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We're all finals champion
to the world. Welcome to the
order. This year is a
championship Sunday. So here
joined by Jake and not to, you
know, close out a really
thrilling stage two EMEA
playoffs yesterday, guys. Wasn't
same. Many of the matches still
have been free in my head as I
went to bed. I mean, incredible
the sports team playoff right now even those three O's are a little bit misleading those
are pretty interesting games but I mean that VP DK game was a banger.
DK's had to work this playoff and they have played a ton of maps they've even the last
games of the regular season incredibly close and although they've fallen just the tiniest
bit short yesterday they do look like a fearsome opponent and have really it feels like risen
to the level of twisted minds and vertus pro to be a world competitive team.
I mean, you're saying Gike had to work, VP had to work too.
Something they're not so familiar with looking at their performance during the stage two group stage, right?
Like, no team really pushed them. Yes, Katsuya took those two maps off of them, but overall, they were at the top of the food chain, but no more.
I think Gike played it so very close in that match as a whole, but then particularly on that last map.
I mean, that OT fight that just went on forever and ever and ever was so close.
So clutch it wasn't saying it might have been the best like not finished
We've ever seen in the history of Overwatch. It's crazy that we could say that and I don't think you're exaggerating
So I really believe it this I mean these two teams
You know I've even seen like pro players reacting this and like nobody could read what would happen
It comes out of these tiny moments everyone playing with no resources remaining just using
Absolutely everything at their disposal to to stay alive and in the fight landed here
I mean, look at the timing on this.
Just can't quite reach the TP.
The ice dom steps back one inch,
keeps in here to keep the OT rolling.
It's a good cycle back.
What a clutch.
I mean, just tremendous stop all around.
So, I mean, you think back as well.
No, what landed as part of Alcat, wasn't it?
On circuit is like the World Finals
where like he had that insane Baptiste clutch as well
back in Stockholm.
I mean, just crazy stuff on that map.
seems to find him in a lot of different ways.
I mean, clutch gene was apparent in many a player yesterday,
not just in EMEA, also DNA matches went a distance
and show we'll be talking about those in a little bit
or rather a little bit later because first things first,
we are gonna focus here on the EMEA because VP,
they clutched it out, they won their match
and they're now sitting in the grand final
awaiting their opponent, which should be either Geekay
or Twisted Minds because Twisted Minds alongside
and of course punched their ticket to the midseason championship and now continue to have an opportunity to get the EMEA stage to crowd.
What a match this was. They came back with a vengeance in their lower bracket match against Katzia. A series that we usually see going the distance that they came to play.
It was a very dominant challenge.
Look at these comps.
That's so good.
I reached out to Twisted Vines, so I did ask for a ranking and a rating on UD Soldier and Quartz
gave it a 9.5 out of 10.
Pretty good.
Yeah, that's pretty good.
How Katzi was playing yesterday, right?
I mean, the Xi'an bandana trying to like play that into the cat.
Like, not a lot of resistance for Twisted Vines.
I think it would have been crazy to not see them there at the mid-season championship.
championship. I mean they've been so good, you know, really good for the last like year and a half,
almost two years. So it feels right within qualifying. Yeah, it would have been an insane timeline to
not have them joining us here for the second one, especially with what they brought to the table in
Tokyo just a few weeks ago, right? Like how they grinded through the local bracket there, ended
up in the final making it one of the closest finals we've ever had at a competitive Overwatch event.
Now, of course, our three teams are set here in EMEA to join the international competition
at the mid-season championship, happening in just a few weeks in Paris, France, at the EWC.
And you can join us as well and cheer on your favorite players, your favorite teams,
or your favorite talent, looking at math and all. People come from all over the world.
And to cheer me on, yes.
To see an in-person cheer him on. That's right.
You could do so for a little less money now if you're using the coat you just saw on the news.
They say Brun calls and outside of seeing the games.
And the just general area, yeah, I number three in terms of why people come.
Yeah, it's usually games and a variety of different player names, then maps, then merch.
Yeah, yeah.
So yeah, that's usually the suit of the ranking we have, which is fair, man.
He's a side to behold.
Small side, but he's a side.
It's a very tiny, you have to get the squint.
It's like a finding Waldo situation, you have to find him somewhere.
But for the Hunts.
competition, especially against the Korean teams.
I mean, I think this is real proof of the idea that, hey, some stronger teams together in the region,
you know, pushing each other to compete raises the level over time.
You know, those squads that have the firepower to be able to match up and,
you know, keep competing as the level grows.
I mean, they can now show up in the international stage with a lot of confidence.
I think a lot of other regions are going to be looking at these EMEA teams saying,
we don't want to catch any of these matches in an early round.
Even, you know, maybe you're the high seed from another region, you get the third seed from EMEA.
that might be a bit of a scary match to open the playoffs.
Yeah, and we're going to see all of our three qualified teams in action today as, of course,
while they did punch their tickets to Paris, they still have to determine who's going to get the
YMCA crown for this stage. Of course, VP made a good case for themselves all stage long, but
they started to look like they can bleed here in the playoffs. GK playing them so close. GK
dropping into the lower finals where they have to face off against twisted mines. One of those
teams gets an opportunity to go up against VP again and quite frankly looking at the performance
of those two teams and how they've leveled up throughout the competition, this could be a coin
toss. Like this is going to be a very, very difficult one to predict. So let's break it down,
let's talk about what we've seen from both of these teams. Obviously twisted mines, we talked
about their struggles throughout the stage, we talked about their initial struggles even here
here in the playoffs, dropping into the lower bracket there as well, what have we seen yesterday
that should make us feel hopeful and confident about their chances to make it into the grand
finals?
For me, Jake, I actually think it goes a little bit further than just what we saw yesterday,
right?
They just kind of run through Alcatya, but let's not forget, like, they were up 2-0 against
GK in pretty commanding fashion, right?
And then they just kind of, the GK obviously makes a tremendous comeback.
So for me, I think it's like, okay, like if twisted minds can kind of, you know, get that
mental right, you know, not even they seem proudly shocked that they lost that GK series.
I think they're going to put together a pretty good performance today.
Yeah.
I mean, I think they definitely can show some more adaptations.
They already showed some of that in the matchup in the lower bracket against Alcott and, you
know, with, with Tiffin coming in and looking actually pretty nice on the Sigma, you know,
that's something that, that, you know, keeps the diversity, keeps the options.
open for this Twisted Mind Squad, which is something I think they need, like they have found some adaptations, you know, some unique play styles that have worked really well for them so far on the stage, but in the playoffs, especially
Virtus.pro and Geekate, they seem to have found some of the answers to some of those odd styles. And I think it's going to be, you know, incumbent on Twisted Minds to be able to show you can compete on some of these top
meta heroes, like to not play the Sigma right now. You can get away with it, maybe a decent amount, but I don't think for the whole series. And for TNT, that this is a moment where he's kind of called upon to have a
a big showing, but Ziad and Aiznan have set the bar ridiculously high in that character
and built their teams behind them in their style overall.
So for Twisted Mind, some soul searching about what they think their best odds are to be
able to get this win, because you could also say Geekay, maybe they shouldn't have lost
those first two maps.
Maybe they are a really strong team.
Yeah, being slow to start can really come back to haunt you in this format.
Now, they have played it really close, those two teams, right?
We saw them just last week at the end of the Grief stage in a five map series.
we saw them again on day one in the playoffs, a five map series. Now the meeting again for a chance
to make the grand finals, so naturally we have to expect a five map for here as well, Matt. I do
feel like Geekay has leveled up tremendously though. I don't know if that's just a matter of them
playing up to their opponents or if something else just really starts to click for them.
I mean I think it's like they get kelex into this roster, right? And it's a roster although like last
you're just some of those two
players out for Alfie and Finn.
I know I think obviously
checkmate and land and probably
better, but like comparable
players and like we saw the
success they had last year,
right? So I think they're just
kind of starting to pick up
and like maybe here at the
beginning of the stage, right?
It just took them a little bit
to kind of get on the same
track again. But now that they
are there is dangerous as they
were just a year ago under the
Katzian name. Yeah, I just
think also like individually,
I think also like individually, we've seen the players like really rise to the occasion.
I think Seattle so far to play was had a phenomenal game. Love then alpha, you got a lot done for the team as well. Alpha
year, especially has been one of the main reasons in the upper bracket semifinals game twisted minds to like really turn the tide for this
case. Yeah, you know, out these coming in clutch showing incredible flexibility with, you know, the top flex players in the NBA.
I also want to highlight Libda.
I mean, there's a stiff competition in the hits
camera right now.
It's Kedzter and Quartz, and the other teams in the playoffs.
So he's had to step up in a huge way.
But his bastion yesterday was lights out.
I mean, the tracking he's able to showcase,
the soldier coming out at a moment.
So he is going blow for blow with these top hits hand players.
He's kind of been, I think, maybe just outside of that group
for some time now.
But I think he's maybe broken into it now with some
of these recently great performances.
Like, he did great work against Quartz of all players.
When you can stand up to who I think is the best hits game in the world right now
You certainly are breathing rare flight air and for the team overall. That's gonna be a nice little bit of wind in the sails
Man, this is a tough one to predict rocket and I just based on how close they played it against each other
And just what we've seen over the last couple of weeks. I
Did something I usually don't do
Against twist of mine. I didn't
also jake struck fairly adapted but yeah no i i actually went with gk i just i felt more confident
in their victories than i did in twist of minds which always still kind of made me guess their
initial fumble in the upper semifans which is so baffling to me because i couldn't like put a
finger on what actually made them lose the game uh then i gotta give this to gk i might just also
be an absolute victim of recency bias and and just so impressed with what kk showed us in the
in the upper finals yesterday.
So yeah, I have to agree with you.
I went with DK as well.
I mean, there's the recency bias
of being able to come up with that win,
but I would say it felt like in that series,
yes, they had to pull from the full reverse sweep,
which took incredible fortitude
and they had no opportunity to slip up there,
but execute, but I think the way they pulled it off,
it was really convincing.
Like once they started to win, they ran away with it
and it felt like, okay,
maybe they just kind of found the answer.
So I think it's up to Twisted Minds to adapt and show us something new.
I don't think if they just bring the same looks as the last match,
I don't even think it's gonna go to five.
I think GK will dominate them in those same matchups again.
So with Twisted Minds, they've shown the adaptability,
but I'm not gonna have to see it to believe it.
GK, I think, they're the stronger team today.
I went with Twisted Minds.
I'm not gonna overreact to GK, map five win.
Not gonna overreact to like yesterday's game.
I mean, the flashpoint in Game 3 was like down to the wire,
final flashpoint, and Geekay pulled it out.
We were like two percentage points off of the 3-0
twisted mines, so I'm going to say that they don't have
some kind of colossal boom today, if that happens yet again,
and they're able to close it out.
Well, we're about to find out as we're getting
into our first match.
Off the day, it's a lower bracket final winner
moving on to the grand final to face VP once again. So guys, please take it away.
Both of these teams, Matt, are going to be so hungry to get this win. For Twisted Minds,
it's the opportunity to right the wrongs of a relatively lackluster stage given that their
pedigree is a team. And for GK, this is the chance to rise above and to really stake their claim as,
you know, if you can beat Twisted Minds in a playoff elimination match,
you could be just about anyone else in the world and given the history that's
the standard just being said today yeah there'll be the Moga Band here for GK
so we can saw a little bit later that's yeah the Moga Band for TM the
Bastion Band for GK as we saw them kind of go towards Cap Bastion a little bit
later in the series they've twisted mine so here in the Antarctic Peninsula pretty
uh decent comp that you potentially play so with the Moga God potentially we're
going to see whether it be like Sigma Diva, right?
If TVNT decides to kind of continue to play some of that Diva
into the sick.
Yeah, that's a tough matchup.
It's one that he has played a lot.
And I think for me, that's been maybe one of the weaknesses
of twisted minds right now is that Diva is not
that great in the meta.
I mean, she's absolutely playable,
and there's certainly good spots for her.
But in comparison to like a few months ago,
I think she's fallen off a lot.
I think people are really looking towards SIG and MAGA.
And even Rematra we've seen could give us
trouble in these matchups. So for TVNT, I know he's got the flexibility. He has to look good on the
Sigma. He's looking good on the Zarya. But for the team overall, how to deploy that, whether to play
the Cap Bastion, this is the challenge of Twisted Minds. They're a team that is doing something
different right now. They're playing their own sim styles. They're playing the Cap Bastion where
no one else is. So when you are boldly going ahead and sort of innovating your own strategy,
the trouble is there's no one else to do a value test for you. There's no other way to learn than
trial by fire and I think that's what this playoffs match is going to be.
I don't want to see TM really play the cat fashion here.
Like I think if TM can get into a sim mirror with PK, like that's kind of like TM wheelhouse.
Right. You know, you see kind of obviously the starting lineup here for Twisted Minds.
It's really been UB for a lot recently in terms of playing time over, you know,
where you kind of need his shotcalling, right?
Quartz talked about how much easier it kind of makes the job on the rest of the team.
They're able to all focus, right?
They kind of went with, really, I think, partially where the team kind of hurts, right?
It's like they're not having Psycho this year,
who seems to be the same level of in-game kind of shotcaller, potentially UB is,
but maybe just like a little bit of a deeper hero pool, right?
Whereas I think that's obviously somebody who played a big part in TM's success last year.
Yeah, I mean, I think Psycho, definitely an even-keeled player, it's really valuable to have, you know, those veteran voices on the squad when, you know, you're in those difficult situations,
you're trying to figure out what's going wrong when you're losing, and it's not easy to diagnose those problems.
I mean, that is the ultimate challenge, really, of a game as complicated and as fast-paced as Overwatch.
But I think you're right, like, you'd be in-game to be able to kind of cut through that noise and to just give the team a single voice, a single vision.
has been incredibly valuable for them as a team,
it has sometimes though painted them into a corner
where if you're putting all that emphasis on what one player sees
and what one player can read out of the game,
maybe in certain styles that's not going to be as effective.
We'll see if the hero pool ends up being a risk here.
Take a look at the bracket overall.
This is how we got to this point,
GKTM here in the lower final.
Only one of them can go on to stay alive.
Still, both teams have qualified to the mid-season championship,
But you'd love to climb up and just get that one higher seed.
Just get that little bit higher place with how hard
thought EMEA has been this stage.
Yeah, I mean, we don't know how the groups are going to be
a shake out right for the midseason championship.
But obviously having the higher seed generally always
benefits going into that event.
So being kind of that third team in EMEA, probably the toughest
time at that event.
And to remind you guys, you got drops going on right now.
Link your ball net to your twitch.
And I know, start earning.
I mean, I'm so close to that 15 hour loot box at this point.
I got the 12 hour one yesterday,
little Toronto defined Ash skin coming on in.
So like, you know, I got all the other rewards.
I mean, hey, that Moga skin can pay off
because you can play it on a Moga on live right now.
Look, Moga, I'm gonna blast play Moga.
I played a bunch of tanks for a few days.
Moga was my savior, man.
Like I get like some crazy support comp.
And normally I'd be tilted.
Normally I'd be like,
I'm not gonna get a single-hills game.
And then I realized, I don't need any.
I'm playing Maga, I still have myself, baby,
with the life steal.
That's what I'm talking about.
That's what I'm talking about.
The stress, your supports, when they see your name
log into the game.
No, I'm playing off-screen, I'm playing,
I'm fully analog, okay.
So they don't know who's yelling at them.
I just like to flash the Overwatch,
verify the watch league players,
and people are like, who did that?
I don't know, who did that?
And then you find I need healing to mouse one,
shoot as well, so you can just kinda constantly spam.
That's Maga mentality right there, that is.
Yeah, I love that, I love that.
I think we're waiting for a player to get us at the router.
Do you know yesterday, somebody ran a poll?
I ran a poll, what was that wet or my face or your hair?
Do you know they ever did that?
Wait, for what?
I didn't, I didn't.
I don't know how you keep that hair glossy.
I don't know what you're doing.
Look, it takes a lot of work, a lot of effort.
You gotta get some of that moisture.
Your skin looks great, Matt.
You look like a pregnant woman glowing.
So we and I just jinxed each other the first time I've ever heard that, but thank you
We're waiting for one player to reset their route
I think just like in the connection issues and obviously the game is super important
So you want to give both? Oh my gosh?
Ample time to kind of be at full strength, but no mog if you're in game number one. No fashion. No fashion
I think I kind of I don't want to CTM really gonna go over towards like playing quarts
Like when they play the Moga right just playing courts and like a sojourn in like the cemetery shell seems to work out pretty well
And then on the other side right, I mean he's able to play Cassidy too
You know one thing you haven't seen from TM is like you'd love to see them kind of work out some she on in some way
But they just haven't really kind of picked it up yet. Yeah, they haven't wanted to play she on
I think they
They also really haven't wanted to play the flavor of the month support comp. That's I think been the number one
One thing that they're differentiating team right now is they just don't really want to
play the Mizuki, Sigma style, you know, they've really strayed away from it.
They've tried it a couple of times.
It didn't look good when they did try it and they haven't really gone back to its sense.
So it's hard to blame them because when they find their groove playing the mobility game,
you know, kiting away with Quartz, giving him time, letting him work the angles, the
success rate is incredibly high with that strategy.
And so it's hard to challenge.
But as we watched, you know, especially DK and Virtus.pro yesterday going head to head
blow for blow on those, you know, Sigma battles, staying alive, those hitscans, it's not easy
to get value against that kind of a comp.
Yeah, let's take a look at just the bands for this tournament so far.
So this is overall stage two.
So obviously Bastion and Sigma, they're kind of go-to targets, right?
really see Mizuki a lot really at all from Twisted Mind so probably wouldn't see them
kind of target that potentially in this series and obviously Jeff Packat with all the things
she can do in combination with the Bastions. Nothing too surprising here with the bands.
I mean maybe Sim kind of falling off. We used to see a ton of Sim bands but maybe Sim are
not as impactful as some of these other heroes at the top.
Yeah, it's interesting that the Sim band has declined a lot. I think the Sim band is incredibly
impactful. It's just that these top teams have all become confident sim teams. You know, for a while,
it was just twisted minds. They were just doing their thing with UB on Symmetra, believing in it.
And then, you know, once you, you know, beat the world a couple of times, you know, these are the
top flex players, they start to take notice. You know, think about like, when Saiko was able to
fall off yesterday and one of those, that first team fight in overtime on Circuit, he gets 90%
sim wall. Truly, I don't think I've ever seen that before. Like, that is an ultimate. You do,
that takes an incredibly long time to build.
You do not get that in one team fight,
but I guess Psycho's built different.
He does.
Typically not, yeah.
Same for Alphie, right?
They all look great on Sim.
So I think these top teams, they're
willing to take the Sim mirror.
To your point from earlier, though, Twisted Minds,
that's a comfortable mirror for them.
And it's one that they need to be able to win,
I think, to take home this series.
It's so wild how Sim has become like a staple
in a lot of these games.
Like, for years, right?
Like, just really kind of not utilized at all.
just really now becomes a hero that like, you know,
Opsies offers a ton of like ramping damage
in some of these longer fights,
which like Brawl tends to kind of lend towards then.
Also just the extra mobility, right?
The TP is so strong.
The team play is incredibly, you know,
wild what's possible, you know,
with that kind of mobility given over here.
It's kind of shades of jet pack cat in a way,
but as we're obviously damping feeling for players
to get their internet fix,
we're gonna throw into a quick break guys
to get that all sorted so we can get into the match
and have it run smoothly.
So don't go anywhere, grab a drink of water, grab a snack,
and be right back because you don't want to miss this match.
Coming up next.
I said to myself, where am I?
I'm lost and guess I'm lost
This is the life I said I knew
Every little thing I can't know
I've lost what I've just found
Can I finally hold my side?
I don't give a damn
I just be real so I can live
All right, everybody, we've got our players set.
Seems like everybody is ready to roll the internet.
Well set up for this incredibly important match for both of these teams to stay alive
in the playoff.
We'll find out. Oh God. What
am I done? What am I done? Yeah,
just to remind you guys fast
in, uh, logo, uh, are, uh, the
bands here for game number one
is. Really important game, right?
I know solidifies top two
teeny and the egg going into
the this season. Championship
obviously. I know impacts the
groups pretty heavily. I know
when we get there with some
extra fees in the next so
even further in that tournament, although we do believe that, you know, all three of
these EMEA teams can go pretty far.
Whoever whichever team is third out of EMEA is going to be it's such like a landmine in the playoffs.
You know, you're some number one seed from another region and you did so good all stage.
And then you play like T ever, you K, you know, day one of the midseason championship.
But number three in the EMEA, what would they be in some of the other regions?
I think genuinely all three of these teams are our world class, you know, a lot to say of course the land will be the determiner of that
Oh, we're getting spicy
Avoiding the sigmir team and gonna bring out the ride
I've been calling it out all stage long and once again twisted minds gonna give it a shot
Yeah, and they've done this on a no me on junction, right?
We saw them that they kind of dominated with this Reinhardt in play and they're actually going up
I know you'll see for simple and co, right? They're gonna be playing that I'd like to be a carry here
Kellex with that Mizzouki on the other side
We talked a little bit about it where Ryan not is bothered by like the sanctuary, right?
Like you're able to just get in there and still kind of swing and be a guy rush straight in over the top
Try to flip the map here flying into the back line, but good little dance away. He can't step through the TP playing on the point
Kelly's trying to sidestep though and can't get out of the angle from course who's up on this like on relative to
Uncontested Linda picks up a kill the big damaging from ports looking to be cleaned up by Timon
Almost gets a trade
Quite able to bring my heart down with him and DK although they grab the initial cliff and 15%
Twisted mines come away with the cap and get to play defense here
Hey, you see Kellex move away from the Mizuki right because the thing that they kind of add into the mix here with twisted minds is
They're great like you can tee tee tee away
for DK
But TVNTV has the benefits of playing with Aluciel here as well, right?
They know to kind of use that speed to kind of get him through there into the mix.
It's gonna be a really early rush here from Simple.
Nice to be behind the game.
Yeah, they back out.
Yeah, they just TP out of there. They're gone.
I mean, that's classic.
What we see from TM, not TM once again, trying to get aggressive, trying to stuff this Sigma into the choke.
Pushing him into the locker here, but the team's the high ground, takes the shot through ports,
things a little bit better trying to hold that position.
This fight playing the ride, I mean the poke is coming out thick and fast from
Twisted Minds, KK trying to get some range damage in, the Deadeye from Cork being
channeled, Teleport into the backline, just kick like in the connection, but Ubi
runs over Ziad, everyone hiding from the Deadeye, no one there to support the
frontline. And Twisted Minds clean house once again, KK even throwing the rush
into that fight, but it's over before that ultimate really sees much value.
And it's crazy to see like when we're on, I know just kind of a 3P cam and we're
kind of in free cam here.
Like how much space TBNT is able to take off, right?
You see just kind of like,
just by the Rhine and being able to move up with that shield,
just puts them in a really bad position.
And now, Twisted Minds, I mean, you're going to have,
you're going to have Shatter a lot to work with here.
It's a, it's going to be the sound barrier there,
keeping them alive.
It's going to be the flux though.
That's a huge Shatter though.
Connects with three.
That is going to be a fight win for Twisted Minds
they look pretty awesome on this Reinhardt. We need to get a stats check on Reinhardt's
win rate this stage. I've been telling you that. I've been telling you. I got the read.
This character is legit Ziad to the wrecking ball. He came out desperation mode for the
OT touch, but they are coming in, forced to fight into a simple Katsune rush. He's holding
his nerf for now, waiting for the heavy commitments to come in. Ziad trying to delay, knows there's
huge spread of the other side. We're here. It's a nice poke, we're here for the rush.
Standing on the point so threatening no one dares test this Cassidy not one that you expect him to fail
But hasn't I just used just yet, but to be dropped out of the battle enough maybe but
The raid even the fights y'all need to find some kind of value because Devin is just running down players in the OT 9
So challenging cousin point into the Deutsche Armament and it won't be successful this time
What a round from TM bringing up the rhinestrat once again
This has become a bellwether for them. This has become over reliable. It feels like they don't lose with this card.
Yeah, I mean on the Unjunction it's pretty awesome. This is the slam of the ground, just walks to the other side of the sim wall.
Huge shatter connects with 4 it looks like there. So massive plays from TVNT, finishes Deathless there in round number 1,
leaving in terms of damage as well, right?
Just able to get that Rine into the mix.
It's caused so much chaos.
Ooh, great plays from Simple 2 to keep him healthy there on the Flux.
Cleans blocks the damage, and he still has the HP to swing past the shield.
Drop a huge Shatter into the enemy backline, and GK.
Gonna roll up with the Lucio this time to take that oof,
could be nice at mitigating this Rine's mobility, but...
I mean, you feel the pressure.
He's out of the sigma, needs time for work, he's not getting it.
To the sixth quarter of Undeath.
What a fine on the off angle.
Something you kind of expect from Quartz to produce, but here the Sojourn strikes first blood
and you see twisted minds without their Star Sim player.
Have no interest in a team fight.
Yeah, they just kind of have to back out, right?
Losing all that mobility there at the start where Lab Day is able to find.
And get another opening kick on the Sojourn.
So you see him kind of playing those off angles there.
Kind of haunting it, one of those players.
It's a little bit out of line coming through those TP's, and now it's gonna be a battle of the points.
You gotta get dangerously low, just getting pushed down by TDNT, and nothing you can do to stop that Raian in that scenario.
SIG, tough hero to play into this matchup. Raian and Sam just completely ignoring your defensive tools, burning you down.
And despite losing the first fight, I mean, Vincent and Isaac come back in with the Sam, and they show incredible fight back on the retake.
I mean what the Ryan's get past the six shield and then like kinetic grasp obviously does nothing to you hammer
It's so scary I'm sick me you get
You're done
Slowly that you don't not have the HP that some of the other tanks have to work with
Ryan so he's deep past the choke for that allows you to maybe rotate out wide still playing mobility the TV so threatening the early
rush once again coming up so quickly simple. Ziad not long for this one is going to get cleaned up
and the rest of the team maybe not long behind the fire strikes. So threatening after this recent
drop, Albie dancing well which doesn't have a way out with TP already committed. Oh, okay, okay,
with the shield bash? Oh, a firecracker. That was a little scary. Yeah, and you see them kind of like
the GK uses the TP, they kind of get to one side. It looked like Simple early on was going to like TP
in and then drop the rush, but when they saw that they TP'd out, just kind of use their own
get around the corner. It's gonna be the dead eye here.
Simwals from close side, supports the Tranchel.
Oh, the biggie gets Alphie.
And there's the pin.
Ziad's so low, getting overwhelmed.
Has to be a reset now for DK.
This Sigma is getting just boxed out.
And Twisted Minds, man, when they start popping dead eyes
and TPing around, you just know the fight is not gonna go well for you.
Somebody's dead. Yeah, you know somebody's dying.
Oh, I love the forward play. We shot her here.
DK has just a ton of ultimates, but they may not be ready for this.
At 75% the next fight is potentially in question, the Precision is out.
Oh, and Tien's even finds the fires that are on the coast that were grouping on the TP,
and oh, the Shatter will break the fact that the opponent for just the P maybe comes out from Astro, nothing else needed.
Ziag is the fuck's up, he's so low, another perfect climb from Zimbal,
ensures the mine is still healthy, ready to continue this fight.
The rush is out, but so too is the Shatter, and on the floor you cannot make much use of that attack speed.
News Lucio comes back in, but too little, too late for Kellex and Alphie.
Twisted mind, a resounding victory on the back of the Rhinocom.
DK did not see this kind.
No, and that's a DK match selection, right?
They get rid of the Bastion early on, Moga out of the way,
which Moga, right, would have been really probably the go-to for
DK in that matchup.
And he may get rolled over by the TDNT.
Reinhardt 24 in full 8k damage, and you look on the other side, Ziad has had tremendous series, 3-7, not 1.
You're going to remember fondly is, this has been all TM here in this first map.
Truly impressive scenes from Quartz here, a lot of space to work with here in the Reinhardt.
But, hurt some allegations that there's a D.Va 1 trick on your screen, doesn't look like it.
like it when he's hitting what a four match out or next round drops a three man I mean team fight
winning plays from Simon on the run and this is the kind of hero diversity that twisted minds
they need to keep up with the competition they don't want to play these sigma mirrors but they
find an answer that works well that suits their unique look as a team and with the swaps that the
tank is able to bring here to it is is is allowing the rest of the team to still stay comfortable
and play in these winning matchups.
Yod, I think Arissa is the pick here for him,
but it's just so out of the meta.
It's kind of hard to see that in the moment
with how good Sigma has been,
how well you've been playing on it recently.
But I do think the Sigma matchup is also really bad
for, well, Sigma inter-rind is a pretty rough matchup for Sigma.
It's a little too easy for Rind to block your accretion,
just with a quick shield flash and then overwhelm you.
And even the flux is like,
this doesn't hurt that bad on Rind.
You shield while you're up in the air,
you can't even shield your teammates
if you're all fluxed together.
It doesn't feel as terrible as some of the other tanks
with their big health flux.
And they're pulling the Lucio, right?
So a huge sustain ultimate like sound barrier
for that flux, right?
Doesn't really make it as impactful.
So curious where we will see Geeky take us in this series.
So in the last game that we had between these two, right?
It was actually the Paul game, number one.
Geekade shows Neon Junction, not going to choose at this time,
so they'll go to New Junction City.
So this is where their comeback started
in the last series between these two teams.
Yeah, Cap Bastion eventually was the style
that Tristan Mines went to,
and it did draw the series or the map rather
to an incredibly tight close finish despite,
and most teams not wanted to play Cap Bastion here.
Just to mind, every nearly made it work,
I have a feeling that both teams
have really had a think about this map,
but how close it was,
I think they probably both have adaptations to show.
And so I expect this one maybe to be quite a different map
than what we saw with this game.
Oh, we gotta get home to the first half.
I mean, I'm a big fan.
I was just thinking that.
Here's the thing about the Rhinest.
How does Rhin do into these countercops?
I mean, like Ramatras and Alchins
to have a good match up there, you know, the Maga.
Maga's okay in the Rhinest.
I don't completely love that for Maga,
since you can't life steal when Rhinest pulls a shield up.
The Bans, I think, are gonna tell
definitely a pretty interesting story here is GK.
Take us here, they get to control the band tempo,
but the band, the banding, Ryan feels terrible.
You could also just band sim here.
I wouldn't hate that either.
I think, I don't think Ryan is very playable without him.
And they get rid of Cassidy here for GK,
so this is gonna force what,
either a soldier and head to head,
or we'll probably see them go cap fashion on the other side.
Could GK, could team band SIG here?
They could, but if you want to,
Cap Bastion and forced him to play like Trout Trout, D-Bind, to it?
That's true. Maybe in order to make the Cap Bastion work, I think getting rid of the Sigma is a good idea.
New Drunk you wouldn't typically see is like, I mean, we do see Sigma played on it now, because it's so strong, but it'll be a carry-bank, actually.
Ooh, okay. Twisted Mind's maybe gonna bring out like something interesting from Simple here, you know, the Ana...
Alright, surely not on New Drunk City, to play Ana is just a crazy maneuver.
But what will the pick be from Tm? Because Kiri has such a mainstay on this map.
Everybody has playing Kiri here. For great reason. It's a fantastic Kiri map.
Pretty much any Flashpoint you're gonna feel amazing playing Kiri.
Well, that's pretty much any map. I'm sure you're gonna feel pretty good playing Kiri.
But yeah, Flashpoint it certainly makes things interesting because there's no other flex support
with that degree of mobility and dynamism that Kiri brings to the table.
table. Are they going to play back maybe? Simple like we've seen him play back. We've seen him play
like I mean we like last year was like a decent amount of Zen right but you're not seeing
Zen here in New York City. What if they keep playing Rai? Man like a back Rai? I mean there's no
Cassidy which it does hurt. I think the Cassidy has great synergy with RaiKom being able to take
some of these cheeky little angles while Rai's holding the frontline and you know make plays.
That's works signature UB is so great
I think I'm finding the right timing to teleport quartz into those impressive angles for him to you know find those vulnerable side angles
With nobody ready for the flank
But without the Cassidy, maybe that does slow you down a little bit
I mean it's course after all so what he's gonna play so turn but you know a little bit less of a
Explosive individual hero and I think a little bit more of like okay, we're gonna group and play as a unit which
You know, maybe it still works just as well.
It's sort of, I think the cascading man is an odd one
against a player like Quartz because he seems so resilient
to whatever hero he plays.
He's gonna have a good game.
I'm starting to think as well, like I mean, funny Astro,
we've obviously seen play like a ton of Juno as well.
Like is there any type of composition
with like, I know Juno then simple on something else
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Facts facts madden as you go to New York City
Carion cast off the field two of the you know top meta choices. I think
These days they break right like do you know break that's like a team. You're crazy for that one. Yeah, there's no way
I mean, I just don't think rig the meta is so there's no there's so few dive
Kuro's really being played. It just doesn't feel like Brig is a good look this meta, but I mean honestly Matt
I think this the thing about Cap Ashen while I can work the first point is like so brutal for Cap Ashen
Yeah, I don't think it's really the first point is like a tiny room. You know, you're in the Thunder Dome
I there's no room to really maneuver. I do like though this look from GKE sports
This is gonna be a heck of a bunker to try to break down and Timon is gonna run the Rhine
So with the mirrored DPS and supports it's gonna be a really true test
I think of how Ryan looks this meta theoretically good against Sigma, but with Bastion and Sim on the field
That is a lot of damage to break your shoes
Yeah, I mean the the immortality field from simple going to have to be pretty impactful
So it's a little bit of like actually again about we originally your eyes right that it would be the path
coming into play here, so
Uh, it'll be without Cassidy that will actually ditch kind of, I know, any type of surgery and play all together and deal with the Bastion, yeah, I mean...
Oh, Yubi-kun's landed!
Okay, some extra poke there, assisting Quartz and Astro, dropping Labda, and now the poke advantage, even with the Reinkomps, ships can favor a twisted vine, Ski-K.
They know it, they don't want to continue on in this fight, back in extreme trouble, finned, flanked by a committed Yubi-Push, and that should just be an opportunity to clean house.
DK trying to slip away dribs and traps and get a decent reset up.
Thinking about a chase, but a TP back from Alphie will keep the team safe for the regroup.
But that kind of a spam kill, it's a tough blow, especially because now you give this devastating corner to Reign,
where it's going to be so difficult to hold.
By the way, hold on, Tm are not interested in holding the corner.
I don't know, they leave them in the spot.
Yeah, they fake the TP, right?
They put that TP down, they're like, they're going to go on through it,
and they just drop the ant matrix in front.
Gonna be that Immortality Field, but look how far back to get his push.
GK so deep back towards their spawn, so you will have an opportunity for him here though.
And then Amnitrix have his own.
He's gonna run a Rational.
Hillary's trying here, yeah.
Astro goes down though.
GK feels like they're starting to get ready for some of these pushes.
Ziad eventually drops, but maybe the damage is done.
It's 10 of wards and simple as a 3P, but no tank on the other side of the field.
Aggression though, paying off right now from Geeky, overwhelming with player numbers, Alphie picks up two,
Latha will find the finish on the quarts, and Twisted Minds, I mean, playing just with Wandsome Aggression here,
which I don't mind playing this Rhyme comp, but Geeky, it feels like they were ready for some of those pushes now,
and have stabilized a little bit on this map with a great comp.
Yeah, I mean Geeky set up in a great position now, right, with a ton of ultimates coming on in,
All they decide to play around this it'll be be a horrible right something like that is really rough
Oh, but the things a little over the top of it and then big step down with the best of them
Yeah, no way he's gonna be able to live but still I think the job is done already for DK
Yeah, fantastic work from him staying alive, you know deep into that fight even the drones just a lady inevitable
But after finding that kill on the back, it's all gravy right anything else you're able to do is is a little bit of a bonus
Tristan nice
Doing decent in the ultimate economy
But I think probably they're out of town. Yeah to the sim the sim wall trade here is gonna be so crucial
Who can get the better small who can break the enemy's shields and can't even find that big shatter that he's been looking for
He's been finding them all series long so far on that opening map, and now he's just farming up another window for simple
Or he's in first right on the blue and yeah now
I mean you die so quick in the face of that defeat now parking the flux
Helix, Helix, they'll hold it onto his beat, but down the fashion it's such a difficult fight, and I think they're wise not to commit here.
There's just one chance for a retake. Helix slipped away from this fight, so he's going to be taxing everyone back from the spawn, trying to get a retake on.
David, I think it's incumbent upon him to look for an early shatter here. He can just get into the fight and get a sim wall out.
I think they will feel pretty powerful here, but crossing these choke thresholds so challenging against Ryne, and they're actually not going to just have time for the retake at all.
DK playing the slower style here and it doesn't pay off on the very first flash point
But that is a good one for my bet
Yeah, they've given I think up like to give up that flash point actually just gonna rotate early and get control here of
This next one up on the high ground, right? Whether you can kind of create some more distance
Is that's gonna be a TP right on the end?
Shatter is stunned. Oh, he gets it down though. He actually knocks down beyond. Yeah, it's traded back about both tanks stunned and
With Bastion off the field, DK, they don't have a tank frontline, but maybe they don't necessarily need one here.
Skill snake alive with all the damage dealers, Symbol comes up and out and he de-decks off the Reinhardt here.
Bum Trist in mind, and without Quartz on the Bastion, the Maugrage damage threat,
is inevitable from this twisted-minds comp. That freeze DK up now to get very aggressive,
frassing from all sides. The Blit comes in, but they are flanked, they are surrounded,
beset by attackers, but a bigger kill! Quartz finds two of that ultimate of all skills somehow.
I mean, maybe they didn't have a, they didn't have a mortality kill potentially there for
DK because that's like an ammatrix that you drop from Finn at the same exact time.
They're going to go try and shoot on the Brua, then Quartz just deletes them there.
It's two with the artillery.
I mean, that is massive.
You usually don't see, you know, many kills in result to the Bastard artillery strike.
Now this is going to set up simple for an ammatrix that you're going to be walking into here
from DK.
Simple as doing crazy work over the teeth right now.
He's got almost double healing of fin.
That's why these amateurs just keep coming out.
He throws them down, giving them out like candy on Halloween.
DK said, no, thank you, I'll leave your doorstep.
But still, the clock runs down.
Now he's close to a symbol.
Yeah, I mean, they have to obviously back out, right?
But still, I mean, it feels like every fight
they've constantly been on the run is DK.
So there's your artillery.
Gonna back him off of the point.
It looks like TVNT trying to work his way up to a contest,
But the shield was just dwindling away, and you have the sound barrier, right?
So no need to kind of throw yourself into it.
And you get the sim TP here, you're gonna go straight to the point.
You got a sim wall here, plus your own B here.
4TM.
Manta ended up giving up the flip here.
Ziad just getting boxed on the point here.
Tried to keep those shields running, and nice drone, but it's 4.
It's focus firing in the back, but Ziad though, doing good work with that sustain.
Finds two on the fight, Alphie torched up, it's him versus Yubi, 2v2 now on the point,
he's being held by Kellex, and maybe it's the perfect call, Alphie finishes the fight,
what a immaculate performance from him on the sim, Yubi dancing well, but Alphie,
just a little bit too much HP, the support behind, and what a clutch fight from GK.
The Kellex can hold the beat that Alphie finds the confidence to keep the Simba on reserve,
really keeps this Flashpoint in contest now.
I mean absolutely massive because now with symbol plus beat and flux you're gonna be artillery in here for a lab
Duff
You're in a position to give yourself a fighting chance in this flashpoint. We did see this a lot like in point number one, right?
And matrix comes out with a symbol responds in kind even with the bastard pumping damage through it's
Eventually breaks the symbol, but it takes so long. It's just gonna be a reset still good trade
Core twisted minds are gonna be happy to have this in all out another TP board aggression this time DK
Ways no time hard backing a nicer positional move from funny Astro just dodges the blocks around a cheeky corner
They've been thinking about stepping up to the plate with the old keep pouring on from DK
And now they're trying to actually move forward they sense weakness since boner building the back line
What a boop off the TP course dead to rides trying to get tricky on that TP as he has so many times before
He's Shatter, Block, and Ziad. Sick react from Ann Kelleis.
He throws out the beat, just to lock the fight in, and Yumi has committed to Simwall.
Surely this is going the way he gave it. Hold on, Timmy!
He's still alive! He's still fighting! Somehow, some way!
This fight is not done just yet, but as Alpheed enters the fray,
he'll be able to get it done. Well piloted by Ziad on the Sigma, this fight.
Not that Shatter with a quick react shield.
Stay alive for some more deathmatch kills.
GK, or in a more open point, you really see the vision about how they aim to deal with this Reinhardt.
Yeah, I mean, Ziad is dangerously low at the beginning of that fight. They're just never able to kind of track him down.
Maybe if Simba can get a little bit longer there, you're in that fight for Twisted Minds, but
another flash point here is we're tied up at one apiece where GK or Rotate
get there first, control this high ground. Two support ults available here for Twisted Minds.
and he'll take TBNT, take some damage.
Just funny, Astro can soak up all that heal and get that beat.
And Matrix, very powerful here, traded out.
Kinetic Raster should offer some level protection.
DK takes so much punishment to beat in from Astro,
just barely keeps them alive.
They're desperately trying to rub this ride down.
See, I don't find that, but that's just about all the DK
can get out of the team fight.
Beat is necessary though from Astro to ensure that you can take
that trade into the end matrix.
But I think Quartz hit an AMP NAVE on like the entire enemy team.
I mean, DG's health just evaporated at the start of that fight.
And as soon as like that NAVE comes on in, you have TVNT going through the TP,
with no hope or thought of getting out.
This guy is giving himself up to the team.
He's created though, I mean, he's been doing amazing at that fighting opportunity for the team to succeed.
But in the face of the SimWalk, I mean, this is a brutal fight, but you'll be by this Chalice?
That's insane. It should never happen.
But a Pluttreum's Yad, who finishes Quartz off.
Pin is good from Tiffin.
Astro finds another deadmatch somehow.
No rage was defined to plug this out.
A Shatter is just done up by Ziad, but...
somehow Yubi and Astro find kills on the extremities that,
honestly, man, I don't think they should ever be able to get.
Aw, that's crazy.
And Twisted Mind snatched that win away.
An incredible performance into a Sivvong.
That should not be a winnable fight.
I believe this Shatter actually does connect with Finn there.
Uh, like, uh, off to the side,
where Finn kind of playing a little bit like where Quartz is there, where you just stop on the extra rabbi.
He's playing in that area and he actually gets knocked down and they just kind of run right on top of him.
It's gonna be an artillery.
That's great to TP.
The next one actually in lands with a roof, but actually doesn't land in that show.
It's gonna be another anti-triple here from Simphol.
And the grass blocking some of the damage to Simphol further adds difficulty here,
but Alphie somehow finds the damage to break through to him.
B comes out from Kellix, it's only onto 2, can he find something himself on the Lucio?
Feels like he needs to as Ports picks off Bid.
That'll take the legs from out and under this GK composition and Twisted Minds
gonna pick up their second Flashpoint.
Once again, you know, these closer range points seem to be solid for the Rine.
These next two though, maybe with a little bit more, you know, open space to poke.
In theory, that's good for GK, but I mean, TM have been so good in these mid-fight moments, right?
like individually to keep finding these picks.
He may also, I mean, we'll see how they decide to play this.
They could actually end up just kind of getting over towards this beat
and getting quite aggressive.
And I mean, funny, Astro finds Kalec right off the rip.
That is brutal there.
For D.K.
Trades still coming, Teven.
Yeah, we low. This one could just be clutching on Xion.
Beautiful rock from range.
Drops down Astro. Fin and Xion now working together.
But in a 3v2 versus an enemy Reinhardt,
they just don't have the damage to get through the shields.
still gonna take a challenge on point.
Lucille's coming back fast.
Kelly's up in the early death.
Still in the fight,
and the accretion is just good enough
to break down TD&T's health pool.
Good read from DK getting back into this fight.
They have given the flip-off,
but without the ride,
Twisted Minds won't be able to hold onto it for long.
They have to back out,
reset through the choke.
Man, we're not on one simple.
I wonder if he didn't have that immortality field
at that time,
or didn't think there was gonna be that much burst damage
coming into TD&T.
Maybe he's just gonna be able to heal him up
and then get a regen burst
and just keep him going,
keep him going, but the less pure DK will end up taking the lead, it's going to be once
nice job for FUNNY ENTRY to get out of it and get that sound barrier off.
Flanking Bastion from the left, poking from the off angle, there's an Amp Matrix in the
front, but somehow, twisted mines find the cover, play the angles, to perfection, and
come up with twos.
Yaaasow, in desperation, has found one back, but it feels like fine, just too helping, too
steady of a hand to give up this point.
I'll play from TMI. I mean their flank, my Bastion, there's a window in the- how do they get those kills, Matt?
I mean that is crazy, right? It's a nice job, just kind of- they see that lap that is on the flank.
No funny, Ashway can take a move, just kind of not some off-course everybody.
It's a move up just an inch there, they're gonna dodge the damage coming in from that Bastion.
Artillery, we take Shatter here. Available force with Smyrnkul.
I'm just gonna have a single.
There's some amount of stuff, it'll be the artillery first here.
Just trying to line it up, maybe Force players into the line of sight of the EV&T.
Full Big Shell! Oh, wait, what? Oh, another, one more final show comes in from Quartz, takes out Kellex.
Sick Reed sees that he's gonna maybe swing back into the teamfight, hoping to be a little bit greedy.
It's an ultimate that frankly we don't often see get value, and Quartz has found a lot this series.
Look at all the back of it. Oh, they're all now alone.
Genji takes in the creation now, but there's no more spend to deal with, and they team the away, but Quartz punishes Alphina on the move.
And Timmit was looking for the shadow, but may not even see it by now in this fight.
And he's gotta use it, I mean, the odds so ready for the block has to avoid the shield once this breaks, he's in real trouble, but a float up in the air, who leaves the timing of beating Alphina from telling,
Alphina, back soon, you're on the shield, the trade's mid bashing off the field.
with the window behind simple trying to bring that damage is so consistent
you're on the Batista for Reinhardt just running down the opposition and lying away with those floaty feet
and the damage is not quite as easy as he seems to be
finishes the kill out of the years back in into a crazy deathmatch scenario
but the two support and twisted minds stand the test of time and are gonna
pick up this second map in the series GK last time they pulled off a reverse
sweep but I certainly will tell you that they did not want to be put in that
position again and that's exactly where they find themselves. Reinhardt, the answer for
Twisted Minds. I don't think anybody saw that coming, except me then. I just, I'll, I mean,
you do pick DK, but anyway, you saw it coming, but maybe didn't think it was going to be
that effective. They just barrel down like they just run down Zod every single time.
Obviously, he's out doing a great job in terms of poke TV and TV, you know, obviously you're not going to see at least on this map
I know it just kind of reflected in the damage course
Funny came damage almost there on the bastion playing a lot of the time
I think we also saw that TV and TV was like 30 K damage mitigated there with like the shield so
wild stuff
With that Reinhardt game yet again the supports towards the end of that game though like you were talking about
I mean simple is actually trying to just guns the odd out of the skies. Yeah, I'm getting a little bit of healing
Was on 23 HP trying to prevent that like walk from actually landing on the TV
It's not able to get him, but the support signal clutch out in the end
What a performance and it's great to see turn on the Ryan looking so confident
You know his hero pool we have called it into question in a major way this stage
It's been unconventional, but he's found the answers yesterday showed off the Sigma with respectable
Now the Reinhardt, we've seen it a couple times from him before, but it really pays dividends today
Winning crucial fights at the back of not only his shatters, but just his space creation is massive here on the Reinhardt
I mean, there's so much attention that needs to be given to him when he's, you know, dashing forward trying to run over the front
For me, I do think Sigma loses this matchup
I would thought Ziad would swap off and hit a counter pick on the Reinhardt
They really believe it can work, but the sim TPs, the Reinhardt with the playmaking, it's so much to keep track of
Yeah, it's it's pretty brutal. I mean, this is a comp
You know all the kind of past seasons and I know of
Watchesports kind of blend together, but it's like very similar to like London Spitfire
I like remember like this is the London comp
TP the Ryan around like all all types that was really when we kind of saw sim and now you can add our strong
It's kind of like peek into the meta, but
Really impactful stuff and like it makes the question like what is the
answer here like it doesn't seem like they want to he came move away from sick right or they want to kind of play it like I
Would I was surprised like at least try Ramatra means the odd can play really well on the Ramatra
Like at least kind of maybe give you some an opportunity to kind of like fight in that kind of close quarter with the Reinhardt, right?
Ramatra does really well you know go straight through the shields kind of punching down the Rhine running him down
But it's just like all holding on to the sigma neon junction. This is where we saw team look probably their best
in the series against GK, right?
Using the TP to get up to the high ground with that Reinhardt.
I mean, maybe you throw a Reinhardt or a Sim ban here.
I feel like you have to.
And if you don't ban out one of the heroes
that Twisted Mind showed that strat with,
I mean, they didn't even crack first point.
Like, I don't even want to know what happens
on the rest of the map.
I feel like the Sim Reinhardt could be very good
on the Unjunction, like, into anything, maybe.
Like, the way, the way TM were playing it,
it was looking pretty meta-breaking.
So GK, the hero bans here really need to be impactful,
really need to prevent what was my super running with all series.
Yeah, I mean, but the this is still in which allows them to kind of get towards that high ground, which they were so good with the other day.
I wonder what would with team ever ban like a so right. I mean, you know, four slabs that apply like whether that be the bash or the Cassie, the kind of contest.
I know that Cassie had to head to the zoo key band. So that probably tells you that they want to play some diva potentially here.
Yeah, there's a couple of ways to look at this.
I think team could, essentially, I think they're going to play the same comp with Lucio carry Cassidy Sim, and it's just a question of what the tank is.
I would like to see them on the Sigma actually here.
I think it's, for me, a really, like, it's a great replacement.
If you just want to run the same strat and abuse that little high ground over the point, use a lot of those same TP angles, Sigma can do some of the same plays that Ryan can with that kind of a style.
It's a little bit less dynamic or a lot less dynamic and aggressive, but isn't great for Tm
But also don't love the diva in this meta and I think I think timon has been good on the signal
Like I think I want to see him play him more and and you know not just be insane on the rine and the diva with their incredible aggression
But then again for ziyad. I mean he is playing incredibly well on this signal. I want to emphasize that
I don't think it's like any mistake. He's making that's why I'm thinking maybe a swap needs to come because he's hitting the shatter blocks
He's fighting a creation stuns on Rhyne which almost shouldn't really happen.
Yeah, exactly. You just get swung on and you just don't really have a tool to reliably
deal with the Rhyne straight as ever.
I mean, you can kind of like, if you try and move the Sigma around the map, obviously enough
to be in like the same vicinity as the Rhyneheart, but eventually it's going to happen, right?
Yeah, MTM is like so loose at the beginning of the game.
And yeah, good luck man. Good luck. Thank you for the ride. Like you're gonna need it on sigma
You just I mean, you don't have the mobility tool
You just don't have the you know the raw frontline pressure that characters like a rematcha brings the table here and
It's right now though. It's not gonna be a worry for the odd
I think this is actually a really good, you know, map pick and a hero bay on 3dk
This is gonna. Yeah, put things in a more comfortable Sigma mirror
Which is not a free win by any stretch of the imagination, but this is the match of a TV and he can't help
No, and that's why I think Twisted Minds now
have actually really risen.
I mean, it's interesting because there's been
this whole conversation on social media about,
you know, there's been some folks saying,
oh, David, you know, Diva one trick,
he's so good on Diva, but what can he really play elsewhere?
And he is absolutely laughing all the way
to the bank right now.
I mean, up 2-0 in the series.
And if he can close it out here on the Sigma,
he'll have won a crucial elimination playoff series
without touching, I would say, his best hero.
And I really think Diva,
is maybe the best even in the world certainly in that conversation. Yeah now to be able to show this level of flex in
playoffs is a fantastic sign for the midseason championship. Now he's the only Ryan in the world
That's true. I think there'll be more Matt. I think the storm is coming. Tristan Mines is running back to strap playing up on the high ground
The same with those opportunity to get aggressive is not as realistic
If you see, they're just playing more of a slow poking game.
DK happy to take the mirror here, but...
Let's see, we talked about this, the Simmier always going to be a coverage on poor TMS.
Y'all, though, finds the accretion in.
They're starting to flip the map, they're getting that cap pressure in.
Timmit, trying to hold on to the point, but the angles are strong here for the attackers.
Quartz, can't find a way past this shield gear.
TP over the top, though, maybe that creates some sort of opportunity out of you, though,
focuses down first, respects the mobility threat from TMS.
Now, he gets on top of the enemy Simm, with the help of Kelis as Lucio, and a great read from DK.
They break the back of the defense.
Timon on a flank angle trying to make a play need to shake something up here
But the play just comes in too quick
Yeah, and that set up there on the high ground doesn't obviously work as well when you don't have that perma shield
Of the ride you can just kind of stand there
They're kind of force that low ground and then you know over the diva so this doesn't surprise me with the Mizuki band coming in from
TM ring Mizuki so just that it's kind of like nuclear against the best moment, but with the
Uh, Mizuki gone. Look, it's still gonna be pretty tough to play into, right?
Uh, you know, for DK, I know having like, obviously, this tick of pre-shin to kind of use into this D.Va,
nothing that T.V.N.T. hasn't seen before.
Gonna take a little flank angle here, try to shake up the formation.
DK, waste no time, they flip the map, they keep this car rolling, sort of,
struggling to walk up on the D.Va. Nice plans to block T.V.N.T.
and the rush comes out as well, but DK, hold their ground.
Deadeye rush in response.
You know Matrix started to run low on TP behind, get some big damage on a TPT.
The damage suit is gonna be cleaned up.
QB goes down as well and this fight doesn't seem hopeful here.
Force Wisted Minds, DK, hold their nerve, double down on the ult and then name that one up with Comfort here
without blowing too much of the bang.
I'm worried now.
I don't think the D.Va seems so rough with this matchup.
Like this is a war.
What would you want to see them play?
Would you want to see them play like maybe like Maga here?
Ram, maybe?
Ram, like, to quite a play there.
Yeah, or I don't.
Maga, I also don't love.
I think it's pretty hard into the SIG at times,
especially when they can match the mobility
and kind of kite you out.
But what to see is Yad, he's been so sick
on the SIG when this playoff.
Simwall, force has a back off from Hiki.
If they can just get out of this and they can
with a beautiful TP from Alvy, fully kiting the Simwall.
Masterful.
They're trying to double down, just so might as know,
they really cannot afford to back off.
Your force does find a dead-eye connection,
Not many teams I think would have found the Huntsman to keep pushing here, but Twisted Minds pulled their nerve.
It's a great read because I think if they do back off, the clapback push from DK is going to be immense.
