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What's up everybody, I'm here with Astro from Team Canada for a quick post match chat.
You guys went up against Team Thailand 3-1 victory.
How did you guys prepare for this match?
Was there anything you guys did specifically?
I mean we just watched our match from the day before because we had a break date the
other day so that was really nice.
We had a lot of time to prepare and just looking at the comps that they played
and just thinking about the bans we wanted to do and the maps we wanted to pick, that
we thought would be weak for their comps.
But it was a little bit of a surprise because we thought they were going to play another tank
player, but then they put their damage player on tank, so that kind of threw us for a loop.
That was interesting.
But we...
Was that why they got the one map offer, you guys?
To be fair, I think we're just not that great at Neon Junction.
It was just a little bit...
We didn't prepare that much for that one.
And also the demon ban, that was a little bit unfortunate.
I wanted to play demon on that map, but they banned it, so...
Oh well.
I mean at the end of the day you guys did get the win so you guys are 2-0 right now
Do you feel you could continue this on get it and become 3-0 for your group for tomorrow?
I mean absolutely. I think like
team Spain I think
People are saying they're really good in scrims, but I think we're really good in matches
So I don't think the scrims matter that much and if we just show up on match day
I think we have a very fair chance to beat them. Yeah, also one final question for you
I feel like Team Canada has a good mix of veteran players and also newer players.
So for veteran players, do you guys give advice to some of the newer players that comes on stage with you guys?
What are some of the stuff that you tell them?
I think just being calm is the most important thing.
That's definitely the most important thing, but also just helping with micro a little bit.
or a little bit and also just figuring out how to like not just work your character as well but as a team in like the highest like
tier that's playable so yeah and also I think I want to do one more question with you
Since we're in Busan, do you have a Korean word that you want to learn? I speak a little bit of Korean
I'm trying to teach some of the Korean players a couple of words here and there anything you want to know
What word for Astro?
Astro. Astro that's it. That's it.
Only thing
What about Canada? What's the word for Canada?
Canada.
Okay, one more.
One more.
Overwatch?
Overwatch.
Thank you for the interview.
Thank you so much. Thanks for having me.
Hello, everyone, and welcome to the fourth episode of the
And final day of your watch woke up 2026 group stages happening here live in Busan
So he is my name and I'm joined by my good friends Matt and Mitch why you laughing about that?
How do you do that with your leg? Like your leg is like super far up or you look too flexible with your whole leg
Yeah, in my all in my all the age. I'm not that
Okay, and now that we covered max flexibility and let's talk about what we're here to do
And that is of course chat about Overwatch. We still have some stuff up for grabs today
So we have a lot of actually quite impactful matches in these groups. Group A is concluded of course already
We already know who's gonna be moving on that is of course
USA came top of the group in a group A and then Sweden coming in a second
But yeah first and let's talk about how those teams got it done and this does what happened yesterday for those
who didn't watch Mitch, what stood out to you?
Yeah, look, we had a banger game between the United States and Sweden.
This one really went down to the wire.
And I'm glad, because it felt like a real showcase of what the USA were capable of.
We were not, I guess, impressed by their showing against China.
China didn't offer as much resistance as you, and I was waiting to see
both of those teams, frankly, put to the test.
This is a game that had everything.
It went all the way.
I definitely recommend you guys go back and watch it because, I mean,
And the Esperanto was like one of those legendary maps where the pendulum swings all the way back and forth, just really compelling overall.
I mean, Lukimino was unbelievable on this final map.
That cat nap?
Yeah, cat nap.
On the roof?
Yeah, on that cast.
You got to fly through the sky and huge win for Team USA.
And then I know Germany obviously bounced back in a big way.
I thought, you know, Germany, you're pretty high on them in their group.
You know, they kind of slipped early to Canada.
but yesterday looked much better than we casted this game with Canada.
Kind of, you know, Thailand left a little bit to be desired if I'm honest.
They thought Thailand had some opportunities in this series, and then, you know, they just kind of, you know,
Canada rolled them over and took advantage of it.
The most interesting map was where we had a Demon Van Brite, and then, you know,
like, we saw that the Tank Pools tested a little bit more.
This series, though. I mean, I don't know how Frost does this.
I don't think he's playing the same game as everybody else.
France have definitely been the best adopters of this Demon composition, Zoe.
And I've never seen such a gap, frankly. SkyTor's a great player, but this is not even close.
At Crapston, it's the confidence he's bringing to the table. That's half the rent here.
There's aura, bro. French crowd with aura.
And of course, South Korea here to redeem themselves after getting that upset at the hands of France yesterday.
A much stronger showing against an arguably weaker opponent.
Yeah, then China gets on the board here.
A consolation game.
Yeah, this is a rough one for both countries, right?
I mean, Japan and China have obviously both represented at BlizzCon in the past.
A lot of hype, I feel like, for both of these teams.
This is like, oh, it's a group of death.
Like, this is going to be crazy.
And like, they just kind of like, you know, both didn't really shop to perform at a high level here.
So China gets a win, no kind of consolation there for them.
Again, barely that.
I think, like, expectations for China were much higher coming into this tournament.
hours included and you know like we kind of know this about the Japanese region
right it's definitely been taken a prominence because of some foreigners
that have joined up with Japanese teams and look really good there it's a
region I think that still needs to mature even though we've got guys in the
servo who've been playing at this level for six or seven years absolutely the
region's going to grow. The last few years China was playing catch up to all
the other regions obviously because they weren't able to like play for a
short time as well but yeah we just based on what happened at the mid
season championship we thought like they're alive and kicking you know we
we thought they can take it much farther and now we're looking at the
blizzcon without team China and quite frankly if we're looking at our group
standings there is an opportunity I'm saying it's gonna happen but there is
an opportunity that teams like South Korea could not make it if they lose
today against Denmark I'm not saying it's happening I'm not manifesting it
but I'm saying like there is a world I mean I mean they might look rather
than a sleeping lizard in a highway in the North.
Yeah, and so are the Korean on day one.
Yeah.
But look how good France has been though.
I mean, I think that kind of speaks more to that.
It was also a reverse sweep.
It's not like France came in here
and they were like 360 nose-covered.
It's not that spicy.
But I think on South Korea's worst night,
they'll still get past that.
I think that they have like, their floor is extremely high.
It just happened that France's ceiling was,
it is looking incredible.
Yeah, I mean, their individual skills, like, you can't
Like that's still a star-studded roster.
And that Group A, of course, is already done and dusted.
We already know exactly who's going to make it through.
But for Group B, C, and D, there's still movement possible.
And in fact, in Group C, especially,
we're potentially looking at a three-way tie here,
depending on the outcome of today's matches.
Yeah, I feel pretty good about Group B.
You know, KSA, they'll take care of business.
I believe it's Australia and Mexico, right?
So it's important that Australia gets that win
at the end of the day.
But Group C, this one is, you know, this is a little bit of a silly
written all over here, potentially, right?
Like, if Spain is obviously able to get over Canada here early and in Germany,
does what we believe they will do and take care of Thailand.
That would be three teams, two and one all have like wings over each other.
Yeah.
So like, when you go to tiebreakers, essentially, you would take those three teams
as soon as we're able to kind of elevate one over those.
that would basically move that team through and then tiebreakers would reset.
So you kind of look through this here, right? Obviously with the three-way tie,
you're not figuring out a head-to-head between all these teams. It's just not happening.
So then you go to the map differential between these tied teams. If one of those teams obviously
comes out on top, we would then move that team forward, reset the tiebreakers, and then figure
out who that next team is, which is just obviously at that point the head-to-head
between those two teams. Also, Canada could just eliminate this by just winning.
Yeah, just win forehead, right? I mean, they're just kind of like win the series here against Spain.
But I think coming into this event, we all thought Spain and Germany would be the two teams that
make it out. And, you know, Spain is able to win this series here with how good we talked about
Canada and like their performance. They're probably like on the outside looking in at that
Yeah, I mean obviously if you're looking at the score lines here, yes Spain did lose their match yesterday versus Canada
Who won there so they might be able to you know, write that momentum, but for Spain
This score line does not suggest how actually close that was they played it really really close and more than one map
This could have just put as well been theirs. Yeah against Germany, right?
I mean needed to win that series against Spain. They obviously still come through able to do that thing
and Germany can continue that success against Thailand later today, but that also just makes
this first game even that much more important.
Yeah, it is going to make things a lot clearer on the other side of this game, but I'm telling
you now, looking at our tiebreaker metrics, we're going to have to go pretty far down
at this potentially in order to decide who our second team coming out of the group
is.
So, could turn into a bit of a math exam, but what I saw from Canada in the good
I think when they can basically play team on with impunity, they look like they are the strongest team in this group, even if it is just by inches.
We'll refer to that Germany game, for example.
But Spain, I think a lot of their strength does, wrestling and tank line. It's not just been fantastic.
I still think Exodiel's something that can take over a game.
And both of those teams have veterans from 2023, right? Spain has Noxious.
Sorry, so Canada has Noxious. Rather, Cowell comes back on either the team.
There are three players that were there in 2023, who they were eliminated of course in the quarter finals as we're Spain
Both teams actually made that top eight and got to play scon. So I think fully short of that would be pretty disappointing for either of these nations
No, I couldn't agree more for Canada what we've seen so far. I mean they playing the meta
They're capable of doing that they can also have a little out there picks obviously Cal trying to make that honor work
Which did get abused of course by some higher mobility DPS
But over under it was still a boot especially that first series. It was
It was turning the tide for them. Yeah, they did
You know there were moments yesterday against Thailand. They were losing that hitscan battle
I know pretty heavily like high vision at a really sick game
But I think not just kind of like do for really like breakout game today, especially with Exodio on the other side
Yeah, if you lose that hitscan battle, you're in a lot of trouble. So they also have razor was like undefeated here
So I mean, you know, it's really good for the last map of the series.
You just do it. Why is Razor on on the bench?
I cannot make sense of that because, yeah, I can't really play she on all time.
It's like a slightly more specialized hero pool.
I like to not just give you like the Tracer plus his game combination.
Pretty effortlessly to me yesterday, to like some other stuff.
So I'm not loving that comp.
I think my comp is like pretty questionable, very execution dependent.
Like the walls, they'd be really good.
We saw the Mayon neon junction where Demon was banned.
And that was actually where Astro looked to struggle a little bit, right?
Up against Aces Malga. He's the kind of tank player that's always trying to switch into a favourable matchup,
trying to stack the deck in his favour. I don't know how easy that's going to be against a team like Spain.
I think you are... You're going to be hard pressed to pull on over on Sati.
But again, Razor came in hot for the map, she got sucked in.
Sati, who just saw her on the screen, has been able to play this meta really well.
I think their team of players has been really impressive on their first match in the group stage.
We weren't sure if that's something they can play also as they kind of opted out of it
We obviously saw them banning Demon as well against the other teams. They played what do you expect to see from this Spanish squad today?
For me, I think like, you know, obviously you talked about that she's in great
I just the back line very piece of famine and we kind of saw that there was pushing the last series that we casted yesterday
You know with France Denmark like how that's a kind of firm a series
Galar and Knael, they're as experienced duo as we have in Overwatch World Cup at this moment, so I think you're going to need to see them really rise to the occasion.
Graveyard and Call of In awesome for a counter.
Yeah, Galar and Knael are a backline combo that always in the past opted for hero picks that were skill expressive.
Obviously on the Virtus.Pro team, alongside Rajaar, for example, it was worth that.
Teased, Eari, anything that could really show off their aim.
Now, like they're playing Catcury, they have to do that, and they need to be more stabilizing present as opposed to playmakers on a roster like this.
on a roster like this, especially when you have someone like Exodiel who is going to take
the game over if you set them up for success.
Yeah, but the experience of course cannot be understated, especially if the series are going
the distance like we saw how that can play dividend because you just have those players
who can ground the rest of the team because there's a lot of young players who just don't
quite have the same amount of LAN experience.
Yeah, I mean it's Bones, Gala and Canale from 2023 on a Spanish roster.
I also think that the LAN experience, like they've had a few games at this point, right?
Like, you know, you kind of like get that, I feel like, jitter out, like, right away.
I think it's more of like the kind of desperation that Spain is going to have to play with here in this series,
where like, Canada, even if they lose, it's not great, right?
But like, there's still pathways through the tiebreakers, then to get on through to BlizzCon.
Spain, like, the only way there is to win, right?
Like I think just playing with that sense of urgency and like maybe that adds some anxiety
to make a decisive win. It needs to be right. Especially now in Canada and Germany with the
distance in their series, having a clean series here for Spain could actually solve a lot of
the five record scenarios. Make it easy for us because none of us wants to do the math life
on the stream. Now we're looking at predictions for this one. I went with, now I have to think,
what did he do? What did this morning Zoe decide? This morning Zoe was very convinced Canada
I was going to take it, good for her, I do feel like there's a real opportunity for
team Spain here as well, like even if the predictions all go Canada's way, like don't
let that fool you because Spain can definitely fool the opposite.
I think you got to ride the hot hand of Canada, I think they have looked really good here
through this event, I think they obviously know that like they're not all the way
through yet, they have to win this series to qualify for the plus count, I don't
there's going to be any lead up and I've been really impressed with their kind of like backline
plays so I'm going to go Canada. Yeah I think Canada are a more complete roster in my opinion. I feel
like their backline has been like extremely solid. I think there's probably more to see from this trip
like this 3vps rotation like maybe we get more of races today. I also think like the last
trophy allowed to like continue to counter swap in tank here and do they win the beam on band
map? I think for me it's a big question mark but I do think Canada should be able to adjust out.
Also, it's Kuala's up.
Australia win and all.
Yeah, I mean, you know...
One and down.
Yeah!
Australia!
You got boys!
Dude, this is real support.
At least he didn't do a Wii.
At least he didn't jump a Wii.
Did he not?
No, he didn't say Wii.
I mean, I wouldn't have bought him before this, so...
Yeah, no need for that.
Okay, yeah, I'm with that.
We're gonna dive into our first series of the day.
This is the last and final day.
These teams have everything to play for.
Thank you very much, Oya.
So, yes, I don't know what I clearly looked in Australia
in my prediction for this one,
because frankly that's all I'm seeing right now. But Canada and Spain do see BlizzCon.
I guess that prediction is never wrong, unless we get to Australia game at the end of the day.
We've already played on it though, we've...
We've taken on a game.
We can't win or lose this series.
Spain with a diva ban here, interesting.
So like this protects Demon if you want it to play it, right?
You know, maybe with like Samoa, like we see like Samaga kind of creep in here.
Maybe you want to kind of protect that.
It is a cat ban here, or Canada early on is Spain that you've wanted to play a lot of that cat-eerie combination.
Yeah, honestly, I mean, Canada have also opted into that on multiple occasions.
I do think some are like, cat map is guaranteed almost to get you an elimination prize and providing you're not on downtown,
and even then it can be pretty conducive.
That does involve, or invite, a level of volatility that maybe you're not wanting to have to deal with.
The lineup of CS we saw earlier on is going to be Alex and Noxious starting off here at VPS, but yeah, I'm watching Ixodio.
This guy burst onto the scene, and is a big part of why Teampeps have managed to fight their way back up into OWCS.
He's at this point very much known for it.
I'm so excited now, really kind of like, I think it was what, maybe two years ago with OWCS, like when I was like kind of the breakout players in the MEA.
Uh, like, and then, like, kinda, you know, it feel like you, like, upgrade a team.
You use only that Gen G roster, if you can remember, and it's like, uh, that went a little bit sideways, and, uh,
didn't really see him at the top level of competition, but he was just a fantastic hit-scan player.
And Dima banned, obviously. Dima should be the go-to.
And, frankly, how this Dima on Mira breaks out will be a pretty big predictor of success,
not only in this series, but obviously here in general, in Busan,
It has been the talk of the town all week. She is extremely powerful and oppressive.
Especially, you know, when you have the confidence to sort of back up what is required from her play that we saw from France.
And I think a lot of teams, Matt, will probably look to try, I'd say try, to emulate what we've seen from Cross.
I do think though, like, we did see Canada yesterday struggle, like, even with the team on into like some of the like the sick picks, like some of the slower maps, right?
where Thailand was able to create some space, they played some Reaper with like, so it's
not saying that's a realistic pathway to victory for Spain.
But that was the Demon Band map, that non-junction map.
Yes, yeah, yeah.
Not saying it's a realistic pathway, but like, you know, if the Demon is in, like, if you're
not winning that near, like, something we've seen her play, like, Maga, like, let's
kind of mix it up a little bit.
Reaper seems to be pretty successful as well, and so does the setups.
or Yoshinori 2K on the reaper in the Thailand-Canada game,
and that certainly gave the Canadians something to think about for sure.
Like we mentioned on the desk,
Victory here for Canada guarantees their spot at LISCON,
Spain have a chance to throw this group for an absolute loop,
while also trying to guarantee their own passage to high stakes match here
on the last day of competition in Busan for our group stage.
And of course the opportunity to compete in Anaheim
Missing all these teams are strived for it's a crowning jewel of the world cup experience
What speak for everybody that I would love to see why are there these teams out there if you're uh,
If you're just a blizzard fan
Like being able to just go to blizzcon
Like it's unlike any other event that no before I started working
Overwatch I had never gotten a blizzcon
But obviously a huge blizzard fan and like hearing about like how awesome it was
I mean I just kind of do everything I really think about it
I like yeah going to blizzcon was like stay inside. Yeah, yeah, I feel the same
So when you have to go outside it's kind of a different story
Yeah, but blizzcon is like a one-of-one just an unbelievable event
Especially like you know, you're able to go there and eat from the audience we have there and then
I'll be awesome announcement
But these things want to make it just to be able to go be in the room
The French fans this one I going to raise the roof but it's gonna be an incredible experience
We were lucky enough to be hosted in Paris for one of our World Cup tour stops quite a few years ago.
Where the fans are looking, they're on our markup for the trophy.
Well, I'm here for it.
Singin' take it would be insane full circle.
Alright, so we have the Wuyang gear for Braggart.
So Braggart and Kal you are for the more skill-expressive backline choice against Galar in Canal,
which a lot of extra points for the Wuyang in the mix.
Yeah, look, I think it's good to heal pressure especially if you're able to get some shots on an Exodio, forcing him off the item sideway.
It's kind of free, you know, quote.
So Archie though, she does not favor like, stepping up on the point yet, maybe some concerns about that poke damage starting to melt.
I saw it wins the tracer duel there, that is huge.
The tracer kind of putting pressure on the side.
Oh, that's a great run of notches. She just deals with that zone rather quickly.
Huge play there from Space Tank.
Now, that's the burst damage that D-Mon has at her disposal.
It's pretty hard to predict which trajectory she's going to come at you from.
Exodio there's a bike graveyard taken out of the game there.
So that's what you might have to do a little bit more.
But she is low, Astro, though.
Backs up.
Tots are a little bit low themselves and Fenty's sticking around.
Remember, no attack burst, healing available for that huyang.
So, after what's to take these aggressive moments, if you were a friend between sometimes,
the Wooyoung does give you so much extra damage, and then also, like, has some escape to do on here.
You see Graveyard just trying to avoid the pressure from the Demo.
That's gonna be all the fuel you use as you will get rid of the Wooyoung.
Oh, you're gonna get both supports here, maybe?
Oh, nice TP out there.
From now, I'll basically survive with, like, 1 HP.
Amidst all of this fight, though, Kanavel are able to get an early point for everything.
Time to go nice and clean up. She basically takes matters into her own hands and hits her
toward that backline and no one's really able to stand in her way.
V-mon might be the most powerful duelist in Overwatch.
Spain set up pretty well here now to potentially take the lead.
Sound barrier rush. Nice damage here. Oh, there are aviards.
Just getting picked out of the sky.
Like, Wion gets like a little bit floaty when you're going to use that shit to be able to kind of get up.
I know move around and that's an easy target there for it dirty. Okay, so that's a problem for Juno as well
She's not want to really deal with that. It's game pressure
So they have control that is a big pick from Exodiel slow things up the Canadians and
Our sport all things are online sound barrier difference here want to point that out?
Gallauders needs to find an opportunity for that might just be played into
Also, even these overclock
I think that's about the limit right here. Not a lot of follow-ups, I think shield's quite low here.
The title blast wears gravy, I'm trying to go with that one.
No knockdown off of that, but the survivability might have been desirable.
Still, Canada are no closer to the objective than they were before. They've got to get these gates off.
I mean, Redo now sees the title blast just to be able to stay alive.
And he usually gets brought off there for nothing. Oh, that's a huge limit right there.
Excuse me.
So, you're here now with a pretty safe sideline to find these overclock and all of Canada basically have to spread on out.
on out, because really Rush has been used and has now expired.
Big ultimates leverage for boatings in this fight
but it's still locked in a bit of an uneasy status quo.
Alex might have a fine angle here and Galar is going to fall.
Finally, the war of attrition is won out by Canada.
And even Asante is still proving to be a bit of an issue
that should be cleaned up now.
She's quite low trying to make it back
and now that you've lost close support.
I was like, you know, in a world where there was,
I know, Canale's still alive.
If you're able to heal that demon,
It's gonna be a stagger... Canada trying to get back up.
The legless demon.
Yeah.
Just... same thing.
So there's a big stagger map, I can point it out.
Yeah, Canada's gonna get close here to like tying it up.
Now, in this position, Spain were able to find a nice pick on Gravel with Exodiel pushing up.
Something like that wouldn't go amiss here though, only that freeing 20%.
Spain are playing full of it though, we're not really giving any free opportunities, so it will
ease on that off angle where Noxus might be looking for a chance to get the better.
If it's going to group up here in the high ground for Spain, they want to try and set this balcony,
Noxus is just going to rotate accordingly and maintain the longest distance possible.
Gala almost gets clapped there by that overclocking, Alex is able to finish the job.
The perfect one-two punch between the Canadian DPS sets them up now for a run-up around.
Yeah, I mean you don't even need to use your reclap there for your Noxus,
that's a real gunshot that goes right into Gala.
Finishes off that Lucio and Spain is just not able to make it out of this position here, Mitch.
Quick enough, right now you're gonna get up to like 95% here by time these members of Spain die.
Still one more player here.
You're gonna be in a great spot. I mean, you're just gonna go into the title blast.
It looks like it's gonna be bones here or no, it's an odio on a flying. Not gonna be able to get a touch.
It's gonna be Canada taking round one.
on face these two teams look pretty evenly matched it was Spain that opted
to try and set up on the high ground and find the way towards the point but these
are very clever rotations for Noxiousen managing to get so much of that early
free damage and Alex being able to swoop in and pick up the kill that's
just it's just perfect it's exactly how you draw this comp up this would be
a bit of a rough loss though right for Spain in map number one if you were
to just kind of look at like those backlines right and it's Gala and Kaneo
playing Lucio Kiri I mean that couldn't be more comfortable right playing
against graveyard and cow where they're trying to play like we young Kiri like
they're not exactly a super strong backline combination in the meta we
can't go on feels like you need to win this one you're spain
See, Canada really value having this point fly out as there's a speed rate that's going
up, and I seem to be.
I have a warning to this setup though, they're going to have a nice pole position, but it
looks like Spain is going to get collapsed on here.
Now, it's pretty mindful of this though.
It's kind of like the unique collapsing first time.
If I'm right now, it's not going to be meant to be.
So now, as everything comes out.
So they kind of set themselves up there, though, as Spain, right?
They play so far deep into like the Canada side of the map once they go through the high ground.
It just allows Astro to wrap through. Sure, I mean, they get that first pick off, but Canada just way healthier at that moment in time.
It will be Spain who gets control of the point here first, Mitch, but I don't know if it's going to be for long.
Now, Astro still got cracked as soon as he walked up to the point trying to contest it, so that split second they stepped off
didn't allow for an early flip, but it's only to the tune of 8%.
And now, again, he can start looking for some of these early picks. Not just his already working a bit of a black angle.
You also just don't want to take that poke there if you're spain and then end up in that corridor right just trying to get really aggressive
You've taken so much poke, you know you trade the sojourn you get sojourn out of the way not just falls early in that first fight
But you give up so much health over the rest of the team
Now Spain decides to take this kind of like a fight over the point Galah being so aggressive
I mean no path to be able to survive that. That was giving this a good deal there just very much surrounded by
I mean, Xodios is nailing them here. These railguns are ridiculous.
All of a sudden, Spain are back in control after losing Galo early in the fight.
They do get aggressive, but with that push from Spain, they actually were able to have
Santi and Xodio wrap over towards the point and they deal with Astro in the neck.
It's kind of where you can like, if you put enough pressure down onto the tank, like the, you know,
the deal pressure, I mean, you know, can be pretty devastating to deal with,
Especially when they were trying to play that wiiion.
Virens was trying to make sure Alex can't get in the 3.
Great job! Dangerous, hasn't planted the mobility to get away from this.
Just gets out.
And that's gonna be a bit awkward now in terms of you're set up for Canada.
Let's move on and pull out early on.
Alright, let the break there.
Somehow, Sons of the avoided that was as soon as you're involved.
Kadao with that continued rush as Kadao's gonna be the first to fall.
Asper out of Met. This is good.
Signs now, 14 Spain.
After Xodiel paved the way in that previous fight, the exchange of demon ultimates his favorite Spaniards.
Yeah, Spain really starting to amp up that pace, and you think about some of the points here on Zimbabwe?
Like, maybe we kind of look back at the end of this map. It's Spain victory, where the first map with those longer sightlines and a little bit more high ground, easier to play this weon, right?
I mean, this is a very close quarter of map the rest of the way through.
Frag out of the way for that early poke damage on him.
Excited shield, bottom-up for our legs, get good connection, soundbender comes out preemptively,
and Cal's already been picked off, it's already a mount!
Look how dangerous with the overclock!
Finding Cal first is absolutely massive.
And Alex, not long after, this is Spain setting themselves up to land the plane on our second round of Samoa.
Hold on, big kick for Noxious, get the point touches around.
Oh no!
Overclock news here too, that's huge.
That shot on Borgie is massive.
What is the process supposed to come from? Noxious is one cool customer man, barely bats an-inded and saves a round.
Yeah, just decides to kill everybody there with the OC, just unreal play from Noxious that keeps Canada in this round.
It's a chance to steal the map. Spain is so good here in round number two.
There's no good of an ultimate here. Oh, that exchange match could have gotten that. That's gonna suzu.
What's getting the worst of this exchange though?
Yeah, Santi just pouring it on.
Yeah, she's just bullying him.
Yeah, Krogaard's taken down by bones here,
so Alex doesn't have to control those tracer flank angles
for the entire round, apparently,
and the fight is already over, essentially.
How about that for the Spain?
It's a high flying duel between the Soudre and plays,
but eventually, they ain't even on the map.
Yeah, Santi and Exodiel put so much pressure
on Astro early.
Astro's health bar basically just ripped off
before he even get to the point,
and then something she realizes the damage right in just terms of overall HP
just able to kind of push that up into button.
Yeah, identifying those chances we can really start to lean into the enemy demon.
Play that little bit more aggressive.
She's winning the demon matchup right? I mean take a look at some of the stats here.
You know, 15 and 3.
For me, it's just the three deaths. It's pretty huge, yeah.
Astro's more than happy to fight through that frontline here.
But I mean behind this right there's the fact that we're seeing Kall get constantly picked off by Bones
or as a tracer is getting in Alex not having to really you know preempt where the enemy tracer is
going to start to make their way in. I don't remember the real difference directly like we've
seen a couple title blasts but they've been dealt with with some defensive utility for the most
part. It's a great starter it's ideal though isn't to tell you what. Ports him on notice
Noxus gets topped up and a full graveyard is dragged down. Bones by another crucial first
All the healing from Cal has to go in the notches right so you don't have that support to be able to help out
We young we young really struggles in like match-ups where
There when enemy is like really directly in front of we young like I know the orbs
Obviously not as effective there and see great
You're just kind of curves one around the corner at distance that time it'll be over phone
Look how safe credit is in the spot right unless bones is able to pressure
You are virtually poaching some of the same spots of something here coming
So you should be hit there on his way in, Greybeard.
They'll watch out!
This demon appears without warning.
Ah, the healing from Calus there.
Yeah, Calus is playing a bit of danger.
Spot there down on the point.
He was able to get the open door towards Greybeard,
but they were needed to.
Now Astro feeling the pressure.
They're chasing there for Poe to Greybeard.
Just tapping M1, trying to find that Astro a little bit of damage.
Deleanne also being deployed,
and Bones is being buffed around by somebody's Gord of Balls.
Exodia wants to take the fight.
No, the natural railgun truck, you can't afford to miss,
but it ends up being a trade.
Calbrin's Exodia will down, and Astro was able to get a flip.
A cow, just this insane healing though on a graveyard, right?
Sonsie and Bones commit trying to get rid of the Wu-Yang.
They're not able to do so, so she ends up losing her neck for it.
That allows Canada to flip the point.
Also, I mean, just look at cow's impact here early on.
Already had a Kitsune rush.
Actually, overclocked it for time.
Between Oxygen's and Xodiel.
Well, typically, you would see that Spine should be up at, like, 60% now.
Like, running away with a round.
That's been kept close for short.
Here it is on crop time.
Just went down for it, Zodio had a chance in the right click, a mutual lockdown next to you.
Astro is about to find that soldier, but Zodio already kind of done the damage.
Kal's picked up, here's a limit break from Astro, put them a little bit earlier than Santi,
get Kanale's balls and Santi, G.C.L. Fence is a little bit of a brawl,
rubbing down Astro with a DMec. This will allow Spain to flip behind it.
Kal trying to use that, Suzy had a spawn there.
Keep Astro in mech just a little bit late, so this is going to take a ton of time.
huge force Spain as that's also the good student rush use there from Canada Mitch
now rush plus you're gonna get that sound barrier and we're gonna get up to
like 60% on the point and this is not even spinning having to use like a no
demon band like you were potentially alluding to really on to get a map this
to me man yeah exactly I'm gonna mention that matchup could be pretty
definitive here is a movie for most of our teams. Exodio's two picks in the previous fight, a huge storm, and this is going to go down first gala!
With that trade mark, it presses them to find elimination with a title blast, actually respected, or not.
Exodio just cuts through that over shield and graveyard falls. Astro now trying to draw some attention back to the program,
doesn't really want to commit to make sense, because Cal is also under some pressure.
Alex has a chance to step up here, maybe he can take a back cap, but he immediately is accosted by Bones.
He doesn't fancy the flank.
This is gonna let Spain get within one fight of victory and a sound barrier is through it.
And this is Spain's lose here. I mean, you know, yeah, you have this sound barrier, right?
A massive advantage. Greyguard over the Lucio here.
It's only a three-player beat. It's actually not that bad for Canada.
And obviously Canada look like they're having a way to down to something.
Greyguard is getting pressure down, but he's still alive.
Tanti wants to fight.
Desperate to challenge Desperose. Greyguard eventually falls to Gala.
What's more, I first pick off the Lucio plate, but Gala is huge and it begins a landslide that Canada simply cannot averse.
Alexi only captured it here, but rather Gala picked off eventually, but that level of aggression, not surprised to find him with a kill feed sooner rather than later.
It's Spain, step up into a must win game and take Samoa.
I actually thought they had an opportunity there for Canada.
Like that beat was not really that great there from Spain, right?
Three player beat, they used it really early.
You're able to just kind of like kite the point for Canada.
They don't really get anything with that sound barrier, but not able to come with
kills in the end.
Ah, it's a sorry to get that.
So it was what I saw in the island game yesterday.
I mean, in terms of the damage output too, right? 8100 to almost 11k, right?
That was one worry for Canada.
Looking at that series of timeline yesterday, right? Whether it be like,
Soldier and Cassie, things like that.
Right now, there's a ton of damage, but barely any healing in this game.
Only like 3.9k healing.
Call of the Speed 14k healing on the carry.
You mentioned Call of the Speed M1 held down for most of the time.
of the time. The break out isn't maybe able to find that striking out balance between
offense and just healing up with it. Yeah, just not. Obviously, the Wu Yong can, you
know, just kind of bomb it out tons of poke, tons of healing. It looks like we're going
to get a stubborn chance to take this. I see a false standing guy with a mousepad
keyboard in hand. Interesting. Yeah, and I know, uh, that is what, you know, Astro
So at least the AP team is playing at a high level, obviously, and I'm on at a pretty high level.
Falses have a very experienced player, but this is an Overwatch League and I'm finding that.
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
In fact, much of this team sounded like the experience of the team,
like they're general managers here, that were also part of the games franchise,
so Falses has certainly been around the tracks.
See what? Talk about a player who stepped into adversity during the late years of the Overwatch League.
It's a bank of the times franchise that they're still really looking for those wins, never to get breadsticks.
And he had to step up yet to grow up very quickly and take on some world-class tank players by new pace quickly.
So that would be a very interesting substitution.
And again, we talked about how pivotal the tank matchup was going to be and we did already hint at the fact that
I actually would be more challenged than maybe up against Ace in that Thailand game
Yeah, I just think like
You got to get like you know, it's game play that's on par at the moment, right?
I know yesterday that's kind of when Thailand started to get a little dangerous
Too much of a game. Yeah, and they're not just like really kind of came alive
I know towards the end of Thailand series that kind of put it away, right?
So, you're gonna get that same plank at the Canadian hitscan player that we've seen at this event.
A little bit more consistently, I think you win maps like this.
I'll tell you, the Jetpack Cat van, there's like a hurt counter more than it helped them.
Or at least the Wooyoung approach on Samoa.
There was Spain getting rid of the cat.
Okay, well then that makes even more sense.
So, it was Spain getting rid of the cat.
Yeah, Canada made the deeper map.
Canada got rid of the cat to play the Wooyoung guy.
You know the thoughts but yeah, it was a diva band from Canada early on so I want to get you know
Sun she's really good at divas so I want to get that out. Yeah, who's the Lucie a pleasure being gravy on a cow
simply not Cal
But that's where I was like, okay, if you get in a situation where it's like a
You know gollum canal playing Lucio period. I mean they could do that in their sleep, right?
You know they've done that for years and the company sure look right very aggressive as we expect to see
Well, at first point, it's the longest one with the Sait lines that Wuyiang could really benefit from.
That's where they win.
They're playing every stage.
Yep, well, what are you gonna play?
You're not gonna play Kiri there, you're not gonna play Juno, Kiri, right?
Yeah, we mentioned how Kiri's floating is already a problem, so Wuyiang had to deal with that issue with the push-ups from both the sojourn players looking for early picks at the start of these fights.
So now we're in a situation where false comes in, right?
Obviously, someone who's had a lot of diva,
that was his bread and butter early on,
but we saw him play a number of different
sort of flex tank rolls back.
But if you're gonna be in false,
you assume this is Demon Band and play something different?
Or are we just gonna bring it in
and play Demon here?
I mean, we don't know,
but if the Demon matchup is one
that you're not finding success in,
then this is a completely flipped script
from what we saw yesterday between Canada and Canada.
And if you're Canada and you lose the series,
it better be close.
And you know, I love all three are here.
I mean, you're a,
they might make a high bracket scenario
is a little bit easy to figure out.
That's because obviously Canada and Germany
went the distance here.
So Canada, I hope you make a nice place this morning.
They better hope they're a fun.
And maybe it's a three and you're being around
for a fun to get back.
because the Germany feels like the game against Canada needs very close down to the wire, very
in.
You know, I think Germany is going to deal with Thailand, you know, the Rio today, right?
I mean, Thailand is a little bit of a frisky team, maybe it's a map, but...
Yeah, winning the one map I think against Canada does give me some hope.
Also, the DPS line is really good.
So, Easta pick.
So take that in hand with FALSE getting subbed in.
If D.VaBand's already been utilized from one side, it's like if you ban Demon here, do you believe that, like,
Valtz can come in and play some SIG into Sandi? Maybe she wants to play D.Va as a backup?
Possibly. I think, like, if Jetpack Cat doesn't exist in the first band, like, I kinda wanna see if we ever go to Paraiso with a Jetpack Cat fan.
And then, for anyone who wants to play Demon on that, without the Cat.
Do you really think that you have the mobility to cover some of those?
But I also think Canada, you want the cat in so they would never ban the cat to like, you know, somewhat ban the demon, right?
So like, Canada feels most comfortable when it's like, here you can't, you know, with graveyard playing that cat.
This feels like Canada potentially banning that demon as we talked about, Fawze coming in here for Astro, so cover that swap in terms of tank.
If you're canada do you ban
Demon here
You're canada I also would be worried about soldier the way that he's so deal play
You can't number one. I remember what the guys cast of these like
I know it feels like a little bit of a
It's a bit of a throw away right?
It's not like I don't why I wouldn't bother targeting this hero pool frankly. Yeah, that's a bad idea
Okay, canada ban it's the key on it. They play a thunderbanna
So this is a on account here for Canada and again this also like invalidates any other tank picks like that like the Malga that
Rely on healing as opposed to damage mitigation because the plan is really important against the bionade
I mean, I don't think
We're talking about garlic canal like that they could play lucio curiously
They also were the ones that played the this the spiciest support
they do woes anyway like they can they really can kind of do it all and they're
just like hey let's like pretend that Bastion's just not even gonna be on you
know a thing in this series right now cap man map one now bash event here map
two I don't think it's crazy as well like a zodiac probably prefers to get
to play the more traditional hitscans and yeah you know on a map like this
probably doesn't want to feel like he's forced into taking up the bastion
in order just to have that insane window of burst damage and his opponents
might look to leverage.
I'm a little bit nervous for Canada here.
I feel like against Thailand, they
were able to deal with high vision maybe being
the higher output.
Hitscan player in the server, because other aspects
of their team comp were perring along.
Their backline was looking really good.
Their trace play with Solid Alex had a great series.
They got to bring a Sheehan in later on.
Here, though, if they're struggling at Hitscan
and at Tank Rolls, that might just be too much.
So, FALSE here really has to get them going.
It's not like Gale and Kanael can't match.
Like, I can't honor, right?
No cleanse available, so that kind of makes it very difficult to play some Maga.
They're the kings of the greedy backline.
Yeah.
That's what they used to do, and they got so much mileage out of it.
I think you were playing like, Rematra Baptiste Iari, constantly, during that era.
Yeah.
That's pretty good.
Oh, when it works out, it looks really good, when it doesn't work out, then you're...
I mean, it is Feast of Fam, right? Look at Graveyard in that previous game. No shade, but only like 3K healing.
I think the Lucio of Gala had like 7K. So like that's...
There's levels to this bro, like he...
Yeah, a lot of pressure on Falsetto in here, yes.
Yeah, but he looked pretty relaxed. I do kind of want to know what his function on the roster is.
Like is he like a pitch hitter or is like...
You know, because Astro clearly is the primary tank player here.
Otherwise, you would have seen FALSE maybe play in that previous game, the one that would sort of
have qualified the defensive boost combat.
Curious to see what we have, what FALSE has been up to, what he's been cooking.
If he just wants to play into a demo matchup, he has got years and years and years of experience.
Yeah, maybe like, you know, after yesterday's series, you know, with the Canada team, right,
we obviously don't know, kind of like the interworking, something, maybe they saw some
stuff in that series that Thailand that they weren't super thrilled about, and then it's like,
Like, hey, you know, drop map number one, maybe we need a little bit of a different look.
Oh...
I want to forget this.
All potentially, uh...
To my mind, D.Va, this is, uh, office.
Oh, way, Mizuki...
I told you, man!
He's got...
There is so much, like, verticality on this map that, like, D.Va obviously is, you know, very strong, where...
Demon cannot really provide that access to that high ground, but with cat, you can't do it.
I can't believe they're not paying cat when cat is available.
That's pretty crazy, right? Alright.
Yeah, Mizuki and Baptiste.
Can I own the Baptiste? I remember it well.
Certainly gonna be a threat in all aspects of the game.
Defensive utility, healing, damage, he's not at all.
Just that little lack of mobility that can be problematic.
I will say, this is not a fun combat to play even in, you know, if you're involved in any of those.
Like, the Mizzouki, Emra, Baptiste...
Very difficult.
Cal needs to get set up on some really favourable side-lights that don't leave him exposed to be goad by Saki.
It's a lot of poke here early, having Zodiacs living his best life doesn't have to do a whole lot.
What's the plan for Alex?
I think Ken is just trying to figure out how they can attack this, right? Like, okay, can we get the tracer in?
And Mizuki's the softest part of this setup, I guess?
Everyone's grouped up quite effectively.
Mizuki obviously offering that healing ore to anybody in proximity, so...
But Mizuki playing around the back.
He's still with regen burst and immortality field, so much I always knew it, yeah
Doctor's close to a pretty safe sideline, but that damage fall off is annoying, catching the dealer, it's ideal
Yeah, I still think about face, there is Alex, steps up the challenge, if I had to grenade to the stairs to deny Alex that potential escape route
Grenade catches on the way to the ideal though, looks just already sends it to a trade, that looks like a strike
Now we're in a full versus full
Look at that positioning there, that's awesome
Alright, she kinda sits in the middle of where that like, Ana right, Cup Cal is trying to get some healing on the falls to the distance, just use that defense major to deny that sight line.
Let's look at all the looks and annoying part of the fight on her in the deepers that you will feel you can't be made a Jaita by defense migrants.
Yeah.
They're either ones.
Sight of Samurai tonight, will you?
I guess.
And right through an Amp matrix, exactly what falls to one of these sub-binded players.
That guy is disgusting.
Alright, he's the blind man.
This is an Ana early!
Pulse gets up at this, he's close enough to really striking them, canale, doesn't know how to move my building, canale, goes for a...
In my Tartic, good pulse bomb though, I can turn that into a trade at worst, isn't terrible.
Tartic, I was taken down elsewhere, so both Divas aren't the mech, Exodias somehow being kept alive, and the pulse bomb was kept for the music key.
Great timing for Galad, the use of TP to shrug that off, there's a...
Vulnerability frame involved with that.
Don't think in my Tartic, it was available at the time, so...
Very heads up to avoid the tracer elimination.
Yeah, Bones just can test there for a little bit of time, and it'll actually be something she'll come back.
She's gonna test there for a period. Oh, nice canap here.
Santi gets dragged out of the garage, out of the open. She has A self-destruct.
A chance for a remake if needed. Calls her down. I'm feeling great.
It's Odile. What a tight little sideline.
Dox just doesn't get clipped on a sub-rock protocol, but hey, you know, the death pack guy, he can ruin your day.
So Odile is usually pretty favored in that kind of matchup.
Both of them have got up close and personal.
Santi, to join the high ground now, this is kind of a matter of they need to get on this point, they're busy fighting up on the high ground and not contesting just one tick for them so far.
They're fortunate that Austin ended up dying there as well, nice shot from Graveyard to get the diva back, allowing that mech to get back into play.
Did I hear available, you're gonna have to sanctuary them on the Mizuki.
Defense matrix two, time's enough, time. You can also just wait this out.
Yeah, I think Canada had time to get set up in that window, right? They didn't get on the high ground themselves.
Now it's down to Spain to re-establish themselves and try and find their way to the small room, but it's hard against the defense matrix.
Galakit is a check-eye sanctuary to try and give them a way to push out and shrug off the poke here, but this is looking uncomfortable for Spain.
I think they'll...aww, so she loses her map, and it's right there.
Okay, if you get killed, my runes will have to get into the backlight eventually.
Eventually down under a lot of pressure though. Noxious trying to slide, Stace falls off, but he's still looking pretty darn healthy.
There's a kick by Sanctuary that comes down. Pulse Bomb is used outside of Sanctuary.
Both Pulse and Bones taken down by a Pulse Bomb.
Noxious here playing that high ground. He's enrolled in a position of Exodium.
He's playing this one safe, playing it comfortable.
He knows it. 10 seconds left here.
And Canada to get a kill.
Oh, it doesn't actually get touched there.
Sanctuary she gets the point.
Oh, nice catnap from Graveyard.
Just takes Sundy off the point just a little bit.
Just couldn't have gone either way man, that could have been the end of the attack round.
Oh I can't, I'm nice.
Yeah, G-Bot again.
Our first point.
There was so much time though on this attack side.
