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Hello and welcome to day 2 of the Overwatch World Cup group stage coming to your life
from a beautiful Busan zombie year joined by Matt and Moxby to break down the action
first series and recap a little bit of what went down here yesterday. First of all, y'all looking very
vacationy, you too.
We were supposed to.
I know, we got it in the morning.
Yo, it's getting late in here in the morning. I mean, we gotta like...
Colombo fans are showing up.
Yeah, we love the energy. They already bring to the room, even though it's in an early hour.
Let's talk about what transpired yesterday, though, because we definitely had some surprises.
Even disappointments if you will I look at a few teams that we just felt like should or could perform a little a better
Moxie if you're looking back at the matches yesterday, what and who stood out to you?
I think the match that stood out the most has to have been Germany versus Canada
That was such a good series
That was such a good series if you get the chance to watch any one particular match go and grab that one because that was one of the most
In fact it was the closest five map series
Yeah, but I mean Team USA
Taking out China in the fashion they did for me was like extremely impressive, right?
I think we were all like a little bit cautiously
Excited about Team USA, but they played great and then I mean, you know KSA just
Dominated I mean that was a that was a beatdown
Yeah, there we have the series on your screens that you just talked about moxie huge
Huge performance from Germany though, even though in that loss. I think they were real contender
I mean it really did go back and forth like we said we went to a 405 map
this since Cal got to play there Ana which was an absolute standout on the
fall we also got a whole new use of Lifeline with the Orisa the Helicopter
that Jake and I did yesterday with Kerasa's combo before we were able to finish
out with yeah the fact that Cal's Ana was so good on that first map it
copped a ban and then here the clutch moment I think a lot of people
Counted team Canada out after they lost Alex on the bashing very early on on this last fight of Esperanza
And then Razer was able to bring it back with this clutch over time play on the Razer
Yeah Razer being subbed into the last two maps and really turning the title for Canada after Germany was ahead quiet a bit
Now of course we also got to see Spain in action lots of familiar faces of that roster
Yeah, I was pretty excited about I know Spain kind of coming in during the qualifiers
They looked quite strong. So I say to see them have a great performance and then Sweden
I know for Johnny's sake dominated the end of the day. They only did it for Johnny. That's it
But yeah, Sweden of course we thought that they could like really like a make a splash in their group
So let's take a look at the standings to see where we are after just one day of play
It can be four days of round robin in our group stage here in Busan and these are the teams that
Walked away with a victory
Yeah, I mean, you obviously see the teams at the top of their group.
I think Group C is going to set up to be pretty close, obviously, with, you know, Spain getting a huge win, 3-0.
But then, like, you know, with Canada and Germany, I think they're going to be really competitive with Spain as well.
I think that's going to go down with the wire.
And then, Box, you get our first League of Group D today.
Yeah, we do get our first League of Group D, and sort of the teams in Group D, they get that advantage.
They get to see where the meta has headed for the rest of these teams.
because I think a lot of people have been caught out by how strong Demon is actually turning out to be
especially in that matchup versus the D.va, because we started to see her actually being really targeted for that ban
but I still think group D is likely going to be the closest.
I think whoever like the Germany here losing up against Canada, you almost now have to be able to win
versus Spain to be able to qualify for the win.
Yeah, there is one big disadvantage of being in group D is that Korea is in group D.
That is, yeah, I might say that's the biggest disappointment.
They get to watch everybody else play, but then they also...
It's basically three teams playing for one slot.
Yeah, yeah, seriously.
It's got our feels over there.
But yeah, that's what we expect.
Korea is going to be the last match of the day.
I'm sure the audience is going to show up for that one.
The first look at the home team and of course in group A,
I think China is going to go again today.
That's one of the teams where we really wanted to see more.
Yes, USA played really, really well yesterday,
but China underperformed.
They were so passive. Me and Mitra talking about it during the cast and Landon came on and was like, yeah, to the first fight we were like...
They just knew, yeah.
There's not like a coming at us. You're going to have to see them up the aggression today.
They're going to win and must win scenarios for them, right?
I mean, they have to kind of win out to have a chance to make it to BlizzCon.
Yeah, absolutely. Only the top two teams from each group will be advancing to BlizzCon.
All the matches today once more will of course be played in the first three format and it's a round-dropping group stage
So there are more opportunities, but they're getting here and far now
I want to talk a little bit about meta you just talked about demon
Do you want what that was one of the heroes were literally yesterday in the pre-show mat use that here and
confidently said
Probably not gonna see
Like no, but if we're looking at the most bad not only did demon good played a lot also got banned an awful lot
Well, look, I mean, Jetpack Cat, you know, can get the demon into the back line without having to use all her fuel,
then she just becomes, like, unkillable for those, you know, back lines, right? Like, land and talking about it.
Obviously, with some of the hotfixes, and like, we see her being played more on live,
it's just, you know, I kind of thought that maybe we would see teams kind of default to some more of the norm,
but teams are just kind of playing her, just dropping her into the back line to let her just cause chaos.
It's just the chaos that finds the value right though because she's very new, she's very shiny, lots of teams really don't know how to be able to deal with the problems that she causes.
Because I think a lot of people without the jetpack cap, Demon for sure would not be seeing this level of play because you would just be able to play your backline super far away from where she could be.
But now you literally like you said, can just air drop the demon onto the backline and it forces your tank to have to react and give up space.
And the first series of the day, I say we didn't see her really at all, right?
With Great Britain playing.
Oh, she got banned.
But we thought that's a bit of a trove.
But we also saw when she was available, they're not going to play right.
Yes, but Great Britain also for their qualifiers did not play Jetpack at Bastion a whole bunch too.
So I think saying, OK, well, we didn't see Great Britain playing the demon
is not the greatest test to see where she's going to be at this game.
Yeah, let's see what they haven't stopped for us today.
But I am definitely excited to see Demon in action very often when a hero drops so freshly and so shortly right before a tournament.
Some teams are more hesitant to actually use these new heroes, so for her to already be utilized in such a way in fashion is quite great to see.
Yeah, I think it just speaks to you. Obviously the hero came out maybe slightly under-tuned, then obviously with some of the hot picks that kind of come in.
Making her swing way faster giving her a better cool down in terms of like the gun and obviously that you know plays a large part into it and then
Jepak had just enables a lot of different heroes and play styles and comps that like you never would
People are
Like upset about jetpack cap because jetpack cap does
Enable other heroes to be played which we otherwise I don't think would see much rage is induced by the fact that it's a cat
Like it's a cat's thing if it was like you know, Gary
Gary the dog
Yeah cats divide the internet's always been
Don't put that out there for what role would Gary play
No, we ready for the tank
So he's basically Hammon.
Is he not?
Also he's a pet inside a maker, so that's more maker than like...
Speaking of, by the way, how do we not already have a Hammond campstable skin?
That's honestly a very...
How long has it been since Hammond's been here?
This we need to speak into the internet.
We're manifesting this already for us. I love that.
But I also think that Hammond should get DMed and then just go for the ankles.
go for the ankles. Now you're devoling yourself to chaos. No, no, no. I think I've
wanted something here. I'm pretty sure the internet can pull in an answer in the sky.
It should be so good. It should be eatable, like by your team.
Anything. We derail. We derail. Let's talk about our first match and we get to see today
because I think it's going to be a good one. Again, we're heading into Group B
for the first time yesterday. We covered the other groups, got a glimpse there.
For Group B, I think we have a lot of teams where we kind of know what to expect because we know a lot of those players,
but how will it come together?
Starting with Team Denmark, they're bringing in SkyTorps from Belgium as their tank,
because apparently Denmark doesn't produce any tank players, so they're going to rock with the breakthrough player.
But other than that, especially in the support lineup,
like so many familiar names like the Calais, Johan, Jonovic,
and then also, of course, the Shockwave at the helm there in DPS.
Shockwave was awesome in the qualifiers and we cast the qualifier, Shockwave was unreal, so seeing him back in the Overwatch scene, playing the hit scan, definitely going to be a positive here for Denmark.
I'm pretty high on this team, Moxie. I think they can make it to BlizzCon.
Yeah, I think that the favourites in this matchup push-off, like you said, Shockwave being able to just absolutely steal the show on the sojourn on those qualifiers is a real stand-out.
a lot of pressure will fall on to
title because if you feel like your
tank is more vulnerable, you're probably going to
actually use that for your band draft, right?
A lot of the time, not being able to have
that same level of flexibility as
potentially some of these other experienced
tank players. There is, of course,
some synergy there, right? Skytron, you all
played on the same team last year for quite a bit.
I think it's a quick eSports. They were for most
of 2025 and then
this is also one of those wonderful
things about the Overwatch World Cup
on display here, we have enemies within the team here with Raph and Jonovic, both trying to get through the...
It seems like you're a bit strong.
No, the enemies to the bitter end.
No, but like Raph and Jonovic both played in the promotion relegation.
Jonovic made it through with Team Pebs, and Raph made it through with Team Pebs and Jonovic did not with Team Telosy,
and now they have to, you know, pull on the same string, pull on the same road.
I'm overdramaticizing for our effect here.
I think they're going to be totally fine.
You saw them in the back and they looked like best friends.
They don't need to know that.
People don't need to know that.
But yeah, Columbia, the fans are loud and proud
showing up and bringing the support.
They're also playing here with their breakthrough player,
Litch, who will be joining them in the DPS lineup.
Of course, a lot of familiar faces,
like we can hit Superbombs, Mixed V, of course, as well.
The issue for me for Columbia, though,
was that when they put the qualifiers,
very rarely did they actually play the Jetpack Cat
The only time that they broke it out was when they were bursting Canada. Other times they only fit Kyrgyzstan
That was the only depot back when they were playing. No Mizuki, no cat, no variation outside of that
So hopefully the downtime that it's taken between the two months that we have on Hall of Flyers 2 now
They've been working on having some of that level of flexibility because we've seen a almost total lack of loose
What really does feel like he's just fallen totally out of favor
I think it tells you how strong jetpack cat is is when we're like, well, why would play Lucio?
I mean that's crazy. We've seen super Gomez in mixed V in tournaments before like this
I know always a pretty strong performances
So excited to see what Columbia has off for us here today is like they're like the crowd's favorite
Yeah, one person in a crowd
But yeah, the family is here
I heard people sailing it that's my brother down there
just awesome love to see that support but I yeah I think what's in Colombia is
also like like Supergum is which is mentioned as Supergum has played within
the last few years like other for the qualifiers because I don't think so the
last thing I see if I'm looking at their match history that was it look
at Cal though because Cal had also been out of the scene for a while you've
for a few years and then yesterday they come back and absolutely it's same performance to the point that literally after the
first map of Anna second map Anna's back so I think it's a little bit unfair to say like okay is Super Gumman still going to be at that level
especially because this is a team that has to look to him to be that guiding light
that's right I mean Kelly's also got retired for a little bit and then came back with a banger here and he kind of goes to every other week
every other week, these sports things.
Yeah, predictions for this one.
I think Denmark has to be considered to have a favorite.
I really don't know what to expect from Colombia,
like given what we've seen from them
during the qualifiers, Moxie,
like it feels like they might be lacking
a little bit behind in what is considered a meta right now.
I think Denmark is one of the stronger teams of the group.
I think like, you only got that Denmark France game
that's probably determining who goes to BlizzCon
out of the group with Korea.
So I think Denmark takes this one.
I'm full agreement. I think Denmark will be taking this one
I would hope that Columbia could maybe pull a map even if they don't go like full matter that other teams are going for
Potentially they've taken some time to find their own sort of strategy which catches one of these teams on the last
Yeah, I am excited to see what both of these teams have in store for us
This is the first match of the day. We have six overall
So you don't want to miss a single minute of the action these two teams at these two teams
These two counters will be on the mic for this one. So guys, please take it away
I'm gonna talk about T-teams during this.
Oh, that's a true.
Back, back.
Columbia, obviously, they win the 1v1 here.
Maxi, they will get Matt Pick while going to Nepal to pick things up.
Very interesting that we're going to Nepal.
Maybe now we are going to see Columbia start to dip more into the potential of that Jetpack cat with the Dastium.
Obviously, we've got to see Nepal being played a whole bunch with a lot of different tank looks.
very popular on maps like Village and also Trine.
It's been some play on Sanctum, but we also do still have the occasional Sigma and sometimes
a Rissa as well that can be broken out.
Yeah, we'll see what the bands are that kind of comes through here, right?
So still some time for that to come to play.
If you're in Columbia, yeah, you're getting rid of Jetpack Cat.
like what you don't want to play which uh it'll be the jetpack cap that is the first
ban here uh for columbia so like how you were talking a little bit about
earlier on if they don't want to play it you may as well get rid of it
yeah that also safeguards of the lucio right as an option as it will be now
protected you can't go for a double ban of the same hero role so if they
want to play that lucio kiriko and tempo push forward with the speed
was to engage or disengage they'll be able to as we're waiting to see what exactly Denmark
decided to ban in response, could be a tank, could be a DPS. Do they want to leave the demon on the
field as if Columbia have been a little bit slower to adapt into the jet-pack-out fashion
matter there's a chance they also haven't been screaming things like the demon already so you
You might want to just leave it open, as it sounds like Denmark actually decided to take that Symmetra.
Interesting, okay, so maybe they got to read a little bit.
Obviously, you know, Scream's going down here.
Everybody kind of trying to figure out what other teams are playing.
Maybe a little bit of a read that Columbia wants to play something, I know, in the Sim Wheelhouse,
where that is not kind of what I would say Denmark's strengths will be.
Denmark will play a lot of RAV on like Tracer, things like that.
and they'll play Shockwave on a lot of the hitscans, whether it be like a, you know,
Sojourn, Cassidy, things along those lines.
I'm very interested to see now, without that Symmetra, especially if we do go to a map like Saitam,
does the Cassidy still find value without both the Sim to teleport him around?
Or the Cap to be able to airlift him? So potentially we're actually going to be
seeing very fast moving compositions like the Shion Tracer.
Potentially we might see a little bit of that vendetta being played.
Licks being very flexible in terms of the heroes that he can operate.
He's got things like the Reaper, the Pharah, the May in the back pocket as well.
Columbia want to go for that.
An anticipation of maybe a Malga matchup.
Yeah, I mean, potentially, right, I know there's some, like,
Maga in play here.
I know as we wait.
Game one underway here.
I know day number two with the overwatch World Cup group stages here in Busan
Yeah, I mean, you know, you know, there's obviously it's without the jetpack cat, right? We're looking at like Yuri Lucio
You could end up seeing, you know, maybe some
Mizuki kind of sneak in we've seen obviously Juno
With Yuri in a lot of different situations. So I'll see where Denmark decides to go in terms of their back line
But
We've done which in your hand you can play a lot of different things. Yeah
It's interesting that Denmark themselves banned the symbol because that was actually one of their staple heroes in their qualifiers
They would normally play things like that's the metro of the Cassidy
And then if the symmetrical was removed it would go to something like a tracer cast the beaver
There's a Kirikou and the cat composition obviously cat has been taken out because of that banter as well
Columbia's default again much more sort of from the past that we would used to
see the Reaper, the soldier and the Mauga with the Kiriko and the Lucio so for
Denmark at least they don't have to burn the bank in terms of out drafting the
support line you know that they're going to be very much wanting to take the
cat out from their own side then the Zuki is something that they don't
really play as well so if they do lose this map if they get the
opportunity to go for the first band next time around there's a high
chance that we could see the Looser being talked to just to push Columbia outside of that comfort zone.
Yeah so we get into game and we'll get under way where I think I think Columbia needs to be the
team that can enforce this Denmark off of some of their stronger picks I think just getting rid of
the Sim. I think we've kind of changed a lot since like those group stages where you know
Sim obviously is still pretty good but we've seen a lot of teams have success against Sim playing
things like a, you know, Maga, Vendetta, that Columbia kind of, you know, targeting potentially
going to run out with right now.
So looks like we'll get, we'll see what happens here in terms of the support line.
For Denmark, I imagine we get, you know, Akiri here, like, you know, Johan end up
kind of using a speed ring, maybe switching, you know, or John Wich.
It will be Vendetta here, yep, Johan is going to switch, so we'll be Vendetta
with Maga here.
You've seen, I know, more of Bandetta here at this event than maybe expected, especially with so little sim play, so Bandetta's starting to creep into the meta a bit.
Yeah, it was doing really well, versus the Demon conversations, but Shockwave has already been able to take out Tempo with temporary thought for this fight, no soju damage, be able to chunk through the health of that Demon mech, but Supercom is still able to take out the DPS.
Skytor though just ignores the tank goes straight for the backline with that loo so enabling him to move forward with the speed and the
Backline crumbles a few trades at the start but once Skytor was in the back the fight was done
Yeah, and I think that's a kind of what you see where people will say how good demon is
Going after the support skytor they're able to get into the backline get both
Supports comes up with four in the fight
Like quite close here on the beam. I know shield up gonna be able to kind of
Use the gun here, gonna get a lot of healing coming in from Johan.
Gonna try and back up as Super Gomez over to Zarya here.
Gonna have those bubbles, gonna help support Lich.
But we grab here on a bit of a flank as Tim just gets caught out on the point.
Trying to battle Shockwave at length.
Put some pressure on the point and just gets taken out by the tracer here.
Denmark is Columbia, Moxie. They're so split.
They're gonna lose Lich here as well. Another fight win here for Denmark.
Yeah, Denmark more than half you to be able to just keep fighting away from that Vendetta engagement.
Yes, you lose, Jonowich, but still got your Curico.
You still have point control as well with Raph being able to secure I've got one versus one versus the Vendetta.
Now you've got limit break as well with that damage boost capabilities.
And if you're really looking at Colombo, like, what do you use to try to force open this?
Sure, if you don't have brush, you don't have one side of the sidebar,
and you have to find a way of clearing at this max.
Unless, Scyther just waits for the ball to go past no bubbles
at the moment to be able to climb
as long as Scyther's at 10-4 instantly.
Yeah, 10-4's actually hit with that limit break,
but it's going to be two kills.
Exchange back, never mind.
Skyzware just closes the door.
You see how strong DMGV is.
Lich on the point, trying to make some of the happen
with the Vendetta.
It's dealt with rather quickly.
So, really like the way that they play it, right?
Skyzware just kind of sits in the corner,
forces Columbia into a situation where they get the Zarya out of the doorway,
but Skytort doesn't really go out and kind of fight that Zarya.
Just kind of lets her pass and then deals with the rest of the team.
It's the same thing going to happen here.
It's going to be Sundry Blade used,
and then it doesn't come up with anything soundbar used here for Denmark.
It is going to hit everybody.
And Moxie, they just roll over Columbia here in round one.
Yeah, and you're okay, right?
We started just sitting on that corner.
You're okay with giving up 50% of the rest of the map side because if something like the vendetta tries to split away from the main
Composition to go point you just get marked by the tracer. Yeah, so it's very good a composition that
Demok has been able to combine together and this was my main concern from Colombia
That would they be able to adapt if the meta moved on from what we saw previously
I think well gaming coming first guy to was ready for it
Yeah, it's gotta turn to absolute.
Just farming them, right? I mean, 16-0 there.
Well, did he get a team next one?
No, yeah, I just never really even threatened working with Rav as well on the tracer.
Just a dominant performance from those two.
It'll be Columbia rolling out with that same comp yet again.
So you need to get a lot of value here out of the vendetta, right?
If you're gonna have these Zarya bubbles, they're trying to pocket that vendetta.
Already critical though.
Let's get Zarya bubble to disengage instead of engage.
This is awful for Columbia because now you don't have that way of making space.
And Raad doesn't have to worry about marking the Vendetta.
He can go deep and flying onto the back line instead.
Yeah, and you see how much space is actually created for Raad to get into that back line.
It's going to be Denmark taking this first fight yet again,
rather convincingly as they have had no answer for the demon and a tracer.
I wonder if we see some switches here in the Vendetta.
We've seen a few teams use it, but great mobility, though from Tracer as well.
Not going to be able to get either of those heroes out of the way, and then Shockwave playing the soldier.
Now you see with the slide, who's just going to disengage here from the Vendetta, as it looks like it's going to be Columbia trying to wrap around, get towards the point.
Ah, and I mean, look, the Zarya moves on forward. Super Gomez just pushes up, but at that point it just leaves everybody free.
For Skyport, it just kind of collapse on top of it. They just have not been able to keep players up as, you know, let's say they're working with Chained,
trying to make a play for the backline. They both
fall, and already Moxie, it's going to be about 50% here and counting for Denmark is, you're also going to have ultimates here for Denmark.
These fights have been going so fast, the zombies got nothing, they're nowhere really close outside of the Katsune Rush.
Okay, there we go, first pick Columbia this time, attempts to dual out the Tracer so the backline is slightly safer, Vendetta far more aggressive.
Still looking for that angle to be able to hit the backline, the first has to chunk out the demon's neck.
Gaigel finally coming under the pressure of the warrior, but this does come through for that Vendetta's damage, but the overclock from chocolate.
There's no shampoos to be able to keep the health bars up and that will be enough.
Connections from Shockwave just pommel through the health, weakening them enough that some of those bills
managed to come through off of the back of Rav, hitting in the damage of the Tracer's mobility and the flip tonight.
Yeah, the flip happens there for a little bit, right? So Columbia does get some percentage,
but SkyTor just kind of backs up off of the point, ends up using the Elevator Break, gets the next HP off of it,
and obviously the damage bombs go after it.
It'll be a Cune rush here.
Use by Columbia, change drops out over the point.
You also do have the overclock being used here.
It's 10 fines too, so this is great for Columbia.
I think if you are Denmark, you just
try and get this one maybe into OT, get it to 99.
Not able to do so.
It'll end there at 91%.
But now coming back, you still feel pretty good
for Denmark, right?
Both support ults able to work with you.
But sundering is the issue here for Denmark, right?
Yes, you have both support ultimates, but you're also staring down the barrel of the Gravison,
which can pause the sign barrier, and a thundering blade, which can then rip it off.
So Gravison can still find more guide with this Leisure ult.
There's the rush from Johan setting up the retake.
Supergonna send that attack right through it, and the thundering blade is down on the field.
Jonowitz knows he can't beat to save the team.
They just have to turn the cheek and take the fight loss.
Yeah, they end up, actually, I think
it's pretty decent there for Denmark, right?
They move on forward.
They trade Kitsune rush for sound barrier on the other side
and grab.
Now it allows you to come back.
Just use your sound barrier aggressively,
and you only need one fight.
You have past the live though.
Dangerously low.
That'll be the beat here.
Gets things going.
Super Gomez under us.
On the pressure, trying to back out
is they find the Kiri.
That is a huge pickoff.
Not a lot of healing now available on the field
for Columbia to lich into the back line
trying to make a play happen but he will fall as now it's just going to be no
brought damage right you just have to lose to here to be able to heal or
Columbia not going to be able to keep players alive one player up on the
high ground that's going to be Tim this is going to be Denmark closing it out
yeah sadly having to play it safe on the high ground power slide to be able
to hit the OT and keep Columbia's chances in play but you have
chances you don't have a fight win. Denmark are able to seal a side of
control 2-0 on the right. Yeah I know the crowd here behind Columbia early like we
talked about but Denmark just kind of asserting their dominance there early on
and they looked awesome and that's without the jetpack cat in the game
which is something you figure they can definitely get great use out of as we
move forward but really it was Skytor on the demon who was dominant. Yeah you just see from all of
these highlights right more than having to let Bizarre walk, split the team, have the demon jump
onto the back line. These moments as well where Shockwave's able to scout out the rotation when
they try to take that side wrap instead of this walking name gets totally cut off by the demon
yet again walking past Bizarre this time being met by Rav on the tracer to be able to pinch
into that backline so that even if the Zarya is up, there's just no one to be able to keep her alive
even if the beam charge starts dealing some of that damage of the frat. And then, like,
Demon has the mobility with the propulsors. If you start going low, you've got your shield,
you're going to be able to boost backwards. Something I think that's not really talked
about a lot is the fact that both the propulsors, you don't lose speed percent when you go
backwards, so you can use it both as engagement, but also disengagement
to be able to preserve the next health. Yeah, it's a ton of mobility, right? It's not
It's not like vertical mobility, kind of like D.Bahaz or some of the other heroes in the tank pool, but just the speed that we see that SkyTour is able to just close the gap with supports or other heroes.
So very strong, that number one for Denmark. I think obviously without this group is laid out with France, Denmark, Korea and Colombia.
I think when you look at these series against Columbia, you got to be aiming for 3-0s if you're all of these teams as I know Denmark first
France is going to be extremely competitive and then we think Korea should be the top of the group
Yeah, I think if you're Columbia, it's pretty easy to see what the ban will be for this second map
It has to be a demon, right? It has to be a demon, but here's where it will get really tricky though
You only get to that one in this series. You're already one map down
So you're guaranteed to at least have two more maps
They'll still be demon within play even if you win this next one. You've already burned the cat ban
You've already burned the cat ban here. Then you have to use a Bowscreen ban
Yeah, I guess I mean
Yeah, I guess you do right you have to get rid of the Bastion
But it's not like go opting into Shockwave playing Skodjern or Cassidy is gonna be awesome for you to deal with
So it feels like Columbia just has
a lot that they would like to get rid of, but only obviously one band on each map.
So, regardless, they're going to be fighting at a pretty rough disadvantage on a lot of these maps.
I'm curious where they decided to take us in terms of maps.
What would you think maybe works out well for them?
I think we see a lot of teams starting to go towards like escort and hybrid,
with the push, only being two maps.
And then Flashpoint being the three of them,
teams typically like to go towards escort and hybrid potential.
I could say escort or hybrid.
They might potentially be a new Power Racer.
If you want to be able to go for something that maybe teams are a little bit less practiced on.
Also, for how unfamiliar it can be.
Also, we're probably going to be seeing,
like we said, the Demon Band compete in Colombia.
And then Denmark will likely target at the Lucio
because that's a tank band, not a support band.
So you're going to have to be able to play things like the Kiriko and the Cat, which is not going to feel most comfortable.
But at least if you go on map like Parry, so you don't have to necessarily match the Cat Bastion.
Newjunk City tells me that they want a brawl.
Like, we'll see what they decide to get rid of here to empower that.
So, Newjunk City is a pretty decent Cat Bastion map, so we'll see.
Maybe is this a Bastion ban that comes through here for Kofi?
Because you could feel comfortable letting the demons slide through, because you would still have the Mauga Venketa.
If you ban out the Bastion, then you also save Garlik's Venketa, which they were really heavily trying to lean on for the amount of time that we saw it being kept in, like, Bonaparte.
And then you save the demon band for something a little bit later down the line when your hand is essentially
forced into having to fight on the objective of something like a escort match.
You know that number one Sky Tour finishes with like almost like 2,000 more damage there than Super Gomez on the other side.
So first band will be Kiri.
Interesting. Okay. So the Kiri band here for Columbia.
They don't want to play champs, so are you looking at like, you know, kind of like bat lucio type of comps, maybe?
Yeah.
With that mug in play. I'm curious where
Denmark now goes, right? You can get rid of it in Deneb you want, but I wouldn't even really be that worried about it though
if you were Denmark, it's not like
you know, literally trying to tear them up on it. So
Well, they'll go for the Vendetta, yeah.
Close Demon, probably, then.
That Denmark will just continue to play, because it's been working out so well for them,
and the Vendetta would have been a problem, because the Vendetta can go for the Demon,
or can go past the Demon and try to hit the team's backline when the Demon's playing aggressive.
I almost think this is actually trying to force Lichon to play and grab in a tracer hit-head form.
This is like where you can actually have Denmark start to play Symmetra, right?
Right, where they can bring in Symmetra and feel even better about it.
Yeah, SimCast, SimSojourn, you're gonna have the Jetpack Captain still in place.
So an opportunity here with that Vendetta gone to play some of those different comps.
So Newjung City is the map selection.
Columbia getting rid of the Kiri, also getting rid of the Vendetta is Denmark.
So see both those heroes gone here is I think the Curie band obviously is a little bit more impactful
What do we see Denmark play in the back line like do you feel good playing that cat? Maybe
with one of the other supports I
Just want to see what Columbia's back line will look like now because as I said for their qualifiers
They they were hard stuck on that Kirikou Lutio. They did not want to deviate
off of that bar. So already we're starting to see some differences. Maybe they feel
Demo probably did that research, looked at all of the composition that they played,
knew what to expect and try to flip the script. Yeah, I think without the curie
where does Columbia decide to go, right? I think if you're gonna play, let's
They decided to play like Mager, Zarya, something like that.
It's, oh I mean, Moira would be interesting.
We've seen Moira back in the world,
no, the mid-season championship,
we saw some Moira play on this map.
Typically, not typically like always kind of in the net,
we've seen kind of like zombie comp,
like really kind of rush styles,
where Moira can be pretty impactful, but...
Looks like they're locking that.
I mean, you do have the fate, so if the demon tries to get on top of you, you can try to disengage.
There'll be Shion Reaper here with Maga, so a lot of, like, upfront tank damage here available.
Not a lot of range, though, to keep on top of the shockwave.
So, as long as the shockwave does not get hit by that Maga bomb,
Which for the most part he avoids thanks to Powerslide, he's still low though, vulnerable enough that Lick is able to stay on top of him, takes him down.
Yohan goes to Lucian kills lonely, which means that Denmark rapidly bleeding players out of this fight.
In fact, they totally disengage. They give up the cap so they can predict a faster regroup and try and cut shots off of this percent.
Yeah, it's a nice charge there from Super Gomez.
Shockwave uses Powerslide to get away from him, but Lich does a TP there on the reaper.
They get right in the mix as now the Columbia fans start to heat up here in the venue as
Chalkway trying to buy an all-back ball and that is rad.
Getting her across and instantly there, the treats are accessing the back line,
getting rid of the Lucio.
You will do a better job here, you know, getting rid of the demon at a mech,
but look at how low Lich Tent and Super Gomez are.
Not going to be able to keep them alive as Tent, the only one now,
Up out of that trio for Columbia the point does flip here as well moxie
over to Denmark so
Denmark gonna get up take the lead here in just a sec. Oh
Darkwave
He's being cheeky. He's trying to film he had a rail shot
He had charge if you'd seen a squishy he would have taken the angle
They're waiting for the Magus go past and just hitting the catch line
He's invincible, but they're not silencing him.
No one's looking his way.
Oh, the pulse bomb onto the Moira fade, at least still available.
So change will be able to avoid it.
But now you have to worry about shockwave of the Overclock fish
in a barrel, which is just totally zoning out.
The guy with cool lessons to walk on the point.
Yeah, oh, Christ has got to be so careful
trying to challenge the soldier.
While the Overclock is active, nice shot
of getting Skytour out of mech.
You also get the kill on a rav here.
So it looks like Columbia.
They kind of just ignore Shockwave and Raffer in period of time, they get a speed boost all the way over to the point, and they play from under or near.
They do end up using the Call of Lessons there to kind of keep players all healed up.
One fight though, if you're able to win it here for Denmark, you will flip this back, get the first flash point.
Can they have time bar at the bottom?
This is the issue for Croddison, right? If you don't know, it's just like use time bar aggressively, before he has to match.
They'll use Colossus to open instead.
That wasn't from Lyc.
Bind shot with one shot on it!
With all the sidematch and supplement the helpbox.
And hold on!
Colombia starts to roll away with the fight.
This is massive.
Colombia able to battle back.
It will be Denmark who gets a flip here for just a second.
SkyTor gets DMACC.
You still have rap here,
but it is just a matter of time.
As Colombia, they take our first last point here, Mopsy.
They're just going to try and stagger out the tracer.
Maybe Ravna though, makes it out with his light, but you had to kill on to Jonovic, which was massive, right?
Denies him from using that sound barrier early on.
You're on the rotation, you will find Lich, but still a ton of time before this flash point opens.
You have to be so careful about using the sound barrier this next fight as well, because of H3 combo, right?
We've seen so many Lucio's.
Ajax, that ult's in the off of how fast the damage from this free comes through.
Geisel will have Limit right though, and Shockwave approaching up to that overclocking crab zone does not have the beat to keep the players up.
Yeah, you'll be able to farm this overclock off of the Maga.
He's gonna step his way out of the point.
We're available. Turn around guys, ends up using the cage.
It will be sound barrier in the Limit right here.
He's trying to keep Skye for alive.
There's so much damage though, funneling down onto the demon.
This will be the OC here used by Shockwave, but this composition really brawling out has worked well for Columbia.
Yeah, Shockwave tries to play the angle of main with his team baiting everyone's attention away from the Sgt. with the Overclock,
but to be sure of the go lessons, everyone from Columbia has natural cover.
To be able to hide away from the Sgt. with two is able to give them the space to fight to it.
Just dancing in front of the Sgt. with that ray form still available,
still available and Columbia will be able to hold on to this first half for more percent.
Routes being chased away, Force totally out of the fight with the Postal and still intact
and hold on.
Look!
Look at this possession!
He's off!
He's about to naturally hit Death Blossom!
If they walk that side right, no one will know that the Reap is there.
Right, Lee?
They rotate from Main instead.
Yeah, they go over towards Main as Skies were also over to the Moga here, so they
the match. That front line damage. So I think the Moga definitely a great pick here for Denmark.
It's a must win fight around the sun getting so well. They do deal with the Lucio, but you
lose your front line and get it again. Super goatness, doing a great job of putting pressure
on the Denmark constantly here on the Moga. It'll literally end up using the right form,
just getting away here. He is so close as the dead boss doesn't decide to use it there.
As you saw the Moga in the fight here, I think we've changed as well.
Might still try and fight this.
Now though, you do have Sky, so we're getting back into the action.
Super Gomez will fall, so in a fight that is just pretty dry in terms of ultimates across
both sides.
Nobody really invests anything into it.
Denmark is able to come out on top, but Moxie, Colombia has everything to use here
in just one fight.
Yeah.
To get the 2-0 in terms of flash points would be massive.
Did they get the team kill off of just highly investing their ultimates for this fight?
No one from Denmark to have the chance to look at the charge for that early close from kill 1 to 10.
Yeah, that's huge, that delay attack.
But no, they still go for it!
Market page is impressive on the side, the super go-to best.
Death also on the top 4 to the side.
But it turns out absolutely everyone on the side of Denmark.
So they remain intact.
One ultimate.
You actually, you have invested the kill of last week.
Two ultimates for two ultimates.
Change things, he can just win this off of sustain alone.
He's going to be great at calls, but Shockwave's uncontested.
Just pass the overclock right on the edge of the fight.
Yeah, now that you actually find Yo-Ham, I was going to say maybe it's doable there.
Poor Columbia, but the kill on the Super Gomez is massive. Obviously,
it's a healing advantage there for Columbia at that time,
but not able to turn in a huge comeback here for Denmark in our second Flashpoint.
The kill on Yo-Ham was great early on from Temp, just not able...
turn that advantage into a point flip.
So, now Columbia, you will have the spree
leading into this next fight.
Sky Tour with a cage though.
Look for Denmark to possibly be aggressive
with this ultimate as, looks like it's gonna be Columbia here.
Just kinda showing low ground.
TP comes in from Lich, is trying to buy an angle.
It's gonna be the cage by use here,
is up on the high ground.
The Super Gomez gets stuck.
Look at this, both moggages
just kinda float through the air.
Stuck by the cage is,
Super Gomez will make it out with his life,
but the damage is already done. Denmark will get control of Flashpoint first.
So, late pick onto Tampa and yep, there we go. Denmark picking up that cap.
Jono is here running away with Simebaria charging because both the DPS invested their ults on the sort of Colombia.
You know that you can be much more proactive with these Simebaria's, right?
You don't have to play much more defensively.
Chokwraith also being proactive. Just farming up Brawl shots off of the Mauga.
Getting Super Gomez very low so he can't commit the engagement of that slam to kick that Columbus' throat.
Super Gomez can't get enough healing, Moxie. I mean, look at how low Super Gomez is.
James is going to be able to kind of get that call. That's his option.
But just the amount of pressure from the Sojourn, I really think Columbia needs...
It's Moira as well, right? The resource buy. Everyone's like so fast when your mag is always critical health.
Yeah, I think it's just like the damage though from the Sojourn.
Like constantly coming chipped in on the Moga as he's trying to come in.
And you just don't have the healing resources to be able to kind of keep on through that.
And you don't have the range with the reaper and the shield to brought to K2.
Exactly, yeah, it was great against the demon, but not as much now.
OC available, that's going to be able to chunk down that mage HP as we see Supergirl Man.
She's going to poke out from the side.
It's a trade there. The Lucio gets grabbed, but it's going to be a wholesome on that come team.
Connects to that Lucio as this last point is which we can completely dominate by.
Denmark Super Gomez has to stand out of the point, he's going to be a coalescence that keeps him up, Yoland can answer with his as well.
He tried from Super Gomez and John Wychelsian feel the need to invest the beat at this time.
They know the mugga's so low on the side of Columbia, you're most likely going to be able to win this fight without investing that key in support ultimate.
It's going to be Denmark getting another flash point on the board.
Yeah, Johan inside that cage, pretty much on vacation, which is very fitting for the outfits that we're in.
He literally, he plays inside the cage, it has the orb, waits for cage to break, then uses fate,
knows that there's zero punishment for him playing that close to the mage.
Oh, because there's no death blossom, there's no spree follow-up from the side of tank or lick.
But now, if you're in Columbia, right, you're kind of committed to this damage dealer
line of the She-On Reaper, that you're going to have both of these ultimates,
but Sound Barrier is gonna really need a lot of them.
Cardiac Overdrive as well, it's just gonna keep that fog up.
Really, they need it.
Yeah, I mean, the game show, I mean, you're not even gonna be able to get a use up the screen.
You're just gonna lose a few players.
Before that, it's even available, uh, really, to get a good use out of it.
They're stuck on the comp as well now.
They're stuck on the comp because they have ults.
They're going to think, okay, we have to stick with these heroes.
Probably should have changed two or three fights a while.
Yeah, exactly.
But, like, if you lost that last fight, right,
but you got the chance to invest the ultimate, you probably chopped.
But now, because you still have the ultimate,
you think, well, we'll be able to win because we only have one sign barrier.
Your hand just got everything here for Columbia.
They opened with a spree.
It's just tighted perfectly here by Denmark.
It'll be your hand.
They end up using the call.
That's the sound barrier layered on top of it as Denmark
just trying to find some kills.
If you can get rid of this, Lucio, you're in a great spot.
spot which finally does find SkyTor. Finally getting rid of the Moga of Denmark. It really
feels like since SkyTor sucked off of the demon onto the Moga, it has been all Denmark but
Columbia here, Moxie. That's a huge fight. Double support all the way from Denmark and
Columbia still able to come out on top. Yeah, Shockwave has the overclock but neither
when they are actually in control of the map space, they should be able to kite it.
They're going to be able to scout where the Sojourn is, temp, force, to hope he doesn't
engage low on the bike, crunched by both the Sojourn and the Tracer, but frankly, you
still got the Reaper with Deathloss and play off of that cake.
A few hits of damage in with the shotguns, also the alternate actually.
A shockwave invests the Overclock, trying to chase onto the Pleasant Bomb, you just
don't find the fault with the micro.
Yeah, death loss I'm going to use there on the point towards the end by Lich, but it's one, not good enough to turn it.
Now they're going to stagger out. Super Gomez here. Those get Shockwave, but Shockwave will be back in the fight quickly.
Temp now just going to, running out of the point, done from bad to worse here for Columbia.
That fight is going to get Denmark very close here to be able to take it. Maybe just a last hit here from Lich.
She will touch as we get into OT as Rainform used, going to have to back up.
Don't even know if anybody else will be able to get a touch here and they will not.
The Lucio denied that touch with a boob.
As Denmark will take map number two as well, Moxie, as they have looked really clean this
far.
I liked Columbia's comp at the start when it was versus the Demon when they were
able to kind of like actual engagement.
to be able to have the reach for both the Reaper and the Sheon very early on,
and not have to deal with that poke, that constant pressure onto Super Gomez.
From Shopey, when we look at statistics, I'm sure his damage will be absolutely chused
because he always is just skin-crushing off of that Maldor, and that was the difference, right?
When Shopey started being able to apply that early pressure onto Super Gomez,
it stalled out the approaches that Columbia could make,
and alive those kills to come through early on from Denmark.
Yeah, there just needed to be an adjustment there,
I think, from Columbia to play some type of hit scan, right?
Sojourn, obviously, great against Moga.
Tree was talking about an interview.
He thinks even Sierra is great against Moga.
Just like, overall, you just need a ton of damage
to just deal with that hero, where you're not exactly
like Moga vs. Rieger when the Moga has the cardiac
You're not exactly that worried about taking that like kind of like one be one as I feel like they got exactly what they wanted
They got them to switch off of the demon. Yeah, it's just they never made the proper adjustments after that. I
Feel as well that because like more it's so resource-reliant with that bar that continuous pressure from shockwave
This keeping super gun is so low melt it through the moir is resource bar and comparison to go hand
Which means that if you're Columbia you're waiting even more time
You're not just waiting for your maggots fabelize
You're waiting for your moira's healer resources to recharge before you can properly take some of those fights
And that means that Denmark are just farming point percentage almost for free
Columbia's not getting to do any form of poke because they don't want to risk someone dying too early
So they're not folding up their ultimate upon just be able to pull push and walk those fights to just cheese out some point percent
That way and Denmark very quickly starts running away with it
And I worry for Columbia that this is my twice
We've seen them failed to be able to have a hero deck to be able to match up to the swap set them up
Or if you don't want to play a
Hit scan you at least have to play you know, maybe it's like a diva to be able to close the gap
We're still having like a HP pool that's kind of acceptable going into a fight. So we'll see obviously Columbia
They will get another map selection here their final one of the series
where they decide to take us. So they seem to be trending more towards wanting to play a little bit more brawl type of composition.
Obviously with New Jersey City being the selection there, you know, are we going over to like a push style of math that could be potentially where they decide to go.
I don't think Denmark is too based really where Columbia takes this to be quite frank.
be quite frank. Yeah I think Denmark would almost be happy to see a push map, right?
Especially when you sort of look at Shockwave's perspective from a lot of
those fights on Flashpoint. Uncontested. And I mean now if you even banned the
demon if you're Columbia, you're not even that bother if you're Denmark, right?
You're gonna have an idea of like, okay we just play Maga, they're not gonna
play like a hit scan to match it. And the cat's open as well. And the cat's open, right?
You could play Bastion. So the Vendetta ban already used their buy
Denmark in their previous map that's something to be saw in map number one from Columbia
So maybe that kind of sneaks its way on through here
But if you're Denmark you got a look at this is like let's get a clean 3-0
Well, I'm just been you know pretty competitive throughout I would say the first two maps
Maybe they're able to kind of like steal one off the France or something like that right kind of give you a huge advantage
You know when we have these around Robbins you need to get these three O's
When they're kind of lobbed up to you on a little bit of a silver platter
Yeah, it'll be rough. I think that's what Columbia because like I said, this is showing the lack of flexibility
So all of the matches that afterwards people are going to know these the competition that they're more than likely players
We are a lot of teams really love this map
That we saw some icon ball yesterday. We saw like one parry so but really in terms of the hybrid map
This has definitely become a bit of a fan favorite
since neon junctions introducing introduction into the pool so this is
a good map for demon right no it's also a good map for hitscan like if you're
not gonna play a hitscan I mean and just allow shockwave to just kind of it's
also a great map for bashing cats if we have across the defense and up with
the flow of the flyby to have to just give up map control for first point but
like what Columbia you're gonna use a ban on the bastion here I mean it
feels like there's a lot of other there's so many gaps that's the issue right
it's sort of like playing whack-a-mole that Columbia have a fake slam down the
band hammer on one hero another problem just raises heads that point rate
Denmark could be free to do something like a band Moga for instance so it'll
be a demon ban here or Columbia definitely feels like that one you have
to get out of the ball though you mean did just show that you can kind of deal
with it right but obviously yeah or like you're gonna play like she on
Reaper and that's not exactly gonna work here in the Unjunction especially if
you just got schooled by shockwave being able to out distance both of your
DPS flight yeah now see what Denmark decides to do right I don't think they
They want to ban like a cat, right, because that's what they want to do.
Yeah, potentially getting rid of like a Lucio here.
Putting more pressure on Columbia's backline is...
It'll be Xiong. Okay, so...
This also kind of forces them back into trying to play maybe like Vendetta or Tracer.
We haven't seen any Tracer here for Columbia,
but obviously the Raps have been kind of running through them on that hero throughout the whole series.
Yeah, and they weren't really able to kill Temp all that consistently,
Consistently because of the she-on being able to have like the bike multiple times when we saw early kills on to temp
It was off of both raft but also shockwave as well
So two players being distracted for the price of one that's really a potential player trade advantage
That plumber could have taken advantage of know that two players were out of the fight
You've still got four of your players active just walk on the remaining three call
So taking out that she on taking out the potential of the she on wrapping around putting pressure on the attack as well being
able to take up some of those very particular high ground positions very quickly to off angle.
A very strong option. Speaking of by the way, Symmetra Vam was already used so Denmark if they
really want to play fast they want to move away from something like the Bastion and the Cat.
They could just go for the Symmetra on their attack and teleport onto the high ground to
take it away from Columbus control. Yeah we're seeing how much you know which has been kind
of going over towards the vendetta. I don't know if they'll decide to go that route in terms of the sim.
I think that gives Columbia a clear path in terms of what they want to decide to play.
I think if you're Denmark, you consistently run like a soldier, a tracer, figure out what the tank
is. It could be like a mauga here potentially. And now with the backline, you're able to run
cat if you want, you're able to play, uh, Kiri, everything available in terms of support.
Yeah, it should be Kiri-Cat. It straight up support line should be Kiri-Cat as the default,
which will be something that they're marked up very happy about. They'll have access to that one for
all of the rest of the maps, as Columbia have now banned both of those heroes involved in
that composition. Could be some Rematra as well, potentially. That's true. Rematra is, uh,
obviously great all-arounder right can fit into a lot of different compositions so
always an option and then also plays really good here on neon junction where
Columbia needs some heroics it feels like to be able to kind of pull this one
back is I know you in here Denmark gets map selection first ban from here on
out but Columbia obviously they get the first map selection in this series
they win the 1v1 and then they also get first ban but not able to really kind of
make their mark on Nepal. Yeah again it sort of feels like they were caught a
little bit short by how powerful that demon strategy truly turned out to be
maybe they thought they would be able to contain it with the Zarya the Vendetta
the fact that you can cleanse the limit break damage amp with the Zarya
bubble while also being able to still have that resource to set lick up
right because she's back when Vendetta first dropped and she was really
better with desire that was the true engagement option you would literally
just bubble of Vendetta center forward she guarantee you kill one support
before anyone could react and create all of the space for the rest of your team
to walk forward but we since moved away from those climbing feels like it's
much easier for teams to be able to bait that Vendetta's positions or
something just walk on a back line before she set up it's also the
Sojourn has great mobility, just kind of slide away.
They, you know, Lich kind of uses the mobility,
all Vendetta gets in, and like the Sojourn is so far away
that it's easy for Shockwave to kind of come through
with those kills, right?
Not really too difficult for a player
of Shockwave's caliber to be able to kind of
get some of those kills on the Vendetta,
you know, once, you know,
not having you slide or south early, right?
Like if you were to get the slide out of Shockwave
early with somebody else, they end up in there that can really give the soldier in some problems.
But what we've been seeing thus far, what Columbia's not able to put that kind of pressure on
and execute that type of plan.
Well, they were able to at once, that first fight on Flashpoint, where they were able
to pull side with power slide then they can intercept where the power slide takes
shockwave with the teleporter, but unfortunately we're not able to replicate it afterwards
multiple times. As we get ready to head into what could potentially be the last map of this series,
what is the composition that these teams play. I'm sure we'll be seeing a whole lot of Mauga
with the cap, potentially Shockwave on the Cassidy. Deadmark on D-Benz, it'll be Cassidy
with the Maga Tracer here in play. This is going to allow Shockwave obviously
with the help of Johnua Chex and some of those high grounds. We'll see what we get here from
Columbia. They've obviously been having Super Gomez play some Maga throughout this. I think the
support line is what we'll see. Curious what we get from the damage dealers.
Tempin ledge really need to step up in a huge way the far off
See if this is something that actually sticks or get swap out of this
So they've scouted out of the mouth
The ability to play tracer though has been really tough
For Columbia
I think we haven't seen really any hitscan either.
That's the poor Columbia eyes.
Grab, dangerously low, and now he just falls.
That's huge.
Yeah, now the songs now exchange Super Gomez's battle,
but you're not the same.
Without that race, you can only let him get able to make an inroad into the backline.
And now Kat is forced to just retreat.
I, with the rest of his team, he'll be able to grab Chopway through a place of safety,
wanting to get played too,
as the Kat has been totally chilled out by Super Gomez.
And that will be a very fast push-push take.
You could not have asked for a better start there, but Columbia, I mean, grab, I think maybe because in the viewing recall, has no blinks, just gets stuck so deep in enemy territory and just gets instantly killed with fine lich, and then lich finds another kill as we move over towards the objective as cardiac overdrive used here by both magas.
Moving up there with the Reaper is some damage now coming in here.
farming dead-eye as well for shockwave. Just a few hits on smog and not looking for kills,
wanting the ultimate to have to retake the space. That's a very early shouzu,
which means that Kratasun does fall to the dead-eye fly-by. And all of that early momentum that
Columbia had to live in their sails for that past purpose.
Oh, they're still fighting here. You're gonna have the eye. Hey, you still have lich on the
point. You also have tech here with an overclock.
You're going to keep this going though, if you're in Columbia, I mean that's a great clutch.
Super Gomez falls but you still have some of these damage dealings on the objective.
You get rid of the Sky Torb and then you're able to battle back there, you know, using
that overclock from 10, putting some extra damage down on the Maga, finishing him off
and then getting rid of the Cat.
So, Columbia doing a great job here, keeping it going, Rav is at a really rough start.
To the map, we've highlighted the Tracer Denmark a few times, but it's got to take off in a
beauty fight early on.
K-twice is here, gonna be deadlocked or used as well.
Like, kill trade here, you will end up losing 10, because you can't have used their Vi
Jonoich with that Kitsune rush.
You will have an advantage here for Columbia in this next fight though, Moxie, with
having that soundbar.
Yeah, but how close to the objective will you be when you're forced to use
it?
from Denmark, just slowly chipping down the time, rafting with the pulse bomb, waiting for the exact moment to use it.
He can find it onto the Lucio, Cam's still holding on to that power slide, everyone's trying to cross before Trane comes through.
Tratsung goes low and is taken down before Sambaria, Cam's sending the team for that will be a very fast fight swing.
from the side of Denmark as they deny Columbia the opportunity of using the
time barrier which now means that Shockwave is actually dangerously close
to a couple more hits once more farming up that dead eye and stopping the
momentum that one side of Sam barris should give this team yeah and you're
gonna play close-up yet again here for Denmark right you kind of need that
payload to move backwards buy yourself some more time a lot of time on the
the clock here for Columbia.
Xylem, you stop here, come in, and they find Radisson yet again.
Change dangerously low as well.
Both supports out of the fight.
The board even really kicks off.
This isn't as good as if you get your board Denmark.
You're going to stagger Super Gomez for a period of time.
Two fights?
It's just cheap fight wins too.
Like instantly killing Delusio means that the fight is done.
Right?
Yeah, two fights in a row.
They're going to get from Lucio really instantly.
Without using an ult, you're just dealing it off with having that split angle pressure that the Tracer provides and then meeting the rest of the team to work along via our chase.
There's Pratchasun still has the time bar, but now you can't use it aggressively because you have to hold it to the defensive capabilities of things like the Mavs game, which Tidere's Mavs go close to.
Yeah, let's get really low early on. Everybody backs up here.
For Denmark, he'll be dead-eye here, a nice use of the lifeline, oh, nice job!
He's using their keeps a little bit of in-holder ability and has a sound barrier drop there.
By Primeison, it's going to be a game by you, so you're buying Super Gomez as well.
As an early use of that dead-eye, you know, escort in by Jonowitz does not pay off there.
For Denmark, they end up using their Katsune rush there as well, not able to get a fight win.
Is this huge for Columbia's chances to get this second checkpoint?
Today's try to contest. Licks just waiting around the corner for someone to walk past with the deathmatch.
And he has grabbed that little target with the blink.
He's got a good scenario to change.
Geisho defense is engaging. Right on top of the objective.
Tests back before the ulti post can be passed.
And Duke Columbia still tries to win this.
I've already pinned her from shockwave to stop Lick from escaping.
And that will shut down the attack to the point.
Activate though, Mark. See that?
Columbia, you need to win.
The cage comes through but you have the katsune rush going you have your mauga alive cardiac overdrive
With the Reaper inside of the cage
He has one sided rush and two DPS also play off of it
Well, you'll have to do this early on too. So like you don't really get an opportunity to use them
Like worry now you have to keep these damage dealers alive
Brav start to come alive a little bit on the tracer will be the overclocked use here
But like there is a great pick off there dealing with Johnowich
But got the same line not great, but able to find the camp now you find yo-ham is this will be second check point here for Columbia
You can see how worried they were about them on finding early picks and it's so not well
There we go clean up Johnowich will be able to touch on to the point
but that will be it. But yeah, such early use of tens overclocked just so that you don't lose someone before you can use the ult.
Being able to instantly find a connection, power sliding in with the ultimate, play up aggressively,
before Shockwave can build the dead item yet again zone Colombia out.
Not a lot of time though to be able to complete this push through third,
so they have to be able to carry this momentum forward with the cage, Boston Gumball.
Yeah, you know something, he said high gear, nice shot though,
that the stomp on the O-M is nice use of the cage,
getting quite aggressive, it'll be skyward,
just gets on the objective, just wants to buy some time here.
Denied it for ruining the payload on forward.
So, John DeWitch, all of a sudden they're gonna change,
you're gonna have Lucio here with the rab over towards the reaper.
Huge advantage though.
Can Tsunay rush? He lost sound barrier here, potentially he'd be able to close it out, shockwave not with an overclock, but he will also change from the capacity over the soldier.
Rush for rush, coming out from both the team, Skytel at the mouth, cage, there's the better death blossom!
Cratts on utilizing that sandrash and no one from Columbia falls early.
They've got all of their players still active, they're chasing down the disengager, not allowing them to kill off of the storm crews.
This could be the full push, a special template, she can save away from the fight on the back
length, building up the overclock, now just stopping the doors and no one's able to get
through.
When they have the ultimates, when they have to win that one last fight, Columbia
are able to carry forward and complete the full push.
Something we rarely see on this map and could well be enough to win them and continue
on in the series.
Yeah, with 18 seconds in the time bank as well, so putting a lot of pressure here
on to Denmark to be able to complete the map as uh
Taking a look at some of the stats here on our screen is
So uh, take a look, you know, yo, I was getting caught out a few times there
On the Kiri pretty even across the board, right? Uh, no from both sides
It's definitely think though like the changes towards the end there from Denmark show that they need to make some adjustments to deal with this kind of
Reaper
Moggill look from
Columbia that'll be also what Columbia starts with your on defense is I think we're just gonna get a mirror now
Moxie yeah in this matchup
I will say that the time they were able to stall out on second on the side of them up by getting those very fast early
they picked onto ground or something did make up the time that they lost losing first so
quickly which does mean that that time bank it could have been much higher on the side
of Colombia with the tempo that they were able to set up to take care of.
They like five minutes for that second part of the map.
Yeah.
But they barely got it.
They could easily have with the pace that they capped third have had plus two minutes
on the time bank.
So Denmark have kept their hopes alive on this map still.
So it'll be Reaper with Sojourn for both sides.
Two chances to probably get Brab's Reaper.
It's like Super Gomez pushes on in.
That'll be a stomp used.
And they have Ice Geyser going back towards the rest of his team.
That's going to be the Sojourn and the Moga down there for Columbia.
So this should be a fast take here for Denmark.
It's kind of running through there, and you got the Sotrn really long they end up having to use that Suzu key to temple live
You didn't have ever super Gomez and
Skies were really healthy at that time. No contest will come through here either
They were able to stall out right the momentum of the attack with things like just folding up the dead eye
Yeah, there's no threat of a dead eye with a jetpack to stop Denmark from pushing up and
and capitalizing. Temp falling early as well. Really bad news for this team as there's no threat of the
Sojourn, that one shot to punish Skytor being this far forward, taking the pressure, taking that
Magus help Alola and converting it to the ability to drop one of his teammates.
Yeah, now instead of like three fights at this part of the map, you're probably only going to get
two here, uh, if you're Columbia, so shots here from Shockwave, just into Super Gomez as
he's down about 50% HP here.
Just putting a lot of pressure onto that moggah yet again.
Super Gomez forced the back up.
Moxie, when this next fight may kick up,
you may only get one really good fight here
if you're in Columbia.
Well, change on this was rocked, right?
I will pop it instantly before Yo-ham has that match.
Yeah, but you just kite this though.
Yeah, this is really bad.
They haven't been able to push anyone
if that they lose time on the kite.
I was able to find you,
One of it's being Jono which on the Lucio.
So at least you stop Death Blossom being able to forward push with the feed.
Yeah, let's Death Blossom use their Viper, didn't get any with it.
Skytour will back on out. Now you're gonna be able to push on forward though.
You're gonna have this Kitsune rush.
It's gonna be a cage that comes in first. Nice rail going shot there.
From Shockwave, Lich does end up using the Death Blossom
with a lot of damage down on the Skytour as they deal with him.
This is a great fight back here.
