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Welcome to the final weekend of the Calling All Heroes Championship.
the Radiant Series 2026. It's continuing this weekend after last weekend. It's been an absolute banger so far, but one team will be etched into history forever.
That's going to be tomorrow, but we still have to figure out which teams are going to make it to that very much awaited grand final.
My name is Ari Kast, here with Rain. We'll be your yappers for today. Rain, how are you feeling? We've got three matchups on the day.
Yeah, we are getting so close to that grand finals match, Ari, and there are going to be some close series here today.
We are hoping of course last weekend. We saw a lot of three hours
But the competition is getting much fiercer especially where we are gonna be seeing two of those lower bracket matches today
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And again, if you're just tuning in, this is the championship. This is the playoffs.
But this year we did things a little bit different. We had an open Swiss stage where eight teams made it out and qualified for a playoff stage.
They then played in a sort of seeding tournament as well as for some cash that you're seeing here.
That was the season playoffs. First place took home $2,000, second place $1,000.
but again here we are moving into this championship stage where 37 thousand
dollars are up for grabs 40 thousand total on the year it's a double
elimination bracket and there is a lot of fierce competition like you mentioned
yeah and this has just been such an incredible year for calling all heroes
we've already seen a couple of teams eliminated already going home with
$3,000. So that was like a Virgo and Magic Mushies coming in seventh and eighth in our championship here.
But at the end of today, we are going to unfortunately be sending a couple more teams home still though going home with $3,000 and not too bad at all.
And of course, yes, two home, but one as well to the grand final.
So we had a sneak peek potentially at one team that is in the final match of it all.
Obviously, you can see timeless X missing and Kathy Fika. That'll be our final match on today
That's the winners final but jumping to that lower bracket
We're gonna start off our day here two matches and our first one will be team missing x-ray versus Valentine followed by extra
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Let's get to our featured matchup the first of the day it'll be Valentine versus team missing x-ray
And if my sources are correct, I believe this is the third seed versus
Six seed fifth seed somewhere around there. They were five through eight
So they were all kind of tied for it
but again, this is one of the matches we're looking into to really set the tone on today and I
Okay, I know I said this a lot. I know we had three O's a lot before but genuinely
I think this is going to be the time where we see a map go to the other way.
I think we're all definitely hoping for it.
A lot of competition and veteran players between these two teams.
I mean, taking a look at Valentine, this is a roster and an orc
that has kind of been present throughout all of Calling All Heroes,
kind of a pillar in the community.
And although Team Missing X, right, you know, the name may be not as familiar
in the calling on heroes scene, the players on the roster definitely are.
So I think that especially where they are in that lower bracket,
all of the pressure is on right now to put on a stellar series
and try and move on through that bracket.
So definitely high expectations for this one.
Yeah, obviously both teams down in the lower bracket, timeless X missing.
They had lost to Cafe Fica, which was the number two seed.
That was, of course, three zero.
And then Valentine dropping down actually in the first round against
Exoblivione or Exjoblivione where they then it be like a Virgo in that first lower round to get themselves here
So we got some teams that are coming off the back of some momentum some that are dropping down and needs to bolster themselves back up
Yeah, we can take a look team missing x-ray so not a caught a McMahon DPS Amity Cameron and crumb here
and like I mentioned some mainstays in the scene here in a car and
and Nick man and crumb all with a significant amount of time spent playing in calling all heroes and this is kind of the core of the
car 2026 championship team that placed 56 and nightmare eclipse here. So a lot of synergy between these teams also a lot of experience outside of calling all heroes.
They know that many of these players also playing in the expert division face it. So definitely a strong contender here just by finding themselves in this lower bracket.
And this is not a production error. We're gonna say it every time the DPS cat is just a little silly
We like to do obviously McMahon gets to choose whatever character they would like to put up on the screen represent themselves the role
Though most likely accurate for what they are going to be playing in the game that applies to most players if not all
But here you go Valentine again, you're gonna see maybe a few silly roles out there
But again, I promise you not an error. You've got benevolence H key Kindred Bernice and AJMR
And like I mentioned earlier, Valentine kind of a mainstay here, and that includes the
core of this roster being Hkey, Benevolence, Kindred, and Bernice, who all played together
in the 2025 CAH championship under Valentine, and they took home second place here.
So again, we have two really strong teams coming up against each other here.
And again, Valentine, lots of experience outside of calling all heroes as well.
So yeah, this is definitely going to be a close series.
We say as three overwatchers playing us again.
No, no, no, no, no.
We're going to keep arping on it because it's going to keep being a factor until it changes.
And I feel like surely we won't go through the entirety of the Calling of Heroes championship
without a map going the other way in, say, a battle.
But I think with these two teams, the potential that they bring,
especially the momentum that is kind of coming in with this sort of flow we've got going on, right?
Valentine off the back of this win.
I mean, yeah, you could argue maybe it's a weaker team,
a team that is placed at 8th.
But at the same time, wins and mentality,
and just showing up to play the game on the day
is really, really important.
You can theory-craft all you want.
You can look at statistics.
But until these players come on in and give us their best,
then we're not exactly going to know what
that result's going to be.
Yeah, exactly that.
So we'll see what we're going to get today.
I have to say also, very interesting,
as I was looking through kind of this playoffs bracket,
that there are so many matchups happening
that we didn't see throughout the entire season,
which is pretty impressive considering
there were six rounds of Swiss.
We had all of the playoffs,
but that just goes to show how many teams signed up
to playing and calling all heroes.
We had 21 teams registered this season.
So it's really fantastic to see this just kind of growing
and as the demand gets bigger,
hopefully the competition gets bigger as well.
Before we jump into the map selections, things like that, hero bans, we also gotta talk about the fact that Nepal seems to be what every team loves to start on in this championship.
I mean, every single series, I think every single series, if not maybe one or two, it's been Nepal all the way.
And so, I think again, if you're looking towards statistics, one of those speed characters, Juno, Lucio, probably gonna be banned out.
That's the two cents, obviously. We won't know until we see the actual graphic and see what the players have decided.
Yeah, I think there was one match where we got to go to Samoa, but otherwise, you're totally right.
Nepal has definitely been the favorite here. Of course, Busan also an option rework to Busan as well.
Not really getting to appear so much, and well, it's going to be a continuation of the pattern on multiple fronts here with Nepal being selected and that Lucio being banned.
Well, that's how you know we at least know something about what we're talking about.
We can read the numbers, we can watch the games just as you all, and yeah,
get a sense for how these teams are feeling going into these particular maps, modes, things like that.
So the second ban, obviously we kind of talked about it a little bit before.
DPS Bans seem to be a bit about pick your poison style, where it's just, do you want to target one particular player
and make sure they're off to maybe a slower start, or just something you don't want to deal with on this particular map
because there are alternatives that the DPS players can go to that are typically around the similar value.
This is why we're going to expect to see most likely a tank band coming through,
but what is it going to be knowing these two teams?
I don't think you can really pinpoint one specific here.
Ooh, okay, you're right though. Hazard band coming through here,
so it is going to be an attack on to that tank here.
Amity very strong on the tank roll, and a hazard, a strong kind of option,
especially on Nepal, where there's a little bit of kind of this dive potential,
but then you also have a little bit more of that brawl potential here as well.
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Nepal no hazard. No Lucio. You know what I'm expecting Arie
No
No, no, we are expecting some Jetpack Cat from Plumb, because she has been so scary on this hero.
And of course, banning the Lucio, I feel like that kind of leans into a little bit of Jetpack Cat.
Not a little bit of Jetpack Cat. A lot of Jetpack Cat.
We have both themes opting for the flying character with a lifeline that provides free hovering ability for someone else.
I mean, what are you thinking on this Domina character pick, by the way?
Because this is something I don't think we've seen in the spawn room at all.
Yeah, that's about what I was expecting of the Domina pick.
You know, I love the idea.
I love Domina, but it's just not the spot where I'm expecting to see her in competitive play.
We are going to get to see Devon, though, the newest hero, making appearance for both of these teams.
So a lot of brawl potential, especially when you have the Nebulinja over on this Cassidy,
the frontline damage, but not a caught over on this area is going to allow for a lot of that long-range damage on the Valentine's
Yes, new character demon indeed, but at the same time these teams have played against really each other for a long time
Not just these two, but I mean the colonial heroes seems they had different stages to work with them different practice going up against these demon characters
You can see Amity the first one to find themselves not eliminated of D mech from this competition
It'll be benevolence that is the first to fall
So there you have it. Team missing Axebreak and a snowball that into a fight win. It looks like Ajaymar at least salvaged him one.
But McMahon we know likes to be a bit aggressive and sometimes punished for their own good. All good as long as it ends well.
Valentine actually finding the flip and it seems like that sort of point presence just really isn't a priority.
Oteens want to find those eliminations, find at least a fight win before they go and
convincingly take this point. Otherwise they're going to be left with a whole bunch more struggles.
Don't forget, Demon still looking to get DMG'd over towards that right side, but it looks like Team Missing
have finally in control of the point for the most.
Now, and the ball is out, ready to go!
Now, I thought I was gonna launch it in, and with Team Missing actually back in control of the point,
they are happy to take a nice, long extended fight against Valentine, just to build up a punch.
Oh, yeah, slicing a Dyson Amity.
Putting in the good work, although the Nebulance is found to salvage potentially,
but it looks like maybe just down...
Oh, hello, Pulse Bomb.
In lost fight against the 1v2, I thought maybe I guess for the hero moment, but that's a reset button for sure
Yeah, and all right Valentine they have to regroup a bit
That's two ults committed into that fight just to be on the attack once again
Bernice does have the catnap ready to go, but team missing x-ray the discipline coming through from this team
They're gonna have four ults to work with, it's gonna be very tough for Valentine to walk into this
They're probably gonna have to try and force the point getting ults out of missing x-ray
There you go. I believe that's a catnap launched on out.
Unfortunately, we don't see the immediate value, especially if HK,
Tindred, all falling down, removed from this picture.
And again, it is that reset button hit,
not really seeing the initiative being taken by Valentine.
It's a lot of just team missing x-ray,
doing whatever they want with the space that has been created,
and then launching an alt every now and again.
I like the kind of the rotation of try and put some pressure on point,
but I'd really love to see HK be the one to put that pressure on rather than Tindred,
because Kindred is going to take so much poke damage on this demon and when you lose your mech as
demon it's very very hard to get back into that mech. Lying pulse, have you seen this one before?
Well it's not exactly going to find the value just yet. Pelospam eases to the way he's signed.
In the end it is. Nakato actually to fall first. I mean the spawn hold was sort of an attempt here
trying to pressure so that no touch could be found but ease instead found in the end anyway
and Amity just left the loan honestly could effectively be a big stagger if the elimination
does come through. As long as this full contest doesn't actually end up disastrous. Valentine
should be okay, but again, start to see two players come through. Hkey finds a kunai to
the face. That's not ideal for Valentine because again, they're down that percentage.
Now down in numbers. Bola out towards the left side. It's good. Amity finds two and
this one should be all but over. Last ditch efforts are in the mix, but it does not matter
Valentine taking your first point.
Saw a lot of back and forth and a lot of those fights,
but it always seemed to happen when team missing X-ray was already in control of the point.
I love the little kind of hero moment coming through from H key.
She finds two in the spawn of Valentine and then she also gets the overtime trigger gear,
but a little bit too late for Valentine to find their way back into the fight completely.
As we take a look at the stats and amity dominating on this demon so far.
and Cameron, the flex support here, not with a single tap.
Love to see it, that is, if you are Cameron,
if you're the opponent, it's probably not so much,
but maybe that will change the approach
that you kinda look for going into this point, right?
Do you try and target that backline a little bit more?
Is Kindred gonna be a little bit more aggressive
and go for a sort of a dive-style demon?
We'll have to wait and see.
Right, it's going to be a same composition here
for both of these teams as we move over to Shrine here.
Valentine are gonna get themselves set up on this point first, but team missing entry happy to just take the angles on this one
Of course that would be a great way to fight against this D.Van for shield, get over face to wonder at Zedadai
Looks like it's usually even forced out as well early, not sure which side that was from, they kind of both look the same
But it looks like Natakato gonna be the first victim of the round, meeting a bullet, courtesy of Neville and Sendeth
This one should be pretty set up for success
Valentine at least finding a strong start in point two, even if they fell in point two
Well, in point one.
Yeah, nice little bounce back here from Valentine, but Evelyn's looking very good on that Cassidy.
Gonna put a lot of pressure on to Crumb on that Jetpack Cat.
So, being set up on the defense here, very beneficial for that Cassidy composition.
But, G-Max Raid going to do what they've been doing.
I want to take map control here, control the angles, and having McMahon already set up on that flank.
It's really up to each team to try and meet McMahon on these angles.
We call that forced out. Obviously just still waiting to find that opening missing x-ray. I love going for calculated engages
So Valentine's gonna be on them to kind of strike first. Unfortunately, age key falls on down
Of course, there was DPS for team missing x-ray. Absolutely unleashing a fury of bullets Valentine just falling victim
Finding a pause in the mix, but I think this this fight wins still should be going the way of team missing x-ray
It's looking pretty good for them and yeah team missing x-ray are just doing a really good job kind of getting set up and going for an
Engagement really really quickly here Valentine
On paper they should be able to kind of catch team missing x-ray as they're making these rotations setting up for these dives
but just the mobility of all of the heroes on the side of team missing x-ray really playing into their favor to just
Control all of the space here on Shrine. So Valentine are in definitely a tricky spot right now
they really want to just try and stall out on the point as long as possible they need all the percentage they can get.
I mean it looks good from both sides obviously Team Missing X-Ray out to maybe you could argue a stronger start given the point first capture but
Valentine coming in here and at least so showing some sort of resurgence, right?
Not just kind of falling over at least starting to recognize the style that Team Missing X-Ray is going with and adjusting, right?
Even though they might be losing this fight as we kind of return back to the screen see only two players left and this one should be
pretty quick flip when it's all said and done. I think Valentine have what it takes to again give Team Missing X-Ray a good run of things.
Yeah, especially because they are coming up on that Sky Noon here, benevolence with the dead eye.
Now, like I mentioned, Team Missing X-Ray has a lot of mobility on their side, so it is going to be possible for them to just kind of
fight out and avoid this Sky Noon altogether. So it's going to be on to the rest of Valentine to really push up, take that space,
He's trying to find the players and missing x-ray that are hiding from that Sky Noon, and that's how he's going to open this fight up.
Very interesting engage we found ourselves, because Dimon's isolated over towards his right side, no shield to really protect anyone else,
but that Sky Noon does come through, does not look like it's going to find some hope.
Hello, oh, goodbye.
And Narikato will fall victim to the silly ability once again, although, hey, if it ain't broke, don't fix it, Valentine.
Gonna keep working on with it, all-spawn, looking for it.
again with that Katsunei rush, not exactly wanting to take too big of a risk.
Didn't have a recall.
HG thought that she did unfortunately is not the case.
And so team missing X-ray will reign supreme here and yet again another fight.
Very decisive Katsunei rush coming through from Cameron missing X-ray.
Down, not a cotto there.
They need all the extra DPS that they can get.
They committed the Katsunei rush.
Valentine doesn't have an answer for it.
They didn't respond with the Katsunei rush from AJ and Marthole.
It's at least hard one to have that going in, but you can see Krom setting up for a very aggressive play with Amity.
Demon, slice and dice, dive if you will, but it looks like not gonna be the case just quite yet.
Oh, hello, there's that Demon dive.
He's gonna almost land on a cat. One bullet, there you go!
And it's two others that fall as well around elsewhere on the map.
A little splinter is in there, that's what that's called, if you didn't know.
And it looks like Kindred is gonna be struggling in this backline of holding up for dear life.
actually uses the ultimate just to stay alive as well as the count that
this feels like Alts invested in a lost fight and it's not gonna find the value
they're hoping for.
You know, in their spawn, Valentine have no control over that high ground missing x-ray.
They're going to go for a disengage here but it's a weak kill onto Kindred and an 80%
protein missing x-ray. Valentine now going to be scrambling to try and get the touch.
They have some tools to work with but it is going to be a scrappy last chance for them to stay in the fall.
Doomfist swap coming through potential for not only touch but a nice little slam big early engage
But he's gonna be that sky noon. Once again, it finds crumb. That's the first one
That's the first step to success can the rest of the team start to find that right calculation to win this fight
There you go limit for a launch down out but Evelyn's completely gone and dusted out of this fight
And again now you're looking for more steps more success
But one of these teams is gonna rain supreme and it is with that Katsune rush that seems to be leveling the tides
Just barely a final touch on in the end, but team missing x-ray holds strong and take map number one
Good stuff here from missing x-ray. They are looking very locked in very clean engagements
Really great responses as well
There was never a time that it felt like team missing x-ray was on the back foot there as I believe Cameron also
No deaths in our second map here.
Nickman is going to pick up the play of the game.
It's just been a fantastic start for everybody on this missing X-ray roster for map number one.
And again, I mean, you can kind of get a sense in the play of the game, right?
If there's any sort of big standout that's like, you know, MVP worthy,
if you're starting to think towards the end of the series maybe,
or if the system is just working cleanly.
And I think there, if you saw in the play of the game,
everybody was really contributing to those eliminations, finding those assists,
putting their teammates in good positions.
And I think in the end, I mean, just like parts of a machine,
they're all working very, very cleanly.
Yeah, but there is definitely some hope here
for the side of Valentine.
I think that they have some really nice combos
that are coming through the Sky Noon.
Of course, excellent kind of opening for them
in a lot of those fights.
They just need to be taking their turns
a little bit faster here.
They're having a hard time kind of responding
to what Team Missing X-ray is throwing at them,
whether it's kind of the Katsunei Rush trying to even things out
or that Limit Break coming in really aggressively
from Amity. So far, Valentine have looked good in kind of these kind of neutral fights
or where they initiate the fights, but the responses a little bit lackluster so far.
Yeah, and I love how you brought up the aggressive Alts because again, it feels like Alts are
being expended as hero plays. And yes, hero plays look awesome. You know, you clip farm,
you post it on X Twitter, whatever. But the point is, if you don't win that fight, if
you don't find a hero clutch.
It puts your team in a much bigger struggle of a style,
basically, to deal with the rest of them out.
Yeah, and that's exactly it.
So yeah, we can see some of the Sky Noons coming through here.
And not only was the combo from the Sky Noon really good,
but the rest of the response from Valentine
was really good as well.
Nobody is standing in that jump.
Everybody is pushing forward and taking the space
that Benevolence and Bernice were creating for them.
But unfortunately, yeah, it just really
came to those kind of response fights.
And now it is going to be an opportunity
here for Valentine to put their best foot forward
as they are going to have the map selection in their hands.
And map selection, I mean, typically, you mentioned before,
I believe it was a bush and flashpoint that
are used in that sort of second and third map slots.
But we did see an exception with hybrid and escort
being put out in those second and third slots.
Traditionally, it is going to be some of those quicker maps.
What do you think we're seeing here?
Now, I find that Flashpoint definitely seems to be a favorite map pick for the 2nd and yeah, it is going to be Flashpoint here.
I mean, I've said this before, I am always a little hesitant to head into a very similar map type.
If you didn't have the first control map, go your way.
But, I do think that Nepal was close enough to Valentine. They're not feeling demoralized.
They are feeling confident. They have the tools. They just need to kind of put them together here.
So taking us over to New Junk City instead of our other options of Atlas of Surabasa here
It is becoming a more popular map and they are gonna hit with the Jetpack Cat Band as well
So a bit of a target on Takrum
Yeah, that adds up
But at the same time you also got to think about the successes that were found by Valentine in the previous map
And it was off the back of those Sky Noons
So it's a little interesting to see how the approach is gonna change in this map
Obviously not all the eggs are in the sky noon basket, but we'll see how they shape up as well mug band on the other side
I think we all know why that is
Kendra does like to play the Malga and she is very very good at the Malga and as you head into new junk city
A lot of these points are pretty enclosed here
So an up close and personal Malga can be a lot to deal with on a point
So I like the band coming through it also, you know leaves open some other options as you head on through the series
of course you're not going to be able to ban the same hero twice in a series so you want to be able
to have something to work with especially for uh we get closer and closer in those map number
three's and maybe four's true i didn't even think about the end of the series i haven't got there
yet so i can't i won't let myself imagine if we get to those deeper maps of four and five but
yeah new junk city i mean come in and you're gonna have a much more enclosed point number one before
before the map starts to sort of open things up.
I'm expecting to still see some demon pics here
because, again, if it ain't broke, don't fix it,
but maybe this starts to change a little bit.
I mean, we've seen some Junker Queen Moira
that's benefactor that has come through on this map.