This next phase of the map is treacherous.
Oh, can't drive back.
I'm going to try and turn this into something in a pinch.
Flash, he's just out the open.
Yep, off that on McCartness is off to the false map, they're back way behind the buildings, chased it down, there was noxious Exodio, finds connection through that edification matrix and now all what's Spaniard gonna search for, it's false, he's going to stagger here.
Snap the spot, you wanna be stuck with like a man on the far right, Canale I think might be kicking himself there.
Misses an opportunity to just throw the drone over towards Santi, she gets de-mectin' taken down.
It starts to take a little bit of the wind down at the defender side.
Yeah, it's going to be hard for them to actually hold close now, right?
But...
Second point still has been pretty difficult for teams to camp here in Busan.
Beautiful map this one.
Ah, the rework, I mean, you know, sometimes here in map rework, and it's like, here's like two or three spots at the end of the whole.
This is a different blanket.
Oh, entirely!
These heroes have to fly on the way!
Still, by the way, you know, through our protocol, still with an opportunity to make use of it.
At least give yourself back up into the high ground.
He's got the high ground, he's a Scythe of the Blast, and now trying to fight Nautchus up,
Poison's dangerous, and it's Graveguard, he resists from above.
But again, false, like you mentioned, playing to this composition is a nightmare.
Rowe has been playing any D.Va simulator, 2K26.
He's not been able to stay in mech really at all.
So now you have Nano D.Va, that's what they've used the last time.
What, that binding chain, right?
Just gonna stop that D.Va and then track, so...
You know the best value out of it, you're going to get another hit.
Is that an order?
Yep, no!
Graveyard's going for it!
Electric walls, baby.
Canary will eventually go and slash the pieces.
Graveyard is going to have to dodge away, you know.
I've seen everything now.
Look at that pulse.
Nice defense, mate.
Just to get Graveyard back down.
Still 20 seconds remain on the clock.
Darling, canary is going to be back from the fight.
There's another nice sanctuary at the ready.
I'm really good at healing here from the support of Spheen.
Well, it's something to play pretty aggressive. She's able to kind of contest this constantly.
You're going to get everybody back in the fight here as we head to OT.
Exodia will not just actually switch heroes down.
We're going to be in the emerald and Canadian side.
Pulse one here.
Sachi.
She's actually out of positions right now as Kanale loses their mortality from a pulse for the self-destruct.
Gala.
Okay, he's going to slip away from it though.
Sachi picked Kale up before that on a pulse on Kanale on the high ground.
The counter is not bad, but it's not enough in the end.
Exodia will still behind that defense matrix.
Spine hold it down
Santi Gullin can ailed a great job buying so much time for bones and a tody to make it back in that fight
I I feel Canada needs
like
They need a sick first point hold here, right?
I think if you like if you start to see that payload moving on through that second part of the map
Spain I think is gonna figure out a way to get at that point. It's not a
That's incredibly close that second cap. Bones, 15 and 1. You know, it's really playing well.
It's a really deep canceling of spades. Pretty nasty, right? I mean, we talked so much about
Dalla, Canale and Sunti, like, rightfully so. They're really tremendous players, but like,
Exodiel and Bones have played 6th this year, yeah.
I'm not even looking too close at the diva stats in this game because this is such
a technical matchup, yeah.
I really think it's more about how defense mechanics gets employed, and how you fight for that space, and it is how much damage the Divas do.
And that does shift emphasis towards your DPS, to get the job done.
Whereas like, your Divas, you're like 80% of the time you're peeling, you're doubling back, especially if you have a Mizuki-Arnab backline, like you have to keep them alive.
See, it's actually pretty impressive from Spain, right?
Uh, Lucio, Kiri, no can't, met number one, they're not playing the can't here, uh, N.O.D.
Mon, in met number two.
Oh yeah, here we go.
Might just be off the rift for Saunty.
Nah, that's foul, yeah, get back in there, yeah, let's just, uh, let's just fix this
real quick.
Back with the Vika matchup.
It's like Croc saw Saunty in the lobby and was like, let me tell you, Roadhog,
hear me out.
They're coming for the player that's abused only V-Mod.
Yeah.
Okay, so Sim is the pick, goes holding it down.
Of course, no way to mitigate this damage.
Okay, Alex, try to go early into the back line.
I can see the temptation going after these Baptists.
And his Uki combo, getting an early Mods.
Hardly built seems great value, but not if we die on the way.
The Sim lock is interesting, right?
We have not seen any Sim really at all here.
After Sim has been like, what, a mainstay in competitive Overwatch
for like more than a year, I feel like, at this point.
It's a nice TP, you're able to collapse right on top of Cal.
No way to keep that on alive.
It's a nice chain there.
Falls gets taken out.
Freya, Freya Farah, the response here, right?
But I think this is just a first point play here for Spain.
I think Bones wants Bones' ball to switch off of this,
but maybe not even Bones.
It takes out the Farah.
I mean, maybe you switch off the Farah here if I like to.
Freya Farah, they are two heroes who like to soften up teams from safe distances, but not necessarily to secure those eliminations.
And Sim can't really engage with either, right?
That's true. Bones can't interrive with them unless they keep you forward.
So this is obviously a hyper poke composition.
I'm not sure if Bones is going to go play Tracer as soon as Bones dies.
I think he just tried to dive Cal for the rest of the map.
Yeah, something really wrong.
This is going to allow them to get, uh, you know, an Ammatrix also going to get close to a Sanctuary again.
This is just free push. This is nice, right?
Our forces getting, uh, a lot of cooldowns drawn out, but I think we're going to get buried down.
Strange the Ammatrix map. It's a little bit too far.
I was about to create play in a moment, turning around and seeing Exodio overextending,
but then wrapped to the corner and running to four players. Got changed?
Ammatrix in the way. He just fell into the trap.
Exodiel over to Tracer because Spain knows it's just one more fight.
They have looked fantastic here early. Graveyard gets the benefits of the nano.
The catnap they're going to grab on player.
Graveyard bones off the side.
That's fine, but what about the touch?
Graveyard tries, false drops in.
And ultimately, Parisa represents a flop for this Canadian roster.
They bring in veteran presence, false.
And they still can't slow these Spaniards down.
Southeast Modi across the stage and she is building herself
And they've been awesome here this morning use Spain
Trying to give themselves a great chance to go to blizzcon
Spain you win this here right you put yourselves in a great
Chance of eating get top of the group. You are playing about these
Yeah, you'll get us once
once in this game
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against Canada goes 5, and you have 3 on the other side, right? So 3 of yours, yeah, it would go, it would possibly do, uh, imagine winning 2 games in your group,
and still want to make it
that's
heartbreaking
got the wrong tune
yeah I mean I think the fact that we're now seeing Spain come alive in the way they are
is just kind of a revelation
they have improved so much
this is where we see them bring in Razor all the time
I think we're gonna see Xi'an here
for Canada
what is Canada ban?
we've seen them ban Kiri, right?
um the lucia bands are raving no it hasn't they could be lucia
wouldn't be bad
but then you leave uh spain could ban yamon in that space spain could ban xion spain could
you know yeah they could look over and say exodia what hits skin do you want to play
playing the other one, I mean...
It is funny how...
It, there it is.
Yeah, as we kind of expected.
Gala is a really good bear. I think you just don't want
to give your opponents
that option.
I also think like, Sound Barrier against like, Spree
is pretty potent as well. Like, you can deny, like,
some of the more defensive utility-focused options
against those Shlok and Orwombo,
you know, DPS ultimates.
Do you just ban Sheehan?
Oh, if you're sphane.
We might get to see more razors here a pool that's like razor is coming in bleed when we've seen it she on the entire time
Okay, I like this
I mean if you'll think it like if Canada think along the same lines as me like they say we're just gonna try and win a mirror
I do my mirror because I looked okay. Well, also they just brought in false play diva
It's not like a player still
Right diva very reasonable on this map. I think in some instances. I think you're more likely to see ball tanks though. Marga. Yep
Demon. Yeah like Margot obviously you don't have like the the Lucius P for Margot so it's like Queen the other day.
I liked it because I liked Queen regularly. It was I mean it was interesting to see like that leverage on a couple of occasions but we were speculating like what the Queen does in the Demon matchup that was kind of why I was interested.
It was not. He was interested for 3 seconds. I saw like at one team fight and I was like yeah the eye test doesn't really doesn't really look favourable of that kind of setup.
set up so I like that I like that in one battle I think that's I think both
teams have made correct bands if I'm gonna be honest with you
darling canal are probably the more flexible back lines far as we can
determine so taking that option away from them here it doesn't really deny
any broadcamps though you absolutely can still play like you're a martyrs
remover's are you gonna play if you're on plate uh
I'm gonna say a wrist here again if you want if you're spain yeah right
you're in mizuki and uh you know if they're gonna be forced to play
Diba on the other side you know they can't but gala has one death on the
entirety of that previous map playing yes who keeps the music about these and I
think like the bad things guys a normal never a title it's nothing crazy we saw
Alex trying to dive them at the start of Spain's attack side and he just died
in the neutral trying to approach them again the way the party is so as a
map change means that tracer who likes vertical mobility can get up there a
bit easier but it's still a challenge for it still a struggle because even if
If you are translating Trace's lateral mobility into some verticality, it takes a while to get in position.
So it was easy just jumping up on a ledge.
How's the thing of your Spain?
It's since a little panic from Canada.
Oh, run, run.
At the most.
I mean, Canada is like, you know, they're a little like...
They've got a predictive Australian in this guy.
Yeah, they're, you know, I think, like, even like, you know...
I think it's just, you're so close to Canada, you're a little bit of an underdog, you're so much like...
They're just anxious to like get it done and
Spain with some obvious experienced players like a so we highlight it right like you know
Just a loss early on is not gonna like kind of ruin their whole tournament
They're gonna continue to kind of play on through it and I
Think you kind of sort of to see like okay
We're making all these like you know subs at times like razor they brought in a lot like you know
And then you try and play false empire used to maybe get an advantage from the tank, but
And it definitely seems like, you know, Canada, sometimes these days, you're like, ah, we're
first game of the day, it goes so fast, and then like you find like you're on the end
of like a 3-0 loss, and then you're just kind of like, what happened?
Like we were so good, and then like, you just blank series, and it's good, just gone.
Yeah.
Which is why I don't mind that we saw like substitutions in map 2, because Canada
are not waiting to try and like, come up with an answer.
Unfortunately, none of their theory is standing up to the actual, you know, ballistics tests across these maps.
It's now returning to a configuration that we've seen from them before on New Junk City, but the elephant in the room is that, okay,
Canada find a way to win this map. What does the rest of this series supposed to look like? You have to reverse sweep this Spain team.
You don't get any more map picks. Spain have carpons here to sort of stack the deck to favor them as much as possible.
And they already have favorable matchups. They're tanked and hit scan DPS.
I said, frankly, even the back line.
You know what I mean?
You got the Esport pool of maps still available, right?
So I knew, like, Spain would have a pick of the litter
there, and then worst case, right?
You know, you know, point flip team Esperanza and Colosseo.
But I mean, what?
Canada, you're banking on getting the Blizzcon off
of, like, two reverse sweeps, pretty much.
The top teams in the group.
hell of a way to do it. That's how it's going to be. And I'm supporting it.
Demon and Lucio bands here waiting to jump into the new Jump City. Spanish team looking pretty good.
I mean, Santi, she was flexing, literally.
A big lad, Vamos at the end of the round for the Spaniards.
It looks like Krox is rubbing off on people.
I loved when we did one of the player pieces where I think it was that with Gull and Canale.
It was like, who's the ladest on Spain? They were like, oh, so she's always asking for healing.
She's pressing out.
I was probably like, see what happens when you guys heal me?
Yeah, it's not that she takes any damage, but she's calling for healing.
Yeah, heck yeah, man.
She's like, you keep me up, we're working on it.
We're on it, LA.
We're going to Anaheim.
We're going to Cheesecake Factory.
Every night.
Yeah.
Cool kid.
Ormits away here for jumping into New Junk City.
This is Canada's last map choice.
Last has to be burst in the pick ban, unless there's a deferral later on.
In many senses, despite being only three maps into this series, it feels like their last game.
If they win here, I wonder if they even know what the heck they're supposed to do after that.
But we'll cross that bridge if and when we get to it.
Getting the win here, like on this map, and then losing would at least give them a better shot
in terms of map differential, right? Like just kind of keeping it close.
Uh, Rio, worst case scenario.
Alright, so Razer will come in, they're going to play Vendetta here, so we've seen Razer
play like Vendetta, we've seen Shion as well, Shion Vendetta with the Maga, as this is an
EMEA classic here from Spain.
So if you look here's the chart coming in from Astro, there's no damage being
taken by Spain.
All of that damage was eaten up by Kanadi Grass, Sati's about 1000 HP at the end
of that exchange. Those health bars, deep dog moog and each. This is such a good read
from Spain. She's getting a little crocs action and getting hyped up on the stage.
She's ripping, she's tearing. She dominates. I mean that was a listless maga push. I feel
like I've never seen it. But when you watch the maga push, you're like okay where's
the rest of the people that are budging with Faga, I just like didn't see anybody.
Astro will drop to the point for a time.
Then off, as I think the issue is positioning right now for Canada.
They are completely spread.
Also, that despite possible having a Vendetta in your composition,
and we talked about it's at the gift shop in TIB2 right now.
We talked about in the pregame too, like this just sets them up to being able to play the Mizuki car.
Espoil playing more sim.
But I'm spamming the group up button right now.
If I'm Astro, like yo, get on me.
Oh, it's so disjointed. It's not because no one.
Astro is in no man's land.
So Joe does get brought down here.
Bones on his sin.
I only have to get so much done, right?
So I'm going to pick him up.
Finally, Canada get a bit of an engine.
Not a moment too soon now.
That point is beckoning.
Mmm.
That encounter, not what you want to see.
Tanti just looked very comfortable back behind her shield.
Can Alice fall on her?
There's Alex. Good executes.
Well, Bandetta should be really strong into the sick, right?
If like, there's no accretion out, you also do have the binding you need to worry about.
And the flashbang! How do you stick here?
Well, yeah, but like, into the sick, right? It is kind of good.
You do have like a cleanse available for it, right? Like, you want to save some of those, like...
Like, just tell me four things about that.
Yeah, but you want to save some of that CC from like, whether it be Alex, or the Vaga as well.
Okay, Kekai Sanctuary in place. There's not a lot of healing, but it's enough.
There goes Razor.
Tumple Dead Eye there for Ixodil.
And now, Spain simply moved back to the point.
It'll be a bit of a fight, but there's not a lot left in the tank for Canada.
Ultimately, there's plenty of containers.
We need to see a big old Satorikus pre-heal,
but Krayna is going to get caught pretty early on.
They try to go for a catnap and a port down.
This can help them with pretty effective air against Astro.
And if it's timely, Susie from Cal to prevent the big chunk of damage,
still not remotely enough. Not five miles.
I mean, look, this is a comp that has been an EMEA staple, it feels like, coming out
from Spain, Canada, searching for answers, yet again, it will be Alex on the May, so
we saw Alex pick up some May yesterday.
I think there's less than, like, so May is like, you know, you can wall off the
Sig, right?
Sig is like main issues, like mobility, but it feels like we're grasping at straws
a little bit here for Canada.
We fight a comfortable setup.
Don't know if this feels like it suits Alex.
Here's the chance of the backmatter outstrow.
Again, basically in Gord.
Razor though, the second line of offense.
The TTP is gonna get most of Spain out though.
Dying by Bill Kipa, Razor.
Nothing on that first four, Razor.
Still no cap off the point yet though.
The Bones are sitting on what is going to be a very impactful wall.
Even up against Vendetta and May.
Razor is gonna get through the ice block rather than wall.
That's an issue. Nicely done.
Razer
Sundry right that maybe not even was needed. It was just a really good made wall from Alex to split them up
Yeah, and that's the main where you put it right behind that sick nobody else
You're gonna move up through the choke
Exterior flaws here at the end. So
We'll see if Spain feels need be to make any adjustments at least at the moment
I give you Spain you could just keep basically this shell and like match the Maga right eventually probably ditch the Mizuki as well, but
It seems like...
Spend a half of the Sigma here.
Obviously the stop is really bad for Sigma, but like...
If you use the Rokotsy, there are ways you can try and like...
Play around that...
Form of crowd control.
I'm just sitting on this wall by the way.
I'm just trying to roast this machine!
Oh, Khajiit!
Khajiit!
I'm just gonna get him! I'm just gonna get him!
I'm just gonna get him! I'm just gonna get him!
And he got the Sims, so this cage is...
Not the hardest to break through by the Cruiser as well.
Time by Alex there.
Nice combination.
That is a perfect one-two punch, and that should be enough to earn room point.
I think now you have to start thinking for Spain, yeah, making some changes, so it'll be a may of their own here from Bones.
No Reaper will be the response.
Curious to see if Santi stays on SIG.
Okay, so we will get the Sigma still in play. It's a rotation here early from Spain.
Over to the next flashpoint. Canada must win match scenario for that.
Catnap comes on in.
Okay, Sanzi though.
She's in the last corner.
She could chuck a lot of that off.
Razor's brought down.
It's over.
Just paced that 1v1.
Sanzi is killing.
She's back to full health.
Get back.
Sanctuary was used.
But, I mean, the only place to find that value is probably going to be here.
Grabgarde indeed.
Yeah, watch out for those flashbangs down with Astro.
Will also be forced to succumb.
That's both your support ultimate here from Canada.
Kind of fizzle out.
And not only is the Reaper really good into like May,
but also pretty good into Vendetta as well.
They'll maug up to Reaper, just a ton of frontline damage.
Now Reaper also inside of the Concealment Rush, right here with the SIG.
A lot of damage, not a lot of way to mitigate it if you are Canada.
You've got to be tracking this Grovitek Flush at the moment.
Oh, nicely done. South Dish is White's out that unsupportable.
White's fast towards the poppin' number.
Important cooldown and then hit Zepo with a bigger creation.
Grobinic flux to follow up. More than enough burst damage to answer the maga.
Yeah, great play there from Santa. She sees that the charge is used by that maga.
The damage is crazy that they put down on the maga.
But the Cassidy and the Reaper, the drop down here from Mastro,
it's a nice suzu from Cal, prevents a lot of that damage.
But still, not able to keep that maga alive.
I think you have like a team-wide value off this Taniak overdrive as well.
Astro basically using into the self-heal cooldown a lot of the time.
Alex, fucking, playing close clients.
Severing blade!
Oh, Karla, cool buddy, ATB, that's big for Dxodil.
Tried to back it up, he gets the better pick.
No Malca?
No win, surely not in this fight.
Kalbi forced away.
Can I have seen on this Kitsuna rush, and it hasn't really had a reason to have to use it.
Right now, tip of the right click, Dxodil.
Oh, he does not miss these!
Stunning work.
Spine wants to get in Dazzalos and pick up the second flashport of Newjunk City.
Nice adjustments from Spain. His bones goes over to the Reaper and that's all they have needed to do to get this advantage.
Hey, luck is so simple. Just switch Reaper.
Go Reaper guy.
There'll be Astro going Ramatra here.
Razor back to the Sheehan. This is what we thought Razor would rather die.
Razor not picking up the Sheehan.
Yeah, it was Alex on the Sheehan earlier.
on earlier. Canada, look on still for a configuration system. You know, this is good for Canada into
the SIG, right? The Ramatra. Can they execute it though, right? It's very switching, so many
tanks for this game. We know they like to do get a favorable matchup. He's got a proper
muscle against the SIG. Grecian there, no connection. Bat Blossom for Barons, looking for a
The person dropped down and dispensed it, and that's a tail headshot there from Alex.
Unfortunately, so do you.
Basically dispenses him as if he breathes him.
Picked up my graveyard, though.
Onward spot for Sancti to be.
Check my Sanctuary, right.
This is gonna get you the value you need.
Sancti's still alive.
Eventually burst down, but Gala is having to turn that into a trade.
Gala was dragged down to the fight early at all.
This has been a long, drawn out engagement that has given Canada a 40% total.
Oh yeah Gallardo finds graveyard, how does that happen?
So aggressive, so aggressive this guy.
You cannot let that happen for Canada, I mean graveyard will be able to get back in pretty
quick but now Spain realizes the moment here where they have a pretty sick advantage.
He's off the dead eye, this is the prescribed location to use his ability by some time.
Alright that's you're going to protect Alex, he doesn't chew it, he's on that
Where all of the death blossom comes from?
Okay guys, a bit of overkill perhaps.
Well, whatever get you to the result you're looking for.
A 90% Spain having to put things back.
Spain pretty heavily.
Oh, I mean, yeah.
Flux, death blossom, dead eye early on.
Now kind of hoping you can get like maybe a pick off here early,
get an advantage, build up towards those support ults to close it out.
Oh no!
The annihilation being great!
The races have already gone down!
Tanti's trying to back up!
Annihilation still active by the way.
Can they heal this Sigma sufficiently?
Tanti up against the wall, yes!
Astro just gets a little bit too close to the side of the boat.
He's there to put about his misery.
Before they'll be afliped back, there's a TP under the boat.
It's a little risky for foes, but Raypork's available.
Plenty of invulnerability frame.
I mean that could not have gone better for Spheen.
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The level of backclimbing pressure needed to keep Ixodium quiet.
The fact that someone like Gala on the Mizuki has one death for all of Karate Iso means that
your tracer is struggling to do it.
And look, it's the kind of map that does make it harder.
You play safer backclimbs.
That's why you play Ana, because you know it's a bit harder to come at you on a tracer
there.
But you have to do more.
You can't let Mizuki just run around and hold M1 and just get insane healing value.
And I think it probably just feels like, it probably feels like they didn't even
play today really.
Like, they were never really able to get any momentum
on any of the maps really.
Honestly, I'll say the first point on Samoa, right?
Where they play like a buiyang and like just like kind of the
map able to just kind of give them so much more space
to be able to make that comp work.
Outside of that, I mean, like it was Spain from the jump.
I mean, there was nothing really that Canada could do
to really make Spain sweat.
I mean,
is look at that. That's a rough one there. Would you say again that the 3-0 loss was really
difficult? I say it's extremely undigitory right now. Canada is asking for tail enders
in the back. I mean like hard support in the first round. Map differential matters here
because Germany obviously they 3-0 okay they're plus four as well that makes that sort of
top spot a little bit more complicated but man it's I can't believe how this group
has opened up. Yeah no this is such a competitive group. Sandy journey is now first of all
Congratulations on the dub and the dominant fashion within which it was done as well.
You came off of a loss yesterday, show a turnaround of course.
What was the mentality heading into this duo or die match for you and the team?
Basically, we said that we have to free Oden.
I need it.
Yeah, it was no pressure because it was either 3-0 or 3-1, right?
So we were like the underdogs, the ones with pressure, so it was really easy to perform good.
You have almost no pressure, you have only to take it once.
You felt like you guys had no pressure today, you were on stage, you were popping off, you were crazy.
What were the vibes like from the team? Did you guys feel like you had a really big advantage over Canada early on?
Not really, we were like, not the fittest, but we thought we were going to lose.
Yeah Frank. At what point did that change for you?
Exactly, max.
Okay.
Yeah.
In the moment like everything started flocking in, like, what's nice?
Yeah, and you, in your tank matchups were excellent across this series.
You played the Demon of Siena first map, you looked really good there.
And then you had to play against Faust, we got subbed in.
You got to play this really technical Diva mirror.
How did you feel in that series?
Because you guys banned Demon, even though you were winning that kind of matchup.
Where do you feel like your strength is right now, in terms of hero pool?
My strength is like, I'm a Soviet and I'm a Comfortan, that's basically a pretty good strategy.
I think the way that Zodio plays today, I mean, we were talking about Zodio to dominate the hitscans.
When you saw the group, how did you feel about the group?
Did you expect it to be this competitive?
Because quite frankly, looking at the potential three-way tie here, coming into this last match, it was really incredible.
We thought Germany was going to be really competitive, but we didn't know Canada could
pull off a win against Germany, so we were not expecting that.
And Thailand is there.
Probably not the minute.
That's right.
Well, it was great to see you and the squad in action now, of course.
We've got to cross the fingers here in the last match to make sure that you are, by all ways,
it out through to BlizzCon, but for now, thank you so much for joining us. It's been a pleasure.
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The first win in the group stage. First of all, big congratulations on getting the win. How do you feel right now?
Today, we will start the interview with the first win of Korea. Simba, please tell us how you feel.
Not bad, of course. I think you know, I think you mean it's not bad as in like, yeah sure we got the win right and you guys definitely needed that win.
Let's touch base about what happened yesterday, just really quickly. You guys unfortunately did lose to France. What were some of the takeaways?
What did you guys talk about as a team after yesterday's match?
I just said that it wasn't bad, but I think we need to talk a little bit about yesterday and then move on to the next game.
What did you guys talk about after yesterday's game? Did you have any lessons?
Honestly, it's been a while since I got Dmon, so I thought it would be easy to get rid of Dmon.
But I didn't know that Dmon was that good, so I think we had a lot of fun.
I think Dmon is doing well because he knows what's good.
Demon is the newest hero in Overwatch right now
And we didn't really know what to expect when it comes to fighting against Demon
But now we sort of know I think we have found our answers and now we feel a little bit more confident going forward
Alright, well now you guys are with this win
You guys are 1-1 team Korea needs to win the next one against Denmark simple
How confident are you going into that match against them mark tomorrow?
It's a very important day for us to win the first game of the day.
We have a match against Denmark. How do you feel about that match?
I'm a good player, so I think I'll win if I just say I don't have any confidence in myself.
Do you know what this is?
Perkz and Overwatch, right?
Perkz, yeah.
Perkz Hero.
We're gonna do that in real life.
So here we are with Team Denmark's Kellix and Shockwave doing IRL Perkz.
Let's get started with the first one.
Would you rather never have to eat again or never have to sleep again?
If you can skip the downsides of not sleeping?
Yeah, then no sleep.
That isn't soon.
Let's say...
If not, I think you'd die in probably about a month.
Yeah, exactly.
mostly. Yeah. So it's just like too good. It's too good. Yeah. And sleeping is also nice.
You know, like you can try so many different types of foods. You can really sleep many
different ways. Would you rather walk twice as fast or jump twice as high? I think walking
twice as fast is probably the most logical one to take. So I'm going to go with that
one. Okay. Would you rather speak every language in the world or play every instrument?
I feel like every language is very convenient for just everything.
I actually prefer to play every instrument because I really like music.
I mean, language is nice, I think everything, but I like music as well, you know?
Okay, would you rather never feel hot again or never feel cold again?
Hot. For me.
Yeah, I prefer like ice cold.
Walking like a true dame.
Yeah, I'm with him a lot.
Okay. I think we are really prefer the cold.
Yeah.
Thanks for having us.
Bye.
Bye bye and hello also because Denmark is about to play on this stage in South Korea, that's
our second match of the day and on the vice-prope, we have Matt and Mitch here to break it all
down and set the stage, but yet another match.
It is well and truly said, I mean the controversy surrounding South Korea in terms of them not
winning the video game has been...
I think so.
Oh yes.
It's our video game.
That video game.
Not that one.
This team feels like it's engineered to win the video game, so when they do not in fact
win the video game, the affluent tends to hit the fan.
Yes.
That is exactly what I would have said word for word as well.
Now let's talk about it though, because they did lose a course the game against
France.
It was a reverse sweep and it kind of looked like that they underestimated them.
Did they just not expect them to come out this strong on their special demo?
Well, France has beaten everybody down with crafts on the D-Miles.
We're speaking about South Korea here. They still should have been the winners of it, like just on paper.
It's a conversation about floors and ceilings. I think the South Korean ceiling is unbelievably high.
But this is the best time to try and get one over on a team like this,
because maybe they're just not adopting this matter as quickly as Brats, for example.
Right as time goes on like these guys are inevitable give them enough time to maybe work their demon into their
You know your house and I think that they're gonna be in great shape. Obviously. This wasn't much of a game, right?
You know, we certainly we sort of expect you to work very very strong here
Exactly. Yeah, you keep the content vertical. You know I'm saying give it give it nice and snappy
But this is the must-been game for them. I think they've probably been pretty hard on themselves after losing
And they'll come back with fire in their bellies tonight.
Yeah, I expectation obviously high if you're looking at this particular roster.
Spar started from the back.
This is a nasty team, right?
I'm so excited to see something in simple play with this kind of, I know, crazy raccoon core.
I know those two players, you know, you've seen how you see something on Dallas Fuel.
And in simple and twisted minds have really strong performances.
I felt a little bad after they lost that first one.
They would end up taking a run to the blame, but I think they're going to bounce back just fine
No, I obviously didn't mark is the feisty opponent on the other side of the stage
But I still feel pretty good about career. Yeah as you should I mean especially with them are coming off of a pretty tough loss
It was all three against France now. You can argue of course France also one against about Korea
You know so like transitive properties
Who made it closer, but no our friends is in fact not our banana for scale
Let's talk about this Danish roster don't because we know what to expect from them, right?
Like we've been familiar with a lot of these players. We know that they have an aggressive backline
We know that they have a lot of great pieces to work with. I don't feel like
These guys were nearly assertive enough against
You really have to be playing it their friend face. I think it's really challenging
But sky tall was constantly looking like he's being left behind
behind, just by the pace of play.
He was also Crocs' target apparently, heading into this one for absolutely unknown reasons.
Hey, listen, you've got to pick something right.
I agree with you.
I also think that's what really worries about me for Denmark in this series, is that like
the pace from South Korea is going to be as fast, if not faster, than France plays
And they kind of crumbled under that pressure.
Eventually, are there some throwbacks here
that Denmark can end up playing?
Like, can we get slower comps in the mix, right?
I would say, South Korea hasn't really,
I want to see them pilot the demon against a really good team
before we're like, OK, they figured it out.
Can you do some stuff that's like more EMEA
pill here for Denmark to be able to take it?
All conversely, I want to see Jonovitch try and play at that same level of aggressiveness
that we saw against France, and in a way that's not as punishable, right?
I think that South Korea is someone who's going to absolutely just die, you know, I mean,
I mean, it's all because he's going to blow them up if he gets too close on that.
You have a death mark?
Yeah, totally.
No, he changed his prediction on the sheet.
That's crazy.
That's actually crazy.
I had a strategy for this one, too.
Well, he did pick a shape.
Erry gave him, so that's all.
You know what?
He's rolling.
If Denmark wins, he's gonna look so smart.
Yeah, but no, we both looked kind of good.
I just picked it.
Yeah, I just want to thank credit for that.
I do not think Denmark would win this game.
Well, let's find out.
I think it's gonna be close.
That's phenomenal, because Denmark surely has something to say about that.
Let's head into MiduMust.
MiduMust, that's what you're gonna say.
MiduMust, there you go.
Oh, I love that.
And a re-span here for Denmark.
Obviously, like a tank protect here potentially as well.
Japan cat gone for Korea, so.
They are live folks into the server.
I think this is like, I kind of, okay, so it's going to be tough for Denmark, I think,
to find like any advantages, right?
But, in comps that play like this, I think that's like their clear path to win.
I mean, Jordan is playing Malgo, but this is just like a throwback to two years ago
I don't know man, Sunjin's gonna play the Genji, Stalker's just gonna shoot everybody.
These guys definitely feel like they're gonna look good here, so I want to look closer.
I want to put Denmark under the Microscope map.
I want to look at Jolomix's positioning, shockwriters ability to win these duels, and
SkyTorb to swing them, not take too much faceful damage early on.
So Denmark is gonna try and get control here over the bridge, there's a lot of
pressure here on the jumping.
Gonna try and move him out of that position, Raph doesn't take a lot of damage though, they're gonna heal up, Junday getting him into the mix is...
Simple does find the Reaper and now you're way less scared here to play these aggressive positions, right? The Reaper, that large source of damage up front.
This has been all South Korea here early.
Yeah, now you're gonna drag us into the both East of us, sooner rather than later I think.
I think, I think you and Zoe have lost your mind something.
Oh yeah, and you were the beacon of sanity.
I'm glad you're here to keep us, keep us steady.
Only if it's fight of course,
we'll use that Katsune in rush for Zatarii will be imperative.
Ravus had a couple of opportunities to find Junbin and pressuring him down,
but then he stomped that devastating end of fire lead from Zatarii
after the stomping, it's not a scary part.
Katsune and rush community, it's simple, they really want to
force back and not give an opening here,
but Junbin lingers a little bit too close to those health bias shotguns.
Ravno is going to be punished for it.
South Korea at least have an exact fair count of flesh for the trade and watch out.
That's what needs to make sure he stays on solid ground here.
That is nasty as the RealGun shot there from Stalker.
Some of them finish off Jon at Wetch and now you don't have this beat to respond to Chorong and abusing his.
Now that'll buy time for Jun, but you get back in the fight.
Very much a solid endeavor, but look at all of South Korea.
I'm ready for this cage fight going to be thrown in and Sojin has full support for the rest of the squad.
Brown is the first to fall now, he hates finding connects.
Jimby's great use of that now for Ultimate.
So Jimmedi calls, Jonovic's giving as good as he gets, but it's not enough on aggregate here.
And South Korea are set up to take the round.
Yeah, look like Jonovic there, maybe just trying to sneak in, get a touch,
but that will be round number one.
Flawless.
Now this room feels up real quick.
I'm sorry, yeah, it did
We were talking about your predictions for a while. We just take a look and is filled out here in Busan
Amazing host for the group stages here
Obviously South Korea trying to advance past this point
I know on to BlizzCon is this game is really kind of a decider, right?
With France you assume obviously gonna go undefeated in the group
I feel like it should be said at this point that anything less than asset domination
He's unacceptable from South Korean fans.
Anything less than making an example out of Denmark
and booking an emphatic ticket to BlizzCon in North Vietnam in top seed?
I think also there's been so much talk about how obviously
EMEA has performed at the national ground trying to make a play, but not able to do so.
But we've obviously seen, you know, like, Twisted Minds, Kassia Geekay, you know, a lot of these players from EMEA and KSA.
You know, make it through at internationals for OWCS and win.
So, for South Korea you still want to show like you are, you know, the dominant country when it comes to Overwatch.
And then like, it's like, okay, one thing to lose to KSA at this event, right?
And it's like, oh my god, we're gonna be f***ing f***ing f***ing f***ing crazy.
I made these EMEA teams, right?
I mean these guys lost to China in 2023. Yeah, I want to put that to really be mirrors
Oh, they have the port that the Lancet watch will could they also build in that final? Yeah, rejected by that point
I
Think that you want to erase that from history and honestly, you're not a great start here in 2026
This is still inside three. This is still some of the very very best and look they're not leaving any opening CMA
It's just no way in
for Denmark
Norsha in their face at every turn of Shockwave, first to fall in this fight.
Skalakor is low and won't get any healing, Jonovic is going to get picked off.
Johan doesn't have a sideline to his Malga player and has to use the switch step to get the safe deep.
But he throws himself deep into the fray doing so.
Sonja with just a nasty Genji play.
I feel bad for the supports here.
Denmark as Jonovic and Johan, we've seen some great performances from them, but
it's been rough really for all of Denmark so far.
Trying to come in here with the Vendetta, change things up.
Quite honestly, I think it would look a little bit better with the Reaper, maybe, or at least easier, I think, than to play like the Venedetta is going to be punished so hard here by Korea.
Trying to retake with the Reaper though feels like a pretty difficult prospect.
Got a bit of a device to cross, and he hit the plate.
So if you didn't want to stack the city with his own hands, immediately shot, they try to slide away with the dash.
He's paired perfectly with the soaked slide.
Stalker fourth! Is this one of the ones you see from Jono?
We still find ways to channel that aggression.
Pile in and get eliminated, but Jumbin finds out big stuff.
Big stuff stopped here.
Those are very important sues you deployed by your over an hour.
Continue rushing to glanering and support all of them.
But this is the last chance really for Denmark.
They've got to throw everything in.
And even with the Russia having to beat it,
still might not be enough.
South Korea had those analogs on their side too.
And on the high ground, Denmark just are in disarray.
Yes, I assume you're just kind of slowly moving forward here.
Donovan Shockwave, fall, OCME don't even need it here.
This is the kind of day you make a 4pm dinner reservation for Matt.
Grab is out of the picture, there was a touch there from Johan,
but a switch step back towards the team's necessities,
a cage five to SkyTour now,
trying to get an extra hearing of the cardiac overdrive,
and everybody on South Korea is going to use him as a speedball.
To the right towards Holm, there's nothing more to say here
for Denmark, and Shotplay pulls up short.
And that's an emphatic victory in the first back.
That is as clean as you can possibly get, right?
But Sunjoon died three times, you know, Chorong, Declas, you know, one death apiece for Jungbin, Simple and Stalker.
Just, you know, a bullsaw that Denmark ran into here in map number one.
I mean, the first exchange on this round was really indicative to me of what South Korea and table were doing.
You see, you know, Skytall running up on Simple's position by charges in.
Simple, gets a ton of damage, stays alive with Suzu, and then he's trying to make a shot in the back of the head by Stalker.
There's always someone else. There were no ones who wanted to find out who it was from here.
And there were no windows. There were no ways to punish, like, bad positioning.
Whereas, like, for Denmark, like, that's what South Korea are gonna do.
Like, sometimes you just, like, solo Blades into the enemy spawn.
And everyone all of a sudden is there with you.
Let's see, do you feel like you let them off the hook a little bit by not playing humon
here?
Like doing that for number one, right?
We saw Narissa ban, we saw- I mean Hat's ban, so maybe just don't feel like- Hat's ban.
Yeah, I don't know if it's really the best.
But like, that's like Dave, South Korea trouble with Brantz obviously.
They have to master that though, like if you're not shying away from that challenge
I think it's here.
If you go to Denmark, you should just at least try and force them to do it.
Allowing them to just kind of go and play Vago, like good luck.
Which is such a classic, classic thing to do.
But this is like, for me, it's like a really fundamental brand of Vago, once we get to see things after in that first match.
The Orisa ban almost feels like Denmark were hoping to get Amal de Miro.
Which is kind of wild.
Am I walking to a room with jump in and saying, I really want to play Mager?
Yeah, you're looking after their game against, you know, Rans the other day and then the game against Columbia, like, oh yeah, you know what, that's actually just match like Mager, like I don't know, I feel like...
Maybe, I actually thought it would be a good path to victory because it's a little bit slower, like more stable, but after seeing it, I just can't stand by that.
I think I had a go for trying to play the amount here.
I also just don't see South Korea being left behind in that kind of match-up view though, like Sky Tour.
I mean, it's a race. It's a literal arms race to try and adopt this theme on
and to have associated compositions as quickly as you possibly can.
And some teams, some players are ahead of the curve, right, in France's case.
I talked about it's a matter of falls and ceilings. South Korea's floor is so high
You know up against some of these teams who are just not really looking decisive or haven't mastered the demo competition
They're going to it's gonna get some like France, you know they reverse sweep them
But it's not like those are like blowouts who?
Because they're still really good games like that shambali South Korea is actually almost able to haul like it needed for all
on France so
It's not like it was there. They played like that high grants
Yeah, the first point. Yeah, they did obviously opt out of that a demon match up there as well
You also have time like as we head to woods less gone if you know get out of the group here
Which is you know so far looking likely if South Korea you have time to integrate that like in your comments
Obviously, this is all happening and like qualifiers will have to around like OWS
Here it is well, so you stay still the horizon like you've got to manage your time between the two formats
It's pretty effective here, but I think now it's after realizing it's been a hot minute since they've stood at the top of the podium here at the World Cup.
We also just see like, you know, Spain obviously win a series without playing the D-mon.
We've seen like KSA play a ton of like just the D-ba, right?
Just, you know, get the D-ba out.
Like, there are teams that are having success without it.
It's just we see a ton, obviously, running D-mon at a really high level.
really high level. He's saying in here Force Sungjoon. Looks like we're also getting a change
here with Slay coming in here for Denmark. So a different look in terms of the backline.
There's some synergy between Slay and Geoligic as well.
Yep.
We haven't spent some time together, but yeah, my eyes are certainly going to be on this
frontline matchup. South Korea have options as well. Max plays in the wings here for
a chance to get involved. There's like maybe one of those players, Wolfsburg Delegated
to put in the extra work on the demon when possible.
It's just, you know, we saw maybe some windows,
like that could pressure the, you know,
the mage on Weeper in that first round.
Obviously switching off that later on on Village,
like the game looked just as un-close to use a map-ism.
So I don't really know what axis
you're supposed to attack the game on here, Matt,
like maybe.
Matt, is that up there with like, you know,
Apple theory and,
Yeah, yeah, yeah, sure we really let him have that one didn't we? Yeah, like if I had more energy
I would have been out talking about Avril up there with Einstein and Isaac Newton. Yeah, obviously like I heard that it would though this
close to the cat rush for New Zealand.
I'm kind of happy to see this. There was like a part of me where it's like
Is Denmark gonna like double down and try and play like do junk and like play like for rush, but
Excited to see what you've been here like
We just we can't be we just copy mirroring now go we just copy running that down
I think if you want to ban sewage play like some Cassidy here also kind of protects fashion in a way
if you wanted to play that yeah yeah like well see like he's saying comes in
here so it's very that's our career trying to make sure they I kind of have
all the bases covered where it was like you know what stalker's hero pool is
gonna look like it's gonna like maybe run the tracer in here is fine you can
play the mate right off this mountain we've seen them for a few teams okay
there we go he's that comes in so I do think that you want to respect this
a little bit. You're far up. I would not say prolific on this particular map, but much
like the Freyja again, like kind of goos on the attack side to soften up defenders and
use Tracer as the other engine. It's reasonable, I'll be a little odd here, but Denmark might
be a little bit more targeted, maybe more concerned about setting up a team.
I mean, Korea could ban Dmon if they really wanted to, right?
Yeah, I mean, going to your second map of that Dmon, you could ban, like, even
Even if you wanted a band like Erie here and play like, I don't know, anything like that.
I was going to say, like, Sim can play a lot of other, you know, different supports, right?
Kind of interesting with the back line, but I feel really comfy.
Poor Korea, right?
Front of Alchemist.
I think she's going to run that back.
It's going to be hot on to that.
They try and play like a SIG here and maybe like SIG.
So they're going to try and play like SIG, like SIM, like kind of comms, like EMEA comms.
Just kind of plunder.
By the way, to fold the Mizuki, it's the kind of map where you do see that.
So, that's fine.
Like, Pharah can be annoying into those comms as well, and also protect SIM, so like maybe
that's the thought here for Denmark.
I feel like I think you have like the frayers kind of the analog for this Pharah,
in a number of ways.
So.
Binded up.
Pulled up.
Yep.
front lines right and you mentioned it earlier today either those Sigma setups
that Vendetta can be quite good as long as there are like four or five pieces of
destruction against her all of a sudden that becomes much more uncomfortable and
there's also the question like you're a slave what is he what is he coming in here
to sort of play alongside Johnowich you feel like a particular configuration
that look before do they want to play like they're aiming a coded Sigma
Zuki hook. Yeah precipitation substitution we didn't see Slay in their
about the previous series? Like is it like the Atmizuki type of con? Like, you know, something along those lines? Like, really
Bunkery? Like, this was a really popular map in EMEA, you know, since it's been introduced, a lot of like, sim,
Cassidy, things along those lines. But feels like that meta has kind of escaped us a little bit at least
early on here in Busan.
These are the very best teams on their road to sort of glory and overwatch with
its World Cup Rally competitions. They do run into speed bumps, right?
The game moves quickly, not how many heroes are like just being out of the game.
Like it's at a feverish pace and so our pro players have to, you know, adopt them,
you know, at quite a high rate. And, to bear in mind, like a number of these
South Korea players have been very tied up with like mid-season championship,
With their OWCS competitions remember like you know Korean teams playing yeah age OWCS as well
It's like a lot of competition there for them
So it's very lively
You'll split that time, you know
Sort of walk up a new hero just like kind of thrown into the mix though
like changes the game gives a lot of a
Different variety to it, right? I think when you kind of like this storm watch down to like
You know we have a counter and here we go. We got both teams on each side playing each team
You may think what's really awesome about it is you get kind of the, okay,
grand-splain this crazy D-bond comp, and you can stop it.
