some decent trades, would be good enough. TP faked out.
Well, actually, Labda is going to come through, has the tank perk, swinging in wide, burns down Aiznom on the flank,
finds Kepstrup as well, and the attackers might be getting exactly what they would have wished for.
Yeah, clean fight, couple extra seconds of delay onto the Kiriko, and they're going to be rolling this payload.
That was dominant, great decisive TP through sending Labda into the backline, and TP just aren't ready for that angle.
So, we'll see if they can do it yet again.
I think the dangerous part here for Virtus.pro, right, is if you lose another fight pretty
handily, right, DK will be able to kind of build up towards some ultimates and they really
just need one more fight.
You see where that goal of box victory is?
It's not even to where the second point is.
Oh, I'm awkward angle for Lab to try to put that damage down.
Dunstin, good connection on the capture for a moment.
Oh, fine.
Still holding strong with the artillery.
It's right into the corner.
There's no where to hide from it.
Cycle goes down on the sand.
DK absolutely stealing this.
This is in DK, absolutely skilling this, but with Bastion down, Kessler's artillery, can it find the connections to keep DP alive?
One kill could just be good enough, but Ziad, still healthy on this Rematra. Who's gonna deal with his fist?
Seems like nobody fixed it, Josh, after on an off-tank, so fine spin, takes out some of the support.
Although the point camps, Annihilation comes out. DP are staying alive in the back lane, they want to try and keep this fight rolling.
Land and ask for rush. Full desperation, this is gonna be the final fight now, Ziad.
Will he be able to fight this? The spawners are back, Psycho is down, Luzka's in.
Causing questions of longer teamfights.
Alphiedo drops that wall, provides that position for us.
You can comfortably cap him.
Steel holds the rush, knows that there's yet one more fight to reserve.
This one is getting absolutely wild now as VP's spotting the enemy backline.
Annihilation comes out from Aizan, but it's not enough to double support ult for spawn.
Now Kepter needs to get the point. He needs to just die and come back for the OT touch.
I don't even know if there's one more chance for VP now.
Yeah, it's gonna be very close. You're down to the wire. I mean Kev's gonna have the artillery. Maybe that slows them up a little bit.
It's a landing still behind you. Yeah, we should be able to. Yeah, okay.
So he's into the fight and they need a touch. They need a touch. Okay, it comes in just in time.
Stop, connect to the bastion. Hold on.
Well, I'm in trouble now. Still a fight to be had. I know the following's gonna fix the desperate healing.
Leave the team, dress the enemy. The Q comes out of the loop.
It's on five. Zimbo isolates the payload.
low in Vannix vs. Bro, they're looking to clean this one up.
Kester, the hero on Tracer, bringing back the signature hero
in the team for up and a feed.
Psycho just barely stays alive to support,
keeping up the Smetra at all costs.
He gets low time and time again.
Plaza, from the back, Link kills.
Landing without the Kirito.
Hold on, is this any last game?
Is that a 2?
Another 2 picks a deck.
Magic, it's both chaos on the server,
but Ice Dom, base, and Paul is again going down.
The game might still go and still play this one.
Support behind Finn, so close to the rush.
If you just get this ultimate, I'm surely with you enough, but he goes down!
Are you kidding me, Matt? It's just IZNOM standing up against Doom.
Maybe not enough left for him to fight this one out.
He starts to drop low, the support comes back in.
Landon's still going. I'll take you back as well. We're still into this one.
Somehow, is he on still alive here? All the Morgans.
It's going to be... Now he falls here.
You do have Kelek's back in the fight here, getting dangerously close to a beat.
He has to stay up.
Oh, VP, they may have just done it, Landon, but the kill of the traitors can't come in.
This overcast is still rolling, but then Deva is here, and then an unbelievable finish on a map that went way closer than I have ever seen before.
Mirdis Rope finished the job in five, but Yike with some incredible hurt back.
Scenes of ridiculous clutch from both sides there.
Unfortunately for Yike, they never get that Katsune rush off that Finn farmed up.
I mean forever we basically had a 2v2 ice and fixa on the point with Finn and Ziad it felt like
that fight went on for 30 seconds. I mean just overall insane stats coming out from a lot of
these players. I mean to Finn 32k healing 72 seconds I mean this is just bonkers numbers
from these players that's an all-timer right there I mean that is a sick game but that is a freaking
all timer wow what that's just wow that's all i can say yeah i mean and every single player on the
server had their time in this sun this was just phenomenally played by both of these teams
he can really be the first and only team that has pushed VP in such a way all stage long yes we
talked about how i could see a like man should get two maps off of them but he never looked anything
like it. Like this this was
incredible. I'm sweating.
Like this was this was just
insane. Sorry, I mean, that last
fight was 45 minutes. The last
fight progresses from like
before he they count the first
checkpoint all the way through
the overtime. It never ends. It
longer than some maps. This fight, his last fight was longer than some maps that VP played
this stage.
It was like, you could probably full cap push faster than that final fight.
This has been a fantastic series. I did not expect that. Apologies, GK. It was not familiar
with your game, I feel like I have to say that a lot, but man, like, and they've talked
about how close it can be in scrims, right, and how GK has had the upper hand in scrims
against him as well, but nowhere did I expect him to be able to, you know, like, it's usually
like okay with the bands and the map pics and then perhaps like a compositional like difference
but this one was a lot of the series was straight up a mirror match and they played it this close
it really came down to like last fight scenarios and many of those maps so incredible performance
it like last fight scenarios that i mean what like the difference maybe at that final one is like
if bin is able to TP back and get the rush down over the objective like a little bit earlier
Like I think he dies like basically at 98. Yeah, yeah, he's trying to get the last 8%
insane
saying stuff
Well, yeah, but be the closest up we've ever gotten to see I hear
Let's just take a look. Let's just play the entire like this is longer
Ain't nobody knows what's going on here. Ain't nobody knows what's going on. It's a 2v2, right?
It's just uh, so he gets caged out so we TP's oh, I think this is a mistake from fan
It's a small one but he gets caged out and so he tipis in because he can't farm right from out of the cage
So he tries to finish the rush but by keeping in he becomes vulnerable for the kill
I don't stays alive so long that the carton working forward there is like a huge me a heart attack for
Offer a quarter second and then once Vendetta is back
Landon look at Landon so safe to position look at him like he knows all he has to do is bait in the backline
And then you know no one can deal with this vendetta in the OT touch
It's like, if he could just get the irony is, if Ziad actually had taken damage, he would get rushed there.
Because Ziad is completely full HP, he can't finish the rush charge, so he can't pop it, which probably does end the team fight.
So it's, I mean, it's one of those things, you can't communicate in that moment, right? The comms are completely hectic, you're lucky to get a focused call.
Like a Compton in this last fight, like I doubt there was a focus fall to begin with.
I think the old thing in the comms is literally Huronics.
Like that's it.
It's...
Well, let's hear it.
Let's hear it from the source.
We do have Landon joining us here for a quick chat after this incredible, incredible series.
Landon, we started sweating watching this.
How do you feel right now, right after this is done and dusted?
I'm a little bit out of breath, that last fight, I think,
shaved a year off my lifespan.
Walk us through the concept.
Was it as hectic and as chaotic as we expected
to be in that kind of situation?
I mean, we weren't even sure if we could retake.
All we were talking about is can we touch?
Can we touch?
I think Kev went tracer and took the long blink perk
to get the roll out.
Everyone was just trying anything we could to get on
to that point.
It was just two minutes of, I don't know, just 700 people saying some of the good things, you know, absolutely dog foot.
Yeah, I just, I mean, it truly, I don't know if I've ever seen a closer finish to a series than that.
Maybe in all my years playing Overwatch, like truly an iconic moment, one to be remembered.
But for you guys, this puts you to be the first team now in the grand final, which maybe could be expected.
I think by fans looking at from the outside at your guys great results so far in the stage
But you guys have been pretty open about how this top three in EMEA is still very very close
Like all these teams are incredibly strong
So my question to you is looking ahead now to Paris with these three teams qualified out of EMEA
I know you guys are gonna be you know gunning for the world championship. That's certainly the level you seem to be playing on now
But how do you see EMEA as a region right now?
I mean feels to me like iron has kind of sharpened iron and now all three of these squads are like genuine contenders for for the world title
Yeah, when I watch Korea, it looks like crazy raccoons are still like an unbelievable team, you know
Like those guys are on the absolute like top of their game
They look really tough to beat but the rest of the teams in Korea
I think are super super manageable for any any of like the the new big three in EMEA, you know
And then in a I think like all three of like like us geeky and twisted what I'll easily win in a
Yeah, landed. I'm curious, you know
How have you guys pushed each other in EMEA to get better as like you know
You kind of talk about those like big three teams right because like what like four weeks ago
You guys play DK you three owe them in week one, right?
And then kind of seeing the improvements that they've made just nothing like how we me is leveled up as a region. I
Was really surprised at how fast he came proved
Like us like us and twisted we're like I mean like we were getting beaten up for the most of stage one
You know, but we were learning a lot but in stage two we got a lot stronger
And he came felt like wasn't quite there and then all of a sudden like two weeks
see how these guys just locked in, like they're a super, super tough team.
So there's a doobie like that. I mean, this was such a close series.
So obviously we're not surprised to see you in the finals.
Do you feel like it's easy to predict which team is going to join you in the
grand finals in the EMEA region for stage two?
I'd have to flip the coin. I have no idea.
All three of our teams are like right there, you know, like anyone can win.
It's been an incredible competitive season or stage rather.
It's been really, really fun to watch you guys in action.
Thank you so much for taking the time.
Now rest up.
That match gave us all like half a heart attack at the very least.
Thank you so much Landon and best of luck in your match tomorrow.
Thank you.
I mean, there's two straight minutes of the game being on the absolute edge, the advantage
just barely shifting back and forth and no one can get quite enough to get it over the line like
if they are caught behind the enemy team the cart roving against them landings in the enemy spawn
like it is full chaos and no one can I mean this team's like talk about evenly matched that no one
can get quite enough of an edge to finish the game the game could end at any moment man they should
just uh during an A they should just do a little picture in picture and just play that magic yes
It might be longer than the entire match over there.
That circuit was longer than Kat's EVP from yesterday.
For sure.
It's like the EVP.
That one was fast.
It is crazy to see EVP being pushed like that after just how dominant they've looked
like this stage, then also in their match yesterday.
So Ki-Ki, Kat is coming out of nowhere, at least from a viewer's perspective, to put
up a fight like this absolutely crazy but yeah for Landon like as he's there right like it has
been closed like they they're right there like it's just it's so competitive it's so fun it's been
so unpredictable like a rip channel point flipped right it's been at the last this stage and the
playoff so far I've absolutely been delivered and so the two of you but it is not time to say goodbye
to Jake and Matt some hearts I need a nap I need a deep breath and a glass of water man that was too
much. Make it two glasses of water. This was the biggest take away from today. I mean, just how
good EMEA is as a region. Like, I think like what Landon said is like, when we go to the midseason
championship, like, I think VP, that Twisted Minds and GK can all be teams that contend for like,
top four. Like, I think that's how strong this region's become, which is pretty impressive
since the start of the OWCS. Like, EMEA was one that we, and we obviously knew there were good
players in this region, but then maybe have like world championship levels of expectations,
but it slowly turned into like the go-to region.
Yeah, the last time EMEA was on top was in the Overwatch era, like the legit, like this
back to our old form, we still got it. You know, the times when reinforce was a pro player and
stuff like that. Yeah, we're going to see this visage on the other side of this break for now,
It's that we are done with EMEA heading into all things NA for day two after a quick break. So don't go anywhere
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Is that really the team kill?
Completely different.
Jeff says Matt has to get tree down.
This is going to be an explosion of death with the hands of the Dallas field.
That was impressive.
They're going to get the touch here, comes the engage cycle with three!
Oh, buddy.
There's the camera, leaving the track off with the pick up comes out over the barrier.
After he got to the rescue, twisted minds looking to close out the series here and take over the trophy.
Of course, I've done it so many times before and he'll do it again.
Here are OWCF 2025 World Finals Champion.
Welcome back to the OWCS!
We're here at JoyFade, Jack and Johnny and friends, which are the witnesses.
One if not the most insane mapping competitive Overwatch history between GK and Verna's
Peroni and the A. This is a tough act to follow for our NA teams, isn't it, Jack?
Yeah, I'm pretty scared.
I can't lie.
Like that, I'm like, I hope these games are good, guys.
like is that was just ridiculous if you haven't watched it and you're already
joining in for NA roll back after this is over and watch that last game be
immediate it was a trick but it's set to tone okay for the rest of the day
because our NA teams are coming to play as well let's take a look at what
happened so far here in the playoffs in our NA region unsurprisingly of course
SSG, they swept lunax in their first match in the bracket. It's a pretty clean three and oh fair.
Now your eyes do not deceive you if you see that three points on team Liquid fight rather than
Dallas. That's right. This one took us all. This one came out of the left field, we're gonna lie
right there. Team Liquid, yeah they clearly put in the time they've been in the bootcamp likely taking
place in their hyperbole time chamber, because their go up from group stage to play as insane.
This is a different team.
Yeah, I think even Dallas Fuel were surprised.
They were just like, wait a minute, like we were supposed to win this series and you know,
maybe we would have dropped a map or two and then Team Liquid showed up like they did,
you know, at the very start of Ilios, like with a great strategy, great execution.
And then on Dorado, everything just kind of fell apart for Dallas Fuel.
And I genuinely think that Dallas Fuel looked like they were kind of shook by what had just happened to them.
It was a liquid that looked so good after the bootcamp of theirs.
And now it has to be said that, you know, they can compete with Dallas Fuel and SSG, they're very incontentant to win the entire stage.
Do you feel like in this form Team Liquid can in fact compete with SSG?
Because so far SSG were kind of going uncompressed in this region, Japan.
Yeah, I'd have to thumb the brakes and Johnny's take there real quick.
I still think SST are the best team in North America.
And I think they will take the title of Stacey Champs.
I just got a feeling.
The regular season, not obviously the lineup, of course.
I just don't see them faltering
in any stretch of the imagination.
I mean, look at this.
I came from level two.
The very start of this hits the flourish into a double shot.
Like, come on, man, he's too stylish.
This team is just so unbelievably good.
It feels like every other team that faces them
both fully unprepared, but they're obviously not going to be. They've prepped for the team,
but it just feels like it's just a monumental gift compared to the other players.
Yeah, I mean, there might be an element of surprise because SSG certainly did not prepare
for Team Liquid to meet them here. I think they were pretty clear on that, even in the
post-match interview yesterday. Liefel, I was very much just being like, yeah, no, it's going to be
like Dallas Tewel without a doubt. They will be joining us here. Lunax has what it takes, but
Team Liquid was not in the conversation and if you go further back in post-magintv's and just general statements
Mr. Chouka Brun also big dadder of that Liquid team. So that is of course in regards to
free boot camp Team Liquid because everything changed after the boot camp. They now have the power of friendship in that court
once more. They've been gelling, they've been getting together, they've been talking and clearly it's working out for them now
So far if we look at the map pool and what we've seen on day one, you know, in 18s, the Nara's vote
the stakes of the old and the familiar, you know, like just picking exactly the same thing over and over again.
I want to see it, please, someone in the playoffs.
You've just got it. One person has to do it. One team even has to do it.
One person on the team has to convince the rest of the team to play it.
You probably didn't have much practice on it, obviously. It's a brand new map, but...
And I want to see it play it.
Hypermaps, woo, they seem to be.
I mean, I think it's possible. Like, if you're in Lunix, why not?
Why not? It's a pretty decent brawl map. I think also Liquid could potentially pick this map against SSG.
I definitely see the possibility of this map seeing playtime. So I wouldn't be too surprised if we see a later on today.
We've definitely seen a fair share already over in EMEA. It doesn't lend itself to the general EMEA playstyle as well, so no big surprise there.
But yeah, I want to see a little more from our NA team here.
It's a jumper time for sure.
Again, big time.
Big fan.
Much love.
Nothing but love, in fact.
Let's talk about what's up for grabs here
because our first match here is an elimination match.
That means that the team winning our first one
will be getting the last spots that is up for grabs
in the NA region in order to head
to the mid-season championship in Paris
in just a few weeks from now.
Of course, the top two teams have already qualified for that.
That means Team Liquid and SFG, they got their ticket.
So now it's all up in the air for Dallas Fuel and Lunex Gaming.
It's got to be the Fuel though, right?
Can I say this?
It has to be.
He's kind of right at the point here, Johnny, but go on, go on.
Every time I see that graphic with server dead holding the trophy, he's so happy.
You like that one?
It just makes me happy.
It's contagious.
His smile, it's just like, he's so happy.
I love that quote.
He has got a killer smile.
It does.
They all do though.
Look at that.
And if you too want to see this type of happiness in person, grab your tickets for the mid-season
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That's right.
That's right.
Now, we still have to determine which our last NA team will be joining us there, and I'm excited for this one, because initially, if I would have seen this matchup, I would have been like, obviously, it's gonna be Dallas Fuel.
The way they looked yesterday, no.
No, no, no, no, sorry.
Doubt is starting to prove it, I don't know, is it just going to be Winston versus Orissa?
What is going to happen here?
They shocked us yesterday, they already just fell flat, they didn't change anything up
ready either, they just played to what worked for them all on stage 2, which they have a
clear identity, we know what we expect to see from them, but their change was in order
and it didn't happen.
I am just going to put this down to Team Liquid. Having the bootcamp and infected says eyeing a lot of things out, like the communication because of the language diff.
I still think the Dallas Fuel are going to make it because it's still the Fuel. They've been so clean throughout the entire stage and yes, they did succumb to playing Kellan Diva.
I think it was a small hiccup on the road to Dallas fuel making it to the land and in all honestly, it would be kind of crazy they didn't make it because that's another top team like SSG and stage one not making it.
There's always like one small upset of like wait, oh no, not SSG team liquid not making it stage one.
There's always one big team that everybody's expecting to make it.
That doesn't.
So maybe Dallas fuel fill that boat this summer and stage two.
It'd be like Dr. Cloud Armor here, because Dallas Fuel not making it big drama, big storyline,
but then also Lunex making it big drama, big storyline, because this is the closest I've
ever been to making their major debut on a LAN event for most of these players anyway.
So you know, they're the people's choice, like people are rooting for them, they are
another team with a clear identity, obviously Zip is in the mix, so you know I can expect
to see that Orisa.
Now, how will that match up against this more divey style from the Dallas Fuel?
Yeah, that is the question, right?
I think that that is definitely a great point that you bring up,
Zoe, in that Lunax, they won't really care.
Like, they're just gonna go into this matchup, they know what they'd like to play,
and they're going to pull that out.
Dallas Fuel, the question is, how did they react to the loss yesterday?
Are they going to change something up?
I don't think they necessarily have to, because Dallas Fuel were so good,
against so many other teams.
I think to Jack's point earlier, just like Team Liquid, they look so much improved.
And they had figured out their kind of compositions, the Bastion, the Cat, the Mauga, it looked phenomenal.
And so I think Dallas Fuel looked weak against Team Liquid, but it should still be good enough to beat out the Lunix.
But if Dallas Fuel start hesitating about what compositions to play, what heroes to play,
that is where Lunix will have the upper hand of this like, well, we know Zed is going to play Orisa and Azoria,
and we got some amazing damage players on the team there, you know, guns of lace, keep firing.
And maybe that's enough to push over there.
Well, yeah, we'll find out very soon if I look at the predictions. You still have to give it to the Dallas fuel
Yeah, no, you know, I always say like if I will them with my heart
I give it to Lounex, but just I think pound for pound that's fuel
It's gonna have the upper hand here and every single role like they are
Arguably unarguably actually the better team
Yeah, I'm burning blue and in blue baby Dallas fuel is gonna be them making the land
That's the early lead. You already did one more match.
You said that yesterday about two teams.
Who we did one more match?
That's true.
They make it.
Yeah.
Fully believe that.
I got that last week.
Look, they are the favorites.
You got to predict them.
But we're always open for surprises.
That's true.
Everything is possible.
As we learned yesterday, just in an A, right?
Because Dallas finds themselves with one foot out the door.
Let's see if they can stay in it to win it in their first match here.
Which is, of course, our elimination match.