So you'd be a great read.
Yeah, I mean, that looks like they would have gotten a point.
And you might be able to get a fight out in the spawn here to drain some ultimates and maybe even have a retake option.
Twisted Minds, tough decision in the moment though.
Instead they elect to back off.
Maybe they can find another window to get aggressive, but that gives DK a bit of tempo now.
And with all the ultimates in the bank, I'd be worried if I were TM.
This second point called into extreme pressure.
Yumi though wants to bring that pace, pushing into the fight with Astro,
but Kikei maybe slipped the net here.
2B threw out the great mind, twisted minds in the wrong neighborhood.
The cart crashing towards this second checkpoint.
The early rush as well, to the force to come in and take this touch,
but he's not locked this world's height and surrounded.
Symbol out, Deadeye as well.
Lavna should be able to guarantee this a big Deadeye shot.
The feet keeps everyone alive.
Now a better beat and a crocs Kellex, Yogg looking to lock this finish in.
Divint loses the suit, still plays available, can you really find something?
He has the symbol, but he goes down to the thick of the fight.
It's too much pressure in the OT contest.
Yeah, as an actual, eventually will fall.
I mean, look for Twisted Minds, pretty rough, you know, in terms of their first point defense there,
they obviously put together a few fights.
They're also able to like, you know, at the beginning of that,
it looked like Geeky was going to have a support ults advantage,
but Twisted Minds, they left normal close support ults during that,
And then end up kind of matching it. It's just that block is so massive that comes in from the odd
Be a TV that just bait there by TM
It's gonna be you be going aggressive here with the sim wall so hard to catch this
To come you out of the is playing out of his mind right now every ultimate is getting tighter. Perfect. He's
DK is a very masterful since he right now and once again just in mind saying look we cannot back down
There's no
willingness to allow the enemy to regroup. They do get a trade-off, but losing Ubi is a pretty high cost,
especially when EK are picking every opportunity to step back to the payload.
It's a positional chest right now. Here on Neon Junction, though, Kellix may just be caught up,
does catch a bleed from the Cassidy, but barely has enough heal to survive through it.
Yeah, he thinks he's got to give him the hinder as well. It's gonna be dead eyes here from both Cassities.
That's what the Kellix is up to. Every which direction?
He just assumes that there's going to be a Cassidy behind him, obviously a reasonable suction.
Given how this game is coming, TP comes out fourth, finds a quick pick for the trades.
SteelCube come in, Noah's court finds a second TDNT, a third.
That will be the finish in the teamfight.
It's just admins on this hard corner, able to get into the back line,
activate the Cassidy, TDNT finding some blood as well.
Get a quick pause, looks like I wonder if there's maybe some internet issues to resolve here,
but Neon Dungeon looking very competitive,
And if I think you can keep playing sim on this level,
I feel like you can have a chance to go the distance.
But the specter of that Ryan for the rest of the series
is very real.
And I think they need better answers for it on maps 4 and 5.
Yeah, and I mean, we see this last part of the map.
It's very difficult to complete.
Like, it gets really close to the deep inch of spawn advantage
is crazy coming out there.
So like any kind of like stackers from the offense,
you kind of really need to win a clean fight
to be able to take it towards the end.
And yeah, like you mentioned, right?
Uh, no, we still have the possibility, uh, you know, what team I don't think has
banned sick throughout the series, right?
Uh, no, so that's how I think on the table still, I believe it was like a
Moga band that they've used.
And then, uh, I know Mizuki here and then, uh, uh, Kiri on the last map.
So I don't even think they want to ban sick though, man.
I think they are, this is the matchup they want when they can play the line.
Uh, I do think maybe banned the SIG and maybe the diva actually starts to look pretty good again.
You know, I think those are creation stunts from Ziad have been so on point and he's become one of the top sigmas here in EMEA
And has really been showcasing that this stage last year
I think we got to see a little taste of his flexibility more fully developed now in this meta
Mechanically just on such an incredible level that they kind of always want to give him that carry potential that the Sigma just inherently has as a hero
But this teamfight it does put you on your heels
And as you mentioned, that final hard corner on Neon Junction is a brutal place to fight a team like Twisted Minds,
who is so cheeky with the TPs, getting the D.Va in the back line.
And once you start losing supports here and there, things just crumble for the attackers.
Just look at the poke damage from the SIG, right?
You know, 7100.
Even the M.I.T. is pretty crazy.
I mean, he's mitigating a lot here, although G&T is matching it pretty decently.
Yeah, plays some Sigma early on and then goes over to the trusted D.Va for TV and T.
So, we'll figure out who's got the connection issue here.
It looks like it was simple, as he gets right back into the action.
Need your care, go for this one, man.
You can't love the Mayswap, I've been loved, this is like something we haven't seen for
a while.
I mean, cut his teeth in the beginning as a projectile player, but I love the May in
this kind of a close quarters engagement.
TP Borg is just a nice try to punish some aggression.
The Mabel tries to isolate it, makes TP,
but the Flux is good.
The beat comes up in Astro, and Elk in the corner here,
it's hard to find follow-up damage on those high ground
players, a better beat from Kelleck,
and Forts now in the sights of Sion.
Knows how threatening this Cassidy can be.
Beautiful movement from Forts, and the support doesn't blow.
What?
Fancy book or goodness gracious, just styled on Sion, right?
I mean, the fact that they're able to keep him alive,
it was simple, obviously, there with a Suzy and Buddy Ash
there too. He's crazy. He's like, I'm killing Quartz. I will hunt this Cassidy down. He needs to
revenge after that one. The Senai's had done just enough to get a stabilized OT, but I mean he
paid an insane work on Davis. Almost has a Blizzard. Simul's also available, so this might
could get wild and wacky in the OT. Simul's almost overlapping one another. Each gene taking a side
gear up the final point, just poking away, putting a little bit of damage down. Tsunay rushes on the
the field from both sides very, very shortly. DK, slow things down for now, trying to bridge
the gap towards that blizzard. Sims full of energy, the rush is about to be already down,
just burst it before Simples Rush can get out. Nice E on the dead eye here before it
gets no value. And DK, being the housekeeper, they've gotten the end of the over a minute
of crushing victory on a map that I don't think you've seen finish yet, man. I mean, this map
has been very defensively favored. So, DK, looking great to at least start through other
I mean, you can see the difference between today's game and the previous game with these two teams the Reinhardt out, right?
They it was this was a 1-0 egg. You can't couldn't even get first checkpoint
In our previous game between these two teams. It was that Reinhardt strat
Where team was playing on that high ground is that we take a look at some of the highlights
You're talking about a lap that when you went over the night really started to pop off
And I think you just see kind of obviously things change with that Ryan out of the mix
So, I think for defense, I actually think it probably trends even better for GK, right?
I think like the SIG being able to use the SIG on the defensive side of things,
definitely going to be a little bit better for them, like constantly kind of poking
from that high ground. Let's see what they're going to do potentially.
Are we going to see a, you know, cap fashion here for Tia?
I think they feel like they need to change something.
I mean, that last round, they were doing their best to try to catch off some of these plays,
even going, like they TP in, they go with the ultimate, they don't find anything.
They just like keep going deeper on TF and keep forcing the fights, but I mean force really feels like the right word
Like it really sometimes feels like they're you know desperate to go so deep in the enemy backline and GK
You know good enough team to be ready to receive them find the trades and the may pick
I think is really inspired from live today
It's just not what I would have thought of but it's fantastic in that final checkpoint here of you know junction
GK, I mean, you mentioned it, the comfortable SIG defense quartz on the Soge
could complicate things if you can find some opening kills.
The creation of the face, I think Tivantz is going to be taking a few more of those before the map is out.
We'll see ports. I mean, one of the best hits me in the overall music rounds the corners.
This gets two taps there by Finn. Obviously some poke coming in from the Sigma there, but...
I've been there.
I'm not going to start things off.
I've been there. You're IGL-ing, you call for the swing,
But you know other players have to react if you were already thinking it in your head
It's it's an easy mistake to make you be a quick reset
VP straight across here for TM. So they get through the choke is I think just the threat
I'm pushing ports here. It's gonna be pretty dangerous a lot of nice off-angle shots here from this is this is scary
He's plinking away. No one's ready to deal with this. I'm gonna have to stay in the pipeline
There's too much pressure coming in Zod steps through the gap and just burns down the attackers twisted mines
It's their turn to experience some of this signature aggression.
They just get bowled over in the fight.
We talked a little bit.
I was going to say, we've seen TBNT play Ramatra really well and for
whatever reason, just not go to it.
Now, applause coming on and we'll see it looks like it's going to be the Ram swap.
Probably the right move here.
Yeah, I like the Ram.
I think it's a little bit better than the Diva, at least able to kind of take those
face trades because when you see that when the Sigma just like walks past your diva and
starts just smoking your your head scan and
Symmetra right in front of you. You're like, okay, maybe I need a little bit more on tank
And I like this from geeky that despite how the series has gone so far. They have been kind of blitzed here in map 3
They've had exactly the right balance
It's not that they're always aggressive, but that they're doing both
They're finding the moments to be hiding away and waiting biting their time for a better opportunity
But they're also not scared when they do see those chances to just run over the opponent you'd be eight deaths
That really showcases the challenge here for this comp matchup
GK in full control right now in the untouched. Yeah, I mean he wants to play aggressive for right
No, I kind of has to on the sim
Just a pretty wide margin obviously beating out the in damage, but out the being I know right with the TPs
You're talking about I know in round number one is we take a look
This is a previous fight, just a lap that's going to go an uncontested on that off angle on the cast.
Yeah, I like that find. You know, that's honestly kind of reminds me of how T.M. played.
They go so aggro in the front line with the tank and the Sam, and then Quartz is on some cheeky angle.
He gets like a few seconds of the free fire.
It's all he needs. I start to pick up those kills, and the rest of them just come in.
Crucially though, they would have won that fight without giving up any trade,
so you really haven't made any progress at all so far.
As twisted minds, there's going to be a big ulti advantage here for GK.
The clock is going to run very slam. I feel like Tiamur are really struggling right now.
And I mean, they could fall out in a full hold in Neon Junction, which, you know, while it is, you know, only map 3 in the series and you are still on series point,
it does start to make you sweat just a little bit, right? When if you have a very dominant showing here on map 3, it's like, okay, that's could be a momentum shifter if they have the right answer.
If they don't have the right answer, they're just going down in map 4.
Well, because there's not like if you think about the escort pool, right? So we have escort and push left
Escorts what Dorado? Junkertown circuit?
Like those are all pretty good sig maps
It's true, but I think Ryan it's like riding you would say is not it's Dorado is not a right back
I think maybe it's fair to say yes, but I mean new Dorado and with sim tp. It's like all bets are off
You think it's not a ride map
I mean, I think London Spitfire really showed this back at the day that everything can be a Rhine map.
Yeah, I mean, you also have the push maps, right? So Colosseo and New Queen Street would be those two options.
So, yeah, I mean, I guess, I guess for the Sim in the mix, as Sim and Lucio, anything is a Rhine map, right?
It's just playing it into that SIG has been pretty effective
but sell some of those sight lines really difficult
on some of those maps to kind of play that too.
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I know with Twisted Minds, DK and Virtus Pro who will go pretty far.
Little home field advantage if it makes a difference. Speaking of making a difference Twisted Minds now on the Ram swap
want to bring a different look into this push. DK have given up nothing so far on this defense.
No ultimates to speak up here for the attackers either.
Ramshell though buys them a little bit of a decent poke trade and a nice time TP.
Starts to hit onto this off angle.
See, I could come contest that.
Loves it once again.
Finds an angle on the flank.
Very scary.
Courts.
Attacks, but slips away and even punishes ready for the reefing.
Now rushes, traded without the casting on the field.
Scared the Alphys symbol to try to make the difference to bring back his 4v5.
Watch comes out as well.
Does find a lift.
Simple.
Absolutely overwhelmed with ultis.
and it takes a big bang dump, but Geekay, get the fight wins.
Y'all are going to come back on the Bastion, I love this pick from him,
put a lot more damage pressure. We saw it even yesterday in that BP series,
how threatening Bastion can be into Ramatra.
Yeah, obviously Ramatra when he gets in Nemesis form starts to block,
feels like he can just kind of live forever, but that Bastion damage is so overwhelming.
It's a crazy B.
B with their B, aggro, B into funny Astro.
Tiffin actually doesn't get the benefit to the B,
but Quartz holds his nerve.
As the OC punishes Kalex for stepping in Diva,
boof wide, but Quartz can't quite land the shot,
starting to get overwhelmed as Yadz stepping in.
Will cost his life, but maybe a good trade in the end.
Four GK, Tiffin goes down looking for trades.
Finn, great work from him on the Kira code,
and stabilize everything,
not letting too many of these players go down.
On the Bastion form, he had not much chance.
He's late, had these six daggers hurt. Those are very long spawn waves.
Is GK gonna come back at his moin and...
That aggression pays off big time. I didn't expect that and I don't think Twisted Minds did either.
Even finding some trades in the fight.
GK brawled it out well.
They have played this. Awesome. Has GK here.
On defense, another slot here for Twisted Minds are gonna be playing Xeno here instead of Lucio.
It's gonna be Xune Rush used here by GK. It's gonna be you two.
Yeah, and they are just dominating right now.
Now they'll punch, cleave, everything, and Yubi with the Simwalt provides a beautiful
spot for Q&T to just layer in that damage.
Still, DK alive with four handy backlines, it could be biteable to keep you back in and
keep his point contestant Simwalt down, but with the rush, with the annihilation, twisted
mines, put a quick halt to this defense.
This Yod now holding down the point, lives a, maybe spawn, I believe, on the Bastion.
Does kill Yubi, but, just in mind, he's not going to sweat it.
They will eventually cap, but the time bank is as low as it gets here, and a second point also could be a struggle, although KK drained their banks trying to make that clutch.
I mean, it's doable, right? I mean, I think you just kind of need to cruise through the second part of the map.
You're looking at, like, in ports like January, like a rail gun, they'll maybe get out of here, like a Kellex.
Yeah, I mean, that's kind of what you're looking for, right? A fourth pick.
But then like, you know, we, you can get close that second trick point, you have orbital
ray, that's like, you know, one of the strongest ults for a monster to play, and that is a
nasty TP with a nade that takes out two labda with another one, nothing you can do there.
A three piece four labda as we get a pause here is, these are not tactical, uh, these
are, uh, pain.
I mean, no one's suffering more than the players, I mean, taking DCs in a game like this is so
brutal, right?
It's like you want to pause it to make sure they get the clip
Oh, that's you got three. Let's hit it. We got us. It's like a pause
Let's grab it from another angle
We'll come back and now I think the time this one was TM. Not sure not sure what's going on here
Yeah, yeah, definitely. I mean it feels like we've been getting less internet issues today
Which always you know is tough in a playoff match, but you know these teams they're also full of veterans
So this is squads right I don't think they're gonna lose much momentum off the back of this thing
know and you know stay focused stay looking for these fights and I think it's
one person check after each fight now it's like yeah right we'll take a lot of
time to worry to work the stats in here I gotta say though man I mean we talked
about Alfie recently in the playoff about his Reaper but the sim today yeah
he is he is matching you be and the TV's about it yeah this map doing I think a
little bit better I feel like the Rhine has been you know giving TM the
advantage so far in the series, but these TP's have been flawless and 4GK, this is a
style they can really build on and honestly there hasn't been many of these like elite
Korean flex supports who pick the sim maybe a lot because of like think about Ubi's
impact with the calling in order to play the sim at the highest level you almost have to
be a main caller or at least very communicative if the team doesn't all take the TP or understand
if it's a fake TP are we really going in is it just for the basket like there's so many
variations and it all has to be a judgment call in the moment and so the communication
is a real challenge. I'm incredibly impressed that this team is able to operate the Sim on
such a high level. For Althea, this is a player that I think could become a very hot commodity
with how insane he is on the Tracer, on all these core expected flex DPS. To have the Sim
at this level in your pocket is a huge asset. We talked about at the beginning, very similar
to like a checkmate, right?
Who the team, the core of this team had last year with Katzia.
Also, when we looked at that replay,
nobody has been ever more dead than Fonny Asher
as we get back into this game.
I believe he is at one of the Bastion Phoebe Junior
on Juno as there is a turbo Bastion walking him down.
So Fonny Asher has to sit this entire time
knowing he is then going to have to,
Once we unpause, sit in the spawn room for the entire few seconds.
So, I think I'll look at another replay here.
This is, I know, from Alfie a little bit earlier in this map.
So, yeah, I mean, look, I think they've done a great job,
like utilizing his TP and the speed boost
to kind of really kite a lot of these big,
ultimate dumps that we're seeing at Trist of Mine.
I feel like this map shows how significant
the Rine is right now,
because everything else is functionally the same.
Like the rest of the team guns are virtually identical to what we've seen in map 1 and map 2, the playstyle of the scene as well.
But without the Rhyne, this comp just doesn't seem to work. The Sigma is dealing with all matchups.
You know, they've tried the D.Va, they've tried the Ram, it's better with the Ram, it's better, but they've got a long way to go on this map.
It's going to be a slog from here on out. However, this is the Rhyne ban deployed.
So, you know, for Twisted Minds, this is a map you, you know, you don't want to lose.
we'd love to be able to end it in three,
especially given the threat of a reverse sweep
being so real from a team as good in the clutches
as GK Esports, but right now it feels like
you maybe are more reliant on that
than you would have liked.
Yeah, I mean, if we could take a look at like,
kind of where we are in the series
in terms of like maps and the bands,
because you know, Twisted Minds ends up losing this one,
which obviously GK in control with,
like what do they have to work with, right?
So we see here obviously neon junction,
That's the map we're currently in.
That's a GK map pick since they've lost the last two.
Game four and five would take place on,
I mean, you got a new Queen Street, Colosseo, Dorado,
Circuit, or Junkertown.
You do have the ability to get rid of the Sigmund,
one of those potentially, right?
Could you even see them get rid of the Bastion
if that becomes an issue,
kind of dealing with the Reinhardt?
So not, I mean, you kind of said,
like maybe with some TP and, you know,
I don't think they're to the same level, though, like, in our example in Neutrunk City are, like, pretty good maps for Rhin, like, just in terms of their overall layout.
So, I wouldn't say the same as any of our, you know, five remaining maps.
Yeah. You know, it's interesting. I think with the Sim, I think Rhin should play pretty well on both of the push maps, actually.
You know, I think being able to counter to those high grants at the same TP could be pretty interesting
Call of C.O. does present a lot of these wide open long angles
I still think Ziad, it's like I just feel like that tank matchup is brutal into the Rine
Like the the you just can't control the Rine. That's what you need
You need damage fed on the Rine so that he's scared to swing the hammer
He has to play slow and hold the shield which
Ultimately, you know doesn't work forever for Rine, right?
He eventually runs out of gas and those kind of long fights
He needs to find the opportunity to go for plays and look for pins
Or maybe it's the you know the the Arissa is like sort of the OG counter where you just spear the right out of his charges
You fortify the shatter you spin and push him into a into a corner
You know, it's the odd we know we can pile those heroes, but what will be their read?
Maybe you could also bring out a completely different look
But the really big threat is that like because this comp is all fixed aside from the tank
You know you if you try to go some crazy like you know far
You try to like poke them right you do some weird bad come Tim it just goes diva and you lose like he is so ready for you to
Bring out any of those cheeky little greedy heroes so to have both of those both Ryan and diva
It's like their counters are in a way. They're kind of opposite choices
You know you go to the the does you know the as good as a risk it can be in that match if you go to the Rissa and
Right to diva so happy for it
Yeah, sounds like we're getting a simple to know. Maybe restart these PC at the moment, so
Once once they get so all ready to go
They heard back into this game
Some of our viewers were late on the drops and they said you know what I'm gonna fix that right here right now
Everybody's got my graphics drivers real quick. Yeah in the middle of the match
Speaking of drops gotta connect your battle at the count. We could be sitting here vamping all day
You won't get a show you know connect the bean at maybe you got to get these eSport loot boxes the manga
the OWS skins, the Maga Fowlbuckle with the OWS skins, I'm a big fan, I'm a collector
of these skins, the OWS skins, so I cut out the latest Maga Lugs.
Many people have said, they watch you talk continuously for 12 hours for that Esport
people.
Many people have said, I think maybe my mom is the only person to say that, it's like
that's the only person to be clapping in applause.
But yeah, I mean the Maga skins are sweet, anyways, I think we got a lot of time left
in the season, but those battle past tier skits getting closer towards those and always come
in clutch. So, great time to be able to watch eSports fan, right? We got a lot coming down.
I know for the rest of the season for OWCS. I gotta do my support placements, Matt. I've
been, I've played, I got my DPS placement, my tank placement. Gotta get the support games
in. It's been a while since the Jake Percy, the Jake Frank. We should've done duo. We
should've done duo. That would go, that would go hard. You could play, I'll Pocky, you
You play like Soldier Castle and I'll pocket you a Mercy, that'll be a good time.
Yeah, me and Sycho once, we did a stream where we did a lot of losing, which is typically what the streams would become.
But he would play Widow and I would play Mercy and I would try and use my pistol and I would be able to come up with more damage than Sycho.
Can't imagine why that didn't work for you, and I'm so sorry for all of your teammates.
Yeah, there was one time we told one of the devs that's what we did. They were like, oh, that's fun
Like was it in like a you know quick playing? Yeah, like yeah
I ultimately mess around in quick play
What a time but guys we're gonna take a quick break here last simple to kind of get his PC all sorted out and then jump back
Into neon junction. We'll have that right on the other side this quick break
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When I'm waiting, why I'm flying
I just want to hear the song
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Got me feeling, got me waiting
I'm lucky when you're by my side
Yeah, yeah, yeah
When I say it, I'm not dying
Every time we touch, every time we touch
It feels like
Every time we touch, every time we touch
I
You can breathe again, pushing skin to skin
I feel the love, baby, let me in
Just the two of us, and for the love we've been
It's hard to keep running
Let's make believe, keep me coming
You're making my skin
I love it
It's you and me, and I love it
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I don't need perfect
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I just think real so when I get loud for it
I can't feel no chasing go, no chasing go
Wherever I go, I'll take you so
This is the life I set, I've lived
Every little thing I'll give
No map, no spread, just fine
And I'm finally on my side
I don't mean perfect
Okay, we're right back into the mix guys
Yeah, so good we get simple back in sounds like just gonna
Maybe we got a fresh install so everything you know, all clean ready to go.
This mind's a bad spot here, they're great.
Below two minutes to go.
I mean, like overclocked, lost orbital range,
and you can see now, they go away from the ram and just going to go over and play SIG and mirror it up.
TBL tried to be competent, wasn't quite ready for it.
UB slips away, but still getting poked down at range.
Alphie picking up a ton on the back of this fight and putting Astral maybe not out of trouble just yet.
Yod thinks better of chasing that deep around the corner past the enemy spawn, but
Opportunity to really be aggressive on these corners, and I mean there's just no margin for her now for twisted minds
DK with so many chances to close this one out. I mean the draw is honestly you're starting to feel like the best if you do for D.O.
Yeah, I mean considering also the amount of time that he paid, and it's set on their offense, a lot of ultimate something's Yod dangerously low
It'll be the orbital right here. Nice TP out.
It comes on through, but yeah, yet again, we've been highlighting him throughout the series.
Alphie's doing a great job, but with Helix, just kind of getting this team out of dodge at really tough moments.
Yeah, TM just can't stick on these targets.
Alphie getting pretty torqued up early on the same, the beat in aggressive, not suspecting the ultimates on the board for twisted mines and ports already down.
Jibbit also burned down while he's casting the Flux and what a call from Helix.
I mean, he's got beat. He's up against OC and Flux.
I mean he has to know it too so he beats aggressively knowing that if you don't get kills in the first few seconds
Those two ultimates will come down like a ton of bricks and ruin you
Just in my eyes just don't see the chance to get it off
They get overwhelmed down Kalex can kind of work his way towards the next beat
They can kind of even throw a fight away, and this isn't even a free one now for TN
No, I mean you all have a rush mirror right?
Sim wall
For both teams
Oh, that is huge, they find Kellex, maybe not even able to exit with the rest of the team, they'll have to back all the way up, so this gives T.M. some new life here to potentially complete this second checkpoint.
It's gonna come down to one fight, Quartz wants to end it before it even begins with a so much cart time to give up, oh he gets an angle on the side, but Zion ready to mark it almost.
will turn around for a kill on the court.
Happy to get away with his life, it becomes simple.
Keeping the pressure with the rush,
or until he reshows,
he can play on top of a lap.
The what an increase from God to set up that play.
And this map, over and done with DK,
make their mark on the series
with a dominant neon junction.
All right, so,
two maps in the last time,
these two teams met up.
The first two went over to Twisted Mind,
then he came up over the reverse weave.
That kind of, maybe the same story here.
he can't get one on the board still a long way to go but they kind of dominated here on neon junction surely not again
for the tournament life
but maybe
Yeah, it's a you know, it would be a obviously a huge surprise, right, but
Still a no DK has been you know proven at least at this point be very difficult to be on these likes a sigma base comes
Yeah, I mean, we see in the Sigma mirror, this is maybe why the Rhyme needs to come out because it's not a mirror that Twisted Minds are comfortable on, and DK, this is where they cut their teeth, you know, them grinding this match up into Virtus Pro and become just incredible experts at it.
You see it in the execution, you see it in Alpha E Symmetra, tangling with the very best of them, Ziad, so fearless on this Sigma, willing to dive in and get aggressive, even holds out the Diva at times to finish things off.
off, a little bit of flex from the Luda, you love to see it on the big, great look to finish
off the map. In the end, Twisted Minds, they can write this one off, they've been winning
with the Rhinel series, Ragn gets banned, okay, they drop the map. Now, the ball's back
in Twisted Minds' court. They can run what's been winning for them, and it's up the GK
to find the change. If this is like maps one or two, it'd be unbelievable that Twisted
Minds couldn't close it out here.
Yeah, I mean, I'm curious where they decide to take us, uh, TM.
I-I do wonder if it's one of those push maps, whether it be Colosseo, uh, or New Queen Street and then kind of keep that, uh, escort problem to solve last, is, uh, maybe that's where you're able to kind of get, uh, you know, like,
Take us through our various bosses in Neon Junction.
Yeah, let's skip it all the bosses.
Yeah. Let's go back to...
Look at this.
Org-O-R-A.
I appreciate hits.
That's sick.
Yeah, and nobody will be able to make it out.
I don't think you find those connections with the artillery, right, without that accretion.
I mean, the fight's just over and done with from there.
Great team play, great coordination, and Dorado is the pick.
Man, Dorado is a ride man.
Okay, sell me this.
It is. I mean, every map's a ride map, but Dorado post rework is genuinely pretty playable for Rime into the Sigma Poke mirror.
Which I'm assuming is going to be the defensive look for Geekay, but it's hard to say and also on defense
I think Ryan genuinely is insane on like first point and third where you just camp Chokes on Ryan and like
It's very hard to get past them there like Rado first point essentially funnels down to two very small choke points
Where there's the cart path and there's a little flank on the right side and Ryan can easily mark both of those
So I do think this is absolutely winnable. See I'm opening bam
I guess this is a support protect. Maybe they really want Lucio
Unless they're just going completely off the wall and they're protecting Kat and they're gonna go Kat Bastion here
which I
Well, well you could do it that this is exactly how you lost last time if you go Kat Bastion
That was you can't have the answer the exact series is less than yes, exactly and they just they just deal with the Kat Bastion
It doesn't give value
Things slip away and then I love the diva band because that's exactly
What did it would want to play here on this map to be able to play the verticality?
You know to play alone against cap Bastion, so DK
Smell this out. They see that you know band
They see it to protect for cap and they attack one of the other key combo pieces and on a must win map
Now and go to push after this where an escort pretty interesting, but you can make it to map 5 you can get the push
I mean that is a starting to look pretty scary for twisted mind, right?
They're starting to sweat feeling another reverse sweep potentially coming on but we're not there yet
Of course, you got to get through Dorado just to see the other side
Yeah, I mean
We talked about it like you kind of want the Sigma in if you're gonna play the brine like that's kind of the matchup
You would want you wouldn't want to ban the Sigma force the odd to play like Ramatra then try and play it into it
It would probably be maybe a little easier
For DK to deal with where the Juno
The Juno Band, I think I agree with you in that, you kind of look at what DK's, they've banned the Bastion, they haven't banned the Cat yet, right?
So, potentially that is kind of what they would look to here.
I wonder though, because just imagine, without the D.va, what are they going to do here?
I mean, it's actually, I don't really see it. I wonder if the D.va Band is so powerful, it might even force them to back down from the strat.
I'd rather see them play right here, honestly, I think they have a better odds on it.
Attack first though, I mean that's definitely the more difficult side if you want to play one of those same costs under Rodo
I mean you are the TP is great
but I mean you need it just to get up to the high ground it's harder to make plays and
You know the cap bashing is gonna be the look for twisted minds, but I feel like we've seen this story before man
We saw it in the last time these teams clash yeah, okay
Them being so solid dealing with quartz bashing is pretty much exactly what brought them back in the reverse suite
and I think he K
has a good read on this, right? Because
Kalex is playing the Mizuki, which we've not really seen him play much at all
Uh, so he wasn't good against VP though. He was very solid, right?
So they've been I mean, they've been tested in this composition and they've looked good against I think the best team
In EMEA right now, although obviously it's close here at the top
You'd be on the far though could add an interesting complication
Alfie Sin is definitely going to be under some serious scrutiny now
I wonder if he's going to commit to this aura or if we're going to go back to spawn and
swap.
Maybe though.
I mean, I actually don't mind the far here.
It's a lot of free space to poke.
Bastion is going to be more worried about dealing with your cap Bastion than he really
has time to poke up into the sky.
They're going to yield the high ground control, but this is almost always the setup that you
were going to go for regardless.
Tristed mines.
Now, see the window to get aggressive.
Lablet does take some early poke, but he's playing comp and he's playing out in the open
ready to take an aggressive trade if Quartz does swing in for a commitment.
Oh and a beam down on Ubi, the board comes out a little late with the cleanse,
stabilizes, left out, looks up, marks the form trade, and there's no chance for Quartz to get in.
I mean, that's, this is how I can recommend you to go. It's like, if you really, it feels like
you're hoping for a little to make some kind of a mistake here, but another forthcoming, steady
hand. Yeah, I mean, or you're trying to get like a, with the poke damage, like the Pharah
in combination with damage from the Bastion, maybe you're trying to get like,
like, sickly to use Grasp and just kinda like then, to use your Turret form and kinda work him down in his fourth down.
That is great, I mean, this is pretty nasty.
He's trying to bait that form out and trade, comes out with a continued rush on the ground, courts you're wild for peeking this one.
Gets absolutely burned, UV finds the Sim, but, I mean, now the damage is done, the frontline is starting to go well.
Hold on, this place should've come in.
A large kill from Tiddent does take away that frontlineer.
They can find some late kills on these late spawners, but actually I don't think they can, so they'll be working without the tank.
There's a little bit of a power play for Twisted Minds,
but even going to get taxied,
oh no, actually Quartz can taxied off the spawn,
so you do get through the choke decently
as the attackers here,
but DK are still here with a big bang for it.
All right, I mean, the sanctuary here
is going to be crazy from Helix, right?
The rush, like, you know, a lot of just predictiles.
Yeah, well, they lose so early on,
that is a large source of healing.
They will end up losing lab,
that's a lot of the damage though,
that's going to be going down
towards you being forced from the sky.
Of course, it's Super Run, and he gets dropped off!
Such a long neighborhood, man.
I don't know how that happened.
A little bit of a slip-up, maybe.
From Funny Astro and Co.
Leaves him behind, and that actually takes away a...
what was a chance here at 4pm.
I don't really see them fighting without Bastion.
This feels brutal for Twisted Minds, man.
I mean, obviously you had to go to one of these at Sport maps,
but, you know, kind of seeing this comp,
this not-inspire confidence at the moment.
and now everybody's on the flank here.
UB is looking for that side.
If you could just get a barrage on one, take out maybe one of the supports, maybe the Bastion,
if you can dare to dream it. The poke is good enough.
The force of four-mouth with the flux coming in to it now, called into question.
This Brock goes a little wide, fancy footwork from him,
but with Suzuki coming into overwhelm, simple.
Just can't quite keep the puck line alive,
and Cratch begin to show here for twisted mines.
I mean, it gets some good pressure for once in the back line,
and then it's the commitment to the Cav Bastion.
to the cabbash and it means that Simen just doesn't have the resource to take those trades.
I mean you have everybody else on the flank right?
I mean UB, Quartz, and Ashtar on the flank, it's just simple and TVNT there in the front
line and DK just says okay let's just run them down right and they just get run them
down with the Mizuki, they chain TVNT, nothing you can do at that point.
This corner is so devastating and Simen's like got this little room just a fortress
here.
a chain on StevenD, struggling to back down Mirage from range, does drop the Bastion and
bring some good splash damage to the entire team, DK. Keep the pressure on though, dropping
the Sanctuary, doubling down on the fight without the tank. Twisted Fights still going to look
for the clutch or Killery Shells this time, not getting much connection to speak of supports,
keeping each other alive. With Twisted Fights, they destabilize the setup just enough for
a chance. Bin though, holds his nerf, stays alive in the QE1B1. Feels a little desperate
now for Quartz as he's looking for connections on this Bastion. StevenD, back on the Moga,
but we are into OT
not to go ahead and come up on the tracer so you need to find kill where else this cat fashion
are going to start to run rampant here
still DK held the line well so far you need to find one
TNT just barely stank him on you hope I can't believe that he's lived this long
and actually he's gonna make him fight the support from TF so clean
stank him overrun just for the damages
Well, I even thought there's so many silly things that hero can do.
Because somehow they're able to break it this far.
I think a little bit of it is kind of the way you said though, right?
Glad they're having to come back on the tracer, not having that fashion damage.
It's really what's allowed them to hold on deep and thus far.
So TM in the final moment is able to get that first checkpoint.
None of that was easy whatsoever though.
And then over the top from the Bastion, what kind of response is this going to force?
I mean, this is why they picked Dorado. There's so many crazy angles for Kat Bastion.
If it doesn't work here, I don't know where it can work.
What's with that?
Tank shell perk, being a lot of splash damage down, keeping him over the top, does just overwhelm Finn.
Great little moves.
From Funnyastro, of course, with the aim to follow it up, he's going to clean House here.
Losing two players, the cart continues to roll, and Alpy cuts his losses.
TP's out. Good riddance from him, but even a better find from Quartz is they have full control of the map right now.
It's funny, it's like you would believe that team has all the makings to be a pretty elite Capashian team, right?
It's just that you haven't seen it that much and that's not so far. I'll leave the artillery here.
Oh, I like the way he's using artillery.
He's so good about the cart. If the cart rolls past this door, you're not gonna be able to hold it here anymore.
Love that gameplay read. I chew for the course.
You'll be called into question if the plan is necessary. I think it's safe in here. Rush comes out though.
Devog is so happy to fight on top of it, but the SimWalk mediates a lot of the follow-up.
Quartz now under scrutiny, the rest of the team turning to focus,
fire him down, the bashing does drop.
Traded off the field by Yubi's garage, but as the SimWalk's buyer,
it's a problem for him to stay alive and stay in the fight.
Centuary comes out from Kellix, he's been farming those up.
Post-Ace is speeding, and it will hold the line here for GKE sports.
That was, I believe, the best chance the Twisted Minds are gonna have.
I mean, please try to, they're only old, but hard to see how you use it in this matchup.
They get you on the exit to I mean cage right
You know if you hit the barrage, maybe you're kind of thinking about that, right?
I know sanctuary on the other side
I guess like bashing in terms of like you know with a perk that quartz is taken with like those kind of artillery shells
And come down a lot of splash damage in that you know area now that the cage can come in
I think they're gonna be pretty slippery though to hunt down is this gonna be
aggressive from course shells they're into that there's gonna be a key to the
flux in response which is beautiful they're into the artillery from the
land sick play there from GK is that might be it I mean 10 seconds of the
clock not even sure you're gonna get a contest I can't do it but how long will
they live last for long yeah you be back in the tracer coming on the wrecking
ball looks like cats gonna get the touch solo leave course behind he knows
This is a suicide mission, but I mean even he won't be able to make it in on his own
But it's him from TM that makes some decent progress on the map, but I mean the vibes are not good, right?
It feels like gig-k are so ready for this matchup. This is something they prepared for they've already shown that they can beat this style
And we need to see an immaculate defense here. I mean I'm mad this is I was this is my personal favorite little combo in Overwatch
the flux into bashing all it's just it's just devastating it's meaty you know
look at this just boom boom boom you know I can say anything yeah you're
already a girl that survives that I mean just it just is not happening I mean
not Finn and Kellex both the pretty good habs there or GK not team so is there
anything to that would lead you believe the team maybe this compound defense
could be a little bit better. I think it's easier on defense in fairness because, well actually it's
in some ways it's easier, some ways it's harder. You know the attackers are going to be a little
more exposed to the Cap Bastion flanks, but the other problem is that TvT has to hold the payload
and that's the real issue in this comp, right? It's like the Bastion isn't dying, but it's TvNT
who's getting overwhelmed. Like Alphie, Sim is the difference maker. Yubi's on the Sparrow to try
trying to take more space and play to their comps' strikes,
but the Sim is just cooking your frontline.
If you don't get kills, you're on a clock,
and that's a terrible feeling.
You know, I think especially on Escort,
when the cart's being threatened,
I'll be looking for a cheeky little widow opener,
just goes to the chance here,
but yeah, the Sim, on no change here
for the attackers, GK, this has worked for them
pretty much every time they played this matchup into TM.
And the Far, I think, is gonna feel a lot worse
on the events, actually.
It's, you really don't have much time to work with,
and the cart's just being forced.
No one's able to really change that.
The spam comes in, you break the TP, but no one is able to come up and touch it.
D.B. and D.N. he's scared for good reason.
Of course does swim wide on the angle, but you see how ready D.K.R. is to step inside of the room, get comfortable.
And Bastion form now.
He's not even committed just yet, the car continues to roll.
Yeah, I mean it's really difficult to step up right because like...
Oh, he rocks!
Oh, nice.
Are you kidding me, sir?
Are you kidding me, sir?
That is sick.
Okay, okay, I see that we're going down 5 here.
Yeah, that is disgusting.
You be trying to get to the mix.
Go straight to Bastion.
Wait, hold on.
Deathmatch is good from T.M., maybe G.K., also feeling as I did a little overconfident after that ridiculous rocket at D.O.D.
and a clutch from the remaining four from T.M.
I can't believe they brought that one back with a cat-bashing of all comps.
Nice pull.
See, D.O.D., I mean, the start of that, I mean, he has just made so many sick plays throughout the series.
It will just get the accretion there on the courts and then you're able to deal with them.
This is a huge opportunity here for G.K.
Uh, don't- you have your kid's username rush, but it's gonna be actually simple on the other side.
And TeeBee and TeeBee put in serious work during that fight.
Oh, Yubi's spam is hitting. I gotta take back what I said.
He has been producing on Fara on this defense a little.
Back flank.
TeeBee up to the high ground. They're gonna try and swing low ground through choke.
Got to worry about Yubi's garage.
Here it comes. Over the top, the cleanse is good.
And Labnus just burns him down before the cleanse expires.
The flux hits everybody, but the support's working over time for TeeBee.
Stabilize the team by a twisted mind.
It burned out of this one, it was a great attempt at the initiation.
I mean, they connected like a dream with those ultimates, but Fin, the god cleanse, hits everybody and buys just enough time for Lube to find that focus fire.
Yeah, and the Katsune rush was massive there for Fin.
I mean, you hold on to it for Twisted Nines, so you have it for this fight coming up, but also that's the odd of getting dangerously close to that.
Lux is half-assioned still.
Name of the game here, Fort, Twisted Minds.
You see, Fort's gonna take in that high ground angle.
It'll be a rush here.
Sanctuary?
Yeah, nice sanctuary.
Oh, it's gonna be a catnap that comes in from calling Astra.
This doesn't seem like he's gonna grab anybody out of it.
Yeah, Sanctuary is just too powerfully defensive,
even with the rush on the field.
It's actually KK who keeps on pushing Fort.
Fort's blinding itself on a natural off angle.
So, Fort's trying to just keep helping up and into the fight.
Fort's working well, even without the cat.
He's in a power position right now.
Now, FunnyAstro's free to make some plays of his own, but on the low ground, they're ignoring the passion, and it's actually going their way, live up to not into the first line.
Yeah, and I don't think, okay, he can grab Quartz there for a second, then they can get him out to the high ground, but, yeah, this has been a rough four-twisted mind.
I mean, even with those, like, even with these nice high ground positions from Quartz, the same really seemed to matter.
Uh, putting Astro's God in touch, but it's so scary on the cat.
You get burned down in a moment, the Mizzouki chain and the Riking Ball.
Let it go! Hold on! Goes down! That's one of your key damage sources on the back of this rush!
Just three players remaining for DK, and the ball is devastating them.
They don't have to damage. They need this right up.
Hold on, Helix's Yacht still fighting, but he just seems too much to ask for wings.
No, hold on. Surely you can't. Okay, boys.
I mean, that was dangerously close as the Yacht finds that kill onto TBMD, but...
It does feel I mean like it's bashing if you don't find that pig. It's like that fight is just done
So just reminds there on a shred of a chance this comp that I feel really
It's well, I mean yeah, you know you're on TV and TV continuing to play the ball
I guess the close to minefield
Yeah, I don't know I mean ball
So really difficult to play into the zoo with a chain. It's gonna be the artillery here from quartz
Okay, does get Kelly, you also get Alfie with the barrage, it's gonna be Turricorn here used by Wabda, you're able to clean him up so another fight.
Okay, hold on.
14.
The wrecking ball, I think is actually the perfect pick here, it's maybe the one tank hero who can actually stall the payload into this kind of overwhelming DPS, yet yes the Mizuki chain can lock you down, but at least you can kind of like spin around the cart, it's not necessarily easy for Kelly to find that connection when your real goal is stall.
And by continuing to force this payload in the low ground, it's giving you the import massive room to work
Still though, this is gonna be the tougher test with flux available to lock down some of these players with the sanctuary to force the payload
It's gonna be a really tough hole for TM another
TP straight to the payload, but course it's already public chosen, Felix goes down, they're forcing is so hard on the low ground it is not coming up their way
TM are more than ready for every one of these TP's and KK
Starting to get a little scary now.
Dude, we have three minutes on the clock here.
I mean, we're down, that's half the time.
Spend it.
They're winning without ults.
That's the scariest thing.
Like, if it's relying on ults, you know, just to mind being on a clock,
but they made so many plays.
Now it's their turn to have this huge bank.
Horde's just starting to feel some confidence going in over the top.
The spam comes in.
Albie can't get the TP off.
We're starting to feel the limit here.
Gerado, the mobility coming into great effect.
Look at the burn down.
The slam from the wrecking ball here is good enough for that kill.
Killing.
DK, how much being a real question, mind just practice this.
I feel like they are so sick.
I mean, this is shades of Newjunk City, right, where they're just diving you in the spawn.
Alfie into the tracer though, I like this look.
Someone who can force the payload on their own because the KARDIS rolled back so far now.
This is maybe not even one fight territory any longer.
KARDIS gonna pop this artillery, try to get some good connections.
It's a nice shell onto lubbed up, but the support is there to keep you stable.
And Tracer adding just enough complication to keep some of these players off of the back of the key cave.
They swing in wide, taking an angle here.
Now it's hard to find that Bastion connection.
Quartz even takes a rock to the face. That's going to slow his roll for just a minute.
Still over the top. They're trying to overwhelm. It is going to come down to it.
Rush available for Finn. When will he find the opportunity to pop it?
Holds his nerve for now.
And of course, in the OT Bastion solo, the cleanse comes in.
Just in time. Maybe Bait Quartz. He worked for the finish.
UB Mining Quartz as well goes down without finding the barrage.
A rock on the TV and he slows down the second ball for just a minute and with the TV forward
Here it goes with the cooldown reduction just enough for simple to get out and stay fighting
The ports absolutely still in the sea picks up Kellex PK struggling now
This is a call to the question and so too is the series twisted minds
It looks so brutal for them in this matchup, but they have battled back the pulse on it's enough splash
Can't finish the place court stays alive. This award keeps them up, but let's uh keep on fighting so sick of the clutch
He'll find two and maybe just maybe keep this people live to send us to a game by
Unbelievable scenes here on Toronto
Pause TV and T eventually will expire and we will get a fifth and final game between these two teams
Hey, just give me GKE sports matches
I mean these are all bangers with them in the mix as that got really dangerous
you know, the ball swaps there from TV and T and a little bit of a desperation scenario to get a touch within continuing with it.
It actually looked really strong there for twisted minds glad that comes up with some huge kills at the end and not a pretty game here.
I know a lot of just kind of deathmatching from both sides, but pretty epic one at that. I mean courts 22,000 damage.
Obviously taking that, I know artillery, I know the tank perp rate where you're able to kind of get those splash damage.
I know more of those hits coming in this lab that goes for a little bit more survive visibility there on his own
Bastion, but what a game
Seriously too close to call and I beat TM pulling out all the stops to bring this to an OTP
I mean this looks like a map that they should just kind of crumble in given how well
GK are playing the match up, but even T
I mean once again the insane flex to bring up the wrecking ball
I think that's really the only thing that kind of keeps them in and yes a team that is
experience the challenge of playing sim into wrecking ball like you're so
reliant on taking these tps on a precise timing on rotating as a team and not
dropping any players and wrecking ball I mean he just eats that alive like this
slam boom baby drops kelex with some assist from court and yeah you started
to feel seriously scared I think Alphys tracer swap was very heads up though and
it really did start to shift this match up yeah and it's like you only have so
many things to deal with the flora and the you know bastion damage right now
when you're kind of taking that splash going into like the tp as you saw there
towards the end right they end up using the suju they don't have like a shield
or grasp and then all of a sudden it's like one of those bastion artillery
shots and then a slam comes on in and then another shot from the bastion
everybody's basically dead so can you replicate that again on a different map
as uh GK looking for their second reverse sweep uh against twisted minds i mean uh
i i was like oh like i picked tm because i didn't think uh there'd be a world where this
should happen again i was like oh yeah you're going slow. Surely we've had all the amazing matches
in the mba that we're gonna get mad i mean we're so far out of the standard deviations here.
We're still in the fast ball after this. I mean we got a tmvp game or another GK versus a vp game
coming up. So, EMEA is just blessed. Thank God these teams are going to Paris because
GK, these boys need a vacation, man. These guys need, they need a full spa retreat because
they have been living on a prayer. I mean, how many times have they been in a final,
you know, do or die clutch situation? They just eat it up for breakfast at this point.
Twisted mind saying, last time New Queen Street, not our favorite map. We're going to
We're going to go to Coliseo.
I really am here.
No soldiers sent me here.
Wait, has the sim been banned yet from DK?
I'd love to see DK ban the sim here.
I think this is actually the moment to do it.
If you get the chance, if Twisted Minds don't do a DPS Protect,
don't be a fan.
Alfie has been playing it, I think, all series.
Don't get me wrong, I've been singing his phrases.
He's been fantastic, but I think the Rhyne is a very scary threat
and you can really take a lot of that away
way if you take the sim off the field, you'd be though and you'd still slouch on the tracer
and close in on the looks.
They could ban Soge, protect it, and they do protect sim, I think they see that same
threat.
And the passion also, I mean this for me very much says you want to play Rine, Bastian has
like enough DPS to actually just burn the Rine down through the shield, but this does
also mean Tm, you know, GK rather like whatever they've innovated in terms of how they want
to deal with this Rine, maybe they'll keep playing the Sigma.
It is a decent man for Sigma.
Ooh, Lucio?
I was going to say, do you see like a Lucio man?
I mean, it's, I mean, I think D-Vin C's playing Ryan.
And yeah, you've used both the Ryan and the Diva band.
So I, I mean, they do know it comes as a decent replacement,
but I really do think that without the Lucio,
like Ryan loves the fact that, you know,
people get pooped in to his hammer, right?
Lucio can kind of, you know, hit those weird flanks,
boot people off the TP.
Like, Lucio has a little bit more of a kind of dynamic
playmaking attribute.
It's more than just the speed, right?
That I think especially in the Rhyme comp,
you want everyone firing on all cylinders.
And I mean, funny astro, for me,
is I think one of the best Lucio's in the world
at, you know, making something out of nothing
and finding those plays.
So I think it's wise to take it off the field.
But Juno, yes, you can speed the Rhyme around,
but you are way more vulnerable as an individual
in those kind of chaotic moments.
Yeah, and we saw them kind of go to the Juno on, uh, uh, you know, on a new junk, uh, a new neon Junction.
Uh, and it just didn't really kind of pay off now.
I've been getting so tongue tied with the map names.
Neon Junction, new Queen Street, and new junk city.
I swear, I always want to say the wrong one, but I'm casting like on this map that is as a name.
On this one.
It's coming up.
It's also like Kellex.
We've seen him play obviously Lucio.
We've seen him play Mizuki throughout the series a little bit of Juno
So like some options for them to potentially go with with that Sigma in place
um, I
Wonder now what did they play on?
on a new junk city they ended up playing the back there on that map with the carry gone
But I mean you're gonna probably have to carry in with the Ryan
There's no way you're gonna have to sub the carry out and play like a you know a back Juno or something like that
So probably it's going to be Kiri Juno that we'd imagine here for Twisted Mines
Yeah, maybe for both teams and I'd love to see the rematch or come out from Ziyad. I mean
I'm scared of the Sigma man. I'm not scared. I mean the same has been amazing
Like he's piloting about as well as it can be piloted. I just feel like
You need a little bit more that raw
Punching power to challenge Ryan like when Ryan goes for broke in your back line. Everyone's making plays from TM
It feels like DK. They're trying to like bunker defensively around the Sigma, but it's so difficult to actually pull that off like
Person just steps one. I owe it out a lot and you're playing from all sides. It's it's so hard
You know obviously
DK
You also lose the Lucia for yourself to like Helix is doing a pretty good job when like they were using the TP to get out
And then maybe they got TP'd upon using the speed then advantage, you know of the Lucio to kind of get the Sigma even further away at times
It's not going to be the same with Juno in the mix, right?
And then obviously Mizuki provides no speed really to the rest of the team.
So it's definitely one I think it makes sense, right?
You know, Lucio and Ryan go great together.
It also will have some impact, I think, on DK.
Yeah, definitely.
They're taking a bit of a sacrifice to deal with this Lucio now,
but I have to see what the adaptations are.
New looks required here.
required here. And also, I mean, the downside of the Bastion ban, right, is that's been the
hero that we see time and time again to deal with Rematch on the hitscan roll. It's just
so much DPS, and you get, like, flanked by Bastion. Even just solo Bastion, right, he
easily burns you down. If you're blocking, yes, it's so powerful, but it only blocks
one side. And as we've seen with these simTPs, man, you should not rely on a straight front-to-back
in these matchups. So I take in the Bastion out of the equation. You know, whatever hitscan
you go to, could be lacking damage to deal with the tanks.
Ziad though says, hey, maybe without the Lucio,
the SIG can still work.
Fearless confidence here from GK.
They've lost this tank matchup.
The first two maps in pretty decisive fashion.
They're going to run it back for this final one on Coliseo.
See what TVNT can do.
Can he keep finding the angles to make the right work?
Quartz also called upon to have a big game on Cassidy
with Lucio's off the field, Juno, in much softer target.
And I think if you lose this early on here,
if your geeky really got to kind of consider bringing in the romatra, especially since the
rollout is really well.
Tm are going to do the map flip rollout here, oh look who's so ready for it, they're so
scouting us out, they're going to go all the way behind to the back line, flip the map
and try and pull the cart away, this is one of the OG plays when Ryzeman the med of the
robot, they're still on moxins, it's like where is everybody, if they don't moxin starts
rolling it's really bad, you need to get this touch on Ryne and actually they're not going
to get it in time, cart pulls back away from them and you've got to step up down, close
Close this gap, TP forward, everyone through, snap through once again, see him calling the question, the cleanse comes in with Quartz, finds the kill on Tekelos, the Cassidy strikes first blood and without the speed, things are gonna get scary.
TVNT does get some hammer swings in, but Quartz does go down, so the damage dealer is really up to Ubi and TVNT to kind of carry the day in that role, but you can see Ziyan just cannot hold the frontline against this pressure just yet.
and you're gonna wait here for Quartz to get back in action and take the fight
off yet again but already really early on I mean I know Kalex has to kind of
play in the mix right try to provide some of that speed there QZ odd is yeah
TVNT take a little bit of damage there steps up so you're trying to build up
towards some of those ultimates there as you're able to get kind of TVNT on both
sides the objective oh it's this time it's DK's turn they take the initiative
They're the ones who set the tempo in this fight, and it profits with a quick kill on the court.
TDMT, shield solo, beaming, is Yubi, but can't quite find land, and this could be the clean teamfight
that allowed GK to take control of this map and potentially the series here.
New Queen Street was traumatic for twisted minds the last time these two squads faced off,
and I think if they go down to a brutal lead, it is going to be some PTSD here.
Forteer another reverse sweep from hey against it would be absurd
Simple here on the high ground you also have a huge advantage in terms of oral right here
But you'd be thinking a lot of damage down from the post
All big flux lots of debate divine as well get the back
That is the damage right there know the cleanses good for the simple and stabilize of the fight now overall race out with
Yad is fearless
He's still thinking the challenge at this front line despite rushing Ray and lad the profits space created swings wide of the
drops both supports, finishes the rest of the fight, and DK crushes through twisted mines in a crucial fight to take map control.
Of course, it's not gotten anything thus far on the Cassidy.
He end every first fight, and he's gonna run over ever since.
Yeah, he got Kellex really early on, but then outside of that, it has been all lab done in terms of the hitscan battle.
The TD and T dropped down, maybe eyeing a Shatter there at that time.
Okay, the Simwall is going to be backed away from a wise play from DK.
The Simwall is so powerful in this matchup.
You don't want to challenge him.
It's Shatter though.
Could be a huge problem.
TvNT called upon to find something.
DK have to expect this to come.
Yeah, every time he comes to the shield, it's a huge choice.
The Rage comes out.
Just the players keep it through, but the Rage still in relevant position.
Connection is good with the Shatter, but no kills for the follow-up.
He fights one, but two are taken right back.
DK still low.
Fight absolutely in contest.
The accretion comes out.
T-VanT just doesn't have the HP to keep fighting, but as simple joins the fray,
they'll be able to turn the tide here and eventually overwhelm the opposition.
So DK, the push-stop's here for now.
Tristidmind's trying to earn some way back in, but they need some serious progress here.
It has to come from the individual place.
I mean, it's really, I think, up to Quartz and Yubi to find something off the back of one of these TPs,
because DK has been snatching the tempo away from the Reinhardt, which is not where Reinhardt wants to be.