What do you do?
You're searching, and I love that.
This for me is obviously one of my favorite parts about being here in Busan.
The Korean fans is really singular in that there's such a reciprocal arrangement.
The players deliver excellence with regularity.
That's what's expected, but the fans always turn up.
They are always here.
They're here before the doors open.
They filled the room.
You know, it's what we call a symbiosis,
but like it's such a close relation between the fan base
and the players, right?
Both of them spur each other on.
Yeah, it's been awesome to see kind of the South Korean fans
come out here to Busan support their team.
I think a lot of these people will be going over to BlizzCon,
right?
Like, you know, heading over that way.
It just means it just feels like it means more to them,
right?
I feel like I see the same from the Chinese fans as well.
French fans.
Yep.
Right.
Genuinely the lifeblood of events like this.
And the players do notice, like they really do go to great lengths, I think, to acknowledge
that like the fans are like a huge component of all of their success.
This pressure that comes along with this, right?
Yeah.
But so gratifying when you can celebrate big victories with them.
And that's what the hope here is for, is that, you know, South Korea will get
reinstated at the top of the global hierarchy, right?
I think Saudi Arabia really disrupted them back in 2023.
China got in their way as well.
Obviously when you're going to Riyadh, the fans in Saudi, they love Twisted Minds, Katya's, those teams.
I feel like Japan is dying for a team that they can really get behind, feel like has a shot.
I remember the Parisian level.
The viral fanbase worked with them, they really turned up in numbers.
I think the uncomfortable reality about that viral squad is that I feel a lot of the power from that team comes from the import slots.
Yeah, that slain top dragon really allowed them to take them to great heights, but I saw the fanbases just adopt them entirely, you know what I mean?
Like, they really made them a part of the experience as well.
And yeah, you know, obviously it's a blow.
Burj Pan once again to be denied the chance to sort of play up Luzcon in front of those fans.
But man, the competition has never been fierce.
Oh, right.
The era of Overwatch we're in, especially now with this infusion of young talent,
seeing like across Spain, across Denmark, for example.
You know, France as well with these players that have been seating at high-faceted master
OWCS.
I think that's what happens though when you have these like regional leagues, right?
Where you know we have like the import slots now, right?
And just like constant competition at that really high level obviously gets everybody
better.
You know, where you're seeing now, even in A, right, I know at the mid-season
championship there, starting to go a little bit further, USA looked really good
I'm sure Varro will learn from some of their players obviously coming to this event now, going back to Asia to compete.
More competition globally, international competition, more opportunities to play.
I think like the extra event, like the addition for me of like that mid-season championship is really given so much more to play for.
South Korea know there's plenty on the line here but so far they've been demonstrated to be the better team
You still got more over what's to play though now it's time for me on junction
That's it for every ounce of energy that the South Korean plays deliver
Fans give it back 50 times over this room's about to get loud
For Denmark
signs of life even if you lose here right taking maps you know we thought about
tiebreakers it would obviously be pretty rough for them to pick it out right you
start to get in the like head to heads and stuff they don't have a they don't
have a right they're gonna back out there they obviously need to win this
even get to one right yeah so
we'll see on this defense side and a couple ready starting to fall to
I'm going to be a Rissa, banned in the first map.
Obviously, certain SpyTor didn't want to have to encounter as Mauga.
Now he'll have to reckon with that destruction.
Effective zone control that a Rissa leverages.
He's hanging on the shield here.
It's okay.
I'm happy to take a Cassidy matchup.
Look right here is a character of Sibir.
I'm surprised we're other than that.
I have to find some protection on the widow out of dates.
It'll be Slain coming in and just playing the Kyrins.
just like maybe something different on the other side but at least right now
we're like just a different look. That'll be a sigma based cap fashion comp.
Interesting enough they're also gonna play a cat suit with them right?
So double hit scan in a max year.
Raph and Shockwave.
It's a little odd it also might be less pressure on the back line here.
Raph is more concerned about trying to chunk the Jundry down once you knock that armor off the Orisa.
he tends to fall like a lawn chair
getting to that point though is not a challenge
he certainly needs to evade a wave there
he renounces not a great pick into this though
right? like Sigmund just kind of constantly
points the Orisa back
the Bastion can kind of get that armor off
Stalker though with you
I mean it doesn't really matter if it's a great pick up
if Stalker is able to do that
but Sigmund is also not resilient though
to displace him
yeah he doesn't have a way to do that
so Jamblin is annoying for him
If you knock Sigma in a position where his shield can no longer be useful to his teammates,
it becomes more uncomfortable for the Sigma.
Also, like you just fortify when your creature comes in because it's such a blind up.
If you can close that gap, right?
Now, Sigma is on the attack side here, so fundamentally,
Sky Nude has to walk up into Jin's effective range.
Like, that's a little uncomfortable.
You can't really just keep the Orisa at arm's length with this tank patch up.
Ooh, it's good eye.
Sky Nude, if you will.
And then, Rastin' Time gets out of the way.
We'll get some priority at least here in positioning for their mark, it sounds like Korea have to make their way back into the retake before they're shot by the foals.
Now Stalker gets his high ground, Stalk's guys will have to hold on to that kinetic grasp as I say, he has to use it to stay alive.
Rav? It's a good matchup with Stalker, at least at that range, but Flashbang connects and now...
The Hayes by Rosh also helps there, he gets the extra shots off.
Now Zula, peacekeeper recovery time is just to sped up so you can just go ham.
Right. Not right. Not the most suspicious of beginnings here for Denmark Shockwave.
I was hoping maybe someone had pushed up here, but that doesn't seem myself for him at all.
Skynoon available here for South Korean. Flux for SkyTor.
Doesn't really seem like a... You're recent game just ported by the...
Yeah, it's not the most exciting proposition against you're recent.
You need to try to catch the key.
The fight back tonight doesn't knock him a little bit, he'll probably be up to the high ground in the sky and do a flying zipline. Not an answer in the world!
To the limit of Stalker's question, Jollywood's also caught inside that Terra surge and in an instant the fight is over.
SkyTorre gonna get staggered out here as well.
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they needed that one to connect right
I give themselves a little bit of a window here
under a minute to go
we are getting lost
yeah
alright
now is the last time we saw real one
we don't make her play
oh man
it's been a while
Change the gamelord, the paradise is different now, you gotta play on those two side lines as much as possible.
He's supposed to go looking though for this widow.
Like we've got them!
Simple force here, oh!
But that's dirty!
That is dirty!
Chonkwap's over there, he's taking you with a spree!
The first activation doesn't give you much value after the sky we're going!
Ooh, we left a bit to be desired, that one!
Jumping ball?
Okay.
Simball's gonna have a rush.
In the reeds, it's so difficult to get them really out of these fights.
Man, burnt down by wheelsmode there, second team picked up Rollsback into his consumer rush to try to empower him.
And it's going to be tough to shift him, but he's low.
He's a duck behind, still healed up almost to half in ready to fight again.
Shockley's going to be spotted off towards the side now as well.
He's a constant in silly by Stalker.
Strike towards low.
And it doesn't get better than this, folks.
South Korea can test with the wrecking ball to deny the cap.
I
Mean that is just nasty work there
From John been and it's simple John been gets on gets a touch dangerously low gets back
Allow simple to TP to him. It's soon a rush comes down
John been does like two little spins there over by the payload and then just kind of sits behind the wall, right?
Knocked some of those players back on up in my hundred health. Yep, and then somehow stalker is in Nani
I think it's simple just we got dragged back into the flight
I think by the cat and was able to flank to the Cassidy in this
That's bow. Then they kind of sim come back there at the end
Yeah, pretty impressive stuff ropes down line there for shockwave we've obviously seen now
It's been awesome to see shockwave back in action
Just never really able to get comfortable.
This is a Twisted Mind staple here from Denmark.
The good old Reinhardt, they typically run it though with like a Cassie and have it up
on the high ground.
They send them running with a bash.
Yeah, it's a ground basti.
Yeah.
Okay.
I mean, yeah, we've obviously seen this in eras gone by.
See the name of the London Spitfire.
So how well South Korea going to be able to intuit this reshuffling of resources from Denmark with the TP?
Are they going to be ready for the Bastion to turn up in their midst?
Assessing the Comp here, stalkers just wait if there's some cops out from the jump in as well.
Let's go, let's see.
Okay, well done.
That was a fun time, that's alright.
Karaks is showing this footage to the coaching staff of friends.
I mean, again, these guys, you haven't seen this before.
Yeah.
Oh, wow.
I mean, they're trying to ignore the roadhog.
I just don't see that as being a great option.
And this is not good enough to trade.
Mutually against South Korea.
Slayers up there.
He's saying that he's able to pick him off.
And without so much as a whimper, Denmark have been felled on the unjunction.
As good as it gets in South Korea, they are looking to make wake work of Denmark and I mean,
we're kind of sat like over to the side where you can see the Denmark players and they kind of,
It's like that smile on the black man. What are we supposed to do here?
The rough draw for them.
I mean, plenty of teams have...
I've got a few going up against South Korean. I've definitely felt a good way through the series.
You know, we've kind of talked about France and how to get started against this South Korean team. You needed a bit of...
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Unfortunately, they just end up in a group of South Korea and France, so that's tough.
And looking back at it, they probably expect their game against France to determine making
it out of this group, right?
No, not their game against South Korea, which obviously puts maybe a little bit of a damper
on Denmark, their odds here, but you think about, we talked about so much coming into
this thing oh like what's group of death we're talking about group A with China and Japan
uh i think this group has become really tough obviously with Thailand i know they're they're
a little feisty of the team that's like down there you know correct me the bottom yeah i honestly
i don't know this is uh no this is that columbia sorry this is columbian discreet yeah that's right
uh but you know uh i don't think they anyone expected france to have this
you know type of uh they did surgeons like they were doing online yeah they were actually pretty
pretty good online, yeah, to be fair.
It's kind of more of, I guess, like group seed, right?
But Germany, Spain, and Canada,
that's been the one with Thailand,
that's been the one that's been a bit close.
And some of the players, like, on the French team
but also on the Danish team are obviously, like,
representatives in OWCS, right?
We've actually seen them now.
Kind of become mainstays, but they've been
outside of those top teams.
They've not been VPs or TMs or Alcatraz,
like, they've not quite been there.
Now with OWCS, it's six teams, right?
It's never been harder to get in there.
The competition has never been fiercest.
So many of these players are also like bobbing up and down, playing a season to face a master.
Like, peps probably didn't belong in face a master if we're going to be honest with you.
Like, you don't go 45 and 0.
And I think that you belong in necessarily.
That's the reality now.
Like, it is tough.
It is easy to be gate kept out.
And we're here with Esperanza here.
All right.
So we've seen obviously a lot of Dmon played on this map.
Not a available band for Korea.
they have already banned Jepakamp and Demon.
Something I didn't love about the Neon Junction approach for Denmark is that they weren't
talking about them not playing double hits again, had no backflip pressure.
And the result of that, Stalker didn't die, didn't die on the map, zero deaths.
I do think that you really need to...
You have to force mistakes out of it.
The South Korean team are not just going to make mistakes, they're not just going
to trip themselves over.
You need to apply pressure to the most susceptible parts of their team, right?
And we kind of saw that in the first map, like I did see pressure on the ward simple,
but it's so easy for Kiri just to be elsewhere.
You can't really punish positioning areas, Kiri can just play however she wants.
The faster the pace, the obviously higher opportunity for there to be mistakes.
Mizuki ban here, coming in from Denmark.
this might be is it like a curie protect type of thing I also like tath Korea
aren't afraid to play slow as well they can do that yeah okay you don't want to
run at us you don't want to play chaos fly we'll just sit we'll just sit here
and maybe some general just gone blade you every now and then I get something
going on you know I mean she on okay they have he sang in the place of
she on so she on spin pretty good into like Vaga she on spin pretty good
but in combination with other flankers, right?
High health, obviously having percent health damage is pretty important.
There are not a lot of examples of that in the game outside of Groovy Dick Flux.
So getting the perk with that extra 20% damage against those low health targets can be really
helpful just to try and get that critical massive damage on a very sort of Star Wars
tank.
I don't know if that Maga loves it.
I don't know if you... Also the fact that Shion can use that ability from like pretty extreme range of the field of charge
and it's like... and if they had shots bro like people just getting out of something dude
I mean we saw that from South Korea actually in the first map
Yeah, Denmark obviously they have to do a France here, reverse sweep
to try and keep themselves alive here
Would you imagine this place to be at a Game 5 in these two games?
I mean it seems like a...
It would be very quiet
Oh
Very quiet
Now, based on the first two maps, that seems like a reality we may not be in.
No, look, and, you know, we sort of talked about it with Zoe earlier on here, like, none
of us realistically...
Look, I think if Denmark can make it better showing against France and not look like they
just rolled over, then the narrative coming to this game is completely different.
It's like, hey, here's an upstart team that, you know, loves the challenge to
go up against these established names.
They've got talented players that can actually win matchups in some of these roles.
But like, power for power, like, you don't feel that way about this Danish team.
Like, as good as Shockwave is, I'm sorry, like I'm voting Stalker in that kind of matchup.
The guy is, you know, pretty absurd.
And then even then, okay, so if there are teams that are not winning the power for power matchups,
you can also move on to are they better than the sum of their parts, right?
Are they able to, you know, are they super coordinated?
Are they very good appealing for each other?
After they, you know, excellent at identifying the weak points and opponents of mid-rotation.
Is there a chance to catch someone who's a second too slow?
But those windows to exploit are reason narrow for a team like South Korea.
They just don't make those mistakes.
Can you force them?
We took that earlier.
You gotta empty the piece up.
Right? But this is not Denmark. They are not a fast-paced team.
Not exactly, yeah.
Johnowich Lowkey, they like maybe you know follow his doctrine and play a bit of tempo, but
You know it was seven seen it it was even more obvious
I think against right I think it was exposed in the demon mirror the difference
Yeah, yeah, I taste the play like oh, I'm like oh my god like these guys are you know definitely running at different speeds
I mean I told so back for sky tour in that France series, right?
Felt like they're trying to pilot that deep on like give them an advantage never really able to kind of stay alive
so
Also gonna need obviously some better play just from the whole of Denmark to make this one competitive as
potentially their final stand here in the overwatch world cup will happen on Esperanza
And the final stand for Denmark
Strong team in their own right but being thrust into a group with two of the potential frontrunners,
two top four competitors, decidedly, as we are heading into BlizzCon.
It's not an enviable situation at all.
This...
Who young Hopper would be?
Quite interesting.
I...
Not too good.
I think this is...
You know early on I was like maybe it's some moga, you know slow the pace down and clearly he's not
Fort Denmark. I think this will be more interesting, right?
Seeing it there take on the demon can come out on top
With the capacity
Dr. It
It's a very no surprise now obviously your jetpack can't fans John the demon fans have been exhausted
You know at some point they're not gonna try this. I am
What a difference. I think this is the one axis that's not being tested in this matchup.
And that's part where we stand around and fight the SkyToy and wait for the frontline.
However, when Sgt. Krax, this shield, starts to force this hotly positioning,
now you can start to pick your opponents apart. Now you can start to clash.
Now the V6 guys are alive. It's a lot of damage.
Now with Stalker obviously coming in and playing Cassidy here as well.
And the pain point for Denmark here is, what are we supposed to do when Soren rounds the corner in wheelspot?
We don't have defense matrix, we don't actually have any form of damage mitigation, so we need to disengage.
Okay, right. Where do we disengage to?
And SkyTour Shield is like, not infinite, right?
It's like 600-650, right?
Like, soren gets rid of that in seconds.
Yeah, that's the problem.
Soren's blanking.
He's blanking.
Oh, okay.
Soren shows himself here, but Soren's gonna be out of wheelspot now, so you survive that.
Now so you survived that but they still because I'm gonna find another pink
Grab has gone down. You're the risk of being kids and I see strong making I feel like for all of these players
You don't have to just wish to provide a bow. It's an easy pickle
Yeah, and it looks like a sky tour is out of mech over by the objective is that is checkpoint?
So
This one might be quick. I'm you are figuratively biggie. Do you might see it?
So now look there's not not a lot here
This is a South Korea just showing like
You know obviously in a must win scenario here against Denmark applying to their absolute max. They need to be
They need to decide about this fast man
Until that happens, I'm not even gonna be to get a conversation about win conditions. It's just an entire lost conditions
China!
It's a third angle!
Shockwave and Yo-Han go down.
And this is looking like less than one of them.
Overwatch gave them more like ritual sacrifice by the moment.
They had nothing like, you know, they get maxed, it's de-mechting gone.
But obviously they're not able to up that pressure.
This is...Tunae rushing can't now, going towards the spawn.
This is...
We're going to stop the Tunae right here now.
Shockwave, nobody got it.
Sunjun just really loving playing inside the rush here.
There's nowhere for Stryker to really beat either.
Honestly, playing this matchup with that beat was so challenging.
Every time Sunjun throws that wheel, Stryker just never stays.
That was alive somewhere, I don't know exactly where he is.
I think he's behind them for a sec.
He does have a pole spam.
Artillery available here for Sunjun as well.
You like artillery, catnap, stun, artillery, there's the artillery.
There you are, that's a switch step pretty early. Switch step forward, a little bit of massive spot.
Salka, always an issue. You put that limit break, now the dive comes in and still skytour.
Comes up short. Catnap to make sure that Salka remains deftless in this game.
And at 134 meters, folks, this is about done. A speed run of a series.
There'll be a touch from John which tries to catnip and take it down after the fact and so the sacred timeline is preserved
South Korea will be a blizzcon
I mean that is as much of a feat now that we have seen I feel
That Denmark obviously had some great performances in the NEA and here in Busan, but
That is a motivated
South Korean overwatch team that they just went up against then
That is the level we expect that this team is able to get to constantly.
And behind that result, there's a strong statement emerging.
That is, we do not need to play Demo, we do not need to go for the new shiny thing
in order to exact a crashing toll on our opponents.
We can do things our way, the way we've always done them, and still get there.
I wanna see that be true against some others.
I want to see that be true against the KSA, if they ever decide to pick it up, you know,
a team USA, maybe another game against France, that would be quite fun, see those teams go
out again.
I want to see if that is true, we can just kind of play our style and we're able to
get past it.
Does it also sound like we saw Denmark try and play this against France and they
got railroad.
I mean they got done in an island and that's true too.
South Korea, KSA and Front.
Who's the fourth for you in that big four?
You say?
Definitely.
Who else?
Well, I mean that was a pretty close game.
Sweetest we do.
Yeah.
I don't know if there's a decisive four necessarily.
But we do have some parameters that have emerged
up this week in play.
And I'm very glad that South Korea reminded us
of a clear top two.
I mean KSA and...
Oh, there is a visitor, that's why we put up fights.
South Korea, the top two.
France outside of their bracket after what we saw France is right there, but you know
As soon as I say clear top two you pull the face like you've made a great error
Yeah, cuz I you know I love the French, but I just I would want to see them have
You know like they destroyed Denmark like you know, they think we're not really stopped and look if that's the style of play
We're gonna have at police calm
France is going to be in that conversation to like win this like that's how good they have been on that demon if
You know teams now have a week or two to kind of like craft get into it like
They'll see if there's some change
Yeah, I think that's my caveat here right like now obviously I think some teams have been caught by surprise that
The user trade of a demon I think not every team had it on the radar to be like that in pack form
Then the teams that practice heading into this such as France
They were obviously having a bit of a leg up, right, heading into the competition, but I don't think a team like South Korea is going to get tripped up twice by the same thing.
So they will be prepared in a different kind of fashion when we're heading to those competitions.
It definitely felt like there was not a clear answer for the Demon Comp against the Jepak-Kat Bastien look.
You were simply forced to disengage and put yourself in a disadvantageous position.
Now maybe they might rotate back more wisely.
I guess I can fly against it but like South Korea have an answer to this new Fangle call
Did you ask for a better layout of the series though? I mean though cat no bash in South Korea
They'll get rid of and then also demon. Yep great game, right? I mean
It's uh, well, there's not really any answer for Denmark, right? It's not like oh a Denmark
Yeah, they give them this and it would have been completely different. It's just uh,
Nope, and I think that's also where when we go to BlizzCon you get later into that tournament, right?
like you know we have a final and give like a you know a first-of-four scenario
right or whatever that's when you start to get a little bit scary. Absolutely yeah
I mean the teams can prep differently as well as they know more what to expect
there's gonna be more footage on those respected teams and how they got there
they wrote to BlizzCon specifically so I think we're gonna see another level of
gameplay heading into BlizzCon for Nato so we're obviously redeeming
themselves with good performance in the last two days here in the group stage.
Yeah, look, I mean, it's a relief to me, honestly, I'd love to see it upset, but I don't necessarily
want to see the global order of things rearranged to that degree.
South Korea, like, I think it's a big blemish, right?
You know, there's a bruise that's going to be left with a lost suffered here on the
road, but for them, it's about being results oriented, it's about thinking about getting
on the podium and regaining that gold medal, so for me, that plan is still intact.
great team places a bump in the road on their way here as long as I can land the
plane where it matters in Anaheim and Plisko. Yeah one of the pilots offset
plane is with us on the couch right now. Chorong joining us together with Dany
he's a fighter attendant I guess. I only specifically translate for team
I love that for you, I love that for you.
We have so many questions here, obviously the obvious ones are regarding Demon.
Like what was happening that first game against France?
Was it Demon just catching you guys guard?
Or was it France in general getting like going under the radar?
First of all, I want to thank you for the interview and thank you for the first match.
Was France a problem? Or was France a problem? Or was it a problem with Dimon?
I think there are three options. What is the answer?
This was a big accident.
We didn't practice a lot against Dimon.
And that was probably one of the big things, so how to fight against Dimon, they didn't really know how to do that when the time came against France.
We noticed in the last map they weren't able to ban Dimon anymore, right?
They had already banned Empire on in the series, but they played like a jetpack, cat-fasting composition that worked really well against it.
So I kind of want to know from Tron, do they feel like it's necessary to play Dimon?
If they play Demon, or if they feel like they can stick to their own style and not have to adopt that composition like everyone else seems to be.
We have to win today. We have to go to BlizzCon.
We've tried our best. We've put in a lot of effort.
We didn't have to put in a lot of effort.
If we go to the US, we have to prepare harder.
We don't know what will happen.
Korea really needed to win right so it was it was not so much that they were like
against using V-mon or anything or like they thought they think the heroes
special it's more so they are great players the Trump said that they all
everyone knows that Korea has great players so they have the capacity to
win so it wasn't more about like focusing too much on like strategy for
now it was like believing in their strategy that they already have
something that they're good at and using that to really win and lock in
Blizzcon so when the when time comes for Blizzcon that's when they
That's when they will try to focus more on strategizing and try to come up with new
systems that really play to their strengths today.
So is that what we can expect from South Korea heading to BlizzCon?
Is that what you're going to work on the next couple of weeks?
Is it just like coming down to strategy?
I think we should practice as much as we can, and it's really hard to practice right now.
Other teams are going to practice as much as we can, so we should practice as much as we can.
Basically, they're going to focus more on utilizing the new heroes and coming up with strategies with the new heroes.
It is kind of difficult currently to set up scrims because some teams are getting knocked out.
You know, we don't really know what's happening, but they have to wait it out
But for now Chorong says that as the captain of team Korea
He says that they will try to focus more on utilizing the new hero
Well, you guys qualified even though it's not in the number one seed
But we will be seeing you and the entire team again at BlizzCon. We're so excited
So thank you so much for sharing the insight and joining us here on the couch. Dany, thank you so much for your transition
It's always such a pleasure. Love you guys. It's great being here. I miss you guys
I wanna be right back. I'll be here, maybe. Bye.
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Looking at the scores, obviously they've been losing to Spain as well and we're beating Spain now, so I think we have a good chance in the match, but obviously hard opponents, they're a great team, so we've got to really focus on the game, we're going to go prepare for the match now as well, and yeah, we've just got to see what we can do.
And also, we were talking a little bit before the camera lights came on and you told me that
this was actually your first time in Korea, did you get to do anything fun at all in Busan?
Oh, I mean, so far we've been only practicing and most of us got like sadly back home sick
from our boot camp, so we're still a bit on the recovering side, so we've been taking
it with chills, staying at the hotel or like using the preparation rooms, been at the
PC coffee and preparing for the games and yeah, that's mainly what we've been
after but in the evenings like we got to taste Korean barbecue yesterday it was really good
actually yeah it was insane did you learn did you get like a chance to like learn any Korean words
I think some of us did but I suddenly did it you did it well you're in luck because uh you know
that's my job I'm a Korean translator I'm kind of I'm okay at Korean so do you have any word
that you want to learn um hello and thank you hello thank you very easy hello 안녕
안녕, and 사랑해.
안녕 is hello, and then 사랑해 is I love you.
Okay?
I think you can do it to the camera, right?
It's first, 안녕.
안녕.
And then 사랑해.
All right, 아쿠, thank you so much for today to be best of luck tomorrow, okay?
Thank you.
And we love you too, 아쿠.
Actually, her entire name is Akufas der, which means batteries almost empty.
Oh, she got something in there though, because they need a convincing victory today.
So we're here back on our desk with the giant Muzzy.
She almost caught me, Jake.
I did not.
She almost caught me, Jake.
How dare you?
How dare you?
I just tried to make it a grand opening, a grand intro, because you do my parrots.
Yeah, what now?
You're not going to make any mistakes, but Germany can't make any mistakes.
Let me say something.
Wow, the segues.
They need a 3-0 here.
A clean 3-0 to make it.
Thailand literally in this series to upset them.
They take one map.
Boom, it's done.
Let's talk about this German squad and their strength.
They climb as a big surprise, obviously, through their qualifiers, they topped it.
And even here, like, they've been really, really strong.
I think a lot of teams underestimated this German team.
obviously no, you know, ice gnome at the helm of it. He's a star player, despite how
quote-unquote new he is, but everyone else was following suit, Moxie.
Yeah, Akku as well. She's been popping off being one of the best jet pack cats, especially when it
comes to survival, right? But that lost to Canada, that grueling five map series on day one,
that could cost them that chance to get to BlizzCon. Like Jack said, they have to be
absolutely perfect drop one map here and that's them out of that group. I think what stood out of
course is if you're looking at their previous matches one-one their current score line in the
groups but they had to dig deep in all of those matches so we know they can go the distance it just
couldn't always close it out. Yeah and being such a short group stage two only three games it
does demand perfection and as soon as you kind of start slipping yeah series ends up getting
close that map differential can really bite you and that's exactly where Germany have found themselves here.
So Thailand do the funniest thing. Yeah I mean Thailand this is a team that we're always excited
to see because the players are always high energy they're always just so lovable and they can back
it up with so much skill as well in the Pacific region and they're making waves but here
so far especially in their last match it was I have to be honest a little underwhelming.
I will say this though, Thailand don't really bend to the winds of the meta, and because as Jack said,
there's only three matches that you have, that means that you're really having to dedicate a
lot of your swim time to very specific things, right? Heman surprised everyone by how powerful it was,
but I think the fact that Thailand play some out-of-pocket stuff like the Winston that we
had a little bit earlier on Busan for their first match, that might mean that Germany,
the time that they've had to spend
screaming, practicing versus that demon
composition, they've been a little bit
short-handed in terms of being able to
practice for some of the other stuff.
And when it's a case of it has to be a
free oak, if something slips by,
if they do slip up against
that dive form position,
Tylent could find that upset.
Ace on DPS this time around?
Ace definitely has been pulling out
lots of different things out of the
out of the back, right? We saw A's on Marca, on Demon, on Sigma, you name it. So there's definitely
some depth to it. Also, of course, their DPS duo is definitely something we need to highlight here
with Yoshinori and High Vision. They both represented in Thailand last time around in 2023.
And High Vision is always going to be a standout player. They're the strongest in the team right
now. I think the DPS lineup fought Thailand. Kind of always have been. And I'd say if you look
the team. They have been the
flashiest on the team, too. Very
easy to be flashy on DPS, of
course, but right now, high
vision in your scenery. Those
the players that you want to
take maps here for the team, and
you have, like I said, Germany.
I got to be careful. That's a
thing right? One upset.
I cannot qualify for BlizzCon
anymore, and they are
mathematically out, but. They
can also just ruin all the
fun. We're the Germans in
the fans, so there is that.
Oh, also, of course, we
have to highlight that for
Korea are definitely through that would be making it to a blizzcon alongside Spain as well because regardless of the results of this match now Spain is going to be through it just as a matter of which seed I guess at this point but they have officially qualified so you know we're starting to really get to the end of this tournament but we kept it interested until the very end I love that the last day still has so much movement within the groups yeah yeah sometimes you get to an end tournament
It's like everything's decided already, but there's a few little bits here and there and I love the the math
I don't sort out the maths
Thankfully, but the mathematical like you have to three you have three ones in order to kind of get through
Canada obviously want Thailand to take a match as well or a map. Sorry if they do
Guess what? They're chillin. They're gonna go to play sponsor as well. And I will say
Canada in a front seat
Little things that you spin around just make a noise. I will say on that career point to my goodness
It almost fell at the skin of their teeth, although that last series was fairly one-sided.
They were convincing in the end, but obviously, like, in typical fashion of an Overwatch fan,
we just completely overreact after one loss series, like, as we do, as one does, Moxie,
but they redeem themselves.
Yeah, they redeem themselves, but what we've seen from the 2026 World Cup so far is that
there's not just two regions competing for the top anymore. We're not just a two-team
region total. It's Korea, PSA and Crocs.
Looking at the mid-season championship, I think the other regions also stepped it up again.
So I think just in general, it's getting more and more competitive each and every single year.
You can't, there's no guaranteed victories. I think the group stages here have shown
that very much, right? Like in each group, like we obviously had like group A, like
that's the group of that, but like really the other, the other groups played it
It's so very close. Now here we are very last day and still so much to play for for our teams Germany need to make it clean
Every oh is what's gonna get their journey further down the road to the list gone
So please take it away for this third series of today. Thank you very much. So yeah, look boxy one map
That's what it takes. Sometimes you can fluke it or sometimes you get a reverse we've against career if you're France in that case
Yeah, it's going to be an incredibly exciting one, but also well for us, but for Germany, it's going to be incredibly nerve-racking like the amount of on-stage experience that team Germany or like the individual players have had.
It isn't really there compared to a lot of kind of franchised Overwatch players.
So playing at this point where you need to be perfect in a series is definitely going to be weighing on their minds a little bit, I'd imagine.
Yeah, and as we said, right, playing a team that plays off meta stuff is Germany will ban out the Shions,
also keeping up those TPS slots available.
But this is what I was talking about, right?
The fact that we'll have to see how exactly Germany can handle dealing with, well, more meta.
It works this time, like we just have to deal with versus them now.
Yeah, it does feel like cats, demon, hand in hand.
Agreed, we have both Parmaletta.
Nice little force to recall there by Ice, pretty damn low.
Good shield chocolate though, he's able to kind of keep himself alive in the 2v1.
Kat's gonna try and swoop and help Ice out though.
Actually, Naurian's are getting the DMG.
Yeah, Ice out of the fight, Lumi is out of mech though, so no tank advantage just yet.
Ooh, Akko, dangerously low.
SHJ dodging out of the way of that railgun has to hit recall, veering for his life, but it will beat.
Highland taking the point. I do see Akko off to the side. I think she's gonna be fine. Yeah, she's fighting away now
No, Chaser. No, Tracer to Chaser. Yeah, but no high ground position currently held and Ice is going directly for the point
instead of being airlifted to hit the backline.
Ice and him is going to try and force Highland to try and deal with him on the point right now
And there it is. They're gonna send the cat, but oh, he's just trying to do his demand
He's way more back up there than I thought the cat probably thought.
Lumi also just gonna try and turn the tables on them slightly, but it looks like Germany are fairly reinforced in their defense
and they ended up just kinda wiping Team Thailand off the map. It wasn't really a fight there, Moxley.
No, it was the Tracer going to contest the cap and being ran over by the entirety of Team Germany.
Lumi tries to go for a Cassidy when the rest of the team are there to feel and can't find the kill,
as Ice will be now lifted up onto a high ground position to be able to shield the angle,
with also cut down the rotation if Talon tried to go directly to the point. Also allows you
to keep up with Lumi's position right and jump down Pali.
Yeah Pali, very very low and that's going to chop Lumi off but afraid of kind of going
down but looks like Direct U is going to find the kill anyway. They trade DPS to DPS but
with Lumi's back dead and a limit break perfectly placed on 5-bit and it's going
to force him down to kitchen side and unfortunately for Ace, no chance really healing that
That damage up is just almost too much without Suzy.
It forces the power slide as well, right?
With the lack of the Kiriko there to be able to cleanse it,
so propulsors just kick on off the ice to be able to stay on top of the sword's position,
as SXJ has the pulse bomb.
H, with the Kiritsune rush, could be the difference maker within this fight,
as Thailand will try to rotate from kitchen and walk on to...
It looks like ice!
The ice almost...
Coaxing them in, just on this high ground, making Lumi rotate to point.
See if QRX2 can get something done with this high noon, can't have a full idea of Sky noon.
Well, speaking of which, the cat map's gonna come in for Argus.
She doesn't get any dealt with there, with both demons picking up large kills from this fight.
As QRX2 falls off the map.
Okay, curious.
I'm not entirely sure what happened there.
Maybe just a swift roll away.
Should be easy-picking.
I'm going to lock this round down.
Yeah, that's job done.
One dodge from Pallae on the cat,
try to keep the overtime pot burning.
Catnip to continue it, but...
That's not really a lot left
that Tile can do.
I knew it.
Oh, QRXU, yep.
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99% all good.
I'm curious what happened to the cat's paper.
It's all good.
They're one round anyway.
It's rough for Thailand, it feels, because Ace has first Kitsune Rush, but you can't go just directly onto point to be able to clear off the players from Germany.
You have to first clear out Ice, which then allows Darkly to be able to build up the rush to map him.
And while Akus does get killed during her catnap, she does do enough, right?
She slams directly through that rush right on top of Lumi so that the demon can't just sit inside the rush,
use all of the advantages of it to pummel damage into the German side so they don't even have
to scatter off the point to give up the flip to play for a retake.
Yeah almost guaranteeing the tank support DPS like can't use any of their abilities is enough
really just to focus fire.
It's really good on the tank as well.
Thinking about not even like a demon but like a diva for example just making sure she
can't use the attack matrix.
Oh ice!
Hello.
nice to be there whatsoever. I'm having a good spot. Taking a very proactive approach.
Less learned. Always check your corners, especially when Kat is in play to drop the tank off.
Oh dear, hype should be in trouble. Lot of healing being pumped in, thanks to Ace,
right at his back. Oh, the double d. Okay, okay. I was even taken down to Kiriko really early on.
SXJ's gonna have to play scared at this point. It's like they're trying to push the monsters
make out places not where I want to be once the weather.
Ah, SXJ actually still able to potentially
thread past the demon and hit onto the vulnerable characters.
Ace falls lower and will fall entirely.
Oh yeah, that part, that part does so much damage too from the ice, the heavy cannon.
Alright, with Ace dead, SXJ is free to cap.
That's insane because that started with Dockley going down
and then Germany are able to find the trade and stop Talon from getting the cap for free.
Now they can stop the choke to have limit break around corners soon for ice.
And that's a huge advantage to be able to deal with Lumi.
Yeah, that's going to be the kind here, it's just kind of pull back slightly,
make sure ice is no too low, but fade them in and bam, hit that limit break.
Looks like Pali is trying to turn ice and over and or distract him a little bit,
but a fairly good push here, the limit break is going to connect as well.
Well, that looks simple. That plan executed to perfection there for Germany.
Yeah, Palet tries to go to be that distraction force, essentially. The Mosquito on the sidelines,
but Kitts tell me very quickly in the ice of the movement, propulsive is in the limit
right to the entire team. Everyone from Germany walks to be able to back up to 3-2-1.
That's like J. Now, lane controlling, making sure that you should know he does not
manage to get past with that pulse bomb.
No early advantage at the moment for Thailand to be able to root for some of these alt-tracks.
By past the church, Dothi has the rush to be able to patch, and big thing is that Lumi has limit range.
Canaps available too from Akku and Pali.
There will be a sky moon initiated here for high vision.
Oh, Akku's moving there was just nice.
Ah, but unfortunately the cat that drags the gats back in can't these cats.
It doesn't need to deploy some matchup balance to get these little pesky flies away from you.
I guess Suzu's somewhat of a repellent if you think about it.
It was also an early Suzu from Darkly, which was not present for when the Hainun actually connected.
As Hainun had been able to find the flit and also still sit on one side of Rush.
Oh, the Silver Bullet! Just a misposition there for Pali, it's gotta be said.
Skynoon, high vision, kind of coaxing.
Burak-Syuta, go for the large swing.
There'll be a pose on the ground here for Yoshinori, and a piece on the ice was playing on that rush initially there, so just took too much up front damage.
Cat that onto Looney, not able to get the kill though. Shield deployed, the rest of Thailand grew up around the tank.
Oh, but the rush was off the point, which allowed Germany to actually sneak the cliff.
Thailand flipped it back, but it's at 90% for the side of Team Germany, and Doc people have rush ahead of Ace, so...
Team Talon have to find something, some way of just delaying the battery of the Kirka Ultimate to be able to walk.
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Okay, Jack, I really am starting to think you might be calibrating.
I'm not colourblind am I crazy?
Even in chat, what is that Matt?
Watchpoint 2000's like
Primarily white blobs
Off of how scientific like
Labbed like all of the building
But
Excuse me, I'm sitting over there
Again I can't cheat the screen that we cast off
Is right behind it so I could
Just look that way but I'm not gunning
I'm a man of principles and a man of honour
I'm not trusting you, you tried yesterday
You sat here, you said that you would guess
you'd dob me in. I was afraid I was going to get caught. That's the problem. Always admit
you were wrong before you get caught so you look like a good guy. There you go. Life advice.
Life advice. I'm just getting word in that Matt actually does that, but Matt is like,
there you go. So Matt does it too. Matt does a little bit of cheating on you. Alright,
map number two coming up soon obviously it'll be Thailand's pick and Germany still needing
to finish the series in a 3-0 to guarantee themselves a spot at BlizzCon. Thailand are
out of the competition right now and these group stages they provided quite a few little
upsets. Obviously with Spain and Korea kind of advancing now, not in the way that you'd
expect Korea to advance, but they looked at least today fully locked in and on form.
BlizzCon is going to be so damn close this year. I can already feel it in my bone.
Yeah, especially because we're probably going to have a few more changes before that patch
Yes, it should be like a small patch as well
So as we've seen from the demon hotfix, everything can change
And yeah, it won't be New Junk City, it will be Neon Junction
I think Thailand don't play the demon and they don't really like playing the Malva as well, right?
So going for New Junk City, a map type which is more predominantly ball
I don't really see them opting into neon junction though, that's much more up there Ali, you can play dive, you can play rush, you can try to swing by for early pressure with the cat-pass and other cat-cassity, there's a whole array of options I just want to see if there's a substitution from Team Thailand, because they do like to rotate their tank line up.
Yeah, we'll see again. I can just turn around just like no one stood up. So it looks like it's going to be the same five locked in
For team Thailand same with Germany as well. They're not gonna. They're not gonna be changing anybody here
We're not gonna see Ken. He's not for now
Yeah, Neon Junction has been the map of the tournament where if teams aren't as comfortable or they feel like the demon is
A lot stronger on the other side. They'll go to it. In fact, I'm just gonna bang it. Yeah, right. Okay
Yeah, banning out the demon also though that will burn the demon ban they can still give power
How do you feel about that though?
Banning, you're going to a map that's maybe, I wouldn't say favoured because the hero is kind of broken
it's kind of good everywhere but definitely one of the maps that you couldn't pivot to other things that isn't demon
Well how do you feel about banning on a map that you go to there, you know you can kind of force someone else on it?
Second type, like second point is actually pretty strong for demon
Yeah, yeah, it's just like especially defending to being able to sit around those corners
But you can swing the other part then shield sit on the underpass and
Limit break as well when they're about to walk into you or they have to use an ultimate to be able to clear it
That's that's pesky very normal band as well on the flip side of things for this kind of map
You want to play static we're gonna take away on mazuki. Yes, so keep on bad and miss Ricky bad
Sign on the Zuki and may composition be depowered.
Double shield heads be like I love Hound.
Yes, also we started to see with Demon being out right, D.Va could potentially come into
play.
So taking out that Muzuki having a tank who, especially for Ice, Ice plays a lot of the
D.Va and it means that you have more verticality attached to your own self as opposed to
having to rely on Accus.
Time which then frees her up to go off with the rest of the team right she can go for
SJ to be able to enable something like Tracer or she could potentially go with
QRXQ to be with the castee or the vast depending on the DPS line that Germany
want to choose.
Alright, got to clock in some hours on the diva again yeah like you said ice
not exactly gonna scoff at the idea I think with Germany now
How are you feeling?
You, are the, I wouldn't say it was like, oh, smack down, like you actually destroyed them on that first map.
It was pretty like...
Back and forth.
Yeah, no back and forth, but Germany definitely felt that they were in control, definitely stronger that game type.
Are you confident it's probably rising here?
Yeah, I wouldn't say that was like any weird place from Germany that raised the high rise, right?
The old decision investment was good.
No one was really drastically out of position or overextended.
I think it was just clean overwatch and they were able to sort of punish Thailand though
for some really good baits, especially pulling Lumi's attention, having to chase down targets
that can still escape things like the demon life, wild goose chase, versus a tracer almost.
It feels like, plus we did not really see the connection of the demon alongside the
cat outside of attempts of it on Village but again, Jeremy felt very much on top of things quite
literally with Isis holding the high ground and being able to shoot Pally down to the point that
the cat panicked and tried to drop the demon early so that she did not get badly split.
It feels like Jeremy know what they're doing, addressing this cat demon composition.
I was just thinking. A good cat skin would be like a DJ cat skin. She kind of has the
little control things. Sure, yeah, yeah, like an instrument of some kind. I think that would
be kind of a fire skin. Maybe a little double DJ set would be loose, yeah.
That would be really cool. The emo...
Free skin idea! Love doing that with free skin ideas.
Alright, here we go. Do you know how many on attack? That's a shade with a quick
Pop, but it will be Ice on 6, so just a clean, classic Sieg matchup, but now SXJ, low Tracer,
band in the first map, back on the shield.
Yeah, back on the shield, unable to flank comforts, with a lot of pressure on the high visioners.
Ice is already utilizing those stairs to get damage onto the backline of the tank.
Yeah, we'll see what SXJ, left side, force A-Soul, get the high ground, see what you can get popping.
Oh, that shift rolls so early.
QRQ, the kid now is going to say, she's going to shoot in the Sigma in the side there for free.
Scouting white behavior from QRQ.
Rock dodge, nice as well.
Ah, it looks like Lumi just can't play that.
Yeah, Lumi just again burned hands super early off of the cloaks from QRQ
who was entirely uncontested.
Suzu has to be used to ace to be able to save themselves after that flashbang attempt.
And without the Sigma that to be able to anchor Team Thailand back,
we just have to give up point gracefully and close hold for a second to try to find a kite.
We're not of ace having high use the same from all of the post and having forced rush,
but Duffy will have soon to match too.
Kind of funny when defences crumble like that, you use one and it's like, well, that's over.
Time for a treat, you're already in a good position.
Nice headshot on to Yoshinori.
Oh, you don't even have to match Rush as well. You can use Flux, or you can just go for Flux before support.
Just go for it, yeah. After he gets the solo kill, no problem.
Loom me down. There's the Flashbang. Alright. Enough said, enough done.
Kona's broken entirely. Ace losing the opportunity of using that Rush trying to attack.