The winner punch in their tickets to Paris.
is out to you again in stage three guys take it away all right Johnny still
will die this is the final qualification spot up for grabs here in the lowest
semis Ilios the Dallas and how do you how do you think the chat's gonna predict
here how do you think the percent is gonna be that side of the Dallas
you all right chat you can't underestimate Dallas you because they
lost a team like we they're still playing the lunax today they have to be a
large favorite. I'm thinking like 82% Dallas Fuel. And obviously by the time you hear this,
the results are already in, so I think I'll keep myself posted. But Dallas Fuel should be
massive favorites going into this one. Lunix though with the Cat Band all ready here to shake
things up a little bit. That's kind of control map for the Orisa, you know, I think Zed and
what Zoe's point was. Well, Lunix, they got Zed, they will be playing Orisa. And if we see Calango
I just think the mental
I know. Well, I'm saying you
I said that's not the one thing
we learned in the past two years
is you don't mirror said unless
you're all caught up as
permission and my answer
Johnny, the problem is and my
point is on Dorado, we see
Kellen on Diva. Okay, so kind
of a dive tank. But if you're
kind of going against your
mantra over the last few weeks
Winston Ram or like little sick like you're really kind of out of sorts
And I want to see if Dallas you'll end up kind of pulling that off today if they end up behind do they end up going
Okay, maybe we just play every so maybe we just play this hype over all side instead which
The next I'm very good at they want to play the aristocratic on they want to play like kind of fast like that
We'll see and Johnny the chap predictions 88% for the fuel 12% job. The job is out. So pretty job
to what you predict the challenge is.
Tracer ban for the Dallas Fuel.
I'm sorry, Tracer ban for the Dallas Fuel.
They ended up picking the leaders.
I think it's a great point that you were up there.
What I was planning to make later between us, Lee and Liquid,
is that I do think that D.Va would have been immensely useful
for Dallas Fuel yesterday, but like you said,
Kallon's not historically the best D.Va player.
The thing is, in a matchup against Lunex,
I don't think Kallon has to go over to the D.Va.
you can quite reliably instead of play more of the Winston as naturally of course we're
going to have a pause with 0.1 seconds to go until you start assembling your heroes.
But I just don't think in this series specifically the D.Va has to come out. I think that last
few can be quite comfortable playing the compositions they have dominated on so far in stage 2.
Yeah, the big hurdle I would say for them to overcome might be the X-Factor Zomber on
I think that has been, at least for Lunex, when Xion's been released, that has been the star player.
And that has been the player that's been opening up fights, opening up wins on maps, on series.
Like, I think Zomber right now stands, I think probably the best player on the team currently.
And we've known him for the Tracer for such a long time, but Xion, okay, it's not quite like the Tracer,
but almost plays the same in the way that you want to be on off angles and take shots.
and then safely escape with your dash, with your bike if you're not throwing it in.
I think he's gonna be a real X Factor in this map.
But, on the Dallas Fuel side, they've also got an X Factor.
Sunjin, he's been playing Pharah more than any other DPS right now in North America.
Yeah, I think the one thing I didn't like about Dallas Fuel yesterday is the fact that their composition was slower.
Like, they were sitting back quite a lot in Team Liquid instead, opted into the Xeon and the Tracer,
Tracer really pushing the tempo and like you say Sombra a fantastic she-on after its release four week two and now extend going quite
Irrisible ready with the Sauria and the Reaper. This is the high tempo. I was talking about how does that was going to react to this?
Wow, never mind goes in try next few chronic extend managed to pick up the kill anyway
So it's gonna be a train this yeah
This Sauria Reaper combo good against the Winston
But they are going to have a half-time dealing with Sonja and this is gonna be the real
The real issue for them at the moment, actually traversing this space is going to be next to impossible.
No one's got Steveboos, sure, but they got so much poke for Lutmino and Ishara.
And if you compare it to yesterday's matchup, in fact they would have been playing Demalga instead of the Sauria,
and I think it would have been helpful in a composition like this.
Somba though, does clean up Sungeon and said he's a pick up the Chronix,
so in 5 vs 3 situation, Lunex still with the Sauria, they get some value and they're going to cap this point.
I'm not going to spoke that fight into existence there for Lunex, but yeah, the Pharah is going to be an issue guys.
The poke's gonna be an issue, Lukimino's just instantly die.
They got Clown and Cage.
Best thing you can do if you're Nemwai there, just speed on the back line, speed on Lukimino and CJ.
Even if you got one out there, even if you got one CT.
Hard of a lot going to carry, sure, but the Alari's gonna just fall over if you reap against him, don't worry.
Dallas, you're going to take some time now to set off, you see Sungen flanking around here, trying to create an off-bang look to get some of these rockets in.
But Lunex, it looks like they're going quite aggressive here, actually.
I asked a lot of you, they take position from the point forward now, but Lunex, I think they're having an easy...
time just coming clearly the position of that us doing killer looking really low
it's gonna die i think he measures to get back up with high ground his x10 teleports up there to
try and chase him a bit of loofer for the winsome player though take the rush this honor the point
Kelen just spots he gets the ball as he was low she falls lunax have already lost two now as the
lucio just died barrels onto the point these rush fights they're very deadly here for lunax
because you can cycle bubbles super well, but losing Zee that early, getting poked down by
Kornik and Luke Amido is not it. And also, I think X-10 is kind of the tip of the spear there,
so if you decide to commit after killing him so hard, then ultimately you're going to let
Dallas Fuel have an easier time to set up right, and so it would actually sacrifice some of that
positioning. It doesn't end up getting the elimination on Kellen, and now Dallas Fuel
back in control here with a couple of openers off the sheet.
I can't position myself really nice with Winston.
Brett does push Winston to his absolute limits when you're playing that far forward off the score.
Well there's the spree, yeah, yeah, I'm far into using Frosted to get away.
Cactus on the high ground! Does this actually tag X10?
The Susan? Was that from Z? It didn't actually connect with Z herself.
But, as X10 did end up detonating after that too,
I'm not sure what happened or how many people that ended up tagging up, Zeb's only got two bubbles to cleanse, and the cleanse rooms he should have in enough, but just, unfortunately, you can be no too much damage after those capture suns explode.
So interesting here to see how X-Tent deals with Sun-Gen, because remember a couple of matches ago, Sun-Gen had real issues on the floor against the Reaper, surprisingly.
Sun-Gen's probably looking for Barrage, oh, just takes an X-Tent. Well, here we go, that's the answer to the Reaper, just Barrage.
And now it's been 10 sets to go.
Zeph's already out of HP, then why ends up dying?
There's one touch and make that two.
Zeph's on points and they're getting grouped off though as Zeph just tries to get the backline.
Kravaton surged, they're hell married.
Throne at Chronic's face.
But it is Dallas Fuel at the end just cleaning that up.
Yeah, Sojad, the early barrage on the Reaper.
How many frames do you reckon you have to react to that with shift?
like maybe one if it was like if you're in that closed room
It feels like Dallas fuel when they're in control like this and I mean you saw this board work briefly as well
It's gonna get some by here with the spree Captain's time comes out from looking me now and there's just a bunch of people
It's all good. Yeah, that's what he needs to clean up. But this is when does fueling control like this
It's an easy time for them to deal with the sorry composition like they're facing
But it was actually when lunix had control of the objective
That's when I get a little anxious and I don't know if you felt it too checking in with your emotions here Jaws
I just felt like Dallas fuel a little
Nervous about the retakes because what we saw yesterday against liquid
Yeah, let me check in my emotions
Check in
Loonex definitely not
I feel alright, I feel good, I feel energized now that I got coffee in front of me
I got some Dallas fuel, Loonex gameplay, I'm buying it
Oh I love that
I love that
I love this backline too
From the Dallas fuel, not only because it's got the Alari
but it's so heavy on the poke against Asariah, it's real nice.
I'm a little shocked they're not playing Neanna,
considering most teams ban Neanna on this map against Valus' Fuel,
but in all honesty, the Auri, cool.
You can get up to high ground with the outburst,
you can sit super far away, you can punish Asariah,
who's already down to zero bubbles, mind you,
as Valus' Fuel cap the point.
And literally trying to get back into this one,
but they've all already dropped low,
they've expanded so many resources, they're now disengaging.
There's gonna be Valus' Fuel trying to pause on the supply,
you can just see the low health bars.
Tragic, Sonjun ends up going down.
Good catch though, Johnny Yell.
Low health bar for Lunix who are just getting poked out by the fuel.
As the fuel rotates away from them over and over and over again,
waiting for Sonjun and Luke to mean damage before Kellen jumps in.
Speaking of which, now on the point.
Taking a large chunk from X-Fence, it was to get away from high ground
and he had to now burn CDs to catch up to Kellen.
Although he does evacuate the point, which means Lunix get a free cap.
Now Lunix did survive all that damage
and allow them now to get back onto the point.
They're going to storm ahead with this kid's sudoosh as well.
While retaining control here, so this is better from the next.
Now, Lukavena caught out as well, so that means X10 now.
A little bit more free to shoot at the back line.
OK, yeah, that sneak away.
And then the 10-po rush just nets them the fight.
Velosculia, look at the build.
A few ultimates, so getting close to Lukavena for his cycle.
Indeed.
Oh, this is what it's being.
Yeah, don't age-axis.
Chronic's already down, he should be good to win the fight now, surely.
Kelen's got a primary to course next to that high ground, but oh, jeery me.
Then, why down? No feats, but Lupina falls, so a trade there onto the back line.
T.J. doesn't have to be using Rush on the point.
Kelen's got a very low health, here it goes.
Teleport away, the last vote does save his E's life.
Disgusting from X10's coming up in this moment, is then why would X10 post up barrier?
The kids are coming in. The barrage, dodged out by X-Tank, hits the shift, who gets away with murder.
The Dallas Fuel now cannot catch up to Lunax.
A two-player spree from Zomber as they maintain control of this point.
I'm telling you, some of these retakes contain quite a bit too long for Dallas Fuel and the Navels,
and then why to get back into the fight with the sound barrier just felt like you had to get it out
to kind of push Dallas fuel back and now kill him makes this swap over onto the
mile god bandons to Winston they have a captive son and a spree in hand but
lunix opportunity to closing south with his criminal search I'm really feeling
the pressure on the Winston to get something done captive son instantly
popped looking for them why ideally or someone in the back at all that was a
with Luke I mean that was nowhere close I was on a different stage of videos CJ
with that solo grab on the Kurokob? Sure, why not? We'll take it.
Lunix is going to take this round as well, Johnny.
Kellen, no ult, no health, no cardiac overdrive, no sustain, no nothing.
Dallas Fuel fall over as Lunix with dominant kind of pace-setting ult.
Sweet Dallas Fuel on ruins.
Yeah, Dallas Fuel are just not comfortable. X10 doing a great job staying alive in scenarios like this.
21 health. I mean, that's just brilliant. And by this time, Dalasio 2 committed, Sombra
cleans up with the spree as well. You gotta give lots of credit to Lunix for surviving all
this poke damage and then turning things around onto Dalasio. And now Lunix clawed themselves
back into this Ilios, giving themselves a chance to steal map 1.
Cabasham very popular on this point, but it has been banned. I wanna say again, Sombra,
I'm telling you, I think right now,
Fulunix has been the best performing player.
Very scary on the Xion.
It's not like he's the, like, early adopter,
but he has performed extremely well
on the brand new DPS.
I mean, back already.
On the Winston for Kela.
Up her hand for somebody in this Xion matchup.
I think you're right to point that out.
Super low.
Classically the Winston counter to the Zarya.
Zarya, oh CJ, that's a big right pick from Zeb and the fight connected with CJ, practically
at the same time. So no chance for CJ to react, TP, Suzu knew nothing, Dallas feel capture
but they've already lost three players. Tell them is there anyone here on the point actually
contestant? Yeah, three scenario I believe in here, tell
them as you drop out, I mean that is the Winston so far that I have to play around this shield
But once again, Lunax, pretty comfortable, clean DeSoria and Reaper composition.
And now, once again, we're looking at the retake here.
But I jumped to my throat there. I thought that was a boop onto Zed.
By Sanjin, damn well.
But I think, because Zed and him likely come from the front and bounce in a way.
Alright, look at me though, just continuing to play this Alari.
He actually jumps over the fence.
Yeah, I don't want to be down there for too much longer.
I actually get to Suzy to make sure he stays alive.
NYNs are falling prey to Sonjin who basically is the main pocket for Zeb at this point just taxing Bizarre around.
The next they're gonna force to reset and so Dallas still picking up the loose gear is the idea of target for their comp.
Yeah, Lune's caught in a bit of a tough spot there.
They had the decision between engaging pretty quickly and putting pressure on Dallas.
They were all waving instead for the ultimates to come online and the ultimates they just never came.
So ended up getting picked in that fight and enables Dalasule to get back into control though crucial for Lunatier
To actually get rewarded by December and Kitsune Rush usage. Those are the big tools they kind of need this dislodged this whole composition from Dalasule
My son Jin unlocking the barrage again
The pegs super far forward to I like that far forward against Azaria cobs make up on bubbles really early on
up to them to kind of regain space. Zed extremely low, so really used a single bubble.
Here comes the brazo, straight on top of Zed's head.
Ex-Zed, sure, trade's on you, but there's no real backup here for Lunex.
So many squishies, forcing them right to use the beast.
Both support ults was Lunex expended.
This can jumps away with 100 HP remaining left in the tank.
Zombo pops with three, but nothing much can be found by the Shion.
So you don't get value from the Sombra. You do end up flipping the point here,
Which is going to be great news for lunix. You will have opportunity to come back with more or less the result of this team fight
Seb, holding the point for now. Consumers from CJ, and so as they clean things up here, lunix is going to have a great time in this fight
Dallas Q were forced to go for Consumers because of that point there
Alright, S-Tegno's gonna have a pivotal moment as well
They're not gonna have this death blossom when they most need it, I would imagine
Graviton Surge for Zeb, just chuck it. If you can snag that far, if you can snag that
Kiriko, just get somebody. It's a hard comp to use this Graviton Surge against.
Still gonna be able to trigger OT though. Zeb's just chucking the blow right now, but
the spree from Chronic opens it up. X10 returns to the fight though. She picks up the kill
onto Chronic and Zeb's still looking for someone to hit with a grab. Man, it looks like actually
he already used it. Zeb is just falling over to Sorenson who is dominating, in fact, ruling
the skies for the Dallas Fuel. And that is round and map. Dallas Fuel 2-1 on Ilias.
All right, well it stayed competitive throughout. Lunex, you're showcasing that they have a little
bit of firepower they're hoping to bring in this series after all, but Dallas Fuel,
they're just too strong on this kind of composition and end up cleaning things off. I really do think
it came down to that fight when NYC decided to drop the sound barrier and I think it was a great
Sunbury by men why you just didn't have the tempo to kind of like push with that open up and
basically secure the things require of the Dallas fuel so good disengaged by Dallas fuel and after
you lose that Sunbury fight that's just terrible news for Loones and you end up losing them out
but all in all I think good signs for Loones. Yeah you're into what you're in a 4v4 at that moment
you lose one player if you hit the Dallas field but you start killing up and then you're hoping if
if you're never mind that the rest of your team gets killed with the over health and that's both support
outstruct as well. C ended up popping the rush I believe almost, almost exactly as the Zeph ended up going
down thinking again you can kind of win that fight with Zeph whom in cage but yeah rough stuff but
again the ruins around John was very, very dominant from Lunex. They were able to navigate the
Pharah on a very open map. Yeah and I think maybe Team Liquid just kind of showcased the recipe on
how to beat Dallas Lu yesterday and obviously you're Lu next you're picking up on that and thinking
about how can we actually make that our own and we saw the Sariah come out for us which we have
seen quite a lot. Seb Siropoul primarily in stage two has been the Orisa and the Sariah so no big
surprise seeing the Sariah Reaper come out but I think that they showcased an understanding of
how Dallas Lu composition works and what their best chance was and I think they delivered a decent
performance after all despite the map was. Yeah I think so just pretty little confidence I think
I'm not going to be too much
of a flattening on the other
maps. We'll see where Dallas
feel want to go. I'm begging,
like I said, the injunction
policy. Maybe you know, I'll
take it. Oh, you can take
Coliseum and I'm saying that
as a Coliseum. Don't forget
drops are available right now
if you connect your bat on
there. Why do you like
Coliseum is a lot better than
used to be. Okay, I will give
it back, but it's still a pain
that it can be at least. Um
don't forget the drops available
right now. I don't know you
on YouTube and Twitch connect
your account and you can pick up
those marvelous things on your
screen right now. I've got a
cut. I think I've got the
marbles skin. I don't remember
which one I got, but I want the
I want the Ovozli Sports League
Boxes. I want more of
what's your dream? What's your
dream skin coming out of the
Ovozli Sports League? It's
funny because I think I have
every legendary skin because
we're mostly but I would take
You know what, actually it would be a fire one, NYXL Tracer.
Fire in that one. It was like the first one I bought, because it was so heavy over here.
Yeah, and a little SBB, a little SBB tracer would find that.
What would you all top on, top on this game, be from the early days?
Well, so, okay, my strategy back in 2018, 2019, it was that you bought the signature skins, right?
So, whatever it is a player who had like a go to hero, like you mentioned New York Excelsior Tracer, I just pick up that skin.
But I'm a huge profit fan and so I just ended up buying all the damage skins for Lone Spitfire because of it could play at all at an insane level.
So I got like Lone Bones Spitfire May, which then you know became Bound Bones May, which would be great news.
But I just have all the Lone Spitfire Damage skins, yeah, so, well I'm sort of there at least.
I also just rock a lot of stole dynasty skins because black and gold never gets old.
Oh yeah.
Oh.
Such a classic combination.
Honor.
Urb colors.
Yeah.
Yeah. Oh yeah.
I got, I, I've been rocking the Alarium for a long time before the mythic came out.
Your lunch name is God Weapon.
Chee!
Alright, we're going to Circuit Royale, a Bastion ban.
No Cap Bastions.
We don't want any of that smoke.
Yeah, that's full of very good of that comp on this map too, so no shock there.
An Azaria ban.
He's gonna put Zeb into Orisa move, I will imagine.
Yeah, this is kind of a must map pick because you want to avoid the Rado and
so you end up going to circuit realel and I don't think Lunex want to go to
Junkertown either and so well circuit reality is we'll kind of see how we
spare on this map and because like you said steps here for so far spend your
recent Asari of the sorry band is going to move Seb over onto the Orisa but this
is where it gets kind of tricky because Dallas Fuel although they're showing this
Freya for a composition they have a lot of options on how do they want to play around this
Orisa because I don't think we'll see Seb flex too much in the tank role for the influences map
Yeah, I doubt it very much. I'd be very shocked if they end up going like Seb SIG or anything like that
Chronic, oh man. Now. This is what I feel like a vintage chronic pick vintage chronic screenshot on the Freya
Oh yeah, 100%
Rock his look
One day extend, you'll get the pixel
No one is gonna get a pick on Widow on secondary out and they open the gates out
It's just, it's not happening
It's, come on
Pink's row, I'll give it to you. Mistakes are made. Violet. Popcorn. Violet.
But, it's just not out
Alright, so everyone on the Orisa. X10, not playing the Pharah, not playing the, um,
what it makes it, E the Earth. Just a little bit of Pharah here from Sonjin previously,
so no shock to have that again. I think this pick is just so strong even on maps like this.
Yes, you're going in to X10, so it is really scary, but the amount of spam is just ridiculous.
Lunex on the scene with their heads up like I know I on the duo and the carry for Z. I think you need double flex support like this
Just how much healing is watching
Yeah, I totally agree with you and if you're lunax you just have to be patient from this time around
There is every opportunity to get picked here by all the heroes you've seen about so he'll defense
But you just have to build these ultimates and then just be very patient
inside to commit all these ultimates when you have the advantage in one of these fights.
If you start popping ultimates left and right and you don't feel yourself installed in bank,
that's where this first point starts from.
So long. Excellent. Is that what I see as well?
I'll avoid those rockets.
Sanjun's actually the first one to go down is there.
First ult of the path has been popped.
It's all up until ray 2.
Like I said, you've got to be very patient here.
Zed doesn't have ball in place.
It's just a trivial cat that's active, son.
And even the bolus as well actually connects with Z.
It's only CJ left on the point though, holding it down for the time being.
Surely not another kill, surely not another one for CJ.
He dodges out the wave with the fire, he's already back, Sonshu's already taken out Zomba,
a little boob there onto Nenwai, but waiting at Lukavino.
Holy gigachat, Nenwai gets taken down but she capped the point anyway.
Wow, CJ's so close to another miracle clutch right then, but it is going to be Nenwai.
She stands out on top there and well, we talked about all the poke potential from that last deal
But also means that the offense generate super ultimate is quite good
And there we go, good thing about it
Very nice, nothing all the way as well, you couldn't bring it again
What they found successive in early game was just fighting all that 10 poke, good flux
Funnest one with this comp Johnny is that they don't have a flux counter
They've got a spear from set but like that's really it
I mean, top three kind of like most difficult retakes is approaching the second point of
circuit real when you're playing in a Risa, there's going to be a lot of pressure here
on the support players to make sure you stay alive, because Sunju's going to be poking
Lunamief, and Mino's going to be poking from the high ground, Kwanik and Firesome, where
they're going to shot.
This is going to be quite difficult for Lunax, but they have the ultimate if they can approach
I'm just gonna respond with a rush, I tried to get an angle with the rest of the team, that's nice little body shot on Sungeon.
The spree from Sombra is the one thing you have to look out for, straight over the top with the amplified damage of the orbital ray as well.