Well, this is also pretty tough, right?
I mean, natural high ground advantage here for DK.
That'll be the dead eye, and so you're gonna walk up here,
and I think he's gonna pull us up.
Preventing from seeing it here is pretty crucial, yeah.
Yeah, I think that's valuable.
Yeah, so it's not that simple as well.
So a big ulti-domp, I mean, if you don't get kills off this,
you're gonna be sweating twisted minds.
I don't think they can keep the aggression going,
as Yacht keeps this just intense regiment of poke up,
grinding down the resources,
but he gets the on the quarter,
now TP's up to the high ground,
they're looking to make a play,
The bot flipped away.
Kellex called it a question, the shot comes in, but it's not enough to kill.
The team grouping around the Juno State is important, the head, he finishes off Laptop,
with a rush still here on the payload, the rocket is cool and it traps Ubi.
Now, he can do solo, shield broken, surrounded, from all sides burned and even ignoring the
payload he came, fleeing the fight, fleeing the map.
Even willing to take some of these trades and a nice extra stagger onto ports, puts them
Once again, back in the driver's seat and the Reinhardt has really struggled without the Lucio by his side.
Yeah, and I mean TVNT's so low there and I thought for a second once they got him like basically like 60-70% HP
They would have thought about maybe investing in the Orbital Ray there, but
Oh, that is a sick shot from the Lava, the OC on an off angle.
Now you get checkpoints here, you will get towards that final part of the map here.
GK looking to do some really what I know almost seemed impossible right can you
kind of run get your spot TM two maps back to back days and come back crazy
work here and just reminds of a huge bank though very scary for Kelly's
He takes a big shot, actually leads out to the Silver Bullet.
Just in my eyes, we'd love to clean this fight up with a minimum kill,
but Yacht's gonna throw the last ult into this fight.
Somehow gets a kill off the back of this fight,
then right out from Astro.
Just in my eyes, the Blives double down, continue to commit,
but he can't control this high ground.
Yacht, a hard target, does take a pin, but supports it here with him.
Shatter comes in, it's necessary to clean this fight up.
It'll be a quad or TVNT,
but that fight is way more expensive than it has any right to be.
great place for DK. Yeah, it's a I know you just walked away to the now for
twisted mind with the dead eye and rush right and gave it a little bit
surprising right to see ports fall at the hands of that blocks when you had the
orbital ray rolling inside that close quarters area. Yeah, be so careful. I mean
this this spot though is like a pretty nice one for the Ryan to play from right
kind of like trying to beat him under the underpass. I can actually wrap around nice
to do there keep laptop. Oh, oh, okay, let's see how dead true right there wide in
the open and the DPS for TM hit a signature flank everybody's so focused on the low ground
payload no one's ready for quarts to hit the flank and kiting away into open space against
dead eye doesn't feel amazing the lead now called into question is twisted minds take
the cap keeping this Coliseo on the edge of a knife somebody check the GK players heart
rates because come on they have been dealing with insane stress and I think they're gonna
get as much progress as they can yeah they're gonna TP simple out yeah everybody else gonna
They're gonna keep fighting for it though, without ultimates he can't have a big bank but they don't want to get kited out here, they do not want to waste these Crucial Tools ports over the top of the high ground.
Insane playing from him, Kellogg goes down to the fire strike off the back of the team, he's being twisted mines, playmaking now on the server, grilling to fight by TVNT, hung out to dry here and Alphideed,
He cleans him up with the health of the Kitsune rush, playing the low ground, getting ports a lot of space,
but he hasn't been able to find more kills, hasn't been able to finish this fight as decisively as they would have wanted, so
despite an opportunity created, DK, hold the line down one.
You know, lad, the thought about chasing quarts there gets hit with one shot from the cast of the Yielmo's die, it's back-sond up, so...
I guess the positive there for Twisted Minds, right, is you actually get the Kitsune rush out.
still gonna have to battle this orbital ray but a little bit easier to deal with
that'll be the clock and then I hear used TP could be very scary if you'd be
hazardous to go for it doesn't want to send it deep though too scared of the
threat but there's overclock rated one for one of course is dead I'm gonna
damage those still in favor of DKT you need to get impressed in the front line
getting assaulted has to pin back out but he's so low and being chased down no
one's here to hold the front lines yacht picks up to with a single left click
Of those hyperspheres, Alphie will finish off Astro and even Yubi, oh Yubi, if he gets guys, he's on that outside trying to get back to spawn.
Oh and he goes down, that's brutal, that's a crazy stagger now, you cannot fight without this Sim in the Ridecobb.
He can't take a commanding lead now on the decisive map, on the verge of completing the reverse sweep here.
So I mean, yeah, you're gonna have to wait for Yubi to get up, he's also got the Sim wall that's gonna be coming in as well.
Oh, loss can be used aggressively.
just getting overwhelmed by the wall.
Yeah, it's still just, I mean, they got about 30 extra meters there out of that, a bit more than that, maybe like 40.
And now we kind of send ourselves below a minute.
Twisted mind's kind of needs to be perfect from here on out to be able to clutch up.
Fortunate for them, they do have the rush. Pretty awesome for the Raian to be able to fight inside of that.
I think if they can get like a cheeky play that they usually set up like a dead eye here
Like TP maybe get one get a really cheap fight where that would be massive for them
Big dead eye channel. He's gonna be so scary into the back of the cleanse is perfect for Finn. Keeps everybody alive
TD and TP is a big connection on the Shadow Zone. That'll be enough to clear this teamfight
But crucially a trade is found on a force there trying to even delay this Sigma just a little bit longer
But I think the damage is done Matt. DK play that well
they get some key ultimates out,
Cored's back on the Shion, he's got to get into this fight and quit
because he came with the spawn advantage and a lot of lead to play with.
You have to be perfect from here on out, such a challenge with Labda, verging on this overclock.
And absolutely nothing for Twisted Minds to work with.
You're gonna have the OC available, Yubi gets it with a stun there.
Oh, cleanse out, yeah, he's so close to this watch.
You've got serious problems now in the frontline.
Shion, the back! From behind, back into the fight!
The challenge goes down early.
Letta tries to take this challenge in the front line.
Alfie holds the angle with pin, grabs one right back.
The fuck is up there?
He doesn't get the connection.
He doesn't finish the play.
TP back up side, our TD and T still fighting Ubi.
Goes to a sim wall.
Ziad needs to get out and fast.
Kellex onto the jetpack.
And everyone just trying to stay alive.
OK, OC comes out.
So due to the sim wall, Zed is so low on the right.
Take shot after shot.
Eventually, Vlad the finish is off that tank.
And maybe just maybe that'll be enough to hold the line.
GK looking to reverse-leap Twisted Mind in back-to-back series, the orbital rathal from Astro.
Keep the team fighting, keep them into this OD contestant's yacht, rolling freely now.
Bin, stabilizing close to his own brush and laugh that cleans up the fight.
Lot of play for GK.
He's forced back-to-back reverse speed away, bro.
Twisted Mind in shambles, mentals, boom.
They are knocked out of this playoff in third, and GK, in his destiny, they will find the
We match in the grand final against Virtus.pro.
Another nail-biter between these two teams.
And GK, right?
A 3-2 win over twisted minds in their round one of reverse sweep.
They end up falling in that game five yesterday there
to Virtus.pro.
And then another game five, reverse sweep here.
So I mean, just tremendous stuff for GK
to be able to battle back it again.
I just don't understand.
Like who wrote this clip? This is unheard of actually because quite frankly at the beginning again of this series
looked like TwistedFind found an answer for themselves, you know, like they played that Ryan hard and it looked dominant
It looked so dominant by noticing T-Lin T-Flourish on that even though his signal was, you know, more than noticeable yesterday
So, I like this London Spitfire-esque Rhinocon that we've seen from Twisted Mind earlier in the series.
Then GK with the map tips, with the bands, they tried to get that Rhinocon out of the equation.
And then, somehow, pulling up a reverse sweep, who wrote this print?
I mean, it's an unreal match between these two.
I mean, Twisted Mind's probably thinking of himself yet again, wondering how they could let this one slip through their hands.
But, you know, Lapid was really great there in the Game 5, especially on the soldier.
And I thought coming up with crucial picks time and time again.
Yeah, I think there are so many individuals who, like, stepped it up so much for their respective teams.
I'm personally just really impressed with Alpha E.
I feel like once again, his hero choices have been an absolute difference maker.
The way he's able to play that sim as well, you guys touched on it as well earlier in this series,
It's just it's really impressive for him to pick it up for the team to have the coordination to play it with him
it's just
I'm buffed. I mean I predicted he came to win and I'm still shocked and surprised
I mean I took TN because I didn't expect what happened last time happened again. Literally the same thing happened
They're not very high. Yeah, I didn't think it was gonna be a reverse sweep. I mean that's that's too crazy
That's the script writer's gonna, you know, take that back to the lab. No one's gonna believe this
Yeah, this is not going to look believable on paper, but yeah, if you're revisiting this
series again, the start looked just so good for Twisted Minds.
This Reinhardt composition, Reinhardt's meta, you know, Jake, you talk it into existence.
Like with the Lucio map, with the full build, like, okay, maybe the Juno on an open map,
I mean, it doesn't quite work, but it's clear, I think this is a hero that a lot of teams
are going to have to take seriously, you know, coming into the mid-season championship, this
This could be a type of a comp that kind of comes back into vogue.
I think Rhyme maybe is one of the things we haven't seen in top level play.
And I think maybe the longest time, like really, it's been one of the most untouched.
Yeah, I mean, Rhyme, I mean, it feels like we've seen Winston like main stay for a while.
I mean, Domino right, I mean, newer tank, but not really ever kind of had like a moment where,
yeah, it has been a very long time for Rhyme to have any type of play.
It's yeah, I'm just
Everything's possible in the world of Overwatch honestly in this meta
I think there's a lot of room for skill expression and just some different flavors
I love what we've seen from both of these teams today, of course Gike getting the dub here and yet another reverse sweep because why Denik not.
Now we do have Finn joining us for quick chat before he and the squad are making it to the grand finals, Finn.
Big yawn because this is not hard work whatsoever. Congratulations Finn, welcome to the show.
You guys reverse sweep them, not once, but twice in this playoff, that's just crazy, that's crazy work.
Talk to us about what was going on in the comms, heading into map 5 in order to lock this one down.
Like against Reinhardt, against Reinhardt, Jirad keep getting close, so we keep saying oh, just kite back, kite back something and we figure out map 5 against Reinhardt.
I mean it comes down to the absolute wire and you guys your team over the last couple weeks you have played
Crazy series like map 5 feels like every single time
Now you know going on to the grand finals you get a rematch against VP in a series that yesterday was one of the closest ever
How do you guys deal with the pressure the intensity of you know that level of competition every single day?
It feels like you get on the server
I think like we first
Every time we first map, second map, worst game, every time, every match.
So I think after lose two games, we lock in something, I don't know.
But I think our team make every one mentally so good.
So we can keep winning like two lose, even two lose.
You know, you guys had a tremendous game yesterday against VP. We'll see you guys play them again today. Is there anything you guys are going to like take from that series, maybe kind of bring into today? I feel like the adjustments you can make to get over the line.
Oh, yeah, like, we keep thinking, like, I think more Swiss mind, more harder than Otus Pro, so we so many confidence against Otus Pro.
So maybe we are having, yeah.
I love to hear the confidence. That's the attitude we need in the grand final. You guys deliver it. So many amazing matches already in the playoffs and we can't wait to see the conclusion. Best of luck in the grand finals and once again, congratulations, Finn.
Thank you.
I love hearing from Finn. Yeah, I love to hear that as well, right? Like, if they really
consider Twisted Minds the stronger opponent, yet they managed to make it look so dominant
as well against Twisted Minds, that should be voting well for the grand finals.
It kinda checks a little bit in the sense that nobody's doing what TM is doing, where
like, we haven't heard when we talked to Smash or VP, and like he was saying that they were
are kind of like trading all these games,
he can VP kind of want to play the same stuff, right?
So with that, you kind of know what's coming.
That's what we saw yesterday, exactly.
Yeah, they found themselves in a mirror matchup
more than for most of the series, really.
So at least, you know, what's coming,
you don't have to also head into the lab mid-series
to try to figure out, although that said,
I feel like they managed to find doing that
against Twisted Minds here, right?
like they adopted within the series against a Reinhardt bug
adjusted the way they play here, Jake.
Yeah, they found the adaptations.
I'm a little more skeptical than Finn is
about the adaptations against Reinhardt.
I think the Reinhardt is a genuine serious threat.
And although TM follow here and they're probably
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Welcome back friends and this is the OWCS Zoey here joined by Jake and Matt and it's
time for the EMEA stage two grand final.
It's gonna be the big rematch.
Rotis Bro have been waiting for their opponents after clutching their spot just so yesterday
against Geekay they get to play them again right now and listen if the players are gonna
And Todd, as anything, or at least at upper bracket final, is that VP can bleed.
DK played it so very close, it was one of the clutches in close to series we've seen
in the history of Overwatch, I'm not exaggerating, go back and watch it if you've missed it.
Also if you missed it, like why?
Like give me a good excuse, because I don't think there is one.
Let's talk about the VP though, and what we've seen from them, especially in that series, right?
If you are VP, what's your takeaway from this initial matchup that you can bring or take into today in order to make it a bit of a smoother ride, if you will?
I mean, I imagine, Jake, that VP is going to be really well coached up today on a lot of what eventually went wrong the other day.
That's true, but, you know, for me, Matt, a lot of these moments, they go beyond coaching, right?
We're reaching into the territory of pure feel, pure emotion.
And the stakes getting so incredibly high now, the end of the playoffs,
the battle for the very first seed, the champion of EMEA.
And this is, I mean, that is a heck of a crown to be able to hold the way this stage is progressive.
Virtus.Pro, certainly the team in pole position to grab it, but even they've acknowledged this top three in EMEA is too close to call.
Yeah, they're just gonna show up on match day.
I mean all of these individuals you're seeing on the screen have been doing that time and time again
They've been looking absolutely dominant all stage long
It's really just up until yesterday that it started to uh, I don't even want to say they're cracks because they're really words
Like this didn't come down to like them really fumbling a which is really geeky stepping it up like ten not just in order to match them I
Mean so I I go back and look
They lose their first two games in the regular stage.
The only reason they make the playoffs is because they win a game five against 1, 2, 3, 4.
Or else 1, 2, 3, 4 would be in here.
I mean, they have a negative, like, map differential for the regular stage.
And then they're just kind of like running crazy here in the playoffs.
I mean, it has been like such an unreal story.
And I think you just see that, like, this is a team that has, like, picked it up so much over the last few weeks.
They seem to really kind of be hitting their stride.
Also, I think the meta definitely kind of shaking out
their way a little bit, but just really impressive from them
in some close games that they're able to clutch a lot of these up.
Liveda has been a huge standard bear for this team.
I think, you know, came alive in this series against Quartz.
And that's always been the test for this guy.
I mean, he was once on TM.
And even the TM player said, look, you're an amazing player.
It's great to have you on backup.
You should be starting on another team.
Now brings the prophecy to fulfillment defeats his old opponents is going to move on past them from what I believe is the first time for him as a player to be the team to eliminate TM and rise above what his former teammates can accomplish.
And now with another chance to take on VP in a first of four.
I'm mad. I don't know if my heart can take this guy guys. This is this is he's overwatch right now.
It really is.
This series goes seven.
I mean, it's our danger, right?
Like there's no other way.
They're like, when it goes seven,
is there a statistically.
Yeah.
It probably will, given that when these top three teams
and me and Mia play, they have only gone game five
in the playoffs.
And honestly, the regular season was
tons of close series, too, so I would not be surprised
to see this go the absolute distance.
Every team now knows it doesn't matter what the map score is.
We can win every map from here on out.
We all have the individual skill to do it.
Yeah, and we just heard from Finn as well, right? Like he's coming into this very confident saying that
he does feel like VP is an easier opponent for them than Twisted Minds was. Obviously, that's the
confidence you have to have. Like I have yet to encounter a player in a post-match interview or a
free match interview. It was like, yeah, I think we don't have what it takes. Like that has not happened,
but, um, right, I don't know. Either way though, I think just their previous matchup is an indicator.
I think we're in for a long one once more the last four DK games have gone to business
Honestly predictions for this one. We're hard and I generally like generally my heart of heart feel like this is a 50-50
I gonna give VP the edge. I am literally just gonna base that up of potential
exhaustion because eventually Gike has got to run out of steam and coming off of
yet another five map series yet another inverse sweep where they have to not
only like bounce back a little it's not a trade-off like back and forth it's like
you you find yourself on the back foot in such a way and they were dominated the
first two maps so like to find that mental fortitude that takes a lot out of
players so I'm gonna just like that that's my narrative that's what I'm
running with that's why I'm gonna give VP the edge. DK they're the heroes of their own story now
they're forging their own destiny you know from humble origins this this stage it's been a rough
one for them they barely clinched playoffs off honestly a lucky tie break but they're here
they're still alive they pushed VP to the limit yesterday and they're back in the grand final I
got a root for them at this point guys. Nice. I mean I got to imagine that the strategy of just
dropping the first two or three maps in each series and then coming alive is
eventually going to break. This is the time that I believe.
It doesn't seem like we wake up until we're down. I'm going to say VP wins today.
I don't know if this will go the distance. I think VP probably obviously
coming in really dialed in on what no key case thrown at them.
Well, I can't wait to find out this is the EMEA stage two playoffs.
We're heading into the grand finals.
It's a big rematch between Geeky and VP.
One team is going to grab that EMEA crown.
Let's find out which one is going to be Jake and Matt.
Please take it away.
Thank you so much, Zoe.
And as we set the stage for this one,
Ilya is going to be the opening match pick.
No surprise from VP.
That's been their absolute go-to.
And what a different series, by the way,
to close the day off because TM versus DK,
I mean, a complete clash of styles,
we don't know who's going to come out on top,
constant innovation through the series.
This contest, though, I suspect,
is going to be much more pound for pound,
who can push the limit higher on the Sigma style.
And I got to say, this is the best playoff we've had
in NA or EMEA since really OWS started, I think,
with how competitive EMEA has been with these three teams,
is VP, map number one, they will get rid of Elucio themselves.
It'll be a Bastion ban here for GK.
So see how this kind of plays out with Virtus Pro.
Obviously, their support line will
do a lot of different things.
Yeah, banning Elucio away.
In a way, it's a cap protect.
So GK, I think, getting rid of the Bastion
is to kind of mitigate that style.
Ilios is a scary place.
You can play the Sigma sort of counter style,
but some of these maps, you know, so, so open, so versatile.
And VP, I think, has been the best team
at some of these very aggressive dive looks.
Even without the Cap Bastion,
we still think they might go for it, right?
We've seen Cap's draw the Sheon, Psycho Ghost Tracer.
They bring wild pace, which is a huge tempo shift.
It's something that DK have not played against at all today.
Yeah, and I mean, Ice will not be scared
to match like the Sigma playoffs, the odd, right?
So we'll kind of go toe-to-toe with this yacht in that regard.
This is a best of seven.
I know some people were wondering about that.
We're going to have a seven day here, maybe not all seven maps.
But hey, I mean, the way that GK has been going every series
they played since I think it was a June 21st has been a going
the distance type of series.
So a lot of the line as well, right?
You want to be the number one team in the MEA moving into the mid
season championship.
And then obviously, I think for either of these teams,
it's a great launching pad, right?
Virtus.Pro, I think people were maybe down on them
a little bit going into Tokyo
and they actually played really well there
and then kind of parlayed that into really good stage two.
And then for GK, you lose the first two games of the stage
and then you battle back
and then you're able to find yourselves on top in the region.
I mean, that would be a huge come up.
Yeah, the coaching philosophy from Smash,
it feels like we really feel the value of that.
Virtus.Pro just feel like a well-oiled machine,
Very few errors from them and now when they play these poke styles and you let
Kepster and psycho get a little bit unleashed on these off angles
It is a storm to try to weather here on the other side of the field
Also pretty awesome. You're able to add a landing in psycho in the offseason, right?
I mean like two really world-class players who could play on like almost any team in the world that they wanted to
It they end up joining VP. I know seeing kind of obviously the potential
with the rest of this roster from last year.
And it's great to really see kind of
the cat clicking on all cylinders and then for GK,
it was a rough stage for them in stage one, right?
Just like last year at World Finals, right?
We're talking about how great Zod and Labdar Kellex
is right there, you know, with Landon
and so close to getting it done, not able to do so.
And then it seems like obviously the team kind of
fell apart a little bit and they weren't able
recapture some of that magic in stage one, but it seems like they're all the way back now.
And, I mean, they had to work for it. They had to deal with the wrecking ball from 1,
2, 3, 4, this stage, twisted mines, throw everything in the kitchen sink at their opponents,
and then VP just setting a vicious standard here on the sig comp. And that maybe for me,
impresses me the most, not that you can find the way through some of these unconventional
straps, but that you can take it to VP pound for pound on, you know, a comp that they may be one
one of the best in the world at.
That's a statement, you know, for this GK team,
and to your point, their trajectory
through the stage has been ridiculous.
And that game that I was talking about that,
you know, if they lose to one, two, three, four,
they're not even in the playoff.
They go down to one in that one as well.
So they go down to one.
It's not a full reverse sweep.
They win, you know, game four and five, but still,
I mean, really difficult road to get here.
I mean, after that, you know, three, two,
They have a 3-2 against twisted mines that doesn't go their way.
Then they have, you know, obviously, they have that, what,
that's three games against twisted mines that go to five,
back to back to back there for GK.
I mean, crazy stuff to be able to make it this far.
Real, real feels good story here in EMEA.
I think Zoe is right though, to talk about endurance, right?
And fatigue, because, I mean, you play this many five mappers,
day after day after day.
And now you got to play two matches back to back.
I mean, you took the L, right?
You had to go down to the lower bracket.
This is the cost you pay.
VP gets to kind of sit back and watch.
That's going to be their advantage coming into this series.
I wonder if this series really does go the distance.
I mean, 12 maps of extremely competitive overwatch
in one day, even for a professional player,
like back-to-back like that, ask a lot.
What's that like in Overwatch?
Because call of duty, you could play 30 maps a day,
everyone's still chilling.
I mean, for Overwatch though, obviously a different thought.
I mean, you know, type of level of endurance in terms of like all the different abilities and strategies and things going on.
I think about Overwatch, there's crazy strategic complexity paired with very little downtime.
So there's just like the nature of the game, there's always action on the field.
There's always time.
Can you remember when, what's the most maps you played in the day?
Like refresh rate.
I don't know, probably in the Rift, right?
Yeah, with scrims, I mean, like on a long scrim day, there's a lot of people behind the curtain.
a three block scrim day is like the max teams like pretty much ever do which is six hours of maps.
So you might actually play 15 but let me tell you by the end of block three it's running rag.
By the end of block three I imagine there's like you know YouTube videos up on the other
models and everybody's kind of like it's getting sucked. You're physically playing but maybe
mentally not. But the adrenaline and the consequence in a genuine match you can't really compare it
to scrims, especially when these matches are as tightly contested as we've seen today.
Virtus.pro, it's their turn though to come off a cold start.
And for GK, if it's true that, you know, the slow start is their issue,
well, they're plenty warmed up from that last series.
We opened things up on Ilya as well.
And they'll end up playing Tracer, Shion with a diva here in the mix for GK.
So, completely different from what we've seen from them in previous series.
He's a lot actually be VP who's playing Sigma and this one is I kill X
I was gonna say this looks like a little matchup back to the spawn. Yeah, they're gonna make some changes here is
They'll give up point control most likely. Yeah, but that hurts too because I mean this this comp it actually really matters to give
Up point control the Sigma comp is not a quick comp at retouching and yeah
I don't think they're gonna be able to stop the opening flip
So this entire first fight is costing you big percentage
Loved up. Quick kill here would really bring Fates back towards his team.
They're trying to just go right up the mid here, but Faislam is laying into them with the poke,
and Alphie drops to just this overwhelming frontline pressure. VP waste no time here
getting things started in the grand final.
Ice gets off to a tremendous start, right? I mean, just kind of funneling that sick poke
through the choke when you control that choke, and then the sigma team just kind of take that area.
Stagger kills.
The damage output is crazy as I almost got ziyan with a chain there and it picked up that kill but
gonna be 30% on the point here for Virtus pro with relatively like no
no resistance right that comp like he came out on uh maybe they thought there was gonna be something
else on the other side they uh they went back and swapped and they have not really been able to
get a foothold ever since. Maybe another slow start to TP forward trying to change the tempo
It's a little bit awkward, a little bit on-sync, and that provides Virtus.pro for Hamptal time to rotate away.
They find the flux, the cleanse is out, slammed down to the ground.
See him just barely staying alive, the sanctuary needs to come up from TeleTP.
Haven't put the score up to the get, here comes the bush from Landon.
Cleans his booth from Hamptal, and I'm still healthy with a better ultimate on this point, DK.
On the outside, looking in, getting pressure from all sides.
They've still stayed alive and kept the fight rolling, but this clock just keeps ticking on 70% now.
Ford Virtus Pro and Kev on a cheeky little flank,
which snaps off in with a nice headshot,
left us low looking for Kevster,
who's long gone now back into the thick of the team.
Yeah, nice angle there from Kev,
goes on a little bit of a flank,
throws the hinder out, connects,
and now you see Ice just going to work here.
This has been all Virtus Pro,
just absolutely dominant thus far.
Finn gonna go over to the cat here,
gonna get a Ziad up on the high ground,
But most likely here to get back to get a touch. That's kind of what
Thing was looking for is it'll be a dead eye channel here from Kevin
It'll be landed taken out again and I actually just put this one away as this is just about as dominant as we see VP look
Yeah, you don't got to be a pro gamer to tell me that this one is not looking good for geeking. I will say though
I don't want to overwrite the impact of this round on the well of all maps
To go back to spawn and swap into a poke mirror is I mean it's a night
I honestly think that's really really bad because
Giving up the first flip. It's like this cop does not take fast fights
You really need the first fight to go long you build into ultimates then you can start to push the pace
But because the first fight is essentially given over for free the neutral goes the way of VP
I mean, I truly think they should almost always win from that position
So for Virtus Pro better picks lead to a tactical advantage and for GK
It's gonna shake the foundations to some extent. Hopefully they can write that one off
I think it kind of does a lot of ways come down to that opening rollout
But they need to bring it back here on round two or else for this pro are just gonna start to pick up Steve
Yeah, and we'll see
What it'll be a geeky actually coming out with the sojourn instead of the Cassidy and that's gonna be our only difference
With the cops going into this around so
I take a pretty aggressive stance here on the outside up near that mega health pack with psycho is
Then they'll start to kind of like poke down through this choke and work their way to the point
Threats of the one shot from Sojourn always significant for Cassie
He'd a lot of playmaking potential on these off angles the rail just fly to the head here
Kevster happy to walk away from that moment his life
Now push forward on the point nice little back angle from Sojourn's just shipping down
This Sigma in the front line, but the sport is good on the eyes on it stepping up into the fray
It's Kevster who swings deep recognizes
No one's watching that back angle and he punishes on the cast and he's striking hard and fast into the frontline great work
From the VP supports to just keep eyes on stable in such a tenuous position
I mean we only catch the end of that but head turns the corner
Yeah, it gets rid of lab done and then kind of just flex and feels with Kevster
with a kelek so
Same play from Kev really made the cast of these look awesome, and there's a lot of damage here.
Yeah, they're just getting bullied.
I'm walking up through this dangerous territory, and I mean this has been the signature from Isom all-stage long.
He does get to do any quarter, any chance to reset the cooldowns. Damage going back the other way is going to slow his roll just a bit,
but his dominance on the Sigma has him with that floaty perk earlier.
He's so agile on this map. I mean he can be like poking you the entire walkup.
And with Flux now in play, this is getting very scary for DK.
It's another round where it's tenuous to whether to even be able to get a crab.
Flux does pick up Ziad, slain down to the ground, a good cleanse keeps him alive.
Laptop with a rail shot keeps this fight playable, but there's still more to say for Virtus.
If they drop this while they want to leverage this opening damage, he's fourth.
It's massive work for DK.
They've got the entire team off line in the same trade.
Continue to be deployed from both teams.
Virtus. Bros, despite the players' hits, are going to keep pushing, keep forcing this fight off the payload.
but DK is still alive, it takes five ultimates to accomplish it, but finally they make their way to the point.
Yeah, I mean, just gonna be back into the fight here as Yonk gets a cleanse there, gets a big shot taken down to the ground as they do deal with Ice Nome at the moment,
so they finally end up dealing with the tank of Virtus Pro, Sojourn of Lada, a big reason why is finally DK able to win a fight.
That one though, I mean, everybody just dumped everything into that.
Yeah, the ultimates from 10 to 0 here.
Luckily, Aizondam, I guess he had 9, he didn't plusp up in the previous fight.
Still though, 70 to the next one, right?
He's kind of charging forward and this ult could really open things up.
Phan has to hold that cleanse.
There's a lot of incoming poke pressure though, it won't be easy to keep that key skill in reserve.
Aizondam, bring up the teleporters, hold on, there's a little bit of energy now for Labda.
Aizondam has to slow this one down.
I have to get him poked on the half angle, doesn't really get my shields, there's so much pressure on the front line and land in.
Finds a crucial finishing tail, and now you sense Virtus Pro blood in the water for them, they're swarming forth, pushing the other team here back off the point and GK.
The flip comes in a little later than you would have liked, but they just survived, but the retake, I mean it's so scary here now, walking up into this flux.
Watch, yes, you have to be a rush man.
Oh, oh, oh, it's so beautiful, it's so beautiful.
It's a real hit!
People get this, he has to get to it.
Watch, the accretion from canceling the high-news
can still get the shot, and I'm gone.
What a read from Landon, insane confidence from Kevster
in the teammate, holds his line with the dead eye.
And it's just three players remaining for DK now.
Sanctuary comes down, the eyes down,
cause the bluff, steps up inside for the trade.
Kellex runs for the hills out, he finds one,
but that's all he's gonna get in this play.
Sanctuary celebratory here,
alongside Landis, Consune, and Rajin.
I mean, vert is pro.
Dominant, map one, you're on Ilios.
Questions have to be asked now.
For DK, this is a scary comp matchup to be.
Potentially thinking about running the rest of the series
with the way these two teams are matched up.
Yeah, it's just, I mean, around one,
I think we can talk like, look, they have a, you know,
major, major comp swap there from DK
and go back to the spot and make a change.
Take a look at some of the stats
to 4-4, Virtus.Pro playing so strong and as normal.
I'm never really able to get rolling with these DK.
I know Labda started to come alive in that second round
a little bit, but nothing really major.
They kind of made you sweat if you're Virtus.Pro.
This kill is crazy, man.
Like, Kepcher is wild for this one.
Invisible Man is the right skin to be rocking
for these kind of flank-assity plays.
Aiznong finding tons of...
I mean, he does really good at stand-ups.
He doubles up in the opposition.
And here we see that flank from Kev.
Loud though, I mean, he was doing such good work poking into the back of Aizanon,
but he gives capture of that two or three seconds uncontested,
and he makes an in-spect of the flank.
And I mean, he fixed a play so aggressive on the Mizuki.
I talked about it yesterday, I know when we watched this game,
but he ends up going with the perk that I know when you hit the chain,
you get like a 30% damage amp for two seconds on that target.
So like, he plays super aggressive, like trying to take some of these angles,
like a chain and then like two shots from the Mizuki,
like some of those characters are, the squishies especially are like dead, uh, where, uh, you know,
Kellex kind of playing more for, I think it's like the Remedy URL, like, uh, gets like a 25%
increase, like how fast you kind of generate the, just kind of, A.O.E. healing. So, uh,
interesting thing to look at there with the Mizuki's, but, I mean, VP, get off to a hot
start and look at Amy and if you're, hey, this is exactly what, uh, you know, Finn was talking
about, hey, we don't really get to turn it on until we end up losing a little bit, but I mean-
I've heard that story man, time and time again, it's a tale as old as time, and I still don't believe it every time I hear it.
That's what the season 1 dragon said, they're like, yeah, once we get to 0-40 we'll hit our powersplank, we're scaling, we're scaling into late game, yeah we're playing the long game, just a few seasons of long.
Very, very, very long game, I mean, it is just one map, but it feels like, I mean that's the matchup these two teams played more often than not.
pretty much every time they got the chance to,
they were locking horns in exactly that battle.
And so for VP to put Eli else away in that fashion,
it's gonna be scary one for GK.
And honestly, I feel for them
because they spent the last series playing Sigma,
Sim and like mostly the same style,
but having to do it in a radically different way
against Rock.
I mean, having like a 180 different approach to the game
of like hiding back, playing slow,
staying alive, waiting for opportunities,
where I mean, now in the Sigma mirror,
You have to completely change your style and sometimes it's the hardest thing to do to play the same comp in such a different way
Just from map to map
But they've certainly gotten the wake-up call gotten the message there on Ilios and in the first of four
They got a lot of time to turn things around
It'll be a key case selecting Colosseo, which we just saw them win on and it'll be deferring the band
So it'll be vendetta will be the band and it'll be like weaver
Well, so little weaver signal weaver ban here. Yeah
Yeah, I mean probably gonna go for the exact same stuff, right?
Yeah, the Weaver ban is... I mean, it's a confident ban.
It's a ban that says, run it back, baby.
Map 1 was an aberration.
In fairness, I think Well was a little bit unlucky.
Like, the way that map can go down, it could happen.
You back out, you give up mid to a significant poke, mirror.
Ooh, I don't like your odds in that game.
What's your thoughts on Sojourn vs. Cassie in some of these matchups?
Like, it seems like obviously VP wants to play either Xion or Cassidy,
and then DK has really kind of brought out the Sojourn for a lot of other games.
I think, from my perspective, the Cassidy, it makes sense,
like, especially given what you've called out about Vix's perk choice,
where he wants to push the aggression on Mizuki,
Cassidy feels like more of that, you know,
hero that creates opportunities for playmaking,
who swings a solo flank and like gambles his life for kills.
But if he makes that choice at the right moment, comes up clutch,
we've seen it work incredibly well.
And somebody like Kevster piloting it is amazing.
And then now Kevster makes those plays like fixes looking for his own angles.
And it starts to overwhelm.
They play more split than most Poccoms could, but they get a lot of value out of it.
The Sojourn, I think, is a little bit more standard, a little bit more front to back,
which fits with Kellex, trying to play a little bit of a more healing focus sustained style.
But honestly, I do like DeadEye quite a lot in this matchup.
There's so many ways to block and eat it, but man when the teleporters get flying it's just so much chaos in the fights
It is hard to keep track of the Cassidy
It does feel like it actually forces the other team to use a lot of their food out
I mean every look at like at the shield the grass
TP's to do anything to kind of avoid that dead. I
It'll be lab then after matches the Cassidy here up Kev
So I know we're talking a lot about that so during versus Cassidy matchup in mat number one this time
It'll just be a mirror
Little bit of a battle for this off angle.
Expect that to be a contested position.
Both Kepster and Fixa, as they play their cooldowns,
looking for any opportunity, swinging and wide.
Some good shots connected. Kepster clean for.
Can't finish the kill, though, but the chain comes in.
Ziad caught. They're trying to walk up.
They're coming right into the crossfire. Good swing, though.
Labbed up. Swings, shuts down. Kev.
And now, pressure on. Virtus.Pro without the Cassidy.
Labbed up free now to just drain Terrain from the side angle.
Aizhan grabbed one back, but needs more in the fight.
He's not gonna find it crucial shut down here from the geek a hit scan to just earn their team some kind of advantage in this series
They needed to win this first fight. It's a pretty nice adjustment though, right?
Because what what we saw there was like have a waiting for fix that have Mizuki TP up and then once he's got it up
And he's active they both kind of swing right and then once the Mizuki like has the TP out
That's when Keva like to start to back up
He hadn't really been challenged at all in that type of scenario and then that time
I think he was like maybe caught a little bit off guard that Lab'd actually just kind of swung back around that corner
You know where the Mizuki and me
Cassidy's gonna be playing from at that moment in time
Faked TP kind of relieved just a little bit of pressure here, but it keeps coming in picks it even takes an accration
Stakes alive through that now buses deployed the flux takes lead the up-to-out
But into an angle where you can't really follow up on it and with the stationery deploying
Hell, let's keep the team stable after he picks up another kill and shaw with this clutch.
So just break the back of the opponent, okay?
Does still just barely get the gun landed before the stun comes in, but...
I definitely put some on notice there, but hey, this is the kind of advance that gets you that first cap point,
and I mean, Sigma plays so well from the lead.
Yeah, I mean, uh, fix it does hold on to the Sanctuary, so...
We'll see that for this next fight that you're gonna have.
here with the sim wall as I love the position from DK right takes the odd up on that high ground
And him just kind of farmed down some damage allows him to get that checkpoint
They take a huge amount of hope from the hyperspears and inside the sanctuary. It's just not enough left up
Still crawling into this one out that he keeps the team up with a well-placed sim wall and see odd perfect hyperspears
I think he hit a quick two-shot on literally the entirety of British pro as they split on that teleporter
So they came through already weak already vulnerable and I think you care ready to receive them making a mark here
Yeah, huge lead for geeking at the moment
You get through that sanctuary. It's a very difficult fight. It looks like they want to back out
I mean you take this from a different angle flank. Are they ready for this big swing fix a caught on his lonesome
TP's away, but in the waiting on the panel clean that one up a deep
Plank for the accretion, Psycho just barely gets the symbol up in time to keep himself alive and the dead eye
keeps the corner but there's no targets to be found.
They're gonna rush out of this.
Oh, they're gonna continue to fight. They want to continue to develop this lead.
Aizan gets overwhelmed, Alphie sim claims another victim and a nice kinetic grab, barely keeping Alphie.
And Labda, alive, you're on the off angle, Psycho, gives his life for a kill, setting up that finish on the Labdad.
I've done for this bro death matching well, but maybe not enough to deny this push to continue pushing into their territory
Which it's starting to get out of control that we're past a hundred meters here. We're just broke me the way back in and fast I
Love that play from geeking where they drop blow and then they like TP directly behind them
They cough fix I mean they key and no idea that was coming. I think you should take the lead a little bit from these days
Back at full strength. It'll be I'll I could soon a rush as they just get absolutely ran over
So the bot will start to get moving back towards mid-map, but a geeky obviously damage is done right?
I do a hundred and nine meters to zero this will be the first push that VP gets towards the geeky size of the map
You little flank oh
Just got it out. Oh, he's kind of no man's land here. You might try make a big
push on and get the key, comes in, clown car.
Ziad throws the flux out, he's over his long range blocks.
Oh, he gets landed?
He's carried down, there's still a fight to be had.
So, the flank gets caught, oh, as Capster finds bin,
that should in theory stabilize things for Hortis-Pro.
Ziad finds an additional pick onto Kev,
so any kind of pushback into enemy territory
isn't gonna be too long led,
BC Ziad knows, there's no way out of this fight.
That was a bit silly there for a bit.
I mean, obviously they find what's a very cheeky play directly on top of them
That's a risky answer back with that flux right I know gets landed
I mean, I guess but you're still gonna end up giving up some progress
I mean nothing nothing crazy here for he came but I mean as the dust settles though in the end you threw the flux
Into a losing fight first for a five minutes to put back in the enemy territory
This is a decent setup for them to make a bit of progress back the other way
Mix of playing the off angle, taking landscape players alive.
The Deadeye connection is good for Kat, but better for Lada.
He fights two in the fight, and that'll be all she wrote here for Virtus.Pro's half-hearted
attempt here to push into enemy territory.
That's even the flux out of Aiznom.
No joy on the ultimate.
Yes, Lada with four in the fight is, you know, he TP's so fast in, and channels that Deadeye,
I mean, I didn't even see it kind of come on through, is Kat, I mean, they did a nice
up keeping him up, right? Suzu'd the accretion that came in from Ziad and then kind of played from there.
It'll be a shooting rush here for Finn. It's going to be right into that sanctuary though.
Oh my god, full chaos here. Simwall's traded sanctuary, keeping everybody alive. It's just
a really, the symmetra's the deal of damage with Finn. The rush isn't really able to make much of
a difference with this wall. Blocking all of that outgoing damage from Alphie. If AKP goes out,
White's still raging here on the payload. I'm so lost. I broke into the high ground,
But as he comes back to the point, claimed by Kallix, the rush comes out, Landon goes for broken this deep fight,
Psycho is somehow still alive and actually might be able to clutch this.
Are you kidding me, Matt? Against the SIG, against all odds, Psycho stays alive and what a read from Landon.
That looks like... I mean, I wouldn't have gone for it. I would have not believed it.
Dude, no way.
But the confidence from the Kiriko, it pays off.
Yeah, I mean, you also had Fixus still alive there, right?
And so we've talked about some of the damage that he's put out.
And he's also just going to have Max or at that moment in time.
And then Psycho is so charged up right after the sanctuary
and the sim walls.
And obviously Farmin off of the sigma.
I know Nysu, he kept Psycho alive there for a big period
of time.
It would be laugh if you're channeling another dead eye.
TP comes on through.
TP's on out to avoid the hinder.
Huge poke on Syod.
He's struggling.
He's got to back up, got to get a bunch of kills.
And Stain pops the Flux.
Mostly it feels defensively at this moment.
Kept for kick, right, roll out.
But he's caught from the exposed location,
looking for the crab, eyes on him, creeps him out of it, and VP sends an advantage.
You're continuing the tempo forward, back TP's keep coming in, but DK, they find their mode.
They're just getting mulled over, the tempo too strong for Virtus.pro,
because the kills just come in and feels inevitable at this point.
DK looking for a clutch trade, but Virtus.pro won't allow it.
Masterful so far from that.
Alright, so now, finally VP.
They win a fight in DK territory,
But GK, you're gonna be able to come back here, Jake.
2.30 on the clock.
I know you're up by 70 plus meters,
and you have both support ults here to work out of your spawn.
So, a lot to like from the setup here for GK.
Someone's gonna slow this one right on down though, Matt.
And the rush advantage is not gonna be that huge.
Here it comes.
Double support ults.
GK, double up and commit, but the flanks denying that the push forward cycle still holds this thin wall.
Just now, Foxen's gonna last so deep into the fight.
If I can just stay alive.
Alpy has a crazy angle, pulling forth on the Sib and his wall splits landing from the rush and will separate Curtis Pro from their lives here.
Couldn't find deep into the fight, Alpy holds it that long and in the end, as Landon throws that rush in,
GK drained the banks of the opposition and we're coming towards the end of this map and GK are in the massive advantage.
And I think if you're VP, you absolutely kind of needed to commit that hard, right?
And like where you were with like 51 meters if you win that fight you get checkpoints you you've been
Yeah, I know both sides are just drained of ultimates. You just need to win basically one more fight
So you're it's gonna be a uh, watch here you also have a dead eye set up. So zion takes out cycle. Yeah, that is
Good enough to win that
Need to kill a lot of the cleansers there good reason to use zion
You kill zion. I sound very healthy. You still have fix it here as well with land and so maybe you can prevent
some push, but still you're just running out of time.
Yeah, GK, they don't actually need to win a fight, right?
They just need to stagger things out and not lose,
and this kind of a chaotic trade is exactly what the doctor ordered here
with just a minute on the clock.
Virtus Pro, though, consistency from Aiznom keeps the team alive
and gives them just that one last chance,
one last lease on life,
but the economy is just coming down like a ton of bricks here.
It's high noon, temple from Kev, he's got to snatch this away.
It's really the only play-making tool that VP have.
Everybody hiding, zoned away in the corners, but formation is split and Lath is caught off.
Rude Reef from Aiznom, sniffed out that Cassidy, it's going to lead to an opening pick.
Now DK, tough decision for them, are they going to continue to fight?
Aiznom's going to force their hand here, a big slam, drops, spins the ground,
doesn't have the cleanse apparently to stay alive through that.
And maybe some more kills, we can top some kind of a stagger, but Kellix won't allow it.
Wisely gets the reset.
This final fight is going to be absolute chaos.
Rushes and sanctuaries on both sides. No sim walls, thankfully.
There'll be lab there here with the dead eye and have to dodge this.
Sanctuary is a good ultimate to do so, though.
Sanctuary's out to defend that I know so scary.
Where is this gas and he's inside the sanctuaries?
Inside your holos again?
It's got drops!
The shield, though!
Locks the damage, the crucial moment.
Out of the line one!
Traded back down for two!
Gets the team alive!
Bermas Pro, just the supports and champs now in a 2v3.
Can they finish off this Alphys Sim? He's on his own teleporter.
Basically, another support for him, and he keeps leading kills.
You cannot back down from the OG Sim, and that will cause Virtus Pro the map.
GK Esports, even things up one-to-one, and if yesterday's any indication,
these two teams want it bad, we can go all the way to 7 tonight.
Yeah, we could be sitting here for a while, but it'll be a good time.
As GK, they can clutch up there towards the end.
Fixed against one, not at all to take that outfeed out of him, crazy.
I don't think you would have had any help coming any time soon, but we take a look at some of the stats as
Yacht and IceNo are really going to play each other, even good games from both of the tanks.
I know really pretty even across the board here, Jake.
You know, obviously, Finn, coming up clutch on the carry there, I know a decent amount of times.
Obviously, providing a little bit more healing than in Landed, but moving on in terms of the damage battle.
And they're supposed to call like this is that's one of those fights minute if that goes VP's way
We could find ourselves in another insane multi-minute overtime, but
He can't hold the line and you know if it's any comparison right coming back into this series after you know
They're they're all yesterday. This was how it went. He kept it because to call a CEO even up the series one to one
Last time the response was Hollywood and for Virtus Pro. I mean I
Changed it right maybe just run it back. He did win the series yesterday
I mean, Hollywood, they were dominant up on the high ground, this was just so weird.
It's like the entire team.
It's just a little too creative.
It's just so weird, everybody just like, yeah.
A little too creative for Blavna, I mean, I don't think that that kind of a Cassidy Flake works.
But you see, man, the threat of the Deadeye, so significant.
It was like both teams.
You're able to just move the Deadeye around now, too, right?
Like, how creative teams are getting, like, with the simTPs inside of the sanctuaries,
outside, you know, just channeling the dead eye for an extended period of time.
I mean, you would think that Hollywood would be the selection for VP, right?
I mean, they looked really good on.
I mean, once they had that defense high ground in the second part of the map,
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Hey, Hollywood, that's the map selection
that comes in from VP.
I don't think it's much of a surprise, right?
This is a pretty much had a series win yesterday.
It's gonna get really interesting,
especially if this one goes past five, because, right,
that's where we kind of reach uncharted territory
where the map pool opens up,
we see something new, we see something different.
But also for VP, I mean, like, yes, they won Hollywood,
but it was very close, right?
Like they almost got full held on first point and things are gonna get weird with both Kiri and Sim banned out
I believe this I think he also banned the Kiri last time right to play the Batiste
But the Sim band I think is definitely different on this map
Opens up some possibilities for both Althea and Psycho to insanely flexible individually skilled
DPS players who have been just tearing it up on Sim looking fantastic
But now maybe able to show a little bit more individuality in terms of how they approach this map
I don't know exactly what they'll pick maybe the may but maybe something out of left field
Yeah, I mean this in gone here is just really interesting, right?
I know it also it does make it harder to obvious the access high ground in the second part of the map
Oh, yeah second point is gonna be a slog for these poke comps because there are no easy ways through yeah
Both sim and carry out that means may could do crazy work right like no cleanse to get the blizzard no TP to get away from it
I mean, this is kind of like a moment for the flex DPS to kind of carry the game.
I think May is maybe the most significant hero in this comp.
Yeah, it's an Alfie en-psycho. The two players to look at there is...
You also see with Kirigana, this is going to be Nap, Mizuki.
Looks like we're both team, so it'll be DK on defense first here.
See if they're able to get a first point hold.
going to turn the tides of how this one went yesterday. This is going to be a much different
game though with the bands than we saw yesterday between these two teams.
Let's see what the look is. Okay, I was thinking it might be a Zen. I honestly wouldn't completely
hate Zen here, but Mizuki is so effective. A lot of unique playmaking potential from this hero to
create space, especially on the offense. Virtus. Pro, they tried a couple wonky angles of attack
yesterday. This time they're going to learn from that mistake and just take them straight up the
That lets Labda just carve into them with this disruptor shot, farming up rails.
A lot of cool bounce out now. Defenders look aggressive, but a beautiful wall!
Isolates the push forwards. Yabba responds in kind. Hits hands now off the field, up to the maze to find the difference.
But Landon, that bapper wins the duel against Man that'll take the sustain out from under to the defenders.
And Bernus throw, this time it's their turn to annihilate that first point defense.
I mean they get that kill early on on to lab die and now you were talking about how much damage he was ready to put down
And disrupt their shot farming up a rail. Maybe he got a guy caught around the corner and thinking out as
VP that will be first point is
Have making some changes are we gonna?
I like it not like a lot of ages, but she's really good on this map of obviously getting angles up on that high ground
Yeah, and you just need some kind of hit scan that can actually just
Play the game that because Cassidy on the low end of the joke here is a terrifying prospect and the verticality already put pressure on the defenders
Drone is out enough. Oh, that's an uncontested
Dominates through that point it does take an ant matrix to set up the play
So two ults, pretty significant ones at that, has to come out, but I mean for VP
I think it's well worth it to establish Hydra control on Hollywood's second.
I mean always a hotly contested position on this map and with no sim TP, breaking
the hold is kind of a terrifying prospect, so let's see how DK approach it.
And you also see that for a brief moment when we're on with Kat, right?
Easy build against like visibility over the main wall that kind of comes on down.
He lands like two or three big, I know, explosive shots, so I'm doing some serious
I know it gets the benefits of the regen burst, it'll be the fuller shot there, it connects on to, I know, Kellex, it looks like, but Cable is having a worded off, but Finn dies, I mean that is brutal, it's going to be the Blizzard here that comes up through, nobody to escape it from out the nice sanctuary here from Fix, they're trying to keep Icegum alive.
Looks like the fight going but Psycho's blizzard does freeze!
Picks it in a crucial battle if you're on the flank as the teleporter back out, but maybe the damage is done.
Laptose zone's up, here comes Ziad with a key flux.
Oc available from left end, that may be just enough to hold flying on second point.
Gives one kill, breaks the drone, finds a second before he goes down and...
DK.
Very scary to lose your bap dad early in the fight, but somehow, some way they come out with the clutch.
I mean, if they lose that fight there, they're in a brutal scenario, right?
I mean, that's gonna be second point taken by VP probably above close to five minutes
In the time bank to complete the map and they would be rolling at that time
So now you have an amatrix here and you have high ground so an opportunity to win another fight here
Okay, we've seen so many times team stalled out here may is making her way to the payload
So it's gonna force alongside of a leave
Mizuki some kind of response and you see the overtime gets pressured the maball here as well a lot of playmaking to be had in
This room and he came out competent a rock in a hard place the payload moving forward teams attacking the high ground
What are they gonna do if they need to hold this point?
But they got a drop as a unit great force split here from vertus troll like he from all sides the back window
Not long for this world to pick up right out of it not even slam down to the ground goes down too quick for that
And what an immaculate approach from vertice bro. I mean just putting geeky in a vice grip here on Hollywood
Yeah, I mean they send psycho down blow like you've mentioned right to kind of put some heart pressure on that drags some players down
You see they attempted to use people all there to get a high set of the higher up
They uh and not able to do so but I mean they kind of force
Geeky in a really difficult position right they end up having a drop to respect that you have a lot of damage
He's going on with the odd, not even going to do some bowl shot here.
Gets the drone out, now he immediately swings the pressure over to that tankline, Kev, on this Freya.
Finding a ton of values, the odd's so incredibly low in the front line and the Blizzard comes down, breaks the back of this defense.
A clean fight so far, for Virtus Pro, they refuse to give any trades.
Not even a stagger or a payload stall for GKE sports.
Farther than either team has made it so far on Hollywood in the last couple of days,
Virtus.pro, it is an expensive fight, and breaking this last is not easy.
I mean, such a sick defender position.
I mean, especially when the other team has Blizzard and Sanctuary here to play at this show.
You're gonna have a Sanctuary of your own for Virtus.pro.
You're gonna have to be so careful, you can't lose him again early in a fight,
because you're also gonna have Landon build up towards his ant matrix,
so you're gonna have nothing here to work with if you're VP.
I mean, he's just putting on so much pressure,
he's zoting him out of this entire corner of the defender hold,
But he can sports find a little cubby to play, and Zion goes back the other way.
Drop psycho, that's gonna really do to any potential aggression.
Fix that, and knows he can't really teleport back, but the movement is actually good enough.
I found Stubb on this high ground, making these very scary and finishing deep.
And Matrix comes out from land, and he's deep in the spawn.
But Stubb's doing south, gets it done on the teams, picked up by the Sigma.
Just end his reign of terror, the slam dunk, he'll get the finish, but that's Zion's entire bank dump.
Landon definitely got out of the carry band, brings out the BAP and frankly shows us the gap.
I mean Finn is getting kind of smoked in the BAP battle this series, killed by the enemy BAP on first.
Landon closes out on third, the split pressure, really getting to DK on their defense.
I mean I would love to see that. He drops back down on a flank behind them, right?
Ice is playing from that high ground position for a very long time, then Landon eventually just drops down,
drops an ant matrix, takes out two there as we take a look at the stats. I mean, look at
Landon. 3,400 damage compared to Finn's 1,000 with basically the same healing. The crazy stuff
from Landon, you see, just drops a blank. That is Alphie there. He takes out Alphie. Alphie's got
Blizzard. He just turns and domes him. I mean, that is sick stuff from Landon. That's a fight that VP
are not supposed to win. I mean, like, yes, why Landon goes for that kind of wild maneuver?
Recognizing the economy is so brutal of the male. I mean surely not coming through those tiny jokes
Landon deals with it in an unconventional way gets in the back line himself drops the main
No cleanse needed on that one and that's got a sting for DK. I mean this is a map you lost yesterday
So, you know in theory you could VP map pick you can write it off
But it was so much closer last time it felt so winnable now
It's I mean this map honestly feels over like hi DK
I'm capping first is at times in question.
Yeah, as it definitely seems like VP, even though the band's obviously making this map feel much different than the other day, continuing their strong play on Hollywood.
but I mean 221 in the time bank is pretty much an eternity so you'll see if VP can get this point
a hold on the last go around it was VP on offense they were able to break this pretty easily and it
really was kind of laptop hauling early it opened things up. Close for the Sojourn here gets a little
bit of a burp on this high ground maybe put some pressure down the bables are out the stun drone
is already out from the attackers geeking on the back foot vertus for wasting no time they want to
pile on the aggression but maybe trying not to overplay their hand they know what a threat
Alphie's may is to kind of split them apart as they get aggressive and uh oh Kevlar from
the high ground I'm contested a quick two tap onto Alphie drops the may and so to the
hopes of DK E-Force trying down on this offense the rail not quite good enough to finish Kev
and Curtis Broce take their claim on the first neutral now barreling towards ultimate advantage
This is looking like a slog for DK.