Not super common, but it's happened.
So I'm just giving you all the options.
That's right, yeah.
We can see something a little different here.
Of course, I am still expecting we're going to be seeing
some similar DPS lines here.
I'm thinking that we're gonna have the tracer from
both of these teams, especially it's such a great open map.
There's so many angles to be aware of.
However, I've also seen a little bit
of this Zarya Vendetta comp come out.
Of course, Nickman has been fantastic on the Vendetta,
not necessarily as strong as it has been.
And you mentioned we could very well see some demon here
and it is pretty hard to contend with a demon
if you are on that Zarya plot.
Valentine, they're maybe thinking they want to try it.
Yeah, and for those who don't know, like Valentine's and Kindred, most notably known for the Zarya, the Maga,
and then I think there's one more, I'm forgetting about it, but it really is sort of that sense that you know what the other team wants to go for,
and so you can kind of play around that force them on the characters that, you know, yes, they're probably still good at, but maybe just not as wrapped on.
All right, I
Is gonna be a cheek coming out on the bed
I was really expecting to be missing x-ray but Valentine are going to be bringing this out benevolence over on the she on as well
So make that will be matching out so no tracer to be had here instead going to opt for that
Super mobile DPS that also has so much first potential
My gosh, that was a big first engagement
I thought maybe an extra slice comes through you find the real of nations
But no obviously the support the healing is there the injury gonna be launched to the
with BN almost just barely hanging on for dear life until eventually Cameron throws Kunai at the
face and that will be that. However, don't forget about DPS for Valentine. Not only do they take
the Flashpoint control, but they also seem to have won this fight for their team. It's kind of
silent value, but it works out in the end. It's a great initiative for Valentine when you're running
Nazaria and Nezvendetta. You can't afford for these fights to really go into a long extended
We're all here, not against Amity on this demon, so I like the quick hits, and of course,
Madokada going to be a target to remove our released mobile squishy on the side of Missing X-Ray.
Harming up that charge already, but Kindred down for the count just like that. Again,
Cameron finding themselves a victim as well, but still, you have to assume some sort of value
gonna come through from the rest of Team Missing X-Ray trades, though, and the flip has been found
by Team Missing X-Ray. Again, the fight not technically over, but there is a bit of a stand
still as the response starts to come in.
Yeah, there's no support here for Valentine's in here, but I have a very hard time trying to
flip this point over, especially when Amity adds full HP and nearly has that limit break
as well, so it's going to be very, very dangerous for Valentine to play on this point.
But boy, they want to get back if they rush to online very quickly.
Big group there, actually saving the life potentially of the Lucio player, but there you go.
Limit break, launch time out. Not seeing that immediate value. Oh my gosh, HK, I'm so sorry.
We saw the vision and it's just a rail gun shot that completely diminishes any sort of hoax you might have had
That's the spree as well benevolence not gonna find anything as well
And maybe you start to talk about again is that an ult invested in a lost fight?
You could argue maybe it's still winnable
But again everyone else starts to fall on down in quick succession and not only that but team missing x-ray should be good to capture
This for first point for good
Yeah gonna be a stadium going the way up missing x-ray so starting with a point on the board here new junk city
They also hold onto this beat from crumb.
So that is going to be big heading into this next point.
We're over to refinery here.
Bernice has the sound barrier to try and match here with crumb.
But what I'm really looking at is that thumbering blade
from H.P.G.G. of course will cut you right through that.
Well, the beat will be launched in by both sides.
It will find crumb, like you mentioned,
not going to be exactly healthy, even
that the beat did come through.
But again, that's only one elimination,
but enough for team to see next wave to say we're not gonna really jump into this fight with just four
Yeah, especially where Tindred is over on this demon
So off of the sardis you're gonna have a lot more staying potential on the point
Panther Valentine and now they are gonna be okay to take those longer extended fights
They're gonna start building percentage just now though, so the door is open
Not to mention that's free online. We're all kind of hiring it was the Linda break launched on now
It was enough to take down HD and the rest of the team as well
So quick work there in this fight at the cost of only one ultimate
But if you look at that old economy Valentine very much struggling in percentage
It's gonna take a long time to build up even to that Katsune rush from AJ MR
Especially where team missing x-ray look we know that they are very confident going first in these fights
So having the spree to work with having the pulse bomb coming online here from Nakato as well
It forces each key to move over onto that tracer
So it is going to be kind of the match-up of these flankers to kind of decide who's going to have the upper hand early on in these fights
Of course, we know that two walls are available for teams in X-ray side
So you'd assume they got find a nice easy engage here, especially off the back
We kind of just jump in in but it's benevolent that finds that first elimination make that two running for dear life
Obviously trying to put the team on their back and it's just not going to happen for the moment
Yes, the flip does come through, Amity still escapes, but actually Valentine pretty happy with how that one went given the circumstances.
Oh my god, I gotta agree, right? I mean the pulse bomb in from Nauticado, missing x-ray do have a pretty scary combo, and that's three plus Getsune and Rush, though.
And even though AJ Mark has the Getsune and Rush and Matt, you're not gonna want to stand in this screen.
Getsune and Rush, mashed out both sides, scream on shunt through, and okay, it's just all dump go lower.
and we all know the press queue strategy is usually pretty good running on over
AG by the way and that percentage that point of course flipped on over for
gonna be about tied here on our flash point number two yeah I'm as the next
way gaining the lead here on refinery looking to put themselves at a map point
McMahon also looking for some early information wants to force out some of
these cool downs from Valentine who are pushing in with lots of ults to sustain
them on this fight to trigger an overtime on refineries and you can see
crumb getting really pressured in the backline so close to the beat but it's
not gonna happen wanted to take an aggressive position because if you get
that ult online you're gonna have a lot easier of a time. Amity at least taking
out the counterpart Lucio as well. This man actually hold up this could very well
be turned right back around but there's the spree from benevolence just making
sure that things go their way but no instead it's Amity to strike down the
hand one more time this time I guess the form of a sword and flash point number
two done it is team missing x-rays well missing x-ray one more point they'll be
able to set themselves up to in this series lots for them to work with and
so far they have done such a good job of targeting this backline of Valentine
AJMR and Burmese getting pressured by both not a auto and mic man here so it is
going to be a tough survivability but that is going to be the way to condition here for Valorant.
The launch on through, no first elimination yet but benevolence just says don't worry I'll take
that title okay fair enough AJM are off the map as well not sure how that happened the number
should be in favor of D missing X-ray considering it's just Kindred left alive and trial you might
this one will not be going your way nice try unfortunately back to the spawn room for you.
Alright, another first cap here for Missing X-Ray and no ultimate if you're expended and not fight, so
Katsune Rush ready to go, AJMR lagging behind in that alt charge, so already Missing X-Ray are going to have a huge advantage
coming in to this fight.
Pulse bombs coming through, not working for Missing X-Ray, but he still has some backpacks.
And the freight launched on through just to stay alive, unfortunately, Kendrick won't find that for much longer.
And it's McMahon! Again, with the spree now up online after those three eliminations, but not even needed.
It is quick work. I mean, a quick small room is going to cause you a lot of problems when you've got two flankers.
Yeah, that's so true. McMahon and Akado working fantastically in tandem here.
Now, good news for Valentine is that Amity is out of the mech right now,
So there's a small window for you to try and push forward.
However, you gotta know you're pushing forward
into that screen.
Well, there you go.
At least the one pick found,
and that should be the second and the snowball
as well after that.
I mean, this should be, here it should,
be just a dry fight to kind of go back and reset.
Point flip does come through.
92% will be all missing extra.
I get four the moment.
Valentine are going to have to be so clean
in the next fight and the fight after,
and even the fight after.
and having the support ults coming online is going to be very helpful to try and win these out,
but there are ults of plenty here for missing extra, and of course they just need to win one fight
and maybe be able to pick up Ryu Jump City.
So when they rush to launch down, that is going to be from the side of Valentine,
they want to take this engagement a little bit early,
and we talked about how strong this heavy artillery perk is for Demon,
just being able to launch out high, damaging projectiles.
Also, the ELMs are going to need to be applied as well.
The limit break being launched out by Amity, just feeling super strong, trying to lead her team to victory.
And it will be the case along with McMahon.
This duo has been unstoppable and the fight completely cleaned up.
I'd love to see that one from McMahon's POV as we go back, but at the same time, we all know this one is over.
Missing x-ray taking map number two.
It was so close, despite being a 3-0 here on New Jump City.
A lot of back and forth and really good plays from Valentine.
I like seeing them try to go aggressive here,
but team missing x-ray, no one.
They need to kite out of engagements,
and they shout out to Crumb.
You love to see Alusio play the game, making it a defense.
I was gonna say, how did we get Alusio to play the game?
What exactly happened?
And I guess it was setting up McMahon
in those final moments, right?
Obviously just booping into a character
that can right click you and your life away.
So honestly, fair enough,
setting up the team for success,
talking about that system being perfectly in motion yet again.
But I think we did see some more hero moments
coming through this time than the last.
I think McMahon had a really good map.
I think Amity as well.
Of course, right, everyone has their moments,
but those were just the two that I kept seeing
on the kill feed over and over and over.
It's really fun to get to see these players,
the top tier players on these new heroes, right?
She on a newer hero and of course D1 Amity looking so strong on her already like you mentioned the teamwork really showing through here for missing x-ray
I mean it no surprise that these players have so much experience playing together
I mean Nick Man and crumb play on the same expert division team last season
So yeah, it's nice to see all of that teamwork really shining through here
and how calm, cool, and collective this Team Missing X-Ray is looking.
Every time Valentine has an initiation,
there's always a response coming through,
whether it's to kite out or an immediate response with an ultimate.
So far, yeah, just really impressed with the restraint
that Team Missing X-Ray is coming into the series with.
I'm still a little curious how a GMR fell off the map there.
I wish I know, maybe we can look back at the replays,
clip it for you and let you guys know.
But yeah, that is map number two in the books, meaning that a reverse sweep is going to need to be required for Valentine to stay in this one.
And unfortunately, the cards are against him.
Not only is it a 3-0 on the previous map, but if we know anything about how the series and this competition has been going with 3-0s, this one certainly is set up to continue that phase.
Oh, there's a small chance to break the pattern here for Valentine and yeah rolling into the flashpoint off of the control didn't work for them this time.
So they are going to have the options here, right? If you want to stick with a symmetrical map, you can take us over to a push map.
We got Colosseo and Esperanza on the field, but honestly really hoping that Valentine leans more into either a hybrid or an escort here to really change up the tempo.
It feels like on these kind of symmetrical maps, the push, the control, and the flashpoint,
going first and being aggressive is really going to favor you.
And that's what Team Missing X-Ray has been doing all series long so far.
So definitely hoping to see a little bit of a change up for map number three.
Okay, maybe this is me theory-crafting a little bit.
Maybe I'm going in conspiracy, not quite conspiracy, but something that I've noticed is that when Kindred is on this demon, right,
We know them to be a fantastic player when it comes to Zarya, Maga, things like that.
Obviously, the Maga gets banned out and you're trying to force the Zarya, and it doesn't work as well as you'd like.
Yeah, the Vendetta's out there, and it's not like all the eggs are in one basket, right?
Obviously, the team can still play these other compositions, but it just doesn't feel like it's Valentine's identity.
And what I mean by that is like, yes, they can do things, but it feels like not necessarily that they're not comfortable on it,
But I want to see the style that we know them capable of.
I want to see some sort of aggression.
And they're trying to match the momentum in the other team
they're going up against.
And it just doesn't feel like them.
I want to see Valentine be this team we know them historically
to be, because weren't they either the winners or the runner-ups
in another Calling All Heroes here?
Yeah, the Valentine roster came second place in the 2025
CAH championship.
So this is a very strong team.
And they do have their own identity, like you're saying.
So I think, yeah, trying to match what Team Missing X-ray is bringing here isn't working for them.
And we are going to be continuing with this kind of style of map as we head over.
Esperanza is going to be our third and potentially final map in this series.
And as well, continuing not only just what we have predicted, but also the series from before and historically,
these are the three maps that we will see a lot of.
It is going to be the Freya Ben out though.
And I like that.
I know personally, and I'll say it again,
in my ranked games, I'm always banning the Cat and the Freya
through characters that can really just turn the tide
by purely existing and providing that pressure.
That being said though, we know most likely
there's going to be some sort of she-on in the mix
because the Freya is not an alternative.
Maybe you want to opt for the soldier and things like that.
Team missing though, what are we thinking they're going for?
Is it another tank ban yet again?
I mean, the support category is now open.
It is open, but yeah, it is going to be that tank fan coming through.
So I target onto the Zarya here.
So once again, it's a really hard focus onto Kendrick, right?
We're kind of seeing the pattern arrive here.
So I do like, I like the Freyja van coming through from Valentine, of course,
not a Kato.
She's terrifying on that hero.
I think she built up the Bola shot in, you know, maybe 25, 30 seconds on Nepal.
So, taking that out of her hands, especially at Esperanza,
where it's a very long-range map, it's a smart play here.
So, I'm interested to see, yeah, what is Valentine going to bring to the table?
What are they going to play Kindred on without that sorry in the mix?
I mean, if it's not Laga or Demon, I'm thinking, hear me out, wrecking ball.
Could be good.
I do enjoy the wrecking ball, and Kindred, I believe we have seen her play
bit of wrecking ball as well and I would argue Esperanza, pretty good map for that.
Lots of high ground to use, the architecture really kind of favors some really good grapples,
so I could be on board with that already. Just because it feels like Demon is taking
off so many resources from that support line that they're not exactly allowed to go free and to
work with those damaged players that you know they want to and so by being on ball by being a
little bit more self-sufficient, it allows not only for those oops to come through for the system
to start clicking, things like that, but we're also seeing that Kindred can be able to find that value
on her own and then just kind of help the team along with it. Of course, this is me theory-crafting.
This is just kind of based off of the fact that we know Kindred has played ball once or twice.
It's not necessarily that all is the most insane meta, like we're gonna go, we'll hit rank one with
ball and everything, but you get my point. It's an option and it might fit the identity
that Valentine is looking for a little bit better.
Yeah, it's definitely an option here.
I think that maybe a little bit of Wrecking Ball
could be forced out from the side of Team Missing X-Ray as well.
From Amity, I would love to see a Wrecking Ball mirror come
through the chaos that ensues with that.
And I think that chaos maybe could
be what Valentine need right now, because so far,
these kind of strict and regimented fights
that they've been going for haven't been really
received well.
Team Missing X-Ray have done a fantastic job
just responding to them.
So yeah, maybe shake things up a little bit here.
And you know, the wrecking ball could be the option for that.
But I think it's also going to depend
on what team missing x-ray are running,
because I feel like time and time again in this series,
we have seen Valentine make those mirror swaps over
in response to what team missing x-rays can play.
I'm so sorry if we just spoke all of the Hopium
into the world, and then we just get back to the Emon mirror
thing like that.
But it looks like for right now at least it is going to be kindred on the demon and amity on the diva
Do you want to tell people about amity on this diva because it's something we haven't seen yet today?
Yes, she definitely is a strong diva player here
Gotta say kindred also does have a diva up her sleeve. So I think that amity over on the diva
I was expecting to see that paired kind of with McMahon over on that bastion for this jetpack hat bastion
But no, it is just gonna be amity on this diva
So this is actually going to be beneficial here for Valentine as long as they can try and close this distance because the matchup of the
Demon into the Divi I mean you cannot defend matrix that plasma sword so Valentine can get up close and burst you only have a chance
You're on a little bit low on the high ground. It's all good though
It's gonna be grouped off and it looks like favorable positioning at least for missing extra for the moment
of course, we know if anything is about this map high ground can be taken and
And victims can be found very, very quickly. It's H-Key to make a mark on history, doing pretty darn good here in this one to start things off, and is that three eliminations all just for H-Key?
Phenomenal. McMahon will get one, of course, but Valentine, very strong start here on Bush.
Okay, I love to see it here from HK and you know what?
She was able to pop off because McMahon was not marking her
So you have to expect that McMahon is very much going to be looking for HK now and all right some percentage here for Valentine
They're gonna leave this spot forward. They're not gonna get very far though
This is extra gonna come back into this and Amity is going to be matching on this demon
So a near mirror matchup safe and out of auto over on that passive
Again, I want to see that Hard Engage coming in from Valenside, I want to see that opening
that they're trying to exploit, unfortunately, it is not a Kato that has found the backline,
I guess, Bernice, and HK on the tracer have both just fallen down like that, McMahon as
well, clean as ever, and this fight has just been all DPS, missing X-Ray, are very potent
when it comes to that DPS line.
Yeah, now Otano and McMahon are scary, especially when you have Amity on the tank line that is creating all the space for these DPS to really pop off and
Also crumb. I gotta say she's on the jet pod cat
But she still kind of creates a lot of space for her team because of how aggressive she can get here
So we do have a little pause coming through. Hopefully we'll sort that out quickly
But in the meantime team missing x-ray have set themselves into a very good position to push this bot potentially past
Valentine's mark
And not only the physical positioning not only the fight in terms of how that's going with response happening
But also in terms of those ultimates already the sky and you're available for missing x-ray and you start to wonder for
Valentine how are they gonna combat that what exactly are they gonna go for or they're gonna go for that early engagement or at least try to
It's tough coming back from spawn or they're gonna poke try and get those all as quick as they can without having any casualties
And then just send them as soon as they get it
It's true that they could just go for the poke
Yeah, they are getting so so close to the consuming brush which could be the opening here
Especially with Cameron a little bit behind on that
but the team doesn't actually over on the high ground here
It's gonna be so hard for Valentine to poke into this and get the damage to build those ults
Ingrid just 4% AJMR 2% and it looks like things have started to charge on up there
Is that sky noon and run while you can cats well at least it actually worked on out the pulse bomb as well
I think Suzud maybe? No, it does find Kindred's mech though. It's gonna be a lot tougher to break through this one.
Here are the Alts back. This is the resurgence from Valentine, and I think, well, time, right?
You reduce any sort of value from the Alts coming in, and you're able to salvage it with Alts of your own, right?
This bot's still very much a neutral category and territory, but now you need to find the Elimination.
It's an unfortunately injured being out of the mech so early will allow for missing x-ray to just have free reign
Shots, maybe a little iffy at first, but in the end it's all good because the eliminations are still found
Team kill here for missing x-ray and just a great play from them
We see that Katsune rush come through from AJMR and we saw a time a time again
Not going for the match right Cameron not going for the match instead. She doesn't get right kiting out of things
So now I'm gonna have the consumer rush advantage here
It's going to come on to the Netherlands who has this overcroft ready to go fantastic and not just creating space
But at finding some illuminations as well and you can see
They are respecting yourself
Watch that out overcroft as well one HP on the cat not gonna happen
no final blows and Valentine that seems to maybe be their struggle. Yes the pressure is there,
yes the space is contested, but in the end these fights seem to be still going the way of missing
X-ray because of those final blows. We'll see though this one might shape up a little bit differently.
Very very low, has a limber break, might need to stay alive, very low still. Catnap launched in,
tried to drag into the back line, no slice and dice comes out, Amity still finds the cat that
That I just catnap them, but in the end it is still this DPS line, age key, still chugging along,
hoping for the best, takes down Amity, still a world where this is anyone's fight.
And the McMahon, stand off here against the Sojourn, but no charge for Benevolence means the rail will only do so much, McMahon, clean as ever.
And wow. Just wow. Oh, hello, Paul Spomb, but again, this is Old Sin, a lost fight.
Yeah, especially there's the forward spawn being picked up by team missing X-Race, although not a Kyle.
She has a bit of a walk back from spawn. She also has Chrom, a fantastic little pilot there to get her back into this fight quickly.
So Valentine, very much on the back foot here, they need to do all that poke damage to try and build up to their consuming rush,
but are they going to be able to catch missing X-Race in this rush?
They need to force out some of those cooldowns before they go for the commit.
Benevolence to me is my kind of key player of this game right if the value comes in for Benevolence
They're gonna flourish their team's gonna flourish
But if not if we're not seeing those final blows
It's gonna be tough to really get things going yet again
I mean a cart starting to get pushed once more the bot happily chugging along and age
He unfortunately back to the spawn room as again more pressure more space is being taken by dismissing extra sign
Yeah, and Valentine backing up showing the respect here
They do have that Kitsune and Ross from AJR, and the limit break.
But there's the Sky Noon.
Indeed, the Sky Noon.
Unfortunately, it looks like no targets for the moment.
Kindred, those guys fall out of the mech, and oh my, not a Kato.
OK, I see you.
I see you.
Very, very much good clean work.