For Columbia they're able to keep Super Gomez up
And the consuming rush not invested there by Denmark maybe an opportunity there to use it
But great cage there from Super Gomez
Keeps it in Columbia's favor for now
Overclock versus overclock both teams having time bar a journal which is good to go practice on slightly far behind
So potential momentum swing I hear from Denmark before it's built temple go first
Jonah went square with the beat connects on to the whole team fours, and Crouches also exchange, and then Hopps the overpog.
I just don't want anyone from the side of Demlog. Shotwave holds his, but we'll have him for free for the next fight to keep him momentum going for Demlog to be able to complete the push.
Yeah, Super Gomez uses the stomp, cardiac overdrive, trying to put some pressure there on this Shotwave, but not able to deal with that soldier.
This is going to be a lot of time here for Denmark to complete this last part of the map.
Will you get a touch here? You do have Katsune Rush here. It will be a huge investment.
There will be the Reaper from which gets a touch. Katsune Rush used here, but I changed.
Everybody backs up here for Denmark and you find the soldier.
That is going to force everybody back for Colombia. That will be the second checkpoint for Denmark.
mark as they have almost, you know, they have like 430 there on the clock, and it's early
here to complete the map.
Right, you keep overclocking, because change tries to use the rush, everyone from then
won't disengage, you're able to catch 10 trying to play aggressive off of the rush,
and now you have to overclock when they don't have anything left which forces them to
have to play full defensive.
10, down, Raph's being able to find the Mauga, lick through the death blossom
falls, and that will be momentum continued.
This is as bad as possible.
Oh yeah, this is worse, probably.
They've got all of the ultimates, and they were about to have a free minutes time bank
report.
They're going to be going into double support ult, cage, plus blossom here at the end.
Temp up to the bastion up on the high ground.
They're going to put some pressure on the ramp.
It'll be a cage right here.
More Sky Tours, they catch Super Gold Man, and that's going to be the death blossom,
finishes off two.
This is going to be a really healthy time bank for Denmark, Colombia, we are really excited
about them finishing the map, but it's going to be 352 in the time bank for Denmark's speed
running through Neon Junction.
Colombia have to fast take first.
Like with the time bank that Denmark have access to, you can't be full held.
You can't just get one tear.
So they'll be able to play slow, they'll be able to stack up ultimates and just
will push you out with all of them dumped into one fight it is a big uphill
battle here I think now for Columbia is easy temp and crottison both double
digits right one from the support line one from the DPS well the literature
died six times on the attack by so four times only on the defense it's it's
two months, right? And then 10th as well going down 11 times, which means that if the Sojourn's dead.
One, you're missing the burst damage to be able to have them like have to respect the angles of the
Sojourn's controls. And two, every shockwave up, he doesn't have to worry about where the other
Sojourn is. And there'll be a cast to be again here on defense. I think if you're Denmark,
you probably feel like your defense fell apart early on because Raph just ends up falling,
instantly, at the start.
Yeah, but you can change that. You can basically stop your Tracer being that overextended. And
then I like the fact that they keep the cast because that was the thing that brought them
back to the defense, right? If there's only one minute left, even if there's a cap on
the side of Blondie, if chocolate pulls up a dead-eye and swings first, that claims
you're almost face required to go for a re-take.
The Tracer with full perks as well.
Heater in OT is going to be much stronger, so...
See, it's going to be both of Moga's just going to battle it out.
Lich is just a nice job TPing in, putting some pressure on the shock main,
but he gets escorted out.
They do deal with SkyTour, so they've done a great job.
But dealing with this Moga at times with the Reaper is...
Rathbind's on the IM, has to use the Suzu on himself,
Lich trying to get back to the point.
Jonowich able to survive on through that.
She will have some point pressure here for Columbia,
but not able to deal with the Tracer.
It's going to just keep this contested.
No point tip.
Picked up just yet for Columbia.
You're going to have a goal by all the two of them.
Although you're going to be able to deal with Rav,
Lich takes on Jonowich too,
so you don't have to worry about the cat in your backline.
He's going to look for Slam.
Suze is available, but the character has fallen down.
and that magazine bought the space for the DPS to pump it a lot.
Yeah, and I think as soon as you get rid of the Reaper, nice shots from Shockwave.
It's going to be three in the fight.
It's Sunay Rasheer used by Elham just for good measure.
That is not even a tick on point A, Moxie.
It's going to have to be a generational hold here for Columbia just to get a draw
to keep this series alive.
And it feels like as soon as Shockley found that pick onto the Reaper getting lich out of the fight,
that takes away all the pressure that you're putting down on SkyTour and it's just easy after that.
But it started even before that actually because Jono, which on the cap,
somehow finds the kill onto Chain on the Kyroko, which is the first kill of the attack round.
For the side of Columbia, they're down the Kyroko right at the very start.
So no chance of being able to absorb all of that cloak pressure, building up one side of the rush,
And slamming it onto point to at least pick up a few ticks when Demlock after disengaged.
And now, Demlock, they can just choose, right?
They can go for the Bastion Cat flyby to force the space, or grab the kill,
and then set up.
They have so much time.
They can build up ultimates.
They can go for different compositions, work out what's working, what's not working.
They only need one tick, too, right?
So like, you can use this Cat Bastion, put some pressure down on the temp.
like you find a kill here and you're in a great spot.
Yeah.
If you have closer respawns, you're able to use that
cabasium flyby to just force everyone to give up the space or
eat all of the damage, and that's going to put a lot of pressure
to onto where the supports are going to play from.
Brav, hoisted up into the sky, Denmark picking their
opportunity to go for the flyby.
They've seen us throw up the maulder and they're forcing
I see the gold shop wave tourbjorn here as well, that's not for a good measure yet.
Okay, Super Gomez stomped right on top of the ramp, so not going to be that easy here.
Fort Denmark does find one. He's in a lot of trouble though.
CFB's able to make it out on his life. Not going to be able to, so nice charge on through there from Super Gomez.
You're gonna get everybody back at full strength here or Columbia by tying this next bike kicks off
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curious to see how both
Denmark and France stack up
with Korea but
Denmark is way too much here for Colombia today
Colombia they'll add her pretty decent chance I would say in map number two and
that's right I think they kind of fumbled it a little bit they just never made
the proper adjustments yeah if they just adjusted to be able to match the
distance pressure that shockwave was able to I pro swap to a tank that has
more gap close potentials of this like standing there and eating it all from
afar it was a little bit rough I think that was the main issue for this
team and will remain the main issue for this team? Like, do they have the depth of hero
flexibility to be able to start on a composition, have parts of fight go well?
The other team then adapt to what they do? Can they actually adapt back once a composition
changes?
That's what makes it so hard, right? Especially if you don't have a lot of the existing
synergy or if some players have been out of playing competitively for a little while.
Like, that's kind of where the playbook ends, right?
So you need a few more pages and we can see those veterans from
Team Denmark, of course, they can dig deep.
They can adjust to many, many different situations.
You also alluded to the meta, right?
Like, they can play the new meta.
We show Glingsypus old as well, and it seems to match
together well for this game.
Yeah, I would agree.
I know kind of playing a little bit of some, you know,
the current stuff, right?
We see some demon early on, and then obviously able to
go and kind of play over towards some of the Magus stuff
there for Denmark.
And I know obviously taking a look at the group.
Denmark, they're kind of sitting in number one here right now.
Obviously, some more games to be played in this group.
I'm excited to see what happens with Korea and France
a little bit later in the day.
But hey, for at least I know if you're Denmark,
you screenshot this, right?
You're number one in the group right now.
OK, guys, this is your cue.
You get the phone out, screenshot this one.
Call it now.
Stopped the count, everybody!
That's where we're going.
Yeah, we have Kalex joining us here for a quick shot.
Very dominant first showing from a team Denmark.
We hope to see much more.
How did you and the team prepare for the Overwatch World Cup?
Did you come here to bootcamp a little earlier?
Yeah, we came here, I would say, a week prior to the event starting.
You know, we started in Seoul, had a little nice bootcamp,
practiced a bit and joined the city,
because we had many players who were there first time here.
So, yeah, we got to see some of the city
and then we took a train down to Busan.
Yeah, so now we're ready to play.
Yeah, I mean you guys looked awesome in this series, it's great that she's Shockley back, right?
It feels like for somebody who took a little bit of a break, he hasn't missed a beat.
Yeah, that's true. I mean, he's just been chilling, you know, he's really focused on World Cup now
and hopefully we can get to see him in Stage 3. Yeah, he's just excited to be back on the stage.
So how did you deal with Demon coming out so close to these matches?
Did you think that at the start she was not going to see that much playtime
and then suddenly the Hotfix came out and it's like, panic stations, we have to learn how did Skys will really approach being able to handle a new tank being released?
I think initially we thought that Dean was slaggy too weak. I think it's also an interesting hero in terms of playstyle but I think after the Hotfix we were like, okay, this character is pretty decent I think so we definitely started screaming it a lot more and we wanted to paint in the match too but eventually we had to mirror Malka and get a clean win.
We do we do love what you guys pulled out of the back there
It looked really really strong really confident and confident as well
If you're looking at the rest of your group, how confident are you?
How do you feel like you're gonna stack up against France or South Korea obviously being the big dog of the group here?
I think our goal going into this group is like, okay, Colombia we should win
And I think France is like the the must win, you know
Like we need to win that game to qualify for Blazcon. I think Korea will be a tough one
You know realistically, I think we can we just have to show up and play our best
But I think we have a good chance against France and I think, yeah, that's like the most win game.
We are really preparing for that a lot, even yesterday and today.
We like we're mostly thinking about the fans game because that's the one we can realistically beat.
And yeah, that's a good approach.
Well, we get to hear your thoughts about our next match in a little bit as well.
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What's the experience been like for you so far?
I mean, it's amazing. I love Korea. I've been here so many times. I've also lived here for some time, so yeah, it's great. I love this place.
Ah, you're basically a local, we got hands on our hands.
Yeah, I'm gonna go to here for a good spot.
It's also just so great to see you back in action in the Team Denmark jersey as well.
So, if we're looking at your group, we already asked Helix,
like, what's kind of the way you're approaching it.
How realistic do you feel it is for Team Denmark to make it out of your group?
Honestly, after today, for whatever reason, we play way better in match.
Like, you know, in practice sometimes we're a bit like, if you know, like, we do some dumb
mistakes.
Yeah, you're chilling.
Yeah, I don't know, but like, it's like, you know, when we're playing, it's like, the
young guys, like, their ADHD comes down in one day, like, they're fully lucky, you
know.
But that's all that matters, right?
That's all that matters.
Our next two teams have to do the same thing.
USA definitely showed up yesterday.
They played really, really well.
Japan looked to struggle so let's discuss this upcoming match and how we feel their chances are.
Did you guys get an opportunity to watch either of these teams played as far?
I think we watched both games on and off mostly but yeah, we did.
Alright, were you guys impressed with what we saw from Team USA?
Because we are more disappointed with what we saw from Team China.
Yeah, I mean they won the first two match USA, right?
And I was thinking, okay this is gonna be a clean 3-0 but then I tapped out for bit
and then came back in 2-2.
I was quite surprised, but I expected USA to win that one fairly convincingly.
Yeah, when we were talking about the pregame yesterday, I was like,
I am cautiously excited for Team USA, because it's like on paper,
you're like, oh, this is a great roster, right?
And then it's like, you just kind of have this like sense,
like, oh, something's going to go wrong.
But like, they look really good against China yesterday, right?
They get that 3-1 victory.
And I think Hawk is like a huge reason why,
like his ability to play so many different tanks.
I mean, you played against him, you're both of you guys for years now.
What does he bring to like a team?
Maybe stability. Yeah, you know, I didn't play on a team with him. Yeah, but I think maybe like coms as well
Stuff like that. I don't feel like especially I'm gonna say like this tank demon demon
Whatever we calling it like this stuff is like so will be you know
I think so if you have like a leader like a person that can call it up and just take over guide the team
I have pocket as a leader there I bring that stability and the common then you have like explosive players like tree and Sarah
We just pop off on the server. Yeah, you guys give us landing back
Come on I see his team and they play so good. I'm like, ah, why can't I know did you see this?
I mean, he knows what the better region is right
That's what I'm saying, that's what I'm saying.
True, I'm not number one.
Yeah, you're not, you're not, but you are honorary Australian, so that's fine.
I've also casted EMEA only for the last like two years, so that's fine.
Also, actually, in fact, he put himself on the EMEA games because he knew it's better games.
He knows.
Yeah, yeah.
Well, nobody else likes to wake up early, yeah, I know, out of the talent group.
And you're still awake because you're a DJ, isn't it?
Yeah, so, yeah.
Exactly.
So that's fine.
That's lovely.
Let's talk about Team Japan, though.
Obviously, like, we're familiar with some of those players very well that play
for Barrel, it's a team that everyone always cheers on, like they're always the winners
of the hearts. Yesterday it looked rough, I gotta be honest, like we didn't really see
too many redeeming factors here, so what can they clean up coming into today? Or how do
you even approach it as a player? Like when the first day is off to such a bad start?
I mean I just want to say first off Sweden they have a great team, you know?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Superstars.
Yeah, this was Kevster vs. Team Japan by the way.
Yeah, Kevster's a player, but this is like Spawn.
He only fived it, that's okay.
the european superstar buffing i mean they have great players i really like
that tank and also fit my teammate um maybe that gps had to improve a bit but
yeah yeah that's maybe the thing is like this cat stuff it's very i think
high mechanical i feel like they they know how to play the game like yeah
they know their wing counts but maybe cut like when you're dueling you know
you're up against care like even if you know what your job is and yeah i
still have to like out aim or like out mechanic care and it's good luck
Yeah, I mean, if it is like trying to play, I think it was like Anna on par, you said just getting squad camp by Cam on Tracer, it's like, well, there's nothing you can really do, I think, I think this is also a brutal group for Japan.
I mean, sweet in China and USA.
Once again, apologies.
Keep the groups.
I let them drop the unlucky hand for Japan.
Apologies.
I mean, you could even argue that they could get top 2 in any other group as well.
In some other groups?
Yeah, exactly.
team is pretty stacked and to be in that group must be hard. You have to prep so much.
You were talking about it the other day. It feels like with like, you know, the last few
years like OWCS, I think each region getting like dedicated leagues and stuff. It feels like the
competition across the globe has gotten way closer. Like I think back to like previous BlizzCon
that you guys have been a part of and like, there were some stumps. But it feels like
every team has gotten somewhat more competitive because I feel like everybody's just playing
more competitive Overwatch. Do you guys feel that as well? Yeah, for sure. Every region has improved
drastically. I mean, especially EU and America too, as you see at the recent
events, like the European team will almost always make a great match right now. And
some like sometimes make a choice, you know? So I think it's just great to see that
other teams are getting competitive so we can have more enjoyable games to watch.
Yeah, I've gone out of the days for SethRu, which is on top of everything at all times. Now,
it's been played really, really close, which is great. I also think for the World Cup,
specifically the ability to have a breakthrough player like you guys have
Skytorn your team to able to bolt to the ranks if you just can't quite fill it
what's going on no no tanks of Denmark?
Zero.
I mean we did like an open trout finger like that to fill out a form.
Mophic was there before?
He was trialing as well.
He was.
He had to play Overwatch too so like.
What is this hero doing?
The market is dry so we had to use our breakthrough on the other team.
Like first time he got Catnap he's like.
What is he doing?
I don't know in this world where I can shoot the bomb that's on me, oh great.
So I guess he didn't make the cut, that's unfortunate.
Yeah, but it's great to see, you know, team players that, like, I mean he did play for
the Belgian team as well, which didn't make it, so now he still gets an opportunity,
so that is a very exciting way to laugh.
No, the thing when we described the breakthrough players yesterday, we had Mitch, who's obviously
Australian, and then obviously, ColourHack, who's from New Zealand, he's from New Zealand.
No, it's good times. It's great to see all friends, new friends, they're all here on the stage, making it work and now they have to try and fight to get out of the group.
If you're looking in general, do you feel like there's some clear front runners in every group? Or do you feel like there's some groups?
I think we talked about group, what was it? C being very wide open like the Germany, Canada, Canada, yeah
Yeah, I would feel like that is a bit of a coin toss or do you feel like it's a pretty easy
Our group and that group can can go with the way
You know if we beat France then we get top two most likely and if like I think Canada then beat in Germany
yesterday probably locks in some
So right, there's a lot of people I think yeah, but if you look at group A and B
I think like USA or Sweden are probably the clear front runner
I was pretty high on Spain when we did the online qualifier. I thought they were pretty good. I know Germany, obviously, I think they win their group in the online. They're like the...
Yeah, I thought they would make surprise out of their qualifiers.
But I thought Spain was pretty strong in the online portion. You guys as well. And I mean Sweden, like one of the better rosters, I think they feel that Overwatch World Cup.
for a long time yeah I mean I predicted Sweden to win in Grube
yeah yeah so yeah I would have picked China up until I saw them play yesterday
and now I'm not so hot on them anymore we did a prediction video for a team
Denmark socials where like I said China's the top the Grube so well then I
looked at the roster I thought they would have to leave and shy and
they don't so I don't know we talked about it
it just it looks very very powerful I still believe in their roster though
like I do think they have a lot of like great pieces obviously with like
like the young DPS players.
I'm a huge SunZo stan, I think he's just been a nominal tank,
so I don't know, maybe they just have a slow start.
It's sometimes to be like that.
You know, like SunZo was great at mid-season championship,
playing a lot of like, sick and slower type of comps, right?
Like, for now, it demons the game like that.
It's a lot of the window at that point.
And also, no more sims.
So, yeah.
Kevin's on Lee Sin now.
Yeah, yeah, true.
I mean, Kevin's Korean, our group, like.
We're seeing like a lot of Indeta here from teams.
We're seeing like no sim really.
And then, yeah, like Demon in the mix, it's just a completely different meta than it was what we were in Paris probably like two, three weeks ago, right?
It does open the door for some of the teams that are coming into this as an underdog though, right?
We talked about how now you have an element of surprise and some unfamiliar territory for some of the teams who just got to rely on those sim strategies that worked for them in the past.
Now we're looking at the predictions for this one.
I'd be shocked if we don't all go with the same one.
I had to pick a Team USA, I think just based on what we've seen from the two teams.
Mohard always will go for Japan, but I want to be right, so I had to go with Team USA.
It's hard to pick against Team USA in this matchup.
I think seeing what they did yesterday to China, who we probably would also rate higher than Japan,
I know maybe it's closer than we think after China performed, it's tough to pick against Team USA in this one.
Yeah, I mean, I think it's kind of simple, yeah.
Probably USA, right?
I'm trying to think what Japan can do, and they cook some crazy stuff, you know?
Mystery heroes, just bust it out.
I'm not sure.
I think they can get one map in, like 3-1 USA.
Like control, are we giving them control?
Maybe like a payload, you know?
Yeah, like a gentleman's sweep.
Here's one here.
You did see USA, they did lose two maps yesterday to China, right?
That's right.
What was your Torbjorn at the end of...
Yeah, let's talk about that. Our staff did not agree with that, so let me just put that out.
You guys broke on the tour?
Yeah, we're going out on the tour.
We did that for the people out there.
No, it's like you're perched.
Yeah, yeah.
Okay, I'm pressing H, looking at all the EVS series available.
I tell them, oh, you go like the bomb program.
That's obvious, right?
And then I'm like, okay, one second.
And I'm thinking the, what's it called, like the sticky turret.
But then there was like a repo right in front of me, and I couldn't like throw it in a good spot.
I swapping and we just in to the next fight.
You know what? You did bansers. People are excited about it.
The people being me, most probably Jack, but that's okay.
But yeah, thank you guys both so much for joining us here.
We're ready to start our second series.
So once again, Shockwave, Felix, thank you so much.
Everyone watching, please show some love to Team Denmark
and these two players we got to pick their brains about the series.
So now it's time for Moksy and Matt to take it away.
Yeah, thanks so much. So it was great to have a voice from Denmark here on the couch. Set this one up.
It'll be Japan who wins the 1v1. They will get the map selection.
And it seems like the map selection is always going to be going over to Nepal as it is a ban deferral.
So we actually have Team USA getting the first ban here.
It'll be Bastion Gun, Moxie. So this one out here early on will see what Japan decides to do as their ban comes in.
And it is Demon banned quite early.
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You can potentially live off of a help from the cap, but then that means that the cap's
not there being able to help the rest of the team.
Drop QQI into the backline when he still has all of his blinks available, something that Xerah will have
as an opportunity to walk potentially and look to maga's slam as well off of the lifeline,
and the anti-nate like they should not be finding that much value of land and still able to play the Kiriko and simply suzu it away.
Yeah it is a good though to get that suzu out, as Fin will see it,
really I think the battle is like you know can be gonna stay alive against some of the pressure that'll come in from Xerah
And we can you know on the jetpack cat. It's a the on a very kind of Easter famine at time
So you're just tuning in this series literally just kicking off here between USA and Japan
It is a demon and Bastion ban here in back number one
And we are nobody even has control over the first objective yet here on the Paul where
It was a map selection here by Japan. So they win the 1v1
They get first map pick, they defer that ban over to Team USA, he gets rid of the Bastion
and they want to kind of force it on you a little bit more of an honest hitscan battle
right now that half Bastion up in the sky.
Well it won't quite be as honest though as Finn with the Ana can potentially give the
Nannikos onto Niko plus Tree has to try to work his way through the defense matrix
with KSG when he has that overwrite protocol available.
There we go. Will go the way of team Japan. Now they can play a little bit more defensive with Bin's position, right?
They can sort of scout I-Words after USA try to rock.
I was looking directly on the point, with Nino being a problem to Bin.
Dana really having his hands occupied, having steal with the Kaplan.
Yeah, Niko's so low. Nice job there by Hawk on the point. Stomp on top of KSG, gonna force him to use that fly up to the high ground.
And we had a little bit of a look at it early on, but it's Luke Amino putting a ton of pressure on the fin
You have to trace who they're working with the cat as well
Jetpack cats such an offensive minded
Support that the point will eventually flip here over to Team USA is that tree gets a lift up to the high ground
Yeah tree now going to be in a perfect position to just fall and pull it try and pop out
out this cat airlifting of the players of Team Japan trying to drop someone past the chokes
that the rest of the team has the freedom to walk.
Nade out onto the left side just checking to see if someone's rotating that way before
they turn their attention to me.
Yeah, she's dangerously low, pulse bomb goes wide there, does not connect with tree, you
are ready to de-mech there from your diva.
You do use a cat, and though you get off off the side, we got a basically a 4v3
Both supports alive here.
For Japan, Niko put some damage on the other side, but it's going to be Tree here using the override protocol.
Nice shots connecting there into the MRA, but that's going to be the Nano boost there on Niko, keeping him up.
Yeah, Niko now with the Nano boost, but without the actual Ana, as we get the Kanna from Lukmino finds the Tracer.
QQL not able to escape out of that way.
And this is still Team USA holding onto the point.
In fact, now the lifeline's being used.
Just by the fans trying to conserve some of that players
so they don't bleed more out.
Catnap, Pulse Bomb, Nano Boost used there behind Japan.
And Hawks, it'll come back off the respawn there.
Zera, Tree, and Lukamino keep it going there.
For Team USA for a while, we're going to try and drop that tracer
behind enemy lines up behind ground.
Nice damage there from Tree.
It's going to force recall instantly.
As Team USA in a spot here, Moxie, to close this out, Kitsune Rush, plus Caitrite available, they do a nice job there, keeping Shri all healed up.
He gets a lot of pressure, sleep guard used there by Finn. He's trying to keep himself alive here with the pressure coming in from Xera on the tracer.
The right protocol from Niko though, should be able to see all the impacts of Team USA's Kitsune Rush. They've lost the cat.
KSG tries to make it back into the mech just barely as the health bar to be able to get back in
to keep this Hoka time stall if he can just put himself onto the point but this is just treading water.
You don't have a way of making it to the shore. This is Team USA just having to deal with the outliers
and they'll be able to go off on village. Yeah and trying to play this Ana is very difficult.
We saw it in Japan's game the other day against Sweden
Already here with USA. I mean very difficult kind of keep been alive been doing everything he can
Keep himself in these fights, but you see sometimes they're like, you know Hawkins there. They seem in the joke. It's easy
Just kind of collapsed on that hero and the honest the largest source of healing from this
Yeah, it's like if you try to position away from a walk in Zera, you make yourself too isolated and you'll lie loose mean on the cat to be able to pass on you.
And then if you try and play closer to main to the rest of the team so they can see either cat for it, you're way too close to the actual action and you're going to go to the mage and the follow up damage from Zera.
So it's like you don't have a good choice if you're thin in terms of positioning.
And look, I think if you were in Japan you need these damage dealers to really start coming alive
Yeah, they're a tree getting the better of them in the first round here
Anna's dying you have to have value from your honor baiting her position
Okay, she under so much pressure
Use the team of life form just kind of get out with a blade
but also doesn't really get until the great line of sight to finn until he gets out
No, this is not what you want to see the mauga getting airdropped in your face. Nicely fine finn
That's going to be biotic ready. They're thrown down on the hog
They don't end up using a suzu to cleanse it off. No real great line of sight there from landing
That's just some tick damage there that comes down
Looks like Trump hogs. So you get lucamino on the other side
But so I definitely do this thing you're saying the moment but I say that
Well, it's been but they end up training there. No Suzu that's able to keep
That manga alive through that bio and that may be what actually kind of looks this for Japan
Yeah, I'll be able to find the flip. It's a slow flip. Oh, okay
She's gonna get your mom see there. Yeah, she gets the max. So now team is I will be able to play up very quickly
They first have to click you kill but no, that's the right for the point if the fight goes long
Landon will have rush, and Team Khan don't have any answer for it.
Without the D.Va mech too, they just can't stand up to Team USA pressing W,
and the flip comes through just as fast.
Nah, I mean, you cannot fight that if you don't have the D.Va within mech.
Now D.Va gets back in mech, but you end up losing Niko.
This is brutal. It's going to be about like a, you know, 20% swing here over to Team USA,
off of just those two interactions.
And now you're going to have both support ults here.
Most likely, Tree is going to be able to farm up an override protocol here to match Niko.
In just a second, do you nano the fray up in the sky?
I mean, that could be something that you look at here.
Forge of man.
He can't shoot. He gets purchased on the point, but he gets it with a catnap.
It'll be his mech knocked off the side, so at least he'll be able to stay alive.
Get any mech back.
Tree doing a ton of damage there up in the sky.
Niko as well with their override protocols.
protocols, especially Niko's there and finds one. Is that enough though as they can't flip?
Nice job by Ryota there, just keeping himself alive, but yeah, just not enough to be able
to flip. Now, Trio will actually come back with his overwrite protocol, so Niko ends up
using his in the last fight, gets one. Now, Trio, an opportunity to use his to put
this away.
Oh, Trio's overwrite protocol takes down Ryota through the animation of the catnap.
virus suffocating for Team Japan. They can't fight into their spins going low,
KSG called in to field, just pushed directly at tree space with the defense
matrix up, but things still died to Horde. Solo cage onto the cap, totally
stalling out any chance of escape. And that will be Team USA's dominant
performance versus Team Japan here on the first map. Yeah, that is the demon
use there for Japan early on you see the Bastion a pretty impactful band as
well from Team USA but hop you saw some great stuff with him on teaming
yesterday no strong play on the Maga here early on gives Team USA an advantage
so now it feels like I know for Japan maybe that's one of the better fans
You could have used is gone
That we get to fucking go back on stage here for
So the first I know
No, it'll be a team Japan map selection. See if they prefer the bany again, but
Team USA feels like they have complete control over the series. Moxie
They're gonna have a pretty sizable advantage in terms of the comps that they're able to play and
Hawks obviously flexibility in terms of that tank roll that kind of plays paramount in that
So I think I know Luke and Lambin, it's a UV on this roster, right, and it was great support, but Luke and Lambin able to cover just about everything.
Yeah, I think an issue that a lot of teams are running into, of course, if they had prevalent either wads for such a long time,
is that they probably stacked all their hopes on being able to run D.Va all bunch on these maps,
and it feels like Team Japan is one of them, like KSU really likes to run D.Va,
that you can go for the demon man to be able to set that one up and they still lose into it.
So now if you want to play the D either yet again, you have to match up into probably her worst
tank matchup currently that team would say have been looking very comfortable and they
always play the demon when she's able to. Marga is going to be very difficult. I mean,
since Marga's inclusion has always been a tank that has been somewhat viable,
Like even when you're playing Maga against a lot of different compositions, so especially when Nepal where I met like a
Sarkly is favored pretty well. I know towards Maga
Having it available, especially to play in a into a diva on the other side is pretty pretty good there for team USA
As Hawk is pretty good on that hero as well. So even with the demon ban
I know not too worried there for team USA
Yeah, I also felt like the honor right you just you gave so much ground by giving up the character
you don't have the rush to be able to match rush you don't have Susan to be
able to stop some of the Pulse Bonds and Xebra with some of the Pulse Bonds was
the reason why even though Team Japan found trades in those fights if they
went long he's still able to knock out the Ana like Finn multiple times as
tight he gives up his life to give Nano-Ghost to Niko on the M-Ray and
Niko starts finding kills he starts getting value but once the override
protocol falls silent Team Japan are down one of those main healers they
They just don't have the resources to continue in the fight and team USA are still able to win it out.
And with how good Kiri is right now, right, that's just a sick combination with Maga.
So even when you get that Nano on the Ana, obviously they give it over to Niko a few times.
Overwrite protocol with the Nano, very strong, but not good enough to win a lot of these fights.
You can also talk about the survivability issues with Ana.
It becomes very difficult for them to continue that pick all throughout.
I think Team USA would be fine seeing Finn.
I know he's fantastic on the hero, like when we see him play with E.K. and I know Kellexon,
they obviously play that really high level, but just a little bit different here in the
Overwatch World Cup with the rest of Japan fitting around.
It feels like because the Ana you have one sleep dart and one maid, it's very easy
to bait out those resources and lose one person, but still pick the Ana off eventually, and I think
if your team you're like you're more than happy to keep taking those trades if it means keeping Finn
out of the fight. Yes, it'll be part of the selection here for Japan. So we've seen this
a few times here, obviously the map gets reworked and like one of the bigger reworks
they've done with a map feels like a completely different map. I'm sure you played it at home.
You have a great idea about everything obviously the first point changes right giving a little bit of an easier time to the offense
I know the statue. I know on the first point defense right you know to be able to kind of help them a little bit
I know fight over that objective
And then the second part of the match kind of completely real to retooled especially the last part of the map as well
So excited to see Hari so get some more play from some teams here in the Busan
on stuff. I think also like you're looking at this hybrid pool. Interesting, a diva
ban here from Team USA. So another deferral here from Japan.
Yeah, Japan not going for the first ban. So if they wanted to play that diva, they could
have saved it. But I think now that they know that both the demon and the mage will
still likely be in play, you're probably moving away from that diva style.
does japan decide to get rid of right uh i was like okay kiri okay so yeah uh obviously uh
they're going uh like japan wants to play ana with the cat uh it's not like you know uh so maybe
now i mean look like landon plays a ton of the kiri right like luke's on the cat like uh we've
seen luke play ana in the past uh no landon can't as well but uh may cause a little bit of a an
issue in terms of the back line.
It's also, now you can be more defensive, right?
Now you can play on your defense side where your Ana can be much more fortified, much harder
between the USA to be able to freely reach.
Yeah, I just think that like even now, just the thread of like, I almost would have said
like if you wanted to make it a little bit easier for Finn, like get rid of Tracer
or something like that.
Just that that seems to be obviously it was like kind of
Being of his existence in the Sweden series right dealing with Kev
Zara really strong on tracer as well obviously gonna put a ton of pressure on
Finn also so I mean targeting the Curie, right?
You know that's gonna get rid of the cleanse for the honor
Right so the biograin is gonna hit a little bit harder
But I still don't feel like they kind of figured out like the root cause of some of their pain points with it
Because it also means that Bastion Cat is still around as well, and the Cat was just as problematic, I feel, as the Tracer could have been.
Kev just kind of like spawn camp been kind of constantly Tracer Viana, so
in a position where that could potentially happen again as we are getting into game
Team USA up 1-0 here against Japan, now USA are going to put together potentially Moxie
two straight 3-0s, setting up a battle between them and Sweden really probably for the
top of the group.
You see what does the defense decide to go for here with either out of the tank
Do you really want to go for a very fortified
Anchor composition around something like a stigma where you play much more around the point
Although we've already seen in the past yesterday, especially that was very problematic because even with the cat mobility
Ignored the sigma and directly went to everything that he was not able to help out
I just don't think this is a great sick meta at the moment like how we've seen things kind of develop here
Keep me son like demon can just kind of get right past the sick just put a lot of pressure down
We've seen some extra, you know Vendetta at times some of the supports that historically would work really well with sick
Don't really play awesome at the moment is a ha ha
get rid of all that
nice looking
meat there on the skewers
They look like an L.A. guy at the other days.
So, on offense, okay, so they're gonna go...
Is this gonna be Juno, Ana? Let's see if they decide to stick with this.
So...
Juno, Ana run directly up, Ana.
There'll be a speed up to the high ground.
Tree trying to find an angle here is...
This is one of the newer areas that...
Oh, nasty shot there from Tree!
Oh, it feels like it's been so long since attacks from Widow.
was able to find value, but it finds that first pick. Okay, the anti-ontamica will very quickly result in the second, potentially the third, as propulsive support holds within, say, the slight finger-stance of thin, and that could be one of the fastest parries of first takes we've seen for a long, long time.
Well, you still have, you know, by that and KSG, so I don't think they're actually gonna get the point here, so...
No, not even a take.
No, it's a great obviously like I know we see Hawke and Zera going deep into the back line
But we don't see those can't she and wait up doing a great job
Kind of holding up that towards that high ground dealing with the supports of Team USA and even with that tree pick early on
No, obviously the machine going back into the fight if you're rather quickly
You're gonna get at least a hold there on that first off it. We'll see you now with this next push here from USA
The sleepers are blocked there and you cannot keep in line through that.
Yeah, Zero does a really good job of baiting the positions of both the cat and the Shion to look directly at him, allowing him to close up the distance onto the Ana.
Block the sleep double for the shield so there's no opportunity for the shields and peel to come through.
and Team Japan's players. One tick will be picked up, likely spiraling into a second as
pork pushes on for bar to scout out if Japan wants to try to launch a recon test.
Yeah, I don't think they're going to be able to do so, right? I mean, nobody able to touch your
for Japan. I think it's the right decision. I think you would have just been giving
USA is such a huge advantage you're going into the next part of the map
Which now obviously right available here for Hawk
And you also having nanos look at this and you're gonna try to drop the steam in the back like for Finn
They see exactly where he's playing they're gonna go right on top of him
He's already a hawk, yes
He's the maid early, but Lucimino is bad to be able to follow up on the kill
Q kill as well, losing eye to that tracer.
As I think the right team was on the wall for Team Jekyll, they knew losing that Ana
early on, they're not going to be able to hold that position for the moment.
That is sick damage there.
It's actually true, you kind of banks in mid off the wall, put some damage down there,
and then they actually kind of get the cat, but they actually get the tether to knock off before that.
And then now, I mean, this is gonna allow them to just kind of continue to move on through.
Because now you still have Hawk with this limit break available.
You need a fight win here, or Japan, in the worst way, Moxie.
I mean, this has been brutal there, on their defense thus far.
Yeah, Hawk's got the high ground, now takes the stack.
A spin's been scattered out too.
He's getting thunkering off, then Hawk walks up the air, able to take Yanadown.
You don't find Yanadown, he'll set up the splitter team instead.
Can't not take landing off the map, but Nanobush was still able to find the target on Tree, Obright Protocol invested,
but no kills off of the back of it just yet, Kuki Al actually, receiving the Nanobush from Finn being able to weather the storm of the aggression from Team USA.
And I mean Japan, they knew that fight went so badly, they hold onto their Obright Protocol and spree here, so...
Limit break available for Hawks. So if you can actually get a fight here, that kind of starts to go on the payload into a brawl, you're in a good spot, but that's actually, Zera uses the recall there, and then just kind of recalls right into KSG in Finn.
So, Lukamino will get on it, just trying to actually get a back cap there, you see how close he is at that moment. That doesn't work out, Team USA still, Bob two minutes on the clock, no real reason to panic just yet.
they're waiting for Lukamino as well. Without that cap to be able to swing
walk into position, that demon just can't close the distance to be able to collapse
on top of the Ana or the Emery. Once Lukamino rejoins that 20 USA will get
aggressive. We see him there swinging on to the close side and everyone can try to go first before the demon is there.
Yeah, it's been right there used by Hawk as well. Spree is going to take down Lukamino as they are just trying to get
He is she out of mech here nice bio need there
From Finn connects with to but there is no follow-up. You see all the pressure
In Finn's face. You're also gonna use a nano here
On the to the she on is that you do get tree are you actually able to even get a hole here though?
You do have the cat
Contesting it looks like you might be able to kind of keep this one
I'm going through here for Japan. So doing a great job here on defense the
Shion does end up falling but the jetpack cat here for Japan doing a great job
contesting until everybody gets back.
Yeah, Double DPS all invested for Japan to be able to hold the line.
I used to know a lot of opportunities as well to plug down to USA but they don't have the high ground
controllers yet.
US have been able to consolidate that one instead so they're having to play very much more
fast with Pulsebone from Zera in hand but deny the opportunity to play in the past because of the Shion gate keeping them at the past.
It's only a minute to go though, Moxie, I mean not a ton of time left here, nice falls from there, that connects on to the Shea on this.
Since it's going to be the override protocol here, Brumtree puts some damage out into Bin, just gonna eliminate here Kim, taking that line of sight there to kind of keep KSG off, Bin will eventually get finished off.
That'll be the second checkpoint here for USF.
Good stack of ults as well to snowball this next fight since they don't have a lot of time to be able to complete this map.
Limit Break Catnap, soon to be that Nanoboost and Tree will do something that Team USA did yesterday on Route 66 when they were running out of time on birds,
swapping to Bastion, being able to play with the main team,
and see if that Nanoboost can have the melt potential to shun through that even map.
Yeah, it'll be Niko matching that fashion here for Japan.
So it looks like Hawk kind of set up a play with the rest of Team USA as he's trying to bully them back.
It seems like allowing maybe for a better line of sight here for Tree.
Because Andy, this item call is going to be a limit break. That is huge there.
From Hawk, it feels like it connects with just about everybody.
He just flips that fashion out of the sky.
It's going to be KSG returning favor with the limber ache, Moxie, but he's got a journey done.
I mean, team USA had that fight one at that moment as we start to get towards the end of the map.
Sick demon play here from Hawkeet again.
Nana boost up for London two.
For Tree to be able to win out of the Bastion versus Bastion dual,
someone's just going to have to get on point,
throw that body onto that payload to stop this push from fully going out.
You see, it's not being able to find a connection onto the cat, but Nanna based onto Tree though everyone from Team Japan is having to grit their teeth, their form of that damage to keep the payload off of the checkpoint.
Finn and Wyder have been able to find the kills, QPL as well, fighting Hook after KSG is able to find the DMACC, and Team Japan will be able to hold off Team USA from the full complete.
20 seconds on the clock, you're gonna be able to get another touch here for Team USA.
The Nano did end up being invested there by landing on the tree, but it was a nice job everybody kiting there from Japan
See now
If team USA can get it across the line, it'll be artillery here from tree
It's gonna try and move some players off of the point as there's gonna be the touch that comes in from Zera
That'll trigger OT. Luke Avino so low nicely peer by landing, but you've already lost the tracer
I think it's all and all. I think you'd have to be pretty good with that if you're
Japan, right? You got off to a pretty rough start, you know, your tracer gets picked off instantly, you have to make some changes, they're able to hold there for a little bit.
Second part of the map, they're able to get a pretty decent hold. And then obviously deny a full map completion year of Team USA in the end.
So, Japan, the win-con is set, just the payload, that point on third point here, the new third point on Paraiso.
Hmm and
See what team is he decides to do on our defense here?
Do they decide to come out with cat bashing off the rip looks like it'll just be kind of rolling out with that Emory yet again?
I will say though team Japan they've looked rougher on attack than defense
Especially yesterday that match versus Sweden there were moments. They almost had a full hold on
Shambali and would denied it by a hazard so up sort of the tracer and the she on as well
And then on their attack it was rough. It was very
Yeah, and as we saw on the stats there, you know, while Landon, obviously, with more death there than in, so...
...trying to play the honor becomes very difficult at times for...
...I know these players, especially in these saves of comms, when that dmg gets in your face, there's like really nothing you can do.
It's kind of like air drop in, so...
You can't sleep her, right? Because of that shield. It's so easy to be able to block out the sleep, which is the one main defense...
...that the Ana has. Okay, this time we're not finding a tracer.
Linking across bridge versus the water.
Shion Bastion here will be what Japan goes with on offense.
They're trying to play this Cap Bastion with Shion to perform use there.
He's putting some damage in the hall.
He's able to just kind of move away towards that point.
He does buy Japan some space.
Yeah, but everyone from the US just plated underneath bar
from when they were expecting that Bastion swing by burst window.
Now Tree can sit back with the Emery scope and put a lot of pressure on Japan before they can start to make inroads.
Luka's got the form back up and available, but yet again he can find absolutely nothing.
There's everyone from the US just bunker up, and Horde picks up the Shion!
Yeah, like it looked like the Shion was kind of walking across the point dangerously low.
Hock, like not even playing for point.
At that moment they had somebody else contesting it.
He's able to kind of finish off that Shion at range.
So, Ganger comes in there, from Tree Hawk, he'll finish off.
So, Team USA back to up to the point here, Moxie.
Not able to hold that bridge, but still looking pretty good here.
On defense, as Hawk's kind of scouting where this bastion's coming from.
Now going to use this turret form, just going to wait a little bit before he decides to use it.
Tree under some pressure here.
Going to back out, but hey, is she so low?
Yeah, KSG gets healed back, that should buy Finn this nanoboost, but Landon will have the mass.
Trees of Ice have the override protocol online as well, which should shock through some of these players if you even need it this fight.
As QTL's gone down, Tracer will be traded at least, but Tree with just the nanoboost on his own, no override protocol required, goes up once the hydra and what's that damage done, and I'm so close at the point.
Yeah, Moxie is quite brutal though, like at the beginning of that fight, KSG gets the benefits of Finn's nano and is slept instantly there by land and they get like no value out of it whatsoever.
Tawk uses his limit break to end up winning that last fight as well. TMSA is just gonna give Japan a lot of space here, just kind of playing pretty much from the point is Tawk it'll use the shield scout there using the 3P model.
Getting an idea of where, do you know where this is coming from, it's going to be the Katana
use there.
Or Japan, they don't really get anything with it, as KSG, look at how far behind enemy lines
he is.
It's going to be the Katana pull off there by his shield, but just in a really rough spot
here, like I don't know how Japan is supposed to fight out of this, it's going to be
no right protocol here used by Treet, trying to find anything, some damage down in the
KSG being though dangerously low gets caught out.
Now it's going to be a bit of a blank here from Tree.
Psycho Glacier here going to dangerously low, takes out Niko, keeps himself top up.
Willing to falling in the end, but Moxie a minute to go.
Look at where these players are.
Poor Japan. KSG going to get de-mech'd. This is like the worst case scenario.
Despite it's too long. It's too long.
You are one fight away from being full of right now.
You have to regroup. You can't afford to lose more people, which is exactly what Team USA will be looking to secure.
It looks like everyone, at least from Team Japan, have been able to disengage out, but it's a huge task ahead of them in terms of time-time.
Plus, Xerath's just waiting in the wings. They flew by. They knew she's there.
At least someone's got some time before the pulse bomb can climb that pit.
Would I secure for that? Will the Suzy to cleanse it?
Feels like this pulse bomb has Finn's name on it here from Zera.
Is that's going to be the nano used there?
Zera does find Finn, doesn't even have to use the pulse bomb to do it.
The nano used on Namiko just because Finn I think probably felt like he's about to die.
Spree here used.
Doesn't really find much.
Trying to get to the high ground, puts a pressure on to Landon.
Nice job there.
Landon gets the nano on a Hawk to keep him alive.
Nice cat apple.
Drags Hawk off the side so maybe Japan.
Able to take this, is Zera putting some pressure down onto KSG, it'll be the catnap there for Lukimino
It doesn't look like it connects too much, Tree coming back in the Bastion
Some sick damage down as all that is going to DMec KSG force Japan off of the point
2-0 already here for Team USA
Yeah, as we talked about Team Japan, they look stronger on defense
Things tend to fall apart when they're on the offense.
Team USA did such a good job of just playing the Emory and the Ana so deep
that Team Japan feel like they have to overextend into defensive territory on second
before they've even kept first, which means that KSG just is out of the fight so frequently
to be able to put a stop to what the rest of Team USA want to be able to go do
just jumping on Finn with Zera and Lukamino time and time again.
The point that Anna just feels like Finn's almost on a constant response cycle.
Yeah, and in the second half, you know, Landon, you know, you have a much better job staying live.
I think also Lukamino, like every time we saw Japan train foot pressure onto the Anna,
Lukamino, they all just kind of scored him out of the way.
They just saw the man so disjointed, Bobsy.
Like something like that.
They've been capped in the demon so far behind the enemy lines, there's no point pressure.
And then they're never able to get a play on to whether it be landed or tree, kind of
the targets they're going after, so things kind of fall on the part there for Japan.
Well, look at the first fight of their attack, right?
The flyby from the Kebassian cars had so much pace, Team USA, like wisely hiding out the
burst window, everyone's sequestering, bunkering up within the buildings, but then no one from
Team Japan is able to find value or space on the point worst.
One of them walks out of formation directly on the shion and is dropped instantly for
that hubris, which means that you've then lost that outward pressure, the external
flank that can go mark out things like Diana when Team USA are forced to play for the
flight on the point itself.
Yeah, so one more chance here for Japan, they'll be their next selection.
It looks like they also may be getting a sub here for Japan, so figure that one out once
we kind of get to it.
But they're in a lot of trouble if you look like, you know, Japan, obviously we
We had a lot of high hopes for them coming into this event, but this is a really brutal
group.
I mean, Sweden, when Kellex and Shockley are talking about it, Sweden looks the best.
They were looked in the World Cup.
China, even though they slip up yesterday against Team USA, they lose that one 3-1.
It's still a very formidable opponent.
They're going to come back battling strong in the rest of this group.
The rough draw here, I think, for Japan, especially for the table playstyle they
want to play.
It feels like the Plaisa just does not fit the current meta, right?
They feel disjointed with the Capacean, they feel disjointed with the Demon.
And the Ana, she's a thing of the past unless you can properly pilot her with things like
the Capasita, and even then it does come with difficulties.
Yeah, so Epic will be coming in here for a wide out, so a change in terms of support.
So, maybe we're looking at a cat van here.
No, no, we're going to get Chepak Cat out of the game, and maybe we're looking at more
of like a...
We're looking at Kiri, are we going to ditch the on at this point for Japan, are we going
to go like Kiri Lucio, like what are we trying to go with here?
So we'll see how this sub impacts things for Japan.
Mizuki, Kiri Mizuki, Kiri Lucio...
Or you could go...
Feels like Mizuki...
Oh, backline?
Something like the Lulian?
Yeah, maybe. I mean, Mizuki feels like kind of a...
It's falling out of favor, because Mizuki really strong into D.Va.
Really good in combination with SIG.
And we're just not really seeing a lot of SIG comps.
And we're not really seeing a lot of D.Va.
No.
No, successful D.Va at this event.
They're trying in fact Japan have been one of the main ones to try to force the diva not too great success
Yeah, so pretty rough here. You know, I think maybe the minute just not shaking out for Japan
And then TV SA I think like if you ban cat here, I think they'll be totally fine with that, right?
We'll see what the next map selection is. It will be atlas a
Japan map kick we saw TV SA play this against
China, this is the map they actually lose to China, it's 3-2 in terms of the flash points.
Tree played a ton of Sierra, it was like Moga.
You know, out there, and then in his interview I think he did with Danny, it just felt like
he kind of switched too late, that maybe that was what went on there, so.
Yeah I don't think we'll be seeing some of this Tree Sierra, at least for the full
map he could potentially...
So he was talking about how strong it was in Tamaga, that like Sierra just has like the highest damage output and then she kind of like constantly funneling their damage down into Tamaga.
You can also break the cage almost instantly with Trailbleeder, right?
Yeah.
So you free your team, you don't have to force a support ultimate, and you're able to stop that Maga ult having Convert potential.
And speaking about stopping Maga, well, Maga will be stopped in his tracks, at least for this map.
There's a Japan that will ban that one out, so cat left on the table here.
Interesting.
So we do get the sub here for Japan.
We'll see if it's, I know, maybe just like a change of pace with, uh,
Epic played a different style of Jetpack Cat maybe.
Uh, or is it Team USA?
Who's decided to get rid of Jetpack Cat here? Maybe take out the Cat Bastion potential?
So, that is always a possibility.
Moga, one of the heroes that can be really strong into D.Va, and then Demon also can be
pretty strong into D.Va.
Team USA, they get rid of Lucio.
Okay, so Team USA, they target Lucio here, the Epic comes in.
So now, what do we even expect here from Japan?
Jericho Cat, I'm hoping probably not the Ana.
I think like if your team was like, you're happy leaving the Ana on the table off of
just how much value you've been able to find killing Finn very early on the
anatis being too static or forcing too many resources to keep her in these fights
also forces these panic nanobus right yeah where you you have to nano before
your anadise so don't lose the ult which means that there's a lot of time
for Team USA to be able to kite out the impact of the nanobus when it
actually lands on to the DPS which is one of the reasons why we're not
really seeing those heavy impactful nanoboosts onto things like the M-ray because by the time
over a protocol has to go through the starting animation there's no one left in Team USA to hit.
Yeah and obviously waiting for everybody from Team Japan here as you see on the screen to
get all set up ready to go as Epic will be subbing in for them on this map.
Yeah, we see a lot of the nanos just kind of like, I am under immense pressure here.
I am going to throw a nano out just because I want to get some value out of it before I
die.
Yeah, don't see great uses out of it, but Japan back against the wall here.
Foxy, man, this would be like two, three-oh loss here for Japan.
Then staring down, you know, a matchup with China would not, you know, obviously
not promising to make it a blizzcon, but at least like to see Japan get a game on the board.
They're looking for maps. I think at this point, you're just so far behind it feels
in terms of being able to play what the other teams can. Maybe if you have like a few bits of extra time
to be able to practice things like that demon but it does feel like KSG is just not comfortable
on that hero.
Yeah, and it feels like a hero that is at least right now with the demon's current state.
I think you absolutely have to have your repertoire.
Yeah.
It forces one of the bands to have to be a demon.
And it also just seems like when she first got on the live, a lot of the players have
been saying, really, a lot of the community didn't feel that strong, maybe felt a little
bit underpowered.
And then with the two hotfixes they have done, I'd have to imagine she has just kind of shot
off the ranks as a very strong hero can obviously, much different mobility than we
see from any other hero in Overwatch, right?
Kind of like all-demand, horizontal.
Existence. I feel like even with the half fixes, Demon would be strong, but I don't think she would be as played because of that lack of verticality.
But with that being able to take away that main weakness that is attached to Demon's own personal kit, it's very easy to place her in behind that backline.
And we've seen like people just get run over even if you don't find the kill what you are doing is you're disrupting
The other teams coordination to the point that they don't get value
Somewhere else right they can't fight on the objective or they have to give up more map control
Which then allows your DPS to take more angles and suffocate out the other team
In a stage probably just fire off some enemies for like you guys
No, I just want to play just more than...
Hey guys, can we go back like 3 years and let me just play Ana?
For more than 45 seconds I would love to live.
It's epic getting set up here so...
Do you know what Finn's having right now?
The Primes and Yatt have dive meta experience.
That's what Finn's having.
He probably opt into that rather than kind of what he's dealing with now.
Atlas will potentially be the final map in this series between USA and Japan
Just joining us. We had a series earlier Denmark kind of takes care of business against Columbia 30 and now
Now it looks like
USA in a great spot to close this one out would be
you know a 3-1 win for USA against China yesterday and then a
re-oaked, essentially, here, against Japan.
We'd set up a match between Sweden and China.
Most like, oh well, I mean, you know, Team USA obviously still has to play Sweden, right?
Possibility, everybody ends up in Taiwan, but, you know, maps start to favor Team USA
in that standpoint where, eventually, you're looking at trying to lock in a trip to BlizzCon.
Team USA, they feel much more comfortable today. I think there were moments yesterday versus China, especially Route 66.
That attack on second from US, that was rough for a fair few fights. They almost were full held.
It took about five walks to not lose someone being picked up early on by stuff like the Freya before they eventually went.
Let's just put three behind the enemy lines with an overclock and take the high ground position away from the defensive
They can't disengage us and that cracked the code
But it was not clean and it was probably not a win that they were 100% happy with so coming in today
Landsliding versus team Japan. I think that's soothing a lot of the concerns that the
coaching staff probably of team USA started out there I'd love to know what
the comms are for team USA right now Landon has been looking at Xera and
they're even like the only two talking and Xera is laughing like Landon said
the funniest thing ever I think it may be because somebody in team USA was
breathing a little bit hard into the mic this Landon was doing a like puffing
constantly there so so we can request one of them to come on to the desk
I love the good idea what was going on there
Something that was utterly hilarious there for Team USA is an epic in the lobby ready to go
Japan back against the wall here
He's running all the way back here against Team USA is
It will be Atlas. So
interesting me Mizuki
Are we looking at Mizuki Yuri here, maybe? I
I don't know how this actually plays out here for Japan obviously much better in
terms of kind of keeping thin alive better against some of the pressure
maybe you feel like you're able to deal with the demon a little bit easier but
I feel like there's some nice adjustments you can make here 14 USA so
it'll be Cassidy Sheon 14 USA it'll be Tracer Sheon here for Japan so
The Orisa with the Mizuki, so we talked about how Mizuki's really good, oh nice fear there, really early, you can pay a G, gets Street quite low.
Yeah, I guess Street low enough actually, that basically just forced us to have to stabilize behind corner, but zero if the bike is still able to pick a thin, epic falling two.
KSG will be able to find Landon, but without supports, that should be this cap unlocked for the side of Team U.S.
GCL and Gigo both on the Shion Tracer, so they should be able to take advantage of some of the space that KSG's creating for them, but it just feels like they're not able to take the offense.
This doesn't make any sense. If you're gonna play Kiri Mizuki, just get rid of Cat.
This should not allow them to kind of just kind of play it and ruin you here
It's a nice suzu there from landing will keep tree alive paul give it a use the boosters make it out
His life as well
Feels like you could have used me to be in flow if they're here or Japan is they've got no point pressure here
Spear spin here from gay as she trying to close the gap with some of these members of team USA
Terrasurge already
Suzu's gonna keep everybody up
Yeah, Suzu keeps up for the characters, but Epic's still unable to take I-Zero.
Katna in hands of Luke, we know he wants to try to disrupt, but we're already taking down the tank.
Both the supports are fallen yet again.
There's one fight potentially left here for the side of Team Japan before Team USA are able to make up with this first Kat.
Landon will have Roshi ahead of Vin though, so we'll be in uphill mountain for Team Japan to have fun.
Yeah, now you see the Cassie here from Tree, just kind of knocking off that armor off of KSG.
Be a touch here.
Trigger O.T.
Aw, we call you. This is gonna be rough. I don't even think there's a way you can fight this here.
You're with Japan. It's gonna be the Katsune Rush here, used by Landon. Nice shot there.
By Tree onto Niko.
Now you lose KSG.
Now they're gonna invest in Katsune Rush here, Moxie.
Whole spawn as well.
a lot invested here from Japan in a losing effort.
Yeah, they both make a play for second stage of the fight.
Had Finn's uncontested rush, but just don't have the players,
all the ultimates outside of that pulse bomb
to be able to follow up and find the damage
to convert into kills.
And now you don't have rush, you're relying on Epic
being able to build the Sanctuary to absorb
pretty steady, but you can only absorb
one of the DPS ultimates.
The second one must also find value.
Yeah, four ultimate to be able to here for Team DSA, and yeah, I mean mid-century, right?
If you could actually just kind of use that spring inside of it, be dead-eye here.
Tree, you're gonna get air-lifted off, Nico, so nice shot there from Tree.
That's actually really difficult looking down.
How do you finish one player off?
ASG, I'm gonna get finished off.
Hey, Moxie, imagine if the cat wasn't available there.
Couldn't have air-lifted that dead-eye.
Just saying.
Yeah, banning out the cat, especially if you wouldn't play it yourself, I think, but boy...
I don't think we've seen Japan banning throughout the series yet. They played it the last two maps, too, so...
It has made their life here on Atlas much harder, as Zero with the spree.
I think it doesn't have the sanctity to give the book some of it, but the show can play both inside and outside to get a Randy absorption property.
He gets hindered here, but has a shield to be able to live, not too worried about it.
Oh, 3 here used, can be sanctuary to keep everybody up here from Epic.
Can be Hawk when you're using the limit break, but 2 players down, it's going to be a nice
whole bomb there connecting on Hawk.
Hawke actually makes it out with the mech here at the moment.
Yeah, but US got kills and landons close enough to rush that they'll be able to go fast before Finn has one of his own.
Hawke's just natural health regen, just gonna top some up.
Probably would've loved to make it back to land in the rest of the activity rush.
But one more fight probably for you for Team USA.
You'll take this, you're also gonna have three here with the dead eye,
potentially with Luke flying him in over the top.