Yes, the walkup was really costly in terms of their overall HP pools.
Kev just pops up from that high ground, takes that out easy.
Yacht will move up. They're gonna have an amnitrix here first.
Walls on wall.
Walls placed on top of each other.
Oh, the clutch is found.
Trying to bail, but he's caught up in the air.
Oh, he's on his head.
Okay, Finn.
Somehow he stays alive.
I still haven't lost him in the thick of it, but he'll fight his man,
and yet more picks up three or four in the fight.
This is Yacht and the enemy backline.
I didn't say this could turn into a scary stagger, but they don't want to let him farm up the flocks
I think why is maybe to just end that there just making sure there's no cheeky last second pick for Ziad to find
I mean that is skin to ant matrix though out and you didn't really get anything for it
The may walls just kind of stacked on top of each other
Right on top of that ant matrix and look like psychos came down to block it and then I go out beats right on top
They may be trying to catch one player
Yeah, they're in the fin need to stay alive. Yeah, they don't give him a test now Oc up on the high ground
I'm looking for targets none presenting themselves
Body shot in to land in after the Oc ending quite seem to be deeper finish takes the wide angle
The Kepter is nowhere to be seen slips away, but Zod found one on the plate the stun not like connecting
This flash is good enough and Zod cleans up the back line here first row tried to get aggro off a psycho's blizzard
But they don't come up with much of anything and Zod takes the opportunity to just tear those support lines to shreds.
That means Zod with a flux on the point and then actually kind of flies up towards the cafe to battle land in and puts
landing in a really difficult spot because he can't see the point to drop that immortality kill down onto those targets, right?
It has to basically just use it on himself and then puffs the burst to try and keep those players up.
This is where
Geeky though got caught up yesterday in this game. They could not break this high ground setup from Virtus Pro
They continue to run the Cassidy. No adjustment just yet here from Lada and Geeky
Obviously no sims in place, so it's gonna be a little bit harder to gain access to that high ground
Heartrolling VP though. They've been so good at finding the right moment to drop in and all in commit
DK's work to know it's coming, Aizanum drops first,
Wall's exchanged, the Flux is gonna make it impossible for DK to get value out of that ultimate.
Rock connects on one, but it's not Aizanum crucially, so the Flux still hits.
The damage is done. DK routed, trying to just get back to the spawn. Aizanum.
Tempting fate though, stepping through this choke point against him.
Mei is actually gonna load up to the hydra and move to finish the fight.
Curtis, 12.
So, Caution to the win, hit up their hydra in position,
but in exchange they're rewarded with a crushing teamfight,
resetting DK back to the spawn.
and it would be too crazy shortly to take a fight in the spawn here but they're certainly threatening
in it making DK work for every inch they walk up into this Hollywood map. Yeah they're just making
them think about it a little bit. I mean the Sigma now with the float right can get back to high ground
so fast that you see already in position as VP as DK enters the choke and no real way to get this
out the easter lizard. It's so hard for him on May the air. Yeah I love when Fix does this too.
He just comes stalls the car by himself, tipis back to the high ground, gets the wall off him out,
blizzard's still available, but gonna be harder to trap without that cool down,
and now be enough of bird's bro, take this fight, they do get the wall down,
Isoziak away, and the drone is just not there, it's just a place,
no join with the blizzard, that's painful, then gets one back, Kevser didn't realize he was exposed
in that angle, but I mean, one kill is maybe not good enough here, the wall from psycho,
The wall from Psycho is sick there, I mean, they drop down, they get that wall right behind Ziad, they just burn him down so fast.
The immortality field from Finn, not able to get there in time, Alphie drops the Blizzard, maybe trying to catch some of those players off guard.
Gonna be a draw.
He's gonna hit a king dog!
Nice draw.
Great hit.
Still, I stop trying to get what value he can, maybe there's an opportunity for trades, Virtus.pro throwing everything into this tight Ziad, the shield comes up just in time.
Protects him from the blizzard kevster though somehow always finds his man
He will go down for a bit damage is done the rest of her to throw the blood in the water
Towering forward and bissirating these attackers fully resetting them once again, and although kev gives his life
He's no stranger to that kind of a play often going for these
Sacrificial moves on Cassidy where he finds his one kill pulls attention to himself and the rest of the team is right behind him
I mean you have an amateurs now to use up on this high ground
or Vertus parole as he can't I mean no adjustments here Jake and trying to break this
I mean just kind of trying to bully them with the same mirror comp and is not work
They need VP is able to get such great poke and then just kind of take the fights on their own terms
Fix they use the TV get down here on the
This just runs the clock down like crazy that that I from lab to gets nothing
Oh, he's gonna crouch walk the elevator. This is insane. I mean, this is a risky move see if it pays off
Okay, he finds Nona behind there.
Happy to get a little bit of a comfortable angle,
except Ice Dom's loads back up the deal with him.
Nice headshot back the other way from LAPDA,
but it's too little, too late.
Although as the trades come in,
losing the Batiste actually gives GK a strong chance,
and this both supports still alive.
Now Kepiser's turned for a desperate flank,
one that needs to come up with kills,
and Kat doesn't this time.
So, nice little brawl from GK Esports,
creating just enough chaos to win the day.
And now they'll get one more fight at least here.
on this second checkpoint with no high ground available for Virtus Pro, so they'll get on even
putting here. I'll be here with the Blizzard and you have a flux yet again, but yeah,
it should fear. Can they set Kev up with like a dead eye and an interesting position. It's gonna be
the flux here. It doesn't get anything. That roots it this time. Labbed it though. Oh, Stoner Fire.
Aizam wants to potentially run that one down. It does leave Karp. How on its own is Wuz gonna
touch? You know, B to supports Kepster, has the high noon, just desperately trying to stay alive,
but the Blizzard freezes everybody, Virtus Pro.
Good attempt in this OD, but DK are gonna see their side of third point,
but Matt, I mean, you need to cap with time here for the best you can do as a draw,
and I don't know how the heck you're supposed to finish faster than a minute and twenty.
Yeah, I mean, it was a nice idea from Isoam, kind of like taking that off angle
and then really putting pressure down onto Labda.
You just have nobody who can get back and kind of like can test the point, right?
And then obviously the blizzard coming down on top of it with the flux so
Really difficult for VP to fight out of that one
Minute to go you need just that you know basically a clean sweep here from DK
You'll have a chance in this map and that's not the way you want to start it is canv opening things up on to
Labda and then a blizzard comes on down
from psycho
And this is going to allow Fixer to do some crazy damage here towards the end and build up towards a sanctuary and another ant matrix.
Best you can do at this point is a draw for DK Esports.
They still have to fight. I mean if they could if they could somehow hold VP to that outcome, it would be a massive win from this position.
But VP wanted to deny that. They want to lock up this Hollywood map win, pick up the edge here in this first to fourth series.
I'm down an off angle get some damage in but not much follow-up there the may wall
Maybe that's really difficult to get it on top of the back line. The Ampages is down so scary for cast even with that
I to puke into that hold him it's all over the field
It's I can find shell eggs and opens things up with the watch looking to finish the fight here the rock goes wide
Not even needed Vixx is actually the one who cleans up laptop
But the final fight of the map ends not with the bang but with a whimper DK
It's a decent effort here on Hollywood, but in the end Virtus Pro in such sick control of this map
That offense is one of the best I've ever seen here on Hollywood
Yeah, it's really great stuff from Virtus Pro
The Freya swap is really nice there from Kebser allows and they're gonna get over some of the Maywalls
Get some high ground control as well. Just no adjustments there from the side of DK
Okay, take a look at some of the stats we did, dude, I saw 43 in 4, 22k damage, there's absolutely
fours.
That's not right, Matt, like, can we check this out, like, what, 22k?
That was a wild game, yeah, he is, I mean, dude, Sagan does crazy damage right now, I
mean, you see Zyada on the other side, you know what, that's like more than 8k damage
behind there.
at the moment so it's just a lot of damage coming down from even like you know pin obviously
yeah it does a little bit more healing here than land in but it falls behind in terms
of damage in like 2200 so pretty significant damage output at disadvantage there for DK
results in a map loss.
Yeah although the damage stat is very close I think Psycho was able to find the edge with
the blizzards but in this conflict really does feel like the team that has the windows
to get aggressive and takes their opportunities, gets rewarded.
And I'm reminded, you know, in some of these moments,
by some of these small plays that, like, you know,
sending VP in this brutal offense,
they send the May and the Muzuki to the payload.
The defenders are trying to fight hard again,
but they're worried about the overtime.
You can tell the calls are getting chaotic.
And I think it really intelligent from VP
to force this kind of a weird engagement.
They don't take the straight up fights on offense.
They know the defenders are too favored for them.
And so they create these strange opportunities, almost that of nothing at times.
You can see, I mean, I think definitely a difference in experience on Hollywood.
Showcase there. I love when Vixx is doing these little plays,
you have a teleports down to the cart, sits in the corner, stalls it out for five, four, five seconds.
Like, that hurts on attack when you're just can't progress the payload,
getting pummeled from high ground. That generates real advantage.
This series has started the exact same way as yesterday.
So, uh, I'll just map in for VP.
You're telling me we're going to a map,
when for GK to a crazy OT circuit,
Royale map five, which won't even be
the end of the series, Matt.
Then I'm interested.
I'm a buyer.
GK, GK yesterday went to New
Junk City and white the floor with
the trio in terms of flash points.
So run it back.
Maybe if they decide to do that yet again.
I can't imagine why they did it.
Yeah.
Okay.
So yesterday, uh, yesterday,
the bands here were Shion from Geek K and then this is where the Curie band came out
from the first pro.
Was uh, wait no I'm crazy, it was May and Hazard, no?
Uh, no May and Hazard?
Oh actually no no you're right, you're right, you're right, sorry, yeah, yeah, just uh.
Cause the Curie band was the same on Hollywood, it was the changeup was taking the sim out
of the equation, um, from last time with the band too, now.
I will say this may hazard band kind of weird bands, you know, like these are kind of like the way bands. I suspect that Vertice pro are going to bring a different flavor because as you said, most of the maps in the series yesterday were close.
This one was like this was all GK. They dominated. I think VP maybe need to show some kind of a different looking. They're the ones who've been locking it in playing that the Sigma poke all day long today.
today. GK have been comfortable with that, but okay, it's another throwaway ban. So never mind.
Well, it's like, it's a, it's a, well, I mean, no, they already banned passion, right?
So like a sim for China, I guess, like a sim or she already banned Sam. I guess it's a
she on protect. I don't know. I think this is a genuine throwaway ban. I don't really,
I don't know what DPS they're worried about losing. Maybe it's VP though. Like this may be
something we can't know now because if I were VP, I would have taken that loss on this map
yesterday and said let's try something different on new junk city I mean that
was the one map where you got kind of smoked and maybe a big change-up is in
order so like I mean it's kind of cool that VP would bring some crazy pace some
crazy aggression onto this map. We never saw a sick ban from DK yesterday we did
see it from VP into game five it's a Mizuki ban so this is a ban that we saw
GK used in their game 5 yesterday against VP. So the widow ban, I mean, still like yesterday,
yesterday they banned Bastion which you already seen from GK, then they did ban the Shion. So maybe
they were trying to protect the Shion potentially for Kev to play here. Yeah, there's a map where,
you know, we've seen Shion do some crazy flanking maneuvers with that bike, which is always a blast
to watch, especially somebody as clean as Kev on the pilot, but definitely it feels like when
we go to Newjunk City, it invites a tempo shift, it invites teams to maybe push the pace, some of
these tighter angles, just the faster pace of Flashplan as a map type in general, and Virtus.
Pro, although they haven't played that today, we know it is something in their wheelhouse,
whether it's the Hazard or you know the Maga, even from Eisenhower at times, like they can
probably these faster comps, they usually choose not to, but maybe this is an opportunity to set
set the tone and if you can change the narrative from whoever can break the opponent's streak
from yesterday, whoever wins the map that the opponent won in the last series, you kind
of snatch momentum in the series away and it might just crumble from there.
So this one, it's not the end of the series, but it feels to me like a little do or die
for DK, especially with how good they were yesterday here.
Would DK have considered a Cassidy ban?
Maybe if they want to push the place.
I'm just good at the Sojourn.
And he plays Sojourn a lot on this map, right?
It's true.
Potentially taking that away, where Kepp would have probably played Sheon.
We haven't seen Kepp play a ton of the Sojourn in this stage.
It's really been a lot of the Cassidy and the Sheon, but just to remind you guys,
I hope we got the Fire and Tide Esports Bundle in the shop right now.
Make sure, I know, obviously, after this series and after NA.
You want to put NA on the second counter?
Keep burning the drops.
Why not?
Make sure you go get the bundle.
includes all of the name cards as well as uh I really like that top one.
Now that the name card is gotta clean, I mean I have so many at this point but you gotta try
and find, go to the keys Jake, you gotta find the stuff that nobody else has.
Exactly, exactly Matt. You're gonna buy the bundle and have all those name cards, those are
name cards other people may not have and you can look cool in the lobby.
It's about the flex Matt, it's about letting them know that you got that rare stuff.
This of course available now in the shops so check it out guys, Fire and Tide eSports
bundle and as we're getting into a new junk city it looks like we've got a
player restart so we're gonna be getting that settled before we break into a new
junk city and feels like this is flashpoint always an opportunity for a
little bit of wild creativity if the people want to go that direction.
Yeah, it's, uh, you know, Shion available. We didn't see either team ban this in the last time.
We saw these two teams playing, so it seems like they're fine, letting it in play.
But if I remember correctly, we saw, uh, we did see I think Kev play some Shion early on in the series,
and then, uh, we've obviously seen Kev, you know, with some highlight plays against Katya on the Shion,
so maybe that was something that they want to potentially run here, and also protect the Katya in a way.
It's interesting seeing Shion rise so quickly into the meta after her release and then maybe
fall so precipitously as teams have started to really understand how to deal with her
being ready for the blight threat as it comes in and even finding the moments to run her
down and punish her when she's low on those mobility skills.
She's like Cassidy has been a big part of that.
Both heroes available to be played at Newjunk City offers a battlefield where the footing
might be a little more even.
And I think in a more standard map, the Cassidy feels pretty comfortable marking those off angles,
but Newjung City, you just can't mark them all.
There's too many ways to get into the fight.
Too many ways.
I mean, we saw this even from Alcat when they played VP, right?
They brought insane pace on the Maga Shean here.
It actually worked even over VP.
So curious to see if VP want to integrate some kind of element of that style.
Without the Mizuki, they are going to be forced to show us at least something different here.
Yes, we've seen Mizuki over the last two maps, really the entire time, but also on
a flash point we obviously Lucio come up, I know, clutch.
So probably Lucio, Kiri, will see what ends up happening, the widow ban most likely.
I know you're protecting either like the Sim, the Cassidy, something along those lines,
potentially even the Shion as well.
So a few different options as I know we had a little bit of a delay and it looks like we're
going to have another little bit of a delay as the pause, halt.
We're good.
We're good.
Celebratory pause.
We just like to keep the people at home on their toes, you know what I mean?
And me.
And you.
Yeah.
Ooh.
I like what I see out of EP right now.
And I have been pated by spawn room picks many times before, but I'm here for it.
An on-run.
Hold up.
Hold up.
I mean, this is...
This is talking about aggression.
This is wanting aggression from Verna's pro.
This comp does not play slow ever. It is a go-go-go style
alpha e
Could be called into some serious question here on the Symmetra hard to stay low case on the Reaper
Which actually think is gonna have a much more comfortable match for the both fairly honor on though, which is a an interesting wrinkle, right?
Yeah, most likely plays pretty well with the Moga, right? Yeah, the fire synergy and overdrive. Yeah
That's really nice with the fire system. You can both ignite for one another and say to the run
But a big stomp from Ziad absolutely deletes Psycho.
What a fine from the GK Magik comes in to assist Alphie who's under pressure in the corner and GK.
It's a cheeky little comp from VP, but GK say, yeah, well, maybe I'd win.
Maybe I'd win.
Just drop in the absolute hammer on Aron.
Well, you know, obviously it's a progression that comes out from VP early on.
And then like the counter stomp that comes in from Ziad, right?
They try and put some pressure on Alphie on the reaper.
and they just didn't stop right on top of the honor on and the blogger that we'll see from psycho's
POV just a brief moment says uh key k controls the point here first so drum with a lot of space to
work with here love the really profit on some early rail shots and psycho's getting kind of
marked in the extremities does dash in tries to get some ignites off should barely connects to the
the sojourn public enemy number one but the support backs up they respond in
kind and hurt us bro this aggression is not really working so far DK handling
and stride they have just played an entire series of twisted minds after all
so catching this team on guard is going to be a tall order I thought does find one
and the shout keeps him healthy but and it's just too quick to live with DK's
points. I wonder if like you know obviously VP very good at some of these
Sigma base comps. I wonder if this is kind of like where DK can maybe find a slight advantage,
right? Playing some Moga, forcing some Moga on the other side, right? Sojourn plays really well
into Moga, and then obviously Alpha E can play Reaper at a very high level. It kind of maybe gives
him a little brief window into the series as we'll see Psycho continue to play the Onron.
I wonder if the first times we see Onron in the EMEA. So, in Reaper we're getting more value out of it.
so many cheeky corners on that first point and early Ignite comes out of the rush much faster from
Finn here and Alphie wants to make hay while the sun shines here, dives into the backline,
guesstimates Virtus Pro and it's just Vixen and Kevster, luckily with probably enough
mobility to be able to reset out of this but pretty painful scenes here on New Drunk City as
Virtus Pro just struggled to get towards their first set of ultimates and already the second
flashpoint in control. I mean it's brutal right? I mean Kev is finally gonna get up towards the
3 and no psycho still working towards the honor on old man is
Not been a lot of positives for vertus pro thus far is I know landing with a rush
This could be an opportunity where they could
Awesome in with the cage right mitigating the worst that beats exchange but we for doing so much here
She on tries to turn this line with sense of interest free with this laptop holding the line with the overclock now
How did the opportunity to pierce the heart of Virtus Pro's Psycho
does drop one of those hearts?
Maybe two of them would log a form off the field,
but DK is still with the 4v3 player advantage
and Latte just cleans the floor.
Solid finds from him and even a nasty play on the on-ron.
She has the ultimate, but they're eventually going to drop her.
And DK, I mean, they're dominating this.
Like, this on-ron, it's cheeky, it's silly,
and they are just getting blasted by Riza right now.
Yeah, it is not really paid off, but I was curious to see how it would work right now is just VP get some of it
It looks like they want to try and fight this one more time though. Maybe he used like those all the bit
Huge here, but he can't get a farm. Of course it's continue rush. Yeah, nice job
Yeah, even with the cleanse coming out really on the back foot now for DK
But the rush changes everything the 10 of the fight shifts now. See ya, brawl is through Aizanam and
Even with the ultimate here from onward, I think a lot of the backmen without Maga, you just don't have a chance in this kind of a point blank for all.
And yeah, this one is not close man.
GK looking to repeat yesterday's history.
We're on rails this series. We are going, I mean we're going to sort of lay out, like let's be honest.
Yeah, it's, that looks like we're headed.
As a VP I give him props. They're committed to it though. We'll see if they can land. I don't give him props Matt, they're in three straight.
Cycle has like 1500 damage. This is not competitive.
UK, I mean Sojourn Reaper, this is one of the OG Rush DPS setups. As good as Shion is, you know, it's kind of a struggle for him to keep up with us.
You're good at knight's room cycle, maybe having a decent opener of the fight, but the beat response is devastating, fix a wall riding away, but cannot make it to the pack, Alphie cuts him down with the Dire Trigger.
This is being made out of the bigger blowouts you see on the Flashpoint, and in a while I feel like it's going to be point control to GK, Jake, and they're ready to go next.
This looks like a go next but I'm so curious like I mean they've obviously had to have screen this right and like
potentially even against DK and made it work right yeah
My guess is that they don't play the Reaper comp and they just it is a very challenging
Comp to play as a team
But if you say that it is here comes the ultimate so big exchange on point a good chance now for this pro with a blossom
Doing way too much that's a really sweet overwhelm here great work from the key case supports to ensure
This is a clean fight and let them move towards a 20 street. I mean come on
Yeah, we're just all right now we're changing all right, so we're gonna get the Reaper in action
But I have mice both likely too late into a machine and it's not a friendly fight
Fix it has the beat but that rush Reaper out. He is going to rip and they are with that life. Yeah
I mean surely he makes it right surely
The whole counter-knockdown, big damage on the ice down to B.
That's not early fined with a rush on the point.
DK, keeping on the gas, you're staying aggressive, trying to overwhelm and dominate through this
backline.
Kalex finds Kester on the extremities, ties down forced into a payload touch, and the
Reaper not long for this world as Wraith ends, lived to find his man, picks up the kills,
and DK, an absolute speed run.
I mean, that was so fast.
That was extreme.
I mean, all right
The on-con is like I get it. It's like fire and and the other guy does fire. It's we have synergy, but like
It just doesn't work man. The Reaper eats them for breakfast lunch. Yeah dinner
The reverse bad matchup for the on-con. I would say this is pain. This is pain
I mean, yeah, you show me this warm-up without player names
I would not be able to identify this as the grand finals between Virtus. Bro and DK
So clearly the rush mirror is actually not something that VP or is 25 and oh
25 over lab to there
No, I wonder like you're in your game
You have to think about like can we banned?
Sigma and just play like this like Moga rush like I don't know like
We'd obviously see VP makes some adjustments. I think I know not not come out play like she on
on Ron, but I think they need a mirror man.
This, the Sojourn Reaper, they're iconic classics.
And like, Shion looks great when you're up against
a less mobile comp and you can kind of get deep
into the back line, throw a bike in on the supports.
But in this matchup, every time you flank on Shion,
it's time that the opponent is just sending it down mid,
running to you with Reaper and Maga.
And you don't have the luxury to kind of set up the fight
how you like.
Things get too chaotic, I think, for Shion
to really get into the mix in time.
So a little too much on the rotation.
Sojourn is just laying in rails on run. I don't want to talk about that
That was wrong. That was painful. I gotta know though. I gotta know that had to have worked in some type of screams, right?
Hey, baby, you gotta pay it off. But yeah, not ideal
Do we see them go to circuit? I mean, this is a mirror five maps to start big things off
I mean circuit yesterday we saw no sick as well
Obviously a comfortable margin of victory on circuit. So VP gonna be very confident, you know last time
time. I would not shock to see it come out again. I do think though this is going to
be a very different circuit than last time, even if the same bands come out. Last time
remember it was like GK open with the diva, it completely fell flat, their defense really
crumbled from there and then on the opposite side it was love to have the read to go to
the Bastion first, Kevser had to follow suit and it was their turn to put on a blistering
offense. So I'd expect both defenses if we get the same band phase to be maybe a lot
more prepared this time. For VP though, they also don't have to ban the Sigma if they wanted
to see a very different kind of a match up here.
No, I think it'll be a different ban phase, right? Because we've already seen GK get rid
of the Mizuki, right? We've already seen Mizuki gone. And this is obviously some of the moments
from this match yesterday, right? Same map order, same scores, the upper finals going
into this we will have extra games I wonder if you do see uh has VP banned Bastion uh that could
be quite interesting here so uh yep the payload was uh especially delivered there towards the end
do it for cargo baby do it for cargo a ban so VP uh okay they banned uh well it's interesting
because GK can't ban Bastion right uh because it's already been gone they wouldn't do it because uh
No, they obviously got the better of it yesterday.
They banned Kent.
It's a confident ban.
It's a run-it-back type ban.
A sim?
It didn't take it away.
OK, so Virtus.Pro, May?
Yeah, well, I actually think it gets kind of complicated now
because Kiri is still in the mix.
So I suspect the Kiri Mizuki support line
is going to be confidently chosen by both teams.
May, yeah, maybe May, still the best, right?
The wall is such good utility.
And there's not many DPS who can really do much
when it comes to, you know, fighting the sanctuary,
fighting on top of the Katsune rush.
And in fairness, for VP, with the Sims off the field
on Hollywood, they looked much more comfortable.
And yeah, maybe opening the, you know,
individual playmaking quotient,
when there isn't quite so much of that burning pressure
on your front line, Psycho, maybe his confidence in him
on the May, see what Alfie can do.
He hasn't really played much May so far
at all this season.
So, see how this one plays off.
It's gonna be slightly different with both Sigma
and Mizuki on the field on circuit,
unlike what we saw in that incredibly close Neobot yesterday.
So we will, you know, we get a game five here, right?
But this is a first to four.
I wonder if this does go to series point,
but with how these two have battled each other over the last two days,
you'd expect we'd get a BS7 game between these two teams,
as EMEA pushing us to the limits here today.
And both of these squads, they know each other so well.
So the mind games are going on a crazy level at this point.
They're banning us again.
Wait.
Hold.
Are we paused?
Any holders?
We're holding.
We're holding.
We will figure out what goes in there.
Sounds like a little internet issue.
So we'll have some time here for you and I to talk.
I don't know what we're talking about other than the fact
that we saw a really close game between these two teams
the other day on this map.
Everybody kind of talking about how crazy Yen was this looks like though with the bands and how the series is gone
May end up playing a little bit differently
Both teams now an opportunity to reevaluate and taking this sim out of the mix
Let's put some questions on they both teams now, you know, this has been a map where sim has been
I mean like back in the day. This was a widow map now circuit is a sim map
I think it's fair to say right like this girl defines the meta all these long open sight lines that were once an
an opportunity for Widows to show that incredible individual skill.
Now it feels like the Symmetra Teleporter opening up new angles for attack is really the key test
for these elite teams. But with Sim off the field, it slows the game down, it opens things up,
and maybe those hitscan players can be put back in the driver's seat.
Capstone vs. Lapda has been an absolute heater so far in this series, and on to Circuit,
I think we'll have to see more of that.
can you play I mean look we probably expect VP to play are you gonna play
Cassidy Cassie maysig and you play anything like how we saw you know then
just roll out for DK on new junk city in this map or you think just the sight
lines are like way too long even kind of threatened like a mulligan look I do
think without the sim it's very hard to play those rush styles generally I
I actually think the rush can be quite good on this map, but sim is the linchpin of it, right?
It's a speed is nice, and then maybe it could be enough, but honestly
You know you kind of need the opportunity to recover the sim wall is also ridiculous and if you're playing a rush into a slow
Comp you drop that sim wall down and all that poke damage all that pressure is just fully relieved for basically the entire team fight
So yeah without sim you think you'd be really forcing it
I feel like this has to be a poke mirror.
I mean, in fairness, Kikei, they haven't shied away from it.
VP are, I guess, up to 2-1 in maps on the poke mirror,
but it's been close.
It's been contested.
The scarier thing is how Hollywood went, right?
And with Sim off the field, I expect
to see roughly similar styles, or at least landed more
than likely going to not play the Batiste.
So some of those backline Batiste night mirrors
can at least be put to rest here for Kikei's port.
Yep, and both of these teams will be at our mid-season championship by everything in three teams from EMEA
Verus pro GK and
Twisted minds and if you want to go as well while you didn't qualify through the other UCS
So you have to buy your ticket any but we can give you 15% off though if you scan the QR code and use
OW15 it's gonna be an awesome time out in Paris
Sites have a great time watch some great overwatch
it'll be an awesome week of games at EWC is I mean hey we're gonna see both of
these teams there imagine this match on the land I would a huge crowd I mean
that would be awesome to be able to get as I don't maybe we get that deep in the
tournament out there yeah a little bit of home field advantage for EMEA and
honestly man I don't think that elite competitive Overwatch has ever been this
close this competitive we saw a map 7 banger grand final in Japan now back on
home field with three ridiculously strong representatives coming out of EMEA, I really
feel like EMEA is the region to beat. Even as good as some of these Korean squads have been,
there are three powerhouses on this EMEA lineup and any one of them could go deep in the tournament.
Like Twisted Minds, yeah, they're the third seed, but like goodness gracious. Imagine being like,
you played so well out of some other region and your reward?
Twisted mind in the first round. You're welcome. Right. Yeah, I mean, you know, yeah
It's not your normal to reseed rolling on up in Twisted mind
So
Yeah, it's gonna be a really rough go for a lot of teams gonna face it off some of these EMEA juggernauts
at EWC but
Tutu in this series
I know in our grand finals currently leading on to the back into game that we can kind of kick things off
But there'll be circuit royale yet again between these two teams. We will see more maps
So I know buddy can win it here as a burst of four
So we'll see when the map will reopen what we decide to have these teams go towards
Yeah, reopening the map pool is like opening a whole can of worms here
I mean with how new drunk city when I feel like hey, can you just take us to Atlas and it back like you play that style at Virtus Pro
They out of escape. I mean they get out of that map
You know you take the hell whatever but that could come back to haunt you in this first of four, right?
Like we've got more maps to play after this one
You'd love to keep things nice and stable here with the poke look and maybe I'll be able to do that
But might have to be on a game seven if you don't find the answers to that geeky rush that despite not being played so much today
It's still fearsome still very well-drilled
Yes, I hear some highlights earlier in the series map number one. I have really strong showing from Varys pro
It was actually DK who came out with like an interesting comp
I know in our first point, but then decided they need to go back make a swap
They never really kind of recovered after that
as a VP
And it dominated there early on but then in game two that was really I know on Coliseum where DK started to come to life
So series has been back and forth thus far an opportunity now
for a team to kind of win two straight maps as I yeah, this is a
the sick plays here from Ziad is that, but they have not been shy, GK, to kind of play
that sims, sick mirror against VP. A lot of teams trying to move away from it, but not
this GK lineup. They feel pretty good about it.
Alphie feels so comfortable on the sim. I feel like you got to give him a little bit
of an edge over Psycho in some of these playmaking moments. Like on Coliseo in particular, we
really felt the impact of it. I think that probably plays into the decision here for
Virtus.pro to ban it away and at least you know simplify make these teamfights a little bit more straightforward
But he's been an absolute weapon here for GK as they go to a meta which sim is so crucial
And Alfie kind of against all odds has picked up this hero and looked like one of the best in the world to pilot it
And Hollywood went pretty similar to it yesterday as well some sick stuff from landing on this map
Nice bring a pick up from Kev.
I'm going to kind of get access to some of that high ground rather easily finn trying to do a 360.
He keeps up line and it doesn't exactly work out.
Keep the head moving.
Ant Matrix just absolutely just deletes Alphie while he's got Blizzard and then finds another.
Then yeah this is how we kind of find ourselves at the moment.
DK are kind of last map darlings here as they go all the way the distance against absolutely everybody.
We'll see if they can go the distance here against VP some more maps to go
But we're gonna go to quick break while we get everybody set for game five
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We're back guys. We're getting the player set. I think this technical pause about to come to an end
I know it's a painful one given the suspense in the series
I mean and especially to go to circuit the way things went down yesterday. I
Mean the pressure is unreal right now. Everybody needed more time to just mentally prepare for a 45 minutes
Mental pause mental pause I mean understandable under given the cinema that people ever yesterday
I'm going to make a lot of allowances for these two particular maps.
How many maps are you going to play today?
I mean, how many maps are you going to play in the last 12?
What?
I mean, they played 15 thus far, right?
Not including this series.
So this would be their 20th map in three days now at this point.
For GK.
They're like a UFC fighter, right?
who just kind of needs to get it to the fifth round,
like just kind of mentally drain their opponent.
These guys are bloody.
If these guys are fighters, they are hurt.
That nose is broken, but they're still going.
They won't back down.
And for DK, I mean, they fought this hard, this long.
Questions of fatigue, maybe could be asked,
but on Noon Drunk City, we didn't see any sign of it.
We saw fearless aggression.
And it was VP who was trying to, you know,
send that fight in first.
DK were ready to let that come to them and
Virtus.Pro had to sit with that pretty painful map loss for a hot second now
We'll see how strong they can come in to a circle way out that should be a more comfortable arena for them
Yesterday though, I can assure you it was not comfortable. They got the win, but goodness. It was not easy
Yeah, it was an absolute
Absolute shrubbing back and forth that one was way different though like we didn't have Sigma in play. We do have Sigma here
Today's we saw a lot of Maga. I think potentially now with Simgon as well some Sigma and a poke comps with May
Potentially could really change what we're going to see in this fifth game
And then obviously the winner of this goes to match point without both these teams kind of trade maps though
Jake it would be unlikely it seems for somebody to kind of win a few straights
So the odd back in action here, it'll be geek a on defense here first
Alarm. No, there is no way you're gonna play a larry Mizuki, right? I mean, uh
No, I mean, I hear he's still available. I mean that feels like Finn would end up playing the Kiri
What maybe he needs some more time
time. We're going to go to a pause to decide what he decides to play as a look. We're we
talked a lot of hurt stuff here, Jake. What's the longest pause you've been through? I've
seen some tough ones. I've seen some big like internet DCs. It feels different as a player
in a way though, because I think when you're on the inside, you know, you at least have
like some sense of what's going on so here you know we're sitting here watching with the fans and like
I feel like the tension on this match is so high right now between both teams like essentially all
the maps have maybe gone as expected but now we come to to the ultimate arena right the circuit
which was the final decider and we still have literally the closest game of all time that's
not even I probably I think that's there's a plausible statement like are we gonna repeat history
here, surely not. And with different bands as well, it'll be a remarkably different map.
So it almost feels like the series is like just getting started here. Is that crazy to say?
Yeah. So he's saying there's a Dallas Fuel Guantáir Charge game in 2019, the Unco pause. That was a
long one. We did have back in, oh man. Didn't we have a crazy film in Stockholm? We had like a
Crazy like our with the broadcast out
It's like something with sombra where we actually just stopped the rest of the day
Yeah, this one this one is seen a lot these are not tactical we assume they're there while there are no tech balls
But we assume that obviously there's continuing issues, baby
maybe with like the odd.
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And we're back guys Yod back in the server. I'm it's getting scary Matt. We were talking about some doomsday scenarios
We were talking about hot coming in on tank if you can't resolve this and I mean I what that would be no offense to
Haku, but in this game you just we that cannot happen
Yeah, it looks like just maybe easy odd like dealing with some like just internet issues. So
So, seems like those are resolved at the moment.
So, we'll obviously kind of continue the game, we'll monitor that, it'll be DK on defense,
happily playing the Sigma poke is okay, it'll be kept clean for us, we're gonna ditch some
hitscan all together here.
Ooh, some creative look here from Kev, showing the flexibility, definitely another option
in this wheelhouse, but the Sojourn, not the best hitscan, looking up and poking down on
this bar you feel that front line pressure start to come in. Aizan though gets isolated
by the may wall and struggling to break this setup your RVP a nice rail puts Kepster on
his heels but in the front line that cost a lot to his life had to swing in deep with
the slide just to connect that shot. Shield blocks the accretion and Aizan looks to clean
this fight up. Ziyad is still fighting though and has the support behind him. This one is
getting chaotic as we know these circle round fights are known to be Psycho finds guilt
after kill though and eventually gets this car rolling on the offense so this is gonna
hold a minute though man.
Yeah and I wonder if you're gonna continue to run this far at least looks like they
will with Kev staying alive throughout it is a DK very long fight there to kick things
off you'll get ice known back and you're gonna get one more fight in here before we get towards
that second checkpoint that you see Vlad looking up in the sky trying to put some pressure
down on a Kev.
I'm gonna dig the far right here.
Feel that poke pressure coming in, it's disrupting these formations.
Ultimates now starting to come online, here comes the rush, and Kepster finds on the
before the rush can really come into effect, the flux.
Pulse players out of the sanctuary, which are both trading here on the payload, but
the playoff from Gantus comes in, the blizzard on top of the payload, you've got to keep
this OT rolling.
Alpha E, full frozen after he gets his blizzard out, and the celebratory for Garage for Kepster
cleans up this first point.
I wonder if that doesn't portend maybe I'll swap back here to another hitscan on second, but look those over to the Freya, so
Some changes trying to adapt to a VP that I mean luckily had plenty of time to cook up this strat
Yeah, I wonder what you decide. I mean like Freya is
I don't see him again, but like you know, maybe like I thought we could have potentially seen like a Cassidy here
uh, the four labda, or even like, you know, Bastion of these games, but uh, it'll be nice to him here, don't worry the flocks, it'll be
Ice flocks there, four alpha yeas, y'all to get slow, but get back to the rest of the team for some support.
Nearly gets isolated by a maywall.
The Isle of Pinespix, uh, the chaos this bar has introduced is leading to so many of these poke kills, Virtus Pro,
with the style that it feels like only they can really implement it.
have found just pick after pick that we're not really getting proper team
fights here from the defense no who find themselves on a massive back foot
trying to retake into Pharah not at enviable position and with the ultimate
bank running so low it's just that try to be the hero and Kev goes to the
tracer just to get to this fight in time
they all have to be nasty Zod gonna have to walk out gonna have a teammate there with him
You do get Alphie as well, Zia doesn't take a lot of damage there, so thankfully you're going to be able to get a touch.
Juno is just getting assaulted here in the back line, Kepster pulls the rotation over him, now onto the main, doesn't have the rest of the ice block.
Alphie doesn't even see the front coming, Riddos Road picking apart their opponents from the back line here.
Profitable engagement for Kevster as second point goes down and where's the GKE squirts from from the matches today?
They have fallen flat on circuit
This is scary. This is this is VP with the confidence to get creative with
Absolute maximum pressure on the line and I think that you know, I'm worried for Juno. I don't really know against the tracer
Yeah, I mean in it's Kevster too, right?
I mean so good on tracer and to be able to kind of find those angles to really make
Alex's life hell as out you and get across here is Finn takes the serious damage as well
That's the place in the show kids. That's gonna be the kids today rush to use my fan
It's gonna be the blizzard here from psycho up on the high ground
Well, I'll probably barely survive with a teleport but here comes the rush trying to overwhelm furnace row keeping this bike rolling
But actually it's DK who come away with all of the clutch kills
Landon, the rush not getting nearly enough value and maybe that raw strength right up the front with the soldier
and just does too much VP can't hold that choke which is pretty hard one to break. Impressive for Geekhead.
Kevser gets boxed off the tracer now, has to go back to the core, hits can and recognizes his team just needs that frontline dead.
This playstyle right now feels a little bit more suited towards VP.
If you get the finger there to help me up on the high ground is a fix up working with the Cassidy still is it'll be a pluck to your youth
Doesn't get it actually not even gonna get to God. Yeah. Yeah Ray is forced out from Calyx
Though had to assume that that watch would connect
Punches back fix I've been getting cheeky all day, but hold on it's the odd call to the question. You're just barely safe
Way too close for you. Yeah, Kevser does grab a pig though in the chaos and without out these maves
I don't need to reset. You can't fight, find it, have to find an additional kill.
Maybe more on the cards with Yaw. That'll mean this power play will be short-lived from Virtus.Pro's offense.
Man, if you're able to get a hold here for GK on defense, that would be extremely impressive.
It was just really that far a play from Kepsta early on that it opened things up.
And now I think with it being Cassie on the other side, this is easier for Lab to play
that Soldier, right? A little bit of a better matchup for the Soldier.
like a far off, like Kev finds Kalex, now it's gonna force the OC out.
This is trouble, Lathley's not finding targets, is not being presented with any opportunities,
they're showing a lot of respect to the soldier and finally has to go in, but it's your desperation.
Psycho, Vicks have cut him down.
And now Geekay off the respawn and they are walking into the lion's den,
vertus pro, fully stacked and ready to commit.
You need some kind of a final hold for Geekay to salvage what's been a rough defense.
Yeah, I mean we said that yesterday though, in this exact scenario and matchup, it'll be
kept getting to the high ground here, putting some shots in the lab, the lab is just trying
to juke his lane out of trouble, they do find Psycho, that's a huge pick off.
Flux needs to find kills, Aiznab wants to equalize this, support on 5, the mails is
out from Albedee, is anybody going to be frozen by that?
It seems that the furthest bro has backed up for now, but Ziad charging right up the
front, getting so low starting to get overwhelmed by this backline, but Tux now into the corner
Stabilizes it. Maybe has done enough to run his clockdowns out here.
Starts to pick up these kills and we open his fight on the payload.
Landon grabs one back in to Heiner. Hold on, good enough for Kev to drop Ziad without the frontline.
This turns down into a true deathmatch battle.
Luckily, Helix can hold the line against Psycho, but Kev keeps fighting his head.
Surely not! Surely, Kev, in this moment, is too much to ask for.
Helix though, so Snapping moves up to him, buys a little bit of extra time.
Vixen comes in for that kill, but Mei is back, so too is Ziad.
He said it before, but they ripped the clutch off.
What a clutch.
I mean, they were up against a full five ultimate fight, and they just find the picks.
They find the stall to keep that one rolling.
I mean, do you see how much space that Ziad created there?
I mean, able to kind of like, to wedge himself into like one of those side rooms and just
really just lock off Kepster for an extended period of time.
I know Alphia are using the Maywall as well.
Just going to turn players from moving on forward.
VP rotating around here trying to take high ground quite frankly if
The VP doesn't give up a full map completion. You almost kind of chuck that one up. There's a little bit of a dub from their perspective
You're on defense of how things started off is
VP trying to control this high ground is
Could be massive. This is a really nice angle for lab that a fire from oh, man
He has a dream position reads the back rotate drops of disruptor shot time starting to run
and WoE has to come down to touch the payload.
They're trying to keep players on the high ground,
but they can't quite break that choke point.
Lebedon now opens with the OC, keeping things in contest.
May has to pull every cooldown just to stay alive on the payload.
And they're still holding onto the sanctuary.
Here it comes, it's traded with the rush on the point.
Still just a shred of a chance for this Lebedon to find squad.
The breeze starts to come in from out the east blizzard,
and that will seal the deal.
Virtus.pro set a blistering pace on first and second,
but they cannot close this one out.
And win condition is set for GKE sports,
It's better than they were able to do last night.
I mean that is great defense there from Geek K.
I mean VP, once they get the move off of the bar,
which obviously he can't really run it
towards that later part of the map,
then it was really Geek K who started to pick things up
and that is a great sign for their chances
to potentially take this map
as they can look at some of the highlights here.
I know when Labda was able to play the soldier in here
at the end of the map,
So they really started to pick things up.
That's a massive watch as well, yeah, from Ziad.
Yeah, that overtime, I mean, it felt like they had a big chance.
Virtus.Pro, I think they were maybe just a little bit over eager.
They had a five-oldy fight, but the support ultimates were just, what, 10%, 15% later.
And so as they take the ultimate trades, there's picks coming in, it gets scrappy.
The overtime respawns get out from GKE sports,
and the defender's advantage is enough to close out that push.
Virtus Pro though rocking up with the May Bastion
I mean this is circuit after all you get it all the way to the end
You get it deep even through the choke like those final five to ten meters on circuit
It's actually makes a world of difference if you can make that progress even if you don't full cap versus not
So Virtus Pro with a lot of opportunities to make a whole geeky
It's it's I think still dead even now on this round of circle rail
Yes, I will see geek a
potentially running the Juno here on offense where VP will be Kev picking up
the Bastion so no seem to kind of like you work with that Bastion kind of move
it around like Kev gonna have to be a little bit more careful I know in that
role here but obviously large amount of damage output that's gonna be on to the
odds and usually we don't see Bastion in the signal look at the cheeky high ground
angle it's gonna be hard to mark him Bastion trying to put pressure down the
the way, but he's gonna get his opportunities, laser railings, Kevster backs Bastion off for the moment.
VP though, sticking to the corner and it's actually GKE Sports starting to get poked out in the front line,
but Lidda presents huge problems up in the high ground, looking for the pick, but he gets a lead to the base instead.
Still, Navel put it up from Alpha G, gets the trades out, and attackers should be able to get this one rolling.
VP is trying to get as much old charge as many stagger kills as they can find, but...
Finally, the attackers get some motion on their side.
Definitely an interesting choice to see Kev on the Bastion, not conventional in the Sigmir.
Yes, we'll see now if they can kind of turn this into a fast point they take.
VP, you do end up getting some kills there towards the end, building up towards the vault, but nothing major available.
Just get really healthy, building up towards this Blizzard rather quickly.
Maybe a little bit of a surprise here for Virtus.Pro that he'll have this Blizzard to work with.
with is a healthy taking it off angle probably one fight here to decide
we have Geekake in setting really fast pace and every little bit of poke makes a
world of difference the wall doesn't isolate anybody rushes out from Finn he
wants to end this one very quick beat and Fluxo is gonna make it awkward to commit
picks up the soldier let the slam the ground doesn't have a save they can keep him in this fight
Zyko holding it down on the payload eventually drops out of the ice block
and the kills keep coming through with a later clock spin with two on the fight
And this first-point defense, neither team gets really much of anything going here.
GK, this is the kind of pace they need to set to get a win on Circuit Royale to change their fortune from yesterday
and to take control of this year's first to four series.
Yes, I mean, now, I mean, this is really dangerous here for Virtus.Pro, right?
You obviously, you don't complete the map, you're setting a really good pace through the first two parts of it.
He's gonna stumble there at the end his lab to here will have an OC to work with Kev gonna use third both most get around the
Corner, but it's gonna be kind of pretty easily is gonna see lab to here up on the high ground nice rail going to connection
They're not available finding anything else with the OC artillery is just a little too threatening does get the ice block out of out the
Psycho with a male advantage
Love to be able to leverage that here, but doesn't want to go too early doesn't want to get caught up especially with theory cleanse available
It's easy to slip away even with a good connection on that ulti
Rock comes in, no big connection, and Kelms goes down.
Finished off by Kelms, Alpy trying to get a tree back, trying to get some breezes, but with a cleanse in his face there's not much he can find other than a quick trip back to the spawn.
He'd love to be able to find Aiznum on the exit, but no such luck.
And that's a big bitement for VP because it sets them up to poke very aggressively.
Without the Sim, this is a pretty perilous spot for DK's attack.
Like, just getting to the fight is not guaranteed.
Well, I mean also you have like the damage bash to work through gear too, right?
The grenade there comes in, and LPS to use the ice block there to gonna dodge it.
You move it up, ice num, does get hit fine, and an open AWOL, gonna stop there for a second.
There'll be a flux here with the blizzard drop underneath.
So some players here from GK caught inside of the blizzard, a tremendous job even keeping Ziad alive.
On through that, now he has his flux.
They're still in this fight.
Unbelievable.
Yeah, they got Camp coming back to your return mode here as well as they're going to move up.
Take a little bit more space.
It's 2.20 on the clock.
DK, you have the Sanctirated drop here.
It's going to be fixed using the lands.
Well, another flux here from Ice Nome.
It's going to be as soon as you there protecting few of the players as they land.
Still player advantage left to down because it takes a lot of a threat out of each frontline trades.
trying to freeze up the oppositional sigmas.
Kaizom drops first, Kellix trying to just form something up,
but these early picks, man,
Keb is finding crazy connections on the bashing,
but that last fight, I cannot believe VP walked away from that.
It was a solid 3v5 in which Kikei had the opportunity
to stabilize, landed once again,
ridiculous confidence to go for the rush in that moment,
and it pays off big time, they're still in control.
And you have Rush available here for DK, right?
So pretty nice of him.
But you have Boisert on both sides.
It's going to be your Chillery Strike here from Kent.
Both Maze just kind of, you know, inside of Icebox.
Their Psycho gets dangerously low,
but he's going to be able to back on out.
Lavin is trying to find anything here with the OC.
BC Yodd lifted a few players up into the sky
with the Flux gets Icemob low, and they finish off Fixa.
So that should be enough to get things rolling yet again.
More traits to find, Psycho.
Holy sick headshot!
Aren't the Fin.
Massive.
Landon's gonna die late.
Looks like there's gonna be just enough time for a VP retake.
Fin or the Lucio?
Okay, doll.
Just a little speed out of spawn, getting labbed back into the fight.
But you don't have ultimates for the closeout here.
VP are gonna get into the fight.
They go into the tracer as well.
Kellix on notice here, on Juno.
And they don't even get to half-hard an attempt to hold the choke.
But Vix is out wide.
He's brawling with the best of them.
The wall does isolate Aiznom.
A stun comes in and hold on.
IZLEM is down! The real fight we want here for DK Esports, they can close out,
if they can just find a few more of these skills in Tia, starts claiming them.
Inevitable now, on the Sigma as he just takes, skull after skull,
Kevster finds his man, but it's too late into the fight.
And we're going to the final point of Circuit Royale.
It had to come down to this, Matt. It couldn't end any other way.
Yeah, and I mean, what? You're gonna have a little bit less than two minutes.
You don't need a full map completion, but very close.
You'll have an orbital ray here. You'll have sanctuary where
We'll see in a few times sanctuary to come up massive as it will be DK taking control of some of the high ground here
But I'm also very dangerous from this position right with the rail guns
We're kind of gonna take a little bit of an off angle from where they're above or the side is
So they're gonna decide to go with a aggressive ray
Sanctuary it locks so much in this damage dare you step up and fight under its protective gaze
Flux, can I get something in the backline, slams?
Luns in the ground, there's no finish kills, but they're gonna find Psycho stun.
Necessary in that moment, the freeze is good to drop Kepster and Virtus Pro.
They came in so strong to this fight, but they just get obliterated, the blizzard to Flux too much.
Now it's their turn to find themselves desperately charging out of spawn,
trying to get some kind of an engagement in Thin, sitting on the Kitsude Rush poised to change history here for GKE sports
after minutes of end of tag pauses, they're into this fight,
But a blizzard from Psycho could end their oaks here and now.
The rush comes in and tries to overwound over the choke.
Ziad makes it past the blizzard, though, still healthy.
Through the line, and Psycho calls into question, gets the cleanse, gets the ball,
but he can't stay alive to press his events.
Let's let them now find Theo T. Can he just get some space he can?
Producing Gil after Gil and Ziad to find the finish and DK.
Change history on Circuit Royale.
It'll be their turn to take the lead for the first time in this series,
for the first time in days against British pro. Yeah.
I mean, dude, the stun from the audience of using his own flux
and then ice kind of sees in front of him. They're using his
as well stuns him out of the sky. Then lands are able to find
some kills off of that land and gets a rush towards the end.
Just nobody alive on VP to get a use out of it. And that is
GK able to put themselves on game point here.
This would be a massive offset as Yacht making some crazy plays there towards the end on the sick.
Do it for cargo, baby.
Do it for cargo.
They deliver that payload.
Get the job done.
What a stab.
I'll see you in a crazy game too.
I mean, I'll see you finish his 40 and nine on the May, almost 16k damage.
And then honestly, both Sigmas having crazy stab lines really throughout the entire series.
It's a big page change from Hollywood where the May came up all VP in a really dominant map
Kevster showing
Really sick flexibility in this comp, but the straightforward up-the-front execution here wins the day for KKE sports and
Now it feels like this is their series to lose
They're gonna be in control from I would say here on out VP are gonna get another map pick potentially
force a game seven, but
But the pool opened, and it's anyone's guess as to where they'll take it.
Yeah, I mean, where, you know, obviously we're kind of like in an uncharted territory going into a game six between these two teams.
Our first few maps are the exact same set we saw yesterday between the two.
So now we're going to be uncharted territory.
And also you start to run out in terms of the bands, like an impactful band throughout the rest of the series.
As this will be a VP map selection. So I mean kind of looking through maybe some of the piece
There I mean do VP doesn't pick a ton of maps, right? I mean you kind of look through a lot of their games like yeah
Obviously, they're just kind of blowing people out
Some of like the comfort picks like a runosopy. I know Surabasa not in the pool
So don't be curious to what they decided to do. I mean what you have atlas in there, right?
I know as a potential option, New Queen Street, we'll see,
I know maybe it's a control map, I mean, what's like,
I think Paul is in there and then in Arctic Peninsula would be the other one.
I mean, this is one of those scenarios where we're past the threshold of practice and preparation
and we're into that realm of pure instinct.
The Virtus Pro now, maybe for the first time in this stage with their backs against the wall,
Falling behind in a series that felt like theirs to win given that they're able to win it yesterday
You think surely they could clean it up today, but it's GK
Rising to the test on what the other 20th map in just a few days
I mean an insane slog from them in playoffs having to do so much in at this is that yeah
I thought this was the one map
They wouldn't pay given how dang good GK were on New John City
I guess at least, you know, you can come to Atlas as far as pro with ban control, but I'd be scared if I were them
This is a lot of confidence, you know given that NJC match being probably the least close map of the series so far
Yeah, I mean what like what do they decide to get rid of here? I mean you can play I know we've seen some teams
I basically go to like ball potentially here on Atlas like in the past, right? I mean, what can you do here?
It'll be the VP map selection and it'll be there being first it reads as a
Yeah, they did Van the Moga first. Yeah, they ban the Moga so
Moga gone that is obviously know some of the rush comps that we've seen on New Jersey come into play from the K off the table
Yeah, I mean you had to address that comp. It's the elephant in the room
Understandable the Moga the centerpiece is going to be what's called into question, but
But he gave us a panoply of rush options available to them.
Like we said, we're getting deep in the series.
These impactful bands aren't so easy to be found.
And kind of run it back to like a diva or a macha
in a similar spot.
We tough to see how that plays out
because Atlas, we've barely seen it play.
It's new into the map pool for playoffs only.
So even for a lot of these teams,
the preparation is going to be pretty thick.
I think we had it in stage one.
Yeah.
But yeah, here in stage two, right?
We haven't seen it in weeks, which obviously kind of turns into months without far away.
We are between the stages, so it looks like we're just going to be waiting on the Geek
A-Ban.
It'll be coming from the DPSS support category.
I'm trying to think, I mean, what?
We've seen so hard on it.
I think that made the last two maps, right?
Yeah, it's really difficult to kind of think.
I imagine Sim comes back into the mix here in a pretty big way.
Yeah, you'd think so.
I really have no idea what Geek A-Ban is going to attack now.
I mean, this is where it comes down to that feeling.
What style do you want to play?
For first pro, I will say with Manga banned out,
there's like just the little angel,
maybe it's the devil on my shoulder saying,
pull out the hazard, play something crazy,
bring the pace, and okay, EK, I think they actually
maybe sense the same kind of a threat from VP.
So they banned the Sheehan,
which I think has a fantastic synergy
in that style of comp that it's been in VP's pocket
for quite some time, I'd have gotten a little dusty,
but you know they have the individuals to pull off those high-paced comps.
I mean, hey, they're already playing Demo Flex DPS on circuit.
So it'll be a She-On ban as we've seen.
I know Kev pick up that hero.
A decent amount from Burris Pro.
Nobody on Geek K.
I'm really playing it a ton at the moment.
So Atlas potentially our final map in the set.
I mean, do Geek K stealing the, you know, really kind of stealing the number one seed
would be unreal.