It's gonna put them in a position where they can crack this hold open on this corner, and at late death on Chronic 2 is a dire sign for the Dallas Fuel.
I mean, X10 is just firing on Sodor right now. She's doing great.
And now, Lunix, they did use the Overdolray though, so obviously you needed that kind of retake,
but you would have loved that ultimate now for this kind of a retake set.
He's going to have to kick Soonerosh here, Dallas Guild.
And the retake now with this thing on X10 again.
An amazing spare to the captive son of the bag for Lukimino.
Destiny's X10. This is a three on four right now with Lukimino struggling to keep himself up.
Zed points yet another kill onto the Alari, Johnny, but is it actually enough?
There is a beautifully timed Suzu, a better speed onto Sunjin cancelling the barrage.
But you can't do too much more there, is said.
Just carry that fight on his shoulders, onto X10, set him up with success.
Just two minutes on the timer now. That was a great opportunity for Lunez to cross that payload.
get on to the third point but now instead you're looking to retake this without
any ultimates at all you essentially will just have one more ultimate cycle here
on the attack that spells trouble for them they're so pivotal as you look to
retake this high ground now instead that was through back in full control
now it comes the flux again this rotates this cycle of fluxes it cannot be
He understated how little they have, like this spear is the only thing from there, but they connect one golden, but they almost ideally need to pick class, and actually, you know what, that is the perfect pick.
How is Kellen in that position where he's picked? How? They're gonna hide from Qwalt for a brief moment here, Johnny. But now they could just hold W and win.
And with Lune's getting all this position, they have the shield perk as well. This now, that's real competitive, something though.
I was back on the Zumba.
Oh, but XM again.
OK.
XM managed to find another one, Spear swinging a miss.
Only connected with the Orisa, maybe.
Yes, so actually, XM ends up being able to shrug that off
with the gold, with the shield, with the Spear spin,
ended walking away with basically 100% HP again.
XM rips the OC, taking to the top of the temple with half HP,
and now Sonja is back in the fight yet again.
Orbs were raised to some additional damage
and his pain on the point that Kellen's already found ZE.
They've been extremely low in what could be the final fight of the map, there's 30 seconds to go, and Lunix are going to have to scrabble now to get another touch.
And especially if you have to rush things here now to try and get to the cart, you're going to take so much damage on the way.
You see at last minute swaps here from Lunix as they go catatonic trying to get someone to the payload.
No one's going to try and get around them.
Oh.
Managed to get around the map.
Did they know?
Surely they know the catatonic.
Yes, the destruction shot.
And they're always like, well, I gotta touch at some point.
Chronic goes down, looks at Zonba's bike.
The touch, no, the help burst.
Eventually, those dead managed to make it in time,
extended going down to the barrage,
and Zonja with another, both DPS dead for Lunex.
C is gonna follow, and there's the Terrasurge.
A lowly attempt on the point for Zep,
only netting a single kill, even playing on the rush,
the Orisa is just no match for Dallas Fuel.
They're gonna halt them on that second point.
Couple of meters, actually not even that.
I think it was one meter and something before Lunex dunked that point in on point B, a Valiant attempt.
And the Dallas Fuel's slow cop, poke cop, managed to rule the day.
And I think this calendar's showcases how good Dallas Fuel are on the road.
Oh, the fact that you feel forced to go onto our circuit for Yal here.
And obviously Dallas Fuel, they're very comfortable on this map as well.
But this is the best chance to win the series if you are Lunex here, stand by.
Okay, clutch. Okay. And look at that. That outburst was ridiculous from Luke, you know, too. I thought that was basically over. You are scrambling and you're almost in a way fighting a 4v5 as well, because your cat's not in the fight, your cat's not doing anything.
Yeah, I ended up being in a pretty tough spot back there, just like do I commit, do I stay back and just kind of got forced away, couldn't cross the choke with confidence and yeah, without that extra healing, somebody just kind of came up on the far as well.
So, I mean, I respect the attempt though, because you're thinking like someone has to get to the cart and they ended up having someone to go go touch, but I don't mind the idea.
idea that's a good idea the execution in the end just seemed a little bit
questionable
oh Zeb on the sake of my now on defense all right makes a lot more sense
fire is gonna be it smidge harder to execute if you're sonja here's the
non-shot Johnny here's the second non-shot I'm telling you it's not
happening but like once a year once a year
You're gonna do a very cool thing here.
What?
It's gonna just explode.
Look, boss.
If you don't go fishing, you can't catch fish.
He's...
I'm telling you, chat.
Yesterday after the broadcast,
he went home.
He was already at home.
But he went online, looked up some quotes,
and he was talking on the radio.
No, I...
I promise, I'm not gonna...
Maybe the wise.
Move it off myself.
Johnny the wise.
He does it again.
again. It's not just on the May this time. Yeah, the farm having a little bit too hard
to execute. Ooh! Smooth headshot on text 10. This is going to be the counter here for Zeb.
It almost feels like Lunex. How do you feel about an investment at the May for Lunex?
Okay, come on, that's on the May.
I'm starting to feel like a great time on the May here.
That is amazing.
Zeb is actually going to move over back to the Orisa here, which, I mean, that does kind
of steamy that swap though and that was few of their steamy ahead here they built
alternates that Ludis kind of gave away there with that first point control here
obviously you have this great position to hold this corner still especially with
these Orisa cooldowns but getting back into this fight finding the place where
that's going to be a real difficult and chronic is the one to open these up
so it's going to get wall passed turns around gets two nights in the back of the
head but gold Orisa he's very few cooldowns there left to survive and
And Kellen knows it too. There's the Spirits bin and the rush just to secure.
Don't hate it whatsoever.
They're extremely quick, manages to dodge out for a couple of moments, but
it's a last chance for Zombat 2.
Good couple shots from Lukavino and that'd be the point.
Not much resistance at all from Lunax.
I think all in all, we're seeing a great response here from Dallas Fuel
after their loss yesterday.
The way they flexed over to these picks and now it's on them to thank the May here,
Lunax on you. Real difficult to keep up with the pics that Dallas Fuel are
showcasing here. This is the big fight here. Lots of ultimates on the board and
Lunax 1 grand stand here. See how Captain Sun is using ultimates.
Oh, someone's already dead. Rip it now. Captain Sun, pop it in. Wait, they're gonna ult
to right and they're gonna rush at the same time and you're gonna lose the fight.
Straight into the blizzard. Oh dear. Absolute cinema for Dallas Fuel as they
watch Lunex use both ults and then group up and then get
Belisted and fluxed they got a captive son the back pocket who's here to touch?
Sombra's gonna get rocked initially. He's gonna try get there in time. Bexon's already dead
Spree comes out to a point seven eight years before they actually end up capping the point
Captive son already used and guess who's low in the back line?
It is going to be Sombra who ends up falling prey. It's a Lukamino and honestly non-map there for the Dallas feel
they walk over Lunex in a big statement maker of a second map.
Yeah, way more dominant than that one.
Naja also just a map away from qualifying to the midseason championship.
And I think this is a delas fuel team that is quite hungry for vengeance.
After taking that 0-3 loss to Team Liquid yesterday, they look fired up in this matchup against Lunex.
And on Lunex, unfortunately, have to be the one to take the beating.
It's Dallas feel of the return to form.
They end up taking him to circuitry out to avoid the inevitable Winston on Dorado.
Inevitable Arnaud Winston on Dorado.
I had a little clutch moment here, of course. Nice little highlight.
But to support Azunex, but yeah, is.
I was Dallas feel all day.
You can't touch on it, Johnny, but how painful it is for Zeb in that situation, where, okay, they end up rocking out with the Pharah, then they change to May.
So now I can't play Sigma because we don't have a May. I have to go aggressive to stop the May Wolves from basically deleting me on the Sieg, which is one of his main counters, and then I can't do much else because I don't have an ult, and then Kellan's out-tempo me and out-pacing me with these boxes.
This is the big fight to look at that orbital ray rush.
I can hear crews in my head.
We just can't let overlay or support ultimates.
We just can't and strange the bliss of it's.
It came with a plan and then that was just just ruined the plan now.
I don't know what the answer is to get back into the series.
So we'll talk about it.
So we'll talk about it, but don't forget.
You can get 15% off your ticket to mid-season.
That's coming up at the end of the month.
It's not too long away, Johnny.
There you go, OW15 at checkout.
And you get some sweet money off, which you could then
spend on some merch, perhaps.
Some Overwatch plushies, perhaps.
We had the cool Zeta Division once over in Tokyo.
That was pretty sick.
At least they're actually on the injunction.
Don't tell anybody I told you that.
I don't think you want to go to Neon Junction or what because this is the best map for what
your team likes to play yeah I mean as a Hopium dealer I'm even coming kind of
I'm empty for this one so Lunar's going to go ahead and ban Sonja's Pharah which
actually I think would have come out here on King's Troll we've seen Dallas
moving a lot in that Tokyo style even on a map like King's Troll here so pretty
straightforward target bander Dallas Fuel here what are they going to do in
return. You can't ban the Uwisa if you'd like to and then just build a composition around this
inevitable sorry up from said. But there's an opportunity here for Dallas Fuel to kind of
target than what Lunix does because they have that more narrow hero pool compared to Dallas Fuel.
I think it's a good takeaway from the fuel on this map.
Kiroko Band by the Dallas Fuel. Where does that put the backline for
Lunex? Because their Z is, I would say her best hero is the Kiroko
currently. I think Nmy, the way they're able to kind of double flex, but if they
want to play the Lucio Kiri, they're able to do that, they want to play the Juno
Kiri, they're able to do that as well. But where does that leave the team now?
I think it's a brilliant ban from Dallas fuel because they are so comfortable playing without the carry
But then yeah, you look on the other side of things to lunax. It's like, okay. Do you want to play June of the rig?
In an instance like this, right? And I'd say the rig is so limited right in a meta like this
So Dallas you're quite comfortable playing around potential backline or like that, but might you look me know next over more to the
out in lori you know they're probably present back if they can't ask well and
so getting rid of this Kiriko now it's just going to make life so much tougher
for us that over onto the next site
just check this out the place just the honor and the lori oh that's through the
honor that I feel yeah because if you're like oh lunax you have to you know if you
really want to play the Juno break like the others gonna just read the
I think CJ is gonna go on the back instead.
I really like that hero to be honest right now.
Uh, but, I would...
The poke game is kind of insane again for the fuel.
The Sgtrolls.
I think, I think Bap is one of my favorite heroes.
I didn't, I didn't appreciate
Baptiste back in the day.
Especially like when Violet was tearing things up.
Playing the Baptiste in the Roshi.
I looked back at that now and I'm like, I didn't appreciate it enough.
And now in the big 26, I'm like totally a what he's found whenever Landon brings it up all to one piece it out
There'll be CJ and see bringing out bringing out this time
It's cool to see a heroes. That is what I like and that is exactly that
Yeah, exactly and you can't be blamed for hey in that pic as well because back teeth was meta armor in the double shield
Yeah, and double shield was
Just say what's my favorite my favorite?
Come here, I'm telling you.
I'm... I'm... I'm not allowed to be in this.
So allowed to have been in the 4-castle, that's crazy.
Alright, well, Lunex managed to get themselves on the point.
Slaunchin gets picked up in hotel.
Uh, Lunex have found...
What was the perfect opening pick?
And they're trying to just push Kelo off-line, they're just slipping forward as well.
But what it gets to though, on the trade...
As, unfortunately, they said they'd just lose this fight against CJ.
Yeah, he does, okay, that's uh, not a good start.
Finding the pick onto the Mable thing is just so difficult.
He still ends up losing the fight. If you can't trade the kill onto CJN,
you know, I'm not even like four-slamp early on, baddies.
It's a rough go at this for Lunex.
He's actually going to profit the comp switch completely.
They're going back to the Vendetta and Sariah combo.
Yeah, and it worked beautifully for Team Liquid yesterday.
I'd say Lunex is another team that feel quite comfortable playing this.
Sombob wasn't past the on the better when the heroes released as well and so going up against that a suitable position
I definitely see this what I see the logic behind this now
It's all about execution elimination you're facing it and you want opportunity to qualify for me since you can't do this
Is what you're betting on
They're back in all the way up in fact they're all huddling together down skill of own self support also already
See ends of rocking the window really early on it's clear with them a squid
I think there was a dead eye through it, that must have charged up in, what, maybe like, a half a second in that.
An instant kill onto X-Ten, she didn't have a chance to move away.
Good headaches from Chronic, forces Sombra away too, meaning Kela could also move up.
Rough onto Sombra, forces him back as well as the bite follows into the spawn.
Goodbye. If they can kill Zed too, that's gonna be a lot of energy actually lost for the Sauria.
There's one bubble left remaining, Capture Sun's gonna come out as Zeb ends up falling over to Chronic.
Capture Sun connects with Wonsie, Downs!
Born those parts here, but Dallas Fuel almost as Kellan also moves up.
Yeah, I think Lunix have to play a pretty patient game here.
They had control off their own high ground,
but then instead decided to put pressure on the point, the Amidification Matrix came out,
but it kind of plays into Dallas Fuel's game.
They want to play this long distance poke instead of Lunix.
They want to get on top of Dallas Fuel, but they have to play patient
to make the rotation all the way around as you see them approaching.
Good initiation here. By X-Ten, can't you find anything?
Good shield though, coming from Kellan.
There's the flux to connects the people in hotel.
They've already traded off one 4v4 Sambaria from the NY.
Hits every single member of Lunex there, apart from Sombra of course.
But Kellan's just hiding in the corner! Clear, Kellan!
He was just hiding in the corner, what was he, a statue?
Is that a mecha-chameleon?
He ends up getting away, thanks to the health of that grove.
He is still fairly low.
Crap, he turns around the corner, and now they're in trouble.
Kellan getting shrunk down the shield,
the shield providing adequate cover for him to stay alive.
Sonjin falls to Zep and there's the chase down.
X-10 goes down shore, the window on the high ground completely ignored by Sombra as he picks up a double.
Lunex with only 30 seconds to go, we're going to be able to cap this point.
And that push through the left-hand side did wonders for Lunex as they just get way more value out of their composition as a whole.
And they finally capped this first objective and now they can't get rolling here.
If need be, as the payload is revealed here, Kellan swaps over onto Ramatra,
trying to absorb some of this tempo now coming out from Bluemix with this Vendetta.
Seb's actually going to swap over to the Orisa, so surely that will trigger a swap from Somba as well after this ultimate is used.
And then my team's going to our half-HB, Sanji, and looking to determine on his play. There's the spree.
Oh! Oh! Somba though! Somba and Sojin coming up with clicks there!
jumps on the bike, 4HP tries to get away, begging Lukavino for heals.
Zombie trying to go for the chase now, but it's just too low, standing in front of Kellan right now.
And yep, there's the Scenaric let-ditch from Callum, they're just gonna fell the Vendetta.
What an amazing opening there from Zomba.
It's gonna give them more space, even the trades there are good for Lunex.
Captive some for Lukavino, tags one player, but they dip into books.
So Lukavino does get healed up, Nebbi waits for that ult to fade away, and they end up moving up.
Yeah, quite an ambitious play there by Lukimino who we do love see making plays but didn't work out that's because it against us now
It's just learning now pushing forward be quite comfortable and said can get quite disgusting here with your Lisa on the second point
The 10th of the aggression he's pushing with now though that one see has good location matrix. There's a good position for it
There's a really good position for sculler fuel wait, but said can't follow up on that instantly Johnny because he was too low
and now Zed is on the sidelines with a massive flank. She's already managed to kill Lukabino
and now it's just clean up is what they're after.
I'm telling you, they're down 0-2 in this matchup, but X-Ten has been killing it. So reliable
on all of these maps, securing picks like that and an overclocked flank like that,
turned out beautifully. Stela's view, they're gonna have to let this one go.
Sun just over onto the echo now, and I know you have some high ground to play with here, but this is highly unusual there
Am I crazy for saying no, I don't hate it don't hate this one
Looks like you know
Sky dude, oh straight to the sound barrier. They're not going to be in trouble
Annihilation terror search everything use on like one section of the map
Lukemino is going to be out to get away, Kellen, I don't think he's going to be quite so lucky.
A lot of focus fire on Kellen, as he manages to drag Zee down with him into the grave,
thanks to that ravenous vortex, as Lukemino...
Alright buddy.
Oh, we've seen this one again.
We've seen this one before!
This is just... look at this!
This is even worth it!
I don't even know what this is worth, dude.
It might not be.
Oh, you're not going to die anyway, so...
He's going to get back to the rest of the team.
Yeah.
One of the funniest gits I've ever seen, honestly, is Lukemino there on that yesterday.
Some of the lying in wait for maybe Callum to walk up so he can get the wall.
Not the best part of all time, but at least it might be good enough to get in to three down skillings, thanks to the left click.
But Norbert Aray is going to help sustain those wounds.
Looks like Luka Munich in the back line right now is going to have to fight with that window.
Bro is stuck in the ceiling, what was that?
He was just bumping his little head, just trying to get away.
Still a bit of a movement, I think, error there from Luka Munich.
I'm not being able to get out of the line as sight.
Ex-Tem Rik's son should set off.
It's Lunax, I think they're going to finish with over a minute.
Wow. One minute and one second you take that any day of the week. What a final push from Lunex.
Yeah, they didn't love the third of the gas after they capped that initial point and that is when
They really feel at home here on Kings Row. I feel like we've seen for a couple of years now
This team are rolling with Severin or Risa on that second point and I
Don't love the echo. I think you're just a little bit too vulnerable. I understand that
You know stylistically counter-work speaking you can get some value from the echo
I just don't trust you to stay alive long enough. I guess about these composition
There's plenty of hitscan to pick you out of the sky
I almost wonder if you want to slow things down instead with the may but
Sundry went for it, and I trust Sunday with my life. So
You know work out this time
Trust on Jim with your life. I think I do actually yeah, I think I was speaking in
truth where not the high quality cop not high quality at all I like that I don't
mind the echo and I'll give you my reasoning why I don't mind it at all
I think with Lunex is calm having like an Orisa with oh my god we're going back
to double shield having the Orisa with it all comes back Johnny with the Sigma I
think it's extremely strong I think the dupe is just so good on that point as
well it's so scary and the spam is into a reset it's just so easy you land in the
try shots like every single one is going to be a headshot the sticky bombs are
always gonna connect I think you're able to build up oh so quick
oh wow nice move next time well so I'm just gonna stick with it so don't get me
wrong love seeing some actual gameplay all right it's been a while I just have
to see if I can make it work I think I like it more on the attack here on the
defense. You can be quite flat footed. Don't feel like you have any positioning to play around,
like Sunken here. Definitely has lots of positioning to play with and the damage
onto the Orisa is crazy. Where did Zed go? Yeah, that damage was ludicrous, even through
gold, through everything. Wow, that was a fight from the fuel, but here, look, when can you miss it?
This is where it gets scary. Now with Dallas Fuel on the attack with this Echo,
But they have the opportunity here to, uh, really set things up.
The Wastestungeon predictably is going to play these rooftops,
and then you're strutted with the sticky bombs at all times,
quite setting up for a flank here with the Wail Gun, as well.
Lunex on the left is so careful here as well.
So I'm gonna go back spawn, they can't play up Johnny.
That kill from Callin on the may of all things as he pushes up,
meant that Zomber couldn't rejoin the fight with the rest of his team,
so it's gonna be Lunex who's waiting for this,
And this choke point is basically free.
Choke point, no choke point.
Oh, killer. A rare?
A rare hit?
I've never had this.
Never. Absolutely not.
Nice last from Z, actually keeps the rest of the team alive.
Yeah, Kellynch is kind of jumping in face-first and just tanking.
What, Z and X10 just dominating him on the high ground?
All right, okay, so actually despite Zombo losing his life fairly early or late even on that first point
Take their up to a whole choke anyway
Yeah, now you just have to be careful for these banks because
You can see so under this flanking around there has to do pick up the billable as well and now that's you
They have the angles required to kill on making room here with the bubble and it's not up here as well
Terrible news for see going to get picked up in this fight, but the trades are coming in though
Yeah, I don't think they're gonna be picking off as it looks like lunix
You're just gonna try and die and the point the call was made is you see Nany and X10 flooding their bodies
Towards Zed to try and get another trade. There's gonna be a team kill for Lurex
Just the nano that was it. That was everything that was used from Dallas Fuel. Nano's still still that good Johnny
You can just use the nano to win the fight. Yeah, I mean the big issue is that
Sunder wasn't scouted right. You have to know that these flankers are going to try and take those angles
And then it just makes kill and slice so much easier when you know you have that backup
I like that someone was able to pay forward and get some pick up of Sombra here as well.
This is Veloscula forming a wave with these heroes.
Yeah, it kills like the Tempo's quickly split away from Lunex and a early window to try and push them out too.
It was a bit of a desperation ult from Lunex and from Z to try and get something, try and get a pick,
but no one's in LOS at all and they don't even use that ult to create space.