Rush instead actually, so KSK will try to disrupt it with the terrorist, but it sues her the way
and the flyby Jedi is going to be able to find damage, no kills, but enough to soften up the health buzz
for the rest of Team US to contribute, find the eliminations, find the flip.
One more fight remaining here on this second point.
Tindall had rush, but can players actually punch in time as the tracer went down to 2th lane?
Yeah, we'll see a few players taking some damage here Luke gonna stop that up and yeah no no opportunity to talk so
Already boxy where the situation we're Japan
There are a verse to even terms of flash points here a verse to even this series
Look at their chance for boys gone alive
So as well even with one side, you know, we'll just count not right first
Yeah
Luke doesn't wanna
They're KSG, obviously, the fortify available, nice spear there from KSG, finishes off Zera, so...
Sim in the mix, we'll see. Maybe the Sim obviously a little bit of extra mobility.
Away from the demon.
Yeah, getting players away from the demon, but...
Let me pan and control the point first.
Team USA, is he just gonna setting up here on the extremities?
London's about to lap Finn in ult charge. As Finn now uses one-sided rush before London has his bolt.
With your team, US, we're relatively happy with that, right?
Rush here for Finn. And you did actually get a really nice binding chain there from Epic on a Lukamino as
he was in the backline and trying to put some damage down. So maybe this comp is starting to come to life here.
For Japan, it's another fight in a row, so they're gonna get up probably with time this
next fight really kicks off. You're gonna get like 65% here for Japan, so.
And they should be able to use Sanctuary as well for landing to rush, so you don't
have to worry about the one side of the Kiriko all as much. Hinder hits on the KSG
Looks like that qualified very early, actually invested just to keep the Orisa up off of how low the tank was going.
Tree takes advantage of using the Dead Eye, Sanden holds on to the Rush, the US able to find the Flip as well.
Despite the fact that Team Japan should be able to flip it back, they've been able to just steal away a good 11% of Ulster Earth's percent charge,
which means that this fight can still go through for the Scree, zero attempts, it gets taken down mid-off by Finn.
But it's still flipping back and forth between these two.
Yeah, Katsune Rush here used nice sim wall, kind of splitting the point to Lukamino just trying to dodge out of the way.
Hawke back on the Doomfist here, desperation effort here, 14 ESA, Tree also on the Korea.
Nice catnap there, that's going to actually connect from Lukamino, knocked Epic off of the side, is...
Hey, is she? I mean, now, here, on the Aresa, she's trying to find any target.
It'll be fined actually using the Katsune Rush, Moxie, but so many players drop already here.
Or Japan didn't get a great use out of it.
Yeah, Tree has Bola as well, ready to go.
One fight win away for Japan to continue on this map, but...
Flashpoint, it can spiral away so quickly, especially if they're up to pick someone up early before the fight can probably be made on point remit.
Aw, this is really good golfing.
Aw, there was no spear spin there.
We definitely saw that bullet shot invested.
You trade out Tree for Epic.
Probably one you're okay with here for now, if you're Team USA.
They're gonna get healed up here.
But the Hawks will have to get there to contest the point.
Lukimino gets there as well.
Ah, Fin so low, Fin's down.
Team Japan zero kills at the moment.
Can't be so very low.
as to abandon the point which allows for us to come through and this is last fight territory
Japan have to be able to win this they don't have an ult to be able to leverage and fins
onto the cat just try to get the cut touch in time and I mean for Team USA you're getting
very close to both support ults is will anybody even get a touch nobody able to get there
the touch is denied as Team USA they dominate Japan here Moxie they get a clean 3-0 yeah
I think the Bandraft Japan could have made that map somewhat more palatable if they've
just taken out the cat instead.
Yeah, probably makes that one closer, right?
They try and play like a recent Mizuki, they play a comp like that, but it seems like
Team USA just had all the answers there, you know, rough one early on, right, trying
to play a lot of Ana where Team USA was, you know, just get right on top of Finn,
with him rather quickly. So dominant performance here from USA. We'll see now if they can kind of
continue this strong play. They're potentially going to lock their spot in for Bluzcon.
Yeah, Hawks looking like one of these dealing players to watch as well. Very smooth with all of
the abilities, the limit breaks coming in nicely as well. Everyone from here is contributing
the moment that they see that damage and opportunity. Looking a lot more coordinated
today as I'm sure with high fresh all of the playing off of humans pacing surely
is for these players the more opportunity that they have to play them in
officials the smoother that we will see this composition start to shine. Yeah it's
even very strong and I think Hawk obviously displays you know it's a
different level to it than KSG in Japan had and then really I think
I'm questioning this last map about if you're Japan, just get rid of that cat, it was obviously still pretty impactful for Team USA.
If you were going to stop in Epic trying to play some Mizuki and some different stuff, it feels like you would have been able to just get rid of that cat in a much better position.
Yeah, especially off of the amount of stuff that Hulk is able to do on that demon, right?
You would have been able to use things like that, Mizuki, to potentially find the binding
chain much more easily.
And Hulk's movement would have been at least somewhat cut short.
Yes, Team USA, 3-0, really easy here over Japan. That gives them what, you know, 3-0 over Japan, a 3-1 win over China.
Now China obviously against Sweden, Team USA against Sweden, maybe for the number one spot in the group.
We'll see how that kind of plays out when we get to that match.
but Japan, this is brutal, Motsy,
but there are chances to make it to BlizzCon, right?
If you fall down now, 0-2, 2-3-0 losses as well.
Yeah, I think as well,
Japan was seeing the weakness of the fact
that they're still trying to do the same thing
over and over, right twice now for both of their matches.
They try to push this agenda of the Ana,
where we just do not see it paying off
So even when you match up next versus China, more than likely they're prepared for that strategy, they know what you'll go for.
Yeah, for sure. I mean, we take a look here at the group-based standing. So top two, make it to BlizzCon.
Team USA put themselves in a pretty good spot here.
So in Sweden, I think, look, they all have a top game, I think, against China.
I think that'll be a pretty competitive one, but it goes the way we think.
We'll get a Sweden-USA game for top of the group.
the group. Yeah, I think China surely is coming into today with something to prove after their
disappointing performance yesterday. Yes, USA looked extremely good. We already touched on that a
little earlier today, but China underperformed. We did want to see a little more from them. They
were hesitant. They were impassive. And today they have to kind of flip the script. They do,
of course, have a very different opponent, but not less scary because Sweden's been looking good
yesterday. Yeah I mean China I think for me it was just the brutal loss on route 66. To come into
third and have that amount of time, four minutes plus and just be pummeled down time and time and
time again, walking in losing someone, being too passive, having that momentum being put against
you, hopefully they've used that loss though to learn a lesson before they're totally out of
that break. I'm curious what the next time we see China what DPS line we see out of it,
right? Alphari, Kineke, Pineapple, right? I don't really think it looked better with Alphari in it,
I have to say though. We obviously will be digging more into that game in just a little bit,
but for now, obviously Japan not in a great spot, receiving their second plus here.
They didn't play on hard mode the whole time. They were one of those standouts,
and they were still smiling, you know, coming off of the stage. So I hope they're still
having a great time. Well, I mean, the pool's still open, right? There's an opportunity
for them hanging out for us today, right?
I mean, they got a lot of time here.
I mean, they're the best soup with suns been great.
I mean, why would you be sad?
I mean, look, the results,
that you know if you wanted to get in,
but I mean, look, there's a lot of positive stuff.
I always look at the bright side of here.
Thank you so much, Matt.
Yeah, Matt, I'm off seat.
I'd say the four to two of you
are not flipping our cast up here.
So thank you both so much for calling the action.
I could do it.
You can do it flip into the pool
because you're off the show now.
Congratulations.
I could do a backflip here.
I don't think we're insured for that kind of stuff,
But maybe I'll check and I'll get back to you.
I don't think I can rotate fast enough.
You're always just going to do this on yourself.
I do a floor flip.
Yeah, it would be like a tumble.
Oh, like a roll?
Yeah.
It's just like that and so much more coming after a short break.
I'm sure you're going to miss it.
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Hey guys, I'm here with Zorro from Team Sweden after getting the victory against Team Japan.
3-0 clean victory Zorro, let's be honest, did you expect a 3-0 victory against Japan?
Because to be honest, when I saw it after you guys won, there wasn't much celebration.
You guys were kind of like straight faced and you guys were just like, yeah, like
You guys were like, yeah, another game in the office kind of vibe.
Yeah, I mean, I think we all expected it to be honest.
Like, our scrims like prior have been going really well against like everything we've played, kind of.
So we really expected it, like we're really confident in this game.
And I mean, personally, playing with Kassir makes my life so much easier.
So it's like, I don't know, it kind of unleashes my potential a bit.
So I feel like we can win against anyone at this point.
We're talking about Kevster. Kevster is a huge name. He is, I guess, I think he is one of the greatest players in the Overwatch scene.
So what is it? What does it actually like playing with Kevster in the same team?
I mean, playing with him, I mean, it's kind of like I said, I'm like unleashed with my own potential.
I think it makes the life of everyone easier. And it's like communication is really good as well.
Like, always saying what he's doing, like what he wants us to do.
And also, outside our game, he's such a shill guy.
Like people always say, like, oh, Kimson's so scary,
like stuff like that.
That's not true.
He's not scary at all.
He's not scary at all, no.
You got a lot of aura because he's good at the game,
but he's not scary.
He's really chill.
All right, let's look at the future.
I mean, I think you guys have another match tomorrow
against Team China.
Do you, Zoro, expect that also to be a real victory?
Yeah, yeah.
Short answer, yeah.
Like, we're really confident right now.
Like, I think we can win the whole World Cup.
Let's get a star on this.
Oh, I love that answer, Zero.
What's I doing that side?
Yeah, I honestly, with your performance,
I think you guys have a really good chance
of winning it all.
So again, congratulations on the win
and yeah, look forward to more of your place tomorrow.
Thank you.
The best aim in this court is not even this.
The person with the best aim in this entire tournament
is just Quartz.
That guy is ridiculous.
Probably Quartz.
He's as far as I've seen his tree.
I mean, that guy actually just doesn't miss.
Quartz as the best aim, from the past training, looks pretty scary.
But as I've said before, I think it's Quartz. I know he's not cheating.
I think my teammate is Odi, or Quartz.
Best aim should be Stalker. I think he got coached by some very good coach.
I think I'm the best of the best.
an opportunity to cheer for them some more. Jake and Mitch will be calling the action. What's
with the concerned faces? I'm concerned about Team China. You and I predicted them to win
against the USA. And I was confident. You are so biased. I was channeling the unfounded
self-confidence for middle-aged people. I don't do that often, but yesterday I used
I do think that like there's a lot for that team that hang the hat on Sun Zou's incredible tank player
And I think their back line is really solid for me
Their tracer play wasn't able to stand up to the United States and frankly it doesn't get any easier for them
Not what they're next opponent. They are still gonna be tested in that particular metric in the tracer play
Yeah, what did you see from Team China that should give us maybe some hope?
I think we're right to think about Sun Zou, but for me when you put in Sun Zou on this team
It's it's not that you can only play a slower style, but it's what you want to do
You want to slow the game down
But in order for that to be a successful strategy your DPS need to be constantly producing
They need to be able to turn up the heat on the opposition and put the screws to them force them to make mistakes
Force them to go for fast plays and you know for team Sweden
I don't know that they need to be forced they're gonna play fast
They're gonna turn the heat up on you and I just wonder is this Chinese team gonna be ready for that
Are they gonna be able to weather the storm just a great point because the tempo that this Chinese team plays at
It's not like the team China of old right push way leave shine like these guys were always playing very up tempo
Very chaotic and trying to like harness that kind of environment was these guys want to slow it up a little bit
Is that your boy? Yeah? I was about to say look at that
We're making some changes here in the starting roster because yesterday we did not see the office if you didn't expect to see D.O
At all I think this tournament is he was just kind of on the bench as like
I don't know the veteran player in their ear of all for me also this time in the starting
I like how far he's starting. That's a huge change up, right?
Yeah, yesterday, as soon as Alphari came in, the pace of the game changed for them.
Yeah, he played a lot of Vendetta, right? Which I think the use case for Vendetta is a little narrow at the moment,
but he still looks very good even in some more compromising matchups.
I think the rise of Demon has really, for me, made room for Vendetta, who it seems like has a good matchup there.
And I think for China, like, I'm impressed here. I think like, hey, if this is the change that you made,
maybe you are going to have a better shot against Team Sweden.
But on the last strike, like, yes, you can bring in this faster pace, yes, you can adapt.
But can you actually deliver it on the server?
Team Sweden, they look comfortable, they look confident.
You know, looking on paper on this team, we were wondering,
is this just going to be the Kevster show?
Can other players on the team step up?
And they've answered that question with a resounding yes.
Yeah, I mean, yesterday, they were going up against an arguably weaker opponent.
In the end, it kind of looks like Kevster won't revive them, to be honest.
So I think there will be a little bit more pushback from the opposition this time around.
I mean look this team like generally is is pretty phenomenal and I don't think they were put to the test
But that game yesterday was still important to help us understand how this group was going to shake out
We're China looking a little bit weaker than maybe some of us expected
Sweden all of a sudden are primed to land the plane in pretty impressive fashion
Obviously my favorite sweet Amaral, you know brings some serious veterans see to this roster Zoro incredible hit-scan player as well
I think Willis has really come into his own over the last couple of years competing in Oda VCS EMEA
These guys, I mean Zoro said in the interview, I think we can win this whole thing
It's been a long time since Sweden have done better than top four in fact the last sort of couple World Cups
It was more Finland that took the spotlight
So yeah, we have to see these guys looking so strong and they're so serious about winning at all
I feel like this is the best Swedish roster. We've been fielding for we have been feeling as if like part of the team
I take credit for it. Yeah, we all build it together
But yeah, no, this is probably the best Swedish roster we've seen in like so many years
So I don't think he's overcooking when he says like we can win it all we can at least go to blues con
I think he's very realistic for sweet. Oh, certainly. I mean, I think them not making it would be a huge shock at this point given
The level they've shown I think admiral being a standard. He's a stoneman, right?
I believe this is a break-up player for team Sweden
I think the influence of him on this team is gonna be crucial as the player was very experienced taking on leadership roles on past teams and
OWS and elite level play and really pushing them to play a fast tempo style
You got a weapon like Kevster in the back pocket there and off the top of the front pocket
Right, so he's the first one into the breach more often than not
And you know you put those together with some players who maybe aren't at the very top of the Odeb Cs
But there's no weaknesses on this roster
There's no player who you can kind of pick out and punish look for mistakes
So I'm looking at this team's team. They look pretty stacked
I think the team are trying to maybe the underdog in the series
There will be the underdog and that's why I picked it because I you know right
I didn't go with China. I just I should feel like yesterday. That's the I don't know
It was a blip. It was a blip. It was a blip. It was not real.
Cassidy Goddea into the support role now is not different from what they need.
Yes. Watch. I'm actually not that confident as I sound but no I think they're gonna redeem themselves today.
Like I think it's gonna be tough. Sweden should be considered the favorite
But I don't think we can count China out just based on one bad performance.
I think they're gonna opt out of the tracer duels, which probably behooves them here.
I think the challenge you're going up against this is kind of Swedish team
It's obviously me and Jake predicted if that catch is gonna fight you for flank angle dominance and the tracer mirror
It's kind of hard to pick anyone above here
Let's see if they can shut down the Kevster show or if Sweden can continue rolling. Hi
Let's find out as we're heading into the first map Nepal
All right, we'll pick here for China
Obviously the kind of map in which we've seen just a ton of demon being played lately
I feel it's like honestly Jake anywhere she looks very potent very like a bruiser-esque obviously
And I like talking to a couple players they were just like right. She is she is unbelievably powerful
And with a jetpack our composition gonna drop her into really relevant positions
It seems like it's very hard to peel her off you a lot of versatility honestly from Dina
I mean she's pretty nice into these like slower poking moments of the game
Which are crucially important at this level of play where you need to be able to poke out
you know create angles like get that early space and then when push comes to shove and the fight start to break down
He whipped that plasma saber out maybe find an explosive kill off a limit break like I think things have really started to feel
Where she is strong and yet sometimes I mean you know straight up wrong here
Something's like shaga can really up the pace on her off to the race this year
China with three silver medals have the last few years the last few renditions of the world
I hope you reach a little bit higher this time
but it's been a bit of a slow start for them here in Busan.
Speaking of which, their pace as a team seems to have matched that in Monika.
They already have Pineapple, some hunting for some elimination,
but already the Iron Storm is right here where Willys is set up on this Malga.
But Zorah goes down first.
Pineapple's actually able to find access toward the Emra and get him picked off early.
It's a big kill to find early, should be first flare,
but Sweden aren't going to yield map control.
They're going to stay active, stay alive.
Good experience played from them.
It's going to get them right back into this fight as Zorah comes off the respawn.
Defegeting Zoroz set up on an impactful sightline is going to be part of the plan here,
but it's pretty disruptive trying to play into the jetpack-cap Bastion combination.
Avarri also going to be on the Tracer, so we are going to see him sort of
dueling with Ketster for some of that supremacy, and already
Sweden have managed to take some positions here on the point.
Planetal's got the priority position right now, but it's putting this
sort of backline pressure on, and Lankz has already found his opposing number.
The dive has been really nice from China.
They've been so hard to catch, you really have been
Willis has been struggling to really get any meaningful damage done on Magan.
There's a couple of picks here and there, but...
...Twinin hasn't put any inroads into this map.
I don't think so, it's not a pretty good job on this Diedra as well.
Just two trolling Zoros.
Ah, look, it needs some access to some of these softer targets.
Not overextending either.
Respecting Capstiver, but also allowing Pineapple to operate as the other side of the pincer.
Look at this constant pressure down, it's taking quite some time for Sweden to get there.
Darkseed Aroma, look at this pineapple!
Might as well have exposed Nandabelli here in the Swedish, why enough?
But this music looks like it was deployed there in the boss style.
Any commitment artillery strike does rain down on Zorro, and so once again,
he's fighting, started to look rough, but still fighting that pick back on Alperi means there's just a stride of a chance for Team Sweet.
I don't know if they're tracking, Panic was positioned all that effectively there,
Sweden seemed like they're blindsided by him getting picked up, hit, and gamed by Lensher,
Lavro again, loses out in the jetpack-catch battle.
Sons are going to make some space here with a self-destruct, and Ring Nick at Dia is throwing those two knives out.
Someone who I discovered in 2017 to play with unreal aim is leveraging that hero, LaKirica.
And honestly, these changes, this is a different team, China, than we've seen so far in this tournament,
showing that there's more than one threat, more than one look they can bring
to great sign for this squad coming into a match in which we were worried about their chances.
Yeah, Dave, I mean, they are looking like a very different team.
And with Sweden's dominance yesterday, it was kind of hard to imagine them
struggling in this matchup, but they're losing out of the jetpack-cat battle,
Zorin hasn't been getting any comfy sightlines to work with and now switched over with the Cassidy.
Willys has a lot of pressure and just can't hold up under the heated center now retreating back to the point.
Skar trying to work it off, thanks a bit. How far is the playing pressure?
Skar is down. Three players left up here for Sweden and they barely shown us the same fight we saw yesterday.
A dominant first round for China.
I mean where was this team's trying to squat yesterday, right?
Like this is a completely different look from them.
They bring incredible pace and just un-catchable.
It felt like the Demaga was completely strategically outplayed.
Couldn't get his hooks into a single thing, a single fight really on that first round.
And a 100-zero beatdown like that.
Certainly gonna be a surprise to Team Sweden, who would have been coming into this match with a full head of steam.
Jack Sweeden already angling towards a bit more of a static setup behind Sigma.
Maybe your Remarktree gives you a bit of middle ground and gives you maybe a favorable look against this D.Va.
But SunZoo, who we mentioned earlier in the catch, lends himself to more like a slower kind of play.
We sort of expect some more Malgo, you know, sigma from him like we did from Wave of Gaming,
is showing us some great deal play, shutting Zorro out of the game.
Yeah, as well.
Looking very good on the character, right?
Like, producing these key deathmatch kills in fights.
That's not something you necessarily expect to see from somebody coming in fresh on the roll.
They're confident, play some off angles, play some sort of riskier positions,
so we gotta get back to safety with that swift step in a pinch.
Can't see him going without fire, but actually, he's got him a little bit out of fire,
giving the least as good as he gets. His pineapple gets set up on this corner now,
ready to make a foray into the fight, but it is time here to get a point flip.
There's a couple of separate fights carrying across the map though,
as Kepster's trying to tear strips off the bastion, and immediately,
Sonsa responds with some peel. They pull so much attention to this backflank,
but Ana can't really participate in that fight.
Admiral, they'd be going a little bit too deep too quickly,
and China keeps holding this point. They won't give it up easily.
They're really, really wants to try and command this space,
but he's very, very low in healing resources, and so feeling limited.
but some go like it's knocked out of me, really trying to hold up on that point.
And Pineapple, playing pretty safe for the time being, is able to add key slew of damage to the point.
And help his team reach critical mass.
And frankly, I have not seen Jake.
Admiral find any success, especially in the 1v1 against Lynxer.
I think just over-aggressive there, to be honest, right?
This is a comp in which you really just want to let your Ana cook,
play defensively, wait for her to find value.
And Admiral goes in deep, there's just entirety of Team China is waiting to receive him.
Happy to pick up that kill.
So, a bit of a mistake from a veteran here on this Swedish squad.
Will he now make some switch over towards the Diva?
Perhaps.
Allows you to mitigate the impact of the backstreet.
That's a nice little solo kill there for Kepster.
Finally, wings a flanking angle.
Now gets to play a bit more of the game.
Spots Dia, hoping to maybe force an early Swiftstep
and avow to himself of that health pack.
Good pressure on the Kiriko, but doesn't over commit.
Dia may not have Swiftstep, but doesn't want to make use of it right now.
Susie's himself as Kepster holds onto a bomb.
Azoro goes over the edge.
Hit by the cat map.
The flexors have been staved, kept off. The damage might already be done.
Our capture does so much in that fight. It takes him a while to kill D.Va, but I mean,
Turcos is unable to participate in any kind of healing for the duration of that engagement.
And after already coming off the solo kill on the tracer, even the catnap, not enough
to bring things back into contention. Now China, looking at the retake, and this is
where Sile is going to have free reign, great position on the map. It's up to China
to dislodge him.
Madderboost at the ready to Sile. It's going to allow you at least to control
All this space a little more effective where he's going after D, that's the switch that's drawn out.
So R goes down, already Willy's got fed up protecting, Pineapple just blows him up.
Again, Kepster's looking for that tracer duel here.
Alphari is standing up to him in many of these situations but takes a lower
of Fari's position having lost that out in a pulse bomb on the corner.
That's going to catch Pineapple. Very important elimination especially as far as
prolonging the time on Sweden's point to concern.
Siles are going to get some big shots in there, forces, lengths up back where the cat D is.
Still going to commit here with the rush.
I think that's a mistake here because you're doubling down into the self-destruct from Willis, who's making this point.
Not uncontestable for China.
Well, he's just body blocking and using the Met to protect him there in a moment from Alpharia.
But if you back in and get back to work, Sylas is able to pick off the tracer, and this is a much better look for Sweden.
They've rationed up their tempo, and now they're at 56%.
Danger Pace has proved to be a winning formula for them.
Capstor has made it possible to put in a lot of work on this backline.
He feels almost uncontested, able to get in nearly picking up Dia in the last fight.
But maybe this Bastion and change the tempo Zorro looking for a dead. I may be a sky noon combo on this in close point
Eyes on son so these defense make trips is gonna be stretched to its very limits here
Into these artillery shots
It's all over the top there defense might just come to the rescue even a social committed to protect them from the dead
I still so we don't have that point control
Admiral the drops low so I always dealt with by al-fari
Kessler's probably going to have to be drawn back to deal with his Tracer threat, and yes, he's a couple steps behind though.
Or it gets knocked off into the pit, and has to recall off towards the periphery.
China had taken control of the point, and the catnap is ready to go.
Impact kill from Alphari, but none of it would have mattered if not for the matrix of Sons of the Clan's from Tia to survive that sky noon.
Now it's Sweden who find themselves on the outside looking in, and Ana struggles in this kind of a retake position.
Kessler has another pulse bomb built up here, and he is stalwarted in his fight against Alphari.
He's been assisted there by Admiral, getting involved in the Tracer duel.
Manoboose is still here for Sile, he built that up so quickly, and Willys is gonna benefit.
He's trying to find out where to put himself right now, there's a lot of disparate scourges happening across the map,
good sleep on pineapple, allowing for Zoru to finally get himself on the kill feed, at least on the left side of it.
Still, both backliners are down here for Sweden, and their odds of getting a re-flip are very, very slim.
China will be allowed to get from striking distance to the map win.
Sile thinks better of Dawn at this point, wants a little bit more versatility to get through the choke,
But might be too little too late China has built up a massive bank of ultimates
And they're gonna be in great position to attack board especially the sub-district out of Sun so he can throw caution to the wind alongside Alphari
Who will blink first though when it comes down to these catnaps that could be the difference maker
Planicles playing pretty far forward now be ferried back to the point itself for it 97% accounting deer
Also close to a Kitsune rush at the pulse one that's a bit way with this time of now
I already call
Sun Jo and his sub-districts dropped down over the edge
He himself perishes
This is a disaster for Team China
Lancer falls down a Kevser, finding his second elimination in the fight, and all of a sudden,
Sweden, they've been out of brush off this last foray from China.
Mess it up to take the round.
I don't think a retouch is coming, man. I mean, SunZo's too far away.
Pineapple goes over to the Genji, now to Xi'an, but I think it's just too little too late to
touch not to be for SunZo. And what a job. We gotta see a replay of that fight because
the Swedish backline, I would have thought they would have had a brutal time coming in there.
Even with Kevser not able to connect the stick, he still comes up with something like three final blows in that fight.
At least two of them we saw him achieve there.
What happened with that self-destruct from Sunzo?
Maybe he just...was it the Catnap that dragged his neck over the edge perhaps?
I mean, usually that's the play for these Divas, right?
Once you're Catnapped, you pop the self-destruct so that the Cat is now holding on to an exploding Demo-Mec instead of, you know, your life in his hands.
But maybe just a second too late still caught on the stun, he was already over the edge.
Zoro is being put to the test in this map so far. Certainly being focused down by China.
Seven deaths for Zoro. Krushly as well. Ambrose died four times to links as one.
The jetpack cat faring pretty well for China. Willys is gonna stay on this
D.VaJet. Time for Zoro to get on the Bastion themselves.
Syle's gonna keep on up. Wow, didn't see that coming. This is not necessarily a
comfortable map for him. You can see those shots blinking up at the Bastion
pineapple. Put on notice. If Syle can get away with playing Miss Ana, just
living through a fight. I mean it's gonna be a ton of value for Sweden, but
easier said than done, so many factors in which to attack.
Here we go! Flannam's gonna be dragged to the low ground, but now he's under a lot of pressure to
healing this good though from Lancer! It's just not good enough!
Megan Humpback picked up hero Zoro, and is back to business, and his ana pick here
allows Sweden to feel for a bit of extra pressure here on Lancer, forcing
him maybe out of those tightlines a bit more often, and this has
precipitated a switch to Cassidy by Pineapple.
I gotta say, I love the Bastion Swap here in round 3 from Zorro because Pineapple,
eventually when you're on this Cap Bastion in a non-mirror scenario,
you go for that Tank Shell major perk. You know, it's just better at picking off
low ground targets like an M-Rant who's trying to run away from you. But when you find yourself
in a Bastion Mirror in the sky, that perk is a liability. And so Zorro reads this well and
they bring the fight straight to Pineapple. The Enforced, the Cassidy does not feel good
under the auto matchup. You want to be bringing the fight to Ana and Cassidy is just
Not really the hero to do that.
I mean, in order for Pinerbot to cross enough ground to actually fresh a style that's gonna put him right in front of some like Willys.
Or even Zoro just dropping on down.
That super heads up, yeah, like actually using that herb against the Bastion.
Feel more like Faro.
No way to go back, right? Once you've committed to that perk, you're all in to this.
There's no way to disable it, no way to go back.
And the airborne duel becomes a problem.
I see why they saw him off the Bastion, but...
Pfft, this problem, you got time to think, but I don't...
Man, for me, I don't think the cast is the answer. I don't know what is, though.
Does this mean, though, now that after all who we saw spending a lot of time alongside Kevster,
just like we're doling out a lot more than healing, kind of helping him
cheese the 1v1 against Alphari,
does that Kevster map might be expected to be a little self-sufficient
while Admiral is tending to, you know, fairings Zora around the map?
That is true. I mean, you're putting a lot of responsibility on Kevster's shoulders,
maybe without as many resources. But this is Kevster we're talking about.
I mean, he's such a versatile player.
He's just going to adjust his style and be able to do more with less.
Not like we always like...
I don't know.
I talked up his ability to be that low-economy, high-impact player
and so many of these teams in the past.
You always find your way, solve any problem that's put in front of you.
And he does it alone.
Makes a douse here with a bit of grenade,
and forcing the player a little bit more passively for the time being,
which also weighs impacts on...
Oh, like pineapple?
Now, Farry really, she's working the periphery here.
It's unclear about where she should be.
Getting involved in his fight so far, already 50% built up 14 sweeten in Zorro.
Started to grief his opponents a little bit.
Putting in this big off-angle pressure, I mean you really want to deal with the Ana
and so far it's been good frontline pressure from China. It's boxed out.
Realistic actually, they're able to pot the D to see without a committed fight to a style.
Forced back into the extremities, I'm already, you would love to, I just cleaned up kills here
but may have to settle for the point.
Alvaro gonna find some way to take Zorro out early.
Willi says he's gonna fall though.
Gonna pick off the D but,
He's gonna further stall out Sweden returning to full strength.
His D.A. is gonna be very careful not to step inside that mortar strike.
It is Admiral! Get himself on of the kill feed with two massive eliminations.
This is in the absence of a blitz.
So now Sweden will be back at full strength in a position to flip.
Over extension from Team China.
Canster puts a farm in the back of Sunzo.
Magic break, the suit post-Ace. He's still alive for now.
Bospam thrown back the other way from Alpharii.
Hines no joy.
The self-destruct, oh, it is carried in, but...
Okay, only one kill is actually not the best. Lensa gives his life for that play, and it seems like Sweden have found this run out incredibly well.
Sometimes we also got taken down while he was out of mech, so ultimately just that one self-destruct killer looks flashy, but it actually represents a negative value trade for Team China.
We'll have a flip. And in this next engagement, at least they'll have to get sooner rushed to leverage, maybe pineapple as well, but a sky-nooting.
Always a powerful ultimate, but key is for Dia to make it to the point before he pops that ult.
He wants to be able to force the flip with it.
If you retreat for Sweden, at least you're going to give up the point.
So crucial. They're taking about 60% mids. This could come down to the final fight.
Sounds so slap. That's going to make this tempo very awkward.
And already the hit from Sweden comes in.
No one's there to protect Dia.
Willys is out there to dive on him to basically have his pick at the litter.
And Sile sticking to the honor in this round seems to have been a huge difference, Mike.
At this point, China have nothing to say about a retake.
about a retake, they're gonna have one last chance here.
One last chance for D to get value out of this Kiriko ultimate
for the map.
Already though, I mean with four ults deployed
in the previous fights, we didn't win that one
essentially for free, another a lot closer
to some crucial tools than a catch to pulse punch.
It's not something you wanna see on the cards
coming into an OT fight.
Self destruct, Kipper, Willys, but even if sweeter
and it's more likely this is gonna be used
for a free remake rather than a shock
and old plumbing run.
Rekalaf, a catch to there.
Alphari is getting freshened requires numerous open up there from
Manapal flying a surely telegraph is a high noon here, but can this be mitigated release?
The head matrix?
Yes, it's gone up, but Phil gets the Mekdan!
Part of referring to short window to hamper the mobility of the Sweden team,
but here's some structure, he just gets back in a mech and it's cut to business.
Still, there's a flip between Trader on mid stall of this, but Willis returns at full health.
The Ado is in position to use his Kitsune rush on the push,
there are a lot of disparate skirmishes happening here.
Try and hack an induction, Roya's body fitting into this, and he comes to rock sores that are
respawned now, with an artillery strike of his own.
This doesn't seem to have huge impact.
So difficult to get value with the mobility here on the Swedish side, they all back off from now, still.
Try not to lie, they control at the point still, with their destiny in their hands, but Sile
so close to the nanoboos in Sweden, wisely back off, reset, and choose to just re-approach this fight.
Lanza could have the answer with a timely catnap.
Should be able to build up into that, and we'll leave it alone.
Time! No! The potable's flattened!
Kevster looses out to the Cassidy, so it is a 4 vs 4.
Willis doesn't really have easy access to any target.
He wants to pressure Deere away from this fight.
Alphari was also very, very low.
Kevster's gonna quickly triple blink and get back into the fight.
And Apple's able to take Deere out of the action.
That is a huge pick-off.
Sunzo with a self-destruct.
So a remake opportunity is going to be there for China's take,
but we've got to flip.
Sweden are now in control.
Zoro being put in the cone of silence,
protected by that defense matrix.
And a post-con for Kevster goes wayward.
Self-destruct will easily be counted away from it.
Sunset just wants to get back in his make and get back to business and Lencer is cut short on his catnap.
After a couple tough rounds, Apple really lighting it up now, up to the 10th streak on the catnap.
I don't see it ending anytime soon until of course the family sings for this map because Nepal is coming up all Sweden.
Willis is low, but has the self-destruct in tow. Still a comfortable fight for Team Sweden.
Sunset's defense matrix was used entirely to try and keep the reliability, but that wasn't enough.
A lively affair on Nepal as Sweden prevail after a very slow start.
As a spicy one though, I mean China showed in real fight in this first map.
Nonetheless though, I think you would have hoped that bringing out this look with, hey,
Dia Navarri both putting up some pretty solid games, like a damage stat from Dia.
Thinked 500, that is serious.
Like Dia's putting up numbers on the Kiriko.
Overall though, Sweden, they make the counter adaptations, they adjust and overcome.
This is what maybe we come to expect what we should expect from this new team
One of the most illustrative stats for me is that Zoro only dies once on that shrine route
Switching over towards the Bastion he ends up like seven deaths. I think after sanctum
One of those illustrated there with a cat now from Lencer, but after switching towards the Bastion and
Like kind of visual looted to pineapple wasn't able to fight in Bastion the Bastion
He was sort of curved through the wrong direction to win like a mirror fight to be served to the Cassidy
Zora was essentially untouched with so much of that round. It is a huge component of this the knife in the back to some
So getting a D-neck in the final engagement
Great
Stituentiveness here from Sweden. I mean after that round one I was kind of worried for that like would they be able to prevail
But crucially I think surviving that overtime fight on the second round that was really the hump on this map
Getting it around three with the advantage on Bastion, you know forcing China to change tack
Fnapol having already given it to that 10-shelf perk and had to back off to another hitscan and felt like that was all that signed on me.
You could really get going here on the third and final round.
But I think if we were to take stock of things now and I would say like compare what we saw from China yesterday to today,
they're looking a lot more comfortable playing that up tempo style.
Alpharys staying in the lineup, played a lot of tracer and honestly gave a pretty good of a count of himself against one of the best tracer players in the world.
He was flying Kevsta, 1 on 1 a lot of the time.
And they were going blow for blow there.
And as far as a very strong player, I liked this adjustment for Team China.
I think it does give them better hope in this series.
Still, it's got to hurt that you bring in this adjustment.
It goes well from a strategic perspective.
Like, you open with a really dominant round.
And yet, you're still a 1 in the series.
So this map 2 is a crucial one for Team China.
If they want to really make this adaptation sing,
they need to put up a map victory.
I mean, close is great, but it doesn't count that much in the scorecard.
It makes me wonder as well if we end up seeing them make a map selection that turns back towards that
slower style. Do we see them go to a Neon Junction?
Maybe try to put SunZo back on a more static team.
That'd be a good guess. Historically, whether it's been some of the Chinese teams in the DWC recently
or of course this team from China that...
Yeah, but the Neon Junction has been there. Brett and Butter, let SunZo maybe play the Sigma.
And really, I think for me, is where I've been most impressed by his individual play.
Sigma is very much cherry from the tank role type play, and for China, I think that might
be a strategy they want to implement going forward.
It does get a little bit awkward though, because bringing Alpharion, bringing Dia in,
is almost in opposition to what we think of as SunZo's preferred style, slowing
the game down of letting things come to him, of playing the Sigma.
But then again, maybe you can still make those work.
I wonder, I mean, where is the hero pool limit for Dia?
the Kirikou pretty nice but does he have the flexibility to bring out things
like you know what if the Kiri gets bad and he's wrong questions that you got to
think about with this Chinese adaptation. Yeah absolutely. Seen plenty of the
Kirikou and Via for those that may aren't familiar is one of the original
sort of superstars out of China. He made his way into the Overwatch League
during that year in England prior, he was known as the Hitspan DPS player. So
seeing him here obviously he started to play with the coaching as well in
his time and now comes in to fill that slot instead of the recall.
Obviously no Kineke so far as well for for China. They're still leaning into that Alphari direction. How does your
What is some of those people report card look like after that first one?
Cuz obviously demon banned out so, you know that probably wouldn't the preference I feel in some of those cases
But he was pretty active pretty likely in the Diva. I was a fan. I thought Sun Zhe played incredibly
I mean round one was a masterclass. He was untouchable on the Diva. It was not a competitive round
I mean they were just unable to break any of the setups from Team China
But he made the adaptations crucially in round two to be able to clutch it out
So, I mean, hey, I don't think SunZo is the issue.
I do like, in a way, to see D.I. come into this lineup because, you know, typically what we've seen from China is we've seen Cheyenne Lee and Gushwe, you know, year after year after year, and they've had these are immensely strong players.
There's a reason they've come to represent this country time and time again.
But of course, now with a younger, fresher lineup, maybe a veteran voice like D.I. has on the flexible role could be really a valuable addition to the team.
But just to forget that SunToe is not a veteran.
I mean, yeah, thrust into the spotlight this year on that Webo gaming team and getting a lot of reps over someone like Bishwe, who, as we know, is a hero pool that's a little more narrow or maybe doesn't play as well in this current meta game.
But he's had to grow up pretty quickly to sort of fill some big shoes, but having that sort of stabilizing presence, the veteran C of the year coming on in, and assisting is a pretty big deal.
This is going to be the peak here for China.
Certainly you sign that they want to commit to playing fast, and I wonder if there's not even a thought about
maybe the Vendetta could come out, or Alphardia if you wanted to really double down on upping the pace and
playing just a faster style of Overwatch.
That's also been very much a common card for Team Sweden.
So let's see what the bands are trying to block out the Cassidy first as the opener.
This does, I don't know what your take on this is, but it does feel like it telegraphs
maybe a desire to play the Vendetta, obviously dealing with the hindrance from the Cassidy.
is a little bit frustrating and you know can we can cause you get snarled up when
you sort of dive on into that backline and Zorro as we know certainly prefers
that kind of hero. Zarya ban for Sweden seems to suggest they may want to go
Orissa here we've seen a few teams actually make some good value out of
these super aggressive rush looks on Atlas a lot of close corners a lot of
tight corridors where Orissa can really just barrel through your entire team
and Zarya really is the counter to that and so I'd like this ban for
I mean, if you wanted to double down on the fast-paced game,
Ryss has a great way to do it, especially because the Cat Bastion
can potentially be vulnerable to their teammates just being run over
before Cat Bastion can really produce the value you expect
for maybe a more patient, flanking position.
Right, let you play that up-tempo style.
You've got, like, protective mitigation via javelin spin.
You've got disruptions, wallbites, destroying the javelin.
And importantly, you know, that fortify in a couple of key moments
to shrug off any crack control effects can be really important for you
to maintain agency and not be displaced as that Orisa player.
We were asked poetic about it, we're not obviously served if that's what we're going to get so far,
but for China these years, basically a must win game.
With a pretty, you know, a wicket showing it against the United States and Sweden
looking like the de facto second-bit least best team in this group,
they certainly need to muddle the mixture a little bit with a win
and it was competitive first map, something to give us some faith
that we've got plenty of over what's still to come in the series.
the tough group though I mean for China I mean making it to blizzcon is not
guaranteed if this match goes down in unceremonious fashion that's gonna be a
tough sell to some of the netizens all watching at home and man Chinese fans are
brutal bitch that's shy is catching crazy flame I'm like this guy's gods give
the overwatch yeah you know so I I feel for these guys a lot of pressure on
these young players from China a much younger squad than they typically
Yeah, I mean they've inherited the jersey and the expectations from the Chinese fans
and if you've ever been to a World Cup at LISKON you'll know that they turn up in force.
It's a double-edged sword that will support you to the very end but they will expect greatness from you.
So far, here in Busan, China have fallen short of that but there's plenty of game to play.
Sometimes it's going to be here on the hazard, of course Willy's on the demo.
Taking Hathers into his own hands, great to see how this matchup plays out.
Hazard, great when it comes to that frontal boxing engagement, a little bit awkward Alphari fighting here on the low ground, a little bit of a...
His coordination, but hey dear, we're gonna cancer, that's a great start.
And Zorz, Steve off the bed, dead with a lot of pressure now, sliding down to the low ground, and yes, release is close by, but can he peel for Zoro effectively now?
That's the deal with the spot guard of Sunset trying to slide on Pasta, I don't know how he got away, but it feels like a matter of time before Alphari comes to call.
I do think we'll need to see some swaps out of Team Street. I mean the double hit scan is really greedy for this tight opening quarters of the first flashpoint.
I think it could work a lot better on some of the later ones. Maybe they can build towards ulti next, but Gal Fari is going to be a real menace on Mendetta with so many corners to play there.
reciprocating it going to the Havoc. Maybe it feels a bit constrained in terms of mobility against SunZo.
So it's been off to Mira here. Catch the stage on the shields, picked off at the start of the fight by
Thia, whose aim is definitely never under any kind of question to pick him off with a kuno.
So into now those struggling, extreme scrutiny from Zoro, charging up some of these whales and
forcing SunZo to take his sidebar in order to be healed up. Planet full down ready for that off angle
shot. Nice whale gun there from Zoro. This time, definitely getting involved in the game early.
And they grew to be wrong and just working the angles, finding their way through Alphari,
not able to get aggressive, just getting launched out by Willis in their pre-fight.
Still trying to pick up 80%, so we can grab the flip.
But none of the woods just yet at this first flashpoint,
a lot of ultimates coming up close here, Dia, with that first rush.
Willis playing the off angle and ready to dive to the rescue of his backline should be required.
Trying not to commit to your attacks, the name of the game right now for Sweden.
If you have any concern about showing any of it, Dia, another huge pick.
This time as the jetpack has picked off, Alphari though is unsuccessful and
and hits 4 right into Sweden's back line, but Kester has honestly been slow to start here on Artless.
40% and counting, however, great risk of the point being flipped back on them as Willys
is able to stave off Sunzu alongside Skyl, excuse me, and Van Appels riding away.
A big mistake there from China, they lose their tank and wondering where the support was.
I mean, Diya finds some key kills in the most recent retake, but kind of throws it away,
but some kills going back the other way. Now with the rush down, it's just not enough.
China battled through, Sile maybe overcommitted believing that was winnable, pineapple has to commit
the spree to finish this one, I wonder if that was really necessary. Maybe not, I mean really is
the only player that's really of relevance here right now for Sweden and he'll be brought down
there's a flash point take so a slight stagger here on that hazard pickup but it does mean trying
to get that first point. Dear though has been quite nice on this carry and without farry
able to get him first, pull a lot of attention to himself on the vendetta.
There's more opportunity for your flex support to be those key damage dealers.
Nice connection here, it'll try the lock down Kester, just barely slips away.
Yeah, just escaping.
This Sutteric is free though, it's ready to go.
We're gonna have a Sundering Blade first, Malfarion.
Clear if there was big purchase from that.
Perhaps Kester was chunked by it.
Zorro does not have a target rich environment,
which to make use of these overclocked shots.
So instead, it would be Sweden moving to take residents on the point.
China disengaged, respectively, all to his being leveraged with Kepsta's lances,
and now it's time to bring that one to bear.
Jaxxl with the spree was always going to be picked off first,
it's in fact a jack-and-ball of sorts of defying the elimination,
and Pirna was able to fight Kepsta, boldly fighting him midway through his ult.
Trying to dance him so well in that fight, I mean, Zoro's entire overclock,
like, we didn't see an enemy on his screen,
the team can kind of just backing off at the right moment,
and then Maria Gressen able to outplay even Kepsta on the Sheehan,
so he's going to go over to the tracer and I'd like this,
They need a little bit of a faster tempo flank option
Plan apple however will still be on she on duty just keeping an eye on some of these flank routes
Up goes Alphari likely to maybe put some pressure down on willies. Yeah, what's the response gonna be from the hazard?
Now who are you? Alphari calling out on extending and willies just backing him into the trap now with a five versus four
There's an opportunity here one that can't be squandered so we have to get moving now as 55% comes up on the point
with China, Sun Zou having strict spawn off him by everybody surrounding him.
It's Kevlar trying to stay at arm's length away.
China might be conceiving a bit of ground here.
Katsune rush from via though now as they've fought back into the point
and they're still in control, Jake.
A veteran hands on the Kiriko, like holds the Rajen to the last moment.
Now that allows him to keep control of this point
and the last one that she continued to take up, that early pick that came in
just mattered for nothing at all.
Sweden still have the box this one out, the open now looking good for them.
Makes a nice double back there as these all willies go in
but Pineapple is still gonna be picked off.
Diablo, eventually siled, is finally gonna get the better of him.
He's kept the moots up now to get a flip.
Another moment too soon though with Sweden with these clubs to concede in his second flashpoint.
Huge opener for Willis to find there. Shutting down Pineapple on the soldier
takes away a lot of your damage through a long fight.
And that bridge is a key gap for Sweden. Now they've got a few ultimates of their own
to work with and it's China who's sitting with the banks relatively empty.
Needy Pineapple can find something with this spree down for a pretty tough ult to get value on
against this extremely mobile Swedish comp.
Gaddafum tries to spring up into the sky, but Kesti puts his wings and Willis now returns to make sure that the hold on this point is unsalable, but Admiral goes down.
We have overtime as Lancet just keeps a toe or paw on the point if you want, but Apari's bought down by that feral leaf at a big pulse that claims Sunzone.
Tevster at Willis, just indomitable in these long fights. So tough to hit them off.
They've been navigating this well. Lenza makes a valiant play to keep this overtime in contest.
China has just a sliver of a chance to get back into this, but they're going to be facing down an OC
if they even needed. Tevster with that kill on the DM may have just finished off the Flashpoint.
Again, another map, Jacob. Which Sweden are a little bit sluggish. They have to make some
adaptations and changes, but now they look like they're good for a very competitive Flashpoint.
Kind of starts with Alphari getting baited into a down point.
He's trying to just lose his hat in the neutral.
That's a tough kill to lose.
It's such an early kill, though. It almost doesn't matter.
China can be able to back out of this. Take a full reset.
And Sweden without really much to do.
Kind of is going to make a swap over to Bastion,
but kind of a tough swap to go.
Bastion facing down against the OC in this next fight.
And Alphari already just turns the screws on the SunZo,
who's fighting early without seemingly the rest of China to back him up.
And that elimination felt consequential.
SunZo down, the first pick-off on the Al-Fari, fair enough, your team's going to give back before it's time to cap.
SunZo, playing it off angle, gets caught out, chased down.
And that gives an easy first point take now to Sweetness and Papril for some reconnaissance work.
And Janna has shown some really impressive moments, but there's also been sloppiness, especially as we saw in that last fight.
Once again, they face themselves in the difficult retake.
Panambo comes in over the top, but Kevster just never wastes any time getting to the backline.
Zoro goes down early though.
Yeah, it feels like the play gets away from Hector at first, but we wanted to drop into the massive China players with all of his cooldowns.
Yeah, she gets to blink and all of the catch up at the tempo of the game, and Zoro is picked off in the meantime.
Wengs is going to have to run away and make use of that skill on himself, which has been reducing its effectiveness in this latest patch.
The 52% already here for Sweden after the very favorable set of stackers in the first fight, another downpour that gets value!
Thanks, sir! It's pinned to the ground!
huge connections out of Willis. I mean it's a tough all-the-fine connections on in this kind of
hyper-mobile environment but Willis has been quite strong with it with impactful kills bringing
that fight back from the Presbyles. 82% captured with a pole spot. The backline
ultimate for Sweden are about to come back online again. These are favourable ebb and flow
moments for the European squad. And so until again doesn't want to be caught out this time.
Zoro, actually you're going over to the shield and Langston just gets taken down, that is huge!
How the heck are these boys fighting to be so decent you are China?
Platinum is grounded, forced to fight now, everybody else!
At sea level.
This Bastion Swap, I can't ever feel like it's taken some of the dynamism out of China.
I mean, that's what looks so good for them on the first map, although they don't get the win.
But on this map, now you're forced to slow things down, and with the Hazard, with the Tracer,
That's just not the direction you want the game to go.
I love however Zoro going over to the she-on much more versatile in these chaotic battles that we've been seeing
Defined Atlas so far.
She was a little less greedy than the double hit scan that Sweden opened with on this map.
Zoro with some serious kill potential.
Feels very positional, very technical with two hazards and jetpack cats in the game.
Little positioning errors have been punished greatly.
So today who attempts at a downpour, I'm clear if he actually found any disconnection on that.
with the rush out it's gonna be a tough fight deal with the later rush though maybe
that's enough for China to get their hooks in on this point a little bit more
room to work with on this flash point should in theory be good for bastard
the kills have yet to come in the catapult is very good on this part of
the map though the environment will kill potential I'm not the one successful
whatever he was trying to achieve there with his catnap and I think a little
bit more from Alphari will get the job done it's like a belated I'll be a
decisive point take for China there's a being a really strong one right that
They get that flip, they commit the rush, but only in response to the same from Sweden.
Now with the few ulti that's to work with, a little bit more space now, 4 Bastions to cook.
Us win Flashpoint though, 4 China, they cannot afford to give this point up for free.
See, Admiral gets his strategist ult percent back straight away, makes me think he might have actually missed on his catnap attempt in that previous fight.
Look at how far he's going to go.
Wait!
Well, he can't wait for that one to come to just nukes him.
Alphari gets handed their old smother, knockback of Admiral, getting involved once again, that Trisa, dead pack cat, 1-2 packs to Sweden, is playing dividends.
That's a difference-making kill from the Superstar from Team Sweden, but can they convert?
That's what the falls will manhand, but under a lot of pressure, it's actually Zorro who plans to cruisin' kill on the pineapple.
Catnap surely gonna put Willis in a tough spot straight into the dick for him.
Yeah, no escape for him, so until they're very low, we might see a try to planks, but Laces double down, a final level elimination.
Averil gets clawed to death!
There's a Tariqus Brave for Zoro, there's Vat-2 already in the impact!
After he switched to Xion, it's been palpable.
Lengze here trying to contest, but I don't think he'll try to face down this Xion now as a joy ride!
He'll allow Zoro to get within striking distance.
Lengze certainly made him sweat in that last fight.
Lot of production on the cat, but Zoro, steady hands here.
Lot of expectations for the rest of this squad.
For a young player like Zoro, it's great to see him have these pop-up moments when a clutch is required.
Down for the Willys, Jake. He's having very high value from Sweden's tank player.
Hatching out some very important targets. A false former tempter there by Alfari, but no purchase.
Zorro trying to right away. The pineapple sticks to him. Like, why on rice?
50% now for Sweden. Pineapple's free.
Dear down. Admiral Lovers although picked off by Pineapple, still a favorable trade here for China.
Pineapple's in rather a rather strong position now. He needs to get involved in the fight once more as Willys is trying to hold onto his life.
The rush thrown out there right as Sile drops doesn't even get it out onto the field when Flip comes in.
China winning this one, putting a bullet on it and that kind of misbegotten commitment from Team Sweden
is going to put them deep in the backseat here. China in full position to take a map.
That rush difference might well be felt in this next fight.
Release cut off there by D'Zone.
D'Zone back at war by the looks of things.
Left out in Sunzo's purview for a time, you'll be able to return to the rest of his team.
though there it is, it strikes. Once again, that little low-econ impact cannot be denied.
And it's a comfortable fight we should allow for a first point take.
I mean, something about Capstor, he just defies the loss of gravity in Overlives.
Like the tougher the scenario gets, somehow the greater his production becomes.
He defies the loss of engagement, the Geneva Convention, our expectations.
You name it.
One of the ghosts, to be sure.
China though, they've got every tool
And the kitchen sink to throw at Kevster in this one.
I mean, Sweden got to just cling off by their fingernails.
Already with the downpour, Pineapple picks up the first.
Could be enough for a quick flip, but another kill on the D to Kevster.
Pours it on alongside Willis.
And China caught Black and trying to get this flip back, but it won't be denied.
Let's go and take it here.
Game over, Jade. The link between Willis and Kevster.
Who's historic?
Pineapple, he's trying to control space from the brief.
But we'll have to be taken back to safety, as there's no denying that Sweden are in pole position.
Yeah, I mean once again he's had this rush now for what feels like what two or three fights just keep being picked off first
The pressure from Kevster just keeps being poured in. He's got to navigate this well TP's back for now
But will it just take him to double down?
Okay, now it's gonna go for the rush here look more defensive than anything else and it's not used on the point
So go go is down and Abel's able to pick him up and this is looking disastrous now for Chyre
Afari chasing Kevster desperately grasping for a chance to get onto this point but it's not looking good
It's up to Ricky Scree!
They're in a pretty dominant location, it takes a face full of damage,
and eventually they'll be dragged down.
Skylar with two kills in that fight, and nothing to say from China.
There's once more, Sweden ponderously come alive after a slower start.
Kind of dominant as we hit the checkered flag.
That just has to be a gut punch for China.
I mean, these adaptations have been good.
This is a better look than we've seen from them all tournament lawn,
but it is not good enough.
Tedster catches fire in the final moments of that map, but the rest of the team Sweden says hey, why not join him Zoro getting active
Willis is counting in three
That's that's disastrous for China. You cannot deal with this frontline. Sun's over 10 deaths. Willis with three
And our team does get frankly to overporn quite frequently in this game
On the Kirikou 12 deaths to use responsible though for China's early success on this map
As he finds a first pick I think onto the Shion at the start of the fight, all of a sudden they were looking like they were in a great spot.
Willis is the one that makes the switch off the demo.
Goes over all of the hazards, says Fancy's a bit of his own mobility, and we see two consecutive downpours that get crucial eliminations.
First it's the Vigena being picked off, and then there's like a jetpack that gets grounded, Lancer gets caught in place by it.
I mean, for Willis, honestly, I think Hazard is a signature.
I mean, I think Willis loves to bring that kind of individual agency aggression.
And I mean, you've got to play like Kevser on Tracer on your team.
You see him getting in on the backline.
You don't have to think too much.
You come in and join your brother in battle.
And I mean, when the feed lights up white like this,
certainly looks good for Sweden.
This final flashpoint, I mean,
trying to came into this with a massive ultimate advantage.
Sweden had nothing in the 10.
This was not a strategic outplay.
This was by sheer force of will.
Sweden just run through China, and honestly in the hazard mirror, I'm not surprised to see Diaz struggling.
Like, she's a really strong individual player with great aim, but in that kind of an explosive mirror with hazard tracer,
on Kiriko it is a very different game than when it's something like a diva mirror where a lot slower, a lot more strategic, a lot more 1v1s.
Things get crazy, and it felt like China, they kind of got lost in the sauce, like they were just never able to take the initiative.
And ironically, it was the kind of style that, you know, the team trying to evolve used to try and impose on other teams, right?
It's very dynamic. It never stops moving. If you get staggered out or you lose a play, you never really get full strength.
They never get fine, right?
And frankly, someone like Kevster, it looks like he opened up so many opportunities for Willys to link up with the offer admiral to get involved.
And all of a sudden, like, they find one team and it just snowballs from there.
We talked about how this hazard tracer comp is going to punish those positional errors.
Those are going to polish someone like D.I.E.A. who's like Susie's too early, or Swift steps in the wrong direction.
Ends up going to his tank except for another backgrounder, all of a sudden he's left out of the open.
But what it's worth, I've been impressed with some of the rush timings.
I mean, for me that's a key mistake. I see a lot of, even at this tournament, even for high level Kyrgos,
they, you know, pop it a little bit too early, not recognize the enemy team can just run away and back out.
D.I.E.A.'s shown the veterans to hold on to that ultimate until deep into the fight.
But then, sometime in that final flash point, he just couldn't get to that position.
He couldn't make it to there.
could cross that gap and I wonder for the rest of Team China it's like maybe
they're just I don't know that's pulling on Dia I think it's really more up to
your hazard your tracer to be the ones snatching that initiative back putting
pressure on the opposition so that they're they pay a price for going in
so deep instead it felt like China was trying to peel the offensive react
with their own tracer. If you can trace your hazard mirror you don't peel like
you don't defending your team you know it's up to the Curian the reason
you're playing Curian chip back cat is that they can take care of themselves
Or you hope that they can for long enough that you know, you're able to take down the enemy backline first
But trying to play a reactive style and responsibly back off texture
I mean he just reads that every day of the week and I mean trying to find themselves down o2 great adaptations in the tournament
I like what I've seen from them and yet. What does it mean?
Right you're down to own the series if you lose this series 3-0. I mean mathematically
I don't think you're eliminated yet things get tricky right with the four team groups
But certainly your destiny is out of your hands. Yeah going being one and two really only serves if
You have another team that gets upset, right?