Oh, nice, bro.
location hits the Kiriko directly and that will be potentially not just corner broken but half way through the map
if Thailand aren't able to regroup cleanly as
Germany has so far forward pushing for more getting that late kill into the Kiriko just means that they're not ready to
Regroup just yet and no one's contesting the point too
Yeah, it's felt like it's been bit of a non-fight here from Thailand
Not really finding their own footing
They got spine in, doable, but this point of the map can be quite tough sometimes.
QRXU ends up getting pulse bomb.
And this is an attempted steal on the Kiriko, and in fact, it lets it shake it, I mean,
this Rush has to be massive now, with Ice Noem kind of leading the charge against Lumi.
Or maybe a little bit misplaced, lost their Kiriko, and yeah, Rush for Rush, sure.
They managed to at least get Ace to use his.
But it was a 3v5 there.
So holding that dead eye though, Palle was playing with Yoshimori instead of setting up high vision
dead eye up in the sky, uses the catnap actually to play off of the pulse bomb placement from
the tracer and they're able to find the kills, now you have to cast the ultimate to be
able to try to zone out the approach also potentially, play off of Lumi's plot setup
But here comes QRHQ, and Germany wants to be able to push first.
All day to spray, wow, high vision.
No way near the rest of his team there.
Yoshi no worries, at least they were able to secure one, but a nice little flick of the wrist,
and a stylish little headshot with the peacekeeper.
Oh, and another one as well!
QRHQ!
Okay.
What did your boy have for breakfast?
That was kind of filthy on the tracer, follow up.
I don't think they get a recontest unless Pally goes for it because the Tracer goes down.
Looney's on the wrecking ball! There's no way you have the opportunity to touch! You're using wrecking ball on third?
No, there's no way, I think. There was probably an idea that maybe we get a final touch, but yeah, yeah,
into the switchback. That's the story of this time.
I mean, at least you'll have Bubbles try to absorb the impacts of the Flux within this next
X5 potentially allow High Vision some extra survivability, plus, you are taking a whole chunk of post off of both the shield and the gaffney, High Charge to be able to knock her Ice at hands.
And the Suzu off the screen there, Ice with the Flanks, a good connection too. They've just got one bubble, they're going to try and break it, now we've got zero.
But meanwhile, Father's kind of messing the frontline when he's happening with his 1v1 versus Ice, it's just she nurried with three.
Thanks just not helping the rest of the team.
Lumi has to use all of his abilities to keep himself alive through that flux.
Yes, if his team just gets hung out to dry as Yoshinori, still though, the trace of the
Cassidy, able to take advantage of everyone looking at that Zarya, still have that flexibility
as Ice goes onto the ramp so, okay, you want to move fast, you want just to run
through off the Zarya.
Whoa, y'all should do it. It was definitely on his own pulse there. Almost late neck.
All right, it's the dead eye.
It's kinda TP'd from Kyrgyzor, it's already been used.
So there's an after-effect there.
Kyrgyzor on this high ground too. Lumi's... Oh, surely. Surely this is a kill, Mazzaria.
Yeah, it's just so damn easy. Didn't even wait for the skull. New ice could easily follow up.
That's a rush on the wrong side of the map, obviously, by the way.
Yeah.
Is Germany just gonna flip the whole thing on Thailand? And this is gonna be a dunk.
Oh, they're on the wrong side to be able to contest the payload too, Jack.
Yeah, well, let me back. Okay, maybe, just maybe.
And I still... Oh! There's just no way!
They push him all the way back.
And Thailand don't even get a chance to touch.
Yeah.
Wrong side of the map, they hide attack side away from the flyby with this guy noon.
And Germany sees the opportunity.
They've got Rush, they've got their back to the point.
Island have to wade through the players before they can contest.
Gloomy's walking back from spawn, and then when you try to go onto the point, you just get fully
pushed off of it. Fast time bank as well, which set this so often it feels this week
that we so rarely see a full push through neon junction, but multiple times now we've seen
team just be able to brute force down with Kempo. That was what, two good fights from
Tylan's defense? We don't count first, that fell apart at the drop of a hat, at the drop
of a cowboy hat with QRXU getting that angle for almost absolute three. And then second
was just a snowballed, it feels like, just no opportunity for the defense to be able
to leverage greater ultimate economy or find kills, stall out the attack with
the threat of the cat capacity pushing Germany back, something that we've seen done multiple times on this map, to make up for falling over on first.
Yeah, 2-27 is quite the time back for this map.
Normally finishing an ulti.
Alright, looming. Starting out on this area.
We'll see if SxJ should...
Yeah, they keep an eye on it.
use the fact that they're playing Zarya, unable to defend a couple of angles at once, so S.H.J. is going to be able to poke, if that's if Yoshinori, and allows him to do that.
Lumi's getting absolutely destroyed as well, they're trying to cross to cover up statues, so that if he goes close, without a bubble he can at least try to tableize, but that Zarya's not controlling multiple angles.
It's like, I've got a high Genji guys, I could push, but I've got no cobbles, then the bubble comes up and I tend to go on each other to half HP.
He also has low Braving, right? He's just not getting close enough to be able to use that high charge, then it gets shielded off by the Sigma.
To be able to go cover to cover now to get within distance of putting the Christ on the scene, and bubbling his DDS off the backlight.
Focusing somewhere else now, good teleport and Suzu there from the Kirikou Jami side.
Lumi's found a much stick to SXJ.
Okay, ignore the Sigma.
You kind of saw the game plan changing in real time there.
It was like, well, we're going to ignore Eichers.
Run to the back line instead.
Hey, it worked out.
That's off to Ace and Pallae as well, keeping Lumi up through the on-slot of Ho.
As it will be first point taken almost as quickly as Team Germany.
We'll see if the defense will be able to stand that ground this time, though.
That's a high vision with the dead eyes but all eyes will fall so they can see no rush trade.
He's going in.
Alright, there we go.
Now we go.
There it is.
Okay, let's bring it in.
I feel all the Suzu is so damn good.
Guggy ends up hitting a massive one and three people.
Eye vision in trouble.
Already had a bomb on him.
The ice lands are perfectly time-cropped in the spears.
And that is the rush trade.
But still, Germany invests a little bit more, but Moxi, I mean, with this graph from Lumi that's coming up in a minute,
it's gonna be tough to actually stick back to somebody. Everybody's playing so far back on this point.
Well, six shield hands as well, that you have to sort of wait around. CuraX U2, almost untouchable with the cacacity up within the sky.
There's a lot of defense potential that Germany have, as Lumi, he's looking for the graph from him.
try to wait out the ships or ice is holding onto it just sitting there eating
all of that being damaged to top it's built of all that cross
Can that?
Uh oh, there's the graph
Oh, weaved it past the hands as well
Suzu match hit a couple but they're all in one place they're all stuck
And Josh in Nori I mean that's the easiest possible of all time
Everybody's grabbed up there but on the floor no problem
Beautiful team kill from Lumi
Get all big bang combo in 2026, you love to see it, as that will allow Team Thailand to keep this payload moving, but still look at the amount of ultimate that Germany has.
All of that space that Thailand just had to fight so deservedly for with the alt-bang, that can all be eaten right back up the moment your SU pops the alt.
That's the HJ's gone all by his own.
Quite both DPS Alts for Germany.
Now this one, this point specifically, really gets dangerous for the tanks. A lot of people with the Cacacity is anywhere near decent.
Someone's spanking on the left side of Team Tyler. I think it might be Hyper.
Yeah, looks like it.
Oh, the train!
Go back to the train. It's all good. Didn't die just yet. Oh yeah, just burst through the shields with that high noon.
Then the train tanks, but he actually needs to win this fight on the side.
And he's really desperately, High Vision is going to take it to him with a spree from Essex Shane, at least even did up a good execution kill on to Ace is now.
Yoshi Nori is going to fall. Nice wrap around here. Initially there from Thailand and High Vision looked like he was just going to wipe the entire team, but Essex Jake comes up with a big spree.
Yeah, it's also a very long rotation that Thailand have to take right taking into account if they play too out of the open.
That dead eye will eat them alive, the swaps will come out now, high vision, more mobility on the soldier
to be able to slide around Ice's shield position, moving on the Giga.
Having that verticality, he can start challenging on Main, force Ice's position to have to deal with him,
float up to the high ground, bait the Ram's position, then try to walk onto the rest of the human and death of the pet.
The insta-pop rush trying to run over Ice's nose, Suzu nemesis form done, hit up the return rush,
thanks to that health being healed up onto Ice's nose, Josh and Nuri already dead,
high-fashion taking a little bit too much damage and Naiso not afraid to fight on the point despite the any rush in play
The rush match was better value for the side of the defense ice now as well
Having that annihilation is it feels like Thailand
They don't really know what to do to be able to break the long jack was seeing a lot of different heroes
swap side that we have the Mauga in play, Yoshinori on to the Reaper still having to deal with the
ultimate bank on the side of Germany though, Palle has one Katnav potentially able to grab ice,
shove him out of position when an annihilation is feeding through so it doesn't just shred down
the team. Speaking of, I shred it, that time bank shred it too. Yeah, one minute 15 seconds to go
and that kind of not really sure how to approach the comp is led Lumi to change
up to the mouth instead, bit more back to front now.
Harley doesn't have going for it, had that here, looks like she's going to be on SXJ.
Aku misses her, unable to save SXJ who was
plopped into the back line. Isonome has got two with the annihilation
and that's another third and that means there's one more fight now
for Thailand. Ace is going to get
not quite staggered, should be able to make it out alive despite Aku
chasing him. Okay shoot, that would have been
If the Kuriko went down that lake, 74% to rush as well as...
Yeah, now you can play the Malgo with the front-back on the objective.
But you also have to worry about the zoning potential of the dead-eye.
The spree went over time to bite your hit and your hand is forced.
Tyrant has to clutch off for Volce.
This overclocked this rush, has to find value and fast
because they have at least two more fights to cap seconds.
The strongest aspects of the team need to come alive in high conditions.
He's already found SXJ, he was mid-screen.
We'll call that a Spruge X.
Aku won HP, but no!
QRHU with an unbelievable deny all over the top, thanks to Aku's grapple.
And now Lumi fighting on the rush can very easily dismantle this frontline, as Ice is on the retreat.
Aku's there to heal off the frontline tank, but his payload is still moving.
OT for Thailand now, but we do see Yoshinori jumping onto the Reaper.
Way more back to front like we mentioned with Lumi picking up Batnaga.
I'm gonna be a rockin' party now!
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If you're trying to play tank, take that into your games, your support players will thank
you for it.
Learn how to play cover to cover, especially if you're playing something like Azari who's
so reliant on having those levels up when you want to be able to push, or even if you're
playing a tank who has a shield, it's great being able to not take hits so that you have
to shield help to push, and that's exactly what you're supposed to do on Azari.
If he hadn't played cover to cover, Thailand probably still gets stuck on that choke and it turns into a full hold as they have no way of being able to close up the distance.
Yeah, I was kind of going to ignore the enemy tank stride as well with the Zarya.
It's tough in this situation where I think Ice's hero pool just kind of covers everything that Thailand want to kind of play anyway.
There's got a lot of experience playing online, obviously OWCS, but Ice and Jammer has been a very solid tank play for a whole minute at this point.
Obviously playing on the stage is a little bit different, of course, but
he's come all the time. You speak to him any day of the week. The guys here all come collected nerves.
Don't even in this series don't appear apparent, at the very least, despite the situation they are currently facing now with Germany or sorry, Thailand.
They now need to pick them up. They have their first ban as well.
Do you want to take a guess before you even have a spot to call?
No, I just don't think it really matters where they go. It feels right now. Germany aren't just gonna run this home
Like I don't see a world where this isn't a three-o this point. I think you avoid push
I I think honestly I think you have to try to avoid push just because I feel like if Germany win that first fight
It lands lights from that. I think especially up of like how much slower talent have wanted to try to approach those
But staying away from a map type which forces you to continue to fight around an objective, especially when Krimon and Jetpack are not potentially free, you stay clear of a map like Esperanza and you try to go to Junk City.
I'd say as well, avoid Esquire in the same kind of regard, maybe?
New Junk City is the pick for Thailand. Okay.
See no Zerino up in the crowd as well, one of the, uh, backroom staff for Germany.
Got that no Zerino.
Um, yeah, Ireland obviously, um, out of contention for BlizzCon, just here to play upset.
Did to play a few more games on stage as well.
Playing a different country, always kind of nerve wracking, I'd imagine, playing a different kind of climate.
There's the Jetpack Cat Ban that we expected. Can't ban the demon. Let's take one of her tools of mobility instead.
So Cat will be sitting out this map. Also locks up that support rule too.
So Germany, what did they decide to try to target? They could go for something front to back.
I don't know. I did. Yeah, there we go.
I don't know. I hate it. Take out that Reaper. Take out the Reaper guy.
It was one of those options, right, that Thailand tried to turn to
as a last-ditch effort to be able to break their head versus the wall of that second hold on the Unjunction earlier.
Puts a lot more freedom onto your tank lineup as well, if you're playing the Mauga or the Dean.
You don't have to worry about those shotguns constantly being within your face.
You also don't have to worry about the DPS just teleporting past,
Ignoring the tank and trying to hit the backline which forces you to have to play more reactive the paleo team and
Means that you have to slow down your regression which as we've seen from demon players like crocs
Yeah, demon just sort of wants to keep fighting
instead of playing more passive
Dial up the speed instead of slower down
All right, let's walk in
Thailand still looking for the map win in this series.
I mean, Germany making it to a Blizzcon like this
would be fairly historic as well.
Thinking back to all the way to like 2016,
when they did very well making it to the Blizzcon,
although kind of getting eliminated at the group stage.
After winning the qualifier in Europe, that was going to seem nice a long time ago, mind
words, that's a half equal of days back in 2016.
An age ago, Markzweig.
Have a look at Lumi though.
No queen action, okay, we've seen the sprinklings of this.
Yeah, Colombia as well, tried to run the jungle queen.
As Yoshinori will teleport the team either for swapping onto the traces or a very
go fast from position on the side of Team Thailand being able to push on the board
with both the jump and speed boost, and you've already been able to find an isolation on the gas.
Yeah, can be actually secure the goal, that's the question, there it is, okay, finally.
Good run down there of the backline, SXJ Knights are only only ones left alive for Team Germany.
Very fast and furious. Dominic Toronto will be proud.
I do like this, right, because it also means your knife.
As long as you're accurate, you should be grabbing people out because that Demon Shield, it's so thin, it's so narrow, it does not cover the squishies.
So it's very easy to actually grab someone outside of the Demon and deposit them within the range of everyone else from Team Thailand, just running on top of them with someone SXJ, I would assume,
because threatening that backcap to try to split the rush stack, and it's worked! Halley's already dead.
Valley down, I've been gone, all your damage cut in half, well I'll let me do a fair amount but
against the Demonic it does seem a little bit unfair, despite Axe being up to obviously go through that shield and smack Ice Note
very decent percent start though, again but they have to be clean, they have to make sure
obviously Lusso's saying alive, it's the most important fact there of getting one kill into the next into the next kind of snowballing the fight
You've also lost the surprise factor. Now right off the go-fast composition, so Team Germany, this will test the discipline.
Poke up to keep Blooming low, and then when you see the shout, when you see that speed engage, try to kite it out before someone gets grabbed off.
Alright, there's the knife.
And I'm gonna give them a free entrance. They're gonna wanna make them burn something first.
You can see them testing the waters now.
Back swing, there's the Suzu, Lumi, decently close the rampage.
And with the S-HJ going down, this might be a good start, but with Ace dead, now you're relying only on the Lucio heals.
But unfortunately, yeah, that rampage, while he only hitting two players, it might be enough.
Lumi gets healed basically to full HP, but it's just too much sustain.
Still, Lumi to get through.
Yeah, Germany perfectly kiting out the real deep window of the engagement conversation on the side of Thailand.
Russia at its finest as SXJ, Colescom connects on to Lucio.
Siren Barriers, Beethu's denied, they're still going to try to win it with the rush flow.
Yeah, they're gonna try.
Oh!
Hitchhots were so dead, please!
I've been out of there, what?
Just unloaded a couple of clips into everybody's heads and yeah, that's gonna shut you out of that first point.
and DUSTED GERMAN HIT 1!
It's rough as well for this composition because there's only one way that the Queen really can play
and that is engage off of the shout, so once that gets kited out she's just too vulnerable.
So Lumi now will go for something that has a little bit more staying power,
opting for the MOUTHER instead.
My vision is still going to be on this she-on, it has that spree that actually with the sound barrier,
so Germany's timing, if that's precise, should be able to survive.
Has to be perfect here.
Oh, the Samber!
Oh, goodbye!
What a poop from Arky!
Lovely stuff.
I thought she'd fight there.
They stabbed him now.
No, but not should I just go too! You can't be stabbed with a Mauga like this!
Come on!
I mean, the Tracer's still up.
Actually, has the Ruriko to be able to remain alive.
And will still be cloaked by.
They're going to try to hunt him down!
And Ice with the savers slain through both the looser and the Tracer this is really bad but while they are not getting the chance to reset
It was the Tracer for the early pressure to stop Germany from this close holding to deny more max base
And you're still having to wait for Palli with Sandbarrier
It's actually just killing Ice, this is what Moxie helped me before I read it
It's very very very bad
I mean now Ice having to reach for it, Ice playing super far up like this
I mean, this Sandbarrier has to be perfect from what he's doing
Well, it'll be shredded, but ice will limit break.
Sure.
If they sound barrier first, Aku 1 has the match,
or 2, you save sound barrier, and you just use limit break to shred.
Alright, Germany coats them in.
Almost 5-0, there's the charge, no one to be found, though.
Down on the low, Brandi Oshinori already got a kill,
5-man beats there, 4's Germany OK.
Hardly not quite so lucky,
Spree from live, he should be really slow down low,
that limit break, it's being chased down.
And this is... This is Team Germany playing at a different level.
That's two points back to back, one more point!
And they locked themselves in a close-court.
Yeah, that limit right pressure onto high vision through the spray just forces the Shion to have to try and bail out of the fight as yet again,
Thailand backs the drawing board, swaps Pallet off of the Lucio.
so no speed to be able to disengage the tempo that Germany have been playing for, much more poke,
and also, punishing the other extensions with the chain.
Okay, no loonies already.
Time to roll, pop down the cage, there's the false SHJ,
says yeah, sure, bring the fight to me, I've got no problem with it.
And that should be a pure ex-U with a free firing range.
My vision is gonna try and get out, but I need Germany.
Yeah.
I just dominant right now.
I mean, it doesn't feel like Tyran are in the game.
I mean, I don't like when teams like swap onto Mizuki
because you don't have the perks to have the high heal capacity.
And that means that there's a lot of weight on Aces' shoulders
with the Ahuda to be able to out-heal the damage
that curates you with pumping.
This cast is two-tapping, shredding for the players
with no chance for them to be healed back up
before the kill comes out.
Lumi onto the Mauganow onto the Demon's Mash.
It feels a little bit too late.
Well, here comes the rush.
Couldn't have come at a better time on this sleep.
After almost 50% here at Team Germany, for they've disengaged fairly well.
Taking a little bit of damage on the exit, but they're gonna be able to wait this one off.
And maybe even get back to the point.
They're not even gonna let them cap it.
It was nice to learn back on in.
Akus got the beat in a back pocket too.
I mean, there's just too much really.
That walk in the back lane of Thailand 2 now, it feels like absolutely nothing.
Just gonna get run over again.
And this might just be a boxy 80% online movie's going to get snagged too.
I mean, this is it.
10 years in the making here for Team Germany.
The last time this host of BlizzCon State was banged in 2016.
Yoshinori chased out of the fight.
SXJ pure focus on his face
as Germany shut out Team Thailand.
A 3-0 to book himself at BlizzCon.
Elation for Germany celebrations, I am sure this night.
The pressure is off.
You do not have to worry about being perfect.
You were perfect with this composition, too.
They look so comfortable, Thailand again and again,
a rotating carousel, but no fairground here,
no fun to be had, no ultimate to be bolt up as well.
No perks to be able to try to out damage hinder find a way of dealing with Germany's composition
except avoid going to push because it feels like it would snowball away from you.
But that flash point was an absolute landslide.
Yeah, beautiful stuff from Germany.
They're having to come away with a 3-0 and they do.
I mean, this is a big achievement for the team.
Thailand unfortunately they're not claiming a series in the average world cup here in Bissau.
So it feels like Germany that one of those teams that we now really do have to think
about being within, I don't think it's even really like pop free any more.
I feel like one of these teams that adapting so quickly, some adapting to the new method
playing this very fast tempo. The EMEA teams that do so love to go fast and were perfectly disciplined
to anticipate Kylan trying to go for very fast compositions here. The fact that they swapped
on to that Muzuki that actually was able to remain on the loose here so a lot of the time
on that third point, Germany just perfectly kite out when the aggression, when that burst
window, when its team Kylan's turned before swinging back with a rush off there,
aren't you so many control of that point but then we also have teams like
South Korea who just decided well we're so good at what was good before we
don't have to play the new stuff we can simply just kill you with our own skills
so it will be a true melting pot at BlizzCon to see which of those ideals is
able to prevail. Yeah it's gonna be a Lation from the bathroom staff as well
look I think yeah BlizzCon is gonna be it's fairly close to be it's gonna
to be a heck of a tournament. I'm obviously extremely excited for it to be back in Germany
finishing their run here in Busan on a massive high.
Absolutely. A clean 3-0 victory. That's what was needed to punch the tickets to BlizzCon.
Germany has done just that. What a phenomenal tournament it's been for them. Starting already
really in the qualifiers, right? Like we talked about how they came out as the biggest
surprise of the group. People didn't really have them on their radar. Just like obviously
the individual ice gnome which we hailed during the OWCS as such a standout, such a
glow-up player who's really come into his own and the fact that we're now seeing that from the
entirety of Team Germany is just so so freaking cool. So I am excited that they managed to do
this feat here in Busan. I'm pretty sure they are too as you see smiles across the board.
Yeah definitely I mean look I think with how hard they've seemingly worked here
and beating out a group where everybody was thinking Canada were going to come in the number one seat.
I mean, it's them in Spain advancing from this one. I mean, I don't think anybody really expected
Canada to be in that third place. Kind of ridiculous. A lot of these groups surprising us with,
you know, oh, it's the group of death, it's the group of death. And we see upsets, we see
teams that we thought we'd make it cleanly, just being eliminated in the group stage. Yeah,
this is a well cut to watch. Yeah, it's also like a lot of these teams have done all of this
work here at Busan because we talk about you know how good ice is but he's also had to split time
with Virtus Pro in terms of being able to scrim for OWCS and not always be there for scrims with
Team Germany that and the fact that the meta changed day one surprised a lot of people the hotfix
caught a lot of people by surprise they have walked less than a week to start thinking okay demon's
actually really strong we have to work out how to play her and we're playing at a really fast
tempo of Overwatch as well, which forces a lot of support players to have to. With that, DPS players too,
suddenly have to play without a tank always there to be able to give them that sort of
larger body of cover. You saw from QRXU that on the Flashpoint, he's playing entirely on an island
a lot of that time, having to be self-sufficient and hope that he's accurate enough to be able
to hit his shots and kill them before he can kill them. You make a great point though
about that splitting time, right? Because a lot of the key players for these teams that are,
you know, not necessarily known, but like just the ones that we don't like have really on our radar
for the Overwatch World Cup to make it to BlizzCon, like the Germanies of the world. Their key players
are the ones who didn't potentially join them in those games, right? They're the ones who had to
split the times, get ready for the mid-season championship and focus on the regular season
as well as OWCS and with such a short turnaround for them to look so gel, so synergetic
on the server and also adapting to the meta. That's a fantastic feat for any team that made it here.
Yeah, definitely. Especially with the new hero coming out to you. Like you said, the turnaround's
really quick. We were just in France, so yeah, it was not even like two weeks ago that we were
there. So yeah, it's a really cool thing to see, especially with regions that maybe don't have
much representation in OWCS. And yeah, I'm excited to, you know, the club being fans
already. I'm excited to see how well they can do on the big stage because it's going to be a bigger
arena, it's going to be more people and more weight on their shoulders as well to do well.
I'm very excited for them and what they have accomplished. Of course the date is far from
over. This was just, what is it? Match three out of six so we still need more to go. Still
some more things to be decided before we're heading to BlizzCon which is coming up
soon as well love the recent blizzcon announcements as well you know like we're
gonna be popping on the wwc stage we're so back so back in three years I'm a
big fan what do you want to specify on a big battle the half-time performance I
can't wait and new skimmer bills please please please give me more reviews as
many reviews as you possibly can all the good stuff and of course amongst the
good stuff is Team Germany and Team Spain and we now have the one and only
Isk-Nom joining us for a quick word here after this incredible run through the
group stages here in Busan. Isk-Nom, welcome to the show, thank you for joining us.
And of course, gratulation! That was incredible. Like I think a lot of
people didn't really have Germany up there to make it out of the group or
like be this impressive. Why do you think you went under the radar?
First of all thanks for having me. I think, I felt like we were like rated pretty highly in our group as well.
We got sort of an easier group than some other groups, like if you're looking in group A or something for example.
So we got a little bit of an easier group, but the first match for us was a bit of a struggle.
It was like the first LAN for a couple of people and I myself didn't perform like, I think I should or like how I would expect myself to play.
So that's why we lost and then the past days we kind of locked in, we had like a day break
that was really good for us because we were able to like practice and get used to each
other a bit more.
So yeah, I think that's it.
I did want to ask, obviously you're kind of a household baby at this point in Overwatch
U Sports in EMEA.
Who on your team do you think needs more attention about Xperia from the audience?
Honestly I think everyone.
I've been like super impressed with how all of my teammates have like developed
across this year.
we started like the tryouts quite early in this year and I actually couldn't be
prouder of how much they've like improved in like such a quick span of time
and like how good they've all become so I mean it's kind of a shit answer but
like all of them deserve all their attention. Yeah, good answer. So talk us a little bit
through the timeline because obviously the meta changed just before you came here.
Were you ready for that meta change when like Demon drops? Did you think okay
we're going to have to play her? Did you suddenly have to start learning
her after the hotfix drop because you're the tag player, right? How has it been having
to learn a hero this important, this close to such an important tournament?
Yeah, so I was actually on a vacation right before the tournament and then went to...
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Group D has already solidified its standings who's going to be going all the way to Anaheim.
But we still have to wrap up this group with this match between France and Colombia.
the team with so much heart
behind them with the community
and they have such loud fans in
the crowd supporting here as well.
Yeah, I saw someone with a giant flag
the other day too. They'll be rocking that
force. I'm trying to pick if they got it
now. Yeah, they've been fun to
cast as well because
yeah, the audience really does make
half the cast sometimes with cheering
and chanting and all the signs and
everything else. But yeah, they've been
obviously a region that hasn't really had so much success at World Cup or an
overwatch but yeah nonetheless experience on stage is going to be good for the players.
Yeah I mean you can hear the crowd already starting to ramp up the support
for Columbia which I'm sure when we get ready to head into those matches
we'll continue. I feel like Columbia is one of those teams who again got caught
a little bit short by the change of meta which really did catch a lot of
people unaware. They've had some good fights especially when we were seeing them with this
sort of default composition. They loved to play Kid, Mauga, the Reaper, the Sojourn. But with the
Kyuoka and the Lucio, and I feel like even though that's a very speedy engagement composition,
we've now hit a composition which can move even faster with the Jetpack Cat. And the fact that
they don't really play it is making it much harder to make the Mauga work.
But this is still a really great learning experience here for these players on Team
the opportunity to play up
against a team France who has
been honestly driving the
meta thus far with that demon.
There's no better competitor that
you can really get those reps up
against. Yeah, beast mode. They
have been so good. Who expected
people? I guarantee you as
coaching is out there that went
to bed before the career
France game and we're like that
will be fine. It'll be fine.
Like career going to win this
one and then France comes out
Korea and I mean it's next logo the community of Lewa socials blew up. I mean
I've been France has been so fun to watch and yeah, I'll be a little scared of
us. Come up here. I like this hog is weighing in the wings. Yeah, I think as
I like overnight that victory versus Korea has just ballooned them to Super
Southern in the eyes of the Overwatch eSports community crocs for sure.
everyone is looking at him to see how to play this new tank hero demon really really strong
especially with the jetpack cat fd god made a name for himself going for that lucio but he is
really starting to put himself as a cub of our cats as well he has been looking really good and
he wouldn't be able to do everything he's doing in the server without that backline of zero and
team that support. That's
absolutely necessary. You got
to talk to dip a little bit
yesterday as well. But what
it's been like playing with
products on his team. How much
of a difference that kind of
player can make with bringing
the energy to this squad in
France. They're not looking to
slow down. You can't do it.
Smurfs face right now. You
tell you need to know telling
me these were taken before
they want to get to career
obviously immediate day. You're
telling me that smoke doesn't
tell you everything you need
I think we're going to win 3
0 in the group like number one
seed like boom going straight
into BlizzCon man. If the fans
aren't loud enough here, they're
going to be even louder for the
French. Uh Anna home California.
Oh for sure. We have our
predictions. Oh for this matchup
guys. I got to say. By the team
pets. So true through she
spit in. That's going to be
the first thing Cox is going
to say when we have on the
Yeah, I agree with you. Yeah, straight up. I think that's just too good running. Yeah, it has to be France
Sorry, it has to be France. I think we're all expecting a free. Oh, the jet pack at the demon France has been absolutely unstoppable
They've been leading the charge literally in terms of how to play this new matter and they've looked the best at it
So far. Yes France have cemented themselves at the best being the best right now within the meta like Moxie was just saying in
Colombia they've got a lot a lot of voices though looking to cheer this team on
let's see if they're gonna be able to do anything in this matchup let's get
straight into it. Alright last game here the France and Colombia in group B to
first to three France picking the map first but I'm expecting some silliness
here I'm expecting a few shenanigans from the French I'll see them pulling
out some instilling. I'm expecting a jetpack cat van, which I get. Columbia will go as it
looks like France actually deferred the van. They pick them up, they defer the van to Columbia
and they will burn out the Mauga, so even though the jetpack cat was removed, Mauga follows
suit. Demon is still available on the server for crocs to be as aggressive, just pressing
Even without that jetpack cap, but now Columbia do have the opportunity to pounce on the over-extended tank,
without the lifeline support to airlift crocs out of those situations.
Remember during Media Day, I think we did show it, but...
FD got saying to me like, look, I want to face somebody, I want to face Funny Astro.
funny Astro. Look at the end of the day, there's always been a big French British rivalry of course,
he's like, Lucio, I used to be better than him now, he's a little better than me.
But I think his cat is really like kind of where he has shine, like mentioning on the death.
I think the cat has been such a good tool that France utilized almost to its fullest potential in this meta,
which the meta right now just seems to be, boom, you drop your game on into the backline,
you have a tracer to back you up, and then your cast is just almost a solo operator,
but chunking people and then fending for himself with a flash.
Well, Lich likely going to be swapping for the Vendetta that we've seen him play multiple times
once the Sin teleport has been ticked off the checklist
to send the team forth, set up a little bit faster on the angles,
but no, just like for the Tracer instead,
the difference will be the Sojourn vs the Caster,
the more positioning power for Tenth and Powerbide,
but here with that dead eye can still be just as detrimental as the two Tamsui.
Get on this map as well, there re-open space, lots of cover on the point of course, but
you can't get caught off real quick. Speaking of which, Super Gomez, 40% HP.
Tamsui, of course, off the angle, he has the rail charge, he will discharge it, but he can't
quite land onto FD God as, wow, Trance already kept the point, no comparison left.
Triumphalus TDs, wildflow TP at Suzy Horde used and now they know the change is going to be very grumpy for Steglitep and Tephyr as well.
Ah, there's FD got going in, then some, uh, Tread and Kasuma go there's FD.
It's going down, sure, but realistically, as long as you've got Super Gomez, uh, Crocs alive, sorry,
they shouldn't really matter all too much. Again, they've forced the TP from Chains and France still in control of the point.
Kuroko is so close to Diab, that's Suzy gone too, that should be a dead support.
There it is, instantly caught up perfectly.
Dib with a little smack to the face.
Supergoddess at least picking up the ones, but you need a lot more than that.
Well, they did trade for Xerion though, so no charco advantage here for France, but Croc's still alive on point.
Full health with shield on hand.
We'll be able to defend it handily, and the attack is pushed back.
Columbia forced to regroup, and re-walk in.
Them aspiring shots are trying to board up that charge,
But now that he has to play properly to retake, clear those angles like yet again, no one from France should be within distance from the social tissue.
There's the limit, break already, alright.
Superghost now is, well, three percent away.
One's all to make, in fact.
Oh, there it is.
And an instant Suzu. Now, Croc could maybe outpid his way with Supergirl.
Man's story, dangerously low.
DMACC is gonna come in too.
And it's a trivial cleanup.
And Dekor cut a farm in the Lucio.
Thanks, thanks.
No difference with that.
There's always been a farmer.
I mean, they did lose Keo very early onto the disruption shot from Temp, but Xerion's
able to lock back the damage missing.
Absent cast, fine, present Kitsune Rush does mean a change though, has one side of Kitsune
Rush but crocked with that limit break and just stay right through it.
Come on, really early Rush, but Kosh is already killed Temp too.
Really does give a new meaning to big Tracer.
Ah, well, Super Gomez is at least going to secure a kill, but this is all falling apart now for Columbia.
Looks like a postbox. Just going to hit the ground.
Ah, he's got a QCC on anyway. All good!
Which way?
Overtime, though. Yeah, not re-triggered.
100-0 on the first round.
Yeah, France very much just feeling fully in control.
A few kills here and there on the side of something like Soldier, and it has to be expected, right?
is one of those heroes that you don't have to be able to keep winning fights
building up ultimate economy one-sidedly to still have impact within the fight
itself with the want your potential of that rail charge but it's not something
that wipes the team all within one go and it punishes the fact that the
Sojourn's finding kills on to the DPS. No one's really killing Crocs in fact.
Krox pretty much just lifts the whole round.
He's having a time this matter as Columbia have tried to match the demon, now they'll
directly try to counter it.
This is what we've seen from them before in controls, Zarya bubble engagement with the
vendetta.
Going back to a couple of minutes ago with the vendetta.
There was like a couple of patches behind here, it's going to be able to repox the
battle.
Oh, it's just dirty work.
Yeah, Q on that, Shion just has the damage to be able to puncture those bubbles with things like the execution.
So, Lick denied his engagement, shut down with a motorbike directly to the face.
No helmet for safety.
Strap in.
Columbia in for a wild ride as they now have to walk back in against Croc's Rangona.
2v1 is already burning 1 bubble on Lich.
Comes with the overhead slash. Another bubble used, and Vultr is already dead.
And secure to kill the enemy Kiriko, so Lich is not going to receive any heals at any time soon, sadly.
To find them? Last player alive. 4 columbia. If you gots going to go in, you'd get the probs and escape with, what was that, 5 HP? Or 7 ceiling?
covered. We've all been there. Lucio players, the chubrus, they think they're immortal with
the speed and how hard it can be to try to shoot one of them down. As at this point,
Columbia is trying to ignore Crocs, pretend that the demon does not exist and go directly
for the squishy with the closing of the distance.
They can't even see Crocs right now. The front line, like you said, doesn't exist.
Crocs is just going in. He is the flank character in this situation.
He really is just large tracer.
Yeah, large tracer. We always use called tracer. Well, D.V.D. is also a big tracer.
Maybe D.V.D. won his large tracer. We're going to have to find different words for it.
Sword tracer.
Sword tracer, yeah.
Craneson goes down to none other than Crocs. Tenth very low. D.V.D. also kind of a trading in the door.
Somewhat admirably. Someone's going to have dipped some point up.
up and there's gear of gas and the cleanup is going to come in. This is going to be a
flip of course, but see it looks about over. Yeah, Super Gomez, going to fight the dust
as Crocs. That's to a 10 kill streak.
I don't think Crocs has died yet.
I think so.
As Super Gomez will be close to a Graviton, but this is sort of like the issue for the
Zarya, right? You just don't have the range to be able to keep up with how
spread all of the fighting has been, so you're not actually beaming down plays
to pull off the graph which means that some drink blades there so too is
so too is prox you might have to practice like but you don't have them dead
of the follow-up i mean boxy it's over touch the spawn door challenge
egg in a dorm the keeper unlocked perfect
didn't get to do two that's two all right off the graph oh no super
gravest jumps in and lich to try to get there off off as well
It would have been a perfect time to use it, but unfortunately, M.T. got top-definite self-pars up with that beat.
Greater Sun down, O.T. here, but there's just going to be a pile of dust now at this point.
Did it break? All good. France, I mean, this is just an unbelievably dominant show in here on the final day of the Overwatch World Cup group stage in Busan.
Only granting all like 19% to Colombia.
This is also them being very smart about how they play the demon without the jetpack cat, right?
Because when you sort of look at Columbia's game plan that, especially on volcano, it's very obvious.
Ignore the demon, try to send Lick with Zarya Bubble to engage with overhead slice stun
to just be able to CC one of the species for the rest of the team to then pile on two.
Without the cat there, the demon cannot very quickly go from playing aggressive in Colombia's backline
to playing close to his team and being available to kill with things like the shield or that dash.
So what do friends do? They go for a very fast-moving composition, which means that the demon can play separate
and everyone else on the team, they all have their own means of mobility to escape when that vendetta closes up the distance.
She don't have a bike, traces the blink of recall,
Kyroko, Susie to be able to cleanse the overhead when it tries to hit her,
as well as the swift step to teleport away, and Lucy with the speed boost.
So that's why it feels that even though Colombia are able to get past the chokes,
which sometimes slow off teams trying to play rotate on control points,
they have map space, but they have no value from said map space.
It sort of just becomes this game of cat and mouse throughout the entirety of volcano,
with no one from France playing Bulls.
That is the big benefit of playing the Vendetta, sticking to people, building up to five charges
and then just rotting people down.
But I mean, you're almost playing a different or even a better game with the demon, because
you have more health and you still have a big soul.
Beautiful stuff for a France to start off a series, the 1-0 and Columbia, also not
quite finding a grasp of this series.
Considering how the group has gone front are the scariest in their group at the current moment in time looking to make this one a
Three oh not even in this match. I mean just overall in the group for you make it to blizzcon
I mean honestly with how our friends have been playing the demon
Almost like we can say they're looking not just the scariest within their group
But they're looking one of the scariest
Within the teams as a whole that we have going to blizzcon especially because Korea don't play the new matter
We're yet to really see how they adapt to the demon and into a Saudi Arabia likewise
They don't really like leaning towards that demon
They still play their own style so it feels like we have rock, paper, scissors, Overwatch meta yet again
Hey, there's still time. There's a little bit of time between now and BlizzCon
So they're gonna be locked in the room once once this LAN is done
Guarantee that those two teams are screaming demon non-stop triple blocks
I know a lot of these teams here because as we said not a lot of turn time from hotfix to official play time
teams with triple blocking
Absolutely exhausted six hours of scrims with about
One hour break in between to eat and rest and then go right back into spring. It's been a
Work time for these players. There has been no holiday. No vacationing. It has been work work work
Yeah, I was actually speaking to Chungshik x Vancouver times play does the Korean broadcast now as well
But it was yes, and a watch walk up to him. I sound like look
Rhea what's happening man? Like they're not playing the demon right now. And he's like don't worry
As soon as you stop playing it could be pretty damn easy. No issues. So yeah that little bit of time there
Yeah, jump in max
They're gonna be practicing and they're gonna bring that a game when it comes to players comes
I believe to I think that small or this kind of I was going to say small tournament, but like this group stage has been four days.
There's been a lot of games, but with how quickly I think demon has been shown to be or how quickly she's been shown is how powerful she is.
Like there's no choice this matter at all.
There's you player or you don't you're going to get broken or you don't you know, it's you get one chance to ban her exactly.
Exactly. And then you have to also worry about cat.
You can't force another cock. It might be a rogue paper scissors, but right now it's all demon. That's all I'm saying.
I think it's rough as well off of just how entrenched cat is because you get one chance to band the demon,
then potentially you get the second chance to sort of weaken a value by taking out the cat.
The cat's tied to all of the other cons that you've been squirming. So if you take out cat,
you're also sort of shooting your own foot by taking away the potential of the cat Cassidy
and the cat bastion. It's not like, okay, we're playing something that we would not touch unless
demon was within the pool. Like, say, life weaver, which means that we're seeing the JAPACat stick
around for a whole lot of these matches. Absolutely. I want to see where we go next. Colombia
and the fans are raring to go every kill, every single map. It doesn't matter. They're always
cheering. We have a substitution coming in two for the back line. We're going to see Mixby
back here for Columbia. We've seen this a couple of times being subbed in now and it's
going to be a new junk city pick. Yeah. Columbia we know the composition they like to play
on New Junk City. Do France decide to replicate history and go for the Lucio ban or the Kiriko
ban rather to force out that Moira or do Columbia since they have the chance to
banned first, instead of banning demon, this is the conundrum. If you ban demon, you take
out the tank, but you also do leave yourself open to being forced onto that Moira Lucio.
If you ban the Curicro, you do get to, or rather if you ban a support, you do get to
safeguard your backline option, but you do still have to play into the hands of
CROGS on that D-MAP.
Getting the fun of players sat down and changed over.
Just an empty spot of the lobby waiting to be filled, but we'll be underway in just a moment.
And it doesn't matter the opponent. I see CROGS right now, headset off, ear buds out,
almost taunting the Colombian fans. Well that's why! On the opposite side of the stadium.
They just banned a tank! There it is. It's got to be done at some point. Got to be done.
This is a must-win map now, for Colombo. If there is one time for you to take a map here, it is when this demon is out of rotation.
We'll see how France decides to respond if they will try to force that Moira Lucio.
Nope, they'll take out front to back angle Reaper, banned away from lick instead.
Those ever a time you could play at the hog rocks. It might be here
Sure on is there be quite a carry. It's all good
You did say that you know playing on the the biggest age for the World Cup
Blizzcon would be quite the site. So maybe he's saving that secret weapon
later down the line now
You junk city there are your bands as we jump in from that to in a second
Yeah, no demon. So, options to play with Diva, but I think we're both expecting this to be Malga vs. Malga.
At least out the rip, but Columbia have lost parts of the default composition they play alongside that Malga.
No Reaper to be able to teleport on through.
Follow up off of a player who gets stunned.
Take advantage of everyone turning to shoot at the tank and letting that DPS slip by unnoticed
Temp, what does he go for as well here? He's like to go for the sojourn
I feel like you have to go for range to be able to match the poke potential of France
But Columbia seemed almost averse sometimes to playing poke and instead like to really go for this tracer
She on that look a whole bunch of times to you
I think this is the time for France to make a statement that who were not just one trick
We don't just do well when Demon is on rotation and Crocs is able to play her, we can still
play other compositions and be one of the best within this E-O-W-W-E circuit.
What will the compositions be?
There's the mauga that we expected, Crocs.
And there's the hog which I expected.
Ah, 20 seconds or so left.
I think he's doing it.
He's not smart on his face.
Especially with FDCon on the jetpack cat.
Look at his DPS like look, just play distraction, I'll hook, I kill, all good, no problem.
FD God, make sure you just float me around.
Feel good.
Just hang me from the sky, like a chandelier, I'll hit people and kill him.
There it is!
Okay, we're doing it!
Krogg's odd at the hog, Super Gomez deciding now.
today for the play of the Marga. Here we go over the top.
Barats, you got to have this hit buddy. This first one is going to be the most important.
It's already used up for either. He's going to get lifted up to the sky again.
Scores for Lucio initially. Now maybe you can look at the ledge.
Oh easy, smoke of your damn life, Barats.
Oh, let's get up and get the kill.
That's too dead already. Oh, I mean this is just a fake.
Give me all this much mobility.
Yeah, he scored his 8 games today.
What are you supposed to do versus this bitch?
You can't go Reaper because I've got Bandai.
I know, oh no, Crocs will just sit on the rooftop with the jetpack cat to scout when they're coming.
He's in a roofside?
Yeah.
And you're in a roofside with the hook available.
Okay, flashy hook denied, but still Columbia has to gain entry onto this point past the
road.