I know coming into the playoffs number four. They talked about earlier
They they don't even win the game, you know in the game five against one two three four
They're not even in the postseason
It'll be a bastion here for DK an interesting DP actually does the main with the skin as they roll out
DK with a little bit of a rush variant trying to push the pace of the lucio's yacht already
He's found psycho bird is broke back showing in the coffin
DK waste no time diving into the thicket and left of the expeditionary to be into the back line
comes back and then repushes once more and I mean trying to play a faster
version of the SIGCOMB is a nice little complication that Geeky present now VP
without the Bastion is he's gonna be finicky it's like you really need to
survive that Bastion form and yeah Kevstr is gonna go to the soldier and
recognizes he just needs a little bit more damage threat to put back the other
way. Yeah I don't think there's a way you could kind of continue to play that
So I think it's a good spot here for Virtus Pro is
Obviously with the Lucio in the mix is a little bit of a wrinkle here for DK is
You get control of choke cap trying to take an off angle there and it's in turrets
Just gonna slow him down and see another bastion day coming on through kill X6 a huge shot there
And they finally do find Lava so they end up getting that pick off now
They're able to move forward. This is where the bazooki starts to feel so nice
Alphie though goes for the clutch, commits with a sim wall, has double support behind him.
Cycle also energizes him without the benefit of that wall. It's tough to challenge into Alphie,
pops the TP, and actually somehow we get it with three players. They come back into this fight,
they give the point, flip, but I think it's well worth it because I don't think you remember
holding on to it for long. Kevster senses the same. He's going for a bit of a desperate play here,
trying to find a pick. Vixen following in his footsteps. It's punished for it.
DK, it's tenuous, but they hold the line.
Yeah, it was just a fix of their who he ends up kind of getting behind enemy lines and getting a flip.
There's Levyek and Sreename rush here, and Soundbar is used by DK.
They lose Alphie anyway.
Sims off the field now.
Up to the rest of the team to make the difference.
Virtus.pro back up in the front line, but maybe just flip the map into some point control.
It would be amazing for them to get an early flip, and with Sion falling forced to step through the disruptor shot,
It's even gonna be a stagger on the left. I mean he's gonna eventually pop himself with the grenades, but that's gonna take a hot second
It's the latest bullets if you eat the naidal. I was imagine if he eats the passionato. He's trying to kill himself
Would be not pretty hilarious
But that was I mean dude the both support ults invested there by gay k
That gives VP a real chance to be able to kind of take this first last point
Which that obviously seemed unlikely just a little bit ago was you know Alfie ends up falling
even when using both of those ults.
And he's a large source of the damage outside of the Bastion, so TP, they don't take it.
There'll be a TP there set up to the low ground here.
5 VP allowing them to self-destruct if need be.
Finally some space to work with for Kev.
Got a dodge disk, Lux gonna be picked up, slammed to the ground, and a teleport away late, and it just barely survives that one.
Jericho begs for lucky stars here, needs everything to get through that opening combo, but Alphie eventually punters as the lack of CDs.
Moment of weakness, but hold on, Sankt right comes out from Fixa, surely this is enough to stabilize the game.
Fixa keeps the fight rolling and Virtus.Pro eventually get the job done.
I mean, Landon, it took everything and the kitchen stink to bring down that character.
It was just too much resource from Geek and the Clutch out.
I mean, he lives on like a sliver of HP that was a flux plus artillery strike combination.
And he like kind of like sues his NTPs away, able to keep himself alive.
And now we end up in a mirror matchup between these two teams as Lavna and Kev both going to be going over the Sodorne as Ice takes a lot of damage there early, it's going to get healed up as Landon trying to farm up towards that rush.
Well, Finn has it first though, big tempo league, EK, they've been so quick at pushing these edges before, but it's not quite open just yet, we're a little played.
Clancy's to come out first, just to keep the Sim alive and fighting out to eat.
The benefit of the attack speed on this...
Kiri rush is just too much to deal with.
Vixxah making plays on the outskirts, but his main group was pushed back so far by the ultimate trade.
He is eventually going to go down.
Finn finds a nether, and yeah, the support's off the field.
It's up to VP to just desperately try to escape, but it doesn't seem like they can live for Finn, actually,
to hold the line and not go down in the trade.
Because now, DK, they can attack this entire walkup from Virtus.pro.
Yeah, just kind of get a lot of poke damage the ability for maybe even lab that I connect the rail gun shot
Take somebody out his psycho will move up here. I know
Drop the TV move on forward is
I'm with cat. He's gonna find it off angle destructive shot here. Just trying to gain more charges
He's going on a wide flank
Put some damage down on his the odd is oh, hey, it wouldn't be this game
I mean, we're not. We're trolling. Okay. It looks like we have pause yet again. So, uh, it's going to be about 60% on the point there, uh, for GK as look, I mean, GK got off to a really good start.
It's some nice swaps from bird is pro that allows him to kind of get back into, uh, that first flash point and be able to take it.
I know here sitting at 60% I believe I know it's like kind of the odd and come
moving back towards the point nobody like in real risk yet and I hear we are
going to get back into the game in just a second so shouldn't be too long
before we kick this one off yet again just I hope you guys can hear this at
home just gonna just do it a little bit of that for the for the betterment of
the people in the broadcast I think it's fair to say we kind of need it today
but yeah I mean we're just fighting for their tournament life for the first time
the stage, really being called to the test and the scrimbuckers are starting to pay off,
right DK? We've been hearing that they've risen to the top, they've risen to be an
elite competitor here in the NBA and a win over VP solidifying the one seed after what
a two and three regular stage would be absurd.
It feels like I have to fly it alone.
Negative match differential in two and three in the regular stage and then they could potentially
walk away with the number one seed in EMEA into the mid-season championship. So these are some of
the highlights from the first point as we are waiting to get back into the action here. Okay,
we are going on pause. Kevin on an angle with a rail. How ready is he? Okay, the shot goes wide.
DK, he's point control. Ozi comes up and cat trying to force some kind of response from the
vendors. Gets actually a double ulti out of DK. So little stop in his crumb then. Y'all trying to
Grab a Flush just to pull something back, gets a connection, but no real damage from it.
Baiting on a strong response, Virtus Pro they'll come in with the Rush,
Yacht, force into the thick of the fight and just gets melted by Psycho, full beaming,
free for Sim on the fight. And DK, get kind of outplayed there I gotta say. I mean Kevster rips the OC,
and it's both, like it should not be both the Sim alt and the Sanctuary,
it really just needs to be one or the other, but they come down on like the same instance of just
could happen right but those the margins of victory that vertus pro have to work with finally they have
some kind of an edge but it's a scary one well vp i think has like a great setup here though right
i mean sim wall plus plus sanctuary i mean been here with the katsune rush and you have lab with
the oc his lab all the way takes a huge shot from panaman the disruptor shot finishes him off
six solo kill yeah you know you can't even invest anything else i mean for dk i mean
That is your OC, done and dusted.
It is sanctuary used there for Virtus Pro.
But still, you'll take that as they're able to push up now
through the show, potentially trying to win
their second straight Flashpoint.
A forward fight might be a very good look.
DK may struggle to get the OT touch.
They've got 20% to give, but that clock runs fast here
on Flashpoint.
Virtus Pro, the Signals have intent to get aggressive,
but they back off playing a longer, slower fight.
Gonna try and outvalue this rush from Finn.
Simwall's zone flares away so desperate to try to walk up into this.
The Demo with the Rush on the field, the plot's ready for anyone to come contest, but it goes wide.
Alphie reads it coming in.
Dance as well, Mjolnir.
Starting to run dry here for Virtus.Pro.
Rush too, about to expire, so this one is gonna come down to the death map.
Kempster could be the difference maker.
Gets a big shot on Ziad, finishes his play.
Alphie's so close to the Simball, he goes down before he can find the chance to meaningfully drop it.
And Virtus.Pro goes up to zero on Flashpoint.
As if there was any other possibility here, Matt.
I mean, stage 7, it has to be.
Yeah, we gotta get a 7 maps between these two teams.
Both flashpoints thus far,
GK gets off to a really good start,
a commanding lead, and then BP flips it and just kind of dominates the rest
of that flashpoint as one more for GK theory and doesn't a final map.
GK theory, reverse sweep starts here.
Are you buying? Are you interested?
Are you interested?
I don't know. I think with the way that we see Virtus.Pro play thus far,
I mean, they definitely don't want to give up that number one seed in EMEA.
That easily is.
LTP, opposite side, high ground, put a lot of pressure there on the ziyan, forcing him low.
That's going to force the sim wall out here.
Open things up, but I think you're okay with this if you're Virtus.Pro.
If you can wait the sim wall out, come out with both support ults.
If you can wait the sim wall out, then barely survives.
Aiznab on Slippard's HP does just the same.
The Flux comes out, but see how not much impact from it.
He's the one starting to drop low on this Sigma.
Oh, but Aiznab goes a little bit too deep, a little bit too far.
The damage focus mark is good.
And somehow, someway, he can even hold on to the point control through that fight.
Virtus Pro and the Verge are flipping it back.
It looks so good for them after the ultimate trade comes in,
but Aiznab just gets decimated from the look like full HP in a matter of seconds.
He goes for the flux and then he gets hit by a railgun shot and then Alfie is so charged up on the sim just looks up and just kind of beams him down
As he said kind of in that close quarter area
Not able to get really high verticality away from the sim so
Sim wall available here, but you do have things rushed. You can see as a railgun shot comes in there from
Labbed up. Trouble 6 out Psycho. Yeah, Ziad in a lot of trouble. Going to back up. He's going to use that kinetic grant and bounce the accretion
all lab to able to dance on the shield wall here still able to find this target without psycho this flashpoint done and dusted
Thing with the rush overwhelmed
You're gonna be some late stagger kills
You shouldn't make too much of a difference just a chance to farm up a little bit of those next ultimate and geekay
That was a convincing flashpoint they come into the next one with much the same situation a great ultimate bank and better position
starting to get a little scary for VP that that seven is not guaranteed here man
no I mean sim wall available right and you're also gonna get high ground here
for lab though with this OC I mean you couldn't ask for a better position to be
in I so I'm gonna take some damage on the walk-up gonna use the graph game that
overheld just gonna move on out there'll be a TP up to the high ground there
just gonna put a threat onto lab died will be the OC use here by Kev sim wall
In response, as Flash point opens up, it looks like DK going to get control first.
It's going to be Landon here dropping the rush.
He's going to go right into the flux here.
Ob is Yon, lifts up Psycho, takes out one of the OC here from Labda.
Just trying to look for an angle.
Doesn't really find much of anything, but I think the damage already done there.
Jake, early on, they get that kill on the Psycho.
So that allows DK to get control of the Flash point and hold it.
Now build up. You know, they're gonna get to about 50% here and they're gonna have double support ult coming into this next fight.
Looks good for Geeky.
Finally though, we'd be at least accomplished the mission of draining the bank.
Double support ultimate. Yes, it's nice, but it's not...
Light is offensively minded in this comp, can be kind of hard to go first.
If you go to the high ground, Aizadom takes control now.
There, Virtus Pro, trying to change the tenor of this Flashpoint to Glend, is out three
blocks.
Not quite good enough though, somehow, Ginn slips out of that one, but Psycho has found
his target, drops Kelly, gives his life for it, Baptist started to clean up, so too is
out, he needs to go down, but the Rock just can't quite connect, even with Fixa, finding
that kill, too little too late to mark this Flashpoint.
Here he's still in this, but I mean, no way, like, no way, okay, okay, Baptist, I mean,
I like this playing fix on the other side. I mean that's going to be the TP from Landon over towards them is somehow
Have they able to live through all of that so one more flash point here on Atlas
GK takes it they will be the winners of stage two and EMEA your number one seed going into the MSC
VP trying to extend the series
Soon a rush available here for Finn early on and Jake they get parlayed that into a flux O.C. and Sim wall
Really good spot to be take this first. I don't pick flashpoint control first here and then snowball
You can't turn some kind of a corner now eyes down
Set by attackers here being down by labda the rush just too much and then Virtus. Pro
I mean they know they have no real business in this fight, but GK steady hands in the clutch. They have been here
Every single day for the last week right like every match has gone to this point and they have this
Cool call they collected they stay in control of the economy game
It's VP who find the banks dry some aggressive posture the hold on DK
Continuing to push the tempo while it moves in the sim comp
Little TP flip from Virtus Pro the run down attempt did but nice little heads up block climb away
Watches out from Ziad but the sim wall mitigates the follow up but the site goes just too low
of crashing down to earth and as we hit the 50% this is the higher
progress bro yeah in psycho and iso they're able to get over to the point
but none of the supports are there kind of like split off by lab then some of
that attrition and you never actually able to get like a save you know maybe
with a suzu on the psycho there ends up using that sim wall with that flux that
come on through it's gonna be a team on through kev does take out lab that that
is massive where their chances this change every kind of map give this up
Yeah, they get the flip essentially for free. I think DK that early aggression they win the last fight, but it's ill-advised
They blow a ton of ultimates to accomplish it now. They give up point control
Economy is looking abysmal for them. Grutus Pro may have turned the corner DK
Under massive pressure. They put a lot of point threat on the rail straight to left of space put on notice by Kev
Looking for more just the OC out for now
DK happy to back out and wait this one out for the clock does run down still key team fight ultimates available for VP
I mean you kite the OC, but you don't end up really building up towards anything just yet
I think you're gonna maybe play here for DK you can build up towards both support ultimate
It's like play a little bit slower here at least match
Oh, it's gonna be back in one fight now
Yeah, it's very long with this many support ultimates ready to be brought to bear everything comes down to this the TP forward
DK take a bit of position to the point the flux easy from Isam doesn't get a connect shot slams players to the ground
St. Mary finish its follow-up rush is out now better ultimate forward from much later support tools coming out of the point
Psycho strikes first blood and somehow
How are not out of this series yet?
They get a couple open kills fix the posturing for more and that'll be enough to bring us to game seven DK made us
Really sweat it but vertus pro will not go down easy fighting tooth and claw the bears remain in the series
game. We're going to have
a game seven between these two
teams. VP they clutch up in the
end. It was a good start to
that final flash point from
DK, but not enough to stand
Virtus Pro. As we get one more
game to decide our number one
seed in EMA. Take a look at
some of the stats is ice
17k healing fin with 23k healing on the opposite side just insane stats coming out from both
these teams as these fights go on for an extended period of time and I know obviously after some
you know game buy bangers from GK really from week two on here in stage two I would it's fitting
that we're going to a game seven to decide it.
Getting indeed man, EMEA, this stage, I mean,
one of the greatest Overwatch competitions that I've had the pleasure to take any kind of a part in
the level of these teams world class as they're battling now for the top seed in EMEA, but
this starting to feel like a world championship. I really am just getting that five from all of
of these squads that I mean it twisted minds is the third seed like what is
possible in Paris for this region as ties the limit and I mean what DK is the
number four seed coming into the playoffs right I know the potential for
them to go into the MSC number one seed in EMEA would be crazy I mean that would
change like the groups everything all together with VP and TM both being I
I know a two and a three seed respectively, you know, as we go to Paris.
So a lot on the line here in what is the final map in this series,
we'll see where GK decides to take us.
Right.
If they pick a hybrid, where it's going to be a draw, Matt, I'm just
letting you know, like, that's the only way I can go.
That's the only way it can go.
If they pick me on junction, which I think, I think I might, I think it's,
it's kind of a map that a lot of teams are looking at now.
Well, we saw them play Neon Junction against TM in their first series and they got kind
of rolled on it, but TM is also playing the Reinhardt, which I don't know if VP is going
to play.
Yeah, VP is not going to play, and we did see them actually go to Neon Junction today
against Twisted Minds and win it.
I know they banned that Reinhardt in play, so maybe we do get a Neon Junction game 7.
I guess there, that would be really an interesting pick from GK,
but one that does seem somewhat likely based off of what we've seen from them.
I mean, GK, the Rush look has been very good for them.
It's scary though, because this series has been very much decided by the Sigma battle.
And to go away from that now, they are a little bit terrifying.
AP is the pick. I mean, Interpenetra is a control map that's really been growing in popularity with the top teams.
I mean, I think after this rework, a lot more option space,
a lot more room for playmaking on the map,
and certainly a strong one for Sager.
Right, I mean, didn't they get to pick,
I think because they were coming from the upper bracket,
I believe they got to pick that first team against TM.
But this was the first map we saw on the Twisted Mind series
way earlier today.
Today has been a long time ago, man.
You sure that was a team?
Yes, as that one TM, though, they
were able to dominate right playing a lot of the Reinhardt so it'll be GK
taking us back here it'll be a Cassidy band so that is something that Kev has
really picked up through a lot of the series and then it'll be Diva gone on
the opposite side. Got that warm-up on the sojourn on Atlas I'm not too worried
for Kev but it does limit some of the you know individual flaking options that
we've seen Kepster be pretty sick at you know spotting those opportunities
claiming them successfully when they come up but Labda I think definitely wants
this to be a bit of a soge mirror, VP throw the diva ban in. I just don't think there's
much left for them to ban. It's map 7 in the series, right? Like you just don't have much
left that really impacts the way things are going. You know, with pretty much every relevant
tank and support already being sent out at some point in the series.
Yeah, I mean, GK does have a winning record on this map throughout the stage, so also
So something to look at, but I mean, this has been a all out slugfest.
I mean, if GK is able to get this over the line, right?
Game, like, max, maps possible played from week to on.
They have just played every series has gone the distance.
I mean, they played so much overwatch and here in the playoffs, right?
At least five maps from earlier today and now going to seven here against VP,
trying to take the number one seed in EMEA going into EWC.
It all comes down to this.
No draws on control, Matt.
And thank the good Lord, because let's be honest,
the way DK's series have been going,
it does feel like maximum possible maps
is an expectation for them at this point.
They're going to be somewhat comfortable in this spot
under pressure.
There's certainly no strangers to it.
But for Virtus Pro, Steely-eyed right now,
a veteran team that has finally, for the first time in this squad's history, really claimed
what it feels like the top slot in EMEA. The stage overall, that's certainly been the story,
but in playoffs, it has been hotly contested and by none other than GKE Sports.
I wonder as well, I mean, is GKE eventually hovering over a, well, the rush, which we've
seen them play a decent amount. What is Kevster play, right? It looks like here playing these
soaps, we've seen, you know, play Xiong, you know, a decent amount when Cassidy is gone
as well. So it's going to be Maga versus Sigma here, it looks like.
It's odd.
Finn probably just uses the ring and then switches over to the key ring, so.
Yeah, probably for both teams here.
Ripper as well.
Okay, all in a graduate for DK. See if this catches Virtus Pro off guard. They're going
to see the Maga and know something's up.
Kev's turn with the mobility on the soldier,
and it's gonna be a pretty hard target.
It's ignited by Ziad, the posturing playing
to just threaten the possibility of a die.
Virtus.Pro, respecting it for now.
They use some TP rotation.
Shades of TM here, keeping the range long,
forcing this Maga to cross open space.
He does so, but as the point opens,
he's forcing into an aggressive posture.
Dives forward, the TP comes in.
It's a little awkward, but Kev just barely slips back
through the TP.
Once again, keeping the distance.
DK, struggle to connect on the rush.
Pulldowns off Cycle, Reaper, no Rayform, does it stop the hold on, Kepster's yacht, ridiculous connection, into the back line, the soldier should be un-catchable, but Zyatt does the impossible, stays alive behind, finishes off Ithom, maybe eventually gets cut down, but the damage is done, the point is flipped, and Cycle on the outside looking in can't come back into contest.
Yeah, and somehow he's able to find a stump on Keb.
It looks like Keb takes like the TP and then slides up to the high ground and then
Lab this there and then just kind of looks back the other way and then as soon as he turns
he's got a Moga just stomping right in his face as-
We're gonna get another fight, Brad, and quickly Seats are gonna haunt the damage.
Time to dive in, this time Kevin.
Shrugs off the play, a little spin move from him on the source, gets run by Alpheek.
All the finish, it just can barely come in, the damage split from all sides.
Laptop takes out the Lusco and this kind of rotation kiting style for Virtus Pro, not possible without the help of that fast screen man and
Landon finds a couple trades, but I mean DK are happy to take trades. They do not care. These heroes all have fast rollouts
Yeah, and I mean too big they are not able to deal with this mage here at the moment
That means the odd able to just kind of use that charge get in and out and make it so difficult
They're the same damage is obviously great as a ramp right by winning August is getting into your face not really much you
To do about it there. It'll be a cleanser that keeps the odd
Alive as the Ross comes in early here from DK
Yeah, Russian counter rush a couple players on British Pro taking big hits from sports keep everybody alive and fighting those two kills
Jerry and reefer
You take out the heart of this style for DK. They're gonna look for some desperate trade, but everyone on Virtus Pro healthy
This should be a clean and comfortable retake.
It is the rush out of Geek K, but Virtus Pro, this is the veterans I was talking about.
Just a couple key ultimates, they get the flip back and they still have a bank with
which to fight.
And an OC could be massive here for a lab develop.
Also a cage fight.
How much value can actually get off of that?
Right now there's so much mobility from the Virtus Pro composition is, you see just using
that speed boost of Helix just trying to get in position over the OC up on the high ground here from Lada.
There's a chance for shots, but now with the beat coming down, not much hope left.
The OC cage fight is out, Jog. Low life ceiling up the inside of the Symmetra hold.
It's so hard to pick that life from connection. Somehow Jog's alive though.
His team is the one picking up the trades, but hold on, Iced, I'm still healthy.
Kepster's still fighting, Vixxia. Under the thwithering, Barbarie keeps the point to control the block.
Bails out as Nuccio, a full kinetic grasp, just out the dancing alone on the point.
and VP bought a clutch after some nice openers from Geekay.
I mean, beat, cage fight,
uh, any death blossom OCUs there.
It's Geekay, now we'll have to change.
They'll play the Vendetta here.
We've seen Vendetta in some versions of comps like this,
but it's kind of falling out of favor,
maybe over the last few weeks,
as we go up to the high ground, nice connection there.
Mom is good, I'm in trouble now.
Getting paralled, but the OC makes it kind of scary
to continue this push yard. No fear in his heart. Strikes forward into the the big of the fight,
but Kellex has to come in, join this kind of a trade, and although you find a couple kills, Sigma,
the last man standing, pretty much an uncontestable hero in these low numbers fights in Aiznom,
has been finally the way through to play that comfortable style. Geekay, now it's their turn.
I mean earlier today, they were the ones trying to kite away from TM. Now it's VP's turn to
slow things down, ice these games out. Finn needs this rush to keep this fight just barely
winnable for DJ.
And he's got so much damage when he goes on in Jake, it's very difficult to keep him
up.
An extended period of time is that, he makes his way to the point, the creation does connect,
nice connection there with the blade there from Alfie, he's being very close towards
this big block.
It's going to come down from Finn, but at what cost, the Gravitic Flux comes in from
Ice Nome, this is going to be point one in favor of Virtus Pro, his segment just way
way too good here. So sharp on the Sigma, I mean really really clean, never caught out
of position by these aggressive postures. Forward everybody ready and you think back
to the fights Geeky 1, I mean those are not consistent ways to win fights, like fighting
a Stomp on the soldier feels like it's not something that should be able to happen. Zod
working overtime despite the overwhelming DPS brought the bear against him, but yeah
this you know moments like that's the most painful moment in a Reaper's life. You're
You're like, I am rapidly healing the enemy Sigma.
It's going great.
It's going great with my very strong ultimate Death Blossom.
It's fixed up with a really good round, right?
I know able to stay alive entire time pretty much.
Also able to get everybody into position as Geek K has been all about aggression here
early on.
VP will be the hearing with the Lucio yet again as they're going to try and roll out
with this Vendetta.
One more time at least, see if that kind of turns the tide, maybe a little bit better than the Reaper.
Prince Bro giving space, they recognize the threat that this Vendetta poses, they need to keep the formation strong, Ziad.
Since this opportunity goes deep to the back line, the cleanse forced out, Alpy, ready to come in and connect the TP away,
but Saiko can't quite take it himself, maybe moved off of the teleporter.
A split formation yields an opportunity for GK to look for more cleanups, the big damage comes in quick after quick raining down on Aizan's head.
Alfie dominates you, he picks up three for the finish and DK take first control.
The retake now feels a little scary, so I could go over to the Mei, but how this will work in the matchup is anybody's guess.
And now we'll get a Mei swap here from VP. I think it's like the sim is obviously, you know, a glass cannon, so to speak, and that is kind of feast for Vendetta.
The left, it does take an ice cold air from Psycho.
The Alphie also has a lot of damage that Ice can't really mitigate, right?
It's gotta be careful of the zone player taking some damage.
Yadi, Yadi, Yadi, so incredibly low!
The supports go down, they just try to walk up the gut and burn his throat!
Ready to receive, see that one coming from mile away!
And Geeky, he falls out of this question.
Yeah, I mean, you can't exactly just kind of...
It's something that Geeky did in the last round, right?
They just kind of like face roll on in and it's for VP. You seem this good, right?
It's kind of easy reads them at that moment
I mean Zyad can dangerously low in the start of a lot of these fights
I mean put Finn and Kellex in really rough positions trying to keep him alive as
Can't get back
To the high ground here. We'll end up with an OC is
Summary blade available here and it's gonna be the consumer rush from both sides
Oh, but the damage comes out so fast from this Virtus.pro squad, EK, have no time, they can't wait any longer, the Flash does take the Moga,
and it takes away half of that massive Elf whoop with the beat, is stabilizing Virtus.pro just enough as the Blizzard comes down, fully frozen is the Moga.
In his cage fight to be last a little longer, it's just enough time now for you!
Vlad's left to fight to appease, and somehow, someway, the frozen Moga dude, just enough, set up that teamfight.
And I mean when he pops the OC live, I was like, this fight looks over pretty much, but he comes up with two Alphys, still alive there, on the bandetta, very difficult hero to take out.
And it looks like VP, they want to fight this rather quickly. They think they have an advantage coming back off spawn.
They send something on the flank, but no one can be found, and Alphys now pulls a bit of attention to himself, but old Aftir does go down, gets found out, and Hector needs to find more though, because with Landon dropping the sustain,
Gonna perform an issue out there to some big rail from behind.
Seon finds a couple and out there to so much space.
They may eventually go down here, but their job is done,
and they won't even find them, and dead as a consolation prize.
Good punish there.
Onto land, it's Dirica.
Vulnerable off the TPM.
Nasty stagger.
Kevster.
Wait, oh my- Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait,
the double-stride!
He's out!
So clean and out he tried to cheat!
Oh, come on!
He's out!
He's out!
That is-
Oh!
Bro, an edge!
You try this!
This is so out, Kevster!
That is a sick Maywall there from Psycho that ends up protecting him and it also traps Alphie in there.
And oh, what a blunder there from Geek K.
The veteran stays alive. The team bails him out saving Private Cannon. This mission is gonna pay off.
And I saw the Ice-Lane Maga. Alphie inside him alone now.
We rush on the point though with some challenges he can fight into, but with Flash,
with those Evertis throws so threatening and they find the kills.
Kepster under pressure, assaulted, but the deep dive succeeds in that one kill,
but cannot win the teamfight.
DK down to a clutch, two some, Kellex and Altegi,
but Lucio just has to go back and hit the taxi.
So they do get it to 99 now, right?
You get it to 99, you end up with Sundering Blade plus your beat,
most likely going to end up with a cage here as well.
Blizzard rush, man.
Yeah, Blizzard Rush is quite nasty.
Ooh, this cleanse from Finn has to be picture perfect.
He cannot get that ability forced.
Everything rests now on the Kyroko on Alfie
to find something from nothing here.
The sundry blade, the tool to work with now.
He's in the back of the yacht.
The engage fight comes out.
Blizzard immediate response.
Gun psycho, the feed from Kellex though.
Comes out of nowhere.
Someone charged that one up in this fight's yacht.
Frozen, fully, super low.
Eventually goes down to this fight.
The point flipping against them.
DK you came so far, but it's not to be
Virtus Pro hold their nerves sticking with the Sigma comp to the bitter end and it is a bitter finish at that
DK have brought us so incredibly deep into this series, but it'll be Virtus Pro who walked away victorious
Called and collected into the final moments an unbelievable showing from them a best ever result from this Virtus Pro squad
I mean
The unbelievable plays from Virtus. Pro to bounce back into that keeping Kev
alive when Kevin kind of like who looked like he was gonna be staggered out
and Alfie goes in for the kill that turned the tide in that final Antarctic
Peninsula and VP are the stage two champions of the VMEA.
But there is so I mean what a back and forth dramatic pauses the flash point
reverse sweep nearly spoken into existence but Jake this was about seven
and it just had to go down that way, didn't it?
I mean, every game goes the distance.
So, yes, I mean, what a wild series.
So many different comps, different variations.
I mean, we saw, like, you know, on run,
we didn't really see much jetpack count, which was nice.
And then here at the end,
interesting kind of composition that comes out from DK
just does not work out in the end.
I mean, dude, that staggered.
they just stagger, they just stagger, can't normally, right?
I mean, who knows what happens after that,
but still, I mean, you lose Alphie there,
and that's basically like the point flipping
the other direction, just giving them full map control again.
I mean, that was rough.
Yeah, it was, but, oh man,
like I'm happy it went all the way,
because quite frankly, like, VP,
they didn't really have to fight all too hard
come out on top there in the group stage so for them to be really pushed not once but twice by
GK in such a fashion that made for a very entertaining playoffs and it really just cements
the statement that we've heard from literally all of our top teams here right that they are in fact
also very competitive while we might not have seen that during the group stage or even some parts of
this playoff in strings they're playing it like they're trading those bits I mean
you see it here so it literally doesn't get closer than this and I think real
rivalries now gonna be building between these squads they'll have to go to
Paris to settle that battle for teams looking for the rematch but Virtus.Pro
started so strong it was you know almost unbelievable that they could keep that
pace keep that level of fight and forced to the absolute limit I mean getting
Nothing for free in this final series, but they get the job done
So cool comic collected. I think the Sigma was the right look here to finish off the map
I'm maybe a little desperation from GK trying to bring this fast-paced style on
The final ultimate moment of the series trying to just force something to happen anything a VP deny it
I mean eyes down on the Sigma this season
Has been inspirational a generational performance from a young tank player who is rapidly now
I think rising through the ranks to be one of the best tanks in the world one of the only true solo tanks
And a five-man roster among teams at this level
Yeah, and he's not a one trick right like he's shown so much flexibility
He can swap in and out whatever is needed for this team which makes him just such a valuable player. I
Mean he's really kind of grown over the last like year or so and then also any VP
This is team now that going into Paris. They should have a ton of confidence, right?
They come out of a region that's like an absolute bloodbath with this top three and also their great performance internationally in Tokyo.
They should feel really good about their odds going into the midseason championship.
Yeah, no, I mean, I think the competition will have their eyes on them.
They've not shown many cracks in the art and the armor, quite frankly, even in those close matches against UK yesterday and today.
It's not really any obvious flaw.
I think there was some display there.
We talked about it already as we're heading into the series.
This was more like DK really playing very close to them.
Yeah, it's I mean, DK obviously is just really strong.
I mean, how they leveled up in EMEA is really impressive.
But I mean, VP, this is the team that comes in.
Obviously makes some changes coming into the season, adding landed in Psycho.
And you can see maybe a little bit of a slower start in stage one, not their ideal results.
but you know from Tokyo on they've been great.
CPS duo out of Virtus.Pro, I mean what a renaissance from those two from Kevin
Psycho. I mean, David playing Overwatch longer than I have, right?
Like from the very beginning, two players who, I mean, Kevster had a tough year last
year. Things didn't really go his way. You know, I think a lot of people would,
you know, wouldn't have put him in the conversation really anymore as, okay,
that world leader type player. Psycho for the most part, right in the bench on
I mean, you know, a really intelligent player clearly respected by his colleagues, but still not having those hard results that as a competitive player is what you're really gunning for every single time.
And now the AMEA crown is theirs back on the head of two incredible kings of the Esport.
And yeah, I mean, just what a moment for them.
Yeah, indeed. Like every single individual has been playing at the highest of the levels.
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This year is going to go down very, very soon.
It's just a few weeks from now.
Most of the teams have already punched their ticket.
There's only a few regions, I think,
that still have one or two more slots to hand out.
I want to say that it sounds so free.
But no, man, it's been competitive.
It's been such an exciting time for all of the regions,
really, and all of the teams, as the meta has shifted
so dramatically.
Yeah, I hope we keep this meta.
I know, obviously, for mid-season championship.
I think it's been really fun with a lot of segment in the mix,
like huge, gravid-ic fluxes we've seen,
numerous different hitscans, some sims, some may,
a lot of different stuff, viable here at the moment,
in combination with stuff like, I know,
Maga comps, Reinhardt, it just feels like a really good
genetic here at the moment.
I gotta mention the Reinhardt in there for Jake, yeah.
Thank you, thank you, Matt.
I was gonna say it if you didn't, so it's better.
And if you're to Dallas, Julia, no,
going to be rolling out in
that Winston on the ball, like
keep the diver live over there
as well in an a so that will be
on this plane a little bit as
well as they are trying to get
into the N a grand finals
currently in the lower bracket.
Now, of course. The day is far
from over, as I just said, we
starting over in an a with the
lower bracket match between
team and liquid and Dallas
fuel and afterwards, the winner
will be playing SSG for the
that throughout the stage, has looked well, top heavy, one team heavy, SSG, which has been
absolutely dominant. They continued that run pretty much in the playoffs all, though that
said, Team Liquid has really stepped it up about 20 notches.
Yeah, I mean, NA has been pretty fiercely contested. I feel like Team Liquid having some
better results as of late, but it's been a struggle for this team, right? All stage long,
right? Having to make a lot of adaptations, changing a ton of stuff, bringing in some
new players like they started to gel but they got to get a move on because
the missus in championship is coming right around the corner and the global
competition now it's not just you know Korea you've got to worry about the EMEA
teams are heavy hitters even some teams from you know some of these lesser known
regions like hey maybe the feral from Japan like they could do better than
people are giving them credit for here at the eSports World Cup and they're
always a crowd favorite as well right as a team and no matter when they make it
to learn, people are cheering for them, but yeah, NA, they know that there's a little
bit of a gap regionally as well between them and the rest, so they're very eager to catch
up to that.
We're hearing that the NA teams are spreading more and more, EMEA teams, especially now,
of course, in preparation for the mid-season championship, but what are your predictions?
Because we're going to get to say goodbye to both you and Jake in just a little bit.
Who do you think is going to take the NA crown?
I mean, I think SSG is poised to take NA.
I think, you know, whoever kind of wins that game is going into a really rough game against
SSG.
And I think looking at the midseason championship, I am so curious.
I think these three AMEA teams are going to go really far.
I couldn't agree more.
And we do it now.
Finally, have Psycho joining us for a quick post-match interview after this phenomenal
7MAP Vangers.
Psycho.
Congratulations, welcome to the show.
First, how do you feel right now?
I mean, first of all, thanks for having me.
I actually feel amazing, you know.
I mean, I've won stages before,
but this one just feels extra special this time around.
You know, with our last year ended as well,
with me being removed from Twisted Minds,
this one just feels extra good.
I mean, man, the performance was extra good as well,
but they made you work for it,
not once, but twice.
he played such a close match.
Was there anything you guys were able to take away
from yesterday's match heading into today's grand final?
I mean, as you guys saw,
we played pretty much the exact same maps
until the extra maps.
So I mean, I think it was just sort of like
handshake agreement.
We're both comfortable on the maps.
We both won our map picks, except for Circuit Real.
So yeah, I mean, I think we were just very confident
in the 6th semire, the Malga-Mir.
We tried changing things up by me going and run
because we got destroyed yesterday.
Obviously, that didn't work either.
So maybe we just have to review that for the midseason
championship.
Yeah, I felt like you guys, even with the backs
against the wall on Atlas, there's
that one moment where GK seems like they're going to maybe
close it out.
They get just a little too aggressive.
And you guys, I feel like you still
had that very calm feeling as a team.
Like you were reacting really comfortably
on that final map.
So I'm kind of curious about this team internally, right?
You have so many veteran players,
Aiznall, I guess being the youngest player on the squad
with the least experience,
but one who's obviously has ridiculous potential.
What is that sort of chemistry process
been like building this team up
from relatively humble beginnings
through the start of the year?
Yeah, I mean, I said at last interview as well,
like especially this, the bootcamp before Japan,
we just leveled up like crazy, you know?
And then scrims started going well as well.
So our confidence builds up.
And as soon as we came back to EMEA for stage two,
we had actually the best scrims I've ever had before.
And last week, we were almost spawn camping at every team.
You know, GK puts mines, but then going into this week,
GK started stepping up a lot.
And you know, scrims started getting closer,
then they start getting the confidence boost.
So I'm super glad we were able to clutch it up here.
And after giving a big shout out to ISC,
he really stepped it up with the columns as well,
going back to your question.
And Landon, obviously, being the veteran he is,
He's always there with the comms as well,
but everyone just did an amazing job today.
Seiko, I have to ask you about a play in Antarctic Peninsula.
Kev is, look like he is being staggered out
for an extended period, and then Alfie chases,
you're able to save him with a main wall.
What is going through like the comms
and everything that has that happen?
And like, that felt like it turned the tide
of at least that point.
Yeah, it's true.
That was like super crucial play
in order to win that map.
And I remember Kev was like,
I'm getting staggered guys, but I have double slide maybe I can make it out and then I just see him double sliding out and
You know just like that. I wall out fee and we win that fight for free
It's been so entertaining I miss I miss being able to tap into the cons here at there in those intense moments cycle once again
Congratulations, it's been such a phenomenal time watching your team succeed over this stage
We can't wait to see you in action at the midseason championship
Thank you guys so much. Bye bye.
Now, time to hit the VOD, dungeon them again and get ready to represent EMEA as the number one seed and so well deserved because men, they were on a roll this stage.
They made adaptations, they made changes, and they came out on top.
They fought hard for the EMEA crown, but in the end they did clutch it out in a phenomenal 7 map series.
Yeah, I mean, just tremendous stuff from VP. They really grown as a team.
And I think, like, you know, Psycho kind of alluded to, like, this is a team that I think can even get better, right?
They're obviously learning how to play with each other, you know, more than they did earlier in the season.
And I know it just means a lot, right?
That like, you know, last year, obviously,
people were kind of like right in Kevoff and, you know,
Psycho's on the bench,
but they win the World Championship,
Landon gets really close.
But now they've kind of come together,
and this has been a really awesome group.
It has been indeed.
Yeah, Jake, final thoughts here
on what transpired in the playoffs
and throughout the stage as well.
It's just, it's been such an absolute pressure
to cast these matches alongside you, Matt and Zoe.
I mean, it just really reaffirms for me.
This has been one of the best stages
I've ever seen in competitive Overwatch.
It feels like this game is in an incredible
renaissance moment for the game overall.
It's been a wonderful year.
I just cannot wait to go to Paris.
I think it is gonna be one of the best tournaments yet.
So we've told you about the code enough times at this point.
Get your tickets, be there, it is gonna be lit.
You don't wanna miss it.
All right, Matt, any closing words before we are heading over
to all things that I'm still I'm stoked to get to the midseason championship I'm
excited to see these EMEA teams battle a lot of the teams internationally because
I think EMEA is definitely kind of stepping up and becoming you know one
of the best regions in the world like I would not be surprised to see half of
these teams take up our top six at the midseason championship.
Not of what I've been it's been so good.
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And they get the touch here comes the game, Saigo with three!
Oh, buddy.
There's the camera, leaving the track off with the pickup.
Come on, come on!
Everything got to the rescue.
Twisted mind, looking to close out the carries here.
They take over Joby.
Of course, that's done it so many times before, and he'll do it again!
Your OWCF 2025 World Finals Champion!
Hello and welcome or welcome back to all of you who have joined us already for all things
of the OWCS in EMEA.
We're here to close out all things NA, Zoya joined by Jack and Johnny and we are ready
to conclude our playoff.
Yesterday's match I said a little bit of everything I feel right like we had a one-sided
more practice than our final with the Dallas Shield taking it with ease over the next
game. I'm not sure if it's
the first time I've seen a
team that's gaming a three year
old, but then the other final
between SSG and team liquid
team liquid definitely showed
us that. You know, their
previous performance was not a
fluke that they have leveled
up and they're thinking they
can take it to the big guys.
Yeah, it's funny. I was looking
back at stage one, 12th. These
are all the same teams that
were in playoffs. It's just the
Dallas fuel that got knocked out
first round this time, not the
But yeah, this is one turning up a little bit different SSG in the finals again, though
But they look much stronger than they didn't stage three. I say it's one. Sorry
Not quite there yet, but soon honestly like time flies when you're having fun
I'm sure SSG was having a lot of fun as they've dominated throughout this stage
And quite frankly have continued this dominant showing here in the playoffs as well Johnny
Yeah, honestly, it's been a glow up for SSG and the hero pools have been so impressive from them sugar free talk
about it yesterday they just feel like they have the upper hand against all of these teams and
Liquid they just ran out of compositions out of heroes and at the end of the day SSG they secure
their spot in the finals instead but Dallas ULT managed to qualify in the end so the top three
that will advance to the Missus in Championship they've secured all their spots already but like
mentioned within the EMEA show as well you need the number one seed to get going come major tournament.
that. That was took a bit of a
detour there in the lower
bracket. We did expect them to
come through the upper bracket
after that first match.
Regardless, though, which seed
they're taking, there will be
one of the teams representing
an A and you can go and share
them on live in a person in
Paris in just a few weeks from
now. So make sure to grab your
ticket is a QR code 15% up here
We hope to see you there. Now, I'm sure we're in for a treat. All those teams are coming to play,
of course, when it's inter-regional. We always see different compositions, different kind of
metas evolving right throughout the different regions. So that makes the lab finals just always
one to remember. Here in LA though, I feel like if you're looking at each of the teams, they have
quite a clear identity. We kind of know what we're going to get from those teams, especially with
like that is fuel for talking about them. They have locked into their strength, which I almost said weakness, but yeah, it can be a weakness, right?
If you're kind of just out of one identity, that can come back to on you, and it kind of did for them.
Yeah, 100% agree, Zoe. Kallen being forced onto a diva like on Dorado and then losing their map, pick their best map.
that's what I'm talking about.
That's what I'm talking about.
That shouldn't happen if you're
the fuel. Yeah, you've locked
in that spot already. Sure. But
you want to take home the trophy
as well, right? The title of
stays two champs need to kind of
almost buck their ideas up in
in one sense the imagination
because they're against him
liquid. They've already been
three out team liquid in the
upper bracket semi. So yeah,
they've got to come up with
some special because they've
not looked themselves as soon
up for them. It took some time for this team to find their stride, implement their new pieces,
and we talked to Infected as well, right, a little earlier in the playoffs about sharing
that tank spot now alongside attack and kind of finding their identity as a team with these changes.
But listen, they found it when it mattered the most, and that's in the playoffs, so they had a
very dominant showing so far. Yeah, pairing the successful bootcamp from the last couple of weeks
to build that synergy with the new members Kivis and Attack and also the meta kind of coinciding
and now becoming more brawl oriented and sigma oriented I think that's worth a treat for Team
Liquid that that being said has also shown K some great skill on the Shion and the Tracer so they
figured out their compositions they figured out the teamwork and Team Liquid now a real threat
to even win the entire tournament today. Yeah and they've definitely shown us a few more looks than
what we've seen from Dallas Fuel and just to spice things up and have fun with it,
my prediction is going to give Liquid for this one. The first time they met it looked so dominant
from Liquid. Dallas felt fluttered and I've ever seen them fall. I'm going to go with Liquid.
I'm actually going to blame you. They didn't win a single round of control. They got zero
points on Kings after a Team Liquid full cap. I'm not too shocked. I will go with Dallas Fuel
however, I've been back in blue for the last three weeks, four weeks or five weeks.
But yeah, so Dallas feel for me, but I understand.
Liquid, and I said it yesterday, I'm going to kick back and relax today.
And so I won't be making any press instead.
I'm just going to enjoy today.
It's going to be a great time.
So that's I didn't know that there was an option.
Get ready, get to see both of them.
We've got five more hours, five more hours of our watch.
Let's go.
Well, you know what?
Seekbelt is on.
I'm here for it.
I can't wait to see what these two teams have in store for us, so please buckle up, lock in, and we're ready for our lower bracket vinyl.
Johnny, I'm assuming that's not our colleague, but I hope it's not, buddy. You can't bring them on broadcast. Come on. Come on, my guy.
No, of course not.
Of course not. Of course, Nate says, winking off camera. Let's get into this though, Johnny. Like I mentioned, stage one looks like almost a mirror of what's happening here in stage two in the playoff.
same teams just completely different looks and if you go back to that stage one script
space station lost the upper final against the fuel and then beat team liquid to get
into the finals so in theory if the script is still accurate it's correct team liquid
is to space station losing the upper bracket finals and then they win the lower bracket
Yeah, you're you're reading like it's prophesied in the ancient texts
Before costs I mean really like throw the script out like no one could have predicted this like the script is out there
Possibly the bit sure but you didn't make a prayer for like are you feeling more confident about team liquid coming in or you feeling more confident about Dallas
Because I think what team liquid have shown has been just crazy. I especially this on your screen
We're rolling out Infection already, playing Rai and Kelenon Ball.
And Taisin Mininstil are our first map.
Alright, yeah, lock in the Rai. Why not?
Seriously though, if I had to make a prayer, it would of course be Team Liquid.
They've been so strong, I feel like this weekend when they've really found their groove.
But this will be an interesting one.
Dallas Fuel playing the Wrecking Ball composition, able to take all the angles around Team Liquid,
all their mobility.
Now it's just a matter of Team Liquid. Can they stay alive?
Can they pay the objective successfully?
Pay the TP is going to be really important here for Team Liquid.
Make Kallen kind of in to commit himself to a teleport and then rotate around, just maybe not even using it.
Alright, well that would feel almost capped just by Kallen spinning around the Void, but it's going to be up to Infected to Ankyvus, Sonjin, and going down to Kivis of all people.
This Fallis fuel comp wants to jump on the back line and insta-kill them, and Kivis shuts it down almost instantly.
4 on 5 on the point, and now it's up to Dallas Field to try and just hand each up the wounds that they've already suffered,
but it looks like Liquid are going to be able to sneak this point away.
Yeah, Kellan really just wanted to stall out the point there, but eventually had to give up the cap,
and now Team Liquid, they can sit pretty knowing that they have control of the objective.
So they have this one teleporter, crucial that it's there, puts it at the right time to try and jump and get a frag onto Dallas Field.
Oh, the pin is immaculate too.
Kelen does it get a lot of additional shielding there thankfully being a wrecking ball but team
they could now have the rush and they can play this slow.
They're slow indeed. They have the rush. When need be.
They're shooting on Dallas Fuel now they're trying to force the issue.
SOTP, Invej is going to join them in just a moment. Just his pin first.
Kelen looking for a slam next to that teleport so decides a better of it.
It's not quite on the high ground. Not quite enough to do too much damage at all.
Sontune can't even follow up either, ask him to leave the turret for him, moves in again.
Here's a return rush from CJ. Sontune in the back, forced to recall, has the pulse bomb still.
High noon for Tree. On the point, it faked it very low, and in fact, everybody from Team Liquid
kind of suffering right now. Zerah doesn't have going down, chronic overclock.
South Barrier from Vagabond does tip four, and Vagra and Tree just ended up running over this
frontline. A missed pulse bomb and a missed opportunity for Sontune to try and turn this one
as Team Liquid has continued control of the point, and are picking up these kills.
They cannot land a single limb, Johnny.
The Dallas Fuel, they're not in this game right now.
Dallas Fuel, yeah, they're just not getting the frags they need.
The entire composition, it's based around utilizing the mobility,
get the angles, get the poke damage in.
And you saw Lukimino dropping those members so low, gets picked here quite early by three.
So we're in a last teamfight scenario here.
There's going to be an airshutter available for infected.
If you can just pick out one or two members, land the Shatter, but that should be the round seal.
Tree just double hit Luka Minion as he comes through the door.
They're at the one headshot, but they instantly follow up with an X.
95% there's the mines on the point.
Okay, Team Liquid can buy their time a little bit. Just put Infected on this corner.
They're gonna have to push onto the point by any stretch of the imagination.
Remember, it's Dallas. They have to go. They have to be the aggressors in this situation.
Kalin's gonna try and go in again, just being a bit of a structure without they have to navigate around this wall.
It's Kasune rush, Invector's gonna charge, pin in, Lukamino dodges out of the way but he's still got a Tidal Blast to use.
Infected, still holding on, a shout out onto Kalin, it's a solo two.
Sonshin manages to get the Tidal Blast and help CJ eliminate Xerah, and in fact they kill two.
Vegas also end up going down by Team Liquid, they still got members alive to stall out this point, as Lukamina also ends up falling.
Spawners are going to get back here. Infected wants to stay alive until the rest of his team gets back.
Getting healed as well. It's going to be Dallas who are capping the point and Team Liquid, they'll retreat.
They'll think better of it and try to regroup instead.
Okay, so Dallas fuel down. With control of the objective and an overclock in hand, they now need to start landing these eliminations.
Tear down Team Liquid's composition before they can get on towards the point.
It's a decent slam and with three ulti I think he Dallas is going to win this quite easily.
But Sonsha is dead again to Kivis.
That's got to be a hint and a dare coming through from the cast, surely, with that assist
on the feed.
Alright, Kronik's going to try and right these runs now with an overclock.
He's going to take high ground away from them, a team liquid, but they're not really giving
him an angle where he can shoot.
He's just shooting into the shield right now, not even a knockup from Kellen is going to
help him and Lukavina gets by straight from across the map.
Another miss pulse bomb there from Fungin, has to hit the recall, and silver bullet on the backline as they barrel forward with this over health.
Vega's barrier is just gonna make sure that Dallas still can't go for a re-engage.
Infected though, goes down. Fungin hits the respawn, manages to take him out, and C.J. is also gonna kill Vega.
So, Team Liquid on their last limb on this point, but they still have 99, and they flipped too, so Dallas weren't getting any cap.
Yeah, Team Liquid really pushed towards the edge there. Dallas Fuel as well.
Loosing that objective, they're at least going to get another fight here.
Kelas got the mines, and the mines are so effective against composition-like Team Liquid's.
You can see Team Liquid want to set up their point here with their Kitsuna Rush, but a well-timed minefield here.
That could be enough to get the frags necessary and win out this round.
Oh, Sunson again! He dives him to death every single time he actually jumps on the back line.
There's a rush, there's a high noon, they have the teleport of his beard as well to help Zera,
or help Treet get in place.
Good pin on to Kellen, still rather healthy here, but a high noon's gonna chunk you down so much!
It's a perfect kill on to Kellen!
A silver bullet and a body shot cross Matt, Kronik in trouble, Treet takes an off angle.
There is a tide of blasts and sunshines, but every single member of Team Liquid dodged out the way.
Now Kivis is dealing with the Tracer too, and with Kronik dead, who's here to touch?
Looks like it's just going to be Kellam for the time being, but another kill for Infected as he slams Lukimino into the wall.
Now they just have to buy their time again as Dallas feels struggle to get a re-touch.
A bash from Infected too as he tries to pin down this Tracer, a Shatter in his back pocket for final few members of the field that need to touch, but he doesn't even need it.
Hits it down, a victory cry from Infected as they claim the first round.
And at the end of the day it came down to the pin from infected on to kelam that combined with the dead eye
From the Cassidy that was enough for team liquid to get rid of the tank player from Dallas Q
It makes it so much easier to have a control of their objective and close down around these shots from three
That's
Look at that title plus two this negative value on tree that's another nice double shot
Dallas feel a little quiet here. I mean they've been talking about their approach. They fully recognize
They like to lean on their individual skill their ability to pick apart and these kind of crime or composition spot
Spend pretty quiet so far. We haven't really seen Sun-Jin, Kronik
Stand out in the kill feed so far team Liquid
Good job playing around this teleport playing around this grind shield and just playing your victory
I mean, Sondren, if you wanna rely on individuals, he's been so good throughout the entirety
of the stage, but it was at three times.
He's been picked off early by Kivis and the rest of the team Liquid.
Very early kill, look at me now, and, well, Sondren's in the back again, playing a little
bit more tentative this time.
Just these rotations from Liquid, they're just clean.
Dallas viewers pop, they wanna spin up, they wanna play angles, they wanna have Kellen go
in and beat the distraction before they end up picking up everybody else.
CJ also falls, I mean.
Man, Dallas Fuel, not locked in.
I mean, Team Liquid, the way they're moving around the map right now with Vegas Speed Boost,
with the teleporter, and just positioning Tree to make sure you can land those headshots
to begin with onto Dallas Fuel.
Team Liquid playing some beautiful overwatch now, and Dallas Fuel, they just can't keep
up.
So far, look at Tree's ult charge too. 85% on the high moon.
Sojin again is going to have a tough go of it, trying to get into the back, booped away.
Oh, there you go!
Wow, caught a straight kunai.
Three gauge from Sojin after a hit of recall.
I feel like Vega was kind of ridiculous.
I wonder how many players actually from the field ended up shooting him at the same time
is not expecting to die that quickly on the loose here being so far away from everybody.
I wonder if Luke and Mino hit a couple of primary fires with the Wu Yang onto Team Liquid
that caused them to drop so low and then you combine that with the slam from Kellon
and Sun-Jun diving in of course.
That is the kind of damage you need to shut down some of these support players before
Team Liquid.
But it feels like when Luke and Mino has been trying to set up so far, Team Liquid has been
quick to punish him.
You can see here that was few amount of control here.
Good kill. Quite a bit of hook damage here.
Don't want to be alone.
Almost gets charged as well.
They're not quite close to the shadow.
He's not going to be as big of a threat as he wants to be right now,
but Tree definitely is.
He doesn't need an ult to do damage like that.
Sunshin already dead.
Mind's on the point.
They played so quickly.
Even outside of this rush.
I don't last that one to kill him too.
The knockdown. Oh, it's good on Tree.
The knockdown.
Damage combined with him.
Just rolly through him and it's an insta-kill him to the Cassidy.
But now they have to deal with his wall. Navigating this is gonna be tough for Kellen and he decides to get staying around on the point for now.
Soja with the OC from high ground. Chronic's already got Sarah. He's gonna look for the second. A fair way shot to Kibis.
And they continue to control point.
This has been a very different second round. We're finally seeing some of these star players for Dallas Fuel. Pop off. Chronic, that time with two previous fight.
Saw a couple of frags from Sundin and Lukimino together.
So now Team Liquid, they're facing some stiff competition here, stick!
What the stick?
Oh, the sucer's not there.
Yeah, I don't know what happened to the sucerer, he's already used it.
Terran's going down as a solo pick.
Team Liquid are in his spot though, though they can't win this fight.
They're on the point high noon as well.
Oh, and the body block is just unreal.
They may should kill Kellen.
Thanks to that slam, dead eye combo, and him blocking everybody from trying to save him.