And you end up with like three one and twos or something like that. You're hoping for a mathematical scenario that to be honest
I just don't think it's realistic. I mean for China. I think BlizzCon rests on a reverse sweep at this point
I don't think that's an exaggeration and like that's what we're kind of getting at here
It's been free light-hearted right obviously here in Busan getting a chance to see our teams compete, but at some point
and the stakes are gonna be high.
At this point, this is do or die for China.
Have they ever misclosed?
No, I mean, literally no.
They've been like,
this is, we're talking a historically, a top three team.
Sweden historically, maybe they'd be happy
to make BlizzCon.
The way this team is playing,
we gotta start thinking about mental positions.
I mean, it feels like in the last three years,
without the Overwatch World Cup,
the rivalry between teams,
now with the addition of breakout players, right?
And like Admiral,
that have allowed certain countries
to really surge and really show what the rest of the squad can do.
Sweden, with the way they've been playing here in Busan,
I think we should be talking about this team as one of the favourites going to BlizzCon,
and that's the trajectory they're on if they can get this win against Jack.
Generally, in my only event in 2016, we're trying to like, didn't make it through.
Like, BlizzCon was extended to like, the opening week as well.
Like, they're like, all in, like, 24 teams or however it was, so...
That was a very different era, but usually,
China not only has been in the top eight, folks,
they have been in the grand final.
They have three silver medals.
They have made three World Cup grand finals.
Not many teams can actually boast the same.
That level of consistency.
And unfortunately now, like,
their chances of competing in Anaheim,
in front of a crowd who always turns up,
who always make the trip, that's in question.
Recall now is gonna be subbed in
to play along to rather to play in a bigger step.
Trying times, I mean,
If you've got to make this adjustment, it hurts though because you've been genuinely close, right?
But those are two incredibly close maps, because as we said, it doesn't count for much, right?
If you can't close out in those final moments, that has been the issue for China, right?
Sweden's adaptations, the Bastion on map one, round three, really intelligent swap from them, love those calls.
And then just the gameplay. It was Willis and Kepster on the fifth and final flashpoint.
Didn't feel like a close map.
The elephant in the room now as well is that you have used your your ban on Zoro already that previous cast he was banned out there
He's gonna be free to bring that in here. Uh, you know, no matter so where we go. So for China
How are you supposed to craft that game state towards your strengths now having used a couple of these bands?
We're gonna find out yeah China choose to get respect the tracer your space for that
Honestly, I like it. I like it right so now I think is a pretty good tracer map in the past
I think it was a little bit more questionable with some of the difficulties for her ability, yeah
But now with, you know, putting some more stairs on the map, it really does change the game
You know Tracer can then convert her
Horizontal ability to that vertical position, able to get in on those backlines much more consistently than in the past
And so by banning this out
You do fall into the ancient trap though, which is trying to attack Kepster's hero pool
Good luck with that. Good luck with that. We'll see the Deeper Bay
That's me guessing from how much of a mix they're going to make it into the picture.
Obviously, Willis is just kind of playing a bit of everything.
He's just not too bothered yet.
So the D.Va ban away from Sunzo, who like you mentioned,
like really good on that Nepal map.
Do you obviously need to pick a tank here that has some sort of vertical mobility, right?
You can go back into the Hazard Mirror.
But that seems like the bread and butterfool is very comfortable there.
I mean, D.Va is a key ban on a map like Paraiso.
Like, Paraiso, I mean, it's just a phenomenal D.Va map, where a vertical and belly still incredibly valuable.
Actually, there's a lot of these hard corners where the payload especially has to turn a tight corner,
and there's not really a way to take a wide angle.
D.Va's the best tank at the game, honestly, in some of those positions,
able to just stall the card out in these really challenging positions to break her hold.
And so by banning her out, I mean, we've seen a lot of teams go towards Demon
when D.Va has been banned on this map.
I expect that to be the mirror here, but there's also the consideration of maybe a Sigma.
For SunZo, if you wanted to do a change-up with D.VaBand, I think that would be a good way to do it for China.
Does that feel just as valid on the attack side as it does on the defense?
I bet Sigma.
It feels like it's slower.
Definitely slower.
Yeah, definitely more questionable on attack.
I'd love to see how China wants to approach it.
Though with the addition of Cat, it feels like to me, honestly, even the depths of what's possible haven't been plumbed even by elite teams.
You know, Sigma can attack these vertical high-crows,
so you just pop them on up with a little boost from the cat.
Cat can go off and follow up the rest of his game plan,
look for some dives.
Honestly, for China, though, I think
you've got to feel like you need something big to change.
These clutch fights have not been going your way
when push comes to shove.
It feels like the pressure is getting to this Chinese team.
And all of these young guns on Sweden,
they are popping off.
They are rising to the level, the standard set by Kevstr.
If you're in China's position,
You realize that you can't necessarily beat Sweden at the same game, you need to change the paradigm.
That's why you've been a tracer, but I appreciate the tracer, man, because I'd rather see Kevster go a little deeper into the pool.
I mean, the tracer is phenomenal, don't get me wrong, but part of the joy of watching this guy play over the last decade
of his illustrious career in Overwatch has been, you cannot slow this guy down.
He also has a made-in scan for a leaker P&EW or OWCST, so it's an embarrassment of
riches for Sweden in the DPS department.
He's really unique in that regard, right?
He has a WoW-class Genji, and also he has a good look here inside his game.
Like, Divas-Ban, I could see Monarch Genji actually coming out here.
It wouldn't shock me.
Even in Echo, when you take out Treaser, things get creative here.
I see the ban also makes me think of the potential of like maybe play Freya, the jetpacker has a little price to put on him as well.
I wouldn't mind the Freya, you know honestly it's interesting, we haven't seen so much of her at this tournament, but I don't see why.
I mean I have to imagine the matchup in the team isn't terrible, you have great mobility to run away from that class, but Saber, should you desire it?
More teams though, it just feels right for just the Cap Bastion, simple straight forward, and I have to be fair in this Cap Bastion also really powerful on Freyza.
Crunch time now for China fans. I would say a tempered expectations a lot of the
conversation I saw you know it was they were sort of suggesting that maybe this
wasn't the strongest look that China could have put forward and for personal
reasons right now. It's a bit early isn't it? It still feels like a
bitter pill of the swallow I mean expectations sure maybe a little bit
more realistic this year but you're talking about the fans coming out to
BlizzCon, who then could be there to have no Chinese team to support.
That would be a bit of a shock, right?
Considering the history of Overwatch, like it was really like, you know,
South Korea, USA, China.
I think generally the most storied teams in professional play.
We've talked about how this year and maybe especially the last year in general
has been a bit rough before China, but with way more strong performance
in the Esports World Cup, things were looking up for this region.
But, you know, there was hope, I think that Overwatch World Cup would be
another chance for China to reassert its presence on the global stage of Overwatch, but facing
a 3-0 defeat here and a really crushing bloat, their chances of going further in the tournament
are dire for the fans.
Add to that the context of what happened in 2023.
China in that grand final go up 2-0 against Saudi Arabia.
It's their turn to win a gold medal.
Everyone in the building knew it, right?
been feeling next up for quite some time for three years we were like all right
China's gonna come back with a vengeance I don't know if this is what the fans of
me that has to some degree had real fans are here
honestly I love this fired nightmare space station fans I love that
Abril legendary legendary player of a multiple years of over and he's funny
because he is a very understated human, very quiet, very reserved, I'd say I'm
honestly probably cut quite a figure as a leadership person on this team but in
general like all of my interactions with him he's been like very like mature
honestly like he's done he's been he's very matter-of-fact I think that's the
best way of putting it. Yeah I know definitely definitely shows more on the
server than he would in an interview but he's certainly been putting up and
honestly the cat coming into the meta I think has been a bit of a
reckoning for a lot of main support players. Opportunity already where the
metas has shifted and you know the idea of let's say quote-unquote main support
has been kind of been thrown out. Exactly right. Things it's just it's more
about broader flexibility than that but I mean Kat has offered so much
individual agency to some of these traditional main support players to
actually get in get active produce more individual. I mean a little bit of the
Reddit Lucio style but but it actually works. It's actually the way to play
the hero and so for Admiral rather a very very experienced in making those
individual plays on man's court. It's been a hero that allows him to shine.
He got Willis and Kevster who love to get in on the dives. This Swedish team is very much built for the current moment.
The current moment sees them up 2-0 against China now heading into Paraiso.
Potentially the decider here in this series if we don't see a little bit of something special from China.
I will say as someone who's been fortunate to preside over many matches just like this, there's always
I've been a magic about it, it keeps up out of the cobblestone so to speak, and with China, it's always emotional Drake, there's always an extra level from the fans, from the players, you can tell it means more, and sustaining a live in this series is of the art most important, it's, you literally do a dive for them right now, and out they come on the attack side, pineapple with an early grapple here with the widow.
Okay, they change up in this style. They're gonna go towards the Sigma with the Mizuki
Kiri. So that plays out a lot of opportunity though for Sile on this
honor to produce without a D.Va to pick up those nades and Apple also is gonna
make this flop over to the Freya. But the double hits get a backline here looking
really scary for the Swedish defense.
What's going to be a good day? Yeah, Mizuki making an appearance here alongside the
Sigma Kofu. This is something that is quite comfortable for Sozo from what we've seen
from Weibo. It doesn't work in this shell, in this architecture with Team China. So we
even have it a play slow and steady, play safe. Sit back, let Zoro just go to town. And there's
a question of whether Alphari can get within striking distance of this less mobile backline
without being shot to pieces first. It's the shooting gallery for Zoro right now.
Patrick, it's a lot of pressure. Alphari up to the backline, but does he have the
support? Where's the team with him? He's in all by himself. Gets a cleanse. He
barely walks off that one. Now the healing is good there from recall on Alphari. Keep
him alive and in fact, it's actually sweet enough to give up some ground. Great support here.
Front China's healers. This is now the tuner of the tickle that I hope the recall can
pick up. I was just giving this balls. Now unfortunately, I have to go without it.
Sometimes when the creature there does catch on the wall, it's really everybody very
low angle. Picked up, it's trial has to be worked out for him in the healing department.
Kepster just extends a little bit too far out of formation. And once again, Sweeter
will be forced away, this time for point A for good.
That fight was incredibly close.
I mean, across the board, both teams dropped so low,
the Sun's up, great positioning to stay alive.
Lenzer also cruising, huge yields in that fight.
He's almost gonna have to sanctuary all mine.
And getting to the second point already
is a great start for Trent.
It's a matter of bend, not break.
Trying to almost look down.
So the rocks of that Swedish defense,
I'm gonna break through.
I'm gonna have to bowl a shot,
maybe two go, since there's a good bit of flux,
could be a tied turner as well.
Everybody established like pretty aggressively up on that high ground position.
AC will ease his get a...
Perhaps some of his mobility issues are ameliorated by the jetpack.
Cap it straight into the group.
Flex nose.
Connection off.
Liver break out already.
Lengths though not gonna fill the sharp side of the plate.
As Willie's playing safe here now to continue their rush though.
You gotta respect this recall that's a go and there's a disengaged for Sweden.
They're gonna get slowed.
Let me break for Willis for the health.
Is it a number to keep them alive and fighting?
No way!
You barely know the chain comes in, breaks the suit alongside some damage from Pineapple.
Alphariah went down and installed that Zoro that was a good kickoff.
Finally the Ambrus started to get some value, and now, we've catched her able to work a flank angle
and basically be uncontested here with Alphariah.
The game is a joyride that takes lengths at spread over the horizon.
We're seeing some difficulty now for Sunzo Sigma.
I mean, there's a lot of verticality on this second point.
Yes, there are more options than navigated, but it's been dominating the lion's share of them.
And even with the Canada, they're gonna get the finish on the Sun, so yes, it does cost Kevster's life.
Well, play shots with Pineapple, give trying to... another lease on life, but without the tank, it's hard to see you marching forward here.
With the response here to the switch off the Bastion over to the Casting, Kevster though has Saturic 3.
Likely would want to make use of it.
And that Fazzaro knows exactly the route the Pineapple's planning to take.
He's gonna try and keep him suppressed, keep him quiet there, but it's okay.
I like the little boost up there now. Overdrive Protocols, active Fazzaro, but you can see how many decent Sight Line I think we got our answer.
Pineapple disintegrates under his scrutiny now and it has to be a Kekai sanctuary to protect China from the rest of that Emera ultimate.
Zoro is coming down on the wrong side of that hollow screen. It's saved by the cat. Albus Creek can come in for catcher.
He is chained, mainly getting some of his mobility, but China still has something to say in this fight.
It's always uncontested here, Jake, as well.
Free to rain this damage down in the aftermath of that Emera ultimate.
Time is being shredded off the clock as Willy spines another elimination.
Two minutes 45 left to play for China.
Trying to back to what's incredibly comfortable look for them.
Malenka says, we've got to change this up, it's going to bring the cat out.
Little sleeper pineapple, it's going to slow China's roll, it's still 2.30 on the clock
with that blistering pace they set on A.
A lot of room to work with, it's given them a buffer, but we've seen how quickly those
two just seem to grade in situations like this, Jack.
Especially when the defenders have such unfettered access to this hydra.
Less so in this molten era of how I use open speed, Sweden's still using it very
effectively.
Kinetic Grasp, and a full back there for Sunzo, Pinaffle under some pressure, and no Kadaffle gets the nanoboos!
He's going health 11 here!
With a catnap available, they never have to be respected, though, and catch this trait before recall.
It's all about keeping Willys alive, and I'm not quite sure if that's what Si'll had planned for Resultimates.
I mean, the cat steps in, I guess, does some good damage.
Willys is still alive and fighting, has the winnig, right? Doesn't he?
And just yet, Sorrel picks up that kill on the Pinaffle.
Opportunity for this Genji to find something, but under the catnap is an awkward one for him.
And Will is in the baby form as can be guessed at.
Kind of wondering how long we'll be until we saw it.
Our Fari's game to come out here.
We mentioned that might be heads up for a people of texture.
So here of course, perking into that extra mobility now,
he can float up a little bit.
So the ground has been gamed.
90 seconds left on the clock and the gravity flux
is now locked and loaded.
His son's looking for a chance to have Sweden crew done.
So far though, it's just drips and grabs on to the point.
Plant apple deer got me flowing around the side.
So I'll now surely aware of it
as there's a remake for him.
He's back in action.
Now he has a body and a legit ghost in the ground.
Gruntful dragged away. He gets the safety, but a big punch might be a lot of portions here.
Willis will drop down healthy enough, loses half of his health, but still fighting fit.
Ah, sorry, that's a crucial kill onto the back.
I'm thinking for one of the dashes, he's set the bail out from Admiral Soros.
They're still in the space, sweet brolling for it.
Willis is trying to hold this space though, desperately.
It's gonna be 0 with an upright political BEEEEN!
A Christian hit, but Zoro still alive and well.
Well, less than a minute left, Panipa with a dead eye developed now would recall, get picked off, find that protocol, and the second checkpoint was picked up!
Sonzo gets them there, and gets him a chance to end the map.
Too close for comfort, but China, getting into the third phase which is critical on this new for ISO, it feels like this third point is a really tough test to count.
You can make some good progress here, you've done well in the office.
We're at this stage it's giving Shambali monster vibes right, just get as deep as you can in this last phase.
Maybe a blade's the way to do it, I mean talking about an explosive ultimate that lets you maybe break some challenging setups.
I mean not the ultimate it once was, it overwatched, but the bar's been pounding it well.
Dangerous moment there for Alphari, Kev's almost found a kill combo.
Here comes the blade, a bit of an hour later says Alphari, he's gonna be swinging. Kev's already brought them a recall though.
Switched up to join the Genji to make sure this blade had a bit more sticking power.
A barry down to the frag with Grenade here, Willis is going to be Mano to keep him in the fight.
He backs up, he's still alive and well.
Admiral also skitters back to rejoin him now as a Zatharic Spree is on the menu now, we'll catch that.
Huge production from Sile in that last fight.
Deals with the Genji, the panel provides huge value of pineapple points down 10.
Willis is in the back line, but is this over the rest of his speed?
He's trying to struggle, but Sanzo is getting low.
Willis might be considering a little bit right here,
some zone gets brought down, nobody's gonna hold on to it.
And he'll be knocked out of the bank.
Planet of the Dangerous here, have to connect that grenade.
And I'll just Willis for extending quite deeply.
But again, another minute and a half has been shaved off.
This is sweet of making it a costly for trying to advance.
Ziggna, great at the frontline pressure,
but the dynamism of this third point
has been a bit of a stumbling block for him.
His Gravitic Flaps though,
he's been so consistent with that ultimate.
So many tools were ready to get him,
He's struggling to turn these tight corners to really get into the action on their point.
Alphari just got repelled around the high ground, it's a bunch of damage.
He comes to spree from catch.
He might just settle for the game to eliminate him.
He steals it out from under him.
Still, kills are killed.
Limit break's been sapped on by release for a hot minute, but that Alphari pick-off is enough to precipitate a retreat.
Well, this angle is devastating for Zorro, and with the back of his team, he's been on a play this aggressive.
I can go so well.
Here he comes over the top once again.
Once again, the Titan angle though is always going to respect the dead eye here.
This is a very quick retort from Plant Apple.
He knows exactly where the Emory is, but can't quite connect on him now.
Zoro is going to get costed by Alphari.
Plant up, he's going to finish the Godcat, even Alphari.
This is getting hot and heavy, Sunzone low!
Going to be taken out by Willys.
Narad4 vs. 4, but it's a tank dip that's sweeping the open of leverage
in a defensive hold.
Alphari picked up by Alphari.
Dash up into the sky, Kepsta deflected many of those shots.
Now a blade for Alphari is going to pour in.
Now looking, try and get past this demon, but Willys still won.
Very tricky to get past this tank in one piece, so Alphari just has to be patient.
Just crashed on the better part of Alipar now on the card itself, it's all picked off by Lisa.
Gets in there with a cutback recall, had to slipstep away.
Alphari pressure down two blown cards to flex Sabin's life
and Willis is going to shock in his direction.
Swiftstep though is going to get him out of trouble in the very least, it was Katsuneira throwing down by recall.
Alphari traded out the style, Willis still alive, but now it's time to flag in terms of health.
It's Kevster steps up, puts himself on the kill feed.
Make sure he's relevant in this fight and it's the last drakes here on China.
Trying to get some extra progress, it's just Sonser though, and Pineapple's gonna be forced to look on in dismay.
It's here, the rest of his teammates are finally suppressed.
Oh, phenomenal showing from Willis there in the final fight on the team, and picking up two after kills, staying alive,
playing on that incredibly low HP value to where China just, good, they have to chase the kill.
They're obliged to, but they cannot finish it off, and that just brings the spawners back into the fight.
Great deathmatching from Sweden but China, they played their mark on this map.
I mean, this is a very winnable position on defense.
Even getting into this third point, it is far from guaranteed.
First, second, still very tough test.
Stepping outside of my own head for a moment,
I've got to say, as a fan, that was a fantastic half of Overwatch.
Yeah. Really back and forth.
Very competitive. Very on tempo, right?
Yeah, sure, A Desk, which is fine.
He's playing that pretty aggressive style,
and, you know, he has a couple of deaths
just to try to keep the round going towards the end there.
I mean, the stats aren't going to be good
if you're going to play Ketchy. Sure.
You have to accept that, right?
You play for these big moments of explosive production that just move the ball forward, get the cart downfield, break a tough setup.
You're not going to be doing, you know, the numbers that, uh, hits game or a tracer are, but it's about playing for the win in this one.
I'm already sticking to it for them, and maybe I'm even trying a little brighter, not needing to break some of those tougher setups.
Capster maybe likes his odds in the mirror. Honestly, that's what the fans came to see.
Don't let me stop you, kid.
Very curious to see how this game plays out, although...
We've got C.C. on play for him in the previous round and looking much better than it did on Atlas, right?
It was like Kevster was able to lean into the role a bit more and this is kind of what I was alluding to at the start of the map.
With D.VaBand, Kevster might be able to go, pick up the Freya here and be a real problem in a war of nutrition.
I really favor the side with the strong Freya.
It's a great hero for like his exact speciality as a player with the hybridization between Hitscan and Flanker.
You know what I think better of it though? Going back to the Shion still just feeling like, hey, the spree provides so much value.
I mean, with the Mzuki on the other side, I don't mind if you go double-hit scan and really put the poke pressure on.
Already a kill on the Lenza, this Chinese squad just falls apart.
Rick Hall is broke, could be in trouble.
How is Sun Tzu not able to intervene here?
I think Sweden just got the drip of the drop on China in a big way.
What should that happen then?
Sun Tzu's POV, he is looking on as his backline just gets decimated.
I mean, that should just not happen. They just get rolled over.
I mean, a huge skill gap and that is a great boon.
The Sweden's chances just end this match here and now as I'm sure they blight to an additional kill from style on to Lenza
Things go from bad to worse for China's. They start to just blow your bodies off the field. It's a disaster
I mean when it rains it pours Jake and China very quickly hastily have to get themselves out of the fight
We lease almost
Sloppy Joe
This is a yikes from me dog
Oh, Trayda, you looked pretty decent on the last round.
Now you really got to show us something special on second point.
They're keeping tabs on our Farion.
Pretty diligently as well.
Sins are just getting chumped down in the neutral.
Cass is such a liability in this car, but it shows itself.
Kevster eats him alive, Trayda, have not touched the objective a single time on this defense.
I don't think they're gonna start soon, Mitch.
You can't have dangled yourself in Kevster's purview at half health for more than a second.
You just can't do that.
Long range shield picks, okay, maybe that's a little bit...
So the MRA as well, he's not the pick here, man.
No, outranged.
Badly.
By Zoru.
Who's been comfortably playing this consistent damage output role.
Keeping the heal pressure at a full-time high for this China team.
Now, like, this is comfortable for Sweden.
Back up, he's gotten to this last corner.
4 minutes 30.
He's gonna blow this wide open.
They might break some problem.
China decided to take things into their own hands, going in first,
but manandering away at a far-reared Sunzo.
Yeah, will he's not sure if he actually needs to heal here?
Because somebody with his ult was coming from his back, and I'm like, oh, Alphari!
Yeah, it gets turned into a smear on the ground.
Is that a variety of protocol?
Kick at basically point-blank.
Now Zoro is set up in a pretty decent spot.
Okay, let me look at the Sunzo, though, who's definitely got himself...
Uh, as the cat amongst the pigeons, but these pigeons have gone claws.
Blood Apple, though, he's dead high on the top.
Now Cards for the Embera.
Hester as well, there's a little bit of a loan out there in the open.
A sky I'll maybe overextend in.
Both of us sure have got to deal with Sweden and importantly, Jane, these impactful support ults
that have been maintained by the attackers.
Yeah, I will say for Sweden, they've drawn a couple DPS ults in here and made some big
response out of China.
They're meant to get aggressive once again, but with both Captain and me and Rush available,
if Sweden can just get into a decent fight on this final checkpoint, things are done
in Duster for China.
They're under huge pressure to deploy the Sundering Blade at the limit break earlier
rather than later.
You cannot let Zoror take a confident position.
Can we need this to be proactive, right? It's kind of been their issue across the series, especially in their hazard mirror, but even more so now.
Leverage this high ground. Leverage the defensive advantage.
Limber break for Sunzo. They're not going to give him a decent opportunity to make use of it. Big damage taken by a release, but it just falls back on the corner, maybe hoops the bait and over extension.
He doesn't get one, but Sweden plant the flag on this high ground for the most part.
Got to see some big aggression here. Sweden and I, they got to put some offies and open this head up here because they're Russian side.
Affari, the good one, the Sunring Blade, basically straight away, just playing up on the corner, it's going to be avoided for the most part.
Willys maybe took some damage, but nothing to write home about.
Affari over the top, looking for a way to get into the fight, but there's much to be a problem, and here comes Willys.
Limberbrake does connect.
May use of that on Sonto, and fights his way to Pineapple in the backlight, but not before.
The Cassidy brings the kill to go to kill.
His hand out close quarters of Sonto gets caught on the door, actually body clocked by Willys, and not able to be dragged out into the open.
Sonto sees Ketchman dangling in front of him, and says, don't fight if I do.
Finally, some fire from this China team with defense.
And these tight corners have proved a real problem
for these ranged backliners of Sweden.
They struggled to get those angles.
We talked about Afari putting a good job
pulling a lot of attention to himself.
I wonder if Sweden doesn't want to bring out
Vendetta, Agenji of their own.
Something to just change the narrative
on this high ground pineapple as well.
It's just been able to play these tight corners,
deny some of the long angles that were his gain
in previous fights.
Change the paradigm.
You feel like he's getting outmatched to the mirror.
Oh, Keps are so confident with that.
Zora was well-softening them up quite nicely here from long range with a dead eye,
bit of an issue he tries to come out of the chid.
Ooh, okay, pineapple maybe pulls it a little bit earlier than the other one should have.
Trying to go up to Zora who was getting healed desperately, healed some style, generational.
Bigs down there and a nice drop in with the catnap.
Devastating lengths that drags Willys to his demise.
They didn't solve out for Sweden. I mean, after an incredible pace set on the opening part of this map,
China has found what they needed to, running the clock down drastically,
and it's going to be a big swap between Willis to the hazard, Zoro to the Cassidy.
Still a lot of that push into persuaded. They had 5 minutes 40 on the clock coming out of 0.8.
That time bank is dwindled by four minutes. They need a time bank extension,
then they need a pretty deep push after that. All of a sudden the balance of power feels
like it is shifting. And that's maybe why we see this hazard switch by Willis. Everybody
here for swimming, join him up with a high ground. Sons are a little bit low, but
But Luma Frank is prepared, fires it off pretty much straight away.
Panapatroni is involved in that low ground, but it's an awkward sideline for Kim.
Here's Kepster, happy to bait Recall in to the maelstrom.
It's at Riki's free, notches up an elimination.
It's Aura switching to the Cassidy, and this wholesale switch for Swif has yielded results, Jake.
Will has produced so much in that fight.
The Jagged wall just made life hell for Sunzo, and then with everybody looking at the tank,
the backline finally able to get active.
Try it now, you can't go for this last second Riki test though, they've got fight left in them.
Look at Williso, Jagged wall preventing most of the Chinese people
and getting up with his dead eye from Pineapple.
Oh, like an end cold, early steal.
Kevster picked off the peacekeeper,
fighting between the shoulder blades,
and now this is the fight you're looking for
if you're China.
Finally with some fire, with some pluck,
and they have put Sweden in last fight territory.
Or some oil on, they need it now.
Their last lease on life,
and they've been doing it again for ISO.
Great retake out of Pineapple.
Feels like once you shut down Kevster,
it's a lot better chance in a deathmatch fight.
13 seconds and counting. Rush for style and recall respectively. Lenkzer, his last catnap was fight ending. This one may have to be also...
Something like from Alphari, that's released and Willy's is picked off yet again, so we're over the top now.
Oh my goodness, heads are rolling here. It's time to pick it up for the two of you.
Apparently Alphari trying to use the broad side of the blade to block the damage, and Lenkzer gets in fights.
He's second off the fight. SunZo, indomitable, immovable now.
And finally, China throw a look that's slow Sweden down enough for them to get a reprieve in this series.
Paraiso, picked up by China.
I think Sweden just a little too greedy with these DPS choices on second, right?
Not going towards a flanker.
They can open up the map a little bit more, put some more pressure on the back line.
And because of that, Alphari and SunZo are able to constantly exact concessions out of the attackers.
Yes, they can move things forward, but always at a price for the backline.
Nine deaths for Syla, definitely a tougher match for him.
SunZo are just four, so really great stability from the Chinese frontline,
a key part of their success there on Paraiso.
But this is just the beginning.
I mean, a reverse sweep is what's required.
You've done one of three maps for blind for the win.
But now, staring down the barrel of two straight map picks with ban control for Team Sweden,
you've used arguably one of your strongest weapons in taking away Kessir's tracer
given how well he's been playing here in the World Cup.
So still a long road home for Team Track.
Absolutely.
They've given a lot of information away as well.
I think we still have Esport in the pool.
Push as well should have come to that.
And you've obviously, if you're trying to,
you've kind of shown your hand.
This looks like one of their best looks, right?
Alfari on the Vendetta.
We knew that's going to be a dangerous option for them.
Planet Hall was fantastic yesterday, frankly.
And it's managed to carry that through.
Related to jetpack, capplay also is quite impressive.
This might be where Team China looked their best,
but you can make that choice if you can make bans
to invalidate some of these strengths.
Feel like there's a demon band on the horizon.
Definitely something to consider.
We actually had that in map one, should I say so.
Yeah, I wasn't really in a band at all.
Yeah, see when we get to the band set, but.
Definitely a key win for China.
If we got to that third point, all bets are off.
It's from China.
Well, I mean, Sweden could still take it away if they want to.
And they're in control now of the ban phase, so they want to block out that demon.
I mean, I think that's a key threat.
Still, escort and push, both in theory, good map types for Sunzo's pool.
Might be able to ban away the demon, but then you can go to the Diva, you can go
to the Sigma, and you can do the proven successful tools for this Chinese squad.
First time the conversation has been around like twisted minds this year, right?
Well, you have to win me some Metro Bandman, trying to one the must win price of Bandman here against Kostom.
We also have to consider, Recall coming in, I mean, we didn't notice him as much,
but there's a virtue in that when it comes to the support line, right?
Like, D.A. found more of the explosive individual kills, but also way more of the punishing first deaths.
And honestly, you know, from a go team perspective, I think you'd rather have the stability of a more committed support player
to provide just a stable feeling to the DPS. It's not flashy. It's not going to show up in these highlight reels.
But it lets you try to pick up a map win. And with recall, I'm sure staying in the roster the way the series has gone.
Maybe that's it was a turning point for John.
Yeah, I think like giving themself a bit more stability, especially after Sweden did pivot into a hazard based composition, right?
Granted, Tracer was banned, so you didn't have both aspects of that sort of one to punch out your disposal.
This is a good sign here in China, the fact that they can bring recall back in how far
he looks solid in this roster.
I do think that yeah maybe you go after the beam on here and you maybe save your Sweden
like can we find a map that forces a acid hero, I put Willys where he's confident, even
though he's back on the menu right that's obviously something we saw banned away there
on but he's in the kind of map where there's so much verticality and she can buy oppressive.
There's a lot of options here and it's always a bit of a nerve wracking position
You've got to make the reverse sweep against the headwind of your opponents getting the map selection.
I mean, that last map, that's the easiest one, right of the three, where you're still in control of the bad.
You're still in control of the map pick. You can kind of take us to a comfortable scenario.
Now you got to do it on Swedish Perf.
The way Sweden has been playing, I mean, I believe they look really good playing a Lucio style on Shambali.
So I wonder if that's enough where they go again, ban out the cat, right?
Like, you know, you put a huge twist on this series when you ban cat out.
Everybody's playing cat, top of the line meta, but for Admiral or back to the Lucio, if I
were the Swedish coach here, I'd be saying guys back to basics.
Let's take these kids to school.
Yeah, you could target the back cat, quite aptly, and of course, lengths to play, you
know, something a little bit more classic, but one thing that I think for me is encouraging
from China is that they are opting into playing the more up-tempo style.
They're being proactive, especially on the defense side, probably easier, where
that can be punishing, right, to go forward on defense to try and create those kind
of opportunities they are doing that a bit more right feels like they're not
being dictated to nearly as much on that map it's a good side but it's it's
something to get into internalize more over the course of the series but the
rest of their run through this ground with round robin
Sweden instead they're gonna take a stress for Anza and just do a choice for them
I'm really curious to see the band phase in this map though because this
is obviously made any more important to my mind kind of and has it here do you think?
It could.
It's tough though because for me, for Willis, he looks great on the Hazz, but I don't see him as a very limited player.
I think he's going to be happy to go toe-to-toe on something like the Maga, and something like for Mantra,
wherever the team overall feels like they want to take this series.
And he's still sitting on another map pick in the pocket for Sweden if you do go down here.
Much in the same vein as we saw against the United States, China are able to get at least
that one map, some face safe, but to them that's not really the goal.
The goal of course is a must win game here after suffering at the hands of the United States
to try and book their ticket to BlizzCon.
We were talking to him in gloom this time before we got into part of Uzo saying the
death are up against the wall.
This is their last chance, you know, ostensibly to be able to compete in our top eight
at BlizzCon.
It's Kiroko, gotta be banned out at first, you know what I'm saying?
That's interesting, I mean Syla has shown a real comfort on the honor in this series,
especially on Nepal, was really producing well that hero.
Not an easy hero to pick up in the meta, but I think a lot of Flex Sport players have
been whispering that, you know, Zeta paved the way, right?
Shoo, show what's possible.
And I think it's hard for a lot of Flex Sport players to get a performance like that
out of their head when they say, hey, if you just hit everything, you know,
we saw Kyle doing crazy stuff from Canada, China even ran away to Diva.
This is on a heaven, right? Do you carry off the field?
Like, esperons are not necessarily a great on-and-out, but hey, people would think this
is a cat under the matter. You know this? Could be a pretty spicy change-up in the series.
I think Ana's effectiveness is actually really volatile because it's entirely dependent
on which part of the map you're playing on, and that changes. You, one minute you
have nice high ground, you're playing on top of the overpass, next minute you're
forced into low ground, you don't have great sightlight, you can't be offensive
on the Arna, you're very much trying to play your own life. So it depends. However, I do
think the Arna comp, you know, when you re-control the map, maybe you just like control the bridge
and don't push too far past that. Maybe just defend that milestone and try and stay ahead
in the longer game. Feels like she looks very, very good there. But once again, China
have the mandate. They have to reverse sweep Sweden here, team that's looked dominant,
a team that by Zoro's own admission believes that they might just win it all. I'm not
I'm talking about this. I'm talking about BlizzCon. Sweden generally believed that they could be the best team in this World Cup.
China would like to shine some doubt, at least on that notion. Here in Esperanza, the map pick of Sweden, they have to look dominance.
Looking at these bands though, Kessler is going to be back with a vengeance on Tracer.
There's no Suzy for the post-5, there's no D.Va to eat up your damage, chase you down on Tracer.
I think Tracer is going to be a fearsome foe on this map, so it's really, I think, up to Alphari to match the production from Kevin.
In fairness, Alphari's been great this series. I mean, I think him coming in has breathed a new breath of life.
And as much as this is a 2-1 scoreline with China in a really rough spot, all three maps have been very close.
Arguably, Priso was maybe the most common map in the series, and it goes the way of China.
So both control and flashpoint were incredibly competitive.
If you just kind of abstract away from the results, the Chinese team has been showing real fight.
It's been slip-ups here and there that have cost them big portions of large amounts, even Paraiso!
I mean, they threw away first point on D.G.I.T.S.
Like, things were looking really scary, getting into that what could have been the final round of play in this series,
but they righted the ship, so, under pressure, China's showing that they can still perform,
despite having a lot of younger players on this team, it's not gotten to them enough, at least just yet.
Are Sweden though still? Looking comfortable? Smiles on the faces, love to see it.
Yeah, look, I'd also say for the Switch guys, it's really warm in the venue.
It's very warm in Busan today, so they're trying to stay cool as they play what now is threatening to become a bit of a longer series.
He touches on something for me lightly there, but the lack of Kirika, the lack of Suzu in this matchup opens like a whole world of opportunities.
mid-ana is more impactful, biotic grenade is a bit more punishing, especially in the absence of
dvd, so it sort of, you know, eat those up, control those kind of sightlines. It also,
it does invalidate some of the tanks that rise and fall off their self-healed capacity, like
Malgrim for example, but Echo the Drive is just not going to get you there when you get
Mio'd, so that's going to eliminate that possibility to pick up tankers. Like Cascading
Implications, I suppose, to Kiriko, one of the most impactful heroes that I've
of what you've ever seen being banned at.
Certainly a lot of room for DPS to shine.
I mean, there's going to be a lack of say
and there's a lack of survivability in the back lines.
I wonder for China, how would they react to this carry ban?
Because they've brought in different players,
but they have played Kiri throughout the series.
They have shown no desire to get away from the hero.
A recall, now he comes in, has a pretty successful map,
stable production on Kiri,
not giving up too many mistakes.
And now, of course, to show a new side to his play,
more versatility called for in this moment.
But yeah, like, you know, showing us a more safe and sustainable take.
I see an honor there.
Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if we get to see it.
We're gonna heading into Paris.
I rather, Esperanza, pardon, in just a moment.
Still trying to must win map for them.
Stay alive in this series, perhaps, in the World Cup in general.
No longer is you're just in your own hands
if you fall to zero and two so early through this round.
Probably only in day two of four, folks,
and China would like to remain a fighting force throughout the entirety of the week.
A lot of expectations, we've been talking about that constantly through the match,
but it feels like maybe China more than just about any other team in this competition
feels the weight of expectation from that community rooting for them from home,
not far from here in Busan.
So see if they're able to shrug that off and do the most difficult thing in a competitive overmatch,
pull off the complete reverse sweep.
Tough ask.
Fans of China are also out of numbers here today.
Usani's thoughts are really looking much more lively.
Now with some real stakes on the game.
Can we have Farry on the Tracy here? No, she's...
That's her sim.
That's her sim.
Those are the late-spawn camera.
What happened there?
Yeah.
Maybe some deliberation about what if you wanted to stick there.
A 2P giving you the ability to assail the high ground a bit more comfortable.
If you're not losing it.
With an arranged trading, but the honor hand's going to be crucial here.
Kill Cap Bastion could really put some pressure on Sile.
Don't have to look at Emra though as the Cap Bastion combination is going to be that pretty safe long-rate hitscan damage at the disposal of the Swedish.
Tree's been saying also that it feels like Emra is very well positioned right now to be like a priority pickpick, yes?
Trying to go putting on a bit of pressure early there now looking to try and take these high granades, Zoro wants to again try and maintain presence up here as long as he can.
Possibly can. Sons are being rebuffed there by release is going to create a bit more space now for the DPS and Kevster is trying to get Alphari's attention.
He looks like he wants none of the dual little alley-oop there as Kevster goes overhead.
It's already going to pick up my pineapple bow.
Recall is a train.
After grabbing Alphari's huge, Syles still alive and took him where he is in this fight.
He's navigating it well.
Arna getting deep into these engagements is a rare thing.
He looked out of Benzley's position, but intelligently so.
It's kept Sweden in this fight and spite him in the headscanner room.
So without the armour, you notice how far he has to play much more on the health packs
and can't be as aggressive, can't range as far as he can feel, and has Kepster again just
generating these opportunities.
This guy creates openings for Sweden to exploit.
Really sick position from Sion.
I mean that's just about as extensive as I've ever seen an armour play on this midfielder.
It's warranted against the Gap Ashen.
Well he's trying to lock me in the choke here.
Dangerous to play into the Bionic Grenade for French.
For China and they're about to keep up that early lead they'll be able to
Thumbs are close to a little bit of a break, trying to make sure that his team can play from these windows now as they've had to give up the high ground entirely.
Okay, so CaesarCampBastion go by, thinking about maybe going after Sunson with a pulse here, but that up pretty early and go stick there, no elimination.
It's back a little bit tempered here.
Okay, it's going to be tough to stay alive though, really he's about buying time there.
William there. Willis dominates in the front line. He got the net out, or is that what's
given over the pineapple on the China side? And they can't help but feel like that's a
decision that Favis Sweden here is in the aftermath. They're cleaning up.
Yeah, down to the low numbers in Gagarin's tap-ass. He just cannot stay in toe-to-toe.
Tracer and Demon win the day, and they're going to be able to march this cart forward
after all, keeping this push rolling. First checkpoint, huge defiance on Esperanza,
unlocking those four Twins.
Get him, he's honestly pretty early in the round. Still 720 to play. Yes, trying
Trying to have a long list of ults.
This cat back here, Sonsa looks like he's been accosted by Admiral.
He's got a bunch of damage being dragged out of the open.
Actually, this is huge for the tempo!
Off Sweden, the momentum! Still building!
Oh, a far way to...
Coming in too late to actually touch for the...
The overtime fight on the checkpoint has to recall out.
Sweden just run it back with the tempo.
And now they're really starting to pick apart this Chinese team.
They're unable to regroup, unable to contest this payload.
Sile somehow navigating it all.
This map is feeling snowball-y all of a sudden.
Pineapple at length, sir.
Struggling to find themselves in the right spots to stop.
Kepster, who again has found a target recall here.
Bio gonna be recalled out of this.
No help for recall!
And Kepster wins it out!
Chandra there gets a parting gift from Kepster.
A bomb stuck to the outside of the shield,
and conversely, a firing not able to find a solo kill like Kepster was.
And that was King trying to further and further behind the 8-ball.
The 8-ball that's lengths to trying to abscond with Willys is interrupted
This incredible chaos in this kind of a team comp really got to give credit to Sally's thing like through everything
Riga has not been so lucky maybe that's credit to Kevster for constantly hunting down that vulnerable backliner knowing
He's not gonna get a lot of help when Kat is mostly gonna be faring pineapple around the fight
117 meters
four and a half four minutes into the game rather
a blistering pace here from Sweden.
China with the reality starting to make itself clear to them I think that they
have to show us something special. Hatsleep went too early. Recall just
yeeted that one away and Kevstar was going north with jetpack counting a 1-2.
Get the honor elimination yet again and try as they might. China cannot protect
their backline from this tracer plane.
They're on the flank and a huge limit break is the low the finish is good from Kev.
This is just too much. The weight of Sweden are causing China to buckle up.
Okay bro, come on bro please.
So un-serious.
That is a sonic pulse bar.
That is a sonic pulse bar.
Anna's gonna be forced out of the fight entirely. We have close to a full cap here.
This will be a decisive way to dispatch this young and collegiate China squad.
Desperate lengths are trying to stall this out, can test the ball, but it's not to be!
And Chynara put to the sword unceremoniously by Sweden, annihilated on his for answer.
A big win for this squad, kinda although it's been a tougher year for them so far still for Sweden.
This is a win that really shows what you talked about can be real.
You said you can win at BlizzCon, but with a dominant performance like this from Busan, that's the truth.
That's the kind of fire you need to really believe going in to that final tournament.
13 is the unlucky number for Team China as it is Kevster.
13 eliminations, 0 deaths on the tracer.
Cuts a bloody swath through them.
And recall, we were on that under POV more often than not and nothing he could do was able to slow Kevster down.
Not one sleep dart hit Kevster has been in that position too many times before.
And as triumph, they're incredible showing from Sweden.
I'm very likely back before the party is a lot competitive that really good compelling overwatch to watch even it was
Scrappy as it comes
But I think we saw Sweden shape up very quickly as they were finally able to pick a map Jake and they
Dorminators
I mean shaping up really is the story for Sweden and this is the kind of win that that really impresses me because it wasn't easy
Right, this wasn't just all your it's a class difference
You're too much better your rocking enemy and death match like in each of the first two maps
China was throwing aggressive plays, I mean they were really putting their screws between,
so we had to adjust within the map. There wasn't an opportunity to slow down,
insult the replay, talk to a coach, and they had to make those adjustments under the pressure of a
live match scenario. They did just that. They delivered the key performances from individuals
like Willis, like Zoro, I mean, Tepstrite, we said enough about him, even though he's
going to perform with the rest of the team, stepping up to the plate, adapting and
overcoming that is what's needed to metal up blizzcon showing it here is a great
science for Swedish fans watching the home obviously this is a heart breaking out
for the team of China because with this scoreline now I think they're almost
certain to be out of the running yeah so they need the USA to lose but they
they they're head-to-head against the US is still negative right they lost that
game so mathematically I believe that they are eliminated I wait for the
brighter minds to confirm on that but it's not looking good for a team
that has always been a fixture at BlizzCon. To eliminate it here is heartbreaking not to them but to
many many fans. Yeah no I definitely feel like we've we've all expected to see them going much
further into the Overwatch World Cup and they did make the adjustments you guys talked about it during
this series as well like on that tour already they didn't play as passive as what we've seen
yesterday they made the necessary adjustments exactly more tempo more aggression but it was
It was just a little too late, unfortunately.
I think the Sweden earned this win.
Yeah, I don't understand they're not taking anything away from Sweden.
I don't even want to criticize this strategy as well, because they performed well in a lot of previous years in the Overwatch World Cup.
That level is more than enough to see you through to BlizzCon, maybe to see you through to a top result there.
But this Swedish team now armed with a breakout player like Admiral, coming in to shore them up and really balance the squad out.
You've got to be on an even higher level than what we have worked in previous years.
There's no guarantee that Lee Chai and Gishwe would have just blown their way through this group.
I just want to put that out there because Sweden are looking better than ever and the United States are looking very solid.
And we set up an incredible decider in this group as well.
Absolutely. I also think it's great to see players like Willis, you know, having an opportunity to shine.
And we see so much growth from players like him who have been following through their tier 2 journey
throughout the last few, I don't know, months, years, weeks of OWCS.
So yeah, it's great to see how they're coming together as a team without victory.
Then I put themselves in a really comfortable position, of course, to make it out of their groove.
And now we do have a special guest joining us here as well to answer a few questions.
Willys is here. I just complimented you a little bit, so glad you joined right after that to not make it awkward.
But yeah, talk about the experience. You guys are looking so good, so strong.
For us, it felt like looking at the squad, you know, on papers, like, we know the names.
We know who's playing for Team Sweden, but like, how will it all come together?
And like, how far can you take it in that group?
How do you feel about your performance so far?
I feel like this game I played way better than the one yesterday.
I felt like I got more like individual values.
But I do think like on paper, we have really good names.
It's just about like how we play together and how we make our team work.
Like that's why like on the third map like for easy we got stuck
I think that was a team like a team game issue now, but I think individually we're all really really good
So I'm hoping for a topping of the group. I'm confident having it really felt like things started to really gel for you guys
I'm thinking about Atlas like that if last point on Atlas. I don't know how where you this for you were
But coming into that fifth class point
I mean China had a huge open band. It was looking kind of tough for you guys to come into that last point
And yet you guys just blitz them out 100-0 you're always taking the aggression to them
So talk about that
I mean I if you're noticing this a lot you playing with Kevster the two of you guys leading the team in getting aggressive on the dive
What has it been like to play with Kevster and how has that been part of your success here in Busan?
I mean Kevster is insane like I feel like I just play main like he somehow forces everything and then I just joined the fight late
And they all died like I don't even have to play the game. He just carries
It's amazing. It's just amazing to play with him. It's really nice as well
You have a really deep tank hero, right?
You're not like across the OWCS, you've sort of seen your play.
I was kind of wondering like, what is your preference?
Like, what are you really looking to try and play right now?
Cause your hazard looks incredible, like really responsive, obviously.
You've got sort of having a demon there as well.
But like, what is ideal for you right now in this meta?
Or what do you think like suit your team?
I mean, I think right now, like, everyone knows demon is good, right?
So, I think demon is looking good.
I mean, I always play most of the off-tanks.
I can play basically ADC, like I said, maybe won key, I won't be rolling out of that after you.
Don't take the people now, didn't you?
I don't think anyone's gonna be expecting that, but...
Someone's gonna pull it out of the bag, I'm sure.
Yeah, maybe, maybe.
We just got the confirmation actually, someone smarter than us was running the numbers,
and it is confirmed that Team Sweden and USA definitely made it to BlizzCon already,
so like, that's already won Herbal out of your way.
Does that relieve some pressure for the rest of this tournament?
Maybe a little more of a let's just have fun whilst we're here. I mean we want to we want to win as you say
Nice, but I think pressure wise for sure for sure like I'm really excited. Just
Maybe go to the swimming pool at the hotel, you know, just lay back. It's gonna be relaxing
Like a bit of relaxing time and then we lock in for tomorrow
What's the preparation been like for a team sweet, did you guys you can't fire
We actually did bootcamp. We just played online and then we came here immediately.
We didn't have a bootcamp unfortunately.
But I think it might have actually helped, because every team was sick at the bootcamp.
So they couldn't screen, but we could screen try.
Yeah, you dodged. You dodged the pageant.
We touched the influencer.
That's right. Dodging the plague and then they came here to play.
And so far it's been working out great.
So of course congratulations, not just on the dub, but also for the guaranteed BlizzCon qualification.
way to see more of you in the sport here in Busan first though and I hope you get to enjoy
some pool time tonight so Willis thank you so much everyone share some love over on social
media to Willis and the rest of Team Sweden there will be back in action the next two
days but now we're heading into a quick break as we're getting ready for match number four.
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Welcome back everyone to the OWWC group stage here in Busan, I'm Ash and so he's getting
a little bit of a break for the rest of the evening.
I'm still joined here by Jake and Uber though and we still got Willys on the desk with
us actually.
Willys, again congratulations on getting that qualification and I would love to hear
your thoughts heading into this series because when we're talking about this group
Namely, Saudi Arabia. That's the team that took the W.
They looked at that trophy in 2023.
A lot of the squad has remained the same as well,
heading into this Overwatch World Cup,
and they're still looking strong as ever.
What's your read on?
I mean, I think Saudi Arabia,
they have top players like Fords,
Nia, TNT, like LAPDA.
And I mean, Mali from working today,
like I swear these guys,
they're definitely a top team still.
And I think for the group,
they should push their top team.
I'm really confident in that.
They really surprised us back in 2023.
I think that like, you know, behind the scenes,
and obviously like with the Saudi E-League,
their e-sports infrastructure
have been spinning up for quite some time,
but they start that grand final,
they're down 0-2 to China,
and we're, you know, China,
we're expecting them to look pretty dominant, right?
They beat South Korea prior to that,
and then out of nowhere,
King of Saudi Arabia reverses China,
wins the whole thing,
and it just starts a new year, I think, in e-sports.
And, you know, yeah, this is the team they eat
in that game, as the 10th, they're not these players,
but yeah, so from that point onwards,
They were really on the map and all of a sudden it felt like they were just sick sounding ready in place
It's like popping up on every team and just kind of dominating and they've just run with that since then
I mean that's before quartz was a household name now
We remember that piece of content just about every player his name in quartz is you know
One of the top amers in the game period any role, but then it's more than that right in the tank line up
They've got the odd and TV and D like that is an insane tank you know
They can play anything at the highest level and support lineup is arguably where this team is just a little bit more questionable
Zox still a really strong player, but not, I mean it's just tough with like this is all like ultra S tier players
Right who are like world champion tier players, but Zox and Survegett they've been looking phenomenal alongside this squad
You have not been seeing big errors forced out of them and honestly up against Mexico
I don't know that this is the game where it's gonna start. Yeah. Yeah, that is for sure
I think that Willis I want to get your read on how you see Saudi Arabia overall when we're thinking about
BlizzCon and Ford, because it's a team that we are expecting to qualify all the way to Anaheim.
I think realistically they're at least like a top four minimum team. I think the biggest question
like a team like this is can like the backline integrate with their like the core of SEA and
Loveland courts? Like I think if they can, this team will definitely be a top team for sure.
I mean, Laptor and Quartz kind of go way back. They you know used to be on a team together
And the reality was is that I just a mind at the time we're like
like to like
We've got to go and find another team like you're too good to be sitting on the bench on this particular roster
Right and back then that there was more like a far a player like wasn't picking up the hitscan duties
And all of a sudden like since then he's coming to his own as like an incredible hitscan player guys
Go have very flexible hero pool
So that does mean that like this Saudi raiding team are gonna have really potent double hitscan approaches
But also like a lot of flexibility between them and no courts still to go my opinion
But I mean their DPS line is incredible. Obviously Zoxan, you know, Marjad were sort of in the conversation for that Alcatzia roster
You know Marjad actually into getting sort of dropped from that team
I just not quite being at the level needed but Zoxan's really you know coming to his own as a young player and get into space
Yeah, I think that for KSA as well
It's just the expectation of them wanting to make a statement again within this matchup as well when they are fighting for that top
Seed in this group up against GBR
So it is an important matchup for them to be able to just show out and just like to be able to honestly nail it
I talking about X code that they are gonna be facing up against though
I it's a bit of a different story for this spot
It is definitely an underdog matchup for them that is person a lot of that poor
Being part of that new extinction roster there as well that is has been playing in face it
Who do you have your eyes on here? Willis in this roster to maybe a
Can it show up and just like be that talent that could make a difference in some of these plays?
I mean I think the tank is really good
Yes, I'm not like I saw
play like this master a bit, but
I'm expecting a top-tier performance. Yep
Look, yeah that extinction roster were unfortunately not successful in the promo relegations all of right
I would have luck to have seen them in OWCS NA
But they'll have to spend another stage in face at master ultimately, you know being beaten out by DST
We make their way back in but I agree with Lizzie like Santana. They're really solid tank player showing a lot of flexibility
Come as also looks like
Pretty comfortable. I think you know when it comes to like picking up the bass scene of being part of those track compositions
For me
This is an interesting lineup because elemental guy was in Mexico yesterday
They were playing primarily Genji and like some of the channel was that like element ago was not one trick necessarily
but definitely I'll say it.
OK.
I'll say it.
Easy.
He's one tricky game.
It's not a crazy thing to say.
He's locking it in unless it's banned.
But on Elvalado, I mean, this is a really strong tracer player.
See it back.
Maybe more standard comp, a little bit more flexibility
makes a difference for Mexico.
In the end, though, they're huge underdogs here.
I mean, can I say, you've got
to be considering this team a top three team in the world
here at the Overwatch World Cup.
For Mexico, surviving past this stage
would be already one of their best performances ever.
Yeah, it's one of the most one-sided matchups.
We're probably going to see this week.
Yeah, it is definitely tough in that regard there.
14 Mexico, the fact that it's going to be such a difficult battle.
I think definitely still an opportunity for these Mexican talent, though,
to be able to show what they can bring into the server.
I still like I so many of these names, I just remember from the first time
I worked out in the DC watching those qualifiers.
And it's lovely to see them, you know, back into the server here as well.
It's just definitely a bit of a tough group to be in to be facing up
against these Giants today.
This group is interesting as well, because even outside of the context of this game, you've got what,
like, Great Britain and Australia there as well.
I think the conversation in this group is really about who's getting out in seconds.
This should be, just to use a bit of a grizzly term, a bluff off.
KSA should just dominate basically every penalty golf against.
You see, Australia just looked like not really on the level that they needed to be to put pressure on this team.
That's bigger than you, Mitch. That's bigger than you.
I actually had a bit more of a, you know, a more decisive way of putting that, but, you know, maybe Great Britain can give us a bit of a gain here, but like you have some of the most talented players in EMEA, not the world right now, and as King of Saudi Arabia also, they are very well resourced, this team has got a lot of support, a great pipeline and infrastructure for like turning these players into crows, so there's no excuse for KSA not to be dominant here this week.
Absolutely, but we do have those predictions and I think that guys from the pre-show that we just talked about we have a pretty good idea
Of how we're gonna roll those through so I feel like we can just bang these out. So be honest
Yeah, we don't need to slow-roll it everybody. We got Saudi Arabia taking the win for this
if anything
What map maybe would we want to see Mexico taking it to like what do you think their best map in the pool is?
Next you are showing us a different look right just with the roster coming in so they're straying away from like committing behind
Elementals guys Genji which in fairness I can kind of understand where hey if you're a big underdog team
Honestly, maybe you have better odds
Just you know go lowing behind a comfort one trick and just like trying to force a crazy comp in this matchup
But then have a lot of coming in you're gonna play something maybe a little bit more standard a little bit more predictable
And try and go pound for pound hitting the side of the ribbit, but to be honest
This is just the tough spot you find yourself in as a country like Mexico
I mean just without really like the true tier one talent of a Saudi team
I mean besides this isn't a team that is looking to repeat again and take on the gold medal and buzzcon
That's wouldn't be a shocking result. It was shocking. I would say last time yeah three years ago when this was like a breakout performance for the country
Now given the competitive lands for escape how strong EMEA is overall as a global region in O2BCS
How strong so many Saudi players are there's no reason to think that they won't just walk over Mexico
So Mexico's swapping it up to bring in Alvalado's
you know, maybe to play things a little bit more stand to show overall what the team can do and be a little bit less committed to the
cheese game
Hey, that's really fair
Do we think you would bring anything out other than the Genji really?
Cody cook here. I
Give me something to work with
Yeah, I look it seemed like I have a lot of a starting so that that I mean
I think in how it's like more of a tracer player for my memory in the ladder
So something a little bit more classic and comfortable for the rest of the teams it's a rally around it
I think when you play Genji it is all about the game. Yeah, like if the Genji isn't getting dash resets
You just not playing the game. Yeah, I mean realistically they probably will go like Tracer or Cheon
Actually, they don't play Genji. Maybe even that if he's a sneaky like he just wants to try to clutch, but I
Think I mean I think the jump between yesterday against Great Britain the time on the right
I mean, I think they would want like some sort of brawl map like so they can get more value like maybe
Like, Elementor, I can give more value, but since that guy is in, I'm assuming it's like a really, like, I don't know, cat-bashing map or something.
Yeah, they played in the fall, and obviously we had a bit of a weird situation yesterday, where we had to roll back the map to the start.
But if you remember, Mxco played Village, and they played like this brawl comp on the point, forced to come down and fight them with the jump point, and they won that round.
So maybe that's something they can expand on, even without the Genji. One tricky strike, put it in the roster.
I would love to see some different looks from Mexico today, but it is a giant that they are going to be facing up against
Let's get into Saudi Arabia versus Mexico
Thank you very much Ashley, I think we've been pretty thorough in our prelude to this game
Setting expectations that King of Saudi Arabia are the dominant force here. They are your reigning world champions
and I think it's like to say they've only gotten better over the last three years.