Oh, he's a moat now.
My guy was a moat-ing.
Third person around the corner.
Oh!
The Lucio!
Getting sucked in like that and immediately dying to the whole two fights in a row.
You gotta be feeling this type of way.
Oh, Super Gomez.
Oh no!
Not that!
No!
Hook into the aura take-abriever.
Thumbs up.
There!
He's a voting in real life now. Crocs is the canonical roadhog, I guess.
They're dropping him in again. They're dropping him.
Oh, he's just behind their spawn, trying to cap someone late on this rotation.
There he goes. He's playing a crane machine at this point.
All right, dips down. Hang on.
I mean, what can super grown men do?
Observers we have one job and one job only.
Croc's POV.
Get a hook.
I wasn't going for a couple of seconds.
He wants the melee kill too. He tried.
Look for solo. He's doing the cage removal.
My guys are moating.
Did you know, uh, Croc's actually did the, like, the capture.
The mocap? Yeah.
The mocap for hog. Yeah, I don't know if you guys knew that.
Hot law tip.
Put that in the other details on the liquid video program.
I'm waiting for the headbang.
He'll get the whole hog off map. That's when we see that one.
Straight out of the cage, he's straight up on the map!
Oh, he charges away. Look at someone else here.
He's going to try for it over the spree.
Okay, someone else has to take a couple of kills here.
It can't all be crops.
Oh, the cage just broken instantly by a whole hog.
and probably the spirits of that fight broken by the spree shortly after.
Crocs, yet again, are back to be airdropped.
Probably this time looking at 10th position to deny the overclock since
no Lucio, no sound barrier.
This could be the opening for Columbia. They have the kill potential.
You've been pulling too hard of Lucio. It's hard to build the beat
and the fights have been going so quick as well.
They're supposed to watch here though, okay.
4v5, Crocs.
Yep, still on hog. So it's gonna be a danger hook over the top. Oh, okay. I think that was a crap look actually. Oh
Dearie me. Yeah, 10 beds are going down as well
I mean at least they got the point
But it's not gonna be for too much longer clock standing in his face super guy. This is nah ain't no way
Okay, I take it back earlier. I said clocks is a crane machine that has elements of RNG at this point
He's a gachapon
You're guaranteed to find something with your money, as this Roadhog is having so much value, plus the pepper crooks is playing out of line of sight of camp.
You're not trading off of the Roadhog's health, soaking up soaking shots.
Sorry, Moxie, they have to look in the sky just in case crooks are on the roadside.
Is that... yes.
Roadhog has become dire now, Jack, apparently. Or I guess more fittingly, air.
Is what we call the jetpack.
Oh, there is Natal! Oh, straight out of the spawn!
Oh, surely Croc's thighs here. Looks like F.G.Gog might be the one to suffer in this instance.
Cat-Nap!
There's the Lucio dead already, and this is going to be the points.
2-0 currently for France, but Croc's still going.
Oh dear, just give him a rest, man.
Give him a rest.
Do they get the chance to walk point? Because here's the thing, they have good alt, right?
You're about to have double support alt.
You have Maokage 10th on the Widow in case Crox is sticking closer to that spawn.
He's behind them with Holhawk and a hook, which is terrifying.
You can see the pinks by trying to work out where exactly the Warthog is before they can walk point to use that rush.
But finally they will touch feet onto point to gain value from changed ult.
I mean, this is really their only choice here. You can't run around chasing a hog.
And with Temp on the cast as well, if Crocs gets close, you should be able to split the
lifeline with the flashbang at least.
Alright, double support out now.
Crocs trying to go for another hurt, there's the cage.
Oh, he's going to deal real well, look at that.
That's the counter to the Mauga apparently.
The whole hog in the cage.
Nice to do very big value there actually, man, shit, more people on the south.
It's so good for three or four players there.
Your hoax died, that's the question. Crocs, no he doesn't, he just says his there, takes a breather and that was that.
Supernova is going to extend this calculation for a brief moment as they get 45%
Point at least closer to the side of Team Columbia as FD got side-side Crocs on rooftop yet again.
Nope, he splits. FD got looking for the opposite angle to be able to land the catnap as the hook lands from Crocs.
Pulling super-go-mers out.
Get dead.
Alright.
Here then.
Hope DPS down.
And D-Glock goes lich.
Catnap's gonna actually take away that curicote.
Easy TP uses though, and now Crocs in pursuit.
Oh ho ho!
Gotta run, Tim!
You gotta get out of there.
They're gonna try and get the flip,
but they do so successfully.
They're up to 50% now,
while Crocs look in front of the hook.
He has to be so careful of this dead eye too.
No cat.
If he gets hooked out to cancel the ult,
for the ult, it's Curtis.
Better move though, makes the end of going up massive with the move on the Roadhook to make sure he can't connect the left leg.
Croc's still not dead though, he has to bring away.
See Columbia, find the solution, do the max, right, Croc's after you've got constantly split, three players on core left,
everyone from Tim Columbia, they're five players. Ignore the Roadhook, ignore the cap, just walk in the rest of the team.
They don't have to give up this point, you know.
Oh, they do end up touching. It's the tracer on point.
Dip is there probably for another one.
They're gonna cage on the point.
They're gonna solo cage the tracer.
To be fair with you, don't blame it.
His grog has been deleting it.
Nice headshot from the top.
Oh, and he gives it to the bag as well.
Okay, yeah, come on.
Lifted the spirit here for Team Colombia.
And he got playing off of the map.
And there's the point.
I mean, at this point, you're just trying to push cross to swap off of the roadhog.
We'll have to pause one good flashbang, but I mean, the roadhog has the health bar plus
two supports right beside him to be able to survive the impact.
Columbia though set up one point but without that cast they don't have the
dead eye to zone out the alt jump that's available here for fans.
Awesome Lich, give it all, nice two-click.
There's the herd, some Super Gomez there, here comes the barge and the whole hog as well.
Super Gomez immediately ejected from the fight.
No chance of winning that one even if you'd had a wash and hatch.
You just be pushed off of it by the whole hogus.
Here comes the Roadhog hook yet again, 10th.
Hacy retreat from the cast, but not fast enough.
FD God on the cat, chases him down.
Swinging a niche, that's fine. I mean,
Fox main weakness always has been very big, beefy target,
like no armor, kind of hanging around.
All the hook, this is TP though, for the characters.
You have to force the Suzu.
Cross very low, 60 HP, still healing up.
And there is the kill, okay?
Croc's FINAL put down.
Yeah, the Super Goma's just body blocks, locks the Roadhog into the 1v1 to lie the rest of his team behind him.
To go for that cap with the rush, and there it is!
Columbia not going to lose to Roadhog shenanigans.
Croc's onto the Magatamat, Columbia find the solution, and now adaptation has been made.
We call that a sampling platter, an advertiser for what's to come for France at BlizzCon.
Frogs isn't going to give us the whole show, at least not just yet.
Yeah, Mooseboosh, you can save.
There you go. There's the stomping from Frogs.
Oh, he's on his own! He's got no heel, though, by the way.
He's got a kind of overdrive, sure, but don't take a breather.
I see a roundabout shot from here, though.
If he's already got two, the subbar...
Oh, I mean, it's going to hit three.
This cage is going to get deployed in there, so you've got Zerion.
Just lock down.
Yeah, defensive cage. Because of the vision of that overclock, so two ults for the price of one soldier, that's good value for money for France, but Columbia have been able to hold on to the point 93% lost by territory to be able to find the play.
And the numbers have differed a long while now, our friends, they lost him at the very end of the fight. The Lucio doesn't have a falling note, Croc's has got his one. Flip, patience for Columbia, they got time to play with.
Not a lot of time though. Crocs coming up to that cage there, I'm pretty close to a rush as well.
You take too long to wait, dip finds a postcard, delays at the bite, you're looking off my territory here.
I say it's zero space to walk right now.
We're going to try and make some space their own, a vanilla style, top right, or top left either.
High noon deployed now for ten days to catch that red digon.
God, cancelling that high noon and securing the kill.
The balls come from deep chunks out,
so it's a piece of-
you
you
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I recognize, I was here at the last series because I tried to guess and now I've got
It's like the the test that they had. Is it the ink test?
Wait, the ink watch test? Are you talking about the one that slows the little colored
dots and then you can see like numbers or whatever?
The ink watch?
I have no idea where it's from.
Rorschach test.
Rorschach, that's it.
There you go. Yeah, it's kind of like that.
What do you see in this image?
A neon junction.
That would be a crazy thing to say for a Rorschach test.
I see neon junction.
I feel context.
I've seen the old Junction.
So you're a Sigma player.
So you're a Sigma player.
You're a Mizuki player.
Oh my goodness.
Yeah, it's very hard to try to narrow down a cat player's main map that they play,
because that hero just plays pretty much everywhere.
So for sure we could see some of that Sigma,
but I do feel like it does just get a heavily out-tempo.
move the pacing that demon plus cat brings to the match.
So for France by the looks of things,
but support swapping out there on to leave in this stage,
France with a single map left potentially in this series.
And in this tournament as well, this is the final day,
obviously, the group stage here in Busan.
So what to Columbia ban here?
As I said, they can't ban the cat.
can't ban the demon. Do they try to ban something like Kiriko? To move away from the Kiriko cat?
Potentially play a slower version of the Anna. Because that also takes away the opportunity
of playing things like the Mizuki as well. Angie could go for a sort of double a heavy poke
backline something like that Wu Yang have the shift to be able to disengage the propulsors
from the demon potentially push back as well with the wave when shield's not up.
Haven't seen all that much Wu Yang this tournament mostly because when people see him they pivot to
the diva to be able to directly counter it as uh yeah the your Rorschach test your spot of
color was correct you did indeed see a neon junction yeah they banned the cats
uh they're being flooded they banned the cat they banned the demon so we're gonna
see demon again i imagine yes um i don't know what
go for where the cat is all right okay don't hate it
probably spoke about that the last couple of days but it feels like a
safe ban it's like okay that's very default like
door. I also feel like it takes away one of the main ways that the defense wrestle back control
and the attacking side to creating space forcing you to have to respect the damage potential of
that flyby with the cat cast as France will remove the engagement potential of Colombia
removing that Lucio for this team to be able to go fast speeding away from crocs
when he's at full strength and yeah punishing the fact that Columbia very very reluctant to play the cat Cassidy or the cat at all
Yeah, I mean if he's just fd gods is going to rock the cat no problem no shots there in an information
I've been columbia now just gives a good showing it feels it feels very one-sided up until this point with
France and how well they've done so far
you never know we'll see
the crates behind them for sure the fans here have been going absolutely crazy every time that columbia players
find a kill, or win a fight. So they have a lot of energy. The chance starting to pick up as we
head into what could be the final map within this series. Neon Junction, who are our hybrids, so
no rework, no icon vault, no parryso. Very similar playbook. I feel like Neon Junction,
a lot of teams have already tracked the code in terms of especially taking first five right on the attack.
It feels very much just splitting your team, being able to take away those high ground positions.
Pinch the defense, force them to be very uncomfortable and have to pull back almost entirely,
to have their tank touch point the rest of the team, the backline especially backed all the
way up to second point already. And it feels like, with the defense, a lot of teams just
give the ground, right? They prioritize not directly contesting first, they're more than
happy to let it slide. Just to be able to cement having an easier setup, a faster setup,
for that first fight of second, which, a lot of the time we see them win, and totally
to allow the attack to sometimes even a full halt.
Yeah, this map has been quite, I'd say, eye-opening for a lot of teams where it is a much more
defender-heavy, slower map, whereas the Meta's over the last couple of patches or last season
or so, or a couple of seasons maybe even.
I've been like, sorry, I'm a weird, like, bubbling her in and just a lot of like, a lot of malware, obviously, like just a little bit more quicker, a little bit faster, so, you know, just being thrown in there to slow things down a bit, it's been quite fun.
Hey, yes, obviously, subbed in for Xerion on the French side, just warming up, make sure all the settings are good, and then he's going to join the lobby. He's about to log in now, so it shouldn't be too much long before you get to the lobby.
Yeah, especially because what was the last map before they added Neon Jumping Atlas, right?
New Flashpoint that we had.
That's a very go-fast kill everything before they kill you.
Sort of map.
Trying to think the last time we really had a map that Force Teams 2 had to play that slow.
Sure, not released, I mean...
I dunno, I can't really remember.
Yeah.
To be honest.
Like a slow paced map.
I don't know.
Got a lot of push maps obviously because it was the new modes.
Yeah.
Which are inherently quite quick.
Unless it was Colosseiro.
Oh!
That's such as camp mid.
The record for like no kills is like three minutes or something.
Yeah.
Two, three minutes.
Yeah.
Peak soldier meta when you were just like exchange soldier one shots.
No, I casted that.
I casted it with the mat.
Or maybe...
I can't remember who I casted that with.
I remember having to coach the drop, like the release Colosseum, and have to tell players
like the discipline that you had to have to not greet Keke a fully charged surgeon like
back then.
The con cycle was so great because you did not just have to ultrack, you also had to
Well done charge track you had to call out when the soldier had high charge that people would not be
Then you would beat the peak and then you would go with your own so Jim
So it was this back and forth and back and full a
time of old for sure
Yes, really so Jen when she could one tap you
We it was gross. It was a
a little busted I'd say a little broken. Alright here we go. The most broken DPS here are on release.
I would say also. Oh yeah. For sure. Ridiculous. Ridiculous character. All good. Here we go.
The injunction. Now three in the series for us beating 2-0 already. Verne is showing us one.
You just missed props on Hot. I'm sure it will show up on socials. Of course.
like for sure after this match Crocs himself will be going back and clipping some of those parts
as we'll see what the columbia decide to mix things up with mixby is now with the roster
currently playing that poker heavy backline that we talked about they will be starting
on defense too so this wooyang will remain at least for the first fight and i do like this
it feels like we haven't seen a lot of teams attempting the Wu Yang in response to the Demon.
Yes. So this will be, I think, a good test for a lot of teams who don't want to play the Demon
themselves, who want to be able to play a composition that can react to things.
Here's gonna jump out real quick on the Widowmaker. I want FT God to go for the
the grapple looks like. Is he gonna do it? Yes, there he is. Okay. Widow peak. Whoa!
This Warlord's getting real close. Little change though. Only a little bit of damage
on Supergammon.
No Cap Bastion. Dip swaps onto the Tracer, Cure the Shion so you have a split and push
potential there. But it's overwhelming walking onto the point already porting that mail.
Well, not for isolation, but to just provide disengager opportunity.
Right, box up on the high ground already.
A very quick reaction there by James trying to get a Suzu. However, now this wall navigates quite quickly actually.
Super Gomez just falls over. Again, that's all on FD God, kind of putting drops into position where he can force the CDs of the carry, and then that is really that.
Yeah, that's the thing about Wooyang as well. He runs out of heals very quickly and you also have to be heavily within line of sight of your team.
So if Super Gomez is out of position or dropped onto you very quickly by that demon, not a lot of help will come from his backline to keep himself pale and hearty as the rheumatric experiment has ended onto the demon that we go.
Yeah, I don't think Columbia would have really expected to let go of the point that quick.
Supergamed has forced into this, not 1v1, but head to head.
You've got to go into the train first before you make any more moves on the high ground.
Rocks has already got that limit right there, I know you've got to be scared,
and of course the liches block first, and then throw it in here, would be ideal for Rocks.
Straight over the top, though. Oh, the carry's in trouble.
Horsesuzu and TP at the same time. There's the Litherbrake on the high ground.
Kiri dead. Effie got it with one kill and two big... Gomez is going to get DMG'd.
Should just be it for this.
It's all low defense.
They got the most value they could, at least from the defense, right?
You know, if your Suzu gets forced, if your Suzu gets forced,
Litherbrake will kill your team.
So at least Litherbrake, with his final moments, is able to stall out Cod
and allow Columbia one extra fight potentially.
where four frans are able to cap second.
Caitlyn will have rush as well to send the team forward,
which will then move to the reaper from the front to back.
Alright there, Super Gomez dropped in.
It's actually dropped straight on top of Crocs.
FD Garg is going to go over to Katnab
and this is a steal of Super Gomez,
a late dragon around that corner.
It's going to get stopped on the roof after a brief moment.
Both rushes have been utilised already
as Lich finds a solo kill onto AES in the backline.
A snake from dip though, a decent amount of damage
which is going to require some healing on Super Gomez.
Unfortunately, Shibagama is ejected from the map and immediately dealt with, and that's going to be second point.
Yeah, Q is free, softens everyone up, France, coordinate, take them down.
Head into third, but not with the ultimates to be able to snowball.
If Kemp's able to come up full-watch with this overclock, it's still like France's approach.
London might be able to hold their grind for more fights to come.
So far there is the surge will be chased off of the high ground by the cat and the mech
2v2
Both cats and both demons
Supergarras has eventually managed to force procs off of the aggressive angle
Lina breaks in hand for Supergormas as well but
he will be correct in position to use it on the backline
Yeah, he's going to try and find an isolation but
realistically against this comp it's just so difficult and Boggs is just
Wait!
Waker fighting up here
Yeah, the mobility right from France, they see the team coming and just run.
Oh, one crossing tip like that, but immediately as soon as you shift sort of out, shift sort of out proper.
There goes the cat, and that is going to be a scuba-dome as down, meaning this final push is going to be fairly trivial for France.
I mean, you've got the overclock, but you don't have the space to be able to use it after you've got two of the catnip can slam down onto Tent's position.
Jump the sergeants all the way.
Okay, there we go, Strum. Well, I ran again. Tencent, Strum.
It's like we got the Spawn doors right behind a bit.
He's going for a point, you know?
Well, the trade for Keo, Kahnam's going to come in as well.
Now Crocs is playing on the point, and it's really all he needs to do.
And he's just getting destroyed.
Oh my goodness.
And there's the cap.
Three minutes and thirty seconds in that time, man.
He's just sublime.
I mean, we've talked about Croc being so good on this demon, but it really is the synergy
between him and FD God being able to just clear Temp out multiple times.
When we head bird, Temp has the overclock to walk three fights, deny the opportunity
to use it every time being cleared out early from those positions where he could snipe
someone when the demon neck is not there to be able to provide that formal cover
for the backline.
cleared out, especially that last fight too, FDGodCorks, lifts that Demo mech up on top
of Temp's position, and they just clear him with the catnap as well, no overclock, allows
that payload, he's so close to the checkpoint. Like you said, all Corks has to do is split
the backline, force the tank to have to keel his support, no one's there to be able
to hold the fight for point long enough for Temp to return.
Oh man, that Johnny on the shoulder in a minute, he's going to be on the car soon.
That three hour makeup session is going to have to get cut short, Moxie.
We'll see if this is a full holder of Columbia, we'll be able to match the time bank.
As we've seen, we haven't seen a lot of cool holds on the On Junction.
We've seen some so far this week, but not as many as you would feel,
And it does feel like more teams are starting to be familiar with the way of fast sweeping out first 10 not finding that first kill off on the dip.
The trace of two mobile, the lick will remain on the far right here to just hammer these different chokes and they've already forced A to use that switch to back.
There's not a dungeon and stalker up side of the path, play this far right to this path, don't aid it at all.
Yeah, there's such a massive range disadvantage with Hero and Dim.
Still, that can't be negated, of course, with FD gore kind of just lifting someone in front of the fire and saying,
Okay, you kill now and then dropping them off once the job's been done.
But there's no real hit scam here on the side of Team France to be able to deal with them.
Gotta hit these directs though on FD gore.
Ooh, that's a couple.
Nice little kill, okay.
Backlight dead, this is gonna be point.
Yeah, I mean, it hits a lot of rockets for Mitsubishi to be able to find the follow-up kill onto the cat.
One tick picked up, split onto the France, they're so close enough to go for the death boat.
They're just going to replay around this statue.
They've got 66%, there should be the two ticks.
As they do lose lich in the meantime.
The supercar mess against the one big one versus Skiyer.
Oh, it wasn't two tigs! Yes, 66.2% not wide enough for the second one.
And they actually managed to hold all of that, he's a miracle.
Somehow Diff kills the Pharah.
They weren't touching at all that time too.
Everyone from Colombo was just off of the point.
They don't have the tracer to be able to anchor it.
Fine flips will separate from the main fight to go hit the backline pressure the way that Diff was able to.
So he picks up changed after he deals with the Pharah threat.
There's a freeze approach tonight. Do this. Touch the door challenge. Take two
Fallen door touch, take it
Quick off of the widow onto the repulse that was banned out previously
Should be able to just teleport past the demon try to put more pressure on to ace position
Now they're going to try and force the points, group of guys pretty good against the demon.
Sometimes if you get the support it's decent.
Oh the stick.
Can't map as well actually, they're throwing a whole bunch into this fight and they're
literally very int, so we're going to miss.
Not quite croxed.
Try again another bit.
I mean they might try again now unless Ace falls here to the Reaper getting in deep
to the backline denying Brands playing slow for Aza's rush back onto point. Second take
picked up potentially the third here as we will not have a full hold.
No full hold, even though they're still getting one. Recall for Difford to be used. Surely
not another, you're going to still put some extra time, all good. You may get a little
bit more pain for you, you're going to get spawned in.
How impactful now is the fact that Brands tried to fight at that point instead of
Setting up the first corner hold here on second. Croc denied the angle of holding versus super Gomez
And already Columbia have been able to see themselves passed under pass
Can't quite engage too far forward though. You have to have the room to run away from Azazel.
Oh, 10 pence of going down to Croc
So if your train's gonna come in in a second, so you can't play on the hard ground
Here's in the back, by the way. So that's the spree, excuse. Just gonna hit the body on Super Gourmet, so he shrubs off all the armor.
There's the limit break, being popped as well. He's so clear, Catnap, and I think all the stuns were really nice.
And now Crocs, they're not in the soup, it don't matter. Super Gourmet's warming up. Oh, he's gonna fight you.
Croc gets the single kill there, ends up getting Railgunned in the face by 10.
Great Katnath from after you got disrupting the follow-up of Super Gomez's limit right when they're all confined in school
Temp does have the overclock no one's currently scouting out or marking that soldier
So he will be unleashed at the moment no one challenging him means that he doesn't have anything to shoot
So Corks will already be able to put up the distance take high ground and drop behind the team
Well there is the Russian from France. He's taking a front of damage there
They're actually forced to break through really far back in his own backcry.
They made a break from Crocs as well, and with Zed going down, Zed would change.
I mean, this death box from Lych is just passive. FD.AS, dead.
And, yeah, I don't think Crocs is going to survive too much longer.
If isn't going to happen, then you saw a hero play either.
They should be able to snowball as well.
There's next fight, second overclock.
I'll use you the time. Stole Zypronch from being able to keep this hard contested.
Allys limit rate to be bought to super donors to have when the second checkpoint is available.
Lipsy stormcounter just totally stalling out the push from the defense.
Well there's the overclock. It's already sent FD God scurrying for cover but 10 hits are coming down anyway.
Kroc using that large health for this to get super flow to the soldier.
Force the wraith from Lich. Supergun is throughout the limit break, but it didn't manage to get a kill.
After you got going quick crocs into position 2 on that high ground, the Supergun is just going to directly pass the demon leg,
once the surgeon forces the power site from Kyo. So the soldier at least is repositioned, but now you have to get past the tank.
Yeah, they gave Columbia a little bit of time now to push that payload,
that payload, but they really were just waiting to get peeled up to full HP again.
Lich is gonna hit that raid for more dicks for HP. He falls around the corner.
That's Suzu. Got a long range there from change. It's gonna assist in the kill on
the dip. That's a double kill for Lich too. And pushing this one in boxy. I mean this is point
pass. Linnit breaks gonna come in and ah, super moment. I keep dunk dunking that one.
There's a croc who loses Meg.
After you got got mid to
and the closer he spawns I hit this might not be plus cap Jack.
No Super Gomez.
Oh he's going to lose Meg, the execution.
Oh that's going to leave him off as well.
There's only 20 seconds to go.
Oh the stagger. No!
Super Gomez.
15 seconds and that just might be it.
The stagger should be enough.
I mean it's all up to just people touched
but they don't have to help us.
Definitely for now.
They've tried this guy, they've tried this one as well.
Croc's though he's got a kill on the cat already.
He's only got Rayfall, that's all I'm worried about.
And Keo is just going to be the Nell in the coffin.
The cherry on top.
France are going to 3-0.
And a clean sweep in their group,
picking up a 3-0 scoreline as they move into BlizzCon.
Yeah, Croc denies the cap.
Sacrifices his life, lays it on the line.
the setup that limit break have the damage and it hit the players of Columbia on the payload
so that the rest of his team regrouping with the closer respawns push through the fight.
Deny Columbia having deathblossom, kitsune rush, coordinated setup.
Time bank was just too low. Being able to stall out the kill too onto super gomas, deny the tank
to be able to keep that fight still there.
France complete the hold and complete their group at the top of the scene.
Yeah, real nice stuff.
Loads of surprises coming out of this group.
I think France just been so fun to watch.
Flarecams being great.
And they're going to play in front of a bigger audience at BlizzCon 2.
That's where they can actually kind of keep that momentum rolling.
This one is not too far away, Moxie.
weeks like they're gonna be in Anaheim, California. Wow,
technically being California next week, but everybody has to
be in Anaheim, California very soon as well. It's gonna be a
good time. I think France, they feel like a team that is gonna
play up to the crowd as well. They're not going to be
cross especially. Yeah, cross especially. They're not gonna
be faced all too much about the crowd being even bigger. And
on a very historic stage too. No, I feel like crocs will
have the Goku buff, it's like people would just lend him the energy and he'll just perform
to even greater capacity as if that new junk city was anything to go by.
He's been enjoying his time here, having fun getting to just play super aggressive, fast
pace tempo, very little downtime, no opportunity really, punishing a lot of the board positioning
right Columbia. Understanding they were short in time over how long it took capping at first,
really sort of feeling that pressure trying to play much closer to the defense side of the map,
which just allowed the cat and that demon constant free entry past the chokehold since no one
shooting the cat to chunk croc's loan off. Yeah, it was definitely tough in that regard there,
14 Columbia. It's such a great job on the side of France to be able to provide crocs
that support when he's just he's going in. He's having a great time. Dude, we saw him playing
hog into Mauga, bro. What are you going to do? At Columbia, I think they did try to pull out a
couple of ideas to slow the roll there from France, not quite finding the success that they
wanted to, but again, it's been such a great opportunity for this team to get to play
on this stage. The fans, their families and friends also being here to support them
as well being so loud cheering them on you know. Yeah it's been really nice I think for the players
especially it's definitely been a good experience for them. From a region too that hasn't received
a crazy amount of support over the years so playing on an international stage in such a
different country and like climate too I mean look you're playing in Korea what you would say
is the mecca of esports as well so I can imagine from their perspective despite obviously going
the group is been a good time
for them to and I hope they can
take something away from this as
well. Yeah, you definitely hope
so. It's a great learning
experience here, but let's take
a look at our group D standings
now that we've finally
finalized all of the matches in
this group. We already knew
that Korea was joining France
at Liz Khan due to their win
today up against Denmark, but
guys still at the end of the
day, this group is not
really supposed to look like
this. No, I think a lot of
people will sort of look at
at that score line and rub eyes in disbelief like what career took a loss but when you see fans
playing as strong as they have been it's a meta that fits that playstyle perfectly i think crocs
he's like that perfect timing right the perfect tournament to highlight his potential and the
perfect meta that allows him to play this playstyle and it's obvious that the rest of the team
are with him like he's not just going in alone and punished for being split. If France played a little
bit 50-50 you had such an poor tank and a really passive backline or DPS they would be absolutely
slaughtered because players would just do the maps go okay well the tank's out of position let's just
walk on the squishies that we can absolutely now kill but everyone from France is all on the
same page the communication is obviously there and they're finding the full value and resources
I'm benefit of having a tank like folks within them. It's really awesome. And you know, Crocs, he's
leading the charge in that regard to be able to rally the his team behind him and ensure that
everybody is going to be locked in when it does come down to what they're looking to accomplish
in that match. So, France, they continue to demonstrate their dominance here in the Overwatch
World Cup. But we do still have one more group that we need to determine. So we're gonna go
We'll go to a quick break and we'll be right back.
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Hey what's up everybody I'm here joined by
Zox from Team Saudi Arabia for a quick post-match chat Zox first of all
congratulations on getting the win how do you feel right now I feel so amazing
like it's a dream to be here and I'm happy so much and I will do my best to
like get to one in micro and also with this win now you guys are going to
Anaheim you know for World Cup how does that make you excited to be moving
forward getting out of the groups it's like it's the game for me to go
to America to play like for my national team and I need to get to one it's our
point to get to one in our group and we need to beat the GBA first. That also you
guys have one more match but I mean you guys did already qualify so it's kind of
it's easier for you guys right easier for you guys because I know also you
mentioned that you guys have an update tomorrow so very serious question what
are you gonna do tomorrow and put on to have fun? We're gonna go to beach
or yeah we want to go to the mountain to visit there and see everything there
but we need to go to the church then we can't decide
I know because I know I know Sir Majed Majed spent a lot of time in Korea
he like lived here for quite some time does he like give you like oh you
should try this food like you wish you'd go here does he does he tell you
this kind of stuff? He's our leader here. He's our leader. He's like
feeding us everything here and he was like two years here with Vulcans.
You know everything, you know?
So he told us to go to some restaurants and some places, you know?
It's tough and yes, yeah.
Alright, one final question. I'm pretty sure, I feel like Team Saudi Arabia,
it feels like you guys are all really close, you guys are like family,
but if you have to choose your best friend and team, who is it and why?
Coach Siramajit, he's like my duo, and I play with him with Fatsia,
and always he's my good mate in the hotel.
So I'm having so much fun with him.
All right, well, Zox, that is it for the interview.
Thank you so much.
And again, big congratulations.
Thank you.
I'm so him Rengar!
He's in man!
I'm so him!
Are we mate?
Yeah.
And I just knew he was gonna say it but I agree with him as well
Because it's the key cap girl. You can't see the cat. It's crazy. There's nothing like it
I don't think you see me that good. I'm against him always
Ready to go, Tali-Java?
Can I troll the Sansa a little bit? Because I got a really funny one.
Can I see what he did?
You're now even looking at your eyes.
Jeb, that's not a deep yes, right?
Yes it is.
Well, actually it is.
We have one last group to straighten out here for the Overwatch World Cup in Busan's group stage.
And it is Group B.
Guys, the next matchup is going to be Saudi Arabia versus Great Britain,
But we've got to get into some details first.
The permutations for this group can get kind of crazy
for that last spot.
Saudi Arabia, they have already qualified all the way
to FlizzCon, but there is a world
where we could get into a really weird scenario
with a 1-in-2 score line for the remaining three teams
and be in a tie break situation.
It's really complicated though.
So we're not going to get into all of those nitty gritty
details.
I want to focus in on this first matchup first because it's the most important one in group
B right now.
A great Britain.
They need to beat KSA to keep control of their destiny and head to BlizzCon.
And if they do lose to them, that also means that it's probably a really high chance that
Australia will be advancing.
But that's also what we're going to get into a little bit later.
Jake, we're focusing first though on the fact that JBR, they have a insane team
that they have to go up against here in Saudi Arabia.
They need to win to control their destiny and to win is to do something that no one has done
not only this year but also last year with the Saadi being the champions.
And so this one's certainly going to be an uphill battle for Great Britain but a lot of
strong players on this team, even with an upset loss to Australia earlier in the tournament,
they could make a run back here but it's just fielding such a strong roster this
year.
It's hard to see the way through for Great Britain, Johnny.
I was hearing a content piece earlier today and I think what Sir Majed is like
I think this team is stronger than the one that actually won the World Cup.
And then you look at their roster, like, yes, Yacht wasn't part of the clue last time they won the actual World Cup.
And so this is a region that kind of, you know, came out with a huge statement back in 2023.
And we're like, oh my God, like, Saudi Arabia is like, like, amazing at this video game.
And then since then they've just improved, like, these guys, Labda used to be a farra one trick.
And now then it's been a whole storyline of Labda going head to head against Bards for who is the best his game player.
and obviously like a quarter established title now,
but I feel like it's been a journey for Saudi Arabia,
not only when they became the eventual champions
of 2023, but since then, this region continuing
to be an absolute Overwatch powerhouse,
something we really could have expected
going back to the Oval Sea days.
This Saudi Arabian roster is also a team
that hasn't been playing into that demon meta
that we've seen developing.
We've seen a TVNC and Ziad mainly,
really just sticking to that demon,
sticking to those comfort picks that we see them on,
And they're still rolling through it.
Fortunes have been a little dropped.
Yeah, I mean, so far, to be honest,
I can't say that the Saadi's have been truly tested, right?
In any of their matches, they've just been kind of running
through the competition.
And it's easy to understand why.
To be honest, guys, my brain just turned off.
I just lost fours.
Absolutely trashed people like a demon.
Being on the other side of that,
he's a little bit scared for this Great Britain squad.
They're going to have to pull something out,
because they've already had the win taken out
of their sales earlier in this tournament.
And now, a much tougher test in this match.
Yeah I feel like Great Britain, they kind of got punched in the face a little bit by Australia
because you're going to the tournament prepared, like feeling good, you probably are expected
to finish second in the group and then you take that loss to Demon and Australia and you
know, day two, like we were still figuring out how strong Demon really is and since
then now coming up to the last couple of games of the weekend, we truly established
that Jetpack, Cat and Demon just are unbelievable heroes to combine together and so now it's
a matter of like how Great Britain actually responds to this and what do they think
is the best option in this matchup today to take down the reigning World Cup champions.
And that's kind of what I want to dive a little bit deeper into you guys. The fact that both of these
teams, neither of them are really looking to play into the demon. It might be a good opportunity
for Great Britain to find some openings there. Golden Pants has been an insane ball player,
but also during the Australia matchup we saw the strategy that they had going into that
to really target GP. I will say for this team that the wrecking ball look is actually
probably your best case scenario to take on the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. I think if you're going like
in a head-to-head matchup and kind of playing a standard slow game, making it a question of
whose hitscan can produce more consistently, more effectively, that's not the way you want to
find yourself up against Quartz. I think a lot of people would say the best in the world in that
in that role in that kind of scenario, but if you dive on top of him with the wrecking ball,
you know, you put a huge amount of pressure on him, it's going to be a big test for the
support of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Can they survive that kind of an onslaught? Can
Can they deal with the pressure and keep Quartz alive and fighting?
And that may be if there is a weakness on this sort of team, it's arguably the supports, right?
With a little bit less experience, although once again, I mean, you're really, you're honestly grasping the weaknesses.
I will tell you, I will put the back you up. I actually do think that that is the weakest department.
I mean, the tank player, we are glazing the tanks and damage pairs all the time.
But Socks and Sermajed might actually be where Golden Pass could have a massive impact on that wrecking ball,
forcing bad teleports, forcing bad sussus.
And if you unlock those two abilities, any team fight could go great for this way.
So I think it's a good project.
Well, we aren't going to have to wait too much longer to find out how that's going to pan out.
We do have our predictions, though.
And guys, I got to go inside of your radio for this one.
You know, reigning world champions.
How can you not?
I mean, we're we're opening the door just a crack for like the possibility
because wrecking ball always, I mean, it is that chaotic hero, right?
That introduces a little bit of extra to open.
A little bit.
But the King of Wasaraiba are a ridiculously strong team.
I would not be surprised at all.
if this is just three overwatch right if they just got the download if the
court's Cassidy is just picking up players left right and center turning the
screws on to great Britain because you remember kids they're not gonna play a
passive slow team they will get active and take the fight to great Britain
great bring up damn out the Bastion here on the first map it'll be Nepal
King of Saudi Arabia throw in a mercy bit so they are not really showing a
lot of respect they delay if they want but we're actually getting right
into the game here. Yeah, we're already in the game. 10 seconds remaining until the
point on Lux here, taking a look at the composition. It's going to be Golden Pass on that Orisa
for starters here on Sanctum. Backing off pretty hard to make work in this scenario, but the
D.Va pick from Ziad seems to have been ready for this eventuality, and this audience
pick draft. First cap, the limited mobility of this Orisa, proving to be a bit of an
Achilles' heel. Ziad though forced to come contest this Jetpack cap, but playing
Slowed point control to comfortable spot. UK got disrupt this equilibrium
Really scary for Golden Pass push up here. Please be thinking some book damage as well great
But it all the bad foot already. Kai goes down. I'm over getting some good plank damage
But can't actually finish any kills the foot still comes in but the plus one player advantage Kai off the field
Surely it's just the formality here for the Saudis to recap and they'll do just that
Great Britain force to regroup don't want to force a four versus five scenario instead waiting now for Kai
But how do you open this one up?
Super rushes on both sides.
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They're not really setting up fine moan, they're not really combining, putting pressure onto the point at that time.
So they want to move forward, but it makes things easy for players like Quartz to deal damage on the Cassidy.
And as good as Kai has been as a player, it's exactly the scenario we talked about.
Not wanting to find yourself in against the side.
Zox, the catnap goes wide, he's low as well, but slips away before he goes down.
Still, a moment of power play here.
Quartz may have ridden, but Lassa already in the mix into the backline.
Yacht gets mech, but has the self-destruct to stay fighting fit.
And an aggressive defense here from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Despite what looks like a decent opening to the fight, and...
I mean, this round is gonna slip between your fingers before you know it here.
I mean, I guess saving Grace here, Great Britain, they have a lot of ultimates.
It's always like Saudi Arabia forced them. It's such an awkward position that...
Great Britain didn't feel like they could pop the ult, but 90% here, Jake.
And you gotta string a couple team fights together.
Rage here, starting with a mid spin, but the cleanse blocks all the damage for it to appear out of the sky.
Huge connection with Golden Pants. Just a shred of a chance now for Graven, but they need to convert into kills.
My moe can't quite do it. Flip does come in and to the cabinet behind him available, there's a chance to clutch here.
Then I get over the top. Shot misses, Port sidesteps it, proficiently here on the cast.
Kai finds himself in an uncomfortable spot here down on the point, surrounded on all sides.
outside but that's a big damage when Ziad comes in for one and a second. Great Britain now fumbling
in the final moments and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia will have this first round in spades.
Tense trick for Ziad untouched on the round and despite a couple cheeky point floods here and there
very clear show of dominance here from our reigning champion the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Yeah just felt like great Britain they weren't ever really in control on that point even the
The last fight, you have so many ultimates, but you're forced to take that fight on the point itself.
That sky and noon, it's like you need an elimination or two to really just push out there and not...
I tell you, you need an elimination or two.
Johnny, you need an elimination or two, you can say it again.
I'll start with one.
He's gonna start with one.
Come on, Mike.
That's brutal.
I mean, do we auto-stop playing the Orisa?
It feels like it plays right into the hands of Ziad.
The D.Va is so comfortable just peeling back little by little, stalling for time and the side of UPS players are so consistent with their production.
But this is what we were hoping for from Great Britain.
The wrecking ball, Ken Goldenpence, young Fianon, known for his proficiency on this hero.
Make a difference. He has to now.
There's any hope for the Brits to make it to BlizzCon.
Scraping out so much head here. Let's go all in at first. No real commitment, but we're already going down. What are the engagements on Arabia?
Hugging me, who's playing the wrecking ball? It's the Saadi diving into the back line.
The Golden Head? Drax run right back. And with Cassidy's off the field,
to anybody's guess, will come up in this deathmatch. All of the land that takes down my mode,
is gonna mitigate some of the follow up for this wrecking ball. And the support's now coalescing.
Saadi's playing comfortable here on the point, pushing things back.
Cassidy can be a real struggling moment such as this.
This gop'n goes to the slam and gets an absolutely decimated.
Each people in shambles is gonna go back for a mega.
Yeah, they need to recover here.
You can't go for those kind of gauges,
take so much damage, you're already seeing
how we gotta heal this back up.
My moan on a flank.
If my moan gets recalled forced here,
it's just going to keep this team disconnected.
High on a flank.
Up against one of the goats right now in Overwatch.
Can he produce something?
How's it be so respectful?
Knows the threat Ziad is imposing to him,
so aggressive all day on that EBA. All tournament launch. Here comes Forge as well over the top
between the big channel onto Golden Pants. Recky ball, he does not respect it at all.
Amidst free from Golden Pants, he goes down early by Moe looking for something, anything, but
Bob does the one bringing the fight to him. Sounds like Golden Pants was called there on the
cooldown and couldn't quite get away. That's going to be punishing the Recky ball now.
It's essentially the entire composition dead. Sorry, maybe I'm beginning with the pressure
are here it's going to be a catnap onto golden paddle they're going deeper Johnny
this is going from bad to worse now great within his five oh my god I don't give an
f room to drop their ultimates they're getting spawned camp Johnny this is
this is getting ugly
starting to look like another open and shrugged case for the kingdom of Saudi
Arabia big ults now four great friends but can they leverage them that's the
question they have not been able to so far in this mess
The top left is isolated, he's down.
That's one.
PogChamp's just full, you got to keep sooner, Rush here.
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Okay, that's some damage, but no finishing blow.
Ziad's back, and we're super gorgeous now!
Still a chance here for Great Britain.
Should be enough to win this fight and grab the butt back.
Talk to them after though, they won't let it be easy.
Ziad out of the suit, the Blitz comes in, just three players alive for Great Britain.
Not out of the woods just yet.
Blabbed up one more kill, wouldn't be enough to swing this back
in the Saudi favors and launch bombs for Great Britain in the real wild.
Until they get back into fighting shit.
Ziad might get big back.
Oh, that is brutal. Back in the suit.
And the Saudi just, they never really backed down from this fight.
The Blitz came against them, but they're absolutely still here.
Standing to put that, here comes the screen.
Dinding in Africa, he's out of skills, out of resources.
And even with Quartz falling, player advancement starts to put a pulse for Maimone!
Equalizes the score now!
Two support behind God, such a difficult task to deal with this, Eva!
A stall for time, Britain's solo, he goes down!
And with him, surely the hope for Great Britain in this first map.
Yes, a recall from Maimone here, just a inspiration at this point that can't get back in time.
It's dominant so far from Team to Masaru Arabia.
2-0!
Not even letting Great Britain into this one.
We were hoping for the Wrecking Ball to put a crimp in the style of Saudi Arabia.
I think we're still looking for that because man, even in the fight that Great Britain won,
and he got put air quotes on that, they never really got pushed out of the map.
I think they never really got backed out of the area that they wanted to contest.
They gave up the objective, but it was a tactical choice.
It never even felt like they're playing this wrecking ball-tracing combination and it's not even that they had a good opportunity to take a proper team fight because
Usually you want to play with some pace and for some cooldowns, but it just felt like Saudi Arabia was on top of them before they could even set up the right conditions to execute with the composition
I mean usually when you're the team playing wrecking ball
You get to take the pace right usually the other team is responding
They're descending they're marking the flankers and their tribes just inched their way forward
Basades have completely turned that narrative around like they are taking the fight to do they are running after Kai
Quartz is coming in with style alongside of jetpack and golden pansies
I don't even play him. He's a great wrecking ball player, but
How do you match this case? How do you ever deal with the hitscan flying above like that?
Yeah, and also Kai is you know talking number one for him. Sorry about seven. That's there in seven minutes
I mean, it sounds like, okay, Gold depends on your own, you're gonna set up a tank here.
And while that is happening, this sucks immediately on top of Kai, not giving him room to operate with.
And I also think reflecting on the composition that Tinimo started to really dominate with here on the ball,
it's like a player like Lavda who is notoriously a hitscan player now actually these days,
you get the opportunity on Shion to kind of combine the flex damage,
You got a tool set with some of the hitscan capabilities, and she seems like a perfect hero for
Sory Arabia to excel with here alongside Quartz.
The Astro Christopher there. Cat him with the lads.
Kind of rally the spirits. Find some way back into this series.
Definitely a statement map from KSA.
I mean, you need like proof that this wrecking ball can work.
And that Nepal is such a like...
It's not the map you're expected to dominate with.
I think we reflect on the Australia series.
Actually, on Junkertown, that's when the Wrecking Ball really was detective and really worked for them.