I mean, it's gonna be a Sombra in person, it's great.
Oh, he's got his now, Gen Y. Oh, the soundbite.
Callan luckily was not chasing the Lucio.
He's the duplication.
It's going to be on the Erisa.
The captain's on onto the high ground as Gen Y.
It's already felled by Chronic.
And again, another decisive fight from the Fuel.
These are not close.
A back-to-back team kill.
That's four and a half minutes in the bank.
Sure, it was an old dump.
But that's fine.
You trade that.
You trade an old dump for the checkpoint any day.
Yeah, Leerling's looking for answers here. Maybe he's on the third point.
They will have a better chance, but they gotta start competing for these rooftops,
and Kallen and Sundar are just waiting quite happily already.
Seb's trying to make their way on towards the cart here.
X-Send goes down though and losing the Soldier.
This is just another fight, we cannot stall out the cart.
Yeah, these high ground.
They're very important, like you mentioned.
Ekko doesn't just try and go in.
Seb is already used to trying to get the kill on the honor of the back line.
A terrorist might try to do it, but not when CJ Nates himself jumps on the back, ends up going down anyway, but he isn't trading!
A late frisbee from Zee, the immortality build not enough to save the Orisa.
And Adalis fuel can run it down again.
Extents gonna go down without Amiga kill onto Saunjan.
I mean again, you gotta start competing for the Hygrons here.
It's your only chance for someone to teleport out there.
Try to raise some damage down, but CJ with this, no, no.
Plound to pop it onto Kel'un here. Here comes the lead.
Spade's already been used.
Spade was already used, and there's no way to get Kel'un off the back line,
so he pushes them all the way to the spawn doors, and he's going to hold them.
Hogan, the rest of the team, can actually finish this one.
Remember, this is for a place in Paris as well.
This map is not going the way right now, I've known it.
It's a spite. They're one minute and one second time back.
Kel'un's going to jump back in, close the primary, Zed's extremely low.
Capture Sunthrone out on the point.
NEMY cowering for cover.
Three minutes and three seconds versus the minute and one for Lunex.
The Dallas Fuel, they've got so much left, it feels like.
Not happy with how that series went yesterday.
It feels like they got fire in their bellies coming in today.
100% looking like a different team this time around and Lunex having a terrible time of it.
I don't even know here now.
Well, Stel's viewers seem to not stick with this in the defense as well, just like, yeah, they work great for us.
Why not, mate?
Just double down on the eco defense. Why not?
Farah gets banned? All good.
We'll play Farah version 2, Echo.
Oh my god, this is devious.
On the overtime perks as well.
This is devious coming from Dalshmere.
Yeah.
We'll see.
Looks like Sunjun again sticking on the mech-o. Really like it.
Lunix with the same idea maybe X-10 is hovering the Bastion.
I think you probably have to just play the Bastion in overtime because it is so potent.
Now the question for Lunix becomes here, if Chronic ends up picking the missiles, we get it Sunjun.
We get it. See dude, that's not like it either.
If if chronic ends up picking the missiles perk here does extend wait to pick the perks and then just roll out with the turret here instead
And then Sombra with the tracer. I think that's just a lot of hit scan damage from lunix here
I should could reasonably deal with this echo and catvastric off
So you have waited to select the perks. Yeah
She hasn't picked the book yet
Just waiting to see oh, that's what happens to the echo. That's what I told you happens
Yeah, that's
Offer on defense.
Mine game's here with the Bastions. There you go. Okay, X-Ten not choosing the missing perk.
And it looks like uh, neither has
chronic. X-Ten extremely low. Trot back down to Earth now.
Now the formers run out, they're still shooting, firing at Kalin trying to destroy the shield.
But CJ almost in pervious of damage on this high ground. Both races end up trailing short,
but you're not gonna get too much position off that.
Maybe just maybe Zeb can make a play here,
but it's up to the Bastions to get kills, and Extends found hers.
Three seconds to go here.
Zeb's gonna end up touching the objective here,
and Salunix's kinda storm forward.
Veloscul, sitting back for the time being.
Look at him, he's just trying to touch here, buddy.
How do they care if you're tank player as well?
Veloscul with the retake.
Yeah, I think they're just wondering about ticks.
They don't really care about it right now.
Zeb is getting on using the grass,
so a little bit more of a susceptible target.
That's unbelievable, Lanto coming through from C, saving Zed, and now Mortar Braj, X10, trying to look for a kill onto CK.
Lanto's already been popped onto Kallen, has got the Rock, and has got the Flux.
It's going to be a direct connection with Zed, misses the Rock of his own, and Kallen brings it back down to Earth.
That's the Dallas Fuel holding onto the first point.
63% for Lunex.
But now they're fighting for their lives here.
They've got to keep themselves in the series.
they need a reverse sweep to look in that last place in mid-season, whereas the Dallas
Fuel need nearly 64% on first point. This would be one of the best King's Road defenses
we have seen from Lunix if they're able to clutch this out in overtime. Three minutes
for 63.9% that is more than enough time for Dallas Fuel here. And Lunix can struggle to
get across the finish line on that first point. The cat Bastion gameplay just wasn't clutching
off in CJ getting that nano out crucially and that was the difference maker in the end there and
the last few ended up retaking at the point here. So can I feel like you're forced to bring out the
Bastion yourself here in overtime? We talked about how good Bastion is in overtime when you get those
perks available but just because you're gonna have to deal with the attackers potentially playing
Bastion as well so it just ends up being the best consistent pick for the defensive side here but
can you compete with the last fuel for three minutes on compositions like this? This is a
very tough task for Lunax on a composition that not necessarily that well versatile.
And it just takes one big old cycle from the fuel or even I'd say one big nade from CJ. They've
gone winston they're not playing uh they're sick they're not playing slow they want to go quick
they want to take high ground they want to take space they've gone cat bastion oh good headshot
oh my goodness lost the zombie to run away i'm sure if somber end up using recall though
they're getting kind of checking sonjin onto the echo and sonja gonna switch yes straight open
tracer try my oh oh he gets the click as well the one click is devious switch from echo on the
Tracer does it better than Zomberkut.
He's now in trouble.
It's got a rock, it's a big mate, yeah, on X-Head, on C, and Zephyr basically has to play in the audience here.
Has to wait for his team to do the work.
CJ and Killen have already come up with kills though.
They've got a tick on the point. Dallas Fueler team wiped Lunex, and there's the checkpoint.
There's the map, the series, and their place locked in at mid-season.
season. The stage one champions hungry for revenge here in the stage two playoffs as
they look up their spot for the midseason championship after a brutal 0-3 loss yesterday
two team liquid congratulations to them. And no doubt about it Dallas Fuel they're back.
There indeed I mean Lunax fought back you know they showed us that they can shoot a more than
I think that's a big difference here for Dallas, they just took way more time for that, but overall this was just kind of Dallas feel in the driver's seat, they stuck to their guns, you know, I don't think they made any drastic changes from what we've seen from them yesterday, which is overall, I love Mark cohesive and it certainly played much better into the composition that we saw from Loonex than it did into what Team Liquid was bringing to the panel yesterday.
Yeah, I think to your point earlier Jaws. I think that the fact you weren't able to compete with a diva
I think that's a big difference. Make it here for Dallas. They just look way more comfortable
Like this based on lunics kind of like narrow here for this year
So this was a way easier for matchup for Dallas fuel and potentially a bit of a warm-up now as even though we have three teams
Well, if I from visiting a championship, it's going to be a hopefully contested run for the number one seed and being champions
What do you think is the takeaway here for their next opponent?
Like looking back at this match, like do you feel like you've learned anything from their
matchup against Lunex that you can potentially use slash abuse in your lower bracket?
They're going to play Echo and Pharah, but I mean we already kind of knew that and everybody
kind of already knew that.
I think at this point in the playoffs there's nothing much they can really hide.
I'd say maybe, you know,
Kellen's got a little bit of a mean Sigma,
at least showed it on Circuit Real, sure.
But if they have their opportunity,
it still will be a Dorado pick.
I think the biggest takeaway
if you're facing the Fuel at some point
is just look at the series they played the other day
when you force them into uncomfortable roles.
I mean, if you can do that,
then Dallas Fuel are fairly vulnerable.
I think with how they play and their unique style,
it's been a boon to them,
and they've said that in interviews.
You just got to try to do the same thing again.
again. Wait, the cat was just waving back. Wait, that was a sick clip. Their style, you
know, their compositions that they're running, it's what makes them break the games for them.
It's like, it is what makes them so strong, right? But it is also what the opposition can
abuse. Team Liquid certainly did. They are certainly willing to do that again if they
meet them in the lower final. Is there anything you feel like Dallas Crew could still be hiding up
their sleeves? I don't know. I feel like rarely do we ever get to see teams hiding something
at this stage. I mean Team Liquid yesterday you could see that they looked well more
embellished or something like Zarya. They just like swapped out the entire team. Exactly,
like they came in with some planned compositions but for the most part I think Dallas Crew will
literally be walking with what they've done so far in the stage and what has worked for them overall.
Well, that's what kept him alive here in the lower bracket.
They got to punch their ticket and we now have CJ joining us for a quick.
Yep, after that victory.
A dominant performance, CJ.
So congratulations.
How are you feeling?
Any weight lifted off of your shoulders now that you know that you for sure have qualified
for the mid-season championship?
Honestly, not really.
I think going into this match, we knew we were just going to probably 3-0.
They didn't really play out like the any comps that are difficult for us to play into.
I don't play any like the Moga comps. So I think just going into this it was just kind of expected
Right, so not faced at all by your loss. I'm sorry. I'm gonna jump ahead and ask something else
Um, I I need to ask obviously about the loss yesterday because it came to a big something
It came as a big surprise to most of us watching, right?
What was your big takeaway from that series against Team Liquid? And are there any changes you feel are needed?
heading further into the playoffs
Um, I think going into the series, we just had like really bad practice overall.
Um, we were like screaming Lunax and SSG who don't really play Maga.
They're leaning more towards like the Orissa style and we can't scream Europe because
Saunton is still in Korea.
So, um, yeah, we didn't really have any practice in the Magamere, but I think in the match,
I just think that we rushed things too much.
Um, I think since like, I guess he was nervous, I'm not sure, but, um, we were just like playing
way faster than we should have and like without like clearing angles or like playing for our comp.
So I think going forward into the next series, if we do play TL, I think compositions will
probably roughly say the same as just like a little bit of a playstyle change.
Okay, I'm glad you're feeling confident going into that series. I think it'd be a good rematch
because you just didn't, like you mentioned, you didn't really look like yourselves. In terms of
of North America then if you do end up facing TL. Do you think SSG have just hit the tier
break this stage? Do you think they're just that much better? Are they infallible?
I don't think they're that much better than everyone else. I just think that they've been
screaming a lot of Europe and they're really good at these cat comps, whether it be cat
fashion or cat cast. And it's something that's still kind of difficult for us and Liquid
to get a grasp of, just because when I have an infected and playing the mogul, they can't
really play diva comps and obviously also we can't really play diva comps.
But yeah, I think, I feel like Astrosp is like probably like still roughly the best,
but I don't think it's like a large margin that they're like just infinitely better than
everyone else.
So CJ, having bad practice, there obviously is something that makes you feel pretty bad
going into a series like that.
But I want to ask about the loss yesterday.
that also kind of comes as a surprise to you guys or as you felt like this stage you've
been learning a lot throughout all these weeks now or did it come kind of sudden to you?
You felt like you were on top of the entire stage and then that was a bit of a surprise
for also Team Liquid.
How do you kind of recap how the form has been like this entire stage and then you ended
up with a loss yesterday?
For the loss, I honestly, I don't think it was expected but I don't think like we can
go when new and we're going to lose.
I think in this meta, as I've been saying previously,
we're a team that, like, blasts on our mechanics.
And, like, all of our compositions that we have played
in the past are, like, you know, for everyone to shine,
I guess.
But with these more macro-based comps,
we don't really play them, like, Kiri Lycio or, like,
Kiri Katmaga, like, these comps are, like, I guess,
kind of like a new concept to us as a team.
Since, like, that's all we, like, all we played in Stage 1
were just, like, these mechanical comps.
I think Liquid, they've been together for a while.
So they're like really good at these comps and they're like how we try to want to play
But I think with more time and without screaming more of these like macro comps
I feel like we'll be we'll be right there with them
Well today you guys look back in form it's not gonna bring back my channel points. I lost yesterday. I'm sorry
But CJ is great to see you guys back in action we wish you best of luck in your upcoming match tomorrow
I'm going to be back tomorrow.
All right, thank you so much.
I was a pleasure hearing from CJ.
Get some insights there.
Don't don't really like that, Jack.
It's not funny when all the points are gone.
It's not funny.
Just thinking about it as I went to bed, you know.
A lot of people lost their points throughout this weekend.
It's been fun.
Yeah, I'm really hoping for the rematch, honestly.
I think SSG, they look really good.
Yes, but the TL Dallas, God, it gives that again.
Yeah, no, it's it's gonna be super interesting to just see how they stack up against essentially also just to find out whether what we saw from team liquid yesterday, which is a fluke is this real like where are they landing and we find out there soon because they will be going up against SSG in our upper bracket final first a quick break, which should be give you plenty of time to cup the eSports bundle.
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in NA. And it's an unlikely matchup, honestly. Like, we did not expect to see Team Liquid being
the team going up against Space Station Gaming. In fact, Team Liquid or other Space Station
Gaming did not expect to go up against Team Liquid, as was evident in yesterday's post-match
interview with Lee Foil. He was very sure to see Dallas School up on top. Let's talk about
what went down for SSG so far, though, because they're not dropped and not here in the playoffs.
They've been looking flawless, they've been looking pretty darn flawless in general in stage two, you know, they've just dropped two maps overall and those odd maps against our bottom teams, the cafe and this guy, so probably can't read much into that.
Yeah, I don't think there is really too much.
Look, at the end of the day, they're very dominant, they're very good.
Is it here, right there?
I certainly think so, but CJ in the previous interview said,
no, not really.
I think on good days, they're just really good,
but the gap can kind of close between the rest of North America.
I just, I don't see a world where they don't win the region.
This obviously is dialed up on your screen.
Can I also say something?
You're doing quite good.
They're living in Renfri, you know.
That's so bad.
Kill us back.
Kill us back, kill us back.
Tell us about the North Wagon piece.
It's just a matter of being a team big way.
That's true.
We love to see it.
That's right.
That's right.
So Space Station Gaming, obviously they look and do cement themselves as the best team
in NA so far.
Good job making it look pretty darn flawless.
And here they are.
Yeah, I mean, it's a tier break there. I think they match up well against both Dallas Fuel and Team Liquid.
So I guess there should be a tier break, but I think their flexibility has been so impressive in Stage 2
and they admit themselves in the interviews. They felt pretty rigid in Stage 1 and they saw some pretty mediocre results based on that fact.
fact and so now here in stage two I just sort of love the sugar-free flexibility is not just a
tracer it's also the Symmetra, it's the May, Hawke being able to play with Siva, I think that is
going to be a game changer in this series against Team Liquid and I don't think we're at all going
to see a replica of what we saw from Team Liquid yesterday so it's going to be much tougher in
the series. Damn yeah, they even bust that to Hansi, I don't know, it's very an A of them but they're
making smart swaps and they should be considered the heavy favorite heading into this match. Now on
on the other side, though, Team Liquid,
they've leveled up at Supersonic Speed.
It's actually a night and day difference
between what we've seen from this team,
very group stage versus what they showcased
in their match yesterday,
which was quite dominant against it.
That is feel that we are rated really highly.
Yeah, super highly, come on, feel what happened, man.
Now, I think,
another opportunity to do Dog on them, good job, Jack.
Well, I'm not Dog, I'm just saying,
I wanted to succeed. I wanted to succeed. I want you to succeed too. They're missing out on the stage one
Lan was just disappointing in all honesty. I wanted to see these guys go against some of the best teams in the world
But yesterday, you know and locking themselves in with the spot. I'm excited to see how far they can actually go
I think Sarah's been very good. I love the addition of attack as well
I think Team Liquid they do look so much better. Just it turns out when you in person boot camp
You just level up you go in the chamber and then you come out a thousand times stronger. It was truly night and day like you said
They did the little deal infected shared yesterday as well that they're you know booking triple blocks and whatnot
So they've really put in the work. Let's talk to their head coach Kosora's right before this match Kosora's welcome to the show
Thank you so much for taking the time. We won't hold you up too long
This is of course an important match for you
But talk to us about the journey that this team went on over the last couple of weeks heading into this playoff.
Yeah, of course, if we had back the Stage 1, we kind of had to reformat our team.
And now coming into this Stage 2, we have Attack and Kivus who are over there in the background, warm it up.
And we reintroduced them to the team.
And, you know, at the start, especially in this group stage, we had like a very, very slow start.
And both SSG and Dallas Fuel were able to get the better of us.
But as we have put pressure on ourselves,
and I always like to say that pressure makes diamonds,
we're coming out on the other end.
And I think we're peaking right now in this playoffs.
Yeah, I think with how well you did yesterday
and like the boot camp and liquid saying,
it's been a big boom for you.
It's a great look.
How do you guys feel going to an international, though?
Obviously, this playoffs, you're going
to be playing the same kind of teams you have been.
Yeah, how do you guys feel? How confident is the rest of the squad?
Because it will be the first real big chance for you guys to show us what you got in 26th.
Yeah, we weren't able to make the championships clash, but at the pre-season boot camp we had,
we had quite a good performance against a lot of other teams.
We showed up against Virtus.Pro and then made it close against Swiss Devines.
So I think out of all the NA teams, we'd like to show that, you know, NA is not at the bottom.
And we can do better than what we've shown so far this year.
And you know now that we've made it we you know we see we can we can put money where our mouths are
All right, so you beat down that as fuel 30 looked real confident yesterday now you're facing SSG
How do you think did they differ?
Against Dallas fuel. Do you think they were a much stronger opponent than Dallas fuel were yesterday? I think SSG is definitely stronger
They've kind of reinvented themselves this stage compared to two last stage where they're just kind of lucio key one tricks
It felt like just like us and they were better at it than us.
But now they play almost everything, right?
They play the Capacitam, they play the Wu Yang.
They can still play that Lucio Qiri.
So I think today is going to come down to who can show the most diversity
in their compositions and who can surprise the enemy team.
We're so excited to see what you guys have in store for us.
Kasaris, thank you so much for taking the time.
And best of luck to you in this squad.
Thank you.
That was Cosora as the head coach of a team, a liquid sharing some insights about their
journey in the last couple of weeks, which in fact, they talked about this yesterday
as well, right?
Like, it's not been an easy adjustments for the individuals, for the team as a whole,
obviously a new meta, new players, new everything.
So that was just, again, a lot of moving pieces.
But listen, they show up when it matters the most, they are making it to the upper bracket
finals and we'll be playing SSG right here, right now. I'm super excited. I felt like obviously SSG
still has to be considered the favorite for all these reasons, but given what we've seen from
Team Liquid yesterday, they can take maps for sure. About 100%. I really, I don't want to say
SSG are going to roll. I don't want to see a 3-0. I want to see a 3-2. I want to see a close game.
Like, team Liquid have got to bring it.
I did vote for SSG though, I think still, they're really good, they're kind of clean with it.
And I like Sugarfree, Sugarfree does show a lot of flexibility.
Like you were mentioning Johnny too, he's just so much still left in the wheelhouse for the team.
And they're going to scare everybody, I think it'll have to.
Five out of nine.
Yeah, they're going to go all out now.
Yeah, five out, that's right.
Manifested, y'all, Manifested in chat and you know, Burn the Sage or whatever it takes
in order to get us to a map of five.
We're here for it. We're ready. Let's see is gonna come out on top, you know offer up the rocket final in NA
So guys, please take it away
Here we go Johnny
Who's gonna find themselves in the fire? No shock?
Ilios is gonna be the first that always on Ilios. We've seen a little bit in Nepal for me in the A. Come on
It's almost like Cassaurus brought it to remember thought that a fire they used to be so good this map
They kind of picked it up. They tried to compete with the Koreans and then a couple of things were like yeah
We can't compete with the Koreans but to verify it. They certainly did and then obviously
I took a few members of that and made team liquid instead
It's going to be the Bastion ban here from Team Liquid
So shying away from the Kat Bastion and the Kiriko ban from SSG is going to open up things for ultraman to pick that on our game.
Oh, yeah, ultraviolet on us. Do you still think ultraviolet is the best flex in any?
I mean, yeah, I think you have to say that. Yeah
The individual skill on so many different heroes playmaker shotcaller. I think I think you gotta go with ultraviolet
But I will say if we're talking team USA
It's a lot of land. Yeah, I love land. Oh, no man the place in EMEA, but
Americans so I gotta
Yeah, for sure. All right
It's kind of come down. Yeah, no Kiri, no Bastion, so I'm looking at these backlines.
Here's this Ana, Vegas still on the cat. I think the cat is almost a go-to on this map
regardless of if a Bastion's available or not. Just to help someone like a cast of each.