There wasn't nothing to lose from Mexico, right? You know, you come into a series such as this
in which, you know, no one's really expecting this to be a competitive series.
I mean, you know me, Mitch, I don't sugarcoat.
No, that's about as brutal as it gets, but, you know, that's the star-
You have a lot of cash that you can spend on being harsh, you're still-
And you've got to thank them.
It's just the truth, man. It's just, like all those I see of them.
And, you know, if anything that sets the stage for hate, anything you can produce,
As Mexico, whether it's competitive fights, you know, compelling moments in the series,
that's enough already to put a lot of these players on the map.
And for, you know, a team like Team Mexico, you know, meddling and blizzcon,
that's a little bit out of the realm of expectation.
It's about putting your players on the map and showing in an event like the Overwatch World Cup,
how you match up against a superstar squad that normally you would never face in conventional competitive play.
Jake, did you give us out of your idea of Van Genshin, please, map?
HAHAHAHAHAHA
That is not it!
And it's a Malga ban from Mexico.
Not a great start by Ferris Scott as Quartz has riddled him with 4 rocks.
Here's Santana out of the suit as well and the first fight is over.
Ok, that's how it's gonna be, Vox.
No one left.
Carman's hoping to stall things out here and we have a moment to just appreciate the insane aim
and consistency from Quartz.
Quarztalabdeb being on a team again feels like it's not fair
And you'd be right for feeling that way these guys are
Terrifying and mind you obviously he's got a history in you know top level over what's going back quite a long way
I thought he wasn't good enough for Gunther this year apparently, but
definitely good enough to make
Orbs I got feeling we're gonna be spending some time on this POV a quick headshot forces the recall
That is a hell of a lot of and with the cat swinging him and why he looks for more
Honestly, it's not always easy to keep your aim while you're being towed around by the jetpack cat.
Quite challenging.
But a counterbalance to the fact that you're being dragged.
That's a fourth.
Fourth low doesn't seem to mind.
There's no emotional sickness here.
Folks, just good overwatch.
This is like any grand.
I know we said this stage before, but some of these last couple of fights, I mean, fight is a generous term.
Yeah, there was an encounter that's about as far as I'd go.
as I go. And honestly much of these engagements have boiled down to, you know, courts not
being able to be knocked off that sideline. There's not a great way to interact with him
here outside of, like, blade dragging Karmes out. Oh, mate, to take that five. Like, we
are here. Well, cheeky little flake here above the enemy. They're pushing him to
the spot. All right, landing him down. One, five, but a big dead eye. The defensive
matrix here, cover and Karmes. Santana heads up there protecting their DPS from
dead eye. Orcs has been given lead though to double back here, redraw the rest of the
teams. Ziyad's got a re-neck, should have been required. We have King of Saudi Arabia
disengaging for a time. Ziyad's very low here. Suzy's going to be deployed there.
Maybe he can calm his standing. It's unclear. Orcs goes down self-destructive to Ziyad and
oh god, the sub-target is free from Labda, has found purchase on Ferris guy, all the
people. And he seems pretty unperturbed by the fact that Nose of Eva trying to
trust her, back up his nose. Great support from Majed in that moment. Labda
that brawls out and courts over to the sim gets back fast and over to honestly I
don't hate it this in third pretty obnoxious to deal with in an OG scenario
because a touch to come in from Mexico it's an old area to UB I think yeah a
little bit of love a little bit of love but have BB on the bench yeah yeah I mean
good at the some of the subs also from this KSAG mark and pretty incredible
you've got TV and TMT has the foremost tank players out of that region who
You are onto of the strongest EMEA rosters in OWC right now.
He added someone especially who's just thrown a leaps and bounds at the last year or so.
Really exciting young player, right?
Like one of the best already in his, you know, debuts and now a couple years into
his career has shown real staying power at the top.
Not anything to do in today's Overwatch.
All right, so what's the opt going to be this time around?
They had the Santana Devo, Defense Matrix to try and prolong the life span of Cummins on the Bastion.
It's time it's going to be the De-Mod.
Laptop once more will roll out on the Shion.
Shion, Cassidy seems to be the go-to skill here for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
No reason to change it up here.
Stock standard, Karmes is going to take the mirror on the cast.
Confidence here.
Good posture from Santana.
Provides a powerful position for Karmes to fly, but Kort's going to swing deep through the flank.
What's going to be the answer to this Cassidy?
This is very aggressive, Jay.
You can have aggression though, they're actually getting boxed out by Santana, a little bit better looking so far in this round for Mexico.
Santana just being shoved under with points.
Yeah, Flip comes in, Shield broke clear by Santana, they're trying to create that space.
It's four of them, a Cassidy Duel, and now Quartz will be free to make his influence flow elsewhere.
Another Shield break there and Santana, they're forced to keep to that small room and their double-hand travels are satisfying.
That's it. Gets for Quartz. He's just too good.
And I mean, this is a painful mistake for Mexico to give the flip before the fight actually breaks out means
20%
For Kingdom of Southern, they really shouldn't have right this should be sort of a just now full scenario
That's gonna cost you a fight later in the map. Yeah
20% and counting
They're saying you're gonna push up to some degree not unlike what we saw in Shrine
Quite cool at full spawn camps status. They've also noted to Anho Velado getting passed on that left side
So they'll be mindful of the real timer for the trace that comes calling
Once again, next go. Set up their stage and ground to fight for the point, but across the way, King of Saudi Arabia will fall back into a pretty safe position.
Cummins tries to make here 180, tries to hit Laptop with that kindred scornade that's going to be avoided.
Cummins struggling to fight the scene, Rannis passing to the side of the dead. I kill him at the top, Cummins.
There's some of the corner though, but there's the follow-up. A lot of pressure from KSA, and of course just snaps off another.
I mean, from this PIV, you can see there is no pressure on Quartz, there's no pressure on Kastin.
But we can just put the observers on break, man.
Go for it, Kastin.
We're chilling.
We're not getting a break. What are we going to talk about between maps?
I mean, I'm going to leave that to you.
I'm going to leave that to you, Paul.
I'm going to stop.
Zarya is going to come out from Santana.
Maybe a way to change the pace.
But if you can see the rush to the side of the field and KSH is bringing the fire here,
Hire here, Carmizdo does. Crack one off on Lambda. Centeno will push on the map.
That's devastating, Centeno. Especially when they're trying to make use of this power play with Jaxoneros.
Self-destruction of Ziad. Got a body block with that met. Get back in. Majed.
Please Majed. Then pulled the dead out. Ziad's gonna die on Carmizdo with the white war once.
They're gonna find the elimination. He doesn't get any better than this, folks.
It's a symphony of binks for Quartz. And Sox will pick up where he left off.
And have a lot to try to stall and keep this round going.
going but focus it's an open shot case here on the pool all done by the client
and we all she wrote a dominant showing to start with the Kingdom of Saudi
Arabia a little sweat broken to say the least and just a watch quartz like some
of those things you know I spent a long time playing this game to say the
least but you know it doesn't take experience it doesn't take an expert
eye to see the quartz it's just a different animal a different beast on
the server and I mean downright robotic to watch his anger so incredibly consistent you see
I mean up against a team that just struggles to put pressure on him what he can do give him a little
bit more space makes it all the more impressive to see the level of teams that have in the past
giving force a real challenge and at least I sort of alluded to it earlier on here but you see
Quartz is able to kind of have this consistent lethality mostly because the windows in which
which he's able to like just kind of play his own game and take his time,
are very wide, it's like there's no ability really for the pressure you put on him.
Sentana, they are most of the time healing back.
The ability to try to keep their capacity alive, try to protect like them.
Cherry in some cases like this and so force is not being pressured, right?
Cassidy's weaknesses are maybe they can lack of mobility here,
susceptibility to being dove, especially if you can get a couple of players in that position.
But if you watch Quarantz here, at no point are people even looking at Cassidy.
When we start standing still and just like pure aiming on people, it's like you see the tracking, it's crazy to watch, you know?
It's like he's doing like this shot, right?
One and a two under the cat as well, like he's ready for the next target.
He already knows that first kill is in the bag before it even comes to him.
I mean, that's the confidence that a player like Ports is working.
Yeah, look, like I wasn't using the term blood graph, but frivolously, I think at the top of this map.
But you know, it's just something like wards, he's not kicking off, not trolling.
They're still very robotic, very locked in, and very determined to make a strong statement here for the team in Saudi Arabia.
With Team Australia in their wake already, a win here against Mexico will virtually qualify them for this tournament.
You know, it won't be a surprise to see them competing on the biggest stage, one of the biggest stages in our football team sports ladder on this year.
They look great, man. I mean, to me it's a revelation to see this region really rise up and produce some of the greatest talents in our game in this current year.
That's been I mean really been shown across EMEA and honestly
I think you got to give a lot of credit to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia the talent that this country has produced in Overwatch
In particular has leveled up the region as a whole
I think you got to give a lot of credit to this country for what they've done for bringing the competitiveness to the global states for a long time
It was Korea and then everybody else and you know, there's an argument that South Korea still isn't it?
I mean obviously not much for an argument
It's just obviously true South Korea has produced the lion's share of the greatest talent in
In Overwatch's history, but KSA with the win in the most recent World Cup, if they could repeat that here,
there's an argument you made for this country really punching above their way class.
And I think that one thing that folks are probably most excited to see is,
I imagine we didn't get in 2023, which is the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia versus South Korea.
Like that is obviously, you know, we that alluded us because China actually dispatched,
you know, Korea obviously on their run to that grand final and then out of nowhere came KSA to win it all there.
So that's a matchup. I've already kind of got my calendar one that I'm looking forward to here
And I'm sure like they're also to a degree thinking ahead here
You know about what this one's gonna look like for them
But also very importantly trying to make sure they make a strong impression here
It's a message to the other teams waiting in the wings that they're ready to defend their time
It is a different tournament, right?
You know, there's there's being underdog team that comes out of nowhere and has a breakneck run to where you can be down
Oh to in the grand final you can just have that communication. You know what guys?
Let's play our game. Let's play for fun and really, you know, live up to that
It's a very easy thing to say. Hey, let's relax and have fun on stage. That is not an easy thing to do
Right, it's easy to say bar from it to actually bring that and honestly now
I think that kind of options off the table the expectations are here
Like people know that this KS 18 is a heavy hitter even here in in son
Certainly also at blizzcon to which they now well once they assuming they can win this match
They will book their ticket, but I mean, yeah to to to not see the blizzcon
I just can't believe it given the performance the level they're on just watching them play
This is if anything an opportunity to just show off for the game. Yeah, Saudi Arabia. Yeah, 100%
Joe some clean overwatch. There's always an intensity about
Saudi Arabian players like when they get on the stage that personally it's like they're not taking this lightly
you know even the comps it's like
They're bringing the heat here, you know like what they're playing is very meta very strong next order
Take us to Junkertown, I'm out there.
Okay.
I don't know, then I've seen this turn of it?
I mean, I've seen a lot of Root and Shambali.
No, I've not seen it.
Yeah, while it's actually Junkertown period.
It's been a hard second.
Yeah, obviously, it's the kind of map where we used to get some of the most bizarre compositions on any score type map.
There was an era where it was like, I just ripple, DPS, or Ball of Brutomaker would sort of turn up on this map now, but whoever comes out here.
On first point, this is the last cover, right?
I think this is like the best Widow map in the game.
I think with Jetpack, Cat in the Meta, maybe Widow just doesn't have a place.
But man, it's crazy to see that because Widow was once,
really, maybe the definitive hitscan for fights some time in Overwatch.
No Quartz as one.
That's a pretty serious lockdown, of course, the ability to show up on Widow.
ElmultiGuy comes in and honestly, I mean, I'm not even flamin'
I think Mexico have a better shot, you know, go lowing behind a Genji and just trying to pop off with that like incredibly aggressive posture that Genji almost demands of the team.
At least it would be a change up and to be honest, it's clear for me that pound for pound, you just cannot do like a straight up standard here against Genji.
That is an impossible endeavor.
Yeah. And obviously, you know, another substitute should be made here by Team Mexico.
Palets, she'll be coming in for late, late so far, from the Jetpack cap on the previous map.
Definitely a tough role to play against Quartz when he's firing an all-cylinders.
In fact, even when he's firing half of his cylinders, I wouldn't want to be caught anywhere here.
He's crossed it, so. Good changes here for Mexico. And again, I also think, like, giving,
also giving, as much of their team as possible to be, you know, exposed to, like, competition
this level especially against such a quality team, I think it's going to be quite beneficial.
Jetpack Cat is the first band here for Mixer.
This to me signal they might actually want to come back to that Junker Queen
and push the pace around to Lucio comp, play towards the Genji.
For me, that's the best way to make Genji work.
Even though JQ is really far out of the meta right now, I think if you want to play Genji
and the Cataway, you don't have to deal with those hits game playing in the Skybox.
Things are a lot more vulnerable to be run down and brawled on the low ground.
I have to see what the response is, it's obviously out of meta for Mexico, but for Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, it's not a free win, you've got to play intelligently to deal with the explosiveness that Mexico have shown, they can bring with that style.
Bimon Benioff, the king of Saudi Arabia.
And yeah, it feels like Genji is one of the most efficient recipients of the commanding shout.
Mooseby, the overshield ride.
In much the same way as Insaya cops, Genji's used to farm that free charge and also let the Genji
reach a little bit deeper, play that a little bit more aggressively.
Honestly, there were moments here last time we saw Mexico.
When they played at the Paul map, they played the Junker Queen cop with a composition against Great Britain.
And it looked really solid. At least forced some adaptations.
The issue is that, you know, right, Britain were able to read into it.
The next time we went back to Nepal, they were able to, you know, sort of win out against that composition.
And, you know, Saudi Arabia, very adept at sort of coming up with the answer.
Don't forget, twisted minds don't have a coach, so they pick your stuff out on the fly in-game.
It's also a spot where Labda's hero pool, I think, is going to be invaluable,
because you've got options like, I mean, the far as one of these OG throwbacks,
but it can be a big problem for Genji to deal with some of those flyers,
some of the mobility flankers that Labda can bring to bear.
So there's definitely a lot to worry about on this KSA roster,
a lot more than just what Warts can bring as an individual on the hitscan.
Because hey, when you play that JQ Genji, it is a really powerful way
to jump on top of the enemy hitscan and just obliterate them.
Like, Warts' aim isn't really going to matter in that kind of a circumstance.
It's going to be more on his positioning, his ability to work around with the team
and at least charge a cost for Mexico to get in behind the Genji.
And with Elmantz with a guy coming into the roster,
You know, don't blame me for calling him a one trick, but I'm pretty sure you're going to play Genji here.
I don't want to blame you for that. I mean, I think it's so humorous of that. King of the Saudi Arabia, they saw.
They know what the lineup is going to be for Mexico coming to the first round.
And I'm like, did they? Yeah, substitution comes before ban. So like, you know who your opponent's playing with.
They still chose him. Wait, is that the Genji on the team? Yeah, yeah, yeah. The Genji's in here.
Okay, ban him. I mean, honestly, I like it. It's like, hey, we used our Genji ban, guys. Come on, you can put out that's a guy in.
That's true. We don't have the band anymore, you know, like, we'll let you play again.
It is one of the more interesting parts about our format in that you get to see substitutions before you band.
So you kind of see your player coming in and kind of know what a team is angling for.
And there's some mind games that you can, you know, go for around that.
But obviously, I would say in an intermission where we have the least amount to say,
having a double substitution is pretty funny.
We're the ones that I need to keep you guys locked in as we just wait for I think Alex
She's still getting in the lobby by the looks of things
And then and also go to to Junkertown. I like it from Mexico. It's a way to throw a spanner into the works
It's a pretty unpopular map in Jim's of pigs
It's something the teams won't it's grimmed as much and so hasn't her dog team if you've got you know
Some sort of cheeky strat here you take out cat who arguably is the most significant throw in the meta right now in terms of it
completely warping the rest of the game around its presence.
By taking that away and going to an unconventional map pig,
you do at least destabilize the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
It's not going to be an extremely comfortable map for them the way we saw on the phone.
Yeah, yeah, we'll be a decent showcase of KSA's ability to adapt.
Release like come up with it.
Yeah, I'd say like being served up a bit of a left field situation,
although they might not exactly be drilled to answer.
See, great to see the Elemental Glass support there in the crowd.
How many LFTs already see us and fight some masters, so...
James, I mean, Quartz, do you see something?
I mean, I'm pretty sure he will.
Rose been doing the most so far.
Good to see Marjot back competing as well.
Yeah, it is. Marjot is a nice guy.
I mean, it's interesting also for a player like Quartz,
just to, you know, take people behind the curtain a bit, you know,
you see his play, you know, a player like that,
a lot of conversation about being the best in the world,
But I mean, it's just incredibly nice dude.
Like, he's going, yeah, soft spoken,
and just incredibly kind, respectful, generous even.
It's a crazy thing to see.
I mean, truly a gifted player,
but one from a coaching perspective,
we're like, this is the dream.
Like, this guy is, he's not causing problems,
doesn't bring a huge ego,
which often is almost a necessary component
of a player being at this level.
Like, when you're this good,
Everybody's telling you you're the best in the world.
It's hard to not develop an ego, so I had soft supports.
I'm just incredibly impressed with him.
I mean, a lot of our human being,
it's great to see him at the top of the game.
Yeah, I mean, the fact that he was getting asked himself,
like, who's got the best aim here, you know what I mean?
Kind of knowing what the question was supposed
to be angling towards, right?
And, you know, still gives us like quite a thoughtful answer.
But again, you don't scale the heights
that court has without developing,
you know, something going from self-belief
maybe to developing a little bit of an ego. That's the case with many players.
As you mentioned, it can be a valuable tool.
There's no doubt that he's a quality human being, to be sure.
I'd love to see that this Mexican team, they're still looking loose,
still able to enjoy themselves here on the stage. A lot of these players might be there
first opportunity to play in a LAN environment and against some of the best
in the world. Like this is the kind of moment that, you know,
you don't necessarily need to win the series to make your mark on competitive
of Overwatch to show that you can hold your own on land.
I will say, I mean, this pipeline Genji,
I'm not the guy, and it's been really impressive.
Like, it's one thing to be really confident
on an individual hero.
It's another to actually bring and be able
to deliver good performances
against the best players in the world.
If they're able to like pick you apart
and kind of play you for a fool, that hurts.
But if you're able to just, hey, show up,
have some big fights against ASA,
like that would already be a winning performance
in my mind, given the expectations on this match.
Assuming out a little bit,
this Group B conversation is still very much,
you know, upper grabs in terms of,
probably also in terms of the second team
that we expect to advance out.
That said, we've not yet seen great Britain take on KSI.
That is a matchup we've not been exposed to yet.
King and Saudi Arabia could ostensibly qualify
from this con before that matchup even comes to,
for a wish or a thought, before we even see that game.
But this question marks about,
okay, what do Australia look like
when they put up against Group B?
What do they look like up against Mexico?
Is there like a dark horse potential for that second spot
if maybe Great Britain, you're expected to also
qualify Stubborn.
They slip up a little bit.
All of a sudden this group, despite having a powerhouse
and a returning world champion in King of Saudi Arabia,
something this group starts to get a bit more interesting,
right?
It's a bit more compelling.
There's some storylines there to tease out
in terms of that second team to make their way through.
But I think like the way that KSA dispatched
Australia yesterday was pretty decisive.
That's a team in Australia where like you've got
talented players, some really experienced players as well. By this point Cutter's
become more than just the journeyman as a tank player. Carla Hex was part of the
Overwatch League back in the day and honestly had the opportunity to give a
great account of himself on occasion as players, you know, on that team that had
been around Hot Minute, Soggy's on the roster as well. So Group B still much to
be said about who would be advancing and KSA haven't quite locked that up yet.
But after the first map we're feeling like it's, that might be a foregone conclusion.
I mean, that first map tells the story for sure.
Now with the elemental guy in the lineup though, things could get interesting.
See what the vans end up being on this crucial map, and if it makes go, I mean, just backing
some points, putting something on the board, I mean, the Paul was 100-0-100-0.
When control goes that way in that fashion, mentally it's tough to recover from, right?
It feels like the fundamental game is just from the sideline.
Yeah, it's like you had, you know, the ultimate economy fights.
You had times where you really are supposed to be able to, I mean, Overwatch has fundamental
combat mechanics, right?
Like, it's hard to just completely run the table on the opposition.
But the neutral game is where really the cracks begin to show the level difference between
these teams presents an issue.
So Carmez, I think, was really the player maybe called upon to find some pick-offs
on the hits again role, keep players like Quartz honest.
Laptop will be showing us a little bit of that hits cam prowess something that is more recently. I think
Entity's repertoire
Very much putting himself on the map with someone to be feared we quartz this time on the shield
Elemental guy as expected starting itself on the game to tell me an arm of Kirikos set up here for team Mexico
I like this widow spot playing from the spawn keeping some of these hits game speakers honest
It's job for coming sorry
And, you know, as is appropriate, Kasei responding with a slightly more respectful formation.
That'll be the guy that might have been teased into an ill-fated encounter with Corks, and
yeah, picked up in the end.
Laptor also playing pretty far forward for Ashe.
Yeah, I like the Ashe pick here actually.
It's a pretty good matchup against Genji, ability to run away, dynamite over the deflect.
And Bob is something that Genji just really can't do much against, right?
You can deflect and run away, but it can be problematic against Genji to try to
run down and the poke just continues. I mean just full face peeking the spawn here
like that is disrespectful but honestly so far XGO haven't really forced you to
back off. Maybe a D5 from Hellmuntz back to change that here and it did only for
a moment. Well said expectations as well for Saudi Arabia. Opting to start defense
means this could be a very short map that they look dominant on this half.
That would mean that obviously the boxer victory would be too close to the
Spawn exit. So, here for a good time, not a long time, potentially.
I'm gonna go over the top, has it at a bit of poke, but doesn't fully commit there.
Nothing to really go after.
And then picked up my cross.
Seeing some of the difficulties of playing Genji against an elite team.
I mean, this is just a hero that lives and dies by death resets.
If you're getting them, you can really feast and just...
It's absolutely style on the team, but you can't get anything going.
It is a hero that can spam it.
Really, it's just weak.
Oh no, no.
Really?
Oh, god.
Okay.
But we're just a grossly expression on his face.
Of course, being like this super humble, like low ego,
such a great guy, Ziad.
Yeah, maybe not more spice.
Little bit more heat for this young player,
but he's earned it.
I mean, his performance is his individual prowess.
Yeah, you're right about Ziad.
He likes to make his presence known.
Necama's kicked off.
So Taddle won benefit from the nanoboost,
the clap of folding that elemental guy.
First elimination here for Team Mexico.
Teres guide though just separated
from the rest of the team, and Quarters
Stop them back in the sport
One for one, but a closer spawn from Mexico. Let's the cock ball up just a bit how let them oh HP on this break
No, ah to a sister has to back off just live to fight another day the blade coming up soon for Almond
The guy has to be a difference maker, but lab. I love to come back action on the same
Which is another fantastic match of it. What's I did like Cortis in enemy territory?
You do have to bring you into this like seem she on give us setup
So, there's plenty of opportunities for easy good shot kills, getting those spire flocks out,
punishing anyone that gets too close, but Kame's very out of position,
there's a very elementary punish of that capacity.
What's in mind for of course, Genji is encroaching,
but there's not a lot of support here for a elemental guy,
and they found that out the hard way, I feel.
The sim swap is actually really intelligent,
it really punishes on a brig, it punishes Genji as well,
the deflectors to be basically ignored,
and TP is a real problem for Genji.
I mean, he does not have good tools to break it, that he'll just run away from the blade.
We can get a kiting back too, Quartz is just taking crates and deep off angles, forcing a response,
but the rest of Saudi Arabia is making so much of these up-
Look at the gap that gets led by Santana going after Quartz.
I mean, immediately, he just goes upstairs, he's had a good pressure on most of this Mexico lineup.
He's a bit of a wait for Zox, pretty timely in fact.
It's like the damage is pretty decent, coming from the Mexican side, but now Quartz
will be able to help out here and everybody's bought inside with the self-destruct Palette.
She is all alone now.
Brought down with 20 seconds left in the round.
Only 58 meters of progress for our team Mexico.
Rally's up for prolet.
It's a nice fight.
Little sliver of hope for our team Mexico.
But the olds have not seemed to matter so far in this series.
I'm happy with the shield block.
Gonna present real problems for you.
Of course to come up if you test the party.
Gonna be completely isolated from this auto.
I'm out of the tunnel and a bit of an off.
And global, they can obviously step back to safety.
They dispense a suit instantly.
I try as you like, people with nanoboos is not going to be enough.
Rally in play here for Palette, but they've really lost to Genji.
But check down on the dead-eye from Carmeza, an important elimination here for Mexico.
Can they build off of this?
Zox is going to really dispense some quick healing though.
But Palette is the one to fall first, there's Ferris Guide not long after.
Carmeza picking up a hook, he kills the aircourt,
looks for the trade and gets snatched off as well.
You can't tell from Carmeza to keep the team alive,
and that was very close to a C9.
That was nearly a second after from Mexico, but they're still alive in this O.D.
Yeah, you click it, you miss it there, you have to look pretty close and swap that button.
Still, chance here for King of Saudi Arabia to make sure this doesn't get out of hand.
And this card doesn't get past first checkpoint.
They've got the mobility to get a touch, and it's one shot!
Under pressure there from Elemental Guy.
Gives as good as he gets.
Here's the contestant with Santana.
Their mech is just too low, easy for Laptur.
With a switch over to its sim to cut straight through that suit.
As soon as genuinely a great pick in this matchup, like Ports picking off to Kiri to start the OD fight, that is not supposed to happen.
That is... I... Widow is a tough pick actually, into Genji, you know, when he's already up on that choke point up in your face, but Ports just still produces the crucial pick before he goes down.
And that's more than enough for Labda's Yacht and Kod to just clean out some of the cards.
Some of our cheaper screens there, I think, for some of our KSA players is...
I think they might have set the objective of trying to get a full hold here on that defense side, and that almost got away from them.
Switch to the Widow, the fact that you can convert that so quickly into a pick on Kirito is like you mentioned, pretty astonishing.
And hey, plenty of opportunity to play on the attack side here to open up and create that quick 5v4.
Hermes did find the highlight there. We gotta see that in the replays. They're gonna look now at the scoreboard though.
It ain't pretty for Mexico, this is a very dark line hold, getting flashed.
15 and 2.
I like the Rine here, like about a way to blow this open.
So I was seeing more from TVNT I think in the last couple of months, but good to see Zad pick it up.
Rine is actually, strangely, not bad this meta. It does kind of rest on your ability to pilot a Sim,
which is a hero that a lot of teams have shied away from after some of the nerfs that came to her kit,
but just as it might have shown, far from out of the conversation,
I'm yet even considering if a T is to pull Klan, a one of this rush style.
Staying on the carry for now, just the play is being considered to be too valuable.
Hell, that's caught on the Brig, and this is brutal. Brig is nigh on useless here.
I mean, you can't even really proc the heal.
I mean, you want to play Corners, but against Ryan, playing Corners seems horrific.
And you're worried, of course, about that Widow just punishing you.
The second you put your shield down, of course, it's sticking with it.
Out of spawn, we go.
There's Elemental Guy. Good pick-off on Zox there, punishing and overextension.
Hands up on the beanflake here. That could be it, but no.
Lapton now falls next.
Good deal for Mexico.
They can't back, playing out with Widow, Sightlines.
Finding early pick on the Lucio, and at least the rest of the team to follow.
KSA, Mexico.
Winning these early fights is critical to get towards some of these key ultimates.
Diablo, enough mess around, he's over to the diva, back to us, works for them.
I bet it was a little bit of a crazy pick here for Quartz, but it's justified.
Oh, no!
Tough match up there for the little guy!
It comes! Just Ling is a little bit too long down the open.
Quartz here looking like Prime Fletter on Junkertal, and there's another one picked off.
And all of a sudden, the map is clear of Mexican representatives.
Cheeky smile on Quartz's face, comes to pick the spawn here,
looking to take some more souls before the map...
And it just snaps a mob off the walls. Why don't you seem like this guy plays with a 24-7 looking for more zero respect being often able to come to Saudi Arabia
And I feel like Mexico would have it no other way, but that is deflating demoralizing and frankly disastrous
Well, we knew this one would be brutal, but
Really striking fast in King of Saudi Arabia make their mark on this tournament car as though
I like moment here in the Cassidy
Yeah, I think there was a one moment where the fight sort of breaks down after
We saw a all bit of rate tempted there from Zox
But I think the windows in which you're able to punish this King of the Saudi Arabia team are Q and far between and many of them are
Opened up by perhaps them just playing a little bit over confidently
Did you see your chords on the shield? Lapda picks up the sim here
It's fun to see these guys maybe on some different assignments, but
Yeah, once we got to the attack side there, I felt like it was quite decisive.
And look, that's something that King of Saudi Arabia could do.
If they keep winning maps, it's going to be Mexico Pigs and Kaysaysa, which stuff he wants.
Look at this. Watch this. Watch this overtime bar here in this fight.
This is what we call too close to comfort.
Oh, cool. See how it's zoning like that.
Yeah, that is a collect. I mean, that's...
We're down to like a millisecond there. We got the burning of the wick.
Overriding and Carpezov, if he doesn't find all these headshots in which he's hedging,
I would have made a game over scenario getting full health at least at the first corner.
You do get it to the end of this first point, but it feels like so far that's the best you can offer for the next go in this matchup.
I feel like Elemental Guy understands the assignment, especially playing in the Widowmaker,
but I think that beat's like used. Elemental Guy did not want to find quartz there,
so he turned it all back on the Widow, it's the worst thing he could do there.
It's just so tough. I mean they're just across the board and it's just like that like fresh off the TV
snap that's out of the Genji and mom
Yeah, that that's starts to feel unimaginable for the Mexican squad and
Glamis it is
It is we're rarely do we say I mean rarely do I can keep it this this is like this
I would see the real disbelief that we engage in sometimes as castes and try to avoid
editorializing here, but I feel like setting everybody's expectations and not being patronizing
is the way to go. Frankly, this is about as bad as it gets as of this match. But we have
hybrid push and flashpoint maps still remain. But Mexico want to maybe like choose a flashpoint
and give themselves as much of an opportunity as possible to, you know, show what they're
capable of and feel like that can be good. I, if I were them, if I were them, I'd take us
against a new junk city, I'd play the Junker Queen Genji and I'd send it over and over
as many times as it takes, push the pace, dive on top of the opposition, try to overwhelm
them. Realistically, I mean obviously I have faith in these KSA players to be able to adapt
and overcome just about whatever goes up against them but that for me is the most
viable way to play the Genji, the most viable way to push a super aggressive pace
And it's the tightest ported map really left in the pool.
And Flashpoint I think is generally a favor
is that style of play theoretically.
It's like Pala is being stuffed out.
So Legola removed the headset
and she's starting to unplug her ears.
So why have I come back into the sport line here?
Pala playing a fair bit of Brig and like you mentioned,
it's pretty painful after it's like those
widow comps against the right half.
I mean KSA also showing the versatility, right?
They're not often forced off of these metaclumps,
but they say, hey, you're gonna go to something
a little bit different. You're gonna try to use this break to suppress our G.V.O.
We just whip out the Sim instantly, not needing to sub in players to execute that.
And honestly, Sim, I think, is a huge reason why break has fallen off so much.
That, yeah, like the break shield just takes up like two seconds.
Lost opportunity to get charged up, right?
And, you know, even with something like Rally crossing the Sim wall in Ultimate Battle,
good luck with that. It's a really tall order.
The sub out here makes sense.
And I was like, maybe a little bit more comfortable in Junkertown,
where the shield is actually kind of nice to deal with the open sight lines.
But maybe you go to a closer range map, if you want to commit to this heavier bra style,
play the Lucio, play the Kiriko, Briggs not the way to do that.
Maybe a part of this as well is that there's the Gip-Pack Cat ban is now elapsed right,
so you can bring your Cat player back in.
Maybe you're not going to play, you know, Flashpoint necessarily maybe look for a map
that can suit that style of play.
You feel like that's where you can find an edge, but we sort of keep in Saudi
Arabia quite happily matched that and of course just getting carried around the map really felt like it just took him to 11
in terms of feasibility to have an impact on the game so I
Wouldn't necessarily say that's where Mexico would be able to arrive and in advantage
But that's how they want to get things set up here. So the advantage is a big word in a series like this
Mitch but to be honest, I think part of the trouble is that yes
It's like warts is such a monster on hitscan your hard-pressed and he's like fly it open maps for he can really take over
But by the same token you go to a close quarter rush map and now you're just straight into the teeth of the odd and laptop
We love to push the pace who love to light up the kill feed and really get into the action themselves
So this is a team that defies easy solution right there is no map pick
There is no band that is really gonna turn the tights here. It has to be huge performances of great
Really an outstanding overperformance from Mexico. They're gonna bring him have a lot of back in
And we're going back the basics here on what could be the final half of the series.
So Lay comes in, and Anubilado also will be joining us.
Maybe going back to more of that tracer style.
Look, I enjoy watching the games.
You feel like Kameh's actually was probably the one that garnered the most attention for a mix-crore on that pretty short-lived junkie-town map.
But we are seeing mix-crore move back to a more spanned configuration.
And at no point is TVNT being forced to drag out there and play the game.
game is happy to chill right now is Zad is in the hot seat and maybe this
I mean I'm speculating here but as we get deeper into our World Cup tournament
there might sort of be you know a case to be made from that you know rotating
those tanks a little bit more right it's something that you know we see
Fraser Raccoon honestly do a lot for Max and Joondon trying to make sure
both the tank players are you know in their wheelhouse when it comes to
maps and cop styles the peak is Palaceo. Okay interesting something yeah still
very much in the hit scan department in terms of who's expected to have a big
map here a lot of wide open sight lines but there are some more enclosed
arenas as well where the cat bastion isn't gonna necessarily be easy to
execute for either team. You still expect it to be played well maybe not the
bashing but at least the cat sure given it's just dominance really in the current
meta maybe that's also why Mexico put in and how and later you go back to us
the other day major skill is inescapable yeah I mean I think in a game like this
if you have scrims your cat bastion comp and feel like it's your best look
then lean into it cast that are gonna be the band away so no quartz cast any
cat combination on the table anymore but don't forget quartz played a ton of
Bastion, I love him inside
That's what we're mad at, ain't got touches
This guy turns to gold
And it'll be a Mercy Band for the king of Saudi Arabia
Interesting guys
Very interesting
You know what I appreciate
KSA for not doing subs
They're moving through this
I'm not gonna swap a hard drive here
I'm trying to get to dinner
They're on pace to do that
Mercy Band as well, no reason to
Waffle too much
I respect it, honestly.
Valuing the smooth sailing here through our series.
To keep him Saudi Arabia from this point onward.
So I don't have to worry about the question of BlizzCon.
That one is basically going to be locked in at the conclusion of this match.
Yeah, this is a matchup you've been looking at for sure.
Come as versus Quartz denied the Cassidy,
but still able to go to Sojourn, still able to go.
Yeah, she even, the Bastian, another option.
Laptur also we're showing us now the Symmetra, Legendary Thara player. Honestly if you want to have a good time, you can go in that direction and level other comes back into the game.
This is our matchup we also highlighted coming into the game. Someone I felt it was one of the strongest players, Santana, pailing from Puerto Rico, but the breakthrough player here for Team Mexico.
go. Do we just go back to the Queen? Just have a bit of fun here on this map. The long
sideline to make this a bit of an ugly proposition I will come and say is at least if I wanted
to play that way this is not the map I'd take it to. But for Mexico maybe they want to go
down fighting, playing in two comps they really believe can win, can be the best. But the
execution I think is where push really comes to shove in a series like this. We're
hanging out on that quartz PLV so much in the first map it's not hard to decipher
just why it's so difficult to break this oddity.
It's in suspense a little bit now, it's basically we've had some substitutions here to get them
back to their original configuration heading into Coliseum. So we discussed the bands
so we saw a Cassidy band and a Mercy band for KSA and I think like it went
Unsaid but obviously it's not a band that means anything okay say like a mercy band up burst is
Almost plausible as a protect right here. The mercy band has basically become a code for
We don't care what you play and at this point in the series
I cannot blame the king of Saudi Arabia on the precipice of securing their qualification
for this con
Basically walking comfortably through this group B so far. They're ready to put Mexico out of the competition
One thing you've got to sweat on a push map type in a series like this is the last build
in the full cap.
I mean, that is a very realistic scenario.
For me, Mexico, they can stage that off even with some kind of victory.
Yeah, maybe you're thinking a little bit about, maybe halfway through this map we'll
be considering what moral victories look like in this game.
But again, it's a series that could have been a lot quicker if not for the substitution,
so I'll give you that, Mexico.
Thank you. Give me what's time. I'm begging for this yard back here. I'm begging for it. I'm desperate
Please please this is the problem sir. Just a crumb for the table. Yes
What would I give my god back of all I would be I would be a happy man
Hidden the secret tech finally be brought to bear show me show me your rollouts is yet
So far, nothing I'd write home about.
I truly don't know that I've seen this player here in combination.
No, no, we just...
Always catches the lab that, oh, still gets the finish on him.
Javillardo and Bal sweeping through the map.
Alongside the rest of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Bashan pulled away from the fight, but the other rest of Mexico be so lucky.
Okay, looks slight, so was able to get away from that pressure.
Now come is this out of wheeling smoke.
This bridge gets a little bit more dangerous, and Quartz is able to gash him down from the ground.
Zidane, very much alone in this.
And here come the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, pretty strong stuff.
But now, of course, the 10 HPs have a fight for a sky and succeed.
Maltha, keep the pressure on.
Find some staggers, one of the great strengths of wrecking balls, just constant aggression.
And the series has gone as well as this one.
I don't see why not for Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Leave one to push, go for the four-man dive in the spawn.
Gorge ready to duel in the sky with the enemy bash, and he might just win it.
Yeah, he looks quite happy to be in this matchup.
Zia, no less so, he didn't kept it from up on high.
Can't have a lot of credit for the elimination, but crucially, it is.
Saudi Arabia's tank player out of the mix and zops is the next to fall.
The port's no longer has that delivery mechanism.
She has had enough. Over to the diva, back to business.
No reason to loosen the grip now.
On the Crescus, ball finder BlizzCon.
Looking to repeat as world champion as King of Saudi Arabia.
More than a fighting chance for this one.
Defense matrix is going to mitigate this early salvo.
Pressure from Thaim there's eventually going to get up the top and fight like everybody else.
There's the barrage.
Aimable out of picked up there by Cornstone.
Time for execution.
Thaim is just getting papped with the healings, not bare of course.
An hour into the sky we go to Sutteric's free.
Gets caught within striking distance and it's a flashy finish.
Everything about this guy is flashy man.
That just beam down on the bastion out of the sky.
Fame like that, just the envy. Just about everybody playing Overwatch these days.
I mean, if I knew what it took to get that aim, I'm not sure if that envy is so much.
Years and years and years in the life of this guy.
Rock health, pressured early. Q blinked forced out. Now here comes the rush from Adjad.
Trying to break apart his Mexican defense.
The end of the ladder, they get a recall there, stay alive there with the object scrutiny.
They got away, Adjad picked up in the spot, but...
Not having that fasting around is a grim importance for Mexico.
The time of the mate here on the block at King of Saudi Arabia will not show a deep now in the enemy territory
Now putting up for response from this Joe Laker
Crucial Mexico just trying to regroup stay alive touching the point doesn't seem to be a possibility for them
Gotta staunch the bleeding soon though because with the forwards blonde the floodgates are open
The old blitzer Mexico, but they've got to deploy them. Well, you must have your go won't make that easy
Dangerous spot to play with the Catnap, given a lot of alternatives available for Mexico
and the first one that is Warped to Bear.
It's a shooter rush here for Ferris Sky.
Respected and disengaged from a Bayard of King of the Saudi Arabian,
and the timing here to come is to be, yeah, grappled by the Cat.
Of course he was in, and Willsmote expired, so...
they're not really experiencing the DPS fight at the moment.
Seattle able to go down through the air, come to the Catnap,
but CatNap can't shoot him.
Self-destructing!
And a Volado, not a darn thing they could have done about it!
Santana scratched out of the mech,
Again, just a brief sidebar for Saudi Arabia before they forge further into Mexico's side of the map.
What a stylish little combo.
Leia stays alive in the backline, so you can get something going with the Katnap to start this next fight.
The Saudis have seemed inexorable here, indefatigable even, as they just continue to march forward into enemy territory.
Okay, now you're showing up there.
I am.
That's all I have left, Edge.
What's the plan here for Leia and this Katnap?
Tama's picked off an early lap, just PolarSpawn strikes through.
Pulse is more than half, it's just a tear strips off the mech, while Santana is up looking at him.
Tatsurikus free here, ready to make short work off the remix, Santana is back and ready to fight.
Tama today will be desuited once more, frustrating and over the edge.
Paul Santana.
He's going from bad to worse here, as slowly, but surely, Saudi Arabia closing the vice.
He's gonna keep fighting pickups, they're preventing all-out devastation in this map, but they haven't been able to really staunch the progress once Yard went back to the signature diva.
We're gonna throw- OH THE CUTTNUTS!
Quartz! Can he spree back to safety?
Aye, yeah, Leia almost had to eliminate themselves there.
Nicely done, low Quartz, it's gonna be sent back to spawn. All expenses paid ticket.
Zox does get more into there.
I also want to catch on to the killing guy as well, from an Havado.
See, I can reshoot. You might be able to stay alive deep into this fight.
Fairly gets back in, and I think a lot of damage on the exit.
Stagger himself here. See, he has a risky command. Arguably an overconfident unit,
but he does stay alive and keep the suit outplayed.
Yeah, that's pretty big. See, I'm able to...little bit test there a little bit.
Instead of having to drop off the map, as many deeper players would have had to in that scenario.
After his low, put the corners for healing, forget about it buddy, forget about it.
Santana comes out of nowhere and sees a golden opportunity to take the low health pressure to task.
Oh no way Sari's can win this one, they find three kills and the fight's free.
He needs to clean this up alongside Santana, but the Dima out of the suit.
Zox and Lada.
Let me tuck the win in this death match.
Santana's gonna die late.
Oh, that punishing there Santana.
Barking into the mic there.
She's going to create a regroup. Okay, so 4 minutes left in the round, 116 meters.
Our rules are all basically in full effect.
We have a spree that's just come alive before Kameh is an opportunity to cause some chaos.
So, Farmexico has saved up the worst of the rainy world champs.
Saudi Arabia, look at more business like now, they march forward.
It's Mexico's golfing and making golf feel it, Mitch.
Yeah, looks like they're all lying down to try and get this game done.
Come as- most of the damage, all of it being mitigated by the defense matrix,
finding themselves one-on-one against one of the strongest duelists in the game.
It's Ziad with an easy kickoff.
And what's getting close?
Zox is looking for a spot.
Can we catnap here?
Great catch on the carry.
Got a deeper- toes in the water here.
Yeah, and all the switch step outplayed.
Sox not able to get into the kill box there quickly enough, but the bot's moving this entire time, by the way.
Getting closer to the end of the map. Self destruct there. Oh, there's a dirty spot for it to be.
It's dangled in front of Team Mexico.
And Lamps-Posquem is eaten up by Santana. Good defence matrix you see there, and a remake to guarantee
that the Mexican tank player is going to be able to keep playing the game for now.
Can't that play get flattened as they try and abscond with one of the county Saudi Arabian players?
Cosmon here to end off a lot of ticket tracer. You know he wants to, not to be.
Quartz is going to double down alongside Laptor and clean up the tracer.
There it is. Raining at world chance. Clean up the map with a full cap.
Picking up the series and a ticket to BlizzCon. Not that there was ever any doubt.
We certainly feel like walking into this game.
Result, for the most part, would already be determined purely on this grand power
and previously displayed prowess from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
And sadly for Team Mexico, this represents their chances of competing out of this gun virtually disappearing.
Great to see them out here though, and great to see that the region is continuing to produce some quality talent.
Also shout out to Santana as a breakthrough player stepping in and showing us some really solid tank play.
Overwatch World Cup, it's an opportunity for a lot of young players to show their stuff against the best in the world,
But there's also a chance to show how the best in the world, why maybe the best in the world, are.
There's levels to this game.
Exactly, there's levels to this.
Maybe the side of Arabia on top.
That isn't for another gold in Los Angeles.
So, so good bro.
We're at the tongue out.
Yeah, like I think if we surveyed the field this year, I kind of talked about it before the game,
but we never got to see the South Korea vs Saudi Arabia match up last year.
That's like maybe a regional rivalry that certainly starts to bubble and percolate a little bit through a couple of seasons of OWCS,
especially given that they're twisty pie.
So going to be Saudi players, RR, Karin, OWCS, more champions.
Seen like crazy raccoons, they're looking very, very strong.
Obviously now Zeta, so that's something I'm looking forward to heading towards the other World Cup,
seeing if the USA might now sort of put a scratch on the king of Saudi Arabia,
because they feel like they're able to leverage that same amount of talent
that put their region on the map in the OWCS. They're doing it here in the World Cup, and this group frankly looks like a capable team.
That's the right term. It's the technical term.
Cakewalk. Scientists, they've labeled this one.
I couldn't try it in the fact.
I can't even say it, bro.
I'm not gonna bother.
It's okay. You don't have to, man. I'm here now.
Yeah, 3-0 here for Saudi Arabia. This is about what we expected.
It was a match of all time, guys.
It was a match of all time, but for Team Mexico, at the very least,
you guys were talking about how much of an experience it is for these players
to have the opportunity to show their stuff,
but also for a lot of these Western players,
one of the few opportunities that they get to also play in a LAN environment
to get those experiences here as well.
Yeah, look, I think that the America's conference was really quite lively
and competitive, right?
Like, Mexico ended up like this crazy close match against Chile,
So it's great to see that regionally, there's some real promise, I think going forward.
And so we hope to be around here for many years still to come.
So for Mexico, they've had a chance to show what they came up with.
They still also will get that match up against Australia, which honestly, for me, I don't know where there's going to go.
I feel like Australia have their veterans here a little bit with some of their players.
The Mexicans are plucky and they're showing something a little bit unique, something a bit different.
And it does take a team like the Kemen of Saudi Arabia, and it did take great Britain
to be able to sort of see through that and derive responses to some of these more off the wall comps.
So there's some threat, there's some risk for Australia, but you know,
over I think next coat, not showing the depth that we need to see from a team
to really compete on the national stage.
Yeah, completely understandable.
I mean, when you're going up against a team, Saudi Arabia, who won the last
World Cup, but also have World Champions on their roster there as well
with an OWC, yes, there, it's definitely a tall competitor to be
going up against, but we do have some more overwatch for you guys.
in just a little bit we're gonna go to a quick break and when we are back we'll be back with Australia vs Great Britain.
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on to the top was.
Welcome back everyone to the
Overwatch World Cup group stage
here in Busan. We've got
another rematch going into
actually played in the group stage in 2023 together and it was great Britain that got that win two
and no last time they did face off and it does look like it is a bit more of that underdog versus
overdog matchup a little bit closer this time around when you do have players like Kafa on this
australian roster here but you're in this group here as well you had to play australia yesterday
how are you feeling about how they're looking uh they were actually good but i felt like we
We were playing perfect yesterday.
And today.
And today.
Yeah.
I think it's going to be a good match versus Griffin.
It was a bit of a diff.
Like, you guys are just obviously you're the reigning world champions.
Like, you got to feel good going into this event, like just like, peak 4, right?
Yeah, yeah.
Just like always stay consistent, confident, like, locked in.
Do you think the other teams as well have gotten better compared to 2023?
Yeah, yeah.
That's for sure 100%.
Every team's going to open up.
Yeah, a lot of teams to be honest. Sweden, UK...
I think a lot of players have just improved. That's what I think.
I mean you guys especially, looking at last World Cup, man that was obviously a big surprise to the Wilden.
Yeah, I didn't even expect it to be honest. I was expecting to get top 3, top 4 in the tournament.
We wonder.
What do you think of the Aussie boys right now?
The Aussie boys?
The Aussie boys.
I think it's going to be 3-0.
It just came off.
It is definitely a tough matchup here for Australia going up against Great Britain.
I think that a lot of our eyes get drawn to Kata.
Having him be this very experienced player, Johnny, on this roster for Australia,
definitely I think the backbone that we're looking for this team Australia to build off of.
Yeah, and I'm looking forward to see what kind of heroes he's going to play today.
It's so far this tournament has been a lot of daemons.
I'm sure you'll hear what you have to say about daemons later on as well.
But I feel like based on what heroes he's playing,
that will kind of be Australia's answer towards this great Britain breaking ball
play we're about to see, which is a pretty unorthodox style.
We don't see a lot of players who are committed to the breaking ball,
except Seattle and Colosseo.
And so it's going to be interesting to see what Kafa can do about it,
because he's typically like a remotor player, a hazard player,
Like that's we love to play a little bit of demon so far this tournament, but there's no like great answer to like a wrecking ball
I feel like somebody there is some answers to be honest. It's just it depends on the place time
Britain plays both we have prepared
Well with a team GB is there anybody on that team right now that stands out to you
because like most improved or maybe kind of needs a little bit more of the
spotlight on them like from the groups or yeah I mean just in general I mean
obviously ashore household name of course but there's a lot of players that
maybe have not seen the spotlight as much as itself I would say Sweden yeah
where you know I mean like on team GB and you play on team GB that you
right now. GV. Golden Pants. Yeah, Golden Pants. We love Golden Pants, you guys. I think
he's one of the best balls in the game. Oh, okay. That's high praise, got that. And Svedi
is annoying to play games. He is. So, not even just, he's annoying to watch, guys. Like,
forget playing against him. I'm watching him and I'm getting, I play, I like to play
support myself. And I'm, I'm seeing him in the back line during those qualifiers
and it's just so frustrating. So, I think that it is definitely a player to keep
our eyes out on. And not just that though, I really feel like we saw Mimone and Kai stepping
up during the qualification heading into this group stage here as well, Jack.
Yeah, definitely. It's good to see Kai back in it again. I'm just saying it feels like
it's been a hot minute. And I think Mimone's improved as well over the years too. Very
good trace player in fact all around kind of flex DPS as well. A lot of Sombra back
a long time ago too. And obviously with Funny Ashler being on the bench as well,
I think Crispy and Kiwi have a lot to prove for Great Britain.
Over the years, yeah, we've not done so hot in the World Cup, you know?
It's okay.
It's been a...
2018?
Okay, buddy.
Oh, oh, oh, oh!
It's been a little rough.
2019, Ghost was alright.
Yeah, the Ghost was alright.
Yeah, Ghost was alright.
Is there anything British players are good at, apparently?
It's playing Ghost.
Well, you know, you've got some great Rhyanort players.
Yeah, that's true.
Yeah, you know, you've got some good Sampler.
Christopher himself.
Yeah, you know.
This year, I think this year, we're gonna do really good.
Yeah?
Yeah.
How far do you think we're going into BlizzCon then, if you think we're going to make it?
Top 4?
Top 4?
Top 4!
Woo!
Okay.
I wasn't expecting that yet.
It depends on the bracket, to be honest.
Yeah, that's true.
You never know who they play.
If you get Korea to talk, I don't know.
Yeah.
What can I say, my boys?
Yeah.
Your boys are late as well.
It'll be a good time.
Who else is in that top 4 then?
obviously yourself, maybe Korea, Korea, Great Britain, America, USA, Sweden, Sweden and Christmas.
Everyone's pretty Sweden filled this year, but we do have predictions guys, even though
we were already getting a little further ahead of ourselves, let's check out what we got
on the board because for me, I had to go with Great Britain for this one.
I think that what we're seeing out from Australia,
I feel like we do have a good foundation for them to build off of,
but there were a lot of moments where I just didn't really feel like Kuffo was getting the support that he necessarily needed,
and I mean, we know who you're going with, but you want to go a little bit more here for them.
Uh, I would say 3-0 for Britain, together.
How hard with 3-0 though? Like are the maps close and it's a 3-0 or?
I think it's going to be close.
Yeah, I think it's gonna be close to you
Britain is gonna win the whole match
You know what I think I went with great Britain as well. It'd be crazy for one of Australia to be honest with you
I think I would have an insane DM from Scott by now. Yeah
You have a little bit of a great victory. It was a while ago when I made the credit, okay?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I wouldn't know I got great Britain as well, you know, it's weak
Like I can't wait to see the record ball game today, and I think Australia is going to be like
They'll be a little like, frustrated, because they'll be like,
we really have to play the wrecking ball team.
It's like, just like that play style.
Like we would play push and pull, dive, like wrecking ball, really.
We gotta deal with the wrecking ball.
I think Australia is going to talk to them how it goes.
I mean, depending on how it goes, they could also try to find some openings
when it comes down to like, you know, the pick-ban,
what maps they want to take it to.
Majed, when it comes down to this map pool for Australia,
where would you want to see them go?
What do you think would be the strongest with this,
You mean Australia yeah, it's to have their best chance against great. What would you want, Australia?
For that it's okay. He's guys. He's just too confident in the fact that it's gonna be three hours doesn't matter where
No, I think realistically here
Yeah, I think great Britain right now are in one of the strongest forms
They've had I mean you said like a lot of teams a lot of players have just kind of improved over
Pass world cups is going to be it's gonna be exciting when we hit the blizzcon
Stage in Anaheim, but yeah, it's Terry the group draw obviously pretty tough
But getting over this first hurdle by team Australia here should be I'd say three hours one
Okay guys do you want wait let me
I might have some insider info.
Okay, leaps are coming in.
Australia banned ball for map 1.
Okay, okay.
You know what, get that out of the way.
Get that out of the way.
But do we think like banning it like first map?
Like do we think that might be a little bit of a mistake?
No, I think control generally gets pulled.
To be fair, all the time.
This map 1 is very important.
You need to win the ball that map.
You know, it's your couple furthers here.
But I mean, this is legitimately great.
They did a great, like getting a wrecking ball out of that, like on control
There's a great opportunity for them to like go off 1-0 in this series
Which they really needed they want to win the series
We'll say Golden Pounds, we weren't in this situation before in all the BDS and the Winston was pretty good
I know Winston is not better right now
But even though the wrecking ball is bad like Golden Pounds can still play a free reliable Winston
So we'll we'll have to see if that is the choice moving
Orisa too, his Orisa is actually good
Orisa too, he's Orisa
So like, it's not all over for the out of kingdom, or great for it in a rather, just because they don't have the Wrecking Ball available.
I mean, not just that, they also have like, Damned Shred as well. Like, if anything ends up, you know, shaking up later on, you have some suits, like, you can throw them in and whatnot.
No, you're bald committed. You're just walking in, holding hands all the way.
The Wrecking Ball is gone! Like, at this point, just leave him in. Like, let him cook. It was big. Like, there's no risk of a ban. You can ban Damned Student Support.
You can play Demon as well, to be fair. I was gonna ask, like, what do you guys think of a Demon right now?
We don't play the hero, but she's actually very annoying to play against, especially for my hero, Kirikou.
I can't do anything. He pushes, forces my Suzu, my TP, and then I can't do anything after.
There's a Tracer flanking somewhere. I think it's the most annoying hero to play against for me right now.
Really? Wow. Even more annoying than the ball.
I would rather play versus the ball.
The person who's playing the ball though.
the bull though yeah that's true that's true it shouldn't be as well I mean maybe
off the back of the demon conversation I know that we're really only getting a preview of these
tank players running it for the first time now but if you had to make like a soul read for the
future of competitive overwatch who do you think the best demon player is going to be
You need some mechanics. Like who's a mechanical tanker?
To be honest, I'm gonna say this, if TVNT or Zed plays these heroes, they're gonna be
the best. I think you're right though.
It's similar to D.Va's playstyle. I mean TVNT is a slot in there.
If he plays that hero, he's gonna be the best in the world.
I look forward to it. Hopefully he does.
But this one, you never know.
I don't want to bring it to you just yet, you never know.
No, I think it's a great shout actually, because I think a lot about...
I actually don't want to call out other tank players, but there are some tank players you watch them.
Like the crosshair goes a little bit, you know, unevenly across the enemy heroes.
And there are other tank players who are actually quite sophisticated with the range.
Like there doesn't any kind of this, like their damage,
role in ranked is also like...
Oh, my aim is potato.
Like it's actually a miracle that I was appropriate to begin with.
pro player to begin with. I was the prototypical tank player who couldn't aim at all. But
now in this day, this A&H, the flexibility of all these tank players, so many tank players
can play so many different heroes, their aim is in general so much improved. So I feel
like that old stereotype of these potato tank players who I was like, they're gone now,
most of these tank players are actually really skilled. And you see that with Wrecking
Ball, Wrecking Ball is a really aim-intensive hero. You really need to nail your shots
if you want to finish off people with the file drive, etc.
And so I think maybe breaking ball players like a Denbin or something
could be really good picking up D1 as well because you have that ink component.
Yeah, no, that makes sense.
I mean, Dmon has also been the most banned heroes in OWC group stage so far.
Were you expecting that going into this event?
Like, I think that players had some different reads on her heading into OWC.
Yeah, even for us to be honest, we always wanted to ban D1
because we struggle a lot versus her.
So I would say it makes sense.
It's also a different mentality in the World Cup, right?
Because I feel like you know the BCS.
You know the opponent you have,
like you know who you're playing as,
you know their strengths,
you know what they're gonna do to some degree.