And you were like, okay, this is proof that this Wrecking Ball composition is just a menace when it's working the right way.
But then later on in the series against Australia, it's like Australia, you know, they feel very comfortable with the demon.
And I just feel like Great Britain now on this second map, like they need at least some proof that the Wrecking Ball is the hero
that can rely on the gun or across the finish line.
Surely we go to Junkertown next, right?
Surely we're going to Junkertown, maybe a D.Va band,
and honestly, I think you almost need to
because Ziad has been a huge difference maker
on that map one.
Like, Yi was running ramping on the D.Va.
I feel like with the cap to kind of protect Quartz
to play around him and enable him to get active,
and with Labda doing so much with so little on Xi'an,
right, using that mobility
and still putting out huge damage.
Ziad, he's not, he doesn't have to protect somebody.
He's not defending the back on Yi.
Can they'll assist but he is like running you down for kills. Ty is playing so scary that he has to I mean Cassidy
What are you doing a one-to-one against Viva? Die pretty quick. Yeah, that's what you're gonna do and
Same protect found the ball more often than not. Yeah, and I think you if you got a protect man the ball
I like it when it's a British map pick and if they're going to Junkertown
Surely the sides have studied up to know like okay. The ball is a big threat here. Yeah
Especially the way they dominate it on Jonster town. It's like, okay
like they're good on jungle time like we respect what they can do there so yeah and in fairness
You know that's kind of the nature of wrecking ball as a hero. It's so map specific
You're playing a very unique style of overwatch and it really is a lot of how much disruption can ball bring and
How can you you know play the objective in concert with that disruption and aggression?
As for it's a good map type in general for ball
You know being able to just harass the enemy move the payload harass the enemy move the payload like that kind of loop
You've got a cotton a trap on defense a lot where you're like struggling to just give up give up inches
It's just you know, like you never really get a decisive team fight. That's what wrecking ball wants. Yeah
And so yeah, like but also that also it puts you in a corner in a sense of like this is a muscle in that
Yeah, assuming we're going to a junker town. I'm in regards assuming we're going to a good ball map if we're not
I don't know what they're cooking
Going to be a junker town indeed. I do think you really need to protect band for ball here as well
Like it's that's the other problem though is even if you protect them for ball
There's something like the tracer band
Really came in a Saudi area, but I think the tracer band really hurts wrecking ball because those are two heroes that work incredibly well together
Now here's a diva band we expect
Also a bit of a respect man on Seattle. He's crazy on the diva
Turquoise can be happy to have just a little bit of relief from the relentless pressure of that Saudi tank player
You go with the on a band. Okay interesting interesting
I would have gone for Tracer, but Ana can also be a problematic threat, right?
Working Nades in, there's no D.Va to eat them, maybe you're on the back foot
dealing with the wrecking ball and Ana gets a lot of value.
I'm looking forward to see what kind of pace we'll see from Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in this one
because I feel like Australia naturally, they look really good on the
demo composition, but you comparing Australia to Saudi Arabia, like they're
two very different teams in the level they're playing at. And so even
Even though Great Britain dominated against Australia on Drunken Town, there's no guarantee
for that here at all.
Oh, far for a...
And I think you have to pay very heads up that like they could just throw Cassidy into
our back line at all times.
We have to be ready for that.
And you kind of, like you said, need to control the tempo if you're playing the
Wrecking Ball.
So you can't allow yourself to be caught off guard at all times and always be on
the back foot.
Because at that point, like Maimon, Golden Pants, they won't be able to do their
bidding.
Yeah, I think Maimon is going to be a really key player as well.
He's got the tracer through on this one.
And I think his ability to find some big false bombs,
some big individual kills.
We've seen what a top tracer can do in this tournament.
Right?
Kevster has been lighting it up.
Lot of strong performances from a lot of different teams.
You'd want him to edge out. Love that.
That's not you.
I need him to if you're going to win this series.
It's tough as though, because Lipton himself has been
a phenomenal performer.
So many exciting young players on this Saudi team, really.
Yeah they got a bright future ahead of them. I mean Ziad so young and yet so
incredibly talented gonna be on the scene for a very long time.
He just oozes confidence. Whenever you talk to the guy, you just feel he's not only one of the best he knows it.
And honestly, you know, from a coaching perspective, from a teaming perspective,
that kind of confidence is worth its weight in gold. That's the kind of guy who, you know, you could be down 0-2, you could be facing an elimination.
And Ziad, his belief in his ability to win, is not going to waver.
And now you give him an advantage position and watch what happens.
They're going to go with the wrecking ball, obviously, but up against the Moga.
Defensive choice for Ziad.
I don't mind this one, man.
Cage flight dominates wrecking ball.
Opening for Trapkite here.
Oh, Arabia.
Two wise four at this one.
I'm curious to see who Sox is going to play with here, because we saw a lot of
Quartz being dropped into the backline early on in the fall, but now, I think the Mauga here as well, like no one on Great Britain's composition really deals well with the Mauga, so if you can just toss this Mauga around, it's going to be a problem for Great Britain.
Car is really going to be the key objective here and the choke point is where it truly
gets into question.
I'm only getting a good trade taking a bit of a flanking control in the high ground.
Quartz is trying to hunt and pack from the off angle.
Time to make sure he's under pressure constantly.
But the key behind Quartz is not getting in real trouble here, but Golden Gantz just
want to push him off the angle.
But now, push comes to shove and Quartz.
He won't be denied.
He keeps taking these peeps.
Every chance.
Opportunity.
I mean, look at this defensive setup here, J. Quartz.
Oh, my dear, my dear.
Great Britain.
It feels like they're feeling the pressure at this moment.
I'm struggling to really get something going.
Yeah, take it easy.
We're just holding the payload.
I mean, they're thinking about, like, who do we engage on, how you're really?
There's going to be a push deep into the background here.
Loved up. Taking some opening shots, but it's really a big problem
with sort of the way back.
Gold, that seems to go down.
Slow and considerate here for the Saudis. They just keep the pressure on.
Great Britain have not been able to develop anything and that was 90 seconds of poke trade.
Exactly what you want on the defense.
He hasn't necessarily been lighting up the feed, but it feels like whenever we're on his camp,
every headshot he lands just slows down the British offense yet more.
It's going to be the Sky Noons here, Jake. Who wants to figure first?
This is going to get crazy. Little Saudis blink first here.
They've been aggressive on the ball, they've seen the batters hit so close.
Okay, of course it's worth.
Down to the absolute wire.
Midair.
Just be snappy with it.
Slightly faster read and a millisecond.
Kai Widow.
All the damage you need for the course.
Kenny tried to pick it, he almost needs it.
TP, off the ball.
Over to the Eressa, need something a little bit stronger in the front line to bully back Jog's Maga, but...
It's a late swap, fine.
He's slipping through your fingers like so many grains of sand, and the side he's just cruising now.
Fourth, takes a bit of pressure though, hold on.
I'm getting too nervous here. Who's going to drop it first? Saruga, so patient.
Great quick and surely feeling the pressure at this point.
Here from GP.
But Flap down to see how much this changes.
Both teams really the same time.
They never stand by no fight.
Big connections.
And even with CR, dropping the ultimates,
trying to bring this one back port,
still alive, still fighting.
Skyrim on the top.
He's gone!
Golden pants are the big spear.
And that provides all the opportunity
that Kai needs to clean house.
Zod stays alive though.
Still chance for a retake.
What a javelin from Golden Pants.
To barely hold on to this point,
Delta's gonna be a re-engage here.
guys here actually they're going for it running through playing it slow
stalling for time quartz back on the widow this is so scared
can't find it just there take some damage from the cat Zoxo is going to find a
wrist so what is going on down in the payload so much respect given to the
quartz window and it's still not enough to prevent the kill wait for the mouse
browning 30 seconds remaining to meet something they're trading out but can't
be enough so deep on this flank but now finds a bugger more than happy to
receive him and oh okay a little bit of a grease there oh of course of course
course takes him out on the way out and now the widow is a little bit scary oh
no surely not here surely not up a widow John yeah
surely the sky is devastating big spin is up in GP but everyone's into the
corners don't this burn down player advantage of the side is gone still alive
even with ports falling player advantage with the king of the side
I feel like we watched some teams in this World Cup group stage dominate with pure mechanics,
And it feels like Saudi Arabia are just completely in control of the tempo, the defensive positioning.
And it kind of left Great Britain staggering a little bit, just like, how do we crack this defense?
Who do we pressure in a situation like this?
And it leads to these long setups, like 90 seconds to even get an engaged going that just falls short as well.
Saudi Arabia, the reactions are so perfect in what they're going to respond with against Britain.
I'm not going to lie, from a coaching perspective, this is like a nightmare game.
You know, watching this, you're losing on every front.
Tiyad, no deaths on Maga. Incredibly stable consistency from the tank.
Keeping the point always in contest. DPS? Orts? Consistently gapping. Taking better trades.
Where is the way in for Grapefruit? I don't see it, Johnny. I don't see it.
You know, this is not about an obvious mistake. This is a team that is more than just world-class individuals,
which is honestly enough to go very far in the Overwatch World Cup.
This is a team that, with a gold medal around their neck, wants to do it again.
It's the confidence that is so impressive to me.
It's like the certainty. It feels preordained when Saudi Arabia enters the server.
And like, look at this. Wars just bring me with confidence.
Brokeling out with the Widowmaker. Why not?
Why linear? Why not?
But this is so difficult with the Widowmaker.
I mean, these shots are like insane.
I'm gonna say you cannot hit these shots.
I'm not gonna say that.
This is so difficult.
Great Britain are giving him so much respect, they let the cart roll.
It doesn't matter that you go back to the fight right back into the fight from the cast.
Now he's gonna work up into the flank.
My mode can't be challenged until the machine has to back off.
Weirdos great with the time to open.
There's a pie drop from Golden Pants, no success.
He misplaced honestly, yeah.
Those on the wrong side of the roof.
Yacht didn't even roll this payload.
This is the spot where Great Britain struggled to open things up.
Christmas is so long, okay, Slein comes in but Gord's in perfect position.
The support is very much there to protect him.
Maimon takes the risky peek and will finish the job.
Okay, a good fight from Great Britain.
They need to keep it clean. They do lose Christmas.
Also, Kai dropping.
A little bit of a delay on Seat is nice, but things actually could get scrappy.
There's still a couple of Saudi players looking for further kills.
Maimon can go down here.
Has to win this one, he won, we got the support behind him, both carries in the fight.
Great work from the JED.
With Goldenance dropping low, Poles are sponsoring the attackers.
This setup is broken, she can just do this, stay alive. It's up to her to re-engage now from Great Britain.
Golden Pass needs to recover here, bring that house back.
This course is edging closer to that Sky Noon.
We're in one fight territory here. One mistake, we're great with them.
About to lose the second map.
In high off the capacity, the Sojourn has been effective.
Okay, Horde is shut down, be careful.
This is what they need for the Brits to secure a map win on Junkertown, which we said they had to do to keep hope alive in this series.
And some staggered reset kills are actually exactly what the Doctored clock continues to run down.
And finally, Sire for Leaf here for Great Britain. They need to continue to look for openings.
I mean, they're playing the Soldier here. They got an Overclock in hand, but this Sky Noon could be devastating.
They need to play perfectly positionally.
Huge out here, but watch this out for Kiwi.
He's down here by the top, big connection.
Oh, he's not gonna come in the corner.
Whoa!
Little bit of greed and force get runnig.
Inside of the room, who's gonna come up with the kills?
Oh, it's all Kingdom of Saudi Arabia 5 in the feed.
And with 3 ultimates still in the tank,
Graperon will not find the chance to get them off on Junkertown.
2-0 in the series.
And the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia are all business today.
It was a good response to the Sky Noon, tried indoors but Saudi Arabia, there were one step ahead and that was a prime opportunity for Siyazi to jump in with the MAGA 17 and 1 here on Junkertown.
And it's getting desperate now for a great rhythm roster that knows they have to win this series for an opportunity to get to BlizzCon.
But Saudi Arabia, not setting them in in the slightest.
I'll show a lot of respect to Majed, he's really clean on the carry as well.
Coming in after I'm out of professional play for a year now, it's been a while since we've really seen him playing at the top.
He's stealing out of the Galcaps the year after.
Yeah, but come on now, we haven't seen him in the server, right?
We haven't really had a test of how he performed on the Falcons, like taking a break like that, like when you did on Falcons.
That affects your performance, but showing here he's still got it.
Like I love the combination of him and Ward's there,
how they're setting up on the defense,
because it just makes it so difficult for Great Britain
to kind of find that opening.
Yeah, I feel like he actually fits really well
with this Saudi roster because
Majed is not the superstar on this team.
But you don't want to carry on this team,
who's trying to be a superstar.
You want somebody keeping these young guns,
fighting fit, stable play, good ults,
better in presence,
and that's exactly what Majed brings to this team.
And I think that's really important not to discount because of course we're going to see the shining stars
Exciting young players focus on these big pop-off moments
But i'm thinking about that fight where
It's just lapda and majette if you stay alive on the plank to keep the pressure on
Great britain can't finish them off
They kind of fall back off the play those kind of opportunities
Come from stable consistent jericho played
You know you're down to two players get me understandable to maybe i'll go for a hero play trying to clutch kill
But more likely than not, that just kind of throws lives away and puts you back on your heels for a reset.
And for Machete, I think just the stable place.
Keeping the healing flowing, not doing too much.
With the firepower on this team, I think that's incredibly well coached for the Kingdom.
Yeah, I like the point you make about the vibes as well.
Just like as a leader, like a presence in the communications for this team.
Like, I would say like, when it comes to vibes out of all the teams here in the World Cup,
Like every time you meet the Saudi Arabian players like they're just they're just great vibes
Like they're having a great time here, and obviously they're very confident in their ability to order
Like a family but like yeah, and so you combine like the veteran presence of someone like so much yet
But also like it you know see y'all like it feels like he's been around forever at this point
He's like maybe 19. I believe it was a rookie last year. He was just yeah
He was like one of those rookies you think our players like proper who's like came in and his rookie or oh
He's just one of the best players. Yeah, like he knows just saw him and he's one of the best players
All right, like there's no that's a crazy trajectory. It's not even a trajectory. You start at the top
Beginner starting at the top
Funny Astros gonna come in
I mean it's been on the top of the game for quite some time
I'm honestly just kind of confused as to why funny Astros hasn't been consistently starting right
But I was like on paper looking at this bring in like surely he's just playing right?
I mean this is one of the best main sports in the game period. Yeah
Yeah, it was a question that people have been asking online about how you made this decision.
And I'm sure we'll find out later on maybe what the preparations were like at the boot camp going into this event and what the reasons were.
You know, honestly, he's a veteran, so maybe he's feeling a little bit like he wanted to take a step back, you know?
We'll have to see. We don't know the answer. We can't try to light on it here, but it's been a question of considering just how good, funny answers like a player, right?
So, brought into the mix here, I mean back against the World Great Britain, you need to win this match.
You need to reverse lead.
He's coming in in dire circumstances.
I mean, you know, I think props is a funny astro.
I don't expect that to affect his play because he's been around the block.
He's been in tough spots before.
I think he is still going to be able to come in and show a strong performance.
But hard enough to lose hope in a series like this.
I mean, this has not been competitive.
There's been a couple moments for Great Britain.
I mean, it's better than a lot.
Some other teams have done against Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, but better is not good enough for them, they need a win here.
Yeah, I mean it feels desperate, like it's almost like when I watch them on Junker Town there, it's at some point, like as time is dwindling, it feels like you need to make a move.
It's not about like can we set up for the right move, it's like almost desperation at some point, we're like we just gotta go win.
Like we can't set up for like 90 seconds every single fight, like we have to make a move here, we have to make a change.
Like, maybe funny Astro being brought in here from New York City is one of those like, we had to think of change.
Like, we just have to change something up and find something that works for us.
Because so far this series, we're back against the world. Nothing is worth a great Britain at all.
To be honest, this is like, when you just get fertilized in the neutral, the way this match is going, like that, that, you know, kind of slow poking phase before the fight.
If you just like, in Overwatch, modern Overwatch, 5v5, you need to have some kind of opening in the neutral.
You need to just, you've done as that to be a kill.
Just a headshot on the enemy DPS that backs him off for one second.
It lets you kinda push in deep on the angle.
That's enough to start the play.
Damn, not getting any of those chances. I mean, Quartz is just on demon mode.
Every time you peek your headshot, what are you gonna do?
Like walk into the machine gun fire? I mean, that's not a good play either.
I really just think this Saudi team is too damn good.
good they're not gonna unless they need to like slow down and start making
mistakes we're great for him to get back into this one wrecking ball band for the
kingdom of Saudi Arabia interesting choice I wonder I mean maybe let's see
recu ball through house maybe with the cat band but the cat band maybe that
seems hey funny Astro bring out the Lucio talk about a way to change up
the series and put yourself in the driver's seat I think that is a
fantastic way to approach it and honestly I kind of don't like the ball
I was expecting maybe Golden Man to play more of a rush thing.
Yeah, a little more like an Orisa here.
Almost like a 50-50 time split with Orisa to be honest with you.
So maybe you could have expected that from Great Britain and SNR, you'll like this.
They need something, they need a drop of energy.
If I'm sort of rabia, I might even bring out on the sorry.
Like out of spawn, knowing that Orisa is very likely to come out.
Because say what you will about Golden Man.
People are talking about this guy, like he's a Puk 5 working ball player
And that's players, coaches saying that this guy is insane in spirit, so good, but so far it's like zero impact, hasn't made that impact fail.
I will say, I feel like I've been really impressed with the heroes, like the Orisa has been sharp, he has been cancelling ultimates, he has been finding open.
That's like you're doing what you can, I don't know, if there's anything to criticize him for, maybe it's the hero pull itself, with like, ball just looks difficult.
by Inslamaga against an incredibly well-practiced team with absolutely monstrous best-in-class DPS here in Busan
It's just very hard to get the wrecking ball style moving against that
Especially with cat and play it's a hero that all really struggled to get on top of compared to most of the supports
I mean it's been a very quick rise to fame for Golden Pounds
He's still a good player. The recent stage where like wow this guy is amazing a wrecking ball
He said himself or an integer is like I started practicing wrecking ball because I knew there was like a gap in
It works out of course. If you can become extremely good as a hero, I have a better chance of landing on team.
But now you find yourself here as a specialist, of course to adapt.
Like you said, your reasons have been good, but I also think that this is his first event, and something like this.
He needs to get the opportunity to maybe spam that through a pool a little bit.
He's the white in the pool. If he had a really threatening like a diva and a demon on top of what his current hero is.
I mean, diva is notoriously one of the hardest characters for a lot of tank players to actually succeed on.
seat on. How much for that? Yeah, one of the OG, like there's a lot of, you know, you're
up against some guys who've been playing D.va for 10 years, you know, like, he was he playing
when he was eight, probably? Yeah. You're honest, probably with his skill level, he
came out the crib, then I was keyboard in hand. But it's just to say that like
Golden Pass coming into this event is inexperienced. Yeah. And sometimes it might be showing
here, but I think we're all really impressed with the Rookimaw play at times, really
exciting young player. Can't wait to see more from him. But in a situation like this it's been very tough
and it's showing against a very respectable, reigning world champion that's Saudi Arabia.
They are sometimes a little bit too much. A little bit too much is a good way to put it.
Maybe a lot of it too much. We'll see if this change up for Great Britain is enough
to put one on the board in the series. Maybe just a moral victory for the Brits,
but you got to start somewhere. You got to start here on New Junk City or you will be
down and out. With Cat Band, Funny Astro able to deliver most likely a signature Lucio performance.
I think this is their best hope to win a map. I like it, but...
I think it's not, I mean, the Saudis have also played the rush comp. Like, they like this look too.
And I, oh actually even more, I like GP starting on the Zarya, because if I were the Saudis,
I would be expecting Arissa through and through. I would be building a composition to respond to
it and with Ty even hovering sojourn seems like he predicts them all gonna come out as well.
So well coached here Frebrins.
So you're all fine EMEA Overwatch on the board. Both teams working Lucio carry.
It's going to be the Tracer and the Xi on here. Of course there will be a lot of tempo in this one.
They're about to go pretty aggressively.
Not a keep-catch fighting fit.
Israel's so critical, finds one on a zox.
But the Lucio on the back, but here comes Ziad.
Dives in, breaks apart the formation.
Trains coming in. Lucio is now out before.
Who can find the winner to take trade?
Looks like it'll be the Kingdom.
Ziad, still healthy, still fighting in his lap and forth.
Both find one in the feed.
An easy first-fight victory for the Saudis.
Taking things moving as expected in this series,
but there was a little glimmer of hope there.
I mean, that actually got a little bit close for Ziad.
Speaking of not expecting the Sariah to come out from Great Britain,
I don't think they expected the Tracer Shi'an to come out.
They're the level of tempo that Sariah is bringing to them, and it feels like I'm getting choked out.
You don't have any time to breathe, any time to make a decision.
At all times, you're under this constant threat that the dive is going to come in,
and you're just looking to snabel like now.
Need a big individual moment.
Need a pick-off from one of these DPS, my moan, on the flank.
It's been an exciting player to watch, you never watch esports, can he bring out something
here in a team's moment of need?
Once again, Ziyaz, snatches the temple, diving in first, Tracer in the back by Lidda assisting.
Both Mithboxes, Ziyaz go into an awkward angle, team focus firing down to the mountain,
the mountain goes up so much before he goes down.
And forcing a touch from Mimone, this thing's off of the soddys, they seem to be cleaning
up here in the front line.
Zoxo too, Laugh it with the nether, they give the flip over but a decisive team
fight for the Saudis and I wonder if Maimon
regrets that decision. Yeah if Maimon had
been in that fight you might have been
able to just clutch things out but
because the Shion was missing you get 11
percent of the board but that's
nothing unlike what a team fight victory
would have meant for them there.
The Spring Street are here now, 82 percent base.
They're setting up but all of them are
depreciated here from Saudi Arabia.
Great kite from the Brits though! They will get around up to the point
and they can deserve a lot of gnomes!
He ha ha! Brains down by our Empire, picks up a kill to
Just breathe from Quartz now, shuts down Kai, and he's got more in the tank.
Lucio by his side, T makes flanking into the back line.
First my ball, then Kiwi.
Snatching back the point is just the formality here.
The sides put the first point on the board.
Formality indeed. Another day at work for Saudi Arabia.
As you go up 1-0 on Newjunk City, still plenty of ultimates to go here.
Kai has this overclock in hand.
This is where you kinda need a signature Kai moment.
really open things up but it's not a super target rich environment here because of
how speedy and mobility mobile these characters are sorry Raybear it's gonna be
tough to find one. I'm finding a bit of a comeback in his career these days. The
pressure maybe never been higher on this veteran. HB, struggling to get big value
here the beats are out of exchange. He's been the huge damage onto the Maga.
Silla chance for the Brits. HB broken Seattle in the back foot. Huge ultimate exchange, but the Brits made a lot more just to walk away from that one. Golden Pants though.
Crucial opener and a great connection from Maimon. Surely this will be a capture for the Brits.
Yeah, this should be enough to stabilize Maimon, teaming up with the rest of his team here.
And this could now be a good position to start from Great Britain. You're going to have the point and positional advantage here to start.
Kai, could start building a lot of railgun charge here onto this Mauga.
And then if you open the token pod, land a simple railgun shot onto one of these damage parries,
maybe that's enough to secure an early pick.
This is where I'm going to see Great Britain.
Poken pod and try to open this thing up.
Got this.
Double, hitski, and con.
You need to keep the pressure on great spear from GP.
It's going to slow the odds more significantly.
But also puts a lot of heals, a lot of ult charge into the bank from a jet.
Rush is now online.
First move to the point. The Jet joins the frame. Ready for the rush.
And on the point, it's a double-doll choice now for the bridge to respond to.
They drop with the rush to their own. Goal bit, takes a ton of damage, but again,
my mode, huge production from here. Goal supports off the field.
Great Brindle, run away with this one. Still up that quartz.
Some Elmannas have been able to kill their own quartz,
but no shit, they bring this back. That is unreal from the Saudis.
need to finish this fight and they will why is it always too close for comfort
oh they're already back I have to stay alive in this one we hunt it down right
now but it's going to be loud them recalling at this point
and it's off spot between a rock and a hard place to strut the shuttle case looks away
but yet good heels if you ought to go over to the diva now over time touches
ultimate's coming in very close for great Britain's yacht dropping extremely low
No, just to keep this morning contest.
Or come to a discrete huge stand-up, but where's the finishing blow?
There's one!
Can he find the second?
Just take that court, so take Oldenpint.
Even to that one to one is a very low god, an OC out from Guy.
This will be Britain's chance to equalize the score at Junkertown.
That's a really good point there, from Great Britain.
It felt like they were finally in control of what Sorya and Biba were throwing their way.
You played this very high tempo composition with the tracer and the shield.
You always try to set up, but Great Britain, they handled it well.
I loved my most follow-up with Sir Majed to open up that fight.
And Great Britain, they reap rewards because of it.
It's like you can just feel Bunny Astros presence in the server.
A calmer, a more composed Great Britain.
Can't think about the magnitude of the task ahead.
Just stay here in this moment.
Kai.
Railing hand, can he get the connection?
No, Link dodges.
Zox beat his force.
Planiastro is a better response though.
Better in hand for Britain.
Can they produce more?
Is my mode again?
Fighting a critical opener.
And the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia now.
Struggling to get something going in these fights.
A new lease on life for the Brits.
As they fight for that life.
Fight for a chance.
To head to Anaheim to BlizzCon.
Here for the Overwatch World Cup.
I mean, in these Lucio character compositions,
every few Lucio players I'd rather have been
Planiastro.
It's so good staying alive and dropping the better be I would I would say there is no better
Then this man on your screen one of the better is one of the greatest of all time in
Overwatch especially the loser on carried lights it up big opening pick
They're all mine. I'm starting to build a rushes up from a general risky choice here later rush responded by Kiwi
Even things simple straight over with a TP up from a jet cleanse force as well
Research is dropping low for the size, but if we've seen anything in the series of them they're down but not up in this fight
Guy drops quartz key production, but Seattle's out of the suit. It's an expensive one
And with the point stealing control for great friend there racking it up
Dp with this big Charlie's happen. It's just a bike break from agenda
Sorry, I'm gonna keep poking a party here
But it's a couple of pigs more and they're stealing this one 90% of the great Britain
So this needs to be it for sorry right now to all this one back here. Sorry Astro
They need to finish the moment.
Oh, is he alive stills?
He's alive, can he just get out?
A reset.
What the doctor ordered here for the Brits.
Just one more flip.
Enough to bring them back in Johnny.
With 90% cap, there will not be an overtime.
If you flip and instantly end before a Saudi player can touch.
Something you've got to be mindful of.
Potential of a C9 in this fight.
With funny astro sound barrier ready.
Oh, I think Temple beat here.
They're all there looking for it.
Golden pan, deep in the backline.
Now running down quartz.
Key priority, but he bikes away.
No real impact from this beat, the Saadi!
Dance away! Now, Zox has the counter, where's the response?
King Masati Arabia playing this one slow!
Getting a gap! Okay, the beat comes out just in time!
Gord produces a kill onto my mode!
Who's been really consistent on the Shia, but not enough in this fight!
As Lab defines Astro, the Brits their ability to get back in for another fight
called into question is the Saadi's tax 70%.
I mean, the aggressive sound barrier from Fony Astro there, it's so brave.
Thinking that maybe the opponent Luzio hasn't built one yet, but they can't find any pics with it the rare temple barrier
He's also in a pics and it just results for Arabia. It's a clean up with a better beat there
And the Saudis were boarded for their wants and aggression the value of playing past the point in the OT fight
Despite a huge performance from Kai in that critical moment, it's not enough to get a
second point on the board and the Saudis on series point.
Great Britain's life here in the Overwatch World Cup flashing before their eyes.
They've looked good though.
These last couple of points, far from over.
It's been better.
But is it good enough?
100% clear, can he find something?
Oh!
Bone punches!
They change!
Golden Pants under fire!
The odds are incredibly low.
Ask the self-straight to get back into the suit!
And he won't be allowed to!
Golden Pants great run down on the Zarya!
Can he produce more?
Ports brunch for the hills!
Zox falls as well!
In a wealth position, first fight from Young Tank.
Gave us great Britain advantage here.
But if we've seen anything, it's that nothing is guaranteed.
Every fight has to be earned, but a high-energy Zarya is a hell of a way to start.
Fate is in their hands now. It's all about getting the ultimate value.
Don't want to become a hostage to the fortune.
Start looking for the graphical surge, building that sound barrier.
Secure this point to keep their hopes alive.
I find another opener. A real headshot.
From the soldier in a comfortable look for him.
My modus fall over the top with a huge pressure on CI.
Great take focus here from the Brits that give up the foot for it.
Will that be worth while? They need to clean up this fight and fast.
With Latin Low, Goombat stepping up to the plate.
Got to be so careful.
Zoddy's poking and brought in from all sides. They get one kill on the Astro, but my mode
is doing really well in these clean up deathmatches just to ensure
that the fight goes as expected. Labda even hops up the map, takes the reset.
But Ziad goes straight back to the Moga. Because of this slow reset here,
So Rui Rui will have to wait for LVL to get back. This is going to guarantee last fight scenario on this point.
Surely, with your life on the line here, opportunity to close out this point.
We're going to be grabbed on search and the sound barrier.
Stokes here, get almost out for the A.J.
A big grab would be well enough here, the Saadi showing a lot of patience building up that beat before they step onto the plate.
Ziad, hearing the grab to come down, happy to tank it on the Maga.
Gotta look for these DPS in the backline.
Oh, Sojourn gets low, great Bones from Bones Bands.
Keeps him fighting, the beat goes up first from Astro.
They want that response with me, that a Zock.
He will not apply.
He's waiting for the crowd.
Here it comes.
Oh, no connection at all.
It's brutal, but actually, Zod found a funny Astro,
but he drops as well.
Still a chance at play.
Just when they needed the Sojourn,
he's changed everything for him on this win.
Riding up the feed.
And Great Britain will take us to a fifth and final flashpoint.
They will not go down so easily.
The veteran with the saving grace, their golden pants gets booped at a crucial moment.
Camped at Valley from the Graviton search for the Overclock from Kai. Just enough.
Keep great with it in this one.
Care not about ultimate economists, about securing points, hard earned points.
And now still a chance in this one. Mima with a 3 here. See what you can do with it.
They struggle on this tank match up though Johnny. How will it go on the vision final flashpoint?
point and with the rush behind maybe the toughest has the effort Golden Pantheon
steps up, most of the bubble up the rush is good, the odd stays healthy, my mode
jumps from the exit and a big pulse on the exit no chance for Kiwi, he's out of cool
now to survive that one. With an opening rush, most bomb as well,
Sadi's happy to take for a... oh no not the stagger on the Golden Pantheon, he needs a run
of course to kill him, I'm in and it will now. But an off-stakes spawn has
He's got some sort of injury. Kai again, though!
His hand left us numbered this series!
Bro, it's a lot.
This map, I should say. Maybe not this series overall.
You gotta be careful about these railgun shots.
Good thing about Great Widow here.
They didn't have to drop any ultimates.
They still have a good old ultimate cycle to go here.
They just need to get value with these ones.
Feels like Kai's called upon here with Israel.
Choosing the Morgat gives Kai a lot of opportunities,
but can he make use of them?
Quartz is wanting to get too much, he gives a big gauge by the damage, he shoots a break, they start to fall apart, so there's no support over the intons to match this cage.
I might have a couple kills in that fight, some out of nowhere, but the time switch to their fingers done 80%!
Oh, the stack on the fury! It's almost all over now for Great Britain.
So the ravers bound to back all of them, so Sir Modell will be back immediately.
to do this without the rush. It's almost too much to imagine and last the drop's wide
mow and desperately running to the point. Kingdom of Saudi Arabia finishes the job. Oh,
that's gotta be a brutal situation. A bitter pill to swallow here for Great Britain, who
really seemed to come alive on New Junk City and show us a different side of themselves.
Something that we had hoped for in this tournament, but it feels like maybe their fate
was already determined the kingdom of Saudi Arabia undeniable perfect
performance here in Busan will not jump on that I mean Kai with some memorable
moments in that one and I know moment memorable moments doesn't do anything
when it comes to advancing in the tournament but showing that they are a
fire they have the firepower required but just in this one didn't do
themselves any tailors with that most to Australia or the only tournament that
was the one they had been going up against Saudi Arabia in the group
stages here. Meeting to win. That's just not a position you want to find yourself in. And
ultimately, this is kind of their war they've been sewing. Yeah, you know, this is just a tough
reality, right, of that earlier loss to Australia that you mentioned. Look,
right here, this is written in a rural position. In fairness, some of these maps are actually
maybe some of the more competitive maps that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has played
in this tournament.
What the hell, yeah, it's been a coasting.
It's just the standard, right?
This is a team that like, man, on paper is trying to go for gold again to repeat in BlizzCon.
What they've shown the individual levels, the team coordination, the fact that there's
that more depth on the Saudi bench than we even needed to see in Busan.
I mean, if you had to make a prediction right now, right now, who would you say
is winning this game?
I mean, period.
Like, period.
Yeah, they're favorite, which is...
Period.
Which is crazy.
Obviously taking a loss earlier in the group stages here and you gotta say like the reigning champs of Arabia
They're looking prime to weepie. I think they are the favorite
I think they should be the odds on favor that being said it's the overwatch roll up a lot of time between now and blizzcon things could shift
I mean United States might have a say in things
I think the USA Korea and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for me. That's that's like the top three
Yeah, but just the eye test on the kingdom. I think they're the number one favorite
And I don't really even think that's like a crazy cook or a hot take.
I just, anybody who's watching these matches, I mean, they made this look easy, Johnny.
And some of the names on this great brain team, like these are players who have been world class,
who have lifted trophies, who competed for a long time at the highest level.
And a few young players from the Kingdom of Sideriva has changed everything in competitive Overwatch over these last few years.
It shouldn't be a shock that this country can feel such a ridiculously strong Overwatch World Cup roster.
roster. It is wild. I guess for the side of KSA, this is what we expected, right? And it
is so impressive how they continue to demonstrate this dominance. This is a squad where we knew
that even though they felt very confident and comfortable about their run heading into
Anaheim, they still want to ensure that they're making their stamp in the server.
Poor GBR, definitely heartbreaking in that regard. They're not necessarily quite out
Yet and even if they had one up against Saudi Arabia
They technically still wouldn't have been in control of their destiny either
But now it gets even more daunting because Great Britain they need
Australia to lose to Mexico in our next matchup at an o to three or a one to three and
Still even let me get a little bit weird guys
What do you think I'm so sorry Great Britain?
it ain't looking good.
You don't need to worry about the numbers.
The people know.
I think it's fair to say it ain't looking good.
Mexico is 0-6 in maps.
It can be left unsaid, maybe.
It can be left maybe fair enough.
It would be extremely unlikely.
You just don't want to be in that position.
Australia, like with Kafa,
we'll talk more about that match on Kafa now,
but they look so fantastic with this team on Kameda.
It was a big reason why they overcame Great Britain in the first place
and why Great Britain found themselves in this matchup against Saudi Arabia,
meeting or essentially leading to win for any hopes of making it out in the groups in the first
place. So this is going to be a very tiny small amount of hope you can maybe hold on to.
Yeah, I'm not that great at math on air guys, but slim margins. That's all we really got to
say on the broadcast here for Great Britain. Definitely a tough spot to be in that kind
of regard. It just honestly wild how these groups have kind of just turned out in general,
like so many upsets, the fact that Great Britain, that lost to Australia was a tough one that
we weren't necessarily expecting to be as dominant coming out of.
Yeah, I mean every group has had something happen that I don't think we truly expected.
Yeah, I think it's fair to say, I mean, I think that's the great thing about coming
back now to run this Overwatch World Cup after a few years. There's been a real
shake-up right in like how strong some of these teams rosters are I look at I
think team Sweden is hugely impressed me given like maybe what we would have
expected coming into this tournament I mean I know Swedish but like if we
don't have beaten USA like three to two I go into best gone like I would have
peaked like I would have I will say I'm still like a metal placement at
BlizzCon is not another question for Sweden I don't even that's crazy like
They are maybe that next team right behind the top three.
I think Australia, I mean with Kuffa's leadership,
it's been great to see him have a moment to really shine
in representing his country.
And like that win over Griffin is massive.
And now to lock up their spot in BlizzCon,
all they need is a win over Mexico,
which is looking great for them.
We've been performing,
seeing a guy like ColorHex still here still fighting.
It's still showing up big time.
No matter where your capacity performance is crucial.
Doesn't inspire you, you could still do it.
They got a buff junkrat.
I don't think they're gonna, they gotta give some crazy
Junkrat buffs.
No, but cut the cameras, cut the cameras.
I think I'm okay without the Junkrat buffs guys.
If you're gonna throw-
It's been a while, come on.
We're throwing to a break.
Jake is getting cut off and we'll be back
with the next matchup.
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I don't know, I think they just played badly, I can't lie.
No, you gotta give yourself a little more credit for that.
They were just running at me in the straight lines and stuff, and I think it wasn't really that hard to kill.
But yeah, we really just played well, and I think the map really sucks for that as well.
So I was dropping as good, and there wasn't much space for them to move around the map,
so it's not hard to mock them and kill them.
I feel like you should give yourself a little bit more credit.
You're like, yeah, I'm the greatest, I mean, all right. Well, let's move on. I mean, this was a very huge win for you guys because
The next match you guys have the last one you guys have left for the group stage is going to be against team Mexico
What are your thoughts on team Mexico and how is that gonna play out?
Hopefully they suck and we don't play good. I mean, and we play good
I mean, so yeah, we just being on that. I hope that it just suck
Hopefully if you guys just play your games right now and you got everything will be good and you guys will be okay, right?
That's all this alright. Well, that's it the the simply interview of soggy. Thank you so much and again big congratulations. Thank you
We have one last match now for the overwatch World Cup group stage here in Busan
I was feeling a little inspired by moving if you guys couldn't tell um, but it is going to be Australia versus
Mexico guys
Things are still getting a little bit weird when it comes down to these permutations
I know Mitch said permutations early in the day, but we can't allow Mitch's dictionary to just become
Sorry, I didn't mean to call you out, but I'm just
So many times today
I'm Swedish I don't know. I just go like
Here but let's walk into this matchup guys
Don't you still have your job for now and it's gonna be breaking down this next matchup because for Australia
They're feeling pretty confident. I think they're about their chances heading to BlizzCon after we just saw the three and oh they're from Saudi Arabia
up against
Great friend we're good. Sorry Johnny is just like completely
Infiltrated my mind
I might be sunlocked right now
But that that makes it pretty comfortable here for Australia
Yeah, they're still the world though.
If Mexico can beat them 3-0, 3-1.
If Mexico dominates them, there's still a chance
that things get funky.
But let's be honest, Mexico, they're 0-6 in maps so far.
They have not won a map in this tournament.
Australia with a huge upset win over Great Britain.
They took fate into their own hands with that victory.
Now all they have to do is close it out against Zubi.
Just brutal.
One of the waker teams in the tournament.
Like this should be an open and shut case
for Kafa and the boys.
The squad is really rallied around players like Kuffa and ColorHackz, but Soggy is also hugely impressed with me.
So I've just gotten an eSports World Cup, obviously with a tough ass in that tournament, playing for one of the weaker teams,
but he's showed up in a big way here in Busan, and that's the difference maker, right?
When it comes to getting that win over Great Britain, if you just keep on going, keep on rolling,
surely Australia are going to BlizzCon.
I think that's the pivotal point you made about the Danvers' pairs as well, because you go into this and you're like,
Okay, Kafa, great player, and then you realize,
oh, they're actually on top of the meta.
Like, your demo player is really good.
They're like, they're on top of the...
And then you have Kolo Hex just racking up the cubes
and all this, just getting headshots all over the place.
And Soggy coming in clutch.
Soggy came in clutch so many times against Great Britain.
And you're suddenly like, wow, this roster
is just performing spectacularly against all expectations.
Yeah, and then when it comes down to this team, Mexico,
it's quite a different story here, right?
An underdog that is for certain in this upcoming match.
And what do we want to see, I guess, out from next?
Elemental Guy.
No, guys, I'm sorry.
Genji is a crime in this meta.
It is a crime.
Jetpack Cat versus Genji is like a crazy matchup to go for.
Meta be damned.
Elemental Guy is the one that Genji ranked forever.
All right, how are you going to hit Cat with a blade three times?
It makes sense.
What if he's flying?
What if he has a cat himself?
OK, carry the Genji blade.
Or you could carry it behind noon, I mean, just...
I think if you carry again, it might actually be like negative value per half, right?
It's like, you're actually not giving Genji anything, and you're actually like,
meaning that cats can't do anything apart from finding Genji around.
So, don't fly to Genji around, that's probably a poor use of resources.
I think Mexico's best chance is to have Unhelful Auto in, play the tracer battle.
Still gonna be uphill, I mean, you look at the individuals and yeah,
they are gonna have Unhel start,
But they can at least play the top meta right now.
I mean, there's room to innovate, right?
We've seen teams who've looked out on the Freya.
We've seen side play.
The Diva, it's not like things are fixed in place.
But I'm sorry, because the Genji is not taking it home.
It's not one of them yet.
It's not going to start here against Australia, who
has the download on how to respond to this man.
They are very comfortable in what we're seeing right now.
And they can execute well.
Yeah, they definitely can.
It's quite uphill battle, like we were talking about
there for Team Mexico.
This team, Mexico, though, still a team that has a lot of spirit behind them.
Great fans there as well, but when it comes down to those predictions,
unfortunately, I'm not going to be able to back the Mexican fans.
A lot of love for them, but really, Australia, they just look too strong.
Cooper's got Australia two guys.
I love how we find this one.
Yeah, make sure, just in case there was any question about who was out there.
Who was out there?
I mean, huge favor for them.
It should be open and shut for the Aussies.
Now it's a ticket to BlizzCon on the line.
I can't imagine they slip up here,
maybe a little bit more pressure
on some of the young players,
but I mean, honestly, there's a lot more of that
in the Great Britain game.
So it's just hard to see the way in for a Mexico squad
that hasn't shown us that they can compete
at the highest level.
Last match of the weekend.
See it.
Looks like we're going to Nepal here on this opener.
We haven't even mentioned the demon so far, Jay.
How do you deal with the demon?
All good and well.
You've got some mechanical players, buddy.
How do you deal with the onslaught that's really brought in this one?
We need it here, though.
Oh, well, this opening map is bad.
Hovering the hazard.
I don't fully believe just yet in the spawn room.
I do like for Mexico, wait, it is, oh wait, I lied, it is an elemental guy.
We had the wrong starting roster.
in I guess they're gonna go for it here in fairness they were able to throw a
little bit of threat with these factor rush looks Australia those seem prepared
to bring the pace the other way I mean you just got to go for it if you're
Mexico like we're going into this match right here Mexico they are one of the
weaker teams in the tournament but you guys wait for the census already oh no
this is going to be bad to work to play Mexico in the shambles that is
It's one of the most brutal midfights I have seen, folks.
The Australia team, they still have to finish things off here.
Kappa, Steven snips out of hiding Cassidy, almost gets bailed out.
Good little...
Send him to the moon.
Saving Meduver from Lay, right?
To like, almost get him out of there.
I thought he was dead to right.
Does go down in the end though, so no harm, no foul to the Aussies.
Oh, I love Kappa playing over the top here.
Isolate Santana.
But that Jagged Law of the people won't be able to back out and makes the base trade though, not so mad about that Azadiba.
But Australia are not fighting any openings. Elmuth guy, hold on, finds one under the tracer.
Fights in contest but late is the cost. And with double-sport alive, they just gotta keep Pelerax fighting.
Genshin is in on top, another kill, Elmuth guy, hold on!
I didn't believe, but Elmuth guy does not care.
He's gonna find enough picks to open up this capture point for Mexico.