And Valensine, yes, they're making an effort,
but missing X-Ray are just putting all that in a bag of chips
right in front of them and saying, hey, you got to deal with all this.
You can take her preo away, but she will show up on whatever hero she is playing.
And Valentine, some scrambles happening in the player fee here with AT.
Over onto her signature Genji.
We don't necessarily get to see it a whole lot.
And Kindred, moving over onto this Joker.
Hey, gotta try something.
Maybe this is the identity that we're looking to see from Valentine.
Paul's bomb into the wayside.
Seems to be those that are just kind of used as a cooldown.
Unfortunately, not gonna find the value.
Amity finds one make that two benevolence. This is all you and this is just like DC mouse strafing
I'd love to see it and in the end benevolence just reduced to the spawn room ashes once more a chance
It needs to be coming through three and a half minutes. Yes
But this full cap comes through not only the map will be over, but the series three
Two and anyone can test yes, just barely here we go
But again, Sky Noon in 5% if we can find ourselves that cat combo limit break once again
Vulnerables applied you see the vision benevolence trying to play in the spawn hoping for those eliminations
Finally at least a breath of pressure for the moment as there's no media pressure
The Junker Queen makes their mark on the bot unfortunately missing x-ray there's on the kill feed and again for an eavesdropping
dropping now just a jump between along with benevolence in spawn it's gonna be
tough especially given the catnap has just brought Kindred to their death and
now the Genji comes through we haven't even seen the Genji this far but the
blade has no value in the end missing x-ray take your series that are moving
on in the calling all heroes championship and I felt like close map one and
But here on East Veranza, it was Team Missing X-Ray running away with it.
You get to see another support play of the game, which is pretty fun, AJMR.
They're showing on this QR code, however, unfortunately for Valentine, this is going
to be the end of the line for them.
Yeah, I mean, Team Missing X-Ray, he just showed up on today.
Like they really played their absolute hard sound.
Sometimes there's just not much you can do when players are at their peak doing everything as a unit and you saw Valentine
They were trying the best as well like you saw those highlight moments
Unfortunately just outweighed by the pure heroics by the pure system on the other side
Yeah, that's right. I need team missing actually very much did look like a system everything was done very
Deliberately whether it was kind of the combos that were coming through and really enabling this aggressive play style from
amity on that debon who she looked fantastic on throughout the entire series or really just kind
of putting it in the hands of your DPS, McMahon, and Nato Kato. Very capable hands here for Dean
Mizzanget-Cray. Yeah, I mean again just every single moment seems like calculated or at least
accounted for in some way shape or form. This player has really shown up to the challenge,
between the shots. Very nasty, this one especially. These two just really honestly, probably my
highlight of the game to be precise, but I think Amity as well, just propelling this
team to success, being the spearhead quite literally for the rest of the team, and being
able to take infinite space. It just feels like there's no way to stop them, and they
will not be stopped, at least today, because that's the only game we see from them today.
We get to move on to another lower matchup, and then later on we'll actually visit that
upper bracket rain yeah fantastic stuff so congratulations uh to missing x-ray for moving
on congratulations as well to valentine for making it so far in the playoffs unfortunately it is the
end of the playoffs for them but they are going home empty-handed three thousand dollars for this
team so uh fantastic to get to see them very glad that uh we uh had this appearance and you know
although 3o a closer one closer 3o so we're getting we're getting there we're getting there
I forgot about that part, 3-0. Well, the trend still continues, and we'll at least get to talk with somebody about how this particular 3-0 felt.
We'll have an interview with the winning team right after this, so don't go too far. Calling all heroes will be right back.
that dusted over 3-0 on the board once again and don't forget by the way Root
our partners help you have that standout performance but they also like to
highlight some standout performances from the series so our Root Wellness MVP of
the match is gonna be Amity. Amity we believe just that tank prowess to be
able to kind of push on forward help the team out we highlighted it a little bit
before the break, but truly have just done something magical here in the series.
And magical on the newest Tank Hero as well.
What a treat to get to see these top-level players showing us how it's done on Demon
here, and we know that Amity has a lot of strong tanks in her back pocket, so getting
to see pretty much just one throughout the entire series here, it's going to keep her
hand shella hidden as team missing x-ray get to move on through that lower
ground. He's just really phenomenal stuff obviously mechanics fair very clean
who knows who exactly is IGL-ing in that sense but you can tell Amity at least a
leader on the battlefield again the spearhead for a lot of these fights and
honestly just somebody that has been cooking every single time as well you
know the rest of the team the system we keep talking about how it cooks but
and the at least highlighted right here and now.
Yeah, and really good start here for the day.
I mean, although yes, we mentioned, you know, 3-0 here,
but getting to see a lot of potential,
a lot of clashes between these teams,
some of the fights very back and forth,
especially I'm thinking Newjung City,
it really did look like, even though again,
Newjung City was a 3-0, 99 to 100
for a couple of those points.
So it was an excellent showing from Valentine,
just not quite the top five that we were looking for here.
So they will be heading home with $3,000 in their pocket
and pretty proud I would say for coming into the playoffs
out of again, 21 teams that signed up
for calling all heroes this year.
Yeah, 21 teams reduced down to now just a handful.
And we could take a look about the bracket.
We could say, okay, here are the things
that we are kind of going through,
but we're just getting a confirmation
who exactly that interview with it might be changing. It might not be Amity or MVP, but we'll
still get the valuable insight. However, right, let's take a look at this bracket, see what exactly
is going on after the context of this map. Team Missing X-Ray move on. They win two more series.
They go to the grand final. Yes, it's a long way there, but still in it. Valentine, done, dusted
out. Next match up, you can see their extra Blivione versus Fable. So that is going to be the
determining match of a new team missing x-ray will be playing tomorrow so missing x-ray gets to
sit back relax enjoy some calling all heroes action if they are tuned into the stream and
picking up some incentives as well um so i i think that they will probably be watching this
match fairly closely here um in extra blivione versus fable uh because these are uh two teams
that again, kind of recognizable in the Calling All Heroes series and of course the players
also fairly well known amongst the Calling All Heroes and other tournaments as well.
Yeah, that's what you mentioned, like, oh yeah, viewers have incentives, players have
incentives from the same thing, but as well, player incentives should be to watch the others,
the anti-straps, the bot reviews, to know what they're going up against.
So I think it is just fun to really see that as well, you'll hear in a lot of the interviews
is that players just know each other, they're friends,
and so you get this good sense of community,
not just from, you know, maybe potential streamers
and players, but as well, just in the different teams.
Yes, they are competitors, but I promise you,
a birthday wish has been sent the other way.
Like, it's just, that's the community we have here in store.
And again, we're just waiting for that interview
to get set up, so, Rain, how are you feeling?
Well, I'm pretty good, yeah, you know,
We have two more matches to go, but I hear that we do have a chance to speak with somebody
from the winning side here, and I believe it is going to be Mick Mann that's joining
us.
Hello.
Welcome.
Hello.
Hello.
So we'll start things off.
We'll just send out the general feeler.
How do you feel after going 3-0, and you're now done for the day, you get to prep for
tomorrow?
Yeah it feels good. I woke up like 30 minutes before match so that was tough. But yeah I
know it was good. It feels good to get the clean 3-0 win and yeah excited to play tomorrow.
Amazing yeah right and so yeah playing tomorrow you're gonna get to find out who you are playing
tomorrow very shortly here so extra blivione and fable who are you hoping to end up against in
here lower semifinal tomorrow uh it's a hard one um probably fable mostly because i'm friends with
a lot of those players on on that team and i used to play with a lot of them so yeah i'll be cheering
for fable for sure but i think it'll be a good match either way because i think uh extra blivione
He's also like a good player on it.
So, yeah.
All right.
I'm hoping that your luck is going to give us a non-3-0
match in our next series here.
So we were mentioning it a little bit.
It was Amity that was awarded our Root Wellness MVP
of the series.
And Ari and I were kind of discussing,
what does it sound like in terms of kind of IGL
within your team?
Because it looks so in sync.
So, who is kind of the spearhead of your team?
Surprisingly, I think it's like everyone has a hand in it.
You know, our comp structure isn't like hard set.
So we're like, oh, this one person makes this
like type of decision.
It's mostly just like, if you want to make a play,
you just got to call it.
And yeah, I think Amity is like probably the person
that doesn't the most of since she's on like the demon character,
which is really broken right now.
So, yeah, I think it's not a hard set, calm structure,
but it works for us.
So I think it's good that everyone's
allowed to do all what they want to do when they want to do it.
It's good to hear.
Obviously, everyone's got to have that voice contributing,
because there are multiple different people on the team
that provide the value.
As we saw, everyone really had highlights.
But I guess one final thing, the pleasantry, of course,
is there anyone we want to shout out, thank, or people who
make the day special?
I think the org we've been missing has been really good to us.
They've been really helpful and supportive.
And Nato as well.
Nato played insane today.
Nato was like lights off.
So everyone on the team played good.
And yeah, the org has been really, really good to us.
So shout out to the missing.
Awesome.
Well, thank you so much for coming in.
We'll let you enjoy the rest of your day.
We have got more matches to cover.
Thank you.
have a good morning morning oh the gamer hours yeah you know what I'm guilty I'll
sleep until you know 11 noon one if I desire to but today you know we've got
more games to go two more matchups and you're not gonna want to miss them so
rain and I will be right back go you know use the restroom get a snack we'll
be right back with another calling all heroes matchup
Hey folks, we are back.
Match number two of our Calling All Heroes Championship on today will be right now.
This match is going to be fable versus extra blivione and I gotta tell you, I'll say it
every time it's gonna be a banger yes three overwatch has still continued is
this the time at this point I feel like we should just have predictions as to
whether or not we have a three overwatch or not but I believe in this one I
believe in every one I think all these teams at their peaks can take this five
maps but my name is Ari Cast here with rain will be your yappers again what are
you thinking well I'm thinking we have Nick man's blessing that this is going to
be a close series and of course team missing x-ray are going to be watching
this one because extra livione versus fable one of these teams is going to move on to that lower
semi finals the other team is going to be eliminated from the playoffs so all is on the line here
between two teams that have not faced off against each other so far in the 2026 season.
Of course the winner of this game would go on to the lower bracket semifinals again they would
go up against missing x-ray and then of course after this matchup we'd have some sample of that
up her bracket final but that is in the future right now we've got two teams to focus on one
being extra bovione i mean this is players that you typically will recognize if you follow the
scene for a little bit got a lot of standouts and players that are looking to make their mark on
history yet again yeah not just here in calling all heroes but extra bovione has some international
talent as well if you've been following along with the world cups and standout players on this team
So yeah, this is definitely going to be a tough matchup for both of these these teams
And I think that coming into the playoffs where they haven't necessarily
Played a whole match against each other is going to be a bit of an adjustment here
But taking a look at ex Ghibli Vione first like I mentioned there are some kind of standout players here
Overwatch world cup players such as Santi and Paulette playing for Spain and Mexico here
And then a whole lot of other talent as well, Winter, Shell, and Envy.
This team has looked so good so far, and unfortunately ending up in the lower bracket here,
but I know that they have some fight in them for the series.
And I know that it says D.Va there on the tank roll for Santee,
but something tells me we're going to be seeing a lot of D.Mon.
Maybe it's just the first series, maybe it's historically, and we've seen them play.
And again, I got to say it every time, otherwise the chat's going to go nuts.
These are not the characters they will be playing and it is not DPS Mercy.
That's just whatever the character would like to be represented by the role, though, most likely accurate to what they will be playing.
Alright, on the other side, Fable, a mainstay, a pillar here in Calling All Heroes.
They have participated in so many seasons of Calling All Heroes and that does include some of the players on this roster.
Ray Kaisical coming in from the Caffe Violet team that was in the playoffs for 2025, Avery,
ZPanther, and Fiery.
This is the core of Fable also participating in COD 2025, so this is kind of a mashup roster
where you have a nice core of the tank plus the supports, and you've slotted in Kaisical
and Ray, this DPS duo that has performed very, very well so far this year.
Yeah, we had an interview with them, I think, last week.
I forget who exactly it was with, but we were saying, yeah,
Avery was, you know, we asked her, basically,
how do you feel with these new two people?
And she mentioned, they basically said,
hey, we were looking for somebody that matches our vibe,
that matches kind of our core and how we play,
and these two fit right in.
So props there as well.
I do have to remind you guys that the Fable side,
they do have a back line of doom.
They will do a lot of damage.
They will make your life very uncomfortable
if you go up against them in that battle
because they have so many cooldowns,
they have such good damage potential,
but I digress, Nepal is the same theme we've seen.
Lucio ban, the same theme we've seen,
but she on ban is gonna be something a little different.
All right, Fable is shaking it up.
They are still gonna hit back with the DPS.
We didn't see the DPS ban coming through map number one,
but we did mention definitely is a great option here,
especially where map number one,
you're just trying to kind of feel out
what your opponent is going to be playing here and like I mentioned,
this is going to be the first time that these teams have matched in an official
here. I am sure as we've heard from many of these colleague heroes players
that it's a pretty close knit community. I'm sure they have scrimmed against
each other, but now it is all on the line here in the lower bracket.
Yeah, we were talking as well in that same interview that this team didn't
really have a lot of time to scrim last week because, you know,
Santee and Paulette were going for those World Cup accolades and they were in a different location
So it was really tough
I mean you could try and play from the Sun and then a but it would probably not be too super great on your ping
Now even that we've had a weak break now that there has been time in between last week in this for
Screams for additional competition this team could be back for revenge being just
Overjoyed to yes still be in this competition
but now go on a run, potentially make that grand final.
Yeah, especially where you have to keep in mind
that Xtoblivione ended up in this lower bracket.
Courtesy of Timeless X missing,
who a very strong team coming into this playoffs,
the number one team that are sitting
in that winners final currently.
So Xtoblivione definitely looking to keep some momentum
going here off of their win last week
against the side of Leica.
And it's going to be, Nepal, Sanctum to start out here, and you called it, you called it
already.
There's going to be a lot of demon action coming through here.
The team is out from both of these teams, and it is going to be the Tracer matchup here.
So yeah, we're going to get the Mirror-Mirror matchup here.
Sheld is going to be overalled back past me, so a lot of that kind of consistent damage
that's going to probably be going over on Tefiri, but I like this M right from Rey.
and spam damage is going to make it very hard for Axelidionic to keep Shull set up on Nathan.
And we're off to the races. Love me a first fight of a series because it just sets that tone that you are looking for.
But that being said, Axelidionic kind of funneled into their own spawn for the moment.
Gonna be tough to really bounce this one back. Avery isolated for the moment, but the cat here to save.
And now it is just pure damage that is being dealt out from this Axelidionic side.
Avery will say goodbye, and the rest of the team will join her. It is a rough first fight,
but it's something that is going to happen. Fable will have to find a resurgence.
Yeah, it's unfortunate for Fable to have to try and walk into this comp that Exolivione has,
although the difference is only that Cassidy. Having a Cassidy set up while you're trying to
walk into a choke point where you have no form of speed can be very, very difficult here. So,
Fable are going to have to try and get high school, and Ray kind of set up on some really
hard angles here to really try and pressure out Santee on XWB only.
Michelle has just magically found one again those off angles really really potent if you
can land your shots from those areas. Santee just going for the DMACC and I was gonna say
you're gonna decide to leave the DLON player or will you decide to go for the elimination? It
will be the latter option of course and Santee just pressuring that backline. There was a quick
flip by Fable, but its 8% will be about it.
Yeah, and Xtribalveonite are holding this at first, Joe going very, very hard.
They have the ultimates to make it happen, and they're going to get a grusse of with them.
Dynune coming on in. Again, Shoal just has been one of these standouts that we've started to see,
and there you go, Limit Break as well. Oh, look, there's a touch in the backline.
There's two players. That's nice. Guess what? We have five.
And so as long as Extra Livione can at least trade things out, they should be good to go.
Avery is catnapped off the map, not ideal, but it's something that just displays that Extra Livione here to play,
again, super, super strong here, especially with a big stagger on the kaisical.
Oh yeah, and above 70% Extra Livione are in a very good position to take Sanctum here.
They don't have the sky nude available, but the Cassidy in the air, when that Cassidy is shulked,
also be very devastating. They have some ults coming online here and they are running out of time.
That's just a high ground take. You'd think, oh, you know, they don't have sky noon. Why are you
going through the team up? Well, guess what? It doesn't matter as long as you can hit the
shots and be in the right spot to do so. It's UNA rush. Yeah, it's launched down, but we really
haven't seen these ults. Any sort of big pressure, it's a slice and a miss there, and it will be
fable that fall quite short here in our point number one. I mean, we're kind of
waiting for them to make their mark here and it's just hasn't happened yet.
Yeah, maybe a bit of a warm up here for fable. I like some of the plays that
they were going for sending kaisical on the tracer in to put pressure on the
point is a very, very good play. It's a great way to try and break a choke point.
However, they did that well. The aggression was already coming through
from the other side. So, actually, Vione, I mean, a single death on the board here, that is a heck of a way to start this first map.
I mean, Kaisakul, yes, finding the soul elimination for the side of Fable, but again, that's 1,000 damage when I believe that's your Ciraco, maybe having 1,700 damage, and then you start to talk about, okay, well, what exactly are we kind of struggling to accomplish, what are we trying to accomplish in each of these fights?
Well, the magic pieces to the puzzle just not happen quite yet, but here we go, every
thighbombing on end, it looks like an envy is just down for the count right off the bat.
Straight spam damage from right, that's exactly what you want to see from your end right,
one of those nades going a little wider, and of course there's still time for this point
to unlock here, and there's time for envy to get back into this fight, so actually,
Viona is going to go for the soft reset here, but they have the opportunity to go for another
I ground take. It is not going to be happening as Avery will kind of maintain the space,
make sure she's just hanged up there, right with the best of them.
Shull 1 HP, he's taken down, and now, yeah, you've got a cavernous demon battle, but honestly,
the cat wants the fight given how low the demon was, but in the end, both players still
alive. It will be santi now. Try and take this point control on this demon, the character
so good at just living in any sort of situation. Very versatile.
Kaisa Culp farming up to that pulse bomb. Not quite there yet, but again we're not really
seeing those tide turners. Where is that heal elimination? And there we go! It's on to NB,
the Kira Code down, and that should reduce a lot of the raw healing coming in for the extra
Blivionis side. It's gonna be tough to really break through this one, given the eliminations
that are coming through, but at least Winter makes a mark. Actually pretty close up to that
that pulse bomb shell having a say as well and wait a minute this might just be doable
recall comes through and shots one HP land the one there we go and it actually is extra
blivione to take the fight I mean 11% is something here for the side of fable but now he was
already the momentum in the favor of extra blivione because of how dominant that first
point was everybody had at least their first perk ready to go for extra blivione and ah
Ah, and the Sky Nude and the oppression really show in here.
Sky Nude, and then you just see an aerial demon.
And I would be a little scared too,
but the damage done, especially with the Panther,
taking down, I mean, Santhe is just on a spree,
and that's not a she-on-pony.
It's just literally, you can send Santhe in,
she's always good for at least one or two,
and the fights usually won.
Unfortunately, D-Mec this time,
but there should be some good pressure from the cat
to be able to pick you up in the air,
in that percentage back quick.
Yeah, and you really want to do that because this is,
this is gonna be the door to the point here
for the side of the evil.
They have lots of ults to work with
because they're going to send the D-Vod
through the sky as well, trying to take his face,
but they gotta make their move quickly
and unfortunately not quick enough.
This, Santa's gonna get that map back very soon.
Yeah, 80%, I mean, that's the number
we're kind of looking at right now.
90, there's the Kitsune Rush, trying to preserve
maybe some sort of life.
It is out from both sides, don't forget.
Every with that limit break trying to at least force people away, but Santi has been right back into that mech
limit break of their own count-off as well
Everyone's sending ults into the blender, but array the standout player that we know she can be
Still struggling to find that elimination with the ultimate right now might just be a reset that you're done
I need to hit the button of and
Yeah, this is gonna be an unfortunate set of circumstances for fable
Yeah, once again
and they garner a little bit of percentage on the point,
but they're just chipping away at this percentage
before the fight wind goes the way of extra blivione,
and with extra blivione having this Sky Noon in their hands,
they are setting themselves up for another early fight wind.
Joel storming into battle, courtesy of that lifeline ability.
You're gonna be super strong in one shot.
There we go, finds the Elonation, yet again,
I think Suzu out as well,
and this just feels all extra glivione fable.
They're making an attempt, but they're just being dismantled,
folded like a lawn chair, left in pieces.
And, well, I applaud the effort for five more percent.
There's gonna be this last second touch,
but I don't know if it will really find the value
that you were hoping for, considering Avery down,
and this should be, you know, not one yet.