And even a Shion in that regard, too. I still like the cat here.
And obviously the environmentals. They look like playing D.Va themselves.
So look, we haven't really seen from them because in fact there's been a mainstay in this roster,
this roster, but this is what Attack allows you to do. Play the D.Va comp.
Sugar Free Force and the recall really early away from Xero, so he's gonna have a bit of an easier time
finding his way to the back line.
Admiral doesn't actually get healed up by UV.
For these maids, they're gonna have to be a Khaleen from Givis.
Looking around Hawks, Meg is gonna be so tough.
The best hero on the D.Va has always been known for for so long, even though that's like the latter rain days as well, Johnny and Erboros League.
Let's go a bit of a dive there, actually didn't end up getting anyone and now Team Liquid on the back foot of that failed dive, please don't.
Once you get picked up here, it's going to be a point check from SSG.
Yeah, Team Liquid really invested in trying to kill him, but it couldn't.
Now, SSG will in control, but Zera gets a pick up the sugar creep.
Yeah, Winter Tracer won't be one, a little bit of help from the D.Va there in the assist speed. Thanks for the attack.
Alright, can space station actually hold on or even get a pick themselves?
I hope it's gonna get out of the fight, even loose spec, maybe not quite.
Looks like Zero was chasing it, but was unable to get that final point of damage
to actually make him get out of mech.
If you legally forget, okay, a quick reset for SSG.
Okay, only get 16%.
This is where Team Liquid is such a scary team.
I mean, look at this composition, Team Liquid are playing.
They could jump at you, any opportunity, sugar free here.
Does it get the one-fifth? Now just to survive this one, but Kira's has some nonables.
Lethal though, Skynoon.
Skynoon, D.Va, Eton, Swing's down to K, oh not quite, he's got like a fraction lower there, but Spree.
Yeah, the Nano Boost Spree, who'd have thought it, huh?
Fritz, he's good, a combination of ultimates.
Shikri, he's coming up with a kill, however, Shrie needs to stay alive,
Dash up in 1%!
Oh, the stick from Sarah!
Dunks on sugar-free!
Sugar-prone down!
Oh, my goodness.
Team Liquid treated Sarah coming alive.
What are we engaged there?
When SSG were engaging with the Sky Moon,
Team Liquid flips things around with the nano
and the spree.
And now 55% and counting.
SSG, they have to work their way up here,
but with the orbital ray, but Team Liquid,
they could dish out one biotic ray
and just put it, SSG, a stuff to the tracks here.
Ultraman Raven Viya is gonna be
mighty little top to use on this point
because there's so many ways that the enemy team can get away.
Ultraman Viya's gonna use it anyway.
My ground, Catmap.
Uh-oh, Odds of the D. We're gonna try and drag him down
to the death box.
Oh, the sleep as well.
It's perfect, but he still gets away.
How is Hawkeline?
How did Hawke it out?
Eventually he's gonna get de-mech
by the looks of things.
Yes, okay, there it is.
Attack kill is lethal.
Space station gaming control the coin.
A rather large, like, uh, kerfuffle bear on the outside of the map.
Killing Hawk would be rather good for Team Liquid, they are.
They're gaining control, almost, but it's actually a tactic into losing mech.
Hawk eventually ends up throwing down, but Team Liquid are still holding onto this point.
Like, how would they not let him go?
So much percentage built up there for space station gaming.
Admiral gets a couple here, attacks finally goes down.
This opens things up versus G, can we take the point?
I ate three percent for Team Liquid days the cat from SSG finally
That was an amazing disengagement horn
Now they're down to zero on either side of those saying that I say that as a general husband come up as a sheep my bad
Yep, sky noon
Perfect
Domination on to Vega
Don't straight on him and gets a lift into safety as well. They trade supports though with you be dead
Okay, Paul sport from Sarah tried to go for the a kill on dish. I guess sugar-free
I'm not sure who he was aiming for pork brings him down, but there's that bro trades again space station
Do end up flipping the team liquid getting 84 the pole spawn gets gorge give his kids
bailed out basically by Vega there
By the cat that was an insane series of events
Team Liquid now, trying to put pressure here, trying to reclaim the point.
Chibis, has this none of it, who is he going to go onto?
I think a couple of shots there on the Tracer.
There's the main, the Nanna, and now Attack is so healthy.
He's getting a catnap straight down into the deathbox though.
Attack gets completely dominated in that fight.
Admiral and Attack end up trading point, gets split together.
Team Liquid, SSG, solo 99 with the Leaf on this high ground.
But Hulk will get back to this point and Attack is going to be a big difference
make a 4 SG here. If lethal can get this guy noon as we approach this final fight that could be
what ends up claiming the point for SG here. He's so close to this high noon, he's up in the sky,
tree with the spring, well he gets absolutely no points of damage while he looks at things.
Looks like lethal is just gonna be happy with an ejection from the mech, both debas using their
self-destructs but it's actually lethal that dies. Overtime, liquid in control, nano boosts the
the point on to Hork, looks for Vega, flies away in the end so Hork looking for his next
target can't find anybody. Nobody was around there at all as Vega gets out of the way.
It seemed they could almost sneak the point away, seek the round away, but space station
getting nice to get back on. Ultraviolet ends up going down, they managed to get a TCR
to Hork as well. A post-on for Zera to keep struggling the points and now overtime he's
looking also scary for SSG. They're going to chase Zabra away, a late nano boost onto
What a look this is from Team Liquid.
SSG you would think, that the cast of Ian the Cat will have the upper hand, but the
way Sarah and Tree are just navigating these angles, the way they're flanking around, getting
pressure onto the SSG backline, Tree 13 and 1, attack as well, 15 and 2 doing a great
job on the Beaver, but this tempo that Team Liquid are bringing, and the way they're
finding a lot of picks are in the middle of these fights. That is the big difference and ends up being
what gives Team Liquid the very first round here on Ilios. They're playing so impressively right now.
Again, TalksDiva too, his best hero. Attacks gonna swap to the Sigma,
Keyless back on the Ana, Ultraviolet is going to do the same. I think Ana is just so strong.
Again, on this map, pop him on the high ground. You have the Cat for protection,
A very easy line of sight for the cat to throw on heals too.
He's just such a strong comp.
Slowing things down with a Sigma 2 is going to be good for the team.
I think Attack much prefers this style of flight.
Pretty neutral matchup here, Jaws.
Just going to come down here to individual playmaking here.
No composition, having a win up on hand.
Attack comes back very low.
Deeds need... Okay, he ends up using the Grass 2 to try and stay alive.
Looks like Hawker's traded sustained cooldowns and popping the gold.
He's in damage from Kibirce with the headshot purge
But the Thrested team have to stay in his L.O.S. His sugar free just dies to the pulse
Didn't baby got the perfect on his cat scratch on him
She'd be also dies
That's what they're sugar free boost away from the tracer. Oh, actually onto the main area
What are neck region from a package team liquid applying pressure here on to SSG and we talked to Kisaurus before the game
It's about who can showcase the deep hero pool throughout this series, SSG, they're left kind of stumbling at the minute, trying to figure out their optimal approach for dealing with team liquids on position right now.
the background. Love this angle from attack requires it. Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa,
whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Oh, they're in the wall. Tree couldn't get away.
He was actually in the wall stuck inside the object. The actual door stuck moment. I
spashed him from Sarah doesn't quite end up picking up the kill on the other always
within though. He's within all those shots. I was like three in a row from serious. He
just connects to kill the other. It didn't end up happening. Good deal from SSG to that's
What is happening in this series Sarah we gotta clean those up absolute madness indeed
and this is G they reclaim the pointer with their ultimate economy they're
building right now they're looking pretty at the moment auto losing armor
What are you fighting? It's a Sky Noon.
Oh, you got a- Oh! Look at that a boost!
No, look at that a boost! Get him up! Get him up, Lethal!
He's on the perfect tackle right now!
There's the data- Oh, Lethal!
It's up- Well, he got one shot, but Xerah I think got one better.
Apple ends up going down, points to lane control by Team Liquid saying,
Yeah, managed to sneak the cap away as they put Lethal in a perfect spot to-
Oh, sorry, they put Xerah in the perfect spot to kill Lethal in the end.
What a messy team fight.
It's SSG they regain control, but it looks like liquid remember to get out of this boy at least somewhat
They've regrouped the tax switching over stealer. I mean, this is madness
I should be goes down with the blistered as well. This is not keep liquid can push forward
You guys get this kill. I think April research wagon and towards the
The backline it was just getting out of the way. That was really about it. Oh
What a strange old dad
Okay, how would these skills come?
I mean the healing is fairly low even though there's honest and constantly contested Admiral
gets a pick on the kid is right there and meanwhile the cats are dealing damage so not a lot of
healing going on on this battlefield and we're seeing pigs being traded at all times.
I feel like the point I flip like six times the past I don't know minute is absolutely
crazy as we're approaching two Sky Nudes again this is just an absolute yes though.
He is almost 2-chacked!
UV.
Cross map.
Nanoboost in 10%.
You know, if he had to farm that one off of the Orisa's head, I would imagine.
Or anybody else that comes from the left side.
There you go.
4% to go.
High noon, sky noon.
April already down.
Oh, make a die super!
No! He's dropped off the map!
Make a die so he drops zero!
Oh, dear in me!
It's a disaster.
2v2?
Attack gets Nanoboost.
It's a 2v2.
B2, 4 Honest Oval Watch, but it isn't nano, Charlie.
I mean, it's actually in there, nine times out of 10.
Space Station Gaming, they get 95% Team Liquid, get the cap.
Okay, but it's going to be last five territory here now.
And as a street, they still have their non-muse available,
along with three other ultimates.
This has to be Team Liquid coming up with a play,
either Tree or Sera, finding something
that can give them advantage in this matchup.
Oh my goodness that was almost the sickest player of all time during the ball in the backline there's the nanoboos on the casting into the sky he ends up hitting the roll straight around the pillar both the honors are already dead but even looking for more
will bullet across the map as SSG managed to get the cap again almost gets the two
hit onto tree but managed to get the bike or the dash just in time and SSG get the cap anyway
oh round two is theirs there's no touch from attack because they sneak the cap away i thought he's
happening
They killed the cat so Sarah just plummeted to his death
Just absolutely madness. They get I saw division with the bomb. I would have been legendary
That would have been epic
You guys before he moved it like a meter. I mean leaf. I was like, oh
If you try with a diva bomb here, it's like better shoot that guy
But they had to go for a play like that
I just love the creativity out of team liquid just so happened that they get scouted out pick from the sky
This has spent a roller coaster of an alien so far
Holy moly you be went down to like one HP
from some cross-map shots
Yeah, now you got high ground control. Yeah, thanks that pressure actually kid is good system
He's has grus mick.
Oh ho ho ho!
How do you counter that if you're kidding?
Little gins over your head is cast and shoot you twice.
You just can't.
There's the cannon, you can't.
Alright, well that was one of the first fights of all time.
SSG with the point down.
Team Liquid?
You know they're going to keep contesting though, as a pack might have picked up the sugar-free yen.
This is where it gets quite difficult though, because Team Liquid, they can roam around with this sheon with the tracer.
We have to put a lot of research into protecting lethal and the master fighters.
The Maid off to attack will go into the alt-right.
We'll be chill, we're still a D-bar after all.
Ends up getting way, fully healed up again.
Alright, more shenanigans with lethal into the sky.
Ultraman is waiting to be dive bombed.
He's playing all the way back on a little staircase.
Okay, lethal's on the high ground.
Attack's here too to absorb some of the damage.
Ultraman is searching!
3 ends up dying, the air to UV ends up tapping him in the head with a headshot perk too.
They're almost gonna get capped as well, they'd end up going into the point,
attack self destruct, back of it, ends up re-mech.
An SSG get what 15% or so, but there's still a lot of members from Team Liquid to actually go for a retouch.
Hawk almost out of mech, attack's gonna try and lock this one down.
Abra doing his best to heal up Hawk with the mana boost now onto...
Yeah onto the D. But it's the catnap. Oh they're gonna tag him off the edge again.
Oh Babylon's are going down. Attacked, caches him away. And the cat is killed.
The catnap from Vega. Hibis is dead. Attacked just tried to get a trade on
Torx. Meg no self-destroyed to get the re-naked either. So will be the cat for
Team Liquid as they build up the set.
Over while it picks out Vega here but it's not going to be enough. You have to
This point and attack being healthy here with the deal make that it's going to be the difference make it for team liquid here
As well serious doing a tremendous job on a tracer staying alive despite spying picks themselves
This is a sky noon in a prayer versus G going into the next one
That's after truck you think it won't be a little bit more simple keeps this calling it out though
Yeah, the cast is already being shot as he makes his way towards the point a body shot onto Vega
our high noon pod from lethal still holding as he's dangled in front of the point attack
enter going down there while he's the mech does like he mentioned alethor on height give us nine
hp and attacks body gets cleaned up too baby leave it down space station should be able to clean
this one up no problem the team liquid drop like 90 something percent 89 oh do another big question
for space station is how do you win one of these fights with this guy noon not being available
can lethal get there in time maybe it has been but it's kind of pushing these fights over the
edge for ssd here's team liquid doing such tremendous work with the she on with the tracer
in a composition like this ultra-violent can you maybe find something with the biotic reindeer
to buy space stations on time i think i'm calling these fun pick up all point all oh you these dead
Yeah, nice! Yeah, nice setup from Sarah and it's a hard thing on that off angle.
Leef goes on at the enemy high ground right now, but he's guarded by the fearsome cat.
Halt gets slept in the end, Sugarfree would like to kick off onto the arm before Vega can teleport away.
Sugarfree ends up getting two, still alive as well.
I mean, look at the end of the day, if Halt's alive on this point, they're still gaining percent.
I mean, D-Mec, I mean, the self-destruct is gonna give him an extra life.
They managed to D-Mec attack force and he's only self-destruct.
can't quite get the baby to clean up however, but look who's back in the action!
Oh, the stick from Sarah! What was that onto Avril? Into the sky?
Hawk ends up getting desuited, can't quite get the kill, but no, they can actually
slipping in at the perfect moment after that self-destruct.
Team Liquid end up getting the cap too, Space Station needs to touch,
but Team Liquid are going hunting right now.
I'm looking for that touch to come in, and so is Sarah, he's nanoed,
Frick's gonna get there in time Johnny. Sky noon. Sky noon here as you gotta keep contesting the point
But can lethal find anything? It doesn't look like it
Nobody around there's nobody around. He didn't even pull the trigger on that way either
The cat nap from admiral fakes gonna happen in a couple of moments before getting up running him over lethal with this silver bullet
It's admiral. It's just dancing around the point trying his darndest to stay alive
He'll not in the end by UV. Thankfully his Hawk is just
solidifying the point for SSG
a double kill on to attacking Sarah and now where does the touch for liquid it
doesn't look like it's gonna come in there's no one there a space station
finish up the map that is going to be one of those chaotic games or maps of
over all time
I think it comes down to sugar-free watching things up with the 2K in that very final fight.
It boils down to a 2 vs 2, Hawk has superior mech health with the Beaver, and I think as
you clean up on the back of that, Sky Noon currently finding things wrong, let's go.
I mean, so many like individual pace back and forth. Like I said, it's almost like a pick-up.
You're just looking for these dice to stick onto the tracer. Just absolute madness entirely.
Dude, yeah, I mean, their play, their...
Cap does break the game, in a way.
Where like, these immobile heroes are now so mobile,
that they can
Traverse not only like past cover but past high ground around the map in the skybox like they're far
Like they're a flying guy. They're flying character with almost better movement because they have almost perfect control
Like thanks to the cat rub and far who has to use a jet fuel
Insane I think it is put a pick on that this way
Just ridiculous another stick by the way from Sarah on to sugar free
It's like dive comp, but it's
not the core and make it dives.
It's just constant dives.
It is.
If with the sky noons with the
cast, the cast of these in this
comp are dive characters.
It's crazy.
Please five maps on this.
Please.
Five maps are crazy.
Don't forget both teams have
already qualified to the mid
season championship at EWC, but
You can pick up your ticket 15% off. You know the drill over 15 at the checkout and you're good to go
Do you sell by little discount help with the travel costs?
Of course there save yourself a little bit of money pocket it or spend on some much up to you
But yeah, make sure you join us over in Paris, France for that one
It's gonna be a blast hope to see you there now as we get back into this series space station
With a map under their belts, but honestly that could have been a coin toss
I'm going to just lay it at that.
Neon Junction!
Yes!
Okay, Neon Junction for NA, finally.
Got my wish.
Thank you, Team Liquid.
Alright, what do you want to see, Joss?
You made your wish, it came true.
What do I want to see on Neon Junction?
Mario?
Odyssey!
No.
No.
I want to see D.Va or Sigma on this map with Tracer.
maybe diva, just more diva actually, just more diva and more dive with tracer and the
shield, looks like attack stepping out though, in fact to come in for tl, okay, well I respect
your wish Jaws, so let's see if that comes into fruition, infected being sub in, I'm
kind of suspecting a tank fan here to kind of protect for the mauga as well, Jaws it
just makes no sense.
It's out.
Mad is pretty good on a hybrid and good on the own
junction.
We'll see.
Team Liquid.
Yeah.
Ban in the Orissa.
Okie dokie.
Gonna force Hawk onto something else.
We'll see how Team Liquid or how SSG wanna ban.
Ban the shield maybe.
Well actually what you ban here if you're SSG.
I mean, you're probably going to place the Sigma
composition maybe with like a snippet draw or
something like that.
Or.
Okay.
I'm not too sure actually.
The thing about this G is that they have so much flexibility in this stage, so like a new junk city that will play something like a Wu Yang kind of composition, right?
It's going to get a bit of the Xiong. I actually kind of like this because they're slowing Team Liquid down, but I think Team Liquid has done so well versus Dallas Q yesterday.
It's just the tempo is just unbelievable and you saw what Team Liquid are capable of on Ilios. It's like they kind of like getting messy with Xero and Tree playing Tracer Xiong kind of compositions.
And so getting she on here even if you have zero flexing away away from the tracer
Just having you need to play a reliable slower hit scan here now
And I think maybe that's what she's trying to destroy things
Don't mind the tempo change whatsoever
All right, slow down in neon junction Johnny. It's our first time cast in this one, too. Yeah
probably
up a finals winner here goes to the stage to play off finals before they go to Paris at the end of the month
oh oh let's go infected Ryan come on Ryan Hart we've seen it on on the on junction once in a year come on
It takes a dollar, it does have some Ryan.
I think it actually like matches well into SSG except for the fact when they play the
Mauga.
And so SSG playing Mauga here is actually just like nah maybe let me, let's maybe not,
let's maybe not play the Ryan.
But if like Hog was playing something like a Sigma or a Sauria that's when you start
contemplating this play for sure.
Malka and the Bastion as well, like, how long is Ryan gonna survive?
Alright, they're gonna TP out, let's have a look, or TP drop even, they're just gonna
wait for this one, there it is, teleport.
Hey man, I'm saying round up the box, the break points for the fire shreds, way better
now.
W.
He's making it happen, he's making it happen.
Oh, Infection's getting a little bit bullied, I still think of the statue there from a leaf,
all getting some damage in the shield already very low, in fact, down to only 21 HP.
You're meant to heal that one up.
Looking for the Stoff right now, gonna try and charge the people, good pimp from Infection!
And then they're shield off the heals as well!
Holy Reinhardt gameplay!
One of the best Reinhardt's ever do it in North America.
That is that, that is Odyssey Picture Perfect.
Stomp attempt from Malga from Hawke, if they could shield them off, after he pins it.
That's how you fight Ryde.
Yeah, I think Hawke wants that overrun back.
As in...
He's just using a postponement.
He's playing Doomfist!
What is happening in the series?
Hawke's playing Doomfist!
And he made his own snogger!
And they've infected James Snogger!
No way!
No, he's crying in the lobby bro.
Oh, he's mad right now.
He can't do anything, you can't do anything, he's got like, he's just taking infinite damage.
Oh, dude.
Yeah, oh yeah, you've got him faked it.
You've got him faked it.
Bring him from in to in now.
Oh, you know what, okay, killing Sarah's a good start.
We'll save that, we'll save that.
Unfortunately though, should we freeze down to the mage, then the horse just stands there,
I'm really sad like please judge my time. Please judge.
Look at his health bar bro. It ain't happening. I need to break it here. He has to get out.
He's kind of making space for the Tracer and the Bastion.
SSG, they're coming up on support ultimates here as well.
He's watched one too many quick dumb roll out bids mate. I think it's a problem there.
He's got a medium for it.
Yeah, sure. I've been sure.
That's how he's going to jump in. That's how he's going to fly and check out.
down to half HP already.
Orbital Rage, they're gonna actually respond to it.
The rush nice feel on three instantly after the slam,
still gonna meet your strike in hand though,
it's that Orbital Rage and the ward,
it's just so horrible for Space Station to get through.