Yeah, as soon as that Haster loses the forward hold and forces it to draw towards the point,
you're forced to play around your cooldowns, find an opportunity to engage with Elemental Guy,
gives them none of that.
Have to find the opening pick on Tussagi, and now it's just a question of what kind of
tempo do you want to bring in this one?
Colorize fast, Dead Eye here.
Earlier Dead Eye.
Here it comes. Gains a big channel.
On the D. McGenji, it's your D. Butt.
Running out of defensive tools.
Oh
All the guy four into the silent for Cassidy car mess. It's a few shots to the body that'll slow down the Mexican cast
Mexico give them what they stick around the fight here
Sky knew no gets nothing color. So
Rushes out from Ferris guy gonna try to hook out here answer responding time for the kill started to come in for Mexico
Come on brings one back the other way keeps us really fighting for this point, but he dropped so low
Elma to die back into the fight. Whoa
He's Genji has got the mechanics, but those down here pretty late in this lot
It's gonna give an opportunity here for us really to get back into it
Little over here on the Genji a lot of free space here
Well, Australia to take back.
They're wasting no time in doing so.
St. Tina has to self-destruct though.
Lot of bars to play with here.
On this point, here comes the downpour.
Oh, big under the back line!
Where's the follow-up though? Where's the damage?
Stay alive! Here's the play now!
I'm going to die! Bites one! Looking for a second.
He's so low, goes down!
Saki produces one on the other side.
The blade, not coming too much of anything now.
And with Cat, four spots to the off-angle.
It's Justin and Kana now playing the point.
Do you have pretty good tips all about Kona's going down as a big chunk of damage, Santana doesn't even destroy the self-destruct, knowing that it's all about over in that fight.
78% here though for Mexico. Colorex is gonna get to this dead eye up next, with the pivotal tool in the arsenal for Australia by Mexico with an opportunity here in this opening round.
Trying to do some crazy things in the back, but Jaguar isolates the Genji, just barely dashes back, the D-Flight keeps him alive.
But Mexico, they can't produce anything off of that, they're fully backed out of the push, so mission accomplished for Australia.
It's still over the top, still looking to oppress these Mexican players, they step to the point.
Santana in here alone, but where's the support? The Steve are dropping so low.
Dead eye available.
Careful Colorex likes to go with the cover, finds the kill, carry down first, crucial finds.
Hamster stays alive and stabilizes.
Australia on the verge, and with that kill from Gunpla, surely enough to take this first
control round.
South Mr. Gunpla's again a big pull!
It's two kills, but it costs the life of the cat.
And in the end, not enough to change the tides of that fight.
No one expected to destruct the bomb to come around the corner.
That's crazy, that's the count of it, not new.
Oh my, oh, I was almost scared myself.
I saw the cat around the corner of the bomb.
We're getting cheeky on this one.
I mean, they were waiting so long for that then,
I had to come out.
By the time it did come out, they didn't actually
conjure up a response, but it was just,
I mean, it's so difficult in that one.
Let's take another look here.
That's a crazy highlight.
I mean, it gets two, but it's just not enough.
those fights is like even with some big moments like okay the self-destruct can do some cool stuff
Parmas can find a pick here and there and let the guy has kind of popped off at these crazy ultra mechanical kills
But the deaths are just it's coming in a flood. We don't even see them happen
Like the Mexican players are dropping like flies right? They do not able to stand up in these extended death matches
soggy is just nibbling away and eventually the kills just come cuff which dives in on top with those
aggressive leaps and jagged walls and it is it is proving to be a struggle even
with some big moments for the Genji. Not enough in these deathmatch engagements.
Yeah, so you're gonna pause here between the rounds that's why it's taking a little
longer to get into the second round here but it's like you say and
especially you're playing that hazard composition from Australia it's like
Mexico they want to walk up they want to set themselves up for an engage but
while Australia there's just it's a hazard wall to try and look for a pig.
Back a little bit wait for the next wall coolant to come up and while that is happening
We got soggy on the tracer poking a product trying to look for pigs
And so mix good all times in this kind of like defensive bunker position
Just trying to gain some ground and then in that very last fight I was lucky with a beautiful catnap as well
Try to capture the Kiriko first guy an opportunity like that and it just becomes
Overwhelming for mix go to try and stay alive every single engagement from the hazard. Yeah
I really I mean it's something like we saw a little bit of in the last series is
When you're losing these angle fights, it's very hard to get something going.
And for as good as Genji is in those explosive moments when you go for the hard commit,
the problem is just walking up onto the map is hugely difficult against Tracer.
You really aren't nearly as effective at fighting with low resources.
Maybe a closer range from point though could present an opportunity for Elemental God.
Once again though, stop up.
The isolated target will be damaged on the leg.
Oh my feet, feet, feet!
They're joined, they immediately mutt the hazard burning down!
I would hope to get in and grab that mag of it.
Mexico did well tonight.
Now, maybe I'm hit by a big win.
Something needed for Mexico to put some wind in their sails.
Yeah, Mexico.
And there's clearly more of a chance for Mexico than I was giving them credit for.
There's a long way home in this series, but...
They have proven that they can be explosive.
Yeah, they gotta roll it out, right?
They gotta rely on their mechanics,
try and fight this one against Australia,
and I'm totally opting into it with the hazard play.
This is also the Demon Band map.
This is essentially a must-win for Mexico here.
Give yourself the best chance possible at succeeding,
so they can push the pressure onto the point here.
This is a trouble for Genki,
he struggles in these kind of fights.
Cater running him down after reaching back to the Jericho.
provides an opportunity here for Colorex to step up over the blade of Karmes. Crucial find
on the Tracer, that's going to really slow things down for Australia. And once again,
the D.Va marks the aggression and the connection is there for Mexico, the team playing, really
coming together in these last few fights. Yeah, the execution has been on point. I need a high ground,
looking for opportunities to find big some Karmes and then let the guy come through,
go to withdrawal once more to this high ground. Colorex has the data at this
moment like this. It needs to be respected. It's going to force the movement.
Oh, that is not very respectful, Le. At least he soaked the shot.
Parasite's gonna go with it. Dropping the rush. Maybe that's enough to make up
for their lock in the second sport. Delarex is so lucky on that she-on damage.
Cannot be finished. Going to heal some hamster.
Oh, but a great connection again! Carmane's the shield on this one.
Lights out here off the second map
Cop of the great shots from him
Still a chance for Australia. They need to force this point
You want a stag and if you can get this two more shots, that would be huge
Well, that's a guy super low. He's a backup for the hill. So you can and now are in question
But Australia is struggling to find those decisive picks that defined the last round and catnip on the enemy cat
But it's not clear that's gonna go their way. I'll let those guys out. Punishing the soggy, maybe, looking at the stars
But the cliff does come in for Australia with the catnap in on Ferris guy.
This one will be a big one to pull back for the odds as they're stacked up the capture point for the duration of the fight.
Elements back close to play. Slashing them to cover hard to deal meaningful damage to this house if they don't get the job done.
And with the spree up on Carmen, he's not to take color hacks and maybe even the round.
Yeah you just have to fight this one out to the point.
Switch pressure on the objective start racking up the percentage of Australian Alps.
So we call force possible out, hamster, rolling a little bit as well.
If you are still losing members here for Australia, this must be a long and recent here.
And Mexico with an opportunity here with 83% already, they can push up, they can put pressure
on Australia, make it difficult to touch this point. This point is looked a lot better for Genji,
able to utilize the verticality around the point to great effect slipping in and out of
the engagement. Australia has some difficulty running him down, but a sky with a huge problem
the silver bullet on to the carry to open things up the overtime taking as
well we're gonna get out of the off angle no joint from it everybody's looking
for that opening no one wants to be the one to make the mistake but sake will
force it on to lay Santana low but with the self-destruct on this use the
bike it's a risky one out of movement cool down now the flip comes in for
Australia Mexico will they reset this awkward spot for them they're trying to
trickle out of this fight with Australia showing some interest in
running them down here they chasing the spawn seems the answer is no for
Now, Mexico thinking better off it wants to take a proper engagement here.
No matter how many opportunities will they get, force it onto the point there.
Consider what you got.
The Russian rubber color is huge shot from the cast of veteran shows up in his team's
low on the feet.
Santana out of the suit.
But with this upset element of guy who slips away but hamsters don't want to run him
down.
Santana getting brutalized.
As they climb back into the suit, and Australia filling up the feed, a big win for them into
the rush, arguably their biggest test so far that round, and now, Johnny, they have a huge
say.
It's so difficult now.
I mean, Mexico dropping back into the rush, getting no value.
They're facing an eventual sky noon.
Kitsumar from Hamster.
There's so many ultimates on the board for Australia and Mexico, simply nigh impossible.
there bringing a tracer over the top you dive into the backline forces the
chief be out of here go
save what I say
more than ready for the play
and there's a rush over the board it looks so dire now now four comes in where's the connection
big flash of the Almefloguy, Santana out of the fight, certainly seals the deal
deep flight barely keeping Almefloguy alive for now he climbs the way up into the high ground
high ground but maybe can only delay the end of the world without playing pole, but it sounds desperate.
The plan blocks the first strike and with Hamster and Kappa in his base,
Mexico are denied the most hopeful round, maybe yet more than in this tournament,
but it ends in defeat. First match goes to Australia.
It came pretty close there for Mexico. Just one teamfight went away but Australia made it so
difficult for them. It really came down to that fight on the point with the
Kitsuna Rush but failed to get value that one time and going into that last
fight I mean you're facing five ultimates it's just just not the circumstances
you want to find yourself in. Mexico they're hanging about but that was a
critical first map they take a loss off.
Are you really I mean having a few big moments on the Genji? Like that makes
Interesting, the scary thing though, more elemental guy is, at some point the Genji behind will come in against, right, and your event truly forced to show more depth, more versatility.
But you can see why they go for it, I mean for a team like Mexico that ultimately is in a position of just playing spoiler at this point, right, they cannot make it to BlizzCon.
Now another guy, maybe playing an off meta hero that can be difficult to make work, but
mechanically, the presence is there.
You know, in a different meta, he could be a force to be reckoned with for this nice
team.
Could still be.
They can somehow find a way to pull the cop together in this series.
Yeah, I mean, the way they started on Village was quite impressive.
They were the first team out, so they gained ground, cough up on himself, and a position
Great save back there. Yeah, really great save there.
But I think Mexico showed on that village, they can't roll it out.
They can't take it to Australia.
But like you say, you're gonna face a Genji band in this series.
Probably will take a loss on that one.
If you want to leave Elemental Guy in, which I think is the best thing you want to do.
It's like he's an X-Factor, right?
Yeah. And you need an X-Factor.
If you're going to take down Australia, this is a very tough Dragonblade here.
I mean, you're facing M.S.U., it's like one versus four.
But you need the X-Factor and you're going to face a Genji band.
So if you're Mexico in this one, it's going to be a really tough journey.
They did not win the first map there.
Yeah, they did not.
Blade is not the ultimate at once was Johnny.
It's just not.
I mean, I mean, Kiriko in general,
I mean, give me a nod or talk.
It's just so brutal trying to run down to Kiri, you know?
Not only can she actually just win the one you want against you.
If you don't immediately connect shots,
but then whenever she's actually worried, she's teepees away.
And you you're committing with a dash on Genji need to produce something it's a lot is expected of you in that moment
I mean, it's almost like if you're if you're a top-tier Genji
It's more about like how perfect is your dash positioning to like get those triple sure against like finishing people off and like getting burst damage
I always call that I call this the Genji one trick play when you dash or max range and just triple head draw somebody
Just delete them off the server. That is like that is the that is what makes I mean
I'm still a Genji player to this day. It's still in my veins.
It hurts me to be real with you guys about how difficult it is to make work, but that's the play that you have on Genji.
It's dashing from match range, it's the one-shotting somebody, or else they're just getting cleansed and then you die.
The reason I'm laughing at this is because you might not know this, but I like to play Genji when I'm there.
And I can never do the triple eight shot.
I do know of a I could be in practice range for hours and versus but it's a lot easier
Doing perfect dash range in an actual game is like I don't you say this and I'm like no
I actually I don't think there's any evidence that any human has ever done a perfect dash people headshots like
Honestly like I don't think I did it a couple times in this match like he is that good on Genji
You know I'm like that's something you really will only see from the best of the best your point
you know there's not there's not more than what 10 20 players in the world who
can actually find that in a high-stakes match on the whole pressure give me a
hack on the phone that's I mean there are legendary players from overwatch
history who've shown that it can be done for you
real but but it's it's so hard to find consistency on no one has ever done it
consistently it's not a consistent play it kind of requires the stars to align
Even if you are one of the best players of all time, it has a little bit of requiring the stars to align.
Yeah, yeah, and maybe that's the world Mexico live in now. The whole of the stars align here.
So that you can pull out a map win in this tournament, you could do something against Australia.
I mean if you're an elemental guy like, you can get some like kill something nowhere.
Yeah, that's kind of what you need if you're Mexico.
You just like you need kills out of nowhere
and being able to have a game to play like that could be something you could lean on.
We'd be remiss if we didn't talk about Carbaz as well.
Like a lot of big fights in the she-on in that second round. It's not just how mental guys threat like the she
The reason we talk about the mental guys because like like we said he's sick
Yeah, yeah, like you need you started karma. It's like we take it. It's like we need you to be them in the fight
Yeah, we need you to do it. If you're just praying for a genji kill like let's be real
That's not looking good. You need the it's game to produce and calm as is kept them in the action in some tough series
Right like even putting up put up a big clip against
came to Masadi Arabia, Khaled also going to come in here, see if that changes things at
all for this Mexican squad.
They'll lose you gameplay, do a little more standard push-ball maybe.
Yeah, could be a good look.
They could maybe look to ban the Cat away, I think that could be a good look for Mexico.
I think Cat is, partly why Genji's so hard, is Cat itself is, I mean good luck in that
matchup.
You're like a lot of way from the Cat on Genji.
The cat is a scary hero on Genji. That's a problem for a DPS.
When the cat is bullying you, it's not looking good.
To be honest, that's...
That kind of bullies a lot of heroes these days.
The Cassidy Tracer, okay, maybe you've got to respect them on Cat.
And that's why we see so much of them.
Shion as well. The Sojourn.
But with the Cat Van, maybe that actually does think...
This is the real problem for Mexico, right? The strategic problem for them.
Catban makes Genji sound interesting and then the Genji band is the response.
Right.
So I don't, for me there's not a way around that unless, you know, okay well once we lose
two maps and then both the bands are gone, then we can start and then we have one map
where we have like a favorable band, I don't know, it's a...
Yeah I mean Australia is one of these teams at this tournament where it's really
flourished with the demon and cat composition, they're just like playing it so comfortable.
But to be a junkie time to kill from Mexico
What that one Jake they picked this against KSA as well
In fairness in that series, you know, let's let's say there wasn't much analyzing to be done
Yeah, I mean
Maybe bring out the honor
Yeah, they do get the long run, Sightlives going here.
I'm going to check out the bands here, for Mexico, like, did they see another way through?
I don't know, if you tech ban a DPS for the Genji, like, you could ban Tracer, maybe?
Could get interesting.
Or maybe the Cassidy?
Okay, they'll be the Cassidy.
They were right this other time.
It'll be the Cass- See, the problem- I mean, the thing is, this is nice,
but does it really move the needle?
Like, does it really change things?
I mean, for Color X, in fairness, Color X has really wanted to play Cassidy, just try to hit it.
Like, and I think a lot of teams have recognized Cass is kind of the definitive hit-scan hero right now.
Yeah, I think it's such a reliable option.
Just like to have a Cassidy who, the last few months has been like a really go-to meta pick for so many hits-scan players.
It's like, what's this in output? But then also, combined with this guy here, it's amazing, but it's like, well, it's so efficient with ultimate value.
I mean historically you get from a dead eye. It's crazy compared to what that I was like
This is a high noon is a throwaway ultimate. I mean back in the day
To fail the hammer one more time against the take, you know, and you don't even feel bad about that
And there's not many ultimates the game that have the honor of being instant canceled for a reload
But with the sky noon now that now we're talking like that is one ultimate
Yeah, and you open up the map in a crazy way like a retake pushing into the enemy territory
There's a whole lot of threat a lot of opportunity and flexibility from that old combo
So in taking that off the field on Junkertown one of the better maps for a skydiver
It does interject some chaos into this match. What's the hits can't trace from color act?
That's look great on the she on so it's not exactly hard to figure out where he's gonna look
But first to see how Colorex is going to respond to this, because realistically, you
have a flying bastion going around, it's not like it gets much easier for Mexico.
There are still some reliable hints and options, it's like, okay, you get the Cassidy away,
maybe freeze some Elemental Guy a little bit, flex band again, G as well.
But it's not like it's going, I don't think it's going to weaken Australia much
the fact that the Cassidy was target banned at the end of the day.
In fairness, Colorex has looked by far the best on Kasper, and he's played almost exclusively it, so it will force a little bit of discomfort for Colorex to say.
I mean this is like a veteran player who's been around for a long time, so I mean Kasper, years and years, but probably a lot less experience.
Certainly, I can promise you, a lot less experience on the Shion.
On the Shion? But also a Ranked Demon, and you know Ranked Demons, they like to do a little bit of flexing in Ranked.
They'll jump on to some of the different heroes. You're a streamer, you know, you want to get some good content for the viewers at home, so you might play some Bastion back in 2022 or something.
Yeah. In fairness to my show, I think they've done as well as they could with this mappeak with the band.
This is a must win map.
Yeah.
This is a must win map.
No reverse sweeps today.
Yeah.
The other worry though is our quota this tournament. No more reverse sweeps.
In my mind, isn't Demon like very good against Genji?
Because Genji usually against a lot of the tanks, is actually one of the better DPS at
face tanking you and trading with you.
You got that right click shuriken, puts a lot of damage in at close range, punishes girls
with big hitboxes.
And the deflect can be really annoying for a lot of tanks.
Like D.Va hates it, a lot of tanks really are annoyed by that.
But in my mind, I'm like, isn't D.Mon, like you pull the blade out and D.Mon's
like, yeah, I got one of those.
Yeah, I got one of those.
I mean the verticality is the only thing you really have the verticality on like a map like Junkertown
Because like if you like you can play the card if you're a kafa
But it feels pretty bad to play the card if you're going to just play the demon
We saw that verticality right on village second round in the fall where
Now month the guy was able to do a lot better around the point having a place to retreat to on the high ground
Utilizing that wall climb
unrestricted by cooldown
Well, for Color X, I love the Emory Choice. Simple, straight forward, effective.
And with an ultimate that is really nice against Genji, lets you fly to the Skybox, essentially ignore him completely.
Ana's coming out though for Sparrow Sky and Hamster.
So definitely a twist in the support lineup. Ana, a hero with much higher highs, but also much lower lows,
and certainly a lot more volatility when Genji's on the field.
The nano blade can come out.
It is an awkward combo though these days.
It's just so hard to keep up with the Ana's farm rates.
As Genji, if you've been sitting on nano for a long time,
it kinda sucks.
This is going to be an interesting approach from Mexico
because they'll have to navigate Hamster's positioning
so far back.
Yeah, you're playing Genji,
but you still have fairly limited mobility.
They're gonna go on this Ana.
Ferris guys in big trouble now, very exposed.
Holding the sleep dart.
Forces that we call out does well to do so, but in the chaos, Cormez.
Run down by Kappa on the humongous, and Kappa is looking for more action.
I think this is what I'm really worried about.
There's going to be Australia's gain.
That looks a bit pay-active with this tracer.
Tracer cat.
Once you get up in the backline, and it's a battle of like,
who do you find if you're Mexico here?
Tracer cat is a really scary combination to be against
for a lot of this Mexican backline.
They're gonna need to pull out all the stops in the deathmatch
to equalize at all.
Australia though settling into a defensive hold but Akie finds Karmez. Akie and Saugie together,
open up so much of the backline the moment you turn around the peel. Kappa just dives in here,
dagger to the heart of Mexico. I mean this Hanzo, yeah it's not going to be it. It's just
too much of a bargain to throw out for the dive coming through. Conn is going to slump over
to the Sodorn here. I mean you can form a little bit of rail here against the D-Monk,
try to get a Wailgun shot which could shut down the Tracer immediately.
Oh, the Tracer damage is good, honor.
Good job for Ferris God to keep Palette fighting, but Juno also extremely vulnerable.
So many waitresses for Mexico. They need to somehow get on the front foot.
And they did Nano the way to do it.
And old Palette. The Balsar Bermudo's bring down the cat.
Now some space for Mexico. They send the Nano into the back line.
Backline, he's bottom two!
By the Aussies, in-kind,
Tuffa makes up one of the Elmutser guys.
He needs more than that.
Then with the Bio-Nade on him, cannot pick up that health pack.
So I'm gonna go one, though.
Oh, couple.
With the baby farm, he's already gone on him.
Santana has to fuck the limit break to finish this fight,
but it's only Santana and Kaulette now.
Surely a retake available for Australia.
This positioning is going to be good for Mexico, though.
You get an opportunity to spread out here,
Good for a Skye in our good position, Kormas as well, Elemental Guide.
Approaching that Dragon base, but you gotta survive the limit break and the upcoming Override Protocol from Korex.
Who's gonna deal with this Override Protocol?
Kappa being a great fun fair Skye!
Lydric has to come up to stabilize this!
Oh, Elemental Guide is in such big trouble!
Dominated their vibe!
Kappa, hold up!
Okay!
Shot though, Kormas!
Shots down the ultimate!
And hold on!
Even Sintana getting into the mix and the baby form!
Kappa's too low!
to finish that kill. And so Mexico still fighting for the centenimum, needs to get back in the
soon long. Just can't quite manage it. That is a heartbreaker for Mexico.
Yeah, the rest of Mexico, full to withdraw there and left Santana to their own devices.
It's going to be a continuing defense here on the first point for Australia,
one minute remaining. Good thing for Mexico is they get a good amount of openness going into
this one. The question is, the Dragonblade, how far can you really reach with this one?
It needs to be made. Two kills minimum here, but the pressure is already coming
coming in from Australia.
They can work their way off.
Big finish on the Colorex.
Damage calls are good.
Schwab's up the slip.
Hamster's too sharp with the aim.
Staying on the here.
Sting on the here.
Hasn't been able to go for the clutch.
Gonna throw it on the cover.
If Cover can bring something back, this game is still in contest
and he will find Ferris Guy.
A critical kill.
Now doesn't support Hamster's decision.
Gourmet has flanked all the way around for this kill.
They will cost his own life.
How about...
Watch to finish this one off with the cat now coming in.
Santana's in trouble, Anki! We'll finish off Paulette!
Couple's out of the Super, but Santana's so low!
We're gonna touch this one up!
Oh my god, this is too much, I'm starting to recollect themselves.
Colournecks back into the fight, all that mad up close bomb to end things.
Mexico!
Just a few players left, Paulette on the cat,
kind of go for the obvious desperation rush to the payload.
Karmes dies first,
And with him the hopes for any kind of a dominant offense on this drunkard down
They will not see the second point Johnny
What a clutch from Australia there huge place from hamster
Yeah, doesn't find the sleep
But stays composed shot after shot into the Genji
He's swinging that Dragonblade, but it feels like a wet noodle
I mean the entirety of Australia providing in that one all five members stepping up
Soggy doing work on the tracer kafa surviving getting some value with the nonimus then Akki coming in from back from spawn
Helping out as well a nicely timed stun and they just keep the stagger going on towards the cart by some of time
Without the close things out here
And we talk a lot about Mexico the opportunity for an upset here, but this has been all Australia
But this is them looking to secure their ticket officially here after their previous upset
against Great Britain in this tournament.
A spot which few people saw this team in.
Kafa 13-1, he's been an absolute beast on the Demon so far this tournament.
And they're surely now just moments away from advancing to BlizzCon.
Demon mode, the pun, it's too obvious but I have no choice.
He's been phenomenal, really leading this Australian team.
team. I don't think it's a stretch to say that without Kafa they would not be in this position.
On the test now of sublutifying this placement going to BlizzCon. Just a few maps away.
Tricky set up Palette. Okay. Gonna bring up Ilyari. That's a risky choice. It's gotta be scary with
with both Color X and Soggy ready to punish these greedy supports.
Mexico say they've got to go gambling.
Soggy has so many favorable deals in this one.
It's just a matter of who does Soggy want to engage on this one.
Oh, Color X is beaming up in the combat.
That's exactly what they need to find.
Puppet dives into the backline, pulls a lot of attention to himself.
The Tracer kill looks nice in the feed,
but it doesn't mean anything for this objective.
The cart marches inextricably forward here, Johnny.
Getting closer and closer.
Essentially just going to be the one fight before it's desperation for Mexico in this one.
Kafa, playing the cards here. Going to have their favorable corner here to play on as the cards keep looted.
Both are on us, building towards this Nautilus.
It's going to be the first open online as we are showing these jewels.
Elemental guide.
It's a protective healing here on this flank.
Soggy, being a tremendous in the backline.
Oh, big kill on the honor.
And with that crucial backline, the cracks begin to show for Mexico.
Soggy, I'm gonna go.
Tana grabs two back, but Kava is still healthy on this D-Monk and very well punched this fight out.
Zantana out of the soup, they want to finish off this baby D-Va, but Kava even staggers it just a bit.
The spawn wave getting off, we're at Elemental Guy far from the payload as it begins to roll forward.
Now on retake without a single ultimate to work with.
A brutal situation for Mexico.
I mean, Zantana is going to get back here as he swaps to the D-Va.
Hamster is still going to just not do this way earlier, and that tool could be enough to seal the D-Va down the ground.
There's like this coming to Kappa, his destiny.
Off to the payload for a second on it, we'll take some shots from the flank, but here it comes, Dan, a lot of scum.
Oh, he's got them all!
Soldier lived for just a moment longer, Kappa finishes the job, and with three in the feed, this one is done and dusted.
Australia picking up their second map, a celebratory pulse bomb for Saugie.
And it'll just take one more to bring the Aussies to Ani.
Austria now, looking so cool, calm and confident on stage as well, fist bumps, looking like
another day in the office, they obviously came into this match not knowing they had
to win to secure their ticket, and you want to take every match seriously, you don't want
to leave anything to doubt, you don't want to give your opponents an opening, but they're
showing so much confidence in a matchup like this one, trust in your abilities
Kafa, not overeager to get in too much on this demon, over playing your hand
which you can do sometimes with these aggressive tanks.
It's been, you know, very orderly from Australia,
getting the work done here.
Getting the work done, that's for sure.
There's been some exciting plays from Mexico,
some big shots from Gomez,
opportunities for elemental guys,
and Tana finding the cleanup,
but it does feel that across the board,
Australia are the stronger team today.
But there are moments, there's also
moment the things fall flat the risks now being made apparent the choice to run
this Genji really struggling to stay alive deep into the fight and saw you on
the other side you know you leave the flanks open to enemy tracer I'll let
the Ferris guy that is a rough spot to beat right they have saw you just
getting up on your back line still got a recoil I still got two blinks you know
like here this is a full resource tracer on top of the solo support and
And like, something's going to come join that instantly,
the moment that opportunity comes out.
You look at Mexico's composition, if you're like,
you'll take that any day as a tracer player.
Yeah, well, Chaser's laughing all the way to the bank in this one.
Especially with Demon and Cat, two of them.
Honestly, the best hero has ever made it overwatch
to get in there alongside Tracer.
Right.
And Chaser's making it straight through.
I think it's, I mean, I would say we're not falling out of the meta,
but the last year of overwatch has been one of the weaker years.
For Tracer, historically, just a lights out,
Gig a broken hero for top bubble players like when you have this ridiculous skill ceiling and an incredible ability to coordinate and teamplay
It's a match made in heaven for some of the best players in the world
But I think Tracer is resurgent now with jetpack cat and with demon as well like she fits incredibly nicely
into that
aggressive posture
Now if we're so long it was about hits game players being so dominant, you know
you've seen some of these push-pull, lucy empirical compositions and you were hearing about names like
FWARTS for example, there was a recent Kevster swapped over to the Hitscant Roll, just to feel like
I need to get more value like I have so many, I have such great mechanics but just don't feel
like I could do anything with this flex roll, it was all about Symmetra last year, notice
these shiny mechanical rolls instead, and like you say you know with some of these heroes now
they introduced the Deathback Cat to Shion, give some more opportunities to sync up with
with those flexed, damaged players.
Leis Mokti stopped back in here for Mexico,
but this has been all Australia in this one.
And a lot of these players looking to walk in the steps
of some really revered players in Overwatch history,
Kafa, obviously coming now after punk
who decided not to attend this event.
Kasta, now working for a developer team,
very proudly representing this team in the past.
Australia has already delivered great teams here
at the Overwatch World Cup.
And this is looking like another one
who are beating out Great Britain to eventually now here advancing to Biscondt once more.
It's a big win to be, especially to be qualified over Great Britain.
The statement, putting Australia back on the map in competitive overwatch.
The country that, as you said, has put a lot of great players' names up in lights.
And there'll just be one more map.
Maybe it almost feels like a formality here, but certainly you can't let off the gas now.
Mexico have shown us that they demand respect right like they can make big
plays individuals can come together. Australia's been winning because they've
been showing that respect and respect comes in the form of aggression. Kuffa's
diving and he's not waiting for the play to come to him. They set the tone, they
set the tempo. That's been a calling card for pretty much all the top teams
here. Modern Overwatch it feels like that's the only way to play. Yeah, yeah
I mean it's going to be a tough battle there's no demon ban available
because it was utilized on map one so like maybe your best chance here is going like some kind of like
mauga map and like try to pull it out with a genji or something like that.
You are bringing in an helvalotto now so that signals maybe a ship back towards the tracer.
Right, yeah. Someone to mirror and challenge soggy which I don't disagree with.
But you still need to find an answer for the demon. The other day it's going to be uh...
I mean I think you maybe have to take the demon mirror and honestly in Faraday it's like
Santana has to put it themselves well in that mirror so it's not I don't think Vax
necessarily hopeless here. It's less for me about maybe like one individual player doing
so much more and more that all five of these players from Australia really having big performances
coalescing around really experienced leadership in the tank role from Kappa and just looking
like a pound for pound much stronger team. Mexico, they've been outmatched and outclassed
at this event. It's mentally a really rough spot to be here. Coliseo will be where
Where they make their final stand.
Yeah, you make that point about Mexico.
It's not about one individual.
It's about a team effort, but it's such a difficult position
to be in when you're at an event as a team.
And you're like, okay, well,
things are not working for us right now.
Something has to change.
And you just know that like, okay, we can play better.
But like, how do you do that?
It feels hopeless in a way
that you don't have an action you can do, right?
You can't necessarily change up the composition.
You can't sub someone in.
And it feels like,
Do we have to do a different approach to how we engage, like our productivity, the coms?
You want... I think it's human in a way as a player to be like,
you need to change something in order to do better.
Just the fact that like, oh, just execute better on our ultimate timings, you know,
or engage just like to find the prize and stuff.
That is so difficult to mentally kind of like improve in the middle of a game.
And this is the reality of Overwatch played at this level.
Cat Band is going to come in from Mexico.
Maybe they want to bring out something like the Jumper Queen?
That's maybe a way to play for them.
Could really change the tenor of this series?
Change is certainly what you need.
They went away from the cat on the last map, even when it was in.
Definitely not something they really want to play.
The band is actually going to be the diva from Australia.
The respect shown to Santana looked pretty good on map 1, playing the D.Va.
Yeah, I think whenever we get these D.Va bands as well, I think it changes the tank matchup quite interestingly,
because D.Va is a valley versatile hero after all, because of the defense matrix.
It's like you have a defensive tool to kind of operate with the rest of the team,
but now you're looking at, you know, if you play a demon, like, there's really limited tool sets
for like actually protecting your team and like withdrawing and like playing different kinds of play styles.
It's essentially like all out or nothing and that favors kafa in a much bigger way
You're like a tank matchup like this whereas maybe the Santana would have been more stable on the Diva instead here now
You're forcing it like taking aggressive duel against kafa playing kafa's game
We'd love to see what it is though
Yes, those some options
For both squads they look to formulate their strategies. I'm like could be our last map here in Busan
It's been an amazing event here, the Overwatch World Cup.
Everyone's excited now for BlizzCon.
A lot of storylines have really bubbled up, come to the forefront.
A lot of teams have surprised us, broken our expectations.
We're very close to having our final top eight teams,
who will of course be coming to BlizzCon in just a few weeks to compete
the Overwatch World Cup for gold on behalf of their nations.
I mean, it's not beginning a micro-competitive career, right?
Really for a lot of players,
the moment that they burst onto the scene.
You know, what young player are we gonna see
lift that gold?
Everyone's excited to see Australia.
They wanna stay in that conversation to do so.
You wanna end things here short and simple.
One of the most prestigious titles in Overwatch Esports is lifting that Overwatch World Cup
trophy.
Just the opportunity to attend a BlizzCon.
That's something I dreamed of playing as well, just being on that stage at BlizzCon.
As we all do, we love this game.
I've been able to be there in Anaheim alongside developers who craft with this game.
Compete.
It's one of the best players in the world.
We are in general for Overwatch.
And so to have BlizzCon back at a moment like this for the game that we love, I mean it's really rich with meaning.
I think for both of us with our personal stories.
It's been amazing being in Korea.
The point was the last Korean event here for us on the internet, like the English speaking stage.
It was maybe like a contender's final, I guess?
Like a 2020 preview for a Wato.
Certainly too long, it's fair to say.
Busan has been so good to us. What an amazing city.
I would highly encourage people to take a visit.
As we get into the action here on Coliseo.
The last best chance for Mexico.
Couple of drops slow.
ColorHack's back to the signature Cassidy.
Very comfortable here on the server.
How much do you need to pour on the aggression?
Go a little bit too deep.
Ferris guy in lay.
Jeep Santana fighting in Vanished Mexico.
And I said that it's human to look for answers here
if you're Mexico.
And this Xi'an tracer composition with a Wu Yang to boot.
It's an interesting composition that
gives them a bit of a different taste out here
as they look to clean things up.
So he gets an extra frag onto Ferris guy,
but this is going to be Mexico surely,
unless actually, so he gets another one.
We have two Dallas players here for Australia.
If they get spawners back,
I mean, Cassidy's not really the hero for this situation.
Colorex, he's in a rockin' hard place.
Oh, oh, oh, oh, the flank.
Eventually run down by Santana,
but Old Cupva punishes one at the same time.
Cormiz, off-sync on the play.
He needed this to be decisive, Jake.
That's not exactly the opposite that you wanted.
Just do all the flank, highly consequential.
It's like he has recall.
Australia though, not in any hurry. Still a couple. Wants to keep the tempo fast.
Soggy in the back. I'm gonna go out of pressure on Soggy, finishes the job with some good connections.
From the support of Australia, set that kill on the pulse as well.
Soggy lights out on the tracer. And he's looking for more. He's not done yet with this fight.
Sintana already had the suit. Will be cleaned up. The bot continues to march.
There's guy in way to come up to stay alive and get closer to these old patrols.
Don't come over. Don't let them break.
Oh, he just dropped the phone here.
We're getting forced to open.
So defensive may still go down.
We saw he has anything to say about it, but hold on.
Santana brings one back on the Accu.
Stepped up a little too aggressively at that moment.
Yeah, I think Accu actually called there by the title of Aston.
He gets picked for it.
I'm careful.
Colorex, this is more push.
I forgot you had to lock for this old man.
And a pulse pump from Unhelfulato will shut him down.
Next go, sweeping back forward over the map.
Armazalde comes on you. Now, the next target, come pursuit.
Going both hamster and ackee behind.
He flies to the bot and mid-map. He's the best at next token over.
This is where you need to start racking up some momentum into Mexico.
You need some proof that you can propel this both forward, playing the composition.
You are limited in hand here. Kits and rush to boot.
I have the tools required here. Keep putting this both forward.
And Australia stem the bleeding deal with the rush the limit break the dead eyes fall very much back in their court
Yeah, the damage of lubrication in the rush not enough to win that one out and that's the power movement
He gets one back here though against Colorex five versus four situation
This should be a freebie here for Mexico able to punish someone else
But Australia going to be the wiser here keep retreating here as well guarantee value with this kids sooner
There's no need to force an error
Pug pressure from Wu Yang, not to be understated.
Australia, with push advantage here, Mexico has to equalize.
Zaki Dooling in the fight, forces the first recall, there comes Zaki with the rush.
Challenging moment for Mexico, Santana, out of the suit.
Mexico with a little bigger cleanup.
But Wu Yang don't come to him, it's all over the baby Dima, the smell of the cover, doesn't even budge.
Lego's down.
Mexico, maybe feeling the pressure now, throwing good money after bad in that fight.
Australia, keep doing what they do best.
Coming out on top of these teamfights with a lonely kid sooner rush.
Limit breaking hand now for Kafa.
Colorex getting close to this guy, noon.
The way they're so efficient with these ultimates kick, it's not like they're letting Mexico
back into this map.
Limit breaking, wait, wait, wait, wait for Kafa.
Trying to get players in the choke, but Santana is somewhat isolated.
A tough spot for reading the fighter, Saki.
With an open sideline in the back line, he pulls them in hand, goes slightly wide, with a lot of pressure on these supports though, they need to keep Santana healthy.
Santana finds himself under huge pressure.
Colorex will in to take a skull here, open up the flash port, will be a critical check for it to activate, and the support is fantastic.
Keeping Colorex fighting this overall raid from above, exactly what the Cassidy needed.
And Australia will cap this point, opening up the forward spawn for the first time in this map.
I would have teamfights when that is from Australia as well, it took a good long while, but again they're not letting Mexico back into it, Mexico unable to find picks in that one.
They have the benefit of an ultimate bank now, SkyNude in hand, if you could win this one cheaper for Mexico that would be confirmed, you can't let this meterage get out of control.
into the corner, it's not clear how they can fight out from this position, and with the bot stolen away,
Nex score doing their best to play the economy game.
Top up over the top, tries to get into the back line, but lay!
Marks the tracer off well, supports working together, they get the rush out though,
and that may be all you find for Australia, they co-sack on the payload,
Color X falls as well, and Nex go with a clean fight actually,
who kept their chance to make a bit more progress.
Yeah, but it's like you say that Kitsunor is being forced from the first guy.
Now what great tool do you really have to round this corner?
Australia, they're going to have the high ground this time around. They have a limit break.
They will come up on those double supports as well here.
You need more from this one. That is an opening frag actually.
That could allow Mexico back into this one. Can they take the high ground here?
Great beam on Colorex. Perfect tracking from Santana with those headshots.
not expecting that level of pressure and it's gonna win a lot of our progress
Australia though the checkpoint is what they really value a little bit of
progress not the end of the world here
now Colorex back into the fight peeking in over the top people can expect a
similar bullet but Wu Yang taking the fight to him
I'll put the limit break on the low ground so I can hear what that accomplishes opportunity though when Wu Yang falls
Colorex finds another and even with Karmes shutting down Zoggy
It's far from a clean fight for Mexico.
Australia, they're already camps from Collar Hatches.
They hit indeed.
That's what they're doing in Mexico with drawing here.
They don't have the members.
You need a really good fight to be able to contest with that high ground.
You make some progress, 63 meters.
Here's an opportunity next time around to reach that checkpoint.
You have decent amount of ultimates, but so does Australia here.
Kappa out of the suit.
Okay, he's actually going back to spawn.
Swap back into it.
I love that play from Kappa.
It would have been a huge Achilles' heel.
to have a baby demon to open the fight.
Colorex in a vulnerable position here though.
Always on the low ground, you gotta fight for this Australia.
You cannot back down, you're in for the dead ice.
Oh, it's a dual, if you're out.
Colorex wisely backs the open, but doesn't read the position correctly.
Hermes finds that kill, and now on top of Akie, he's sent down.
Two kills for Hermes, one for the tank of Mexico.
This is really bad news, Akie used the lies the Kitsunores did as well.
And now, you'll get the checkpoint here for your Mexico.
You have Kitsunores in hand with the limit break.
This could be actually what gains them to leave.
They could very much stay in this.
Limit Break comes out.
Where's the rest of Mexico?
They need to find this new centena.
So low!
A big healing wave for Muya.
Keep centena fighting.
Bob Brumper starting to be late now.
Very close to taking the lead from Mexico.
Ferris Guy drops the rush.
Wants to force it.
Soggy dancing well.
Keeping this building contest.
Massive drop of the boot.
Denies a good connection for the bulls bob.
Australia need to clean this one up.
This could get scary.
Hamster find Ferris Guy.
Oh, Kiri's a huge cunt of force on the map!
Oh no, disaster scene from Mexico!
Just when things were looking hopeful!
Oh, some critical errors!
I mean, once again, Australia pushed back into enemy territory.
I mean, just that stall effort from Saki is huge!
Buying so much time in that Kipsuner watch.
Rosarito has then cleaned things up and they remain in the leader.
Minute to go now!
4 Mexico.
It needs to get value with this title best.
It needs something here to keep this push going.
Very small margin here for Australia though.
Far from an easy situation for them.
The mid rake is out from Kappa.
Wildest might be going to play it slow.
He's getting assassinated.
Sorry you wanted to find this muyeng, but here it comes.
The title blast over.
Well, it's going for the crisis.
Perfect.
From Akim.
And with the Deadeye channeling, big hit coming in.
But no kills just yet.
Australia need more.
And the rush will be just what they asked for.
He throws it down Mexico though spreading to the four wins
And actually there the ones who come up with the kill you need to stay by so
Counts dropping so low here as Australia keeps pushing this one
Here comes over the rig as well
Everything thrown into this Australia desperate for kills Mexico bending but not breaking
Big hits on the couple of the neck broken out last fight. We're down to the overtime
But it is still a winnable for Mexico
And they're getting a couple of frags as well a couple goes down alongside the Colorex
Now it's going to be the backflip as well, so, Mexico with a good opportunity here in overtime.
Plenty of ultimates to spare as well.
Clean up UDAS Toga goes down, but Australia, they'll get a good opportunity to reset, gain this high ground.
But it's going to be a tough task to defend there still, Jake.
Honestly, Johnny, Australia got too close to the sun there, ruined everything after that fight.
Huge ultimate advantage for Mexico.
Ferris-Kig was on a 1 HP here, that is way too scary.
But Santana just forced him to payload with a limit break.
In hand, Ferris-Kai drops the rush first, so much damage being poured into his Australian players.
Soggy once again, folding the payload, playing the effective game.
Limit breaks out from both sides, couples let breaks burst for the fault mark.
Will he, Santana, sooth behind?
Baby-Demon's not fighting for everything, the deny is out, come on, Santana, come on!
It's good for it, and Lay, with the title blast on himself, gives him a name, catches the tree, throws a recall!
Mexico are doing it in this map Johnny.
Aki finds one but it won't be enough.
The bot marches toward the line.
Cover lower to be seen.
And Mexico will bump up on the board.
Here in Usag, the series is not done yet.
Smiles on the faces of Mexico here as they win a map.
Like you said, Australia investing a lot of support
towards the tail end of that map on the opponent's side.
And that just makes life so much easier for Mexico in that one, but it was a heroic effort throughout.
It was not like a singular mistake from Australia. That was Mexico. They were hanging on.
They were fighting properly. They spent the later half of that map on the side of Australia,
making progress. And so an impressive team fight effort there from Mexico earns them a map in this series.
Keep going.
That's big for Mexico. They haven't put one on the board yet in this event and now they
do. Now they show that it's still possible. Still possible indeed.
Parmes. Doing some good work on the hitscan here and I mean no elemental guy in the mix.
Bolado doing some great top outside that unfortunately.
He's falling off the map there. I mean he goes off the map. Sure but he puts
What's a map one on the board for this team?
No, it's only 100%.
Right?
This Wu Yang looks well, so impressive, yeah.
Yeah, Lei played well.
In the end, I do feel Australia, they're
going to really wish they had this penultimate team type back.
Yeah.
They threw a ton of volts in and props to Mexico.
They played that fight so patiently.
Even in overtime, I mean, facing elimination,
you haven't won a map.
Everything's that fancy.