I mean, the stagger touches are coming through.
Raise on the venture for that extra speed, I guess,
and brawl ability, but there you go.
Map 1 in the books going the way back to Livione.
And yeah, very strong start here for extra Livione,
a team that we mentioned didn't necessarily have a whole lot
of time to scrim before last week.
They definitely seem like they have had some practice here.
I mean, two of their players without a single dead palette
on this jetpack.
Pat, worldwide talent, really excellent target focus.
Being able to just dump that demon into the pit
is devastating for Fable.
Yeah, I mean, again, it feels like one ult needed to be used
in order to win out the fights for extra glibione,
and it just, it meant success upon success.
Yes, multiple could be used if there was a response back,
but because only one was used,
that ult cycle seemed to be really, really good,
and it led to fight win after fight win after fight win.
And yes, Fable did all that they could.
They try and ult dump a little bit,
and they find one fight win,
but then it's like, again, now you have no resources,
especially when players are being made,
even with our adults from the other side,
is a tough situation, but the series of course, not over.
That's just the tone setter, and believe me,
the tone's been set.
I think we all know who the stronger team
coming in the gates are, but it all matters
who goes to that finish line first.
Yep, that's exactly it.
You are not out of it until you're out of it.
So Fable are going to have a little bit of an advantage,
at least heading into map number two,
where they are gonna be in control of that map pick.
I mean, we've seen time and time again that we keep heading to flashpoint here.
So it's definitely on the table, but I think especially when you're looking at kind of this D-Bond matchup that's been happening.
I don't know if I would want to head to another brawl map if I would fable.
Maybe want to try and put A3 over on one of those dive tanks.
We've seen her play the D-Bond before.
She played a little bit of wrecking ball for kind of the last second touch there,
but maybe try and shake things up a little bit here,
especially because in Nepal, although you got a little bit of percentage on the points, it was not
a big fight back. It was pretty decisive for Extra Bivione. Yeah, it felt like the fights that
people were winning was like a quick pick early on and it's just like, okay, Extra Bivione just
wanted to kind of reset and make sure they had everyone before they went in and that's why you
saw, you know, 12% every time. It wasn't like a big staggered out engagement where teams were fighting
and blah blah blah blah. Nope. Just all extra Bavione in the end. And of course, going into map number two,
we know these teams are very versatile. They'll be happy with any map, but we get to have at least
a choice here. And yeah, you mentioned statistically, it's been Flashpoint so far.
I almost want to argue it's going to be push. Not like, well, I can argue that it will be the case.
But I will be wrong, just because I wanted Hopium a little bit.
The script says it's Flashpoint and it's Nujang City.
I'm sorry, I wanted to deviate.
I know, they're following the script here.
Nepal, Nujang City, don't worry, I'm sure.
Map number three, we can maybe see a little bit of push.
But yeah, we're back over to Nujang City here for map number two.
It is going to be fable coming out with the Vendetta fan here.
So not often that we see kind of the the DBS fan come through as the first fan,
but taking that off the table does definitely set extra livione in a different kind of
a composition than maybe they were looking for but extra plurivione is gonna ban the
demon yeah I'm a little curious I mean obviously right you know Santy's a very strong demon
player but you also start to think okay well if it's not gonna be demon battles is it gonna
be aga battles is it azaria I mean obviously you can choose your ban after you see the
first one and so if the vendetta is banned you wouldn't ban azaria you wouldn't plan
to go Azaria because obviously you kind of remove this sort of team up that these players
usually work within their synergy, but I'm thinking honestly, D.va or Maga here.
Yeah, I am thinking that as well. You know, Junkertown, not a huge opportunity to really
play a lot of dive here. It's a pretty brawl focused from the back kind of a situation here.
So banning the demon, the tank that maybe it's the brawl tank that Avery has been a little
bit more comfortable on.
Now we have seen her play the Mauga as well, but you know when it comes to these kind of
tank matchups, if you're able to kind of win out in the mirror matchup, it's going to be
enough to kind of win multiple fights in a row.
And so far, Sanji did get the better of that mirror matchup.
So taking this demon out of hands, maybe forcing a Mauga match, it could be good here for
extra blivione but hey they will select this map for a reason it's not just for the script
i also have a plan coming into things here and i think showing that they very much have a plan
with a dps band here because yeah you got to be cooking something up if if that is going to be
your your first band in the series i'm gonna just close my eyes and wait for them to fully figure
out what these comps are gonna be because i doubt we're gonna see a zen right i mean i would love
love to see as in somebody who plays a lot of time, but I don't think that's going to
be the case. So we'll just wait out the eight seconds, wait for everyone to lock in. Santhe
expect to go on more of a speed character, but maybe not.
I think Ray would love to see his end too, but no, I felt like it's going to go on to
the Jeff Pack cat here. So we are going to have kind of the matchup of the two guys.
I would argue most common support lines right now being that Jeff Pack cat and the Kiriko
versus the Lucio and the Kiriko fiery, of course, very comfortable on this Lucio. And
Although no vendetta, it is going to be the Zarya Reaper here, so people are coming in with a little bit of a niche strategy.
I love how when you're on Sigma you can just keep backing up infinitely around the circle, and it's like, okay, yeah, if the Zarya runs you down, yeah, you might flip the spawn points, but like, the damages should be enough and the support enough to keep you up.
That being said, Ray, again, off to a bit of a slow start. We'll see the resurgence now, and the aggression.
Uh, Santee, you're a bit aggressive there.
Yeah, take him down.
Envy, I think, might have been getting pressured by Kaizuko on the Reaper.
So there goes the support that you were looking for on the Axe of Blivione side.
This one should be settled relatively quickly by favor,
but some DC percentage at least accrued for Axe of Blivione before they decide to forfeit the points.
Ooh, Envy decided to forfeit the Sigma as well.
Santee is gonna go over on to the Hazard here.
So, uh, yeah, once you see this Zarya here,
You want to have some growth damage and some mobility as well keeping in mind that violence leave
for that hazard can really take you into the fact line here so a panther and a firing point can have to be careful on that support line
But I think for Fable right now it's about Ray trying to put pressure on to this angle to draw attention from Shull so that Adrian has the most space to work with on the Zarya
I really like the Khan School Reaper
It felt like yeah the value was there before but I just like how Khan School moves on this Reaper because it feels a lot more systematic with the team
And then of course those solo plays are available if need be, but it's Santee that finds the first elimination here in this fight
There'll be Ray going down yet again make that high school as well
So all big sources of damage gonna be done dusted leaving it just up to the Zarya player of Avery
Unfortunately, it might be a backup in the spawn given that the supports have been eliminated behind her again
Everybody now sent back the spawn one way or another not a team kill, but still the damage quite valiantly done
And actually beyond a will be able to grab the leaf here on our first point a very hard angle being taken as palette and shawl
Looks to drop a high a sky noon
Big grab I love that honestly like
Isolation on the sky noon you make sure that they can't take down anyone now
You found to should be able to at least find the contest and it looks like yeah
I should believe you on they say okay, you know what you can have that one will be happy with our 99 will go for a full
Recontest here, but this is final fight territory now. This is gonna be all thumbs galore or for each side
Having the continued rush this reveal sides is going to be a great way to kind of walk your way in however the blossom fuck it's in a rush
Big old combo here for the science maybe you just have to get
Nice try down for those through I don't think it really tagged on anyone
He's console really speedy every lost on the sauce right now looking for somebody to bubble to keep them alive
Suzy forced out high school in the mix along with that beat it is a very a
Lot of HP for this fable side and it's tough to take down for actually be on a team
But there are still ways to work with Santi down though
Unfortunately and no Alts left to work with either fable might have locked this one up
Maybe one final contest, but I don't think that's gonna be the case
you're seeing the last ditch punches from the tracer player of winter and it will be the first
point that goes the way of fable you could argue it's an upset since technically extra for vione
are the favorites i would argue that as well and i think fable you know on this lucio curico a
backline that we don't necessarily get to see a whole lot of anymore the lucio sound barrier
not as strong as it once was but that over health still very beneficial as long as you have target
Focus in the fight and people did a fantastic job of just burning down one target at a time when firing up to that beat
So someone start here from table especially looking on to this free from grave
We're going over to refinery for point number two here
The problem is actually the only has two DPS all to miss work with and of course one of that
We're like the vision there the bubble as well coming in on TP of the refer unfortunately refer is down
I was going to make a point of
saying usually when we're
casting a game, I feel like
I'm saying Santies name a whole
lot and it felt like at least
in his first pointer, at least
maybe even in the first map as
well that we really haven't
seen that spearhead that we
know to be the case. She's
laying a little bit low here,
really letting show and winter
kind of basking glory here and
is going to help secure
refinery to start here and
especially not having to use
either of these two. I'm
of those DPS ultimates for extra blivionae. Now, the people are pushing in, they held onto the spree,
and now have that Katsune rush and the feat to work with here. You have the option to go for
the early Katsune rush, try and force it out from Indy, and then you have that feat to layer on to
sustain the fight. They're sure coming through. Looks like everyone's still just kind of hooked
in trying to hold this point strong, but this can be the suzerain bubble that protects from this
Sky Noon will be the tsume rush out in responsible spree in the sky and I thought I was gonna
miss but at least it does fine shul in the end so value you can argue was there down
poor as well.
Good catch on a one player pulse as well beautiful on a fiery and extra will be on a with that
initial flip and fight win by the way this point is just over oh my extra will be on
a once they're in control of the point they get set up immediately palettes gonna clean
Thanks up there and actually the only time us up here on New Junk City looks like it's just next door over to the
Ducks of our third point here and I have a ton search is online for a free we saw it be the difference maker on point number
One a target on into this scarcity and the cat
Oh
No, surely. Oh boy. That's a lethal rotation
rotation. Sansi Winter and of course Shull doing the damage in the skies. I'll just kind
of rotate it around and make sure to remove the damage players. And I feel like I'm getting
flashbacks that even in the playoff stage when we did see actually a spawn hold come
through.
Yeah, these players, I love to get aggressive, hold the space especially if you're building
up this percentage so quickly here. So you can get back into a fight even if you die
in the spawn fairly fast and be at the advantage here in actual there. I mean once again, we're going to go for this hard rotation as
Fable are trying to get some health.
I went through the first elimination and now the hazard says hello and goodbye. I'm jumping up to the high ground and I decide you know what?
I want to make sure I can just isolate my 1v1 onto maybe a lower L-bar player.
But it looks like Fable have the tools to go in with this fight at least to grab the
death blossom you're looking for somebody to kind of target in at first
before then making everyone group up and then Evan your way even the
ultimate it looks like it is gonna be that high noon I'm assuming it's in the
sky yep it definitely is and it takes down the panther a lot of damage dealt
to the Zarya players well Avery falls and this fight again at all extra
bovione and because they find the initial fight when they find that point
control first. These are like one two fight points that are just over. Yeah,
that's it. Fable, they gotta play for the next point here. And we saw early on in
that fight Avery had to grab. She was looking for it, but extra Livione was
very aware she was looking for it. Everybody was playing so split here. And
actually Livione has a composition where they can kind of get away with that,
right? Because Shull is set up on an angle with Paulette. So she has all the room in
the world to work with as this jetpack cat just kind of moves her around this
map and fable they're playing a much more kind of core-based uh composition here where you need
avery and kaisical to be on the same page about these engagements between this team and the bubble
and the beauty of shawl and this cat pick is that no one can really do anything against that player
up there rake has damage fall off that's not gonna work kaisical's got shotguns avery can try and
launch some right clicks but like yeah that's the effort that's going on and so it's just free reign
all for Shull. It's one elimination. We know, of course, that soon will lead to more of the
high ground. Definitely maintain. Katnab comes through. Goodbye, Zarya. Gravis on Surge as well,
launching the mixed one for one ult. I guess not technically wasted, but Shull is so crispy,
clean, brandishing her weapon and saying, you will not stand in my way.
No, absolutely not. So this is actually the only in control of Junkyard here. Avery is going to
to make the swap over onto the diva. So trying to help a little bit with that Cassidy, she'll
hang it out in the sky constantly. Now the blossom is ready to go through for Kaisal.
What is the same issue that you saw from Avery with the grab? Actually, I'm not playing
group dub here, so you're gonna have to go for just a solo blossom and hope that you can stagger
more through Vomit. Oh my gosh, no way. Kaisal's down to 1 HP. I was like, surely that elimination
She doesn't come through right off the bat, but it looks like it'll be end the winter off the back of this Kitsune rush damage is so much more lethal high school 9 HP looking for that last ditch effort.
Unfortunately, we don't think that death bossing is going to come through. Fight should be cleaned up, fabled. One last chance to get things going.
Have those DPS all ready. The Katoone rush rooms in Panther are coming online as well.
She will get it a little bit later in the fight as long as they will be triggering over.
And it does come through. Very luckily, otherwise we would have had an anti-climatic ending.
Is anyone in the mix? Yes, it's Ray. But again, Winter has that pulse bomb.
If the tank somehow does manage to make its way there, there we go.
Every hello, that blossom. Wait a minute, two found.
the sound, Hull's bomb was launched in as well, so tools are available for people in
this fight.
Unfortunately, though, the players are not there, and so we will have ourselves the second
map conclusion.
Extra bluvione, taking that lead to zero.
I like to see a little bit of a different backline here coming through from fable, on
the lucio, on the curico.
Unfortunately, it feels like lucio right now, with that sound barrier, you can't really
use it defensively anymore.
or has to be aggressively and the aggression coming through from the side of extra Bavione
with these cat noons with just the Cassidy and the cat existing in the sky, it felt like
you almost always had to use that beat in a defensive way, say for a couple of fights
where Fiery was able to kind of push her team forward with it.
Yeah, I think especially with Shull, you know, in the sky, again, we're going to mention
uncontested, really just having free reign, was definitely a lot easier for extra Bavione
to work with things. Obviously that first point was a little bit closer in the ceiling.
Not super high. There's a lot of obstacles in the way. So maybe that's why you saw one
flash point go the other way. But I also want to mention that even that first nap, it was
still a shawl who was popping off. So you might have an idea for who MVP is going to
be. I don't know. I'm just saying I feel like that's my front runner right now, given all
of the just striking that we've seen happen.
Yeah, I actually only has really been setting her up for success here, whether it's Paulette,
They obviously kind of carry her through the sky, but I think Sanji making a swap over onto the hazard off of the sigma after that kind of swap or the flip over of first point to fable.
The aggression that came through from Sandy and the cool down usage really just kind of immaculate which is so important when you're on the hazard that kind of cool down based hero is you really got to be nailing your timings there and yeah, Sandy definitely doing that.
I I understand a hazard as a concept. I understand how people get value because that one shot combo is nuts
But I'm like I personally cannot play this character. I don't know what it is
I just always go in and die. Maybe that's because I have bad positioning, but these players do not they are insane
And of course actually would be on a up two maps now
Most likely not could be seen that demon ban well because it was there the previous map
Which leads us to believe that this next map
I'm sure you can have the yes fan on to the cats or the cats.
One of those too,
cause I feel like you can't deal with that combo again.
I agree.
I think that the cat fan,
it's gotta come through for Fable now.
I think, you know,
you haven't necessarily really been running the cat yourself.
We did of course see it on Nepal.
If you're about moving on to New junk city,
opted towards that Lucio Caraco backline.
I do think that it's a backline
that Fable has looked good with,
but it just, it's hard to go up against the jet pack cat
with that is oh right we are going off script a little bit here it is going to be a hybrid
map coming through and it is going to be our newest map in Overwatch beyond Junction.
I'm excited there's so many different ways that teams can you know work around this
map how they can rotate I feel like we could see the Sancti Sigma out again and it's going
to be the tracer band really I just feel like yeah that pressure is obviously a problem
If you think about it with super the only kind of thriving on the tracer
But at the same time I feel like you just up for the she on and I feel like it's almost forcing the she on mirror to come through
If that's what they want, I guess so be it but again, you still have that cat has to deal with the combo is lethal
It is and I feel you know the architecture and neon junction
There are definitely some places where you can kind of hide from that that cat Cassidy in the sky
But there's still a lot of really long sight lines here to work with so even you might not even end up
on the Cassidy might end up for a little bit of a longer range kind of damage. I'm thinking maybe like the Freya, the Sojourn as our second
band is gonna come through. Of course, it had to be onto a tank where a support tier and it is gonna be the Kiriko band coming through.
So this is going to shake up our compositions a lot here where both these teams have been running at Kiriko.
Is this the time we see the fiery break?
Is this where it happens? Because we know that Ferry likes to play Brigg and she's pretty good at it.
But the compositions and the maps that we keep seeing up aren't exactly the best Brigg maps.
But with Heracopean banned out, obviously that Katsune rush out of the picture.
I mean you might just see, you know, Lucio, Juno alternative, I guess, double speed if you really wanted to go that route.
But I'm just thinking, like, it makes sense to ban a support because Santi can play every tank and wants to have everything available if a need arises.
Santi, can I have some Junker Queen? How about some Junker Queen? I mean, if you're a...
Do a mystery.
Do a mystery. Our flexible queen plays every tank, surely, but I feel like, yeah, going for the Kiriko ban, I feel like it lends itself into wanting to play something with a...
something with an anti-nade, whether it is going to be the Junker Queen, which is maybe not in the strongest place
she's ever been, or potentially Envy showing us some Ana,
which, you know, I feel like we do see the Ana every now and then.
I think that Neon Junction has enough space that you might feel comfortable playing that sniper, right?
You can talk pretty far back here, and I mean, they want to put Zephanthir over on the Ana as well,
so it's a pretty good read, of course, the Curricle Band coming through. Nothing is going to be available to cleanse.
These nades, these table are going to have fiery over on that Jetpack cat and a lot of what I've seen on Neon Junction when you have this honor is you
Get kind of set up on that bridge behind the point that Jetpack cat of course gonna
Yeah, give a lot of mobility to a hero that otherwise I'm pretty stable. I
Think as well just by reputation Ray is really good on Freya
And so the fact that we haven't seen Ray on Freya at least successfully yet the series means that either
They're actually going to be on air doing something good.
Fable might be struggling a little bit,
but I feel like it's the time for the resurgence.
Not necessarily, you know, Fable is winning
or losing a map, but I think this is going to be
where all the cards align,
and they've got to put that forward that fast effort.
Right, Shell, she has walked out of the spawn
on the Widowmaker, and it's not just the single shot
she has pushed past the choke point here.
A read that Z-Panther was probably going to be on this.
Ana, Shell thought she was going to have a free shot,
but it's a great rotation coming through from Fable.
However, that rotation also leaves you up giving up so much space.
And as well, the DMACC on Avery.
I mean, this one feels all but lost.
Now, yes, technically, players are still alive here,
but unless your DPS can do something truly heroic,
I don't think it's gonna be enough,
at least finding the one on the show,
but a scoped player for a scoped player will not be enough.
To win this fight out, it will be extra blubbionic.
Again, on the attacking side, now capturing this point.
And yeah, I don't think a recontest
going to come through for Fable. Heisticle is going to get the forward spawn, so Fable
is going to get themselves set up so that they can play for the streets phase of Neon
Junction here, and they're going to have to burn a lot of time off this clock. More than
five minutes here for Exeggiglivione, so they're going to start moving this Halo forward. They
keep the Shull on the Widow as well, so Fable, where you don't have that D.Va, you have the
Demon, because not really going to be able to put a lot of pressure on to Shull on that
Widow. If it really falls, he's all right to do that.
Rain! Careful!
Alright, making sure nobody goes down there would be an absolute tragedy if we saw that one happen.
And I'm sure it would go into replay and watch it 400 billion times because it's a little silly goofy.
But here we go! Into this fight, potentially a world where Fable can bring things back and kind of stop this domination of a role that is from extra blibbione.
But don't be the cat, pressure it on out towards its isolated angle, bike in your face by the way, shells still hanging around, oh please be careful, and it'll be a drop down, I mean soldier widow at your service, I guess, winter falls down, trains are coming through, and it looks like fable at least holds on for dear life, they're gonna take down Santy and that should be the final piece to success, actually forcing out the altar spell, just so Santy would not be, I guess, acting in the spawn.
Yes, yeah, you don't get staggered out. There's nowhere except for, I guess, the train to really go for a reset gear.
I like to punish there from Fable. Shalva, of course, getting a little bit aggressive there on that widow, the soldier widow, as you mentioned.
So it's a good reaction here from Fable, but now when you have a little bit of a stall here on the corner,
it's really going to be on Fable to try and make a play, and you have Alps to work with, and right now, it's kind of just a stalemate of waiting for something to happen.