Meet your strike pop, but you, the Elite are already dead.
Space Station getting, he could run a couple of ults here,
just try and get some picks and then hit the reset,
because he's not surviving too much longer here,
absolutely no way.
Sherrod charged up with a beam, too,
just laser beaming him down.
Now, the only thing Abarook can out for
is some extra time off the bank,
Cause you just int onto payload and there it is, the Swiss server to Malga, whistow back.
We are so bad.
Both of them are on the Wu Yang though, that is going to be one of the difference makers here.
Adrel, we want to be here too as well, we want to get back to them quickly here as well.
Try to go for a complex.
Got K2, just insta-case the Malga, that's perfect!
Cardiac goba drive's not going to be enough here, you think?
Nice little wave there to actually top all top, but already so low.
Ultra Violet, Bones, smithereens, thanks to Tree's name.
April gets the tree, but sure, whatever, that's fine. Team Liquid happy with the time bank.
Four minutes and 40 seconds moving into this last point.
Do you remember at the start of the week and I said this is a good math pool for Team Liquid? Well,
this is why I think we can bring out these smoggy compositions here on Neon Junction.
They can always rely on New Junction City as well for compositions like this,
and this is where they have the upper hand against teams like SSG and Dettleskill,
and Team Liquid really pushing the tempo now.
Huh? What? Where did Sugarfree die? Oh there he is, he's on the floor. What? How does the Reaper die there? Must have been like a NAVE combo or something, I'm not 100% sure.
They're on the final stretch, there's 4 minutes still in the time bank and Kivis has a rush in...what, now?
They're gonna be perfect at this point, Space Station's got no ults, most of them got their own rush, but this is gonna be overwhelming for them, I gotta imagine.
Yeah, look at this, everybody from Space Nation Gaming had to get out of there.
Emergency, Op-A-Tree unlocked too, they're still pushing the Stalid in.
What will they do about NA3, no problem.
A kill on Toledo, good tracking, in fact from the Bastion.
But they've already lost Sarah and Vega.
They couldn't convert the kills after the rush.
Ultravile are playing and the front line almost gets stomped on.
It's the rise of wave though, it gets out of there, but with Tree dead,
their lack of damage is so evident now, it's Team Liquid.
They're charging out and having to reset.
Crucially, like you mentioned, it didn't get enough value from that kid's NunuRosh.
And, Space Station, they held onto their ultimates as well after you get those couple of picks.
No need to drop ultimates, and that gives you a good opportunity now to hold on this third point.
She got free?
Waiting in the wings here.
Look for some initial damage.
Oh, the tide of life, I suppose.
The cage gets parted, this is surely going to be a no-down onto a bank to get.
It is!
Wall is going to come through to try and save him.
Nice Suzu too, she's keeping top shot.
Taking so much poke damage though, but now baby can pop that ray, but it's too late!
It's too little and too late!
Sugarfree with the triple death blossom after that cage gets deployed in their face.
No matter how much amp healing and amp damage from that ray,
you cannot underestimate Reaper in a close-core situation.
So SSG, they're holding the fort now on this third point, but the layering
may be a little bit too awkward in that fight as Team Liquid now get an opportunity
with their own Kitsune rush to finish this map.
Can this is you buy enough time here to maybe build an ultimate of the wrong
You gotta just get more value this much
Yeah, they just died
Still two minutes in the bank
But now the old site will comes in you these gonna get title boss in a couple of moments only
20% away and with the pope of the triple law. He's gonna get it so fast
Look, he's up 90%. I finished that Sanity, gained 10% by hitting a Triple Law of 1 Invasion.
They're going to try and get the Charging, they want to try and make this quick.
There's the Rush in the choke point and our Horde tries to get out.
A nice wave is going to help him keep top top and our Vector didn't get a good spot.
Tartar Blast on the Reapers sent, Tracer back on my Triggerfree, dealt with almost instantly.
That Tartar Blast over health was just eviscerated by TL.
I'm now Hawking dire need of assistance.
Ends up popping the artillery brush here for 3, but Invaders already dead.
A minute and thirty seconds ago, TL forced to reset.
And you gotta say this has been a sensational defense by SSG.
Admiral Drosikic-Sunorj asked, well, to kinda close things out there.
And a minute and thirty here, only for Team Liquid after a dominant first couple of points.
Vega's going to come up on this orbital raid. They're looking to push the tempo at all times.
But, ultraviolet.
Coast on early to zero actually. This is the opening.
What?
Just a right click? That's gotta be paired up with a Kudo or something. That's just so quick.
Deathboss and Pistera in a couple of moments.
K's, the space station gaining, they could lock this one out if they so choose.
K's fight, Deathboss and Pistera on time, nice use of double K's if they're retreating with a triple K's!
And that's gonna do it!
It's under a minute short, but Trey gets the triple K's after the Deathboss and the orbital raid.
The ult dump for TL.
There's a side seal to deliver that payload on to third.
under a minute like you said they pushed the payload across the finish line
but if you are space station here you have to be at least slightly satisfied
with that defense on the third point because it started out real rough for
them look here at all these firefighters sugar-free actually just cleaning
things up there with the death blossom I mean it looks good when you drop the
Oh look at that! That was crazy. A nade killing three? I don't think I've ever seen that.
That was ridiculous. Thanks to the death cost, I'm only able to rape it. It looks so good.
Alright defense, we're so back. Infected, playing the rine again.
okay so this is interesting definitely prefer the Reinhardt on the attack
because it gives you the opportunity to kind of pick where you want to go when
you want to go the defense you're kind of playing a bit more reactively to
whatever the offense is bringing in this one but if you can still maintain some
proactiveness here on the defense where the serial want to teleport you how can
Can you find an open angle 4-3?
This is going to be a challenge for Team Liquid
But playing this composition, they're very confident in their ability to make it work
Or a mantra with the Sebastian, and then the May as well
Tough comp for Infected to deal with
They're waiting, and it looks like they're going to shield forward
Paying attention to where this teleporter is, it's going to be very important for SSG
They're on the high ground. They're ready to descend. This is 20. They're ready. It is it really is
That is coming for them if they
To ragged off this high ground. We'll be careful. I'm wrapping small text very deadly. There's the teleport and here comes the ride of the
Bastion
Coupling up with the form. It's nice for the war stops effective for moving on and yeah, that's it
That's the pain and torture and suffering that was talking about
Infected job. It's just so hard on the Rhine if you can't use that teleport readily
This computer was perfectly built for countering the Rhine and must be said
Easy does it and well you gotta still say that the reaction from SSG it made sense
Their first intuition was to flank around get below the Rhiner competition and then force the teleporter from Sira
It was still good positioning from SSG, their first intuition there saved them a lot of
time moving forward to the second point, a good reaction to the minor position.
Now Infected is back over onto the Maga, as kind of expected here.
This is where SSG could start running away with this series, but both Kirikos are going
to get closer to Kitsune Rush.
Just going to rush, barrage.
This era warblow has been the throwing side of space station.
There's the vortex trying couple up with the lethal solver sugar-free is already dead
Looking for another blast there is after the knockdown to that very good a kind of holding on to these trying to protect the front line is
Making sure Hawkins right stay alive annihilates in a couple of moments to here's the wall in the school space infected the April trade
Sarah playing behind this wall sports up to level 3d
There's all this walk with the annihilation still in hand.
The space station gaming make it fairly easy to go with this fight.
They save so many key ults too. They've got Ray, Blizzard and annihilation for this next one.
And Liquid have only got a Ray.
Yeah, aside from the Doomfist gameplay from the past, this is an SSG team
that have looked really prepared for a team Liquid is throwing away lethal,
Finds a pick on the zero and this is SSG rolling with the brawl compositions now against team liquid
Okay, yeah, don't give sugar free a right click
It's gonna play on this final stretch here. I mean this place of your jobs
Double orbital ray bastion playing in it thanks going so low already, but they're trying to outpace this ray
They used the blisters around the top split, so no one's benefiting from it right now.
Infected, goes down the cage, traps Sugarfree in, but Sugarfree's gonna be at 5, got blocked,
Walled all ready to go.
Lethal, Artillery, Parash, Infected low, hardly any CD's left, but he's got healers in the
back to keep him topped up.
No one falls either, double-rate fight, no one dead, annihilation used 2.
Here's the Rushed Motorbives trying to turn the Ties in their favor.
Infected finally falls, and an emergency Artillery Parash can truly be get BOLD over by Sugarfree.
And there it is.
That was almost a goat's bite, Jolly, with the amount of holes that was thrown in and no one dying.
Four minutes in the time bank, very similar to what Team Liquid had.
I think this is such impressive play by Space Station.
They commit the blizzard, Sugar Fee doesn't get any value with it, but they decide to sit back,
they slowly disengage, they build up the Kitsuna rush from Ultramanet,
and that is the difference maker as well, for them ending up capping that second point.
Now, we saw that very stalwart defense that doesn't seem to be able to pull out on their own defense.
Now, camping Liquid do the same.
Kibbers got a rush in half.
Got a rush.
Got a very good place to use it to along this stretch.
Tepid aggression, however, with that Bastion form not being available.
Walk now, pushing all the way up.
That wall is, again, just proving quite the nuisance for TF.
They're just walking around, he's trying to visit, however.
Tree gets frozen for a second to go, but saved, thankfully.
Team Liquid still standing. Fireplay is alive.
A freeze this time onto Serra.
They could switch kill onto super free, just trade one for one.
And now in fact, you can just play these corners, wait till that Bastion bomb to wear out.
You're gonna be mindfully off the mage out,
Kordick over to our timing here, turrets form here from tree,
this is human equid, making a push for you.
Climb on the corners, waiting, hoping they can get a free kill with the artillery barrage.
That Borg's gonna tank at the majority of that damage,
Sarah waiting in the wings with the death blossom.
Both teams here just building ultimates for the time being, SG they're coming up on a double support ultimate.
This could be the ultimates I can afford, I think they could ghost down though, just get to fight.
I laced in two, but oh, Sarah!
Yep, in that orbital ray and the cage, that's a big ult investment from TL.
Three key ults blown in that fight.
They really brought the entire squad as well, they're like we're gonna push along with the entire
They're all in deep.
They're all in deep, in deep.
Lethal here, swaps over, onto the sojourn, and then naturally, we like this up against
Amalga.
The big question here is going to be the angles though, we only have the line of sight to
find yourself useful as you start generating the first weapon.
I mean, one way of gunshot here.
Could be a big difference, maker, but look how close the corner this map is.
Oh, oh my god.
They could just get you while you map.
They're not the Annihilation 2, both rushes are gonna get ripped to almost exactly the same time in our sugar-free spot, this...
...belief zone as well.
They're surely just too much here for Space Station Gaming, but they've lost Hawke in the frontline.
Infected's just gotta keep this fight going. They've got better spawns, Blizzard throw now.
Hawke is dead for sure, but we trade for Infected.
A better look here for SSG is they managed to isolate the tank from Team Liquid.
And they're gonna get back with a thief as well with that major. So just gotta survive this turret's form.
They're going to do something out of there.
Stay captain 3.
Oh, 3 dies.
I mean, surely that's it.
I mean, Hawke is just making sure these bullets as well come through from the Reaper.
It's just such a good finish cop here.
Four space station gaming.
Infected, it's just such a giant wall of meat that everybody from SSG are going to shoot at.
Nice switch up from Hawke in the end.
Oh, for a minute potential here too.
Team Liquid, the end of kill and lethal.
Avril, barely hanging on to life.
Clinging and the whole piggy gets the orbital ray off looks like it's gonna be able to
Three dice on point. Oh, and now we're rotating divas too. Luckily in complex six many more
Blizzard on the point and that should be that there it is
barely any time over TL
one minute versus one oh twos my word
That last point that went basically the same for both teams. They both have what like four minutes going into last
I mean, this is a replica of what was on circuit reality in the egg both teams
Mimicking their time to approach overtime here this time on a hybrid map, but it has to be said. I mean
That lethal pick just straight off to win when you lock in the soldier
That's crazy. That lethal is able to open things up like that allows you to round this corner
And then it's all all from it's from there and rolling it out, but that opening pick from lethal
that was sensational. Yeah, they don't get it done if that pick doesn't hit. Picking up
Juno too. You do speed ring, use a whole lot of heals, even an okay amount of damage coming
out as well from the pulse up torpedoes. In that close range, they're going to be here
in most people. Well, they're playing it safe. No Rhyne on defense. They're playing Malga.
better on the attack for Rhyme because you can swap or his team they're
critically to get perma counted. Take us to a making swap, sir.
Going to be the Juno at the end of the day here. Let's see how Space Station
react to this now. It's going to be a pretty good standard composition from
Team Liquid. SSG as well the rolling out with a pretty standard one. I think SSG
quite happy with the composition they're playing here.
They've got Kat Bastion or Kat Kass.
Haven't selected the Perk yet.
Yeah, they're waiting.
Oh, we know there's a three on the other side with the Bastion, but there's no Kat to fly him around.
So happy to kind of take the trait for the time being.
Cardiac Overdrive spot on either side. Trigo's really low.
He's got the heal on himself as well.
Look at that.
I mean, Horges falling over.
There's 20 seconds to go here, Team Liquid. They're gonna get the payload going.
Tree assisting in all those kills with the Quinn-Toppelkill.
I'm kind of surprised that Sugarfree picked the Missile perk there.
You knew they'd play the Bastion. It's going to be the swap open to the Tracer.
I wonder if Sugarfree picked the wrong perk.
And I feel like the other Tracer is dead.
Yeah, they even got a single check on the point and they have to touch as well.
Space Station, we better get a move on.
They're gonna get a touch with the Tracer, but Apple's already gone down.
Sugarfree has to survive, and look, it's another touch, sure.
Zera is traded, but Sugarfree has one blink left.
He can't get away.
Yeah, Vega's going to chase him down.
There's a high noon from lethal to maybe separate the team.
Gets another touch, but oh, no, he doesn't.
Doesn't roll long quick enough.
Vega takes down both TPS.
There's the defense.
Looks pretty damn solid.
No capture progress whatsoever.
No tick for Space Station.
I mean, straight up, that was just a poor attack.
SSG, they have higher standards than that, and that is an attack they would like back.
Now, there's a great opportunity here for Team Liquid.
A minute and two seconds to avoid a draw and steal a map here on Neon Junction.
Let's tie up the series.
Okay.
Oh, Hawk on the Sigma instead. I love the May on these defenses too.
Having the ability for May just to hold one person off is just so strong.
Because you only need a pick and you're only fine against a minute.
Yeah, the spawn's really close here. It's the elbow.
I'd love to see if the May can beat the difference here.
Maybe looking for something cheeky here. All right.
this is a do or die if they get found or they instantly fall over it's done you
need this wall to be perfect from sugar free gonna say the fight fairly early
dip around the corner we'll see if they all make changes okay zero for Vendetta
Injected thought for half a second. Zarya was the core, but switch back to Malga.
This is so long in. If SSG can just absorb all this pressure coming out from the initial dive from Sera,
they're going to have so much health.
They can just stay alive. A boy getting picked here.
Vendetta's gonna be hard to actually execute though. Leefin is increasing so damn healthy on the base, and the mage, Sony's survivability tools.
Sera was there instead of going down. Look at the assist feet to five players, shooting at that Vendetta.
It's 15 seconds to go.
Johnny, they need to trash, they need to regroup. Zera's gonna spawn now with only 12.
This is one final attempt, otherwise it's gonna be a tie.
Zero will be here though, there's going to be a touch coming in, but
you gotta go in all together. You've gotta play a 5-in-1 scenario like this.
Form's already used from lethal, should be free. Nice to find Zera. Oh look, wait!
Man, should use that ship to get away. That ward now already expended, Zera can go in.
Ultra Fire already down, one support left to SSG, and Zera is carving them up.
them up in the front line. Sugarfree also falls loose for support up that early. You just cannot
happen. And now they barrel on to get a final touch, but it's not going to come through. TL,
33%. They understood the assignment, making some big swaps. They tie us up.
What a chance they took there on the Vendetta composition working out. And ultimately,
You saw how pushed back they got on the back of that initial
Serial dive there when the blade comes in you're diving in as to vendetta all of this is she they feel like they have to retreat
Because the back so they can go for the re-engage by about that time tree is already set up on the soldier and infected
It's pretty pressure on the point and with all that space earned
Team Liquid are able to put enough pressure on to the objective that they end up tapping things out in overtime
And tying off the series here, but what a map that was
Look at this stats as well. Did you see how many a limbs liquid had like as a team and how much damage as well?
I
Mean everybody was rocking over 10k almost across the board not only just the TL the versus G as well like
God, it's the high a limb game
Lot of the highlight good to it must be said that was
What a map. Like both of these maps have this button. This P.
In my own way too, just completely different styles. Four teams going out to head.
There I say we're picking.
Hey, this is going to distance me. Minimum of four maps now.
So, I mean, this is going to be a close series, and I hope it is. This is a revitalised, reformed team liquid.
yeah there you go this is asking about 30 and then 23 33 23 34 on the side it's
crazy it's insane the Juno's the ones with the least damage like 4k at the
shore but look at the healings from Juno. 25k, 22k. The Kirokos are rocking like 10 plus k
damage. Just a bloodbath man disgusting stuff I'm happy we saw some near
Junction 2. I was happy to cast that one. TL and SSG. One each now. I like the proactive changes too,
even going over to Vendetta. Like just making sure we have the upper edge. Making full use of
the entire minute they had. Five minutes and like two seconds.
Yeah, the risk they took there. I thought that was very impressive from Liquid. And now the question
is where do you kind of go from here? The thing is they're both so evenly matched in so many different
styles that I'm kind of like like it's hard to really identify what the upper hand is for either
team I would say maybe SSG if they play a brawl map and ban off the Malga then things get a little
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Ooh, Dorado.
I mean, it has to be said, historically you'd say, yeah, we can, um, have a hot plated
D.V. on a map like this and then ban out the enemy tank as well.
Well, team Liquid was real good yesterday on this map.
What the bans for SSG?
SSG are taking it and banning first.
I mean, freaking ball.
I'm quite sure even because even if you ban a tank away from infected like yeah
They can post you know play the sigmers on like that Winston
I think it's going to be cool though nobody saw that yesterday
It's going to be the Misuki ban actually which prevents you know the slower kind of similar composition to take place on the defense
Working liquid here, but it does allow them to play pretty actively and dive approach here
Team the grave what you saying we responded
I actually wouldn't hate it target and walk a little bit here yeah I think there are so
many options unless you want to try and wait for like a cat bastard or something like that
they would already be fan bastard yeah yeah in theory you could ban cat if they want to
get that out of there. Right.
It's gonna be Diva. Ah, yeah, there you go.
Targeting Hawke. Yeah.
Banging Diva. Alright.
Getting Diva out of the pool.
Very good map for Dive.
Probably one of our better ones, to be fair.
We said Dallas Fuel loved to pick it.
They loved to play Winston.
They loved to play Arnaud on this map.
They loved to play Dive.
So, yeah, getting Hawke and forcing them
onto a non-Dive comp and forcing Hawke.
Not necessarily off comfort,
but comfort for this map most definitely.
Yeah, this is going to be an interesting Dorado.
I don't think it'll be at all what we saw yesterday
team liquid and that was fuel. I think SSG has a little something up their sleeve here because
you can't really match team liquid when they play Tracer and Shion and so you don't really want to
opt into that super high tempo those kind of compositions here and so SSG they're probably
thinking you know they can play Cat, Cassidy and keep doing what they were doing on the early O sort of.
I think that's my best bet. Yeah, cat cats. Yeah, it's like a bashing. I mean, the whole
country's playing Malgo if you want. Exactly. Come play Sigma. It's just forcing them into
a camp when they play like this rush or like they poke. Yeah, we'll see. We'll see. I'm
glad this isn't the three oh, that's all I can say. Our bracket has been full of three
although the TL Dallas Steel game was very entertaining because TL had shown
it's gonna something new in this playoffs, but yeah, we'll have a 1 on 1.
Yeah, yeah, that's some good games Johnny. We've had some good games go to 5, so yeah, I'm happy with this one's going a distance to him.
Yeah, hopefully this one goes a distance. But I think what is so amazing about this match is not only that like the going to the toe-toe-toe hole, but it's also that
Well, Kassura said pre-game, it's like the hero pools are so deep between these two teams, that you're kind of not sure what the enemy team is going to play.
Wait, they felt like this entire stage to go with Dallas Fuel, you know, we know we're going to play the Pharah, and they're going to pick your opponent as a part.
Kalunex, they love playing the Sariah and the Risa.
And now you see this SSG team play with matchup, and you're like, hmm, what are they actually going to play?
They can play a lot of different styles, so what are they cooking?
That's a bit of a mystery, I don't know why I'm so mad at him.
That's fine. That's good. That's why I like this map pool too.
Because you do get a little sprinkling of, oh we got a little bit of dive here.
We'd go ultra poke if we chose Junkertown.