In World Cup, it's like,
we might not be super familiar with this team,
as we just wanna get rid of the unknown factor.
Maybe they are really good at Demon,
maybe they aren't,
but we just wanna get rid of that hero
if we just wanna play regular Op-Words.
We don't have like a new hero to the mix, right?
No one wants to take the risks.
Exactly. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So, from that standpoint I think it makes sense.
Like a lot of these teams, like the best teams you're seeing showing up,
like they just want to show up and like flex their mechanics and go home.
Oh, look at that, yeah.
Yeah, picked up OWCS as well. I mean, yeah, it's a little 2 for 1.
It is scary. I think the scariest part about Dmon is the jetpack cat just dropping the Dmon into the pipeline.
Dude!
Like you said, you just can't do anything.
My TP gets forced, my Tilly gets forced and then I'm just dead.
Literally, I need to get used to it.
Yeah, you can't even like shoot back, it's like, whoa, you just have to re-it.
Like, you just have to expect that you're gonna do...
You're just gonna get jumped on.
What's the best way of kind of dealing with the demon? Obviously.
It's the Kerakor, it's a little tough but like from the other world.
I think Malgev, to be honest.
Yeah, Malgev is really good.
Like, you just keep shooting and...
No, it's a fight.
It's a super...
And then you just go into the back line, you win the fight, you get all the space.
Yeah.
Yeah, I mean, Malga's also one of the top ban there.
Malga, Katz, and yeah, Demon being a top ban right now.
Really trying to keep the back line from being bullied has been the main strategy,
I think, in the pickbans for the Overwatch World Cup thus far.
But we do have Great Britain versus Australia coming in next, so let's get straight into game.
Perfect. Here we go.
Nepal, and thank you very much, uh,
Mojhead for joining us on the sofa.
Right, Johnny, Great Burton vs. Team Australia.
There's been a little bit of a rivalry between the two teams.
It's been a hot minute since they played each other as well.
Obviously, being so Mojhead, kind of, uh, lining up there,
saying,
Rio, for a GB, but...
Give me the scoreline, what you got?
No, I'm kind of siding with the...
The little 3-0?
3-0, yeah.
I'm sorry, like there are some respectable names on this Australia roster, some story players,
like obviously CollarHackStore is like way, way back in the Overwatch League.
CuffFace really made a name for himself in OWS and we saw it, you know,
Soki has been capable of that as well.
But do you work on up against, you know, Great Britain with some truly
fantastic players and now with Golden Pats in the mix as well.
I talked about how you don't really want to face the unknown in the World Cup,
sure and you don't really want to play a wrecking ball team and here they are
you know i talk about how little scrim time you've had with your national team compared with maybe
like your regular order of the team and that is that will show up when you go up against something
like a really skilled wrecking ball like golden pants all right team great brinn that ain't you
know johnny as the second band you know we've seen a little bit of you know nothing like too
crazy it's always been the I would say like the back it's almost like the
backup of the backup support at the moment Kira Co obviously JPC, Jetpack Cat
have been the top two but yeah what do you think of Juno right now?
I mean I gotta say I'm a bit of a Juno merchant in rank.
I'm just like hovering in the backline and like you know I'm getting my
healing up yeah yeah yeah yeah so I you know and I think that it's not great
here for some main support players like funny asterisk playing a lot of you know
like payload that's right yeah on twisted mind it's like okay well on maps
where there is less blanking available to you like we can get so much value
about you know cuz they're more protected by playing three narrow
sidelines so you're getting rid of the unit like we're getting rid of Juno
rather. It's going to be interesting to see how that kind of plays into it here. I mean,
for the most part, it's going to be the jump back cap, right? It's going to be the carry
though. This is what we've seen in the previous tournament. But it's been defining them that
also. Yeah, covers have been picking up the demon, of course. So no surprise to see
the Aussie bloke picking that one up. I'm just knocking the backline too. Gonna
have a little bit of a, a bit of a tough go of it here. I think especially against
Kai, the checks versus Kai is kind of crazy matchup too actually.
Well, he's been streamed for a hot, like a hot minute at this point,
played in the Overwatch League against each other a long time ago as well.
And Golden Pants obviously with the ball ban, it will be the Arresa for control.
Obviously, there's not a spray at you now, that would know that Kai won't fly at you.
Like Kai with an early pick on really, so you're getting active on the facts.
Kai has always been just such a sharp shot. Very smooth at the aim.
There was a time, unfortunately, where he was playing the Reaper.
But, you know, times must, needs must.
But I think, in general, he was always known as just
Cassie, like, Widowmaker-ass, like, long-range hitscan.
He's always been his forte.
Besides, Team GP, oh, gonna be that said first cap hit.
The Golden Pants and the rest of the gang are just running it down to the spawn.
Yeah, I feel like Kai is just...
One of those players that, if you can protect Kai,
Mr. President bike. Yeah, then he will get his values worth and I feel like in a matchup like this
So it's actually Prime Minister?
Okay, yeah, it's we the two for what it's worth. Okay, good to actually on Australia as well actually. Yeah. Yeah, we gotta get that right
All right, okay, what they're gonna?
airdrop covering the front line
The Aristotrn do too bad though instant
Demon to be fair Johnny
Again, not like now the level's worth of damage, but looks like there's going to be an alternate angle taken by Soggy in cover.
Nothing gets quickly ejected from the mech though, as Golden Pants can continue to hold down the frontline as Mimone's able to clean up the baby demon.
Soggy taking down Mimone though, Czech's still doing a fair amount of damage to the frontline and without too many heals flying Golden Pants his way,
he's going to make a quick trip back to the spawner and 55% granted a 13 Great Britain that.
Yeah, but Australia showing that they got some fight in them, and if you let them cook, then Soggy and Colorex will show up and make their mechanics present in the teamfights themselves.
Barbaros must build on either side here. Let's see if Australia can keep this up now and prevent Kai from getting value. It's going to be a sky noon.
Are you from either side?
Soggy's right behind him.
Quick let's shot all the poles.
All good. There's the recall. Now they can force the issue. Yep, there you go. Soggy taking down. Really easy.
duo there. Crispy Kai now looking towards the outside of the map. Sky Noon still available,
but they might not even try using it. Maybe just a T-Fold to push in. Speaking of which,
no Sky Noon from Kai head straight over the top. Oh, what an unbelievable save from Kiwi,
keeping the rest of the team alive there with the Suzu. Double kill for Kai as this
rush is going to soon disappear for the rest of Team Australia. Kuffa ejected and
there it is. There is going to be the fight win and point cap. At least a matter
Progressed out gained for Australia. Yeah, Australia feeling like they had to make a play in a fours as five situation
But Great Britain doing a great job of playing around the suesu
Playing together preventing corrects from getting any kind of value
I think of the day is going to be great Britain. We gaining control off of the point here
Golden pass with the terror surge. We've seen some shenanigans so far this tournament
helicopter hang on a second
Drop golden pants in the terror surge, maybe
Maybe.
Oh, covers down to the ground already.
Been quite naked to the high ground.
Spear's been already used.
Still got the fortified the back pocket.
No real worry of taking too much damage.
Now Kai being dropped off like a staircase.
A little bit too worried about the tank however.
The cat are coming through.
They're kind of stealing the way, Kai Hex,
but there's no initial kill there coming through.
For GBR.
Looks like Kai Hex is going to take down Kai though.
His golden pants.
Again, just hogging down the front.
I'm still with the Terrasurge in his back pocket.
Look at that, Carl Hex! Look at the safety!
He doesn't really need to worry to be honest, as Hucky in the back line is making sure Chex is staying alive.
Overtime now, 4GP.
Carl Hex, finds another kill.
Now with a flint, Team Australia making this very competitive.
Is he coupled with his hand up though?
But a brief pause, jumping into it.
Yeah, Carl Hex, bringing some kind of issue here.
Want to make sure that everything is perfectly right.
Such an important match, like this one.
But it's an impressive game from Australia so far, they're biding their time just trying to peel away all the incoming damage from Great Britain
And you see their damage first, show up, Colorex getting values, sorry
Lanking on this tracer and getting their values worth, but they gotta be perfect from this time on on this very round
Yeah, hopefully nothing too serious here for all
I'm keeping over at the players
now. Looks like. Everything's
coming up unless you just
speak to an admin. Yeah, we'll
get back into this one in a
couple of seconds. Like what
was you ever saying as well? I
think Kyrako has been. She's
been kind of busted since she
came out and now there's
something to kind of threaten
her. You know, she said I
can't do anything. The jetpack
Demon in and boom after TP after you Suzu have to get away
You have to play around that constantly in your mind
You have to think okay the demon can just be dropped on top me
I was reflecting on this today just like what I would do to a state of a wash room right now
Because it didn't feel too long ago where we're stuck in this push-pull with the Lucio carry
But with the introduction of the jetpack cat
That really felt like the cherry on top that really made all these very high tempo compositions
viable, because obviously we have teams like Dallas Fuel who thrive in conditions like this,
but it's a little bit more chaotic in up-tempo, but the Jetpack Cat has sometimes a great tradition
to this tempo style, and you're seeing the Kyrgos being under more pressure because of that,
but also playmakers in the main supports being the difference makers for their team.
Oh, here it is. Got him at the right on the point now, still with that Terrasurge in the back pocket.
They might just sneak this one away. Here comes the Jetpack Cat though.
Lucky is gonna keep this point alive released for the moment.
He's been picked off on the sidelines here.
There's, yeah, sure, you've got the point good.
You haven't got the bodies now to facilitate a fight with.
Alex gets picked off eventually here, but still a player down for GB.
Golden pass with the Terror Surge, a last ditch effort here.
The Great Britain should try and get back into this map, but getting picked off so early,
getting your main damage dealer in Kai going down that quickly, it's just not it.
99% is there a touch my mode does mention triple-winking at the recall and they're gonna get sooner coming up
They need to get another touch touch. We'll get a lot of touches get some of this going to be available for things crispy on the point
Now just around the high ground with Kiwi down. No rush
Hamsters gonna lay his one on the point and there is just absolutely no chance now
Cuffer again finding a nice pick on to Kai has team Australia. I'm gonna pick up round one
What an impressive comeback, that is on the initial round and what a great play that led
to this moment, finding Kai on the high ground, going for a bit of a play with Kafa and then
the heads up play from the supports, juggling the point, making sure that the flip does
not happen.
That is the difference maker that earns Australia this opening round here on Nepal
and yes, the Wrecking Ball ban is in play, but I think most of us still expected
Great Britain to be off to the better start.
And as you ever say, look, the rest is pretty good too for the team.
It's tough to, like, think about, kind of, crispy in that situation.
You've grabbed Golden Pants, you've thrown him on the point,
but as soon as Australia saw that, they were like, okay,
actually you can just pick up from him and then throw him a kite,
and then he can't do it.
If a Kiriko can't do anything about that, I'll vote.
And he definitely can't.
You're under a lot of pressure.
So excited we're going to roll out here on the Symmetra.
Not only a teleporter out of spawn though, they're going to earn so much position you can see here already on the high ground and forcing Great Britain to go for these wide fangs.
High ground to be escorted by Crispy.
Oh wow, that's going to be a nice place for him to be actually.
Really nice. No more catapam also.
Kafa, definitely grounded, he's going to teleport to the other side.
Oh good, don't worry, Crispy's there, he's going to grapple him away.
Oh, cool kid.
Trailer, do you get point then?
And I will play patient game.
See if you can put up Kai into a great position.
We can make use of his shots to the skill.
He's got a regular head. This is already being used up high there.
He tries to run away to kitchen.
Soggy on the high ground point.
Flick ends up going the way on GPR.
Great print.
I'm gonna have this point for two more slots, though.
Soggy's gonna try and go for a flank here,
but it's Kai actually up in there.
managed to get an angle onto Puck,
like he's shooting in the back of the head the whole time.
Suzie just saved Aki's life,
and it's not really enough as Goldenpats
didn't suffer any substantial damage.
So still holding it down in the front line,
and a team kill for BroBrit.
And we got the flip quite early as well.
Knowing that Australia wants to make plays
with this Metro Teleporter,
a bit of a heads-up play instead.
Putting pressure on towards the point,
paint the objective that time.
You're already racking up to 33% here.
Ultimates on either side here now
All right, we're in my mind looking for a different angle on the tracer
Sky, new, bolt-packed
Well, back to on-demon recid, there's just no chance there, you can wait that out
No problem, rush on the point though, just trying to ult-erise this wound with a point
Soggy is gonna be forced to recall
He'd be so damn low though, no teleport away or use the Suzu
My moe now down
This is an Australian fight where this Kai's got anything to say about it.
Even Christie Pee ended up picking up three kills.
And then more funny stuff from the point he's trying to survive.
There's a theory of headshots that activate a couple of kills being made there.
But it's going to be Australia here flipping the point eventually.
Golden pass, why isn't it picked onto Soggy?
Wow!
Nice fit.
Uh, whoa, okay, he comes all the way to the Swing and the Midspear, I think.
There is no good people playing their matches in trouble yet, dominated by golden pants on the points.
And now Coffin's bet is just so damn low, that shield was probably at its wit's end as well.
It blows from my mode to eject Coffer out of that.
Now I'll be a great player in picking up the fight.
For my chaos, it's the name of the game here.
There's been a messy couple of fights on towards the point there in Australia,
building some percentage, but ultimate's not getting the value that we've come to expect at the highest levels of Overwatch.
Don't be great with him. Flipping around here 71% feeling worse than that squad.
I have to, this is the dead end, it could be crucial coming into this fight.
So, so you can do it, pulse.
But yeah, sky noon on an open map like this.
The rest keeps success for Graves ready.
Oh, there goes Pyke. Whoa, he got dropped.
Maybe all good though. I can't get the squad on him.
Show me again. Okay, there's just no way.
There's just no chance of escape.
And that should be round realistically, supports already down,
Koffer on his last leg or his last mech.
Yeah, 97% that should be cooked here for Team Australia.
Well done.
That's a good comeback from Great Britain, I'll say close things out here.
Playing the objective with Golden Pads, Marisa.
And you earned yourselves an opportunity here on Sanctum now.
We get back on to Nepal.
Alright, the 1v1. Okay. Nothing too crazy just yet.
But yet, I did say it was just by being 3-0 there because maps was kind of paying that
picture already. Look at my mind. Look at that. 21 and 4 on that tracer now. Rocking
the shield.
There is a bit of a must-win map here like I said earlier. The wrecking ball bound
deployed if you want to go away upsetting great Britain Air Australia
they need to come away with a map like this just one round on control now
Australia voice all the vibes of BlizzCon and Porsche's most for the occasions where
they've rocked the Watties I remember Scott in the Twala one and they had a canvary one of one of one as well so it would be good to see them in BlizzCon
if they do ever make a break right now, oh I'm going to try and take that little bit more of a high stream load
possibly an impressive push here from Team Australia, but Cardi's made a life of so damn long, it resulted in Kiwi also getting a kill
cut the 5HP left on the Mech and EZD suit, and only that small little minigun left
although Golden Pass aren't exactly fairing too well either, 170 HP for the jetpack cat
gonna heal him up, but it's only Akki left for Team Australia, so it's going to be a 2v1
and he's going to power up the fight, giving GBR the points
absolutely reckless push by Kappa, which earns him a couple of kills, but
But at the end of the day, it's going to be great Britain with the additional members
that secures them to point cap instead.
And now a question for Kafa, how do you want to approach this one?
How do you want to utilize Demo's mobility to get on top of the back line?
So, we're out of here.
Okay, well, I'll actually just pick something up like that.
We'll do it.
Okay.
And I'll approach this like it's going to be way more dangerous here if you're
a team very good.
You just have to go fast.
You have to rely on Mimo getting a ping.
They're going to end up losing the point here, it's crispy, it's going to cost him his life!
As Kafa, there's no really, like, opportunity to deal with him either, really.
Like, if he's going to dash towards you, there's no flashbang to hold him in place.
Gold has asked him to take the block to the damage, the bloody damage he takes.
And as a limit break from Kafa, it does put a quick end to the fight.
And it does feel like Kafa is thriving on this hero right now.
With no interest from Augustus, the Hazzard.
And to some extent, Dima fits into that same archetype, getting lots of value here on Sanctum,
and I feel like it's all set up with ColourHex as well, doing phenomenal work on the Cassidy.
Australia, in the lead now. We don't have the man.
But they're gonna rush super early on here, we got them, and scoot.
They may have been falling inside, or a spear in their side with this Terrasurge.
Hosevon connection onto my mode already, Terrasurge ends up getting pot there, but...
It's just a scratch, there's no real damage there, no room to set up the rest of the team.
Chalk, Golden Pants has gone one, he's killed Hamster but...
Crispy and Kiwi, they're dead, they're respawning, they're coming back here and Golden Pants is getting really bad.
But the devs need some desperate help, a quick de-suit and hopefully a rematch in the near future.
But with Kai, Golden Pants dead, the time's ticking here for Team GB.
This is not the position they expected to find themselves in.
This is the Overwatch World Cup of your opponents.
They've more of an unknown quantity compared to regular season play.
And now it's Australia actually with ColourHeads.
So they're leading the way, the damage players for Australia.
One teamfight away from securing the first map in this one.
I mean they've recalled. They've given them the space,
because Copper didn't have them there.
In fact, died his baby here.
Can I try to find a mark?
You're trying to find a target.
Head shot to it.
And head to shoot at.
You scared. Chase down by Copper again.
Crispy's already managed to deal with ColourHeads.
He's starting with a quick regroup of the star and a pulse for his back pocket.
Throw a bomb and make a house paper.
Doesn't really find anything.
Not even a small hit marker there.
He's quickly bought the Tars play.
Climb home.
Cover, limit break on the point.
Suzu comes in to make sure he stays in the net.
Great Britain.
They have the point.
Just needs that one opportunity to drop the limit break.
And that could be the difference maker.
This could be the fight for Australia.
We've got the Sky Noon, the limit break.
Building towards a Katsuna rush.
Gotta be careful here.
Oh, soggy.
You know, post one there, so even without that, it's playing fairly aggressive.
He's going.
Guys in the backlight again, gonna break to the end of getting pot-tiered.
Guy just desperately hunting for a kill, but Soggy's waiting in the wings.
His attention's so split here between three players, he can't find a single person to shoot at.
High noon game, popped like ColourHeads, crying for space.
Good little times using it like Kiwi's hit by Red's alive.
And Tereser get the boys' ColourHeads on the side line, just riddling him with bullets.
Soggy takes down the Orisa, Kiwi's found one, sure, but now Soggy can shut the door on them.
And Team Australia with a giant shout, Koffa on his feet too, pointing at the boys across the stage.
Giving them what's for.
It's the start that allows the Australian players to feel good about themselves.
To feel like they have a real opportunity here to upset Great Britain
and make a shot at qualifying for the Overwatch World Cup Finals at the BlizzCon.
Koffa on his feet, like you say, we know the amount of energy that he can summon.
I definitely think the stream heard that stream as well, at least I hope it did.
Yeah, for years and years stuff from Australia, all of our predictions of 3-0 went out the
window by the way.
Yeah, so much for that.
So much for that.
So much for that.
What do we know?
What do we know?
You've been saying that for years, mate.
So much for Fred's guys.
I like to think that I know something, but then Australia proves to me very wrong
in this one.
Like you said, sometimes it is a little bit more unknown coming into a situation like this, but
I'm going to kind of retreat from that a little bit and say, I think Kuffler's just playing really well right here on D-Mon.
I think he's taking to this hero.
Honestly, look at him so well there. I think his idea is very awful how he wants to play this hero.
Like he's playing it like a big flying. He's playing it like a big tracer like we could deal right
Like it the same kind of life. He just wants to get in your face. Well, you look at the rotation
You look at that gameplay from a demon. Yeah
You compared to Willis yesterday for Sweden. There was a more passive approach that was more inviting your time waiting for someone like Kevster
To make the place necessary. It's like this time cuff up. It's almost willing his team across the finish line
Wanting to win this fight, going in aggressive, trying to make the place necessary for his team.
And not only is he rewarded with his own individual playmaking, but it's also got Colorex as well.
He's backing him up, down the stairs, doing great work for a player as well.
He's giving checks or Colorex a really good opportunity to just thrive too.
Because he's always kind of looking at Kai, he's always jumping on the cast.
He's like, okay well, you have to shoot me, you have to roll away from me, you have to flashbang me, you have to deal with me.
and then Colohex goes and just sits there and just free as a bird I'd love to know so they have these
advanced stats in soccer where you feel like how close you are to your opponent I feel like
Kai's like so far this game has been hot being Australia's like no space we talk about you know
what Kai's capable of when you have the space to operate or when he can be that sharp shooter
yeah Australia's like we gotta get on top of this guy don't don't let him farm for free on the
Cassidy and I think they've been reaping their rewards so far. Yeah, he's definitely a sharp shot
And I think Cassidy is probably the best target to go for. I mean, yeah, sure you get dropped on the Kirikou
But it's always gonna be easy getting on to that deep. Yes, and there's one less thing for you to kind of worry about too
I wonder if we end up seeing any changes here. We see ash or still waiting in the wings. It's a
M a double stage actually you can see right there
They're right here right there right here
Usually we're a bit away from the stage, but yeah
right behind us is there the guest that playing on here is quite chill yeah like
said like kafa was just screaming or like bro is on his feet
doing one of these doing one of these I love it yeah I was one of those guys
yeah I know I see a little bit of you see a little bit of you in kafa do you
I know I know it sounds stupid to say that like I was like when I when I
I won the first map like that. I'm like, yeah, stop. I'm on my feet and I'm like, yeah, let's go.
It's such a great feeling because like if you're Australian, this one, like, obviously, you want to believe you can win every single match.
You've got to go in with the belief that like we can really do this. We can't qualify.
We have to give ourselves the opportunity to qualify.
So even though you might be a bit of an underdog here to Great Britain,
you still have to go in with that belief and then seeing that belief rewarded on the very first map
that just propels that energy further and it almost like snowballs into a little bit of something
here so I'm here to see on the second map obviously the wrecking ball is not now going to be available
which is the signature hero here um four great Britain and the playstyle they're trying to uh
pull off there at the world cup but I still think that that first map when that that could
get it's got to feel good and like you said when you get it up you're really going for it as
well on a stage I'm sure maybe a couple of you in the audience right now about that experience
I know applies co-streamer right now. He's probably done the same, you know same with a tie-o to like pumping your own team up as well
When you like really kind of popping off that energy people can kind of feed off of that especially in a stage environment. Oh, Johnny
Hang on a sec an ultra rare pick we saw it in the last series with a team Mexico picking this one
junk it down
Junk it down. What you saying? Oh, yeah, we like rarely see Junkertown these days
But, Great Britain obviously feel like they want to utilize all that space that is provided to them on a map like this,
put themselves in a position to succeed with the wrecking ball play.
And now, you know, with the wrecking ball ban already utilized on the first map, this means that they don't have to protect ban for the tank anymore.
They can instead target ban on towards Australia. Make life a little more difficult for them.
Holy flashback.
Okay. You're right.
I went into the mine palace.
Okay.
And I pulled out a couple of clips of Kai on Widowmaker on Junkertown.
Ricking heads.
Alright.
Going flip.
If there's one pick that I wanna see.
Was that the fantasy section in the library or like what's fantasy section?
No bro!
I'm just saying like look.
No it is happening in the past.
We saw a little bit of Widowmaker in the previous series.
No no no.
But Widowmaker in the big 26.
I mean you are you are summoning some crusty energy right there
Look
It's junk a town
Historically sniper map guys gotta bring out the widow man like that is the pig
He was known for was the widow way back when
honor ban for team GP Zarya ban for
If you just started watching Overwatch and the other VCS after the Overwatch League, you're like why is Widowmaker never meta?
And we had some good years in the Overwatch League where it was the hitscans' job to excel on the Widowmaker
and we just agreed that the lobby doesn't revolve around Widowmaker.
Maybe that's not the best meta of all time, but the clips are just unreal.
Do you remember this one? I'm put again heading into the mine palace real quick.
Okay, what do you got?
I'm gonna say apply with this team as well.
What for the man?
No.
Valiant.
Okay.
Yeah.
Am I crazy?
Yeah.
Widowmaker, Temple of Anubis.
First point on top left, right?
No, no, no, wait, wait, wait.
This was when Mercy had double insta res.
Yes.
Yes.
Yes.
The widowmaker was like defending on like back top left and she get, it's like the pixel
shot in the mega health back room.
Okay.
Yeah.
And I'm just, I just remember a good widow eclipse.
Okay.
Yeah.
It's what I'm saying.
There's like two people in the audience right now.
They're like, yo, Joss!
He knew!
Yo!
What a callback!
What a callback!
But like the headshot was so sick and the mercy just went yooom and hit E and it
reds the pic and it was like okay that was that was a time anyway let's get into map number
two look I just I encourage you to keep embracing the past yeah I think you know I think it's
important I think over to a special as well like the amount of history that has been told
throughout the year throughout the years to obviously there's been gaps here in there
World Cup hasn't been played but 2026 was like that was like the big year for me
when Kai really popped off on 2020 remember was like the packing 10
valiant yes ASP back then I remember they were power rank is like one of the
bottom teams that season and then they just started poking off and they went
to like win streak and they're racking up the wins and they're like yeah
I get everyone, everyone ranked us in the bottom and now we're fucking off and like
Christ gained me back then. It was just mind-blowing. It was nasty. Yeah, and I think
you know, obviously we've seen
those performances continue throughout the years
but
That was the kind of early start in his career that really earned him the reputation that yeah
That we still kind of embraced here today
Look at this
No surprises found. The Great Britain's roster, Golden Pants on the ball.
It's game time. It is. Let the circus begin. Let the circus begin.
Alright, come on, Cass. You gotta give us a little look. You're on attack as well, come on.
He can't hear me, but I can see it.
Not even. I can't hear you. Oh, here we go. Here we go.
Ops, can we go the other way?
Thank you very much.
You said you were 3 seconds. Enjoy it.
Don't you dare.
Don't.
Don't.
Don't.
Don't.
Don't.
Don't.
Don't.
Don't.
Don't.
Don't.
Don't.
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Don't.
And these opening seconds here are jumping down.
Just pushing the cart, scouting out what the demon is doing.
Goldpanz has to be careful here before you get that very strong perk that can embrace
in the later stages of these maps.
For the time being, you gotta set up a bit more, you gotta gather information.
How can Mimone and Goldpanz combine to open up these demons?
Ooh, yeah.
So cute.
Hi, Suzu.
Yeah, they're still trying to punish Goldenpanz here.
Soggy actually forced to recall as GoldenPants just rolled through here and a couple of his teammates
But this is the kind of classic Junkertown stretch just hide under this
Little bit of a terrain hit
Shot from Kiwi there. Soggy now down. He in trouble
It's like GoldenPants is gonna roll away. It's a lot of overheld up to what?
927 HP and there's the kill on to Kuffa too. This ball really proving to be quite the menace for Team Australia to deal with
Christie with three
And this is a different flavour of gameplay now from Great Britain.
This is a time where Australia, they have to gather their sea legs
and start to get comfortable with the fact that a wrecking ball is constantly going to harass them,
force the sussu, force the teleport from the keratoh
and they have to be painfully aware of your positioning at all times.
Well, you're already cracking it as Kalec goes dangerously low.
Pulse bomb, a pulse bomb for my own cutleress. Look how far he's actually out. Yeah, he's gonna get teammate super, super quick.
Colhex, Sky Noon, Golden Pan, should be a problem for the Racking Board, realistically.
Gonna try and maybe even find the cat who's hanging around on the high ground.
Crispy's gonna get filled up all the way to full. Minds that I'm killing Soggy, is this payload is still being pushed in.
They're gonna have to touch it eventually here, but unfortunately the resources are just too damn thin here for Team Australia.
Colt Hicks fighting on the rush is going to be able to kill Kai eventually, but it's all on Kiwi now if he gets a couple and there is the point cap for Great Britain.
And Kai has a little bit more room to operate with here.
Obviously, Junkertown has a map.
Doesn't favour Demon as much as we saw previously on the call.
Well, you can see that Kai just has way better sidelines now when the pressure comes in from the wrecking ball that forces the hand off to Australia.
And they can't control the opponent as much anymore.
Oh, Kallak said he's so much damage here.
Kai's on such a dominant angle, it's going to be hard to really dislodge him.
In fact, Australia have decided actually, we're just going to take the underground instead.
My mode, it's going to be a pesky little fly in the background here,
as Kiwi ends up deploying the rushing Golden Patch with a massive bolt.
Look at that damage!
He's going to get Kanna, but no problem for Kai,
he's just been sat there on the high ground, just chunking them away.
Puffer easy to deal with in the baby demon form.
There's a Soggy Darsman line, I get sealed up,
and my own goalkeeper there making sure the Kasky stays up.
It's hard to feel like you're not in a loose-lose calisthenario.
You can take control of the cart and prevent the cart from being pushed,
but then Great Britain are going to abuse the high ground.
If you then push for the high ground yourself, then they won't engage.
They will be the ones pushing the cart.
Utilize them to all the capability and protection themselves.
I knew it's going to come out. Sky, new, Kai. Shield up.
Whoa, not quite though.
Kai's going to take an ult to the angle. Kyla Hicks going low.
And of course, Goldenback's there to follow that one up.
Oh, dearie, me, Team Australia.
They are on the retreat.
They're not even going to barter touching the payload here,
not with three players left alive.
You better get that seat belt.
Well, my watch, it costs this series
who's going to be like this from here on out.
Australian might have gone at the first map win, but they need to prove that they can handle this.
Good slap.
Kami's gonna try and teleport away.
They're good to kill from the color heads.
Oh, a second one, too.
That angle was kind of nasty.
Can't quite shoot the cap, though.
He's got a couple of bullets in Krispy's face,
but Krispy still stays alive and kills the Cassidy anyway.
You got some short close indeed.
You have to be wary of the cap.
I mean, Krispy's still going, by the way.
Kiwi and Krispy have managed to dominate this high ground,
And Conferred by the Wondering what's happened into the rest of his squad.
These fights are just melting down, turning into individual duels.
They come down to the mechanical ability, so by the way, these teams...
Kai looks to be set up on the high ground here.
Good shot to Jax.
There's no forcing him to back off.
Now, God of Pounds on the high ground.
Yeah, these wonky ones, and that's really caused by the Wrecking Ball.
Wrecking Ball is so good at isolating picks and forcing Conferred to play point
while the rest of the team have to defend for themselves.
An aggressive Tuzu and a push here from Hatchler,
as they do end up popping that rush near the putt.
Karl Hex with a double on the DPS of GBR.
And it's with three minutes to go.
Great Britain still have time in the bank to play with.
And finally, you can take a moment to breathe,
get some of that fresh air and set up this defense,
and feel like you finally have an opportunity to control
what is about to come your way.
Great Britain though, with that,
here the door gets sooner,
or she can now pick a spot here on towards the payload
and fight from the standpoint of having empowered abilities.
Golden Pants, by the way, he's the most bald thing of all time.
Pre-players look at Adam and he's just riding around them.
Mine's coming up really soon here for Golden Pants on the board.
Well, there's the cat, now he's sold out.
Oh, but quickly, he pops the shields up to, what was that, 400, 500 HP.
Ports bomb stuck to him, eventually brought down, but my moan's still alive.
Soggy has to tag down the Tracer, get the mark, go and eventually...
...falls. But still, two minutes in the time bank, and there's three big ults here for GBR.
Three big ults.
But it's going to be a difficult task to get value of them as well. These fights, they're so messy.
They're all over the place. They have a sky noon, but...
...Australia, they've shown a willingness to navigate around their opponents. They can hide from it if they will.
Oh, yes. Great winner setting up for it.
Probably no point, I imagine.
Or maybe even just directly towards Hullahecks, we'll see.
Hullahecks playing, paying heed to God's hands right now as he's getting forced away.
There's the shield pop from the wrecking ball as Kai takes out Soggy,
and about just like two picks instantly, traded very quickly by Hullahecks.
So he's still on the high ground, but now Golden hands has his attention.
Hamster forced to suzu, there's the TP.
Now, very vulnerable on the Kyroco.
hiding behind the cover shield for the time being for the payload is moving.
Only a minute to go here for Great Britain but they still got those three ults for play with still.
There's the rush might be pulling up one cover really low but he's gonna have a lot of help to play with.
A high noon from the sky ends up blocking it but not quite enough.
Just get up to the cover quick and well now only with the baby demon form
it's gonna be hard really to fight back into this one now.
Catnap, swinging the mists for Crispy but that Ovel from the Wrecking Balls
should surge Great Britain forward.
They kill off the Colisex and that should wrap this one up.
They're just desperate to find a pick but the chaos is overwhelming from Great Britain Australia.
They can't make it happen in the kill feed.
Instead, it's going to be Great Britain now getting on the board and it feels like despite the fact you dropped the map, they're giggling.
They are now laughing as that round concludes and still beaming with confidence,
knowing what they're capable of when they get to play their own game.
They feel so much more in control of the game as it's balanced with this working ball in play.
Yeah, he's a menace, I'm gonna be honest.
A menace of society.
The Csar stormy.
The Csar stormy when Golden Pass is in the mix.
It's kind of...
Especially when you go to a map like this.
There's two kind of ways you can play.
And I think Australia and Team Great Britain are showing those two different styles.
different styles, well like you can play more as a unit with Kuffer kind of running
people down but Golden Pants playing more of a disruptive style. 20 and 1 on the ball.
On the wheel. 7k damage leaving the team. Oh no not leaving the team, Kai's got 200 more.
Almost, almost. 100 damage. 200.
Now as quick as I used to be, but I'm still a fact, just gonna need a while.
And if you're Australian after, you have to leave yourself some room of error.
And we saw how that map started, right?
It was all Great Britain.
And the opening pointer, of course,
you know, it's very much famous to Wrecking Ball.
There's so much space to operate with.
But the third point defense,
it was actually alright from Australia.
You know, they held firm for quite a bit there.
And I feel like in a meta like this,
we've been seeing all tournament long.
You almost, if you're just detailed,
you need to dwindle down the time
as much as possible in the first match,
the second point.
Because at the end of the day,
the attacking team,
when it comes down to the mechanical skill this much,
there are going to be mistakes that happen.
your partner is going to get a better view, it's not as organized as in Meta's past.
So you need to give yourself that buffer only if you can stall as much as possible.
Not giving Kappa an opportunity to get on Topokai either,
which, what they found so much success with on the first map,
just popping Kappa on Topokai's head and he kills it.
This time, it's way more difficult as they have Golden Pats kind of forcing this frontline duel,
or forcing, sorry, a sideline duel as Kappa is just fighting for his life on the points.
Slam hits Colohaix, should be a fairly easy task to heal him up here, in fact they're going to use Asuzu, so that's a good trade for Goldpans, he's just going to go straight back in if they decide to take high ground again.
I mean, you can't move forward because you have to deal with the breaking ball like this. On the ball, Australia, they felt the freedom of knowing that they can commit forward and not be punished for it.
But Goldenpats continually does his entire job of not just proving that he is the thorn in the side that demands more attention
and Australia, they're feeling past it as a result of it.
Okay.
Majed said, let me have a little death segment,
Goldenpats, one of the best Wrecking Balls.
I mean, he's getting active.
He's getting active, he's getting in there.
The Choondin vs. Goldenpats showdown on the Wrecking Ball?
Come on. Cinema. Holy cinema.
The anticipation.
Wake up! Wake up!
He's straight over the top!
Skydune as well! No way for the cat to hide!
Soggy there trying to give Guy a little bit of attention but fortunately he's just not
going to work out yet. Shut down.
By Guy and Amster or so gone.
At this time you wish you had the expert guidance of Surma Jet to tell you what
the secrets are.
What is the hidden knowledge?
Give us the secret this madness.
What do you mean? Come on, you're minding in the spawn.
He's so almost kills color hexes as well.
Oh, he misses the cad that dodges his trade away.
So that's an ult down the drain for Australia.
But that is the pressure you're under.
You feel like you have to commit.
You have to go to his place.
Oh, this guy, he might be good enough.
Makai actually, he looks soosy there.
He'll be able to play more talented to keep him up, right?
I'm just going to pop the rush on the point too but Goldfranc still got a couple of kills.
Libby Brake ends up hitting Crispy. If you're Crispy, he's way too, way too slimy on the cart.
He's already out of there. TPoff's going to wear off in a couple of moments.
This is Goldfranc. Still, again, a menace in this game.
It's not a moment rest here for Australia. They deal with the wrecking ball
and then Maimone comes in clutch on the tracer, puts one in the hand here.
There's a minute remaining on the offense.
Yeah, it feels just almost unwindable.
They're for Australia, they've got no waltz.
And they have a minute left, and can't have that post-blog.
Suzy's for Australia, they're getting golden pants,
getting active once more in the front line.
Kappa just trying his dargess to get on top of Kaga,
it's not happening.
Crispy, unfortunately, ends up slinging that all the way.
It's not picking up any, but even Kappa's still
permanently below 25% HP, Johnny.
You need a train to play to step up here as well.
Colorex under so much pressure,
Not getting the room top rate with here on Jagdurtown.
And it's all great Britain.
Well, you say that actually is covering to taking down guys.
It was a 3v4 near the point currently.
Sports are going to come in for Aussie.
The Aussie boys in just a moment.
And Soggy now just, he is the one designated to touch the point.
19 seconds to go.
Now we've got a point of mines.
The mines are going to be pivotal here.
As they're on lead.
No one, no ability to contest the payload now from Australia.
Get up by your time, but only 10 seconds remain.
A little bit my sweeper, but it is delayed. That's what they're after, and that's what they're going to get in the sky.
New Chucky into going down to his own post!
Oh, did he read me?
Kafa ends up getting saved there by Azusa, I believe, from Hampstead.
Still a rush in the back pocket now.
It's dire straits for Team Australia as they lose checks, and there is the D-Soup onto Kafa.
And their journey on Junktown will end here.
Australia on the hometown, home advantage.
Mac as well, Johnny. It's gonna go down. New Junk City is gonna get taken by team Great Britain.
And great Britain. Questioning Kafa now, not so loud anymore after that one.
Australia left feeling rather dazed and confused with all that wrecking ball action in their way.
And at the end of the day it was the Tracer, like you said, dying through your own post pump.
It's a result of all that confusion. It's a result of all the madness that's taking place
You get stuck on top of your own post-court.
Children with that replay.
Joy!
Yeah, really nice stuff.
I mean, this is the identity that they kind of form in this tournament.
I've got to welcome them.
Great, great, this year. It is directly born.
So annoying.
I'm watching the gameplay and I'm feeling the agony of Australia.
As we're trampling in the tracks on the offense, trying to figure out how can we engage.
I mean, look at that! He gets catnatched, CC doesn't last that long, he's like,
oh good, no problem, just pop the shields and...
It's devastating. It's just flank agnostic.
But whichever way you approach, the wrecking ball and tracer is always going to hit the open side,
abusing their mobility. In Australia they just didn't have an answer.
They just put it in a single fight.
They have really sad stuff for Australia on that map.
Can you cap the first point too?
Rather unfortunate.
Oh, we didn't get it.
I'm sure I'll be able to add that.
But yeah, alright.
Okay, one apiece now.
You said at the top of the series,
Australia, they have to get this first map win.
They do, because that is the map that you can ban ball.
They can play in their Able to choose a map that they've already enjoyed, they're able to play Wrecking Ball.
So now we go to Australia's where they can basically pick a map that you can't play ball on, or at least as well.
I don't think it's going to be a flashbang somehow, I think those game times, especially with how fast you can play that,
you can play Wrecking Ball.
We don't have S4, so there'll be a hybrid action and a push.
There'll be a neon junction, kind of...
Neon junction, sort of, flash out.
I think really limit all those flanks available to the wrecking ball because you kind of need the flanks to operate very free as a wrecking ball to just continue the momentum of rolling around the sides, making sure you play with pace, with haste, and near-junction kind of limits that to some degree.
But because they won that first map, they're still in control of their own destiny so far, they just have to win their two map picks from here on out in Australia, still with a very good opportunity to close the Serie A.
Can they find a footing though? Yeah. I mean, that's the problem. We saw how much pressure
Goldenpads, a good Wrecking Ball players in general can kind of dismantle a team on
their own almost because, yeah, you're in CDs of course, like Suzu, Swift, Slash, and
Cass, like those CDs of course. Okay, great. I'll be back in like half a second. I've
already used my gravel, it's on cool, it's on cool down again. I'm going to
swing back around and then it's just a constant barge of just a Wrecking Ball
just bowling in two over and over again and it does take a good team to kind of
counteract that and not saying Australia aren't a good team it's not the case
they've got really good players on the squad but like when you're as good a
gold-pant is on the pitch it's a man. Playing with the level of comfort I
guess a great breaking ball player it's a testament to an overwars player's skill
their experience and their awareness of knowing that they can deal with a
a wrecking ball player, just hitting you up from all those sides possible, making your
life so difficult and still you find a way to manage it, to deal with it and navigate
through all that. That is to me the testament of a really good Overwatch player. In Australia
in this moment they're struggling a little bit, they're struggling to find that comfort
with this kind of gameplay.
Yeah, we'll see where they end up choosing, we'll see the map will come up on your
screen in a moment when we know that the bands as well. I mean, Australia, like, where'd
you even ban? They ended up banning the Zarya. And there you go. You're right, Johnny. Neon
Junction is going to be the pick. It did seem like the most obvious one. Like, I can
buy like you, you're going to take this away from me. No, I can't. I can't. You made
this in Fridge. It is my friend. The best map to pick here because like you say,
it's like half of this. So I'm also like, you don't want to go there. You can
buy the order of, putty easy. Like, that is still maxing, get rid of the wreckable.
Do you see this little high ground high line?
Yeah, 100%. So Neon Junction is definitely the pick here for Australia.
Look, it's just going to get even more difficult because you're going to run out of the maps where you can make your life a little bit easier.
And so here we are again at Neon Junction.
It's going to be one of those series for Australia.
It's going to be thin margins on this one.
If you want to get across the finish line with three maps in your favor,
it's going to come down to the opening map. It's going to come down to Neon Junction.
and then performing a miracle on the eventual fourth or fifth map should you go that way.
Hey, just look to the back room staff. You've got Smash and Smash. They have two Smashes.
One, the capital letters Smash, Korean Smash, and then Australian Smash, lower face letters Smash.
They're channeling that energy. The Smash, Grabrick. Indeed. I mean, look, if you want to
I want to have a coach. Smash is like, you know, that's just good to get a pick at home for, yeah.
Yeah. Oh, Rissa, man. Okay, I really like this. I think taking a Rissa off the table, which is what Great Britain would want to play in a map like this.
100%.
So forcing them on ball almost.
Yeah. You're almost...
Essentially, you're essentially saying that you're going to have such a tough time playing the Wrecking Ball on the Air Junction that we're going to take away your second most preferred pick.
Yeah.
And now, where does this leave you if you're going to bounce on this one?
Do you stick with the wrecking ball?
Okay, I think you stick with the ball.
If you ban the Mizuki, I think that's the perfect counter ban there.
Uh, from...
Great response.
Yeah, because you're like, okay.
You want to play slow anyway on this map.
That's just how it's done.
Mizuki, very good on this map.
Chains incredibly annoying for the ball.
So yeah, get that out of the way.
Remove another hurdle for the wrecking ball.
It's perfect. I like this.
Is this going to be a really interesting map to see from Golden Pants?
Because it gets you a point where you're such a fantastic wrecking ball player
that you're able to navigate with even the most narrow list of hallways, essentially right.
Like the difficulty increases with some of these maps
and if you're a top 3 wrecking ball player in the world like some people are saying about Golden Pants
then maybe you're off to just pull off some incredible movement on a map like this
and carry on that momentum and still provide the chaos necessary to really
set up the rest of Great Britain in a series like this.
It is so, I would say it's fairly difficult in this first point.
There is a lot of kind of corridors you can sit in and it's gonna be up to
Golden Pants to kind of, you know, hit a good flank, get a roll through, have
Kai on the other end, kind of waiting with the cast or like, you know, some
damage on the other end that you can kind of follow off the roll through with and just
displace people. Maybe even hit a large slam. Let's have a look then.
At number three, Neon Junction, picked by Team Australia, banning the ERISA, the second
priority pick for Golden Pants in this situation, but great prison banning Mazuki. And already,
I'm seein' the ball on my screen.
And as the room for error in this series it narrows,
you can feel the detention continues to rise.
These are two teams playing essentially for a spot.
At BlizzCon, knowing that there's a top team in this group
and your best hopes are probably for second place.
These are the two teams buying
for that second qualification spot.
And so it comes down to this now best of three ahead of us
Alex, yeah
We'll spawn tech quick swap, but yeah back to what Australia have done well with and
Saving with great brains be fair golden pants back on the balls. Australia tried to hold stache
Maybe an opportunity here for copper as coffee actually gets lifted into the background while this is happening
as well. To channel some of that aggression. Teleported ones out from Hamster.
Oh wow, that was like the shortest range TP of all time as well. Basically,
the landing, you didn't go on Francis' lap, but now it's going to be pushed forward to the ready.
Yeah, don't you cover? Okay. You just need, you just need to take a moment here. Take a deep
breath. If you're Australian this moment, you're still playing the wrecking ball
composition ahead of you, but there'll be less room for displacement. It'll be easier for
you to deal with it. Just need to take a moment here to anticipate the wrecking ball, deal with it,
and then move forward with aggression.
Alright, Golden Vengeance set up again. Good initial down a day. You see the cat, like,
Arche is just permanently focusing Golden Pants. He's trying to hang around up on the high ground.
Flashbang, straight for right-click, and yeah, Soggy is going to try and
face Golden Pants out of town, which he's going to manage to do so.
come taking a kind of a boatload of damage so then she is able to actually
navigate on to the point so they're gonna get pressure here now it's up to a
great bridge try and get back in. That was a steadfast offense here as Kai got
for it. Whoa, takes down Soggy and Colour Hags. You see how quick Crispy was moving there like Mark 2?
You really want steaming full ahead with a flying tasselion with a couple
Killa's like that. It's going to end the momentum that Australia had moving forward, but it really
felt like they had something going there. It felt like Australia, they were able to establish
their own space after dealing with the wrecking ball initially. They're able to move towards the
point, but then Kai makes himself present in the sky and shuts that attack down.
Golden pants. Not invited to this backlight party here. It's tough to mount on the point.
There's a high, you know, it's got a high edge. Oh, he shoots the mind just beneath him
So he doesn't take any initial damage.
So we can all damage to GoldenPants though as he goes in for the high noon.
There's someone at his back though, straight away.
He's a respawn tier from my mode. Just booped around him.
You can't really, in that situation, not be able to aim at anything.
There's a Tracer shooting here, there's GoldenPants running into you.
Like, ColorHex tried to go for a big high noon play, but just completely shut down.
I mean, you're seeing ghosts. You're pulling off the dead eye saying,
I'm going to go and get them, and they're not in front of you.
Instead, they're harassing you as the wrecking ball of the Tracer hitting you from all sides.
already going for it. He's a force. Nice, he's doing a catnap as well. Okay, it took a lot, but a lot
it required to bring down the Golden Pants. This is the opportunity now for Australia. They need
to seize this moment with Golden Pants, making his way back from spawn. Kuffa has a limit
breaking hand, should he need it? Aye on the flank by the way. Golden Pants already in.
Shoggy trying to go for the kill onto Kai. And now Kai in like an incredible spot. They
Got that on to Carla Hayes, he flings them up to the sky again, bolt around and shooting at Ghosts.
Team Australia, they're gonna get forced off the point and put in Dyer straight 40 seconds to go, Johnny.
They got a tick to now cap.
Tough up. Forced to change here from spot to me, gather that mech.
As eyes forward, one final attack here.
Oh, okay, it ends up shutting down Karla Hex on the entrance.
Stick? I mean, oh, this is just a slaughter.
10 seconds to go. Great bring hold in this, and they aren't going to get a touch. Soggy's just spawning in.
These mines don't be devastating.
I'm in, hindered. Golden Pants running away, picks up the mega health back, and here's the touch.
It's okay, they're on the point.
Mymone ends up here in the recall,
perhaps we're trying to win this 1v1,
but he's gonna have a tough go of it,
as Mymone shuts him down.
On the other side of things though, a 43 situation.
Oh, Colour Hex again, dealt with Mymone, Golden Pants.
They're still in this fight.
Tapends are coming through though,
so another lifeline here for Team Australia
to hold on to.
A lifeline indeed.
The hopes still alive for Australia
as they now get to carry that payload forward.
And their hopes of a BlizzCon squad win it.
This needs to be the map that they secure a win on
to give themselves the best opportunity possible at winning this series.
It hasn't gone their way so far and they need to continue with this momentum now.
Colorex with a dead eye in hand, Kitsune rush for Hamster.
How can you give value out of these ultimates?
There's our Pops.
Yeah, that Kitsune rush off camera there.
My Mone shut down.
Golden Patch chased away.
We're going to...
Whoa! What is fighting here?
What is Bro doing? I mean, Krispy is going to get the return kill down, it's a call of
Hexode, they've all been distracted, can't nap. Oh, okay.
Stealing Golden Pants away, I don't think there's any chance for an escape. No, too much damage
from Team Australia. They're putting one and one together now, getting a nice team
fight win on the back of Kolaris' initial pick in that fight, and they still got
ultimate in hand, a minute 20 on the timer, but this is the kind of momentum
Australia has been waiting for. If they can secure this next fight convincingly, at least they've earned themselves an opportunity on this map.
And he's got a rush.
Famy lays down on this point. It should be a fairly trivial fight, like older pants.
I.T.D. is not fighting on this rush. There it is. I.D. as well. It's getting a group straight to it. Oh, Kai! Aerial drop straight onto the point after that Skyline attacks.
Kiwi shut down by soggy. And now, a catnap from Crispy again.
Crispy again, not really finding his success that Grape Reaver hoping for to make their final stand on this second point.
Limit breaks going to get popped there, straight onto Golden Pants, very low, mines deployed.
Crispy, the last attempt, heavy blaster shuts him out, is my moan.
Yep, hits him a fair well, gives up the point.
And they're driving now with the comfort of being able to hub the payload.
Knowing that Golden Pants is not going to have all the room necessary to make the most out of this wrecking ball kick.
Instead of Australia now, they're finding the value both on the Cassidy, the Demon, but also Soggy coming in touch here on the Tracer.
That's great Britain now, they're struggling to find their footing on this defense.
No ultimates really available to them, my moan with the pullspot. You're facing a Su-Su, a Cassidy, so tough to get value of this one.
So much attention brought towards Golden Pass. Now my moan with the pull is hard.
Oh, I think I stuck the shield, not that really low. You saw the idea coming through from my moe getting a D suit.
This fight is not going their way at all yet. I was just going to die near the point. They got a minute to go to try and defend.
Still, the payload is going to move, but this point is tough to cap to say the least.
My moe still kills Kalex though.
You have to one pick onto Kalex and that's going to set us really back.
So I'm gonna play this one slow at least they've navigated this initial
This initial pile ground from Golden Pants now if you can force up a casino rush from Kiwi
Then that should at least set you off for a good push
Good final push here and try and cap out his offense. Yeah, they're gonna be playing on that rush too
So this can that might be quite deadly for
great bread
All right here it comes strats Golden Pants
Nope dodge see ya post bottom from so you know it's kind this shoo-zoo
Unfortunately, timing there for Kiwis, but Goldenpans is going to still make this interesting in the back line.
400 HP with another slam in tow is going to be able to get her back to the point again as we see Crispy go for a catnap of his own.
Doesn't find too much success there, as Aki is off the skill feed.
A couple of kills for the catnap, and Team Australia. We're going to try and finish this one.
Kai, Denai finds nothing at all. Perhaps the Cerns are going down at Mimone's hands.
Kuffa takes down Kai, sure, but where is the backup here for Team Australia?
Australia
Minds the court here at least going to buy some time. What a shield there from golden pads as well absorbing that high noon
I mean great brain surely this is the defense that they were after over time taken through collar hex off HP
So the cat here to touch the point. I'm still gonna come back on the Lucio, but colleagues. No HP nothing to play with
Hamster gets slammed up there. It is defense. It's good for great Britain
They do finally make a stand here on the third point, but if I was really I'm happy with that
We earned a couple of points. It looked really dire for us on the initial point there
And now at least if we play it safe with this demon on the defense
Try to dwindle down this time from Great Britain
We can make a good run for it
This is what I'm worried about though
Now we got Kai maybe feeling a bit of freedom on attack because when you're playing on the attack, right?
You are less scared of the defense going for a really proactive push against you
You feel a bit more comfortable in your space if you are the attack you are the one approaching you get to pick
Your flanks you get to play if what you want to play main
And so Kai maybe had a bit more of a difficult time. There's seven deaths
I mean that stands out on the scoreboard right now
You can see the Kai just doesn't have the room to operate with even though the damage is there the deaths
It's a high speed volume. Yeah, it's volumes
My man getting really active in the comms there at the very end, kind of like sitting back, looking at the rest of his team.
Teyma Hamster on the other side of things.
Making sure they're all set up. Here we go, defence now for Australia.
I will say to counteract your point though Johnny, what Australia have done very well is go for a very proactive approach with the demo.
That is correct, but Golden Pants he really holds the key for success here because if Australia goes for that push
Golden Pants is going to abuse that fact instead and get on top of the back line of Australia
Going to force that Seusser from hamster the teleport and then my moan can combine with that
As you always have to be wary about not getting Golden Pants enough opportunity on these wide flanks to open up and crack open this defense
Well look at my moans position already
Top of the Slaan again, Arty off HP, the Slaan is really good as well.
He's gonna bear a lot of fruit in here if they can pick up a kill.
Good skill though.
Good skill though.
That's my mode of way, that's no recall, no blitz.
Soggy has got more than enough resources there to deal with the enemy Tracer.
And they've done with that.
So comfortable.
It's going to be a couple of Tracer back and forth, three versus three scenario here.
Yeah, well there comes the Slaan again, he offered an entire route, this is actually
where the team on wants to be.
GoldenPants is going to make his life a bit of a living hell here.
You can wait this one out though, you can wait for spawners to get back. Neither team
really in control as the point is contested still. No ticks being made here.
Backline, they're going to hear that. Grapple no problem.
It's actually Soggy that takes the front of that. Roll through from GoldenPants,
extremely low, pops the shield.
Then he gets to get back. No issue for a reckonable play with his stature.
F*** you with an early ultimate here. Opportunity to make a play if you see one.
Well they're trying for it again. Tagging Goldenpans, but instantly pops up. What is this?
And he's above the cat. Most bomb for my murder. You're sticking the back.
So better Suzu though from Hamster keeping him alive. Goldenpans.
Just what, like the speed he was slinging around there was a little bit absurd.
But now for my mode, they're gonna be able to DMEC.
Rafa, should be too low to put control.
You're gonna take down the Col-X, at least gets one.
Mind's kill on to the baby demon.
Flashbang from Col-X doesn't end up finding his mark,
as my mode ends up hitting the recall just in time.
This is what Australia needs to do.
They just need to trade out with the offense here,
prevent the offense from gaining some kind of stability with this wrecking ball.
Get Tumores available for Hamster here still.
Yeah, no ticks on the point either, Johnny.
Hamster has got the rush to play around,
if they need more time, but it doesn't like they do at all.
The whole conference is already back.
And now, Nugol, Sky New.
Sky New, Kai's going to try as well.
Oh, Colour Hex!
Quicker on the trigger for the Cassidy.
Gives Crispy a little left hook as well.
A quick trade, it's a 3 on 3 now.
Soggy with a whole lot of resources still.
Hits the recall fairly early on.
And McColour Hex going down, it's going to be on.
Soggy's shoulders to try and bring this fight
the way of Team Australia.
That's a pivotal pick though.
Great Britain, they are finally the big support.
Soggy goes down. They're starting to rack up percentage here and without Koffein the mix here
This probably should be it for Great Britain capping out this first point
And there it is from 0 takes a three point on lock three and a bit minutes to go a very good defense
So from Team Australia a very good defense. That's exactly what you need
You can't ask for much more than that now. No ultimate on the board here
This is Great Britain's opportunity here the stars generating some momentum on this attack
It's people to lower Australia holds strong now
Golden pans that can't happen
Flashbang so clean there
They're using a lot of resources to put into Golden pans, but it is what it is paying off
In a moment like that though you set up Australia they're able to now set up this defense
accordingly still building towards those ultimate so
seal great Britain with an opportunity here but you can't let the
opportunities like that go wasted a little bit down there again
color-x playing around this corner it's been looking so good for Australia but
now they have to deal with this rush minds is gonna be good but color-x still
forced into the corner and eventually they end up taking down now my mode
way more free to operate on this tracer and to pay the recoil fairly early is
the catnap end of bringing going about almost to a position he wants to
But with Koffa out of the picture, it should be a fight to Great Britain win handily.
But there was also a fight in Australia, they felt like they maybe could win.
Koffa, deploys the limit break and does not get any value for it.
Sky and Union hand from Kai here.
As we approach this final territory of the second point, the teamfight is realistically all you need here to close things out on this one.
But it needs to come down to the damage pairs of Great Britain as Kai and Friskley, they're setting up for it.
We're going to slow it down again.
Yeah, oh, didn't even get the mega health pack.
It's really sprouting on this map so far.
Yeah, that's exactly what we were talking about, right?
He wanted to play the Eraser Australia, just took it away from him.
And you can go for an aggressive play with this guy and run into a Kai here,
but it's really going to be Australia that are favored in this one.
Get Tuna Rush, they have their own ultimates.