I feel like the pressure from Ray is really starting to come through now. Not only, okay, well, you can't make me eat my words that quick.
You look in the elimination feed, and there it goes, but Avery, at least, told an entrepreneur life to keep their team in the mix of things.
Santee at least finding the one, but this one should be cleaned up relatively quickly. It is just going to be only Santee again.
Santee should be able to get out of courtesy of the speed, but Fable again now, holding strong.
Alright, that's good, right? This is what I said, you need to burn some time off the clock at the very least here.
You'd love to get a full stop on Streak's face, though, and Fable, have some ults to work with here.
This Bola shot from Rey is going to be massive, as actually, the one I have to push through that choke point.
The only thing is, Sandy on that dealer could eat this ults up entirely there, so, damn, the way he just kind of did a new fight.
I think it was just a bit out the 1v1, but actually his survivability as well is just
a scary threat that now allows for Fable to work with some things.
Of course that is Shull as well on the Freya now, and you're talking about potentially
some work to be put in from the mirror matchup.
Both Freya's down in the next thing that's right now, but of course 4v4 means the strike
not over.
It will just be a bit of a reset though.
Regrouping and resetting on the corner here for table. They have the nano from ZPanthal ready to go.
I expect that to either go onto KysoCult to do the combo of the spree or you can onto A3 on this demon,
especially if Sanky kind of commits in with those boosters. You can DMACK a diva so so quickly if you get that nano diva ongoing.
Pick your poison, choose the target of choice, and we will just wait for that Nano to come
through.
Looks like it's going to be a sort of a reactive style again.
It's just going to be used on through both Nanos actually, and it's a 1.1 trade that
evens the playing field.
Unfortunately though, there's the Nanos free that we talked about, and in the end, it should
be good to go.
Kaisa Cole is phenomenal, and in the end, this one should be okay to work with.
Here's the Vione, made a run of things, have left just the tank alive and Avery will have
to come back, will have to go as a last ditch punch with the ultimate.
That ult, she has a full shield ready to go now as well, she would love to try and wait
for more numbers of extra Vione to really commit in so she can hit multiple of them
with that broad sweeping sword, however, it's getting dire here, extra Vione is pushing
that cart so close to the checkpoint.
saw the vision, but the spree in from the back lines, it's shell, it's winter, everyone
getting in on the action, and although Rey makes a valid attempt, again the only player
left standing and she will fall with the rest of the team extra blivionae capping the next
segment of this mode.
A little bit of time here for extra blivionae to work with as well, especially I'm sorry
there's not that far to walk in this third point of neon junction because there's not
Not that many corners for Fable to really get set up on, there are however two alternates
for Fable to use to try and slow down this quest from Extra Blytheonic, I'll let Catnap
of her own to work with though, so you don't have to be aggressive in this fight, I love
to see Fable reversed.
Aggressive Catnap used the case, unfortunately maybe a bit too aggressive, no, hanging on
for dear life, the cat gets out of dodge, meanwhile we've got it on a dip in the elevation feed,
that a cat diff as well.
And it just seems like extra with Yone.
When this mirror match goes up, it is all in their favor.
Yes, players hanging around, but it
won't be for much longer in one final fight.
Last ditch effort coming through now.
They both need to get back onto this card.
They have the Alts to work with.
They need to at least try and get this time bank dwindled
a little bit further.
Banana ready to go for NB.
We saw it go over onto Santi last time,
but this time on to Shell to build up her ult.
This is gonna be the Nano Boost applied on to Avery,
and unfortunately that immediate value
is just not coming in yet.
There's two eliminations, all courtesy of XWBBione,
one HP on the Shell, anti-vary, scary,
but in the end, XWBBione still hanging on strong.
It feels like it's just inevitable.
The value that they can get,
and there you have it, full cap above a minute,
being the key point of that cap.
Shull has had an incredible match here and yeah, really looking strong again on the Cassidy here.
You and I were speculating that maybe a target ban would have come through from the side of Fable,
but it did not and Shull is making excellent use of that Sandy. Look, she is such a strong tanker,
There is a reason that she plays for Spain here 19 and 0 on the diva the diva into the demon as well
Really really good run here for extra blivionine
How it all makes sense now. We know why the diva bomb was popped in that one spot. Yeah
No, it's it's a fun matchup. We get to see players
Of various different experiences kind of come together here in this competition and battle things out
be raised up into the widow first shot what we take what are we taking more
than one shot or just the one I just go for the one I mean she definitely has a
widow maker but I do feel like she's gonna get a little bit more value over
on the two words that Freya but again I think that this is the play of
suspecting that that Anna is going to be set up on the bridge here so she might
go for you know the shot of a spawn and then the shot once she gets past the
choke play, but I have to imagine she's gonna swap a lot faster than what we saw she'll swap.
There's one shot and two! Does that count? It's gonna be the Emre chosen,
no for Rey, and Rey just likes characters that apparently have her name in it. Emre, Freya.
All right, I see the vision that we're going for here, but again similar composition on the other
side extra but Vianna keeping up the diva, Vianna, Gion, everything seems to be similar pieces.
Alright, as we expect here now Avery on this team on of course not going to have access to that
high ground to try and dislodge Envy, but Rake on his game should be able to put some pressure
onto her at the very least. People have made their way through the choke point but they're still
getting kind of stalled up around this statue and I do think that it's the pressure that Envy is
putting on them on this honor that you know people are gonna back up they're
playing slow here because the Panther nearly already has the Nano ready to go.
Key player are gonna be santi in this fight I feel like when she gets aggressive
it could be really good for the aggression catch fable off guard or it
could be a little bit too much aggression and a DMACC and a cause for fight loss so
that's why key player that's who I'm looking at in this particular fight we'll
see santi at least getting out of dodge and there's the nano demon there's the
and adiva as well and so in the end you've traded tanks and back lines it
appears she'll will fall but the more damage done by the extra the beyond a
side yes players are hanging around for dear life but winter has been put in
even though work scary no matter who you're looking at your avery gets
de-match she gets slapped and yeah it is going to be a big stagger onto the tank
of fable here so more time for extra livione to get there themselves set up for this next wave of
attack that's going to come through from fable the nanos expended for both teams by extra livione
they have two ultimates on the board and winter doing enough work building up to that spree as well
so table i mean you have this limit break for an a3 but everybody from extra livione is this guy
And Panther has been diminished to nothingness. Oh, oh, one HP. Okay, nope, still doesn't matter.
Shull doing Shull things. Of course, Powell at BMD. All Reliant Taxi Cab for this, the Baxi Cab.
That's a fun one. But in the end, Winter, Shull again making their marks on history. Not much you
can say other than Crispy Clean. Yep, I got him agreed. Let's be darn clean here, actually,
once again setting themselves up and the poke damage that is coming in from
extra will be only as fable taking these rotations is just really to be way too
much for them they're playing the same angle kind of over and over again but I
really love to see them kind of try to force the inside here you have a free on
this demon you have the limit break ready to go
well the previous fight was clean and now this fight is just pure mean
santi has just dove your back lines caused a lot of problems and I don't
I don't think she's going to be stopping anytime soon, that is, until half HP comes through,
and it certainly won't, given that the Anus is just so prevalent when it comes to that
healing capability.
You've got ults from both sides for each.
This one's going to be scrappy.
It is, yeah, especially where this is going to be the last fight here for Cable, not just
of this map, but of this series.
If they are able to cap this point and start moving this payload, you're going to be out
of the playoffs.
And a boost on the back line is going to be the spree instead of the diva.
That's the choice here and I think that was a limit break that was launched through.
Unfortunately, it does not find the value that was ideal and so winter again, super
strong.
This Xi'an pick has been phenomenal.
In the end, the deafening crack, vanquishing the hopes and dreams of Fable is ex-Jublivione.
Okay, and very good showing from this team.
Everybody on this roster locked in, ready to go here, Santy, 29-0, I need light work for
the tank of Extra Bavione, incredible showing.
I mean, every single person on this Extra Bavione team had miraculous fights, hero moments,
just popping off and our play of the game is okay I can't kill well you know
this is fine I think we all know how many moments we had where it was pure
pop-off from extra will be on it but in the end I mean one team had to win one
had to fall short and for fable that means we're gonna send them home yeah
good season for fable this kind of veteran team in calling all heroes
unfortunately for them they dropped down into this lower bracket really really
early losing against a team missing x-ray which uh we did get to yeah just see move on through the
bracket so there will not be a rematch of those two teams fable not leaving empty handed they are
gonna grab themselves a little chunk of that prize money be three thousand dollars to them and
pretty strong season overall. In quotation marks little that's uh that's a lot that's a lot that
could be useful i mean you might want to buy some overwatch skins who knows maybe you'll use it
Pursuant loans because I know a lot of these players are in schools as well
But I think it is just fun to see them play regardless both these teams have phenomenal players with cool stories
And of course exhilarating gameplay to launch at the end as well
We did see the break out why we didn't end up going into the break
So we got our we had our little treat. I gotta say yeah shout out to fable for just the the variety of supports that we got
To see them play right? We saw the jetpack at curicou, Lucio, a little break, a little bit of everything here
So, but of course, major shout out to actually the Yoda who stay alive in this lower bracket
And that does mean of course that tomorrow they will be facing off against team missing x-ray
Of course, we've still got one more matchup on the day
But before we do that, we should have an interview with somebody from the winning team of this matchup
So we're going to take a quick break get that all solved on off and we will be right back with an interview for calling all heroes
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Shall consistent value of whether it was just from the pressure
she was creating of this Cassidy or from the shots that she just never seemed to stop hitting
fantastic plays from this Cassidy all series long and yeah she very much deserves this MVP
as you can see from our clips. Yeah I mean I feel like the clips speak for themselves in one
aspect of course we've also could look at stats things like that again the narrative of just
shell coming through and popping off here today, and especially when you have super potent players
on your team like Santy, who can honestly carry a game by herself, things like that. But instead,
it's your shell that steps up to the challenge today. Gotta give applause where applause is due,
because although this machine looking mighty fine, it's always nice to see some people stepping up.
Yeah, absolutely. So yeah, big congratulations to shell. She's a big part of why this team is
is going to get to move on through that lower bracket.
But Ari, we have one more series to go,
one more opportunity to break the 3-0 streak.
All right, well, I don't want to say who it is.
So let's look at the bracket just to make sure
everyone knows who it is before I say it.
And then of course, to see how people get on here, right?
We had that lower bracket action.
Yeah, that was also cool.
But they've got to work through tomorrow
to get to that grand final one or one of these two teams.
We'll make it to the grand final. It's going to be timeless X-missing versus Cafe Fika.
These two teams, one and two seed, one will be in that grand finals matchup,
and it is our only series left on the day.
So don't go too too far. You're not going to want to miss this one because it won't be three overwatch.
I stand by that. It will be the case.
folks, you're calling all heroes championship is a back. We've gotten one more series for
you today and this matchup, the only one of our upper bracket side. This one, I'll say
it before and I will say it again, should not be a 3-0. Have I said it for other series?
Yes, but this statistically is the closest matchup we are going to get. It is potentially
a final grand finals preview. It's timeless, X-missing, and Cafe Fika. And these are two
teams that have played each other before in round six of the Swiss stage. This one was the only
match that went to a map number five. So good potential here to break our 3-0 streak and find
out which one of these teams is going to be going to that Grand Finals. And for these two teams'
names you might be a little bit confused by both of them. Cafe Fika is a rebrand of Cat Cafe. That's
That's what their previous name was, and I think they got picked up by an Oregon, so this is Cafe Fica now, named after, of course, Jetpack Cat.
And Timeless X Missing, please do not confuse them with Missing X-Ray. They are both parts, partially, of the same Oregon, partially not.
So this one Timeless X Missing, the other Missing X-Ray, pleasantries out the way. Hope you understand.
And I hope you're ready for some good Overwatch here. If you have been watching the stream so far,
I really hope that your Battle.net account has been connected to your Twitch account
because we do, of course, have those drops coming through eSports loopbox on the line
Twitch chat as well as some really, really cute sprays.
We celebrate Patch and Mari here 100% of the time, so very happy to see the Patch and Mari
Monarch spray available as a drop.
I can't lie, I only open my tab now, so I'm going to be in trouble for drops, but hopefully
the games will be not 3Os tomorrow.
So I believe in the longevity, I'll be able to get my drops and you guys will too, but
the players, we gotta talk about them and this matchup, I mean, it is potentially again
that grand finals preview.
And so it is gonna be an absolute feast of entertainment here, especially as we look
at this timeless X missing roster.
And yeah, a lot of really strong players on this roster.
We are going to recognize some of them from OWCS and then why we got with peace saw Hill and Z and yeah, all of these players are playing in OWCS Masters division, Wisps and sniper also very, very strong here.
It is going to be a piece starting here.
And this is a core from the 2025 championship team, the number one team in peace.
in peace, Nenwai scuffed and Sniper. So yeah, there's no surprise to me that this team has
ended up as the number one seed here in 2026 Cup Championships. And I'll say it before, I'm going
to say it again. The characters that you're seeing are the icons that the players would like to be
represented by. The roles are most likely accurate. So yes, I know you're seeing Tank Baptiste and as
much as that would be super cool to see. That is not a graphical error. It is just an icon that the
the players wants to be
by and the role they will
is a look at Cafe Fika th
Cafe Fika Juno and Miss
and this team is again a
players here in calling o
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overall. So a lot of stru
And yeah, this team, the only team to kind of force a timeless X missing to go to that map number five in their previous match here.
So if they're bringing their A game, I'm expecting a challenge here for our reigning champions.
And according to production, we have a little fun fact about Fika.
It is a cherished Swedish cultural tradition of taking a deliberate break to enjoy a coffee or tea, a sweet snack and social connection.
So if you didn't know now, you know, but here we go into Nepal and guess what? It's it's the same
It's still in Nepal where we're still getting the similar theme
But hopefully this is where the similarities lie because I promised a 3.0
I've been promising it or not a not a 3.0. I've been promising not a 3.0
And hopefully one of them is right
All right
and we are gonna have a small
All deviation from our regularly scheduled programming of a support fan to start it is instead timeless X missing taking the Malga off the map here.
So of course, this is going to be a deliberate ban onto that Malga, but it is also going to be a protect ban on to the tank here.
So timeless X missing.
We're going to be coming on to Nepal with a very deliberate strategy of who their tank is going to look like.
Saw Hill has shown us a lot of flexibility on that tank role.
So I think that the tank ban here, it's not going to hit Timeless X missing too hard.
Ironically, this is a philosophy I feel like other teams might should have been having in the previous series and throughout competition.
because it's like, okay, well, we know what speed character is most likely going to get banned.
So what if we just ban whoever we want to ban, and then the other team can just take care of it
for us? Obviously, that may not be the case. We can very well see something different now that
the Malka ban has came out off the rip, but I think that this is a creative start to a series
that is meant to live up to history. Yeah, and I mean, Hitori, of course, strong on the Malka,
But she is also a very flexible tank as well.
Over this, yeah, could throw a wrench into the plans here of Cappy, Higa.
Because probably like everybody else,
they expect this port ban to come through.
And all right, they're going to hit back.
Pretty hard hitting ban here.
Taking Torbjorn off the field, hmm?
It's a pretty weird looking support.
Okay, I've been fair enough.
We have seen Torbjorn in our championship, by the way.
It has been played.
However, it is not the most common and it's by no means a target ban on one particular player.
I think strategy is still very much going to rain on how they would before.
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been waiting for this particular matchup. Again, potential grand final preview. I'm excited.
I'm excited too, and I'm also, I'm pondering the Torbjorn fan a little bit here. I suspect that
could mean Hatori wants to maybe play some hazard because the hazard, although you know a strong tank
in his own right, that the Torbjorn can be a bit of an issue for the hazard. That Torbjorn can kind
of poke out the hazard as he's staging for those engages and then the Torbjorn also just has so much
survivability from that kind of molten part of the override that it's hard to really be a dive target
for the hazard. So I'm just speculating of course and trying to not think that this is just a ban
that has been thrown out because they couldn't think of anything else. And maybe, you know,
they wanted to hang on to the stronger bands for longer in the series.
I mean, as well, you could talk about anti-sort of off-angle pressure, anti-tracer, anti-act,
just causing problems with any sort of those. I think on a map like Nepal, typically would see
Torbjorn here as opposed to something else. So I think if anything's going to be played,
it could have been Torbjorn, but I think in the end, right, it's up in the air. It's up to the players.
Only they will know what they are thinking and depending on who wins this, we might get an
interview to find out why this Torbjorn does come through. But let's get set up in this matchup.
Our remake is done. The server is all set. Players should be good to go. One seed versus two seed.
The upper bracket final begins right now.
Heading into Nepal, no Malka, no Torbjorn here.
And I noted that the Malkaban may be caught off-scarred a little bit,
as you can see our names here for the teams.
Not quite right.
We're going to get that adjusted.
We are not having a rebound of timeless X-missing and X-tiblivione.
It is going to be Caffe Vika and timeless X-missing here.
but doors still closed, so a chance here for these teams
to tease the casters and the chat with some picks,
such as, and my mercy.
I support mercy, especially after we saw
the double mercy support lineup in the graphic earlier.
I'm totally down for that composition.
I'd be curious what that would look like
if you could like stack the damage, I digress.
Anyway, we got ourselves a fight,
looks like we do end up on the fashion
And this first fight we know, always loves to be a little scrappy, a little drawn out.
And it is going to be the Demon for both of these teams.
The Cat Bastion here is on the side of Timeless X and Missy.
A combo that I feel like we have from Seeking Fall out of favor just a little bit instead playing for that kind of cat Cassidy.
But do you think that Bastion's still very dangerous, especially when you put him in the safe?
Well, damage a little pressure on points.
Coordinated dive by a tracer and a cat. I'm just the enemy tracer. Unfortunately, no casualty there
So we will still remain at the stalemate that isn't a lisp starts firing in that damage tiny corridor
He certainly can see oh a lot of pressure onto the cat
But no said it will not find the elimination just quite yet. There we go
It's missing the fall first and now we can begin our struggle bus or success bus depending on how you look at it
One of these teams is going to be feeling pretty good.
The others will be back to the drawing board for a moment.
Saw Hill, Slicing the Dice, and the reigning players,
Timeless X, missing your one seed, have found the first panel.
And you can see just how strong both these teams are
by how long it took to get through that fight.
Each team rotating very, very carefully, very deliberately
here, but once first blood goes away
and Timeless X missing, it is a flood forward for them.
However, Kappa Pika, coming back into this,
there's really not some ultimates to work with here.
You just need to be wary of that limit-breaking line from Sire.
And it's a pretty early one at that.
I feel like they might not be ready for exploit yet,
although Victoria and some of the backtrack courses point
the overhealth in the Vulnerable Applied as soon as you're in as well.
Just to make sure that everyone is being helped,
we saw maybe a bit of a defensive bash in our comp
against some sort of side character very low onto the Tracer 1 HP,
but here we go, Cap Ashton flying on in.
It is going to be that Vulnerable Applied and down!
You know, has found herself a very good elimination to open things up, the catnap as well, sending people off the map, Katsune Rush, Altump galore, DMACC does come through on a demon, and when the dust settles, I believe this is Cafe Fika on top.
They're gonna get some percentage building here, though, with Hitori out of the mix, it is gonna have to be a full review here for Cafe Fika.
It's like even if you don't want to brawl this one out, you can still find a quick end.
I say as PC is now down for the count, that's not ideal for timeless X-missing, but you've
still got players to work with, you still got the cat bastion.
Please don't let go of that bastion over that very large chasm as we find ourselves now
in a sort of longer extended fight,
Kafe Fika, starting to accrue that percentage even more.
Yeah, this is great for Kafe Fika to tie things up here,
especially where we're kind of at a neutral fight right now.
Timeless Ex-Missing are just trying to build up
these DPS ultimates and that limit break.
But the pressure from Ivory over on this
passing onto that Kafe Fast
is really hindering Timeless Ex-Missing
in making these rotations.
Really good rotation there,
because now it applies the Kafe to Timeless Ex-Missing.
It was the Demon who went to where they can cast,
but unfortunately left the rest of the team out and vulnerable.
And Kaffefeka, well, they hand it back up because of that.
The cat comes through and it's effectively what looks to be like a fight win.
That being said, though, we find ourselves in another fight.
We're gonna break online.
Potential we could break this one on open and you get a high noon.
It's gonna be ivory that finds at least pressure on a one.
Unfortunately, finds their ATV bar at zero as well.
Not as ideal, especially as Wisps now takes control of things.
They are on fire! Along with that Katsune rush invested, of course those bullets are going to go blazing,
timeless X-missing, file fight territory, with the advantage.