Oh, a little bit more dive maybe for Hollywood special second.
Like, you know, I like it. I like the era pool that we got right now.
I think it's pretty good. I think it's pretty good.
So we're going to see, um, or they end up picking.
Obviously we're just going to get into the game.
Don't worry. What's that?
This is a cat passive.
We're still waiting on TL.
That sounds a bit...
You guys gotta get in.
Don't load in! You gotta lock in.
They're all in here, bro.
Bootcamping.
You know, it made me think.
It made me think, Jaws.
Bootcamp.
Go on.
Bootcamps are so effective, right?
Bootcamps are so effective.
Like every time a team goes to bootcamp they just like level up tremendously. It's like it's like a speed boost
They're just so much better so much
Here's what I'm proposing. All right
Boot camping
But for stuff besides eSports. All right, like what I just like maybe I just want to get the entire talent team
Let's go to a boot camp
Well, it's not like we're gonna scream or play matches or anything like we're gonna go to a boot camp holiday and just go hang
Well, what you're describing Johnny is a holiday. Oh, okay
Yeah
It's not what that is. I mean with a lot of activity schedule. I guess it has to be a little bit intense a boot camp
It's not a holiday because it's intense. So okay, check this out. I
trip with an intense amount of planning and scheduling
We go Hawaii
Right. Yeah, go snorkeling. Okay. Go diving or we go skiing. I mean that just sounds like the best time already boot camp for non esports
I'm calling it
Manned esports man discovers holidays
All right, I'm just saying they're cooking your real life
All right cabbash in two sigmas
Okay, so it's gonna be Hawke on 6 and they're gonna rock with the mage and like this
I'd like this style from SSG and I really like the mate too. I think sugarfree's mage been really good
Whoa, thanks for all come back. Yeah, I mean
The balance is so good right because you can't get away with playing the cat bastion
But hawk isn't also left on the payload by themselves
So you have a little bit of balance in the front line. There's so much aerial pressure here
So Team Liquid probably has the aptitude to this approach.
Obviously, SSG, they will play a lot around this turret support,
and when the turret support is done for lethal,
that is serious kind of time to strike with the passive.
So I've managed to gain quite a bit of space,
taking the slide around with that in casualty,
but not dishing out as much damage as there's like on Team Liquid.
Liquid was definitely going to chase that though.
Nice rock-hot to invent.
How to put the shield behind in, mind you,
to stop them getting shot in the back, so a two-pronged approach.
A duo effort from the tank in the BPS of SSG.
That might just be a point without...
But that's singing the pig too, that's the point.
Okay, clean as you like from SSG here.
I wonder if Sugarfee is going to stick with this lane now because...
...if you look on the second point, like, yeah, maybe you can go just a high round here, but...
...it is a pretty wide open point for a mage to be played here.
We'll see if they can make it work with this game, I think.
Killer strike?
Oh, on the roof too.
Oh, you see Zerah roll too?
He's like, absolutely not getting out of the way.
He's not dragging to my doom.
Unfortunately though, yeah, this fast mask.
He's going sky nude onto the cat.
He's hit the second shot.
No, it's alright. Vega's there.
Nice to get both lethal and after.
Those support combat.
Three versus four here.
Sugarpink does have a pick on the tree and I guess that is the smallest of silver linings is that while that bad is going on you can put a lot of pressure onto this card as you sugar free here down with paw.
At the end of the day someone has to contest from Team Liquid and because you're not playing the May yourself, in fact you can't really drop down.
Well, there's the rush, they're trying to catnap right now, they got the, uh, they got the Cassie bar for a second.
Beautiful, looking flux here from Haw. He's gonna manage to isolate, infected.
Get him off onto the high ground, put him in the woggy one, but if that actually rocks him off height, Zera is down.
Team Liquid down a player, but they put the Sigma back up on the high ground thanks to the cat, and now, in fact, it might be in a little bit of trouble.
It's gonna get kidnapped too. It's gonna lay. Oh no, Vega, Dragonhawk away from the fight, but still infected
Overwhelmed with the amount of damage that SCU were throwing at it
All getting trolled by his own maywolves. All good, not a problem
And honestly, Jonster, the may has been the difference here
It's just pretty so much pressure onto the card
So a lot of Wolff the Mastrofler could have gone highway infected
Lasted Jeff on the breaking ball, not going to work out for you. Sorry, buddy
But Team Liquid playing this Cassidy and the Sheep, they haven't quite found the value they wanted.
Sugarfree swapped over here to the Tracer though, but already two pretty quick points on the back of that Mei, and it comes back to...
kind of haunting Liquid here again.
Oh, they're faked over to Mao getting stared to. They're fighting from high to low before the cat pops him up on height.
What's I'm saying, man? The cat really does just break the game.
game. It's kind of great.
Alright, you make one. Need an individual payment to step up their
tithes. It's behind of the Kitsune rush timing. Tree, can you find a moment to
utilize this free here? That's a street.
Despite the double support, I mean, that's not
right. Maybe not. Take too long to get a hail back up. It's almost out of
there. Oh, should have redecorated the fight now.
there the bash is pretty low too small optimization there a second ago with
infected it's a tanky one of the legal like a fashion
all shots because he wasn't any danger of kind of dying so he's
handed to give him his hand they can what all charge he was sat in the corner
it's quite nice very small it could have meant Kevin's got this rush on
a fraction earlier oh dear oh dear they're so they're in cover though I
I mean, surely this doesn't work until...
They made the ping out of the cat, high noon from coast, over...
Oh, the catnap! Oh, it's back! Oh, it still goes down!
Whoa, that was close!
Avalanche, I'm using the catnap, like, in, like, very close proximity to myself.
Nice defense from Team Liquid.
The point hasn't moved an inch either, in fact, it's regressing.
Yeah, I kind of think that SSG missed their timing there.
Let's fight when they ended up being picked indoors. That was their one great opportunity to kind of close out the map and now infected
Built up this cage fight on the defense team liquid are quite comfortable here on the defense
This is not going to be a challenge for us to see if they get back. We get this paleo push
Sugary got dominated by three forces in to rotate
You should be able to escape to safety.
There you go, there's the cage.
Pushes little out of cage range, but this walk was the main target.
There's the catnag, walks, escapes through his life,
and also rips the flux and gets infected.
Spree from free, ends the fight so cleanly.
After every cooldown was used,
he sneaks into the backline and picks up a double.
And suddenly, if Spacesh now left,
he kind of adapted to what Team Liquid are doing
on the defense here instead. It's going to be Hawk moving over to the Maga, taking the brawl matchup.
And well, you do have a Reaper here, so we know what Maga and Reaper can do.
It'd be sort of close-cornered battles. I was wondering if Team Liquid here, maybe, you know,
don't want to fight in this choking war. They want to give themselves a bit more space, as I say, they're infected.
Just charges in.
Nice.
The League of Legends 2, this pro activity here, is looking clean until the rest of the team fall over, unfortunately.
Team Liquid have lost their tank, but SSG aren't going to be able to march on.
I think Team Liquid, they've just got to poke and prod for a little bit, rely on Sarah's
high ground positioning to keep control of this main lobby.
Huge pick from Tree, actually. Just on the off angle by himself finds sugar-free
and capitalizes on, and just buys even more time for the defense here. Great play by Tree.
Oh, this is so bad!
Suzu!
Not quite!
Lethal's shuts him down!
Both Cassidy's end up trading, but he's already used so many cooldowns, surely it's a free
bit on top.
The Catnap steals the Mauga away, no cleanse to help him.
As Infected also picks up another kill.
45 seconds left on this defense for SSG.
Cera swaps over to the Reaper, now themselves. They really want to hold these close corner choke points
and not allow SSG to step through. They have the Skydoom themselves though, but swinging through here,
Ademov's going to become a big target for Liquid.
Can't leave but get this one done. Here's the Flashbang, Skynoom, Terri's in the backline already.
The stop is good for a kill on Sugarfree. Didn't really set a chance.
Cadnab doesn't secure anybody, Serah hit in the right form, and now they march on forwards as a rush at their back.
Senki set the team liquid here. Cage, fight, lock down, Hawke. Hawke's so close, we're not going to win himself, but this free finishes him off before he can use it.
That's going to be it.
And this is just a sneak-stiff. Time bank out here on defense. What a third point goal from Team Liquid.
The way they changed this defense around after a pretty brutal start.
Mightily impressive and it came down to individual place
There was a couple of fights
They found the picks a couple of fights with decisive aggression through the choke points and then in the very end there
The sky noon came in from space station gaming and team liquid just decided to flip the map make it difficult
That was a really impressive well-rounded defense by team liquid great teamwork
Suzu into pre-goon focus firing that was so nice to stop that play
That was an almost guaranteed triple, too.
Yeah, look how close he is to the cage, he gets it as soon as he dies.
It's just not quite there.
QvS only dying once, too, for TL, that is.
That's kind of a crazy stat line.
Do you play for your life when you play, right?
Are you like, yeah, we're losing this teamfight, I'm gonna run back.
I'm not throwing myself on the ground.
Well, no, if I throw myself on payload, I'm that guy, but if I'm playing Honor or Alari,
I will be staying alive.
Like I'm not throwing someone payload because I'm playing like a million miles away.
I do it like involuntarily, like I don't, I just end up playing with a pretty low death
score.
So I press tab like at the end of the game and I'm like, oh, I died once, but we lost
the game.
I'm just backing off and my team's like, where's our tank, bro?
Like he just doesn't hold cards.
Yeah, wait, you're the tank player, man.
Yeah, yeah, but you know, I don't mean to.
I just naturally, that's the way I play, I don't like it.
My chub tank player not going in.
Wait, alright.
Kat Bastion?
You see how big he does?
Kat Bastion of the Forest SSG.
Half of Bastion player, in fact, he's in the maverick set.
There he goes, over the top.
It's gonna be hard to really drop them in, they're gonna have to play a little
sensitive at least, especially with Hawke in the front line.
See where he had the cat bashing.
She loves that one.
Alright, I've been a poking abroad in so far. Nothing. Two of Breeze is here
apart from Vector being on stairs already. We have damage onto Lethal, but I think it's so low,
he's still up there. And unfortunately he ends up perishing with the hands of Lethal.
That's like a name he's gonna follow in pegs, he's about small room, they still control high ground even though the payout is slowly moving, but seem liquid.
It's affected us real low here. Let's get the mega. So SD not able to capitalize on that one behind me.
Let's see if we can get the ball.
Let's see if we can get the ball.
Our Fager is going to get out, no problem there.
Nice solo kill on Tecerra for UB.
And now Horg hits the rock on the stairs.
Susu deployed onto Infected, there's healing offered again, Etonoff.
Good cross from Horg, acting like a diva matrix
to make sure the heroes couldn't connect with Infected.
Liquid coming to a bit of a halt here on their own offense
offense and this time bank already trickling away every second matters big
time here so you need to get something going here with the tracer and the
sheon but you're looking at the side of his G who are you really going to pick
on here tough to get the cat out of the sky in the bastion may has the eye
blow ice block here ago can teleport away in liquid air it's a tough challenge to
play this she on tracer composition find the value in you
on the high ground already now is the best chance to go but he's actually getting it forced into a
bad spot though catnap into the wall and the rock infected lost control of his character completely
and it looks like team liquid they're going to lose control of this fight too a minute and 40
remains they're trying you know give this oh they get him on the exit and even zero two yeah
and Sarah dropped the pulse one there as well.
I almost think a swap needs to come through now,
team Liquid.
I don't think they can keep committing
to their composition like this.
Only have 90 seconds to go here,
but with no swaps coming through,
they double down on this one.
They think this is going to be the answer
for what if SG is going their way.
Looks like it.
I'm taking a little bit of damage here,
but it's gonna shrug it off, no problem.
Gonna pop Malgrin a spot again,
where he can get a cage fight maybe.
They've got the Catnap too, but they are against the Sigma Flux.
There's the Cage Fight on Hawk.
Artillery Barrage from lethal, trying to kill for Hawk here.
He just managed to get around them around here.
These little market stalls, but he falls down without even popping his ult.
There's no chance to...
There wouldn't have been a Flux Jacks if he even tried.
Nice teamwork from Team Liquid there,
hitting that Cage Fight and then getting the Catnap to isolate players even further.
Yeah, that was the Cage Fight. They needed to get value and they did find it.
So that unlocks the first point here.
Team Liquid move on here on towards the second point, but no more of the amount of time it drained from the time bank.
And SSG will keep applying pressure onto the objective.
They're objective gamers with this as Sigma and May rather.
So Team Liquid are going to keep finding momentum, keep finding picks now when they don't have the cage by Killed.
and
Oh
It's got the flux
So maybe as soon as they try and go for a high ground play that'll be an option for him to use they got visited soon as well
So we're in a spot where it's even it could almost have to take this as a tri-fights
Oh the good connection is another one too. Oh, what a shot on to fake and another one on to give it
It'll hide that room for the Bastion perk
Is this going to be the swap here now?
With lethal committing onto the tank mode it is indeed a tree, it takes this opportunity.
Now when lethal has this tank mode perk, the tree is going to have the upper hand in the
bastion head to head, and team liquid they utilize this opportunity here now, to try
to get the bastion advantage, that will be the thing that ends up winning them this map.
Is the juice still worth the squeeze though for team liquid?
They still got a deal with Hawke in this high ground too. They can close the gap onto trees still using this height
The one the Bastion around now, here comes the baratinary strike on this high ground
If they did, it falls down to lower and now they're trying to go in even quicker with the rush
Flux is going to connect with the Bastion. Oh, he traded, and he's blown to a million pieces
I mean, three, he swapped onto the Bastion just like that and off the postbomb on the ice block
tried to catch the timing on the maid there so which pops out she instantly
dies but a little bit too early from Zera. Now that we're only a minute to go
we're still gonna fight into a blizzard and a catnap. Yeah and this is brilliant
reactivity by Space Engineer. Sierra's going to play the castle here now as
well but Space Engineer they know their win condition here but they're not
going to win I had to fight with the turret forms and so they kind of had to
play around trees own turret form and either play really aggressively or
disengaged. Look at where Hawkeye is by the way. He's on the upper high ground. That is a scary place to distinguish, but oh and it's text just dies. Look how they're committing though.
I mean, they need these kills. Any linked death here is kind of awful. 30 seconds to go, there's one fight joining. Yeah, Tree is just not finding the angles for the time being.
and still this May has been so pivotal for space mission now because they still
control the front lines what all of this Bastion Chidanians is going on and
the infected is having a real tough time on the Mauga here so 10 seconds to go
here it would last opportunity to get this payload rolling
I suggest we need full control. Oh no! Oh no! Sarah! It was touching the small corridor!
The rock-interpainting tree is slow as fork is in such an adornment angle!
The cage vibrate is just matched with a blizzard, that's it! Push over, map over!
SSG, they take Tirado! What a magnificent play on the defense!
The cap play and the positioning was just exceptional!
Yeah, you gotta say that was an amazing defense by Spray Station.
Just so confident in the composition, their approach, their win condition,
and even though Liquid, you know, theoretically you may think that Team Liquid, well,
Well, the Bastion pick makes sense to doing all the right things right now.
I think that SSG's execution of that defense was perfect.
Even though Tree was making these big flanks on the Bastion with Vega in the sky, SSG said
okay, well if you're going to keep planking then we'll just come into a 5 vs 3 in the
front line.
Yeah, SSG re-feared the rewards.
I think we'll shut down that flank too, it's Hall being put up on the bridge, you know,
like the gate area.
put him up there on the sick and it's like well we have to push him off somehow we can't send
infected and you're sending him to his dude you know yeah affected go touch the point buddy yeah
thanks and then you get shot in the back by walking the rest of the team it's like well
what can we do you need the bastion to take an angle but then a fork standing in front of your
face the furthest possible point oh this triple is nice and I'm glad we're getting this with
Look at that, double direct, oop!
Nice, that was real clean.
Look, the point's good, but clean.
Infected in the Cache 22 as well, like...
I am playing Malga.
Cagefights are generally good for our comp.
Like, if we get on the high ground, get Cagefight going.
It probably can be a tough off, but...
Then Infect is like, well, I can't switch to 6, it's been too long, I've got Cage, like maybe we can get it moving.
Well, actually, no, it feels like we should have swapped a couple of fights ago over to Sigma ourselves
Just couldn't get it done. SSG
That's point
They're looking at a final spot here in this HG playoffs
Yeah, Team Liquid would win a real thinker now because the May has been the advantage for SSG
Do you want to ban out the May from sugar-free?
Well, that's going to open doors for SSG to
deal with liquid in a different way like if we go to a new junk city here for
example and you decide to bait a man band of May well we go to composition for
SG has been the Wu Yang instead of Ultraman it's been a fantastic of that hero we
saw it briefly in the injunction of Ultraman it was phenomenal on it so SSG I
think they're really flexing their hero pool muscles throughout this series and
just showcasing how difficult it is for team liquid to deal with what everything
can throw out the hero ban. It
wouldn't be afraid to bring two
hero bans to the next year.
Because as a street, I've played
in May, I've played in Symmetra,
I've played in Wu Yang.
There are so many opportunities for
composition that SG can play.
And then, what is Team Liquid's
preference in all of this?
Do you want to go to something like
Suzuki?
What do you do here if you're
Team Liquid?
Yeah, maybe you could maybe play
Mizuki. Wouldn't hate it.
SIGNABAM for TL.
Bulk's gonna go Maw with him.
It's very much looking like we'll just see the Maw go matchup.
It's very much looking like that will be it.
And then, comes down to the damage pairs.
Team Liquid, they prefer the faster approach with the shield and the tracer.
And I think that can be very effective on a map like Nijank City.
You know, open up things on the first point already.
Lots of flank angles.
You have to get on top of your opponent to collapse on top of them.
What is this G they've been showing their dominance so far with the May playing with the more stalwart front line
And team liquid at the end of the day. They're gonna have to adapt to that
Yeah, they've got to get a move on I
Says she's a chance to fan look I think
TL they are getting outpaced it feels like if you band it freeze here and
Slow it right down
Okay, I like that and Tracer, she's already been banned by SSG, Lucia, double flex now, sure.
Yeah, so, I mean, maybe we'll see the Wu Yang composition coming here from SSG.
I'm kind of worried that if you do play the Wu Yang that you'll be under so much pressure from a Tracer and a She-Yong.
That's kind of why I was thinking of not enabling Team Liquid to play at the fast tempo, then you can slow things down, even though the SEMA has been banned in a position like this.
The Luzio ban is interesting, though. I think we saw it in the NBA as well, and Jake was like a Luzio ban, like is that really necessary in the big 26?
Yeah, it doesn't, yeah, it really doesn't feel like it. Most teams often for the double flex and with how good
Wu Yang's are in North America
Okay, just that's fine. Like
We're cool with that. I think Wu Yang, yeah, does suffer from the whole Tracer, Xion dive shenanigans
Xion's just such an insane flanker like Tracer. It's a bit crazy
You know, best flank is in the game Genji Tracer and then Xion comes out
Maybe not, maybe not. She owns just a little bit too few. Getting over health is still too strong is all I'm saying. It's so strong.
Save her this moment. Save her this moment. I'm savoring it man. I love watching she on gameplay. I think a lot of people do as well.
At home is a good spectacle when they hit a giant spring. Especially when it's Nana. I like to see it.
Alright. So now comes the question of Team Liquid. What is their backline going to play with this Lucio ban?
either it's the Juno Brigg or maybe Juno Kiriko and I think either of those you
can get away with things I think you're forcing onto the Brigg it's a little too
forced not getting enough value out of that one I think Brigg is just not it's
at the moment right I don't think it's it either it's just historically Team Liquid
have been enjoying playing the Juno Brigg you know yeah that's kind of why I
mentioned the Juno Kiriko I'd say that you know that's something that Team Liquid
has played less of but almost feels a little bit mandatory you know
composition like this well it's going to be the she on tracer like I pointed out
so SSG they know this is coming their way now she's the question of what do
you have prepared knowing fully well the finisher we're gonna roll out with this
sim change to Reaper okay they're going with the Reaper Zarya
alright let's see it I like this one but I think both of us were expecting it
to just be a Mal'Gamera. Yeah, honestly, it has to be said that this composition, honestly,
it can be picked apart. If you don't get full value from your bubbles, that's one bubble
to put on ready. Let's count it. When the second one comes out, you're gonna try to get this dive on.
Okay, Zera takes a kind of a ludicrous amount of damage there. Has to pick up that mini, wait
for his team to back him up too. Point almost gets taken by the reaper. It should be, yeah,
Zera has to actually recall, so he's gonna be out of the 5 to 7 seconds or so.
He's trying to regain some position.
TP with the bubble, TP from the Kirigou to get out of Sugarfree's base and out of his domain.
Because Zera's still kind of peppering away at individual players from SSG,
just hoping his team can follow up with a kill.
Kivis is gonna be able to escape alive, but there you go, die Triggas, good bye Zera.