Betrayal! He paid for his dirty deed to CJ, he had Kunai across the map.
A good wave, but Zerah and Kivisen come up with kills by now Lukavino in the 1v1 versus Vega,
taking the game over in his own right.
Zerah on the tracer, a mean force to be reckoned with as he's put himself on the point.
It's all in more time for Team Liquid's percent bank, as Invicta gets back just in time to get another touch.
Yeah, they're just trying to stall out for Kivisen, they have to get back.
The support player is not here for Team Liquid right now,
But as long as they have the control of this objective,
they're going to buy them enough time.
They're Dallas Q taking a moment here to reset this title best onto Sun-Gen or Kellan.
That could be the key for victory here.
And the last...
He's in the back already and he's going for enemy number one by now in tree, but a good suit.
Stops those knockdowns coming through, but Vega ends up going down anyway.
A railgun shot, thanks to that slam from Kellan for Vega in a vulnerable position.
Takumi said for Chronic, Tho, and Sanji who aren't very low right now,
as Kellan now tries to go to the point shotting, but in fact he's just holding onto this long angle.
So 3 vs 2 scenario right now, Mikami no going in for the dive, but Tree again finding these headshots, ridiculous.
If they will roll their way from Tree that's still picked up by Sanji but Team Liquid have held onto this point so far.
Look at me now. Last desperate attempt over until we can't get back quickly now.
The touch will come in from Sunchin here just to bar some time, but team Liquid,
they have the Kitsune rush available to them. They should be able to close out this map.
Kitsune rush to Anhyne, Sunchin has to be able to do this pulse bomb,
and that starts right here right now. Oh, the pulse is good! Onto Vega, okay.
An almost perfect pick. Infected, extremely low two, gets the pink kill.
Onto Kellan, pops the shield back up, healed all the way, and now the Deli from tree
should be what does it. Son should now down and who's that milling around the point. It's only
chronic and a percent away from that overclock as well. Team Liquid and Tartic Peninsula taken into
two-owned fashion. A conviction to bring out the Reinhardt composition off the bat against
Dallas Fuel and it took some meditation from Dallas Fuel to try and stay competitive. They
We showed up on the second round but this map was all of Team Liquid 3, 24 and 7.
That man lost fire on the castle.
13k damage as well.
Casting.
That looks so scary.
Headshots weirded for this.
Oh yeah.
Two tap on Salucamino.
Even a silver bullet accuracy too.
Land on one of them, cross map.
That's a lot of damage.
You have to back up.
Check this out.
I mean, I mean that's crazy if you're looking me know you get like a second to react and then you first straight out
And you're like, okay, I'm better. Well, I walked into the wrong room
It's like a rail gun like it's just it's just too tapping the soldier and it's like you don't even have to build the rail
You're just walking around
Yeah, it's just nasty. Yeah, the headshot and like mid range into the silver bullet
Is just kind of scary this shot
Right is he how is he hitting that as well? I'm telling you
To oh from a team of liquid to start off this series
the team liquid. I mean, if
you're putting tree in a
position where you can succeed
like this, having the support
and not only the right
putting a shoot up for him, but
the TP as well, like. You're
not succeeding on Cassidy from
that position. Then there's
some other teams that are
going to be able to get the
team liquid. I mean, if you're
putting tree in a position where
you can succeed like this,
having the support and not only
the right putting a shoot up
position then there's something wrong all right girls I'm a flight in six and a
half hours please no pause okay no pause please we can go 12 maps but please
don't pause the game like at some point we're gonna run out of time here and I'm
sure the production crew as well you know they're gonna have to stay until
midnight then we need to get some catering going all right it's going to
be the rotto here for the outskill most predictable map all time as I say
If you just have to go to this map though, is the thing.
If you're going to lose control, you're going to this map because if Team Liquid lost there,
they're going to circuit.
So you're forced into this if you have a fuel.
Cat ban for the fuel, no cat bashing.
The most annoying thing for those gona comps to deal with at the light of run is that cat
bashing.
is there's less people to dive on if you're Kellen, if you're the tracer or whoever.
Last time. Oh, the Winston ban.
The Winston ban. All right, that just put a stop to what I was about to say here.
You don't really see the Winston ban come out.
I said that, I'll shield it's Kellen.
It's Kellen, you gotta respect Kellen.
Surely he's not going to play anything else.
It has to be reckoned.
We'll see what they have planned here because Team Liquid, remember on the defense, they did like playing their Mitsubi composition, they just built everything around Tree honestly.
That's when part of the success for Team Liquid recently is just, yeah, we're just gonna let Tree go crazy on the Cassidy, and so, you know, you should play the wrecking ball, but no Jetpack Hat.
I think Team Liquid are still going to be quite comfortable just like playing their own style going into this map.
team liquid. They looked really good there. They also came to cast in the
duck like that. And that was obviously something that really helped us to take
down that as fuel. So getting rid of that composition entirely. Maybe that will
give a leg up to Dallas fuel here. So they looked to get vengeance on team
liquid. All right, no protection ban 14 liquids. They went sorry for Dallas
fuel. They went with that cat ban. So an inevitable Winston ban for TL. All right,
that's load in and no attack either infected sigma to I'm saying if
infected with wrecking ball here it might go quite crazy all I'm saying is
right now you're nowhere I mean look it's a dive on defense it's a dive man
all right maybe a second point maybe second point all right they have to be
that if you do that this makes more sense though like Vega play the missouki to
Mizuki on this map is kind of nasty.
High grounds plus you being able to put the TP down,
go on an off angle quite heavily.
Really like this here right now.
I mean the side jury is just ridiculous as well.
What we saw on EMEA when they played the Mizuki's
and they're just like,
yeah, our entire team is protected by this barrier
and well, the only way to kill us is teleport in
with that eye essentially.
Yeah, it was like the only way around it.
All right, Sonjin's back on the old faithful.
He's turned back to Pharah.
Didn't play a little bit, that go too.
This is a true projectile play.
Oh my no, wait dude.
Okay, Beggin just instantly dies.
All right, well, that's a different start
than the other day.
This is gonna be safe coasting
through the throw point here, Jaws.
This is trouble.
Bit harder work for Sonjin now
in this very open point against Shree.
I shouldn't find it too hard to navigate, you can play a little bit of ground-farer, you know why not.
Just get that damaging. Alright, Zero.
Oh, I thought it was a bit of a pick here. I thought it was a bit of a pick, you know.
Okay, just trade for three, but that's a good pick.
You take that trade, if you're team Liquid, ready with one support now, the Dallas Fuel.
Zera wondering where he's getting shot from, I think Sondra just tickling him with some rockets at the moment.
There's just a slight timing here, Jaws.
He's going to try to get their way back here, it's not the soldiers we can slide, maybe get through a little bit faster.
Tell us, dude, Mike, what a pusher.
Okay, getting there on the off angle.
Wow, the spam, okay.
Yes, spam from Lukimino, I heard the little splashes coming and then the hyperspheres from Kellen.
Okay, well, Tree.
Now in a very tough spot.
Come on, really get an angle on this battlefield right now.
He's just trapped in this corner, getting penned by Sonja, and he's playing on roof.
Lukumino though, I say that and Trigg gets an angle on Lukumino, so you know what do I know.
Sunshin's right above Trigg right now, and me is here to shot desperately.
He's got Hunter Burger right now, in fact it is gonna just launch out this flux.
Rock misses though, goes wide, but Trigg still picks up the kill on Sunshin at the back of the point.
Don't take a moment here. Just to reset Dallas Fuel without Sunken. Look at Mino.
Feels like a little bit too exposed in these fights. Now playing the Wu Yang
instead of the Ellori. Theoretically, you should be able to sit back, get that
poke damage in, but just like Mino's getting picked quite a bit here.
Dallas Fuel, four of them that's coming up here. It's a great opportunity for them
to get this first one captured.
They've fluxed the Vantage, they've got Barrage as well, and they have Tide of Blast, so if Pellet does go pretty low to anybody else, there's the Barrage on Kimmy's.
Oh, Zera has to get out, has to get out with the Spree, by the way!
Sonjin's already got a couple, they're playing the orbital rate. Sonjin, easy work for Zera in the sky.
I think that's about the fight he'd done, yeah, the flux with the Barrage.
Tide of Blast to save himself there, Lukamino popped out as soon as Zera found an avenue to get to it.
Those ultimates yielded fruits for Dallas Fuel, but I still think you saw a little something
there with how much pressure Team Liquid put onto Likimino, how many resources they were
able to commit there just to get on top of this Dallas Fuel backliner.
That just showcases how much they think this Wu Yang is trouble in Likimino.
If left untouched here, like damages, they're quite underrated.
Oh, and I still boop off this high ground, Callum's gonna have to retake the stairs,
just wait a moment, but it does give infected to the rest of the team liquid to actually
get up the high ground.
Yeah, okay, it's been stiffed out real quick.
Wow, okay.
Headshot worked there.
Overclock on both sides, oh, the Tudor.
Minx T, I think for chronic, there, here, it's just such an easy shot.
You're playing in the window, you got no chance.
No shots whatsoever!
Oh!
Wait, could they?
Ah, maybe not.
There's a lot of damage.
Okay, yeah, client does get the kill.
It's a decent stagger sale, though.
You got the force last fight here.
CJ's got the Kitsuna rush up.
There's good opportunity for Dallas Fuel to get this second point.
It's one team liquid.
Desperate to get these ultimates going.
They haven't quite had the objective control,
because they're not really playing around the objective.
objective in neither damage versus start looking up there.
Yep, there's the early rush.
Kivis has got his though, he's one percent away.
He's going to have his laces on the point.
Nice Susie timing two on Impeg to do his close to this flux.
Now they're just waiting for Impeg to get this online.
And playing in the rush is going to be so easy.
He's punching in the back though, and he's landing direct hit.
But Kivis turns his head.
Another 180 from the Kiriko.
Hopping out his own DPS to try and secure this.
Impeg to use the flux two to seal the deal.
Dallas Fuel, we have to re-attack this one now.
Yeah, they didn't work out for some, just made a committed flank, but shouldn't get the pick they were looking for, and instead team Liquid hold on here.
Three and zero, very much capable of making these plays, finding the picks required if Kivis and Vega can just focus on keeping infected alive on the cart for now.
A lot of ultimates on the border for Dallas Fuel once again, minute 30 to get to second point.
But they've got Flux Barrage, they've got the same ult that they won first point with.
Flux Barrage, Tidal Blast, okay, Hank, what?
Uh, okay.
Wait, if they just walk through church and then insta-kill CJ.
Uh, okay, Spree first, Aaron, here the fight's already done though.
Helen's out of a source suit in bank, out of position completely there, 60 seconds to
Heroic plays for infected to win that fight instantly.
Yeah, honestly Dallas Fuel obviously they had to set up their positioning somewhat.
Like they need to get on top of this high ground and ideally you want someone on the left side, someone on the right side.
You can just get these multiple angles going and at the same time you kind of have to escort in Sunjim there as well
because the far are quite vulnerable here.
So while Dallas Fuel are setting up Team Liquid, always poking and prodding, looking for these opportunities
just to get some additional damage onto Dallas Fuel and maybe another pick.
Oh, give us this 1HP peeping that in the HUD.
Surely it's just a simple fight here. Flux?
I'm getting it dodged. Not entirely sure, but the Orbiter Ray is going to push the forge.
Now, Saundra's still trying to find an off-hanger playing with his team right now,
not on any sort of flank by any chance of the imagination.
Tidal Blast as well to help him get in position even further,
but it's going to get shut down instantly. The peel, the back off from Team Liquid there,
the retreat was just perfect. A second or so to go, Dallas Fuel get touched, no chance for a team
that's seen live without Kivis with the rush. Chronic falls to an execution, now Kellen,
the solo player in the frontline trying to hold this down for Dallas Fuel, the flux
were infected, he's gonna win it all. Kellen goes down to the railgun, a nice little dodge there
from Lukavino who rides the wave to the boy bait drop right into his demise. The Dallas Fuel just
unable to crack the defense of Team Liquid.
Yeah, there's an interesting kind of discrepancy between these compositions like because you look at Team Liquid's composition here.
They're paying the Juno and the Kiriko bound to get a lot of value.
All that healing being done is being able to treat.
He's made a nice grade on the shops here. So the support liners of Team Liquid,
always doing plenty of work getting lots of value and then just the damage pairs of Team Liquid as well.
Stepping up, zero spawning fries, three spawning fries.
Meanwhile, you look at Dallas Q and it's like, okay, well,
How much playmaking potential does that Pharah have on 2nd point?
Can't really get too far in, you're very exposed, quite prone to getting picked off, and then Lukimino as well.
Can't really get into a good position to get that poke damage in.
You have a couple of good engages with the Tidal Blast, but it feels like Dallas Field, they don't really have the composition right now.
Played to their fullest potential, feels like they're struggling against what Team Liquid are bringing.
And that goes back to the Monkey Band, the Winston Band, Johnny.
They're so used to playing with the Winston on this map, we're like, okay we can play
Pharah because the Winston is the one getting in there, getting on top of people and just
almost distracting people for the Pharah to then chip down or the Pharah is chipping down
then the Winston executes.
You can't do that with a Sigma, realistically, like okay we can poke and we can fight poke
kills but we can't follow up with anything.
Our comp just isn't built like that.
Yeah, I think that's a great point with the Winston.
And I mean, you saw, as G yesterday, they decided, okay, well, we're gonna double down on the objective.
We're just gonna play with the Mei instead, and just wonk her down on the frontline, and that's what we beautifully played for them.
But I'm not the next time, 3.
But Team Liquid are just getting a lot of value from their damage, they're stepping up to the plate, 3 and 0.
Or the heroes once more for Team Liquid are now infected, pushing the card, we get the Nisuki, aura heals here as well.
And Alice Fuel now playing the Elori, now playing the Echo.
They just have to find something to start getting these frags onto human wing.
This is the only map they did well onto.
Oh, not even a railgun, it just flops over into the sky.
You can't let kills go that way that easily.
I'll go back to my point real quick.
This is the only map they did well onto.
They got three points versus TL's four.
They didn't get any points in the air, they got no points from King's Row.
It's definitely not a skew here, that is kind of struggling with their identity, they're
struggling with the composition so what suits their playstyle, this is not really what was
their claim to fame, like you said it was all about the Winston here.
And again!
It's okay, it's not back, it's on your back to spawn you go.
He's got to change, Hp has to be pressed at some point I think for Sanjiud.
I don't think you can play Flyers right now, not without seeing Nicola playing and not on
this map without a Winston, without a tank that distracts in the front line.
Kallen's gonna hold this one down on the point.
Asgog blocks however this rush, it's gonna be hard for them to really deal with.
Infected over steps though, past his own shield, falls over anyway.
And now Kallen can pop this blocks with impunity, there's no rock to disrupt him, but Silty
and Liquid are surviving somehow.
A nice little hint from the chains, but they need follow up, they need kills, but Sonjin's
instead again. The trade should be good enough, but the sanctuary gets popped, and Zera can now light the backline on fire.
He's already thrown a biker chronic space, and again, Kellan on an island, alone on this point, as Team Liquid have reinforcements coming back.
Infect is now got 5% towards this ult. Captive Sun connects, finally, with somebody.
Zera dies, the Dallas fuels still not their full fighting strength.
Yeah, Team Liquid committed quite a lot there actually, thought they could go ahead and win the fight here.
Flux? Yeah, they don't seem to be, no one's captured by it, so Team Liquid are investing a lot of resources,
but not finding the ultimate value that they need.
Zunjun? He's going to utilize this duplicate.
Doesn't seem like they'll get the Flux here in time, but yeah, Team Liquid,
definitely at little risk here, they're investing all those ultimates, you're allowed to see it, but
didn't work out that time.
It's on a large part because of blue Caminos too, captive zone.
Okay, so I just don't instantly die challenge.
There's not too many more either.
Oh, nice double up with Chronic, got a tree down so low there.
Railgun, sticky bombs.
There's only a minute remaining here, so it's looking a little bit, I would say, dangerous
for Team Liquid.
They missed their flux, so the flux timing is going to be off as Kellen is nearing it.
He's going to have it in this next fight, plus they've got a rush too.
Yeah, that last kill with this Kitsune Rush. And the flux as well.
They're going to feel quite comfortable here in the front lines.
Team Liquid. Can Tree cook something up here on the soldier?
Just open things up slightly, Sungeon. He has to be so careful not to die here.
30 seconds to go yet again.
Tree's in very reliable though. Opening fights up. He's got Overclock. They've got a spree.
Now they've got their own rush. 20 seconds to go. A wide swing.
In fact, from Treet to try and get a ping, but there's both rushes that was activated at the same time.
Spree from Xerion. In fact, he's gonna pop his own as well.
Kellen with the Flux, but he whips!
Kellen whips the Flux!
He gets rocked too by an Infected Infection.
Swarks past the shield.
And that is not what you want to see.
You need Kellen to hit those.
That was what they needed indeed.
Dallas Field playing with this Eloris still.
Like you're a little bit on the back foot.
You trade Kitsuna, rushes team Liquid, they can push forward with Vega, utilizing all this aura healing from the Mizuki, and they obviously had a Sanctuary to go as well if it needed to be.
So team Liquid, they're feeling real comfortable, just pushing the frontline and Dallas Fuel's sitting back, waiting for Sanctuary to go with the flank.
Kling's going to get a nice pick here, so just for a loud Dallas Fuel, to regain some of this positioning here from the defense, but they just gotta keep up this pressure, keep finding picks, almost like this.
Okay, come on, cannot die here.
Well, they're gonna Sanctuary, and then he chains in.
Flogs just gonna connect as well,
and they're hiding in Sanctuary, so they can't receive any damage.
Team Liquid, what a turnaround.
Initial good two kills there from the Dallas Fuel, Johnny,
and they cannot translate that into a fight win.
Yeah, this is just Team Liquid.
They're destroying right now this composition.
That Sanctuary is such a powerful ultimate.
And well, we're gonna take a look at what Luke and Mino's got,
but this captive son, but...
It requires arguably punishing someone's mistake over on the side of team Liquid.
Kallin's contesting for the high ground, just wanna poke him proud here for a little bit,
Sanjun.
Poking for a pick here on the side.
Gonna have to be a dude pick it here on towards the sigma maybe to try and build this box.
They have a high ground.
Kallin's still chillin right now though, TL do have bank control.
Clawed a poke damage from Saunjan, you see all those sticky bombs connecting, those hit markers coming out, but a small rotation from T.L.
Now trying to force Dallas Fuel into a bad spot.
This is kind of scary between Liquid.
It is a very narrow choke point.
You're gonna think better off than to start rotating all the way around the defender's spawn here to get the defender's advantage.
James?
Wow, Saunjans.
He's not gonna get a flux out of me.
He's so low already.
Maybe a couple more hypostares, a punch or maybe something.
He might just go down.
Five seconds to go.
He's on low speed, there's the free flux.
Oh, the teleport hour is just gorgeous from Vaker though.
Soldier gets nothing with that.
Captive's son is gonna get thrown in by Luker Minow
and he's on an off angle now.
20 seconds to go for Team Liquid to try and push this payload home.
We can't quite get the objective control they were looking for here.
See a couple of members alive right now.
10 seconds to go if you die here.
That's terrible news.
Infective go to swap over to the Rooking Vault to get here in time.
You do have a Sanger, you do have a Kitsune Rush.
A lot of ultimates who drop here on the payload, but Dallas Kuhl, they have all the positioning.
Is there a set? No spree either. It's a 4v5 on the point now, the rush is going to come in, the flux as well, surely it's all over here, but I don't feel surely.
Impacted, flux doesn't even make it back down to the sanctuary, the focus by is just too good.
Chronic entry, exchanging OC kills, but at the end of the day, Dorado is Dallas Kuhl's map.
What a back and forth here on the Roto, neither side could get their attack going.
Team Liquid missed opportunity here really to take a 2-0 lead in the series.
They came down to that first point when they started investing ultimates, they couldn't
get a proper teamfight going.
Then here on the second point they went for the wraparound in the bank area.
They said a lot of time doing so and they just couldn't get the positioning they were
looking for.
means Dallas you know tying up the series at least taking the road over here
I will build you some confidence you feel like you've got something going
guaranteed a couple more mappics in this one I'm kind of worried I'm thinking
that Dallas is so stuck I'm not gonna say in their old ways I don't think that's
the right turn of phrase because I think what they have their own identity is
really strong but even in these situations where they're forced off of
winston like cannon is missing fluxes sonjin's been hit at the start of fights
like a couple of times there's still I think a lot for dalasql to hope for in
the coming maps it's their strongest map in the map pool by far even though they
lost it to team liquid in that upper bracket semis I still worry for them
however getting this off their shoulders out the way it it's gonna be a small
fire relief get things rolling like you mentioned. I like the point there because it doesn't feel like
Dallas Fuel were winning this map based on the fact that Sunjoon kept getting picked but somehow
Dallas Fuel they turned these fights around. It does feel a little shaky when they're playing
the Ellori like this but hey they got a map win you gotta give props where props are due. It's kind
of an interesting philosophical question it's just like this is their signature style playing
playing more pole-kevy, playing the Elari, getting Sun-jun over on 3's project
that heroes, you're just like, okay, well, at what point you just decide to abandon
what has been so good for you for the past few stages, right?
It's a real difficult thing for them to do.
I think that Dallas Fuel, they're still staying competitive enough though,
to the point where they can feel real good about the compositions they're bringing.
It feels a little bit awkward in time.
You are a little bit reliant on some big playmaking from your players,
but Dallas Fuel has been their style, they're confronting each other as a team,
and it worked out here on Dorado.
So credit where credit is to you for the moment. It seems still to be working to balance
And Winston can't be banned anymore
The on junction coming up all right a second-time cast in this one
Excited excited
The Kings were in Hollywood. I think the on junctions are a smart pick
Kings
You could argue you can play dive especially on first point
Hollywood a lot better for it
that's a little bit more
likely from yesterday. There's
a lot of choke points very
narrow on some of these points.
So dive isn't going to be
nearly as beneficial for the
Dallas Shield there. Yeah,
this is a perfect map for Team Liquid
and the style that I like to play.
So who you're in ban, you can
take a couple of supports as well.
Get the cement right out of there.
Team Liquid are pretty fine with that
because you're still going to end up
in something like Augur territory.
I mean, this is probably a pretty terrible map for Dallas Fuel.
I don't think they enjoyed playing their playstyle on this one at all.
They just don't have the cyclism, the angles that you pointed out.
Simban for Fuel.
I actually really liked it.
I think getting a Symmetra out on this game type is really important,
especially with how Team Liquid are utilizing it with Cast.
Because when they go into Anti-Tip,
you know, I'm not sure what
you're going to do. I mean,
I'm not sure what you're going
to do. I just put into it, for
example, it's like, well,
actually. What we're going to
do is protect tree and he's
going to shoot everybody and
everybody then died and then
we win the game. Like that's
how they operate this comps
with the same. I mean, I'm not
wrong. Johnny. Little smoke
on your face. I'm not wrong.
That's how it works and a sim
on hybrid, especially I think
is very strong. It's really
good on flashpoint. You could
Yeah, I mean, you want to play like EMEA on this map, of course.
Just play sim.
Just play sim.
Play Grinch. I'm joking.
Don't forget as well you can connect your BanoNet account
to your Twitch account and slash or YouTube account
and earn yourself some drops.
That's from, yeah, July 3rd until the 12th.
So you've got a little bit more time.
Obviously, there are some more regions as well to go through.
It's not just North American at EMEA, which are finishing up today.
We've got Korea and Pacific and everything else, sir.
on the next couple of weeks, I believe.
I think one of the reasons goes all the way up until almost the land.
So, yeah, make sure you tune into those for some drops
and also to catch them sick over traction from across the ocean.
Now, we get back into this.
How do you feel?
How do you feel about Team Liquid here?
Because my mind goes to one thing and one thing only, Johnny.
Right.
Only right.
Yeah, but no, it's not right.
You can't know.
You can't.
You can't feel the right amount.
It is quite interesting though, if they wanted to make that like a frequent occurrence,
it's just like, yeah, we'll play Rhinelap on.
Then if the sim had been available here, like maybe we get to play Rhinesim again here on Neon Junction.
But with the Symmetra, I just, I just don't think you can play the Rhinelap.
But maybe I'll make a visit, a return.
They don't want to visit, you know, New Junct cities?
It's gonna, it's gonna, it's gonna, it's gonna pop its head again.
Altress even.
Oh Alice, that's a good shot actually. I mean that was the map where people were like wait, mine is okay on this map, hang on.
Calendar by the way.
Yeah.
The main map.
Alright, slow it in.
Neon Junction.
You definitely can't see it, it's a little bit too blurry, but I got one of the...
Kiri plushies, Zayac Kiri plushies in the back now.
Oh you mounted it there yesterday? After yesterday?
I put it up there this morning and I was like I want to redo my shelf and put I need to
say division gave me this posh helmet and put it up somewhere.
I will give props to you for that and also like Zoe, like people broadcast talent who
like actually make their background nice.
I just put up a shade and it just I don't know what it looks like where I am but the
reason there's a shade is because my room is just terrible it's not a great background
so I respect the commitment from you and Zoe to just make things tidy and look nice.
Yeah, I don't know.
That's a little bit more personality, you know?
What do you- Which, uh, I've got the- Have you got the tracer one?
Which one did you pick?
No, I got the Genji one.
Oh, the Genji one?
I wanted the Kiri one, but I got the Genji one.
They ran off the Kiri, so everyone wanted the Kiri one.
Yeah, I- I- Yeah, I'm so mad.
Sorry, I still love the Genji.
Alright.
TreeWidow, nothing.
He's gonna be infected...
...on the Malga.
No Rhyme, sadly.
But we are seeing the return of the Vendetta.
Yeah, this is a really interesting one.
Syrah's showcasing the passive.
Just like playing this Vendetta.
Thinking about who are you really jumping on for this one.
Chunk down Sigma.
White the bits here.
You can quickly dive in here with the cardiac overdrive.
That'll see if they just really flood through.
Sorry, there's pressure at 4 now.
Look for the re-engage.
They just want to keep buying time here for the damage pairs.
Whoo!
And I think Vendetta with the Marga is just so strong.
strong this vendetta comp with the shion is so nasty you send shion and vendetta in
popcard echo we're driving they're immortal if it's gonna go for another
charge slam into the side actually picks up a kill onto chronic of all people and
then not only that the amount of healing give us some vagadu as well you're not
running the lucio you're not running the he that you know it's like they are we
healing it's like a lot for vague a lot for infected kind of absorb Dallas feel
Necronic hit two taps. They need Sungeon to get executions, to get picks. Otherwise, it's just not happening.
Yeah, I like that point that the backline team liquid are forming because if Sungeon goes for the backlines,
he's like, hey team, I'm gonna go use the backliners now. They're like, hold on, we got like three people in the frontline,
they're in Kodak over driving, just running in with the Vendetta. Can you help us out here?
And so it just becomes a lot of stuff to deal with in the frontline. In meanwhile, like you say, Kilos and Vega,
There's not building these ultimates because you know both kitsune and rushers available for either team now
And so that's few of the at least be able to counter
Oh, Sly noon? BOOM! There was like NOPE that he always gets deleted. Oh, in fact, he's gonna get chased down
Vega succumbs to the sky noon tough to dodge even on the very small streets of neo-nunchin
Alright, now, now, that's, that's, that's a little question right there.
Let's save that one for a different show.
Alright, four supports, two tank ults, here we go, this cage from Cullen's gonna be, sorry
This Caitlyn's head is going to be rather nasty.
Especially if Jera's going to be in there too.
Really hard to rush.
Wow, Kivis got defeated there too.
No rush, Jax, however the orbital ray.
It's going to be decent if it's healed, but
Kellen with this burst damage from the flux
ends Vegas' life so fast.
A good response from the Dallas Fuel.
This Kivis died basically off rip.
Used rush and that was it.
Didn't have anything else.
I mean, you gotta say that was Team Liquid investing both support ultimates there, so the next ultimate cycle for them is going to be quite far away.
Now you're essentially just looking to see if you can catch someone with it.
The K-Chair is going to be another Sky Noon available for a Dallas Q. Always poses a big threat there, so Team Liquid risking here losing a lot of time on second point.
3 for 3, but we've already mentioned how I'm quite shocked against the back line against the Cassidy
Plus Sanjin also playing on this off angle waiting for 3 to make an entrance both 3s available in fact 3 launches a bike in
So live by shawly now thanks to tricepacus moves sky noon over the top
Quake she's near the tree as well, but the sundry blade from Terra shuts him down completely
an awkward moment that was. Dallas Fuel they sat back for so long infected
goes in with the overrun. Zero drops the ultimate right on to chronic Dallas Fuel
maybe hesitating a little bit too much in that but now allowing Team Liquid to get
back into this game and that's great news Kiddies is going to start building
this get-to-rush available to use on this payload if you look to get the cap.
Spanning my ult charging. It's close, I promise.
15% for Kivis, 20% for CJ. Katnap, who's on, looks like it might be infected.
Luke and Mido escapes with 5 HP, a nail-biting escape, and now the rush.
Kivis, enough spam in that, and it's gonna be CJ with a match again.
This time Kivis, that's gonna come up before he gets his C taken out once more.
Xerah chasing down Sonjen, an overhead slash with Sonjen with the execute onto Xerah.
Is there a eventually picking up a health pack as well to help show you stains through that 1v1?
The rock connects to the corner too.
And Chase down perhaps, has given his teleports to his dude.
Rodd it picks up a double.
But net 40 seconds remaining.
Does Team Liquid have forced a reset, but it's got a ray for this next fight.
Yeah, Dallas Fuel doing a great job surviving these dives coming in from Team Liquid by the moment.
Yeah, I do want to say that I think the second point here you should be able to get through this point relatively quickly here
I did team liquidate
Lost so much time here on the second point. I think that's pretty bad news for the outlook of this map
This ballast you got another skydune available, which they're so
Mostly oriented around it's such a powerful ultimate combo here
If they can get one of these going again, and then you can start leading on under a couple of ultimates it makes fight going
That was fuel with a real opportunity here to hold on
They just can't have chronic taken out instantly again. They're looking for it. Okay. There
it is. Cassidy already taking airborne. They're waiting for Team Liquid to make a move. Sky
moon. There it is. They're gonna need someone to peek his little head out boat. Oh, he fakes.
It just stays around way too long and they use their ray too. Team Liquid's flying and
use Ray to push out. That is a disastrous use of the ult there from Vega.
It's a real expensive for Liquid. But that's also just how you play Overwatch. You know,
you want to drop these ultimates quite proactively. You want to make sure you always have a fighting
chance in some of these ultimates. You can't just sit back and hold the ultimates forever
here. So, the ultimates are Ray because you get any value for Team Liquid. You go through
final opportunities here in this one,
kind of need Cera to catch someone here.
I think it's super low,
something right from around the corner on Cera.
The cat about to look into the cat,
but Luke Amido just dives to his death.
Spree kills both Saunjan and Spree.
He's out of it now, as Kellan is gonna rip a flux,
but Saunjan's just staying alive in the midst of war.
He was directly in the center of the fight.
Okay, he's just gonna lock him down eventually there,
in fact he gets the solo kill on him,
but it's only the Malchus trying and stay alive
and keep this point active.
Eventually, he's brought to his knees.
There's only one player left to try and get another touch.
It's Tree.
And he is sentenced going back to spawn.
Only a single point on the board for Team Liquid.
Dallas Fuel now going to make their run on their attack.
I got a sacrificial cat there from Lukimino,
diving in right on top of Zero.
And that's a trade you want.
Tree no longer in the mix.
It's one of the favourite Dallas Fuel in the long term.
Take a look at the replay.
I mean, Dallas Fuel, they're just all in on the sky nude and why not?
It feels like it works every time.
And then it makes it so much easier for every other kind of fight you're trying to win.
You think you just can value from a Jedi? Like, that's crazy.
I worry now for...
I mean, Team Liquid, only a single point.
That is rough on a hybrid too, you're almost, I don't know if you feel this way Joni, but
you're almost expected to finish the map on most hybrids.
I feel like on this map, you should at least be able to get to the choke point on third
and then maybe you can hold there yourself if the opponent comes in there with two, three
minutes.
Like you were able to make a stand there, we've seen it a couple of times this weekend.
But to not capture the second point, this is now a real great opportunity for Dallas
to get ahead of this one. On a map where I felt you know Team Liquid were favored.
Playing this Maga style, having really powerful supports in the Kariko and Juno,
just not able to make it work and instead it's the Dallas Fuel coming back.
Real strong after taking that 0-3 loss to Team Liquid on Friday.
Alright well, chronic back on to the Cassie. Like you mentioned before Johnny,
If you're hearing the replay now, I apologize, we'll be back to live audio in a moment.
Alright, you just gotta start winning one fight at a time here.
It's gonna be a long decent for Team Liquid if they want to get back into this series
some balance fuel. Oh, so many opportunities here for them.
I like the cowl though they are. Look at me, I'm chasing them down, chasing Sarah
all the way past the choke point. I mean, I will say, okay, underrated flanker, the cat
when there's low health players, dash into water and hit him with the cat's
resonance, just going over the top of them.
Don't try it, Hulk. That's that's like encouraging aggressive lose your
behavior.
It's a lie. You can kill if you if your speed was in there and you start like
hitting you know a couple of primary fires and a melee like that's a lot of
damage it's like okay well you know if you're looking me no one can't that's
one thing don't start doing that in my rankings
all right a very quick cap for the Dallas fuel
Vega just scouting out making sure there's no one on the high ground so I'm
doing it on a small off angle audio in the left hand side of the ear here so
notice someone around this corner there's so many people to stay up there though
end up using the dash of the bike to try and get away now no CD's left but the
heroes are going to come in anyway well here comes the spree for Sonjan no
actually just gets completely denied wow that was an awful lot
definitely looking for it here it's inertia is waiting to be dropped on
it's dead eye here they go oh skyd oh kibbe's wait he got the rush off but
It was actually enough. Catnap as well for Lukamino.
Kellen is already pulled Flux, it's now hunting for players around the point.
And they've lost Infected. Infected so far behind in terms of hold charge.
Dallas Fuel making good times. Is that pulse bomb?
Not it from Zera.
It's going to die quite late here.
Asked, well, it'll be one final fighter with CJ having the Kitsuna rush advantage.
And that could be what's pivotal here in the outcome of this next fight in Dallas Fuel going up to 1 in this series.
Tree has a spree. Can you find a little something here?
Mid-fight maybe? Just wait for some of these resources to be drained from Dallas Fuel and then go away.
They're just going to go.
Yeah, spree's going to get shut down. They're instantly bi-chronic way too early.
They're playing on the rush. Every member from the Dallas Fuel now pushing forward and Infection's going to go down.
And Team Liquid found out the back of Wendy's.
Hunched over at Umbster, like that was just destruction from the fuel.
Johnny, that wasn't close. That was the fuel leveling up in a massive way.
You gotta say the Cat Noon or the Sky Noon, whatever you want to call it,
it paid dividends for Bellacellar and Team Liquid, they just kind of look a little bit lost.
Just weren't able to keep up. There's so much pressure on you to start winning some of these
these teamfights when you don't have that tool available to yourself.
Here's that last fuel. I mean, if you can get a pick every time you get the Deadeye up,
that's essentially like, you know, 5-6 teamfights wins over the course of a map,
and that just makes it so much easier to win the other teamfights that you need
to be able to secure a map win like this.
So Team Liquid focused on this thing.
Dada look, Xi on Tracer look, just wasn't able to work out for them here.
I mean, I'm not sure. Yeah,
what do you think of this
Vendetta? I mentioned at the
very top. I really like the
Vendetta. She on with the
Malgo. But the sky noons
the success rates so damn high
apart from this one. Apart
from this one where you get
shut down by the Vendetta
something like, but it's
pretty damn good. It's a look
that we've seen from the
Dallas fuel. I can't. And you
a hard ask in all honesty.
And in Fector 2, you can see where they put him in
for this map because they want him to pay the Malga
and being able to switch off to the Sigma
at kind of a moment's notice.
They don't have a tack in for that map.
But the Dallas Fuel, they're on that point now.
SSG is waiting in the finals for them.
They haven't faced SSG in this bracket.
So there's a very good opportunity
that we see a Dallas Space Station finals again.
That was the same thing we had in stage one
where Dallas Fuel, they kind of sweep them.
It was a full one if you can remember.
Yeah, it's been quite a remarkable series so far.
Dallas Fuel, the way they're up two maps in this series.
The Rado, it felt like they were like,
you know, just getting about the edge very narrowly,
just making things work by their individual play.
And then on this one, just relying on the sky noon.
And it makes you wonder like Team Liquid,
do you wanna try to mirror this now?
Because I feel like they've also been so good on the cat
and the Cassidy in the past.
And now this time around, we decide we don't really want to opt into it.
They're going to pick Colosseo here in maybe a spot where you would have expected the flash
point to come out here.
They're thinking maybe that if we win this series, we're going to go to map five.
We don't really care too much about the choice between New York City and Atlas.
Like essentially, they play roughly the same, but Colosseo, we much prefer that over a map
like you, Queen Street, that may be favour status few a little bit more here. So, Team
Liquid going for the Colosseum pick, trying to get a couple of map wins here to get promoted
to map out.
I think, yeah, at that point, you're like, what's our best map out of these four? We're
going to pick it, guarantee our best chance of going to a map five. It's going to be Dallas
with the second ban, we'll have Team Liquid to see what they want to ban first.
No soon ban.
Did it play sub in attack as well? I don't think there's, there's not been a call that's
come in so we're going to see the same fight for TL in the lineup.
I can't wait to see these compositions here because this is an opportunity if you want to play
the Symmetra you know it's only something that EMA they're really confident doing
they put a lot of pressure onto this uh onto this bot rather and then when you get towards the high
ground that's when it gets quite difficult like how can you get up onto the opponent's high ground
and a Symmetra I think just makes life so much easier in that regard so maybe Team Liquid can start
building around that now and the Symmetra ban is already been deployed by Dallas Fuel here.
On the other side of things like how do you kind of protect against what Dallas Fuel might bring
out here if Dallas Fuel are going to keep playing the Sky and Uncom, with the Cassidy and the Cat
and they want to try to get that going here on Colosseum as well. It might be a little bit tough,
they're going to get rid of the Cat. They don't have anything to do with it. Yeah all right the
the cat was going to get
Okay. This might be too crazy.
I'm going to get it in real quick.
Dallas fuel band right because
Ryan sim on this map.
Hold on.
Let me cook.
Let them cook.
Dallas fuel. They could ban right.
Because what else are you looking
to ban that you're scared that T
L are going to play. You also play
the Shion. And then Sunji could play like the Flyers too, like classic projectile player.
You play the Cass. They play the Cass, like it doesn't, okay. The hero pool for infected in
Kallen? Yeah, it's a little different. The Cass is not a batch out and it's going to come out. Yeah,
because the way I'm, yeah, the way I'm, I'm kind of thinking about this is obviously you can't
find support. And so Team Liquid, they're pretty safe there. They might, and they have a couple of
options they might even play like Lucio Bap if they really want to focus down on the Symmetra Brawl style
they can play the Lucio Bap if they need to be so even if they were able to ban support like
it's hard to get a pick going the Cassidy is going to force Tree over to something like a soldier now
it's going to make it more difficult to get value out of a potential Symmetra Brawl composition here
and so this I think the Cassidy ban is quite strong.
hit me up legs soldier 76 all right no we're going too crazy no yeah you're going too crazy
oh you see them right as well to be fair all right that didn't go too well though yeah
yeah it really did there was no inspiration to draw on there dude when Hemi was released
That little bro, oh wow, a lot of broken. Not a little, a lot of broken.
It was like a whole month of Emre.
Now it's like, wait, Cass is really good.
And then Shion is so very good right now.
We'll see where Tree decides to pivot.
What have you got for us?
Panto? No, I don't know.
This makes more sense.
Tracer, Shion.
And I mean with no Cassidy on the battlefield, like, Sojourn is going to have a way better time.
Oh, he's going to be freezing it.
He's really on the far end.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's such a potent ban.
He does put Tree away from that pick and enables you to...
Sojourn to play a bit more freely, who has been under a lot of pressure, you know, these first three maps in the series.
All right, here we go. Infected back on the Mauga, but heavy flank comp from TL, Zera,
Tree, Shion, Tracer. Sanjin's going to call that out to the rest of the team. It's poke
versus flank. Now let's feel rockin' the Alari too. Love Alari on this map. Putting the pylon
on the pillars like this, on the column. Very tough for people to destroy. A lot of free
healing basically you just turn into a damage dealer. Hello tree. Oh my, no way.
One shot? No quiet. This setup is going to be real difficult for team Liquid.
You want to take so much poke on the way in and tree that time. First it's a lorry,
then it's the Pharah. Like there's just so much damage coming your way and at
the end of the day you kind of want to get going with the Kordic. Overdrive,
the Maga, overrunning in there but just getting there in the first place. It's
gonna drain so many resources from you with Dallas Fuel playing this
composition so I don't necessarily hate this from Dallas Fuel I think they got
a pretty clean look here they'll make it pretty easy for them to try and poke
down here. Flank comms got a flank in three going through Sojin to try and
counter Sojin. And Zera can hear people follow him right now. Yeah, try to get over the
wonk of afar. That ain't happening I'm afraid. Triple blinks back to the rest of
his team telling them the pressure shield basically gone rock shoes to stop
infected getting up in his grill
soldier he's fine let's walk again hitting infected
for the soldier pick here see it's going to allow you to play a bit slower here
can build the railguns and rely on those to get the picks but for the most part
like Dallas fuel composition they're still better at that you see in fact
they're overrunning back so they're going to let Dallas fuel take all this
space and then maybe they can commit themselves with this new overrun here. Overrun, slammed out,
infected, yeah, very dead. He barely got that stomp off Johnny before he goes back to school.
Do you think this is it? Is this how Team Liquid want to go down? Is this the best they
have to offer here against Alice Fuel? This is now where you start to worry, you start to
second guess yourself because two minutes 30 in here, Team Liquid hasn't really got anything going
And if you lose a couple of more teamfights here, it's just about over.
You need to get something from these support ulti's to kind of stop those real-handler tracks.
Catch it, son!
Okay, straight on top of the rush, I like it!
Give it instant cleanse, though, with our Suzu.
VAKA's already down again!
So they've already managed to find a pick.
Songtion eventually chased down by the Tracer, thanks to the Tracer having a high ground.
Okay, a lot of ult's thrown here by both teams.
Even a Polk's bomb, a throw-ale of this 0.40.
Helen and CJ still picking up a couple of kills though, so it's not a clean fight by any stretch of the imagination.
And Sarah's gonna have to be a real star player here for Team Liquid. Relatively uncompestive on this tracer.
She should quite freely be able to get these flank angles going, get into the back, and put pressure on Lukimino, Sunjin.
They all need to see more of that throughout this quality if they want to claw back, get this lead and stay alive in the series.
live in the series. Zero to another one.
That was sort of in at one click. Oh, the disrespectful barrage and he killed Zero too.
You can't ask more from a barrage there.
A double kill and you basically reset barge on him.
Infected goes for an overrun. A disengage required.
A three player sound barrier for TL.
When it goes down to Infected, it's another charge to get out.
from Dallas Fuel to use their own rush in that fight to try and gain control of the bot back.
Team Liquid, they're just waiting now. They can go again with the overclocked in it.
They're going to overclock. Yeah, on this high ground, they've got a perfect off angle right now.
It's going to get pooped off eventually. They've got to be careful with Sonja. Half HP.
Eventually gets topped all the way back up as Lukimino is felled.
And they have the cage fight as well. A super is down for Dallas Fuel and there's going to be a
a lot of push here for Team Liquid. Now the question is, can you buy infected at enough
time here to actually get a good cage by going as well? It takes a lot of poke damage so
it's going to be the disengager now. Yeah, Kellen is going to drop down. Going to make
sure that payload does not cross that golden beam. Nice shield too. A lot of heals coming
in for Lukamina. Sera on the off angle threatening a kill.
Both teams just biding their time here, team Liquid.
You probably feel like they need at least one support ultimate to get on the Velosjul
sideground here.
One for One Click, one for One Click.
No, it's actually three that goes down, Rao gonna headshot from chronic.
It's so hard to get One Click while that fight on still active.
Slug's from Kellen, connects with Effective, eventually gets stopped though, now just playing
around his own shield, hits the grass too to absorb all that damage, stopping the heal
Heal from the cardiac overdrive.
And Dallas Fuel, they can finally...
...reassile relief here.
Being able to push this bot back is probably going to mean that Team Liquid are now forced to invest support ultimates on their side of the map...
...to start wendling some of this time back.
Dallas Fuel, they have a lot of ultimates here as well. This is definitely a real winnable fight for them.
If Lukimino Konek can conjure up some magic here...
Oh good, that Joss could be a lot of push.
Katziff's done as well.
Yes, Zera is running for the hills.
You gotta look behind you, infected at some point.
Captain Sun connects with Infected, but it is just the tank. Oh no, a backline player too!
Eventually, Suzu dodged, but all those resources couldn't go into Trita. Help him survive against Sanger.
A nice little outburst club from Lukumina to create space between him and the Tracer.
Shit point is the Dallas Steals. Infected comes rushing back in, there's the sound barrier.
Four players from Team Liquid, based in the green glow. But Dallas Steal with a perfectly timed disengage. Get out of there!
Oh, no. That is terrible news for Team Liquid. That was such a pivotal ultimate from Vega.
Vega! What?!
There was just too late and then Lukimino gets a pick as well. Oh, no. This is all falling
apart now for Liquid.
The flag?!
There's two players from down the scale of the flag right now, Lukimino and Slungin.
They need to connect with kills. Zera needs to help Hogsmom. It is imperative. He gets
the clip, the melee onto Chronic, but the rest of his team has fallen already and Lukimino
grabs the bot back and pushes it even further into the lead.
I mean, Syrah's really trying to keep Team Liquid in this one.
Guess I crucial a couple of frags there.
In fact, it's on the wrecking ball.
Vega's on the Allori now.
This is Team Liquid.
They're throwing everything out to Wall here.
Sonjun, great position here.
Look at this damage already coming out.
And Syrah does find another crucial pick.
Syrah's been on fire this map.
Just hasn't been enough.
Finally gets shut down.
Yeah, but here comes the barrage here from Sonjun.
He's been baiting the team to kill them.
Oh my goodness!
What is that? What? Orca infected?
This is with the best there.
Sonsun ends up using Barrage in his face.
Team Liquid, can you find the answers now?
Required to bring this map back, three minutes remaining.
You can win a fight with this Overcoat from Tree.
You can get some of that magic.
You'd like to give yourself an opportunity in the next fight to maybe get a Kitsumrush going but, that's asking a lot already.
Against this Dallas Cule team who's playing so well right now.
We're playing the ball now. Infected, Infected switched over to Rekinball.
Sonja really low, has to recall but can play around the safety of his own team, gives the Suzy 2.
Halt from round the corner, back connect, no he didn't. The Flugs definitely did though.
Tree dashes out the way, dodging that rock bestelli, Kellen still connects the spears with Kivis.
He's gonna survive too.
Disruptor shots ends in really low and Chronic saves Kellyn's life!
A railgun shot into the side of Xerys head just turned into a smear on the pavement.
Two minutes in the time back left and Dallas Fuel, they're gonna increase their lead even further now.
And they're set up ready to go once more.
Lukimino's got another captive song. CD's got the Kitsune rush here.
They're set up on the bridge already.
This retake from Team Liquid is going to be brutal.
You're bound to invest a lot of these ultimate and then come even a fight when you're gonna have to
I have no ultimates, I need to pull some of them out.
Look at me now.
Just looking for it.
Get him, son.
Boy, it's good to admit to the other lari.
That's easy, we have to come in.
Look at me, it's already in there.
I'm actually, well, the Captain Sun connects with Vega,
and then a melee kill onto Kivis.
Both supports down.
Team Liquid trade for kills, though.
Chronic falls.
A minute and a half remains as Team Liquid sports just spawn in,
but Dallas Fuel is inching closer to victory.
They're just getting even more pushed. 112 meters already.
They don't even need to utilize the Kitsunrashi if they can get one of Team Liquid's ultimate out.
That's all you kind of need when you get the lead like this on push.
That's big though. That means you don't have to invest in ultimate here from Team Liquid.
Tree has a crucial opening.
Yeah, but only 60 seconds to go with no checkpoint.
Every ult has to be stretched to its furthest limits at this point.
Oh, it's gone. Oh, that's good, so that's a really good start and now I did it. You don't use any ults
You bite your time if your team liquid hopefully find another pig
Infected, looking at Kallen right now. It's gonna hit the ball in and the captain's son thrown out from Vega
To try and make this fight just end. Kallen's used drafts already and a late rush from CJ
Sonjin kills three, sure, but it is it actually enough. Team Liquid saved their own rush
They saved their own rush for now. Dallas Fuel. Just staying alive in this one. 10 seconds.
It's going to be the last fighter. Can I only get the Flux here for Dallas Fuel?
The Flux can just be a fight winner, a game winner, a map winner. If he's a good connection
onto Vague onto Kiddus and they can blow him up in the sky, it could be good. Lupimino
sent really low. Threatening the kill from Vague there on the sideline. Shane goes wide.
And still he's gonna teleport to fall back on, he's exactly what he's gonna do.
The mines to disrupt, the Kellan flocks, he's just picked the perfect note.
Treen affected already dead, Kellan sends to the backline, he's given his force.
The bot not in control of Team Liquid.
In fact, this entire game has not been in their control.
The Dallas Fuel lose Kellan's shore for the 3-1 scoreline to end it out.
Dallas Fuel get revenge.
And they lock themselves with a place in the finals.
Dallas Fuel still showing they got it.
They're taking a brutal loss against Team Liquid.
They made us question their performance, question their compositions.
They show here against Team Liquid in the lower bracket
that they're coming back with the vengeance now
in yet another North American finals here.
0-16-3, it just wasn't enough.
home to Tracer couldn't buy enough for his team to get back into the way of things.
things and instead we marvel at Dallas Fuel, Kwanak 23, Sungeon 18 eliminations there as
well. This was a good game for Dallas Fuel for their fans to really rally behind this team now.
It was indeed, Dallas is getting the dust here, but team Liquid they were off to such a good start
right on the North Coast, Moonsala and Frank feed their defense on Dorado, looked at Brady do it as
well. So initially I was like wondering once more like can Dallas you will take it all the way
with the composition they're running like do they do they have what it takes or are they lacking the
flexibility somehow though they turned the type they turned the series around and managed to get
it up and in the end it started to look very convincing they started to really run away with it
Oh, this play from Effect 2 was cheeky. Look at that.
Get in Sondre in the sky. It's interesting to see the Dallas Fuel in this series.
And what you said, like, Antao to the Insta, they've got two Ode, but they leveled up so fast.
Their power level increased beyond that.
it's like, okay, they won it,
but it wasn't like super convincing
that they still managed to they
still managed to get there. And
then there's the snowball
started to roll in and it was
like, okay, actually, the fuel
is so back. They're fully in
control now. Like, damn, the
Dallas fuel comes back in just
such a marvelous way, and it's
going to be a repeat of the
finalist for the finalist
for the finalist for the final
It's going to be a repeat of the finalists from stage one to Dallas Fuel and Space Station
Gaming now.
Yeah, it was so important for them to win the Rado, right, like especially since the
Winston was banned on that very map.
So that was the one that team liquid really needed to win.
And Dallas Fuel somehow grinding it out there.
So it just got to show how much mental fortitude that team and those players have as well to
not, you know, be faced from an early disadvantage from Antarctic Peninsula.
Yeah, I think for Dallas Fuel here, the way that they were able to get away with this series
victory, like, it was such a great showing for them, and they proved that they were able to
overcome difficulty. I think that's the biggest thing, it's just like when you face an O3 loss
against Team Liquid, and then you're still able to come back, play your own style, and get this
serious win. I think that was so impressive from Dallas. But they doubled down on their
confidence in their own game and they made it work. Yeah, because on paper, like there was no real
reason to be that confident after going down 0-3 against Team Liquid with exactly those kind of
compositions. But they showed us that individually they just have what it takes right now. We do
have Weeds joining us for a quick interview ahead of their grand finals match. Weeds, thank you so
so much for joining us. Congratulations and welcome to the show. I'm sure there was a huge weight
off of your shoulders, especially since you guys got the revenge after meeting them in the semifinals
being knocked into the lower finals. Do you feel like there are specific things that you learned
about this matchup in your previous showing that you were able to work in today?
Yeah, I think we just played really terrible last time we played them. We were missing all of our
timings or we were just missing everything like individually it just
felt like we were a little nervous I think once we qualified to Paris you know
it took a lot of the nerves off and it's like okay let's just go get them back
for us now it's not really for anything else I was interested in you say nerves
there do you think that'll play a big factor on the stage in Paris because
that's a very different venue it's gonna be obviously live in front of an
audience too a lot of the players have played live like that before obviously in
in Tokyo and stuff, but you guys just,
if you're nervous coming into a playoffs and online,
maybe that plays a big role there too.
Well, we actually had a few guys
that have like never made EWC before.
They've been like randomly cursed to like miss it.
So this was like kind of a big step for them to make it finally.
So, you know, once that was off all of our shoulders,
I think everyone's suspect to play
in how we normally play.
So.
All right, so just one more matchup to go here
against space station.
And I feel like they've kind of like sold the entire region.
They've looked rock solid here, I guess, all of these teams.
Do you have a little something planned for SSG
and what they specialize on here now?
I don't think we need to do anything special.
I think our game plan could win
versus any team of what we do.
We don't really change up too much.
We just do it how we do it.
And if we're gonna win, we're gonna win on our strengths.
We're not gonna come out with something random.
I love that. You know what? You carve the hill out, though you're dying on the hill,
or you're going to win on the hill, or you're going to find out in the grand finals. We
also thank you so much for taking the time for a quick chat and best of luck in the grand
finals. I thank you. I just personally really, really love when teams are sticking to their
guns, sticking to their identity, and dance people have really been doing just that all
stage long, which, you know, sometimes to their detriment, but clearly it's got them
to the Grand Finals. So if they just play free, you know, I was waiting to say that if they get to play free, they don't have the pressure of having to qualify. Now it's really just everything is a bonus, right? If they, if they can play like that, then yeah, like we know individually, those are incredibly skilled players in that roster.
the game. I think we're going
to have to wait. SSG have
solved the reason a region like
Johnny just said, so it's
going to be tough. I they don't
want to repeat of what happened
in stage one as well. They got
kind of done something. Got one
map in that first to four
series. So. I'm seeing. True
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of you it's time for the NA stage two grand finals SSG and Dallas Fuel will be battling it out before
the crown and we're gonna have Jack and Johnny on the mic for it all we're here to set the stage for
these two teams now as well looking at the bracket guys it's been a fairly smooth sailing for SSG
thus far I mean a few ripples in the water maybe against TL but nothing major they stayed course
and an upper bracket. Okay, okay. The bracket looks not very competitive. I promise you this
regions been really thrilling and super competitive. Team Liquid 3-0 in Dallas,
that's super surprising. That SSG Team Liquid went four maps, that was probably the closest four
maps we've seen in quite some time. And then we had the match we just saw as well. Team Liquid
versus Dallas, feel great to see Dallas coming back in this one. But the bracket doesn't do the
reason justice I promise. Even the aid they got a bunch of maps like it looks
pretty and all that but I promise we have fun too.