And they just need a couple of team fight wins to get away with this map win.
Skiming from Kai is going to have to know what they need.
I know!
Yeah, more time off the bank.
And they're not going to make something of this here.
They have to wait for my motor to hit respawn because you want God of Pants to go in first.
Open the way, things up for my mode.
Yeah, you need your mobility players to wrap around,
getting to a good position to begin with and you can see great brick on here
they're getting ready for it I knew. Kalecs going to do the same thing here.
Oh this time Kai comes out on top. Good kill on Tekala Hex now. Kai isn't no
man's ability, he's got the back of a Christie. Oh, it's the stick, it's the
roll though Kiwi ends up going down. I think Kai rolled into him. A good double shot onto the
cat low brings down the support for Kai. Kind of dominating in this very
Oh my god!
Another shot!
Kai is dominating all the Cassidy!
And those staggers are going to be brutal now.
You can go for maybe a final attempt to touch this payload, but...
Is it going to be worth anything?
So if you will come in here, Kafa, looking to be the next man up.
So get back a load of time with the payload actually,
and everyone from Australia will get back in time.
Alright, there's the break.
Yeah!
No chance ready to survive there, but with only 10 seconds to go with Kiwi and Kai out of the picture,
it's gonna be so tough for Great Britain to come back in.
Maimou still alive, of course, but very limited HP to play with now.
Shields for Golden Pants, he tries to keep this fight going, only dealing with Kuffa as he gets ejected from the mech.
Quickly dealt with by Maimou though, a very nail-biting finish on this second point,
but without much time to play with, it's the final push-release, we're here for GBR.
Sir Margett said it was going to be a close one and this series has gone that way so far.
We have a great rhythm. They have to do everything they can to get away with Team Fight Twins in this one.
It comes down to a minute here now on their attack. They have Ultimate in hand.
What does Australia have up their sleeve?
I'm just swinging trying to find this tracer. That's being very proactive. There's the sky dude.
Look at the cover right now. Not really going to be a target you're going to be able to isolate off.
Ends up losing neck anyway, and there's the kill to Archie. This is a good push and with the Alch to spare Johnny
Yeah, it's bad Australia. You got a bite with time now. Colorex coming up on the sky noon
Kafa has to switch. Doom straight back into the demon has to get back to the point in a couple of moments
35 seconds to go and now he gets on. Okay rush, piloting on the pressure is Kiwi now
Oh no!
And he's got X's so down, there he's got the high ground. Could quite get the kill onto Golden Pan so a recall for
The Soggy's he takes down Kai, another one to Krispy will be huge red double.
Soggy with a couple and he's done enough, surely.
My Moan takes down Soggy eventually and with 5 meters to go in 18 seconds remaining,
Golden Pans and Keemley try to keep this frontline fight alive.
It has to be a reset for Great Britain, Bros. Gralea.
They're gonna set up around this Katsuna Rush now.
Yeah, he's got 7% away.
Golden Pans is gonna get touched.
No doubt about it, surely.
He's gonna get pooped away and held in the door.
There's a touch, no worries.
Mymoan back up here for GV to get onto the point in time.
Rush coming up at a couple of moments in Inslee.
Hanster rips it.
Soggy now looking for his next mark.
Overshield over health on Mymoan there.
Grosso kills!
Golden Pan's McCulloch, hex ends up going down anyway.
Kuffa swinging around making sure that Krispy has a lot more to deal with
than just these whole flies in his heel up.
A slash from Golden Pan straight onto Kuffa
but Soggy again comes up with the boots.
Double kill on the support and the stick.
What a stick as well! What am I witnessing from Soggy right now? What an unbelievable wipe!
Team Australia, whole GB at the final hurdle!
A cover on his feet again, Australia, they get it done on Neon Junction to set themselves up, 2-1 in the series.
Soggy going absolutely beast mode, demon time on the tracer, takes down both supports, hits
a pulse and then finishes up the rest.
And the two kills in the fight before, just set up that final fight.
Just an unbelievable third point from Soggy.
And it allows Australia, it felt like it was desperation in the Kitsuna rush, Costa
swinging the sword trying to get the final picks necessary and the kills just
weren't there until Soggy came here true of the tracer instead.
An unbelievable performance from the tracer in against the wrecking ball
comp as well. Really well played. Australia this was the map that they had to kind of
go to Neon Junction and then ban the Orisa to kind of put Great Britain off
Like push them off kilter
This one's good, 5-2s
I'm pretty good, he's dead, got it, in the big 26
Look at him
Soggy trying his best, jumping into walls, jumping into doors
Trying to hide, break half
That's really out, look, they've done everything
They can't so far, like jumping time
Like what chance do you really have on jumping time?
That's not the map you need to win in this series
It needs to be the opening one where you get the wrecking ball down out
It needs to be a neon junction
And now this underdog team, it has to be said, you play great Britain.
He's an incredible individual from their team.
Fani Astro, waving in the wings instead of going to a crispy M-T week,
trying to make the most here for qualification for Great Britain.
But this has been such an impressive series for Australia so far.
Yeah, and it felt like, at least in the bands as well, like, great Britain.
They did what they needed to do in banning the Mizuki.
But now Australia on that point, I mean, this group is almost kind of turning on its head.
Only two spots, obviously, in each group that end up going to BlizzCon.
Australia make it here and not Great Britain down a peg.
This second place is hotly contested right now.
Yeah, Australia making mean work of it.
But now it kind of lies in the laps of Great Britain.
Is that your choice?
But I'm at 4.
I feel like the pressure has moved its way over from Australia onto Great Britain now.
Golden Pants, first tournament with that live audience playing on stage
is a different kind of environment, not really.
The same you've grown accustomed to at home.
Can you still, in a match like this, facing elimination here?
Or not elimination rather, but facing a defeat here in a series like this,
can you still play your best game when it really needs to?
It's a lot to ask for.
Yeah, and this feels like a map 5 type angle here too,
because with Great Britain's ability to choose a map,
it's going to be a reckonable failure of the map, you know?
But I think this is where Australia can lean into,
maybe even a Mizuki, because it's been banned away already.
Have the Mizuki being pulled out,
although, thinking about a little bit more...
It's a cat world, brother.
It is just a cat world, yeah.
I mean, Neon Junction is kind of the perfect map to play the Pekon,
But it's just a fact.
Yeah, we kind of have to see where Great Britain take it.
I mean, obviously, you've got push and flash points coming up here.
So either way, though, really, you've got great opportunities
to set yourself up most likely going to be the flash point first.
Yeah, I feel like it's going to be flash.
Suravasa, Atlas, I mean, you're a young city.
Like, which one are you pick?
Suravasa?
I think Suravasa is a good map for cool.
Yeah, I think I, you know,
As the wrecking ball player I am in my diamond ball, he's, uh, I'm, I'm, so, so, of course,
so, of course, I don't think you can necessarily go wrong.
I'd say this is probably the more difficult map because the points on athletes are like
so dynamic in, in their, their hydro structure.
Yeah.
It's a lot more enclosed as well.
So the ball as, you know, he's got a good kind of escape route show, but Atlas or
it feels because it's a little bit more open, more chance to get like environmentally as well.
It was the better of the three if you do go there. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
So like the pressure is on and like I did on the day you're playing a wrecking ball comp,
it's going to be out this as I say that it's going to be out this. All right.
This is why I don't play wrecking ball in my right games. I'm a fellow
So, grey hero, Nightmare, you know, Winston, Frenar, Sigma.
Grey hero, the grey colour palette.
The grey colour palette, career profile.
The heroes.
That's me right there.
Yeah, you know what, Frenar.
All right, Grebi and get their chance to ban first two.
At this point, I'm like, OK, I don't think you ban Tracer.
It might be the demon that you ban from Kuffa.
I feel like there are a few good tank options though.
you can navigate what Great Britain are doing in a scenario like this.
Hog.
Hog.
Hog would look great in this kind of thing.
Alright, he's cooking, I'm not picking up what you're putting down, but no.
I didn't cook too much for that.
What are you thinking if you're Australian then?
Or Great Britain, sorry, if you're a bandit first.
I mean, I think it's a really difficult band here.
I don't think there's a, seriously, I can see your cut answer, it's going to be the demon, like you say?
Okay, fair enough.
I mean, Kafa has been very comfortable with the demon so far, so nothing wrong with throwing him off that hero,
but at the end of the day, like...
If I did your banning demon, oh my god, it's not the highest impact ban.
Out of all the impact bans that are capable of in Overwatch, it's not the one that is necessarily going to shake the entire demon,
because there are so many tankers in the game now that I think Comfort Steel would find a way to make himself comfortable in the frontline.
Yeah, I think even what you kind of mentioned on Neon Junction, Rematra Hazard can be played as well like Kaffa, it's not, he's Harris Paul isn't exactly small, it's just that demon right now.
I mean, coming into the tournament.
It feeds into us, it's a pressure.
50-50 on whether it's like OP or like, you know, it's really good or it's like actually broken
You can't apply it. He's bearing on the side of like look because we want to play super aggressive
This pick is just very difficult to count
You can see why he's just perma-locking it right now. Is she on that four?
Very brave that four team Australia, sorry
This is going to be a
Very tense map
For everyone back in Australia now
Maybe not the position they expected to find themselves in.
Preserved a little bit of rationality deep in their hearts as they recognized the great task that Great Britain are here.
But now you're up 2-1 in the series. You have two maps to make a stand in this series and really open the door for disqualification.
Let's have a look.
I think with how well as well Kai is farming on the server too, I think the Gasty has just
been such a giant tool for Great Britain to succeed, but I think we saw it at the very
end with Soki just ramping it up on the Tracer.
is now who Australia are going to be looking for I think to open up some of these fights. I still
think Australia are gonna be playing quickly. I think that's just, isn't there blood at this point
with how aggressively they're kind of throwing kuff at it? That's what they feel comfortable doing.
We've seen Sweden just throw kevser in on the tracer using the cat so I mean right now we
could also see up to do the same thing with some on a map like this. There's a degree of
comfort in knowing that you're willing to go down with the ship. You feel like we can channel
this aggression and we're comfortable with the end result no matter what. Kafa probably suspected
at some point in this series that Demon was going to be banned out. That's okay. We have backup
plans in place for bands coming out. As we're waiting to get it to this final map I'm seeing
Saga now in conversation with a few people maybe ironing out a couple of issues here.
As we head into our pivotal fourth map, remain in the lobby for now.
Yeah, it should be too much longer.
Or we get it.
This is what you dream of.
Playing for your country.
Yeah.
Opportunity to do something great.
Make your country proud.
This is what the Overwatch Walkout calls down to.
I mean Australia especially they've always been so much pride to the country
They've always been a really fun team to watch at BlizzCon as well. So yeah, for sure man for sure
I mean look at the look at the screenshots or like the photos from on the liquid media page
Yeah, just a bunch of characters
It's I think with how
Well great Britain have kind of shown up and it's fun to see Australia really give them the run for their money
I mean okay go back to I don't know how long it was ago like 30 minutes
Lost track of time at this point, but the desk. We always said like look I think
It's gonna be great beer and taking the win here. I thought I said three a little three. Whoa, we all did yeah
No closer than you know, we're expecting
Nice stuff from Australia so far
And this will really be a big confidence bill to if they take a map like this
Where you have got a pattern like if you if Australia wins this map right here
And they secure the series when you've accomplished the goals that you had going into Busan
You made the trip worth it in the end
That's what locked on the line here. Oh, you're just playing a few matches
You're just showing up for a weekend
You're playing a few matches in Busan and hoping to make your own your ticket to BlizzCon. Yeah, and they are really on the cusp of doing so
All right, we're loading in
Seeing entering game on my little monitor down here as you guys are just panning over the players real quick
I saw Kuffo with some nice little words in the chat there, unfortunately we can't get them.
We should get the chat up, we need the in-game chat visible again. Please!
They did stand up after Neon Junction. They did stand up again.
Yeah, Kuffo was talking a little smack in the chat.
We've even joined a couple of teammates, it was not only Kuffo, it was, you know,
three members on their feet, maybe we'll get five after this one.
Yeah, absolutely.
All right, Atlas, fourth map of the series.
Great Britain taking us here after a Neon Junction, that was very much a nail biter.
See Golden Pants back on the Wrecking Ball of course, with no demon or kuffa in this map.
And this is a series now for kuffa that could feel so rewarding in his career.
He's had moments before, I'm thinking about the series against Team Falcons at last year's midseason championship on the brink of taking out the eventual tournament winners that time in a major.
But since then, it's a bit more quiet.
Kafa hasn't been rewarded with the playtime that maybe expected him to prime of his career.
And now here with an opportunity to upset Great Britain.
What's that mean when I lie?
It's a reason for celebration once more.
Golden Pants rocking the Orisa.
Okay, a little bit more of a sane, complied say on this map.
Kai on the Soju.
Another pick to be fair.
That Kai is extremely adept on.
Alright, Soge versus the Kass, and we have the Eraser from Golden Pants to try and see this one through against Kuffer's Ramp.
You see what Kai is peeled off? When he has the opportunity here for a bit more high tempo, the Slider Pistols also has to peel back for now under a lot of pressure.
He ends up sliding away with Colour Hex, just making his presence known on the flank, and in fact Kuffer is going to help escort the rest of the team as they just do a little dance around this high ground.
It's going to be point pressure from Australia first here, gets contested eventually by Goldenhouse.
Oh, this is an aggressive push.
Yeah, they're trying to chase Pie down as fast as they possibly can. There you go.
They found their mark, soggy on the point without a recoil.
Of course, he's not. Too long to miss the ward after that.
Oh, no! Oh, God! They're doing the same thing.
They're just basically throwing the tanks at the hitscan players
and hoping they get the kill, and get the kill they do,
tougher without a nemesis form. It's quickly focused by golden pants and despite early pick on
Takai it will be great Britain taking the first point. In many ways that's that's been the meta
so far it's paymaking after paymaking. Stars of Australia they're throwing in the Ramosco
with the nemesis form throwing punches taking Kai down but what caused the Soki
forced to end his turn on the point that time keeping contested at the end of the day
It's going to be great Britain now in control first here in all office
Guys got a lot of time to set up on the sojourn as well
See now kafa making sure he can get in a position where he can be effective with his nemesis
For this business be quite tough though a beautiful terrorist and gold pants max rage
Grabbing car hangs as he was on the retreat
There's a rush to the point right now, but no one from Australia actually using it
decided against it completely. Kalfa again running down Kai, but losing Hamster is just not it.
Soki, right on his shoulders again, on with the Tracer. A kill on Taaki too. He's going to be hurting
Australia right now. They have no healers or supports to heal them up. They get a small flip,
but only 28% is not enough. Yeah, they did earn a little bit of percentage,
which is a boon for them. It feels good that you're able to build that up.
You deployed Akitsunorosh, but you went down a member and forced to make a move, forced
to make a play. You just stalled out long enough there to give yourself another opportunity,
but this time it's great to break it with your rush.
Yep, rush with Kiwi. Chiffing up to 6th gear here to try and make something of this fight,
but it looks like Team Australia have managed to disengage successfully.
It's action outside here.
It's on a long dive.
Beautiful recall. Wow, on Knife's edge to leave him.
But Kiwi with a decently ranged Kunai headshot across the point.
Overclocked Hopper's really low, has to pop the annihilation.
No one really arranged for him to just make use of this ultimate though, and a snipe onto Hamster is going to put Australia again on the back foot.
Colour Hex stores and that will be Kuffer following in.
This will be Great Britain claiming the first point.
And it feels like even though Golden Pass is on the Orisa here, it's Australia that's left a little bit passive on the back of this Ramatra pick.
They've been trying to make place but they haven't really been rewarded this time and you can kind of feel like
The presence of demon is a little bit missing here
The aggression from kafa is not really what it used to be and instead it's going to be the claim makers of great Britain that
Earned at the first point here
Terrorists for golden pants, maybe I'll finish one up, with a sky nude
It's been a bit of damage from Kai then, quickly healed up, Terrasurge is going to come in and
eliminate Kuffa, uh, Call of Hect, sorry. Kuffa's also, uh, ended up going down anyway
in the chaos. That was a really kind of, uh, an aggressive push there from Archey,
trying to get a catnip. Everybody was so grouped up, he would hit a nicely timed
Suzu, and Great Britain stay alive.
Kuffa's going to make the swap here. Show the Winston at first, maybe just
leaping and spawn against the ground, but it's going to be the Haster
willingly taking the duel against Northern Pants to javelin with your Risa
hoping that a bit more of this brawl can earn them space and the cracks necessary to get a grip
Alright, hold on. Exist damage on the Northern Pants there. Flashbang, little hinder.
The post bomb in return, a force solid. Northern Pants already back to 100% HP though.
So, a cadnap on the tracer, way easier target there to take down than the wrecking ball that we saw earlier on.
Australia wants more, they sneak this point cap away.
Kai ends up going down the sacrificial line at this point, four great Britain as this rush gets played very defensively.
But with a kill on to Crispy and still, Australia holding on to this point, they may have lost it for now.
But a quick reposition for Carlahecks, thanks to the cat, it shouldn't be too much longer here before they regain control.
But this is an Australia team now that is fighting with aggression on the back of this hazard plate.
Getting the picks required, he got the flick too, and yes, they've forfeited the points for a brief moment there.
But they're now feeling more comfortable in their own skin.
Polar X, go down here though, force is five.
Lucky, I think lucky to escape with his life there.
How many really one fight-ish Australians get back in?
Now you gotta be wary as well.
Maimon waiting in the wings, Kai peeking here, they're looking for something.
The guy who's seeing him, 6% or so.
My moon's got a pole spot.
Downpour coming up.
There's another Sky Moon in a couple of moments too.
Colette's going to be able to earn that from the Sky.
Always gets taken out though.
Pogs behind him a little bit.
Damage reduction.
There's a canceling it straight away.
There's a cat that's behind him as well.
Just trying to turn the ties to Team Australia.
Here is overtime is in session.
Kai rips the OC.
RK and the Sky's into going to the cat.
And knocks down Kai as well.
A beautiful shutdown from the cat.
From Team Australia.
Golden Pants has got the ultimate of course.
And of course, but it's already used, it's golden and gets dominated by Colorex.
It won't be won, Sony versus Mimone, shut down by Akus, dominating in disguise.
I mean, this is a cat performance here, like no other.
It conjured up a teamfight win there, on the back of a poor Sky Moon.
The execution just wasn't there from Colorex.
Akus saves the day here, and it's going to boil down to one fight here, on this second point.
Alright, they're gonna have a little bit of time to set up, but it looks like Crispy's
already made his presence known on the point, but there's a lot of Augsburgs thought he
must be ready to start up for a stick as well as Karmus Mid-Slide, we're not connected!
My move's also down, so this is a non-fighting!
The Team GB ain't no wait, they're coming up with a win here.
I mean, they got some individuals stepping up.
Big time on Australia.
It's Aki in one fight.
It's Shoggy in the next one.
Colorex making planes out of the Cassidy.
This is an Australia team that is fired up,
firing on all cylinders.
Rush versus the Katnack.
God of Pants trying to find an unconventional way
of entering this fight.
It's like happy to find around this bit point
of the time being waiting for my moan to join him. It's like soggy, it's just playing more
of a goalkeeper position on the Tracer right now, making sure Gold and Pats can't get away
with anything too crazy. As we're getting walled off as well, good answer to play down from
Kappa, but there's the cat-cat on the hazard, but instantly pops the spike guard. Nobody
taking almost too much damage there, he's going to be up to three positions straight
up to the kite. Even Kala Hicks as well, getting into a position where he can succeed
with the rest of his team.
It's going to be Kiwi, dropping a consumer rush here, making a stand on the point.
Double rush though, Haster also pops his in the end, Sky News comes out, Kala Hex just marching forward using Kafa as a giant wall of meat, a giant shield to walk behind.
Kala Hex with a beautiful triple to get a flip.
And now it's starting to get tense for Great Britain here.
The wrecking ball no longer in this series feels like a strength of theirs instead it
feels like something they have to endure and play around.
Bonaparte and left wanting in this match so far now with this aggression from Australia
they're playing control they're feeling comfortable indeed.
Can't great Britain now live into the moment.
Oh sneaky.
My moan works his way in there as the cat never go to bat,
him down but put in a position where ColourHex can finish him off.
Now Kai, double slides away, too close to the Cassidy, a little bit fear for the ColourHex
and I would be too.
Surviving their time but seconds feel like minutes at this point, 67% and accounting.
In Great Britain they need to find it in here.
Golden Pan setting up once more on this flank but who can step up, who can make
a page?
Again, forced out here, it's going to be a late touch.
Slowly forced to recall early on as he goes on the chase, hunting for Kai, down port.
I'm not sure what it connected with, but it's Soggy that ends up going down.
Kai's on an alternate angle. Look at this. He's sneaking around.
Sky noon. Sky noon again.
Better care of people off the point. Team Australia looking good.
If I mind getting a point for a Gold of Hands, but he's dangerously low.
Crispy still ends up getting the kill.
As Gold of Hands is shut down, but covers alive still.
99% for Team Australia, and they're in control of the points.
Christie's super cat low too.
Connor Hates is playing so well right now.
He ends up dodging the post from Higgs,
the flash to Hindane connects with my mode
as the point goes Australia's way.
Just one point away from taking down Great Britain
and propelling themselves forward towards BlizzCon qualification.
It's just day two here in Busan at the Overwatch World Cup group stage.
But yes, so ever pivotal now for Australia to make this moment happen for themselves
Call her hex with a pick what is that? I think you want to hopefully fish for a date
But you're not playing aggressive here if you're tgb
We need ties compressors here with the overclock
He's gonna rip it call a hex dodges out of the way almost instantly a nice little Susan cry 68 to be already
and they end up hitting Chaser. Oh nice shot on Songi, shuts him down, disrupts the shot.
He'll be a time-bought hit. The Kai's land another rail.
DPS deleted by Kai. It is the reliability that Great Britain needs here.
It's caught up. Windows down as well. A play made by Aki here, but it's going to be Great Britain flipping the point.
That was so low. Yeah, wow, that Katnap over Ega by Aki. They've been thinking that Kiwi can
get instantly killed. Wait, he just ends up teleporting away.
That's Australia. Need to collect themselves a little bit here.
They have the Sky Noon available to them.
A fight on the point might be ill-advised against Key with Kitsune Rush.
But all they need is a pick here to really open things up.
Silver bullet straight into the High Noon.
Onto this high ground. Golden Pants way too healthy for that.
Even to be effective for it.
Should get the cap.
They should. Or maybe they don't. They're already back in this.
And there's the rush. Downfall from Copper's gonna...
Well, hit the entire rush, but yeah, no one's actually on it to make Reduce Smith stick in the back for my moan.
As they delete cover off of the map, it's 75% right now for Great Britain, but Colisex with another kill.
They're making this really tough for them.
Socky and the Waffi Waffi guys get healed up, a 180 degree railgun shot,
shuts down Colisex, as now Australia have one more attempt to touch this point.
And they know that the Touch might be coming here from Socky, trying to harass out the recall from the tracer.
Can anyone get through in time?
They do. Okay, tough it in. There's the captain that is dragged along, but he's going to fall in if they try to get crossed.
Oh, he gets back up as well! No way!
Crispy ends up falling. He needs an ult to try and end this point.
Minds. Minds? Yeah, sure, Jolly. But there's no backup in, there's no follow-up for Great Britain.
It's okay, though. The point gets flipped by Australia here, but you're sitting at 99%.
And Kai with another overclocked. He did it once. Can he do it twice?
Hala Hex. Oh, it dinks him though. Surprise force to slide away.
Postbop. Doesn't even look at it. Doesn't care.
Kala Hex ends up going down by the low health boss.
On the side of Team Great Britain though, and Akibakesa makes use of it too.
Hamster with another. The supports.
They're carrying Australia right now in this fight, but my mode is going to find both of them.
Push their heads on stakes.
Percentage is taking over on Australia. Great Britain eagerly wanted to get back into the territory where they can cap out.
Masaki! Another one!
Shucked down by Golden Pants. His cover makes his way back onto the point.
The supports are going to come in just a moment as well.
Hanser and Aki have made their way back.
Healing cover all the way back to fold.
Brog's bomb goes wide. Suzu 2 is doing sure it doesn't do anything.
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Hasn't missed a beat step up. He's on the national stage. Yeah
Yeah, he really has
It is crazy the upset that we just got to witness between Australia and Great Britain guys
I think so much of the conversation heading into this was Australia
They did feel like the underdog going into this matchup
But we also talked about how Kappa needed a little bit more of that help something that I think we didn't really get to see as much
in their game versus Saudi Arabia Arabia, but
Australian color hex
They were stepping up to the plate providing the support that was needed and absolutely having some insane hero plays
I mean look every individual stepping up like that, you know, chasing the single out players just like, you know
Kafa, you know what is capable of making plays but that's that's I did soggy and clerks were able to hang and like rack up
You know because of big moments like soggy on Neon Junction. That was just so impressive
So impressive. Yeah, absolutely ridiculous and then yeah color hacks there. You saw how he's basically
Offended for his life a lot of the time against the ball like come on like that is so tough to deal with the best times
even though you've got the cast and the other Hindu name, sure. Bro, he's just clicking heads.
And yeah, they're backline too, also provide hella support. Like the Sky Noons, the amount of pressure
that was really put on to GB in those last couple of fights, yeah, can't be up to date.
And we talked about also, I think, how important that first map was, maybe when we heard that
the wrecking ball was going to get that ban on control. And the fact that they ended up
winning it, there's so much pressure for them to find that success. And it really feels like
the strategy that they chose to focus on also Golden Pants and the comfort for
this team worked out really beautifully there for Australia. They had a game plan
and it really worked out. Yeah I mean it's kind of you feel kind of limited
right there are some like real must win maps in the pool right and it like I
said like the path to victory was winning both you know the breaking
ball map but also winning Neon Junction and they did so and that set
them up for a lot of athletes rather to pull up that map win as well as
secure the series and so really impressive to just get the job done with the
needy. Yeah, I know both both smash is not just the coach smash is gonna be
screaming out the back as well for sure. Yeah, I think they did a fantastic job.
And you know, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, that was kind of an expected 3-0 for
after this win like they faced in Mexico. They are on the path to make it to
those. And that's the insane part how much of an upset this was to create
this opportunity now for it to
be wide open in that second
spot, but it seems maybe wide
open, but realistically, GBR
they haven't had to play
Saudi Arabia, just yet
Australia already did so
yesterday and having Mexico
ahead of them. It does seem
like a pretty clear cut path
here and guys, we've got
Kappa on the couch with us
Kappa, congratulations on
We saw, we know how good of a player you are, right?
We've seen you in OWCS.
We've seen you at the majors and we knew that there is a lot of pressure, I think,
on your shoulders being like the very experienced player on this roster to kind
of like bring everybody together.
What has the experience been like for you with Team Australia?
It's been pretty good.
I think there's been like a fair few issues throughout the time.
You know, it's a bit of like a learning experience playing with players
that haven't played within a while.
But we were on Nocho that like we played in the same region for however many years. So it's been a great experience
So I like that that one was insane
Yeah, dude, you were standing up as well like how either you were you told me I was back in the chat
Yeah, could you give it we don't see it on stream sally? We've got to get that back
But could you uh go what you were?
In the little in-game channel I wasn't typing that much
They started typing up through lost math to and then I got up in their face and then crispy was not happy
He was like yelling back at me, but um yeah, they don't type back
They all mute match-shed instantly, so it's kind of boring, it's kind of one-sided.
I really enjoyed how after the first half-win, like you're standing up and shouting, like you're returning energy.
And then when you won the adjuncture, like a couple of your teammates also like, oh, we can do this.
I mean, it's so fun, first of all, to really see your energy, like you're being in with so much excitement.
But when did you kind of feel like you weren't controlled this series?
Because obviously you know you're going to face the wrecking ball, you know, there's a amount of preparation that goes into that.
But it's still about finding your feet in a series like this.
When did you start feeling like, I feel comfortable, we can win this, we're in control?
I mean, I'm always going into the match, thinking we've got to win.
I think we always were really confident heading into that game.
We knew the ball was going to be pretty difficult, but I think the read that we had into the ball was pretty good.
It got a little dicey in Junkertown, but that's their map, kind of expected to be pretty rough.
Yeah, Neon was pretty disappointed at the start, but as soon as we capped and then we got second, we capped on to third.
I started feeling like we were back in control of that map and yeah they kind of just dropped the ball on that one and I let him know.
I did want to ask what's your like working with Coach Mash.
Oh he's the best.
Why is he the best? Why is he the best?
I mean the best is subjective but like he's just really helpful for us right.
It's pretty rare you get such a good coach to coach a smaller team or Australia you know.
It's hard to usually acquire like the best coaches and he's one of them so we're pretty grateful to have him.
He's giving a huge help yeah.
I kind of have a two for one in this next question for you.
One being for Australia, we haven't seen Australia represented at the Overwatch World Cup all the way into the main event since like 2018, I believe, or something like that.
So it's been a long time coming, so I want to know, one, how much it means to you to look to try and make it all the way to this point in the end of time.
And two, I guess, knowing now that you have Mexico ahead of you and for GBR, they have Saudi Arabia ahead of them.
How are we feeling about our chances here?
I mean, that was the game to win. Like, I'm not trying to, you know, cast Mexico aside.
Obviously, we're going to take that seriously for sure.
Absolutely.
But all our eyes were on that game. And yeah, I think it showed.
And what would it mean for you to be able to represent Australia for playoffs?
I mean, I grew up watching the 2017-2018 Glory Days in Australia.
I think Overwatch League kind of fizzled out a lot of the Australian talent,
because they didn't get opportunities there or just didn't work out.
Watching those guys grow up has been unreal,
and I really want to take us to the next level and go back to those Glory Days.
Hey, well, it seems like you and the rest of the team are absolutely stepping up to the plate today.
You guys looked incredible in the server,
and thank you so much for joining us on the desk.
Kappa and good luck on your match against the next match tomorrow.
Thank you so much.
We are going to throw to a quick break though before we get into our next matchup.
It is going to be France vs Korea right after our short break.
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Welcome back everyone to the
Overwatch World Cup here in
Busan. It is the last matchup
that we have today, and we have
a little surprise in the crowd
here as well. You guys know when
it comes down to Overwatch, there's
a lot of work that goes into
I'm excited to see a little preview of who's here in Busan with us
during this event. It's been such a fun time so far.
The weather has been beautiful. The crowd has been absolutely amazing.
The signs, super cute supporting all of our teams here at OWWC.
And we have Aaron Keller, the Game Director of Overwatch and the crowd here joining us today as well.
guys who's going to blizzcon we all want to see you there love to see erin in the
crowd
but then he's got the jetpack hat too there's only one of those in Busan
apparently and erin's got it
so there's no chance i'm getting my hands on there
for sure what a legend what a legend to have erin keller in the crowd with us
today guys but let's talk a little bit more about our final
match that we have here for OWDC for the second day of the group stage.
It is going to be France versus Korea.
Another bit of a David and Goliath matchup.
We did see an upset in the previous game, but now talking a little bit more about
Team France.
This team has been so fun to watch, I think, throughout OWDC,
the EMEA conference to be able to get here.
And the energy on this squad, it's fun.
You get a little bit of mixed up team cats, a little bit of foodie guys, Crocs has been
a personality to talk to.
Crocs is Crocs.
How are we feeling about them?
Good.
Yeah, I think the vibes are high with that team.
It was fun doing a media day with them.
I think, yeah, Crocs hopefully cooking up some of the little specials with the Roadhog,
hopefully.
Hopefully.
In this series, anything is game.
Yeah.
Anything is game.
Look, these are two very proud countries when it comes to the Overwatch World Cup.
a lot of history of South Korea, the esports giants, the juggernaut, they're always the
one to take down. But hey, France, they've been sending good teams to the awards world
camp since the games inception. And so, this bunch right here, they got a tough task ahead
of them, but the barge is going to remain ironclad throughout, I believe.
Yeah, they really are. I think that with this team, France, as well, when you have
players like Crocs, we kind of saw a little bit of the identity when it comes down
to a great friend running that ball there for golden pants for crocs. It's been that road
hog. It's been that jungler team and it can really throw a wrench into things who into
teams who might not necessarily be prepared for it. And France, they love to bring their
own style. Yeah, they do. I think the problem is though.
Yeah, it's inappropriate. They are playing against Korea. So I would say that's a small
problem with the women's level of team France. Or a big or a big problem in a sense and that's not
that's not to take anything away from team France whatsoever Johnny but this team Korea is basically
crazy raccoon yeah um yeah uh so it is a little bit kind of tough in that regard crazy raccoons
they did they were our winners for champions flash they can't talk eight mid-season championship
They're a good liar for this matter.
Yeah, honestly, you said Top 8.
And people listening to the show might be like,
they only got Top 8?
Yeah, really?
They only got Top 8?
No, no finals for Crazy Raku?
Look, we know the audience knows this is South Korea.
They're going to assert their dominance in this series.
And if they do that, that will be shocking.
And that will be upsetting.
If they even, as much as let France into this series,
That by itself is a testament of strength for France, because these players for South Korea right here, they are just, they're gonna clock in and then clock out, like this should be, yeah, it should be a close game for Korea side, like, they don't want to disappoint it, and we're playing in Korea, and we're playing in Korea, we're in Busan, so hometown advantage about to go for dummy crazy for this team, and I really like actually that simple explainer in the roster too, I think it's simple.
I think he's going to have
a lot of big impact. At
BlizzCon or you know at World Cup
in here in the group stages. I'm
excited to see him actually lock
into the server and see what's
up because. He's been dominating
obviously in the air for a hot
minute now, so yeah, it's going
to be a good time. I'm going to
be I'm just so excited to see
what's going to happen. I'm
excited to see what's going to
happen. I'm excited to see
I'm gonna be I'm just so excited to see like this energy that it's gonna come from this team like for simple to be stepping up to the plate
Alongside this core of crazy raccoons that has been so dominant. Yeah, I think it's really interesting because I
Mean we keep saying this and it's not unfair
But like simple keeps being overlooked on twisted minds or some degrees because they have so many
You know so many places with personality and like impact on the game like you base a character
But also like, you know, there's successes on the backbone of the symmetric gameplay
You know, they have quartz, you know, one of the best hits game players in the game
It's not the best hits game player in the game
And so you have simple popping up in the backliner where like well simple is one of the best flexipors in the game
But it's almost like there's so much aura on that team
For him to like muscle passes teammate to be like the star player
Yeah, like that is that is so difficult
And so I I think it's a you know testament to corksmen as well like game recognizes game bring simple into the fold here
be like yo you know like I see what you can do I got some you know I got the G
you know we're all happy over here but like I'll bring you into the fold there
for the national team and let's see what we can do together yeah I love that I
really love seeing him get that opportunity and Korea definitely want to
make a statement today we do have our predictions do lock in here guys and we
kind of set this up very strongly I know that you know for dirt other
events Johnny has not been happy about some of my team peps like predictions
and whatnot. Hey, hey, hey, I gotta say though, I'm going for Team Korea for this. I'm really
sorry to France, but the fact that we aren't going to be that I'm not supporting this time
around, but gotta go with my boys. You guys. Johnny, what? You go to Team Korea? Yeah,
I mean, yeah, I mean it's fairly easy I think in the series
I find it hard to really argue against team Korea
They won World Cup
Only a few times obviously Saudi Arabia were the team that kind of upset Korea and actually found the women World Cup
In recent memory, so they're looking for a little bit of revenge here
And it's also a sub Korea team that I think
Playing with some degree of vengeance
They're obviously in here Busan wanting to do well in front of their home crowd
But it's also been, you know, this national team that we hype up,
we're like, oh, they're juggernauts, you know,
there is a fantastic country when it comes to esports talent.
But in the past few years, the narrative has kind of shifted away
from, like, the dominance of South Korea
into really, like, the capability of all the different regions
to be able to hang with players like this.
And so this is a South Korea roster,
and at the 2026 World Cup,
they're looking to restore their dominance across the world.
I'm a little sad I'm not seeing Crocs on the road, hold on.
I'll be lying if I told you otherwise.
Nice kill though, one jump in, oh hey team France, hang on Crocs might not be in the hog.
Wait, I'm so fighting that with double two, I'm in a second team career.
Are they gonna get wiped? That's a team kill.
Up the gate!
There are a couple of people in the crowd popping off at that one.
Just...
Okay, surprising or not, you know?
Like okay, we're sailing, we're sailing down, sailing down.
Well, we'll calm ourselves and see what France are able to do in a series like this.
It's under on Genji now, okay.
So I'm now going to switch up to, this is kind of in the talk of the team on, like what really counts.
It's in Mal, but pretty good because you can just kind of shoot at it.
Okay, we're going to clear Stalker off this very aggressive angle he's playing right now.
He's extremely low, so he's already got a double.
A quick clean up for the rest of the DPSA from Team Korea.
Yeah, Stalker shuts down, look at that.
Very quick bounce back there as Team Korea.
Korea also ended up finding a team kill.
And there was a stack.
They woke up again?
Making the absolute most of it.
They'll get every single advantage they can, even if it comes down to a single Kiriko spawn wave.
You first to see how much proactivity we see out of the Southern Korea team now.
Are they going to sit back? Are they going to buy their time with stalker generating a couple of railguns and make a different sound wave?
Well, there they are, Sanjiro point.
Oh, they're rushing here.
Oh, Chiyo. Just Subject, just so much pressure there as he's just overlapped here, people.
Oh, the move from Joron!
Just sends Crocs over the edge.
A Sanjiro point for Deagle doesn't have hitting three, though.
And jumping in Sanjiro, the only ones left alive here is End Deagle.
Just taking it to the mouth, all people.
You're just gonna have to retreat.
Sanjiro's already used his D-slate as well.
So it depends if you're cleaning them up.
Frans are still hangin' here.
In a teamfight that really breaks down like that with Kitsuneurses dropped on either side.
They're showing that they're able to hang when it comes to the ultimate trading.
FDG all that time with the sound barrier. Going to be the difference maker.
Setting up the damage pairs for this one.
Oh, that's a lot of damage.
Oh, straight in space, trying to get the D-break, but no charge.
Hit the beat just in time.
They pulled from something, now he gets the reset onto one.
Yeah, there's just no shot. You're escaping there.
Nice double.
Did you see France?
Was he still alive here with his D-Bot
fronting a little bit back before healing?
But not enough to save him from shop.
They're still racking up some valuable percentage here.
67%. It's going to be an event to a loss here, but
you know, that's quite a fair time here.
Stungeon goes for the double dash here, looking for more,
but can't fight security extra eliminations at the end.
But 70% here for France.
That's more than I think a lot of us expected
knowing what stuff we are capable of.
It's going to be a cage available for Jumbin here if he chooses to deploy it, otherwise it's actually going to be France who has the edge when he comes to the ultimate generation for the support.
The first half of the two nights here, Dipscot post one, but Jumbin has cage so they're going to play fairly aggressive here, you've got no matter.
End of it, and the recoil really early on. Straight in the line of fire at Jumbin now, showing the back of the head, two soldiers, cleans them up, 4HP,
He's shurikened from a million miles away to finish him off, and this could be a dangerous fight.
If Jumin stays alive here and hits the gates, it could be disaster, but Krox has to find the kill anyway.
80% now between Korea, if they chase on Jumin, Krox gets another one.
And the ultimate in hand is a fight that South Korea essentially gives up for free.
Jumin, with an unlikely error, gets picked off, and France, they have the point for free.
They have the ultimate advantage now. They can go up 1-0 against South Korea.
It would take quite the fun here, you've got to imagine with double support, cage for
cage, Krox is close, I mean, in fact, France basically has 5-0's.
They're going, they're going straight away, Krox gets the, oh, kind of reversed on them,
it takes them all down, Krox getting deployed, you're a massive one, just watch out, he
can't get back up, Saka's already down, but Rox is going to get ripped here from
Well, guess what?
Ssangjit's got the plate, he's got no backup left.
He's going to try to swing through and carve the health bars apart,
but Krox ends up staying alive.
Ssangjit's born of time, though.
Ssangjit comes back with the feet.
They can't get the quills necessary.
This is going to be a sub-queer that gets back into the fight.
So now I was facing a neutral fight right now before Ssangjit gets here in time.
Very close to this OC.
Still need to touch for OT.
90-90, 90-1%.
Another retouch here for South Korea.
Here comes the OC, though, as Stalker.
Shots down Crocs and FD gone. He's not gonna be too as long for him to stay alive
It's just no way he gets another retouch. I mean potentially he's full HP, but then yeah, they are just hunting him down
Do you fist for Crocs to to get a punch up to the point a little boom for the Lucio? Yes, there it is
Team Korea on a nail bite a little hundred to ninety nine team France almost had the man
Oh, and Team France, they couldn't secure the final teamfight win?
They have five ultimates!
Five ultimates!
Dip gets picked early, four versus five scenario.
You're still layering the ultimates inside your own cage from the Mauga.
But Chorong didn't die there.
That time gets back with the sound barrier to keep Sunjin alive on the Genji.
And those two members buy enough time for the rest of the team to get back.
And South Korea go up 1-0 in round.
That is a must win for France.
But, Chong is dangling on the edge of the map from the cage, he couldn't get back up.
That was a little ridiculous, but yeah, Frank sure won that. That was a 5-0, some fight there.
Run back, run back, run it back, okay.
Now, Maga this side, Bob's back on the D-Mars.
Bearing out a couple of members from South Korea, well here,
France does a good job establishing position.
I can't venture too far into enemy territory, though I felt like Crocs really wanted to
push that into kitchen.
That's pretty aggressive.
Yeah, there's gonna be one for Crocs right here.
He's facing 1v1 versus Jumbin.
The VPS in the training, so there's only a 4 on 4.
Jumbin has found himself a nice little spot to play on the point,
But some kind of chong still end up going down.
Crooks coming up with really big impactful kills, and realistically this is not Korea's point.
One of the fastest clips you can get, they're already 5%!
Yeah, I mean, France are finding a way to drag out these teamfights to open up doors with anything possible.
And they do end up getting the picks Crooks with two there.
Didn't really get a glimpse of how that happened in the first place as Jumbin charges forward here with the overrun towards the point,
Put some pressure on there, but it's going to be Crocs, I guess, capitalizing on that.
Wow, okay, now I'm not expecting Crocs to get away with this match.
I mean, maybe Korea just, uh, disrespecting them a little bit.
Sure, we found the solo kill, but FG got his match to kill Symbol.
These health bars are not pretty to heal up.
Jumping is gonna die?
Yeah, sure, suck it, why not?
Is that a message?
And it's the same thing again we saw in the previous Australia match.
It's almost like this demon is so good at brawling now.
With the buffs we saw in the Hot Sticks patch since the release of this hero,
you're just capable of going in, making plays, keep up that aggression.
And some of these teams are just not able to absorb it.
South Korea's struggling so far.
Oh, nice play. Good groupmate, EGOP.
And he's managed to save the dash straight through.
And FDGOT, he got the beat online, but no chance to use it at all.
Risk in the AJAX.
As well, I will say France have built up a sizable lead at this point.
And they're extending it too.
Just late death, staggered death on the point!
They're gonna get up to what? Sixty-seven percent?
They're making good decisions right now.
Serion deploys the Kitsune Russian.
You know, maybe of the most value from that, but...
You gotta be dropping ultimates here and there.
The pivotal one is the fact that FDGOT holds onto the sound barrier.
And so this is a France team, but now, sixty-seven percent here on Village 2.
They're in a good precarious for the rest of this round.
They're going to be facing double support ultimates.
Have to find a way to deal with Stalker now,
with the only soldier to deal with him.
but they're doing a good position overall.
They're trying to get real quick here with that double slide perk.
It's going to be able to almost flip the map on them.
Is France just taking a better position, a priority position on the point?
Here's the rush. Q gets shut down though
and they beat FDGov, cannot save the over blocking sojourn.
Cage deployed as well to limit break.
Yeah, limit broken there for Crocs as he just gets decimated.
It's such a tough position to be in if you're FDGov.
The final end result, we're looking at that thing. Okay, he was what quarter of a second too late with the Sun barrier
Like that he used to want to play a solution player, two frames. I mean that is so tough, right?
But if you drop it early
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We're by our time here to see what's France, what they've got in store.
It's almost at the point now where, obviously it's so unlikely that you're going to take
down a team like Korea.
So we're looking at the other teams in this group, Denmark, Colombia.
That's really where you need to make your stand if you are France.
And so in a serious way, that's a tough team.
It is a tough team, but I would argue that Trance is favored in that one, and so there's
no necessity in a series like this to show your hand to play the maps, maybe you'll arpeze
that instead you might even go into a series like this and say like, okay, we'll fake
them out a little bit.
So I don't really know what map we're going to go here as they maybe look to save the
preferred maps into the later series in this group.
Yeah, I'm curious.
Yeah, I couldn't really pick one on the spot in my head.
Maybe...
Ban or not go, Roto.
You gotta do it too at some point. Realistically, you gotta have a long game.
You play ranked and you see the honor band come through and it's like there's only one
type of player that's banned. The honor? What's the roadhog play? It's Crocs. Probably every
single ranked game he's ever been in. You're gonna play roadhog. I'm gonna play
Maga. Let's go. That's the only end result of honor band.
That's a rough matchup for the whole guy we're saying. Just getting shot permanently.
Yeah, it's okay. If anybody can do it, Crocs can do it.
You say, Rotog, you're my games? I'm going, I'll go.
You go doing 50 of my games? I'm going to do so.
Oh, right. That's just how it is.
I think I'm out of it for anything.
Yeah. I mean, Crocs, look, give us one.
Maybe not against Team Korea.
Maybe a little Southern Summit over the next couple of days.
What do you do? What do you do for the glimpse?
What do you do for the glimpse?
It's the glimpse.
I think with how Korea kind of entering the group stage,
like this is their first game here, here in the Abroach World Cup group stage, and they are
expecting to come out as the number one seed. I think if you look at the overall like all the
teams across the board, Saudi Arabia obviously, 20-23 champions, and then team Korea is like the top
two. That, those next few teams like three and four placings, you know maybe in fifth, sixth,
down a thing, like, hey, fairly hardly contested, like I think France could really make a case
to be up there. Yeah I mean if you get the number two zero of these groups and you know we're looking
at a couple of number one seed favorites like we talked about Kino Soryeo, South Korea, USA,
I'd say our favorite of which we did. Yeah still even I love that. Yeah so even if you are
friends it's like at some point in this tournament like you're gonna have to overcome one of
those top teams right but here in the group stage against South Korea this is not the time
to do so. You know that you don't need to overcome South Korea in a moment like this. It's going to
be a neon junction after all which you know when it comes to like showing your hand like
it is a pretty pivotal map in the pool and I think that's why we're seeing it so much. It's so
unique in its ability to remove a lot of these flank opportunities to get rid of space that some
Damage fair is really thrive with
And so I'm a little bit surprised to see them pick Neon Junction here after all.
You're forcing a front to back
There's no like oh jump in playing ball jump in playing Winston like anything
Kind of crazy like that you are rich like look we want to play just on the ground almost overwatch
Yeah, I think Shambhali Monastery can be that map as well.
It's a very honest map Neon Junction, I would say that.
An honest map?
Yeah, do you think so?
Would you back me on that opinion if footchart came up?
Honest Matt, isn't he on Jax?
I mean, if you count honesty of like, can you just, can you play Ryan and be successful?
Then yeah, I think that's my lebronometer, that's my lebronometer, of like, honest Overwatch.
How successfully can you play Ryan?
And I'm like, okay, well, the on Jax you can play.
Probably could.
And I'd say, I'd say, yeah, maybe it is honest.
Emery Banshee, but I don't know.
I mean, who knows what even on Jax don't watch is in France.
At this point, I'm not sure how you...
That's a two hour discussion.
Yeah, what is on this level?
What is on this level? What would define on this so much?
And the demon man!
I mean, to be fair,
Crocs was picking up big kills.
Okay, but I think you're like...
Look, I know that Korea didn't show their hand when it comes to playing the demon themselves.
But they're denying the fanservice of playing...
of South Korea playing demon in Busan.
Come on now.
It's an entertainment business.
It's an entertainment business, fellas.
They're not thinking about that.
They want to win, man.
OK, but they're going to win, Jaws.
What?
Yeah, yeah.
Stop playing.
Stop playing.
They can't win playing Demon.
It doesn't matter who the opponent is.
You're going to figure a few things out.
Oh, look at Max.
Yeah, Max.
Max is in.
Come on.
He has to be the pre-ordained Demon player.
You have to shoot him.
Yeah, you definitely should.
You're going to come out and play Ramakra?
Let's go.
Yeah.
You know what's what is kind of a sick matchup of crime in crocs would agree to
Jumping Hawk versus the the croc talk would go kind of crazy. Oh, that is crazy. Whoa. Whoa. That is the
Legendary hog
That's kind of you know, just to a lot of people that's how John been to made them made this name like MVP
Yeah, it would have since Dallas 24. Yeah, really like he stood out amongst every yeah, keep the road. Oh, what is it?
Oasis city center picked the hog. Yeah, he dominated the finals of a major pull out the Roadhog and made it work
That was one of the best files we've had as well. Now super close super close. Oh, yeah, and it was there was incredible. What's it?
Right around the time of the venture released. We have like a double flex damage that will flex
Falcons paid Genji venture
When does that happen again?
When does that happen again?
In the big 26, never.
We also had Lip on Tracer as well, just dominating on ruins.
On Ilios.
Yeah, Prime Lip, yeah.
Alright, Neon Junction, let's lock it in.
We're...
Sorry, me and Jaws, look.
Sorry to break.
We did Nistalgia Maxime.
Yeah, break the fourth wall or whatever it is.
Sorry, sometimes we just get caught on our own reminiscing of...
reminiscing of off days because we're still living in the good old days we
can't be the good old days but we're living in days you know what's that
saying you don't know you were living in the good old days until they're fast so
right now is what I'm saying is this is the good old days at some point even
the producers are saying that's deep you know yeah yeah you're dropping wisdom
drop in the wisdom these some of these people they just want their drops and
they get just I'm done dropping wisdom as well drop three minutes in drop in the
wisdom drop in the west all right neon junction max in here for team career
with yeah demon ban and then an emory ban for France I've um yeah I think emory
you see a little bit of sprinkler it has been a fair amount she on still
Yeah, but the Enri into the demon like how do you how do you see that matchup kind of going because I think both are really kind of
Pushing their way well, I would say obviously demons are pushing all the way into the better
She is kind of meta at this point, but I raise really seeing a resurgence it
Yeah, and isn't that crazy to say because just a few weeks ago like oh Freya is back
Being back and being mad obviously fair received some buffs
you know in the past month or so I'd say that leading up to the last couple of
tournaments here but like there is no meta in Overwatch anymore and obviously
like okay like you look at jetpack hat like the chemistry is strong
demoncing a lot of play time but if you compare this to the quote-of-quote good
old days it's the amount of versatility the different compositions
we're seeing we were not talking about comps for like a year and a half of
Because it was the same pop right so
What a good chance in of course
Lotta there isn't French fans the audience for sure. I bet the Korean fans may outnumber them slightly
They may have something slightly okay surprising
Here we go though. All right max in obviously more of an off-tank player here
So starting out on the the Sigma, but this is the map to that we really see a lot on Mizuki play
So damn strong, and I think
Shorong especially on the Mizuki is kind of nasty. I think this backline in general is yo yo
Wait no crocs way to say
Fancy I was about to go crazy
He instantly gets rocked as soon as he walks out the door
Okay, okay, it's a get a pick look at pick road. Yeah, I mean
Need to leave the spawns all that's all good
All right, what's the right? He's taking on it. He's out on the right art 40% out charge
And there's no cementer on the board. There's no Lucy on the board. This is a cat and Reinhardt composition
She can drop the running. I mean he's just gonna drop the right into the backlight. Oh
My only straight in it
Take it in. Take it in. Oh
I guess the shot he gets the point.
Wait, it actually connects with Max.
Okay, and Solchin ends up going down.
I mean, Korea looks stung a little by this.
They really do.
It's like, wait, Ryne, you can play that?
80% to Shatter, by the way.
80% to Shatter.
I mean, Korea or Stacker.
90% to Shatter.
They're gonna have to walk up to this point, contested,
whether they want to or not,
and they'll be facing this Earth Shatter soon enough.
No, he's gonna get shot on the next swing!
Max's gonna have to be careful!
Oh, careful, careful!
Oh, here comes the may, okay!
They're not extra round.
We'll let you have two ticks, but now we're gonna pull out the may.
That's just a little bit of hubris there.
Didn't have to step up that far.
Took too much damage and the save just wasn't there from FDGOT.
Okay, FDGOT grapple the Rhine in, here's the Shadow and the Fatfly.
I'm mourning what could have been in the previous moments.
10,000 likes on socials.
Well, there's the rush.
Oh, what a ball!
Oh my goodness.
Oh, what a vision.
The frame perfect block from Max on that shatter.
Read him like a book.
Read him like an old damn library.
How can a huggering seal block a shatter anyway?
The Rime player's pissed in the commons.
He's so mad.
Come on, super back me up, buddy.
Right, well, uh, Krox is over the wall, he got launched over it.
There is a flux!
Here it comes, he goes for Max.
The sky noon's great for the Sanctuary, he's a little bit better.
Tron keeping everybody alive and well,
Shil gets deleted, now Kyo in a rough spot.
Stalker takes him down as Max holding on to his own ult and...
Oh dear.
France, they're all falling apart, the seams.
It's looking like wetlands out there, Krox.
the way he's forced to. The deep cut reference. Take footstep after footstep.
Finally, FD guard. Some relief here. You get the speed aura from your main to
player. Now we've got the Lucio. Now we can play the game. Oh here's the rush.
Max instantly pop into Flux though without Proxen in trouble. He's gonna get
changed. It's pretty down low too. Flux is gonna connect to Keo. He doesn't end up
getting a hint in H-Shore, but Max has already got the solo kill. Oh beautiful
Blocked from Sonjin too, and now Krox really low.
Sonjin doesn't end up using the blizzard here, but Frantz are in a bad way.
There's a 60 seconds to go.
Not exactly the biggest time bank of all time.
Have to god you gotta die, buddy.
Yeah.
Is he gonna go away?
Oh no, there's so much bullet.
You were this close.
Yeah, we were this close.
We were this close, could not tell you to go through or not as far away.
Ah, Crocs charges in there while it's Luzio, is there?
He's got a shielding count on the charge now.
Alright, here's the teleport. We're getting things going.
Blizzard is gonna get deployed there from Sunjin in the front line.
Stalker's still got this high noon as well.
And unfortunately, Tim, the Blizzard's not gonna do too much here with the rest of your team dead.
Crocs got the barrier.
The true man being a big up!
Crocs has got the Shatter!
The Flux!
Oh, he misses!
FD got a little bit too quick, but Crocs is downwind.
Oh, and Max is looking at his smile on his face too.
The cheeky grin.
The humanity.
Oh, the humanity.
Oh, France had a vision.
But unfortunately, Team Korea saw right through it.
There's an applause from the crowd.
And I don't know if it's to celebrate South Korea
or to comfort France.
Maybe a little bit of health on this drone.
Maybe a little bit of health on this drone.
All right.
They were ramping up.
One technology after the other.
Well, they were like, drawing without any speed boost on TP.
Wait a second.
We can't play the Lucio teleporter.
Tell them, what is this?
What is this DLC here?
At the end of the day, it's a quiet 1 and 4 on frogs.
A quiet.
He's leading his team of damage.
What in a second?
They're right now.
It's like, guys, come on.
I got one of them, but I got 4k damage.
We can all relate.
Main tank players in chat, we can all relate.
We've all been there.
It was more of a 5's round, I think we've crossed there.
But it's all good, I mean look.
They're saving strats, they're saving strats.
They're saving strats, and it's still winnable.
78.1%.
It is literally scientifically winnable.
Absolutely.
But I wouldn't say that the weirder things have happened in Overwatch.
except maybe young union stepping off the court that's about as good as you
really pulling the nostalgia lever on this one I like it all right let's have
a look max Zarya stalker widow yeah not even gonna try no one got money this
time no one got money this time all right stalker speaking of Freya being
Back.
How does he attack out of the match with the midair with the take-aims?
Nice.
They got a lot of things on their side now, but...
Oh! Approach 180!
Get Susu!
Save for the moment!
And... such a stand.
Okay, hang on, we got a pick!
Sit back for now.
Wait for another third form to be refreshed from the...
South Korea.
I think they're processing a little bit.
But they're actually facing the speed of the moment.
Max!
The only edge I see here is a horse maxed to use bubble.
Stalker's on the bashing now, and with Sonjin also on the gen G.
He's going to be able to create a little space in the side.
Jump straight over the pipe, and here comes Dick on the backstab.
All right, Stalker's taking a whole heap of damage, though.
Dick goes so down low.
All right, Stalker has found the kill.
Crocs is going to go to the charge,
crossed the map to get back to the rest of the team.
A TP required there from Xerion to get him out of dodge as well.
But Sonjin is going to just chase him down,
forces it and straight into the waiting arm.
Look at the assists on that beat.
Disgusting work and Simple's got Nano.
Teamwork? Oh no.
Oh no!
He was taking a nap!
Oh, the forbidden combo.
Well, they got two ticks.
What a France going in the back pocket here.
Stalker gets Nanoed and he's just playing game training.
Dip is out of there.
I have T-Gots in.
He's on the cat, but yeah, this is going only one way.
Stalker's not even shooting.
Shooting! Put them out of their misery!