You know, honestly, it's hard to even believe
in a situation like this.
They have the patience to weather the storm in that fight.
And then as they step back here on the other side of the map,
they've earned their place.
They've earned that team fight, and they earn the map win.
Just a shred of a chance now, just a little pinch
of possibility for Mexico.
And for Australia, you really want to end things here.
You do not want to let things go to a map five.
That is where it would get truly scary.
A spoiler for Mexico would be a complete shocker in this series.
I mean, maybe one of the more shocking series we've seen in this tournament,
and there have been quite a few of those.
Indeed.
Indeed, a clinic of officers to recap this past weekend here.
That is the jetpack ban deployed by Mexico.
There's going to be an uphill battle from here.
But at least you know, you have the confidence that, like,
hey, we won one map.
I can't win too.
A lot of British fans just sat up in their chairs.
A lot of Brits leaning forward right now.
You don't have a choice.
A little bit closer to the screen.
It's like you can't, you dare not really believe.
But it's impossible to discard.
It's that tingling sensation of hope.
Of what if?
If it's happened once, Tony, why can't it happen again?
The possibility.
Why can't it happen again?
from zero to one, changes everything.
For Mexico,
on Halvalado, really a hero,
come in cold, in a brutal map,
a series that looks nigh over for you,
to deliver a really strong performance individually.
But I think you're right, it was the team as a whole.
It was also, gotta give some credit where credit is due.
A few individual plays from Santana, Kafa getting the mech broken quite often first, but Santana was doing extremely well in the demon mirror and for me I think that's probably the biggest individual contribution from a Mexican player in that map.
Yeah, it seemed like Kafa was trying to replicate kind of that question we've seen and when you have the benefit of a jetpack cat, you have a little bit more room to play with.
But it was an interesting backline choice for Mexico as well, playing the Wu Yang.
I feel like that changes the matchup in a few different ways, in that Saugie has maybe a bit more of a difficult time,
like securing picks in the backline.
And I feel like overall Mexico did a good job of like dragging out these fights.
Australia, they like to play with aggression, getting picks early in some of these fights.
But as these fights stalled out, it was actually like the impact of the Wu Yang,
Karmas finding picks required as well and you know...
You know, Wu Yang is a serious poke, like that hero does damage and it almost forces you to get aggressive as Australia with the Juno, like you've got to use that speed ring, get a pick or else Wu Yang is just chipping you down little by little and honestly, he comes down to comp selection with Kat off the field.
I think I do take Mexico's comp there, so important for them to have every advantage they can get.
Australia though, let's not over dramatize this. They're so far from out of this. They've got two map picks, two sets of ban control.
I love drama Jake. I mean we love drama. We love drama. That's what we're here, but but I just got to bring it back down to earth
Australia surely they can close out here. They have some powerful map picks to bring it to they control the band phase from here on out
Yeah, like bands are so powerful so that yeah that
Band is the definitive band of this meta like could have been the rest of the scapegoat like game changing band
You can deploy because that is the most game-changing hero in the server right now
But drama J drama drama Australia is thinking the same thing right they're thinking the same thing
Oh, they just won because of the cap that yes, that's exactly what it is. Oh, it's another one
And they're like no, it's not the cap and see that's really competitive when it makes go wins another one
This conversation is gonna be very different
We are gonna have to talk very seriously about
What's going on for paper? We need to get a great Britain player in on the cast if Mexico win one more math
I'm calling an audible
You have a little side camera to show the great Britain squad as they're watching the game.
They're leaning forward, they're leaning forward.
Neon Junction, the map selection for Australia.
The more than that, band control.
What do they choose to deny here?
What do they think is the critical threat?
Or do they just defer?
For me, there's no band that jumps out.
Yeah, not necessarily.
Okay, I see this actually, I get this a lot, he's a really intelligent band.
I didn't predict it, I wouldn't have found it myself, but Carmeza's been really strong
in the show, we talked about this.
We've been focusing on the big highlights from the Gen G, you know, the front line battle,
but Carmeza slowly and steadily producing picks on his game and Shion has been a key
part of that.
Mexico band Juno, but to be honest, I think that's kind of an expression of
fact that they're kind of a refuge of meaningful bands you could ban tracer but
that hurts you just as much as it hurts Australia maybe more I know a lot of that
really is his signature so they've used demon Cassidy I think we should address
this question given what we just saw on Colosseo you think there's any
possibility that makes you go keeps playing the Wu Yang here or just
have the cat like if you're playing on a payload map like you're gonna withdraw
you're gonna back down so much like give up so much room
I think supports like bling. I think cat would like run you over the cat will like come scratch you today
Like almost solo and then you add a soggy tracer plus the cat on top of your back
I mean that's I think what people underestimate about jetpack cat how good this girl is it getting in on the dives
I mean we're some of the players were joking about cat being the best DPS right now
And while I don't necessarily
It's a combination, it's like there's no other support in the game that can be where Tracer is.
And the enemy backline, maybe behind enemy lines.
And on top of that, you can put the team in the same position.
I mean, it completely changes the game.
Like when you play this cat, Tracer, comp, you don't really have a backline.
You're all- you're all-diver.
I mean, I guess your backline is like a Cassidy and a Kyroko,
But Cassidy is such a huge threat and with the Kira feel behind
It's not particularly vulnerable to aggression. So from my perspective
I think the comps are fixed here. I think what Mexico have is gonna be played in mirror
We got a pause to start up this game make sure we got all of our issues sorted. It's tough against
He's on his fair share of posses. He is uh
I wanted to make sure that everything is perfect.
I mean...
With BlizzCon on the line.
In fairness, yeah, there's huge stakes on this match.
Crucial, the field of play is level.
Oh, I see, I have some problems with that actually, I don't think so.
Okay, and he's good.
Yeah.
No device to choose this time around.
I was gonna say this about Mexico.
At least you're in the mindset of like, we got one of the chords.
Like, we got something done.
I've been in ranked games where you're like, nothing goes our way, nothing is happening.
And then you win like a good half and you're like, okay, like this is working for us, this
is working for us.
Whether it's like the very small micro stuff, not overextending or like having the right kind
of aggression.
Like just that belief that like you did it right in the previous map, now you have
to replicate that.
Different circumstances with the cat, but that's at least a little nice for your confidence
to bring that victory to this one.
to know that it can be done right you can compete you can't achieve a victory
if you've done it once why not again the cat is going to be the question they have
not answered yet in this meta Australia have run the table the cat ban is enough
to turn the tides you don't have access to it you're off the on-tuncation
they get some help a lot of who really needs to step up because soggy has been
finding so many openers.
Yeah, let's see what that goes so good kind of picks here.
Getting behind the Tana.
Going for the left side here, you know, we call 430.
Not a great start.
It'll be Australian Tracer.
Carmez.
Yeah, Greshan is near, though.
Yeah, I'm showing a lot of presses on this flank angle.
So, risky positioning.
The Tana starts to drop both, so does Wade.
Australia getting a good purchase now in this first fight.
Polarex marking the flanks as well.
Aware of any threats coming in.
The head shot on downhill for Lotto, down one, but we've seen a lot of comebacks from this position in this tournament, in the modern game.
Couple wants to make sure that does not happen, and Hill made a TP for Ferris guy, sends him into deep trouble, couple will dispatch him post-haze, the Staggers continuing to come through and Australia will pick up this first point.
Seemingly, back to a very comfortable composition for the Aussies.
And that's a display of skill in and of itself.
The mid-fight rotations from Australia that time, Colorex finding the pitch necessary after
initial skirmish there.
Gets them on the board as they keep that payload moving forward.
Early consideration from Hamster as well.
This will never be carefully enough to be caught.
Centena shield broken.
Passed the back off.
Clarks starting to move forward.
Ultimate's coming in soon.
Layle playing over the top of the train.
That's a good shit.
For the most of them, I don't think you could do that.
Nullarx fell with this guy, dude.
Nullarx got Nullarx in the eyes!
Oh no, that's Brutal!
He's kind of on the top, he already goes down.
Nullarx draws first, finds blood, and it's only a baby demon to stall the payload.
Aw, a painful first dash for the Kiri in that fight.
Spells disaster for Mech-Spell.
They throw a lot into that engagement, but don't get much of anything out of it.
Indeed, Korak's playing the Anti-Earter at that time with the Jedi.
He's trying to pick up the corners as well.
And now it's going to be our battle of the demons here.
Cupfights are both with limited rage available.
Can you utilize that damage and amplification maybe combining with the postform itself to de-next the opposing tank?
Oh, you gotta stop the car. We're down to a one-fight scenario.
It's super low, Hamster finds one on the lane, all the moving brick jumps to the pieces with
Centenna fights, two of their own.
Still just a chance, but it's only the demon now.
And with Saga and Kappa coming back in, Haki just flying circles around the net.
Australia in pole position to cap out second, but the snack of nature of those kills
means a retake is still very much possible.
A pulse bomb from an Alvalado called upon right now to make a difference.
Oh my god, that's so low!
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!
It's a kill on the Saugie!
The Australians maybe just getting a little bit over their skis in this one.
And Mexico will be happy to take the cleanup.
Laying it in is the jetpack cap.
And that buys enough time for Mexico to get back into this one.
Mauga!
Okay, I mean, deciding not to take the demon view.
So if you take one, Mauga is an option here, but...
They need to prove to us that they can do this with the Cardiff Overdrive.
Very defensively minded, maybe, here.
Who's gonna blink for it right now, Australia?
Contents just poking prod.
But for the defenders, kind of a status quo is good.
Colour shop's super low.
All the melee's off, seen Colorex stays alive.
Santana though, the big stop!
I have a tube!
Come on!
The mag is broken.
The front line's starting to crumble.
Mexico!
Finding their nerve here in a critical moment for Mez!
Big kills in the feed and maybe some doubt now if we begin to Australia.
What a fight, looking scary for them.
What a hero, some business from Santana.
You're playing the meta composition with the demon.
You're actually doing some great work with the limit right here as well.
But instead of opting for the Mauga here, Mr. Jean shoved the fuel in and of itself a little bit.
And now you're staying at 2 minutes 30 here for Australia.
Many ultimates available for Mexico.
Bit of a different matchup.
up blips his head this match on his head. A lot of active value. Sky News are
everything here. Raga without a mean plan here. Sky News is Dr. Mez is big
channel below. Dr. Mez isolated, surrounded. That's a 10 I should say and it's all
Australia picking up a huge team fight victory. The dead eye just a little bit
quicker but it makes all the difference in the world. ColorHack's
Veteran hands, holding steady.
And that's a tough loss to take.
Lay goes off of the cat.
Over to the Wu Yang.
You mentioned this is a possibility.
How will it pay off this third point?
Very close to throwback.
Difficult for the Flanks to come in,
but maybe they're not needed.
The Colorex will just open up a rush from Ferris guy.
Oh no!
Okay, the stun comes in,
but Mexico are bleeding out now.
Zentemi goes for the cage right there.
All in on this!
Can they bring him up back?
With the connection of the Colorex,
It may be possible a peak clan from Hamster and hold on!
Oh, that's awesome.
Oh, but that's a much better moment, yeah.
It hurts, Hotlock, it hurts so badly.
And in the chaos of this deathmatch, Mexico has found their way through.
It's incredibly expensive in Ultimates and Kappa is still fighting.
But not a total loss for Mexico.
Yeah, yeah, the trades actually benefit the limited ones, but they threw so much in that one.
Realistically, the next kind of ultimate cycle here is going to benefit Australia.
Give them a great opportunity here.
Sougi swaps over, saw Genji!
Inspiration from Alimentar guy, oh he's good, Colorex is down!
Once again, the Australian attack, Stifle, Santana swings around, catches off, comes from behind,
Karmas is looking for well-played shots.
Here's a good pitch.
Finishing the job!
It almost like allows them back into that ultimate cycle as well as we look at it.
Australia hurt their head, now they have the dead eye, they have to consume their rush, but late,
We'll eventually come up to that final bastion south, so you're probably still allowed to get to consider us your south.
And Maceco, man's fifth here, and they're very much in this even still.
Here comes the rough from Hamster though, this is the big problem.
Ultimate cycle turns against the Jedi Hitch, but not enough for a kill.
Katnep finishes off Carmez.
Without him, who will be the standard bearer for Mexico?
Tell the Rex looking for the head.
Up that enemy tracer won't find it, but it'll get too better.
A rare double kill with the Flashbang.
and unhelp a lot of waiting in the wings and the outside to the retouch winnable but only just
It's a decent spawnway four minutes ago here. They have a couple of support over the spot this dead. I just limit break could be back breaking
They got a respect this vendetta
Hold up over the top no meaningful damage though from the ultimate couple to limit break
To make the difference, Santana has already found one,
coming with a lock to two.
Over just a minute on the clock.
You do not want to be resetting now.
Mexico fighting two in the nail, defending their spawn here.
Barra Sky fights critical sides.
In that, Soggy pulls the plate, there he's got one.
Does he have more?
Needs to finish this fight, post ace.
The spotter's coming, making fast now.
It's good to be enough.
Carvus is back on the Vendetta.
It's just starting off for Australia.
Soggy goes for an amazing play there,
but can't find the value required.
So difficult to diss a meta.
And we're down to 40 seconds here.
Carmans?
Whoops, we're low.
As the tunnel swaps, you're back.
Slow, slow, you get back up to the fight.
It's getting weird.
Mexico's starting to get bowled over.
The tank swapped.
Maybe ill-fated.
Australia taking any opportunity.
As one that's good enough, Carmans
tries to assist in the front line.
Here's the shot from Maga, stabilizing as well.
But Saki into the back.
Does it on the Genji with Cat behind?
Surely now enough for Australia.
Santana, though, still healthy.
And a Tracer kill, up close as well.
Albalado pulls one out of his hand and this Mexican defense is really starting to come together
Holding strong yet if we have the overtime here tough of no bet just two to wash off one after but no one's there to take the benefit
I keep closing in on it
Winnable it is winnable for Mexico on neon junction
Australia
They've got three back-to-back
Series points blizzcon points in these maps they failed on the first one now
Not capping last on neon junction. I mean alright
Still very winnable for Australia because still straight up a stronghold from that Mexico cannot slow down
But some of these players and help a lot of came alive on that tracer
Santana committing to clutch in some crazy scenarios, but it actually works out for Mexico
Very much achievable this for Mexico it is a
Like we've seen this develop throughout the tournament as well
You know it can be difficult to approach this map, but I mean in OWS
Yes, we have also seen this map finished a fair amount of time. So I don't necessarily want to
provide a percentage here of like how unlikely it is for me to go to get back
into this one the most important thing is you can't secure your second map win
here on this attack fate is in your hands you just have to act on it step up
keep making place they look better these last couple of maps and the way they're
paying now it's worthy of at least consideration that it is possible to
bring this one back and with every team fight because Mexico's way they
They start to believe a little more and for the Australians, the doubt knocks at the door.
Little by little, his first fight.
So much rest in the balance right now.
Who can step up?
Will it be Carmez?
He's found many opportunities before.
Oh, big shot.
Can't quite finish his play.
An Elve Lotto, though!
Walk on to the gap!
Now, Australia!
Really!
But Titanic goes a little bit deep.
Support is good, stabilizing cover.
Nose of the retake is very reasonable.
Cat should be back fast.
A blank fight for Carmads.
No major opportunities.
They put him up on the high ground,
though this could get wild.
Colorex has to market the point.
Starting to become big shots!
From the Mexican Gacity!
So many apps connected!
Slips away, Daphne stays on this high ground.
The point gap is still marching forward. Australia has to do something about this position.
Things are starting to constrict around them.
Soggy forced out, he's down!
Colorex now seizes the opportunity on the high ground, but when can he produce a kill?
Lay is too sharp with the bogey!
Oh, and this is the start of the Florida Club from Mexico.
Things are coming together.
Armand seizes the high ground, outlashes out from Hamster,
but it doesn't seem to be enough.
A big dead eye over the top will break the suit from Cobbara.
And with it, his first point defense.
They just can't find it into these sides of Australia.
Sitting back for so long, Kitsuners dropped by Hamster.
It's just a tiny bit too late as Colorex goes down in that one.
And now, going into the second point, there's going to be Mexico.
Kitsuners, limit break in hand.
Telenio opportunities to keep this payload going.
Valor gets to recall Forster. Forster withdraws for a little bit, but no, not too worried.
That's the second point of skill in its infancy.
Trillia sets up here.
No ultimates in hand here.
You're gonna need to get this Jedi up and running to cure some value if you can.
Almost one of four is not a couple of ultimates here.
And he's going to be the kitchen or the front door of the sky.
See this Jedi? I find something a good connection.
With the curies off the field.
Australia could still fight this one out.
Thanks, Cole. Keeping a lot of progress on the guard.
It's turning into a bloodbath.
A ball bomb on the Santana. Marked by the Limit Break, the Mech just barely alive.
Ballsuit's out the field. A duel in the corner with the baby demons.
But with Saugie's assistance, the couple will reign the victor.
The card continues to mark, but there's so few players left for Mexico.
They may just have to retreat from this one.
Hold on, Axe goes deep, tries to clean up kills, but instead throws his life away.
A power play for Mexico.
But will Lay do the same? He's in, so deep he's alone, this cat!
Oh, a big mistake from Lay.
Over his skis and Colorex will cling on to the second point defense. Spawners back in, company him off the suit.
It's almost like Mexico knows they need to find a little something here. Stuck in this alleyway for now, looking for picks.
But they got no room right now. They need to reposition themselves.
Their best chance really is Colorex building towards his dead eye.
So close.
Way ahead of Colorex. In that department, the sky noon could be huge in this open air second point.
Up his limit break though. You gotta respect this. Here comes Sky June.
Farm as he revives up the channel. Remember to kick him!
I get the connection! Go the wreck!
Rolls away! The limit break chops him in half!
Santana now low as well.
Cart marching forward, but Kappa, his eyes are on the kills.
Who wants to clean up this fight?
And a T-Shoot on Santana is gonna turn into a nasty stagger.
It's gonna take so much time. Hope they talk here.
Should he wait for the train?
instead just
Forces soggy's hand running back
And Australia now find themselves in real control of the ultimate economy. Yeah. Yeah, they got a firm grip here now on this one
It's really a mistake. They kind of need to come through here
Next door a lot to get back into this one two minutes 30th
I mean you want to advance to that third point but as much time as you can obviously
Just to give yourself an opportunity to round those very difficult corners on the third one
So how does Australia play this one?
Plenty of ultimates in hand, you want to play liberally or cautiously?
So ok, get picked, five is the first situation, get soon rushed up from after.
The hero in that fight, can Australia bring this one back?
Both come into the back with the catnap, he's caught, he can't get away from his own bomb!
And the Elve Lotto goes down, Gullirex from the off angle.
The Denys zones away, all the assistance, Santana is in all on their own!
And Gullirex bleeds out the silver bullet.
Australia, looking for the regroup, Santana wants to deny it, steps up with the limit break.
Will they go for it?
Hold him for now!
Playing this from my pressure game, as Leif finds Aki, Mexico starts to find Momazubir
in this critical second bump in Hamster!
A huge kunai headshot, and a second as well to Keri!
Disgusting performance from Hamster!
But Australia, they might need more.
Leif finds a few, and comes out of the suit.
Mexico on the verge of copying this second point. They need to finish it here or now before the spawners get back
But Santana is just cutting through players left right and center and a redeeming fight for the Mexico jetpack cat lay
huge fines in that engagement
They're gonna keep marching forward on this offense still
took a lot
I'm such a good position here. This is where Kappa maybe can start to thrive though limit break coming up
It's a very broad centric point
No, no, no. Why there is so great, which favors the skills of those people here.
Garmez.
With the dead eye.
And Leigh will open it up under Aki. Once again!
Cracks begin to show for Australia. They pull back. They don't want to throw this one away in a 4v5.
This will be their last best chance. With a time bank far from healthy for Mexico.
for Mexico. Seek that ice swung into the back, reconnect it all, but it keeps it away from
Hamster. Into the back line though, unhelp a lot, it comes in for the assist. All become
as it's so deep, he has no way out. Double clean house. Slow and steady wins the race.
For Mexico this kind of a chaotic fight will not be good enough to finish the map.
Not good enough to get Stela's Australia hold on to this one. They got to hold
Ultimates as well. I'm gonna hold onto them if they can.
So straight. Mexico here rather, minute 30 now.
Plenty of ultimates on the board here to try and close this one out.
But you have to secure that value. You can't get greeted with it.
We're gonna flank here from Karmus. Looking for any kind of openings if possible.
Alonso as well. Jeweling with the tracer on the high ground.
But there's something on the back of the ducky.
Mexico it has to be clean it's so hard to do in this spot
Zantana getting body block soggy post-bomb no connection but Santana so low in the frontline
Beat shopped on the car mess Mexico routed with cheating trying to stay alive
Australia they'd love to finish the fight for they can't find the kills
Now rush to play from both sides
Beat catch with the limit wreck the Stems in a spell
Killer Hacks off the fight still both players remaining Australia they need a kill into this one
Hamsters are low it's on Mexico
They're coming up with the goods into this one Johnny
They're going to attack as well.
Surely it's just a matter of time now.
Australia trying to get back into this one.
Colorex for the dead eye, but they don't really have room to operate.
Kappa with the last inch effort trying to detach the point.
Karma is fighting another one.
A post-bunker ended up.
Colorex with the dead eye over the top.
An impossible ass.
He gets one on the Ferris guy.
The respawner's coming in.
But they're so low on the Opalano.
Santana, they will not be denied.
And they will cap on the abjusion.
They will send us to a decisive game five
in a shocker-upper series.
The anxiety
More than just a glimmer more than just a whisper in your ear
Australian now doubt has to creep in I
Mean you want to end this tournament with a win so bad
After some of these heroic efforts overcoming great Britain really
To be reversed like this. I mean that would be absolutely devastating
We are on Mexico team is just they just keep fighting in this one
We are on the cost of a
Legendary spoiler performance from Mexico one for the agent
Yeah, well, let's see us how this one unfolds still
We've seen so many ups at this turn. It's really reverse. We said now we're going to math five
Yeah, I can it is
It is anybody's game on the server
We have pencil this one in
This one in a day of free overwatch. I'd be surely not this game
Deliver the shocker to finish the event
We were we were 15 and 0 we were 15 and 0 going into this one and we're thinking it makes it go
You know unfortunately, they haven't had a great time so far
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into this final map here at Overwatch World Cup,
Busan group stage that leads into BlizzCon in just a few weeks time where we'll take on the Overwatch workout playoffs
Australia versus Mexico in a final map here in the final match in Busan
And
Mexican players have shown up in such a major way and for a team that kind of came into this event thinking
Gotta play the Genji. We got to get wild with it
That's our only hope
And help a lot of in carmen show them that they can go blow for blow. Yeah, well a lot of great job on the tracer deal
Mauga is gonna be the band
Or Australia. I wonder if they ever think about the hazard here. Is that completely crazy?
Yeah, I mean tough about on the very first map obviously
Just see them as a hero up until demon really it would be it would be maybe striking and it's Mexico's turn to draw mercy
bad in I
I mean that is a sense of confidence. We're happy to take this match up.
You know you did it on Neon Junction. It was one thing to do with the Cat Band.
That completely shook up the meta.
Guard fought victory on Coliseo.
But then finding their way through on Neon Junction, a map full of twists and turns and challenging engagements.
Individual prowess.
Saves the day.
I gotta say a phenomenal cat performance from Leigh, tons of frags picked up by the jetpack
cat in those chaotic engagements and that's key in this meta you will find yourself thrust
into that chaos and you can find the way through, find the way to produce, survive,
be that last man standing while you're rewarded with victory.
one more map for Mexico to notch a victory against a team that is a country that is often
fielded successful teams in the Overwatch World Cup. Yeah a very respectable roster indeed
as we're taking a moment to meditate, get into the right mindset here here in Mexico.
So, when I go into this one, the best way possible, it's been sort of fun meta to watch
as it is unraveled with Settledivision, obviously winning a Nitsi's Championship on the back
of Violet's Deathpack Cat.
You know, for so many years we were relying on the macro gameplay of Lucio Kierry, push
and pull, and now we're getting an opportunity to main support step up with mechanics.
the unstopped aggression coming in from either the so much mechanics on either side,
the tracers, the hitscans, the demon, so much going on in this Overwatch meta.
And it allows for some big names to step up.
Big names indeed, and new ones.
Wonswim may have not come into this event respecting and expecting that they would
deliver big showings but it's incredible how this event always lives up to that
height always showing players who may have not had the chance to compete on
land to play against some of the best in the world that they can do it they can
upset some of the goats we have had no shortage of upsets one board blows out the
event you would almost be poetry but Mexico they cannot wrestle their
Moros just yet Australia may qualify with map wins but they want to win this
series they want to close things out in style here and the heartbreaker will be
just the way to do it. Gava, oh tight press the front line, full attention to
himself but some more respect given in the posturing from this demon.
Kromes though swings in wide. D-Soot on Santana but the front line is so incredibly low for Australia.
It's going to be Mexico taking this first five.
Kafa there just wanting to take matters into his own hands.
Wanting to go aggressive, find the picks required,
but loses so much health in the progress
that as this fight kind of devolves,
becomes clean of duty for Kafa on the Cassidy once more.
It's going to be Mexico getting on the board here.
Welcome to Tracer Group.
We're going to take the first five.
We're going to take the first five.
We're going to take the first five.
Welcome to Tracer Climbing, Sgt.
In a Difference Maker, who route this event, now finds Karmes on the flank.
Flashbang dodge, looking for more, other accident.
Punish the sleigh for Daring to challenge his cast and Karmes off on an angle all on
his lonesome.
Karmes is happy to step up and gobble down that cast.
He sent 10 and now finds one, but will need more to keep this fighting contest,
maybe a stagger on the point.
All they can find.
Here he comes in to buy just a few seconds more, but that's all they'll be, 56% for Mexico.
Colorex finds the crucial opening that time and the trades just aren't there from Santana.
Giving Australia the edge.
So we're building up to this first ultimate cycle.
Soggy, close one, in hands.
Typical fifth value out of this one.
Against Susu, comes first guy.
We'll have to see though, Australia constantly aggressive.
Playing these corners, trying to find an opening, poking a fraughting button.
Kafa, Lucical Auto Shield earlier, Shield broken, now gonna be forced to withdraw.
This opens the door for Carmes.
Here he comes, there he goes, a big channel!
Holtz's nerve, wings up the climb, experience for Carmes in a critical moment, a fight and never-shill as well!
Big performance for Mexico.
They'll dominate this fight.
Major investment of ultimates to get it done, but...
If you put a flashpoint up on the board, all is forgiven still.
Another key fight before that mission is accomplished.
Yeah, they got the ultimate auto from Hamster. That's the Kitsuna Rush.
Which again, PolarHax has the Jedi in hand, but at least on this opening stage here,
maybe you can find an opportunity to play around it,
find a way to let late do work,
could crash the party with a beautifully timed kidnap.
You need a little something if you're Mexico though, and they're hunting for a player.
They're hunting for an opening.
If our mess is tricky with this one, but the dead eye may catch him out.
Puppets hit him at the top, shot straight down.
Cleanses good from Ferris guy, but the damage is so strong in that front line.
Sintana popping out of the suit, a wild place catch up from Colorex,
grew up by Kappa, and then just light up the feed now.
Really looking snappy on the Cassidy.
They get the flip, delaying even a little bit onto Karmes.
And that might be enough now, Johnny.
It's a staggered reset for Mexico. This flashpoint is looking grim.
Yeah, it's a poor spawn wave.
I mean, maybe you can get back there, but what's the point?
Three versus five, you know, can I win this one?
The Mexico, can I let this one go?
It's Australia, claiming the very first point here.
On, out, this, in, instead.
A race now.
Blue can get towards that objective first.
Assert themselves in position.
Looks like it'll be Mexico.
Australia have to work their way in from this coastline.
They'll swing for a position here.
The cat's pocketing the tracers as well, want to maintain his high ground collects to provide a bullet here to aid in that Q-Wolf.
Just one shot from Kast, he could make all the difference in the world.
Cat gets low, Zogito boxed out, forced to recall.
Now it's Akki's turn, under scrutiny as the cat.
With recalls out, if anybody's game on the flank fight, now if you're in the tank trade, no, things going just a little bit better for Kappa.
Still no one really blinking first.
That I... oh, ah, keep great moves, dashes away to the low ground.
There's no one to be found.
Maybe a flip for Mexico would be a worthy prize, but here comes trouble with the Limit
Rake.
He damaged it.
Bearer's guy is out.
Cover finds a second.
And Mexico now in real trouble to pick up the flip, but it doesn't mean much.
He's only going to have 20% on this first cap.
It's an awkward moment for Mexico because the sweet treat of the point capture to
To rack up the percentage is too good, but Kafa capitalizes on it with a well-timed
limit break immediately afterwards and the damage amplification is just too much as Australia
gets the opening picks there, which will earn them even more percentage now.
Now, playing with the benefit here, off positioning to the wall point, Clorox has a dead eye
in hand.
Be careful there if you miss kill.
Certainly a scary one.
You don't have great tools to crack this.
The rush could be very valuable, we see how the Sky Noon can be a problem.
Rush comes out to give him immediate response, picked up just in time to evade that pulse
bump from an alcohol auto.
When the brick is out and all of the cover, trying to kill the Kiri though, for our sake,
she slips out of the fight, the Lay is in cover, is broken though.
And that suit kill may be enough to hold on, Karmes dies for his trouble.
It needs to be the Catnap to get him off the map.
Mexico has to clean up this fight, does look good for them.
They're going to Indy, but there is so many Ultronuts invested into that one, too soon to rush.
Catnap, lemme break. A essentially threw everything at the wall there.
And they're gonna win a couple of teamfights in a row, yet still here.
To get away with this point, Australia with a couple of opportunities here.
No immediate great ultimate here for Australia to work with.
They're gonna have to poke and taunt.
Maybe take their time a little bit, put up in the door for Mexico.
Really, 4th plumber here.
Take your eyes off the color, this is far from the objective and they still find their man.
What a dive from Mexico.
Yeah impressive.
And Alvalado, deep in enemy territory.
Pulling respect, pulling attention without the Cassidy.
So large challenge in Mexico with an aggressive forward play
upon themselves a final fight on this second flashpoint.
Yeah, you need to win a couple in a row, but that's one.
So job well done for Mexico, but still Australia in this one with a real good opportunity to seize this point.
Limit break coming up. Consider us as well. This should be Australia's point to win.
for them now. The game play has been so smooth from Australia this time around, really haven't
made any crucial errors whatsoever. Playing it patiently, playing with the ultimates, winning
the fights they need to win, and they do so once more. Good chuck of ultimates for
either side here, opportunities to make individual plays. Another hex. Dead eye. On both sides.
The duel could be critical.
Very open point.
Lacking some of those rooms that we know
are so important to whole Karamez
will shut down Aki.
And immediately moving forward
with Sky to whole Kodrax.
I think he's got first channel, it's close.
Oh!
Karamek Kodrax holds his guard
and he'll have to kill as well.
I'm gonna let his pop though, Santana, lay.
Finding the clutch into this one
with favorite Sky's rush
and with that help of Otto
also finding something in the feed.
The supports for Australia
I have to just retreat out of this one, but again!
It's a fight win, but at what cost?
Yeah, it's expensive. Four Voltees?
It's very expensive here, Jake.
At some point, all you care about are teamfight wins and points, but combining them reckons and all of them together, it's a challenge.
Now, how do you find an opening into this one?
We'll now do it with a pulse pump?
I need it.
He needs to be.
Now he's hopeful.
He has to find it.
Oh, and it goes just wide!
Gullarage opens up on the car!
Megs!
The hero in so many of these G-bombs has defined a second!
Colorex, can you finish the job in this fight? Surely!
A third in the feed, now a fourth!
And Mexico, throwing so many ultimates into that last fight, they cannot even find the finish on the casting.
I mean, on the contrary, for this fight here, Jake, Australia, they don't really invest anything whatsoever.
They find the opening picks without any real effort whatsoever.
So even though Mexico had 49% here, opportunity maybe at some point here to capture the point,
Australia are actually in a really comfortable position in this one, to close out the map, and the series.
Mexico, no ultimates and nothing even close.
Things look so dark for them now.
Couple of steps up, boxing in that front line, respect shown.
Forcing Mexico to step up and change something, but what can they do?
A big shot though, come in!
He's the one to find something!
Watch out for the attached go!
Oh, and a beautiful TP away from Carmez!
Not out of the fire just yet!
Hammer and Anvil, Sagi and Kappa, but the flip comes in and the chaos!
And he'll have a lot of them too!
Mexico!
Alright back into this flash!
That's a limit break!
That's the kid's super rush!
They throw it there for Australia!
And this guy's trading a little bit here, Kappa!
In this front line, but this should be clean up for Mexico now!
Ultimate in hand!
This is the stagger of the Kappa here as well!
This is going to the flash point!
A little bit of additional points of time here!
Surely it's the flash point!
Cup of the whole lot still alive in that baby form the cat now
Wrong name, but it goes wide that is too high up in the air. The channel is good old car man
He's so scary. He still gets a kill while swinging the pillar
Mexico fills up the feed and Australia crumble here one on the board
The reverse sweep needed on Flashpoint to complete the reverse sweep of the series
Still two points to go
And they got the crowd on their side at this one. Excited for the potential of a reverse sweep here.
Australia just can't close it up even though they have plenty of ultimates in that one.
Suffice they really wanted to get back in this one. Mexico they're going to look forward now.
Point on the board here on the outpost. Dead eye in hand. Opportunity to make things difficult for Australia.
All spawns in play. And if this is possible, Enhelved Otto finds the Cassidy.
Oh, this is so much time. This is so much time here. We're so tired.
Now, the rest of them need to go. They have to back away here.
I mean, Soggy, what an individual player to step up on the Tracer, it's been an amazing tournament for him.
And yet again, when's a teamfight with a team there in Australia now?
I think we're going to lose off Nurskai, go come here as well.
Couple of boxes away the allies of Nurskai's out of TP range, Soggy gets the kill.
Someone forces point though, and Alvalado, teams Australia honest.
Crucial objective play from him, and stays alive behind.
Realistic here, Jake, I mean, you're a teamfight win away here for Australia essentially.
This guy noon teams have been so good at adapting to it. It's slipping inside color. It's caught me open though
It's all the credit for the dad. I've done swing one all in the room
Ballroom a couple turns with the limit break tries to bring the fight back
Who gives him the feed acting with the cat that seemingly no joy on that both demons incredibly low
Tracer's cooling could be hugely consequential now
Australia still with point control late right to bring it back with cat out of their own same
The antenna's the one out of two first.
And I'll couple it now. Ready to run rampant on this server.
And picked up his opposite number of plump ones from Zoggy, maybe not needed.
Ferris guy in desperation now grows the rush on the point.
Carmez, a hero, called upon from Mexico to keep them alive.
Australia back here, some time is not going to do this.
But this is Australia's fight to win.
An envelope with the pulse needed now with the close Australian rush.
Surely this will break the back of Mexico.
An envelope of his low, he's entered the pulse, it's good though.
But not good enough!
Zonky fills up the feed!
The Saber cups across Santa Ana!
The Australian's whole firm!
Oh!
An incredible effort from Mexico
to close out this event.
Wow.
This is why we brought the Overwatch World Cup,
a beautiful game.
And from a team with nothing to play for but heart,
but a real love of the game.
They take Australia to the absolute brink,
commanding respect in this series in the crowd showing their appreciation for that.
In Australia as well, putting some respect on Mexico when that map ended and the series was over,
the Australian players, they're like, oh my goodness, wow.
Thank God this one went our way because they do not expect to find themselves here in a fifth and final map.
Now come out on Pep, they do some great individual plays all around,
So he stepped up on a racer, big time in Cuffa, doing his signature work here now on the Demon.
Asked, well, what a fun series to wrap things up here with.
Really impressive individual pop-up performances from Mexico.
To bring this series back to the brink and keep it in contention until the final moment.
But, out of respect, Australia.
Socky, huge breakout performance for him.
Going to be a player that a lot more teams might have their eye on.
After this event, giving an odd land, meaningful for his future career.
Perkullerhex, a veteran of the game, standing firm under huge pressure for Kappa as well.
Anakian hamster, matching that level of play from the front line.
Just a beautiful series here.
An unexpected gigabanger, but I wouldn't have to any other way.
Yeah, I mean this is a great opportunity for Australia to shine really because obviously not participating in OWSS and AOE in the A or the popular regions that get broadcasted.
They have of course Pacific which seems secret, obviously performing at the mid-season championship but these opportunities showcase yourself underneath the national stage.
They come rarely, but Australia doing a fantastic job here in Polar X looks on amazing shots throughout this tournament and like you say the back line for Australia doing some great work.
So great to see them hoping off and we'll see them again at this time
Yeah, we definitely will be seeing Australia at blizzcon
But I don't think any of us were expecting this to turn into the five map gigabang or that it turned out to be
Mexico showing up today and putting themselves definitely on the map here in the overwatch world cup group stage
We I feel like a lot of the memes around Mexico has been like how they continue to sell players in and out for what is
going to work on whichever map that we're seeing and the adjustments they definitely
looked good. Elemental guy on the Genji the first map wasn't necessarily panning out exactly
how they wanted it to. Still a little bit of value though coming out from that pick
when you're considering like on our first map honestly they should have won that first
point there on the side of Mexico. Yeah I mean some crazy pop-ups from the Genji
and for a team like Mexico that maybe came into this event a little bit desperate
a little bit, you know, like knowing that maybe we need to get a little bit crazy to cheese
one over the line. But honestly, I wonder, you know, like after a match like this, it
doesn't kind of make you wish for something else because they showed that they went pound
for pound in this series. Yeah, if you would add those first two maps back, if we had seen
maybe a more straightforward mirror match like Mexico have proven with those math wins
that maybe they could have found even more maybe they should have had more
believe
I think that they've got to be
breathing a sigh of relief with
this win here as well, especially
knowing just how wild some of
Sorry for the little tech issues there, but we are back on the desk to close things out guys
We were just talking about how impressive Australia was breathing a bit of a sigh of relief definitely after that matchup
I think it it got a little little touch touch and go there the fact that we go to all the way to that fifth map
But impressive stuff that we're seeing out from soggy
Yeah, I mean huge performances from some exciting players on team Australia great opportunity and to make it to the top eight to go
to BlizzCon. I'm really meaningful accomplishment for them and for Mexico also proof that you
know maybe next go around they can go pound for pound maybe they don't need to be looking
for a cheese looking for a way and like they showed as individuals they can step up and
play on this international stage against some of the most experienced greats in the
game but in the end Australia they bring it back together. They absolutely do bring
it back together taking a look at these standings here Johnny we've walked in group
be their final group here in the group stage. Yeah, I mean, Kim was sorry Ravius. They coasted through
here. The dominance we saw from them earlier today as well as the two-time great spread,
then it was just massively impressive. And I can't wait to see what the winning champions got
through us at this point. Yeah, absolutely. But we still get a chance to talk with team Australia
before we close out the show. Guys, we have Soggy on the desk with us. Congratulations on
your win, your qualification, all the way to BlizzCon and Anaheim. How are you feeling
after that match I gotta know because you guys were up two maps and then Mexico
they really had a fight back what was the energy like in the form of third um I
mean like the game just ended so we were really tired but I don't know they
just randomly put out like a we income which we weren't really like used to
especially when we don't have like an off-tank player we can't write but uh
yeah let's just blame it on like the setup because we weren't really like
listening much to each other in the... we're all talking to each other in the game.
We're really listening. So let's just bring the setup. And we played good.
Yeah, I mean overall it's a huge event for you guys. I mean I think that...
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Let's have luck with that.
Well, thank you so much, Soggy,
for doing this interview with us.
And congratulations once again on your win.
I also gotta say, guys,
you guys can't fully see the outfit right now,
but Soggy's ripped out.
I gotta give him credit for the fit right now.
But again, congratulations
and cannot wait to see you in Anaheim.
Yeah, yes, he.
We do have the standings though,
to go over for the last day here
of the group stage as we're closing things out.
Everything has all wrapped up
And we've had some insane upsets so far.
This event, and honestly, just give me the breakdown, guys.
Whatever you want to start.
Let's go left to right.
So I'll attack you, Jake.
All right, first off, first off,
China not making it to BlizzCon is devastating.
Heartbreaking.
This is a country where the fans show up in Los Angeles.
They come across the world, cheer their team on,
and will not be a Chinese team at BlizzCon.
That is a stunner.
Sweden, huge performance from Sweden.
Let's go, dude!
Sweden making it to Biscoff!
Let's go, dude!
Let's go!
Let's go!
Yeah, I mean, but look, it's a neutral observer as well.
Like, it is a bit shame because like,
China were in the previous grand final.
Yeah.
Like, they were on the cusp of actually winning
the Overwatch World Cup.
And obviously, this time around,
leaving shy and gang, essentially,
from wave regaining, often not to participate here
and the other Chinese members
who couldn't really make it happen this time around.
It just wasn't good enough against it.
of Sweden and it's going to be Sweden and USA advancing to the Liskard rather group B here
which we just unfolded as well I mean Saudi Arabia has talked about the reigning champs
look really clean in Australia with that big ups that are going to be done.
I mean KSA looking like they're going to repeat I mean that is it doesn't get more
dominant than what they showed here in Busan.
Only team that is not enough.
Zero crack in the armor right they absolutely destroyed all comers did not have competitive
series. Australia, Great Britain, like did well against one another. There was interesting matches there,
but came to my side agreement, we're in a tier of their own in Group B.
That they definitely were, but talking about our last two groups there within Group C
and Group D, Group C, that was kind of, that was this group that ended up surprising us with
how close I think those games ended up being with Germany and Spain finding that qualification,
but they, Canada, they were fighting also so hard on that stage.
I mean, Spain especially highs and lows, because when they come in and they,
When they lose to Germany, it's looking like, is it lights out for them?
And then they just come in and cut a bloody swat through Canada.
And that was a Canada that had come in looking pretty good.
So props to Spain for like recovering after a tough series and riding the ship.
It'll be those two European squads coming to represent at LISKON.
Maybe the strongest Spanish roster ever in the world cup.
It's not a hippo country that really feels the top team.
It's so much fun to watch Spain play.
Like you know that whatever matchup they're going to end up in at LISKON.
They're just gonna fool send it. It's only a beast. Yeah, so it is a beast that something there a fantastic
John the Tank role as well. So really impressed with them Germany a powerhouse back at this con as well group see settle
Canada
Patriot is a fantastic say after that finish the win
Because you're the host there's no reason right there's no reason there's no reason. We're gonna be there. Yeah, look
Oh, no, if we are talking about Chakras though
Transversive over Korea
Absolutely ridiculous and I mean it throws the whole bracket into chaos because now Korea or a second seed at BlizzCon
Things are gonna get wild and wacky in the bracket
I don't know it's gonna get absolutely crazy in a way
Maybe a good thing for Korea right to like, you know wake up this this this event is so competitive
Wake up card you cannot you cannot come in no matter how strong the country has been historically
You cannot come into this event and take it for granted.
You guys respect the team on it, then found out.
Yeah, rocks.
Message set, message received.
And that's a big win for France.
Honestly, it couldn't be a more deserving country, right?
And some more deserving players.
There's been a real generational shift in France.
There's like a new generation of players.
And for them to carry the flag, to get a win over Korea,
to come in as a top seed to Blazcon,
maybe they make a deep run.
That's not a country that I think you were really thinking about in top metal contention, but if you could be Korea
Why not the rest of the world?
Hey, the meta is looking real clean for them. That is for sure
But we have our eight teams now walked in for blitzpun and anaheim that means that the group stage for OWWC
2026 has all wrapped up guys. Thank you so much for joining us this week
I big thank you to my co-workers of course on the desk with me everybody else who has already wrapped up their shifts for the day and
and everyone who has organized this event as well and production behind the scenes.
Much appreciation to you guys at home and we cannot wait to see you once again
September 12th and 13th for BlazCon in Anaheim and the Overwatch World Cup finals.
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