Oh dear, apologies enough to see it. No but it really was like yeah the score
lines do not do it justice like yes it looks like SSG just got a roll through
the opposition but Dean Lippert I think was a team that made this bracket very
very interesting for all of us to watch and to enjoy. Alas it was still SSG that
ended the series in a fairly dominant fashion and that they're coming into this very very confident.
I mean they always are right when we have them in tears and like I was never worried,
didn't sweat. But rightfully so Jack because they have been looking extremely dominant on each
every single row. They just always seem to be a tier of the list. Yeah they want a perfect stage
as well. Dallas got a perfect stage on stage one. Like why can't we do the same? I mean it's kind of
of the game. We're having a
Dallas and SSG finals. Um I'll
remind you the score line last
time was Dallas. You're getting
four and one over SSG, so it
looks like a complete opposite
SSG from what we saw in that
last finals at the moment.
Coming into this, I'd say the
game cards are almost swapped.
I think space station gaming
themselves look unfallable. The
team just looks so on point
right now and the meta super
some perfectly. There's not too
many things from too worried
about them not being able to
roster to show us different looks. And Dallas Fuel has kind of just been showing us the
one dope, right? So that's obviously the concern in this very matchup. Here you see the SSG
squad. They've brought a lot to the table thus far. Let's see how far they will be
pushed today in the match against Dallas Fuel. Dallas Fuel, because the last team those two
teams faced off against one another was in week one of the group stage. And that was
In fact, the three over three for SSG. I'm pretty sure they have scrimmed each other since being, you know, the top teams in the region. So we don't know. We don't have to scrim info or do you guys have it? I don't.
Even if I had the scrim info, I couldn't leak it. Could I?
I mean, you know, I mean, I
I can't just be dishing out
screaming like this. Uh is
something though? I guess it's
like you're sharing. I don't
know. Nothing to share with
class. Okay, sure. I don't have
any homework. I didn't do my
homework. Realistic. They
definitely been screaming
each other. I mean, having the
week one be their first match
up. Okay, so we've got all
these weeks going to screw
That's going to be, um, on the case, on the docket, because Dallas space station have been the most dominant team.
So, of course, Dallas definitely want to try and screw them as much as possible.
But as soon as the brackets died, it's going to hide as much as possible.
I say that, but it's like, there's nothing we've died in here.
Yeah, but I was just about to ask, has Dallas really hidden anything from us?
I mean, we've made it pretty clear there as well.
It doesn't really matter what the previous score lines was.
Like, they're not going to change things up.
The plaintiff's strength, we know what that strength looks like.
and they will be dying on the hill if necessary so if we're looking at predictions I have to give this one to SSG
obviously the last time they played each other it was not a close affair and SSG has just been dominant whereas for Dallas Fuel
it's been a hit and miss how far they can take it with their composition, so
yeah, while I love the Dallas Fuel
then I wanted to succeed I have to give this one to SSG because I want to be right I
I got the fuel every day of the week. I've been breading fuel since week one. No one's surprised about this.
Look, the upset, the true upset, sorry.
Deny them the perfect stage and then you're back to back when it's stage one and stage two.
But it's a good, it's a good script. I'll give you that.
It's a perfect script.
Okay, how about you, what do you got for us?
Alright, one week ago, TASMO, DMF photo of us all predicting Dallas fuel
and said good man on June 28th. Sorry Tasmo, I'm going with SSG this time around. Don't tell me to it.
Please don't send me more discord messages about my prets and whether they're right or wrong, okay?
Like, I think SSG is the better team, but if you win, please don't give it to me.
All right, Tasmo's only gonna slide it to Jack DMs this time around,
or he's probably gonna muck us if we're wrong, so that's fair, that's fair.
We probably won't hear from him if we're right though, Johnny.
I think that's what I'm talking about.
Maybe I will, I don't know, I'm scared.
We find out, it's always a good time chatting with Tasbo.
We might get to chat with him very soon as well,
because obviously they're going to make it to Paris,
regardless of the placement here.
So we get to see them live in action
for the mid-season championship.
But first, we need to figure out if they are coming into this
as the number one seed or the second one.
So I'm ready, you guys seem ready.
Let's get the show going.
So, yeah, it's like a royal
rumble here between SSG and the
Dallas fuel royalty for the
Dallas fuel being a watch League
champions back in 20 22 and
space station gaming a
torment and franchise this
stage looking to lock in with a
perfect one. They've dropped
harmony match Johnny a what a
single match so far in the
playoffs against the liquid in
that upper finals. I mean, they
I just want to set the stage here a little bit, Jaws.
SSG, you know, it's such a fan favorite kind of organization here in Odoos is.
And it's had some really incredible rosters.
Stage one, they got second.
20-25, stage three, they got second.
20-25, stage two, they got fourth.
20-25, stage one, they got second tonight.
They haven't won a stage since they had their E&E A team with backbone and crew back in 2024, stage 4 when they 4 out ends to get that win.
So all this talk about space station, what an amazing orgy it is, it needs to be said that the form just hasn't been there for this franchise and they haven't been able to get these stage wins.
You know they they're always the second place to the amazing story of nightmare. Yes last year
The they got second place to Dallas fuel, you know Dallas fuel
They got the revenge on SSG after dropping some of their players this needs to be the stage
Where SSG win their first stage since 2024?
Well, they're gonna throw down the gauntlet. She's got a castie band already coming up from the Dallas fuel
I think that's gonna be the most scary hero and it has been the scary hero for the entire playoffs
but getting rid of that and that number one.
Ana Bansu on the other side, Press SG,
don't want Dallas Fuel on Ilios being able to play that.
However, I want to cast your mind back a little bit.
The Dallas Fuel, when they even had the option to play
Ana on Ilios, they actually didn't.
Yeah, it's been interesting for both of these teams.
I feel like we're quite happy to play this hero.
I mean, just a couple of days ago, we were glazing all the while,
and just like, wow, look at this show, the gameplay.
Yeah, and now you're dishing out the all-in-a-ban yourself here
Maybe want to force this cat yourself
Combined a little bit of a protection ban here, but lethal not being able to play the Cassidy
It is a big hit like you say the Cassidy has such been such an amazing hero like if it's like in your last couple of stages in
2026 this hero is just able to take over games and when you got something like lethal on this is G side
No doubt obviously the Cassidy ban hits hard here on the first map, but for the rest of the series
You can expect lethal to get going on that hero
It's crazy to think about Cassidy in the context, I think of new heroes, because she
can jump on a bike, she has a dash, she also can execute people in the right way.
Her ult, she spins and kills people, looking like a cooler Reaper ult.
And then Cassidy, Bro's got a six shooter, a flashback.
And think, you just piece keeper, a piece keeper.
Sometimes it is just about hitting consistent shots.
And honestly, he's looking like vintage side player up there, the hand cannon, just like, form, form, and like,
it's easiness going down, she on sometimes too. There is always, and there kind of always has been this aura around Kassidy,
where like, you can't straight too close, you're gonna get flashbang, whether it's a,
an actual stun, or a hinder, it doesn't matter. There's always this kind of threat about it, and
It's kind of shown over the last few days with left game.
Depends the question here, Jaws.
Does Kassadin hit harder with the Mythic Skin?
Yes. It looks cooler.
That might be the difference, mate. I'm just saying, the game met after the Mythic Skin release.
It's a conspiracy.
There's a big sound. Boom.
It does. The Lethal's, um, what, the flourish on King's Row into the 5K?
I've never seen something more in like more. I don't know the showmanship there. It looks like
Like a space opera type film where he's doing that. It looks like the trailer. He's here in the flourish then getting five kills
Of course, they're gonna ban it away. Of course the highlight. Let's go into one targets. Seriously
Through Ivy out mid just flourishing
Haha!
All right, the cats on the border lethals on the ash
Okay, so no Cassidy available
But we're committing to the hitscan and the ashes probably the least picked hitscan hero we've seen this stage
I think lethals the most pure and honest hitscan player I've ever seen
Cassidy, and he plays you know jumps out on the winnermaker shore and he plays ash as well
I don't want a rail gun. I don't want two pistols. I don't want nothing. I don't want a head either apparently
Nice shot from chronic loud blazing real hard. Just think I bet
I mean Dallas field they're playing the old boys to compare so
Casca the next year
That was we were going to excel with this cat now. I
Mean Hawks over to this erisa. This has been a space engine game 18
They're just big picture-wise. We talked about yesterday
They love to make the hero adaptations, that every opportunity they get, they always want to play counter launch, get the upper hand.
So Dallas Fuel laying their comfort here with chronic over on their soldier and council, the Sigma here.
How do spaceships react to this?
The cat is so low.
It almost seemed like Admiral was using sugar-free as kind of a body block tool there, swinging him in front of Sunship.
Unless you end up killing Kellen.
Very easy fight after that, who kind of falls apart for Dallas Fuel?
I mean, Hawk is just up here with the cat now. We're just holding the high ground as the Orisa player.
Hawk is going to play quite freely here. Chronic gets a pick onto Sugarfree here, so Hawk has to be quite careful here.
Probably gonna have to use both cooldowns on this disengage, and that's just going to give even more opportunity for Dallas Field to get even more picks as Hawk decides to back out of here.
So that's one pick alone. It's going to purchase Dallas Field. Probably a teamfight here.
Yeah, that was chronic getting two opening pigs in some like literally off rim
So very like nothing burger of a fight for a space station game
Clean up the chronic scourge. Yeah, there's the point for it. I mean, you gotta say the mobility is really in the hands of
Dallas fuel here. You can see now the kelons being put on towards the high ground here space station gaming
They're playing the ash or playing the vast. Yeah, those hits can heroes
They are both have that same level of ability to both rely on admiral to put them in a good place here
So chronic has been charging up these railguns so far
He's been hitting headshots and made all the difference for as a moment lots of all the ones on the board here though
I
Don't try for the cat now straight on the bashing. Oh dipping him down into the death box
By super free very consistent. There's another one. Oh, it is that now
just like Avril doesn't have going down thanks to Kellen so they end up
actually training at the end of that. The Dallas Fuel are in a good spot although
Terrasurge on the point from Hog is gonna net a single kill and now he's got the
spin spin. Chronic gets bathed in that Suzu luckily and dashes away from Hog
can't quite pin down the Sojourn and Dallas Fuel remain in control.
Auto pressure on SSG to get back. Hosto to swap over to the D.Va here 88%
Sugar-free over onto the tracer here as well, Sondra looking to capitalize with maybe a spree here early
The execution burst, walk on the team, it's gonna be much harder to get around this now, Bob gets deployed, ulti-vital already dead
Flux insta-kills lethal, this fight might just be over, there's a flying Bob in the skies by the way
They're just trying to get Bob into position where he can shoot people and it's working out, it's pushed them all into the small room
CJ look at me now down, no support to the downsteel now, spring in the high ground for a function
Adrol goes down, sure, but can't launch and finish this up. He's lost the tracer, can't find him,
Kellen's back, Sugarfreak goes, er, what, is he going with the fishes? Like, where do you even go down?
Around that tree, as Dallas Fuel end up getting the recap, the Space Station Gaming now gets to get another touch,
a nice boomer-wazo from Lukamino.
As Space Station Gaming don't get the retouch, and Dallas Fuel pick up the first round.
I mean what a roller coaster to kind of kick us off here how did admiral die after that cat by the way
Did you get a creation or something by kelam?
I'm quite sure
Yeah, I'm entirely sure here maybe like flew too far down into the skybox there
But Dallas fuel off to a hot start here, and you know it's been speculated
Back and forth so many times if you're able to win the previous series quite comfortably
Like a 3-1 fashion that was fuel just did maybe that's just the warm-up necessary to get your adrenaline going get real focused at me
Well SSG now
Taking off this series. Maybe cold because they were waiting for their opponent
Show themselves
We're gonna have to try and make some rotation serious like you felt still over on through this passion and this is you go from big rotation
Here actually a lot of members to that a skill dropping quite those could be sojourned
dropping first
But a calm that's very slow to set up
They left Sonjin rightfully so on an off angle.
Oh, wait, walk off the boot kill on Kellen.
Well, I'm frustrated with Kellen because that's a lot of ult charge for the D.Va.
But the Conn that's very slow to set up for the Dallas field, they leave Sonjin on an off angle.
Space station just... oh, okay, you're...
You're Sigma, your tank player is already on high ground.
Like, it's an easy dive target after she's used her CDs.
Okay, this is... now that I'm coming here, this is... this is...
We're going to play the objective, and this is G now, they'll have to benefit of all the high ground already,
Kalandrux real low from the turret for him off the lethal, and while that was fuel, you might have to go back to the drawing board.
Perjus dies, Percipes comes to the point, and the Bastion just sits for him and then Hall calls right away.
Yeah, and then back up, at all.
I mean, usually, if you were going to play a composition like this, like Team Liquid has done this a couple of times,
I always want the missile to come out because you get the Sanctuary
some additional aura healing there as well, which Lucio does still provide, but the Sanctuary should be so much
This is Dallas Fuel Team that is kinda maybe more chasing the point here a little bit
They're chasing Gallop
Okay, don't quite
I was close, Gallop almost died to that
All good, no worries
She appeared on the fara, so this comp very susceptible to fara
If you wanna be on the point, that's great, but we're just gonna pound you with rockets
The moment you touch the point or even try and transition to the point
Another over on coming chronic on and off fangal punishing high ground players here
But they didn't cover pretty easily now the tariff on comes out
Cardioca overdrive already bought now the rush laid on top good shot from sugar free a direct hit from across the map cat nap
Who digrab? Well, they're just trying to get one player off the map before it actually gets moved
It was the Lucio
Wait a second, Lukavino still ends up dying, unfortunate kill, but it's all good.
We've still got the cat, we've still got the Bastion, and we've still got the Tiger and Control.
83% for Space Station as Dallas Fuel get a cheeky flip.
I don't know if we're low here, it's going to actually, the cardiac overdrive, but a nice disengage here from Ultramalus just as soon as we're low, so...
Dallas Fuel, they might have to give up the cat here, but getting that ultimate out, that is a big win for them in the end.
They have plenty of ultimates here to win this fight, but S.H.G. is going to control it.
Zambari hits 5-4 to Dallas. K.O. Kronik already on the point, our overhills already gone.
So much spam coming in from S.H.G. already. They get the point flip, but here comes the artillery barrage from the Bastions.
Suzu used really early, Kronik in trouble, has to slide away.
Sontune goes down, and now to the skies goes the Bastion, Kronik trying to tag the Bastions.
But however, it's a little bit difficult, especially with Sugarfreak in the mix too.
There's gonna be a barrage in the hands of the Faro too, the cage comes out for a kill, but it was his own demise that he sought.
Space station gaming, dead at cap, and there's no touch here for the fuel.
Maybe, just maybe, Sondra can get there, but it's looking all so unlikely they're chasing him out, forcing his cooldowns early.
Space station, tie us up on Ilios.
Yes, he looked so comfortable in that round.
really felt like Dallas Fuel didn't really have great composition that they were fully confident on
and instead tried to force the objective with the MAGA but if I'm SSG in that one I'm looking at
the composition here of Dallas Fuel and I'm thinking like okay we survived the initial
cardiac overdrive like we'll have a lot of poke and great angles available for us
and at the end of the day we're gonna come out on top and the execution was there for
from SSG. They're clean round from them. Turned like the comms were off the door from the
fuel. Going for the point hold conk against the cat bastion. It's just so, and the diva
too. It's just so tough. They're going back to Malbeth though. Yeah, yeah. I don't mind
the manga too much at the end of the day, but I'm around like Lighthouse, you know, you
They don't have the same level of sustainable tools that maybe, you know, historically,
like a vinyl composition would have offered.
Oh, put more pressure onto the objective time there, so as you see now, they're fully capable
of winning out this illusory.
Hawke drops real low here as soon as he comes in, actually, but does work the neck.
And probably deny the reason to...
Whoa!
They're...
They think it's a safety, and they managed to evacuate him.
She'll get build up to this ult but actually no Sunjin hopped her shoo on the tracer perfectly
timed too I think or she'll have got it's ult back up.
Dallas Fuel here, what's the point cap?
Gonna have to wait now SSG for ulti-ballot to get back into this one.
Now the big question is for Dallas Fuel, a chronic and surgeon, can they come drop some
magic with those Shion and Tracer as SSG look for the walk up here?
If you could just get out the teleporter from Ultraviolet, get out the Susu, that should be an opening for you to get this dive going.
But before it's here now, that's the teleport.
Bash is taking the missile form as well, Johnny. No minigun, Thalita, when he hits form.
But there's no Bash on the other side, so it's like, who cares?
Ultraviolet ends up going down to that overrun.
Quick stop headshot, now Sondre trying to force more CDs, this time out of the sugar-free.
Now where he hit him from is to hit him so hard and fast that Sugarvee just fell over.
Yeah, SSG here. Lethal has gone ahead and picked the tank perk, which obviously when you activate it, it's so potent that you're essentially one shot people with it.
But if you don't get those shots going, like, it gives the Dallas Fuehler real opportunity here to actually survive in these fights and give them more opportunity to find these picks under here,
I'm doing here, looking for something with the full-stall.
So the CT already, and the waveform's already been used.
There's only a Suzy to get out of this Tyroko now, and there it is.
Teleport's gonna be up, and there it is, and yeah, goodbye.
Okay, Teleport's straight onto Hoku, instantly dies.
Wow, Dallas Fueled them, making this round look easy.
This is 75%, and they're still chilling with ult, it's like there's 5 coming up for Fuel.
Yeah, Dallas Fueled, they're gonna keep holding early here as well.
They have every opportunity to go whenever they want now because of their mobility,
And the assault rifle is available. The ultramaner takes the one clip.
And the Susu is forced to use it.
No, UV needs help. Okay, all comes in.
But oh, disaster for lethal.
And then CJ Brown can be ripped to kills. That's mad.
That is cool. Demolished, dismantled, space station gaming.
Unwell.
2-1 is the final score.
And that was 100 to 0 in the last round.
What a weird ileos.
What a weird elios that was. SSG looked dominant on the second round, Dallas Fuel completely uncontested on the third round.
And while they're gonna go having close things out there, look, we talked about Hawks, D.Va being a really useful tool for SSG against both Team Liquid, but also Dallas Fuel in this one.
But it was pretty quiet, like Sugarfree couldn't really get going on the third round on the Reaper.
I got poked out quite early and were forced to disengage, utilizing the Wraith Form lethal as well.
I couldn't really land anything with that tank missile perk.
Dallas Fuel, that bought him enough time to just hunt down Ultra Violet.
And so pretty clean from Dallas Fuel, didn't see like there were two awfully contested there.
Yeah, it seems like...
It seems like I'm all just too far below.
Yeah, it looks like he just dipped into the death box himself.
Need a closer look.
Get into the repair bureau.
it's so funny that if you're like a good cat player to see all these players in
there the lobby are but like you've got to know where the deathbox starts that's
never something I've really thought about a lot in Overwatch like where the
deathbox actually is on some of these maps but for the cats is like you kind
of need to know because at some point you need to know how to fast to accelerate
and then dip them in the deathbox and then leave if I I would just like okay
you know, I'm not gonna be
going to the box. Okay, well,
whatever I had them leashed and
I'm going to the box and they
die is like, okay, no more. Not
not not any lower. That's how
I know. That's how I know. That's
the only way I would know. There's
no way for me to into like have
intuition to know where it
actually begins. Yeah, I mean,
that is what it comes down to.
It's like intuition. The more
you play the cat, the more you
hitting those alts and actually
like dunking them in the death
box. The easier it's going to be
And that's like a new skill almost like going exactly where maybe wrecking ball players have that kind of
Idea in their head like okay
I kind of know we're like I want to swing outside of Ilios like you're swinging around you don't want to dip yourself in death box
but for a lot of players it's like
No, it's just down there somewhere the cats are like this pixel exactly if I don't admit I can fly away and then it's just
It's just ready to wear us. It's a new age. Can't be age
the cat age of home watch. I
mean, at this point, it might
as well be cats flying around
Bastions. No one could have
predicted this coming into this
year. Dallas fuel up a map
Ilios a dominant finish at the
very end, but still very, very
close. I want to see if SSG
have got something sneaky up
their sleeves. I'm going to say
sneaky. I mean, we're just
going to see the whole capacity
I think this is so interesting when you see two teams like this who haven't necessarily played each other in this bracket, but like to say they've screened each other so much.
And so you know each other's secrets at this point, and we haven't necessarily seen it played out in public.
And so based on the maps you're going to pick here, the bans they're going to get out, that obviously kind of telegraphs to us what they respect from the enemy team and where they think they have the advantage.
the advantage because I couldn't necessarily tell you right now like what does what is the upper hand
for SSG in this one we know that us fuel is so great well they like to you know pick where we're
in but even on a map like Ilios right there you know she on tracer mauga um that is still a little
bit different from what we saw from them and they're going to ban the jetpack at second
whereas they dominated with it against team liquid it's crazy and of course we were going to a
a game type like this and a map like this too because they don't want to have Dallas
fuel being able to speak to Rodo.
It was going to happen.
And guess what?
Dallas fuel would not have made the same mistake.
They would have banned the tank to try and protect and they would have been chilling.
Now the Sigma banned the fair says, Gene, don't hate to eat them, but like, where does
Kellan pivot to from here on this map?
It's got to be the Malga short.
The Malga mirror.
Yeah.
That's what it feels like it's going to be.
I mean, Dallas fuel.
Cassidy's too like yeah without the without the with the Cassidy band first on Ilios and now they
cat down on the injunction you can kind of like okay well we obviously respect this is G's
Sky Nude potential with the Cassidy and the cat and so okay it's pretty early read on this series
that will give us some more information as this series goes on more and more maps are played
in this one and the Sigma band makes sense as well it's obviously something that Killen played
quite a bit off already earlier on in alios but also in the matchup against
here like we just saw and so taking that out of the hands of
hell I was going to force a little bit of an adaptation here
you know they need to add to this map
like a slammed wide body looks like
like a GTR or something like a slam he's car posting his car posting
Yeah, and it's like Stunt, it's like Stunt Stop 2, so the wheel was a little bit like pointed out too. You need to have one of them.
I know the futuristic cars, a lot of them hover, but you can still have the Stunt, I reckon, with the little hover jets.
What kind of stuff?
I was gonna ask the grandfathers today, are we going, are we gonna lay down on the couch and watch Tokyo Drift?
Haha, maybe.
Dude, it's a good count.
One of my favorite games of the time.
Alright, then we're gonna make a peek from Sugar Free.
A second way to peek is Sugar Free.
back to me okay so this is a look we're pretty familiar with for space station
gaming well I'll put lethal on the ash changing to cast those sojourn instead
but this is a look we're very familiar with sugar free on the make we've spoken
so much in depth about how sugar free syrup was just so far so deep in this
moment in time this Megan's Helen Helen has to play all the way in the back
Otherwise, he's gonna have to fear this just getting walled up and then shot up by every other member
Luckily though the post-art torpedo is gonna help secure the kill on to lethal
Yeah out on a small iceberg there in the middle of nowhere walks himself up, but surely is gonna succumb to
Yeah, SSG they've been leaning on this mate. They've done both the team liquid and doing it once more here against Dallas fuel
Gives them such a benefit here in the front line, but Dallas fuel
They knew this was coming their way, and now they have to play with pace instead.
Can they utilize the aggression from Sunja's teleporter, or the overarm from Kelan, and
do what they just did?
Get on top of someone from SNSG, get an early pick on Talitho.
Getting into an early man advantage, that's going to be what Navel tells you to also live
this way.
Right, slowly destroy and make their way past the statue.
It's going to be wall after wall, is what they're going to look for.
Good shot onto chronic
That a cover for mere moments before he got taken down trying to line up a shovel look amena but moving a little bit too good from the Juno
Big disadvantage this Malcom too is you're taking so much poke from the soldier and easy railguns and easy blizzard charge
Look at Shifreeka already. They've got two ticks
They're forcing the back blizzard in the choke stopping them from touching the point and now
Now, Kellen completely isolated, Karagash overrun, and they bust through the wall, and now they can rush.
Space station gaming have already lost lethal as Kellen sets up, maybe even for a cage fight, as Sugarfree just can't stand up to Kellen's might in this frontline.
More conventionally falls over. Almost a perfect plan, I'd say, from space station.
Sugarfree put that blizzard down, that should have been it, but Dallas Fuel had the forethought there.
Break open the wall, use the orbital ray to push in and save Kellen.
And also the discipline from Dallas Fuel recognizing there that
Kela's going to overrun across the Blizzard, get the point touch to buy enough time to wait out that Blizzard
and then they end up training well in the kitsune or just themselves.
That's three, two and a half minutes gone for us this year.
It's 11 over the Reinhardt, but Lethal's gonna have to open things up with his overclock.
The wall from Sundan though is going to be pivotal.
They're gonna go on and release, try to overclock, but the wall's gonna come out tonight, Lethal.
all the line of sight's possible. Yeah, goodbye. We're just gonna wait. That's no problem for us. We're happy with that trade and now any of it remains.
KSR here from Kelham. Admiral's going to drop this orbital ray, which will give the extra SSG, but if Kelham can trap someone with the KSR and isolates them, that could be the case.
There it is already. A big spree inside the cage as well. Everybody strapped up as Karan
against two. An orbital ray fight that SSG needed to win. Forty seconds from me. Not
only one ult coming up here for fuel, but it's a ray into a cage fight. Fair SSG.
They essentially have to replicate what Dallas Fuel just did to them. Have to play with aggression
with this cage fight all towards the point. Look at me now, desperately trying to build
This is over the rate on it over the order any active
Okay, instant radio that was so perfectly popped case gonna get deleted talk now on the point
And he has to be there is 15 seconds to go the Reapers already use rightful try and get away pulse our torpedo sent downtown as the
Sunsion Reaper teleports forward and pigs off UV
This is a full potential on neon junction a
Victory Russian a victory lap for the Dallas fuel
83% Johnny to ticks the space station. That's all they're gonna get. I mean Dallas fuel
they've played that perfectly and chronic here with this free inside a cage fight SSG with their
own cage fight. They didn't really have that same aggression. It came out a little early like you
said but also the follow-up just really wasn't there you kind of hoping that sugar-free is maybe
able to pick apart the enemy Mauga, then the orbital ray comes online for Dallas
Fuel. The aggression from Dallas Fuel playing this Mauga was just brilliant.
Honestly, they understood the game plan and the win condition so well and every
player came in clutch for them. On that one and now SSG. It has to be said, just
moments away here. I'm going down 0-2, yet another grand finals.
Two deaths as well.
You want to carry on the conversation about the number two?
Almost put it a letter. I almost called the number two a letter.
Two deaths for the fuel on their defense.
Space station, they're pulling it back out.
They've got the May on defense.
For this time, leave them on the bastion.
No cat, of course. It was banned.
So just the plain bastion against the Dallas fuel.
You really have to be perfect with these forms
Hawk on the map. Um, Hawk on the round. We got Kellan on Malga
Double sniper to start out little scouts
No headshots though
Is they go for full flight?
Genji against the bastard mate. I mean who's checking you?
Yeah, it's a rare sight I mean SSG they're playing a pretty cool down reliant composition here being cool down from me
the turret form like you said Hawks them as it's more Dallas fuel now they can
take these angles they can pick their boys and when would it want to engage
here tell us already go for it they both war already killing has to get in
Sonjin goes down to a mean left hook or hold but they trade for lethal remember
Dallas fuel if they get trade that's good they got a way better spawns right
now and they're even just gonna put themselves on the point Hawks gonna get
stunned by the override Johnny put your hands up bro it's over already space
PlayStation Gaming are going to fall flat on their face on Neon Junction.
This was their pick, their fan first.
That's the two ticks required.
Dallas Fuel, two, zero lead in the series and first to four, they're halfway there.
Wow, SSG just falling flat these last couple of rounds.
That was just not what you wanted to see from them on their own map.
You have a lot of faith in this may perhaps playing this pro from position
And Dallas you just flipped all of that on its head playing the symmetric playing the mage
I just look this forward. It's absolutely brutal
Sunshine dying twice chronic dying once
Kallinom is seeing a 10k damage
from his farm I
I
That was one of the deaths. Oh my poor chronic
And I want to bring up something that we saw in this fight Johnny or even this fight in the fight previous
The tempo in which the Dallas fuel are playing too. They are taking fights like an extending pass statue
where
SSG I don't think are even kind of ready for that. It's like hang on a sec
We have the mate we control 10 not you guys
But Dallas feel like you got a mate
Yeah, which one to get in there just scrappy it you burn the what you burn the ray as we are cage spring like
And then sugar free as well look on that last
Attack or a last defense
He burnt wall and he's
130 something HP hops the wall up and choke and it's like
Okay, we just run it you like you know what it means the tempo game is just perfect from the fuel
but it's almost like there are small mistakes too. That wall is so valuable against those tanks,
so valuable. And you're burning it that early just to escape. The timing is perfect from the
Dallas Fuel. Just the way they set up on that attack as well, like you couldn't really see all
of it while it happened, but you obviously have Genji setting up on one side, Xi on the wrapping
around on the left hand side, Kelis wrapping out on the right hand side, hoping the cardiac
overdrive which kind of forces the attention of SSG and then Dallas Fuel. Well okay, or Xi on
It's just kind of free farming on an off angle because Kellan is drawing so much attention on to this maga
And then as well on the defense like the timing to turn with the orbital ray the aggression with the cage fight
Just in complete control here
Dallas fuel and SSG are going to go ahead and pick to rado here the one saving grace now
They got about SSG is that the cat Cassidy is available to play for them here
and Dorado is a real good map for it.
And they ban Winston, right?
You look at that last map, you're like,
I'm not impressed.
I'm not impressed with that Dallas Fuel.
Yeah, you are, but we're not impressed.
I think that's our kind of sentiment
when we came out of that last series to be fair, Johnny.
I mean, you said at the very end of the map,
yeah, Dallas Fuel, like they won,
but it didn't feel like they were in full control.
So maybe this is kind of beating Dallas fuel to the punch
See if they say so she do ban Winston. Yep, they do of course they do and bashings get banned but that's cool
You can't have it both you can't save
the
Tank van. Oh, sorry, you can't save the like the DPS the bashing or anything like that if you want to ban the Winston
and if you want to
Save your bashing save on your DPS. You can't then ban the Winston. So we're not gonna see cap bashing. We will be seeing cap
Yeah, it's just like, yeah, SSG, they maybe would have liked to play something like the
Bastion Cassidy, like you say, and there's obviously forces sugarfree's hand just a little
bit here. Curious now to see what this is. He decided to play here because they could
double down on something like the Sigma in the main. We saw the other day. And then you
just kind of let, you know, you let the captain, the Cassidy fly around and do their thing
in the sky. But then you're also putting a lot of pressure onto the objective. And obviously,
You're playing the Siegman the May as well, depending on what cell you're on place.
That's going to give you an upper hand in the front line for SSG here.
So, a couple of options here still, but let's see what TelosFuel decide to do with these pants in place.
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Do they play slow because I Johnny I was also thinking like hang on
What if we just see Hawk Diva instead if they want to play a little bit more quick like
We can play safe, but we could also see deeper come out from all not like Kallin's gonna matter because the last time they did that
It was kind of disastrous
Alright, first of all, it matters a lot whether you're on attack or defense. That's going to be quite critical here.
But I think if Kellan goes towards something on defense, if Kellan goes towards something like the Sigma, and I think SSG would be quite happy with that.
You know, the wrecking ball, we've seen a limited amount of time, I don't think it's as meta as it probably was previously.
Well, previously when Dallas Fuel, they loved to play right about all the time, but I don't think they had a way with that as much anymore.
And that would kind of like, forfeits the objective, the payload on those two SSG scenario like this.
So, yeah, I'm kind of curious here to see what Dallas Fuel, what kind of pace they want to play around this.
Obviously, with the cat available, Lukimino is going to lock it. I think you have to play into this now.
But how do you take care of Kellan in the meanwhile?
A wise point, Johnny. Johnny the wise, that's why they call you that.
defense
for the Dallas fuel
Yeah, Kellan is gonna be on the stigma, but Hawk he has a chance to choose the diva, but yeah, I
Don't
I'll put a green I think
Waiting for a mere moment here for SSG to decide what they want to do, but it's yeah, maybe it's just the
Sigma game man. I just like faster watch you can't
I mean, I'm just on the she on. Come on. Yeah, it's pretty quick. It's pretty quick.
It's very back on the bay. Yeah, I think you're not tacked. They'll just be so much
Court pressure. So great versus three, but I think Sunjan is going to be the real interesting
hero to keep an eye on in this match up now because as Sunjan is not going to play on
the court as much with Kellen kind of question of like how much something can help out in
this Calcule to an extent here oh here they go lethal and abron amral on their
own little adventure okay alright okay here which cat crash is better right now
is the Dallas fuel I just want to say by the way go on play like Dallas fuel in
your ankle like just swing in from the rooftops just get go go go aggressive
don't make no fear that's how you need to play overwatch I love you improve
honestly you die you make a mistake that you're still a learning
oh my god just push the card we got we got a man in a seam on the payload just
My favorite PMA tank, which is this is it about that my favorite PMA objective game is to use it
I too love being a palo princess
The side being is being contested
Trying to set up on an angle on the sigma. It's gonna get shot in the side
However by a song it's already got high new sky noons rock
Oh, little flashbang in the head shot.
So thank you very much.
Now, Kellen, by a very frosty demise, almost got that.
Flux too, an unfortunate timing there for the Dallas Fuel.
Playing SSG at their own game almost.
Yeah, it has to be said that this is going to be a long series, Jack.
This is the best of seven, and already two critical bands have been deployed from Dallas Fuel area.
This is G is able to play like this, play their only game, very much had the possibility of bringing this one back.
I've been dropped. My noon, sky noon, over the top, and where are they all in charge? Carrying inside.
They're going to try and get at least somebody good catnap combo, knocks Cullen to the ground as he was shooting the grass.
Instant kill onto the sigma.
It's going to be so much objective time here that'll see all the force to wait to be pushed back here
You know great job now. Oh
I wrote like that can wipe out the dinosaurs again. Hey now
That was use that's for all to us here
SSG, they've already pushed so far, like they just need to win one more teamfight and they've got the objective here on the second point already.
Lots of time, Dallas Fume put a stop to it here now, Kitsunorosh is deployed but a nice disengaged from SSG so far and they're still pushing.
Although, the Camino Contest coming through.
Straight, oh no, the Luchamino contest on the cat.
Well the catnap, who's it gonna be? It's gonna be Sugarfree?
Very good wall. The Flux does connect with at least two people there for Kellen.
That's going to signal the end of that fight.
Alright, but that was a bit of a feel-good fight, you know.
You got the Flux out, you're able to drop the Kitsune Rush there as well.
So, Dallas people, they reclaim this ground.
And obviously, what we talked about earlier now, they have this Sky Noon available.
So, this is this G here, but Dallas people have the positioning here for now.
I don't think SSG they're sweating too much after that fight, they're still not open at some point.
Spreeee, triple ult here for the space station.
Oh, he's just gonna go in with his free shot, why not?
And you can get out of there too if you need to.
Go straight back in for some more damage.
Sugafree drops the Blizz in his son.
Just think of that, maybe he sticks around.
But he does not.
Lethal does go in for some trades.
trade still Dallas fuel winning my goodness how many minutes have they
spent around this portion of the map over the last day it's an insane amount
of time now let's feel holding on we've been seeing quite a bit of the road out
in the sugar field look at the turn of fight there with the blizzard probably
trying to catch kill on Indian Sunjan there I love that spree usage knowing
that you're gonna commit this ultimate you've got the one pick kind of
required to open things up and then you clean things up chronic you know
Wait, I know.
Oh, they're both gonna pull him together! Straight behind the house.
Stoke running, just waiting, buying his time a little bit here.
Lukimino can fling him around. Oh, lethal!
Oh my goodness, the fastest 6-shooter there.
Here's the catnap from April 2.
It's gonna drag Kellan down to the point.
Flux is gonna connect with him too.
A missed rock, cause Horg dodges out of the way.
Sonsha's not gonna live too much longer here as we see Chronic on Widow to try and get a miracle pick.
He's now just gonna int onto-
Oh! That flick was nice! Not good enough though.
I'll put it in the highlights before you die, Chronic, don't worry.
I'll see you die one of the replay package.
I got my one. I got my one.
SSG here.
Then me, I'm telling you.
He's been working wonders for them.
That time, Leafle opening things up with the dead eye and now you can go ahead,
Push this high ground probably as well that'll seal quite a couple of ultimates here though
They got the kids you know is available for them. It's gonna be a massive edge here in this one, but again, just keep pushing the objective
Okay
He's kind of insane how good of an off-fangler
She is
The sun gym that is on it all the flux not quite
Looks like we have to dodge out of the way and still kill two. I don't know how
She's such a good off-angular being up to stay alive for that long
All right one at this point in time with two minutes to go
Every fight does matter in every interest space at this point also matters. This chronic is a legit sky grap
And look it's going to be another sky room just a matter of time here
Door lethal, it actually goes for it.
That's a bit of a timing here.
He's getting double-skined here.
Not quite, here comes lethal over the top.
Oh, swinging a bit this time around.
The killin' still goes dangerously low.
Sugarfee with a nice little right knee.
He's gonna finish him off in the end.
Spree on the high ground.
Sonjun at least cleans up one, but a bussy.
2v4 is not a place that Sonjun or the Dallas Fuel
wanna be in.
A blizzard in the back pocket of Space Station,
as well as two support ults with a team kill.
Hitting Dallas Fuel.
Yeah, this is going to have to be a miracle.
a miracle from Connie if they want to survive this one. Lizard in the choke, they're gonna
send the bike in and already the Malch is on the point, Sky Noon. Oh, the rock is unbelievable
from Hawk! The Sky Noon surely would have been his demise too. The Katnab, the Flux,
they've just got too much, it's over here. There's just no way. Space station gaming,
50 seconds left in the time bank
And an increase in Jaws
I wouldn't say that
If you're the caster in that moment, you're asking your cat for a little bit more mobility
Maybe fly around make it a little bit tougher to hit that one, but I don't think I've ever seen my creation like that one
That was a lot. I'm glad we got the POV POV
It's 20 million years ago, and you have the dimes to find the dimes sorts look at me
except they will see the other way around
besides we shot from the ground this night
yeah it wasn't from the sky yeah it was the opposite
what's that big rock?
what's that rock doing?
I'm not sure what they were, maybe they were that conscious I'm not sure
one of life's greatest mysteries draws
we're not getting into this
The door is open bro. You can't walk through the door.
Dip in our toes into how much consciousness did dinosaurs have, but if they really set in their own minds.
What is that rock doing in that sky? We're not.
Look, I'm moving to all perspectives. If Twitter has something to say about it, I'm here for it. I'm all ears.
It's probably on fire right now. I don't want to, I dare look and I never will.
Alright, it's the compact.
It's one of the few things no one really knows anything about, you know?
Oh, there's a person in that.
They'll reveal.
Quite.
Then this is the combat, this is just so good with this one.
The Sky Noon, the Cat's Combat.
Oh, that is.
That is a real nice.
They're expecting that one though, even the Widowmaker.
They've gone on the bear of Dallas Fjord.
At least on the latter half of that map.
You'll see how they fare now.
With Sugarfree on defense, mate.
Yeah, at least now when Sugarfree is on the defense here.
that is going to allow you to take some more wide angles here on the open
dungeon drops already talked about it so that's terrible news. I'm going to set you back here for a
little bit like sure if it looks real annoying here but at the end of the day I think now let's do
whatever third time. It was so rough for the cap. Hang on a second. What? In the grand finals?
Sanjin decides, you know what, she or not for me. Let's go to the other new DPS.
Go for the hard run instead. It's gonna be after I manage to get away to lethal very low.
Look at this high ground control, this dominance from the Dallas Fuel.
Sanjin does end up going down and they trade lethal for both Sanjin and Kellan.
payload gradually being pushed by Lukamino. They've got bodies, they've got the spawn,
they just need to wait for Kellan to find some control.
This is G2, a great job though, stalling out for the time being here, and this G2 has
plenty of ulti as a level 3.
Now, that was huge, looking for answers with this on run.
Clearly we've been seeing it more, so the players they respected bought Sunjin and Dice
to the cap this time around.
That's a great look, we're experimenting, we're trying to cook.
Surely we're in the grand finals.
We're experimenting now?
Okay, Sunjin is going to change to Tracer, didn't even earn the Ascent either.
A little sad.
High noon, high noon. Where is it? Oh lethal. Well, it gets Lukavino, but chronic gets his mark.
Well that, the Flugs looking a little dire there from Port 2, dives him to the mix as well straight into the boxing ring.
His hands are a little bit bittier than Chronic's luckily.
They'll smash the face and there's the kidnap. A good rock on Sekellen stops his own rock,
but not a lot of health remaining, especially with losing April.
Two, there is a Blizzard on the point,
Kellen survives it.
Lukimino throws an offer,
second another war to try and keep that Kellen once again,
but a flag still in his hand.
It's even a rush too.
This emergency ult being popped by Space Station,
they're breaking the glass on both the Blizzard and the rush,
and they don't get anything done.
Yeah, look, that is such an important part of the map that,
as you see, they feel committed, happily throw those ults down,
but Dallas Fuel are going to come out on top of it.
At least giving them an opportunity here on the offense.
And try and bring this one back.
Now though, without this Cassidy, again,
it's going to put a lot of pressure on the chronic and sundry here.
You just keep things going.
Every other fight, lethal, it's going to have a great time.
With this data about this fight, not so much.
Not so much.
Early season usage from UD, post-lob on the wall.
Here comes the Flux, insult to Injury's catalyst.
right two low health supports up to the sky couldn't even heal each other and
as soon as that Susie goes off that is a go sign for Kellogg or any Sigma player
to be fair
that was fuel pushing this cart forward yet again there SSG this we take we're
going to have the May so you should be able to get some angles quite reliable
here to set up your Cassidy's dungeon. Already trying to wrap around there as a CSG now pulling through bank.
I see doing great job of setting up their team here. They just want to be able to
poke at that last fuel from so many angles. Pressure on the kill line here, drop slow.
You know, at least seriously what is this bank robbery that is happening right now?
Ultraviolet, sugar-free dead. Hawk was on this high ground as well, Johnny. He wasn't interfering
in that fight. It was literally, what, 2 DPS, 2 support? Purses each other.
well they're gonna be able to push the payload under the bridge but it still has
to be said Dallas feel need to group is five retake high ground themselves we
take it themselves indeed they have a few ultimates available here but they're
so they're going to be so prepared for this guy new and see if I'm winning
right they see the cat and the church as well the cobalt stores on the screen and
Oh! Perfectly timed again. Same situation from Apple.
Hits the catnap on two players and it's a free double this time.
This guy knew. What a combo.
And if you could just win with that, I mean, that's great news for SSG here.
Estella's fuel, it feels like they're just trying to hold on in this one.
They're just trying to give themselves an opportunity to steal this map
because SSG has just been in full control with this may available to them
and this feared cab-cast of a combo from SSG.
See if that was really something that was a minute left.
Plenty of ultimates on their side.
Sonjin getting a little freaky on the payload right now,
on to one-fifth sugar-free of all people.
The spree from Lethal, when, uh, from Kronik ends up killing Lethal.
Blisted on high ground.
Quick descent from Kellan, but he's now six feet under.
Or gets lifelines, and it should be a fairly easy fight for Space Station,
you've got to imagine.
Although the Catnap is going to pinch the other cat to the ground.
to the ground. I'm not sure how Lukame is going to survive this.
Approximately on the wall for Sunjin. Shaced down by Aphralt, and it's now we enter close
to the final fight for the Fuel. 40 seconds left in the time bank.
They just haven't been able to find the picks with the wire. With this damaged duo of their
space stationing full control, with this mate, you have the flux available. You're thinking
Lethal is going to get to another one of these dead eyes as we approach overtime here. Dallas
fuel they need to take advantage of this keeps in our timing looks like the
whole now looks to kill him to the end of grabbing I think lethal in bank oh
this is so good a picture perfect pixel perfect shield from Kellen stops that
rock connecting and now they've got a rush remember UV uses in that last fight
Hawk now checking his bank account balance but it might be just about empty
he's been forced all the way back and I've son just shooting him in the back
he's from the three different directions so once but it's on to him playing
distraction in the back line. UV had no say in that fight and Lukimino I think
got three kills too. A minute and twenty seconds to go for Dallas Fuel. It's the
cap second. So one last opportunity here now for Dallas Fuel in this one. They
had to spend a lot of their ultimate bank and you're once again fearing this
guy noon coming out from lethal. But if you can just survive this one it is pretty
close cornered so maybe you can give yourself an opportunity to stay safe as
as it comes through here.
Oh, the wall.
The wall is really nice.
Kellen's trapped.
Nice little shooting there.
Make sure that one of the pillars ends up going down.
No Skynoons just yet,
but the threat is always going to be there.
Catnap, into ceiling wall.
Lukamino's in trouble though.
The perfect get out of jail free card.
Lukamino shot dead in the streets of Dorado.
Space station gaming.
Still with time they need to fend off.
There's 30 seconds to go.
They're gonna try and keep that Kellen.
In fact, it's gonna try and just get this free kill.
He's meant to stay alive for so long though,
but not until Sugarfree chases him down.
Johnny, this is final fight and they're close to the spawn.
This is final fight indeed.
And this is where Sugarfree's may gets even better
on the third point like this.
SSG now surely with all the clues available,
scouting out the tracer touch here as well.
Who can come up close here for the last few?
Oh, he's hitting that flourish again.
I'm scared.
Trailer moment is gonna happen in the moment.
Blizzard, Rush, Touch for the Fuel, and High Ground for Lethal.
Dodges the Rock playing in the Rush, Kellan's gonna hit the Flugs.
A Flashbang would be golden right now, but that's Dodge out of the way.
The Spree on the High Ground to try and mix the Flugs, but there's no kills for the Fuel.
It's absolutely nothing.
Blizzard, Trop, Sungen has to touch again, Post-Bomb in the hand, still shooting Sugar-Free,
pips out the wall behind him so he can't finish off the kill.
Lethal now down, and now Sungen's actually getting checked by Hawk.
It's too many fights happening all at once here, as Dallas Guild are still touching.
There's going to be a stick in the corner, Hawk still alive, and actually, Luke Amino comes up with another!
Dallas Fuel, still in this one. They managed to stay alive, they managed to get value over time, and now SSG, they're going to come back with these flocks.
CJ needs to build his Kitsune Ocean time.
He's here to shine Suzu as well. Is it a nice shoot too, Barley?
Keller's going to be in trouble, Kitsune Ocean's going to come out of the sky now from the flank! It's just massive! It just needs a connection!
Ultravider already down, he ends up hitting only a single person, but it might be enough.
Luke Camino tries for the kidnap, Kellan hitting the cross really early on.
But it's a 2v3.
The spawns advantage here for Space Station.
They shut the door on the fuel, on to Rado.
As they finally find a map in the series.
And maybe an opening now versus G to get themselves back into this series.
Looking so confident now on the cast of either Cap, the May.
Just a phenomenal comp for them and they take down Dallas Fuel on the Rado out of all maps.
It wasn't Dallas Fuel to give them that thought until the very end.
Still feeling comfortable on this tracer and this Shion composition.
They got one hell of a series in store for us here Jaws.
I want to cast your mind back back to stage one how that series with Dallas and SSG went down
Dallas wins control ssg pick hybrid Dallas win hybrid ssg they pick escort ssg win escort
oh you you win your scripts then flashpoint was chosen and we round it out on push
We'll see where we go, we'll see where we go, the flash point and push are available.
I'm just saying, I'm feeling rather familiar here.
And these combos, I want to point this out, the Sky Noon has been the bread and bar for
SSG over the tournament and it's kind of an added layer now, where they're adding in
the cat map to guarantee kills on a tank.
It's been really nice to watch the evolution of this small comp, it's been really cool to see.
Yeah sometimes it's not even about kidnapping someone from the enemy team, it's like if you can land a stun onto a spree coming out from a shean,
if you can land a stun like you say on the middle of someone's grasp on the enemy tank, that's enough sometimes to combine and just secure that frag all right.
I wonder here if we're going to see something like a new drunk city come out
Just to make it more difficult for SSG to play and the cat and the Cassidy
Obviously, there will be a couple of points on a map like that
You can still bring it out. No doubt that SSG the way they're looking like this
They're going to try to play this comp wherever they can because it's so clearly the advantage
They have or the good else fuel and meanwhile Dallas fuel game plan. It's just like, okay
Well, we've dished out our two bands. We got our two map wins
How do we secure two more map wins in this series?
It has probably to be a map like New Junk City.
Cinema. We're going to a Flash Boiler.
Alright. It was Surabasa last time. Not in the map.
New Junk City is the choice.
Yeah, you kind of called it. Like, you've got five seconds a day.
I mean, it's probably the most predictable map in the pool, okay?
Let's just pause.
If someone puts a new junk city to be picked, that's probably the most easily telegraphed map pick.
If you like the new junk city comps, then New York City is by far the best map for it.
It's essentially like paint folk and picking certain reality.
It's like, okay, well, we don't want any cats. Let's go to New York City.
Maybe that's just my Swedish way of... don't be too impressed by my prophecies.
Alright. Zarya for the Dallas Steel, they're gonna take that one off the table. Oh, we
play another. Alright. We're playing some sort of rush. And Kiriko banned by SSG. Alright.
Pretty forced in the hand here in the field. Yeah, this really opens the door for SSG to
play some interesting support lines here. Dallas Fuel you're probably thinking that
like maybe they would have even rolled out with something like Seeking a Caricol in this
one SSG now. They played a lot of booyah on this map, although that's kind of like them
as signature hero on the map like this and the enemy team's only way to shut it down
is essentially if you play a Shion and a Tracer, which Dallas Fuel are very much capable to
So maybe we'll try to feel as if this is incentivizing enough to play a hero like that
But I feel like the Kerakobat is one that like usually throws a invention that works for most teams
There is such a pivotal hero in so many compositions
All right, here we are fourth map first to fourth grand finals here in North America
Dallas feel once again taking
it. SSG looking to replicate that in this series. I don't think Kala is going to play
the Lionheart. I have Lucio. Lucio is there. I mean maybe if you if you play the Sin, yeah
okay with the Sin. You know probably that the Risa's gonna come out. Okay here we go.
I mean it's a better look with the Lucio and the Sin whereas Liquid didn't show that the
the other day so I can actually see it worth here. Okay, 10 minutes over here. Yep, 10
minutes off. Now let's kill them and fight them inside. This is it, this is the comp.
We run at people, we kill them. Goodbye, ultraviolet. Goodbye. Oh, would you wear out to the position
by a pixel? Oh, let us pay you a quick visit. I mean, this is where the Zarya vans comes
to play as well because Hark probably would have relied on the Zarya. It's a hero that
I can get pretty consistent value, but then instead over onto the
Orisa here now, so I can play the Symmetra.
So this is still lethal though, finding a pick here, and
I think it's difficult, of course, it's just going to be a point cap here.
Of course, anything's impossible though. I mean, Luke and Mina going down, you cannot
stick in the same spot. If you're facing this game, you need to be permanently rotating.
Two teams, or two comps that do two very different things.
One team, deathball 5, TP speed, other team 2 players on perma flank.
Is it deathball?
Oh, try to come down again.
Oh, yeah, no, I was stuck down by the turret as well.
Unfortunate.
And now they just need to, yeah, just continue.
Watch their backs.
Kronik has to have their eyes in the back of his head right now
to make sure this Tracer or make sure this Shion doesn't get away with murder.
Sugarfree's already found a Lucio, but no, this time Kronik ends up going down to lethal.
Dalisfuel slugged the point cap away however.
With a window and fire strike, that's a hefty amount of damage, but no one's gonna be killing that.
Yeah, at the end of the day, the Rhino are past the advantage when it comes to the objective time of space station.
They're showing patience right now.
The way they're flanking around, picking apart this Dalisfuel composition.
Just look at the health bores!
Dalisfuel won't last for long.
Alright, well, UV gets his revenge.
It does take the question because the Suncors fallacy at this point, the little creature
in my brain is like, well, I want to say Rhin.
But no, the creature in Kellan's brain is telling me, telling him, go D.Va.
I mean, first of all, props for Space Station 4.
Now Leafle over onto the sea on their plane with Paisal, whilst making the Wu Yang work
here.
They're playing this real well around Dallas Fuel.
Dallas Fuel's looking to get the touch here.
Oh, are they gonna get touched? They do, they're very in there.
Auburn's race is gonna get propped to CJ. I mean, this is always gonna do much of this little kite corridor, but that wall definitely will.
Final blast on to Hawke. CJ gets knocked down. A lot of commotion in the bottom half of this point.
Dallas Fuel still managed to sneak away to flip for the second time as Sugabree gets snipped out.
It's Kellen, D.B. doing a little bit of work.
Teleports for high ground above Hawk, as Hawk tries to make his escape.
He has gone golden.
This is Chase Sava.
It's nice to get out and lay the LOS to Dallas Fuel as they go for a quick reset for this final fight.
And I think if you go to Dallas Fuel, you have to play proactively with this amplification matrix.
Get up teleport into somewhere Spacish and doesn't suspect.
You get that first pick.
This window is going to be awkward to use for Lukamino.
On the rotations it's going to be tough, they're still going to be fairly quick to catch up to your position, but on this high ground it's going to be so easy.
Oh, they just let the cap go! Oh, they did it really early, that was well!
Lukavino's in trouble! He's already been speared to the wall now, they're trying to dance around this window, but C.J. still ends up going down.
Lukavino incredibly low, has to hit the shift on himself and ultra-violet, just spamming the left click onto Kella.
No healers for the Dallas field! Easy pick into SSG.
I mean, it's just no shot, right? There's no shot, Kellan's safe alive long enough to even survive for Lukimino and Tijic to come back.
Self destruct on top of the point, dies to a bike. Nope, and there it is. SSG, first point.
Now, Lukimino was under so much pressure there, you just saw the amplification making barely got any value because SSG had set up beautifully.
And on the back of that, SSG go up 1-0 here on New Junk City.
Dallas fuel questioning the execution there on the very first point and
Kellan sticking with this diva now. Like you say, we're so committed now.