Not happening. There you go. Stalker took his hand off the keyboard and said,
That's enough!
That is a 2-0 lead.
They're suffering.
Max, what do you want? You want them out.
The darker? W-0?
It's retreated to a little bit of shenanigans here. Late night in Busan.
Yeah, the Overwatch World Cup.
Oh, that little catcher is cute.
That patchy-mari-catchy.
I mean, cute stuff.
We've got some Reinhardt lowlights on screen for you now.
Oh! That was unbelievable!
I didn't know it was max.
Oh, the boss. Spawn-chilling.
You guys got that in there, the slow-mo as well. Thank you, Replay.
Oh, Replay-ops. Perfect start.
What are we doing there? What are we doing there?
Locked in, it's on.
Yeah, okay, I mean look.
Regular schedule programming.
I mean, wow.
Yeah, look, there's no...
That was one of the maps of all time.
That was one of the maps of all time.
Vulture definitely had fun with it though, I will say.
It's...
They are having fun with it
and we created them for having fun with it.
But I don't think we know what to say about that.
There's no analysis to be done.
There's no analysis to be done.
And this is, yeah, InsultJet3.
Nice little kill from Stalker at the very end.
Can we at least get a little bit of Roadhog in the next map here?
Yeah, I mean, Demon isn't banned, so...
Honestly, like, Demon is really fun to watch.
Say what you will, but it's really fun to get through.
I love being introduced to the game.
Takes a little bit of, like, things you like about
JohnDrew Queen, and then Mixer7, the Thiever, a little bit of Winston, like it just...
I don't really know how it works Winston with that equation.
Like the grey heroes, Johnny.
Right, like I like the grey heroes, but it's a really fun hero that we have in the game now.
So, you know, even if we don't get to see the Roadhog, I'd be happy with a little bit of Demon.
Demon, come on.
I will say, like, kind of in comparison to like first impressions about the Ultimate.
Yeah.
It's it sometimes really does feel hit and miss you need almost instant follow-up at the limit break
Yeah, and then if you are able to get in there with a tracer with a she on or something
It's just so tough to feel through your support to basically useless because of the damage and like you are instantly getting
Yeah, and like I think it's such a fear factor as well like you don't need a 5k
With the limit break. No, it's like rap. You like if you get one or two, it's like yeah, but
No, I don't even mean from that standpoint, but if you apply damage amplification to the entire enemy team, they're going to be scurrying.
They are going to flee for their lives.
And in some ways that gives you the space to push forward, because the enemy team is like, we all have this for the warplike, we gotta hide.
So you can even get the limit break out, you get the over health, and if you get 2 picks on the back of the limit break, I mean 5 vs 3 and 5 vs 5, you're winning that.
It's statistically like you win 95% of the fights, 5 out of 3.
You reckon?
Yeah, statistics.
Yeah, we actually made the champion planet.
Planet? Yeah, Beast. Legend actually.
I don't know if it was him, but I'm going to give Captain Planet credit, because we're not Captain Planet.
Basically made a study back in 66 about how many team fights you win when you're like 5 out of 6 or 6 out of 5.
And it's like, you get the first pick, you're winning so many fights.
So many fights. I think it's maybe like three forwards.
75%
Yeah, I mean, it's got to be close to that.
And 5 vs 5 is even more than that, right?
Yeah, for sure.
Yeah, we can percentishly, like, you know, get a pick at 5 vs 5,
but that's more worth percent of it.
Like 80 something percent.
Well, it is way smarter than all of us combined.
Then when it comes to, like, analytics and stuff.
So, yeah, maybe I need them to write something again.
Maybe we'll get some stats, huh?
Wizard John.
Yeah, I don't know.
Who is it? Yeah, get a wizard on the case. It was one of those guys
All right in the numbers new junk city. Just get on base, buddy. Let's get on base
I mean, look what can they this is perfect again whimsical map for the road?
Come on. Let me look at let me see if I can't see him from here or his screen. Yo, shout out, Mexico
They pay some junk. Yeah. Yeah, that was sick
What do you think of the Queen in the current day though, especially against Demo?
Not good.
Six versus Six though, yo, who's rocking the Jungle Queen in the Six vs Six games, buddy?
Come on, let's go.
Talking about here and now, not in the ranked game.
Look, there was a Six vs Six tournament taking place.
We're seeing a little bit of a Six vs Six content.
We haven't been back into the fold here.
I'm sitting down.
only three pairs in the lobby South Korea here seeing if they can take
turn opponents three versus five I wouldn't actually take three chances
that one I actually think that Francis here they have their advantage in that
one oh yeah he sang as well okay he sang him for so much alrighty really putting
out the punches for this last one yeah yeah he sang a map on stage yeah I
get them comfortable on stage definitely although he have all the
people to be not comfortable on stage I think he sang is one of them or Malgov
okay wait a second surely surely wrote or demon to be fair because my
videos okay don't bad not back here we need to carry against the honor
okay what is it Maria what have you banned moon what have you decided
Cassidy? Sure buddy. It's like the most neutral man in the entire world.
It's like okay. Alright. Cass, cool man. Yeah. Yeah. You can play at Shawl, like right. I mean, you can now play at Shawl.
I mean, I guess now, like there's some attribution to Cassidy and the ability to pull off Skynoons.
At least two points of this map. The outside areas, of course. Yeah, that's that.
Maybe, maybe they're banning Cassidy because they're like, okay, let's let's get a little
bit of like stalker.
He's saying disgusting Tracer shield action going on.
That would be a treat.
That would be a treat.
That would be epic.
That is how to play a comp real fast.
Hey, that's what I was gonna say sometimes.
Yeah, it's good.
I think that comp is good.
I'm even like the the vendetta as well.
Been seeing it with more play time.
I mean, I think we've been seeing from a couple of these teams at the World Cup,
Especially those teams who are maybe feeling a little bit of desperation when it comes to win conditions.
And like, the number one response is like, up to tempo.
Go fast, go fast, pick the moira, get to see you on Tracer, Vendetta, like just go in, try to trade.
And if you can win the teamfight, at least you're giving yourself a chance, and then you know, maybe it gets the ultimate value.
But it really is about offing the pace. So for some teams, like that's the recipe for success.
It's like, we're just going to play the very high tempo characters.
Or if Cassidy had an X then hey
There'd be more room for it
You know you've asked me a lot Moira simple
Yes, recent times. Yep, or a twist of eyes
I mean so often like Moira or not so often
Very seldom but what it does. It's actually a really good pick the Moira is
Especially when you're playing against some of these teams that have a good time of getting on top of the back line
then Moira can become this escape for the flexible player to feel like they're actually like in charge of their own ability to stay alive.
Like I can fail out of trouble. I can join my team diving with this Moira essentially.
Yeah.
And not having to worry about constantly standing for your own life.
Right, Crocs and Jimbin on your screen. Let's get it. Come on.
I want to see the tank picks for this map.
I want to see what career are going to rock with.
Group is going to be a little tough for France though.
If they do end up losing here, Denmark is also a really scary team.
Shockwave's not lost to either.
Shockwave, earlier in the day, I was watching them on NJC, and that was actually one of
those maps where Longy and Leif went to Moira.
And they're playing Reaper and they're playing on NJC, they're playing really well together,
they're playing Brawl, wrapping around.
And Shockwave immediately stabs it out and it's just like, I'm going to hard flank on
Soldier.
And essentially, they didn't play Scared at all, like Shockwave is such a confident player.
Always loved him from going first and introducing himself in the scene, such a fun player to
watch.
He can really make some dangerous plays, but that is kind of like what I'm talking
about.
Like that is a guy that can really make a big difference here in the World Cup and
take a team that maybe doesn't have as much experience playing together, take
charge of the communications, yell out for playmaking and then be the difference-making
in some of these series. And obviously, then Mark, they got away with the win here today.
They'll be looking at a team like France. They are the ones we need to take down to
secure the number two spot behind Southru.
Oh, for sure.
And you know Ten Mark's going to be looking at this series too.
Yeah.
I mean, yeah, it's against Korea. Sure. You're going to have to play them eventually
too. Like, at the end of the day, France, if that is the team you need to beat
to make it two, BlizzCon to make it two, Anaheim, then, well, you've got a lot
a lot to learn and Croc said a fantastic job on the control map on demon. So you know dem
marker knowing that down, you know they're saying like look we're gonna have to ban it
at some point against the guy. We don't want to get run over. All right, looks like we're
getting into the map. New junk city, the map here between France and team Korea. Obviously
career right now sitting there. Nice 2-0 lead in the opening game. You have a 12-prop 20-26.
What is Double Cow? The price there. Double Cow on the upper left.
I like that jump in you could do something quite fun right now something a little silly
I almost feel like there's a little bit of reluctance from South Korea to show much, to go, to go full silly.
Because they're playing with so much reputation on the ground to make their country proud.
It's like this is not funny business, this is, you know, we need to represent their country well.
We are the esports mech-up. We need to be the powerhouse.
And they're not going to be playing around with the composition this time around either.
Yeah, I think they want prevention 2023, but obviously every day at home you've seen the jerseys or the free jersey already.
Look at the stars that adorn their jerseys.
The winners of the Overwatch Cup multiple times for Saudi Arabia paid them a little bit of a visit, a little bit of an upset on the wild stage.
Crocked D-Suit for the Mac, barely early on.
Nice kind of, we were going to run at you, protect Storm there, and he is going to kill everything.
Type-Cock.
so much aggression here from France with this composition like we talked about the
trace of the sheon but it's all mitigated with the mobility provided by the
helicopter and using the defensive tools that are reserve available but it's
so difficult to find the place required to really practice composition open
They're in Korea to assemble.
Okay, Dips gonna have to force point.
Gonna have to force someone to try and actually contest him.
Korea probably gonna try and do the opposite though.
Oh no, actually they're just moving his 5 man units trying to scare Dips.
And then it's actually like, alright, okay.
Now they're on the low ground.
Crocs is gonna try and match them here on the point.
Gonna wait for this teleport to get them actually into a different position.
It's like, that's exactly what they're gonna do.
Crocs under a...
It's one of the kind of suppressing fights of S.T.A.L.K.A. right now.
There's the rush really early on. It's crossed 40 in the back line.
S.T.A.L.K.A. has turned 180. Zerion for to TP away.
But he's tipped that false first. Now K.O. is alone.
The Nade and S.T.A.L.K.A. is going to have to run him down.
T.P.S. eliminated!
He's in front.
It just is on time the opening that we're looking for.
And it's going to be the first point.
Captain for South Korea all ready.
time is going to be ticking fast. Oh, are they really doing that to this? Oh, straight
to the next point almost to. They could probably they probably could have staggered
a little bit longer down. You think you're just a little bit a little bit longer. Come
on. Just a couple more seconds fellas. I mean at this point, that barely matters
because the flash point is opening in 10 seconds. They've already got position
to. All right, ditch can be high in the sky. I'm trying to dodge this terrasurge
Now Trunks almost... Oh, sorry, he already got feet.
There's the teleport, he'll fakey there.
Get turned around, pops the turret mode though.
Wheels mode from the sky, Terras notion ship.
Mimmy's gonna be the danger he's looking out for right now,
but in fact it's gonna be a Krox using a Mimmy break right on top of jumping to the front line.
So easy pickings for Team France.
And he's sent two under a lot of pressure.
I mean, Krox's gonna have to back off eventually.
Aristokes is shooting him in the back.
He's way too far forward.
But they're crawling out and they need to find the picks but they simply aren't
It is just too sturdy from South Korea and they end up with a point cap yet again
Even though it feels like France if they're making things happen. They don't make it to Neroz. We got the third form out from the bastion
They just don't find the yield. They were looking for
Oh, nice follow up too!
Alright, Storgurge, I just get a little bit of revenge for his fallen comrades, but unfortunately that is just a good positional play there for Krox to keep his team competitive.
Okay, so you get one back pretty quickly.
German.
Over onto the demon here, so we'll see some demon action after all, taking the mirror here against Krox.
I think a lot of people are hoping that jumping, or perhaps to be fair, end up playing
Oh yeah, give me the damage. Get sure on this soundbite quicker.
75% he's pretty close. He's hanging off angle jumps on the bike. I'm taking this quick sword slash actually.
It's a different postcode now. Straight across the map.
Good Corralic if the players haven't deployed though, for us to kind of counter it.
They are gonna be able to push on like this right right a substantial amount damage that teams up Korea are gonna have to respect
75%
Not the other than a frag but there's still that's what they make it to do
That's the TP look at this dips already the frontline here, but now playing very much wheels mode on the floor
I said they're getting to most of what's already down 94% from France. Okay, that might just be what yeah
Yeah, that's the point right there.
Brown's tying things up, looking dominant.
Oh, it's back in.
Wait a second, Crocs is back in.
Crocs, all right, okay.
I mean, you're playing against South Korea,
it's, you can get away with a little bit of silliness.
Just a little bit of pain, a little bit of fun.
I think very, at that biggest miss,
no Crocs is in the back line.
Sambar is not available, too.
Sambar is not available anymore, yet.
Nibble still got this rush but this is looking like a French win, at least in this first fight.
There jumping, just buddy hopping backwards holding that shield, takes down Kyo anyway
but I don't think he's going to find too much extra.
Limit break even thrown out quite shortly. He's very low but he comes to beat,
clips himself in the fight for Lominal because Krox overextends,
Sam Maren connecting from Charm is coming up for at least one kill.
Spree's going to have to be utilized by Heesang to get another.
Yeah, there's just too many ultimates at the end of the day there the limit break and then eventually the sound barrier from Chorong
So even though Chorong got caught
They'd get back to the point the sound barrier, but it's not until France at least get us 29% there
It feels like France they're at least acting on the plans they draft up before these fights
They were able to take out Chorong relatively quickly even though they didn't have an ultimate
And now with that 30% building force a consumer rush. Hey, hey, they are in a position now where they make a couple of plays
they can go up to 1 here on this map.
Look at how far simple it's going away by the way.
Alright they've already perked the wheel, there's no doubt,
they're gonna stalk up from the artillery branch,
just stalling for time here.
Nice.
Very good.
We'll build our flex support ultimate.
Sierra, we'll be able to deploy it soon here.
He'll with a squee as well.
See how they execute on this path.
We've got wheel modes as well.
as well, so here comes the rushes from both teams, directly on the point, as DiB takes a finish,
boy, he's so very low that he goes down to the living plate, as Krox just runs over the rest.
Jumping, yeah, he's not much of a charge, come drop him into the back line, like we've seen
Kuffa getting, uh, yes, earlier on today, and Jumpity didn't stagger too.
It's going to buy some additional time there for France. It's, it's odd a little bit,
Isn't it? The last couple of points. It almost feels like France is in control.
Yeah. The tempo is definitely their favour.
They are the ones who are acting on their plans and even though they're facing South Korea.
South Korea. Hasn't had the best of time putting a stop to France and the game plan.
It was like very much you turn the name plates off, you turn the team plate off as well,
and you're like, look, we're playing our own game here.
This is how we've been screaming, this is how we've been succeeding in those screams.
He seems to be going low too. I mean, Kier is going to take down Sibyl. I mean, that's a double.
13 France. Make it a triple. I mean, this point isn't done.
This is a 2-1. France taking the lead on Newjunk City.
But what are we to make of this? What are we to make of France going up 2-1 here on Newjunk City?
Is this South Korea being silly?
Nothing wants to lead them to believe that South Korea aren't taking this seriously after all.
Is it the best we've seen from South Korea? No.
But it's still a moment where they have the opportunity to finish off this series.
and yet it is Franz up to one here on New York City all right well FD gods got
catnap limit break for jump in let's see how he ends up approaching this fight
great deadly place to get limited right limit breaks or limit broken which
where you want to set.
Got a pull.
He's out, but he dead.
Just flattened.
Emotrape FD, God.
Let me break now available for Crocs to jump in.
Shouldn't really need it, although he's going to use it anyway.
Just throws it in onto Crocs.
Didn't actually hit him.
I'm not sure it did.
Doesn't matter, though.
Crocs also ended up using his.
And that'll be a...
What's a team kill there?
14 in Korea.
Let's take it.
At least they get away with a teamfight win, they're only at the point of one ultimate,
they have plenty in the bank here.
So they're also a good start on this point at least, looking to tie it up.
Now it comes down to France, they get again.
You don't want to deploy anything too early, Croc's doing a little bit of trading, back
up with both, you lose the mech, that is massive.
Yeah, they're just going to capitalize on this, they're just going to walk on,
hold W, hold M1.
Yeah, they're straight into them right now, Johnny.
100% they said all trashes take a higher lead group right here
Wait for the spawns to get back in time here. So it'd be 55% already for Korea
Have you guys four ultimately in that?
You can essentially drop them all here if they wait out long enough. He's hanging around the corner
It's free available in fact four Oaks 14 Korea
They're gonna try and go for a rush here, off guard, already go, spree for Heesang
He's gonna eliminate Zerion. It's the final fight on this point folks lose mech here
That should be a gun.
I mean, here, and Krox end up coming over, kill Short for the health bars.
Very much a favorite champion right now.
And they are gonna just...
They're gonna stagger, Max. It's what they're gonna do.
As they bring this point to overtime.
And they're gonna claim it, too.
Alright, F2K goes down. That'll be it.
Two and two.
Going all the way to five points on NJC.
Couple of individual errors from France.
Sets up South Korea to tie up this map.
Two and two, and it comes down to our fifth and final.
Last point round here on the new junk city
Simple to Russian hand it's going to be a pivotal tool for South Korea here
as they look to improve this area of theirs
Well, what can I see got me this cat ultimate in hand
These mortars going as the rush
Yeah, he was on the low ground there. I believe you've got it out though. You only lost to one member
Oh, they actually get the other patch!
Orog's been kidnapped!
Someone help the cat!
It's not happening!
That's a great catch!
Beautiful stuff from FDGOT!
And the point is just now getting capped by South Korea, so...
Opportunity for us to get back here in a 5-6-4.
They're going to try and stall for additional time there for...
There's other players to come back.
Depends on getting that Suzy to stay alive on this high ground.
And now Strong is going to be able to rejoin the fight still in control of our
Korea.
If you've been with that limit break, it's going to get pushed.
It's very limited.
He's going very low in the cutout.
He's struck a crux on the wrong side of the map.
Leave it right, just to get the Dmg journey, I think that's well more than worth.
Yo, Keo on the high ground.
That's a spree, Keo, onto stalker.
I believe it's a 3 vs 3 scenario here, but Korea still has the cap.
Gaming, a significant percentage in just a fight to pick up a Keo.
That's going to be it for this one anyway.
And then, if you stagger here,
maybe potentially even with Sierra on SD, got in trouble too.
This could be Korea just pressing the gas pedal.
Maybe even looking to finish the map.
The point of the thing went a little bit deeper there might have been disastrous for them because Croc's is right around the corner.
Oh my son, what have you got?
Oh, Shreejax!
That should go down, Suzy pressed the Q button, Dips already got two, they tried to end the map, but it failed completely.
Yeah, I've been a bit relieved. I've been a bit of an over-eating this part. He's down here.
down here. Svans now going to be able to secure the point on the back of that, didn't
it? A little bit of stagger there as well. Oh no! Okay, this is going to be a stagger
max. Look at this! You can't make it back here, so you need to die right now. Yeah!
This is a good kill. Alright, that really does rack up some nice little percent. Every
little bit counts on Flash. Yeah, but you got to be further on here on out and
simple scut that, because sooner or later, it's serious on this. No, so you need
a little bit of a play here you can't allow Korea to do simply drop the
Katsunash along towards the point you need to go early you need to find a
pick early maybe Krox can find something here with a limit rate
and there is a rush to simple yet 24 there's the rush Suju as well two
sorts of that fight from the back ship so to be kept in touch again
and even burst flash post there straight to D.I.T.
all right well there's a fag game and here they're really good at like
holding these tags they don't end up getting a lot here but Jumin has
can de-mech again. This might be France taking this map Johnny.
And he's not even close to the ulti level.
He's not even close?
He could have maybe even had the ulti level.
Now he's going to push up. Fibers is 4.
Tried to force the recall early from the tracer.
Built that out he's time to get there.
There's the bike. Touch. Stalker. Stalker.
There's got a touch. He's got to go for it.
Oh Chorong. Cat.
What am I talking about?
Way better. Way safer to touch the cat.
And there's Stalker. Retouch.
OK. Jumping on board now.
Oh Fable.
Simple.
There's a simple one HP.
He's trying to find a fight here, but Heesang doesn't have going down.
Frans might be able to take this map now with a DPS lost to him between South Korea.
Overtime ticket through, not going to get back in time, although Jyupin narrowly touches.
Trunks back again. Oh!
Trunks can't get in for another touch. Jyupin was around the corner as well.
Frans take a map off of Korea.
And they're popping off. I mean, they're feeling really good.
They made Nepal real close.
They get a map here on New York City.
And we were expecting dominance from the side of South Korea instead.
Our evening prolonged there as France make
or going to try and make a series out of this.
Look the way it looked on the on junction.
We can all agree here
as a group watching this game. I'm agreeing.
That it seemed like France were kind of just like taking this one a little bit less seriously
But how do you turn city here the way they were executing with this composition?
They look really good except for the first round really they looked really competitive on the next four
And they're quite impressive taking themselves for real like this
Just on moon walk out
like on the headset with a
Look at his face that I can't describe you just be here to see it
All right, all five pundits on the last fight with Team France.
And like you said, they were popping off on the stage, they were.
You know, Trunks is like, damn people up, damn these boys up.
Like, we just took a map of one of the strongest teams to ever exist.
Never talk about it.
I'm looking at the dude now.
Are you kidding me?
Fatherly presence almost
What do you need to get the job done?
how do we
How do I set yourself up?
Finish this one right now
Seem to be in agreement somewhat so we'll have to see where they take us in a little bit after France gets an opportunity to respond
As it's still going to be
France here, getting the map win on Newjunk City forcing a map 4.
Look at that.
Something that I'm not really expecting at all.
Ash came to sit back down thinking Korea won that.
Ash, you can sneak off and...
You'll be back in a bit.
We're not done yet.
We're not done yet.
We're not done yet.
I'll add it just yet. He's gone. There we go. Hey remember that one time that
France reverse leads up the embassy to remember that one time me in 2028 Johnny. Do you remember? Yo
That went crazy dumb hard. Yeah, and then cooks pulled out the road road
I'm not five Matt five Roadhog against June bin and
Dominates it. Yeah. I mean, honestly
would go down in the history books as one of the craziest matches of all time
honestly if there's a reverse week it starts now map 3 taken by France on New
Junk City they've been really competitive for two or three maps yeah
yeah seriously yeah they could have been 2-1 up in the series at this
point that's crazy like okay the way the way we're almost placing South
Korea like it, you know, they're gonna be too quick
Let's snap back to reality. Yeah, we're going into a map 4. It's just gonna be south-east pick
Excuse me, some channel. No, I just...
Oh, you literally just asked me. Let's go
Pan has been down. It's been set in motion. They get their first pick for the map
They get the ban as well
So I really I really want to see a map 5 in force here because I just want to see
Like how how moons smile develops throughout the series each time it comes out talk to his team
It's forced to come out one more time and be like all right guys
We're in map 5 against get dinner plans in what we're late or kid green barbecue reservation
What's going on?
It was a booking fee, I paid $10,000 one is a booking fee 10 seats
Do you know how difficult that is to come across at 9 p.m. It's
Those who know come on guys can be quite difficult. Yeah, look GS 25. Let's go. She is
You know for a fact Korea losing here GS 25
All right
Esperanza for Korea
Yeah, it's the big, big brain moon says, this is where we go, France on the other hand though, that's got a few of you with so much raw energy, I mean it's a, it's a, it is an almost overworked map, like we saw so much as France being fading like what it says 25, yeah, and so all these, you know, players on team France like they got a lot of price, it was like the go to push map for so long, right?
And so I feel like if you're in France going into an Esperanto, you're like, okay, we're, you know, very comfortable playing a map like this.
We feel like we have a really good opportunity to take down Korea on a map like this, especially with how it looked in Nepal, how we took them down to New York City.
This, uh, based on what we've seen, just based on what we've seen objectively, what we've seen so far in the series, not out of the realm of possibility that France actually, like, misses not to.
You gotta, you gotta respect them not at this point.
OPM is through the roof.
You know what will be fun to track actually?
See how loud those French chants are now?
Obviously the career will be converted.
Yeah, converted in real time.
In real time we're going to see those chants of France
get a little bit louder.
Come on, we're not about to win this treason
in the crowd right now.
We're in Busan.
You can't abandon South Korea now.
No, they definitely won't.
I'm just saying there's going to be a few more people
like, hang on, wait, France got it going on right now.
Crocs has got... Crocs has got a mean D.Va.
Mean D.Va?
I'll be banning this way. No, I can't ban.
Korea banning first here. Just getting those in. There it is. D.Va.
Alright, fair enough. I mean it's a pretty high ground oriented map.
Decent map for D.Va, yeah?
Could be kind of a protection of the tanks too.
We'll see what our team France have decided to ban.
to back some thinking like she on from he says I didn't do your subs same same
five singing for Korea boys are now how I don't know is kind of a crack on
there yeah that is investing that is saying like look you're probably gonna
want to play an agreement very aggressive like a backline well it also shuts
down you know a lot of kind of like the cats that South Korea wait no Johnny sorry
okay oh they want a map in the series bro now it's not the time to get silly
with it all right it's not now we're actually like trying to play like we're
not bringing up the idea of the road all right okay the honor ban is great
though, because it forces a mechanical close range combat environment.
South Korea, they cannot channel their revered play style of putting an on on the high ground
playing far back, getting value from grenades, getting value from speed darts, forcing France's
hand with the on out of the mix here, it's going to be a lot harder for Korea to set
up around what France is trying to execute with here.
Like you said, it does open up the door for you know, something like a Marga to be quite powerful.
Yeah, Marga too, I think that's a very good show as well.
Not that, you know, we've necessarily seen a lot, you know.
We wouldn't see that much counterplay to the Marga, like we seldom see the honor.
We see a little bit of honor this time, like Sweden's playing some honor.
Yeah.
Finn has had a real tough time on honor.
He's had both ways.
Finn had a real tough time on honor, like I was getting though 20% of it.
Yeah.
Team Japan.
All right, let's get into it.
Esperanto push map France taking us to a map number four on what was a very close new junk
city went all five points to France they want to make a statement in this group want to make
history too and what you said at the very start of the series Johnny about how historical the
French team has been the legends on that tear they're talking to people like soon of course I
I mean, look at the roster they've had over the years.
Like, fans are now passionate.
The fans have always been.
It's a tough group we've created.
And here we go.
Number four.
Johnny, that was much louder than the last map.
Slowly but surely the crowd is being won over by Franchem.
It's starting off small, it's ramping up, just like France right now.
It was a little...
Still a little bit of disbelief in the projection of the boys from the French fans.
That's it.
It's like, is this really happening?
Yes.
The suspension of disbelief is a very powerful thing.
Here we go.
We're going for the mirror while he's in the tank roll here.
Crocs jumping on the team on again.
No change, dip, he sank, she on, tracer dip.
If a cat world, we're living in it.
If the Odin Choron wants more pain, this pivotal hero at this time in Overwatch 3.
He's at white speed, by the way.
Oh my goodness, Long Range Suzu's gonna make sure he stays alive against the Crusher dip, was finally laying back.
Slash in, he sank again.
Taking on a lot of like grunt damage here as we see Frost moving this payload really early on.
Frost really trying to make that way here. Simple.
Teleporter force. Opportunity here now. Fourth round.
He's trying to punish these abilities being utilized.
They are slowly inching the bot away as well.
Like, South Korea can't let this go under the bridge.
Blinding stress, the imagination could flashbang go by Stalker.
It's gonna get grappled up into the sky to a little reposition for the Cassidy.
Cassidy now has to deal with a tracer but already did hit the recall and look at the health bars and frans right now
They are yeah devastation is one way to put it. Good team back up to crooks. That's Korea winning the first fight
And they do so in a controlled manner
With the aggression from stalker getting on top of keo trading out the opponent Cassidy
And then crooks soon to follow as well with them out damage into pre-fight
It's just going to be now South Korea establishing this high ground
They have a sky moon available for them, no need to push too far now.
It's going to allow France to push out into the side of the moon.
Yeah, a little bit too far up. Rocks 3 taking the kill right now.
He's going to force them to actually use Rocks under the bridge, but it's not that defensive that they can't use it.
They can push back to make an ulti base for the limit, right?
The ship just flings out.
Oh, the sky moon from Stalker.
Oh, just delectable.
It feels uncountable at times, this guy isn't just so powerful, especially mid-fight, you've already deployed a Su-Su, maybe utilize a couple of mobility tools and you can't get out of the line of sight, stalker with the perfect timing, combining with short of that time, and that's going to be a checkpoint to reach towards the Umbria.
Here we go.
Alright, okay.
Taking Salka out on the cast can be so hard, such a tough task.
And again, attacking in did a complete Esperanto moment when we applied right now, the whole
thing to itch!
Oh, he's dragged back down!
Uh-oh!
Uh-oh!
Rocked by Fogtime!
Sipmach is gonna get out alive, though, almost!
He's sang ends up going down too!
Betsy got his area on just so damn low!
Dip, postbop!
Not quite, Salka.
Bullet between the eyes, takes the Tracer down.
It's like they wanted to get you from ground with that dead eye.
Initiating with it is so difficult to get value from a kill standpoint.
But if you don't have any position on the high ground here on this bronzer, you might
want to initiate with it.
At least allow yourself to spread out freely.
But South Korea at that time, they meet France head on.
They don't give them any space.
And with that, you're going to feel comfortable once more here with this one.
I really like how the cat can pick people up from the spawn zone.
Three taxes there is.
I'm about to kind of meet the moment if they want to get back into this map.
They have a continuous...
...perfume-easy for Korea to disengage should they need to.
Oh, it's one-in-one already.
Let me break by the way, but it should be gone, so...
...how's the way we're on safe?
In fact, it wasn't Suzu.
It's not great, it's Suzu disengaged.
There's no point just back out.
Wait for a better opportunity.
Can't remember any medical props.
There's one here against Jim. Jim is pretty close too though.
But there's something old from Team Korea here.
It's gonna be hard really to find a leg up in this fight.
There's this guy new from Stalker, but something was already gone down.
A really early shooter from Xerion.
And it's easy pickings for Stalker.
As we see this high ground, just continuing to be in control of Team Korea.
The dip now makes an entrance into the fight. Upstalking goes down.
Limit break, but you're mid, and he's de-shootin'.
Somehow, trying to get to the killing dip.
And we're just almost, Krox almost killing a DPS in the baby team on form, but Korea,
they have control of the bot too, so the bot is so close to this barricade already.
Yeah, France is doing their best, trying to trade back and forth with Korea,
investing open ups as well
But it just hasn't gone the value quite just yet
Finding themselves on a pretty big deficit here has to reach the halfway mark now with Esperanza
And with no real openness available to it with Skydude is critical that Tio finds value here
But you're on a sliding roof top
Skydude
Keo, okay, that's the couple simple into choosing himself to stop that made connecting is actually just gonna go down and say the
Oh, he's fancy! Football pays off!
Nice Balai classes. Well, I could have won this for him.
But that can sometimes be a good way to win a teamfight.
We only use the Sky Noon. We allow the rest of the team to build these ultimate tiles.
Well, Serion is now going to come up on this. Sooner or later, we gain the high ground this time.
South Korea doesn't really have any great tools at this time to regain ground.
So maybe a little bit of a bit of cookie established here by the French team.
The checkpoint will be doubled.
Whoa, I'm careful not to damage.
You're actually just going to stall some time here with a Batshaw.
Easy does it.
There's the rush now.
Really? Good job, but kind of like...
Just wait and laying in this bush and Batshaw checkpoint.
That's a good round being made here.
It's going to be staggerous as well for South Korea.
I need a bit of imposition now.
Deeds the kill feed for France here as surely Junbin might come here as well. Although the mobility is going to be a little bit too much.
But while this is happening, the both still being pushed, this might be France taking a lead here. Simple.
Walsh gives back quickly with this consumer in hand.
So Walsh has checked when he's large running.
There's this guy noon all from the high ground. Oh no! Sork actually!
Ah, my noon! Suzu from the high ground!
It does a good job of keeping this team alive, kid.
Oh, Tip and FD gone, had different ideas about how they wanted to approach that.
They tried to go for a big wraparound flank.
Team South Korea, they end up denying an elite.
Like, what, six meters? That wasn't...
But that is the nature of push, and it's undeniable.
You have to take a teamfight loss like that.
The longer you push, it's going to be more...
more and more unlikely that you want to win a teamfight.
And so with France, they're not going to be happy with the checkpoint.
They got six meters away from taking the lead.
Now they have to find a way back here to get the port back in control.
There's the limit, right?
Oh, he's gonna get the port.
He sues you from Xerion.
That is unbelievable timing.
He's saying he's gonna try and show him what for, though, with the spree.
They're good here, though, maybe.
Yeah, they might be okay.
Sky dude.
Oh, he's so...
That is great!
AT-3!
He still survives that!
Against the kill of Chorong.
Straight up to the high ground again.
He is getting so much value.
And they are going to keep turning along here. Simple with a late death, Serion has the Kitsuroch as well.
Surely this is France taking the lead.
Yeah, they're going to hold one. They're going to hold two.
Jimenez to reset. Just jump off the back.
France in the lead.
I'm not going to push on even further too. This is a late death from Jimenez and he sank.
And suddenly the crowd feeling a little bit bewildered here actually.
Actually, as France, they want the map on New York City.
Two minutes to go on Esperanza.
And they find themselves in their lead.
This Reveal pair of sub three out on the side.
Skynoon, Skynoon looking for it.
Darjeem, Zeryon, that was a scum.
And they go!
Oh!
Oh, my God!
No!
No!
A tragedy.
A stalker lands, and I shot two on Zeryon, but still, Johnny, lead game to Minute 40.
painful opposition of strength now ultimate in the bank all you need to do is
secure just an ounce of value in this moment and you could be forcing a map
five against South Korea in South Korea this would be such an impressive
couple of map wins four brands but now they just have to execute on it
third person peeking around the corner here jumping in some additional
information always gonna sneak it using the cover of the bushes he's just gonna
slash into the backline here comes the rest of Jim it's super far forward
liberating in hand for blocks as well and that is Jim big going down just as
Meg destroyed almost instantly Priya they've got a reset oh what shot great
team fight for France on the jimson first deployed your camera have to
take that serial unlikely to generate another one with only 45 seconds
remaining here on Esperanza. It has to come down to the Sky News. FD God, can you conjure up a play here?
This might be South Korea's teamfight to win initially, but as we get over time, we can come out on call.
Sky News here, all its employees are going down.
With 20 seconds to go, Johnny, this is going to be a disaster for South Korea's economy here.
They've used their rocks already.
Chipmunk juice!
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South Korea, the favorite going into it, they just got to get the job done and incapable
of doing so.
The previous time it was mirroring China playing the dive composition, which ultimately they
fell into semi-finals.
Say what you want about USA with their fantastic achievements of winning the World Cup 2019,
but it's always been South Korea's World Cup to lose and sometimes the pressure has
just gone into them.
they just have played a little bit out of character and now France are under the
precipice of a reverse sweep against a South Korean team that once again going
into a tournament has to be favored to be the best team in the entire tournament.
I just can't believe it.
I can't believe it.
I think, yeah, I think he's going to be one.
They were shell shocked, man.
Stunlock. Just in jumb and warp off stage. Max is coming back in.
Yeah, seems like two subs.
Two subs as well.
Yeah, Max Stunlock back in.
There you can see him setting up.
Coach Moon in the center there.
Wow, he is gone.
Moon is walked off.
He does not want to stand in front of this crowd.
It's a lot of pride on the line for Korea.
A whole lot of pride.
And look at France here.
your fd god grinning ear to ear, big ol smile on his face, prox pointing to the sky, yeah
yeah exactly yeah, why wouldn't they be, why wouldn't they be elated right now?
So comfortable in their own skin, they're forcing mapfire against South Korea, they're playing
the better demon right now, this has been a hero that has proven to be itself critical
in the outcome of some of these results and that goes for the cat gameplay here as well
and France showing that like we've come to play, scrims have been feeling good,
We're in this tournament now, forcing them to file against South Korea.
They have every reason to put smiles on their faces.
No GS25 dinner for us.
A premium barbecue, waiting on the other side of this.
If they take the win.
Hey.
Were you there in 2026 when France were a certain Korean?
Were you there?
You might be here right now. We might be witnessing history, in all honesty.
We might be witnessing history.
Are you taking notes?
Even in this group, Link.
There's a real shot here for frauds to take a spot and even take number one seat
We'll see how Denmark do of course
Like it doesn't mean so much like I just want to unpack that for a little bit. Yeah, go on
If you get number one seat here against South Korea, you dodge an eventual match up
I get first of all you took down South Korea like bring it on like whoever like I don't care
but
The fact remains that you want to prolong your destiny
against the likes of King of Missouri the King USA for as long as possible
So getting the number one seed by taking down the tournament's favorites has to be said.
At least I'm saying so, I'm saying that we are always the favorite going into the World Cup.
That essentially gives you a way better opportunity to get a top 4 at Biscont.
Which is an incredible achievement.
And then who knows, you know, if you're able to take it off?
We would know once it's started to start a radio to eventually win the tournament.
Even Michelle was saying it.
Yeah, no, he was probably saying it, expect to win.
And like you just like you never know like a tournament to go your way
If you get the number one seed here, what you two matches away
Or no, it's not too much way. Sorry late night here in Busan not gonna do math on broadcast
To be determined. It's not just a way they are from winning the others here, but it's not too. I can tell you that. Yeah
All right, Chambali monster
Do you feel like South Korea went into their aspirants and saying like, okay, well, we just got to play Sky Noon, we just got to play best driver, like, essentially it's playing Sky Noon. It's about as default as you can get these days. It's like, you're playing the ultimate economy. We'll try to get value. Value with Sky Noon is essentially guaranteed. Like, it's pretty, very reliable, at least getting a couple of frags. Or you take so much space from your opponent that you can follow up on that space and then get on the kill right.
For security, suitability, and killing.
Exactly, yeah. So we can get better with this kind of...
Now we're going towards Chambali Monastery, which...
Again, like, there's opportunity to pull that off, if you'd like to.
We'll see the first band, it's going to be Rotomotor here as well.
Going up against Max, you know, that's a very big, very big Comfortmik Airform accent.
You know, it also enables you to play a pretty, like, defensive playstyle for Korea here,
which would maybe propel their damage players to take more space on these flags,
Come up with playmaking so I don't hate this from France
It almost forces Korea's how to play with a little bit more aggression here to maybe force the error from max a little bit here
You know dual where crosses been really comfortable
This demon just looked good
Well, I bashed him back. You're a little bit that last one
It's right a little bit indeed, but I
Still I still feel like
My mind is telling you no
But friends, they've been looking so good these last couple of maps that I always want to say they're favored.
Like, how are these fans are unfolding? Like, they just gotta keep them busy.
Like, it is hard to pull off the demon on a map layout, like Shambali Monastery.
It can be very long range.
There will be a lot of verticality that the cats will be able to dictate.
Not at all as brawl-friendly as, you know, potion flashpoint.
But they've been looking so good overall. It's not only crotch, it's the rescue team stepping up as well.
Yeah, yeah, exactly. He's not just one member right now, team France, that's so...
Pull in their weight.
Alright, here we go. Map 5, Korea, France.
France taking us all the way here. Reverse sweep potential.
On line.
Biggest upset of the tournament so far, I'd say.
Oh, look.
Yeah, we wouldn't be witnessing the biggest upset of the tournament.
Like, you like... Well...
There are a couple of more upsets that could theoretically happen, but...
I'm telling you, this will be the biggest obstacle for him at this year.
A hundred percent.
There's a couple of players in South Korea who can't prevent it.
This could be Sunder introducing himself to all the South Korean fans watching here.
Taking control of this fifth map, laying it down on France,
racking up those chills that we've seen him doing in the mid-season championship.
Yep, and he's playing for Dallas Fuel.
If you do it here in a moment like this and you almost save the rest of the team,
save Chris Racoon from this awful
destiny of theirs to get reverse swept here
that would be quite the feat for Sonjin
allow him some grace moon laser
contract down on his desk come play
for us come play for us hope sasmo
wouldn't make it cheap yeah tazma would
not make that cheap I know what right
I believe we are almost ready to go I
see everybody in the lobby Max and
Sonjin are locked in, and so are the rest of France.
I mean, we got some good shots, Crocs,
kind of flipping out over there
when they won that last man.
Spirits are high in the French camp.
We obviously, Korea side of things.
I mean, the feeling of almost dread,
maybe setting in Johnny, for the team.
Doubt.
Doubt?
All right, let's go.
It's a Laura Mora, thinking itself present now
the minds of these South Korean players and then on the other end of side of things you
have France, they're players. It's hard to say that maybe to potentially be the most
exciting 15 minutes of their life ahead of them here as they can leave with a memory
that will last for a lifetime.
France and Korea at two apiece final map in the series it's gonna end here with
Korea starting out attack
it's hard to not look at the crosshairs the jumping the movement of these
players now for South Korea fidgety fidgety anxiety making itself present
through the crosser in a moment where you need calm and execute what you practice so many times at home
Sonic are a little revealed to start a software and there it is okay payload
so that is not what i'm finding and it's gonna switch to kind of blind and wait
Okay, back to Dengi and Bizarre. Oh my goodness, where did he go?
Oh dearie me.
Blah.
Maybe we switch.
Lucio carry for South Korea, Chorong. It's going to be the Juno this time around.
And Sunjin without breathless dash, it almost re-instills the moment for South Korea.
They're dropping him in.
Look at this confidence from France right now.
Max can actually use none of the bubble and stuff.
That's about what was down already, by the way.
And Sunjin's already dead.
He is not meeting the moment on this fifth map already too.
They're thoroughly on.
They're just dropping crocs in already.
Like, look at this.
Just go for it.
Sorry, he's gonna go down though.
At least stalker point one, but no fear.
No fear, you still have a cat.
Shocking the school doors.
Don't let Mask get high energy, I really feel the Zarya here. She's only got one bubble left and there's the repo from there.
You have no reason to fear the South Korean roster. You forced the fifth map.
You've been channeling this aggression. Why would you stop now? In a moment like this where the South Korean players are shivering.
Playing so hard for the country here, the French players are stepping up. They're playing three on us at a moment like this.
Okay, Stalker, he got that one pick, but very quick to get back to his life, already a full fight in strength already.
Axes decided, you know what, I'll play this game with him, no problem.
I'll be on Dmon as well.
Sanjin is gonna just get himself into the back-line with the Halon, like the Red Bro.
Crocs has already got the ultimate too.
Simple, very low, and to get him to take it down by Diff, and it's a good trade.
Honestly, they're gonna support after an EPS, any day of the week.
Dip in a little bit of trouble, though.
70-98 speed, and now Pax is gonna get D2-D2.
Keep him, keep him out.
Keep him as a pet, honestly.
At this point, you staggered, you're gonna find a big value.
One minute and 50 seconds to go.
And Korea barely got off the start in line.
And the game is going up to the motion for the French players right now.
They're seeing these Korean players trying to set up wide angles,
Sojoon and Chorong, and they're saying,
Okay, you're leaving the rest of your team.
Oh, look at that guy, dude. Stalker!
Oh! Woohoo! It's running for his life!
There's two players in the payload right now, full South Korea though, Johnny.
Krox has got that Limit Break and he can just be dropped straight on the point if he needed to.
He's just gonna go in. Nice kill on Kio.
Okay, here we go. Taking out South Korea in control.
They're gonna try and push the tempo now on Brandt.
And Xerion pops that rush.
Here's the return, rushed over. Look at this flank.
Xerion is gonna pick up Zimbal.
Limit Break for Krox as well. He's gonna save it.
He's gonna get out of our suit.
I see you, Maria.
I have one minute left.
They are in Shambles.
They are a shell of their former self.
Three minutes drained on Shamboli Monastery.
Fifty-five meters only.
They haven't shown us anything to inspire confidence
that they are fully playing through the capabilities.
Alright, we've just got a pause.
They've got two DPS ults.
Got him in the break. Got him in the half-catnap, in a minute.
Gonna go straight over again.
Box is already in. Salk is already down. There's one ult, deleted already.
No problem.
Sondra's trying to get busy in the past one, but Symbus is gonna go down again.
Catnap from Chob. Where do you think you're going?
This is last fight. This is 20 seconds remaining.
Sondra is dead.
Symbus is getting caught.
Su-su, he's out.
And there's the MRA Ultimate, he's gonna try and find out D.Gun, but he actually needs to land some connections there, he needs to hit him!
And D.Gun, he's gonna get out almost, he manages to get away, he's gonna card him up actually to create some space for himself.
A stick, but Krox has already got two!
It's got another, I mean this is absurd!
The one time they reversed South Korea, full holding them on some ball in monastery and team France are 55 meters away from winning in the groups here against Korea.
It is dead silent in the arena.
54 meters. I just saw someone left the arena.
Brother. This French team couldn't be more excited right now.
Crocs, a mile a minute currently.
Speaking, big in the team up, making sure they're fully locked in for this next round.
HL, like you said, of their former selves it feels like this is most of Crazy Raccoon!
I have no words for what is unfolding in front of us.
A French team that's phoned it in on New Junction with Reinhardt Cat giggling and
laughing as they took a mouthful.
Here they are on some Bali Monastery, about to leave a mark, a SCORE on South Korean
eSports history.
Okay, up we go.
Oh yeah, not gonna mess with that.
I know shot, there it is.
Okay, Kyo, Cassidy again, Max Sigma Chong is gonna be on the Mizuki.
They just need space, they just need time.
France, they can just basically stack the payload.
They're going to drop frox in of course, playing with full confidence right now with Team France.
Axe is going to be able to base him in the 1v1 of course, but Kyo's just going to push this payload in.
Serion with a very early suzi uses, but look at this, frox is commanding them.
It's like a sheep dog early, sheep right now.
And they're not letting them hold up at all, I mean they're just pushing them to the very limit currently.
There's one person on the payload right now, Crop's just gonna get here dude.
They're just gonna put themselves on the point.
Tron, where you going buddy?
Someone's gonna touch here, depends if they're going down, so I'm just gonna be on the point but hit the recall real quick.
He's ended up getting flashbang as well.
They're running this one in.
Sonjin's already dead.
I mean, Xerion's down short.
Can they actually survive here?
Cause Crop's is in the back line.
They're fighting for his life right now.
Yes, we got to fight to help out S-10.
But that's not going to be the teamfight win.
That would take France across the finish line.
A applause from the South Korean fans.
As maybe a last gasp.
90 seconds rained.
On 240 seconds.
Let's feel like a lifetime for the South Korean crowd.
France are so close now.
They're going to try and force the payload on you. That's the name of the game here for team of France.
But Sondre, the last bastion kind of standing in their way, is a 5v4 takes place on this high ground.
They're going to try and go first, so here's the rush.
It's a decent limit break too, but it's going to get Suzu'd initially.
Sondre makes extremely low down the payloads game, push Sondre now down.
Now the team South Korea have to respond. They have to get a point.
Sky New, 4th Geo, the robot misses as well.
as well, the sanctuary for Chobb, he's hunting for them, he gets the shot but it don't matter.
Kia rolling away, as the crowd erupts. As they know, Team Korea have another chance
to defend the loudest they have been all evening for a teamfight win to make their
stand on Chamboli Monastery. This is the pride of South Korea on the line, with
80 seconds remaining. A couple of teamfights away.
Max has got Flux. There's a Pops here for Sunken 2.
High ground control imperative here for France.
They don't want to be shy out from the high ground.
His dip-ins are going down.
And he's got super low as well.
Score to kill. Does Max.
It's hard to afford them on the death.
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Wow this group has gotten so damn spicy Johnny
You got to say, hey, that was the hardest match out of the way in our group.
Slimes have an amazing shot to make BlizzCon.
I can't believe what it was that they do. I'm still harvesting.
I'm sure everyone at home is as well.
We've seen a lot of things unfold in the past 10 years of Overwatch.
I did not expect myself to find myself in Korea watching them get reverse web
but in France
Insane upset coming in from team France the reverse weep coming in from the
It's just insane to see like I I think just being sunlocked and
Being out of words is the only way you can really put it for team France. We've talked about
about their historical runs
previously within Overwatch World Cup,
what these teams have been able to bring beforehand during 2023.
They weren't able to make it out of that group stage now,
having the best shot possible with this win up against South Korea
to take themselves all the way to Anaheim.
We had conversations about the energy that comes from this roster,
and I think that was a bit of a stark difference, right, Johnny?
In this matchup, once we saw France really biting back up against South Korea, you could tell Vibes were so different across the board and it was hard for Korea to come back into it mentally.
Like I said, going into the map 5, it's France's favorite going into map 5 based on the fact that we saw on map 3 and 4.
It felt like they were in complete control of momentum. They had proven that they actually were playing the meta composition if you will with the human and cat.
like that just shouldn't be the case like that it is crooks for Christ's sake which is crazy
crooks against Max and Junvin we took both of them down too like yeah this should not
have happened realistically like it just it was a stellar performance coming out from
crooks the rest of team france i think that everyone in the crowd was also at a loss for
words when France started winning those maps there as well. For Korea, this is heartbreaking.
The first time we're seeing them in the group stage here in Busan and they go down two to
three.
Yeah, for a moment. For a moment in time.
I just, where's the book? Where's the, give me the pen, give me the book, give me the
pen, give me the book. I'll write it down.
Get the historian in. Get the historian in.
win I just this has really set the tone for this World Cup with the last time we had obviously
2023 Korea also, you know, they didn't end up winning
They've been winning every other World Cup since the World Cup even started
You know what I mean and like and now we're in a position where like even some of Jeb was saying oh no
Cutler, sorry, I believe is saying
Everybody has just gotten better
Every single year and France is proven that
It's incredible what we've seen from Team France today. Again, taking a look at these group
standings. This is the first time we're seeing Team France and Team Korea in the group stage.
And with this win up against Korea and France, they still do have to face up against Denmark
and Columbia. But Korea, I think in this group, is the biggest hurdle for every single
team here.
That's what we learned here today, but guys, we do have Crocs on the couch with us.
I just want to say, felices passions for the win.
I think that we are also excited to see you here, especially after getting to interview
you during the qualifiers.
We knew the kind of energy that you were going to be bringing to the table, and
I want to talk to you a little bit about the demon, because we've seen you on the
Roadhog.
We've seen you on the Junker Queen.
We've seen you on the Reinhardt.
It comes down to the demon, it feels like she's almost made for you in your playstyle.
Yeah, I would agree too. For me, demon is like one of the best heroes I could dream of.
She's like a mix between Junker Queen and like, just all the things I like to play.
Junker Queen Reina, then it's so funny.
Lucky them I was not able to play all, even though I could.
Otherwise it would be 3-0 sweep, but you know for the content we need to...
You need to make it close man.
Yeah, they need to believe like that they cannot go away.
sense who said that are you you kind of like understand what you just did like
you just reverse what South Korea and South Korea like what does it feel like
are you I mean I'm so excited you seem so caught yeah I knew this was gonna
happen yeah because you know it's land so I cannot be funky being like a
computer I was freaking on stage I was doing yeah but in the meantime on a
In the chat, I was like, I'm a big fanboy, you insane at the game.
No, I'm not.
In the chat, I'm a little glazed, but you know, now you would say the same to me, you know,
you're used to me, so you can't say anything.
Yes, you're a glazed pod.
Dude, we could hear it, like you were going kind of ballistic on the stage, like we could
hear it through our cans, which are pretty noise canceling as well, and like it's funny
because me and Johnny spoke about it, but the crowd, as soon as you guys started
to really find that, but it was like, oh, actually, we're getting kind of quiet
And then you're making noise and you were like the only person making noise and the whole thing and
Everybody on your team being bright smiles on their faces like when for you in that series
Did it feel like the tipping point was reached and you were just gonna take the whole thing?
When they answer to the as them if a riversuit was doable they say no they all in the know
I was like I'm lucky you fall for the bait
You will play to the best human in the world and I have no doubt I am right now
I have so much confidence and to come back on one of the previous question like
At the start when we got Korea new group everybody was kind of mad or like not mad but sad
And I was like screaming in my face. Let go. I'm gonna beat them in the hometown
And I wanted to have Japan as well. Unfortunately, like due to the world they were not able to beat them because I wanted to play against KG
I had the chance to win the stream though it was so cool
But yeah, like I knew since day one I was gonna beat them
Is you believe in that guy?
That's awesome.
I mean, what a memory you've created here.
I gotta ask you, what happened on Neon Junction?
Basically, we didn't follow Orplem.
That's it.
That comp was just for the content and...
But that's what I mean!
You did it for the content!
And then you reversed like...
It's like...
It's 9-4-8-8-8.
You won the poll too!
Like, you were just good on the poll.
I mean, Nepal was like, I feel like some of my teammates were not, they were excited, we all are, but we were like between the chair, you know, like, we were like, we want to win, we want to do it clean, but like, should we chase kill, because like, Stalker was hitting his brain off on Genji.
We were like, should we chase kill or should we, should Gen be non-point and like, if you don't listen to each other, you will not make it.
And after I just saw the guys briefing, it's okay if you lose that map, like after we lost there.
We go map 2, the content, it's not the best map we prepare.
And after the 2 ban they did as well, the coach said like,
Guys, we got them, they did bad bans and we got them.
And I actually believe in that.
Yeah, that's awesome.
That's a great time coach, inspiring like that.
Shout out to him because I think it worked a lot with everyone.
Maybe not as expected as people wanted to, but because of the team peps and stuff.
By the way, buy peps bundle, important.
Buy peps bundle.
By the way, if you buy peps bundle, I'm the proof that you will win against Korea.
So, no issues.
Transitive properties, right?
I see the vision.
No, but we believe in it.
I think we just stay for now.
Then, mark out the next in Skytop.
I will beat you.
Okay, fighting rules. I love the fighting rules. I think that's my favorite part about LAN is always the player interactions on stage and the energy that you're able to bring. I think it's such a different maker here for St. Francis, the confidence that you bring to the table. And you invigorate your team with that as well.
Yeah, I feel like everybody know I have big ego. I was not going to lose to them even though they might be the best in the world right now
With Saudi, I'm so happy to play Saudi soon as well. Like they don't even know how much I want to win against them
And same scenario, they can win 3-0 if it's best of 7. I will just end up by a win
I think today what was important as well, I have one more happening, it's like the socks
I don't know if people see but there's socks
Lucky Charms
I mean, Cipal didn't have it and he lost. So again, buy stocks overwatch.
Yeah, okay, alright.
I love that, I love that. I want to ask you something, Kroc, because again, in this matchup, this is my final question for you.
You were the underdog heading into it, of course, and being able to beat Team Korea is just absolutely insane coming out from you and the rest of the team.
Is there anything that you feel like you want the world to know about Team France that maybe doesn't get talked about enough?
I mean I can say a lot of stuff like yesterday I crashed out, I can say that I can say a lot of stuff.
But I want to let people know that we're going to win that World Cup and you hurry first.
We're coming for it, we have the mentality for it, we have the support for it, we have the fans, everyone.
everyone and shout out to them and we as well have the best demon in the world right now in our side so
they can challenge me, they can knock her by her body, I will win no matter what
you're lucky if I don't pay all but that's what I would say if you're lucky if I don't pay all
that's a secret sauce of best one yeah and by the coastline
I'm by the coastline yeah I'm not in VP as well of this match
we don't do it but yeah sure I think we can grant that I think we can grant that
Thank you so much though across for doing this interview with us. Congratulations once again
And it was so nice to chat with you now though. I want to say also. Good luck for your remaining matches
I know which is just so crazy right guys, but let's take a look at the standings now here
Of course, we just closed out our last map of today within group C
That was France taking the win over Korea a massive upset coming in
It's not the only upset that happened today though like Australia took that win up against Great Britain guys
You and me buddy what a treat we got
These couple of games. Yeah. Wow. That's I mean the groups turn out to be kind of sick a few expected results
Of course, but yeah, reverse me from France against Korea Australia one against Great Britain as well. Yeah, ridiculous stuff
I think that's the fun part about OWWC right Johnny the fact that again even though we have so many players that we might think okay on paper
These players together should be able to take a win over certain teams. There's so many surprise factors that come down
Yeah, I said it yesterday and I wasn't foreshadowing Korea getting upset because no one does that
But I did say that like you know some of these teams they're less practice with each other
with each other. You might not be familiar with some of the play styles. You got a new hero like
really shaking things up. Kat is being introduced to the game. It's just a variable that like really
again shakes things up. And so the environment is really set up for upsets in many ways. And so
I think that's you know, that's what you're seeing. Australia upsets are a great rhythm.
And that's what you're seeing. Again, France upsets in Korea. It's like no one
ever expected that. But in the World Cup, more so than all of the CS, the conditions are right
for upsets to happen and that means that the players have even more
opportunity to like have more belief in themselves that we can make this happen
we can win a match like this and if you have the belief that proxp is played
here on the couch like that is that is like a real boom you're bringing it to the workshop
it absolutely is and i think that the fact that it sets the stakes up for those upset
potentials to happen with all those variables is what makes the overwatch world cup so fun
fun to watch. So enjoyable. We're gonna have to see if more upsets are gonna come along
though throughout the rest of the group stage this weekend. It has been a pleasure for you
guys to join us here on OWWC, but we're gonna say good night for tonight and see you guys
tomorrow.
Thanks for watching!
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