Oh, what a great advantage, taking Cinnabar out of the fight here. There's four holds for Caffe Bika,
and they're not even going to be able to trigger the overtime as Misson lurking around somewhere.
No, the tracer is not, and that is devastating! Last fight here is, uh, that is going to be
first part on the board for our number one team.
Yeah, maybe you know if the cat gets out alive you're thinking okay quick taxi for touch but in the mag the
Large stagger comes through and it is just struggle bus there from then on out
But we find ourselves in the next point and the comps could switch you never know but from what we're seeing at least
It looks like a pretty good sign things are gonna stay pretty similar
This bastion's been put in work, and I like to see it
Yeah, the timing of the forms from Wisp has been really, really good.
I mean, one of those fights we saw Ivory kind of dive Bob in on the Cassidy trying to take out the damage onto that fashion after the Dead High has come through.
But Wisp had that form ready to go, melts down the Cassidy here, and timing really nicely with the Katsune rushes that have been coming through as well.
So we're going to head over to Shrine 4 point number two.
It's been a lot of back and forth between these two teams for Cafe Pica.
Gonna have to lock in here on this more wide open map.
Try and send us to that third point of the hall.
Early poke fight, we all know how this one goes.
Looking for some sort of space, an opening.
Maybe somebody isolated, or just waiting for those cooldowns to cycle through.
Before the initial strike does come through, it is solid, but that first.
Again, nobody will struggle just quite yet, although the numbers dropping aren't ideal.
It looks like Timeless Exmissing and maintaining control of this point will find some sort of caps, some sort of flip.
And I think Kaffee Fika just didn't want to fully commit into that one, didn't like what they saw.
And so you are going to have a reset with a clean first fight for Timeless Exmissing.
I like this disengagement, Kaffee Fika. I think that they do need to show a little bit more respect to the Bastion form that comes through from Wisp.
We've already seen how much damage it can do. So I think that going for a soft engage so you can go for a hard hit once some of those cool amounts have come out is the right play here for Kaffee Fika.
Spray onto Ivory, not going to quite find a victim just quite yet, but it is going to be Hattori getting DMed. Not ideal considering, again, you do not go down, you do not find a rematch quick.
This is just going to be more percentage given over to your opponent, and now this is just a pleasantry, it's just a clean up battle, timeless like Missing Feelin' a pretty darn good as they win fight number two at this point.
And, approaching at 50% on the board, they have the limit break, and they're going to have the artillery strike ready to go.
And where Cappy, he, uh, adjusts half this kind of dead eye to work with, yes, you have a nice sky noon, but, uh, you're going to have to tie it just right, and using it for the engagement, very, uh, hopeful here for Cappy.
Well, peace has fallen victim to that twice now, unlucky.
But that's just what happens when you're trying to go for a plank.
You're trying to punish somebody who's all the way in the sky.
Ah, okay, sweet of us there. It's not gonna be baseball, but it will be a whiff coming in from the saw hill.
To see the vision, unfortunately, does not come to fruition.
Cafe Fika, feeling pretty darn good now as they find a cap on to the point.
Nice little stagger on the saw hill.
Goodbye.
Alright, yeah, good stuff here.
My Cafe Fika making just that high noon work for them.
Four other ults that are going to be on the defense now,
however, four ults to walk into this point,
including that Katsune rush for Zee,
which could force out the Katsune rush from Juno.
It's all about which ults is going to get layered on here.
Wisp's having that artillery strike ready to go,
but creates a space here for Tidal Scythe to just walk over.
Wisp down, though, that's not ideal,
considering that's a big source of the damage.
Now, obviously, you could still technically help out
in this fight if you wanted to ult respond,
get something good like that.
And I think, time was sex-missing, just wanna play it back, wanna make sure that main source of damage is in the fight with them as they go for these, one of the final contests at this point, not quite in final fight territory yet, but certainly the most critical fight at this point, give me alts.
Yeah, I definitely agree, this is gonna be a reset for the old economy for one of these teams if they're not very good.
Here we go, Catnap on in. Be careful though, because the Bastions can still shoot you while you're tethered.
Be careful, peace finds the one. Ivory as well. Kitsune in the mix.
And as the dust settles, as everyone starts to fire away.
Oh, that was an ambitious grenade, but in the end it still does not matter. Hitori was off the map.
Thymosex missing used two. Cafe Fika on the other hand, it was three.
Yeah, this is this is rough for Fika, especially where I mean, they do have to the high noon to work with here, but yeah, I like the aggressive artillery strike coming through approaching 80% here.
Team missing a team timeless X missing has the opportunity to force some of these cooldowns out from cafe Fika making it a very strappy last fight here on trying.
He player for me in this fight gonna be peace although I have already certainly with that
Skynoon will be potent before who is peaceful victim to it again.
This does not appear so it said stays alive has the pulse bomb now to use and that could
be very well to fight opener not used yet.
Hitori is just gonna hang it out for dearlet on this point but we take him back.
There's the pulse bomb onto the demon.
It should be DMACC'd and yes that is the case.
very nice target selection, especially realizing the tank half HP, soft hill, slicing as well,
and there you have it folks. This one should be cleaned up pretty darn nicely. Just the tracer player
miss on left to fall. Timeless X missing up one map, and the favorite still holds that title.
Yeah, good stuff here from Timeless X missing. I like to see the cat bastion make a little
resurgence here. I of course like to see Nanui over on the cat. I think that she is very,
very fun to watch on that hero. Wisps on the Bastion as well. I mean we were talking about
them. The timing of these Bastion forms really fantastic and I mean gotta give a big shout out
to their supports as well for somehow keeping the Bastion alive through all that chaos.
Yeah that you saw in the play again that was like a crazy sequence. Old Skull lore,
bullets flying and in the end it's still timeless x-missing reigning supreme that being said I also
want to draw attention to the fact that there are two tanks available for this timeless x-missing
squad and technically there is a substitute in right now technically saw hills the substitute
snipers also on a steam playing tank but I think it's interesting to see the dynamic of the two
tanks yeah I agree I do think that uh a saw hill of course uh not part of that original kind of core
of this team that won the 2025 Caught Championships,
but I feel like they slotted in very, very well here.
And yeah, Shen's play time with Sniper,
who I mean, they are a really, really strong tank
that we are no, no, and are familiar with
from the previous Caus season.
I think just goes to show how much faith
this team has in Saw Hill.
And so far, I think that that faith is very well placed.
Yeah, I mean, hey, if the tanks can keep you alive
if they can do what they need to do,
So be it if it ain't broke don't fix it and right now timeless X missing off to a great start
You decide your opponents cafe Fika right? Yeah
You went for some big contests. You had a solid amount of percentage for each point
But just it felt like things weren't all the way there in the end
I must like they were getting outpaced by timeless X missing
Yeah, I would I would agree I mean other there's some fights where it was cafe Pika was having some really good responses
to what timeless sex missing we're throwing out their way.
But then there were other ones where they just kind of dropping the ball here.
And to the speed that timeless sex missing makes these decisions at is just,
it's so recognizable as a high level team here and you have OWCS talent.
So yeah, having that kind of experience to draw on and
being able to make these quick and decisive moments kind of really shine for you.
It's not impossible here for Cafe Fica.
We've seen them push to a map number five against this team, but
they have to bring their A game to make that happen.
And I know I think you saw the Torbjorn band rearing its head
in that map.
Definitely the decide, that's a joke for those who cannot tell.
But we go into map number two.
We decide, of course, that mode, these bands coming in.
Something tells me it's not going to be like a Symmetra.
I think we're going to see probably a support band,
probably another tank band.
I think you're right, of course.
I mean, the tanks and the supports
are going to be the ones that are dictating the tempo
and ultimately sway the composition a lot more
than the DPS would be able to do.
So I think that map number two,
you're not a series point just yet if you're Cafe Fika,
so you do have to keep that in mind
as you pick the map and your hero band as well,
because where you've gotten the distance
with this team before,
you gotta have something in the bank
when you get to that final map.
You don't wanna have all of your most important bands
thrown out at the beginning of a series here,
So they have to be very delicate in their decisions here as, of course, in control of the map pick.
I'm hoping that they got the memo that we love New Junk City, but we also love a little bit of variety.
So we'll see where they're going to take us, but yeah, I don't think we can count out Flashpoint.
I have a weird feeling it's just going to be neon junction.
A second map.
Oh, it could be.
be very much just a guess like I'm just something tells me seeing the other one might trigger it in
this game but now we'll be push the mode and if we had the guess between the I think it's two maps
we have available I guess East Veronica most likely the case and yep we do in fact see that we
have not seen Colosseo just yet but East Veronica coming through cafe Fica I suspect you might go
for the Bastion banner. I know we were just talking about how you go for kind of a support or
for a tank where it's going to really be impactful on things, but Cat Bastion is very strong on
Esperanza, especially in the center of the map where you have that big kind of tower to play
around. And then even the the roofs on the the far side of the map, the Cat Bastion can play around
that really, really nicely here. You probably don't want to go for the Cat Band because you
probably want to play the Jet Fat Cat yourself here. So there's a lot for them to consider
because I do think that with the map pick right now you haven't taken the composition, the timeless
x-mini, the x missing just one without the table. I love how you mentioned that in the exact sequence
that I thought it through as you were saying it, so it's like raining makes so much sense to be
right now. I completely get it. Yeah the jetpack cat's so valuable, especially if you want to lean
on that sky noon. It definitely makes sense that you wouldn't ban outside characters, but that being
said like where do you pivot from from there you could go for the Emon ban if
you're maybe struggling with a mirror i want to focus on something else
you could go for the speed ban if you think lucio is going to be in the mix
i mean again this is one of those things where you kind of just have to
grow something at the wall and hope it sticks yeah i i agree these things of
course are very familiar with each other but okay it is going to be a dps
it is not going to be onto that bastion. So, uh, taking the Freya out of the mix here, which,
oh, nope, nope, we're gonna bait it. You called it. It's going to be the speed ban coming through.
And of course, that is going to protect that jetpack as well.
Yeah, I think that might have also been, yep, see, Rain, you're so good.
I'm like coming to it like two seconds after you, and I'm like, yep, you're so right.
Because Lucio, yeah, protects the jetpack, and if you wanna play, it works great.
works great Freya ban though I feel like is one of those just hero pool things of
like hey we don't really feel like playing Freya in this particular map we
might see soju, Shion, Tracer you name it but Freya just doesn't seem to be a
character. Now that I'm thinking about it historically TimeLess Ex-Missing don't
really play much of either. No don't think that we've seen it necessarily a
whole lot I think Wyss might have shown Freya a couple of times but yeah
They're very much more leaned into this kind of cat bastion comp for Ysperanza unsuspecting.
So the question for me becomes, do the tanks stick on the demon here? We did see some demon played
on Ysperanza last series. I think that if you're anticipating that there's going to be a cat bastion
in the sky, you may want to pivot over onto that diva, which can be really nice on Ysperanza,
where there's a little bit of high ground to control in those bridges on both sides of the map.
but the problem becomes if the Diva ends up in a matchup against that Demon in the front line,
the Diva's not going to win. The Diva's going to get D-Macked.
Yeah. Apologies for the delay, folks. By the way, we had a player's internet go down,
so we're just waiting for them to reconnect, and we will be all set to go after that. But
we've got to laid out the stakes. I mean, we know what the maps are, the hero bands are, so
again, it's kind of just up to where these players kind of fall in as they show up to the game.
and what version of this team will we see?
Is it cooking?
Is it struggling?
Is it DPS?
Absolutely, you know, show off,
or is it tank-reliant, systematic?
These are things that we've seen across last week
that we're seeing here in this week, common themes.
And again, this all gets resolved tomorrow.
Three more matches after the conclusion of this one.
It's just been such a fantastic
Calling All Heroes season this year.
A 21 teams that signed up
and fantastic talent across all of these teams
while we also had so many new players come into Calling All Heroes. We were meeting them kind of
for the first time. Magic Mushy's little shout out to them. It was in a team that I think entirely
made up of players that were playing in Calling All Heroes for the very first time and they made
it to the playoffs here. So really, really excited at the growth of this Calling All Heroes community
and I hope that it continues to grow and it continues to attract some attention here because
as we're seeing in this match right now, there is so much talent in this scene.
And I know it's not the beginning of the series, but again for those who might just be joining us,
Calling All Heroes, which is what you're watching right now, is an overwatched tournament circuit
for women and marginalized genders. The goal is to continue building an inclusive environment for
everyone, focusing on equity, visibility, and community support. So we're all just here to have
fun, so to show some spotlights on these players, give them a platform to flourish. It's been a
It's been a blast to watch them so far, but one team's going to sneak this game away to the Grand Finals.
It's exciting! We've been waiting all season for this, and we have to wait no longer to continue this series on.
Got a little notice here from production that he says reconnected into the lobby, the AC blew their power out.
So yeah, this player's been on fire. You want to make sure that the AC is there to keep them cool, calm, and collected.
it as we head into map number two.
So I did just see how things shape up.
Obviously, we're going to get a quick glimpse
at what the comps are going to be.
And they are probably not going to be accurate
because they love the Trollus.
They love to say, OK, this is totally what I'm playing,
by the way.
And then they'll swap to something
that's completely different.
You might see Pokken, then it's going to be Dive.
I see Xen right now.
Juno, I really hope you're going to stay,
but I know it's not the case.
Yeah, I think Fika heard that Ari really
enjoy Zenyatta, so they're showing you as much Zenyatta as is feasible for a competitive
gameplay here as, oh, unfortunately, I've been hit with a pause once again. But hey, doors
have nearly opened here, and Ari, I am pretty sure that I spied Jetpack Cat and Bastion
on the side of Timeless X missing.
Yeah, I think the Bastion's gonna be pretty cool here to see, and obviously, right, you're
not seeing those Sky News, but you're just seeing consistent pressure, and that makes
me think maybe why teams don't run the bastion a little bit more I mean
obviously maybe it's just a hero pool thing maybe it's just feeling vulnerable
and not necessarily comfortable with being up in that tempo up in the sky
playing such a character that has a large hitbox but I think as we can get
back into this game we're gonna see why these two teams have chosen their own
particular combos one with the bastion one with the cast and it will be a site
See I love that the bands have all come through and we're all the same propositions here
I like out of the bands have not been of concern really
It's gonna be the jetpack cat in the Kiriko for both teams ivory still gonna be over on that Cassidy
We have to have the tracer duel of course here on East Verranta
So we're gonna see if cafe Pika can hit back warms up on their composition now and win on them
Or he honestly be shredded. Yeah, fully just gone shield gone HP neck
just back to the spawn and that might be a sheer output of damage capable of
bashing and of course just a whole composition of timeless X missing they
really are capable of ending fights super quickly but on the bright side I
guess it was quick for Cafe Fika. And this is what I'm so worried about is that
Hattori is going to be such an easy target to focus down for Wists and
men-wide. There is some mobility on that debon but not a whole lot especially when
you're considering kind of the long angles that there are work with your
needs. Hey I'd like to get out of the back lines please. Oh okay I'll just take
you with my ability and now you know I'm feeling like I want to go to the
high ground unfortunately Hatori feels like they want to diff their
counterparts so huh Saw Hill will go down ivory as well picking up one onto
Wisp and trying to prove that this combo is better than yours but it will be an
even Steven game as we see the bottom push in the opposite direction. Hey this is
It's good for Cafe Peak getting some progress on that barricade and getting positional advantage here in the Torrey set up on this high ground.
The Sky Noon ready to go here for Ivory as well, so at opportunity not only to grab the lead, but to kind of swing this momentum in your favor and win the next fight so you can beat pushes.
This guy knew what he'd got in store, just a bit of zoning, and does find the team back
in the end.
Very clean.
That should be the elimination found.
Saw Hill on the struggle boss, given the amount of abilities and damage that is thrown
her way.
But there you go.
Pulse Bomb.
That one's gonna fly up to the ceiling and not find anything directly.
Listen, maybe wanting that one back, but it's all good if the team can make up for
it.
Katsune Rush, Pulse Bomb, all thrown in, no additions to this kill feed so far, but the positioning, it feels like a lot more favorable for Timeless X Missing given where all of their players are, and there you go, there you have it, everybody finally reduced to ashes.
It took a second, but they take back control of the bot.
And Timeless Ex-Missing get this before Cafe are able to gain the lead there so going to extend
Their lead as they push this barricade forward. Oh, no, they just grab it there
So they are pushing towards this checkpoint here and crucially
They're going to be in control of this bridge as well
So Hill has this limit break ready to go cafe Pika is going to be playing fairly split here
You can see kind of to your distinct course, so it's probably gonna be
Yeah, Hitori, I guess kind of using this ult just to stay alive, but very isolated on this point means it's not exactly going to be easy to find the value you're hoping for.
It was mainly just to hold the tempo. Unfortunately, the tempo has been eradicated completely. Cafe Fika, at least finding some sort of salvage.
Unfortunately though, there's nobody there really left to capitalize on maybe the weaker enemies in the end. Timeless X missing, hold strong.
And they pick up that checkpoint as well so the forward spawns have been activated here
You can see Zee is kind of lurking on the Scarecatchy eye to find her one
But then Timeless Ice Missy is just going to regroup the other account set up on the high ground
Wait for a fight as five because they are swell in the lead here now. It's uncountably gonna make a play.
Oh, well, that's a little unlucky. I mean the pulse bomb and Skyrim both go target in the same place
He's forced out the Suzu, and it did protect that lonely player that was left alive in the midst of things.
However, Timeless Exmissing will fall pretty quickly off the back of those various ults that were used by Kappa Pika.
So there you go, bot right back the other way.
It is going to be this bot in control of Kappa Pika.
How are the forward spawns more active here for Timeless Exmissing?
So everybody's going to get back into this fight pretty quickly here, and Kappa Pika don't have any ults to try and keep this momentum going.
They need to try and build up to this good today rush from Juno
Which means they're going to have to give up progress on this boss nature that you can say lie
Feels like a Tory is not being used in a damn new sort of format nor sort of pressure
It's just live or be completely destroyed and it's it's a struggle
But certainly you can't really control your own fate and trying to put yourself in the best possible position
Now potentially is your time and story. What have you gotten stored?
Making sure you don't die. You know what that's fair enough here comes the slice and dice cat nap
I knew I'm trying to counter out that cat. Fortunately not gonna happen and there's a sky new
Edition late at the end. It's still hitory that rain supreme over
Counterparts and this is looking pretty good cafe. Pika. I think it's strung together to fight wins in a row
All right, that's exactly what you want to see on these push moms
Especially when you're trying to grab the lead cafe Pika are gonna push towards that checkpoint
Pick up forward spawns of their own and honestly pretty economic
They have this catnap and the limit breaks still ready to go the pulse bombs available for both of these teams for the artillery strike coming out early
Well that bot is possible that day
The bucks crunch animation coming on through so it'll be tough to really gain any additional meter
But a little backline fight we've got going on miss on
We'll be able to leave with her life
But of course, you know, we're expecting that part of these come through pretty soon
and especially given the amount of ults that are available,
mainly on the side of Cafe Fika,
but if Juno that finds their counterpart,
I mean, how have you just done that,
maybe an aggressive play with the TP in pocket?
It doesn't matter though,
because everybody is contributing
from this Cafe Fika side.
Juno, congrats.
You are popping off here in the right moments.
Yeah, excellent, Puna is coming through
from the Kiriko Cafe Fika,
and that is going to award Cafe Fika the lead here,
forward spawns activated, and Juno's not done yet! She's gonna take another one off the fight here
without the Kiriko in the mix for Timeless X missing. They cannot afford to take this engagement.
They need to wait for Az to get back in the fight, and then they have that limit break to work with.
Try and slow down the momentum. The Cathy Fika is rapidly building.
Where I say this is gonna be the moment, the map potentially, where we see that 3-0 disappear,
the dream for some and the fears for other. It's a lot of eliminations coming in Cafe
Fika holding strong sky near and everything just invested perfectly. And now one fight
separating Cafe Fika from this map win. It would be lovely to see if you're rooting
for those closer series but it's not over yet. All's available for almost five minutes
for time to set. Missing the early engage comes through. Catnap. Limit break. Missing
in on the action, and it's just a spear jab
that finds the victims dropping to the ground.
Cats up in the air, left at 1 HP,
Hitori making a mark on history.
Cinnabar in on the action.
The spawn door challenge completed.
Is the map on over, the recall touches in,
and one, zero, there you have it.
Cafe Fika tie us up, and we've got ourselves a series.
Really love to see this bounce back from Cafe Fika,
And I mean, they adjusted to this composition.
Fantastic.
This is the same comps that both of these teams
were running on map number one, Nepal.
But he just came through here in the way
that Kappi Pika was playing.