CJ is 50% on the way to beat playing the Lucian situation like this,
but I'm much favors as G composition here.
Yeah, I, I'm very much do as well. Double support. Oh, too.
I mean, that only needs so quick.
Would you matter healing that hope needs me slides? Is he such a big target?
I mean part of the issue is here just the Kiriko back where does the backline really
go if you're gonna start making swap like this I think like we could go towards looking
mean of some cat, cannot go into move over to the Vimalga in this one. So now
Chronic and Serger are playing the Shion and the Tracer. This is at least going to put more
pressure on the Ultra Violet and she maybe can't get away with their
composition as much. I mean this feels so much better now. Two players on the point
with the Fuel by the way. Space Station Gaming used the Rey in show to try and
find the straggling members of the Fuel. They don't end up getting them but then
And again, Dallas Fuel also don't cap, so they don't get flicked.
Rey's been traded, Terrasir grabs two players, back up arrives, Spree from Lethal on this
high ground, does a little bit of damage to Chronic's jaw, but a boot kill onto UV after
that beat drops.
Yeah, it's a great sound barrier from CJ actually, she's going to secure this fight
win here.
If nothing is unprecedented happening here, indeed.
So great job by CJ there dropping to sound barrier at the perfect time to protect from
that spree of lethal and Dallas fuel now survived by the skinner the teeth in
this one is to get a chance to once more play with this amplification matrix but
just look at the angles that SG are already taking wrapping all the way
around this point making sure that each player has their own point of attack
Sunjin though looking to contest Sunjin or sugarfree rather
One clip, not quite, a little bit too spawning with it.
The contrains are getting traded though, Lukamino is going to pop that window, but there's too many players out of the way.
See she gets it, wait, hang on, see she gets another poof on UV.
I don't really see a replay of that. Alright, let's go Kronik and up going down, it's a very messy fight.
Very messy fight indeed.
This Kaelan is happily just building even more percentage to this cage fight in control of it as well
You kind of need someone from this year to step up
Get a pick or so shoot a free lethal
I was gonna give that a value and now Kaelan has the cage fight here. The crossings out
Okay, spring. I mean, it's the perfect combo, right? Yeah, Kronix is gonna go straight in UV
He's just running away. He's getting a boot again. CJ goes for his third boot on UV off the map
But it is all chronic here in this fight double kill with the spree a title blast but chronic still behind them
He's still shooting. He's still getting the headshots to April goes down and yet UV is not long for this world either
Tage spree combo is just so nasty and that is a point for the fuel
And after Dallas fuel they swapped over to this shield and tracer
No doubt ultra while it's been under so much pressure now playing the woo-yang got less value that team fight around
And so Dallas fuel making the damage drops necessary to make things more difficult this park now goes over to the diva
That will obviously help a little bit here with the defense matrix
But Dallas fuel with all the momentum for the time being
Yeah, all the momentum I think that's
The very good work we're saying this fight up
We're now you can be there you switch I think against this one. You want to use it early? Yeah, there it is
They're gonna have to get on a different angle now, spreading the backline water chase on CJ.
It's just not even fair that all against Alucio.
You're trying to wall-ride, you're trying to get out, they're trying to LOS.
But they've got a couple of dashes and so much damage.
Good clean team kill from SSG.
So they get this first point cap.
And look at me now, it's offing over to the moira here now.
So here we saw from simple un-plisted mines.
When you play against a composition like the Shion of the Tracer here,
You're under so much pressure as to flex support in this lineup that the Moira at least gives you the opportunity to give you some extra mobility.
You can play more with these flankers on your team, so this hero pick definitely makes sense in a very niche scenario like this one.
Be careful these all sometimes they could be by hold pretty easily look at Oaks the violet man
How much of the bouncy on that guy's head?
Good sound barrette from CJ
He's gonna resolve in one kill can they continue this one? Yes, it looks like it. Okay
They lost and if they lost that fight, I think I lost my mind to be honest here Johnny, but space station
They got a decent percent 72 after the end of that
And so, Lethal finally makes a swap over to the Cassidy here now. Instead of betting on that,
they can't keep up with the pace that Velostream are bringing with the Moira,
especially in these flankers, but they're instead going to double down on the defense matrix and
the Cassidy can pick them apart before the dive is successful. Yeah, oh man, look at that.
I think that's a perfect point. The amount of healing the Moira outputs is just honestly not
enough. She's used all of the spray and then the orb, but if the orb is eaten as well, that's the
Feeling there's like nothing there and Kallen needs so much of it
He has so little armor compared to the diva and doesn't have a matrix to stop himself from taking damage
Case fight in the coalescence, there's the Orbiteray, Lincoln already down, still though so low it's Hawking
Out the backline, once again chronic with these sprees, the value he is getting cannot be understated
I mean, the flankers have been so impressive from Dallas Fuel in a scenario like this,
but now with those ultimates out of the way, those SSG have an even better chance of entitled
ass available for them as well.
Oh!
Who's going to kill Stone though?
He does some bubblejacks though, so he's kind of chilling for this next fight, but
I don't think they might even get one.
I mean, look at this percent already, 85.
Another early aggressive push in.
Oh, an April picked.
I mean, there's a chance for a touch for your down, Admiral.
Sugarfree's been forced out of the fight as well.
This, yeah.
Wow.
Proactivity is the name of the game for the fuel.
It just looks so much better when they're bringing the tempo like this.
The hesitation earlier in this map, when they were playing the bat,
didn't work out for them now with the Moira here instead.
This has been their best trick.
Sugarfree's now over onto the Reaper to arguably help out even more here.
As you try to play more together with your team, Hawke with an early final to the point here, so that's probably going to buy you the point, but that's fuel. They're just charging right back in.
Yeah, they're inside the Blast on Hall, striking him in the mech. Very straight towards that Lucio.
I think at this point, Lu Camino, I would hazard a guess there might be a change, a swap in the horizon.
However, Saunchin and Chronic, the flankers again come up with kills. The backline is dead for SSG right now.
Hawke is on the point, Sugarfreak can also sustain himself, so the likelihood is Sonshin doesn't stay around here for long 15 HP, he gets out alive.
Oh, and they get Hawke's mech too! I mean, this is also perfect, they can throw in the coal if they really want to. Sky, noon, open the top, beat comes out, Kellan looking for this Reaper.
Sugarfreak down, and there's no one in sight for Lethal to shoot at.
So rare occurrence, not finding anything, but Lethal follows it up, getting a peek onto Chronic here.
Celebrate a winnable fighter, so I'm gonna drop to the post!
Oh, the post!
Oh, the Ruler of the Violet! That's the opening!
They've won the fight, no?
You can't save you, SCC!
An unbelievable extension of that fight, and they've got the coalescence!
Lucanino's really low, there's the cage, there's the cold!
Oh, Horde! Wrong place, wrong time, buddy!
Sugarfree and Aphralis are dead, and Horde is gonna get staggered too, surely?
Lethal is gonna go down and the baby diva so so sad three HP with a chance to remake
Oh, they're not gonna give him one
torturous a fair here
Everybody paddock everybody paddock hang on
Not as intended not as intended
20s that could have been just gonna last fight territory now. Okay, SSG they get an opportunity here
Still though, they have to rely on so much manual work for lethal.
Can that be available? They got the death gloss in two days to spree.
Oh, look at that! Cancelled the ult! Yeah, completely stunned out of it.
Okay, there's a remade available for SG as well. All right, orcs, cleaning things up.
But Dallas Fuel shrunk their shoulders with this fight.
We're gonna go next. We got 93. That's the last fight in our books if we get another cat.
Now maybe you're hoping that you win the next fight with Sky Noon, you start building some
more ult and it's just gonna rack up a couple, a few teamfight wins here for SSG and meanwhile
Dallas Fuel can buy their time here, take the right moment, there's the Sky Noon.
Sky Noon, oh he saw one sculled, waiting for another, doesn't get anybody at all, self-destruct
is gonna get mobbed by Horde, only one ult in the fight now and it's sugarfreeze, hasn't
got the ship though, goes for a TP instead, a kill on Luke and he knows good. Where's
the reach def SSG? They're gonna need to get out of there now.
Ssangjin goes down, any stagger picks from SSG are good, they're hunting for them, searching.
They only come out with Paedah.
And now, can you build a support ultimate quick enough? You're dead of skill, 65%.
I don't think they're gonna get these ultimates in time, it's gonna come down to Ssangjin
almost to get one of these pulse bombs. Would you rather have to deal with a rake? SSG are
favorite in this one.
Hushes, hushes, 10% to go.
Sgt's already blown that recall as well, and it's getting hunted.
The quick map clip from the Dallas Fuel.
You wanna go deep, that's fine, we'll get on the point.
Superfree ends up here in the death blossom, onto Kwanakon TV, up into the high ground with the Orbiter Ray as well, in tow.
Dallas Fuel just so low, trying to make it back down to the center of the point to try and get out of the way of all this damage.
Kellen ends up falling over.
And that's gonna be the point.
A little flourish relief at the end.
That's 2 to 2 on Newjung City!
Yeah SSG, they stay alive, yet again!
So close to dropping this map.
Going down to 1-3, they stay alive on the back with this Cassidy gameplay.
Now they have another Sky Noon, they can really start rallying here.
If they win with this Sky Noon and Dallas Fuels don't get value from the support ultimates, that's trouble for Dallas.
Two seconds, one second. No, nothing found.
Too many high ground, too many low ground, too many bits of cover for the Dallas Fuel on this point.
Double support ult, one that you're probably happy to throw away, one that you can't even use now.
CJ dead, no beat, lethal traded. Still, catnap here to try and separate the fight.
Lukimino's got the call, supplements the healing and damage, and straight through Hawks' mech too.
He's so damn low, has to get out. Dallas Fuel are gonna get capped.
As you're looking for a dungeon, finish it off a frag onto sugar free here as well.
We're quite comfortable now.
Just winning this fight with a single coalescence.
That is brilliant news for Dallas Fuel now.
SSG Gold looking for answers on how to claw themselves back into this one.
You're chasing a cage fight, a spree, a sound barrier, sort of great defensive tool.
SSG, they need something a little special to try and win one of these fights.
Yeah, these four ults are just so nasty.
You could argue each one of them a fight when it's two.
Chasing Orc around.
Already half HP.
Kellen looking for someone to cage.
Abrol looking for someone to catnap.
They're hunting for these stray players that may be out of position.
Scree from chronic is going to get unleashed first, but their supports are in space station.
Just more than safe.
Now Sondren, screaming fail, screaming for something, the cat down for the cage, and the sound barrier too!
Oh, this is a fight, the SSG are destined to lose, and maybe even a map too!
This 80% shotty and SSG are out of answers, they're out of fuel!
They're out of everything!
Sugarfree dies, Hawke is back into the met of Pogspawn to get the D suit.
They don't need a stagger, they don't need anything else!
The Dallas, the old, locked the fourth map down
and find themselves on match point in the Grand Finals.
And with the Moira no less,
like the great adaptation in the middle of this map
to deal with what SSG were throwing at their away SSG,
kind of hoping that he'd get that Sky Noon
back in time for them.
But he's trying to open that fight up,
but no going for lethal this time around.
That is why this map was so Dallas and Keele favoured, but now with a couple of hero bands
deployed on the Cassie and Cat with Newjunk City out of the mix here, does SSG have what
it takes to win three maps in a row?
Or is it just too much to bear?
It goes like Mines, of course, Daisy, you can ride that film, Johnny.
Same situation that SSG have been in.
They lose this map and in stage one, they lost the push to lose the title as stage one champions to the Dallas fuel.
Honestly, a masterclass on this map played in the Moira. It's such a, I'd say like a dangerous picking away.
You are trying to heal so much with so little it feels like a lot of the time because those orbs, they do get away from people.
They do get out of the fight, they get eaten and you are very vulnerable.
It's so hard for the Moira to stay up, to stay alive and also heal at the same time.
Really nice stuff.
This final fight, it was an old dump.
like spree into the cage into the into the beat drop when you get a few I mean
Callum with really nice positioning at the end amazing stuff from the fuel who
not only a couple of series ago Johnny they got three owed by Liquid like they
got done soon. I didn't expect them to come back like this on Sunday. First of all taking out
Team Liquid and now up 3-1 in the finals here against SSG they just had all the
answers with the Moira there. I mean, ultralylet kind of for like a brief stint showed the
Ana in the spawn and was like, okay, they're playing Moira. Can I get away playing the
Ana here and try to shut it down? But you're playing Ana into a Moira, a Shion and a Tracer.
Yeah, it's like, this is no way. Good luck. Yeah. How do you do with two bankers like
that? You can't, you only got one sleep dart. If Ana repart, which she buys three sleep
and then maybe it's doable you know.
Is it like a multi shot or like three charges?
No, multi shot.
So like a spread, like a shotgun almost, like a spread.
Like a demon hunter from Diablo.
Yes, exactly.
Two Queen streets is going to be the next map for SSG.
They take this, we get a map reset,
which means Dallas Steel gets to choose the final map.
So, where do we ban?
SSG?
Okay, it's going to be the Mauga taking off the table.
Dallas Fuel and Kallen, you know, doing a fairly decent job on that last map on the
Mauga.
But before they put their ban in, what do you think they end up picking up?
Because they've already banned what?
Zarya, Bastion, Kat and Kat.
What is their left?
I mean, they've banned so many things already.
don't necessarily think that this is the main map. It's so wide open. I don't think you
can get quite the value you'd need from May. There's so many flankers on the battlefield
as well. You can put pressure on the bot, but I don't think it's going to be useful here
enough. I mean, you could almost bat like an empirical away from SSG here. If you wanted
to play a bit more poke oriented Dallas here in the past on this map, they've played more
like a lorry kind of stuff. And so maybe you can get away playing that against a cat,
has to be kind of composition here from SSG otherwise though I even think this could be
a potential wrecking ball map from Kellon if you just wanted to go she on tracer wrecking
ball just full send it oh maybe why not full send the moira the moira fan oh my god actually
that's kind of like we're gonna play wrecking ball she on tracer and moira could be a potential
swap for ultraviolet. I don't know. I don't know. I'm over for sure.
I need to go and have a later. Wix is cooking, bro, in the back rooms right now. I already
know. I already know. Okay, a boy of a band. To be fair, dude, we're just going to win
this one anyway. But if we don't, that's fine. A bit more of a throwaway, maybe perhaps. You
like save another band later on for that last final map and that is kind of
crazy kind of saucy I think I think that's a great point of you to make as
well because Dallas Fuel now they're going to have a couple of map picks in
the reserve even if they lose this one and so something like a Mayban could
even be more potent down the line you don't need to force it straight off the
bat here on New Queens Street so Dallas Fuel because they're up 3-1 in this
series they have a lot of opportunities to wait for the perfect moment to pick the map and the band combos
And so this year the more about here. We'll have to see what they got in store
All right Dallas feel one a map away
from denying SSG a perfect stage and getting back to back
stage wins
Cap not banned, Cassidy not banned.
This is SSG's comp man, this is their bread and butter, this is how they win.
Pokes coming back out, it's been shown by the guys' fuel, we're not going all in Johnny.
Yeah, that was the question.
Like you can't really play in between, you can't really match space station's tempo
when they play the Sigma and the May.
So it becomes a question of do you double down on the Ellori based compositions or
You just force and it's with the tracer with the she on and Dallas fuel in a moment like this
They're going to go for the ilari instead with soren wrapping around on this tracer
Ultimate already dropping low probably soosua's force there already
Yeah, maybe an opportunity here twirling coming out though. This is now them having to back off
is the swing me when I shoot the summons the deployables and then have to
retreat
It's pokes very good at like forcing out the Bastion 2 to be there from the Alari pretty big hitbox of course in the sky
All right ultra-violet guys work out from here. It's a fights on two fronts
Well, at least we've reached one one of them and headshot on to Sonjin that works
Take those
Should be Dallas people now just backing off for the time being here. So I'll still continue to get to talk with Luke and you know
I'll be careful here. I'll be hassle out first available
Yeah, most likely. Good destruction. Shortstop's the cat-bashing from getting in there.
Alright, low as well. Yeah.
Yeah, Dallas really just had to stay alive from all these poke, all these icicles coming out and then stay alive from the lethal turret once you're asked well.
Says this G, they're getting close to our Kitsuna rush here as well. This ultimate cycle could be really good for SSG to get the cat even.
Uh oh. Uh oh.
Uh-oh, hello, look at me there. Whoa, where are we going?
Pogspawn from Sanjian. Locked in in a couple of moments.
Looking for a target now. Counts on the wrong side of the fight.
Wrong side of the map! Hi, guy!
Nice Suzu, preventing any of that damage from actually connecting and sticking.
Dears, so it's starting to get away from Dallas Fuel, they've let the bot get this far as well.
Me and this checkpoint is in the horizon.
To space station.
Wow, he cannot.
Sanjian is being denied so much, Johnny.
And if you're denying the tracer, we can tell us we have a terrible time with it.
Captive sum here.
Captive sum?
On to the wave!
Get to the cat!
Get to the bastion!
That's going to be a double denation surely.
Oh he can't go ahead and get the second hit.
The heroes are too good.
There's Chronic with the cleanup finally.
Oh marvelous stuff from Lukavino.
Cat bastion?
Eradicated.
That's brilliant.
That's brilliant.
What a play that is.
Just save Dallas Fuel there with the cap on the verge, you can see how close it is there, just a couple of meters away and now Dallas Fuel on the back of that captive son, they can maybe start snowballing themselves.
Crony's got an overclock here, all he needs is one opportunity to land a single headshot and suddenly Dallas Fuel could even go ahead and look to cap themselves.
Go on.
Yeah, one clip my son.
Ultra Violet.
He's these race duels though, oh chronic solo.
He's just a slide away in fact, hasn't a long double slide.
She's not able to get another kind of angle on them, but they're imposing on the lead
and lethal ends up going down to Sanchin and all people and the flux is insane, it's three people!
The Susu, too little, too late SSG.
Dallas, taking lead, taking checkpoint Johnny.
Wow and all it really took was Lukimino's captive son, followed up by Sunjin,
Finding a bastion out of all heroes likely combining with the rest of his team, but two individual playmakers
They've been talking about the individual playmaking on their team
How much they trust each other and two players coming up with big face there and Dallas fuel suddenly in the lead
All this post there's so many tools tonight is bonis. He's getting out soon. It'll be nice to dungeon
He needs to wait for more blinks to have a ball coming in can that from April oh
Oh, running core off God. This T-fight is split again.
Smoke bomb's good for one. Liefel again ends up going down.
Kellen falls to the Flux Shore. Now Sanji didn't a 1v3. Hits the recall.
But it looks like Dallas Fuel, their days are numbered on this side of the map.
Luke and Mino scores a headshot.
There's...Sugar Free shuts them down. Okay, five and a half minutes.
Or five? I can't. Five minutes and fifty seconds.
Dallas Fuel, still in the lead.
They got plenty of ultimates here as well another captain son. We're gonna be trading the rushes here
Now the big question is for Dallas you can you just keep making place like this?
I don't want SSG happy to fit on the
She'll be there early chronic
I think that was a rock
I think that was a rock from Kellen. I saw some stuns coming through so
Kellen hits an Isola creation and then sugar beetles gets one tapped
It is always someone showing up for the Dallas Hul, what is the accretion setting up that
time for chronic but they always have the right wraparound, find the right angles to
poke down SSG and no matter you play the mage, you push the cart, don't worry about it, we'll
find the pick regardless.
Lethal. Tags Sgt. Forced recall already. Hasn't got too many bleeps either. They're
everywhere. Captives, son. They're everywhere. Four at once. Oh, holy! He wasn't even looking!
Holy giga-chack, blade! Okay, super thing goes down, sure, but can't get an invading
trailer, Luke may not want the point. He starts outburst to get away and stick from Sgt. Again,
gets Lethal! Second time in a row for the tracer player. And these spikes need to be clean,
They need to be clean.
Oh, the Suzu so good from Ultraviolet.
Chronic of the Overclock.
Chronic thinks he can win this fight, and he might just be able to.
Ultraviolet ends up going down, can't make his play past the shield though.
And honestly, maybe that's what SSG needs here.
A bit of overconfidence from Dallas Fuel.
Captain Sun, not able to get value after Hawke eats it.
And then as well, Chronic committing with the Overclock.
Couldn't find much value.
Now, SSG, can you win this next fight? Secure the cap for yourself. You're totally back into this, man.
UV needs a TP target. Sanger, Tekkenai there on the flank. He's gonna rejoin the rest of his team as Lethal setting up again for another kill.
Looks like it's gonna be Lukimino this time around. Lukimino surely dead. The flux doesn't get anything either.
As this wraparound from Lethal is so clean. He's taking the missile perk and actually, Chronic says, you know what, that's fine.
I'm gonna go to Bastion myself. Kellen kills Sugarfree as the fight now contends on the point.
Chronic's not gonna be able to dodge that rock. Hitbox too big.
This is looking like SSG here, Joss. They got so many ultimates up their sleeve. Dallas Fuel,
with Chronic making this swap over to the Bastion here. Kellen's on the wrecking ball now.
Dallas Fuel are kind of stuck in between two compositions here. Chronic can utilize the
to high ground and Kallon's looking for the wraparound with Sanjuan they've got
so many old cities that feels almost undoable though no for the Dallas fuel
and the early rush there's the return oh Salvador position in the mega health pack
room that is going to be the catnap onto quadigies kept alive somehow but
sugarfreeze right on top of him as soon as you connect with the floor too scary
300 to stay around 66 meters and there's the lead for SSG and it all comes back to Dallas fuel
investing those ultimates and not getting the value required and now SSG on Dallas fuel side of
the map they can calmly sit on this spot drop their ultimates and push their spots forward Dallas
fuel still in the back lines here and if you end up staggering here that's even worse news here
Oh my, this is a disaster class from Dallas Fuel.
Kellen says he's over to board, he can't do anything.
Even with Lethal choosing the tank perk, the rocket perk, like it doesn't matter apparently.
Personally, I have to swing out now with the minigun, but Kellen's now on the Diva.
A bit better a pick here, it feels like.
But look at the lead that SSG have garnered.
it doesn't matter apparently.
Bricks me up to swing out now with the minigun, but
Kelen's now on the Diva. A bit better of pick here, feels like.
But look at the lead that SSG have garnered.
It's still all about the Turf loads here.
Chronic needs to do something here. Look at me, they'll ghost in.
And Chronic has to note positionally whatsoever, because the cat is there.
Keni's getting dove on as well. Chronic's letting them in their line, and this bot is going to
get the cat, but it feels like it, Johnny. It really does.
Sugarfree dead, there's the TP, the solo flux on, killing your boys out of mech.
I mean this might just be it, and even if it's not, they've got so many meters to climb, that is Dallas Fuel.
Sanchin's still alive, he's still collecting bodies here, but SSG are holding on.
Chronic eventually finds stabilization in the fight, but there's one minute and 15 seconds left in this bank.
Yeah, it's not like it was the darkest right there and that's as you were going to end up finishing the map of Sunjoon
Will's his team back into the mix here with a decent opportunity with a minute to go here to end up winning this one
And suddenly the composition makes more sense
Callon took play this even though we see near matchups here all the while it's close to Kitsuna rush here
That was fuel. Oh look the peel away from him. Callon loses the map
He's getting shunned out by Sugarpree. He just left clicks past the matrix
and gets the DMACC. Fox moving away from them as well. Here comes the artillery barrage from lethal.
Taking for the skies is chronic too. Oh he dodges out the way but Johnny this is all falling apart
for the fuel. There will get one last opportunity here with this kit sooner rush if they can just
recuperate for just a moment here. Lethal swings in here. Call on there's so much pressure.
He's got the world on his toes right now, he's going to get frozen up on teammates.
The kidnap onto Hawk, unsuccessful.
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I tried to put SSG in a world of hurt.
This map, I did say New Queen Street, do you think it did favor SSG in the end and so going
into it this one, I wouldn't have said it was Dallas Hughes map to win, it just so happened
that they created that opportunity for themselves in the mid game.
But SSG, if you're gonna try to win two more map based on Dallas Hughes, this would also
be one of the great con guys and we drew this up bro he drew it up the Moira bad
row way no problem map full reset here kings row is where we're going next the Dallas field
get the map pick they get to ban first as we go on to another hybrid
I think so I think at this point yeah absolutely I
You already said it like it's a maze not
Racy good on new Queen Street like the game is a
Objective game is like it's not great
But this is where like okay. It is good. I
Give it like a six out of ten on the map, maybe but it's probably like a nine out of ten the way
SSG player on Kings. It's just so good on first and second. It's I think you're right
I think it's going to be a mania for Fuel, I really do.
Yeah, SSG, they'll probably still be able to force the Cat somehow, but...
I mean, it's not right on second, you can like, wrap around the rooftops.
On the first point, you can definitely like, swing with the Cat Bastion as well,
like the third form and try to get into the defense if you're playing a pack.
So, it's viable, definitely playable, but SSG, they have been relying so much on Sugarpree,
aiding the frontline, by playing that May, and Dallas Fuel meanwhile.
Look, we've seen this map from them so many times before, Sunjoon over on to the Pharah.
If you get out to Mei as well, let's see what it is. It's going to be a Mei you protect
for the Pharah there as well. And getting rid of the Rhino or Pharah is just in case.
The glass is broken. The glass is broken. Like we, there is an emergency if we broke in the glass.
Just in case, Kellan pulls out the Rhine and gets a little silly with it, gets a little 2016 on us.
the
Fear of the mind
Yeah, I seriously against against comps that can't run mate
You are breathing so easy if you're fine
On maps like this, and you have a sin like
straight chillin
Here we go
map number six
Dallas Fuel still on a match point, SSG need to win two more to lock in the perfect stage.
Dallas Fuel only with a singular to be the upset.
And you gotta say, even if there's a potential map 7 lurking here, with the map pool resetting
Dallas Fuel, they feel like this is their preferred map, and the mayband being utilized
well obviously so strong about what SSG are playing here so this is arguably
Dallas Fuel's best opportunity to close out this grand finals if you're going
into a map 7 some of the things are a little bit more open for SSG maybe play
a little something else sugar-free showing the Symmetra so far and it has
been a hero that we've been seeing more from sugar-free and combining with that
with the lethality no pun intended of the bass in here that is definitely a very
potent threat here from a street who shoots this far apart from lethal of
course I think that's it bro I think that's it it's like you're about to
kill the far as we teleport our bass in the turret form and try to pick the
far out of the sky where are you on this match like he's already on the
the diagram. How do you go to the cinema? You get around to the cinema. Oh, the Wynton.
Oh, Wynton. We're so back. And CJ Onana. Oh, hey, I'm a love in this. First, the combat
wants to play a little bit more grouped up. Where is my cat going?
Uh, he's going to have to be chillin'. No way. What is this, Lukamino? Actually, I've
decided that I'm playing TPS today on the cat and Hawke just falls over. Oh this
first point is not pretty. I mean, Shrugafrige got Fumbasong quite a
winston right there. That was menacing. Okay, that thing said though.
Wow, SC just making full swaps. They're like alright, we recognize your game.
We're going over to the Shion, we're playing the D.Va. Makes a ton of sense here.
Obviously you want some protection as well from this on a gameplay out of CJ, but this is that as you'll they're playing
their preferred style
When SSG forced to adapt to them
Okay
Just a diva I hate it. I don't hate it. I really don't
Look at the news been to you. Let's see that
All right, well the Bastion is gonna be enforced in a moment, Sunjin's in and out of there
Is there anything he can't play?
Jenna, just building some of this down there. Don't worry. Okay, Luke, we can't be doing that against this call week
Come on. If we take a moment here while Dallas Fuel are going to reset here, Sunjin are going to make sense
Oh, they're committing!
They're committing and then Kena kills Suu is gonna get the primary spot. What's that? There is 37 HP before he pops primal
Are you serious? I'm sorry Johnny. Was that a reset that you thought was gonna happen? Yeah, we've still got a nano-kelin
Okay, I
Mean this team never gives up this team never gives up our cat is dead. Okay, or honor instead. Okay. Let's not of the Winston
Trust in the process trust in the Kellen
Okay, well, Kela smokes over onto the Mauga here.
There is a lot of fire on the battlefield with this on-ron and this Mauga, and I think
Kalk is going to have a tough time standing up to it here on the D.Va to survive this
initial little Parosh here.
And Tremulet does have the Kitsunor's advantage here, but we're looking out for all the damage
that's being put here.
And that's always gonna track walk away from the fight and new Camino perishes great on sugar free cardiac overdrive
Popped and used by Kelly so need some help here and now it's gonna overrun away to the point
This should be a touch there shouldn't be an issue for space station to get back
Sonjin does die on himself a descendant course. Helen also follows him back to spawn
There it is. There was a sneaky attempt at a C9, but they're gonna hold up
And now we kind of had to see a little something from Sunja.
I mean SSG's game plan is pretty laid out for them.
Sugar free you can flank around, try to look for picks on the Shion and we're gonna pay around the third form of Letho.
Meanwhile Dallas Fuel, what are you betting on here?
Maybe your mugger can brawl out on the payload a little bit, maybe Kodak can end up finding a pick here.
And what can Andron possibly provide in a composition like this?
Well, has the Ascent, of course.
Lethal goes for a wide swing around.
That Nader was connecting with Sanger.
There's an overclock.
He's going to force Lethal all the way back.
There's the D-Mec.
The Ascent!
Straight into the back, although Lethal is on fire right now.
Can he actually finish him off?
Chronic!
Love taps Lethal on the high ground, killing the Bastion.
Sugarfree on an off-angle, Hawks on the bike for the D-Mec.
It's just getting Bud to cinder.
I'm with Hawks down and Kellen alive. I mean surely the days are numbered here for space station gaming
You feed down and there it is. There's the push. There's second checkpoint in the bag
Yeah, at the end of the day, this is come about the objective once more here
Which should be going for those planes and leafling the sky Dallas fuel feel like they can brawl out better on the point here and
And Songjin's on run damage, it was enough against the D.Va mech, but with Hawk making the swap over to Sigma,
notice Confident in the on run to free form any longer, he's going to match Sugarfree's Shion.
It's like smallest ego of a DPS player ever, just instantly swaps.
Please counter watch.
Doesn't say look, I can maybe get another roll, I can do stuff. No, swaps to a better king.
April, when he finds himself a she-on, Son Jim down, artillery barrage, but lethal trades,
Hawkeye streaming low, overrun in the small room, there's no chance of getting out of
this one. Unlucky UV, April's gonna be not too far behind him. Space station gaming,
they got two support holes, but Kellen's got a cage and they've got an OC, final stretch,
final push.
And Hawke's coming back on the Orisa here, he's trying to help mitigate this, bro. The
cage fighters are putting spawn as well.
Yeah, Luka Mina goes down, there's the catnap, trying to drag the armor off the map, but the focus fire is good enough.
Okay, Lethal, turret form, success, space station gaming, not gonna let this one get away from them.
Bored.
I did the bike knock off the map onto Gallant, and he's kind of sitting up.
Alright, one meter, though.
For Dallas Fuel, what was 0.91 if you want to be specific?
I mean, it essentially comes down to Lethal picking the right spawn door to goes through, doesn't get up.
Look at me now, ends up coming down.
You can see that.
Hey, look at me now, onto the map.
Probably.
Probably, that's what he likes to me.
From the C9?
Yeah, come on now.
Yeah, yeah.
Good job, S3 though.
He's got a lot to see now.
They were ready for it.
Leave it.
I live in the sewers.
It's going to be a tough comeback here versus G. Dallas.
You let all the old misto.
They have the advantage in this one.
Get me out of there, please.
Thank you.
Too much damage on the entry.
Now they're still going to go for this one.
Lolita just crumbles in a crumpled mess in the front line there.
Oh, the death box.
Oh, it's too good.
Ultra Violet dragged off the map.
I don't think there's any chance here, Radmore.
I'm afraid.
Back to the pound with you.
Dallas Fuel, a team kill.
A one-minute 36-time bank as well.
What a fight win.
What a kidnap.
Manages to get you feet.
I mean, that is the perfect pick.
Getting the Kiriko out of the mix is
It's just such heads-up like, oh, the bike.
There's the boop.
So the bike hit the wall, which booped Kellon, who was falling down the hole.
And that boop was enough.
I love to see it.
I mean, SSG, they're struggling here to play these world compositions without them
being available to them.
Hawk, you know, on the Orisa, on the Sigma, it's just not quite enough to stand up
to Kellon on the Mauga and the rest of the team.
Like even some of the on-run, you know, providing some additional damage during the front line.
That is enough for Dallas Fuel to be able to successfully brawl out on the cart.
And so SSG here now on the offense, do they decide to deploy Hawke on pressure of the objective?
Or do they want to play along with their tank player?
I feel like there's a stylistic choice here for SSG waiting to happen.
Whether they want to play, commit more resources to Hawke, or if they want to play more freely around their damage players.
so I'm just not gonna risk anything here no on run Sigma no Winston just
defensive comp even Lukamino hard pivoting no more cats and this is one of
the maps I think is the best of the Zuki man on the King on Kings Row so powerful
we're going to get a little in the air or board share maybe closing south of
He's wrong. All right. Not quite. Not quite. We do have a captain mixer still.
That was soon though.
All right, we see how Hawk traverses this map on this signal.
They're going to take the high ground early or are they just going to sit in pressure point?
Looks like point is going to be answered at least for the top.
You just instantly die.
Goodbye. Okay.
How's it going? I mean, SSG here, they can't really compete with the aura healing from
Lukimino. And so you almost feel like you're forced instead to flank around and they're
going to make swaps here. Sugarfreeze overall to the Bastion here instead, so they're doubling
down on firepower. Don't necessarily want to brawl with the Symmetra and the Misuki
from Dallas Fuel. So, Hawk, most likely here to put pressure on towards the point and just
open up the angles for Sugarfreeze and Letho.
I don't know what was in position, whoa, a little swing, a little rock, yeah it's like
the, it really feels like the nuisance cradle sometimes where you just swing it in and swing
it out, swing it in and swing it out.
Alright Hawke and Kallen in a bit of a punching match, walk down again.
Yeah it feels like you're kind of scrambling here to try and make something work.
Well that push came in and it didn't look like Sugarfee was ready to swing with Admiral,
with that tour form.
Not being deployed quite just yet, Hawke went for a flank and that Dallas Field is able
to punish immediately in the Sigma matchup.
And so SSG, I don't love their execution going into that fight, but it looks like they're
kind of trying to figure out a little bit how they want to play this matchup.
And now your facing an ultimate deficit two minutes already gone on the timer here.
SSG, do they have the answers required to beat out the Stevens?
Catnap. Although Sunjin's got a wall, they got high noon. No cat to carry around, of course.
The match is capped in the point solo by the way. There's the teleport, there's the wall.
Catnap. They're gonna grab somebody. Now, Chronic looking for his next mark. CJ down.
And Masuki is just gonna pop the, oh, yep, Sangtree deployed on the corner. You can't fight us now.
It is eventually gonna fade away as they try and get the Cassie in a better spot.
They killed the TP just before. Oh, just ask that Kela managed to escape with his life.
is a flux still available but they're going to try and pattern on the pressure with this rush
Slung him pretty low in the hotel 40 hp get singled out by lethal
Eventually get the ball rolling on this first point
It's not going to be a reconvestia from Dallas fuel either
It's just too much percentage for gone there
But just looking at the ultimate economy that was not the Dallas fuel fight they wanted
They were not able to deploy the ultimates as desired in ssg
They took the time to capitalize and get this payload rolling so still very much in it
But still
Questions remain unanswered for SSG here. They have a long way to go Dallas fuel with a minute thirty six in the time bank
SSG need to get rolling here if they're to survive in the series
Okay, the steamroll starts hopefully with that. Oh what a chains
Luke Amino is gonna teleport away, but again, Hawk, this focus, fire, it's just so clean from the fuel.
What a very tough situation, it's lethal. What is happening in Bookshop today? What is happening?
70s we get their library cards or something, they're just getting violent.
CJ ends up getting two, Luke Amino with another as well. I mean, most of the forces are alive, but they could be able to get out.
should be able to realistically see Jake and just teleport through the wall and
yeah look at me no it's just to make his way back to I mean they do get out
there but lethal actually purchases some objective capture time there for SSG and
exactly what they need in a worst-case-kind of scenario the way they
lost out by Dallas you plenty of ultimates here though
I mean it's just a basic one but it might be good enough teleports everybody
hiding in the bup? All good. We're backing off. We're playing it safe, we're playing it slow.
There's the Flugs, dodges the rock. Up in the sky goes the Cass. Leave a lethal.
Can he actually be killed? Doesn't look like it. The high noon, the dead eye.
Worth a back off, but now the Sanctuary deployed from the Dallas Shields.
They all jump into it. It banks a double on as well. That's a lot of rushes, but Hawks down again!
Four fights in a row, Hawks dies first. Dallas feel with a back off. They are gonna have to play
a little bit safer to retop the health bars up. Lethal with a wide swing kills CJ.
Dallas fuel just remaining in this fight with all those of us being deployed now finding the picks necessary first
It was holy life and cannot cleaning things up here now
You be surely know another pick surely not another one
Don't give it to him TP away from ultraviolet. Okay, they're out of there
But Johnny the time back is one minute thirty seconds and they need to reset. It's win. They it's dwindling
They need to get so much ultimate value from every opportunity and being set back here having deployed both their support
ultimates and all that time gone as well. Now facing the symmetrical wall from Sunjoon
is just looking like it just won't be enough from space-ish and gaming.
Who is scrambling to stay alive in this one.
To this positioning from Hawk, the rest of the team have managed to flip on them,
but there's still a ward. Oh, he's got the shield through! Wait, there's so much shielding
from Sanjo right now. The wall is going to get deployed. The flocks from Kalin, he's still up in
the sky. Looking for Vox, looking for targets to hit. He's facing this game and he got backed off
onto this corner, but this payload is slowly regressing. They need to get in touch. Sanjo with
a TP up to the high ground. 30 seconds to go, Johnny. They descend on their prey. A high new
from Kronik. Aim, Steve, those lights. Last ditch attempt now to try and force this payload. They'll
mess right over the map. And then as few are happy to just drain this time back, they wait out
to Symmetra wall from Sugarfree hoping that Lukavino is going to get this Sanctuary in time.
This is space station gaming now 15 seconds on the timer and he might go down in this
fan tunnel yet again. Sanctuary chains, in fact double Sanctuary coming out for both teams.
Abril has to teleport away. Chronic eventually brought down. Hawks on the point with the rest
of the team. Five players to SSC moving on. Pushing the payload for the time being CJ's
He's gonna keep Sumerosh in hand. Dallas Fuel just need one clean fight.
Can't space station gaming. Disrupt Dallas Fuel now, when they're going to get this much.
Look at the man behind them! He's on the flank!
Close to get back, the rest of the team's showing it's a pre-kill.
The little chains are gonna come out, he's gonna swing, the Cp away!
He manages to live another day. Lethal almost gets the execution kill on CJ,
but that we still have a free that follows it up.
Kellen, health bar gone.
and playing around his own shield OT push but they get second and it was the
messy fight that space station desired sundren with this shield perk getting
questionable value and look at me no caught on the backline but it's only a
minute 15 it's only a minute 15 here for space station gaming they can't get
themselves into a scenario but they have to fight for a draw but it's mighty
to just be too much already. Holy jeez, Rock. Didn't like it, hit him. Both walls deployed,
Saunchen, fully torped, being now the flux from Hawk. Get Kellen, but can they actually
follow up on the damage? Saunchen again, playing around his own shield, they're falling apart,
they need to reset, Sugarfree's already got two. And that was a great fight from Dallas
Field because they had the sim wall, and they just didn't get any value from it. Now, last
minute inspiration from Dallas Field, they make the swap over to the venture, and the
cap as well hoping for something out of the flux but this assesses Gino with a
great opportunity to come back in this match. It's dire, straights as Lukavino
tries to play under the mattress, tries to contest. Oh he's doing it again but they know this game, they've played it before.
Lethal with a kill, maybe a spree into the backline in early season but it's a lot of damage. Lethal ends up
getting chronic, Skeller's shut down, they just need to make it OT, they just need to drag it over the line but
there's a couple of meters to go and with 10 seconds they lock the payload in.
You're kidding me.
Space station with a minute in the bank.
No free attack here, no freebies for the Dallas Fuel.
Unbelievable.
They were in such a hole on the second point fighting in overtime and Dallas Fuel had the
opportunity to close things out to secure this grand finals win and SSG
somehow get their payload in with time to spare and they stay alive give
themselves an opportunity to steal this map away from Dallas school and remain
in the series that was a tough no four spaces in gaming and Sundrum with the
shield perk man okay the shield the literal 2016 sim shield was it good IQ
too high maybe
not sure you just got a shield battery instead I think you can't be using the
shield perk in a moment like this one a minute in the time bank for essence g
johnny gates are opening cat bastion for defense for fuel not selecting that
perk importantly look at the bottom right of your screen right now not
selecting the perk just yet waiting hearing listening for lethal and admiral
who are coming out on cat bastion this is maybe great for chronic in the
schedule he's waited and he doesn't select the tank perth so now chronic with an
advantage in the aerial duel but something that's picked no way wait how
does that happen just double tap headshot I mean the suitcase on the far so I
mean good luck later you're not chewing the enemy bastard here not today the
directs oh they're gonna have to be clean
Space station needs something here now. They almost need a mistake from Dallas Fuel to secure one of these pigs.
Hawks under so much pressure. He's dead. That's 10 seconds.
51% that's it. I think that's it Johnny. 51% is probably all they're going to get. They just put themselves on point.
They clean up the last couple of members but Hawke, that's the only capture percent they got.
51.2 percent. They need the fuller hold to secure another map to get another map.
Dallas Fuel with a golden opportunity now to at least claim this map victory
and the series when they had an opportunity previously when space
space station gaming were caught in overtime on second point but they couldn't quite clutch it out
now with two minutes 24 seconds it's more than enough time to spare to secure this 55 percent
all the bears and if you already got the bastion advantage you might as well double down on its
space station probably feel like they don't even have a choice here really sugar-free over on the
the basket now. Maybe you're regretting that perk choice.
I mean, it's so silly.
It has to just wait.
It's so silly, but it's such a big difference.
Insane mind game. Yeah.
Giving you a sugar free POV surely, surely he hasn't selected the purchase yet.
Okay, so I'm done. No.
Maybe not the honor on here.
How quick, how quick were they to cap this point with the monkey?
He has a slank there. Thank you.
Oh, just thank you.
He's still out to be clinical with this composition here, Jaws.
The one thing with this Winston-Ona composition is, there are no room for mistakes.
One bad Winston leap.
Your Ona doesn't devalue with the nades, and that's it, but they will have a few attempts here to get a go at it.
And so I'm just even going to make a swap here, actually, over onto the tracer.
Cap Ashen vs. Cap Ashen, Sonjin Genji. Okay, Sonjin Genji in fact.
A bit better, a kind of dive. They're in, they're going.
Oh, they're in already, and Lethal's already dead.
Sugafree, the weight of the world on his shoulders now has to come up with kills.
He's the only damage dealer left. He's run out of turret form as well.
Walk on this high ground, Kellan's going to try and bisectify to get just so low.
Has to back off to the choke point.
Sonjin forced the TP at the Kiriko, but they're already on point.
Another swing in, but Kronik goes down to the rock.
They need to just cap now. They need to just force point. They've already got a tick and a reset is what they're gonna go for and
Hawk was down to one health
But just barely stays alive in that one and finish it off with a frag as well
Dallas fuel now scrambling to get this nano on the line and put even more pressure on to space station gaming
Lethal's looks over to the she on so you won't be as much of a dive target
But it's just a fight to get these those going kill him finds an opportunity
I'm not sure if he's dead, he's gonna die.
Primal Rage, Nano coming up, and a Cadnapple as well.
Blade in well a long time, but it shouldn't matter.
Sugarfree pops, the artillery braged, Ultraviolet is just so low.
Suzu himself has to get away.
Kellan chasing, Primal Rage pops, now looking for the supports.
An emergency rush, a Cadnapple.
But to Kellan's crime, play some time,
and it's just time enough.
Ultraviolet stays alive, Kellan half-faced,
fever, Sugarfree down, another lead back onto the point,
and now the cap comes through the balance field.
Lethal falls, Kellen gets another, the artillery barrage, not enough, the Dallas Fuel.
Embers burning, rekindled into a bright blue frame.
Dallas Fuel, you're back to back stage champions.
One of the greatest stage play of comebacks we've seen from Dallas Fuel.
On the Friday, going down 0-3 to Team Liquid, but battling, brawling,
making the comeback in the lower bracket.
the first seed heading into
mid-season championship. I love
that they're closing it out, going
through a true and trusted
Winston. Capturing that point as
she could not get the fuller hold.
In fact, as a G-look, Brassel
thread a lot of this series.
They've been so very dominant in
the playoffs, in the stage two as
a whole, and they've been
They've been so very dominant in the playoffs, in the stage 2 as a whole, so the Dallas
fans are coming and just playing so dominantly after Diana Shaky started their playoffs themselves
is absolutely sick of her. I love what we just saw. Seeing them being flexible as well, right?
Like that is what we're grudging about Dallas fans. Now we've seen them fixing over throughout
the series onto very niche heroes, if you will, like Lucanino showing a big appeal,
Flexing over to the Moira to secure victory in New Chuck City stuff like that, which are like glass cannon pigs
I mean generally I feel like their entire composition with the wins. There's like a glass
Yeah, exactly like these kind of things though, but they they dare to do it
They believe in themselves that trust each other and then they get the dope. Well, I mean
2026 Overwatch, it's all about those hero swaps and just finding the smallest little edge
where ever you can and we do it time and time again but the execution necessary
like I think new Queen Street even though they lost new Queen Street like the way
they win somebody's fight it's just individual playmakers they talked about
it but I think it's so impressive because we've had so many years of
compositions being reliant on macro gameplay giving ultimate value and
Dallas Fuel they just find a way to battle through all that instead of
trusting mechanics of their players and it's once again going to yield them
the game. I can't believe
they denied space station as
well. That perfect stage of
the bitter end. I could have
gone another way. That last
map that last round could have
looked very different. But
another important thing to
note, too, I think they did it
in their own way. They're
all different. They're all
different. They're all different.
They're all different. They're
did it in their own way, their own style. What are the teams playing Winston right now?
What are the teams? No one. Absolutely no one is playing Winston like this.
Yeah, that's what we love about Dallas Fuel, right? But while it's also what we critique
about the Dallas Fuel, it is what sets them apart. How far can they take it, heading into
the mid-season championship, relying on this very composition? We'll find out. It's one
of those things where yes it can be volatile because you know exactly what you get but
also other teams don't necessarily practice against it so they don't really have the
time against it which can be to their detriment.
Yeah it's a fair point to make here.
SSG you know they were very violent on the mayor has to be sad it was a big difference
maker against Team Liquid but against Dallas Fuel you know there's kind of limited success
there as well and so Dallas Fuel you know when when things really click for them and they're playing
with individual playmakers like this they can really pick apart any kind of composition.
Today it certainly did a click. We have CJ joining us now for our winners interview. CJ welcome to
the show and of course congratulations you and the team did it again back to back stage champions
in NA. Let us let us hear from you emotionally like what does that mean to the team after having
when the shaky start in your players,
not being able to hoist our imaginary trophy?
I mean, honestly, I think as a team, it means a lot.
Like, we started off kind of rough.
Like, even scrims this week weren't like all that.
Like, I think scrims throughout the entire like stage
weren't like anything insane, especially with like this meta
where it's not really favorable for dive.
So I think just winning, showing that we can win,
even if it's not at that meta,
just proves that we're a good team.
Man, congratulations, dude.
Like also denying SSG that perfect stage plus back to back winners.
I mean, you must be over the moon.
I did want to ask and quickly dive in.
Um, it feels like a long time ago at this point, but the on run pick, um, from, uh,
from you guys, it's a little out of field.
Like who's call is that?
Is that something in the server or is like, is we cooking something crazy here?
Like, yeah, run me through that real quick.
Oh, that's 100% something.
I mean, honestly on our team, we kind of just like let anyone pick whatever they
and then we'll just like adapt our playstyle around it.
And like, he was like, okay, I'll try on one.
I'm like, sure.
Like, I don't think it really worked,
but I mean, he won it.
So I've been like,
you got to live in tests and matches too, you know?
Is that what you said about the Moira pick two?
Oh, the Moira, okay, no Moira.
We tried it in scrims like once.
Okay, it was actually against the SSG.
We tried it in scrims on a Curie ban on,
I think it was a Atlas.
And we just both came out on like
Junker Queen, Moira, and Lucio.
And it was late, like the funniest map ever.
Like no one's playing that company in actual match, but
Maybe the drunker queen, maybe TBD leave that one for me to the championship or like for a more legit question
Though like building on the back of your performance that champions clash
Maybe some of the lessons learned from that event and then ending up with another stage win
You're qualified for another major event and obviously your sights are at this time around to have a better performance at a major tournament
What were some of the lessons you learned from the previous major tournament that you can bring into the next one?
I
Mean from the previous major tournament. I think it was just like stop playing nervous just play like it's NA like
Like any like obviously everyone knows and it's not that good, but I think we like gave some teams too much respect
And I think if we just play like like willy-nilly, I guess as the kids would call it
Then I think that will be fine internationally
Can we expect you guys to just continue leaning into your very unique style and composition that you've played throughout the stage?
Or do you feel like there is an inherent need to go back to the drawing board in order to match the international composition?
I think we're probably just going to keep playing our style until we scream them and see if it works or not.
not, but I really don't think they're changing much. And also, I'll say as just either their
cat cast merchants, like I'll say, like, they're literally the worst team, like they're a top
four team at best, like if cat and cast like not playable, like their top five, I swear the
next would be better.
That's fair. Well, listen, they've entertained, you've entertained, we are just so happy that we saw
you guys just like sticking to your guns, you know, giving us your own flavor and taking
it all the way hoisting the trophy and being our NA champs once again. So congratulations,
CJ. We're going to see you in Paris.
All right. Thank you so much. See you there.
We will in a d Dallas. Add a little, add a little salt to the wound because you know
what if you're the winners you get to do that that's the
as she talks back all the time okay usually
free game as well which is the way to do it but you know what i
i'm not a boss rummaging in when i'm coming out on top either
i'm not a horrible winner so i know well listen i uh i didn't come out on top of
my predations here or maybe we just countercursed them should we take back
credit johnny uh i'm over it
I'm all, I'm stuck holding this, I'm stuck holding this.
I just want, I just wanted a good storyline.
I feel like that's exactly what we've got.
Dallas Fuel closing it out like this is just, again, it's cinema.
It's been a real real fun playoff again, just looking at the bracket.
The numbers don't tell the stories, the scorelines don't tell the stories.
Like those teams really brought it for us.
So I'm interested to see if they can close it up a little bit
as we're heading to Paris for the mid-season championship.
And here are the teams that will be battling it out on that very stage. Which team are you most excited to see back in action?
Johnny, I'll let you go first with this one. Which team am I most excited to see back in action? I mean, okay, it has to be Chris Raccoon, all right.
They're the reigning major champs. All right, just got to say it asses. Team Falcon's already qualified through last year's Smiths in championship, that's what we said.
Um, Varyl probably, and I'm going to just chat with him.
You're such a Varyl star.
I'm a Varyl head.
I'm a Varyl head.
There are many of us.
We just don't, we just don't talk that much.
And I'd say a twist of mind is always because they always show up, I think, on international.
So yeah.
Varyl, Varyl TN.
Chuck Weibo a little bit, something too.
Hey, well I'm excited for all the EMEA teams.
I'm mega EMEA PIL.
I feel like they're just really been delivering this stage, especially they played it so close to each other like the top three
Any given day you could put any of them on top
So I'm interested to see how far they can make it into the playoffs
And if they can take out some of the other teams there as well, it's gonna be a good time
That's for sure like these teams are coming to compete and you don't have to compete
No, you can just drop money get your tickets and join us
Kick back and have a great time in Paris
Jack, give me yourself
Why should they go to Paris? Oh?
Why should they go to Paris?
I've only been a couple of times but it is a beautiful city and most importantly. It's gonna be overwatch
There's nothing like a live crowd I promise you if you've never been to live proud
you're in Europe, just go. It's worth it, man. The amount of screaming, the amount for
every team. It's just crazy, man. It's a different experience.
It really is. Overwatch fans are built different. French fans are built different as well. They
always show up. It's going to be loud. It's going to be exciting. Last EWC, it was so
much fun as well. So it's great to see it happening in Europe this time around too.
Now, of course, Korea will be deciding their last slot and seeding next weekend. That will
happen at 1am on the west coast so you know that on the calendars for now here is all the
when and where's that you need to be aware of in terms of Overwatch happening near you
man this this message in chakrachet is coming up fast that's literally just like a few days
it feels like we just got back from japan so like literally wait i'm flying again i'm flying out
Yeah, it's ridiculous.
What do I watch?
I actually don't complain.
Exactly.
Can't complain.
It's been a good time.
Time goes fast when you're having a good time and we're starting to treat it to that.
Looking at stage two.
Looking back at it.
Johnny, any last thoughts?
Any last thoughts?
I mean, North America is just crazy.
That all I'll say.
You look at EMEA and you're like, oh, we're getting the Symmetra mirrors, the calculated
It's like, here's Ryan, here's Sombaz, like there's just madness, mechanical gameplay all over, so I love NA, it's just an absolute treat watching some of these individual mechanics take place, and I think Dallas Fuel, they are the pure essence of that, seeing them still being able to make Winston on the work, and Sun-Gen, and Tabuth as well, it's a real treat this region, it's a little bit more crazy than the calculating in the approach.
There it is. Jack, what were your biggest takeaways? Your learnings? Please share with
class.
Ah, Sanjun's my new favorite player, I think. Ah, the arm rind has taken the shieldpock
on the sim was very funny. And yeah, yeah, that's it. That's pretty, I've got no thoughts.
My head's pretty empty right now. A lot of overall change.
That's all right. Yeah, there was a lot happening. You guys called the action phenomenally as
very usual. So shout out to our beloved cast, for us to send some love and shout out to
media.
Shout out to you.
Shout out to you. No, shout out to all of them. It's been a long day.
I do two regions every day that's that is that do be my life. That's why I get progressively
progressively more silly as a day goes on
It's a lot of both what you follow, but I'm so here for it
And thank you all so much for joining us all a day along as well a week and long if you will for our playoff
It's been an absolute blast big shout out to our production of course also for making all of this possibly all are the goats
It's an absolute zoo out here
and we're going to see the entirety of that zoo in Paris so we hope to see some of you
in person as well. Thank you so much for watching and have a good rest of your night.
So I, I say, I think, everything will be alright
No, man, don't forget, just find me
And I'll find you on the side
Sometimes I'm just a little bit, I'm just a little bit
Someone that can learn, I'm just a little bit
I'm just a little bit, I'm just a little bit