And goodbye team, 2-3-5-2, getting picked apart, but they are outmaneuvering Team Liquid right now.
Yeah, they are and especially because Vegas over on this jetpack cat as well
It kind of gives space is in the upper hand vote when it comes to contesting the objective
But also just out sustaining team liquid only going to be a liner swap
This is what I talked about up against Hawks. Sorry. Yeah, this is where this matchup is really viable for infected
All right, we're seeing it Ryan bastion sim no Lucio, but it's trying on the cinch close the gap
the game. Yeah. Oh, it's
going to be a rectangle thing.
Hopefully not easily died. Oh,
back out. Back back back. Get
up. Get up. No, whoa, whoa,
whoa, that was close. My
goodness. They're always had
ripped off. Anybody going to
touch? Yes, Team Liquid three
players on the point already.
They can help them secure that
SSG have two support which was coming up. I think it's just go time.
Uh oh, it faked his really low too. That teleport is hopefully there to save him.
The sugar free just runs him down. SSG. Only used the rush. Oh, you're smiling.
That's an archer 0 on first fight pretty much.
Yeah, I think Team Liquid are kind of forcing it here. I'm not sure if I'm a fan of the
cat. I know cat is better than people giving credit for and they're going to swap away
from the cat. It's going to be the Juno carry. This is just the better composition.
both with the Reinhardt and without the Reinhardt.
I think this is going to work out better for them.
Infected now with that speed, we can at least get close to their homes.
Just a healing as well from the Julio.
Yeah, it's a long...
Oh, there's the crab.
Nice crab positioning as well.
They do manage to escape alive, however,
despite the grabbers on search connecting with Impegnaet.
There's a small teleport away, getting out of danger.
It's the point cap though for 3.
Here's the Orbit's array and they know Team Liquid have no support ults.
And that's going to be the big problem.
A defensive used the Orbit on 3. I don't hate it. In fact, I love it.
That ray completely nullified by the Bastion.
It has to be said, the Graviton Surge is out. They all got the rays out. Team Liquid.
Now they can finally go to work.
They've been in the Rhine and now the Rikus, now the Ray bombs.
So they can fight on at the point.
But now they have to deal with this dead eye.
This ultimate lane from SSG is so clean right now.
Maybe even a deathbomb from Sugarfree is going to extend this fight even more.
Team Liquid can't afford to lose anybody.
Their time bank, well their time in this point is getting drained so quickly.
There's the wall.
They're going to chase down Horde, but he needs to get out of that double bubble.
Not quite enough to help.
The rest of the team looks like SSG weren't able to kill for him in time.
But they put themselves on one flight.
And I think it looks real good from Space Station because
naturally they did get 80% and you always want to...
They staggered.
...dally the specific time. This staggers brutal. I mean, that's...
Nice deterrent!
Wow, the most brutal staggers.
Also didn't, you know, instinctively kill the turret as well.
Just like knew that that was the way out and kept it alive for the time being.
But even though you have 80% here in Liquid,
They are now so potent with this ultimate bank field top the ability to always pressure with the symmetric teleporter in a Reinhardt
They're in a really good position to win this round even though they let the CG get all that percentage
fix man
I don't know about that
You got it. Come on infected
No TP just hit one bro. Just hit one. That's all I just want. Yeah, you don't need to hit multiple people
just hit one fella on the other side just 80 80 percent here jaws it is very close
silver from lethal trying to find an off angle with no although it's going to be a little bit
tough it's really a rush pin shatter effected i'm waiting i'm waiting he's so low
grab some charge from hall all this is big teleport away there's the shatter oh it hits
i'm not sure how many people but give us three uh gonna get kills thanks that all but away
Did anybody go down there from the shower?
I think it whiffed the shatter on the Reaper. I think the Reaper just died.
I don't know if it hit anyone.
That was a two fight point, by the way.
Yeah.
Team Liquid won one fight, and that was enough.
Oh well, technically they won the two fights, I suppose, but...
I mean...
Ridiculous.
We were ready to pull, maybe.
I was ready to pull.
Oh good, they managed to make it to the point first too.
Which are they from Abul? Is Alpacian Liquid right now in terms of that?
Oh, but SSG are in decent standing.
Oh, take it down. Oh, don't use ult.
Oh, good safe, but it's fine. Oh, they're going to use it anyway.
Okay, it's actually counterattacks this wall.
Treat, heavily back.
Foxy, artillery, barrage. Looking for somebody.
There's a car around that corner.
Oh, Sugar free enter getting run over by three.
Okay, what a perfect response from this error.
That wall is so powerful against the orbital ray, it absorbs a whole lot of damage.
You can't even focus it down when the ray has been deployed.
Public were looking so comfortable on these maps now.
They didn't have the opportunity to go to Neon Junction previously before the playoffs,
but now you're feeling comfortable on the hybrid map, you're feeling comfortable here on Flashpoint, the new young city.
The path to winning a 5 map series is so much easier for Team Liquid now, with the way they're playing these kind of compositions.
And now they're looking to run away with things here in Nujak City.
Yeah, they're gonna try and get a big lead over them. They've already up to 70%, they want to extend it for as long as possible.
Also got the annihilation of 3DAMS 2, those teleports. They're so good, in fact, to help Team Liquid get out of there.
Sky noon over the top. Yes, Sarah was thinking about dropping off the edge there
But he ends up going down anyway. No mobility really to see LF after on this
speed rink from Vega
But fairly just like
Wait, in fact, it's way he pinned as well
What now
You're not supposed to pin chance
like that's that's an unbelievable last effort charge I love the 200 health
charge from the vineyards they're like yeah I'm gonna die so I might as well
just charge and hope I get something now well in fact this rewarded for his
efforts 89% here
TP onto the point already they're trying to clip the slice right here
Big slam!
There's one H7, now that is a big slam!
Oh and Micky gets stunned though, the hit of him is so good for me to actually stop him from getting the ping kill!
Annihilation on the point from Horde, so damn healthy, pink goes in and two hits of HP pin, and it ain't happening this time, buddy.
Ain't no way.
And now Tree, with the world on his shoulders, he's got the healing of course, but yeah, Horde's got too much damage.
Looks like SSG's point here.
With one lonesome, just trying to run away.
And they found the composition that works for them, I guess what Team Liquid is bringing now on this Rhinocampus Bastion.
And this is as G now, with an opportunity to close out this series, qualify for the Stage 2 North American Grand Finals.
What does Team Liquid still has to say about things, infected moves over to the Maugay, I'm not just like this now, but...
As is G, they have Skynoon available, sugar-free, with the lurking of the sky, you should be here as well.
All right, he gives the odds of a 4-4.
Wait, Zera goes down first.
He was 2% away from all as well.
Not a good start.
Four-team liquid in his fight.
A silver bullet connection.
Long range onto Mega, too.
I mean, this is lethal.
Doing the most right now on this high ground.
His Cassidy has to be the most scary in North America right now.
Name a bit of Cass.
Bro, the Johnny.
Bro is just taking over the game.
I am forced.
Bro is taking over the game.
He's looking so comfortable on this Cassidy and you not only have a reliable output from
your Cassidy when it comes to this guy and you're just like, yeah, I just walk around
hitting shots, team Liquid, brutal team fight loss there.
Like you said, Zero drops on early before the ultimate becomes available.
Now you're really on the back.
You're forced to invest here, space station get away with a cheap team fight win.
They don't have to expend too many ultimates.
They're looking quite comfortable now.
They got somebody trying to get out of there now, Abril.
Now he's just to escape alive.
The infected tree already dead.
Let's get an amazing, oh nice little flank gill on the Tserrity.
He probably left this in the live actually.
That wall has already been used.
This is really bad news now for TL.
They've got old store but they says they're playing up with their own.
Yeah they just want the force alternator, it's possible.
They're extending the fight.
They're extending this fight so long.
I mean, you can actually get through this.
Yeah, but who touches?
Who touches?
Annihilation.
Hawke can stay alive in this frontline for just so long.
Pop, Vince, Thor, M.T. Annihilation.
And they're just running around them.
He's running around them, Johnny.
This is what they can do.
He's going to get back to the fight in just a moment.
Another shot just ended up coming.
Eventually here.
Orbiter, Rage, Rush.
Lead low on the high ground.
George is out of the way, Omega.
Even George is out of the Altenary for Rage.
Two Orcs of Island, not quite so lucky.
A miracle push for TL.
But they've burned so much. They've invested just both support ults. That's Hillary as well from the Bastion like
This is one fight territory of Presses G
Yeah, it's risky pushing forward like that. Team Liquid they found a way to contest the point and then lethal didn't get anything with this guy
Noon in the end. So pretty brutal team fight lost their fourth space station
But like you say all this percentage built up toward him now
It's going to pay dividends. Infected has a cage fight. That could win a fight by its lonesome, but if Steve will have a couple of attempts here maybe, unless they stalled out this fight for too long, this could be it.
Stomp. Oh, okay. Nice. Pick up. And how long can they still this fight? Do they want to now back out? It looks like it's going to be next to impossible.
The infected focus is down the Bastion. They managed to kill Kivis and Hawke does have ult. There's a chance they could stay in this fight. Wait for the respawners, but giving up this space is going to be brutal for them.
Tracer play even now. Four sugar freaks trying to get back to the point in time in the fight.
Touch, Annihilation's gonna have to come in. Hawke's gonna have to pop Annihilation. He has to. Oh, the body block! The body block! The body block's re-infected!
Stop falling from touching the point. The heroes come in but it doesn't matter.
They were 99% and they were pushing Team Liquid spawn with such a great opportunity to close out this series.
And Team Liquid found our way back. We're going to distance here on New Junk City. Team Liquid, not letting this one go.
They've still got ult's for this first fight, but Team Liquid, because they won there, they've
managed to build up some of their own.
Hawks had this in isolation for so damn long.
They get first cap though, very quick on the respawn, they're still sugar-free jump
off the map too to get a quicker spawn and get a quicker change.
This jeek has been very objective oriented, that has been real good for them now as Team
liquid now. Pressure onto them to use their layering perfectly with these
support ults. Rush fight to low IT, perfect actually. A little bit of that
gets on low ground maybe. Yes it does, it looks like Invader can fight on it.
Drops the cage too. Okay SSG, look we'll let that fight go, not a problem. We trade
rushes and we get a cage out of liquid for 44%. Still this is going to be tough
to brawl our sugar-free swaps over onto the Reaper here, trying to get some more damage
onto infected, but I don't think that's going to be the size of these next upcoming couple
of fights here.
Vega, pass you over to the Raid.
The timing here is critical.
You really need to get a couple of kills here with the damage amplifier.
If SG is able to disengage from this over the Raid, that could be the opportunity for
him to strike.
I think there's such a mean fighting force as well on this point.
Oh, the Sky NU?
No, the race gonna come out now. This is gonna be out position. It's so much just the extended damage thrown his way by Kiddus and Vega
for the ant damage
Stop from infecting into the catnap and annihilation finally popped here by Horde and he's so damn healthy too
But so is infected post both from Zebra
Doesn't get a hit marker and Horde is still alive and he's just training infected so far down
If they need to focus this remaster at some point, eventually the Annihilation will end up wearing off, and now it's up to Zero to Prime Punisher, low health support, ult survivor and after all though, keeping Pork alive in this fight.
99% for Liquid, they bow out, but they're not quite done just yet.
They want to build this cage fight, they want to get these ults and stuff and going, not force things, but here comes Infectus.
Yeah, they do seem to struggle with his face, he's in the back by the ready cage fight on the point.
It's so damn low! Hawke just runs it over!
Where's the teamfight here from Team Liquid now?
Zero! Cut to ribbons!
They can't get back here, they have to go for a reset, but same position again!
From that last point, a late death for Givis too is brutal.
Infected some ball. Infected some ball to try and get this touch going.
Space Station, if they just play the pointer, they should have the damage to brawl out with Liquid.
He's gonna help you get back to the rest of the fight, they've got the Katnav.
Touch for Infected, he's back in, touch for Sierra, they almost stand the warm-kick on
Shipper 3, there's Pogs coming in his hand as well, but there is gonna be a Deathboss
him, and the Katnav better say she to play with, Deathboss him, OH THE STICK!
They're not trading both, but Lethal comes on the kill to treat, it's only Infect now
on the plunge to help Vega, but the high noon is just too damn good, it separates them,
And they're fighting their own battles their own inner demons to try and come back. Oh
But they're gonna be hard to buy him now
SSG continue their perfect stage
As they land themselves a spot in the stage two player finals
What an unbelievable dominant performance message to close things out
They looked real comfortable on the rotto
So, they look comfortable for the most part, this new junk city and taking it to Team Liquid in their own game.
Such an impressive series from PlayStation Gaming to firmly solidify that tier break.
They're very much revitalized Team Liquid, but SSG proving again and again and again they are the top of North America.
They're almost, they're so close though, so close to a traffic stage.
I mean, yes they are, but frankly, this series was a banger.
I mean, just looking back at the first two maps,
which were peak chaos, like they took us on a journey, all right?
And I feel like for Team Liquid, after the stage that they had,
to really go head to head with SSG in this one,
having to force the flexibility out of SSG,
really making sure that no composition is left untouched,
and that just speaks to the level that these teams are playing up
Right now. I think this was a phenomenal showcase for both of them and frankly
I would not be surprised if we see a team liquid in the final again tomorrow
I mean Dallas the old team liquid rematch
I think any kind of rematch is just a huge
Like yeah, this this finals is gonna be a banger or like tomorrow. It's just he's gonna be heat
It's been a treat, it's been confusing also, like there are a lot of moments in this match where I was just like, what is happening right now, like so many interesting swaps, but the swaps being forced out from both of these teams, and neither team being too scared to make them, you know, like Team Liquid for example, taking that huge risk with their Vendetta comp on that Neon Junction, when did that happen?
It feels like a while ago, but they were so willing to take those kind of risks and sometimes
they paid off, sometimes it did not.
Up until the very last few fights here, this could have gone either way, right?
So they really played it so very close.
Yes, SSG has been the top-down, but they don't look as untouchable as they did earlier this
stage.
Oh, yeah. Very much closing that gap, like we talked about in the interview before this year we started.
I'm excited to see the finals and how they continue this.
It would be crazy if another team took the Stage 2 title, but at the same time, it just goes to show the level of Overwatch just keeps improving in North America.
And also, you know, it's up to these three teams now to prove what they can do here on an international stage.
like a lot of diversity in the comps, very deep here it was on both teams and it's been a pleasure to watch this series and cast it to it.
It was four maps and it's felt like two hours, like Ilios was insane, Neon Junction was insane, the last one went five rounds, which is absolutely not, sorry, I mean like I reflected here in the post-show to just like reflect on what I just witnessed.
Well, what I reflect here is lethal was the server admin.
Lethal has been playing out of his mind today.
He's casted cool.
He's freaky.
His cast is the best in North America.
It's not casted in.
Lethal was the issue.
Yeah, actually, his cast is the best in North America.
Like, my guy is getting clips where he hits a flourish,
like with the mythic weapon into double headshots.
And it looked, I'm like, is this part of the trailer
for the weapon skit?
Or is this lethal just popping off?
like it looks actually overwatched team themselves put that in the weapon like skin trailer thing
because he makes it look so easy and it's just an unbelievable pick right now especially with the
cat because of the uh the sky new it's yeah but i think it's all the individuals from message
you really stepping it up today they looked cohesive well rehearsed they had such a good
idea of the wing conditions no matter what they played really and they did place their
muscles. We saw a lot of different looks from them, so that votes well for whatever will
come their way in the grand finals tomorrow. We do have Sugarfree joining us now for a post-match
interview after this intense series. Sugarfree, welcome to the show. Congratulations. Did you
feel nervous there at any part of this match? Because quite frankly, I think you didn't rank
Team Liquid's super high heading into the playoffs, and now they face off against you here in the
upper bracket final and they did play close yeah honestly I think they've
leveled up a little bit I wouldn't say I was nervous though that's a little too
much crazy talk yeah they definitely improved over the last few days
obviously you guys are looking to make it a perfect stage if you win tomorrow who
you expect to see the finals you got Dallas food or got TL in that lower
bracket finals right now yeah I think liquid are better Dallas I don't know
was going on at that match. They just, they were just dying to literally nothing
versus Liquid. It didn't seem to like be playing together, so I'm not sure what's
going on with them, but I think Liquid will probably win them all.
So you kind of had to react to that match yesterday between Team Liquid and
Dallas Fuel just seeing what the teams were playing. Take me inside Spaceship
Gaming as you prepared for today's matchup, because I feel like your hero pool is
so deep. Now you can play so many different kind of compositions and you
did, you know, play a great May going into the series. Knowing that Team Liquid
We're going to bring out the tracer the she on really push the tempo. What did you guys talk about internally?
What did you want to accomplish with your compositions in this match?
We were just trying to play the best comp we could every single time like
Infected went Maga then I'd go Reaper if he played Sigma then I'd go may just literally
Make him keep swapping play the counter game see who's more flexible and we ended up winning
So, heading into the grand finals tomorrow, how important would it be for you and the
team to be able to actually take that NA crown?
I mean, yeah, it's pretty important winning, you know.
I didn't get to a single win last year.
I on the grand finals like three times.
This surely is my year.
There's no way I mess up again.
I'd be pretty happy who won finals, yeah.
I hope so. Look, I want to ask you all opinion on the new map, Neon Junction.
Have you ever seen it once in NA so far? It looks pretty fun. It was very chaotic.
It was a little crazy. Like, what are your thoughts on the map as a whole?
It must suck, bro.
What are you saying? That map is horrible. I don't know if I'll ever see a map again.
They need to redesign it. The first point, there's like no angles to play on first point.
It's just you're all sitting on low ground. Third point, it's a bunch of bull crap.
like bro, fix the map, I don't like it. Okay I like the honesty. Yeah, I respect.
All right, fair enough. What about the perk? If you could redo that attack in overtime,
would you have done anything differently? Perk? Yeah, well you went to the tank mode
Bastion perk in overtime, and then you decided to swap onto the tracer maybe to get a last
point touch there. You did end up losing there in overtime under your junction, like would you
Would you have done anything different than that attack?
Or did you feel like the rollout was still pretty good?
Oh, yeah, I wasn't supposed to take the perk.
I fact-figured.
Oh, that is unfortunate.
Yeah.
It happens.
Doesn't matter though.
A dub is a dub in the end, right?
So you guys are finding yourselves in the grand final.
So once again, congratulations.
We're going to let you rest up and prep for your upcoming match.
Thank you so much for joining us for a quick chat.
Thank you.
As per usual, Sugarbrook coming in, confident, never worried, never sweated, even though that was a close series.
The score doesn't quite tell the story here, quite frankly, because there are a few maps that could have gone either way.
Team Liquid have leveled up and they will be facing off against Dallas Fuel in the lower finals, going to be a rematch, but...
Yeah, I don't know, man. I feel like this could go exactly the same way because, quite frankly, Dallas Fuel, they didn't make any big changes coming into today's match.
They weren't pushed the same way either. So, I don't know, man. I don't know.
I think this is really kind of spinning. I won't lie. I think Dallas Fuel were kind of falling over to what Liquid are just likely growing at them.
Is this really going to be what Dallas Steel is going to bring in the playoffs?
I'm not sure, and after seeing this one, I agree.
I think TL are going to make it to the finals and it's going to be a kind of a sick rematch in the first place.
But Mr. Positive himself, Johnny, he believes in the fuel.
I mean, no, I'm just appreciating.
I'm just soaking in the moments.
I'm just making the most out of this beautiful experience.
Getting the opportunity to watch these three teams go head to head.
This is Pete and I'm just enjoying this series tonight and I'm not going to predict anything tomorrow, I'm not going to predict anything, I'm just going to live in the moment.
That's not really up to you because it is a part of the show to do predictions with absolutely no payoff or, you know, punishment, if that matter.
No, I'm sorry, but this is really just all about the friends we made along the way, right?
right and and man was that a bonding experience because quite frankly both both regions have been
just so entertaining like it's been so up and down in general in the playoffs it's been just
incredible what these teams have brought to the table and you know we might be done for the day
with EMEA and NA but Otobusia's career will continue in just a few hours so you know just
take it glued to your screens in case you haven't collected all your dropsade for example I just
highly suggest you just stick on with it. China of course has been on as well over night deciding
their EWC slot in the middle of the night I think for the American West Coast and the all important
mid-season championship is of course just a few weeks out. That's where all these teams will be
battling it out on the big stage in front of the French crowd. It's gonna be incredible. But first
first we got a crown some champions in EMEA and NA for stage two. It's been a journey thus far
an incredible one at that and we can't wait to be back again tomorrow. Thanks to the two pastors
here for waffling and yapping and making it also very entertaining. Thank you for hosting. Thank
you. Thank you. Took a pay for it so you know. That's true. To be a job. I do love my job though
And we are so very grateful to be here and we'll be back again in the same place, same time tomorrow.
You don't miss it as we're crowning our stage 2 champions.
See you tomorrow.
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