And it looked absolutely fantastic here,
missing on the tracer so much pressure.
And even if she wasn't able to necessarily win out
in the tracer duels on the sidelines,
she was doing a great job just gaining map control
and putting pressure on it to the side of Timeless as mixing.
I mean, pressure really is the way of the game
when it comes to something to like push,
because if you can even maintain control of the bottom,
make sure people don't get fully reset.
That's additional meters for you.
That's now space that the team needs to kind of come back in,
find some sort of resurgence, and propel themselves to,
in order to get a victory.
But there you have it, 1-1 on the series.
We don't have a 3-0.
It's magical, bask in this glory.
And last time, again, remember,
These two teams fall off.
It was a three to two out.
So this could very well go with a full distance.
I think that everybody in chat is hoping for it.
Of course, the drops are going to be enabled
for tomorrow as well.
But getting to see some really close action
between our number one and number two teams,
it's what we've been hoping for here.
And I think that seeing both of these teams win
on their map pick also just exactly what we want from these kind of top contenders here in playoffs.
A little replay package for you. I show in the key moments the nice clips that we've seen and a lot
of it yeah it was clean shots but I want to say again how they think more having a systematic
approach that has propelled them through success obviously you can lean on the sky new and you
You can lean on the limit break, but in the end,
I think it was mainly the system that kept things going.
We highlighted certain players, propelling space,
protecting it, and sort of applying that pressure,
but in the end, they did their job,
came out with a map win.
And I do really like what you're mentioning
about kind of the system, because I was worried
for Cafe Fika when we go into East Verransa
and they don't ban the bastion,
you have to anticipate you're going in for that cap bastion,
which is exactly what Timeless X Missing had lined up.
And they just adjusted their positioning to it really,
really well.
We saw multiple times tutorial was kind of the target focus,
I would say, of that kind of Bastion form a lot of the times
trying to burst down the shield.
But she did a really good job in her disengagement
when that Bastion form came out.
So the support's able to keep her alive,
keep her in mech many times.
And I think that was kind of the key
to being able to win without really changing your comp up.
Just change the way, the timing, and the positioning that happens when you're going into these fights.
I think with that, I think time was ex-missing now with that map choice.
Most likely you'd imagine bringing us over to Flashpoint and potentially banning out the cat, right?
Just trying to take away as many factors that has allowed Cafe VK to win as many engagements as possible.
Of course, that's just speculation, but it also goes along with the script.
It might just be a little bit out of place.
Yep, there's the Flashpoint.
like the first three modes, you know, is be the first three modes.
Just maybe a little different order.
OK, OK, but new challenger approaching here.
And it's going to be Atlas, which I don't believe we have seen Atlas played
at all in the playoffs if these are been new junk city or Saravasa.
So getting to see the newest Flashpoint, although it's fairly old now,
is going to be exciting.
I do think that this map is very, very good for Demon.
as well. So I suspect that unless there's a band that comes through, we're probably going to end up on
that tank matchup once again. But I don't know that this is going to be so strong for that cat
bastion. So I do think that you could potentially go for that cat band here, despite Nedwai of course
having a really fantastic performance on her. Yeah, like the cat thing is almost more of a choice
now. Like you could just run the cat to run the cat. And then the combo is not something that you're
relying on, but it's something that is as nice as an additional sort of success
condition for you guys to work with, but I think with that cast ban coming, yeah,
like you take part of the combo away, you leave the cap for yourself, you could
leave the cap ashen open as well, but you're taking basically the combo out of
things and just leaving some sort of, you'll backline movement left.
All right, demon gone here. So Kathy Fika Hitori
She wants a little bit of a change of scenery here as we head over onto Atlas and of course like I mentioned earlier
Hitori is a very flexible tank here
So she has a lot of different
Heroes in her pool that are going to be played at that high level
But I do think that yeah that Cassidy ban is going to take the sky new number that makes it's also gonna take a lot of pressure
off of men why on that jetpack hat.
Of course, the hitskin from the Cassie is very scary.
It's hard to kind of stay alive in the sky here,
especially where I've really been hitting shots.
So you got to show Matt respect to that as map number three
and ready to head into things.
And we are finally going to break away from that demon matchup.
So I'm just interested to see what these teams are going to lean towards instead.
I'm sensing it's Maga time.
That's just me speculating.
But I feel like we're gonna see a logo at least at some point during this game
It might not be out of the gates, but I feel like if you start to struggle you go to the moga you see what works
Obviously not still available. You can try and combo with other characters, but maybe it's that tour of weight
Maybe they're cooking. Maybe it's the tour the turret on top of the cat flying around
Okay, maybe that's okay
As fun as I think it would be to see the tour of your in here. Yeah, I think they're saving it for map number five
probably. So as we head into Atlas here, I think the Malga Shout is a pretty good one. I do think that,
especially on Flashpoint, where the percentage will build so quickly, you really want to have a
strong presence on the point. The Malga can be an excellent option for that. I do think that
Atlas, with so many corners, can lend it to self-duce and tanks that we maybe don't get to see as
much. I'm thinking like the Junker Queen, which can play corner to corner really nicely, but really,
really struggles kind of once you're out in the open. And then, I mean, I got to give a little
little shout out to some of the IRISA, but yeah, it's probably a good time. At least
that's what these teams are going to be thinking while the doors are still closed.
And as well, look at the back line for Cafe Fika. And I mean, I feel like that's just
annoying to deal with. A cat and a loose, you know, yes, technically you could argue
maybe not the most healing support, but in terms of movement, in terms of just running
around, it would be very annoying to deal with. It would have been. But you know it's
I would agree that would be a nuisance for sure so they can keep that one
We'll give you guys that composition for free
I think Hargath have missed on over on the Sombra though
So this is actually we're getting 2 DPS that we basically never see we have a Sombra and then Whisper's gonna be over on the Sierra here
So Atlas showing us a whole lot of variety as we head over to station
This is something that's more familiar
Yes, the magas shooting at each other hoping to gain that overheld as much as possible.
Hatori and do a wall for good personal that charge, but hopefully getting out of dodge to
their life on a lock. That being said, though, Hatori looking to go back in the mix very low
actually does find the elimination onto Wisp. This one very chaotic Atlas. Again,
maybe not the most practiced between these two teams. Certainly they do have practice on this
map. There's a reason we see a lot of Suravasa and things like that instead of this Atlas.
It's still pretty streaking avic by the way, and it looks like TimeLysex Missing have finally
captured this point.
Honestly, I'm surprised that they were able to find their way back into that fight after
losing Wisp early to the Sombra of Natory. Now, missing is off of that Sombra pretty
quick. I think that's to be expected here. It's kind of hard to find the value of the
Sombra, especially right off against Event Denna and Isiira, and they're always going
all the look up. So over onto the venture now to try and win this front-to-back fight.
That was very aerial acrobatics that I honestly kind of want to see again. I want to see how that
plays out in the end, but that's going to be Z picking up their counterpart, Juno, feeling pretty
good there, missing right back on the venture. Again, maybe not super, super traditional,
but these are like all TDM style battles. We just see various targets being applied by
certain characters, it's like, who do we want to go on next if you're the Moga?
For everyone else, it's just I'm gonna run.
Oh look, someone's in my sights.
And you know, I think that the TDM is going to favor this composition,
the Timeless X-Missing is playing a lot more than Cafe Figa.
Peace on the Vendetta, Whisper on the Sierra.
Although we don't see the Sierra a whole lot, she has a lot of mobility here
to kind of find her way through these 1v1s and nails.
Over time on the floor, Cafe Figa is grappling.
Yeah, breaking the cage there with the Sierra Ultimate, I like that, but now the
Illuminations need to come through in Café Fica while they're on the back foot
and not to mention without Hitori are gonna be knocked down a peg on top of
that. They'll be kidnapped who's potentially in a lost fight, but it's
gonna be those heroic moments that are trying to be summoned on in Kitsune Rush
as well, but it's Wisp to find the first courtesy of the tracking shot. He says
well in on the action and the venture player left to return back to the dirt in the spawn room.
All right, point number one over to Timeless X missing here. We're gonna be heading over to
point number two, city center, and Cafe Fika. I mean they committed a lot into that to not win
that fight. You're just holding on to this tectonic shot here from this side. Over good news,
Kind of missing, I have nothing to work with here, so if you can take out some of those movement cooldowns from Wisp and from East,
you have an opportunity to find a pick onto one of those DPS players with this.
Honestly used in sort of a defensive way, and I like the lifeline being used to actually pick up the players,
make sure they are out of harms away from this very powerful ultimate that we can see, but Zee, she finds her counterpart yet again,
and it's Tuna that was popping off the previous map that propelled the success for Capitika.
And now, unfortunately, it seems to be a bit of a pain point.
Maga Diff, though, coming through, saw Hill remaining strong.
And that support needs to be applied to keep these players up.
The Cafe Fika still hanging on, still have numbers.
And the problem is that Phyllis X Missing
are very strong with their own tanks still in the mix as well.
Very low Ivory on the Soldier now with the Overclock available,
if need be, Katnapa as well.
But saw Hill slams on down to Miss Son.
That should open things up.
This Overclock, it's got to be the key to victory.
If it is not, you're gonna see a reset needing to be the case in Cafe Vika.
They will do exactly that, missing on the Pharah, by the way.
Ooh, okay, I mean, out of the dirt and into the sky here for Miss Sun,
and I freaking is going to match on the Sierra.
Look, this is more Sierra gameplay than I think that we have seen since her release,
so I'm personally very excited for it.
I like the Cafe Vika, have swapped things up quite a bit here.
However, they are gonna be at a deficit when it comes to Ultimate.
Both those DPS all it's ready to go for Timeless X missing and the cage fight in combo with the trailblazer from the Sideric is a devastating combo here.
So once Ah-Hil gets that cage online, I think he gets one more clean freeze, but I just have to be one person who got in that cage and just try to keep them alive.
Yeah, I kind of think I should be trying to force out the DPS a little earlier, but instead it will just be a whole bunch of all its chaos.
That's overwatch for ya, by the way!
Whisp finds two courtesy of the Ultimates in Hitori, although she might find one.
She also finds the grave.
Timeless X missing.
Cannot be stopped.
This is gonna be the point cap for them.
There is not gonna be a re-contest here from Cafe Peek-Other and Hunter Regroop.
And look for that third flashpoint here.
Although Hitori is charging in on the mouth cause she triggers the overtime, so there's still a chance.
Nyawn.
Cage fight, by the way.
Unfortunately though, there's not really many people to hang on to this cage fight and to this fight in general
It is just to be essentially a bit used for all charge to maybe have a better chance at this next point coming up
Technically the ultimate advantage used in favor of Fika as you have a force out of decent amount from time of sex missing
But that could soon a rush could be the key to success
Yeah, having that online for z is is a big big advantage where it's you know
It's not gonna have that to work with and this son is over onto the tracer as well
So yeah, you're like a full reset here on all sort cafe Fika
We're over to bizarre for the third potentially final point here on Atlas and already it's going to be
Final sex missing in control of this interior and of course
He's taking out back as soon a rush to work with so cafe Fika right now
I'm in the top spot of trying to find the way into this fight without getting locked on by that rush
How does Zee keep finding the opener in like every single fight? I don't get it. I mean peace will fall so the numbers technically even
Unfortunately though Hitori Juno they will all fall indeed
And Whis by the way popping off on this Sierra and it's ironic that we see Sierra when it's you know, not HR tree, right?
This is the second player only to play the
Hero in Kong. That's true. Yeah, I think HR tree
She's she was playing that in honor of tree playing it very briefly and one of their matches
So it's gonna be bizarre in control for timeless X-Men they already so much percentage game Z
That's not how to use this continuing rush that trailblazer is ready to go as well
This is a very hard point to try and walk on and when you're up against also they can just take these through long
Soon as you force out a little bit early log a boy actually shredding the counterparts
10 there you have it that trailblazer again used fines one but I still don't fully believe
yeah that is until okay that final it comes through I was just making sure all the pieces fell in
place it felt like there was still room for potential hero play unfortunately now peace
is not going to be able to do a 1v5 with just a blade in hand it's so true though you really can't
count timeless axe missing out if somebody is alive on their team lurking especially one of
of these DPS players that has the pop-off potential. Now there's gotta be a lot of ults for Timeless X
missing to walk into Bazaar with and it's going to have to be aggression coming through from
Kathy Fika first. They have the pulse sign and he needs to find a critical target and slow down
this attack from Timeless X.
Susie forced on now, pulse on man, it's thrown to the side. However, Peace does give the
elimination onto Juno and make that again the cage, trailblazer combo. It's light work, it's
It's cinema, it's everything you'd expect from this timeless X-missing side.
There's of course Z being as potent as ever with those kunais and mbm.
I mean maybe one fight left to go here, but it's certainly gonna be tough if
timeless X-missing can put some aggressive pressure.
And they have the aggression to work with here.
Peace has that sundering blade ready to go.
Now Hitori does have this page fight.
You want to get set up on the point?
Oh please, she has to follow up.
If you were being, I guess, if you get set up on the point there,
Hitori falls down almost immediately
because everyone was like, oh, we know your win condition.
It's this cage fight, and we're going
to take you on down before it gets any sort of value.
Yes, two players hanging around on the point,
but it's just now a cat.
Just one player living, breathing, hoping for the best.
And, well, that HB bar will drop to zero.
It may not be a 3-0 series, but it certainly
is a 3-0 map, timeless X missing up two to one.
Yeah, very comfortable on their map pick here.
And yeah, we can see why the Jetpack Cat Band didn't come through.
Then why 25 and 1?
She is devastating on that hero.
And we're even going to get a Sierra play of the game.
Definitely, I would say, over there, really, at least times.
I mean, I guess, yeah, but as well,
this map felt like one of the most chaotic maps
that we've seen in a long while.
And honestly, it's almost refreshing in one way,
because the joke is overwatched, there's so much going on,
what do you look at?
And that seems to have died down courtesy of Dmon coming in
and being very sort of methodic.
We're going to dive on this one player,
and that's going to be that, and it's my blade,
and my shield, and that's it.
But then you get comps like these.
And so much happens in Flashpoint,
where in the end, if you've got the better game plan,
if you've got even just the better mechanics,
you can get to work and grab the map for yourselves.
And this is what we expect of a champion level team here,
coming into a map that most teams aren't picking.
We are not going to Atlas very frequently.
And coming into that map with a composition,
that there's just no way that the other team could
have suspected it.
There is, there's just no way that Kafe Fika was anticipating.
They were going to go up against a Sierra and a Vendetta
on Atlas.
So yeah, really good job here from Timeless X missing,
too.
I think really catch Kafe Fika off guard.
We even saw Kafe Fika making the swap over
to try and match with that Sierra.
but at that point you're playing into your opponent's game and it's pretty hard to win when you do that.
Absolutely, and we're gonna do something that's a little bit different because this series is a
little different. Because it has gone more than three maps, we're gonna take a quick break,
make sure the players are all hydrated and everything ready for map number four. So we'll
be right back with continuation of this series.
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Hey folks, we are back the continuation of this upper bracket final series and yes, I
know it's weird.
We had more than three maps played so we had a break, but it's okay.
We're here now.
We've got map number four up for you and eventually of course going into that map number five.
Two more maps on today.
No more matchups after this one, but let's take a look and see what happened here in
this previous one.
Yeah, now Nepal
Go the way of timeless X missing pretty decisively
Hit back up from cafe pica over on Esperanza, but once
Timeless X missing was back in control of the map pick once again sending us over to Atlas
One of the first times that we got to see this map in calling all heroes is not going to the prescribed Newark City
It was all a timeless axe missing here. They have so far looked extremely comfortable on their map picks
This is a series of firsts if you will Sierra gets a win
We see Sierra we have a team that has brought the series to more than three maps and
Among other things as well
I'm sure there's plenty more that we could go off of but
we move into map number four and now we also get to consider what mode we go
to next because it's not push anymore it's not flash point so is it escort or
is it hybrid this is uncharted territory now of course we have seen
hybrid into the last series here but it could be a repeat me I'm Junction has
been a favorite however no we are going to be heading on over to an escort map
And now the options for escort being a Junkertown or Route 66 or Shambali
They are going to go over to Route 66 here
I feel a nice middle ground of the other escort maps
I mean this one seems to be if we're seeing an escort in these series what
The map is gonna be a route 66 a lot more familiar with a lot of these teams
Just the various high grounds things like that, but
Ashenban and Anaben. I mean obviously you see the Bastion ban. I think you know what they're targeting.
As for the Anaben, we've mentioned it before. Does that mean you're trying to take out the Anci? Meaning you want to play a couple of particular tanks.
Is it Nalgatime? It could be Nalgatime. I just think it's a three-row dog.
A frog? Hey, you did say it is a series of firsts here. So, you know, that would be a first for sure.
But yeah, the Ana coming into play, I do, yeah, expect that you maybe want to play a tank that could be really hindered by those anti-nades.
I do think that the Ana also can put quite a bit of pressure onto the Jetpack cats.
Historically, she was kind of used as a counter to the Jetpack cat Bastion, especially once you get that major perk online for her when you get the headshots.
She got pretty devastating as kind of an anti-air sniper, but yeah, the Bastion fan no surprise to me here coming out from
Kaffe Hiko because they maybe want to play the Jetpack Cat themselves and they do not want to go up against Wisp on that Bastion again.
Yeah, that would probably be a little painful. I'm not looking forward to that, but they won't have to at least in particular math.
There might be, though, a rough and rude awakening in the next one. We'll have to see if we make them.
Well, if we make it there, but instead, let's see how things are shaping up right now, obviously, we know these players will like to swap things up.
Alright, well, Cafe Peek is on the defense first, and since we are over on escort now, it does matter, and they will be locked into this composition at least for the first fight, and it's a familiar composition coming through for them.
No more Atlas shenanigans, it is back on to this Hittori on the demon and then of course going to have that tracer in the Cassidy as well.
So, I'm a sign of timeless, X-missing.
I do have an opportunity to take a couple of shots on that Widowmaker and Wisps.
Yeah, they're feeling it. They are ready for this.
What do we got? Cat Widow, okay, 0 for 1.
Technically 1 for 2.
And I'm waiting for it. No one's given an angle.
Yeah, no one's being asked.
I would not want to beat it either.
Of course, we kind of expect maybe Wisp to jump to a different character after the widow-first life comes through.
But, who knows?
Maybe you do see things a little bit differently.
Maybe this is the strat they want to run on Route 66.
And again, we're just kind of hanging around because that's where the major pressure is, ironically.
Even though Wisp isn't, like, hitting the most crazy shots,
no one's really giving them a chance to in this...
It leads up to potential success or potential disaster, depending on if that value does eventually come through.
But oh, body shot, nope.
Still not happening.
Still waiting to see that first engagement come fully through, and it's Whistler finally gets taken down.
Okay, I think Cafe Fika have found their footing.
The defenses hold strong in first fight.
Now, officially over.
I gotta say, props to Cafe Fika for the patience coming through.
It is so easy to just try and peek that window, try and pressure her out of the sky, but of course,
Wisp very deadly on this Hiscan Hero, so is going to make that swap over and get stalled here for
Kathy. He gets a hit, he has a hurry, he nearly goes off to that limit break. That has got to be a
record here for that all being online. Yeah, not to mention when there's one player that you don't
don't even have. Now we'll make that two that you can't even slice that because they're
up in the air. So good job to farm that up pretty darn quickly Saw Hill, hang it on,
finds at least the one but unfortunately finds himself in the next. And that's not going
to be great for the teamfight dynamic but that's because Captain Ithika are absolutely
popping off right now. I mean it's just seemingly raw mechanics that are propelling them right
now and and time was like missing. Feels like they're kind of at a standstill, they don't
I don't really have any hard plans, I'm kinda just poking and poking open these fights.
I'm feeling that too, I almost as if he feels like I'm just a little bit disjointed in how they're approaching things right now.
And I think it is because of this kind of stronghold that Kafe Hika has, and now they have that sky-need buddy to go.
It's gonna be even harder to try and push it.
Leave that a still effect of the Suzu coming through to the clans, gonna be finding some good works.
Timeless Exmissing now, ults of their own, Kitsune Rush, up on in, where is that immediate value comes in?
on to that?
What's your mark?
No, and then why I think I must have missed the catnap somehow.
And this limit break.
I'm tying it up in case it is needed.
But Saw Hill, I think, just deciding, no, it's not.
The monocasualties on the other side are plenty.
We are going to win this fight.
And when it convincingly, finalists
are missing, took them a little bit to get there,
but they are right back in this.
Yeah, I'm going to start moving the car here.
And I mean, I've got to get props to Ivory.
She had insane reaction time against that catnap
coming through from them. Why should she throw the hindernaid to cancel that catnap?
So very impressive here from the Cassidy.
And because Chappy Pika lost that fight so close to kind of the choke point, the first corner,
they have room here to come back and re-contest this card before Chappy Pika loses that check point.
Absolutely. You know, actually, I was going to say hard contest wasn't really coming through on that point,
but there's the limit break. Comes through. Hitori done 37, make that one HP.
D mech unlucky saw hill their counterpart is just enough you got to remember that there are five different players on each of these teams and anyone to be the hero in these waiting moments saw hill looking to cancel out the sky noon and yes peace falls victim to it again seemingly a trend we found with our tracer player but the point has been captured in the end so regardless of how the fights the eliminations go timeless X missing a happy with the result.
It's a good first point defense here for Caffe Pica, but they are going to have a little bit less space to work with here since they got three players coming back from that long spawn and Timeless Ex-Missing are looking to set themselves up on this high ground already.
So that's really devastating here for Caffe Pica where you'd love to have Ivory kind of set up ready to go so that you can do that damage as Timeless is making your rune page.
Looks like the heavy projectile is officially available for victory and that's going to be very scary for those in the airspace, although Miss Sun will fall.
This is going to be a tough first situation. Now obviously the breakthrough is going to be Peter. We can see who exactly is going for that hard engage.
That's going to happen just quite yet. And so this poke game is just going to allow for this card to be pushed even further forward for Timeless X Missing.
Again, this stall comes through, especially with now Wisp up in the air, Sky Noon, their own.
And this is 3 meters. Of course we are just waiting for that final player to get back from spawn, but there you go!
It's Saw Hill, it's Wisp, and they make a great run of things.
Yasaka, Tine, Rush, launch on in from both sides, and you've made an attempt to Tori.
We appreciate the effort. Unfortunately, not much more value for you,
as the time being extended, the point now moved forward.
All right, into third point here, Route 66.
This is where the cat and the Cassidy combo is going to be a little bit harder to kind of get away with,
because now you do have a much smaller skybox to work with here.
So we are going to still see these teams stick on that same composition.
I think they are building up to that high noon,
and of course, it's going to be harder to find the value, but not impossible here.
here, we see time and time again Ivory at least managing to find peace. However this part has been
moving forward, it's in second point pretty much uncontested here, it's really going to be onto
Hattori to try and be that frontline presence. Yeah ironically we were talking about how time
was ex-missing felt, destroying two Canadian people really feel convincing in all of their fights,
and now it's Cafe Pika that aren't really taking that initiative that we're expecting for at Saw Hill.
Again, launching out that lip-break, spotting all these players, and actually does find themselves
So, not exactly going to be easy to open that fight out, but the cart still is pushed four players, still hanging on for dear life.
Unfortunately though, no front-liner means that you will have to hit that reset button.
And I like that the play there from Caffe Pika. Ivory is set up on a pretty hard angle and they just flip the map on times that's missing it.
That's exactly the kind of plays that a sight-signistic Caffe Pika really need to do to come up against this team.
team and now we're gonna be heading into a neutral fight here it's just those
catmounds that are going to be coming online. Wisp is building up to the dead
eye as well but your cafe beaker right now you really want to try and find an
early pick here so that you can deny that all coming online and really running
away in the third point. Wisp put that high new move. We're gonna turn that one
into a sky new move now aren't we? Yes indeed very low though because that
heavy perk again from the demon is gonna be pretty powerful over Cinnabar
does fall down, went for the attempt for the cancel, but it's Wisp. Oh yeah, love to see that aim
be very clean. And of course, Kappa Kika now with a sort of last-ditch touch that needs to be the case.
Yeah, it's gonna be a scramble here for Kappa Kika. Losing ivory late in that fight is devastating, especially where Wisp is gonna be set up on the truck now.
So you have to contend with this high ground from the side of Kainloss X missing.
much does come through at least as a saving grace for this cap to keep aside
and fortunately Kitsune, a rush can make things very very difficult. 1.6 meters is
all that is left required and you see at least some sort of vision to hope for
that is quickly diminished. Timeless X missing, slow start, fast ending. Yeah and
ending with time in the bank crucial as well. You'll want all of those seconds
that you can get as you head into potential overtime rounds here on escort.
However, this does mean we have to see a full cap come through from the side of
Capapika. If they even want a chance at those overtime rounds,
you know, taking a look at the scoreboard once again, seeing
Lenwae with just the cat domination here.
She has such a great understanding of when she can go aggressive on this hero
and when she needs to play safe.
Also, fantastic movement all around.
So yeah, good stuff here so far from our number one team.
It's crazy how we go from Atlas of pure chaos
and two characters that we don't typically see.
I mean, there's Avengers, Sierra,
crazy comps, flashy things.
And then we go back to this dynamic
that we've all grown used to.
It's the practical mirror, at least the demon mirror,
Tracer or She-On, Cat, Gyaraco, and it all feels the same.
And so, of course, that does mean that whoever kind of
IGLs their team to success a little bit better
is going to be the ones on top.
It's going to be positioning a lot more important.
Yes, mechanics will be there, but in the end,
you've got to have an advantage that isn't
on just those character one-for-one matchups.
Yeah, that's exactly it.
And I think that the Bastion band that came through
from the Cafe Pica, you know, a good idea here,
But Wisps is just so confident over on this Cassidy, making a swath over and not two ticker calls before them as Ivory.
Gonna try her hand at a little bit of Widowmaker shenanigans, no Widowmaker in the sky here.
Gets a couple shots off and he's gonna match over to the mirror and match up here.
You see if Tynosex Missing can take their cubes in at heart on this first point as we saw that way.
Don't miss them before early, that's not quite ideal.
maybe trying to go for some sort of like a backline flink, and they can just spot it on out.
Unfortunate, but those are the risks to take on the attack.
It's not going to be the most detrimental of results, because you'll have a quick spawn.
The spawn's right just around there with you, but again, arming up these demon limit breaks
is going to be very, very important. Whoever gets that one out first, most likely,
is going to be the fight victor that is, of course, unless it's matched out in the end,
which could very well be the case, but, again, a high ground still being granted for timeless
Ex-Missing still seeing this tracer battle off towards the sideline. We call available the full HP now
Not exactly needed demon versus demon over towards this ledge now, but again, just pressure just all farming waiting for that first moment
Just right
That's what it's just been a bit of a stalemate here, which is of course going to favor time with Ex-Missing where they are in control of this
payload they have to get to the cross way to go if Khabibiko
I'll work this forward a little bit, just a little bit.
Big lens coming out there, unfortunately though, it is still the tactical dive of the lifeline that works out in the end.
Hitori as well, scaling up towards, I believe, the higher ground ledge in order to kind of jump on over to on top of the gas station.
And of course that means Cafe Fika, along with that dive, along with Miss Unpop enough landing the shots, the headshots, it will be a Cafe Fika fight win.
Alright, on this payload forward you can see there's three players on the cart here for Cafe Fika
trying to get this payload towards that checkpoint as quickly as possible.
Of course, Timeless Exmissive coming back into this fight.
Both those DPS ults ready to go, the limit break, and Sky Dune to open it all up.
Ooh, that one looks like it probably should have found a little more,
but I think you're still happy with the result, finding Juno 1v1,
and it will not be resolved. It will be a limit break on Outsaw Hill trying to survive,
and actually does find herself still cooking, still kicking here in this fight.
And yes, there are four players here for Caffe Fika still alive.
Unfortunately, the down one forced back into a very small cave.
Might just have to wait back for that final fifth player.
Yeah, you gotta wait for everybody to be in the fight.
And although, you know, did that as you get back into the rush online,
when it's just Sinobar trying to keep everybody alive here for Caffe Fika,
it's inevitably somebody is going to fall here.
The Tepacac puts out a lot of fields, which is a really important thing.
There's a one person at a time here and now, and then it's going to be Katnipika, kind of running out of time here, they need to make a play, they need to get this Jedi online, it has to fight later for them throughout the series.
Have I helped, let me up, I want to see what I can get, oh my gosh, four players found!
It'll be one that has eliminated the Wisp counterpart of Ivory, he'll fall to the grave, and of course, Tori now, punishing off everybody being so split, Katnip in the next time is like trying their best, unfortunately.
Unfortunately, it will not be a full hold for the women.
Instead, we will find ourselves capturing the first segment of this map.
We are extending it on ever so slightly.
Let's go!
More series to be had here.
If Kathy Pika have anything to say about it, they're going to push forward.
Take this high ground as well.
So important on this second phase of Route 66.
It's so hard for the defending team to push into this point when you're in control of
that high ground.
See, he has this continue rush to work with, so that he's a good route to go towards the point here,
and it looks like Zahil wants to force a fight on that level.
At least, maybe I'll struggle with this, didn't feel like every now and again at first,
but it seems to pick up the slack and we'll be okay.
However, Juno, you know, do a little eliminations, and yeah, just like clockwork.
It seems like a dry fight for time of sex missing.
They wanted to just try and get those ults on the board as quick as they could, but that's one way to do it.
Alright, good start here on the second point for Cap'n Pika. They push forward now, aggressively, on actually to the other high ground here.
I think that that's the right play. They have a lot of ults coming online here, so if they can get some early damage, they won't be able to go first in this fight.
You don't want Wisp to be able to get set up, push to Sky Noon!
Oh boy, it's Sky Noon, it's Sky Noon, Sky Noon's galore, and Ivory reigns supreme in the end.
It'll be the fist that is brought out to find the final damage required to bring a piece back to spawn, but again, I mean
Maybe there's an attempt to her touch. I don't know how well it's gonna go, especially limit break
Okay, yeah, everyone wants to launch in these albs and it looks pretty darn good saw hill to salvage the situation along with
The Kitsune rush out from Juno is like maximum value, right?
I mean, she got hit with a pulse bomb and she's fighting in a kitsune rush still hits to with that limit break
Absolutely incredible retake here from timeless X missing it. Yeah pieces on card duty
There will be no back caps happening on her watch this pulse bomb as the backup as well
However, I think they have the catnip ready to go might see that as a target on to just try and stun somebody out
And then go for the a limb from the rest of the team here rather than try and drag them off the map because that
that ledge is very far away from where time was exiting inside.
Saw the vision, it looks good, unfortunately, I guess just the stick not applied.
And so, of course, time to sex-missing, hoping and kind of relying on that one to really open this fight up and make things a lot easier.
It's not going to happen, except it's here at Rush Catnap.
We've seen this one before, but it's no quick eliminations, that is,
until Manuel Ball is missing traded out, Lim at break, and who will reign supreme in this fight,
might just be that final fight territory. Hitori is somehow still alive, by the way,
in the midst of all of this, but saw he'll be mech first, taken down for good. Juno,
a head shot, he's now gonna do all that she can, hopefully contest this card. 20 seconds
is what you need to burn, and it's certainly not easy, but sports here is trying to help,
not gonna happen, so we will move on yet again, bringing things down to the wires,
Kathy Fika, but it does not matter as long as they can keep on pushing.
And Hitori is making sure that that part is still happening.
And I see the 3K to clean up Taino's X-Missing and have up 2nd point here for Kafei Higa.
Rolling forward, they have a lot to keep this momentum going, both those DPSLs.
Because Tune Rush from Juno online and Zee not able to match it.
Not to mention, not that they break that quite online for Tarno, just yet we have seen her use that as a counter to that Kitsune Rush.
But the longer this fight goes on, the better positioning Taino's X-Missing is going to be in to shut it down.
This guy, Noon holds farm, that one missed out, and it's risk that falls victim this time.
Again, it feels like Phallus X misses, and we keep losing that 1v1 defense battle,
but the team seems to be packing things up and holding strong for that line that might end up falling.
Again, this is not final fight just quite yet, but it certainly is going to be a valuable fight.
That needs to be one limit break on outweights. Phallus X missing are using everything.
Hitorious also invested something quite powerful in a lost fight.
Okay, we get to be back onto SawHale here and I gotta say, I've seen them go over onto Genji twice now, and I feel like their team is-
No, no, no, not the Genji, so, alright, not the Genji is gonna be the reaper though, coming through like SawHale was set up on the high ground here, trying to do what damage she can, but yeah, that catman, that was personal.
Yeah, I mean, definitely reasonable as well, but again, this is basically just setting up Timeless X missing for that final fight, which we'll come through.
Oh, oh, no, I mean, yeah, but no, I think that's all I'm gonna say about that.
Yeah, I think that we would agree with this.
Overtime now, though, so that doesn't mean-
Okay, it's a swap.
It's- ah, yes, yes, yes, okay, I like the swap as well.
Overtime does mean that you want to have lots of presence on this point,
and having a nice blade to work with here,
definitely gonna swing things in the favor of timelessness.
Oh, we're gonna have a pause come through at maybe,
a very stressful moment for both of these teams.
Oh my gosh, I was so ready and then I went, oh, okay.
Well folks, I can guarantee you,
this next fight is gonna be the most tense fight
we'll ever see today, probably in this championship,
especially because everyone knows
what's about to happen, not just the players,
but you saw the Katsuneiro shout,
you technically have a second to plan
how you're gonna deal with things,
but at the same time, you're gonna have to react
as soon as that timer drops and I am yawned disbelief here.
This is, you know, we're building the suspense here.
This is a-
This is scripted, is it not?
This is a match at first here, you know what?
A pause in the final fight of potentially the final map.
Yeah, this is, it's all according to plan, don't worry.
It's no issues here, but yeah.
There's two Kasude rushes on the point.
Cappy Pika can't leave the point, and with Timeless X missing, just having peace make that swap over onto the Vendetta?
I mean, the Vendetta is scary just on her own, but you put a Vendetta into a Kitsune rush?
That is just a massive amount of damage waiting to happen, especially onto a tank.
I have one request.
Yeah, please do not see no.
You don't let the series end like that.
All right, the timer drops. Here we go.
Pause on over.
It's gonna be the battle that ensues.
Z finds the first onto Ivory,
Suzu forced out Hittori very, very low,
just speeding around open for the best.
Katsune rushes both expire,
D-Mack comes through onto Hittori,
the Killed Fetal, Orange, Timeless, X,
Missing are your champions of this series.
They're going to the grand finals.
I think we expected something like this,
heading into this series,
but Timeless, X, Missing showing us
exactly why they came into these playoffs undefeated, continuing to dominate in this
upper bracket and looking good all the while wisps. If you ban out their Bastion, they
are going to make that pivot and make it pretty flawlessly.
I mean, okay, that ending felt fulfilling. I'll give it that. It wasn't a C9, but it
It certainly was a display and show of dominance in the end by timeless X-missing.
It definitely felt like they were given a good run.
It wasn't just like they were struggling in some maps, like on their own volition.
It was caused by their opponents.
Like it was definitely a good fight, not just like struggling naturally because of like,
oh we're not feeling great today.
It was definitely a battle through and through in timeless X-missing and they are the ones
that come out on top.
we mentioned going to the Grand Final,
but at the other side,
Cafe Pika are not out of it yet.
This still could be that Grand Finals preview.
Yeah, that's exactly it.
And I feel like a lot of the times
when we have these double elimination brackets,
we do end up with that kind of revenge match
in the Grand Finals.
But Cafe Pika are going to have their hands full
in that lower bracket.
Of course, they don't know who they are playing just yet.
They won't find that out until tomorrow
because it is either going to be Team Missing X-Ray
extra bloody on a going up against them in our final and of course the matches
are technically done for today we have nothing left to show you except of course
we've got pleasantries we've got cool information we've got an interview
coming up as well but it's it's just it's awesome to reflect on the series the
fact that these two teams I think have actually played each other three times
now I think about it because the playoffs stage I'm sure they had to play
each other for seating in the end so I'm a sex missing most likely taking the
that'll give them that they are the number one seed,
and Kavifika the number two.
I'm curious to see how that one goes.
This is almost like a best of seven series of games
between these two teams,
where one will kind of have revenge,
the other may not, or will hold strong.
Just phenomenal to see all that's going on here.
It's a really good point.
Yeah, these teams did play each other in the Swiss stage,
going to a map number five in the playoffs.
They also played against each other,
going to a map number five.
So breaking that trend here,
but a very good series nonetheless,
and our first non-3-0 of the playoffs.
Finally, I didn't lie this time.
I'm proud, I'm proud.
Okay, but that being said,
we are gonna keep things back to around normal,
we're after our series, we are gonna take a quick break,
and then we will jump into an interview
with our winning team.
So we'll get that right after this break.
We'll see you then.
I
Hey folks, we are back and for the final time, because we've just concluded our final match
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I say on the day.
By the way, there are games tomorrow, don't forget about that, but it felt good to have
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We had a 3-1 between our 1 and 2 seeds, absolute banger.
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Let's not, you know, drag things out too much.
Let's get West in here and talk to them about how he felt to win the series.
How you doing? How you feeling?
Congrats on the win.
Thank you. I'm doing pretty good.
All right, well, I guess we'll just start off with the first thing that I had to get off my brain and that was there was a Torben in this game
What did you think about that?
We kind of changed our like map pick and ban like yesterday before this match
kind of expecting to throw them off and I think that's kind of what that ban was
They didn't really know what we were gonna play so they didn't really know like what the ban. I'm assuming
but yeah
I love that you say you kind of throw them off as well because we noticed kind of throughout this series that there were things that we were seeing that we definitely were not expecting.
We got to go to Atlas for the very first time. Talk to me a little bit about what the thought process was playing the Sierra because that is a hero we pretty much never get to see.
I think Sierra is pretty good in the Mauga, the tracking dart if you hit it on the Mauga
it kind of feels like a reaper shooting it, and I think Sierra can live easier than Sojourn
with the two grapples to the anchor, and live to just tree theory and like tree was playing
it in the Mauga, and I was playing it in the Mauga before that and then my team thought
it was bad and then they saw a tree play and they kind of believed me, but I've been on
this year in the Malga Tech.
I always place here in the Malga and ranked, it's broken.
I love it.
You might be starting a trend here.
I think that that's a pretty good shout right there.
Okay, so of course, this means that you were going to go
into those grand finals.
You have matched up against Cafe Fika multiple times
throughout the season.
And the last times it all went to a map number five.
So what changed here to be able to clean this up
and not have to go to that tiebreaker?
We've just been practicing a lot this week.
We've done a lot of the demon, a lot of botting.
Everyone has done bots, and we've done team bots.
We really need to help out with coaching.
Sure, you even helped me out with some coaching this week.
You did a bot for me, and I asked him a bunch of questions about demon matchup,
and that was pretty helpful.
But honestly, just a lot of practice, and just player run bots,
and just a lot of time watching the game and thinking.
Yeah, fair enough. I mean, we got, you know, two final questions for you. One, who do you expect to be in that grand finals matching up against you? Do you have either a prediction as to who's going to make that there or maybe just who you want to be there? And of course, then, do you have anyone to shout out courtesy of the win?
Um, I feel like grand finals would probably just be a rematch of the match that just happened with cafe Fika
um, I
Kind of just want to shout out my team. I think everyone's like putting like a lot of work this week like especially my back line
I love my back line
Makes it really easy to play
Yeah, I believe it's a national think your support state for those you've ranked players out there in case you weren't aware
I whisper that said it not me
All right, well, thank you very much for coming on in.
We appreciate your time.
Go enjoy the rest of your day, and we will see you tomorrow for the conclusion of this
event.
And potentially, we'll crown you as the winner and have you back here again.
We don't know.
We don't know.
Thank you.
Thank you.
All right, folks, well, we did it.
We made it to the end of today.
We had three matches that went through, and we had, of course, one team going to that
Grand Finals to sent home as you can see here. It was gosh. I don't even remember. It's been so long since we saw these teams play
Okay, Valentine was sent home fable as well
And that's gonna set up our matchup for tomorrow team missing x-ray and extra blue be on a yeah
So in that lower bracket, it will be one of those teams that are moving on to play against cafe Fika as well
So down to the top four here and I mean you heard it there from with this is all
about putting the work in here. I love to hear that even though this team has
come in number one scene they have looked fantastic all through the season.
They are still putting in work to make sure that they stay at the top so I am
very much expecting that of the other three teams that are still in this
championships are going to have to work equally hard to try and reach the level
of these former champions.
Yeah, I mean, our winning team from that matchup,
they're confident, but it's not to the point
where they're dropping, you know, the effort there,
making sure to put their best foot forward
every single game.
But again, with that being said,
we are done for the day.
No more matchups.
Three will be tomorrow.
Don't forget.
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that we got a shout out here on our own right.
We got to thank production for sticking through this with us,
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We hope you enjoyed the silly puns and the fun games as well as the very pregnant pause towards the end.
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